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MLB Reinstates Pete Rose · The 3-0 Take

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  Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to the Three O Tape where we talk
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  all things Major League Baseball.
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  Here's Kyle Corwin and Nate Reyes.
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  It all starts right now. Welcome back to the Three O Tape
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  presented by Chinook Cedry this episode 536, I'll be your host,
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  Kyle Korne. I'm here with my Co host Nate
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  Reyes. Nate.
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  How are we, Sir? Sitting here watching the Sox
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  Tigers game and it got me thinking if you had, we'll call
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  it 100 ABS, 100 a hundred ABS off of Terek Scubal, I would ask
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  how many hits you think you could get off him, but I feel
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  like that would be doing him a disservice.
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  So maybe let's just go with like, how many?
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  Balls in play. How contact?
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  I mean, we're talking foul balls.
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  How many, how many of those ABS are are inducing contact?
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  We'll call it. So I get did I get prep time?
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  I get time to like. Yeah, a couple warm up swings,
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  He's on the mound. He's ready to go.
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  The the weeks prior. You know what I mean?
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  Like I need a couple weeks. To sure if you think that'll
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  help. Get the eyes going.
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  Yeah, I mean, if you think that'll.
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  Help if we're counting foul tips?
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  Well, OK, OK, sorry. I mean, let's walk it back just
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  for clarity. Do you think you're getting?
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  I didn't mean to like jump ahead.
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  Do you think you're you're you're getting on base off of
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  Tarek Scuba in 100 and. 80 as far as in like on base goes.
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  Maybe a hit, maybe one or two knocks, Maybe.
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  Maybe little bleeders. Bleeders over the first baseman,
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  Yeah. I was going to say, I was going
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  to say one or one or two knocks, balls in play.
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  I was going to say maybe 7:00 or 8:00.
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  If you give me foul tips, I'll bump it up to 11:50.
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  This dude is just, he's disgusting.
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  He really is. He really is.
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  It's a sight to behold. It's different.
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  Like I, I always love those videos where there's like an
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  overlap where it shows like two different or multiple pitches
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  and then it's like the arm release looks the exact same.
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  The ball looks the exact same for the 1st 30 feet and then it
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  breaks and you're just like I don't know how anybody.
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  Hits this Are you seeing this right now?
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  I. Got big inning on.
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  I'm not watching your game. What happened?
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  Will your Rayu just scaled the wall?
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  Well, I mean he he went up for the ball, robbed the home run
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  ball comes tips the ball to Sidon Rafael who's right next to
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  him. He catches it like this and make
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  the out. Really.
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  What a play. Maybe beginning worthy.
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  Hopefully it's it switches over. What a play.
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  Let's let's talk about the big story here, Nate.
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  There's been been some news that has shaken the baseball world to
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  its core and has really, let's just let's call a spade a spade,
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  has evoked some strong feelings. My court has shaken.
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  Across the baseball landscape, Major League Baseball announced
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  Tuesday. Tuesday.
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  Tuesday, you need that. The ban that was keeping Pete
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  Rose shoeless, Joe Jackson and a long list of other players out
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  of the game. That ban has been lifted.
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  Ergo, those players are not eligible for the Hall of Fame.
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  And I got to say this. I I don't know if you or
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  anything, this kind of took me by surprise.
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  Had no idea this news was coming.
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  Just fell from the clouds, as it sure did.
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  I was thinking, you know, maybe there was, you know, they had to
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  they had to wait a certain amount of time to do this.
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  I don't know if that was the case or if if Manfred was just
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  like, yeah, I think it's been long enough since since Pete
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  Rose has been gone. Maybe we make the call now,
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  Maybe we go ahead and make this announcement.
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  Long story short, Manfred comes out, is quoted as saying this.
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  Well, first of all, he will be the following.
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  These be the following, ergo the latter.
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  No, he ruled that the punishment of these banded individuals
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  ended upon their deaths. Quoted as saying, obviously a
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  person no longer with us can represent a threat to the
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  integrity of the game. Moreover, it is hard to conceive
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  of a penalty that has more deterrent effect than one that
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  lasts a lifetime with no reprieve.
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  Therefore, I have concluded that permanent ineligibility ends
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  upon the passing of disciplined individual and Mr. Rose will be
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  removed from the permanently ineligible list.
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  So if I'm, if I'm interpreting that right, the second Pete, and
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  not to like make light of somebody's passing, but like
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  based on that definition, based on that announcement for Brian
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  Manfred that this was the case the second he was gone.
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  Am I, am I correct in thinking that or, or interpreting it that
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  way? Is that what it sounds like to
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  you? Sounds like it.
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  So with that said, I don't know if I if I fully understand the
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  timing of all of this, but the the big take away here is, and
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  I, I mean, you know, Shoeless Joe Jackson, you can throw him
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  into the mix here. But obviously Pete Rose is the
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  headliner now, as I mentioned, now eligible for the Hall of
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  Fame. So it begs the question, Nate,
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  does Pete Rose get into the Hall of Fame?
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  And I'm going to need you. I see.
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  Yeah, I'm going to need you. I'm going to need you to walk me
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  through this because I, I've thought more and more about it
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  today. And I had a little, I had AI had
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  a moment today on my commute home.
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  And I'm, and I'm thinking about this more knowing that we're
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  going to talk about it tonight. And I'm going.
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  For many, many years, I myself was campaigning for Pete Rose to
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  be in the Hall of Fame. OK.
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  I have been vocal about my feelings about names related to
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  the steroid era that I don't believe should be in the Hall of
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  Fame. OK.
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  Namely, Barry Bonds. Heard of him?
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  Given, and I'll say it again in case you are unfamiliar with my
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  stance on him, the reason I feel strongest when it comes to Barry
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  Bonds is because he holds the record of all records.
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  Yeah, it's crazy. He's against Carrie Carpenter.
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  Come on, man. Couldn't it be against someone
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  else? I continue the.
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  That was cool. Barry Bonds holds the.
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  I know the record. Barry Bonds holds the record of
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  all records and for him to, I won't say go around flaunting
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  it, but for his his supporters rather to go around flaunting it
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  with the people in the in the baseball world as if he would
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  have achieved that without PEDs. It's just crazy to me.
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  And it's call, call it unfair to Barry Bonds for for there being
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  somewhat of a double standard, but that's what you like.
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  I in my opinion, that's what you get when you hold the record of
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  all records that we're not talking about some guy that
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  just, you know, added 75 more home runs to his career total
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  and, and finished with, you know, 212.
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  We're talking about the guy who holds the record of all records
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  again, Pete Rose. I'm driving down the road and
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  I'm going kind of the same situation here.
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  Obviously not steroids, but kind of the same situation here where
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  you're talking about the record of all records when it comes to
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  hit totals. Sure.
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  And I'm thinking to myself self, how can I feel differently about
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  Pete Rose? Like the more I think about
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  this, I have to step back from my, as I mentioned, my
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  aforementioned campaigning for Pete Rose to get in.
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  And I had to, I had to sort of re evaluate now that this news
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  has come out because I, I think in my head when I was pushing
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  for Pete to get in the hall when I was like, yeah, he, he needs
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  to be in, no doubt. I think that it was never going
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  to get in. But now that this news has
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  broken, and now that it's a very realistic possibility.
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  You're hopping camps. I'm not hopping camps.
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  Call it on the fence. You're taking a look in the
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  mirror. Taking a look in the mirror, I'm
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  evaluating my thoughts. You're evaluating how you
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  evaluate. That's correct.
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  Thank you. So I mean, how do I tell me how
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  to think about this? I don't know how to think about
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  it. That's the problem, because I
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  was kind of along the same lines where like I, I've always kind
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  of been on the fence about it. I get the arguments.
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  I've always gotten the arguments where it was like, hey, it
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  didn't involve the games he played in and.
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  It was, it was on his team to win.
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  Yeah, like, I don't know. I don't know either, man.
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  I don't know either. It's an especially you've
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  brought this point up a multitude of times how prevalent
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  betting is in sports now and and how it how promoted it is by
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  these leagues. And so I think it is a little,
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  it's a little hypocritical for MLB to be pushing betting the
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  way they push it where your hit king is, is, you know, excluded
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  from it's it's just it's hard, man.
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  Like I, I don't really know how I feel about it.
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  Do do you think I do? I think he gets in.
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  Yeah, I I think he gets in. Do I understand this rule?
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  No. Do I think it's almost more
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  cruel to wait till he dies? I know that that was like a
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  weird topic and a weird question that has been tossed out for a
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  while now like that. This isn't the first time that
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  this has been broached. I didn't expect a full laundry
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  list of names to be. I thought it was just kind of a
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  case by case situation. I didn't expect for just say,
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  hey, anybody that has a lifetime ban that gets lifted the second
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  they die, it's one could argue it's more cruel.
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  It it's it's odd like I don't know, I don't know.
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  And. It was cold.
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  I mean, you heard what you heard what Manford said.
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  The I mean it. Say what you will about Pete
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  Rose and say what you will about Manfred, but the way I mean, the
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  way that came across to me was rather cold where he said it is
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  hard to conceive of a penalty that has more deterrent effect
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  than one that lasts a lifetime with no reprieve.
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  It's like, dude, we know like you don't have, you don't have
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  to. And I know it's been what, a
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  handful of months now, half a year since since Pete's been
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  gone. And again, say what you will
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  about the guy, I know there's people that were like
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  celebrating his death. They're like, oh, this, this
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  creep is gone now. It's like what?
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  I'm not looking at it through that lens.
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  And I know that maybe some people think that I should, but
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  you know, we're we're talking baseball here.
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  So I'm, I'm doing what I can to look at it through a baseball
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  lens. I'm simply saying that the
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  commissioner of the sport couldn't have found a more
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  tactful way to address the matter instead of just being
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  like, yeah, I can't think of a better way to ward guys away
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  from doing things like this then by penalizing them until
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  they're, you know, until they're dead.
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  It's like, what A and sure, it was a little more buttoned up
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  than that, but I'm like, what a weird thing to say again, man,
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  People are like, oh, what a win from Manfred.
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  It's like, yeah, but I guess if that if you're, you know, Pro
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  Pete getting in, but the way he went about it was just, it was
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  very bizarre. But that's, that's like the
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  ultimate, but the, the ultimate sad part to it is that like, if
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  the if he does get in, if there is some kind of speech, if
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  someone gives it for him, it's going to be completely
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  surrounded by the sentiment of like, I wish he was here.
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  Like that's going to be like the main thing that's said in
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  whatever speech or comment or quote that comes out of anyone
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  from his camp. That's what I wish he got to
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  witness this. But to the people that wish he
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  would have been here to receive induction in the Hall of Fame,
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  do, and I'm I'm not, I don't have an answer.
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  I'm I'm more so asking, do you think it would have been more
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  messy if he was actually there in person versus him receiving
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  this after the fact? Yeah, for sure.
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  More controversial? I mean, because the controversy
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  in and of itself of him not being there is going to be
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  enough controversy to fuel that that weekend of festivities
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  should he get in. But again, if he was there to
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  receive this induction, it would have been all so messy.
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  I don't know if there's a right way to go about this, to be
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  honest. I don't know if there's like I,
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  I was always under the the thought that like it was either
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  never going to happen or we wouldn't.
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  We were going to get to this point in life where you and I
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  are the old heads and we're and we're late in life and we're
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  telling our grandkids about players.
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  And Pete Rose probably isn't one of the main players being
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  brought up. But we're still in this period
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  of like, a lot of these writers got to see him play, whether
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  they were writers at the time. No, it was their dads telling
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  them about this or, you know, hearing these stories from their
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  grandparents. Like it was still relevant
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  enough to to be in that generation.
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  I thought that there was just going to get to this point where
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  if he ever did get in, it would be where that almost kind of
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  died off and it would be a harder decision to get him in or
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  not. It makes you wonder if any of
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  these writers are have like a a soft spot in their heart.
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  And that's how they I don't. This is the problem with the
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  Hall of Fame and this is the problem with this system is that
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  it is just so subjective. And, and I, I'm, I've lost faith
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  and faith in it year over year. Like it's just, it's gotten
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  worse for me as time goes on. And maybe there is some ulterior
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  motive that like, hey, if you're going to let Pete in, you might
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  as well let these other guys in like Berry and a Rod and and
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  McGuire or whatever. So it's like, I, I don't know
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  what's going to come from this. So I don't, I don't know how I
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  feel about it. And it sucks that these guys are
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  having to be categorized in the same way where they they cheated
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  in one way or another. But like, I, I've never gotten
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  the feeling of seeing Pete Rose in any videos or or interviews
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  or conversations with fans or meetups or him signing baseball
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  saying he's sorry. Like it's weird for that comment
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  to say that he can't hurt the game anymore because a lot of
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  what he did after he retired, one could argue that that was
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  helpful to the game of baseball. And I think he was sorry.
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  And that's, I think that's what makes it even more harsh.
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  I think he was quoted as saying not long before he passed, you
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  know, they're asking about obviously the Hall of Fame
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  induction and whether he thought he'd get in.
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  And I, I don't have the quote in front of me, but I, I thought I
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  read something. The effect of him saying, you
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  know, if I do get in after the fact, like what good does that
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  do me? It's going to benefit nobody but
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  the league and the sport because they're just going to profit off
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  of it in one way, shape or form, which he's not wrong.
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  Because now you have, now you have that, now you have the Reds
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  being able to do anything that the Reds want to do for him,
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  whether that's some kind of statue or or number retiring or
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  or ceremony. Like, yeah, he's exactly right.
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  That's what makes it cruel. That's what makes it like you
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  might as well have just left it. The you you brought up the the
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  OR the topic of time though. And I, I kind of went back and
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  forth. I'm like with more time, like
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  had this not happened, if more time had continued to pass,
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  would time have helped Pete Rose?
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  And, and look, I, I'm not, don't, I'm not getting into the
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  weeds of like what he was alleged of doing because he, I,
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  I'm, I'm well aware that he is, you know, he's acknowledged what
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  he did and that he was under the assumption of, of one thing
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  versus another. I'm not, it's not my place to
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  say I'm not, I'm not getting into the, the legal weeds of it.
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  But had more time passed, let's, let's call it years, Not, I'm
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  not talking like months, like years, maybe even decades.
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  Would time have heard him or helped him?
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  Because I feel like I could see it both ways where it's like 1.
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  You talk about the people that were like his peers, the those
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  who are around, whether it be reporters, guys he played with
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  who could continue to bolster his case, continue to push for
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  that. Once those guys start passing
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  away, you lose that base. Then you don't have that that
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  momentum helping you posthumously.
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  On the flip side though, a lot of the people that are that are
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  anti Pete Rose because of presumably what he did off the
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  field. As we learn with these things,
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  right or wrong, time tends to soften your view on an
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  individual regardless what they did or didn't do.
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  That's just the way time works. So.
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  As is death. So it's like, I could, I could.
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  I don't have an answer on the matter, but I feel like I could
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  look at the effect of time on Pete Rose's legacy again.
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  Had this not happened, Had we're still pretend, we're still
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  waiting to see if he ever gets put off list, I could see time
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  having a positive or negative effect.
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  I got a question for you. I don't not, I'm not trying to
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  like make it about me and, and saying this, but like I, I don't
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  necessarily have, like my dad doesn't love baseball.
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  He loved baseball watching me. He loved going to my games, but
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  like, he wasn't super in touch with it.
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  Your dad obviously loves baseball and coached us for, you
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  know, half of our lives. How, what have you talked to him
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  about it? Like, what is what are his
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  thoughts on it, 'cause I mean, that's someone that is in that
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  generation that did have the exposure to Pete Rosenway.
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  I actually haven't gotten a chance to talk to him about it,
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  but I it I can guess and I'll I'll have.
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  You ever got his like his opinion on it in general?
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  I feel like I need to, but I feel like until that
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  conversation happens, I could probably guess where he would
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  sort of fall, maybe not on, you know, should he be in the Hall
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  of Fame or not? I, I, I won't speak for him on
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  that matter, but he I'm sure he and many other people of that
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  era could all acknowledge and, and you know, my dad, you know,
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  this is the thing that something that he values a lot is the way
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  he played the game. Charlie Hustle.
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  He was guy was going to give you everything you had every single
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  day. And for some people, like on the
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  flip side of the off the field crowd, that that can't stand
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  them for those reasons that you have, you have another side or I
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  won't even say. I won't even say there's two
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  sides. Maybe there's maybe it's a
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  little more Gray than it than it, the black and white that I'm
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  making it out to be. But on the flip side, you've got
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  people who very much appreciated, cherished what he
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  did on the field as a player and and even as a manager.
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  I suppose that maybe would be, and I'm not saying my dad or or
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  speaking for anybody else here, but I'm saying maybe people
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  because of that would be willing to look past any offense that
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  took place off the field. Again, nothing was, you know,
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  punished legally. I guess you could say.
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  I think there was just like some some hot water that he got
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  himself into, obviously. But anyway, I, there's just so
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  many ways that I feel like you could look at this and I, I
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  don't, I'm just, I'm curious if this announcement from Major
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  League Baseball from Rob Manfred really changes anybody's mind or
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  if this just further, you know, digs the heels in, if you will,
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  of people on on either side of the aisle, regardless where they
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  fall because of because of this news.
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  I I don't. Know I get what you mean.
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  But you're saying you think he gets in.
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  At the end of the day, you think he gets in.
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  I do. I do think he gets in now.
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  I did they say anything about like what this process looks
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  like? Is it, are they back on the
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  ballot? Is it like the like the
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  committee situation where you get like guys off the ballot
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  that still get a chance? I haven't confirmed, but I, I
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  think that I've, I've came across a note at some point in
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  the last 24 hours talking about how there might be a, a
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  committee involved. Yeah, I think to, to get them on
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  the ballot, I think like a decision has to be made to get
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  them on the ballot because the way I'm interpreting this and
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  understanding it is that this just means that they're no
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  longer, you know, banned or ineligible even though they've
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  passed away. But getting on the ballot, I
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  think is a is a whole other conversation.
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  Because the, the obvious like reasoning and, and points to the
• 24:40
  question is that like you have a limited amount of votes and
• 24:42
  like, how unlucky would it would it be if you're on the ballot
• 24:46
  for the first time in your career and like maybe you're 1
• 24:50
  vote away from staying on that ballot and that vote is going to
• 24:54
  some guy that was, you know, spent his entire life being
• 24:57
  banned. You know what I mean?
• 24:58
  Like, it's, it's an interesting thing.
• 25:00
  Like I, I wouldn't want it, I wouldn't want current players to
• 25:04
  suffer on the ballot. So I don't know what that
• 25:10
  situation looks like, but overall, I, I, I think he gets
• 25:15
  in and I think it, I think it does kind of settle some stuff
• 25:25
  and it makes you wonder if this is some type of stepping stone
• 25:29
  to, to the steroid era. Let's just face it.
• 25:36
  And I've always kind of been in the, in the, in the camp where,
• 25:40
  you know, the Hall of Fame needs to have a separate, it's a
• 25:44
  museum. And, and the fact for us to act
• 25:48
  like certain players or certain eras just didn't happen, just
• 25:52
  didn't exist. I think it's also a disservice
• 25:56
  to the game. So I, if there's some kind of
• 25:58
  wing that can be created and you want to call it the, you know,
• 26:02
  the the cheater wing or the band wing or whatever it is.
• 26:09
  The truth of the matter is when I have a kid, I, I want to be
• 26:11
  able to take them to the Hall of Fame.
• 26:13
  And I want to be able to tell them about those, those players
• 26:16
  in those eras and those moments in the game, because it is our
• 26:19
  game is what it is today. Because of those things.
• 26:22
  We can't just act like they didn't happen or didn't exist.
• 26:26
  Yeah. It's still a museum at the end
• 26:28
  of the day. Yeah.
• 26:30
  And. It I'm I'm all for telling the
• 26:33
  story because, like you said, we wouldn't be regardless how you
• 26:36
  feel about steroids. This game would not be what it
• 26:38
  is today without that era of, of player of game, of narrative, of
• 26:45
  storyline. And you know, I'm, I think the,
• 26:52
  the, the issue that I have with the Hall of Fame is this
• 26:56
  constant effort of, of trying to present this like faultless
• 27:04
  image. And it's like, that's just not
• 27:07
  baseball. That's not life.
• 27:08
  You can't there's you, you from from beginning to whenever the
• 27:13
  game of baseball comes to an end, because everything comes to
• 27:17
  an end. Don't know when it's going to
• 27:18
  be. I hope it's not for a very, very
• 27:20
  long time, but you cannot expect to present the history, the
• 27:26
  story of the sport in a way that is without blemish.
• 27:31
  And so I know it's easy for me to say, but you just got like
• 27:36
  you're saying, you got to find a way to present it via a steroid
• 27:41
  wing and just call it that. Just call it the steroid air.
• 27:44
  Don't try to button it up and be like baseball in the 90s, like
• 27:47
  just call it what it is. Because that's the only way that
• 27:51
  I think you're going to appease. But well, not completely, but
• 27:55
  it's probably as good as you're going to get, is it?
• 27:57
  If you at least acknowledge what happened and stop pretending as
• 28:01
  if it never happened, but also presenting the caveat that this
• 28:08
  wasn't done, you know, on the up and up.
• 28:13
  I don't know. Drop some good words so far.
• 28:17
  I'm trying man. Episode was the first one.
• 28:22
  Post something posthumously. That's a good one.
• 28:29
  Caveat ain't bad, but posthumously?
• 28:32
  How about that? How about that?
• 28:34
  I think we beat this thing to death.
• 28:37
  Yeah. I don't know.
• 28:40
  We haven't talked about Joe Shoeless Joe Jackson yet.
• 28:44
  Do we need to? I mean, I feel.
• 28:47
  Like this is a whole different level.
• 28:49
  Guy's been waiting 106 years for for justice, you know.
• 28:59
  No, it's. I don't want him in because that
• 29:02
  changes the whole script to Field of Dreams.
• 29:04
  They're going to have to remake Field of Dreams.
• 29:06
  Dude, I'm glad you brought that up.
• 29:08
  I'm, you know, I'm sitting here thinking like, Oh yeah, I've got
• 29:11
  like a pretty good understanding of like the Black Sox scandal
• 29:13
  and all that. I.
• 29:17
  Rafi, Rafi. I I don't think I have nearly
• 29:26
  the idea about everything that happened there that I think I do
• 29:29
  I need to brush up. No, I need to be educated.
• 29:34
  That's what I'm saying. I.
• 29:35
  Probably do too. Like I, I don't even think I've
• 29:38
  seen what is it 8 men out. I think I've got to watch that.
• 29:41
  I need to read some books I'd I hate reading.
• 29:43
  So that's that's already I'm already, I'm already down a
• 29:47
  notch there. Eight men out I've heard is
• 29:50
  decent. Maybe I'll try to watch it this
• 29:53
  weekend. I've heard it's.
• 29:54
  I've heard it's a good, good motion picture.
• 29:56
  Charlie Sheen in that one, too. I feel like he is.
• 30:05
  Why do I think that was like, sort of a loaded cast?
• 30:07
  Maybe not John Cusack, Charlie Sheen, Christopher Lloyd,
• 30:16
  Michael Lerner. Decent guest.
• 30:19
  Not a bad cast. Yeah, anyway, yeah, you know, as
• 30:24
  I mentioned, Shoeless Joe gets it or gets removed off the list
• 30:27
  and a plethora of other. Any other recognizable names?
• 30:38
  No, but you want me to run through some of these names?
• 30:41
  I'd love to hear some names if if we're going back then Buck.
• 30:45
  Weaver, Eddie Chicotti, Lefty Williams.
• 30:51
  Happy Feisch, Fred McMullen, Swede.
• 30:55
  Reisberg. Oh, Swede.
• 30:58
  Chick Gandal, Joe Gideon, Jean Paulette, Benny Cough.
• 31:07
  Lee McGee. Come on shuffle.
• 31:12
  I swear to you, Lee MAMAGEE, unless it's Lee Maggie, but I'm
• 31:18
  I like Lee McGee better. That's way.
• 31:20
  Better so why his parents hated him?
• 31:22
  Shufflin, Phil Douglas. Shufflin.
• 31:26
  Shufflin, Phil Douglas IN Apostrophe No.
• 31:30
  G Oh, that's even better. Shufflin, Phil Douglas, Jimmy
• 31:34
  O'Connell, Cozy Dolan, William Cox, and the aforementioned Pete
• 31:42
  Rose. Excellent.
• 31:47
  Welcome to not being permanently banned forever by baseball.
• 31:57
  Shuffling. Welcome shuffling, good to have
• 32:01
  you. In other news, let's move along.
• 32:11
  Pretty pretty excited about this one.
• 32:14
  Yeah, gas me up a bit. Paul schemes.
• 32:19
  The Paul schemes. Some may even say top three
• 32:24
  pitcher in baseball has committed to pitch for Team USA
• 32:30
  in the 2026 World Baseball Classic.
• 32:35
  That's all I got, but big news from from Pauly Skeens.
• 32:42
  DJ Pauly Skeens, I love this. This is huge for many reasons.
• 32:50
  One, it bolsters what's already, I'm hoping going to be a
• 32:57
  fantastic roster. I mean, we've seen the, we've
• 33:01
  seen the projected lineup, the, the hopeful lineup, if you will.
• 33:08
  But you never know, it's easy to put the best names down on a, on
• 33:11
  a sheet of paper and then be like, well, this, this could be
• 33:14
  it. It really works out that way.
• 33:16
  But I mentioned that I love this for many reasons.
• 33:19
  Another reason that I love this is because you've got one of the
• 33:22
  game's premier players already, even at his age, even at his
• 33:26
  early stage in his career, one of the game's premier players
• 33:30
  saying, yeah, I'm down. Count me in.
• 33:35
  You didn't you didn't you saw the they they brought him out
• 33:38
  on, on what was it MLB Central the other day to make the
• 33:42
  announcement. And you got Dero talking about
• 33:46
  how like, I thought I was going to have to talk him into this
• 33:49
  and schemes was like, I thought I was going to have to talk you
• 33:52
  into this. And that just goes to show you
• 33:54
  like his willingness to to want to contribute to this.
• 33:58
  And he talked about watching previous world baseball
• 34:00
  classics. So to the, the creator of the
• 34:04
  World Baseball Classic, I, I mean, maybe not completely, but
• 34:07
  we're like 95% mission accomplished in terms of getting
• 34:13
  this moving in the right direction.
• 34:16
  Because if you go back and look at some of those previous
• 34:17
  rosters, absolute garbage. Bunch of nobodies.
• 34:20
  I mean, no, no disrespect, but bunch of bunch of nobodies, some
• 34:25
  disrespect. It's a little bit of disrespect,
• 34:27
  but at the same time, they were willing to sign up.
• 34:29
  So, you know, I can't knock them too much.
• 34:32
  But comparatively to others, others in the league, maybe not
• 34:35
  as noteworthy, maybe not as notable.
• 34:39
  But when you get a guy like Paul skiing saying yeah, I'm in, you
• 34:44
  start looking at elsewhere around the league going well,
• 34:48
  why wouldn't you join this team? Yeah, See, that's my thing.
• 34:53
  And that's like, I'm not I, I didn't mean any shade against
• 34:57
  Mike Trout. It was just like if it was Mike
• 35:00
  Trout four years prior to the last one or three years prior to
• 35:06
  the last one, then it would have felt a little bit different.
• 35:09
  Like it, I think it was just towards the end and it didn't
• 35:14
  carry the same weight. Now you literally have arguably
• 35:19
  two of the most popular players from either side of the ball
• 35:26
  that can that can Don USA jerseys signing up and saying
• 35:31
  yes like that in in their prime during their best part, and we
• 35:37
  probably haven't even seen Paul Skeeton's prime yet, but during
• 35:41
  their their top. Peak.
• 35:44
  Athleticism, they're saying yes, let's do it.
• 35:48
  So it's like, yeah, I say what you will about Error Judge not
• 35:52
  being a good captain or whatever, but like people are
• 35:55
  going to going to want to go play with him, bro.
• 35:58
  Like, yes, I'm signing up to someone who averages 60 home
• 36:02
  runs a year for the last three years.
• 36:04
  I'm down. Let's roll.
• 36:07
  Yes, I want to sign up for somebody who does not care who's
• 36:11
  in the box, who is going to throw the way he wants to throw,
• 36:16
  who has donned USA uniforms in the past in his youth, who was
• 36:24
  ready to put on the real USA uniform and go fight for our
• 36:29
  country. Yeah, bro, gas me up.
• 36:34
  I'm super down. And you know, we saw, I think
• 36:39
  we, we came up with our own like Dream Team USA lineup just a few
• 36:43
  weeks back. And we're, we're throwing out
• 36:47
  names like scuba and things like that and maybe some other arms
• 36:50
  that would really fill out a front end of a, a rotation.
• 36:54
  But honestly, I'm like, if, if this is our number one, I'm I'm
• 36:59
  cool with that because who was our number one last year or last
• 37:04
  last time around? Adam Wainwright, I.
• 37:08
  Lance Lynn, I think, was on the staff.
• 37:11
  Like it wasn't great. Well, like we made progress
• 37:14
  positionally. Like we had some dudes.
• 37:17
  I think Merrill Kelly was. Around the Merrill Kelly was
• 37:20
  also, yeah. And he was getting comparisons
• 37:23
  to like, Thomas Jefferson, Thomas Jefferson or something,
• 37:26
  which I thought was a little weird.
• 37:27
  But you know, I was feeling, I was, I was vibing.
• 37:31
  It was just, it wasn't good. It it wasn't good, that's
• 37:36
  already off to a better start. That's what I'm saying
• 37:39
  positionally, if if we can replicate or even improve upon
• 37:42
  what we did last time out, but then get better arms, it's
• 37:47
  nobody's beating that team. Nobody.
• 37:50
  And I put it out. I'm going to need like a I'm
• 37:52
  going to need like an Army green alternate jersey, I think.
• 37:55
  I think that needs to. Be a thing they're not going to
• 37:57
  do that I. Think they need to I think they.
• 38:00
  Need it dude this logo right here that I got on my shirt.
• 38:03
  They are going to run with this it seems for the next I got to
• 38:06
  be honest, I. Miss the old USA logo?
• 38:10
  I I don't even know what the old USA logo was at this.
• 38:13
  Point it had it it was I didn't have the striped S it was a *.
• 38:18
  I couldn't be more out on the striped SI mean.
• 38:21
  I'm going to wear it. I'm going to wear it because,
• 38:23
  you know, I mean, well, I mean, I did snag this at the while we
• 38:26
  were out there. So I'm going to wear it.
• 38:28
  We had to, but I'm like you could do so like channel.
• 38:34
  I may or may not have said this on the pod channel, the 90 go
• 38:38
  look up the the uniforms that the 1980 USA Hockey team wore in
• 38:45
  the Olympics. It's like you, I mean, you've,
• 38:48
  you've probably seen jerseys like this on college campuses or
• 38:52
  stuff like the the vintage throwbacks.
• 38:54
  It's like the royal blue, the red and the white.
• 38:57
  Go with that. That's top tier.
• 39:01
  Give me like the nice block lettering, very like a
• 39:03
  minimalist jersey, some stars, some stripes or whatever.
• 39:06
  Call it a day. It's game over.
• 39:08
  Nobody's beating that team Japan good.
• 39:11
  Luck this was the old one. Yeah, no, I it's better I vibe
• 39:18
  with that, but I still think you could even improve upon that.
• 39:21
  You definitely could, but it's better than this striped S
• 39:23
  thing. Yeah, I'm over it.
• 39:25
  I'm over it. And in the chat, Jacob says.
• 39:28
  Would prefer a different manager for a WBCI.
• 39:31
  Couldn't disagree more. I love me some.
• 39:33
  D Roe not disagree more, Jacob. Love me some D Roe.
• 39:38
  A Braves fan who doesn't like D Roe?
• 39:41
  What I don't understand, I don't follow.
• 39:43
  I need a follow up comment because.
• 39:47
  Crazy D Roe is no sense D Roe is a dude and I I can only imagine
• 39:53
  that the guys in that that. I think he's the perfect guy.
• 39:56
  Dugout for that short period of time and they're in March.
• 40:00
  I didn't help but love the. Guy because like he's he
• 40:04
  obviously knows ball, but he's like very openly like a fan of
• 40:09
  these guys to where there's like a.
• 40:12
  Giddy when skis walked out from behind the wall on MOV Central.
• 40:15
  There's like a. Level of like fandom, the
• 40:20
  respect because he did play and he played for a long time and
• 40:25
  he's also like not too old like there this he checks every box.
• 40:30
  This is a that's a miss Jacob. You missed you're taking an L
• 40:36
  Wear that one. Wear that one who's he want as a
• 40:41
  skipper Buck yeah let's get let's get old buck in there no
• 40:46
  disrespect no disrespect all right let's get D Roe is the guy
• 40:52
  D Roe's the fit you know I say run it back he just keep running
• 40:57
  back with D Roe. I mean, hopefully we get like a
• 40:59
  win or two in there, but like just keep running back I.
• 41:02
  I agree and I I would like to see D Roe actually get in like
• 41:05
  an actual manager job someday, but until then just keep cycling
• 41:12
  this. I agree.
• 41:14
  I I agree with you, but I'm like, you know what?
• 41:16
  This is like his little niche thing, gum whatever like.
• 41:18
  I see. MOB network in.
• 41:20
  Your eye. You're so torn on this situation
• 41:22
  right now, aren't you? Stop.
• 41:24
  You're so for the socks to blow it yet again.
• 41:27
  You're so torn. Swept out of Detroit.
• 41:29
  For those who don't know, obviously Kyle's a Red Sox fan.
• 41:32
  Chapman on the bump. Who's on Kyle's fantasy team?
• 41:35
  Facing Javi Baez, Who's on Kyle's fantasy team with a man
• 41:40
  on 3rd bottom 91 out. You couldn't be more torn.
• 41:45
  You're OK with any outcome right now, aren't you?
• 41:50
  He. Missed it?
• 41:54
  There's your. Follow up comment Dero hasn't
• 41:56
  gotten a manager role so I want someone of the more experienced
• 41:58
  Jacob. He took him to the the the the
• 42:01
  championship. And, and there's not many
• 42:05
  managers that have WBC experience, different ball game,
• 42:10
  different, different whole different challenge.
• 42:13
  Crazy. We're the L Jacob.
• 42:16
  It's a tough night. Talking about the Sox, let's get
• 42:19
  into some Let's get into some given some props here, shall we?
• 42:26
  Rafael Devers over his last 15 games hitting 390 coming into
• 42:34
  today, Wednesday, 390 with four homers, 15 ribbies and an OPS of
• 42:41
  1139. Again, that's his last 15 games
• 42:43
  coming into today since May 8th, which which is when he made his
• 42:48
  comments about first base and Nate's birthday.
• 42:52
  It's a good birthday gift. He's hitting.
• 42:57
  So what's controversy? OK, I was like, well, I'm not
• 42:59
  tracking here because if you're talking about what I'm about to
• 43:01
  say, then I'm. I'm a little confused.
• 43:04
  Raphael Deverson's May 8th is hitting 455 with two homers, 8
• 43:10
  ribbies and an OPS of 1328. Those are super super impressive
• 43:17
  and tradable stats. And we just got swept out of
• 43:24
  Detroit. Love that.
• 43:25
  I'm going to turn this TV off Godly man.
• 43:30
  Anyway, Oh, Chapman strikes again.
• 43:33
  Anyway. And the and the reigning AO
• 43:39
  Player of the week, just to put a bow on the first first honor
• 43:44
  for this week's credit Cannon, Raphael Devers.
• 43:48
  Next up, Ryan McMahon. Ryan McMahon coming into
• 43:53
  Wednesday has a 395 average with 15 hits, 4 homers, 7 ribbies,
• 44:00
  and an OPS of 1353 since the start of the month.
• 44:05
  What's interesting though is not just that stretch, but what he
• 44:09
  did before that. From the start of the season to
• 44:12
  April 30th, he was hitting 147 with an on base of 273, slugging
• 44:19
  235 and an OPS of five O 8. Counter that with the numbers I
• 44:27
  just shared before that, quite the turn around.
• 44:30
  Ryan McMahon, congratulations on your first honor.
• 44:37
  I am going to copy and paste my last statement.
• 44:41
  A very tradable performance, like a lefty third baseman who's
• 44:47
  got some pop and plays a good D He's a little expensive, so the
• 44:51
  Rockies are going to have to eat money, but like, if he can I.
• 44:56
  Rockies love eating money, what are you talking about?
• 44:59
  Don't be surprised if he finds a new home at some point this this
• 45:02
  season and provides some juice. Anywhere I'm put you on spot
• 45:07
  here. Anywhere in particular, I mean,
• 45:13
  who knows? Red Sox might be looking for a
• 45:15
  corner infielder before too long.
• 45:17
  It's valid. I think he does he have some
• 45:19
  first base time. I don't know if he does I.
• 45:23
  Feel like he does, no. Does he have, does he have an
• 45:28
  outfielder experience though that I feel like?
• 45:31
  It's see a little, little Mariners in that maybe.
• 45:38
  Yeah, he's got some first base time.
• 45:40
  Yeah, he's also got some time in second.
• 45:41
  What the heck? See a little Mariner in that.
• 45:48
  I would say Yankees, but they they need right-handed hitters.
• 46:00
  I mean, if Philly continues down this path of not loving 1 Sir
• 46:05
  Alec Baum, that would be interesting.
• 46:12
  Bro just went deep tonight. Baum would really hate this
• 46:15
  place if bro got traded to Denver.
• 46:20
  That'd be the worst. I don't know, doesn't seem to be
• 46:26
  too, too happy in Philly right now.
• 46:33
  Speaking of Philly, Kyle Schwarber ending his 47 game on
• 46:44
  base streak today in the first game of the doubleheader.
• 46:47
  But what did he do in game two of the doubleheader?
• 46:54
  Mammo tank to right, starting a new streak anew.
• 47:02
  So good for Kyle Schwarber. He's not the only he's not the
• 47:07
  only Philly I got on here, but I had to transition to a Philly
• 47:11
  with that with that set up. So let's let's digress a little
• 47:15
  bit here. Let's go Jacob Wilson.
• 47:21
  Jacob Wilson right now is the only player in baseball with
• 47:24
  over a 500 slugging percentage and under a 10% strikeout rate
• 47:30
  this season. He had his first career Homer,
• 47:34
  first career 2 Homer game, and it came against the Dodgers in a
• 47:40
  game in which the A's beat the Dodgers by what a score of it
• 47:44
  was 11 to 1. The A's my my Sacramento A's, my
• 47:53
  post season A's. Should we go out there?
• 47:57
  Marched it to where? Sacramento.
• 47:59
  Yeah. Why do I feel like Sacramento's
• 48:02
  a dump? No disrespect, I'm just going
• 48:04
  to. This is the no disrespect
• 48:05
  episode. You don't just get to say no
• 48:07
  disrespect after you you. Can you can literally say no?
• 48:11
  No, you can literally say whatever you want as long as you
• 48:14
  follow it with no. Disrespect or with all due
• 48:18
  respect before. With all.
• 48:22
  With all due respect, Sacramento sucks.
• 48:27
  Honestly, that sounds more insulting.
• 48:28
  Not that bad, with all due respect.
• 48:32
  When you preface it, when you, when you lead them with with
• 48:35
  all, with all due respect, that's more insulting than no
• 48:38
  disrespect. Per my last e-mail will start.
• 48:41
  I love those man. I hate it.
• 48:46
  How are the game probably hasn't started yet because it's a 10:00
• 48:49
  game. I was going to say how the how
• 48:51
  the A's beating up on the Dodgers tonight.
• 48:53
  No, ages are 22 and 20. Don't look now.
• 48:56
  That's such a wild stat, dude, isn't it?
• 49:00
  Not to not strike out this much, but it's, it's very odd.
• 49:06
  And it's not like he's walking a ton.
• 49:10
  Bro just puts the ball on play all the time.
• 49:15
  Very, very old school. Is he already better than his
• 49:20
  dad? No disrespect.
• 49:24
  I'm going to keep it real with you.
• 49:25
  I have no idea who his dad is. Wilson's a pretty generic name.
• 49:28
  What's the story? Jack.
• 49:31
  Oh, right. Yeah, Yeah.
• 49:32
  No, we talked about. You're right.
• 49:33
  Yeah, we. I remember pirate for a while.
• 49:34
  Wasn't it? That's right.
• 49:35
  Yeah. Yeah, we talked about this.
• 49:36
  Holy cow, we're old. According to Martine Gallegos on
• 49:43
  Twitter, per our MLB Research team, Jacob Wilson is the first
• 49:45
  visiting rookie in MLB history to collect four hits and two
• 49:49
  home runs in a game at Dodger Stadium.
• 49:54
  Libro was not intimidated by the bright lights whatsoever.
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  Let's go. Ace.
• 49:58
  In fact, it probably helped that he had bright lights compared to
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  what they're working with out there in Sacramento.
• 50:04
  No disrespect, no disrespect, no disrespect, but his Baseball
• 50:08
  Savant page is exactly what you would expect it to be.
• 50:13
  A whole lot of blue and a whole lot of red.
• 50:16
  It's not. We're not talking like middle of
• 50:18
  the road here very much ends of the spectrum, exit Velo, hard
• 50:24
  hit percentage, barrel percentage, sweet spots
• 50:27
  percentage, bat speed percentage.
• 50:29
  He's in the first first percentile and bat speed
• 50:32
  percentage, but when it comes to he's in the 100th percentile
• 50:38
  squared up percentage K K percentage and with percentage
• 50:45
  or with percentage is 99th expected batting average 97th.
• 50:49
  So literally exactly what you would expect.
• 50:52
  So good for Jacob Wilson. That was a long winded way of
• 50:55
  saying sure, welcome to the credit Canon.
• 51:01
  We already went through. We covered Kyle Schwarber next.
• 51:04
  Philly up. Zach Wheeler, Philly's ace, is
• 51:18
  coming in riding A5 game slate that is exceptional In his last
• 51:26
  five starts, he's 3 and O with an ERA of 214 with 46 strikeouts
• 51:33
  in those five starts. I saw a stat today, Zach Wheeler
• 51:40
  is one of four and this is maybe from a day or two ago so I I
• 51:44
  don't know if this has changed. I doubt it, but Zach Wheeler as
• 51:48
  of a couple days ago is one of four arms in baseball that are
• 51:54
  top ten in strikeout percentage and walk percentage.
• 51:57
  Tarek School, Zach Wheeler, Hunter Green and Joe Ryan.
• 52:01
  Decent. Is he the front runner for that?
• 52:03
  And I'll say young right now. Now, why do I feel like we're
• 52:13
  missing somebody super obvious right now?
• 52:16
  Well, I mean hunter greens. Hurt.
• 52:18
  No, no, no. I know, I know.
• 52:19
  Some time. It doesn't help he I think when
• 52:22
  he comes back, we'll quickly forget.
• 52:25
  A missed starter too. I think we'll be all right.
• 52:27
  Cease has had some hiccups. Yamamoto's look good, but not so
• 52:33
  young good. Let's check here who.
• 52:41
  Logan looks like he's. Sorry, did you say, did you say
• 52:43
  Logan Webb? I didn't.
• 52:45
  Logan Webb's looking very good this year.
• 52:47
  Paul Skeens. Logan Webb's tough because like,
• 52:50
  well, he, he has been punching out guys more often this year
• 52:54
  than he has in his career. But he's tough, man, because he
• 52:57
  just doesn't have like, the sexy numbers.
• 53:00
  Yeah. Gets a lot of ground balls.
• 53:03
  Paul Skeens, I think is just going to have the the sex, the
• 53:07
  sex appeal, if you will, when it comes to the vote.
• 53:10
  Whether or not he's able to shake off a couple of these if
• 53:14
  he starts as of late, we have yet to see, but I think the
• 53:19
  confidence is there to do it. Whatever keeps him in shape for
• 53:23
  the WBC. Truly, yeah.
• 53:25
  I mean, it's nothing else. You're playing for nothing else.
• 53:29
  You're playing for absolutely nothing.
• 53:34
  And lastly here, closing out this week's edition of the
• 53:40
  Credit Cannon, a name that I'll be honest with you, back in back
• 53:46
  in February, March, I didn't anticipate seeing this deep into
• 53:50
  the season. And yeah, I'm saying this deep
• 53:52
  into the season because we're talking about this specific
• 53:54
  individual, Jacob degrom. The fact that he's still healthy
• 54:02
  and pitching rather well is impressive.
• 54:06
  And his last five starts dating back to April 8th.
• 54:09
  Honestly, the the Zach Wheeler slate going back to April 18th
• 54:14
  and Jacob degrom slate going back to April 18th are are, as I
• 54:19
  mentioned, both exceptional and they both made starts on April
• 54:25
  18th. So something must have clicked
• 54:27
  on that day because going back to April 18th for Jacob degrom 5
• 54:31
  starts three and one in that stretch with an ERA of 191 with
• 54:36
  33 punch outs in those five games.
• 54:41
  So you know, good on Jacob to grind.
• 54:43
  He's back a little bit, man. I think he's back to the best.
• 54:46
  You're going to see him beat, which is pretty.
• 54:51
  Good. Yeah, yeah.
• 54:53
  I mean, his last start out against the Tigers.
• 54:57
  Ten punch outs over 5 innings, just two earned runs.
• 55:02
  I mean seven strike. I'm just looking at the game
• 55:06
  log. 7 strikeouts. 6 strikeouts. 7 strikeouts. 310 strikeouts.
• 55:13
  Guys got it. He's back.
• 55:16
  He's got to stay healthy, I think.
• 55:17
  He's growing the hair out again too, isn't he?
• 55:18
  He is, yeah, growing a little bit of lettuce Outback the.
• 55:22
  Speaking of staying healthy, A1 Clayton Kershaw is set to make
• 55:30
  his debut on Saturday versus the Angels in the Freeway Series.
• 55:39
  So yeah, you knew I was going to pick him up in fantasy a couple
• 55:42
  weeks back anticipating this being the case.
• 55:45
  So we'll see how it goes. I'm hoping for they.
• 55:49
  I read that he's not on. Well, he said he's not on a
• 55:51
  pitch limit and I think I said he he threw hold on.
• 55:56
  I don't want to. I don't want to speak out of my
• 55:57
  behind right now. Did he go?
• 56:01
  Did he go 6? I swear he went six.
• 56:08
  I thought I read somewhere that he went 6.
• 56:10
  Maybe he was not 6. Is there a fire in Chicago?
• 56:14
  What's happening? So smoky there.
• 56:17
  I don't know. Where did I see that?
• 56:25
  Or maybe I saw like 60 pitches he went his last outing there
• 56:30
  was a six or something. But ultimately he should be good
• 56:35
  to go. Looks like everything is squared
• 56:37
  away. On the flip side, elsewhere in
• 56:39
  the rotation, Rokie Sasaki has hit the shelf with right
• 56:44
  shoulder impingement. So he'll be on the shelf for a
• 56:46
  little bit a couple weeks. 15 day IL another name on the IL
• 56:51
  Oswaldo Cabrera Tell me a little bit about this.
• 56:54
  I I didn't I intentionally didn't look at the video.
• 56:58
  So I. Don't can you send me a video
• 57:01
  because I watched it live and they didn't do a replay so you.
• 57:05
  Really want this. Yeah, I just need to see it.
• 57:10
  OK. And I and I deleted all my all
• 57:13
  my stuff so I don't look it up. So if you're unfamiliar, it's
• 57:21
  like this SAC fly. He's on 3rd, he's tagging up,
• 57:26
  running home, throw up the line. And you know, when that like the
• 57:32
  catcher kind of comes up the line and it, it like causes the
• 57:35
  runner to go around him just a little bit.
• 57:38
  When he did that all I saw him, he just, he just goes down and
• 57:45
  ends up breaking his ankle. And it was actually like, it was
• 57:49
  pretty sad, man. Like I'm not going to lie, like
• 57:51
  it was, it was sad because he's such a vibes guy and he's like a
• 57:55
  clubhouse guy. And you could tell that like
• 57:57
  everyone was pretty shaken up. Like the trainer came out from
• 58:01
  both when both trainers come out.
• 58:03
  It's game over. And like immediately wave like a
• 58:07
  cart on and then the cart isn't even good enough.
• 58:10
  Like we need the ambulance out here.
• 58:12
  Well, I read that they like immediately put the towel over
• 58:14
  it, which is never a good thing. Yeah, that's pretty.
• 58:17
  That's pretty, really pretty rough too.
• 58:19
  Was it a clean break like I I don't know I I don't know the
• 58:23
  the extent or or. Why is this so blurry?
• 58:26
  Damage that was caused but Yikes did not sound.
• 58:31
  It's it couldn't be more blurry what's happening.
• 58:33
  That I don't I. Don't.
• 58:36
  There it is. We're good, we're back and it
• 58:40
  sucks. Is that it?
• 58:41
  Because like it was kind of like a laugher of a game at that
• 58:43
  moment. Yeah.
• 58:49
  His foot's just go in the wrong direction.
• 58:52
  Tough man, tough. That was an ugly one.
• 58:55
  Good on that trainer, man. I, I thought that was like a lot
• 58:59
  of times you see like I don't, you just don't see that kind of
• 59:04
  like trainer comfort that that the guy provided.
• 59:10
  It was kind of legit dude. Like he like hugs because
• 59:14
  Cabrera is like laying on his stomach.
• 59:16
  He crawled over the plate and touched the plate and then just
• 59:18
  stopped. The trainer comes out and like,
• 59:21
  like he immediately like gets on the ground and like hugs him.
• 59:23
  So Cabrera doesn't look back at his foot.
• 59:29
  Then he just like, hugs him and he's like holding his head
• 59:32
  because Cabrera is crying and he's just like rubbing his back.
• 59:34
  And I'm like, like, such nice treatment and like, it was just
• 59:38
  cool. Like, it's, I don't know, it's
• 59:40
  cool to see those guys, like, kind of jump into action and
• 59:43
  just it was it was a very, like, difficult injury and seeing it
• 59:48
  that way. Yeah.
• 59:49
  His foot is sideways. Yeah, I mean, you know, those
• 59:53
  those medical Staffs, training Staffs are always working behind
• 59:56
  the scenes, unsung heroes for for so many of these teams.
• 1:00:02
  And he rode with him to the hospital, by the way, in the
• 1:00:04
  ambulance. Love that.
• 1:00:06
  But. Like when you see a guy or when
• 1:00:08
  you see a staff just jump into action without hesitating
• 1:00:12
  whatsoever and do what they've been trained to do.
• 1:00:16
  You just love to see that and obviously you hate to see it,
• 1:00:20
  you know, come about in this way.
• 1:00:22
  But you know, yeah, it sounds like he'll he'll be take or he
• 1:00:26
  has been taken care of as as best he can, but.
• 1:00:30
  He's probably done for the year. Yeah, he never, he say three to
• 1:00:32
  four months, but I mean, that's he's probably done for the year.
• 1:00:36
  It sucks, man. He's he's a cool.
• 1:00:38
  He's a cool dude. And for those who like aren't
• 1:00:40
  super familiar with Yankees baseball at all, like he's he's
• 1:00:44
  just a super happy guy. Plays whatever position they
• 1:00:46
  tell him to play. Plays it hard it it's like he's
• 1:00:50
  one of those guys were like if you, if you wanted to emulate,
• 1:00:53
  you know, working your butt off and playing the game the right
• 1:00:55
  way, He was one of those. So definitely sucks.
• 1:01:01
  Ronald Cunha junior, I believe it was last night in his first
• 1:01:05
  game back since his ACL surgery last year.
• 1:01:11
  He was playing for the FCL Braves.
• 1:01:14
  Think it was like his third AB went deep.
• 1:01:17
  So encouraging signs there from from Old Ronnie baseball.
• 1:01:24
  Did I see something that he issued an apology today?
• 1:01:27
  Not. About what?
• 1:01:29
  What did he do? His comments Thought it was
• 1:01:35
  today. Let me see.
• 1:01:38
  What is he apologizing for now? Acuna apologizes to the Braves.
• 1:01:43
  Oh yeah, yeah. Apologizes to teammates and
• 1:01:45
  Brian Snicker for his where he addressed his tweet.
• 1:01:51
  Yeah. A month later.
• 1:01:57
  Yeah, I don't know. I.
• 1:01:59
  Don't know, I'm sure coming though he comes.
• 1:02:01
  Yeah, I was going to say, I'm sure Braves fans and the Braves
• 1:02:04
  themselves are just wanting to move past it and get back to
• 1:02:08
  playing good ball. They have been playing good
• 1:02:10
  ball. I see they're, they're back to
• 1:02:11
  500, right? Yeah, that's impressive.
• 1:02:14
  Coming into the day, yeah, you know, probably.
• 1:02:17
  During the start I I didn't, I didn't call it dad.
• 1:02:20
  I refused. Nor did I I, if you recall,
• 1:02:24
  though I said I wanted to get my I wanted to get my shots in
• 1:02:27
  while I could. No disrespect, no disrespect,
• 1:02:30
  but you did read some stats about like never, never doing
• 1:02:33
  this, never doing that after an O and seven start, you know?
• 1:02:37
  It literally the the history is there like on paper it said no
• 1:02:42
  team had made the postseason after starting what What did
• 1:02:45
  they start? O and seven I.
• 1:02:46
  Think it was O and eight. O and eight, maybe no team had
• 1:02:50
  made the O and seven, maybe no team.
• 1:02:54
  O and eight no team had made the postseason after the start that
• 1:02:58
  they had. That's I'm not making I'm not
• 1:03:01
  like searching for that. It was it was flying all over
• 1:03:03
  the place and I was like, oh, let me just read no disrespect.
• 1:03:06
  Let me just relay that to the people because that'd be a
• 1:03:08
  disservice not to but they've they've turned it around so good
• 1:03:14
  on them. I I got my shots in while I
• 1:03:15
  could, but here come the Braves. I can't believe I'm reading
• 1:03:24
  this. In the year 2025, Rich Hill has
• 1:03:27
  signed a minor league agreement with the Kansas City Royals.
• 1:03:32
  If Rich Hill pitches for the Royals this year, he will tie
• 1:03:36
  the MLB record held by Edwin Jackson of playing for 14
• 1:03:39
  different teams. Enter the Jesse Pinkman GIF of
• 1:03:47
  You can't keep getting away with this.
• 1:03:49
  Like that's how I feel. That's exactly right.
• 1:03:52
  Just shut it down. Shut it down.
• 1:03:56
  Sick of it. Matt Carpenter, Dad.
• 1:04:01
  Like, yeah, go like, go hang out with your family.
• 1:04:04
  Like what are we doing? Stop pitching against like U18
• 1:04:10
  teams man. Like who am I to say if I could
• 1:04:13
  still do it, I'd probably still do it, but I can't.
• 1:04:15
  I can barely lift my arm these days so.
• 1:04:17
  I know. Easy for me to say.
• 1:04:19
  Guy's got 30 years on us and he's still got some bullets in
• 1:04:23
  the tank. Good for him.
• 1:04:27
  Matt Carpenter has announced his retirement after a 14 year
• 1:04:30
  career. Was a three time All Star and a
• 1:04:32
  Silver Slugger. Finished with a cumulative
• 1:04:36
  career WAR of 28.7. Nice, nice career right there.
• 1:04:40
  That's a good career. Had over a little over 1200
• 1:04:43
  hits, 179 homers and was a 259 hitter.
• 1:04:48
  Had quite a little resurgence. I know you can speak to it there
• 1:04:51
  in the Bronx it. Was a fun couple weeks.
• 1:04:54
  That was interesting to see. Yeah.
• 1:04:56
  A little renaissance, yeah. But yeah, con it a career and I
• 1:05:06
  guess we could say Hall of Good. Borderline, yeah.
• 1:05:11
  Borderline which side? Borderline not getting into the
• 1:05:14
  hall of good. I feel like 1200 hits is a
• 1:05:17
  little light but still a nice career man.
• 1:05:20
  Well, there's 2 halls above that.
• 1:05:22
  Don't forget what's above. There's you got your, you got
• 1:05:27
  your Hall of Fame, you got your Hall of very Good.
• 1:05:29
  And then Hall of Good is what I was, what I was proposing.
• 1:05:33
  I'll throw them in the Hall of Good.
• 1:05:35
  Yeah, I thought that was a A. I'll throw them in the.
• 1:05:38
  Hall of I mean no disrespect, but I thought that was a good.
• 1:05:40
  I thought that was a good Holigood, a good tier to to slot
• 1:05:45
  him in at Holigood. Yeah, that's all we got.
• 1:05:52
  Wanted to close though, with a note, a little reminder about
• 1:05:58
  this Sunday. Look, if you know how to keep
• 1:06:04
  book, if you know how to how to score a baseball game.
• 1:06:08
  If you don't know how to score a baseball game, slash keep book
• 1:06:12
  and you want to learn, join us this Sunday night for the Sunday
• 1:06:17
  night baseball live stream. We're going to be on Facebook,
• 1:06:20
  We're going to be on YouTube, We're going to be on Twitter.
• 1:06:26
  The three O take YouTube, the three O take Facebook and my
• 1:06:30
  Twitter. You can find me there you go in
• 1:06:32
  the chat. Bought a book just to learn from
• 1:06:35
  the expert. I as well.
• 1:06:38
  My book is on the way, the one that Nate recommended.
• 1:06:42
  I'm very much looking forward to this and it seemed I put out a
• 1:06:45
  little little promo post about it today and it seemed to be
• 1:06:48
  received very well by the by the people.
• 1:06:50
  I've already, they've already been a few people that said they
• 1:06:52
  were going to be there and I'm imagine that only more are going
• 1:06:57
  to join us for this experience. It's free of charge.
• 1:07:00
  You're learning how to. Keep book with Nate.
• 1:07:02
  We're not charging you. Nate's going to teach you this
• 1:07:04
  this skill. It's a life skill.
• 1:07:07
  That you can use for the rest of your life whenever you go to a
• 1:07:09
  baseball game for free. That's right.
• 1:07:13
  So BYOB bring your own book. We'll be there probably a little
• 1:07:18
  bit before 7 get settled in a game of things starts maybe like
• 1:07:21
  7/10, 7:15 Eastern. So we'll.
• 1:07:23
  Get you got to get there early. There's stuff we we got to
• 1:07:26
  write. Look, you got to write your line
• 1:07:27
  up in. You got to, we got to talk
• 1:07:30
  number positions for those who aren't familiar with like
• 1:07:33
  there's a number associated to each position.
• 1:07:36
  Hopefully you know that, but it's OK if you don't.
• 1:07:38
  But we got to get your line up in, you got to have all of that
• 1:07:41
  stuff kind of ready to go before first pitch.
• 1:07:45
  So we'll be on a little earlier just to make sure everything's
• 1:07:48
  in order. Yeah.
• 1:07:49
  So maybe we hop on a little earlier, run through the the
• 1:07:53
  need to nose and then we're just going to get right into it.
• 1:07:58
  Bingo. I'm looking forward to it.
• 1:08:00
  Yeah. Anything else?
• 1:08:02
  Oh, I know you wanted to. You wanted to remind me to play.
• 1:08:06
  Yes. Oh yeah, yeah, yes, yeah.
• 1:08:10
  Oh, the. This is a separate thing, I
• 1:08:12
  know. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
• 1:08:13
  Well, I'll go first real quick follow us on TikTok been trying
• 1:08:19
  to crank out more content on TikTok now that you know it's
• 1:08:23
  sticking around for the foreseeable future.
• 1:08:25
  Who knows? But while we have it going to be
• 1:08:28
  posting some some things in there.
• 1:08:30
  Some of the videos make their way to Instagram elsewhere, but
• 1:08:33
  some of them don't I'll be honest with you.
• 1:08:35
  Not all of them do You can see me.
• 1:08:38
  I'll tell you one video that's not on there.
• 1:08:40
  You can see me with hair following running from.
• 1:08:48
  That was nuts. Running.
• 1:08:49
  I was on my lunch. Rain.
• 1:08:51
  I was running. Yeah, running from pouring down
• 1:08:53
  rain to my car so I could make a quick little video about Paul
• 1:08:56
  Skeens. Did you go back into the office
• 1:08:59
  looking that way? No, I had to sort of iron it out
• 1:09:01
  a little bit, you know, do the whole hand shuffle, Sure, but
• 1:09:06
  yeah, you can see that on there. That's not going to be anywhere
• 1:09:08
  else except TikTok. So, you know, I haven't I
• 1:09:10
  haven't plugged that. And you had the good idea
• 1:09:12
  earlier to drop a little plug for that second go hit us up on
• 1:09:15
  TikTok. Yeah.
• 1:09:17
  What do you got? No, mine was weird.
• 1:09:19
  Dude this is just weird. I have you heard about the whole
• 1:09:22
  Real ID thing with flying? Yes.
• 1:09:25
  And it's like an absolute debacle right now because people
• 1:09:28
  think they have an updated ID, but they don't because it
• 1:09:30
  doesn't have that little star, right?
• 1:09:34
  Well, it made me think because I had my lineup set yesterday and
• 1:09:38
  for those who aren't following this team probably didn't even
• 1:09:41
  notice this or this specific player.
• 1:09:43
  Yandi Diaz is on the restricted list at the moment because his
• 1:09:49
  passport wasn't updated when the Rays were going to Tampa or
• 1:09:54
  excuse me, to Toronto, so he couldn't go with the team number
• 1:09:59
  one. I don't understand.
• 1:10:01
  The whole ID thing is like, let's how many like plug in the
• 1:10:08
  Nate Burgazi bit where he talks about his name on his ID not
• 1:10:13
  matching his ticket. Not like all of this stuff.
• 1:10:16
  Like that's what it feels like for traveling right now, but for
• 1:10:20
  a Major League Baseball team and and a professional athlete, like
• 1:10:24
  for this not to be buttoned up ready to go for to just do the
• 1:10:28
  bare minimum of flying on a private plane into another
• 1:10:33
  country. It's just ridiculous.
• 1:10:35
  Don't these teams have like travelling, like travel?
• 1:10:38
  Agents, they have like travel. Managers.
• 1:10:40
  Yeah. Travel.
• 1:10:41
  Managers, that's what. Travel What are we doing?
• 1:10:44
  Travel secretaries are. That's an actual job.
• 1:10:47
  That is an actual job that every organization has.
• 1:10:53
  Pretty embarrassing. I was about to whip out my real
• 1:10:57
  ID and show you, but I didn't want to put my government
• 1:11:00
  information out on the. Screen not the the best call I I
• 1:11:03
  have. It's good foresight.
• 1:11:05
  But oddly enough, we're about to go to Denver in a few weeks and
• 1:11:09
  I just asked Paige said, Hey, you heard about this?
• 1:11:14
  She's like, no what? Are you kidding me dude?
• 1:11:16
  There's been a thing since like 2005.
• 1:11:19
  I know and it like never happened until May 7th.
• 1:11:22
  It just got submitted and became official and she just got her
• 1:11:28
  new ID because she changed her name.
• 1:11:31
  So she just envy. We're not going to get here in
• 1:11:35
  time. I don't know if we're going to
• 1:11:36
  Denver. Like, I don't know if she can
• 1:11:37
  go. I might leave her.
• 1:11:39
  I'm going to the Yankees game. Sorry, babe.
• 1:11:41
  I'll meet you there. I got a real Idi could go.
• 1:11:44
  Yeah. There's an extra ticket now
• 1:11:46
  you're in. I'll meet you there.
• 1:11:50
  Unbelievable. But it's the same thing.
• 1:11:52
  Because she's like her new ID doesn't have the star.
• 1:11:55
  She does have a passport, but it's on her maiden name.
• 1:11:58
  So. We're like, is anyone going to
• 1:12:01
  be OK with this? It's hard to say.
• 1:12:03
  I'll let you know. That neighbor got you Bits is
• 1:12:06
  good, though. He's like, my name is Nate, but
• 1:12:08
  it says Nathaniel on my ID and the guy's like, well, I'm I
• 1:12:10
  don't know what we can do. He's like, we can get that.
• 1:12:13
  Like you see how we got him from there to there?
• 1:12:16
  Right, 50% of the name matches 100% of the pictures.
• 1:12:19
  You can always fall back on the pictures.
• 1:12:24
  He's so good dude. Oh any who's well.
• 1:12:29
  That's it. This guy, this guy's name is,
• 1:12:31
  he's calling himself Nate. It says Nathaniel.
• 1:12:33
  Should I just go ahead and shoot him like right here or crazy?
• 1:12:39
  Anyway, that's all I got. Ah, poor Paige, man, that sucks.
• 1:12:43
  No. Sucks for her.
• 1:12:46
  I'm going. You'll be enjoying a baseball
• 1:12:49
  game by yourself. I'll let you know.
• 1:12:50
  Just keep that day free, all right?
• 1:12:52
  It's a Memorial Day weekend. Just keep the.
• 1:12:55
  Yeah. We'll see.
• 1:12:57
  All right, fair enough. I think I got to go to a
• 1:13:00
  wedding, Dude, you know how my Sundays are.
• 1:13:02
  It's crazy enough enough. Stop flexing of how many friends
• 1:13:06
  you have. It's not that.
• 1:13:08
  It's, it's just everything falls in a Sunday now, which is what?
• 1:13:13
  Which is stop. That's what I'm saying.
• 1:13:16
  But I didn't say that you said it.
• 1:13:18
  Say it, I don't know him, but do I the he?
• 1:13:23
  Was actually my wedding. You are also with me at my
• 1:13:26
  wedding. No, but that's why I'm excited
• 1:13:30
  that we're able to do this keeping score or keeping book
• 1:13:33
  thing this Sunday 'cause I finally got a Sunday open.
• 1:13:36
  So we can, you know, we can do the whole keeping book thing.
• 1:13:40
  So join us for that, follow us on TikTok and have a good rest
• 1:13:46
  of your week. And don't go Jason curveballs.
• 1:13:49
  We love you all and as always, looking forward to talking more
• 1:13:51
  baseball with you guys soon. Until next time, stay filthy.