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Edwin Diaz Demoted · The 3-0 Take

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Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to the Three O Take, where we talk
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all things Major League Baseball.
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Here's Kyle Corwin and Nate Reyes.
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It all starts right now. Welcome back to the Three O Take
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presented by C Geek. This is episode 434.
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I'll be your host, Kyle Cord. And I'm here with my Co host,
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Nate Reyes. Nate.
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That's is me. I am HE3O take is we nailed it.
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There it is I. Was wondering where you were
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taking that, but you landed it. Used to crush poems in
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elementary school if you were curious so.
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I was like a borderline haiku, almost.
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Speaking of landing things, I checked on the status of the
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Oakland A's Polo today. I thought there was an off
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chance that I might might have received it by today.
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And the Pfizer the for those unfamiliar, the wager I'm not
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going to, I'm not going to rehash the whole wager again.
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But I'm ultimately I lost a bet with Nate.
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You can find out the details of it all on my Twitter, but lost
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the bet and the the loser, in this case me, had to or has to
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wear an Oakland A's gold polo and a green Oakland A's visor
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every episode until the All Star break.
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So the last I checked, when I saw it today, it had landed in
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Get This. It went from Philly, sure, to
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Texas. Well, it went from California to
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Philly to Texas. So you could have just, like
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gone and picked it up in Philly if you really wanted to, yeah.
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If I really wanted to. But I didn't.
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So I didn't. Some would say that's not really
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super committed. I'll wear it when it shows up.
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But the the thing that I told you but I I don't know if I or
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no I I tweeted out the original gold polo that was decided upon
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only had smalls available. You you question my my
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commitment to this bit. I almost thought about ordering
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a small and just figuring out a way to make it work.
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But I That would have been a that would have been a oh, that
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would have been a tough scene. But I didn't.
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So in classic Oakland Ace fashion, I opted for a cheaper
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cheaper option save some money and I found like new Oakland A's
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Gold Polo a similar option on eBay and when it place the
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order. Old, like, that's for sure Old.
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Oh, it's like Majestic, like earlier, early Ish.
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Majestic. Yeah, it's it's definitely not.
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A excellent it's. Definitely not new.
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Excellent. I will be rocking that.
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All the more reason, yeah, that's what I was going to say.
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All the more reason to get your subscribing to the YouTube
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channel done now so you could witness this stretch.
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I think we counted as like 11 or 12 episodes, so.
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I think it's about a dozen episodes.
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That's perfect. That's absolutely perfect.
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Unbelievable. It's it's unbelievable to me how
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confident you were to make that bet.
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I I told you I I sent you the tweet.
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I I've been reading articles since then talking about the
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Oakland A's fall off in the last 14, two, like two 2 1/2 weeks.
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The the evidence was there. It was in it was working in my
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favor. I thought that was a pretty easy
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bet for myself, but not not to be had so.
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Call me a genius. It's OK.
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No, you didn't have that kind of foresight.
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Anyway. Just wanted to get that update
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out there about our Oakland A's wager.
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Just wanted to update the people on the latest that I know, Edwin
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Diaz. Get the trumpets going.
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That's all I got. That's if that's close.
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That's the closest I got. We probably no, I'll save it.
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Edwin Diaz demoted from his closer role with the New York
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Metropolitans, I think a move that many of us saw coming, Mets
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fans included. And he even alluded to it
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himself, talking about how his confidence was down and that he
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was willing to step away from the closer role.
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He mentioned this in a in a post game presser.
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I believe it was in front of his, his locker.
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I was watching the clip today and or I think it was from last
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night I saw today and then I think shortly thereafter it was
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announced that he was demoted. I don't know if the the word
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demoted officially made its way to the headlines, but All in
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all, not the not no longer the closer of the New York Mets, at
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least for the near future. In the meantime, I think we're
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going to have a closer by committee that will not include
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Edwin Diaz. What are What are our thoughts
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here? Trying to look at like the game
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log, so I didn't see how many, How many saves has he saves?
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Has he blown? He's blown lead.
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Well, he's blown leads in three straight games.
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He's converted only five of his eight saves, giving up 11 earned
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runs in 18 innings, which amounts to a 550 ERA.
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Yeah, it's a tough look. Looks like the strikeout stuff
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is still there. I it's really strange.
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It's it's really odd. I was trying to look at numbers
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on Baseball Savant compared to 2022 because obviously he was
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out last year. It it doesn't compute to me.
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Fastball, he's pretty much a two pitch guy.
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Fastball and and slider percentages are the exact same.
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It's basically like a 58% slider to 41% four seam fastball
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percentage. Just carbon copy from what we
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saw in 2022 when he dominated looking at spin, spin looks the
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exact same. The exact same, but obviously
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numbers are just not good. Batting average against the
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slider this year is a 234-2022. We had a 114 batting average
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against Slug has climbed from A134 in 2022 to a 468 off that
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slider. Looks like the lift has gone up.
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It was a the 9° launch angle on average in 2022 compared to a 14
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Fastball's also getting lifted. Velocity's slightly down on the
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fastball so far. It's a 996.9 this year compared
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to a 99.1 average in 2022. So like Velo is down.
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I suppose it's just odd, like you know the swing and miss
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stuff is just not there the way it used to be.
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But it I think that the issue is mainly the slider.
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He gave up one home run in all of 2022 off the slider.
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He's giving up three so far this year.
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So the slider is for sure the issue and you know coming off of
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TJ like I guess it's or not TJ what was it the the knee?
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The knee from the World Baseball Classic.
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Yep. Yeah, the knee.
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So it's like, I don't know how you just lose that pitch,
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especially when spin looks the same, velocity looks the same.
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It's actually getting better extension off of it.
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I don't. I don't know, but guys just
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aren't missing it right now, so. I think I mean the looking at
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the numbers I I would say would tell part of the story but you
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have to keep in mind with a closer did they and and you know
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like I'm not telling you anything that you don't already
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know but like a closer it goes beyond the numbers it goes you
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have to look at the mentality and how that's being impacted
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and how that's fluctuating because it it does.
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I mean only the greatest of the great closers really have a
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confidence that is unwavering when they when they take the
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mound pretty much every other closer is going to have his ups
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and downs and Edwin Diaz is not immune to that.
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And so when you start even if even if the stuff is there if
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it's getting if it's getting hit around a little bit more than
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usual you start blowing some leads especially consecutive
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leads the way he has as of late that's gonna that's gonna really
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do a number on your confidence and that's vital that is crucial
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as a closer because if you don't have that it frankly it really
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doesn't matter how good your stuff is or or you know your
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RPMS don't matter the the the pitch usage maybe doesn't matter
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as much because if you if you're lacking that confidence that's
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that's you're missing half your game if not more as a guy as a
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as a high high leverage reliever.
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Yeah, you're right. I mean, you're definitely right.
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It's, I think that's, again, just, I'm not trying to be a
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Homer here, but like, we can go outside and mow.
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We can go into the Trevor Hoffman conversation if you
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want, but, like, it just shows how difficult it is to be a
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lockdown Hall of Fame closer for that stretch in your career.
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Yeah, it's it's just super impressive.
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I am not surprised because like, let's face it, like nothing
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about the Mets ever surprises us.
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Ever. Nothing like this ever gets to
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us. We know it's it's coming.
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We know what they do. It's just like a it just spreads
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into that mentality of every guy in the roster.
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I can't help but love it. And to reiterate, I I'm not
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downplaying the numbers that you're sharing whatsoever.
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Like that's that's very important information to to
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know. It's more so addressing the
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audience, the demographic that looks at purely numbers like the
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the new age, the the advanced metrics the stack cast, all that
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whatever you want to look at and they go well on paper.
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The math is the math is math in with Edwin Diaz.
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Why isn't it working? You have to remember, and that's
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what I was saying, is you, you and I both know this.
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Like there's there's an element there that's not exactly
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tangible that you have to keep in mind when it comes to Valic,
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Edwin Diaz and again the the aforementioned injury in the
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World Baseball Classic, that takes a toll on him as well.
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Like it if you take 2022 and you roll them right into 2023, he
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probably sustains the success that he saw in 2022 and he just
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keeps the train right moving right along and probably
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wouldn't be any different this year.
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But you take that year off after showing out in 2022, the buzz
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couldn't have been higher with him with with the trump.
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And we we we talked about it till we were blue in the face
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and it was talked about constantly.
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But you take a a whole year off that's a lot to come back from.
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And if you don't have your, if you don't have your stuff that
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you had back in 2022 right out of the gate you start to ask
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yourself some questions. You start to go, was that was
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that really me or is this really me.
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And then that just starts snowballing and you you the
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result is what you're what we're seeing right now with the with a
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guy who was a shoo in to to be the lockdown guy for the Mets
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regard whether or not he got the opportunities for for saves
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based on how the Mets did this year.
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That's that's another conversation.
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But he was supposed to be the guy and he's, as it stands right
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now, is not the guy, and it's going to be a question of of how
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long that'll be the case. I I can't help but we're getting
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outside of Edwin Diaz specifically.
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But like I if you notice that so many of these controversial
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review calls, there's Every time I see something about the Mets,
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I see like this tantrum by by players like the amount of.
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Don't get me wrong like every team has players that are guilty
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of this, including our favorite teams.
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But like the amount of. Like complaining about strike
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zone. The amount of like a helmet
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slams after striking out. The amount of you know maybe you
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call it bad luck with with review calls that seem like they
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probably should have gone the other way but didn't.
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It's just like this energy it's it's and it's contagious the
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same way winning is contagious it it's it's almost like they're
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finding a way to lose. And I don't know how you flip
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that script. I really just don't know.
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I like Carlos Mendoza. I'm a little biased because he
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was a bench coach with the Yankees.
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I I feel like he's not necessarily a bad fit.
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I don't know if he's the long term answer, but I don't.
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I just don't know how you change like the attitude.
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I need a winner. I need a leader.
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I need someone who is willing to just put their foot down and be
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that guy in the clubhouse, and no one really seems to want to
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do that. And I think it's just spread.
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It's just gone all over the place on every aspect of the
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game. Do you see that weird, like,
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double play that they got into today?
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It was a rundown. What happened?
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It was like a 1653 rundown that was in between second and third.
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And then Marte, you know, tries to book it from first to second
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and then gets back picked at first.
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It's. I don't know if it's like a lack
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of discipline. I don't know If it's.
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I don't know. I don't know.
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I know the rest of the league enjoys it.
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Like we enjoy it. It's, it's.
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Fun. Oh, I love it.
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It's fun to have the Mets is the laughingstock.
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It's fun to have them the butt of the joke.
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But at the same time, you're like, what is going on?
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What? Why?
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Why can't anything go your guys's way?
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And not to mention, it's an interesting division when you
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look at the NL East this year thus far, I mean the Braves.
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I mean the the Phillies. Rather triple check here.
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Best team in baseball. Want to make sure nothing
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changed today. Best team in baseball entering
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today 34 and 14. Not to sit like we we talk about
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all the time. The Phillies, the Braves, one of
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those. Those are going to be the two
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teams that beat each other up throughout the year and those
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are and and then you and then you'll have the rest of the
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division. And I'm not going to I'm not
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going to drop like the Billy Bean like you got you got these
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250 feet of crap and then the rest of the vision, it's not
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it's not that bad. I mean we like to we like to
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laugh at the Mets a little bit. But, I mean, they're like,
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respectable enough to be not 50 below 50 feet of crap.
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But it's like, man, it's like the Atlanta Braves, the Wicked
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Witch of the West or whatever. And they're, I mean, the Braves
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fans at 27 and 17, Braves fans ready to jump off a bridge.
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I know. Which makes absolutely no sense.
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You're literally, you've played 500 ball over your last 10 and
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they're ready to cancel the season.
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So it's like it's like all of these factors.
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It's a little bit of a mix up in the race, which is essentially
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what I was getting at, a little bit of a mix up in the division
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and you're just kind of you're just floundering, you're just
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floundering. And it's like we can only expect
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so much because it was made clear that this was not going to
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be a year in which they were going to compete, but.
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Like, we can't, we can't fault them.
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I I to be honest with you I'm I'm somewhat impressed by a 21
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and 26 record get all things considered like you you got to
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think that that's pretty decent for what they're doing and what
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they're not doing and who they are.
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I just, I I think it needs an overhaul, man, like I really do.
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And I don't know what that looks like, but I don't know.
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Craig says on the on the stream chat.
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It says Brad, It's something to watch right now.
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Losing games, we're just going to that.
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I understand that. I understand, sure.
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It's incredibly frustrating to be losing games that you
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shouldn't be. But it gets worse.
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You got to take it and you got to take into account the the,
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the resume you've put in. Thus far, you're 2017.
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The Phillies aren't, I would imagine, aren't going to sustain
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this level of play. It's it's all right.
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It's all right. Yeah.
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I mean, I I like a good opportunity to to take a shot at
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Braves fans every now and then. Not every, not every day, just
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every now and then. So, like, if I'm sitting here
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saying it'll be all right, just rest assured it'll be all right.
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Any more than Edwin Diaz topic. I'm sure he'll be back.
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I'm sure he'll be back into the into the normal role.
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You can tell the stuff is there, like you said, like you know
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when you look at numbers, it's it's still there.
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It could just be, you know, the timing of of when those pictures
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are going to be called and and the situation he's in and
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overall what's going on in the noggin.
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But he'll be back, he'll be fine.
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He'll be back. And listen to this we need a
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little break from the stupid trumpets anyway.
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Yeah, I I wish I could have that that hatred right now for just
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getting the getting the trumpets out of out of here.
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But I just hate to see a guy like, I mean he you saw the
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headlines him getting like emotional and it's like I can't
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even. Can't.
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I can't take shots right now at this guy.
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It's it's tough. If he was doing well and they
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were continuing to force the trumpets down our throat, I'd be
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like I'm done this. Is what I'm saying.
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This is what I'm saying, man. Like show me some freaking
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mental toughness. Like show me some mental
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toughness. If you're if you're a Met fan,
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you got to be like where is like our, our what?
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What? It's not even that far into the
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season and we're complaining this way and we're like self
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pitying our way through this. It's like.
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No, I think to to to their credit, I think and we we've
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mentioned this before, I think Mets fans are just numb to to
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the the state of their team. It's the players that I think
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and that may have been who you're referencing.
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It's the players that need to show the mental toughness like
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take it, take a hint from your fan base.
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No. 100%, that's what I'm saying.
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Just like like. This is our lives now.
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Met fan, Yankee fan, Whoever you are in New York like you, you'd
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like to think that those people are typically a little more
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mentally tough than a lot of Americans.
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So it's like maybe they're just louder than most Americans.
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But either way, either way, it's like just a a mentality switch
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needs to happen. I don't know.
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Trying to watch my team lose over here.
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Let's talk talk about other cities.
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Let's go to Chicago. Let's talk this finale on
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Saturday versus the Pirates. So laying the scene here, you
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got Christopher Morell at at the plate.
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David Bednar, who as we know hasn't had prime David Bednar
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season thus far. They believe it's a 00 ball
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game. Cody Bellinger at the plate.
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Ball hard hard line. Drive hard ground ball up the
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middle. Cody.
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Did I say Cody Bellinger at the plate?
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No. Christopher Morell's at the
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plate. Cody Bellinger rounding third
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and the controversy begins. Play is at the plate.
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He slides in, knocks the ball loose with his hand
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unintentionally. If there's anybody out there,
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and I I would, I would like to think the baseball fans are
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smart enough to know that there was no intention in that because
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a play moving that fast, sure, you can sit there and break it
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down in slow motion and go, Oh well, he clearly knocked it out
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of his hand. A play in in real time.
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He he's not, he's not looking to do anything intentionally there.
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He's trying to beat the ball to the plate.
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That's what he's focused on. And then you just see all these,
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all these interpretations of the rules flooding social media
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saying, well, no, this is what Rule 713 says.
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And well, this is what the video shows.
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Well, this is what the replay room said, and this is what was
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decided. There's just a whole bunch of
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chaos. I frankly still don't know where
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I fall on this play. I mean, we know now what the
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rule is, 'cause that was brought to our attention, little clarity
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provided on that front. But it's just a that's a that's
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a fast-paced play to end the game and it's hard to, I mean,
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to be fair, it is the umpire's job to know these things.
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So I'm not going to absolve them completely, but like to see the
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play happen in real time to make the call that he did to
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acknowledge that the ball was on the ground.
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I don't. I don't necessarily fault him
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for that, however, the issue is with the replay room.
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You. Take it to the replay room,
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those people. Now that you've now that you're
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you're in the middle of in the midst of a a replay review a
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time out, you have the ability to go, OK, what does our
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rulebook say? And according to Rule 713, the
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one I mentioned, a runner attempting to score may not
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deviate from his direct pathway to the plate in order to
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initiate contact with a catcher or other players covering home
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plate. If, in the judgement of the
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umpire, a runner attempting to score initiates contact with the
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catcher or other player covering home plate in such a manner, the
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umpire shall declare the runner out even if the player covering
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home plate loses possession of the ball.
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So that's what the rule says. The thing that I didn't
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understand though is that people were ignoring the ball drop
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altogether. I kept seeing people cropping,
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cropping the replay, zooming in, going well, you can see that he
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makes contact with Bellinger's foot before it crosses his own
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plate cause Bellinger's foot moves.
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It's like that's not what we're that's not even relevant to what
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we're looking at here, the the whole play in question or the
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ball being on the ground. And the reason the decision, the
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call was made was because the ball was on the ground.
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So I don't know, just a whole bunch of craziness.
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And I I I would venture to say Major League Baseball and the
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Umpires Association still doesn't really know what the
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right call is. It's a weird one.
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I'll I'll give them that. This is a weird one I.
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Did you? Well, let me ask you, did you
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watch? Did you watch it in real time
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'cause the only it was hard to find a real time.
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No, each of it. I've only seen these like.
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The slow MO. The slow MO ones, yeah.
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Because if you watch the the full speed play, like I'm
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sitting there going my initial my my reaction would be once you
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see the balls on the ground, OK, he's safe and that I think
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that's what happened. But again, it goes back to, it
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goes back to the dialogue taking place back in New York or or
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whatever replay room they're in contact with at that point.
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If we're placing fault, it's not on the home plate umpire because
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I do agree, like I just watched it live or not alive, but a full
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speed 1II concur it looks like. Especially because there is like
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a slight rollover who's catching this one.
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I don't remember the name of the catcher.
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You're talking about who who the catcher was?
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Yeah. For the play, I honestly don't
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even remember I. Don't know, whatever he like
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kind of rolls over a little bit. So in in the like the body from
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Bellinger and like the angle that the umpire's in like the
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body is kind of blocking the fact that all you see is just
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like slide catcher lays out. You lose sight of the tag and
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then the ball's on the ground, so I don't fault the the home
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plate on fire at all. Oh, is it Jan Gomes?
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Was he the guy? With the ball, it doesn't look
27:08
like it. He started for the Cubs on
27:12
Saturday. It's definitely not him.
27:18
I can't tell who it is. Yeah, this is, this is all
27:22
about, you know, going it. It's in New York, right?
27:24
Is it still in New York, the the review room or whatever?
27:28
Yeah. Replay central.
27:32
I don't know man. I've seen a couple of these
27:34
calls. They go, they go through review
27:39
and they're not correct afterwards.
27:43
That's what I'm saying. People want to laugh.
27:46
It's there's something going on and nobody wants to acknowledge
27:50
it because nobody likes to be labeled as a conspiracy
27:53
theorist. But what are we?
27:54
What are we doing like? Look at what's it's an epidemic
28:00
unlike like in in at levels we haven't seen before and people
28:03
are talking like I I saw a comment the other day in
28:06
response of one of my one of the reels I put I think it may have
28:10
been while you were out and I was talking about how umpires
28:14
just have been atrocious whatever.
28:15
And I I mentioned the whole like the the the buyout or the payout
28:19
or whatever and somebody commented on there something
28:22
like, LOL, this guy's ignoring how bad umpires have been for
28:26
the last like, however many decades.
28:28
And it's like, no, I'm taking that into account, but you have
28:31
to, you have to compare that to what's going on right now.
28:34
The replay reviews are getting them wrong.
28:36
So, like, what are we really doing here?
28:38
Yeah, I don't know man. I think it's the you can tell
28:43
First off that whatever Bellinger is doing with the the
28:46
hand up, like that's not intentional to knock the ball
28:48
out. So we can for sure get that out
28:52
of the way. I think it's the argument of
28:56
like the incidental contact. Also, I can't tell because for
29:08
the sake of the argument for like a transfer play, like you
29:12
can tell like a a middle infielder if he's going to
29:15
transfer and it's a drop, like it's the action of the next
29:19
motion, right? Like the catch was completed,
29:22
the out was completed. So can you argue that the action
29:29
of the tag was completed and this is like an effort to show
29:33
the umpire of the ball, right? Like that's what it was mainly
29:38
looking like, Like he's trying to say like hey, I I'm still
29:41
holding on to this and then it got knocked out.
29:45
So can you use that same logic as you would as like a transfer
29:49
play saying like that the first actions completed, we can't
29:54
judge the next action? I don't know.
30:00
This is it's kind of like the like in the NFL too.
30:03
Like did he go to the ground and and hold on to it long enough to
30:07
complete the catch? It's hard to say.
30:11
It's really hard to say. I don't know.
30:13
I don't know the right call. Do you know the right call?
30:15
Do you agree? Safer out like do you can you
30:18
pick one way or the other. Like it's it's weird if I, like
30:28
I said, if I'm watching this play in real time.
30:31
No. Say you're in the review.
30:33
Say you're in the review room. Well, that's what I'm saying.
30:36
It's different if I'm, if I'm the umpire watching this real
30:39
time play at the plate, you might initially think he's out,
30:42
you see the ball on the ground and he pointed to the ball, he
30:45
he acknowledged that the ball was on the ground, called him
30:48
safe. That's what I would have done,
30:50
yeah. But if I'm in the replay route,
30:52
to answer your question, if I'm in the replay room, why would I
30:58
not be referencing this rule 713 and going there's.
31:05
Well, there's our answer. This doesn't need to take more
31:08
than 30 seconds. Why is that not happening?
31:13
Read the first part of 713 again.
31:17
Relevant to which like. Because it like the way I took
31:24
it in is like if they make an effort outside of the path to
31:30
initiate contact, right? A runner attempting to score may
31:37
not deviate from his direct pathway to the plate in order to
31:40
initiate contact with the catcher.
31:42
So the deviate part is where I'm getting lost because like he
31:45
didn't deviate. This was a direct path.
31:51
I don't think it's so much about the contact.
31:54
I I think it's the. Well, no, but that's what,
31:58
that's what. It's the second part of 713
32:01
that, going back to my point where it's like this should take
32:04
no longer than 30 seconds. If they know what rule is is
32:08
relevant to this play, you reference it, You make the
32:11
decision and you and you. You go on with the game
32:15
accordingly, or end the game according or what advance to the
32:18
next inning. However the the play lends
32:22
itself but the second part of 713.
32:25
If, in the judgement of the umpire or runner attempting to
32:27
score, initiates contact with the catcher or other player
32:31
covering home plate in such a manner, the umpire shall declare
32:33
the runner out even if the even. If the player covering home
32:36
plate loses possession of the ball, the umpire shall declare
32:43
the runner out, even if the player covering home plate loses
32:47
possession of the ball, initiates contact with the
32:53
catcher. That's.
32:55
But that's is that, is that saying only if he deviates or
32:58
no, 'cause that seems like a sub thing under the rule, you know,
33:06
like is that only relevant if he deviates?
33:08
That's fair. Yeah that's fair because it just
33:11
says trying to figure out because it just says if in the
33:14
judgement of the umpire runner attempting to score initiate.
33:17
I read that as a separate like independent of the first part.
33:21
But to your point, if it is like if it's a sub rule of the the
33:27
primary or the initial reading of 713 then.
33:34
I just had a new idea. I think we should just once an
33:37
episode, drop a new a new rule that we read straight out of the
33:41
rule book, try to dissect it. I love that.
33:46
The verbiage of this is crazy. I love that we need to do that.
33:51
Just a live idea just we're just we're informed this is new
33:55
though I I don't remember seeing anything like this.
33:57
I mean I think the again like you think back of like maybe
34:01
like like a swipe play at first where the first baseman comes
34:06
off the bag and still swipes like is it the I just I think of
34:10
like the next part of the action.
34:12
It seemed to me like the tag was completed and it's the it's like
34:18
the show of I made the tag then ball gets knocked out.
34:29
It's just kind of how I I think he's out.
34:33
I lean towards out. I mean, if I, if we're reading
34:40
the rule as it's laid out, I I guess by default he should be
34:46
out, yeah. But I guess there's more of a
34:53
judgment call to make in this situation then maybe, maybe
34:57
we'll lend on to who knows. What we do know is that David
35:07
Fletcher, former teammate of Shohei Ohtani, getting getting
35:12
swept up in a little of the the gambling allegations.
35:17
Major League Baseball has, as of Monday today have opened an
35:24
investigation regarding David Fletcher's related activity with
35:34
an illegal bookie. Didn't we read like a slight
35:41
detail when this first came out, that Mizahara was connected to
35:47
the bookie through David Fletcher?
35:49
I thought we heard David Fletcher's name before all this.
35:54
I thought it was the other way around.
35:55
I thought it was. I thought it was Ipe was kind of
36:00
the the point man and he was over Ohtani and guys like David
36:07
Fletcher and maybe others. Am I?
36:10
Am I the only one that didn't know David Fletcher was still in
36:12
the league? I didn't even realize he was
36:17
still playing I. Couldn't tell you.
36:20
Yeah, he's a brave so. He's in the Braves organization
36:27
with the AAA squad, yeah. ESPN reported Friday that
36:34
Fletcher, who is currently playing for the Atlanta Braves
36:37
AAA affiliate, bet on sports hyphenated but not baseball.
36:43
Every time. Matthew Boyer, the Southern
36:46
California bookmaker who took wages from Shohei Ohtani's
36:50
longtime interpreter, Ibe Mizahara.
36:55
Still illegal? Well, not illegal, but still,
36:59
well, kind of. Still illegal.
37:01
Still against ML BS rules like you can't use an illegal
37:05
bookmaker. Can I can I throw something out
37:12
there. This probably won't land well
37:14
with a lot of people, but it's it's just a thought.
37:18
It's maybe it's more of a question.
37:21
And as somebody who who experiments a little bit with
37:26
different betting apps like yourself, I want to ask you
37:36
should should it just be illegal for any and all professional
37:42
athletes to do any, any sports betting, regardless the sport,
37:49
regardless what sport they play, regardless what sport they're
37:52
betting on. And I know there's going to be
37:54
loophole like as with anything that you make illegal like there
37:57
people are going to find ways around it.
37:58
But I'm saying I'm just tired of reading about the but not on
38:04
baseball. It's like, OK, you're still like
38:09
you're still betting on other sports.
38:11
You're getting swept up in in illegal activities.
38:14
Not not all but some as as we know now and more than we we
38:19
probably would like to think like at what point well I I'm
38:25
answering my own question it that would never happen because
38:27
of the way that these these sports books have infiltrated.
38:33
Specifically looking at baseball like you have you have sport
38:36
books like on site for some of these parks advertising
38:43
sponsorships like that would never happen.
38:47
But I'm just I'm I'm tired of the the stipulations of well,
38:51
didn't bet on baseball though it's like well I'm, I would
38:54
venture to say that he probably did but we're just trying to
38:56
keep the image as clean as we can now that the report is out.
39:03
It's still the bookmaker thing for me.
39:05
Like if you're using a bookie you're only doing that because
39:11
you're in a state where betting isn't legal.
39:13
So use it. I I don't understand what the
39:19
what the issue is because there's plenty of players that
39:21
don't have issues there's there's plenty of guys that that
39:25
bet that don't have issues as long as you just follow the the
39:27
rules. I don't I don't know man it's
39:32
it's a strange a strange thing to just ignore specifically
39:41
around baseball. Like they're like, we know the
39:44
betting scandals in our game. I'm not going to lie, I going
39:51
to, I'm going to have to agree with John here in the stream
39:54
chat, he says legalize sports. Gambling has ruined sports.
39:58
Maybe like, whatever it like if you're into sports gambling,
40:05
which again, I know, I know you dabble in a little bit and
40:07
you've had, hey, I'll give you credit, you've had some, you've
40:09
had some good success. You've had some dubs.
40:12
You've told me about some dubs you've you've you've landed upon
40:16
but personally as a fan like forget, forget the players
40:21
getting caught up in these things.
40:22
As a fan, I'm just tired of it's it's everywhere.
40:27
Like I can't I can't look at like a a a score bug or a bottom
40:32
line ticker like you see on the bottom of our stream.
40:34
On the bottom of our stream. It's.
40:37
Easy to go to go subscribe to our YouTube.
40:40
Exactly. That's the one.
40:41
You can't look at any of those things anymore without seeing
40:44
the over unders, the the, the money lines, the freaking the.
40:50
I mean you know all that stuff better than I do.
40:51
But I'm just like it's just it's so much, it's everywhere.
40:54
And then it fall, it it, it falls right in line with the
41:01
reality that like these guys are you can't sit there and say,
41:10
well this is illegal. You shouldn't be doing that by
41:14
the way, this is sponsored by by FanDuel.
41:17
It's like we're going to we're going to call you out for that
41:20
illegal activity that you're doing over there.
41:22
And by the way your team is sponsored by DraftKings.
41:25
It's like, I mean, I know it's. I get what you're saying.
41:28
I get. I know it's.
41:29
It's more, yeah, it's it's more intricate than that, but.
41:33
There's a lot of action. You're promoting the action of
41:36
something that can be done illegally, which is
41:39
understandable, you know, I get that.
41:44
I I don't think it's, I won't say it's ruined sports.
41:47
I I will say it's ruined fandom. Which is kind of what I was
41:51
saying. I won't maybe say it's ruined
41:53
sports necessarily, but. Fandom.
41:54
I think it's. I think it's right.
41:56
I think it's ruined fandom because there are, you know,
41:59
plenty of guys you know that are like indifferent about the
42:04
result of the game as long as their bet hits teaches their
42:14
own. I suppose I get what you're
42:17
saying, but like, I don't know. I'm like, for me, baseball,
42:23
First off, is so hard to bet on. It's insanely hard to bet on.
42:27
Like there's not a harder sport to bet on.
42:30
But for me, like if I'm watching a Monday Night Football game and
42:33
it's The Jets and the Browns, like I have no dog in the fight,
42:41
it makes it more interesting to be able to watch if you got 5
42:43
bucks on the over, you know what I mean?
42:45
So it's like I don't know that I'm not those degenerates out
42:49
there that are like betting their rent check on on on
42:54
hitting the under. It's like I I've never bet more
42:57
than $20 on a single bet because I'm I'm not interested in being
43:01
that depressed about losing that much money.
43:04
I mean, I get it. Like the same thing could be
43:05
said, could be said for like fantasy sports.
43:08
And I know we talk about fantasy on here a lot, but it's like on
43:11
a, on a much lesser stake equivalent.
43:15
You look at that and it's like, OK if if it's a random Tuesday
43:19
and you got the Mariners going up against the Brewers, it's
43:23
like frankly, I probably wouldn't care about that match
43:26
up on a random Tuesday in May. But like if I got some, if I got
43:29
some dudes stacked up fantasy wise, like I want to tune in.
43:32
So like I get, I get, I understand that element of it,
43:35
but it's just it's become so like it's just such an immersive
43:42
element of baseball and of sports now.
43:46
And it it's. I don't know.
43:50
Yeah, RIP David Fletcher. Though, I'm assuming, right?
43:56
Have the Braves come out and said anything yet?
44:01
Not to my knowledge, no. I I mean, if if you're the
44:05
Braves, why even bother, right? Like, I think.
44:10
I think anybody with a brain can look at that situation by like,
44:14
dudes on the tail end of his career.
44:16
He's playing in AAA right now. Maybe, let's just maybe, we'll
44:22
let the Gwinnett stripers handle handle that.
44:25
Because the Braves. According to Braves fans, Braves
44:28
have enough problems of their own that they need to worry
44:31
about right now. Sure.
44:38
What do you think though, like bigger, bigger picture here do
44:40
we think, do we think more is going to come out of this Shohei
44:44
thing related activity related personnel?
44:50
I think it's going to, you're going to start hearing more and
44:52
more names, for sure. I think what makes things
45:02
interesting specifically to that scenario now is like, was David
45:08
Fletcher aware of what Ipe was doing?
45:13
Not talking about the bets. I'm talking about, like, you
45:15
know, stealing money from his teammate, 'cause that's like a
45:20
whole different can of worms. How many people knew?
45:26
Didn't say anything. It also it also makes you wonder
45:30
too with a guy like David Fletcher who's not working with
45:32
Shohei Ohtani type money. Like how?
45:34
Like what his involvement looks like with with that, Or like how
45:37
much more or how much less he knows based on the fact that
45:41
he's not necessarily playing with the same, the same tier of
45:45
funds. Yeah, true.
45:49
That's a good point. I think it is.
45:53
I think it's going to spread outside of like just MLB
45:56
players. I mean, what was that thing that
45:57
we saw with the, like, the Real Housewives cast member?
46:03
You remember that? Oh yeah.
46:07
I don't even. Did we even talk about that?
46:09
I don't even think we mentioned that.
46:12
That was weird. What was the IT?
46:16
Was like a connection to IPE and I don't know what it was.
46:20
Ryan Boyehian, a cast member of Bravo's reality TV series The
46:25
Real Housewives of Orange County, is the bookmakers
46:28
associate to whom IPE Mizahara wired money to pay his gambling
46:31
debts, multiple sources with knowledge of the investigation
46:34
said. Yeah, I think we're just going
46:37
to start seeing different names come out of this that are a
46:41
little random, little weird. Little weird.
46:47
Some ripple effect there. But if David Fletcher knew like
46:52
that is a do you think they're talking like how much they're
47:00
throwing down on on like a parlay And it pays like, yeah, I
47:04
got 150 GS on this. You think David Fletcher be
47:09
like, what? Where'd you get that bag?
47:12
You know, like, was there ever any any of that going on?
47:20
Unassuming look. By the way, when you look at
47:22
David Fletcher, you're like, I wouldn't guess that you were
47:26
that guy. Yeah, but now that we know, I
47:29
now when I look at David Fletcher and I'm like, I could
47:34
see something there. There's, there's this.
47:36
It's always those short, pesky guys.
47:38
Something, something beneath the surface with that guy.
47:42
Now just to. Strike out like that weird
47:44
energy guy that you had on your team.
47:47
Like I like you, but I would hate you if you were on the
47:50
other team. That's a tough guy.
47:52
That's a tough guy to get out. And that probably tells me that
47:56
that's probably a guy that's going to at.
47:58
That guy would be the guy to throw his rent onto the table.
48:02
Yeah, Oh yeah, If, if worst. If worst comes to worst.
48:05
I could see that. David Fletcher is a guy that's
48:08
going to give you every last penny.
48:10
No, that's all speculation. I'm I'm sure for legal reasons
48:14
we can't. We can't say such things, but.
48:17
Now whatever. All speculation do we do we want
48:23
to speculate on these the on the meeting behind these Cardinals
48:27
City Connect uniforms. I think it lasted 4 minutes.
48:33
What do we call this place? The loo.
48:35
Perfect. Throw that over there.
48:36
You want to keep the same backdrop of the birds.
48:39
Perfect. Do we have a question to
48:42
everyone in the room here at at Cardinals HQ?
48:44
Do we have an an existing jersey that we could maybe slap the
48:48
nickname on? Yeah, we got some, like, red
48:51
ones with the birds in the bat. Yep.
48:53
Perfect. Wait, are you saying like that
48:57
you're just going to take the loo and put it on a jersey and
49:01
make it look exact? Yep, we've already done it,
49:04
actually. I got a lunch.
49:06
I got a lunch I got to get to. Let's just wrap this up.
49:08
They're. Already in production, yeah.
49:11
The what's funny is that I don't hate them.
49:14
Yeah, yeah. But it's it's easy to for me.
49:20
Like, I don't hate them, but it's super easy to be
49:24
indifferent about it. Like I'm not going to sit here
49:26
and say that I hate them, but I equally, I'm not going to say
49:29
that I love them because the the uniform already exists.
49:31
Yeah. They're pretty lazy for sure,
49:35
but I don't hate them. No, but this isn't an
49:39
independent, like passion project for the Cardinals like
49:42
this is. It's a continued theme of just
49:47
horrendous efforts put out by Nike fanatics.
49:51
Whoever. It's lazy.
49:53
I would have liked to have seen like a white jersey.
49:59
Throw the arch on there and then like drip some, drip some BBQ
50:08
sauce or something. And then should be like, that's
50:11
the connection. We love BBQ sauce over here.
50:15
We love our, we love our pulled pork.
50:20
We're just a rack of ribs. Maybe the birds are sitting on a
50:22
rack of ribs. Now there you get.
50:24
Now that's an idea I can get behind.
50:26
There we are at. Least at least, like if you if.
50:32
If it's imperative that you have your jersey looks similar to a
50:37
uniform that already exists, at least take the bat out.
50:41
You know, swap it out with a rack of ribs.
50:44
Maybe just put like Nellie's face on there.
50:48
The like the logo on the on the the the chest area right there
50:53
on the PEC. Yeah, just put Nellie's Nellie's
50:55
face and call it. That's it.
50:57
Who else is from Saint Louis? No one, that's.
51:00
That's it. It's really just Nelly.
51:02
I think he's the only guy that lives there or was from there.
51:08
The hat Again, super lazy. I mean, come on.
51:12
Like there's just no creativity going on this.
51:17
It's your Every single one of these is like like when you're
51:21
in school and you're like you tell your mom Sunday night that
51:24
you have a a project due tomorrow and you don't have a
51:26
poster board. That's what this is.
51:29
It's like, oh, we got to whip something up.
51:34
It's bad. We don't have poster board, but
51:39
I can tape together 10 pieces of printer paper and maybe that'll
51:42
work. That's what.
51:44
That's what we're working with. And for the record, you're an
51:47
absolute sheep if you think that there's any creativity behind
51:55
the hat. And the same goes for for the
51:58
Tigers. Same goes for the Tigers.
52:01
Like, don't even try to defend this.
52:03
And I would hope that a a fan base with a rich of a tradition,
52:09
as Cardinals fans have that they would agree that they would look
52:12
at this and go this is weak, this is lame.
52:17
No effort, no creativity. Why?
52:20
But you know, there's going to be those people that are going
52:22
to, they're going to be dropping the fire emojis under the in the
52:26
comments. They're going to be first in
52:27
line at the team store to pick them up.
52:29
Yo, this is heat. Got a cop for real.
52:33
For real on God, I'm standing on business.
52:35
No cap, except I'm here to get a cap.
52:39
That's, that's what you're working with.
52:42
Now I'm starting to wonder if these people aren't plants
52:45
industry plants. It's like in the office when
52:50
they have the the little flea market and the warehouse and
52:53
they open the doors and or no, no, no, wrong, wrong reference.
52:56
It's when they they're in Florida and they're they're
53:01
they're selling the pyramid and they open the twice like open
53:06
the gates and the people come storming through and it's like
53:09
no, don't don't, no need to no need to stomp.
53:15
Everyone will get one. It's the same.
53:17
It's the same crap the end of Major League Baseball is putting
53:20
people in these team stores on on release day.
53:23
That's I'm convinced. I'm.
53:25
Just glad it's almost over. What's up with the Was there
53:29
like a Florida Lee on the sleeve?
53:32
A what? Like a the Florida Lee.
53:35
You know what I'm talking about. What is a Florida Lee?
53:37
Isn't that what it's called? Who is Florida Lee?
53:41
You know, like the Saints logo. Isn't that called like a Florida
53:43
Lee? Is that what that is?
53:45
I've never. I just called it the Saints
53:46
logo. Is that a?
53:47
I know there's a name for it, is that what it's called?
53:50
Yeah, I think. Fleur de lis, pronounced French,
53:59
right? Pronounced Fleur de lis or Fleur
54:04
de lis. I thought you were saying Fleur
54:07
de lis, Fleur de lis. Yeah, that's it.
54:11
Well done. Look at that recall.
54:13
Thanks. Is that on the?
54:17
Is that on the the? I thought I saw it on like this
54:20
side. I mean, what are we doing, man?
54:27
Yeah, it is. Sure enough, it's on there.
54:33
What is that about? There's literally AI typed in
54:37
Cardinal City Connect. There's literally a video right
54:39
here in this at the top of the search results.
54:43
It's a video from their profile picture on Twitter to that.
54:49
Yeah, that's it. That's what I said.
54:50
Yeah, it's on there. It's on the.
54:52
March, It looks sick. Why not put that as like the
54:55
whole jersey where that hat? That would be a sick hat.
55:01
Cousin Nike, That would be a sick hat, no?
55:03
But right here on the top there's a a video from Ballet
55:07
Sports Midwest and the the thumbnail for the videos?
55:10
Like like fans sitting in the seats.
55:12
He's wearing a Lou jersey. That's an industry plant that
55:16
kids never seen a day of baseball in his life.
55:24
Oh, Nelly's in the hype video. That's all they have, dude.
55:29
I don't. We called that.
55:31
I didn't even know that. I knew.
55:34
I knew. No.
55:35
I had no idea Nelly was in the mix.
55:37
Oh yeah, It makes sense though. I thought that's what you're
55:39
referencing. No.
55:41
I bet you if you looked up Saint Louis population is literally
55:46
one, and that's Nellie. In fact, I don't even know.
55:49
He probably didn't even live there full time.
55:50
Why would he live there full time?
55:53
Probably in LA. Let me just do a quick little
55:57
deep dive on Nellie real quick. He's not.
56:01
He wasn't even born in Saint Louis.
56:03
He was born in He was born in Austin, TX by the name of
56:08
Cornell Irell Haynes Junior. Sure.
56:13
What is the Saint Louis? He started in Saint Louis with
56:18
his music career, it says. But that's not even the same.
56:22
He literally said that I'm from the loo and I'm proud.
56:27
He's not even from the loo. What are we talking about?
56:30
This whole thing is fraudulent. This whole every aspect of this
56:34
City Connect project, It's all fraudulent.
56:37
The people that you bring in for the hype videos, they're not
56:41
even from these places. What are we even doing?
56:45
Nellie. Yeah, it's in the.
56:47
It's in the stream chat. Nellie's an industry plant.
56:49
Tell me. Tell me that's not true.
56:52
You you saw who? Who did?
56:55
Who? Answer me this who did Albert
56:57
Pool host DAP up after his 700th home run?
57:06
Who was sitting behind? Who was sitting behind home
57:08
plate after 700th home run? There's a plant.
57:16
We've been talking about him. It's not Nelly.
57:20
It's Nelly. It is Nelly.
57:22
Was he rocking a Dodgers jersey? 685 docked him up in Saint Louis
57:35
like 99%. Sure, he was there for 700, but
57:38
he was. He was there.
57:38
Oh, you said he's from Texas. You said he was in Texas.
57:41
My bad. Not California.
57:42
Yeah. No, no, he Nellie was behind
57:46
home plate for like the last, the last stretch there.
57:50
But my point is an industry plant we're learning so much
57:54
about Nellie. Didn't think we'd be learning
57:56
about Nellie today. What'd they say about the little
58:00
squiggly lines in the background?
58:02
It was like the river or something, I thought.
58:05
What they were I was just kidding.
58:07
They really connected that to something else.
58:10
You're talking about the the squiggly lines on the.
58:13
Yeah, right. Yeah.
58:14
I I didn't think that that was actually supposed to be
58:16
connected to any part of the. City.
58:19
No, for sure. Let me see here.
58:23
I thought I saw something about the river or something.
58:26
I still like them. WAVY red pinstripes are on the
58:30
jerseys. Yeah, I don't know.
58:40
Yeah, I mean, they're they're fine, they got the white pants.
58:42
But I just, I don't know, it's it's lame.
58:47
It's lazy. The hat is no good.
58:50
It's the same uniform. I don't get it.
58:59
Anyway, all right, wrapping up here with some clothes in the
59:03
book talk, just moments ago, Rafael Devers became the first
59:08
Red Sox hitter to have a home run in six straight game.
59:12
So a little bit of history there for the old Red Sox of Boston.
59:17
Alec Manoa. He back claps.
59:31
Clap it. Up.
59:32
No, that's that's not, that's not claps this time.
59:36
That's just crickets. We can't double up, can't double
59:41
up on the on the cricket meeting.
59:42
For Alec Manoa, you can you can you?
59:45
Absolutely. Can When are we allowed to say
59:47
he's back? I was going to ask you that.
59:50
His start, His most recent start?
59:52
Seven 80s pitch, one hit, zero runs, one walk and seven KS he.
59:58
Had another good start before that, didn't he?
1:00:00
Yeah, which we mentioned. So it's it's been 2 two stars
1:00:04
for him that have been excellent.
1:00:17
Twins and rays. No.
1:00:22
I don't know. I'm going to need you to.
1:00:24
I'm going to need you to shut down somebody.
1:00:26
That's. I mean, I don't really care for
1:00:28
for his situation. I don't really care as much
1:00:30
about the team. It's just the fact that he he's
1:00:36
rally or tallying up punch outs, like that's that's big enough
1:00:40
for me. Like it's just a matter of how
1:00:43
many how many outings like this does he need to have to be
1:00:46
considered back? 1515. 15 starts.
1:00:55
Yeah, because like, it goes the other way, You know, you say,
1:00:57
you know it's in there, like, so is the collapse.
1:01:00
You know the collapse is in there now.
1:01:01
True. That's fair.
1:01:03
That's a valid point, yeah. Works both ways.
1:01:10
I'm just fearful. I'm not trying to sound like a
1:01:13
hater. I'm really not documented that I
1:01:17
don't like Alec Manoa. So sure, call me a hater if you
1:01:20
want but in this regard not trying to sound like a hater but
1:01:23
I'm just worried that his confidence is going to come back
1:01:30
we're. Gonna.
1:01:32
Have to hear from them all every fifth day I.
1:01:37
Don't want that either. I don't want any of it.
1:01:42
I want none of it. Whatever.
1:01:43
He's not back yet and I can't see it yet.
1:01:46
Say it definitively, Alec Manoa's not back.
1:01:49
Alec Manoa's not back. And Alec Manoa will need 15 more
1:01:53
starts to be back. Yes, wow.
1:01:56
All right, Paul. Skeens, however.
1:01:58
Well, he here. Paul Skeen is here to stay 6
1:02:03
innings pitched on what was that Saturday as well.
1:02:08
No. Friday, Friday, Friday, Friday.
1:02:12
6 innings pitched, 0 hits, zero runs, 11 case against none other
1:02:22
than the Chicago Cubs, who he faced in his debut.
1:02:24
That's what I said in the group chat.
1:02:27
That is more impressive to me than than a lot of the other
1:02:30
stuff. You see the same guy twice in a
1:02:32
week. Hitters typically like that dude
1:02:37
shoved, dude shoved, fastball command look a lot better.
1:02:41
He's this dude's real man that's fun to watch.
1:02:47
He's. He Is my CTV good for the
1:02:55
Pirates, man. Raise that thing.
1:02:58
Don't play it. We're almost out of here.
1:03:01
You. I know you were looking at it.
1:03:02
You saw me? You saw me.
1:03:05
You saw me looking for it. I was, I was ready.
1:03:07
I was ready to pull the trigger on it.
1:03:08
I was. I was absolutely ready.
1:03:11
And lastly here, did you by chance see this Birmingham
1:03:14
Southern? Is that that D3 school?
1:03:18
The D3 school shut down. Dude, what a story.
1:03:23
That's cool. If you're not familiar,
1:03:25
Birmingham Southern, a Division Three school.
1:03:30
Their baseball program just advanced to the D3 Super
1:03:33
Regionals. They're caught.
1:03:36
The university is shutting down permanently on May 31st.
1:03:41
So 11 days. Here's the catch though.
1:03:48
If they win that if they win the Super Regionals, they advance to
1:03:53
the D3 College World Series and as a result they will be playing
1:03:59
Rate school that no longer exists.
1:04:03
That's sick. How wild is that?
1:04:06
Like, think of. That's like the baseball
1:04:08
equivalent of like the purge. There's no rules.
1:04:12
You can do whatever you want. You don't have to worry about
1:04:15
representing any sort of entity. Yeah.
1:04:18
Because there is no entity to represent at that point.
1:04:23
That's cool man. That's.
1:04:25
I'm sensing a a Netflix documentary coming out about
1:04:28
this that I think it's already in the works.
1:04:31
I think it's in the works. Well, I don't want to get too
1:04:35
carried away with it because I don't want it to come at the at
1:04:38
the cost of my alma mater who's currently.
1:04:42
Are they crossing? They're en route to the Super
1:04:45
Regionals as well. Shout out the Christopher
1:04:47
Newport captains. There it is.
1:04:51
Shout out to the squad, just just clinched the regional title
1:04:56
of the day, advancing to the Super Regionals.
1:04:59
I was actually looking at it today.
1:05:00
I think based on the bracket, I think they would match up with
1:05:07
if Birmingham Southern advances from from there.
1:05:12
Well, it's not. It was the way it works with
1:05:15
baseball and Division Three. It's not like it's not like
1:05:17
March Madness, it's not like a semi final thing like you get
1:05:20
there and it's just a like it's just a a round Robin kind of
1:05:23
thing or at least that's what it was.
1:05:26
So I can't. I can't say they're going to
1:05:27
match up necessarily, but. If.
1:05:30
If both teams advance, they'll be in the mix there at the World
1:05:34
Series, so would love to see that.
1:05:36
But I think we could have a Netflix documentary that ends
1:05:41
with a trip to the World Series, but I'm going to need my
1:05:45
captains to to take the crown. It's a great story, but not.
1:05:49
Take one for the team here. You're going to have another
1:05:51
shot next year. These boys won't.
1:05:53
Maybe they will. Maybe.
1:05:55
You know, maybe the Birmingham Southern Baseball program is
1:05:59
what ultimately saves the school.
1:06:02
They look at this and they say, yeah, we're losing millions of
1:06:06
dollars here, but. Let's run it back.
1:06:09
We got to give these boys another shot.
1:06:12
We've got to give these boys another shot that.
1:06:14
'D be wild. And then you just add another
1:06:17
layer to the Netflix story. Genius.
1:06:21
And then, who knows, maybe they win it all next year and then
1:06:24
that's like, that's. Then they're really back.
1:06:27
That's cinema. That's cinema.
1:06:30
Yeah, move up to D2 now. OK, well, that's not gonna care
1:06:33
away. Well, that's not gonna care
1:06:35
away. That's all I got.
1:06:37
Unless you got anything else you want to touch on apologize for?
1:06:41
The I do, I do actually. Can I can I jump in?
1:06:44
Get your Get your apology out. Want to apologize for the shake
1:06:47
up in the schedule? Was at a concert last night so I
1:06:50
was unable to do our usual Sunday night recording.
1:06:52
So here we are Monday night, but the plan is to proceed as
1:07:00
scheduled with our regular Wednesday night recording.
1:07:05
We'll see, we'll see what happens between now and then,
1:07:08
very, very little baseball that will be played between now and
1:07:10
then. One less day of it in fact.
1:07:14
But we we've got some ideas in the in the mix to bring to the
1:07:21
table for you guys on Wednesday night.
1:07:23
So again, this, this should only be the this should be the only
1:07:27
shake up this week. We'll be back.
1:07:29
We'll be back Wednesday. What do you got?
1:07:32
I'm going to need these teams to be better about taking care of
1:07:38
their fans without being called out on social media.
1:07:42
Specifically the girl that got smoked in the head at the Blue
1:07:47
Jays game and nothing happened. Nothing.
1:07:51
She stuck around. She waited.
1:07:53
Just this freaking volleyball sticking out of her forehead,
1:07:57
and nobody from the Blue Jays seems to care.
1:07:59
And then you got to get called out on social media.
1:08:03
These teams just need to be better, man.
1:08:05
Like, you got to recognize where we are in the world.
1:08:07
You're going to get called out. The girl that caught caught the
1:08:12
first home run from Ohtani, right?
1:08:16
Dodgers did nothing. They treated her like crap.
1:08:18
You go on social media. Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa.
1:08:21
Let's, let's give you some more stuff.
1:08:22
Be better organizations, Take care of your fans and don't let
1:08:27
this stuff happen anymore. That poor girl, dude.
1:08:29
Like, imagine if she drove home or something.
1:08:32
Like that was a Shiner. She looked like Mike Tyson in
1:08:37
the 90s, dude. Did you see she got a TOPS card
1:08:40
out of it? That's big time.
1:08:42
They literally took the picture of the like of her.
1:08:46
The I think it was a picture. She took the stuff.
1:08:48
She took, yeah. She took that and put it on a
1:08:51
card and I think they said they of the the cards that they
1:08:55
printed, they sent them all to her.
1:08:56
So it's not like they're necessarily profiting off, which
1:08:58
I it's fine, but whatever. Wow, you get a card out of it.
1:09:02
Good for She seemed cool, too. Like she didn't like.
1:09:05
I saw the tweet. It was like, hey, can you guys
1:09:07
like, hook me up? It wasn't like a I'm disgusted
1:09:11
with the Blue Jays. It was like, hey, I kind of got
1:09:14
hit pretty hard and think you guys could do for me, so respect
1:09:18
to that chick. But organizations just need to
1:09:20
be better, man. Need to be better.
1:09:22
Like someone. I need an usher coming down
1:09:24
immediately if someone's getting in the face like that.
1:09:28
And I absolutely agree with you, but, and I know this is going to
1:09:33
make me just sound like a hardcore hater, but like I
1:09:36
understand she got pelted and I'm with you.
1:09:39
I think that she should have been attended to like she is
1:09:42
probably. It's possible that she was.
1:09:43
Maybe that didn't make the headlines.
1:09:47
I would venture say they they took care of her at least took
1:09:49
her to medical maybe. But.
1:09:50
But didn't do anything to like. Right, right.
1:09:53
Like the exactly, that's the part I'm like like you just had
1:09:59
a caught some bad luck at the ballpark.
1:10:01
Does this mean that anytime anything happened like this,
1:10:03
we're like entitled to something?
1:10:06
Yes, I'm. Just I'm, I'm just throwing the
1:10:08
question out there. I'm not saying I necessarily
1:10:10
endorse that way of thinking. I'm just throwing that out
1:10:12
there. It's just put my body.
1:10:13
On the line, put my body on the line.
1:10:16
Those that that's, I don't, I don't know man those those are
1:10:18
muddy. Waters.
1:10:19
Those Canadians are built tough though.
1:10:21
She she definitely played hockey growing up and and that was not
1:10:24
the first black guy. So with that, with that line of
1:10:31
thinking, she should have just taken it like a champ the way
1:10:34
she did and then just gone about her day.
1:10:36
Maybe not a tweet saying, hey, can I get some autographed
1:10:38
goodies? Let's get her on the pod.
1:10:40
Let's get her on the pod. You're right.
1:10:42
I don't want to sound. Let's.
1:10:42
Just get to the. Just get to the bottom of it.
1:10:44
Hey, respect, respect for taking it.
1:10:47
And that's got to be tough. I mean that's that's not a fun
1:10:50
day at the ballpark. But you know, hopefully she
1:10:53
hopefully she'll get the hook up.
1:10:55
Yeah, you know, what's done is done.
1:10:57
Hopefully it happens. Actually.
1:11:00
You brought up, you reminded me of something that I want to
1:11:03
throw out there real quick before we go.
1:11:05
It's talking about taking care of fans.
1:11:08
I want to show some love to the Baltimore Orioles.
1:11:14
So over the weekend, a little bit of rain.
1:11:17
Well, it was a lot of rain. I actually had to work an event
1:11:20
for my work outside from like it was actually like an 810 hour
1:11:24
day. It was, it was long rain the
1:11:26
whole day. So I know yeah rain or shine,
1:11:32
little little community festival.
1:11:35
So I say that to say that I know it was raining in in Baltimore.
1:11:41
They put out a tweet again this was Saturday.
1:11:44
They put out a tweet and it says for fans with tickets to today's
1:11:46
game. And then I had a graphic with a
1:11:48
little with a with a statement. Orioles fans, We recognize the
1:11:52
delay was a significant inconvenience and we appreciate
1:11:55
you sticking with us as a thank you for being the best fans in
1:11:57
baseball. All fans with tickets to today's
1:12:00
game will receive a complimentary ticket voucher for
1:12:03
a future Monday through Thursday home game, excluding select
1:12:06
blackout dates. The digital vouchers will be
1:12:08
placed in each Fans my Orioles tickets account.
1:12:11
Blah blah blah blah blah. That's how you do it.
1:12:16
That is how you do it. They're setting a new standard.
1:12:19
This is what they're doing. New ownership, new standards
1:12:22
across the league. I'm impressed.
1:12:26
Those are kind of feeling themselves a little bit, man.
1:12:28
Say, hey, we got a, we got a product on the field.
1:12:30
We need to ramp up everything else, including the way we
1:12:34
handle rain outs, rain delays, ticket vouchers and the like.
1:12:40
Absolutely good on the Baltimore Orioles.
1:12:44
That's how you do it. I think that's everything.
1:12:48
Let's get the heck out of here. I saw some commentary in the
1:12:50
chat about where's the gold, the gold polo, the.
1:12:53
Couple days, couple days. Go back, go back.
1:12:57
Watch the beginning of the episode.
1:12:59
Listen to the beginning episode. It'll all be there.
1:13:02
Can't wait. The explanations there.
1:13:04
We'll be there in a It'll be here in a few days.
1:13:07
That's all I got. Cool.
1:13:09
Don't go chasing curveballs. We love y'all and as always,
1:13:11
looking forward to talking more baseball with you guys soon.
1:13:13
Until next time, stay filthy.