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Nick Kurtz is the Hottest Hitter on the Planet · 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, it
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all starts. Right now, welcome back to the
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This is episode 555. I'll be your host, Kyle Korne.
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I'm here with my Co host Nate Reyes.
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Nate Casey. How are we, pal?
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Happy, happy Hall of Fame induction day.
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Good. Good group too.
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Good. Solid group.
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Good. Like we got a, we got a
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throwback in Dave Parker that like checks the box for the that
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generation and we are full swing in our generation, which sucks.
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Yeah, dude, we're getting, we're getting old.
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I was, I was sitting at church today and our pastor made a
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reference to Jose Canseco. And he, he goes, how many he
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goes? How many people in here know who
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Jose Canseco is? And like, nobody said anything.
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And yeah, I'm just having a raise in my hand.
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I'm like, I don't know who Jose Canseco is.
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And I'm like, that's that's not good.
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I mean, that's even, that's really before even our
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generation, really. But I'm like, Yikes.
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If yeah, if I'm the only guy in here that knows Jose Canseco, I
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feel like it's only going to get.
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Worse it is. It sure is.
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But hey, that's OK, you know That's OK.
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I asked you this. Recently while while we're on
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the topic, Hall of Fame, who would be because you said you
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haven't been right to guber sound.
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I haven't. Who would be the skewness?
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Question. Oh, OK, go ahead.
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Hold on. What?
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Well, because what did you think I was going to ask?
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Who would be the guy to like get you to go?
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And it would have been Jeter if if things would have aligned
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properly, but no I. I get it.
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God, we were in Boston when Cal was getting inducted and I was
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like, we're so close, but we couldn't go.
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But who? Who from from this point
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forward, who would be the soonest guy?
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I mean, I'm, I'm guessing Judge, but is there somebody sooner
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that would entice you to make your first trip to Cooperstown?
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It's hard to say, man. It's really hard to say.
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Like I'm trying to take off the the Yankee lens a little bit and
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think of like some other names that I've just fully, fully
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enjoyed watching. I mean, it's, it's really hard
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to say, 'cause you look at like some of the young guys right now
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and like, we're nowhere near like a Bobby Wood junior.
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We're 20 years at least. Yeah, from that happening.
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And who knows where life is at that point.
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Judge might make sense just because, you know, he's already
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in his 30s. I think it'd be really cool if
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somehow Judge and Harper ended up in the same class, you know,
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and like Mike Trout, like if those three could end up being,
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that would be a sick, sick class.
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That would be sick. But all things have to align on
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like them retiring at the same time.
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And obviously you're talking at least two of those three names
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being first ballot. I think Judge being like a a
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shoe in first ballot is still up for argument.
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But yeah, dude, that would be sick.
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I would say even take Judge out of that.
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I think if Bryce Harper and Mike Trout were in the same class, I
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think you and I would have to really consider just doing.
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I mean, it's two all time greats.
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Yeah, that's no, I like that answer.
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That's a good answer. I mean, same age, same, you know
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what I mean? Like where they're about the
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same place in in their career where it's like you can kind of
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see it. You can see that they're on the
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back half of of their playing career.
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Don't say that. Stop.
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Don't say it. But yeah, when our sweet young
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Prince makes it to makes it to baseball immortality, I will.
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I will be there. I will be there.
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Because that is like, that's literally our age.
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Like that is literally like, we were the same age we were in
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high school seeing that dude on Sports Illustrated.
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And it was like, it just is crazy to see that.
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Yeah, I think it's a fair answer.
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I'm glad you said somebody other than Judge.
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I'm glad you're able to set that aside.
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I mean, again, like it, we don't know.
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Like, I don't know if he's going to be like a absolutely first
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ballot Hall of Famer, like he's if he keeps on this trajectory
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and is able to like, keep it going.
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Yeah. But like, right now it's like
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the numbers are kind of low and like the window of success is
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really short just because of how long it took him to get up and
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and kind of crack the crack the big leagues.
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Anyway. We'll get on.
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We'll get on that later. Yeah, let's talk.
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Let's talk current events here. Let's talk what's happening in
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Major League Baseball right now and you talking about the Hall
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of Fame it it's very possible that this that this particular
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name could be could be walking through those gates.
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I know it's early, but from what we've seen thus far in such a
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small samples, this guy is this guy's a lock.
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At this point, we calculate what we've seen thus far out.
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I mean, we're we're talking a lock for the Hall of Fame.
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Nick Kurtz, the Nick Kurtz game. We'll call it one of.
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And this isn't, this is an exaggeration.
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This isn't hyperbole. One of the greatest offensive
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performances in a single game we've ever seen.
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Yeah, Oh yeah, game has ever seen forget like us and our
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generation like ever. Yeah, I don't think people
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understand that, that the four Homer game is more rare than a
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perfect game. And I get that there's like this
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like like this build up of tension that goes throughout 9
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innings of a perfect game. We're like, you get to that
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point in the 7th and you're like you're on the edge of your seat
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with every single pitch after and it's not the same as like a
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quick at bat that's just one and done.
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I like that it wasn't done in Sacramento.
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I feel like there would have been an asterisk next to it if
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it was done in a minor league ballpark.
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You know it's cool. But it would have been.
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Super cool. This is in a big league
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ballpark. And the fact that he was like a
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foot away from having five that double.
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That's not getting talked about enough like this close to five
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Homer that that it'd be the first ever correct, first ever
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by a rookie. He's essentially been up for a
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cup of coffee and we're talking about a guy who was inches away.
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That's why I love baseball, man. You, you see like you, you wake
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up, you either flip the game on the TV or you make your way down
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to the ballpark. There is a chance any game that
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you watch that you were going to see something that you have
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never seen before. And this game has been around
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for 100 plus years and we're talking about something that was
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so close to happening that has never been done.
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And to reiterate, it was done by a rookie inches away from a five
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Homer game, even though he wasn't able to get that 5th 6
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for six on the day, which in and of itself forget the homers, six
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hits in a game is a rare accomplishment.
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And the fact that he was able to do like with his with his
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profile, you don't necessarily think of Nick Kurtz maybe as a
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guy who's who's, you know, a guy that's capable of doing that on
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a given night. You're thinking, well, he's,
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he's going to be maybe. Like swinging miss in his game a
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little bit, you know? Right.
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But the fact that he was just dialed in this that that night.
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6 for 6/4 homers total, 19 total bases. 18 total bases.
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What was the I didn't look up the fantasy points. 19 total
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bases. It was like AI think it was.
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It was like a 3335 point night. Insane dude.
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Dude, that's awesome. Speaking of fantasy, do you want
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to just come out and say that what that you had him rostered
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at one point is? That right?
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Hey, that's on me, man. You know, I had I had Nick Kurtz
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rostered, I jumped on it and you know, like I said, I'm pretty
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sure the day that he broke out was also the day that I dropped
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him. So that's fun.
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But we're talking about we're talking about sample size with
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with this kid six. It was a 66th game in the big
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leagues. Nobody else had done what he did
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in fewer than 425 games. That's crazy, man.
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It's, it is crazy. And it, it, like I said, one of
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the coolest elements of this. And our, our guy Dallas Braden,
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commentator for the A's, he had tweeted, he had tweeted it out
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like I think later that night or the next day.
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How you know, obviously he's been a part of, you know,
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history on a baseball field. But he he even said I saw what I
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saw and I don't think I'll see anything like it ever again.
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And I'm like. True man that is talks about how
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rare it is. This was the 20th time.
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It's been done 20 times in our game.
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That's it. And it was his 66th game.
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It it, it blows my mind again, going back to what I was saying,
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how you can just wake up and you've got this rookie who
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again, has basically been up for a cup of coffee and goes out and
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does this. And now like, like the the
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amount of of attention that I think he garnered for his, we'll
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call it household name ability. If, if you want to lump that
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into a word, he did wonders for that with just this single game,
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because there was so many people talking about it.
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And I can always, I can always sort of tell, you know, as as
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someone who who again, does social media for for a living
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and obviously, you know, does does our our social for this.
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I'm able a lot of times to gauge interest on a given player or a
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topic at any moment in time based on, you know, how well a
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certain post or video does on this thing.
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And the last I checked, the post on Facebook where I, you know, I
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was like the Nick Kurtz game and it was a screenshot of like
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Passan's tweet talking about, you know, the history of it.
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Last I checked it had been seen by like 7 million people and I'm
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like. That's just a.
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Singular post of ours, Like forget about that.
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Like think about all the other, all the other news making making
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its rounds on this kid. I'm, I'm genuinely very excited
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for for him, his future and and what this career could
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potentially look like. Because this isn't just some kid
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that stumbled into this accomplishment.
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Like he, his like, like we're talking about you go back to
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what his profile is. You go back to the attention
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that he had already garnered before he even made it to the
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big leagues. This kid is proving to you right
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now, granted, after a little bit of a slow start.
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He's proving to you that every ounce of attention he received
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prior to this moment was worth it, and I think it's only going
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to get more impressive as we move along.
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Dude, 100 percent, 100%. I like that talking about a big
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lefty sick nickname. Big Amish love the nickname yeah
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super cool the you know a big lefty to go oppo Taco for most
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of these, but to have like 1 nuke to right field where it was
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like not all of these were cheapies to the Crawford seats
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these through the Crawford box. This was like a tater to right
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field that I just everything went right, man.
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Everything felt right about this.
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And the last one being I, I remember watching it where
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there's like Astros fans in the Crawford box that's like blown
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away. Like they're like cheering to
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that point. Like when you see an opposing
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team and it's kind of again, that like that perfect game
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effect where like if it's in a different stadium, you even have
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those other fans be like, I'm here for baseball history now,
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but that's what I'm rooting for. You can kind of like you see
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these moments where like you put your fandom aside and you just
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put your, you know, that hat on and say, I'm a baseball guy and
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be like, check out the shop where you're like, this is what
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I'm here for. Like I there's so few moments in
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baseball, in sports that has you rooting for the game over your
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fandom. And it's genuinely sick to see
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those things. Really, really cool.
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What an exciting day. And you know, like, again, we've
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talked about this, the A's being somewhere.
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And then I feel like this chapter of like just getting out
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of Oakland and getting out of that Coliseum.
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And and I know that like the argument still there look like
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it's still the same owner. It's still the same nonsense.
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You're still going to have, you know, hurdles that you're going
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to need to overcome to like officially establish yourself.
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But these names, man, like, like we've seen these crazy plays
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from from Denzel Clarke and center and just incredible
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numbers from Mason Miller and the bullpen last year.
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Like, these names are starting to just get a little bit more
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recognized, a little bit more household.
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There is this group that's starting to come together.
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And I don't think Brent Brooker is likely going to be there much
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longer should he might even be shipped out before this
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deadline. But there's names that are
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bringing you to the A's. I don't think I could name
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anybody worthwhile with the White Sox now that Brian McMahon
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is gone, which we'll get into later.
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I don't know how many names I can name with the Rockies that
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are like this. Makes me want to come to the
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ballpark and lock in when I see them on the bump or at the
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plate. The A's are starting to
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accumulate more and more names like that.
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I mean, those names that you list off I just feel like would
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have to have amounted to more than I think, what, 17 games
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under 500 right now? Like what a disappointing
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campaign thus far and what I can imagine will only continue to
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be. I agree.
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I do agree. But again, like, let's let's get
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them out of Sacramento and let's let this new ballpark get built.
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And now you're going to see that core that's like in their prime.
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You're going to give Nick Kurtz four years and then see how good
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he is at that point. And now you're in this brand new
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ballpark and you right, you might truly have like an MVP
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candidate on your hand in a new ballpark in a new city, you know
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what I mean? Like there's, there's enough
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that's churning here that I think there's positivity coming
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towards the A's. You've heard about guys on the
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current A's team talk about how it affects their psyche.
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Like as a big League Baseball player, it's like you feel like
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you're almost coming out of a lower class when you have to,
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you know, do what you do every day in in an environment such as
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that. So I would have to imagine like
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once you can finally get your identity back, identity back
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like as a big league, like you're, yes, you're a big league
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player, there's no doubt. But like once you can surround
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yourself in an or with an environment that supports that a
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little more like the other 29 teams.
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I can only imagine that a team that again, as we approach the
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beginning of August and they're I think 17 under 500, I don't
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think that's going to be, they may not be, you know, a runaway
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for the division, but I don't think the narrative is going to
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be the same once we finally make the shift.
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And going back to The Who we talked about at the beginning of
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this topic, Nick Kurtz, like that's going to be a guy if he's
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around long term, that I think is going to play a central role
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in that. Yeah.
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And how cool is it to have like a, a core that is likely going
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to be in the prime saying this is the stadium that they built,
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This is the, you know what I mean?
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Like then and again, talking about that environment, like you
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go back to having a clubhouse, not having to walk through the
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outfield to get to the dugout, like having tunnels back there,
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being dropped off, having your own parking lot.
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Like these types of things are just you would think would be
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the norm. But for the current state of the
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A's, it's not. And you'll see what that turns
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into. I think there's a lot.
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There's a lot coming, man. I'm with Luis Severino on this.
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Like, I know people are looking at this like, oh, he's just
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whining. Like now I'm, I'm, I'm with you,
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man. I totally get the splits.
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I I'm, I'm with you. I feel for you.
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Big Luis Severino guy. Yeah, this one right here.
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I'm also a big, big, big big Nick, Nick Kurtz guy.
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And last thing I'll say on this big Amish, last thing I'll say,
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you know, speaking to the, the title of this episode, Nick,
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Nick Kurtz is the hottest hitter on the planet.
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I, I pulled it up over the last month.
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This isn't like the last week, the last two weeks even the last
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month. He's hitting 400.
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He's hitting 400 with 12 homers, 31 RB is and I got to I got to
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confirm the OPS here and an OPS of 1452 over the last month.
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This dude is the real deal. Speaking of deals, switch gears
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here. Talk trade deadline.
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Josh Naylor being acquired by the Seattle Mariners Thursday.
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So this was the day after this was the day after we recorded
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last, I believe, right? We recorded last Wednesday.
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We're up on here. I had Red Sox, you had Brewers.
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You had Red Sox. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
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No, it's all right. It's all right.
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You got you got the next guy. I think that we're going to
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talk, but Josh Naylor to the Mariners.
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I think this was while while we were both wrong in our
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predictions for Josh Naylor, I think this was one of the most
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frequented locations for Josh Naylor in terms of, you know,
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predictions elsewhere around the baseball community.
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So not too much of a surprise here.
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I think this was an addition that the Mariners needed to make
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to help out their offense. But again, like we talked about,
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their offense is a has it has been a little surprising.
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You know that for the long for at least the last few years,
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that's been the biggest hang up with this team is like.
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You've got you've got arms, you've, you've got guys that can
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get you, you know, deep in the games to give you a chance.
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But if you can't score runs, it doesn't matter.
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And it seems as though the guys that you know, they've brought
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in the guys even in house, you know, even Julio Rodriguez has
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has turned it around as of the last weaker, maybe even 2.
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But he looks like he made some adjustments at the break, which
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is cool. Yeah, yeah.
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So, you know, bring in a guy like Josh Naylor, give you a
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little bit of that edge, a little bit of that attitude.
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And, you know, I think this could do wonders for a team
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that's trying to reclaim what they lost earlier this year, so.
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I like that it was, I like that it was a gettable move.
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I like that they didn't sit too late in this, in this deadline
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process and have to compete with too many other teams, you know,
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on like waiting until Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday kind of
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thing just went and got them and it was like, it's a gettable
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thing. It's a rental.
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You're not fully committed to this name long term, but it is
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something that can immediately help your team give that line up
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depth, give some protection to Cal Raleigh.
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Like it's just checks a lot of boxes.
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I think he's yeah, I think he's a gamer.
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We've seen him in big moments in the postseason, just kind of
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locks in. He's definitely a very serious
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guy. I did.
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I he he's become more and more serious, especially over these
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last like two seasons where you're just like, you don't see
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him get overly riled up unless it's a big moment.
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So there's like this strange balance where he's not like this
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goofy, funny, going to be the light of the clubhouse kind of
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guy. He's just he's here to game and
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then he's going to show up in in certain moments.
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So I like what they're doing, man.
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The Mariners need some postseason baseball like they
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really do. And so I don't I hope they're
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not done with moves. I hope this is just the first of
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a couple more. But yeah, I like it.
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To your point about big moments, you know, if, if there's
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Mariners have to be on a very short list in terms of fan bases
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responding to to big moments like that, that place comes
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unglued. I mean that granted, the big
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moments have been few and far between with, you know, with the
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post season drop, but like when, when they when they've turned
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things on, when they have capitalized on those big
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moments, that place comes unglued.
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So I think if he can be a, a central part of those, if
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they're able to make a push here down the stretch that I think
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that match is going to that, that match is going to mesh very
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well. I'm really curious if they're
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still in the hunt for Geno Suarez.
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I'm I'm, I haven't heard how this move affected that because
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we've had, we've heard their name being in on him, but
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imagine that dude, like imagine if they were to go get that.
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And now you're talking about Julio Rodriguez, Randy Rosarena,
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Cal Raleigh, Josh Naylor, Geno Suarez.
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Like that is the line up depth that is absolutely terrifying to
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match with a really good rotation and a good back end
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bullpen too. That's a complete team.
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So I I'd love to see it. I'd love to see that.
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Honestly, the piece to the all of this is a guy we've already
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talked about. I, I would be so in on on the
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Mariners making a late push. If we can see Julio Rodriguez do
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what he's done this last week on a more consistent basis, because
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I don't, I don't no, I, I can't say that he's the straw that
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stirs the drink. I think there there's other guys
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in that lineup that have proven that that's that that's the case
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elsewhere. But if if he can be one of the
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straws that stirs the drink that that team becomes a lot more
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dangerous because again, it goes back to an offense that has
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already surprised maybe even themselves, like certainly
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surprised the rest of baseball. But maybe they're they're, you
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know, performing higher than even the expectations they had
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for themselves. And then you know what that
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pigeon is going to do. That team I would say is is
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going to be a World Series contender, but could be destined
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to making a little bit more noise in the post season then
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maybe we've seen in recent history.
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So that'll be interesting. But good, good addition for the
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Mariners. The Yankees have acquired Ryan
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McMahon and I believe what last night, Ahmed Rosario.
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Yeah. Tell me your thoughts.
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I mentioned this on our podcast. I think I also mentioned it on
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Shout Out Our Guy Henry and and Pete doing it for their Phillies
25:11
podcast, but I bounced over there to do a little preview for
25:16
this series. Yeah, a little plug for for
25:18
Henry and Pete beyond the bank. If you're interested in Phillies
25:22
talk, go check them out. I got a good, good, good product
25:25
going on with those. Guys, the Yankees don't need
25:29
offense. They didn't need offensive help.
25:32
Now, again, this is my discussion pre whatever's
25:36
happening to judge, which we'll get into here in a minute.
25:38
But they needed to solidify their defense, man.
25:43
And it's been real shaky, really bad.
25:48
We saw on the grant that, yeah, that's perfect example exactly
25:54
what they have been that needed to happen.
25:58
And Ryan McMahon, Gold Glover at third, incredible play
26:03
immediately in his first game. And you kind of take what you
26:08
get with the stick. Like, I'm not worried about
26:10
like, he can hit 789 and hit two 3240 and that's fine.
26:16
But that short porch in right field, he may run into some.
26:20
You never know what the uptick is going to be from somebody
26:23
leaving the Rockies to go immediately being slapped into a
26:27
contender. And there was like numbers
26:31
eerily similar between him and DJ Lemahieu, like very similar
26:38
numbers of where they were at production wise.
26:41
And we saw what DJ did his first couple years in the Yu too.
26:44
So best case scenario, we get that.
26:47
But you have a guy that again, Cashman likes to go and get
26:52
controllable guys. He didn't love rentals, so he
26:54
didn't love the the the price tag that was attached to a Gino
26:59
Suarez and again a rental. And again, they didn't need
27:03
offense. They needed an upgrade
27:05
defensively. So they went and got that.
27:08
Ahmed Rosario I don't think moves the needle as much for me,
27:12
but is a very solid piece, can play almost anywhere on the
27:16
field, can start giving Anthony Volpe days off at shortstop,
27:20
which is very much needed. And another one, another one.
27:28
So I think this definitely kind of kicks Oswald Peraza out of
27:35
the mix and starts to just give some depth on the bench.
27:42
Some right-handed stick that hits hits lefties pretty well,
27:46
which was also needed. So I like the moves, man.
27:49
It's not sexy. But like, this is what hopefully
27:54
starts to get things turned around, even though it's been a
27:56
miserable showing against the Phillies this weekend.
27:59
I don't I'm I'm in a dark place. When can I put you on the spot
28:04
here? When when is the last time?
28:07
And I'm not this isn't a bit. I'm not like trying to, you
28:11
know, lean into the anything. But it like, when is the last
28:15
time the Yankees brought in a guy via trade where you know,
28:22
you talk about like sexy moves like I'm.
28:26
Thinking. No, not even, not even not even
28:30
the the name, like the sexiness of the name, but like
28:33
performance. Like when, when did, when's the
28:35
last time the Yankees brought in a guy via trade where they
28:39
didn't sort of, you know, kind of get forgotten about where
28:42
it's like, well, this guy, you know, he, the, the Yankees were
28:47
justified in bringing this guy over from, from wherever they
28:50
brought him in from, because I mean, look at what he was doing
28:52
over there. But I feel like for a lot of the
28:54
guys that the Yankees bring in, they come over here and then
28:57
they sort of kind of, you know, get lost in the limelight a
29:00
little bit or they, you know, they shuffle to more of a
29:04
platoon roll or they shuffle to more of a, a depth piece or
29:07
something like that. When's the last time?
29:10
And you know, former Yankee, a guy that I think of like CC
29:13
Sabathia when he gets when he gets dealt to Milwaukee, like,
29:17
you know. Like you knew you're getting a
29:21
top tier starter. You knew who you're getting and
29:23
he lived up to it. And and that like, that's,
29:26
that's kind of the guy that I'm thinking of it.
29:27
When is the last time the Yankees brought in a guy like
29:30
that? Well, I mean, I I think the
29:33
right button was pressed by bringing in Devin Williams.
29:36
I think that was like, that was a smart move.
29:38
Like it all on on paper, that should have been a no brainer.
29:43
And then all of a sudden it kind of turns into this like I think
29:47
there's there maybe not evaluating these guys correctly
29:50
on if they can handle New York. Right, right.
29:54
And that's why I'm asking because like it there, there.
29:56
I don't know what it is about the Yankees, but it's like.
29:58
There's there's something off. There's something off right now.
30:02
Yeah, the second these guys put the pinstripes on something,
30:05
it's like the the the Space Jam, the Monstars thing.
30:08
Like the second they put the pinstripes on something,
30:10
something happens. There's something off, there's
30:13
been something off with their moves for the last few years.
30:18
Like I going back before that, I as via trade, not signing, I'd
30:25
probably say Stan, which is a while ago Satan to me with as.
30:33
And I don't think Stanton gets enough credit for how he's
30:35
handled like the media and like the the pressure and like he's
30:40
hurt all the time. He does have really rough
30:43
stretches, but he's incredible in the postseason.
30:45
He's lived up to big moments. I I think he's absolutely
30:49
delivered being a Yankee, but he's always been criticized and
30:54
he always handles it really, really well.
30:56
Yeah, it owns up to it, has accountability with it.
30:59
I would say that's the last time they really hit on a trade.
31:05
And the Devin Williams one is still kind of up for up for
31:08
discussion. And again, he's said to be a
31:10
free agent this offseason, so. Why am I blanking that the Stand
31:15
was a trade as opposed to a Yep, a signing?
31:18
Yep. OK, yeah, that tracks.
31:22
That was the that was the whole argument of, you know, Jeter
31:25
being in Miami and like collusion kind of thing of
31:29
shipping him out for a bag of chips.
31:32
Dude, that's. Going that I mean, we still got
31:34
a little ways to go, but we're coming up on a decade since
31:36
that. By the way, 20 set December of
31:39
2017. Crazy.
31:41
Yeah. It's amazing.
31:43
Any who's. Yeah.
31:46
So the Yankees with a couple moves thus far.
31:48
We'll see what else they've got up their sleeve.
31:51
Randall Grichick end of the Royals.
31:56
I don't know. I don't have really much to add
32:01
on on this particular move I the Royals.
32:03
Are Adam, Adam Frazier from? I think that was like one of the
32:07
first moves anyone did, right? Yeah, Adam Frazier's well, seems
32:14
like a a lateral move, if we're being honest.
32:17
I don't. I don't really know.
32:22
I, I think everyone's a little confused.
32:24
I mean they're. And some depth I guess.
32:26
They're 4 1/2 back in the wild card.
32:29
I'm not out on the Royals, but I just wonder like if the Royals
32:34
are behind closed doors out on themselves, you know what I
32:37
mean? Like because there's no way that
32:40
you saw this year going the way that it's gone to this point.
32:44
Of course not, but why are they buying right now?
32:46
That's what I'm saying. You've kind of had to blow up
32:49
you, you know, your whiteboard plans that you probably had a
32:52
you've you've probably had in place since February, January,
32:56
where it's like, OK, this is we're anticipating being at this
33:00
point in the season once we approach the deadline and that
33:03
it almost certainly has not matched what they came into the
33:07
season hoping would happen. So you're kind of having to work
33:13
on the fly here if you're the if you're the Royals, where it's
33:15
like, OK, we're kind of in this tricky position where it's like
33:18
people are chalking us up as maybe light sellers or some, you
33:22
know, some are some even have the expectation that we should
33:25
be heavy sellers because of how lackluster or like just on
33:31
serious baseball we've been playing.
33:33
So I I don't know the, the Royals are in a tricky spot.
33:36
And going back to what I said, I'm not out on the Royals yet.
33:39
I kind of AM. Well, I mean the, the, you know,
33:43
with the way that, well, I mean, the tigers, we'll, we'll get in
33:46
the tigers, but they're, they're five and.
33:48
Five in the last 10, they're three games under 500.
33:51
They're 8 1/2 back in the division.
33:53
They're 4 1/2 back in the wild card at the time of this
33:56
recording. It I, I'm not saying 4 1/2 is,
34:00
is outlandish to come back from in the in the wild card scheme
34:05
of things, but like scheme of things.
34:07
That's not a that's not a phrase, Stan.
34:09
I don't know. I don't know what I'm saying.
34:11
Yeah, scheme of things. Yeah.
34:12
Scheme. Yeah.
34:14
I think I, I just don't see them better than I mean, you look at
34:18
who's above them. I don't see them better than the
34:21
Yankees, the Mariners, the Red Sox.
34:24
I don't see them better than the Rangers, the Rays.
34:30
I think they're comparable to the to the Guardians.
34:37
I I just, I don't see them being able to climb that many teams to
34:41
fight for a spot. I think you're in this position
34:45
to sell on a Seth Lugo have the conversation of selling for the
34:52
right offer on Pasquantino, which is, is in the mix.
34:56
Is, is in there. I mean, Jonathan, India has not
35:00
lived up to what you, what you brought him in for and provides,
35:06
I think positional depth and value to other teams.
35:09
Like I, I think there's offers to be had for him.
35:13
You can sell those things and also kind of just still kind of
35:17
turn a corner and say here's the new chapter that we're rolling
35:20
into. I just don't understand why
35:25
you're bringing in guys that are like you're forced to give ABS
35:31
to like you're forcing yourself to give ABS to these guys unless
35:36
you move some of these other names.
35:38
What's the point for what it's? Hard to say.
35:45
Why give up prospects for that? You know, no disrespect to those
35:50
guys, but like, we know what Randall Gryczyk is.
35:55
We know what Adam Fraser is. They're not something that is an
36:01
immediate need for the Royals. Just doesn't make sense.
36:07
Lateral move. Flip them.
36:09
I don't know, maybe for the first time ever, we just see
36:11
guys like, hey, don't even show up to the stadium, by the way,
36:14
because we're going to ship you out of here again.
36:16
I don't know. I mean, we never see that, but
36:18
it's just like, I, I'm confused with the Royals, that's all.
36:23
An AO Central counterpart to the Royals, the Detroit Tigers.
36:27
We need to, we need to have a discussion about the Detroit
36:30
Tigers. What is happening in the Motor
36:34
City right now, Nate? They have lost 12 of their last
36:37
13. It's baseball season.
36:42
It's over the last man. Over that span, over that span
36:47
of 13 games, they've been outscored 89 to 33.
36:52
Over that 13 game span, they have a team OPS of 569, which is
36:57
the worst in baseball. Over that span, even worse than
36:59
the, I mean, worse than baseball, so obviously worse
37:02
than everybody, but notably worse than the Pirates, the
37:06
Nationals, the Astros are actually in that mix as well.
37:09
Over that span, the Mets, Dodgers, Rays, Red Sox, Giants,
37:12
Rockies team ERA. Also worst in baseball.
37:17
Over that span, 683 worse than the Rockies, famously known for
37:25
their high eras, worse than them right now.
37:29
So doing it or not doing it, I should say on either side of the
37:35
ball, vibes are low. I saw a tweet the other day that
37:39
sort of, I, I think summarized for summarized what most Tigers
37:43
fans are feeling where it's like you, you play up until this
37:48
point, about 90% of the best baseball you've seen in Detroit
37:53
in some time. And now you act as, as though
37:57
you've, you've never played baseball before and that you
38:00
have 0 interest in making it to the postseason.
38:03
It's like that's, that's kind of, that's the brand of baseball
38:06
they're playing right now. So like we just we just talked
38:09
recently about how the Dodgers were going through a a similar
38:12
skid. But.
38:17
Like with the Tigers, why? Like why now I, I'm, I get, I, I
38:22
understand that every, every team you're, you're not immune
38:26
to going through a, a skid or even the lengthy skid like
38:29
they're on right now. Again, 12 out of the last 13.
38:32
No team is immune to that. But I think there are certain
38:37
teams that are built to maybe be a little more skid proof, if you
38:45
will, like, I just don't know. I don't know what holes the
38:49
Tigers have that are. So you know.
38:55
Yeah. Large that would allow something
38:57
like this to happen. Yeah, I don't know either
39:01
because like, they haven't been holes so far, so it's kind of
39:04
strange, but it kind of makes you wonder.
39:08
I mean no disrespect to these names, but like Glaber Torres,
39:15
Javi Baez, like we, we've kind of known who they are to this
39:18
point in their career and like they had somewhat of like a
39:23
resurgence and, and still are having a good year.
39:27
But maybe there's just a little bit of some coming back down to
39:30
earth that's involved there. I think I saw that.
39:34
Well, the guy activated him. Let me let me double check just
39:40
before I speak here. Think they activated Carrie
39:44
Carpenter today. So there's a little bit of some
39:47
outfield death that's coming back there.
39:50
I I think this is strangely good timing because you hate to see a
39:59
team that's going into the deadline that just says we're
40:03
good. I believe in this group.
40:06
I feel like no matter how successful you have a season,
40:09
you're having like you almost want your team to say hey.
40:11
Let's still make sure, you know, we're plugging holes here at the
40:14
deadline and, and doing the right moves.
40:17
And I hope this brings them to a little bit of a realization and
40:19
say, hey, like every team has holes.
40:22
Let's just make sure we take care of those at the deadline
40:24
and not flounder here entirely. So it's like, it's almost like a
40:29
good timing to have a little bit of a scuffle because it's like
40:32
a, a realistic, let's come back down to earth and make sure that
40:37
we solve this issue quickly. That's a great point.
40:40
But the good news is that they've got massive lead in the
40:42
Central and they stacked up a ton of wins and that like huge.
40:46
You don't have to panic here at the deadline.
40:49
You're not desperation mode to hold on to this lead.
40:53
You have a good lead. Let's just not, you know, give
40:56
up the farm to get this done. It's a great point, Nate.
41:01
Thanks man. It's a great point.
41:07
I know you don't want to talk about it, but we have to.
41:10
Aaron Judge hitting the shelf with a flexor strain in his
41:14
right elbow. This is a theme that's become
41:19
all too common, my friend, with with with your beloved Yankees.
41:23
And just a lack of awareness around what what's happening,
41:28
what needs to be done when it comes to the health of their
41:34
players. I don't know, you know, I mean,
41:39
injuries happen. I'm not, I'm not, I'm not naive
41:41
to that. But you've taught you this is
41:44
something that you've brought up, you know, unprompted before
41:47
when when guys get hurt, guys are rehabbing, guys are being
41:53
evaluated for injuries. There just seems to be something
41:57
with the Yankees medical staff that doesn't seem to click.
42:00
And I'm not I'm not pinning this on the Yankees medical staff in
42:03
this particular instance, but it is there's there's something to
42:07
be said for the fact that it took, I correct me if I'm wrong
42:12
here. It took judges grimacing on Yes
42:17
Network on the broadcast to be seen for this to come to light,
42:22
that, you know, there could potentially be something a
42:25
little more serious here. Days later.
42:28
Is this a lack of communication? Is this medical malpractice?
42:34
Like what is happening? I, I, I feel like the Yankees
42:37
for some reason just cannot figure out how to, you know,
42:41
with the resources that they going back to our conversation
42:44
earlier about, you know, being a big league team and having the
42:46
environment and the resources. The Yankees are not hurting for
42:51
any of those things, but yet they they can't seem to, you
42:56
know, handle these things efficiently.
42:58
What's happening? I had.
43:00
No idea. I really don't.
43:03
I really, really don't kick me when I'm down, though.
43:06
This team has sucked recently and I would say recently it's
43:10
been like six weeks of sucking. This hurts, man.
43:14
I am thankful that it's just a flexor strain.
43:18
I'm thankful that, you know, there's no TJ that's required
43:23
because that would have really did me in pretty pretty, pretty
43:26
good. I would have been in a dark
43:28
place, but like, I don't understand.
43:31
They have had like a a lot of like a lot of elbow injuries to
43:36
position players, which is strange.
43:43
I don't know. As far as the delay goes,
43:46
there's probably a little bit of a.
43:54
Tough it out mentality just, you know, like, you know, judge
43:58
being it's a former football guy and just being like, no, like
44:01
we're good. I'm going to tough it out.
44:02
I'm fine. And then it's also like it, you
44:04
know, obviously this team needs me more than most teams need
44:08
people. I got to stick it out.
44:12
I got to I got to play through it and I I'm not going to blame
44:16
the delay on on the medical staff or or the team, but I
44:24
don't know, man, it's really, really, really hard to say.
44:28
I don't know where I'm at with this.
44:30
Sounds like you're going to see Stanton in right field for the
44:35
next week, week and 1/2 on and off because didn't used to be
44:45
didn't used to be, which sucks. You go back to Stanton in in a
44:49
Marlins uniform bro was lighten it up in right field I.
44:53
Mean sadly that's that's lifetimes ago at this point.
44:56
That's what they do. That's just kind of what they
44:59
do. I don't know.
45:05
He's going to have to DH for a while.
45:07
I'm glad that it's a 10 day, not a 15 day.
45:09
That makes me feel there's barely any Silver Linings in
45:13
this. But I'm trying to find him where
45:15
I can. I'm trying.
45:20
Talking about Silver Linings, let's let's close the book here.
45:29
Silver lining for for the A's broadcast that you know, we've
45:33
got got a little bit of a little bit of a sense of humor, you
45:37
know, given given what happened what last night was it did we
45:42
did we figure out I I can't remember was it last night the
45:44
night before the broadcast call on a Lawrence Butler home run.
45:50
I think I've got I'm hoping this works.
45:52
Let's hope this that this works. Let me play this clip for you 1
45:57
two pitch high in the air deep to right.
46:01
That ball is. Foul.
46:07
We're gone. That ball was absolutely
46:13
launched. Law Dog closing him up at the
46:16
dish. He knew it off the bat, it was
46:19
just a matter of how far he knew he got it.
46:30
That's crazy. Just.
46:31
Leaving, just leaving Dallas Braden hanging.
46:34
Just say. Hey, our guy needs.
46:36
You to salvage this because I have nothing left to say.
46:38
Our guy, no. But I mean, going back to the
46:42
silver lining here, you know, it was Chris, Chris Carey, he he
46:48
came out with a tweet apologize after after the game, he said
46:51
totally lost it in the lights. No excuses, unfair to Butler and
46:54
our fans that I messed it up as badly as I did.
46:57
This is completely and totally on me.
46:59
Wish I could have it back, but that's baseball.
47:01
I apologize. We'll be better tomorrow.
47:02
Silver lining for some accountability.
47:04
You didn't have to like, he really didn't have to like.
47:07
It really is not that big of a deal, but you don't.
47:08
Even have to apologize. No like it, you know what
47:11
happens but but it's a. Hard job by the way, but it's I
47:15
don't think people give it enough credit.
47:16
That's not an easy job, but Dang, call the weak.
47:24
If we could give it a negative, I would give it a negative.
47:27
I I'll give it a .1 out of 10 strictly because of Dallas
47:32
Braden somehow managing to salvage it kind of and then also
47:38
saying it wasn't it was, it was a matter of how far not it was
47:43
like, you know what I mean? Like fair foul was never in
47:47
question, but it was just how far will it go?
47:49
He knew it off the bat, like you know what I mean?
47:51
Like I don't know. But the fact that you can't, you
47:56
just say. Foul.
48:01
We're gone. Like what you can't.
48:05
There's no recovery there. Tough Man .1 out of 10 for Call
48:10
of the Week. That's tough.
48:13
Speaking of homers, Cal Raleigh reached the 40 Homer mark last
48:18
night. Huge, huge benchmark for for the
48:25
Mariners catcher. I don't think I realized if, I
48:30
mean, if we're going to keep it, keep it a buck.
48:34
I don't think I realized how closely Shohei was breathing
48:38
down his neck. You know, I thought, I really
48:40
thought this was like a Judge Raleigh kind of race.
48:43
And then as I think we, I, well, I think what it was, was that
48:47
barrage that Shohei went on in the last week or two where he
48:51
had. 5 or like 5 and 10 games or something.
48:54
Like that or it was like 6, like 5 and four games or five and six
48:58
games or or something like that. So I think that's what really
49:01
catapulted him back into the swing of things here.
49:03
But Shohei just two behind Cal but even still Cal Raleigh first
49:09
of 40 and he did that on July 26th so 40 before August is
49:16
crazy. Yeah.
49:17
But we'll we'll see how that shakes out.
49:21
What do do you know? You may have not know off the
49:25
top of your head, but have you seen anything recently how that
49:28
tracks the judges year? I don't.
49:31
I'm like a. Comparison.
49:33
I mean I. Not this year, obviously.
49:39
He's like this, you know, two years.
49:41
Yeah, yeah. I don't know, I.
49:45
Haven't seen anything to to compare the two, but yeah.
49:52
It's cool to see, man. I, I think I just hope he keeps
49:56
going. Like the guy's a workhorse.
49:58
Like he doesn't doesn't take games off.
50:02
I think it's a good thing that they have Mitch Garver that can
50:04
slide back there and catch. But like he did that, that
50:06
doesn't happen a ton. And especially if you're making
50:11
more offensive moves at the deadline, like that DH spot is
50:14
going to need to clear up. He's just been insane.
50:19
I hope he stays healthy. I hope he being a catcher, he
50:23
doesn't, you know, suffer from any fatigue moving forward.
50:26
Like I hope he keeps this thing rolling.
50:29
It'd be sick, dude. Like you see a catcher pushing
50:32
60 by the end of the year, like that's insane and super
50:38
impressive. We're.
50:40
Also this thought just randomly came to me.
50:42
We're do we? It's been some time.
50:45
I feel like since we've had a catcher hold the place of like a
50:49
favorite player for kids, like I, I need the Cal Raleigh lore
50:55
to continue because we need this guy.
50:58
We're like, we need to see more and more kids walking around and
51:01
yeah, 29, well. I mean, we like you saw the with
51:05
the interviews, you know, before the Home Run Derby, we were
51:07
walking around the battery and like, and asking questions and a
51:10
lot of kids, a lot of adults. You say Cal Raleigh, Cal Raleigh
51:13
and we're in Braves territory and there were some people
51:16
saying Maddie O, but I noticed some Southern accents thinking
51:20
that Cal Raleigh was going to win it and and they predicted
51:23
it, correct. I like it, man.
51:28
I really do. And it's not like, I mean no
51:30
disrespect, but it's not like he's Gary Sanchez behind the
51:33
plate. He's also an above average
51:35
catcher, you know what I mean? Like he's not just only an
51:39
offensive production type kind of guy, like he's doing it on
51:42
both sides and doing it well. Keep it up, man, Keep it up.
51:48
Don't fade Mariners, add a little more.
51:53
Keep this team in in the hunt. The AL is up for grabs.
51:57
Stay hot, get hot, stay hot. Speaking of being up for grabs,
52:05
there are a lot of seats and candy yards up for grabs the
52:08
other night. Did you see that?
52:10
I didn't when the lightning rolled into town.
52:12
We've got bro. We've had some.
52:13
I don't know what it's like out West.
52:15
We get crazy lightning out here. Well, yeah, I know.
52:18
I know that. But we get crazy heat lightning
52:21
out here and then we sprinkle in like some actual legitimate
52:25
lightning. You know, that is is your
52:28
classic lightning that you think of when you think of lightning.
52:32
We get some bad, bad summer storms out here on East Coast.
52:37
And apparently they got some the other night to the point to
52:40
where they, unbeknownst to the umpires I heard, had to clear
52:44
out the lower bowl. And on the broadcast they were
52:47
talking about, they're like, no, you are not watching a replay of
52:51
a game from 2020 because that's what it looked like.
52:54
Because they cleared out the lower bowl and they just kept
52:56
playing. And you had people wonder, like
52:59
the umpires, like I said, they didn't know.
53:00
You had people watching the game being like, what's happening?
53:05
Why are there no fans in the seats?
53:08
And if it's because of the weather, then why are the guys
53:10
still out on the field playing baseball?
53:13
So just a very bizarre situation that we hadn't seen in that
53:17
maybe ever some at least some time at the very least, but just
53:22
very bizarre. And I I thought it was worth
53:26
noting because it it looked very weird watching the.
53:28
Game, yeah, that's that is weird.
53:32
And if you're a player, you're like, my life isn't as valuable.
53:36
Like, just because I'm not buying beers right now, like,
53:40
you got to protect them more than me.
53:44
Yeah, just weird. What's not weird are these Hall
53:51
of Fame weekend hats, by the way.
53:54
Yeah, you're a fan A. Huge fan, dude.
53:57
Are you not a fan? Like, am I?
53:58
Am I blowing this out of proportion?
54:00
Like I feel like these hats are sick.
54:05
Yeah. I like it here.
54:07
Let me get these up. Let me get these up here.
54:09
Let me get them up on the feet on the I.
54:11
Kind of wish that there was. I mean, look at these things,
54:16
dude. Kind of wish there was some tie
54:18
into throwback uni's to go with it.
54:22
Yeah, yeah. Like it feels a little weird,
54:24
specifically like I'm watching, you know, Zach Wheeler on the
54:28
bump right now for the Phillies, like the maroon old school
54:31
Philly versus like the the new like color of like a brighter
54:36
red, like the and then even with like the Marlins, like they're
54:40
still on their current Uni's with this.
54:44
I don't know. But like just outside of that, I
54:48
think they're solid. I think they're I think they're
54:50
good. I'm looking at all of them right
54:52
now. I mean, I saw somebody throw out
54:57
the the comment. They're like, why didn't we get
54:59
the Expos for the Nats? And I'm like, I mean, the Expos
55:02
hat obviously is iconic and, and you know, baseball history, but
55:06
any excuse I get to catch some more that OGDC logo.
55:11
I I love that DC logo. Do you really?
55:14
Yeah, maybe I'm like a little, you know, biased just being in
55:16
the area and seeing it a lot more, but I thoroughly missed
55:20
that in comparison. I mean the curly W like
55:23
whatever. I if if they could replace
55:27
replace the curly W with this, I'd be all.
55:30
I mean it was absolutely better than Curly WI know that much.
55:33
Pretty much anything they do is better than the Curly W, but
55:36
yeah, some. I mean, these hats are just
55:37
like. Big fan of the the old school
55:39
Astros one. That's nice.
55:42
So I was I was told that a couple of these are are not
55:48
actually legitimate, like the Cardinals logo.
55:53
And I had to do some digging around myself.
55:54
Apparently the Cardinals one is made-up Cardinals Legos.
55:58
Yeah, the Cardinals logo. And I went, I checked the logo
56:00
history, went back and looked like going back to like freaking
56:05
day one of the franchise. How did not see that logo.
56:09
So somebody said that that was just made-up to give it a Hall
56:12
of Fame look. The Astros that had in
56:15
particular, I don't think was ever worn because I think it's a
56:20
blend of like their current scheme, but then also the the
56:24
you know, the starburst kind of look to what they had during
56:28
like the Bagwell days. And then obviously you got the
56:31
teams here in the mix that just didn't even bother trying to do
56:35
anything different. There's like 6 or seven of them
56:38
that were just like, yeah, now we're good.
56:39
We're we'll just turn in our in our assignment early.
56:42
Yeah, there's a slight alteration to the NY for the
56:45
Yanks. Little thicker.
56:47
Yeah, it's like a little thicker and like the the left side of
56:50
the N is lower, which is a little more traditional.
56:56
The Mets look the same. Kansas City looks the same,
57:01
right? I don't think there's anything
57:02
different there. The A's.
57:04
A's is A's Angels. I think the A's are technically
57:08
a a throwback because that is the hat that I think they used
57:12
to wear back like when the Kelly greens were a mainstay, but so
57:16
I'll give that a pass. What's the C?
57:19
So I see the Cincinnati C What's the C above them?
57:22
Cleveland, OH. Sounds like 1's Cleveland.
57:25
One's Cincinnati. Yeah, so it gives me like,
57:27
Chicago Bears vibes. But then I saw the Cubs on the
57:30
bottom left and I'm like, all right, shout out anyone watching
57:34
on YouTube. By the way, this is where you're
57:35
able to check this out while you're listening.
57:38
But yeah, a minute subscribing there.
57:40
Yeah, if you're. Listening you can pull up the
57:41
graphic and and and join along as we we talk more about these
57:46
but I actually learned shout out to our guy Eric.
57:49
I found out I I learned that hold on.
57:54
Let me just pull it up so I can confirm here learned that
58:00
Disney. Did you know that Disney owns
58:02
the full rights to the Winged Angels scheme?
58:08
You know what I'm talking about. You like the Tim Salmon, The.
58:12
Angels in the outfield type. Yeah, like the Tim Salmon days,
58:15
you know. What I'm talking about.
58:16
Oh my, those were so good apparently.
58:21
He and I'm putting this solely on him.
58:23
So if I'm if I'm speaking out of turn here, like that's where
58:26
we're going to pin on Eric, but he.
58:27
Shout out Eric OGOG listener. Big Angels guy, he told me that
58:32
the the Disney owns the rights to that and that apparently
58:36
they're the angels won't buy the rights to it.
58:39
So that I guess that's why they maybe couldn't incorporate it or
58:42
something. I don't know, but very
58:44
interesting. Very, very interesting.
58:47
Yeah, very. I mean top tier, top tier for
58:50
sure, but yeah, enough on those. But All in all, big fan on on
58:56
the the touch of throw or the nod rather of of throwback.
59:01
Anytime you get a chance to see some of these classic logos and
59:05
schemes, I'm I'm down for any excuse to to pump that in there.
59:11
Lastly here before we get out of here, just a quick reminder
59:14
about tonight's Sunday night baseball stream.
59:17
Once again, Nate will be leading the charge on teaching us how to
59:23
keep book. Yeah, he's, this is I guess our
59:26
third, our third iteration of of this campaign.
59:31
This again, going back to the beginning, this was Nate's idea.
59:34
He said, hey, what if we this was in the offseason?
59:37
Actually, he's like, what if this this coming, you know, 2025
59:40
season would pick some Sunday night baseball streams maybe
59:43
once a month and teach people how to keep book.
59:48
I said sounds like a great idea and it's been a hit.
59:50
Dude. I've thoroughly enjoyed doing
59:52
what we do for that like. We get on, man.
59:54
We get people hopping on there. We I think we even get people on
59:57
there that don't necessarily even listen to the podcast,
1:00:00
which is fine. But I mean, I hope they
1:00:01
eventually turn turn to the the podcast at some point to listen
1:00:06
to it or watch it. But like, we get people, we get
1:00:08
baseball fans on there that just want to learn how to keep book
1:00:11
and then we also get people on there that.
1:00:13
Already know how to keep book but they just want to hang out
1:00:15
catch a ball game on TV hanging out with other baseball fans
1:00:18
chopping it up in the chat thoroughly enjoy it and I'm not
1:00:23
I'm not like not blowing smoke I'm not feeding you guys a line
1:00:26
genuinely enjoy it and it's very fun you learn a lot I mean this
1:00:30
will be my I said this is our third time doing it so this will
1:00:33
be my. Third one.
1:00:34
You did one solo, didn't you? Didn't you do one solo recently?
1:00:38
No, no, you're saying just keeping score.
1:00:42
No, this. So this will be my this will be
1:00:44
our third time doing it. So this will be my third time
1:00:46
keeping score. And I've I've been learning a
1:00:48
lot. So definitely.
1:00:49
Enjoy it, normalize it, man, because like again, not go down
1:00:52
this rabbit hole too much, but like the the memorabilia shorts
1:00:55
shop that we were down in in in Atlanta checking out some old
1:00:59
school. You got an old school one behind
1:01:01
you, but like it's so neat that idea because like you have one
1:01:07
that has Joe DiMaggio on it and you have one that has Ted
1:01:10
Williams on it and it's like what a was it Joe or was it the
1:01:16
his brother? I can't remember.
1:01:18
Whatever. You're saying the scorecard I
1:01:19
have? Yeah.
1:01:20
No, it's got Joe. It was like the Yankees Red Sox
1:01:22
game from like 41. It's got like Williams Door
1:01:27
DiMaggio. It's pretty cool.
1:01:28
That's that's sick. And like it's such it's just a
1:01:31
normal guy that was probably obviously at the game, maybe
1:01:36
listening on the radio, but I doubt it.
1:01:38
And you know, wearing a top hat and a suit and perfect
1:01:42
handwriting. It's just like there's there's a
1:01:44
charm about it. And you never know, like what
1:01:47
when you're writing a game and you're keeping score, like you
1:01:50
never know what's going to happen.
1:01:51
What if it is a perfect game? What if it is a Nick Kurtz four
1:01:55
home run game? And you're like, I'm going to
1:01:57
keep this and I'm going to frame it or I'm going to it's going to
1:02:00
end up in a memorabilia shop someday down the road.
1:02:02
Like you just you never know. And I think that's what's fun
1:02:05
about it kind of brings you back to the roots of of what our game
1:02:08
is. So it's a fun little thing to
1:02:10
learn and it's not hard. And it's, you know, worst case
1:02:14
scenario, come hang out. It'll be during Sunday night
1:02:16
baseball tonight and, you know, have some dinner.
1:02:19
Bring the fam, teach your significant other how to do it
1:02:23
or teach your kids how to do it and like, it's just cool.
1:02:26
Just hang out. It's low key.
1:02:28
BYOB bring your own book. If you don't have a book, maybe
1:02:32
run out to I'm I'm sure like Dick's Sporting Goods have them.
1:02:36
Big 5 if you're trying to, you know, bone on a budget.
1:02:40
Big 5, is that a shop out there? You don't have big fives out
1:02:43
there. We have 5 below.
1:02:45
No, Big 5 is like specifically a sporting goods store.
1:02:48
Oh, nice. Yeah.
1:02:49
No, we don't have those. Cheaper one, you were in Dick's
1:02:52
Sporting Goods. Big sporting goods.
1:02:54
Big. Models back in the day.
1:02:55
Is models still around? Didn't they go under?
1:02:58
I think they went bankrupt. Dang, it's tough.
1:03:01
Go to Moe's. Shout out, Sports Authority.
1:03:06
Yeah. What a Jingle that was.
1:03:09
Gotta go to models. Yeah, that was nice.
1:03:14
I remember that. Yeah, that was a that was a
1:03:16
vibe. But anyway, bring your own book
1:03:19
if you want to learn. If you don't want to learn, you
1:03:20
just want to hang out with us. Bring your own food, I guess.
1:03:22
Bring your dinner and we'll hang out.
1:03:24
Watch some ball keep keep some books.
1:03:26
So that's all I got. Nate, you got anything else
1:03:30
before we before we wrap this thing up?
1:03:34
We'll be on Thursday, not Wednesday.
1:03:36
This week we're going to be on. I think we're planning on doing
1:03:40
it 5:30 Eastern with the deadline being 6 O clock
1:03:44
eastern. So we're going to start it a
1:03:46
little early to got to get through some of the trades that
1:03:50
are going to happen this week and then enough to carry us over
1:03:54
post deadline to get some of those ones that kind of trickle
1:03:58
in through media after the deadline passes.
1:04:02
So just keep that, mark that down in your calendars.
1:04:06
Again, Thursday, not Wednesday this week.
1:04:08
Other than that, I'll go chasing curveballs.
1:04:11
Le'veon, as always, looking forward to talking more baseball
1:04:13
with you guys soon. Until next time, stay filthy.