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Juan Soto Misses Aaron Judge · The 3-0 Take

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Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to the three OT where we talk all
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things Major League Baseball. Here's Kyle Corwin and Nate
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Reyes. It all starts right now.
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Welcome back to the three OT presented by Chinook.
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Cedry. This is episode 528.
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I'll be your host, Kyle Corwin. I'm here with my Co host Nate
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Reyes. Nate.
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Let's go, let's go. Made it to Thursday.
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It's basically the weekend. Love it, feels good.
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Feels great What a great transition I wanted to ask you
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off the top so I just posted a TikTok and the topic of said
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TikTok and I want I want to work through this I I wanted I want
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to get your thoughts here day day baseball yeah where do we
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stand I know we've addressed it like we we've alluded to it but
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like we we need to get to the bottom of this day baseball.
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How do we feel about it? Because I've been watching some
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day baseball today, watching some as we speak.
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Where we at on day baseball? Because in the in the video I
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said it's it's either massively underrated or it's the worst
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thing ever. And I think it just depends if
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it it it falls on whether or not you're able like you're in a
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point of life, you're in a situation in life where you can
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watch day baseball regularly or not.
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Is that fair to say? Yeah.
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Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, definitely know what you mean.
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Like if you're out on the work site.
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Right, let's be real, if you're working from home, you love day
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baseball. Right, that's that's my point.
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And we're referring to Monday through Friday day baseball.
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Correct. Yeah, yeah.
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For sure day. Weekday, Weekday day baseball.
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I think it also depends on time zones.
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That's another factor to consider here, right?
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Like being on the West Coast, I, I love my time zone when it,
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when it's comes to baseball, 'cause like you get day baseball
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starting at 10:00 AM. If you got the chance to, to, to
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throw that on, throw that on. Then you have maybe another
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round at, at 1:00 PM, right? And then you've got and then. 4.
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And then you got. Four.
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That's and then you have. And then you have your local
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West Coast games at 7:00 so you can end it with Padres, Dodgers,
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Diamondbacks, A's, Giants like you have all day.
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And then you could boast is under freaking rated.
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And then? You could watch a show by the
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time you're done with your West Coast games if you really wanted
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to. That's illegal.
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But all that to say, you. Got 2 TV's up, you throw that
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night game on you and it's TV show with the wife on the right.
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Unbelievable. What's so what's, what's the
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verdict here? Do we like, is it massively
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underrated or is it just the worst thing ever?
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Because you, honestly, you and I are in different, different
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boats here. I three days a week.
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I'm or two days a week. I'm working from home, but I
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also work at desk jobs. So like, I could I could in
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theory have it up if I wanted to.
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Yeah. You, on the other hand, you're
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at you're at different sites, you're you're away from your
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your Home Office where you're at now from time to time.
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So like, can we arrive at a resolution here or how do we
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feel? What's the verdict?
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I don't know why I feel so why I feel particularly strongly about
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this today. But I was just sitting there.
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It's beautiful outside the games I watched today, beautiful
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outside at those parks. I'm like this This seems great
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but am I over hyping it in my head?
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I'm going to say underrated. I'm going to.
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I'm going to give the slight edge to underrated.
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I agree. I don't think we we value day
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baseball the way it should be valued.
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I agree again, but it depends on your situation, depends on your
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time zone, depends on your work scenario.
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You West Coast people make me sick.
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I'm telling you, man, it's it's something that needs to be
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documented and and understood that when it comes to baseball
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viewing, we have the superior time zone.
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Sickening. You know what else is sickening?
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The fact that Juan Soto came out this week and all but admitted
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that he misses his boys in the Bronx.
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Specifically one boy in particular by the name of Aaron
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Judge. You said this, I think it in
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some way, shape or form. I, I agreed with you.
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Many other people were saying this.
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This was very now let's take a step back first, whether or not
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I feel like he should have played for the continue to play
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for the Yankees or the Mets in like a in at a more macro level,
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like what this does for his his image, his branding, his career
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trajectory as a whole different conversation.
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But strictly speaking, strictly addressing the whole like, what
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are my numbers going to look like at the end of each season
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for the next decade plus? I feel like this was or as long
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as Aaron Judge is playing for the Yankees.
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Yeah, let's say 5-6 years, Yeah. I feel like this was kind of
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predictable. Yeah, Soto, like, come on.
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Yeah. Maybe less time spent on trying
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to negotiate clothing allowances for your family and more time
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looking at the cold hard numbers.
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My brother, this we. You could have seen this coming
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a mile away. Tried.
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To tell you tried to tell you you had it made in the shade,
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man, you had. I think to be fair, we're we are
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basing it off of quite literally one of the best seasons a
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hitter's ever had. So I don't think we can say that
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what Aaron Judge did last year is the norm or would be the norm
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moving forward. But you see, the way he's doing
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it already, the start of this year, it's like, yeah, that
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you're, you're clearly in a better situation with him behind
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you. So.
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That's what I'm saying. Like would you would your
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approach change in like, let's just call it like a five year
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vacuum 2021 if you've got these two on the same team and Aaron
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Judge is Aaron Judge, are you are you changing your approach
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year to year? It like aside from the fact that
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Aaron Judd had had an absolutely historic season last year, next
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year, if Soto was on the team with him, are you assuming he's
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not going to do the same thing historically, but he's still
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going to be Aaron Judge? Like are you really changing
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your approach that much? Yeah, exactly.
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This doesn't change. Or the way you attack him I
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should. Say we knew this man.
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We knew this look like I don't I'm going to I don't want to be
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a hater. I'm not a I'm not a Soto hater.
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I I like Soto. Can I jump in real quick?
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I realized I didn't even share the quote.
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They were discussing, Yeah, go go ahead and throw that out
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there. That's probably important.
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So they were asking Soto about no longer hitting in front of
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Judge, and his response was it's definitely different.
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I had the best hitter in baseball hitting behind me.
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I was getting more attacked and more pitches in the strike zone,
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less intentional walks and things like that.
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I was pitched differently last year.
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Yep. Continue on.
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Sorry. Checks out.
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Definitely checks out. Adds up.
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What do you want man like you can't can't have your cake and
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eat it too. You know what I mean it's this
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whole scenario this look like I said I don't I'm not a hater for
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Soto. I I like Soto am IA little
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bummed he's not a Yankee for the rest of his career yeah, it just
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it in my mind it felt right it it felt like a great fit.
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He looked great in the uniform fans loved them.
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It was a successful year like it all felt like it made sense for
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him to come back. Do I understand why he went a
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different route yes. I just don't want this to I
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don't want him to turn into like a Kevin Durant.
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You know what I mean? Where like you see him go to the
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Golden State Warriors and he gets his ring.
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Everything looks great. You check that box.
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And I'm not saying Soto got a ring, but you know what I'm
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saying? Like ever since that Durant has
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been like, let's go here. Doesn't work fine.
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I want to trade and and like an organization basically implodes
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just to make it happen and get him.
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And now he's destroyed the Brooklyn Nets.
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Now he's destroyed the Phoenix Suns.
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And you're like, what? You're just burning bridges
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everywhere you go. And I'm not saying that anything
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similar in baseball because like clearly soda is going to be
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locked up as a Met for a while. But as as much as we can give
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credit to Stevie Cohen, like we knew that once you make this
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signing, you're not able to just go out and and do what the
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Dodgers did because they did it in a better, smarter way instead
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of just backing up the Brinks truck and saying here's all of
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our money. So I'd feel bummed about this.
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I don't know who's I haven't really paid attention to the
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Mets a ton this year. I'll put my hand up on that.
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Who's been hitting behind him? Primarily, I'm.
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Assuming Pete Pete's been swinging it.
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Well, I got to say, I know we're, I know we're not the
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biggest of Pete Alonzo guys, but which by the way, let me confirm
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that. Did you see, by the way, that
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he's, I, I saw an article that said he's eyeing a return to the
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WBC next year. In front of who?
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Pete. Eyeing a return, please.
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You're first in line. You called Mark DeRosa and Aaron
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Judge already, bro. Like you've already made that
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call. Don't act like I'm kind of
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considering it. No, you're not.
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I don't know. Does he think he's playing first
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on that team? Because if if Bryce Harper is
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even remotely interested, I don't know where Pete thinks
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he's playing. There's a few names I'd take.
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I'd take Freddie. I'd take Maddie O.
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Pete's. Pete's hit bottom just to
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confirm, Yeah. Yeah, but like.
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Pete's been swinging it real well, dude. 5 homers, 365.
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I don't really love that comment.
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Like I get it's honest and we talk about this all the time.
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We're like, we love when the politically correct copy paste
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answers can sometimes be put aside and there's just like real
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raw comments coming through. That's great.
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It feels great. I just don't get it.
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Pete's off to a good start. Get Frankie Lindore ahead of
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you. Like what positive outcome are
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you assuming is going to is going to come out of this
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strange. Meanwhile, Judge is like hitting
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over 400 so. Yeah, I mean, it wasn't a note
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to say that Pete's hitting better than Aaron, but just the
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fact that Pete's hitting well, especially after.
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The relax. The drama that went down this
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offseason with him literally waiting outside the door of Citi
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Field. I feel like there's a very clear
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route to go with majority of media questions.
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There's 2 routes to go and it's when in doubt just praise your
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current team and current situation.
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How hard is it to do that? You weren't kidding about the
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the Suns, by the way. I saw it kind of going off, kind
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of going off the the off topic here, but I saw some of the
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other day that said of the what are there 32 teams in the NBA?
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Sure. I don't know.
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I think I think 323032, whatever of the whatever amount of teams.
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Yeah, because it's 8:00 and 8:00 in the playoffs.
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It's half the league. There's only one team that was
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either that was no, I'm sorry, all but one team in the NBA was
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either in the playoffs, in the in the play in games or had a
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lottery pick. Only one team wasn't wasn't in
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that mix it all and it was the Suns traded.
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Away all their first round picks for this horrible team and a
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Kevin Durant who plays half the games.
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They just fired their coach like it's a train wreck.
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Train wreck. And I'm not saying that's going
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to happen. I don't I don't even think the
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Mets are going to are going to become that in any way.
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And I don't think Soto is going to be considered that.
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But it's like you got to wonder. The grass ain't always greener
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and no one feels bad for you when you leave for that bag and
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then try to say that you you kind of miss the way it used to
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be. I don't, I don't have any,
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sorry. I don't have any empathy for
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this. It was just so this was so
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predictable and and on the flip side, just to put a ball in this
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real quick, so we got to move on the P to play devil's advocate
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here, the people that are freaking out about the 1st 20
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games of a 15 year contract, Yeah, relax.
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Yeah, calm down. Your anti Soto bias is showing
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when you're sitting here writing up like putting the nail in the
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coffin of his career based on the way the 1st 20 games has
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gone. Chill OK, relax.
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Yep. Yep, Yep.
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He's still a generational talent.
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I stand by it, but he maybe could have been a generational
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town and then some had he stayed in the Bronx.
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Could. Have been but.
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Could have, should have, would have.
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You know, Nate, I got a little, I got a new little thing I
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thought of the other day that I wanted to introduce today.
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Are Are you ready for it? I don't know.
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I don't like being put on the spot.
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It's oh, it's a yes or no question.
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Yes. All right, so it's this little
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thing that I want to start doing this year.
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I'm calling it the credit cannon, and we're just going to
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blast some dudes with credit, with props, whatever you want to
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call it. All right, let's start here with
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Tyler Soderstrom killing it. Dude, goodness, when is it?
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When are we going to recognize what this guy's doing?
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Like, when are we going to give this guy?
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Well, right now we're going to give this guy's props, but.
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Right now we're going to hit him with a cannon.
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I mean is this let? Me pull his numbers back up real
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quick. I mean, I've got his numbers you
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want you want to know his numbers right now?
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First off, great baseball name and probably the most A's name
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there's. A very A's name.
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Yeah, I'm with you. I don't know why, why the A's
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have like they just have a way style of name, but that's A very
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A's name for sure. His numbers on the year entering
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Wednesday, Thursday, excuse me today, 8 homers.
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He's hitting 3/24/17 ribbies on base of 395, slugging seven O 6
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OPS of 11 O1. His OPS plus is 2/23.
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Let's uptick it because he went ya ya today.
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So nine home runs, 18 RB. Is he's he's the first player in
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MLB history to have three multi Homer games in a season before
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the midway point of April. That's crazy.
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And what's even crazier, you want to talk about an uptick?
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He had nine. You said he hit 1 today.
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So he's got 9 on the year. He hit nine in 189 ABS last
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season. He's already got 9 through, call
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it 70. Is this, is this legit?
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Like, like is, is this the start of something?
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So, well, I mean, ace fans will be able to speak to a little bit
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better, but from a national, from a recognition household
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name kind of perspective, is this the start of something
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special? Or are we just catching
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lightning and a bottle here with Tyler?
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It's hard to say. I mean, it's, I don't want to
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like put a cap on it necessarily.
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I think it's exciting when you have like a super hot start to a
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year and it it's obviously way easier versus digging yourself
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out of a hole come May when you're like, that was a terrible
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April. So he's doing great.
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I, I think it something that's going to set him up for success.
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I what I worry about is that like, I hope he doesn't feel
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like this is the norm because when this does eventually come
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back down to earth, you don't want to see him completely just
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implode. You know what I mean?
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And you see that with guys. You've definitely seen that with
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guys like younger players that just feel like this is what the
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big leagues are. I got this in the bag, you know
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what I mean? And then crash, burn and you
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feel like you're not sure where the middle ground is.
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So there's this fine line of like, let's build up confidence,
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let's build up numbers, let's carry this as far as we can.
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But I hope that there's some understanding that like this
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isn't sustainable. You know what I mean?
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I think you're off to a great start.
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I think you're hopefully going to end the year in in a positive
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note and have great numbers to catapult yourself into what he
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hopes to be a good career. But I just, I don't want to see
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him think that this is the norm. His baseball savant page is
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literally off the charts. It's all.
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Red. Crazy.
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But ultimately what I hear you saying, though, is you don't
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believe that Tyler Soderstrom can be this generation's Barry
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Bonds. Probably not.
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Or at least this season's Barry Bonds.
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Probably not, but. Bold like what?
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You're doing like what you're doing, Mr. Soderstrom.
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Keep it up. Do you like?
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So hitting in that ballpark is got to be feeling quite.
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Oh, baby, super quick note on that though, and this is going
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to oh, this is going to rub some people the wrong way, But I'm
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I'm kind of, I didn't think I would.
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I'm kind of digging the minor league just as like a temporary
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measure like it's I. Like it with the rays.
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Too, It's dudes, especially the Rays.
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It's like kind of quirky. I'm like, we know this isn't
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going to be the long haul, but I would.
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And just 'cause I was watching the the series this this week
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against the Sox, I would much rather watch a Rays team play in
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a minor league stadium where they're going to fill the park,
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then watch them in the Trop where they're going to have
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pockets of people scattered throughout.
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And it ultimately is like the same amount of people.
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Like just give me, I don't know, maybe I'm maybe that's the
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minority. There, like if you're in those
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areas, go. I think it's such a cool, unique
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experience. Like this isn't forever, it's a
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temporary thing and like it and it's probably a lot cheaper Go.
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I kind of dig it. I didn't think it too hand up, I
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didn't think I'd get to this point, but I'm at least this
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point in the season. My, I don't know, I'm going to
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look at numbers, but my, I feel like my prediction is looking
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pretty good. By the way, it's a hot take
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prediction. Where are they at?
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They have scored 88 runs so far and I said that they were going
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to set a franchise record for runs scored.
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Never know. In the chat, the field in
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Sacramento is actually a really nice minor league field.
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They had a party area in left field along the baseline.
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It looks like it could be removed or covered up for the
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A's. That's what I'm saying, man.
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Like as a keyword temporary measure.
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Like I'm I'm if it's just for the time being, I'm about it.
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Just let's let it ride, let's enjoy it, and then we'll get
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back to the 10% attendance records for the Trop whenever
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they make their inevitable return.
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Kyle Tucker. Kyle Tucker through his first
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eighteen career games had hit had 23 hits, 19 runs scored, 18
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ribbies and 15 walks. No other player in Major League
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Baseball all time had reached those marks through their first
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18 games with a single team. That's courtesy of Optus Stats.
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Kyle Tucker is living up to the, I don't want to say the height,
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but the level of discussion that his name warranted to start this
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season. He is, I mean, he is absolutely
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mashing. Another key for for Kyle Tucker,
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I think to to credit his success towards is that he's seen the
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ball very, very well. He's obviously he's, I mean,
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he's hitting for average. I think he's hitting coming in
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today. He's hitting three O 1.
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He's got 5 homers, but he leaves all the baseball and walks and
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his strikeout percentage is, is is rather low.
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And so it's good to see that for the Cubs again.
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We talked about it recently. You hate to lose Justin Steele
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in a year where you've got Kyle Tucker in your back pocket and
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you're like you said, as the Cubs, you're you're making a
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real go with this thing. But he's at least holding up his
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end of the bargain. And that that's not to say that
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others aren't necessarily like you can't necessarily control
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injuries to the fullest extent, But where does this leave him
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with extension talks? Because I've seen, I've seen the
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rumors floating around that they're trying to get something
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worked back up again. I think I heard somewhere that I
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think it was whoever represents Dansby.
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Same same representation for Kyle Tucker, I think.
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I think it was either Dansby or Cody Bellinger.
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It is Dansby, Nate Knows ball, Excel Sports management.
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So same, same place. So like, I think that's a little
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bit of like a hey, we've done this before.
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We've had we've had big, big contract conversations with your
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group before. I think it's super, super
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important for the Cubs zoo at least try.
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But at this rate, it's like, I don't know, man, Cal Tucker may
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have to ride this one out. He may have to ride this one out
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because like we're the double S already looking good.
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He's hit, he's gotten close to 40 double SA few times in his
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career. You know, the home runs are in
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that 30 range. I know a lot of it is depending
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on like the way the winds blowing in Wrigley and it just
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depends. But like the fact that you're
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off to this good of a start in April in Wrigley, like it's
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you're setting the foundation for what's going to be a really
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good summer. You know, when it's warm there
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and it's like full on feels like baseball season in Chicago.
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And who knows, maybe he gets to that point where it's if you're
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in double digit home run territory mid-May, who knows
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what he's going to do. You know what I mean?
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We could be talking in the swipes, like he can swipe some
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bags. I don't know if he gets to 30,
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but like 20/20/20 is for sure in play here.
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I don't know. I don't know.
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It's just I, I think it's the fact that he is like the
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leading, the leading free agent this offseason.
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If there was, if it was a different year and you had other
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names in the mix, like maybe that changes the equation.
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But I think it's he's like the clear cut #1 free agent this
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offseason makes extension hard to imagine.
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I'll feel you, but great start. Speaking of a great start,
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Corbin Carroll this 2025 season so far, according to database
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hit slashing 329 four 10699. He's got 6 homers, 16.
26:56
And this was before today's game.
26:58
He he swiped a few bags, I think got him base 6 homers, 16 runs
27:03
scored, 16 ribbies, one stolen bag.
27:06
Again, I think he he got like two or three today.
27:08
So that's already up there. 202 weighted runs created plus one
27:14
point 1F WAR. Yeah, he went one for five, two
27:20
runs in an RBI today, man. He's got AI believe A10 game
27:31
hitting streak and his on base streak to start the year is at
27:36
18 games and he had a Grand Slam on Tuesday and I think that was.
27:43
Hit three stolen bases today. Yeah, it was the IT was the day
27:47
after you. You took up your sword for him
27:54
with the World Baseball Classic, Talk with the roster.
27:57
Talk goes out the next day. Crazy Grand Slam.
28:01
He's got the. Crazy.
28:03
Gave him the Nate bump. Told you, man, kind of pissed
28:07
that I traded him, but yeah, dude, little, well, big, big
28:13
mechanical adjustment. I'm sure if if you've watched
28:15
anything from Corbin Carroll and you're not living under a rock,
28:18
you've seen it. The hands have been brought
28:22
lower and further away from his body and I'm a big fan of that.
28:27
You see a lot of hitters that just try to have some clearance.
28:32
And I think I remember like him dealing with like a lot of
28:35
shoulder issues his rookie year and last year.
28:39
So you got to assume that like shoulders start to affect that
28:44
that approach in mechanics a little bit.
28:47
Jason Hayward's like a famous one who destroyed shoulders
28:53
early in his career and it's just like it it hindered the way
28:56
he did stuff. So I'm glad to see that this
28:59
this adjustment has worked in his favor.
29:02
We knew that the rest of the skills were there, like the the
29:04
on base is is insane. The swipes are insane, but like
29:09
the fact that he's brought back the power man, I'm telling you,
29:14
This is why I'm high on the D backs this year.
29:16
He's a big reason for it and fact that he's returned to that
29:20
rookie status of what he was doing that year.
29:23
I mean, you're like this guy's going to have MVP boats at the
29:27
end of the year, so look out and they're doing this without can
29:33
tell Marte by the way, he's been on the shelf for a little bit.
29:36
So he's coming back. Just a really good lineup, man,
29:43
Really good lineup. I like the haircut, by the way.
29:45
It's I like. The Yeah, the.
29:48
Lord far quad was just it only. Happened.
29:51
I was I was blown away. The people, the the amount of
29:54
people that couldn't see it. They're like, I don't know what
29:57
you're all going on about the Lord far.
29:59
Like look at him, dude. Look at the old haircut.
30:02
Tell me that's not Lord far quad.
30:04
What are we even doing? I mean, I know there's some
30:07
silly comps made out there, but I was, I mean that.
30:10
Was spot on. Spot on.
30:12
What are we doing? Speaking of spot on guy who's
30:16
spot on with his location and pretty much everything else.
30:20
Hunter Green. Hunter Green's last 14 starts
30:25
dating back to 2024 is according to running from the OPS.
30:31
Running from the OPS. I like that 85.1 innings pitch.
30:36
Again, this is last 14 starts dating back to 20/24/85 and 1/3.
30:42
10.23 KS per 92.3, two walks per 9251 FIP A3F4.
30:52
His one O 5 ERA over that span is the lowest in all of
30:56
baseball. They finished the tweet with
30:59
we're witnessing something truly special from a top tier arm.
31:03
Dude these game logs. Can we just discuss these game
31:07
logs here? Real quick on the season?
31:11
Let's I'm difficult of of seeing in my later years.
31:18
Let's get to zoom in here. First start of the season. 6
31:25
innings, 7 KS, 1 earned run. Next start, 6 2/3 zero earned
31:32
runs, nine KS. Next start 5 and 2 thirds. 1
31:37
earned run, 5 KS. His start from this week against
31:41
the Braves. 5 innings, 0 earned runs, 10 KS.
31:48
Now excuse me. Nope, that's absolutely wrong.
31:51
That's Chris Bassett's numbers, who we're going to get into
31:53
next. First start of the year.
31:56
No, listen, no, honestly, even better.
31:58
Even better. Even better.
32:00
All right, let's just. Here we go.
32:03
Hunter Green. First start of the Year 5
32:07
innings, two earned runs, a KS. Next start 7 innings, 1 earned
32:14
run, 8 KS. Next start 8 and 2 thirds, 0
32:20
earned run, 7 KS. And then against the Pirates, 7
32:23
innings, 0 earned run a KS. All right, it's more like it
32:30
already had a 1.5 war. Whoa, But you mentioned one stat
32:39
to me. Well, a couple stats that are
32:41
really standing out to me. The the strikeouts per nine.
32:44
That's that's we're used to this, right?
32:47
Like we knew that this was in the tank.
32:50
Now we're starting to tailor in the control a little bit.
32:53
The walks per nine are down, way down.
32:56
Well he's all a baseball and WHIP with a .578 craziness.
33:02
His ERA plus is 438, which, yeah, I mean, that's that's
33:07
silly. That's actually crazy.
33:10
The walks for 9. I mean that's, that's where like
33:12
it, it jumps out to me 20223.420233.9 last year, 3.4
33:20
this year so far, 1.3. So the control is just
33:26
ridiculous right now. We knew the strikeouts were
33:28
coming. This is kind of how you have to
33:32
pitch in that ballpark. Can't let guys get on and you
33:38
can't get, can't get beat by the long ball.
33:41
And all of a sudden in that ballpark, it's it's a big
33:45
difference. So what he's doing is insane.
33:51
I hope, I hope health is on his side.
33:56
Has yet to make more than 26 starts in his career and has yet
34:01
to break the 150 inning mark in his career.
34:04
I know it's young and still kind of figuring out who he is, but
34:07
like, if this is what he is and this is the route he's going,
34:12
you're going to start to eventually get into territories
34:15
that are a little uncharted, right?
34:17
And when he starts getting into 170 a 180 a 190 innings, if he's
34:21
healthy and at that velocity, you just hope that this can can
34:29
could be a good story and doesn't end negatively because
34:34
at this rate, yeah, there's a good chance he's looking at us.
34:38
I young maybe. I feel like he's for sure going
34:44
to start the All Star game though.
34:46
Who? Who picked Who picked me
34:50
straight? You just traded for him today.
34:52
Yep, sure did. Absolutely Fleece job of a trade
34:55
Hold off. Hey, a heist.
34:58
Well, when the person comes back saying, actually, you know what,
35:02
send it. What do you want me to do?
35:04
Not send it. I'm going to send it you.
35:06
Got to do what you got. To do, man, I got to do what I
35:09
got to do, it's terrible, terrible.
35:13
You know who hasn't been terrible?
35:15
Chris Bassett. Threw four starts, 23rd, 23 and
35:19
a third innings. 31 KS. Leads all a baseball with an ERA
35:23
of .77 and has a WHIP of one O 7.
35:28
I won't read you game logs. Yeah, well, not that I read you
35:31
his game logs so I won't go through those.
35:34
But yeah on the year 2 and O, as I mentioned, Lois ERA and all of
35:40
baseball among qualified starting pitching and Leeds MLB.
35:45
You thought Hunter Green's ERA plus was good.
35:47
Leeds all of baseball with an ERA plus a 517.
35:51
Don't even, quite frankly, don't even know how that's really
35:54
mathematically possible, but. Pitching Seth, it's.
35:58
Crazy I it makes makes no sense who who was involved in the
36:03
trade that you said was a fleece.
36:04
So let's just go ahead. Oh my.
36:07
Well, let's. There's no way this continues.
36:10
I had him last year in fantasy. We all know what Chris Bassett
36:12
is. I.
36:13
Had him in fantasy I believe last year too.
36:15
Because I dropped him because it's a nightmare.
36:17
It's that's not true. It's a roller coaster.
36:20
I, I, I like what he's doing. It's impressive so far.
36:25
I don't expect it to last. I don't why not.
36:33
I just don't. I think we know what he is.
36:37
I would. I did pull up his numbers
36:38
though, so let me pull it back up.
36:39
Boop, boop, boop, boop. He's 36 for one for two.
36:49
His strikeouts for 9 are way above his his career average.
36:57
His career average is an 8.4 case per nine.
37:00
So far this year he's at a 12. I don't think you just suddenly
37:06
figure out swing and miss stuff at 36.
37:11
I'm going to go ahead and say. I'm going to be fair, Nolan Ryan
37:14
was doing it when he was like 60, so.
37:18
He also hasn't given up a home run yet.
37:20
Maybe Chris Bassett is our generation Zolan Ryan.
37:23
Who's to really say? Yeah, no, this is this ain't
37:28
going to last. Sorry.
37:34
Good thing you traded in Moy. You sold high.
37:39
You sold high. Speaking of trade, in a way how
37:47
this guy is still playing baseball.
37:50
I'm I'm glad that my my take held up.
37:54
You didn't think this guy would see a baseball field ever again
37:57
after his glove throwing incident.
38:00
Jorge Lopez, reliever for the Washington Nationals, currently
38:05
at the moment suspended for throwing at Andrew McCutcheon in
38:14
this. Series.
38:15
Did you watch it? Yeah, it didn't look good and he
38:18
didn't. He didn't respond the way a guy
38:21
that's apologetic. It's a McCutcheon would.
38:25
Yeah, I mean, come on, What? What a weird, what a weird I I
38:32
can't ever imagine being mad at that guy.
38:34
Well, he hit I, I think he hit Brian Reynolds like the AB
38:38
before. That I get.
38:41
OK, well. That's that's a separate
38:44
conversation, but hits Brian Reynolds and then throws it
38:47
Mccutchen like whatever, whether it was intentional or not, it
38:52
was in US. It was in the area that you're
38:54
just not supposed to throw at guys unless no, you know what?
38:57
I'm not even going to say unless I'm not going to even promote or
39:00
advocate that it just didn't look good.
39:06
And then he's he's sort of making his way to home plate him
39:09
and Koch, I think sort of jawing off a little bit.
39:13
I think even the bench is cleared.
39:14
Was that the game that I I saw? Yeah.
39:16
The just this guy, this guy stinks.
39:22
This guy stinks. Did I mention though, he was
39:25
suspended for for three games? He, as you would expect, is
39:28
appealing. But take away here, don't throw
39:32
a couch like whatever. Throw literally anybody else.
39:35
If if you want to join Nate's team and say, yeah, get away
39:38
through Brian Reynolds, be my guest.
39:40
But I think we can all collectively agree that Koch is
39:43
not the guy. Koch ain't the one.
39:45
Is not the guy, but. I don't understand it.
39:47
I didn't watch the game, but it's just, you know, certain
39:52
antics that you can't get away from, so I did.
39:57
Maybe Trevor Bauer's team has a spot open.
40:00
I did. Apparently he got, I saw
40:03
something today, he said. He got kind of knocked around in
40:06
his start in Japan this week. Yeah, I mean you.
40:09
Got to wonder when you start, when does when do you start
40:13
losing steam? You know what I mean?
40:15
Yeah, when's, when's the bit end?
40:17
It's it's yeah, we're all done. No, but I in in terms of Lopez,
40:24
I did see some people come to his, albeit sarcastic defense,
40:28
but they're like, what? How much can you really expect
40:30
from a guy that can't find the strike zone?
40:32
And to their point, they may be on to something because in his
40:35
response after the game, he did say, I apologize for everything.
40:39
I didn't make any purpose pitch there.
40:41
I've been trying to find my way with my delivery, been trying to
40:44
find my way through the whole season.
40:46
It's brother. We've played like 20 games.
40:49
It's really miserable to have that happen.
40:51
I regret what just happened. Nah.
40:56
I'm not buying. It I mean, if you if you stink,
41:01
you stink. That's true.
41:03
That's the take away here. If you lack character, you lack
41:06
character. I'm coming, my boy cuts.
41:11
Yeah, that's again take away. Don't throw cuts because then
41:18
the baseball gods aren't going to be happy with you because
41:20
it's going to result in a O'Neill Cruz Grand Slam later in
41:25
that inning as it did in that game, giving the Pirates A61
41:29
win. So yeah, just don't upset the
41:33
apple cart, Jorge. This may be the last time you do
41:37
such a thing because I don't know how much.
41:39
I don't know how much longer you've got in this game, dude.
41:42
I really don't. What a fall off.
41:45
What a fall off. He was part of that nasty pen in
41:48
Baltimore and then ended up in New York, ended up in
41:53
Washington. I think there was even a team in
41:56
between there. Cubs.
41:58
Was it the Cubs? I think it was a cub.
42:02
Unbelievable. Twin.
42:04
Yeah, what a fall off. Twin was where the the glove
42:07
throwing happened, right? Or is it the Mets?
42:09
Mets, Yeah. Move along, call Trevor, see if
42:16
he's got a spot open for you. Speaking of Trevor, former
42:19
Dodger, the Dodgers closing the book here.
42:22
Dodgers will be hosting Dodger Stadium that is will be hosting
42:26
the 2028 Olympics that was announced earlier this week.
42:32
Baseball and softball will return to the Olympics after not
42:38
being included in the 2024 Paris Games.
42:42
Any thoughts there? Any thoughts more importantly on
42:46
potential impacts it has on the MLB landscape?
42:52
Because I did see where Manfred. Was in the Olympics.
42:55
Right, Yeah, I I saw where Manfred was quoted as saying
42:58
something, the effect of like we're looking into it about
43:02
letting, letting guys from MLB consider consider it.
43:10
You don't. We have ours.
43:13
We don't need the Olympics. The WBC is on the rise, man.
43:15
Like, I don't even know why we want it back into the Olympics.
43:18
Yeah. I I understand like let these
43:20
let college kids do it again, let right, you know what I mean?
43:24
Like that's electric. You let AUSA college team get
43:28
after it like. College minors even.
43:32
Yeah, yeah. Like I, I don't know, I'm, I'm
43:36
just, I'm kind of out on it. Like I, because you're only set
43:40
up for failure, right? Like the USA team in basketball
43:43
is like, if you don't win gold, you're like, how?
43:50
How? Yeah, right.
43:54
But then if you win it, you're like, well, duh.
43:56
You host your country hosts the greatest league in the sport.
44:03
You've got Kevin Durant on you. He's like your 10th guy off the
44:06
bench. I mean, what are we doing?
44:08
It's yeah. So I I I don't know.
44:11
I'm kind of I don't love it. Softball, Cool, keep it.
44:15
Baseball, like I make it. Make it for college kids.
44:20
Like I I don't like it during the summer.
44:23
I don't like the idea of my team with very real, you know, ripple
44:31
effects If if my guy leaves for a week or two, like I don't like
44:37
it. I'm with you.
44:39
Yeah, like it. I will say though, if the World
44:42
Baseball Classic had not picked up as much steam as it had in
44:46
the last. Then maybe. 5678 years,
44:49
whatever, then maybe because at the end of the day, like it is
44:53
the Olympics. That's a huge deal, but I don't
44:57
know, there's just yeah, it the the momentum of the WBC has the
45:03
the steam is picking up and the intentionality that it has is
45:07
really the the biggest thing for me.
45:09
Like this is like this is for baseball.
45:13
Let's like, let's not forget the Olympics left out baseball the
45:17
last time around. The World Baseball Classic is
45:21
intentional in its effort to grow the international landscape
45:25
of the sport. The Olympics are like, oh, we
45:27
could do with or without whatever, and there's a reason.
45:31
The rest of the Olympics is about amateur status.
45:35
I don't understand why it it doesn't work the same for our
45:39
our major sports. I just love what what the WBC is
45:46
doing. Like I, I agree, as we've
45:48
mentioned, we we went to the last one, one of the coolest
45:51
baseball events I've ever been to.
45:53
And I can't help but think that this next time around,
45:57
especially with judge in the mix and if you can get a guy like
46:00
Harper in there and add to really kind of fill in some some
46:06
gaps, some shortcomings we have on the last roster, get a little
46:10
bit more star power in there. And now that the guys are seeing
46:12
like, oh, shoot, like people are buying into this and like this.
46:16
Yeah, like it's, you're also not going to catch like the, I don't
46:19
know how Olympic qualifiers work like as a country.
46:24
I don't know if it's like a purse sport thing or like, hey,
46:30
let's say Sweden is, is qualifying for three or four
46:34
different events. Does that automatically get them
46:38
into the baseball side of things as well?
46:40
You know what I mean? Like, and I doubt there's a
46:45
whole lot of Swedish baseball players who are are going to be
46:49
able to do it, you know what I mean?
46:50
And then you have like other countries like the Dr. pretty
46:55
sure the Dr. is like really only known for baseball.
46:57
Like are they not qualifying for the other sports?
47:05
Do you like you see what I'm saying?
47:07
Like what if, what if countries that are so prominent for
47:11
baseball players aren't even qualified to compete in the
47:15
Olympics? And then you have USA who's
47:18
always going to qualify for stuff and then like Japan, who's
47:21
always going to qualify for stuff.
47:23
Like you're not even getting like the full the full exposure
47:29
to all the baseball talent the way you are already do for the
47:32
WBC. So I just, I don't see how it
47:36
would be anything good for baseball, especially with it
47:41
being in the middle of the season.
47:42
That also lines up for another CBA agreement year, isn't it?
47:47
I think 2028 is. That's interesting.
47:55
I really, really hope that doesn't affect things.
47:59
I don't. We don't need another delayed
48:01
start, my man. No, that was not fun. 2026 set
48:06
to expire on December 1st, 2026. Oh.
48:11
I was getting my even numbers mixed up.
48:13
It was 6 not 8. All good, but.
48:18
That is probably going to be a part of the conversation.
48:21
Sure. Speaking of dates, the Rays do
48:29
not like April 15th. I don't know if you saw this.
48:31
Haven't won on April 15th in 15 years.
48:36
They've only been around so long.
48:38
That's crazy. I don't know.
48:41
I don't know what they've got against Jackie Robinson.
48:44
That is, as we know Jackie Robinson.
48:46
They. That's tough.
48:47
They don't like it, apparently. I don't know.
48:50
I mean, I'm not going to make any accusations, but something
48:55
going on, something going on down there.
48:57
But yeah, to the people that are like slow day at the slow
49:00
Newsday at the office, it's like, dude, literally if you pay
49:04
attention to baseball, even remote like you, you see, Well,
49:07
I mean, I guess if you're somebody like me who's
49:09
constantly kind of, you know, like looking for for headlines,
49:12
things to to mention on the pod, you you see one outlet shared
49:16
and then another outlet shares that they're talking about it on
49:19
the broadcast. Things of this nature and that
49:21
nature. It's like it, I'm, I'm not just
49:24
sitting here like looking for random factoids like that.
49:27
But yeah, anyway, yeah, it was made, made it that headline made
49:32
its rounds on on April 15th and stocks were able to take care of
49:35
business to make it 15 years without a win on that date.
49:41
Last thing here, Ken Griffey, junior, have you seen all this
49:45
stuff with the Masters? I saw an interview clips of an
49:48
interview, is that what you're referring to?
49:51
Dudes, dude's a a menace behind the lens.
49:55
He got he got some incredible shots of Rory at the end.
50:00
Oh yeah, yeah, yeah. He's like, yeah, that's the
50:03
whole ultimately the whole reason I brought it up is his
50:06
whole photography thing. Dude, him and Randy just.
50:10
Yeah, dude, him and Randy apparently just taking over the
50:14
the retired MLB Hall of Famer photographer industry by storm.
50:23
Check out those pictures. Check out those photos that he
50:25
got if you haven't it guy's incredible and he he is he it
50:31
doesn't seem like he spares any expense for equipment to the
50:34
guy. The freaking thing was like, I
50:37
mean, it was like the size of a cannon.
50:41
But anyway, just thought I'd I know your big golf guy thought
50:45
thought I. Don't know, I'll have to find.
50:48
He did an interview that was like, I think it was that that
50:53
Ryan Clark podcast. You seen that one?
50:56
Yeah, yeah. Fairly controversial at times,
51:00
but I think he was he talked a little golf on that one too.
51:04
And yet there was like a cool story with Nolan Ryan too.
51:10
I think that was the one I was thinking of.
51:12
Gotcha. I didn't know they had pictures.
51:14
I mean shout out to it's just side quests.
51:17
Dude, it's crazy. Like I'm like one of the
51:20
greatest ever play the game. I'm in the Hall of Fame and now
51:23
I'm going to go take like award-winning pictures.
51:25
It's crazy. Side quests.
51:27
Anyway, that'll do it. Let's get out of here.
51:31
We'll see you guys. Hopefully we get back on normal
51:34
schedule. We'll be hopefully back Sunday.
51:39
Well, Sunday's Easter, so I don't know.
51:40
We'll see, yeah. Maybe not then.
51:42
Maybe, maybe Monday, who knows, we'll let you know, you'll hear
51:44
from us soon. But unless you got anything
51:47
else, so if we get out of here. Yeah, let's just get out of
51:51
here. I'm with you.
51:55
Yeah. Do you have your initials on my
51:57
hat or do you have my initials on your hat?
51:59
Is that an Mr. Yeah. What's going on there?
52:03
No. No rivals.
52:05
This is a new hat. I got a dude, I got a hat
52:07
sickness. I'm only wearing hats like twice
52:09
now before I get a new hat. It's it's this train is not
52:14
stopping. No, I'm just collecting them.
52:18
I'd like that one. I love this one.
52:20
I got this down in Tennessee when we when we're down there
52:23
this past weekend. Could have guessed.
52:25
Could have guessed. Thanks.
52:27
Shout out to those who are watching us via stream or
52:31
YouTube. You're an impressive human being
52:35
and we love you. Don't go chasing curveballs.
52:38
We. Love you all, and as always,
52:39
looking forward to talking more baseball with you guys soon.
52:41
Until next time, stay filthy.