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Shane Bieber Needs Tommy John · 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 Three O Take
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  presented by Seek Geek. This is episode 422.
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  I'll be your host, Kyle Cord. And I'm here again with my Co
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  host, Nate Reyes. Nate.
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  I'm back, baby. I'm back.
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  How's it feel? Feels good, feels good.
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  Man. Feels it.
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  Feels weird. Feels weird.
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  She's gonna get mad at me for telling the story.
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  But when we were at the reception because, you know, I
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  don't know if you remember like, the first time you said, like,
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  my wife is. And it was like this weird
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  moment where we're hanging out, having fun with everybody.
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  And maid of honor was like tequila shots.
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  And we were like, OK, so tequila shots get thrown back.
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  And I look at her face and I could tell it's not sitting well
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  immediately. And so she, like, starts to
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  wander a certain direction. And I, like, tell her maid of
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  honor I was like, get her to the bathroom because that's going to
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  come back up in a SEC. She goes OK, OK, runs, runs and
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  like grabs her, runs her to the bathroom.
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  You know, I like wander off and go do something.
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  I think your hunch was right, by the way.
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  The way this story's going, I don't know if she'd she'd really
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  like this, but continue. Yeah, yeah, you're right.
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  But especially the first story, But whatever.
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  And I'm like, going and talking with my parents and they're
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  like, you having a good night, like you.
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  You doing good? And I was like, yeah, doing
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  great. My wife's puking in the bathroom
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  right now. And I was like, wait, my wife,
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  my wife's puking and like, would you like I5?
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  Let's go. Oh yeah.
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  So that was the first time it it came out.
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  But yeah, man, feels good. Man.
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  You know, the real, the the relief of it kind of all just
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  kind of coming together and being finalized and done crazy,
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  crazy to do it. And I mean basically playing the
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  whole thing in in two months. So, well, yeah, safe to I could
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  sleep for a week if I if I really.
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  I believe it. But yeah, going good, it's.
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  Quite a whirlwind. I know then I'll be, I'll be
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  gone in two weeks again as as you know already listeners, I
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  apologize but. This is your.
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  Last I'm not that sorry. Yeah.
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  Huh. You said you'll be gone in two
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  weeks, but I thought you left the 9th. 19th.
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  Oh, you leave the 19th. Oh, it's the 19th to the 29th.
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  Yeah, there you go. OK.
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  I thought it was the 9th through the 19th.
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  OK. So you'll be around for a little
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  bit then? Yeah, the next three.
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  OK, the next three? Yeah, that works.
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  That works some time. To get back to normalcy, just
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  for a SEC. I'm sure the listeners
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  appreciate it, 'cause I'm sure after two solo pods with yours
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  truly, they're probably just dying to have.
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  Go find a favorite. Host back.
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  We'll figure it out. We'll make it work.
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  Happy for you guys. Glad you're back.
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  Thanks buddy. Thanks.
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  Glad to have you. Glad to have you back on the
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  pod. Got a lot to talk about right
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  here off the top, though. You had texted me the other day
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  when all this Tommy John news started breaking and you're
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  like, we're going in on this on the next pod, right?
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  Yeah, we're we're going in on this because this is, I mean I
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  know it's not necessarily related, but it it just kind of
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  puts things into perspective. I tweeted out I think it was
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  yesterday. I was like we've had multiple
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  announcements regarding season ending surgeries before the Red
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  Sox. If you haven't played a home
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  game yet and I mean that's that's a little alarming like
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  forget the the Red Sox side of it.
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  Just the fact that we've had these announcements already and
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  I've I've seen the word epidemic thrown around and I think that's
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  very accurate like this. This is an issue that seemingly
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  is not going away but in the in the last handful of days we've
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  we've received news that Shane Bieber will have season ending
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  TJ Yuri Perez will undergo season ending TJ.
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  Jonathan Loaizika is, I think he's avoiding TJ but will have
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  season ending surgery to pair to repair the UCL.
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  I don't know if that's like a yeah.
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  How do you repair the UCL and not categorize it as TJI?
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  Don't know what that's? Is it one of those internal
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  brace situations? Oh yeah, I I think he's opting
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  for the internal brace route. But either way.
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  And then on top of that you've got Spencer Strider.
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  Who? There's serious concerns,
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  that's. That's what he's seeing.
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  I don't want to now see, let's speak it into existence, but I
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  think, I think we're close, we're knocking on the door.
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  I think we can chalk it up. And like you say all the time
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  it's it's one of these things where if this, if this is the
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  conclusion that they're reaching behind closed doors, why not
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  just get it out of the way? Like why are we, why are we
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  waiting to make this kind of decision?
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  I understand you want to explore all courses of of action there,
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  but you know the the forearm, the elbows, those are never good
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  places to start when it comes to an entry.
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  The Those never lead to good news.
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  No, but the I think the difference of like like for the
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  perfect example of seeing like Garrett Cole going to get a
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  second opinion, there wasn't like obvious structural damage.
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  At at least they didn't come out and say that the Braves are
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  coming out and saying that like there is cause for serious
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  concern. We're getting a second opinion.
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  But like I don't know man. The only the only name because
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  like for us to sit here and say like yeah it's most likely gonna
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  end up in TJ. The only name I can genuinely
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  come up with is when Tanaka opted out and went like a rehab
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  route and was able to come back the same season and ended up
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  being pretty good that. But that's like a one off
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  anomaly situation. I I think it's so unfortunate to
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  say that like a lot of these power arms and like power
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  pitchers, it's like we're just waiting for the first one to get
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  out of the way, like at TJ's inevitable eventually, which is
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  sad. Yeah.
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  On that note, I I do have a couple items of of data here
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  from USA TODAY. I was reading an article that
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  they had released very, very recently in in wake of these
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  reports. But they said that there were
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  more than 260 Major League and minor league pitchers in 2021
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  who had elbow surgeries, an increase of more than 400% from
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  10 years ago. And then what, in regards to
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  what you were saying, if it's almost a foregone conclusion
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  that at least one is going to happen and you're just kind of
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  waiting for that second hat to drop it, said USA TODAY said
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  pitchers requiring a second Tommy John or elbow surgery has
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  now doubled. Yeah, dude, I can't.
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  I I still think I know the immediate question that
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  everyone's going to, especially on Twitter.
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  It's like, is it pitch clock? Is it pitch clock?
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  I think it is a perfect storm of things.
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  Them taking away grip entirely for pitchers has to be it.
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  And I keep it recycled today and I'm so glad it did 'cause it
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  that that Glass Now interview that happened a few years ago.
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  I think it was COVID didn't. Didn't he get hurt in COVID and
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  then or was it 2022 he got hurt and then missed last year?
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  I feel like it was 22. I think it was. 22 He got hurt,
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  22 He breaks down. It's a really good interview.
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  If you haven't seen it, it's maybe two or three minutes long.
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  But he really, like, breaks down of talking about what happens
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  when a ball loses its tackiness and how it gets like he he
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  describes it as, like dusty, like it's like dirt when it
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  slides. And So what he's doing is having
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  to grip a fastball deeper in his hand, having to grip a
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  curveball. He's he's like, talks about
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  choking it. And what that does by gripping
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  it harder is that you're going to get that pressure and that
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  strength coming out of your forearm.
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  Where he talks about, like, my pitching coach wants me to treat
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  this thing like an egg. Now I can't because of this
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  grit. And he admits to being, hey,
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  sunscreen and rosin was like my thing then he's like, you best
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  believe any of your favorite pitchers have been doing the
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  same thing. So again, this just goes back to
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  like in the MOBPA coming out, that statement about like, you
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  know, the MLB needs to crack down and stuff.
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  Like you're the one that you're the one that's accepting these
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  rule changes. Like there has to be a mutual
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  agreement. You're saying yes to this, Like
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  both sides need to come together and come up with some type of
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  legal substance? Are you you're referring to the
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  statements that came out? Yeah, yeah, So I can.
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  I've got those queued up here for you.
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  This is a. Quick one, right?
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  It was only like a couple sentences from the players
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  association anyway. Yeah, So what?
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  What MLB came out and said, or I I think the statement was
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  officially from Tony Clark. But he said, the statement said
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  Despite unanimous player opposition and significant
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  concerns regarding health and safety, the Commissioner's
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  Office reduced the length of the pitch clock last December, just
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  one season removed from imposing the most significant rule
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  changes or rule change in decades.
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  Since then, our concerns about the health impacts of reduced
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  recovery time have only intensified.
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  The league's unwillingness thus far to acknowledge or study the
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  effects of these profound change changes is an unprecedented
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  threat to our game and its most valuable asset, the players.
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  Very shortly after that, the league came out and responded,
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  saying this statement ignores the empirical evidence and much
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  more significant long term trend over multiple decades of
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  velocity and spin increases that are highly correlated with arm
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  injuries. Nobody wants to see pitchers get
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  hurt in this game, which is why MLB is currently undergoing a
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  significant comprehensive research study into the causes
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  of this long term increase, interviewing prominent medical
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  experts across baseball, which to date have has been consistent
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  with an independent analysis by Johns Hopkin, Johns Hopkins
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  University, that found no evidence to support that the
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  introduction of the pitchcock has increased injuries.
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  In fact, JHU found no evidence that pitchers who work quickly
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  in 2023 were more likely to sustain an injury that those
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  then those who worked less quickly on average.
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  JHU also found no evidence that pitchers who speed up their pace
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  were more likely to sustain an injury than those who did not.
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  Yeah. See and and that's what I'm
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  saying is that I think this is like a microcosm of the perfect
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  storm, right? When you have, and I don't think
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  anybody but a player can specifically come out and say
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  like, hey, that time in between reps.
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  I mean think about any like average Joe going to the gym,
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  you finish a set of bench press, shoulder press, tricep pull
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  downs, whatever you're doing, you finish a set and like
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  sometimes you need 45 seconds to a minute to get into that next
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  set. And so for this type of action,
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  for a pitcher to do this over and over again, like there's you
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  can't just say across the board that it doesn't affect anybody.
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  You're talking about guys that pitch differently.
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  You're talking about guys that you know, but overall, I mean
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  our game is is obsessed with with velocity, is obsessed with
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  spin. And Chris Bassett came out and
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  said it before in in spring training.
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  He did an interview saying like we need to get back to pitching,
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  we need to get back to our game being OK with 9293 and spotting
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  up and those guys getting a chance, 'cause I mean, how many
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  minor leaguers fizzle out because they don't crack into
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  the 9697 range, You know what I mean?
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  How many guys get overlooked because they can't?
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  We're so, so, so obsessed with it, John Smoltz is quoted
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  saying. Like, I only geared up maybe
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  four or five times during an outing where I'm going 100%.
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  The rest of the game has to be 90 percent, 80%, like whatever
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  it is to get through. And so, like when we talk about
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  our game like changing so much, it's it's just a perfect storm.
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  I'm not going to sit here and solely blame it on pitch clock,
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  but I'm not going to say pitch clock is completely innocent in
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  this conversation. Yeah, I I mean I know we've both
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  shared our thoughts on the pitch clock.
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  Especially shortly thereafter the news was introduced that
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  that was going to become a thing in in Major League Baseball.
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  And I know us and a lot of other people jumped on that and and
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  rightfully so, like it certainly introduced some some issues to
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  the game that weren't there before, although it did, you
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  know it's it's alleviated some other things.
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  But it's it's important I think for us as baseball fans to step
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  back and realize like we can't just make the pitch clock the
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  boogeyman. Like this is a much more complex
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  issue. 100%. And that to your like you were
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  saying, I think it's, I think it's a perfect storm.
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  I think the this infatuation with velocity has has only
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  continued this trend of of throwing instead of pitching.
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  And you know, you, you open up, you open up social media and you
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  see drills of these high schoolers and college players
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  doing just the most asinine things where you're like,
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  there's no way. We were kids.
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  Like, weighted balls were like, scary.
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  Like, don't touch those. Like, don't do that.
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  Too off, Don't do. And now you're just seeing kids
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  long tossing. Long tossed with weighted balls
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  like that's not the human body is not designed to do that.
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  It's just not and and kind of going off of that.
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  There is a here's a tweet from our our friend friend of the
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  show Dallas Braden. He put out a tweet that I think
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  made great sense on that very issue.
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  He said we are bigger, faster, stronger than we've ever been as
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  humans. We have tech to aid in creating
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  the most efficient movement patterns that generate maximum
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  velocity. I believe we have hit our
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  evolutionary cap as far as the force the human body can
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  tolerate in regard to the torque we're able to create.
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  We know how to build the this. I love this, he said.
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  We know how to build the engines, but it feels like the
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  frame just can't handle the horsepower.
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  There's a lot more nuance to this aside from quote.
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  Guys just throw too hard. Yeah.
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  I don't think you can put it any better than that.
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  It's the most perfectly worded summarization I've ever heard.
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  We we have I I I think I have to agree with them.
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  We we I think we've we've maxed out we've capped out on what we
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  can do velocity wise. I just, I I don't see us like
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  going any further with this, right?
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  And I think you're seeing it in the shape in the form of these
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  injuries like we the, the human body just cannot keep up.
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  I agree. I agree.
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  I don't know, man. Like, I think there are certain
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  ways. Like you remember how we were so
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  nervous about the pitch clock when it first came out and it
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  was on every score bug, like every all the time it was
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  popping up. Now it's like a lot of score
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  bugs don't even have it on there.
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  Like there is like I I know I watch some games you don't even
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  see a pitch clock until there's possibly a violation.
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  Maybe we get rid of the radar gun.
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  Maybe maybe we just stop showing it so much.
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  You know maybe it's an in in in stadium type thing.
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  But the the obsession is is scary at this point, It really
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  is. It's very it quite literally is
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  an obsession. Like I said, you you open up
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  social media you see these guys they're you know it's it's a
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  group of teammates from a a given high school or college
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  team and they're all huddled up in some sort of indoor facility.
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  They've got the Nets dropped down and they're going just full
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  send into the Nets. No with no concern for accuracy
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  or mechanics. It's just what's the highest
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  number we can hit on that radar? Gun and celebrating, Celebrating
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  life, Cracking 90 at 13 years old like it's just insane of.
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  What are we doing? Yeah, I agree.
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  I did find myself going down a little bit of a rabbit hole on
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  Twitter. There's some guy that's like
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  he's been doing it for a while, probably a year plus talking
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  about this. It's a delivery issue.
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  And he's like freeze framing these pictures of of pitchers
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  that are like at here, like glove side, but they're flat
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  here. And then they'll have like a
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  picture of like Nolan Ryan. And he's up and he's like, he's
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  talking about how like anywhere in this range is fine.
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  You're 90° up with the arm all the way down to maybe 45 when
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  you start getting flat. And he's like predicting
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  injuries before they're happening.
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  He's like this guy's eventually gonna have this.
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  And it's like, I don't, I don't know, I don't know.
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  But I it it does go into the account that, like what Dallas
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  was saying about like we have these sensors.
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  Like you have guys putting on sensors all over their body in
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  the offseason figuring out how to posture themselves
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  mechanically to put as much possible torque that as that
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  they can to create that velocity.
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  And it's like our our bodies aren't made for this man.
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  Our bodies are not made for this.
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  And and look, I I I want, I I want this to be heard.
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  I'm not. I'm not knocking the innovation
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  like the the whole. I think there's a lot of good
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  that's come out of it. Sure and like the Max effort
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  into the Nets I I've seen that I I've had enough of that.
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  I'm I'm I'm out on that and and things like that but you know
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  with these a lot of the things that we didn't have growing up
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  playing ball it's like I'm not gonna just because I don't
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  understand it doesn't mean I'm gonna I'm gonna knock it.
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  I I understand that there's there's a a major wave in terms
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  of development understanding just how the body works and and
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  how that relates to performance on the diamond.
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  But I think we need to. I mean, dare I say, slow it
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  down, Let this research catch up a little bit and say, and
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  realize rather, oh, maybe this quest of throwing 115 maybe is
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  not a worth worthwhile endeavor because we're seeing through
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  this data, through this, these tests that the human body just
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  can't do it. And it.
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  Can be I think we're I I think the the innovation is outpacing
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  the data so put it simply like I, I I I think that it's gonna
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  take I, I don't know how many how many more injuries like this
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  it's gonna take how many more reports of guys having multiple
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  TJS. We're gonna see a ton of band
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  aids. I think we're gonna see a ton of
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  band aids over the next few years and it's potentially some
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  type of change to the amount a normalization of a six seven man
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  rotation. Like it it is, this, it's again,
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  it's just this perfect storm of all these things, these guys not
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  getting built up and and ramped up properly in minor league
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  systems because they're trying to save bullets, right.
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  Like it. It's this it's this recovery
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  time where you have guys like reporting back quicker.
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  You have some guys that don't know when to take time off, like
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  I it's it's tough, man. There's gonna be band aids.
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  There's gonna be random things that they're gonna try and do.
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  I I bet they changed the criteria for a win.
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  Making the win more relevant. Maybe we drop it down to 4
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  innings instead of you know it's like I I just not it's not it's
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  not like it's going to solve things in my mind.
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  I think we need to get back to, like, it sounds kind of old man
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  and grumpy, but like, we got to get back to the pitchers we grew
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  up watching and guys that are throwing upper 80s and low 90s
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  but like, can place wherever they want and then gear it up to
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  95 every once in a while. Like that's got to become more
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  of a an acceptable thing by organizations.
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  Yeah, that's where it starts. It's scouting.
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  Yeah, like they have to be OK with that stuff.
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  If you can get out, I don't care.
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  That has to be more of the mentality.
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  No, I mean and I agree with you and on that I I don't have the
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  number pulled up. But in that article that I was
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  reading or one of the articles I was reading, it talked about the
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  money that these teams are spending on the, you know the
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  side effects, the the collateral damage of these injuries.
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  And it's a lot man. I think it's like up in the it's
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  like in the billions like the the test you gotta you gotta
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  have run the the contracts that like the guaranteed contracts
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  that you gotta you gotta fork out for guys that are you know
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  just riding the pine rehab and whatever it is.
• 22:58
  But to to what you were saying I agree with you I think it needs
• 23:03
  to become more acceptable more widely accepted.
• 23:07
  But I I at least right now I have a hard time seeing that
• 23:11
  because it's not it's not sexy what's sexy is is or or
• 23:17
  continuing that pursuit that I was talking about of of we we've
• 23:21
  hit the one O 3 one O 4 mark now now let's get to 1 O let's get
• 23:26
  to 110. How can we get to 110 Once you
• 23:29
  get to 110 if that's even possible how do we get to 115.
• 23:32
  Like it's it's just going to be this never ending pursuit and I
• 23:36
  I think like with anything too much of anything too much of a
• 23:40
  good thing becomes a bad thing and I think this pursuit of
• 23:46
  increase velocity it's gonna it's gonna flip the game on its
• 23:50
  head and I just have a hard time seeing players especially at the
• 23:55
  younger level and even at the Major League level putting
• 24:01
  putting the brakes on and saying we have we have to stop.
• 24:04
  Like this is this is getting too much because you know there's
• 24:08
  you could go you could go into the the weeds on it.
• 24:12
  But at the end of the day pretty safe to to assume that velocity
• 24:18
  equals dollars for a team because the velocity means that
• 24:21
  that pitcher's gonna have a little bit more of an edge
• 24:24
  assuming they can they can spot and that means they're gonna
• 24:30
  provide a little bit more output and that's gonna be more dollars
• 24:33
  in the pockets of these teams. So I I just have a hard time
• 24:36
  seeing these teams getting together and be like, you know,
• 24:39
  we gotta, we gotta dial it back. Yeah, until we get to the point
• 24:43
  where they're losing entire rotations over the course of a
• 24:45
  year. Yeah.
• 24:46
  Because otherwise I I just don't see how we stop it.
• 24:49
  Yeah I don't know man. I I would say if there's any any
• 24:54
  dads or coaches out there for for youth that are listening.
• 24:57
  I I do think it's try to subdue that obsession in some way and
• 25:03
  and there's no reason a 12 year old should be worrying about a
• 25:06
  radar gun you know what I mean? This is something that's it's
• 25:10
  been shoved in kids faces and they're obsessed with it, you
• 25:13
  know, way, way, way too soon. There's something about like
• 25:20
  there's a reason why our game is what it is.
• 25:23
  There's something about certain old school things that that you
• 25:28
  can't really necessarily change it, you know?
• 25:36
  But there there's band aids coming.
• 25:37
  That's kind of my that's my thought process.
• 25:40
  There's gonna be little things that they're gonna try and do.
• 25:44
  Yeah, I'm with you. Do I got a question for you
• 25:50
  switching gears here, do you by chance have plans on I gotta
• 26:00
  pull up the date here? Uh oh, did you by chance have
• 26:04
  plans on September 26th? It's my stepmom's birthday.
• 26:10
  Outside of that I got nothing are.
• 26:13
  We trying to catch the last ever game at the Oakland Coliseum for
• 26:17
  the Oakland days. Are we trying to make a trip?
• 26:22
  To Oakland. I wouldn't hate it, but I might
• 26:27
  hate it. I mean, what a, what a story,
• 26:34
  man. It became official, I believe.
• 26:38
  What was it Friday, Thursday, Friday.
• 26:42
  Somewhere in there it was announced that the A's will in
• 26:46
  fact leave Oakland after this season and will play.
• 26:51
  I believe it's three years in Sacramento with an option for
• 26:55
  1/4, which would be 2028 based on where the Las Vegas plans are
• 27:03
  at. If at that point they're still
• 27:07
  even on the table, who who knows, man, this like this is.
• 27:12
  I mean, can we call this a risk on on behalf of Oakland like
• 27:15
  you're you're you're getting out of Dodge.
• 27:18
  But I don't know if this Vegas thing is as certain as they're
• 27:22
  trying to make it out to be. I hate it.
• 27:26
  I hate all of this. I'm so done.
• 27:29
  I'm so over it. Dissolve this franchise.
• 27:33
  I don't care. I it sucks, 'cause it's like
• 27:37
  it's such an it's a long lasting.
• 27:39
  How long have they been around? 8090 years.
• 27:42
  I mean, they've been around a long time. 56 in the East Bay.
• 27:48
  But overall, like the Phillies, you can go back to just the
• 27:51
  overall athletics organization. I oh man, it sucks.
• 27:56
  I mean I I do. I am at that point where I I do
• 27:59
  kind of feel bad for the fans in some ways.
• 28:01
  But I'm over. Like, I'm just I'm over it.
• 28:03
  Like you. The owner does suck.
• 28:05
  But like I don't. I don't know, man.
• 28:07
  Like there's no there's no perfect fix to this.
• 28:12
  This is weird that the press conference for the owners
• 28:15
  talking about like can't wait to see other guys hitting home runs
• 28:19
  out of there. It's like it's just.
• 28:21
  Yeah, can't wait to see stars like Aaron Judge putting balls
• 28:25
  450 feet into the bleachers. I've never seen someone that's
• 28:29
  so tone deaf. It's crazy.
• 28:32
  Dude, I can I can. I give you a quick rundown so as
• 28:35
  you know I I'm, I'm reading a lot of articles and so good for
• 28:38
  you. I I, I read another article
• 28:41
  about this whole Oakland A situation and this was news to
• 28:44
  me. I hadn't realized that for some
• 28:46
  reason this wasn't talked about more when it happened.
• 28:50
  I'm sure it was making its rounds in the Oakland circles,
• 28:52
  but it didn't make its way to my feed until I I was reading this
• 28:56
  article. But apparently with this, with
• 28:58
  this whole presser thing, let me just read you the the minute by
• 29:04
  minute breakdown here. It said team president Dave
• 29:09
  Caval called Oakland chief of staff Lee Leigh Hansen at 7:36
• 29:17
  AM to inform her of the team's decision.
• 29:18
  Owner John Fisher followed 5 minutes later with a call to
• 29:21
  Oakland Mayor Shang Thao, and the team announced its move on
• 29:26
  social media 10 minutes after that.
• 29:28
  Within two hours of the announcement, the team held an
• 29:31
  outdoor news conference in the rain and wind at Sutter Health
• 29:35
  Park. Fisher spoke for one minute and
• 29:37
  45 seconds and left the ballpark quickly afterward, taking no
• 29:41
  questions. I don't think I realized how
• 29:46
  much of A dumpster fire that that day was.
• 29:51
  How many total minutes was all of that total that up for me,
• 29:54
  'cause, I mean, that's fast. Well, I don't, I don't know what
• 29:58
  time the OK or yeah, so. Press conference.
• 30:02
  I'm assuming it was a couple hours later.
• 30:04
  It said within two hours, the announcement of the team held
• 30:06
  the outdoor news conference. So if we're talking.
• 30:10
  This is not even 3 hours worth of stuff.
• 30:12
  Like you could play it, you could.
• 30:13
  It really isn't, yeah. I think it's.
• 30:14
  Sooner than a ball game would finish, I.
• 30:16
  Think it's Yeah, sooner than a ball game in in the year 2024.
• 30:21
  We're making the official announcement and ownership is
• 30:25
  out the door in under 3 hours, man.
• 30:31
  I did. I did see somewhere on Twitter
• 30:34
  that I think no, like Coliseum staff knew.
• 30:41
  They found out through Twitter like through this.
• 30:45
  Which is another, which is another thing.
• 30:48
  Caval said he conducted an all staff zoom meeting after the
• 30:51
  announcement, in which he informed team employees that
• 30:53
  there will be significant layoffs as a result of this
• 30:55
  decision. He chose not to say what
• 30:58
  percentage of the workforce would be reduced, saying it has
• 31:01
  yet to be decided, but said that employees will be let go at the
• 31:04
  conclusion of the season. This guy's such a scumbag.
• 31:09
  I don't understand how MLB hasn't stepped in.
• 31:16
  Not everything has to be unanimous, You know what I mean?
• 31:18
  Like these owners, there's got to be like a majority vote to be
• 31:21
  like this guy's not good for our game at this point.
• 31:26
  Well, honestly, what I what I think and I I know about as much
• 31:31
  as the average baseball the non Oakland a fan does.
• 31:36
  My guess is that this whole deal has gone a lot more S than I
• 31:43
  think these higher ups and these owners and executives around the
• 31:48
  league would have hoped, including Oakland A, including
• 31:53
  the Oakland A's front office. But I think this is quickly
• 32:00
  turning into and has been for some time.
• 32:04
  Just to hold your nose until it's over situation because this
• 32:10
  whole not taking questions, not having replies turned on on on
• 32:15
  Twitter for the team account. It's just very like all right,
• 32:19
  let's just get through this. Let's rip the Band-Aid off as
• 32:23
  quickly as we can, even though this Band-Aid is taking.
• 32:26
  Forever. To come off.
• 32:28
  Every hair has been pulled with this.
• 32:31
  Unbelievable. It's super, super unfair.
• 32:40
  I think. Just like it is getting to this
• 32:42
  point where like the rest of baseball's, you know, tapping
• 32:45
  into this, it's. And that's where I do kind of
• 32:48
  feel bad for the A's because, like, it's embarrassing.
• 32:51
  It's embarrassing in multitude of ways.
• 32:53
  Like for just baseball fans in general, like, this is not OK.
• 33:02
  It's not good. Like, there's enough issues
• 33:04
  going on. This is like one of the worst.
• 33:09
  Yeah this was very much self-inflicted on behalf of the
• 33:12
  AS like you didn't have to you didn't have to handle it this
• 33:14
  way. the IT it very much seemed like they were trying to just
• 33:17
  steamroll their way into Vegas. They're they weren't gonna hear
• 33:21
  the ownership was not gonna hear out any sort of reason from from
• 33:27
  their whatever whoever's in their inner circle.
• 33:30
  It just seemed like the the individuals involved in the
• 33:35
  ultimate decision making process had it set in their minds what
• 33:40
  they wanted to do and they were going to do what they could to
• 33:44
  accomplish at at whatever cost. Here's I think where I'm
• 33:48
  struggling the most is like how does the move?
• 33:52
  How does how does it even get to a vote without the OK from the
• 33:58
  city? How do you how does it even get
• 34:03
  to the point of owners voting on it and less And Las Vegas is
• 34:07
  like, OK, green light. And and that's what I'm saying
• 34:11
  the process that's why. That's why I don't think this
• 34:14
  Vegas thing is is as certain as they're trying to give off the
• 34:18
  impression that it is because we, and we've already talked
• 34:21
  about it at length like you said, we're we're kind of over
• 34:23
  it at this point for how much we've talked about it.
• 34:25
  But the OR is it the mayor of Vegas literally was like, yeah,
• 34:29
  figure out a way to make it work in Oakland, because we're good
• 34:32
  here. Right.
• 34:35
  And you're seeing all of these, these article headlines, Oak,
• 34:38
  the Oakland A's are moving to Sacramento before their Vegas
• 34:41
  move. And I'm like, what Vegas move?
• 34:43
  Yeah, we're not. We're not guaranteed a Vegas
• 34:46
  move at this. There's a Let's just say there's
• 34:48
  a reason there's a option for a fourth year.
• 34:51
  Let's take four years to build a stadium.
• 34:55
  It takes four years to potentially get this approval
• 34:58
  pushed through and the agreement to go and start breaking ground.
• 35:03
  Oh, this is gross. You might as well go where To a
• 35:06
  city that wants you. There's plenty of cities that
• 35:09
  would happily take you. I don't understand the 1st.
• 35:12
  Being in Vegas, I don't think so.
• 35:15
  I think there are plenty of cities that would happily accept
• 35:17
  an expansion team, but they would not.
• 35:20
  I don't think any team is taking this on because you have to
• 35:23
  think and not it's it's kind of a weird comparison, but bear
• 35:27
  with me. It's kind of like the Bauer
• 35:29
  thing where it's like like, yeah, it it might be nice to
• 35:34
  some degree, but like you have to you bring that that Flack
• 35:38
  with you. And I think, I think a city is
• 35:41
  going to look at that and be like I I don't know if I'm
• 35:44
  really into having all that press tagging along.
• 35:51
  I don't know, man. I think I I just.
• 35:56
  I wonder if like, maybe if if Vegas doesn't eventually get
• 36:00
  pushed through, MLB steps in. I mean wasn't didn't MLB step in
• 36:05
  for the Dodgers? We're, I don't remember the
• 36:09
  names offhand. They were a married couple and
• 36:11
  they were going through a divorce and they were the owners
• 36:16
  and MLB stepped in and was like, we're running the show now, you
• 36:19
  guys are done. And it was only for a year or
• 36:23
  two. And then I think that's when
• 36:25
  Magic Johnson and and crew came in and purchased.
• 36:28
  It was right before then. There's got to be some like some
• 36:32
  type of clause or stipulation where it's like you're running
• 36:36
  this organization into the ground and you're just burning
• 36:40
  bridges everywhere while you're. Dealing but but the question is
• 36:44
  is who's gonna do that because we know it's we know very well
• 36:47
  it's not gonna be Rob Manfred to step up and and do that he's
• 36:49
  because. He's done in 27, right?
• 36:55
  Was it 5 years from now, I think?
• 36:57
  He said. Oh, so 28 OK or 29?
• 37:01
  That sounds right, Yeah. Is it five years from now from
• 37:03
  his announcement? I think it, yeah.
• 37:05
  I think it was 5 from. 29 Yeah, because that doesn't make sense.
• 37:10
  Like we're gonna the next CBA is in 27.
• 37:17
  So I think get past that, add in your expansion teams, you know,
• 37:23
  do your victory lap and then retire.
• 37:25
  I mean and we'll touch on it here towards the end but look at
• 37:28
  this whole not to not to rehash this necessarily but look at how
• 37:33
  he's handling this whole fanatics thing radio silence and
• 37:38
  that affects the whole league and to some degree yeah this as
• 37:42
  thing affects the league the the entire league in in some way
• 37:45
  shape or form but I mean he's he's not really stepping up and
• 37:50
  saying much on that so I don't I don't see why why he would step
• 37:55
  in and and go yeah we really need to clean this I I'm with
• 37:58
  you. I think Major League Baseball
• 38:00
  does need to step in and be like, OK, that you guys have had
• 38:03
  more than enough chances to to figure out a better way and you
• 38:08
  haven't found it. So we're taking over.
• 38:09
  But I just, I don't. I don't know who that would be
• 38:12
  and I don't think anybody's going over Rob Manford's head to
• 38:14
  do that. And you start a coup and you
• 38:20
  plan a coup. Well, I was reading today and it
• 38:25
  sounds like Hugh, I've seen is moving further and further away
• 38:28
  from the idea of being the next commissioner.
• 38:30
  I think it sounds like he's made it very clear that he has no
• 38:32
  interest in doing that. So that hope is lost.
• 38:35
  But who knows? Maybe the league spirals
• 38:39
  downward so much that he has to answer the bat call and come
• 38:46
  save us all that. 'D be cool.
• 38:51
  I'm over it. What are you, What are your
• 38:54
  thoughts on them kind of taking a Washington football team
• 38:59
  approach with their name? Just just the strangest
• 39:03
  approach. And we're we're going by the A's
• 39:06
  for the next three to four years.
• 39:08
  Yeah. No Oakland, just the A's.
• 39:16
  I I think it's even more strange that that leaked faculty note,
• 39:24
  if you will. I talked about that.
• 39:26
  They had. I talked about that on on the
• 39:29
  Solo Pod last week that. Was specifically like removing
• 39:33
  anything. This is rooted in Oakland.
• 39:36
  Yeah, dude, it it's such a mess over there.
• 39:38
  It is. I can't, like, you just can't be
• 39:41
  upset with anybody that's attached to the organization
• 39:45
  from like an employee standpoint.
• 39:46
  Like this is all this is 'cause they're they're flying along the
• 39:50
  same way the rest of us are. They're they're finding things
• 39:53
  out on social media. They're getting invites to zoom
• 39:56
  calls where they're being told these things.
• 39:58
  They're it's not it's nobody's, it's not concession stand
• 40:03
  worker's fault. It's not the the stadium
• 40:05
  security's fault. They're finding out these things
• 40:08
  the same way we are and it the the blame solely falls in the
• 40:13
  lap of of Fisher and company. Goon.
• 40:17
  What's it goon? What a mess.
• 40:21
  Curious to see what the way Jersey looks like if they ever
• 40:25
  get jerseys. Are they a part of the group
• 40:29
  that's not getting jerseys? Oh, that's AII wish we could
• 40:33
  transition and actually let's transition into that.
• 40:37
  I had it originally in closing the book, but I I feel like it.
• 40:41
  We may go on a little bit more fanatics.
• 40:46
  I I don't believe the A's are in the mix in to answer your
• 40:50
  question, it might be. If they're, if they're getting
• 40:52
  to get new ones. That's true, but the the latest
• 40:56
  update, last episode, I was talking about how the IT was the
• 41:03
  Mariners were waiting on their cream jerseys and the oh man,
• 41:12
  who was it? There's another team, the
• 41:17
  Cardinals. They're waiting on their their
• 41:20
  victory blue jerseys like the the baby blue, the powder blue
• 41:24
  unis. Hadn't got those there.
• 41:26
  I don't know if you saw saw my post that I put out.
• 41:28
  They're not getting those until most likely June.
• 41:33
  What the? Cardinals.
• 41:34
  Yeah, the Cardinals? Not.
• 41:35
  Most likely. Not getting those till June.
• 41:37
  The Mariners, I believe are expected, are hopeful that they
• 41:42
  get those by, I think at some point this month.
• 41:49
  Not nearly as long as June, but sometime soon.
• 41:53
  But the latest update that I I wanted to include in today's
• 41:56
  episode to talk about is now. The Rangers and the Brewers are
• 42:00
  waiting on their city connects, both of which I believe were for
• 42:06
  Friday home games. But neither team has those
• 42:09
  available, so they are out of luck in that regard and we're
• 42:14
  we're just learning more that these teams are without, without
• 42:21
  uniforms. Did we ever get like an official
• 42:26
  reasoning as to why one of the largest sports apparel companies
• 42:37
  the world has ever known can't manufacture their own jerseys
• 42:47
  and why they have outsourced to Fanatics?
• 42:50
  Do we ever get a an official reasoning for that?
• 42:53
  According to reports, and I put this in the posts, Fanatics
• 42:57
  cannot ship the jerseys until they get them in stock, and then
• 43:02
  pretty much every comment on the post was my brother.
• 43:06
  You manufacture the jerseys. I don't know dude.
• 43:11
  It makes, it makes. Sense.
• 43:12
  Making them they make everything.
• 43:16
  They they make everything. Here's my theory.
• 43:19
  I was talking about this last night with a group of friends.
• 43:21
  Actually, my theory. No idea if this is right once
• 43:28
  sponsorship patches started coming on.
• 43:32
  Who owns Fanatics? Sorry, hold on.
• 43:34
  Can I pause your 'cause? I know I'm gonna forget this.
• 43:37
  Hold. Hold that thought.
• 43:38
  Put a pin in that. Did you see the Did you see the
• 43:42
  thing floating around from Yankee Stadium?
• 43:44
  Yeah, where you can like get a custom jersey and add it too.
• 43:46
  Add add the sponsorship patch onto the jersey.
• 43:50
  Who's doing and you're paying $15.00 to do it.
• 43:53
  Yeah, who's doing that? Save $15.00 with the
• 43:58
  sponsorship. Common sense would say if I'm
• 44:00
  gonna, if I'm gonna wear a sponsorship patch, that I would
• 44:04
  be able to take the money off of my jersey in exchange for the
• 44:07
  sponsorship. Here's my theory.
• 44:11
  Who owns fanatics? Does MOB own fanatics?
• 44:17
  No, I think no. Fanatics owns.
• 44:22
  Well, they own Majestic. That's something that's a little
• 44:25
  foggy for people, 'cause people are like, go back to Majestic
• 44:28
  and it's like, well, Majestic is owned by Fanatics now I.
• 44:31
  Think just buying them and absorbing them is one thing.
• 44:34
  Fanatics is, I'm assuming Dissolved Majestic.
• 44:38
  But when you buy something off of MLB.com, is that not
• 44:41
  Fanatics? Yeah, like if you go to the if
• 44:44
  you go to like ML or I'll do it right now, you go to
• 44:47
  mlb.com/shop. The website looks exactly like
• 44:51
  Fanatics, right? That don't do that.
• 44:53
  It's not a real website that says oh, if we drop the ball,
• 44:55
  you would think mlb.com/shop would be a website.
• 44:58
  Seems. Pretty.
• 44:59
  I believe it's MLB Shop. Dot com.
• 45:02
  Dot com. That's Fanatics, no?
• 45:07
  With MLB logos in place. It literally says MLB Shop at
• 45:10
  the Top a Fanatics experience. OK, here's my theory.
• 45:15
  Once the sponsorship patches got the green light, I believe that
• 45:23
  if Nike cause, Nike's just throwing the logo on there,
• 45:27
  right? Nike's given fanatics the rights
• 45:30
  to put that logo on there. We're getting paid to put that
• 45:33
  logo on there. That's my understanding.
• 45:36
  My theory is that once the sponsorship patches started
• 45:39
  coming into play, Nike could no longer produce the jersey
• 45:43
  because they would have to get a cut for from those sponsors.
• 45:49
  Like if what is it ADT? Who are they with Padres?
• 45:54
  No, that's Motorola. Motorola.
• 45:55
  He is Marlins. Let's say, let's say, Motorola.
• 45:59
  Is that All right, I want to throw.
• 46:00
  I know it's embarrassing. I want to throw that patch on
• 46:03
  your jersey. Nike's gonna have to get a cut
• 46:06
  of that if they're manufacturing those jerseys.
• 46:09
  So I think this transition of power to make Fanatics make the
• 46:14
  jersey slap a Nike logo on there.
• 46:17
  Nike gets paid for that. But now the sponsorship stuff
• 46:21
  goes right to MLB because the Jersey's being produced by MLB
• 46:26
  under the umbrella of Fanatics. Does that make sense?
• 46:29
  Am I going too far on the tinfoil hat here or does it?
• 46:33
  Seem kind of logical, Yeah. No, it definitely makes sense.
• 46:36
  But there is a lot of like fuzziness because I keep seeing
• 46:40
  people like, I mean, I don't want to call them like
• 46:42
  bootlickers, but they're like coming into the fence of
• 46:45
  fanatics and they'll be like, it's not fanatics problem, it's
• 46:48
  Nike's problem. Nike.
• 46:50
  My understanding is that Nike is the designer of the reforms and
• 46:57
  they're manufactured by fanatics.
• 46:59
  And I and by and by Fanatics being I'm assuming owned by MLB,
• 47:05
  those sponsorship patches mean that 100% of that money's going
• 47:09
  to MLB and or MLB organization like Padres, right?
• 47:15
  But if you if Nike's still making the jerseys, I think they
• 47:19
  have to be getting a cut of that sponsorship deal.
• 47:24
  I think that's why we've seen everything transition away from
• 47:27
  Nike, because there's no way Nike can't do that.
• 47:30
  There's no way Nike can't create jerseys.
• 47:33
  They do it for every other league.
• 47:38
  You tell me Fanatics is making football jerseys, They're making
• 47:42
  NFL jerseys for Nike. I doubt it, but they don't have
• 47:47
  sponsorship patches on there. We do.
• 47:56
  Kind of makes sense, right? It's my guessing.
• 48:03
  It's it's my guess. I mean you're my guess is as
• 48:06
  good as yours and vice versa. There's I I just don't.
• 48:09
  I don't know man it this is such I said it on the last episode,
• 48:13
  how this relationship wasn't severed months ago.
• 48:16
  Yeah. Is beyond me and I know, I know
• 48:19
  we we rag on the on on the front offices of Major League Baseball
• 48:25
  and Manfred and and all that. But like I understand our
• 48:30
  expectations for them are low but come on like have some sort
• 48:36
  of self respect for not only yourselves but the league that
• 48:40
  you run and go no no more this this is.
• 48:45
  This is embarrassing, Commissioners.
• 48:49
  I mean the. State of the Union's the same
• 48:51
  way presidents do. It's it's the laughingstock of
• 48:57
  sports right now. Like the fact that we can't even
• 48:59
  get our jersey thing figured out.
• 49:01
  And I'm seeing a lot. You want you want to talk about
• 49:03
  tinfoil hat situations. I'm seeing a lot of commentary
• 49:07
  talking about how I don't remember the order of it, but it
• 49:10
  was basically like the what was it?
• 49:16
  What's isn't there? Like, oh, that.
• 49:18
  Apparently like the Shohei thing was supposed to be a cover up
• 49:22
  for the Fanatics jerseys, and then apparently this TJ epidemic
• 49:26
  was supposed to be a cover up for the Shohei thing and just
• 49:29
  this long line of of conspiracies and cover ups for
• 49:34
  Major League Baseball. But ultimately, regardless if
• 49:37
  you believe any of that or not, the end, at the end of the day,
• 49:41
  none of that is good for baseball.
• 49:43
  I understand the the, the Press of it and the attention that
• 49:46
  comes with it, I guess is good for baseball.
• 49:48
  But none of those things are good.
• 49:51
  Like. Those are inherently bad things,
• 49:55
  and you're just drawing that much more negative attention to
• 49:58
  yourself and the league. It's embarrassing, man.
• 50:03
  Like this is an absolute joke. Major League Baseball franchises
• 50:07
  don't have uniforms to wear, and the teams that do have the
• 50:11
  uniforms to wear, they're garbage.
• 50:14
  This is like JV high school type stuff, man.
• 50:17
  It's. Unbelievable.
• 50:18
  People were literally commenting on these posts about the
• 50:20
  Fanatics issues I was, I was posting about.
• 50:22
  They're like, yeah, I had the same problem for MY12U baseball
• 50:27
  team. It's like, how are they, how are
• 50:31
  these things not in stock? What does that even mean?
• 50:33
  You make the jerseys, my brother.
• 50:36
  I don't get that. I really don't get that.
• 50:40
  Oh. Man.
• 50:45
  Oh, all right. Enough of that.
• 50:50
  They purchased tops a couple years ago, didn't they?
• 50:52
  Oh my, dude, I don't even want to open that can of worms.
• 50:56
  Those people, you know, baseball card collectors.
• 50:58
  They are serious and they hate their lives right now.
• 51:02
  Dude, Fanatics has ruined the hobby.
• 51:06
  Ruined it. What a train wreck.
• 51:13
  Michael Rubin needs to just take this money that he's just
• 51:18
  gouging and just go retire and hand the Reigns Fanatics over to
• 51:25
  somebody else. And then Fanatics needs to hand
• 51:27
  the reigns over collectively to somebody else for Major League
• 51:30
  Baseball 'cause they also have the NHL too.
• 51:33
  I don't know if you saw that that's coming next.
• 51:34
  Year oh boy. And NHL fans are bracing
• 51:37
  themselves for that, and they're they're getting a little taste
• 51:40
  of of what's coming their way right now with baseball.
• 51:43
  Talk about a fan base that loves their jerseys.
• 51:47
  Hockey fans love their jerseys. You're telling me, man, that
• 51:51
  they're in for a rude awakening. One one other thing here, this
• 51:56
  is where we originally were going to go after the after our
• 52:01
  last topic, I was going to bring up The City Connects for the
• 52:04
  Phillies. Those released, I believe,
• 52:07
  Friday, the end of last week. Some at some point.
• 52:11
  Not sure if you saw, but they were in fact the jerseys that
• 52:14
  were leaked leaks last year I guess.
• 52:20
  Was it? Was it that?
• 52:20
  Long ago the offseason I I I would venture to say but you
• 52:28
  know I don't I don't really know how I feel about them.
• 52:31
  I I do have to say, and I'll. I'll give him credit.
• 52:37
  Liam. Liam Fennessy on Twitter he says
• 52:41
  we have to stop trying to make dark baseball pants happen.
• 52:44
  It will never work. Thank you.
• 52:46
  Couldn't agree more. It's just it's not a good look.
• 52:50
  It's. I don't know why we're trying to
• 52:52
  force this on baseball. It's not it's just not our thing
• 52:58
  and that's not an old man take. It's just how can you look at
• 53:02
  home whites, at least for pants, and be like, yeah, no, those
• 53:07
  that's aren't it, Let's go, let's go.
• 53:09
  Black. No, There's one one single
• 53:13
  uniform that works with black pants in San Diego State.
• 53:19
  That's it. That's it.
• 53:21
  It's the only one that's allowed to do.
• 53:23
  It. And even then, I'm like, I'm not
• 53:26
  a fan. Personally, I've never liked
• 53:28
  dark pants. I've never been OK with the
• 53:31
  look. I I specifically these Philly
• 53:35
  jerseys props on the video. I think the Phillies dropped a
• 53:41
  pretty cool video like bringing in.
• 53:43
  That was excellent. You know people from from Philly
• 53:46
  and and the whole like you know the blue collar thing it's great
• 53:52
  and like I I think you and I have have bought into like I
• 53:58
  know people talk a lot of noise against Philly fans but like
• 54:01
  overall I don't know if there's a better sports city out there.
• 54:05
  I really I can't think of any other sports city who is the
• 54:09
  just that bought in and that connected.
• 54:17
  I just don't like the look. I don't get the look.
• 54:20
  I don't I don't understand the the this.
• 54:25
  It seems like the the it's just a stretch.
• 54:28
  Every jersey that comes out, it's such a stretch.
• 54:33
  They it connect dots that don't. Yeah, it's reverse.
• 54:36
  Engineer. Like, they'll just make it and
• 54:38
  then they'll they'll walk it back and like, all right, how
• 54:40
  can, like, how can we make sense of this part of the jersey?
• 54:44
  So for those wondering, I'm looking at the infographic at
• 54:48
  the Philly's release, the pictures of Bryson Stott.
• 54:53
  You can pull it up if you're interested.
• 54:55
  It says there's a line that's pointing to the collar.
• 54:57
  It says a collar that's notice or notably blue in reference to
• 55:02
  their blue blue collar nature as a city.
• 55:07
  It says the script on the jersey is.
• 55:11
  That's really tiny text. I I should zoom in, but I can't.
• 55:17
  There we go 125% Google Docs. It says our script is
• 55:21
  reminiscent of our countries founding documents that features
• 55:25
  a pattern symbolizing the crack of the Liberty Bell.
• 55:28
  I mean, I'm, I'm cool with that. I I do.
• 55:30
  I will say I like the script. It's it's really just the pants.
• 55:34
  The colors say colors a city can rally behind.
• 55:37
  Blue and yellow are based on our city's flag, unchanged since its
• 55:41
  inception. The light to dark shit.
• 55:42
  This was the I can understand the blue and yellow.
• 55:45
  This was the part that made no sense to me, says the Light to
• 55:48
  Dark Shift celebrates our spirit of revolution.
• 55:51
  A city unafraid to rise up and fight.
• 55:53
  What does that even mean? Come up.
• 55:57
  A city unafraid to rise up and fight.
• 56:00
  So we're gonna give you black pants.
• 56:02
  OK, that that makes sense, I guess.
• 56:05
  Sure. Well, we'll just roll with that.
• 56:07
  And then they got the sleeve patch.
• 56:08
  It says City of Brotherly Love with the iconic Liberty Bell, a
• 56:13
  nod to the notable love sculpture sculpture located in
• 56:17
  the heart of our city. Not OK, so not the worst stretch
• 56:23
  necessarily to to make sense of things.
• 56:26
  I mean, I like the nods that they're given to various
• 56:30
  elements and aspects of the city.
• 56:32
  I love the hat that I think the hat's great.
• 56:34
  You like the bell looks. I like that I'm OK with it.
• 56:38
  I I knew the first time I saw that that font.
• 56:41
  I was like, I I I get what they're going for there.
• 56:43
  So I I'm cool with it. It's it.
• 56:45
  It's really just the gradients. We got to stop with these like
• 56:48
  Photoshop gradients like just give me solid colors.
• 56:52
  I know. Like, ditch the ditch the black
• 56:56
  pants, ditch the gradients and just go solid colors.
• 57:00
  I don't think it's like a font. I don't like it.
• 57:05
  I'm OK with it. I.
• 57:06
  I don't hate the colors. I can vibe with it.
• 57:09
  I like the. I like the hat logo.
• 57:10
  I don't like the font. I don't understand how that's
• 57:13
  symbolic of the the crack in the Liberty Bell.
• 57:17
  Big fan of the hat. All in all though, another city
• 57:20
  Connect in the books. I'm not quite sure who's up
• 57:23
  next, but I we have a few more teams left to go.
• 57:25
  But ultimately it may not matter because I absolutely.
• 57:32
  Love I I don't think the Yankees are gonna do one, but I love it.
• 57:37
  I don't think they are. They're like them in Oakland,
• 57:39
  right? People like trying to ask about
• 57:40
  this. It's like reporters are like
• 57:43
  asking questions, or they're just like, not at commenting on
• 57:46
  them. And like, Nike's trying to reach
• 57:49
  out to the Yankees being like, hey, like, can we get something
• 57:51
  going? They're just not responding
• 57:53
  sick. I'd give I'd give behind that.
• 57:56
  But yeah, like I said we, I think we talked about it that
• 57:58
  the A schedule wise the Yankees and the A's are the only ones
• 58:02
  that are not with A they they're without a date A's for obvious
• 58:05
  reasons. But I think the I think you're
• 58:07
  right. I think Yankees are like yeah,
• 58:08
  no, we're good. And I gotta say good for the
• 58:11
  Yankees, man. Good for the Yankees.
• 58:13
  Well, all right. Closed in a while.
• 58:16
  Since I've seen a good one, that's all that's I don't mean
• 58:18
  to be a hater like I no, I understand.
• 58:21
  I just, yeah, I don't like the dark pants.
• 58:23
  And it's been a while since I've seen one.
• 58:25
  I've I've really, there are a few that I really did like.
• 58:28
  I like the Marlins one. I like the Nationals one.
• 58:32
  I just most of these I just don't understand.
• 58:35
  And it's like a it's like you said like.
• 58:38
  It's like make the Red Sox ones. I don't.
• 58:43
  I don't like them. But I I that one connecting dots
• 58:48
  makes the most sense for me with the Boston Marathon like that
• 58:52
  and just like the tragedy that happened and like the Patriots
• 58:56
  Day thing, all tying in like that makes a lot of sense.
• 58:59
  I don't personally would I like if I was a Red Sox fan I don't
• 59:02
  think I would be into the the yellow.
• 59:04
  But that one connects dots more than any jersey.
• 59:09
  I'm. So bought in on the yellow, I
• 59:11
  love it. But I just, yeah, there's a
• 59:14
  there's only a few where I like. I actually like the design and
• 59:17
  like I think it's cool and it looks good on on the field.
• 59:23
  I just dark pants, aren't it? Yeah, like you're saying don't
• 59:26
  want to sound like a hater. The I I'm cool with the concept
• 59:29
  and I remember like years ago you made the point of like we
• 59:32
  play 162 of these things. It's OK to mix in like a fun
• 59:37
  jersey from time to time like baseball was so due for that.
• 59:40
  We've got our alternates and all that.
• 59:42
  But we're we were due for the next stage of what that is and I
• 59:46
  think the intention was good it's a it's a great idea it's
• 59:51
  not just like another alternate but it's like OK how can we
• 59:53
  connect the city. But it I think our issue is that
• 59:56
  some of these just aren't aren't good like they're they're very
• 1:00:00
  just lazy and last minute put together it looks like.
• 1:00:06
  I don't know. But anyway, not to continue on
• 1:00:09
  and on about that, but closing the book as I was saying, just
• 1:00:13
  got a few items here to run through Stephen Strasburg
• 1:00:16
  officially. Has announced his retirement.
• 1:00:20
  Just a. Weird, I thought he already.
• 1:00:23
  Did slightly sad ending to this whole story.
• 1:00:27
  If you recall the National, I think there was plans to do some
• 1:00:33
  sort of ceremony. I don't know if ceremony's the
• 1:00:38
  right word, but a ceremonious exit I guess you could say.
• 1:00:44
  But things started started boiling up a little bit in terms
• 1:00:51
  of the financials of how his contract was going to play out
• 1:00:54
  and it just, it got ugly real quick.
• 1:00:58
  But then I guess they've, they've got, Yeah, I mean.
• 1:01:01
  I'd be a little butthurt if that was the Nationals too.
• 1:01:04
  Yeah, but like, I mean. There's only so many things you
• 1:01:07
  can control, but. Yeah, and and like we talked
• 1:01:10
  about when he when their report initially came out, what like
• 1:01:14
  last fall that said he was going to retire or whenever that was.
• 1:01:17
  The whole point was that that contract was just a a massive
• 1:01:22
  check to say thank you for for what he did for that World
• 1:01:27
  Series. It wasn't about what he was
• 1:01:29
  going to provide in future seasons.
• 1:01:31
  We knew that the Nationals knew that.
• 1:01:33
  But now they're Now it seems like they were playing dumb this
• 1:01:36
  whole offseason, but anyway, it. Was like it was like 39 innings
• 1:01:40
  or something like that after that contract.
• 1:01:45
  Yeah, Something. I don't have the number, but it
• 1:01:47
  was, it was very, very minimal. But yeah, they finally ironed
• 1:01:54
  that out. It sounds like the Nationals.
• 1:01:57
  It sounds like his contract will be paid out in in some way,
• 1:02:01
  shape or form. Doesn't sound like there's been
• 1:02:04
  any alterations made to the numbers, so sounds like he's
• 1:02:09
  gonna get what he's owed. Nolan.
• 1:02:13
  I think the. There are life, like, not life
• 1:02:16
  insurance policies, but there are insurance policies that
• 1:02:19
  teams take out on certain players and contracts.
• 1:02:22
  I believe, I think that like like they still owe him, but I I
• 1:02:26
  would assume that they're probably gonna get some money
• 1:02:28
  back. I don't know how that looks, but
• 1:02:30
  yeah, whatever. It's possible.
• 1:02:33
  I don't. I don't know.
• 1:02:34
  Yeah, I don't know the specifics of whether or not they did that
• 1:02:37
  and if they did, what that looks like for their return.
• 1:02:41
  But All in all, a farewell to Stephen Strasberg.
• 1:02:45
  I'm glad to see it finally came to a close.
• 1:02:49
  Not his, not his career, but like just this whole issue,
• 1:02:52
  'cause it, it was getting to be a little, little sad.
• 1:02:55
  I'm like, all right, like, let's, let's let this guy.
• 1:02:57
  He clearly hates the fact that he can't throw anymore.
• 1:03:03
  And he even said that he's like in in his in his retirement
• 1:03:07
  remarks, he was basically like, yeah, injuries do not allow me
• 1:03:10
  to throw at a Major League level anymore.
• 1:03:13
  And that's that's just sad. So I'm glad he was able to get
• 1:03:17
  out of here with like a little bit of dignity left.
• 1:03:20
  No thanks to the Nationals. Nolan, I can never say it.
• 1:03:24
  Is it Shanwell? I I think I called him Nolan
• 1:03:29
  Chenule last episode and I heard on the Angels broadcast today
• 1:03:33
  that was not right. I think it was Nolan Shanwell is
• 1:03:35
  what I heard. I've heard Shanuel like Shanuel.
• 1:03:39
  Shanuel I yeah, I think that's what it is.
• 1:03:42
  I think you're right 'cause I said Shanwell and I'm like,
• 1:03:44
  that's not right either. That's not what I heard.
• 1:03:47
  I think you're right. I think it's Nolan Shanuel.
• 1:03:49
  His streak, his on base streak, which I believe reached 36
• 1:03:55
  games, was cut short. Actually, the Major League
• 1:04:00
  Baseball came out, came out and announced that they were going
• 1:04:04
  to make a change to, I believe, the 30th game of the streak when
• 1:04:10
  they were when the Angels were in Baltimore and they had to
• 1:04:13
  reverse a call to an error. It's just a weird, weird story.
• 1:04:19
  That's weird. We go back a week.
• 1:04:21
  You go back like checking through official scoring like,
• 1:04:27
  Nah, I'm gonna change that one to a boot.
• 1:04:31
  That's weird. I think it was the Angels
• 1:04:35
  broadcast. I I should have loaded the clip
• 1:04:37
  up, but they went in on it. Apparently they were like, you
• 1:04:40
  know, you've got a great story with the young kid with
• 1:04:44
  seemingly a bright future and you're just a a good story for
• 1:04:48
  him. And you're gonna rip the rug out
• 1:04:50
  from underneath him like this and yadda, yadda yadda.
• 1:04:53
  And I'm like this just seems very weird to be fair.
• 1:04:55
  The angels just seem like a bitter.
• 1:04:58
  Everything's bitter over there. Yeah, I mean, I've got.
• 1:05:01
  Something that I want to tell you about.
• 1:05:03
  Keep going though. Keep going.
• 1:05:05
  I'm. Trying to remember what was I
• 1:05:07
  talking about? Is it something that I can put a
• 1:05:08
  pin in so you can say what you got to say?
• 1:05:10
  The commentators, broadcasters. Oh, real quick.
• 1:05:15
  I'll just finish my thought on the on the call that got
• 1:05:18
  reversed just to be transparent here look.
• 1:05:23
  Oh, you watched the actual play? I did.
• 1:05:25
  Yeah, I did. People said that it was
• 1:05:31
  blatantly a hit, and I'm gonna go ahead and disagree.
• 1:05:36
  I don't think it was. I don't think it was as blatant
• 1:05:39
  of a hit as people are making it out to be.
• 1:05:41
  How can I search? This what do you think the best
• 1:05:46
  way to? Look it up, I'll I'll find it
• 1:05:48
  for you. But anyway, people are like,
• 1:05:52
  yeah, it was a it was clear as day.
• 1:05:55
  It was a hit. I'm like no, if you go back and
• 1:05:57
  look at the, if you go back and look at the play it's it's not I
• 1:06:06
  I want you to I want you to try mine on this.
• 1:06:08
  Text it to me. Yeah, I'll send you the link.
• 1:06:14
  It's like you as a Major League player.
• 1:06:17
  It's a tough play for sure. Without a doubt.
• 1:06:20
  But like you gotta, you gotta make that play.
• 1:06:24
  And the fact that he didn't make the play led to him getting on
• 1:06:27
  base, obviously. But if he makes the catch, like
• 1:06:30
  if he as the pitcher, if you feel that if you've received
• 1:06:33
  that throw from the first base and you step on 1st, he's out.
• 1:06:37
  It wasn't going to be a bang. Well, it was going to be a close
• 1:06:40
  play, but it wasn't necessarily going to be a bang, bang play.
• 1:06:42
  Like if he, if he receives it, steps on the bag the out the the
• 1:06:46
  play's over he's out. I don't know if you're gonna
• 1:06:50
  agree disagree but I like I I can see the merit behind the
• 1:06:55
  decision. I think it's stupid.
• 1:06:57
  They went a They went back a week.
• 1:07:01
  I do agree. I think that part sucks.
• 1:07:04
  Which side note, as you're looking over that play, the
• 1:07:07
  scoring for Major League Baseball has gotten so
• 1:07:11
  incredibly garbage. The, I call it last year, like
• 1:07:19
  routine plays are getting botched and they're like, yeah,
• 1:07:23
  no, that's a single, let's base it.
• 1:07:25
  Did they say? It's one for the boys back home.
• 1:07:27
  It's like a throwing error on Mount Castle.
• 1:07:34
  I think it was ruled as a throwing error, yeah.
• 1:07:37
  Yeah. I don't know who's.
• 1:07:39
  Credited to, But I mean, like, technically, yeah, you know what
• 1:07:44
  I mean. Right.
• 1:07:45
  I mean, like I would say, receives the ball, steps on the
• 1:07:48
  bag, it's over. He's.
• 1:07:48
  Right, right. Yeah, it's tough.
• 1:07:54
  I think the diving play aspect to it makes things challenging
• 1:07:58
  because like, you see that as like a shortstop.
• 1:08:01
  You make a diving play in the hole or something like that and
• 1:08:02
  you get up and throw it. Even if and you can tell when
• 1:08:07
  you watch. Like a clip.
• 1:08:09
  You know, like a dig. Like a first baseman doesn't get
• 1:08:11
  the scoop or whatever. It's like if it's Bang Bang.
• 1:08:14
  It's hard to say. I'm really on the fence to be
• 1:08:17
  honest. And if you're looking at the
• 1:08:19
  clip, Bauman on the mound, he like, hesitates because he
• 1:08:21
  didn't think he was gonna get, he didn't think Mount Castle was
• 1:08:24
  gonna get to the ball, which I think only further that.
• 1:08:26
  Probably made it worse, yeah. Yeah it led to the more Bang
• 1:08:31
  Bang element of it but Oh no not.
• 1:08:35
  Sorry not to get way off track there with the the NIT picky,
• 1:08:38
  but I at the end of the day I think it's stupid they went back
• 1:08:41
  a week and made that change, but did you get to the thing you
• 1:08:47
  said you were gonna get to? No.
• 1:08:49
  So just a quick note, I I think it's always cool to hear from
• 1:08:53
  like inside the perspective of a certain fan base.
• 1:08:58
  We have family friends that live in in California who go to
• 1:09:02
  Angels games often. Just the bitterness of it is
• 1:09:08
  crazy. Apparently they're hype video
• 1:09:10
  before game starts. Otani's still in the hype video.
• 1:09:16
  What? Yeah, like they they put it up
• 1:09:18
  on the big screen like, you know like before first pitch kind of
• 1:09:20
  thing. Sure.
• 1:09:21
  Yeah, Otani's still in it and like apparently the whole crowd
• 1:09:26
  boos. Like apparently the, like,
• 1:09:31
  nobody rocks Otani stuff anymore.
• 1:09:35
  The the Asian culture is like completely dissolved.
• 1:09:38
  Like they're You barely see any type of Asian culture at games
• 1:09:42
  anymore. Really strange.
• 1:09:44
  But the fact that Ohtani's still in the hype video is insane to
• 1:09:47
  me. That's weird.
• 1:09:49
  They had just gone. I talked to them yesterday and
• 1:09:52
  they were just at the game on Thursday.
• 1:09:53
  It was the sock series. It was the beginning of the sock
• 1:09:57
  series. Dude.
• 1:09:58
  OK, Yeah. Oh my God, that that
• 1:10:01
  organization. That's what are we doing?
• 1:10:05
  That's pretty embarrassing. Anthony Rendon Speaking of which
• 1:10:08
  got his first hit. Well, I I use the word hit very
• 1:10:12
  loosely. Oh boy.
• 1:10:13
  Wakes out an infield dribbler for his first of the season.
• 1:10:17
  If that's not poetic, I don't know.
• 1:10:18
  What it is like? It's incredible.
• 1:10:20
  Just a mess. I did see a tweet though I I had
• 1:10:24
  completely forgot. But somebody had said Red Sox
• 1:10:27
  love ending these Hitler streaks because if you recall Chris
• 1:10:30
  Davis and his Hitler streak at Fenway.
• 1:10:33
  I don't I don't know what that's all about but Sox just love
• 1:10:37
  these streaks. You know what did I was that it
• 1:10:42
  on the on the on the Angel stuff.
• 1:10:44
  Yeah, that was it. It's just, I thought it was just
• 1:10:46
  funny to hear like from somebody who'd just gone to a game, like,
• 1:10:49
  you know, Connie's doing the hype video.
• 1:10:51
  I'm like, bro, what are you doing?
• 1:10:55
  Side note, we were sitting there.
• 1:10:56
  I was sitting there watching the the, the last game of the Angels
• 1:10:59
  Red Sox series today and and Meredith was like, we need to
• 1:11:01
  get to a game out there. That'd be awesome.
• 1:11:03
  And I'm like, you know what that would be?
• 1:11:05
  AI found out, which I had heard before but had clearly
• 1:11:10
  forgotten. But I was reminded this weekend
• 1:11:12
  that that that park is the 4th oldest in baseball.
• 1:11:16
  That's weird. Can you believe that?
• 1:11:19
  That's weird. It does look like a cool
• 1:11:22
  ballpark. I would love to catch a game
• 1:11:25
  there. Yeah, we have to make a trip out
• 1:11:27
  there. Oh oh, pod trip out there at
• 1:11:30
  some .0. That'd be great.
• 1:11:31
  Gotta hit. I mean, might as well just hit
• 1:11:33
  Dodger Stadium in the same, I guess.
• 1:11:35
  Same trip. I don't think it's as close.
• 1:11:38
  As you think. Maybe we'll wait till after the
• 1:11:40
  Dodger renovations. So they're doing like big
• 1:11:44
  renovations soon that. 'D be nice.
• 1:11:49
  We'll probably still get stabbed, but at least we'll have
• 1:11:52
  nicer amenities around us when it happens, right, 'cause that's
• 1:11:55
  what's important. At least we'll get to sit in
• 1:11:57
  sand colored seats. Yeah, the beach.
• 1:12:01
  We get to hang out at the beach. That's so stupid.
• 1:12:04
  Wild Pirates opened the season for the first eight and two for
• 1:12:10
  the first time since 2018. Look, I I said what I said in
• 1:12:15
  the politics and predictions episode.
• 1:12:17
  Nobody wanted to get on board with me.
• 1:12:20
  But I said what I said and I'm sickened by it.
• 1:12:22
  So I just want to have that on record that the Pirates season
• 1:12:26
  is starting ride that train as long.
• 1:12:29
  As you can, pal. I don't know how long it'll
• 1:12:31
  last, but you stay on that high horse for as long as you can.
• 1:12:35
  You believe that? I will.
• 1:12:38
  On the flip side, Marlins won their first game today after
• 1:12:41
  starting O and 9:00. With a rain delay involved in
• 1:12:44
  the ninth, wasn't it? I think I saw that.
• 1:12:48
  In that in that game, I thought that was the Cubbies game.
• 1:12:51
  I thought it was theirs. I saw something on Twitter that
• 1:12:53
  was like they'd a rain delay in the 9th and like baseball gods
• 1:12:56
  just can't let the Marlins get a win or something.
• 1:12:59
  Like that. Oh I maybe they did.
• 1:13:00
  You're probably you're probably they they probably did I didn't
• 1:13:03
  catch that far but that's that's hilarious One in they're one in
• 1:13:07
  nine to start the. Brutal.
• 1:13:08
  And they did you see, they removed the skip Schumacher's
• 1:13:12
  option for next year or something like that?
• 1:13:14
  I did, yeah, I saw that. Was that recently?
• 1:13:17
  Did that news break like recently?
• 1:13:18
  Because this? I saw the article, but I didn't
• 1:13:21
  know that they had made that announcement.
• 1:13:22
  Like just was it the other day, I guess.
• 1:13:25
  I don't I didn't fully read that article, but.
• 1:13:30
  I did see that because the article I read was that the
• 1:13:32
  Marlins will likely be searching for a new option at Manager for
• 1:13:36
  2025 or something. I'm like that didn't.
• 1:13:38
  He just win Manager of the Year last year.
• 1:13:40
  Yes, and then it said the The article finished by saying that
• 1:13:44
  Skip Schumacher and Alex Cora should Alex Cora hit manager,
• 1:13:48
  free agency will be the two like hottest commodities.
• 1:13:52
  That's crazy. This is Mike Shield all over
• 1:13:54
  again. Win Manager of the Year.
• 1:13:58
  Year later, you're gone. I don't get that.
• 1:14:01
  Stupid, stupid Juan Soto. Just a little note here.
• 1:14:08
  I know you and I talked about it a little bit before we hopped
• 1:14:10
  on, but my, my, April, I mean, I could not have been more dead on
• 1:14:16
  with this. I said a dip was coming and
• 1:14:19
  people, people in the in the comments were like, well, yeah,
• 1:14:22
  of course she's not going to maintain like a 700 batting
• 1:14:25
  average, I said. That's not what I'm talking
• 1:14:26
  about. But you'll you it'll it'll be
• 1:14:29
  tangible. You'll be able to feel the dip
• 1:14:31
  and sure enough the last two series between the D back series
• 1:14:36
  which you were there for a game and Toronto he went one for 16.
• 1:14:43
  So when I was talking about a dip that's that's kind of what
• 1:14:46
  I'm talking about. Like he he plummets in April but
• 1:14:49
  he'll but what have I said though I said he'll be back.
• 1:14:52
  You don't need to panic, as Yankee fans, you you just need
• 1:14:56
  to know that this is part of his ammo.
• 1:14:58
  Like this is just what he does. I personally am still in this
• 1:15:01
  weird phase of like it still feels surreal that he's wearing
• 1:15:04
  the Yu. I'm still in the honeymoon
• 1:15:07
  phase, so I'm chilling. You can go one for 30.
• 1:15:13
  I don't care well. I'll be careful what you wish.
• 1:15:15
  For I know who he is. I know what he's gonna do.
• 1:15:18
  Don't stress. Stay strong.
• 1:15:22
  May Soto is what you need to hold out hope for.
• 1:15:25
  Yep, just wait. Just stand by.
• 1:15:30
  There's no there's no holding out hope.
• 1:15:32
  I think for Alec Manoa his his his recent rehab start, one and
• 1:15:38
  2/3 innings. I think it was today.
• 1:15:40
  Actually one and 2/3 innings, Five hits, six runs or no 6
• 1:15:44
  earned runs, seven runs, four walks.
• 1:15:48
  And his ERA now has jumped ever so slightly to a rosy 32.4.
• 1:15:58
  Can you read off the first line again of what level he was
• 1:16:02
  pitching in? I believe it was single A.
• 1:16:06
  Is that what I read? Yeah.
• 1:16:08
  Yep. Not good.
• 1:16:09
  Yep. Yep.
• 1:16:09
  Yep. Not good.
• 1:16:11
  I had. I told you I had a question I
• 1:16:13
  wanted to ask you. Yep.
• 1:16:16
  Which collapse will go down as a worse collapse?
• 1:16:22
  Alec Minova and Matt Harvey. Because we're there, I think.
• 1:16:29
  Alec Minova and I cause the mouth.
• 1:16:34
  I think it's because of his mouth.
• 1:16:35
  Yeah. And I was, I was literally just
• 1:16:37
  about to say you have to take the like take take the numbers
• 1:16:41
  out of it, take the the outcomes out of it.
• 1:16:43
  You just for me at least. I'm not saying everybody else
• 1:16:46
  has to, but I'm gonna look at this from the point of view of
• 1:16:49
  like who the players were. And Matt Harvey, I think we can
• 1:16:54
  all agree, was a guy that wanted to pitch until his arm fell off
• 1:16:58
  and he literally like he he he literally did he he made a go at
• 1:17:01
  it with the OS there at the end and you know he just wanted to
• 1:17:07
  be out there and to be able to succeed, but it just it just
• 1:17:09
  wasn't working. But for Alec Manoa, he just he
• 1:17:12
  just he ran his mouth too much. And you can only really do that
• 1:17:18
  if you can back it up, 'cause if you can't then you just look
• 1:17:21
  like an idiot. And not only as does he look
• 1:17:24
  like an idiot, he's He's getting wrecked at the lowest levels of,
• 1:17:34
  like, minor League Baseball. What are like 17 year olds that
• 1:17:38
  just signed? I mean, what are we doing?
• 1:17:42
  It's embarrassing. These kids aren't even eligible
• 1:17:45
  for the draft, and you're getting wrecked.
• 1:17:50
  Poor guy. Not.
• 1:17:52
  Spare me the rehab. Spare me the rehab element,
• 1:17:55
  guys. Guys rehab all the time and they
• 1:17:59
  don't. They don't have eras of 30 N of
• 1:18:02
  32. And stop calling it rehab.
• 1:18:04
  Stop calling it rehab. That's this is not rehab.
• 1:18:06
  This is no rehab is is first needing an injury for a rehab to
• 1:18:14
  happen. This is just the ultimate.
• 1:18:16
  This is yips, this is yips on steroids.
• 1:18:21
  And I'm here for it. I'm eating it up.
• 1:18:25
  He's he's eating it up too. This is my favorite.
• 1:18:27
  Part of the movie so far, hey? Wow.
• 1:18:31
  Well played. We're we're milking that that
• 1:18:34
  line for all, for all it's worth.
• 1:18:36
  We. Sure.
• 1:18:37
  All right. Well, we already got to the
• 1:18:39
  Fanatics conversation, so that about wraps it up for what I had
• 1:18:44
  in closing the book. I I mentioned to you before we
• 1:18:46
  got on my closing, the book is getting longer and longer.
• 1:18:49
  It it used to be a quick segment at the end, but they're getting
• 1:18:52
  longer and longer. So we'll see, we'll see what
• 1:18:56
  happens there. But I I meant to say before we
• 1:18:59
  wrap things up here now that you're like sort of back at
• 1:19:03
  least for a little while and then you'll be back for good
• 1:19:06
  once you get back from the honeymoon.
• 1:19:09
  We need to, we need to start incorporating some segments for
• 1:19:15
  the year. So just be thinking about that
• 1:19:20
  once we've got a little bit more routine, a little more rhythm
• 1:19:22
  going. Something cooked up?
• 1:19:25
  We'll have that on deck for everybody.
• 1:19:27
  It's been been a little tricky obviously with the combining the
• 1:19:30
  start of the season with the fact that Nate's been just super
• 1:19:32
  busy. But for for those of you
• 1:19:35
  listening, we obviously appreciate you guys tuning in.
• 1:19:38
  We're glad you're here with us, but one snake gets back from his
• 1:19:41
  his honeymoon. We'll be.
• 1:19:44
  I'll be nice and tan and then we roll.
• 1:19:46
  All systems go for the for the remainder of the year.
• 1:19:49
  So we've got that to look forward to.
• 1:19:52
  But unless you got anything else subscribe to the YouTube as
• 1:19:56
  always we're moving right along cranking out the content on
• 1:19:59
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• 1:20:01
  Next time you're over at Grandma's house to fix the
• 1:20:04
  Wi-Fi, go ahead and just subscribe on her computer for
• 1:20:07
  YouTube real quick. You'll never know.
• 1:20:11
  Yeah. Love you guys.
• 1:20:13
  Thank you guys. Really.
• 1:20:14
  Honestly, thank you. For some of you listeners who
• 1:20:17
  had reached out and congratulated me, it means a
• 1:20:19
  lot. And bear with me.
• 1:20:23
  Give me, give me a month and and I'll be back to normal.
• 1:20:26
  So love you guys. Don't go chasing curveballs.
• 1:20:29
  Love you all and as always, looking forward to talking more
• 1:20:31
  baseball with you guys soon. Until next time, stay filthy.