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- 0:02Speaker 1: Kratz dances back if you know, you know Kratz has
- 0:06Speaker 1: been out for a minute, and some people comment almost
- 0:09Speaker 1: every day on our YouTube video and say, Kratz dance.
- 0:13Speaker 1: They look forward to it. Kratz dance is just a
- 0:15Speaker 1: simple head nod. Sometimes little shoulders are involved.
- 0:19Speaker 2: He's back, Yes, stay in your lane, you ges stany
- 0:22Speaker 2: in your lane. AJ might need to stay right here
- 0:24Speaker 2: and that's fine, but just put the songs down.
- 0:27Speaker 1: Sometimes AJ does dance, so I can't confirm when I'm
- 0:31Speaker 1: not with him, but when I do sit next to him,
- 0:32Speaker 1: sometimes there's like a little bit of movement before the
- 0:35Speaker 1: show starts, but.
- 0:36Speaker 3: Then he usually gets in position. AJ factor of fiction.
- 0:39Speaker 4: No, it's true. I've danced on the air before. I've
- 0:42Speaker 4: danced for money before, Scott have you.
- 0:45Speaker 1: Yeah, this past weekend. I dance for money all the time.
- 0:50Speaker 1: A couple shout outs before we dive in. First off,
- 0:52Speaker 1: shout out to FT fan Cody Moss, he got a
- 0:55Speaker 1: trucker hat today. We don't shout the show the store
- 0:58Speaker 1: out that often, but faul Territory shop dot com does
- 1:02Speaker 1: have a ton of new gear. So this is your
- 1:05Speaker 1: this is your trucker hat. I have a bunch of
- 1:07Speaker 1: other things that I if I start reaching for, I'm
- 1:09Speaker 1: gonna cause a lot of noise. But let's see if
- 1:11Speaker 1: I can grab this with my foot without shutting off
- 1:14Speaker 1: the Internet.
- 1:15Speaker 3: There is all kinds of what's this called crats? I
- 1:23Speaker 3: don't know, water bottle, water bottle? I mean, I thought
- 1:27Speaker 3: there was a fancier word for it, but whatever.
- 1:29Speaker 4: You guys call them some different up there in New Jersey,
- 1:31Speaker 4: like I.
- 1:31Speaker 1: Thought, yeah, after you dance changes water bottle anyway, foul
- 1:37Speaker 1: Territory shop dot Com. Appreciate Cody for making a little purchase,
- 1:41Speaker 1: and most of our team shows have shop accounts as well. Lastly, krats,
- 1:48Speaker 1: you missed it yesterday. AJ was getting into it with
- 1:52Speaker 1: one of our buddies in the chat. Nice healthy debate
- 1:55Speaker 1: about the state of the Mets. We're not going to
- 1:58Speaker 1: spend a segment on the Mets today, but I did
- 2:00Speaker 1: want to shout out longtime researcher Bill Chuck. He has
- 2:03Speaker 1: a newsletter. Part of its free, part of it is
- 2:06Speaker 1: subscription based, but I'm going to take a couple of
- 2:08Speaker 1: things from the free one on the Mets. Since June eighth,
- 2:12Speaker 1: they've played fifty three games, they're twenty two and thirty one.
- 2:14Speaker 1: In those games, David Peterson has made ten starts and
- 2:18Speaker 1: pitched at least six innings in eight of them. No
- 2:21Speaker 1: other Mets pitcher has pitched six innings in the fifty
- 2:25Speaker 1: three games besides David Peterson, and during that stretch, the
- 2:30Speaker 1: Mets have a four eight Oera starters ZRA of four
- 2:32Speaker 1: to seven to eight.
- 2:35Speaker 3: Relievers RA for eight to three.
- 2:37Speaker 1: Lastly, on the stats, you see superstars struggling. He pointed
- 2:43Speaker 1: out how Francisco Lindor actually broke his right pinky toe
- 2:46Speaker 1: on June fourth, after he was.
- 2:48Speaker 3: Hit by a pitch.
- 2:50Speaker 1: Through that game, eight forty three ops since then, six
- 2:53Speaker 1: thirteen ops.
- 2:56Speaker 2: You play through stuff, you play through stuff like that.
- 2:59Speaker 2: So so it's all part like you go through grinds
- 3:03Speaker 2: of the season. But the gist of that whole article,
- 3:06Speaker 2: gist of all those stats, the pitching. You don't want
- 3:10Speaker 2: to sit here and say I told you so, but
- 3:13Speaker 2: I think some of the starting pitchers that they've had
- 3:15Speaker 2: to throw out there because of injuries, you know, four
- 3:19Speaker 2: to seven EER not many innings. You kind of knew
- 3:22Speaker 2: that's what you were going to get. The issue is,
- 3:24Speaker 2: beginning of season that bullpen was banging. They were hitting
- 3:28Speaker 2: on all cylinders. They were fresh. What do we always
- 3:33Speaker 2: talk about End of July, Hall of August, then September,
- 3:37Speaker 2: everybody gets another shot of adrenaline. They have to figure
- 3:40Speaker 2: out how to weather, not just I think they're one
- 3:43Speaker 2: to nine in their last ten, but not just the losses.
- 3:47Speaker 2: They have to figure out how to weather. Hey, you
- 3:49Speaker 2: know what, let's get our guys all set for the postseason.
- 3:54Speaker 2: But then you're like, wait a minute, I still still
- 3:57Speaker 2: have to make the playoffs. I don't think they're in
- 3:59Speaker 2: danger of not man I see them being able to
- 4:01Speaker 2: pull this turn this around. But the pitching. The pitching
- 4:06Speaker 2: falters because you're starting pitching, in my opinion, wasn't built,
- 4:10Speaker 2: especially when Manaya went out. It wasn't built to with
- 4:14Speaker 2: stand a full season. Now it's kind of leaking into
- 4:17Speaker 2: the bullpen, as all those stats show.
- 4:20Speaker 3: Yeah, the wild Cards look fun.
- 4:23Speaker 1: In the American League, entering Tuesday Nights games, the Mariners
- 4:27Speaker 1: have a nice little cushion at the top.
- 4:28Speaker 3: They won seven in a row.
- 4:30Speaker 1: The Red Sox followed, then the Yankees, who are just
- 4:32Speaker 1: one game clear of Cleveland and two and a half
- 4:35Speaker 1: up on Texas.
- 4:36Speaker 3: On the other side, you.
- 4:37Speaker 1: Have the Cubs and Padres with a healthy advantage for
- 4:40Speaker 1: those first two spots. Then the Mets have a two
- 4:43Speaker 1: game lead over Cincinnati red loss to the Phillies yesterday,
- 4:48Speaker 1: and the Saint Louis Cardinals are only three games out
- 4:51Speaker 1: of a playoff spot despite their dump dumped on negative
- 4:56Speaker 1: run differential. Yes, the Cleveland Guardians also have negative run
- 5:00Speaker 1: differential AJ and they're just a game out.
- 5:03Speaker 3: So we are in mid August and we have multiple.
- 5:06Speaker 1: Negative run differential teams with a chance at making the postseason.
- 5:11Speaker 4: Scott, let me ask you this question. Do we really
- 5:15Speaker 4: think that the New York Yankees are going to not
- 5:17Speaker 4: make the playoffs over the Cleveland Guardians? And if it
- 5:22Speaker 4: does happen, is it more of a failure of the
- 5:25Speaker 4: Yankees or a great job by the Guardians? Because I
- 5:29Speaker 4: think you could lead one way more than the other,
- 5:32Speaker 4: Because I mean, if you look at the Guardians, they're
- 5:34Speaker 4: you know, listen, they're doing great. Voters been great. They're
- 5:37Speaker 4: pitching like always has been unbelievable. They still don't really hit,
- 5:40Speaker 4: they don't really score a lot of runs, so it's
- 5:42Speaker 4: not like they're banging the ball out of nowhere and
- 5:44Speaker 4: oh wow, look at the Guardians. How good of a
- 5:46Speaker 4: hitters there? They're five games over five hundred, five sixty
- 5:50Speaker 4: one and fifty six. The Yankees are seven games over
- 5:53Speaker 4: five hundred. So I'm gonna ask you to is it
- 5:55Speaker 4: if this happens, is it more a failure of the
- 5:58Speaker 4: Yankees or a great job by the Guardians.
- 6:01Speaker 1: I mean both, But if I have to pick one,
- 6:03Speaker 1: then I'll go Yankees failure. Just like last year, as
- 6:05Speaker 1: great as the Tigers were down the stretch, the Twins crumbled,
- 6:11Speaker 1: They fell apart, and without that, you don't have the
- 6:14Speaker 1: Tigers magical run. So I'll go with the negative side
- 6:18Speaker 1: of things.
- 6:19Speaker 4: Kratz, what about your Yeah, I go the same way.
- 6:22Speaker 3: Okay, fair, All right, we'll see what happens.
- 6:25Speaker 1: Let's actually hit the Red Sox, who went to Houston
- 6:29Speaker 1: last night for a game that had a playoff vibe
- 6:31Speaker 1: to it. Let's charge charging about Astro's top the Red Sox.
- 6:39Speaker 1: This game had everything. Carlos kore Is first game back
- 6:43Speaker 1: with them playing I'm Coming Home for his walk up music.
- 6:46Speaker 1: Alex Bregman returns to Houston. First AB, two run, home run,
- 6:50Speaker 1: second AB. They're booing him and he's.
- 6:53Speaker 3: On the opposition. That is exactly how you do it. Oh. Also,
- 6:56Speaker 3: Garret Crochet had his worst.
- 6:57Speaker 1: Start of the year, season high tying five runs allowed
- 7:00Speaker 1: to electric innings and then he fell apart. Also, Christian
- 7:04Speaker 1: Javier makes his return for the first time since May
- 7:08Speaker 1: of twenty twenty four from Tommy John surgery. He looked
- 7:11Speaker 1: pretty good. And lastly, Josh Hater was unavailable some shoulder discomfort.
- 7:16Speaker 1: They used him a lot. What was that a couple
- 7:18Speaker 1: days ago in that series against the Yankees had a
- 7:19Speaker 1: thirty six pitch outing. Hopefully he's okay. Astro's bullpen bent
- 7:25Speaker 1: did not break. This had to be cool for you
- 7:28Speaker 1: Kratz to watch all this. It feels like twenty seventeen,
- 7:31Speaker 1: eighteen nineteen.
- 7:32Speaker 2: Again, I mean, this is the we didn't think. We
- 7:37Speaker 2: didn't think when the season started that with all the
- 7:40Speaker 2: subtractions that the Astros had, they would be in this spot.
- 7:44Speaker 2: But why do we ever question him. They just figure
- 7:48Speaker 2: out how to win. And then they went and Jim
- 7:50Speaker 2: Krane said, yeah, sure, I'll take on Korea's contract. And
- 7:53Speaker 2: Correa has gone out and I think he's got a
- 7:55Speaker 2: nine game hitting streak. They got to in my opinion,
- 8:00Speaker 2: three pitchers in the American League right now in Crochet
- 8:03Speaker 2: he dominated him the first time through the order. They
- 8:06Speaker 2: made some adjustments, they picked some things out, they got
- 8:09Speaker 2: to them. To me, this is like this is throwback
- 8:14Speaker 2: to the to Yeah, like you said, the eighteen nineteen
- 8:19Speaker 2: like these teams and fortunately they could be coming down
- 8:23Speaker 2: to the end here where they could be battling for
- 8:27Speaker 2: a wild car position if the Mariners catch the Astros,
- 8:30Speaker 2: which I think they might if haters out, but they
- 8:33Speaker 2: could be battling. This series is this series is huge
- 8:36Speaker 2: and it has all the storylines that you want to see.
- 8:41Speaker 2: And at this point in the season.
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- 9:46Speaker 4: Here's here's my thing. This is a bonus one for
- 9:47Speaker 4: the astros for me because if you would have told
- 9:50Speaker 4: them going into this game is how does the manors
- 9:52Speaker 4: have been? And it's bad, I mean not bad, but
- 9:54Speaker 4: the Oss have been playing great. You'll lose, you know,
- 9:59Speaker 4: people here and there, left and right, left and right,
- 10:01Speaker 4: left and right, but you go back to Houston. Correa's back, great,
- 10:05Speaker 4: everyone's excited. You're facing Garrett Crochet, who's one of the
- 10:08Speaker 4: best pitchers in the league and has been dominant, and
- 10:11Speaker 4: you're pitching Christian Javier, so you're not one of your
- 10:15Speaker 4: main guys. Yes, he's been there before, but he hasn't
- 10:17Speaker 4: been great for him and he hasn't pitched for a
- 10:19Speaker 4: long time. He wasn't even great on rehab and they
- 10:22Speaker 4: win this game. This is like two or three wins
- 10:24Speaker 4: for the Astros because this is a game. Going into it,
- 10:26Speaker 4: you would have been like, you Astros have no chance
- 10:28Speaker 4: in this game. And they win this game. It's a
- 10:31Speaker 4: big deal. It is a confident confident boost, confidence boost
- 10:35Speaker 4: for these Astros to win that game last night, especially
- 10:38Speaker 4: after you fell behind two nothing in the first two hitters,
- 10:41Speaker 4: whack whack, You're down to nothing. You're like, oh boy,
- 10:44Speaker 4: what do we got ourselves into. You come back and
- 10:46Speaker 4: you put a big number up on Crochet hold on
- 10:49Speaker 4: to win this game. This is a big win for
- 10:50Speaker 4: the Astros, and.
- 10:51Speaker 3: They were avoiding a bray.
- 10:52Speaker 1: You pitched twice this past weekend, and he also warmed
- 10:55Speaker 1: up in the one game he didn't pitch in. Hater
- 10:58Speaker 1: had the situation like I'm talking about shoulder comfort. They're
- 11:00Speaker 1: going to check him out. So there's your two best
- 11:02Speaker 1: relievers who have been two of the best in baseball
- 11:05Speaker 1: this year, and Bennett SUSA had to shut it down
- 11:07Speaker 1: against Roman Anthony, who had homeward earlier in the game.
- 11:10Speaker 1: Anthony steps up tying run at second base and they
- 11:12Speaker 1: shut it down, so it's a one run win. I mean,
- 11:14Speaker 1: that's a fun game to attend. If you're an Astros fan.
- 11:17Speaker 1: You also find out before the game you're one of
- 11:19Speaker 1: your top few prospects. Jacob Melton is getting the call
- 11:22Speaker 1: for Houston to see what he looks like. He had
- 11:24Speaker 1: an eight eighty ops in triple A. He was a
- 11:26Speaker 1: second round pick in twenty twenty two. How about trades?
- 11:29Speaker 1: Ramona Reus was kind of one of the smaller pickups.
- 11:32Speaker 1: Kratz boom to run Homer. His first bit the Astros
- 11:35Speaker 1: comes off Jordan Hicks, who was acquired in the Rafael
- 11:37Speaker 1: Devers deal.
- 11:38Speaker 3: So yeah, I mean this was an all around awesome day.
- 11:41Speaker 1: If you're a Houston fan showing up to the yard
- 11:43Speaker 1: when your team's in a fight for the division.
- 11:46Speaker 4: Yes, it is to me.
- 11:48Speaker 2: To me, the Red Sox question, I got to ask
- 11:50Speaker 2: it to aj though, the Red Sox side of this.
- 11:53Speaker 2: When you guys were a young team with the Twins,
- 11:57Speaker 2: what kind of like were you guys just when you
- 11:59Speaker 2: made the playoffs? Were guys just playing with house money
- 12:01Speaker 2: kind of thing? Because to me, if if the Red
- 12:04Speaker 2: Sox hold on, and I feel like the Red Sox
- 12:06Speaker 2: may falter here and be the one on the outside
- 12:09Speaker 2: looking in at the end of the playoffs. Here, I
- 12:12Speaker 2: don't think, like, how do you how do you learn
- 12:14Speaker 2: during this time, the pressure packed situation. I get it.
- 12:18Speaker 2: Romin Anthony had a big time dinger in a you know,
- 12:20Speaker 2: in an environment in Houston that was kind of hostile
- 12:25Speaker 2: to the Red Sox to Bregman when he comes up
- 12:27Speaker 2: the next daying and he's getting.
- 12:29Speaker 4: Booed, What do you mean, what do you when you're young?
- 12:36Speaker 2: This team, this team is super young, the whole position
- 12:40Speaker 2: player corp. How do you get like, how did you
- 12:43Speaker 2: guys come together in the sense of like, hey, you
- 12:46Speaker 2: know what, We're gonna make the playoffs because nobody, nobody
- 12:50Speaker 2: on your team had any playoff experience. Nobody on their
- 12:52Speaker 2: team had any playoff experience, Like here's my well, yeah, but.
- 12:56Speaker 4: See we had We had all come up together through
- 13:00Speaker 4: the minor leagues, a lot of us with the twins.
- 13:01Speaker 4: So I just think that you know what, we just
- 13:04Speaker 4: we just expected to win.
- 13:05Speaker 3: Now.
- 13:06Speaker 4: Listen, two thousand and one, in our first full year altogether,
- 13:08Speaker 4: we had a lead on the Indians at the time
- 13:11Speaker 4: now the Guardians, but they had Tony and they had
- 13:13Speaker 4: all the I mean Kenny Lofton and Roberto Alomar and
- 13:16Speaker 4: they had a squad right and we lost. We kind
- 13:19Speaker 4: of blew it. We faded because it was our first
- 13:20Speaker 4: full year. We didn't know what we were going to do.
- 13:23Speaker 4: Two thousand and two, we went into it and said,
- 13:25Speaker 4: we're winning the division and we're going to make a
- 13:27Speaker 4: run in the playoffs because we just felt we were
- 13:29Speaker 4: that good. And we win the division handily. We lost
- 13:31Speaker 4: in the Alcs to the Angels, but we never there
- 13:34Speaker 4: was never like a doubt in two thousand and one.
- 13:36Speaker 4: I mean, we honestly thought we were going to make
- 13:37Speaker 4: it that year, and we kind of I mean, I
- 13:39Speaker 4: don't want to say we choked, but we just fell
- 13:41Speaker 4: off because we didn't really know. And how do you learn.
- 13:43Speaker 4: You learn through that experience. The difference in the Red
- 13:45Speaker 4: Sox is you got Bregman, you got Trevor's story, you
- 13:48Speaker 4: got some guys that have been through it before. It's
- 13:50Speaker 4: not like this team is totally young. I mean they
- 13:52Speaker 4: have some guys that have been through some stuff before.
- 13:54Speaker 4: They can relate it. When I was in the Twins,
- 13:56Speaker 4: we had nobody. I mean in two thousand and one,
- 13:58Speaker 4: we didn't have anybody. Brad Radkey never been in to
- 14:00Speaker 4: the playoffs. Eric Milton, our starting staff had never been
- 14:02Speaker 4: to the playoffs. Kyle Los, Joe Mas, these guys had
- 14:05Speaker 4: never We had, like literally not one guy on our
- 14:07Speaker 4: team that never been to the playoffs. Two thousand and two,
- 14:09Speaker 4: we brought in a little couple, Rick Reid and some
- 14:10Speaker 4: older guys and made some adjustments and that was when
- 14:13Speaker 4: we got better. But we Until you go through one
- 14:16Speaker 4: hundred and sixty two games with that intensity, you don't
- 14:18Speaker 4: really know. I think the Red Sox are going to
- 14:20Speaker 4: be fine, though, because I think they're better and they've
- 14:22Speaker 4: gotten better through the year, which is nice. And Roman
- 14:24Speaker 4: Anthony's going to be a stud.
- 14:26Speaker 3: Yeah, he looks like it. He's got it all working
- 14:29Speaker 3: right now.
- 14:29Speaker 1: One more thing on the Astros side, Chas McCormick hit
- 14:33Speaker 1: his first home run since August of twenty twenty four.
- 14:36Speaker 1: I mean, this was a total throwback Glory Days game
- 14:40Speaker 1: for the Astros because it's been a rough go for
- 14:42Speaker 1: Chaz over the past year or so, but good for
- 14:45Speaker 1: him to get back on the board. He had a
- 14:46Speaker 1: big game yesterday for Houston. So the Astros take game
- 14:49Speaker 1: one of this series. We'll be watching more of this. Yeah,
- 14:52Speaker 1: for me last night, this was an easy pay light
- 14:55Speaker 1: attention to what's going on during that time period, but
- 14:57Speaker 1: heavy attention to the game in Houston was really fun
- 15:00Speaker 1: playoff vibes.
- 15:03Speaker 3: Hey AJ, why are you talking about your Twins days?
- 15:06Speaker 1: I still can't understand or believe this stat when I
- 15:10Speaker 1: see it, So you nailed it. Yankees got back on
- 15:12Speaker 1: track with win over the Twins yesterday six to two.
- 15:15Speaker 1: Will Warrene shoved The Yankees are one hundred and twenty
- 15:18Speaker 1: four and forty four against the Twins including the postseason
- 15:22Speaker 1: since two thousand and two, one twenty.
- 15:25Speaker 3: Four and forty four. That is, that is a number
- 15:29Speaker 3: ahead to head matchup you really don't see in our sport.
- 15:34Speaker 4: Except of the Yankees in the Twins. And I'm proud
- 15:37Speaker 4: to say I was there when it started, because in
- 15:39Speaker 4: two thousand and three we lost to him. We won
- 15:41Speaker 4: game one in the in the DS and we lost
- 15:43Speaker 4: the next three, so that was where it kind of started.
- 15:45Speaker 4: We were never intimidated. I remember we went and played them.
- 15:49Speaker 4: I don't know we played them one year. We used
- 15:50Speaker 4: to hit me your scenea fairly decently, I think. But
- 15:54Speaker 4: in Pettit, we hit Pettit decently, I think. But we
- 15:58Speaker 4: I don't know, we just we when I first came up,
- 16:02Speaker 4: like oh one oh two, we did okay against him,
- 16:03Speaker 4: and then it was in three and once they beat
- 16:05Speaker 4: us in the postseason that we were like okay, and
- 16:07Speaker 4: then I was traded away. Maybe it was me, I
- 16:08Speaker 4: don't know, but they couldn't beat him since.
- 16:11Speaker 2: Curse of aj Perzinski.
- 16:14Speaker 4: I don't know, because we did okay with him when
- 16:16Speaker 4: I was on the White Sox too, so I don't know.
- 16:18Speaker 4: Maybe it was. Maybe it was, though.
- 16:20Speaker 1: It's just crazy for an organization that obviously has had
- 16:24Speaker 1: endless turnover as any team does over that twenty year span.
- 16:28Speaker 1: But you know, it's not like Minnesota's got the same
- 16:30Speaker 1: players rolling for a long period of time and change
- 16:32Speaker 1: that he shuffles in and they just can't beat the Yankees.
- 16:36Speaker 4: It changed, I mean the whole team turned over, like
- 16:39Speaker 4: when now or more no, that whole team took over
- 16:41Speaker 4: Kadai or was there a little bit with us or
- 16:43Speaker 4: with me. He was there for a year, I think,
- 16:44Speaker 4: but it turned over and stayed the same. It's the
- 16:47Speaker 4: pole ads.
- 16:56Speaker 1: That's when's juicy. We received many requests to cover it.
- 16:59Speaker 1: So here we go show Otani and his representation as
- 17:02Speaker 1: Billlelo are being sued and they are being accused of
- 17:06Speaker 1: sabotaging a two hundred and forty million dollar real estate
- 17:10Speaker 1: deal in Hawaii.
- 17:12Speaker 3: It's big lawsuit, it's filed.
- 17:14Speaker 1: It's filed by a couple guys that have been involved
- 17:17Speaker 1: in this project apparently for many many years.
- 17:19Speaker 3: They brought in Otani. I'm going to do my.
- 17:21Speaker 1: Best to summarize and remember that these are all allegations
- 17:24Speaker 1: that are going on in a lawsuit. Okay, the sant
- 17:26Speaker 1: Court of law. This isn't the law podcast, but I'm
- 17:28Speaker 1: going to read the best I can here. So these
- 17:31Speaker 1: guys and their names are Tomoko Matsumoto and he's a
- 17:36Speaker 1: real estate broker, as well as a developer named Kevin
- 17:39Speaker 1: Hayes said that they were getting increasingly demanded concessions from
- 17:44Speaker 1: Otani's agent and as Bilelelo, and they, I guess weren't
- 17:49Speaker 1: answering to all of them. And then they claim that
- 17:52Speaker 1: Otani and really representation got them out of the project,
- 17:58Speaker 1: got them fired from this massive project that they've been
- 18:00Speaker 1: working on for a long time. Many of you are
- 18:02Speaker 1: going to look at this and go fufuo. Rich people
- 18:04Speaker 1: fighting over real estate, no doubt. But sho Heotani was
- 18:09Speaker 1: involved in a massive, massive scandal last year where his
- 18:13Speaker 1: interpreter Epey was betting on games and stealing money, stole
- 18:18Speaker 1: a ton of money from Otani. He and that case
- 18:21Speaker 1: is done right, he's going to prison or he's in
- 18:23Speaker 1: prison already like that he was convicted.
- 18:27Speaker 3: So here we go.
- 18:28Speaker 1: We're a year later. Stars get sued all the time.
- 18:31Speaker 1: AJ I'll start with you, what's your initial thoughts of this?
- 18:34Speaker 1: Because for me, I doubt that sho Heo Tani is
- 18:38Speaker 1: involved in the day to day of a real estate project.
- 18:40Speaker 3: And I read it as much as I could.
- 18:41Speaker 1: I even read Japanese articles this morning about the coverage
- 18:44Speaker 1: of this. It sounds like they were disagreeing, and maybe
- 18:47Speaker 1: they on Otani's side, thinking that he was using you know,
- 18:50Speaker 1: marketing materials like photos and stuff that they didn't agree to,
- 18:53Speaker 1: and that they were even potentially promising people that they
- 18:56Speaker 1: could like spend time or eat with Otani if they
- 18:58Speaker 1: bought some of these spots. And these are like seventeen
- 19:00Speaker 1: million dollar homes, on average. But it also does sound
- 19:04Speaker 1: like Otani either gets paid or a discount or something
- 19:06Speaker 1: like that for putting his name or his face or
- 19:09Speaker 1: doing a voiceover for this project. Right, if you want
- 19:13Speaker 1: to avoid everything with a private home, you don't get
- 19:16Speaker 1: involved in the marketing side of things that part. I
- 19:18Speaker 1: know there might be a lot of wrongdoing, and you
- 19:20Speaker 1: pull out of a project you never know, right, you
- 19:22Speaker 1: might have trusted the guys. Now it's a problem. But
- 19:24Speaker 1: I don't know of many stories where guys are putting
- 19:27Speaker 1: their names on real estate projects, you know, if they
- 19:30Speaker 1: don't need to.
- 19:32Speaker 4: No, most times, if Atony's money, I just buy the
- 19:36Speaker 4: buy the whole area, right, two hundred and forty million.
- 19:41Speaker 4: He's making seven hundred million. Just buy the whole island
- 19:43Speaker 4: if he wants to. At this point, I don't know, man,
- 19:46Speaker 4: this is just such a weird story. And why why
- 19:48Speaker 4: is he involved? Why is he? Does he need more
- 19:51Speaker 4: money than what he's got maybe, but it just sounds
- 19:54Speaker 4: like he's getting bad advice from somebody. I don't know
- 19:56Speaker 4: who it is. But would you say, Scott, there's a
- 19:58Speaker 4: video of him promoting this, and they're there's pictures of
- 20:01Speaker 4: him promoting this and he didn't like that they were
- 20:03Speaker 4: using certain pictures of him, and it gets real petty.
- 20:06Speaker 4: So I don't know. Is this maybe this is the
- 20:08Speaker 4: group trying to get attention. I don't know, the real
- 20:10Speaker 4: estate group trying to get attention. I don't know. This
- 20:13Speaker 4: whole thing is just weird, like I don't get it.
- 20:16Speaker 4: You know, I don't understand and listen. We can say
- 20:19Speaker 4: whatever we want, but guys lose money, make bad investments,
- 20:21Speaker 4: make bad decisions. It happens all the time. So I
- 20:24Speaker 4: don't know what's happening on the show Hayes World. I
- 20:26Speaker 4: wish we could hear from him, but he doesn't speak
- 20:28Speaker 4: very often. He definitely won't speak on this, so I
- 20:31Speaker 4: just don't know. I wish there was some answer that
- 20:33Speaker 4: it was magical answer, but I don't know. Maybe we
- 20:35Speaker 4: get a magic eight ball and shake it it says yes, no,
- 20:38Speaker 4: I don't know.
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- 21:45Speaker 1: again some of this stuff is going to come out
- 21:47Speaker 1: when we actually get to the court case if we do.
- 21:50Speaker 1: But within the articles last month and what the suit
- 21:53Speaker 1: called a quote coordinated Ambush Kingsbarn, which is the group
- 21:57Speaker 1: that ended up firing those two guys who are suing
- 22:00Speaker 1: Otani in his rap, openly admitted during the call to
- 22:03Speaker 1: them that Bilelo had demanded the agent for Otani the
- 22:06Speaker 1: terminations of those two and said that they were, and
- 22:09Speaker 1: they said that they were being replaced and fired solely
- 22:13Speaker 1: because of Otani's camp. So my thing, even on that
- 22:17Speaker 1: side of the equation Kratz, is, if you get involved
- 22:20Speaker 1: in all of this and you don't want to be
- 22:21Speaker 1: involved anymore, why are you then taking the next step
- 22:25Speaker 1: to get these two guys fired, Even if you don't
- 22:28Speaker 1: like them and you think that they're doing you wrong.
- 22:30Speaker 3: It just it sounds like you should just get out
- 22:32Speaker 3: of all of that because of who you are as
- 22:34Speaker 3: a public figure.
- 22:35Speaker 1: And again, my guess, Otani is not very aware of
- 22:40Speaker 1: what's going on here, and he's handing a lot of
- 22:42Speaker 1: things over to someone. I also will say if I'm
- 22:45Speaker 1: him and I don't pay attention to anything, but someone's
- 22:48Speaker 1: telling me, Hey, I'm going to get you a deal
- 22:49Speaker 1: on a real estate spot. I need you to voice
- 22:51Speaker 1: something over if that part is true, I'm.
- 22:52Speaker 3: Like, ey, you know what, I'm going to avoid that.
- 22:55Speaker 3: I don't think that sounds like a great idea for me.
- 22:57Speaker 1: It could become messy, or you know, that's really putting
- 23:00Speaker 1: my name on a property that I want to live
- 23:02Speaker 1: in and kind of be private with, right, And if
- 23:04Speaker 1: I'm putting my face and my voice on something.
- 23:06Speaker 3: I'm probably recruiting people that want to be there around me.
- 23:09Speaker 3: I don't know that's me, but.
- 23:11Speaker 1: Maybe I'm seeing this completely wrong. I just I just
- 23:13Speaker 1: think that we've got two big stories in the past year,
- 23:17Speaker 1: and if you really want to lay low, this is
- 23:20Speaker 1: not the way to do it.
- 23:22Speaker 2: And I think my hope is that it just comes
- 23:25Speaker 2: out that it's another case of Shoho Tani's naivety. He's
- 23:30Speaker 2: very naive in financial things. Because then it's like, okay, yes,
- 23:35Speaker 2: he's he's clear of all this. But I've also played
- 23:40Speaker 2: with guys who are superstars and have been taking advantage
- 23:45Speaker 2: financially of people, and I've never heard I've never heard
- 23:50Speaker 2: of it happening twice, let alone like once it happens,
- 23:55Speaker 2: it's like, hey, I really have to close my circle.
- 23:58Speaker 2: I really have to close the things I want to
- 24:03Speaker 2: get involved in the extra things. But we've heard all
- 24:07Speaker 2: the time Shoheo Tani is a advertising mogul Japan over
- 24:14Speaker 2: here la that like new Balance is you know, he's
- 24:19Speaker 2: the face of new Bounce. When you're a star and
- 24:21Speaker 2: you're able to make this advertising money, nez Bulelo is
- 24:26Speaker 2: never going to get him another contract in baseball, so
- 24:29Speaker 2: all the advertising money, it's a short window. And so
- 24:32Speaker 2: when he gets an opportunity to make some for his client,
- 24:37Speaker 2: who knows. Maybe he's trying to dip into this too.
- 24:41Speaker 2: I don't know, but I think if you're making as
- 24:43Speaker 2: much as people are saying, Shoho Tani is making and
- 24:46Speaker 2: advertising and the team is probably making that much more,
- 24:51Speaker 2: how do you even keep track of all of it?
- 24:53Speaker 2: How do you even say? Okay, I'm not going to
- 24:55Speaker 2: be his naive, I'm gonna get involved in it. But
- 24:58Speaker 2: I also have to go do my throne program. I
- 25:00Speaker 2: have to do my rehab. I have to be the
- 25:03Speaker 2: leadoff hitter. I have to do like pick me.
- 25:05Speaker 3: I know I know the answer. I know the answer, crats.
- 25:07Speaker 1: I know the answer this one because I sit next
- 25:09Speaker 1: to someone most days who taught me about this. If
- 25:12Speaker 1: I was ever in his position, I'll I'll call a
- 25:15Speaker 1: friend aj Przinski. If you're constantly getting hit with all
- 25:19Speaker 1: of these offers and things, right, obviously, you pick and
- 25:21Speaker 1: choose your spots. Some are great and some are trustworthy.
- 25:24Speaker 1: It's it's blue chip stock companies, all of that, right,
- 25:26Speaker 1: But then you get thrown a lot of other things
- 25:28Speaker 1: like real estate projects. What do you do, especially in
- 25:31Speaker 1: your playing days, because this is something that you did,
- 25:33Speaker 1: aj what do you do? It's it's a really complicated
- 25:35Speaker 1: word that you throw out there. It's one two letters, one.
- 25:38Speaker 4: Word check your jump.
- 25:41Speaker 3: No, that's way longer. Two letters that you taught me.
- 25:44Speaker 4: And oh no, you know some of this crap. So
- 25:47Speaker 4: now you know how much do you know how much
- 25:49Speaker 4: Junk I said no to in my life? You know
- 25:50Speaker 4: how much Junk I said yes. I'd just gotten this
- 25:52Speaker 4: thing with my buddy Pickle. I don't know why, but
- 25:54Speaker 4: hopefully it works out. I should have said no, but
- 25:56Speaker 4: I didn't. Okay, but it'll work out. Why because he's Pickle.
- 26:00Speaker 4: I mean, listen, do you not trust a guy named Pickle? Right? So,
- 26:04Speaker 4: I mean I gotta trust Pickle. But here's the thing.
- 26:07Speaker 4: You just say no, Just say no. Here's here's one
- 26:09Speaker 4: thing I've learned about athletes over the years, and I've
- 26:11Speaker 4: had a conversation with people about this. You play, you're
- 26:14Speaker 4: highly competitive. Everything is going, you're pushing, pushing, pushing. You
- 26:18Speaker 4: get out and you're like, okay, let's say I'm gonna
- 26:20Speaker 4: throw random numbers out there. You make a hundred million
- 26:23Speaker 4: in your just random numbers. Okay, Well then you go
- 26:25Speaker 4: to your country club or you go to your yacht
- 26:27Speaker 4: or your plane, and there's a guy who made five
- 26:29Speaker 4: hundred million and he's got a bigger plane in a
- 26:31Speaker 4: bigger boat. Well, the competitive side of athletes says, I
- 26:34Speaker 4: want to be like that guy. Be happy with what
- 26:36Speaker 4: you got. Don't chase two hundred million, five hundred million.
- 26:39Speaker 4: If you got a hundred, try to keep your hundred,
- 26:42Speaker 4: let that grow and then work on that. But be
- 26:45Speaker 4: happy with what you have. Guys, you don't constantly need
- 26:47Speaker 4: more unless the guy's name is Pickle.
- 26:50Speaker 2: But you need to.
- 26:51Speaker 4: But you need to do what you like.
- 26:53Speaker 2: I mean, aj Prasinski was doing ww was a WWF
- 26:57Speaker 2: or WWE when you did it, you were doing you
- 27:00Speaker 2: were the only player active player doing Fox games in
- 27:03Speaker 2: the playoffs the years. You wouldn't make it like, but
- 27:06Speaker 2: those were things that you liked doing. So to me,
- 27:09Speaker 2: Otani needs to do things he likes doing and he's
- 27:11Speaker 2: actually like invested in in like watching and doing those things.
- 27:17Speaker 3: Yeah, this is very different to me.
- 27:19Speaker 1: This is this is a pretty intense case going on here,
- 27:22Speaker 1: and again it could get dropped, but these are like
- 27:23Speaker 1: one guys of forty years of experienced developer. Another guy
- 27:26Speaker 1: is a longtime listing agent, and they said, I mean
- 27:29Speaker 1: they went after them, and then they said there's even
- 27:31Speaker 1: a neighboring development that they were trying to pick up,
- 27:33Speaker 1: and then they went after that. So I'm like, damn, like,
- 27:35Speaker 1: if any of that is a semblance of truth to it,
- 27:37Speaker 1: get out a board a board, and if you don't
- 27:40Speaker 1: know about it, you got to reevaluate your team.
- 27:42Speaker 3: That's all.
- 27:43Speaker 1: Some people are going to look at this think we're
- 27:44Speaker 1: going after show as best player on the planet, one
- 27:46Speaker 1: of the best players of all time. So don't do that.
- 27:49Speaker 1: But we're going to bring this stuff up because nobody
- 27:51Speaker 1: else does and I like to hear the player perspective.
- 27:53Speaker 1: We'll give it a follow as we're.
- 27:54Speaker 4: Gonna be fascinating to see what becomes of it, is
- 27:57Speaker 4: what I mean. I want to just see what becomes
- 27:59Speaker 4: of it, because let's say, I mean, how much can
- 28:01Speaker 4: I don't know the numbers, but what are they suing
- 28:03Speaker 4: them for? How much are they seeing?
- 28:04Speaker 1: It's a massive project, so it's going to be many
- 28:07Speaker 1: millions of dollars.
- 28:08Speaker 3: It's a two hundred and forty million dollar real estate project.
- 28:11Speaker 4: No, I understand that, But if you're Otani, why don't
- 28:13Speaker 4: you just write a check and be like, dude, here's
- 28:14Speaker 4: one hundred million feet it.
- 28:17Speaker 3: He might, but I mean ant one hundred I don't know.
- 28:19Speaker 4: I'm just I'm just saying, like what you I don't
- 28:21Speaker 4: know how much you're suing them for. That's kind of
- 28:23Speaker 4: my point. Like it's and then again, like you said, Scott,
- 28:27Speaker 4: if you're not knowing what's happening, then you got to
- 28:30Speaker 4: you got to make tighten your circle and scratch it
- 28:33Speaker 4: and make people pay attention. Like I said, check your
- 28:36Speaker 4: junk and don't have friends name Pickle.
- 28:38Speaker 3: That's all's going to happen too.
- 28:40Speaker 1: If you do take it to a case, you start
- 28:43Speaker 1: to learn more information, right, I mean that's where the opposition,
- 28:48Speaker 1: the plaintiff for there is going to lay out emails, exchanges, whatever.
- 28:53Speaker 1: They're not going into this with nothing that I'm not
- 28:57Speaker 1: saying that as a fact, but they clearly have i'm
- 29:00Speaker 1: ammo that they think is wrongdoing and they are going
- 29:03Speaker 1: to bring it out in a court case and see
- 29:05Speaker 1: if that holds up. So does it get to that
- 29:07Speaker 1: point for someone who is very private? That was my
- 29:10Speaker 1: big thing When I read this, I'm like, this is
- 29:13Speaker 1: one of the most private people I've ever covered in sports.
- 29:16Speaker 1: Why is he putting his face on a real estate project?
- 29:18Speaker 1: That's like one of the most public things you can do. Hi,
- 29:21Speaker 1: I'm buying this. I'm going to be around here. I'm
- 29:24Speaker 1: going to be opening or they said in the one
- 29:27Speaker 1: of the brochures, like some type of hitting facility or
- 29:29Speaker 1: whatever for himself. Like, you're clearly making a spectacle of
- 29:33Speaker 1: this development. You're not hiding things. So again, if someone
- 29:36Speaker 1: told you that you're you're just doing one voice over
- 29:38Speaker 1: and then everyone's going to leave you alone, You're getting
- 29:42Speaker 1: got You got to reevaluate who's who's doing those kind
- 29:46Speaker 1: of decisions for you.
- 29:47Speaker 4: That's bad advice that goes back to your team. His team.
- 29:50Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, you're doing a commercial for a shoe company. Good.
- 29:54Speaker 1: Fine, There aren't many cracks in that one, you know,
- 29:58Speaker 1: unless you're doing a commercial for the Sea through Jerseys
- 30:01Speaker 1: last year and.
- 30:01Speaker 3: Then you get out of that.
- 30:05Speaker 4: Just can't let it go, can.
- 30:08Speaker 3: I haven't brought it up in months.
- 30:09Speaker 1: I kind of keep a counter in every three months,
- 30:12Speaker 1: krat said, I can say something. It's been three months.
- 30:14Speaker 1: He Jake four times a year.
- 30:17Speaker 4: I'd may fixed for a minute.
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- 31:27Speaker 1: Better than box scores. Let's run through some things from yesterday.
- 31:31Speaker 1: Let's actually start with the Rangers. I know, we were
- 31:34Speaker 1: just talking to Browdy Telez. So they pull off a
- 31:36Speaker 1: big walk off win yesterday. Aj whyat Langford a huge
- 31:40Speaker 1: three run home run to get the mac involved in
- 31:42Speaker 1: that game against the Diamondbacks. Diamondbacks are going to pushover
- 31:44Speaker 1: team here down the stretch because they still got bats.
- 31:46Speaker 1: I mean, you could score against them, but they have Batallen.
- 31:49Speaker 4: You would think at some point Gallon's going to pitch
- 31:51Speaker 4: good at starter three, right, you would think it's still
- 31:55Speaker 4: pretty good. I mean they still have some dudes on
- 31:58Speaker 4: that team. It's not like they got rid of everybody.
- 32:00Speaker 4: Corbyn Carrol's still there last time I checked. I mean,
- 32:02Speaker 4: Alec Thomas is having a better year. They still have
- 32:04Speaker 4: some dudes there.
- 32:06Speaker 1: Yeah, you got could tell. I mean there's some good bats.
- 32:08Speaker 1: I mean it's one of the best lineups, or it
- 32:10Speaker 1: was one of the best lineups in Bass. But obviously
- 32:12Speaker 1: they lost Geno and Josh Naylor, but there's some good
- 32:14Speaker 1: bats in there. Bullpen is pretty crappy, but anyway, Rangers
- 32:18Speaker 1: pull off the walk off win.
- 32:20Speaker 3: Also, you know, sorry S put.
- 32:21Speaker 1: Out an article yesterday about Nathany Baldi having the best
- 32:25Speaker 1: season of his career. I know it wasn't as good yesterday,
- 32:28Speaker 1: but still, I mean, he is still a sub to
- 32:31Speaker 1: e through twenty starts this season, best era in baseball
- 32:36Speaker 1: minimum of twenty starts. He's got a one seven one
- 32:38Speaker 1: in twenty starts. And what he pointed out is just
- 32:41Speaker 1: the evolution of him being tough to guess against. Right,
- 32:47Speaker 1: he's a full blown pitcher now, he said, he's throwing
- 32:51Speaker 1: slower than ever, but the crafty right. He has transitioned
- 32:54Speaker 1: from the rookie that used to throw one hundred and
- 32:57Speaker 1: see his fastball get blasted anyway, to now being a
- 33:01Speaker 1: pitcher with the most even mix he's ever had. Fifteen
- 33:04Speaker 1: percent forcing fastballs, six percent sinkers, so that's twenty one
- 33:08Speaker 1: percent heaters, twenty two percent cutters. So if you count
- 33:12Speaker 1: that in the fastball range, then you've got the curve
- 33:14Speaker 1: and the splitter as your other pitches for out. Curve
- 33:18Speaker 1: twenty four percent splitter, thirty four percent. So what do
- 33:22Speaker 1: we think about the pitch mix here? Catchers who wants
- 33:25Speaker 1: to run first with this one? From what they're seeing
- 33:26Speaker 1: from you, Baldy all year a Jay, I love it.
- 33:28Speaker 4: I love it. He's been unbelievable this year. I love it.
- 33:31Speaker 4: I love I love Nate. I mean it's awesome. Good
- 33:33Speaker 4: for you. He made adjustments. He's throwing a little bit slower.
- 33:36Speaker 4: So what do you do he start throwing that nasty
- 33:37Speaker 4: split and cutter more. Duh, that's pitching, that's pitching. Good job,
- 33:41Speaker 4: Mike Maddix. Mike Maddicks went out there, gave him the
- 33:44Speaker 4: old claw in the arm. I was like, let's gow
- 33:45Speaker 4: different pitches here. He is have a great year.
- 33:49Speaker 2: Name of the game is win, Name of the game
- 33:52Speaker 2: is win, and he's pitching to win ball games. You know, Sarus,
- 33:58Speaker 2: I'm not saying like this is his fault. This is
- 34:00Speaker 2: a baseball thing, like everybody's. Everybody's so worried about velocity,
- 34:05Speaker 2: and like he even put kind of like a little
- 34:07Speaker 2: bit of a crafty, righty name on him, like jokingly,
- 34:13Speaker 2: but you know, essentially the whole game is now about
- 34:17Speaker 2: just velocity and don't worry about where it goes because
- 34:20Speaker 2: you have such a bigger margin for air when your
- 34:23Speaker 2: pitches are ninety six miles an hour in Bult and above.
- 34:27Speaker 2: Zach Wheeler threw, in my opinion, a decent start just
- 34:31Speaker 2: the other day after they had shoulders a little bulky.
- 34:33Speaker 2: It wasn't coming back and he was sitting ninety four
- 34:38Speaker 2: in that start. Oh my gosh, everyone's so pa I
- 34:41Speaker 2: don't like to see that out of Wheeler. It's like, yeah,
- 34:44Speaker 2: you don't, but sometimes you just have to do what
- 34:47Speaker 2: it takes to win the game. And I think Ivaldi's
- 34:50Speaker 2: seen what happens because when he first came up, his
- 34:53Speaker 2: fastball was kind of a light fastball. Yes it was
- 34:55Speaker 2: one hundred, but guys would hit it. And now you're
- 34:59Speaker 2: talking about ten plus years later, he's doing what it
- 35:04Speaker 2: takes to win the games. And I love it. I
- 35:07Speaker 2: love seeing it because as a catcher, those are some
- 35:10Speaker 2: of the most fun games to call when dudes are
- 35:13Speaker 2: like putting it where you want it to go on
- 35:16Speaker 2: the plate and not just gunsling in it all over
- 35:20Speaker 2: the strike zone.
- 35:22Speaker 1: Follow up here, Why don't younger pictures embrace methods like
- 35:27Speaker 1: this earlier in their career? And I'm not saying that
- 35:31Speaker 1: they should shy away from a strength. I mean, if
- 35:34Speaker 1: you've got the vel awesome, although maybe Vold you had
- 35:38Speaker 1: the VLO when he was early in his career and
- 35:40Speaker 1: it didn't necessarily produce great results with the heater. So
- 35:43Speaker 1: my question, AJ is why doesn't a young pitcher pick
- 35:47Speaker 1: up tendencies like this? Some do, of course, but many don't.
- 35:51Speaker 1: Many just throw.
- 35:53Speaker 4: Why what gets you drafted? Velocity? What gets you to
- 35:55Speaker 4: move up in the minor leagues through the minor leagues
- 35:57Speaker 4: of the big leagues. Velocity? They were like, we can
- 35:59Speaker 4: teach him to throw strikes in the big leagues. Just
- 36:01Speaker 4: got those one hundred. Let's just get him to the
- 36:03Speaker 4: big leagues and we'll figure it out. That's why if
- 36:05Speaker 4: more guys were rewarded for being good pitchers, then they
- 36:09Speaker 4: would go back to being good pitchers. Now they're rewarded
- 36:12Speaker 4: for velocity and stuff and spin and vert and horizontal
- 36:16Speaker 4: and extension and this and that and carry and all
- 36:19Speaker 4: that stuff. If it mattered to be a good pitcher,
- 36:23Speaker 4: we'd see more of it. But it doesn't matter. It's
- 36:24Speaker 4: all about the numbers and how hard you throw. It's
- 36:27Speaker 4: good or bad. However you look at it. That's the
- 36:29Speaker 4: way it is now.
- 36:31Speaker 2: Look at his pitching coaches, Mike Maddox, He's able to
- 36:36Speaker 2: teach pitching. There's a lot of guys, and not just
- 36:39Speaker 2: in the big leagues, but coming up through and now
- 36:42Speaker 2: they're being hired and high positions in the organization. I
- 36:47Speaker 2: have no idea how to teach pitching. So if you're
- 36:49Speaker 2: an organization and you have somebody who's able to teach
- 36:53Speaker 2: how to pitch, how to navigate a game, how to
- 36:56Speaker 2: locate pitches, how to lean on one when you need to,
- 37:00Speaker 2: that is a valuable hire in your organization. A lot
- 37:04Speaker 2: of organizations, a lot of youth programs even don't have that.
- 37:09Speaker 2: All they have is guys who really never pitch that
- 37:12Speaker 2: much and are like, the best way for you to
- 37:15Speaker 2: get seen, the best way for you to keep getting
- 37:17Speaker 2: job after job after job is to throw the ball
- 37:21Speaker 2: as hard as you possibly can, and that's what they're taught.
- 37:24Speaker 2: But if you want to make the most money, we
- 37:26Speaker 2: had Jesse Chavez on the show the other day a
- 37:29Speaker 2: few weeks ago, if you want to make the most money,
- 37:32Speaker 2: it's about staying out there on the mound. It's about
- 37:35Speaker 2: reinventing yourself it's about throwing strikes getting outs. If all,
- 37:39Speaker 2: he's doing it right now, and he probably wishes he
- 37:42Speaker 2: had done it sooner, but maybe he didn't have guys
- 37:45Speaker 2: that said, hey, it's okay if you get hurt at
- 37:49Speaker 2: ninety four to ninety seven, you don't need to be
- 37:52Speaker 2: ninety seven to one hundred all the time.
- 37:56Speaker 3: Hey, we got crats really flowing. Now he's cooking, he's talking,
- 38:00Speaker 3: all right.
- 38:00Speaker 1: So while we're on this, Kratz, I'm gonna set you
- 38:02Speaker 1: up for a layup last one here in this segment.
- 38:05Speaker 1: The Phillies won yesterday against the Reds, team fighting for
- 38:10Speaker 1: a wild card spot. Taiwan Walker, who Phillis fans wanted
- 38:14Speaker 1: sent to the Moon to play baseball last year, put
- 38:17Speaker 1: together six innings, one run, two punchouts and now has
- 38:20Speaker 1: a three three one ERA in the fourteen starts that
- 38:23Speaker 1: he's made this season. Paul Casella, covering the team, said,
- 38:26Speaker 1: for a little perspective, Rangers Suarez has a three two
- 38:30Speaker 1: five ERA since the start of last season. He said,
- 38:33Speaker 1: I'm not comparing the two. I'm just saying Walker has
- 38:35Speaker 1: made an unbelievable improvement from a seven point one zero
- 38:38Speaker 1: ERA last year and this is why teams do not
- 38:42Speaker 1: cut high priced track record guys so quickly.
- 38:47Speaker 3: What do you see in Kratz?
- 38:49Speaker 2: I mean, I'm seeing the angle of his pitches. Everybody
- 38:53Speaker 2: wants to talk about in spring training his velocity. You know,
- 38:56Speaker 2: he touched a few ninety three, ninety four in the season.
- 39:00Speaker 2: His velocity, to me, hasn't been the thing. It's the
- 39:03Speaker 2: angle of his pitches. He's always when you're a fastball
- 39:05Speaker 2: splitter guy. Yes, I know he's got the slider too,
- 39:08Speaker 2: it goes away, but essentially he's whatever sixty six, six',
- 39:11Speaker 2: seven and he's a fastball slider. Guy you sit there
- 39:15Speaker 2: and you, go how are you going to hurt this
- 39:20Speaker 2: guy when you're? Hitting how are you going to get
- 39:21Speaker 2: a hit against? Him you need to see the ball.
- 39:23Speaker 2: Up he's been able to land his splitter in the
- 39:26Speaker 2: strike zone and throw his fastball off the same, plane
- 39:31Speaker 2: and then they're. Chasing it felt like it was backwards last.
- 39:35Speaker 2: Year WHEN i watched games last, year it was, like
- 39:38Speaker 2: he's going to throw the splitter out of the zone
- 39:39Speaker 2: and he's two to, oh and then they go and
- 39:43Speaker 2: they're getting something media in the middle of the plate
- 39:46Speaker 2: and all the analysts are Going, oh, well it's only
- 39:48Speaker 2: ninety two. Anymore you can still get outs at ninety.
- 39:51Speaker 2: Two you just have to be able to make both
- 39:53Speaker 2: your pitches look the exact same coming in at this.
- 39:56Speaker 2: Angle and to, me a tall athletic pitcher like, him
- 40:00Speaker 2: he needs to create that down angle with his fastball
- 40:03Speaker 2: and that down angle with his, splitter so they both
- 40:06Speaker 2: look the same and guys aren't able to differentiate. It
- 40:10Speaker 2: that's the biggest THING i see from him last year
- 40:13Speaker 2: to this.
- 40:13Speaker 3: Year quick follow, Here.
- 40:14Speaker 1: Kratz last, thing does he crack the playoff froster as a?
- 40:19Speaker 1: RELIEVER i mean he's not going to, Start so is
- 40:21Speaker 1: he going to be like the last reliever on the
- 40:24Speaker 1: team that can eat?
- 40:25Speaker 3: Innings? Maybe you, Know.
- 40:27Speaker 1: Bridge you if you have a problem with the, STARTER
- 40:30Speaker 1: i mean he's not going to be a. STARTER i,
- 40:31Speaker 1: mean if they've got the rotation.
- 40:33Speaker 2: Intact it depends ON i think it depends on How
- 40:36Speaker 2: nola comes. BACK i think everyone's. Talked Oh Taiwan. Walker
- 40:40Speaker 2: you know he's going to see a velocity uptick when
- 40:43Speaker 2: he goes to the. Bullpen, Maybe but right, Now Aaron
- 40:48Speaker 2: nola has to earn a spot in the starting. Rotation
- 40:53Speaker 2: he's coming off of. Injury he's gonna build, Up he's
- 40:55Speaker 2: gonna have plenty of. Time but right, now It's, sanchez It's,
- 41:01Speaker 2: ranger and it's Wheel. Er are your three guys so to?
- 41:05Speaker 2: ME i Think nola gets that. SPOT i Think taiwan
- 41:08Speaker 2: might get a. Spot, also it's just tough to have
- 41:11Speaker 2: two long guys in your bullpen that aren't necessarily like
- 41:16Speaker 2: a three out.
- 41:17Speaker 1: Guy, yep, fair good, Stuff, krats good. Breakdown good to
- 41:21Speaker 1: see you back.
- 41:24Speaker 3: In the. Weeds big questions.
- 41:26Speaker 1: Remaining in the twenty twenty five stretch, Drive tamany we
- 41:29Speaker 1: can get, Through Eric, Kratz you and me ready to?
- 41:32Speaker 3: Go he's a peasy how much home.
- 41:35Speaker 1: Run history will your friend Cal roley? Make currently leading
- 41:40Speaker 1: the league with forty five home runs this, season and
- 41:42Speaker 1: he just Matched Johnny bench for the second most home
- 41:45Speaker 1: runs by a, catcher the top name on that list
- 41:50Speaker 1: of all time With Salvador perez a couple of years
- 41:52Speaker 1: ago with forty eight home.
- 41:54Speaker 2: RUNS i mean that's the first one that's a. Lock,
- 41:59Speaker 2: yeah HE'S i, mean catching catching. HISTORY i think he's
- 42:04Speaker 2: gonna go After Seattle mariner's. HISTORY i think it's fifty
- 42:09Speaker 2: two If i'm not, correct If i'm not, MISTAKEN i
- 42:12Speaker 2: think A rod at fifty two one, YEAR i think
- 42:15Speaker 2: he's gonna get The mariner's. HISTORY i think we're gonna
- 42:18Speaker 2: stop there as far as. HISTORY i don't think he's
- 42:21Speaker 2: going to catch to Catch, judge here's here's my opinion
- 42:27Speaker 2: for The American league. RECORD i think he would have
- 42:31Speaker 2: to Be it just would have to be a different.
- 42:33Speaker 2: SCENARIO i think guys used to feast In september sometimes
- 42:37Speaker 2: in these home run chases because Of september call, ups
- 42:41Speaker 2: you don't quite have that they're gonna be in a playoff.
- 42:44Speaker 2: Hunt they're gonna be playing division team their. DIVISION i
- 42:49Speaker 2: don't think he quite gets To Judges American league.
- 42:52Speaker 1: Record you, know that's a great. Take that's something that
- 42:57Speaker 1: not everyone would. CONSIDER i didn't think about, that but
- 42:59Speaker 1: it's a great. Call, remember, Folks september call ups. Kids
- 43:04Speaker 1: back in the, day it was this thing where you
- 43:06Speaker 1: could basically call up anyone from your forty man roster
- 43:09Speaker 1: for the last month of the. Year our resident manager
- 43:12Speaker 1: on The, Show Buck, showalter used to basically say that
- 43:16Speaker 1: the season was split. Up you had spring training to get.
- 43:19Speaker 1: Ready that was one, portion then you had the regular.
- 43:21Speaker 1: Season then you Had. September you called that a completely different.
- 43:25Speaker 1: Seasons suddenly you go from twenty five at the time
- 43:27Speaker 1: to forty man rosters and, then, yeah that exactly Winter.
- 43:33Speaker 1: Ball that meant you, could of course and back then
- 43:36Speaker 1: not also get hit with the three batter minimum. Rules
- 43:39Speaker 1: so it was just, pitching change city and sometimes it
- 43:43Speaker 1: worked out, great and for crappy teams it was auditions
- 43:46Speaker 1: and it was bad. Pitching so you're not going to see.
- 43:48Speaker 1: That but, Anyway cole's had forty five homers and you're,
- 43:51Speaker 1: Right krats fifty six homers set twice By Ken Grippy
- 43:55Speaker 1: junior in nineteen ninety seven and nineteen ninety eight are
- 43:58Speaker 1: the most home runs In mariners franchise, History so you
- 44:01Speaker 1: think he tops. That so you think he's between fifty
- 44:04Speaker 1: seven and sixty?
- 44:05Speaker 4: Two, YEAH i THINK i think.
- 44:08Speaker 2: Sixty If i'm, setting If i'm setting the, Overender i'm
- 44:11Speaker 2: going sixty and a.
- 44:12Speaker 3: Half got.
- 44:13Speaker 1: It, okay that's still incredible that he's gonna. Get you
- 44:16Speaker 1: think you'll get to sixty home?
- 44:17Speaker 3: Runs it's.
- 44:19Speaker 2: CRAZY i, mean you're only. Talking you, know basically he
- 44:22Speaker 2: needs seven seven per month yet and we're already almost
- 44:28Speaker 2: halfway Through. August so it's gonna be it's gonna be.
- 44:31Speaker 2: Tough it's gonna be. Tough But i'd love to see
- 44:33Speaker 2: him hit. Sixty it's such a such a sick number
- 44:36Speaker 2: for a catcher to do. It lock up the AL.
- 44:39Speaker 1: Mvp, yeah also no offense to A, Rod But i'm
- 44:43Speaker 1: not putting much stock in any of the records with.
- 44:46Speaker 1: Him if we're gonna give flak for bonds and, that
- 44:49Speaker 1: yeah you had them right, right you.
- 44:51Speaker 3: Still have to pass.
- 44:52Speaker 1: IT i, AGREE i, Understand BUT i think in the
- 44:54Speaker 1: same realm of how we looked At judge with the
- 44:56Speaker 1: home run, chase and it was about sixty, one, RIGHT
- 45:01Speaker 1: i got getting to sixty, two not getting to seventy.
- 45:03Speaker 1: ONE i, Mean i'm A rod is firmly in the
- 45:06Speaker 1: same category. There there's there's really no disputing that it's.
- 45:10Speaker 3: A very Ped mard.
- 45:12Speaker 1: Career next, up this one's for Aj, well The rockies
- 45:16Speaker 1: catch the twenty twenty Four White. Sox The White socks
- 45:19Speaker 1: had one hundred and twenty one losses and The rockies
- 45:22Speaker 1: currently sit with eighty eight.
- 45:24Speaker 3: Losses, yes they're going to catch.
- 45:29Speaker 2: Them they're going to catch them in the sense that
- 45:31Speaker 2: The White sox are still going to have the worst.
- 45:34Speaker 2: RECORD i THINK i think The rockies are Gonna they're
- 45:38Speaker 2: going to figure out how to get forty it's forty two.
- 45:42Speaker 2: Wins they need to make sure that sounds. RIGHT i
- 45:47Speaker 2: was ON i WAS i got caught up To phillies
- 45:50Speaker 2: in twenty fifteen for a month just to be the third,
- 45:54Speaker 2: catcher just filling In september, calls like we just, said
- 45:58Speaker 2: and the talk was we are not losing one hundred.
- 46:02Speaker 2: Games AND i just remember, thinking, man where were you
- 46:04Speaker 2: guys talking about this? Earlier like why are you guys
- 46:07Speaker 2: not chatting about this In may when you're, stinking like
- 46:12Speaker 2: don't just try to turn it all at the end
- 46:14Speaker 2: of the. Season that just is gonna. Happen it's gonna.
- 46:17Speaker 2: Happen they know they have to get twelve, wins six
- 46:20Speaker 2: wins and six wins a.
- 46:22Speaker 3: MONTH i don't.
- 46:23Speaker 2: THINK i think The White sox BECAUSE aj wants it to,
- 46:26Speaker 2: happen The White sox are going to still have their.
- 46:29Speaker 2: Record THE i think The rockies win forty.
- 46:32Speaker 3: Three, okay last.
- 46:33Speaker 1: One how do you see THE Nl west shaking out
- 46:38Speaker 1: with The dodgers and The. Padres it is a one
- 46:41Speaker 1: game separation as of this. Conversation The dodgers are.
- 46:45Speaker 3: Five and five In.
- 46:46Speaker 1: August how about going back to the beginning Of, July,
- 46:49Speaker 1: krats they're fifteen and nineteen since the beginning Of. July
- 46:52Speaker 1: nobody is doubting that this is a very good ball,
- 46:54Speaker 1: club but The padres might be the best team in.
- 46:57Speaker 1: Baseball this is the closest The padres have been to
- 46:59Speaker 1: The dodger in the second half of the season since twenty.
- 47:03Speaker 1: Ten and for, me it's not just the, bullpen it's
- 47:07Speaker 1: the bottom of the. Lineup When i'm watching AND i
- 47:10Speaker 1: watch a lot Of padres games this. Year When i'm watching,
- 47:12Speaker 1: them it is completely.
- 47:14Speaker 3: Changed right And freddy for. Me and yesterday is a good.
- 47:16Speaker 1: Example that was more of a dead spot for them for,
- 47:18Speaker 1: me and had to go ahead home run and the
- 47:20Speaker 1: bottom of the lineup changed everything for. Them and yesterday's
- 47:22Speaker 1: went over The giants on A Logan web, Day so
- 47:25Speaker 1: credit to. Them bullpen has obviously. Insane Mason miller was
- 47:28Speaker 1: on fire. Yesterday they are currently in a stretch of
- 47:31Speaker 1: thirteen games against The. Division seven include games against The,
- 47:34Speaker 1: giants six against The.
- 47:36Speaker 3: Dodgers who wins The.
- 47:37Speaker 2: West The, dodgers AND i don't think it's a bad.
- 47:42Speaker 2: THING i think they. ARE i think The padres are
- 47:46Speaker 2: gonna make their built to win in the, playoffs BUT
- 47:49Speaker 2: i think The dodgers still do it because some of
- 47:52Speaker 2: these starting pitchers are now coming. Back they're getting their
- 47:55Speaker 2: first three four starts out of the, way AND i
- 47:58Speaker 2: think some of these starters will help mitigate some of the.
- 48:01Speaker 2: Issues AND i Think Max munsey hasn't been in the
- 48:04Speaker 2: lineup until, recently and since he's been, back The dodgers
- 48:08Speaker 2: have started to win a few more ballgames than they were,
- 48:12Speaker 2: before and that slide that they, HAD i Think Max
- 48:14Speaker 2: munsey is a huge part of. THAT i think The
- 48:17Speaker 2: padgers are really, good BUT i also think they've just
- 48:21Speaker 2: kind of been middling a little bit against good, teams
- 48:24Speaker 2: teams over five. Hundred they're under five hundred against teams
- 48:28Speaker 2: that are over five, Hundred SO i THINK i think
- 48:30Speaker 2: they're gonna come up. Short but it's gonna be an,
- 48:32Speaker 2: awesome awesome final stretch to.
- 48:35Speaker 1: Watch in a, minute let's slap first, off the postseason schedule,
- 48:49Speaker 1: announced so wildcard round Starts september. Thirtieth World series can
- 48:53Speaker 1: go up Until november, first so we could have a
- 48:55Speaker 1: postseason From september To. November think about, That, Kratsats, NO.
- 49:01Speaker 4: I, GOTTA i.
- 49:01Speaker 2: GOTTA i, MEAN i got this sent to, me SO
- 49:04Speaker 2: i gotta make sure THAT i get it. Right but
- 49:07Speaker 2: it is the it's a prospect league and will be
- 49:10Speaker 2: prospect league now it's a wood bat. League The Champion
- 49:13Speaker 2: City kings From, Springfield. Ohio the boys sent me the
- 49:17Speaker 2: hat and it's kind of. Sick it's a sick. Logo
- 49:20Speaker 2: it's kind of tough to see because it's pretty. Intricate
- 49:22Speaker 2: but this is where the college guys go to try
- 49:26Speaker 2: to get.
- 49:26Speaker 4: SEEN i like.
- 49:27Speaker 3: It good.
- 49:27Speaker 1: Stuff quick one on matchups to watch Tonight skeens Versus Freddy,
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- 49:47Speaker 4: CRATS i need another week off now not?
- 49:52Speaker 3: Allowed, okay get.
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