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Opening Weekend Reaction · The 3-0 Take

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  Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to the Three O Take, where we talk
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  all things Major League Baseball.
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  Here's Kyle Corwin and Nate Reyes.
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  It all starts right now. Welcome back to the three O take
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  presented by Chinook Cedary. This is episode 523.
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  I'll be your host, Kyle Cord. I'm here with my Co host Nate
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  Reyes. Nate.
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  Oh boy, what a weekend man this is.
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  I told you before that day before opening day is like
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  Christmas Eve. Then you got Christmas Day
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  opening day. Except the day after Christmas
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  sucks. It's the worst.
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  This is just the kick off of like an entire Christmas season.
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  Can I say something on that note?
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  The day after opening day isn't the best.
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  Well, I need to clarify something because there's some
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  people that are really, really in their feelings about a post
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  that I put out on this very matter.
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  Look what I said after opening day.
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  I said after taking the last 24 hours to digest opening day, the
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  perfect recipe to improve it has been made clear.
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  One, all third teams play 2 game, start at noon and then I
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  didn't include it but in parentheses just know that I
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  meant and then stagger throughout the rest of the day.
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  So you've got baseball all day and then stop giving teams
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  Friday off? Yeah.
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  I can't tell you how many people I had in the comments.
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  Not OK with that. Say, whoa, they give Friday off
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  because of right now it's for Thursday.
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  I didn't did I say that I cared what the reason was?
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  I just said like, stop. I in a in a perfect world, you
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  don't you, you just roll right into a A3 game set.
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  You don't you don't open the season and then say, well, we're
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  going to dial it way back to have like what, four games or
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  something? I think there's more this year,
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  but we've seen, we've seen Fridays after opening day in
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  previous seasons where you, you just don't have many games.
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  I get all that. I I understand the logistics of
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  it. I'm just saying it sucks.
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  In an ideal world, you just have a three-game.
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  The the weather's perfect across the country and heck, even in
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  Canada, we'll include them and you just play three games and
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  you and you enjoy it. You, you enjoy a three-game set.
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  I understand. Trust me every time I open
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  TikTok a little comment notification drops down.
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  It says well, Friday they they say for I get it rained outs.
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  We know why. We I get it.
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  I'm just saying that's a perfect recipe if it were possible.
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  But hey, I mean, if you guys enjoy having the Friday off
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  where there's no baseball, then so be it, but I'm with.
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  You it's weird because it's like Thursday's amazing.
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  It's a, it's, it's a great day and Friday you're like, but for
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  those who are like maybe stuck at work or like didn't get a
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  chance to fully take in the all day festivities of opening day,
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  like Friday's almost like a 2 point, like a, you know what I
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  mean? Like just try again.
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  Like, hey, if you didn't, we're half of us are blown off work on
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  Friday anyway, you know what I mean?
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  So it's like, why not just enjoy that day the same way?
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  Just run it back, repeat everything and like make Monday
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  the the big day off, which it already is for most of these
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  teams anyway. And if it's the big day off then
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  make that the make up day. If you lose one of these games
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  due to weather, well. So here's the thing on that and
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  I don't want to spend too much time on it, but I, I did see
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  people explaining that sort of taking a step further and
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  saying, well, you don't want these teams to lose that opening
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  day that that gate, those tickets that you get as like the
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  official opening day. It's it's less about making up
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  the game 'cause you can do that on a random Monday in July if.
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  You want. That's true.
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  It can always be added to a different series.
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  Right. But they're saying like you have
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  to have that first game done as soon as as you can.
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  And so that's why if it doesn't work Thursday, then you do it
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  Friday. So from that from that
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  perspective, I understand. Again, I'm just saying in a
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  perfect world, we've got baseball every day.
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  No off days actually ever would be great.
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  In fact, year round, make it year round.
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  We don't need an offseason. Sure, we need less of these Nate
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  Reyes funks that we just witnessed this past this past
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  offseason. But opening weekend?
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  I mean, I can't say it's officially in the books 'cause
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  there's games going on right now, but somebody's got a got an
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  anniversary, a one year anniversary to celebrate.
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  Congratulations my friend, Thank you.
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  Buddy, thank you. Thank you.
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  So we're doing a little early recording here, but for all
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  intents and purposes, opening weekend is is is wrapping up
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  later today. A lot happened.
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  Yeah. A lot happened and I feel like
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  we say that every year, but I mean there's just, there's a lot
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  I don't. Remember 1 like this.
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  That I feel like we could dive into, but I want to start first.
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  Actually, no, I was going to save this for last.
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  Let's just get this out of the way because it was the first.
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  I feel like it was the first thing that we were dealt on
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  Thursday. MLBTV.
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  What? How do you drop the ball that
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  bad on Opening of all days for MLBTV not to work?
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  I said it on our live stream on Thursday.
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  You had all offseason to to tie up any loose ends, to make sure
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  everything was buttoned up and to make sure something like this
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  didn't happen. You had baseball fans across the
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  country unable to watch Opening Day.
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  And like I said on our live stream, this isn't like it.
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  It honestly took a while for it to sink in with me.
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  I'm like, this isn't just some, some, you know, big Sunday night
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  game that we're, we're all tuning in for like a, you know,
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  a Dodgers Padres game or something like this is the first
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  game of the season and crickets, black screen and crickets.
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  How so? As you know and as anybody that
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  joined us in the stream knows, I was kind of in and out of work
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  all day. Unfortunately, I did get to
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  catch majority of the Yankees game, but the Yankees game was
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  on ESPN. So like I personally, I was
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  fine, but my other screens weren't able to really throw
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  anything else on. So like, how long was that
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  outage? It was a good chunk of time.
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  I we're talking 30 minutes, 45 minutes.
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  No, no, no, no. I've mentioned it on the on the
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  stream. It for me at least it was an
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  hour and a half. We were an hour and a half in
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  from from when I flipped it on, which was, I mean, pretty early
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  on because I, I think I had it, I think I had it on before the
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  games got going just to see if they were doing any like
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  festivities things. And it was for like an hour and
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  a half it was out. And I'm going to talk about
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  dropping the ball. And then, and then little cherry
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  on top. I, I, I have to, I have to find
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  this e-mail. I get this e-mail yesterday and
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  I don't know, I'm I'm sure most other people got this.
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  Dear loyal subscriber, Opening Day is one of the most exciting
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  days on the baseball calendar. It's the first chance to watch
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  your favorite team and players start competing for a World
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  Series championship. And for over 20 years, MLBTV has
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  consistently given you the chance to stream those Opening
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  Day games from wherever you are. Unfortunately, MLBTV experienced
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  a tech a technical issue yesterday that resulted in a
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  temporary inability to access our live game streams.
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  While our technical team addressed that issue immediately
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  and restored access as soon as possible, we understand how
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  disappointing this was to fans who were eagerly awaiting the
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  start of the season. For that, we apologize.
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  MLB fans deserve the best streaming experience possible
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  and we will continue to strive to provide that.
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  To thank you for your support of the national Pastime, MLB would
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  like to offer you $10 off any purchase of $25 or more at
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  mlbshop.com. See details below.
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  Thanks, MLB. So you want more of my money for
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  a mistake that I'm already paying for that Mark saw?
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  No. Reimbursement for smart?
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  Yeah, Apple got rid of their chargers and headphones so they
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  can you can spend more money. MLBTV is following the same
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  suit, dawg. I would have rather it honestly,
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  I feel like it would have been a, a win for Major League
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  Baseball. Like PR wise, if they came out
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  and said we're going to give every subscriber a dollar back
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  for their lot, for their, for their troubles.
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  That would have been funny. I would have been like, you know
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  what you're trying. That's a lot of money to have to
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  give back. But like a dollar, give me a
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  dollar and we'll call it even. But no, they said, here, spend
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  more money on our things and we'll give you a little little,
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  we'll cut you a little discount. You and I were talking about it
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  before we hopped on Like it, it is a good deal.
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  MLBTV like really, truly is not that bad of a deal when you
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  consider like all of the subscriptions that an average
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  American pays for. Whether you know, whatever
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  streaming services you use, whatever quantity you use, if
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  you're like me or you like you have 3 or 4 rolling at once and
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  it's just hitting your your freaking account every month.
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  So it is nice that there is like this lump sum that you can just
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  kind of fork over at the beginning of the year.
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  It's nice that you can like pick and choose like, hey, I'll just
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  take this one team or I'll take the whole league or, you know,
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  whatever it is. I do think that this is just one
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  instance of many things that if you were to take a poll and talk
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  to your fans, there's a lot that needs to be cleaned up.
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  There's a lot that like just isn't very user friendly that
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  isn't great. And I don't know man, like you
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  would you would expect coming off of the most watched World
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  Series in the number of years. And we're constantly getting
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  reports of like how viewership is up, how numbers are up and
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  how there's so many different ways to watch this.
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  There's so many different screens that we have now.
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  There's capabilities of taking in baseball.
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  Like, you would think that there would be some sort of overhaul.
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  No, no, it's the same thing. MLBTV looks the exact same.
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  MLB Network is the exact same. You don't have new shows, you
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  don't have new ideas. You're just rolling out the same
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  stuff. And it is frustrating.
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  It it, this does get old and if you were to clean some of this
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  up, I think you could probably charge another 50 bucks per
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  subscription and we would happily fork it over because
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  there really isn't another option.
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  It's true. There's no other option.
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  They are monopolizing this entire game.
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  So it's like, I can't blame you for not cleaning stuff up.
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  I will. I complain in a few years when
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  you do Add all these things in and it does go up in rate
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  probably. But be better.
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  Just be better and don't drop the ball on our freaking day.
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  All right, we got that out of the way.
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  Let's start. Let's the rest is positive, I
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  promise. Speaking of, well, positive for
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  you, less so for me. Yankees just make an absolute
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  home run history, a lot of home runs this weekend, not just from
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  the Yankees, but from really across the league, but
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  specifically looking at the Yankees.
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  But let's talk. Let's get into what I feel like
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  people really want to hear about and, and discuss these, these
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  torpedo bats. What in the world, What in the
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  world? I, I, first of all, I didn't
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  even know these were legal, but they are.
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  Second of all, I mean, there's no way that or maybe it is, is
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  this the sole reason we saw what we saw yesterday on on Saturday
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  with what was it, nine home runs?
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  9. Nine home runs, a new franchise
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  record, I believe, or tied the franchise record.
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  New franchise record. One short of the the league
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  record, I believe. Right league.
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  Record was 10, which was the Blue Jays the Blue Jays also did
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  it a different time with nine in a different year, obviously the
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  same game they got both of those, but a different time, a
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  different season they got 9. So it's there was only the
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  second time ever that a team has hit nine home runs in a game.
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  No. Like at and whoever is going to
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  sit here and call me a Homer, that's fine.
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  But like Jazz and Volpi are the only ones that have come out and
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  said that they they're using it. Did they both go deep?
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  Yes. Did one of them go deep again
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  today? Yes.
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  Mere minutes ago. But the reality is is that like
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  bats are always changing. They've always changed.
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  They've always been adjusted. Barrel sizes come in a variety.
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  All of these hitters have different sizing that they
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  prefer, different handles, different knobs, different
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  thicknesses. I think this is just one of the
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  last remaining options as some type of adaptive adjustment and
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  what you're seeing here for those that are unfortunately
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  just listening audio, get on YouTube first of all, or join in
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  on our stream so you can see the video.
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  But the instead of the thicker part of the barrel being at
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  towards the end of the bat, it has now moved down lower than
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  what your normal sweet spot would be and almost closer to
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  the label. And during the broadcast
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  yesterday, they were talking about how, you know, our
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  analytics are constantly adjusting mechanics now and that
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  there's different ways you've seen pictures change their grip
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  or arm angle or, you know, whatever to basically maximize
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  their potential and whatever that, you know, that Endeavour
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  is. But with these bats, they were
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  saying is that like some of these guys like Jazz and Volpe,
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  a lot of their contact has been lower on the label, so that the
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  idea was to lower that sweet spot and, and bring it down.
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  The barrel isn't any bigger. It's not illegal, like you said,
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  the sweet spot is just in a different place.
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  And for those who have played any of us that have had the
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  chance to have a different type of bat, whether it's metal,
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  whether it's wood throughout our time of playing, like you kind
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  of play around with what feels good, kind of play around with
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  what feels comfortable. Do you like it and loaded?
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  Do you like more weight in the hands?
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  Do you, you know, like how do you prefer it basically?
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  And this is just an innovative way.
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  Like, I get that it is somewhat polarizing because of what team
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  it's attached to. I get that it is polarizing
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  because it may or may not be a coincidence that they just put
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  up nine home runs and twenty runs in a game.
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  But this is legal. And you know, no one freaked out
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  when axe handles started becoming a thing 5-6 years ago.
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  You know what I mean? No one freaked out when knobs
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  were completely removed. No one freaked out when giant
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  knobs where a lot of the weight sat in the hands started coming
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  out. No one's really talking about
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  the transition from when we were kids.
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  You watched a lot of ash bats being used and that's why you
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  had those blow up splintered black bats everywhere when bats
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  broke. Now you just see barrels flying
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  because a lot of these guys are using Maple.
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  So like bats are going to change throughout our game.
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  They've you go back to what's that video when Bryce was 16
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  swinging the the Babe Ruth sized bat.
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  Where's a 40 oz bat? Right, Like right, right.
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  Like you know what I mean? So when we're talking about the
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  equipment adapting to what the game style is, the reason those
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  guys were using such heavier bats back in the day is because
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  the velocity wasn't as high. Now that velocity is up, you're
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  seeing an A change to bats. I, I don't see the issue
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  personally. And if you want to come at like
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  me for being a Homer, if you want to come at the Yankees for
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  doing it, I know I think it was Savale that came out and said
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  that because it's the Yankees, they'll let it slide.
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  Like what are we talking about? Like it.
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  Every player has the ability to choose and customize their
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  equipment in this way. Well, Spencer in the chat, not
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  to cut you off, Spencer in the chat did ask.
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  He said should everyone be required to swing the same model
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  weight bat? And I, I, I didn't play the big
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  league level, but I, at the very least I played competitive
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  baseball. And I, I, I understand that that
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  would almost be an impossible ask to make, make a singular bat
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  universal across the league in terms of specs and everything,
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  because that there is way too much nuance to like you
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  mentioned the different types of wood, the, the, where the weight
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  is distributed, the, the flex that each bat has, whether it's
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  more or less. There's there's so much at play
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  there that I think as long as you're meeting the the
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  specifications requirements set forth by the league, everything
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  else is fair game. And the same thing applies to
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  this torpedo thing. Where does it end?
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  Gloves, batting gloves, cleats. Where does it end?
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  Are you talking about if if anybody watched any Cubs or
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  Diamondbacks games this weekend, you saw that, you know, P Crow
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  Armstrong and and Corbin Carroll wear like a lower almost looking
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  like a soccer cleat compared to some of these other guys that
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  are like a lot of them you see like Jordans or like Air Force
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  ones or whatever, like there's a different style there.
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  Are we talking about an advantage to their speed because
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  of the type of cleats they're wearing?
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  Should we change everyone from, you know, molded spikes to metal
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  spikes to like, what are we doing?
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  I, I don't understand what the argument is that the beauty of
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  our game is that it's done in so many different sizes.
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  It's the beauty of our game is that a Jose Altuve can compete
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  against an Aaron Judge. That's, that's what the beauty
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  of our game is. That's what encompasses this
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  game. It's a, it's a mesh of
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  athleticism compared to when it comes down to it, it's just a, a
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  ball and a stick against a hitter and a pitcher, right?
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  So like, where do we draw the line?
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  Are you upset that an outfield glove is?
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  Massive. I don't know.
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  I I watched Corbin Carroll yesterday and I swore that his
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  glove is a 14 inch glove. It's huge, right?
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  He's a tiny guy, but yeah. I, I just, I don't understand
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  why we're getting heated about this.
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  I I can see why it immediately raises eyebrows based on what
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  they did yesterday offensively, but like, let's not take away
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  from the fact that Judge had three of those and Judge ain't
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  changing his bat. Yeah.
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  What was the quote? What was the quote from Judge?
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  He said what I've done. They asked him if he if he used
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  the torpedo bat or why he didn't use it.
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  And he said what I've done the last few years speaks for
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  itself. In other words, saying like
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  thanks, but no thanks, don't need it.
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  I don't. Know maybe be better Brewers
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  pitching. Sorry, yeah.
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  Yeah, quite literally in the chat yesterday had more to do
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  with poor pitching than to do with those new bats.
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  Yeah, I'd agree. I mean, when you're which we
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  didn't even mention, but when you're Nestor Cortez just laying
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  in three, get me over like that's tough, man.
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  My goodness, how do you do that? You you know that line up better
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  than anybody on that staff. You got to know that what you
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  did wasn't going to work. That plan of attack was not
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  going to work. But yeah, anyway, enough on the
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  enough on the the torpedo bats. I feel like we covered covered
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  most that and for the record, I'll speak for Nate, but I don't
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  think Nate's frustration is with Spencer for asking the question
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  about. No, not at all.
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  Spencer's my guy. We love Spencer, but it's more
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  of a question about the narrative.
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  And you know, I'm I can't stand the Yankees as much as the next
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  guy, but even I can look at this and go, you know, if it adheres
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  to the rules set forth by the league, that's where the
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  conversation starts to do it, right, Right.
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  I mean, that's where the conversation should start and
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  end. Does it meet the like, are there
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  rules set in place? Do the do these bats adhere to
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  those rules? If so, conversation's over.
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  It's just it's they were, like you said, first ones to do it.
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  They were more. Crowded in that way, I guess
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  like we we've seen a lot of this different type of stuff.
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  I have. I have my own thoughts on the
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  other. Stuff.
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  I don't love the oven either. I think it it bugs me, but
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  again, like if it adheres to the rule book, the hell let it
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  slide. Pun intended.
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  Speaking of home runs, the OS and we talked about this on the
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  live stream on Thursday coming out with an absolute bang dude.
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  The OS came out put up, I think. Well, it doesn't.
• 22:37
  Anything I say about the Orioles now is going to be completely
• 22:39
  overshadowed by what the Yankees did on Saturday.
• 22:42
  But Opening Day, I was feeling very, very good about my my
• 22:49
  preseason prediction that the OS are going to lead the league in
• 22:52
  home runs 'cause they came out put up 6.
• 22:54
  I think Adley had. Adley had.
• 22:57
  Two said he had two. Said he had two.
• 23:01
  I think yesterday Westburg had or the day yesterday he.
• 23:07
  Had yeah, he had one Thursday and one yesterday.
• 23:10
  I don't know if he had two in one game or not, I thought.
• 23:12
  He had a pair, but my goodness, dude, yo is coming out swinging
• 23:16
  in Toronto, which for me, I love to see for that pic of mine, but
• 23:22
  it's more, you know, like it it's.
• 23:25
  Did you you remind me where you had them finishing?
• 23:30
  Are they in a wild? Are they in a wild card spot?
• 23:32
  Yeah, I had, I had them. Let me confirm here.
• 23:37
  I believe they were my first wild card, second wild card
• 23:44
  behind Houston. So with that, you can go ahead
• 23:49
  and and understand the reality that I do not have the Yankees
• 23:52
  make in the the playoffs, which is bold on my part I, I do I, I
• 23:58
  do declare, I acknowledge, but that's the beauty of baseball.
• 24:03
  What do you think can happen but I do?
• 24:05
  Declare. But but the you don't have to
• 24:09
  say declare after everything. Yeah, the as great as it was to
• 24:14
  see the OS coming out swinging it it it wasn't surprising to me
• 24:19
  that that's the narrative that we saw right out of the gate is
• 24:21
  you got the O that you got that line up bopping.
• 24:23
  I think Jackson even game two had a bop of his own.
• 24:26
  So that's great. That's encouraging to see.
• 24:29
  But it's more about the it's more about the question marks
• 24:32
  surrounding the the staff. Yeah, no.
• 24:34
  What? Are we going to see from that?
• 24:36
  This wasn't in question, right? This part of their I mean like
• 24:38
  we knew that these guys being one year older, just more ABS
• 24:43
  under their belt, like the opportunity to settle in.
• 24:45
  We knew that this lineup was going to bang.
• 24:47
  We knew that Adley added down near last year and he was going
• 24:50
  to turn it around. Like and I'm not saying this is
• 24:52
  definitive for the rest of the year.
• 24:54
  Sure. I think these are the things
• 24:56
  that we knew were their strengths.
• 24:59
  It's just they're it's just they're pitching.
• 25:01
  And on the opposite side of the thing, like Blue Jays pitching
• 25:08
  is what like it needs to, it needs all things need to go
• 25:12
  right for the Blue Jays. Yeah, all things need to go
• 25:15
  right. And this is a tough start.
• 25:18
  This is a real tough start. The guy didn't have a tough
• 25:25
  start. Tyler O'Neill, when does, when
• 25:28
  does that end? Let me, let me just pose that to
• 25:31
  the group, to the chat. Now right to the.
• 25:35
  Public year 6 now I'm thinking after five, I'm thinking after
• 25:40
  he hits he he gets 5 for the Sox last year.
• 25:43
  I'm thinking that's a nice, I mean, it's not like a a round
• 25:48
  Number per SE, but like 5. That's a that's a healthy
• 25:51
  benchmark to reach. Yeah.
• 25:52
  Surely he doesn't get the six signs with the O's.
• 25:56
  What does he do? Goes yard opening day.
• 25:59
  It's now at six, which begs the question like, is this just is
• 26:06
  this the the the characteristic of his career?
• 26:10
  Is this his like his thing? Like you got Chris Davis for the
• 26:14
  A's back in the day, he was just the 247 guy.
• 26:18
  And even even now, Tyler O'Neill surpassed the the amount of
• 26:21
  years that Chris Davis went 247 consecutively.
• 26:25
  So it's not even the greatest comparison.
• 26:27
  But it's like, is this just who he is now?
• 26:29
  Is this what he does? What do you have more faith in?
• 26:31
  Do you have more faith in Tyler O'Neill going deep on opening
• 26:35
  day or the Castellanos home run during some type of tragedy?
• 26:41
  I mean, I hate to say it and not to like, you know.
• 26:45
  There's more opportunity for Castellanos.
• 26:47
  To right, but on that, but before that reason, you know,
• 26:50
  not to not to bring light to it, but you know, there's a lot of
• 26:54
  business, a lot of lot of negative things going on in the
• 26:57
  world right now. And I don't I don't think
• 26:59
  Castellanos can keep up with with all that's going on.
• 27:02
  So, you know, if it just means one day a year.
• 27:07
  Tyler O'Neill take going yard then I'm going to I'm going to
• 27:11
  put my money there. But what it what an incredible
• 27:13
  start and you know O's fans, it seems, can't even enjoy it
• 27:17
  because they're already writing them off going well, this is
• 27:20
  great and all, but I'm sure he'll be out with some sort of
• 27:23
  pulled hamstring or something by next week, which hey from a
• 27:28
  short for from a short or limited perspective, I'll say on
• 27:32
  his his short time in Boston. I I understand where they're
• 27:36
  coming from, but you know, Now's Orioles try to be optimistic.
• 27:40
  No. Well, that's what I was going to
• 27:41
  say. Orioles fans have so quickly
• 27:43
  become cynical because of expectations that have been
• 27:49
  added to the mix. It's funny to watch a fan like a
• 27:53
  like a a group of fans that are optimistic about the future.
• 28:01
  It's been so cold and dark for a long period of time and it's
• 28:07
  just quickly like just in a year or two with expectations that
• 28:12
  show up to become quickly cynical.
• 28:17
  It's funny. It's funny to why it's like for
• 28:19
  some for some fan bases that have just been in that survived
• 28:24
  their entire lives as this welcome, welcome.
• 28:30
  You know, they're probably thinking like you don't.
• 28:32
  You don't become a survivor by by being optimistic all the
• 28:36
  time. Everything's sunshine and
• 28:37
  rainbows sometimes. You just got to let reality sink
• 28:40
  in and like this is going to suck.
• 28:42
  But we just got to keep, we got to keep pushing.
• 28:44
  Forward. We're sickos, man.
• 28:46
  You're just going to continue to get beat down the same way we
• 28:50
  come. Back, I bet you the OS could
• 28:52
  legitimately win the World Series and Orioles fans would be
• 28:54
  like, they're going to a scandal's going to drop and
• 28:58
  they're going to revoke our title.
• 28:59
  Like what? Something's going to happen.
• 29:01
  I don't believe it's true. They're sick, they're sick
• 29:04
  fanbase, but boy do we love them.
• 29:05
  Boy do we love them. Keeping it in the DMV.
• 29:09
  Mackenzie Gore. Let's talk about that real
• 29:11
  quick. This was one of actually one of
• 29:16
  the highlights that I included on my opening day overreactions
• 29:19
  graphic that I posted I think Saturday.
• 29:23
  Oh yeah, yeah, yeah. This is cool though, it was a
• 29:25
  cool step. Yeah, so he became He joined Bob
• 29:29
  Gibson as the only Opening day starter to allow no runs, no
• 29:32
  walks while striking out 13. I spy Bob Gibson in the video
• 29:39
  right now. Shout out Bob Gibson, the man
• 29:43
  himself, right there. How about it?
• 29:46
  Looking at the Chinooks. He's he's he's sizing them up,
• 29:50
  I'll tell you that much. But yeah, man, what a start from
• 29:55
  Mackenzie Gore in this. And what were we talking about
• 29:59
  it on the live stream? Possibly, yeah, I think it was
• 30:01
  the stream. Yeah, where I was saying that
• 30:03
  like people in this area who fall more so on the casual side
• 30:08
  of of fandom when it comes to the Nationals, which I'll admit
• 30:11
  there's a lot around here, like you've got your die hard, sure.
• 30:14
  But this is such a transient area, very like extremely
• 30:18
  transient. I think I undersell it just how
• 30:20
  transient it is. So it's really hard for people
• 30:22
  in this, in this area, this region to really latch on to the
• 30:27
  Nats because they're, they're here for a little bit and
• 30:29
  they're gone not too soon after or, or soon after, I should say.
• 30:36
  And so you got a, a bunch of casual nationals fans out here
• 30:40
  going, you know, the, the, you know, Soto trade goes down and
• 30:43
  they go, OK, well, what do we have to look forward to?
• 30:46
  And it's like just, and I've said this before on this, on
• 30:49
  this podcast, I, I would tell them like, just be patient.
• 30:53
  You've got some pieces coming back in the mix that sure.
• 30:57
  Are they going to, are you going to achieve Soto in the aggregate
• 30:59
  as a result? Probably not.
• 31:02
  But you're going to have, you're going to have pieces that if,
• 31:05
  if, if, if managed well, if given the right opportunities,
• 31:10
  will serve as pretty substantial pieces in whatever picture that
• 31:15
  you build up in whatever, in whatever movement that you craft
• 31:19
  as an organization moving forward.
• 31:21
  And I think that's worth being excited about.
• 31:23
  And Mackenzie Gore, I would tell people I keep an eye on
• 31:25
  Mackenzie Gore and myself, I was a believer in Mackenzie Gore the
• 31:29
  last, the last last couple seasons.
• 31:31
  You know, I'd pick him up in fantasy, which, you know, may
• 31:34
  not sound like a lot to to most people, but like, you have to
• 31:38
  have some sort of belief in a guy to give him the, you know,
• 31:42
  the sign of approval to add him to your fantasy team.
• 31:44
  You're like, all right, this guy could, could, could contribute
• 31:47
  here. And, and again, I understand
• 31:49
  it's just one start, but this is this has to be encouraging for
• 31:53
  the Nationals and their fans that a guy that you've been sort
• 31:56
  of waiting to be this good is finally giving you a glimpse
• 32:00
  into what could. Be Yeah, yeah, we were talking
• 32:04
  about on the stream a little bit.
• 32:05
  But I think we get so impatient as just as baseball fans with
• 32:16
  with prospects, we get impatient with prospects that maybe are,
• 32:24
  you know, top 100 in baseball when they're when they're making
• 32:29
  their debut. And if it takes a year or two
• 32:33
  before they kind of live up to that status, we almost just kind
• 32:38
  of throw in the towel. We almost give up on them a
• 32:40
  little bit. And especially if they're
• 32:43
  involved in in trades like they have been.
• 32:45
  And Mackenzie Gore is a perfect example of that.
• 32:49
  And you got to remember, like with that being said, if they
• 32:51
  are being involved with trades and they're bouncing around
• 32:54
  between cities and they haven't even like really truly settled
• 32:57
  in yet, how many pitching coaches they've had?
• 33:01
  How many philosophies have they had thrown at them?
• 33:03
  How many catchers have they had, right?
• 33:05
  So like, all of these different things are factoring in and
• 33:08
  you're like, this guy hasn't even gotten a chance to to take
• 33:12
  a breath yet. Yesterday was his debut.
• 33:15
  And now he's on his third city wearing his third uniform and
• 33:19
  and he still hasn't like gotten enough innings.
• 33:22
  He still hasn't gotten on the dirt enough.
• 33:25
  So it's weird, man. Like, you see young names like a
• 33:30
  Jackson Merrill, like a Jackson Cheerio, like a Paul Skeens that
• 33:34
  just immediately come up. And they're like productive and
• 33:37
  they're All Stars and they're leading, you know, their team in
• 33:42
  major stat categories. And you're like, this is what
• 33:44
  every prospect should be. No, no, no, no.
• 33:47
  Those are the those are the exceptions, you know what I
• 33:51
  mean? You got to remember that most of
• 33:53
  these guys for as long as you and I have watched baseball
• 33:57
  typically aren't even really showing up until 2627.
• 34:02
  And they're right, you know what I mean?
• 34:03
  Like now that we're seeing guys at 1920, like we've, we've
• 34:08
  become forgetful that it, it does take a few years to settle
• 34:13
  in. It does take a certain amount of
• 34:15
  Absa, certain amount of innings pitched to really, truly find
• 34:19
  your stuff. Not to mention hopefully finding
• 34:22
  a pitching coach or philosophy with a specific franchise that
• 34:25
  kind of like sits in and agrees with your specific skill set.
• 34:30
  So I would just say this is a great reminder that like don't
• 34:35
  give up on these guys just because it's been a few years.
• 34:37
  Yeah, I mean, I would say that's a blessing and a curse of of the
• 34:41
  league's promotion of its young stars is like we're.
• 34:45
  It's a blessing that you get to see how much talent is is around
• 34:49
  the game at such a young age. But the curse of that is, is
• 34:54
  leading people into a false sense of understanding or, or
• 34:57
  belief that everybody at that age is, is comparable on talent.
• 35:04
  The reality of it is, is that maybe at some point in their
• 35:07
  career they reach that level of stardom.
• 35:09
  But the majority of these guys, they're not going to be like,
• 35:12
  they're not going to be like a Wan Soto.
• 35:14
  When they come up at, at whatever age they come up at it.
• 35:18
  Like you said, they it may not be till 26 that we really see
• 35:22
  these guys peak or or or blossom or or hit their prime, hit their
• 35:26
  stride. In the early 30s, like that's
• 35:30
  what I'm saying. It's just very different for
• 35:32
  everybody. And now on a much like less deep
• 35:36
  analysis, beginning of the year is a lot of times just a
• 35:43
  crapshoot. Like you have no idea.
• 35:46
  Like I, I had my father-in-law, he texts me every once in a
• 35:49
  while for bets. So he likes to just throw, you
• 35:51
  know, 20-50 bucks on a game and just you know, why not?
• 35:55
  And he texts me of the Cubs and and Diamondbacks opening day
• 35:59
  game and it was steel versus gallon.
• 36:02
  And I was like, dude, I this time, like, I don't know.
• 36:05
  I've I've no, I've nothing to offer you.
• 36:06
  Like we don't know you have either a group of hitters that
• 36:11
  maybe don't feel settled in or ready yet.
• 36:13
  You have a pitcher who's still working through stuff and maybe
• 36:16
  hasn't found a certain pitch. Like you just it's a crapshoot
• 36:19
  right now. So I'm not to take away from
• 36:21
  Mackenzie Gore's, Mackenzie Gore's performance, like maybe
• 36:25
  the Phillies just haven't really like as a group offensively
• 36:29
  found their groove yet. And duh, it's fresh.
• 36:33
  We're still figuring it out. So great start, build off of it.
• 36:37
  Hope McKenzie Ward blossoms into what he should be and what has
• 36:40
  been expected of him. But at the same time, I'm like,
• 36:42
  yo, the Phillies are going to be fine.
• 36:44
  Just give him some time. Speaking of a good start, the
• 36:49
  Los Angeles Dodgers look at us more than halfway through before
• 36:54
  we mentioned the Dodgers. Yay.
• 36:58
  I mean, you can only say so much about it, but I feel like it's
• 37:02
  still worth noting. As of right now, five and O
• 37:06
  start the year. They're the Sunday night game,
• 37:09
  right? Sounds right.
• 37:12
  We were just talking about this. They're, weren't they?
• 37:15
  I mean, weren't they the night game opening day as well?
• 37:19
  No. Well, they're the prime time
• 37:21
  game, Yeah, but they weren't A10 O clock game.
• 37:24
  They're Oh no, it's Perez Padres.
• 37:27
  They, oh, they're not even playing today.
• 37:33
  How about? That that's right, they didn't
• 37:35
  take Friday off. That yeah, OK, that's what it
• 37:37
  was. So it's like, yeah, they, I
• 37:38
  mean, they've, as we know with the Japan thing, they've they've
• 37:41
  already had a, a wonky start to the season.
• 37:43
  But yeah, so there you go. 5 and O to start the year.
• 37:51
  Dude, I'm, I don't know if you've been seeing this stuff
• 37:54
  with Mookie. I'm I'm genuinely concerned for
• 37:57
  the guy. He How many pounds did he lose?
• 38:00
  To say I think he's at like 2025. 25 and he.
• 38:04
  Already not a big guy. And he, yeah, and he, he looks
• 38:07
  it too. Dude, it, it does not look good.
• 38:09
  But. See, like, in his, like,
• 38:10
  cheekbones are dropping out, Yeah.
• 38:12
  Yeah, right. And he doesn't, I mean, like you
• 38:15
  said, he's already kind of kind of a tiny guy.
• 38:18
  And and even right now he doesn't have much mass on those
• 38:21
  on those arms, like not much muscle there.
• 38:24
  I thought, well, what was the I think it was yesterday or maybe
• 38:29
  the day before he hit a ball to like the track in left field.
• 38:31
  And I was like that it, the swing he put on it like
• 38:34
  everything looked like, oh, that's 5-6 rows deep.
• 38:38
  Nope, fly out to the track and I'm like, that makes sense.
• 38:42
  That makes sense. 25 lbs is crazy, dude.
• 38:46
  I think not to, not to go on like a weird little conspiracy
• 38:51
  thing, but like I've, I've heard that the norovirus is going
• 38:55
  around. My, my beautiful bride
• 38:59
  unfortunately dealt with that last week.
• 39:01
  And I think it's just like it's going around, man, where you
• 39:05
  just, you can't keep food down. And that sounds like some of his
• 39:10
  symptoms that he was dealing with.
• 39:12
  Sucks yeah, dude, there's some there's some crazy stuff going
• 39:16
  around right now. But you know, all that to say,
• 39:18
  he even the fact that he played yeah, the fact that he even
• 39:22
  suited up was was commendable enough because that that is not
• 39:26
  fun to deal with, I would imagine.
• 39:27
  But not did he not only did he just suit up, he's able.
• 39:30
  I mean, he he's winning a ball games essentially.
• 39:33
  He's he's still showing out, which is very, very encouraging
• 39:37
  for for him and the team. But yeah, you know, par for the
• 39:42
  course. Dodgers just going out and do
• 39:43
  what they do. Trying to think Roki how to,
• 39:50
  Trying to remember Roki didn't look terribly sharp.
• 39:55
  No, the Yamamoto looked good. Yeah, yeah.
• 39:59
  What? Looks real good.
• 40:00
  What was Sasaki's line again? I was trying to remember.
• 40:11
  Through two starts, he's only got he's got 99 walks and five
• 40:16
  KS over 7. That's through two starts, so.
• 40:22
  Said it before for those who didn't know this.
• 40:27
  If you live under a rock, baseballs are different over
• 40:31
  here. That's it.
• 40:33
  Takes some time to figure it out.
• 40:35
  That's what it was. It was an 18 2/3, three hits,
• 40:38
  two earned runs, four walks, 2 strikeouts.
• 40:40
  And of his 61 pitches, only 32 were strikes.
• 40:43
  So it's a command thing that that certainly exists there
• 40:49
  right now. Not to say that it's going to
• 40:50
  carry on for for long, but that is certainly that is the issue
• 40:55
  that he is he is that is currently derailing his his
• 40:59
  starts right now, because if you can't spot the ball, you're not
• 41:02
  going to last long in these starts.
• 41:04
  That's just the reality of it. No matter how good you are
• 41:06
  overseas hitters over here will also be able to adjust and
• 41:12
  majority of guys in this league know how to how to spit on
• 41:15
  stuff. They're not going to just give
• 41:17
  you you. You can't just think well,
• 41:20
  because I I have the talent that I have that you're going to luck
• 41:23
  in the guys just giving you swings, giving you strikes,
• 41:26
  giving you outs. Like guys are going to wait for
• 41:28
  their pitches and if you're not spotting up, if you're not
• 41:31
  hitting the zone, you're not going to have a very long
• 41:33
  outing. You're not your.
• 41:34
  Your day is going to be pretty short.
• 41:36
  I think that on top of the fact like nothing against Japanese
• 41:41
  baseball, I think hitters are obviously better over here, but
• 41:45
  I also think that pitchers are better and hitters are used to
• 41:50
  seeing Roki Sasaki type movement all the time.
• 41:56
  Whereas in Japan, obviously Sasaki is like at the top of the
• 42:01
  mountain, right? He's, he's the one that's, you
• 42:03
  know, leading the way. So it's like everyone else is
• 42:05
  below him right now. When you come over here, hitters
• 42:09
  are like, dude up. See, I saw this yesterday from
• 42:12
  someone's 3 starter. You know what I mean?
• 42:15
  Like, that's how talented the MLB is.
• 42:17
  So it's just, it's just a learning curve.
• 42:20
  I, I wouldn't be worried. And that's the beauty of being
• 42:23
  absolutely stacked is that the Dodgers don't need to be worried
• 42:26
  at all. Be patient and let him figure it
• 42:30
  out. On the flip side down the road,
• 42:35
  the Angels making headlines for all the wrong reasons on opening
• 42:40
  day, rolling out a position player down.
• 42:44
  I think they were down 8 when they when they brought in.
• 42:48
  Was it? Who did they bring in?
• 42:51
  I got to be honest, I didn't. I didn't take anything in from
• 42:58
  that series at all really. Nor.
• 42:59
  Should you? Yeah.
• 43:03
  Not a not a great look to start the year if I'm if I'm being
• 43:06
  completely honest, I'm I'm not entirely sure why a position
• 43:15
  player is even in the mix to start the season when literally
• 43:20
  nobody has has pitched. I mean, I understand getting
• 43:26
  your work in spring training and certain guys are on schedules,
• 43:29
  but like do we have nobody to just come in and and sort of mop
• 43:32
  up? Like what?
• 43:34
  Inning was it in? Are we already trying to load
• 43:36
  manage here? Let me see.
• 43:40
  Because like, it's one thing the Brewers did it in the Yankees
• 43:45
  game yesterday and it was Jake Bowers and it was just the
• 43:49
  bottom of the eighth now. It was bottom.
• 43:53
  Eighth story. OK, so I mean it.
• 43:55
  That was an 11 run game for Nikki.
• 43:57
  Lopez. Poor guy.
• 44:01
  Yeah, I don't know. I mean, yeah, I, it's hard to
• 44:06
  say. I, I think the only thing I can
• 44:10
  somewhat expect is that like these guys, these managers do
• 44:15
  have like a schedule that they're really focused on at the
• 44:18
  beginning of the year. And it's very strange when you
• 44:21
  have some guys maybe aren't ramped up, some guys that are
• 44:26
  you're trying to figure out like you got 2 off days really early
• 44:30
  for Friday and Monday. We need to make sure we balance
• 44:32
  out like I don't, I don't know, maybe that's a part of it.
• 44:35
  I'm not too worried about it. I'm not that surprised either.
• 44:38
  I mean, look at it's the Angels, it's what you're going to get.
• 44:46
  It's probably won't be the last time you get position player on
• 44:50
  the bump this year. Speaking of things not to be
• 44:55
  worried about thoughts on, I mean, I have my own thoughts,
• 44:59
  but this Rafael Dever situation, I don't know if you've seen just
• 45:03
  how bad of a start he's gotten off to through through
• 45:08
  yesterday's games, because I know they're playing right now.
• 45:11
  Through yesterday's games had 12 ABS and I want to say yeah, over
• 45:18
  1210 KS, over 12 with 10 KS. There's a lot that you could pin
• 45:26
  this on, a lot of different angles I feel like you could
• 45:29
  take and I don't want to speculate beyond reason, but you
• 45:38
  have to think you just this has to be directly tied to
• 45:46
  everything that happened with the third base DH thing, right?
• 45:49
  Like, I mean, he, he's gotten off to slow starts before, but I
• 45:52
  mean 10 strikeouts, which is some, some sort of record I'd
• 45:58
  have to confirm. I'm my perspective, my opinion,
• 46:06
  which this is all this podcast ever is, it's just our opinions.
• 46:10
  Let me just let me add that stat real quick. 10 times Strike has
• 46:14
  struck out 10 times through three games.
• 46:15
  Again, through yesterday's games, an MLB record through the
• 46:18
  first three games of a season. Yeah, it's a tough one to hold.
• 46:23
  I'm going to I'm going to start this was by saying I I think
• 46:27
  Jeffers is obviously a top 10 hitter in the league when he's
• 46:34
  going right, which he will go right.
• 46:37
  This isn't forever. I, I'm not calling him not a
• 46:42
  winner, but in my mind from an outsider and non Red Sox fan, my
• 46:50
  view on the fact that like you have everyone in that clubhouse
• 46:56
  ready to turn the page and get into the next chapter of of what
• 47:00
  their team is, what this franchise needs to get back to
• 47:03
  being. And when everyone in that
• 47:06
  clubhouse is saying, put me wherever I'll hit whatever spot,
• 47:10
  I'll play whatever spot in the field, I don't care.
• 47:14
  I want to help this team win. And the one single voice is
• 47:18
  your, is your franchise player, is your highest paid player, is
• 47:23
  the one coming out saying I played third.
• 47:28
  No, I I played third. I played third.
• 47:33
  It's tough. Man, it's just.
• 47:35
  It's yeah. And I don't want to.
• 47:36
  I don't want to beat this this. Horse No, I'm not going to beat
• 47:38
  it up either. But what I'm saying is that,
• 47:40
  like, if you're not in and you're the only one not in, that
• 47:47
  starts to weigh on you. And I said this in the
• 47:50
  offseason. I said this before they got
• 47:52
  Bregman. I said I had a feeling that Rafi
• 47:55
  Devers is someone who doesn't like only being at on the field
• 48:02
  4 * a game. There's something about being
• 48:06
  able to have a bad day at the plate and make up for it
• 48:11
  defensively or vice versa. There's something about that
• 48:15
  that we've had if, if you've been playing long enough and for
• 48:19
  these guys that have been blessed to continue to play,
• 48:21
  we've had that our whole time playing from four or five years
• 48:25
  old. We've gotten the opportunity to
• 48:28
  be on both sides of the ball. Then maybe mentally he's just
• 48:33
  someone that doesn't know how to handle doing that.
• 48:38
  And if you're coming in to a point of going against your your
• 48:43
  franchise's wishes and saying, I'm not doing that, you got to
• 48:49
  assume that it's going to magnify those difficulties or
• 48:55
  those insecurities that you may have about accept accepting
• 49:00
  their role. I'm not surprised.
• 49:02
  I'm not surprised. I think it'd be very different
• 49:06
  if he said, you know what, hand up.
• 49:08
  I'm going to do whatever this this team needs me to do.
• 49:11
  I'm the leader, I'm the one that they've invested in the most.
• 49:15
  I have to be able to say, put my pride aside and say I'll do what
• 49:19
  I need to do. And I I would have understood,
• 49:23
  hey, I'm struggling as ADH after saying that, but to start saying
• 49:30
  no, I play third, I'm not ADH. You kind of shoot yourself in
• 49:38
  the foot, man. Like you, you're not really
• 49:40
  giving yourself much room for grace.
• 49:45
  And now it's just like a no one's really surprised on your
• 49:49
  performance. It's at least my take on it.
• 49:52
  I guess, but like I said, it's it's hard to make it up in the
• 49:55
  field when you're also the worst defensive third baseman in
• 50:00
  baseball. Like it doesn't leave much room
• 50:03
  for for changing up your your mentality, your mindset when
• 50:09
  you're not doing well in the field either.
• 50:14
  Like so. And clearly, maybe I, I mean, I
• 50:17
  guess you're right to the point where like he was able to to do
• 50:20
  enough in the field, maybe to keep his mind off of it.
• 50:23
  But it's not like he's going out there and setting the world on
• 50:28
  fire with his defensive play to be like, OK, you know, what if
• 50:31
  I'm if I'm not able to take care of things at the plate, I'm sure
• 50:34
  I'm certainly going to take care of things over here at the hot
• 50:36
  corner. When again, he's the worst
• 50:39
  defensive third baseman in baseball since he debuted.
• 50:42
  So I don't, you know, I don't know.
• 50:45
  All Has he gotten any innings at first in his career?
• 50:52
  Is it that bad? I just think it's.
• 50:58
  Are you? Are you telling me Costas is the
• 51:00
  is the absolute answer for the foreseeable future?
• 51:04
  Well, they were trying to trade him.
• 51:05
  They were trying to. Send that's what I'm saying to
• 51:07
  Seattle. That's what I'm saying.
• 51:10
  Like the I'd, I'm not a believer.
• 51:11
  I I think, I just don't think he's that good.
• 51:15
  I think he's maybe he has some potential.
• 51:19
  I just don't think he's that good.
• 51:21
  He hasn't locked Devers hasn't locked any innings at third.
• 51:24
  At first you mean. All at first.
• 51:26
  Excuse me? Like I would, I would try that
• 51:28
  if, if, if my guy's so reluctant to be a full time DH, I would
• 51:33
  try that. I would try that first.
• 51:36
  It's going to be interesting though.
• 51:43
  They're going to, I think it some of these situations just
• 51:46
  kind of find a way of resolving themselves and whether it's an
• 51:51
  injury at some point that causes a shift in in the infield lineup
• 51:56
  or just trying to really cater to your superstar, I think
• 52:05
  something's going to give if this continues, if this struggle
• 52:10
  continues. A little more optimistic on the
• 52:15
  other side of the ball, Sandy Alcantara making his return to
• 52:20
  the bump looking looking pretty good.
• 52:24
  I think he got up to like, not he, he, he touched 99.
• 52:27
  I think he was sitting at 97 on average for, for his near 5
• 52:33
  innings of work. So that's encouraging to see if
• 52:38
  you're a Marlins fan. I mean, it's, it's, it's going
• 52:42
  to be a question of how long he's going to be there in Miami.
• 52:46
  But you know, for the time being, at least you're going to
• 52:49
  be able to enjoy some some starts of his.
• 52:53
  I think Skeens also also look pretty good.
• 52:56
  He was he was five and a third gave up two, but he had seven
• 53:00
  KS. So some some good takeaways from
• 53:06
  from the bump there on that side of the ball.
• 53:10
  Trying to think, like I said, there's a laundry list of things
• 53:13
  we could cover. Is there anything I'm missing?
• 53:18
  Again, a lot of stuff, but I feel like.
• 53:20
  That's I made a note, my one note.
• 53:23
  How sick was it that Cameron Meisner Misner of the Tampa Bay
• 53:34
  Rays getting his first career home run?
• 53:36
  Home run? As a walk off, that was cool.
• 53:39
  That's sick. That was really.
• 53:41
  Cool. That's real sick and I got to be
• 53:43
  honest, they look like a vibe there being.
• 53:48
  Yeah, dude, I was going to say the same side.
• 53:50
  Runner field like it. Looked.
• 53:52
  Like the crowd was into it. I'm not saying just that walk
• 53:56
  off like the game in general. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
• 53:58
  The capacity seems to be about right.
• 54:01
  You know what I mean? Yeah, that was a good, that was
• 54:04
  a good thought. I meant to get your thoughts on
• 54:08
  or like your takeaways from from the series.
• 54:10
  I've actually got it. They're playing right now
• 54:12
  wrapping up the series, but what are they wrapping it up today or
• 54:18
  tomorrow? Because I know they they started
• 54:22
  the day late. I don't know they.
• 54:23
  Started Friday, yeah. Yeah, but yeah, dude, it looked
• 54:29
  like, it looked like a vibe. And you know, credit to them.
• 54:32
  They the the reality of it is, is like this is this is your
• 54:37
  reality this season. And it seems like the players
• 54:41
  and the fans were, you know, they're buying into it like it's
• 54:44
  a, it's a sucky situation, but but the, the fact of the matter
• 54:50
  is, is like, if the best, if the best you can do is just show up,
• 54:57
  support, have a good time, then that's the best you can do.
• 55:01
  And I know it's opening weekend and, and maybe the, the high is
• 55:05
  only going to last for so long, but I'm right.
• 55:08
  I think you're right, dude. The, it, it looked like a vibe.
• 55:12
  It looked like a vibe. And they were talking around the
• 55:14
  broadcast like props to and I don't know what department
• 55:19
  specifically handles it, but like props to their
• 55:24
  organization, like getting getting all the signs up, like
• 55:27
  getting the Yankee stuff down and like getting their own stuff
• 55:30
  up and their and their different signs.
• 55:32
  Like I think they said that like when this announcement came out
• 55:36
  a few months ago, like their team was out there, like
• 55:38
  measuring, like where each sign would go to make sure that like
• 55:42
  it would feel very raised. Like I don't love it as a
• 55:48
  Yankees fan. I feel like it's like a bad juju
• 55:51
  kind of thing to like allow stuff to just be taken away and
• 55:56
  and replaced. But whatever, I mean it, it
• 55:59
  seems cool. Like as a baseball fan, like I
• 56:01
  can, I can see why it it's, it's a little different, a little
• 56:04
  neat for, for the race man. And like, why not?
• 56:08
  Like they they haven't had much to get excited about and and for
• 56:13
  a switch up to play outside in Florida and you're going to have
• 56:16
  your rain outs, but like to be outside and just like have that
• 56:20
  as an option is cool. Dude, they were talking, I don't
• 56:23
  know if you heard this, I got to they they were talking about on
• 56:32
  the broadcast that some insane amount of games for the Rays are
• 56:37
  going to be like the way their their schedule is structured
• 56:42
  this year to to accommodate for like the rainy season or
• 56:45
  whatever. I don't, I don't have the number
• 56:47
  in front of me and I'm trying to look it up, but they said it's
• 56:50
  got they're going to have some crazy amount of games on the
• 56:53
  road like later, later. That's how they have the.
• 56:56
  Season. They did that on purpose is to
• 56:58
  basically line it up with the rainy season, like understand,
• 57:01
  which is a good like good foresight of understanding that
• 57:04
  that just that's just a thing that's just going to happen.
• 57:09
  It's already a tough a tough pill to swallow, but like you
• 57:12
  said, it seems like they're making the best out of it.
• 57:15
  Yeah, like they're barely going to be on the road or they're
• 57:17
  barely going to be at home for like 2 months during the summer,
• 57:20
  like a 2 month span, which is just crazy.
• 57:23
  Wild to wild to think. But all that to say, I'm going
• 57:29
  to need, I'm going to need playoff baseball just for the
• 57:32
  just for like the, the wonkiness of it, for the beauty of
• 57:36
  baseball, for the, the storylines that the discussion
• 57:40
  or the conversation that's going to follow.
• 57:42
  Weird way of delivering this kind of stuff.
• 57:44
  I need I need post season baseball at Hart Steinbrenner
• 57:49
  Field. Really, really hard to imagine
• 57:52
  that these guys are going to like, I know us peasants, you
• 57:56
  know, or be like, oh, you get to live in in a comfy hotel bed,
• 57:59
  but like, that's a lot of travel.
• 58:01
  That's a lot of not being at home.
• 58:04
  That's a hard thing to do. These these guys talk about
• 58:07
  struggling to do it for a week straight.
• 58:09
  These guys are about to do it for two months.
• 58:11
  That's not easy. Did you say or did you did you
• 58:15
  see that guy chirping Stew the the owner from from like the
• 58:24
  lower bowl? I mean there's only really the
• 58:26
  lower bowl there, but like they get somebody was filming it.
• 58:29
  He was like he was he was looking back.
• 58:31
  Stu is standing there like it on it on one of the like little
• 58:34
  balcony suites there at the at the park and he was like so the
• 58:39
  team Stew and he pans and he looks over at Stu and Stu is
• 58:44
  like right there. I'm like he is literally on top
• 58:47
  of this guy just letting it eat at Stu.
• 58:50
  I thought that was hilarious but.
• 58:52
  That's. That's going to be the intimacy
• 58:54
  that they're talking about of this, of this spark.
• 58:57
  Also, if you're a betting man, I would hammer the over every
• 59:02
  game. Whatever, whatever the line is
• 59:05
  being played at that field. The ball just jumps, dude,
• 59:08
  doesn't it? It's already built to the same
• 59:10
  dimensions as the Yankee Stadium, so like, you're going
• 59:13
  to have a lot, a lot of offensive production there for
• 59:17
  both teams. I love it.
• 59:22
  Any other takeaways here? Jose Ramirez.
• 59:28
  I don't like that man. I don't like seeing.
• 59:30
  Wrist stuff, yeah, wrist brain not good.
• 59:33
  Imaging came back negative, which is encouraging, but you
• 59:36
  hate seeing stuff like that so early in the season.
• 59:40
  Did you by chance see the the the play that ended the Cubs D
• 59:43
  backs game? Yes.
• 59:46
  Crazy. Like yes, got some heads up ball
• 59:50
  by Dansby. I don't know if I've seen
• 59:51
  Dansby. I I could be late to.
• 59:53
  I don't know if I've seen that much emotion out of him before.
• 59:56
  That was that dude was. Outside of like outside of their
• 1:00:00
  their World Series run, Yeah. I mean, that's that's some some
• 1:00:04
  of that most emotion I've seen out of.
• 1:00:06
  Dancing, it's crazy, man. Like I one thing that bugs me
• 1:00:09
  this this period, like early in the season, I really, really
• 1:00:15
  don't like botched PF PS and I don't like bad base running
• 1:00:20
  because that's what you just came out of.
• 1:00:23
  You've spent weeks. Correct.
• 1:00:25
  Nailing that down, that bugs me dude.
• 1:00:29
  And for those unfamiliar, go back and look at the way the
• 1:00:32
  Cubs Diamondbacks game ended. It was wild.
• 1:00:34
  D backs are starting to make a run for it and kind of get back
• 1:00:37
  into the conversation late in the game.
• 1:00:39
  Ends up being bottom 9 and I who was that?
• 1:00:45
  I'm trying to think of who the base runner was.
• 1:00:48
  There's a new Diamondback, kind of a role player.
• 1:00:52
  Trying to find it? Hold on here.
• 1:00:54
  Over. It's like an infield squibber.
• 1:00:57
  Dansby becomes charging in hard. It's kind of this in between
• 1:01:00
  short and 3rd. So like third baseman's crashing
• 1:01:02
  too. Dansby gets it.
• 1:01:04
  No play at first because Corbin Carroll's running guy that was
• 1:01:08
  initially on 2nd over rounds third base and Dansby just runs
• 1:01:12
  at him and tags him out to end the game.
• 1:01:14
  Here you go. I got it.
• 1:01:15
  I got it. On a bounce, Swanson will pick
• 1:01:21
  it up, and now racing at Garrett Hanson, he's got him.
• 1:01:26
  What a play. Unbelievable crazy dude.
• 1:01:30
  With a heads up play and the Cubs finish it off.
• 1:01:35
  That's crazy and that's rough. Garrett Hampson role player be
• 1:01:40
  good at all of those types of things, correct?
• 1:01:42
  Be good at base running, got to be good at defense.
• 1:01:45
  That's the rule I. Love and I know it's opening
• 1:01:48
  weekend and again, it's a long year.
• 1:01:50
  There's going to be there's going to be peaks and valleys,
• 1:01:52
  but I love seeing the emotion like that right out of the gate.
• 1:01:57
  Like you just feed into what you're all the the adrenaline
• 1:02:00
  that you're already running off of this early in the season and
• 1:02:03
  you just feed into that and let it like fuel you to make heads
• 1:02:06
  up play. Well, I mean, we've already seen
• 1:02:09
  some base running issues. No, that's but that's easy.
• 1:02:12
  Channel. That's the right way.
• 1:02:12
  Heads up, shortstop playing right there, the pump fake look
• 1:02:16
  at the runner never works the one time out of 100 that it does
• 1:02:21
  and he takes advantage of it. Like that's huge, man.
• 1:02:24
  That was huge. When you have games where you
• 1:02:28
  feel like you stole it. I've jet watching that game was
• 1:02:32
  like the Cubs are going to lose this game.
• 1:02:34
  Ryan Presley did not look good, gave up a Jack, bases were
• 1:02:37
  loaded like heart of the order. All of that happening.
• 1:02:42
  I was like this game is going Diamondbacks way.
• 1:02:44
  They're going to have a walk off and that feels like the Cubs
• 1:02:46
  stole it so. And and look, not to not to feed
• 1:02:51
  into the whole like opening weekend overreaction narrative,
• 1:02:54
  but games like that. Teams like the Cubs, who are
• 1:02:59
  very clearly are very clear about their intentions of, of
• 1:03:04
  making a run at this thing this year with based on the way they
• 1:03:06
  handled their their personnel this offseason and their
• 1:03:10
  acquisitions that they made. Teams like the Cubs that are
• 1:03:13
  able to win games like this. Sure, it's just one game, but to
• 1:03:16
  do it against a a team that many people have making a deep run in
• 1:03:21
  the post season themselves in the D backs to be able to, like
• 1:03:25
  you said, go in and steal a win like that.
• 1:03:27
  If you can do that enough times over the course of a season and
• 1:03:31
  add to your win total with these games that you otherwise
• 1:03:35
  probably shouldn't be winning, that's how you get that edge.
• 1:03:39
  That's how you get that that slot higher up in the division.
• 1:03:44
  That's how you get the the higher seed in the wild card,
• 1:03:47
  more favorable match up, things like that is games like that.
• 1:03:50
  And I know it's opening weekend, but as early as opening weekend,
• 1:03:55
  you have to be taken advantage of games like that because it
• 1:03:57
  only can help you in October, September, October.
• 1:04:01
  They talked about in the Yankees broadcast yesterday, like
• 1:04:05
  stocking, like putting wins in the bank.
• 1:04:08
  It's like if you can steal wins because you're going to have a
• 1:04:11
  lull, you're going to have a valley during this season.
• 1:04:14
  And to get off to a hot start is so huge.
• 1:04:17
  And like to have that stacked up to where those those valleys
• 1:04:20
  don't hit you as hard. It's important, man.
• 1:04:24
  It's important. So go for the Cubs because that
• 1:04:27
  was a rough start to the season. It's a weird, unfortunate start.
• 1:04:30
  You lose 2 home games, Yeah, that aren't at home.
• 1:04:34
  You, you have this weird comeback, have more spring
• 1:04:36
  training like it's it's odd man. So good for them.
• 1:04:43
  I think that'll do it again, a lot of things have happened this
• 1:04:46
  weekend, but I feel like we covered a lot of the the main
• 1:04:49
  storylines here. I'm excited, dude.
• 1:04:53
  I'm I'm I'm back. You're back.
• 1:04:56
  I'm back, I'm back, We're back. We're just.
• 1:05:00
  We're back. We're back.
• 1:05:02
  Yeah. I'm looking forward to another
• 1:05:05
  full season of baseball. We'll catch back up with you
• 1:05:09
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• 1:05:15
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• 1:05:19
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• 1:05:23
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• 1:05:25
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• 1:05:29
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• 1:05:33
  season. We got a like I said, we got a
• 1:05:35
  lot, lot coming down the pipe here this year.
• 1:05:39
  And I'm just glad baseball's back, man.
• 1:05:43
  I love, I love flipping on my TV and they're being anywhere from
• 1:05:48
  4:00 to a dozen games on TV. It is.
• 1:05:51
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• 1:05:56
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• 1:05:58
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