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Judge Named Team USA WBC Captain · 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 Theoretic
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presented by Chinook Cedary. This is episode 527.
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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, what's up everybody?
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Sorry for a little delay. Just coming to you a little.
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Late late Monday night. This is what I like to call late
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with Nate. That's fine.
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This is what I like to call late with Nate.
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No, the reason some of you may be aware I was, I was out of
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town this weekend. I was in Nashville visiting
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family, caught a sounds game which was cool but decided to
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come back today as opposed to wrapping up the weekend
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traveling and said let's just push it to Monday.
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So naturally, couldn't record on our usual Sunday.
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And so here we are, late Monday night.
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Late with Nate, as it were. How many how many Chinook seeds
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did you crush on this drive? Oh, I packed like a dozen just
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to have them on deck. But I mean, I got into a few,
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had had some on the way down, had some at the Sounds game, had
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some on the way back. There's something about like
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when, when if you're in like a long drive and it's just like a
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very easy little pick me up, it just gets, it just locks you
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back in. And to to reiterate the C the
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the the pack sizes of the Chinook CS just a little, I mean
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perfect for a row trip. Shake a shake.
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Yeah they fit. You can fit like 5 or 6
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different flavors in the center console.
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Oh boy, I love. It that's, that's good.
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That's real good. Look, man, do you?
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Should we get the inner elephant out of the room?
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Yeah, let's talk about the what's transpired over the last
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three hours. So sort of recapping the, well,
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really the last 12, I was in the car for 12 hours a day coming
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back from Nashville, and the last two of it were spent
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driving in the, the pouring down rain.
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And the the the final three hours of it were spent listening
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to my Red Sox get absolutely violated by the Rays.
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And then on top of that, guess who has Tanner Houck on their
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fantasy team pitching to a line of two and a third Indians pitch
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got hit with a loss, 11 earned runs tallied in a single K for a
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whopping score of -28 And then I had another starter go to -10.
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So I'm sitting at a a pretty -39 to 73 so.
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It's it's crazy that Ben's putting up like a hammer of a
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day on a Monday too. That's like it's, it's not just
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like a 15 or 20 point day, Bro's having a a great day for the
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week and you're having a record low.
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Is my math serving me correctly? Is that like 100 and yeah, 100
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and 10104 I'll. Just ship it in this week.
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Yeah, that's a real, that's a real tough blow.
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I'm calling it. I wouldn't go, I wouldn't go to
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ham on the on the waiver wire, you know?
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Not going to overdo it. Let's start.
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Let's start. Ball your guy.
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Yeah, let's get the. We're done.
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Let's get that out of the way. Let's let's addressed.
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Thanks. Let's talk.
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Speaking of elephant, let's talk about this behemoth of a human.
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Aaron Judge getting names Captain of Team USA for the
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World Baseball Classic. Nate, your thoughts?
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There's a no brainer, right? I think it's a no brainer.
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I I think with what we witnessed.
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Oh, it's got to. Be in the middle of my my
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thought too. Fernando Tatis blast a solo home
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run to cut the deficit to 100. I'm now down -33 to 73 anyway.
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If you can end the night in double digits, that's a big
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That's a big deal. We could just trim that down to
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the in somewhere in the 90s anyways.
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Like you could chip away at that your.
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Thoughts. Aaron Judge, captain, World
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Baseball classic TVO say. Go yeah, it's a no brainer.
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What I was going to say is I think like what we witnessed was
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just the dominance of of the Japanese team.
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And I think it it, there's somewhat of a little bit of a
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shift. I, I think we can all like see
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that and agree to that. And not just that, but like how
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good the Dominican team always is.
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And I think, I think this is what was needed.
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I think that's that. I think that's what's needed.
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This is a crazy take, Laura. Laura in the chat.
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Aaron Judge does not deserve that spot.
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He's not a rallier of men. Hey, look.
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I don't know what that that even means.
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I know exactly what Laura is saying.
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She's saying that Aaron Judge is really just like, I'm a do me,
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get in line, follow behind if you want to.
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If not, that's cool because I'm still going to do me.
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Which to his credit, he does him well like he does.
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He does him real well. Yeah, Mike Trout is.
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Mike Trout is absolutely the spokesman and woesman of the
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MLB. What are we talking about?
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Whoa, guy. First of all, never said that he
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was. Second of all, can we admit that
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this is an upgrade of a of a captain at least?
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I mean, I guess why? Just because he's a captain on
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his own team. Like does that, does that change
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best? He's the best player in
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baseball. That's an American.
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That's has nothing to do with what she's saying or what I'm
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now saying. Like the it's it's completely
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irrelevant that you just absolutely isn't.
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Deserving of a spot you. Just said about Mike Trout, you
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said, Oh yeah, Mike Trout's the the right fit for that guy or
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for that role. I'm sure it's the same thing
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with Aaron Judge. Is he the best player in
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baseball? Well, American sure, sure.
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I'll I seed you that we're we're not going to talk about is we're
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not going to talk about a true franchise.
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We're going to talk about a true franchise who doesn't hand out
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captains like like candy and picks and chooses and selects
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these guys. On purpose.
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We're not going to talk about that franchise choosing Aaron
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Judge as their captain, as one of the most historic captain
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titles of any team he's handed to him.
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But he's not. He's not qualified to be a
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captain. What are we talking about?
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Is the Battle of Shrew Farms, the northernmost battle of the
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Civil War? Not by a long shot.
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You had to get that out. Anyway, yeah, I mean it only
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took like 12 times. I don't, I don't get that.
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I disagree. I think he's, I think he's just
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a different. I mean, that's what leaders are.
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Some are, some are vocal, some are lead by example, some are a
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good just a cheerleader. Like, I think he's a Little Mix
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of both of all three. I don't think he is like, look,
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real talk, real talk. Real talk, I don't even know if
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you're allowed to wear USA stuff when we go to this thing now.
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Well, here's the thing it. Doesn't even sound like you're
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wanting this. No, no, no, no, no.
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I feel like you're not even in the Team USA camp.
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No, no, no, you couldn't. You couldn't be more wrong here.
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Look, I, I, I'm coming at this thing from all, all sorts of
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different angles. And if you're listening, if
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you're watching, know that you're the guy that you're
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listening to right now is full of credibility because let me
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just lay all this out for you because you can sit, you can set
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the buy aside, you can set the bit aside.
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Real talk, I almost hit the retweet button when I saw the
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graphic. I was like, you know what, let's
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ride. Like let's, we got to avenge
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ourselves from 2023. Let like, let's, let's take
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another. But then I was like, I can't, I
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feel kind of weird, but in my heart I was like, you know what,
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it's cool. Like the more talent the better.
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But I'm not going to publicly declare that.
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So just know that in my heart of hearts I was like, all right,
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like I, I'm, I can, I guess I can set my, my bias aside for
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this thing. I don't.
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Understand this, This is stupid. This is a stupid conversation.
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That's fine. I can't believe that I'm having
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to defend this second of all. You're not defending Aaron Judge
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being on the team or anything like that.
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This is about. Talking about about that, I'm
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talking about the Captain Pick. Nate, I have let me, no, it's
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not crazy. Let me ask you this.
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This is no, no, this is my this is my go to.
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This is my go to scenario for any situation that involves
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captaincy, team leader, unofficial, official, whatever.
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If there was a team brawl that took place, where is Aaron Judge
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going to be in the scuffle? The middle, Nate, look at any
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Yankee bench clearing incident. He's been in the middle every
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single time. Are we having this conversation
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right now? He's literally in the middle
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every time. I would love some evidence of
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this. This is I can't believe we're
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having this conversation right now.
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I would love some evidence. Huge.
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That means nothing. It does.
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He gets in the middle of the dinosaur, but he doesn't mean
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anything in everybody. Any brawl, any bench clearing
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situation that you've seen with the Yankees since 2018, he has
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been 2017 has been in the middle.
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Look at any of them is beginning over by the way, does it just
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Does it just show all the home runs?
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Bro the MOB app sucks dude it's just bad.
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It shuts off whenever it was it. Closes it it quits freezes it on
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it just logs you out like what it what's that about what it
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it'll log back in. I got to get the QR code he.
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He may or may not be towards the middle of the infamous Joe
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Kelly. Yeah, Tyler Austin Scuffle, but
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that's beside the point. Pull any of them up.
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That's beside the point. I just don't seem I, I don't, it
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doesn't seem to me as though judge is the rah rah rally
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behind, rally behind the judge and let's move forward.
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He just seems like he's going to go out there.
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He's going, essentially he's going to lead by just going 3
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for four with two home runs and a few RBIs.
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Which is great, but is that I disagree?
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Is that a style of leadership that warrants A captaincy?
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I don't understand how he was named the captain if that's all
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he does. I, I guess, just agree to
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disagree on. It's crazy.
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This is crazy. I let's move on to like the rest
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of Team USA here. I like that Dero is still at the
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helm. I like that he's still in the
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seat. Well, hold on before we get to.
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Jersey grew up a Yankee fan like you meant I think he'd need he
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wanted this like this is 100% what he wanted.
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It had to go to Trout the last tournament.
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I feel like that was like the the end of that chapter in a
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way, you know what I mean? Like.
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What are your, what are your thoughts on that, on that
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response? They asked him.
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And then I think Trout said like he's the guy or something, like,
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are are we cool with with the way Trout handled it?
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Baseball is a beautiful sport where the fact that like the
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face of the game, it it's, it just kind of speaks for itself.
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When that torch gets passed and Trout is officially in that
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territory of like respect from the entire league.
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You've now crossed into this. Like when you retire, you're
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likely going to have a retirement tour gifts like
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that's, that's the, the chapter you're now in.
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You're at the you're on the the back end part of the career.
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Then you just kind of soak it in the you've said it a million
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times, like let's just as a baseball fan, soak in these
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final moments and just like enjoy watching him play.
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Let's stop putting expectations on his performance and stats and
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just be appreciative of what he's done and what he still can
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do at times. That's kind of how we view him
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and it's just tough because it's like it's very quick with
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baseball, it's very quick. Sure is.
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I don't think any other sport is the same in that aspect.
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So I like this, I like the move. We'll see bro.
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I don't, I, I'm excited to see what the rest of the roster
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fills out. I'm also curious, by the way, it
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had me thinking, like, do you think there's ever going to be a
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pitcher as a captain? Like do you?
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Does it always have to be a position player?
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I mean, I could see a guy like Scubal should he decide to make
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that decision. I'd like, I'd like a real nasty
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staff if we're going to, we're going to do this thing right and
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try to try to bring the trophy back home.
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I'd like a real. Yeah, we're going to have to run
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it back on the staff construction, figure that out.
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We're going to have to give that another go because that was not
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it last last time out. That was not our our best our
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best output. But as I think about it, as as I
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let that marinate the scoop will take.
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I think he'd be a great leader. I think that kind of going
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against the whole judge thing, like that's going to be a guy
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that's going to like RIP into the dugout if if things head
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South real quick. But on the flip side, it's tough
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for a guy like that's why it was so that's why it was such a
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novelty when Chris Sale did it in the World Series back in 18
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when you saw him just like a ripping in to those guys from
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the dugout. But it's like it it's this weird
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scenario because it's like you're only out there every
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fifth day. And for a guy like Scooble who
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would only get but a few appearances in that thing, it's
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like, I don't know if we can. That's kind of why I'm maybe
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walking back the captaincy thing a little bit for Scooble.
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It it would take a very and maybe maybe after a few more
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years of this continued dominance, maybe scuba is a guy
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that could I was going to be like that next one.
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It would have to be like you would have to be a dude and he
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is. Don't get me wrong, he is a
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dude, but like one with that track record where it's like,
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we'll give you this captaincy. But then again, like I said, I'd
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I'd, I'd almost prefer a guy to be out there every day, but
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that's. That's fair.
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That's fair. Good deal.
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But since we went to the we were at the 2023 WBC, we saw that.
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We saw everything first hand. We even saw some guys I love,
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Bobby Witt, who even at that point in time, we're still kind
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of like a new to the scene, all things considered.
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Yeah. Fast forward to next year
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though, and and we'll revisit this as as announcements.
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Are made this roster is going to be stupid.
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That's what I'm saying like give me, let's let's just run through
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real quick, like what in what a 2026 WBCI, an ideal roster will
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look like. Whether or not it happens,
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that's another conversation. Because as we know these guys,
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as we've seen with Judge, just because you think they're a good
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fit doesn't mean they're going to participate.
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And it may take some time for them to actually join.
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That's a whole, yeah, that's a whole part of that.
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That's very true. You start behind the dish.
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Who was that was That was Will Smith back in 2023?
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I liked. I think that's still.
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That's probably still his, I think so I.
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Think that's still his? Is Will Smith the most?
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I mean, I know, I know what he brings to the table like
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production wise, but in terms of like a vocal, yeah.
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I don't know like his like, game as like a catcher.
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I know his offensive production, but I don't know like how he
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handles his staff and all that kind of stuff.
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And that's a whole another aspect to this.
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So maybe I'll take the experience of a Will Smith
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because it's like he's done it before.
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And that's a whole different thing.
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If you're talking to all these guys, you're having
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conversations with guys you've never talked to, talking pitch
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selections of guys you've never caught before.
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That's a whole thing, dude. So I'll stick with Will Smith.
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Take me to 1B. It's still be Harp, dude.
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It's still got to be Harper. Is that crazy to say?
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No, it's not crazy. It's.
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Still be I don't I'm all done with Pete Alonso.
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Like if the whole you're you're. We've correct me if I'm wrong.
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We've yet to see Bryce right in the WBC.
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Oh my God, What are we doing? Those jersey sales that would it
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would go on a generational run? Yeah.
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What? What are we even talking about
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here? Give me, give me Bryce's 1st all
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day. Yeah, give me, give me Bryce to
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be. If I see freaking McNeil, stop
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it. You're not going to see it.
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No, you're not going to see McNeil.
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What are we working with? IT 2.
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BI think this is one of those things where like shortstop so
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deep that like maybe we need to consider having sure like a like
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Pho Bouchette, Gunner Henderson, like we have no Bobby Witt, like
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we have so many shortstops where you're just like, can one of
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these guys just play second for a few weeks?
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I'd almost rather see Gunner third from being honest.
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I don't know what that means for Nolan.
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Maybe Nolan slides to like a 1/5 infielder situation.
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Yeah. Big respect, love.
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Nolan whisper that. Snag the USA jersey for Nolan
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for last. Yep, that's no we're we say
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this. We say this on the down low, of
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course we don't. We mean nothing by it.
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Yeah, yeah, put Gunner third. Give me give me give me be
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witted short consider consider this should he go on to have.
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I mean I know he's off to like a slow ish start but you know with
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the hype if he were to like I said, if he were to have a
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respectable year. What We won't.
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I mean, we're not going to say MVP by any stretch.
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Maybe like a fringe All Star worthy season this year.
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What about Jackson Holiday? I don't hate it, I don't hate to
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play. I know it's, it's, that's a
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tough one to commit to because we don't have anything to really
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go off of. But I'm saying like, like
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suspend any bias that you may have against that particular
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pick. And just in this hypothetical,
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Fast forward to November and he put you look, you're looking
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back on 2025 and he had a Goodyear.
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Like he bounced back. He, he was able to shake 2024.
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He had a Goodyear going into 2026.
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Would we hate that at second base?
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I hate it. Would you hate it more than Jeff
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McNeil at second base? Nothing.
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I would hate nothing more than that.
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Not a thing. Not a thing.
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If I see that weenie out on the field wearing AUSA jersey again,
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I might not go. I might just tell you to stay
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home. Don't come out here.
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Am I? I mean, there's other, certainly
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there's other options as second. That's why we got to, we got to
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kind of we got to kind of bounce around a little bit, think off
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the Dome. You do your research.
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I'm going to, I'm going to kind. Of I mean, you could slot Mookie
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in, but that's I don't know. How do you feel about that?
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That's fair. That's fair, because I feel like
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the outfield's really deep. Hear me out.
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Talent, one thing, no doubt, but for vibes you got Bryce and
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Stott and Bryce on the same side of the infield that could that
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could do wonders. For Bryce, I don't hate, I don't
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hate that that's like he's like a big moment guy too.
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So I don't hate that. I don't hate that it, but like,
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let's have some depth and also also bring someone else in, you
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know? There's some options.
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There's options, we'll just leave it at that.
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There's there's options out there better than.
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Yeah. Better than Jeff McNeil.
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There's so many anything and then the outfield you've got.
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Kyle Tucker was there last time. He's, I think he's got to be,
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especially at the start. He's having this year, by the
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way. I completely forgot he was there
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last time. Big Free.
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Agent, like he's the number one free agent this offseason.
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Like that's, I like that play that that could be why he might
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not participate, but. I was going to say, yeah, that
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could. Be a factor.
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Can we even pencil him in right now?
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Yeah. But again, this is this is like,
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this is a hypothetical like this is ideal.
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Yeah. We'll say, I mean, are we
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looking at a Judge Trout, Tucker outfield?
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I don't think, I think Trout's all done.
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I don't think he is. I think he's, I think he's
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possibly done. You can't.
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He can't be because it. It's weird to bring him back on
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the team and not be a captain. No, but that's the whole that's
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the whole thing of Dero going to Trout and asking for quote UN
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quote permission in the 1st place.
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You don't you don't do that. We.
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Don't want you anymore? Done.
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No, I think that means, hey, we have an opportunity to bring
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Aaron Judge on the team. Are we cool just sliding this
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title over? That's what that means.
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I think he's done. I don't think he's done.
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I don't think. I've got a fun one for you.
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I've got 2 fun names. I've got no no.
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One last thing on the trout thing though.
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Why? OK, let's say.
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I don't we need this trophy dog like I don't need to be.
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That was one of the better players in the last WBC for Team
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USA. What are we talking about?
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What does that? What does that tell you about
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our roster configuration? First off, we really just
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dropped a ball, relaxed. We were in the literal champion
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like the finals of the WBC. Good enough.
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I agree with you, but we now have a better team going into
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2026, so we can afford to have Mike.
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Oh, I want athleticism. So here's two names that I'm
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going to throw at you. No.
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I, I you didn't even let me share my thought in this
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situation. Say, if you're writing Trout
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off, say that. I won an honorary pick.
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Listen to what I'm saying in this situation, in this
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situation that you're that you're crafting up, let's just
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say this is the last year we see a Mike Trout of base in
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baseball. Well, in in Major League
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Baseball guy guys in in situations like that love stuff
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like this where it's like, OK, like I'm done.
25:02
I'm done with like the career side of things.
25:05
But like the exhibition type stuff.
25:07
There's like one last, yeah, like one last little side quest.
25:11
I get it. That I can I get the argument, I
25:13
can take a run at that I'm going to do it.
25:16
I get the argument guys do that kind of stuff all the time.
25:18
I want the. I don't want the wasted spot.
25:21
It's yeah, Mike Trout just taking up space.
25:24
What are we talking about, dude? Why are you looking like this?
25:31
If he can play, if he's healthy, you're going to sit there and
25:35
say that? That's dead roster space.
25:37
What are we talking about? Yeah, because here's why.
25:39
Let me drop some names on you real fast.
25:41
Go. For it.
25:43
Corbin Carroll. I think go ahead, call me crazy
25:53
if I'm in the minority on this. Whatever.
25:55
I'm taking a Mike Trout and a WBC over Corbin Carroll.
25:58
Give me Corbin Carroll as my 4th outfielder, please.
26:02
I'll you want to talk about a hill to die on?
26:05
Yeah, Laura, back in the chat. You have an anti Trout bias.
26:09
I don't get, I don't get. What's up with it's not an it's
26:12
not an anti Trout bias. What it is, is recognizing that
26:16
we haven't won this thing in a while and I want to win it
26:19
again. And I don't want to talk about 3
26:23
years ago Mike Trout because three years ago Mike Trout is
26:27
different than next year's Mike Trout.
26:28
So I don't see him being able to perform the way we expect him to
26:35
perform. We just what we just said it, we
26:37
need to take all expectations off and just keep this man
26:40
healthy and then just enjoy what he is.
26:45
Are we talking? Are we?
26:46
Talking about the Mike Trout, that's that's got a share of the
26:49
lead for homers in baseball right now, all of baseball.
26:52
Please, I had another fun name, but I feel like you're now.
26:57
Now we're just. We're so disconnected that I
26:59
don't even want to say it. Well, a fun name too is like
27:03
from the from the. You started with Corbin Carroll,
27:06
so I'm curious to see where this goes.
27:08
I don't understand that Corbin Carroll disrespect, First off.
27:11
I don't disrespect Corbin Carroll, but for you to sit
27:14
there and say, hey, Mike Trout, you're going to hit the bench,
27:17
you're going to hit the pine buddy in favor of Corbin
27:20
Carroll, cut it out. Cut it out.
27:25
I want to save this receipt when.
27:27
Please. When Mike Trout doesn't finish
27:29
the season and we're talking about this again in the
27:33
offseason. I want a Mike Trout that's got
27:37
that I had a fun name that I was just.
27:39
I want a Mike Trout that's got that last strikeout to end last
27:43
WBC against Otani on repeat in his mind, playing every single
27:50
moment of every single day until he returns.
27:57
And then he reminds Aaron Judge what a real captain is.
28:00
Oh my, he said. Get on my back, boys.
28:03
I'm about to leave this freaking pod.
28:05
That's fine all. Right, let's see, let's hear.
28:07
What's this other name? No, because no, because it's too
28:11
hyped up now and it's not the right moment.
28:13
I've lost. I've lost.
28:14
Moment. No.
28:15
You know why? Because it's not a better name
28:17
than Mike Trout, that's why. Of course.
28:19
It's not. That's why it was like a dark
28:21
horse name, the same dark horse name that you drop when you said
28:24
Jackson Holiday. That's the infield that's
28:27
completely different and that's at like a very weak position
28:30
anyway. Go, go on, continue.
28:35
Seriously, I'm curious. I I I genuinely I'm curious who
28:37
this dark horse is. PCA.
28:43
Going back to, I mean, if we're talking vibes.
28:46
If we're talking vibes and like. There's an electric factory.
28:49
Prime athlete. Like imagine him hit hitting a
28:52
triple. Yeah.
28:54
Hey, I I'll give it to you. That's a that's an exciting
28:57
pick. And again, he's not going to
28:59
play every day. I don't know.
29:00
He doesn't play every day. He's like a late substitute
29:02
defensive and then has like a late AB maybe gets a start like
29:07
in the early pool play the. Same way Bobby Witt was in 2023.
29:11
People forget. They think like Oh yeah, Bobby
29:13
Witt played every game. No, he didn't he.
29:14
No, he really it's it's actually annoying.
29:16
It was Trey Turner because Trey Turner literally took over the
29:20
WCBWBC by storm. But hey, that's a good pick and
29:25
it's a, it's a very possible, it's a very realistic pick
29:27
because as we said, not all of these that all these picks that
29:31
you, you know, you'd love to see stacked up in a lineup are going
29:34
to commit. That's just, but APCA would
29:36
absolutely say yes if you got invited.
29:39
For sure. That's what I like.
29:40
I want, yeah, I want to, I want to an absolute yes.
29:44
I don't want that man is. Yes.
29:47
And he's dying his hair. Yeah, that's right.
29:53
Now, where this leaves Mookie, I don't know because we've said
29:56
possibly second, that sounds like where he'd have to play if
29:59
you've got. Yeah.
30:00
Bobby at short, Gunner at third. What?
30:05
Infield gunner, Gunner at third, Bobby at short, Mookie at 2nd
30:12
and Bryce at first. Are we, are we overlooking that?
30:15
Would feed families. Real third baseman.
30:26
I mean, you have to limit the pool to Americans, remember
30:28
that? I mean, you can't.
30:29
Also, let's throw J Ram in there.
30:31
Also wouldn't hate it, a Duran on this team I like. 4th
30:37
outfielder, yeah. I like speed with occasional
30:39
pop. There's something about it.
30:41
You know something about it. 4th 4th outfielder for sure he's not
30:44
cracking that that top three. But here's the real test of your
30:50
anti Trout bias. Would you slot in a Jaron Duran
30:53
over Mike Trout? Yeah, I'm just like, I don't, I
31:00
crazy. I don't.
31:03
I'm ready for like the New Age to come in and read, read, take
31:09
the crown. Austin Riley Not a bad option
31:14
for infield depth. Don't hate that pick at all.
31:17
Anyway. Don't hate that pick at all.
31:21
Super fast because we spent way too much time talking about Mike
31:24
Trout here and in crafting our dream WBC roster.
31:27
This, this rotation really what needs to be addressed.
31:30
The rotation. Give me the freshly shaved Dylan
31:35
Sees. Give me Dylan sees.
31:36
Give me schooble. Yeah.
31:39
Give me oh dude. Like it wasn't freed on on the
31:44
team dude. I think he was.
31:48
Give me Paul Skees, dude. Give me Paul Skees.
31:57
What? Oh my goodness.
31:59
And like all of like the showing up in the Air Force gear.
32:03
Oh, I was going to say the coldest the Air Force
32:08
transitioning to WBC uni edits. Would you want to talk about
32:13
feeding families, my Lord? Oh, this is I'm so.
32:21
That might be that might actually, if he says yes, that
32:23
might be a Jersey pick, honestly.
32:26
Without a doubt that could. I mean, I'm already on the fence
32:28
about a Pirates jersey, but that.
32:31
That could that could be in the room for sure.
32:34
This shop. This shop is going to be a
32:36
problem if any of these names are actually correct.
32:41
The shop was already a problem last time.
32:44
That's true. Wait, Speaking of which, the
32:46
jersey I got last time around, where does Trey fit into the mix
32:50
at all here? It's tough, man.
32:57
Like, I don't even know if I mean, you call him a top three
33:00
shortstop in baseball. I'm with.
33:02
You look, he's not. I mean, he's not playing ahead
33:04
of Gunner or Bobby at this rate, but like you got it.
33:09
I mean, again, not to beat a dead horse here, but if you got
33:13
it, if we're going vibes here, like you got to have the guy
33:16
that quite literally carried you last time around.
33:20
And again, it's not like he's a he's not a fraud at this stage
33:24
of his career by any stretch, but kind of at least have him on
33:28
the roster. I don't know.
33:29
I don't, I don't mean to be like totally ignorant here.
33:34
Are any of these names we mentioned just in the off chance
33:38
Canadian? I can assure you that Paul
33:42
Schemes is not Canadian. Tara School.
33:46
I'm not going to lie, I I, I know he's not Canadian, but I
33:49
actually don't know where he's from.
33:53
I don't know where he's from. This California kid did not know
33:58
that. How about real quick bullpen?
34:04
Now hold on, it says he became the pride of Kingman, AZ.
34:08
Is that like where he grew up? Says he was born in Hayward, CA.
34:17
Kingman's got nothing going on, so you would.
34:21
Know I don't. Kingman's got nothing going on.
34:24
There ain't a whole lot to really, really claim out there.
34:31
What were you sorry I cut you off.
34:34
You were in the middle of a thought.
34:34
What were you going to? You were going to ask something.
34:36
Bullpen real quick. Hater was on the team last time
34:42
I think, right? I think Hater was on it.
34:53
Daniel Bard, Ryan Presley, David Bednar and Devin Williams were
34:57
in the pen in 2023. Adam Otavino, Jason Adam.
35:02
That's where we lost. Let's face it, that's where this
35:04
is where we lost. Brooks really was wack.
35:07
No, it was the rotation. Bro that also was wack.
35:10
Adam Wainwright, Lance Lynn. You're going to tell me that's
35:13
going to. That's going to.
35:15
That's the answer. No, it's not.
35:17
It was bad. The pitching side of things was
35:19
where we got let down for sure. Yeah, there's got to be there's
35:24
got to be an immediate upgrade here.
35:27
I like that Real quick. Last thing, just put a bow on
35:30
this. Real quick.
35:31
Three hours later, real quick. Last thing on the WB.
35:35
CII like that I like that D row is like this perfect blend of
35:41
like fan and like old head playing young enough to where he
35:49
can connect. You know what I mean?
35:50
He is like the he is the perfect.
35:53
A great. Fit.
35:54
Yeah, cool. I'm glad we agree there.
35:57
That's it. Great fit.
35:59
Should we talk like actual baseball instead of?
36:03
Instead of this Mike Troutslander, Yeah, let's talk
36:05
about let's talk about some baseball.
36:08
Unfortunate news coming out of Wrigleyville.
36:12
Justin Steele, out for the season season ending surgery to
36:17
repair the flexor tendon in his left elbow, underwent TJ in
36:23
2017. I didn't know that.
36:26
I didn't know he already had one.
36:28
And will now be out until 2026. Dang sucks.
36:35
That does suck. What were his?
36:39
I know he was off to like a not. It was, it was a rough, it was a
36:42
rocky start. And then his last start was like
36:45
nails. Yeah, he went seven strong.
36:50
Three. Last last two starts, his second
36:53
to last start he went six and two thirds. 6 KS gave up four
36:57
but managed. Yeah, man doesn't walk people.
37:04
Yeah, against Texas, 7 innings, 8 KS, just three hits, nowhere
37:07
in the run. So he was like he had.
37:09
One of the best offense. Yeah, it's just correct.
37:12
That's tough, man. That's hard to see.
37:14
That makes me sad. Starting to figure it out.
37:17
That makes me sad. Honestly, his game logs just the
37:22
the four that he had sort of amassed to start the season.
37:25
It really like you're looking at it it it very much looks like,
37:29
you know, took him a couple starts to figure some things out
37:32
and then he was just going to hit the ground running and he
37:35
did and then was very abruptly cut short.
37:38
Cut short, but. Was it last year where it was a
37:42
little bit of like a, I'm not going to say fall off, but it
37:47
was like a drop from two years ago.
37:50
Two years ago was when you cracked on the scene and, like,
37:54
was it like inside young conversation for a good part of
37:57
the season, right? There's no way it's already been
38:00
two years. Are you kidding me?
38:01
It's it's weird, but I feel like that's.
38:05
That was 2023. Yeah.
38:09
Are you kidding me? I know, I know.
38:13
I would have bet a crazy amount of money that that was last
38:17
year. I know.
38:18
My goodness, 2023. What a year.
38:20
That was for Justin Steele, by the way.
38:23
Yeah, a war of three. .2 went 16 and five at three O 6 started 30
38:29
games had. Any Cy Young votes?
38:33
Finished fifth, was an All Star 5th and Cy Young voting had it.
38:37
Had a where? Where's the strikeouts?
38:40
Had 176 strikeouts ERA plus A139A whip of 1.1719 per one
38:50
strikeout per nine man. It was a Goodyear for old Justin
38:53
Steele. Yeah, this is a real tough blow
38:57
for the cubbies. It's a tough blow because it's
38:59
like you could tell they're they're trying to go like the
39:04
trade for, for Kyle Tucker meant like, hey, let's get after it
39:07
this year. And I, I feel like you can't
39:12
help but have to like double down on that.
39:16
Still, they're going to have to go get a frontline starter at
39:20
the deadline. I saw Sandy's name floated
39:24
around. Sandy's.
39:27
I mean, that's a lot. I don't know what their farm
39:30
looks like because he still has control left.
39:33
Let's. Look at Let's look at their farm
39:34
it. Would be wild.
39:37
I, I don't think it's a solid pick by any means, but I think
39:41
Sonny Gray is going to have a lot of calls.
39:43
There's going to be a lot of calls on him at the deadline.
39:47
Yeah, but is that going to be enough to to to validate your
39:52
doubling down efforts like you lose Justin, you can't.
39:55
See that being like a Cubs route though, you know what I mean?
39:58
Like they never really seem to be like the splashiest.
40:03
As the great philosopher Morgan Wallin said, you can't put a
40:06
Band-Aid over a bullet hole. So I mean, is, is Sonny Gray a
40:13
Band-Aid or is he an actual bandage?
40:16
Because I would venture to say Sandy Alcantara would be a
40:19
better would serve better as evidence that the Cubs are still
40:26
committed. I think you'd be a better pick
40:27
to going all in for it. Yeah, I agree.
40:30
I think you'd be a better pick. I concur.
40:38
I mean, we talked about the Mariners in the offseason, like
40:42
at some point moving one of their starters just because
40:45
they're so deep to get some offense.
40:49
You wonder if maybe there's something there.
40:54
You know, if if the Mariners are off to like a really rough start
40:58
and it's like June and they're, you know, way far back and
41:03
you're like, you know, kind of like how like the Tigers did it
41:09
last year with Flaherty. You know what I mean?
41:10
Like they were just they felt like they were out of it.
41:13
They got what they got. They got what they could for,
41:16
you know, a front end starter and then they like went on a
41:19
run. Like I could see the Mariners
41:22
doing something similar. I can't really think of anyone
41:32
else right? Now, I mean, if the Mariners did
41:33
anything, it would be them finally admitting like, Oh yeah,
41:36
maybe this isn't a year. Because they, I will say the Sox
41:40
tried to make a run at one or two of their options.
41:45
They were not interested. So it would have to take some
41:50
real self. What's the word self-awareness
41:55
is? It weird that guys don't like
41:58
hitting there. You find it strange.
42:02
There's so many guys that are just like, I can't see the ball
42:05
there. That's how it is man, just
42:09
different. Yeah, tough flow for the
42:12
cubbies, though. Like it's it's a lot of weight's
42:14
going to fall on on Shoda, a lot of weight's going to fall on,
42:18
you know, Jameson Taillion. I think you said that Colin Ray
42:23
is going to like step into that, you know, extra rotation spot.
42:28
They're going to have to find some depth somewhere.
42:31
But I'd like to see a front end again like you, you can't trade
42:36
for Kyle Tucker and make a run at this thing this year and not
42:41
at least double down. That's what I'm saying.
42:45
Like a Sandy Alcantara. Yeah, it would take a little
42:47
more. I would love that.
42:49
You weren't maybe necessarily anticipating having to to to
42:54
ship out what's necessary to get a guy like that, but you kind of
42:59
put yeah, you're at that point. You put yourself in this
43:01
position by making it very clear to all the baseball that you are
43:06
in fact going for it this year. And when one of your the biggest
43:10
key contributors goes down not just for a short period of time,
43:14
but for the entire season, you have to figure out a way to
43:17
bounce back. And that means that you're going
43:19
to have to make some tough decisions with what you got in
43:22
your farm and maybe what you're planning on trying like trying
43:26
to hold on to. But I think there.
43:29
Could be some Blue Jays in the mix if they don't, if they're
43:34
not in the position they should be in, but I can see that too.
43:38
Yeah, but you lose Justin Steele's this early in the year,
43:42
you can't, you're not going to be able to wait all the way
43:47
until the deadline. Like you're going to have to
43:49
push the chips in a little early.
43:51
And, and some of these teams aren't going to, they're going
43:54
to, they're not going to know if this is the year or not, and
43:56
they're maybe not going to be. As I know, that's what I think.
43:59
To give guys. Like they they get, I think they
44:01
get depth early and then they look to see what frontline guys
44:05
are available at the deadline. That's fair.
44:10
Seems like a reasonable approach.
44:15
Real quick, just a note on the Rockies this weekend.
44:21
Shut out by the Padres. Did not score a run over the
44:26
weekend. Padres became the first MLB team
44:30
since the Cleveland Indians in 2017 to hold an opponent
44:33
scoreless over a series of at least three games.
44:37
I got. To take my socks off.
44:40
You ever have your socks on so long that like the hairs on your
44:45
leg start to hurt? You might say that the Rockies
44:53
rocks your socks off. No, no they didn't.
45:00
What a what a miserable situation that is, man.
45:05
I mean. It's so unfortunate I we've said
45:11
all we need to say over the years.
45:14
It's just a waste. And what's crazy is I'm seeing
45:18
like it's, it's honestly seems like it's been years, but I'm
45:22
seeing Kris Bryant like in baseball games now and it does
45:27
nothing for me. I'm like, oh, like, look, he's
45:31
there. He's he's, he's alive, he's
45:35
swinging the bat and it does nothing for me, which is really,
45:42
which is really just the state of that franchise.
45:46
So it's a straight thief. I'm not surprised at what's
45:50
going on there, what happened this weekend and in particular,
45:54
but shout out to the Padres. By the way, I saw this note here
45:59
that the Padres are the only team.
46:04
No, I'm sorry, it says The Padres became the second team in
46:08
MLB history match in the 1966 Cleveland Indians to rack up 6
46:15
shutouts in the 1st 16 games of the season.
46:20
The only other time a team has held its opponents to fewer than
46:23
a held its opponent to a fewer than a dozen runs over its first
46:28
nine home games happened in 1876.
46:34
And yet they wanted to trade Cease in the offseason.
46:41
At the time of this article, said the Padres are second in
46:44
the league with a team ERA of 26 eights and their bullpen is
46:47
leading all of baseball with a 151.
46:52
So really just a perfect storm of phenomenal pitching and a
46:56
garbage team. Yeah, but Speaking of Cease, he
46:59
didn't even throw this weekend because he's thrown tonight.
47:03
The fact that they had. Stupid.
47:08
Rock, silly man, what a waste. Bud Black needs to it's what are
47:13
we doing? What is that franchise doing?
47:16
Oh, it's just a waste, man. Waste of a good ballpark, Waste
47:20
of a good color way. Loyalty has its limits, does it
47:23
not? Yeah, I think so.
47:27
I mean, come on, man, I love, I love Bud Black.
47:30
But. What a mess man, what an
47:36
absolute mess. Good for the pods.
47:41
Put up some more runs. Shohei Otani, with what appears
47:56
to be a solo home run, has now cut the lead.
48:05
Was that 89? Has now cut the lead to 99
48:12
double digits. Baby.
48:17
I'm now losing in fantasy -27 to 76.
48:25
Stop the count. Stop the count.
48:32
Yeah, the only other thing I had here real quick before we take a
48:36
look quick look around the league is this Mike Trout thing
48:43
when we when we play the clip. Yeah, Yeah.
48:47
This is like this is like your favorite player.
48:49
So I figured you'd be eager to talk about it.
48:55
Oh Dang. You got a lot of your friends
48:56
coming out to the weekend celebration this ball 2O.
49:00
Pitch. Look at Trout.
49:02
Trout's claiming. Interferes but that is in the
49:04
stands that is not his ball that's a fans ball Well he can
49:09
argue all he wants but that is a fans right Mike you can look at
49:13
it again but that is a fans right of the balls in the stands
49:18
yeah but if it went in his. Glove and the fan grabbed the
49:20
ball out of the car. OK, that's a different story if
49:23
that's a fan. If the fan catches it, it's his.
49:29
It might be in his glove. That's the old Oh yeah, yeah,
49:32
that's the Mookie Betts play from the world.
49:34
Series. Yeah, he did.
49:37
Did he have it first? Right?
49:38
Yeah. It was in Trout's glove.
49:40
First, OK, that's different. That's a whole different story
49:42
if he caught it and then the fan took it away.
49:46
Right there, it looks like it's in his glove.
49:48
You could see Trout trying to pull the Yeah, that wasn't as
49:53
egregious or aggressive as what happened.
49:55
Yankees to That was terrible. That was really bad.
49:58
But that's could be a third out nonetheless.
50:04
First of all, Oh my God, dude, I don't know if.
50:07
You've ever listened? I was going to say, I don't know
50:09
if you've listened to Astros broadcast before, but.
50:12
The bias is. Uncon it can be egregious at
50:15
times. Guys like that's that's that's
50:18
understand his right. Like bro, we're not writing the
50:23
Constitution. Relax.
50:25
Like shell, it's a baseball game.
50:27
We're not. So we're not.
50:28
It's in the Bill of Rights. Let's I'm going to I'm going to
50:31
go an unpopular route here. I, I think, I think our man
50:35
assisted with the catch. I feel like it was probably like
50:38
a little bit of like a. Little backboard.
50:40
Action Backboard. A little backboard to play that
50:43
in there. And look, I'm not going to get
50:45
on that guy because let's, let's be, let's be real here.
50:48
If if we were in that situation. He's doing the same.
50:52
Thing I'm doing the same thing and you can tell you can tell
50:55
right away. He extends like he literally
50:58
almost tries to put the ball back in his glove like whoa,
51:01
whoa, whoa. I'm sure he was having like
51:04
immediate flashbacks to to watch in the World Series.
51:07
Like I'm not trying to be this guy or, or that guy.
51:12
So like, it's just kind of a weird situation, but like there
51:17
was a little bit of like kind of reaching and grabbing and.
51:21
Oh yeah, there's, there's some grabbing.
51:24
There's some grabbing, but. Which we got, we got to stop
51:27
with that. I don't know what's getting into
51:29
people like why it's happening more or more.
51:32
I've seen it like twice in the last year, but still, that's
51:35
two. That's two times too many.
51:37
Yeah, yeah. I think there was like almost
51:40
like a it was a hair a hair too long, a hair too long of
51:48
grabbing it out of the glove to where like I think there was a
51:52
decision made there. Now going for the ball in
51:54
general, duh, It's reactionary. Any of us would do it.
51:58
Great reaction. For those unaware or haven't
52:03
seen it, I don't know if you have this clip.
52:05
If you don't, shame on you. You don't have it.
52:14
What clip? Well the the dad and the the guy
52:18
had a his son with them the fan and so they got bounced.
52:21
Hey, nothing stopping you from getting a clip.
52:25
Yeah, there literally is. I don't know how to do this.
52:28
I'm just here. I'm just here.
52:31
I'm just a here barefoot guy all.
52:33
Right. Well, thankfully.
52:34
You know. Keep talking well.
52:39
I'm not going to explain the clip if you're about to.
52:40
Find it. All right, all right, relax.
52:42
I got it. Here we go.
52:46
You're not ready. Oh, I'm not ready.
52:50
I'm not ready. Try me.
52:53
It's still quite impressive. It was the way you were acting.
53:00
That's what it's all about. Yeah.
53:05
And I saw you guys get kicked out.
53:06
I'm like, yeah, no problem. I got you.
53:12
Is that the ball right here? Yeah, that's.
53:14
The ball. Oh yeah, yeah.
53:15
Give me sorry. Well, that did not impact No, I
53:22
finally actually found out a rule.
53:23
It's like 3 games like 2. But no, it was the way you like
53:30
apologetic man, like and then I felt the past that when you got
53:32
kicked out. This is this is the Mike Trout
53:39
that we've we've always wanted. Like the guy that's like kind of
53:43
throwing not like a temper tantrum necessarily.
53:45
I mean, it was like borderline temper tantrum, but like showing
53:48
some emotion as it's happening, like getting fired up.
53:51
Not like, all right, he's got it.
53:53
Like go ahead and take it. Have fun.
53:57
Yeah. He's like getting kind of fired
53:59
up. And then he's, you can tell like
54:00
in that exchange, you still get he's like, you know what?
54:03
Like, yeah, no, it's cool. Like the way you reacted.
54:05
I'm. I'm cool with it.
54:06
And he's like signing stuff like that.
54:08
Yeah. Try what we want.
54:09
Yeah, yeah, yeah. Like, show me like a little
54:12
alpha, you know what I'm saying? Like give me like a little bit
54:15
of that. No, but super cool.
54:17
So for those just on audio, fans got kicked out the the guy who
54:23
was going for the ball and his son who looked to be, I don't
54:26
know, maybe 10-11, they got kicked out and then Trout was
54:30
able to get connected with them and bring them down to the
54:33
tunnel and gave the kid a bat. They kept that ball.
54:37
He signed it for him and shook the dad's hand.
54:40
Like super, super cool stuff. I'm a sucker for those for
54:43
those, those interactions. So job well done.
54:48
Job well done. Job well done.
54:50
Let's take a quick look around the league, Nates.
54:56
Let's do it Anything 'cause it's, I mean, you know, it's
54:58
been a minute since things got things got.
55:03
Going on, I'm not a, I'm not a standings watcher for a while.
55:06
So I, I kind of like, not that we need to be like, hey, like,
55:12
but there are some, there are some starts there like I feel
55:15
like. I like overreacting.
55:17
It's a long year. Like what fun is it to just
55:20
like, look, I, I'm when, when I'm being serious, I'm the one
55:24
that's pushing the whole like everybody needs relax.
55:28
There's 162 of these things. Everybody just chill.
55:31
With that, then let's. Start with your ace.
55:34
When I'm riding the bit, when I'm riding the bit, I love
55:38
overreacting. In April I years ago, I don't
55:41
know if you remember, I started putting out those graphics like
55:44
2 games into the season. If the post season started
55:48
today. I started doing that years ago
55:51
and people hated my guts. They were like, they're like
55:56
threatening to dox my address. I'm like relaxed.
56:02
Take a breath. So don't dodge my question here,
56:05
Let's talk about your ace. Yeah, let's talk about my ace.
56:09
Giving the rest of the division a head start is what's
56:10
happening. Is that what that is?
56:12
That's exactly what's happening -24 run differential.
56:15
Yeah, they wanted. To be sure, they wanted to be
56:18
sure they're, if they're going to commit to the bit, they're
56:23
going to commit to the bit. And that's what's happening all.
56:26
Right. Fair enough.
56:29
Fair enough. Anything else surprising?
56:32
And you know why that I know that's intentional.
56:35
Look at what their expected win loss is.
56:38
Does it or does it not match what their actual record is?
56:42
Everything is calculated. It's fully intentional.
56:47
There's no luck. There's no, yeah, there's no
56:51
coincidence going on. Talk to me, oh oh wise one.
56:55
This is it's 6 in 10 expected win loss, 6 in 10 in reality.
57:02
What's what's up with the AL East man?
57:04
Like it's kind of underwhelming. It's everyone's just.
57:07
Joke is what it is. Everyone's just kind of blah.
57:11
It's a joke. The whole division's just like
57:14
weird. Garbage.
57:15
I haven't watched too much of of of the Red Sox.
57:19
You don't want to trust me, it's too.
57:21
Bad. Who have they been playing?
57:23
I haven't. Really, dude, they just like
57:24
they just dropped two or three to the White Sox.
57:27
They got their tails handed to them on Friday night.
57:31
And then as you very well know, tonight, I didn't see what the
57:35
final was because as I mentioned, 116 to 1, which by
57:40
the way, I don't remember if I mentioned this last episode, but
57:44
I think there's going to be some sort of home run like season
57:48
record set in that ballpark. Yeah, Steinbrenner fuel balls
57:53
fly there. And I'm not just saying that
57:56
because of one game like. No, it's going.
57:58
Every game, like if there's going to be one home run,
58:02
there's going to be 6. It's going to be 1 the whole
58:04
time. Yeah, Oh my goodness.
58:06
That's what. Yeah.
58:07
Shout out Fantasy squad Yandi Diaz is starting to figure it
58:10
out. Junior Caminero I'd.
58:13
Love that for you. Weird note, I don't want to like
58:15
talk about it very long. I thought it's insane the
58:19
stretch of opponents that the Yankees are having.
58:24
Inner league. It started with the season
58:31
opened with the Brewers, then Diamondbacks, then Pirates.
58:36
OK, you mixed in the Tigers but then you have the Giants 4 inter
58:43
league series in out of your first five.
58:46
What are we doing, MLB? That's too much.
58:49
That's so weird, That's so odd. I don't understand that.
58:54
But yeah, kind of underwhelming, at least at the moment.
58:57
Everyone just hovering. We're not doing anything.
59:02
No one's like over achieving really.
59:05
Question for you. Bounce over the.
59:06
Twins are dead, by the way. Twins are dead.
59:09
Pablo Lopez is going to get traded.
59:11
Put Pablo Lopez on the Cubs. How about that?
59:16
Twins are dead. Talk to me about the team
59:19
beneath the Twins, the White Sox.
59:21
I'm not just saying this you, you should know.
59:25
You should know me. You should know I'm an I, I try
59:28
to be an honorable person. I'm not just asking this
59:31
question because they just handed the Red Sox 2 losses out
59:34
of three, two losses out of three games over the weekend.
59:39
But is it like, what are the odds that the White Sox are like
59:46
the A's of last year, where by the end of the season we're
59:50
like? You're like somewhat optimistic
59:51
they. Weren't like the worst team in
59:54
baseball. They were better than what the
59:57
abysmal expectations that came into the year were.
1:00:01
I guess, I mean it could only go up from what they did last year,
1:00:04
right? No, I'm sure and I'm not saying
1:00:06
that that's the expectation that you're just going to run it
1:00:09
back, but like. I'll say this man and I'll,
1:00:13
I'll, I'm going to, I'm going to kind of be self aware here.
1:00:18
I'm going to, I'm going to throw a hand up on self-awareness
1:00:21
here. Love that.
1:00:23
I'd like to think that I watch more baseball than the average
1:00:26
person, but let's be honest, since getting married, I don't
1:00:30
watch as much as I used to, right?
1:00:32
So I try to catch as much as I can.
1:00:36
Outside of Benintendi and Louise Robert, I don't think I could
1:00:39
name five guys in the White Sox roster.
1:00:42
Shots fired. Shots fired.
1:00:46
I really don't. Could you?
1:00:54
So anyway, let's talk take take out Benintendi.
1:00:58
Let's wrap out Louise. Robert Then you name me 5 White
1:01:03
Sox. Whoa, what's his face?
1:01:06
Didn't he get traded? No, seriously, From the Cubs, he
1:01:11
got traded to the White Sox. Madrigal.
1:01:14
Madrigal got traded again. Didn't he there anymore?
1:01:17
Yeah, he got, he got shipped out in something.
1:01:20
Who's he with? Madrigal.
1:01:25
The Mets, I don't remember that move, but they're in.
1:01:31
Veteran McNeil, I think he's hurt.
1:01:36
McNeil No. Magical.
1:01:39
Magical. Yeah, he hasn't played yet this
1:01:41
year. Did anybody else you got any any
1:01:43
other? The one guy I thought is no
1:01:46
longer on the team. Let's see here, let's let's run
1:01:50
through and for the people that are listening to this going you
1:01:54
don't know ball. Chill.
1:01:55
It's the literal worst human baseball.
1:01:57
Yeah, dude, there's only so much I can consider.
1:01:59
You want us to pay attention to the White Sox?
1:02:01
We can, if that's what people want, read some names off to me
1:02:04
and maybe have like a list pulled up of like the line
1:02:07
substitute teachers in the state of Illinois and let's see.
1:02:11
The lineup from yesterday, the lineup from Sunday, Miguel Var,
1:02:16
Or at least that's what this oh. Yeah, Miguel Vargas, poor guy.
1:02:20
Poor guy. Yeah, I feel for him.
1:02:22
Feel for that guy. Miguel Vargas.
1:02:24
Louise. Robert Lenin.
1:02:27
Sosa. Andrew Vaughn.
1:02:29
Michael Taylor. Yeah, I could have.
1:02:32
I could have given you. I could have given you Andrew
1:02:33
Vaughn. Honestly, I don't think I'm
1:02:35
still there. No.
1:02:36
He's in San Diego. Oh, yeah, duh.
1:02:38
Michael Taylor. I don't.
1:02:40
You could have given me 100 guesses.
1:02:42
Maybe on like, the 97th guess. I could have given you.
1:02:44
Michael Taylor. Chase Mydroth.
1:02:48
Brooks just made his debut, right?
1:02:49
Aldwin. Yeah, he came over from Boston.
1:02:53
I saw the call up video, that's the only reason.
1:02:55
I couldn't have told you his name until you generated it.
1:03:01
Matt Brooks. Baldwin, Matt.
1:03:03
Dice, Jacob Amaya. Yeah, I don't know what a couple
1:03:11
of those guys play. Couple names in the in the
1:03:16
rotation off the not have bad starts though.
1:03:19
Shane Smith, Martine Perez. Keep an eye out on those names
1:03:25
if you're if you're into fantasy baseball.
1:03:30
Such as we did, What was I doing?
1:03:34
I took a couple screenshots because I was looking at like,
1:03:38
that's a look around. That's what we're doing, right?
1:03:40
We're looking. I'm going to throw some names at
1:03:45
you. I went to stats on MLB.com.
1:03:49
Hit the old filter to go to the bottom of the list above that.
1:03:54
Are you worried about these names?
1:03:56
OK, You ready? I can open.
1:03:59
Yes. Bottom of the list right now is
1:04:04
Jock Peterson. I don't know what the qualifier
1:04:09
is. I didn't really do that, but
1:04:11
Jock Peterson, 277 Oh. He's he's qualified.
1:04:15
Yeah, that's what I'm saying. I don't.
1:04:17
Know he's on the list. Yeah, I don't know if these all
1:04:22
of these names are, I don't know.
1:04:23
I don't know what their qualifier is.
1:04:26
They didn't say. You worried.
1:04:30
Are you going to give me an answer on this or I'm just?
1:04:34
Yeah, well, worried, maybe. Surprised.
1:04:39
Not really. I frankly, and this is no
1:04:41
disrespect to Jock, I just don't understand how he's been able to
1:04:44
do what he's done for so long like.
1:04:46
Credit to him this this had to end, right?
1:04:48
Seriously, credit to him and I'm not even saying that he can't
1:04:52
turn it around this year, but like I it's just one of those
1:04:54
things where it's like how is he doing what he's doing?
1:04:56
I doesn't make sense but he he rides the vibe so I'll give him
1:04:59
that. How about teammate Marcus
1:05:01
Simeon? No, I'm not worried. 387 OPS.
1:05:07
No. There's a lot of storylines
1:05:09
around baseball of like horrifically slow starts,
1:05:13
whether it be a player or a position player, a pitcher.
1:05:16
I said you like to overreact so. I no, no, no, I love the
1:05:19
opportunity. No, no, no, I hear you.
1:05:20
I I love it. But it's like my, what I was
1:05:24
getting out there was that like some of these starts are so
1:05:27
horrendously bad that, and you know this about me.
1:05:31
You know how much I love the law of averages.
1:05:33
Like for some of these guys, the law of averages is going to kick
1:05:37
in at some point and like you're going to see some of these names
1:05:41
just go on an absolute tear. So rest assured, most of these
1:05:46
guys, I believe will be fine. Alec Baum, another name I'm not
1:05:50
worried about all. Right Mark Vientos.
1:05:56
Are we seeing a sophomore slump? Junior slump.
1:06:02
Do you care about Mark Vientos? If I'm being honest with you,
1:06:04
well, I. Mean like he was like he kind of
1:06:06
became on the theme last year. I don't really mark big Mark
1:06:08
Vientos. Guy big name here, I mean Max
1:06:11
Muncie, what is? I think he still has negative
1:06:14
points in fantasy and he plays every day.
1:06:19
What are we? What are we talk?
1:06:21
Are we still talking OPS? Well, he wasn't on that list,
1:06:26
but I swiped over to strikeouts and he's.
1:06:30
Lowest OPS is in baseball, Max Muncie of the Athletics 19th.
1:06:34
Worst OPS in baseball Max Muncie of the Dodgers, 21st.
1:06:40
Yeah, so maybe both Max Muncie's, he's hitting $1.76 and
1:06:45
I was correct, He has -1 fantasy points this year.
1:06:51
He owes you fantasy points this year.
1:06:54
Insane. That's rough, man.
1:06:56
Tristan Cosas, 523 OPS, He's hitting $1.75.
1:07:04
I'd be worried. I'd be worried about that name.
1:07:06
I am. I mean, you know how I feel
1:07:08
about Tristan Cosas. I'm a little little worried,
1:07:12
yeah, a little worried. The Sox as a whole will be fine.
1:07:21
I I do. I do believe I do declare, but
1:07:26
Tristan causes I'd. I don't know, man.
1:07:30
I don't know I've. Never.
1:07:32
I really wish they would have traded him this offseason.
1:07:34
I and you know, I hope he makes me eat my words, but I really
1:07:38
wish they would have found a way to ship him to Seattle.
1:07:40
Never bought into that guy about the Cardinals with a respectable
1:07:44
start to their season and having 500.
1:07:48
Really good offensive production, 500 better than what
1:07:56
we thought they were going to be.
1:07:58
Is it though? Bro look they are second in all
1:08:03
of baseball as team OPS 800. Yeah, I don't know what you want
1:08:14
from me. Yeah, I'll.
1:08:16
I'll say things. I'll clap it up there.
1:08:19
There you go. Good job Cardinals on being the
1:08:25
literal definition of mid through 18 games. 3rd in
1:08:30
baseball and run score. Looking around, I don't see
1:08:36
anything else really jumps out off the page.
1:08:39
Orioles at 69. I don't love for them but again,
1:08:43
not worried. I'm not worried, but I just, I
1:08:47
don't, I feel like that team cannot afford to dig too deep of
1:08:50
a hole. Correct.
1:08:51
Yeah, also true. Both can be true.
1:08:55
Yeah, both can be true. But the Twins are dead, and so
1:08:59
are the Rockies. I'm calling it now.
1:09:00
I'm. Calling Wow bold time of death
1:09:02
of you. Time of death now.
1:09:04
Now not Opening Day for the Rockies.
1:09:09
I mean, like we were hopping into the ambulance, driving to
1:09:12
the scene on opening day, on opening day.
1:09:16
Like we left as soon as we could, like we got to call the
1:09:19
first pitch and then it just took us a minute it.
1:09:21
Was on the outs. It was on the outskirts of town.
1:09:24
To be fair, we did take our time.
1:09:25
We made a couple stops first because we knew the Rockies,
1:09:28
being the 112 year old grandmother that they are, we're
1:09:32
like they're more pressing needs that require our attention
1:09:38
before we get there. But we got here on April 14th,
1:09:42
so it took us, what, a couple weeks?
1:09:45
But I'm I'm throwing the twin twins caused the accident and
1:09:50
also perished. So just that's that's a tough
1:09:57
blow for the twins. Yeah.
1:09:59
Yeah. I mean, you see it.
1:10:01
You hate that for the family. Yeah.
1:10:03
But they're, I mean, twins. I mean, yeah, that's tough.
1:10:12
I mean, you're not just, you're not just losing 1, you're losing
1:10:15
twins. Right.
1:10:17
Tough blow 2 Right, Right. That's crazy though, that you're
1:10:21
ruling. I mean, you're.
1:10:23
I'm done, yeah. Now I'm going to keep that
1:10:24
receipt. Keep it, keep it.
1:10:27
Wow. I call that so early.
1:10:29
Call my shot early because like been saying it since March.
1:10:34
We didn't really have much of an opportunity, you know, to do
1:10:40
what we had to drive to the scene.
1:10:42
We had to get here, we had to regular things.
1:10:45
Fair. Let things play out a little
1:10:47
bit, but they're dead. See ya.
1:10:53
So that's it for now. Just the 2, just the two teams.
1:10:57
Yeah, yeah, Twins aren't even in the last place in their
1:11:01
division, but they're dead. So you're giving the White Sox a
1:11:05
little bit of hope. No, I mean they're.
1:11:08
Well, by default you have to if you're not.
1:11:09
Calling if you're. Seeing the Twins are dead and
1:11:11
the White Sox aren't. We're probably headed to their
1:11:13
scene at some point soon. We might stop for like a hot dog
1:11:17
or something, but we'll get there.
1:11:19
There's, there's probably a break in, there's like a shift
1:11:21
break, you know what I mean? Inevitably.
1:11:23
Yeah, yeah, like next, next shift may come in, Yeah.
1:11:26
Yeah, yeah. Like we're a shift, we'll let
1:11:28
B&C shift they're they've got their own things that they're
1:11:31
handling. They can.
1:11:32
They can take care of the White Sox.
1:11:33
Maybe a? Few days later, maybe we come
1:11:36
back and if they're still. Yeah.
1:11:39
They're still there. Maybe we we make a stop.
1:11:41
Speaking of concessions, I mentioned a hot dog.
1:11:45
I had an idea. I was driving.
1:11:47
I was driving. I'm, I'm like actually kind of
1:11:49
excited about this. Hot dog flavored seeds.
1:11:54
No, I had this idea driving down the road today because I had a
1:11:57
lot of time. I was.
1:11:58
Yeah, it's awful. I I was driving.
1:12:00
Yeah. Chinook, if you're listening,
1:12:02
don't entertain. I apologize.
1:12:04
Yeah. He he chilli dog.
1:12:06
He chilli dog seeds. He rescinds that.
1:12:09
No. So my idea, and I'm going to do
1:12:12
it, so don't try to stop me. My idea.
1:12:18
You remember a a few weeks back when I went on the rant about
1:12:22
the free refills not being a thing anymore and how people
1:12:25
were like genuinely wondering whether or not that was ever
1:12:28
actually a thing. And I was like, yeah,
1:12:31
absolutely. Free refills should be
1:12:33
universal, correct across the land.
1:12:35
Correct. So I was at the Nashville Sounds
1:12:38
game, as I mentioned earlier this weekend.
1:12:42
They know what you're doing. Well, yesterday, I guess, no.
1:12:45
So souvenir you got, you got your classic souvenir cup
1:12:49
situation and you got your regular soda situation.
1:12:53
And I'm thinking, OK, I mean, they're making it very clear.
1:12:57
There's a they're distinguishing one from the other both in size,
1:13:02
both in type of cup they offer and in price.
1:13:05
So naturally, you think when that happens, the difference in
1:13:09
price that you're paying should cover both the cup that you get
1:13:13
to keep and for refills. Like that should just be the
1:13:19
kind of basic understanding with with paying a premium for
1:13:22
souvenir cups. If you disagree, you're argue,
1:13:26
argue with a wall. So I went up and asked.
1:13:29
I asked multiple people. Because, you know, you never
1:13:31
know. Like sometimes maybe the
1:13:32
communication doesn't. Make a survey.
1:13:35
Not well. I asked the guy that gave me the
1:13:36
cup, I said. Oh, I talked to the employees,
1:13:38
got you. I thought you like went around.
1:13:41
No, not yet. I know you're watching the game,
1:13:42
but. Do you think this cup that I'm
1:13:44
holding should be refillable throughout the game at no cost?
1:13:48
No additional cost. Quick yes or no?
1:13:50
Quick yes or no? Pencil or pen, Blue, blue or
1:13:53
black, It's your choice. No.
1:13:55
So I, I asked the guy that handed me the cup.
1:13:57
I was like, by the way, is this refillable?
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And I was hoping he would just slide me like, yeah, just bring
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it back to me. We're all cool.
1:14:03
He's like, yeah, and I don't think so.
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It was very like lacking. He like, he like, appreciated
1:14:09
his job and right, I'm not risking it for you.
1:14:13
He's like, yeah, for you, maybe the person behind you, but not
1:14:17
you. I was like, understood, but it
1:14:19
was lacking confidence. So I was like, let me talk to
1:14:22
somebody that's been here for a while.
1:14:23
So I, I, you know, I, I sort of profiled a little bit, I admit,
1:14:30
and I was like, which of you have been working here?
1:14:32
Like which are you of the are the vet, the grizzled vets of
1:14:35
this staff? So you.
1:14:36
Hopped in the longest line because that was the oldest
1:14:38
person. I wait if I wanted to, but I
1:14:44
wanted to get to the bottom of this because if I'm paying a
1:14:46
premium, I want to know. So then I find the next person
1:14:48
and I said, just play dumb. Them not knowing that I already
1:14:53
asked them. I had already asked somebody.
1:14:55
I was like, hey, are these cups refillable?
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And she's like, no, it's like great.
1:15:00
All had to say it furthered fuels the fire of the fact that
1:15:05
I firmly believe that souvenirs. Honestly, I might make a hat or
1:15:10
a shirt like I there are a few campaigns right now that I stand
1:15:13
more firmly behind than the souvenir cup being refillable.
1:15:18
I'd I'd do a lot of. That's a lot of words for a
1:15:20
shirt. Can we trim it down?
1:15:24
Make souvenir cups refillable again, I don't know.
1:15:28
We'll figure it out. We'll workshop it.
1:15:29
Relax, we'll workshop it. So anyway, Long story short,
1:15:32
that's, that wasn't my project. My, my idea, that's just a
1:15:36
bonus. My idea is that I want to make
1:15:41
like a living map and it, this is going to be like interactive
1:15:46
with people all over the country.
1:15:47
We're going to get, we're going to get fans from all different
1:15:49
teams. And honestly, I think we can
1:15:51
let's expand it to the minors as well.
1:15:54
I want to get like a living map of because I'm seeing people in
1:15:58
the comments be like, no T-Mobile Park.
1:16:01
They do free refills. Like I don't like in on the
1:16:03
video that I posted where I went on that rant about it, They're
1:16:06
like, I don't know what you're talking about.
1:16:08
Like T-Mobile does it. And I've seen like other people
1:16:10
chime in and be like, yeah, such and such does it.
1:16:12
I'm like, I mean, that's awesome for those parks.
1:16:15
But I'm pretty sure at this stage in the game, majority
1:16:17
don't do free refills. So again, what I want to do is
1:16:23
I'm going to create, I'm just going to have a a graphic.
1:16:27
And that as people commit to their answers as to whether the
1:16:32
team that they go watch offers free refills or don't, I'm going
1:16:35
to add it to the map. And we're going to get a fully
1:16:40
updated 2025 map of who offers free refills, free refills.
1:16:46
And my thought is that if this gets enough traction, maybe
1:16:49
catches the eyes of some decision makers at some of these
1:16:52
parks, that maybe we could change the game for people
1:16:56
because you don't want to be one of the parks that doesn't offer
1:16:58
free refills when other parks are in the league.
1:17:01
Do you know? Yeah.
1:17:05
I mean, I'm, I'm with you. I'm.
1:17:06
I think, I think there's not a lot of people in these trenches.
1:17:10
And I feel like someone needs to take a stand.
1:17:13
I think you're that guy. Enter me.
1:17:16
And look, I don't need people to be in the trenches with me
1:17:18
necessarily. I just need a simple yes or no.
1:17:21
I mean, if you're selling T-shirts, you could probably use
1:17:23
some some soldiers down there, but.
1:17:26
Well, T-shirts now, people, there's an, I know there's
1:17:29
enough people in those trenches. I mean, if you want to talk like
1:17:32
deeper trenches, like willing to sign a petition, then maybe,
1:17:36
maybe. I'm big in the trenches of like,
1:17:38
I, I think it was a, a massive move for Costco to move from
1:17:42
Pepsi to Coke products. I think that was that that put
1:17:48
them over. That was the only thing holding
1:17:50
them back. Correct.
1:17:53
Now they're untouchable. They're untouchable.
1:17:55
There's Sam's Club. Never heard of her.
1:18:00
Unbelievable. Yeah, but anyway, so there's
1:18:04
going to be like 6 locations on this map and it's and your goal
1:18:09
is to like slowly Chaboy and add more locations based on verbal
1:18:13
confirmation from fans and or. Yeah, no, like I'm dead serious.
1:18:17
Like you think I'm crazy? I'm, I'm, I'm going to make the
1:18:21
like, it's going to be comprehensive.
1:18:23
I'm, I'm going to like, this is going to be a thing that I'm
1:18:26
going to run with. Are you OK?
1:18:29
I'm going to do it the right way.
1:18:30
What if it's like a specific specific spot in the ballpark?
1:18:38
Like you can only do it at this concession stand.
1:18:41
I don't foresee that being the case anywhere, but if it is, it
1:18:45
still counts. If you're at this ballpark, can
1:18:49
you get a free refill somewhere? Are you?
1:18:51
Going to have are you, do you trust your resources here?
1:18:54
Do like do you do you trust your sources?
1:18:56
Do you trust? Well, the caveat is that you
1:18:59
were going to have to like there's gonna you're gonna have
1:19:03
to confirm it to me somehow. Like either if if like if you're
1:19:06
reaching out to me to and a video would work, yes or no.
1:19:09
I mean a video would work sure, but like if?
1:19:11
You've gone to the bribing. There's.
1:19:15
No bribing here. I don't know why that would be a
1:19:17
a thing if you've been to a game this.
1:19:19
Year and get the refill. Right.
1:19:22
Not me. Not bribing me.
1:19:24
I don't know what why I would be bribed.
1:19:26
I don't know, long day. Long day.
1:19:30
Yeah. If you can confirm because
1:19:32
you've been to a game this year, great.
1:19:34
Yes or no? If you're able to confirm one or
1:19:36
another, great. OK.
1:19:37
If you have a source, a friend, a family member that you're
1:19:41
extremely close with and can also confirm and you can relay
1:19:44
that information to me, great. But let's make sure we have it
1:19:47
right and look it it's people are going to like people are
1:19:50
going to come correct. Like if I don't know it, no, if
1:19:53
somebody, if somebody fouls up and like, no, I know you can't
1:19:56
get free refills in here. You know, people love correcting
1:19:59
other people on the Internet. People will chime in immediately
1:20:04
if somebody says you can't get free refills at Dyken Park.
1:20:08
And Johnny was at the game this weekend against the Angels and
1:20:14
it's like, yo chill. If you can get free refills then
1:20:19
I'll know, but I just want an updated version because these
1:20:23
things, these policies, it seems, change.
1:20:25
That's all I'm saying. I think it's wild that you and I
1:20:28
can see the number of people who are currently hanging out with
1:20:31
us live and that number hasn't wavered since this rant started.
1:20:37
People in the trenches. 8 minutes ago.
1:20:39
People in the trenches anyway, that was.
1:20:41
An army. That was my final thought.
1:20:45
It's late. It's late with Nate.
1:20:47
Yeah, it is. It's time to go.
1:20:50
It's time to go for sure. You're done.
1:20:54
That's it. That's how you want to end it.
1:20:56
I need to go to bed. I agree.
1:20:59
No. Don't let the fact that I was in
1:21:02
the car today for 12 hours make you think that I'm I'm committed
1:21:07
to this project any less. Good.
1:21:12
I'm. Fully on I was worried.
1:21:13
I'm I am behind this. I'm going to do it.
1:21:16
I was worried. Yeah.
1:21:17
You better get on it like it's going to be a movement.
1:21:19
Nate, get some. Either get on board now, no, I'm
1:21:23
here, or watch from the watch from the stands.
1:21:25
We need, we need a, we need a better T-shirt.
1:21:27
But I'm here. You can work on that.
1:21:29
I'll work on the map. Good stuff.
1:21:31
I didn't eat dinner so I'm going to go have a bowl of cereal and.
1:21:35
Classic. You guys are incredible people
1:21:38
for hanging out and listening to this nonsense.
1:21:42
Don't go, Jason. I think it was a great time.
1:21:44
We love you all and as always, looking forward to talking more
1:21:46
baseball with you guys soon. Until next time, stay filthy.