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White Sox Lose 20 Straight · The 3-0 Take

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  Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to the Three O Take where we talk
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  all things Major League Baseball.
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  Here's Kyle Corwin and Nate Reyes.
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  It all starts right now. Welcome back to the Three O Take
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  presented by Sea Kick. This is episode 456.
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  I'll be your host, Kyle Corwin. I'm here with my Co host Nate
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  Reyes. Nate.
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  Hola, everybody here we are here we are here we be happy trade
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  it's been a while. It's.
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  It's been a while, did you enjoy your break?
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  Little little pseudo break because of our early recordings
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  last week. Yeah.
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  I mean breaks from this just mean I work more so I don't know
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  how much of it. So it's not really a break.
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  It's just just the opposite actually.
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  Yeah, yeah, yeah. That's how that works.
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  You want to move to three a week because that would I mean, I can
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  touch we go 7 a lot more. That sounds great.
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  Just a constant. Live stream of our our
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  day-to-day activities. Should we quit our jobs?
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  That's what I want to know. That's that's on deck happy Trey
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  Turner standing ovation one year anniversary day caught a.
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  Lot a lot of copycats in a year, you know?
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  A lot can happen around the league when they see something
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  they like in in just a a single year.
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  That happened this late in the season.
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  Sure did. I caught the I was I was tuning
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  into the Phillies game to see if they drops their seventh in a
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  row. They pulled it out, but on the
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  broadcast they they did a little flashback one year ago today,
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  August 4th, 2023, Trey Turner gets the same innovation.
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  So, so big day baseball history. Yeah, it's huge.
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  I cannot believe it was this late in the season.
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  I can't believe it was he. Struggle like that.
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  Long like. Yeah, it's pretty bad.
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  That's weird. Pretty right?
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  I can't believe it was this late in the season that I got to a
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  Nationals game. I finally, finally made it over
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  to Nats Park today. Shut up, Mom.
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  Her. Her work allowed for us to take
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  advantage of the suite so it was her, me, Meredith and some of
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  her Co workers all in the suite. The suite life at a baseball
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  game. Yeah, it's different, bro.
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  It's hard to, it's hard to like, remind yourself you're at a game
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  sometimes. Yeah, yeah.
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  The food, the food being right there, the bathroom in the
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  suite. So you're not missing anything
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  that's. Great, that's arguably better
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  than the food. Crucial I would, I would, I
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  would venture to say so because we're and we're talking about
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  today, you know what the pitch clock if if you go to the
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  bathroom, you come back, you've missed an in and 1/2.
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  It's true, it's true. Forget getting something out of
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  concession on the same trip. That's that's out of the
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  question. I mean, you may as well just not
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  even go to the game. We were there for an hour and 10
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  minutes today and I it was halfway.
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  The game was halfway over. An hour and 10 minutes and the
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  game was halfway over. That's one of those games, like
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  when you're in the suite, you don't want it to, you don't want
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  it to cruise through, you know, you're kind of rooting for
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  extras. Talk to me about the food.
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  Talk to me about I was in there. We walked in and Major League
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  wise this was the first time I'd been in a suite.
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  I'd been I'd been in a suite at the Durham Bulls back when I was
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  living down there in Durham. Yeah, the only suite I've been
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  into is a Broncos game and I think about it.
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  Yeah, shout out, shout out meme legend Brandon Snyder, hometown
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  hero, for the hook up for that at the Bulls game.
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  That was clutch. But Major League wise, this was
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  the 1st, first sweet experience that I'd had.
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  So we walk in and I look over to to the counter where you know,
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  you got the mini fridge, you got the ice, you got the the drinks
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  in the fridge and the food laid out.
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  You had your pizza, you had pepperoni and cheese.
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  Sure, pep, pep and cheese. They had hot dogs for days with
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  sauerkraut if you wanted that nice touch.
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  Not, not necessarily. You're not that guy.
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  You're not that guy. I'm not that guy.
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  Nice touch, but not me. And then they had, we'll call
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  them chicken poppers. They weren't exactly tenders,
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  but it was basically tenders just like cut up into pieces.
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  So that was a nice touch. And then they had Cokes and and
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  beers in the fridge and some some popcorn, some some communal
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  popcorn. Scoop a cup and you're on your
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  way. That's big time.
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  The popcorn is is arguably just like, you know it.
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  This is the sweet that did it have like the seats that you can
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  go out to? Yeah, I love.
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  That two rows of five. So you're like, you're not going
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  out there and you're not like overtaken by people.
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  It was nice, very nice. Love that.
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  Big fan. You guy, how many cokes did you
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  have? Just one.
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  I went back for a second and they were gone.
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  We were hitting the Cokes pretty heavy as a as a group.
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  I will say so did. You get your full on the food.
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  I did. I did.
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  You're in your money. I mean, right away I went, I
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  went for the pizza. It wasn't even Ma's money.
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  It was it was through work. But right away slice of pizza,
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  two dogs and more tenders. And I'm, I'm probably proud to
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  admit so they're. Cut up.
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  Or cut up. Yeah.
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  So I mean, it's basically nothing like those calories
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  don't even exist at that point. But yeah, sure, it was good.
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  All in all, it was good. Yeah, it's good stuff.
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  I went to Costco. That's big.
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  That's a the fact that you're alive, that's a win that I mean,
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  on a Sunday, on a Sunday of all days.
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  I'm physically nauseous still. Just would not.
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  Like would not recommend. My rejection, my physical and
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  mental. I don't do well at Costco.
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  It could be a Tuesday and I'm just as unhappy.
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  We've talked about this before, but I will, I will go to my
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  grave saying that human awareness collectively is at an
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  all time low at Costco. Believable.
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  If anything, human awareness should be at an all time high
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  because of everything that's going around going on around
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  you. People get to Costco and they're
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  like, all right, I don't have to.
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  I don't have to be a, a law abiding citizen.
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  I don't have to be a decent human being.
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  Now I can, I can let go of the reins.
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  How does that make sense? I could, I could just, I could
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  just leave the cart right here and and then run and get my food
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  while the cart's right in the middle of the aisle that that
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  works. And then when I.
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  Check out and go out to the parking lot and unload it.
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  It's it's OK to leave in the middle of the road.
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  No, like is that's what that's what we all do.
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  No. So I'm going to go ahead and do
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  that. Lawlessness.
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  It's lawlessness. I had a guy stare at me.
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  He's in the middle of the aisle and I'm like I, you know, you
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  give that like a I'm going that way kind of and he's just
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  looking at me. I'm like your semi truck of a
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  cart is in the way. I need you to move.
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  I need to get to the crackers. Please move.
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  Real. They treat it like a personal
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  shopping trip. And I get it, like you're there
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  to shop. But people, people act as if
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  they're the only ones there. They're stopping in the middle
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  aisle, like scrolling through their shopping list.
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  Unbelievable. And they're stopping and looking
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  at the varieties. It's always the real snug
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  aisles. I'll tell you what though, the
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  the freezer section, it's like 115 today.
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  So the freezer section, I was like, can we just.
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  Let's just hang out. Just soak this in.
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  I could see my breath and I'm like, oh.
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  Break out the cards, maybe play some games while you're in there
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  and just stay a while, you know all.
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  Right. What a terrible place.
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  Hey, Speaking of terrible, let's talk some baseball.
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  Zach in the chat asked us to talk about Jackson Holiday.
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  Zach, you best believe we're going to talk about Jackson
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  Holiday. Relax, we're getting to Costco
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  stuff OK. We are.
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  We got to talk about the important things first.
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  Jackson Holiday can wait. We have to talk Costco.
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  OK, now we're going to talk some baseball here.
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  Let's talk about the hold on. Let's let's go to let's go to
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  thesaurus.com. I'm going to look up.
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  I'm going to look up synonyms for awful, appalling, atrocious.
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  That's a good one. Depressing, Dire, Disgusting,
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  distressing, dreadful, frightful, ghastly, gruesome,
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  harrowing, hideous, horrendous, horrible, horrific, horrifying,
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  nasty, shocking, ugly, unpleasant.
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  Chicago White Sox. I feel like if if if you're
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  using dreadful or ghastly, you're from you're from the UK,
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  you're not from here. Ghastly.
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  Just ghastly dreadful. Bloody dreadful in it.
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  In it. Bloody dreadful in it.
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  Yeah, the White Sox are bloody dreadful in it. 20 games in a
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  row. I put out a tweet last night.
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  This was this was prior to the the 20th loss in a row today.
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  I said if this and I put a screenshot of where they're at
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  in the standings. And at the time it was 19
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  straight. And I said, if the Chicago White
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  Sox losing streak was an age, it would almost be able to legally
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  drink. That's where we're at.
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  And like, yeah, sure. It's funny to point out the the
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  the obvious facts such as that, where it's like we're getting up
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  there. But when you really stop to
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  think about how bad this this season has been for the White
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  Sox, it's it's horrendous. It's not don't forget it.
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  It's not just this. They had a 14 game losing streak
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  earlier in the season. Don't let the don't let the fact
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  that they've lost twenty in a row distract you from the fact
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  that they previously earlier in the year lost 14.
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  And Frank Thomas had some excellent, he had an apartment
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  is some apartment analysis on the the post game today.
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  This is why some baseball guys need maybe, I don't know if I
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  don't know if they're all, I don't know if they're all fit
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  for TV. But he goes, he goes, you know,
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  if you take the 14 game losing streak and the 20 game losing
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  streak and combine them, they've lost 34 games in a row.
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  And the other guys are like, yeah, Yep.
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  That's that's how math works, Frank.
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  Good math Big. Hurt, that's how that works.
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  No, but I mean, it's silly, but he's right.
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  It's it's crazy. Like, I mean, we're approaching
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  historic records here. We're approaching.
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  What do they? Need they?
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  Need. What is it?
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  It's like 14 or 15 wins. It's the.
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  Would not be the worst. Oh, to, like, avoid the worst
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  all time, you mean? Yeah, Yeah.
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  So what I So what I know is that this is the longest streak since
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  the 1988 O's dropped 21 in a row, which is the American
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  League mark. The The 61 Phillies hold the
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  National League record for 23 straight and somehow make this
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  make sense. The The Major League low belongs
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  to the 1889 Louisville Colonels. You know him, you love him.
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  They. Drop Who's leading that stuff,
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  you know? Let's let's do a quick deep
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  dive. They lost 26 in a row and they
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  finished 27 and 111. What did I say?
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  The 1889, 1889 I know Baseball Reference has this.
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  Yeah, here we go. 1889 Louisville, Colonel Colonels.
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  Talk to me about that roster. Fire me up here.
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  It's pronounced Colonel. It's the highest rank in the
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  military. Shout out Creed Bratton.
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  What are we? What am I looking at here?
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  Just just just hammer home some names.
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  Let's run through some names here.
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  Paul Cook, Guy Hecker, Dan Shannon.
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  These are all normal. Harry Raymond.
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  Here you go. Farmer Weaver.
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  There we go. Here we go.
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  Chicken Wolf. There's no way that's a real
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  guy. No, I don't.
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  I don't care what you say. That's not.
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  I'm looking at the guy's picture.
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  That's AI. That's not a real man.
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  Chicken Wolf. That's not a real man.
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  He played right, short and 1st. No, no, you're not playing short
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  and 1st. I don't care what era it is.
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  That's not a real man. So yeah, you got Chicken Wolf.
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  Who else we got on here? Fred.
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  Carl. Dude.
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  Esterbrook. Guy's name is Dude.
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  That's nice. That's a sick mustache.
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  What? Was his last name.
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  Esterbrook. That's crazy good.
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  I'm a big fan of that. Toad Ramsay was on their staff.
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  Sure. Toad Ramsay.
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  Tough year for Toad. Yeah, just just brutal, dude.
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  Yeah, tough, tough year for. So I'm looking at the list but
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  like I good old Wikipedia, you know 'cause can't beat it says
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  modern era which is 19 O1 to now 'cause everyone I keep hearing
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  like the 62 Mets but they only played 160 games.
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  So like I'm trying to find where the 162 really bad record shows
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  up and I don't think it shows up until the senators in 19 O nine
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  with 42 wins. Socks here only have 27.
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  Is that right? They're 27 and 87, right?
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  60 games under 500, yeah. Dude, yeah.
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  So that would mean fifteen wins. The they're, well, they're on
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  pace to finish 38 and 124, which would be the most losses since
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  the 1899 Cleveland Spiders. Again, no one will love them
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  when they went 20 and 134. The 1899.
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  Now that's a team we looked up and if you recall that had some.
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  You want to talk about some hideous, hideous performance?
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  Who is that one guy on the staff?
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  We talked about this that went like, do you remember this?
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  Do you remember us talking about this?
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  Harry Cauliflower? That's a guy on the 1880. 9.
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  These people are not real. Harry Cauliflower.
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  Unbelievable. Yeah, we've talked about the
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  them before, the 1899 Cleveland Spiders.
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  You normally love them, but yeah, dude, the the White Sox.
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  Give me give me your best guess without looking.
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  When was the last time the White Sox won a game?
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  I've got the answer, but I'm. Curious where where your head's
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  at just start August just. Don't even think about it.
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  Don't. Do math.
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  Just don't. Even think about.
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  It let's say 4th of July. July 10th was the last time they
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  won a game. Wow, they beat Minnesota in game
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  in the first game of doubleheader.
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  I've got some more Nuggets here for you.
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  The White Sox have been outscored 131 to 48.
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  Here's a real nugget. They've only given up 141 runs
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  a. 131 a. 131. I mean, yeah, but when you're
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  scoring 48 over that span it. A lot of coasting from the
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  opponent, you know. Yeah, that the White Sox
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  broadcast that I mentioned where they were talking about this,
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  they brought up the point that if you take out the 20 game
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  losing streak and the 14 game losing streak, they still have
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  the worst, the worst record in baseball.
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  Take out those 34 losses. 34 dubs and.
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  Kim 34 Dubs and they're still sitting at the bottom.
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  That's how bad we're talking about.
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  You want to talk about bad? Their manager?
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  Pedro PD 100 games under 500 as White Sox manager, 100 games.
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  Ozzy Guillen was gloating on the broadcast.
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  He was. He was sitting there with a most
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  smug smile. He's like, they picked this guy
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  over me. This is the guy they went with
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  over me. Ozzy is a different animal.
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  The L 20 hits different when you're looking at the standings,
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  you're just like W4 W 1L1L20. You almost kind of forget
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  because you see the O in 10 and their last ten, you're like, oh
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  man, they've really had a, they've had a bad stretch and
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  then you're like, oh, just kidding, that's actually double
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  that. Oh, you were saying 131 runs
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  during this stretch during 20 games?
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  Yes, they've been outscored 131 to 48 during the the streak.
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  She's letting up 6 1/2 games or or six 6 1/2 running runs a
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  game. That's crazy.
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  Yep, 599 runs scored against them this year.
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  That, by the way, falling 60 games under 500, like we
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  mentioned, first time it's ever happened in in franchise
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  history. You, I mean you want to talk
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  about a team that's been around for a long time, Never been
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  done. Never been done for the White
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  Sox, first time ever. It's not since that the Rockies
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  have let up more runs. The Rockies have given up 657
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  runs. I mean, they're chilling.
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  They're chilling, they're in a good spot.
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  As long as the White Sox are still a viable Major League
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  Baseball team, they're they're cool.
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  Crazy bro this is just so sad. Yeah, just like we talked about
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  you throw any one of those adjectives that we threw out at
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  you from the jump at that pretty much applies to what we're
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  looking at here in Chicago. And I'd frankly, I don't think
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  it's, I don't think there's any, any desire, any hunger to, to
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  turn that around anytime soon. I think frankly.
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  I think they could have done more at the deadline personally.
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  Still got some names on on that roster that could have moved.
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  Well, I mean, we were just talking about it before we
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  hopped on Louise. Robert has been worse than in
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  terms of qualified hitters. He's got to be towards the
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  bottom of the list over the last call it month.
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  So he I think mentally he's he, he might be checked out because
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  if we're being honest, he was probably looking at the deadline
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  going, that's my ticket out of here.
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  And then the White Sox like, no, no, no, we're going to, we're
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  going to, we like seeing you miserable.
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  We're going to keep you around. That's a big check out.
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  You know, that's a big check out if you're like, you're not being
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  moved. Yeah, talk about a let down man.
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  You think there's a a half decent chance you get out of
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  there and like, yeah, now we're good.
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  Especially once Eloy went, you're like, yes, it's my turn
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  now, just pull all evil and just like just hobble down the line
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  for a second. You're like Coach Hamstring.
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  I mean, it's, it's kind of different when you look at like
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  crochet, because crochet at least is, you know, he's, he's
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  making his demands mentally. He's at least aware of the
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  season he's having and he's like, I'm going to make the best
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  of this so that I can benefit myself moving forward.
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  But from what I could tell, I think Louise Robert, for the
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  most part, kind of kept his mouth shut regarding the
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  deadline. And then I would imagine once he
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  found out he was staying put, he was like, Nah, I could not care
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  any less about this year or pretty much as long as I'm in a
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  White Sox uniform. If this is the best it's going
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  to be, if historically low performance out of this team is
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  as good as it's going to get, I don't care.
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  Can you give me any any positives around Andrew
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  Benintendi? No, he going.
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  Back to the He's going to have the worst season ever.
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  Talking, going back to the qualified here, saying he's like
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  at the bottom, I'm almost positive.
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  And I think there's a gap, yeah. Like, I think he's holding on to
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  that spot very safely. Yeah, but I don't know in terms
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  of being how, where he's at in terms of being like on track to
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  be the worst because I know at one point what a couple weeks
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  ago that was the case. I haven't I haven't seen an
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  update. I don't know how he's how he's
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  done. I think he's.
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  I like, yeah, there's a very real shot he'll have like a -2
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  war when it's done. It's insane costing your team.
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  It's insane. You'd be better off sitting
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  Benintendi and playing with two Outfitters.
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  I'd like to see it. Little Rover, Little Rover
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  action. Why not mix it up to get out?
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  Mix it up? I don't know.
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  Tough. Depressing.
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  Tough, Just get rid. Just move.
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  Just I'm done. I'm done with the White Sox.
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  I'm done. I'm done.
• 23:01
  Just move. Just get out of Chicago is run
• 23:03
  by the Cubs. And it's clear that like, it
• 23:05
  doesn't matter how good or bad the Cubs are, like this is not
• 23:10
  your city. Go somewhere else.
• 23:14
  Start. Start fresh.
• 23:18
  I can't wait to see the comments on that video when I make it
• 23:21
  talking about how well you're a Yankees fan.
• 23:23
  Your opinions invalid. Yeah, I know.
• 23:25
  That's yeah. That's like a universally agreed
• 23:28
  upon truth that the White Sox are forever the little brother
• 23:33
  of Chicago. They probably do need to sell
• 23:35
  the team, but because you're a Yankees fan dude.
• 23:39
  I'm not allowed to say anything. You're not allowed to say
• 23:40
  anything. In fact, I there there probably
• 23:43
  will be people that come out in defense of the White Sox because
• 23:48
  of the fact that you're a Yankees fan and go easy there,
• 23:52
  buddy. Yeah, chill out, guy.
• 23:54
  Best team in baseball, actually. Yeah.
• 23:57
  You don't know what you're talking about.
• 23:59
  That's that's what we deal with. You remember when they like when
• 24:01
  Bryce was a free agent and they were like kind of vying for him
• 24:07
  a little bit. Yeah, I remember the I remember
• 24:10
  the photo shops are the jersey swap, the Jersey swaps.
• 24:13
  I remember seeing those. Yeah, yeah, he look, he look
• 24:17
  good in a in a socks uni. I'm not going to lie, you really
• 24:20
  did. I do like the uniform.
• 24:22
  The black and white is clean. It's just not Team sucks.
• 24:28
  Yeah, team sucks. Stadium's a dump too.
• 24:30
  It's boring. There's nothing going on there.
• 24:33
  Nothing. Let's switch gears here.
• 24:36
  Talk Blake Snell, arguably the hottest pitcher over the last
• 24:45
  month, five weeks in baseball. I mean, it's, it's crazy.
• 24:52
  Throws a no hitter on Friday, the 3rd no hitter in Major
• 25:00
  League Baseball this year struck out 11 / 114 pitches and it was
• 25:07
  the first time first time in his career that he pitched into the
• 25:12
  9th. I mean, that's just a lot of.
• 25:16
  Walks is a lot of walks. He walks a lot of guys.
• 25:19
  He goes deep in accounts. Deep in accounts, yeah.
• 25:22
  I mean he obviously was able to do it a little bit more
• 25:24
  efficiently given that he, I mean he threw what I say 114.
• 25:30
  But yeah, first time pitching, or I mean first complete game
• 25:37
  was the first time he had done that in 202 starts.
• 25:44
  What what do you mean he's how do you say this is the first
• 25:48
  time going in the ninth? Well, I'm yeah, that career
• 25:52
  starts. Career starts first complete
• 25:54
  game. He's only made 202 career
• 25:57
  starts. Yeah, and I think let me make
• 26:01
  sure I got it right here. Only only two pitchers have made
• 26:06
  more starts before their first 9 Indian complete game, and no
• 26:11
  pitcher has made more starts at a time of a no hitter as their
• 26:15
  first complete game. That's a mouthful, but it's a
• 26:17
  nugget that I found. All in all, this was a long time
• 26:22
  coming for Blake's now and honestly, you know.
• 26:24
  In Cincy, too, which like, let's talk about hitter ballparks, you
• 26:28
  know what I mean? Yeah.
• 26:30
  And I know we were talking about earlier, like good on the people
• 26:34
  that kind of saw this coming, because I've seen a lot of
• 26:37
  material surface about how he, how he pitches in the
• 26:41
  second-half and the numbers are astounding.
• 26:44
  So good on the people that actually were, were paying
• 26:46
  attention to this because I was, I was just so consumed with the
• 26:50
  start to the year. And it wasn't just like, oh,
• 26:53
  he's having a rough year. It was the nature in which the
• 26:55
  year or, or the nature in which the events transpired, like the,
• 27:03
  the bore stuff, the the delayed start, the pitching it, the, or
• 27:06
  the getting, getting the reps in at Boris HQ.
• 27:09
  It was just a very strange start.
• 27:11
  So I, I kept seeing the tweets about like, well, just hang
• 27:15
  tight. The second-half are always
• 27:17
  better. And I'm like, I don't this this
• 27:18
  year might be a little different.
• 27:20
  I don't know if we can, we can trust that.
• 27:22
  But it seems as though he's, he's logged enough Indians and
• 27:26
  enough starts at this point in the season that maybe he's, he's
• 27:32
  shaking that first half off and he's resuming.
• 27:36
  But what he does in the second-half and the way he's
• 27:40
  done it over the course of his career and it's, it's elite
• 27:44
  stuff. I mean, you want to talk about
• 27:46
  his last five starts, Hitters are 8 for 103 over his last five
• 27:53
  starts. And in those five start and I,
• 27:57
  I, I, I mentioned five starts because that's how how many he's
• 28:00
  had since returning from the IL In those five starts has posted
• 28:05
  a .55 ERA. Decent.
• 28:10
  This is what he does. This is what he does in the
• 28:13
  second-half. And we were like I said, we were
• 28:16
  talking like, is this is this dude washed?
• 28:18
  Like is is this the beginning of the end for Blake Snow?
• 28:21
  I mean, I don't know if we ever I don't ever.
• 28:23
  I don't know if we made it that far down the rabbit hole, but it
• 28:26
  just wasn't looking good. And he seems to be fine and at A
• 28:29
  at a time that could not have worked out better for the Giants
• 28:34
  in in a situation where they're scratching and clawing for for
• 28:41
  what, I don't know. But I mean, they're as of right
• 28:43
  now, they're game under 500. There's a lot of teams that
• 28:47
  there was like what, five or six teams that checked in on them at
• 28:50
  the deadline. I thought I remember seeing like
• 28:53
  checked in three, maybe it may, it may have been more, I'm sure,
• 28:56
  but I think officially it was like maybe three or four.
• 29:05
  I was looking at because I was looking at his start in very
• 29:12
  heavy fastball, curveball start. Like there's normally a decent
• 29:18
  amount of change ups and sliders that he makes in that he mixes
• 29:22
  in throughout his career. Yeah, 'cause I'm looking at his
• 29:26
  baseball savant, like there's like 15% change UPS, 11%
• 29:34
  sliders. But it didn't look that way for
• 29:37
  this. I mean, it was almost like it
• 29:40
  was very, very heavy on fastball.
• 29:42
  Curveball. Fastball is a dotting up.
• 29:46
  Fastball is just hitting spots. Curveball David Cohen always
• 29:53
  talks about in his in his like any time he's in the in the
• 29:56
  booth, whether it's ESPN or Yankees games, he talks about
• 29:59
  like if you can place your curveball over the plate, Like
• 30:03
  there's so many guys that like this sweeping curveball that
• 30:06
  like kind of takes it away from the plate or stays outside is a
• 30:09
  little easier for hitters to take.
• 30:11
  And this one's like if you started over the plate and try
• 30:14
  to land it on the plate and you saw that happen a few times in
• 30:17
  his start, it looked good. But my notes, I mean, like when
• 30:21
  you look at like how there's the Reds have like a few athletic
• 30:24
  names. You know, there's a few names
• 30:27
  that like you could anything, you know, like a a swinging bunt
• 30:31
  down the third baseline that there's a few hitters in that
• 30:33
  lineup that are like that's a knock.
• 30:36
  And it just didn't happen and didn't look like anything crazy
• 30:42
  defensively that that needed to happen.
• 30:47
  When you talk about like somewhat of a hitter's ball, a
• 30:49
  lot of a hitter's ballpark, not a very big outfield.
• 30:54
  You can play deep and and you can get some balls.
• 30:56
  And there was a few that like look like they may have been
• 30:59
  headed for the gap and nothing. I think there was that Lena at
• 31:03
  second base that they doubled off somebody at first.
• 31:07
  Other than that, like there wasn't a lot that was hard hit,
• 31:11
  just avoided barrels. Well, I mean, there were a lot
• 31:14
  of fly ball outs. It wasn't, it wasn't anything
• 31:17
  threatening in that regard. But I mean, it was either I, I
• 31:21
  mean, I would venture say the of the outs that weren't
• 31:24
  strikeouts, it probably was like 7580% fly ball outs.
• 31:31
  So I mean, he was like he was inducing contact.
• 31:33
  It wasn't maybe the, the type of contact he would have you would
• 31:36
  have hoped for, because some of those maybe if you catch a
• 31:40
  little bit sweeter part of the barrel, maybe the, the the
• 31:43
  launch angle's a little different, might be looking at a
• 31:45
  different situation. But yeah, I mean, they, they
• 31:49
  weren't the contact that he did get was not was not threatening.
• 31:53
  It was just a lot of fly ball, strikeout type outs.
• 31:57
  Awkward celebration too. We were talking about that
• 32:00
  before we hopped on. Yeah, the hug, the hug was very
• 32:03
  was very strange. And what was weird is that the
• 32:05
  the giants actually like tweeted the they're like that that no
• 32:11
  hit or hug. And I'm like, don't bring
• 32:12
  attention to it. This is this is this is silly
• 32:15
  it. Was weird.
• 32:16
  They were like, there was only like three of them at the mound.
• 32:18
  They're like. They're kind of like holding
• 32:20
  each other's waist, like bopping up and down.
• 32:22
  I'm like what? Is get some, get some hopping
• 32:24
  where the boys, you know, Strange man.
• 32:28
  Strange, but good for. Good for Blake's now, good for
• 32:32
  the Giants, I guess. I don't know I the pointless.
• 32:39
  Yeah. No, no, no, no, no.
• 32:40
  We're. Not doing that, no.
• 32:41
  We're not doing that. We're not doing that today.
• 32:45
  It's not pointless. It, I mean, technically
• 32:48
  speaking, it's not pointless. They're 4 1/2 back out of the
• 32:52
  wild card. The Vision's a lost cause.
• 32:56
  But 4 1/2 back, I mean, with a run differential of -11 I don't
• 33:01
  know what October would even really look like for you.
• 33:05
  Probably short lived. But I mean, just get to the
• 33:10
  dance, I guess if you're the Giants, I don't.
• 33:11
  Know I mean the Cardinals are tuned out back with -38 run
• 33:15
  differentials, so. Yeah, but they're only 5 back,
• 33:19
  only 5 back from the Brewers. So that it's just that it's it's
• 33:22
  based on the division you play. And we we know this, it's that's
• 33:25
  no surprise. But yeah, the Giants certainly
• 33:28
  have an uphill bet. I mean, you got to you got to
• 33:30
  jump a handful of teams. But anyway, let's let's talk
• 33:36
  Jackson Holiday. We actually the last time we
• 33:40
  recorded because we had to record early due to the the
• 33:45
  trade deadline recap. We usually record on a
• 33:47
  Wednesday, but we recorded last Tuesday.
• 33:50
  So we haven't even talked since I was at the Orioles game last
• 33:53
  week. The the day after the deadline,
• 33:56
  Jackson Holiday gets called up, hits his first career home run
• 34:00
  has he's hit his second career home run since then, but last
• 34:04
  Wednesday was his first first career home run Grand Slam.
• 34:07
  That was I texted you like immediately and I'm like, dude,
• 34:12
  that and and I know that gets thrown around a lot, but I'm
• 34:15
  like that ball sounded different.
• 34:18
  Yeah. I mean he got a hold of that one
• 34:21
  that got it marked on Utah St. like right away.
• 34:25
  That's a cool. First one.
• 34:26
  I love that. A cool first one being on Utah,
• 34:29
  like that's, that's cool. You said Hampel.
• 34:32
  Was there. Yeah.
• 34:34
  Thankfully, I think we can or Yeah, No, we can't officially
• 34:37
  report that he didn't get it because if you saw the video,
• 34:41
  yeah, if you saw the video after the game, it was a it was a
• 34:43
  father and son combo got to meet Jackson, exchanged the ball.
• 34:47
  I think he gave him a signed bat or something That that was cool.
• 34:51
  Props to Dad. Dad said all the right things.
• 34:54
  Oh yeah. It's like, you know, just if my
• 34:56
  son ends up being in this position someday, I hope someone
• 34:59
  would return the favor. Oh yeah, for sure.
• 35:01
  Love that. Bang.
• 35:03
  Here's what I would do. I would just give me a meet up,
• 35:05
  give me a handshake, a picture, something signed, be on our way.
• 35:09
  Yeah, I mean, to be able to say you you were the guy that handed
• 35:13
  off his first career home run, hopefully assuming he goes on to
• 35:16
  have a a special career. I mean, that's that's pretty
• 35:19
  cool. Here's a question though, if you
• 35:22
  were the dad, because I thought about this myself watching the
• 35:26
  video. I'm like, if you're like, how
• 35:28
  how old do you think that guy was?
• 35:30
  Like 42. Yeah, I was going to say like
• 35:34
  3840. 38 we'll call it, we'll call it twice his age.
• 35:38
  We'll, we'll, we'll put him at 40.
• 35:40
  Jackson what? Jackson's 20.
• 35:41
  We'll, we'll call it 40. What are you thinking as, as, as
• 35:46
  a dad in that situation? Like are you, are you kind of
• 35:48
  like nervous or are you like, like, 'cause you're like this?
• 35:51
  I mean, this is Jackson Holiday. It's not just some scrub high
• 35:55
  schooler off the OR some, you know, like college kid off the
• 35:58
  street like Jackson Holiday. But at the same time, I've been
• 36:01
  on this planet twice as long as you have.
• 36:05
  Yeah. I.
• 36:08
  Think it does get weird. I think we're we're crossing
• 36:11
  into that territory where it does get weird because like,
• 36:15
  luckily we still have guys that are playing that are our age.
• 36:18
  It's going to get to a point where it's like this is this is
• 36:21
  just weird. We're just watching kids, just
• 36:23
  watching kids play. Yeah, and I, I feel like kids
• 36:26
  are getting called up earlier and earlier now, so soon it's
• 36:29
  going to be like you're going to be 50 years old watching like 17
• 36:32
  year olds. Imagine if it was with another
• 36:34
  grown man. Imagine if he was with another
• 36:36
  40 year old. Just take the kid out of the
• 36:38
  picture. There's just two homies at the
• 36:40
  game. I don't know if I can bring
• 36:42
  myself to to organize that meet up.
• 36:45
  I I don't know if I want to be in that situation.
• 36:47
  I would concur. I think I would give it to an
• 36:49
  official. Then I would ask for something
• 36:52
  different. I don't know if I want the meet
• 36:54
  up. Yeah, yeah.
• 36:56
  Make the team Rep handle that. Yeah, the kid makes it a lot
• 36:59
  better. It's a nice buffer.
• 37:00
  Yeah, yeah. It's a nice buffer.
• 37:04
  Cool moment either way. Cool moment either way.
• 37:10
  I saw your video that like you could see like this sea of
• 37:14
  people that just rushed towards. It was crazy, dude, It was
• 37:17
  crazy. But you had a good angle because
• 37:19
  you were up in that third deck and you could just see like
• 37:22
  everyone just rushed to Utah. If my Internet and I told one of
• 37:27
  the the other camp counselors that I was there with because
• 37:30
  that for those of you who don't know, I was like every like
• 37:32
  occasionally for my job, I get to go on these like cool trips
• 37:35
  and one of them is a baseball game.
• 37:38
  And so I was talking to one of the camp counselors that I was
• 37:40
  with and I was like, if the Internet, if my Internet signal
• 37:43
  had been better, I could have said that I would have been the
• 37:46
  first person to have the Jackson holiday home run on social
• 37:49
  media. But because my Internet was like
• 37:52
  buffering, the video was just like still uploading, still
• 37:55
  uploading. And I finally got it off.
• 37:57
  And I was, I think I was third. I went back and checked because
• 38:01
  I knew, I knew Twitter was going to be the first one where where
• 38:04
  these videos were going to start cropping up.
• 38:06
  And I think I was like third in line.
• 38:08
  I was like, that would have been a cool as like a social media
• 38:11
  geek like that. I nerd out about stuff like
• 38:13
  that. That would have been that would
• 38:15
  have been kind of cool, but then then pan out.
• 38:18
  But still cool moment nonetheless.
• 38:19
  I'm I'm just grateful Zach Campbell didn't get it because
• 38:22
  like I said, I. That meet up would have never
• 38:23
  happened if Ample got it. No, no, no.
• 38:27
  The guy hates baseball. That's that's a valid point.
• 38:33
  Goon. But yeah, that that home run
• 38:37
  seems to have gotten gotten the monkey on his back.
• 38:42
  It seems to have unlocked unlocked the Jackson holiday
• 38:45
  that I think we were hoping and expecting or hoping for and
• 38:48
  expecting. In the five games since the call
• 38:50
  up, he's 7 for 18. He's got two home runs, seven
• 38:54
  ribbies and five runs scored. Yeah, yeah.
• 38:58
  I was looking up some video and any of my, any of my, any of my
• 39:05
  mechanics nerds, I'll go, I'll go righty, I'll go righty, any
• 39:10
  of my mechanics nerds. So when he first he has this
• 39:15
  flick where he will come this way and then it'll settle back,
• 39:20
  right? So he's here and then it'll
• 39:23
  flick up and then back. This is exactly why you need to
• 39:26
  be watching on YouTube by the way.
• 39:27
  When he first came up, he was getting here and it wasn't
• 39:33
  getting all the way back. It was still kind of like
• 39:35
  straight up. So when you're super straight
• 39:37
  up, there's only a few hitters that do well that's super
• 39:39
  straight up. But if you're super straight up,
• 39:41
  you're going to lose that barrel a little too early back here and
• 39:46
  that that point you're late. He was also very tight.
• 39:49
  So when you're straight up and tight, you got to go out and
• 39:52
  back and then you're going to get beat on stuff inside and
• 39:56
  you're probably not going to be able to hit anything solid away,
• 39:59
  you know, flare everything that's away.
• 40:01
  So now that that he's flick is kind of like if anybody's
• 40:06
  listened to hitters before, they think about like knob to
• 40:09
  catcher. So now on that flick's
• 40:10
  happening, it's knob to catcher. He's got a little more space
• 40:13
  this way and it's it has worked. You can see that like he drove
• 40:17
  the ball. Was it today or yesterday that
• 40:19
  second home run with the left? Right, so.
• 40:23
  No. Both have been to right.
• 40:24
  Both have been to right. Oh, is that an old video then?
• 40:26
  Yeah, I think so. No, no, you're right.
• 40:27
  That was in Cleveland. Yeah.
• 40:29
  So he had one, right. But just a little more
• 40:32
  clearance. He can.
• 40:33
  He can just get to stuff easier. He's controlling his barrel
• 40:36
  better. I think it's just like a minor
• 40:38
  thing. And there's a few hitters where
• 40:40
  you can kind of see that, like DJ Lemahieu is doing something
• 40:44
  similar where he's like super tall.
• 40:47
  And the older you get, the less you control that top hand, the
• 40:50
  less you control your barrel. All that stuff happens.
• 40:52
  But anyway, it looks good. That was fun.
• 40:56
  I like that. That might be the first time
• 40:57
  we've ever had mechanics with Nate on.
• 41:01
  I love, I love hitting. I love hitting.
• 41:03
  That was fun. That's a simple one.
• 41:06
  That's a simple one that a lot of people don't pay attention
• 41:08
  to. But yeah, little stuff like that
• 41:13
  we need more of. That that's what that's what D
• 41:16
  row does on the MOV network. We need to get a little version
• 41:18
  of that on the on three. I take get people to watch super
• 41:21
  down watch on YouTube. Super super down.
• 41:24
  Big fan of that so yeah, good good for Jackson Holiday and
• 41:30
  I'll pat myself on the back. That was a quality and a very
• 41:33
  very timely. No, no, no, no, no.
• 41:35
  I'm, I'm talking about the fantasy pickup, very quality,
• 41:38
  very timely pickup in fantasy because I, I knew people were
• 41:41
  racing to pick him up, but had a little bit of a true.
• 41:46
  Dude did a. Little bit of a research deep
• 41:49
  dive. The day before he got called up
• 41:52
  and I knew it was coming so. I've been on cruise control.
• 41:54
  I'm going to be honest with you, I've been on cruise control.
• 41:56
  As you should be. You're top.
• 41:58
  You're top dog in the league right now.
• 42:00
  Yeah, it's time to turn it on. Time to lock in.
• 42:03
  See now this is. This is the equivalent of the
• 42:07
  expanded or the, the, the, the buy they get in the postseason.
• 42:12
  Like The Who was it the Braves were complaining about a year or
• 42:15
  two ago where they're like, oh, we had this layoff.
• 42:17
  We we can't true. We can't, we can't win games
• 42:20
  'cause we've been we're rested. This is what this is the the
• 42:24
  battle you're now fighting. You're gonna be off for the next
• 42:27
  two weeks. That's right.
• 42:28
  That's right. And you're gonna have to, you're
• 42:30
  gonna have to keep it, keep it sharp up here.
• 42:32
  That's true, my friend. I've already like, started doing
• 42:35
  fantasy football research, you know, just in this time.
• 42:38
  Oh, he's got, he's done. If you're listening, he's done.
• 42:41
  He's gone. He's he's gone.
• 42:42
  It's over. It's over for Nate.
• 42:45
  Doing other things in life, it's freed up a lot of space.
• 42:51
  It's over. Not me, dude.
• 42:52
  I'm I'm hungry. I'm I don't have the luxury of
• 42:55
  having a buy. So I'm going to be, I'm going to
• 42:57
  be fighting. I'm going to be the fighting
• 43:00
  fills of this fantasy league. I'm just going to get, you got a
• 43:02
  game for me to play. I'll play it.
• 43:05
  I don't. I don't need.
• 43:06
  I don't need days off. Your roster stupid if you read
• 43:10
  out loud what your roster? We don't.
• 43:12
  We don't need to do that. We don't need to do that.
• 43:15
  Laugh. Don't need to do that.
• 43:18
  Let's talk about let's talk about Mike Trout.
• 43:23
  This should be the last time we have to talk about him for the
• 43:25
  rest of the year because he is officially out for the season
• 43:31
  again. We recorded like Tuesday.
• 43:33
  So this has happened since then. I think it was announced on
• 43:35
  Thursday. Yeah, due to the meniscus.
• 43:40
  Meniscus tear. I think the last time we talked
• 43:43
  Trout, it was that he they kind of throttled back on the rehab.
• 43:48
  They pulled him from his, that one.
• 43:50
  Game he had one AB in that it was the.
• 43:52
  First game back, right? The first rehab.
• 43:56
  Yeah. First rehab game I think.
• 43:59
  Did he even swing a bat? Did he even swing?
• 44:02
  Yeah, he had, I think it was two ABS, right, Because then you
• 44:04
  have. One or two?
• 44:06
  One or two. Strikeouts or you?
• 44:08
  I think maybe it was one strikeout.
• 44:09
  They were backwards, Ki do know that.
• 44:11
  I just don't know if he swung at any other point in that at bat.
• 44:16
  Either way, not not good. Very short lived.
• 44:25
  That's all I really got, honestly.
• 44:27
  I mean, what else is there to say?
• 44:29
  I mean, how, how many times can we rehash the Mike Trout
• 44:36
  conversation? And I'm not for the record, I'm
• 44:40
  not, I'm not giving up on the guy.
• 44:42
  I'm still holding out for that one year, like I've said time
• 44:46
  and time again, but I mean, honestly, I'm more disappointed
• 44:55
  in, in whatever's going on behind closed doors with the
• 44:59
  training staff and, and, and the personnel in that organization.
• 45:04
  How many times have we heard the whole like, he's on track to
• 45:08
  come back. He's fine, expected to come back
• 45:11
  at a certain date. And then you can just at this
• 45:14
  point in time with the Angels, given their track record of the
• 45:17
  last, I don't know, half decade, decade, you can just assume the
• 45:22
  guy's done for the year. I mean, that's where that's
• 45:26
  where we're really at. So honestly, my frustration
• 45:29
  doesn't lie as heavily with Mike Trout for for this particular
• 45:33
  instance. It's more of like, what are we
• 45:34
  Angels? What are we doing?
• 45:35
  And we we rag on, we rag on Rendon all the time.
• 45:39
  But even he was like, yeah, I don't know why, but I don't know
• 45:42
  why they didn't update people on like where I'm at with my injury
• 45:46
  and the fact that I've like won't be playing or whatever he
• 45:48
  said. It was.
• 45:49
  I think it was the last major injury had last year, I think.
• 45:53
  But I mean that it's you can't really say anything else.
• 45:58
  It it's the same thing time and time again.
• 46:01
  I'd rather be an Angel in a White Sox.
• 46:02
  Still, at least you're in California, you know?
• 46:08
  Yeah, yeah, that's, that's pretty much all I've got working
• 46:11
  for him at that point. Yeah, I don't know.
• 46:15
  Man, Yeah. I mean, why?
• 46:16
  Oh, man, do you imagine having that team or being a fan of that
• 46:19
  team and then you're in Chicago. Yeah.
• 46:21
  I mean, no offensive folks in Chicago, but like Chicago, the
• 46:28
  pizza can't be that good. I mean, I'm sure it's good, but
• 46:31
  not enough to keep you sane through something like this.
• 46:33
  I. Don't know.
• 46:33
  It's like a casserole just doesn't get me fired up.
• 46:38
  I yeah, I don't know, man. I, I don't think anything was
• 46:44
  going to happen. I had a feeling nothing was
• 46:46
  going to happen. I had a feeling that we were
• 46:48
  going to see this same old story where there's timetable set
• 46:54
  back, timetable set back. It's what we always get.
• 46:59
  I I don't like being right all the time, you know what I mean?
• 47:07
  Yeah, You know, I will say in in the chat here, Ryan Ryan says
• 47:10
  Ron Washington probably regrets taking that angel's job.
• 47:13
  I've had that same thought. And you know, my, I mean, my
• 47:17
  thoughts on the whole Ron Washington thing.
• 47:19
  I think they've, they've, I wouldn't even say they've
• 47:24
  wavered because I mean, if you, if you go back to the day he
• 47:26
  took the job, we were like, no, he was, we didn't, we didn't
• 47:31
  want him in this role. We really didn't frankly want
• 47:34
  him in any manager role. We just wanted him to stay under
• 47:37
  the he really did. He had it made in the shade.
• 47:41
  Continue to fly under the radar as an infield coach with a
• 47:44
  quality team and just. I just, I like I'm so I just so
• 47:50
  confused as to like, if you have this burning desire to be back,
• 47:55
  which I understand, like if you had, if you were a manager, you
• 48:00
  know, weren't, I mean, he managed in World Series, you
• 48:04
  know what I'm saying? Like he was doing his thing in
• 48:07
  Texas. When you don't get over the
• 48:10
  hump, you don't cross that final finish line.
• 48:13
  And then you have like your name kind of, you know, dragged
• 48:18
  through the mud a little bit of his of his past.
• 48:21
  Like those are some things that are tough to get over.
• 48:24
  And I'm sure there was like this desire to be like, let me, let
• 48:26
  me come back and prove that that's not me.
• 48:29
  I think I think Ron Washington is an excellent coach.
• 48:33
  I think he's an excellent coach. This just wasn't the right spot.
• 48:38
  This wasn't where you were going to go.
• 48:40
  Prove yourself. What was that?
• 48:44
  What was I about to say before the Ron Washington thing?
• 48:47
  Where was I going with that? What were we talking about just
• 48:49
  before the Ron Washington comment?
• 48:51
  My Trout not playing ever White Sox.
• 48:56
  Would you rather be a White Sox? What was I going to say?
• 49:02
  I had a thought and I lost it. We switch gears.
• 49:06
  Talk about Ron Washington. That's fine.
• 49:09
  Yeah, it's then you ran down. No, I don't remember.
• 49:13
  Whatever. It'll come back to me when we're
• 49:17
  when we're closing up the episode.
• 49:19
  Yeah. Yeah, I mean, it, it's really
• 49:29
  hard for me to to maintain this, this fandom of, of Mike Trout,
• 49:35
  like, I'm, I'm going to continue.
• 49:39
  But you, you keep getting reminded.
• 49:41
  Like, I mean, there's this literally, literally this very
• 49:44
  point in the chat. Mike Trout wanted this.
• 49:47
  Let him live this, let him live the rest of his career out.
• 49:51
  And let's move, let's move on to Mookie and Choi.
• 49:54
  It's really hard to ignore the fact that like he did choose
• 49:56
  this. So I you.
• 50:01
  I was, I look like I'm not a my child hater, but I was against
• 50:05
  the the commitment. Yes, that's what it was.
• 50:07
  That's what it was. That's what we're talking about.
• 50:09
  We're talking about the the video about you being right.
• 50:14
  The, the timing was a little sorry, I completely cut you off.
• 50:20
  Go go ahead. I just got excited because I, it
• 50:22
  took me way less time to remember that than I thought it
• 50:24
  would. No, the the comments I've
• 50:28
  noticed have shifted on that video.
• 50:30
  That's, that's been popping off a little bit for us.
• 50:32
  There were people like on TikTok, people were like.
• 50:37
  Go follow us on TikTok if you're not.
• 50:39
  On TikTok, I can't remember if you were rocket.
• 50:42
  Were you rocking Yankee gear in that video?
• 50:44
  I think we were just getting a lot of like, Oh yeah, people
• 50:46
  were like. What does this?
• 50:48
  Guy know? Yeah.
• 50:50
  What does this guy know? And the Yankee fan worry about
• 50:54
  your oh Dame. And this was this was after the
• 50:59
  he got pulled from the rehab start.
• 51:01
  Yeah, yeah, you're oh, you're full on Yankee stuff.
• 51:04
  But the point was, is that you were talking about you signed
• 51:08
  the contract and then like every year before that, it was like
• 51:13
  150 games, 155 games, 151 games. And then you're like, why
• 51:18
  explain the fall off like and people like, well, he's old.
• 51:23
  He was in 2019. What 2928?
• 51:33
  People are acting like he's ancient.
• 51:35
  I'm like, that's not it. No, don't.
• 51:38
  That's what I'm saying. Don't give me the age.
• 51:40
  And then it comes out that the season's over yet again.
• 51:43
  And then it's like the comments have shifted a little bit.
• 51:45
  And you're like, yeah, the the comments are really, yeah, this
• 51:48
  guy's washed. Like guys should just retire.
• 51:50
  I'm like, well, I mean, we've kind of been saying this.
• 51:56
  I'm just saying, like, when does it shift from like sad that
• 51:59
  we're not seeing him into like frustration?
• 52:02
  And when, when are we going to ask those questions?
• 52:04
  Because we always ask those questions than every sport all
• 52:08
  the time. Anytime an athlete is is
• 52:12
  completely healthy until payday and then all of a sudden he's
• 52:15
  missing games constantly. You're like, we, we, we, why are
• 52:21
  we not doing that with my Trout? We've done it with every other
• 52:24
  guy ever. That's all I'm saying.
• 52:27
  I'm not saying he's that guy, but I'm saying like, why aren't
• 52:29
  more people bringing that argument up?
• 52:33
  The guy has always been healthy until this, so whatever, I don't
• 52:39
  know. But he he, he committed to this.
• 52:42
  He committed to LA, he committed to the angels.
• 52:45
  And I think there was maybe a point a few years ago where like
• 52:49
  if he wanted to go, he could have gone.
• 52:52
  But. I, I've, I'm going to ride the
• 52:59
  fence for the rest of his career.
• 53:01
  All that I see both sides of it. I like I understand him
• 53:05
  committing to that when he did, assuming that they were
• 53:09
  conversations had of Hey, we're going to surround you with the
• 53:13
  right pieces, you know, show hey rolls into town.
• 53:15
  It's like all right, that's a great start.
• 53:17
  That was what, 8/20/18. So I guess like right around the
• 53:21
  time, maybe a little bit before he signs a contract, it's like,
• 53:24
  all right, that's a great way to get things going.
• 53:27
  And then which honestly, I mean, how much can you really credit
• 53:31
  the Angels for that? I mean, Shohei was the guy that
• 53:34
  was essentially deciding at that point.
• 53:36
  Like I'm sure he had his pick of where he wanted to go.
• 53:39
  Like he I'm not, I'm going to cautiously give Angels credit
• 53:43
  there. I don't know.
• 53:46
  But it's like you can only fault him so much for the committing
• 53:49
  to Los Angeles because it's like, do you think in his time,
• 53:55
  like in in his mind during the the stretch that he's been with
• 54:00
  the Angels, Do you think he he could have seen an Angels draft
• 54:04
  where they selected almost like sarcastically, almost like
• 54:09
  mockingly drafted nothing but pitchers as a way for them to be
• 54:15
  like, see, we showed you like that's not how it's a.
• 54:17
  Lot of that, yeah. It's not how your front office
• 54:19
  should be running. No, that's weird.
• 54:22
  It's a weird thing to do. Like why you, you shouldn't be
• 54:25
  making moves to appease your, your fans, you should be making
• 54:28
  moves to make your team better. And if you upset some people
• 54:31
  along the way, so be it. But I, I don't think Mike Trout
• 54:34
  could have, have, could have foreseen that coming.
• 54:37
  And then just with how, how bad they've been, like they
• 54:40
  couldn't, they couldn't do anything to support the two at
• 54:45
  the time. 2 best players in baseball.
• 54:47
  They go on to do absolutely nothing.
• 54:50
  Mike Trout still hasn't been to the postseason since 2014.
• 54:54
  So it's like, yes, I, I get the whole like committing thing, but
• 55:00
  on the flip side, it's like I think he was maybe hoping for
• 55:03
  just a little bit more than what they've given him.
• 55:05
  So I I see both sides of it. Is there an angel's curse?
• 55:16
  People call them the Mets of the West Coast.
• 55:19
  They've they've been saying that for some time.
• 55:21
  I like that nickname. The Mets of the West.
• 55:25
  I mean, you go down the list, Josh Hamilton, Anthony Rendon.
• 55:30
  I guess Albert Willis just got old.
• 55:35
  You know what I mean? Like, I guess that contract
• 55:37
  wasn't horrendous. Yeah, just got old.
• 55:41
  Yeah, and Rendon's even different than Trout, too,
• 55:44
  because he's just, he hasn't been good like Mike Trout when
• 55:46
  he's healthy. I mean, he's, he's still one of
• 55:48
  the best in the game, but it's just a matter of how, how often
• 55:53
  and how how long you get that from him before the next injury.
• 55:57
  So I, I don't know it, like I said when we started the
• 56:04
  segment, I, I think this is the last time we we talked about
• 56:07
  Trout until what, what was the timetable?
• 56:10
  Was it just like we'll see opening day?
• 56:13
  I think so. I think that's fair.
• 56:15
  I think that's fair, no? I mean, I, I know he's done for
• 56:17
  the year, but like, this wasn't a thing where it's like, oh,
• 56:20
  he's going to need like a year of, of recovery and rehab.
• 56:25
  Like we'll just see him opening day again.
• 56:26
  I I I presume. We'll see when the timetables,
• 56:30
  the timetables come out, the estimates, I love when those
• 56:33
  come out 'cause they're never right.
• 56:36
  Yeah, the Angels need to figure it out.
• 56:42
  All right, kind of wrapping up here, just looking at the
• 56:46
  playoff picture now that we have entered, this is our first like
• 56:51
  I think first episode of of August, of the month of August.
• 56:53
  So figured it'd be a good time to kind of check in with where
• 56:56
  we're at in the standings. Looking at the American League
• 57:02
  East, the O's and Yanks are neck and neck.
• 57:06
  It's 67 and 46. I think as predicted, that's
• 57:10
  that's going to be a race down the stretch that's going to be
• 57:13
  extremely entertaining. I think the Yankees have righted
• 57:17
  the ship the the Orioles, maybe to a lesser degree, but they're
• 57:22
  six and four in their last 10. I think I saw on the broadcast
• 57:26
  too that the Yankees have like the third easiest remaining
• 57:29
  schedule. Yeah, I heard.
• 57:31
  Something it's going to make things interesting as well.
• 57:36
  Yeah. And then the the Red Sox are, I
• 57:40
  mean, they're 6 1/2 out and the divisions kind of fall falling
• 57:44
  out of out of reach. But that wasn't really the plan
• 57:47
  to begin with. But it's nice to be able to say
• 57:49
  that you you're you at least put up a fight for it.
• 57:51
  I. Was going to ask you at what
• 57:53
  point are you going to stop rooting for the Royals because
• 57:56
  they're kind of a problem for you.
• 57:58
  They're very much a problem, but well, I mean, let's look at the
• 58:01
  wild card. I mean, right now the the well,
• 58:06
  I mean the Yankees and O's are tied for the top spot, but then
• 58:08
  you have the Twins and the Royals immediately after and the
• 58:11
  the Sox are 2 1/2 back. So perfect scenario.
• 58:15
  Give the East to well, I mean, perfect scenario would be the
• 58:18
  Sox just going to run and win the division, but we'll put him
• 58:22
  in the wild card forsake of of the scenario here.
• 58:26
  Give the East to the E to the O's of the Yankees.
• 58:28
  Get the Twins out of there. We well documented how we feel
• 58:32
  about the Twins and then get the get the socks in that second
• 58:35
  wild card spot and then keep the Royals in that third wild card
• 58:40
  spot so that my, my, my pre season prediction of them
• 58:44
  sliding into the final wild card spot can come true.
• 58:47
  I've been holding on to that all year long.
• 58:50
  And if the season ended today, which it doesn't, but if it did,
• 58:54
  I'm, I'm one for one on that, on that prediction.
• 58:56
  And that that's that would probably be my most proud
• 58:59
  prediction, 'cause people were coming at me for the Royals.
• 59:01
  And I'm like, are you seeing what they did?
• 59:04
  Are you seeing who they have? Like it seems, seems like a
• 59:06
  very, yeah, great deadline. Seems like a very reasonable
• 59:10
  take. People were coming after me.
• 59:12
  I don't know. But then you got the Astros and
• 59:15
  the Rays both five games out. And then, I mean, do we do we
• 59:20
  draw the line there? But I mean, the Rangers are 9
• 59:22
  1/2 back. We draw the line there.
• 59:24
  From the wild card, not we're not talking to Vision 9 1/2 back
• 59:27
  in the wild card. You're going to have to if
• 59:29
  you're the, if you're the Rangers and they're talking
• 59:31
  about on the broadcast today, if you're the Rangers, you're going
• 59:33
  to have to win the division to make the postseason.
• 59:35
  They're 5 1/2 back in the West. So that's kind of what we're.
• 59:39
  Working 5 1/2 back in the division.
• 59:42
  That's what I'm saying. Yeah, yeah.
• 59:47
  What are they on the wild card? 9 1/2 back. 09 and 1/2.
• 59:50
  That's what I'm saying. You're going to have to win the
• 59:52
  West if you're the Rangers. Yeah, yeah.
• 59:54
  Which, yeah. Yeah, yeah, National League, the
• 1:00:05
  Phillies have slid, man. I mean, I mentioned earlier they
• 1:00:10
  if they would have dropped today, that would have been
• 1:00:12
  seven straight. They're two and eight in their
• 1:00:13
  last 10. But we talked, we talked about
• 1:00:18
  this. What within the within the last
• 1:00:21
  two weeks, maybe they did enough to give themselves a, a decent
• 1:00:25
  enough size cushion to where you could avoid, you could afford
• 1:00:29
  the inevitable slide. This hat, it doesn't matter how
• 1:00:32
  good you are, the these slides are going to hit.
• 1:00:34
  It's just a matter of when. And you try to time them.
• 1:00:37
  I mean, you don't try to time them, but you, you hope that
• 1:00:41
  when the slides hit that you're in a position to where you can
• 1:00:43
  absorb that blow, wait for some guys get healthy and then you
• 1:00:47
  come back and you continue doing what you were doing for the the
• 1:00:51
  previous 60% of the season. Yeah, it's my least favorite
• 1:00:56
  saying in baseball, you got wins in the bank, no pun intended,
• 1:01:01
  bank, But that's true. That's true because those slides
• 1:01:06
  are going to come. I don't know, man.
• 1:01:13
  Six games, Lane only being six games back, that's not crazy.
• 1:01:20
  Well, I mean, Max freed to, to, to pick a name has not been
• 1:01:26
  great. So that that hurts their chances
• 1:01:31
  a little bit. I mean, we can't we, we don't
• 1:01:33
  need to run through the list of guys that they're missing.
• 1:01:36
  But I mean, the guys that they do have, we talked about it,
• 1:01:39
  they're you're going to need a little bit more.
• 1:01:42
  They got three games against each other in a few weeks.
• 1:01:47
  The Mets are one, I mean, we'll we'll talk wild card here in a
• 1:01:50
  minute. But the, the Central, you've got
• 1:01:52
  the Cardinals five games back. That that game wrapped up,
• 1:01:55
  right? Sunday night baseball, Sure.
• 1:01:59
  So, yeah. So I'm assuming this is updated
• 1:02:00
  five games back? I got 5 1/2.
• 1:02:04
  OK, so then, well, who, what did they win?
• 1:02:09
  I we we were recording while the game was still going on.
• 1:02:13
  Did they? It is over.
• 1:02:13
  They lost. They lost.
• 1:02:15
  OK, so your yours is accurate. 62 Cubs.
• 1:02:21
  Yeah, much unlike the American League, and we've talked about
• 1:02:24
  this and much of the National League is very wild, wild card
• 1:02:26
  dependent, wild card heavy. You're looking at, as it stands
• 1:02:31
  right now, Braves, Padres D backs and then the Nationals are
• 1:02:39
  really the only team that's fallen out of the conversation.
• 1:02:42
  And we weren't really counting them.
• 1:02:43
  We weren't really, we weren't officially putting them in the
• 1:02:47
  conversation, but technically they just based on the fact that
• 1:02:51
  I think at the time they were 5 1/2 back.
• 1:02:55
  They have since fallen to nine games back out of the wild card.
• 1:02:57
  So that's one team. But like we said, the last time
• 1:03:01
  we looked at the standings and, and the the postseason picture,
• 1:03:06
  13 of the 15 National League teams were either in a
• 1:03:11
  postseason spot or or were within six games of a of a
• 1:03:15
  postseason spot. And that, like I said, the
• 1:03:16
  Nationals have since dropped out of that.
• 1:03:18
  So now you're dealing with 12 National League teams.
• 1:03:20
  But outside on the outside looking in, you've got the Mets
• 1:03:23
  of the game and a half back. The Cardinals are right there,
• 1:03:26
  the Pirates, the Giants, the Cubs, the and the Reds, and the
• 1:03:32
  Cubs and the Reds are are they got a lot, they need a lot to go
• 1:03:38
  right so. Four and five games under 500.
• 1:03:41
  Where are you realistically drawing the line here in the NL
• 1:03:44
  Wild Card race? Just just gut feel.
• 1:03:47
  Like gut feel, just vibes. I mean, giants are seven and
• 1:03:52
  three in the last 10. But in a game I I just can't,
• 1:03:56
  I'm sorry, I can't take a team that's under 500.
• 1:03:58
  And I know that could literally change with their next game, but
• 1:04:02
  the Giants just aren't giving me enough to work with here.
• 1:04:05
  I, I, for me at least, and I know it sounds kind of crazy
• 1:04:09
  that I'm going to rule the, the Giants out and say, but I like
• 1:04:11
  the Pirates to be in that mix, 'cause I mean, it's the Pirates,
• 1:04:17
  but I got to, I got to say the Pirates are in the mix.
• 1:04:20
  You're only 3 1/2 back. And honestly, looking at the
• 1:04:26
  looking at those six teams, the three that are in the in the
• 1:04:29
  wild card and the three that are on the outside looking in
• 1:04:32
  drawing the line of the pirates, The only the only true lock to
• 1:04:38
  me is the Braves, just given their their their track record
• 1:04:45
  and their. I, I, I think the Padres did
• 1:04:49
  more. I think the Padres got better
• 1:04:52
  more than the Braves got better. And I, I feel better.
• 1:04:57
  I feel more confident in the Padres at the moment than I do
• 1:04:59
  the Braves. I think the Padres will end up
• 1:05:02
  having the number one wild card spot.
• 1:05:05
  Wow, OK. Yeah, I feel I, I feel pretty
• 1:05:08
  confident. I mean, I, I, I'll say this, I
• 1:05:11
  won't be surprised if that happens, but it it's just.
• 1:05:14
  It's the Padres. Yeah, it's the Padres and it's
• 1:05:17
  the Braves. Like, say what you will about
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  how the Braves year has gone track.
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  Record for track record. The track record adds up and it
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  it gives them the benefit of the doubt in situations like this.
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  When you look at a team that year after year finds a way to
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  make the postseason, weathers the I mean, more often than not,
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  it's a division, but they they just figure out a way to make it
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  happen. And so it's hard for me to to to
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  say that anything other than that would happen.
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  But to your point, the Padres. They did a lot.
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  They did a lot of good things. Some would argue a little too
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  much for what they got, but I mean, they they made moves so I
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  don't know it may OK, yeah, maybe you're right.
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  Maybe maybe I I revoked my statement maybe that we don't
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  have a lock in the in the National League wild card
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  conversation. So even more so, I think that's
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  that benefits the pirates if you like the.
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  Lock was chaos. If if we're dealing with an up
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  for grab situation here, I mean, tell me.
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  Tell me that a Paul Skeens game one start in the Wild Card
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  series would not be. If there's.
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  Absolutely electric. If there's a way that they can
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  really get hot and host that game, bro, who was the IT was
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  the Giants, right? Where they gave Kueto Giants.
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  What's the Giants where Kueto dropped the ball?
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  Give PNC just one wild card game with skeens on the bump and it
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  is. You don't know, you really have
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  no idea what could happen. It probably won't even matter,
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  because if we're being honest, it's the pirates.
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  They're probably cutting them off at an Indians limit in an
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  unknown and unstated Indians limit that has yet to be made
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  public. And it's not even going to
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  matter. I just the Mets and Cardinals
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  don't do anything for me. I think that safe to say, the
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  Cardinals been doing better than maybe we had given them a little
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  credit for. Well, more me more so than you.
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  I think you were a little higher on the Cardinals.
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  I was a little. Higher on the Cardinals.
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  I actually, I think I had them winning the division.
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  Don't hold me, don't hold me do that, but I think I do anyway.
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  It's shaking out, man, It's chaos.
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  It's shaking out. I'm I'm excited.
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  August is probably my like one of my least favorite months of
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  baseball. Personally, I'm excited when we
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  get into September and that's just like that home stretch and
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  it's just go time and everyone is who they should be.
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  You got the September call ups and there's like this little bit
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  of like a spark and rejuvenation from couple names in in the
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  minors where you know, it's just like that could be the
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  difference. I love September.
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  The weather starts cooling off and so slightly guys can get
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  comfy again. Yeah, also I'm, I just want to
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  put my foot down and fully, fully because I was, I was on
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  Twitter for the the game delay yesterday for Yankees, Jays and
• 1:08:36
  everyone's like there's no excuse to not have retractable
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  roofs at every stadium. I am putting my foot down.
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  Just as a reminder, we've done this in the past.
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  October baseball means cold baseball.
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  Means long sleeves, means bullpen jackets means hoodies.
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  I will die on that hill forever. October baseball means cold
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  baseball. Yeah, that's all I.
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  Agree and with that, I think we we oh, you're getting some
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  reactions, you're getting some positive feedback on the on the
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  Facebook reactions. I can see it on the screen.
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  So people are loving that big fan big big fans of the the Nate
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  rant on on October baseball being cold baseball.
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  I agree I'm with you should. We get a Should we get a name
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  game in It's been a minute. You want to you want to squeeze
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  one in? I was about ready to wrap it up.
• 1:09:38
  I I was going to close it out with the rant with your rant
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  there. Let's get a name game in.
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  All right, that's right. Yeah, let's get the people some
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  little bit of bonus content here.
• 1:09:47
  All right, we you want to do which one?
• 1:09:50
  We we've done 222 styles. So you want to do the land on
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  the same name game? Yes, yeah, that's, I think
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  that's our. OK, that's.
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  That's our bread, and I think that's our bread and butter.
• 1:09:59
  It's our bread and butter. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
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  As a reminder, cannot start with a name that has been mentioned
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  in this specific episode today. Correct any other any Oh, we
• 1:10:14
  what did I say? Do we get 10?
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  Do we get 10 guesses? That's that's the limit, cutting
• 1:10:18
  it off at 10 guesses. And if you're unfamiliar with
• 1:10:20
  this game, we have to basically just throw out a random name to
• 1:10:24
  start the game. Can't again, can't be a name
• 1:10:27
  that's been mentioned on this episode.
• 1:10:28
  You throw out a random name to start the game, and then based
• 1:10:31
  on those two names, you got to find something in common that
• 1:10:35
  connects the two somehow, some way.
• 1:10:38
  And then your next guess, you throw out two names based on the
• 1:10:41
  context clues and where you think the other person's
• 1:10:44
  thinking and see if you can land.
• 1:10:47
  You can say the same name at the count of three and you get you
• 1:10:49
  get 10 guesses. Your name.
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  Yep, I got it. All right.
• 1:11:04
  Let's start it all right, 321. George.
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  Springer, all right. All right, I.
• 1:11:17
  Don't know why you start. We talked about this.
• 1:11:19
  Why do you start with retired players?
• 1:11:20
  That's just it. George Springer is basically
• 1:11:24
  retired. But he's not, though.
• 1:11:29
  All right, so we've got George Springer and yadda yadda and
• 1:11:31
  Molina. George Springer, Yadier Molina.
• 1:11:44
  What do George Springer and Yadier Molina have in common?
• 1:11:52
  How can we draw this connection? Why by there's a guy that I'm
• 1:12:06
  thinking of that I cannot no wrong AL ES team.
• 1:12:26
  What do these two guys have in common, you know?
• 1:12:30
  What we should do, we should have that song play in between.
• 1:12:33
  That's like our countdown, you know what I mean?
• 1:12:37
  When the song is over, we have to have a name by then.
• 1:12:46
  Oh boy, that's a good idea. Yeah, Otherwise I'd be.
• 1:12:49
  I'd be stuck. It'll help the silence as well.
• 1:12:58
  It's also an added challenge because it's for sure messing
• 1:13:01
  with my brain. Oh, for sure.
• 1:13:04
  Yeah. Oh boy, Yahir Molina and George
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  Springer. Ah, why is this position coming
• 1:13:25
  to mind? Dude, I have nothing.
• 1:13:37
  I'll send it. I have nothing.
• 1:13:42
  This is the first name that came to mind.
• 1:13:44
  There is 0 context to this guess or I don't.
• 1:13:46
  Relation 321 Jim N Nelson Cruz. OK, Oh, I got it.
• 1:14:02
  Why? Why do you have it?
• 1:14:07
  Jim Edmonds and Nelson Cruz, just like.
• 1:14:09
  That I got it. Am I?
• 1:14:11
  Am I an idiot for not? No, it's just, I just connected
• 1:14:15
  the dots really quickly. It's it's all about association.
• 1:14:24
  It's all about association. I'm not going to say you're an
• 1:14:27
  idiot, but it just came to me very quickly and I just think,
• 1:14:30
  if you think I don't want to give away any hints, this will
• 1:14:42
  be our third guess. I've I've nothing.
• 1:14:44
  Well, you made Hans and Nelson Cruz.
• 1:14:54
  This will be our third guess. Got to have somebody.
• 1:15:07
  This is crazy. Got to have somebody.
• 1:15:10
  This is crazy. You'll see why.
• 1:15:11
  You'll see a zero in. All right.
• 1:15:15
  This is our 3rd guest 321. In David Freeze, I mean I
• 1:15:27
  that's. Just how I got to David.
• 1:15:28
  Freeze it flashed, but like a a cardinal playing against Nelson
• 1:15:32
  Cruz in the in the in the World Series.
• 1:15:36
  Is that is that the dots all right?
• 1:15:39
  Yeah, All right. Well, David Freeze and Ian
• 1:15:41
  Kinsler are now playing together.
• 1:15:45
  What do we do there? David Freeze and Ian Kinsler.
• 1:15:54
  I got AI got a name. Oh.
• 1:15:56
  We're skipping this on. A name.
• 1:15:58
  I got a name. I kind of like it here.
• 1:15:59
  I kind of. I kind of feel good.
• 1:16:01
  I kind of. Is this our fourth guess?
• 1:16:03
  All right, Fourth guess 321. David Eckstein.
• 1:16:10
  I thought we were there. David Eckstein and and Adrian
• 1:16:13
  Beltre 4 guesses in Damn, man, I thought we were there.
• 1:16:21
  I thought based on the the the speed in which we got there, I
• 1:16:26
  thought, I thought we arrived at the same name.
• 1:16:28
  Trying to figure out how you got to David Eckstein personally.
• 1:16:32
  All right. Did what did we determine?
• 1:16:34
  Can we, are we allowed to explain our contact, our our
• 1:16:36
  connection? Did we?
• 1:16:37
  Did we determine? Yeah, but like, but like our
• 1:16:39
  next guest isn't based on the past, it's based on these two
• 1:16:42
  specifically. So I say why not let everybody?
• 1:16:47
  Yeah, but it also. It just, it just shows you where
• 1:16:49
  you're thinking. So that might be viewed as an
• 1:16:51
  advance. Are you just saying like no
• 1:16:52
  swag? Is that when you think of David?
• 1:16:54
  Freeze No, I just thought, I thought Cardinal and then I for,
• 1:16:58
  for David Freeze and then for who was the other one?
• 1:17:01
  Ian Kinsler. Ian Kinsler I just thought like,
• 1:17:04
  you know, kind of like dirtbag gamer kind of guy.
• 1:17:07
  And I thought, oh, David Eckstein fits that mold.
• 1:17:09
  See, I went, I went Ranger for Ian Kinsler third baseman David
• 1:17:14
  Freeze. David Freeze was also a Dodger I
• 1:17:16
  think for a brief. Yeah, he was sure was.
• 1:17:19
  That's what I did. Adrian Beltre.
• 1:17:21
  So now we got Adrian Beltre and David freaking Eckstein.
• 1:17:25
  Adrian Beltre and David Eckstein.
• 1:17:28
  OK, I got it. You need a song.
• 1:17:40
  You need some. Time.
• 1:17:41
  I think I got the name. What did I what?
• 1:17:43
  So is Dave. Who was it?
• 1:17:47
  Adrian Beltre. David Eckstein.
• 1:17:50
  Yeah, I got it. This is our 5th guest.
• 1:17:51
  OK, Adrian Beltre, David Eckstein.
• 1:17:55
  All right, 5th guest 321. Albert pool holes, ah.
• 1:18:02
  OK, We're we're zeroing in. We're zeroing in.
• 1:18:05
  I feel like mine was along the lines of your thought process,
• 1:18:10
  maybe sort of. Actually, I'm definitely
• 1:18:15
  thinking of like the like guys that play for both teams.
• 1:18:18
  Like, that's where my mind's been going lately, you know?
• 1:18:21
  All right, so 5 guesses in. We got five left, you said,
• 1:18:25
  David. I said Eric.
• 1:18:27
  Eric Gonyea, I said. Albert Pujols.
• 1:18:30
  All right, I got a name. That that quick, huh?
• 1:18:34
  My I, I can't. I can't apply the same line of
• 1:18:38
  thinking or the same approach to it.
• 1:18:41
  Sometimes I got to mix it up. Yeah, ready.
• 1:18:43
  All right. 6 guests, 321 Barry Bonds.
• 1:18:50
  Yeah, there we go. Let's go.
• 1:18:54
  Just a job. Power hitter, amazing match up.
• 1:18:58
  There it is, all right. That's good.
• 1:19:02
  So winning names move into we've got, we've got, we've got a
• 1:19:07
  name. A name Game Hall of Fame?
• 1:19:10
  How about that? Same game, Hall of Fame.
• 1:19:12
  How about that? Barry Bonds finally makes it in
• 1:19:15
  the Hall of Fame. Barry.
• 1:19:16
  Bonds finally makes it to the Hall.
• 1:19:18
  Congrats. Congrats, Barry.
• 1:19:21
  Congrats. Love that big day for for Double
• 1:19:26
  B. Barry Bonds, Justin Morneau.
• 1:19:30
  We had a third one who was the third name.
• 1:19:33
  We'd have to go back and look who was that third guy.
• 1:19:36
  I think it was the first guy that we won with wasn't.
• 1:19:39
  It Mourneau was the first, yeah. Never forget Justin Mourneau.
• 1:19:43
  I will never forget that name. Who was that?
• 1:19:47
  Who was that middle guy? There's a third guy.
• 1:19:49
  We'll have to. I like this.
• 1:19:50
  Yeah. We'll have a running Hall of
• 1:19:51
  Fame. Yeah.
• 1:19:52
  This is good. This is good.
• 1:19:54
  That's a quick one. That's a good job. 6 guesses
• 1:19:57
  that's that's a new record. I think we, for the sake of
• 1:20:00
  time, we may need to cut it to five just to challenge ourselves
• 1:20:03
  a little bit. I mean, we got it in six.
• 1:20:05
  I think we could get it in five if we if we tested ourselves.
• 1:20:09
  I think we need to consistently be, be be good.
• 1:20:15
  It's like us 5 guesses to even 0 in.
• 1:20:20
  No, I got to be a little smarter than that.
• 1:20:21
  And I mean, this isn't a Hall of very good Nate.
• 1:20:24
  This is the Hall of Fame. So these guys have to earn it.
• 1:20:29
  We we can say these guys are grandfathered in, but moving
• 1:20:35
  forward, I think we need to have these guys earn it.
• 1:20:37
  Yeah. Very well, that's all I got.
• 1:20:41
  Good stuff, good stuff today. Let's have a good week,
• 1:20:44
  everybody. Let's have a great week.
• 1:20:47
  We'll we'll link back up with you guys on Wednesday if all
• 1:20:52
  things go right. It should, right?
• 1:20:55
  Let's have a week. Let's have a week.
• 1:20:58
  Let's do our thing. Don't go chasing curveballs.
• 1:21:01
  We love you all and as always, looking forward to talking more
• 1:21:02
  baseball with you guys soon. Until next time, stay filthy.