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Ep. 147 : All-Star Festivities PC · Cards & Categories

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  Speaker 1: Hello, and welcome everybody to episode one forty seven of
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  Speaker 1: Cards and Categories. I'm my Cool Art Fund Baseball Perspectus,
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  Speaker 1: and I am joined by my very good friend Jeremy
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  Speaker 1: Brewer from Rasball. How are you doing tonight, Buddy.
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  Speaker 2: Doing well? Glad to be here. Would rather be at
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  Speaker 2: the All Star Game, but I think at my tickets
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  Speaker 2: and times, so instead we're gonna do a podcast. But
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  Speaker 2: still happy to be here regardless.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, I don't know if I'm really too sad
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  Speaker 1: to be missing. It looks miserably hot there, Like I
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  Speaker 1: am not a hot and humid guy, so I've been
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  Speaker 1: just it's been a rough couple of weeks around Chicago
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  Speaker 1: and the Midwest, and it looks like that type of
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  Speaker 1: weather is sitting in Philadelphia over the All Star Game
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  Speaker 1: right now. We are recording right during the middle of it.
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  Speaker 1: It is currently the the third inning, I believe, and
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  Speaker 1: so we are looking at a game that is still going.
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  Speaker 1: Actually it's only in the second inning, so bomb of
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  Speaker 1: the second We've got Brandon marsh Up and they're talking
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  Speaker 1: to Justin Verlander about who knows what. I'm sure John
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  Speaker 1: Smoltz is giving one of the most mill toast interviews
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  Speaker 1: we've ever heard, and so it was fun the pageantry
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  Speaker 1: to open the game. But we are on a Tuesday
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  Speaker 1: night because we had some obligations on Wednesday night, So
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  Speaker 1: it is July fourteenth as we're speaking. Keep that in
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  Speaker 1: mind because we're gonna do another PC pick of some
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  Speaker 1: of the All Star festivity standouts from this past weekend
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  Speaker 1: and talk a little bit about like what's happened over
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  Speaker 1: the past weekend. But I mean, it has been a
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  Speaker 1: fun All Star period. I think in Philadelphia you've got
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  Speaker 1: it combined with the America two fifty, so there's declaration
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  Speaker 1: of independence folded into everything. I did want to ask,
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  Speaker 1: did you see in the in the pregames how they
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  Speaker 1: did the scorecard for the All Star Game? Where I
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  Speaker 1: did it came out and signed it as a declaration
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  Speaker 1: of independence? And honestly, the first thing I thought was like,
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  Speaker 1: that would be so cool if that was like a
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  Speaker 1: Tops giveaway, would it not?
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  Speaker 2: That would be a cool Top giveaway. But knowing Tops,
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  Speaker 2: they would like take relics out of it and be
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  Speaker 2: like this was a piece and it would just be
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  Speaker 2: a piece of paper, like there was something like that.
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  Speaker 2: And then I I was I'm like, that was actually
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  Speaker 2: a really cool thing. Like it was a little gimmicky,
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  Speaker 2: I'll put that. But then what struck me was then
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  Speaker 2: they got to the catcher and the picture and like
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  Speaker 2: they couldn't sign it, and so like you've got seven
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  Speaker 2: guys or eight guys in the lineup to have signed
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  Speaker 2: and the picture couldn't sign, which I thought was a
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  Speaker 2: little funny. So maybe they signed it later or whatnot.
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  Speaker 1: They pre signed it because I was looking for that
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  Speaker 1: because Shane Langeleiers was hitting third for the AL I mean,
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  Speaker 1: Drake Baltimore was sitting ninth for the NL, so it
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  Speaker 1: didn't really matter that much, but I was looking because
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  Speaker 1: I was like, wait a second, Junior Cavanara is absolutely
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  Speaker 1: gonna walk up there and write his name in the
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  Speaker 1: third spot and mess this off up. But they had
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  Speaker 1: already pre signed it. I like saw it on my
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  Speaker 1: v and they had filled it in, which whoever did
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  Speaker 1: that within the Tops productor not the Tops the Fox
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  Speaker 1: production team to be able to pull that off and
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  Speaker 1: the foresight to think that through, get that person a raise.
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  Speaker 1: That is some genius work there. That is some great work.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, it was gimmicky, but it was it was cool.
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  Speaker 1: It was fun.
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  Speaker 2: I also have a love the Philadelphia fans because the
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  Speaker 2: number of guys that were just getting massively booed and
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  Speaker 2: like you and you note like that ballpark is known
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  Speaker 2: for that, and you just see them loving it, like
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  Speaker 2: absolutely loving it, especially any guy from the the NL
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  Speaker 2: East there they're just sitting there like soaking in Sodo Albi's.
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  Speaker 2: Those guys were just loving it because they're like, this
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  Speaker 2: is just everyday life here, and we know they're they're
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  Speaker 2: booing us out of pure appreciation, which was absolutely hilarious.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, and I mean on top of it too, when
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  Speaker 1: they were doing those lineups. I mean, Jordan Walker, who
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  Speaker 1: won the home run derby, probably got the bulk of
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  Speaker 1: the booze, but I think after that it was the Braves.
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  Speaker 1: The Braves certainly got booze rained down on them pretty good,
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  Speaker 1: as well as the Yankees and Wilson Contras who turned
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  Speaker 1: himself into a little bit of a heal during the
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  Speaker 1: home run derby. But that did stand out in terms
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  Speaker 1: of the lineups to me because it is the second
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  Speaker 1: straight year that we finally have gotten the players back
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  Speaker 1: into their jerseys, which is fantastic. That's what they should
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  Speaker 1: have been doing all along for the All Star Game.
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  Speaker 1: I know it sells fewer pieces of products, but I
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  Speaker 1: think it just looks better. And on top of it,
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  Speaker 1: it's very nostalgic for me because, like, especially if you
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  Speaker 1: grew up back in the day and you know, maybe
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  Speaker 1: you didn't always have cable or you were around before
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  Speaker 1: cable existed, the All Star Game was probably we were
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  Speaker 1: one chance to see all of the best players at
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  Speaker 1: once because you didn't have MLB dot tv available to you.
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  Speaker 1: You didn't even have usually like a game of the
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  Speaker 1: week that was too often available, and so you would
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  Speaker 1: catch up on players through this week in baseball and
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  Speaker 1: the All Star Game and also Baseball car and so
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  Speaker 1: it was like the one opportunity to actually like put
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  Speaker 1: the player to the jersey and kind of round it
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  Speaker 1: all out for you. So I think that's a big win.
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  Speaker 1: As they continue back with the All Star Game and
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  Speaker 1: as you just continue watching it, keeping them in their
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  Speaker 1: kind of classic road and home uniforms to be able
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  Speaker 1: to emphasize the actual identity of each team is just
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  Speaker 1: I think that's really big for the brand recognition for MLB,
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  Speaker 1: and I hope they never stray back away from that.
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  Speaker 2: I hope they don't stray away from it. I think
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  Speaker 2: it's it's absolutely the right thing to do, and it
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  Speaker 2: makes you you feel like it's an actual All Star
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  Speaker 2: game versus a big kind of gimmick to degree, But
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  Speaker 2: don't worry, the gimmick are still here because Dave Roberts
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  Speaker 2: just putting a reliever in the third inning. So we
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  Speaker 2: will have plenty of off the cuff comments, I think
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  Speaker 2: during during this podcast, because we just can't believe that
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  Speaker 2: Dave Roberts brought Riley O'Brien in and in the top
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  Speaker 2: of the third to face the top top of the
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  Speaker 2: als lineup.
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  Speaker 1: Here, So yeah, and looks like he might have just
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  Speaker 1: broken Junior Kiman Narrow's hand, So that's a big bummer.
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  Speaker 1: Well since so, I mean, we will be doing a
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  Speaker 1: PC picks of some of the All Star Festivity people
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  Speaker 1: that were that I was mentioning. So let's start with
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  Speaker 1: the home run derby, which I think was a bigger
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  Speaker 1: win than I was anticipating. One of my first posts
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  Speaker 1: from one was kicking off yesterday on Blue Sky was
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  Speaker 1: just commenting on how long it was going to take,
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  Speaker 1: which it does feel like they somebody said to pick
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  Speaker 1: up the Pace or something at some point, because certainly,
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  Speaker 1: if we had kept at the Pace after Wilson Contras's
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  Speaker 1: first twenty swings, we would have been there all night
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  Speaker 1: watching the derby in kind of an old school fashion.
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  Speaker 1: But thankfully the no pitch clock kind of limit allowed
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  Speaker 1: us to be able to breathe and see the Homers,
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  Speaker 1: and maybe we have seen more of them if a
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  Speaker 1: real kind of network was covering the home run derby,
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  Speaker 1: because Netflix did not quite have the cuts down even
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  Speaker 1: when everything was slowed down, partly just because they were
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  Speaker 1: just doing like really asked the nine cuts to like
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  Speaker 1: celebrities and people standing on the sidelines when it's like
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  Speaker 1: that's you can do that when people are in between
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  Speaker 1: hitters or whatever. But I think it was a great
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  Speaker 1: home run derby. In terms of atmosphere, it stood out.
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  Speaker 1: Certainly the Philadelphia crowd helped, as you said, booed tons
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  Speaker 1: of people. It was kind of like a wrestling atmosphere.
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  Speaker 1: In terms of the booing was good natured booing children,
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  Speaker 1: lots of booing of children when they should have been
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  Speaker 1: catching fly balls. So I definitely support that. And it
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  Speaker 1: was a rowdy, raucous crowd. Jordan Walker coming from from
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  Speaker 1: behind in the final round, catching Kyle Schwarber hitting four
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  Speaker 1: straight taters on that last weird ball where you know
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  Speaker 1: they were joking about it during the broadcast that like
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  Speaker 1: nobody had hit it out until the final round, but
• 7:55
  Speaker 1: you know that nobody hit it out because you've probably
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  Speaker 1: remember this from just playing ball back in the day, Like, yeah,
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  Speaker 1: anytime you got those like balls that had the weird
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  Speaker 1: color of leather and stuff, they just were not right
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  Speaker 1: and you could tell even when they're being pitched they
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  Speaker 1: would slip out of the hand sometimes. So, uh yeah,
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  Speaker 1: standout performance from Jordan Walker. What stood out to you
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  Speaker 1: the most watching him come back and clinch that home
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  Speaker 1: run derby.
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  Speaker 2: I mean the for me, the maturity of Jordan Walker
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  Speaker 2: throughout that like he of anybody, looked like the most
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  Speaker 2: relaxed guy at the plate, and he absolutely knew he
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  Speaker 2: was doing He stood a little taller than he usually does,
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  Speaker 2: if you didn't hear that mentioned like seventeen times during
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  Speaker 2: the derby, but he absolutely just let his raw strength
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  Speaker 2: and bass feed eat and didn't overdo it like you
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  Speaker 2: could see other guys absolutely swinging their hardest trying to
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  Speaker 2: just drive the ball out and all Walker was doing
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  Speaker 2: is just trying to barrel it and he wasn't trying
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  Speaker 2: to hit the furthest home runs like Wilson Contrere's Jack
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  Speaker 2: Kagleiotron Like was unbelievable to watch because that guy was launching.
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  Speaker 2: I don't think stat Castle was right on him, uh,
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  Speaker 2: because he was putting on a show when he made contact.
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  Speaker 2: But h Walker was just so mature and it just
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  Speaker 2: felt like he was he was there and was gonna
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  Speaker 2: easily just plow through this thing, like you forget he
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  Speaker 2: he didn't use all his pitches in the second round,
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  Speaker 2: even used like half of them, and so he he
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  Speaker 2: easily progressed through And it was the weird thing, like
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  Speaker 2: you just felt like he was going to figure it
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  Speaker 2: out even when he was behind. But like the crowd
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  Speaker 2: being against him, how relaxed he was. Was he the
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  Speaker 2: only player who they showed showed his parents the entire
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  Speaker 2: time on the broadcast, Like it just felt like some
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  Speaker 2: some script had been written, uh, and it was just
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  Speaker 2: it was so fun to watch.
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  Speaker 1: Uh.
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  Speaker 2: Feels bad for Kyle Schwarber because he absolutely deserved a
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  Speaker 2: win here, but you know, I'm I'm not gonna root
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  Speaker 2: against my my my hometown Cardinals.
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  Speaker 1: So yeah, well maybe it was scripted because there was
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  Speaker 1: that one frame from Netflix that showed Jordan Walker as
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  Speaker 1: the winner after I think the second round when he
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  Speaker 1: won his second round matchup where they had screwed up
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  Speaker 1: the graphic that went with it. But yeah, I mean
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  Speaker 1: they had to show us family. I mean, his family
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  Speaker 1: was just like very very cute, like all cheering for him,
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  Speaker 1: and it's just a really great, feel good story. He also,
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  Speaker 1: after winning, you know, talked about wanting to try to
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  Speaker 1: be a role model for just younger players out there
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  Speaker 1: and just it's kind of strange having a Cardinals player
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  Speaker 1: like Jordan Walker that actually might have some personality and
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  Speaker 1: like be not a robot. And so it's really I mean,
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  Speaker 1: it was a perfect kind of show for him to
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  Speaker 1: be able to cap off that first half. And honestly,
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  Speaker 1: I think it is the star turn for Jordan Walker.
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  Speaker 1: So he is going to be covered in our PC discussions.
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  Speaker 1: I mean even before we were doing that, we were
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  Speaker 1: talking and I was searching for some cards and I
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  Speaker 1: snatched one up and so I think that the Jordan
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  Speaker 1: Walker bump is coming. So just kind of keep that
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  Speaker 1: in mind if you've been trying to mosey along and
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  Speaker 1: ride out some of maybe the cheaper prices, but especially
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  Speaker 1: he's so young, like there's so much that could still
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  Speaker 1: be in front of him that it's kind of the
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  Speaker 1: same thing in fantasy. From a dynasty perspective too, that
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  Speaker 1: like at BP think he shot up to like top fifty,
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  Speaker 1: and honestly I would have pushed him even higher if
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  Speaker 1: it was my rankings, I probably would put Jordan Walker
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  Speaker 1: like top thirty or top twenty five in terms of
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  Speaker 1: dynasty like assets. Right now, it's just everything is there,
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  Speaker 1: and especially I think when he was in the pressure
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  Speaker 1: situation with Philadelphia with the home run Derby, that showed
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  Speaker 1: you kind of I think that's exactly what we've been
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  Speaker 1: looking for in Jordan Walker, of just that level of
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  Speaker 1: confidence to let his tools and just let that giant
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  Speaker 1: frame do what it needs to do. And he's a
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  Speaker 1: great ballplayer.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean I wrote last week when I said
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  Speaker 2: last week, like three days ago, starting to do kind
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  Speaker 2: of around the All Star break here, let's do a
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  Speaker 2: kind of top ten hitters for twenty twenty seven, but
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  Speaker 2: started with like twenty I was a twenty or twenty one.
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  Speaker 2: I can't remember what I actually started with hitters and
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  Speaker 2: just kind of like, here's the field that we should
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  Speaker 2: even consider. You got the stalwarts, the Otani's and the judges,
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  Speaker 2: the Zier mirrors is those kind of guys. You got
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  Speaker 2: the guys with a ton of skills, but something is
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  Speaker 2: like maybe not quite always there. That's the shore wers
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  Speaker 2: that don't have the speed. Things like that Kertz where
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  Speaker 2: he's been, have a few injuries, stuff like that, And
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  Speaker 2: then Jordan Walker made it into the list. Like the
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  Speaker 2: more I looked at things, Jordan Walker is in that discussion,
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  Speaker 2: like he's legitimately in the top ten, which would be
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  Speaker 2: a first round for twenty twenty seven discussion for hitters,
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  Speaker 2: and that's just crazy to think about with where he
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  Speaker 2: was a year ago. And there's you know, there are
• 12:56
  Speaker 2: probably some red flags with the plate approach, like he
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  Speaker 2: just hits the ball incredibly hard, doesn't take the walk,
• 13:02
  Speaker 2: strikes out a little much like I wish there was
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  Speaker 2: a little bit more maturity there because that profile can
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  Speaker 2: be a little dangerous over time, but it can also work.
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  Speaker 2: It can absolutely work. So again, it was a great
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  Speaker 2: home rn Derby so excited to see him win, and
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  Speaker 2: it'll be interesting to see I'm hoping he gets a
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  Speaker 2: good a bat here in the All Star Game. I'm
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  Speaker 2: sure he's going to have a very well more welcome
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  Speaker 2: when he gets up to the plate, and I just
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  Speaker 2: hope he deposits ones of the seas just to make
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  Speaker 2: a point.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, me too, that would be really fun. Also,
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  Speaker 1: we also had the MLB Futures Game this past weekend,
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  Speaker 1: which I mean they continue to do just like absolutely
• 13:41
  Speaker 1: bury this thing where it's played still on like the
• 13:46
  Speaker 1: Sunday where everybody is playing an MLB and it just
• 13:50
  Speaker 1: kind of happens very unceremoniously, like it's really kind of
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  Speaker 1: hard to find and watch, and it's really a bummer
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  Speaker 1: because we're about to go through I guess there is
• 14:01
  Speaker 1: a game on Thursday, a game or tour on Thursday,
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  Speaker 1: and so we just have one day without baseball coming up.
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  Speaker 1: But they could totally park this thing on the Wednesday
• 14:13
  Speaker 1: to be able to give us some MLB action and
• 14:17
  Speaker 1: just be able to highlight these players in the Futures Game.
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  Speaker 1: But it was won by the al side, I believe,
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  Speaker 1: which I'm just looking. I don't even think I have
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  Speaker 1: the box score in front of me. I just have
• 14:29
  Speaker 1: like an article about it, so I actually don't know.
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  Speaker 1: I do know that the standouts were Nate Flelling and
• 14:36
  Speaker 1: Seth Hernandez, we're gonna be able to practice our pronunciation
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  Speaker 1: of flelling or flu ling or I don't even know
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  Speaker 1: actually what I'm going with. I've never heard it pronounced
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  Speaker 1: in myself. I've only read it on actual kind of articles.
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  Speaker 1: So maybe you can help me out there too while
• 14:53
  Speaker 1: you look up and see how we pronounced Nate Flelling fllling.
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  Speaker 1: But he is certainly stand out there for the Tampa
• 15:01
  Speaker 1: Bay Rays, the catcher. We'll get into some PC picks
• 15:04
  Speaker 1: for him. But what if any thoughts or takeaways from
• 15:08
  Speaker 1: this breakout futures game where I mean, you've got all
• 15:11
  Speaker 1: the top prospects and you get them in front of
• 15:15
  Speaker 1: the cameras that we want from savant which is also
• 15:18
  Speaker 1: a little bit less consequential than it used to be
• 15:21
  Speaker 1: because you can get that data in other places. But
• 15:25
  Speaker 1: is it something that you would love to see kind
• 15:27
  Speaker 1: of featured more? Yeah, I mean I would like to
• 15:31
  Speaker 1: see it featured more. Like I didn't get a chance
• 15:33
  Speaker 1: to watch it again. A lot of other things going on, real,
• 15:36
  Speaker 1: real major league baseball taking place, But you look at
• 15:40
  Speaker 1: all the players that played and made an impact here.
• 15:44
  Speaker 1: You had guys like Kid Anderson, Leo da Frees, Seth Hernandez,
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  Speaker 1: you had Edward Florentino, Liam Doyle. I mean, you just
• 15:54
  Speaker 1: had all of the big guys, and you had some
• 15:56
  Speaker 1: up and coming guys that kind of were making a
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  Speaker 1: name like Theo Gillen, who is the guy we talked about,
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  Speaker 1: Jojo Parker. All those guys making an impact. And I
• 16:04
  Speaker 1: think there, you know, there's a the really nice young
• 16:08
  Speaker 1: crop of pictures coming through, maybe not for this year,
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  Speaker 1: but for next year that are gonna be really excited
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  Speaker 1: Kate Anderson. I will give them this year for sure.
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  Speaker 1: And so I would love to see this game in
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  Speaker 1: prime time, even if it was like the day before
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  Speaker 1: the home run derby, and I get from a logistics
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  Speaker 1: perspective that's probably not reasonable to have happened, but you
• 16:27
  Speaker 1: can probably figure out a way to get a celebrity
• 16:29
  Speaker 1: softball game in there somewhere, And so I think this
• 16:33
  Speaker 1: would be great for folks to see actually get a
• 16:35
  Speaker 1: chance to watch it. But I was even looking at
• 16:36
  Speaker 1: some pictures from the game and like there's seats in
• 16:40
  Speaker 1: like the first five rows that are empty like it's
• 16:43
  Speaker 1: just people can't make it to this game. It's not
• 16:46
  Speaker 1: getting the love that absolutely should. And you could see
• 16:49
  Speaker 1: some of the absolute best prospects really in all of baseball,
• 16:54
  Speaker 1: all at one place, at one point in time. So
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  Speaker 1: I would love to see it more. I'd love to
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  Speaker 1: see it to your point, maybe the day after the
• 17:01
  Speaker 1: All Star Game, because like it's the future, right, watch
• 17:04
  Speaker 1: the All Star Game, watch the future after it, and
• 17:06
  Speaker 1: then and then move on. But you know that's why
• 17:09
  Speaker 1: we don't run the league. We just read the news
• 17:11
  Speaker 1: stories after because we can't watch it in real time
• 17:13
  Speaker 1: because they put it in an illogical time for for
• 17:16
  Speaker 1: everybody else. Because again, i'd love to see him under
• 17:19
  Speaker 1: the lights, right, put them on a night game. I mean,
• 17:22
  Speaker 1: I don't know exactly the same, but I think it
• 17:23
  Speaker 1: was like a noon game. This is just like where
• 17:26
  Speaker 1: we really are we really doing this? Al did win
• 17:28
  Speaker 1: six to one if you didn't have a chance to
• 17:30
  Speaker 1: look it up, And I think it's flu lling, So
• 17:35
  Speaker 1: that sounds right now. I feel like I've heard it somewhere.
• 17:39
  Speaker 2: So the fun mart is, did you see who the
• 17:43
  Speaker 2: skippers were for the Future's game?
• 17:45
  Speaker 1: The manager?
• 17:46
  Speaker 2: So the American League had Larry Boa as their skipper,
• 17:50
  Speaker 2: not to be outdone by nationally with Shane Victorino. So
• 17:54
  Speaker 2: we had some some really classic Philly Philly history here managing.
• 17:59
  Speaker 1: These seems yes, and I mean they might have been
• 18:02
  Speaker 1: even left over from that celebrity softball game. So that's
• 18:05
  Speaker 1: like I got two for one pickup. Okay, we also
• 18:10
  Speaker 1: had the twenty twenty six MLB Draft, so I mean
• 18:13
  Speaker 1: they just kind of cram it all into everything, and
• 18:17
  Speaker 1: I mean from all the reporting podcasts that I listened to,
• 18:21
  Speaker 1: I'm sure that front offices absolutely love it. Like actually,
• 18:25
  Speaker 1: and that's been sarcastic that it's just so much going
• 18:28
  Speaker 1: on in terms of this weekend, and then on top
• 18:30
  Speaker 1: of it all, you've got to go and do the draft.
• 18:33
  Speaker 1: So the first overall pick was the Chicago White Sox.
• 18:36
  Speaker 1: Who it. I Mean, it seems from what I've read
• 18:40
  Speaker 1: that people are real into the Chicago White Sox draft.
• 18:43
  Speaker 1: They picked up a lot of talent, and they were
• 18:45
  Speaker 1: able to spread it out pretty well, especially because I mean,
• 18:47
  Speaker 1: we'll talk about it a little bit, but they did
• 18:50
  Speaker 1: trade Jacob Gonzalez to the Pirates to pick up the
• 18:53
  Speaker 1: thirty fourth pick and get a little bit of extra
• 18:54
  Speaker 1: cap room allowed them to shuffle some things around, but
• 18:57
  Speaker 1: they took Rock Chilowski first. We're allop from UCLA. Who
• 19:02
  Speaker 1: was I mean, there was some chatter that he might
• 19:05
  Speaker 1: slip down to the number two pick, but I think
• 19:07
  Speaker 1: when you kind of lined everything up in terms of
• 19:10
  Speaker 1: what you look for in a number one pick and
• 19:12
  Speaker 1: the combination of floor and ceiling, Chilawski kind of checked
• 19:17
  Speaker 1: all those boxes, especially for a White Sox team that
• 19:20
  Speaker 1: the window is starting to open pretty quickly in terms
• 19:22
  Speaker 1: of their competitiveness. I mean, they were talking about it
• 19:25
  Speaker 1: before the All Star Game. They're showing like if the
• 19:28
  Speaker 1: playoffs started today and the standing stuck guess who would
• 19:32
  Speaker 1: have a bye is the number two steed in the
• 19:35
  Speaker 1: a A the Chicago White Sox, and so Chilawski does
• 19:39
  Speaker 1: settle there. Overall, I think it's maybe a more muted
• 19:43
  Speaker 1: draft class compared to especially the past couple of years.
• 19:46
  Speaker 1: We've been pretty spoiled. So lots of lots of arms
• 19:51
  Speaker 1: from the high school ranks that got drafted, but lots
• 19:54
  Speaker 1: of solid college arms were I'm going to be really
• 19:59
  Speaker 1: just fascinating to watch some of them developed in some
• 20:02
  Speaker 1: of these big league systems and then, I mean it
• 20:05
  Speaker 1: did seem a little bit light on, kind of like
• 20:07
  Speaker 1: light tower power corner guys, and what you had going
• 20:10
  Speaker 1: in the first round was a lot of bat forward,
• 20:14
  Speaker 1: uh outfielders and middle infielders going so and back ford,
• 20:18
  Speaker 1: I mean like contact forward. So yeah, what's your take
• 20:21
  Speaker 1: on on the draft? What's your take on Rock Scholowski?
• 20:24
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean, uh, you pretty well there. I think
• 20:27
  Speaker 2: Scholowski is by far the head and shoulders above the
• 20:30
  Speaker 2: rest of this draft class. I don't think there's any question.
• 20:32
  Speaker 1: Uh.
• 20:32
  Speaker 2: He is a guy that I legitimately think they could
• 20:35
  Speaker 2: just plug in on the major league roster and he
• 20:37
  Speaker 2: would do decent. Is he gonna you know, blow the
• 20:41
  Speaker 2: you know, the blow the world away here. No, he's
• 20:43
  Speaker 2: not gonna catch on fire immediately. But he's a very
• 20:46
  Speaker 2: mature hitter, and I think there's a the future is
• 20:50
  Speaker 2: extremely bright for him. He's absolutely the top prospect for
• 20:53
  Speaker 2: the White Sox immediately the second they did sign him
• 20:56
  Speaker 2: a little underslot and again I think a lot of
• 20:58
  Speaker 2: the are we going to take him, are we gonna
• 21:00
  Speaker 2: take Grady Emerson? Are we gonna do something different? It
• 21:02
  Speaker 2: was all for show. It was all negotiation. There was
• 21:05
  Speaker 2: zero question there should have been who who the White
• 21:07
  Speaker 2: Sox were gonna take from an upside perspective, Jackson Flora
• 21:11
  Speaker 2: that went to the giants from UC Santa Barbara. Uh,
• 21:15
  Speaker 2: he's you know, by and far the best picture Uh
• 21:18
  Speaker 2: in the draft. Uh, there's a lot of talent, but
• 21:20
  Speaker 2: like as far as uh kind of you're looking for
• 21:23
  Speaker 2: a frontline type of guy, he's probably the only guy
• 21:25
  Speaker 2: that really Isn't that that conversation Again, these guys could
• 21:29
  Speaker 2: change tomorrow, things will, things will shift, but like you know,
• 21:31
  Speaker 2: he he was kind of head and shoulders above and
• 21:34
  Speaker 2: then to your point, from there, it was it was
• 21:37
  Speaker 2: like the athlete draft, Like it was toolsy guys with projectability.
• 21:41
  Speaker 2: Uh that that really went out there. But White Sox
• 21:44
  Speaker 2: did a fantastic job. Pirates did did pretty well for themselves,
• 21:48
  Speaker 2: had a number of high ceiling kind of kind of
• 21:50
  Speaker 2: guys raised always do well, Forers do well. Cardinals did
• 21:54
  Speaker 2: pretty well. From a value perspective. I think the Cubs
• 21:57
  Speaker 2: the kind of reached on Kate Towns and uh they're
• 22:01
  Speaker 2: they're like still grappling with trying to get college pitching
• 22:04
  Speaker 2: that somehow will like come solve the woes today. So
• 22:08
  Speaker 2: that was definitely a concern. There were also a number
• 22:11
  Speaker 2: of teams I think that played a little too much
• 22:12
  Speaker 2: of the bonus game where they're trying to like drop
• 22:15
  Speaker 2: down and then catch guys later. So I think that
• 22:18
  Speaker 2: that was definitely a challenge as well from a fantasy perspective.
• 22:21
  Speaker 2: I mean, the list is probably pretty short. Is like, hey,
• 22:24
  Speaker 2: guys that you want to at this point, like first
• 22:26
  Speaker 2: year player drafts at Schlowski's Emerson Slackey, it's flora like
• 22:30
  Speaker 2: it's the first four picks of the draft, and then
• 22:33
  Speaker 2: there's then it gets kind of helter skelter from there
• 22:36
  Speaker 2: as far as like Booth Kriel's a high upside but
• 22:41
  Speaker 2: high risk Burris. A number of those guys have a
• 22:44
  Speaker 2: ton of potential. But I mean those guys, I think
• 22:48
  Speaker 2: there's a lot of guys you want to Let's let's
• 22:51
  Speaker 2: see what happened in the minor leagues when they get
• 22:54
  Speaker 2: some of bats. So really fun draft, really liked it
• 22:58
  Speaker 2: kind of washing and following along. But this is not
• 23:01
  Speaker 2: the highest upside overall draft, and so I would say
• 23:05
  Speaker 2: the guys that you're seeing in the teens here typically
• 23:08
  Speaker 2: are like at the end of the first round for
• 23:10
  Speaker 2: a loaded draft, So just keep that in mind.
• 23:14
  Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, I think that is something to really kind
• 23:17
  Speaker 1: of map out. I mean, I think there is going
• 23:18
  Speaker 1: to be a lot of talent that comes out of
• 23:20
  Speaker 1: this draft, but some of it is so far away
• 23:23
  Speaker 1: in terms of these high school bats, and some of
• 23:27
  Speaker 1: the high school arms might move quickly. But I mean
• 23:29
  Speaker 1: that's just a really tough proposition and tough tree.
• 23:33
  Speaker 2: To be barking up.
• 23:34
  Speaker 1: I wouldn't be also surprised if you know somebody like
• 23:37
  Speaker 1: a Lebron, which is kind of fun. I like just
• 23:42
  Speaker 1: saying that the Lebron, justin Lebron shortstop from Alabama who
• 23:45
  Speaker 1: got picked by the Reds at number eighteen. I mean
• 23:48
  Speaker 1: I think he might be up towards the top of
• 23:51
  Speaker 1: first year player draft talk, just in terms of the
• 23:56
  Speaker 1: athletic skill and then the landing spot. I mean, he
• 23:59
  Speaker 1: can't land in too many places that are better than
• 24:02
  Speaker 1: Cincinnati as a bat. I also want to shout out
• 24:05
  Speaker 1: the Guardians draft too, because especially them getting Liam Peterson
• 24:11
  Speaker 1: from Florida in the first round down pick nineteen. I mean,
• 24:14
  Speaker 1: I think that's a great fit, great organization, and then
• 24:18
  Speaker 1: they took a bunch of other arms too, where I
• 24:22
  Speaker 1: like all of those arms that they took that you
• 24:24
  Speaker 1: put them, especially in Cleveland. They know what they're doing,
• 24:27
  Speaker 1: and I think a lot of them could be pretty
• 24:29
  Speaker 1: quick movers, especially on the college side. But don't overlook
• 24:33
  Speaker 1: especially the one they took their fifty ninth Overroll Logan Schmidt,
• 24:37
  Speaker 1: that it sounds like he's a big dude and he's
• 24:40
  Speaker 1: gonna really do some things. But yeah, I think it
• 24:43
  Speaker 1: is going to be a draft where when we actually
• 24:45
  Speaker 1: talk about it, maybe again this time next year, it
• 24:48
  Speaker 1: might pop in terms of like a great picture draft,
• 24:51
  Speaker 1: because I think the scouts were a little bit light
• 24:56
  Speaker 1: on some of these college arms that I really liked
• 24:58
  Speaker 1: as they were coming through in terms of like even
• 25:01
  Speaker 1: Flora at number four, I think is not necessarily getting
• 25:03
  Speaker 1: his his full due in terms of what he could
• 25:06
  Speaker 1: do with the Giants. And you know, I just mentioned Peterson,
• 25:09
  Speaker 1: but you also had at the same time Hunter Deets,
• 25:13
  Speaker 1: you know, going to the Yankees and some other just
• 25:17
  Speaker 1: great arms. In terms of Kate Townsend with the Cubs
• 25:20
  Speaker 1: is a great fit as well. Giovanni Rojas. Giovanni Rojas,
• 25:25
  Speaker 1: he is a high school arm, but I kind of
• 25:27
  Speaker 1: wish he didn't land in Texas. We've been down on
• 25:29
  Speaker 1: their pitching development, but there's gonna be a lot of
• 25:32
  Speaker 1: really cool arms in Cameron Fluki in Detroit. That was
• 25:36
  Speaker 1: the other name I was trying to remember and look
• 25:38
  Speaker 1: for it. That's another one I like a lot. So
• 25:41
  Speaker 1: there's gonna be lots of arms to come through. And
• 25:44
  Speaker 1: I think if you're in a situation in a Dynasty
• 25:47
  Speaker 1: first year player draft, that it might not be a
• 25:49
  Speaker 1: bad idea just to like stock up on some fast
• 25:52
  Speaker 1: track arms out of this group.
• 25:56
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I don't think you're wrong there. And I think
• 25:57
  Speaker 2: there's also just a few fun fun ones with this draft.
• 26:00
  Speaker 2: Call out land in tom Jim Tomay's son that went
• 26:03
  Speaker 2: to the White Sox in the second round. You also
• 26:05
  Speaker 2: had Rentaro Sasaki, who's like the home run hero from
• 26:09
  Speaker 2: Japan in the high school and they came over to
• 26:11
  Speaker 2: Stanford and his carrying tools just he's a really big,
• 26:14
  Speaker 2: big power guy that went and I think the day two.
• 26:19
  Speaker 2: So there's definitely some fun things here. But this, yeah,
• 26:24
  Speaker 2: this is one that like you can do well in volume,
• 26:27
  Speaker 2: but there's a lot of a lot of question marks
• 26:29
  Speaker 2: for me.
• 26:30
  Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, I think I agree. Okay, Well, I think
• 26:33
  Speaker 1: we're gonna wrap up maybe the first half here. Check
• 26:35
  Speaker 1: out that Baseball card release calendar. We will be covering
• 26:38
  Speaker 1: tops Chrome next week because it will be releasing on
• 26:42
  Speaker 1: the twenty second. It's gonna be quite the event. I
• 26:46
  Speaker 1: think that you're gonna see lots of social media buzz
• 26:49
  Speaker 1: post All Star Game. In terms of tops Chrome. It
• 26:51
  Speaker 1: is also Fanatics Fest this weekend in New York, which
• 26:55
  Speaker 1: is kind of coinciding with the FIFA World Cup final,
• 26:58
  Speaker 1: so that's gonna get bananas as well too. I think
• 27:00
  Speaker 1: you're gonna see a lot of especially if you're kind
• 27:03
  Speaker 1: of into the hobby from Instagram or Reddit or TikTok
• 27:08
  Speaker 1: kind of perspective from the socials, It's going to be
• 27:10
  Speaker 1: a very bright and flashy weekend for trading cards all
• 27:14
  Speaker 1: across the spectrum because you're gonna get a lot a
• 27:17
  Speaker 1: lot of celebrities and kind of really big things happening
• 27:21
  Speaker 1: as things are flowing through fanags Fest and the FEFUL
• 27:23
  Speaker 1: World Cup in New York this weekend, so it should
• 27:26
  Speaker 1: be fun to see kind of what the fallout is
• 27:28
  Speaker 1: there as well as Like I have to imagine the
• 27:30
  Speaker 1: rippings and Pops Chrome early, so I don't think they're
• 27:33
  Speaker 1: going to be pulling anything too crazy, but I think
• 27:35
  Speaker 1: you're gonna get a good feel of kind of. I'm
• 27:40
  Speaker 1: hoping there's some live streams of it, because it's gonna
• 27:42
  Speaker 1: be a sparse product I think in terms of the hits,
• 27:45
  Speaker 1: and maybe they'll send some sueded boxes to the fanatics
• 27:49
  Speaker 1: affiliates this weekend, but we'll see. So with that, we're
• 27:54
  Speaker 1: going to take a break. We'll be back to talk
• 27:56
  Speaker 1: about those All Star Facivity PC picks for the handful
• 28:00
  Speaker 1: of players. All right, welcome back everybody. We are going
• 28:20
  Speaker 1: to get into our main topic, which is PC picks
• 28:23
  Speaker 1: from All Star Festivity standouts. So we're going to cover
• 28:27
  Speaker 1: the two finalists from the home Run derby and then
• 28:29
  Speaker 1: the two standouts from the Futures game. So this will
• 28:33
  Speaker 1: be also another chance for me to practice. It's Nathan
• 28:37
  Speaker 1: flu Ling. So there we go. We got it locked
• 28:39
  Speaker 1: in nice and smooth.
• 28:41
  Speaker 2: This is I'm just ask you every time I go
• 28:43
  Speaker 2: there to say, Nathan, can you just finish the sentence
• 28:45
  Speaker 2: for me?
• 28:47
  Speaker 1: It's like, yeah, if you were around during our some
• 28:50
  Speaker 1: of our spring early season pods, there was one that
• 28:53
  Speaker 1: I had to practice just Stinston many many times to
• 28:57
  Speaker 1: get that down, but we're gonna do the home run
• 28:59
  Speaker 1: Derby standouts first. We're gonna do Jordan Walker and Kyle Schwarber,
• 29:03
  Speaker 1: partly because I mean, Kyle Schuber's actually never been a
• 29:06
  Speaker 1: PC pick for us. So if you do go into
• 29:08
  Speaker 1: the show notes, you can find a link to the
• 29:11
  Speaker 1: entire pod PC. So we just covered this last week
• 29:14
  Speaker 1: with the June Players of the Month PC, and then
• 29:16
  Speaker 1: we do other PC picks for just random reasons as
• 29:20
  Speaker 1: well as like standouts for situations like this or Hall
• 29:24
  Speaker 1: of Fame inductions, and we'll do an awards one at
• 29:26
  Speaker 1: the end of the season if you're not familiar with it.
• 29:29
  Speaker 1: The PC is the personal collection of this pod, so
• 29:31
  Speaker 1: it's just kind of a fun, little running list of
• 29:33
  Speaker 1: our favorite cards of these players. You can also go
• 29:36
  Speaker 1: into those show notes and there will be a link
• 29:38
  Speaker 1: to rasball dot com where there was a corresponding post
• 29:41
  Speaker 1: for this podcast, and you can see pictures of these cards,
• 29:44
  Speaker 1: so I'll have it within that post. That way you
• 29:46
  Speaker 1: won't have to just listen to us describe the cards.
• 29:48
  Speaker 1: You can actually get a sense of what it looks like.
• 29:51
  Speaker 1: And the eBay links if you're still listening to this
• 29:54
  Speaker 1: within time of when we've recorded it, the links could
• 29:58
  Speaker 1: still be active and you might actually be able per
• 30:00
  Speaker 1: these cards directly yourself. So let's start with Jordan Walker.
• 30:03
  Speaker 1: We talked about him a little bit before the break
• 30:05
  Speaker 1: in terms of just the star turn honestly at this
• 30:08
  Speaker 1: home run derby that I think everybody ate it up
• 30:11
  Speaker 1: in terms of his family being there, the backwards hat,
• 30:15
  Speaker 1: Al lah Ken, Griffey Junior, the smooth approach at the plate,
• 30:19
  Speaker 1: just the extra bubbliness that I think he also had
• 30:22
  Speaker 1: when he was in interviews that you can tell that
• 30:24
  Speaker 1: he's not some like media trained robot like Derek Cheeter.
• 30:29
  Speaker 2: And and.
• 30:32
  Speaker 1: He just really put on a great show where I
• 30:34
  Speaker 1: think even the fans in Philadelphia, where they booed him
• 30:37
  Speaker 1: in the lineups during the All Star Game tonight, it
• 30:39
  Speaker 1: was almost like a half hearted boo because I mean,
• 30:42
  Speaker 1: how could you not be one over by Jordan Walker's
• 30:45
  Speaker 1: grand smile. Now, he has been up and down player,
• 30:48
  Speaker 1: I think in the hobby, just like he has been
• 30:50
  Speaker 1: in fantasy and in real life as well. So because
• 30:54
  Speaker 1: of that, he's got a lot of cards. They were
• 30:56
  Speaker 1: certainly very hot at one point back in his day seasons,
• 31:01
  Speaker 1: and then they bottomed out, and I think we're starting
• 31:03
  Speaker 1: to see where they're gonna start ticking back up. I mean,
• 31:05
  Speaker 1: the first half that he put up is certainly part
• 31:09
  Speaker 1: of that where he has turned into an All Star
• 31:12
  Speaker 1: Masher deserve to be there. Twenty two homers, thirteen Stone
• 31:15
  Speaker 1: Bases two ninety four, three point fifty four, five thirty
• 31:18
  Speaker 1: two slash Line one forty three WRC plus before the
• 31:22
  Speaker 1: All Star Game, and this home run derby I think
• 31:25
  Speaker 1: is just exactly what he needed to really get going.
• 31:28
  Speaker 1: So first time for Jordan Walker to be in the
• 31:30
  Speaker 1: podcast PC brew Where are you going?
• 31:33
  Speaker 2: Yeah, Jordan Walker's market is incredibly hot right now. I
• 31:37
  Speaker 2: don't know that it will ever get much hotter than
• 31:38
  Speaker 2: it is right now, So just keep that in mind
• 31:40
  Speaker 2: if you're buying, if you're looking to sell. Also a
• 31:43
  Speaker 2: really good time. But I'm going with one of my
• 31:47
  Speaker 2: just all time modern favorite cards, which is not something
• 31:51
  Speaker 2: I will ever rip, and I'm going to Top's Dynasty.
• 31:54
  Speaker 2: I'm gonna go with the twenty twenty three Tops Dynasty
• 31:57
  Speaker 2: Jordan Rookie Patch audit on card Auto one out of
• 32:02
  Speaker 2: five and going with this one for a few reasons.
• 32:05
  Speaker 2: Dynasty cards always have this classic feel, really great centering,
• 32:10
  Speaker 2: glossy finished through a thick card with the patch. But
• 32:14
  Speaker 2: the patch on this Tops Dynasty card, it's it's good,
• 32:18
  Speaker 2: it's really really nice. It is not the full red
• 32:22
  Speaker 2: bird from the Cardinals jersey, but it is the kind
• 32:24
  Speaker 2: of back half of the red bird, so you can
• 32:27
  Speaker 2: see that the feathers from the head, you can almost
• 32:30
  Speaker 2: see where one of the eyes is, and then just
• 32:31
  Speaker 2: kind of the back of the bird along with a
• 32:34
  Speaker 2: little bit of what looks to be the cream jersey
• 32:37
  Speaker 2: on this one as well. So wonderful, wonderful patch. A
• 32:41
  Speaker 2: really really strong autumn to be frank on this one
• 32:44
  Speaker 2: as well, which is I'm not really a big sucker
• 32:45
  Speaker 2: for it, but Jay Walk has a pretty nice auto himself.
• 32:49
  Speaker 2: So Tops Dynasty currently available about five days left in
• 32:53
  Speaker 2: the auction here from DC Sports eighty seven, which is
• 32:56
  Speaker 2: one of the big consignment shops on eBay. Only sixteen
• 33:00
  Speaker 2: hundred dollars on bids right now, so the market is
• 33:04
  Speaker 2: hot because I'm guessing you could have bought this card
• 33:07
  Speaker 2: for Jaywalk last year for roughly one fifty to two hundred,
• 33:11
  Speaker 2: and now you're making a pretty penny on it.
• 33:14
  Speaker 1: You really think that this card hit that bottom at
• 33:16
  Speaker 1: one fifty to two hundred.
• 33:18
  Speaker 2: I do think so, just because I bought some Gorman
• 33:21
  Speaker 2: rookie autos from this set, not this exact set, but
• 33:25
  Speaker 2: like from his rookie year for like less than one
• 33:28
  Speaker 2: hundred when he is his second year or something, when
• 33:32
  Speaker 2: he was really struggling. So I again I could be
• 33:34
  Speaker 2: wrong it maybe it didn't get quite that low, but
• 33:37
  Speaker 2: he he was struggling with Walker, was real struggling last year,
• 33:40
  Speaker 2: and so I think it may have got down to
• 33:43
  Speaker 2: that point.
• 33:44
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean, as somebody who has a decent Dylan
• 33:47
  Speaker 1: Carlson PC, it never addicted that level, and I wish
• 33:50
  Speaker 1: it did. That's a funner, that's true.
• 33:52
  Speaker 2: Trust me, my Gorman's are nowhere near one hundred dollars anymore.
• 33:54
  Speaker 1: Yeah, exactly. But yeah, this is a beautiful pick, beautiful card. Also,
• 33:58
  Speaker 1: whoever can sign this to DC sports a seven just
• 34:02
  Speaker 1: chef's kiss in terms of your timing, because the value
• 34:06
  Speaker 1: that you're getting back on this is going to be
• 34:08
  Speaker 1: absurd considering I mean before the home run derby, certainly
• 34:14
  Speaker 1: I don't even think it would have reached this level
• 34:16
  Speaker 1: of sixteen hundred bucks that we're looking at right now
• 34:18
  Speaker 1: it started on Sunday, so got eighty seven watchers. The
• 34:22
  Speaker 1: other component here too is I think all of the
• 34:26
  Speaker 1: hobby is a sucker for a good Cardinals patch, as
• 34:28
  Speaker 1: much as like the Cardinals maybe have their haters out there,
• 34:32
  Speaker 1: and you know, on top of there's a decent number
• 34:35
  Speaker 1: of Cardinals collectors in the hobby, but there is something
• 34:38
  Speaker 1: about the cardinal being in a patch, I think between
• 34:42
  Speaker 1: the iconic just nature of the cardinal as well as
• 34:47
  Speaker 1: you don't get too many other like designs like that
• 34:51
  Speaker 1: on patches because of one the chain stitching. Cardinals use
• 34:55
  Speaker 1: chain stitching and all of their patches on their home
• 35:00
  Speaker 1: uniforms that are authentic. I think the Phillies do as well,
• 35:03
  Speaker 1: and that might be just about it. It is a
• 35:06
  Speaker 1: more cumbersome kind of process and is much more hearkens
• 35:10
  Speaker 1: back to the older days of baseball and uniforms. But
• 35:13
  Speaker 1: then on top of it, like usually on uniforms, you've
• 35:16
  Speaker 1: just got the names of the teams, so you don't
• 35:18
  Speaker 1: have anything like the cardinal directly, and so this is
• 35:21
  Speaker 1: a beautiful pick. You can't get much better than this
• 35:24
  Speaker 1: Jordan Walker rookie card as a mantlepiece in the PC
• 35:27
  Speaker 1: because it's also just you got a big old pictured
• 35:30
  Speaker 1: Jordan Walker Grinnin. It's just perfect.
• 35:34
  Speaker 2: He's a happy dude. So I love it all. Right,
• 35:36
  Speaker 2: where's you go? Can you beat a sixteen hundred dollars
• 35:39
  Speaker 2: card on day four of an auction?
• 35:42
  Speaker 1: I mean maybe in terms of goofiness, absolutely, So I'm
• 35:45
  Speaker 1: going to go to twenty twenty three Tops Holiday. This
• 35:48
  Speaker 1: is a long time favorite set of ours, just holiday
• 35:51
  Speaker 1: in general, just because you get so many fun little gimmicks,
• 35:54
  Speaker 1: and twenty twenty three was a pretty fun holiday set
• 35:58
  Speaker 1: where the design for the year it was kind of
• 36:01
  Speaker 1: math to me in twenty twenty three. It kind of
• 36:03
  Speaker 1: goes back to some of the early eighties designs where
• 36:06
  Speaker 1: you got the photo of the player headshot and then
• 36:09
  Speaker 1: the action shot kind of layered on top of each other.
• 36:13
  Speaker 1: But the holiday design with the candy cane borders and
• 36:17
  Speaker 1: the giant circular snowflakes is a great touch. And I'm
• 36:22
  Speaker 1: picking the short print. I've actually I've owned this card.
• 36:24
  Speaker 1: I pulled it out of Tops Holiday back when I
• 36:27
  Speaker 1: ripped it a few years ago. And I love this
• 36:31
  Speaker 1: gimmick because usually, I mean, just go back and listen
• 36:34
  Speaker 1: to one of our Tops holiday pods. We probably covered
• 36:36
  Speaker 1: twenty twenty three if I recall, because we cover it
• 36:39
  Speaker 1: every year. But the usually when you do the short
• 36:43
  Speaker 1: print parallels, you only get one gimmick at a time.
• 36:46
  Speaker 1: You get lights, a belt like some sort of involved
• 36:50
  Speaker 1: snowball or elf or something, and maybe some candy canes
• 36:54
  Speaker 1: and then other just kind of variations of candy cane
• 36:57
  Speaker 1: like or light or sand of claws, kind of like
• 37:01
  Speaker 1: different sleeves and socks and stuff. You get two for
• 37:04
  Speaker 1: one in this short print of Jordan Walker's rookie card.
• 37:07
  Speaker 1: You get the candy cane bat, you get the Santa
• 37:09
  Speaker 1: hat as well, and it's very recentably priced. You can
• 37:13
  Speaker 1: get this for like three or four bucks. I think
• 37:15
  Speaker 1: it will increase a little bit over time because like
• 37:18
  Speaker 1: as people kind of suck up all of the Jordan
• 37:22
  Speaker 1: Walker rookies out there, I think they will gravitate every
• 37:25
  Speaker 1: once in a while to the short print and once
• 37:27
  Speaker 1: you see it, I don't think you can resist this card.
• 37:30
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm a big sucker for the talked about it
• 37:33
  Speaker 2: a few times in this podcast. Is just a very
• 37:35
  Speaker 2: accessible product. These short prints are so goofy at the
• 37:39
  Speaker 2: same time, nobody knows what they have when they have it,
• 37:41
  Speaker 2: So nothing wrong with a candy cane bat the Santa
• 37:45
  Speaker 2: hat making it happen for Jordan Walker. And ironically like
• 37:49
  Speaker 2: the stance in this card looks just like he was
• 37:52
  Speaker 2: the home on derby, so upright, so comfortable. Maybe off
• 37:56
  Speaker 2: the big smile because he was actually in game action
• 37:58
  Speaker 2: on the card, but he he definitely looks the part here.
• 38:03
  Speaker 2: So this is a good card. And I also love
• 38:05
  Speaker 2: adding a cheap, nice fun card to the PC, So
• 38:09
  Speaker 2: good pick.
• 38:10
  Speaker 1: All right, well, let's get to Kyle Schwarber, who has
• 38:13
  Speaker 1: plenty of cards. You know, it's a decade of Kyle
• 38:17
  Speaker 1: Schwerber cards now at this point, which is kind of
• 38:19
  Speaker 1: crazy to think about. Fell just shortened that home run
• 38:23
  Speaker 1: derby against Jordan Walker certainly put on a good show
• 38:26
  Speaker 1: and had the Philly faithful behind him, coming off a
• 38:28
  Speaker 1: fantastic first half as well. Thirty two homers with a
• 38:32
  Speaker 1: two fifty four, three sixty seven, five sixty slash line
• 38:35
  Speaker 1: to one forty nine WRC plus. I mean, he's gonna
• 38:40
  Speaker 1: he's starting to get into a lofty territory. He's gonna
• 38:42
  Speaker 1: be passed four hundred homers by the end of season,
• 38:45
  Speaker 1: only gonna be thirty three turning thirty four in March.
• 38:51
  Speaker 1: He's only going to be like three or four seasons
• 38:53
  Speaker 1: away from from five hundred homers, assuming he stays healthy,
• 38:56
  Speaker 1: which will be I think one of the more interesting
• 38:59
  Speaker 1: Hall of debates, don't you in terms of like Schwerber
• 39:03
  Speaker 1: getting to five hundred homers, but the war total is
• 39:05
  Speaker 1: going to be pretty muted that I think he still
• 39:08
  Speaker 1: might get in just because when you layer in things
• 39:11
  Speaker 1: like the home run derby that he previously won the
• 39:15
  Speaker 1: antics from last year's All Star Game, if you remember,
• 39:17
  Speaker 1: with the swing off as well as some of the
• 39:20
  Speaker 1: big playoff moments that Schwarber's had, people might overlook the
• 39:24
  Speaker 1: war total just to put him in because of the
• 39:28
  Speaker 1: famousness and the five hundred homers. What do you think?
• 39:31
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I think it's gonna be a big debate because
• 39:33
  Speaker 2: like this is of all the things we look it
• 39:36
  Speaker 2: is a power only bat, but he has a very
• 39:39
  Speaker 2: realistic shot to hit the big milestone, the five hundred
• 39:42
  Speaker 2: home runs, and I mean I would argue he has
• 39:45
  Speaker 2: a chance to maybe exceed that by a decent amount
• 39:49
  Speaker 2: with the way he's played, just depends like the position
• 39:53
  Speaker 2: he plays, how he plays, he can have some longevity
• 39:58
  Speaker 2: and so it'll be interesting. He's the guy that he's
• 40:00
  Speaker 2: like that could play the Nelson Cruz thing, get into
• 40:02
  Speaker 2: like his forties here and hitty bombs. So I think
• 40:05
  Speaker 2: that's really where it gets because his career batting average
• 40:07
  Speaker 2: is two thirty three still in bases, he's got a
• 40:10
  Speaker 2: thirty nine. He doesn't have a thousand runs or RBIs
• 40:15
  Speaker 2: at this point. So like his peak has been really
• 40:19
  Speaker 2: the last you know, five or six years. But he's
• 40:23
  Speaker 2: you know, he's been productive through cohole career. Is just
• 40:26
  Speaker 2: is enough well rounded. When you're not playing the field,
• 40:29
  Speaker 2: you're not doing those other things. But he does have
• 40:30
  Speaker 2: a World Series under his belt like that, there are
• 40:34
  Speaker 2: a lot of things for him. So I think, to me,
• 40:36
  Speaker 2: if he can keep doing this for another three, four,
• 40:39
  Speaker 2: maybe even five years, it's really a definite possibility. If
• 40:43
  Speaker 2: he starts to trail off and becomes like a thirty
• 40:44
  Speaker 2: homer two twenty hitter RS year, I just I don't
• 40:48
  Speaker 2: think it's gonna happen because it's there's too many other
• 40:51
  Speaker 2: guys out there that have the power and not much
• 40:54
  Speaker 2: else to the game.
• 40:55
  Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, I think that's all very fair. So it
• 40:58
  Speaker 1: is his first time going into the pod PC. Surprisingly,
• 41:01
  Speaker 1: I'm actually kind of shocked that he's never rattled off
• 41:04
  Speaker 1: a Player of the Month award considering how hot he
• 41:07
  Speaker 1: can sometimes get, which also just shows I want to
• 41:10
  Speaker 1: go back and see some of those months he got
• 41:13
  Speaker 1: crazy hot because whoever out hit him really out hit him. So,
• 41:19
  Speaker 1: first time in the PC for Kyle Sharberg, where are
• 41:20
  Speaker 1: you going? Yeah?
• 41:22
  Speaker 2: So went I took a page. I was a book
• 41:26
  Speaker 2: from somebody that I had at a card show because
• 41:28
  Speaker 2: I was selling a Kyle or Not Kyle Swore Chris
• 41:31
  Speaker 2: Bryant autograph card, And like I am trying to collect
• 41:34
  Speaker 2: the full twenty sixteen Cubs roster for when they win
• 41:39
  Speaker 2: the World Series. I'm like, you know what, I think
• 41:41
  Speaker 2: it's a great spot to go with Kyle Schwarber. So
• 41:42
  Speaker 2: I'm going with his twenty sixteen Bowman Chrome Rookie true
• 41:46
  Speaker 2: blue refractor out of one fifty the Bowman auto on
• 41:51
  Speaker 2: this and so color match, you know us, we love
• 41:55
  Speaker 2: our color matches. Is absolutely a great color match. The
• 41:58
  Speaker 2: refractor absolutely pops. Schweber has a pretty strong signature all
• 42:03
  Speaker 2: things considered. It's a little squiggly, but it definitely has
• 42:07
  Speaker 2: some good good letters in there, not all of them,
• 42:10
  Speaker 2: but most of them. And this is also like Schwarber
• 42:15
  Speaker 2: doesn't look that different of a dude in this card
• 42:18
  Speaker 2: from twenty sixteen that he does ten years later when
• 42:20
  Speaker 2: he's hitting Bobs in the in the home run derby
• 42:23
  Speaker 2: for the Phillies, and he just has the same backswing,
• 42:26
  Speaker 2: looks very very comfortable in this picture. So nothing along
• 42:30
  Speaker 2: with a rookie. This one probably about runs about three
• 42:33
  Speaker 2: hundred dollars, being the true blue color match, but still
• 42:36
  Speaker 2: pretty accessible and probably one of his better early kind
• 42:40
  Speaker 2: of rookie cards, and also from being from the World
• 42:42
  Speaker 2: Series season.
• 42:43
  Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, it's a great pick and just such a
• 42:47
  Speaker 1: clean blue. The other twenty sixteen Bowman was so dark.
• 42:52
  Speaker 1: It was just like dark and like weirdly like trying
• 42:57
  Speaker 1: to be sci fi future ristic. It's got a little
• 43:01
  Speaker 1: bit of like a mass effect feel if you're familiar
• 43:03
  Speaker 1: with those video games where honestly those came out in
• 43:06
  Speaker 1: the early two thousand, so it's almost like a throwback
• 43:09
  Speaker 1: to a throwback and like it's a it's a strange design.
• 43:14
  Speaker 1: I'll just put that out there that, like the Tops
• 43:17
  Speaker 1: cards around this time too, were also just like dark
• 43:20
  Speaker 1: I don't know why, and so it is, it does
• 43:24
  Speaker 1: stand out where it's maybe the first time I think
• 43:27
  Speaker 1: within looking at like twenty sixteen ish cards where I'm
• 43:32
  Speaker 1: just like, whoa, yeah that was of an age.
• 43:34
  Speaker 2: Yeah, and it's one of those like it. They turned
• 43:37
  Speaker 2: the printing presses up a little bit, a little more color.
• 43:39
  Speaker 2: They have since then the be like, eh uh, the
• 43:41
  Speaker 2: production costs on this is a little Tighlet's let's not
• 43:43
  Speaker 2: only ink back a little bit, let's go for the
• 43:46
  Speaker 2: faded look for the next ten years. So yeah, I
• 43:49
  Speaker 2: think you're absolutely right. But again, these these ones pop
• 43:52
  Speaker 2: for sure. So where did you go with mister Schwarber,
• 43:56
  Speaker 2: mister home run derby runner up?
• 43:58
  Speaker 1: Yes, so I mean I went to expensive route this
• 44:01
  Speaker 1: time I'm going to Tops Dynasty twenty twenty. And this
• 44:05
  Speaker 1: is just a great card where it is still a
• 44:08
  Speaker 1: Cubs card. So I mean, I guess that's a little
• 44:10
  Speaker 1: bit of a surprise for us, considering that, you know,
• 44:14
  Speaker 1: it was a big night in Philadelphia for Shwarbur and
• 44:16
  Speaker 1: we're not exactly known for loving the Cubs around here,
• 44:18
  Speaker 1: but we've both gone Cubs cards, mostly because I can't
• 44:22
  Speaker 1: get away from the patch this on this card that
• 44:24
  Speaker 1: I found. It is of five. It will be shipped
• 44:28
  Speaker 1: to you from Japan if you want it. It's just
• 44:30
  Speaker 1: around seventeen hundred bucks plus probably some import cost and everything.
• 44:35
  Speaker 1: You're gonna get slapless and terrorists on this baby. But
• 44:38
  Speaker 1: the patches of the sleeve from the blue uniform of
• 44:42
  Speaker 1: the Cubs, their alternate uniform where they have a National
• 44:45
  Speaker 1: League logo on it, which is part of the reason
• 44:47
  Speaker 1: I went with this that you know, Schwarber has been
• 44:49
  Speaker 1: a big portion of the All Star Game in the
• 44:51
  Speaker 1: National League representing it over the past few years. What
• 44:55
  Speaker 1: better way to go than with a giant portion of
• 44:57
  Speaker 1: a National League patch, which again kind of like your
• 45:00
  Speaker 1: cardinal pick for Jordan Walker. You don't see this in
• 45:03
  Speaker 1: a patch very often. It's a pretty rare thing that
• 45:07
  Speaker 1: the Cubs are one of the only teams that kind
• 45:09
  Speaker 1: of has that American League National League patch. So to
• 45:12
  Speaker 1: get it in a Tops of Dynasty and a crisp
• 45:15
  Speaker 1: Top Dynasty card where they've kind of it's a grayscale
• 45:18
  Speaker 1: Tops Dynasty with the blue signature from from Schwarber. This
• 45:23
  Speaker 1: is a fantastic piece.
• 45:26
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I already exposed the wonders of Tops Dynasty. This
• 45:31
  Speaker 2: is a great patch. I wish the patch was right
• 45:33
  Speaker 2: side up as opposed to sideways. Again who knows they're
• 45:37
  Speaker 2: But again, this little monochromatic effect of this version of
• 45:42
  Speaker 2: Tops Dynasty's really really pops like you have. It's kind
• 45:46
  Speaker 2: of like that old school posed photo from an old
• 45:50
  Speaker 2: card that you get, but it's on a dual school card.
• 45:54
  Speaker 2: And again, I love the clean lines of Dynasty. I
• 45:56
  Speaker 2: love just the way that accentuates all the different pieces
• 45:59
  Speaker 2: of always doing a great patch. So this is a
• 46:02
  Speaker 2: fantastic card. I don't know if we've ever added two
• 46:05
  Speaker 2: out of five Top Dynasty's card to the PC and
• 46:07
  Speaker 2: in one of these discussions, but both of these are
• 46:10
  Speaker 2: absolutely absolutely great cards.
• 46:13
  Speaker 1: Okay, well, let's get to those futures game standouts. So
• 46:17
  Speaker 1: the MVP from that game was Nathan Fluelling Catcher from
• 46:21
  Speaker 1: the Tampa Bay Rays, and I mean, I think this
• 46:23
  Speaker 1: is also a good time to discuss him because we
• 46:25
  Speaker 1: haven't necessarily had a good spot to discuss him. You know,
• 46:29
  Speaker 1: We've had a couple of places where we've done prospect updates,
• 46:33
  Speaker 1: but I've always kind of been unsure about picking Flueling
• 46:38
  Speaker 1: in that as well as like in our Auto Neo league.
• 46:42
  Speaker 1: I do think about auctioning him all the time, but
• 46:45
  Speaker 1: sometimes you can't get over the hurdle of being a
• 46:49
  Speaker 1: catcher in fantasy dynasty situations for me and even but
• 46:55
  Speaker 1: this is an other worldly bats so far. He's nineteen
• 46:57
  Speaker 1: years old, left handed bat has been in the minors
• 47:02
  Speaker 1: since twenty twenty four, when he was drafted by the
• 47:04
  Speaker 1: Rays out of high school in Canada. This year in Higa,
• 47:08
  Speaker 1: it's been really special. Sixteen homers in seventy three games
• 47:13
  Speaker 1: with a two sixty one, three ninety four fourty ninety
• 47:15
  Speaker 1: six slash line one thirty WRC plus is a nineteen
• 47:19
  Speaker 1: year old. There a twenty six percent strikeout rate, but
• 47:22
  Speaker 1: also sixteen point four percent walk rate, which I mean,
• 47:26
  Speaker 1: sure the strikeouts are a little high, but when you're
• 47:28
  Speaker 1: walking that much, I'm fine with it because, honestly, it
• 47:31
  Speaker 1: also indicates to me that the pitchers are staying away
• 47:33
  Speaker 1: from fluelling, and some of that strikeout is probably be
• 47:37
  Speaker 1: because he's chasing. He wants to actually hit the ball
• 47:39
  Speaker 1: and do something in the box. All of the prospect
• 47:43
  Speaker 1: reports are gushing about this bat that currently the hit
• 47:47
  Speaker 1: tool is a future thirty five per Fan grafts, but
• 47:51
  Speaker 1: that was a twenty twenty six preseason report. I think
• 47:54
  Speaker 1: that the that will go up a tick and maybe
• 47:58
  Speaker 1: the power goes up to they have a fifty five
• 48:00
  Speaker 1: future game power sixty raw. But I think what we've
• 48:03
  Speaker 1: seen in terms of the performance at the futures game
• 48:06
  Speaker 1: and what he's shown this year in the minors as
• 48:09
  Speaker 1: well as I mean, he's only going to get way
• 48:11
  Speaker 1: stronger as a nineteen year old in High A. What
• 48:15
  Speaker 1: is your approach here with somebody like Fluelling. Honestly, it's
• 48:19
  Speaker 1: a little Shwarburian in terms of like the bat might
• 48:22
  Speaker 1: be ready before the catching skills, and the catching skills
• 48:27
  Speaker 1: were kind of math in terms of the grades from
• 48:29
  Speaker 1: the prospect side. So there's a chance the race could
• 48:32
  Speaker 1: fast track Fluelling to be a DH corner type of guy,
• 48:37
  Speaker 1: and certainly you won't get the advantage of the catcher position,
• 48:40
  Speaker 1: but you get the bat before that. So what are
• 48:44
  Speaker 1: you doing with Fluelling and Dynasty and Keepers?
• 48:47
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean, I think definitely in Dynasty he's a
• 48:50
  Speaker 2: must own. I don't think there's any question about that.
• 48:52
  Speaker 2: Keepers depends on how deep. He's probably definitely a watch
• 48:56
  Speaker 2: for me. I think the knock I have against Luelling
• 49:01
  Speaker 2: is he plays with the race and you know, that's
• 49:05
  Speaker 2: kind of fun which could be kind of funny when
• 49:07
  Speaker 2: the way we talk about the Rays and their player development,
• 49:09
  Speaker 2: especially on the pitching side. But the Rays do tend
• 49:12
  Speaker 2: to be a team that likes to move their position
• 49:15
  Speaker 2: players and then introduce them slowly into the league, which
• 49:17
  Speaker 2: can be a little frustrating from a fantasy manager perspective.
• 49:20
  Speaker 2: They like to get them partial playing time, move them
• 49:23
  Speaker 2: up and down from the minors until they firmly establish themselves. Now,
• 49:26
  Speaker 2: this is gonna play for everybody, like a junior Campan
• 49:28
  Speaker 2: narrow type of guy. But you saw that with Chandler
• 49:30
  Speaker 2: Simpsons last year. We've seen it with other guys throughout
• 49:34
  Speaker 2: their development system that said, this is a special bat.
• 49:38
  Speaker 2: He is strong bat, he's in high a nineteen year old,
• 49:41
  Speaker 2: He's doing really good things. So I think you have
• 49:44
  Speaker 2: to keep your eye on him. He's going to be
• 49:46
  Speaker 2: jumping out prospects list for sure.
• 49:48
  Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, I think I agree that. Like I think
• 49:51
  Speaker 1: I'm there with Fluelling now, I'm actually more of a
• 49:53
  Speaker 1: Taitan Gray person myself, a Titan Gray guy. I think
• 49:57
  Speaker 1: it's a better bat with Gray where and switch hitting
• 50:01
  Speaker 1: that that is going to have to be a little
• 50:03
  Speaker 1: bit of like what happens. But at the same time,
• 50:05
  Speaker 1: you know, you've got how long is YONDI Diaz signed
• 50:08
  Speaker 1: for here. I don't think it's Yeah, it's only through
• 50:10
  Speaker 1: next year, and so he is also going to be
• 50:14
  Speaker 1: thirty six, I think by the time that contract is up,
• 50:18
  Speaker 1: and so the question will then become Aronda. But that's
• 50:21
  Speaker 1: exactly the type of player that the Rays move yes,
• 50:25
  Speaker 1: right at the end of his ARB years to be
• 50:28
  Speaker 1: able to bring back more and then open it up
• 50:30
  Speaker 1: for Fluelling and Gray. So I'm actually maybe a little
• 50:34
  Speaker 1: less concerned because I feel like when the Rays find
• 50:38
  Speaker 1: a great player, they move them fast and get them
• 50:41
  Speaker 1: to the majors fast to be able to get the
• 50:44
  Speaker 1: most out of them. You know, They've done it with
• 50:45
  Speaker 1: Kyman Arrow, they did it with Wander Franco before they've
• 50:51
  Speaker 1: I mean, and Chandler Simpson wasn't something special, So like
• 50:55
  Speaker 1: that's a component of it. But I think that's also
• 50:58
  Speaker 1: why I'm not too concerned about the Gillen on the
• 51:01
  Speaker 1: same game, and like, you know, they tried this with
• 51:05
  Speaker 1: Carson Williams, but Williams cannot hit, so like they will
• 51:10
  Speaker 1: send a player back down. They're not going to just
• 51:12
  Speaker 1: like run them out there like Anthony Volpi and make
• 51:14
  Speaker 1: them just try to figure it out that the Rays
• 51:18
  Speaker 1: make sure that they develop the players correctly, and if
• 51:22
  Speaker 1: Fluelling's ready for the majors, they will put them in
• 51:24
  Speaker 1: the majors. I think so. I think it's somebody that
• 51:27
  Speaker 1: can be added in. Certainly is already snatched up in dynasties.
• 51:31
  Speaker 1: But when you're starting to talk like the auto new
• 51:33
  Speaker 1: leagues that we're in where it's kind of like Dynasty
• 51:36
  Speaker 1: Slash Keeper with the forty man rosters, that's when you're starting.
• 51:40
  Speaker 1: I think Fluelling is rosterbull in that type of format.
• 51:44
  Speaker 2: Now, this is the kind of guy in your new
• 51:46
  Speaker 2: league that you nominate in the swath of like ten
• 51:49
  Speaker 2: guys the end of the season, hope you get them
• 51:50
  Speaker 2: for a buck, and then you decide later and you
• 51:54
  Speaker 2: keep them. This is the kind of guy you want
• 51:56
  Speaker 2: to kind of marinate and then grab them before anybody
• 51:59
  Speaker 2: else realizes that it's going to be a thing.
• 52:02
  Speaker 1: Okay, well, I mean this is before Fluelling is even debuted.
• 52:06
  Speaker 1: There are enough cards that we've got to discuss. So
• 52:08
  Speaker 1: it's actually he's got more cards than t J. Rumfield,
• 52:11
  Speaker 1: so we've got got a decent number to pick from
• 52:14
  Speaker 1: for our PC. Where are you going?
• 52:16
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm just thinking pretty basic on this one. I'm
• 52:18
  Speaker 2: just going the first Bowman Auto. I'm going to Refractor.
• 52:20
  Speaker 2: So out of four ninety nine from twenty twenty four
• 52:22
  Speaker 2: Bowmen Draft. You know, this is a good card, Like
• 52:27
  Speaker 2: the Art Auto, I went with this one just because
• 52:30
  Speaker 2: they did a pretty gosh darn good job on the
• 52:32
  Speaker 2: photoshop on this one. But also I love the background
• 52:36
  Speaker 2: here because he's obviously hitting in some like little high
• 52:42
  Speaker 2: school stadium or something like that with a very very
• 52:46
  Speaker 2: strong chain link fence and the piers behind him, and
• 52:50
  Speaker 2: so it's just the juxtaposition of the Ray's uniform, this
• 52:53
  Speaker 2: big burly guy hitting and then you have what appears
• 52:58
  Speaker 2: like is that to be a chain link fence or
• 53:00
  Speaker 2: even maybe just a batting net behind them. So I
• 53:03
  Speaker 2: just like the kind of the texture it gives to
• 53:05
  Speaker 2: the card, which is, you know, a funny way to
• 53:07
  Speaker 2: I guess as like we're talking about art, I get it.
• 53:10
  Speaker 2: But going with the first Bowman Refractor for fluelling here,
• 53:16
  Speaker 2: for the race.
• 53:17
  Speaker 1: I think, yeah, this is a great pick. You can't
• 53:19
  Speaker 1: go wrong with the refractor first auto, and it is
• 53:23
  Speaker 1: a great picture, and especially if he takes off, this
• 53:25
  Speaker 1: could become semi iconic. I also that background. When I
• 53:29
  Speaker 1: first looked at it, I thought it was like a
• 53:32
  Speaker 1: part of the design of the card. It looks like
• 53:33
  Speaker 1: an X fractor or something, So that kind of even
• 53:36
  Speaker 1: takes it to another level where sometimes you get boring
• 53:39
  Speaker 1: backgrounds on these chrome cards, these Bowman cards, where they
• 53:43
  Speaker 1: especially will photoshop them and make sure that it's out
• 53:46
  Speaker 1: of focus. But I think they realized that it creates
• 53:50
  Speaker 1: some of that X fractor feel and kept it in
• 53:52
  Speaker 1: the card. Fantastic pick, can't go wrong. Yeah, all right,
• 53:59
  Speaker 1: Well I went with the Tops Now twenty twenty six,
• 54:02
  Speaker 1: number four forty eight. It's not out yet, so you'll
• 54:06
  Speaker 1: have to buy the pre order. Because this is the
• 54:09
  Speaker 1: card that commemorates Fluelling's performance at the Prospects game at
• 54:13
  Speaker 1: the Futures game, So you can't go wrong with that,
• 54:16
  Speaker 1: right If you do the PC of the thing, why
• 54:19
  Speaker 1: not put the card from the thing and the PC
• 54:21
  Speaker 1: so great little photo of him in the jersey from
• 54:25
  Speaker 1: the Futures Game, which honestly, they could have put a
• 54:28
  Speaker 1: little bit more effort into. It does look like they
• 54:30
  Speaker 1: took a bunch of leftover blank phillies batting BP tops
• 54:35
  Speaker 1: and just stitch American on the front of it and
• 54:38
  Speaker 1: a couple of like a raised patch on the side
• 54:40
  Speaker 1: and it's kind of blank. But yeah, it's a great
• 54:43
  Speaker 1: commemoration of what Fleelling did. A nice little card with
• 54:47
  Speaker 1: the red and the blue Jox positioning, which I mean
• 54:51
  Speaker 1: also is a little strange because he's Canadian, so he's
• 54:53
  Speaker 1: not American and into the whole America theme that's been
• 54:57
  Speaker 1: going on with this all star game. But you can't
• 54:59
  Speaker 1: go wrong with a nice little tops Now card. His
• 55:01
  Speaker 1: first tops Now card, first official tops card, so it's
• 55:06
  Speaker 1: gonna be a rookie card of source for Flueling here
• 55:09
  Speaker 1: from tops Now.
• 55:10
  Speaker 2: Yeah, no, I like this card. It's a nice design.
• 55:13
  Speaker 2: I love the Futures game logo this year really pops
• 55:17
  Speaker 2: and you know, tops Now, maybe you can get a
• 55:20
  Speaker 2: you know, numbered card out of this, would you when
• 55:22
  Speaker 2: you order it? Now? To your point, this is one
• 55:26
  Speaker 2: is gonna be coming. You'll have to buy it then
• 55:29
  Speaker 2: wait for you know, seven to ten business days. But
• 55:31
  Speaker 2: maybe we'll get the foil fracture of the red red foil.
• 55:33
  Speaker 2: There's there's parallels. We're not gonna go through the full list,
• 55:36
  Speaker 2: but there's some real fun ones for the kind of
• 55:38
  Speaker 2: the open vision card that is top style. So yeah, good,
• 55:43
  Speaker 2: good pick.
• 55:44
  Speaker 1: Yeah. Unfortunately, I think the tops Now sale is already
• 55:48
  Speaker 1: closed on this, so you're gonna have to go to
• 55:50
  Speaker 1: the eBay route if you're gonna pick this up. All right,
• 55:54
  Speaker 1: let's get to the last guy we've got picture, Seth Hernandez.
• 55:58
  Speaker 1: He didn't win anything from the Futures Game, but everybody
• 56:01
  Speaker 1: was just raving about getting to watch Seth Hernandez for
• 56:04
  Speaker 1: the inning that he pitched. And I mean, this guy
• 56:08
  Speaker 1: is so good. And also I mean it's a little
• 56:11
  Speaker 1: bit because the bats are a little bit thinner than
• 56:13
  Speaker 1: they've been, but he is in consideration, I think, for
• 56:17
  Speaker 1: plenty of number one prospect in baseball overall. As lists
• 56:21
  Speaker 1: will start coming out here for mid season updates and
• 56:24
  Speaker 1: when we get into the offseason. From the Pittsburgh Pirates.
• 56:29
  Speaker 1: Was drafted in twenty twenty five with the sixth overall pick.
• 56:34
  Speaker 1: He's just been mowing through dudes at single and high
• 56:36
  Speaker 1: A this year. Sixty nine innings over sixteen starts with
• 56:40
  Speaker 1: a two sixty one air ray and a three sixty
• 56:43
  Speaker 1: two FIP with a twenty nine point eight percent K
• 56:47
  Speaker 1: minus BB. Certainly those numbers were just like otherworldly at
• 56:51
  Speaker 1: single A, and they've slowed down a little bit at
• 56:54
  Speaker 1: high A as he's kind of gotten beat up by
• 56:57
  Speaker 1: the long ball there. But I think that's also just
• 57:00
  Speaker 1: that league, that environment and playing in Greensboro might be
• 57:05
  Speaker 1: Homer friendly, if I recall, but I think it is. Yeah,
• 57:09
  Speaker 1: So something to keep in mind. But I mean, things
• 57:12
  Speaker 1: are lining up for Hernandez, especially with this Pirates team
• 57:16
  Speaker 1: being good, like he's got a shot at coming up
• 57:18
  Speaker 1: next year because certainly the command is still coming together.
• 57:22
  Speaker 1: But I mean it seems like the Pirates have a
• 57:25
  Speaker 1: great sense of developing pitching, and I think, especially like
• 57:29
  Speaker 1: Paul Skins, is a great tool to have within your
• 57:33
  Speaker 1: organization that could speak to younger guys and also kind
• 57:36
  Speaker 1: of share things that he's learned in terms of pitch
• 57:40
  Speaker 1: development and the way that he approaches his workout regimen.
• 57:45
  Speaker 1: So what do you think about Hernandez from a Dynasty perspective?
• 57:49
  Speaker 1: Is he the top pitching arm for you? And is
• 57:53
  Speaker 1: it somebody that you actually are pursuing, despite the risks
• 57:56
  Speaker 1: that are involved with stashing away arms like this in Dynasty.
• 58:02
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean, I'm not sure I mean to put
• 58:03
  Speaker 2: him the top. I might have to give that to
• 58:05
  Speaker 2: Katy Anderson just because of the proximity to the majors,
• 58:08
  Speaker 2: and so I would say I probably have him as
• 58:11
  Speaker 2: like a one B to kat Anderson at this point.
• 58:14
  Speaker 2: But the upside, like it's one of those weird ones
• 58:17
  Speaker 2: where Anderson looks great and he looks like a frontline guy.
• 58:21
  Speaker 2: Hernandez looks like he could be a cy young winner.
• 58:24
  Speaker 2: It's just being further away the injury risk with pictures,
• 58:30
  Speaker 2: there's that element which is just gonna give me that
• 58:33
  Speaker 2: little tick down on him, But don't take that the runaway.
• 58:36
  Speaker 2: He is an absolute surefire prospect, one you want to own.
• 58:41
  Speaker 2: So I'm extremely excited about him. He's lighting things up,
• 58:44
  Speaker 2: he looks really comfortable. He look great in the future's game,
• 58:48
  Speaker 2: So I think he's going to be at the top
• 58:50
  Speaker 2: of prospect list. The Pirates have become a better organization
• 58:53
  Speaker 2: for developing pictures. We've seen a lot of things now.
• 58:56
  Speaker 2: Injuries have kind of played a toll on that but
• 58:59
  Speaker 2: overall they've really have kind of figured some things out
• 59:02
  Speaker 2: with pitchers, So you gotta be excited with Hernandez. I
• 59:05
  Speaker 2: don't think we I don't think there's any way we
• 59:06
  Speaker 2: see him this year, but I do think early summer
• 59:11
  Speaker 2: next year, like we have to be talking Seth Hernanda's
• 59:14
  Speaker 2: coming through and making a debut for the Pirates.
• 59:17
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean, especially if he whittles down that walk
• 59:19
  Speaker 1: rate that he has at Hya right now, where it's
• 59:22
  Speaker 1: coming in at thirteen point seven percent. But you know
• 59:25
  Speaker 1: it's only his first ten starts at HIA as a
• 59:27
  Speaker 1: twenty year old, and so you know, if he can
• 59:30
  Speaker 1: show better control, he can certainly move fast, great loose action.
• 59:35
  Speaker 1: I think that's what I love about the way that
• 59:37
  Speaker 1: he pitches, where it doesn't look stiff. It's very much
• 59:40
  Speaker 1: like kind of Cam Schlitzler or Jacob Missiowski six foot
• 59:45
  Speaker 1: four frames, so he's a little bit smaller than those guys,
• 59:47
  Speaker 1: but the limbs are huge and it's very loose, So
• 59:52
  Speaker 1: I think he's going to be Really it is a
• 59:55
  Speaker 1: situation I agree with you where Anderson I think has
• 59:58
  Speaker 1: probably in terms of the bell curve, has the better
• 1:00:02
  Speaker 1: kind of distribution of outcomes, But Hernandez that right tail
• 1:00:06
  Speaker 1: outcome is like, yeah, first round Fantasy pick year in,
• 1:00:12
  Speaker 1: year out, YEP. Absolutely, So Yeah, we've actually, we've actually
• 1:00:17
  Speaker 1: got thousands upon thousands of cards thanks to leaf Metal
• 1:00:21
  Speaker 1: that sith. Hernandez has been signing for leaf Metal since
• 1:00:24
  Speaker 1: he was a high schooler, So there's lots and lots
• 1:00:27
  Speaker 1: of one of one leaf Metal autos out there for
• 1:00:30
  Speaker 1: us to pick from. I don't think either of us
• 1:00:32
  Speaker 1: went that way for South Hernandez. But first set of
• 1:00:35
  Speaker 1: cards we're putting into the PC for him, what did
• 1:00:37
  Speaker 1: you pick?
• 1:00:39
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm just kind of going with a few things
• 1:00:41
  Speaker 2: I just talked about. I'm going first Bowman, I'm going
• 1:00:43
  Speaker 2: to color match, So I'm going with his first Bowman
• 1:00:47
  Speaker 2: draft twenty twenty five yellow Refractor Auto, which is out
• 1:00:51
  Speaker 2: of seventy five. The yellow hits with the Pirates logo,
• 1:00:55
  Speaker 2: the Pirates jersey against photoshop, but it does hit. But
• 1:00:59
  Speaker 2: the other thing I like this card. Hernanda signs it
• 1:01:01
  Speaker 2: and he signs it with his high school jersey number
• 1:01:03
  Speaker 2: twenty two, even though he's been twenty five since he's
• 1:01:06
  Speaker 2: got into the minor leagues with the Pirates, and so
• 1:01:08
  Speaker 2: I think It's just a little little fun thing that
• 1:01:10
  Speaker 2: he's literally signing this card. You know, he signs them
• 1:01:12
  Speaker 2: in person with the jersey number twenty five on the card,
• 1:01:16
  Speaker 2: and he signs it with twenty two, and so I
• 1:01:18
  Speaker 2: love that. I love the little touch when players add
• 1:01:21
  Speaker 2: like an inscription or something like that. But I think
• 1:01:23
  Speaker 2: this is kind of one. The other thing I've like
• 1:01:25
  Speaker 2: most of the cars of stept Fernandez. He looks like
• 1:01:28
  Speaker 2: he's lost while pitching. He's got his mouth agape, like
• 1:01:31
  Speaker 2: he's just kind of like kind of just cruising, dude
• 1:01:34
  Speaker 2: like type of thing, and so I just think that's fun.
• 1:01:37
  Speaker 2: But this one, just the yellow just absolutely pops. It's
• 1:01:40
  Speaker 2: listed on eBay for like twenty five hundred bucks because
• 1:01:43
  Speaker 2: of the color match. I don't I didn't spend the
• 1:01:45
  Speaker 2: time to look for comps or anything like that. I
• 1:01:47
  Speaker 2: can't imagine that's what they're actually going for. But I mean,
• 1:01:50
  Speaker 2: his toff's gonna be through the roof.
• 1:01:52
  Speaker 1: Yeah exactly. And it's gonna be somebody who it's gonna
• 1:01:55
  Speaker 1: stay through the roof because he's gonna be so far
• 1:01:58
  Speaker 1: up of those prospect rankings so along until his debut. Yeah,
• 1:02:02
  Speaker 1: not gonna be a great ROI but it's gonna be
• 1:02:05
  Speaker 1: this is a fun card I'll give. I'll give a
• 1:02:08
  Speaker 1: different view on the twenty two. I think it's just
• 1:02:10
  Speaker 1: muscle memory from all those leaf metal autographs that he signed.
• 1:02:13
  Speaker 2: It's very true, very true.
• 1:02:15
  Speaker 1: I just might take him a little while to shake that.
• 1:02:18
  Speaker 1: But uh, and it's a if you're into having an
• 1:02:21
  Speaker 1: Adams Apple PC where you know, you've got a lot
• 1:02:24
  Speaker 1: of probably Kyle Tucker cards, maybe some Nikabod Crane cards.
• 1:02:28
  Speaker 1: This card goes in there too. You're Adam's Apple PC. Nice?
• 1:02:32
  Speaker 2: All right? Where'd you go with Sethnado's?
• 1:02:35
  Speaker 1: I went Genris?
• 1:02:36
  Speaker 2: Can you geez?
• 1:02:41
  Speaker 1: I did it? I went with Donris, but I went
• 1:02:44
  Speaker 1: with the twenty twenty six Donors clearly, so he is
• 1:02:48
  Speaker 1: in twenty twenty six Donors, which just came out a
• 1:02:50
  Speaker 1: few weeks ago. We gave it no time on this podcasts,
• 1:02:56
  Speaker 1: just a line item in the calendar. But it's not
• 1:02:59
  Speaker 1: a terrible Donorus design this year that it's it's a
• 1:03:02
  Speaker 1: little bit of like a twenty twenty or twenty yeah,
• 1:03:07
  Speaker 1: twenty twenty tops like design sort of, but it goes
• 1:03:10
  Speaker 1: all the way around in a border, and because of that,
• 1:03:13
  Speaker 1: it kind of gets back to when Donris was fun
• 1:03:16
  Speaker 1: in the early nineties, which I like. And the Donorus
• 1:03:19
  Speaker 1: clearly is going to be an acetate card, so if
• 1:03:23
  Speaker 1: you're trying to ever get one from a top set,
• 1:03:26
  Speaker 1: they're only of ten, so they're very rare. And then
• 1:03:29
  Speaker 1: on top of it, it's only for certain cards. They
• 1:03:31
  Speaker 1: don't do it for every card in the set. The
• 1:03:33
  Speaker 1: nice thing about Donners is, you know, if you're looking
• 1:03:36
  Speaker 1: for a cool assetate card that does what the tops
• 1:03:39
  Speaker 1: of ten assetate cards does where what I like about
• 1:03:43
  Speaker 1: them too is there's nothing on the back, you know
• 1:03:45
  Speaker 1: what I mean. On the tops cards, sometimes they do
• 1:03:48
  Speaker 1: squeeze in some information. On these Donors, clearly they're just
• 1:03:51
  Speaker 1: kind of blank, so you get the silhouette of the
• 1:03:52
  Speaker 1: front of the card on the back, and then yeah,
• 1:03:56
  Speaker 1: I'm a sucker for an assetate card. It's such like
• 1:03:58
  Speaker 1: a goofy format for a baseball card. It's so like
• 1:04:01
  Speaker 1: gimmicky nineties and it's just cool that it's clear. It's
• 1:04:05
  Speaker 1: just like a piece of plastic that's a card. This
• 1:04:07
  Speaker 1: is also his rated prospect card, so like, if you're
• 1:04:11
  Speaker 1: into Donors, maybe that holds some value for you.
• 1:04:13
  Speaker 2: On a different level.
• 1:04:14
  Speaker 1: But it's a pretty straightforward sethrin Indez card, and I
• 1:04:17
  Speaker 1: think that it's something that I mean will still you
• 1:04:21
  Speaker 1: can move. When he comes up in debuts, people will
• 1:04:24
  Speaker 1: be scooping up some of these donorous cards and moving
• 1:04:27
  Speaker 1: them because there are people who are just into donors
• 1:04:30
  Speaker 1: and this is a clean card of that.
• 1:04:33
  Speaker 2: Don Res used to be a pretty cool product back
• 1:04:35
  Speaker 2: in the day. It's harder to get into it now.
• 1:04:38
  Speaker 2: I'm gonna take one, just swipe at the card just
• 1:04:40
  Speaker 2: because I can. I'm not sure if they did a
• 1:04:42
  Speaker 2: better job photoshopping him into a Pirates jersey or put
• 1:04:45
  Speaker 2: him in the jersey and then taking away everything about it,
• 1:04:48
  Speaker 2: because he has the yellow and black pin stripe on
• 1:04:51
  Speaker 2: the jerseys, but then the black hat with no logo,
• 1:04:55
  Speaker 2: a Great jersey with no words or logos, and so
• 1:04:58
  Speaker 2: I'm not sure what was harder getting the p stripe on,
• 1:05:01
  Speaker 2: Like did they did they put him on a full
• 1:05:02
  Speaker 2: Pirates Uni and then remove the pieces or they just
• 1:05:05
  Speaker 2: put them in Great Uni and just add the pin
• 1:05:07
  Speaker 2: stripes like I've got so many questions about the photoshop
• 1:05:10
  Speaker 2: because they're non licensed with MLB here and how they
• 1:05:13
  Speaker 2: went about this uh, maybe that's uh, maybe there's a
• 1:05:16
  Speaker 2: follow up here with that. We're not getting invited to
• 1:05:18
  Speaker 2: any Don Ross facility after this podcast, by the way,
• 1:05:23
  Speaker 2: But I would just love to know that the thought
• 1:05:25
  Speaker 2: process behind how they designed this card, because I always
• 1:05:29
  Speaker 2: love Don Ross or any Panini type of product where
• 1:05:34
  Speaker 2: they take the non license but they try to hide it.
• 1:05:36
  Speaker 2: They just this one, they're like, Nope, not hiding it.
• 1:05:39
  Speaker 2: It's clearly we don't have the rights to this, but
• 1:05:42
  Speaker 2: that's okay, it's a minor league card. Let's push it through.
• 1:05:45
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean, I will say, if anything, it's it's
• 1:05:48
  Speaker 1: kind of working for me compared to some of their
• 1:05:50
  Speaker 1: other unlicensed stuff, because you know, if he's wearing one
• 1:05:53
  Speaker 1: of those Pe uniforms that's on the left chest, it's
• 1:05:57
  Speaker 1: kind of hid him by his arm, and then I
• 1:05:59
  Speaker 1: mean you've got the black hat, which kind of works
• 1:06:02
  Speaker 1: it almost Also it helps because like it's almost like
• 1:06:06
  Speaker 1: a nineteen hundreds throwback Pirates uniform or something, you know,
• 1:06:11
  Speaker 1: and because that franchise is so old, it kind of fits.
• 1:06:14
  Speaker 1: And yeah, it's just such a clean card, I think,
• 1:06:17
  Speaker 1: is what it kind of all boils down to. If
• 1:06:19
  Speaker 1: it wasn't on a Donorus clearly well, although when I
• 1:06:22
  Speaker 1: was looking at this, I was almost tempted to pick
• 1:06:25
  Speaker 1: just the base Donorous card because it's not a bad
• 1:06:28
  Speaker 1: looking card to me of Seth Hernandez. So it can
• 1:06:31
  Speaker 1: be a pretty cheap, non licensed PC ad for you
• 1:06:35
  Speaker 1: out there. So that's going to wrap us up for
• 1:06:38
  Speaker 1: these four cards or four players that we're putting into
• 1:06:42
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• 1:06:49
  Speaker 1: of the All Star Game. It has not changed scores
• 1:06:51
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• 1:06:56
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• 1:06:58
  Speaker 1: he's going to be the only one not runs when
• 1:07:01
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• 1:07:03
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• 1:07:05
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• 1:07:08
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• 1:07:10
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• 1:07:15
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• 1:07:18
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• 1:07:20
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• 1:07:28
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• 1:07:32
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• 1:07:35
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• 1:07:39
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