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Darryn Peterson in Vegas Summer league, Jazz Fans & Cody Williams, Keyonte & Darryn Goated, Dodgers collapse before break MLB Trade Deadline Sellers, Juan Soto · DnA Sports Recap

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SPEAKER_02: That's right.
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SPEAKER_02: All right, man.
0:19
SPEAKER_02: So let's go ahead and jump right into it, man.
0:20
SPEAKER_02: The first subject we want to talk about is well, last week, AJ, um, we talked Summer League, right?
0:25
SPEAKER_02: We discussed um the our guy, the future statue himself, DP, our first impressions of Darren Peterson and how he played.
0:33
SPEAKER_02: And you know, some good, some great, you know, some not so great.
0:38
SPEAKER_02: Um, but overall, we saw what we need to see from our uh number two pick uh in this iconic draft.
0:46
SPEAKER_02: Absolutely.
0:47
SPEAKER_02: So um that now that's so now that's done.
0:51
SPEAKER_02: Summer league games, you know, we're now we're into the summer league games that really matter, right?
0:55
SPEAKER_02: The ones that are in Vegas, right?
0:57
SPEAKER_02: Yeah, absolutely.
0:58
SPEAKER_02: So we've got um the ones in Vegas.
1:01
SPEAKER_02: So we had what we could what we would call the most important summer league game of the year, AJ.
1:05
SPEAKER_02: Yeah, and this is DP versus AJ.
1:08
SPEAKER_02: Um, I guess the rest of the teams did show up to.
1:10
SPEAKER_02: Um, we know that they did come uh to you know, to you know, who you know, it's one of those things where some of the players didn't show up, but we'll get into that later.
1:21
SPEAKER_02: Uh Darren Peterson against the Washington Wizards scored 24 points, three rebounds, three assists, 16, sorry, six for eighteen shooting.
1:29
SPEAKER_02: Uh not great shooting night um as the Jazz lose in, and let's be honest, another game that doesn't really matter uh or mean anything, but um yeah.
1:38
SPEAKER_02: I mean, let's not it's not like we had this one over two years, right?
1:44
SPEAKER_02: So, you know, how would you compare this one, AJ?
1:48
SPEAKER_02: How would you compare the game against AJ?
1:52
SPEAKER_02: AJ.
1:53
SPEAKER_00: That's actually kind of uh thing to say, actually.
1:57
SPEAKER_00: Yeah.
1:57
SPEAKER_00: No, Dibanza had a great game.
1:58
SPEAKER_00: I mean, he you know, they they did get the win of this game 92-88.
2:02
SPEAKER_00: Um, he ended up playing, uh Dibanza ended up playing 26 minutes, had 27 points, scored, had seven rebounds, two steals, two assists, and one block.
2:11
SPEAKER_00: So he ended up going seven for eighteen.
2:13
SPEAKER_00: Key little note there.
2:14
SPEAKER_00: He did go 0 for 5 from three-point range.
2:16
SPEAKER_00: So, you know, maybe something to be worried about.
2:19
SPEAKER_00: I guess only time will tell on that one.
2:20
SPEAKER_00: But Dibanza showed great vision in this game, Ran.
2:23
SPEAKER_00: I mean, he did he did a good job finishing through contact, he really made some tough plays.
2:27
SPEAKER_00: It was it was a really good game for AJ Dibanza, especially being his first one for summer league.
2:32
SPEAKER_00: Um, but as far as Darren Peterson, that's the guy that we're actually here to talk about.
2:36
SPEAKER_00: You know what I mean?
2:37
SPEAKER_00: Um, I like how DP just he kind of took the game at his own speed.
2:40
SPEAKER_00: You he never seemed rushed, he never seemed out of place.
2:43
SPEAKER_00: Um, he just kind of took what was given to him.
2:45
SPEAKER_00: He uh he did take a couple mid-range floaters, kind of Mike Conley-esque, um, which is a shot that you know a lot of guards are going to need um in the league, right?
2:54
SPEAKER_00: You're you're going to have pockets um where you're not being defended, and you've got to be able to shoot the ball quickly from those spots.
3:00
SPEAKER_00: Um he showed great speed.
3:02
SPEAKER_00: Uh and and he really just, yeah, he just he just got to the shot, took the shot that was given to him.
3:08
SPEAKER_00: Um, I love that he used both hands using that floater, and he just he this kid is just he always looks so comfortable scoring the basketball, and it's so refreshing to just have somebody that looks like they're never out of their place.
3:20
SPEAKER_00: Right.
3:20
SPEAKER_00: So I just I loved it.
3:21
SPEAKER_00: I I liked what I saw out of that first game.
3:24
SPEAKER_00: Um it but it was really good to see.
3:26
SPEAKER_00: Didn't he have eight turnovers in that game too?
3:28
SPEAKER_00: I want to say, yeah, seven or eight turnovers in that game.
3:31
SPEAKER_02: Yeah, so he had eight turnovers in game one, eight turnovers in game three.
3:34
SPEAKER_02: And you know what that tells me?
3:36
SPEAKER_02: That tells me, and if you watch this game, which was pretty crazy, I got a chance to watch most of this game.
3:40
SPEAKER_02: And if you were watching this one, AJ, there was so much double teaming of DP.
3:46
SPEAKER_00: Most of the game was him being double teamed.
3:47
SPEAKER_02: You absolutely you can definitely tell that Washington had one game plan coming in there, and that is trapped DP.
3:54
SPEAKER_02: They watched his first two games, you know, and he basically just had to constantly adjust to the double team, you know, and Maya caused a few turnovers there.
4:03
SPEAKER_00: But as a as a jazz, as as a jazz front offense, you absolutely love this, dude.
4:08
SPEAKER_00: Yeah, because they're testing him early.
4:10
SPEAKER_00: Test him early.
4:11
SPEAKER_00: And the thing is he's gonna be a focal point of the offense throughout the NBA season, too, right?
4:14
SPEAKER_00: Teams, you know, depending on how his first couple games go, teams are gonna be saying, okay, we need to get a double on him, right?
4:20
SPEAKER_00: Like you're not you're not going under any screens with him.
4:22
SPEAKER_00: Like he's gonna see a lot of this stuff really early in his career.
4:26
SPEAKER_00: So, you know, to start with four or five games in the summer league, love it.
4:30
SPEAKER_00: You want to you want to see this kid get tested early and often.
4:32
SPEAKER_02: No, I 100% agree with you, man.
4:34
SPEAKER_02: And one of the things I thought was crazy is how they set that up.
4:37
SPEAKER_02: You could tell easily that that's what they were doing.
4:40
SPEAKER_02: Oh, yeah.
4:40
SPEAKER_02: You know, and the fact that he was able to get some AJ at the summer league, all you really care about is can the guy make tough shots uh in traffic?
4:47
SPEAKER_02: Yep.
4:47
SPEAKER_02: And that is exactly what we saw from DP, which I absolutely love.
4:50
SPEAKER_02: Um, you know, we'll go ahead and get into that a little bit more later, but let's go ahead and talk against uh the game against uh the Clippers.
4:57
SPEAKER_02: Uh so we talked our number one disguised as the number two uh against the number one.
5:02
SPEAKER_02: Um now we're gonna talk about our number two uh up against the number five, which was actually against the Clippers, uh, who we AJ called that would have been the jazz number pick at five if they did fall to five in this draft, right?
5:15
SPEAKER_02: Yeah.
5:15
SPEAKER_02: Uh and that is Keaton Waggler.
5:17
SPEAKER_02: Yep.
5:18
SPEAKER_02: Yeah, Waggler Waggler?
5:20
SPEAKER_00: I've heard it both ways.
5:21
SPEAKER_00: Yeah, I actually have heard it both ways.
5:23
SPEAKER_00: Waggler and Waggler.
5:24
SPEAKER_02: Yeah, Waggler.
5:25
SPEAKER_02: Yeah, yeah.
5:25
SPEAKER_02: The rest of the team did show up too as well.
5:27
SPEAKER_02: Um, AJ, DP uh did score 23 points, five rebounds, two assists, uh was six for eighteen uh from the field on this one.
5:34
SPEAKER_02: Now tell us, AJ, how did this, how did our guy compare to K-Dub?
5:40
SPEAKER_00: Um K-Dub looked good, man.
5:42
SPEAKER_00: Uh he he had a pretty good game also.
5:44
SPEAKER_00: I mean, he played 28 minutes and scored 23 points.
5:47
SPEAKER_00: Um, a lot of his scoring came from the three-point three-point range.
5:51
SPEAKER_00: He shot four for seven from three, but he only shot six for sixteen from the field.
5:55
SPEAKER_00: So of his remaining two makes, one of them was on like a pretty tough bucket.
5:59
SPEAKER_00: Um Wagler showed good, he showed good range, though.
6:02
SPEAKER_00: I mean, in precision from the three-point line, he looked really comfortable shooting the three, especially in the third quarter.
6:07
SPEAKER_00: Um I I don't know, he doesn't look anything like Darren Peterson.
6:14
SPEAKER_00: You know what I mean?
6:15
SPEAKER_00: Like just from a skill perspective, these are two very, very different players.
6:19
SPEAKER_00: Um, and and it's kind of kind of crazy to think the the skill difference from a number two draft pick to a number five draft pick, because Darren Peterson very much looks NBA ready, right?
6:28
SPEAKER_00: I mean, he just throughout the whole game, he didn't have a great scoring game, but just looked unguardable at moments, right?
6:35
SPEAKER_00: Um, he played great defense, he blocked a couple of shots.
6:38
SPEAKER_00: Um his his first step is so quick.
6:41
SPEAKER_00: Um, he does a really good job just kind of getting to his spot and knowing exactly what he's gonna do with the ball in his hands, which is really refreshing.
6:48
SPEAKER_00: Um his his pull-up and spot up threes are just so much fun.
6:52
SPEAKER_00: He he is just deadly from those points.
6:55
SPEAKER_00: He just can score the ball so well.
6:56
SPEAKER_00: I don't know.
6:57
SPEAKER_00: I'm just I'm really excited to see him paired next to Keontae um because of all of those skills that he possesses on and off the ball.
7:04
SPEAKER_00: Oh, yeah.
7:05
SPEAKER_02: So yeah, more on that to come a little bit later.
7:07
SPEAKER_01: Yeah.
7:07
SPEAKER_02: Uh before we move on, man, I I wanted to bounce something off you.
7:10
SPEAKER_02: Yeah.
7:10
SPEAKER_02: I heard a lot of talking heads on the radio over the last little bit with little bit here, AJ, about you know, resting during the summer league, right?
7:17
SPEAKER_01: Yeah.
7:18
SPEAKER_02: And the Jazz have done some of that with the same with Peterson, right?
7:21
SPEAKER_02: Um, but they talked about how the Washington Wizards just shut down AJ and just said we saw what we needed to see out of this guy.
7:28
SPEAKER_02: And you know, a lot of folks were saying how that's pretty much nonsense, you know, like it we've seen all we needed to see out of them.
7:34
SPEAKER_02: Well, I agree to some extent, but these are rookies, right?
7:37
SPEAKER_02: Like you can't improve are uh do they already not have any need for improvement already?
7:44
SPEAKER_02: You're telling me that you know AJ DeBenza and DP are ready to go, ready to roll into the Hall of Fame right now.
7:50
SPEAKER_02: Yeah, you know, it's not I know these games don't really matter, but that's the best time to develop a player is when you can get up to 10 fouls, you know, and you're playing against in games that really don't matter.
8:01
SPEAKER_00: And you can coach them really hard too.
8:02
SPEAKER_00: Yeah, right?
8:03
SPEAKER_00: You can you can really harp on about being better on defense and being more aggressive, and then when they commit a foul and they come over, you know, because the other player's shooting, you can say, Hey, in the NBA, you've got to move this way, or you've got to move that way, or you've got to keep your hands up, whatever that is, right?
8:17
SPEAKER_00: So you can coach these players really hard.
8:20
SPEAKER_00: You don't got to tell them to go out there and give everything, but go out there and give it all on defense for you know the first quarter.
8:25
SPEAKER_00: And then I want to see you score the ball in the second quarter, and then I want to see you get five assists in the third quarter.
8:30
SPEAKER_00: Right.
8:30
SPEAKER_00: You can coach these guys and you have a really good opportunity to get them better with NBA level players, which they're not going to get until the NBA season starts.
8:40
SPEAKER_02: Yeah, and I 100% agree, man.
8:42
SPEAKER_02: I think you're a rookie in this league and you have a chance to develop.
8:45
SPEAKER_00: You haven't proved anything.
8:46
SPEAKER_02: You haven't proved anything in this league.
8:47
SPEAKER_02: I don't care what you got in NIL, you needed to prove something.
8:51
SPEAKER_02: And, you know, if you're playing in the summer league and you're not a rookie, that's a whole nother situation.
8:56
SPEAKER_02: In fact, we'll get into that here really soon here.
8:59
SPEAKER_02: Um, but the last thing I want to see is our guy missed part of our of his rookie year because we try to develop them too much in the summer league.
9:05
SPEAKER_02: So while I understand that concept of, you know, you should play as much as you can in the development league, but you know, in the in the case of AJ, I think he did have calf strain.
9:14
SPEAKER_02: And I think in the case of D uh DP, you know, they're just being very careful about the whole, you know, issue with Kansas and making sure that we're not pushing them into that too, you know.
9:24
SPEAKER_00: I get the health concerns.
9:25
SPEAKER_00: Like that, I understand that for both of these players, them being healthy is an integral part of their season.
9:31
SPEAKER_00: But but also you can't do that through a whole NBA season if you want to be successful, right?
9:37
SPEAKER_00: Right?
9:38
SPEAKER_00: Like are you telling me that four or five games is their make or break point?
9:42
SPEAKER_00: Right, yeah, exactly.
9:43
SPEAKER_00: That that's where I'm at.
9:44
SPEAKER_02: Yeah, I understand that.
9:45
SPEAKER_02: Yeah, I just think in a game that doesn't really matter, you don't really need to put somebody out there for another game when you think you've seen what you need to see out of them early wise before you know.
9:53
SPEAKER_00: Let us know what your guys' thoughts are in the comments down below.
9:55
SPEAKER_02: The reason why is I really kind of would have liked to have seen Darren Peterson play against that kid that Chicago got.
10:02
SPEAKER_00: Oh, Caleb Caleb Wilson?
10:04
SPEAKER_02: Caleb Wilson.
10:04
SPEAKER_00: Yeah.
10:05
SPEAKER_00: That kid.
10:05
SPEAKER_00: Well, deep, deep, he's available tonight.
10:07
SPEAKER_00: Yeah, I doubt he plays.
10:08
SPEAKER_00: I doubt he plays, but he was available.
10:10
SPEAKER_00: They didn't scratch him.
10:11
SPEAKER_02: Yeah.
10:11
SPEAKER_02: Uh anyway, I just thought it'd be awesome because that kid looks really good.
10:14
SPEAKER_02: I think Wilson looks real good.
10:16
SPEAKER_02: Yeah.
10:16
SPEAKER_02: Wilson was probably a guy, if you redrafted it, would probably be top three.
10:20
SPEAKER_02: Uh, from what's from what it's looking like right now.
10:22
SPEAKER_02: As of now, yeah.
10:23
SPEAKER_02: Yeah.
10:23
SPEAKER_02: Sorry, boozer.
10:24
SPEAKER_02: Um boozer looks really good too.
10:26
SPEAKER_02: Boozer looks great, man.
10:27
SPEAKER_02: I think he fell into the perfect spot for him in Memphis.
10:30
SPEAKER_02: Because you've got that um Zach Eady kid there that's just gonna be at center that's gonna handle all that rim protection.
10:36
SPEAKER_02: And if the jazz would have got him, he wouldn't have been a good fit.
10:39
SPEAKER_02: But he's got that seven-footer that's just gonna handle all the center, you know.
10:43
SPEAKER_00: And he can almost play like point forward from there, which is a really good spot for him.
10:47
SPEAKER_02: Yeah, absolutely.
10:48
SPEAKER_02: Yeah.
10:49
SPEAKER_02: Uh well, speaking of uh playing in summer league, AJ.
10:51
SPEAKER_02: Um, so there's a subject that we we need to talk about there, uh, that you know, maybe shouldn't be there.
10:57
SPEAKER_02: But let's go ahead and talk about play.
10:58
SPEAKER_02: We talked about players that should be there that maybe shouldn't have been.
11:01
SPEAKER_02: And, you know, let's talk about a jazz man who started 41 games last season, 21 games the season before that, started, AJ.
11:09
SPEAKER_02: Started.
11:10
SPEAKER_02: Yes.
11:10
SPEAKER_00: On an NBA roster.
11:11
SPEAKER_02: Yes, going into their third, third NBA season.
11:15
SPEAKER_02: Um, Jazz Nation had an interesting piece that they brought up, and this is actually also unlocked on jazz uh that was touched on by Leaf Tulene.
11:23
SPEAKER_02: Um Cody Williams, man, is back for his third stint in the summer league.
11:29
SPEAKER_02: Uh the Jazz, I think, are definitely trying to send a message here.
11:33
SPEAKER_02: Um, so let me ask you, AJ, have you seen what you you think we need to see out of Cody Williams in this summer league so far?
11:42
SPEAKER_00: I actually do think so.
11:43
SPEAKER_00: I I think that we might have seen, and I honestly, I think we might have seen enough from Cody Williams in just the Salt Lake Summer League, to be completely honest with you.
11:50
SPEAKER_00: I don't know if he even needs to be in Vegas.
11:52
SPEAKER_00: I think he's just I think the Jazz are mostly using this to to get a little bit of um you know feel with some of these guys.
11:59
SPEAKER_00: Um obviously they they they want to go out there and give the experience to some of these guys that they might be taking a further look at.
12:05
SPEAKER_00: How do they play with NBA town NBA caliber players?
12:08
SPEAKER_00: Um, the thing about Cody Williams, this dude's a freak athlete, man.
12:11
SPEAKER_00: He's got he's got a he's got crazy body control.
12:14
SPEAKER_00: Um he showed some really good stuff on the defensive end.
12:16
SPEAKER_00: And and really the the big concern for him coming out of college was going to be how is his quickness and can he get past somebody and beat somebody to score a basket?
12:26
SPEAKER_00: Still a concern.
12:27
SPEAKER_00: Okay, he hasn't necessarily fixed that.
12:30
SPEAKER_00: Um, but but he is good enough and big enough that he is tough to guard, right?
12:34
SPEAKER_00: At six foot ten, six foot eleven, he does handle the ball good enough that he can he can put you in a really awkward position because he sees the floor really well, he can shoot over top of you.
12:44
SPEAKER_00: Um and I just really think that because of that, I mean he really worked on his shot over this offseason.
12:50
SPEAKER_00: Um his shooting stroke just looks so much more natural.
12:54
SPEAKER_00: He seems to be way more comfortable shooting it, uh, which is a a very good sign, especially for this jazz team that's going to need his size and strength and you know what he brings to the floor.
13:06
SPEAKER_00: I I think that they saw what they needed.
13:08
SPEAKER_00: Um, I think he's out there just kind of, you know, kind of going through the motions with this team that that could use, you know, a little bit of, you know, at this point, Cody Williams is a quote unquote vet compared to some of these guys as far as NBA experience.
13:21
SPEAKER_00: So I think I think that's kind of what they're doing.
13:23
SPEAKER_00: We can't give up on Cody Williams' potential.
13:26
SPEAKER_00: I mean, he he has the size.
13:27
SPEAKER_00: I I do think that he wants to be a a NBA caliber player, and that is really important.
13:34
SPEAKER_00: Um, and I just I think that's the reason that that the Jazz haven't given up on him.
13:38
SPEAKER_00: I don't think as a fan base we can give up on him.
13:40
SPEAKER_00: This guy is just really something special.
13:43
SPEAKER_02: Okay.
13:44
SPEAKER_02: Okay, yeah.
13:45
SPEAKER_02: I mean, I think the Jazz definitely did send a message here though.
13:49
SPEAKER_02: Oh, I think so.
13:50
SPEAKER_02: You know, like great.
13:51
SPEAKER_02: You started 41 games last year.
13:53
SPEAKER_02: We still haven't seen enough out of you to really warrant your position on this team.
13:58
SPEAKER_02: We're gonna see some we're gonna need to see something more.
14:00
SPEAKER_02: Yeah, and I think that's kind of the message they gave uh to him.
14:03
SPEAKER_02: And do I think he I mean he performed well.
14:06
SPEAKER_02: He did.
14:06
SPEAKER_02: You know, his best game was actually against AJ.
14:08
SPEAKER_02: Yeah, right.
14:09
SPEAKER_02: So I mean, that's kind of where kind of where I want to lead into on that.
14:14
SPEAKER_02: But yeah.
14:14
SPEAKER_00: He he did get AJ blew the doors off of Williams a couple of times, just left him standing there flat footed, like, what are you doing?
14:22
SPEAKER_00: I mean, uh you you shouldn't be able to fake one pass in the NBA and then just go past the defender.
14:26
SPEAKER_00: Right.
14:27
SPEAKER_00: So, you know, is there work to do?
14:29
SPEAKER_00: Yes, but I think he has enough of the raw, the raw skills that the Jazz do feel like you know, seeing a couple of things in Salt Lake Summer League might have been enough.
14:39
SPEAKER_00: Let's send him to Vegas, let's let him work out with these guys, let's just let him keep getting reps, keep getting comfortable, because he shot good enough in as in Salt Lake Summer League that it's like, okay, can he do this in three or four more games?
14:51
SPEAKER_00: Right.
14:51
SPEAKER_00: Because because maybe that is what we needed to see.
14:54
SPEAKER_00: We need to see if he can score the basketball that effectively, you know, in five, six games, because his shooting stroke does look much better.
15:01
SPEAKER_00: So my question for you do you think he will be more of a defensive asset for the Jazz or an offensive asset for the Jazz?
15:10
SPEAKER_00: I mean, you gotta go defense, right?
15:12
SPEAKER_00: I think so.
15:13
SPEAKER_02: I mean, honestly, year over year, we're seeing increasing stats for him on efficiency across the board, right?
15:18
SPEAKER_02: Yeah, with the exception of three-point shooting.
15:20
SPEAKER_02: Um the best game he's had uh was actually against uh you know the bullets where uh he finished uh Williams finished with 16 points on six for twelve from the field, two for three from field, uh sorry, two for three from three, and one of two uh from the free throw line, two five rebounds, two assists, four steals, AJ, and one block in 30 minutes.
15:41
SPEAKER_02: That's a Karolinko stat line right there.
15:43
SPEAKER_02: Yeah, yeah, absolutely.
15:45
SPEAKER_02: So the one thing I like about that is I think he's contributing well.
15:49
SPEAKER_02: If he's contributing well defensively, that will uh incentivize his offense and only increase his offensive production.
15:57
SPEAKER_02: The more he contributes on defense, and I let's face it, that's gonna be where he's gonna be, right?
16:01
SPEAKER_02: Leaf Leif Thule mentioned this when he was filling in for David Locke, he mentioned this as well.
16:05
SPEAKER_02: Is like you need to find a role in this team where he's gonna be playing.
16:09
SPEAKER_02: He's gonna be surrounded with three or four shooters on this team on the floor at any given time.
16:13
SPEAKER_02: So let's say he's on the floor with Collier, Ace, Bryce, and Hayes.
16:17
SPEAKER_02: You know, where's he where's his where are the buckets coming from?
16:20
SPEAKER_02: Who's gonna have the ball?
16:21
SPEAKER_02: Where are the touches for Cody, right?
16:23
SPEAKER_02: Cody's gonna have to create a lot of his own offense.
16:25
SPEAKER_02: He's gonna have to have a lot more uh say on like defensive re uh defensive rebounds, I'm sorry, offensive rebounds for putbacks, defensive rebounds creating transition opportunities for himself to come down.
16:36
SPEAKER_02: I don't see no matter which lineup you put him in, plays aren't gonna be ran specifically for him.
16:42
SPEAKER_02: He needs to be able to be the guy who's wide open in the corner for the dump out for the three.
16:45
SPEAKER_02: I think that's where he's gonna be needed.
16:47
SPEAKER_02: Um his three-point percentage actually dropped last year from the year before, which is not great.
16:53
SPEAKER_02: Yeah, but again, like I said, he suits much, he's performs much better offensively when he's performing defensively.
16:59
SPEAKER_02: It's it's kind of hard to ignore that four steals.
17:01
SPEAKER_02: Yeah, he got blown by several times from AJ, but that's AJ Devansa, man.
17:06
SPEAKER_02: You know, he's kind of already that guy.
17:08
SPEAKER_02: Absolutely, you know, like so it's he's gonna be a defensive test for him, and I think that's perfect because that's what this kid needs.
17:14
SPEAKER_02: He needs to prove himself on the defensive end.
17:17
SPEAKER_02: He needs to be able to say, okay, I'm gonna be the best wing defender on this team.
17:22
SPEAKER_01: Yeah.
17:23
SPEAKER_02: And then I can mold myself into that three and D guy, first guy off the bench that's coming in uh for either the three or four and kind of you know operate that way versus coming in and that saying, okay, I'm gonna be the offensive guy who's gonna run the pick and roll, high screen pick and roll, and dive to the basket.
17:39
SPEAKER_02: He doesn't have the speed for that, and honestly, he hasn't really put on the size, in my opinion, to really do that too much.
17:44
SPEAKER_02: He's still gonna be that corner three shot versus, you know, and maybe transition buckets, I think, is where he's gonna thrive.
17:51
SPEAKER_02: But I think it all starts for Cody on this team, how he's gonna be an asset.
17:54
SPEAKER_02: It's gonna have to start on the defensive end if he wants to be on his team after the trade deadline this year.
17:59
SPEAKER_00: I 100% agree.
18:00
SPEAKER_00: I think that if Cody is going to carve out a place for himself on this team, it has to be on the defensive end of the floor.
18:06
SPEAKER_00: The Jazz have a ton of offensive weapons.
18:08
SPEAKER_00: They just drafted an offensive weapon.
18:11
SPEAKER_00: All arguably all five, all five of the guys in the starting five can score the basketball.
18:16
SPEAKER_00: Right?
18:16
SPEAKER_00: Like every every one of them can score.
18:18
SPEAKER_00: Even even Nurk, you know, depending on who you decide, you know, we did a couple of videos on it, but even if it's Nurk, Nurk can still score the basketball.
18:24
SPEAKER_00: He's a great offensive weapon because of the way he sees the core, he can push assists out.
18:29
SPEAKER_00: Like, if Cody wants to come in and make a difference on this team, he's got to be able to come off the bench and give great defensive minutes and hold it down so the Jazz don't lose ground on whatever opponent they're playing, right?
18:40
SPEAKER_00: You can't come in and be a net negative on the defensive end, right?
18:44
SPEAKER_00: Because it it's only going to hurt this team.
18:46
SPEAKER_00: Now that now the starters got to come back in, or whatever lineup's got to come back in, they've got to score some.
18:50
SPEAKER_00: If you come in, play great defense, get into a good rhythm, and then come down and shoot the three ball, that's that's Royce O'Neil, but it at six foot eleven, right?
19:00
SPEAKER_00: That was his whole thing.
19:01
SPEAKER_00: He wasn't a massive score, he shot the three ball, he was a great defender.
19:04
SPEAKER_00: You couldn't you could play him against the other team's best player.
19:09
SPEAKER_00: That's the kind of role that Cody Williams is going to need to be successful on this team.
19:13
SPEAKER_02: Yeah, no, I have to agree with you absolutely on that one.
19:15
SPEAKER_02: Let's go ahead and hit a few of these comments here because McKinley's jumping right in on the conversation here.
19:19
SPEAKER_02: Love it.
19:19
SPEAKER_02: Love it, man.
19:20
SPEAKER_02: Thanks for being here.
19:21
SPEAKER_02: Uh, I'm not sure I saw what I need from Cody.
19:24
SPEAKER_02: I wanted to see a little bit more defense.
19:26
SPEAKER_02: Uh, we don't need him to score, we need him to uh be our stopper.
19:31
SPEAKER_02: We need him to bring in what?
19:33
SPEAKER_00: Bring in for the spot minutes and to disrupt the other team.
19:37
SPEAKER_00: Right.
19:37
SPEAKER_00: Okay.
19:38
SPEAKER_02: Yeah, I think you're you're aligned with it with what we're saying there for sure.
19:41
SPEAKER_02: Um, and just didn't see him look any better than some of the G-League most of the time.
19:47
SPEAKER_02: He has had flashes in some games, but uh, just wasn't enough uh for me at least.
19:52
SPEAKER_02: And I'm gonna have to back him up on that one.
19:54
SPEAKER_02: I dude, this is his third year in the league.
19:56
SPEAKER_02: 21 starts in this rookie year, 41 starts last year.
20:00
SPEAKER_02: This guy needed to look like a minimum boys, and he just really didn't show that in the summer league, at least not in my opinion.
20:05
SPEAKER_00: And I think it's really weird because it's not that he does anything that's bad, it's just that he doesn't do anything that's good.
20:11
SPEAKER_02: Yeah, he's not standing out.
20:13
SPEAKER_00: He's almost like a chameleon out there, right?
20:15
SPEAKER_00: He's just blending in with all the other things that are happening.
20:18
SPEAKER_00: He when he gets the ball, not like it's not magic every time he touches it.
20:21
SPEAKER_00: When he's defending, it's not magic.
20:23
SPEAKER_00: There's nothing that just really like there's no bright shining light on Cody Williams.
20:27
SPEAKER_00: And I don't know if that's a good thing or a bad thing.
20:29
SPEAKER_00: Like, there's been comments by Will Hardy into the media that says that Cody Williams does all the things that you need for a backup NBA player because he comes out there, he gives you effective minutes, he does the things he's supposed to.
20:41
SPEAKER_00: I agree with that.
20:43
SPEAKER_00: It's like he just goes out there and and it's like there's no spotlight on him, but he's not hurting anything.
20:49
SPEAKER_00: Right, right.
20:50
SPEAKER_02: What's what you want really out of this guy?
20:52
SPEAKER_02: Yeah, absolutely.
20:53
SPEAKER_02: You know, it's it's you don't necessarily want to be drafting, like a player doesn't want to hear that he's a backup, right, in the NBA.
20:59
SPEAKER_02: Yeah.
21:00
SPEAKER_02: At this point, he hasn't shown us anything but up beyond that, right?
21:03
SPEAKER_02: You know, here's another comment we got from uh McKinley.
21:07
SPEAKER_02: I didn't see him getting minutes uh over SV or that guy we brought in, Josh.
21:12
SPEAKER_00: Akoge, who's a defensive stopper and three-point shooter.
21:14
SPEAKER_00: Yeah, absolutely.
21:15
SPEAKER_02: There you go.
21:16
SPEAKER_02: And that's kind of the yeah, and that's kind of the point like when are we gonna punt on this guy?
21:20
SPEAKER_02: Is it too soon?
21:20
SPEAKER_02: I think it is.
21:21
SPEAKER_02: I think it's it's too soon, and like I said, he's not gonna be getting a whole bunch of touches, right?
21:25
SPEAKER_02: He's definitely gonna not be getting any touches when we have a backcourt of DP and KG3 on the court at the same time, yeah.
21:31
SPEAKER_02: Right?
21:31
SPEAKER_02: Yeah, um, speaking of which, um, that does kind of bring us into our next uh conversation.
21:37
SPEAKER_00: That was a great transition, buddy.
21:39
SPEAKER_00: Great transition.
21:41
SPEAKER_02: It's like I've been here a while, you know?
21:42
SPEAKER_00: Yeah, it's like I've done this before.
21:43
SPEAKER_00: We've done this before.
21:44
SPEAKER_02: Um, so so let's talk about the backcourts, right?
21:47
SPEAKER_02: So we have the jazz um have a unique chance right now, AJ.
21:52
SPEAKER_02: And if the jazz are smart, and if you watch this channel, you know exactly what we're talking about when I say that.
21:57
SPEAKER_02: If the jazz are smart, they have a chance to have a very special.
22:00
SPEAKER_02: Special backcourt coming their way.
22:02
SPEAKER_02: Um, you know, this team has had some good ones, AJ.
22:05
SPEAKER_02: Uh, we might as well start with the best in franchise history.
22:09
SPEAKER_02: The franchise has ever had, uh, which is John and Jeff, man.
22:13
SPEAKER_01: Yeah.
22:13
SPEAKER_02: John Stockton, greatest point guard of all time.
22:16
SPEAKER_02: Yes, I said it.
22:16
SPEAKER_02: Fight me.
22:17
SPEAKER_02: Um, and you know, who who also would have thrived in today's NBA, Jeff Hornesek, right?
22:23
SPEAKER_02: Uh, we all know John Stockton, who he was.
22:25
SPEAKER_02: You know, he has two records that were set that will probably never be broken, all-time assists and all-time steals, in case you're new to basketball.
22:32
SPEAKER_02: Um, and then the other thing is you gotta look at Jeff Hornesek.
22:35
SPEAKER_02: Um, the Jazz couldn't get over the hump and get really deep in the playoffs until Jeff Hornesek came to this team.
22:40
SPEAKER_02: One of the things you can say about this duo is that um, you know, it's the only the reason why I say this is the best duo in jazz history is the only time the Utah Jazz has ever made it to the finals was when John Stockton and Jeff Hornesek were in the backcourt.
22:54
SPEAKER_02: It was the only time.
22:55
SPEAKER_02: Yeah.
22:55
SPEAKER_02: And they actually made it to the finals, AJ.
22:58
SPEAKER_02: Horney was 33 and 34 years old when he made it to the finals.
23:02
SPEAKER_02: That's wild.
23:03
SPEAKER_02: John Stockton was 34 and 35 at the time when they made the things.
23:08
SPEAKER_02: Exactly.
23:09
SPEAKER_02: When they actually got over the hump, right?
23:11
SPEAKER_02: Yeah.
23:11
SPEAKER_02: So that just tells you how important Jeff Morrisek was to this team, right?
23:14
SPEAKER_02: Yeah.
23:14
SPEAKER_02: Uh Stockton played in seven straight all-star games, uh, made five time all-defensive NBA, and uh easily the best one and two um backcourts in the NBA they've ever had.
23:27
SPEAKER_00: Yeah.
23:28
SPEAKER_00: I and I like to think of a little bit more recent.
23:31
SPEAKER_00: Um, you know, when I'm thinking potential best backcourt, I don't go back quite as far as the the late 90s.
23:38
SPEAKER_00: I'm thinking back just, you know, four or five years ago.
23:41
SPEAKER_00: I mean, what about the 2021 Utah Jazz when they had Donovan Mitchell, Mike Conley?
23:47
SPEAKER_00: Um, you know, Mitchell was averaging 23.9 points per game, four and a half rebounds, four point two assists.
23:53
SPEAKER_00: Mike Conley during that same season was averaging about 14 points per game, six assists, 3.1, did have an all-star selection that year, the only one of Mike Conley's career, even though he'd been 12 years prior with uh the minute the Grizzlies.
24:08
SPEAKER_00: So this Jazz team was really good.
24:10
SPEAKER_00: They were a really good NBA team.
24:12
SPEAKER_00: They posted the NBA best 52 and 20.
24:14
SPEAKER_00: Yes, it was a COVID-shortened season.
24:16
SPEAKER_00: Um, you know, and they also had the NBA best net rating at plus 9.3.
24:21
SPEAKER_00: Now it wasn't necessarily due to these two players because obviously they did have Rudy Gobert on that team, um, who was uh, you know, mildly known as a defensive shot and a defensive stalker, stopper, not stalker.
24:32
SPEAKER_00: Crazy.
24:33
SPEAKER_00: Um but so so these two guys really, you know, with with what they did together, this was this was on a team that was really good.
24:43
SPEAKER_00: These two played really well together.
24:44
SPEAKER_00: Um Conley played well off of Donovan Mitchell.
24:47
SPEAKER_00: Um, they they both applied a lot of pressure, and it was really, really fun to have those two guys on this jazz team a couple of years ago.
24:55
SPEAKER_00: I mean, it that was one of my favorite times ever to watch jazz basketball because they were winning a lot and they were fun to watch.
25:01
SPEAKER_00: Donovan would drive, kick it out to Mike Conley.
25:04
SPEAKER_00: Conley was always sinking threes.
25:05
SPEAKER_00: He ended up shooting like 39.4% from three from that season, so which is just crazy.
25:11
SPEAKER_00: So it was a really fun team to watch, and maybe not the best backcourt, but I think it was one of my favorite backcourts, you know, that I've watched in recent jazz memory.
25:20
SPEAKER_02: Oh, yeah.
25:20
SPEAKER_02: I really loved watching them.
25:22
SPEAKER_02: The only problem is they weren't along, they weren't together long enough, in my opinion.
25:25
SPEAKER_02: You know, John and John and Jeff, they were together seven seasons.
25:29
SPEAKER_00: Yeah, they were together four.
25:30
SPEAKER_00: Yeah.
25:31
SPEAKER_02: And I just think that they weren't there together long enough to really three.
25:35
SPEAKER_02: Yeah.
25:35
SPEAKER_02: I'm I was thinking it was shorter than four.
25:37
SPEAKER_02: Three years.
25:38
SPEAKER_02: Yeah.
25:38
SPEAKER_02: So I mean they could have been together longer, and you know, Mike Hunley did miss that three-pointer that would help push them in further in the playoffs.
25:45
SPEAKER_00: When would have been nice, yeah.
25:46
SPEAKER_02: John Stockton made the shot that sent them to the NBA Finals.
25:49
SPEAKER_02: If you know, you know.
25:50
SPEAKER_02: Yeah.
25:50
SPEAKER_02: That historic uh-oh, call.
25:52
SPEAKER_01: Yeah.
25:53
SPEAKER_02: But uh yeah, I don't know, man.
25:55
SPEAKER_02: I I would have to agree with you, man.
25:56
SPEAKER_02: Um, I mean, obviously we didn't talk about Darren Williams because the best back uh the best duo he ran was with him and Ronnie Brewer, I think is all we researched and couldn't come up with.
26:06
SPEAKER_00: Yeah, yeah, it was it was pretty brutal to find the the Darren, the Darren Williams partner in crime.
26:12
SPEAKER_02: Kind of feels like Darren got uh a little bit of D Will, got a little bit of uh got a little shafted, yeah.
26:16
SPEAKER_02: Didn't really have a good running mate, you know.
26:18
SPEAKER_02: So it's kind of interesting, man.
26:20
SPEAKER_02: Yeah, I'd have to agree with you, man.
26:21
SPEAKER_02: I think the jazz are in a very unique position to have these two um together for a while, right?
26:27
SPEAKER_02: And when you have these two who are actually from the same agency, right, they both are represented by the same agency that have their shared interest in you know in each other, right?
26:38
SPEAKER_00: Which is great news for the jazz.
26:40
SPEAKER_00: Yes.
26:40
SPEAKER_02: So you're already working well.
26:42
SPEAKER_02: If you just fingers crossed, if the jazz work well and handle what they need to handle when it comes to Key's contract and get that done, you know, you're gonna put them in a nice position to make you know DP want to continue his career here, right?
26:57
SPEAKER_02: Yeah.
26:57
SPEAKER_02: Because that's the problem, is the jazz will oh man.
27:01
SPEAKER_02: Sorry guys, if that's coming through with the water main outside my house broke.
27:05
SPEAKER_02: So we're gonna tally.
27:08
SPEAKER_00: We're gonna power through it, buddy.
27:10
SPEAKER_02: We're gonna power through it.
27:10
SPEAKER_00: Yeah, for all we know, they can't even hear it.
27:12
SPEAKER_02: We can hear it.
27:13
SPEAKER_02: We can hear it quite well.
27:14
SPEAKER_02: Let us know if you guys can hear us, hear them like digging out.
27:16
SPEAKER_02: Yeah, leave us a comment.
27:17
SPEAKER_02: Yeah, let us know.
27:18
SPEAKER_00: If you can hear the jackhammering outside.
27:20
SPEAKER_02: Oh my gosh, it's so great.
27:21
SPEAKER_02: McKinley, uh, you had a couple of uh two points, so one round and zero assists, one game.
27:27
SPEAKER_02: I believe you're talking about uh Cody Williams.
27:29
SPEAKER_02: Absolutely.
27:30
SPEAKER_02: Yeah, absolutely.
27:31
SPEAKER_02: We got uh Dex Star uh 4097.
27:35
SPEAKER_02: Um I do feel a lot of DP's issues can be fixed through conditioning.
27:39
SPEAKER_02: Yeah, absolutely.
27:40
SPEAKER_02: NBA conditioning and NBA medical staff that uh knows the difference between creatine and whatever actually was happening to them uh might actually go a long way.
27:47
SPEAKER_02: We did a video on that.
27:48
SPEAKER_02: If you didn't see it, make sure you check it out.
27:50
SPEAKER_02: By the way, one of the most watched videos on the channel.
27:52
SPEAKER_02: So thank you guys very much for that.
27:53
SPEAKER_02: Yes, yes.
27:53
SPEAKER_02: Um, we also have another one here um from McKinley.
27:56
SPEAKER_02: Uh let's see here.
27:57
SPEAKER_02: This team was way deeper and more balanced um than that Mitchell team.
28:01
SPEAKER_02: Also, thanks, Donovan and Rudy, for getting uh the pieces uh to build this team.
28:07
SPEAKER_02: 100% great, great comment.
28:09
SPEAKER_02: Comment of the show right there.
28:10
SPEAKER_02: Yeah, if it wasn't for if it wasn't for Donovan, Donovan and Rudy, we wouldn't have the team we had at all.
28:15
SPEAKER_02: Yeah.
28:15
SPEAKER_02: Uh so that's great.
28:16
SPEAKER_02: I like that.
28:16
SPEAKER_00: That's yeah, those trades gave us everything that we have to be the team that we are currently excited for.
28:22
SPEAKER_02: Yeah, we still have some of that draft capital coming our way too, which is amazing.
28:26
SPEAKER_02: Um, comment here from McKinley.
28:28
SPEAKER_02: Uh maybe Keontae will uh follow Wemby's lead and take a discount to help the team.
28:34
SPEAKER_02: I don't know, man.
28:35
SPEAKER_00: I think you always hope for that kind of stuff, but I I don't think these are 22-year-old kids, man.
28:41
SPEAKER_02: Let me ask you that.
28:41
SPEAKER_02: When do you want him to take the discount?
28:42
SPEAKER_02: I don't want him to take a discount now.
28:44
SPEAKER_02: I want him to take the discount.
28:44
SPEAKER_00: I want him to take the discount.
28:45
SPEAKER_00: If he's gonna take the discount, he's gotta take it this year.
28:47
SPEAKER_02: I don't want him to take it this time.
28:49
SPEAKER_02: He's gotta take it this year because if he goes into restricted free agency.
28:52
SPEAKER_02: Well, no, for the contract, right?
28:54
SPEAKER_02: Oh, okay, yeah.
28:55
SPEAKER_02: Yeah, so if we're if we're gonna have extend him now, because his percentage of the cap is smaller.
29:00
SPEAKER_02: Yes.
29:00
SPEAKER_02: Now than it would be in his next contract, which would be high.
29:03
SPEAKER_00: Especially if he goes off and like makes an all-star game in the supermax, right?
29:06
SPEAKER_02: So something, yeah.
29:07
SPEAKER_02: Like, do we want him to take a we do we want to pay him out now or do we want to you know have him give take a cut now and then demand a supermax later?
29:14
SPEAKER_02: Yeah, you know, when we're having to pay everybody else.
29:16
SPEAKER_02: So it's a good question, you know.
29:17
SPEAKER_02: We have to see what happens there for sure.
29:19
SPEAKER_01: Yes.
29:20
SPEAKER_02: I don't know, man.
29:20
SPEAKER_02: Uh it's a lot of fun to talk about this kind of stuff, man.
29:23
SPEAKER_02: We're getting close to the dog days of summer.
29:25
SPEAKER_02: I think there's a game today and there's a game um, gosh, later in the week, I think.
29:29
SPEAKER_00: Yeah, I think there's one like Friday.
29:31
SPEAKER_02: Yeah, for the summer league.
29:32
SPEAKER_02: And then it's uh then it's the dog days of summer for the Utah Jazz, where we're just gonna look for headlines on when they're gonna extend key and you know, hopefully something.
29:39
SPEAKER_00: Let us know if you guys got any crazy ideas.
29:41
SPEAKER_00: You want us to spit ball fire back and forth to each other, we'd love to do it.
29:45
SPEAKER_02: Yeah, definitely.
29:45
SPEAKER_02: Before we get into that, AJ, before we move on, there is one more thing I wanted to bring up with you.
29:49
SPEAKER_00: Okay.
29:49
SPEAKER_02: Did you see this BS that happened in the summer league with uh Keontae George not being able to uh assistant co assist coach in one of the games?
29:58
SPEAKER_02: I did.
29:58
SPEAKER_02: Yeah.
29:59
SPEAKER_02: So the interesting part about this, Derek White, Boston Celtics.
30:02
SPEAKER_02: Uh White stood up as the official uh assistant head coach, uh, was wearing a coach polo and everything on the bench and ran timeouts with the Celtics during their summer league game.
30:12
SPEAKER_02: So he was allowed to do it.
30:13
SPEAKER_02: Keontae George arranged the same thing, uh, was supposed to serve as an assistant head coach on the July 9th Summer League game opener uh against the Washington Wizards.
30:21
SPEAKER_02: However, the NBA stepped in and blocked the move before the game, citing the rules.
30:27
SPEAKER_02: There are rules preventing active players from uh coaching.
30:31
SPEAKER_00: So was Derek White not active?
30:33
SPEAKER_02: He's an active player.
30:34
SPEAKER_00: I know, but was he maybe he was injured?
30:36
SPEAKER_02: No.
30:36
SPEAKER_00: No, he's a maybe he fell down the stairs.
30:39
SPEAKER_00: Nope.
30:39
SPEAKER_02: He was available.
30:40
SPEAKER_00: Okay.
30:41
SPEAKER_02: He was available.
30:42
SPEAKER_00: Maybe the league just hates the jazz.
30:44
SPEAKER_00: Oh, look at that.
30:46
SPEAKER_02: Right on time.
30:47
SPEAKER_00: Nailed it.
30:48
SPEAKER_02: Yeah.
30:48
SPEAKER_02: Uh so the primary difference between the two is it comes down to is that the Boston Celtics are taking a better ask for forgiveness than for permission, and the Jazz did things the right way.
30:58
SPEAKER_02: They actually went through official league channels and were explicitly denied.
31:02
SPEAKER_00: So was that when Danny Angels with the Jazz, though?
31:06
SPEAKER_02: What do you mean?
31:07
SPEAKER_00: Or sorry, was that did the Derek White situation?
31:10
SPEAKER_00: Oh, that was this year?
31:12
SPEAKER_02: Yeah.
31:13
SPEAKER_02: This year.
31:14
SPEAKER_02: That's crazy.
31:15
SPEAKER_02: Derek White was able to suit up for as a coach.
31:18
SPEAKER_02: This year.
31:18
SPEAKER_02: Oh, I was thinking it was like no years ago.
31:21
SPEAKER_02: No, this was this year.
31:23
SPEAKER_00: Oh, yeah, that doesn't seem fair at all.
31:26
SPEAKER_00: My apologies, I misunderstood that.
31:28
SPEAKER_02: Yeah, so the NBA is basically saying, um, you know, oh, the reason why the Jazz got denied is because they actually asked for permission.
31:34
SPEAKER_02: We said no, and then the Celtics just did what they wanted to do.
31:37
SPEAKER_02: Um, so great justification there uh from the front office there at the NBA, but I think it's a little crap, and I just think they're thanks, Adam Silver.
31:44
SPEAKER_02: Gonna do whatever they can to dick the jazz down, man.
31:46
SPEAKER_00: Oh, they are.
31:47
SPEAKER_00: Yeah, no, we've seen that as jazz fans multiple times.
31:50
SPEAKER_00: Yeah.
31:50
SPEAKER_00: Hey, we did move up in the draft this year.
31:53
SPEAKER_02: Yeah, first time in jazz history, and probably.
31:55
SPEAKER_00: And if you're ever gonna have a time to move up, why not this year, buddy?
31:58
SPEAKER_02: Oh yeah, dude.
31:59
SPEAKER_02: Oh yeah, we've got I I think we talked about a lot our last week's show.
32:03
SPEAKER_02: We got Ace Bailey, who should have gone two or three the year before, but because of you know his representation there, they tried to steer him towards DC.
32:10
SPEAKER_02: Why is DC involved in all these?
32:12
SPEAKER_02: I don't know.
32:12
SPEAKER_02: Crazy, right?
32:13
SPEAKER_02: So they tried to steer him to DC, so he uh would go there.
32:16
SPEAKER_02: So he fell in the draft.
32:18
SPEAKER_02: We called the bluff and took him anyway.
32:19
SPEAKER_02: So we got like a number two or three pick uh with five.
32:23
SPEAKER_02: With number five, and then we got a number one pick with number two.
32:26
SPEAKER_02: So we got our first and second pick out of these two years.
32:29
SPEAKER_00: Yeah, we're not upset about this.
32:30
SPEAKER_02: I am not upset about this at all.
32:31
SPEAKER_02: I think this is a success successful uh rebuild.
32:35
SPEAKER_02: Um, do I think they need to do it a little sooner?
32:37
SPEAKER_02: Absolutely.
32:38
SPEAKER_02: Um, because then gosh, imagine if like Cooper Flag or Wendy was on this team too.
32:42
SPEAKER_02: Oh my goodness.
32:43
SPEAKER_02: But that's a story for another day.
32:45
SPEAKER_02: Another day.
32:46
SPEAKER_02: Yeah.
32:46
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32:47
SPEAKER_02: Let us know what your thoughts are in the comments down below when it comes to everything we're talking about.
32:50
SPEAKER_02: When it comes to the Utah Jazz, um, I'm super excited, man.
32:53
SPEAKER_02: Fall can't come here soon enough.
32:55
SPEAKER_02: October, ready to get into it, ready to see these jazz players, go out there and give it their best, man.
32:59
SPEAKER_02: I'm really looking forward to it.
33:00
SPEAKER_00: Dude, I am too.
33:02
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33:03
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33:09
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33:10
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33:13
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33:21
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33:27
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33:29
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33:29
SPEAKER_02: Um, so great chat on uh on jazz there, man.
33:33
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33:33
SPEAKER_02: Um we'll go ahead and jump jump into our next little subject here.
33:37
SPEAKER_02: We're gonna talk a little bit about Major League Baseball.
33:40
SPEAKER_02: Uh, I guess that's the problem.
33:41
SPEAKER_02: We should have said something and we just ended this stream.
33:44
SPEAKER_00: It dropped in.
33:44
SPEAKER_00: We're like, we're done here.
33:46
SPEAKER_02: Yeah.
33:46
SPEAKER_02: Last week it worked a lot differently.
33:48
SPEAKER_02: Last week we uh said we were gonna end it, and then we kept the live.
33:52
SPEAKER_02: There were still 15 people in here for the majority of the show, and then I think we just cut off half of our audience.
33:56
SPEAKER_02: So sorry about that, guys.
33:58
SPEAKER_02: Probably should have been a little bit more specific on that.
34:00
SPEAKER_02: Um, let's see here.
34:02
SPEAKER_02: Um, got a comment here from Greg Hawkins.
34:04
SPEAKER_02: I missed the start, had had a beer and fell asleep.
34:07
SPEAKER_02: Getting old.
34:07
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34:08
SPEAKER_02: Right there with you.
34:09
SPEAKER_02: Cheers to uh getting old and taking a good old nap, man.
34:12
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34:14
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34:16
SPEAKER_02: Yeah.
34:17
SPEAKER_02: It's good stuff.
34:17
SPEAKER_02: It was a good stuff this week.
34:19
SPEAKER_02: Good stuff this week.
34:20
SPEAKER_02: Um, all right, let's go ahead and jump into it and talk a little bit about Major League Baseball, shall we?
34:23
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34:33
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34:38
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34:44
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34:46
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34:47
SPEAKER_02: That was awesome just to leave that uh Greg's chat up there that whole time.
34:50
SPEAKER_02: So Greg, get a little bit extra airtime now.
34:52
SPEAKER_00: There you go, Greg.
34:54
SPEAKER_00: You're welcome, buddy.
34:56
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34:56
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34:57
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34:59
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35:01
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35:05
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35:09
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35:10
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35:14
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35:16
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35:16
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35:17
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35:18
SPEAKER_02: That's right, that's right.
35:19
SPEAKER_02: Yep.
35:20
SPEAKER_02: All right.
35:20
SPEAKER_00: So, Darren, I got I gotta jump right into this, man.
35:22
SPEAKER_00: Okay.
35:23
SPEAKER_00: I gotta get into, okay.
35:24
SPEAKER_00: For the record, just a couple of weeks ago, your Dodgers looked like the team that every single team expected to cruise towards another World Series run.
35:34
SPEAKER_00: But now.
35:36
SPEAKER_00: But now the Dodgers have dropped seven of their last 12 games, including getting swept by the Arizona Diamondbacks, okay?
35:44
SPEAKER_00: Right before the All-Star break.
35:46
SPEAKER_00: Yep.
35:46
SPEAKER_00: And then suddenly, keep calling on, man.
35:49
SPEAKER_00: Suddenly, everyone's starting to ask the question that nobody thought they'd be asking.
35:54
SPEAKER_00: Are the wheels coming off, Darren?
35:56
SPEAKER_00: Are the wheels coming off?
35:57
SPEAKER_00: Because it isn't just the losses that we're worried about here.
35:59
SPEAKER_00: No, no, it's you know what I mean?
36:01
SPEAKER_00: Show away with scratch from his scheduled start with knee irritation.
36:04
SPEAKER_00: Then he announces he's gonna skip the all-star game.
36:06
SPEAKER_00: Tyre Glass now still on the shelf.
36:08
SPEAKER_00: Blake Snell's working his way back through rehab.
36:11
SPEAKER_00: Will Smith is dealing with an injury.
36:13
SPEAKER_00: Just feels like every time you check the news, there's another key Dodger that's unavailable.
36:17
SPEAKER_00: Yeah.
36:18
SPEAKER_00: So, is this just a rough stretch that every great team goes through?
36:22
SPEAKER_00: Or are the Dodgers in trouble, my friend?
36:25
SPEAKER_02: Oh my gosh, man.
36:27
SPEAKER_02: So if you're a Dodgers fan and you're watching Dodgers games, game in and game out, you definitely feel like the sky is falling on this one.
36:33
SPEAKER_00: Oh yeah.
36:34
SPEAKER_00: Yeah, I'm not I'm not a Dodgers fan, and every time I watch a Dodgers game, I'm like, Darren's gonna be pissed.
36:40
SPEAKER_02: Exactly.
36:41
SPEAKER_02: Exactly.
36:42
SPEAKER_02: Exactly.
36:43
SPEAKER_02: And and we'll get to some of these comments here later because I definitely want to get into those for sure.
36:47
SPEAKER_02: Um, but yeah, I mean you're you're spot on there.
36:49
SPEAKER_02: It definitely feels like the sky is falling.
36:51
SPEAKER_02: Uh Kike, hurt, glass now, hurt, Snell, hurt, Will Smith, hurt, whatever's going on with Shohei, right?
36:57
SPEAKER_02: Um, this team who won the World Series last year and the year before, back to Bad Champs, um decided, AJ.
37:04
SPEAKER_02: Nice plug.
37:05
SPEAKER_02: Yeah, decided, AJ, to go out and sign the top free agent talents available.
37:10
SPEAKER_02: The top two position, top position player was Kyle Tucker,$60 million salary, drastically underperforming.
37:17
SPEAKER_02: Some would argue that it's almost impossible to perform to that level of contract, uh, but he's definitely falling short of that.
37:23
SPEAKER_02: And the Dodgers also went out and got the best free agent closer available in the market, Diaz, who, again, I use the term available, but he hasn't been available for most of the year.
37:32
SPEAKER_02: Um, we've had multiple bullpen games due to all the injury starts, uh, injuries to our starters.
37:38
SPEAKER_02: Uh, and we've had three different catchers, AJ, start the game.
37:43
SPEAKER_02: One had to start after he had a tragedy in his home country during the earthquakes and everything.
37:49
SPEAKER_02: He found out last minute that he lost two members of his family, still had to make a start.
37:52
SPEAKER_02: That's how thin we are uh at that spot.
37:55
SPEAKER_02: You mentioned last uh last loss, a lot of the last two series.
38:01
SPEAKER_02: Uh we made more errors, AJ, in the last two series that they played going into the All-Star Break, than they did the whole first two months of the season.
38:09
SPEAKER_02: We committed more errors in the last two.
38:11
SPEAKER_02: That is brutal.
38:12
SPEAKER_02: That is very, very brutal.
38:13
SPEAKER_02: Yeah.
38:14
SPEAKER_02: Now, with that said, AJ, the Dodgers right now sit with that are currently third in runs scored, second in all hits, first in OPS, first in OPS plus first in runs allowed, third in team ERA, the best record in baseball, and the best run differential.
38:35
SPEAKER_02: The Dodgers AJ um will be adding after the all-star break a crap ton of talent at the deadline after the deadline without making a single move.
38:45
SPEAKER_01: Yeah.
38:46
SPEAKER_02: Tyler Glass now, Blake Snell will be back.
38:48
SPEAKER_02: Diaz will be back.
38:50
SPEAKER_02: Phillips, fireman Phillips, already back.
38:52
SPEAKER_02: Kike, ready to come back.
38:54
SPEAKER_02: Will Smith, the best catcher in baseball, is coming back.
38:58
SPEAKER_02: I just mentioned half of an all-star team right there, AJ.
39:01
SPEAKER_02: Uh this team has played more baseball in the last three seasons than any other baseball team uh basically in history.
39:08
SPEAKER_02: Uh, they know what it takes to win, and they're not panicking.
39:11
SPEAKER_02: God forbid they do something crazy and trade the deadline and add Scuball, who was uh sighted in LA over the weekend.
39:20
SPEAKER_02: This team has uh looked uh has not looked right all year, AJ.
39:25
SPEAKER_02: And yet they are still top in baseball.
39:28
SPEAKER_02: Anything can happen in a three-game series, so this team needs to make sure they have the top record in the in the National League by September.
39:35
SPEAKER_00: But the Dodgers are fine.
39:37
SPEAKER_00: I'm glad to hear.
39:39
SPEAKER_00: I do think they will be okay.
39:41
SPEAKER_00: Um it will be the you know, just like my Braves, like honestly.
39:46
SPEAKER_00: Uh the Braves started out as the hottest team in baseball, and they went through a rough stretch, and we lost a couple pitchers, we lost a couple position players.
39:54
SPEAKER_00: Um these things happen.
39:56
SPEAKER_00: Major league baseball is a really, really long season, and you're going to have players come out and go back in.
40:02
SPEAKER_00: And the best part is you get to see some young guys that probably needed an opportunity.
40:07
SPEAKER_00: Uh, you know, and you you get to see those guys play and you know, know they can play at the MLB level, and then you've got more assets.
40:14
SPEAKER_00: So it's like you're almost replenishing your asset pool by having players go down because you're like, okay, well, we just saw this guy play great baseball for four or five games that he wasn't supposed to play, and now he's back down in triple A.
40:25
SPEAKER_00: Someone's gonna be begging to take that guy and and put him on an MLB contract.
40:29
SPEAKER_02: Oh, yeah.
40:29
SPEAKER_02: So oh yeah, and I could even take it a step further.
40:31
SPEAKER_02: There's a player that uh the Dodgers had that were he was making uh putting in serious innings in the World Series last year, actually started a uh benches clearing brawl in the in the world series when he threw it uh what's his name's hand there.
40:44
SPEAKER_02: Um yeah, and he uh made it as an all-star this year.
40:48
SPEAKER_02: This was a guy who's supposed to be not even in the in the rotation at the start of the year if everybody was healthy and Roki Sasaki uh was pitching like he should be.
40:57
SPEAKER_02: Um, but yeah, and that would be uh Robleski.
40:59
SPEAKER_02: But Roki's gonna be just fine too.
41:01
SPEAKER_02: Uh eventually, who knows?
41:02
SPEAKER_02: But um Robleski's gonna be the guy, right?
41:05
SPEAKER_02: Robleski's gonna be that guy.
41:07
SPEAKER_02: He he that you mentioned, he's a guy who should be a bullpen arm that should be in triple A right now.
41:11
SPEAKER_02: But no, he had he was the only Dodger pitcher to have 10 wins before the end of June.
41:16
SPEAKER_01: Yeah.
41:16
SPEAKER_02: Uh since Clayton Kershaw did it in 2016.
41:19
SPEAKER_02: And he's absolutely shoving.
41:20
SPEAKER_02: He got to be an all-star, and he got to strike out the side in an all-star game.
41:23
SPEAKER_02: Yeah, just to your point.
41:24
SPEAKER_02: I think it's really funny, man.
41:25
SPEAKER_02: We did all that work to acquire Kyle Tucker and spending all that money for him, all that money for Edmund Diaz.
41:31
SPEAKER_02: You know what addition the the Dodgers made that actually has been like the best edition they've made all year?
41:38
SPEAKER_00: Which one?
41:38
SPEAKER_02: Eric Lauer.
41:40
SPEAKER_02: He's a pitcher from the Blue Jays.
41:42
SPEAKER_02: The Blue Jays released him and the Dodgers signed him and said, eh, you know, we'll see what happens.
41:47
SPEAKER_02: That guy has put up five or six straight uh quality starts for the Dodgers.
41:51
SPEAKER_02: Oh, really?
41:52
SPEAKER_00: Yeah.
41:53
SPEAKER_00: Eric Lauer.
41:54
SPEAKER_00: I clearly don't watch enough Dodgers baseball.
41:56
SPEAKER_00: Sorry.
41:56
SPEAKER_00: Yeah, no, it's okay.
41:57
SPEAKER_00: I am a Braves fan, so it's a little hard to uh I do watch the Dodgers anytime they play the Braves.
42:02
SPEAKER_02: Yeah, you know, you know, we it's it's okay.
42:05
SPEAKER_02: You know, it's okay to be famous.
42:07
SPEAKER_02: Very cool, very, very cool.
42:08
SPEAKER_02: Hell yeah.
42:09
SPEAKER_02: Um, but yeah, so we got a free exposure time, you know.
42:13
SPEAKER_02: Anytime, buddy, for you.
42:14
SPEAKER_00: We got you.
42:15
SPEAKER_02: Yeah.
42:15
SPEAKER_02: Uh incredibly unsatisfying all-star game.
42:18
SPEAKER_02: Did you catch any of this?
42:20
SPEAKER_00: I didn't even watch it, dude.
42:21
unknown: Okay.
42:21
SPEAKER_02: I did.
42:22
SPEAKER_02: Plus the minuses.
42:23
SPEAKER_02: Plus the minus is.
42:24
SPEAKER_02: Okay, first of all, Netflix does not have any business being involved in anything regarding sports.
42:29
SPEAKER_00: We need live sports, dude.
42:30
SPEAKER_00: They're so terrible.
42:32
SPEAKER_00: I think that was probably my biggest turnoff to watching the game was that it was on Netflix.
42:36
SPEAKER_00: Well, just the home run derby was.
42:38
SPEAKER_00: Oh, it was just okay.
42:39
SPEAKER_00: Yeah.
42:39
SPEAKER_00: I was thinking about the All-Star game was on Fox.
42:41
SPEAKER_00: Maybe I misunderstood that because I was thinking the All-Star game was going to be on Netflix too, but I was just like.
42:45
SPEAKER_02: Yeah, you're watching the All-St.
42:47
SPEAKER_02: You're watching the home run derby, it's on Netflix.
42:48
SPEAKER_02: And you know what they said?
42:49
SPEAKER_02: You know what we hated last year because you would hit a home run and then you have to pan, you wouldn't get to see the ball go out because you had to pan back because the other pitch was coming, because it was timed.
42:58
SPEAKER_01: Yeah.
42:58
SPEAKER_02: They said no more times, we're changing it.
43:00
SPEAKER_02: Netflix actually put this rule and changed it towards swings.
43:03
SPEAKER_02: Each swing counted, and that's what total swings.
43:05
SPEAKER_02: If it was a home run, still counted as a swing, unless it's your last swing and you hit home run, you can keep swinging as long as you're hitting a home run.
43:11
SPEAKER_02: Yeah.
43:11
SPEAKER_02: Great format, great format.
43:13
SPEAKER_02: But while they're doing this, AJ, and while they're hitting the home runs and hitting bombs and tracking them going after, they decided to take that time to do a celebrity interview and like stay way close on looking at a manager and a close-up.
43:25
SPEAKER_02: We're not even watching the home run derby over here, we're watching something else.
43:29
SPEAKER_02: So yeah, they had a great idea, terrible execution.
43:32
SPEAKER_00: Yeah, you're like, this was fantastic idea.
43:36
SPEAKER_00: You guys are doing nothing with it.
43:38
SPEAKER_00: Yeah.
43:38
SPEAKER_02: And the All Star game, four to nothing.
43:41
SPEAKER_02: Um, Bellinger got uh early two run RBI hits, and then it was pretty much and it was funny because they kept micing people up.
43:47
SPEAKER_02: That's one thing I never want to see again.
43:49
SPEAKER_02: Do not mic up a batter.
43:51
SPEAKER_02: Oh, what happened there?
43:53
SPEAKER_02: What happened there?
43:54
SPEAKER_00: It's okay.
43:54
SPEAKER_00: I'm not a real person anymore.
43:58
SPEAKER_02: Um, do not um Yeah, let's get that squared away here.
44:04
SPEAKER_02: Let's get that squared away.
44:06
SPEAKER_02: I don't like where that is.
44:07
SPEAKER_00: Sorry guys, we got a new camera, so we're we're still adjusting to life.
44:11
SPEAKER_00: Yeah.
44:11
SPEAKER_00: As we know at Medium.
44:13
SPEAKER_00: So we'll get there.
44:14
SPEAKER_00: There we go.
44:15
SPEAKER_00: There we go.
44:16
SPEAKER_00: We're back.
44:16
SPEAKER_00: We're back.
44:17
SPEAKER_00: Your hand movements are changing the whole camera, Darren.
44:20
SPEAKER_02: Yeah.
44:20
SPEAKER_02: So yeah, I just need to.
44:21
SPEAKER_02: I thought that was turned off.
44:22
SPEAKER_02: I thought I was turned off.
44:23
SPEAKER_02: I guess it doesn't matter.
44:25
SPEAKER_02: Doesn't matter.
44:26
SPEAKER_02: Um, but anyway, so yeah, and then the all-star game, it was boring, four to nothing.
44:30
SPEAKER_02: And even Bryce Harbour, he's like, I guess we're gonna see what we're gonna do here.
44:33
SPEAKER_02: These coming pitchers are coming up and throwing one inning.
44:36
SPEAKER_02: Like uh Robleski is not known as a strikeout pitcher, but he struck out the side.
44:40
SPEAKER_02: Yeah.
44:40
SPEAKER_02: Because he's a starting pitcher who go in there and let it eat for an inning, right?
44:43
SPEAKER_02: And then you could throw almost triple digits and you throw a wicker slider that they're not gonna be able to catch up.
44:48
SPEAKER_00: No one's especially in an also game where you know you're only throwing one inning.
44:51
SPEAKER_00: Yeah, everyone's gonna get it.
44:52
SPEAKER_02: Yeah, yeah.
44:53
SPEAKER_02: So I mean it's gonna be that way.
44:54
SPEAKER_02: But it's really funny about that is even though his lackluster, I 100% agree with you there on that, AJ, still uh the best all-star experience in professional sports.
45:03
SPEAKER_02: Oh, I agree.
45:04
SPEAKER_02: The ML, I mean When was the last time you watched a Pro Bowl?
45:07
SPEAKER_00: Absolutely not, dude.
45:09
SPEAKER_02: The NBA All-Star game was supposed to be the best pickup game in basketball, but LeBron killed it.
45:14
SPEAKER_02: Uh the day, you know, Kobe slapped the floor and he refused to go one-on-one with him, he passed it off.
45:19
SPEAKER_02: That was the end of it.
45:20
SPEAKER_02: There's no more uh All-Star Game is no longer what it was.
45:23
SPEAKER_00: Well, nobody wants to watch an NBA All-Star game, dude.
45:26
SPEAKER_00: No, it's the absolute like there's absolutely no defense being played.
45:31
SPEAKER_00: Like, and then they Yeah, it's who can make more shots?
45:35
SPEAKER_00: That's the only thing an NBA All-Star game is anymore.
45:37
SPEAKER_00: Yeah.
45:37
SPEAKER_00: There's no competition, there's no they're talking about trying to figure out ways to change it.
45:41
SPEAKER_02: And here's another problem.
45:42
SPEAKER_02: We had an all-star game where we know how to fix the NBA All-Star Game issue.
45:46
SPEAKER_02: We talked about it.
45:47
SPEAKER_02: Oh, yeah, we did talk about that.
45:49
SPEAKER_02: But we in Major League Baseball, even though it's not a great game, it's still the best uh all-star game available in professional sports.
45:56
SPEAKER_02: We didn't have the Ms.
45:58
SPEAKER_02: pitching, we didn't have scuba pitching, we didn't have um Furlander pitching, we didn't have gosh, you keep going down the list, uh Cam Schlitler.
46:06
SPEAKER_02: And I think even the Phillies, uh Zach Wheeler, actually complained about it.
46:10
SPEAKER_02: He could he didn't get selected the All-Star game because he had a start the day before.
46:14
SPEAKER_02: So he wouldn't be eligible to pitch, so they didn't select him.
46:16
SPEAKER_02: They're like, sorry.
46:17
SPEAKER_02: Yeah.
46:18
SPEAKER_02: I'm just like, even in the case where we like the pitchers were dominating the hitters in the all-star game, we still couldn't get a good all-star.
46:25
SPEAKER_02: We still even have our best pitchers in the game, arguably.
46:28
SPEAKER_02: Yeah, no Yoshi, Yamamoto.
46:30
SPEAKER_02: Didn't the Miz make it last year?
46:32
SPEAKER_01: Yeah, I mean, I know he made it.
46:33
SPEAKER_00: I know he made it this year, but he started last year.
46:35
SPEAKER_00: Yeah, he started last year.
46:36
SPEAKER_02: Yeah.
46:36
SPEAKER_02: And uh, yeah, and that's the other problem, dude.
46:38
SPEAKER_02: Uh, no Chris Sale, even though he's there, can't pitch because he started too soon before the all-star game, wasn't available.
46:44
SPEAKER_02: Like, so we had all the our great pitchers not able to pitch.
46:47
SPEAKER_02: So how do you fix this, right?
46:48
SPEAKER_02: Like, yeah, fastballs only, like that's all you can nothing that's gonna hurt your elbow.
46:53
SPEAKER_02: Yeah, fastballs only, no movement.
46:55
SPEAKER_02: Um, yes.
46:57
SPEAKER_02: Um yes, but now.
46:59
SPEAKER_02: I love that comment.
47:00
SPEAKER_02: Not sure what that means there, Tammy.
47:02
SPEAKER_02: Friend of the channel, you have to let me know on that one.
47:04
SPEAKER_02: Um, the Dodgers are three and seven out of their last ten, right before the break last year.
47:09
SPEAKER_02: Interesting.
47:10
SPEAKER_02: Wow, that is some great info, Tammy.
47:12
SPEAKER_02: Great work.
47:13
SPEAKER_02: That's a good poll right there.
47:14
SPEAKER_02: That is uh Greg Hawkins, Dodgers aren't going anywhere.
47:18
SPEAKER_02: Um, they'll be just fine.
47:21
SPEAKER_02: Um, let's see here.
47:23
SPEAKER_02: Uh yes, having the home run derby on Netflix sucked too because I totally forgot about it and it it I don't open Netflix when I want to watch sports.
47:32
SPEAKER_02: Exactly.
47:33
SPEAKER_02: Oh my gosh, dude.
47:34
SPEAKER_02: If you're trying to watch baseball this year, like you're like, is this one on Peacock?
47:38
SPEAKER_02: NBC?
47:38
SPEAKER_02: Is it over here on Netflix?
47:40
SPEAKER_02: Is it on Facebook?
47:41
SPEAKER_00: MLB MLB TV, buddy.
47:43
SPEAKER_02: Like, even then, they're blocked out, dude.
47:44
SPEAKER_02: Like, if it's if it's on ESPN, it's blocked out.
47:47
SPEAKER_02: You won't get to watch it on MLB TV.
47:49
SPEAKER_00: I haven't had any issues.
47:49
SPEAKER_00: That's because your team's not on national television a lot.
47:52
SPEAKER_02: Wow.
47:52
SPEAKER_00: Uh, but yeah, it's it comes up like the only issue I the only time I can't watch it is when it's on Apple TV, but I have Apple TV too, so I just and then you have what about Peacock?
48:01
SPEAKER_02: Do you have Peacock?
48:03
SPEAKER_02: I don't know if I've had any games on yes, I do, but yeah, so you gotta have Peacock, you have Amazon Prime, you gotta have Apple TV, you gotta have, you know, you're like, Jesus, man, it's ridiculous.
48:13
SPEAKER_02: It is 100% agree with you on that one, man.
48:15
SPEAKER_02: Um, but yeah, man, so we're talking about the all the things that the Dodgers are gonna add uh without even making a single move at the trade deadline, and that guy's thinking, AJ.
48:24
SPEAKER_02: Um, let's go ahead and pivot over uh from a team that is not fine to a bunch of teams that aren't fine, shall we, AJ?
48:30
SPEAKER_00: Yeah, that's probably the best way to transition that.
48:32
SPEAKER_02: So we got uh less than three weeks till the trade deadline.
48:35
SPEAKER_02: Uh we both picked a team in the NL, uh, just in case we want to open this up and do another one for the AL.
48:40
SPEAKER_02: Yep.
48:40
SPEAKER_02: Um, that we feel have to be sellers of the deadline.
48:44
SPEAKER_02: Uh since we're talking about the NL West, um, I'll go ahead and go first.
48:48
SPEAKER_02: Yeah.
48:48
SPEAKER_02: Um, I'll go with uh my team that I say needs to be sellers, which is the San Francisco Giants, AJ.
48:54
SPEAKER_02: Yep.
48:54
SPEAKER_02: San Francisco Giants at the time recording are 19 and a half games back in the division, um, which they would be in last place if a team like the Colorado Rockies didn't exist.
49:02
SPEAKER_02: Um right now, as it sits, the Rockies uh have less than 1% chance to make the playoffs, according to fan graphs.
49:10
SPEAKER_02: Uh the Giants reportedly have made everybody available at the trade deadline, uh, with the exception of uh the rumor is they're not willing to trade Logan Webb or Zhung Hu Li, uh grandson of the wind.
49:22
SPEAKER_02: Uh coolest nickname in baseball.
49:24
SPEAKER_02: That really is.
49:25
SPEAKER_02: Um, everyone else is uh they're shopping right now.
49:28
SPEAKER_02: And do you dude?
49:29
SPEAKER_02: Some of this stuff is absolutely embarrassing when you want when you actually break it down.
49:32
SPEAKER_02: Uh Raphael Devers.
49:34
SPEAKER_02: No thanks.
49:36
SPEAKER_02: This guy signed that massive contract.
49:38
SPEAKER_02: Remember when they didn't sign Mookie?
49:39
SPEAKER_02: They didn't sign Xander.
49:40
SPEAKER_02: They're like, okay, we'll give it to all in on Devers.
49:43
SPEAKER_02: All in our Devers.
49:44
SPEAKER_02: You're a third baseman of the future, you're the face of the franchise.
49:47
SPEAKER_02: Oh, by the way, we're bringing in uh what's his name?
49:49
SPEAKER_02: Uh Bregman to play third.
49:51
SPEAKER_02: So you feel about playing outfield.
49:52
SPEAKER_02: Well, how do you play about being a DH?
49:54
SPEAKER_02: He's like, no, I play third.
49:55
SPEAKER_02: He's refusing to DH.
49:57
SPEAKER_02: Yeah.
49:57
SPEAKER_02: They finally convinced him to play DH, and then he's like, Oh, okay, we don't need you to DH, we need you to play first.
50:01
SPEAKER_02: And he's like, No, I'm not gonna play.
50:03
SPEAKER_02: Stop moving me around, you know.
50:04
SPEAKER_02: I'm like, and so, and naturally he plays first base for the Giants, and he's got a massive face of the franchise contract.
50:13
SPEAKER_02: They just traded for him last offseason, AJ.
50:16
SPEAKER_02: And they're like, no, we're gonna go ahead and we need to trade him now.
50:20
SPEAKER_02: He's got this massive long-term contract, and it's only gonna get worse with time.
50:24
SPEAKER_02: Uh yeah, dude.
50:25
SPEAKER_02: So he's like the first one they're gonna try to get rid of.
50:26
SPEAKER_02: And I don't know who's good luck moving that one.
50:28
SPEAKER_02: Yeah, who wants that?
50:29
SPEAKER_02: Who needs a third baseman or a first baseman?
50:32
SPEAKER_02: Like everybody's probably got a young stud in the minors that's willing to swing that could swing it.
50:37
SPEAKER_00: And that will probably come to the team and absolutely love it and have a good attitude and just do whatever you ask them to.
50:41
SPEAKER_00: Yeah, yeah.
50:41
SPEAKER_00: Not weird.
50:42
SPEAKER_02: Not eat to have the owner come down and say, hey, we'd be willing to DH.
50:46
SPEAKER_02: You know, I just yeah.
50:47
SPEAKER_02: That contract's not going anywhere.
50:49
SPEAKER_02: Madness.
50:50
SPEAKER_02: Yeah.
50:50
SPEAKER_02: And the next one is uh Matt Chapman, third base, actually, statistically, one of the top defensive uh third basemans in the league right now.
50:58
SPEAKER_02: Um, although his contract uh does have a no-trade clause, which will complicate some things there.
51:04
SPEAKER_02: Uh Matt Chapman, solid third baseman, right?
51:06
SPEAKER_02: Um he's not having the best offensive year.
51:09
SPEAKER_02: Um, definitely a player that I see could probably be traded.
51:12
SPEAKER_02: But yeah, also again, a guy in his in his mid to late 30s, it's it's gonna be tough to move a contract, you know.
51:18
SPEAKER_02: I don't even know if he's playing right now.
51:20
SPEAKER_02: He might be hurt.
51:21
SPEAKER_02: Um, but yeah, not a great move, man.
51:23
SPEAKER_02: Not a not a good one.
51:24
SPEAKER_02: Do you guys need a third baseman?
51:25
SPEAKER_02: Do the Brave need a third baseman?
51:27
SPEAKER_02: No, they don't.
51:27
SPEAKER_00: No, no, we have Matt Olsen.
51:29
SPEAKER_00: Yeah, no, he's your first one.
51:30
SPEAKER_00: Oh, I'm sorry.
51:30
SPEAKER_00: We have Austin Riley.
51:31
SPEAKER_00: There you go.
51:32
SPEAKER_00: There you go.
51:32
SPEAKER_00: I'm like, yeah, sorry.
51:34
SPEAKER_00: Both bases are covered either way.
51:35
SPEAKER_00: Yeah.
51:36
SPEAKER_00: Both bases are covered.
51:37
SPEAKER_00: We're good.
51:37
SPEAKER_00: I mean, Austin Riley's having a little bit of a down season, but uh he's allowed to have one.
51:41
SPEAKER_00: He's basically carried that team for like the last five years.
51:43
SPEAKER_00: And he's just such a stud.
51:45
SPEAKER_02: He's a good dude.
51:45
SPEAKER_02: I like Austin Riley.
51:46
SPEAKER_02: He's always been like my sneaky MVP kick.
51:48
SPEAKER_00: And he's such a good third baseman, too.
51:51
SPEAKER_00: He makes so many good plays throughout the year.
51:53
SPEAKER_02: And then the next one is uh William Adamas again, another player that they added to this team to be the difference maker.
51:58
SPEAKER_02: Shortstop that they actually got from the the Brewers.
52:02
SPEAKER_02: Um, he's also being viewed as available.
52:04
SPEAKER_02: He's got another long-term contract uh that will require San Diego to potentially eat some of that salary to actually get him to be able to be moved.
52:12
SPEAKER_02: Um, so yeah, I mean, there's your top three stars on that team, all been made available, according to rumors.
52:19
SPEAKER_02: Uh, this is, you know, Buster Posey, great, one of the greatest catchers in Major League Baseball history so far.
52:24
SPEAKER_02: Not a great front office guy.
52:25
SPEAKER_02: He's trying to win press conferences, not actually win uh games here.
52:30
SPEAKER_02: Now, according to our Yahoo Sports here, the ones that are most likely to be moved uh due to the fact that uh you know their contracts are are expiring.
52:36
SPEAKER_02: Uh Luisa Rice, he plays second base uh for the Giants.
52:40
SPEAKER_02: Uh this is one of the best contact hitters in baseball.
52:43
SPEAKER_02: Uh he's coming up for free agency at the end of the year.
52:45
SPEAKER_02: He would be a prime rental candidate for anybody who's contending.
52:48
SPEAKER_02: This guy has actually had the batting title several times.
52:51
SPEAKER_02: And it's funny that this guy's never stuck with the team for more than a year or two.
52:54
SPEAKER_00: Yeah, that's crazy.
52:55
SPEAKER_02: Yeah, and he had the best batting average in baseball, but I guess you know, just no pop.
52:58
SPEAKER_02: He's just not hitting for power, mostly singles, you know.
53:01
SPEAKER_02: So it's just kind of crazy.
53:03
SPEAKER_02: And then obviously uh Robbie Ray, left-handed pitcher, he's gonna be a free agency, free agent as well.
53:08
SPEAKER_02: Veteran arm, um, anybody who's looking to bolster their rotation towards the playoffs, which again, obviously the Dodgers are are one of those, uh, but I doubt they'll be training.
53:17
SPEAKER_00: I don't know what it is, I just don't like Areas.
53:19
SPEAKER_00: I just don't like his face.
53:21
SPEAKER_00: Robbie Ray?
53:21
SPEAKER_00: No, Arreyas.
53:22
SPEAKER_00: Oh, Luis Arrayes?
53:23
SPEAKER_00: Arayez, yeah.
53:24
SPEAKER_00: Okay.
53:25
SPEAKER_00: I just don't like him.
53:26
SPEAKER_00: Every time he comes up, he's just he's just a tough out, dude.
53:29
SPEAKER_02: And you're like, oh, this guy is.
53:31
SPEAKER_02: It feels like he's always up, too.
53:33
SPEAKER_00: Like, I swear he gets like I swear he hits eight times a game.
53:36
SPEAKER_02: Yeah, he's always up, man.
53:37
SPEAKER_02: Every time you're playing the Giants, you're like, this guy.
53:39
SPEAKER_00: And you're like, Why are we in this position again?
53:42
SPEAKER_00: Like two on, two out, and this is the dude that's up.
53:45
SPEAKER_02: You would love to have him on your team as the nine-hitter.
53:46
SPEAKER_00: Absolutely.
53:47
SPEAKER_02: You know, but he hits with zero power, dude.
53:50
SPEAKER_02: Yeah, he'd walk or get on base with single.
53:53
SPEAKER_00: Yeah, it's like you almost have to play all the outfielders up because he's not gonna hit it over your head.
53:57
SPEAKER_02: No, but I honestly, if you could afford to have this guy in the nine-hitter as your team, perfect, perfect.
54:01
SPEAKER_02: Where does he play?
54:02
SPEAKER_02: Uh, he plays first, but he's he's gonna be uh sorry, he's playing second, but he would probably uh on the Giants, he's not batting ninth.
54:09
SPEAKER_02: Right.
54:10
SPEAKER_02: You know, there's a bunch of other players that would be batting lower in the lineup, but yeah, on a team like the Dodgers, he probably would be batting ninth.
54:15
SPEAKER_02: Um, but yeah, again, just don't like the guy.
54:18
SPEAKER_00: I just don't like him.
54:19
SPEAKER_00: Yeah.
54:19
SPEAKER_00: Who do you got?
54:20
SPEAKER_00: Sorry.
54:20
SPEAKER_00: Who needs to be a seller?
54:22
SPEAKER_00: Sellar's the deadline.
54:23
SPEAKER_02: I think I think we gotta get this, we gotta get this one here there too.
54:26
SPEAKER_02: Uh comment there from Michelle McKinnon, 403.
54:28
SPEAKER_02: Don't like his face.
54:32
SPEAKER_00: It's true.
54:33
SPEAKER_00: It's just what it is.
54:34
SPEAKER_00: Don't like his face.
54:35
SPEAKER_00: Okay.
54:36
SPEAKER_00: I agree.
54:37
SPEAKER_00: So I'm gonna go with uh a team that we've talked about quite frequently on this show.
54:42
SPEAKER_00: Uh how about the the New York Mets who uh LOL Mets, man.
54:46
SPEAKER_00: Their 2026 season has been a massive disappointment, right?
54:51
SPEAKER_00: Entering the All-Star break, they have a 40 and 57 record.
54:55
SPEAKER_00: They are last place in the NL East, they have virtually no chance of making the playoffs, 0.09% to be exact.
55:02
SPEAKER_03: Oh, that's right.
55:02
SPEAKER_00: After playing well below expectations, even Francisco Lindore, right?
55:08
SPEAKER_00: This is this is a guy that's been a part of this franchise, called the first half of their play unacceptable and admitted that the team's performance and his performance have fallen well short of the organization's expectations.
55:21
SPEAKER_00: Um so with the postseasons out of reach, right?
55:23
SPEAKER_00: The Mets are the Mets have to shift into seller mode.
55:25
SPEAKER_00: I mean, ahead of the trade lane line, they got veterans like you know, Brooks Rowley, AJ Minter, Freddie Peralta, Clay Holmes, and they've got a couple like relief pitchers that that are going to draw interest.
55:37
SPEAKER_00: They have to look into it.
55:39
SPEAKER_00: I mean, even the bigger names like Francisco Alvarez and Lindor himself, these guys, these guys have already surfaced in trade speculation.
55:46
SPEAKER_00: So the front office, they they've pretty much got to change gears, look towards rebuild in 2027.
55:52
SPEAKER_00: Um, they got to go out and get some young pitchers.
55:54
SPEAKER_00: Um, they do got Nolan McLean, who's had a great uh couple seasons or sorry, a great stretch heading into the all-star break.
56:03
SPEAKER_00: So I don't I don't know if it's necessarily so much as are the will the Mets sell, it's really how much of how much of this team are they going to move?
56:13
SPEAKER_02: We've talked about this several times, and I said that the source, the problem with that team is Francisco Lindor.
56:18
SPEAKER_00: Absolutely.
56:19
SPEAKER_02: You trade away Nimmo, you trade away uh Neil McNeil, who's a great second baseman, and you brought in Simeon from Texas, who's uh one of the best second basemen, best in the American League.
56:30
SPEAKER_02: But he's really struggling hitting the ball this year.
56:32
SPEAKER_02: Yeah, well, it's uh it doesn't matter when the when the lot when the clubhouse is uh when the clubhouse culture is toxic, yeah, you know, and you don't feel like that's not you're not having a good year.
56:43
SPEAKER_02: When your double play partner on shortstop is not working with you, you know, this guy's drive drive driven away players several times.
56:50
SPEAKER_01: Yeah.
56:50
SPEAKER_02: And uh currently he seems to not be having a good um relationship with the current face of that team.
56:57
SPEAKER_02: Yeah, uh, which is what we'll get into in here in a minute.
56:59
SPEAKER_02: But like, I I don't know, man.
57:01
SPEAKER_02: I 100% right.
57:02
SPEAKER_02: I think the the move is is they're talking a lot about um they're talking a lot about that they might want to trade Lindor.
57:09
SPEAKER_02: And I think you know, they already traded away everything to keep Lindor.
57:12
SPEAKER_02: If you trade Lindor now, you're admitting that that 10-year contract you gave him was a mistake.
57:16
SPEAKER_01: Yeah.
57:16
SPEAKER_02: And honestly, it might be time to admit you made a mistake.
57:19
SPEAKER_02: I don't know.
57:20
SPEAKER_02: But beyond the Lindor contract, AJ, I mean, who's probably the best tradable asset on that team?
57:27
SPEAKER_00: Oh, the bet the most tradable asset on that team is absolutely 100% Juan Soto.
57:33
SPEAKER_02: All right, you want to intro this one?
57:35
SPEAKER_00: Yeah, I sure do, actually.
57:37
SPEAKER_00: So with that being said, the rumor is already heating up, right?
57:41
SPEAKER_00: I mean, the the one name that's surfaced in connection with the New York Yankees has been Francisco Landor, right?
57:48
SPEAKER_00: But with the Mets spiraling and kind of becoming this team that I think will be sellers of the trade deadline.
57:55
SPEAKER_00: Should be sellers of the deadline, should be sellers, right?
57:59
SPEAKER_00: Um you got you gotta wonder, with Wansoto not being happy and signing one of the richest contracts in baseball history, was the move about getting paid?
58:09
SPEAKER_00: And now that his excitement's worn off and he's kind of realized, like, hey, life with the Mets isn't exactly what I expected.
58:15
SPEAKER_00: Be being the star and the face of a franchise is a lot different than I expected it to be.
58:21
SPEAKER_00: Is there a chance that he kind of looks at, you know, maybe maybe just throwing you know a little sticky note out like Yankees aren't a bad team?
58:32
SPEAKER_00: And and uh Aaron Judge is a pretty good player.
58:34
SPEAKER_00: I didn't mind playing over there.
58:36
SPEAKER_00: So now that he's got his contract, he got he got it in the terms he wanted, in the years he wanted, um, he got the suite he wanted.
58:43
SPEAKER_00: But now the nate the Yankees know that's what he want.
58:46
SPEAKER_00: You know, is it is it time that he maybe thinks about going and going back to being Judge's shadow, his his one-two punch, his his two of the one-two punch.
58:58
SPEAKER_00: What what is up for what what is best for Juan Soto at this point?
59:02
SPEAKER_02: I don't know, man.
59:03
SPEAKER_02: Like I thought we were gonna be the first ones to start this little rumor meal.
59:06
SPEAKER_02: Yeah.
59:06
SPEAKER_02: Uh unfortunately, we were not.
59:08
SPEAKER_02: I just saw it on Yahoo's Quartz about an hour before we got here.
59:10
SPEAKER_02: Yeah.
59:11
SPEAKER_02: That the Mets should trade Ron Soto.
59:12
SPEAKER_02: We're not the only ones who are thinking that.
59:14
SPEAKER_02: I do think though, um, AJ, that talking about you know, training Lindor and everything like that, yes, but the better contract with the better talent and the younger player is Juan Soto.
59:24
SPEAKER_02: Yeah.
59:25
SPEAKER_02: And when you talk about trading Juan Soto, there are very few teams.
59:28
SPEAKER_02: Everybody would want Ju Soto and be willing to trade their entire franchise, their entire, you know, farm system to get this guy.
59:35
SPEAKER_02: But there are very few teams that actually have the financial cap capability of being able to absorb that trade, right?
59:42
SPEAKER_02: Yeah, Yankees are definitely one of them.
59:44
SPEAKER_02: Yeah.
59:45
SPEAKER_02: You know, they're definitely in the need for that one-two punch.
59:47
SPEAKER_02: When Judge isn't there, they've they've spiraled out of control.
59:50
SPEAKER_02: They're looking up at the raids right now.
59:52
SPEAKER_02: I mean, he was one of the players there.
59:54
SPEAKER_02: The like you mentioned, the one-two punch that helped carry that team to the 2024 uh World Series.
59:59
SPEAKER_02: Yeah.
59:59
SPEAKER_02: Now Stanton helped a lot in the playoffs, but right now Judge hurt, Stanton hurt.
1:00:03
SPEAKER_02: You don't have any big bat at the top of the lineup.
1:00:06
SPEAKER_02: You know, you're relying on people like Bellinger, you know, and Bellinger's a great player, but he's Paul Goldschmidt.
1:00:12
SPEAKER_00: He's not a team you can, he's not a guy you can put the team on his back and say, We need we need a hit here, we need to win here.
1:00:18
SPEAKER_02: You need that big lefty to go along with the big righty while all these start play while these, you know, pull the dot, pull something out of the Dodgers handbook, you know, let them be injured all year, just be ready for October.
1:00:29
SPEAKER_02: And then you have the big three of Stanton, Judge, and Soto available at the top of your lineup, or probably Judge Soto and Stanton.
1:00:36
SPEAKER_00: Any pitching lineup just absolutely dread seeing the top of.
1:00:38
SPEAKER_02: Oh yeah.
1:00:39
SPEAKER_02: You know, I mean you're just like, oh no, here we go.
1:00:41
SPEAKER_02: Unless you're the Dodgers.
1:00:42
SPEAKER_02: And you have your bullpen, take it down.
1:00:44
unknown: I'm just kidding.
1:00:46
SPEAKER_02: But yeah, no, I 100% agree, man.
1:00:47
SPEAKER_02: I think that this is this makes too much sense for me.
1:00:50
SPEAKER_01: Yeah.
1:00:50
SPEAKER_02: Right?
1:00:51
SPEAKER_02: Like, it makes too much sense.
1:00:52
SPEAKER_02: There's gonna be other teams that could be in on him, you know, that would want Juan Soto and they could probably trade for him.
1:00:56
SPEAKER_02: Like the Red Sox come to mind.
1:00:57
SPEAKER_02: They're definitely a team that could use a player like Juan Soto at either DH or find a place for him in the outfield.
1:01:03
SPEAKER_02: But like, honestly, dude, like, it just makes too much too much sense.
1:01:06
SPEAKER_02: He loved playing.
1:01:07
SPEAKER_02: When was Soto's best aura as a player?
1:01:10
SPEAKER_02: Wasn't with the Padres, right?
1:01:11
SPEAKER_02: Wasn't with, you know, I mean, he did win a World Series with the Nationals in 2019 as a rookie, right?
1:01:17
SPEAKER_02: But when it comes to like the if you sign this contract, you want at least another ring out of this guy.
1:01:21
SPEAKER_02: Oh, yeah.
1:01:22
SPEAKER_02: So look, where's he got a best chance to win one?
1:01:24
SPEAKER_02: Not with the Mets, that's for sure.
1:01:26
SPEAKER_02: No.
1:01:26
SPEAKER_02: And you can imagine the haul that the uh Mets could get for this guy.
1:01:31
SPEAKER_00: You know, it's just massive.
1:01:33
SPEAKER_02: Yeah.
1:01:33
SPEAKER_02: I mean, I don't know how spent the Yankees farm system is right now.
1:01:36
SPEAKER_02: I'm not a huge New York Yankees fan, but in my opinion, it makes all the sense in the world for if the Yankees can make it happen, dude.
1:01:41
SPEAKER_02: You make it happen, right?
1:01:43
SPEAKER_02: Yep.
1:01:43
SPEAKER_02: I mean, he's not happy in New York.
1:01:45
SPEAKER_02: I mean, he played with the he played with the Padres and got along with that team just fine.
1:01:49
SPEAKER_01: Yeah.
1:01:49
SPEAKER_02: And that's a team that has issues in the clubhouse.
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SPEAKER_02: You know, when you have both consistently, too.
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SPEAKER_02: Yep, Tatis Jr.
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SPEAKER_02: and Manny Machado going out in the in the dugout, and then you know, then Soto comes in here and everything's hooky, hunky dory.
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SPEAKER_02: You know where the problem is uh for the Mets, and the problem is Lendor.
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SPEAKER_02: It's gonna be tough to trade that contract.
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SPEAKER_02: I think you trade him anyway, and then I see I say you trade this guy back to the Yankees.
1:02:11
SPEAKER_02: You know, let them have that 700 rebuild contract, you know.
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SPEAKER_02: Or imagine what you can get from him, man.
1:02:17
SPEAKER_02: It'd be crazy.
1:02:17
SPEAKER_02: Yeah, be crazy.
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SPEAKER_02: Absolutely.
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SPEAKER_02: We want to hear from you folks.
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SPEAKER_02: Let us know where your thoughts are in the comments down below.
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SPEAKER_02: Uh, do you have a better option when it comes to where you think Lendor, if the the Mets decide to trade uh not only Lindor but also Soto, do you have a better spot that you think you should land under than what we've talked about?
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SPEAKER_00: Yeah, absolutely.
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SPEAKER_00: Okay, I got a question for you.
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SPEAKER_00: Okay.
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SPEAKER_00: This is my random question for the day.
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SPEAKER_00: Okay.
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SPEAKER_02: Let's hear it.
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SPEAKER_00: Can the Dodgers hold off the Brewers to secure the best overall record in Major League Baseball at the end of the season?
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SPEAKER_02: Yes.
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SPEAKER_00: Great episode, guys.
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SPEAKER_02: We'll see you next week.
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SPEAKER_02: Um thanks, Darren.
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SPEAKER_02: Yeah, yeah, man.
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SPEAKER_02: I mean, they this team is just a much better team than it was last year.
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SPEAKER_02: Yeah.
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SPEAKER_02: And how sweaty that got with the Phillies there, where you had to rely on a pitching error uh for them to not have to push it to the five games there.
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SPEAKER_02: Yeah.
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SPEAKER_02: The Dodgers are gonna do everything they can not to be in a five-game series this year this year.
1:03:14
SPEAKER_02: Again, they have all the talent that's coming back, even their own managers, like, oh, this is David versus Goliath here.
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SPEAKER_02: We're not gonna be able to beat these guys.
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SPEAKER_02: And then we swept them right out of the playoffs.
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SPEAKER_02: Like you can have the greatest regular season record, and it means nothing to them, you know, uh, for the Dodgers.
1:03:29
SPEAKER_02: But if it means they can avoid having to play uh a wild card team, having the second best record in the National League, yeah, having to play one of those three games series.
1:03:38
SPEAKER_00: And they're gonna need that four or five game stretch to continue to be healthy, right?
1:03:42
SPEAKER_02: Yeah, yeah.
1:03:43
SPEAKER_02: I you just you don't know, you can't anything can happen in a three-game series, right?
1:03:46
SPEAKER_00: Yep.
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SPEAKER_02: And and you don't want to be that team that goes out there and has to face like uh the Phillies and their three-headed monster, you know, with their starting pitchers of Zach Wheeler, um, you know, that uh Sanchez kid that almost broke um the Bulldogs record.
1:04:04
SPEAKER_02: I think it's Sanchez, I can't remember the exact name, but yeah, I absolutely I think they can, and I think they will.
1:04:08
SPEAKER_02: I think they literally built this team to have the best record at the end of the year.
1:04:12
SPEAKER_02: They you don't win back-to-back World Series, you don't, you know, and then go out on the all in the postseason and sign the top two free agents available unless you want to avoid what happened last year.
1:04:23
SPEAKER_02: I think what happened last year is the Jazz got the colour.
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SPEAKER_02: Too close for comfort.
1:04:26
SPEAKER_01: Yeah.
1:04:26
SPEAKER_02: The Dodgers got all the way to the World Series when they were the favorites and then got punched in the face, and then they just were the team that decided not to make the critical mistakes and to capitalize on the other team's mistakes and pull it through.
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SPEAKER_02: They don't want to have to do that again.
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SPEAKER_02: So absolutely, I think not only they can, but they will.
1:04:42
SPEAKER_02: It's nice.
1:04:43
SPEAKER_02: The Miz is great, you know, but he's not gonna fit to every game.
1:04:46
SPEAKER_02: He's already uh dealing with arm fatigue issues, and we're only halfway through the season.
1:04:50
SPEAKER_02: So you know we'll see.
1:04:52
SPEAKER_00: What happens when you're throwing 106, man?
1:04:54
SPEAKER_02: Yeah, definitely, definitely.
1:04:56
SPEAKER_02: We won't hear from you folks again.
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