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Buy or Sell These Hot Starts? · The 3-0 Take

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Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to the Three O Take where we talk
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all things Major League Baseball.
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Here's Kyle Corwin and Nate Reyes.
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It all starts right now. Welcome back to the Three O Take
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presented by Chinook Cedry, This is episode 525.
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I'll be your host, Kyle Cord. I'm here with my Co host Nate
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Reyes. Nathaniel.
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Hey, hi. How you doing?
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What's good? What's up, man?
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What's good dude? What's up?
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You know, just living, living large.
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You watching some ball right now?
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Watching a little ball right now.
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Watching. A little ball.
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Nothing better than a little ball on a a Sunday afternoon.
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How about it? Yeah.
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Such a beautiful thing. Nice.
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Lazy. Sunday.
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Nice lazy Sunday. It reminds me we're going to get
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Ryan on this show soon. Yeah, got to get Ryan Ripken,
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friend of the pod. Let's talk some ball.
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Sure. Before we do that, though, let
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me run this by. I got a question for you.
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I need something. I need something a little more,
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You do a little Google search not to like push anybody towards
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have something in the works here.
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Hit a little Shark Tank? I don't know about that far,
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but. I do.
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That's where that's where my mind goes.
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Maybe you'll sock some ball. Let's talk.
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Let's talk some hot starts. I want to get your thoughts.
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Oh, my light's not on here. Let's get this light on.
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There we go. I want to get your thoughts on
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whether or not you buy or sell some of these hot stars that
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we've got. I feel like I know where you're
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thinking where you're going to go on some of these, but I'm I'm
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not as so sure on some others. Got some players, got some
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position players, some some pitchers and even some teams
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that I want to get your thoughts on here on this Sunday
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afternoon. OK.
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Let's start with Babe Ruth himself, Yvonne Herrera.
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He's hitting it coming into today, hitting 400 with a Are
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you ready for this 1.555 OPS? Deese.
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Pretty deese. Among catchers with 250 plus
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plate appearances since 2024, Yvonne Herrera leads Major
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League Baseball with a 143 weighted runs created, plus the
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next closest is William Contreras at 125.
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Are you buying this well? He just got hurt today.
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Yeah, yeah, not, not great. He literally got helped off the
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field as as we we we opened up this call.
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An apparent leg injury. Yeah, I don't love that.
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Don't love that so. Look, I, I not to like dive too
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deep. I, I think there's a reason why
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they kind of had to find a different scenario for Contreras
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and like move them over to 1st. And I don't think it was solely
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about the the struggles that Contreras had.
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I think it had a lot to do with this kid coming up.
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I think 1 can assume Saint Louis is a little bit of a catching
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factory maybe, and there's probably something into that.
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Speaking of which, real quick, did you was there any legitimacy
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to that quote from Yachty Molina or was this just some another
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fake post to us on Facebook? Because there's a lot of those
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on there. I.
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Don't know if I saw what you're talking about.
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You said something, again, don't know if it's true or not.
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Somebody can help me out. Did he say like that he would
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manage the Cubs if given the opportunity that he just really
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wants to manage? Is there any truth to that
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quote? I couldn't Fact Check it, but
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I've seen it from multiple, multiple outlets.
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But I I don't necessarily trust any of these outlets.
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There is this weird trend, by the way, that I I can't stand
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the fake news quotes. Dude, it's all it's taking over.
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I don't know what the fake news like deaths is really weird,
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like celebrity deaths and it's like, what are we doing?
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And then? Well, that's that's the problem
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with monitor not to go on the the.
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Fake news trades like. Yeah, yeah.
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Not to go down this rabbit hole, but like that's the problem with
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these monitor you start monetizing these social
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platforms, People are like, oh, I'm going to throw morality out
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the throw ethics out the window in in pursuit.
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Of a few. Bucks yeah, not even click bait
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stuff that doesn't even make any sense.
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It's not even true. Just.
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Fake stuff, yeah. So I wouldn't be surprised if
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this is one of them. But at the same time, I don't, I
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don't know, man. Like I, I'm not a Cubs fan.
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I'm not a Cardinals fan. If there's some in the chat, let
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me know. If I'm just totally off base
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here, it doesn't feel like that much of A rivalry.
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I don't it's not. I don't think it's as strong as
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people. Oh, we're talking Yachty.
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Still, yeah. You know what I mean?
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So like I don't I? Mean it's it's definitely a
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rivalry and it's the same thing as like right now saying the Red
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Sox and and Yankees are on a rivalry.
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It's like yes and no, like it's a rivalry.
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But is it at its peak right now? No.
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I just don't know if it's that. I don't know if there's like as
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much hatred there. That I think, I think they hate
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each other. It's just it's there's there's
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not much juice to it. And you could say that with a
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with a handful of other rivalries around the league
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right now. I'd guess whatever, but.
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How to say, I think Padres, yes, not to bounce around, but I, I
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think the leader in the clubhouse right now is LA San
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Diego. I think that's just where the
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where the heat is most right now.
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But anyway, yeah, not to go down a yachty segue, but to your
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point, catching factory in Saint Louis, you know it's guys like
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we've mentioned this before, it's guys like this that you
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don't necessarily anticipate being a major factor, but could
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prove to be when all is said and done, you look back, you go,
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that was our X Factor in terms of getting to where we got
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turning. The page into a new chapter.
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Yeah, which other people didn't foresee us doing.
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And that may even manifest into a postseason spot.
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Who? Who knows?
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But no, no. Well, yeah, Like maybe it's a
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very, very, very dark horse. Not not anticipating that being
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the case this year, but like. I get what you're saying because
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I mean, it's like a lot of attention is on Mason Win, a lot
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of attention is on Jordan Walker.
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Even. Yeah, I mean.
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Yeah, if I were them, man, I would.
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I would really just double down and and flip Sonny Gray into
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something and. You got to figure out a way to
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get Nolan out of there, too. But nobody's nobody's taking
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that bait. Yeah.
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Nolan Gorman, by the way, another name that like Brendan
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Donovan. Like they, they have some pieces
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that like, they could put some stuff together.
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Yeah. Only Marmos got to get out of
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that chair. I'm sorry.
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I'll die in that hill. I feel obligated every time we
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bring up that name. I have to mention that I still
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get comments to this day on our YouTube video where we were
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calling, we said he needed to be fired.
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And people to this day are like, yeah, it's like April 2025 and
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he's still here. So Cardinals fans definitely
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feel the pain. But All in all, though, are we
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buying? Are we buying the certainly not
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to this degree You you're not going to maintain a 415 no 1555
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OPS paste, but are we? Are we?
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I just haven't seen it enough. I mean, the it's this is great.
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A lot of it was done in one game.
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You. Know no, no but I but what I'm
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saying. Like that nugget I shared
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earlier. Going back to last year, he's
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the only catcher with 250 plus plate appearances with as high
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of a WRC plus as he has. The next closest behind him is
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William Contreras. Screw it, I'll buy it.
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Let's roll. Let's go, let's go.
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Why not? Yeah, you know, let's buy it.
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Let's buy it. Give.
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Me something exciting in Saint Louis.
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Give me something to rally behind in Saint Louis.
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I like it. Speaking of giving something to
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rally behind, I know you're a big Christian Campbell guy.
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Are we buying Say that again? I.
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Said huge. Yeah, yeah, that's what I
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thought. OK, big, big Christian Campbell
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guy you are. And I know you're a fan of this
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start coming into today. 2 Jacks already, he's hitting 423.
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He's already accumulated .7 war, which do that information what
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you will, but not bad for a guy that just signed a, what was it,
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8 years, $60 million contract OPS at 1323.
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I'm absolutely like by suicide, I'm absolutely buying this.
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He's part of the big three there with Boston and for good reason.
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And I think that this is going to age well this year given the
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state of the team. Now, I, I mentioned after he
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signed his extension, I said this could be one of those
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contracts that ages or not contract, but the trajectory
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trajectory of his career, I could easily see this be in a
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situation where, you know, maybe.
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You have like a player comp for me.
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You watch more Sox games than me, so just been catching
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highlights of me. Looks good, a lot of barrels.
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I don't the well, the problem is he's 63 and he plays second
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base, so it's like that kind of messes with my head, but.
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Like is it is DJ Lemahieu like a weird comp because I I'm not
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seeing. It's like a a.
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Lift out of him right like. No, Call Me Crazy is like an Ian
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Kinsler fit. Far.
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Off, I mean, Ian Kinsler, I think it was like 5-10, but
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yeah. That's why I I hence why I
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preface it by saying he's 63, which makes it a little bit
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tough. You're you're going to the
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player. Occasional pop could have a 25
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to 30 home run year, but it's not like perennial.
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The. 25 home run guy. The player pool at second base
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of guys that are 6 three and and he's at he's listed at six flat.
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By the way, Ian Kinsler and Devers just went yard.
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By the way, love that the kids back.
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He idiots didn't believe in Lucky Devers.
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Yeah, what a bunch of chums. Imagine not believing in Ralph
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Endeavours. Imagine like last year when
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everyone wanted to send Judge down in April.
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What like. One of the greatest seasons the
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hitter's ever had. So literally, literally.
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Seasons long boys. Yeah, I no, but like.
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Ian Kizer, like looking at it, looking at his his season logs
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here, Yeah, looking at his season dogs here the most some
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runs he had a season 32. Could I see Christian Campbell
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putting up 32 as a career high? Sure.
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Maybe. But like he said, for for the
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most part, Kinsler sitting at like 15/17/19 like that, I mean
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that yeah, that's about yeah, that's a comp that I would go
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with. That's not a bad comp.
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That's not a bad comp. Thank you.
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Doesn't look like he strikes out a ton.
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No. Doesn't look like he'd really
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like from what I've seen from him.
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It doesn't look like he falls behind a ton in the in the count
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either. You know what I mean?
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It's just like he's is very good, bad to ball skills and
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uses the entire field. From what I have seen.
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Again, you're watching him more than I am.
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So I would say I'm buying. I think it's real.
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I think there's I think it's a good combo too, like when you
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have a young kid that like is allowed to come up and not be
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the sole spotlight attention, you know what I mean?
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Like that the deep lineup and a lot of hype around the the team
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this year. So it's like feel like this is a
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good time to press this button, call these kids up.
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So yeah, I'll buy. Yeah, I'm going to.
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I'm going to go ahead and buy that.
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Sorry, I'm just taking in this dev or some run.
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By the way, fan or not a fan, your anti bias aside, are you a
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fan of the Wally Head for the home run celebration?
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I know you've seen it. Are we, are we a fan of this?
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I'm just going to go ahead and assume you're more of a fan of
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this than the Blue Jays jacket, because I think that's.
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Yeah, I'm yes. That's the.
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That's the bar. That's the.
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Jacket sucks the fact that it's been used for four straight
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years. It's not four straight years,
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has it? It feels like it.
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I've, I think we could strongly say three I, I, I could.
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You think? I could put my money on at least
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three. Sounds right.
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Three sounds right. I'm, I'm kind of over the the
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dugout home run stuff. Like I just, there's just so
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many prop like the fireman's helmet in in Los Angeles for the
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Angels. It's like.
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I kind of dig that, not going to lie.
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And you got the the thing, the Trident.
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Trident Seattle. Yeah.
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It's just like they're, they're not bad props by any means.
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I'm just like it's a lot. It's it's it's to the point
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where every team has something that reminds me, by the way, I
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don't it just it popped up in my head.
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I've meant to mention this a while ago to be better with the
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with the Dodgers wave thing that let's come up with something
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that every double home runs the way like.
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Are they doing that still? Because the last did you see,
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did you see what they're doing now?
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The celebration with the with the thing across the eyes.
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Apparently Shohei, believe it or not, I know it was crazy.
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Apparently Shohei was in an ad in Japan, I believe.
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Yeah, it wasn't an American ad. It was yeah, Japanese ad.
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And if it. Was an American ad?
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We'd know. Yeah, that's, that's a great
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point. No, but apparently it's was it
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for like a, was it like a men's makeup ad?
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Or this is like a Joey Tribbiani?
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Yeah. No, literally, that's exactly,
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that's exactly what I thought when I saw it.
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I was like, Oh my God, this is Joey.
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Apparently he's like, he takes the product like the tube of
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whatever it is and like runs it across his eyes like this.
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So apparently that's like their thing now is that I think it's,
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I think it's like any extra base hit, it's like a double or when
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they're rounding third, they. Yeah, the.
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I know, I know what you're talking about this thing.
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Yeah. So tired of it I I thought it
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was dumb last year. But I, I dig stuff like that, a
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little inside joke, a little like ribbon ribbon.
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A guy that you know, probably takes the game a little too
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seriously sometimes and shows hey, get, get, show hey to
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loosen up a little bit. There's little things that I
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think fine, like there's little those.
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Those little things are fun. It's like the second a prop
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starts to become like the main thing I'm just like.
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Nah, I I dig it. If there, if it's good, if it's,
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if there's intentionality behind it and you're not just coming up
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with something just to come up with it.
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I'm all about it. I'm all about it.
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Anything to rally. Started, by the way, with the
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Red Sox BP cart after home runs where they would hop in the cart
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and they would be, I feel like they were like the first ones to
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like have like a thing. It was like.
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Early, wasn't it? It was like 2018.
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It was or no, not no, I think that was like 2021.
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I thought. I thought that was a year they
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they went on that that LCS run anyway, I.
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Feel like that's what really kicked all this stuff out.
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Every team has their thing after like an extra base hit.
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But like as far as props go, I'm going to blame them for sure.
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Fair enough. And that was a good prop.
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I didn't mind that prop. That was great.
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It's like it's, it's naturally in the dugout, you know what I'm
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saying? Like.
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Low key kind of dangerous, though.
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I always was in that camp of like, maybe we're not just
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throwing guys into a shopping cart and running them down the
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dugout, but they made it work. I don't.
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Think if you're using something that's naturally in there like
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that, I can like I don't I don't even dislike the after the
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Dodgers home runs with like the seeds to get thrown in the guy's
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face as he's coming close. Like I think that's kind of
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funny. Like I stuff with like bubble
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gum, like dumping, like I can get on board with that stuff,
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things that are naturally there, but the second I see a mascot
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head or a freaking Blazer. With patches now, we're not
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going to we're not going to slam to the Wally head.
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I'm. Over it.
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No, we're not slaying to the Wally head moving on here,
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Spencer Torkelson, another guy that I I think well.
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May have arrived you. You wrote this guy off last year
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and I'm going to hold you to that.
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You're not getting out of this one, you said.
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I was I was just ready for a change of scenery.
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No, no, no, no. You literally said like, maybe
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this is the end of the road for this guy.
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Like maybe he's done. Maybe.
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He's like to see that receipt. I'd like to see that receipt.
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I'd like for that. I'd, I'd I'd like for that
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receipt to be dug up. You don't remember saying this.
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You, you literally, and I'm not, I'm not trying to pull a
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fastener. You don't remember saying that?
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Like maybe this was it. No, I think I need to see that
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receipt. Not now.
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You got time. OK, but I'd like to.
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I'll, I'll try to, I'll try to hopefully, hopefully he just
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goes off before next pod and and it'll just make it that much
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worse. I'll try and I'll try and.
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Find this guy watched him at ASU and he was like all their age
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over here so I, I don't remember being like that down on him.
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I I thought the tigers mistreated him.
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I thought the Tigers didn't do a great job of bringing him up
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initially and sending him down. And it was like a very rock of
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confidence, you know, kind of thing that I remember saying
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this offseason that like there was a lot of smoke with like a
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Jordan Montgomery for Spencer Torkelson trade to get
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Montgomery out of Arizona and then to get Spencer back home.
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I was like maybe a change of scenery would be good for him.
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But this is a good, it looks like a good start, man.
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This is a really good start. He looks like, I think it always
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says something. If you see power hitters, they
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can go the other way. But it's also the same thing of
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like when power hitters are hitting home runs and pulling
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the ball in, they're not needing to get super extended.
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When you see power hitters do what they need to do on balls in
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like, that's where I feel like, OK, and he looks good.
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He's popped a few in in LA, popped a few in Detroit.
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Look strong. Do you?
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OK, it's it's coming back to me a little bit.
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Maybe you didn't say that he was done as a player.
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Maybe you just said it was something to the effect of like,
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maybe this is just who he is. Do you remember this
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conversation? I'm trying to remember.
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It was it was because we were talking about what were we
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talking about? Is, I mean, it was after he got
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sent down, surely, but it the conversation was like his
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athleticism or lack thereof. And and some guys just like they
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get brought up having developed a certain type of swing.
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Maybe it's a longer swing. Do you, do you not remember this
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conversation at all? I mean, I could see that a
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little bit. I could see that somewhat being
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a thing, but I don't, I don't remember being that down on him.
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And you were pretty down on it. You didn't maybe, OK, maybe you
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didn't say like send the guy to the moon.
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But you, it was something like maybe this is just who he is.
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He is who we thought we, you know, that kind of thing.
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I don't know. I just thought I met you.
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I remember. Or I thought.
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You I tried to backpedal after off of having to go dig up some
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receipts because. I know I'm going to dig it up.
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I'm going to, we're going to bring this back.
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We're I'm I'm, I'm going to, I'm going to revisit this if I
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remember to, to go find. Those That's our goal.
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That's our goal because we've had predictions, we've had
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takes. That's the name of our show.
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So we need to make sure that we go back and recap some of these
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takes. We suck at that.
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So we're going to, we're going to hold each other accountable.
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I'm going to, yeah, I'm going to go, I'm going to go do a little
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digging. Jacob Wilson of the Athletics
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still have not gotten used to just seeing the word athletics
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in like the standings or or statistical categories.
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Just looks weird. I agree.
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Looks very odd. Jacob Wilson coming into the day
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hitting 364. Oh, what's up, pal?
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Spencer Torkelson, you buying this?
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You think? You think he's back?
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Yeah, I'm buying it. Go buy it.
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I bought it. I picked him up in fantasy
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because I said you know what this is?
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This is who he is, not who Nate thinks he is.
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All. Right, moving on, Jake words my
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mouth here. You said it, not me.
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Jacob Wilson of the Athletics. He's hitting 364 coming in
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today. 2 jacks, 7 ribbies and the name that I don't think was
24:29
getting enough. Heck, I'll even say it when I'm
24:31
when I was talking all that noise on the good noise talking
24:35
all that noise on the A's coming into the season saying keep an
24:38
eye out on the A's. They could be a team that makes
24:41
a run at it at that one of those bottom post seasons spots.
24:48
This wasn't even a name that I I recall mentioning.
24:51
I don't remember really diving into it either.
24:54
I, I kind of spaced it is, I mean, his dad, Jack Wilson, he's
24:58
he's another generation that we're getting in in the show.
25:02
And I didn't even that didn't even put it together.
25:06
Paige and I went over to a family friend's house over in
25:11
the neighborhood next to us with her parents.
25:14
And his neighbor is Jack Wilson. So I'm like, well, OK, so yeah,
25:21
shame on us for not, you know, knowing our stuff more.
25:24
But he looks good. And, and news to me, currently
25:30
listed according to Vegas as the third best odds to win Rookie of
25:35
the Year. How about that?
25:37
Good for good for Jacob Wilson. Yeah, man, for sure.
25:41
No, but you know, as I just mentioned, I I didn't give this
25:46
guy the credit he I think he deserved coming into the year.
25:49
But this is one of those names like I mentioned they they could
25:52
prove to be a a very valuable piece should they make a run.
25:58
Correct me if I'm wrong, I feel like Max Muncie has gotten a
26:00
little bit more attention over there for Rookie of the year.
26:03
Well, he plays for the Dodgers, but I'm kidding.
26:05
I know. I know who you're talking.
26:07
I know you're talking about. I know who you're talking about.
26:12
But I feel like he's gotten more naturally.
26:14
I feel like just because of the same name.
26:15
Sure, sure. But yeah, I'm, I'm buying.
26:20
Let's look I'm. Buying the fact that like what
26:24
the A's have as as an opportunity, you just have these
26:29
guys that just get to play every day and I'm buying the new
26:34
chapter that's starting. I'm buying the the the signing
26:39
and extending certain guys like I'm buying putting something
26:44
together and holding on to it. And I'm buying the fact that
26:48
this guy is going to be able to play every day without too much
26:52
expectation, without too much spotlight.
26:55
That's a good way to develop. Not not the greatest start for
26:59
Max Monty, by the way. He's he's hitting $1.15.
27:03
He's got a Jack couple RBIs but only a few hits on the air thus
27:08
far. But hopefully it turns around
27:09
because I really, I really want to see this A's take of mine age
27:16
like wine. I don't think it's a crazy take,
27:19
man. I really don't between, between
27:21
the, you know, Butler and Blade, between Langleier's.
27:25
Like who's? Doing it very well by the way.
27:28
I think he even hit another one yesterday.
27:30
Yeah. And Brooker, obviously like you
27:33
have some some stuff going on there.
27:37
Yeah, you know what, the more we talk about it, I'm like my I
27:40
think the people that were calling my take trash are, are
27:44
the ones we need to be looking at questioning.
27:47
Like my take wasn't that bad. I don't think it's, I don't,
27:52
it's, I don't know, I think it's a little crazy to say they could
27:58
sneak into a wild card, but I I do.
28:01
It's kind of like the way we've been viewing the Tigers and the
28:05
Royals. Over the last few years,
28:06
exactly. You're putting stuff together,
28:09
you're making smart moves, so. Tyler Soderstrom also swinging
28:14
it well to start the year. Yeah, very true, very true.
28:18
He's been playing first for them, right?
28:20
Yeah, yeah, dude, I'd if that rotation can put something
28:27
together respectable I that age that that take is going to age
28:31
rather well, I think. Yeah, so hopefully Spencer
28:36
Schwellenbach talking about a guy that's off to a fantastic
28:41
start, let me put, let me put the game logs that he's got.
28:45
One of the few bright spots going on over there in ATL so
28:50
far. First start of the year, went 6
28:55
deep against the Padres, only allowed a hit at 4 KS.
28:59
And then his most recent start which I believe was the 4th,
29:04
went 8 innings of shot out ball. Two hits against the Marlins, 10
29:10
KS. So right now he's he's sporting
29:14
an ERA of zeros across the board.
29:17
He's one and O 14 KS with a WHIP of .29.
29:23
Yeah, man, that's, that's pretty good, pretty good start.
29:29
What do you think? You think this is I I'm feeling,
29:33
I'm feeling positive to. Freaking clean the entire thing
29:37
up, which is buys all. Over the buys I got I got money
29:41
to spend today where I think I'm buying it all.
29:44
I I like this as a name to to slot in to maybe help serve as
29:49
AI. Don't want to say an X Factor,
29:55
but a guy that can just hold the Fort down while things get
30:01
figured out around him, including the lineup, which we
30:06
talked about last episode being horrendous with runners in
30:09
scoring position and guys that you just you just expect to be
30:13
hitting the ball, just aren't hitting the ball right now.
30:15
Guys you just feel like you can believe in blindly almost just
30:19
aren't exactly coming through right now.
30:21
But again, it's early, but if, if he can be a guy that they can
30:27
look to in the meantime is like all right, if, if this guy can
30:30
can continue to pitch well for us while we wait these other
30:34
issues out, while we iron these other things out.
30:36
And then we wait for for Acuna to get back.
30:39
We wait for Strider to get back and sort of supplement his work
30:42
in the rotation. I I feel like I could see that
30:48
scenario playing out, so I'm going to go ahead and buy it as
30:50
well. Yeah, Give me a buy on just the
30:52
fact that like I, I think it goes a long way when one side of
30:57
the ball is really struggling and the other side of the ball
31:00
picks them up. And I know it may not have
31:03
necessarily totally come out and shown in in the win column or
31:07
not, but I think that goes a long way when a pitcher can say,
31:14
you know what I got to, I got to find a way to to do it for my
31:17
team because the offense is just going through a little bit of
31:20
some stuff right now. I think that goes a long way.
31:24
And I I'm not calling Braves fans out.
31:29
I think they did somewhat miss an opportunity by not adding to
31:33
the staff this offseason. But I think you also have to
31:36
fall back and have some faith in that front office.
31:39
Then understand that, you know what, they may have known
31:41
something that we didn't with this name and saying, you know,
31:45
I think we're I think we're fine.
31:46
I don't think we need to go add. And like you said, you're going
31:49
to have reinforcements to the to the top half of that rotation
31:52
and even slot him lower in that in that rotation.
31:56
So like it's going to have some depth to it, man.
31:59
And if you can keep it going, now you're talking about a
32:02
really good top three, top 4. Sorry, I just you're talking
32:12
about names that they believed in and it made me think I've
32:17
thought about this guy multiple times since the start of the
32:20
year because I'm like, what happened to this guy, bro?
32:23
What happened to and you know, I'm terrible with name
32:28
pronunciations. Who?
32:33
Oscar. You know a.
32:35
Oh yeah, yeah, yeah. Whatever happened to him, dude?
32:37
Like he he showed up on the scene and the and they're like,
32:40
this is the next Pedro. And he pitched like it there for
32:44
a very brief stint. Yeah, I don't know where he is
32:47
now. Fell off the map.
32:49
Yeah. Is he still there?
32:50
I don't know. No, Lassie pitched for the
32:53
brave. Or just in the Oh no, he's with
32:58
the Twins. How about that?
33:00
He's pitched in five games this year already.
33:03
Or no, That was spring training, OK.
33:05
Goodness, man. No, hasn't no hasn't made an
33:08
appearance this year. Last pitch in the bigs back in
33:10
2022. Yeah, I.
33:13
Don't know maybe maybe they just get one hit wonders.
33:16
I don't know if there's. Oh, and then another guy, what
33:22
was his name? Kyle, right?
33:26
Yeah. Kyle Wright, another name feel
33:29
like Ian Anderson was like really good like when he first
33:33
came out. And then they yeah, like maybe
33:36
there's something not clicking at the big league level, like
33:39
maybe they're really developing in the, in the, in the younger
33:43
levels, but not. Dude Kyle Wright which I
33:47
completely forgot about which you know do this information
33:50
which you will doesn't move the needle for for most I would
33:53
imagine. But lead lead the majors in 2022
33:57
with 21 wins. Yeah.
34:00
And then the next year put up a negative .6 war season went one
34:04
in three with a 697. Yeah, I don't know.
34:08
And and that was it. That that's what I'm saying.
34:11
That's crazy. The number of names that they've
34:13
had where you're like, there's an obvious disconnect and why
34:20
are they doing so well early and then fading?
34:23
So you're making me a little nervous with this buy, but I'm
34:27
still going to buy and I'm not ready to throw in the towel on
34:32
the Braves, even if their own fans aren't.
34:36
Which again, revisiting the the start they had, what was it O
34:39
and seven to start the year. People couldn't seem to wrap
34:45
their heads around the fact that like, and I think I mentioned
34:47
this last episode, even when we talked about it, that no team
34:51
has made the postseason starting, forget O and seven.
34:55
No Braves team had made the postseason starting O and six
34:58
and then they went on to lose the 7th.
35:00
So they started O and seven and people were like, well, it's
35:03
early in the season. I'm like, that's fine.
35:05
I'm just letting you know that historically no team like I
35:08
agree with you. I think there's plenty of
35:10
baseball left, but history isn't on their side.
35:12
So I mean, if you think the Braves are going to be the first
35:14
team to make the postseason after starting O and seven more
35:17
power to you. And quite frankly, I I mean, I
35:20
still have them winning the division.
35:21
That's what I said before the season started.
35:24
So I'm not necessarily going to change my my take now, But I'm
35:28
just saying history is not on the side of the Braves given
35:31
their start. That's all I'm saying.
35:33
But people are like, relax, there's so much baseball left to
35:37
be played. I'm like, I trust me, I get it.
35:39
But this? It's a real fun nugget to throw
35:41
out there. It doesn't change, yeah, it
35:42
doesn't change the the reality of this nugget.
35:45
That's what our game is. It's numbers, it's stats, it's
35:48
we love that. So just because it doesn't go to
35:50
your narrative doesn't mean you can shut up.
35:54
Yeah, shut up. Speaking of shutting up, no, I
36:00
got nothing. Jack Leiter.
36:04
Jack Leiter. Is this another another another
36:07
young arm that we're buying? I'm buying, I'm buying.
36:11
I mean, I hate what the. Velo is ticked up to.
36:14
I hate the fact that he's out right now with the with the
36:16
blister situation, which that's another thing that I, I can't
36:20
say when people like grow up, dude, it's a blister.
36:23
I'm like try first of all without without blisters.
36:28
Try throwing a baseball 95 plus that's like A and then throw a
36:32
blister in there. I think that's like having a
36:34
professional driver with like a broken toe, like it's like it's
36:37
a part of, it's a necessary part for them to do their job.
36:42
Yeah, but I'm still buying just the fact that, I mean, the the
36:46
Velo itself has ticked up. It seems like they may have
36:50
found something with he did. There was a lot of nibbling last
36:55
year when he first came up. There's a lot of walks and now
37:00
it seems like something's happening with their his
37:04
approach and maybe their philosophy of of what it what it
37:08
can be right. And you see some guys that like
37:13
kind of bad with comps on the pitching side.
37:15
But like if you if you think of a, I don't know, like a glass
37:20
now is a perfect example of like, you know, when he was in
37:22
Pittsburgh, it was like sinkers down, sinkers down.
37:26
And then it was like once he left and got to Tampa, they were
37:29
like, how about we ride that fastball?
37:32
Up. Let's just let it.
37:34
Right, let's just aim down the middle and let your your
37:36
movement take over. And it doesn't always need to be
37:41
a change of scenery. Maybe it's just like actually
37:44
having Hall of Fame pitching coach and Mike Maddox being
37:48
like, you know what, let's just use what you're good at.
37:51
So I'm excited for for him between his dad and between that
37:56
coaching staff and having degrom in there and having Scherzer
38:01
last year, like you have so many resources that have this guy's
38:05
been subject to. I'm going to buy.
38:08
I'm going to buy. I'm not going to lie.
38:13
I just put two and two together that he is related to Mark
38:16
Leiter Junior. I just thought that was a
38:19
coincidence. That was that There was another
38:21
lighter, but I was like cousins, right?
38:23
Yeah, I didn't. I didn't make that connection.
38:25
But yeah, wish his cousin was as good as him.
38:29
Yeah. Can't stand Mark Leiter junior.
38:31
Sorry. No, but yeah, I think it I think
38:35
it was a change in approach from last year because he would he
38:37
would fall behind like very early in counts.
38:41
And I think he's just, I think he's they're working with him on
38:44
being more aggressive this year, getting ahead early.
38:47
And it I think even in the early going here, we're seeing a
38:51
little bit longer outings again. And I know it's still early, but
38:54
he's gone 5 innings deep in, in both starts.
38:58
His his season opening start against the the Red Sox, or I
39:04
should say his first start of the year against Red Sox when 5
39:07
innings, five hits, just one earned run, one walk and four
39:11
KS. And then his most recent start
39:13
against a twin or excuse me, the Reds when 5 innings, one hit, no
39:17
earned runs, no walks and six KS.
39:21
So a little bit more efficiency there.
39:23
Yeah, it's just recognizing who he is.
39:26
Like he's not. I don't think he needs to fish
39:28
for strikeouts. I don't think he's going to be a
39:31
a normal 8910 punch out every start kind of guy.
39:36
I just don't think that's who he is.
39:38
So it's just like pitch the contact, let our defense work.
39:42
Don't seek strikeouts. They'll just come because of
39:44
your stuff being natural and and you have good movement.
39:47
You got good Velo now? Yeah, I think it's going to be
39:50
good, man, I believe. So we bought, we're just buying
39:54
across the board on all these guys.
39:56
Buying deep pockets today I. Love it.
40:02
Is this where is this where the tone changes though?
40:05
Are we buying this hot start from from the from these two NL
40:08
W teams and the Padres and Giants?
40:13
Is this where the is this where the train stops?
40:15
Is this where you hop off, hop off the train?
40:18
That's a shame. We're at least one of them.
40:20
We're on a good. We're on a We're on a roll
40:21
there. I know, I know.
40:23
I let me guess. Let me guess.
40:26
Not buying the Giants? No.
40:29
Yeah, of course not. No.
40:30
Why? I mean, why would you?
40:33
Yeah, well, I mean, like we were talking about before we started,
40:36
it doesn't make sense to me. Like what how how the Giants are
40:41
winning these games. And again, I know it, it's early
40:43
and you you talked about it being maybe a matchups thing,
40:45
which I which I could understand.
40:48
Yeah, like with the. With the.
40:49
Power the Reds, Then they got the swept the Astros.
40:54
I think they got the Mariners right now.
40:58
Yeah, but like The thing is, and I mean, I mean, let's give some
41:04
let's give some credit to the Reds.
41:05
I think the Reds are better than the record shows right now.
41:08
I mean that rotation is is off to AI think a pretty decent
41:15
start last I checked. But the with the Giants, it just
41:19
doesn't make sense to me. With the Padres, it make like
41:22
you look at team numbers across the board.
41:24
Speaking of Padres, Jackson Merrill just hitting one over
41:29
the fence, not to the fence over the fence, but with the Padres,
41:34
it just makes sense. Like you look at the team
41:36
numbers across the board, they're like they're upper 3rd
41:41
in I mean like in strikeouts, their upper 3rd opponent
41:47
average, their fur they they have the best opponent average
41:51
in baseball coming into the day. Offensively, they're third.
41:57
They're they're you know, they're hitting for average or
41:59
279 as a team coming into today. I.
42:02
Just don't know. I don't think anyone's surprised
42:05
like they're so. Capable, right.
42:07
They're, they're capable. It's just a matter of whether or
42:09
not you can sustain that. Yeah, depth, all that kind of
42:13
stuff. And once you start getting
42:15
getting into these matchups for the Dodgers, y'all start, y'all
42:18
start beating up on each other. Those those I'm sure will take a
42:20
toll. But as of right now, that makes
42:23
sense. But with the Giants, you're
42:25
middle of the pack on both sides of the ball as it stands right
42:30
now. So I'm just not sure how they're
42:32
winning these games necessarily or a different way of saying it
42:38
is like how you're doing what you're doing.
42:43
But I don't know because of that, though, I just, I don't
42:47
know if I if I can buy it. But with the Padres, the the
42:53
evidence is there. Like, it, it just it, it, it
42:56
like it tracks. But I just, I don't know if you
42:59
can say the same thing for the Giants.
43:01
Like there's no real concrete evidence one way or another, one
43:05
side of the ball or the other that points to like, OK, yeah.
43:08
This is why we can believe that this hot start can can sustain
43:11
itself. Yeah, I just, I don't believe in
43:19
a lot of offense out of that team.
43:22
I think like pitching in defense is going to be middle of the
43:25
road. But like I I'm not super high on
43:30
Matt Chapman offensively. I like Willie Adamas.
43:35
I think Patrick Bailey's, if he can hit league average, he would
43:42
probably be a top three catcher in baseball because of what he
43:45
does behind the plate. But I just like you start
43:48
running out of names after a while and I just don't see it
43:54
being sustainable, not in that division.
44:01
Well, you go, I mean, a couple matchups, I don't know what
44:04
their schedule looks like, but back-to-back series of seeing
44:09
the Dodgers or the Padres or the Diamondbacks and all of this is
44:15
washed away, you know what I'm saying?
44:16
So yeah, yeah, yeah. I can see this team
44:19
unfortunately dropping like 8 out of 10 or dropping, you know,
44:23
like going through that kind of stretch.
44:26
Anyway, stay positive. That stretch has to.
44:30
That stretch has to be in here somewhere.
44:31
Let me see. There's got to be a couple like
44:35
back-to-back divisional matchups that are going to be hard to
44:39
handle, you know? Oh yeah, the month of June for
44:43
the Giants. Yikes.
44:47
You got, well, I mean, you start the month with wrapping up your
44:50
shoes against the Marlins, but then you've got four against the
44:52
Padres, 3 against the Braves, which say what you rule about
44:56
the Braves now, by June, they'll be fine.
44:59
Four against Padres, 3 against the Braves, and then you take a
45:02
little breather, head out to Colorado for three-game set
45:04
against the Rockies, and you've got three against the Dodgers on
45:07
the road. Then you've got three against
45:09
the Guardians, three against the Red Sox, and then you cap the
45:14
month. I mean, you got the Marlins and
45:16
the White Sox airs another, another little breather.
45:18
But then you cap the month by a start in a series against the D
45:21
backs on the road. So there you go.
45:23
Want the Junes going to be ugly? So Giants fans, get all your
45:26
optimism out. Enjoy it while you can, because
45:30
once June gets here, it's over. Exactly.
45:36
But keeping in that division, let's talk Dodgers here for just
45:39
a moment. Bryce Harper came out the quote
45:42
prior to their series with the Dodgers that I thought it'd be
45:46
worth talking about here briefly, he said.
45:48
I don't know if people will like this, but I feel like only
45:51
losers complain about what they're doing.
45:54
They being the Dodgers, I think they're a great team.
45:57
They're a great organization. That's why guys want to go over
46:00
there and play. LA is a great city to play in.
46:02
Obviously. They're the Mecca of the world,
46:05
of everything from food to nightlife to sports, the Dodgers
46:08
to the Lakers to anybody. They're going to continue to get
46:12
guys. They're going to continue to
46:13
pull guys from the sport. Bullpens, starting pitching,
46:16
international players, anything like that.
46:20
That's why this is my GOAT. He's just, he, he calls it like
46:24
it is. He calls it like it is.
46:26
Only losers are complaining about what the Dodgers are
46:28
doing. See, that's, I mean, that's all
46:30
I saw. I felt like it could have ended
46:35
there. Yeah, I mean going as far as
46:38
saying it's the Mecca of the world of everything that's.
46:41
That it we went heavy. Of of all of the takes out
46:45
there, that is one of them. That is we we poured it on a
46:49
little bit heavy towards the end there.
46:51
Bryce. But you're locked in.
46:53
He's locked into Philly for another, what, like decade?
46:57
I don't. There's no point in really
46:59
lathering him up right now. Yeah, exactly.
47:01
Exactly. So you're not trying to sell
47:03
anybody? Yeah.
47:05
Still might go though. Yeah, still keeping it real.
47:09
And there's absolutely nothing, nothing wrong with that.
47:14
I I believe it. And it's very this, if you were
47:17
to just cut that, that short, you know, little snippet of a
47:22
quote and saying like if the people that are complaining
47:25
about them are losers, like it's a gangster mentality.
47:30
Like that's a, that's a winner mentality.
47:32
You know what I mean? Like good.
47:35
I want to beat them like, you know what I mean?
47:38
I I would, I would have liked a little bit of that in the quote,
47:41
you know, like, yeah, yeah, you know what I mean?
47:42
Like that's, but you got back it up loaded up.
47:45
I don't care. I still, I'm still going to want
47:47
to beat you and it makes me want to beat you more.
47:49
Look, I understand you want a little more ferocity out of
47:52
Bryce there and I agree. I'm with you.
47:54
I would have loved a little more like, you know, kind of stick
47:57
the knife in and twist a little bit, get the get the wheels
47:59
turning, maybe in in a little bit of a rivalry setting there
48:03
or or stoke the fires of a potential rivalry.
48:06
But you know, you got to remember we're in a different
48:09
era with Bryce now. This is banana bread Bryce.
48:11
We do. We're not going to get, we're
48:13
not getting the same fire from him.
48:16
Slow heartbeat, Bryce. Yeah.
48:18
Oh, yeah, yeah, you're, I mean, we're going to get, I would
48:20
imagine the same sort of output from, from Bryce we've seen over
48:23
the last decade. But the mentality, you know,
48:28
it's sort of like a Conor McGregor, you're not going to
48:30
get the same, you're going to get a little bit of a of an, an
48:34
aged, a mature, a more stoic Bryce.
48:39
Now, I mean, this is barista Bryce we're talking about.
48:42
I don't know if I don't know if you're going to be getting that
48:44
same sort of those same sound bites.
48:47
But we shall stay. We'll see if I mean, this isn't
48:50
going to turn into anything because he's he's giving them
48:52
the props that they're due. So you know.
48:55
Maybe that's the new move. Stop giving bulletin board
48:58
material and just give give them their flowers.
49:02
Yeah, lull em to sleep a little bit and then come in and take a
49:05
series from him that just do that.
49:10
City Connect leaks. Did you by chance see Soft?
49:13
Some of these I heard there was a bunch that came out though.
49:18
Let me. I don't know what you have seen
49:23
yet. Let me send this over to you.
49:24
Yeah, just text it to me just so you can reference it.
49:28
The foot. I don't know if these are legit,
49:32
but from all reports I've seen that the leaks the person or the
49:39
account or who or whoever was that leaked these has a leaked
49:41
previous things before and they ended up being right.
49:44
So I think they're they're valid and I know that the Red Sox one
49:48
was reported to be green the new one that they're dropping and
49:52
that is in fact a green city connect.
49:55
So our adventures say that these are right, but the Rockies, the
49:59
Red Sox, the Marlins and the White Sox, their their newest
50:05
connects have been leaked. We're.
50:09
Going to buy sell on this too. Just keep the trend going.
50:11
Sure. I, well, let me just preface
50:14
this by reiterating, and I'm, I'm not going to get upset about
50:18
it. I'm I'm, I'm older, I'm wiser
50:22
now than I was the last time we talked about city connects,
50:25
which was probably like a week ago.
50:27
But I am older. I'm wiser now.
50:29
I'm not going to get worked up over these things.
50:31
But let me just reiterate the fact that Nike needs to just
50:38
call these what they are. They're they're alternates.
50:43
These are not sit. There is nothing about any of
50:46
these uniforms that connects you to the city.
50:50
It's just a team alternate. Just call them alternates.
50:54
Yeah, and that's all I'll say on the matter because I don't I
50:56
don't care deeply enough to get all worked up about it anymore.
51:00
Like the Red Sox one, for example, they're modeling it
51:03
after after the Green Monster. They've got the if you look
51:06
above the label on the bottom by the hem, it's got the the Green
51:11
Monster lights on there like the scoreboard.
51:13
Lights. Yeah, I'll buy this.
51:14
I'll buy this one. Yeah, very, very minimalist.
51:19
And they've rocked green in the past like they've.
51:21
Rocked green in the past. It's a it's a muted green like
51:25
that of the monster, which I'm a fan of.
51:28
Little bit of bias there, certainly, but you know, I'll
51:30
buy it. But at the end of the day.
51:32
Sucker for sleeve stripes, by the way.
51:34
Towards the end of the sleeve, yeah.
51:36
But at the end of the day, how is this connecting you to the
51:38
city of Boston? It doesn't.
51:39
It connects you to Fenway. Which is fine.
51:42
The Home Park of the Boston Red Sox, which is the team that's
51:45
wearing them. There's no connection going
51:47
going on with the city. The other one that I think got
51:50
taught or the one I would say that got the most engagement,
51:57
we'll call it, is the the White Sox one just going straight
52:02
Bulls I'm. Going to buy it, I'll be honest.
52:05
Are you really buying this? Yeah, he's like, why not?
52:08
You have nothing else, nothing else to be proud of.
52:13
What? You have nothing else to be
52:16
proud of and. My goodness.
52:20
Absolutely nothing else. Why not throw some some Jordan
52:25
ones in the team shop and see those?
52:27
Go off the shelf and that guy hate the White Sox more than you
52:30
and it's it blows my mind any opportunity.
52:36
I like these more than the the South side ones.
52:39
I didn't, I was, I was in the minority there.
52:41
I get it. I didn't like them, did not like
52:45
those and I, there were a lot of people's like favourites.
52:49
They just didn't do it for me. This I'm like, yeah, sure, just
52:52
throw a Cubs one. This looks like a like a one
52:55
night giveaway at the stadium for the 1st.
52:57
That's what people said they said it seems like it seems like
53:00
a giveaway jersey. In fact, let me do the people
53:04
watching, watching on the stream of service here.
53:08
Let me get this. Let me get this up there so
53:10
people. Can see.
53:11
There we go. It's.
53:12
A good job that, you know, I got to do my job.
53:15
Here we go. This is what we're looking at.
53:17
Here. That's on me, folks.
53:19
I apologize. Shout out to those of you in the
53:21
stream. I should have been on this from
53:22
the get go. But if you're listening, you go
53:25
ahead and pull up the graphic. I tweeted it.
53:27
I I post it to our socials. You can see it as as and
53:30
reference it as we move along here.
53:32
But yeah, the Red Sox one, like I mentioned, very, very
53:35
minimalist. The the the White Sox one very
53:39
Bulls theme here. The Marlins, there's nothing
53:43
else to be like, You see what I'm saying?
53:45
Like it's you're utilizing one of your strong suits and it's
53:51
the fact that the Bulls were the heart of the city dominant team
53:57
for a while. Yeah, and then the Marlins.
54:02
Jordan was a White Sox. True, true.
54:08
The Marlins, I feel like you take a step back there.
54:12
I don't know, feels kind of weird.
54:16
Ship it in Miami, just everyone needs to be fired there.
54:22
I. Man, anytime a city connects get
54:26
brought up he just he just torpedoes into a because.
54:29
It's a perfect correlation of how they're what's going on and
54:33
who's doing their job and who isn't.
54:35
That's fair. Speaking of Rockies, What?
54:38
Same with the Rockies. My beef with the Rockies is this
54:42
this trend in baseball now of like the buttonless V-neck
54:46
thing. That's no, let's not make this a
54:49
thing. Let's not make this a thing.
54:52
Buttons belong in baseball. Full buttons, not even the one
54:56
the two buttons up top. This isn't college baseball.
55:00
This is the this is these are the big leagues, folks.
55:04
Buttons belong in baseball. That's going to be our new.
55:07
That's our new slogan. Buttons belong in baseball.
55:11
Yeah. It's, I hate it.
55:12
Actually. It's my least favorite.
55:15
It's my least favorite one. I don't know Miami one just with
55:21
the weird lines the. The Miami one, if you took Miami
55:26
off the chest, that's a that's just a golf shirt.
55:28
That's just a golf polo. Take the buttons off, take Miami
55:33
off of it. I'm positive Nike has put out
55:36
golf shirts with that state that same lining.
55:39
I believe it. Yeah, I don't mind that they're
55:44
trying to like inch the teal back into it, but.
55:47
Yeah, the the Miami, yeah, this. Whole pink thing it just yeah.
55:52
No, I I dig it. I dig, I dig the color scheme.
55:54
It's just you could have, I think he could have done a
55:56
little more. But anyway, not to not to go on
56:00
and on about these closing the book, Let's get this off here.
56:06
Closing the book. Couple updates with the Dodgers
56:10
show Hay's plan to return to the mounds.
56:14
He threw a bullpen session this weekend and the plan is to get
56:17
them ready for the post season, which was sort of news to me.
56:20
I thought the the expectation was it maybe like a mid to late
56:24
summer return to the mound. Yeah, same.
56:27
But I guess they're just really taking this ramp up slow is.
56:30
That why you took him first overall in fantasy.
56:34
We don't need to divulge my my approach in fantasy.
56:40
That's a tough spot. To be in because you're like,
56:42
are you the guy that is going to say no to no to show?
56:45
Exactly, it's a. It's a difficult place.
56:49
I get it. That was, it was like me with
56:51
Christian McCaffrey last year was like at 2 was like, you
56:56
know, oh. I mean, I don't know.
56:57
How to be the guy that says no to Christian McCaffrey?
57:00
And then I got burned. Well, where are you going to
57:02
play him? Second base.
57:04
I got burned. What?
57:07
I'm just kidding. You just shifted to talking
57:10
about fantasy football and didn't even mention that we're
57:12
talking fantasy football. There's people that.
57:13
Don't know the last time that was decently high pick in a
57:16
draft. That's fair.
57:17
Seem to be getting burned a lot with that randomizer.
57:21
People that don't follow football, like scrambling on the
57:23
front right now. Crew who what what, what
57:26
division is this guy in? I've never heard of this guy.
57:28
Young kid coming up for the Giants.
57:30
For the Giants? Yep, keep an eye on him.
57:33
He's going to be a solid middle infield option for the Giants
57:36
for for years to come. And then Blake Snell to the IL,
57:41
Well, actually keeping in that division, Blake Snell and
57:46
Catelle Marte both the IL Snell with shoulder inflammation,
57:49
Catelle Marte with a strained left hamstring.
57:52
Hate to see that after the contract.
57:55
Like I mean you hate to see it generally, but whenever a guy is
57:58
able. To.
57:58
It's only a 10 day though so. Maybe, Yeah, yeah, he was off
58:03
the not 1/2 bad start. He was slashing 346-460-9462.
58:09
So hopefully he can just pick right back up where he left.
58:11
Off and now it has not looked great.
58:15
No one. He's 1 and O2 ERA, he's made two
58:19
starts. He's looked, he's looked pretty
58:22
good. He's not a ton of strikeout
58:24
numbers. Maybe not, yeah, maybe not, but.
58:28
I was looking at fantasy points wise.
58:30
I think it was like A5 spot and a four spot, yeah.
58:35
Well, I mean, that's what that's what, yeah, that's what Snell
58:37
does. He he puts guys on, he gets guys
58:39
on, but he he avoids the damage. So I'm sure the Dodgers are
58:43
hopeful that he can continue that, well, maybe fewer guys on,
58:46
but continuing to limit damage when he returns.
58:50
But other than that, I think that's all we got news wise.
58:54
You got anything else for the folks?
58:56
No, let's get out of here before the hour hits.
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