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MLB Division Races, Pitching Evolution, and Scene Projects Sports Network Expansion · Scene Projects Sports Network

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  Welcome in to seven eight nine on the scene project sports network.
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  I am your host, Bubba Starts, and we are about to have some fun tonight.
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  We got the full crew on for the show.
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  I am joined as always by my cohost, Big B.
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  B, what's shaking up there in Minnesota today?
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  The weather's was pretty good today, but this whole week has been a sports lover's dream.
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  If you like baseball, you got baseball action.
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  You got basketball playoffs, hockey playoffs.
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  And, of course, if you're a wrestling fan like myself, we got WrestleMania forty two going on
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  in the background.
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  So but outside of that, just wanted to talk some ball.
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  There's some exciting games today plus this weekend, so I can't wait to touch base on all
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  of them.
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  Yes, sir.
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  My cubbies got a, extra innings w today.
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  We're gonna talk more about that as we go on.
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  Shady's What
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  is the Dodgers loss?
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  That's all that matters.
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  Well, we're gonna get to that too.
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  What's happening, shady?
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  What's good, boys?
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  How are we?
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  We're good, man.
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  How are you doing?
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  Hey.
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  We're coming in hot.
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  We're coming in fourteen and seven hot, baby.
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  Atlanta braves leading it.
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  Are we first we're first in the whole MLB with fourteen and seven, ain't we?
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  But we're doing good, man.
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  Enjoying the weekend, watching some games, rounding it up.
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  It's cool down here in the South.
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  How are how are we out there?
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  For me today, it was, balmy, I guess, we would call it.
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  55 after being, like, in the thirties and forties this weekend, after being 80 on, like,
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  Wednesday, Thursday, Friday last week.
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  Yeah, bro.
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  And then we're back to 80 tomorrow.
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  So this is pretty typical March, April weather, for us, but, I'll bring in pods, man.
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  Pods was out golfing today, and I'm jealous as hell.
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  Pods, what's shaking, buddy?
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  Not much.
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  I couldn't help but notice be there mentioning my dodgers losing to the rockies twice in two
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  nights.
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  Yeah.
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  Our pitching needs some work.
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  The
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  dynasties is over.
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  It's over.
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  Can't beat the
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  Oh my god.
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  We're booked.
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  We're 20 games in.
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  The dynasty's over.
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  It'd be nice.
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  It would be, but we we all know dodgers are coming back.
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  They got the stunts up.
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  They got the MVP and possibly Cy Young award winners right there.
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  So
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  Got a cheat code is what you
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  mean.
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  Sweating too much.
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  Yeah.
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  Let me let me just say this.
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  I am so grateful to be witnessing this era of Dodger baseball considering just how mismanaged
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  the Dodgers were back in the late two thousands and the February of early when we got rid of
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  Johnson after we went and won our division at 86 games, and they got rid of him.
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  So you know?
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  Well, now the
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  the business plan seems pretty easy now.
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  Spend all the money on all the best players and win some freaking world series.
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  I mean, it seems pretty simple.
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  Hey.
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  We just do what the Yankees did, but better, and we got better weather.
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  I will give you the better weather.
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  I I think that they they have a few more series to
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  go will agree
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  with you.
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  Can compare No.
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  No.
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  No.
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  I'm saying they do they they do what the Yankees did, but we do it better in the modern
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  day, and the Yankees haven't been able to do it since, like, 2006.
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  Well, because, yeah, Steinbrenner's kid ain't Steinbrenner.
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  That's that's the that's the
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  issue.
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  Just like Mark Davis's kid ain't Mark Davis.
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  No.
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  Exactly.
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  Exactly.
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  Where do you guys wanna start today?
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  My Cubbies have been on five game winning streak, crawling our way back into the NL
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  Central.
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  Shady mentioned his braves, out there doing big things.
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  Dodgers, I don't think anybody's worried about that team.
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  It it's I have somewhere to start
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  if y'all let me.
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  Let's go.
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  Padres on the West Coast have come back, and they are on a four game winning streak.
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  Mason Miller, the reaper, he is earning that name.
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  The things that that man is doing in the eighth and ninth inning is just electric.
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  It feels like there's no hope whenever he enters the stadium and takes the mound.
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  If he's in an opposing stadium, the air leaves the building.
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  And when he comes out to Petco, it's like everybody is hopped up on coffee, iced mocha,
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  and a whole lot of caffeine just flowing.
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  So I we're talking all this shit about the Dodgers losing two games.
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  They are still top in the league at fifteen and six with a seven fourteen win per second.
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  Yeah.
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  Suck it, shady.
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  Yeah.
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  We're there.
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  We're in the bottom of the second.
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  Hey.
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  What the braves are doing is no joke, though.
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  Like, half their roster's injured.
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  Look at the standings.
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  Could be.
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  Yeah.
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  But if you look at the standings, what about the brewers?
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  Twelve and nine and sitting tied for last place in the in the central.
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  Yeah.
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  But that division is just tight.
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  I mean, there's only two games.
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  The the cubs are tied with them at twelve and nine.
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  The reds are leading the division at fourteen and eight.
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  So the NL Central just doesn't have any teams.
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  I think that's gonna be that's gonna be wild.
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  If Pittsburgh were wide open game, I Cincinnati's for real.
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  They came on strong last year.
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  The cardinals, I don't I don't know.
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  That that organization's hard.
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  They they they are really strong for a while and then kinda dip off.
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  The Cubs, I think, are gonna pick it up notoriously.
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  Slow starts for them with the weather being what it is in March and April in Chicago.
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  But, yeah, the Brewers play indoors.
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  So they were they don't really have
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  an excuse Yes. For a
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  excuse
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  Yes.
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  For a slow start up there.
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  Is there, you know, I I think it's a little early to say that their kind of, dominance in
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  the NL Central is coming to a close, but, I think that NL Central is just gonna be like
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  that all day.
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  And the Cubs have had the benefit of beating up on the Phillies and the Mets the last couple of
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  days and looking at their records.
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  The Mets again today, seven and fifteen.
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  The Phillies, we got the Phillies and
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  another two games.
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  So Are the Mets
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  still on that losing streak?
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  Dude, the Mets
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  could get beat.
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  The Cubs this weekend.
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  So They could
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  get beat.
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  Extended to?
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  Oh, that's a good question.
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  Here.
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  Let me slide this window over.
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  Shady, you're an NLE's guy.
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  They've lost 11 in a row.
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  Yeah, bro.
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  Yeah.
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  At this point, they're saying they could get beat by the Savannah bananas.
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  I wish they wouldn't say that, but it's free advertising for the bananas, and I'm not so
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  sure I would disagree.
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  Well, I'll tell you right now.
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  The boys go to New week.
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  So that next winning a losing streak will probably end.
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  It might.
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  Well, what about the twins, b?
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  Oh, I'll go we'll circle back to Mason Miller.
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  He's right.
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  That's probably the biggest story.
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  But what about the twins?
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  They went on a tear.
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  They sure did.
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  Yeah.
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  Both.
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  Hanging.
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  11 11.
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  They're playing 500 ball in April.
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  I think twins.
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  And and Minnesota's pissed.
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  I I think, everyone in Minnesota is like, what the hell we
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  were supposed fuck
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  this year?
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  I sold off my season tickets for nothing.
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  I got and then we're gonna be good.
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  I was yeah.
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  I'm catching that vibe from the twins guys, man.
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  Like, I was like, wait a minute.
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  Everybody was like
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  Minnesotans happy, man.
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  You can't do it.
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  What a week could do.
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  Do it.
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  So what about old Mason Miller there?
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  He he has been No.
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  Because they're they're not even keeping stats on Mason Miller's ERA or stuff right now.
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  They're keeping stats on who's hit the ball.
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  Who's His ERA is, like, zero.
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  Zero.
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  I think it's zero.
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  It's zero.
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  He's not giving up a run.
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  He's they're keeping up with hits.
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  I think he's faced 26, 27 batters now, and he's struck out at least 19 of them.
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  Yeah.
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  I think four people have hit the ball off Mason Miller this year, which is good for you, Mason.
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  I don't know what we did last offseason.
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  If you had a death in the family, condolences from our show because apparently nobody said
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  anything to you.
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  But we hope you're okay.
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  If you need to reach out, we're always here for you.
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  But you seem angry, and you may be carrying a little something on you.
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  And if you take it out the whole season, a 162 games, we will.
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  You're requested to go to therapy, sir.
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  Like, the dude is on fire.
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  With as strong as the rest of that pitching staff is, and how dangerous that lineup can be
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  if it gets hot, San Diego has to be, you're hoping that they can take out the Dodgers and
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  kinda leave it open out there, moving into the playoffs.
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  I mean, obviously, we're a long ways from that, but, you know, can they knock them off?
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  Is anyone in the NL gonna rival those two teams for the wildcard spots?
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  Right?
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  Is there gonna be two other teams that are good enough, to push one of those teams out?
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  It's hard to say that there will be.
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  And, honestly, on the outside looking in, you have the Arizona Diamondbacks who had a pretty
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  good run last year too who might win who might win a 100 games and not make the playoffs.
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  Right?
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  Like, I think you you got a bunch of teams right now that that are looking in that 90 plus
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  wins, and it's gonna be tough.
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  I I think the NL is gonna be really, really strong this year.
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  Just looking at it early, I I think you're seeing a lot.
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  Now and I wanna go back because I'm a little bit older than Pods is, and and you too, Shady.
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  But do you think that the competition in the NL since they added the designated hitter on that
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  side post COVID, do you think that made a big difference in the competitive nature of the
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  National League?
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  Go ahead.
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  Pause.
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  Yes.
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  Changed the game.
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  Right?
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  I really do.
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  Yeah.
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  Because it brought something to the NL.
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  It brought consistency.
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  Yeah.
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  You didn't have to worry about when you wanted to pull.
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  And I I mean, this look at this designated hitter rule.
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  It works out great for Shohei because Shohei can go out there and pitch, and then he can
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  hit, and he doesn't have to get out of the lineup.
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  Yeah.
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  Because then they can just treat the pitcher as a defensive replacement while still keeping him
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  hitting in the DH spot.
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  I never thought of not just for the Dodgers,
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  but great teams.
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  Right.
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  Right.
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  Right.
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  Such a unique case there with with Shohei being the best hitter in the league, but also being
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  able to give you a bunch of really good innings.
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  But when you pull the pitcher, you don't have to pull him out of the game.
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  I never I'd never even considered that.
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  That's, yeah, that's wild.
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  What an advantage.
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  What a great time for that kid to be born and then, like, coming into the league as this is
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  all materializing.
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  Yeah.
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  I I would I would agree.
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  I would agree.
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  I would say, you know, there was I don't know.
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  I was a kid of that too, though.
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  It was fun watching, like, Madison Bumgarner right there at the end, hit some home runs.
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  You know?
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  Like, we all kinda got pumped up about that for a minute.
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  Oh.
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  We lose b?
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  I think we lost b.
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  He'll be back.
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  Like, Bumgarner
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  says, hi, boys.
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  Hey, Danielle.
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  She can't wait to get together with everybody on the golf course.
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  I know that.
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  I there's always a
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  Danielle, you're gonna be golfing with my wife soon.
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  Yeah.
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  Shout out to Scotland.
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  I don't know if she's still in the in the room with you, but we can't wait.
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  We love having our wives, affiliated with everything that we are doing and, very
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  grateful.
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  Hey.
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  And the cat too.
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  Cat's still hanging out.
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  Yep.
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  That's so good.
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  If there was a camera on my wife, she would have all three cats probably.
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  It's not a star.
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  There he is.
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  No.
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  Go well and and we'll get Bee's thoughts on this too because he grew up a a big, you know,
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  a big fan of the twins who obviously play in the AL, and I can't wait to kinda get his
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  thoughts on, you know, the the other side of the coin, right, where it's like you had
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  something that made the AL unique and now it's not anymore.
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  It'd be interesting to, talk.
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  You guys go ahead and talk amongst yourselves.
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  I'm gonna get some, banners and some production stuff.
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  Yeah.
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  You're good.
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  Okay.
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  Yeah.
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  I was gonna say now, like, the main thing, I like the nineties.
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  Like, it was fun.
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  Like, watching Bumgarner hit, watching Cologne hit a home run, like, you know, it gave the
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  opportunity for some big moments to happen.
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  Yeah.
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  You know, the 40 year old.
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  You know?
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  But it was it was a killer because you were either sacrifice bunting or you just strike it
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  out.
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  And that was basically it.
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  Unless you were the Mets and you had Jacob DeGrom who used to play shortstop for Stenson.
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  So DeGrom could hit.
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  Wow.
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  That's what
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  I'm saying about Baumgartner, man.
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  Baumgartner was the stuff.
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  But, no.
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  It's definitely
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  Danielle, I don't think you do.
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  Bubba told me that you sink putts.
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  Yeah.
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  She's got a dead eye, man.
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  I'm telling you, you get a foursome together with her, and that's why I love the skunk
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  classic setup.
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  Shout out to our sponsors of our golf content.
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  Indeed.
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  But it's a coed tournament, so you have to have a female on.
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  And having someone that just, like, was born with tiger vision is a huge asset.
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  So
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  Hear that, ladies?
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  I need a partner.
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  Hey.
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  Anybody?
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  Shady's single.
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  Let's find Shady at golf.
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  Needs a partner, and Shady needs a shed.
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  I put that too far out on the Internet.
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  Should go play some golf.
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  How about that?
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  Let's just play some golf.
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  I'm driving.
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  You know, I got I got one thing to contribute before Bea gets back here.
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  We talked about the NL West and Mason Miller's absolute run of just dominance.
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  But one thing that I did notice too is I took a took some time.
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  Joe Adell had that great three run robbing homer game for the angels in the American
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  League West.
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  The American League West right now is wide open.
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  The Astros and the Mariners have underperformed so far through the first 20 games where your
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  three top teams are the Athletics at the top.
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  You've got the Angels right there and the Rangers right there, and those three teams are
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  within three games of each other.
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  Yeah.
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  So who woulda saw the athletics being at the top of that division that the Astros and the
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  Mariners typically have fought for with the exception of the Rangers winning the World
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  Series and dominating back in '23?
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  Yeah.
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  Well
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  Well and no doubt the mariners the mariners are suffering as Cal Raleigh, bat just stays kinda
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  ice cold, but you gotta imagine that kids work together.
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  Little inside baseball for y'all.
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  Shady used to coach Cal back in the day.
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  Taught him everything he knows.
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  Right?
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  Yeah.
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  I used that one yet.
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  Yeah.
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  I used that one.
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  No.
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  Yeah.
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  I did.
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  I coached Cal when he was back in high school with Smoky Mountain.
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  But, I mean, that's what I was gonna say.
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  Like, I mean, you remember you gotta go back to the last, I mean, the last game they played.
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  You gotta go back to that interview with Brian Wu in the locker room when somebody in the
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  background yelled the f word real loud.
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  And it had think it was Julio Rodriguez or something.
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  They're off they're coming off a hangover, man.
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  They emptied the tank, had their heart broke, which is fine.
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  You know, they'll they'll snap out of it.
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  But, like, speaking about the Astros, Yordon's leading the league in home runs, so they're
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  gonna turn around eventually.
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  Yeah.
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  That that one's gonna come down to that's gonna be the exhausted division.
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  Whoever makes the playoffs, exhausted.
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  That's what I
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  You know, I'll be honest.
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  I hope just for the sake of legacy that it's the angels so that we can see Trout in the
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  playoffs.
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  That's a good point.
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  That would just I don't know.
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  He's
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  my He's think about this.
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  They had O'Tony
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  He's not making it the whole year.
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  For five seasons, six seasons, and they never once sniffed the playoffs.
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  I mean, I feel for
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  the dude.
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  Let me tell you
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  a story, Pods.
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  Let me tell you a little little little six second story here.
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  Played for a team when I was growing up after the World Series.
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  See that right there?
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  That they give you a gold medal when you go to that thing.
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  Next team that we played for was called the Table Rock Falcons.
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  You know how many games we won in two years, Pods?
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  One.
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  The other team didn't show up.
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  That's the only way we were winning, bro.
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  We quit twice.
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  I mean, it is just it is crazy.
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  I don't know how the solution streaks happen, but, yeah, no.
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  They're gonna be on one for a while.
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  They will never win.
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  Yeah.
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  I don't I don't know.
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  It's just right now with Cal, I've watched a couple of his at bats, not just from the
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  highlights, but just, like, individual at bats that you can watch on mlb.com.
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  And it just doesn't feel like he's taking the same at bats that he took last year.
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  I feel like he's I feel like he's rushing.
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  I feel like he he feels like he needs to make an impact right now, but he needs to just stay
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  patient.
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  He's getting out in front of balls that normally last year, he was gapping into doubles
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  or he was putting over the fence.
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  So, like, I feel like he just he needs to settle in a bit.
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  And I'll be fair to him too.
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  Julio's getting paid a whole lot of money to do what now?
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  Seriously.
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  We'll take a little bit that.
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  Julio to do?
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  Not nothing.
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  JD's gonna need a job anyway.
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  I tell you that's what I was doing.
• 18:07
  He's like, I mean, pods ain't wrong.
• 18:09
  Pods ain't wrong.
• 18:09
  Need to go and maybe you need
• 18:12
  to go and
• 18:13
  go coach Julio on how to I
• 18:15
  don't know.
• 18:16
  They ain't gonna let me out there.
• 18:18
  Well, they got Brady.
• 18:19
  Hit some fun.
• 18:19
  Go.
• 18:19
  Get out
• 18:20
  of here.
• 18:20
  No.
• 18:21
  No.
• 18:21
  They ain't gonna let me out there.
• 18:22
  No.
• 18:23
  I was gonna say, they do need to do all that.
• 18:24
  But, really, honestly, that's why I lit a cigarette.
• 18:27
  I was like, just hit the ball, boys.
• 18:29
  It's it's time.
• 18:30
  Me and Bubba said that, I think, in the first episode.
• 18:32
  That's how baseball is.
• 18:33
  It's time.
• 18:34
  And and I wonder Yep.
• 18:35
  How much of it is him, feeling the pressure, maybe trying to do a little bit too much.
• 18:39
  How
• 18:40
  are doing?
• 18:40
  And the other side of that is the analytics in this game are incredible right now.
• 18:43
  That pitchers are going he he has trouble hitting the ball there, hitting this pitch,
• 18:48
  hitting this.
• 18:48
  Like, we're not going to give this man an opportunity to hurt us.
• 18:53
  We know that.
• 18:53
  Yeah.
• 18:54
  That day that day is coming on, brother.
• 18:56
  No way you hitting on one of us this
• 18:58
  year.
• 18:58
  He's back.
• 19:00
  I hope so.
• 19:01
  How are you guys?
• 19:04
  We're still here.
• 19:04
  We're talking about how Raleigh's flump and how we can help him.
• 19:09
  B just got out of here.
• 19:10
  He's like, oh, I'm I'm having issues.
• 19:12
  He's just watching WrestleMania.
• 19:13
  That's all.
• 19:13
  Good.
• 19:14
  No.
• 19:14
  I was having issues with the laptop.
• 19:16
  I'm back on my tablet, but yeah.
• 19:19
  WrestleMania is up.
• 19:20
  But, yeah, Kyle Riley is struggling to start the season, but I would say next Monday ish,
• 19:27
  you'll probably get a good history going against the twins.
• 19:33
  Well, I know you guys are talking about I know you guys are talking about the Mets, love game
• 19:37
  losing streak.
• 19:38
  Well, that'll come to end this week because the twins are flying out there today or tomorrow to
• 19:43
  play them.
• 19:44
  So
• 19:44
  Tomorrow, probably.
• 19:45
  They just
• 19:46
  I don't know.
• 19:47
  They're still missing So to.
• 19:49
  God for what?
• 19:50
  Are are are they truly missing So to?
• 19:54
  Anybody Mitsuki?
• 19:56
  I
• 19:56
  think they said that he's got a hamstring strain.
• 19:58
  I can't believe it took us till June to win 11 games last year.
• 20:02
  This team is built to lose.
• 20:04
  Don't worry.
• 20:04
  They're gonna end up making the playoffs.
• 20:06
  Watch.
• 20:07
  Well, I def I definitely do like that kid they got.
• 20:10
  I should call him kid because, you know, he's probably older.
• 20:13
  But Bradley is looking really good right now.
• 20:17
  So Taj Bradley?
• 20:21
  Yeah.
• 20:21
  If him if him and
• 20:22
  He's good.
• 20:23
  Yeah.
• 20:23
  If him and and Ryan can be healthy and solid, that'd be a nice one two punch.
• 20:30
  Something Twins haven't had in years.
• 20:32
  Yeah.
• 20:33
  I I'm just gonna throw the standings back up there for a second.
• 20:36
  We'll kinda go through all the team.
• 20:37
  Shout out to the MLB for having a sweet website and letting us use it on our show.
• 20:43
  Not that they gave me permission or anything.
• 20:45
  But
• 20:46
  They did.
• 20:46
  Don't worry.
• 20:47
  They did.
• 20:47
  Let us in the mail.
• 20:49
  So ALEs, the Yankees, we're pretty used to seeing that up top there.
• 20:54
  Red Sox at the bottom with the Blue Jays.
• 20:56
  See?
• 20:57
  A little less surprised by the Red Sox as it feels like their organization's gonna be going
• 21:01
  through some pretty massive changes, over the next probably season or two.
• 21:06
  But Toronto, this team was just in the World Series.
• 21:10
  A little bit of a angle to rise for a young team, you think, Shady?
• 21:14
  Oh, yeah.
• 21:14
  Same thing, I would say.
• 21:16
  I mean and they got Beau Bichette.
• 21:18
  He's I mean, you know, he started off hot.
• 21:20
  Of course, he started off in teams not hot.
• 21:22
  He came from another team.
• 21:23
  So, yeah, it makes sense.
• 21:25
  Those long seasons, man.
• 21:27
  Short layover, right back
• 21:29
  They just lost they lost Beau Bichette to the Mets.
• 21:33
  Yep.
• 21:34
  And then He's Yeah.
• 21:35
  Springer got hurt again, and they're pitching besides Dillon Cease.
• 21:40
  You don't know what you're gonna get on a night to night basis.
• 21:42
  That's right.
• 21:43
  Yeah.
• 21:44
  Yeah.
• 21:45
  Dylan Cease was supposed to pay off, but he it's you know, that's the
• 21:49
  white former White Sox.
• 21:51
  That's that's what I was gonna say.
• 21:52
  It's the White Sox.
• 21:53
  He's doing great.
• 21:55
  Is he, or are
• 21:56
  we just looking in the wrong spot?
• 21:58
  Does this just look good in the brown yard?
• 22:00
  You guys think Tampa Bay will be able to keep from imploding at some point this season and
• 22:05
  make a run for the playoffs?
• 22:07
  I know early to tell, but they're hanging right with the Yankees here early season.
• 22:12
  I'd say zero chance.
• 22:15
  Well I have to see Tampa Bay play the Yankees first for, like, an important series.
• 22:22
  And the thing, don't forget, guys.
• 22:24
  You know, Tampa Bay and Oakland's without a home.
• 22:27
  So those guys make the playoffs.
• 22:29
  What are they gonna do to get those crowds in there?
• 22:31
  I mean
• 22:31
  In the in the words of Joe Dirt, a a home and where you make it.
• 22:35
  Yep.
• 22:37
  Yep.
• 22:38
  Well, if they make the playoffs, they're probably gonna find the biggest baseball field,
• 22:45
  whether that's college or minor league that they have there in the Tampa area and use that
• 22:50
  for the postseason, and they'll probably do the same thing for the athletics there in
• 22:53
  Sacramento.
• 22:54
  Why don't
• 22:54
  you just go across?
• 22:56
  Don't they still have a team in Miami?
• 22:59
  Yeah.
• 22:59
  No?
• 23:00
  Yeah.
• 23:01
  Nobody's going to the games either.
• 23:02
  Yeah.
• 23:03
  Let's go to the between the night
• 23:04
  line.
• 23:04
  That.
• 23:05
  Let's go to the NLE East.
• 23:07
  Oh, yeah.
• 23:08
  Well, we'll just keep cruising.
• 23:11
  Well, obviously, AL Central here.
• 23:12
  Cleveland, Minnesota hanging in there playing 500 ball, and then you got your bottom feeders,
• 23:18
  the White Sox and the Royals.
• 23:20
  Shout out to, Pod's other team, which is unfortunate because those are, like, the two
• 23:25
  teams that I'm closest to to go catch a game, and neither one of them are gonna be very good
• 23:30
  most of the season.
• 23:31
  I'm a little disappointed in that.
• 23:33
  Maybe I'll make it to Chicago once this year.
• 23:35
  I got to go last year.
• 23:36
  It was awesome.
• 23:37
  It was awesome.
• 23:38
  Look at this division, though.
• 23:39
  Look at the AL West.
• 23:40
  That's a mess.
• 23:42
  That is a tight division.
• 23:44
  Well, no team, like, running away with anything.
• 23:46
  500 ball is the top of it.
• 23:48
  So, yes, it's close, but it's a it's like watching the it's like watching the crabs with
• 23:55
  one arm fight each other.
• 23:56
  Right?
• 23:57
  Like, they only got
• 23:57
  one venture, but there's seven of them in a bucket together.
• 24:01
  So it's entertaining.
• 24:02
  Right?
• 24:02
  Yeah.
• 24:03
  Yeah.
• 24:03
  Like, if there was one good team in this lee in that division, they'd probably be running away
• 24:08
  with it.
• 24:09
  I really like this.
• 24:10
  You you guys like this?
• 24:12
  Yeah.
• 24:12
  I'm cool with I'm
• 24:15
  cool with that.
• 24:17
  They are some
• 24:19
  They can hang with that.
• 24:20
  I hope they stay there.
• 24:21
  Every
• 24:22
  year.
• 24:23
  Every year.
• 24:26
  Oh, moving to the NL East.
• 24:28
  Look at this.
• 24:29
  On it a little bit.
• 24:30
  Atlanta Braves, on a tear right now.
• 24:32
  What is their, current current on winning streak?
• 24:35
  Eight and two in their last 10.
• 24:38
  Looking pretty strong down there.
• 24:40
  Feel like the braves are gonna get back to championship form this year.
• 24:44
  Shady, how are you feeling about it?
• 24:46
  Right now, we're feeling good.
• 24:48
  I mean, we don't have any pitching.
• 24:50
  I mean, it's one to two right now.
• 24:52
  The Phillies are up two to one on us right now in the fourth.
• 24:56
  I mean, the braves are good.
• 24:57
  We gotta get offense.
• 24:58
  Like, Austin Riley's finally coming together.
• 25:00
  All them guys are signed through 2029.
• 25:02
  So, I mean, it's not like there's anything to worry about.
• 25:05
  But
• 25:05
  Olsen's starting to put that on ball again.
• 25:08
  Yeah.
• 25:08
  He just out here just Louisiana hacking it.
• 25:10
  You know?
• 25:11
  He looks like a daggone Southern fed Georgia boy again.
• 25:15
  So, yeah, I mean, everything is right.
• 25:16
  Works, though.
• 25:18
  Yeah.
• 25:18
  I mean, it's it's it's looking good.
• 25:20
  I'll tell you I'll tell you who my MVP for the Atlanta Braves is, though.
• 25:24
  Who?
• 25:25
  And that's Michael Harris the second.
• 25:28
  Everybody loves Michael Harris.
• 25:29
  I love Michael Harris.
• 25:30
  But yeah.
• 25:31
  Well, he homered to right field.
• 25:33
  He's the reason it's two to one right now.
• 25:34
  So there you go.
• 25:35
  There's your boy.
• 25:37
  And we talked a little bit about it.
• 25:39
  My cubby's obviously down there at the bottom of that NL Central.
• 25:42
  Let me look at the vision.
• 25:44
  Separate it.
• 25:45
  I think it's gonna be tough.
• 25:46
  I you know, you're probably looking at at least one of your wildcards, if not possibly both
• 25:53
  coming from that division when you kinda scan the rest of the the NL.
• 25:57
  Of course, these two teams in here, right, gonna be battling it.
• 26:00
  So you're gonna have some so, I mean, this is pretty much the we're looking here at the NL
• 26:07
  playoff picture.
• 26:08
  Right?
• 26:08
  You're gonna have you're gonna have, you know, four teams essentially from this division,
• 26:14
  possibly a fit.
• 26:15
  How how are I don't even keep up enough to know.
• 26:17
  How do they structure the the the wildcard and the the playoffs now?
• 26:22
  How many teams get in?
• 26:24
  After the first, like, whoever wins the division, those all get into the Right.
• 26:28
  So you have three division winners.
• 26:30
  Yeah.
• 26:31
  Does a does a league is there a buy for anyone?
• 26:36
  Yeah.
• 26:36
  So okay.
• 26:37
  So going off of last year's, the number one seed
• 26:43
  14?
• 26:44
  Gets to buy for each of it or each conference.
• 26:50
  Then two will play six.
• 26:53
  Oh, no.
• 26:53
  I'm sorry.
• 26:54
  That's not right.
• 26:55
  Oh, wait a minute here.
• 26:56
  It's like 14 of them because there's, like, two sides.
• 26:59
  That'd be 12 plus two wildcards.
• 27:01
  Okay.
• 27:02
  So yeah.
• 27:03
  I think it's seven on each side.
• 27:05
  Yeah.
• 27:06
  The one and two c gets to buy from each side.
• 27:08
  The four will play the five, three will play the six, and they move out from there.
• 27:13
  So that's the wild card.
• 27:15
  Yeah.
• 27:15
  The wild card around yeah.
• 27:19
  Makes sense.
• 27:20
  So then that's seven teams you said on each side.
• 27:24
  Yep.
• 27:25
  So you have so it's just top seven teams or it's division winners and then three wild
• 27:30
  cards?
• 27:31
  Top seven teams.
• 27:33
  Yep.
• 27:33
  Yeah.
• 27:35
  Okay.
• 27:38
  Interesting.
• 27:38
  That's nuts.
• 27:39
  Interesting.
• 27:40
  So, yeah, seven teams.
• 27:41
  You're looking at braves.
• 27:43
  Right now, if the playoffs ended today, it'd be braves braves, reds, dodgers, padres,
• 27:51
  cardinals, pirates.
• 27:53
  And I so you're probably so you see one probably only gonna get one NLE's team.
• 27:59
  So right now, if you go to the wildcard standings in the ESPN for the National League,
• 28:08
  Padres, Cardinals, Pirates, and Diamondbacks with the Cubs and Brewers a half a game back.
• 28:14
  Yeah.
• 28:16
  Interesting.
• 28:17
  So, yeah, three division winners and four wildcard teams?
• 28:20
  Yep.
• 28:21
  Yeah.
• 28:23
  That's it's safe and tight.
• 28:26
  Yeah.
• 28:27
  Yeah.
• 28:27
  It's gonna be wild.
• 28:29
  It's the yeah.
• 28:30
  I think it's made it more interesting, for sure in that regard because you have the like,
• 28:36
  Arizona, like I said, could win 95 games and be on the line.
• 28:41
  People forget, but Arizona just went to the World Series, like, three, four years ago.
• 28:47
  Yeah.
• 28:47
  A good team.
• 28:48
  Against the Rangers.
• 28:50
  Like, they were there.
• 28:53
  So Crazy.
• 28:55
  Yeah.
• 28:55
  Then that NL West is just just wild.
• 28:58
  So it's gonna be great.
• 28:59
  I'm glad we decided to start a baseball show this year.
• 29:02
  Shout out to b for suggesting it, because I I love this game so much.
• 29:07
  I know it sounds like I don't know anything about it, but it's just because everything
• 29:10
  moves so damn fast, and I have a life.
• 29:13
  And I really, am notoriously like, I only follow one team.
• 29:16
  Right?
• 29:17
  When it comes down to, like, what my MLB season looks like, it was how are the Cubs doing?
• 29:23
  I don't have ESPN.
• 29:25
  I don't pay for cable.
• 29:26
  I don't do any of that stuff, and I don't care enough about the rest of the league to keep up
• 29:30
  with that thing, which is why I kinda, like, wanted to start my own network.
• 29:35
  Right?
• 29:35
  That's why the same Project Sports Network exists.
• 29:37
  And beyond just the top teams in there, I've been talking to a lot of lower leagues that
• 29:43
  have MLB players playing in them that we're courting about providing some coverage for in
• 29:49
  the same essence.
• 29:50
  Now whether it's on this show or we're creating a show that is specific to those leagues,
• 29:55
  right, like, I don't really care what the what the talent level is.
• 30:00
  I just love the game of baseball.
• 30:01
  And it's no different, B.
• 30:02
  I I know you're watching WrestleMania right now, but a few weeks ago, you were at a
• 30:06
  independent promotion, right, watching.
• 30:10
  I know you are, you know, the Midwest wrestling.
• 30:13
  Yep.
• 30:14
  Yep.
• 30:14
  Midwest All Star Wrestling.
• 30:16
  Below Zero Wrestling out of North Dakota.
• 30:18
  Good friends with Nick Stokey and those guys up there.
• 30:20
  Like, we don't care.
• 30:22
  We're just looking to find our home and our people inside of the sports that we love.
• 30:28
  And I think that sometimes what gets lost on a lot of YouTubers and creators that are out
• 30:33
  there that are just looking to, oh, well, I have to cover the MLB team or nobody will care.
• 30:38
  And that's not necessarily true.
• 30:40
  Right?
• 30:40
  Like, people are here because they enjoy our banter and and Shady's wit and and and bees,
• 30:47
  you know, every man to it.
• 30:49
  And everybody just hate loves the hate on the Dodgers.
• 30:52
  So we appreciate everybody.
• 30:53
  So so we get to do that and to have someone to to, you know, give a little shit to.
• 30:59
  But that's really what to me that this, you know, this whole creation thing has been about.
• 31:05
  It is just about having an excuse to talk ball.
• 31:08
  You know, most of us are talking with a friend on Snapchat or or, you know, whatever.
• 31:13
  You know what I mean?
• 31:14
  Like, we're we're talking with people about sports.
• 31:17
  Why not just do it live on StreamYard and let it ride and see what happens?
• 31:20
  I'll be honest, boys.
• 31:21
  Open.
• 31:23
  Yeah.
• 31:23
  You guys are the only people I talk sports with because I have no and it's gonna sound so sad.
• 31:29
  I have no friends out here in California.
• 31:32
  Oh, it's alright, pods.
• 31:33
  We're gonna
• 31:34
  I really don't besides my wife.
• 31:37
  Well, that's
• 31:37
  usually a steakhouse.
• 31:38
  Like, I have no one.
• 31:40
  That's a steakhouse.
• 31:41
  Southern Cal.
• 31:42
  Oh, Cal.
• 31:43
  Okay.
• 31:44
  I'm in Beverly, man.
• 31:45
  I'm just in Beverly.
• 31:46
  He's like Southern Cal out in the desert.
• 31:50
  Yeah.
• 31:50
  High Desert area.
• 31:51
  Well, there's not gonna
• 31:52
  be I wanna talk golf and baseball with Shady.
• 31:55
  Me and Bubba, we we we shoot the shit.
• 31:58
  But, b, I didn't know you were a professional wrestling fan.
• 32:01
  I'm a huge professional wrestling I'll
• 32:04
  I'll send I'll send you some pictures.
• 32:06
  Yo.
• 32:07
  Yeah.
• 32:07
  I I grew up watching wrestling from probably
• 32:10
  I've been watching wrestling since I was five years old.
• 32:13
  Yeah.
• 32:13
  No.
• 32:14
  I probably started watching you know, my mom always told me she took me to some local shows
• 32:18
  here with her mom, so my grandma.
• 32:21
  Grew up watching it, me and my son go all over Minnesota for mid all star wrestling or or any
• 32:28
  show that we get.
• 32:30
  I've already do it just because it brings back my childhood, but some the promotion that we
• 32:34
  follow the most typically bridges some legends.
• 32:38
  So I'm trying to meet them and, you know, like, sun or Saturday, a matter of fact, twenty
• 32:43
  fifth, we'll be at Woodbury, meet Barry Wyndham.
• 32:46
  So that'll be cool.
• 32:48
  May 2, mid Ray Wyatt's dad.
• 32:50
  Yep.
• 32:51
  No.
• 32:52
  No.
• 32:52
  Ray Wyatt's uncle.
• 32:54
  Uncle.
• 32:55
  Yeah.
• 32:55
  Oh, that's right, coach.
• 32:56
  Yep.
• 32:57
  No.
• 32:57
  No.
• 32:57
  No.
• 32:57
  Yep.
• 32:58
  Yep.
• 32:59
  But yeah.
• 33:01
  I love a lot things.
• 33:03
  You boys, you guys know what you like when it comes to sports.
• 33:07
  We can talk.
• 33:08
  We can shoot the shit.
• 33:08
  Oh.
• 33:09
  Like, for me, like, I know this is baseball, but I I just wanna get this wrestling bit.
• 33:14
  Did did you see what happened to Cody Rhodes' eye?
• 33:17
  Oh.
• 33:19
  Yeah.
• 33:20
  They they pulled him out of us the meet and greets today because of his eye.
• 33:26
  So not looking good.
• 33:31
  Oh, yeah.
• 33:32
  Tell tell them it's not real.
• 33:34
  Right?
• 33:34
  Oh, he's back.
• 33:35
  He's back.
• 33:36
  We'll bring him back.
• 33:37
  We'll bring him back.
• 33:38
  I might have booted him out.
• 33:39
  My cat my cat doesn't like you, pods.
• 33:41
  I'm sorry.
• 33:42
  Kidding.
• 33:42
  I'm She loves you.
• 33:44
  She hasn't met you yet, but she likes you.
• 33:46
  No.
• 33:48
  And I love it.
• 33:49
  So we got a wrestling show on the network already called Beyond the Bell that our cohost,
• 33:54
  Boo Boo, who we're trying to get back into the full b.
• 33:56
  I told him to reach out to you and everything today and talk about getting that going.
• 34:00
  Be cool to bring that out as a as a weekly.
• 34:02
  I know he's been doing interviews over there for a while.
• 34:05
  He's got to interview a bunch of a bunch of wrestlers and to get that going again.
• 34:09
  So I'm excited, man.
• 34:11
  The network continues to grow, and I gotta thank you guys for for believing in what I've
• 34:16
  been building over here and and the incredible, you know, amount of effort that it takes to
• 34:22
  keep everything going.
• 34:23
  And, you know, we are we are on the verge of making this thing really work as a true network
• 34:28
  and what then that's why I've been reaching out to so many different leagues.
• 34:33
  Right?
• 34:33
  It's like, we just need something to talk about.
• 34:35
  I think we've proven that we have the ability to produce the shows and have enough knowledge
• 34:40
  to to bring it out, you know, to interview coaches and different things like that.
• 34:45
  And this is how people are consuming content right now.
• 34:48
  Right?
• 34:48
  Like, these style of shows on StreamYard and stuff are how people are watching.
• 34:52
  It's how a lot of pros are I just watched Trey Wingo earlier today.
• 34:56
  Right?
• 34:56
  Like, he's got his own little YouTube show probably produced on StreamYard.
• 35:00
  Right?
• 35:00
  Like, it's all we're all doing the same thing.
• 35:03
  And it's just a matter of, like, can you bring in enough people that like you as people and
• 35:08
  your crew to go?
• 35:09
  And it really kind of a throwback to the early days of ESPN, right, where it was a start up.
• 35:15
  You were looking for anything you could cover.
• 35:17
  They were covering all kinds of crazy Yeah.
• 35:19
  Yeah.
• 35:19
  You know, sporting events and just looking for something to talk about, and that's where we
• 35:25
  find ourselves.
• 35:25
  And we're really, you know, willing to take those swings and to get out there, take our
• 35:29
  cuts.
• 35:30
  Right?
• 35:30
  Like, you're never gonna hit a home run if you just stand up there and watch all the pitches
• 35:34
  go by waiting for the perfect one.
• 35:36
  Like like, put the bat on the ball to to get all the baseball references and cliches out
• 35:42
  here in one shot and, you know, see what happens.
• 35:45
  Right?
• 35:46
  Put the ball in play.
• 35:47
  Yeah.
• 35:47
  Swing hard in case you hit it.
• 35:50
  Yep.
• 35:50
  Yep.
• 35:51
  And and that and that's the thing is something I lost track when I was younger and just got, I
• 35:58
  don't know, my teenage kicked in on me and just didn't care, but just follow your dreams.
• 36:03
  I mean, this is a chance for us to do what we want, you know.
• 36:07
  So going out to all the young kids, my son especially, you know, don't just don't give up.
• 36:13
  Just keep following those dreams.
• 36:15
  Like, you know, Shady said, keep swinging.
• 36:18
  You know, something something will hit.
• 36:21
  Wait.
• 36:22
  Like and to Brandon's point, you know, I wouldn't be getting up at eight you know, I
• 36:30
  wouldn't be getting up at seven in the morning my time to get ready for an eight in the
• 36:33
  morning show on a Saturday morning if I didn't love doing this Yeah.
• 36:37
  You know, with you guys.
• 36:38
  So
• 36:39
  Which shout out to you.
• 36:40
  You did an awesome job K.
• 36:42
  Running you know, I know I'm producing the show, but really requiring you to do all of the
• 36:48
  homework.
• 36:49
  You know, I can watch a few highlights coming in five minutes before the show.
• 36:54
  I don't know if you guys know this about me, but I am a crammer.
• 36:57
  Right?
• 36:57
  Like, I am not gonna do my homework all week.
• 37:00
  I'm gonna come in.
• 37:00
  I'm a study for three minutes before we take the test, and then I'm gonna jump in there and
• 37:05
  rely on my instincts.
• 37:06
  Okay?
• 37:07
  That's how we've gotten this far in the first place doing everything else.
• 37:11
  It was funny.
• 37:12
  We had a comment.
• 37:13
  Somebody on one of the shorts or or no.
• 37:16
  They commented on our video doing the mock draft last year.
• 37:19
  And they were like, this is the most painful thing to listen to.
• 37:22
  Like, how do you guys not know any of these players?
• 37:24
  And it's like, hey, bro.
• 37:25
  Do you not know who the fuck I am and what I do during the week?
• 37:28
  I'm busy.
• 37:30
  This is the eighteenth show that I've done this week, so I don't have time to cruise every
• 37:35
  single, you know, database of players out there.
• 37:38
  But if you can give me a profile real quick, I'll make a decision.
• 37:43
  And that's what's funny is that, like, the end of his company, he's like, I love the pic.
• 37:46
  They're like, what the hell are you guys doing that you don't know any of these people, and
• 37:51
  you have your own show?
• 37:52
  He loved the pic.
• 37:53
  It's not the way you got there.
• 37:55
  Yeah.
• 37:56
  To show up doing all
• 37:58
  this homework and wasting your life away studying when I made better picks than you did,
• 38:03
  showing up and taking the test.
• 38:05
  Literally, when I took my ACTs we don't have the SATs here in South Dakota.
• 38:09
  We're the ACTs in the Midwest.
• 38:11
  I showed up without a calculator.
• 38:13
  I love these stories.
• 38:16
  Probably hungover.
• 38:17
  We were probably smoking weed in the parking lot before we went in there.
• 38:21
  Got fucking 25.
• 38:23
  I got a 25 on it, which is, like, good enough to get scholarships for academics.
• 38:27
  Not I got
• 38:28
  32 on, like, the the reading and comprehension stuff.
• 38:33
  So, like, I'm good.
• 38:34
  But that's probably what's kept me from being, like, great at anything because of those
• 38:38
  moments where I'm like, well, I just like, I showed up smoking a joint like Grady.
• 38:43
  And I showed up, puffing a joint with a beer in my hand, I'll fucking get a b plus, and I'm
• 38:49
  like, that's good enough.
• 38:51
  Most people gotta try really hard to do that well.
• 38:53
  And, you know, it is it doesn't mean that I probably could've tried a little bit harder and
• 38:57
  been a, you know, a plus, but I was never gonna be a rocket scientist.
• 39:01
  Come on now.
• 39:03
  Come on.
• 39:03
  Yeah.
• 39:04
  It's a good time to remind us our student athletes.
• 39:07
  Listen, guys.
• 39:07
  Just because you can throw this little thing or hit it a long ways, let's let's let's stop
• 39:13
  doing some shenanigans in the parking lot before the ACT and the SAT.
• 39:17
  Alright?
• 39:17
  We gotta go to college unless you're applying to Wake Forest where they don't care and, you
• 39:21
  know, shout out to Salem.
• 39:24
  That was see, I knew my sports
• 39:25
  career was over.
• 39:27
  Right?
• 39:27
  Like, I I was just going, and, literally, I got to school.
• 39:30
  I I went to so I went from, like, the most beautiful part of the South Dakota out in the
• 39:36
  Black Hills, grew up in the mountains.
• 39:38
  National Forest was my backyard, like, thousands and thousands of acre of just woods.
• 39:43
  And I moved out to the middle of the cornfields in, like, Northeastern border of South Dakota.
• 39:49
  South Dakota that's where South Dakota state is, Jackrabbits.
• 39:52
  And winter came, like, two weeks after I got there.
• 39:56
  I had no car.
• 39:57
  I'm walking to class.
• 39:59
  I was just like, no.
• 40:00
  This ain't this ain't working.
• 40:01
  And then I read yeah.
• 40:02
  I think
• 40:03
  I read Jack Kerouac's on the road where he's just literally hitchhiking around the country,
• 40:07
  you know, hanging out, being a vagabond.
• 40:09
  And I was like, that sounds way better.
• 40:12
  Way better.
• 40:13
  I'm just gonna go do that.
• 40:15
  There was nothing You
• 40:16
  were walking through the snow, and you were like, fuck this.
• 40:19
  Thumb out, dog.
• 40:19
  Thumb out.
• 40:20
  Get me out of here.
• 40:22
  I'm gone.
• 40:23
  And, yeah, I spent I spent a good three three, four years doing that, selling magazines door
• 40:29
  to door for a time, playing my guitar on Venice Beach for three months, living that dream, man.
• 40:35
  And, eventually, you know, you you have kids and you get a little older and sleeping in
• 40:40
  ditches at 25 doesn't look as good as when you're, you 19.
• 40:43
  Right?
• 40:44
  I see.
• 40:45
  Yeah.
• 40:45
  It's not as much That's
• 40:46
  why we gotta get a shed for Shady.
• 40:48
  Yeah.
• 40:48
  Shady Shady
• 40:54
  Shady Shady That's I'm gonna have new graphics made up for next week.
• 40:57
  How long can I
• 40:58
  Well, dude, I'm gonna have to have it in my shorts?
• 41:00
  I'm gonna be like I need I need likes and subscribes so we can get Shady this shed.
• 41:06
  Like this.
• 41:06
  I don't like dog, I had a 130 subscribers just playing MLB.
• 41:10
  I don't know how many I wanna get.
• 41:12
  I don't like this.
• 41:13
  I don't like this.
• 41:14
  How long am I gonna be in the shed?
• 41:15
  Is it worth just making money so I live in a shed?
• 41:18
  I don't think so, guys.
• 41:19
  We need more we need videos of you in the shed daily going out there like, yo.
• 41:25
  Open up the doors to peek out.
• 41:27
  Hey, guys.
• 41:27
  I'm still here.
• 41:28
  Close with them.
• 41:30
  No.
• 41:31
  If shady, brother come
• 41:34
  out till they win another World Series.
• 41:35
  Guys, way, made a little I've been alive since '95, and the last one was 2021.
• 41:40
  I never make it.
• 41:41
  Yeah.
• 41:42
  The the Braves should have wanted a few more.
• 41:44
  This is shady in the shed right here.
• 41:46
  Shady in the shed.
• 41:48
  Can't do it, bro.
• 41:49
  I need a flashlight.
• 41:51
  We don't have electricity.
• 41:55
  Yeah.
• 41:55
  Oh, this has gone completely
• 41:58
  off the rails.
• 41:58
  This is 789.
• 42:00
  I'm so grateful for
• 42:00
  you, boys.
• 42:01
  I
• 42:02
  love it, man.
• 42:03
  It's not just a chance to to talk baseball, and it's early season, man.
• 42:07
  I'm not falling
• 42:08
  on the spot.
• 42:08
  Much to talk about early season.
• 42:10
  You guys mentioned that real sports coverage.
• 42:13
  You know where to get it.
• 42:14
  We're just hanging out, talking ball and life and how it goes together.
• 42:18
  We have But
• 42:19
  I I actually do have a question to ask our pitcher on the staff here.
• 42:24
  Let me pull up the game because I wanna know his reaction here.
• 42:29
  I think he hasn't thrown a pitch in twenty years.
• 42:31
  But but I I'm just wondering, you know Okay.
• 42:34
  So it was the Cleveland Baltimore game on Thursday night.
• 42:40
  The Cleveland pitcher whose name is I can't pronounce his name.
• 42:47
  But he goes into the ninth, throwing a no hitter two blocks, gives up a couple hits, gets
• 42:53
  pulled.
• 42:54
  Shady, would you have let I mean, what would your mentality have been?
• 42:58
  You know?
• 42:59
  I would have pulled him after the first hit.
• 43:01
  That's my take.
• 43:02
  I know I know some managers would, but, I mean, you're throwing a gem.
• 43:05
  You give up a couple hits.
• 43:07
  You still end up winning four two, but, I mean, as a pitcher, do you wanna finish that game?
• 43:13
  I mean, finish what you started?
• 43:15
  Well, it's okay.
• 43:18
  I think I remember seeing the highlight for this.
• 43:21
  So Homi was out there.
• 43:23
  He did have a perfect game.
• 43:24
  And I believe this was, like, one of his, if not his first start.
• 43:28
  I think this was, like, his first start.
• 43:31
  So I mean, of his career or something like that.
• 43:34
  I can't remember.
• 43:34
  See if you can find that.
• 43:36
  But I think that was his first ever start.
• 43:38
  Oh, no.
• 43:39
  No.
• 43:39
  He he's he's three and o.
• 43:41
  So this was his third start this year, at least.
• 43:43
  This is his first season of work, though.
• 43:45
  I think so.
• 43:46
  Yeah.
• 43:47
  So Yeah.
• 43:48
  I don't know.
• 43:49
  He kinda got in a jam there.
• 43:51
  I kinda can understand that one.
• 43:53
  Because, like, it wasn't necessarily that he couldn't get out of it or anything.
• 43:58
  Yeah.
• 43:59
  I think it was just, like, how new he was.
• 44:02
  Okay.
• 44:02
  More or less, like, can we afford how much how much confidence can we afford to lose in the
• 44:07
  kid right now if he's if he's already here?
• 44:09
  Let's just get him let's just pat his back till he feels good about this and get him in the
• 44:13
  hotel.
• 44:14
  Remind him, like Right.
• 44:15
  We'll feed him a little bit.
• 44:17
  You'll pitch again in four days, buddy.
• 44:19
  You did great.
• 44:20
  And you take the possibility of him getting shelled out of it too.
• 44:24
  So he's coming away with, like, hey.
• 44:26
  I did my best.
• 44:27
  It took them till the ninth inning to figure out my stuff.
• 44:30
  Well, I'll be real with you.
• 44:31
  As a man just pitcher's one thing.
• 44:34
  Manager's idea.
• 44:36
  If the if this is a new guy, you don't have scouting report on this guy.
• 44:39
  There is no way I'd leave that kid in nine innings, any in the regular season.
• 44:43
  Till we get to the postseason.
• 44:44
  If I know he's got good stuff, who the hell cares if they see it or I'm I'm keeping that a
• 44:49
  secret.
• 44:50
  Yeah.
• 44:51
  So he won't go nine innings if I'm not
• 44:53
  AKA the dodgers with Robleski.
• 44:55
  Well, honestly, I gotta give the Dodgers credit last year or Yotomoto or whatever his name is.
• 45:02
  That guy just wanted to go out there and pitch.
• 45:05
  I mean, he's just like, I don't care.
• 45:06
  Throw me out there.
• 45:07
  So Yeah.
• 45:08
  Yoshi is just a madman.
• 45:10
  Get the dog.
• 45:12
  But yeah.
• 45:12
  No.
• 45:13
  I just that's one thing I think baseball's misses, just that killer instinct of the
• 45:17
  pitchers, you know, like Blackjack, Morris, Randy Johnson, that they just wanted them all.
• 45:21
  Bert Blylove and Nola Ryan.
• 45:23
  Just go to ball and go do my thing.
• 45:25
  Yeah.
• 45:25
  Oh, I'm sure he's
• 45:26
  in that game with the Red Sox.
• 45:29
  Right?
• 45:29
  Oh, yeah.
• 45:29
  The Bloody Sox game, and I you talk about the ultimate competitor.
• 45:36
  Right?
• 45:38
  Just yeah.
• 45:39
  You I I don't think that you don't have that a lot in this league anymore.
• 45:44
  And just really in life, you don't have it.
• 45:47
  Because they're the talent level behind these guys is so much greater than it used to be as
• 45:53
  well.
• 45:53
  Right?
• 45:53
  Like, you your your your staffs are much deeper.
• 45:56
  The talent's there.
• 45:58
  You got there's not one guy in the pen that throws a 100.
• 46:01
  There's six.
• 46:03
  Right?
• 46:03
  Yeah.
• 46:03
  Well, analytics are quite a big part of and we've talked about that before.
• 46:08
  I I have one thing to add too.
• 46:11
  Alright.
• 46:11
  And, Shady, you may or may not agree with me, but I feel like there's less pitchers in the
• 46:18
  MLB and more throwers nowadays.
• 46:22
  No.
• 46:22
  I'd agree with
• 46:23
  that.
• 46:23
  Yeah.
• 46:24
  Because I feel like that's one of the main reasons too that you don't get guys like
• 46:31
  Maddox, like Clemons,
• 46:34
  I don't know
• 46:34
  that you'll
• 46:35
  ever have
• 46:36
  you I don't know that you'll ever have another Maddox.
• 46:39
  Like, if you don't have velocity, you're not pitching in this league.
• 46:43
  Right?
• 46:43
  Like, if you're not throwing mid nineties and can ramp it up there, maybe there's a few
• 46:48
  outliers.
• 46:49
  You know?
• 46:49
  I I know that, you know, for the Cubs, we have Ibonaga, but he can ramp it up there if he
• 46:55
  wants to.
• 46:55
  He can throw that 95, 96 mile an hour heater.
• 46:58
  He just kinda chooses not to.
• 46:59
  It's a lot of that 92 putter with the you gotta be able to make it move, though.
• 47:04
  Right?
• 47:04
  And I think that's more you you have to be able to throw low nineties with movement or you're
• 47:10
  not doing it.
• 47:11
  Like, you'll never
• 47:12
  name is Matt Waldron and you're a knuckleballer.
• 47:14
  Screw that guy.
• 47:15
  I was just gonna ask that.
• 47:16
  He's a knuckleball pitcher.
• 47:18
  That that should've been you should've
• 47:20
  been throwing knuckleballs, not curveballs.
• 47:22
  You might still be in the lead.
• 47:24
  Yeah.
• 47:25
  No.
• 47:25
  I mean, I'll say this.
• 47:26
  Like, throwers and pitchers, like, I agree with you on that.
• 47:30
  But, like, I think what I kinda hear there is, like, the whole Maddox idea.
• 47:35
  And there was some other ones, but, like, those were, like, game managers.
• 47:38
  Mhmm.
• 47:39
  People who, like they just had a whole different idea.
• 47:42
  Like, when we were growing up, once again, this is, like, the the the age of numbers and how
• 47:48
  fast was the spin rate, how can you get it moving, stuff like that.
• 47:51
  We grew up on stories.
• 47:53
  I remember hearing the stories of how the curveball was invented.
• 47:56
  Everybody had a different story.
• 47:57
  Y'all got any for how the curveball was invented?
• 48:00
  I don't.
• 48:02
  Supposedly.
• 48:03
  I got one about how the fastball was invented.
• 48:05
  Okay.
• 48:06
  Well, this one supposedly is first.
• 48:08
  The curveball is the guy was he he was traveling around, like, a part of, like, a
• 48:14
  sideshow with, like, just one of those things.
• 48:17
  But he bet his whole gig was he could hit something that was behind a tree.
• 48:22
  So they'd stick an object behind a big tree, and he would curve the ball around the tree,
• 48:27
  and it would hit the object.
• 48:28
  So people would try to make it, you know, and stuff, and he would continue to hit it.
• 48:31
  So I was like, can you really do it?
• 48:33
  So I remember standing at a nursery, like, while my dad's softball games were going trying
• 48:37
  to do that.
• 48:37
  And it actually works to an extent.
• 48:39
  It kinda does teach you how to throw that brinkled curveball, but getting to the point
• 48:46
  of, like, where you're gonna throw it, how you're gonna throw it, and everything, they do
• 48:50
  train that.
• 48:51
  But, like, thinking on the fly, judging where they're at, seeing where their stance is, like,
• 48:57
  nobody's Pete Rosen it in the batter's box.
• 48:59
  Nobody's Barry Bonds in it in the batter's box anymore.
• 49:02
  Like, they are, but they're not.
• 49:04
  What I mean by that is, like, they don't know where their hands coverage, all this.
• 49:08
  They don't know all that.
• 49:09
  Like, you're not Barry Bonds.
• 49:10
  You're not Tony Gwen.
• 49:11
  You're not those guys just had a different understanding.
• 49:14
  They come from standing out there playing and being with their hands and, you know, not
• 49:19
  looking at those digitized screens of this is your spin rate and this and that arm angle.
• 49:24
  Hook me up with
• 49:25
  more nodes and stuff.
• 49:26
  No.
• 49:26
  Let's not.
• 49:27
  All the No.
• 49:28
  They just went out there.
• 49:29
  They put a jersey on and said, alright.
• 49:30
  I'm gonna put you in the dirt now.
• 49:32
  I mean That's how they did it.
• 49:34
  They raced motorcycles and shotguns with Remington.
• 49:38
  That's how the Bob Fellard speed tests were done.
• 49:40
  It was against a Remington rifle.
• 49:42
  Yeah.
• 49:43
  Now It's I had a quick story about how the fastball was invented.
• 49:47
  And my mama, she used to play softball competitively in high school.
• 49:52
  Okay.
• 49:53
  And she told me she's like I think I was, like, eight at the time, and my mom was like, hey,
• 49:59
  baby.
• 49:59
  You know how the fastball was invented?
• 50:01
  I'm like, no, mom.
• 50:02
  How?
• 50:04
  You see, dad made me mad, so I tried throwing a plate at him as hard as I could.
• 50:08
  And I realized, if I do this with a ball, I might be really good.
• 50:13
  I don't feel like that, man.
• 50:16
  And that's how my mom got into softball because her and my dad got in a fight one time.
• 50:21
  She accidentally threw a plate at him as hard as
• 50:23
  she could.
• 50:23
  Yeah.
• 50:24
  That happened.
• 50:26
  It'll happen.
• 50:27
  That's right.
• 50:27
  And my dad and as the as the story goes, my dad turns around and goes, babe, I know you're
• 50:32
  pissed at me, but I was really good.
• 50:35
  You should try playing softball or baseball.
• 50:38
  The rest is history.
• 50:41
  Rest is history.
• 50:43
  Well, I think that's a great place to, to end the show.
• 50:46
  We'll let Bee get back to WrestleMania if it's still going on.
• 50:50
  No.
• 50:50
  It's still going on.
• 50:51
  They're getting the main event ready right now.
• 50:53
  Let's go.
• 50:54
  Who
• 50:55
  won the six man ladder?
• 50:58
  Alpenta retained.
• 51:00
  Okay.
• 51:01
  Okay.
• 51:02
  Got it.
• 51:03
  Alright.
• 51:04
  We'll let these boys go back to watch WrestleMania, and, we will see you guys, with a
• 51:09
  full recap on beyond the bell later this week with our guy, with our guy, boo boo.
• 51:17
  Appreciate you, boys.
• 51:18
  Thanks for hanging out tonight.
• 51:19
  Thanks to all the people tuning in.
• 51:21
  If it was your first time, make sure you hit that subscribe button.
• 51:25
  Give us a like.
• 51:26
  We appreciate it.
• 51:27
  We'll have a bunch of shorts from this episode coming out.
• 51:30
  Keep watching the ball.
• 51:31
  Keep hanging with us.
• 51:32
  We're gonna keep finding our footing with the show.
• 51:34
  This is only the third episode that we've done lifetime, and we didn't really come in with,
• 51:38
  like, a whole lot of preplanning before we did it.
• 51:41
  So we'll be adding segments during the year and really JD shed.
• 51:45
  Yeah.
• 51:47
  Yeah.
• 51:47
  Apparently, we're doing that.
• 51:49
  Shady Shed.
• 51:51
  Well, that would be like I I feel like that could be a cool segment to be like, what what
• 51:57
  young pitcher is coming out?
• 51:59
  Like, what young pitcher did we see during the week that that is gonna make a name for
• 52:04
  themselves?
• 52:04
  So we're gonna give Shady some homework while he's sitting at
• 52:06
  the gym.
• 52:07
  The bullpen.
• 52:08
  It's not the bullpen.
• 52:10
  I'm going back to the bullpen again.
• 52:15
  The shady shed now.
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  I'll find him.
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  Stay out of there.
• 52:17
  Hello?
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  Get Roger up.
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  Yo.
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  Oh, love it.
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  Rick Bond?
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  Come on.
• 52:29
  Ricky.
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  Gonna be great.
• 52:35
  Well, fellas, have a great night tonight.
• 52:38
  We got a lot of great content coming for you.
• 52:40
  Mock draft two point o on Vikings United happening on Tuesday night.
• 52:44
  That's gonna be a lot of fun.
• 52:45
  Everybody's invited to dip in for that one.
• 52:47
  We had a great time running it on the show live last Tuesday.
• 52:52
  I know it's late for you, Shady, but if you don't get your ass kicked too bad on Tuesday at
• 52:57
  work, you're more than welcome to come join us.
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  Pods, it it's easy for you, man.
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  It's even early.
• 53:02
  It's only
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  06:00 on the West Coast for that one.
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  So feel free to come in.
• 53:06
  Tell us if we're doing it right.
• 53:09
  And then, yeah, more great content coming from everywhere.
• 53:11
  Obviously, we'll be back on Saturday morning with the scratch project, Saturday cut line,
• 53:17
  taking a look at the tournament of the week, giving you a little recap on Thursday, Friday,
• 53:22
  and then moving into the weekend.
• 53:24
  Storylines will be following in the PGA.
• 53:26
  Obviously, we got huge news coming out from LIV Golf.
• 53:29
  You got something there, Pods?
• 53:31
  Yeah.
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  Yeah.
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  So I was just gonna say I'd really like for people to just pay attention to Liv and what
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  comes out because I really do think here in the next sixty to ninety days, really,
• 53:45
  realistically, by the August, early September, we'll know whether or not they're gonna be
• 53:50
  around for the twenty seventh season.
• 53:53
  Oh,
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  yeah.
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  They might be canceling.
• 53:56
  Their biggest
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  Because I misspoke on the scratch.
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  I misspoke on the cut line.
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  I said that they lost half $1,000,000,000 from the PIF.
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  It was closer to half 1,000,000,000,000.
• 54:08
  Wow.
• 54:09
  That's their whole investor.
• 54:10
  Because that's how they were funding the big contracts for your ROMs and stuff, and then
• 54:15
  that's also how they were getting some of these venue deals.
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  The set like, the sound systems, the music, graphics all
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  production fees too.
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  Yes.
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  Yeah.
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  So I misspoke.
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  It was closer to half a
• 54:29
  a half 1,000,000, and we can really make some cool stuff happen.
• 54:33
  You wanna see me do do some cool shit, drop a big pile of money on me, and we can throw
• 54:39
  ourselves a party.
• 54:39
  I've been doing that for a long time.
• 54:41
  Danielle says no excuses, shady.
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  Get back in your shed.
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  I'll see you in
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  the shed.
• 54:49
  Well, we appreciate everybody tuning in.
• 54:51
  Stay dialed in here to the Scene Project Sports Network.
• 54:53
  We got a ton of great content.
• 54:55
  This isn't all we do.
• 54:56
  We cover every major sports and a lot of other minor league and independent promotions as
• 55:02
  well.
• 55:02
  Lots of great stuff coming from professional wrestling into minor league baseball.
• 55:08
  I've covered high school football on the network as well.
• 55:12
  Oh.
• 55:12
  Got our coach got our coach on for a weekly show as well.
• 55:15
  So all all kinds of great stuff.
• 55:16
  Another one for us.
• 55:17
  Professional wrestling, you better get me on that show.
• 55:21
  I gotcha.
• 55:21
  I'm a I'm a create a new group chat tonight.
• 55:23
  Put boo boo, b, and you all together.
• 55:26
  You guys can have that.
• 55:27
  I will put Nick Stokey and some other people in there that we want to.
• 55:30
  I think we can grow something over there.
• 55:32
  I just like I'm not in I'm not in that world.
• 55:34
  I enjoy it.
• 55:35
  I enjoy doing it.
• 55:36
  I really wanna be the ringside announcer for when we start doing these feeds, but you got an
• 55:42
  update on the score tonight, Shady?
• 55:45
  The Braves are up.
• 55:46
  Yeah.
• 55:46
  They're winning.
• 55:47
  Four to four to two.
• 55:48
  Yeah.
• 55:49
  See, no worries.
• 55:50
  Yeah.
• 55:50
  We're good.
• 55:50
  No worries.
• 55:51
  Right with the world when a Philadelphia team is losing.
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  Yes.
• 55:55
  Yeah.
• 55:56
  No doubt.
• 55:57
  Alright, everybody.
• 55:58
  Have a great night.
• 55:58
  Join us back here.
• 55:59
  We'll see you Tuesday, mock draft two point o on Vikings United and lots more great stuff all
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  weekend.
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  See you, boys.
• 56:07
  See you, guys.