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HOT TAKES AND PREDICTIONS FOR 2026 · 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 Cedar. This is episode 600.
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  Let's go. I'll be your host, Kyle Korne.
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  I'm here with my Co host Nate Reyes and Nate.
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  Clap it up boys, Come on. Come on.
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  I hit the breaking news horn. There's not even any breaking
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  news. We're just celebrating 600
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  episodes of the three O take. Never thought we'd make it, but
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  we're here. And what a what?
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  What better episode to kick off the season with the hot takes
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  and predictions episode? Perfection.
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  I mean, couldn't have you couldn't have written a better
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  script We here. Baby, we're tapped.
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  Here we are. We're looking good.
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  We're all looking sharp, man. The the return of the suit
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  jackets, the shades, even JB is like, I'll throw on some
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  glasses. He why not?
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  He tried to throw on some shades, but he said he couldn't
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  see us because we're polarized. Which I doesn't have a suit.
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  Doesn't doesn't sound like he's committed to the bit, but to be.
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  Fair, I'm wearing a hoodie which is the same thing I wore in my
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  wedding. That's about as soon as it gets.
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  I don't know if that's a thread we should pull at, you know, I
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  don't. I don't know if I want to learn.
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  More, yeah. Does that say more about your
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  wedding or does that say does that speak poorly on on this
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  episode because this is a big deal?
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  We'll tell the story sometime about the wedding.
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  That's probably not for this one.
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  All right. Oh boy.
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  No, nothing like that. It's just we have a lot of.
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  Scrapping scrapping the episode. We're here in J BS wedding
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  story. OK, no, but you know what we are
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  going to hear? We're not going to hear that,
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  but you know what we are going to hear?
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  We're going to hear per tradition, because this is going
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  to be a lengthy episodes. We're so we're getting right
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  into this. Let's get in it.
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  Per tradition, we are going to cover our tails, make our takes
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  look a little less idiotic by hearing some of your takes, the
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  listeners, the viewers, the social media followers, we're
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  going to see what you all have to say about the upcoming MLB
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  season. So again, so that our takes
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  don't seem as stupid. So JB, we're going to try
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  something a little different this year because we've got JB
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  in the corner. So he's actually going to be our
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  our, our host, if you will, for these these.
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  Our hot take liaison, Our hot takes.
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  Liaison and we're going to what do we decide on?
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  We're going to we're going to grade these, we're going to rate
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  these. We're going one one through 10.
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  Oh. Yeah, let's go one through 10.
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  I like that more. Decimal points included.
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  Yes. Of.
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  Course 10 being the hottest, right?
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  Correct. OK, well, whoa, whoa.
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  Hold on. Hold on, hold on.
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  Let's let's lay the groundwork. I tell me what you think.
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  I feel like we should have figured this out ahead of time,
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  but this is this is the fun of this episode as you kind of go
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  on the fly. My thought was that we grade it
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  based on a on like an XY chart. You know what I mean?
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  Where it's like it's a cross section between insanity and
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  likelihood, you know, are. We are we drawing that type of
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  chart. No, but I'm just saying like
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  mentally when you're grading these, give it like a it's,
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  it's, it's a cross between hotness and quality of take.
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  Does that make sense? Can we land there or do you have
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  another another vision for our grading scale here?
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  I was just going to rate it how much I liked it.
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  Yeah. Well, I think I'm, I think, I
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  think we're saying the same thing.
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  Like it's, I think those two factors lead you to like a take
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  better. So I think we're saying the same
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  thing. But I, I say we just run it and,
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  and see where we end up fill those takes filled out because
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  we already know JB already gave us a heads up.
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  Some of these takes are straight garbage.
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  So we're going to probably see some zeros, right?
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  And you may even see some 10s so.
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  JBI don't believe in 10s but sure true.
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  Oh yeah, OK. No such thing.
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  No, no such thing as exceeds. Wow, you're going to.
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  You may want to revisit that before telling your wife how
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  great she looks or something like that you don't want.
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  Well, maybe that's it. He saves his 10s for that.
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  I mean. Sure, let's go with that.
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  I gave you a note. Yeah, thanks.
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  Yeah, yeah. Thank you, ma'am.
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  Bailing you out, my goodness. Appreciate that, I was thinking
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  I scale personally but. For this isn't food we're
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  talking about, we're talking about baseball takes.
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  Oh, OK. We are talking baseball takes.
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  I think we get right into it here.
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  We're going to go pretty hot right out of the gate.
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  Jovan Garcia says Rockies are decent enough to sneak into the
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  playoffs as a wild card. Where?
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  Where you got the Rockies guys? You, you buying this?
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  What's your grade? I've got mine, Nate, Whenever
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  you're ready. OK?
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  Ready. 0.1 and a 5.280 very good.
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  I like that I see very good, very good, very good.
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  Rockies were the most mentioned team in in the Facebook and and
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  Instagram comments. I like that.
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  I don't most most of those. I think it was a real even split
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  between jokes and. Which by the way, completely
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  forgot to mention wanted to shout out the the people on
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  social before we got into it, but I it slipped my mind.
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  But shout out to the the people dropping comments.
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  There was close to 2000 comments across Facebook and Instagram.
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  People dropping their their hot takes and predictions for this
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  season. So much appreciated.
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  You all make this this episode. What it is?
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  And you make it what it is. Make it what it is.
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  And he gave JB a ton of work. Yeah, there's a ton of stuff, a
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  lot of lot of repeat stuff. But I think that's good.
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  I think that actually kind of makes the the them a little more
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  believable. But all right, let's go to
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  Dalton. He says the Royals save baseball
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  from a lockout by defeating the Dodgers in seven.
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  Bobby Baseball to the rescue. Dear Dad's a Hey, Dad's a I'm
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  just going to. I just started sweating a little
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  bit. I don't even know where.
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  All right, I'm ready. I'm ready dude.
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  All right, let's do it. We've got a 9.6 and a 1.7.
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  How are we that far off? To what are you?
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  Doing. I mean, let's be, let's be real
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  here. I love the quick that I love the
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  quality of the take, the the intentionality behind that.
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  There's not somebody just being like, oh, the Yankees are going
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  to go 162 and oh, that's lazy. The I I felt like I was a long I
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  was along for the ride there. I feel like I was being told a
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  story. They like they they painted a
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  picture. Baseball save, baseball saved.
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  Lockout gone. OK here, Bobby baseball to the
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  rescue. I mean, that's our guy, Bobby
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  Baseball. Let me adjust it.
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  How's that? There you go, 7.7 now I like it
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  there. I like it.
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  I still think you're doing Bobby a disservice, but I like the
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  Nod. I like the Nod 7.7.
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  That's smart. All right, so we've got one with
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  multiple conditions. There were several of these
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  where people put like 5 different things, right?
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  And so like, that's what's going to make this because you could,
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  you could make it with one and break it with another.
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  So I think it's interesting, Adam says.
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  Junior Caminero wins ALMVP, Blue Jays win the World Series.
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  Baltimore finishes above the Yankees.
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  The Dodgers are eliminated by the Padres in the play offs.
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  Dylan Cease and Tyler Glass, now Cy Young Rookie of the Year,
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  goes to Walker Jenkins. Wow, that's so much.
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  That is loaded. It was one of the longer ones.
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  I don't even know. I don't even know how to.
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  It's so much to. That's a lot.
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  What do you like about it? What do you not like about it?
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  I mean, I like the standing stuff.
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  Like kinda is is reasonable. Junior Caminero.
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  We're going to get into him later.
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  I'm sure a lot of this, like, isn't unreasonable.
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  You know, I kind of like this one.
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  You ready? I'm ready.
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  You ready? We've got an 8 point.
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  What in the world? It's.
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  Supposed to be a thumb. It's.
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  Supposed to be a thumbs up. That's a thumbs up this.
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  Guy holding a knife. I don't know.
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  All right, you don't even know how to.
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  That's not on the. Scale.
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  I don't know. Not on the scale.
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  There's just. I appreciate it.
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  It's on my scale. I appreciate the effort.
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  Thank you I. Like, not yours.
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  What was his name? Adam.
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  Oh, not my effort. Thanks, Adam.
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  Adam, yeah. I like, I like that, Adam.
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  To be fair, to be fair, if this was a previous hot sex episode
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  of a of a of a former year, I would I'd be a fan of that.
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  No, no, no. I'd be a fan of that because it
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  we would just be reading them off and and reacting.
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  But again, this is something new this year where JB is.
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  Yeah. Like, I haven't, I haven't seen.
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  I usually see these ahead of time.
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  I haven't seen any of these. So I don't.
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  Well, that's all. Sure, yeah.
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  That's a lot to digest. It was.
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  A lot thumbs. Up is OK associated.
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  Give me a range of what a thumbs up is.
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  How about that? Thumbs up is a thumbs up, right?
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  You're just going to have to accept.
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  That I don't like it. I don't like it.
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  To tell you. I mean, 5 the guys laying out
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  the the his predictions for literally everything to take
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  place this season. I don't know how to summarize
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  that in a single number. Anyway, it's about the effort
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  anyway. We we carry on.
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  All right, we got Michael here, says Angels.
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  Make the playoffs and win a series in the playoffs.
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  The Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim, CA West Coast Angels.
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  Ready. Negative 00.27 That sounds about
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  right. I know, I know you can't have a
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  -0, but it's the Angel. So I was just trying to make it
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  as a negative, negative as possible.
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  You know, I appreciate. That I like that.
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  All right, we've heard a little bit of this already, but this
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  has been, this has been a take that I saw quite a few times,
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  George says. Bobby Witt Junior wins the
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  ALMVP. Ready. 109.9 We like that one.
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  We like that one. That's my guy.
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  No foreshadowing. No foreshadowing happening here.
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  You have no idea. No.
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  Nate we've been doing this long enough that I know I know where
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  to lead people down the trail and have them thinking one thing
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  and then I just pull the rug out from underneath them.
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  I I've got some surprises up my sleeve this episode.
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  You you rest assured. The fact that my phone
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  recognizes my face with everything going on right now,
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  it's pretty impressive, yeah. That's a good luck for Nate.
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  Got the Whataburger chain for Duck.
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  Speaking, Speaking of our guy, our guy Andrew says starting
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  tomorrow, the Atlanta Braves don't have any more injuries and
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  they win the NL East. Oh, cute, that's cute, Andrew,
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  that's cute. But I don't think I have
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  anything fun really for this. No puns with my numbers.
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  You ready? Bing bang boom.
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  A5 and a 1.4 all right. I could, I mean, we'll get into
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  the Braves talk later, but I I mean, I it's not the craziest
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  thing. I mean, how how many guys are
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  left for there to even be injuries too?
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  You know, that's valid. Yeah, that's a good point.
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  With that said, I could, you know, anything could happen in
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  the in at least. So I could see that going either
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  way, which is why I'm I'm right there smack dab in the middle.
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  Smack a dab. All right, here's one for you,
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  Benjamin says Gunner Henderson wins MVP with 40 bombs and 40
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  double s. Meanwhile, Richmond bounces back
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  and the Orioles win it all. Oh.
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  See, he, I think he said too much.
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  Guys might have said too. Much.
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  I mean, it is the Hot Tex episode.
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  It is the Hot Tex as we are. Oh, whoa, whoa.
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  Well, I missed it. Flag on the play.
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  He just says Adley sucks for no reason at all.
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  That's garbage, sorry. Benjamin.
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  Sorry I don't gunner MVP Adley bounces back and OS win it all.
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  Yeah, and Gunner, I think the 40 bombs, 40 double S has to be
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  talked about too. Oh, right, for.
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  Yeah, you know what I'm saying? Like that's, that's a big part
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  of this. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
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  All right, I'm ready. Nope.
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  Too high? Yeah.
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  Do you know how bad? Like just to know, like how my
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  brain operates, Do you know how bad?
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  I'm about ready to put into stat cast 40 bombs, 40 double s and
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  see how many times it's happened.
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  Like that's what my, that's what I want to do right now.
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  Yeah, yeah, yeah, I know. That's why we hired you.
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  For free 1.83.40 OK so. That's way too high.
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  Yeah, I think that because of the I, I like it.
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  I like, I think it's you could have just said MVP 4040 and and
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  that would have been like, I believe it's, I think it got
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  hotter with the other stuff. So honestly.
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  Even if he stopped it adly bouncing back, I'd be like OK
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  but just go on and say yeah to cap it all off the OS, take the.
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  Yeah, I think like, The thing is, though, if we do go, come
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  on, if Adly bounces back and Gunner wins MVP with 40 foam
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  hermers and 40 double s, they've got a chance to take it all.
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  That's, I mean, you know, that's also a fair.
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  Part of it. I like that teeter.
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  Hold on, didn't they just hold on?
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  Hold on. Didn't they just option their
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  their innings leader last year to the here's?
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  Am I trying to write some stuff out?
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  Did I see that correctly? I mean, we all had the Blue Jays
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  in fourth place last year, you know, So it's just.
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  I mean, that's fine, but they also have guys who do the
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  Orioles have specifically with the staff.
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  We'll get into see man. We'll see.
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  Yeah, we will get into that. I think maybe.
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  That's Nate's AL East winner, I guess.
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  Anyway, moving on, let's get a couple more in here.
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  Yeah, I like. To trick people thinking I'm
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  going down one path and I'm going down another.
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  I don't. I don't particularly care for
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  your tone right now. All right, Matt says the
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  Guardians win the Central run in the AL and win a World Series
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  and Jose finally gets his MVP. Think think the N might have
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  been a one too many words. Let's he's going to they're
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  going to run the AL, win a World Series and and Jose Ramirez gets
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  his MVP. So again, we're talking about
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  Guardians winning the Central. Hold on, hold on, hold on.
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  Can you can you start that over just?
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  Read it start to finish. Guardians win the Central run
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  the AL win a World Series. Jose finally gets his MVP.
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  I'm ready. I think if you on the bookends
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  of that I love the take. It's the middle part then.
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  It's pushing it, yeah. That's what this episode's for.
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  That's what it's all about. I ain't here to rain on parades,
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  but ready. Here we go 8.2 and a .001.
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  That's stupid. I.
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  Like I like the. Gas.
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  Is the is the J R.E.M. getting the MVP?
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  It's the only reason it's not a 0I.
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  Get that? What are you saying it's?
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  My. Logic.
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  All it takes for that to happen is the Guardians to win the
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  division, go on a run in the postseason, it resulting in the
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  World Series, and presumably J Ram has a an MVP caliber year.
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  How is that a 0? They suck.
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  They won the Central last year. Haven't they Haven't they owned
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  the Yankees in the playoffs the last decade plus?
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  Or am I just? No, misremembering the opposite.
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  That's what you're Yeah, it's the exact opposite.
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  I don't, I don't think it's the exact opposite.
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  Is it the opposite? Yeah. 1948, I believe, was the
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  last and only that's true. Cleveland World Series.
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  Let's go on to the next one. Zach says.
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  Nola McClain wins Rookie of the Year and Cy Young.
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  Whoa. USA final starting pitcher.
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  Kind of a dog. Kind of a dog.
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  Yeah, very good pitcher. Rookie, the Year and Cy Young.
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  And Cy Young, he didn't stop when the when the water was
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  boiling, guys. I'm ready.
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  Something tells me the pendulum is going to continue to swing.
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  Ready 8. .8 one side 0.4 We've got it all the way the other
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  direction. How do you like that take more
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  than the Guardians? He's really good.
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  USA Baby. OK, OK.
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  Jeff McNeil, Team USA 2023 you don't say the Same about.
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  Him doesn't exist. OK, you don't want more?
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  Are we moving? On Yeah, give me one more.
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  All right, Doug says Tigers win the World Series after trading
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  Tarc Scubble. I'm telling you, the comments
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  section came out and they said we're throwing curveballs.
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  I mean, I wouldn't want a communist on my team either, so.
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  It's there. It is not the worst.
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  Play don't like that. Not the worst play.
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  Don't like that? That is a little foreshadowing
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  ready. Bit of pop no?
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  7.9 and a 4.4. Those might have been the
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  closest we've been. No, I think, I think Bobby went
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  in. Bobby his .1 off, yeah.
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  Yeah, .1, yeah, no, I like, I like that.
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  I mean, we've seen, we've seen and maybe not that exact
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  scenario play out, but we've seen instances of guys go down
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  or guys get traded and you still go on to have a good run.
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  So I don't, I don't hate it. I mean.
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  Sending away one of the. Sending away one of the world's
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  greatest pitchers is a unique caveat there, but.
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  But they've put together something nice there.
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  Yeah, I agree. Outside of outside of him.
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  They've had to because he's gone after this year.
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  Well, that's a great segue. Let's get into how these teams
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  are going to fare this year. Let's get into some standings
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  prediction, shall we? So question for you guys.
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  I had it listed out. I think in the past, Nate, you
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  and I have alternated. We'll go like NL W ALS.
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  Do we want to do that and work our way West to east or do we
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  want to knock out a league and do the other?
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  League I I like, I like the the the West W alternating central
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  central EE. That's kind of how I like it.
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  All right, that works for me. Well, let us let us begin.
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  Lettuce and tomato. Lettuce and tomato in the
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  National League West. Let's.
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  Float on over there. I think we all have the Rockies
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  at 1, so let's just move on from there.
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  One win. Boom.
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  Yeah. Well, one thing, I mean, look,
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  one thing that we can kind of start to tap into a little bit.
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  If there's any, you know, betters out there, if there's
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  any, somebody that likes to pay attention to progress.
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  I have the Rockies finishing last but on FanDuel.
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  Sports. Book on FanDuel Sport, sports
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  book. They have their win total at 55
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  1/2 at the moment. I I do think they are going to
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  be a little better than last year.
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  I don't think it's going to be worse.
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  So how are you being a little bit better?
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  But what are you in last place? But what do you attribute that
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  to? Like what's?
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  What's changed? They, I mean, bringing in Lorenz
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  in, you know, you got some guys that Quintana's over there now.
• 23:16
  Like there's the guys that are going to eat up some innings in
• 23:19
  that, in that rotation. I think Quintana's over there
• 23:25
  and you know, they reshifted their, their front office.
• 23:29
  Like there's a mentality shift that's going to start to change.
• 23:34
  Their outfield is like, I think they're all like capable of
• 23:39
  playing center field. So I kind of like that the range
• 23:41
  they're going to provide there. I don't know.
• 23:43
  I mean, it's just I'm not saying it's going to be like anything
• 23:45
  noteworthy. I just I think it's heading in a
• 23:48
  somewhat decent direction. Goodman behind the dish is, I
• 23:52
  think a top ten catcher in in baseball.
• 23:54
  So I mean, you know, Zach Veen putting on 40 lbs of muscle in
• 24:01
  the in the offseason, like there's yeah, 'cause that's some
• 24:03
  positive stuff happen. Because that's possible.
• 24:06
  I can put on 40 lbs of fat in the offseason.
• 24:08
  He can put on 40 lbs of muscle no problem.
• 24:10
  I think that's very realistic. Well, yeah.
• 24:14
  They're definitely at the in the last place for me.
• 24:16
  Was Zach Veen, was he optioned to AAA?
• 24:21
  Yeah, she needs to get some work in, you know?
• 24:22
  Yeah, I got you. Yep.
• 24:23
  Drop tanks in spring training though.
• 24:25
  Yeah, I don't know if anybody saw that.
• 24:28
  Yeah, still a lot of questions there.
• 24:29
  Fan Graphs has them as 66 wins on it.
• 24:32
  I'm even going to hit the over on that.
• 24:34
  Yeah, just I don't think they lose 100 games again.
• 24:37
  No, it's I think it's very hard to lose 100 games.
• 24:42
  We've spent far too long on the Rockies.
• 24:44
  That's fair, That's fair. Criticism.
• 24:46
  You asked. I answered. 4th place.
• 24:49
  I didn't ask, I said I had Rockies won.
• 24:52
  So you all just decided to run with it.
• 24:54
  All right, this is where things get interesting because really,
• 25:00
  I mean, let's just go ahead. Jokes aside, dodgers at the top.
• 25:03
  But two through 4 is where things get get interesting.
• 25:06
  And I think it could go any, I think it could go any, literally
• 25:10
  any order for for us here. And I'm curious to see where you
• 25:14
  have two through 4. Let's start at 4:00.
• 25:18
  I've got the D backs at 4:00. Me as well.
• 25:25
  Me as well. So yeah, I have the D backs and
• 25:30
  the Padres with the same number of wins, so you could say 4.
• 25:34
  I have them both at 83. This guy's going full
• 25:37
  projections. I love it.
• 25:39
  Yeah dude, it's just like there's a fall off after one
• 25:43
  through 3 in that line up. I love Nolan Arnotto, but like I
• 25:47
  just I don't have I don't think he's about to like save that
• 25:51
  team. The rotations not very good.
• 25:55
  I don't know, I don't think they're going to be the, you
• 25:57
  know, one of the worst teams in the NL by any means.
• 26:00
  And they might even be in the conversation for the wild card
• 26:03
  down the stretch. But like I just, Oh yeah, I
• 26:05
  don't got, I don't got much. I mean, you've got their, you've
• 26:08
  got their opening day starter on a prove it deal.
• 26:11
  So that kind of tells you the state of their rotation right
• 26:14
  now. So.
• 26:16
  Now you got team Team Venezuela E rod though, relax.
• 26:21
  Burns No no no no no back until when?
• 26:26
  July SO. I yeah, I mean, yeah.
• 26:30
  The the point about E rod. Not in time, maybe later.
• 26:33
  The point about E rod is he's back in a Major League uniform.
• 26:36
  So the, the aura, the the the the success, we'll call it was
• 26:42
  Simply put, just the. Cape is gone.
• 26:44
  Cape is gone. Yeah, I'll say.
• 26:47
  I'll say too, like every starter, every nobody's going
• 26:50
  under A4 in this rotation. Well, my guy, Zach Allen, but I.
• 26:56
  Even a low 4 is good. That's.
• 26:57
  A fantasy bias. You know what I'm saying?
• 26:59
  Even a low 4 still a good pitcher at sometimes, but I.
• 27:04
  Do you have them in fantasy? I just made that up.
• 27:06
  I do have them in fantasy and I, I'm not going to add guys to my
• 27:09
  team that I don't believe in. And I've said it on here before
• 27:12
  that I think, Zach, I've said it to your face.
• 27:15
  I hear you. That night of the draft, I said
• 27:17
  I'm a believer. I'm a believer in Zach Allen.
• 27:21
  I did too. Based Based on your verbiage
• 27:26
  between when you said 234, something tells me that you have
• 27:29
  the Padres slip into third place.
• 27:33
  Is that right? Well.
• 27:36
  There was only three teams left after putting Rocky's five
• 27:39
  Dodgers 1, so why would you assume that based on the way I
• 27:42
  worded that? Am I right?
• 27:45
  I mean, you're right. You going to you going to back
• 27:53
  it up at all or you just. It's more, it's, it was less
• 27:56
  about the Padres and more about the Giants.
• 27:58
  I'd, I'm there's some elements as it pertains to the Giants
• 28:05
  that excite me more than what the Padres bringing to the
• 28:08
  table. I mean, the Giants have Louisa
• 28:16
  Rice. Now who?
• 28:18
  I thought so. Also believe more fantasy bias.
• 28:21
  All strong believers. Hell, this guy.
• 28:22
  Padres. Padres don't know what they're
• 28:27
  missing out on, man. I mean, Louise Rice is going to
• 28:29
  tear that park up, I tell you what.
• 28:32
  Revenge. No, we'll get into it also a
• 28:35
  little later. This isn't foreshadowing.
• 28:37
  This is just a point that I I think will come up later.
• 28:40
  But I'm, I'm very excited. I'm, I'm just going to, I'm
• 28:44
  going to drink the kool-aid as it, as it relates to Tony
• 28:47
  Vitello. I, there's a lot, he's getting a
• 28:49
  lot of hate, a lot of question marks being like, there's just,
• 28:52
  you know, there's no way you can make the jump from the college
• 28:56
  level to the show. And I, I feel like 9 times out
• 29:01
  of 10, I would agree. But there's just something about
• 29:06
  this fit for him, the collection of guys that he's got in the
• 29:09
  clubhouse that I, I feel like this could be this could be a
• 29:12
  surprise to some people. So I'm I'm putting Dodgers too.
• 29:15
  Or excuse me, Giants too. I got the same thing.
• 29:21
  I got the same thing yeah dude, Padres like lineup still going
• 29:28
  to do stuff, but like, you know, everyone's getting a little
• 29:31
  older. I I just I kind of like what the
• 29:37
  Giants are trying to do. It feels like there's new energy
• 29:39
  behind the Giants with Buster coming in and just kind of
• 29:42
  revamping stuff. I like it.
• 29:46
  I I like the move. I going back to the Devers move
• 29:48
  last year of like, you know, hopping in at an opportune
• 29:52
  moment where you know, you kind of beat other teams to it.
• 29:55
  It feels like they're maybe trying to shift away from like
• 29:58
  losing out on some of these big names.
• 29:59
  And if you have a Devers there, I feel like if you have a
• 30:02
  successful front, you know, front start of the season, it's
• 30:05
  like may be able to attract some of these guys.
• 30:09
  You know, if there's deadline conversations or if there's, you
• 30:12
  know, I don't know, I, I just, I like what they're doing.
• 30:15
  I think they're heading in the right direction.
• 30:16
  And the Padres slipped. The Padres slipped a little bit.
• 30:20
  They're a little banged up too. Must go being out, you know what
• 30:22
  I'm saying? And that I'm there.
• 30:25
  But I have them at the Giants at 84 wins, the Diamondbacks and
• 30:28
  Padres at 83. They're all within reach of a
• 30:31
  wild card, But that's just how I've put it.
• 30:33
  They, I think they're really close.
• 30:35
  I never, any time I do projections, I try to stay away
• 30:38
  from 100 under wins, 100 losses. I hate doing it.
• 30:42
  I've got the Dodgers at 101. So yeah, I just think that
• 30:46
  they'll beat up a little bit on that, on that division.
• 30:49
  Yeah. I don't think we need to spend.
• 30:52
  No time, but is that our First Division and we just went three
• 30:56
  for three agreeing on everything?
• 31:00
  Technically I have a Diamondback Padres, but I I have the same
• 31:06
  amount of wins, so is it the same?
• 31:10
  Yeah. Depends on who gets the
• 31:11
  tiebreaker, but for the sake of this exercise, we'll say that
• 31:14
  the Padres take the tiebreaker. So yes, that puts your D backs
• 31:19
  at 4, giving us a three for three across the board.
• 31:22
  Well done, James. Well done.
• 31:23
  Well done. I'm just kidding.
• 31:25
  JBI won't speak for you. Is that is that how you want to
• 31:27
  play it? It's.
• 31:28
  Totally fair. Yep.
• 31:31
  I mean, you, you're the one with the projections.
• 31:33
  You've got it written out there. Who's three?
• 31:35
  Who's 4? Well, the Diamondbacks start
• 31:38
  with AD and the Padres AP, so I went Diamondbacks Padres even
• 31:41
  with the same win. I'll let the I'll let the
• 31:44
  tiebreaker play out, I guess. There you go.
• 31:48
  For the sake of going 3 for three Padres Diamondbacks.
• 31:51
  Appreciate it. What a guy, what a team player.
• 31:55
  We moved to the American League Wests, starting at the bottom
• 32:02
  team that I have just I don't think at any point in my life
• 32:07
  have been able to get jazzed about.
• 32:10
  And it's the California Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim of LA.
• 32:19
  Yeah, also got them finishing last.
• 32:23
  I do. The only thing I will say
• 32:24
  positive about them is that I feel like they went and got
• 32:29
  veterans that can be moved if there's any success and maybe
• 32:34
  you can slowly revamp your farm. That's what losers do, Nate.
• 32:38
  That's right, that's why I have them in last 'cause.
• 32:40
  That's why they're in. Fiscal.
• 32:41
  The only positive thing. That's all I could drum up.
• 32:45
  I I respect it. I'm just saying the only reason
• 32:49
  you're going into the season with that mentality is because
• 32:52
  your team is do do. And I think we all agree that
• 32:56
  the Angels are do do. I'll say my biggest pet peeve
• 32:59
  about the angels is that they never actually do.
• 33:02
  They never actually do the going backwards the right way.
• 33:07
  They never take a step back to actually rebuild.
• 33:10
  They try to retool and they get just good enough to not be good
• 33:15
  and they can't that you have to at some point take a step back
• 33:20
  and redo things. Yeah, coming from a guy who very
• 33:24
  much knows what it's like for a team to redo things.
• 33:27
  Yeah, and a team who doesn't know how to redo things most of
• 33:30
  the time for the last 30 years. I like telling staff as well.
• 33:33
  Aren't there a bunch of names in their coaching stuff?
• 33:36
  It's names man. I think that's kind of neat.
• 33:38
  Yeah. Cool.
• 33:40
  Moving on, they got a place, they got to try to get people to
• 33:42
  come to the games. Also valid.
• 33:45
  Yeah, I mean, if we're if we're trying to boost them up with
• 33:48
  their coaching staff, I'm out as like the leading factor.
• 33:52
  That's not a good, it's not a good place to be moving on #4
• 33:57
  for me. And I don't think this is going
• 34:00
  to be the number 4 for you all. Uh oh.
• 34:06
  The Texas Rangers. I do not have them #4.
• 34:12
  That's what I said the the Texas Rangers, for the sole reason of
• 34:22
  them just having an older lineup.
• 34:25
  They're lacking, to me at least, they're lacking healthy
• 34:30
  athleticism throughout that lineup.
• 34:33
  It's you've got some of the older names, but even the
• 34:36
  younger guys have already been banged up to the point to this
• 34:39
  point in their career. And I just, it's too much of AA
• 34:43
  mixed bag. That doesn't give me much
• 34:46
  confidence about their chances in the American League, much
• 34:51
  less the the West. So I'm slotting them at 4:00.
• 34:57
  So where do you want me to go? Do you want me to tell you my my
• 34:59
  Rangers or my 4th place give? Me, your 4th place, we just work
• 35:02
  our way up. OK, I got the Oakland Las Vegas
• 35:09
  A's of Sacramento in fourth place.
• 35:14
  I do as well man. Because we're just haters.
• 35:17
  I love, I love what they're doing.
• 35:18
  They're doing all the right stuff.
• 35:20
  The the lineup looks, you know, young and promising and I I
• 35:25
  think they're going to be good eventually.
• 35:27
  It's just like the pitching stuff is still horrendous.
• 35:31
  I. It's the Luis Severino you're
• 35:33
  talking about. I am talking.
• 35:35
  About him? It's, it's, it's just, it's
• 35:39
  rough, man, that I think that's going to get in.
• 35:42
  There, I'm a, I'm a Jeffrey Springs truther.
• 35:45
  I'll go ahead and say. You have to go lick his name up
• 35:46
  just now. Don't act like you didn't.
• 35:49
  No, I was looking up who they were slotting in at 4:00 and
• 35:51
  5:00. I knew they had Sevian Springs,
• 35:53
  but I couldn't remember who they slot slot in at 4:00 and 5:00.
• 35:57
  It's Jacob Lopez and Aaron Savale, by the way.
• 36:00
  I, I, I like their lineup. Don't give me like there's
• 36:03
  obviously studs in in that lineup.
• 36:05
  Like Bangalir is going to do his thing.
• 36:06
  Nick Kurtz, Nick Kurtz, Nick Kurtz.
• 36:09
  I mean it's just they place all defense like AI just can't get
• 36:13
  past the pitching is so bad. I'm just going to, I'm going to
• 36:16
  lean on the run production for my justification and slotting
• 36:21
  them at the three spot that ballpark, OK. 3.
• 36:26
  The guys they have in that lineup, as you just mentioned, I
• 36:30
  think they're going to produce a lot of runs and be able to bail
• 36:33
  out the lackluster pitching. I'm, I'm with you there.
• 36:39
  I just think that the the visiting team also gets to play
• 36:42
  in the same stadium and the pitching staff is just To be
• 36:47
  fair though, I have them four wins better than last year.
• 36:50
  I think they're doing the right thing.
• 36:52
  They're moving in the right direction.
• 36:54
  Guys are haters man. Literally guys are.
• 36:56
  Just like what they're doing. I'm I'm I.
• 36:58
  Didn't say it. I'm a.
• 36:59
  Liker. Don't.
• 37:00
  No, don't give me. A liker, yet I'm a liker.
• 37:03
  Don't give me like, I like what they're doing and I've got I
• 37:06
  gave them. You're only doing.
• 37:07
  This so whenever they are good in three years, you're going to
• 37:10
  be like, I've been saying it since 2024, that's what's I.
• 37:14
  Have been I I've been. I've been.
• 37:17
  They're not been there. I've been in the wrong guys
• 37:20
  here. No, they're.
• 37:21
  Not you've been saying it for that long.
• 37:23
  This is the year. I don't think so.
• 37:26
  This is the year of the Sacramento A's not making the
• 37:30
  postseason but but finishing third in the West.
• 37:33
  This is the year, baby. I'm proud of you for not
• 37:38
  overreacting and putting them in a wild card spot at least.
• 37:41
  Pencil and oh, you just you wait, brother.
• 37:45
  You just said they're not making the post I.
• 37:47
  I'm not talking about the A's, just you wait #2.
• 37:51
  Oh wait, we didn't do our 3:00. We didn't do three, you did your
• 37:54
  3. Oh I did my 3.
• 37:56
  Yeah, I'm Astros. Same, I'm also Astros. 83.
• 38:04
  Yeah, it's pretty much right at their number.
• 38:06
  FanDuel Sports book as in 83 1/2.
• 38:09
  I I liked I liked the Mackenzie Gore ad.
• 38:14
  That's oh, you're, you're talking Rangers now you're
• 38:18
  talking Rangers now. Rangers.
• 38:19
  I'm sorry, you're saying Rangers too?
• 38:21
  The sunglasses got the way sunglasses got the way Astros.
• 38:25
  No, let's let's we're going to slide them.
• 38:27
  I I don't understand the the the conundrum that they can't figure
• 38:32
  out with revolving around you. Sock parades like I the move for
• 38:37
  him not having a place for him. I think he's going to start the
• 38:41
  season at third base, but that's only because Jeremy Pena is
• 38:43
  dealing with something and then Correa is going to be at short.
• 38:46
  But whenever Pena gets back, parades doesn't have a place to
• 38:49
  play. You have to play Christian
• 38:51
  Walker. You have to have your Don DH.
• 38:54
  Why do you have to play Christian Walker?
• 38:58
  I would. I think we know what Esock
• 39:00
  Peretis is. I would rather have Christian
• 39:02
  Walker than Esock Peretis personally.
• 39:04
  I feel like you're sleeping way better.
• 39:06
  Defender as well. Feel like you're sleeping on
• 39:08
  Esock Peretis a little bit? I, I just don't think there's
• 39:11
  enough room for him. I think he's a valuable piece
• 39:13
  for another team. I just, I, I'm not saying he's
• 39:16
  trash. I'm just saying like they don't,
• 39:18
  they can't seem to figure out what they're doing now too.
• 39:20
  They going back to second. I don't know.
• 39:25
  He was. I'm kind of low on them losing
• 39:27
  Framber. Like Hunter Brown's still a
• 39:29
  stud, but like, I don't know. He was days away from being a
• 39:33
  member of the Red Sox, I believe.
• 39:35
  Yeah, which? Would have been a much better
• 39:36
  fit. But yeah, and then the I don't
• 39:39
  you guys saw the biceps issue with Josh Hader.
• 39:42
  Like that never really leads to good news.
• 39:45
  So yeah, it's big. I'm just not very high on them.
• 39:49
  That was slipped pretty far. Pretty far.
• 39:51
  That was pretty big for me too. I do like their rotation, but
• 39:54
  their rotation is very young so there's question marks.
• 39:58
  I agree. Hunter Brown stud.
• 40:01
  I think Mike Burrows will be, but we're we're talking about a
• 40:05
  guy who hasn't put in a full season yet in my we just don't
• 40:08
  know. But he could be.
• 40:09
  Yeah. So I yeah, that's just where I
• 40:12
  have them. I've got the Astros at 2 and I
• 40:18
  know it's it's becoming a tired bit at this point, but it's
• 40:22
  just, it's just. Like right in.
• 40:25
  It's just the, it's the I, I, I don't like it.
• 40:28
  I don't like that it's the Astros just being a team that's
• 40:31
  like, well, you got to figure out a way to, to get them into
• 40:33
  the mix somehow. Because it's just, it's for the
• 40:35
  longest time it was the Rays before they finally decided to
• 40:38
  take a breather. But I I just think they find it,
• 40:43
  especially in that Division, I think they find a way to finish
• 40:45
  second. Yeah, I, I like the Rangers.
• 40:49
  I'm not to step on you, JB, I'm sure you agree with some of this
• 40:51
  stuff. But like, I like I was starting
• 40:52
  to say Mackenzie Gore getting, you know, that ad.
• 40:56
  You know. I don't know what Nimmo is going
• 40:58
  to provide necessarily, but like I'm pretty high in their
• 41:02
  rotation. I like their one through three.
• 41:04
  If degrom can be close to what degrom's been mixed with Vivaldi
• 41:09
  mixed with gore, it's like, you know, that's so.
• 41:12
  Lighter in there. Yeah, lighter, I mean, promising
• 41:16
  why Lankford is the real deal. Like I think there's enough
• 41:19
  there. Also when I was doing a little
• 41:21
  research is that their defense is insane.
• 41:25
  They were ranked third in in baseball last year and defensive
• 41:29
  runs saved and the fewest errors in baseball last year as well.
• 41:32
  So I the holes that the offense may have, I think can be kind of
• 41:39
  covered up by good pitching and defense.
• 41:43
  Yeah, Wyatt Langford, Corey Seeger.
• 41:45
  I'm big on those guys. And of course they got Kutch so.
• 41:50
  Yeah. Here's the opening day roster.
• 41:54
  How about it? Did.
• 41:55
  Did they? Yeah.
• 41:57
  OK, he'll be on the opening day roster.
• 41:58
  That that's, I tell you what, that's how you give a farewell
• 42:01
  to her. That's how you do that.
• 42:04
  No, but big Wyatt Langford guy. Big Corey Seeger guy.
• 42:08
  Yeah, and and the staff for me. Also I think.
• 42:11
  And I only have them in 84 wins so.
• 42:13
  Yeah, I don't think it's, I don't think they're going to pop
• 42:15
  off. Like I was saying their numbers
• 42:16
  at 83 1/2. So it's like, yeah, I don't
• 42:19
  think they're going to go nuts. But wasn't there a little bit of
• 42:24
  Seger Simeon riff rumors now Simeon's gone?
• 42:30
  I'm curious to see. It was rumoured, I think they
• 42:33
  shot it down. I don't know if that was APR
• 42:35
  move or if they actually if it actually was just a a bonus
• 42:39
  report, but. Interested to see how that
• 42:42
  affects them. You know, maybe Seeger settles
• 42:44
  in a little bit more. I don't know, whatever.
• 42:46
  So Mariners winning the division, correct?
• 42:49
  Yeah. It's a no brainer for me as
• 42:51
  well. Yeah.
• 42:54
  Not much to say there. Yeah, I mean rotation sick big
• 42:58
  hitters. Line up got pushed down.
• 43:00
  Big dumpers. Big dumper Nailer's there for a
• 43:03
  full season. Like, sneaky move.
• 43:06
  I got a note. Sneaky move was Rob Refsnyder.
• 43:10
  My guy, guy, the great boys lefties.
• 43:14
  Yep. I I think that's a very smart
• 43:17
  move platoons with I think it's Ken's own that's going to
• 43:25
  probably DH for them. Dom WBC legend.
• 43:28
  WBC. Those two guys kind of hopping
• 43:30
  back and forth at the DH role, I like that.
• 43:34
  Yeah, and it doesn't stop there. I mean, yeah, you said Brendan
• 43:37
  Donovan. Yep, yeah, Yep.
• 43:40
  I like that too. Some young studs coming up.
• 43:45
  Look at us guys. We're super rational.
• 43:48
  Sorry. Well, I'm glad you said that
• 43:53
  because now it's time to transition to the NL Central,
• 43:56
  and I think this is going to be a fun one.
• 43:59
  Let's start at the bottom, shall we?
• 44:02
  Oh boy. #5 for me actually. JB, this is your division guy.
• 44:09
  Why don't you lead us off Respect.
• 44:11
  This one should be easy guys. Number 5 should be easy
• 44:15
  Cardinals. Hey, all right, all right, all
• 44:19
  right. Look at us all right #4 I think
• 44:23
  we can also agree. Oh, I don't know.
• 44:26
  Come on, guys. I I believe in you.
• 44:29
  Cincinnati Reds. OK.
• 44:32
  Yep, Yep. Are we good?
• 44:33
  Yeah, we're all right. All.
• 44:36
  Right, this is where we part ways.
• 44:38
  Tough. That's a tough.
• 44:39
  That's a big loss. Hunter green, I think that's
• 44:43
  looking rough. They have a deportation.
• 44:45
  It's not not much deeper after now, but they do have a deep
• 44:49
  rotation. I think they'll be fine.
• 44:51
  They got Andrew Abbott, they got Ladolo.
• 44:55
  Yeah, I think this is going to be.
• 44:58
  Brady Singer, Chase. Oh, Chase Burns.
• 45:01
  Chase Burns, Yep. I think they've got some guys
• 45:04
  think this division is going to be, but I think we're splitting
• 45:07
  hairs as far as placement goes. Yeah.
• 45:11
  As far as winds go. Yeah.
• 45:15
  I think this is where we, we go our separate ways, boys at #3
• 45:20
  I've got actually, no, if I know Nate, if I know Nate, now that's
• 45:27
  too bold. Number three, I've got the
• 45:30
  Milwaukee Brewers. No way.
• 45:34
  Yeah, dude, no way. All right.
• 45:38
  Yeah, JB has infiltrated the three O take and IS.
• 45:43
  I tell you what, I tell you what, JB, go ahead.
• 45:49
  Go ahead. Put the Brewers at 3:00.
• 45:52
  Guys, I guys, I have the Pittsburgh Pirates #3.
• 45:56
  Oh Boo. How does that make sense?
• 46:06
  I don't know the the the pirates guy on here talking about Connor
• 46:12
  Griffin. Connor Griffin And we're
• 46:15
  believers. We're believers.
• 46:19
  And then you put, you put them at 3.
• 46:21
  I feel like that's I feel like you kind of pulled the rug out
• 46:23
  from underneath us there. JB.
• 46:25
  No, listen, I I like everything they've done.
• 46:28
  I mean, I've got them winning like 12 to 14 more games than
• 46:34
  they were last year, you know what I'm saying?
• 46:35
  Like it's a big swing. They've done a lot of really
• 46:38
  good stuff. I'm really excited about this
• 46:41
  season. I can't believe Nate.
• 46:45
  I want, I want to know who you who's your one?
• 46:47
  Who's your one? I got to know.
• 46:51
  Cubs, Cubs. OK, so if we've if we've got the
• 46:55
  Cubs that won the Brewers won 97 games last year, they're going
• 46:59
  to take a hit. They lost Caleb Durbin, they
• 47:01
  lost Freddy Peralta, they're going to take a hit.
• 47:04
  But how far I've got, I've got the Brewers at 89 wins.
• 47:07
  They've got the devil magic, so I I had a hard time getting the
• 47:12
  Pirates to 89 wins. I don't, I don't think that's, I
• 47:15
  don't think that's where they are.
• 47:18
  The pirates have the Hoagie magic.
• 47:20
  Go pirates. I don't know man, I I love the.
• 47:29
  Go ahead. Yeah.
• 47:30
  The Peralta loss, Caleb Durbin loss, Meszarowski really kind of
• 47:37
  fumble in the second-half. Last year, I don't it's not the
• 47:43
  same Brewers team I don't like you can't pencil them in as
• 47:46
  being as a just an automatic into the postseason this.
• 47:52
  Year, I just like what the Pirates have started to like.
• 47:56
  There's enough holes that were plugged in the offseason with
• 48:00
  like, proven veterans. I think Brandon Lau, I think
• 48:04
  Ryan O'hearn, I think Marcelo Azuna are going to like, shift
• 48:08
  things around for them. The rotation is, I mean, I don't
• 48:12
  need to speak on this. You already know all this stuff.
• 48:14
  The it's the best this rotation has looked and I don't know how
• 48:17
  long. So yeah, freaking raising.
• 48:25
  Well, not not. JBJB hates the pirates
• 48:28
  apparently. So no, no, it clipped it.
• 48:31
  OK, so I'll admit, I'll admit there's a little bit of reverse
• 48:36
  psychology that has to occur here.
• 48:38
  I cannot. If I go against the Brewers,
• 48:41
  they're going to slap it across my face.
• 48:44
  You know what I'm saying? And I can't, I can't let that
• 48:46
  happen. Can't let that happen.
• 48:49
  They do this every year. So I have to I have to go in on
• 48:55
  the Brewers. And by the way, I'm they had a
• 48:57
  lot of winning streaks last year.
• 48:58
  At one point they won 40 of 50, right?
• 49:01
  So I don't think they're going to repeat that.
• 49:03
  But I also have them losing like 10 more games than than they
• 49:06
  lost last year so. What I don't understand though,
• 49:10
  JB, is you are a, you are a Pirates defender.
• 49:14
  If anybody comes at the Pirates, it's well here's why you're
• 49:18
  wrong. And then you finally get 2 guys
• 49:21
  that for years now have just ragged on the pirates.
• 49:25
  Slander, lot of slander. And now we're finally believers.
• 49:30
  And then you come in and undermine us.
• 49:32
  All right. Where where do you have the
• 49:33
  wins? I know Nate's got wins.
• 49:35
  I don't. I know you don't.
• 49:36
  I don't have win totals. Where do you have the?
• 49:38
  Wins have belief. That's what I have.
• 49:41
  All right. Well, I have the, the, I put
• 49:43
  lines for everybody, every team just based on the FanDuel Sports
• 49:47
  book. So that's, those are the numbers
• 49:49
  that I'm kind of going off of. They had, they had Brewers at 84
• 49:53
  1/2. I'm taking the under on that.
• 49:57
  Obviously I'm going to take the Pirates over there at 78 1/2 for
• 50:01
  them. I think there's going to be a
• 50:04
  fairly significant gap between 1st and 2nd place in this
• 50:08
  division. I think the Cubs, they're at 88
• 50:10
  1/2. I think that's pretty much right
• 50:13
  on the money. But I do think that the Pirates
• 50:18
  can can kind of sneak it out and I would see second place as like
• 50:23
  a, you know, 86 wins. But I don't think that's crazy.
• 50:27
  So, so again, I'm at I'm at 84, I'm kind of in that swing from
• 50:32
  83 to 8083 to 8586. And so like we're in the same
• 50:37
  place on the Pirates, We're just not in the same place on the
• 50:40
  Brewers. That's all.
• 50:41
  You see what I'm saying? Like now you now you get it a
• 50:44
  little bit. It's just we're not we're not in
• 50:46
  the same on the Brewers. That's I.
• 50:48
  Can see the Brewers being 8485 wins.
• 50:50
  And again and again I'm I'm hoping for 81, but I can't say
• 50:54
  that out loud on the Internet or they'll win 97 again.
• 50:58
  I get it, I get it. But that run, like you said, the
• 51:01
  run they went on last year was stupid.
• 51:03
  It's just that's not normal. Yeah, no, no, no pocket sausages
• 51:08
  or whatever was it. Pancakes, Pancakes.
• 51:11
  Pocket pancakes, whatever breakfast it was.
• 51:13
  We do like rice tarang though. Danger Zone.
• 51:16
  We do like breast string. Would you like breast string?
• 51:20
  You're not. USA legend, all time great.
• 51:23
  Yeah, yeah, Cubbies. I mean, look, let's get
• 51:27
  offseason. They look good.
• 51:29
  Yeah. And, and I'll just say this like
• 51:31
  there could be a surprise in this division if if the Cubs
• 51:34
  rotation doesn't hold up, because there are question marks
• 51:38
  with with Tyone and Imanaga and Cabrera, Matthew Boyd, if
• 51:43
  Cabrera is hurt, you know he's good.
• 51:46
  If he's there, he's good. The question is, is he there?
• 51:48
  I think anything you get out of Justin Seale coming back mid
• 51:51
  season. Justin Seale coming back is
• 51:53
  going to be. Kind of positive thing is, is
• 51:55
  good for them. Right.
• 51:56
  And I like Kate Horton. I I'm not worried about him at
• 51:58
  all. Yeah, also really good
• 52:00
  defensively, by the way, similar to what I was talking about
• 52:04
  with. Who was that?
• 52:06
  Rangers. Rangers, they're right.
• 52:09
  They're right behind him. They were second in Major League
• 52:12
  Baseball in in defensive run saves last year and third lowest
• 52:16
  errors in baseball. That's that's the Imanaga magic
• 52:19
  trick. By the way, don't look at
• 52:20
  fielding independent pitching. They bail him out a lot.
• 52:26
  No, I think he's just a good pitcher.
• 52:28
  Which reminds me either of you. Are either of you interested in
• 52:32
  acquiring him via trade and Tennessee?
• 52:35
  No, too many home runs and I don't.
• 52:38
  Think I I didn't ask you. I didn't ask you very clearly,
• 52:42
  said Nate. Are you interested in acquiring
• 52:44
  him? I'm always down for a
• 52:45
  conversation. All right, let's talk trade
• 52:48
  right now. Let me take a break.
• 52:53
  Let's go to the American League Central, starting at the bottom.
• 52:59
  Divisions. Thanks.
• 53:00
  That's exactly right. Yeah, I'm a I'm a believer in
• 53:09
  the central this year. Yeah, another big win increase.
• 53:14
  On three 5th place 123 twin. Sucks.
• 53:23
  Whoa, I knew that. Was I was wondering, I was like,
• 53:25
  I know how low you are on the twins there so.
• 53:29
  Suck, man. I'm still White Sox.
• 53:32
  I still can't get them passed. I think they're better, but.
• 53:34
  Believe in something? I'm intrigued.
• 53:37
  I'm intrigued by the White Sox this year, to say the least.
• 53:40
  I kind of am too, if there's like a young line up where
• 53:42
  you're like there's a bunch of names that I'm kind of ready to
• 53:45
  see what you got, you know? 12 win increase I have, I'm
• 53:48
  going. A little.
• 53:51
  They only won 60 games, you know what I'm saying?
• 53:53
  So like, again, I like some of the things I'm interested, but I
• 53:57
  still only have them as 72 wins. Yeah, I don't even know if I'd
• 54:01
  probably have them that high. It's it says more about how bad
• 54:03
  the twins are. I I think that I I sense that
• 54:06
  from you. Yeah, yeah.
• 54:09
  Yeah, Joe Ryan's got to get moved eventually, right?
• 54:13
  I mean, it's just twins have nothing else going on.
• 54:18
  He was supposed to be a Red Sox at the deadline last year, so a
• 54:23
  lot of supposed. But as far as the White Sox go,
• 54:27
  I don't know. There's just like there's.
• 54:30
  I'm intrigued. I'm with you though.
• 54:33
  It's, it's it's this is definitely stemming more from
• 54:36
  for or or from a hatred of of the twins.
• 54:40
  I. Just if I had to pick a win
• 54:41
  total, I would say Twins are going to win 65 games and the
• 54:49
  White Sox are going to be like 68 or 69 wins.
• 54:52
  You're just a hater dude. 2 bad teams.
• 54:54
  You're just a hater. Believe in something.
• 54:57
  Take your own advice. Believe in something.
• 55:00
  I did. I did.
• 55:01
  No, giving them 60, whatever wins is not believing.
• 55:06
  What do you believe in? I believe in the White Sox.
• 55:09
  We'll get to that number three. Number three, I love.
• 55:15
  I love just. Just dropping Nuggets.
• 55:18
  Just stringing you. Guys along Yeah, I got the
• 55:21
  twins. Leaving the bread crumbs, How
• 55:24
  many? 7075, Yeah, goodness.
• 55:27
  I think there's a little bit in that line that they can make a
• 55:30
  run. I think they, I think they'll, I
• 55:32
  think they'll make a run. It won't last long, but that'll
• 55:36
  be the thing that they get to that point.
• 55:39
  I think Josh Bell and and Luke Keyshaw let's let's you know, I
• 55:44
  do like not forget about Keyshaw.
• 55:46
  Victor Carrantini was a pick up this year and you just don't
• 55:49
  know. If you get something from Royce
• 55:52
  Lewis and Byron Buxton before they get hurt and you can stack
• 55:55
  some wins that then once they're hurt it all falls apart.
• 55:59
  Byron Buxton is dead to me. But they also play a lot of
• 56:02
  games against the rest of the AL Central so.
• 56:05
  Also a valid point. Coming at #3 The Cleveland
• 56:12
  Guardians. That's correct, yes.
• 56:16
  Look at us. Look at us.
• 56:17
  Very informed group of gentlemen.
• 56:19
  I think so. I think so.
• 56:20
  I think we know intelligent I. Think we know Ball.
• 56:23
  I mean, I think these pics are are going to have a success rate
• 56:27
  of 100%. Yeah, they could.
• 56:29
  Yeah. Do we think Quan gets moved?
• 56:34
  They really like him. I still feel like there's a
• 56:36
  chance, but I don't know. I don't think he needs to.
• 56:41
  They believe in what they're doing.
• 56:42
  They're they're, they're always just a player in a in a hot
• 56:45
  streak away from doing something.
• 56:49
  Such a stupid mentality. You're not wrong.
• 56:53
  That's. Their clothes is really good.
• 56:57
  Who did they send Lane Thomas to?
• 57:02
  I don't care about Lane Thomas. Lane Thomas would be like the
• 57:08
  clean up hitter for the Pirates right now.
• 57:09
  What are we talking about? I know I I'm fired.
• 57:12
  Yeah, I don't know. Bang Bang is he?
• 57:16
  Still in the league. Yes, he's still in the league.
• 57:18
  What's with the Lane Thomas disrespect all of a sudden?
• 57:21
  It's almost like you're waiting me waiting for me to queue it up
• 57:24
  or something. What?
• 57:26
  He had four home runs last year in a negative point. 0.68 he's.
• 57:30
  Great. I just asked who they sent him
• 57:33
  to. I was talking about I was
• 57:36
  thinking about their outfield when you brought up Quan and I
• 57:40
  remembered Lane Thomas was AI believe he was a deadline
• 57:43
  acquisition. What last year?
• 57:45
  The year before, yeah, 24, yeah. I just couldn't remember where
• 57:48
  they where he went off to. Jeez.
• 57:53
  Maybe Columbus? Ambush.
• 57:55
  OK. Yeah guys just fighting for a
• 57:57
  non roster invite at this point. Unreal.
• 58:03
  I'm. First off, I'm laying it on.
• 58:05
  Come on, I'm laying it on a little bit.
• 58:08
  He's with the. Royals.
• 58:08
  He's with the Royals quick. Google search took me half a
• 58:11
  second to figure out instead of the slander of Columbus.
• 58:15
  Whatever, I'm going to go. I'm going to buy Elaine Thomas
• 58:18
  Jersey after this. This should.
• 58:23
  Chase the Lauder guy to watch for the guardians.
• 58:25
  I like Chase the Lauder. All right.
• 58:35
  I'm going to go with my #2. Panic our fantasy, to be fair.
• 58:42
  Lane Thomas got more of a reaction than chase the water.
• 58:48
  So who's the real scrummy here? JB's bias is based on on cards.
• 58:52
  That's what that bias is. Yeah, he's going well.
• 58:55
  This guy's a $3 card and Saint Thomas, it was only a nickel.
• 58:59
  I'm close to Columbus, so I saw Chase De Lauder come up with in
• 59:03
  AAA and and his AAA debut. I said that guy's a major
• 59:08
  leaguer for sure. He's very.
• 59:10
  Good. You know who else is a Major
• 59:11
  League? Or Lane Thomas?
• 59:12
  I didn't think I'd have to defend Lane Thomas on this
• 59:15
  episode. What?
• 59:16
  A what? A wild turn of events, this.
• 59:19
  Guy stinks. Guy is a goat #2 in the central.
• 59:25
  I've got this was it and I will say I had it one way minutes
• 59:31
  before we hopped on. That's.
• 59:33
  What I like to hear. I said I got to make a switch.
• 59:35
  I got to commit and I'm just going to go ahead and say who's
• 59:39
  winning my American League Central.
• 59:42
  And that is, yeah, big surprise, The boys playing ball, the
• 59:47
  Kansas City Royals. There it is, my guy Bobby Witt
• 59:53
  leading the way, leaving the Tigers at 2:00.
• 59:59
  OK. With the Whataburger.
• 1:00:02
  Word. I don't have that.
• 1:00:07
  I've got I, I went back and forth quite a bit, quite a bit.
• 1:00:14
  I just I like the pitching side of the Tigers and more have them
• 1:00:20
  winning the division. I do like the Royals, obviously.
• 1:00:23
  Love communists on this show. Wow, obviously love Bobby.
• 1:00:29
  Apparently not that much. Giving Cags plenty of time to
• 1:00:31
  play Mike Michael Garcia is awesome.
• 1:00:34
  Just I think I just give the edge a little bit more to the
• 1:00:39
  Tigers pitching. I like their pitching.
• 1:00:44
  Framber coming in back in is insane.
• 1:00:49
  Bunch of options to close the door.
• 1:00:52
  I think you're I think you're leaving out a major factor here
• 1:00:57
  and what that lineup that you just talked about for the
• 1:01:00
  Royals, Bobby Pasquatch, the likes with that moved in fence
• 1:01:07
  this year. I hear you, I hear.
• 1:01:10
  You moved in for the away team too.
• 1:01:12
  I I get that, JB, but we're talking about the Royals here.
• 1:01:19
  I have questions about the playing the. 81 games there, not
• 1:01:22
  just the away team. I know I have questions about
• 1:01:26
  the bottom of the order. The bench is not there.
• 1:01:27
  I mean, they have Lane Thomas on the bench.
• 1:01:29
  I mean, what are we talking about?
• 1:01:31
  I mean, that goes to tell you how good this team is.
• 1:01:34
  You got, it's like the it's like the Red Sox having Masataki Oshi
• 1:01:39
  on the bench. That's one of Japan's starting
• 1:01:41
  nine. You're going to tell me Lane
• 1:01:44
  Thomas is on your bench? That's insane.
• 1:01:47
  Known Stud. I mean, I like just speaks to
• 1:01:50
  the depth that just speaks to, I think how how strongly they're
• 1:01:54
  going to run away with this thing.
• 1:01:56
  I like the Royals. I, I, I don't have them above
• 1:01:59
  the Tigers, the Tigers rotation and I like their lineup.
• 1:02:02
  I think they have a lot of good pieces in their lineup too, so.
• 1:02:06
  Yeah, that Mcgonigal kid. Rookie the year candidate too,
• 1:02:09
  you know. So, and, and I mean Riley
• 1:02:12
  Green's a stud. I like Colt Keith a lot.
• 1:02:15
  Yeah. Yep, Yep, Yep.
• 1:02:19
  Nice big Carpenter guy. Carpenter.
• 1:02:22
  Yeah. Carpenter's my guy.
• 1:02:25
  My guy. So yeah, I don't know.
• 1:02:28
  That's where I'm at. And I mean the the sooner you
• 1:02:30
  get Mcgonigal taken, Javi Baez's spot, the better that team gets.
• 1:02:37
  Yeah. Fair enough.
• 1:02:44
  National League East. I think we're going to, I think
• 1:02:50
  we're going to go separate ways on this one.
• 1:02:52
  Yeah, this is a tough one. I've got the Washington
• 1:03:00
  Nationals at five. Another year of milk in the 2019
• 1:03:05
  World Series because nothing's happening this year worth
• 1:03:09
  writing home about South. Sorry hometown team, but may as
• 1:03:15
  well just plan on keeping those those dusty banners up another
• 1:03:19
  year because guys aren't doing Jack this year so.
• 1:03:24
  That could get ugly. That's my question.
• 1:03:27
  Shout out James Wood. Yeah.
• 1:03:29
  Shout out James Wood. Yeah.
• 1:03:32
  That's all I got. The Forsky.
• 1:03:36
  Marlins. Marlins.
• 1:03:37
  Marlins. Yeah, I have a young and pesky
• 1:03:44
  yeah next to their name. Yeah.
• 1:03:47
  You like that? Yep.
• 1:03:49
  I am right exactly where they were last year.
• 1:03:53
  How many wins is that? That's 79 wins.
• 1:03:56
  All right, Vandal thinks that's lower of them.
• 1:04:00
  That's a yeah, and that's a betting line.
• 1:04:02
  So that makes. Sense.
• 1:04:03
  That's. A very much lower.
• 1:04:05
  I like, I like 79. That's that's.
• 1:04:08
  Respectable. Hit the over on that betting
• 1:04:09
  line, guys. Yeah, I agree.
• 1:04:11
  I kind of I just, they got dudes.
• 1:04:14
  There's dudes in there. Sours is a free yeah, yeah.
• 1:04:18
  Sours is on the shelf to start the year too, so that's going
• 1:04:21
  to, yeah. Yeah, didn't know that, but
• 1:04:23
  yeah. Just happened well he's he's at
• 1:04:27
  the big level Connor Griffin's in AAA but.
• 1:04:30
  Oh, I'm oh. Just that's just.
• 1:04:34
  Never mind, I'll come back to that.
• 1:04:35
  I'll come back to that later. 3 hole.
• 1:04:38
  Oh, is it a little foreshadow in there?
• 1:04:40
  Maybe. 3 hole. I think JB still stunned from my
• 1:04:47
  ricochet to Connor. Griffin No.
• 1:04:49
  No. OK, sorry, no disrespect.
• 1:04:52
  No disrespect. I got Braves.
• 1:04:54
  Sure he's fine fellow. Also Braves.
• 1:04:57
  As well. Also the Braves.
• 1:04:59
  Yeah, also the what's? Going on what's in that water
• 1:05:02
  down there? Go dude, there's so many Braves
• 1:05:06
  fans listening to this, you're going to be pissed.
• 1:05:07
  But. No, they're going to they're.
• 1:05:09
  Going to use the Strider news dropped me two or three wins.
• 1:05:13
  Yeah. Yeah.
• 1:05:15
  I'll be honest with you, even if Strider, even even if that news
• 1:05:18
  didn't break, I'm still putting him at 3.
• 1:05:20
  Like no disrespect to Strider, but like, give me like give me
• 1:05:25
  some consistency for once in your life, you know so.
• 1:05:29
  Yeah. That line up is very serious.
• 1:05:32
  Though I think it falls off after 4.
• 1:05:34
  OK. I think it's, I think it's very.
• 1:05:37
  Light. Yeah.
• 1:05:38
  I just who's projected 5. I think they had all these at
• 1:05:44
  six and and so like when I looked at that, I was like, man,
• 1:05:47
  I could go that far, but I don't like Ystromsky at 5:00.
• 1:05:50
  No. I do.
• 1:05:51
  I do. Like all these, so I don't know.
• 1:05:53
  Ystromsky's fine, I I don't. He's not even projected to be
• 1:05:56
  the in the starting lineup, though.
• 1:05:59
  Who's fan graphs? They have them in there.
• 1:06:01
  Yeah, fan graphs they do. They've got Hakunian, right,
• 1:06:07
  Michael Harrison, centre, and Eli White and left.
• 1:06:10
  Yeah, I think that's a platoon situation.
• 1:06:11
  So I think Eli White will handle the lefties and Ystrinsky the
• 1:06:15
  righties. Yeah, I'm just, I don't know,
• 1:06:18
  man. There's not much there for me.
• 1:06:22
  No, I mean the bench is old. Did Dom Smith make the team?
• 1:06:27
  He's on fan graphs as a non wrestler.
• 1:06:30
  I haven't seen Kyle Farmer the same, you know, that's just that
• 1:06:34
  they're just, there's just not enough there and.
• 1:06:36
  That the rotation falls off. I like the Robert Suarez move
• 1:06:43
  bringing him in. I think he'd probably going to
• 1:06:46
  take over for Iglesias pretty quickly.
• 1:06:48
  You need to be winning games. You need to be winning games for
• 1:06:51
  that to matter. I think it hurt like the Murphy
• 1:06:54
  injury hassle and Kim Jerks and Profar going on, you know,
• 1:06:58
  getting suspended again. I think there's just a lot there
• 1:07:01
  that they're going to miss out on.
• 1:07:02
  That is the plan going into opening day though, right?
• 1:07:04
  Iglesias still gets the 9th, but it's assumed, yeah assumed that
• 1:07:09
  that. But Iglesias is in, I think it's
• 1:07:12
  last year. And obviously Suarez got that
• 1:07:16
  three-year deal. So it's like, I don't know,
• 1:07:18
  you're paying that guy 15 mil a year.
• 1:07:19
  I think he's eventually going to be closing games.
• 1:07:21
  And Iglesias is known to poop down his leg occasionally.
• 1:07:26
  No disrespect. Yeah.
• 1:07:37
  Whoa. So what is?
• 1:07:38
  That jeez. Oh too.
• 1:07:40
  I mean, we're a clean sweep on this one or.
• 1:07:42
  I don't think so. He's finally out.
• 1:07:48
  He's fine. No.
• 1:07:51
  The train. Say it out loud, Casey.
• 1:07:54
  Hold on. Whoa, whoa, whoa.
• 1:07:55
  What are you interpreting Me. What are you?
• 1:07:57
  How are you interpreting that? How am I I?
• 1:08:01
  Was I assumed this is where we would go our separate ways?
• 1:08:05
  Well. That would be on you, I think.
• 1:08:09
  I've got the I've got the New York Metropolitans at 2:00.
• 1:08:13
  All right, all right, there we go.
• 1:08:14
  All right. All.
• 1:08:18
  Right. Now to be fair, I have them in
• 1:08:21
  90 wins. Yeah, I was going to say
• 1:08:24
  they're, I think they're both very high in the win total.
• 1:08:28
  I think there's a pretty significant gap after that, but
• 1:08:32
  I think Braves are probably closer to like a 8485 win team.
• 1:08:36
  But I'm in 84. I don't know, I mean what's also
• 1:08:42
  by the way, little side note with all all of us having the
• 1:08:45
  Phillies taking the division. Didn't know if you guys knew
• 1:08:48
  this or not, but it breaks a recent All Star game host curse.
• 1:08:56
  The man that hosted in 2023 did not make the postseason.
• 1:09:01
  Rangers in 24 did not make the postseason and the Atlanta
• 1:09:05
  Braves last year, so going off our predictions, the Phillies
• 1:09:10
  break this. That doesn't motivate Bryce
• 1:09:14
  Harper. Nothing does, nothing does.
• 1:09:19
  But correct me if I'm wrong, it only the the that's a recent
• 1:09:22
  trend, right? It only goes like it.
• 1:09:24
  It that's it. Yeah, it goes back to the 23,
• 1:09:27
  Yeah. And then prior to that, yeah,
• 1:09:28
  it's. Done.
• 1:09:29
  Who? That was a sneaky little thing
• 1:09:31
  though, yeah. Now I'm curious who was who
• 1:09:33
  hosted in 22? 20 2 Was it not Denver?
• 1:09:40
  Was it not in Denver? I thought.
• 1:09:41
  I thought it was the Rockies. No, that was no, that was 2121.
• 1:09:46
  Yeah, because. It's supposed to be in Atlanta.
• 1:09:48
  Seattle. Was it Seattle?
• 1:09:49
  No, no, you already said that. You 23 LA.
• 1:09:54
  Yeah, LA. LALA.
• 1:09:57
  Yep, obviously no streak there. Fair enough.
• 1:10:03
  The Phillies rotation to me is just stupid.
• 1:10:06
  It's just stupid. I mean, it's nasty.
• 1:10:10
  And then you're just getting Zach Wheeler back as like a, an
• 1:10:16
  addition and I think like. I think people got to remember
• 1:10:19
  that like even though he's not starting the season, it's not
• 1:10:22
  like it was some crazy like injury surgery.
• 1:10:25
  It was a blood clot issue. Like that's this is more of just
• 1:10:28
  giving him time to get back into shape.
• 1:10:30
  I don't he's not coming off of TJ.
• 1:10:31
  He's not coming off of shoulder issues like.
• 1:10:35
  He'll be back in April. He'll be back in April.
• 1:10:37
  I'll just come in. April, yeah.
• 1:10:39
  OK, that one I that one through three I would probably put up
• 1:10:43
  against any other one through 3 in baseball as rotation ghost.
• 1:10:49
  Yeah, and obviously their lineup is, but Dolly's Garcia over over
• 1:10:56
  Castellanos is going to be a big upgrade, I think.
• 1:10:58
  I think it's all expensive back. And you know, this is a team who
• 1:11:04
  will get whatever they need at the deadline.
• 1:11:07
  Yeah. I I can't remember if I said
• 1:11:12
  last year was my last go with this Phillies group.
• 1:11:16
  Yeah, we've, yeah, you've said that a few times.
• 1:11:18
  I think I've seconded it, seconded it, it.
• 1:11:24
  I frankly don't care what I said.
• 1:11:27
  Because there it is. I'm running it back.
• 1:11:30
  Yeah, dude. There we go.
• 1:11:31
  It's all Phillies in 2026. No, it's it wasn't as much of A
• 1:11:38
  shake up as I would have liked. I mean, it be quite honest with
• 1:11:43
  you, it was really just Sedolis that was honestly, it was really
• 1:11:46
  it. I would have liked maybe it one,
• 1:11:50
  maybe two more fresh faces in there.
• 1:11:52
  But I think starting with Cassiano.
• 1:11:55
  So, you know, I'd, I'd have a soft spot for Cassiano.
• 1:11:58
  So do I think they needed to get it cut ties finally?
• 1:12:02
  Yes. But I would have liked to have
• 1:12:04
  seen a little bit more of a shake up to feel like even
• 1:12:07
  though you've got some more some some more older veteran guys in
• 1:12:12
  there still, it would have felt like it was a a new group at
• 1:12:16
  least that you're trying to make a run at this thing with.
• 1:12:20
  But at least getting a new a new outfield piece in there, I think
• 1:12:25
  helps. And then, like you said, the the
• 1:12:26
  rotations disgusting. So.
• 1:12:29
  I full year Duran to the back end like you know that was in
• 1:12:32
  that was a deadline deal last year.
• 1:12:34
  So like a full year of him closing the door is I think that
• 1:12:38
  sure is up that bullpen quite a bit.
• 1:12:40
  And then we did, we already mentioned Andrew Painter being
• 1:12:42
  an an option in that, in that. No, I was going to say that, you
• 1:12:44
  know what I mean? He's going to be big and Justin
• 1:12:46
  Crawford too for center field. If he's if he's cracking with
• 1:12:49
  the team, I mean, they it's that's an an upgrade over Rojas.
• 1:12:53
  Yeah, And then Schwar, Schwarber, just I, I, I don't, I
• 1:12:57
  don't get Schwarber, man. It's just like you can count on
• 1:13:00
  this guy to just do what he does.
• 1:13:04
  And there's there's really. Reliable human beings.
• 1:13:06
  It's insane. So having him still, well, I'm
• 1:13:11
  with a bag, don't forget freshly acquired bag.
• 1:13:16
  I think he's going to, he's going to settle right back in.
• 1:13:19
  Do you guys have a if? If we take off our our Mets hate
• 1:13:27
  and put it off to the side, you guys have a reason why we put
• 1:13:31
  him at 2? Is there like stuff that you're
• 1:13:33
  not super high on? Is it just the Mets being the
• 1:13:38
  Mets? The reason, the reason for me is
• 1:13:40
  that, and I had to think honestly, really long, really
• 1:13:44
  hard about this, it's that it's just they're the Mets.
• 1:13:49
  Oh. Yeah, that's fair.
• 1:13:52
  That's why I can't can't say anything nice about them or, or
• 1:13:56
  give them any sort of benefit of the doubt or credit.
• 1:13:59
  Yeah, or kudos if you're into those things.
• 1:14:03
  Was that a snack back? In it was, it was a bar.
• 1:14:06
  It was a chocolate covered. Yeah, yeah, that's right, Snack
• 1:14:08
  bar. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
• 1:14:10
  For me, rivaled. Chewy bars, right?
• 1:14:12
  Let's not get. Care they didn't rival those,
• 1:14:14
  no. Play home though.
• 1:14:17
  I'm not. I'm not crazy there.
• 1:14:19
  I don't. I mean, they could be good, but
• 1:14:21
  I also don't trust them and I just think that they're just a
• 1:14:24
  hodgepodge. They just spend money to spend
• 1:14:26
  money. I don't like what they're doing
• 1:14:28
  in their infield. I don't.
• 1:14:29
  Either I, I just, I don't understand what they're doing.
• 1:14:32
  They're just moving pieces to move pieces.
• 1:14:34
  Playing Polanco at first is. And and Bachette at 3rd and I.
• 1:14:39
  It's just a mess. I've got to take.
• 1:14:41
  I don't think, and I may have even said this when the signing
• 1:14:44
  happened. I don't I'm not a believer in
• 1:14:46
  this Bachette move. I just don't think it's a good
• 1:14:48
  fit. I do not.
• 1:14:49
  I do not think it's a big Bachette is going to pan out at
• 1:14:52
  third base for the New York Mets.
• 1:14:53
  I I. Well, Brett Beatty's their DH
• 1:14:56
  and I, I do see the same thing. Those two will switch.
• 1:15:00
  Yeah, that's fair. You'll have Bichette hitting DH
• 1:15:03
  and playing sometimes the the bat I think is still good.
• 1:15:07
  Yeah. I, I, I don't think third base
• 1:15:09
  will work out when you got Brett Beatty right there.
• 1:15:13
  Yeah. Why not?
• 1:15:14
  I still haven't met 90 wins. I still think they're a good
• 1:15:16
  team. Yeah, and it's like you got to
• 1:15:20
  get Vientos ABS too. Like there's it's just strange.
• 1:15:24
  It's just. Strange and also have the luxury
• 1:15:26
  of vientos on the bench too. So that's what that's one of
• 1:15:30
  those things that. Snow Lane, Thomas, but Pointe.
• 1:15:35
  Yeah, Yeah, you, I don't, I mean, I don't see much of A
• 1:15:38
  bounce back from Luis Robert, right.
• 1:15:40
  I don't think we're. Now, on the flip side, I, I, I'm
• 1:15:44
  intrigued. I I think.
• 1:15:46
  I like AI like a change of scenery.
• 1:15:48
  I'm just not well. It's not just a change of
• 1:15:50
  scenery. It's going, and I know what
• 1:15:52
  we've said, what we've said about the Mets, but going from
• 1:15:55
  the White Sox to literally anywhere else I think has to has
• 1:15:58
  to benefit somebody mentally. If, if for no other reason,
• 1:16:01
  forget development, forget coaching staff, just mentally
• 1:16:06
  you're going OK, I'm out of there.
• 1:16:08
  I, I will also say that I think both of these teams are hovering
• 1:16:12
  around that 90 win mark like we talked about.
• 1:16:14
  Like it's not like they're going to be bad.
• 1:16:15
  I know we're coming down on pretty hard, but like there's
• 1:16:18
  just things. I think there's question marks
• 1:16:19
  there. I think losing Beau Bichette is
• 1:16:22
  not Pete Alonzo as far as protection goes behind Juan Soto
• 1:16:26
  and the Lindor Ham, a bone thing.
• 1:16:29
  Like he, he's, I don't know what that is.
• 1:16:32
  And it hasn't been a good spring.
• 1:16:33
  So like, I don't, I don't know what to expect.
• 1:16:35
  Does that linger? I don't know.
• 1:16:38
  I'm a Big Lindor guy. I think he's fine.
• 1:16:41
  You want to talk? You want to talk?
• 1:16:42
  Trey, JB. No, I don't.
• 1:16:44
  Have you seen my infield? I mean, we're talking about
• 1:16:48
  Francisco Lindor. Like I I think anybody could
• 1:16:51
  benefit from having Francisco Lindor on their infield.
• 1:16:54
  Yeah, I had him last year and it didn't work out for me, so.
• 1:16:57
  But I can. Still like the player, but.
• 1:16:58
  Yeah, apparently he's a big Lindor guy.
• 1:17:00
  I am a Big Lindor guy. You know what's my best player?
• 1:17:02
  Less. I'm going to go add Lane Thomas,
• 1:17:04
  right? Now I'm just trying.
• 1:17:05
  To go for it guarantee. He's on the waiver while he's on
• 1:17:09
  the free agent list. You're just a hater.
• 1:17:12
  Yeah, Let's talk trades after this.
• 1:17:14
  Let's move on to the American League East, starting at the
• 1:17:18
  bottom. I don't know if this is a hot
• 1:17:22
  take or not, but it is actually. Nate, do the honors lead us off
• 1:17:27
  here. Tampa Bay race, yeah, I, you
• 1:17:38
  know, moving back home, that's neat.
• 1:17:43
  I think there's some pieces there, but like overall the
• 1:17:46
  lineup just not really much. I mean, I I like, I like certain
• 1:17:50
  names. I love junior Caminero, I love
• 1:17:52
  Griffin jacks, I love Yandi Diaz.
• 1:17:56
  I I love Aranda. I'm pretty high on him as well,
• 1:17:58
  but like I'm just, I don't know, like putting it all together.
• 1:18:03
  I just dealing with this entire division all year.
• 1:18:06
  Like I I don't think they can hang.
• 1:18:10
  Now, don't get me wrong, this is still probably a team that would
• 1:18:15
  very much compete in most other divisions in baseball.
• 1:18:18
  It's just you're in a rough Division I.
• 1:18:21
  Don't know. What you got?
• 1:18:23
  You've got three guys projected over league average.
• 1:18:27
  Yeah, real quick not to I don't we've we've put a bow on the
• 1:18:33
  WBC. We don't need to rehash the the
• 1:18:37
  reasons why I think it's an important tournament.
• 1:18:40
  However, I will say Griffin Jax for me personally and is is an
• 1:18:43
  example of a guy that had we not gotten to experience the WBC and
• 1:18:49
  maybe learn some more about some of these guys that you're not
• 1:18:51
  otherwise watching. Griffin Jax is a guy for me
• 1:18:55
  where I'm I'm, yeah, I'm, I'm a, I'm a Griffin Jacks guy now I'm
• 1:18:59
  I'm pulling. Because of the WBC, Yeah, 100%
• 1:19:02
  yeah. Well, he has a fellow closer on
• 1:19:05
  this team who was also on Team USA.
• 1:19:09
  Garrett Clevenger also also listed as a closer for the Rays.
• 1:19:15
  Also, Brian Baker listed as a closer because the Rays are the
• 1:19:18
  Rays and they won't let anybody have more than 12 saves.
• 1:19:21
  Sure. But yeah, you get to learn a
• 1:19:24
  little bit more about these guys, makeups and and things
• 1:19:27
  like that. So yeah, count me as a Griffin
• 1:19:28
  Jackson guy. So get to your hot take, dude.
• 1:19:34
  It's not a really hot take. I just don't think they're very
• 1:19:36
  good. It's the Baltimore Orioles
• 1:19:38
  finishing at the bottom for me. I just not I'm it.
• 1:19:43
  I've been banging this drum for years now.
• 1:19:45
  They. Well, to their credit, they
• 1:19:48
  finally cracked through with the I guess what you can call a big
• 1:19:51
  signing. They get Pete Alonso, but I just
• 1:19:55
  I don't like the team otherwise. Like, I know we we already
• 1:20:00
  talked to Adley, right? Wasn't that mentioned?
• 1:20:03
  Yeah, that was mentioned in the listener takes like the what
• 1:20:06
  what's that going to be? What's that going to be?
• 1:20:09
  You know, the pitching is horrendous, is going to be
• 1:20:16
  awful, I don't think. Well, I, I would hope that
• 1:20:21
  Orioles fans are aware of how bad that is going to be, but it
• 1:20:24
  is not going to be good. And for that reason, I'm out.
• 1:20:32
  Shark Tank, Yeah, I'm kind of with you.
• 1:20:35
  I I got him in fourth. There's just there's not a lot
• 1:20:41
  of depth on the roster. The rotations bad, bullpen's
• 1:20:46
  bad. I think the flash in the pan
• 1:20:50
  Ryan Helsley thing was a fun story in Saint Louis, but I
• 1:20:54
  don't see him being like a premier closer by any means.
• 1:21:00
  Yeah, dude, I got I I think it's a weird rotation with like
• 1:21:04
  Besayo and Rushman and and Mount Castle of like first base
• 1:21:09
  catcher DH kind of like, you know, where to put guys.
• 1:21:13
  I just, I'm not, I'm not super high on them.
• 1:21:18
  I would take the under the on the FanDuel line as at 85 1/2
• 1:21:21
  wins I'm going to go a little less than that.
• 1:21:27
  OK, I mean, I've I've I've got the Orioles in fourth place, but
• 1:21:30
  I don't agree with you. I think Gunner, Taylor Ward,
• 1:21:33
  Alonzo Rushman, O'Neill beside. I mean, that's ridiculous.
• 1:21:37
  Kobe, Kobe, Mayo, Colton Cowser's hitting eighth.
• 1:21:40
  Are you kidding me? I don't.
• 1:21:41
  They got Blaze Alexander there, but I'm putting Dylan Beavers in
• 1:21:44
  the lineup. You got Mount Castle, Jeremiah
• 1:21:46
  Jackson, Blair. Dude, I don't know what you guys
• 1:21:48
  are talking about the rotation. You don't like Trevor Rogers or
• 1:21:50
  Kyle Bradish? I like both of them.
• 1:21:52
  Chris Bassett was a great ad. No, I'm I'm with you on that.
• 1:21:57
  I like I like Chris Bassett as a back end piece, but other than
• 1:22:00
  that, like I just. If Shane Boz is healthy, he's
• 1:22:03
  very good. And Zach, everything you could
• 1:22:05
  do a lot. Worse, yes, but none of the
• 1:22:07
  sure. Oh yeah, they're big
• 1:22:09
  acquisitions. They're they yeah, they had a
• 1:22:12
  decent offseason. I'm not saying, yeah, I'm just
• 1:22:14
  saying I tell me which one of the guys in the rotation is, is
• 1:22:20
  is a guy, the guy they don't have one.
• 1:22:26
  Yeah, you can't hang in this division.
• 1:22:28
  Same, same sentiment that we were talking about with with the
• 1:22:31
  Rays. When you talk about the Red Sox,
• 1:22:33
  the Blue Jays and the Yankees, rotations like in those, those
• 1:22:37
  lineups are just as good, if not better.
• 1:22:40
  And the pitching staff for the Warriors just can't.
• 1:22:43
  They're not even in the same conversation for me.
• 1:22:46
  I don't think it's that. I'm not saying that one of the
• 1:22:50
  worst teams in baseball by any means.
• 1:22:52
  It's just I think there's a lot more that needs to happen with
• 1:22:56
  some of those names before I get super excited and I'm really in
• 1:23:01
  between on some of these names. So when you're feeling that way
• 1:23:05
  offensively and and for position players, it's like the rotation
• 1:23:10
  needs to be great for me to save it and they just it, it's not
• 1:23:13
  even close to being great. I mean, Sonny Gray is the Sox
• 1:23:17
  slotted as the Sox #3 is he the Orioles Opening Day starter if
• 1:23:21
  he's 100? Percent, 100%.
• 1:23:23
  That's what I'm talking about. Like they I sure they can have
• 1:23:26
  guys that if healthy, they're they're good and sure they can
• 1:23:30
  have guys that you can be excited about, but they don't
• 1:23:32
  have they don't have the guy. Some of these team, like Nate
• 1:23:37
  was just saying, and especially in this division, some of these
• 1:23:39
  teams have multiple V guys and the Orioles on F1.
• 1:23:43
  So I mean, yeah, we can get excited about again, the the
• 1:23:47
  ceiling, the potential of that lineup.
• 1:23:50
  But until they can stay healthy, until they can put it all
• 1:23:53
  together and find, you know, spots for all these guys on a
• 1:23:56
  consistent basis. I'm I just can't believe I'm
• 1:24:00
  sorry. And then by default, I'm going
• 1:24:03
  to just lean in the direction of the Rays for 4th in the vision,
• 1:24:07
  just because it's the race. One more thing on the Orioles,
• 1:24:11
  everyone in the starting line up projected to have a weighted
• 1:24:13
  runs created plus over 100 better than league average at
• 1:24:16
  some point this season. Do they get Jordan Westberg or
• 1:24:19
  Jackson Holiday back? And what does that do?
• 1:24:21
  I mean, I just think offensively they're way better than their
• 1:24:25
  pitching staff. But I don't hate their pitching
• 1:24:27
  staff, and I still have them in fourth.
• 1:24:30
  Yeah, I think they're better than bad.
• 1:24:32
  A lot better than bad. Yeah, sure.
• 1:24:34
  I. Mean, I mean, but what's the
• 1:24:35
  best we've seen of Jackson Holiday, though?
• 1:24:38
  Well, sure, but I'm just saying, I mean and you could say.
• 1:24:40
  That for a lot of these. Guys, you know what I mean?
• 1:24:41
  He's good. We know that.
• 1:24:43
  We know that would be good. I think Westbrook got TJ, didn't
• 1:24:45
  he? That's not going to.
• 1:24:47
  Was it, was it TJ by that He's coming back this year.
• 1:24:50
  Yeah. OK.
• 1:24:52
  I mean still the. I mean, I like, I like what they
• 1:24:54
  have. Buckle up ladies and gentlemen,
• 1:24:59
  because this is where things are going to definitely go in
• 1:25:02
  different directions. JB starter off, who do you got
• 1:25:07
  in 3rd place? I have the Toronto Blue Jays in
• 1:25:12
  3rd place. That's the way Daddy likes it.
• 1:25:21
  Like the the reigning American League champs in 3rd.
• 1:25:28
  They went from worst to 1st last year.
• 1:25:31
  They lost a little bit of that identity.
• 1:25:34
  They're starting to get banged up.
• 1:25:35
  I, I, I look at the lineup and can we recount?
• 1:25:40
  Can we recount their losses real quick, Bichette?
• 1:25:45
  Yeah. What is it?
• 1:25:46
  Bichette Bassett. Bassett.
• 1:25:49
  Bassett which they replaced him. Sure.
• 1:25:53
  I I who was in the outfield, they got Jesus Sanchez written
• 1:25:58
  down. I can't.
• 1:25:59
  Yeah. I, I think there was a lot of
• 1:26:02
  magic going on. I, I like Okamoto, but like will
• 1:26:06
  Ernie Clement do that again? I, I don't know is Addison
• 1:26:10
  Barger for real? We're going to find that out.
• 1:26:13
  You know what I mean? Dalton Var show is, I agree,
• 1:26:17
  fantastic on the field, but you know, I saw a lot of those
• 1:26:21
  Facebook comments talking about Dalton Var show 50 homers and
• 1:26:25
  I'm like, man, I don't know that's.
• 1:26:26
  Crazy. George Springer kind of bounced
• 1:26:28
  back, but I like him, but I don't love him he's.
• 1:26:31
  Getting older, yeah. I love Laddie though.
• 1:26:35
  Sure. Haven't we been saying that
• 1:26:36
  about Springer for the last like 3 or?
• 1:26:38
  Three years. That guy's got to.
• 1:26:39
  He's also got to cut his hair. He's not.
• 1:26:41
  What are we doing? We're not fooling anybody.
• 1:26:43
  That's Horreck I. Haven't seen that.
• 1:26:45
  I haven't seen. That.
• 1:26:48
  I don't think he has either honestly.
• 1:26:51
  Yeah, I mean, I get what you're saying.
• 1:26:52
  I think, I think they're pitching is really deep.
• 1:26:59
  I get that some of the names are starting off on the shelf, but
• 1:27:03
  like with the additions and like some, you know, some other names
• 1:27:07
  like all said and done, if we're talking strictly starting
• 1:27:11
  pitching, it's Kevin Gosman, it's Dylan Sees, it's Shane
• 1:27:15
  Bieber, Jose Berrios, Treya Savage Maxers, or they brought
• 1:27:21
  in Cody Ponce from from the KBO who like interesting.
• 1:27:27
  You know what I mean? Like while Bieber and Brios and
• 1:27:31
  you Savage are maybe starting off on the shelf, like do you
• 1:27:34
  give Ponce a chance? Like that guy went bonkers and
• 1:27:38
  just broke a strikeout record in KBO.
• 1:27:40
  So like, however he gets used, I think is going to be very solid.
• 1:27:46
  The best defense in baseball last year as far as the
• 1:27:49
  defensive run category, defensive run save category,
• 1:27:55
  yeah, dude, I, I, I think the pitching is what keeps them
• 1:27:58
  afloat and they just, they're never really going to sparkle
• 1:28:03
  offensively. I think they have enough pieces
• 1:28:04
  to do well, but they're the way they play baseball.
• 1:28:08
  I don't think it's changing that much.
• 1:28:12
  So I don't have them falling the third I got them in second.
• 1:28:19
  I have them in 3rd. So I, I again want to say just
• 1:28:23
  for all you Blue Jays fans out there, like they're in the post
• 1:28:26
  season for my predictions, they've only, they're only three
• 1:28:29
  wins different. I have them in 91.
• 1:28:31
  Against. The only things I'm talking
• 1:28:34
  about are whether or not they can compete with the other two
• 1:28:36
  teams. I haven't wanted to.
• 1:28:38
  Hold on. I just put, I just put two and
• 1:28:40
  two together. So that tells me that Nate's
• 1:28:49
  third AL ES team is. The Boston Red Sox.
• 1:28:54
  Yes, I mean yes, I. Mean OK.
• 1:28:58
  This might be my favorite. I'm going to mute my mic and
• 1:29:00
  just let your. Head.
• 1:29:00
  No, there's nothing. Go ahead.
• 1:29:04
  No, go ahead. Why do?
• 1:29:05
  Why? Why 3?
• 1:29:07
  I told you this division is splitting hairs.
• 1:29:09
  I think what JB said of like these top three teams are going
• 1:29:13
  to be around 90 wins, no problem, easily I.
• 1:29:18
  I sure, but there's an intentional decision to slot the
• 1:29:21
  men AT3II. I I hear you're splitting.
• 1:29:24
  Hairs, I know you're trying to get that out of me, but I
• 1:29:27
  promise you it's not I I think that they're really good.
• 1:29:30
  I think I do think they're good. I think their rotation is up
• 1:29:34
  there with the best rotation in baseball.
• 1:29:36
  I've, I, I don't think there's too many holes with this team.
• 1:29:44
  I the question mark, can we can we say top three rotation of
• 1:29:46
  baseball? Yeah, I I could.
• 1:29:48
  I think we could say that. OK, I'm glad.
• 1:29:50
  We agree. The question marks for me are a
• 1:29:54
  little bit are a little bit bigger.
• 1:29:56
  Like I I don't know what Sonny Gray is going to be like getting
• 1:29:59
  back into any type of spotlight. And I know he has gone back and
• 1:30:05
  forth about, you know, the way the Yankees treated him, but
• 1:30:07
  like floating around in Minnesota and and Saint Louis
• 1:30:11
  for the bad, you know, better part of 7-8 years now.
• 1:30:13
  It's like, no disrespect, but like, that's not Boston.
• 1:30:17
  So I'm curious to see what it's like for him to step back into
• 1:30:20
  the limelight defensively. Like, I I'm not really quite
• 1:30:26
  sure what to make of them. I think they're going to be
• 1:30:28
  solid, but the the question marks in the outfield, I think
• 1:30:31
  they have pieces that they can move and plug holes because of
• 1:30:34
  their roster depth allows them to be able to get better
• 1:30:40
  throughout the year and probably at the deadline.
• 1:30:44
  I don't know much about Oviedo. You guys can probably fill in
• 1:30:46
  the gaps there. For me, I, I love the Ranger
• 1:30:49
  Suarez move. I they're, they're good.
• 1:30:52
  They're obviously really good, but some of those question marks
• 1:30:58
  for me were bigger than the Blue Jays.
• 1:31:04
  That's my reasoning. I still think that Red Sox
• 1:31:09
  lineup, as they traditionally and historically do, going to
• 1:31:15
  produce a lot of runs. It's not going to be by way of
• 1:31:19
  the big bop the way we were coming into this offseason,
• 1:31:22
  hoping for maybe keeping a a bat like Bregman's round or once you
• 1:31:28
  lost out on that, maybe going to to get another big bat, but you
• 1:31:31
  just ran out of time so you had to pivot to having Caleb Durbin.
• 1:31:35
  No disrespect as as your third baseman and we just found out I
• 1:31:41
  guess yesterday day before Marcel Myers going to start the
• 1:31:45
  year at 2nd. So not super pumped about that.
• 1:31:50
  I mean, I'm, I'm excited to see if if we get a healthy year out
• 1:31:53
  of him, what he can do, But I'm not I'm not pumped about where
• 1:31:59
  our infield is compared to where it could have been.
• 1:32:03
  Had you maybe moved one of these outfield pieces, who's to say
• 1:32:07
  what what the return would have looked like?
• 1:32:09
  But even though, but you know, despite all that, I.
• 1:32:14
  How's the bullpen? I don't.
• 1:32:18
  I think I'm trying to think here.
• 1:32:22
  Bullpen Whitlock OK, yeah, you got Chapman, Whitlock we just
• 1:32:26
  picked up. What's his face?
• 1:32:31
  Coulomb Danny Clome. Danny Clome.
• 1:32:37
  Yeah, I'm I mean, I'm more excited about the rotation, but
• 1:32:41
  the I think I think it'll be enough to be up there in that
• 1:32:48
  range. Like you're talking about
• 1:32:49
  splitting hairs or hovering around 90 ish winds.
• 1:32:53
  I think not be, I mean, well, maybe the rotation is, is very
• 1:32:58
  strong, but when you're looking at the line of rotation and the
• 1:33:03
  pen as a whole, I think you're you're strong enough in each of
• 1:33:07
  those groupings to to be able to cover holes like you've said
• 1:33:13
  about other teams that we've talked about where, you know,
• 1:33:16
  you can maybe bail, bail 11 group out if need be.
• 1:33:20
  But yeah, that's trying to be optimistic.
• 1:33:24
  Like I said it, it was. I wasn't thrilled about the fun,
• 1:33:26
  the finished product once the offseason wrapped up, but that's
• 1:33:32
  what we're dealing with. With that being said, you have
• 1:33:34
  them winning the division. I do.
• 1:33:39
  And I'm not going to you know, hey, credit to you tip of the
• 1:33:45
  cap. You said, well, you're not going
• 1:33:47
  to get that out of me. I I will return the favor and
• 1:33:50
  say you're not going to get any hot take out of me in regards to
• 1:33:56
  really what is I think one through 3 in this in this
• 1:33:58
  division, but particularly one through 2 here because I've got
• 1:34:01
  socks one Yankees 2. But it's I'm I'm not going to
• 1:34:06
  rehash all of what you did, but it's it's the same line of
• 1:34:09
  thinking where it's not. I don't think there's going to
• 1:34:12
  be that large of a degree of variance.
• 1:34:14
  I think, I think literally you could give me any combination of
• 1:34:21
  one through 3 in the mayor of the Geese and I wouldn't doubt
• 1:34:23
  and I I. Know, but I don't think any of
• 1:34:25
  us are wrong or far off. JB, what do you got?
• 1:34:29
  I think that that rotation is not only very good, but to have
• 1:34:33
  Peyton, Tolley and Connolly early just waiting as depths.
• 1:34:36
  There's not very many teams that can say I've that I'm 7 deep of
• 1:34:42
  if if Oviedo isn't which he's a dog, by the way, but he he's
• 1:34:47
  second year back from Tommy John, right.
• 1:34:48
  So if he's a little rusty or whatever, then so I got a guy.
• 1:34:54
  I think all three had a good spring too if I'm not mistaken.
• 1:34:57
  I think. I think totally did.
• 1:34:58
  You're going to love. Oviedo did I, I can't remember
• 1:35:00
  what, what Connolly Early's spring looked like, but yeah, I
• 1:35:04
  mean great, great depth for the. For the the only thing that.
• 1:35:09
  You're going to need in the summer.
• 1:35:10
  The only thing I'm worried about with the Red Sox is the bench.
• 1:35:14
  That's literally it. I love their line up through and
• 1:35:18
  through. I am bit way bigger on Caleb
• 1:35:20
  Durbin than than Kyle is. No, I'm not.
• 1:35:23
  I'm not. I'm not out on Caleb Durbin.
• 1:35:25
  I'm just saying like it like if the plan was to go out and get
• 1:35:31
  Caleb Durbin, I'd be like, oh, this is sick.
• 1:35:33
  But it was just, it was like, well, you missed out on a, on a
• 1:35:37
  Pete Alonso. So like, where else can we look
• 1:35:39
  for a corner bat? Well, let's, let's see what
• 1:35:41
  Bregman's thinking. You missed out on Bregman.
• 1:35:43
  Then by the end of all said and done, you end up with Caleb
• 1:35:46
  Durbin. It's not a disrespect thing.
• 1:35:48
  It's just what could have been, comparatively.
• 1:35:51
  I like Durbin more than I like Contreras.
• 1:35:56
  Pound for pound, like the whole, the total package.
• 1:35:58
  Yeah, I just like it. Yeah, I just, I think.
• 1:36:02
  We're talking Wilson Contreras. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
• 1:36:06
  But I think, I think, I think Contreras will fit in nicely
• 1:36:10
  there. I.
• 1:36:11
  I think it'll be a good part for him.
• 1:36:12
  It's going to be a fun, it's going to be a fun bunch to watch
• 1:36:15
  mesh together, you know? But the outfield is ridiculous.
• 1:36:19
  Great outfield. Disgusting.
• 1:36:20
  The best outfield in baseball. Defensively.
• 1:36:24
  Tell him JB. The whole thing.
• 1:36:26
  Or just. Everything.
• 1:36:28
  There's four personality. They had four.
• 1:36:30
  Of them till they till they got Oviedo.
• 1:36:33
  Looks the whole package. That Jaron Duran auto is a clean
• 1:36:39
  auto. There it is.
• 1:36:40
  There's. I will say this, there's the
• 1:36:41
  card bias that Jaron Duran auto. I tell you what, I met his dad
• 1:36:46
  in DC Great guy. Great.
• 1:36:50
  I mean, there's you can't go wrong.
• 1:36:53
  I mean will your Bray you WBC legend?
• 1:36:58
  Yeah, yeah. I mean this.
• 1:37:00
  Roman Anthony, WBC legend. Roman Anthony, we're just all
• 1:37:04
  American legend. Just just a good, just what a
• 1:37:08
  great bunch of guys, man. Just what a what a good group of
• 1:37:12
  kids. Best in baseball.
• 1:37:14
  Yeah, it's fair. Yankees running it back, too.
• 1:37:19
  I I have them right at 94 wins. I have the Red Sox at 95.
• 1:37:23
  That's a stupid take. Just.
• 1:37:27
  Kidding, but he just said. He just said that Red Sox have
• 1:37:31
  more wins, Yeah. What do you say?
• 1:37:34
  What do you mean? You said Yankees are running it
• 1:37:36
  back. I said 90, they're running back
• 1:37:38
  94 wins. But, and then I said, but I have
• 1:37:41
  the Red Sox at 90. Oh yeah, no.
• 1:37:43
  Great take. Great.
• 1:37:43
  Hey. Yeah, there it is.
• 1:37:45
  Yeah, I do think, I do think it takes 95 wins to to get this
• 1:37:50
  division. Yeah, I mean, some question
• 1:37:54
  marks around the Yankees. I I was kind of slow on like
• 1:37:57
  them running it back. But overall, like, you know,
• 1:38:01
  there's a 94 win team last year with a very questionable back
• 1:38:05
  end until until the deadline. So like getting Devin Williams
• 1:38:08
  out, having Bednar full time, closing the door.
• 1:38:12
  I don't know what Garrett Cole brings when he does come back,
• 1:38:15
  but like overall there's just a ton of talent in the edging
• 1:38:19
  staff. Is that June?
• 1:38:22
  Probably May, May, probably probably.
• 1:38:24
  They're saying May for both Garrett Cole and Rodon.
• 1:38:29
  But I mean, the the names that they have are are just there's a
• 1:38:33
  ton of talent. I think there's they're just
• 1:38:35
  really good at developing pitching with Cam Schlittler,
• 1:38:40
  Louise Heel. Yeah, the Schlitt Master, two
• 1:38:46
  guys that are like quad A that it's they're either going to
• 1:38:50
  play a huge role for the Yankees or play a huge role for somebody
• 1:38:53
  else with Elmer Rodriguez and Carlos the Grande.
• 1:38:56
  Like both of those guys are stupid good.
• 1:38:59
  And you got Dax Kilby chilling, you got Jason Dominguez
• 1:39:02
  chilling, you got Spencer Jones chilling.
• 1:39:04
  That's like if they want to bring those names up or if they
• 1:39:07
  want to move them and and solidify the big league roster.
• 1:39:09
  I there's plenty of of flexibility.
• 1:39:15
  My biggest question mark is Trent Grisham.
• 1:39:17
  Was that a fluke or was that real hitting in front of Judge?
• 1:39:20
  You know, again, do you get to run it back in that stadium?
• 1:39:24
  My other big question mark is how Ben Rice is going to play
• 1:39:27
  defensively. At first, it it doesn't look
• 1:39:30
  good. It's not going to be very good.
• 1:39:32
  It's going to be bumpy, but I love that not having Volpia
• 1:39:40
  short is going to be nice, at least to start off the year.
• 1:39:45
  Jose Caballero is a freak, so I think it's splitting ears.
• 1:39:49
  I I think you could see these three teams over 90 wins and it
• 1:39:53
  wouldn't be a big surprise. I have Blue Jays at 91.
• 1:39:57
  Yeah, Yep, those are standings voice.
• 1:40:03
  All done. Yeah, well done.
• 1:40:06
  We got through. The hard part, that's the meaty
• 1:40:07
  part, that's. That's.
• 1:40:08
  The boring part if you. Want that's the meaty part.
• 1:40:10
  So if you're listening, if you're watching, feel free to
• 1:40:13
  pause. Go take a bathroom break.
• 1:40:16
  We'll be here when you get back. Well, I mean you're pausing it
• 1:40:19
  so we're not going anywhere. That's a good time.
• 1:40:22
  But let's take let's let's break it up a little bit.
• 1:40:26
  Let's go. What what do we got on deck
• 1:40:29
  here? We going over unders?
• 1:40:31
  No, let's go. You want to go with the draft?
• 1:40:36
  Is that what we got lined up next?
• 1:40:39
  How are we figuring out the order by the way?
• 1:40:49
  Should we go oldest to youngest? No, we can't do that.
• 1:40:52
  We don't know how old I am. It's worth a shot.
• 1:40:58
  All the guys, all the guys in the group chat were like, yes.
• 1:41:04
  Yes, and state your ages. How?
• 1:41:10
  How do we want to do this? It's got to be no idea.
• 1:41:13
  Got to be a system here. I have no idea.
• 1:41:21
  Any ideas anybody? Anyone.
• 1:41:23
  Let's flip on it. I got a coin around here or
• 1:41:25
  something. How do you do?
• 1:41:26
  How do you do that with three people?
• 1:41:28
  Well. You know, three-way rock, paper,
• 1:41:29
  scissors. Is it a three sided?
• 1:41:31
  Coin, it's it's two. We've got Ohio on one side.
• 1:41:36
  We'll just do blue and white. This is the heads.
• 1:41:39
  This is the tails, Kyle. Call it in the air.
• 1:41:45
  Tails. OK, it is heads.
• 1:41:49
  Sick. Where do you want to pick Nate?
• 1:41:54
  What? What about what?
• 1:41:56
  First, second, third. How?
• 1:41:57
  Are we doing this? What about you?
• 1:41:58
  You said snake, you said snake. So you pick where you want to
• 1:42:03
  go. You want to pick first, second
• 1:42:08
  or third. But I feel like you have to have
• 1:42:10
  a first round. Well, then we'll do this.
• 1:42:12
  Then we'll do this. But he gets to pick first.
• 1:42:16
  Hot take a round. I think I'll take third.
• 1:42:17
  I think I'll take third and. Call it in the air again, Kyle.
• 1:42:21
  Tails. It is tails that time.
• 1:42:23
  Where do you want to pick? Ride or die on tails.
• 1:42:25
  You go on one or two. Well, I'm guessing 2 is the
• 1:42:32
  suckiest pick in that draft, no? Well, you get one, you're going
• 1:42:37
  to get the last pick of the draft.
• 1:42:40
  Sure, but I get the first one. For those who don't know what
• 1:42:43
  we're doing, by the way we are drafting, we are drafting 2
• 1:42:47
  teams each to try and total up the most losses.
• 1:42:53
  We're calling it the worst teams draft, Yeah.
• 1:42:56
  The worst teams draft. Yeah, trying to trying to take a
• 1:42:58
  positive spin on things here. We're going to pick the worst
• 1:43:01
  teams, yeah. So you're going first, Kyle?
• 1:43:05
  I. Still don't understand this
• 1:43:07
  flipping system. Yeah, I don't.
• 1:43:09
  How did I get where I'm at I. Don't.
• 1:43:10
  You pitched it. You picked 3, so you get to pick
• 1:43:13
  third and 4th. Yeah, but I didn't win.
• 1:43:15
  Anything you won against me, but what I was trying to figure out
• 1:43:18
  is how how JB didn't. Well, you guys get the
• 1:43:21
  preference. He's a gentleman and a Squire.
• 1:43:25
  You guys listen, I'm in the corner, you're on the main.
• 1:43:27
  Screen OK, that's fair. That's fair.
• 1:43:29
  That's fair. All right, well then no.
• 1:43:33
  You know what, JB? You put a lot of work into this
• 1:43:36
  episode. I I rescind my choice, I will
• 1:43:40
  allow you to pick. All right, I'll go first.
• 1:43:44
  I'll pick the Rockies. Fair enough.
• 1:43:46
  Sweet. And just to reiterate, in case
• 1:43:50
  it wasn't clear initially, we're picking, we're each picking two
• 1:43:53
  teams that we think will have the most losses.
• 1:44:00
  And we're going to total up those combined losses and see
• 1:44:02
  who wins. At the end of the.
• 1:44:04
  Year we're going to win. We'll figure that out.
• 1:44:06
  Going to win a prize. All right, so JB is going
• 1:44:12
  Rockies. I'm second, correct.
• 1:44:18
  Yeah, go ahead and give me the Washington Nationals.
• 1:44:25
  All right, good deal. I will take the.
• 1:44:30
  Sucks if you're a fan of any of these teams.
• 1:44:33
  It does. We're just picking.
• 1:44:34
  We're just picking making the beat off, but.
• 1:44:38
  I think probably the six teams picked will be understood.
• 1:44:41
  I mean, I guess, but it's just it it it's got to be, it's got
• 1:44:44
  to hurt to hear the boys doing a worst teams draft and and really
• 1:44:49
  shedding light on just how garbage they are.
• 1:44:52
  But that's fine, yeah. I will go.
• 1:44:57
  I will go Cardinals and White Sox with my back-to-back picks.
• 1:45:02
  You're just not a believer, dude.
• 1:45:05
  In the Cardinals. No.
• 1:45:08
  In the White Sox. Well, it's the only other pick,
• 1:45:11
  yeah. Yeah, I mean, to be fair, I was
• 1:45:15
  almost like the twins, but I when I chose my standings, I did
• 1:45:19
  choose the twins becoming the last place.
• 1:45:21
  But I feel safety net from my hot take by taking these two
• 1:45:27
  teams. That's true.
• 1:45:31
  I didn't even notice that you so you went twins last but so this
• 1:45:35
  is just like a. Safety.
• 1:45:36
  Now I'm hedging my bet. That's fair.
• 1:45:38
  OK, That's fair. Yeah, that's.
• 1:45:41
  It's cowardly, but I understand it.
• 1:45:42
  Thank you. So back to me.
• 1:45:47
  I'm going. You see you.
• 1:45:52
  Didn't take twins. I did not.
• 1:45:54
  They're available. Well, it's fine, I don't want
• 1:45:59
  them. I'm taking the yeah, I'm going
• 1:46:04
  to do it. I'm taking the Los Angeles
• 1:46:06
  Angels. Oh.
• 1:46:07
  There it is. I think JB just won.
• 1:46:11
  I will, yeah. I'll go Twins.
• 1:46:16
  I was hoping that you'd leave the Angels for me because
• 1:46:18
  remember, I have the twins with a couple more wins than the
• 1:46:21
  Angels. Oh, no, just one.
• 1:46:23
  But I'll take the twins. Clap it up.
• 1:46:25
  Clap it up, Clap it up. Good, good job.
• 1:46:27
  I was just a little breather just to break up the the
• 1:46:31
  standings. Got another little little insert
• 1:46:36
  here before we get into the postseason predictions.
• 1:46:39
  Nate's got some over unders planned for us.
• 1:46:41
  We like this. I'm excited because I have no
• 1:46:44
  idea what. What to expect totally blind
• 1:46:46
  over unders, which is? The look, I tried to go a little
• 1:46:50
  neat, I tried to get neat with it where it's kind of like some
• 1:46:55
  they're like storyline ish numbers to watch out for, you
• 1:46:59
  know, stuff that like, you know, maybe we're seeing for the first
• 1:47:02
  time this year. So my first one out the gate
• 1:47:09
  over under on Shohei Otani innings pitched based on fantasy
• 1:47:16
  baseball ESPN app. They are projecting 144 innings.
• 1:47:20
  So I will set the line at I know you can't have really half an
• 1:47:24
  inning, but I'm going to go 144 1/2 innings over or under.
• 1:47:30
  You could set it at like a third one. 144.1 innings KC over or
• 1:47:42
  under. What's the
• 1:47:54
  I? I'd say it I think I know the
• 1:48:02
  rotation is good, but I just, I'm not, I can't quite say I'm a
• 1:48:06
  believer in the health of the rotation just yet.
• 1:48:09
  Sure. So I'm going to say that they're
• 1:48:12
  going to need the help, so I'm actually going to take the over.
• 1:48:18
  For the sake of fun, I'll take the under.
• 1:48:20
  He's only done that once in his career.
• 1:48:22
  All right, I did I say mine already?
• 1:48:26
  No, I'm taking the under. So only because he's on Kyle's
• 1:48:30
  team in fantasy. Hey, we could change that if you
• 1:48:33
  want to talk. Another interesting thing, we
• 1:48:38
  kind of touched on it earlier, Pete Alonzo no longer hitting
• 1:48:43
  behind Juan Soto. So will Juan Soto have a career
• 1:48:46
  high and walks this year setting the over under at 145 1/2?
• 1:48:52
  600 1/2. Who's hitting behind them now?
• 1:49:03
  Shit for until they change it. Yeah, give me the over.
• 1:49:08
  My goodness. Yeah, it it better be the over
• 1:49:11
  if you're the rest of the league.
• 1:49:13
  Yeah. I mean, what are Yeah, I mean,
• 1:49:17
  you're just asking for trouble if you're pitching to the Wan
• 1:49:20
  Soto in 2026 on this Mets team as it's currently constructed.
• 1:49:26
  JB. 144 That's a career high for him A. 145 is his career high,
• 1:49:35
  so I'm taking the half over it. Obviously would have to have 146
• 1:49:40
  to beat his career high. All right, I'll go under.
• 1:49:48
  Barely. I'll go under.
• 1:49:50
  I am also taking the over screw the bets super easy one here.
• 1:49:59
  I think maybe, I don't know, it's kind of.
• 1:50:01
  A tough line. I, I, I, I played.
• 1:50:04
  I don't remember this line. I think I maybe made it up.
• 1:50:07
  I don't know the number of games Corey Seeger will play in 2026.
• 1:50:14
  To give you some background here. 20/22 he played 151 games.
• 1:50:19
  2023A1192024 You played 123 games and last year only 102.
• 1:50:28
  I set the line at 123 1/2 over or under.
• 1:50:36
  Give me the over. Yeah, I'll take the over.
• 1:50:40
  Clean Sweep taking the over as well.
• 1:50:43
  I picked them to win 84 games. He's going to have to be in that
• 1:50:45
  line up. Yeah, I like Warner Seger, man,
• 1:50:48
  I love that guy so. Much so that you traded for him.
• 1:50:53
  That's right, that's right. I did trading him away last
• 1:50:57
  year. Regretted it.
• 1:50:59
  Came in like 5th place. Another name we talked about
• 1:51:03
  already. Just curious because of what he
• 1:51:06
  did last season by breaking records.
• 1:51:10
  I have Cody Ponce's strikeouts based on Fantasy Baseball ESPN
• 1:51:16
  app. The line is set at 143 1/2.
• 1:51:23
  Clearly figured something out over there in Korea #1.
• 1:51:27
  Korea number one. Korea number one.
• 1:51:29
  Give me the under. Yep, JB.
• 1:51:35
  I think they're going to need him.
• 1:51:36
  I think he barely. I'm going to go over but oh.
• 1:51:39
  My I'm. Trying to make it interesting.
• 1:51:43
  If he's doing under, I'm just about going over and I'm.
• 1:51:46
  Joe with you, what you feel in your soul.
• 1:51:49
  Man, I do, I do. I think they're going to need
• 1:51:51
  him to throw innings. I think he's going to be out
• 1:51:53
  there. I do too if.
• 1:51:55
  He throws 175 innings. He's over that.
• 1:51:58
  Yeah. I mean, I think the, I don't
• 1:52:00
  remember the inning to strikeout ratio.
• 1:52:02
  I think he had over 250 strikeouts in the KBL last year.
• 1:52:05
  Yeah, I mean, he's not going to for that, right?
• 1:52:07
  Yeah, but that's cordia #1. Yeah, I get it.
• 1:52:10
  I I just think he may have found something, you know?
• 1:52:12
  But even when he was with, even when he was with Pittsburgh, he
• 1:52:15
  was 8 1/2 strikeouts per 9. Sure, 175 innings might be
• 1:52:19
  there. Can I?
• 1:52:21
  Can I count? In hasn't pitched in the big
• 1:52:23
  leagues since 20. Am I on one by the way?
• 1:52:26
  Nope. Can I, can I counter that?
• 1:52:32
  Weren't we saying the same thing about Eric Fetty when he came
• 1:52:35
  back from overseas? Oh, Eric Fetty might have found
• 1:52:38
  something. How did that pan out?
• 1:52:40
  He's the White Sox number 5 right now.
• 1:52:42
  I. Don't know if he set a record
• 1:52:44
  over there, did he? I'm not talking about records,
• 1:52:46
  I'm just saying the the whole like well I may have figured
• 1:52:48
  something out. The first year he came back to
• 1:52:55
  the States, though, he did have 154 strikeouts, which would be
• 1:52:59
  the over. Interesting, interesting comp,
• 1:53:02
  Eric, appreciate the comp. Good pull, Good pull.
• 1:53:07
  Maybe I was a year late on the comp we.
• 1:53:10
  Are heavy on pitchers for this over under A1 Jacob degrom?
• 1:53:17
  I'd like to know if you think he'll pitch over 160 in a third
• 1:53:24
  innings this year based on fantasy baseball ESPN app
• 1:53:28
  projections KC under. Taking the under, I think it
• 1:53:34
  was, hates the Rangers. Well, it's no.
• 1:53:37
  Hates them. No, I'm just, I'm just not a
• 1:53:40
  believer. And you know, the the degrom
• 1:53:43
  bounce back was was a cool story, but I just I'd given his
• 1:53:47
  track record. I just don't it'd be sick to see
• 1:53:51
  him put up another season of good to great health with the
• 1:53:58
  production that comes with it. But I just I don't see it
• 1:54:01
  happening. We're.
• 1:54:03
  Going to go back to the Corey Seager peak pick, if they win 84
• 1:54:06
  games, they're going to need to grom in that rotation.
• 1:54:08
  I'll take the over. Well, fortunately 72 last year.
• 1:54:11
  So I don't think it's much more than that, but.
• 1:54:14
  Fortunately for me, I don't have them winning 84 games, so I
• 1:54:16
  don't have to. Exactly.
• 1:54:17
  Meet that quote. Give my answer later.
• 1:54:20
  More on that coming Devin Williams, home runs allowed.
• 1:54:27
  Winner 2020. 6 neighbor is Devin Williams Home runs allowed.
• 1:54:34
  He he allowed five last year which was the highest since
• 1:54:39
  2021. I set the number at 5 1/2 so he
• 1:54:44
  will have 6 total at least. Under.
• 1:54:50
  Wait, that's it. Yeah.
• 1:54:54
  Yeah, yeah. You said he had five last year,
• 1:54:58
  career high, correct? Ty's is career high.
• 1:55:01
  He's only done that one other time.
• 1:55:02
  What is that? Seem like super low but yeah.
• 1:55:07
  What just happened? I'm going to hammer that over.
• 1:55:12
  Yeah, I'll take you over. Bigger ballpark, though.
• 1:55:16
  Something to consider. All right, here's a fun one.
• 1:55:22
  Did we get the over from JB? No, I said under.
• 1:55:25
  He said under. Pretty quickly.
• 1:55:29
  Yeah, boop, OK, that didn't work, said a fun.
• 1:55:37
  There we are, there we are. OK, last year we had 123-4567
• 1:55:51
  players to have over at least A7 WAR or higher, so bonus points
• 1:55:58
  if you can name those players. No cheating, but I set the line
• 1:56:03
  at number of players to have 7 war or higher this year to be 7
• 1:56:07
  1/2. So 7 last year you set the line
• 1:56:12
  for 7 1/2. That's correct.
• 1:56:20
  Do we have to try to name all 7? Bonus if you can.
• 1:56:24
  Judge Raleigh. Ohtani.
• 1:56:27
  Bobby. That's four.
• 1:56:34
  Skeens. That's 5.
• 1:56:36
  Hold on was. Scubble.
• 1:56:38
  Was no. Was Perdomo one of them?
• 1:56:42
  Oh yeah, I wanna pull. There we go.
• 1:56:45
  Do I no ball? Do I no ball?
• 1:56:47
  And the last one. The last one.
• 1:56:53
  That's that shows you how crazy baseball is, man.
• 1:56:56
  Hey, did was scuba one of them? Nope, Perdomo.
• 1:57:00
  Perdomo. Shot him out.
• 1:57:02
  No. Soto missed 7 huh?
• 1:57:09
  Crochet. No.
• 1:57:14
  Give us hitter or pitcher. Pitcher.
• 1:57:17
  Oh, I wasn't expecting. Skeens.
• 1:57:19
  We already said him. Oh, we did.
• 1:57:22
  I didn't hear. I didn't hear that.
• 1:57:25
  So far we I'll go in order here. First place Judge, 2nd place is
• 1:57:29
  what you're trying to find. Third place Otani Skeens 4.
• 1:57:33
  Cal Raleigh 5. Bobby Witt 6.
• 1:57:37
  Rodo Pradomo 7. We need the second place.
• 1:57:40
  The heck? Who are we missing?
• 1:57:42
  Chris, No, it can't be Chris Sale.
• 1:57:45
  Chris Sale. No, OK.
• 1:57:47
  When I said can't be, I was like, I can't skip that.
• 1:57:49
  I've seen you guys do that 100 times and I realized that they
• 1:57:52
  go back to it. Wasn't a Cunha was it?
• 1:57:55
  No. No, you said it is a pitcher.
• 1:57:58
  Yes, it is a pitcher. Yeah, it is a pitcher.
• 1:58:00
  Yamo. No.
• 1:58:02
  No, I'm trying to think of who was somebody got robbed for the
• 1:58:08
  Cy Young, it sounds like. Lane Thomas nailed it.
• 1:58:16
  Somebody did get. What the heck?
• 1:58:20
  Somebody did get robbed. Somebody was saying they should
• 1:58:22
  have won the Cy Young. No, I'm not actually.
• 1:58:26
  Was it my guy Logan Webb? No.
• 1:58:32
  I'm guessing American League yes or no on that.
• 1:58:37
  Can we get that? No.
• 1:58:41
  Oh. Ubaldo Jimenez.
• 1:58:46
  Nailed it. I love wearing sunglasses by the
• 1:58:48
  way. It might do this every episode.
• 1:58:49
  Nice. Bro what?
• 1:58:52
  I don't know. Oh.
• 1:58:55
  He knows. Hold on, you said yes to
• 1:58:59
  American League. No American League, no American.
• 1:59:01
  League No to American League. Oh, oh, oh.
• 1:59:06
  Christopher Sanchez. Yeah.
• 1:59:09
  Duh. Yep, that is correct.
• 1:59:11
  Nice job. OK, so we got our bonus points,
• 1:59:13
  so now will. We have more yeah than seven
• 1:59:17
  players to reach 7 WAR this year.
• 1:59:20
  Yeah, over. Yeah, I'll take the over.
• 1:59:22
  Me too. Clean sweep.
• 1:59:24
  Let's root for the overs, you know.
• 1:59:27
  Baseball's better if the answer to that is the over.
• 1:59:30
  All right, chugging right along here.
• 1:59:33
  I only got three more. This one, little bit of a
• 1:59:35
  thinker. We have 4 potential hall of
• 1:59:41
  farmers that are about to reach a home run milestone.
• 1:59:45
  I'd like to tell you. I'd like for you to tell me how
• 1:59:47
  many of these four actually reach it in 2026.
• 1:59:52
  A little prediction here. Aaron Judge is at 367 home runs,
• 1:59:59
  Bryce Harper is at 360, three home runs, Freddie Freeman is at
• 2:00:04
  368 and Manny Machado is at 369. How many reach the 400 Club?
• 2:00:15
  Judge and Machado. I would agree with that because
• 2:00:22
  that would mean. You would need 37 out of Bryce.
• 2:00:25
  You would need 32 out of Freddie.
• 2:00:31
  I'll take you under. Yeah, I'll go 2.
• 2:00:36
  Yep, and the same 2. I'm going to go three.
• 2:00:39
  I think Freddie gets there. You think Freddie gets there?
• 2:00:41
  Yeah. I like that.
• 2:00:45
  Casey, you touched on this earlier.
• 2:00:47
  I think this is a fun one. There has not been more than 85
• 2:00:52
  home runs in Kauffman Stadium in 20 years.
• 2:00:59
  I set the line at 100 1/2. Let's see how much you think
• 2:01:05
  these fences play a role. Yeah, give me the over.
• 2:01:11
  Give me the over you, don't you? 16.
• 2:01:19
  Yeah, yeah. You don't move the fences in for
• 2:01:22
  marginal jumps. They're they're, they're trying
• 2:01:25
  to get, they're trying to get triple digits.
• 2:01:27
  Oh, wait a minute, 16 that. It's 16 more than they had last
• 2:01:33
  year. It's 16 more than they've ever
• 2:01:35
  ever had 20 years. Yeah, but what they have last
• 2:01:38
  year? 8585 back-to-back years.
• 2:01:43
  No, no, they don't get. They don't hit 100. 101 would be
• 2:01:50
  needed and JB has the under. I don't like.
• 2:01:53
  So you got to remember that they moved the fences in before in
• 2:01:57
  the in the 2000s and then they moved them back out.
• 2:02:00
  And if they didn't hit 100, then they didn't have stock.
• 2:02:02
  Yeah, I was going to say they didn't.
• 2:02:03
  Have Bobby, they didn't have Pasquantino, they didn't have.
• 2:02:08
  Wait, when did you say this was? Early like it was in the 2 like.
• 2:02:11
  I'm they have this like. They need to find what year that
• 2:02:15
  was. But they they'd moved him in,
• 2:02:17
  they moved him back out I think in like 2013.
• 2:02:19
  So it would have been maybe pre Sal, certainly pre Sal hitting
• 2:02:23
  the way he hits now. Going into that this trend, it's
• 2:02:27
  a great. Catcher, by the way, and also
• 2:02:29
  can serve as a as as he can serve other roles as well, too.
• 2:02:35
  So if anybody's interested, there it is.
• 2:02:38
  Yeah, yeah. JB last one, then I release you
• 2:02:41
  to research. Oh yeah, I'm sorry, real quick.
• 2:02:44
  They also we completely omitted a name that's going to
• 2:02:48
  contribute Lane Thomas. Yes, of course.
• 2:02:51
  Set the over under at 2 1/2 for. You watch.
• 2:02:54
  Lane Thomas is going to be the guy.
• 2:02:56
  They've reached the to push it to the over.
• 2:02:58
  You watch. 95 to 2003 fences were moved in 10 feet.
• 2:03:04
  Yeah, it's a long. Time.
• 2:03:05
  So in the steroid era, in the steroid era.
• 2:03:08
  Yeah, but his Royals. Losing the will to be host here.
• 2:03:11
  My last freaking question, which is on topic, is Jack Caglione.
• 2:03:16
  Yeah, home runs. I set the over under.
• 2:03:18
  I think I picked this line 'cause I'm cool that 19 1/2.
• 2:03:24
  I'm a believer. Give me the over. 19 and a.
• 2:03:29
  Half, 19 1/2. They do have Lane Thomas who
• 2:03:35
  could take his job. You know.
• 2:03:38
  See now you. Get it?
• 2:03:39
  That is a part of the equation. Yeah, I mean, you got a factor
• 2:03:44
  in Lane Thomas coming for your job.
• 2:03:47
  And that goes for all of us too, like us listening and watching,
• 2:03:50
  even us here. He for our jobs.
• 2:03:53
  He could come for our jobs. I I'll hit the over on that.
• 2:03:58
  There we go. Way to be a.
• 2:04:00
  Believer I I might regret. The over that, ladies and
• 2:04:04
  gentlemen, is your 2026 player over Under.
• 2:04:09
  Well done. Thank you, Nate.
• 2:04:10
  That was fun job. Well done job.
• 2:04:11
  Look. Ridiculous amount of research.
• 2:04:14
  That's great. Proud of you.
• 2:04:15
  That was good research too man. Let's Nate, you want to you want
• 2:04:23
  to stretch the host duties for another 30 seconds and tell the
• 2:04:26
  folks about Oh God. What do you need from me?
• 2:04:30
  A. Giveaway or two that we got
• 2:04:33
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• 2:04:35
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• 2:04:41
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  JB, you done wiping? Let's go.
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  Man, we're all good. That old man bladder.
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  Let's talk post season seeding. Let's lettuce, lettuce and
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  tomato. Let's start the National League.
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  National League wild card seeds 4-5 and six.
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  Who do you boys got? She going to RIP them.
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  You want to. RIP Yeah, we just.
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  paste it. Out a little bit.
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  Let's paste it out. We'll go one by one.
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  OK, All right, Our I want to go the other way.
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  I want to go. I want to start four and work
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  our way down to 6. Oh, OK, perfect.
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  I like that. Is that fair?
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  Yes. Well, in agreement there,
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  Absolutely fair. My wild card seed #4 coming out
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  of the National League. Should be your wild card host.
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  Correct the New York Metropolitans.
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  Excellente, JB. Yeah, that's I got New York Mets
• 2:11:30
  90 wins. I have the San Diego Padres
• 2:11:36
  hosting. Might go out to Petco, Never
• 2:11:39
  know that. 'D be sick.
• 2:11:41
  Didn't you have the Padres in fourth?
• 2:11:44
  No, that was him. Let me scroll up and double
• 2:11:48
  check. Yeah, that was him.
• 2:11:50
  OK. I don't like the way you said.
• 2:11:52
  Him. I thought we all had this.
• 2:11:53
  No, we had the Padres in 3rd. Yeah, I had the Padres in 3rd.
• 2:11:56
  We all had him. We had a clean sweep there.
• 2:11:59
  Yeah. They can't host.
• 2:12:04
  I'm recognizing that now. I'm recognizing that.
• 2:12:07
  Wait, I I'm I'm lost. What are what are you saying
• 2:12:10
  can't? Happen.
• 2:12:10
  He had them in 3rd in the West I.
• 2:12:12
  Put the seating. I put the seating in in correct
• 2:12:14
  order. That's what happened.
• 2:12:16
  Let everyone relax, OK? Yeah, oh 'cause you had them,
• 2:12:18
  yeah, Yeah, I gotcha. I.
• 2:12:20
  Gotcha. Yeah, it's the Mets, by the way.
• 2:12:24
  It's the Mets. It's the Mets, OK?
• 2:12:26
  Yeah. All right.
• 2:12:26
  So we're all in agreement. We're all we all got Mets.
• 2:12:28
  I got Padres 5. OK, so Nate's got Padres 5.
• 2:12:33
  I've got I'm also I'm also in the the National League West.
• 2:12:38
  I'm going Giants 5. So we already talked about the
• 2:12:44
  fact that I'm I've got the Brewers a little bit higher.
• 2:12:47
  I have them in 89 wins so they are going to be my five seed.
• 2:12:52
  Excellent, excellent, AKC. Why don't you freaking raise
• 2:12:59
  that thing? Why don't you?
• 2:13:00
  Freaking raise it, Pirates in the 60s.
• 2:13:04
  Let's go. It likes it.
• 2:13:05
  Nice and hot, nice and spicy. I'm going the Pittsburgh
• 2:13:15
  Pirates. JB didn't even believe he's
• 2:13:26
  Pirates guy. I'm not a Pirates guy, but I'm
• 2:13:29
  looking at that rotation. I'm looking at who they're who
• 2:13:33
  they've got on deck waiting to call up.
• 2:13:35
  I'm looking at that newly newly furnished line up sans Andrew
• 2:13:39
  McCutchen, who's getting a rightful retirement tour,
• 2:13:44
  farewell tour in Texas. I'm going Pirate 6.
• 2:13:57
  Hang on. Let's go, Bucks.
• 2:13:59
  Shut up. What does this even mean?
• 2:14:03
  What does this even mean? No, this was a this was a last
• 2:14:05
  minute change. This is not who we had coming
• 2:14:09
  into this episode. I need to think about his order
• 2:14:12
  here. You had who you have Mets for.
• 2:14:16
  You got Brewers 5. Who's got?
• 2:14:19
  3 coming out of the Central. Wow.
• 2:14:25
  The Pirates. Are going to be better than the
• 2:14:28
  Padres and the Giants. I have the I have the the
• 2:14:31
  Giants, the Pirates and the Reds at 84 wins and the Braves at 84
• 2:14:36
  wins. I have the Diamondbacks and
• 2:14:38
  Padres at 83 wins and I have the Pirates in that wild card spot
• 2:14:45
  at 84 wins and I freaking. Raise it, baby.
• 2:14:50
  And and listen and last night. Let's freaking go.
• 2:14:53
  Last night. Let's.
• 2:14:54
  Raise it. Last night on our show I had the
• 2:14:58
  Pirates just missing and then Spencer Strider went down which
• 2:15:03
  opened the door for the for the Pirates at 84 wins.
• 2:15:06
  That's all it took. To get in to that's all it took.
• 2:15:09
  That's a two win swing and the Pirates are making the post
• 2:15:12
  season for the first time since the year 2015.
• 2:15:16
  Fire me up, JB. I knew you believed.
• 2:15:21
  I knew you believed JB, I believe.
• 2:15:24
  JB. Yeah.
• 2:15:26
  Let's double down for a SEC. Yeah.
• 2:15:28
  Are you ready? Yeah, you.
• 2:15:30
  Want to double down? Wait, you not said you're 6?
• 2:15:32
  Oh, I said it, but you want to double down with me?
• 2:15:34
  You want to hold on? What do you want to hold on?
• 2:15:36
  You want to skip a step? Uh.
• 2:15:38
  Oh. They're going to get to the six
• 2:15:43
  seed because Conor Griffin is also going to win Rookie of the
• 2:15:46
  Year. Let's go.
• 2:15:50
  Bang. And I will double down with you.
• 2:15:52
  I've got the same thing. Double down.
• 2:15:55
  Well, no, you guys are wrong. I mean, but I I like the I like
• 2:15:59
  the I like the the vibes. I'm here for the vibes.
• 2:16:02
  You're wrong, but I'm here for the vibes.
• 2:16:03
  What's going to? Happen.
• 2:16:07
  I mean, you just skipped us right to the awards.
• 2:16:10
  Well, we still American League do.
• 2:16:12
  That's a sprinkle. Just a little sprinkle.
• 2:16:14
  Yeah, that's. Right.
• 2:16:14
  We still got the American League to do.
• 2:16:16
  We still got more. Yeah, yeah.
• 2:16:19
  Yeah. All right, so you, you've just,
• 2:16:23
  you've, you've thrown one of your awards out there.
• 2:16:25
  Yeah, I don't need to go in order.
• 2:16:28
  That's fine. Hey, one more round.
• 2:16:31
  I'm a grown man. Oh, 40.
• 2:16:37
  Hey, hey, one more time. One more time for for the
• 2:16:41
  pirates, huh? How about it?
• 2:16:45
  This is the year, baby. This is the year.
• 2:16:51
  Let's go, pirates. Let's go, pirates.
• 2:16:53
  Yep. Yep.
• 2:16:59
  Ayo Ayo. #4. Nate Red Sox I've seen the wild
• 2:17:13
  card game in Fenway and that's crazy.
• 2:17:16
  It is a crazy vibe. So what's going to happen again?
• 2:17:22
  Yankees as I I then 949594 say Yankees.
• 2:17:32
  Hold on, rewind, what are you saying is going to happen again?
• 2:17:37
  Red Sox 95 wins. Oh, just.
• 2:17:40
  Oh, me or him? No, Nate, he's I because he took
• 2:17:44
  the Yankees in the division. I thought he was trying to say
• 2:17:47
  that that was going to be a repeat series of the I'm like, I
• 2:17:50
  don't know how that would work. You're just saying.
• 2:17:53
  I thought he had the. I thought he had the Red Sox in
• 2:17:55
  3rd place in the AT. Least.
• 2:17:57
  I did it again, didn't I? I think you did.
• 2:18:00
  Yeah, dude, you've got. You've got me in a blender right
• 2:18:02
  now. I'm trying to.
• 2:18:03
  I'm like, where? Where is this guy?
• 2:18:05
  Hey, look, it's understandable. There's a lot of notes here.
• 2:18:07
  There's a lot of. Scrolling, there's a lot of.
• 2:18:08
  Scrolling all right. Well, thankfully, thankfully.
• 2:18:12
  I got I. Got I got, I got I got I got.
• 2:18:16
  Red Sox 5th, Blue Jays 4th. Are we gone?
• 2:18:27
  So I note I put these in 30 seconds before we hit record.
• 2:18:30
  So. Could be Hey, I, I I feel that
• 2:18:34
  this is always a game time decision for me Yeah, I'm I'm
• 2:18:37
  making changes even while we're recording boss with you.
• 2:18:43
  I think I've already changed one or two this.
• 2:18:47
  Is what happens with the projections.
• 2:18:48
  I mean, I have a different number today than I had last
• 2:18:51
  night. Yeah, it's just, yeah.
• 2:18:54
  So what is your for Kyle? My number 4 is the New York
• 2:19:01
  Yankees. Yeah, same 5 is Blue Jays.
• 2:19:10
  My 5 also Blue Jays. Sure, Sixer.
• 2:19:16
  And we now know yours is the Red Sox, correct?
• 2:19:18
  Yes. Who did you say was your 6 for
• 2:19:23
  NL? We all went pirates.
• 2:19:27
  We all went. Pirates, we were just there.
• 2:19:32
  Where is the sky? Bend.
• 2:19:34
  Where is the sky? Bend.
• 2:19:39
  I remember he said he said Pirate State, he said Connor
• 2:19:41
  Griffin. No, that's right.
• 2:19:43
  That's right, that's right. No, I I got so caught.
• 2:19:46
  No, I I just blacked out when JB said let's go, let's go buck
• 2:19:51
  buckos. Geez.
• 2:19:53
  I I'm like I that caught me by surprise.
• 2:19:55
  I thought JB had him at like 46 wins or something.
• 2:19:58
  So it was, it was really refreshing to hear that and I
• 2:20:01
  just didn't, I didn't catch Nate's pick, so that's awesome.
• 2:20:06
  You caught it, you had a lot of comments about it and we're also
• 2:20:10
  2 picks into the AL side. Where have you been?
• 2:20:13
  You're right. That's on me.
• 2:20:14
  That's on me. Yep.
• 2:20:15
  Yep. Hey, it's spring training for
• 2:20:17
  all of us. Spring training for all of us.
• 2:20:19
  Number six for me, the Detroit Tigers, can I?
• 2:20:25
  I got AI, got a take, I think. I think two of us, three, I
• 2:20:31
  don't know who it'll be, but I think two of us will have the
• 2:20:34
  same World Series matchup. Whoa.
• 2:20:38
  I doubt that. I mean, yeah, running back.
• 2:20:42
  It's just an inversion of how we thought the AL Central was going
• 2:20:45
  to finish. I got the Royals taking the
• 2:20:47
  sixth seed. This is where this is where I
• 2:20:54
  have a bit of a hot. I know what.
• 2:20:55
  He's going to say. This is where I have a bit of a
• 2:20:57
  hot take here. I think I know where this is
• 2:20:58
  coming. We talked about I've, I've named
• 2:21:05
  a, I've, I've, I've dropped a lot of win totals here and there
• 2:21:08
  was one team I could not have a win total for.
• 2:21:12
  I haven't said it yet. I haven't said it yet.
• 2:21:14
  Oh, I know where he's going. I know.
• 2:21:16
  Where he's going. 87 wins will get you this spot and it is an
• 2:21:21
  AL East clean sweep the Baltimore Orioles.
• 2:21:25
  That's not I thought he was going. 87 I.
• 2:21:27
  Knew he was going there. I knew it.
• 2:21:30
  The line UPS too good and the rest of the AL is not.
• 2:21:34
  I have the Rangers at 2nd place with 84.
• 2:21:37
  I've got the Royals at 2nd place with 86.
• 2:21:39
  That would be the other pick. That is the that is the one pick
• 2:21:43
  that was Royals slash Orioles for a long time.
• 2:21:46
  Had them at the same win total, bumped it up.
• 2:21:49
  Orioles 87. They take the wild card spot.
• 2:21:53
  It's going to be fun between them and the Royals, not anyone
• 2:21:56
  else in the AL. Is it going to be all that much
• 2:21:58
  fun? I think it's just down and it's
• 2:22:00
  that's it. I and I think it's down because
• 2:22:03
  the East is so strong. They're just going to whoop the
• 2:22:05
  crap out of everyone. That's what I think.
• 2:22:08
  Sure, sure. That's the best division.
• 2:22:11
  And I and I have the Rays. I also didn't say this.
• 2:22:13
  I have the Rays at 81 win. There will not be a losing team
• 2:22:16
  in that division. I feel like you've hinted at
• 2:22:19
  that prior to today, so I should have known that that was coming.
• 2:22:24
  Respect. Respects All right, it's time
• 2:22:28
  for the World Series match up. Do you want to do you just want
• 2:22:34
  to go full match up or you want to tease it out league by
• 2:22:37
  league? Here I think you just I think
• 2:22:38
  you just full send it. Full.
• 2:22:39
  Send it full, send your pick and how many.
• 2:22:42
  JB do the do us the honors. I have the Red Sox over the
• 2:22:48
  Dodgers in six. Running it back 2018 Respect.
• 2:22:56
  Casey, where you right do you guys there?
• 2:22:58
  There are two of us that have the same World Series match up.
• 2:23:04
  Well, JB and I are out, so it's comes down to you and I.
• 2:23:08
  Well, you and I are out then. But look, I haven't taken them
• 2:23:16
  in the past just because of reverse psychology.
• 2:23:19
  But that didn't work. So now I'm going to take them
• 2:23:20
  and I'm going to say Yankees take over the Cubs in six.
• 2:23:25
  I like that match up. It's an old school match up.
• 2:23:29
  I mean, I'm, I'm a sucker for some cold baseball in Chicago,
• 2:23:33
  cold baseball in New York. I mean, that's, that's going to
• 2:23:37
  be great. That's what I'm needing.
• 2:23:39
  I like that match up. I mean, I think the Yankees are
• 2:23:41
  scum, but it's still a good match up.
• 2:23:43
  Thank you. Thank you.
• 2:23:46
  And you said in six and six, so both go in six.
• 2:23:53
  So Red Sox, Dodgers over Dodgers in six, Yankees over the Cubs in
• 2:23:58
  six. I'm going 7.
• 2:24:06
  Play the music. I'll be shut down.
• 2:24:12
  No, I'm taking. No, I'm going, Dang it.
• 2:24:20
  I'll be, I'll be quite honest with you.
• 2:24:22
  I have something written out but I I don't know if I'm if I'm
• 2:24:26
  flipping it or not. For all the Bucko fans out
• 2:24:30
  there, I will. I will just say what you guys
• 2:24:32
  are all yelling into the screen. I wouldn't want to face the
• 2:24:35
  Pirates in a in a three or five game series, that's for sure.
• 2:24:38
  Not with that pitching staff. Tell them JB Well, now I got to
• 2:24:48
  I got to send stand 10 toes down here.
• 2:24:51
  I said forget what I've said in the past.
• 2:24:54
  I'm back in. I'm I'm flipping what's
• 2:24:58
  currently on my on my 1 pager right now.
• 2:25:03
  Love. I love a last second sub.
• 2:25:06
  Give me the Philadelphia Phillies over the Seattle
• 2:25:12
  Mariners in seven. What a fun World Series that
• 2:25:17
  would be. That would be.
• 2:25:19
  That would be Electric City. I love, you know, I love pulling
• 2:25:24
  for a fun World Series, whether or not my team's in it.
• 2:25:27
  If it's a fun matchup, I'm all in.
• 2:25:30
  Yeah, that's great. Give me the fills over the the
• 2:25:34
  M's in seven so the M's finally get to the dance.
• 2:25:37
  Yeah, I like that, but. Can't pull it off.
• 2:25:42
  I still like that. Love it, love it.
• 2:25:46
  Should we get? Are we?
• 2:25:48
  Are we back in on some more listener takes?
• 2:25:51
  Yeah, let's do, let's do that to our awards, then we'll get into
• 2:25:55
  some awards. Yeah.
• 2:26:01
  I'm. Trying to see where we're at.
• 2:26:02
  Yeah, I see where we're at. Let's let's get ready to agree.
• 2:26:04
  Back to the white board. Name.
• 2:26:05
  All right, here we go, Eric says Reds win the Pennant.
• 2:26:11
  And. Ellie wins MVP.
• 2:26:14
  Whoa, hang on now. What do we got here?
• 2:26:29
  Cincinnati Reds, one of the OG baseball franchises.
• 2:26:34
  I'm ready Flip. We got a 4.4 and a 6.7.
• 2:26:43
  I see what you did there. I like it you.
• 2:26:50
  Didn't say it right. Yeah, I I did the very.
• 2:26:54
  Good, Very good. I mean, I like the tank, it'd be
• 2:26:58
  sick to see, but. I got to.
• 2:27:02
  If he was just would have left it at Reds win the Pennant.
• 2:27:04
  Probably lower but Ellie win an MVP would be kind of dope.
• 2:27:09
  Got you. Another one of our guys sent me
• 2:27:12
  one. Jacob.
• 2:27:15
  The Orioles miss the division seat by one game, but still make
• 2:27:21
  it to the ALDS. Oh, and give me Pete Alonzo for
• 2:27:26
  ALMVP. Oh my.
• 2:27:29
  Jacob. Dear Lord.
• 2:27:33
  Goodness. I love the takes that just keep
• 2:27:37
  coming. What do we got guys?
• 2:27:46
  Ready. You're drawing something.
• 2:27:50
  No, I'm not reveal. 1.77 point O.
• 2:27:56
  Look at us. It's a good take though.
• 2:28:01
  Oh. Sorry, stand by.
• 2:28:04
  Uh oh. What happened?
• 2:28:06
  Uh oh, 0.7 it changed. Got them from A7 point O to a
• 2:28:14
  0.7. Had my numbers flip-flopped
• 2:28:17
  there. No, I thought you're.
• 2:28:19
  Oh, it wasn't for dramatic effect to me.
• 2:28:21
  No, it was a freaking joke. All right, 70 on that.
• 2:28:25
  All right, here we go. Jacob.
• 2:28:27
  But I mean, suck it, Jacob. So I just David.
• 2:28:29
  Could not have talked more noise.
• 2:28:31
  On the Orioles, you know his fantasy team story.
• 2:28:34
  Nope, he's on mine. Oh, excuse me, I'm a.
• 2:28:37
  Big Peter Guy. David says expo's return.
• 2:28:46
  That's it. It's just.
• 2:28:47
  It's just. That's it.
• 2:28:49
  All right, sweet. Expo's coming back, we lost them
• 2:28:56
  thanks to one strike. We get them back thanks to 1
• 2:28:59
  lockout. What do we got here?
• 2:29:09
  See if KC picks up on this flip. We got some more here.
• 2:29:15
  That's a 1994 Hot Tank 19.94, four and a half on the other
• 2:29:21
  side. Pedro, well done.
• 2:29:22
  Let's go. I like it.
• 2:29:24
  I like it. You guys have to understand that
• 2:29:26
  the the the scoring it has probably less to do with the
• 2:29:32
  actual meter of of hotness and more about what number they can
• 2:29:36
  recall. Was that a?
• 2:29:37
  1.994. 1994. Or was that a 19.94?
• 2:29:43
  Yeah, that means it's extremely hot.
• 2:29:45
  Where was the decimal? 19.94.
• 2:29:48
  Yeah. So really on.
• 2:29:50
  A scale of 1 to 10. 94 the year they should have won the World
• 2:29:53
  Series. I don't.
• 2:29:53
  Like it? I don't like it.
• 2:29:56
  Josiah. Great poll, but.
• 2:29:58
  I would have, yeah. I just, yeah.
• 2:30:00
  He's thinking 1 to 10 Canada off the charts.
• 2:30:03
  Yeah, Canada, Josiah said. Braves trade Acuna.
• 2:30:09
  Pause. It's not, I meant it's not, it's
• 2:30:11
  not a I'm not trying to hype. Up.
• 2:30:14
  We can pause on there. I'm not trying to hype up my my
• 2:30:17
  Canada. I'm not trying to hype up Canada
• 2:30:20
  with my my gradient scale. That was more just about RIP
• 2:30:23
  Montreal Expos what could have been.
• 2:30:28
  I'm with I'm with you on Canada. Trust me, we both Cunha gets
• 2:30:31
  traded. Josiah said Braves trade Acuna.
• 2:30:38
  Where are we at on that? Barrel. 9.7 on one side.
• 2:30:43
  What? Why he's getting traded?
• 2:30:49
  Because they're team's a dumpster fire at the moment.
• 2:30:52
  Wow, if it goes real, SI think he's.
• 2:30:55
  Not afford to keep him. I think he's about on an option
• 2:30:59
  year too. Actually.
• 2:31:02
  Also a little bit of a. That's actually a good thought.
• 2:31:06
  I had a little. Bit of a number in there. 8.8 So
• 2:31:09
  he's he's team option the next two years too.
• 2:31:12
  So we're getting there. We're getting there.
• 2:31:16
  That's a scary thought for Braves fans and there's a lot of
• 2:31:19
  them in the comments here. That's what I'm saying.
• 2:31:22
  Say that I just there's certain guys that no matter how bad the
• 2:31:26
  team is, you just you're like, oh, that guy's that guy's a fill
• 2:31:30
  in the blank and I just. Thought that about one Soto, you
• 2:31:33
  know. No, I didn't feel that way about
• 2:31:35
  Soto. I really didn't.
• 2:31:37
  He doesn't fit that mold for me. He's chasing the he's chasing
• 2:31:39
  the bag. And not to say Acuna is also not
• 2:31:42
  going to want a a rightful paycheck, but he just seems
• 2:31:45
  like. I wonder where he'd be.
• 2:31:47
  Such an insane I can't even. I don't think I've ever thought
• 2:31:52
  about him in another uniform. So I feel like once we open,
• 2:31:55
  yeah, once we open up that that bag, that'd be fun.
• 2:31:59
  Yeah, let's do that sometime. I'll tell you what, let's stay
• 2:32:03
  on the Braves. I'm going to jump down a few.
• 2:32:05
  Our friend Colin threw in one of these.
• 2:32:10
  Austin Riley, top three MVP. I mean what?
• 2:32:17
  This guy sounds like an idiot. Let's see those numbers so we
• 2:32:25
  can get on to one that you guys are going to like 0.2 and a 0.2.
• 2:32:33
  All right? Zane says that, Jack, it's 40
• 2:32:40
  plus homers. We all picked the over on 20.
• 2:32:48
  He's saying 40. Kegs, Kegs.
• 2:32:51
  Sorry. There he goes by.
• 2:32:52
  Kegs. Yeah, Kegs.
• 2:32:55
  He said north of 40 or just 40. 40 plus. 40 plus OK, so I'm.
• 2:33:00
  Going to go to the end. What do we got?
• 2:33:09
  We got a lot of really good ones still to get to, if we can get
• 2:33:12
  those scores going. 6.9 on one side and a 5.5 all right.
• 2:33:21
  Right. See, that's not bad.
• 2:33:23
  All right, let's keep going. Let's go with the MVP thing,
• 2:33:26
  Rodolfo says. Wyatt Langford wins the MVP.
• 2:33:30
  OK. Wyatt Langford, where we at?
• 2:33:40
  Oh man, we got some good ones, guys.
• 2:33:42
  We got some good ones coming here -1.4 from 1.
• 2:33:46
  Wow. I just, I like it more than
• 2:33:48
  that, I mean. What are we talking?
• 2:33:50
  Come on 6. .5. Are you kidding me?
• 2:33:53
  We asked for hot takes and no, I get it.
• 2:33:57
  I like Wyatt Langford if he, I mean, that's a hot take.
• 2:34:01
  That's like right on the edge. Just could it possibly happen?
• 2:34:04
  No, it's not on the edge. It's it can't happen.
• 2:34:06
  I mean, think of think about the laundry list of names that are
• 2:34:13
  ahead of him in the race next one.
• 2:34:18
  Alright, how fun that be. A fun exercise seeing how many
• 2:34:20
  names we could come up that could win an MVP before Wyatt
• 2:34:23
  Langford. Before we get to Wyatt Langford.
• 2:34:26
  Clip that hold the receipts. Who?
• 2:34:27
  Who wrote that in? No disrespect that clip,
• 2:34:31
  whatever you want, I don't care. That was Rodolfo.
• 2:34:34
  Oh. I.
• 2:34:35
  Love. It.
• 2:34:35
  Rodolfo, Rodolfo. Rodolfo, by the way.
• 2:34:38
  True. Oh Gee.
• 2:34:40
  We're talking. Long time Rodolfo.
• 2:34:43
  Facts. Love that, love that. 3 will
• 2:34:46
  take truther right there. Josh says not this Josh another
• 2:34:50
  Josh says Bryce Harper gets traded.
• 2:34:58
  He doesn't say to who or anything like that, just that he
• 2:35:02
  gets moved. Obviously Kyle's out on this
• 2:35:05
  because he's picking the Phillies.
• 2:35:07
  They're not going all the way and.
• 2:35:09
  Well, I know trade him careful because I mean, look what look
• 2:35:15
  what the nationals did. I know I talked all the noise I
• 2:35:19
  on the Nationals, but look what happened in look what happened
• 2:35:22
  in DC. You would have thought that
• 2:35:23
  wouldn't have happened, but Yikes.
• 2:35:27
  Yeah, no, not good. Any who's?
• 2:35:33
  3.4. OK, see, it's just getting too
• 2:35:36
  predictable with this. Just saying we're going to do
• 2:35:39
  this. Every time.
• 2:35:41
  What do you got? So wait, so you added the the
• 2:35:45
  context about the World Series thing?
• 2:35:47
  The the original take had no mention of the.
• 2:35:49
  World Series just said Bryce Harper gets traded.
• 2:35:55
  That's it. That's the hot take, which is
• 2:35:58
  very hot, I think. Hot.
• 2:35:59
  It is hot. 6. .2 I don't. Know, man, we're seeing a
• 2:36:06
  different, we're seeing a different side of this guy.
• 2:36:08
  We're we're hearing grumblings of just, I don't know, doesn't
• 2:36:13
  seem like the the players in the front office are on the same
• 2:36:16
  page half the time. So I don't.
• 2:36:20
  I wouldn't be surprised, man. So let's let's let's you know,
• 2:36:23
  just take a step back for a second and remember, are we
• 2:36:26
  grading it on likelihood or are we grading it on the hotness of
• 2:36:29
  the take? You know what I'm saying?
• 2:36:31
  A. Little bit of both.
• 2:36:31
  A little. Bit of, yeah, a little bit of
• 2:36:32
  both. And maybe we should call that
• 2:36:35
  out because I feel like that's maybe a likeliness that you just
• 2:36:38
  explained. Yeah, it's whatever my gut.
• 2:36:42
  Says it's likely. That's fairly likely.
• 2:36:47
  Yeah, but it's also not we're not in the 8-9 territory.
• 2:36:51
  I. Mean 9.
• 2:36:52
  Is like a for sure 6 is like AI could see it correct?
• 2:36:57
  So do you, do you? See it?
• 2:36:59
  All right? How about how hot Phil's is?
• 2:37:01
  Phil says. 66 is. I wouldn't be surprised.
• 2:37:05
  Yeah, that's bad. Wow, that's fair, Phil says.
• 2:37:08
  Here's one that'll blow up in his face.
• 2:37:11
  Neither Ohtani nor Judge will win MVP this season.
• 2:37:16
  Neither one of them I. Mean for taking the odds?
• 2:37:19
  Like not you're saying, not like he's saying that neither will
• 2:37:23
  win. That's right.
• 2:37:24
  That's crazy. That's hot.
• 2:37:30
  I like that. I like I, I think that that's
• 2:37:33
  you. You wanted people to to to, you
• 2:37:36
  know, you wanted to question sanity.
• 2:37:38
  But I think this is like, this is, this is there, but also it's
• 2:37:43
  that's, that's it's like, like that could happen.
• 2:37:46
  That is on that line of yeah, I mean.
• 2:37:50
  Yeah, I mean, it could, right? OK, dude, can we come up with
• 2:37:53
  another system for your choices here?
• 2:37:57
  This is the, you know, you know what?
• 2:38:00
  Get them out of here. We'll see.
• 2:38:05
  We. Had one like.
• 2:38:08
  That put some thought, put some thought into the number.
• 2:38:12
  You'll see. You'll see.
• 2:38:13
  I'll see what, 10?
• 2:38:27
  No, I'm kidding. No, but you're right, though, it
• 2:38:30
  is. It is like it just takes a, it
• 2:38:33
  takes a freak injury and then maybe like a less than
• 2:38:37
  superhuman year from the other. Like that's, that's all it
• 2:38:40
  really. Takes yeah, I mean, if Judge
• 2:38:42
  didn't have the season, he like that was ridiculous, but like
• 2:38:47
  Cal was close. Right.
• 2:38:51
  You know what I mean? So, Bobby.
• 2:38:52
  Whitman in the mix too. Like it's not.
• 2:38:54
  It's not that far fetched. All right.
• 2:38:59
  Give us let's, let's, let's go with one more.
• 2:39:00
  Pick a good one more. Oh.
• 2:39:02
  Shoot, OK. Let's pick one more and we'll
• 2:39:05
  move on to awards. I should have probably moved a
• 2:39:08
  little quick, that's what I'm saying.
• 2:39:10
  Because there's some. All right, two more.
• 2:39:13
  All right, two more, three more, three more.
• 2:39:16
  And let's try to get the, let's try to get the scores up.
• 2:39:18
  Just cut it at 4-4 more. Four more.
• 2:39:21
  All right. We'll move.
• 2:39:23
  Quick, four more. All right.
• 2:39:25
  No. More than five.
• 2:39:26
  All right. 5. OK, let's go with Nicholas here.
• 2:39:30
  I'm cutting it off at 5:00. We're done.
• 2:39:32
  At 5:00, but well, let's see how quickly we can move here.
• 2:39:34
  Let's see if you guys can get your scores up pretty quick
• 2:39:36
  because I like some of these. I think some of those like.
• 2:39:38
  Genuine numbers here and not just the number.
• 2:39:41
  Of the jersey, You shot it, you shot it.
• 2:39:43
  We're going to go with some different things, OK?
• 2:39:45
  So we're I'm going to try to mix it up a little bit.
• 2:39:47
  I thought there were some creative ones.
• 2:39:48
  Diamondbacks somehow start the season 45 and 15.
• 2:39:54
  Whose take is this? Whoa.
• 2:39:56
  Nicholas. Nicholas start the season what?
• 2:39:59
  45 and 15 He doesn't say if it falls apart after that, but
• 2:40:06
  there's a hot start. 2.2 OK 8.3 what?
• 2:40:13
  Baseball. No, I'm telling you I could see
• 2:40:15
  something stupid like that happening because it's baseball
• 2:40:18
  and the freaking D backs of all teams being the team to just
• 2:40:25
  beat down the rest of the league and then fall apart.
• 2:40:27
  I'm not like you said, I'm not saying it doesn't fall apart,
• 2:40:31
  but I could see something stupid like that happening, Corbin.
• 2:40:34
  Here. Corbin, John on like 100 Homer
• 2:40:37
  pace. I'm going to do John's out of
• 2:40:39
  order, he's got 3 lines. I'm going to do him a little bit
• 2:40:41
  out of order and he says no team will win 100 games this year.
• 2:40:47
  There will be multiple perfect games this year.
• 2:40:50
  Really spicy. And maybe the hottest Skeens
• 2:40:54
  will have a below 500 win loss and a sub 250 ERA 250.
• 2:41:03
  Read that one again. Sorry, the Paul Skeens 1.
• 2:41:06
  Skeens will have below 500 win loss record but a sub 250 ERA
• 2:41:11
  250. That's a really high ERA for Mr.
• 2:41:15
  Skeens. OK.
• 2:41:20
  What did he have last year? Under A2 both years.
• 2:41:27
  That's disgusting. Where are we talking 2?
• 2:41:29
  Is he already doesn't start with a 2?
• 2:41:33
  That's gross. Obviously having fun with that,
• 2:41:40
  but 250 is still ridiculous all right all right, he's got all
• 2:41:45
  three he's got 9.7 on nobody wins 100 zero .8 on the on the
• 2:41:49
  perfect games 7.1 on the skeens 7.5 on the other side for.
• 2:41:53
  What's the average of Nate's 3 numbers?
• 2:41:55
  Can can we do the math on that real?
• 2:41:57
  Quick, I didn't know because that's how many they're going to
• 2:41:59
  be the highest wins. Oh, OK, like that.
• 2:42:01
  See. Yeah, see, he's still.
• 2:42:03
  Yep. All right, you said 9.7 plus.
• 2:42:07
  I don't know, I erased him. What did he have?
• 2:42:10
  0.7 or something. 0.8 and then. What was the last one?
• 2:42:15
  7.1. 7.1. Comes out to an average of five,
• 2:42:22
  rounding up 59. OK, Patrick says the Subway
• 2:42:26
  Series and the Mets win it in seven at Yankee Stadium.
• 2:42:31
  Love that that would be that would be the World Series from
• 2:42:36
  hell for me. Here you go.
• 2:42:46
  Nate's going to come up with it's going to be like 2 point O
• 2:42:49
  one or something. -800 million. Not.
• 2:42:59
  That's crazy. Oh, I got to put this one in
• 2:43:01
  there. Oh, I can't.
• 2:43:02
  I'll tell you this one afterwards, not to score, but
• 2:43:04
  I'll tell you it because I like. Speed it up, Casey.
• 2:43:07
  Yeah, we need more -99 so we don't like this one apparently.
• 2:43:16
  Here's one for you. There will only be 6 complete
• 2:43:19
  games pitched. There were 29 last year.
• 2:43:25
  All right. Which is low, but we asked for
• 2:43:29
  hot. We asked for hot, hot, hot.
• 2:43:31
  We know Paul Skeens isn't going to have any of.
• 2:43:33
  Those you gave me my number I'm. Good to go.
• 2:43:34
  Skeens had one last year, 2.929 went last year, zero.
• 2:43:42
  So what? They're all they're calling for
• 2:43:43
  more of those. I'm pulling for.
• 2:43:45
  I'm pulling for the starting pitcher to be more important.
• 2:43:48
  Love it. Come on.
• 2:43:49
  Be better. I'd love it.
• 2:43:50
  I'd love it, I'd love it. All right, we got one more here.
• 2:43:57
  You know what we've got? I won't allow more than six more
• 2:44:02
  this one. 'S not a score.
• 2:44:03
  Don't score this one. OK, but it says Rick, says Jack
• 2:44:08
  Cav, what's his name from the Royals?
• 2:44:12
  Leads a Ellen homers Jack Cav, what's his name?
• 2:44:16
  Perfect from the Royals. All right, here's one.
• 2:44:18
  I want you to go. We'll have fun with this one
• 2:44:20
  here. We'll have fun with this one in
• 2:44:22
  here. Matt says God finally smites
• 2:44:25
  everyone in retaliation for the designated hitter.
• 2:44:31
  Smite. That's the same.
• 2:44:36
  Perfect. Way to bring it, Matt.
• 2:44:42
  I love that. That's it.
• 2:44:45
  That's the take. That's awesome.
• 2:44:46
  That's the take. Just waiting for the other got
• 2:44:51
  a. Rating on that take.
• 2:44:54
  I mean, Max Scherzer said it best, he said.
• 2:44:58
  Nobody wants to come to the ballpark and watch pitchers
• 2:45:00
  swing a wet newspaper, and I stand by that.
• 2:45:04
  Yeah. All right.
• 2:45:05
  So we got a couple zeros on that take.
• 2:45:09
  So now we. Give us one more good 11.
• 2:45:11
  More good one. OK, All right, I got, I got.
• 2:45:14
  I can get you one more. Because I'm dying to get into
• 2:45:15
  these awards, man. All right, I've I was done, I
• 2:45:18
  thought. But yeah, OK, I got one more for
• 2:45:20
  you, Tanner. We're going to bring it home a
• 2:45:22
  little bit. Bring it.
• 2:45:23
  Tanner says Luke Keeschel becomes a top 20 player in the
• 2:45:29
  MLB. Or or Luke Keyshaw as I've heard
• 2:45:39
  some say. Seems to be higher on Luke than
• 2:45:41
  myself. You know what?
• 2:45:45
  I'll defer to Nate. I won't even give a score
• 2:45:47
  because. 6.6 I like it here. I like Luke Keyshaw.
• 2:45:51
  I don't know top 20 but I like. That's a That's a big jump.
• 2:45:54
  That's a big jump. Big old jump.
• 2:45:56
  I like the player. Well done.
• 2:46:00
  Minnesota sucks. Good job guys that listen.
• 2:46:02
  There was a ton of really like, there was some creative stuff.
• 2:46:07
  Some of them were so outlandish. Give us one more.
• 2:46:10
  You want one more? Holy crap.
• 2:46:12
  He wants one more, all right. I don't like.
• 2:46:15
  I don't like that I ended on one that I didn't.
• 2:46:17
  Score. OK, that's fair.
• 2:46:18
  Good point. All right, I'll do one of the
• 2:46:20
  ones that has multiple pieces to it.
• 2:46:21
  I think those are a lot of fun, Jess says Kurtz does it again
• 2:46:25
  all year. Mm.
• 2:46:25
  Hmm, and Wyatt Langford is a Top 14 fantasy baseball piece.
• 2:46:32
  Where's? The Wyatt Langford love coming.
• 2:46:35
  From where's it not coming from? And Nick Ladolo has 211 KS for
• 2:46:41
  the year. I should have went to another
• 2:46:48
  one. All right. 1005777741.
• 2:46:53
  All right, this is for you, Kyle.
• 2:46:55
  I thought he's. Spaz, I know Nick 7777 robot
• 2:47:03
  Mick says. Luis arrives.
• 2:47:05
  Working with Ron Washington gets him a top three in MVP voting,
• 2:47:09
  voting a former defensive question mark.
• 2:47:12
  He hits 368 with 234 hits and becomes the best Giant second
• 2:47:18
  baseman since Jeff Kent or Marco Scooterow.
• 2:47:24
  There's your long winded Kyle Marco.
• 2:47:28
  Love the Marco Scudero shout out.
• 2:47:30
  Yes, I love it. Great job Nick A .1111 and A10
• 2:47:40
  with five exclamation points available for trade.
• 2:47:47
  No, I'm. I'm, I'm excited, I, I have
• 2:47:51
  nothing really to go off of other than the WBC, but I feel
• 2:47:55
  like maybe there was a slight philosophy shift and maybe
• 2:47:59
  trying to lift the ball a little bit more this offseason for him.
• 2:48:02
  So I'm excited to see if that actually pans out or if it's
• 2:48:04
  just more the same. Yeah, three ever multi Homer
• 2:48:08
  games for Louisa Rise, all in that same ballpark.
• 2:48:12
  So unless he's playing for the Marlins, I'm going to go out.
• 2:48:15
  I'm, I'm going to be out on that.
• 2:48:17
  I'm just trying to be optimistic.
• 2:48:18
  I like it. I like it.
• 2:48:20
  All right, let's get into some awards.
• 2:48:23
  Awards. All right, let's start Rookie of
• 2:48:26
  the Year. We know Nate's Rookie of the
• 2:48:27
  Year for the National League. And mine.
• 2:48:30
  I blurted it out there. Fair girl pirate.
• 2:48:34
  I mean best odds. My yeah, that's lame.
• 2:48:38
  That's boring. And for that reason I'm out.
• 2:48:40
  So I'm going to go give me the hometown kid.
• 2:48:47
  I'm I'm very excited about this particular name.
• 2:48:52
  And granted, he he too was optioned to AAA.
• 2:48:55
  OK, but it'll be no time at all before he's back up.
• 2:49:01
  Give me Bryce Eldridge. OK.
• 2:49:06
  Rookie of the Year, Decent Rookie of the Year.
• 2:49:08
  Don't hate it, don't hate it. Very tall.
• 2:49:11
  Also also available for trade if anybody wants.
• 2:49:17
  American League, The Man, the myth, the Gigantor Spencer Jones
• 2:49:33
  finally cracking through, forcing the hand of Brian
• 2:49:37
  Cashman. You mean they're not going to?
• 2:49:40
  Brian Cashman gets fired. They're not going to put a
• 2:49:42
  pillow to his face and suffocate him trying to keep him down at
• 2:49:46
  in the in the in the system. They won't allow it.
• 2:49:48
  He won't allow it. I like it.
• 2:49:52
  I don't, I hate it. Sure you do.
• 2:49:54
  I'm sticking in the American Lee yeast name.
• 2:49:58
  I believe we've already mentioned Give me Samuel Basayo.
• 2:50:04
  Let's go, Kyle. There you go, JB.
• 2:50:06
  I got, I got the NL on one side here, I've got the AL on the
• 2:50:11
  other side, Samuel beside. Talk about a guy with no swag,
• 2:50:14
  by the way. Yeah, I'm with you.
• 2:50:15
  It's worse than Gunner. It's terrible.
• 2:50:18
  The swag's going to be that rookie of the.
• 2:50:19
  Year, hey, but we're big. We're big gunner, big gunner
• 2:50:21
  guy, big big gunner, big gunner guy.
• 2:50:24
  All right, let's go, let's go. Manager of the Year.
• 2:50:33
  I'll start her off because I think I think someone is going
• 2:50:39
  to share it with me for the NL. Did I just did I just show my
• 2:50:51
  hand? He did show your hand rats.
• 2:50:55
  Not my guy, though I do like him.
• 2:51:00
  My guy's Tony Vitella. OK, so here's the thing.
• 2:51:06
  Rookie manager? Yes.
• 2:51:09
  Manager of the year. Love it.
• 2:51:11
  I. And we have, we have things to
• 2:51:14
  go off of 1st year managers winning the award.
• 2:51:16
  I mean, Stephen Vogt just did it.
• 2:51:20
  Pat Murphy. Pat Murphy also.
• 2:51:23
  Came from college. That's a former college coach
• 2:51:26
  from Pat Murphy. ASUASU.
• 2:51:29
  Not right, not right. After, yeah, yeah, but still.
• 2:51:33
  Here's the thing, before I made the game time decision to to to
• 2:51:37
  raise it, I did have Tony, but as a result of of going all in
• 2:51:44
  on the on the piros, I get it going going Don Kelly.
• 2:51:48
  Don't hate it. If the Pirates make the post
• 2:51:51
  season, sign the papers and give them the award.
• 2:51:56
  I mean you, but you could make the same argue.
• 2:52:01
  I mean, I understand the Pirates are the Pirates and we're
• 2:52:03
  talking about the Giants, who I would assume on paper or better.
• 2:52:07
  I feel like you could still make the same argument for the Giants
• 2:52:09
  too. Oh yeah, I mean, they're going
• 2:52:11
  for that last spot, right? Sure, if the Pirates don't do it
• 2:52:14
  and the Giants fill that spot, it's going to Tony Patello.
• 2:52:19
  Yeah, I could buy tell O. Don't it?
• 2:52:21
  I could go for that. Fan Grafs has the Pirates at 83
• 2:52:25
  wins the Giants at 82, just for reference.
• 2:52:29
  So you all got Donnie boy? Yeah, Donnie boy.
• 2:52:31
  I got and I had and I put Don Kelly in there with the I had AI
• 2:52:37
  had an asterisk there before I made the change to say like it's
• 2:52:41
  him if they get in. And then I was like, well, now I
• 2:52:44
  have them in. So it's it's a done deal.
• 2:52:48
  Fair enough. If you go from 71 wins to to 84.
• 2:52:51
  And 103. You know what I mean?
• 2:52:54
  Or 103. Then it's a done deal.
• 2:52:56
  If they missed the playoffs in 103, he's getting it A. 103 wins
• 2:53:00
  gets you the last wild card spot.
• 2:53:02
  It's. Going to be a crazy.
• 2:53:03
  Year baseball boys. OK, American League.
• 2:53:07
  I'll I'll start us off here. I feel like I feel like might
• 2:53:16
  fall in line with one or two of you here.
• 2:53:18
  Hopefully I'm going of the Seattle Mariners.
• 2:53:22
  Dan Wilson. I did the same.
• 2:53:26
  I did not. Of course, I'm going with Aaron
• 2:53:30
  Boone. A man who's been mistreated in
• 2:53:34
  the past but I think has found a good home.
• 2:53:39
  Skip Schumacher. OK, I did struggle with this one
• 2:53:45
  and there was a few names but I went with Dan Wilson.
• 2:53:52
  Cool. 95 wins, most of the American League tied with the
• 2:53:56
  Red Sox. So I was obviously thinking
• 2:53:57
  that, but Dan Wilson. Good stuff.
• 2:54:04
  Let's go, Dan. Let's go, Dan.
• 2:54:07
  Comeback Play of the Year. I'll.
• 2:54:12
  Go to AL 1st. I'm going to AL first.
• 2:54:14
  Yeah, they're cool. Yeah.
• 2:54:21
  Let's go. I didn't go Garrett Cole because
• 2:54:26
  I just thought maybe if it falls, I mean it, it's obviously
• 2:54:30
  a slam dunk if he gets the majority of the season in.
• 2:54:33
  But I just thought if there was any sort of what's the term
• 2:54:42
  delay, not hiccups, not delay setbacks, if there yes, if there
• 2:54:48
  are any setbacks, we could be looking at June, right,
• 2:54:54
  possibly. And I just don't know, like I
• 2:54:55
  don't know. So because of that, I'm going
• 2:54:58
  Jordan Alvarez. So.
• 2:55:01
  Also available for trade. Yeah, not going to happen.
• 2:55:03
  I he was on my team last year and did that.
• 2:55:05
  So I, I have Paretis. Actually, whenever Jordan gets
• 2:55:10
  hurt, Paretis is the DH anyway. I'm I'm going adly.
• 2:55:16
  I'm going adly, Richmond. Oh.
• 2:55:19
  Oh yeah, I heard the talk earlier.
• 2:55:20
  We were, you know, we were doing the thing.
• 2:55:22
  But I'm I'm going to adly Richmond down here last year.
• 2:55:27
  He'll be DH ING more. I think he's a little more
• 2:55:29
  fresh. I think we got a, we got a
• 2:55:31
  comeback play, right. There last year, he was badly.
• 2:55:35
  Yeah. Yeah, no longer.
• 2:55:38
  No longer. No, I think it's going to be
• 2:55:41
  more of. Badly rush boy.
• 2:55:46
  I'm just kidding. I'm, I mean, I'm pulling for the
• 2:55:48
  kid, but I just don't know. I don't know.
• 2:55:51
  I'll be I'm open to being surprised.
• 2:55:54
  I've never Nate's the type. Nate's out.
• 2:56:00
  That's AL. That would Nate.
• 2:56:03
  Now I know I. Know I don't want to start you
• 2:56:05
  guys go. I'll start Sandy Alcantra.
• 2:56:09
  It's. Good.
• 2:56:13
  I'm going Zach Wheeler. I feel like that's a like a easy
• 2:56:17
  pick. I think it's.
• 2:56:19
  Yeah, how is it? I mean, he made what like?
• 2:56:22
  There's no rules. Yeah, there's no rules on this.
• 2:56:25
  That's what I was wrestling with.
• 2:56:26
  No, I know the rules aren't good.
• 2:56:28
  He made north of 20 starts, didn't he?
• 2:56:30
  Yeah, but every site I go on that actually talks about this
• 2:56:33
  pick, Zach Wheeler. So I I went with the layup
• 2:56:35
  because I couldn't think of anybody else.
• 2:56:37
  The American League has a lot of options.
• 2:56:40
  That's fair. Jordan, Garrett, Adley there.
• 2:56:42
  I mean, there's there's a well, Santander before he got hurt
• 2:56:46
  again. But you know, there's, there's
• 2:56:48
  there's guys in the American League that really fit this
• 2:56:51
  National League. I think, unless I'm just not
• 2:56:53
  thinking of somebody, they're kind of limited on the comeback
• 2:56:56
  player. Maybe Ozuna, but he's still at
• 2:57:01
  21 homers last year. Do I need to have a button ready
• 2:57:04
  for this? Nate, you're.
• 2:57:06
  Going to have to get hot. We have to get hot.
• 2:57:13
  What do you? Got comeback Player of the year
• 2:57:16
  for the National League. Well, we're going to double up
• 2:57:19
  for a SEC because someone's going to win two awards.
• 2:57:23
  Then it's going to be a little spice on top.
• 2:57:25
  You know when you make something spicy and you add a little
• 2:57:27
  pepper flakes on top, that's what this is going to be.
• 2:57:35
  Sandy Alcantra wins Comeback Player of the Year and the Cy
• 2:57:40
  Young and finishes the. Year.
• 2:57:43
  Wow, different team. Wow, that's a take.
• 2:57:52
  I'll go ahead and give you the team.
• 2:57:53
  I'll say Cubs. How's that?
• 2:57:55
  Oh, how's that comeback player of the year, NL Cy Young for the
• 2:58:01
  Chicago Cubs? Sandy Alcantra, not hot enough
• 2:58:06
  for you? Good for.
• 2:58:08
  You. It's on fire.
• 2:58:12
  Good for you. Yeah, I'm going Sani Alcantra,
• 2:58:15
  as I mentioned, So I'm not willing to go that far, but I
• 2:58:18
  respect the play. Respect the play.
• 2:58:21
  All right, Nate got us. Nate got us to Cy Young's.
• 2:58:27
  He shared his NL pick. I think JB and I are in the same
• 2:58:30
  boat. Ball Skeens.
• 2:58:34
  Paul Skins, yeah, I mean, he's the he's the freaking he's the
• 2:58:43
  best pitcher on the planet. That's an actual American and
• 2:58:45
  not a communist. Oh jeez.
• 2:58:48
  So I mean this was a slam dunk and the alpha mentioned
• 2:58:53
  communist because he's a communist.
• 2:58:57
  I'm going to not make that pic because that's lazy and I am
• 2:59:02
  said I am instead am running back my pick from last year
• 2:59:10
  revenge campaign proving he's capable of being the best
• 2:59:14
  pitcher in the American League. Garrett Crochet.
• 2:59:20
  Boring. I too.
• 2:59:21
  Oh yeah, no, I too have. Garrett Crochet.
• 2:59:24
  I just have Garrett Crochet. Cowards, I'm with you.
• 2:59:30
  Oh yes, Nate's going to go Garrett Cole with the half
• 2:59:33
  season under his belt. Brian Wu.
• 2:59:39
  Oh, that's good. Yeah, Yeah.
• 2:59:41
  That's OK. That's that's all right.
• 2:59:44
  I like it. You do like it, don't you?
• 2:59:47
  Yeah. A little bit of an injury scare
• 2:59:49
  at the end of the year doesn't scare you.
• 2:59:50
  No, you think it's all in? Not at all.
• 2:59:52
  OK, love the guy. Love it, love it.
• 2:59:55
  That's a good pick. Thank you very much.
• 2:59:57
  It's got a nice flow too. Thank.
• 2:59:58
  You very much. I like it a lot.
• 3:00:05
  He does have great lettuce. Just a is a handsome fellow.
• 3:00:12
  Speaking of handsome fellows, let's let's get to our MVP
• 3:00:17
  picks, shall we? I got to go last on this one as
• 3:00:21
  well. Nate's already mentioned his.
• 3:00:24
  Nate's already mentioned his. No, sorry, we just did say
• 3:00:28
  young. You have not, right?
• 3:00:30
  Has anybody alluded to their MVP picks yet?
• 3:00:33
  I'm gonna hold this one tight because.
• 3:00:36
  I'm other than other than I forget who said not show hey or
• 3:00:41
  judge. All right, what where are we
• 3:00:48
  going? NAL What are we doing?
• 3:00:52
  I'm doing both at the same time, so do me last.
• 3:00:55
  What does it even mean? You'll see, baby.
• 3:00:58
  Where's the guy gonna win? He's gonna you.
• 3:01:01
  We'll see. What's?
• 3:01:03
  That even mean? Going last.
• 3:01:07
  Because the. Last guy for one league and the
• 3:01:08
  first guy for the other league. That's why.
• 3:01:10
  OK, I thought the guy was going to be so good for half a season
• 3:01:14
  in each league that he. Won.
• 3:01:17
  Yeah. Yeah, I mean, these things hot,
• 3:01:18
  but they ain't that hot. You know, Judge hits 60 for the
• 3:01:21
  Yankees to start the year and then gets traded at the
• 3:01:24
  deadline. So the Phillies, it's 75, all
• 3:01:36
  right, I'm just going to get my National League One out of the
• 3:01:38
  way. I mean, it's it's lazy, but
• 3:01:41
  there's I think it's allowed. Yeah.
• 3:01:49
  I'm going Dylan Cruz now it's Shohei Otani.
• 3:01:52
  Yeah, I got the same. It's just hard to go against it.
• 3:01:57
  Eventually you have to be right about something, and I'm I've
• 3:01:59
  thrown some names out here. Yeah.
• 3:02:05
  Buckle up, boys. You thought.
• 3:02:07
  You thought Then I'll say young was spicy.
• 3:02:16
  You ain't ready for this. I'm a Red Sox fan.
• 3:02:19
  No, no, not today, boys, not today.
• 3:02:30
  These MVPS will do something that we've never seen.
• 3:02:39
  These MVPS will both be 404040 guys.
• 3:02:50
  Gimme Ellie De La Cruz in the NL, Gimme Bobby Witt Junior in
• 3:02:54
  the AL. The first time ever 40.
• 3:02:57
  Jacks 40. Flights.
• 3:02:59
  And 40 double S, that really only applies to Bobby.
• 3:03:06
  But that's our guy. So that's that's incredible.
• 3:03:14
  That's beautiful. Sounds sick, doesn't it?
• 3:03:18
  That's it? Sounds sick.
• 3:03:21
  That's man, what a. Does Ellie also get 40 airs?
• 3:03:25
  Oh, I'm just kidding. I'm.
• 3:03:25
  Just forget, but get out of here.
• 3:03:28
  Don't. Worry about.
• 3:03:29
  That. I'm just kidding.
• 3:03:33
  Come on. What a yinzer comment that was.
• 3:03:36
  I thought that was enough to make it seem like a joke.
• 3:03:42
  Look, I think look. It's going to have to take crazy
• 3:03:45
  stuff to beat Shohei Otani and to beat Aaron Judge.
• 3:03:49
  It's going to take some crazy stuff.
• 3:03:50
  So I got wild with it. Yeah, but that's fair.
• 3:03:55
  I mean, can I play devil's advocate here?
• 3:03:57
  Isn't that what they were saying about Cal Raleigh?
• 3:03:59
  And it didn't matter? I mean you put up 60 plus as a
• 3:04:02
  catcher. This is 404040.
• 3:04:04
  It's never been done. About to see it twice in the
• 3:04:09
  same league. Yeah, I mean, Ellie's Ellie
• 3:04:11
  stole 60 bags one year, but he hasn't done the other two at
• 3:04:15
  all. I'm not worried about it.
• 3:04:17
  Yeah, he hasn't done. He hasn't even hit more than 25
• 3:04:22
  home runs. I love that.
• 3:04:24
  That's a breakout year. That sure is.
• 3:04:28
  We're still going to finish 4th in division, but.
• 3:04:30
  Yeah, I can't also give an MVP to somebody who finished fourth
• 3:04:34
  in division so. You absolutely can, because
• 3:04:37
  they've done it before. I'm saying I can't.
• 3:04:42
  No, I'm, I'm encourage, I'm trying to encourage you to break
• 3:04:45
  free from those chains. Break free.
• 3:04:47
  Most outstanding player award, yes, but when it.
• 3:04:50
  Comes back. We're not.
• 3:04:51
  We're not diving into what does the V in MVP mean?
• 3:04:54
  We're not. That's a whole another
• 3:04:56
  conversation. We're not doing that.
• 3:04:57
  Anyway. Look, I got another last minute
• 3:05:01
  scratch after thinking about it, after talking about, you know.
• 3:05:13
  Exactly where he's going to go. After talking about no, you
• 3:05:19
  don't, I know where you think that I'm going, where you're
• 3:05:21
  going. You want me to go, you know
• 3:05:23
  where I'm going. Get yours extra hot to finish it
• 3:05:25
  off. Mine's not as hot.
• 3:05:30
  Mine's not as hot. You want me to go?
• 3:05:34
  First, let's let's hear it, JB. OK, I talked a little bit about
• 3:05:37
  the offensive question marks I had about Toronto, but I still
• 3:05:41
  gave him 91 wins. That's because Vlad Guerrero
• 3:05:43
  junior gets the MVP. Respect to play.
• 3:05:46
  Respect to play. I think he, I think he carries.
• 3:05:50
  Gained a lot of respect for him this last this last autumn.
• 3:05:54
  Sure. Love a good autumn.
• 3:05:58
  It's a good play, nothing like a good Autumn man.
• 3:06:01
  It's not much. That's a good play JBI like
• 3:06:04
  that. So you, you're, you're tallying.
• 3:06:06
  Your final tally is Shohei and Vladi.
• 3:06:09
  Vladi Yep, I like it. Can't hate it.
• 3:06:14
  Yeah, last minute scratch for me.
• 3:06:19
  Like I said, I was thinking about it as we're talking, and I
• 3:06:24
  just can't in good conscience go with who I have now.
• 3:06:28
  So give me Bobby Witt, baby. I'm running it back.
• 3:06:33
  Bobby Witt will be the 2020 sixth American League MVP.
• 3:06:40
  I love it. Thank you you.
• 3:06:43
  Want to see what I wrote down? I already know what you wrote
• 3:06:46
  down. Yep, I knew it.
• 3:06:49
  Yeah. Do I know my guy or do I know
• 3:06:51
  you know You know your guy. You know your guy.
• 3:06:54
  A side note in the Facebook comments, the most common MVP
• 3:07:00
  take was Roman Anthony Oh. Yeah, please, please let us know
• 3:07:08
  JB, because there's somebody on this, there's somebody on this
• 3:07:11
  call that doesn't understand the hype, but it seems as though the
• 3:07:16
  masses do. But you'll see, which is
• 3:07:23
  actually, you know what? That wraps up our words, which
• 3:07:27
  brings us to our final full segment here, a little something
• 3:07:35
  new we're trying to riff off of JB little bit and shout out
• 3:07:38
  Bridge of October. He does a he and he and brother
• 3:07:43
  Jake do wild and mild. And it gave me the idea, you
• 3:07:50
  know what? This is the hot takes episode.
• 3:07:52
  Why? Why is it why we gone so long
• 3:07:56
  without realizing that we could incorporate a little little hot
• 3:08:00
  sauce theme into this. So you know what we're going to
• 3:08:04
  do? We're going to do a mild.
• 3:08:07
  Sauce. Little sauce, That's your rapper
• 3:08:09
  name? Yeah, let's come up with rapper
• 3:08:11
  names for each other. A dibs on that one.
• 3:08:15
  OK, Yeah, yeah, no, for sure. I I want to throw out an early
• 3:08:21
  candidate, JB on the corner. Like selling selling drugs.
• 3:08:27
  And I was going to say what he's doing on the corner is, is
• 3:08:32
  that's not my business. Running the corner is what?
• 3:08:34
  He's doing JB, Lil JB on the corner.
• 3:08:38
  That's that's your rapper name. So we're going to do a little
• 3:08:43
  mild, medium and hot. And as you can imagine, the mild
• 3:08:47
  is a take, but no one's really going to yell at you for it.
• 3:08:53
  Medium is bold, but you could talk yourself into it.
• 3:08:57
  And then hot is, there's a good chance you're on an island.
• 3:09:03
  Yeah, yeah. So.
• 3:09:06
  Shall we begin? Mild round.
• 3:09:10
  Start with the mild. JBJB what you got?
• 3:09:15
  Yeah, I had, I had some fun with this and I was really trying to
• 3:09:18
  lean into doing something that's not just like, so and so we'll
• 3:09:22
  hit X amount of home runs, right?
• 3:09:25
  The Cincinnati Reds. TJ Friedel.
• 3:09:30
  OK. Will swing at a three O pitch.
• 3:09:37
  I'm going to give you some back story.
• 3:09:39
  He's had a three O we're. Going to learn No, no, we're
• 3:09:41
  going to learn a. Three O count 95 times in his
• 3:09:46
  career and he has taken every one of them that's.
• 3:09:53
  A crazy point I don't even know how you begin to look at it for.
• 3:09:56
  1/8 inning, 2 outs, runners on 2nd and 3rd.
• 3:10:00
  Justin Lawrence on the mound. I mean we can go further.
• 3:10:05
  This was June 19th, 2023. He falls to three O and
• 3:10:10
  intentionally walks him. That's the only time he did not
• 3:10:15
  do the three O take this year. TJ Friedel swings at a three O
• 3:10:22
  pitch. This sounds like a possible hill
• 3:10:25
  he might die on. And he fouls that's.
• 3:10:26
  A candidate. He fouls it off.
• 3:10:29
  Oh. Even even.
• 3:10:31
  Just for the comedic a piece of that, he swings at a three O
• 3:10:35
  pitch. I like it.
• 3:10:38
  He's a big old gangster hack. You go one step further and say
• 3:10:42
  like a position player on the mound.
• 3:10:45
  No, that would be yeah, no. Be a good opportunity to swing,
• 3:10:50
  Yeah, no. No.
• 3:10:53
  Look, my stuff's hot. I'm a little sauce.
• 3:10:57
  My mild, my mild hot take, my mild take.
• 3:11:04
  It's still pretty spicy. The spicy mild, it's a, it's a,
• 3:11:10
  it's a mild that you eat it and you go up to the, you go up to
• 3:11:15
  the person running the restaurant and you're like, I
• 3:11:16
  thought this was mild and they say it.
• 3:11:18
  Doesn't get enough love, I don't think I I think people really
• 3:11:22
  talk down on mild. Well, they all they're all still
• 3:11:24
  hot. Well, this one's hot, baby.
• 3:11:29
  Jacob degrom will be getting Cy Young votes this year.
• 3:11:37
  How you like that? Was he even on the board last
• 3:11:39
  year? What do you mean?
• 3:11:43
  What board? What do you?
• 3:11:44
  Like just any votes whatsoever. A board.
• 3:11:49
  Like for Cy Young? Yeah.
• 3:11:50
  Yeah, yeah. Let me look.
• 3:11:56
  Need that vote breakdown? All right, do.
• 3:12:01
  You like it? He got.
• 3:12:03
  You're saying just any votes for any place whatsoever.
• 3:12:08
  You're not saying like a finalist, you're just.
• 3:12:10
  Saying you have to get a first place vote.
• 3:12:13
  Why? What did he get last year?
• 3:12:14
  He didn't get any first place. Votes.
• 3:12:16
  What did he, what did he get? He got it doesn't tell me
• 3:12:20
  anything past first place, but he he got two points, so.
• 3:12:26
  Are you saying he'll get a vote? He'll get a first place vote.
• 3:12:30
  He'll get a first place vote. OK.
• 3:12:31
  OK, wow, I was going to say. Just only yeah.
• 3:12:34
  Among the finalists votes. 1st place vote.
• 3:12:38
  Wow, good for you. Yeah, it's.
• 3:12:42
  It felt like I kind of already alluded to it, but I'm going to,
• 3:12:46
  I'm going to run it back because I don't feel like I really put a
• 3:12:49
  stamp on it officially. But I'm going to go ahead and
• 3:12:52
  say my mild pick, my mild take is Tony Vitello is a National
• 3:13:00
  League Manager of the Year finalist.
• 3:13:03
  OK. Fresh out of college.
• 3:13:07
  I mean, I've I've gotten him winning it, but.
• 3:13:11
  Well, this is going to. Be a finalist if you win this
• 3:13:13
  so. True.
• 3:13:14
  This is a true mild take. It's not as it's not as spicy as
• 3:13:18
  as saying he's going to win it, but I'm just saying he'll be a
• 3:13:20
  finalist. Yeah, sure.
• 3:13:22
  And I, I would argue that it is a little bit more than mild
• 3:13:25
  because my description of mild is this is a take, but nobody's
• 3:13:29
  yelling at you about it. I would say there are people
• 3:13:31
  that would yell at me for that take.
• 3:13:33
  I don't think so. I think there's some people that
• 3:13:35
  think they're close. I do.
• 3:13:39
  You could probably find people that are on board with with Tony
• 3:13:42
  V, but I bet you there's a lot that aren't so.
• 3:13:44
  Think about how many people are screaming at the TV and TJ
• 3:13:47
  Frieda will never swing at a three O.
• 3:13:49
  Pitch. It's true.
• 3:13:53
  That's such a niche. Such.
• 3:13:55
  A niche. It's incredible come on, I'm
• 3:13:56
  leaning into the whole thing right.
• 3:13:58
  You know, that's like. Borderline Joey Votto pop ups to
• 3:14:02
  the yeah, that's type stat. Yeah, that's crazy.
• 3:14:05
  All right, who's who's taking us to to medium?
• 3:14:09
  I'm guessing you guys are going to continue to be hotter than
• 3:14:12
  me, so I'll I'll keep going first if that's OK.
• 3:14:14
  All right, I'm going to need you to pull something up when you're
• 3:14:16
  done. OK for my medium, Acuna goes
• 3:14:21
  4060 because he plays 150 games and the Braves missed the
• 3:14:27
  playoffs. And the Braves missed the.
• 3:14:30
  Playoffs and the Yeah. What it what did he?
• 3:14:34
  What was that club? He I'm my 3037 wasn't.
• 3:14:37
  It was it. 3070. It was 4070, right 40. 70 and
• 3:14:41
  you're saying he does what? 4060.
• 3:14:46
  OK. I mean, the The thing is, is,
• 3:14:48
  you know, is he is he going to play 150 games?
• 3:14:55
  He's done that twice. He's hit 41 homers both times,
• 3:14:58
  but one year was only 37 steals. Oh.
• 3:15:01
  Oh, JB, go ahead and pull up. I mean, it's just on brand.
• 3:15:09
  We're we're just an easy transition.
• 3:15:11
  So I'll go ahead and go next. JB, please pull up the stolen
• 3:15:15
  base category. As far as league leaders go, I'd
• 3:15:20
  like for you to be on deck and ready for the last few years
• 3:15:23
  because you'll be able to Fact Check this.
• 3:15:26
  I don't think we've had it in recent memory.
• 3:15:30
  OK. In 2026 we will have at least
• 3:15:36
  three players in MLB with 60 plus stolen bases.
• 3:15:45
  OK, that is OK. You're not seeing it, are you?
• 3:15:52
  Yeah, I got the league leaders up.
• 3:15:54
  I'm about to go into the each year.
• 3:15:55
  That's fine. I can do that.
• 3:16:02
  Old Nate loves his. Loves his swipes, man.
• 3:16:05
  I'll tell you what. Love me some.
• 3:16:06
  Swipes. I can always count on Nate
• 3:16:08
  talking swipes on this episode he loves.
• 3:16:12
  Swiper be swiping. Well, I was predicting swipes.
• 3:16:17
  So you're saying three players at 60?
• 3:16:20
  At least at least three players with 60 swipes.
• 3:16:23
  So obviously last year the the the league leader, yeah, it was
• 3:16:29
  49 in the American League and two guys with 38 in the National
• 3:16:33
  League. O'Neil Cruz Want Soto.
• 3:16:34
  Want Soto. Believe it or not, Caballero.
• 3:16:38
  Caballero, however you say that. Caballero. 67 for Ellie and 24
• 3:16:45
  that was the only one we had two and 23 Acuna and Estori Ruiz.
• 3:16:55
  All done. Thank you.
• 3:16:56
  Corbin Carroll with in the 50s but not not 60s and and of
• 3:17:02
  course we had some like several down years at that point, you
• 3:17:07
  know, we just started taking this thing back up.
• 3:17:09
  Here we go, baby. Buckle up.
• 3:17:12
  Who are they? That's just medium.
• 3:17:16
  Who? Who you got?
• 3:17:18
  I just said he doesn't have 60. He doesn't have names, just
• 3:17:21
  vibes. OK.
• 3:17:21
  Just vibes, just. Vibes bailing my guy out there.
• 3:17:26
  I'll check. I'll check back in later.
• 3:17:31
  My work, yeah, No, it's just vibes.
• 3:17:34
  That's that's half of this episode.
• 3:17:35
  Well, that's just like 3/4 of this episode.
• 3:17:37
  It's just vibes. I had one then maybe I'll just
• 3:17:44
  save as an honorable mention because I don't, I don't like
• 3:17:47
  it. I mean, it's it's, it intrigues
• 3:17:50
  me, but I don't want to. I love a good honorable mention.
• 3:17:53
  I don't want to put my name to this for my medium take, so I'm
• 3:17:55
  going to go with my my alternate and I'm going to say Roman
• 3:18:03
  Anthony hits 40 homers. I love that.
• 3:18:14
  Do you? Because right before we started
• 3:18:16
  this segment, you said, well, I'm going to go with fun stuff
• 3:18:18
  and not just, well, this guy hits X amount of homers.
• 3:18:21
  I, I, I was expecting, I mean, I did this for the medium.
• 3:18:24
  I said 4060 a 150 games. I'm just giving you a hard time.
• 3:18:28
  Yeah. I mean, I thought it was bold
• 3:18:30
  enough that it would, it would get you over that hump of, well,
• 3:18:34
  it's not just a boring this guy hits X amount of homers.
• 3:18:37
  I mean, 40 homers from Roman. Don't be.
• 3:18:40
  I mean, don't be. I'm, I'm not going to be
• 3:18:41
  surprised when it happens. Just for the sake of the
• 3:18:45
  exercise, I had to categorize it as medium.
• 3:18:47
  Right, right, right, right, right. 2009 Nate was the last
• 3:18:52
  time there were three players with 60 steals.
• 3:18:56
  That's That's back when games were on black and white
• 3:19:00
  television, coincidentally the same time the Yankees won the
• 3:19:03
  World Series. But that's neither here nor
• 3:19:05
  there. All right.
• 3:19:07
  Is that everybody's medium? Yeah.
• 3:19:11
  Nate, do you want to go last for this?
• 3:19:13
  Yeah, get your islands ready. That's get your islands ready,
• 3:19:17
  pack up. We're taking a vacation to the
• 3:19:19
  islands. Yeah, yeah.
• 3:19:22
  Be there alone, Jimmy you. Already.
• 3:19:27
  How hot is it? How hot are we feeling with this
• 3:19:29
  one? I think it's pretty hot.
• 3:19:30
  All right, let's hear it. I think it's pretty hot.
• 3:19:34
  The Mariners trade Colt Emerson, Kade Anderson and Bryce Miller
• 3:19:47
  to the Tigers for Tarx Google. Oh, there it is.
• 3:19:52
  Yeah, there it is. I almost took a nap when you
• 3:19:58
  started talking. Did.
• 3:19:59
  Not have us in the. First half did not.
• 3:20:04
  Good. Boy, wow And.
• 3:20:07
  Both teams still win their division and go to the playoffs.
• 3:20:10
  Me. Oh my, I like that.
• 3:20:15
  I don't even think it's, I mean. I can see the headline now.
• 3:20:19
  The rating I'm going to give that like an 86, That's good.
• 3:20:23
  I I can see the headline now. Semen trade for communists.
• 3:20:30
  So Colt Emerson, Kate Kate Anderson, 1:00 and 2:00 on that
• 3:20:33
  prospect list. Like that's a that's a big deal.
• 3:20:38
  I'm so proud of JB for that take.
• 3:20:40
  I, I was like him. I was like, we were really
• 3:20:44
  talking prospects for the oh man, good for you.
• 3:20:52
  The Tigers would make out good on that, too.
• 3:20:54
  I thought it was going to be like Mariners trade Bobby Ding
• 3:20:58
  Dong dropping their overall farm system ranking two spots.
• 3:21:06
  No, that's good. That's good.
• 3:21:07
  All right, here's my proddy, JB. Here's my take.
• 3:21:12
  I feel like I was dancing around it, and I don't think any I I
• 3:21:16
  can tell that neither of you really picked up on this, so I'm
• 3:21:20
  glad. So I'm I'm going to catch you
• 3:21:21
  all by surprise here. My hot, hot take is that the
• 3:21:29
  White Sox and A's both finish at 500 or better, not one or the
• 3:21:39
  other. Both finish at 500 or better.
• 3:21:50
  Wow, I'm. Intrigued.
• 3:21:53
  You guys are way too realistic for me.
• 3:22:02
  This is not at all realistic. I mean, we're talking about the
• 3:22:04
  White Sox and the. 80s that is not realistic.
• 3:22:08
  What are we talking about here? Pointech and Pointech.
• 3:22:11
  And I know Nate's got something just insane here, so let's hear
• 3:22:16
  it. OK.
• 3:22:19
  The New York Mets struggle so much out the gate that Juan Soto
• 3:22:26
  requests a trade and Carlos Mendoza gets fired, but they
• 3:22:36
  still make the postseason. That's crazy.
• 3:22:40
  They don't actually trade Soto, but he requests it.
• 3:22:43
  He just, he just puts it out there.
• 3:22:45
  What a roller coaster of emotions I just.
• 3:22:48
  I'm going to go if you don't get rid of Mendoza, that's what's
• 3:22:51
  going to happen. Yeah, I like that.
• 3:22:56
  But they still, they pull it out.
• 3:22:57
  You know what? I mean, yeah, they do.
• 3:22:58
  They pick each other up from the bootstraps and they make the
• 3:23:01
  post season. That's that's a great way to end
• 3:23:05
  it. Thank you very much.
• 3:23:09
  Good work, boys. We've reached the end.
• 3:23:12
  Well, not that's it. Not officially the end.
• 3:23:14
  Yeah, yeah, yeah. I was going on a hill.
• 3:23:16
  I was going to say I wanted to get, I wanted to get one take
• 3:23:19
  from you guys that we shared or divulged over the last three
• 3:23:25
  almost 3 1/2 hours. I want to see if you guys have a
• 3:23:31
  particular take, if you have a hill that you will die on.
• 3:23:36
  And I want, I want to make this a formal process.
• 3:23:39
  I want you to say your name. OK.
• 3:23:43
  You say my name is and then I want you to say the hill I'm
• 3:23:50
  dying on in 2026 is. I want you to look at the
• 3:23:58
  camera. When you say it.
• 3:24:02
  So feel free to take a second. Everybody take a breather.
• 3:24:05
  I know this has been a this has been a marathon of an episode.
• 3:24:07
  So take a breather, give us a second because this is this
• 3:24:12
  could be a game time decision for some of us.
• 3:24:15
  For me for. Sure, we want to be right.
• 3:24:17
  We want to. Be right.
• 3:24:17
  This is 1 you got to you got to double, triple down on.
• 3:24:20
  You can't be crazy. And again, this is one that like
• 3:24:23
  I mentioned before we started recording, this is one that
• 3:24:27
  you're you're going to have your feet held to the fire on this
• 3:24:30
  one the whole season. So if it just if it's a flop,
• 3:24:34
  you're going we're going to some of these other takes.
• 3:24:36
  Well, let's slide because baseball season's a long season,
• 3:24:40
  but this one you're going to hear about it if it's a flop and
• 3:24:44
  if it's if it turns out to be fantastic, you're going to
• 3:24:48
  you're going to get your flowers on the flip side, so just.
• 3:24:51
  So it's still got to be like, it's still got to be hot.
• 3:24:54
  I mean people listened for over 3 hours to get to this point.
• 3:24:58
  Sure. I mean, it's, it's again, it's,
• 3:25:02
  it's that crossroad of like hot, but you, you, it's something you
• 3:25:06
  can stand on. Right.
• 3:25:08
  But you don't want to say, well then if I want to make sure I'm
• 3:25:11
  right, Otani or Skeins picks, you know, no, you can't go
• 3:25:14
  there. No, right, exactly.
• 3:25:16
  You just got to be. For example, just to give the
• 3:25:20
  people at home a little insight as to what this is all about.
• 3:25:24
  It's like if I what I was saying about the Rangers finishing so
• 3:25:30
  long that if I hated the Rangers that much, I said the Rangers
• 3:25:34
  will absolutely finish 4th, whatever, I don't know.
• 3:25:39
  OK. That's and that's even on the
• 3:25:42
  mild, more mild side, OK. All.
• 3:25:53
  Right, I think. I think if I'm willing to wear
• 3:25:56
  something then it's got to be worth it to me.
• 3:26:01
  All right, well, remember the. Remember, remember, remember the
• 3:26:05
  instructions. My name is.
• 3:26:07
  I was getting it. That's where I was going next.
• 3:26:09
  Thank you. The hill I'm going to die on in
• 3:26:11
  2026 is. My name is Josh JB in the
• 3:26:17
  corner. The hell I'm going to die on in
• 3:26:20
  2026 is that the Pittsburgh Pirates will make the
• 3:26:23
  postseason. There it is.
• 3:26:25
  Because if I'm going to wear this thing and I'm going to be
• 3:26:27
  wrong, I'm going to stand by my guys and be wrong.
• 3:26:32
  That's my guy. Proud of you, JB.
• 3:26:36
  Way to stand 10 toes down. That's that's a that's, that's
• 3:26:41
  big boy business right there. Big boy baller, you ready there?
• 3:26:49
  You go. This does two things for me.
• 3:26:54
  OK Number one is that I want to be right.
• 3:26:58
  Number 2 is that it helps me win a competition between us.
• 3:27:04
  My name is Nate Reyes, AKA Little Sauce.
• 3:27:12
  The Colorado Rockies will win more than 55 games this year.
• 3:27:20
  Good for you, good for you, good for you.
• 3:27:26
  Lil sauce Lil. Sauce Lil.
• 3:27:30
  Sauce. You know, I, I feel like I've
• 3:27:40
  been trying to find something, but I think deep down in my
• 3:27:43
  heart I knew. I knew what the I knew what this
• 3:27:46
  answer was, and it just took me a minute to to arrive here.
• 3:27:53
  My name is Kyle Corwin. The hill I'm dying on in 2026 is
• 3:28:00
  that Bobby Witt Junior will be your 2026 American League Most
• 3:28:05
  Valuable Player. And that's crazy because that
• 3:28:13
  was a last minute scratch because I was too stupid enough
• 3:28:16
  to realize it when I first filled out this.
• 3:28:18
  Looking at you right in the face.
• 3:28:20
  It's insane. Don't know why, don't know how
• 3:28:29
  some something in my notes app made.
• 3:28:33
  I made my font purple when I wrote out Colorado Rockies so.
• 3:28:39
  It's just new. It new, it said.
• 3:28:44
  Little sauce and the answer's right here.
• 3:28:46
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• 3:28:51
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• 3:28:54
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• 3:28:55
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• 3:30:09
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• 3:30:12
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• 3:30:15
  to for 2026 and hopefully this gets you in the right frame of
• 3:30:20
  mind for what we can only hope is a great year of baseball.
• 3:30:23
  So if you made it this far, we appreciate you.
• 3:30:26
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• 3:30:31
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• 3:30:33
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