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All-Star Game Starters Named · 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 it all.
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Starts. Right now.
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Welcome back to the three O take presented by C Kick.
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This is episode 447. I'll be your host, Kyle Corn,
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and I'm here with my Co host Nate Reyes.
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Nate. Happy birthday USA, let's go,
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let's get it. Props to you if you're here
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before the birthday and you're hanging out with us live in the
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chit chat. You could make the argument
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you're here after the birthday. Did you know there is some
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controversy surrounding when the Declaration of Independence was
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actually signed? Did you know this?
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It's just like a leap year thing.
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What do you mean? No, it's like a they, they
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think, hold on, I I wanna, I wanna pull up what I read just
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to make sure I'm not just talking out of my butt here.
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OK, hold on. Apparently, where is it?
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Where is it? Apparently it was July 2nd.
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It was believed. Have you heard you haven't heard
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about this? No, I don't like it.
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Let's say it was believed that rather not on July 4th, but
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rather on July 2nd, the resolution of independence was
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approved in a closed session of Congress.
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So you're. Saying it just wasn't notarized
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until the 4th. There's question about when when
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certain individual signed it, thus putting July 4th into
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question. I didn't realize that, like, a
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lot of those dudes were like 20. Did you know that there's like a
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lot of founding fathers that were like 20/21/22, like, all
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right, it's fair. You see the all the pictures of
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them? They're like, they look 80.
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Yeah. But in reality, they're still,
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like, linked up with their pediatricians.
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They're like had a quick doctor's visit and then they had
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to go sign the Declaration of Independence.
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Crazy. Still on, Still on Mom and Dad's
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insurance, you know. Crazy man.
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Like these are the guys that set it in a motion still living in
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the basement. Unreal.
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It's unreal. So either way, happy birthday, I
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guess. I don't know.
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Apparently not. Trivia How old is America this
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year? Math. 248.
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You cut out, what'd you say? 240. 8248 That's good math.
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It's not good math, I just happened to see it so I was in
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two. Years, two years to the Big 25O.
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How about it? I like that.
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We're gonna have to do something for that one, I think.
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I think I'm just gonna have to like, blow, blow something up,
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you know? What do you think?
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Let me know what you decide on. All right, let's keep it legal.
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Major League Baseball All Star game starters have been named.
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Look, I don't, I don't want to get into the the whole snubs
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conversation because I feel like that's a, a a tired 'cause it's.
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Of course, the All Star game of tired 'cause in general.
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You're gonna, you're gonna, you're gonna have snubs with the
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way that the voting is set up. But you know, I, I had a thought
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today. I had a thought today.
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It a realization. There's no sense in me fighting
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it anymore. Like we're just going to have to
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talk about it as it is because there's nothing that you and I
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can do to reverse the nature of the way that the All Star game
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is handled, the way it's treated, the way it's presented,
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the way it's voted on. So we're going to just sit here.
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We're just going to talk about it.
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We're just going to talk about it.
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The starters, you want to just run through them here real
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quick. I was I was talking to you
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before we hopped on and we didn't do half bed with our
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picks. Yeah, I think so too.
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I mean, granted we had like a 5050 shot for majority of them,
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but was there anything that really caught you off guard?
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Anything that surprised you? How about?
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I just don't get how he's how it's eligible.
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Like there's got to be some eligibility requirements.
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Can we can we just take a minute to be thankful that Nick
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Castianos didn't get in? Yeah, that's true.
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Nothing against Nick Castianos, but we just need to acknowledge
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that that was a huge mistake. I'm sorry.
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Wait a minute. Keep you.
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Keep going. I was just going to say forget.
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Forget fandom, I understand that the Philly fans love their love
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their boys, but let's. Sometimes you can admit.
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You can admit you know. Let's all come together and just
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realize that having Nick Castellanos on the ballot this
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year was just a big mistake. So shout out Yelich though.
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I'm big proud, big proud of Christian Yelich.
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That's what I was going to say. I'm assuming taking that third
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spot. I didn't see what the vote
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totals were, but I figured Profar and Tatis probably had
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the top two spots. And then the third was 'cause I
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think even when we were going through our our picks, the third
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outfield spot for the National League was the one we were kind
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of teetering back and forth on. But but yeah, the the the Trey
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Turner thing it why I mean. It's cool.
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Like he's, he's dope, he's he's really good.
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But come on, you know, it's one thing like I, I like Bryce
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Harper obviously deserves to be on it.
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That's it's There's an argument of like playing enough games,
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doing well enough and being eligible, but not being healthy
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enough to play. But still getting the honour.
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But still getting the honour. That's OK, I'll allow that.
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I don't like when you've played like 12 games and you're just a
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popular guy. So I don't know.
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NL shortstops. I mean, what?
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What else are we talking here? Ellie, Ellie.
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Daily Cruise. 46 games, by the way, same thing.
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Legitimately half of the games that we've played this one.
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Like that's not cool, man. Almost on the nose.
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Stuff's got to change with the voting system, stuff's got to
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change a lot around the All Star game.
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The jerseys are ass. Oh, no, no, don't, don't get
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ahead here. We we got, we got to talk about
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that. The game sucks.
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Well, hey, look. We still had plans to go next
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year, so like Elena, I thought we had talked about this.
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Have we not talked about? Maybe I just made-up these plans
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in my head? I'd go.
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I'd do it. I'll start again next year
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because we're not making a trip this year, it doesn't seem,
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unless there's some crazy postseason scenario that pops up
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down the stretch and we got to call an audible.
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But as of right now, no plans for games.
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So we're going to double down next year, hopefully assuming
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all things work out and head to Atlanta for the All Star game.
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But yeah, let's not get, let's not get cared.
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For this changes by then. Well, that's next year.
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Yeah. I mean, I I don't foresee any
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changes taking place that soon. Some just some just a little
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something a little something something.
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There's a lot of comments, by the way, that I'm I'm kind of
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here for was to make the All Star game worth something again.
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Yeah, I don't I don't know if home field advantage of the
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World Series is appropriate. I don't know what would be
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appropriate. I do have, I do have 11 gripe
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and it's not, it's not just griping for griping sake.
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It's, it's, I think a legitimate gripe, but can we just call a
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spade a spade? Can we?
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And I, this isn't directed at Shohei because I know Shohei was
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the one in the news. And we'll, we'll touch on this
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about saying that he's, he's protecting his health, he's
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worried about making the postseason, so on and so forth.
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Generally speaking, though not directed at Shohei, but
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generally speaking, can we just again, call a spade a spade and
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recognize that like these guys don't, they're not, they're not
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opting out of participating in the All Star game or the Home
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Run Derby because they're trying to like they're trying to
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protect their health. They're trying to protect
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themselves and protect their money and protect future
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opportunity for earning said money.
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They're like, spare me the whole like we're trying to make, OK,
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maybe it wasn't so much about the health.
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It was more like it's more the the response surrounding well,
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I'm just trying to focus and help my team make it to the
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post. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
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No, you're not I. Get what you're saying?
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The health, sorry, I misspoke. It's less about the health.
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I I I'm sure that's valid. Especially good day off, You
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know, yeah, at this point a a few days offer is probably much,
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much needed. But the whole like just trying
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to help my team make the post stop.
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Yeah, there's way too much money involved in these contracts now
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that you're trying to you're trying to look out for for you
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and yours, which is fine. I get it.
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That's a lot of money. I'd probably consider doing the
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same thing. But like, let's just let's be a
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little more forthcoming about that.
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That's all I got to say. I think it is the recognition of
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some of these superstars, especially home run hitters that
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are just like, maybe they've been in the Derby before, maybe
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they've seen what it does to them afterwards and that's what
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they're trying to say. Like my team needs me to be
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fully healthy and I didn't feel great after or my swing changed
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after. Therefore it hurts my team.
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You know what I'm saying? I, I kind of see what they're
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saying. It's a little bit of a leap, I
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guess. I don't know, whatever.
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I. Is that is that super
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pessimistic of me? No, I'm.
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Not or is there like is there some validity there?
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I mean, tell me if there tell me if I'm crazy because I, it just
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seems that way because I, I feel like.
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I think the problem is is that you reach A level of stardom to
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where like, it doesn't really add anything.
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There's no added value. There's no, the reward does not
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outweigh the risk when you reach that level of stardom.
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That's what I'm trying to get for certain guys like like for
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Gunner, obviously breaking onto the scene, obviously doing
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incredibly this year, but like there's still this level of like
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if I go pop off and do something that no one's seen before during
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this, maybe there's additional endorsements that are in come my
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way. We talk about like Ohtani Judge,
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like guys that are like, I've already done this, I've won
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this. I have every endorsement I can
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think of. I'm just going to take the day
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off. I get it.
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But just come out and say that. Just be just be clear about it.
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Don't tell me that the Home Run Derby's going to hurt your your
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recovering elbow more than any other game.
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Just be honest and say I want a day off.
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I'm tired. Yeah, in a day and age where
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we're all about being authentic and living your truth and living
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and being your true self, like, OK, let's live it out.
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Just be straight up with us. Don't feed us a line.
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Just tell us like, hey, this is what this is.
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This is the deal. And I would have a lot more
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respect for you if you just came out and was like, yeah, I got
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this is a contract here for me or this is a, you know, a
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situation where I can really, like you said, with whether it's
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endorsements or or brand opportunities maybe in the
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offseason or down the road. Like, I'm not trying to put
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myself in a situation where I want to mess that up.
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Just tell us that, That's all. Has anyone else committed to the
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Home Run Derby by the way? I haven't seen anything.
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I've only seen Gunner. I know.
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It's it's it's real late and I feel like we talk about this
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every year, but like when do you hit the panic button?
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If you're Major League Baseball, there has to be some sort of
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under the table like, hey, look, you may have not had any plans
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in here or plans here to sign up for the Home Run Derby.
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But how's another, I don't know, five mil sound just to just to
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show up because we need got. We need slots filled.
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We need names. I mean, because it's it's July
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3rd, less than less than two weeks do.
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You remember when Brandon Hinge did it?
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Remember him? We talk about this every year,
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right? And he just flopped, didn't he?
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He. Went goose egg.
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Yeah, he did any. Yeah, that's what I'm saying of
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like, when do we get to that level of desperation where
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they're just like just searching?
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All right. No looking around.
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No ricochets intended, but who would like 20?
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Who would a Brandon Inge type be in 2024?
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That Major League Baseball just looks around quickly and.
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Grabs no, no intentional ricochets, but also kind of
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intentional. Yeah, like without being
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disrespectful, like. Like Jose Trevino or something?
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Justin Turner grabs Justin Turner.
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Hey, we know you're like 42, but we got to, we got to, we got to
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fill a slot. Here, yeah, it's pretty rough.
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Just go get IKF real fast. That's pretty.
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That's pretty. That's pretty in line right
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there. Brandon, Ange and IKF, that's
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fair. I think they're right there.
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And let's be honest, IKF is got to be immune to ricochets at
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this point. That's fair.
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Well, I mean, look, look in. It's oh, hold on.
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We got a trivia question from the sister-in-law.
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It's her weekly trivia question. Only New York Yankee ever to hit
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four home runs in a single game. This is your wheelhouse.
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Four in a single game. No hints or anything of when.
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No, this is trivia. You have you?
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You've been to trivia, haven't you?
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No hints in trivia. Sometimes there's like a
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secondary question I don't know. Only New York Yankee ever to hit
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four home runs in a single game. It wasn't Reggie, was it?
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I. Think it I think it would be a
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safe guess. I don't have no idea.
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I have no idea. She didn't give me a hints, no,
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no. Should we just cheat?
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No. I'll cheat, I'm not in the
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trivia. I'm not in the trivia either,
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she more so just sends them because she wants to see if I
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can get them. Oh, I found it.
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Is it Reggie Jackson? No.
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Who is it? The Lou Lou Gehrig Really 1932?
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Wow. I'm just going to let her know
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we had to look it up. Four for 6/6 RBIs, 20 to 13
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victory over the Philadelphia A's, June 3rd, 1932.
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Sorry, my 100 year old Yankee trivia isn't little.
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Dusty. Quite tapped in.
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Little dusty. Well, going back to the it's.
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My rapper name. Lil Dusty, Oh man, that's a
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yeah. That's a great rapper name,
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great trivia name. Lil Dusty.
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Going back to the the Home Run Derby participants, as I
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mentioned, I think only Gunner we know for sure is in.
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I did mention we were going to touch on Shohei real quick.
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He announced that he is not he is not interested in the in the
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mix this year and being in the mix he's he claiming because
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he's still rehabbing and still trying to preserve that health.
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He can't do it this year. Can't do.
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It that, that one actually doesn't fully surprise me 'cause
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I think there's like a lot of conversation about how sometimes
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he doesn't even take BP before games.
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Like he, there's a lot of times where he doesn't even really
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swing it that much before games. So like that I kind of
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understand because hitting, you know, competing in the Home Run
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Derby, it's like you're basically practicing the days
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before you're taking BP like the whole day during and you're
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exhausting yourself for the competition.
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I'm not surprised. That's probably more swings than
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he takes In like two weeks. It's all out.
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Yeah, I saw, I saw a handful of people, a handful of maybe it's
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a stretch. I saw an article or two that
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possibly like borderline click bait, but they got me.
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I, I, I read it, but they're talking about, I clicked talking
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about just cancelling the Home Run Derby if a guy like Shohei
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Otani can't participate. And I'm like, that's a little
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bit of a stretch. But also I understand the point
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of view that. That says if we're not getting,
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if we're not getting the best of the best, like why?
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Why bother? Like if we're getting Brandon
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Inge type, I mean that that's on the other end of the spectrum,
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like the furthest end of the spectrum.
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But I get it. Like, no, as great as the Home
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Run Derby is as an exhibition, like nobody wants to sit there
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and watch a bunch of scrubs goose egg it.
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You know, like people want to see 500 foot home runs.
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I don't juice the balls. I don't care.
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People want to see 500 foot home runs.
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I would I if there was ever a change to it, I would rather see
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like a bat skills competition. You know what I mean where it's
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like AI don't know you've seen those videos like the in the
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KBO, like the Bunning competitions, like if there was
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like Bunning or like if there was like the the MVP game where
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you're playing, there's like stuff in the outfield that
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you're trying to hit. Like targets.
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Oh yeah, MVPO 5. Like yeah, the rolling tractors.
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Yeah, but like, think about, but think about.
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Tractors out there. Think about what the NFL has
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done with the like the Pro Bowl, and it's turned into like, the
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skills of it like. Nobody.
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I'm more likely to watch that than the Pro Bowl, though.
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I don't think the Homer is that desperate, though.
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I don't feel like majority of people would be though, because
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I feel like went for the Pro Bowl.
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It had sort of dwindled down as as that game turned into more
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and more of a joke, viewership got became less.
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And then the remaining percentage of people that were
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watching the Pro Bowl before they switched to the skills
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competition were like, I've had enough.
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And now you just have a like a very.
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Yeah, but that's like, that's like dodgeball.
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They're playing like dodgeball and cornhole and stuff.
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Yeah, but. That, that's what I'm saying.
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I don't think bunting is gonna. I don't think bunting is very
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sexy. I don't think it's gonna sell.
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I meant like like a skill thing because they used to do like the
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throw downs like catcher throw down on like little targets at
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2nd. I'm not gonna let this slide.
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Let's back up. First of all, for the record,
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would 1000% be down to watch our game's brightest stars go at it
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in the game of cornhole. Just so we're clear.
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Like, let's not. Let's not watch Cornhole not
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played. It's on ESPN all the time.
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Of course I've watched Cornhole. I don't think that helps your
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argument that much. Cornhole's electric What are we
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talking about? I think when when they're pros.
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OK, I would love to. I'm going to.
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I'm going to take a poll. I'm going to.
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In fact, I'm I might even make this a video snippet for Social
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after the fact. What would you rather watch?
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Would you rather watch MLB stars play cornhole or would you
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rather watch a bunting? Competition.
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I didn't compare the two. What I was saying is that like
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it's a skills thing. I'd be down for like a skills
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thing but. But with hitting, there's only I
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feel like so much you could do, right?
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Like there's what else could you do?
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I was. Just like an all skills thing.
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It's not just hitting. It's like an all skills.
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You get the catchers doing their thing.
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Yeah, I don't know, like a home run robbery skill.
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I don't know. I'm over this.
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I like the Home Run Derby. I don't even know why I'm
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arguing against this. All I'm hearing you say is that
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you hate the Home Run Derby and you never want to watch it
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again. In fact, you might even boycott
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our live stream coming up. I might.
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Nice little nice little plug there.
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Nice little plug there for the live stream.
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Be sure to join us Monday, July 15th, 8:00 PM Eastern.
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We're going to be watching the Home Run Derby.
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As much as Nate may hate it, we're going to be giving some
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things away. Giving away some money, maybe
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giving away some merch, some some All Star merch.
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Speaking of which, maybe I retract my statement.
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I don't know if we're going to be giving away any All Star
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merch because it's hideous. Can we talk about this for just
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a second? I don't.
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Know what to do I I have one that I've I've won and I don't
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want it. I don't know what to do.
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It's the that that soft medium rare salmon filet color is
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brutal man. I don't like it.
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Yeah. If you don't know what Nate's
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referring to the I think we introduced this last year, the
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first year we did it, but in our three O take fantasy league that
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we run each year. Again, it's a new batch of
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people each year. So you may have a chance at
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entering the league next year if you're listening or watching.
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We introduced it last year to where the to to incentivize
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grinding it out to the halfway point.
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The best performing team, the win, the manager of said team
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gets their pick of an All Star jersey.
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Last year was fine. The Seattle jerseys, they're all
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right. This year, Nate has the best
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team and I think he's pretty much a shoe in at this point to
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get the jersey. I don't blame you, dude.
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I mean, they if you look at the if you look at the front, it
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looks it reminds me of what was at the Bailey and Barnum circus
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logo. It looks, it looks, I don't
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know. Have you, oh, did you see the,
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did you see the, the, the home or the, I'm sorry, the National
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League jersey 'cause I think, I think, I think only the AL
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Jersey's been floating around. Yeah.
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I didn't see the NL one, did you?
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Yeah. You did?
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Yeah. NL All Star Jersey.
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It is about as close as you can get to a Miami Marlins jersey.
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Oh, is that it? That's the one.
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What the heck? I'm so confused one. 100%
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convinced that Major League Baseball, Nike, whoever's
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responsible for these decisions, decisions are doing it
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intentionally now because I would venture to say that the
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overwhelming majority of people just want to see the players
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wear their teams jerseys to see their team, the team that
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they're a fan of represented at the All Star game.
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And again, we've talked about this at length.
27:03
There's a there's a degree of pride I would imagine, for guys
27:06
to be able to represent their team across their chest at the
27:09
All Star game. Freaking point.
27:13
We love to see guys wearing different jerseys on the same
27:16
field that we would never see. Sorry, keep going.
27:22
But there's no money in that, Nate.
27:24
There's no money in that, which is why we'll continue to see
27:28
these goodwill uniforms thrown out there every year.
27:35
That's the reality of it. One of them looks like a It's
27:39
like a Toy Story costume, the American League one.
27:46
Yeah, I don't know. I'm over it.
27:49
I'm over it. I got a snake in my boot.
27:53
Yeah, this is it's a tough look. So excited to see all these guys
27:59
just sweating through it in the second inning.
28:04
Just trash, bro. Just garbage.
28:10
But you know, there's always, it doesn't matter how bad they are,
28:14
it it just doesn't matter. You're going to see in the
28:17
comments, I actually like them. They're actually not that bad.
28:21
People are just hating just to hate.
28:23
No, stop. They're garbage.
28:25
They're bad, they're no good. Bring back players wearing their
28:31
team's jerseys. It's that simple.
28:34
Stop trying to make something better when it was already good.
28:38
It's fine. It's fine as it as is.
28:43
You're not making it better, you're making it worse.
28:47
Come on now. Speaking of being better, can
28:51
Aaron Judge get any better than he is right now?
28:53
I. Don't know.
28:57
I don't know, because he had first and third with one out in
29:00
this game and he rolled into a double play.
29:03
So I'm not thrilled about that. But did you see that comparison
29:09
of Bryce Harper's 2021 MVP season?
29:16
That's scary. Literally these numbers that he
29:19
has already. Because if you remember I that
29:23
was the year I was I was sold. I predicted Harper to win the
29:27
MVP at this at the from the jump in our pre season predictions
29:32
episode. And that whole that whole
29:35
season, I was just letting it eat anytime Harper was doing
29:39
anything could and I was so confident and it panned out that
29:44
way. But what judge is doing is
29:46
better than that. So like for the whole year, like
29:51
I was following Harper closely that year.
29:53
I'm not really following judge as closely.
29:55
So you'd be able to speak to a better, but like how how you're
29:58
not just mind blown by what he's doing right now.
30:01
It's, it's unbelievable. It's he's one dot wanting it
30:05
with the OPS, which is insane. It's every out is loud, every
30:12
out is hammered. For the most part, he's
30:16
commanding the entire zone. It's the I if you look at his
30:22
numbers, his strikeout percentage is just continually
30:25
going down each year. So like all of the issues that
30:29
and he's playing center field every day, which is like it's
30:32
these are factors that have to be a part of the conversation
30:37
that this is if he stays healthy and continues what he's doing is
30:41
like it's a top five season we've ever seen.
30:49
Like he's he's got a legitimate race at the at the full on home
30:55
run record, not just the A1. Do we know how that stacks up
30:59
right now? Like what's?
31:00
What's the? Are we like?
31:03
No idea. 'Cause I know he's he's
31:07
outpacing his his own AL record. 62 From was that 2022?
31:13
Yeah, he's outpacing 2022. Let's see, I think RotoWire is
31:23
the place to go for like the game breakdown beep.
31:37
I'm really curious now. Is Aaron Judge?
31:42
Well, he's not he. He's certainly not outpacing,
31:44
but I'm just curious to see how far behind.
31:47
Yeah, I don't think so. What year was that?
31:49
Let me see. Let me see.
31:50
Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa. RotoWire.
31:52
Relax, guy. How can we figure this out?
32:00
I should really be using anything but my phone for this.
32:04
I don't. Know if we're going to be able
32:09
to find the answer or no quick enough time.
32:13
What year did you do it? What do I want to say?
32:17
Like 04? No.
32:21
Who are you talking about? Are you talking about Judge?
32:23
That was 2022. Oh, 73 you talking about?
32:28
That was Oh, yeah, that was 010, Juan.
32:32
Oh, Juan. Why?
32:41
How many? How many games?
32:43
How about this, can you do me? Can you pull up a real quick
32:46
number for me? How many games have the Yankees
32:48
played, including or no? Just entering tonight, Not
32:53
including tonight. Entering tonight they've played
32:58
87 games which I believe he's played in like 80, 8384 of them.
33:11
Is there any way to figure this out?
33:13
There's got to be somebody maybe can help us out.
33:17
Oh, hold on, Hold on, hold on. I think I know.
33:19
Just talk for a while, I'm going to look this up.
33:21
No, no, I got it. I got it.
33:22
Hold on. How many games did you say the
33:25
Yankees have played 80? 7.
33:32
Come on, come on. No, that's not.
33:38
I told you I had it should probably like maybe look.
33:42
This MLB Stat Muse, I mean, no free ads, but just a little plug
33:46
for MLB Stat Muse. Very, very good tool.
33:51
I love that. I love that tool.
33:54
I thought I found what I was looking for on RotoWire.
33:56
Could be, could be crazy there. There's good there's good
34:02
websites for like certain certain stats that you want to
34:07
find. You know what I mean?
34:11
Like baseball Savant, if you want to like a breakdown of of
34:17
like metrics and stuff, baseball Savant's top tier.
34:22
Obviously if you want to look like career numbers, baseball
34:25
references top tier like there's just.
34:28
Certain, I mean, forget the well, I don't want to I don't
34:34
want to diminish the importance of the single season home run
34:37
record, but like let's not lose sight of the fact that judges in
34:41
pursuit of the Triple Crown this year.
34:45
I think entering, I think entering today, Wednesday, he
34:50
was leading the AL and batting average at 3/21.
34:55
He had 32 home runs and 83 RB is.
35:03
Yeah, that's crazy. So as good of a season that he
35:07
had in 2022, like what Aaron Judge is doing in 2024 is
35:15
otherworldly. And weirdly enough, can I say
35:20
that it's not getting talked about enough.
35:23
Like I only, I almost feel like the the Judge narrative has
35:26
gotten tired for some people, which is weird because I feel
35:29
like that I feel like that that whole thing was reserved for
35:35
Shohei. People just got tired of hearing
35:36
about Shohei. Like, OK, we get it.
35:38
We get it. Shohei's going to the bathroom
35:39
six times today. We don't need to hear another
35:41
Shohei update. I feel like that's now maybe
35:44
switched a little bit, transitioned over to Judge and
35:47
people are like, OK, like, we get it.
35:50
He he hits a lot of home runs. It's like, don't you understand,
35:54
Like what's happening here? He's like he's outpacing his
35:59
2022 season when he won the MVP and he's in pursuit of the
36:06
Triple Crown. Like this is one of the better
36:09
offensive seasons we've ever seen on a diamond and that's
36:14
saying something. So and not to mention
36:20
back-to-back winner of the player of the month award.
36:23
So like he's it's Aaron Judge right now.
36:28
And then the rest of the league, like there's just how much of A
36:32
how much of a gap you want to say that exists?
36:34
That's up to you, but it's a gap.
36:39
RotoWire doesn't go back before 2010.
36:43
All right. I think we can give up on the
36:44
single. I think we can give up on the
36:46
pace. We're not going to find it.
36:47
We need to, we need to move on, unless you wanna just sit here
36:54
in silence and we can, we can do research.
36:59
I'm just. Curious, you know, just curious.
37:03
We're not gonna find it. We're gonna have to think so.
37:06
No, we've we've tried our tools. We're not gonna find it.
37:11
OK, well, at least we can do this.
37:14
Let's see, So 2001 he averaged .48 home runs per game.
37:24
Who are we talking about, Judge? Bonds.
37:26
Bonds in 2001. So through 87 games he would
37:32
have had 41.76 home runs. Through 87 games.
37:39
Yeah, if he played every game. So Aaron Judge home runs pair
37:55
game. This is high quality
37:57
entertainment for the. Point 31.31 So he's got to keep
38:04
it rolling. Let's not, let's not begin the
38:08
narrative that that. Doesn't make sense either 'cause
38:11
you do 87 * .31 that only gets you to 26.9.
38:17
Math is not our strong suit. Math ain't math.
38:20
We need to move on. We covered show Hey, not
38:24
participating in the in the Derby.
38:27
Aaron Savali traded to the Milwaukee Brewers.
38:33
This man is still trying to figure out this home run pace.
38:36
That was his career. That was his career numbers.
38:39
He's at .38, so 87 times 038 home runs.
38:43
That's 33 home runs. OK, OK, we're good now.
38:45
We're good, we're good, we're good.
38:47
So 162 at this pace would mean that he's set to go right at
38:52
6160. Two home runs again, if he keeps
38:56
this pace. That's all logging out, turning
39:02
this off, I'm back. Who got traded where?
39:05
Aaron Savali to the Milwaukee Brewers, sporting a lowly 517
39:17
over his 27 starts with the with the Rays.
39:22
Where was he? Was he somewhere before the
39:24
Rays? Cleveland.
39:26
Cleveland. That's right.
39:31
Yeah, Whatever. It's just depth I guess.
39:36
He's got a five O 7 this season, said to be a free agent.
39:41
Never know, dude. You see teams trade for people
39:43
who you're just like, huh, why? And then they have metrics.
39:47
They have like something that they've noticed in him.
39:51
Yeah. I mean, that's kind of where I'm
39:52
at with this move. I'm like they the Brewers have
39:56
to see something because they're, I mean, they're
39:58
obviously making a run at the postseason.
40:00
The Rays, you could make an argument one way or another, but
40:03
Brewers clearly trying to make a move here.
40:05
So I don't think that they would actively go out and sign
40:07
somebody that diminishes those chances.
40:10
Yeah, we've talked about like how certain guys like year over
40:13
year, if you look at their like pitch percentages and all of a
40:16
sudden, you know, this guy is throwing his slider 15% more
40:22
than he did last year. Like I think there's an
40:25
alignment with philosophies. There's a like, I try not to
40:30
sound too much like a Homer here, but like, when Sonny Gray
40:33
was in New York, there was not. The philosophy didn't add up.
40:37
He didn't love it, you know, like they wanted him.
40:40
Larry Rothschild was wanting him to throw off speed more often
40:43
than he wanted to. You see what I'm saying?
40:45
Like, so if there's a philosophy in Tampa with Savali, that's
40:49
just not really gelling. And the Brewers are like, hey,
40:55
what you want to do and what you're successful at is
40:58
something that we like to do come on over.
41:01
And that's why this stuff happens.
41:03
This is why I like again, sounding like a Homer, but like
41:07
Clay Holmes was a nobody. And then the Yankees were like,
41:10
well, this pitch is really good, let's do this more.
41:13
And then all of a sudden he's on to the scene.
41:15
So you never know. You never know, Savali could go
41:18
out there and just dice and slot in as like a two guy in the in
41:22
the rotation. Plenty of opportunities.
41:27
Good for the Brewers for doing something, you know what I mean?
41:31
Yeah. Can we like, can we get the
41:33
trade market moving a little bit here?
41:35
It'd be really nice to see some moves that could.
41:39
I want a mid game. That's my dream, a mid All Star
41:42
game, trade, change jerseys, go over to the other dugout.
41:47
I want to see that. It'd be awesome.
41:53
That would be pretty interesting.
41:55
I don't think they do that. I don't.
41:56
I don't think any GMs are. Talking haven't haven't we seen
41:59
that before though When a guy he gets traded, I.
42:06
Love the on field trade news. I'm just a sucker for those
42:11
where they're like literally on the field and they're like
42:14
you're getting pinch ran for randomly in the 4th.
42:16
Oh yeah? Come on.
42:17
Big fan of that. Yeah, because it just goes to
42:20
show you that the guys in the front office could not care less
42:22
about what's happening on the field 'cause they're over there
42:24
Wheeling and dealing. Like, all right, we got to send
42:26
Jonny Boy over to Cleveland. Whatever.
42:31
No, but has that happened before when like a guy makes it to the
42:36
All Star game but then gets traded like before or after
42:40
something? And it's like weird with the
42:42
with the league that he's representing.
42:43
We've seen that before, haven't we?
42:45
Like somewhat recently. Do you know what I'm talking
42:46
about or am I just sounding like a?
42:48
I have no clue what I'm talking about but.
42:51
I think you sound a little crazy personally.
42:53
That's fair, that's fair. I I thought that made sense, but
42:56
apparently not. Brew Crew going for it, doing
43:02
things, I'm proud of them. What does this tell you about
43:05
the rays though? Pun because well, because to
43:10
your point though, like if there is something in the tank with
43:13
Savala, I'm not saying like for the rest of it for like beyond
43:17
this year, I'm saying like this year, if there's something in
43:19
the tank because he hasn't had a great year.
43:21
But if there is something still there, the Rays are saying no
43:25
thanks, we'd rather part, we'd rather part ways and look
43:30
internally 'cause I think they're adding Shane Baz to the
43:32
rotation. I read and I think he's having
43:35
he's having a good run. Has he I?
43:39
Didn't even know if. He's pitched at AAA.
43:42
Sorry, but is it so this is to. Clear 40 man, that's what it
43:49
feels like. Well, I'm just talking about the
43:54
manipulation of the rotation. I'm not necessarily talking
43:56
about like Ross movies, but I'm saying like, what is what does
43:59
this tell you with them parting ways with with Savali?
44:03
Does this does this tell you that they're like looking to
44:07
next season? Or do you think this is maybe
44:10
just an opportunity to RE personnel, if you will, retool
44:16
and maybe make some additional moves at the deadline to better
44:20
suit their needs for this year? The rays, you're saying?
44:23
Yes. No, I don't think so.
44:27
Do you think they're punting? I think they're punting.
44:30
I think that the second, you know, Mcclanahan and and
44:41
Rasmussen were just like, it's what are you going to do?
44:44
What are you going to do when like your top 2 rotation guys
44:48
are done for the year? One of them is very much in the
44:51
AL Cy Young candidate race immediately before the season
44:56
starts. Like what?
44:57
What can you do? You're already like, I need
45:00
everything to go right to win, No that season, no.
45:04
No, no. That applies to teams like ours,
45:06
the Red Sox, the Yankees, when they come into a year where it's
45:10
like, I'm not saying this year, I'm just saying generally
45:12
speaking, like when they come into year where, you know, like
45:15
it could go either way, but we need a lot of things to go
45:17
right. It's been that way for the Red
45:18
Sox for the last handful of years.
45:20
I know from experience. The Rays aren't in that arena,
45:24
though. We've talked about this many
45:26
times. The Rays figure out a way to
45:30
manufacture arms, to manufacture talent, to manufacture
45:35
production from guys that you wouldn't think have any talent
45:40
OR have minimal at best. They figure out a way to fit it
45:45
into their system and maximize, capitalize as best they can to
45:51
produce. As we say all the time, minimum
45:54
90 wins it seems every season. So I'm not necessarily worried
45:59
when they lose. It sucks when you when you lose
46:02
top front of the rotation arms like that, not Savali, but like
46:07
Rasmussen and and so on and so forth.
46:09
They I know they've been beat up arms wise, but I don't worry as
46:12
much with the Rays because it's like, OK, who's up next?
46:16
Like what is Shane Baz going to come up and do?
46:20
So it's really hard for me to say that they're going to punt
46:23
because the Rays, I just don't feel like they're a team that
46:25
that would do something like that or at least be be
46:29
forthcoming about because they just figure out a way to sneak
46:32
in. And the reality is, is entering
46:33
today, they're only, I think, what, three games back of the
46:40
wild, the final wild card spot. I understand what you're saying.
46:44
I don't know. I mean, I guess to that point,
46:47
like, you never know, maybe just maybe the Rays are the one
46:50
that's that's sought out this trade.
46:53
I don't know. It's pretty crazy what I was
46:54
trying to find. So I was on my phone.
46:57
They gave away Kyle Manzardo for Savali and Manzardo's like, I
47:05
know he's been in the bigs a little bit this year, but he is
47:07
like a top five prospect with the Guardians.
47:10
So like they didn't give up some schlub to get him.
47:13
And I'm trying to see what barrios the the Brewers #21
47:23
prospect, 20 years old going to be going to high a he now ranks
47:37
as the rays #19 prospect did Savali.
47:43
Was he owed that much? Like what is the point of this
47:45
move for the for the Rays anyway?
47:50
This just seems like it. I'm not saying he's like he's
47:54
worth a lot more. I'm not saying like he's having
47:57
an incredible season, but like what's the point of doing the
48:01
trade now if you're the race like it?
48:03
Why? Why would you not kind of hold
48:04
on to later in the deadline and see if there's more players,
48:08
like there's more teams involved, there's more people in
48:11
the hunt. Just a weird trade for a nobody.
48:17
No offense to Barrios speaking. Of nobody.
48:24
See real quick what he makes before I'm done. 4.9 million.
48:32
So I guess they're ditching two and a half million roughly.
48:35
I don't understand the Rays, man.
48:41
I don't, I can't. I don't know what's going on.
48:43
I never know, but it sounds like a punt.
48:53
Speaking of not knowing, let's trust, let's trust segue again.
49:01
Do we know if Tim Anderson is going to play Major League
49:06
Baseball again? I mean, what is this fall off,
49:10
man? What has happened?
49:13
He won the what year did he win the batting title?
49:16
Was that? Was that 20?
49:24
21. No, it was a 19.
49:25
Wow, 20th man, where does time go?
49:29
2019 hit 335, won the AL batting title.
49:34
Chicago said no thanks. This is why the the baseball
49:40
gods are so good. So good.
49:45
I'd like to see the exact date of when he called himself Jackie
49:48
Robinson, and I'd like to see what the OPS did.
49:54
I want to see that bar graph. I want to see that line graph
49:56
just working its way down, down, down, down.
50:00
That's what you get, man. That's what you get.
50:03
That's what you get. All right, one of my favorite
50:07
accounts to follow at Yankee World on Twitter, Tim Anderson's
50:11
ranks out of 147 players with 1200 plus played appearances
50:15
since the Field of Dreams game where he had the walk off home
50:17
run. This is out of 147 players with
50:21
1200 plate appearances. Just to reiterate, in regards to
50:26
home runs, he ranks 145th again 100 and out of 147 players ranks
50:31
145th in home runs, 145th in slugging, 145th in OPS walk to K
50:38
ratio, 147th dead last waited runs created plus 145th.
50:45
I want to know who those other two guys are that are are
50:47
seemingly behind him in every one of these categories.
50:50
Yeah. Who would those guys be?
50:52
I. Don't know names.
50:55
We've probably never heard. That's crazy.
50:59
That's a big fall off. That is a big fall off.
51:03
In 65 games this year with the Marlins hit just two fourteen
51:07
with a 463 OPS and 31 weighted runs created.
51:12
Plus, What do you like? What if you had to pin this on
51:18
one thing, what do you like? What do you think the the fall
51:22
off stemmed from 'cause I. I have a hard time believing
51:27
because we always talk like, well, is it mechanical?
51:29
Is it mental? I have a hard time believing for
51:32
a guy like Tim Anderson that is mental because the confidence,
51:36
at least outwardly, is well, that's always.
51:39
There, that's what you could argue that's what that's what
51:43
brought the success in the beginning, but if that's all
51:45
you're riding on is only confidence the 2nd that takes a
51:50
hit, you got nothing else. Hey, that's where it just
51:53
started to go. Once you lose that, it's hard to
51:55
get it back. I mean, I, but I don't I think
51:58
he's done. I think he's done.
52:00
I don't see why anyone would give him a shot.
52:02
I, I, I don't understand what you would ever want to pay the,
52:06
the veteran minimum and say that he's going to give you more than
52:10
some AAA prospect that you have. I'm not interested at all when
52:15
it comes with, when it comes with everything else, when it
52:17
comes with the baggage of everything else.
52:21
And I don't know. When was the when did Jose
52:26
Ramirez clock him? I think that was 2022, Yeah.
52:33
There's a there's I've seen some people talking about how you're
52:37
an absolute fool if you think that that started the downfall,
52:41
but I would be curious what the numbers.
52:43
Say I don't know, man. Like Tatis's hip bumped into
52:46
Anthony Rizzo and then he basically turned into a warm
52:50
body at first base after that. So you never know what the head
52:54
you don't know. What day was that?
53:01
I'll see. That would have been is that
53:10
that was last year, right? I thought it was 2022.
53:13
I guess I'm wrong. Here you go, Tim Anderson.
53:20
This is Dan Clark. Sorry, Tim Anderson.
53:23
Before being rocked by Jose Ramirez, he was hitting two
53:26
83740 OPS, 98 home runs, 332 RB is.
53:32
After being rocked by Jose Ramirez 236 average, 557 OPS,
53:37
zero home runs 12 RB is. Oh sorry, this was dating back
53:43
to May so this is like a couple months ago, but I would venture
53:46
to say that the. It's gone down.
53:49
The rates are very similar, if not worse hold.
53:54
On man like these, these are all like just shots to the ego.
54:03
Some egos just can't handle it. Yeah, the Jackie Robinson thing
54:07
for me that was. That was my.
54:08
That was my. I was done.
54:10
That was the final straw for me. I was like, what are we doing?
54:12
Like there's no way. There's no like there's nothing
54:15
that you can draw there to make that to like justify.
54:19
Like that's just not no. Here's the other There's the
54:26
other date. When was he on the cover with
54:30
Javi Baez? Oh, I saw that.
54:33
I saw that today. Where it was like they're like
54:35
the future of baseball's here or whatever.
54:41
That was Sports Illustrated, right?
54:42
Yeah, I think so. Spring 2020, so that makes sense
54:51
that was. That's that's right after the
54:52
batting title. Fresh off the batting title,
54:55
Javi Baez is still with the Cubs at that point.
54:59
So like, I get it. But like, we, I mean, to be
55:07
fair, we've been doing this podcast a long time.
55:09
Like we I remember when we covered.
55:11
The I remember when that came out.
55:13
The bat throw. Yeah.
55:15
Like that was even before this. Yeah, that was pre COVID.
55:20
Yeah. I think pre batting title like.
55:24
That might have been 19. That might have been batting
55:26
title a year. Was it OK?
55:27
Yeah, like. I mean, we, yeah.
55:31
We've followed this guy's career for some time, man, and it it
55:34
has absolutely fallen off a Cliff.
55:36
I don't understand it. And it's the defense is like,
55:39
it's not like that. I think there's maybe from the
55:42
outside looking in, I'd see a little bit of like a reluctance,
55:49
you know, like reluctancy to, to change reluctancy.
55:57
He's reluctant to change. He's reluctant to change.
56:02
Sorry, folks, it's been a long day.
56:05
I don't think he's, I just don't think he, I think he's stubborn.
56:09
I think there's certain players where you're just like, are you
56:11
willing to put up with that or not?
56:13
And when you're less than league average defensively and you're
56:19
clearly bottom of the barrel offensively, it's like, yeah,
56:23
all done. Yeah, Now that's a valid point.
56:26
I mean, the reality of it is, is I would, I would venture to say
56:28
that a guy who at times can be a little overly confident if he's
56:34
being told like, hey, maybe we should make some adjustments.
56:37
If you've got the batting title, granted there's 2019 batting
56:42
title, but if you've got a batting title in your back
56:44
pocket and again, you're as overly confident as as he can be
56:48
at times, it's probably a little bit of a a tall order to maybe
56:54
get him to maybe submit to those suggestions or recommendations
57:01
mechanically because he there's probably a.
57:04
Or probably fights it. Yeah.
57:10
So yeah, he's all done. I don't.
57:11
I don't see why would he? Why would he come back?
57:13
For where? For what?
57:15
For who? I mean, I, I played devil's
57:22
advocate with the what was it the Jorge Lopez?
57:26
Yeah. Yeah, yeah.
57:27
I was going to say Pablo. Yeah, Jorge.
57:30
Lopez and I said he was somebody who's going to pick him up,
57:32
which sure enough, that happened.
57:34
I'm not I'm not doing that with Tim Anderson this this time
57:37
around. I don't I I like who?
57:41
Why? Baseball is just so weird, man.
57:44
It's just so weird. The fact that like, David
57:46
Fletcher's just pitching, you know what I mean?
57:50
Like there's crazy stories, There's crazier stories than
57:53
someone giving TAA shot. But like, why talks about risk
58:02
reward earlier? Like same thing.
58:05
I swear, if the Yankees pick him up, I will cry myself to sleep.
58:12
Yeah, if you need some infield depth, then JD Davis doesn't
58:15
work out. Let's let's try TA Yeah, I'd
58:17
love to see how how the fans received Tim Anderson.
58:20
Well, I mean, they seem to like Marcus Stroman, so it's fine.
58:24
Speaking of which, I'm starting to see some I'm starting to see
58:27
some some people turn on Alex Verdugo a little bit.
58:32
That's going to be fun to watch over the next couple months.
58:35
Yeah. I love that.
58:38
Yeah, that man's a double play machine producing them.
58:42
Who could have predicted that Alex Verdugo, of all people,
58:45
would have? Yeah.
58:47
Changed his tune once things got a little rough.
58:50
Interesting, interesting. We got, I think last thing we
58:57
got here is we can seriously watch.
58:58
But before we get to that, maybe a little quick game here real
59:02
quick. Real quick.
59:05
We're Owen 2 on on on name the player is this?
59:11
Is this where we break the streak?
59:13
Could be, could be. You ready for this, are you?
59:23
Mentally, no, but physically I'm here, so I don't have a choice.
59:27
All right. That's fair.
59:28
I'm about the same, about the same where to start?
59:32
It's a shot in the dark right away, so.
59:36
We haven't started the game yet, so I feel like, I feel like some
59:40
strategy is allowed. Not that I have to, not that I'm
59:44
giving hints, but like maybe let's try to stick more modern
59:47
'cause we, we, we've been teetering into like the 90s,
59:51
maybe even the 80s with some of these names we've gone with
59:55
recently. I.
59:56
Like it back then though. Yeah, but the connections are
1:00:00
much harder to draw. Fine, current player.
1:00:05
That's too easy. I'm just saying first to start
1:00:08
out like your initial guess and then we go from there.
1:00:11
I, I'm not saying it won't eventually fall off the rails
1:00:14
into older players, but like, let's start, let's, let's start
1:00:17
a little more modern. So again, if you're if you're
1:00:19
not familiar, we have to we have to guess the same name, the same
1:00:25
player based on the previous players guessed content like
1:00:32
connection, but we have to draw a connection based on our each
1:00:37
of our guesses. Remember what I said last week,
1:00:40
I typically go with like that one position and then one team.
1:00:45
That's my strategy. OK, I'm sticking to.
1:00:47
That I don't think I, I don't fully get that approach and I
1:00:53
don't I feel like I struggle to follow that approach.
1:00:56
I'm I think my connections are more.
1:00:58
Unless there's like an actual connection between the two.
1:01:02
Yeah, how you miss the the Dave Roberts, Kevin Millar.
1:01:06
Derek cheating, that's a hand up accountability and it's hard to
1:01:09
call me out after that. I already admitted it and we
1:01:13
passed it. We can.
1:01:14
We can be professionals here. All right, OK, I got a guy.
1:01:18
OK, you ready? All right. 321 Christina, OK.
1:01:30
I'm gonna be honest with you, this name flashed through my
1:01:32
brain before I it really did. Yeah.
1:01:35
Whoa, was that some like subliminal thing?
1:01:37
Like I knew I saw that jersey when we like right when we
1:01:40
hopped on the call and then that's the name I went with.
1:01:43
Maybe that was like sitting in the back you.
1:01:45
Weren't doing that because I'm wearing.
1:01:46
Subconscious. No, I completely forgot, but
1:01:50
I'm, that's what I'm saying. I think maybe my maybe my brain
1:01:52
logged that away for the game when I saw it when he first
1:01:55
hopped on. Interesting.
1:01:56
OK, so we got Nolan, Nolan Arnado and Christian Yelich.
1:02:10
Oh, if you do anything there. You doing anything?
1:02:13
Do you got anything? I think I got something.
1:02:19
A connection between Nolan Arenado and Christian Yelich.
1:02:25
This is tough. It should it's it shouldn't be
1:02:29
as tough as I think it is my head.
1:02:31
But because we're talking same division here, is it cheating if
1:02:39
I think out loud? Because I I feel like that gives
1:02:41
you my line of thinking. I think I need you to get to a
1:02:57
name a lot quicker than this. I know this is tough.
1:03:00
I don't know why the the I I can't think of anything so.
1:03:05
I don't have a ton of reason behind mine.
1:03:07
But this is the first name that came to mind.
1:03:08
It's not right, but I'm just going to go with it.
1:03:11
OK 'cause it was the first name that came to mind.
1:03:13
All right? 321 Cody Bellinger.
1:03:19
OK, OK. That's not good.
1:03:22
That's not good. Ryan Braun and Cody Bellinger.
1:03:33
And to reiterate, we can't say the same names that have
1:03:36
already. We can't say names that have
1:03:37
already been said. Correct.
1:03:39
Hovering around the same division, so that's good.
1:03:42
Hanging out in the NL Central, Ryan Braun and Cody Bellinger.
1:03:49
And that's three, by the way. That's three of them.
1:03:53
Or no. Yeah, that's three guesses,
1:03:56
right? Yeah, no, it's not two, it's
1:04:02
two. It's two.
1:04:03
It's it two all right? Third guess.
1:04:09
You got any? You working on something?
1:04:11
What do we got Ryan Braun and Cody Bellinger see?
1:04:23
That's a leap. Big leap.
1:04:26
All right, I've got a name. It's not great.
1:04:29
But it's I got a name and it's not great.
1:04:30
I have this. Weird feeling though that we're
1:04:32
going to get it this time because I feel like we're not
1:04:35
like we're kind of staying within some some boundaries
1:04:39
here. I feel like we're going to get
1:04:40
it this time, all right? Even if it's just by accident.
1:04:43
All right? I got a guy.
1:04:44
This is our 3rd guest. Yeah.
1:04:46
All right. 321 Jason Hayward. That name came to mind.
1:04:56
Why did that name came to come to mind for me?
1:04:59
Why did it come to mind for you? Cubs, Dodgers.
1:05:03
Bellinger, Cubs. Dodgers.
1:05:04
I got you. I was thinking like power hitter
1:05:06
Milwaukee going on. Do you know what I mean?
1:05:12
All right, all right. So Jason Hayward and Prince
1:05:16
Fielder. Oh boy, that is that is tough.
1:05:33
I don't know if I have anything cooked up.
1:05:35
We've got. OK, I I got one.
1:05:38
I have a reason for it, but it's probably not great.
1:05:40
But and for the sake of time, I got a name.
1:05:43
Let me get there for a SEC. Let me get there for a SEC.
1:05:45
That's fine. I'm trying to think of where
1:05:52
you've gone. What are you doing?
1:05:56
What are you doing if? We could give if we could give
1:05:58
hint, like if we could explain our rationale, it would make it
1:06:02
so much easier. But.
1:06:03
I know you. Can't do that.
1:06:05
Is yours pretty rational? Like there's a connect, there's
1:06:11
a connection, but it's not like it's not in your face obvious.
1:06:16
Really, it's a direct connection.
1:06:20
It's, you know, we're just bouncing around until maybe we
1:06:23
find some common ground here. I see, I see.
1:06:27
I gotcha. See, the way I see this game
1:06:31
playing out right now is we're kind of just like tiptoeing
1:06:33
around testing the water a little bit until.
1:06:35
Until we're not. Until we're way off.
1:06:38
No, no, we're going to bring this back in.
1:06:40
I we're, like I said, we're not getting way too far.
1:06:42
We're not talking about like Jimmy Tungsten, Armo Doyle
1:06:47
Dickerson from like the 1800s. I like him.
1:06:51
We're staying, we're staying within the the confines here.
1:06:57
Confines OK. That's not a hint.
1:07:01
OK. That's not a.
1:07:04
Buzzword. Not a buzzword there, all right.
1:07:06
I got a name. If you can't think of anything,
1:07:08
just just like when you think of those first two guesses, just
1:07:12
start a name that comes to mind. I guess I don't see why I OK
1:07:19
all. Right, that's fine.
1:07:21
Three is guest number 4321. Carlos Miguel Cabrero, he routed
1:07:30
around in my head, too. Oh, are these both?
1:07:33
Zambrano Who? Who's kind of giving away a
1:07:38
little hint here, but genuinely curious.
1:07:40
Those are both Venezuelan guys, right?
1:07:42
I know Micky is. I don't know about Zambrano, I
1:07:46
think. He is maybe.
1:07:54
Yeah, he's Venezuelan. How about that recall?
1:07:57
Miguel Cabrero rattled around in my head.
1:07:58
What was the connection for you? What was it, Hayward and Prince
1:08:03
Fielder, I was just thinking of like, I don't know, like
1:08:07
seasoned veterans like that had had some pop.
1:08:10
I don't know. I don't know that.
1:08:11
Name. That name did come to my Oh, OK,
1:08:13
I think we got something going here.
1:08:15
Well, no, we can't. We're cheating now.
1:08:18
Zambrano and and and Miguel Cabrera, Miguel.
1:08:27
Cabrera, yeah. We're hanging out in the Central
1:08:32
today. Oh, I got a guy.
1:08:35
I got a guy. You got to go.
1:08:40
It's not, maybe it's not necessarily anything we've
1:08:42
touched on, but I it's, it's a name.
1:08:46
Carlos Zambrano and Miguel Cabrera and it's giving you a
1:08:53
name? What the heck?
1:09:01
From where my logic is real or like my rationale is very fast
1:09:05
and loose this game I'm not the it's the connections are very
1:09:09
very loosely tied. Yeah, I don't love that.
1:09:15
Who did we say? We said.
1:09:18
Carlos Zambrano and Miguel Cabrera.
1:09:21
Miguel Cabrera. All right, I guess.
1:09:25
Let's roll. This is the game anymore.
1:09:28
Just thrown out a name than anything.
1:09:31
You ready? Yeah. 321 Javi Baez.
1:09:41
Don't ask me to explain it. I I don't know.
1:09:43
I was thinking like power hitter, pitcher, you know what I
1:09:46
mean, to get Javi Baez and Cece Sebastian.
1:09:53
My my reason in there. Tigers for Javi Baez, Cubs for
1:09:58
Zambrano. It's just a connection that I
1:10:01
made very quickly. What do we got?
1:10:04
CCC Sabathi and Javi Baez. Javi Baez.
1:10:13
Oh, I got another name. CC Sabathia and Javi Baez, you
1:10:26
got another name? What?
1:10:31
How are we doing this? I'm trying to stay in the
1:10:35
neighborhood. I just don't want to I.
1:10:37
Don't want to. That's what I'm saying.
1:10:38
We've been we've been we we we're we're getting there.
1:10:41
I think I, I feel like this will be our first win.
1:10:45
We're O and two. You think we've got 5 guesses
1:10:49
left, but I've got a name. Actually, I'm, I'm, I think I'm
1:10:56
really, I'm really proud of some of these connections I'm making.
1:10:59
Just quick, quick pretty this is.
1:11:00
Pretty loose for me, but let's do it.
1:11:03
C CS and Mafia and Javi Baez. Yeah.
1:11:08
I like this connection for myself.
1:11:10
All right. 321, Marcus Stroman, Carlos Santana.
1:11:22
We're AL and NL. We're just hanging out in the
1:11:26
Central today. Hanging out in the Central
1:11:30
Stroman and Carlos Santana. Stroman and Carlos Santana.
1:11:52
Can I ask you a question? It's not really like that much
1:11:55
of A hint, sure, but when Stroman comes to your brain,
1:12:03
does it go Blue Jays, Cubs or Yankees?
1:12:06
You know what I mean? Like how do you picture well
1:12:09
for? That I went Cubs.
1:12:11
You went that OK. Because I what did I look for
1:12:14
just. Kind of maybe hang out, keep
1:12:15
hanging out in the central. See, that's what I'm.
1:12:17
Saying that's what we've been doing.
1:12:19
See. What happens there?
1:12:20
That's what we've been. Doing and Carlos Santana, you
1:12:26
got one. Oh, I had it and I lost it.
1:12:29
Hold on. Oh, that could.
1:12:39
That could. Oh, I got another one.
1:12:41
That could really throw us off. I don't.
1:12:43
Want I got another one? Do you?
1:12:45
Dude, pick up on, pick up on on on.
1:12:48
I don't know my approach. Is ours.
1:12:50
I don't. Know what your approach is I
1:12:51
told you like sort of like under my breath but like I've told you
1:12:55
my what I'm doing here this my approach changes from game to
1:13:00
game but tonight for this game what's.
1:13:02
Tonight's approach, I haven't picked up on it.
1:13:06
All right, try this one and see if.
1:13:09
I think we need to start giving ourselves hints.
1:13:12
No, I'm not. I'm not going to get our first
1:13:14
win like that. By the way, was that six?
1:13:16
I think that was our 6th. Right.
1:13:17
We're running deep though. Yeah, we got four left.
1:13:21
All right. Who are we?
1:13:23
Stroman. Carlos.
1:13:24
Stroman and Carlos Santana. Stroman and Carlos Santana.
1:13:33
Think about it. All right.
1:13:36
All right, this is our 7th pick 321 Josh.
1:13:46
Donaldson, Andrew McCutchen and Josh Donaldson.
1:13:55
What do we got here? What do we got here?
1:13:59
All right, it's not cheating if we go, if we if we take a, a
1:14:03
brief stroll backwards here. All right, it was Stroman and
1:14:08
Santana. I said Josh Donaldson.
1:14:21
Stroman, what is Josh Donaldson like?
1:14:24
What does Josh Donaldson have in common with both of those guys?
1:14:29
I don't want you to answer the question.
1:14:30
I don't want you to answer the question, but just think about
1:14:33
it, OK? OK, OK.
1:14:41
So I said Josh, I said Josh Johnson, and you said Andrew
1:14:47
McCutcheon. Yeah, I said Andrew McCutcheon.
1:14:49
Yeah, yeah. So yeah, that's we can't go off
1:14:51
the last one. We got to go off of this one.
1:14:53
We got to find a new connection off of this.
1:14:55
I know, but I'm just saying I was trying.
1:14:57
To help where your logic. Was think think through it a
1:14:59
little bit without directly saying.
1:15:01
I don't know if I figured it out then.
1:15:02
All right, what do we got now? If you knew who Carlos Santana
1:15:06
played for right now, you would. You'd pick it up pretty easily.
1:15:15
Deep breath. Who does he play for, right?
1:15:19
Now I know that I figured you were like thinking about it.
1:15:22
Who? Is he playing for?
1:15:25
Is he a twin again? Yeah, he is.
1:15:28
Yeah. All right, all right.
1:15:31
So we got, we got 3 guesses left.
1:15:33
Dude, I feel I still feel good about this round, but we need
1:15:36
to, we need to tidy it up here. All right, Andrew McCutchen and
1:15:39
Josh Donaldson. Yeah, Josh Donaldson.
1:16:00
Andrew McCutchen and Josh Donaldson, I want to get it to
1:16:11
the point where these games take like 3 hours.
1:16:17
Like, whatever it takes, whatever it takes to get the
1:16:19
dub, you know? I know I want it bad.
1:16:25
Andrew McCutcheon and Josh Donna.
1:16:30
Oh, OK. Oh, oh, think buddy.
1:16:36
Don't give any hints, I don't want to come by our first win
1:16:40
cheaply. Think about this.
1:16:42
Think about what they have in common.
1:16:44
That's the whole point of the game, yeah.
1:16:47
Just think on that more intensely.
1:16:50
Now just think about it more. Come on, Wrestle with that a
1:16:57
little more. Come on.
1:17:01
Josh Donaldson and Andrew McCutchen come.
1:17:14
On. All right, hold on.
1:17:16
Who? Not that this is relevant to
1:17:18
your line of thinking here, but I I need to run through
1:17:24
McCutcheon. It was Pittsburgh and then
1:17:28
Philly and then back to Pittsburgh.
1:17:31
Wasn't there another team in there?
1:17:33
Yankees. All right, there we go.
1:17:39
That was not my connection, but I'm willing to roll that way if
1:17:42
that works. For you, No, no, no, no, no, no,
1:17:44
no, no, no. That's cheating.
1:17:45
That's what I'm trying to avoid. We got to like enter in a name.
1:17:48
You know what I mean? Like once you got to like hit
1:17:50
the button, be like naming. Fair.
1:17:51
Fair. Yeah, that's fair.
1:17:53
Then we just got to stay there. Andrew McCutchen, sorry, I feel
1:17:57
like we're maybe circling, but I may, I may throw us off here.
1:18:03
Yeah, I don't know if you're going to make the the connection
1:18:06
I'm looking for. Oh man, I don't know, like I may
1:18:22
have to hit the reset button here because that I'm I'm at a
1:18:25
loss. I don't know.
1:18:26
To be fair, I don't have like like a deadlock name where it's
1:18:30
like, duh, you should choose this one.
1:18:32
There's a group of names that I could choose from and I'm just
1:18:36
going with this one. Dude, I don't know.
1:18:49
I'm just going to. I've got a name.
1:18:51
I'm just going to keep it on brand with where we've been
1:18:54
hanging out. But it's not, it's, it's not.
1:18:56
There's no connection. That's why I'm, that's why I'm
1:18:59
choosing this name specifically because it is somewhat in the
1:19:03
category of what we've been talking about, but I don't think
1:19:05
you're going to get there. You ready?
1:19:07
I'm at a loss, yeah. This is 8 or this is 9.
1:19:12
Three left. This is 8.
1:19:15
All right, I got a name. All right. 321 Joe Rowdy Teles.
1:19:21
Yikes, you said Joe Mauer. MLB The Show.
1:19:28
Oh wow, Dang, good connection. That's a that's a deep cut.
1:19:32
Yeah, that was a deep cut. That's what I meant, Like stay
1:19:35
in the Central. But yeah, all those guys have
1:19:37
been on MLB The Show covers. Dang, that's very good.
1:19:40
Very good. All right, so we got Rowdy Teles
1:19:42
and Joe Mauer. Oh boy.
1:19:46
Fun. 2 guesses left. Can we do it?
1:19:51
And Joe Mauer, OK. Don't act like you have a name.
1:19:57
I'm on a name. Rowdy to Lez and Joe Mauer.
1:20:13
All right, I got a name. OK.
1:20:17
This is going to set us up real bad for 10 if it if.
1:20:20
They could. They could as mine as well,
1:20:23
yeah. OK, here we go #9 guess number
1:20:27
9321 Justin Mordo. Yes, Yeah, let's go.
1:20:37
I knew it. That's huge.
1:20:41
I knew we were going to get it. I told you.
1:20:44
All right. There it is.
1:20:45
There's our first dub. Yeah, that was good.
1:20:50
That was going to throw us way off the track.
1:20:52
It was if. We missed that.
1:20:55
That was good. Well, that feels great.
1:21:01
How'd you get there? How'd you how?
1:21:03
I just thought, OK, so we said, what did I say Rowdy to Lez and
1:21:08
Joe. Joe Mauer.
1:21:10
Joe Mauer. Yeah, I was just thinking like
1:21:13
big. Yeah, big like, yeah, that's
1:21:16
exactly what I went. And I was like, let's that was
1:21:20
the first guy I could think of for like the twins.
1:21:22
I couldn't think of anybody for the Pirates because it was like
1:21:24
Rowdy. Rowdy is that guy.
1:21:25
So yeah, twins. I was saying like big, big slow
1:21:30
lefty. That's just you've never seen a
1:21:33
picture of him as a baby because he's always been an old man
1:21:36
that's. Well done.
1:21:38
That. Feels great.
1:21:40
I wish her honestly, I wish her winless streak would have
1:21:43
stretched out a little longer and I've been more of like a
1:21:45
comeback underdog story. But you know, I'll, I'll take it
1:21:48
at this point. We're now we're just fighting to
1:21:50
get back to 500. It's true.
1:21:52
We're one and two, one and two on the year.
1:21:55
We'll see how it how it continues on.
1:21:57
Big for the brand. I guess we got to talk about the
1:22:01
weekend games, huh? Yeah, I run through them here
1:22:03
real quick. I got Philly in Atlanta.
1:22:05
Game one, you got Aaron. Wait, no, what is that game one
1:22:09
on guy? What is it?
1:22:11
On the street continues. Oh, you already know Apple TV.
1:22:16
How about it? We're not doing this on purpose.
1:22:18
I can. We're not doing this on purpose.
1:22:20
Yeah, absolutely not. Game one Aaron Nola verse Max
1:22:23
Freed. That sounds like the one.
1:22:25
That's the one you want to watch?
1:22:27
That's Friday. Sorry, did I mention that's
1:22:29
Friday at 7:20 PM? Game two Saturday Ranger Suarez
1:22:35
versus Spencer Schwellenbach, 7:15 PM on Fox, and game 3,
1:22:41
Michael Mercado versus Ronaldo Lopez at 1:35.
1:22:47
Sneaky one, but Game one still sounds like the one to to dip
1:22:52
into a little bit. And again, we're just going to
1:22:55
continue that subscription of Apple TV for you.
1:22:59
It's a write off. Give me Milwaukee visiting the
1:23:04
Doyers in LA. Game one's the one Freddy
1:23:08
Peralta against Tyler Glass now that's at 7:10 Pacific Time on
1:23:13
Friday. Game two Saturday that's on Fox.
1:23:21
You got Wilson going against Paxton and then Sunday return of
1:23:27
the man continues. This is insane.
1:23:30
How does he keep getting chances in this league?
1:23:33
Dallas Kuykel going for the Brewers against Bobby Miller and
1:23:39
the Dodgers on Sunday. I I think maybe now after
1:23:46
reading that out loud, it makes me think that the Brewers are
1:23:50
just blindly shooting in the dark for starting pitching depth
1:23:55
and that that kind of connected this Savali dot for me.
1:23:59
So not a great way to end it for me mentally, but just wanted to
1:24:05
let you know where I was. Hey, rest on your victories.
1:24:09
We picked up a dub and that does feel good.
1:24:11
That's that's how you're going to end your week.
1:24:14
If for anyone that wants to call us homers for our love and
1:24:20
fandom of the Red Sox and Yankees, they're playing this
1:24:22
weekend and we neither of us picked that series so just
1:24:25
wanted that on record. Bang, we both are mad at our
1:24:28
teams. Actually.
1:24:30
You're not. Yeah, speak for.
1:24:31
Yourself. Yeah, speak for yourself, my
1:24:32
guy. Yeah, you're just.
1:24:34
You're just a camp hopper between.
1:24:36
No. Depressed Red Sox fan and
1:24:39
delusional Red Sox fan. Nah, no camp popping with me.
1:24:42
I've been. I've been on on board with this
1:24:44
team since day one. Never wavered.
1:24:47
I've never doubted this team. Not this year, not last year,
1:24:49
not the year before. Never.
1:24:53
Not once, ever. That's all we got.
1:24:57
But I, I have one last thought and it, it kind of came to mind
1:25:00
last night and it, it had me really thinking how insane are
1:25:05
like contact lenses, you know what I mean?
1:25:07
Like just a little piece of like latex glove that you just put in
1:25:12
your eye and it makes you see better.
1:25:14
It really got to me last night. I just didn't know what to do
1:25:16
with that. We went to the.
1:25:19
I'm glad you mentioned that wanted to share the story but
1:25:22
figured there'd be no way to naturally transition to the
1:25:25
story at any point and it's not really that important of a story
1:25:27
but wanted to share. It think again.
1:25:29
Here we went to the, we went to the pool this weekend and we
1:25:33
walk in and they're like, hey, the the main pool is closed, but
1:25:37
the kiddie pool is open. And we're like, OK, well,
1:25:40
obviously we're not going to the kiddie pool because I'm 30 and
1:25:45
that would be borderline illegal.
1:25:48
So it's like, how long until the main pool is open?
1:25:51
And like about like 45 minutes, 45 minutes goes by.
1:25:55
Then went in and checked and they're like, all right, it'll
1:25:58
be ready at like 2:30. So we had to wait like another
1:26:01
15 minutes. So about an hour, give or take.
1:26:03
Where's all this again? At our community pool, like
1:26:06
right across the street. It's crazy to me being in an
1:26:10
area where the pool isn't just like right there open
1:26:13
constantly. Sorry.
1:26:15
Yeah, it's too meaningful. We, we, we pay fees for this
1:26:18
thing. So I'm crazy trying to take
1:26:20
advantage of it. Yeah, I know.
1:26:21
Wild. So they finally opened the pool.
1:26:24
Meanwhile, we've, we've sat there, waited for like an hour.
1:26:26
We, we were with some friends. We'd had lunch, whatever.
1:26:29
We'd eaten at the little, like, umbrella table, sat there for
1:26:32
like an hour just dripping, 'cause it was so hot out.
1:26:36
I'm like, I just want to get in the pool.
1:26:37
Just got to get in the pool. That's when it.
1:26:39
Hits. They finally, Oh yeah, they
1:26:41
finally blow the whistle. The freaking kids are running
1:26:43
in. The adults are getting in to do
1:26:45
their laps. Meanwhile, I jump in,
1:26:49
immediately lose my contact. I can't see out of one of my
1:26:52
eyes. What do you do?
1:26:54
Do you take out the other one? Do you leave one in?
1:26:57
I left it in. Was not a fun experience.
1:26:59
So to your point, contacts are just a wild thing.
1:27:04
It's a wild. Concept.
1:27:05
You put a piece. Of plastic in your eyeball.
1:27:08
And it's like perfect to your specific eye and you can get
1:27:12
different ones that are customized to you.
1:27:15
What do you what? It doesn't make any sense.
1:27:18
Do you remember those? There's certain thing, you know
1:27:20
what I mean? Like our, our stream will
1:27:22
disconnect and I'll, I'll, we'll lose service for a second.
1:27:26
But somehow like these little plastic silicone things have
1:27:30
been around for like 20 years and they just work.
1:27:35
We can just touch our eye and we're suddenly fixed.
1:27:37
It's a weird thing, that's all I'm saying.
1:27:39
It took it took up quite a bit of time in my my brain the other
1:27:42
night. You.
1:27:43
Remember those red contacts that Nike had for a short period of
1:27:46
time for then it said that it it helped you picked up the the
1:27:49
seams better on a baseball and like all all the like 13 year
1:27:53
olds wearing them. Yeah, I think that lines up like
1:27:57
pretty similarly with like the fighting necklace almost.
1:28:00
Yeah, it was, yeah. It was like the same era for
1:28:02
sure. Yeah, that was that was our era.
1:28:05
Like it all fighting. Good old fighting.
1:28:08
Unreal. Have a happy 4th.
1:28:12
Yeah, you eating some dogs? I hope so.
1:28:19
It's. Potato salad.
1:28:21
Nobody likes potato salad. Don't even give me that one.
1:28:25
Who likes potato salad? It's you like macaroni salad?
1:28:28
Yeah. OK, I like potato salad.
1:28:31
Nah, eat some jalapenos in there.
1:28:33
Mm. Hmm.
1:28:35
Mm. Hmm, I mom's making Mac and
1:28:39
cheese, so that's going to be mom's Mac and cheese is.
1:28:44
Album like it. There's nothing like it.
1:28:48
And that goes for every mom. Every mom.
1:28:50
Pretty sure that's why Paige said yes to marrying me.
1:28:52
Was for my mom's Mac and cheese. But maybe some dogs too.
1:28:58
That's it. Yeah, hanging out with the fam.
1:29:00
Low key. Almost went to a Rockies game
1:29:03
Friday but I was like just stay home.
1:29:11
Probably best. Yeah, any who's.
1:29:15
Well, I guess you're just waiting to end it now, so.
1:29:19
That's all I got. Don't go chasing curveballs.
1:29:22
Love you all, and as always, looking forward to talking more
1:29:24
baseball with you guys soon. Until next time, stay filthy.