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Who were the winners and losers of the MLB Trade Deadline? · NY's Sports Loud Mouth (VIDEO)

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ladies and gentlemen, he's calmly, he's calm, he's waiting,
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and he is doing his thing in Tampa.
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We are now talking to former 11 year MLB outfielding vet and
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former Phillies, Guardians, Pirates and Astros player Jason
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Michaels. Jason, what is up, my friend?
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How you doing? Thanks for having me on.
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And by the way, it's the Indians, not the guardians.
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I'm sorry, don't say that to Job, but you're going to piss
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Job off. No, he played for the Indians.
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He didn't play for the Guardian. I know, I know, I.
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Think it's just respect, you know I don't.
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Whatever we can, that's a whole other story.
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Listen, I get myself enough. I get myself in trouble enough
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on this show. People love to attack me on
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social media. So me coming out and saying I
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wanted to, I wanted you to say it, Jason, because I don't want
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to get myself into trouble. It's enough that people are
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attacking me about damn Anthony Edwards and my takes on Anthony
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Edwards cry me a damn river. What is wrong with people?
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I I got my take. I love Anthony Edwards.
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Let's stop. I I don't want to get into it.
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Let's get into the Phillies. What is going on with the
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Philadelphia Phillies? I know they they had a
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sensational game yesterday and they're up and down.
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I do not know what this team is. What is this team?
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What is the identity of this Philadelphia Phillies team?
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You know, I'm not sure I'm watching the Yankees game right
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now and the Rangers. I saw the game last night.
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Sanchez was that was fun to be a hitter.
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Yeah, right now, last night he had such good control of his
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change up that was. And then who was the closer that
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came in 100? And 3.3 Sorry about your luck.
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That's it. Yeah, no big deal.
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So I think that was a pretty good pick up by the Phillies
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there. So maybe that'll give them a
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little bit of a boost. But other than that, the
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Phillies, I mean, they they got, they got the parts, they do,
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they got the parts. And it's just up to them to to
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keep, to capitalize and just to continue to win series.
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Bottom line, you got to win series.
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Winning that first game of the series is huge.
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And you know, Java can tell you that, but you got to win that
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first game. That's always, that's always a
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big one. But yeah, but I'm watching this
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these this Yankees game. Please stop.
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It just got a little upset with Jazz again.
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Shocker. I thought he had AI, thought he
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had a play. Let me tell you something,
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Jason, this guy over here in the corner and I, I love Jabba.
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Me and him have been working together now for a year.
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We we've built a good relationship.
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I don't love. Him stop, stop.
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I remember when we started, we were, so we started working
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together during the playoffs, during the playoffs last year
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and he had this like, I couldn't stand this guy.
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And he has this like love fest for Jazz Chisholm.
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And he was like, what do you hate this guy for?
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I respect the fact he's in the big.
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Leagues, OK, all right. I, I, I respect the fact that a
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lot of these guys are in the big leagues and this guy, to me,
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should be playing AAA baseball. The amount of debacle blunders
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that he's had so far in the last couple of weeks.
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This guy, did you watch him? Did you watch him at the Home
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Run Derby? This guy was yapping and
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prancing, dancing around with his stupid ass chains, and then
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he goes out there and lays A lousy goose egg right in front
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of the fans. That was embarrassing.
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Embarrassing. And then what did he And then
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what did he say? The reason why he didn't do
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well, I didn't want to mess up my swing.
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Then why the why the fuck did you get into it?
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Why do you that? That goes to exactly what we
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were talking about earlier too. Like he always does these things
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like that one when he got picked off, he said he was trying to
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make a play. What play are you trying to make
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There's. No play to make I.
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Know like you just dig yourself a deeper hole.
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Like I respect the fact that what he does, he's he's an
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average player. He's going to run into ones
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whatever, like he is what he is. But like when you start digging
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yourself holes out, like especially after the Home Run
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Derby, like you knew what you were getting yourself into,
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you'd just oh, the fall back. Is that why do it?
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Probably if he got a bonus to do it, not that that matters, but
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like I was going to make a play. There's no play to be made.
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If there was a play to be made and you were being aggressive, I
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don't mind the physical errors. I don't mind those.
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Like if you're trying to stretch it and you do that, but a mental
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error and then try to come back and be like, yeah, I was trying
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to make a play when there was no play to be made.
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And then he said, and then he said he that he wouldn't.
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There was nothing he would do different.
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He would do the same thing again.
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And I'm like that. That doesn't make any sense to
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me. Imagine if if that happened in
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the clubhouse back like no freaking way you would get.
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Knocked out, yeah, there, there would probably be a fight or at
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least some pushing and 100% and you know, you didn't need the
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manager to take you out. I feel like Booney should have
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took him out then. That's just my deal.
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I mean, you got you got to have some accountability.
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How else you going to have some accountability?
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He doesn't have any, apparently. You got you got to show your
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team that, hey, I don't give a shit if you're an everyday
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player, I'm going to take your ass out.
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You do something stupid. Bottom line, it is what it is.
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You sit out for the rest of the game.
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You cheer on your guys next day. Back in the saddle tomorrow.
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But that's not the first time we've seen Jazz come out there
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and Prance out there and make mistakes.
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And then after the game, how many times have we heard, oh,
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we're still one of the best defensive teams in the league.
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We're still the best team in the American League.
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Where, where do you see the best team in the American League?
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Now, the American League to me is mediocre.
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I I do not think there's a powerhouse in this American
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League. I really don't.
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The Blue Jays, do they scare me? Not really.
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Do does really right now with the Texas Rangers, besides what
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they have with the Grom and and what they could prance out there
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in a playoffs, the back-to-back pitchers are are they really
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scary? Seattle, any one of these teams,
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Detroit, a young team, Are we really scared?
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The Astros, they had a Correa and it's a trade deadline.
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None of these teams really stick out to me like they're world
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beaters. But Jazz Chisholm coming out and
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saying, hey, you know what? We're still the best team in the
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American League. I could argue we're the best
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team in the major leagues. What are you smoking, dude?
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It is legalized here in in New York to smoke marijuana.
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Maybe he's smoking too many trees.
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I I mean seriously. Or smoking something that's
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getting to his brain and it's burnt.
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I don't. Get it?
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How's the how's the media with him, with jazz?
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Are they calling him out? The fans love him here.
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The fans absolutely love him. I can't stand him, but the fans
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love him because of his personality.
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But when you make blunders like he did the other day and then
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after the game making excuses, eventually you're not you're not
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taking accountability like you guys, but both you and Jabba,
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said Jason. So what are fans going to start
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looking at? They're going to look at this
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guy and say he's an absolute joke.
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Why is he on this roster? And again, that goes to Brian
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Cashman. That goes to ownership on the
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way. They decided over the last
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couple of weeks before the trade deadline.
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Hey, Josh Chisholm's having a great season.
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Well, at one point he was having a great season.
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Maybe we should move him. He doesn't fit here.
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He doesn't work here in New York because of his mouth.
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But the Yankees decide, hey, he's a top ten second baseman
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right now. We're going to keep this idiot
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when they have labor. Torres right now having a
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breakout season and looks like he's going to earn his money in
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the offseason because the Yankees are wrong about him.
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And by the way, how about this? Besides John Carlos Stan, who
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has better numbers than Glaber Torres in the playoffs over the
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last couple of years for the Yankees, the answer Just John
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Carlos Stanton. So that tells me the Yankees
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made the wrong decision when it came to deciding if Glaber
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Torres fit there, because Volpe definitely doesn't.
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Volpe, You know, Volpe is a better player than what he's
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showing, at least hitting wise. I haven't seen him much, you
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know, defense. Look, I know whatever it is.
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I mean, but I mean, I know he's got his home runs or whatever.
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I don't give a shit. I don't he's not a home run
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hitter. Stop trying to hit him fucking
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home runs. Bottom line.
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Like I remember here when he was in Tampa last time, I mean, they
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they just kept throwing him up and he kept fucking swinging.
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And I'm like, dude, what are you doing?
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Make a fucking adjustment. Try to hit a line drive.
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And that's what that's to me, that's what's going on in
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baseball today. Like there's not there's not
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1300 hitter in National League and I think there's maybe 6 in
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the American League. That's awful.
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Not to say any of the pitching is good, but let me tell you
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something. It's a hitter's umpire.
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All these umpires are hitters umpires and, and Joppa's going
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to, you could tell the exact same thing.
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I mean, they are squeezing the shit out of these pitchers.
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All of them. I can't imagine, like this is a,
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this is a hitter's umpire, every single one of these guys.
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And so to me, there should be more hitting, but it's more that
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these guys want to. It's either home run or nothing.
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That's it. They don't give a shit if they
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strike out. I gave a shit big time if I
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struck out. It's embarrassing.
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It's embarrassing as hell, but some of these guys don't give a
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fuck. So switch it back.
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To Yeah, I. Was gonna say switch it back to
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the Phillies to controversial comments that were made last
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week about with Bryce Harper and Nick Casillanos taking shots at
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Rob Manford about the the salary cap in baseball.
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Where do you stand on that whole debate?
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Yeah, there doesn't need to be a salary cap.
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I'll tell you right now, owners are making too much money.
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How did it get out? How did it I mean?
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Bryce Harper vented at him. They literally went in a meeting
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and and just vented at him. Was there was there media or
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anything in there? No Castellanos talked about it
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afterwards. Let's keep it quiet.
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Just I mean, it's like you got to hold your cards.
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I mean, I think everybody knows. I mean, obviously the players or
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the players association, which I hope they get in there.
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Good pitch right there. See, see how they I don't know
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if you're watching this game. Yeah, we have it on.
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We have it on time. Thank you for calling that a
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ball. That's what I'm saying.
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But here's the thing, and I know everybody's we can go back and
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forth on the salary cap and, and, and what players should be
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making if that's the case. All right, You don't want
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obviously cap you, you want players to decide what they
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should be making. OK, so maybe the the league
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figures out how that they can adjust this where you can go to
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a bowl game. It's too expensive to go to ball
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games. Now, Jason Jabba, you know this,
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I mean, to get a hot dog, We we put up the numbers.
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It's like $30 to get a hot dog. It really is.
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To get a sausage and Peppers, it's like 20 something dollars.
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How could you afford to take your kids to go and watch Aaron
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Judge play? Or I get a chance to see Max
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Freed on a mound. When you get a chance to see one
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of the better pitchers in baseball pitch on a mound with
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the Yankees, I mean, to me it's embarrassing.
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So if you think there shouldn't be a cap, well, how does this
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work out for the the young, the young fans out there that want
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to get a chance to see their favorite players?
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To me, it's not really the concessions though that could be
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adjusted. That's just being greedy, you
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know, and they're going, hey, they're here, we can charge it.
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It's, you know, these owners are very well off.
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Let's put it that way. I'm not advocating that we need
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to have, I mean, these are some big ass salaries out there and
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maybe it needs to be something more with, you know, like the
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lower market teams. I mean, the lower market teams,
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they're not they're not putting any money into their into their
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team as the big market teams. If they have the stones to do
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it, Tampa, they won't put they will not get anybody big, but
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they usually put out a pretty competitive product and they do
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a good job with with their player development.
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You know, they're scouting all the I'm not worried about the
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scouts. It's more the player development
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with the with each of these teams, the talents there.
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I just don't think I think MLB is just they they want ass in
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the stands. They want you to to come yes
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jerseys, all this shit, but it all really comes from the TV
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contracts. You know, I don't know what
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happened with this ESPN deal. They just they pulled that
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because I guess they rather have NBA on there that nobody fucking
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watches. No, I mean, I know that's going
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down the NBA, I mean. Well, ESPN in the NFL on the
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network have connected now. I mean, honestly, everything
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that we're seeing, all these organizations, they're starting
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to bring them together because they're, they feel that it'll
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bring in more endorsements and more sponsorships and
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advertisements and money. So I Major League over the
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years, they're they're trying to catch up to the NFL, they're
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trying to catch up to the NBA. That's what they're doing.
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And again, going back to what we're saying, the Yankees right
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now or the the faces of baseball, they're still you.
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You could say whatever you want about the Dodgers.
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They are the faces of baseball. But then you go to how
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Steinbrenner and how he's run this team differently than
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George. You, you shake your head, Yankee
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Finn, shake the head. But if you look at the cap and
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the way the Yankees are spending, they're still spending
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massive amount of money. So there's they're just picking
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the wrong players. So that's that's the way I look
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at the Yankees. That's a different animal.
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Not everybody can play there and you know, like you come to the
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trade deadline here and you got some you picked up some guys.
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Not everybody fits. They they could be having, you
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know, good, good, you know, numbers of elsewhere, but New
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York's a different animal. Just bottom line, like
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everybody's calling for boonies head like what the fucks,
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boonie? I don't need my he's fine.
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OK, I'm the player. I'm the one that's held
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accountable, although who gets who gets fired at the?
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Coaches, but they're usually always the scapegoat for sure.
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Absolutely. So I don't know, I feel like a
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lot of the GMs of these teams are making the decisions because
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of their analytical bullshit. And that's, that's Jason.
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That's kind of what we've we've heard too from that's what I
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think from numerous people and people close to the game and
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some guys that cover it is it's basically he's he's the puppet
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of what they want from the front office.
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And we've heard that more than once.
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Like I said, I'm not in the front office, I'm not in the
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clubhouse and I'm not making it. But if you hear it once and if
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you hear it twice, yeah, OK. But when you hear it more than
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that, there's got to be some legs to it.
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And it just, it feels like that too, because you can only, you
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can only stand behind your and do you want your manager to
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stand behind you? 100%?
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You don't want to, you know, roll over you with the bus and
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back it up and go forward again. I mean, there are times where
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you, we know we suck and we suck.
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Like it's OK to tell me I suck. I know I suck.
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You're not, you're not talking down to me or saying something
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that we don't know. Like I know I suck.
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He's better than that. You know what he's he's
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struggling right now. But we're going to figure that
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that's there's nothing wrong with that.
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And I don't see enough of that. Where we're grown men like we
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know when we suck and this is a performance based.
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It's what you've done for me lately.
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Understand that. But when you're, you know, in
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three seasons, you're literally adding on to your airs.
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And I'm, I'm using Volpe as an example where he's got 16 errors
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already in 111 games and he's leading the league.
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And so there's there's just and everybody and every article is
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like, all right, is he running a Country Club or is he running a
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clubhouse? And is he your friend or is he
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going to hold you? And accountable has been the
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word that I think has been beat over the head so many times.
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And, and we can say it, but it just, it feels like that from
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afar as you see these things that keep happening.
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And we're not talking about just one time.
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We're talking about it keeps happening.
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And where at some point do you just like enough's enough?
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Like do you need a day or two? Like do you need, I'm not saying
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be sent down or what it, but like, do you just need like a
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couple days? Like, you know, like there's
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some days you just need like a me day, Like, you know what, I'm
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just going to get to the yard and I'm going to stuff my face
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in the food room and I'm going to do nothing.
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I'm not going to take any swings.
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And sometimes less is more where you can just get out of your own
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Dome. And I think what happens now,
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and we kind of caught like the the beginning of this analytical
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side of things, right where I feel like it's so much becomes
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paralysis by analysis because it's always in your face.
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Yeah. You don't ever have that chance
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to just get the hell away from it.
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It's like, hey, there's an iPad right when you get back in the
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dugout, this is your pitches. There's the video room.
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It's all right there. You don't have time just to sit
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there and throw a dip in or put bubble gum or pop some seeds
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without it all just being right in front of your face.
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It's just a different, yeah, different generation though than
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when we played. I mean, everybody's fucking
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sensitive nowadays. Yes, it's OK, You could tell me
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I suck. 100%, I know I did. Thank you.
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Thank you. I you know what?
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I want you to hear that. I don't want you to pat me on
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the back. Yeah.
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No. I want you to tell me to pull my
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head out of my ass and figure it.
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Out. I want you to pat me on the
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back. That would be nice.
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I get a a pat on the back from Choppa Chamberlain.
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Oh, you're trying to steal a base on me?
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That's still not going to happen, but but yeah, I just,
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it's, it's amazing that they don't, they don't have it.
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Each organization's put so much money in the analytical
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department and I think they're taken away from player
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development because they're they're they're making their
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decisions on all numbers that we're human now.
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Even when when I played we had plenty of information about the
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pictures and what all the bullshit.
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That's that's what it, that's our advanced scouts did.
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So we had it. Yeah, we had it.
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But now they have these guys have fucking booklets sitting on
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their chairs when they get to the first game of their series.
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You know, like right now, guaranteed that the Yankees,
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they had, you know what, here in Texas, they had a big ass
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booklet of all these fucking numbers.
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We're not fucking math geniuses. You keep telling me all that
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shit. Oh, 22% of the time at 1-2,
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County throws this pitch. Who gives a fuck?
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Maybe he doesn't have that pitch that day.
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And I hate, I hated that Jason too, because I would look at I
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would get the sheet hot, cold zone and and hitters counts,
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whatever. Like, oh, he's terrible to
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change up. I had a horseshit change up.
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Why are you even throwing that in my information?
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Like I don't want to see it because now I'm like 01/2.
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I can try and it's terrible. Like let me pitch to my
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strength. I don't need to have all of
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this. Like I don't need it.
20:32
Yeah. It's amazing, you know, getting
20:35
on some people on Twitter. Sometimes I just do it just to
20:37
fuck around, just to fucking, you know, get it going a little
20:40
bit. I'm bored, you know, and like.
20:42
Some of these, oh, I, I had some, I had some keyboard
20:45
warriors come at me today with like plus WRC and whatever and I
20:48
was like, is this English or hieroglyphic?
20:50
Like are you? Coaching.
20:51
I'm going. Are you Coach Fish over there?
20:53
I don't. Understand.
20:53
I don't understand that. I really don't.
20:55
Dude, I love it and people are like, Hey, be careful these
20:58
keyboard warriors. And I'm like, I was like, I want
21:00
all the smoke like because I'm learning just as you are like I
21:04
know some of them. I'm not speedy and know like all
21:07
of the plus minus extra whatever jargon.
21:10
Jabba, I think Fish is worse than Speedy now.
21:12
I mean, he's got all the analytics.
21:15
Yeah, he's even worse. I mean, we're we're on the
21:17
phone. He's telling me about this
21:20
analytic to that analytic. I'm like what the hell does this
21:23
all I mean? Trying to make you money, man I.
21:25
I think there are some. I can't.
21:28
I can't say all analytics suck. There's there's some good ones.
21:31
I think there's a lot of shit that you're just like, man, that
21:35
doesn't apply to any anybody here.
21:37
We're still human job and I, we kind of feel the same way.
21:40
I feel like, you know, kind of talking for you, but that the
21:43
game has changed. I'm upset about the hitters
21:46
because we have hitters on pyres.
21:49
I don't feel like the guys are throwing all that much harder
21:53
because it didn't change that the are they, are they taking
21:56
the radar out of the hand now? Yeah, it's definitely changed
22:01
for sure. Although there are guys with I
22:04
guess plus 90 shit. Yeah, now it's now it's the
22:07
exact opposite. Now if you don't throw 95,
22:09
they're like, I mean, we'll use a great example like Joe Ryan or
22:12
guys like that that can spin it really well, but don't throw 95.
22:15
There's like what? And if a guy does it, it's like.
22:18
Whoa. I just watched Merrill Kelly
22:21
throw for the Rangers on Saturday.
22:23
Man, I was impressed. I mean, oh, he can pitch.
22:26
He, I've never really watched him other than the World
22:29
Baseball Classic. You know, he's in Arizona, I'm
22:31
in Florida. I'm not really seeing it.
22:32
But man, I was really impressed. He had both sides of the baby
22:37
topped out at 93, you know, But he had great arm.
22:41
Like you couldn't tell if it was a fastball, it was a four
22:44
seamers Tinker or a change up. I don't like that as a hitter.
22:48
I like, I liked him as a pick up too, coming from the
22:51
Diamondbacks because they were getting rid of people, but
22:54
obviously they didn't get a starter.
22:55
But that's neither here nor there, I guess.
22:57
But yeah, it's I, I, I like those guys because at the same
23:01
time, and and I use this and I ask people all this time, like,
23:06
could Jamie, like if you looked and and saw Jamie Moore pitch
23:08
right now, would he pitch in the big leagues?
23:10
No, If you looked and saw Dustin Pedrella, what would you say?
23:13
Like, Nope, not big enough, not fast enough, It's bat speed's
23:17
not good enough, blah, blah, blah.
23:18
Like I agree with what you said earlier.
23:20
And it's like not all of the analytics are bad.
23:23
I think there's some of that are very useful, but I also think
23:26
there's a time and a place for all of them where that can go
23:30
with these things right here and watch the game and see how it
23:33
unfolds. And that's a gamer.
23:34
Like I want that dude like he's going to grind at bats for me
23:38
and he's going to do the little things, get runners over, play
23:40
the game the right way. And, you know, just be that, be
23:44
that person where you, a analytical will not tell you
23:49
that that dude's a gamer. It's like, oh, he has great spin
23:52
rate, whatever, but you couldn't put a Grease BB up his ass when
23:55
the game's on the line and he can't get it done.
23:58
I don't want that guy. We all know gamers.
23:59
We all know 100. Percent.
24:01
There's gamers where you're like in practice or BP, you're like,
24:04
this guy is just not that good. But he finds it puts finds a way
24:07
to put the barrel of the bat on the ball.
24:09
And then the exact opposite, you get the 5:00 All Star that
24:11
you're like, damn, this dude has to be good and then he's
24:14
terrible. And that's what I think what
24:18
these guys are, They're just going to batting practice and
24:21
watching the show. They're going, oh, he can hit.
24:23
No, he fucking can't. The World Series when AJ Hinch,
24:26
I heard, I think it might have been 17 that he they had the
24:30
spin rates and they were lining up the spin rate of this
24:33
reliever starter with this hitter.
24:35
And if that didn't match, I don't know how they fucking
24:37
judge that. Then they wouldn't put him in
24:39
like that, right? There is not a baseball thing as
24:43
a coach, like I don't give a shit who the pitcher is in.
24:46
I'm going to get my best hitter that has given me the best at
24:49
bats. I don't give a shape.
24:51
He's left or right. I really don't.
24:52
But now I think a lot of managers manage for the media
24:55
because the media is going to ask the questions they don't
24:57
want to have to go, well, this is what I want to do with the
25:00
media is just going to jump. On yeah, because they're going
25:02
to, they're going to have that analytic like, oh, he was like,
25:06
they used Rosario tonight for the Yankees.
25:08
He was hitting point O87 and then he gets a double and
25:12
they're like, oh, he's 5 for 37 now.
25:14
Oh blah blah blah. I hate the media too.
25:17
And by the way, we are talking to former 11 year MLB outfield
25:21
Jason Michaels. He's a hitting coach right now
25:24
in Tampa. He's doing some things over
25:26
there helping young boys and young kids develop their swing.
25:31
As we all know, Speedy, you need to develop a swing.
25:34
Maybe you? Need I was never good.
25:36
I think my swings a lost cause. And I hate the media and what
25:39
everybody says, well, you're the media.
25:40
And here's the here's the problem with the media.
25:42
They think they know more than the player.
25:44
They think they could figure out what's the problem with the
25:47
hitter? What's the problem with the
25:49
pitcher. They don't know crap.
25:50
What the hell does the media know?
25:52
Oh, if you pitch a little lower, you pitch outside or you pitch a
25:55
little higher and throw your heat up, you know, upright,
25:58
you're going to strike this guy. You don't know nothing.
26:00
How the hell do you know? And the media just thinks
26:03
they're, oh, what did you play Little League baseball?
26:05
How the hell? And again, because they write
26:08
for the New York Times or they write for a certain magazine or
26:11
they write for the Yankees blog, they know more than everybody
26:14
else does. That's the problem right now
26:16
when it comes to media work. Media thinks that they when they
26:20
say something, people are going to listen, including the players
26:22
and and now you got players that are tuning in and listening to
26:26
what these guys are writing and it either pisses them off or it
26:29
throws them off. Guys like you, Jabba, I know you
26:32
never when you were playing baseball, I know you weren't
26:35
watching you reading what Newsday was writing about you or
26:38
the daily Daily Post. You didn't have to because you
26:42
were playing for the New York Yankees.
26:43
All you had to do was strut out there in the 8th or 9th inning
26:46
and do what you do best and that strike people out.
26:48
Now, if you have guys I don't know, you have all these
26:52
different guys that the Yankees are trotting out there.
26:55
Devin Williams. Devin Williams is definitely
26:57
when he was in that in that slump.
26:59
You don't think Devin Williams was reading the Newsday or
27:02
reading what was going on all over social media?
27:05
Of course he was. What Jason said too, in like how
27:08
it's different pitching in New York, like, and I think he, he
27:12
didn't realize, like obviously people say that and they're
27:14
like, oh, yeah, it's New York, blah, blah, blah.
27:16
But it's a different animal. Milwaukee's different pitching.
27:18
And if you give up a couple yet, whatever.
27:21
But you come here and it's easy to get in your own Dome because
27:25
like you said, Errol, it's all right in front of you.
27:28
It's all right there. Like if he lives in the city,
27:29
he's walking down, you know, the street vendor, it's all right
27:33
there. It's a headline.
27:34
Like you can't help but notice it.
27:36
Is he reading it? It's his own stupid ass fault.
27:39
If he is reading it, it is absolutely you.
27:42
You did the interview. You knew you know what like you
27:45
know you sucked. You know you were pitching to an
27:47
11 at one point in the year and you're pitching to A5 now.
27:49
Like we know that's not good. You know it.
27:51
Like you don't need to add fuel to the.
27:53
Five. And that goes to Anthony Volpe.
27:55
You're going to tell me right now, Anthony Volpe is right now
27:58
just playing terrible baseball. He can't play defense.
28:00
He can't. He can't do anything.
28:02
This guy won a Gold Glove his rookie season.
28:05
Now the guy can't even throw the first base.
28:07
He's a Chuck Knob Lock wannabe. I mean, honestly, you're going
28:11
to tell me that he's not reading what's going on in magazines and
28:14
newspapers right now? Of course.
28:16
He is. It shouldn't be.
28:18
It's shoved in your face. I mean, you go in the in the
28:20
clubhouse and it's all they got all the media, you know,
28:24
printouts and you know, I came up through the Philly
28:27
organization and so it doesn't really matter.
28:28
Anybody East Coast tough. And then I went to Cleveland and
28:32
I was like, whoa, this is this is different here.
28:35
Awesome. Which what I learned though, and
28:37
I tell people this and what I learned in Philly is I remember
28:41
the old, the the veteran guys coming up and saying, listen,
28:43
you do something good, they're going to say something, but some
28:45
accountability. Don't try to fight them.
28:47
Don't try to, you know this or blame that.
28:50
Don't do it. Just have some accountability.
28:52
So I think it it helped me have a young player first quick,
28:57
because Philly would fucking Boo the shit out of you if you
28:59
didn't run hard nowaday. I don't know how, because you
29:03
know, not all the guys were running hard.
29:04
Not I'm not saying a percent every time, but not fucking 50.
29:09
No, but they're also, but again, they're making a lot more money.
29:12
You have Juan Soto not trotting up the first base.
29:15
He's getting killed by the media.
29:17
We've seen that. How about Robertson Cano?
29:19
How many times did we see Robertson Cano not run to first
29:23
base and how he got killed by the media?
29:25
And this guy was one of the best hitters we've ever seen come
29:28
from the Yankees organization for, like, in the last 20 years.
29:31
And he could not run the first base.
29:34
And everybody said, oh, this guy's not running.
29:36
He's not. The Yankees shouldn't sign him.
29:38
And media was throwing him onto the bus.
29:40
Meanwhile, he was a great. He was a shutdown defender, and
29:43
he had some pop in his bat for a second baseman.
29:46
Yeah, he was doing other things. I don't know.
29:48
Hopefully he wasn't doing that with the Yankees, but we don't
29:50
know. You know, Cano, he just has that
29:52
personality. That's just his personality
29:55
where it like it comes easy to him.
29:56
The game comes easy to him and it does it like that's different
30:01
majority of players more than a lot.
30:03
I mean there's only a few baseball players that are like
30:05
gifted. Other than that other ones.
30:08
There's just this hard nosed hard workers.
30:11
You just go out there and you and you compete and not let the
30:13
negative down. That's really, I mean, there's
30:16
there's a lot of talent in the minor leagues, but I'm not it's,
30:19
it's, it could be it's between the ears and not letting the
30:22
negative for the failure of the game bring it down.
30:25
Jason, that's what I'm saying. Even with the quarterback
30:27
position, we look at all these quarterbacks, their first round
30:29
draft picks, second round draft picks and the future of these
30:32
organizations and these organizations pay a lot of money
30:36
now to these first round ask, ask The Jets with Zach Wilson.
30:40
We go back and back and back and back and back year in and year
30:43
out for different organizations and they just strike out every
30:46
single time. And then, you know, 20 years
30:48
later, they finally hit a home run and the guy can't stay
30:51
healthy and you pay him a ton of money, boatload of money.
30:54
That's the problem with professional sports now.
30:57
And we can go back and forth. There's just so much money.
30:59
It's become a business. Nobody cares about the
31:02
camaraderie anymore. Everybody says, oh, I, I miss
31:05
playing in the locker rooms. We, we heard that for Tom Brady.
31:09
And now he took a shot at Scotty Scheffler last week and Scotty
31:13
Scheffler coming out and saying, I'd rather be with my family and
31:15
hang out with my family then play Professional Golf.
31:18
And then Tom Brady, well, he throws Scotty Scheffler under
31:21
the bus saying, oh, you, why can't you do both?
31:24
Well, dude, you're the one who had a divorce.
31:26
You're the one who decided to walk, walk away from the sport
31:29
and tell your wife you're never coming back.
31:30
And then you come back 2-3 weeks later and that's why you have a
31:34
divorce and why you why sleeping with another man and you're
31:37
taking shots at Scheffler. Come on, man.
31:40
I just, I don't get it. I don't get it why anybody is
31:43
opening. The mouth.
31:45
I don't get it. I don't get it.
31:47
I I really don't I and that's the problem with media and why
31:50
we do this. Everything, everybody and their
31:52
mother has a podcast. But here's the problem.
31:55
When they go out there and I'm not attacking anybody and, and
31:57
guys and women or listening to my show, listening to my Jabba
32:01
show over the last couple of months and years, a year that
32:04
we've been doing this. When we come out on this show,
32:06
we tell, I tell the truth. And Jabba says I'm probably one
32:10
of the most controversial people he's ever worked with.
32:13
OK. And the reason why I'm
32:15
controversial is, is the one reason why I've always been this
32:19
type of person offset of a radio show.
32:22
I'm not going to beat around the Bush.
32:24
I'm just going to drive it in. And if you don't like it, you
32:27
can shove it up your ass. And that's the way I say it.
32:30
Jabba is a is a calm, collective guy in his own little way.
32:34
And Jabba tries to hold back on some of the things he says
32:37
because he doesn't want to throw himself under the bus.
32:40
I'm the one that Jabba leans towards to throw everybody under
32:43
the bus. So I, you see, thumbs up on that
32:46
one. So unfortunately, media likes to
32:50
to turn stories into more than what they are.
32:55
And then when it becomes a story, they like to drive it
32:59
where the sun doesn't shine until it becomes such a big
33:02
story where these players or media guys make these stories
33:08
more than it really is. And unfortunately, when
33:11
baseball, baseball right now is the only sport.
33:14
So what are people talking about right now?
33:16
Well, the lead story right now is the New York Yankees, how bad
33:20
they are. Aaron Judge who was up for an
33:23
MVP and he's going to come back. Is he?
33:25
Is the Yankees making the right decision bringing him back?
33:28
Should he play in the outfield or should he be a designated
33:30
hitter? Or are the Yankees a buyer or
33:33
seller at the trade deadline? What a crock of shit.
33:36
OK, I I'm so tired of hearing it.
33:39
Here's what the Yankees should have done.
33:41
Sell, sell, sell. But the Yankees organization
33:44
never does that. They're not going to.
33:47
They're not going to, period. You know, what accountability
33:50
does the media have? They don't have accountability.
33:53
They don't. They never do.
33:54
Exactly. Accountability.
33:56
Yeah, they and they don't have to because they're just trying
33:58
to sell clicks now. They're not selling papers,
34:01
they're trying to sell clicks. And you take away the power of
34:03
the PIN from them, You go and tell them you suck.
34:05
They can't write. They can't.
34:06
They can't write anything else. Exactly.
34:08
Hey, I sucked. I couldn't throw a fastball for
34:10
a strike. They got on me early.
34:12
I cost us the game. Peace out.
34:13
See, you can't write anything else.
34:15
Yeah. No, no follow up question to
34:17
that. Sorry, peace.
34:18
See you. It's like it's boring.
34:20
They they're always said to be bored.
34:22
And I hate it. Yeah.
34:24
I always try to find rooms when we when.
34:26
We've seen it in locker rooms too job, but we've seen it in
34:28
locker rooms. I've seen between media and the
34:30
players and just losing shit. I'm like own up and move on.
34:34
It sucks. It is what it is.
34:37
Just own up and move on. I don't know, it's just I don't,
34:41
I don't feel like that's happening in sports general, but
34:44
I know in in baseball, I just don't feel like that's
34:47
happening. It's a shame.
34:48
I blame team leaders, you know, leaders of the team.
34:52
That's who I listen to even though the managers decisions.
34:54
Yeah, unfortunately, we can go back and forth about what these
34:58
teams are doing or what these teams should do.
35:01
We're not the GM, we're not the owner.
35:03
And obviously they're in a driver's seat.
35:05
And unfortunately, the New York Yankees are run by not one, not
35:11
2, but probably 10 executives are in a roundtable kissing each
35:15
other's asses. And we're not going to mention
35:17
any names. But, you know, Jason, we really
35:20
appreciate the time. You're fantastic.
35:22
You do such a great job over there in Tampa.
35:24
And when I get out there, I definitely want to check out the
35:26
facility that you're you're building up over there.
35:28
I think you're doing such a great job.
35:30
And, and I know you're a busy guy and you're doing some big
35:34
things out there. And we really appreciate the
35:35
time, buddy. Jason, where you at?
35:37
Where you at in Trampa? I'm just north of Steinbrenner
35:40
Field, like about 10 minutes. Oh, OK.
35:44
Here on Dale Mabry and just north I got AI, got a couple
35:47
indoor cages. I have an ex major leaguer doing
35:51
the pitching lessons. This guy named Mark Valdez.
35:53
He played a little bit before us.
35:56
And you know, I do the hitting and the fitting.
35:58
Mark does the does the pitching. But I do, I work a lot up here
36:03
of the approach, working on the approach.
36:06
It doesn't really, because a lot of my a lot of my players are
36:10
both hitters and pitchers. I want them to do both,
36:13
especially the young ones. And I would say guys, it's
36:15
there's a lot of similarities between pitching and hitting
36:18
mentally and how you and how you go about how you go about your,
36:21
you're at bat or you're, you know, your, your mound time,
36:26
whatever. But yeah, so a lot of what I do
36:28
is up here just dealing with confidence issues, how to how to
36:32
try to deal with failure. Every time you step on the
36:34
field, whether you're a pitcher, you're a hitter, there's going
36:36
to be a negative result that's going to happen.
36:39
And the guys that are on TV are the guys that are able to put
36:43
those away as more than everybody else well and not let
36:46
the. Jason, what we what we want it
36:48
we want you to do is we need you to work with Speedies brain
36:51
because we've been trying to force Speedy to shave those
36:55
roots. He's he's not done that since
36:59
the day he was, you know, became a man at 13 years old.
37:03
We're trying to push him. I've you know, that Bush needs
37:07
to be some cleaning over there. So we need some trimmers.
37:11
We need maybe you can work with that kids brain so we can kind
37:14
of force feed him to do something over there, man.
37:17
I mean those bushes look like Wrigley feels his bushes.
37:20
What? What do you think, Speedy?
37:22
I'm not doing it on outside influence.
37:28
Oh man. Anyways.
37:30
Well, guys, guys, thank you for having me on.
37:32
I appreciate it. Love to be on more so whatever.
37:36
If you guys you guys need somebody, let me know.
37:38
We, we would love it. We would love it, Jason.
37:41
Best of luck. Jason Michaels, ladies and
37:44
gentlemen, doing great things in Tampa.
37:46
He's watching the Yankee game and watching the Yankees
37:48
absolutely choke, as they always do.
37:51
And as I have come out and said over the last two weeks, the
37:56
Yankees should have been sellers.
37:58
And boy am I going to look right about that anyways.
38:02
And by the way, Keith, where are you?
38:04
Keith wanted to bet me $100 that the Yankees were going to go to
38:07
the ALCS. What drugs are you on?
38:09
The Yankees aren't even going to make the playoffs.
38:12
What a joke. Anyways, ladies and gentlemen,
38:15
we call this Speedy 6 Pack of the Week.
38:19
Let's have a sixer. Hey, who wants to play Drink the
38:22
Beer? It's time for the Speedy 6 pack
38:25
of the Week Pass Liquor. Speedy, Are you ready to crack
38:35
open tonight's 6 pack? Athletes.
38:39
Yeah, we'll be talking about a bunch of those that.
38:41
Are Jabba likes my stream cocktail?
38:44
All right, here we go. Number six.
38:46
All right. We're going to start this trade
38:48
deadline edition with the one of the more aggressive teams of the
38:51
deadline. We're starting with the Padres
38:53
who traded for Ryan O'hearn, Ramon Lauriano from the Orioles,
38:56
and then the big storyline giving up the number 3 prospect
38:59
in baseball in Leo Devries for Mason Miller in a very
39:03
aggressive move. Anyone thoughts to the Padres?
39:07
Horrible, absolutely horrible. I do not know what the Padres
39:11
are doing. I know he's a relief pitcher.
39:13
I was at my barbershop and I was sitting all these guys, the
39:17
barbershop is called home Run. So they they're big baseball
39:20
fans and I'm sitting there, they're all Dominicans and
39:22
they're talking about, well, I mean, a top end relief pitcher
39:26
for a top 3 prospect is worth it depending on the pitcher.
39:31
You don't even know if that guy is going to be there next year.
39:33
The Padres like to trade away pieces and you're trading away.
39:36
You're the third best prospect in all of baseball.
39:39
I made no sense. They gave up.
39:41
If I'm not mistaken, they gave up, I think 7 of their top 12
39:46
prospects of their of their organization, their farm system.
39:50
It made no sense. On the couple of trades that
39:52
they made, it made no sense. A horrible move.
39:54
I'm not saying that he's not a good pitcher.
39:57
I'm not saying that he's a, he's not one of the best closers in
40:00
baseball. It's just I, I just doesn't make
40:03
any sense right now. Are the Padres really a
40:05
contender? Are they really contender?
40:09
I'll tell you how it makes less sense, Jabba.
40:11
You, you trade the number three overall prospect in baseball and
40:15
then you take that guy, you got Mason Miller and put him as the
40:18
setup man. You already have a closer who's
40:21
leading the league in base, in baseball in saves and Robert
40:25
Suarez with 32 saves. Miller, you know, played for the
40:28
A's, didn't get as many save opportunities, throws over 102
40:32
miles an hour, one of the three or four hardest throwing guys in
40:36
baseball. But Jabba, since when do you
40:39
give up the number three overall guy and a bunch of other pieces
40:42
for a set up man? It's I mean, I think more so
40:46
that they looked at him as a high leverage guy, but we've
40:49
seen what AJ Preler's he's notorious for this.
40:52
He'll make any move, do whatever he wants.
40:54
But we also seen he's made crazy moves and have they won?
40:57
No. So it's I mean, it was he would
41:02
devise went from untouchable to smell you later.
41:04
For a guy you're not even going to use to close the game when
41:07
you have the best. I wouldn't say he's the best
41:10
closer. He has the best number most
41:11
saves right now. I wouldn't I wouldn't say he's
41:13
the best closer. But also I I can't say that in
41:17
terms of I don't watch a lot of West Coast baseball.
41:20
So I don't see him as much. I see the the highlights.
41:23
So I don't get to see it as much as to to have a very, very
41:26
valued opinion. But I can look at the numbers
41:29
like everybody else and be like, well, he's he's doing pretty
41:31
good on this side. But I it's just it's tough to
41:34
get a guy out of that caliber and Mason and and it's kind of
41:37
like, OK, yeah, I'm going to pitch in high leverage
41:39
situations. But I'm so used to being the
41:41
closure guy now. It's like it's kind of a hit to
41:44
an ego. We all have them.
41:45
So it's how he responds. And what do they do?
41:48
I mean, they've made plenty of moves before and it hasn't
41:51
really paid off. So I guess we'll see what
41:53
happens. Errol, just before we move on
41:56
Errol, I said AJ Preller what what is sicko?
42:00
When we get to the trade deadline every year, that guy
42:02
just keeps it interesting. I don't know if there's another
42:05
guy in in baseball that we've seen.
42:07
How does he still have a job? How does he still have a job?
42:09
Because the owners let him do whatever he wants.
42:12
It's. Pretty wild.
42:13
It's pretty wild. The Mariners GM is.
42:17
He's a close second. Speedy, let's go.
42:21
To #5 well, I. Was going to segue into the
42:23
National League, but now Java, we're going to get to the
42:25
Seattle Mariners. Thanks.
42:26
The Java. They were one of the more
42:28
aggressive teams I thought were more positive and they get two
42:30
big bats with a Eugenio Suarez, who was probably the big power
42:33
bat at the deadline and also Josh Naylor from the
42:35
Diamondbacks. Also in the American League
42:37
West, the Astros get Carlos Carrillo back like Errol
42:39
mentioned and Jesus Sanchez, a good trade for a youngster for
42:41
the Marlins and then Texas trading for Merrill Kelly, but
42:44
giving up a lot 59 and 13 in their system 3 pitching
42:47
prospects. Thoughts to the AL West deadline
42:49
moves? I, I think all three teams are
42:52
going to be fighting for the two playoff spots because the, I
42:56
thought the American League East was just going to pull away the
42:59
way the Blue Jays are playing over the last couple of weeks,
43:02
even the Red Sox. But the Yankees have taken a
43:05
tail back, a tailspin back. I think the Red Sox, even though
43:08
they made some moves, I don't think they're ready to make a
43:11
run. And the Blue Jays might be the
43:13
only team that's going to sneak into the playoffs because
43:16
they're going to win the division.
43:17
As far as the that division. I, I think that Texas can make
43:21
the playoffs. Seattle can make the playoffs
43:22
and used to can make the players.
43:24
All three teams could make the playoffs.
43:26
Seattle is a question. I, I, I, they always seem to to
43:31
fizzle out. No matter what they make over
43:34
the last couple of years in the second, second-half of the
43:36
season, they fizzle out and they're not the same team they
43:38
were before the before the trade deadline and before the All Star
43:42
break. I want to see Seattle take off
43:45
in the last 50 games of the season.
43:47
If they do that, Seattle could be very, very dangerous.
43:49
I I already told you, Texas, if they make the playoffs with the
43:53
the three pitchers they have now, they could be as Dom and,
43:56
and we all know what Bruce Bocchi brings to the table.
43:59
So I I think they have the best manager in baseball.
44:02
So quality team as we see what they're doing to the Yankees
44:05
tonight they were down 3 nothing.
44:07
And they come all the way back against Max Freed, the Yankees
44:09
best pitcher. So it makes me sick to my
44:12
stomach. I was kind of happy the Yankees
44:14
didn't go after Suarez. Errol, you said it at the, you
44:17
know. He's not a good defensive
44:19
player. That's that's the problem,
44:21
right? And he's got real hot, you know,
44:23
with the for the power numbers, having a career year power
44:26
hitting, he's probably going to get the 50 home runs this season
44:29
pretty easily. You know, I don't think he's
44:31
going to get the 60. But look, he now get to put him
44:35
with Cal Raleigh. You got to give them credit.
44:37
They don't have the hugest budget.
44:39
They didn't give up a lot for Suarez.
44:41
I, I, I think it's a smart, smart moves.
44:43
I just don't know if it's enough with the arms.
44:46
Kind of been off and on hurt all year, you know?
44:49
I like what they did and the moves that they made, but I I
44:52
agree fish, I think, you know, Brian moves awesome, but it's
44:56
it's hard with the injuries that they've had, like going into it
44:59
it, you know, just to carry what the the team on your back.
45:02
I mean, they have, they have some quality arms, don't get me
45:04
wrong, but I just, I think if they they're going to be a
45:08
little short on that end, I mean.
45:11
It's going to be Gilbert and Kirby, you know, can they stay
45:14
healthy, right? You know, this is the first year
45:16
the two of them have gotten hurt.
45:18
They need those guys and they they can't do it without them.
45:21
So it's really that's going to be the tail of the tape for them
45:23
when they get to the playoffs. Yeah, and Louise, I mean, Luis
45:26
Castillo is obviously he's, you know, he's pitching 2 at 3.
45:28
Not, I mean, record's not great, but he's keeping them in games
45:31
and doing that. So they've got the ability.
45:34
I just, I, if they can stay healthy long enough, they're
45:36
going to have, they're going to score runs.
45:38
So it, it's going to be interesting.
45:41
We didn't think the ALS was going to be as crazy as it is,
45:44
but it this is what makes baseball fun.
45:47
All right, here we go. Number. 4.
45:49
Oh, now go to my National League, 1-2 teams that I wasn't
45:51
sure if they did enough, the Brewers and the Cubs in the NL
45:54
Central. The Brewers, not a lot of not a
45:56
lot of offense, just really a backup catcher.
45:58
They got a couple relievers and the Cubs, they traded for a few
46:01
pitchers, but I was thinking maybe a bigger swing for one of
46:03
those starting pitchers. Did not happen to you.
46:06
Think these two teams did enough to show themselves compared to
46:08
the Dodgers, the Mets and the Phillies are all Dodgers weren't
46:11
very aggressive, but the very talented, the Mets and the
46:12
Phillies were aggressive. I think both teams are going to
46:16
make the playoffs. I, I don't know what these guys
46:19
are going to be and how they fit with the rosters.
46:21
Milwaukee right now, they have a tremendous pitching staff as
46:25
they always do, and they're getting timely hitting.
46:28
So Milwaukee and Milwaukee's putting up numbers.
46:30
They're, they're, they're hitting for runs, they're
46:33
hitting for, they're hitting a clip, they're hitting for a clip
46:35
and, and they're pitching. And as far as the Cubs are
46:37
concerned, I'm very, I'm shocked.
46:39
The Cubs are as good as they have been this season.
46:42
I thought the Cubs were going to fluctuate and and not even make
46:45
the playoffs, but it seems like they're they're slowly but
46:49
surely going to be A-Team to be to be reckoned with in the
46:53
playoffs. I think both teams make the
46:54
playoffs and both teams are dangerous, both of them.
46:56
So. The the Cubs don't have a lot of
47:00
pitching. They lost Justin Steele
47:02
beginning of the year. It's to Tommy John and Minog has
47:05
been hurt and off and on. Tyone's hurt again.
47:08
They they just don't have the staff.
47:10
They went and got Michael Soroka, who is an analytical
47:14
darling this year. He's one of those guys.
47:16
You see it every year. He's got like a 5 ERA, but he
47:19
should have a 3 1/2. So he's he's got the biggest
47:23
discrepancy in baseball. He's been the unluckiest
47:26
pitcher. Here's those advanced stats.
47:27
You hate Errol, but this is where you make money.
47:29
The Cubs saw it. They went and got this guy that
47:32
I expect him to be one, one of the better starting pitcher
47:35
acquisitions of the deadline. But with the Cubs, especially
47:38
Tucker, as a rental, a lot of people thought they were going
47:40
to do a lot more. Yeah, I mean in Seroka pitch
47:43
tonight, but only pitched 2 inning.
47:44
So, you know, it's I, I just don't, I got a really good buddy
47:49
who's a huge, huge Cubs fan and he's like, we didn't do enough.
47:52
This sucks. We need more hitting and
47:53
pitching and we're not gonna get it.
47:55
So I don't like the Cubs cuz everybody's like Cubs homers.
48:00
When they actually won, they could name like 2 people and
48:03
weren't really fans. I really do so.
48:06
I like them. In the Midwest, they hadn't won
48:08
anything. Then they won and now people
48:10
were supposedly were Cubs fans. And I'm like, shut up.
48:13
Name me so and so and they have a clue.
48:15
I'm like, get out of here. They have the same thing with
48:17
the Royals. They have the high entire All
48:19
Star infield because they had to like stat stuff.
48:21
Addison Russell in the voting. I like the Cubs better than the
48:24
Padres right now. If you would ask me right now,
48:26
who am I going to bet on making the playoffs, the Padres or the
48:30
Cubs? I'm taking the Cubs.
48:32
I I'm going to go with the Cubs. Yeah, They don't.
48:34
I, I agree with Fish. They have injuries that they
48:36
have to contend with, but I think they have obviously a very
48:39
good lineup and, and to me, they have a bona, they have a bona
48:43
fide middle, middle of the lineup that's giving them the
48:46
the power. Kyle Tucker is, is an MVP
48:48
candidate this year. So I think they got a tremendous
48:51
team. I I still think they're, I don't
48:53
know if they win a World Series, but again, we see teams win
48:56
World Series. The Texas Rangers in Arizona
48:58
were in the World Series a couple of years ago.
49:00
Why can't the Cubs do it? So I again, the Cubs haven't
49:04
been a World Series in a long time and they haven't won a
49:06
World Series since then. So and they've only won one
49:10
World Series in 100 years. So I mean, let's let's see what
49:14
the Cubs are going to do. I still think the Cubs are team
49:17
to be reckoned with. Remember, they're they're 21
49:20
games over 500. I mean, that's a pretty damn
49:22
good team, man. I don't know why anybody thinks
49:24
differently. So.
49:26
Here we go, number. 3. All right, all American League
49:29
to finish it off, we'll go back to the American League East.
49:31
You guys talked about the Yankees for a while, so we'll go
49:33
to the Red Sox and the Blue Jays.
49:34
The Red Sox got Dustin May and Mets legend Steven Max at the
49:37
trade deadline of sure of their bullpen.
49:39
Blue Blue Jays get a couple of relievers as well.
49:41
Sir Anthony Dominguez from the Phillies, Louis Varland who is a
49:43
very underrated pitcher this year from the Twins, and Shane
49:46
Beaver from Goodies Guardians. I'll tell you this, both the Red
49:54
Sox and the Blue Jays don't scare me.
49:56
I think the Blue Jays are the best team in the American League
49:58
East. I think they win the division.
50:01
I, even though I don't trust them, I don't think anybody, and
50:05
I know Yankee fans are going to hate me on this.
50:07
I thought the Yankees would have going to pull away early into
50:11
the season, which they were, and then they let the Boston Red
50:14
Sox, the Tampa Bay Rays, and then the Blue Jays come back and
50:18
catch up to them. And now the Yankees are playing
50:20
terrible baseball and the Blue Jays have played the best
50:23
baseball ball in the last past two months.
50:26
I just think right now the Blue Jays for some reason are a
50:30
different team than they were last year.
50:32
Remember last year with the talent that they had and
50:35
everybody said this is the team, but this is the year that the
50:38
Blue Jays are going to pull away and and make it, you know,
50:40
surprise everybody them in the Baltimore Orioles.
50:43
Well, the Baltimore Orioles dip this year because like I said,
50:46
they had no pitching and the Blue Jays, I don't know, it got
50:49
gained confidence after they gave Guerrero that kind of
50:51
money. I just think the Blue Jays are
50:54
the best team in the American League East.
50:55
The Red Sox, they're young and I, I think they're a year away
51:00
from being maybe a contender in that division.
51:03
I, I just, I, I don't know. I, I don't trust the blue.
51:05
I don't trust the Red Sox. I do trust the Blue Jays.
51:08
I think the Blue Jays are the only team that come out of the
51:10
American League East. I think Bichette having the year
51:14
he's had, yeah, has been really the thing for the Blue Jays.
51:18
Yeah, he's quietly done it with like, you know, his hits too.
51:21
Like, you know, he'd struggle a little bit, but like, he's
51:24
quietly leading the league in hits right now.
51:26
Show me the money, Show me the money.
51:28
He's certainly, you know, he's not the defensive player that
51:31
they thought he was going to be. I mean, that knee injury had a
51:34
few years ago. He's never been the same athlete
51:36
since it, but he's got an 800, he's over 800 OPS, He's hitting
51:40
300. He gets on base, he's got a
51:42
little pop again. They're DH ING him some to keep
51:45
him healthy. It's smart.
51:47
And they got this new guy, Addison Barger.
51:50
He's the darling of analytical people around the around
51:53
baseball. He hits the ball harder than
51:56
anybody. You know one of those types of
51:58
guys. But he just lights it all up in
52:00
red on Savant and he's now hitting behind Vladimir Guerrero
52:04
Junior, giving him some protection.
52:06
They find these guys and Shane Bieber, if you remember, before
52:10
he got hurt, was arguably the best pitcher in baseball.
52:13
It's been a few years, but if they get 80% of that out of him,
52:17
that's a pretty good player. So that's a little scary to me
52:21
as a. Yankee, I think you have a
52:22
better chance of getting more out of Max Scherzer than Shane
52:24
Bieber. I don't know man, Bieber's been
52:27
like lights out in rehab, you know, 8 strikeouts and like 3
52:32
and 2/3 as he's coming back. That's AAA buddy.
52:35
That's not the major. You're right, you're right.
52:36
And I know Louise Hill did the same thing and then he got
52:39
shelled in his first outing, right?
52:40
So, But look, if the Yankees are going to play a crap, doesn't
52:44
really matter. Doesn't really matter, Speedy.
52:48
#2 all. Right, so double AL Central,
52:50
double dosed to round it out, we'll go to the Tigers.
52:52
A lot of people thought they an underwhelming trade deadline
52:54
trade for five pitchers, Charlie Morton and Chris Paddock, 2
52:57
starters and then Kyle Finnegan, a hot reliever, Paul Seawall and
53:00
Raphael Montero and Cody higher. Did they do enough?
53:03
Did they need to do more offense?
53:05
Or are they doing enough amidst their skid?
53:07
They're kind of on, right? Now, I think Detroit is
53:09
positioned very, very well. They're running away with their
53:12
division. Cleveland not catching them.
53:14
Kansas City is not. Both teams aren't going to make
53:17
the playoffs. I, I think they're, you could
53:19
argue they're the best team in the American League.
53:23
Now. Have they played that way since
53:25
the All Star break? Not really.
53:27
They've been up and down, but in the last 10 games, they're six
53:30
and four. I think their offense is enough.
53:33
I, I think their pitching squad, I mean school ball is, is
53:36
sensational. I, I think they have a
53:38
tremendous and, and they added Charlie Morton.
53:40
Charlie Morton is a great playoff.
53:42
Pitcher that's my favorite one like and it was it was late when
53:46
they did it and first of all Charlie, Billy Morton is salt of
53:49
the earth one of the nicest human beings in the planet.
53:51
He's 42 I think right now and I that for me was a great pick up
53:57
just for like morale and just the type of person he is.
54:01
I love that for the tigers, like the energy that, you know, scuba
54:05
brings. And then you've got Charlie
54:07
Morton, who you can't tell if his dog just died or he punched
54:09
somebody out. Like it's awesome.
54:12
I love that dude. And if I, I root for everybody
54:15
to be successful. But when, when he throws, I, I
54:17
love rooting for that guy because he's just such a, such a
54:20
great. Playoff wise, playoff wise, I
54:23
think it's a great move because Charlie Morton, go look at his
54:26
record in the playoffs, he's absolutely lights out and now
54:29
you have to go school. If you play in A7 game series,
54:33
you have to, you got to go through school, school ball
54:35
twice, maybe even three times and then you got to go through
54:38
Charlie Morton twice. Scary.
54:41
And Morton, if you look at his numbers, they're absolutely
54:43
ridiculous in the playoffs. Ridiculous.
54:45
By the way, Charlie Morton is the most famous alum of my high
54:48
school. Oh, really?
54:50
Yeah. Really.
54:50
Yep. That's dope.
54:53
Or like covering him when he got drafted by the Braves and I was
54:55
like that he covers like this great pitcher, good journeyman
54:58
pitcher for a while. Finnegan got the save tonight
55:01
for the Tigers. That was probably the to me,
55:05
that's the biggest move of the deadline for them.
55:07
Their pen was not good. No, they were trotting out Tommy
55:10
Kaneley as closer. Sometimes Will Vest, who's
55:13
probably not a closer. They didn't really have it.
55:16
They addressed it. They got three guys to put in
55:18
the back end of that bullpen. I think that was smart.
55:21
That's where they were weak. I think that's part of why you
55:23
saw them falling apart. The back end of the rotation,
55:26
having to use the bullpen. You get Morden and you get a
55:28
more bullpen help. They should be right back where
55:31
they were supposed to be and speedy last one.
55:34
Number one. We'll talk more about this one,
55:36
and I call it a pen as well, but the Minnesota Twins traded 9
55:39
total players, was the second most ever at the trade deadline,
55:41
only to the Cubs in 2021 who traded 11, and Joe Ryan was
55:45
pranked into a fake trade, believing he was traded to the
55:48
Red Sox when he really wasn't. Minnesota knows their season is
55:53
over, so they're trying to rebuild an organization that has
55:59
at one point they had Paul Molitor as their manager and
56:03
this team was a contender and then all of a sudden fall flat
56:07
on their face. They haven't won a World Series
56:09
since Kirby Bucket. Okay.
56:11
I mean, this is this is a dumb organization.
56:14
They've made so many mistakes. I I'm surprised they fell off
56:18
the way they did this year as quick as they did.
56:20
And it it happened so fast when in the beginning of the season,
56:24
you could argue they were going to make the playoffs.
56:27
They might. They were in first place for a
56:29
significant amount of time. I think for three or four weeks
56:32
they were in first place. And then all of a sudden Detroit
56:34
just got hot. And then they completely fell
56:36
flat on their face. I mean, and by the way, they're
56:39
the only team that gave Carlos Correa the money that they gave
56:41
them. So just a stupid organization.
56:44
Dumb. Well, in the twins, they gave
56:47
them up and they're still paying 30, I think 33 million of it.
56:50
Yeah, that's just stupid. There's a dumb organization.
56:53
They're one of the worst Rd. teams in the league.
56:56
They're 22 and 36 on the road, 30 and 24 at home.
57:00
They don't travel well. They're players.
57:03
I mean, they're a bunch of platoon bats that they try to
57:06
shake up. And they'll play the Yankees and
57:08
sweep them, too. That's what's gonna happen.
57:10
Do they play? They play the Twins one more
57:12
time this year. They get a couple of weeks.
57:14
I heard they play really well against Savage teams, but the
57:18
rest of the teams in the league, not very good.
57:21
It's a shame they were they started the year hot.
57:23
Like they were one of the top teams in the Central early in
57:26
the season when everyone was kind of lumped together and they
57:29
fell off in the worst way. And it's just, it's just pretty
57:33
sad when you give up, you know, as many guys on your starting
57:37
roster as you do in the trade deadline.
57:38
It's like ownership doesn't believe in you at all.
57:43
And that is the six pack. I am.
57:46
I am so tired. I'm so tired of watching this
57:50
Yankee team. It makes me miserable.
57:53
It makes me miserable watching this team.
57:55
I don't know why anybody. And I, I guarantee you Yankee
57:58
fans are, oh, we're up five, four.
58:00
Trust me, guys, the Yankees probably are going to lose this
58:03
game one way or another. They'll choke.
58:05
And then you're going to hear something.
58:07
Oh, it's Aaron Boone's fault because he brought in the wrong
58:10
relief pitcher. It's just, it's so stupid.
58:13
I, I don't get it anymore. Just.
58:16
Stop freeze. Already over 100 pitch.
58:18
I know it's. Fred is really struggling with
58:20
control. He can't.
58:22
He's not. He doesn't look.
58:23
Right. You know what's you know what's
58:24
going to come. It's it the the topic
58:26
conversation is going to be the blister again.
58:29
It's absolutely going to be the blister.
58:31
And I will, I will say to his to like, and I've never experienced
58:35
this, thank goodness, but I've seen it.
58:37
And it sucks because sometimes like people will get them under
58:41
their nail. And so it's like you got to be
58:44
cares. You can't cut it and you got to
58:45
like it's, it's it's a real thing.
58:48
Like it, it people think it's like, oh, you're soft, but like
58:51
it, it sucks. Like my fingers would get so
58:53
callous. You know if like you're trying
58:54
to type on your phone, you got. Sausage fingers.
58:57
I don't even know how you hold a bad baseball, I mean.
59:00
You I threw 100 suck my Dick. That's exactly how I did it.
59:06
Flip, flip that, Tommy. But yeah, it's just that it
59:11
that's, I mean, it sucks. And if it's under his nail,
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there's nothing you can do about it either.
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Like you can pop it with like a like what do you even do like?
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Nothing. Literally, they, Gino said.
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Stick it in somebody'd butt hole.
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That usually sticks. That was one of the old school
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trainer methods though. That was one of the old school
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trainer methods. I never tried it.
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I don't know. I I might have to do that with
59:37
my. That's that's a different kind
59:39
of inside baseball. Yeah, for.
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Sure. So yeah, just just stick it up
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there. It'll be.
59:43
Good. So I, I've been, I've been
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dieting so the only sugars I really I've been eating is
59:48
fruit. So I go to meat farms to get
59:50
myself like, you know, a bowl of, you know, fruit, the little
59:55
pineapple, little cantaloupe and all that other stuff.
59:58
So today I went and I got myself my fruit ball and I open up, you
1:00:04
know, the plastic, the way they like, like strapping.
1:00:06
So I'm pulling and I'm trying to pull it.
1:00:08
I RIP the hell out of my finger and I start bleeding all over my
1:00:12
car and I go inside. I go inside, you know, to
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Northwell and I tell him I got a Boo Boo.
1:00:18
And they look at her like, oh, you got a Boo Boo.
1:00:21
You want me to blow on it? I'm like, it's bleeding.
1:00:23
Gushing blood. It's like stop, Errol, you don't
1:00:25
need a guys. It is is this not deep?
1:00:29
Am I am I am I lying about that? Isn't that deep?
1:00:32
It's almost to the bone. And they're like, oh, you got a
1:00:34
Boo Boo. I had me baseball players.
1:00:36
I got a blister. Give me a break.
1:00:41
I I know job. I know I never pitched a
1:00:43
baseball. I'll I'll take I didn't I didn't
1:00:46
say all right, all right, listen, I've never thrown a
1:00:50
baseball in the major leagues. Okay, so I will, I will
1:00:54
certainly take in that thought. But hey, listen, I'm making $32
1:01:01
million a year. I'm not crying about it.
1:01:03
I'm I'm starting myself out there and throwing the goddamn
1:01:06
ball. Oh, I'm he and he is, Yeah.
1:01:08
I mean, he's not the one saying. Yeah, I know.
1:01:10
I got you. I got you.
1:01:11
Yeah. And I and I stand for him
1:01:13
because I give him some credit because he's going out there and
1:01:16
he's not. He's not crying about anything.
1:01:18
You know, he's not going to make that excuse.
1:01:19
But we've seen a lot of pitchers go out there over the years and,
1:01:23
well, I got a blister on my pinky and I can't grab the ball.
1:01:27
Yeah, give me a break. Cry me a river.
1:01:29
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1:01:35
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1:01:37
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1:01:40
Well, who do we have on on Wednesday?
1:01:42
All right, shout out to Java for getting this one.
1:01:44
Ariel Epstein, She is a betting analyst.
1:01:46
She has her own company, Prop Queen Sports, and also does
1:01:48
betting lines for Picket Sports as well.
1:01:50
She'll be on at 8:45. Big Yankees fan and also a
1:01:53
Baltimore Ravens fan. Baltimore Raven Ariel Epstein
1:01:57
Yes. And Jabba will be on, yes, ESPN
1:02:02
New York tomorrow at 1:30. Check him out.
1:02:06
He'll be promoting us and telling Jake to kiss my ass.
1:02:08
I'm just kidding. Anyways, we love you, Jake.
1:02:11
I guess I sometimes. All right.
1:02:12
Anyways, that's it for our show, ladies and gentlemen.
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I like to throw curveballs and definitely I don't like to throw
1:02:18
anything else. Speedy, you do shave those
1:02:20
bushes. Anyways, good night.
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