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Which MLB Rivalries Will Be Most Heated in 2025? · The 3-0 Take

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  Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to the Three O Take, where we talk
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  This episode 516. I'll be your host Kyle Corn.
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  I'm here with my Co host Nate Reyes.
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  motorized vehicle. With that said, Nate, visually,
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  yes. Yes, visually.
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  See. Let's talk some rivalries.
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  Yay. Let's talk some rivalries.
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  You know why? Because there's nothing going
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  on. And even more so on top of that,
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  flipped on, flipped on the MLB app, can't even really watch any
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  ball right now. I mean, I've got I've got the
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  A's and Cubs pulled up. And I'm not going to go into the
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  rant that I went into last episode, but I've got the Angels
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  and Cubs pulled up. It's pretty much the only game
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  that has a broadcast today that I'm seeing maybe a couple later.
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  But yeah, we're just kind of in baseball jail right now, which
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  is fine. We we have ways of of making it
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  work Even so. So we're going to talk about
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  sort of an idea that that came to me.
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  We're going to talk about the forecast of rivalries for this
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  season because I think something that you and I have talked
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  about. Yeah, shout out Laura in the
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  chat. See, Laura says she's listening
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  to the Dodgers Rockies game right now.
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  That's a that's a true, that's a true baseball fan.
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  Right there, this is what really like, what are we doing?
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  It's Thursday. Like why?
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  Why is there? Why can't we watch any?
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  Games listening to a spring training game that is
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  dedication. Shout out, shout out, Laura no,
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  but what I was getting to and I'll put up the little like and
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  You and I have have sort of touched on this over the last
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  handful of years where there's a shift in landscape with with a
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  lot of these rivalries. Some some are, let's just call
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  it like it is. Some are are dying, falling by
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  the wayside. Are are no longer maintaining
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  rival true rivalry status. On the flip side, you've got
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  some new ones that are have that have been blossoming, that have
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  been sort of filling the void of those other ones that we we love
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  to talk about so much, but are are are no longer.
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  So I figured let's look ahead to this season.
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  See what we've got down the pipe with with some of these matchups
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  and maybe we could even do a little bit of a joint ranking at
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  the end of the segment to maybe rank which ones we think are
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  going to be the most heated per the title.
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  What do you say about that? I say, can we?
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  Should we like redefine can, can we put out a definition for
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  rivalry? Because I, I think this is this,
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  it's a broad spectrum in most people's eyes.
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  And, and I don't know, because like if we're going to break it
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  up in percentages, like when we were growing up, the, the
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  tradition of rivalries covered like 50% of the prerequisites.
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  Right now, I feel like tradition, maybe 25%, maybe less
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  covers the requirement to fall into a rivalry.
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  I don't know, man. Like it that we'll, we'll get
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  into it. There's some that are just very
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  dead that. Sorry, my Internet cut out, but
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  I, I gathered what you were saying.
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  I think, well, I mean, you've got your you've got your
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  standard list of ones that we can, and you may have said this
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  when you cut out. So forgive me if I'm repeating
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  what you said, but you've got, you've got sort of your standard
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  list that the, the ones that people think about Red Sox,
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  Yankees, Dodgers, Giants, Cubs, Cardinals and, and, and more and
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  more as you get on the list. But like I said, the, the
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  landscape is shifting and I think it's worth talking about,
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  especially you got new names and new places, new faces and new
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  places, if, if you will. And it's, it's creating a shift
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  in where I think the attention is, is being given when it comes
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  to these rivalries. And I think some people are need
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  to brace themselves if they're a fan of a certain team and
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  understanding that, like the rivalry that you make covet,
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  which you can still do. Like we're not saying, well,
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  just don't care about this match up anymore, but just understand
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  from like a national point of view that it that it's becoming
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  less and less important. And I, I think we may have some,
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  some hearts to break later as we, we dive into this a little
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  bit. But you know, do not worry
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  because like I said, there's some, there's some new matchups
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  that I think are becoming more and more exciting and that I
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  think will give us quite the source of entertainment, not
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  just this season, but but hopefully moving forward.
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  So let's get into it. Let's start with the one that
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  you and I are most familiar with and that would be the Red Sox
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  and Yankees. And and by us going down this
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  list that Nate and I have constructed, this does not
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  necessarily mean again, we sort of just went on and on about it.
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  These are not all rivalries that we think are going to live up to
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  the hype this year. We may, we're just addressing
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  some pre-existing rivalries and we're going to talk about maybe
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  some new blossoming ones. But we're going to sort of give
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  our take as to where we think these rivalries are headed in,
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  in terms of their trajectory. So let, as I said, let's start
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  with the Red Sox and Yankees. I'll start by saying, and you
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  can back me up on this, I think for the last, call it two to
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  three years that this rivalry has been on life support.
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  Yeah. Would you?
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  Agree with that bringing it lightly.
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  Well, that's what I was going to say.
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  Is that like when tradition, if we're talking about what makes
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  up and defines rivalry and whatever percentage you want to
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  associate with tradition, I think it's the understanding
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  that all rivalries go dormant for chapters.
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  It's the length of that chapter that I think allows you to lean
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  on that tradition or not. This is obviously a top tier
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  rivalry and not just baseball but all of sports, so we can
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  fall back on this and allow a few years for it to go dormant
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  when one or the other team isn't necessarily competitive and
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  maybe the juices aren't flying as much.
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  With that said, and I agree, I, I think I'm, I'm turning the
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  corner. I think we're getting we're
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  there now. I won't even say we're getting
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  back to where it was. I think there's potential for it
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  to head back in the right direction.
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  If you're a fan of either of those teams or if you're just a
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  general baseball fan that likes a good rivalry, got good news
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  for you. I think this one has a chance to
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  to be revived because I think you've got a lot of you've got a
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  lot of young talent in the waiting in the wings and some of
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  some of which has already arrived, that if those names are
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  handled properly, I think you have a chance for these guys to
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  be around a long time. And that's what we talk about
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  all the time. Specifically with this rivalry.
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  You need guys that just aren't bopping in for a year and, and
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  hitting, hitting the road like you.
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  You need you need guys that have enough time with those
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  respective clubs to learn to just dislike each other.
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  And I'm not going to sit here and and condone just hating
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  people for hating people, but I mean, come on, it's baseball.
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  We love. We love a little bit of we love
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  some some bad blood every now and then.
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  And with the, with the names that are coming up with, with
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  Boston and, and now that the Yankees have offloaded Sodo, we
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  were talking about before we hopped on little bit of a of a,
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  or I should say more of a level playing field.
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  They're, they're sort of they're going to be fighting for their
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  own. They're going to be scrapping
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  and clawing for the top of that division.
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  Because like we talked about itself for grabs.
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  I think at this point, and I think this has, would we say,
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  would we say this 2025 is a little early or would we say
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  that this season has a chance for the seeds to be planted?
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  No, I, I, I think the seeds are, are able to be planted.
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  I, I think 2025 feels right. I, I think what makes this, what
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  makes this so good is that like there's, there's a little
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  cocktail of like, hope, I would say one side more than the other
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  progression this offseason. And then also like X Factor's
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  slash question marks, like, hey, you know, we're not too sure,
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  right? Like when you talk about some of
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  the additions that the Red Sox have made, like great on paper,
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  but still like, I don't like, how is Lucas Giolito going to
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  come back from injury, right? Like how does he slot in?
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  How how is how much are they going to lean on crochet being a
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  full time starter for just his second year And like not having
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  an innings limit? Like, you know, you go to the
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  Yankees side of things like is Goldie and Belly, you know, like
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  to those additions, their mindset shift away from like,
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  all right, let's try to get guys that play these actual positions
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  can can be better defensively and can maybe be a little more
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  athletic. Does that make up for the loss
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  of a big bat like Soto? So like, there's like, there's
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  so much that each team has shifted as far as mentality
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  goes, as far as roster configuration goes.
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  And then there's also the spark of you got your dudes mixed in
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  and, like, the Red Sox now have a lot of dudes.
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  And then you have your young guys that are like, OK, like,
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  was last year real? You know what I mean?
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  Is, is that Will, you're a brave cat.
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  Real is Jaron Duran capable of being an MVP conversation?
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  Does he back what he did last year?
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  Right? Like, so you have some of these
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  names you're like, there's a lot here there's a lot here to
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  unpack and I think it could be a really I, I mean, we're not
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  going to get too deep into the weeds here with like predictions
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  or anything, but I for me, those are the top 2 favorites in the
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  division. I think that's what the
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  consensus says. So yeah, I'd say it's back.
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  And it also helps you have some of these young guys that like,
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  grew up, like with our ERA, almost obviously younger, but
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  like, grew up kind of seeing this rivalry, right?
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  And, you know, just like Volpe is grew up a Yankees fan.
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  And so obviously he's like, this is the rivalry.
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  So maybe this is his first year experiencing.
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  OK, now the Red Sox are for real for me being in the league.
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  And does that add some spark, right?
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  Like, you know, you got a hated Bregman that Yankees and Yankees
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  fans can't stand. Now he's playing for the enemy,
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  the true enemy. So, like, there's a lot to this.
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  There's a lot to this. I think this is going to be, I
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  think we're back. I think you and I are going to
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  get back to the way because it's been a little a little flat in
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  that category. If you could, if the Red Sox
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  could extend Garrett Crochet I the two names that come to mind
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  for me that I think could really lead the charge in like the bad
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  blood department if you will, Garrett Crochet and Jaron Duran.
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  Jaron Duran 100% Jaron Duran 'cause.
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  I mean, Garrett Crochet has got a little more.
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  Scared of him than anyone else on that roster.
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  Right from a positional player perspective, yes, but I feel
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  like Garrett Crochet's got a little bit of that F you to him
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  too. And if you if you can lock him
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  down for beyond what he's currently scheduled to be there
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  for and actually make him a part of this, those are two names
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  that I think could play a huge. Hole like heavy lefty line up
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  right now. So like, yeah, that's that's,
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  that's a part of the equation for sure.
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  Let's let's keep it with the Yankees, but let's let's go
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  little little inner league here. Yankees, Mets.
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  I'll I'll let you kind of dive into this one.
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  As we mentioned, the aforementioned Soto heading
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  across town and like we talked about it, it's in terms of game
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  played, it's going to be rather limited.
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  So it it's not a matter of on field, like the product that
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  you're going to get on field, but it's more about, I think
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  storylines, more narrative, more fighting for a city.
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  How does, how does this rivalry shake out in 2025?
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  I think. It's going to be pretty good and
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  it's I it may be carried more so by the fans than the teams just
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  for like the lack of opportunities playing each
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  other. But yeah, I think it's going to
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  be spicy. I think there was something to
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  that Aaron Judge quote, where he was like, I'm not surprised he
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  went there when he was talking about Soto going to the Mets.
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  I think there was a little something in during the
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  negotiations during the offseason where, you know, Soto
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  hadn't talked to any of his former teammates.
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  He changed his number. The obvious comparisons of what
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  the Mets were willing to do to sign him versus what the Yankees
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  weren't willing to do. And it wasn't just wasn't just
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  overall salary number, right? It was like talking about the
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  sweet, talking about the shopping spree for the family.
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  Like those types of things are going to help kind of fuel this
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  fire a little bit. But I think mostly it's about
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  the Mets fans finally, not just having like false confidence or
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  manufactured confidence. I think they can have true
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  confidence in this team for the first time in a while.
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  And I think that's what's going to there's, I mean, there's New
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  Yorkers already don't lack confidence.
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  But when you add some success into the mix and then add a
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  really good offseason into the mix, it's good.
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  But I for me, like, I'm not trying to sound like a Homer
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  here. I, I, I just don't see how the
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  Mets did enough in the pitching category and especially going
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  into the season with some injuries.
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  Like I, I think that's a very big hole.
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  And I'm sure they're going to plug it at some point.
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  I'm sure they're going to be early to fill that role that
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  that hole a little bit with some moves, But that's something to
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  watch for. We already talked about all the,
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  you know, kind of wild cards with Yankees and differences
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  this season versus the last, but.
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  How much or how little do you think Soto's going to lean into
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  the questions that you you can already assume that he's going
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  to be getting about this? Do you think that, do you think
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  after haven't watched Soto for a year in New York, do you think
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  he's going to sort of not in like a cowardly way, but do you
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  think he's going to shy away from the questions about, you
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  know, being across town from his former team?
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  Or do you think he's going to kind of he's going to kind of
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  give it back to him a little bit?
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  He's going to lean into it? Do you which which, if you had
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  to bet which, which angle do you think he's leaning more towards
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  this year? Give it one year and then he
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  will really lean into it. He's going to be there for a
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  long time. So I, I don't think there's any
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  need to like rush into it. I think it's when Judge starts
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  creeping into 353637 years old and he's starting to fade and
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  they're like Soto can officially be the star of New York and and
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  arguably sports in like New York sports in general.
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  Yeah, I I think that'll get louder as the time goes.
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  I feel like this first year, it depends on the matchup, depends
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  on how they play each other. You know, I don't think he's
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  going to lead into it too much. I think it's still like the, you
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  know, I was grateful for my time over there.
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  Fans treated me great, great teammates.
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  The copy and paste answers you get.
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  Not trying to ruffle too many feathers right right off the
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  top. And then as things get spicier,
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  he's going to, he's going to obviously show his alliance
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  being heavier to the to the Mets.
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  That's my guess anyway. We'll see.
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  Speaking of the Mets, Mets Braves, now this is an
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  interesting one because I, I think as you and I have have
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  sort of discussed, I, I think, well, I, I know based on what
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  we're hearing, a lot of people are forgetting about the Braves
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  heading into this new season. It's weird, right?
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  Rightfully so. The Mets dominated the the
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  airwaves this offseason, understandably so.
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  But a strong Braves team is going to have a very A strong
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  healthy Braves team is going to have a very solid case for
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  winning that division. Like you're you're event, you're
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  eventually going to have Acuna back.
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  You're going to have Strider back.
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  You're going to have Sale coming off of Cy Young season.
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  Like, yeah, it's I understand it's a Soto show in Queens, but
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  like we talked about, this isn't basketball.
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  You're going to need a little bit more than than a star or
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  two. And I think again, once you get
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  everybody, everybody back fully healthy, this Braves team I
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  think is going to have a lot to say.
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  Both on and off the field about this, this divisional dynamic.
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  I, I don't think they're going to lay down very easily,
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  especially given their track record from the last, call it
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  half decade, decade even of, of just dominance in that division.
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  So I don't know. I, I think this is one I'm
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  probably looking forward to, maybe not the most, but close to
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  it, just given the the chip on the shoulder that I think the
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  Braves are coming into this with.
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  Yeah, I agree. I I think, yeah, everybody can
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  look at last year's as a wash, as a fluke, as a, you know, the
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  you got dealt a really rough hand.
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  And the Braves, did they check every box this offseason?
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  No. But neither did the Mets, right?
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  You got a lot of guys coming back.
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  I think it is like a do or die time for a few players.
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  But the Braves, like I'm not quite ready to say it's do or
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  die for like an Austin Riley, but it is time for him to like
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  solidify himself in that next tier.
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  Michael Harris, same thing, right?
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  Like everyone's Michael Harris is giving me like it's a weird
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  comp, but like he's giving me like Gary Sanchez vibes of like
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  you came in and everyone was like high praise.
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  You look good early. And then it just it hasn't
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  really like taken that next step yet.
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  So I'm ready to see Michael Harris like really settle in and
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  be like a top five center fielder in the game.
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  You know, Matt Olson is going to always do his thing.
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  Aussie obvious Acuna Azuna is good good for 30 walking walking
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  into a season. You know he's he's going to have
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  30 minimum. They do believe that shortstop's
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  a hole. Barcia is not really kind of
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  checking the box for like what do you you can't I it's so funny
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  how we dissect team in rosters now or we're just like every
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  every position has to be top three in the league and it's
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  just not realistic. Like you have to understand
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  that's that's not how it works, man.
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  There's there's too many jobs and not enough guys that fill
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  his role. There was roles.
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  So I think if he could place all defense and and hit above 250, I
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  would call that a win out of Orlando RCA all day.
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  So and then yeah, can Strider come back?
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  Can the beard instead of the mustache be the move that?
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  Mark my words, if that beard, if that beard stays, that's going
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  to be The X Factor for the Braves this year, for Spencer
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  Strider and more largely the Braves.
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  And I'm I'm not, I'm not in the camp that Chris Sales Cy Young
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  was a fluke. I'm not in that camp.
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  I think he's always had that stuff in him.
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  And like you, you know better than most like it.
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  It's been weird injuries mixed in with someone like typical
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  pitcher injuries, but it's also been like fluky weird stuff.
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  So for him to be healthy and yeah, finally utilizing all of
• 23:44
  his pitches the right way, like that's a, that's a top five 1-2
• 23:49
  punch in the league if they're both rolling right.
• 23:53
  So yeah. Keeping it with the Braves.
• 23:57
  How are we feeling about the Braves, Phillies this year?
• 24:01
  Because I, I'll start by saying, or I should say, I'll start by
• 24:05
  reminding people. I think I'm giving, I, I already
• 24:08
  know where you stand and feel free to remind the folks as
• 24:10
  well. But I'm, I'm giving this
• 24:13
  Phillies team, this Phillies at the, the Phillies as they're
• 24:17
  currently constructed, this window that we've been
• 24:20
  witnessing for the last 3-4 years, it's been building that's
• 24:25
  made deep runs. I'm going to, I hope I don't
• 24:29
  regret saying this. I'm going to give it one more
• 24:30
  year. I don't know.
• 24:33
  I know you are. I really, I'm really trying to
• 24:35
  hold out for something and I'm hoping that like we talked about
• 24:39
  with the Braves coming into this season with a little bit of a
• 24:41
  chip on their shoulder, the Mets thinking that I would have.
• 24:45
  I'm just guessing. I might be wrong, but maybe
• 24:48
  there's some guys in that clubhouse in Queens that think
• 24:50
  they're just going to walk right to the the division title and
• 24:54
  and not have to put up much of a fight.
• 24:56
  I think I, I think there's going to be sorely mistaken, but I do
• 24:59
  agree that there's, there's some thought process that's so.
• 25:02
  So where does that leave the Phillies?
• 25:04
  Do do the Phillies come into this season with an even bigger
• 25:07
  chip than the Braves on their shoulder?
• 25:11
  Is that a valid? Is that a valid question to
• 25:13
  raise? Yeah, I think there's more
• 25:15
  pressure on the Phillies than the Braves that oh for sure
• 25:23
  getting getting a lot shorter. I like the rotation depth.
• 25:30
  I really like the rotation depth like a that's a strong starting
• 25:35
  5. Jesus, Lazardo, we, we said it
• 25:38
  before, a very underrated move that it just got slept on.
• 25:43
  I feel like a good a good bit of this offseason.
• 25:45
  Oh yeah, yeah, that rotation, it looks, it looks solid.
• 25:56
  We'll see, man. We'll see I'd like to see them.
• 26:00
  I'd like to see them in the hunt again, but the NL is just so
• 26:03
  freaking deep. So I think this will get spicy.
• 26:07
  I I think the NL E is going to be very spicy in the top in the
• 26:12
  top half of the of the division. I think a lot of these a lot of
• 26:17
  these teams are going to get their punches in throughout the
• 26:19
  year. It's, I think these three teams
• 26:23
  being where they're at right now is going to have August and
• 26:27
  September as almost must watch TV when any three of these teams
• 26:32
  play each other. I think that's what it's going
• 26:35
  to feel like. And we were talking off air.
• 26:38
  We're not going to go ahead and connect the dots between
• 26:41
  Phillies and Mets. We, I, I think most people can
• 26:44
  agree, feel like the Phillies and Braves rivalry has a little
• 26:47
  bit more to it than the Phillies and Mets.
• 26:51
  But overall, like, this is going to be a super tight division,
• 26:54
  man. And let's face it, dude, the
• 26:59
  Phillies still have some stars and I like the rotation depth
• 27:04
  more than the other two teams. So they're going to be they're
• 27:08
  going to be up there. They're going to be up there.
• 27:12
  You mentioned the National League being stacked, sort of
• 27:14
  leading the charge. They're leading the pack.
• 27:17
  I think everyone knows the Los Angeles Dodgers.
• 27:19
  They've got let's, let's look at a few matchups, we'll call it,
• 27:26
  for the Dodgers, one of which being the traditional rivalry,
• 27:30
  as it were, the San Francisco Giants, the more recent recently
• 27:37
  blossomed rivalry of the Dodgers, Padres.
• 27:41
  And then the one that I think you wanted to add to the list,
• 27:44
  the Dodgers versus everyone else, the rivalry of the Dodgers
• 27:48
  versus the field. Yeah.
• 27:50
  Where do you want to start? Well, let's get the Giants out
• 27:54
  of the way. That rivalry's dead.
• 27:56
  I'm sorry. And like I said before, you have
• 28:01
  your tradition and then you have like this chapter that you're
• 28:05
  allowed to be dormant. And if you're dormant for too
• 28:09
  long, you can't fall back on the tradition anymore.
• 28:13
  And unfortunately the giants, I mean, I can't get there.
• 28:18
  I I really can't get there. We're talking about most
• 28:23
  projections, probably been having them finish 4th in in the
• 28:26
  division and you're not able to hang anymore.
• 28:31
  So I like what you did. I mean, I, I, I like Willy
• 28:36
  Adamus, I like your left side, Willy Adamus and Matt Chapman.
• 28:38
  You're going to play defense. You're probably not going to
• 28:41
  score a ton of runs, but you're going to play good defense.
• 28:43
  And because of where you play, you're going to keep the ball in
• 28:47
  the in the park and you're not going to get torched.
• 28:51
  But like, you can't hang with that Dodgers lineup and their
• 28:55
  pitching blows you out of the water.
• 28:57
  It's just it's too big of a gap for me.
• 29:01
  Sort of separate to the rivalry conversation, I and we'll
• 29:05
  revisit this when we get to our hot takes and predictions
• 29:07
  episode that we do every year, but I could see this Giants team
• 29:13
  put together a wild card bid. I really could.
• 29:18
  I really could. I mean, they are, like you said,
• 29:22
  they the, the, the league that they're in is, is rather
• 29:25
  stacked. But I don't know.
• 29:30
  I mean, I think win total wise, they could get there, but
• 29:33
  they're just going to be up against a lot of a lot of other
• 29:36
  teams that are going to be. Right there, they're stuck.
• 29:38
  They're stuck in a really tough division.
• 29:40
  They're stuck in a really, really tough division.
• 29:44
  You know, you put them in the central and they're in the
• 29:46
  conversation. That's fair, yeah.
• 29:48
  The West is just, it's it's really, really tough, man.
• 29:54
  Yeah. I just can't get there and it's
• 29:56
  been too long. I'm trying them for the Giants.
• 29:59
  I, I'm with you in saying that I think the Giants Dodgers rivalry
• 30:02
  is, but I'm again, separate note.
• 30:05
  I'm, I just want to be on record as saying that I'm, I'm, I have
• 30:09
  good feelings about the Dodger or about the Giants in 2025.
• 30:13
  Save this receipt. Let's revisit here.
• 30:15
  We can revisit it. We can revisit it, the Padres
• 30:20
  sort of sliding in, taking the place of the Giants for good
• 30:27
  reason. For good reason.
• 30:28
  Let's just let's just call it like it is for good reason.
• 30:32
  They're entertaining, they have spark, they have flash.
• 30:35
  Again, I really wish they would have capitalized this offseason
• 30:42
  on the momentum. Granted, it got cut short in the
• 30:46
  postseason, but I really wish you would have taken that postse
• 30:51
  or the the postseason match up against the Dodgers and and use
• 30:56
  that to fuel an offseason where you're just not going to roll
• 30:59
  over. And they comparatively,
• 31:03
  comparatively, they they rolled over and now it's it's sort of
• 31:07
  leaving us wanting more coming into 2025.
• 31:10
  But I still, with that said, I still don't think, no, let me
• 31:16
  just say this, I think there's still potential for this rivalry
• 31:21
  coming into this year, but you're going to need you're
• 31:24
  going to need I'll, I'll say this, you're going to need more
• 31:26
  now out of who's there. Then you would have had you
• 31:30
  supplemented it and then you could have alleviated some of
• 31:34
  that pressure from the guys who are currently there.
• 31:36
  Yeah, just a weird place with their ownership and, you know,
• 31:40
  the owner passing away and lawsuits back and forth and, you
• 31:44
  know, not knowing when and how to spend money.
• 31:46
  Like it's, it's a lot of strange stuff.
• 31:48
  There's strange rumors. So like I don't like it feels
• 31:52
  like one of those things where like sometimes you can have a
• 31:55
  team join together and disagreeing with their front
• 32:03
  office. Like sometimes it's like a US
• 32:06
  against the organization like type mentality that I think
• 32:11
  could work. So it's weird because like I
• 32:16
  think that there's going to be a bigger gap this year between the
• 32:20
  success of those two teams, but I think the rivalry still stays.
• 32:25
  Does that make sense? Sure.
• 32:27
  Yeah, I would agree. Like I, I think that there's
• 32:30
  still a lot of spice there because of your because of your
• 32:36
  Machado and Tatis that just are always going to keep that alive.
• 32:40
  Like they're, that's just who they are.
• 32:44
  But I just, I don't see the Padres taking a bigger step
• 32:53
  towards success versus last year.
• 32:56
  I don't see them even taking the same step of success that they
• 33:01
  did last year. I think there's a little bit of
• 33:03
  a slide and this team could look pretty different post deadline.
• 33:10
  So that makes me wonder. But I do like the rivalry.
• 33:14
  I think it's still solid. I think it's still yeah.
• 33:17
  I mean, that's I don't think it's going anywhere.
• 33:19
  And if you can keep that core around which contractually it
• 33:24
  seems like, you know those two guys plus a young fired up
• 33:30
  Jackson Merrill is going to be in the mix like all that's key
• 33:34
  recipe. So I think it stays put.
• 33:40
  Speaking of Stan Put, I think this rivalry between the Dodgers
• 33:43
  and literally everybody else is going to be around for a while.
• 33:46
  Let's. Go for baseball, man.
• 33:50
  It's it's great for baseball. Yeah, much.
• 33:53
  As you hate it. It's great for baseball and I, I
• 33:56
  think what Mookie said, what was it prior?
• 34:00
  Was it going into last season talking about is it going to be
• 34:04
  everybody's World Series essentially?
• 34:07
  I mean, that aged rather well. I, I will say, and I think that
• 34:11
  that sentiment carries over to this year to next year, the year
• 34:15
  after that. And maybe even for like the, I
• 34:18
  mean, maybe I'm getting ahead of myself here, but maybe even for
• 34:20
  like the next decade, because the Dodgers are just showing no
• 34:23
  signs of changing their philosophy when it comes to
• 34:26
  adding stars. They're not showing any signs of
• 34:32
  changing their where they finished in the division,
• 34:38
  therefore putting themselves in a in just in a perennial
• 34:45
  opportunity to make a run in. I mean, if they're not going to
• 34:51
  win every World Series, obviously, but they're going to
• 34:53
  have arguably the best shot year in and year out for the next
• 34:57
  half decade, maybe more. So it's, it's going to be a
• 35:01
  situation like the Yankees faced many years ago, where it's going
• 35:06
  to be, why can't we be them? We, if we can't be them, then
• 35:11
  we're just going to choose to hate them.
• 35:13
  And I think that's where the that's where a lot of people
• 35:15
  already are with the Dodgers. I I feel like.
• 35:22
  I think it's too early to call it this, but it's it's got all
• 35:25
  the makings to become a dynasty like it's it's shaping that way.
• 35:32
  And there's not. Like you said, there's not.
• 35:33
  Going to be a fall off with how they're doing things.
• 35:36
  All these guys are locked down long term.
• 35:40
  And they're still. Pouring money into their farm
• 35:43
  development, scouting, it's. Not going anywhere, they're not.
• 35:48
  Going anywhere? So it's like wrestling?
• 35:51
  Needs to get better. Or you're not in.
• 35:55
  Contention. That's just how it's going to
• 35:57
  go. So yeah, I mean, it is going to
• 35:59
  be every team's World Series. It is every team is is going to
• 36:02
  give them their best. And it's good to have a villain.
• 36:08
  They're obviously clearly the biggest, baddest villain in the
• 36:12
  league. So buckle up.
• 36:16
  It's going to be you might even see like a new random rivalry
• 36:20
  pop up out of this. Something weird, something
• 36:23
  strange, right? Like, I'm not saying a long term
• 36:26
  1 we talked about it off here beforehand, but like a few years
• 36:29
  ago with like a random Ray's Yankees thing that was going on,
• 36:34
  Cece's yelling at the dugout. I mean, hey, this team, I'm.
• 36:37
  Watching right now. Why?
• 36:38
  Like, why not the Cubs? Yeah, the Cubs.
• 36:41
  Had the Cubs. Had a heck of an offseason
• 36:43
  they're they're trying to position themselves to go for it
• 36:46
  this year. Something could well.
• 36:48
  Speaking of dead rivalries, the Cubs and Cardinals thing is
• 36:50
  done. Yeah, Let's just get that out of
• 36:53
  the way, yeah? Let's get that out of the way.
• 36:54
  The White Sox are barely a Major League team, so we're not going
• 36:57
  to call the Chicago rivalry a thing either.
• 37:01
  The Cubs need to direct their attention towards towards the
• 37:04
  Dodgers. Maybe, maybe there's a little
• 37:06
  something something there. That's my.
• 37:09
  I'm going to just go ahead. And put my vote in now that's my
• 37:11
  vote for Dark Horse. Sneaky pop up.
• 37:17
  New pop up. Rivalry with the.
• 37:19
  Dodgers. That's my vote.
• 37:20
  Is the Chicago Cubs fair enough? Fair enough as they get.
• 37:25
  Currently, no, as there be no hit right now heading into the
• 37:29
  bottom of the fourth next along. The Atlanta Games are flying, by
• 37:34
  the way. I noticed that it's fat.
• 37:37
  Like fast. Oh yeah, watched the.
• 37:39
  Game the other day it was like. Through three innings it was
• 37:42
  like 1/2 hour. It's like done.
• 37:44
  Speaking of flying. The A's travel traveling on on
• 37:50
  over to to Sacramento this year I.
• 37:55
  I wanted to add this one. To our list, not because I think
• 37:57
  it's going to really matter this year, but the effect that the
• 38:01
  relocation is going to have on this Bay Area rivalry and that's
• 38:07
  the A's and giants. What do we, what do we think
• 38:11
  that this is going to do? Because you you look at the
• 38:16
  rivalry as it was previously constructed when the A's were
• 38:18
  still in Oakland. And the.
• 38:23
  Rivalry was what it was. I, I, I don't want to go as far
• 38:26
  as to say it was on life support, but it just, it was
• 38:29
  lacking interest. It was lacking spice.
• 38:32
  What do we got to go? We got.
• 38:34
  To go back to like, that's the early 2000s.
• 38:37
  A good while? Yeah, a good while.
• 38:39
  And so the reason, again, the reason I wanted to add this to
• 38:42
  the list to discuss is because, I mean, does the relocation sort
• 38:46
  of put the nail in into this thing?
• 38:47
  Because no like. I don't think so.
• 38:52
  You think it's still you? You think it's still alive?
• 38:57
  Oh, put the nail in this thing. I'm sorry.
• 38:59
  Yeah, for sure. Yeah, yeah, that's it's done.
• 39:01
  Yeah, yeah. I mean.
• 39:04
  Yeah, set. Well, that's let.
• 39:07
  Me, let me freshen up on my. Geography here, where is where
• 39:12
  is Sacramento in relation? What it is about California?
• 39:15
  But everything seems like it's like four or five hours apart,
• 39:18
  correct? Well, it's a big state.
• 39:22
  OK, so. It's looking for Oakland here.
• 39:29
  Where the heck is Oakland? Is Sacramento nice?
• 39:33
  Sacramento. Is that a nice?
• 39:34
  Place. Not from what?
• 39:36
  I've heard, but better than Oakland.
• 39:39
  Never been. I haven't heard the best.
• 39:43
  I don't. I don't.
• 39:45
  Know. So why is Oakland not showing up
• 39:48
  on the map like it's in it's in this area closed?
• 39:53
  It's just closed. It's no Oakland man, can you?
• 39:56
  Imagine losing 3 sports franchises in a decade like
• 40:03
  that's that's actually crazy. So it's.
• 40:08
  OK, I see. Right.
• 40:09
  Duh. Yeah.
• 40:09
  Across the Bay. It's east of San Francisco and
• 40:12
  then Sacramento's a little, little northeast of San
• 40:15
  Francisco. So distance wise, definitely a
• 40:18
  little further. But I again, I just think with
• 40:21
  the direction that the the A's are headed, I, I don't know that
• 40:25
  that's going to help this whatsoever.
• 40:27
  So I'm just going to go ahead and say that this is dead.
• 40:33
  Yeah. So shout out to her in the chat.
• 40:35
  She said she loved living in Sacramento.
• 40:37
  So maybe there's Yeah, it's like a little more.
• 40:39
  It's a little more. Inland.
• 40:40
  Maybe there's something redeem. Redeeming when it.
• 40:43
  Comes back from a different vibe.
• 40:45
  Like it's like almost two different states when you get
• 40:47
  off the coast, I noticed. Like when you get, when you get
• 40:50
  inland, it's like, is this still California?
• 40:52
  It's so different. For sure and.
• 40:56
  Last one I got here. Rangers.
• 41:00
  Astros. We've talked for for some time
• 41:05
  now about how we may be looking at the finally the, the come
• 41:11
  down of, of the Houston Astros little bit of a dismantling of,
• 41:17
  of the, the window of the what? Would you call it dominance?
• 41:28
  Yeah, a dismantling. Of the dominance a little bit
• 41:32
  for many reasons. Age, contracts, trades, free
• 41:36
  agency. There's a lot of factors to play
• 41:38
  with the Astros, but name of their ballpark that I would
• 41:42
  argue that's the biggest factor here at play.
• 41:46
  But I. Think the Rangers are?
• 41:52
  I don't know. I have.
• 41:55
  I'll admit I have a hard time pegging the Rangers as like the
• 41:58
  new team, like the new sheriff in town.
• 42:02
  In in the long. Term sense, but I feel like
• 42:05
  currently. They're kind of the.
• 42:09
  New sheriff in town. But they they're.
• 42:13
  Not in my at least my opinion, my humble opinion.
• 42:17
  I can't say that they're the new Astros because they'd, I don't
• 42:21
  think they're set up. That they're constructed to.
• 42:26
  Have the same type of long term dominance.
• 42:28
  So I think I guess for the time being, we can say that you know,
• 42:34
  the Rangers are on on their way up.
• 42:36
  Astros might be sliding a little bit.
• 42:39
  You know, you lose Bregman, you you ship, you ship Kyle Tucker
• 42:42
  out. I think the Rangers are.
• 42:48
  I think they've stayed. In the same place like.
• 42:53
  Sure, yeah. But they're still really didn't
• 42:57
  do well. Last year, I think they'll do
• 42:59
  better than they did last year. Yeah, I think.
• 43:03
  It's more. So about the Astro sliding to
• 43:09
  make it kind of like you were talking about like with the
• 43:11
  Yankees and Red Sox, like it's a little bit more of an like one
• 43:14
  team either has to elevate or one level slide where that one?
• 43:17
  Is, so it's like a. Level playing field between the
• 43:19
  two teams. More so now than than it's been
• 43:25
  again. Trying to say stuff without
• 43:27
  giving away like hot takes in predictions episode at all but
• 43:31
  yeah man, I mean like you're crazy to think that there hasn't
• 43:35
  been a little bit of a slide with the Astros so we'll.
• 43:42
  See, and that's not. I was wishing.
• 43:44
  That upon yeah, no, no, no, no. It's just a reality of their
• 43:49
  yeah, their personnel moves. Just yeah, just how it how it is
• 43:53
  how. It check out.
• 43:55
  But the Rangers line up. Needs to bang.
• 44:01
  They got to go. Pitching's got some question
• 44:04
  marks. But like, whatever they need to
• 44:06
  hit because like that team's too stacked to not hit.
• 44:11
  Corey Seeger, stay healthy, be who you're supposed to be.
• 44:20
  Let's I think it's time to rank. These.
• 44:23
  From let let's do a joint. List here, working our way from
• 44:26
  the bottom to the top 5th. Well, how do we want to
• 44:33
  categorize this? Ones we're most looking forward
• 44:36
  to watching this year? Ones we think will be most
• 44:38
  heated. I mean, I know that the title is
• 44:40
  ones rivalries that will be most heated in 2025.
• 44:43
  Let's go with heated. Let's go.
• 44:44
  With most heated stay. With the theme here.
• 44:47
  I'm going to. Go What do you what do you
• 44:50
  think? About.
• 44:53
  I mean because we covered what like.
• 44:55
  A. What about Mets?
• 44:57
  Mets. Braves at 5:00.
• 44:59
  What do you think of that? We covered like 10:10.
• 45:02
  Or so Mets, Braves in the five hole.
• 45:12
  Yeah, yeah, yeah, we can do that.
• 45:16
  I kind of want to then. Go.
• 45:21
  Braves Phillies 4. Braves, Phillies 4.
• 45:27
  I would then go. Yanks, Mets 3.
• 45:36
  Really. You'd put the Yankees and Mets
• 45:38
  at 3:00. Maybe put them four and.
• 45:42
  Then. So we went Phillies.
• 45:43
  We went Phillies brave. No, what did we go?
• 45:46
  5 Mets. Braves, then, then maybe Yanks.
• 45:52
  Mats 4, Braves, Phillies 3. And then I, I think it's I think
• 46:01
  it's a slam dunk. I think you and I both know what
• 46:03
  1 and 2 are. You really think the Yankees?
• 46:07
  And Red Sox jumped up the the leaderboard that much?
• 46:12
  I think it's back, yeah. You really think it's back?
• 46:15
  I think it's back. You're going to put him at 2
• 46:19
  though. Yeah, yeah.
• 46:21
  Putting them at 2:00 and. Then all right, so you.
• 46:25
  Are you are riding the wave of that that last year's post
• 46:30
  season putting Dodgers? Padres, I'm going to ride it.
• 46:35
  I. Like it, I like.
• 46:36
  It do you like that? Do you think that's a fair?
• 46:41
  Yeah, because the NL. East, like there's there's to
• 46:47
  me, at least there's no defined 1-2 punch like these guys, these
• 46:53
  two teams are just going to go out.
• 46:55
  It's going to be a lot of lot of lot of hooks, a lot of jabs.
• 47:00
  There's going to be some some black guys like it.
• 47:03
  It's like. You have your teams that.
• 47:08
  Are just are going to win more games.
• 47:10
  I think the Dodgers are going to win more games than the Padres.
• 47:13
  Duh. But I think they're like,
• 47:15
  there's aspects of what the Padres have and bring to the
• 47:18
  table that almost feel like they can have the Dodgers number
• 47:22
  sometimes. So they hate each other like
• 47:26
  Laura said, they hate each other and.
• 47:31
  The core is. Still there the I think.
• 47:36
  You know it's still. Fresh from the postseason, I
• 47:40
  think Mike Shield is like the perfect manager for the Padres.
• 47:44
  Just the attitude and the like, it's, it's just I, I would want
• 47:51
  to run through a wall for that guy.
• 47:53
  So I think it's. I think the Padres.
• 47:58
  As a clubhouse need to like protect each other and say hey,
• 48:03
  this organization is going through craziness.
• 48:06
  Hey, we got. We lost.
• 48:09
  And we were right. There at the finish line last
• 48:11
  year, I think we got to bring it back, man.
• 48:13
  So I think you're going to see some success there.
• 48:16
  I just think that the Dodgers are a very tough mountain to
• 48:19
  climb. But it's going to bring
• 48:21
  fireworks. There's no doubt in my mind.
• 48:50
  Whose quote was this? Whose quote was.
• 48:54
  This you want the quote, you want the details quote.
• 49:02
  But if you have another guy. Or veteran, like, you know, say
• 49:05
  John Lester is pitching for the Angels right now.
• 49:08
  He'd be like, no, we're going to need a normal schedule.
• 49:11
  I'm going to pitch every fifth day.
• 49:12
  We're not doing this every Sunday crap.
• 49:15
  You know what I mean? You get an old vet in there,
• 49:17
  they want to stick to the routine, but you got nobody in
• 49:20
  there, no one else to pitch. I don't even know who else is in
• 49:23
  there. So doesn't matter.
• 49:26
  Dear Lord. When was this?
• 49:30
  This was the three O take episode 138 UNS Cespedes the
• 49:37
  disappearing act August 3rd, 2020 bro dropping like just.
• 49:42
  Dropping names like. Pulling names out of.
• 49:46
  Nowhere. Jon Lester, what I'm going to
• 49:56
  say me. So here's the deal I.
• 49:59
  Actually forgot to look at who it is, so I can just let me just
• 50:03
  play it here real quick. Let's see.
• 50:04
  Let's see what we got. I hate listening to myself.
• 50:08
  Please don't be me. I hope it's you now.
• 50:09
  Who did you guess? Did you say?
• 50:11
  I think it's. Me.
• 50:11
  I think it's me. I forgot who.
• 50:13
  I forgot to listen. So let's see who it was we're.
• 50:22
  Going to need to a normal. Schedule going to pitch.
• 50:25
  Every fifth day we're. Not doing this every Sunday
• 50:27
  crap, you know what I mean. You get an old vet in there,
• 50:31
  they want to stick to the routine.
• 50:32
  But you got nobody in there, no one else to pitch.
• 50:35
  I don't even know who else is in there.
• 50:36
  So doesn't matter. It's Mike.
• 50:41
  Good call. Good call.
• 50:45
  Yeah, Nate. Nate gets.
• 50:46
  In there sometimes with just like is you know what I'm doing
• 50:49
  this crap you know I don't even care who else is in there what
• 50:52
  day we. Record.
• 50:54
  I don't know. It doesn't matter.
• 50:55
  What kind of traffic I had on the way?
• 50:57
  Home that's. I get it.
• 51:00
  I get it good stuff, good stuff well done well done.
• 51:04
  I'll give you another 55 big booms.
• 51:09
  Let's let's get into this draft. So I had to make a change to the
• 51:17
  title because originally I had it lifted it listed as active
• 51:20
  hits, leader draft, and that was going to be misleading because
• 51:25
  that's the. Assumption that.
• 51:26
  We know who the current active. Hits leaders are.
• 51:31
  And we don't this draft hit total.
• 51:35
  Yes, we're we're. Drafting by position.
• 51:40
  No research. Just off the noggins, see who
• 51:44
  knows Ball. We're essentially, Long story
• 51:47
  short, we're trying to compile a team that has the most
• 51:51
  collective hits, more so than the other team, so.
• 51:57
  It's we're going to probably. Leave some names off, but again,
• 52:00
  no research. That's how we like to do these
• 52:02
  drafts, Blind drafts, Just yeah. Phones away.
• 52:08
  You know, put it over. Here like it's, oh, it's a
• 52:10
  reach. You won't see me reach over
• 52:12
  there and we're going to see. See.
• 52:14
  What we got here and then I guess the plan is to are you, do
• 52:18
  you want to keep track of the OR do you want to Yeah, I'll total.
• 52:21
  Them up when we're done, we'll just see the the guy who has the
• 52:24
  most amount of hits totaled up at the end of this with his
• 52:27
  lineup will be the winner. These are active guys.
• 52:34
  Yeah, active. Only correct active, only no
• 52:36
  retired. So if we have some vets that are
• 52:40
  still free agents at the moment, that's still fine.
• 52:44
  We're going to go position by position.
• 52:46
  So that's what the randomizer is going to hit us with.
• 52:49
  So we're not. Just randomly.
• 52:50
  Drafting. And we have a little twist we're
• 52:55
  going to have, we're going to have a starting pitcher in there
• 52:58
  because that makes us think a little bit to go back to the
• 53:01
  days of not universal DH when they could hit, Yeah.
• 53:06
  And then Speaking of DH. We will have ADH, but we're just
• 53:09
  going to treat that as like a free spot basically.
• 53:12
  So basically any, any position player can well, hopefully
• 53:16
  position player will be put there.
• 53:19
  Doesn't have to be like labeled as ADH on Baseball Reference or
• 53:23
  whatever. Yeah.
• 53:27
  And again, if we stumble upon the the active hit leader at
• 53:32
  that given position, great. But I'm not counting on that for
• 53:36
  for any of these, yeah picks really.
• 53:38
  So we're just going to quick question out of.
• 53:40
  Curiosity. Was it a landslide last last
• 53:43
  draft? It was like a 9010.
• 53:45
  Yeah, well, I mean, to be fair, what?
• 53:46
  No, no, no, no, no, no, no, to be fair, it the caption of the
• 53:49
  post that I put out was just go ahead and vote for Nate.
• 53:52
  That's literally what I said. I said just go ahead and vote
• 53:54
  for Nate. And so people, you know, shout
• 53:55
  out to them. They listened.
• 53:57
  They they said, you know what on the Internet does you know?
• 53:59
  We're going to do what? We're going to do what?
• 54:01
  Our friend Kyle says we're just going to vote for Nate because
• 54:03
  this was ugly. This was a landslide.
• 54:05
  So with that said, let us get into it here.
• 54:09
  What do you want to title this draft?
• 54:10
  Because I I just have it as. Active hits draft is.
• 54:15
  There. Is there a twist you want to put
• 54:16
  on that because I'm about to put it up on the screen here for the
• 54:18
  folks. No, I think that.
• 54:21
  Works. Let's not overthink it, you
• 54:22
  know, Active hits draft. All right, nervous I'm.
• 54:31
  Nervous for this one. I don't know why this is going
• 54:35
  to be. We're going to leave.
• 54:36
  Some names off. We're going to leave some names
• 54:38
  off. All right, You got first pick,
• 54:40
  so good luck dealing with that pressure.
• 54:43
  Yeah. What position you got?
• 54:45
  Snake drafts. We've got center field.
• 54:50
  That's such a tough one to start.
• 54:51
  Off with I mean the outfield in. General, Yeah.
• 54:58
  Trying to think of you guys that have been.
• 54:59
  Doing it for a while. These drafts are tough.
• 55:08
  Because it makes me like, I sit here like, oh, I know ball, I
• 55:11
  know ball, but I I just black out.
• 55:13
  I'm like who like who are even center fielders now?
• 55:18
  Yeah, it makes. You makes you kind of fumble the
• 55:21
  fumble a little bit like not quite sure.
• 55:24
  It's like the people. That get on like.
• 55:25
  The the what's the thing at the end of Family Feud?
• 55:29
  Like the fast money or whatever? Yeah, exactly what you saying.
• 55:32
  Why would you say? That.
• 55:35
  All right. Active center fielders.
• 55:41
  Feel like center fielders? Tough.
• 55:42
  Man, just mostly young guys. All right, Well, I mean, we're
• 55:46
  off to already like a question for the committee.
• 55:50
  Am I allowed to put Mike Trout here?
• 55:52
  No, he's. He's a right fielder now.
• 55:55
  We did it. We literally did a whole segment
• 55:57
  on it. That's.
• 55:59
  Crazy because he hasn't played any games in right field.
• 56:02
  He is a right fielder. That's tough.
• 56:05
  So Jose Altuve is the left fielder, just out of curiosity.
• 56:09
  Like guys like that, that what we're doing, I mean within.
• 56:12
  Reason like if we've if we've been made aware of a positional
• 56:15
  change like sure we opening day may get here and some guy may be
• 56:19
  in a new spot, but of what we know we're just going to go
• 56:22
  based off that. I hear you that.
• 56:25
  Hurts center field is not. My brain is not braining.
• 56:30
  Right now. Oh, I'm trying to think around.
• 56:35
  The league, dude. I'm not cheating, I'm just.
• 56:39
  Pulling up the list of teams just so I can like jog my memory
• 56:43
  here. Maybe this will go slower than
• 56:49
  what we thought it was going to go.
• 56:51
  You're not looking in the chat either, are you?
• 56:52
  I'm not looking in the chat, no. All right.
• 56:55
  Sorry, Chad. You're not going to get put up
• 56:56
  on the screen. Dude what?
• 57:00
  Are we doing here? Come on.
• 57:08
  Why do I feel like I'm just? Overthinking so many names.
• 57:28
  I feel like every center. Fielder that comes to my mind is
• 57:30
  so young. Let Yeah.
• 57:33
  Do we want to make a revision here?
• 57:34
  Do we want to go? Let's just say well.
• 57:43
  Let's just say if they if they play like so for this, for this,
• 57:48
  for the sake of this exercise, sure, Go ahead, put Trout in
• 57:52
  centre. I appreciate that.
• 57:53
  Thank you very. Much I'm going to go.
• 57:55
  With because who know, he could still make a cameo.
• 58:03
  You got an old head that I can't.
• 58:05
  Can I put? Can I?
• 58:07
  The question for the committee, Can I put Andrew McCutcheon in
• 58:11
  center? I'm going to say no, just.
• 58:15
  Because of how long he's been a left fielder, it's been like six
• 58:20
  or seven years now. What are you researching, guy?
• 58:29
  I just I'm looking up the game breakdown.
• 58:33
  I'm not like looking up other center.
• 58:34
  Fielders. The last time we he saw center
• 58:40
  field was in 2022 with the Brewers.
• 58:45
  I I forgot he was a. Brewer, to be honest with you,
• 58:47
  I'll allow it. That's fine.
• 58:52
  All right. So just 'cause you just 'cause
• 58:54
  you threw me a bone. I'll throw you one too.
• 58:58
  'Cause Mccutcheon's a good get. Mccutcheon's like, got to be
• 59:00
  like top three of active guys anyway.
• 59:04
  I mean. Yeah, I'm a go.
• 59:08
  Yeah, let's go. I was just.
• 59:10
  I was saving. Him for left field, but that's
• 59:12
  fair. Let's go Mccutchen and and
• 59:13
  Centre. All right, that means I got
• 59:17
  first pick here. I'm going with this pick.
• 59:25
  Next position is first base. Give me.
• 59:42
  My mind immediately went to. One name and.
• 59:45
  I find it too. I feel like I.
• 59:49
  No, I, I. Rushed to I rushed to to picks
• 59:52
  last episode and it cost me dearly.
• 59:58
  Should look around the league here again just to teams.
• 1:00:03
  I'm not looking at names. Oh.
• 1:00:10
  Oh, this is. Actually going to be a very oh,
• 1:00:15
  I'm going right. He's got a who has more, who has
• 1:00:24
  more? I can't figure out what you're
• 1:00:34
  thinking. I'm going to why do I feel like
• 1:00:39
  I think he has more? I'm going to go.
• 1:00:45
  Paul Goldschmidt Yeah, that's a good one.
• 1:00:51
  The two names that came to mind for me, Goldie was one and then.
• 1:00:58
  Just because of how long? He's been in the league.
• 1:01:00
  I'm going to go Bryce Harper. True.
• 1:01:04
  Yeah, just. Cuz it like he.
• 1:01:06
  He's been in there a minute. I literally did a whole.
• 1:01:09
  TikTok on this dude's been in the league, what now?
• 1:01:11
  For a dozen years, yeah. Like, Rizzo was another name,
• 1:01:16
  but I was like, I feel like Bryce Harper's been in the
• 1:01:19
  league longer and has been more healthy, you know, Goldie.
• 1:01:22
  Goldie was absolutely up there. Actually, no, I can't.
• 1:01:26
  Say it because we have a, we have a free spot.
• 1:01:27
  So I'm yeah, we need to stop. Rattling off names.
• 1:01:32
  No, that's all right. Sorry.
• 1:01:33
  That's all right. OK, next position up and you've
• 1:01:40
  got this pick first starting pitcher.
• 1:01:46
  Oh no, this is so. Early for you, Enjoy.
• 1:01:49
  What do you mean? Early like it?
• 1:01:51
  Yeah, it wouldn't have. Mattered.
• 1:01:52
  I wanted my purses to get flowing more.
• 1:01:54
  You weren't in the. You weren't in the headspace to
• 1:01:56
  pick a starting pitcher. I I get it, I get.
• 1:02:11
  It I guess. I'm, I'm, I'm going to go
• 1:02:14
  Kershaw just because of being in the NL his whole career.
• 1:02:16
  Charlie, that's what I was going to.
• 1:02:20
  Go with, give me. I wasn't even thinking of a Plan
• 1:02:24
  B here. Yeah, I know.
• 1:02:26
  I actually just came to. I had another name in mind, but
• 1:02:30
  I just came about that one. Oh, give me no he.
• 1:02:45
  Went on. I can't, he went on record as.
• 1:02:51
  But was he good though? Was he good?
• 1:02:57
  What has come to mind for you dude, the pitching is.
• 1:03:09
  Tough pitching is such a good. Wrap.
• 1:03:11
  Isn't that a good wrinkle? That's a great wrinkle, but.
• 1:03:17
  That like there's so many layers.
• 1:03:18
  To that, because you not only have to have a guy that's been
• 1:03:20
  in the league long enough to have a hit, he also you got to
• 1:03:24
  think NL and a lot of these guy, I mean guys these days just
• 1:03:27
  bounce around more like you don't see guys spend entire
• 1:03:30
  careers with the team. So that's right.
• 1:03:33
  Oh man, I'm this is a true test of whether I know ball.
• 1:03:57
  Oh, is he? Still in that he's got.
• 1:04:00
  Yeah, he got picked up by the. I think I know who you're
• 1:04:07
  thinking about. Tell me who you?
• 1:04:09
  Who you think I'm thinking about?
• 1:04:11
  Tell me what division? I don't even know who he plays.
• 1:04:14
  For right now, but I think he's still active.
• 1:04:16
  No, no, no. But the team.
• 1:04:17
  That you're thinking of? What division?
• 1:04:22
  I could pull a lot of teams. He's been.
• 1:04:25
  Maybe we're not thinking of the same name.
• 1:04:26
  I don't think we are. The name that came to mind and
• 1:04:33
  this. Isn't necessarily my pick, but
• 1:04:35
  the name that came to mind was Kyle Hendricks.
• 1:04:39
  That's not a terrible I. Feel like he could.
• 1:04:41
  He could. At least swing it.
• 1:04:42
  It's not a bad play whether or not he cub his whole career,
• 1:04:46
  right? Yeah, well, that's what I'm
• 1:04:47
  saying he got. Picked up.
• 1:04:48
  Was it the angels, right or no? Yeah, yeah.
• 1:04:53
  Was he angels whether or not he racked up the hits?
• 1:04:59
  Yeah, I feel you. Shoot, you going to send it?
• 1:05:12
  Yeah, I'm going to go. Kyle Hendricks, because my other
• 1:05:15
  name was Scherzer, but he was literally on record.
• 1:05:18
  I know. Is that the name?
• 1:05:20
  You're thinking of. Well, yeah, but.
• 1:05:24
  He was on record only considering like the nationals.
• 1:05:28
  Nationals, right Which? Is he was he bounced around the
• 1:05:32
  ALAL mostly. And like majority of the the DH
• 1:05:38
  stretch or non DH stretch was with the Tigers.
• 1:05:42
  So it's like, yeah, I can't, I can't get there.
• 1:05:46
  Were there any other names? That came to mind for you?
• 1:05:48
  Just like not even guys even pick, but just the guy that was
• 1:05:50
  bouncing around like Rich. Hill like because he's been
• 1:05:53
  around forever and hoping that he was, he's not technically
• 1:05:57
  retired. Yet I guess right?
• 1:05:59
  Exactly. And I, I thought he just got
• 1:06:01
  picked up, but I could be wrong. Yeah, I don't think he has.
• 1:06:04
  All right, yeah, Anyway, my. Pick.
• 1:06:08
  Is this is I like this because there's no, there's no voting
• 1:06:14
  involved. It's not like subjective, it's
• 1:06:18
  very much like total up the numbers at the end and see what
• 1:06:21
  we got. Doesn't need you don't need
• 1:06:22
  sexy. Picks.
• 1:06:23
  Andrew McCutchen ain't a sexy pick, but that's going to that's
• 1:06:26
  going to get you it's going to get you good numbers.
• 1:06:31
  Yeah, not a sexy pick, but. If the numbers speak for
• 1:06:34
  themselves, I don't need to worry about it, All right?
• 1:06:36
  My pick is catcher. All right, Catcher.
• 1:06:43
  Catcher. Catcher.
• 1:06:44
  Catcher. Also the other thing I love
• 1:06:53
  about my. My Mccutchen pick is we don't
• 1:06:56
  even need to leave this up for vote for the the listeners, but
• 1:07:00
  go Kippu Mccutchen Center. We agreed upon it.
• 1:07:03
  So that's what it's going down as we allowed it.
• 1:07:08
  Especially since they I mean like.
• 1:07:09
  Both him and Trout came up as center fielders.
• 1:07:13
  We know we're going to remember them as center fielders, I
• 1:07:16
  think, yeah. Catcher.
• 1:07:35
  It's tough, man, because you just got to think.
• 1:07:36
  About the old the old dudes, I just got to check a text real.
• 1:07:39
  Quick. Yeah, I'll bet we're good.
• 1:07:42
  Is that text from baseball? Reference, making sure it's not
• 1:07:45
  a word. Text just out here slacking.
• 1:07:49
  Taking a look. Oh, what am I doing?
• 1:07:50
  What? Why am I an idiot, damn it.
• 1:07:53
  What am I doing my? Goodness, Sal Perez, come on
• 1:07:56
  down. I was hoping you were going to
• 1:07:58
  overlook. It I really was.
• 1:08:00
  There was a name that I was. About to pull the trigger on but
• 1:08:03
  I'm glad I I was really hoping. You would glad I kept circling.
• 1:08:07
  Around the league I was really hoping.
• 1:08:10
  You'd you'd overthink him, that would have been a.
• 1:08:15
  That would have been leaving off Mike Trout from the last draft.
• 1:08:19
  That would have been a fail of that type of proportion.
• 1:08:22
  The tough, I think that. I he was obviously my number
• 1:08:25
  one. I didn't even bank on it #2.
• 1:08:29
  And there's, I think there's. Such a massive drop off which
• 1:08:32
  sucks. So now I just got to think of.
• 1:08:36
  Old catchers. Can I tell you what's coming to
• 1:08:51
  mind? Like I'm, I'm like rattling off
• 1:08:53
  some names in my head. That's what I mean.
• 1:08:55
  That's what I did. With starting pitching.
• 1:08:58
  Weirdly enough, both. Maldonado and Christian Vasquez
• 1:09:02
  are rolling around in my head just how long they've been
• 1:09:04
  around. Offensive catchers are hard to.
• 1:09:11
  Come by Rio Muto. But like, has he been doing it
• 1:09:15
  that long? I'm not gonna lie if.
• 1:09:20
  If if we're like sworded neck and neck the rest of the like
• 1:09:25
  throughout the remainder of the this could be the difference.
• 1:09:27
  No, no, not. Even just this.
• 1:09:28
  This and the starting pitching, I feel like those are the.
• 1:09:31
  Two, those are the two different, but this is a bigger
• 1:09:33
  gap. We're talking hundreds versus
• 1:09:35
  dozens. Well, I don't know though I.
• 1:09:38
  I have no idea what Kyle Hendrick's hitting career looks
• 1:09:41
  like or stat line looks like. I.
• 1:09:44
  Can't think of old catchers. Man, I can't think of old
• 1:09:47
  offensive catchers I'm going to have.
• 1:09:53
  You've got somebody just trying to think of, I mean maybe
• 1:09:58
  William or Wilson Contreras, but he just moved to first base, so
• 1:10:02
  and he. Hasn't been around how?
• 1:10:08
  Long I'm putting my cutchin in center.
• 1:10:09
  So what are we? What are we doing here?
• 1:10:11
  Yeah. But I don't even.
• 1:10:14
  Nah, I'm not going to help you out.
• 1:10:16
  I need to win this draft, Yeah. Give me Travis Darnell.
• 1:10:22
  I think he's been around a long. Time and really.
• 1:10:25
  OK, yeah, I'm only going to say this.
• 1:10:28
  I'm only going to say this because I know I well it.
• 1:10:32
  I'm just going to assume you're not going to pick a catcher for
• 1:10:34
  your free spot. No.
• 1:10:36
  Did you entertain JT Rio Muto at all?
• 1:10:39
  I did. I said Rio Muto.
• 1:10:40
  But I was just like, oh, you did?
• 1:10:41
  How long he's been around? Oh, yeah, I missed that.
• 1:10:43
  OK, Like it, like I don't even really count as Marlins days,
• 1:10:46
  you know what I mean? Like it's one year of being
• 1:10:49
  solid and then what? It's been five years.
• 1:10:55
  I think Darnold was going to sneak up.
• 1:10:56
  Because like, you got to go back to, like, Darnold was like a Met
• 1:10:59
  in, like, 2012, you know what I'm saying?
• 1:11:01
  Like, I think people overlooked that.
• 1:11:03
  Yeah. All right.
• 1:11:05
  I'm up first. What do we got with?
• 1:11:06
  Position. Whoops, it took.
• 1:11:13
  Sal Perez is a killer. That's, I think that's the
• 1:11:16
  number one catcher pick and I think Andrew Mccutchen's the
• 1:11:20
  number one outfielder pick. I'm going to be truthful with
• 1:11:22
  you. Third base, OK.
• 1:11:46
  Good bro, just tough man I. Know no, can't do it.
• 1:12:26
  Got. Got some?
• 1:12:28
  Names rather than. Around I do too.
• 1:12:34
  I think it's another like Bryce Harper style picks been around
• 1:12:38
  longer and I think the totals have gotten higher than people
• 1:12:41
  think. I'm going to go Manny Machado.
• 1:12:44
  Oh yeah, Wow, that completely set my mind.
• 1:12:48
  That's a good pick. That's a great pick.
• 1:12:53
  Yeah. Dang, might lose some ground
• 1:12:56
  here if I was even up, which I frankly doubt I was.
• 1:13:01
  I feel like you are. I'm excited.
• 1:13:07
  To total these up, it's either. Going to be like neck and neck
• 1:13:12
  or off by like 1000, yeah. Goodness.
• 1:13:23
  Does look, I know we've talked about it.
• 1:13:28
  I wonder if this name is? I wonder what you're going to
• 1:13:31
  say because I had a name and I was like, I may have to go to
• 1:13:33
  the committee for it. I know there's been a report.
• 1:13:36
  Been put out there, which we've talked about very recently, but
• 1:13:40
  I'm of the I'm of the belief that this is, is not settled.
• 1:13:45
  I think spring training is going to have a lot to say, or what
• 1:13:49
  happens in spring training is going to have a lot to say about
• 1:13:52
  who plays, where is Alex? Bregman.
• 1:13:55
  Allowed to be slotted in at third base.
• 1:13:58
  All out. All out.
• 1:14:00
  Because I and I'm not. Saying that just for the draft,
• 1:14:02
  I legitimately I don't. Think the Red Sox have come out
• 1:14:06
  and said it, and if anybody would know, you would know.
• 1:14:08
  So I mean passing did. Come out after the the deal
• 1:14:12
  happened and was like, who's he's project or he's like poised
• 1:14:16
  to be the second baseman. But I'm like, I, I don't think
• 1:14:19
  you can say that until at the very least, you've let spring
• 1:14:21
  training iron all out, all out. All right.
• 1:14:26
  I would go Breg Bregman. At third, another name.
• 1:14:29
  I won't. I won't say.
• 1:14:31
  I won't say the name I was. Well, no, I won't say the name I
• 1:14:36
  was thinking about because we could still fall back on it.
• 1:14:39
  I doubt it. But we could still fall back on
• 1:14:41
  it. Another name that came to mind.
• 1:14:44
  For me anyway. I just lost it.
• 1:14:49
  I had one. Oh yeah, I don't know if it's
• 1:14:54
  the same one, but I I too had another name.
• 1:14:57
  OK, who's got first pick here? I do you.
• 1:15:01
  Do give me a free space. Give me.
• 1:15:04
  A free space. Give me a free space.
• 1:15:09
  We did first base, so we've got center, 1st starting pitcher.
• 1:15:16
  Well, pitcher, we're only doing starting pitcher, catcher and
• 1:15:19
  third base did third. Base.
• 1:15:27
  My positional. Pick is left field.
• 1:15:38
  Give. Me
• 1:15:51
  now that's a got to think this one through left field, by the
• 1:16:01
  way, I'll allow it like if you need just to for the sake of
• 1:16:05
  time, if you need to pull up like a team's list, just just
• 1:16:09
  help help jog some memory here, because that's what I've got.
• 1:16:11
  I'm not I don't I'm not looking at personal.
• 1:16:13
  I'll show you what I'm going to pull up left field.
• 1:16:20
  Oh, sort of a this is this is what I.
• 1:16:27
  Got OK, ESPN just what is that just the ESPN?
• 1:16:30
  Like. Standings page.
• 1:16:32
  Oh, OK. That's what I like.
• 1:16:34
  There better not be any names. On that like.
• 1:16:37
  Highlighting any player, no. I'm saying but like highlighting
• 1:16:40
  like team leaders or anything. Oh.
• 1:16:44
  Left field. Question for the committee.
• 1:16:55
  Yeah. Which I don't even know where
• 1:16:59
  he's at, but I have to imagine it's it's.
• 1:17:02
  A lot. Where are we slotting?
• 1:17:07
  Soto in the outfield, we already talked about this.
• 1:17:11
  What's he projected left or right?
• 1:17:13
  It depends on who you look it up.
• 1:17:15
  With. What is roto wire telling me I.
• 1:17:18
  Think MLB has it as left, comma right.
• 1:17:24
  I think ESPN has right. Dude, this is oh man, I don't
• 1:17:41
  know if I'm going to regret this pick.
• 1:17:44
  Oh, no, no, no, no, no. I got it.
• 1:17:47
  I can I can I confirm if this sort of like I did with
• 1:17:52
  Mccutchen, Can I can I confirm with this player?
• 1:17:57
  If he did, I'm just saying. Like if you go.
• 1:17:59
  To his VR page. Like I feel like you got to be.
• 1:18:01
  I'm not looking. I promise you I won't.
• 1:18:03
  Look at his number. I No, no, I promise I won't look
• 1:18:05
  at the number. I I looked at Mccutchen's page,
• 1:18:07
  Couldn't tell you how many hits he had.
• 1:18:08
  I I, I swear on my life. I just want to make sure that
• 1:18:13
  this particular individual, because this would probably be
• 1:18:17
  my pick if so. Yeah.
• 1:18:24
  I'm. Give me.
• 1:18:30
  I'm going to go for me right now.
• 1:18:31
  I might go. Am I going to regret this?
• 1:18:41
  Does. Where where does he stand versus
• 1:18:43
  Soto? Although now we're I think we're
• 1:18:46
  going to put let's let's keep Soto and write.
• 1:18:49
  Yeah, if we even. Even if.
• 1:18:51
  You even want Soto you may not want so I don't know, I feel I
• 1:18:53
  feel good about. That I think Soto and Wright's
• 1:18:55
  fair I'm. Going to go Chris Bryant.
• 1:19:06
  And left. That could be.
• 1:19:07
  Sneaky. That's either a sneaky.
• 1:19:09
  Pole or a stupid mistake that could.
• 1:19:12
  Have won you or? Lost you the draft?
• 1:19:15
  I don't think so. I have.
• 1:19:16
  No names coming to. Mind, by the way, there is a
• 1:19:20
  name that's coming to. Mind similar vein could be
• 1:19:25
  sneaky, but I just don't know if the number is there.
• 1:19:28
  But in terms of tenure, in terms of posting, yeah, I'm giving
• 1:19:34
  you. Hints I shouldn't be?
• 1:19:35
  Doing this. I'll just say that the.
• 1:19:40
  Opportunities were there for this individual, but I'm not.
• 1:19:42
  I obviously can't tell who it is in case you would choose him.
• 1:19:53
  Why am I like? I'm struggling right now.
• 1:20:00
  No, no, no. Yeah, Outfield soft man it.
• 1:20:08
  Gets tricky because it's. Really tough guys, just like
• 1:20:10
  bounce around. Maybe this pick just.
• 1:20:22
  Won me the draft by default. If you can't, if you're going to
• 1:20:26
  throw some freaking. Scrub down.
• 1:20:33
  I had a name, but I'm like, I'm. It wasn't like a confident
• 1:20:38
  enough name to remember. Now I've lost it again.
• 1:20:52
  Question for the committee, I guess.
• 1:20:56
  Can I go? Kyle Schwarber?
• 1:20:59
  Yeah, for left. Yeah.
• 1:21:03
  Yeah, not a not a ton of. Hits doesn't.
• 1:21:11
  Doesn't get a ton? Sure.
• 1:21:12
  Not sure. Doesn't, but that's I mean.
• 1:21:16
  If you're trying to like I feel. Like I feel like.
• 1:21:18
  I really overlook some people. That's.
• 1:21:21
  I mean, yeah. And the people listening, the
• 1:21:23
  people watching, guess what we're going to be, we're going
• 1:21:26
  to be missing some real obvious names here, but that's that's.
• 1:21:30
  Off the Dome, like been around a minute because you can't just
• 1:21:33
  think of like the up like the new names.
• 1:21:36
  You can't think of the new names.
• 1:21:37
  You can't. Even think of the best players
• 1:21:39
  in baseball right now, you got to think of guys who have racked
• 1:21:42
  up the hits, who have posted and and had the games played to give
• 1:21:46
  themselves a chance to rack up hits AKA posting.
• 1:21:50
  As I said, the next position, who's you got first pick?
• 1:21:54
  I got first pick right field. Let me go around the
• 1:22:33
  Oh my. Gosh.
• 1:22:38
  Well, it's. Still, still fair game.
• 1:22:42
  Oh, that's a dagger. It's big.
• 1:22:46
  Oversight big. Oversight.
• 1:22:53
  Field. Dude.
• 1:23:02
  I'm just going to go Sodo. I'm going to try not to
• 1:23:06
  overthink it. Give me I'm.
• 1:23:19
  Trying to even think of like. I mean it.
• 1:23:24
  Who? Hold on.
• 1:23:26
  Who now? Doesn't play enough I guess.
• 1:23:29
  Give me. Give me.
• 1:23:35
  Judge. I mean 20. 17.
• 1:23:45
  The end of 20/17/20. 18 is the first full year, so that's seven
• 1:23:48
  years. I mean, it's not like chump
• 1:23:50
  change. I mean, I was.
• 1:23:54
  I was just. Trying to rack my brain for like
• 1:23:56
  a right field of this posted but I was like even if I could find
• 1:23:59
  somebody if like judge maybe had had accumulated more but I may
• 1:24:04
  be way off on that so. We will see We.
• 1:24:08
  Will see so second. Base shortstop and DH slash free
• 1:24:11
  space. I'm kind of hoping the free
• 1:24:15
  spaces. Last, I wonder if that name.
• 1:24:18
  Could have totaled up a decent amount, but it could.
• 1:24:23
  I got first pick here on. This next one, yeah.
• 1:24:27
  Yeah. All right.
• 1:24:27
  It is stop giving me catcher. You can't eliminate them.
• 1:24:38
  No it. Should second base OK second
• 1:24:43
  base? Second base.
• 1:24:57
  This is going to be 1 where I'm. Going to.
• 1:25:06
  Oh, is this? Individual still active.
• 1:25:27
  Second base question for the committee.
• 1:25:33
  OK, can I? Slot.
• 1:25:36
  In as a free agent who is yet to announce his retirement, which I
• 1:25:48
  I don't think it's coming. I think I know what you're
• 1:25:50
  doing. Yeah.
• 1:25:52
  Whit Merrifield. All right.
• 1:25:55
  I'll allow that because I have a a name that fits that same
• 1:25:58
  category, it's. Tougher, though, it's.
• 1:26:01
  A tougher play than Whit Merryfield.
• 1:26:03
  I mean, if he, if he. Whit Merryfield's good.
• 1:26:06
  As of right now, still. Active.
• 1:26:08
  So call it beating the buzzer. All right, since you got it.
• 1:26:11
  Pulled up, I don't feel like searching it.
• 1:26:14
  And also it's a it's a committee.
• 1:26:17
  Sure, Still active Robinson Cano dude, no.
• 1:26:24
  No, he's playing like in Saudi Arabia or something, isn't he?
• 1:26:29
  He's still swinging it. I was just.
• 1:26:30
  Was curious. Absolutely not all.
• 1:26:33
  Right then. Can I do Jose Altuve?
• 1:26:35
  Oh. Shoot, I think if if we're
• 1:26:41
  allowing. Mike Trout and McCutcheon to
• 1:26:43
  play center field. I feel like we got that that
• 1:26:45
  messed. Me up because I in my head I was
• 1:26:48
  like I was thinking. I was thinking the outfield,
• 1:26:51
  yeah, but then I forgot. We shifted geyser, whatever.
• 1:26:56
  That might have just closed the. Gap between our catchers.
• 1:27:02
  I mean, don't sleep on Whit Merrifield.
• 1:27:03
  Is, I mean, I know Altuve has got got the hits, but let's not
• 1:27:08
  sleep on all right, shortstop. I mean, Whit Merrifield was the
• 1:27:13
  hits leader. What?
• 1:27:14
  Every year for like 1/2 decade at least.
• 1:27:17
  Yeah, we'll. See, let me look at.
• 1:27:20
  I don't know about. That I mean.
• 1:27:22
  I feel like that was a bit of a stretch, but the OK the pick is.
• 1:27:25
  In I'm just looking. I'm looking at the black ink
• 1:27:27
  here. Right, it was.
• 1:27:36
  Two years, but yeah, LED all the baseball. 2 years, you know,
• 1:27:45
  that's that's got to be worth something.
• 1:27:47
  Yeah, but yeah. Altuve.
• 1:27:50
  Yeah, good pick. Shoot dude, if I had Altuve a.
• 1:27:53
  A A draft is over, it's possible.
• 1:27:56
  I think. OK, what do we got left here?
• 1:27:59
  Shortstop DH free space. What do you know?
• 1:28:04
  Shortstop is. Next stop.
• 1:28:07
  And you have. 1st pick you do. No, I do.
• 1:28:11
  I'm sorry. No, I went with Merrifield.
• 1:28:13
  The worst is when you go 2nd and you and you win the pick.
• 1:28:20
  Like you went second there. You get out Tuve, you win the
• 1:28:23
  pick because I'm an idiot and forgot that he was eligible for
• 1:28:28
  2nd and then you get to pick first.
• 1:28:35
  I'm going to bank on not. Overthinking it.
• 1:28:43
  I'm going to, I'm going to bank on not overthinking it and go
• 1:28:49
  Mookie, all right? I'm going to go, oh, there's Oh
• 1:29:06
  no, no, can't do. That I'm.
• 1:29:09
  Just talking between two names here.
• 1:29:18
  No, wait a minute. Wait a minute, hold on.
• 1:29:22
  There's a big oversight. I'm genuinely curious what?
• 1:29:35
  The hit What the difference in hit totals are for these two
• 1:29:37
  individuals? I don't.
• 1:29:44
  I don't foresee. You using them as free spaces?
• 1:29:47
  So I'm going to, I'm going to. I got my mind.
• 1:29:51
  Locked in on a free space? OK, I'm going to I'm.
• 1:29:53
  Going to request some gamesmanship here.
• 1:29:56
  And she's not stealing names from me, but I'm just.
• 1:29:59
  I like thinking out loud here, yeah.
• 1:30:02
  I I wonder if I. Can guess the two names but I'm
• 1:30:05
  it's your category so I can't well these.
• 1:30:09
  I'm not deciding between these. Two names.
• 1:30:10
  There are two people in the mix, but there's I would say there's
• 1:30:14
  probably 3 names I'm deciding between.
• 1:30:16
  There's three names that I have in my head.
• 1:30:18
  See if you can get all three. I would be.
• 1:30:21
  Curious to know the the difference in hit totals between
• 1:30:24
  Carlos Correa, that's why and Frankie Lindor that's two and.
• 1:30:29
  There's. 1/3 name in my head. But I agree that's a good
• 1:30:33
  question. The third name in your head I
• 1:30:35
  already. Know who it is?
• 1:30:36
  It's Dansby Swanson. Nope.
• 1:30:39
  Oh. It can't.
• 1:30:46
  It's not Trevor. Story.
• 1:30:47
  Nope. Yeah, no more help.
• 1:30:56
  And I don't know if you'd take him in above these guys anyway.
• 1:31:01
  At short. Yeah.
• 1:31:06
  I don't think I would take that. Oh.
• 1:31:08
  Oh. You're thinking.
• 1:31:10
  You're thinking Willy Adamas. Nope.
• 1:31:17
  No more helping I'm. Not helping you anymore?
• 1:31:19
  I'm not going to answer. Oh.
• 1:31:20
  Oh, right, right, right, right, right.
• 1:31:23
  I know exactly you're thinking of.
• 1:31:25
  Give me. If you go with his name, that's.
• 1:31:30
  The opposite of gamemanship. But how do I know what name
• 1:31:42
  you're thinking of you? Do.
• 1:31:47
  I don't. No, it actually could be one.
• 1:31:54
  Or no I I I genuinely don't IA name popped into my head when I
• 1:32:00
  started looking around the league but just go with a
• 1:32:02
  shortstop. We're over an hour and a half
• 1:32:05
  now. Give me.
• 1:32:13
  Give me Corey Seeger trade Turner was my.
• 1:32:19
  Other yeah, see exactly that. I thought I wasn't going to
• 1:32:22
  steal Corey Seeger because I'm like, you may not even be
• 1:32:24
  thinking of Corey Seeger. Yeah.
• 1:32:27
  All right. And start her off with the DH
• 1:32:30
  buddy. Who's your shortstop?
• 1:32:32
  Mookie. Mookie, the key to victory, it
• 1:32:36
  seems all right. You ready for this?
• 1:32:40
  Yeah, I think I know. You you have from me.
• 1:32:44
  You have no idea who I'm about to pick.
• 1:32:45
  I think you're going to steal it from me.
• 1:32:47
  Go ahead. You don't know who I'm going to
• 1:32:48
  pick. Go ahead, the free spot.
• 1:32:56
  We went right field, second base shorts.
• 1:33:00
  I don't know right, why I'm writing these down.
• 1:33:01
  Yeah, it doesn't matter. I don't need to make a graphic.
• 1:33:09
  Ready for this? Yeah.
• 1:33:17
  What team I? I honest, honest God, I know who
• 1:33:21
  I'm picking. No, I'm not doing this.
• 1:33:22
  Just say I know who I'm picking. All right?
• 1:33:25
  No, no. Or do I know who I'm picking?
• 1:33:36
  It's between two names. Give me.
• 1:33:50
  Carlos Santana. Wow, good.
• 1:33:53
  Pull. That was my safety net name.
• 1:33:59
  That was my safety net name. Great pull and I know who you're
• 1:34:02
  going. With who?
• 1:34:06
  Now I'm not doing this. Who are you going with?
• 1:34:10
  Free spot for. Mr. Freddie Freeman.
• 1:34:16
  Who I think has got to be. Near 2K and I'm actually, I was
• 1:34:19
  actually upset that I didn't pick him over Bryce Harper and I
• 1:34:24
  was like begging for the chips to fall to where I got DH first.
• 1:34:29
  But Carlos Santana was my fall back.
• 1:34:32
  Sneaky name dude I had in the hopper.
• 1:34:35
  Shoot Freddie. Freeman is actually the the
• 1:34:38
  current leader. Leader.
• 1:34:39
  Yeah. You want to know who's third,
• 1:34:43
  Carlos Santana or McCutcheon? All right.
• 1:34:46
  Hear me out. Actually, no, this is this is
• 1:34:50
  easy. We can we can tell you some some
• 1:34:52
  numbers here. Freddie Freeman has. 2267 OK.
• 1:34:59
  Are you? I'll just have you.
• 1:35:01
  Do the math. I'll I'll retrieve the numbers.
• 1:35:02
  You do the math. Jose Altuve 2232 Are you just
• 1:35:06
  doing my team or? I'm just doing.
• 1:35:08
  I'm going down the list here. And then we'll fill in the gaps
• 1:35:11
  elsewhere because I know we didn't get this whole list 2230.
• 1:35:14
  2 for Altuve, Yeah. McCutcheon, 2152.
• 1:35:23
  Goldschmidt. 2056. Nice.
• 1:35:29
  Machado. 1900 even. Yep, neither of us picked Nolan.
• 1:35:37
  Arenado Carlos, San Carlos, Santana, 1789.
• 1:35:45
  Had a boy. None of us.
• 1:35:47
  Picked Jade. Charlie Blackman's on here, by
• 1:35:49
  the way. Don't know why he's on there.
• 1:35:50
  Yeah. Retired JD Martinez.
• 1:35:53
  Nobody picked third. Third, safety net.
• 1:35:55
  Name but my my second safety. Net was DJ Lemahieu, 1738.
• 1:36:01
  Whoa. It's a Xander Bogarts.
• 1:36:03
  Actually, it's short. Wow, that's surprising.
• 1:36:06
  Not gonna lie. Bryce Harper, 1670.
• 1:36:09
  OK. I had to say it I.
• 1:36:11
  Think you got me on this? Mike Trout, 1648.
• 1:36:18
  I'm not seeing any low. Numbers.
• 1:36:22
  Travis Arno could have. Been detrimental.
• 1:36:24
  I feel like that was true yeah. Maybe I, maybe I.
• 1:36:26
  Won this in the trenches. You got the sexy pics.
• 1:36:28
  Maybe I won this in the trenches, who knows.
• 1:36:30
  Mookie bat 1615. I feel like I've just listed off
• 1:36:33
  your entire team you have pretty much.
• 1:36:37
  Oh, nobody picked Christian Yelich.
• 1:36:38
  Nobody. Picked Nick Cassiano.
• 1:36:39
  Somebody picked Anthony Rizzo. Nobody passed.
• 1:36:41
  Cianos came. Across the mind, nobody picked
• 1:36:44
  Justin Turner, Sal. Perez 1571 Good for you.
• 1:36:50
  Justin Turner came across my mind.
• 1:36:52
  I was going to, I was going to ask you about third base until I
• 1:36:55
  came across meeting Machado and my noggin.
• 1:36:57
  Nobody picked Jason. Hayward nobody picked did come
• 1:37:02
  across my. Mind, nobody picked John Carter
• 1:37:04
  Stanton. Did not.
• 1:37:06
  Nobody picked Marcelo Zuna. OK, what do I need to look up?
• 1:37:11
  All right. Let's start.
• 1:37:13
  Let's go Soto and Judge. Let's look those numbers up.
• 1:37:17
  Juan Soto 9. 34 tough. Judge, Had it been?
• 1:37:27
  Better right fielders. Oh for sure, that was really
• 1:37:31
  dumb. Judge Had 1026.
• 1:37:36
  Schwarber versus Kris Bryant. Schwarber has nine O 5 good.
• 1:37:45
  Good estimate there. He's been in the league for.
• 1:37:49
  A decade and only has terrible hits and 9:00. 105 hits.
• 1:37:53
  Who was the other one? Kris Bryant.
• 1:37:58
  Kris Bryant, 1060. Two.
• 1:38:00
  Oh no. This is what I'm saying.
• 1:38:03
  I may have won this in the trenches.
• 1:38:05
  I'm curious about Bregman. Oh, Alex Bregman, 1132.
• 1:38:12
  Corey Seeger, Surprisingly low, 11:51.
• 1:38:20
  Whoa, that was higher. Than I thought with Merrifield
• 1:38:23
  this could make a break here. 12:49.
• 1:38:27
  Whoa, I like it. Travis Darnell 753 Tough, tough
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  and the fun. 1. Let's go Kyle Hendricks first,
• 1:38:44
  just because I'm curious. Oh yeah, forgot about the
• 1:38:47
  pictures. Shoot, OK, let me find this
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  here. I'm going to say I'm.
• 1:38:52
  Going to say 9. Give me hit in.
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  Give me hit. In do you say hits?
• 1:38:57
  Yeah. You you're guessing nine hits.
• 1:39:03
  For Kyle Hendricks, yeah, over 8 years.
• 1:39:09
  Well, eight, Yeah, eight years of hitting.
• 1:39:11
  From 2014 to 2021, he accumulated 37 hits.
• 1:39:15
  Whoa. How about it?
• 1:39:19
  And. Kirsch Yeah, I feel like.
• 1:39:23
  I feel like you got me here. I don't.
• 1:39:26
  Know could end up being pretty. Bad.
• 1:39:30
  Standard hitting for. Kershaw standard hitting give.
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  Me. I think the committee would have
• 1:39:38
  voted. It down, but Ohtani for starting
• 1:39:41
  pitcher would have been a strategic play.
• 1:39:46
  I think that that would have needed to be voted down.
• 1:39:49
  That's yeah, that we're not allowing that. 113 for Kersh, 13
• 1:39:57
  years. Let's go.
• 1:39:59
  All right, that's big. Is that everybody total up
• 1:40:02
  that's. Everybody.
• 1:40:04
  You rotted them off pretty quickly in the.
• 1:40:09
  When you were looking at the. Tops.
• 1:40:11
  Oh boy, I'm. Here, sorry, I'll run it.
• 1:40:16
  I'll run it down as I'm going. So Kershaw 113.
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  Travis Darnaud 753, Bryce Harper 1670 Jose Altuve 2232 Mookie
• 1:40:26
  Betts 1615. Oops.
• 1:40:32
  Got a hit? Plus, there we go.
• 1:40:34
  Machado 1900 Schwarber nine O 5 Mike Trout 1648 Soto.
• 1:40:44
  Terrible pick 934, Freddie. Freeman, 22. 67 for a total of
• 1:40:52
  14,000. And 37.
• 1:40:57
  Hits in the chat. AJ we got Trey Turner at 28th
• 1:41:04
  active on the list, 28th. On the on the active.
• 1:41:08
  List is what I'm going to say. Kyle Hendricks, 13. 5230. 7.
• 1:41:13
  South Perez 1571, Paul Goldschmidt 2056 Whit Merrifield
• 1:41:21
  1249, Corey Seeger 1151, Alex Bregman 1132, Chris Bryant 1062,
• 1:41:33
  Andrew McCutcheon 2152, Aaron Judge 1026, Carlos Santana 1789
• 1:41:44
  for a total of. 13,000. 225 All right, So what were the numbers?
• 1:41:52
  Again. 14,000. 37 to 13,014 thousand 30. 7 Yep.
• 1:42:05
  For a difference of 812. Wow, not bad.
• 1:42:10
  That's not terrible. I mean, it's not terrible.
• 1:42:12
  Off the Dome. That was hard.
• 1:42:14
  That was hard, dude. My brain.
• 1:42:17
  Looking back, would you have done anything different?
• 1:42:20
  One SEC What was my number? 13, 225. 225 to your. 1437 Yep.
• 1:42:27
  Would I have done anything different, I would have put Let
• 1:42:32
  me see where he is on this list. I would.
• 1:42:35
  I'll tell you real quick because I'm not looking at the.
• 1:42:36
  List I would have put JD Martinez in, right?
• 1:42:40
  Honestly, JD Martinez. Wasn't even on my radar.
• 1:42:43
  How's he on that list? He's funny enough he's 9th.
• 1:42:49
  Whoa, I would have. I would have tried to figure
• 1:42:53
  out. To get figured out a way to get.
• 1:42:58
  DJ Lemahieu in I don't. Know why I went with Mayerfield?
• 1:43:02
  He's 32nd on the list. That's decent.
• 1:43:06
  Whereas. DJ is 10th.
• 1:43:08
  And then I would have, I have Bregman at third, but where it
• 1:43:18
  the name that I was thinking about, where is Jose?
• 1:43:23
  Ramirez. He's 26 with 1500 flat.
• 1:43:28
  Yeah, that would have been 4. 100 more than Alex Bregman
• 1:43:32
  almost, which she wouldn't have done it for.
• 1:43:34
  Me, but would have gotten me closer.
• 1:43:36
  Yeah, tough. JD Martinez was I.
• 1:43:40
  I was so dumb to settle on Soto, that was really bad.
• 1:43:44
  But I'll take the dub. That's a That's a good one.
• 1:43:49
  That's a fun one. I think we're going to have to
• 1:43:51
  run that back in maybe a different stat category.
• 1:43:56
  Yeah. Clap it up.
• 1:43:59
  Did you write all this down? You want a picture?
• 1:44:04
  I'll send you a picture. I got.
• 1:44:05
  Yeah. Go ahead, send me a picture.
• 1:44:08
  It doesn't matter. I mean, that's the.
• 1:44:09
  Draft. There's no vote needs to take
• 1:44:10
  place. Numbers are numbers, baby.
• 1:44:12
  Just for posts. That's the beauty of baseball.
• 1:44:15
  Numbers are numbers. The numbers don't lie.
• 1:44:19
  With that said, let's get out of here.
• 1:44:22
  We'll see you guys on Sunday or Monday.
• 1:44:26
  We'll see. Yeah, still figuring that out
• 1:44:28
  My. Mom's in town this weekend, so
• 1:44:30
  Oh, true. Yeah, yeah.
• 1:44:31
  Taking her to Royals Diamondbacks tomorrow.
• 1:44:38
  That's a great matchup. That's a.
• 1:44:40
  That's a good, solid one. That's a good.
• 1:44:42
  Spring Training matchup. Salt River, which is.
• 1:44:44
  Arguably the probably the best spring training facility.
• 1:44:52
  And then hitting the innings fest.
• 1:44:53
  After that, a little little music festival.
• 1:44:57
  That's for that long day tomorrow.
• 1:44:59
  And best of luck to you my friend.
• 1:45:01
  This process taught. Me something I need I need to
• 1:45:04
  remember to bring this back up once we make next steps as a
• 1:45:10
  podcast. I'll explain to you after we
• 1:45:13
  after we hop off but revealed something to me and I need to
• 1:45:19
  make it known once we move on. Any who's you guys are great
• 1:45:23
  thanks for sticking it out. Anybody that stuck around for
• 1:45:25
  almost 2 hours listening to two idiots shout out try to drum.
• 1:45:28
  Up some names. Off the top of their Dome.
• 1:45:31
  Well done. Shout out to you and get back to
• 1:45:34
  work. Don't go chasing curveballs.
• 1:45:35
  We love you all and as always. Looking forward to talking more
• 1:45:38
  baseball with you guys soon. Until next time, stay filthy.