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Mets Snap the Suck · The 3-0 Take

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Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to the three OT where we talk all
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things Major League Baseball. Here's Kyle Corwin and Nate
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Reyes. It all starts right now.
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Oh, welcome back to the three OT presented by Chinook Cedars
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Episode 6 O 5. I'll be your host, Kyle Cordon.
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I'm here with my Co host Nate Reyes.
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Nate. Hello friends KCJB how how are
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we where? You want to start?
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You want to start with the fact that I already want to RIP my TV
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off the wall watching the same three commercials on MLBTV every
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game these days. Or do you want to start at the
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Red Sox team store selling Yankees 27 Worlds World
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Championship merch inside the team store for the Yankees
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series? Where do you want to start?
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The commercials hit so much different during a loss, too.
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Like when you're losing and your team's not playing well, you
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hate whatever is being advertised.
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Like it doesn't. Matter, I tell you what it could
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be. Like a Children's Hospital
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commercial and you're like, I don't care.
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I tell you what I tell you what I know.
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One thing's for sure, I'm never going to be a truest customer.
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I can guarantee you that you can take your commercial and shove
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it through it. Unbelievable.
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Oh boy. It's the same 3.
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And, and, and it's not even like a quarterly thing where it's
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like, oh, we'll, we'll, we'll switch up to commercials once
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the summer hits. Nope, It's what you got now is
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what you're going to get. So hope you like them.
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Yeah, it's fair. And they're, I feel like they're
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louder than usual too. They're a lot louder.
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I don't know what's going on with like the Yankees broadcast.
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I don't, I don't know if it's like a different microphone or
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something that they're using. But when that you know, that
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like the stadium background, the DJ's like playing stuff the like
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it'll bring that level down, but it also brings like the
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broadcaster level down. So then I'm like sitting there
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cranking it up because it's always loud.
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And I'm like, I want to hear the game.
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And then, you know, like a Kia commercial comes on and I'm like
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sold out, dude. Like I'm my, my ears are done.
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It's it's interesting, man, MOBTV.
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Hey, while we feel free to spread the love on on your
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advertising. Deals.
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While we're on the subject of game broadcast, Tip of the cap,
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I listened to the Royals radio broadcast today 'cause it I was
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doing a little little painting around the house.
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I was like, well, I can't watch anything, so let me throw the
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radio. I was working OK.
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I was just doing some touch ups. OK, let's do some cut insurance.
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Anyway, I was like, let me throw the Royals broadcast on because
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I don't want to listen to the Orioles broadcast.
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No disrespect, but I was like, let me let me mix up a little
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bit. I I thoroughly enjoyed the
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Royals radio broadcast. And then a thing that they do
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that I like, and I don't know if it was intentional or, or I
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mean, if there's a Royals fan out there and, and they know,
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let me know. But the thing they do is they'll
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go, pun intended, they'll go radio silent when the PA
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announcer introduces the hitter. So you all outside.
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I mean, if they didn't do that, I'm sure they would tell you
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anyway, but you never, you never, you're never sitting
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there wondering who's up because you hear it come through the the
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system. And I was like, Hey, that's a
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nice touch. And they just that they put on a
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nice, clean, family friendly program and I'm like, I, I might
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be tuning into some more Royals games.
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I got to be. Honest, I don't know if I've
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ever really dabbled into radio broadcasters too much.
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You know dude, it's so it's baseball on radio is so
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underrated. I I thoroughly recommend.
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I'll give it a shit. I recommend.
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I'll give it a shot. Friend of the pod, Dave Sims is
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is our is our radio guy now. So sure is.
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Yeah, I'm going to have to. I might, I might give that a
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shot. All right, I'll try it out.
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I heard it best, you know, from back in the day when, when they
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played all the games during the daytime.
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There wasn't night games and things like that.
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They said it was the IT was the soundtrack, Yeah.
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Back before the Cubs played night games at Wrigley.
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They said it was the sound. What was it the the soundtrack
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to American Society or something like that, like whatever it is,
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because it was just always on. Like you went to the store and
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the game was on. You went to the deli, the game
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was on. You know what I mean?
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Better times, better times back then.
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Speaking of a friend of the pod, Lindsay, who we had on Sunday
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Clubhouse this past weekend, she made a great point, she said.
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Or no, It was a joint point, if I remember, between you and
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Lindsay, correct? Love a good joint point, but I
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don't know what we're talking about.
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About nostalgia. Oh yeah, dude, so she said was.
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She the one that said millennials are the most
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nostalgic and then you said baseball fans are the.
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It was a three pronged point because then I combined the two
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and I said I think baseball millennial, millennial baseball
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fans are the most nostalgic people in the history of the
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world. So I think I think radio will be
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right up your alley. I don't think, I don't think
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we're wrong. I I think that I think that take
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carries quite a bit of water. All right, Nate, this week you
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got to listen to a ball game on the radio.
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Yeah, do you? I challenge Nate and I challenge
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everyone listening and or watching to to consume a game
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via the radio broadcast let. Me see and.
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Bonus points if you like. I'm assuming you would do that
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for for your favorite team, but bonus points if you dabble into
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another radio booths. Broadcast.
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Oh I'm definitely checking out a Royals broadcast after that.
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Yeah, there's a, there's a, an older gentleman.
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I'm I'm guessing based on the the the.
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Danny Matthews. The warmth, the warmth of his
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voice and the raspy, the raspy warmth of his voice.
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I'm, I'm assuming is an older man, but man was giving me very
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like Vin Scully storytelling. Like, let me just let me just
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give you some soft jazz for your ears in the form of a baseball
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game. It was very much that vibe.
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And I was like, this man could put me to sleep this afternoon.
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I think the early games tomorrow I could I could pull that off.
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Braves Nationals play at 10:00 my time.
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These are those radio booths. Any good?
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You could probably avoid gnats. I can't say anything about the
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Braves. I'm not sure.
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And then Brewers, Tigers, Phillies, Cubs.
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I I'll try it out. I'll definitely try it out,
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yeah. Like a Cubs bounce back and
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forth. Like a Cubs 1 might be nice.
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I think so. So Danny Matthews, I was looking
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it up while you were telling the story.
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Danny Matthews looks like the radio guy for the.
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Or the Royals? Is that is he an older guy?
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Yeah, he looks like it, Yeah. Yeah, that's probably him.
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Considering it says that he's been announcing, Oh my goodness.
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Wait a minute. He has been announcing since the
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club's inception in 1969, making him one of four announcers in
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MLB history to broadcast for the same team.
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What 50 put some. Respect on it.
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What's his foot? What's his name?
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You. Say Denny Matthews.
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Denny Matthews, Tip of the cap. I'm a big Denny Matthews guy.
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58th season with the club. Yikes.
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There you go. That's crazy.
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Speaking of the the broadcast stuff I had, I threw the I don't
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remember what. I think it was the Royals.
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What were they playing? The Marlins?
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Who's playing the Marlins today? No Royals playing the Orioles.
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It was Cardinals, Cardinals, Marlins.
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And I just like threw it on, put it on mute while I'm working and
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like for like 1/2 hour I look up without even watching.
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And I realized that the Marlins had like technical difficulties
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and they just came up with a screen and they like weren't
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showing the game at all. Like it's just the most Marlin
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thing ever. Did they play the radio
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broadcast over time I. Don't know.
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I don't know, mute the whole time, but it was like, that's
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such a tough look, like, sure. And dozens of fans were
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disappointed anyway. Another thought on the on the
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the broadcast topic, Remember we were watching was it on We're
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doing our was that the first Sunday clubhouse when the Sox
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game just went haywire and it went to dugout Cam?
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Yeah, yeah. Is that what it was?
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So I didn't realize it, but apparently if you would have
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waited that out, you would have realized more.
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So I was speaking to myself. If I would have waited it out, I
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would have realized that that camera isn't a fix.
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I mean, it's fixed in terms of location, but it it can pan a
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little bit, which changed my whole perception on the the fix
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the on the dugout Cam when when they were having technical
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difficulties and they were stuck on that view.
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I just thought it was stuck on what you could see side of the
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frame to the other side of the frame.
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But it it was able to move and I'm like, I wouldn't mind.
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I mean, I could watch a game from the dugout.
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I wouldn't care. That'd be kind of nice.
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Do you think there'll be a day where we could like the same way
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you can change broadcast, you can adjust what camera you want
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to be on? It's only a matter of time.
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So that's that's got to be this easy money maker.
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Yeah, they did this some years. I don't know how often they do
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it, but they did it. I remember some years ago when
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with MLBTV, you could watch a playoff game, like a post season
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game, but you couldn't watch the like the Fox broadcast of it.
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Instead you had like 3 or 4 different cameras that you could
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just watch from that camera, you could watch the game live.
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No, no audio, like just stadium audio, no broadcasting and only
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the camera that you picked. And there was like 3-4 different
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cameras that you could choose from.
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But yeah, that'd be sweet. I guess I just didn't realize
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that that MLBTV was doing anything during the post season.
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I don't remember when they did that but and it might have only
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been for certain games. I I do that and the sorry last
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thing was I I like what the Apple TV did that, you know,
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like an inning of just like just baseball sound and the and the
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broadcast just turns off and all you hear the stadium sounds.
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I would love if that was an option full time.
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I would do that. I would pay.
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I would pay, I would pay extra money per year for for that
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experience. Yeah, so simple as that.
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Speaking of just pure baseball, I said that I mean that we're
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just talking about the viewing experience at this point.
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I saw a tweet from the Omaha Storm Chasers, the minor league
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club, and they're doing which I, I mean, it's nothing new.
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I I've seen other teams do it, but I it was just one of the
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ones that I've seen for this season coming up.
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But they're doing a nothing but baseball night.
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So they're doing no promotions, no music, no ad reads, no
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videos, just baseball. Tuesday, May 12th not sick,
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although I hate how they led the tweet.
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They said do you hate to see on field promotions and fun at the
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ballpark? No, I like.
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I like fun at the ballpark. I kind of hate them.
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I just, I just like, I just like baseball, I guess.
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I don't know. I mean, I don't know.
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Yeah, the promotions department's just like, do you
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like that we're not going to get paid tonight?
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TuneIn Tuesday, May 12th None of us are getting paid so you can
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watch baseball the boring way. We'll be outside the stadium
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picketing, but enjoy the game and Dollar Dogs.
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Yeah, yeah, we're not whipping T-shirts at you through a cannon
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tonight. It's just baseball.
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No dogs crapping on the on the field.
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The dog boy. Just baseball.
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The dog boy. Yeah, I saw this video.
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I don't even know what level it was, but it was like a could
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have been indie ball. I have no idea.
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But like the the dog bat boy, the golden retriever that just
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decides like gets right to the bat and then there's like a.
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Bat dog not a dog boy. What?
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What is a dog boy that sounds like a dog boy?
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That. Sounds like a failed superhero.
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That'd be a full. Superhero.
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I was thinking like bat boy and then dog, but anyway he like
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bolts to the like right in front of second base on the grass and
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just drops a big hefty 1. I did see that and then takes
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off again. It's just like like an 8 minute
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delay in the game 'cause this dog is just so undertrained.
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Oh man, it's a biohazard out there behind the bag.
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You got to clean it up. Hey, Speaking of taking a dump
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on the baseball field, let's talk about the Mets coming into
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today. 12 game losing streak. We're really hoping the Twins
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can pull out some magic here going into the 9th Got half an
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inning to go, but let's talk about it regardless.
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Regardless the outcome tonight, it's been it's been nothing but
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a dumpster fire in in Queens the last well, really the whole
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season, but specifically the last 12 games as they have lost
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all of them. So what?
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What? So I I get a little.
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Giddy when the Mets are the laughing stock of baseball.
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And I don't know why. It's just, it's something that
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that really, it really tickles me.
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I don't know why. It's it's what we all want.
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It's what we all need. So real quick, before we get
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into the numbers, am I, am I just rewriting history, Am I
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misremembering? Do Mets fans run their mouths
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when the team is doing well? I feel like that's been the
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case. But then I thought about it and
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I'm like, or are the Mets just, or are Mets fans just always in
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a state of despair and hopelessness?
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And I couldn't remember which one it was because I feel like
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I've, I've remembered periods of time over the last, call it five
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years where Mets fans have started to feel themselves a
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little bit. And I'm, I'm not a fan of that.
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Because of 2023 post season 2024 When did I come out for the for
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the Orioles Rangers series? That was 23. 23 jeez man, just
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flying by. I think it was 23 when they they
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had a little run in the postseason, didn't they?
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I don't remember. That was the last time I
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remember any Mets fans being somewhat confident.
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Oh, oh, oh, it was the same year I saw, because I saw a tweet
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about it today and I remembered it was the year they they made
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it to the NLCS. It was the wasn't that the Jose
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Iglesias OMG year. Was that 24?
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I thought it. Was 23, Was that the same year?
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I think it was. Yeah, they were they were
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starting to they were starting to feel themselves a little bit.
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And I'm just I'm I'm not not a fan of it because 24 why just
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read the room. That's fans.
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Like just know what your team is.
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This is what your team is. This is exactly what you are.
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I would say there's probably a a couple different scenarios.
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I mean, I, I think like most fans, it depends on what fan
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you're talking to. There are some that are in a,
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they'll blow it, don't worry. And you know, they're just
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already traded. And then there are some which I
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would say like if the Mets are doing good, you know how long
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that might or might not last. I say give them a little bit of
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freedom to talk a little bit. They've earned it.
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That's true too. You know what I mean?
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But it's also, it's just like, it's like the that, you know,
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that little neighborhood dog that barks where you're just
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like, I'm not affected by you. I'm not worried about you.
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You know what I mean? Like, even even when you're
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feeling strong and tough. Like we all know the truth.
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I I could be more glued to this. Let's go twins, man.
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I'm a huge, I'm a huge Twins guy, always have been.
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I was rooting for that game last night.
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Louder than the Yankee Sox game, I promise you.
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And somehow you just knew that was going to be the outcome, but
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you felt it. The stars that you saw Devin
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Williams, you saw us, Devin Williams take the bump and
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you're like this. We know how this ends.
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I can't say the same with Luke Weaver on the hill, although it
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doesn't sound like he's been all that hot this year.
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But if if it were Devin Williams, we would know what's
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happening. But let's, let's it's alright.
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There's still two more outs. You got to hey Clubhouse again.
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The last three are the hardest to get.
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You know you. Got to believe.
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Especially if you've lost 12 in a row.
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But let's let's talk about let's talk about the numbers.
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The their longest losing streak since 2002.
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The losing streak of 12, by the way, puts them in the territory
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of almost all but guaranteed to miss the postseason, because
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none of the 138 teams in Major League history who have lost
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twelve straight made the postseason.
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So don't count on seeing the Mets in October this year.
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I'm I still have somewhat faith because that was one of my hot
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takes, was that it's going to get so bad that Mendoza gets
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fired and Juan Soto requests a trade.
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Did you add that caveat with Mendoza?
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Mendoza gets fired, Juan Soto requests a trade, doesn't get
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traded, and they still make the post season.
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So we're off to a good start. I feel like I'm really laying
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the groundwork for my hot takes. I'm glad.
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I'm glad you brought up the name Juan Soto, because he made
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headlines today, They asked. They asked him as in in
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preparation of his return to the lineup after being on the shelf.
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They said, you know, have you have you talked to and or
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encourage your teammates over this stretch?
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And he said they've mostly been on the road.
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I haven't really talked to them. So let me just.
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Go ahead, hear their numbers. Let me just go ahead and, and,
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and share my thought real quick and then I'll let you guys just
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have fun with it because it sounds like maybe you're, you're
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more strongly opinionated on the matter than I am.
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But I, I don't know, I feel like this, you know, I've said, I've
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said thing, I've I've said what I've said about Juan Soto in the
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past. That's that's well documented,
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however, and, and the ripe old age of 32, trying to be a little
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more fair on things and and call things the way I see him.
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I feel like this was just an attempt to create a story out of
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nothing to be honest with you. Like you should he, should he
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have been in contact with his teammates over this kid given
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that he's he's. Being paid a trillion dollars.
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Yeah. And the fact that, I mean, what
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else does he really have to do being on the shelf?
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No disrespect, but like, is it the worst thing that he wasn't
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really in contact with him while they were out of town and and he
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obviously was not with the team? I no, I don't think, I don't
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think that's a massive deal. I think this is just trying to
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kick kick the team while they're down, trying to dig the hole a
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little deeper. I don't know.
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That's just that's just my take. I don't.
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Tell me if you guys feel differently about the matter.
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Yeah, for sure. That's definitely.
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I feel like the reporter probably knew the answer before
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they asked the question too, which makes it even better, you
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know? Yeah, I'm all yeah, I'm here for
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the drama. Don't get me wrong, I love, I
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love the pettiness. However, I just, I feel like
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this was a scenario where it was like maybe we could have, you
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know, done without this. Bro, it's just not a leader.
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We've all, we've all known that. We've all known that he's not a
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leader. He's not about to reach out.
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It's just, it's not surprising at all.
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Soft. It's just a soft organization.
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All right, let's let's take a brief intermission for this
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final out. 1-2 Count 2. See if we can get some all
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Nate's ahead of us, I guess. So I guess Nate will know first.
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Yeah, the numbers have not been good.
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They've in In 10 of those 12 losses, they've scored three or
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three runs or fewer with runners in scoring position, also known
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as risk. He's safe.
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Come on. Come on.
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Let's go baby. There's still hope.
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Oh baby, give me a two run bomb. What if like, is it what if like
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Josh Bell is coming up? Is it Josh Bell?
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I think he might be. Tell me it's Josh Bell.
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That's such a good 90 too. That's a great 90 boba shet.
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I mean no disrespect. Boba Shet playing short now
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again. Yeah, Lindor come out of the
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game early. Yeah, that's interesting.
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Soda really thought they had it in the bags.
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Yeah. Oh, come on.
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No, Joshua's on deck. Oh.
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We got a pinch runner though, I. Was going to get real excited
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anyway. They've sucked.
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Runners in scoring position they've been, they've hit 161.
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Devin Williams, as you mentioned, has been horrendous.
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I don't think he retired. I don't think he retired a
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hitter last night. Yeah, I don't know.
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I. He blew the save on whatever
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night that was. And then last night, I don't
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think he retired hitter when when the Twins had that
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comeback. I think he walked the bases
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loaded then gave up a knock and then another one.
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Didn't he hit a guy? I thought he hit a guy or 20.
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Yeah. And offensively they've just
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been Doo Doo as. Byron Buxton.
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I will forgive Byron Buxton for all of his USA, Team USA woes if
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he comes up clutch. Byron Buxton swinging not have
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bad this year to start the year by the way, I think in fact does
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he have does he have a a bomb tonight that I see.
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I need another one right here. Fireboxing.
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Come on guys. I kind of like the dreads.
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Yeah, I like them. It's good look.
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I also think I like the the pants down look as opposed to
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the the socks up look. Yeah, yeah.
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Is that Grady Sizemore, coach of first base?
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Who's? Sure is, yeah.
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Is it really? Yeah, I I heard that on the
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broadcast the other day. Sorry folks, this isn't a This
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isn't a clubhouse episode. This is.
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Well, I mean, this is this. This is history here.
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This is history. The The Twins gone for
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consecutive comeback wins, I mean.
24:24
Oh, Byron, No. Byron, come on, we know you know
24:29
what's at stake here, but try to be a team player here, guy.
24:33
This is bigger than the WBC. This this is can't.
24:39
Can't Kyle can't agree with that.
24:41
This is the World Series. Actually, that can't because the
24:45
Mets are playing, so it's got to be something else.
24:49
This would be the least watched World Series of all time. 00
24:53
Mets. Twins.
24:55
That's a fun exercise. What would could we come up
24:59
with? What the least watched?
25:01
Yeah, it couldn't be Mets just because of the market.
25:03
What would? What would the?
25:05
Least watched you have you have to combine like team.
25:10
Marlins race. Marlins.
25:11
Twins. There it is.
25:16
They went gotta be kidding me. Luke Weaver looks like. 12.
25:29
Luke Weaver looks like his dog was in an accident and he just
25:34
found out that he's still alive. Yeah.
25:39
I mean, talk about a weight off your shoulders.
25:43
Look how many smiles we see on these.
25:48
I think it's more of a relief, right?
25:50
Oh, for sure, yeah. I mean, look, we can sit here
25:54
and dog on the Mets all day, but.
25:56
Streak starts again tomorrow, so we get a.
26:02
So back to the comments like. Hold on, hold on, hold on, hold
26:05
on, hold on. Real last thing we can.
26:06
We can sit here and dog on the Mets all we want, but the
26:12
reality of it is and and no team or players immune to it.
26:19
When when you finally get the monkey off your back like that,
26:22
that I mean that that's whether it's a win loss thing, whether
26:27
it's a a hit list streak kind of thing, no matter what it is.
26:31
That's a very relatable feeling. And you know what?
26:34
I can, I can be, I can be a grown man and say that while I'm
26:40
not a Mets fan and I hope that the losing streak picks back up
26:43
tomorrow, I'm happy for them in this moment.
26:47
Because I tell you what, there's nothing more frustrating than
26:50
when baseball has got you bent over and it's just beating you
26:54
to the ground. It's just curb stomping you in
26:57
the face. So you know what?
27:00
Go pop some champagne, Mets. Go, go enjoy the night.
27:06
And then, you know, streak starts back up tomorrow.
27:09
Anyway, JB, go ahead. Yeah, just back to those
27:12
comments. I mean, how many times have we
27:16
watched interviews and just ho hum, you know exactly what
27:21
they're going to say. You want to hear the the
27:24
specific things and it's boring and you're like, I wish somebody
27:28
would just come out of that like predetermined answer.
27:36
This is one of those moments where you're like, why couldn't
27:39
you just give me the why couldn't you just give me the
27:42
statement I expected? You don't you don't say I
27:46
haven't talked to them. You know what I mean?
27:49
Like, yeah, how do you respond that?
27:51
Guy doesn't care. Yeah, I mean, but in the same
27:55
way, like we, we can't be, we can't be hypocritical in that
27:59
sense where it's like we want guys to just tell us what's on
28:02
their mind and not give us the the PR school answer.
28:06
And Juan Soto time and time again chooses, chooses to speak
28:12
his mind and that's what he did. So I, I can't sit here and be
28:15
like, well, what are you doing? And then in the same same token
28:19
be like, well you should have said something else.
28:22
Didn't he also say something like he's out 10 games?
28:26
I think so. But like, didn't he also say
28:30
something about how like he wasn't real?
28:33
Well, he wasn't real concerned about the losing streak too.
28:37
Like there was something like, oh, you know, we'll be OK or
28:39
what It like that sort of a thing.
28:41
And it's like, I think your fans would probably want you to be
28:44
concerned about it. Like, we need to get we need to
28:46
fix this. You know what I mean?
28:47
Lindor had a lot of those quotes.
28:50
Yeah, but Lindor was there saying this is, you know, this
28:53
is on us. This is what, you know, we're
28:54
doing this and, and, and whatever and, and we got to fix
28:57
it. And and then Soto's like, no,
28:59
we're all right. Yeah, but you know that those
29:04
guys like they they know they're supposed they they need to be
29:07
winning games. So them coming out publicly
29:11
being like, you know, we're really concerned or like, hey,
29:14
yeah, I'm, I'm trying to pick these guys up by by shooting
29:16
them a couple text messages or little kissy face goodnight.
29:20
Make sure they're going to bed got their head on straight each
29:23
night. Like I, I, I don't know, like
29:27
the, the players, I mean the fans.
29:28
Because he's going to request a trade soon, that's why.
29:31
Right. Yeah, He didn't bother getting
29:33
their numbers. Let's let's look elsewhere
29:38
around the National League because the American League is a
29:41
waste. The Braves.
29:44
Are the Braves back? I think the Braves are back.
29:49
Braves look good, man. Braves look real good, win
29:51
tonight. They're eight and two in their
29:53
last 10-17 and eight on the year.
29:56
The only team in the National League East with a winning
29:59
record right now, so that's fun. That's a rough division.
30:04
Yeah, I mean, the National League elsewhere looks, looks
30:09
all right. But yeah, that that National
30:12
League, he's looking a little, a little shaky.
30:15
Wow. I don't think I realized how bad
30:16
the Phillies were. Yeah, what is that?
30:19
This is. The first time I'm seeing this,
30:22
they have now lost seven in a row.
30:26
What happened? Cubs have won seven in a row,
30:30
going for 8:00. Thoughts, thoughts on, you know,
30:40
actually, let's give me your thoughts on those three teams.
30:43
So I mean, those are those are three teams I think a lot of
30:46
people had at the start of the year, as you know, teams that
30:49
would would be threats later in the season, Braves proving to be
30:53
as much Cubs playing playing very well as we've talked about
30:58
and the Phillies looking like shell themselves.
31:01
So we think we think we have a contender pretender situation
31:10
here. We think the the Phillies will
31:12
will right the ship. Do we think the Braves are just?
31:18
The Braves are hard to tell, man, because like on paper, I
31:24
don't know. Like on paper, I don't know,
31:27
starting rotation I has been spectacular.
31:33
I believe Strider just made a a rehab start.
31:39
I believe so he's on his way back.
31:42
I mean, there's, there's a lot to be excited about.
31:44
I'm just, I don't know how I feel about it.
31:47
I on the offensive side. It seems like the names that
31:50
didn't show up last year are producing a little bit more.
31:54
They look deeper when you look at some of these names and I
31:58
know that like he's our guy, like, you know, Yaz, I don't
32:03
know if he'll, you know, end up playing A140150 games for them.
32:07
You know, like, I don't know what his role will be.
32:10
I don't know what this Dom Smith Atlanta version of Dom Smith is
32:15
right now, but he's teeing off. Dubon looks good.
32:19
Like they, they just, they, they seem like they're filling a lot
32:23
of gaps and there's a lot of pieces that are playing OK.
32:28
I mean, you run down the category of OPS and it it looks
32:32
good. Drake Baldwin, I think needs to
32:34
start to become a household name.
32:37
But I think everyone needs to know that he is the truth and
32:41
has probably already become a top five catcher in baseball.
32:45
So they look good. Matt Olson's starting to hit
32:48
again. Like, they just look deep.
32:53
They look good. I'm not surprised.
32:58
Good for them. That's all I got.
33:04
I don't got anything else. The Iglesias just hit the shelf
33:09
by the way too. So I think Suarez is now
33:12
officially stepped into a closer role, which I feel like was
33:16
going to happen anyway. Yeah, probably wasn't great
33:20
timing for Iglesias, but Suarez closed it out tonight in DC.
33:24
So yeah, the Cubs, we think, we think this, this style of play
33:37
is sustainable. We think this this level of of
33:40
success is sustainable. JB, this is your division man.
33:43
Arguably the best division in. Baseball at the moment, so not.
33:47
Not really, arguably. Boom tell them jbi mean it's not
33:52
stay with your chest. I mean, it's pretty clear.
33:56
I mean, for the month of April, we'll see at the end of the
33:59
year, but for the month of April, that's without question.
34:02
No, I mean, I they've been doing it in a way they've been doing
34:08
it. They're running into the
34:10
Phillies, who we'll talk about next, but they've been they've
34:14
been scoring a lot of runs. And when Bregman came back, they
34:18
kind of they kind of started moving in the right direction as
34:21
far as wins and losses. But I mean, if you're if you're
34:24
watching them right now, they don't they don't stop hitting
34:29
thirty set plus 37 run differential coming into this
34:32
game. I mean, it's it's not, not the
34:37
Braves, right, But. Nico Horner's been their best
34:40
guy this year, hasn't he? And, and you love to see that.
34:43
I mean, a response to a big contract and coming out there, I
34:47
think he's he, he's leading in RBI's or something.
34:49
Yeah leading in RBI's he got 30 hits four O 2 on base at the
34:54
moment it's already almost accumulated WAR total of 2 is at
34:59
1.9. And I mean like them.
35:06
I feel like if if you're the Cubs and you get through April
35:11
and halfway through May and you're like feeling good
35:15
offensively and you're not like looking up the scoreboard and
35:18
having to dig yourself out of a hole on some of those numbers.
35:21
But just naturally, because it's difficult to play there at this
35:25
time of year in Chicago, like you got to it's just got to
35:28
catapult them into a good season.
35:30
I they do look really good. Their bullpen looks really good
35:35
like, and I think that was probably one of their weaker
35:39
points coming in the season, wasn't it?
35:42
I know the back end Palencia is nuts but like everywhere else it
35:44
was kind of some question marks but they just look good through
35:47
and through. I think Palencia, did he just
35:50
get hurt? Did he?
35:53
I think so. And he's been lights out, but I
35:59
feel like I saw that he's going, he's getting another, he's
36:05
getting another opinion. It's been an oblique and then
36:11
it's out of moving into something else.
36:13
But yeah, I mean, the starting rotation was a big question.
36:15
Horton went down and it was like, oh, how are they going to
36:18
be able to handle this until, you know, you can start seeing
36:21
guys like Steel or whatever show up.
36:23
And it seems like everybody that gets the ball for him doesn't
36:25
care that they're not supposed to be good.
36:27
They just at least keeping them in games, you know what I mean?
36:31
Yeah. So.
36:32
Evan not a looks like he's kind of starting to.
36:35
He dealt a little bit, yeah. Or was it today?
36:39
No Or no. They're playing right now.
36:40
That was yesterday. Yeah.
36:41
Yeah, He dealt yesterday. Looking good.
36:47
The Phils. Goodness, man.
36:50
Do I, I mean, I'll ask you, I mean, I'll ask you guys because
36:54
I, I don't think I have any choice but to believe the Phills
36:59
can bounce back because I have them in the World Series.
37:01
So don't mind me, I'm going to go ahead and be a a believer.
37:09
But do we think, oh, let me ask you this.
37:14
Do we think the Phillies can still be a a post season caliber
37:19
team? If, if and I know it's still
37:22
early, but let's if, if we want to say that the division is
37:28
maybe not as as likely of a landing spot for them as we
37:32
thought. I think they can just cause of
37:35
their pitching staff like their rotation, especially Wheeler
37:38
coming back I think Saturday. No, he's got one more.
37:43
I believe he's got one more rehab.
37:46
Maybe that's that's what they were.
37:47
They were deciding they were deciding they didn't got it.
37:50
This was going to be the last one or not.
37:52
Either way, I mean so. The thing is, they're 1/2 game.
37:54
They're 1/2 game different than the Mets right now, and they're
37:57
down five runs in the ninth. So like we're at the end of this
38:01
game, they're going to lose their eighth straight game and
38:04
they're going to be tied with the New York Mets.
38:06
So however you feel about the Mets, you're looking at the
38:10
Phillies right now in the same way, except for the fact that
38:13
we've seen essentially the same roster be great.
38:16
But they're not the Mets, though.
38:18
That's the difference, right? No, like, I know it's like a
38:21
better thing, but like, it's a real thing.
38:23
Like it's, you can, I think you can look at them through a
38:26
different lens because they're not the Mets and they don't
38:29
carry the same sort of baggage that comes with the Mets.
38:32
But yeah, to your point, Nate, Zach Wheeler is back.
38:36
Saturday is confirmed so. OK, cool.
38:38
I thought so. But I think that rotation is
38:41
going to keep them in the mix. You got to assume that some of
38:44
this offense will start to turn it on.
38:47
I mean, Trey Turner just doesn't look at 635 OPS at the moment.
38:56
Bryce and and Schwarber look normal for the most part.
39:01
The rest of the lineups, just like there's nothing.
39:03
It's just nothing. It's a big nothing burger.
39:05
Well, the Phillies have a five O 5 ERA on the season right now.
39:09
They've given up the third most runs at 119.
39:15
You got to assume that's going to go back to normal, right?
39:18
Yeah, you would think that that has to get better.
39:24
If you break it down to just starter, I mean, you're looking
39:27
at the 4th worst at a 534. It's just it's not been
39:32
effective from the rotation there.
39:34
And if the rotation, which like I said about the Phillies, we we
39:39
kind of know who they are. If they just kind of from this
39:44
point pitch better, you have to think the rest of this can come
39:49
around. We've seen this team be really
39:52
good. It's you're, you're in dangerous
39:57
territory right now. I know we're only a month in,
40:00
but you're in dangerous territory right now.
40:02
Specifically, 8 1/2 out of the division is you.
40:07
You play the Braves a lot. I don't know.
40:08
Have they played the Braves yet? Didn't they just play the
40:13
Braves? Did they just play the Braves?
40:14
Swept in Philly. So that's even, you know, you
40:17
don't have as many games to try to climb back into that.
40:23
I mean like. That matters a little bit.
40:25
I didn't know this guy we were watching before we hopped on
40:30
Felix Reyes was hitting four hole for them.
40:33
He's 25 years old. He looks like he's 39.
40:36
I've never ever heard of this guy and he's hitting four hole.
40:41
I it's just they're it's a they're, I think they're in a
40:44
very desperate rough spot. There's some of these names that
40:49
they committed to and like we talked about, you felt like they
40:53
needed kind of like a changing of the guard.
40:55
Like you can keep your your normal dudes, but like the guys
41:00
that you're on the fence about, like maybe we just start to move
41:03
on from, you know, Brandon Marsh, again, no disrespect.
41:07
Was like 1/4 outfielder for the Angels for years and now all of
41:11
a sudden you're like relying on him to play every single day.
41:14
Adolos Garcia I think there's a reason why the Rangers moved on,
41:17
right? Like, and now you're expecting
41:20
him to play every day, Alex. Bone was on the trade market for
41:24
seemingly the whole year. And probably like mentally feel
41:27
like that guy's been in a blender for two plus years now.
41:29
Yeah, like they're you. You decided to.
41:33
I I didn't disagree with it, but you decided to bring back Rio
41:36
Muto and. Who just like shelf, I believe.
41:40
Like you, you believe in what he can do behind the dish, but
41:43
like, obviously everything's just kind of fading as he gets
41:46
older. Like, I just, I don't know, I
41:53
feel like they needed to hit the reset button and they didn't.
41:56
And there it is. There.
41:57
That's their ninth. Eighth straight loss. 8th, 8th
42:01
straight loss. Cubs eighth straight win fills
42:04
eighth straight loss. That dub be flying.
42:11
That dub do be flying all right. Any other thoughts on the fills?
42:20
Figure it out quickly. 5 and 10 at home, by the way.
42:29
Yeah, the bank don't be banking. No dude didn't.
42:32
It needs to. I mean, it's April.
42:35
I'm not bro. What are we?
42:38
Are we taking jump shots before we get to third base on home run
42:43
shots? Now look, what are we doing I.
42:50
Don't know that guy is. I tell you, who's not taking
42:56
many, who's not giving up many homers for there to be home run
43:01
trots on Jose Soriano, look out on the Year 5, and oh, I feel
43:09
like quite frankly, he could have warranted A nomination for
43:13
the credit cannon last week. But I just wanted to see if this
43:16
was if this was legit or not. It real dude.
43:20
Real This is the real deal. 5 and O30 on the season 5 and O 37
43:25
and 2/3 and ERA of .2443 strikeouts to just thirteen
43:32
walks. Has only given up 1 earned run
43:35
on the season. The current runner up for the Cy
43:42
Young in the American League right now.
43:45
Helping your angels to a 12 and 14 record at the moment.
43:51
My angels. Your angels, you need them to
43:55
lose a lot this year. That's that's in your worst
43:59
teams draft. That's a great point.
44:01
That's a good point. Yeah, well, they can.
44:05
I mean, I guess for the the Soriano storyline, they can win
44:08
those games, but they just got to lose the other ones because I
44:11
I like seeing this, this Soriano success, if you will.
44:18
Wasn't this the guy JB told us? Was it on Clubhouse where he's
44:22
like, we knew this was coming or something?
44:24
Oh. I didn't say we knew it was
44:26
coming. I said this stuff has been
44:27
there. You like the?
44:30
Stuff I think. You said we knew the stuff was
44:32
there because then I said. Did we knew?
44:35
Did. We, I, he's never put anything
44:40
together like that. I mean, his baseball savant page
44:42
has more red than his uniform does.
44:44
That's not been a. Bar just.
44:49
Ball he he's never done that he's never put all of that
44:55
together. Well, no, I did his reaction,
44:58
dude, he can't. He's just he can't just let it
45:01
ride. No, but he's never been able to
45:05
put something together like this until now.
45:07
And I mean, you could say you have a good slider, but this is
45:13
this is another. One start, any rumors or any
45:15
allegations you just start up. No, I don't know man.
45:20
No, I thought I'm a benefit of the doubt.
45:22
No, he's 27. That's a good age.
45:26
I, there's like a few ages. I like to say, like you figured
45:30
that out. I like 24, I like 27.
45:33
Those are ages that are very typical to say.
45:37
I, I've, I know who I am now. And maybe that's what he's doing
45:40
right now. Maybe he's just.
45:42
Maybe he's just on a roll. Casey, you can move on 'cause he
45:47
needs to hurt from Jake Berger. Knock right there to score
45:53
Rangers. Side up against his pirates,
45:56
he's got to feel it for a SEC. Pirate baby, stand by.
46:06
McCutcheon scoring that third run, too.
46:10
Real, OK, real quick side note that whole did you see the the
46:15
media availability after the game yesterday or was it before
46:18
today's game, after the game? Yesterday after the game
46:20
yesterday. What was that about, man?
46:22
Come on, answer the question. Stop.
46:25
Stop with the sour grapes. They're asking him questions
46:28
about his relationship with the pirates.
46:30
He's like, I prefer to not answer that question.
46:32
I prefer to not answer that question.
46:34
I'm like, come on, come on. I don't know.
46:39
Yeah, I'm, I'm a little, I'm a little torn on it.
46:48
I understand. Honestly, that's big of you.
46:50
JBI wasn't expecting you to say that.
46:52
And I, I sincerely mean that. I, I, the the fact that you're
46:56
even torn on it or just not full full blown one way or the other,
47:01
like that's that's big of you. I I respect that.
47:05
He's he's still our guy and no doubt, but this is a tough this
47:11
has been a tough like situation and it is I think, and I don't
47:16
know if we want to go into this, but I think that it is always
47:19
tough to see one of the greats fade away and that that sucks.
47:29
And then on top of that, like I listen, it's been it's been
47:36
written enough. How much he cares about
47:40
Pittsburgh and about that franchise and if they really
47:44
were not communicating with him at all, which sounds like that's
47:47
what it was. And McCutcheon was pretty clear
47:51
about some things in the offseason that they weren't.
47:54
And, and he's he's, you know, he's had posts out on social and
47:57
removed them. And you're asking him, you know,
48:01
do you regret not being able to work something out?
48:05
And he's got Rangers hats behind him.
48:07
He's in his locker, sure. What's he going to say?
48:10
He's not going to say like, yeah, I really wish I played for
48:12
them, not the team I'm on. You can't say that.
48:15
Yeah, but at the same time. But at the same time, Andrew
48:19
McCutcheon isn't exactly 1 to hold his tongue either when it
48:23
comes to, you know, speaking his mind.
48:25
So no, but I think I'm, I think I, I think I get a little bit of
48:31
if he's saying like, listen, if if I'm completely honest here,
48:35
if he's just transparent and, and lays it out, one of two
48:39
things is going to happen. You're either going to say what
48:42
a baby, just move on and do something else, or you're going
48:48
to say that's a terrible thing. If there's no good that comes
48:52
out of answering that question because he's either dogging the
48:56
franchise that he cares about or or he just looks like he's
49:02
complaining and he's a wash baseball player who can't
49:06
realize where he's at. You know what I'm saying?
49:08
Like that's a lot of things that that it's going to be taken from
49:11
that. And I think it's probably, I
49:13
think in that scenario, maybe it's a good idea to say, listen,
49:17
I just don't want to answer that.
49:18
I'm on a team right now. I'm focused on this team.
49:20
I'm trying to trying to win games.
49:22
No, well, it wasn't that it, it was he he said it with with just
49:29
this sort of, I don't want to say arrogance, but like he just
49:32
said it with this very clear, like predetermined.
49:36
It didn't matter what the question was going to be because
49:38
he said it like 3-3 times. I think he was like I'm.
49:43
Just ask him in different ways. And he was, he's like, I'm not
49:46
going to go there. Well, yeah, like I, I, I would
49:50
prefer not to answer that question.
49:51
I would prefer not to. I'm like, OK, whatever.
49:53
But anyway, I the last thing I'll say, no matter.
49:55
I, I feel like there, there can be a middle ground between
49:58
dogging the franchise and doing the Freddie Freeman, like
50:01
weeping at your locker when asked about, you know, the
50:05
Braves situation. Like, can there not just be a, a
50:08
happy medium where, you know, maybe you, you, you, I, I don't
50:13
know that there's got to be something in between.
50:16
I don't think it has to be such an extreme either or.
50:19
Our Braves followers almost had a perfect episode.
50:24
Sorry, yeah. That's on me.
50:26
That's on me. Braves loves Philly hate and
50:32
then Freddie. Why'd you have to bring that up?
50:38
We were doing so good. Speaking of doing good, Riley
50:41
O'Brien Riley O'Brien for the Cardinals on the year 3 and O 7
50:51
saves, 15 strikeouts to zero walks.
50:55
Has an ERA of 0. That's good.
51:02
Over 13 and a third. So a reliever getting into the
51:07
mix. Not many relievers make it into
51:09
the mix. I mean, we had Mason Miller last
51:10
year, but he's doing otherworldly things.
51:13
But he could make the argument that Riley O'Brien is at least,
51:20
you know, in outer space. If he hasn't reached another
51:23
world yet, he's at least in the atmosphere.
51:28
Yeah. Good.
51:29
Good on Riley O'Brien. Another bright, a bright spot
51:33
for the Cardinals paired with, you know, Jordan Walker doing
51:35
what he's doing some some pretty, pretty interesting
51:39
storylines. Pretty, pretty, pretty, pretty
51:42
cool. Speaking of pretty cool my guy
51:49
on my fantasy squad, you're not Alvarez leading all of baseball
51:57
with 11 homers has an OPS at 12:45 and you think, Oh well,
52:03
it's maybe it's just the power this year, isn't it?
52:06
He's probably hitting like $1.25.
52:08
No, wrong. He's hitting 347 on the season
52:12
actually and 26 RBIs that go with that.
52:15
So just a a a full package hitter this year for Jordan
52:22
Alvarez coming for coming for all the offensive awards this
52:29
year. Yeah, I saw you look up.
52:35
So that's a name that I'm going to be excited to follow for for
52:39
multiple reasons. It's.
52:41
Going to be tough when you have to trade them.
52:46
Why would I trade them? I don't know.
52:48
Are you about to lose again this week?
52:51
I think I'm actually winning right now, but thanks.
52:53
You're not then Ben's going to out hustle you on the waiver
52:56
wire. So it's going to be a loss.
52:59
Ben, I mean, ask Ben. He, and I've said this before,
53:03
he he wipes the floor with me in the regular season, but the last
53:08
two years I've had his number in the playoffs.
53:10
So you tell me. Speaking of wiping the floor,
53:19
Taka Murakami is wiping the floor with the pitchers he's
53:23
going up against. Not as dominant as Jordan
53:28
Alvarez. I will say though, obviously.
53:31
I mean, he's got, however, he's got 9 homers on the year.
53:34
He's only hitting 234, but seventeen RBI is driving in runs
53:38
OPS at 978, which is tied for seventh in all baseball.
53:41
So I wanted to include him just because one, he's hitting
53:47
baseballs over the hitter's eye are the batter's eye that we're
53:51
we've we've seen. So I feel like that's notable in
53:54
and of itself. But also just being able to
53:56
settle in having come from overseas, you just never know
54:02
like it regardless how good we have this conversation all the
54:04
time, regardless how good a guy is over there.
54:06
You just, it's, it's really a flip of the coin as to how
54:09
they're going to respond, how they're going to adjust, adapt
54:12
this that in the 3rd and seems like he's settling in quite
54:16
nicely for my Chicago White Sox, who I still believe can finish
54:22
at 500 or better despite the sluggish start.
54:25
My A's. My first place A's.
54:31
This guy claims too many teams. Yeah, he's got a lot of them.
54:34
Well, you were the one saying my angels, they're not my angels
54:38
that I have them losing. I know it's facetious because
54:42
you hate them. Yeah, well, I think
54:45
subconsciously that's playing into your your thought of me
54:49
claiming too many teams. But that was on you.
54:52
And it's not even the actual ones.
54:53
Who do I claim? The A's, the White Sox, you
54:57
claim a lot of guys. No, no, no, it seems teams.
55:01
Teams Who do I? What teams do I claim?
55:04
Tell me, tell me what teams are Royals?
55:07
The A's. The White Sox.
55:08
I don't claim the Royals, I claim just some days.
55:11
Their their their radio booth for 10 minutes to.
55:15
Start. But did I say?
55:17
Did I say my Royals? The Phillies are one of your
55:21
teams. Well, that's been known.
55:23
Obviously. You got a lot of teams guy,
55:27
would you if if you were if you were best friends with the king
55:33
of the castle in this, in this sense, the Prince, if you were
55:37
best friends, if if you just loved the Prince that lived in
55:41
the castle, would you would you hate?
55:44
Would you hate the castle? Would you say, hey dude, your
55:47
your castle sucks? No.
55:49
So I'm going to claim the Castle AKA the Phillies because.
55:54
Best friends with yes yes dude, we're.
55:59
We're Bros, I got you. Oh, shout out my white socks.
56:03
Solo bomb Miguel Vargas. Goodness.
56:08
Cutting the deficit to one, it just never ends.
56:12
I'm I'm on a heater right now. Yeah, your guy E Rod giving up
56:15
nukes. That's not oh E Rod's not my
56:18
guy. He has not been my guy for a
56:20
long time. In fact, I don't even know if he
56:22
ever was my guy. Anyway, couple items here to
56:27
close the book. Royals announced their plan for
56:31
a new stadium, which I know was it in the offseason or even last
56:38
year that it there was the the report that came out that said
56:43
that they might, but I guess today made it official.
56:46
Are they they officially moving? Is this, is this what how I'm
56:49
understanding this sounds like? Sounds like they're moving
56:53
downtown and ballpark looks pretty pretty nice.
56:57
How's it? Got some renderings out.
56:59
I'm seeing a lot of Royals fans make comparisons to the current
57:02
coffin stadium, which it sounds like they're they're in favor
57:07
of, you know, not getting too, too wonky.
57:12
But yeah, my Royals as as it were getting a new, getting a
57:18
new home. So that's that's noteworthy.
57:23
Looks like the fountains are going to be a thing still.
57:27
Fountains in the rendering, I don't know if you if you can
57:30
tell in the pictures you're looking at, but the fountains I
57:33
don't think are going to play because of where they're
57:35
located. And somebody, I saw somebody
57:38
make a good point. Dead center you can't.
57:40
Have those dead. You can't have fountains as a as
57:44
a batter's eye. That's just not how that works.
57:48
So those are probably going to have to get moved.
57:51
But All in all, my Royals, all things looking up despite the
57:57
the lowly record. Nate, give me your thoughts on
58:04
on your Yankees wanting possibly to wear alternates.
58:09
Have you seen this? Yeah.
58:13
I'm kind of cool with it. It's all I.
58:14
Whatever I. How kind of torn on it.
58:20
Yeah, I get it. Like, I get both sides where
58:24
it's just like, like some people have to take where it's like,
58:27
you know, just go win a ring. Like stop trying to just stop,
58:32
like stop asking to do different things.
58:34
Just go win. And on the other side of it, I
58:43
don't know, like, why not switch it up, Try something new, see
58:47
what works? I like the I like those uniforms
58:51
and I don't like our greys. When they got rid of the white
58:54
outlines on our greys, they suck.
58:56
Well, I so no, I think initially you and I were both like, OK,
58:59
that's kind of an that's kind of an ode to the.
59:02
I hate them now. Yeah, I would agree with you.
59:04
I've kind of I've kind of. I may have been at first.
59:08
I mean, I always hated them objectively, but you know what I
59:10
mean. Sure.
59:12
Design wise, I, I, I hate them now.
59:15
Yeah. Now which ones, though?
59:18
Because I saw, I saw two pictures.
59:21
I saw one where it was the NY on the chest, but then I also saw a
59:24
picture being used where it's the New York.
59:27
Yeah, I think it's the New York one, OK, because the the NY.
59:32
That would be a home alternate anyway.
59:34
They're never not going to wear the pinstripes.
59:36
They're always going to have the white pinstripes at home.
59:38
So that's never going to go anywhere.
59:40
Makes sense. So the the blue New York across
59:42
the chest, I don't know. I mean, they got approved and
59:46
now it just comes down to if they decide to do it or not.
59:49
I think MLB was cool with it. I saw a take where it said this
59:53
is just another way that the Yankees are becoming like every
59:57
other team in baseball, and I can't disagree.
59:59
And I get that side of it too, where like, they're just kind of
1:00:02
ditching all traditions, but it's like, yeah, you know.
1:00:07
It's been a while, so I shake things up.
1:00:10
I don't care. And then you've got Boone
1:00:12
calling across town to Mendoza to console him and encourage
1:00:16
him. I mean, what do we do?
1:00:17
Like, come on. I know what what else is new?
1:00:21
What? What else would you expect from
1:00:23
that guy? I mean, that's not a that's not
1:00:27
an old man boomer take. That's that's like that comes
1:00:30
down to like a competitive nature.
1:00:32
Like why are you calling? But this is a manager.
1:00:35
We talk about all the time like these guys just they make out in
1:00:38
the outfield. Before, but this is but this is
1:00:40
this isn't the same thing, though.
1:00:42
This is a guy that that came up in that in that culture where
1:00:46
this wasn't this would have never flown.
1:00:50
Well, what do we? I don't know, man, I don't know.
1:00:53
I think it's just the that's how he is, that's just how he is.
1:00:57
It sucks, but Mendoza was a Yankees, you know, bench coach
1:01:01
for a long time. So it's.
1:01:02
Like it's. A long tie there.
1:01:04
I get it, but he's not anymore. He's the manager of the team
1:01:09
across town. Anyway, that's just whatever.
1:01:12
Who was in a different league and this is a guy who coached
1:01:15
under under Boon, their friends. I mean, no, I I get that.
1:01:20
I don't know why that has to come out, though.
1:01:23
Yeah, so I get, I get the look. It that's very yeah, who even
1:01:26
bring who even brings that up? Was that Boone that that or no,
1:01:29
it was Boone. He was the one that said that,
1:01:31
so that's on him. Yeah, that just.
1:01:32
Yeah, let's go, Pirates come out.
1:01:35
Clap it up in the ninth. Yep, clap it up.
1:01:40
Go. Pirate All right, let's close it
1:01:43
out with. Marais, Question of the Week.
1:01:48
Murray's question of the week, I texted him before he hopped on.
1:01:52
I asked him if he had a few or if he had a question of the week
1:01:55
and sent me a few. Murray wants to know, if called
1:02:04
upon, could you confidently play any position except pitcher for
1:02:10
your favorite team in a World Series for all seven games?
1:02:14
Or would you pass now? Right now.
1:02:19
Oh, yeah. No, no, sorry, sorry, sorry.
1:02:21
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Sitting in this chair.
1:02:23
No, I forgot that I missed the I missed the the beginning
1:02:25
qualifier, he says. As of right now in in
1:02:28
parentheses. No time to train if called.
1:02:32
If called upon, could you confidently play any position
1:02:36
except pitcher for your favorite team in a World Series, all
1:02:39
seven games or. Would you pass?
1:02:41
No, not any position. I got to be honest with, I think
1:02:45
I would fill my shorts if I had to try and and try and catch a
1:02:49
fly ball right now. There's just no way.
1:02:53
You know how hard that is if you take this much time off.
1:02:56
Yeah. I think a ground ball.
1:02:57
I could get, I could probably get away with it.
1:03:00
I that now that I was going to say the opposite.
1:03:02
I'd like a fly ball because of the reaction time.
1:03:05
You like the the instincts would kick in, but a ball coming off
1:03:10
the bat at like 105 would be might as well might as well be
1:03:15
405 at this point. Like I'm, I'm not tracking that
1:03:18
ground ball whatsoever. All right.
1:03:20
Can we all agree that the very last position we would agree to
1:03:23
play right now would be catcher? Catcher, Yeah.
1:03:25
I'm not getting back there. Never got.
1:03:28
I'm not squatting down and I'm not breaking my thumb on some
1:03:33
101 sinker. Just.
1:03:36
Eating me. Alive dude I would miss it not
1:03:38
happening. I can't see.
1:03:40
Now, would I say yes to this opportunity?
1:03:43
Absolutely. Yeah, but you'd be the reason
1:03:46
that they would lose. Yeah, that's fair too.
1:03:49
That's. Fair not not if they put me in
1:03:51
catcher, I'm only lasting 1 inning.
1:03:52
We're going to lose anyway, so let me get some.
1:03:54
Time on the field let me collect some game checks.
1:03:59
Oh, no way. Now what would be the?
1:04:03
What would be the the position that we would try?
1:04:08
Try. I would also say that just I
1:04:10
would also say that they're gonna have to DH for me, not the
1:04:14
pitcher. Yeah, I'm not touching anything
1:04:18
right now. I could maybe I could maybe try
1:04:21
my luck at second short I'm I'm laterally I'm way too like my
1:04:26
hips have locked up. For good now 100%.
1:04:29
If I know deep the whole time and just be at third, I think
1:04:32
I'd take that. No, but that goes back to the
1:04:34
reaction time like the Yeah, I. Don't like, I don't think.
1:04:37
I am not taking, I trust. My hands before I trust my feet.
1:04:41
My fat work has got to be shot. I mean, as of right now we're
1:04:46
talking for me personally, we're talking like Jeter range type.
1:04:51
So that's kind of where we're at, like with the hips, with the
1:04:55
hips. Right range then your current
1:04:57
shortstop guy sucks. Can can't argue that beginning.
1:05:02
Ended Did you win? What happened?
1:05:06
Cruz just doinked it off the top of the foul pole.
1:05:09
Like like this? What doink like the top of the
1:05:15
foul pole? 84 now.
1:05:18
Yeah, you just did a three run Homer.
1:05:20
Yeah, Big inning just shut it down on us for no reason.
1:05:24
That ball landed on the top of the foul pole I think, and then
1:05:28
kept bouncing. If they this wouldn't make any
1:05:31
sense. But if Big Inning was on during
1:05:34
the World Series, if the World Series went over by by three
1:05:39
minutes, they're cutting it. They're cutting it off in the
1:05:41
bottom of the ninth because that's just what they do.
1:05:44
I hate it. Oh, shoot.
1:05:47
Yeah, I would try my luck at second.
1:05:49
I think I could. I think I could get by at 2nd.
1:05:52
I'd have to play an outfield position.
1:05:54
Baseball, I was an outfielder, so there's no way I'm going to
1:05:57
the infield. Outfield terrifies me.
1:05:59
I I I played the outfield in in adult league like the summer
1:06:03
league thing it. Sucks.
1:06:05
The amount, the amount of balls, well, it wasn't that many, but
1:06:09
there was a few balls that got by me.
1:06:11
Like you know how you drop to a knee?
1:06:12
I'm like, I gotta block this. The ball went right by.
1:06:17
Granted, we're playing in like a middle of a right cornfield, the
1:06:21
grass. Exactly.
1:06:22
You're not worried about hops out there?
1:06:25
No, we are we're that we're. No, I'm.
1:06:27
Not if you're if you're going out to a Major League.
1:06:28
Field. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah,
1:06:29
yeah, yeah. It's a good point.
1:06:30
We're all worried about that, actually.
1:06:31
Yeah, maybe. I I would have a very O'Neill
1:06:34
Cruz esque opening day. Yeah, so, so nay would be
1:06:40
O'Neill Cruz on opening day. I would be Jeter at short with
1:06:43
the range it's. Just with that, you'd be Trevor
1:06:46
Story at short is what you mean. Well, either way, not good.
1:06:52
OK. Yeah, that wraps up Question of
1:06:53
the Week. I'm.
1:06:56
Dang Dang, that ball was hit hard.
1:07:02
JB, you. Didn't.
1:07:03
You didn't prep any. You didn't prep any trivia for
1:07:06
us? Did.
1:07:06
You. No.
1:07:06
Do you need another Murray's question of the week or we we
1:07:09
just you said he gave you a couple.
1:07:11
I don't know. Yeah.
1:07:12
I mean, I can save them. I don't want to blow through
1:07:14
them, but I also don't want to don't want to prolong our.
1:07:18
I don't think I've ever seen anyone hit a ball off of the
1:07:22
top. Top of the foul pole?
1:07:23
I've never seen that. It's.
1:07:25
That is, that is bouncing off the top of the foul pole.
1:07:29
I would I would love to see it, but beginning.
1:07:32
It totally did and then made it to the second deck.
1:07:36
Yeah, like it, like the foul pole got in its way. 116.9 on
1:07:43
that one. Oh, I should be able to rewind
1:07:46
once I get on there. Here's the interesting thing.
1:07:48
Are you ready for this? That that ball this is this is
1:07:54
outrageous. The ball that O'Neill Cruz hit
1:07:58
is a home run in two out of 30 parks.
1:08:03
Wow. Dumb.
1:08:06
Because I'm guessing that in the rest of them it goes foul.
1:08:12
But it's it's. Globe Life Field and Fenway are
1:08:17
the only two that that is a home run at OH.
1:08:19
You're saying because of like the curvature?
1:08:21
Of because it because it was curve and it hit the top of the
1:08:24
foul pole. So if you're if you're 5 feet
1:08:26
further than globe life field, it's probably hooking a little
1:08:31
foul. That's OK.
1:08:33
Bonkers. Here we go.
1:08:34
It's also down the line 4/22. That's cool.
1:08:41
You watching it? Oh yeah, here we go.
1:08:45
Oh, you can see clear as day. Oh my gosh, that's nuts.
1:08:50
Do they just have a super short foul poll?
1:08:53
What is that I? Don't know.
1:08:55
I've never seen that before. That's never seen that.
1:09:01
Anyway, Speaking of MLBT VS I'm, I'm just going through my my
1:09:04
tweet about the same three commercials saying some of the
1:09:07
responses are great. Somebody was like that Google ad
1:09:10
gets to me, Somebody said. We still see the Fernando Tatis
1:09:14
dancing one in our nightmares. Somebody, somebody said.
1:09:20
Somebody said Smokey Bear is getting plenty of run.
1:09:26
It's awesome that we're on. We're all like in our own little
1:09:29
like bubble commercials. Yeah, Because I've never heard
1:09:32
or seen of any of these commercials that they're saying.
1:09:34
Somebody said Braves Visions Countryfest ad is getting its
1:09:37
money's worth, I can tell you that.
1:09:42
Somebody said somebody says we love Car Shield.
1:09:48
Oh, car shield. I get a lot of car shield.
1:09:51
Hey, that's a great point by Sam.
1:09:53
He says as long as it's not political ads, that's fine.
1:09:55
You know what, look at Sam looking at the looking for the
1:09:57
silver lining. Good for some anyway.
1:10:04
How about that about does it? That's all I got.
1:10:11
This is fun. I had fun tonight.
1:10:14
I always have fun with you guys. OK, you, man, No, no prep
1:10:20
episodes, just winging it. You've really evolved.
1:10:28
I can't wait to see what you're going to be like as a dad and
1:10:31
where you're just like half asleep on these things.
1:10:33
You're like, I don't know what, I don't care.
1:10:36
You're like, what are we? You're like, what are we talking
1:10:38
about tonight, Casey? I'm like you tell me.
1:10:43
It's diapers. I don't know.
1:10:47
I'll be like, I guess we can talk about how many diapers we
1:10:50
need. Check see how many how many we
1:10:54
need. Cool.
1:11:00
All right. All right, go baseball.
1:11:10
Oh, reminder, I knew something was coming.
1:11:14
Join us on. Well, I forgot to mention it.
1:11:16
Be sure to be sure to join us for Sunday Clubhouse.
1:11:19
We'll be on there at 2:00 PM Eastern doing a lot of what we
1:11:23
were doing tonight. Just just watching big inning,
1:11:25
watching ball, talking ball. Yeah.
1:11:30
It's really, it's really our better size.
1:11:32
Probably wasn't that enjoyable of a podcast, but you know.
1:11:36
I don't care. I had a great time.
1:11:40
I care with every episode of passes, I care less and less.
1:11:43
I'm just here to have fun. I'm here to not chase
1:11:48
curveballs. That's it, we love you all as
1:12:02
always, Looking forward to talking more baseball with you
1:12:04
guys soon. Until next time, stay filthy.