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All-Star Rosters Are Set · The 3-0 Take

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Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to the Three O Take where we talk
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all things Major League Baseball.
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Here's Kyle Corwin and Nate Reyes.
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It all starts right now. Welcome back to the Three O Take
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presented by SeatGeek. This is episode 448.
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I'll be your host, Kyle Corwin, and I'm here with my Co host
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Nate Reyes. Nate.
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Welcome back from the big ol long weekend, everybody, except
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for you. You worked on Friday.
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Strategic move strategic. Let's let's call spade a spade.
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It was. I can appreciate the, I can
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appreciate the mastermind behind that.
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It was about as low effort of a work day as possible and it's OK
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if my boss hears that. The reality of it is nobody was
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really working. I I mean I can't create work for
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myself. This is true.
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Everybody decided to turn it into a four day weekend,
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understandably so. But if I have the ability to log
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log my hours and kind of have a pretty low key day, I'm going to
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do it. You know, that's just, that's
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brilliance on on my part. Yeah, that's true.
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I have a gripe on the Sky Harbor Phoenix Airport trying to save
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some money by parking in the economy lot right.
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That's why it's named the economy lot.
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Economically it should be cheaper, right?
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Well, economy lot E full Economy lot W full, parking garage W
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full. Where do we have to park the
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park and walk lot that's like 3/4 of a mile away from the
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nearest terminal. So when we parked at the airport
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Thursday, it was like 110 outside and we had to.
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Walk all the way. I'm out.
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To get to the train and then on the way back when we got here,
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again, had to walk all the way out there.
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It was insane. And I'm like, there's got to be
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people that are like dying on this trip, you know what I mean?
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And no shuttle goes out that far.
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It's insane. I don't that's it started off.
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Yeah. It's the Yankees suck weekend
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travelling. We had to go grocery shop.
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I don't know what's what you're going to get today.
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I don't know what you're going to get.
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I can't. I can't promise.
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Did you at least have a good 4th?
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Had a good 4th. Good.
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That's that's what's important rolling into the week after the
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4th. Good burger, good dog.
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Ketchup and mustard for those curious.
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Sorry, Ryan. Look, I'm, I'm getting to a
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point in my life. I, I thought about it some over
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the 4th as as hot dogs and hamburgers were plenty,
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cheeseburgers were plenty. I'm getting a point.
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Maybe it's coming with age, maybe it's me maturing.
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I don't judge people as much for the whole mustard thing.
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Like if that's if that's the move, that's your move.
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Personally, I don't need the mustard.
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I don't like mustard. But I'm not judged for ketchup
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this weekend. Paige judged me for and my step
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dad judged me for catch up as a play.
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No, I would I would venture to say maybe some bias is a play
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here, but if you polled 1000 people in a room, that's a big
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room. If you poll 1000 people I would
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venture say more than half, if only given the choice to choose
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one, are taking catch up right, I would.
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Agree. I would agree if that's fair.
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Am I crazy? OK.
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I think that's fair. I did get smacked in the face
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with allergies though. Boy did I.
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Wow wow wow wow. I thought I was going to have to
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stay there. Couldn't breathe, couldn't see.
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My eyes are still messed up. It's been a mess.
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It's going to be a heck of an episode.
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It's going to be. It's going to be.
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For Old Night Boy, it's going. To be something, it's going to
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be something. Spencer says ketchup.
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Yeah. Right on, Spencer.
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Spencer knows what's up. Yeah, ketchup.
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That's OK, there's nothing wrong with ketchup.
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And then we get ketchup on a hot dog as a monstrosity all.
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Right. Well, you know.
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All right, Well, that's going away.
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I don't. I don't know we.
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Had some momentum there. Thought we had some momentum.
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Whatever. Unreal.
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Unreal. Good fireworks.
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Get any fireworks then? Yeah, man, dude, the 4th.
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This is probably the most active 4th I've had in a long time.
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Active just in the sense of like, we're going like the whole
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day. We woke up, got got a a bagel
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and some coffee. Went down to the the old the old
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4th of July parade down where we used to live down in the city of
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Fairfax and then came home. Went to our community pool
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party. OK.
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We got games and food and music and then wrapped up with that
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came home, got cleaned up, went over to the parents house and
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then headed down to a big old fireworks show.
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It was just a, it was a packed day.
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And then before that we had, you know, the, the cookout, the
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burgers and the, the dogs and all that.
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It was good. It was good 4th, very good 4th
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that. Is good good for you.
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With ketchup. With ketchup, I will.
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With ketchup. Let us talk about the news that
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broke this evening. Lettuce.
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Or that was revealed released to us this evening, the All Star
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pitchers and reserves. And then we also got to talk
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about some names that were added to the Home Run Derby couple NL
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E names, one of which I think is AI don't know, man.
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One of these names a little bit surprising, a little bit
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curious, but another one about as predictable as you could get.
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But let's talk about these pitchers and reserves.
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Looking at the American League reserves and pitching Staffs, we
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got Josh Naylor. We got Marcus Semion, Rafael
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Devers, E Sock Parade, as Carlos Correa, Bobby Witt, Salvi Perez,
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Kyle Tucker, Jaron Durant. Let's take a moment.
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I've been pushing. I've been pushing for the Jaron
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Durant All Star Movement for a while.
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I'm not going to say I was, I was the leader behind that
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movement, but I've been, I've been searching for that for a
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while. Some could say.
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I didn't. I'll be honest, though, I didn't
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think that post on Instagram was going to do as well as it did.
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That got that got people worked up and hey, look, not even not
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even just Red Sox fans. There were people coming to
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Jaron's defense going, this is one of the more electric players
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I've seen in some time. And look, they've been talking
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about it on these broadcasts that I've been watching.
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This is like the the ultimate player that I think a lot of
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people have been longing for for some time.
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When you're just faced with the the two true outcome type
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hitters or the can only hit for contact type players.
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Jaron Duran has, I mean, sure, you can look at guys like Bobby
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Witt and Gunnar Henderson and guys like that who seemingly
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have the full package. But in terms of what he's able
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to do on the base pass, even more so I think than than guys
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like that. And then what he's able to do at
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a premier outfield position. Big, big props to Jaron Duran.
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Just want to throw that out there.
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Got to got to play Homer just for a little bit there.
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Sure, sure. Riley Green, David Fry and then
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for the staff we got Garrett Crochet, Tarek Scoobl.
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Did I mention on here how I got called out for that?
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How? I kept saying for the longest
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time I've called him Tariq Scoobl.
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Sure, I did too. And somebody called, I think
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somebody, forgive me, I can't remember who reached out to me,
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but somebody reached out and was.
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Like Tigers fan was like, yeah, stop saying that they're.
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Like Kyle, how many times do you have to hear the name to know he
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was like, it sounds like Derek, but it's Tarek.
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And I was like, all right, hey, that's on me.
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That's just, first of all, that's just me being awful with
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names, so. That is true.
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That is a little bit of you're you're.
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Already off to a tough start there.
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Yeah, I, yeah, that's known. That's well documented.
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It's not good. Tarek Scoble, Tanner Hauck, Seth
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Lugo, Cole Reagan's. Logan Gilbert, Corbin Burns,
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Tyler Anderson. Great names these these all
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these names I have. I have no issue with any of
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these names. Not a one.
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Relief. We got Mason Miller, Kirby
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Yates, Clay Holmes, Emmanuel Claase.
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Here's my issue right there. Yep, keep that to myself.
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Hey, for just for a second though, can we, can we do a
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little compare and contrast on 'cause I I saw some some gripes
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about the Clay homes over Kinley Janssen.
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I'm at a loss for words here. The snub.
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Yes, can we can we pull up Clay Holmes's numbers real quick?
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I'll I need to. Go, you go, Kenley.
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Yeah, I, I need to, I need to pull us up because there's a
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lot, even Red Sox fans, there's a lot of Red Sox fans talking
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about we need to get rid of this guy, trade him away.
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But it's. That's true.
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I want to let's preface this conversation with any of those
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Red Sox fans that have been wanting to get rid of him for
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years. Not your time to come to
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defense. I'm not going to.
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We're not going to do that here. Don't.
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Don't switch camps. If you wanted this guy gone a
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few years ago, don't sit here and say that he deserves to be
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an All Star. You're not allowed to.
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You lost the right. Also like read the room where?
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Like where's the team at in relation to the rest of the
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field? Like hello, what are we trying
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to do here come September, come October?
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He's obviously playing a big role in that.
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Kenley Jansen on the air, He's got a war of 1.4 and ERA of two
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O 8. He's appeared in 30 games and
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has 17 saves. What do we got for Clay Holmes?
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19 saves, 3 flat ERAI don't have war 138 ERA.
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Plus it's really it's this is I'm I'm watching 2022 all over
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again. I'm watching 2022 with an
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amazing first half and then just an epic collapse.
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It's also been, it's also just been not just Clay Holmes, it's
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been a bad. I think I saw Friday the save
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that he blew against the Red Sox was his first save opportunity
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since like middle of June. So it was almost like it, it was
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like 3 weeks without a save opportunity.
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So anytime he was coming in in that in between, that was like
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weird opportunities that normally a closer wouldn't be
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in. Not that I not that he needs
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excuses or anything, he's just been bad lately, but it's been a
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weird combination. Not to mention the Red Sox have
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seemingly figured it out for the most part for last month or so.
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So like, it's there's a little recency bias there, but
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whatever. I'm not going to.
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I don't want to spend too much time on this.
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Looking at the staff headlights, looking at the staff for the
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American League, who would you like to see start?
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And this is the full staff on this Bleacher Report article,
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right? Yeah, I just read everything.
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I just read everybody off. So it's the full roster, OK.
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Throw numbers out the window again, you can do that.
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You can do that with the All Star game because apparently
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numbers don't matter for this event anyway.
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We've said that time and time again, sure.
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So this is this is just a promotional event.
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This is a a fan favorite event. Given that, who would you want
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to see take the take the Hill as a starter for the American
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League, and I'll ask the same for the National League,
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obviously when we get to it. But for the American League,
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who? Who would you like to see based
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on the way the year's gone thus far for these guys?
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I, I want, I feel like I could have said Scoobl.
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Like in a landslide. It's been a little wishy washy.
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I think there's a lot of starters that are kind of
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reaching that that stamina expiration date, not that like
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it's done, but like they're I think there's a lot of guys that
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are crawling to the to the All Star game and I think he might
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be one of them. Started off great.
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It's hard to say, man. I mean, like Burns is just is
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just Corbin Burns and like I feel like that's just a safe
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fall back name. If we're going to the theme that
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I have been like if, if we're throwing out numbers, if we're
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throwing out logic most of the time with what this All Star
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game is. Can I Can I interrupt real
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quick? Yeah.
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People in the chat let us know who you would want to see.
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Give me a starter. Give me a starter.
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Who would you want to see start for the American League in the
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All Star Game? The same logic, coincidentally
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the same team. We had this argument last week.
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I wanted Sal Perez in there representing the ALS catcher.
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The same logic of like, why not? We're not going to get these
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opportunities much longer. I would.
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I think Seth Lugo starting the game would just be the coolest
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thing to see. I think it would be pretty Dang
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cool for the career that that guy's had, for the ups and
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downs, for all the different jerseys he's worn, like what
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he's done this year. Woody's put together.
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I think it's been pretty cool. I don't think it'll happen, but
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I think that man deserves some respect on his name.
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And how about the Royals, man? Give me two names in there.
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Don't even I, I'm not even going to act surprised.
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I'll leave that. No, no, no, no.
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I'm going to leave that to you and Mr. Ryan Ripken to, to be be
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taken aback by how well the Royals are doing.
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I've been saying this. I've been on the Royals, so this
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is just par for the course for me.
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So I'm not even, I'm not even gonna get excited.
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But hey, I, I don't mean anything by that negatively.
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I'm just saying like I I'm glad, I'm glad you're realizing it,
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but I've been on the rolls for a minute now.
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I mean, there's six games over 500.
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It's not like they're, which is it's a great turn around.
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It's a great turn around like games, but they're nine games
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better. I never, but that's what I'm
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saying. I never said they were going to
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win the division. Oh, I think you did I.
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Absolutely did not. The quote graphic itself said
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they're a lock is something to the effect of they're a lock for
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the six wad card seed. Put it in, put it in sharpie or
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something. I see, I see.
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All right, all right. One game back in the wild card
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at the moment. That's fine.
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That's fine. I mean, dude, a dream scenario
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would be if the Sox could slide in like the 5th or, or I mean,
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who knows, even though maybe even the fourth seed and then
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the Royals, the Royals hit the 6th and, and nail that
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prediction 'cause that's, I think that was the, the
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prediction coming in the season. And I was, I was riding the
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hardest, if I'm being honest. Yeah, it's looking that way.
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Talk to me about your starter. Who do you?
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Who do you got? Are you going you?
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Know man, I look I had Garrett crochet in fantasy and I think
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I've mentioned this on yeah we when we were talking about
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Garrett Crochet and Luis Robert when the buzz started
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circulating around them surrounding the trade market.
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I think I'm, I said something on here to the effect of this just
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feels like like he's on he's on a streak right now.
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He's off to a great start, but I just feel like it it it's just
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going to take maybe one to two starts and then he's just going
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to fall off the map and he he just won't be able to bounce
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back. But credit to him, he like he's,
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he's figured out something this year and he's been able, he's
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been able to replicate it almost start after start and it's been
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impressive to watch. And if we're going off of buzz,
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I feel like I've, I've heard Garrett Crochet's name thrown
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around the most as of late with our talking like last week or
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two, just with the strikeout numbers that he's been able to
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put up. There goes another Raphael
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Devers home run. By the way, the answer for me, I
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think as much as I love Tanner Hauck, I, I think there's been
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just a little bit of regression there as of late.
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And the, the, the narrative surrounding the All Star game, I
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think heavily relies on the whole what have you done for me
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lately kind of thing just in terms of perception.
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And I think, I think Garrett Crochet has has done
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exceptionally well, not just late, but really the whole
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season thus far. So.
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Yeah, you're probably not alone in that thought.
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I think it makes sense. Be kind of crazy.
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I wonder the last time a guy started in an All Star game but
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didn't finish the season in that uniform.
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Not that it's a done deal, but I mean it's pretty likely he gets
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moved. Just wondering when the last
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time that was. It's an interesting, it's an
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interesting thing. Was it?
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You think it was maybe CC when he ended up at he got traded in
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Milwaukee. Milwaukee, Yeah.
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Do you think he started that All Star game?
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That's such a great guess. That's a good question.
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That's a great guess. What year?
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Hold on, let's now I'm curious. What year was he?
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Traded. I think it was O 8 because he
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signed with the Yankees in O 9. Excellent 2008 MLB All Star
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Games starting pitchers 2000 and eight 2008 MLB All Star Games
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starting pitchers starters. Come on now, Where are the
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starting lineups? It was Ben Sheets of the Brewers
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and Cliff Lee of the Indians at the time.
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Well, well, he would have been an AO because he was an Indian,
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right? Yeah, yeah.
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So is it Cliff Lee that got the job over him?
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Just. But ironically enough, like
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that's like Brewers Ben Sheets of the Brewers.
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Yeah, just. Dang, but it's pretty wild.
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Yeah, I don't, I don't know. I mean, that's that's a weird
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thing to look up and be like. I wonder when that last name
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was. What's the chat saying?
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I'm sure. I'm sure they're kind of leaning
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towards crochet. Yeah, little doable.
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I think the chat's asleep. I'm not seeing any.
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Come on, chats. I'm not seeing any.
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Any thoughts on who they'd want to see start the All Star game
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for the AL but in the middle? Anderson, by the way, We'll,
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we'll come back. Good for Tyler Anderson, some
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good. Names in this list.
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Mason Miller snagging the the representation for the A's.
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Love that over Brent Rooker, who I believe is his name is being
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thrown around as a possible snub here, but.
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It's just that stacked AL outfield.
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Stacked the AL outfield is. It's not even close.
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It's night and day between AL and NL outfield.
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Very much so. Very, very deep.
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Good for David Frey sneaking in there.
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I think Riley Green, this is not going to be his last name.
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See, that looks like Tariq right there.
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Spencer, that looks like you've spelled out Tariq.
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That's incorrect, Sir. It's Tariq.
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Tariq all day, nationally. Done that the whole time.
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National League, we're looking at the reserves and staff for
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the National League. We got Pete Alonzo at first,
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Freddie Freeman second. We got Luis Arayas third base,
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Ryan McMahon short. We got Mookie Betts with the
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honorary naming to the yeah selection to the All Star team,
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Ellie De La Cruz, CJ Abrams behind behind the dish.
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We got Will Smith in the outfield.
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We got TA Oscar Hernandez, Jackson Merrill.
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Good for Jackson Merrill having a having a great year, having an
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excellent year. Ramos too.
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Dude, what's talking about being terrible with names?
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What's? I was hoping, I was hoping you'd
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fly by this. I was hoping you wouldn't bring
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it up. No, I'm just gonna.
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I think it's Elliot. I think it's Elliot.
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I I typed this out one time on our on our note.
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You know what? I'm gonna see if I can find it.
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See if you can find like a game or something.
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Go back to like the broadcast saying it.
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No, it's it's. I typed it out.
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Hold on, I think I got it right here.
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Helio, Elio. I think it's Elliot.
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I think it's Elliot. I think you pronounce it Elliot.
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I did. I typed it out and I 'cause I
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went back and checked. That's what you said.
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Is that what you said? Yeah.
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Elliot. Elliot Ramos.
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Where am I at here? Elliot Ramos, Bryan Reynolds.
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And then for the DH, Marcello Zuna.
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For the staff we got Ranger Suarez, Tyler Glass, now Shota
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Imanaga, Ronaldo Lopez As I finish up the staff chat, who do
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you want to see start the national?
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Start the All Star game for the National League.
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Ronaldo Lopez, Logan Webb, Paul Skeens, Chris Sale and Zach
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Wheeler with his and Zach Wheeler.
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That's a good bunch. Hey, shout out to Paul Skeens.
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The list of Major League players to be drafted first overall and
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make the All Star team the very next season.
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How many people do you think are on that list?
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One Paul schemes. That's it, that's the list.
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Big props to Paul Schemes. The hard cut, love that.
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Evan says get Ronaldo Lopez on the bump to start the All Star
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game, leading in the ERA category.
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I like that. Hey, you know what, a lot of
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people don't like to talk about ERA as much anymore, but I'm
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I'm, I'm still holding fast and strong to the statistical
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category of ERA because that's important because the point of a
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pitcher, the point of a pitcher is to limit runs.
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That's the whole point. Specifically runs that you can
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control, which is what earned runs are.
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So you know, I I wouldn't hate it.
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That's another guy I had in fantasy and traded away because
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I didn't think that was going to last.
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Randaldo Lopez said. Suck one so.
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Imanaga, has he gotten has he righted the ship at all?
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I looked at the last few starts, but I know it was there was a
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real tough streak going. Yeah, I.
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Yeah, his last outing threw he went 6 deep against the
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Phillies, only gave up three runs, had a KS.
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And honestly, it's not a quality start.
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Outside, well, I mean, we say right of the ship honestly,
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outside of that start against the Mets where he got routed for
24:58
ten runs on eleven hits in just three innings before that, he he
25:03
was doing just fine really. I mean, there was a, you know, a
25:07
rough start against the Brewers I'm I'm seeing here, but Reds he
25:12
went six and 2/3, seven KS Cardinals 7 innings, 6 KS, one
25:17
and run. You know, Giants went six
25:20
innings, only gave up three. So I mean, I think right, I
25:24
think righted the ship. And I'm I'm not saying you're
25:27
wrong for saying that 'cause I I kind of felt the same way at.
25:29
Least that's how it's perceiving it.
25:30
This is like a uneducated haven't looked at numbers.
25:34
I've just in a while I saw that one blow up.
25:36
Yeah, I thought it was followed by something rough afterwards as
25:40
well. I mean, to say we haven't looked
25:42
at numbers, I mean that's just speaking very recently because
25:45
there for a while we were only looking at numbers with Shorty
25:48
Minaga 'cause he was just putting up incredible start
25:51
after incredible start. So that's a fair assumption.
25:53
But based on what we're seeing numbers wise as of late, it was
25:56
really just that one blow up. And I think, I think he's been
26:00
fine otherwise. I think it's crazy that you
26:04
could probably have guessed that there would be two brave
26:07
starters that were going to make the All Star team.
26:12
I don't think anyone would have said these two names though.
26:15
That is an excellent point. That's pretty crazy.
26:17
That is an excellent point. To get punched in the mouth the
26:20
way they did with Strider and like, it's good for these two
26:26
guys, specifically Raynaldo. I mean, that's a big, big deals.
26:29
That's a big, big deal, yeah. Evan in the chat says as much as
26:34
I like skeins, he hasn't been pitching all seasons.
26:36
I feel like it'd be a slap in the face.
26:37
Let's skeins start versus pitcher, who's been lighting up
26:39
all year. I think it would be a little bit
26:42
of a buzz decision. Oh yeah, for sure.
26:46
But look, I mean, the reality of it is, and I feel like 9 times
26:52
out of 10, I probably agree with Evan.
26:54
And I'm not saying I, I disagree or agree, but like, let's just
26:58
look at what he's, let's look at his body of work thus far.
27:02
And, and I, I understand he hasn't been here.
27:04
He hasn't been here all year. He's 5 and O.
27:08
He's got an ERA of 212. How many starts 7612?
27:13
345978 He's got ten starts dude, OK.
27:19
OK. Ten starts we're we're double
27:21
digit starts for Skeens a whip of one O 1 78 strikeouts.
27:32
Can I just can I just run through his his log of KS thus
27:37
far? Please do.
27:39
All right, so he made his debut against it 'cause remember, he
27:43
had those back-to-back starts against the Cubs to start his
27:45
career 7 KS and this is this is starting from his first start to
27:51
now 7KS11KS3KS9KS8KS8KS7KS8KS9KS8
28:01
KS. Normally I, like I said,
28:05
normally I would agree with something like that where it's
28:07
like, hey, man, this guy hasn't hasn't put up the full body of
28:09
work, but like the if the only thing that you can knock Paul
28:15
Skeens on is the innings. But everything else he's done
28:19
production wise has, I don't know, like at least been
28:22
somewhat in the ballpark of what some of these other guys have
28:26
done. And I'm not saying I'm not
28:28
saying comparatively to a guy like Chris Sale or something,
28:29
because Chris Sale is obviously having like a a career year.
28:34
But like for a guy that makes the All Star team, for him to
28:38
have numbers that are comparable to what other guys have done the
28:43
whole first half. I mean, that's just you don't
28:46
see that very often. You don't see that very often.
28:50
No, it's a great point. It's a really good point.
28:54
I don't know, I'd love to see it.
28:58
I'm not going to complain if that's the case.
29:02
But I I do think that there's, I think it's just a level of
29:11
respect. Why am I blanking on who's in
29:21
the oh the Diamondbacks? Duh.
29:27
I was trying to think of who's The Who the manager is going to
29:29
be. Oh yeah, yeah.
29:33
I feel like Tory Lavilla, he's he's been around the game long
29:36
enough that I think there's like this, there's, I don't think
29:41
there's an unwritten rule about this because this is pretty
29:45
unprecedented. Like this is like an uncharted
29:47
territory thing. But I think there is like this
29:53
understanding of earning your way that Tory Lavella will
30:00
probably recognize. But at the same time, it's like
30:07
this game doesn't mean anything, right?
30:09
This guy is literally quickly becoming a very, very household
30:16
name for our game. Even outside of baseball.
30:19
Outside of baseball. Outside of baseball fans.
30:22
And we can, we can mock the whole Libby Dunn situation, but
30:26
like, the reality of it is that's a very real factor here.
30:29
Yeah, we've got the same way and I'm not putting on the same
30:32
scale fandom wise, but like you have non NFL fans watching NFL
30:37
games for Taylor Swift, so that is there.
30:41
I I don't know man, I wouldn't hate it.
30:46
I wouldn't hate it anyway, reliever wise, I am.
30:52
I'm not feeling this at all. Well, last thought on the on the
30:57
skins thing, your point about there being a feel for for Tori
31:03
being like, hey, you know, you got to earn your way here.
31:06
I I agree with you 1000%, but it makes one wonder how much of or
31:15
if at all of an influence does say the powers that be.
31:21
I don't know who that is with Major League Baseball or or
31:24
somebody above Tori. I don't know how much how much
31:28
influence is taking place in regards to maybe possibly given
31:36
schemes that not the the nod because of the the the impact
31:41
that he's had in. Yeah.
31:43
I mean, look, there's plenty of argument there.
31:46
There's plenty of argument that someone could be pushing this
31:48
along. Like somebody just getting in
31:51
his ear, be like, hey, man, like we, we get your background, we
31:54
get kind of your whole earn your stripe situation and your
31:58
upbringing and and the way that you manage the game.
32:02
But we gotta, we gotta a guy that a lot of people are talking
32:05
about right here on our hands, and this doesn't come around
32:08
very often. So maybe let's just give the
32:10
people what they want. You can also make the argument
32:12
that Toy Lavella might not find himself back in this seat.
32:17
This could be a once in a lifetime thing for him.
32:21
Very real. So why not rock the boat?
32:23
You know what I'm saying? Why not go out with a bang?
32:25
So very valid. I think it's yeah, it's going to
32:29
be fun. It's going to be weird to see if
32:31
he does. I don't think there's going to
32:34
be any open backlash, but I think there is going to be this
32:39
poor taste in the mouth for veterans.
32:43
It's hard to say though. Andrew says Livi Dunn over Paul
32:47
Skins. Yeah, I mean, depends on who you
32:50
ask I guess, but I can't really comment on that.
32:56
Nate, I don't think you can really comment on that either.
33:01
Relief wise. In the pen.
33:02
We got Ryan Helsley with the Cardinals, Tanner Scott with the
33:06
Marlins, Robert Suarez with the Padres, Matt Strom with the
33:09
Phillies and Jeff Hoffman for the Phillies.
33:12
So did I see? Did I read right?
33:17
I think I saw some earlier that said the Phillies are sending 7
33:20
to the All Star game. We got Harper, Boehm, the two
33:27
that I just listed off Strom, Hoffman, Trey.
33:34
Who else am I missing here? Oh, Zach Wheeler.
33:37
Suarez and Wheeler. And Suarez, Yeah, wow.
33:44
Good for the Phils man. Yeah.
33:47
See, like that, I'm that I'm OK with that.
33:50
Like it, I mean, the Trey thing we talked about, I think that
33:54
was, I think that was unnecessary, but I'm OK with the
33:59
best team in baseball at at this point in time.
34:02
I'm like 99% sure having a a majority of guys in there.
34:10
Yeah. But like the whole who was it
34:13
the I don't mean to throw a ricochet here or astray, but was
34:19
it the Blue Jays that were making the push?
34:21
Whether the fans were making the push?
34:23
We talked about it recently. I think it was the Blue Jays.
34:26
Yeah. Yeah, that we don't, we don't
34:29
need that. But like a team that's the best
34:30
in baseball presumably has a list of names that are
34:37
contributing and producing. So it makes sense.
34:42
Speaking of which, unless you have any, unless you have any
34:44
thoughts to to wrap this up here.
34:48
I think AL takes it again just based on these rosters.
34:53
I mean, come on man, they're very clearly there is a better
34:58
league in baseball. A lot of people don't want to
35:02
admit it, but it's just the reality.
35:05
And like depends on who you ask. The the All Star game could be
35:10
an indicator of that. Could be I?
35:14
Don't know how else you'd evaluate that.
35:16
Like you just look at like overall records amongst the
35:19
leagues. I don't know if that's
35:20
necessarily the best indicator because they're a lot of times
35:23
you're just beating up on one another.
35:26
But if the All Star game is any indicator, I mean the American
35:28
League has the advantage hands down for the last what, 3
35:34
decades at this point? Yeah, yeah.
35:40
Well, just continue to prove us right.
35:44
But no talking about Phillies. Let's switch gears here.
35:48
Home Run Derby Alec Boehm has announced his entry into the
35:52
Home Run Derby as well as Pete Alonzo.
35:55
I was kind of mentioned earlier one of these names just about as
35:59
predictable as it gets, Pete Alonzo, but Alec Boehm.
36:04
How do we feel about Alec Boehm being a?
36:07
Little surprise this, this is what I'm saying is that I, I
36:10
think I don't know how the process goes, but I think
36:17
whoever, whatever committee is putting together the roster, I
36:23
think they're working their way through names.
36:27
I think they're getting a lot of no's.
36:30
I think they're getting a lot of people saying no.
36:33
And it's no offense. It's no offense to bum No, but
36:36
we're again, we're five days closer than when we last talked
36:41
and we only added two more names to the to the eight that we
36:44
need. So it's like I what's the issue
36:48
here? Why are why are so many guys
36:50
saying no? Is the reward not worth it?
36:55
I don't know. Do we need, we need, we need a
37:01
Ranger in this right? You got to have one hometown
37:05
guy. Remember Todd Frazier and Cincy?
37:08
That was electric. Yeah, I mean you, you go down
37:11
the list like Harper in DC. Yeah, Prince.
37:16
Prince was in Detroit, right? I.
37:21
Think so? We haven't been to Yankee
37:23
Stadium since Judge has been up, right?
37:25
That was the last time we were at Yankee Stadium was the old
37:27
Yankee Stadium, right? Correct, correct.
37:31
With Josh Hamilton and all that. Oh wait, I'd.
37:36
Said there was a list. Now I'm struggling to remember
37:38
who who was on that list. But anyway, I yeah, we need some
37:42
names. I don't know if it's Seeger or
37:44
Dolis but. True.
37:46
Why did that's on us? We should have called him Pete
37:49
Alonso. That's Peter.
37:50
We got to be better. We got to be better.
37:54
We need, we need. Oh.
37:56
Julio, Julio last year. Where was it before?
38:05
Cleveland. When was it in?
38:09
It was supposed to be in Atlanta.
38:10
Was that? Oh, was that 21?
38:13
I was in Colorado and that was. That was 21 and that's when it's
38:17
supposed to be in Atlanta. Yeah.
38:20
But I don't think we did we have any Rocky's in that.
38:24
I don't think so, no. Was Charlie Blackman in that?
38:29
No, if anything it would have was Trevor Story.
38:31
I don't know. Where did Trevor Story come to?
38:32
Boston, dude. No, Trevor Story was in that.
38:35
That's right. I think that is the good call.
38:37
It's been so long. Yeah.
38:43
Where the heck was the 2022 All Star Game?
38:50
Was that Lai think? It was LA.
38:53
Yeah, it was LA. Yeah.
38:58
Yeah. So anyway, all that to say, you,
39:01
you, you make a good point. We, I feel like we have to have
39:03
a Ranger there. I don't know.
39:04
I mean, Adolas is, he's having a somewhat of a pedestrian year,
39:12
but. My man's gonna absolutely put on
39:13
a show. Yeah, and who knows, maybe he's
39:16
the kind of guy where that flips a flips a switch for him.
39:20
That's a good point. That's a good point.
39:23
Guys like, yeah, guys like maybe like shake it up, like Randy,
39:27
you know what I'm saying? Get a Rosarina back in there.
39:30
That'll get him going again. Yeah.
39:31
Honestly, like maybe this is an opportunity where we just run
39:34
through some of the names of guys that are having a little
39:38
bit of use it, Yeah, having a little bit of a down year.
39:41
Yeah. And I'm not.
39:44
I may be way off base by saying this.
39:47
Tell me if I'm wrong. Tell me if this is just way out
39:50
of left field but I feel like majority of the international
39:56
guys don't adhere to the whole like oh this is going to mess up
40:02
my swing mentality. I would venture say that a
40:06
majority, especially the Latin. Guys, they're just like, let me,
40:11
let me just go out and rake. Let me just, let me just 'cause
40:14
as much commotion as I can, let me just hit, hit a baseball as
40:17
far as I possibly and humanly can, and let's just see what
40:21
happens. It's because they're not soft,
40:23
yeah. Hey, you said it.
40:27
Not me, but yeah, like, like, am I, am I on to something there?
40:33
Like I I mean, give me Tim. Anderson as a free agent in
40:36
there. Now that would be crazy.
40:38
That'd. Be wild if we had a free agent
40:41
Home Run Derby candidate participant.
40:44
Yeah, get Zach Green key in there.
40:47
Mad bum at a retirement free agent?
40:50
What? Speaking of which, I was just
40:52
browsing the not to talk about fantasy so much, but I was
40:55
browsing the fantasy app today just seeing maybe still
40:58
available a name to add. No, he's obviously available but
41:02
he it said he was rostered by .1% of people and I'm going now.
41:05
Who's rostering Madison Bumgardner right now in fantasy
41:09
baseball? I don't understand how that
41:10
makes any sense. Something tells me that's a
41:13
that's a keeper league and the year they won it, Mad Bum was on
41:18
the team and they just can't shake it up too much.
41:20
That's that's fair. I think that's a, that's just
41:25
superstition right there. That's fair, which you can't
41:28
fight. You can't argue that.
41:29
Can't argue that Speaking of superstition, something had to
41:33
have been working for Jose Miranda.
41:36
What a run. And like, and I understand that
41:40
this comes around once every, I don't know, however many years,
41:45
but like, just because it's just because it's a statistical
41:50
anomaly does not take away from like the significance of of this
41:57
and the difficulty of this. And like, yeah, you could make
42:02
the argument they're like, oh, well, like the law of averages
42:05
or like it was, it was bound to happen to somebody.
42:07
It just happened to be Jose Miranda.
42:08
Sure, I get all that. But like, don't take anything
42:11
away from from Jose Miranda because like you still got to go
42:14
up there. That's why I never understand
42:16
why people talk about like, well, like they always go back
42:20
to Jeter's final AB in Yankee Stadium.
42:22
Like, well, that was that was rigged.
42:24
I go sure, like you could, you could do your absolute best to
42:30
manipulate the situation. Like if they I don't believe
42:33
baseball is rigged, but if it was, you could do.
42:37
By the way, Spencer says Mad Bum is rostering Mad Bum.
42:40
That's a valid point. That's a valid point.
42:43
I don't think Mad Bum has a smartphone.
42:46
No, I don't even think he has a phone period.
42:49
But no, you could do your best to manipulate the game
42:54
situationally, but at the end of the day, you still got to put
42:58
bat the ball. And when you're facing Major
43:00
League, I don't care if it's the bum of bums on the opposing team
43:04
staff, you still got to put bat the ball.
43:07
So for people saying, oh, like the Jeter thing was rigged, no,
43:11
save it. So all that to say, what Jose
43:15
Miranda did twelve straight ABS with a hit that is impressively
43:24
difficult to achieve. That's.
43:26
Stupid. I mean, I mean, I'm trying to
43:30
think at like, at what point during that run are you like,
43:34
OK, you know, I'm feeling good. I I'm happy with this.
43:38
If I, if I finish the day going over like I'm happy.
43:41
Like I'm thinking like the first six hitch, like, all right, like
43:46
that's a healthy little bump to the, to the old batting average.
43:49
Like I'll take that. And he's like, he's like, I'm,
43:52
I'm halfway done. I got six more to go.
43:56
His average, by the way, Speaking of averages, jumped
43:58
from 2:00 during the stretch, jumped from 294 to 329.
44:05
Dang, that's pretty good. That is pretty good. 35 points.
44:14
Trying to see, oh, it's not going to say they were all home
44:18
games, by the way. By the way, this this twelve
44:23
straight hits thing accomplished by Johnny Kling in 1902?
44:29
Sure. Pinky Higgins in 1938.
44:32
Oh boy, Pinky. And Walt Droppo in 1952.
44:37
Droppo, Droppo, Pinky Higgins. Remember it like it was
44:42
yesterday. Grandpa Pinky.
44:45
What a stud. Yeah.
44:49
What's look certain things that the Twins got going?
44:56
Miranda and Royce Lewis just holding it down at third base,
45:00
Just alternating DH in third base together.
45:02
Well, I mean, when Royce Lewis is healthy, I mean, he's I don't
45:05
even I don't think we mentioned it last episode, but on the IL
45:08
yet again, I mean, the guy it's it's there's.
45:10
So much talent there. There's so much talent, it's so
45:14
annoying. How crazy that is that though,
45:16
that people make the comp of like Byron Buxton with this
45:19
Royce Lewis situation. It's like they're literally on.
45:21
They share the field together. Yeah, yeah.
45:25
Well, that's a stretch. They they rarely share the field
45:27
together, but you get my point. Yeah, I, I'm a I'm a fan.
45:34
It's funny because we I obviously get like the you and I
45:37
both get like notifications of fantasy stuff like ad drop, ad
45:41
drop. And I would, if we could find
45:44
the number of times that Jose Miranda has been added and
45:47
dropped in this league, it's gone.
45:51
That number's got to be higher than most names.
45:53
And for him holding it down now safely on a roster with this
45:58
performance? Good for him.
46:00
I'm not obviously not rooting for his downfall.
46:04
I have nothing against Jose Miranda seems like a great dude.
46:07
But the reality of it is, and I'm curious to see what happens,
46:11
but you and I both know how baseball works.
46:15
It doesn't matter like what level you're talking about.
46:17
I just think the reality is, is that he most likely is going to
46:23
experience a little bit of a cold streak because that just
46:26
seems to be the way the game goes.
46:28
And it's nothing against him. It's nothing against what he's
46:31
capable of doing. But baseball just has a funny
46:34
way of working out sometimes where you just you, it looks
46:39
like a beach ball and then you show up to the park the next day
46:42
and it's like you're trying to hit a Lima bean.
46:45
It's it's that's just how how it goes.
46:47
And like I, for his sake, I hope he can keep some sort of
46:55
consistency at the plate, but I'm not I'm curious to see.
46:58
I'll keep an eye on on how this how this follows up a name we
47:04
won't be keeping an eye on because he's going to be out for
47:08
some time. Colton Brewer out with a broken
47:12
hand. Get this after punching a wall.
47:20
That's tough, man, that's tough. Is there video?
47:26
I can find it. There was a shout out to the
47:31
photographer, by the way, because there was an actual
47:34
photo of it happening. Really.
47:39
Yeah, you just type in type in Colton Brewer broken hand and
47:44
it'll it'll show up in the. Oh yeah, yeah, yeah.
47:47
In the in the results. Oh Yep, classic back wall of the
47:52
dugout. Like man is clenched.
48:00
That's tough. I bet you're saying this isn't
48:03
the first time he's thrown a punch.
48:06
Probably not. I don't know anything about the
48:07
guy. I pitched for the Red Sox for a
48:09
short period of time, but don't really know much about the guy.
48:12
But I'd venture say not the first time he's thrown hands,
48:18
but like I and and we, this is we, you and I were talking about
48:21
before we hopped on. This isn't the first guy that
48:24
this has happened to like in in the duration of in the in the
48:28
life of this podcast. I think there have been a
48:31
handful of guys, no pun intended, a handful of guys who
48:35
have broken their hand by punching either the dugout wall,
48:40
a Gatorade cooler, something and I.
48:44
So many, so many things to attack.
48:47
Why? Why a rock solid wall?
48:51
I get it. But like, I, I think our
48:54
sentiment has been the same every time.
48:56
And it's that I kind of get it. I kind of get it because when
49:02
when you just cannot figure out the game of baseball.
49:05
I want to do it based on what I'm watching as a fan.
49:09
As a fan, as a Yankee fan, Nate wants to punch a dugout wall, a
49:13
concrete dugout wall. Absolutely.
49:16
And I'm sure for those of you out there that go, I mean, you
49:19
could really say anything. There's levels of frustration.
49:22
Yeah, but like golf is a similar situation where like one day you
49:26
just have it and then for the next month you don't.
49:28
It's just how how the game works.
49:30
Baseball is no different. You just you get fed up because
49:34
you're you recognize that it's not necessarily anything
49:39
happening externally. It's not it's not that your
49:45
coaches are putting you in a in a bad spot.
49:47
It's not that the opposition is, you know, doing something to
49:54
inhibit your abilities. It's yourself.
49:58
It's yourself. And you're going, I can't, what
50:01
am I doing wrong? I can't figure it out.
50:02
And when you reach a point where you can't figure out what to do
50:05
or what, but you can't identify what the issue is, you revert to
50:09
frustration, you revert to lashing out, you revert to
50:12
punching walls. And, and it's, it's not a common
50:15
thing certainly, but some guys just get to, they just see red
50:19
and you come back after a rough outing or a rough inning or a
50:22
rough string of a BS and you just, you look for the first
50:26
thing to punch and a lot for a lot of times it's the thing
50:29
that's right in front of you once you come into the dugout.
50:32
And the the reality is, is more often than not, you're going to
50:37
miss some time. So.
50:39
There's a kid in high school at the worst timing ever.
50:42
I was a freshman, I was on the sophomore team, but we were
50:46
watching our varsity and team like just light it up and they
50:49
were making a run and it was in the Elite 8 and our second
50:55
baseman, lead off hitter struck out, punched the dugout wall,
51:02
broke his hand, next guy up hit a walk off double.
51:07
Like that's just the worst timing, you know what I'm
51:09
saying? Like, you think you lost the
51:11
game because of because of your actions, you break your hand and
51:15
then you can't play when your team moves on to the final four.
51:18
Yeah. Anyway, yeah, I don't know, man.
51:21
I just give me, give me the epic.
51:23
Give me the epic blow UPS. I miss the epic blow UPS.
51:27
When's the last blow up? We saw that.
51:30
I mean, it's like big Poppy. To the to the to the telephone.
51:34
Yeah, the bullpen phone in Baltimore.
51:36
I mean, that's awesome. That's like a true blow up.
51:39
Like we've seen guys like throw their glove or kick a cooler,
51:43
but like. That was epic.
51:45
I mean like this Zambrano with the bats of the Gatorade.
51:50
Paul O'Neill did it a million times.
51:52
I, I mean, you, you could kind of, you could kind of throw the
51:56
Papelbon Harper incident in there because you could tell
51:59
like there were some things brewing there and, and that kind
52:03
of manifested into a little bit of a brawl, but.
52:05
Feed off of that dugout drama. Punching a wall is just like.
52:08
It's so instantaneously over. I need bubble gum flying
52:15
everywhere, you know what I mean?
52:16
I need seeds exploding. Yeah, that and that's the thing
52:20
that sucks is you just well, I mean I would hope, but you just
52:24
know what they with with Brewer, he's the 2nd that happens.
52:28
It's just instant regret. Yeah, yeah.
52:32
But a lot of times that rage that you feel for how like
52:35
poorly you're playing, it's greater than the regret I think
52:40
that you feel moments after or like almost instantaneously like
52:45
the it's that's how bad it gets when you when you're struggling
52:48
and you just can't figure out why.
52:51
That is not a fun place to be. So like, I get it.
52:53
I don't recommend it, but he's. Going to think about it for
52:55
months, that's all he's going to think about.
52:56
It's tough, man. Tough break.
53:04
You want to talk about tough? The Pirates hit so many home
53:07
runs this weekend. I think what was it Saturday,
53:12
Friday, Friday against the Mets? They ran out of home run
53:16
fireworks because they hit so many. 7/7 is.
53:21
There a fireworks show on the on the 4th.
53:25
Did that use up some of the fireworks?
53:27
That's a great point. Let's let's do a little digging
53:30
around here for the Pirates at home on Thursday, 'cause that's
53:32
a That's a valid point. That's a valid point.
53:36
Let's see here. And was there a fireworks show?
53:42
Feel like every ballpark does a fireworks show now?
53:44
Pirates were at home. They lost they they lost to the
53:46
Cardinals, 3:00 to 2:00. You still do a fireworks show?
53:48
It's the fourth, right? No, for sure, for sure.
53:52
But I'm saying like it's not like they it was a a offensive
53:57
juggernaut of a night. So I would imagine she.
54:02
Got to be better, you know? Got to be better.
54:05
Did I see O'Neill Cruz put one in the river?
54:09
You mean in that game? One of the one of the games this
54:12
weekend I saw him put one in Allegheny.
54:15
That must have been, I guess, was that yesterday?
54:18
Because Friday it was Yasmani Grandal, Michael A Taylor Rowdy
54:22
to let. Why Pause?
54:24
Why? And I think there's probably a
54:27
reason. I I may remember it when he was
54:29
in Washington. I I probably heard the reason.
54:30
But why? Why does Michael A Taylor always
54:33
have his middle initial listed out?
54:37
That's a great question. I don't know, couldn't tell you.
54:44
Like, I'm not, I'm not saying like Yasmani.
54:47
Specific requests to to choose what they're called, right?
54:51
That's fair. It's just I'm not sitting here
54:54
going like Yasmani de Grandal. That's true.
55:00
Are there any other middle initials?
55:03
I know JD Martinez loves having his full name on the back.
55:08
That's it's not the same, but it's similar.
55:10
Like on his name plate, on the jersey, it's it doesn't just say
55:13
Martinez, but I think that goes back to his time in Detroit when
55:17
he was with Victor. Victor, Yeah, yeah, Middle
55:23
initial. I don't know.
55:27
It's just interesting. Just I didn't know if maybe he
55:29
knew Little little trivia up your sleeve, but yeah, it's
55:33
interesting. You always hear, you never hear
55:35
Michael Taylor. It's always Michael A Taylor.
55:37
But no. The list of players that had a
55:39
home run on Friday in this barrage of of offense.
55:42
Yasmani Grandal, Michael A Taylor, Roddy Teles, Jack
55:45
Zawinski, Bryan Reynolds, Rowdy Tolez and Bryan Reynolds each
55:52
had two. More rowdy.
56:00
I feel like the first base as a position across the league isn't
56:03
very deep. Very, very shallow.
56:07
This is like the year of the shortstop or the era of the
56:10
shortstops. Man.
56:12
First base is just not a deep well.
56:16
Yeah, and you know, I got some, you mentioned that I got some
56:18
kickback on, on my comments not too long ago when we were
56:23
talking when Bobby Witt and Gunner Henderson were neck and
56:28
neck making a push for the All Star starter and all that.
56:32
We were talking about them and what an MVP race between those
56:36
two would look like in the future.
56:37
And I, I said something to the effect of like we're in AI think
56:41
I said we're in a golden age of shortstops.
56:45
And I got a lot of kickback on that.
56:46
And I'm like, I, I'm not sitting here saying it's the golden age,
56:51
but to say that it's a like, think about the name.
56:54
Yeah. What why?
56:56
Who would disagree with that? Like look around the league.
56:59
Yeah. I mean, say what you want about
57:01
Francisco Lindor, you got Francisco Lindor, Trey Turner,
57:04
Gunnar Henderson, Bobby Witt. I mean like the list goes on and
57:07
on. Willy Adamas, O'Neil Cruz, Ellie
57:10
de la Cruz. You could put Volpe in that list
57:12
if you wanted to. There I there's a lot of names
57:16
you could put in there. And and sure some of those are
57:18
are better than the others, but like the list collectively.
57:22
Coming Group. Yeah, like that is a Tim
57:26
Anderson's very strong list. Yeah, OK.
57:30
Never thought I'd mention his name twice in in a podcast on my
57:33
own. I like their own shade.
57:40
Those crickets were not in lieu of of congratulations as they
57:44
have been in the past. Those were just.
57:49
But yeah, big night for the Pirates this weekend.
57:53
Ty's a franchise record seven home runs.
57:56
I can't imagine what are we the the pictures of fireworks going
58:02
off behind PNC at night with the bridge lit up.
58:09
That's got to be some of the coolest backdrop.
58:15
That's beautiful. It's a beautiful sight.
58:22
There wasn't really much going down this weekend, I'll be
58:24
honest, in terms of like national news, national
58:27
headlines. I mean, there's some some guys
58:29
certainly that had exceptional outings, whether it be on the
58:33
bumper to play. But in terms of big headlines,
58:35
there wasn't too much going on this weekend.
58:38
So I didn't really have much beyond this.
58:41
Do you want to maybe want to maybe run through a?
58:45
Shall we? Are we trying to balance?
58:46
Are we trying to keep the momentum rolling here coming off
58:49
fresh off a dub last episode? Yeah.
58:52
A little bit of guess that player, all right.
58:56
All right, all right. We're one and two.
59:03
Thinking. We're one and two.
59:06
OK, how about, how about, how about a rule here?
59:09
Yeah, maybe not an everyday rule, just today's rule.
59:13
Maybe a name. We haven't, at least to start
59:16
it. You can't name a name that we've
59:18
already mentioned today. Today.
59:20
OK, Yeah, that's right. No, Yeah, that should be an
59:22
ongoing rule like you don't want.
59:24
To just to, just to start it, you know what I'm saying?
59:27
For sure, for sure. There's too many, like there's
59:29
too many instances where we could potentially say same name
59:33
and we've been talking about them, you know for sure, but.
59:36
There, yeah, but like after the initial guess that it's fair
59:40
game. OK, Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah,
59:42
yeah, yeah, 100% 'cause if it leads us there, it leads us
59:44
there, Yeah, it's not our fault. Yeah, that's just how the the
59:48
cookie crumbles sometimes. OK, name we haven't mentioned
59:52
today. Man, I got to think outside the
59:56
box here because I feel like we've said a lot of names today.
59:58
Should we? Especially would I ran through
1:00:01
like the All Star names like we we listen a lot of games.
1:00:03
We make a new rule that we're like the first name also has to
1:00:06
be active or also has to be retired like should we?
1:00:10
I think, I think it's kind of been an unspoken thing where
1:00:13
we've gone present day, right? Active but someone that I've
1:00:17
mentioned OK. I don't want to make too many
1:00:21
rules. I don't want to.
1:00:22
I don't want to coddle. I don't want to coddle ourselves
1:00:24
here. All right.
1:00:26
Name we haven't mentioned today. All right.
1:00:33
OK. All right, I got a guy.
1:00:39
You got a guy? Yep.
1:00:40
Got a guy. I got a guy.
1:00:43
All right, 321. Oh, OK, OK, OK, OK.
1:00:55
Oh, there's some. There's OK.
1:00:58
Yeah, Can you get? There.
1:01:02
Can you get there? I think what if we got there
1:01:05
right now on on guest #2? Can I get there?
1:01:08
OK, all right. We got 10 guesses for For those
1:01:13
who are unfamiliar or need a reminder, we got 10 guesses here
1:01:16
to to land on the same guy. I'm almost going to be bummed if
1:01:18
we get it right here because like, OK.
1:01:21
No. Because that's like so fast.
1:01:23
That's like, we're never going to top this.
1:01:25
This is going to be this is going to be a record thing.
1:01:28
OK, All right, 321 Madison Bumgarner.
1:01:35
I thought you were playing subliminal games there when
1:01:38
you're like, I'm really going to be bummed if we land on it here
1:01:41
and that's why I was getting a little peeved.
1:01:43
OK all right, I know you weren't playing that game.
1:01:45
All right, so Madison Bumgarner and Christian Walker All right
1:01:48
that like if we don't set a record here for shortest game
1:01:51
like we're. Yeah, we're hanging out.
1:01:53
We gotta figure something out here.
1:01:55
Hanging out in Phoenix. Oh, I got it all right.
1:02:00
Do you? OK, let's roll.
1:02:08
What are we doing here? I don't know what are we what?
1:02:10
Are we doing? What are we doing?
1:02:13
All right, 3rd guest, 321 ratio, Marte.
1:02:18
OK, dude, don't, don't lose me here.
1:02:23
I mean. I don't know where are you?
1:02:25
We're we're circling the drain here, man.
1:02:28
Why? I don't know why you're going
1:02:30
off into into retired land here, lefty.
1:02:37
You're overthinking it. You're overthinking it.
1:02:39
No, no, no. You're overthinking.
1:02:41
There. No, no, no, no.
1:02:42
Working your way around the the active Diamondbacks roster,
1:02:46
yeah. That's what I'm doing.
1:02:49
That's pretty much a cop out. There has to be what's in common
1:02:52
with those two names. No, that's.
1:02:54
The strategy? The ultimate goal is to land on
1:02:58
the same name at the same time, so if that means just bouncing
1:03:01
around the roster, that's what I'm gonna do.
1:03:04
I hate it. I hate it.
1:03:09
I think it's what those guys have in common.
1:03:11
That's the whole point, That's what I think.
1:03:13
I'm real close to pulling the plug and restarting this because
1:03:16
I don't like the way this game has gone.
1:03:18
Thus far. We're three guesses deep, you
1:03:20
said Randy Johnson. You said Katell Marte.
1:03:24
Katell Marte. I think that's the whole point.
1:03:30
I think that's the whole point is with those, because that
1:03:33
could change. I I know based on where we go,
1:03:38
there we go. I let us stray, I LED us astray
1:03:42
for the sake of trying to just expedite the the the guessing
1:03:45
here. That's all I needed.
1:03:47
OK. All right.
1:03:50
Randy Johnson and Katella Marte. I got it, I'm there.
1:04:00
How this could really throw us off though.
1:04:03
This. Could.
1:04:06
This could really mess with us. Cattell, Marte, Randy Johnson.
1:04:14
This could really set. That you have a name already
1:04:17
doesn't doesn't make sense to me.
1:04:21
Well, I do. Randy Johnson and Cattell Marte.
1:04:37
What? Oh, OK, I've got a name.
1:04:46
And I'm just doing this just to just to piss you off, if I'm
1:04:50
being honest. No, hold on, hold on.
1:04:53
I need to confirm something real quick.
1:04:58
Or you're giving. You're giving me a hint that I
1:05:00
think I would. It would change my.
1:05:02
It would change. No, you're, you're 1000% not
1:05:05
guessing this person. I, I and I was like 99% sure
1:05:07
about what I needed to confirm. And I was, I was right.
1:05:10
So we're good. All right.
1:05:12
This is our fourth guess. 3 You got a guy.
1:05:15
Yeah. 321 Richie Sexton. Wow.
1:05:21
OK, OK, OK. We're going back.
1:05:25
We're going back to the days, Tony.
1:05:28
Womack and Richie Sexton. It's a throwback.
1:05:31
Name ain't it? Both of them are, yeah.
1:05:35
You don't hear Richie Sexton much.
1:05:36
You really? Don't.
1:05:37
Why would that piss me off? Because I thought you were just
1:05:41
because you, you arrived at a name so quickly that I thought
1:05:44
yours just probably made sense. And I just wasn't getting that.
1:05:47
I wasn't picking up on your logic.
1:05:49
So it's like I'm just going to throw out a guy that played for
1:05:51
the the D backs for like a year. We also have one of the shortest
1:05:54
guys and one of the tallest guys, so that'll be.
1:05:59
That's true. Richie Sexton and Tony.
1:06:08
I said a year. He literally played 23 games for
1:06:11
them. That's.
1:06:13
Why you remember playing with him in in like old school video
1:06:17
games? Backyard baseball.
1:06:18
Yeah, like, no, I mean, like, like, I don't know if he was.
1:06:22
I think he was in like MLB The Show.
1:06:25
Are you talking? Who are we talking?
1:06:26
Richie Sexton, Yeah. And like, he's like, you could
1:06:29
only see like, the shoulders because he was so tall.
1:06:32
Yeah. I think I think at backyard
1:06:34
baseball he was with the. Brewers, Brewers.
1:06:37
The Brew Crew. On that team or on that game?
1:06:40
All right, I, I got a name. I got a name.
1:06:44
This could this could throw us off a little bit.
1:06:47
Richie Sexton and Tony Womack. This could this could lead us
1:06:59
astray. I got one.
1:07:03
OK, I got one. You feel good.
1:07:05
This is our, what, Fifth guess? Yeah.
1:07:08
All right, Yeah, I got one. I feel good about it. 321 Ricky
1:07:15
Council. OK.
1:07:18
OK, we're getting there. I don't like how many D backs
1:07:21
we've been listing off, but again, we're circling the drain
1:07:24
here so. Well, one could argue we've
1:07:26
shifted gears into in Brewerland.
1:07:32
Who did you say? Ricky Weeks.
1:07:36
Did he play for the D backs too? I don't think so.
1:07:41
I went Brewers. No, I I know he did play for the
1:07:44
DI. Knew it.
1:07:46
Yeah. 2016. How about that?
1:07:50
That's funny. OK.
1:07:53
Wow. He was in major.
1:07:54
League Baseball, are we, are we working on that correlation now
1:07:57
or is that where we're going to build off of well?
1:08:02
That's what we have to do. Those two teams.
1:08:05
No, no, no, no. Not necessarily.
1:08:07
Just do what you got to do. No, no hints given here.
1:08:10
Ricky Weeks. Ricky Weeks.
1:08:12
Craig Council, One with a lot of swag, one that owes us some swag
1:08:18
'cause he's. Now see, stop.
1:08:20
Stop thinking out loud. This, this shifts my line of
1:08:23
thinking around. That's not what we're doing
1:08:25
here. You arrive.
1:08:27
You arrive at your name on your own.
1:08:31
I've got a name. You do.
1:08:34
Yep, I'm not. I I'm getting to the point where
1:08:37
I'm not putting as much thought into it because I'm not trying
1:08:39
to drag the people out as long. OK, let's roll.
1:08:43
All right, this is our six guests 321.
1:08:47
Aramis Pokey Reese, Pokey Reese, Aramis Ramirez, Pokey Reese and
1:09:00
Aramis Ramirez. Why can't I think of Pokey
1:09:05
Reese's face? Lucas says 321 Chuck Norris
1:09:14
it's. Such a throwback name, I love
1:09:21
it. We got 4 guests left.
1:09:28
Pokey, Reese, Anna. Ramis Ramirez.
1:09:34
That's World Series champion Pokey Reese to you.
1:09:39
Pokey Reese and Aramis Ramirez. 4 guesses left Think chat What
1:09:52
do these people have in common? Pokey Reese, Aramis Ramirez.
1:10:07
I got a name. I don't have a name.
1:10:08
I got a name. It's it's sort of loose logic,
1:10:16
but I it's there. Is it?
1:10:18
Yeah, very loose. So loose that it's purely just
1:10:29
to get a name off. What does that mean?
1:10:34
I just don't want to think about it too much.
1:10:36
You're just tired of thinking about it.
1:10:37
No, it's just that I don't want to.
1:10:39
I don't 'cause then I I start spitting myself in circles with
1:10:42
with logic. All right, whatever, let's roll.
1:10:46
Playing fast and loose here. Yeah, four.
1:10:48
What did I say? 4 guesses left.
1:10:50
I have no logic, it's actually mine, but I'm just going to go
1:10:52
for it, yeah. 321 Edgar Entoria. I have no idea where your logic
1:11:02
came from. Ramos Ramirez Cubs rival of the
1:11:07
Card or Cardinals rival of the Cubs.
1:11:10
Pokey Reese beat the Cardinals in the World Series 2004 Edgar
1:11:14
Renteria final out. It's loose, but it's logic.
1:11:19
That's not bad. That's pretty good.
1:11:22
That's pretty good. I I told you I didn't have any
1:11:24
logic. Tony Clark and who?
1:11:28
Edgar Renteria. All right, let's let's send it.
1:11:41
Who did I say? Edgar and Turia?
1:11:43
Yeah, and Tony Clark. I think they got some stuff in
1:11:49
common man. I feel like they do.
1:11:52
Yeah. All right.
1:12:00
All right, All right. OK.
1:12:05
All right. OK, three guesses left three.
1:12:08
OK, 21 David Ortiz. Ah, OK.
1:12:15
Like we're, we're, we're there. Yeah, how'd you get the sky
1:12:19
rolling? Edgar and Turia Cardos
1:12:23
infielder. Did I thought Tony Womack or
1:12:27
Tony Clark played? Did he?
1:12:28
Did he play for the Cardos or am I crazy?
1:12:29
Tony Clark played for everybody, I think.
1:12:34
See, I was going like abstract. I knew he played for the Tigers.
1:12:38
I knew he played for the D backs.
1:12:39
I swore he played for the Cardinals.
1:12:41
Did. He I was going like first base
1:12:43
DH, like who do you think of, you know?
1:12:48
But what does that have to do with Edgar Venturia?
1:12:51
It's like the controversial DH being in the Hall of Fame.
1:12:54
David Ortiz. I don't know, it's pretty loose.
1:12:57
No, dude, not Edgar Martinez. Edgar Venturia.
1:13:01
Oh, Edgar and Turia. Edgar and.
1:13:04
Turia, you just heard Edgar and we're like, oh, that's good.
1:13:08
Oh dude, it did. If it was Edgar Martinez, I'm
1:13:12
easily getting to. To David Ortiz for sure.
1:13:16
That's my bad. For sure.
1:13:18
That's where we at now. Where we at now?
1:13:20
We're at David Ortiz. And who and what would you say?
1:13:25
What did I just say? You.
1:13:29
Oh, Scott. Roland.
1:13:31
Scott Roland and David Ortiz. I got it.
1:13:38
Come on man, don't overthink this one.
1:13:41
I think I've I think I gave us an extra guess, but I do we have
1:13:45
3 left. I feel like I gave us an extra
1:13:47
guess here. I'm overthinking this right now.
1:13:53
I feel like my brain's moving a little quicker than other night,
1:13:55
so maybe I just got to it quicker and I didn't have to
1:13:57
think about it too much, but it makes sense to me.
1:14:03
OK. I got Scott Roland.
1:14:06
And who did you say? David Ortiz.
1:14:09
Yeah. All right.
1:14:10
Yeah, I got a name. OK, Three guesses left.
1:14:13
Three. OK. 21 Robert Buhlholz.
1:14:20
OK, that's not terrible. That's not.
1:14:22
We can work with that with two guesses left.
1:14:25
Ryan Howard and Albert Pujols. Let's get this record back to
1:14:29
500, OK? We're sitting at 1:00 and 2:00.
1:14:31
We're sitting at one and two. We've got a one game-winning
1:14:35
streak right now. Can we can we capitalize here?
1:14:39
Ryan Howard and Albert Pujols. Ryan, Howard and Albert.
1:14:51
Pujols, I got a name.
1:15:07
You don't love it, do you? Not wild about it.
1:15:10
I'm not wild about mine. But it's again, kind of, you
1:15:16
know, playing fast and loose here.
1:15:18
OK. All right. 321.
1:15:27
Miguel. Cabrera, OH.
1:15:32
OK. I was just thinking like first
1:15:35
baseman in that era of that, of that bracket.
1:15:39
Miguel Cabrera I got. I got how you got there.
1:15:41
I think at one point or another during this game, Miguel Cabrera
1:15:44
is coming to mind too. So he's been, he's been there,
1:15:46
he's been floating for me. OK, that's good.
1:15:49
That's good. OK, Last guest, Bryce Harper and
1:15:53
Miguel Cabrera. Bryce Harper and Miguel Cabrera.
1:16:04
I don't know if we can overcome this one.
1:16:05
This one's this one's tough, Bryce.
1:16:11
Harper and Miguel Cabrera. I don't.
1:16:20
I kind of have a name but like not I don't feel great about it.
1:16:25
Bryce Harper. Miguel Cabrera.
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Yeah, I got a name, too. I'm not crazy about it.
1:16:35
And we'll probably might just have to take yell on this one,
1:16:37
but I'm gonna go with it. You ready?
1:16:41
321 Mike Ryan Zimmerman. That's tough talk.
1:16:50
The L. Mike Trout.
1:16:53
Where was the Trout one? Where were the Where was the
1:16:56
brain going? Great.
1:16:57
One of the greatest right-handed hitters of our generation,
1:17:00
Miggy, Bryce Harper, kind of in that like one of the greater
1:17:05
hitters we've seen our generation, but also very
1:17:10
closely connected obviously and tied to Mike Trout with their
1:17:14
careers and getting called up and all that.
1:17:18
Yeah, that was stab in the dark there.
1:17:22
I was going like started off at a different position, moved to
1:17:25
first base, and then I kind of use the McGill logic of like
1:17:29
just stuck around just like a little too.
1:17:31
Long. That's fair, yeah.
1:17:33
You know what I mean? That's tough with Harper though.
1:17:36
Like I I definitely get the Miggy.
1:17:38
I have a feeling that's that could be a thing towards towards
1:17:42
the end of this, towards the end of this contract, it could feel
1:17:45
awfully Miggy Cabrera like. Yeah, I mean, if goodness, if if
1:17:51
Miguel Cabrera. Seven years left.
1:17:53
Yeah, if Miguel Cabrera, if Miguel Cabrera has a fall off, I
1:17:57
don't think, I don't think Bryce Harper's immune to a fall off.
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That's. What I'm saying that's fair.
1:18:02
That's fair. OK.
1:18:03
I hate to. I hate to say that I don't.
1:18:06
I'm going to cover my eyes when that time comes.
1:18:08
I don't. I don't want to see it.
1:18:09
I might just stop watching baseball so I don't have to
1:18:11
experience it. Could be a topic for a different
1:18:13
day. Yeah, I.
1:18:14
Don't know that's. It's hard.
1:18:15
It's hard to see a hero fade. It's not easy.
1:18:19
Sad day, man, sad day. Speaking of that, I guess I'm
1:18:22
going to go for. I hate to see a hero go.
1:18:26
Love to watch him leave. Yeah, that's all we got.
1:18:29
We'll see you guys. What's today?
1:18:31
Today's Sunday. We'll see you guys Wednesday.
1:18:35
Oh, little reminder. Little reminder here.
1:18:39
Let's put it. Let's get up on the screen here.
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1:20:10
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Other other than that, we will see you guys Wednesday.
1:20:41
I think that's all we got. So we're going to get out of
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here. Don't go chasing curveballs.
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We love you all and as always, looking forward to talking more
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