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Red Sox Extend Alex Cora · 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.
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  Welcome back to the three O take presented by a Sea Kick.
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  This is episode four 152. 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. 452 It's the number of runs the Red Sox gave up today.
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  I'm not here to talk about that. Any other you want to try again?
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  Can we try again? Any anything else you'd like to
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  open with? Exactly exactly how I wanted to
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  start. Any thoughts you want to share
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  with the folks? Anything exciting to happen in
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  your day? Anything but what you just said.
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  Just. Bombs being hit all over the
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  place and. Hey, that's baseball in Denver.
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  That's baseball. I mean, look, if there's a place
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  where there's just going to be nuke after nuke kid, it's it's
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  Denver. So I'm not upset about it.
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  There was actually some some pretty exciting news coming out
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  of Boston today that really had me thinking that this game
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  didn't even matter had frankly couldn't care less about the
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  loss. As I told you off air, so your
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  words, they don't hurt me today. They don't hurt me.
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  No, honestly, they, I believe it was Brenton Doyle had a, a Grand
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  Slam today. And then they loaded the bases
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  again and this, they had like 18 runs at this point.
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  I think I was hoping that they hit another Grand Slam because I
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  was just trying to see how many runs they could actually give up
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  because at that point, it's, it's, it's a, it's a, a feat.
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  An L as an L. How many, how many wins was that
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  for the Rockies today? How many?
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  How many wins was that worth? I get that, I get that, but some
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  sometimes losses are a little heavier than others.
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  Look, all I'm saying is you don't need to come out of the
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  gate swinging like that. There's there's no need, OK?
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  Hey, I just felt like, you know, maybe we should get it out
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  there, you know, maybe it's a little bit of a build up for
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  this weekend. Little bit of a build up.
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  Speaking of which, now that I remembered on the actual right
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  side of a match up happening instead of remembering after the
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  fact, maybe a little friendly wager, right?
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  There's been some clamoring for maybe a little bit of a another
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  friendly wager people. The people are saying we're due.
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  It's been a minute since we wrapped up the the Oakland A's.
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  I could be less. Confident in my team, but.
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  Well, I mean, we just gave up twenty runs a day and we went
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  one in five on the road trip, so I don't know how confident I'm
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  feeling about it. What?
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  Do you think? Just just think on it.
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  Just think on it. We'll we'll get to it.
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  We'll get to it. No, but the good news that I'm
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  talking about, that I was hoping you would have been a little bit
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  more excited for me for was the news of Alex Cora, the Boston
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  Red Sox manager extended for three years at a clip of 21 3/4
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  million. Dollars.
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  Yeah. What's that about?
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  I don't know what why. That's very arbitrary add on.
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  Just round that up a little bit for for your world champion
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  manager that's stuck. Through Hey, look, hey, the fact
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  the fact is, is he's back. That's what that's what matters.
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  That's what's important. No, but when I got this, when I
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  got the news, when I got the update today, I like there, I'll
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  say this. There are a few things baseball
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  wise, update wise that were I've stopped what I was doing and sat
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  there and and I'll admit, maybe even like shed a little bit of a
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  tear of of happiness, tear joy. When I saw that I was like,
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  there's no way this is true. This was supposed to be Alex
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  Coors last year. He is in the final year of his
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  contract was making it very clear that he had no interest in
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  discussing extension during the season.
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  And I just thought with the way the last few years have gone
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  that he had just been fed up with the way that the front
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  office was handling their business in terms of the on
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  field product and what they're putting out there.
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  But I, I don't know who came to him.
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  I don't know if this was Craig Breslow coming to him and being
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  like, hey, the Pat, what's happened in the past has
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  happened. I, there's nothing to do to
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  change that. But I can assure you that I'm
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  going to fulfill XYZ on your wish list in order to keep you
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  here as our manager. I don't know if it was Craig
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  Breslow. I don't know if it was somebody
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  else. I don't know if it was Alex
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  Korra coming to his own realization that maybe it is
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  worth sticking around for, for this young core and up and
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  coming prospects that we've got in the hopper that are just
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  waiting to contribute. I don't know what it was, but
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  all I know is that I am happy to have Alex Korra still in Boston.
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  Do you think this year's overachieving or ahead of
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  schedule? Whatever lingo you want to use
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  towards it, they're playing good ball.
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  I'm not going to, I'm not going to argue that.
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  Do you think that factored into changing his mind?
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  I've, I've actually thought about that a lot as the season's
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  gone on. I'm like, OK, they're playing,
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  they're playing above their means right now.
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  I think they're playing well and they're not showing any signs of
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  I mean, minus the 20 run performance today, not showing
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  any signs of letting up. Like this is a team that we that
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  we need to make additions to at the deadline.
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  This is a team we need to bet on like to to to count on doing
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  something come the home stretch of the season.
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  But I don't I I'd like to think that Alex Kora is more level
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  headed than to let a handful of months of.
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  Yeah. Determine his his immediate
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  future for the next couple years.
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  Well, yeah. I mean, in reality, did did you
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  guys have let's like, let's just say that the alternate happened.
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  Let's saying it it was a bad year, was the year that everyone
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  expected and you're a dozen games out of first place and
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  you're starting to sell off pieces.
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  Are there pieces that would have been sold?
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  And if those pieces got sold, does that like factor into the
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  decision? You know what I mean?
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  Does that mean that like if a if a Rafi Devers, which not saying
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  he would, but like a Devers or Duran or any of these pieces, if
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  they got moved, would Corbin like screw this man?
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  Like I'm not sticking around for an entire rebuild.
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  Well, I mean, I think I, like I just said I based on the way
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  they've been playing and they've been playing well, they've been
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  playing above what people expected them at a level that at
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  a level above what people expected them to be playing at.
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  And I know that I that I said that and I said that I don't
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  think that Cora is going to let that determine his future.
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  On the flip side, though, I think if they came out and just
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  played flat, they played like bottom of the division level
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  baseball. I do think that that influences
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  his decision where he's like, I'm already on the fence about
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  this and we're playing about as bad of baseball as you can play.
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  This is no different than the last two seasons in which we
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  finished last place. I'm out.
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  So while I like I said, I don't think that he he let the the
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  impressive start to the year impact anything.
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  I think if things have gone S quick the way that people were
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  expecting them to, I think he looks at that and goes, I'm
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  going to I'm because I credit to him.
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  I think he's a he's a smart baseball man.
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  I think he's AI mean, he's loyal.
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  We know this, but I think he would have, he would have at the
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  very least finished out his contract.
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  And like, I'll give you what I'm what I signed up to do, but I'm
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  not signing on for anything beyond this year because you're
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  giving me talking to the front office.
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  So you're giving me no reason to to stick around.
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  Yeah, I get it. I would.
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  I would be excited too. It's just like when you think
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  about it, how does it, how does it, how can you guarantee it
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  gets better if you move in a different direction, as in the
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  Red Sox moving on to a different manager?
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  But what you're saying is that that hasn't been what's holding
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  this up. It's more so that it seems like
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  Cora was the one that was reluctant to stay.
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  Yeah. I don't.
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  I don't based on a lack of like a like a the lack of pulse or a
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  lack of advancement. Obviously I'm not having
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  conversations with the people in the front office, but my my
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  guess would be that it's not that they wanted to move on from
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  Quora. I think it was just them real
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  realizing like, think of it this way, like you're a kid, you walk
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  into a into a toy store. There's a thing up there that
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  you know that you really want, but you can't really afford it.
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  And you know that there's really not any reason to even consider
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  trying to convince your parents to get it for you because you
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  know that it's just, it just doesn't make sense.
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  It's out of reach, whether financially or whatever reason.
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  It just doesn't even make sense. So you kind of settle for what
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  whatever is next in line on your wish list.
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  That's kind of the way that I think that the front office was
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  using it viewing this Alex Core thing.
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  Not that they wanted to move on, but they realize we really
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  screwed this up. We, we have, we have dropped
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  sound bites that have really shot ourselves in the foot
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  talking about going full throttle.
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  We didn't go full throttle. We're not really given much of
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  AA reason to believe anything is going to change in the near
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  future. So he's already he's already got
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  a foot out the door I think at least mentally where there's no
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  sense in US even trying to convince him to stay.
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  So it to me it was really Alex Coors decision on whether or not
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  he wanted to come back. And I, if I had to guess, they
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  are probably sitting back waiting, hoping like maybe we
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  catch him on a good day and maybe things just that maybe the
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  chips fall the right way and maybe he he gets convinced to
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  come back. I don't know.
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  But I think, I think the decision fell solely in the
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  core's hands. What kind of money was he making
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  before? I think I read somewhere today
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  that he the most he had made in a year was like 2 mil and he
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  this contract is for three-year 21, as I mentioned, 21, seven,
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  yeah, 21 .75 mil, which for those for those keeping track at
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  home will make him the second highest paid manager in the game
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  behind only Craig Counsel, who I believe what was that contract?
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  Was that five years? Four years?
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  I. Don't remember.
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  Yeah. But all either way, a huge, a
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  huge raise for Cora. So I mean, certainly that helps.
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  But I, I, my guess is that this indicates that things are, are,
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  are going to happen. Things are imminent.
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  And whether that's the deadline, the trade deadline of this year,
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  whether that's this upcoming offseason or even the way the
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  team is run or approached in terms of personnel next season.
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  I think the next calendar year from pretty much from this day
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  forward, you look at a full calendar year, I think a lot of
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  things are going to change from how they were handled this past
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  offseason and beyond. Yeah.
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  At least that's the hope. Well good for you guy, you got a
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  manager that isn't a complete idiot.
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  Must be nice. It is nice.
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  Yeah. Yeah.
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  How's it, How's it feel to have Aaron Boone at the helm every
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  like, night in and night out? That's got to get kind of
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  tiresome, no? Just picking his nose, giving us
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  the same like you might as well be a politician.
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  The way he answers questions, it's insane.
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  Yeah, that's, that's got to be a that's got to be a tired act
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  Speak. Speaking of getting old, we'd
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  literally just talked about it last episode.
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  Mike Trout was set to make his return and he made his return to
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  a rehab assignment and was promptly removed 2 innings in
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  due to a soreness in the knee that had been surgically
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  repaired. And now we just got the update
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  that he's been taken off assignment.
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  So back to square one for Mike Chop.
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  But look, like I said, no, no, no, no.
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  Don't shake your head. Did I not say this?
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  Did I not say did I? Not even the last time we had a
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  Mic Trout update? I didn't care because it's like
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  you knew this was happening. This was going to happen at some
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  point during the rehab stint. As soon as he got back.
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  It's just like, for what? What are you coming back for?
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  Go ahead. I was just going to say I, I, I
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  can't say what I said last episode with the whole like if
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  Mike Trout has has one fan, it's me.
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  If Mike Trout has no fans, I'm I'm dead.
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  I can't say that. And then the news breaks of him,
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  the news breaks of him being removed two innings into his
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  first rehab start and then go, oh, just kidding.
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  I, I take it back. I can't do that and I'm not
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  going to stand your ground. However, I I was, I was really
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  hoping this this comeback effort would have lasted more than two
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  innings. Where he punched out looking on
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  a fastball well. I don't care, but I'm not
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  looking at the the we are well beyond the point of caring about
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  the performance of Mike Trout in a rehab stint.
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  Like. I know.
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  I mean at this rate he has to have like a full career spent.
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  It's possible doing rehab stints, no?
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  Like a full see, you like when you when they show like certain
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  guys that have like crazy playoff numbers or postseason
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  numbers, It's like a full year has been spent in the
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  postseason. It's probably like that.
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  A full year has been, That's what.
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  Yeah, I think, I honestly think that's what we're dealing with
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  here. It's pretty, pretty wild.
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  Boy I saw some TikTok of someone sitting like 6 rows back
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  watching him punch out and I was like imagine dropping 75 bucks
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  to watch this and then find out he's pulled from the game.
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  I can't imagine. I'm not trying to be mean.
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  Like obviously the world of baseball is better with Mike
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  Trout in it. It's just like, I'm I'm over it.
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  I'm over talking about it. I'm over speculating.
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  I'm over wondering like, will he be back?
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  If he does come back, is he as good as he used to be?
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  Is he a shell of himself? Is he still the GOAT
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  conversation? Like I'm just over it.
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  I'm over it. I was I, I started to become
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  over it when he signed this angels deal because like I, what
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  are we? What are we chasing?
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  And my beef with with with him is that it's like you're
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  committing that long to a franchise that's just not in a
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  position at all, but in anywhere near a position.
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  And it, and is it just loyalty or is it like, what's the
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  overall goal? How much of your goal is winning
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  a ring versus just being like in a comfortable position, playing
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  slightly outside the spotlight and stacking up numbers?
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  I don't know. That's, that's, that's my beef.
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  That's where I'm at with this. And the injuries are just, it's
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  making it worse. And I'm I'm just kind of over
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  it. I'm, I feel like my my
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  perspective on Trout and his career shift almost daily at
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  this point, just with every update that we get.
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  But I think what I as a fan, what I would want to know at
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  this point, at this stage in the game, I just want to know what
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  your motivation is like. I want to know kind of like what
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  you were saying, like what, Like what?
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  What are we chasing here? Are we chasing a career with one
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  team, regardless how many or how few appearances you have in the
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  postseason? Are we chasing a ring?
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  Are we chasing the largest contract we possibly can?
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  Multiple of the above? Like what are what is it that
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  you're after? Because we I just feel like
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  anytime that he he gets interviewed or he these types of
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  questions get brought up to him. It's just the same old and we, I
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  mean, we've, we've made jokes about it, but it's just so you
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  know, like the, the wonder bread type answers where it's like,
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  you know, I just want to, I want to play as hard as I can and,
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  and give it my all for the Angels.
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  It's like, OK, like I respect that.
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  And, and we, we did the whole world Baseball classic thing
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  where you and I are like, all right, maybe this is like a,
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  maybe this is a shift in, in the winds here.
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  Maybe maybe the sales are heading in a different direction
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  now that he's gotten taste of what it's like to actually play
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  on the biggest stage. I, it doesn't seem as though
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  that really changed anything. We're a, we're a year and a half
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  past that now at this point. I don't really know.
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  I don't know if I've, I've gotten any answers, any of those
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  questions. I don't know if we as baseball
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  fans have gotten any answers to those questions.
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  So I don't know, I, I just, I don't know, like what we're
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  doing. Like, I don't know how this
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  ends. Does this end with him in an
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  Angel's uniform? Does this end with him playing
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  somewhere else trying to take one last stab at getting a ring
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  once he realizes like, oh, wow, my clock truly is running out.
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  And I actually do kind of want to a chance to at the very least
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  show up in the postseason. I don't know.
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  And it's, it's getting frustrating because I just, I
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  really want to support Trout and I do.
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  And I'm like, I'm behind him and I'm, I'm going to as, as, as the
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  slander continues of like, oh, like I'm seeing so many comments
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  right now in the, in the replies like, oh, it's just washed up.
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  He's done. He's it's over.
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  It's like, no, he's not washed up.
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  He just gets hurt a lot. It's, it's not a, it's not a
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  skill thing. Here's the thing though.
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  Here's because like, as much as we can sit here, we don't know
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  the guy. Like as fans, we don't know the
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  guy, right? Like we can pick certain, you
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  know, little segments out of out of little sound bites, out of
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  interviews and and moments. And and you can hear about other
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  guys around the league talking about him, about his skill.
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  No duh, we're there with the skill.
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  But here's my thing. He signed his contract in 2019.
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  2020 is is where we had the the shortened season.
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  Since then it's been nothing. It's been nothing. 36 games in
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  2020, 119 in 20/22/82 last year so far, only 29 this year.
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  Outside of that, like why? Why were you so healthy before
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  this contract? Why was your lowest game?
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  I mean, is it was 139 one 57157 one 59159 one fourteen 14134.
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  Like you were consistent, you were healthy, you were durable.
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  The second you get your bag now we're having these issues and
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  like the torn meniscus is a torn meniscus.
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  I get that. But at the same time, like if we
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  don't know this guy and we can all just sit here and peg, hey,
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  he's a good guy. He's a, he's a baseball guy.
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  He's just a want to win guy. We don't know that.
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  We don't know that he could just as likely be a guy that was
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  like, I got my bag and I don't feel like really pushing it
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  anymore. He could just as likely be that
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  guy or treading on real thin ice right now.
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  I'm just saying I'm trying to play devil's advocate.
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  No, I and I and I hear you and I hear you and that it's like with
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  anything, sometimes the, the, the, the potential truth might
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  hurt in this and. This and this wouldn't be the
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  first time an athlete's done this we've.
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  Seen it across all sports. But it's different with Mike
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  Trout though, because we're talking about a generational
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  player. So it's it's harder, I think for
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  me and probably a lot of other people to, to take that, to be
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  able to, to digest that possible truth to where Mike Trout maybe
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  is a guy that just got his bag and was like, I'm cool.
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  I'm like, I'm fine. I don't think he's that way.
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  I don't either. I, I do think that when you the
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  correlation of being durable your entire career and then the
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  second you get a $400 million contract, we start to go down.
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  I do have to admit I don't think I ever put that together because
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  I I just thought it was like an arbitrary point in his career or
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  like a certain age where things just started to fall apart.
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  But when you put it, when you put it into that perspective.
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  I'm harder game, I mean. That's interesting.
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  He turned 29 in, in 2021 and that's, you know, that's two
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  years, it's a year and a half into the deal if you're counting
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  like the shortened COVID year. So I don't know, I, I'm not
• 23:26
  saying, I'm not saying he, he's that guy.
• 23:29
  He doesn't seem that way. I, I, I don't think he's that
• 23:32
  way, but like there is a point where you kind of have to start
• 23:36
  asking that question of like you got your bag and now and, and
• 23:43
  what are we doing now? Are you going to rehab starts
• 23:46
  and just to like show baseball or fans or your organization?
• 23:53
  They're like, Hey, I'm trying, but I'm a little sore.
• 23:58
  I don't know, because I can tell you that I felt my torn meniscus
• 24:05
  very much so felt it. So it's just crazy to be like I
• 24:10
  tore my meniscus and I didn't even know it and not be able to
• 24:15
  associate it to a specific movement or play.
• 24:20
  I it's just like that's, that's kind of rare to me.
• 24:22
  I, I don't know, big conspiracy theorist.
• 24:25
  So yeah, we're I. I wasn't expecting to open this
• 24:28
  this can of worms with with Mike Trout.
• 24:30
  I'm not trying to be a hater. I'm not.
• 24:32
  No, I get it. I get it.
• 24:34
  But I just, when you look at like if you remove the name and
• 24:37
  you remove any sound bites we've ever gotten from him, and you
• 24:40
  just look at stats, you look at numbers, whether it's contracts
• 24:45
  or timing or games played. You look at the timeline of and
• 24:50
  how things have panned out. Yeah, I get it.
• 24:53
  You kind of have to have to ask those questions and I just, I
• 24:57
  feel like he doesn't get those questions asked because of who
• 25:02
  he is, who he was. I don't like that we're already
• 25:12
  using the past tense now. I mean, it's, it's not over yet.
• 25:16
  I'm I'm holding that hope that and that and I don't I think it
• 25:19
  was back when he actually was it back when he tore the meniscus.
• 25:23
  I guess when this injury initially happened, I think my
• 25:26
  whole thing was like, just give us one more year, one more year.
• 25:30
  And I don't, I, I put a number to it.
• 25:32
  I think I was like, give it, just give us like 120 games,
• 25:36
  like 115 games. Played 119 in 2022.
• 25:42
  That's all I'm asking for, just one more so we can at least just
• 25:45
  get that last taste of like, you know, I'm not going to say prime
• 25:50
  trout, but like, give us a glimpse back into what it used
• 25:55
  to be before you call it quits. Yeah.
• 25:59
  I don't know. Depressing topic.
• 26:04
  Let's move on to another depressing topic.
• 26:05
  Christian Yelich to the IL possibly could, well, I could
• 26:10
  miss the rest of the year. We got that update just I think
• 26:14
  minutes before we hopped on was placed on the 10 day because of
• 26:20
  inflammation, a lower back. It's possible that he could
• 26:23
  require surgery. He's seen a specialist this week
• 26:27
  or I guess tomorrow, today if you're listening on Thursday,
• 26:30
  it's going to see the specialist Thursday to figure out what's
• 26:33
  next and determine whether or not surgery is required.
• 26:37
  So it sucks for a team like the Brewers, who, you know, we, we
• 26:47
  have our thoughts and opinions on the Brewers, but they're
• 26:50
  they're in the picture pretty much year after year.
• 26:54
  It seems So like for a team that's more often than not in
• 26:58
  the picture, like what it what does this do?
• 27:01
  What does this do to a team like the Brewers?
• 27:03
  This kind of news. This is a tough, this is a tough
• 27:09
  blow. This is a gut punch.
• 27:12
  It prompted, it prompted Pat Murphy.
• 27:15
  I don't know if you saw his quote where he was like, what do
• 27:17
  you want us to do, go out and get Vladdy Junior?
• 27:21
  And I think Brewers fans are like, yeah, maybe that'd be
• 27:24
  nice. Yeah, that could work that.
• 27:26
  Could I did see I saw a comment where I was like this is low key
• 27:29
  Pat Murphy trying to ask the front office if they could.
• 27:34
  What do you want me to do? Oh.
• 27:35
  Boy, what do you want me to do? Or like, what do you want us to
• 27:38
  do? Go out and get Derek Scubal and
• 27:40
  Vladdy Junior? I mean, come on now.
• 27:43
  Oh. This one hurts man.
• 27:46
  I, I feel for this guy and just looking at his BR page, you
• 27:55
  could kind of see that it seemed like it was coming back.
• 27:58
  Like you could see that like that skill set that we saw in
• 28:02
  the 2018-2019 years hitting over 321 dot OPS, like league leader
• 28:11
  in in categories MVP year. Like you saw this starting
• 28:18
  starting to creep back, man. I mean, he's sitting 3:15 this
• 28:21
  year. He's got a nine O 9 OPS, 153 OPS
• 28:24
  plus. You know, I think that I think
• 28:29
  the 40 home run days were weren't ever going to be a thing
• 28:32
  again. But I think you you, it seemed
• 28:37
  like it was over. It seemed like this, this part
• 28:41
  of his career was done. But like backs never get better.
• 28:43
  You know what I mean? Ask Hershaw.
• 28:47
  Backs never get better, they just keep getting worse.
• 28:49
  But I really do feel bad for the guy.
• 28:58
  Not the same way as I'm not. I'm not.
• 29:00
  Just apples and oranges here. So.
• 29:02
  Don't get me. I'm glad you knew that I was
• 29:04
  thinking it. I was thinking, I was like
• 29:06
  trying to track here. I'm like, OK, now what's the
• 29:09
  what's the difference here? Not a $400 million guy.
• 29:12
  And also if you looked at the amount of games he missed, he's
• 29:16
  he's missed, you'd be like, I'm actually pretty impressed. 144
• 29:22
  last year, 154 twenty 22117 in 2021.
• 29:27
  Only missed two games in COVID year 1:30 one 47156.
• 29:31
  The guy doesn't really miss time.
• 29:33
  That. All things considered, it's just
• 29:36
  been just been like this unhealthy thing and when you see
• 29:40
  like the numbers that he was doing pre back injury, you're
• 29:43
  like this guy's capable of being a stud and then this back stuff
• 29:48
  comes in and you're like, well at least he's still powering
• 29:52
  through and playing. It's not up to the standard that
• 29:55
  we thought he was, but he has been showing up still.
• 29:59
  Yeah. I mean, there are different
• 30:00
  tiers of players across baseball or you have guys that are just
• 30:05
  routinely missing time. You have the tier of guys that
• 30:09
  are playing through nagging injuries that don't really give
• 30:13
  you a much output, but they're just out there.
• 30:16
  So you could make your argument of like, OK, well, like what
• 30:18
  value are they really bringing if they're just kind of taking
• 30:20
  up space? Not to say that that's what's
• 30:23
  happening with Yelich, but I'm just saying there's different
• 30:25
  category. Like to to kind of to kind of
• 30:31
  summarize our conversation about guys like Trout and Yelich
• 30:34
  there. There's different categories
• 30:36
  that these guys fall into and it's just a matter of which one.
• 30:39
  Like if you're going to get injured in your career, it's
• 30:41
  just a matter of which one you're lucky enough to fall
• 30:44
  into. Are you are you going to be a
• 30:45
  guy that just cannot shake injuries such as a guy like Mike
• 30:49
  Trout, or are you going to be a guy like Christian Yelich, like
• 30:54
  you said, who doesn't really miss time, but is more often
• 30:58
  than not fighting something like another guy that comes to mind
• 31:01
  is like Raphael Devers with the shoulder.
• 31:02
  He it's something that he just is constantly, constantly
• 31:07
  dealing with and he just more often than not plays through it.
• 31:11
  I mean, he'll have his stint every now and then, but we'll
• 31:15
  play through it. And it just sucks for a guy like
• 31:19
  Yelich and a team like the Brewers, who they, I mean,
• 31:23
  you're we're talking about an All Star here, like a literal
• 31:26
  2024 All Star. And like you said, hitting over
• 31:30
  303 fifteen. I, I think it just it's a big
• 31:36
  blow, especially we we talked about it a handful of episodes
• 31:40
  ago. We're talking about a, a
• 31:42
  postseason field coming out of the National League right now.
• 31:46
  That could not be more dense. Yep.
• 31:50
  I mean, I don't, I'd have to, I'd have to check it again.
• 31:53
  But the last time we talked about it, we were talking about
• 31:57
  all but I think 2:00. I think 13 of the 15 National
• 32:01
  League teams at the time were six games out or less.
• 32:11
  And that still seems to be the case.
• 32:12
  The Nationals are 5 1/2 back of a wild card spot, so like it.
• 32:20
  It's just it's unfortunate when, I mean, they've got a little bit
• 32:24
  of a cushion in the division, which is helpful, but it doesn't
• 32:28
  help that you got quite literally the rest of the league
• 32:32
  breathing down your neck. If if you go with the MVP and
• 32:39
  really emphasizing value, that conversation, the value of that
• 32:46
  guy to that specific team, this is a big blow.
• 32:52
  This is a big blow. I think just his presence, he's
• 32:57
  he's like he's he's a superstar without being a superstar.
• 33:03
  It's he's he's like the perfect Milwaukee energy.
• 33:13
  I guess like, you know what I mean?
• 33:14
  Like it's it's this is a tough blow.
• 33:18
  This ain't easy when you're you can argue that you're probably
• 33:25
  still flying under the radar by leading the division by six
• 33:29
  games and you're in a legitimate chance, like a strong spot to
• 33:36
  make a post season run is a big blow.
• 33:41
  And you can't just sit there and say like you're going to join
• 33:45
  the sweepstakes of some of these bigger bats in in the trade
• 33:50
  market. I have no idea what their farm
• 33:54
  looks like, but let's face it, like the Brewers are almost the
• 33:57
  middle of the road in every category all the time.
• 34:01
  So like your ability to attract certain things or certain trades
• 34:06
  or certain players, it's never easy.
• 34:09
  There's a reason why we still talk about like the CC move, you
• 34:13
  know, like that's like their one great big move for the decade
• 34:19
  and you're just wondering if if they can pull some out of their
• 34:24
  pocket. You know, I mean, it just
• 34:26
  happened to be one of like the best acquisitions in in baseball
• 34:29
  history. So they like quite literally.
• 34:31
  Stumbled into like, that's what I'm saying.
• 34:34
  Yeah, that's what I'm saying. So like, I'm just wondering if
• 34:37
  if there's anything, if there is something else out there like
• 34:40
  that, it's going to be found by luck, especially when you have
• 34:46
  all of these big teams like Dodgers and, and, you know, like
• 34:52
  bigger teams that are willing to go get something that they're
• 34:57
  already rich in. I don't know.
• 35:03
  Well, talking, talking about other National League teams in
• 35:09
  the hunt now, I'm just kidding. Paul Skeens got dealt his first
• 35:19
  loss of his career. I'm not going to.
• 35:21
  We're not going to hype that up. I had you thinking though, like,
• 35:25
  oh whoa, whoa, I. Thought I was about to check my
• 35:27
  phone. I was.
• 35:28
  What happened with What happened with the Pirates?
• 35:30
  Now? Pirates, unfortunately, couldn't
• 35:32
  muster up enough run support to keep the impressive streak from
• 35:39
  Paul Skeens or or four Paul skeins from continue.
• 35:45
  They they fell, they fell short. Paul skeins through eight and a
• 35:50
  third in his most recent outing on Tuesday against the
• 35:53
  Cardinals. And there are a lot of people
• 36:00
  being like, welcome to the big leagues, buddy.
• 36:02
  This happens. I saw I saw some some comps
• 36:06
  being made to Jacob degrom and I'm like, we're not there yet.
• 36:11
  He hasn't put up like an entire career with no run support Like
• 36:15
  this is just one game. I understand that.
• 36:18
  But what's interesting is I I read that it's it was his first
• 36:27
  lot. This this most reason out
• 36:28
  against the Cardinals was his first loss since May 25th of
• 36:32
  2023 when LSU dropped their game to Arkansas in the SEC
• 36:39
  Tournament. Crazy.
• 36:44
  It was also the first time he had pitched into the ninth since
• 36:47
  June 2nd of last year for LSU. Well, I mean, yeah, just is what
• 37:00
  it is. What do we?
• 37:02
  Hey, Parson had seven hits. They left seven guys on base.
• 37:06
  So to only get one run, Yeah. You got to be able to cash that
• 37:09
  in. It's it's Ace Day, you know what
• 37:11
  I mean? You got to score on Ace Day.
• 37:15
  This is Ace day. This is All Star Starter day.
• 37:20
  This is future Cy Young, multiple Cy Young winner day.
• 37:26
  You got you got to capitalize on on these on these days.
• 37:30
  How do you feel about that streak, though?
• 37:32
  Lost for the first time in 12 starts.
• 37:35
  And I know wins and losses are fluky.
• 37:37
  I understand. But for Paul skins to and I'm
• 37:42
  not saying his his season's over just because he got hit.
• 37:45
  He got dealt with a loss, but like for him to come up with all
• 37:50
  the hype and to be able to string together that that that
• 37:54
  lengthy of a streak without getting handed a loss, that I
• 37:58
  think that speaks volumes about. It speaks, it speaks volumes
• 38:01
  that this is how the loss went is a 21 ball game that he went
• 38:05
  in the the 9th. Like sign me up for that every
• 38:09
  damn time. Like, like it's not like he went
• 38:12
  through five and gave up six earned.
• 38:14
  You know what I'm saying? Like he took it into the 9th on
• 38:19
  to earn like sign me up every day.
• 38:22
  Every day. Yeah, He's such a freak, man.
• 38:26
  It's absurd. I don't I don't understand.
• 38:35
  Sorry, we had trivia from the I already knew the answer, I
• 38:40
  didn't even have to present it to the group.
• 38:42
  The trivia question from the sister found out, did some
• 38:46
  digging around, found out that she's actually my Co
• 38:51
  sister-in-law because she's the she's the wife of Meredith's
• 38:56
  brother. So she's not my she's not
• 38:59
  Meredith's sister because that would be my sister-in-law.
• 39:01
  She's the wife of the brother of my wife.
• 39:08
  Anyway, the trivia question from my Co sister-in-law was the Co
• 39:11
  chair of The Carlyle Group bought what MLB team this year
• 39:16
  for 1.7 billion? All right.
• 39:22
  I already knew the answer. Good stuff, it's a quick one.
• 39:27
  She still just texting under the table at trivia night?
• 39:33
  Or have you asked her about this?
• 39:36
  Does everyone else turn their phone in and she's I?
• 39:40
  Called her out on, I said. Mine's in the car I.
• 39:44
  I said I, I called her out and I said, why are you, why are you
• 39:49
  getting answers from me during trivia?
• 39:51
  And she goes, oh, well, it's just she's trying to like stump
• 39:53
  you guys, just trying to see like, if you know them.
• 39:55
  And I'm like, if that's true, then I appreciate it.
• 40:00
  But I'm not not so I'm not so certain that you're not feeding
• 40:03
  these answers to your team. Just like, you know, oh, the
• 40:08
  Orioles. What was that?
• 40:09
  What was that over there? Look at the TV.
• 40:11
  Yeah. I think there's somebody there's
• 40:14
  you got to be some people on the team that are in on it.
• 40:18
  I'd really I'd really like to know like maybe who is is
• 40:21
  running the trivia? Who's the host?
• 40:25
  Are they just that that lacks about everything you know?
• 40:30
  Maybe. Maybe questions?
• 40:32
  I need to ask her. Maybe she's like Ryan in the
• 40:34
  office when they go to trivia night and they're like, Sir,
• 40:37
  we're going to need your phone. He's like, I can't not touch it
• 40:41
  like a crack at it, 'cause I can't not.
• 40:43
  Touch it. That's true.
• 40:45
  I don't think it's that bad, but I, I, yeah, some answers need to
• 40:48
  be provided. Questions need to be answered.
• 40:53
  Yeah. Good for Paul Skeens, though.
• 40:54
  Sucks that you had to get dealt to Jacob degrom treatment so
• 40:58
  early in your career, but let's hope this doesn't last.
• 41:01
  All right, let's hope that this doesn't happen often.
• 41:08
  I've just mentioned this team, the Orioles, a team that is
• 41:11
  currently linked to Terex Scubal.
• 41:16
  How do we feel about that fit? I texted Ryan today and I was
• 41:21
  compiling some notes and I said give me, I can just read you
• 41:24
  directly what he told me. There we go, if you'd like and
• 41:28
  then I'll get your thoughts on the fit.
• 41:31
  I said give me your super abbreviated Cliff notes on what
• 41:34
  you believe the OS would have to give up for Scubal and then I
• 41:37
  said I'll be sure to credit you for your contribution.
• 41:39
  So this is directly from the man himself.
• 41:41
  Ryan there we. Go.
• 41:41
  There we go. He said one of the three holiday
• 41:46
  Basalo Mayo and and then a pair of the next tier.
• 41:50
  So maybe Norby Stowers cursed at etcetera.
• 41:54
  The OS could go deeper, but the problem is the Tigers don't want
• 41:57
  the deeper yet talented prospects.
• 41:59
  They want at least two guys. They can see his future All
• 42:02
  Stars. I think that's fair.
• 42:06
  I think that's fair. And being on Twitter with like
• 42:11
  following Ryan means that I have a stupid amount of Orioles stuff
• 42:15
  coming up on my timeline. Drives me crazy.
• 42:19
  But the amount of Orioles fans that are like this, like greedy
• 42:23
  prospect hoarding going on, like understand where your holes are.
• 42:29
  You need starting pitching the Basalo kid or Basalo, whatever.
• 42:35
  However you say his name, you have, I don't know, arguably the
• 42:39
  best catcher in baseball already.
• 42:41
  So maybe that's one of the names that could go, I don't know,
• 42:45
  Jackson Holiday, well, do you have a, a All Star and an MVP
• 42:50
  playing up the middle? So maybe we have room to, I
• 42:54
  don't know, go move somebody to get someone else where we need
• 42:57
  it. So I don't really understand
• 43:00
  what the issue is here. I don't understand.
• 43:03
  I, I think the Orioles are just in this weird position as a fan
• 43:07
  base where like there's so many huge prospects that so many of
• 43:13
  the fans are aware of. When you look across baseball on
• 43:17
  on average, like we don't really know prospects like, you know
• 43:22
  what I mean? You could maybe pick out one or
• 43:24
  two top prospect names, but for a fan base that's, you know,
• 43:32
  seeing so many names, so many first rounders, so many
• 43:38
  potential All Stars in this batch.
• 43:40
  It's like you go get that lefty who, I don't know, has better
• 43:47
  numbers than your ace and has control left.
• 43:52
  What are we talking about? Sorry Jackson Holiday like go.
• 43:59
  I've I always put a tweet out the other day, but I didn't want
• 44:03
  to come across as like just super negative and salty, but
• 44:07
  I'm, I'm just so over the mock trade culture that exists on
• 44:14
  social media, I guess specifically Twitter, but I see
• 44:19
  these I see these graphics all the time.
• 44:21
  Saying names that I think we should get, but I don't love the
• 44:26
  mock trade of like I I'm going to choose the 26th prospect and
• 44:30
  the yeah, like you have no idea. Stop.
• 44:32
  It's a stop. They have no idea.
• 44:35
  No, well, it's it's not Even so much the the names that are
• 44:38
  presented. It's the response every time.
• 44:41
  Like because I see these graphics all the time where it's
• 44:43
  like thoughts on this trade and for all intents and purposes,
• 44:47
  it's like AI mean it's not a great trade.
• 44:49
  It's probably not a realistic trade that a front office
• 44:51
  executive is going to look at and go, yeah, we should do that.
• 44:54
  It's I think it's really more so just for like entertainment
• 44:56
  purposes, just like start a conversation and the response is
• 45:00
  every time or just like, lol, no bro, crying emoji, crying emoji,
• 45:05
  crying emoji. And I'm like like relax.
• 45:09
  Like, for example, the an Orioles fan could be like or no,
• 45:17
  I'm trying to think of an example like, yeah, an Orioles
• 45:22
  fan in this scenario with the Terex Google situation, they
• 45:25
  could be like, we're going to give you Jackson Holiday.
• 45:30
  We're going to give you, in fact, we're going to blow the
• 45:33
  lid off this thing. We're going to give you Jackson
• 45:35
  Holiday. We're going to give you Gunner
• 45:36
  Henderson, Adly Ruchman, Kobe Mayo and Colton Cowser.
• 45:42
  And then the Tigers fans chime into they're like, lol, bro,
• 45:45
  wishful thinking. You think you're going to get
• 45:47
  Tarek Scubble? And it's like, are you looking
• 45:49
  at the names that are being proposed?
• 45:52
  Like I get, I get that you want to get like protective over your
• 45:55
  guy, but like, let's loosen the reins a little bit.
• 45:58
  And I know that that was an exaggeration, but sometimes I
• 46:01
  look at these mock trades and I'm like that, that seems like a
• 46:05
  decent conversation starter. But then you get these people
• 46:07
  that clearly just don't understand baseball.
• 46:10
  They're like lol bro good good try.
• 46:14
  Here's. What I have to say, we're going
• 46:15
  to have to up the ante a little bit.
• 46:17
  I am, I am in the camp that I I don't know why the Tigers would
• 46:20
  move on from him. What it?
• 46:27
  I mean, what are you trading for?
• 46:31
  Are you trading for someone that's going to have this same
• 46:33
  impact? Are you?
• 46:36
  Are you you're? Trading for.
• 46:38
  People that equal this same impact.
• 46:40
  No, I mean, from what it sounds like they're trying to, they're
• 46:44
  trying to retrieve a hall that's going to be greater than what
• 46:47
  Tarek Scubble. If if you're the if Tarek
• 46:49
  Scubble's on the Royals, I'm asking that question, what do
• 46:53
  you like? Why are why are you entertaining
• 46:56
  shopping Tarek Schuble? But he's on the Tigers.
• 46:59
  And I think myself included, I was of the belief a year or two
• 47:04
  ago where I'm like the Tigers are are kind of they're on the
• 47:07
  they're on the doorstep didn't pan out necessarily the way I
• 47:11
  thought it was going to and probably tigers fans were hoping
• 47:13
  for. But I can understand it because
• 47:18
  if you're the tigers, you're you're more than a couple pieces
• 47:22
  away, I think from from taking that next step.
• 47:27
  So like what? What good does it do to keep
• 47:30
  scuba around? Why not get because his his
• 47:34
  trade value is not going to get any higher like the the I mean,
• 47:37
  he is he is peak value in terms of what you're going to get in
• 47:43
  return. So like, why not just offload
• 47:46
  them? And especially for one of these
• 47:48
  teams that's maybe a little extra hungry for that deep run
• 47:52
  in October, such as the Orioles, Phillies, whoever else is linked
• 47:56
  to them, I suppose. Dodgers, Dodgers in there.
• 48:02
  Dodgers I. Suppose so.
• 48:03
  I just think with the years of control, I think they're in a
• 48:08
  position where they can ask whatever they want.
• 48:12
  I think they can. I think they can stand firm and
• 48:18
  assume that'll probably be in the next.
• 48:20
  Like if you're not getting the offers you want this year, wait
• 48:25
  out till next year. You're probably in the same
• 48:27
  boat, you know what I mean? But.
• 48:28
  That's what I'm saying. Do you run that risk though?
• 48:30
  Like you can, you can hope that he he reciprocate or he
• 48:35
  replicates this year, but I does it get better than what he's
• 48:41
  giving you right now? Wouldn't it make sense to just
• 48:44
  offload him now again, especially since there are teams
• 48:46
  where it just seems like such a perfect fit at this very moment
• 48:50
  in time? I guess I just don't pay enough
• 48:52
  attention to them, but I mean like, why not move Riley Green
• 48:58
  then too, you know what I mean? Why?
• 49:04
  I mean, I think if you're the like, to your point, keeping
• 49:08
  controllable guys around makes sense like for the future.
• 49:12
  But in terms of a guy like Scubal, again, going back to the
• 49:16
  value thing where that like this is, is presumably as good as
• 49:22
  it's going to get, why not go get just a massive haul to
• 49:26
  supplement those other pieces that you would be better suited
• 49:29
  to hang on to? I'm just.
• 49:30
  Struggling, man. I'm struggling specifically with
• 49:33
  the Tigers and the amount of names that they've had
• 49:38
  throughout the last 15 years. And you're like, at what point
• 49:43
  do you just commit and build? And I understand that all things
• 49:50
  kind of have to fall into place at the right time in the right
• 49:54
  way. But and, and guys like Torkelson
• 49:56
  have to pan out. Guys like Baez have to play up
• 49:59
  to their contract. Guys like, you know, Akil Badu
• 50:02
  have to play up to what they thought they were going to be
• 50:04
  like. You got to have some guys that
• 50:06
  performed. But at the same time, I'm like
• 50:08
  you, you've had so many names and you've moved on from them
• 50:12
  and you're just in this weird limbo status over and over.
• 50:19
  I'd be super frustrated if I were the Tigers.
• 50:24
  And that's why for me, like it has to be Jackson Holiday.
• 50:28
  I understand these other names are great, but like that guy, I
• 50:33
  have a good feeling about it's a good name.
• 50:35
  It's it immediately sells jerseys and and gets people into
• 50:40
  the sands. Like, I have to have that name.
• 50:44
  And if you're the Orioles, you've got to understand that,
• 50:47
  like, you're already pretty rich in the infield.
• 50:55
  And as much of A blow as it would be, this solves a big
• 50:59
  issue. And burns Scubal Grayson, 123 in
• 51:07
  the postseason. I got to do that move, bro.
• 51:14
  I would do that move right away. I hate to say it, but I I think
• 51:22
  I got to stay consistent with my beliefs.
• 51:24
  I've always said that I'm going to side with proven talent over
• 51:32
  prospects. And I think 100% as we're
• 51:34
  talking about this, that I, I, I, I have to believe that I have
• 51:39
  to apply that same line of thinking even to somebody like
• 51:42
  Jackson Holiday where it's like he could go on to win multiple
• 51:45
  MVPS, Who knows? You already have that guy.
• 51:51
  You already have Gunner that's going to have, you're so rich in
• 51:55
  the infield and just with prospects in general, like,
• 51:58
  yeah, it's, it would suck to lose Jackson of, of, of all of
• 52:01
  those guys. But like you have a real chance,
• 52:05
  like you said, to address an issue, to fill a hole and to
• 52:08
  realistically put yourself in a in a position.
• 52:13
  So win a World Series like. This is why you tank for so
• 52:17
  long, you know what I mean? It's to be able to move.
• 52:20
  Oh my. Gosh, some of those pieces for
• 52:22
  some some actual true stardom. He's a star.
• 52:29
  So Jackson, whoever this Basalo catcher kid is who I've heard
• 52:37
  great things about, move them both.
• 52:42
  Moving both I get. I think if you send Basalo to
• 52:45
  Miami, get yourself Tanner Scott and you send Jackson Holiday
• 52:49
  plus something for Tarek school. I genuinely don't see how this
• 52:55
  team doesn't get to the World Series.
• 53:01
  I don't know. They might be playing.
• 53:03
  If they do, they might be playing the Dodgers, a team that
• 53:07
  is reportedly in on Randy Rosarena.
• 53:13
  I feel like this calendar year, this past calendar year, the
• 53:21
  Dodgers, I think have legitimately been linked to
• 53:24
  every name, whether it be free Asian or trade target that has
• 53:29
  come across the dash. So this doesn't surprise me
• 53:34
  because as I mentioned, they're also linked to school as well.
• 53:39
  But how do we feel about Randy possibly in LA?
• 53:42
  I don't care. Randy's giving me Javi Baez
• 53:46
  vibes. It's really getting to that
• 53:49
  point where you play loud enough and you're enough of a fan
• 53:53
  favorite that we somehow forget your numbers are very, very
• 53:57
  below average. Let's let's look here, shall we?
• 54:05
  Because I feel like it. Are we dealing with a little bit
• 54:07
  of recently bias here? It's been a few years now.
• 54:16
  I guess you're right, because now that I think about it, I'm
• 54:18
  like that World Series was what, four years ago at this point?
• 54:22
  Right. And even then, like I don't, I
• 54:24
  don't know about that year, but like he has these flashes of
• 54:28
  like showing up in big moments. And that's what we remember.
• 54:33
  That's what sticks to us. These like big.
• 54:36
  Streaks I mean he's he's given you like he's given you above
• 54:48
  league average performance at the play like 2021, like post
• 54:52
  World Series run. He's he's given you seasons of
• 54:56
  2020 and 20, three home runs, OPS pluses of 1/29, 1:23 and
• 55:07
  1:21. So I mean, I don't I don't want
• 55:13
  to go as far as I mean, he was a All Star last year.
• 55:16
  I don't want to go as far as to say like below average, It's the
• 55:19
  Dodgers. What do they need?
• 55:22
  They don't need anything, but they're going to bring guys in
• 55:24
  anyway. Isn't he just like a poor man's
• 55:27
  Tay Oscar? It's not a bad cop, but like,
• 55:34
  like we. Talked about Oscar but like.
• 55:36
  But like but like we talked about.
• 55:38
  Is Hayward we're down? I'm so confused.
• 55:41
  No, but he would provide. What was that reading?
• 55:45
  It would be it would likely be right-handed pop.
• 55:50
  Yeah, it would be right-handed pop to where you would have
• 55:53
  Hayward as like a roaming kind of fill in the gap as a lefty,
• 55:59
  give guys a day off type role. You would have, you'd have Tay
• 56:07
  Oscar, you'd have a Rose Arena as like I said, right hand of
• 56:15
  pop. So you would be able to you'd be
• 56:16
  able to slot Hayward in to to balance that out a little bit
• 56:21
  from the other side of the plate, which I I can understand.
• 56:23
  But like we talked about when they, when, when Mookie went
• 56:27
  down, the thing you have to remember is it's easy to get
• 56:30
  lost in the dollar signs. It's easy to get lost in the in
• 56:33
  the the flashbulbs that surround that franchise where you go.
• 56:38
  Why? Like, why do they need player X?
• 56:42
  The reality is a guy like Mookie Betts, it doesn't matter how
• 56:46
  much money he's making. He's a player that goes down
• 56:51
  that then creates a need. So it's like it, I don't care
• 56:56
  how much money the Dodgers are paying Shohei or Mookie or Will
• 57:01
  Smith. If one of those guys goes down,
• 57:04
  it creates a, it creates a hole that would exist on any other
• 57:07
  team that loses a guy that you just have to fill.
• 57:12
  And the Dodgers just happened to be they're just willing to spend
• 57:18
  money to get the bigger name replacements more often than
• 57:22
  not. But like at the end of the day
• 57:24
  though a need or there's still a need there, the has to be
• 57:27
  filled. Doesn't add up for me.
• 57:36
  I under I guess I I guess ready pop is because like is it looks
• 57:47
  like Pahis is playing center mostly.
• 57:55
  Yeah, it's more of a, it's more of a corner outfield thing.
• 58:00
  I, it's just like I it's, it's just weird.
• 58:03
  Like, are there other names? Are there other center fielders?
• 58:07
  Like, I don't know, can't think of anybody right now.
• 58:15
  Why are you asking about center field?
• 58:17
  Just like Pahas isn't doing anything, Tay Oscar's in left,
• 58:21
  Jason Hayward's in right. Is this was the whole point to
• 58:24
  like have less like Platoon Jason Hayward more And is Mookie
• 58:31
  like Dun Dun? No, he'll be back next month,
• 58:36
  but. So what are we?
• 58:39
  Well, you. Tread water for a month like.
• 58:41
  Oh, Mookie's in your infield. Mookie's not part of this, this
• 58:44
  equation. I I think the latest that I saw
• 58:47
  was that if. He's going right back short.
• 58:49
  No, if anything like worst case he goes back to 2nd to to fill
• 58:56
  that hole and leave Rojas at short because I guess Rojas has
• 58:59
  been playing like. So Lux is going to be enough.
• 59:01
  Lux is going to be in whatever deal.
• 59:03
  Lux would be the odd man out of that scenario.
• 59:05
  But that that's what I'm saying. Mookie doesn't isn't relevant to
• 59:10
  the outfield conversation here that like this is independent of
• 59:13
  Mookie. This is more I think to your
• 59:16
  point getting getting Hayward to platoon more and to be more of a
• 59:24
  plug in and play as a lefty bat type situation.
• 59:32
  I think we fall too much. We were The game is too in love
• 59:35
  with the ready lefty crap. I agree, but it's.
• 59:39
  Created we've created this, this narrative to we've overblown it.
• 59:46
  I would look at Jazz personally, if I was the Dodgers, I'd look
• 59:49
  at jazz. You can play centre, you can
• 59:51
  play second, you know what I mean?
• 59:54
  And like if the days that the days that if Mookie, if say you
• 59:59
  don't want Mookie back at 2nd and you put him in right, Jason
• 1:00:02
  Hayward's played centre before then you can keep Jazz at second
• 1:00:05
  like I. I think we fall too much in love
• 1:00:08
  with like the the righty lefty stuff.
• 1:00:10
  That makes more sense to me. And I did, I saw a report come
• 1:00:15
  out recently that said the Yankees were like wary of how
• 1:00:18
  Jazz would fit in, which I, I mean, I can understand, I don't
• 1:00:23
  maybe necessarily agree with the whole conversation, but I can, I
• 1:00:25
  can see that point of view. But Lai mean, that's a great fit
• 1:00:32
  for a guy like Jazz. Yeah, yeah, I I think jazz makes
• 1:00:37
  a lot more sense than. Because that center seems like
• 1:00:41
  more of an issue than your corner outfield.
• 1:00:43
  I don't know. I could see it.
• 1:00:49
  I do it. To your point, though, I like
• 1:00:50
  the flexibility of having Jazz be able to bounce around to give
• 1:00:57
  guys days off at at times. So yeah, that's that's that
• 1:01:03
  would be helpful. The Braves.
• 1:01:09
  Boy. How the player players only
• 1:01:12
  meeting this week? Really not much to go into
• 1:01:16
  there, but I just thought it was worth noting given our our
• 1:01:19
  chatter on the Braves last episode.
• 1:01:23
  How do we how do we feel about the players only meeting?
• 1:01:26
  Do we think this will benefit them?
• 1:01:31
  Maybe not like, you know, in the coming days, but do we think
• 1:01:35
  this could be, this could serve as a moment in the season where
• 1:01:38
  they look back on and go, you know, that served as a turning
• 1:01:41
  point for us long term. Do we think that players only
• 1:01:47
  meetings are a little overblown at this point?
• 1:01:52
  It's funny how they always come out in media, always.
• 1:01:59
  Anytime there's a player meeting, it's always coming out.
• 1:02:05
  My buddy Colin texted me and I haven't like confirmed these
• 1:02:09
  numbers, but he texted me the other day and he said guess how
• 1:02:16
  many fantasy points Matt Olson has in the last 30 days?
• 1:02:23
  And this was two days ago. Four.
• 1:02:28
  He had four fantasy points in 30 days.
• 1:02:35
  I don't know, man. Like I said, I think they're
• 1:02:37
  cooked. There's there's only so much you
• 1:02:39
  can do with with those names going down.
• 1:02:42
  But like Matt Olson, Sean Murphy, Austin Riley, Ozuna, all
• 1:02:51
  these names need to step up like that.
• 1:02:53
  That's still when you name that. If you put that out there, I
• 1:02:56
  think there's a lot of teams in baseball.
• 1:02:57
  It'd be like, I'll take that middle of the of the lineup any
• 1:03:00
  day and I can figure it out from there.
• 1:03:08
  I just thought of the name, by the way, for the Dodgers, Louise
• 1:03:11
  Robert has to be the guy. A right-handed center fielder.
• 1:03:15
  Done. Why are we talking about Randy
• 1:03:18
  or Rezarina? Go get that.
• 1:03:20
  Go get that done. I would love, I mean, it's not,
• 1:03:25
  it's not realistic. I would love to see Crochet and
• 1:03:29
  Robert package together. I would love that too.
• 1:03:32
  I don't. I don't care where they end up.
• 1:03:35
  I would just love to see that duo head like take over a city
• 1:03:39
  for this last stretch here, I mean.
• 1:03:42
  Talk about clear out your farm. That would do it anyway.
• 1:03:45
  Yeah, yeah. I don't know, man, but it's
• 1:03:48
  whatever. I player meetings just start
• 1:03:55
  winning games. I just start playing better.
• 1:03:58
  I don't. I'm so over Atlanta.
• 1:04:03
  You got man, I'm just you're over for everything.
• 1:04:08
  You're over everybody. Is there anybody?
• 1:04:10
  No legitimate quite actually, this is fun.
• 1:04:13
  This is a fun little exercise because you're over your own
• 1:04:15
  team that you're currently repping.
• 1:04:17
  I am. Is there somebody that you're
• 1:04:20
  like not over? I'm not over the Phillies.
• 1:04:26
  I'm not over the Guardians. I'm impressed there.
• 1:04:32
  I'm not over the Astros. I'm not over the Royals.
• 1:04:39
  Yeah, but like I could see the, I could see a team like the
• 1:04:42
  Guardians going on like a one in six stretch over the course of a
• 1:04:45
  week. Dude, it's the, it's the
• 1:04:48
  Guardians. What did you think was going to
• 1:04:50
  happen? What did?
• 1:04:51
  What did we expect? Yeah, you said at this moment
• 1:04:57
  you didn't say in the future. That's fair, That's fair.
• 1:05:01
  No, the Braves. Weird spot.
• 1:05:05
  Just run it back. You don't need to sell anybody.
• 1:05:07
  You don't need to buy anybody. Just accept this.
• 1:05:12
  Just just wear this one. Accept your mission of needing
• 1:05:17
  to finish ahead of the Mets. That's it.
• 1:05:20
  That's all you're trying to do. Try not to embarrass yourself
• 1:05:22
  this year. That's it.
• 1:05:24
  There's no pressure. No one wants, no one needs you
• 1:05:26
  to go win a trophy. Just don't embarrass yourself.
• 1:05:30
  Just remember the injuries comments to everybody had
• 1:05:33
  everybody deals with injuries. I don't care.
• 1:05:36
  No, no, I I understand no, I, I get it, I get it.
• 1:05:42
  I know the names that have gone down, but like we've seen teams
• 1:05:49
  figure it out otherwise. And I, and I'm not, I'm not
• 1:05:53
  saying, like you said, you don't have to go out and win me a
• 1:05:55
  trophy, but I think even having lost what you've lost at this
• 1:06:00
  point, you can at least finish with a respectable year like
• 1:06:02
  you, you can put together a season that you can hang your
• 1:06:05
  hat on. Don't just just don't go out
• 1:06:08
  there and fall on your faces and, and, and do it under the do
• 1:06:13
  it behind the veil of well, we had we had a lot of injuries
• 1:06:16
  this year. It's like you're a good enough
• 1:06:19
  team to where you can figure it out with what you've got.
• 1:06:25
  And nothing's stopping you from going out and adding at the
• 1:06:27
  deadline. You're you're a team that's
• 1:06:29
  proven that you're not afraid to make a move.
• 1:06:32
  Go out and go out and make something happen.
• 1:06:36
  Go out and and. Go get Louise, Robert and and
• 1:06:40
  like you said, go get him. Just don't embarrass yourself,
• 1:06:43
  that's all I'm asking, please. Speaking of a National League
• 1:06:49
  East team or specifically a pitcher, is Luis Severino soft
• 1:06:55
  for walking back his comments about the Yankees?
• 1:06:59
  Yeah, bro, what's? I was not a fan of that.
• 1:07:02
  Like stand your ground a little bit.
• 1:07:04
  You were right in what you said. Back it up.
• 1:07:08
  Yeah. Give me a little bit of spark to
• 1:07:11
  the whole the Subway series, man.
• 1:07:14
  Like, give me a little, give me a little juice there. 100%.
• 1:07:18
  But instead he walked it back. And if you have no idea what I'm
• 1:07:20
  talking about, he said back on, it's like close to a week ago at
• 1:07:25
  this point. I think it was like July 19th.
• 1:07:27
  He the story came out that said Luis Severino was in like a
• 1:07:33
  group text with some of the guys on the Yankees and said they
• 1:07:37
  they were telling him that he was afraid of the Yankees for
• 1:07:40
  not starting in the first part of the Subway Series.
• 1:07:46
  And his response was, I'm not afraid of you guys right now.
• 1:07:50
  You only have two good hitters. That's just, that's just factual
• 1:07:54
  information. There's no, that's not
• 1:07:56
  speculation. That's not, that's not
• 1:07:59
  subjective. That's very much objective
• 1:08:01
  information. And then it of course, you got
• 1:08:06
  guys on the Yankees getting their feelings hurt.
• 1:08:08
  I think. So Soto came out and said
• 1:08:12
  Severino and the Mets can think whatever they want.
• 1:08:15
  We dominated the first half. So I don't think it's about one
• 1:08:20
  or two players wrong. You're wrong.
• 1:08:26
  I don't to say dominated first of all, I think is a little bit
• 1:08:32
  of a stretch like let's check the, let's check the standings
• 1:08:36
  here, Juan. It was a good first half.
• 1:08:40
  I wouldn't say dominated. It was a good first half.
• 1:08:43
  Domination was lacking, but he's not wrong.
• 1:08:50
  It's Juan Soto and Aaron Judge and that's it.
• 1:08:54
  They're the only, I think I read today they were the only two
• 1:08:57
  guys on the team that are hitting over 300.
• 1:09:00
  And then I think Giancarlo Stan is the only other guy in
• 1:09:03
  addition to those two that's slugging over like 400.
• 1:09:08
  It's it's rough, yeah. So that's it?
• 1:09:11
  Yeah, that's literally it. Your your ace Garrett Cole has
• 1:09:15
  been less than impressive generally.
• 1:09:19
  Speaking Home runs tonight. So there you go.
• 1:09:22
  And I know he missed time, but like, it's Louis.
• 1:09:24
  Six runs and five and 2/3 innings.
• 1:09:28
  There you go. Luis Severino was correct in
• 1:09:30
  what he said. I'm sorry that it hurts your
• 1:09:32
  feeling, Mr. Soto, but he's right.
• 1:09:35
  But the fact that he walked it back and was like, yeah, I was
• 1:09:37
  just joking. It's.
• 1:09:39
  Like yeah, that's weird. No dude, just like.
• 1:09:44
  That's weird. Just.
• 1:09:45
  Plant your flag, man. Yeah, yeah.
• 1:09:49
  I mean, it could, it could have been just be like, I feel like
• 1:09:52
  him and Glaber boys. Glaber would have been like, yo,
• 1:09:55
  what about me? Why would you say that about me?
• 1:09:58
  Thought we were friends. That's probably what happened.
• 1:10:03
  I don't know, I get it. I mean, it's at the end of the
• 1:10:06
  day, it's not even like a big deal, but I'm just like.
• 1:10:08
  Tell me he looks good with a beard, I'll give him that.
• 1:10:10
  He does, and he looks good. He's looked good this season.
• 1:10:14
  He sure has, generally speaking. So I don't know.
• 1:10:18
  I just thought maybe this could have served as like some little
• 1:10:20
  bit of a spark for something. Got the boys fired up a little
• 1:10:23
  bit. But yeah, in in in typical
• 1:10:28
  modern day fashion. Everybody's friends.
• 1:10:32
  Everybody's, everybody's buddies.
• 1:10:34
  I would just love a good just give me a good rivalry.
• 1:10:37
  Just somebody to a couple teams out there.
• 1:10:39
  Give me give me something to tune into.
• 1:10:41
  You know, like we don't all have to be friends.
• 1:10:43
  We don't all have to be dapping up at first base every game.
• 1:10:47
  Like, come on, just give me a little bit of, give me a little
• 1:10:50
  bit of a competitive edge. That's all.
• 1:10:53
  That's all. Simple as that.
• 1:10:55
  That's all I ask closing the book here.
• 1:10:58
  Mets have reportedly agreed to a well, this was as if I guess
• 1:11:03
  yesterday. I'm sure it's official at this
• 1:11:05
  point have agreed to a minor league deal with Jackie Bradley
• 1:11:09
  Junior. It's about as I I see you
• 1:11:16
  rolling your eyes. It's about as insignificant of a
• 1:11:18
  closing the book item as as we could probably have.
• 1:11:23
  And honestly, if he hadn't played in one of World Series
• 1:11:25
  with the Sox, I probably wouldn't have even included it.
• 1:11:29
  But I just thought it was interesting because he was
• 1:11:31
  playing. He'd been playing for the Long
• 1:11:33
  Island Ducks and tearing it up, by the way.
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  But I I know that they don't really carry much weight, but I
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  just thought it was interesting. Just thought I'd include it in
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  the list in case anybody was out of the loop.
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  So we move on. Weekend series talking about
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  what? I really don't want to make a
• 1:11:57
  wager. Well, I'll give you a second to
• 1:12:01
  to maybe think on it and I'm going to run through my series
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  talking about two teams of we've already touched on and two teams
• 1:12:11
  that's or, or one team in particular that I've already
• 1:12:15
  said. You better hope and pray that
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  you finish above this other team in the standings or else you're
• 1:12:21
  never going to hear the end of it from me.
• 1:12:22
  The Braves at the Mets, you got a four-game series starting
• 1:12:26
  tomorrow or today if you're listening on Thursday, Chris
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  Sale verse the aforementioned Luis Severino.
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  That's his seven 7:10 PM Eastern game two.
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  I honestly think that's going to be a good game.
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  Like, I know Severino hasn't been pitching up to sales level
• 1:12:41
  this year, but I think that'll be, that's a, that's a strong
• 1:12:44
  match up. Yeah, with the way Felice has
• 1:12:47
  been pitching this year. Game 2C Morton versus Kodai
• 1:12:50
  Sangha. As we mentioned last episode,
• 1:12:52
  Kodai Sangha making his season debut at the 7:10 PM Eastern.
• 1:12:58
  That's on Friday. On Saturday we got Spencer
• 1:13:02
  Schwellenbach versus TBD. Cool name.
• 1:13:06
  Big match up there, 4:10 PM Eastern and game four Ronaldo
• 1:13:09
  Lopez versus David Peterson at 1:40 PM Eastern.
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  I like it. I think the first two games line
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  up well for the Mets and looks like they're coming off of two
• 1:13:22
  wins against the Yankees, so rolling in hot.
• 1:13:25
  Well, I don't, I don't know if I'd say they line up well for
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  the Mets. I mean, you're, you still got to
• 1:13:29
  go up against Chris Sale, even though Luis Severino has been
• 1:13:31
  like better than than expected. You still got to take down Chris
• 1:13:35
  Sale. That's that's a tall.
• 1:13:36
  That's a tall ask. Well, I guess let's talk about
• 1:13:42
  it. The red hot Yankees are going to
• 1:13:50
  are going to Fenway. We never we never do these
• 1:13:53
  matchups. But let's face it, I mean,
• 1:13:55
  they're within what, four or five games of each other?
• 1:13:58
  So this is a pretty big series, whether you guys like it or not.
• 1:14:04
  We're going to be tuning in because it is this is a big
• 1:14:09
  moment in the season. So.
• 1:14:11
  Yeah, the dominant Yankees that Juan Soto was talking about,
• 1:14:14
  they only have 4 fewer losses and six more wins.
• 1:14:21
  Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah, Red Sox.
• 1:14:24
  And it's about to be even less 'cause I'm assuming the Yankees
• 1:14:26
  are going to drop tonight's game.
• 1:14:28
  Yeah. Dominant.
• 1:14:32
  Series starts Friday I think. Yeah, Friday.
• 1:14:40
  That's 726, right? Friday.
• 1:14:44
  Nestor going against Baio If if you're a betting man, just peep
• 1:14:51
  at what Nestor does on the road. I would probably lean my bet
• 1:14:58
  towards the over. The man's atrocious on the road.
• 1:15:03
  Game two Saturday, Marcus Stroman going against Cutter
• 1:15:06
  Crawford and game three. I think this is the one to
• 1:15:11
  watch. And of of course, it's Yankees,
• 1:15:14
  Red Sox. So you know it's Sunday Night
• 1:15:15
  Baseball Rd. Don against Tanner Halk.
• 1:15:21
  I don't I I couldn't be less confident in making a bet right
• 1:15:24
  now. The only thing if if somehow the
• 1:15:28
  Yankees are making a trade either today or tomorrow in
• 1:15:32
  rejuvenating whatever this is in the clubhouse as far as energy
• 1:15:39
  goes, It's the only way I would feel confident.
• 1:15:42
  Otherwise, I have no idea that doesn't.
• 1:15:48
  If you told me that the Red Sox got blown out by 20 and then
• 1:15:56
  still swept this team at that. If that was a recap and we're in
• 1:16:00
  2025, you're like, hey, remember that time in 2024 this happened?
• 1:16:05
  I could see it, I could see it, I could hear it.
• 1:16:09
  I hate this team right now. I don't.
• 1:16:14
  I don't get you sometimes. The lows are low, pal.
• 1:16:17
  The lows are real low. This is a low.
• 1:16:22
  I mean, you're 17 games over 500.
• 1:16:27
  The way they lose games in the lineups they roll out, it's
• 1:16:32
  embarrassing. I have no idea how this this
• 1:16:39
  this. They're one of the worst teams
• 1:16:40
  in baseball since like, June. That that is true.
• 1:16:44
  Yeah. Last two months, horrible.
• 1:16:47
  That is a fact. Well, I mean, it's no fun if
• 1:16:52
  you're only going to if you're only I don't know what's going
• 1:16:54
  to make a wagers if you're like fully confident, like I could
• 1:16:57
  not be more confident in this scenario that like that's it.
• 1:17:04
  Maybe you need something like this.
• 1:17:06
  Maybe you need a little a little little wager, a little gamble
• 1:17:09
  here to get the competitive juices flowing again.
• 1:17:12
  Because right now you look like you just found out your dog died
• 1:17:15
  or something. Like you got to.
• 1:17:17
  Feels that way, feels that way. I'll turn this off.
• 1:17:21
  Yeah, I'm sure watching this this get down at the hands of
• 1:17:24
  the Mets probably isn't helping. Yeah.
• 1:17:26
  Yeah, yeah, yeah. I don't know.
• 1:17:30
  What do you want to do? Are you that confident in your
• 1:17:33
  team? Your pitching lines up well.
• 1:17:37
  To your point, it's a very intriguing scenario where it's
• 1:17:40
  like we did just let up 20 to the Rockies of all teams, which
• 1:17:46
  by the way, I saw our, our guy that Justin Havens, the, the
• 1:17:53
  Nugget chef. Yeah, he, he put up something
• 1:17:57
  today. I, I can't find it at this
• 1:17:58
  moment, but it was something to the effect of only the, the
• 1:18:02
  Rockies and the A's have put up. I think it was 16 runs this
• 1:18:06
  season. That's cool.
• 1:18:09
  How crazy is that? No, What's your point?
• 1:18:13
  It's a very intriguing situation where it's like, yeah, we just
• 1:18:16
  gave up twenty, but I could very easily see them sweeping the
• 1:18:19
  Yankees, and I'm not it's not like a bit.
• 1:18:21
  I legitimately could see that happening.
• 1:18:24
  Yeah. So I am a little confident.
• 1:18:28
  Yeah, I'm not. I'm not at all.
• 1:18:30
  I don't even think it helps that if if it was in Yankee Stadium,
• 1:18:35
  I wouldn't even feel more confident.
• 1:18:39
  I think it's just a good thing that Cole isn't pitching.
• 1:18:48
  So what do you think? I don't know.
• 1:18:54
  Since June 15th, the Yankees have a record of 10 and 21.
• 1:18:58
  Yeah, there you go. See love that insanely bad.
• 1:19:11
  So what do you think? Are we, are we doing this or
• 1:19:13
  not? Are you just going to roll over?
• 1:19:16
  I'll make a bet I just you just get it.
• 1:19:18
  Depends. No, if your heart's not going to
• 1:19:21
  be in it, I don't want to do it because then it's just not even
• 1:19:23
  going to feel like it's not even going to feel like a win for me.
• 1:19:25
  It's just going to just be like, all right, well, they just doing
• 1:19:28
  this thing because we said we would.
• 1:19:34
  It's fine. We have, we have some time.
• 1:19:37
  Is there another is do they match up again in like
• 1:19:39
  September? OK, just keep pushing this back.
• 1:19:44
  They probably do because I think wasn't it like super deep into
• 1:19:48
  the season the first time they matched up?
• 1:19:55
  Let's see, September, Yeah, September, September 12th, 13th
• 1:20:03
  and 14th. But that's on.
• 1:20:06
  Oh, and 15th, that's a four-game.
• 1:20:08
  All right, how about this? How about a delayed bet that
• 1:20:12
  combines this series with that series?
• 1:20:18
  All right. So that's seven.
• 1:20:19
  Is it this a three-game set on this week?
• 1:20:22
  Yeah, I think yeah, Friday too. Oh yeah, yeah, yeah.
• 1:20:24
  They start Friday. Yeah.
• 1:20:24
  So seven games, that's A7 game. Next one is 4, so yeah.
• 1:20:30
  Do they not play in August? No.
• 1:20:33
  Oh, they sure don't. Oh, so this is it?
• 1:20:34
  These are the last two series. Yeah.
• 1:20:37
  OK. How how's that feel that that
• 1:20:41
  allows me at least because I do. I genuinely think this is
• 1:20:46
  Cashman's last ride and and he's going to make moves.
• 1:20:50
  He's going to this roster is going to at least get some
• 1:20:54
  additions. Now, Cashman, Cashman will be
• 1:20:57
  back. You and I know that, you know as
• 1:21:00
  well as I do he'll be back. All right, so seven game series.
• 1:21:04
  What kind of what kind of wage are we looking at here?
• 1:21:08
  We talking like food wager. We talking like clothing wager.
• 1:21:13
  I'd rather not do anything with like facial hair.
• 1:21:15
  I know there's there's some people tripping on that.
• 1:21:18
  Yeah, I'm not into that. Yeah.
• 1:21:22
  Not into that. I don't have any hair on my head
• 1:21:26
  so can't do anything there. What do you think?
• 1:21:45
  You got some. No, I got to make it good
• 1:21:51
  though. This is because this will be,
• 1:21:54
  this will be fun. We'll have, we'll have, we'll be
• 1:21:56
  able to stretch it out over the course of two months.
• 1:21:59
  We'll be able to tap back into this back in September, up in
• 1:22:02
  September. Yeah.
• 1:22:11
  Dang, we need to figure this out.
• 1:22:13
  Take on it, we got one more day. Yeah, I can even put out like a
• 1:22:19
  little video if I need to. I can.
• 1:22:20
  I can tweet it out or something. Oh thank God we can.
• 1:22:23
  Cook something up a little bit. I just need to get I, I need you
• 1:22:26
  to, to get into the spirit here because if you're just going to
• 1:22:30
  if you're going to be talking about how much you hate your.
• 1:22:31
  Team that will allow me if you're.
• 1:22:33
  Just going to be talking about how much you hate your team the
• 1:22:35
  whole time. It's not going to be an
• 1:22:36
  enjoyable bet. I hear you.
• 1:22:38
  I might lose. I hopefully I'm hating them less
• 1:22:41
  at that point in September, like very well could be hitting them
• 1:22:46
  more. I don't know, but I, I will.
• 1:22:48
  This is this will allow me to to do that.
• 1:22:55
  Could we? Could we could go with like a
• 1:22:58
  good old Waffle House challenge, You know what I mean?
• 1:23:00
  I'm not doing Waffle House. There's not even one close
• 1:23:03
  enough to me to where I can make that happen.
• 1:23:05
  We could do a different kind of challenge.
• 1:23:07
  We could do a Taco Bell challenge.
• 1:23:09
  You got to hang out in Taco Bell.
• 1:23:11
  That's terrible. Hey, you know how many tacos
• 1:23:16
  would that be? 50 What about a I'm.
• 1:23:19
  Not eating 50 tacos, dude, I'm not eating 50 tacos.
• 1:23:27
  I could I could get on board with the with the food related
• 1:23:30
  challenge. Well, like a nugget.
• 1:23:31
  What about a nugget like McDonald's nugget Challenge or
• 1:23:34
  something? What would that look like you're
• 1:23:38
  saying like in the in the Waffle House style challenge, like in
• 1:23:41
  the in that vein? You got to sit, you got to stay.
• 1:23:44
  One of our wives is unfortunately going to have to
• 1:23:47
  sit across the table and and film it you.
• 1:23:50
  Wouldn't need to do that, just set up the phone.
• 1:23:52
  You could. You could even live stream that
• 1:23:54
  thing if you needed to. I don't.
• 1:23:55
  Want to go in there alone? That's where that's where the
• 1:24:00
  embarrassment comes into play. It's so tough there.
• 1:24:05
  I think there's a there's like a thing where you can get, I think
• 1:24:10
  it's like 50 Nuggets and like 4 medium fries or something like
• 1:24:15
  that. I would, I would probably.
• 1:24:21
  I'd probably die. Depends on the time.
• 1:24:26
  I could house that. That's tough.
• 1:24:35
  It's all old. That's part of the challenge
• 1:24:37
  too. We'll think on that, but maybe.
• 1:24:40
  Old thing on it. I don't know, I think like a
• 1:24:45
  Taco challenge could really do wonders.
• 1:24:48
  Taco Bell though, that's, I mean, we talk about food all the
• 1:24:56
  time though, so maybe the food is the way to go.
• 1:24:58
  Yeah, who knows? We'll we'll think on it.
• 1:25:00
  We'll come up with something good.
• 1:25:01
  I mean the the, oh, the Billy Bean fit that was we thought we
• 1:25:04
  sat on that for a minute and came up with something good.
• 1:25:06
  So. Yeah, we'll cook something up.
• 1:25:09
  We got a day. We had a, we got a day.
• 1:25:11
  We'll figure it out. All right, That's all I got.
• 1:25:15
  I hope you folks enjoy the rest of your week.
• 1:25:18
  Enjoy your weekend. And I think the next time you
• 1:25:22
  hear from us will be Sunday. Yeah.
• 1:25:26
  When's the deadline? When's the trade deadline?
• 1:25:28
  It's next week, right? What's the Thursday?
• 1:25:32
  Thursday. That's twenty 24th is it
• 1:25:39
  Thursday? I can never remember.
• 1:25:41
  They switched it to August 1st, right?
• 1:25:42
  Yeah, so it's that's Thursday, so hopefully stuff will be
• 1:25:47
  happening by Sunday, at least a couple.
• 1:25:51
  Yeah, well, hold on. The MLB trade deadline is
• 1:25:56
  Tuesday, July 30th. What?
• 1:25:59
  Oh, I thought it was the 1st. What?
• 1:26:02
  How are things not happening yet?
• 1:26:06
  Stuff's definitely going to be going down this weekend then.
• 1:26:09
  When did they change this to July 30th I.
• 1:26:14
  Don't know, I don't care. Wow, OK.
• 1:26:16
  I just want things to happen. Oh, so that's great.
• 1:26:19
  July 30th will be Tuesday, which means we can do a little,
• 1:26:23
  little, hopefully things will have happened by Sunday.
• 1:26:26
  We can do a little update on that and then we can do a full
• 1:26:30
  deadline recap Wednesday. Love that, love that.
• 1:26:36
  Cool. It's stuff awesome, awesome
• 1:26:41
  blossom. Don't go chasing curve balls.
• 1:26:46
  We love you all and as always, looking forward to talking more
• 1:26:48
  baseball with you guys soon. Until next time, say Filthy.