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Brewers Finally Lose a Game · The 3-0 Take

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10 gentlemen, welcome to the Three O Take, where we talk all
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things Major League Baseball. Here's Kyle Corwin and Nate
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Reyes. It all starts right now.
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Welcome back to the three O take presented by Chinook Cedry this
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episode 560 I'll be your host, Kyle Cord.
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I'm here with my Co host Nate Reyes, who was just handed a
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cold one here seconds before. We got this feeling.
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I was like, all right, I saw you on the screen.
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Hurry, hurry, hurry. She just sold it through the
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door and I was like, I can't get up.
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Oh man, what a way to what a way to wind down the Sunday.
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That's right, That's right for Papa Nate over there.
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That's right. Pool day for both of us.
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Pool day on a Sunday is hard to beat.
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Hard to beat, especially the post pool relaxation shower.
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Baggy. Comfy.
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Clothes AC just blast in your face.
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There's fewer, fewer things in life that match that vibe.
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Let me tell you, I love, I love going to the pool on a day like
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today, 'cause you just get zapped by the sun and you're
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worthless and you feel like you did so much even though you're
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like, I did nothing today. So much the best, so much.
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The best? Speaking of getting zapped,
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let's talk about the Brewers finally, finally dropping one
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right off the top here within I'd say within the hour, maybe
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even Brewers. What was it?
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14 game win streak came to a close against the the pesky
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Cincinnati Reds, which I I realized seconds before we
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hopped on just moments before you were handed your your adult.
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Beverage. That's right, that the red
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jacket. Not even not only did the
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Brewers drop the win streak that came to a screeching halt, the
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Reds, with the win against the Brewers to salvage the the
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series here, avoided being swept, arguably.
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A more impressive. I would, I would make a case for
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that. I'd be willing to die on that
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hill. The fact that they're I, I, I
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believe the last team to, to not have been swept.
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That's nice. That's.
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Good for the Reds and to do it against the the red hot Brewers.
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Good, good for the good for the Reds.
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But let's talk about the Brewers here.
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I know we we talked to, I think we mentioned him a little bit
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last episode, but the streak was still still intact.
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So I think we're a little bit heavier on the the Padres and
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Dodgers last episode, which I've got a little something to say
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about that Dodgers making me look like a fool.
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But this Brewers win streak, we knew it was going to come to a
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close. This, this wasn't sustainable.
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And what what we have yet to see, though, is what the fall
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off is going to be. Because unless the Brewers have
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another win streak up their sleeves, the law of averages
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tells you that maybe a little regression is is in order, maybe
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slightly. They're still the best team in
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baseball. Them dropping a game means
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nothing or or effects in no way the fact that they are the best
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team in baseball right now. But what do what do we think Do
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we think into I'm I'm curious about the timing.
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What how do we how do we feel about the timing?
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Because it is August 17th, which means we've got a little less
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than a month and a half left to go.
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I'm not worried about the Brewers at all.
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And again, this, this isn't this isn't in response to today them
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dropping a game. But like I said, assuming some
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regression is coming, I think they can afford to have a rough
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week or two if if that's end up, if that ends up being the case
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and have still have plenty of time to bounce back before
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October. Is that fair to say?
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Well, let's look at it this way. 8 1/2 game lead currently in the
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division. Quick math 78 + 45 is what 1?
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Ask me again. 23, I missed it, what did you say?
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78 + 45 I think it's 123. 78 You're saying it too fast. 78 +
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4545 that's is that 113 or 123? That's 100.
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And 123 I think. 70 Hold on. Chad GBT No.
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No, no, no, no. Yeah, 123 that was.
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Come on. That man, the sun.
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Hey, this sun really took it out of me today.
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What can I say? OK, so now 162 -, 123.
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OK, I didn't know this was going to be a math lesson today. 162 -
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120 three 39 games. I'm freaking rolling right now
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in the math department. OK, so 39 games left, you're at
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78 wins. Again, we talked about this last
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week. I feel like this sweet spot for
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a division winner majority of the time, but I think we can
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solidify it in this case. Just no disrespect, but it's the
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NL Central. No disrespect.
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I I kind of use that 90 win mark is like the the milestone.
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Pump the brakes. Let's rewind.
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I'm not just going to let you zoom past that.
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This is the in the year 2025, we're going to be throwing down
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the well, it's the NL Central. We're throwing down that line in
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2025 when you've got three playoff worthy teams in the
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division. I I think that speaks more to
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the fall off of the NL than the greatness of NL Central.
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Fall off has been crazy and not talked about enough.
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The NLS had a fall off league wide.
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Fall off any who's So what? Are you saying the state of both
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teams is in a free fall right now?
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Is that what you're saying, 'cause we know how the American
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League? Is let me finish my statement
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and then you'll then you'll understand 78 wins.
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Now, if they have a brutal final 5-6 weeks and you win 12 out of
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those 39 games, you're at 90 wins.
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Now, whether you want to limp into the postseason is a
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different argument, but that's what I'm saying is that that's
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loading up on wins now is just as important as loading up on
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wins in the beginning of the years that you're just, you're
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putting them in the bank and you're solidifying that spot and
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that's what they're doing. You're telling me they can't get
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12 more wins over the next six weeks?
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They could absolutely do that. This team could potentially be
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in the conversation in 95 plus wins.
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So if you're in that conversation, then you're like,
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OK, I'm feeling really good. In reality, what is that?
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That's 500. The rest of the way out they go
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500 and they're winning 95 plus games.
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There's 39 games left that. 'D be that's what let's just say
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they go 20 and 19 what is 20 what is 2020 wins puts them at
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98 wins for the season so if they play.
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That's basically 500 ball. It's 20 and 19.
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That's what I'm saying. It's 39 games.
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Yeah, if they play a a decimal above.
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It's a massive 500, massively successful season.
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I would argue. I don't know Brewers history,
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but I would argue probably up there with a franchise record.
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That goes to show you how hard it is to win 100 games honestly,
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because they're they're 3033 games over 500.
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And. You still got to win 20 games
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and you're still not at 100 at the century mark.
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That's crazy. But Speaking of franchise
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records, they set a benchmark with their 14th win by
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surpassing the 1987 team that opened the season winning its
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first thirteen games. I did see some, I, I found
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something interesting that I think they're, they're, we'll
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call it their like, their overall like record for
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consecutive wins was actually a mix of 86 and 87 because
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apparently I think they won, they won out the previous three
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games of the 86 season and then rolled right into 14.
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Those give me combined inter vibes.
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Yep, I'm with you. Even worse hit streaks.
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Hit streaks are the worst hit streaks.
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That roll over from season to season, that's, that's crazy
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talk. That's crazy talk.
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So still still favorite? No, no, no change in perception
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on the Brewers given how much, how much or how little time we
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have left. Good ball club.
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Good ball club does not beat themselves that I feel like
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what's difficult about the NL is that you have some juggernauts
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and like no disrespect to the Brewers, I don't know if they
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have that like gear that the Phillies or Dodgers can can
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reach. The Phillies and Dodgers have
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this extra gear that they can get into where they're like, I'm
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going to bludgeon you. I'm going to have two or three
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guys with multiple home runs in this series and and it's good
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luck. Try to match us and it and it's
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tough for the Brewers because I just I don't feel like they have
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that type of pop in their lineup.
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And we've heard it year after year.
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Every broadcast, whether it's Fox or TBS or whatever the game
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is on. They always talk about the team
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that out homers the other team. It's all about homers.
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That's what it's about in the postseason and you hope that the
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Brewers can hang. But if one of these other top
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tier teams, even if they're not the same on the win total, even
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if they're not the same as beating you look at the Dodgers,
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the Phillies, the Padres that you're like when they get hot,
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look out And I that's just kind of the the thing holding me back
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with the Brewers. Can you hang when it comes to
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these teams turning it on in the postseason fair?
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It goes back to what we talked about briefly last episode with
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my apology to Andrew Vaughn. Like no disrespect.
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Is Andrew Vaughn going to be the guy that has to provide you the
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surge? Not to say he's not capable and
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not to say that we haven't seen post seasons where you know, you
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get some. I'm not going to say no names,
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but you know, maybe some unsung heroes stepping up and being the
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guy. Not saying that that that
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couldn't happen for the Brewers, but we're just talking odds
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here. Like, do we like the odds of an
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Andrew Vaughn carrying a Brewers team even though they have the
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power of friendship behind them? Or do we like the odds of a guy
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like Bryce Harper, who, let's be honest, has struggled this year?
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Do we like the odds of him turning it on in October?
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That's what I'm saying. And and it's it's not just one
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name, that's when you look at these other teams.
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It is a Kyle Schwarber, it is a castellanos exactly.
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It is a Freddie Freeman, it is a Mookie Betts.
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It is a show. Hey, like you look at star
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players show up in Star moments and I think the the lover of
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baseball in me would love to see a like hard nosed, well played
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baseball team like the Brewers have success in the postseason.
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I love that aspect to it. But like, that's just not what I
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feel like our game is today. I think it's a fun story,
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fairpoint. I think they can get there.
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I think they can do damage. I think they can scare some of
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these other teams. It's just the potential of some
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of these other line UPS that I just, it's hard to imagine the
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Brewers hanging. The potential, the ceiling.
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Yeah, I, I completely agree. And not I, I didn't, by the way,
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I didn't mean to leave off a name like Christian Yelich or,
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you know, some of the, some of the arms they have.
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I'm just saying Christian. Yelich is that like you?
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There's fun stories here like Christian Yelich finding like.
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Having a very good year. Back half of his career, no pun
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intended, but back half of his career where you know he's post
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surgeries and back the word back was not what's the pun?
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Yeah, OK. I was, I was like 10 seconds
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behind. Nikki one it was sneaky that.
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Was good. That was good.
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But yeah, man, I mean, like, it's, it's good stories, it's
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young core. It's, it's, it's good ball and
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that's exciting. And I, I don't want to come down
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on that. I want to praise that.
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I love what how the Brewers do it in a very different way.
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But I think if you remove the name, the logo, and you just
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look at team A versus Team B, this is the Tampa Bay Rays of
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the Midwest. They're finding a different way
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of doing it. But can they get over the hump
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and actually hoist the trophy when it's all said and done?
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That almost sounded like a slur of sorts.
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No, take it as you will. Do I need to?
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Do I need to go back and and? I don't know.
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Could I just give you an absolute bar of a quote graphic?
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The Tampa Bay Rays of the Midwest.
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Yeah, I don't. I don't.
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Put some context in that, because I don't need the
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comments coming at me. Listen to the before and after a
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lack of man of What is it lack of of?
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Context. Not context, but the attention
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span. That's what I'm looking for.
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Lack of attention span from our society.
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We need context always. Well, Speaking of Speaking of
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people coming after us, I have not seen and honestly, I can't
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even, I'm, I can't even get mad. I'm, I'm kind of impressed at
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how quickly and how aggressively the Dodgers fanbase ate up my
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quote graphic from last episode. They came after me hard.
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They were waiting, they were running, they were running laps
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around me in the comments. You know it, They, they waited.
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Some of them waited till they secured the series.
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Some of them were smart. Some of them waited till the the
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series was in the bag. But some of them were coming
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after me after the first game. And I was like, let's, let's,
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let's slow the roll a little bit.
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It I did say for those if you're wondering what I'm talking
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about, my quote graphic from last episode I put out where I
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said if we saw a Dodgers. In fact, I think I said it twice
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on the episode. I said if we saw a Dodgers,
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Padres, NLCS and it started today, I'm 100% taking the
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Padres. And this was leading up to the
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Dodgers Padres series that's currently going on at this very
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moment. They're in the 5th inning of
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game three. Dodgers are up 4 to 1, four to
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two now. Ramon Loreano just went deep.
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The people, the Dodgers fans, delete this.
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I was just on that one. Yeah, sixth straight year I've
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heard this very sentence. They they'd be down two games to
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none after last night's game. Everyone somehow chooses the
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opposing team first. The Dodgers, you know, But then
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you had a Dodgers fan at this or I, I guess a Dodgers fan.
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I don't know. They said at this point, Dave
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Dave Roberts would manage losing A7 game series against Colorado.
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That's that sounds like a real Dodgers fan who just knows that
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this year's been a struggle. Dodgers aren't even playing
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their best baseball in the Padres.
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Still can't beat them. There's still time to delete
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this. The madres are about to get
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swept. Are you sure about that Jif?
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Laughing Jif this post. One I agree in here.
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This post in age well, at all Somebody wants attention, which
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I'm not going to say the name 'cause I'm not trying to give,
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you know, unnecessary attention to this guy.
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But the guy. The guy says someone wants
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attention. Go Dodgers.
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And his literal profile picture is him taking a mirror selfie at
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the gym in a sweaty cut off. If, if, if you don't see it, if
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we're lacking awareness, that's that's a lack of personal
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awareness on the level of people that go to Costco on or on like
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Saturday or Sunday. It's a lack of personality is
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what that is. But like I said, I can't even, I
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can't even be mad, you know, people ask me this day and age.
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Well, sure about this anyway. They came after me.
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And look, I, I just have to, I've got to hand it to the
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Dodgers here. They made me look like a fool
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this weekend. You know, Well, really, the
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Padres were the ones that made me look like a fool.
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Like I'm, I'm sticking my neck out there for you guys.
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And insane, something that I felt pretty confident, insane if
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I were to, if the NLCS started today, I'm taking the Padres and
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I felt pretty good about that. And then they're on the verge of
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getting swept. I mean, take a game.
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You do like the the if scenarios if.
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Oh, I eat a mob. I love the well, that's what if
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you remember years ago when we were still doing this way back
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in the day, I would I would grind people's gears.
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I'd put the if the postseason started today graphic out three.
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Weeks into this. Not even dude, there was one
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year, I think I put it out after three games and people say I
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mathematically, I don't even know how you determine like
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vision standings right now, but I made it work.
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But yeah, I eat those scenarios up.
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But like I said, I felt good about the state of where these
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two these two teams were and their respective trajectories.
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But now the Padres just go out this weekend and lay a dud.
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And again, they there's still time in this game 3, but I'm I'm
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I'm banking on a sweep with with my luck, I'm banking on a sweep.
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But let's let's talk about it. Does this does this change our
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point of view? Pre pre Padres Dodger series?
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We had our we had our thoughts on on like I said, where these
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two teams were at, where, which directions they're heading in.
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Does the fact that the Padres or excuse me, the Dodgers, does
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them coming out and winning the series this weekend again
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possibly sweeping, does that change your thoughts at all?
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Or do you still feel like the Dodgers are at a place where
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they have a a pretty strong uphill battle as it pertains to
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October? I mean, it's definitely an
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uphill battle. Sorry, I was trying to look at
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how the starters lined up. It's actually not like crazy
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lopsided as far as the starters go.
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I think it was Kershaw, Randy Vasquez, Snell cease game two
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third game going on right now. Glass now.
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Who was it? Glass now, Darvish.
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Yeah, today it's hard to say. Look, like I said, man, there's
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the. That gear that certain teams can
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get to, that can turn on at the right time.
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And some of these series late in the season when the division is
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this close, you kind of hope that your boys are like ready to
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roll. And it was very obvious that the
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Dodgers just kind of came or, excuse me, the Padres kind of
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came out flat and just didn't didn't have the juice.
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Who's who's your boys? Are you talking to me or just in
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a general? Sense you and and in general.
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My boys, they're far from my boys.
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That's that's. The quote graphic I'm.
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Just, well, that's the thing, that's.
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Gasoline. That's that's the thing that I
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hate. You want to talk about a lack of
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context. People just assume that because
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I put that quote out there that I'm this, I like bleed blue.
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I'm this diehard. I'm like part of the what do
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they call hand tones? The the the.
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Marched me off. Is that how many of the y'alls
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that are in there where I'm like I didn't say any of this but I
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get roped into this take. No, I don't, I don't interpret
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it that way. I interpret the y'all as like
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this clown in his, in his, yeah, in the, in the mob behind him.
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That's how I interpret it. I'm like, I don't care.
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I couldn't care less which of these teams, I, both of these
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teams could lose out for all I care.
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I does not affect me whatsoever. I really don't.
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I'm just like, you know, I I could see it both ways, man.
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Like, I get it how a quote graphic like that would would
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maybe spark a little fire and under Dodgers fans like, hey,
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like, relax. Yeah.
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Have you been, have you been tuned into the TV this weekend?
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But on the flip side, I'm like, are we really running victory
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laps right now with a month and a half left to go in the season
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and your team still is on shaky ground?
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We'll call it. The problem and here's I'm going
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to pull back the curtain on the the one of many social media
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issues, one of many. Well, we can have a whole
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episode about this. Multiple episodes.
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The proximity to this series with the post, if you put that
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post out a week sooner, I don't think you have the same
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backlash. Not it's it's specifically
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because of this showing up on people's feeds while the series
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is too gone. They're seeing it for the first
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time. You'll be like, how did this
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take hold up freezing cold take this age like milk And it's just
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like, well duh dude, you're just cherry picking because sorry, I
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picked a side before the series. But if you do it a week ago and
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no one really remembers, that's our attention span that I was
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referring to earlier. By the way.
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Society, keep it up. I mean, Nate, if we're being, if
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we're being honest, I was fully aware that the, the series was
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this weekend. I, I mean, I, it wasn't, it
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wasn't unintentional me dropping this quote, however, I just
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thought the Padres were going to handle business or at the very
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least, I don't know, win a game. All right, well, here we go.
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We got second and third. We got 2 outs, top five.
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Louise arrives with a a massive bloops double.
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Just a 215 foot double. That might be out of
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Williamsport low key. Look at him moving.
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Oh, oh, former former Dodgers a legend.
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Dodgers great. All time great Manny Machado
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stepping to the plate. What do we think happens here?
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I don't know, I like it. Hey, shout out to shout out to
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our friends in the chat Chinook showing up yet yet again.
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They want to know while we while we wait for this Manny Machado
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bat to play out, they want to know what the best players
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weekend bat by an MLB player was.
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I, I think I learned something this weekend because I was at
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the game. I was at the Nats game
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yesterday, Saturday, and I believe I saw the bat that
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bright. Our sweet young Prince was
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swinging and I think, let me check here because I saw what he
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was using today. Yeah, he, he was using like a
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flame bat or something yesterday.
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But today he was using one with his last name down the barrel.
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And that's something I hadn't considered before, is that the
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guy guys roll up to players weekend with some of these guys
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roll up with like a collection of bats that they roll out that
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they that they. Yeah, take up the dish.
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So makes sense. Interesting.
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I don't know. I saw the I saw pencil bats
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again. This.
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Year I'm out on the pencil and crayon bats, I'm all done.
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Yeah, I'm kind of, I'm kind of out on that too.
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All done honest with you. It's been like 7-8 years and I
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feel for, I feel for the guys that have to like pull it, like
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the players that have to pull it out of the sleeve and like, Oh
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yeah, it's like you haven't seen this a million times over the
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last few years. I I'm still, I do sound like a
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hater. Manny Machado grounds out, by
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the way, and Glass now gets out of the gym.
25:53
I'm still I like the lightsaber ones.
25:58
You're a big star. You've always been a big Star
26:00
Wars guy for sure for. Sure, I let's pause for a SEC.
26:04
I. Am I wrong?
26:07
Well when Disney took over right?
26:10
I'm a big OG Star Wars guy, not the I haven't seen the last I
26:16
don't know how many movies, 5-6 movies.
26:19
I'm out on that. Sorry, Disney blows.
26:25
My favorite of the weekend was the the Wally head bat from
26:30
Jaron Duran. Let me see.
26:31
Actually I might be able to play it here.
26:34
The he actually had a few he had like a Lilo and Stitch 1.
26:38
I didn't see that one. Yeah, you can see it there on
26:41
the on sort of the back, but that is cool.
26:45
Very, very strong collection for my guy Junior and which by the
26:50
way, side note as. We're the first one.
26:53
Honestly, I don't know. Jaws maybe?
26:57
It's giving a little jaws. I kind of like that.
27:00
Is that Jaws? Oh, no.
27:04
The Joker, it looks like. Yeah, but what was I going to
27:10
say? Oh I I low key think I might
27:15
pull the trigger on on a Jaron Duran Fenway green jersey.
27:23
The mid all of the trade rumors this year, huh?
27:27
Still feel confident. In I'm kind of over that at this
27:30
point. I'm like the same way about
27:32
Xander. I love I love Xander.
27:34
I'll still wear I'll still rock the road socks Xander jersey.
27:37
I don't. I don't care because it these
27:41
guys don't stay put long enough anyway to care about it anymore.
27:44
The grip it and RIP it bat is cool.
27:48
Victus is clearly dominating in this category, by the way.
27:53
And I know that like design is design, it's not really up to
27:56
the bat, but like Victus is all over these.
27:59
They're nailing them. Players Weekend was made for
28:02
Victus and vice versa. Yeah.
28:05
But anyway, that's, that's, that's my statement on on the
28:10
the Padres Dodgers series. So the Padres, my official
28:15
statement is that the Padres made me look like a fool this
28:18
weekend. So that's that.
28:20
Like, let's talk. Speaking of being a fool, the
28:24
Mets kind of kind of sucks. Still, I don't think we actually
28:29
really covered that. Let's all just join together.
28:34
Last episode coming into the night, which, if you're watching
28:38
this live, join us and we'll I'll try to remember it at the
28:41
end as a reminder, but be sure to join us tonight for our
28:44
keeping book segment where we we we all come together as baseball
28:50
fans and and have Nate teach us all how to keep book.
28:54
We'll be doing that first. To teach anymore, man, I think
28:57
you're, well, not. You become one of the teachers
28:59
now. The student becomes the teacher.
29:06
Well, we circle. I mean, it's not for me.
29:09
I'm I mean I've been able to benefit from this.
29:11
But this is for the folks at home that want to learn how to
29:13
keep book. We might have some newbies who's
29:15
who's to really say, but any who's Yeah, join us tonight for
29:20
the Little League classic Mariners Mets.
29:26
But as I mentioned, the Mets we're come coming into today.
29:29
The Mets are three and fourteen in their last 17 games.
29:36
Over that span they have the fit which this I'll be honest with
29:39
you, this is kind of hard to believe, but they actually don't
29:43
have the worst team are ERA in baseball.
29:44
They actually have the fifth worst in in all of baseball over
29:47
that span. A clip of 547 offensively, not
29:53
so much. The problem?
29:54
13th best team OPS over the last 17 games.
29:58
Again, that 3 and 14 span at 7:23.
30:03
So it's not it's not necessarily their offense, but they just
30:06
have no help on the mound. And I think they they brought
30:09
it. What was his face?
30:11
Nolan McClain, I believe, to make his debut yesterday.
30:16
Some of the nastiest. Oh my.
30:19
Threw the ball exceptionally well and I'm already, I'm
30:23
already starting to see like the savior tag attached to him and
30:26
I'm like. They're so desperate to tag
30:29
people with stuff, dude. Is this the New York, the
30:34
billion dollar New York Mets that we're talking about here,
30:37
needing a Nolan McClain to come be the savior?
30:40
Come on now. Yeah.
30:44
'Cause I think they I do have. I do have like a die hard like
30:49
meme that I think you could insert with with this guy John
30:55
McClain. I know it's spelled differently,
30:56
but still well, but we'll go. We'll come back to this if he
31:00
has another good start and he is the Savior.
31:03
You know what I mean, I. Like where your heads up?
31:06
Blow yippee Ki yay on that, you know.
31:09
Are you, are you offering your social media services?
31:12
Are you it's for sale? Are you offering to take over?
31:15
Do you want to you want to take that take that load off my
31:18
shoulders? All I'm I'm a brainstorming
31:21
master. And then it ends there.
31:24
Can't tell you how it's done. I'll cook it up though.
31:27
I like the idea. You've put out some bangers.
31:29
You you've given me some ideas like, hey, throw this out there.
31:32
See how it does it, it cooks, it cooks.
31:35
Cheers, cheers. But going back to the the
31:40
question I asked you about the Brewers and your and our our now
31:44
that the Brewers came back down to earth, they showed us their
31:46
human. They dropped the game.
31:47
What's your perception on the Brewers?
31:49
Same thing for the Mets here after this 3 and 14 skid.
31:57
What, where, where are we at with the Mets?
31:59
Because I, I'll be honest with you, I really, and this may
32:08
change tomorrow, but as of right now, I really want to be
32:10
optimistic about the Mets. Want to?
32:15
I, I, I genuinely do, I genuinely do because what was it
32:18
at the end of last year or the year before?
32:19
I was like, I, we're, we're at a point now where we got to, I
32:22
think we got to throw the bit out the window, at least for a
32:25
little while, because the Mets are, are showing us that they're
32:28
not like. AI don't.
32:31
I won't. Well, we definitely had this
32:34
conversation of like, hey, maybe the maybe the Mets bit needs to
32:38
take a back seat for just a minute.
32:40
Are we, we, we covered this, we talked about this, I think it
32:43
was at the end of last year. Totally different guy.
32:46
Whatever. Yeah, this is this is not this
32:50
is not the same Nate that we were dealing with last year.
32:52
He changes year to year, day-to-day, day-to-day, hour by
32:56
hour. Actually, I really want to be
33:00
optimistic about this Mets team and I even they are who we
33:07
thought they were. Will you hate me if I say this?
33:10
It's it's it's hard to say this without sounding like I'm
33:13
patting my own back here. Went on radio last week and
33:19
they're asking me about this. It's good flex.
33:24
I I'd even say who it was with. So that's I'll, I'll just leave
33:27
it at that. Yeah.
33:29
I went, I went on radio last week and they're asking about
33:31
this. I was and they played.
33:34
Songs through my MP3 last. Yeah, no, I mean, hey, I'm, I'm
33:44
with you. Like people have their opinions,
33:46
iPod shuffle last people have their opinions about radio.
33:49
I'm just letting you know, I was asked about this and they said,
33:52
do you think, do you think there's enough time?
33:55
Yeah, of course for. The for the Mets.
33:56
And I said, yeah, I do. So me going on record and saying
34:02
that I, I, I think that there's still time and I think they can
34:05
turn things around that is that not a, is that not a vote of
34:07
confidence for the Mets, I mean. Yeah, yeah, sure.
34:10
I. Don't want to be on record as
34:11
being a hater because I've clearly I've I've had my fair
34:15
share of that this past these past.
34:16
I don't, I don't mind. I don't mind being a hater.
34:20
Helsley's kind of looked like crap for a while now, hasn't he?
34:25
That hasn't looked great. Think it was the first few
34:29
outings and then it and then it eventually just kind of fizzled.
34:35
Let's look at the game log. You can look at the game log if
34:37
you want. I feel like I'm pretty accurate
34:39
on this. They they are who we thought
34:43
they were, dude. Like they're just, they're
34:44
running out of steam in the pitching department.
34:47
And we knew this coming in. We knew that this was.
34:52
Going to remind remind me we know that we know the additions
34:55
they made on the back end but if I completely am I blanking on
35:01
somebody they added on the rotation at the deadline the.
35:06
Fact that we can't think of a name probably tells you all we
35:08
need to know. Let's see here.
35:14
Yeah, yeah. Yikes.
35:17
He's given up in his last, in his last two and a third he's
35:24
given up and that's over 4/4 appearances.
35:27
He's given up five earned runs. So that's not exactly the the
35:32
lockdown stuff you were hoping for.
35:35
No, it's not. Then it kind of throws your your
35:38
closer, you know, Edwin Diaz in a little bit of a of a bind.
35:43
If you're like just cuz you're closer doesn't mean you're
35:46
exactly like a fireman guy where you're coming in with the guys
35:49
on and they've had to do that a couple times.
35:52
So if the whole point of their deadline which was primarily
35:56
bullpen focused with Gregory Soto coming in.
36:01
Excuse me? Not five runs.
36:03
Seven runs. Yeah, the whole point was a
36:07
short in the game and that's that's the recipe.
36:15
If the recipe doesn't go well, like then it kind of falls back
36:18
on your starting rotation. And it's just been rough, man.
36:22
Like Clay Holmes, we knew this coming in like this is his first
36:25
year as a starter and like he's going to run out of steam.
36:28
He's never thrown this many innings in it.
36:29
And it's, it's got to be frustrating.
36:33
I I feel that as a Yankee fan, like I feel like there's certain
36:37
fan bases were like you're screaming this out before the
36:41
year, during free agency, before the deadline, after the
36:45
deadline. You're like, how are we not
36:47
solving these issues? And then the team doesn't solve
36:50
it. And you're like, I told you
36:51
there's always going to be and I told you so moment with a lot of
36:55
these teams. And it sucks as a fan being
36:59
correct when these things are correct.
37:02
And I feel like that's the way it is.
37:04
And Mets fans right now are miserable.
37:06
And when I say Mets fans look, the only one that I see is Frank
37:09
the tank and that's my barometer.
37:11
That's how I go off of like, how the terrible.
37:14
Barometer. Frank the Tank.
37:16
That's a terrible barometer. That he is arguably the best.
37:20
He is the you of the Mets, like the Mets could be on pace right
37:25
now to win 135 games and. Those bite necklaces get some
37:33
fake glasses that I can break over and over again.
37:35
Which by the way, real quick, just a side note, how how are
37:38
how are the Yanks doing in terms of a playoff spot?
37:40
Are you guys still whining about still holding a playoff spot as
37:44
it stands right now or? Where are we at with that kind
37:47
of? Yeah, yeah, mean anything.
37:50
What do you know? Another another series in the
37:52
books. And what do you know, 10 games
37:55
over 500, still in a playoff spot and whining like a newborn.
38:00
Whining like a newborn. No, but you mentioned Clay
38:03
Holmes in the rotation. I had the reason I was laughing
38:05
just a minute ago as I saw came across this tweet because he's
38:09
going tonight in the in the Little League classic.
38:12
Yep, we'll cover it live. We'll cover it live.
38:15
We'll be there, keep them booked, join us.
38:17
But there I saw a tweet from Connor Sand.
38:20
He said these lucky kids in Williamsport get to watch Clay
38:22
Holmes throw four and a third of inefficient innings of baseball
38:25
tonight. What a treat for them and their
38:26
families. But he's not wrong.
38:30
And look no disrespect to Clay Holmes.
38:32
I I was I if, if I recall, I think I was pretty maybe even
38:38
both of us were kind of up on that move when it happened.
38:41
We're. Nasty like he, he clearly has
38:44
this stuff, but it's just to to make this like your plan A going
38:50
into the season and then not recognizing who you are and
38:56
looking in the mirror at the deadline.
39:00
I don't know. And then you demote Frankie
39:03
Montos to the bullpen. It's all weak.
39:07
It's all weak. It's all weak.
39:11
I'm just not about it. So I I applaud you for trying to
39:15
be positive about that and and. Well, I just don't want to be.
39:20
There, applaud you for going on the radio.
39:21
Thanks. Thanks.
39:24
I'm going to. I'm going to download it and put
39:26
it, burn it to ACD and smart and play it on my boom box later.
39:31
Smart for my family as we're going to gather on the
39:35
fireplace. I'm going to play it on my boom
39:37
box. Yeah, no disrespect.
39:40
No disrespect. Let's be last.
39:43
Those were the better days. Those were those were the better
39:47
days. I'm I'm becoming an old man
39:50
right before my own very before your eyes, before everybody's
39:53
eyes. I took it just because I could.
39:56
I recently stumbled upon a digital camera, saw that and I
40:01
took it. Thanks, man.
40:03
I took it to Nats Park yesterday and I was like, let me just
40:05
document the day through the lens of his digital camera.
40:11
Oh, dude, so money. Like I, I get it.
40:14
The ultimate convenience. Convenience is having a camera
40:16
on your phone. But I'm like, this is the next
40:18
best thing. Like this thing could not have
40:20
been smaller. It was great.
40:22
Hang on to that puppy stuff cycles back.
40:24
It's brand new, dude. Somebody at work gave it to me
40:27
because it was in one of their their drawers and they're like,
40:31
or somebody can either take this or we're going to throw it away.
40:33
I was like, Oh yeah, I'll take it.
40:35
I Googled it, those things go for like $200 right now on eBay.
40:38
Sucker. Stupid Co worker.
40:42
No very, very excellent, kind Co worker.
40:46
No disrespect to the Co worker but no, it's a good research.
40:49
Co worker. I'm going, I'm, I think I'm just
40:53
going backwards, man. Like I'm, I'm, I'm going did,
40:57
I'm going physical media where every now and then if we see a
41:00
DVD of a movie we like, I'm like just grab that for more reasons
41:04
than like. Having anything to play that on,
41:07
do you? Yeah, 'cause I've got some of
41:11
these old consoles around, like a 360, like a Wii.
41:14
I think you can play them on Wii anyway.
41:16
Who am I kidding, I traded in my PS4 for APS 2.
41:19
Let's go back in time. There you go.
41:22
Yeah, Yeah. Anyway, I took it with me to the
41:25
park document of the day, but yeah, I'm just going physical
41:28
media. Yeah, 'cause, you know, these
41:29
streaming services, they change movies.
41:31
I mean, not to get like tinfoil hat, but they're like they're
41:35
taking bits and and pieces and scenes out of movies.
41:38
And I'm like, no, I want the movie as it was originally
41:41
intended. Yeah.
41:43
How did we get here? What were what were we talking
41:45
about? What?
41:45
Happened. We.
41:46
Oh, you said the radio corrected ourselves.
41:48
Yeah. You said, you said the radio.
41:50
Yeah, Yeah. OK, let's get us back on track
41:54
here. Let's talk.
41:56
Oh, no. I was going to ask you one last
41:58
question on the Mets before we moved on.
42:02
Not that I'm not going to put you on the spot and give me like
42:04
a prediction, but the three and 14 and their last 17 New York
42:10
Mets coming into today, Sunday, August 17th.
42:14
Where do you have how far do you have this New York Mets team
42:19
going? No further than an NLDS, they
42:24
don't have the pitching depth that I could see them getting
42:27
through a wild card round because again, like they they
42:31
obviously have a good lineup and they have superstars in that
42:34
lineup that can get them through.
42:37
Yeah. But after that, you don't have
42:39
the pitching depth to just roll right into an NLDS with your,
42:44
you know, your, your ace going game 3.
42:50
When you roll right into those, those series, it's like you
42:53
don't have the luxury of lining up your pitching the way some of
42:57
these first round buys do or these or these first place teams
43:00
do. So it's just like I, I don't
43:03
have any faith in that pitching depth.
43:07
And that's it's, it's worth noting too, you said no further
43:10
than NLDS, which as as a reminder, that's A5 game series
43:13
and you're, you're worried about their depth on the mound even in
43:17
A5 game series, much less. Exactly.
43:20
So yeah, I, I think I'm kind of with you as it stands right now.
43:23
I, I just don't think they have enough in the tank from a front
43:26
end point of view. Speaking of front end, let's
43:29
talk about a big name on the front end of the Philadelphia
43:33
Phillies rotation, Zach Wheeler getting hit with some pretty
43:36
brutal news. Got a blood clot in his in his
43:43
throwing. I don't want to say shoulder,
43:46
but it's like, did they say it's close to maybe it's like up near
43:53
shoulder or something? I don't know, doesn't sound
43:55
great. But he got put on the 15 day IL
43:58
with the with the blood clot there.
44:02
I, I don't know much about what this entails, the impact it has
44:07
on his health, the impact it has on his ability to throw a
44:09
baseball. But I feel like there's a,
44:11
there's a short list of things medically that I would, I would
44:18
enjoy receiving less. I'm hearing that blood clot in
44:23
my arm. That sounds horrible.
44:25
I've had one. You don't.
44:27
It's kind of like a weird freaky thing right away because you
44:30
don't feel them. They're just.
44:32
Right. Which is scary.
44:33
Like it's just. Scary and they can obviously
44:36
lead to like scarier things and that's the whole point of the
44:40
freak out because like Wemby with the spurs, he had one in
44:44
the NBA and it like he immediately ended his season
44:47
like because whatever dislodges that clot and causes that to
44:51
start going towards the heart is what is like the scariest moment
44:55
of it. And so whether that's physical,
44:59
you know, movement, it there's a bunch of different factors that
45:03
I can't I've had one. I don't know enough about it to
45:06
speak to it, but like it pretty much Trump's any other, many
45:12
other potential injury that you have going on, It makes you
45:15
wonder, like, did he go into an MRI for something else?
45:20
Because you don't feel blood clots, you don't know if they're
45:22
there. There's no symptoms to having
45:24
them, You just have them. He said he said, well, he he
45:34
went Friday against the Nats was limited to five innings for the
45:39
second consecutive start. Philly's head athletic trainer
45:44
said Wheeler had been feeling better after some right shoulder
45:48
shoulder soreness, but that changed Friday.
45:51
He felt a little heavy heaviness, the trainer said.
45:56
So yeah, something probably felt off and then you go and get a
45:59
get. A and then you see that like
46:01
that's mine was found. I had some stomach stuff going
46:04
on and so I had Mris on my stomach and they were like,
46:06
what's that? And they saw that.
46:09
So that's scary stuff, man. And then you just you go on
46:12
blood thinners for a while and then you just kind of keep an
46:13
eye on it. But the it's probably safe to
46:22
say he could be done for the year.
46:24
Like, I don't think that's, I don't think that's crazy to say.
46:27
I think that could very well end his season because it is a
46:31
serious thing. That's yeah.
46:32
I was just going to say like that's that's sucks for like the
46:36
like if if he does end up missing extended time or even
46:39
the entire season. It it takes months for for
46:44
progress of that you can't just go in and and like solve that
46:48
issue. It's not like a little
46:50
arthroscopic surgery to where you just, OK, let's get rid of
46:55
this kind of thing. It's yeah, it's not an easy
47:00
solve. That's what I'm saying.
47:02
Like if if that ends up being the case, he misses extended
47:05
time. Like it sucks, but the you don't
47:09
want this to develop into something worse man.
47:11
Like it's. It's not.
47:12
It is life threatening. For sure.
47:15
So I, I'm not going to sit here and ridicule a guy if he, even
47:18
if he chooses to like opt for the, you know, err on the side
47:23
of caution or whatever. And like, hey, I, I just don't
47:26
know if it's wise like I'm, I, I have, no, I'm not going to sit
47:29
here and ridicule the guy because, you know, the, like I
47:31
said, this is, this is some, some terrifying stuff And I, I
47:35
hope he, he can recover well, But you know, either way, still
47:40
a, a tough blow for the Phillies.
47:42
And honestly, I I was reminded as I'm scrolling through some
47:46
Zach Wheeler tweets here. Yet another tough blow for Zach
47:51
Wheeler and his Cy Young chance. Like anytime this guy.
47:56
I know. Oh, I say anytime this guy puts
47:59
together a Cy Young campaign, it's it's seemingly every year.
48:03
But anytime this guy gets close or I mean, we're on the verge of
48:07
sniffing it of taste in a Cy Young finally for this guy
48:12
universe is like, no, we're we're good.
48:14
We're good on that, actually. If there was a rotation out
48:17
there that could take a hit, losing an ace is very hard to
48:22
recover from. There's losing an ace and
48:25
there's losing Zach Wheeler, though.
48:27
Exactly. And I, I think that there, there
48:30
is enough depth there to where they could still do damage in
48:33
the postseason, but you just got to hope that like if you shut
48:38
him down, you can get him ramped back up in time to have a run
48:46
in, in October. And that's where these it does
48:49
it just, it takes a while to like let these things kind of go
48:53
away. I'm not a doctor.
48:55
I don't know. But I do remember I, I had to go
48:57
back to the doctor like once a month for a year of just being
49:00
like another MRI. Has there been any progress?
49:03
And you're just going back, going back, going back and it's
49:06
just kind of letting the body like work it out with those
49:08
blood thinners. So I don't know this is.
49:13
This is coming from somebody that, again, knows very little
49:16
about these kinds of things. You obviously you've experienced
49:19
it. So you know far more than I do.
49:21
So I don't know the likelihood of a return as we're sitting
49:26
here talking about it. But and I'm not trying to, you
49:29
know, I'm not trying to, you know, get Phillies fans.
49:33
I'm not trying to give him false hope here, but talk about how
49:37
electric this would be. I feel like if they're like,
49:39
hey, we need to shut this guy down, they get them ramped back
49:43
up just in time. And it's almost like a game time
49:46
thing for the postseason where it's like, is this guy going to
49:50
be our game one starter or not? And Phillies fans are just like
49:53
holding their breath collectively leading it like
49:55
going into October. And then it's like, yeah,
49:57
actually our guy's back and then he takes the ball in Philly.
50:00
Come on now. Come off.
50:03
Because they're teammates. But it's it's like like the,
50:06
what was it, his wrist? Schwerber, where all he did was
50:11
just track pitches for a couple months because he couldn't swing
50:14
when he was a Cub. Oh yeah, yeah, yeah.
50:16
And then he came back in time. And then like, I think he he had
50:21
like a a great October, like a great month that year, I think.
50:25
Yeah. Was that the same was that was
50:28
the same October we he put the ball on top of the scoreboard,
50:32
right? It's been a minute.
50:35
But if I recall that was the same when he came back from
50:38
that, from that injury. It's when I'm I'm pretty sure he
50:41
put the ball up on the on the scoreboard and Wrigley, I don't
50:44
know. Anyway, I don't know, but it's,
50:46
you know, it's, I think this is a team that can withstand the
50:50
first couple rounds without him. But can you win a World Series
50:56
without a Cy Young? It's hard to say.
51:01
Well, I mean obviously 2 completely different situations,
51:05
but you know, the Braves as an example, they go on to win a
51:09
World Series without Ronald CUNY Junior.
51:10
So again, different situations, different sides of the ball, but
51:15
Ken vibes, Ken vibes and Philly carry them all away.
51:19
Never know. Who's to say?
51:22
But again, that's that's assuming the worst.
51:25
Who who's to say what happens with Zach Wheeler?
51:27
All I know is hoping for the best for of Philly's ace.
51:31
Closing the book here few few more items.
51:36
Brandon Young Orioles rookie had a perfect game bid.
51:40
What was that Friday in Houston, his home state of Texas?
51:49
A native of Lumberton, TX? Good town.
51:53
Lost the Lumberton. Are you just saying that you
51:56
have no idea I've. Never heard that sounds.
51:59
Like are you a, are you a regular in Lumberton or no?
52:04
Good, good blue collar town. Good blue collar town.
52:07
The people you got to, you got to tip your cap man.
52:11
Lumberton, they they know, honestly.
52:14
Real quick, they know hard work. They I mean look, I know
52:18
Lumberton, you know Lumberton, but just for the people at home
52:22
that don't know Lumberton just a quick a quick history lesson.
52:28
Lumberton according to Wikipedia.
52:30
Again, we we know this, but you may not.
52:33
A city in Hardin County, Texas, population of 13554 according to
52:39
the 2020 census, up from 11 eleven, 1943.
52:45
So naturally the numbers only going up as people realize just
52:49
how great of a of a great of a town this is.
52:52
That's right. It again again, you and I know
52:59
this, but it was established as a stop on the Gulf for the
53:04
railway that was built through the.
53:07
Little north of Beaumont. It was built built the railway
53:11
that was built through the area in 19/18/94.
53:14
You know when you zoom into the city and everything as far as
53:18
maps go, it's just on the one Rd.
53:20
Yeah. It's just one Rd. going up.
53:25
It's served the sawmills and lumber camps.
53:28
That's right. But yeah, just a good, good
53:31
town, good city. Lumber Lumberton.
53:34
That's right. Napoli's Italian restaurant.
53:40
Just some blue collar, some blue collar people.
53:43
Oh, that's so good. Those towns where the
53:46
restaurants are like, we have a name, but I'm going to tell you
53:49
what it is. After that, Napoli's.
53:51
You can't just call it Napoli's. It's Napoli's Italian
53:53
restaurant, you know what I mean?
53:55
Just in case there's. Any portion Jorge's Mexican
53:58
Cafe, we need to know exactly what it is.
54:02
Mexican cafe? That's good?
54:05
No, but Brandon Young lost the perfect game.
54:08
But I, I got confused from Nick because I thought this was like
54:11
his season debut or his career debut.
54:13
Excuse me, but he actually just has not had a good, a good run
54:17
to his career. It was actually his, what, 11th
54:21
big league start he was. He'd gone O and six with an ERA
54:24
of 67-O. Might have found something.
54:27
Through the 1st 10 starts but lost his his perfect game with
54:32
four outs to go. Might have found some.
54:37
Good bounce back for the kid. What they say, what do you what
54:41
do you say? In trouble with the curve?
54:45
So like he just misses his mom and dad.
54:49
Good movie. Average movie, Average movie.
54:55
Not to go down the road better than.
54:56
Most baseball movies, but not great.
55:00
Not to go down a rabbit trail, but.
55:04
They have trails or they have holes.
55:05
Rabbit hole. Rabbit Trail.
55:08
It's hard to say I'm not a hunter.
55:11
No, that's a good on a not a good on a rabbit hole.
55:14
But baseball movies have some have some good truth sprinkled
55:18
into them. You know, like the one in
55:20
Moneyball where you mentioned the one I just miss his mom and
55:23
dad. The one in Moneyball where
55:24
they're talking about like the. Girlfriend.
55:26
They're right that that's my Yeah, yeah, his girlfriend's
55:29
ugly. He's.
55:31
Got no confidence. I'm like, look, they said it's
55:36
not me. I just think it's funny how like
55:38
they they, they really. That's old school, baby.
55:42
That's peak baseball. If that's your scouting, that's
55:44
peak baseball. That's that's old timey stuff
55:47
right there. Any who's Speaking of the
55:50
Orioles? They called up Samuel Basayo,
55:57
their top prospect catcher, to offer some help behind the dish.
56:04
I think they got 33 catchers on the roster now, but big, big
56:07
moment for for the O's and and their future and their prospect
56:13
talent. Where just a quick temperature
56:17
check on Rushman. Yeah, you're more in the area
56:22
than I am. I'm, I'm, I'm starting to, I'm
56:28
starting to back up a little bit.
56:32
Is that the vibe there? The vibe that I'm getting as it
56:38
pertains to Adly Ruchman is that backup seems a little
56:45
aggressive. I think recalibrating is a
56:51
better word. I think the the expectation
56:55
there there. As I mentioned, they're they're
56:56
starting to recalibrate and I think Adley is going to at least
56:59
in my opinion, I think Adley is is now off of the must extend
57:06
list. Like this is a guy you have to
57:08
lock up for for forever. And again, I'm not saying a a
57:13
down year is is a reason to just ship this guy out.
57:18
Is it 2:00? AM I losing track of time?
57:20
It was an All Star last year. What's that saying though?
57:24
What does that mean anymore? Yeah, I mean he had two 5019
57:30
jacks yeah not great. He has seven O 9 OPS last year
57:35
yeah must have been an early early season thing.
57:39
Any who's I don't I think they've recalibrated.
57:43
I think they've re shifted the focus and in my opinion, does
57:46
it, it only solidifies the reality that Gunner is the guy
57:51
that you have to like if you are going to extend one of these
57:54
baby birds of like the original baby birds, because as we talked
57:57
about, there's bringing up Messiah there.
57:59
The Jackson's obviously in that mix as well, but of like the
58:02
sort of the OG baby birds, if you will.
58:04
He's the guy obviously that I think you need to lock up,
58:07
especially, you know, being being at a premier position.
58:12
And again, I I know Adley is very important to that clubhouse
58:16
and end of the direction of that team.
58:18
But in terms of performance, we're talking about two less
58:24
than ideal years. So begs the question of like,
58:29
how many is it going to take before the Orioles are like, we
58:34
kind of have the future here now.
58:35
So the whole Colin Coward, like, hey, LeBron, we've got Ben
58:41
Simmons, we're good. I'm not saying.
58:44
I'm not saying beside who is Ben Simmons in this analogy, but you
58:47
get my point. Like, hey, like, we're, we're
58:49
good. You can go.
58:52
No disrespect to Adley. But it's hard to say, man,
58:54
because how this goes like you want to see what's what you got
58:57
with Basayo and like the Paseo, Basayo, Basayo, you got AI don't
59:05
know man like that. Like what's the what's the
59:10
ceiling? Because like when he first came
59:13
up, you're like, is this the next Posey?
59:16
Is this OK? We'll go maybe like a little
59:19
slightly down to like, is he the next Joe Mallard?
59:22
Where like, hey, great career, Probably not an all time great.
59:27
Now we're getting into like, is this like a can we get a Victor
59:31
Martinez out of him? You know what I mean?
59:33
Like that. I just feel like it's dropping a
59:36
little bit. I'm I'm pretty out on it.
59:38
I don't. I don't particularly appreciate
59:40
the Victor Martinez slander. Yeah, I mean no disrespect to
59:44
like. It sounded.
59:45
It sounded. All of very good, all of very
59:47
good. But like all of the hype around
59:50
him when he was coming up and after his rookie year was just
59:54
like, oh, Adley Rushman is is we're let's start creating the
59:59
statue now and I and the prettiest lefty swing in
1:00:04
baseball. And she's like, I don't I can't
1:00:06
get there personally, but we'll see.
1:00:09
And now it's just like. And then, you know, that run
1:00:12
where they hadn't lost a series or whatever.
1:00:15
Yeah. But like can you?
1:00:16
Get called. Up, yeah.
1:00:17
And the more the Victor Martinez thing is just like, can you like
1:00:23
or got? Swept not lost a series like
1:00:25
shit right? Or was it gets swept or lost
1:00:27
serious? I don't know one of those two.
1:00:29
Can you reinvent yourself into like a, you know, shift to first
1:00:35
base kind of thing? Already this such.
1:00:38
That's so early, man. Yeah, but like if Sam Asio is
1:00:41
like the guy. Yeah.
1:00:43
He's the guy. I just, I don't know how to look
1:00:48
at the Orioles and say like, you're an organization that
1:00:51
pivots well. Don't know if they are.
1:00:55
Don't know if they're going to do this the right way.
1:00:56
Don't know if they're going to do.
1:00:57
This shots fired. More organizations out there
1:01:03
that don't pivot well, by the way.
1:01:05
Yeah, you're not you're not singling out the OS Marcelo
1:01:09
Meyer done for the year, season ending surgery on his right
1:01:12
wrists. Obviously sucky news if you're
1:01:16
Meyer, sucky news if you're the Red Sox.
1:01:18
However, if we're to find a bright, if we're to take a a
1:01:22
positive out of this, it's that it helps a little bit with the
1:01:27
conversation of where is everybody going to play.
1:01:31
Because as you recall, we did not offload any outfielders.
1:01:39
Like we believed what happened for the Red Sox at the deadline
1:01:43
still got Wilbur, although he's hurt now, I think.
1:01:46
I don't know how long Wilbur got hurt.
1:01:49
Wilbur, will your excuse me? I called him Wilbur too, he got
1:01:54
hurt. He's day-to-day and to be to be
1:01:58
honest with you, I was at the pool.
1:01:59
I did not catch the the nature of the injury, but I did see his
1:02:02
day-to-day. I don't know how the time he's
1:02:03
going to miss. I'll get the home run updates.
1:02:05
I saw him when ya ya today, didn't he?
1:02:07
Or was it yesterday? Today.
1:02:12
Yeah. What was he going to say?
1:02:13
Yeah, he's, he's, he's had a little, he's had a good week.
1:02:17
However, as I was saying with this Marcella Meyer news, it's
1:02:21
sort of at least one name off the board that you have to worry
1:02:26
about fitting in because Christian Campbell's been
1:02:28
swinging it better is, you know, talks of him possibly coming
1:02:31
back soon. So.
1:02:33
These things have their their ways of working themselves out,
1:02:38
just the nature of the beast when it comes to this length of
1:02:40
the season. And I'm, I'm not saying like I'm
1:02:42
not rooting for injuries when there's log jams, but at the
1:02:45
same time, it's just like that's why you have depth.
1:02:48
So it's I always thought it was kind of odd for the for the
1:02:52
Dodgers or, excuse me, the Red Sox to just sit there and just
1:02:55
be like, we got to get rid of somebody now.
1:02:57
Like it's OK to carry that depth and see how the season goes.
1:03:02
And now like, you're almost thankful that you didn't offload
1:03:05
one of these guys because this is how seasons go.
1:03:08
It's. A good point.
1:03:11
Yeah, I got a few. Well, that should wrap us up
1:03:16
here. We're going to take a little bit
1:03:17
of a break here. If you're watching live, we'll
1:03:19
be back here in literally 30 minutes on the dot to, to do,
1:03:24
to, to learn how to keep book with Nate.
1:03:29
Nate's going to teach us. I I think I've I've pretty much
1:03:33
got it down pat. I'm going to go find me a
1:03:36
mechanical pencil. I like how thin that, right?
1:03:38
Actually, I might get a thin. Check you, you.
1:03:42
We talked last last time about how dull my pencil was.
1:03:45
Check this puppy out, man. That mean that?
1:03:48
And it's a Ticonderoga Dixon. Are you kidding me?
1:03:53
This is This is. That's a that's an elite pencil,
1:03:56
elite eraser on that. Pencil.
1:03:58
Oh, it's fresh. It's a brand.
1:04:00
It's essentially a brand new pencil.
1:04:01
This is what the inventor of the pencil envisioned when when he
1:04:05
was coming up with the idea this, this is what he was going.
1:04:07
For this is what he or she, I don't know, was designing on
1:04:11
their bats to replicate. Was that pencil?
1:04:13
This is what they were using as the model right here.
1:04:16
So we'll be back in in 30 minutes.
1:04:18
And obviously, if you're listening to the this on the
1:04:21
podcast Monday morning, let's say, and you missed our keeping
1:04:26
book. We'll see you next month.
1:04:28
We'll. Probably I think we're going to
1:04:29
have one more. We'll have we'll have one more
1:04:31
in September. We've been trying to get once a
1:04:33
month. We'll have one more in
1:04:35
September. So don't miss that one if you
1:04:36
want to. If you want to learn that keep
1:04:38
book with us. But other than that's all I got
1:04:43
new merch coming soon. I'm working on it is.
1:04:47
That so I'm excited about that. Good stuff.
1:04:54
Clap it up. Let's have a good week
1:04:55
everybody. For those listening on Monday
1:04:57
morning, it's getting there. Dog days are coming to coming to
1:05:03
an end. We're getting there.
1:05:07
Don't matter though. We know the mentality.
1:05:10
Don't go chasing curveballs, love.
1:05:11
You all and as always, looking forward to talking more baseball
1:05:13
with you guys soon. Until next time, stay filthy.