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Spencer Strider Out for Season · 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 Carlin and Nate Reyes.
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It all starts right now. Welcome back to the Three O Take
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presented by CK This is episode 424.
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I'll be your host Kyle Cord, and I'm here with my Co host, Nate
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Reyes. Nate.
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Is it? This is one of the last times
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you're going to hear me as a non honeymoon man.
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That's. Right, that's right.
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We're getting out of here. Don't even care.
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Getting out of here, you get you get two more of me and then
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you're just going to have to go. How much money are you setting
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aside? How much money are you setting
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aside for all the blown speakers that you're going to have to pay
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for, for all of our listeners? Frankly, I'm not worried about
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it. Are you?
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Stockpiling that at all. When there no, I mean when
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there's when there's a moment worth booing, such as you
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announcing that you're heading out for a what is it, 10 day
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long cruise. Eight days but. 8 days.
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You got to include travel in there, so technically.
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To include travel 10 days missing from the pod.
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Regardless, that's that's worth a Boo and frankly, I don't care
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about the speakers. I won't miss you.
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I won't miss anybody. I'm gonna be, I'm gonna be
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dodging pirates out out in the in the open waters.
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Dodging cannonballs. It's gonna be quite an
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experience for you out there in the the open sea.
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That's right. I think I'm gonna find stuff to
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throw off my deck. You know what I mean?
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Do you ever do that when you're like way high up?
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You want to throw something off or like, spit off?
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Just this. See, I think I'm gonna do that
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pretty much every morning, I think.
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Hey, is it true that no, that was that was debunked the whole
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you can like kill somebody throwing a penny off the Empire
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State Building. That's that's debunked, right?
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We we for sure debunked that. I don't think that's possible.
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Sounds like in Mythbusters episode is that show still
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going? Who knows it?
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Was a banger. It was a great show.
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I think that that was a that was an urban legend.
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I think that was debunked. But just whatever you do, don't
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don't kill anybody while you're out there, all right?
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We'll see. Look, hey, right off the top
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here. I'm genuinely glad to be here
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talking baseball. You know, some days you get to
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it and you're just like kind of doing this, 'cause we need to
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'cause we gotta, we gotta show up for the people.
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That's 'cause that's what we do. Not all the time, but you know,
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there's there's those days and I know it's early in the season,
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but genuinely excited to be here talking ball with you.
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But then you'd just, yeah, then you just had to you had to lead
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off with the the fact that you'll be gone for 10 days.
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So it's fine. So little shopping and.
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Packing, riding itineraries, checking in for crap really
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takes the wind out of you well. Let's talk some base, probably
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Now, look, want to get into some Spencer Strider talk?
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Want to get into some eBay talk? There's some beef between
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Dodgers. Padres Jordan Montgomery did
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something big recently and it wasn't pitch.
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Because of this very reason that we're going to be getting into
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Mets City connects have possibly leaked.
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We got some more items beyond that, but before we get into
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that, got a little trivia here for you.
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It wasn't planning on sharing this trivia with you or asking
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you about this trivia because I stumbled upon it in my note
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preparation just before we hopped on, and it was news to
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me, and I'm assuming it's news to you as well as the people
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listening. Do you know what the official
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score of a forfeited Major League Baseball game is?
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So if a team has to forfeit for whatever reason, do you know
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what the score goes in the books as?
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Like you're saying, like the run score.
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Correct. Yeah.
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One, nothing. No, put some thought into it.
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Just don't throw numbers out there.
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Give me your best guesstimate. 4 Nothing.
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I don't know 9 Nothing. Why 9?
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I have no idea. Maybe it's a run per inning.
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Couldn't tell you. But now you know.
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Feel free to share that at your next party or social gathering.
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You're welcome. News to me just found out today.
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I was as the as they say I was today, years old Spencer
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Strider. What's the kids say?
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As the kids say, Spencer Strider will miss the rest of the
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season. The 2024 season, that is.
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After having surgery to repair the UCL, He avoided Tommy John,
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but he will have done the Has he already had it done?
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Is he getting it done? I think he already.
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Did he OK the internal brace surgery?
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Which, based on what we've heard over the last couple years, I
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feel like it's becoming a more popular.
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I'm not saying more popular than Tommy John, but in and of itself
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it's becoming more popular. It seems to pursue that course
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of action for these injuries. I know Trevor Story had that
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done last year or? What's the point?
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Of leading, leading into last. Year.
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Tommy John has a typical rehab period of 12 to 18 months, but
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the internal brace has allowed pitchers to return in as few as
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nine months. So I think it's based on the
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severity of the tear slash strain.
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So the only reason is to basically try and get back for
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next year slash maybe even opening day for Strider in this
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situation. Let's say, let's say 9 'cause.
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This would have been Strider's second TJ.
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Remember that 'cause that's been a that's been a topic of
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conversation is a lot of these guys are coming in to their
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second some even third TJ, which they talk about the success rate
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or the, I don't know what the right word would you call that
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like a a success rate? I don't know.
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I don't know the analytics or the the data that goes into it,
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but they basically talk about how your odds of returning slash
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succeeding slash performing at a Major League level goes down
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drastically with every every Tommy John.
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So it's not for those who are unfamiliar, it's not it's not
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just like a plateau where it's like oh you can get a one Tommy
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John. If you need a second one it's
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fine. Like no like it it it drops
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drastically. So say he comes back in nine
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months, what is that? That's it's mid-april now.
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So I put him back like spring training.
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Yeah, January and they got. Got to ramp it up.
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Yeah. So that's a, you know, that's a
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huge blow for for the, the Braves, you know, obviously
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coming in as their ace. But it really seemed as though
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this year was going to be special.
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As we talked about in the Hot Tanks and predictions episode
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before the season started, Spencer Shrider was a big name.
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A lot of other people agreed. They they felt the same way
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about it. And, you know, coming in what,
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what do you have? Two, two starts in the books.
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The, the strikeout numbers were up.
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So it just you felt like this was gonna be a year where the
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baseball world identified a guy who was gonna in fact, be a guy.
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And it looked as though that was gonna be the case.
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And we were able, I think we were able to tell that even just
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two, 2-3 starts in. Yeah, officially Cross off one
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name on my hot takes and predictions list.
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I had Spencer Schreider as the NL Cy Young winner.
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So first one, first hit. Battleship sank.
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Tough. Super tough.
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This, I mean, like, I I think there is like this blind faith.
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Can't call it completely blind, but there is a lot of faith that
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Braves fans have in Alex Anthropolis.
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And you can imagine there's gonna be some type of addition
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to fill in this hole at some point in the season.
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I don't know the Braves farm well enough to say it's
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internal. I would go ahead and assume it's
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most likely some type of trade, but you can't trade for an ace
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like you're not. There's no replacing him
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entirely. It's a tough blow, man.
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It's a real tough blow. I I feel for Braves fans, but at
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the same time, like, I don't really.
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I don't know. It's hard to explain.
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They've been spoiled, you know, And I just, I do feel bad for
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Quadzilla because I mean that guy's a stud and he's fun to
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watch and he's, he's good for baseball.
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And it is, it's kind of tough. But they still have a line up
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they can hang. What I was thinking is how much
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stock, how much did Max Freed's stock just rise?
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Said to be a free agent. This was already a big year.
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We've seen him lead this staff before, but if he really, truly
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leads this staff now after this, that raises his number quite a
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bit and it maybe pushes on some pressure for the Braves to
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potentially resign, slash, extend him, I don't know.
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Interesting storyline there and he's looked good to start the
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year. Yeah, there was.
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I've been looking for this. There's a graphic floating
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around and you may have seen it. I can't.
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I I can't remember where I saw it.
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Hold on, What was he referring? To.
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Referring to velocity and how it was like the top, did somebody
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send it to me how the the top velocities from the 2023 season,
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I think it was like 8 of the top ten are out or really have
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gotten TJ or some sort of like internal brace procedure.
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And I cannot seem to find the list.
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But like, I think Grayson Rodriguez, Grayson Rodriguez was
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on there as like one of the the the final arms that were still.
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Yeah. Healthy, I guess.
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But it's just alarming. It's it's really alarming how?
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It's it's alarming. We talked about this last
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episode that I think it's the the quality of names, 'cause we
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did talk about how like the. I don't, from what I could tell
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from the little research I've done, 'cause you know, your boy
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doesn't really research much, that the numbers haven't really
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changed over the like the last few years.
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This is right on par for what we've seen like 2018, 1920.
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But it's it's the quality of names.
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It's the league leaders that were they're frontline starters
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that we're seeing go down for like big names, big teams.
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I found it. It was a codified tweet or
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codify whichever shout out Brendan for sending it.
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Sending it my way. I think it's codified.
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Fastest average 4 seamer velocity last season from MLB
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starters with 500 + 500 + 4 seamers thrown.
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Bobby Miller 99 miles an hour out.
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Hunter Green 98.3 still available Sandy Alcantara 98
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miles an hour out Yuri Perez 97.5 out.
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Grace Rodriguez 97.4 available Spencer Schrider 97 two out.
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Shane Mcclanahan 96 Eight out. Shohei Ohtani 96.8 out.
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Garrett Cole 96.7 out. He's crazy, man.
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It. It goes back to the conversation
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where we I just this generation specifically has tried to get
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rid of old heads. They've tried to get rid of old
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way of thinking. They've tried to eliminate names
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and and and opinions of guys that have forgotten more about
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baseball than we'll ever know. And there's a number of older
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generational pitchers that have said you got to pitch, you can't
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just throw. Not to say that the names on
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that list aren't pitching, but I don't know, man.
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I'd much rather have you stick around.
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It's it's kind of weird, 'cause you talk about like, like the
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injury prone position players, how I don't know you and I
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preach hard 90s. I like hard 90s, but you can see
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that. Like depending on the situation,
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you're down five, it's 8th inning and you roll over the
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shortstop and it's a super routine 2 hopper.
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You're not going to see that guy busting it down the line.
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It's a semi hard 90, but maybe he's taking that off.
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Pitchers don't do that anymore. They don't take any pitches off,
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They don't take anything off. It's 100% effort 100% of the
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time, and and now we're seeing what's happening because of it.
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We got to get back to spotting up, being a better pitcher, a
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trusting location, trusting your defense to make plays, trusting
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contact, fighting for strikeouts, constantly driving
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your your pitch. Count up Max Velo to try and
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blow it by somebody. Hitters are going to adjust, but
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imagine a guy that, like, starts the game at 92 and then third
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time through the order he's like, I got 96, Actually I got
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97 for you. Hitters are going to time it up.
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If it's just constantly 98, it's not that difficult for these
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Major League hitters to figure it out.
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But if you're changing speed in time of when you're throwing
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that, emptying the tank fastball, I don't know.
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But there's a reason it worked for generations.
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There's a reason why we didn't see elbow injuries like this at.
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This. Rate much at this rate for this
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many players, it's just, I don't know, We had to go back to
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figuring out what we were doing before.
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Another guy you can add to that list, not necessarily out for
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the season, but dealing with some arm issues.
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Bobby Miller, promising arm for the Dodgers who was off to not
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too bad of a start. Had 18 KS through 11 and 2/3
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this season over three starts placed on the 15 day IL Saturday
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night by the Dodgers with right shoulder inflammation.
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So look we're seeing a lot of names being put on the shelf
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whether it be 10/15/60 a year, whatever whatever the IL
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situation is. We're seeing a lot of names like
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we talked about all with varying varying injuries, varying
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severities. But the end of the day it just
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goes back to the conversation that we we were, we've been
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talking about for the last I feel like couple episodes at
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this point as more and more names continue to pop up.
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Is that like you were saying we got to get back to pitchers
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being able to pitch instead of just throw.
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We we have to reshape the approach, the narrative
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surrounding velocity and what it what it means, and what is
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required to be a good pitcher in baseball, or else if we don't,
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if nothing changes. You can.
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You can run all the tests you want.
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You can run all of these studies like the Major League Baseball's
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doing. You can do all of that.
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But if if the philosophy doesn't change, you're going to continue
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to see arms drop around the league, including top tier
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talent. And call me crazy, not great for
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baseball. So I'm.
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I'm hoping that Major League Baseball takes some initiative
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here as well as, you know the guys on the bump as well.
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But these organizations, especially in terms of what
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they're looking for, what kind of emphasis they're putting on
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different facets of pitching and and hopefully we can, we can
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redirect this ship in the right direction.
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Hit the nail on the head, my man.
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Speaking of hitting the nail on the head, Ipe Mizahara didn't do
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that very much when he was dropping his wagers.
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Can we talk about whether or not you still believe that Ohtani
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was involved? Yes.
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Fine. With me.
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Bring him on. There's no way there's still
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this giant black hole of Where Did all my money go?
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OK, so he's not. Lying in he's never looking at
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his account. He's never getting
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notifications. He's stop, stop telling me that
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one man rule is ruled his entire life.
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What? I'm hearing you say is that and
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look I'm going into this. I'm I'm going into this with an
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open mind because it's well documented on this podcast.
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Shout out our bonus episodes three O change UPS where we talk
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non baseball things in the offseason.
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Which we will where? We did a whole.
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We will get back to. We did a whole episode.
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Was it on conspiracies, like in general or did we go or no, we
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we did like? Individual.
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We did like individual conspiracies, so look, included
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in those conspiracies, certainly federal corruption in regards to
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the United States, United States government.
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So I'm not gonna sit here and pretend that there's no
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corruption in this situation. However, it's really hard for me
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to come to terms with the fact that there would be corruption
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with a Major League Baseball player as opposed to needing to
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eliminate a president who oh, by the way, is the leader of the
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free world in John F Kennedy. They're they're like 2
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completely different things. And you you you could really,
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you could really draw the line down the middle there and say
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show Hayes on one side and pretty much any other
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geopolitical conspiracy is on the other side.
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I'm. I'm fully on board and hopefully
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I don't get sniped through my window by some government
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official for saying this. But I'm fully on board with the
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fact that, FBICIA, whatever any of the three letter agencies
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that you want to throw out there, I'm fully on board with
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the fact and the belief and proposition that they're corrupt
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and they get their hands into things.
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And there's some, there's dirty money exchange.
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I get all that, but I just have a really hard time believing
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again. I'll say it again, a guy that
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has a YouTube montage of him picking up trash around Major
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League Baseball stadiums was involved first hand.
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Why is that? Any gambling criteria?
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I don't. Care if you picked up trash?
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I'm not saying I I I can't sit here and say that, like, betters
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aren't bad people. I'm not gonna say betters are
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bad people. I'm looking for something
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specific here. Here we go.
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So it was the actual, like, verbiage from whatever these
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hearings were from. It was evidence, I don't know,
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19,000 bets, right? That's 25 bets a day on average.
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Here's where my little, you know, thinking cap goes, roughly
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ranging from $10 to $160,000 per bet.
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And you said it was what, 19,000 wagers?
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19,000 wagers between December 21st and January 2024, ranging
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from $10 to. 116 Totally 16,000,000 by the way, this was
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what was. Do, do, do, do.
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Total winnings of 142,000,000. Total loss of 182,000,000
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netting $40 million in loss. I thought it was 16.
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Oh, it was. Winnings versus versus losses,
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but that's kind of how, I mean you probably just roll over with
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bookies. Was it 16?
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Maybe? No, that was the initial.
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That's was the initial. Number I think.
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Yeah. And then it came out.
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That's right. Here's my issue.
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I think I even posted that 40. Million.
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Why place the $10 bet? How are you doing 25 bets in the
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day? I want to know how many
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duplicate bets there were. 40.7 million by the way, that was
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the. I'd like to know the duplicates.
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Explain to me that, explain to me and the people who aren't
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degenerates. Not saying, not saying you're
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degenerate, but explain to us no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no.
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Explain to me. Explain to us non hardcore
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betters. Or really, betters at all, $10
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bet. If you're betting that hard.
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If you're going in that much, why do $10?
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That's what I bet. But what when you say duplicate,
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what do you what do you mean? 25 bets in a day is insane. 25
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bets per day is crazy. Sure, I'm trying to figure out
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how many bets were. Let's just say you take the
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Dodgers money line at 10 bucks, and then you take the Dodgers
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money line again later in the day.
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But you put 100 grand on it. Maybe it pay was the 10 bucks.
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Maybe Ohtani was the 100 grand. Why as low as $10?
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Who has less money here? It's it pay, right?
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I don't know, man. It's the there's too many.
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This is Swiss. Cheese of stuff.
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There's too many holes in this. Why do a $10 bet if you're
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having that much money? If you're using basically what
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seems like an endless amount of money in this account, Why go
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down to as low as 10 bucks? And what are you betting on to
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get 25 bets a day? There's not enough out there.
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A parlay counts as one bet. So are you are you taking money
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lines across the league, whatever league you're betting
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on, I don't understand it. I don't know.
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And how is it that the bookie's text was like, I know this is a
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cover up. I've seen the news.
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I know. Yeah, that was weird.
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That was that was wild it. Feels like no, no, no.
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It's it's all me. The report said on March 20th,
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2024, after news broke that at least four and a half million
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dollars had been transmitted from Ohtani's account to Boyer's
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operation. Who?
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Boyer, we've mentioned him in previous episodes, was the
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bookie, I believe, Mizuhara texted him, asking whether he
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had seen the media reports. The bookmarker reply or the
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bookmaker replied yes, but that's all BS.
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Obviously you didn't steal from him.
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I understand that it's a cover job.
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I totally get it, Mizahara replied.
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Technically, I did steal from him.
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It's all over for me. I just don't believe that Otani
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had no knowledge. I refuse to believe that.
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I will never believe that. But there's whether he partook
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in the bets or not, I don't know and I don't really care.
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I'm over it. Like do you, Otani, but like I
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refuse. Refuse to say that he was
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completely in the dark for this long, for this much money.
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There's no way. Yeah, I'm, yeah, I mean, I'm.
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I'm not gonna say that he was just complete like I I would
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agree. I have a hard time believing
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that EE breaking the news in the Dodgers locker room in Korea was
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the first time Shohei had heard about this.
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I I also have a hard time believing this.
29:28
But I go back to my point. Even with the results of this
29:32
investigation, I I think I still fall back on the belief that I
29:37
think Shohei and I think you kind of agreed with me in in
29:42
certain regards to this. But I I think that Shohei was
29:45
simply just a good guy caught in a situation where he thought he
29:50
was helping out a buddy before it got blown way out of control
29:56
and then realized after the fact, oh shoot or not.
30:01
Maybe not even after the fact, maybe in in the process.
30:04
Whether it was him coming to the realization or somebody bringing
30:08
it to his attention, oh shoot, definitely can't do this.
30:12
How do we go about this now? Yeah.
30:16
But I'm with you. I don't think he was completely
30:18
in the dark. I also, I think it's Michael Kay
30:22
said on his radio show that he thought it was kind of
30:26
ridiculous that any other player, any other player, during
30:32
the investigation before the Ohtani's been completely
30:36
released of any wrongdoing or whatever that he was allowed to
30:39
play. No one, no one but no one would
30:44
be allowed to play. It would be administrative leave
30:47
for any other player. So like knowing that the MLB is
30:54
going so soft on the situation, knowing that it's been
30:58
completely swept under the rug in APR standpoint, it just makes
31:05
you like there's so many holes to this dude.
31:08
It's just. But that's that, like you hear
31:12
all the time. Like, oh, you know, life's
31:13
unfair that this is one of those scenarios where regardless which
31:17
side of the aisle you're on with this whole show, hay scandal, it
31:22
was just it was too predictable. It was too predictable.
31:25
Oh, we knew. If I recall, Wander Franco, once
31:33
the investigation was announced, was placed on administrative
31:36
leave. Correct.
31:36
Within like 24 hours, dude. Like nothing had been determined
31:40
yet. Like the rumors had obviously
31:43
circulated and then it I I'm guessing it was brought to the
31:46
attention of the league and and the he's.
31:47
Still not even technically guilty yet.
31:51
Right. So there's a perfect example.
31:54
Administrative leave. Boom.
31:56
Shohei Ohtani. Turns out it was $40 million
32:00
stolen. Hey, get out there and go win a
32:03
game for the boys in blue. Like it's that's the that's the
32:09
part I'm kinda on it's and it it's not it's not Shohei that
32:14
I'm kinda on it's it's the league.
32:16
It's like you could not be more transparent about your
32:20
priorities right now and and the value that you or the regard
32:25
rather that you that you hold Shohei with.
32:28
It's it's It's so blatantly obvious.
32:32
I'm with you. And that's where I think the the
32:35
cover up kind of gets a little muddy.
32:38
I I don't know how how much, if at all, these federal agencies
32:44
are involved in any sort of cover up.
32:45
I frankly, I don't think they care.
32:48
But I think the league is doing everything that they can within
32:51
their power to make sure that the blowback, the damage to
32:55
Shohei's image, is as minimal as possible.
33:00
How's Wander Franco's investigation going on for like
33:03
8 months? But Ohtani was cleared in a
33:05
week. Was it even a week?
33:09
I said. In the evidence that they've
33:11
like, they confiscated both phones, they read thousands of
33:16
messages, they went through every ticket that the bookmaker
33:19
has, and boom, botani's clear. Get out of here, dude.
33:24
I just, I don't. It doesn't add up and we're
33:27
never gonna get the full story. And it's frustrating.
33:31
Not that I'm like sitting here rooting for Ohtani to go down.
33:35
Like it's not what I'm saying. That's the thing.
33:37
I just want truth. I want transparency and it's
33:41
annoying. There are far too many people
33:44
out there like actively rooting for this to be on Shohei, like
33:49
solely on Shohei, which I think is weird.
33:53
And frankly, if. You're a baseball fan?
33:55
That's weird. Yeah.
33:56
And and frankly, I I feel that way just about any player that
34:02
gets caught up in in some sort of scandal until they're proven
34:06
guilty, where it's like, man, I want this guy to go down for
34:10
this. It's like, OK, we don't even
34:11
know the results of the investigation.
34:14
So what are you rooting? What are you then rooting for?
34:17
Is it just, 'cause you don't like the guy?
34:18
Is it 'cause you don't like the team?
34:20
So the number of Padres fans out there, to be quite honest, I
34:26
haven't heard many Giants fans. I mean, I'm sure there are
34:30
Giants fans out there pulling for Shohei's downfall, but
34:33
Padres fans are the most blatant about this, where they just want
34:38
they want Shohei kicked out of the league and sent to
34:42
Guantanamo Bay. It it makes no sense.
34:45
Jealousy is a dangerous. Oh my goodness.
34:49
Clean it up, man. Clean it up.
34:52
Speaking of which, yeah, I've I've just, I'm over.
34:56
I'm over like. Yeah, you're done.
34:58
I'm over the story. I'm over the, the, the.
35:05
No. No offense against passing, but
35:06
like the the tweet updates and like the just click baity stuff
35:14
that just completely clears and makes this so forcefully clear
35:22
cut where we everyone knows. Everyone with a brain knows that
35:26
it's not clear cut and you're sitting here telling us that it
35:28
is. I just I no one buys it and I'm
35:31
over that side of it. I don't.
35:34
I'm not rooting for Otani to go down because I'm not an idiot.
35:38
I love baseball more than any other individual or team and I
35:43
understand that. A monumental generational figure
35:47
being eliminated for a scandal like this would would burn our
35:52
sport down, so I don't want that by any means.
35:58
I just want some clarity maybe after he retires.
36:03
I doubt how that stuff goes. They'll come out with a an ESPN
36:07
documentary. That's so like bias in its
36:14
nature the the point of views that come out of that will be so
36:20
like heavy leaning on one side versus the other, those things
36:24
you never get the full story. I know I've been watching
36:26
Homeland too much, man. It like it makes you, just makes
36:31
you just wonder what's going on. There's a lot going on behind
36:33
the curtain. We don't know.
36:35
There's a lot going on out there in the world, including talking
36:40
about the Padres, a little benches clearing brawl, whatever
36:46
that means anymore that that I'm done, I'm done with that term.
36:50
I want to. I want the ban.
36:52
I'm ready for the ban. I'm ready for it to get banned.
36:57
Like ban the term or ban the action of it?
36:59
Ban the action. I'm It's embarrassing.
37:02
It's embarrassing for us. It's embarrassing when other
37:05
sports fans are like, what is this about?
37:08
I'm like, I don't even know because you got hockey players
37:11
that are like legit knocking teeth out of out of out of
37:16
faces. And we got our guys that are
37:20
just like quiet when it's about to happen.
37:23
And then as they're walking back to their dugout and they have 15
37:27
other guys around them, then they start yelling.
37:30
Yeah, like they have like, literal terms for it in hockey.
37:33
I'm not a hockey guy, so forgive me if I'm wrong, but I I isn't
37:37
it? Like, isn't it called a line
37:38
fight when it's like right off the puck drop?
37:42
That's what I'm saying. Both teams, all the players go,
37:48
that and the ref knew it right away.
37:50
He dropped. He's like, all right, you guys
37:52
have fun. I'm out.
37:53
It's sick. I love that.
37:55
If we're gonna do it, do it. Gosh, man, like do something.
38:01
Ode to that picture behind you, 'cause that's doing it right
38:04
there. That man does it.
38:08
You throw punches, throw punches.
38:10
Shut up, Nolan. Yeah, I don't.
38:15
Hey, thanks for pointing that out.
38:16
I don't think I ever officially pointed that out.
38:20
I don't know if I don't know if they can see it on the live but
38:22
got a nice 16 by 20 auto of the Nolan Ryan bloody bloody jersey
38:28
pick. It's clean.
38:30
Might be my new prized possession which also side note
38:35
little little tangent here the. Other one.
38:39
As a result of of acquiring the 16 by 20, the 8 by 10 that was
38:47
formerly on the shelf signed by Nolan Ryan.
38:50
May or may not. We'll see.
38:53
May or may not be used as a random giveaway for YouTube.
38:58
Subscriptions. I was thinking about it the
39:00
other day. I thought, you know what?
39:02
Who wouldn't like a nice 8 by 10 signed by Nolan Ryan?
39:05
I'll take it. I know you would maybe, hey, if
39:09
you subscribe. Are you subscribed to the
39:12
YouTube channel, by the way? I've never asked you that.
39:14
And 100% that's he's doing it right now.
39:18
Did this bench clearing thing happened yesterday?
39:20
Are you doing it right now? Are you subscribing?
39:23
No, I'm on. I'm on Tweeter.
39:25
I'm on X. Yeah, the you talking about the
39:28
the little scuffle. Yeah, whoa.
39:31
I just went to my main timeline and I saw us.
39:36
That's on live shut out. I'm live looking at this.
39:39
Wow. That's Wildman.
39:41
That's that's that's Live Ception.
39:45
Padres Dodgers What should I type in?
39:48
Type in Jerks and Profar. Jerks and Profar.
39:53
Yeah dude, it was just weird man.
39:56
You got Gavin Stone, who was perfect through into what was
40:01
it, Into the 5th? Into the 6th.
40:07
And you got jerks and profile thinking that he's getting
40:09
thrown at. Oh, that's what that was.
40:15
Have some awareness, man. I saw that and I I I think I
40:19
like swiped away after exactly. And it wasn't a three O, it was
40:24
a three O count, wasn't it? No, I don't think it was a walk.
40:29
Yeah, I don't think it was a walk, but it was, it was like a
40:32
22021 I think, But I'm like, dude have some awareness and
40:39
then he was quoted as saying after the fact.
40:41
That's what that was. I think it was 'cause of the
40:43
will. I feel like Will Smith nipped
40:45
that in the bud. Quick.
40:47
He gives me that vibe. Like, yeah, like, you know, like
40:51
low key. Don't mess with me vibes.
40:54
Very much like a he gives off Veritech vibes for sure, For
40:59
sure, But after the game they asked Profar if he thought it
41:04
was intentional. He said for a moment I thought
41:09
so, but he he was throwing a perfect game so he wouldn't do
41:12
that. So it's like, OK, so then what
41:14
is what is all this happening? For I think it was the Will
41:17
Smith chatter, I think it was the the interaction there.
41:23
Lost the perfect game in the six on a lead off walk to Tyler
41:29
Wade, but. Shout out, Gavin stood on the
41:31
fantasy fantasy team, too. It's.
41:34
It's just I'm, I'm done with the the nonsense.
41:39
And I'm especially done with Dodgers and Padres fans.
41:42
Man, I tell you what, I'm all about rivalries and I'm all
41:46
about trash talk between fan bases.
41:48
Awfully manufactured doesn't. It it is so.
41:51
Yeah. Intolerable, Yeah.
41:55
The the classic Go TOS of LMAO Little Brother syndrome.
42:03
LOL. This is your World Series LOL.
42:06
Still one series LOL rent free. I I get that that I I get that
42:13
that exists amongst other fan bases, but it's so blatantly
42:17
obvious that Episode 424 blatantly obvious.
42:21
That's what we're going with. Perfect.
42:24
It's so blatantly obvious that you that you too.
42:27
And talking to Dodgers fans on Padres fans, it's so blatantly
42:31
obvious that you both care way more about the other fan base
42:37
than you pretend not to. It's so obvious, and it's
42:41
pitiful. It's really pitiful because if
42:44
you both are kicking each other and both throwing out jabs, then
42:49
you're both losers. There's no, there's no true Big
42:52
Brother in this situation. You would think it's the
42:54
Dodgers, given their, you know, storied history and and their
43:00
tradition and legacy and all that and that.
43:02
You would. You would think that their run
43:04
of the West for the last decade plus would would give them the
43:08
upper hand. But they're acting like
43:10
children. Not the Dodgers, the fans.
43:13
Not all fans. A good amount of fans.
43:17
Too many? Come on, if you're if you're
43:20
truly the Big Brother, then stop giving the attention to Padres
43:25
fans. It's pitiful, it's embarrassing,
43:31
and it's not a good look for a fan base who, let's face it,
43:35
gets enough of a bad rap as it is.
43:38
Turn in the parking lot into UFC cage matches.
43:40
It's it's it's too much. I've lost respect for the Padres
43:49
since that, like, weird old group of dads were singing that
43:54
song. That's what's in.
43:56
Yeah, How about that? It's like that.
43:58
I've lost all. It's all gone.
44:00
I'm all done. I'm over it.
44:02
Love your ballpark. Love your ballpark.
44:06
Still kind of a Tatis fan. Loki.
44:08
I'll come out and say that. Oh man, I'll tell you what.
44:12
He puts one into the seats. You feel something?
44:14
Yeah, but I don't know, dude. It's just a it's weird.
44:22
It's weird when I I don't know. There's it's like an aimless,
44:27
directionless organization. And the fan base is just like
44:36
going along with the ride and not realizing that they have
44:40
their own issues. You know what I mean?
44:44
Like, I, I don't know as like a Yankee fan.
44:46
Like, I just want my entire organization pulling the rope in
44:50
the same direction. That's all I asked for as a fan.
44:52
Let's pull the rope in the same direction.
44:55
Don't lie. To me, Padres fans are like, so
45:01
scatterbrained and worried about, like, what other teams
45:03
are doing and, like, it's just like a status thing, you know
45:07
what I mean? They're like that person on on
45:10
Instagram just constantly putting out stories.
45:13
And you're like, I don't. You're just pushing through
45:15
because you don't want to see him anymore.
45:18
Just so worried about status. Here you go.
45:24
If you've ever seen that meme of Michael Phelps, it's like it's
45:27
like a motivational meme, but it's the picture of Michael
45:30
Phelps swimming full speed ahead.
45:34
And then I want to say it was like the guy representing
45:38
France, I believe in the Olympics that year.
45:42
I think it was the year that Mike or the Yeah, I think it was
45:44
the Olympics where Michael Phelps just went off.
45:46
I mean, he went off in every Olympics, but it was the IT was
45:50
the picture of Michael Phelps full speed ahead, and the guy in
45:52
the lane next to him is like noticeably behind him, but he's
45:58
looking over Phelps. And the whole point is like
46:01
winners focus on winning, losers focus on, you know, whatever.
46:05
Else other winners. The thing is, that's both of
46:10
these teams and their fan bases. That's Dodgers fans and Padres
46:15
fans. They don't.
46:16
They don't care anymore about winning.
46:18
They care about making sure that the other fan base knows about
46:24
them and knows that they're there and they're present, and
46:27
that they're quote, UN quote rent free and of all this other
46:30
nonsense. Super True.
46:32
Insert Gen. Z quote.
46:37
What do you call that? Lingo.
46:40
Slang. Terminology.
46:47
No cap. No cap.
46:51
And that's that's on my Mama. And you know what I'm standing
46:55
on? Business.
46:56
For real. For real.
46:58
No. God.
46:59
On God. For real, you best believe.
47:02
For real. On God, say less.
47:05
Say less, bro. Say less, yo, that's on business
47:17
for. Real is that one.
47:18
I don't think that's one. No, that's absolutely standing
47:22
on business on business for real.
47:25
No cap. Look it up.
47:26
No cap. Yo, what a transition.
47:31
Speaking of standing on business, Jordan Montgomery
47:34
said. Hey, Scott Morris, freaking take
47:37
a hike, pal. Good for you, man.
47:41
Start the trend. Good for you.
47:43
All right, so if you're unfamiliar, if you're unaware,
47:48
Jordan Montgomery, who as you know, signed very late, very
47:52
late, signed a one year, 25 mil deal with the D backs back at
47:57
the end of March. He decided to I'm just going to
48:04
say it Fire Scott Boris. I originally had that in my
48:08
notes and I'm like, wait a minute, is that the language I
48:10
should be using And in the official report on ESPN it said
48:16
fired Scott Boris. So I said you know what I'm if
48:18
they said I'm gonna, I'm gonna go with I'm gonna go with fired.
48:21
I'm not gonna go parted ways I'm not gonna go mutually agreed to
48:28
find another option. No, Jordan Montgomery said.
48:34
Thanks, but no thanks. You're washed.
48:38
It's excellent. It really is excellent.
48:40
I love it. I'm excited.
48:43
I hope this starts to trend. I I saw a tweet and forgive me,
48:47
I I don't recall who said it, but it was it was just a a
48:52
banger of a tweet that said it was something along lines of
48:56
paraphrase. I don't remember it verbatim,
48:57
but it was like my mom asked me if I did the dishes and I just
49:01
said Scott Boris. She looked at me and smiled.
49:04
She knew it. She knew they were washed.
49:07
I'm like, that's where we're headed, man.
49:09
That's that is, that is the stage in the game at which we
49:15
are at Scott Boris is starting to lose his.
49:20
Well he he was one of the Boris 4 Montgomery was this offseason
49:25
so starting to chip away at that and I would venture to say that
49:29
like you said I I think a trend is is about to unfold here
49:35
because look you can't you're messing with these guys lives
49:39
and I understand that you're trying to get the most money and
49:41
that if you're able to do that then you're helping them out but
49:45
you run the risk of of jamming these guys up and I mean I'll
49:49
I'll touch on it here towards the end but look at a guy like
49:51
Blake Snell you you assume he's gonna be fine even though he's
49:54
starting late has not looked good thus far it through.
50:00
I think it's two starts so I I think his clients are going to
50:04
start looking at around the league and going I'd it's not
50:07
worth it man. I'd rather go in I'd rather get
50:09
a competitive offer and and even make a compromise if I have to.
50:13
But I'd I'd like to keep my image intact and I would like to
50:17
keep my my offseason and in season rhythms intact by making
50:24
sure that I'm, you know, starting the season on time with
50:27
the rest of the league. So I don't know, man.
50:31
I'm I'm I'm just really out on Scott Boris.
50:35
I I really AM. And apparently, so is Jordan
50:37
Montgomery. Yeah.
50:40
I think there's like as these salaries start climbing and I I
50:47
there's got to be players that look at it different ways of
50:49
like what the money does and what the money represents and
50:55
like obviously being at the top of your game in your field like
50:58
it. It is a representation of what
51:00
you've done and what you're going to do when you get that
51:03
big contract, when you're in a a league leading AAV status or
51:09
length of contract status. But you're starting to see guys
51:14
that I don't know that I, I maybe there is this flip of a
51:18
switch of like, well, maybe money isn't everything #1, #2,
51:24
like maybe other factors have to start coming into play, right?
51:30
Ohtani with this crazy deal with everything deferred.
51:36
You talk about how like Bryce Harper has like fallen in love
51:39
with the city of Philly. No opt outs in a 13 year deal or
51:42
whatever it is. There's other factors into this
51:47
and it just seems to me like Scott Boris is so about
51:52
maximizing dollar amount. Then there's like this
51:55
manipulation of his clients saying well you deserve more so
51:59
I'm going to find you more. And then maybe Jordan Montgomery
52:04
starts this snowball effect of like these other players that
52:07
maybe will feel similarly and say you know what, like maybe
52:12
team success, maybe location for my family, stability,
52:17
consistency are bigger factors than whatever this dollar amount
52:21
is that Boris is seeking. And I can't help but but want to
52:28
give, you know Jordan Montgomery, a big pat on the
52:31
back for this decision where it's for sure against the trend
52:36
and of the four names. I mean you could argue that like
52:44
I don't know. I feel like Cody Bellinger would
52:46
be the the bigger pissed off one of the crew.
52:49
You know what I mean as far as upside and and what he's done in
52:54
the past and arguably the most talent of that group, I would
52:58
say that's probably one of the bigger disappointments.
53:01
So I don't know, man. I'd like to see a couple more
53:04
names come out and say I'm moving on and I'd like to see
53:08
other agents come into play. And I'm sure GMs would love to
53:11
see other names come into play saying, hey, I want to deal with
53:14
people that are like that are humans, not just, you know,
53:21
money driven vampires. That's pretty on point isn't it?
53:29
Scott, Boris. Money driven vampire.
53:31
Well, that's The thing is, is your the the point you made
53:35
about Scott Boris being a guy that identifies or or perceives
53:41
the value that his client has and said you know what, you
53:47
deserve more money. I'm gonna go find you more
53:50
money. Look, I don't know the guy, but
53:56
I think it's safe to say that Scott Boris is not that
54:00
altruistic in terms of his motives.
54:04
The reality is he goes out, finds his client more money,
54:08
he's getting a greater cut of that money.
54:12
So I I is, is I as idealistic as it would be to sit here and say,
54:17
well, you know, Scott Borce is you, you can't hate on the guy,
54:21
'cause he's just looking out for his clients.
54:22
He's trying to maximize their value.
54:24
It's like at the end of the day, his job, what pays him and what
54:31
increases his pay is increasing the value or the money, the
54:35
dollar amount that he brings in for his clients.
54:38
So it's. We talked about how like it's
54:42
it's like this super weird terms that he has too, you know what I
54:48
mean? Like he like he's requested to
54:51
be a part of every press conference with his players and
54:54
he has to be sitting up next to his like pushing the wife down a
54:59
seat so he can sit closer to his client and be in the frame.
55:02
It's just it's weird, man. It's weird mentality.
55:06
It's it's weird actions. I I think it's pretty obvious
55:09
that GMs are fed up with it. It's kind of cool to see that
55:12
players are getting a little fed up with it and maybe I'm just
55:16
putting this out there. I would love to see Soto go in a
55:19
different direction, save some money this offseason for for his
55:23
contract. Yeah, that's a good point.
55:26
I this is not an offseason that I think Juan Soto.
55:29
I mean, maybe if he maybe he's got the wool overs guys.
55:32
Maybe he just he doesn't realize it.
55:33
But this is not an offseason that you wanna You wanna
55:36
freaking foul up if you're Juan Soto.
55:39
Yeah, yeah, there's a yeah, this cannot be a repeat thing and I
55:45
don't know if other players, if it's a domino effect and other
55:48
other players start bailing, who knows what that means for
55:52
potential clients that haven't hit their biggest free agency
55:56
yet. Not good for old Scotty B Med
56:04
City Connects. It appears as though we have a
56:07
leak. I love a good old leak.
56:12
And I will, I will say we've said, we've said on here before,
56:15
I'll say it again, I don't think we've ever had a leak come out
56:22
where it wasn't the jersey that ended up being the final
56:26
product. Sure.
56:28
So if that trend holds true, if you just Google, if you type on,
56:35
if you search on social media, Med city connects as we're
56:38
talking about it, you can pull it up, you'll see what we're
56:40
talking about. But it's I'm not a fan I'll just
56:47
say that and and look I didn't I didn't want to make this segment
56:51
a real long one. I know we've talked about city
56:55
connects at length before and frankly there's some people that
56:57
that listen who are like OK we get it you guys you guys talk
57:01
about jerseys a lot and look I understand I agree Our I will
57:06
say though our talk about jerseys recently has been more
57:09
on the Fanatic side and less about these city connects or
57:12
alternates or whatever. It's more about just the fiasco
57:15
that is Fanatics but it's just it's just more it's further
57:23
confirmation that the City Connect's trend the concept is
57:29
dwindling. It's it's fading so fast.
57:33
It's dead. The fall off is so real, like
57:36
we're just not seeing good uniforms anymore with these City
57:41
Connect releases and this. This is one of those uniforms I
57:46
don't understand. And and their teasers on social.
57:48
The Mets were hinting at purple, like there's a lot of purple in
57:53
their teasers. So I couldn't tell is that
57:55
purple or pink? Is that that's purple?
57:58
It looks like the accents, the pictures that I'm looking at
58:02
which by the way I I think I commented on our post but tell
58:07
me that's not like the great value.
58:10
Patrick Mahomes Yeah, that's like, that's like the Walmart
58:14
brand. Patrick Mahomes.
58:15
Very very strange. Pat Mahomes on Wish, yeah.
58:19
On on T MU or whatever. Yeah, it looks like T MU.
58:24
I haven't. It's it's kind of tempting
58:27
though like it I've I've seen some hits on there.
58:31
I've seen some hits. I've seen obviously some where
58:34
they're just they the people get garbage.
58:36
But I'm like what if you luck in the in one of those hits.
58:39
I don't know. Anyway, the the picture that I'm
58:43
looking at, it looks like a purplish Gray.
58:47
It just looks like a very dull color with, again, purple
58:51
accents, very like old timey kind of font on the front NYC.
58:59
It's it's it's uninspiring and you just know they're gonna make
59:03
these lame connections. They we talked.
59:06
We just talked about this. They reverse engineer these
59:10
uniforms. They go out, they make a jersey
59:12
like, oh, that looks fire. And then they're like, how can
59:15
we make the connections to the city now?
59:18
Because that's the only way that I believe that they they could
59:22
do this because there's no way that you could have such
59:26
stretches like they're reaching hard to connect these elements
59:34
of these city connect jerseys to the city and I don't know what
59:38
they're gonna try to pull for this one but I'm I'm just so I'm
59:43
so done with with these. I'm looking at the picture you
59:47
tweeted out. Is is Matric Pahomes wearing
59:53
sweats in this picture? Yeah, I I'm 99.
59:57
Percent of the uniform, right? No, I'm 99% sure which part,
1:00:03
like honestly kind of worries me.
1:00:06
Because I'm like what are we not seeing?
1:00:08
Like, is this is it a continuation of the jersey color
1:00:12
that we're seeing? Are they gonna drop us?
1:00:14
Are they gonna drop some more black pants on us?
1:00:17
Where are we headed with this? And it kind of, it kind of
1:00:20
worries me. But again at this point I don't
1:00:21
really care. So I'm not like genuinely
1:00:23
worried it. I I'm, I'm out on these and talk
1:00:27
about it. If if this ends up being another
1:00:29
in fact garbage shitty connect, it's the Mets.
1:00:32
So. Yeah, like whatever very.
1:00:34
Fitting, Very fitting. The hat looks stupid, just it's
1:00:40
the original logo. You just threw a circle around
1:00:42
it some writing. I I will say I I I read that was
1:00:48
an alternate. I read that that's that is like
1:00:51
a that that's like a like a team store kind of hat.
1:00:55
The actual hat, I believe has the logo on the hat, maybe in
1:01:02
purple, might just be in orange. But it has the What is that?
1:01:05
The Queen's Bridge? Is that the name of it?
1:01:10
Queen's Bridge? Am I remembering that right?
1:01:12
Queensboro. Queensboro Bridge?
1:01:14
Yeah, across. Like, think above the brim.
1:01:17
Like across the front. King of Queens song.
1:01:21
Yeah, there you go. So yeah, that I heard that that
1:01:24
is not the hat, but that the on field hat is featured elsewhere.
1:01:31
I actually don't really hate the jersey that much.
1:01:34
It doesn't accept me enough if you drop this as like a hey, the
1:01:40
Mets alternate jersey. But like the City connect thing,
1:01:43
I'm over. I'm done with it.
1:01:44
I'm out. I'm fully out.
1:01:46
I'm all done. I hate it.
1:01:47
I'm over it. Half of them suck this one.
1:01:52
Yeah, like if you were playing MLB The Show and you were like,
1:01:54
hey, let's play the old Timers Day where they like, you know,
1:01:58
both teams are wearing old timer stuff.
1:02:00
I wouldn't. I wouldn't hate this one.
1:02:05
Yeah, but like, I had people hit me up in the comments and in the
1:02:08
replies being like, you don't think this is fire with like a
1:02:12
cloud emoji. I'm like, OK pal, I think it's
1:02:17
OK let's just dial it back. Let's not hype these things up
1:02:20
as if they're the greatest of this series or just in general
1:02:27
that stop fooling yourselves. These aren't that good.
1:02:31
But I will. To your point, I there were
1:02:33
there were surprising people that were like that were like,
1:02:36
yeah, I actually don't. I actually don't mind them.
1:02:38
I'm like, how how do you not mind these?
1:02:44
I I don't know. I think I've just come to expect
1:02:47
them to be garbage. So maybe there's an inherent
1:02:51
bias upfront that it's possible. I can't look at them clearly
1:02:55
with that's possible. I don't know.
1:02:58
I'm done talking about it though.
1:02:59
I'm. I'm out.
1:03:01
I'm out. What does it matter who?
1:03:04
They're probably not even going to have the uniforms delivered
1:03:06
on time once they're released. So why?
1:03:07
Why does it even matter? Well, it doesn't even matter.
1:03:13
Let's see here. Closing the book.
1:03:18
Wrapping up here. Don't want to get too deep?
1:03:23
Closing the book, Jackson Holiday recorded his first hit
1:03:26
today. Cheryl Jackson Holiday started
1:03:29
off a little slow there. Maddie Maddie Holiday can go
1:03:32
home now. Speaking of which, don't know if
1:03:37
you saw any of the the videos that came from it, but I think
1:03:42
Maddie Holiday and Jackson's wife were sitting in the Ripken
1:03:47
seats today. And Cal Rip, they got the hit.
1:03:50
Cal Ripken like looks over and they're like he's like high five
1:03:53
in the family like looks over and and high five's Jackson's
1:03:57
wife and I'm like this is like a a 90s baseball kids like fever
1:04:05
dream like Matt Holiday is sitting next to Cal Ripken
1:04:08
watching a a 20 year old son and his wife who people thought were
1:04:13
his mom. They they sat on the Orioles
1:04:16
broadcast. They're like, oh, look down
1:04:18
there, Mom and dad looking real happy after Jackson gets his
1:04:21
first hit. It was his wife, Jackson Holiday
1:04:25
is married. I don't.
1:04:26
I don't know. Apparently not as.
1:04:28
Not as much people knew that as I thought.
1:04:30
But yeah, that's. This is weird and it also makes
1:04:34
me feel very old that I'm yeah. That's what I'm saying.
1:04:40
Just crazy keeping it in Baltimore, though.
1:04:43
Colton Kowser we you and I were talking about a little before we
1:04:45
hopped on White Hot the milkman. As he's being labeled.
1:04:52
He is swinging a hot stick. Good beard too.
1:04:55
A great beard. And the memes?
1:04:57
They're a. Flowing a lot of, a lot of
1:04:59
dairy, a lot of cows. It's good.
1:05:01
A lot of milk, that's good. And I don't know if you.
1:05:04
Don't know if you. Saw my tweet, but maybe.
1:05:09
Making, making the proposition. To bring back the Cal Ripken Got
1:05:15
Milk campaign, the ad campaign, and then.
1:05:20
Somebody was like, hey. Let's run, let's run that with
1:05:23
Colton. Like I was just resurfacing that
1:05:25
ad campaign just because, you know, a lot of milk on the brain
1:05:28
now with with Colton Kowser. But somebody's like, why don't
1:05:31
they just reshoot that ad campaign with Colton?
1:05:33
And I'm like, that's a fabulous idea.
1:05:36
I'd say give it the rest of the year.
1:05:37
Maybe you do that next year? What you got now, I disagree.
1:05:42
You got to do it while the. You got to strike all the irons
1:05:45
high. Let him, let him.
1:05:46
Let him establish himself a little.
1:05:48
Bit before he starts recreating Cal Ripken moments.
1:05:53
But. If you it's an ad.
1:05:54
It was an ad. We're not recreating like on
1:05:57
field moments. It's literally a commercial with
1:05:59
the the milk mustache. When did where?
1:06:03
Where do you? Think we were in.
1:06:05
Time where the the switch got flipped that it was like, hey,
1:06:08
maybe we don't need to drink milk that much.
1:06:11
Maybe dairy, like, isn't the greatest thing to consume, you
1:06:15
know what I mean? Because as a kid, that was like
1:06:18
shoved down our throats advertising.
1:06:20
Got milk, drink, milk. Milk's great for you, it's good
1:06:23
for your bones, strong bones, blah, blah, blah.
1:06:26
That was, we were. We were force fed.
1:06:29
That and then all of a sudden we flipped this switch where it was
1:06:32
like maybe ease off a little. Bit on the dairy intake.
1:06:38
The literal you I'm. Glad you mentioned that the.
1:06:40
Literal Cal Ripken ad that I tweeted It's again, it's just
1:06:44
for milk, which is a point I'll get to shortly.
1:06:47
In just a moment. The the cow Ripken ad said with
1:06:51
all it's a picture of cow sitting there with a bat in his
1:06:53
hand. He's holding a a just a plain
1:06:56
Jane glass of milk. It says with all the milk I
1:06:59
drink, my name might as well be Calcium Ripken Junior really.
1:07:03
I'm a huge milk fan. Besides being loaded with
1:07:06
calcium, there's nothing like it when it's ice cold.
1:07:09
Which is why I drink the recommended 3 glasses a day.
1:07:13
And as you do probably guess, I'm not one to miss a day.
1:07:17
Milk. Where's your mustache?
1:07:20
3 glasses of milk a day. I would evaporate off the face
1:07:24
of the earth if I had three glasses of milk a day.
1:07:27
RIP my plumbing if I did. Oh.
1:07:34
Stomach hurts just hearing that. Oh my goodness.
1:07:37
But I don't think I've had a full.
1:07:38
Glass of milk in. I don't know, maybe 15 years.
1:07:42
I couldn't even tell you the last time, dude, if I if I went
1:07:46
to have a full glass. Of milk.
1:07:47
I would probably have to preface opening the fridge by saying,
1:07:50
well, I hope I'm prepared to ruin the rest of my day because
1:07:54
I'm out of Commission at that point.
1:07:56
Not it's not good for anyone involved.
1:07:58
Heartburn already. But but my point.
1:08:02
About. The the whole, like, milk thing.
1:08:08
I don't feel like this got talked enough.
1:08:10
And I know we're talking like a lot about milk.
1:08:12
I wasn't anticipating talking about milk this much, but
1:08:15
somebody hold on, I gotta find it here.
1:08:22
Where is it? Oh, yeah, OK.
1:08:24
So I put out that tweet and I was like, with the Milkman
1:08:26
Colton cows ran fuego. There's no better time to break
1:08:29
out the Calvin Milk ad campaigns.
1:08:32
And then somebody quote tweeted and said.
1:08:34
Cowser. Side Can we talk about unhinged?
1:08:36
This entire ad campaign was, and then it reminded me of a tweet
1:08:40
that I had seen like a while back.
1:08:42
It was just like some meme floating around on Instagram or
1:08:44
something. But the Guy Kyle plant emoji
1:08:50
tweeted. Still not over the fact that
1:08:52
there was a whole ass ad campaign for years promoting
1:08:55
milk. Just milk.
1:08:56
Not a brand of milk. Just the concept, the idea of
1:09:00
milk. And when I saw that, it took me
1:09:03
back to when I was a kid and I'm like, what did I think?
1:09:05
Who did I think was running this campaign?
1:09:08
Like, what was that about? Why?
1:09:09
Why? Why was that a thing?
1:09:11
What were we doing was like the government behind this, like
1:09:14
trying to get. People to I'll I'll go get the
1:09:17
foil right. Now I I don't.
1:09:20
Understand now again, maybe that's what's wrong with us.
1:09:24
Maybe. It is.
1:09:25
You couldn't pay me to have three.
1:09:26
Glasses of milk. Today much less, much less. 2632
1:09:31
days worth of three glasses of milk, the last cat milk.
1:09:35
Was dunking Oreos into it. And when I was done with the
1:09:38
Oreos, I just poured the the milk down the drain.
1:09:41
I was not gonna drink that. That's how you do it.
1:09:44
Yeah. Andrew McCutchen notched his
1:09:48
300th career home run today. Love to see that?
1:09:51
Love that. The Very good Hall of Fame.
1:09:53
The Very good Hall of Fame. The Hall of Very Good.
1:09:57
The Hall of Very Good. The Hall of Very Good.
1:10:01
I mentioned. Earlier, Blake Snell when we
1:10:04
were talking Jordan Montgomery and guys who have not responded
1:10:08
well to a late start. Blake Snell.
1:10:10
His last shout out? Jason Stark on Twitter, he said.
1:10:13
Blake Snell's last seven starts as a Padre 5 earned runs.
1:10:19
Blake Snell's first seven innings as a giant 10 earned
1:10:25
runs. Seven starts to.
1:10:30
Finish out the. Season last Year 5.
1:10:32
Runs first seven innings. Not he did.
1:10:36
He did have a a pretty. Rough start last year to the
1:10:40
year, so who knows, maybe he turns it on.
1:10:46
I'm just saying his last outing. 4 innings pitched, six hits,
1:10:49
seven earned runs, two walks, 4 KS, 78 pitches.
1:10:53
Just saying somebody that's not. However worried.
1:10:57
About a slow start, Marcelo. Zuna tearing.
1:11:02
The cover off the ball, and it was actually requested that I
1:11:06
include Marcelo Zuna in the notes for today's episode
1:11:10
because it was mentioned that he's not getting the love he
1:11:14
deserves. Understandably so.
1:11:16
I apparently it's I had seen that this was.
1:11:20
I don't know if this is accurate.
1:11:21
Again, Twitter's unhinged. Don't know how much there is,
1:11:25
how much accuracy there is to this, but apparently their their
1:11:28
tweet, Major League Baseball's tweet about Ozuna today was like
1:11:32
the first tweet about Ozuna in like over a year.
1:11:37
I think I saw maybe longer. Couldn't tell you.
1:11:44
So I if if that's accurate. I mean I guess the the point
1:11:47
stands that he yeah maybe he hasn't getting the attention he
1:11:50
deserves but he is tearing the cover off the ball tied to be
1:11:52
honest. I think a lot of Braves fans
1:11:54
went a while. Without talking about him too.
1:11:56
So yeah, but I think weird for all of them to just come.
1:12:00
To his defense. Yeah, no, I I agree with you.
1:12:03
Yeah, but. I think now I think they're
1:12:06
they're like, yeah, Ozuna, that's a guy hated him for like
1:12:11
a year. Very strange.
1:12:15
But again, tied. For most home runs in.
1:12:17
Baseball after a 7th home run today is tied with Tyler O'Neill
1:12:22
who who already mentioned episode prior having a a heck of
1:12:29
a start to to his own season. So very interesting names to be
1:12:33
atop that race this early, but we'll see how that how that pans
1:12:38
out for for those names. Lastly here before we get to our
1:12:44
grand finale promise, we're almost done.
1:12:47
Wanted to get your thoughts on the Nestor move today.
1:12:51
Pump fake? Yeah, what the heck was?
1:12:54
That what was he doing? He's not a fan and I think he
1:12:58
paid for it. As well 'cause the start was not
1:13:00
good. I hate it.
1:13:05
I mean, I I understand the drop down occasional like sidearm
1:13:10
stuff. That's kind of cool, the
1:13:13
occasional like, different hitch 'cause you see certain starters.
1:13:19
Doing that now. Like, different little hit, like
1:13:21
a little bit of a pause that I get.
1:13:23
I'm not a fan of the pump fake. I don't even know if it's legal.
1:13:27
They said that on the broadcast too.
1:13:28
They were like, I don't even know if he's allowed to do that.
1:13:32
I mean, how could it? Yeah, I saw a lot of people out
1:13:35
on base, obviously. So can't boss.
1:13:38
Yeah, but I'm like, how could it not be?
1:13:40
Legal. Like, did they?
1:13:44
Did they? Outlaw the.
1:13:46
The. Like the old timey wind up from
1:13:48
like the early 1900s. Like could you do that if you
1:13:51
wanted to from the from the wind up.
1:13:55
Because if you do that, that's in theory that's that's no
1:13:59
different than what Nestor did today.
1:14:01
Yeah, I don't. I'm over it like.
1:14:03
You're only allowed to do this if you're doing well and you're
1:14:06
not doing well. You're creeping very much into
1:14:09
the Jeremy Lin category and I'm not excited about it.
1:14:16
Mm hmm. It's true.
1:14:19
That's. Tough.
1:14:20
Now the lightning. Is escaping the bottle.
1:14:23
Quickly, rapidly. That's tough.
1:14:36
Yep. That's tough, All right.
1:14:41
Look, wrapping up for good here. I had the idea.
1:14:46
I ran it by Nate. I want to start wrapping up each
1:14:49
episode where we share a just it could maybe be related to what
1:14:57
we talked. About, but really, it's.
1:14:58
Just kind of like an opportunity for us to share A1 off, take
1:15:02
maybe something we've been stewing on, maybe something we
1:15:04
got a rather strong reaction to maybe from that day, from that
1:15:09
week or just a random thing that we're thinking about that's you
1:15:12
know maybe bass prolated, typically bass prolated, maybe
1:15:15
not. And I wanted I I ran up by you
1:15:18
this weekend and and thought maybe we could roll that out
1:15:20
today. So with that said, do you have
1:15:24
something that you've brought to the table for today?
1:15:28
I do, I do. It's kind of spicy.
1:15:31
I didn't mean for it to be this spicy.
1:15:33
Before you get into that, I think we're gonna.
1:15:36
Turn it over to you guys. We need, we're gonna need a name
1:15:39
here for this little this little segment thing.
1:15:43
Going to need a little. Going to need some help with
1:15:45
that so. Feel free to think on it and let
1:15:47
us know we're going to creativity with it, if you will.
1:15:50
We're going to let the. Wind take it.
1:15:52
Are you ready? What do you got, man?
1:15:55
Drop it on me. Seattle Mariners are ruining
1:16:00
Julio Rodriguez. I don't know what's going on up
1:16:07
there. I'm hating it because I was
1:16:13
excited. A few years ago I saw that there
1:16:16
was this corner that they were starting to turn, and I know
1:16:20
it's early into the season, but I don't really care.
1:16:23
Offensively, it's atrocious pitching.
1:16:25
They're middle of the road. Offensively, they're third to
1:16:28
last in OPS, 3rd to last in the average, tied for third to last.
1:16:35
In home runs. Tied for third to last and run.
1:16:41
Scored Julio Rodriguez, 15. Games 21 strikeouts.
1:16:52
A 441 OPS right now, I don't know what's.
1:16:57
Going on, I I watched. A ton of talent in this
1:17:01
superstar in the making at the Home Run Derby, and it's just
1:17:06
crashing and burning. And I'm not saying it's solely.
1:17:11
Because of him I. Think it's this aimless
1:17:13
organization. I think this, this team that
1:17:17
just continues to do weird stuff and be satisfied with like a
1:17:23
wild card run at the end of each August and September.
1:17:27
I'm I'm over it and I don't like it.
1:17:29
And I feel bad for the kid and I think it's an organizational.
1:17:34
Thing. So yeah, that's what I'm going
1:17:36
to throw at you. I think the Seattle Mariners are
1:17:39
I I think they're they're ruining slash wasting Julio
1:17:44
Rodriguez. I don't know how to tell you.
1:17:51
I don't know how to tell you this my.
1:17:53
Friend I kid, you not. I kid you, not you.
1:17:58
Just went into that little that you you dropped a take.
1:18:01
It was certainly spicy, I'll give you that.
1:18:04
But I was I I switched back from my notes to Twitter real quick,
1:18:08
just to make sure nothing happened in the last 30 minutes
1:18:10
We were talking. Did he just say one?
1:18:13
What? The top.
1:18:14
Tweet I I'm. Not joking.
1:18:17
It's the literal top tweet on my timeline right now.
1:18:21
The Cubs. Literally.
1:18:23
Ended the game. Against the Mariners by picking
1:18:27
off Julio Rodriguez's at 1st. So I'm sitting here watching
1:18:30
this clip of Julio that makes me feel a certain way, getting
1:18:34
nabbed at first. To end the game.
1:18:35
Meanwhile, Nate. 'S over here just preaching the
1:18:39
Mariners are ruining Julio Rodriguez.
1:18:43
There's there's just some comedic poetry to that.
1:18:46
That's how I like that. To your point, in a grander
1:18:48
sense, sans getting picked off to end today's game.
1:18:53
I'm kind of with you, man. There was that that corner that
1:18:56
you're talking about that they were turning.
1:18:58
I was. I remember it.
1:18:59
I was like, all right now we go Seattle and it just and not.
1:19:04
I'm not I'm not like writing them off for 2024 on April 14th.
1:19:09
Anything can happen with the with the Mariners.
1:19:11
Maybe they do turn that eventual corner.
1:19:13
But it seemed like it kind of fizzled out a little bit and you
1:19:17
know it it's it's tough to see a guy like that be dealt that
1:19:23
reality. But you know it.
1:19:25
It's still somewhat early but I better, better, right the ship
1:19:28
soon. Just saying.
1:19:31
Just something to watch out. For for me look.
1:19:38
I was. I was bouncing.
1:19:39
Between a few ideas of. Something I wanted to start off
1:19:42
with some were maybe player specific, like like yours, some
1:19:47
team. A couple ideas I had were team
1:19:50
specific, but I thought, you know what, I'm gonna kick this
1:19:52
thing off talking about something.
1:19:56
That I've. Expressed passionately before
1:20:01
that, I still stand behind. There is not a single problem
1:20:10
referring to. Yourself.
1:20:13
As we When talking about your favorite team, there is not a
1:20:18
single problem with that at all. Pop off King the.
1:20:25
Amount of money that we. Spend as fans.
1:20:29
The amount of time that we spend as fans, the energy that we
1:20:33
expend as fans, I'm gonna say we when.
1:20:40
The team wins the. World Series or the
1:20:44
championship, For whatever sport you're following.
1:20:48
We won the championship. Yes, we.
1:20:54
You go into next season, we are the.
1:20:56
Reigning champs. Yeah, you.
1:20:59
You bet. I'm gonna say that.
1:21:02
OK what sparked it was I saw I, the Guardians taking a major Li
1:21:10
mean they they won the game today but on on Twitter they.
1:21:17
They posted the. The result?
1:21:22
It was a walk off today against against your Your Yankees.
1:21:26
Mine. Yes, us, your Yankees.
1:21:29
And. Somebody the what was the
1:21:33
caption? Like the Yankee fans are about
1:21:34
to drop their excuses below or whatever.
1:21:37
And then somebody commented. Some Yankee fan dropped in and
1:21:41
was like, yeah, they said and we won the series though and then
1:21:47
Cleveland comes back and hits him with we in quotations as if
1:21:52
to say like, who's we guardians? Congrats.
1:21:58
On the dub. You couldn't be more wrong.
1:22:01
Here, I'm absolutely going to refer to.
1:22:05
I'm going to use the term we when referring to my favorite
1:22:09
team daily. Daily without a prop like
1:22:14
without issue. No hesitation here and I.
1:22:18
If you disagree, you're wrong. I don't.
1:22:21
I don't say that always. I don't say it often, really,
1:22:27
but I I stand behind it. If you.
1:22:29
Disagree with the fact that I'm gonna, I'm gonna say we when a
1:22:34
friend of my team you're you're wrong.
1:22:35
And I hope you know that I have a permanent.
1:22:40
Marker on my body. It's in my blood, baby.
1:22:45
You already. Know it's us.
1:22:47
It's we fully on. Board good for you.
1:22:53
That's a hot start. To whatever this segment's gonna
1:22:55
be called. Insert segment title.
1:23:01
Come on, listeners, give us something good.
1:23:04
Give us something that that makes sense.
1:23:06
Think of our name. Think of us.
1:23:09
Think of what we do be. Creative.
1:23:11
I'm not being creative. Right now, I'm leaving in three
1:23:15
days. You be creative.
1:23:18
You rate your view. Subscribe.
1:23:29
Can't wait you you. Say you're leaving.
1:23:34
For 10 days. One more time and I'm.
1:23:38
I'm gonna boot you off. This podcast you're lucky we're
1:23:40
wrapping. Up.
1:23:43
That's all I got. I'd say we've.
1:23:44
Been wrapping up for like the last half.
1:23:45
Hour. We're we're actually wrapping
1:23:47
up. That's all I got.
1:23:48
You got anything else for the people before we get out of
1:23:50
here? Oh God.
1:23:51
Fam. No cap.
1:23:52
No cap. And that's on business.
1:23:55
For real, say less. Say less.
1:23:59
Fam, don't go kick your balls. For real.
1:24:03
For real. For real.
1:24:04
On business we. Love you.
1:24:05
And as always, looking forward to talking more baseball with
1:24:07
you guys soon. Until next time.
1:24:24
Stay filthy.