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- 0:00Speaker 1: You should see my shower shoes. I still have them
- 0:02Speaker 1: them John's. The Johnes are slippery on the bottom. Yeah, Todd,
- 0:05Speaker 1: I still have them. Read the book one time. Okay,
- 0:08Speaker 1: read the book.
- 0:08Speaker 2: One time.
- 0:12Speaker 3: That Betsy fam got a lot to cover today. Obviously
- 0:14Speaker 3: this could be the last show for Godfather for a while.
- 0:17Speaker 3: He did get a little phone call, and it's intriguing.
- 0:20Speaker 3: I didn't think that you were going to do this
- 0:22Speaker 3: at this point, but you might do a little tryout scenario.
- 0:26Speaker 3: Do they want you to play indie ball first?
- 0:28Speaker 4: No, well so they I'm not going to say the
- 0:31Speaker 4: team yet. Okay. They basically called me and said, listen,
- 0:34Speaker 4: you know we've seen your show whatever. We understand that
- 0:37Speaker 4: you're doing your show, you work here and there. We're
- 0:39Speaker 4: looking for another guy to lead this team. And I said, okay, fine,
- 0:42Speaker 4: what would you like me to do? They said, well,
- 0:44Speaker 4: well you probably started triple A work your way back up.
- 0:47Speaker 4: I talked to my wife. I'm like, what do you
- 0:49Speaker 4: think about this? This is fantastic. She says, let's give
- 0:52Speaker 4: it a whirl. So I can't say the team yet,
- 0:54Speaker 4: but I'm making a comeback. This is going to be
- 0:58Speaker 4: absolutely incredible. I have been working out. I've been hitting
- 1:01Speaker 4: with my son and his eleven year old team, and
- 1:03Speaker 4: it's it's been absolutely a whirlwind, and you know, thoughts
- 1:06Speaker 4: are going every which way. So this is exciting. I'm
- 1:08Speaker 4: making a comeback.
- 1:15Speaker 2: You've been hitting with your eleven year old team. It's
- 1:18Speaker 2: always funny as you've been working out.
- 1:21Speaker 3: Good April Fools. Hey, Tod Fathers coming back to the
- 1:27Speaker 3: kitchen right after the show. I'm gonna get a great
- 1:29Speaker 3: freaking sandwich. What are you putting on that thing?
- 1:32Speaker 2: Oh?
- 1:32Speaker 4: I might go, I might go Italian man, a little.
- 1:38Speaker 2: Chicken farm I got you.
- 1:40Speaker 4: Yeah, all good, but a little mazarell on there would
- 1:45Speaker 4: be pretty sexy sandwich later.
- 1:48Speaker 3: Hey, with words like that, we got to keep you.
- 1:50Speaker 3: You can't get back on the field when you're talking
- 1:52Speaker 3: like that. That is verbal poetry right there. All right,
- 1:55Speaker 3: so we did it. We were talking for what three minutes?
- 1:57Speaker 3: We're like April Fools. Okay, crats. You don't like April Fools?
- 2:00Speaker 3: What's wrong with it?
- 2:02Speaker 2: I don't know.
- 2:03Speaker 1: Like I was never like a big prank guy. I'm
- 2:05Speaker 1: not sure why. Like guys, you're like you must have
- 2:08Speaker 1: been like a big, big time prankster. I like the
- 2:10Speaker 1: long game pranks like where you like tell somebody something
- 2:14Speaker 1: and then like you forget about it for years and
- 2:16Speaker 1: then they come back to you and they're like, wait,
- 2:19Speaker 1: that wasn't true.
- 2:22Speaker 2: I really thought.
- 2:24Speaker 4: Twelve, you're gullible, you're funny, you got a good personality,
- 2:28Speaker 4: and you know everybody, and you're a big guy, like
- 2:31Speaker 4: big guys are usually the funniest ones, and that you
- 2:34Speaker 4: can't really get stuff over and you know, credit credit
- 2:37Speaker 4: to you for not doing it. But at the same time,
- 2:40Speaker 4: ish don't think so.
- 2:41Speaker 1: My daughter loves April Fools Day. My daughter loves aple.
- 2:45Speaker 1: I mean, there's something cooking for sure in this house
- 2:48Speaker 1: after practice tonight.
- 2:51Speaker 3: Oh no, says the guy who fell on his face
- 2:54Speaker 3: on opening Day. He does not like pranks.
- 2:56Speaker 4: He's not the fun guy. Well he got money for
- 2:59Speaker 4: that prank though.
- 3:00Speaker 1: That's just me only like someone else. I'm just I'm
- 3:04Speaker 1: I'm affecting somebody. I'm not affecting anybody else.
- 3:07Speaker 2: That was just me.
- 3:08Speaker 1: I didn't embarrass anybody else by making them look like,
- 3:11Speaker 1: oh man, I.
- 3:11Speaker 2: Made that guy look stupid.
- 3:13Speaker 1: No way he believed Todd was gonna go back and
- 3:17Speaker 1: play for the Brewers.
- 3:20Speaker 3: Michael, one of our superstars behind the scenes said tell
- 3:24Speaker 3: me why I believe that for a second, and that's
- 3:27Speaker 3: why we do it exactly one time per year, one time.
- 3:30Speaker 3: I don't like my stuff that gets tired. But once
- 3:33Speaker 3: per three sixty five, I'm like, that's fine.
- 3:36Speaker 4: Plenty of fine. You can do anything you want today,
- 3:38Speaker 4: honestly and get away with it. You might, you might
- 3:41Speaker 4: tick some people off, but at the same token, just
- 3:45Speaker 4: go ahead and do it. Because I've seen on Instagram,
- 3:48Speaker 4: like there's there's ten of them, they said. I saw
- 3:50Speaker 4: a bat company said they're making metal torpedo bats. One
- 3:54Speaker 4: time off or you better get it in and then
- 3:56Speaker 4: the road. All good?
- 3:58Speaker 3: All right, So for the rest of the show, we're okay.
- 4:01Speaker 3: So let's start with a couple announcements. Number one, Snake's Territory.
- 4:05Speaker 3: We are doing shows on animals now. But it's the
- 4:10Speaker 3: Arizona Diamondbacks show that you needed. And I know many
- 4:14Speaker 3: of you asked, I'm being serious on this one. I
- 4:16Speaker 3: had gotten messages, some even specifically called out names who
- 4:21Speaker 3: are involved, and there it is. So congratulations. Snake's Territory
- 4:25Speaker 3: launched this morning. Jesse Friedman, Jack Summers, You're gonna bring
- 4:28Speaker 3: you Arizona Diamondbacks coverage all year long, just like we
- 4:33Speaker 3: do with the rest of the shows. We got sixteen
- 4:35Speaker 3: total under the FT network and we're excited about it.
- 4:38Speaker 4: That's fantastic.
- 4:39Speaker 3: Yeah, welcome aboard, baby, And can.
- 4:42Speaker 4: I just say something real quick, Yeah, like these things
- 4:44Speaker 4: are so big. Like just think about back in the day,
- 4:46Speaker 4: like when you just you know, if you don't have
- 4:48Speaker 4: time to come and watch our show, you can get
- 4:51Speaker 4: that half hour session of your favorite team. I find
- 4:54Speaker 4: that absolutely fantastic. Put it on, you know, in the
- 4:57Speaker 4: car while you're at home. You know, whatever you're doing,
- 5:01Speaker 4: you're going to know about that one team you love
- 5:03Speaker 4: and enjoy, and you can ask questions and you'll see
- 5:05Speaker 4: interviews all this kind of good stuff.
- 5:07Speaker 3: Think about how far we've come, right when when you
- 5:09Speaker 3: and I are kids, you're like going to the end
- 5:11Speaker 3: of the local news or maybe obviously just when when
- 5:14Speaker 3: you listening to the radio, we're everything. But yeah, i'd
- 5:17Speaker 3: listen to the radio. That's a great example, right, I'd
- 5:19Speaker 3: be in bed at night as a kid, listening to
- 5:22Speaker 3: the radio, getting ready for them at some point to
- 5:24Speaker 3: talk about the Mets for a few minutes. I'm oh,
- 5:26Speaker 3: I can't wait till they talk about stop talking about
- 5:28Speaker 3: whatever other team, right, Stop talking about the New York Rangers.
- 5:31Speaker 3: I want to hear about the Mets. And you're just waiting.
- 5:33Speaker 3: You can't fast forward now, you're just like, oh, everything
- 5:36Speaker 3: I need to know on the Snakes or on the Mets,
- 5:38Speaker 3: or on the Yanks or on whatever team, right, Braves, Cubs,
- 5:42Speaker 3: et cetera. Boom, there it is. So it's a good call.
- 5:44Speaker 3: So anyway, QR code right down there. If you're a
- 5:47Speaker 3: DBACS fan or if you're a Dodgers hater and you
- 5:50Speaker 3: think this could be the team that takes them down,
- 5:53Speaker 3: then go for it. So congrats to them. And then
- 5:56Speaker 3: adding to this, which we spoke about yesterday, Jesse Friedman,
- 6:00Speaker 3: who's part of that show, will join us tomorrow night
- 6:03Speaker 3: for our first ever playback watch along, and there's how
- 6:08Speaker 3: you can get in on the action. I'll read it
- 6:09Speaker 3: aloud for the podcast listening later crowd too. So it's
- 6:14Speaker 3: seven o'clock Eastern time, the Diamondbacks taking on the Yankees.
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- 6:41Speaker 3: and it's not just a watch party, it's a watch along.
- 6:43Speaker 3: We're all looking at the same thing at the same time.
- 6:45Speaker 3: So super cool. It just got announced and we'll see
- 6:48Speaker 3: it for that tomorrow night one more and we'll get
- 6:52Speaker 3: to this more later. But Lance Lynn just announced his
- 6:55Speaker 3: retirement on his wife's pod, so I just wanted to
- 6:57Speaker 3: throw that out there because it was very fresh there
- 6:59Speaker 3: it is. Congrats Lance Yeah, very nice think of for
- 7:03Speaker 3: you for sticking up for yourself in terms of your
- 7:05Speaker 3: price too, right, Kratz, Lance has made good money in
- 7:08Speaker 3: his career. I don't know what the offers were. I'm
- 7:10Speaker 3: sure we'll get the exacts from him when we bring
- 7:12Speaker 3: him on later this week, but he probably had a
- 7:15Speaker 3: threshold and it wasn't met and he said I've got
- 7:18Speaker 3: kiddos at home. I made enough and I'm good.
- 7:22Speaker 1: Doesn't mean that he doesn't think the amount of money
- 7:24Speaker 1: he was offered is not a lot of money. It
- 7:27Speaker 1: just means there is like a line where you're just like, well,
- 7:31Speaker 1: why would I not get as much as this person?
- 7:34Speaker 1: Because I did this and I have done that, I've
- 7:37Speaker 1: lost this weight, I'm ready to go. I'm willing to
- 7:40Speaker 1: be a closer if necessary. That was talked about for
- 7:43Speaker 1: like two minutes this offseason. But like for teams to
- 7:47Speaker 1: not value him enough, it just shows how much they.
- 7:52Speaker 2: Really wanted him.
- 7:52Speaker 1: And you know you're not just going to do it
- 7:55Speaker 1: for the money. Yes, it's a lot of money, no
- 7:57Speaker 1: matter how much you've made or how much you've not made,
- 7:59Speaker 1: but you're not doing it just for the money. There's
- 8:01Speaker 1: like a there's like a value to the next guy too.
- 8:05Speaker 3: Mm hmm. Yeah, well said.
- 8:07Speaker 4: And now he looks fresh too, he looks spry, he's
- 8:10Speaker 4: ready to rock for family time. It's good.
- 8:13Speaker 3: Yeah, you got in shape. Yeah to run around with
- 8:15Speaker 3: the kids. I like it.
- 8:18Speaker 1: Look good at the picnic, lance Lynn might have a
- 8:21Speaker 1: shirt off at the picnic. First picnic it gets to
- 8:24Speaker 1: celebrate this year.
- 8:26Speaker 3: Mm hmmm. I mean he's going to bring a champagne
- 8:28Speaker 3: bottle of the picnic, Like, is this what we do?
- 8:31Speaker 4: Let's go.
- 8:33Speaker 3: He's retired and it doesn't have to work. Just hang out,
- 8:36Speaker 3: have a good time. Yeah, celebrate it, that's all. I'm
- 8:39Speaker 3: not saying to bring the bottle every day, but celebrate
- 8:41Speaker 3: it one time, one time. Lance. Of course, we'll talk
- 8:43Speaker 3: to him later this week. Fam, I hope you have
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- 9:45Speaker 3: All right, we got a lot to hit today, so
- 9:47Speaker 3: let's charge charge about whoa jerks and Profar had an
- 9:55Speaker 3: awesome year last year and we just started the season
- 9:59Speaker 3: and he is suspended for eighty games. John haym enlisting
- 10:03Speaker 3: this tweet that the drug hCG with the C and
- 10:07Speaker 3: the G capitalized, is a masking agent used to restart
- 10:10Speaker 3: natural testosterone production after a steroid cycle. Manny Ramirez also
- 10:15Speaker 3: famously failed for hCG. Now we're not gonna read the
- 10:20Speaker 3: entire apology because you can basically just copy paste from
- 10:24Speaker 3: prior ones. But he did say, this is the key part.
- 10:29Speaker 3: He would never knowingly do anything to cheat the system
- 10:33Speaker 3: because of his deep love and respect for the game.
- 10:35Speaker 3: He got tested eight times last season, never was positive.
- 10:39Speaker 3: All good, But then where's the explanation or where's a
- 10:42Speaker 3: little bit more detail? Did he tell us, Hey, this
- 10:45Speaker 3: is complete, bs, I don't know what this is I've
- 10:47Speaker 3: never been involved. It's always vague, it's oops. I never
- 10:51Speaker 3: would do this, but he did put this out there.
- 10:55Speaker 3: Todd fathered pretty strongly that he would never knowingly do
- 10:58Speaker 3: anything to cheat it, knowingly do anything. Yeah, do you
- 11:02Speaker 3: believe him?
- 11:04Speaker 4: No? I I don't. I think the problem is you
- 11:07Speaker 4: got to look back to last year, you know, and
- 11:09Speaker 4: and see you got to look back to every year
- 11:12Speaker 4: he's played, because now the speculation is going to be
- 11:17Speaker 4: is this his first time? It hasn't been doing it
- 11:20Speaker 4: for years? Did he do it to get ahead of
- 11:23Speaker 4: the game last year and all of a sudden, you know,
- 11:25Speaker 4: he put up some big numbers, you know he bet.
- 11:27Speaker 4: Everybody's like, oh, we bet bet on himself? Well, yeah,
- 11:29Speaker 4: of course he did. But now you said he eight
- 11:32Speaker 4: times last year, right, So.
- 11:33Speaker 3: The masking Yeah, the masking agent is for masking.
- 11:37Speaker 4: Yeah, it's the cover covering up. So it's unfortunate. Man.
- 11:42Speaker 4: We've been down this road with a lot of guys,
- 11:44Speaker 4: and it's it is. It's very unfortunate to hear about
- 11:47Speaker 4: such a love ballplayer that has been playing for a while.
- 11:50Speaker 4: You know, I love him. I have a respect for
- 11:52Speaker 4: the guy. We've always talked about little League World Series
- 11:54Speaker 4: and you know how he's won it and I've won
- 11:57Speaker 4: it and we've had that connection. It's just it's disappointing,
- 12:00Speaker 4: you know at the end of the day when you
- 12:01Speaker 4: see stuff like this, but you do hear it all
- 12:03Speaker 4: the time. Now you know, it's a little bit less
- 12:06Speaker 4: than usual. But now there's now you got to think
- 12:10Speaker 4: about every time he's played, like you know, and that's
- 12:13Speaker 4: fair for a fan to say, hey, like listen, you know,
- 12:15Speaker 4: well this can't be the first time he's ever taken it.
- 12:19Speaker 4: You know, when when has he done it? So there's
- 12:21Speaker 4: just a lot of things that goes through your head.
- 12:23Speaker 4: Now it's just that one time when you lie about
- 12:25Speaker 4: something or when you do something mischievous, people are always
- 12:29Speaker 4: going to second guess everything you do. Now, so it
- 12:31Speaker 4: is it's disappointing and unfortunate.
- 12:34Speaker 1: Before I go on my rent, I got I have
- 12:36Speaker 1: a question for Todd. Todd, do you think anybody that
- 12:38Speaker 1: ever tests positive and gets eighty games or before when
- 12:42Speaker 1: it was fifty games, is ever not guilty of it
- 12:45Speaker 1: actually didn't do it? Or do you think every steroid
- 12:48Speaker 1: user that's ever been test that's ever tested positive is
- 12:53Speaker 1: a user.
- 12:55Speaker 4: That's a really good question. I would say most of
- 12:58Speaker 4: them are users. I would say, may be a slight percentage,
- 13:01Speaker 4: might have put a wrong cream on, Like I remember,
- 13:04Speaker 4: I forget who was they put an athlete's foot cream on,
- 13:07Speaker 4: and you know they had some sort of steroid in there.
- 13:10Speaker 4: If that's what happened, okay, But I always give the
- 13:13Speaker 4: benefit of the doubt if you want the truth. But
- 13:15Speaker 4: the more and more it happens, you know, I would
- 13:17Speaker 4: say ninety percent, I would say, do it. That's ten percent.
- 13:21Speaker 4: But just unfortunate.
- 13:23Speaker 1: I think I think we're in a generation now that
- 13:27Speaker 1: we don't speculate this. We don't speculate it when guys
- 13:30Speaker 1: have big years. Back when I first got drafted, back
- 13:34Speaker 1: when I first you know, was even jumping into the
- 13:37Speaker 1: big leagues in twenty ten, like there was dudes like
- 13:40Speaker 1: anytime anybody had a big year, or like they showed
- 13:43Speaker 1: up and it was like, whoa that dude put on
- 13:45Speaker 1: a lot of weight, How did that happen?
- 13:47Speaker 2: There was speculation.
- 13:48Speaker 1: We're gone from that, and I love that we're gone
- 13:50Speaker 1: from that because that means the testing is working. What
- 13:53Speaker 1: I don't love is the fact that there are people
- 13:57Speaker 1: out there, excuse me, the people that I know that
- 14:01Speaker 1: I played with that tested positive that now Major League
- 14:06Speaker 1: Baseball is saying, well, hey, you know what, we may
- 14:09Speaker 1: have messed up on some of these, but you know what,
- 14:12Speaker 1: keep it under the rug. And I'm saying this without
- 14:15Speaker 1: with with backing from the people that said it. You
- 14:19Speaker 1: can't say that every single person that tests positive is
- 14:24Speaker 1: one hundred percent guilty. But when Major League Baseball comes
- 14:29Speaker 1: up and they say they give you the suspension and
- 14:31Speaker 1: then you give a very vague apology like this, you question, like,
- 14:36Speaker 1: what is the real motive? Why can't why can't we
- 14:40Speaker 1: allow Profar to come out and say what really happened?
- 14:46Speaker 1: How did this really happen? Because if it were me, Todd, I,
- 14:50Speaker 1: if and I was wrongly accused, if I never knowingly
- 14:54Speaker 1: did this on purpose, I would I would scream to
- 14:58Speaker 1: the high hills. Major Baseball would tell me, no, you
- 15:01Speaker 1: got you gotta stop talking. Okay, guess what, guys, yesterday
- 15:05Speaker 1: Major League Baseball just called me and said, I have
- 15:07Speaker 1: to stop talking. I did not do this, and I
- 15:09Speaker 1: want to get to the bottom of this, because that's
- 15:13Speaker 1: what you do when you are not guilty. You you
- 15:15Speaker 1: go out there and you bang on everybody's door, even
- 15:18Speaker 1: if it's just one person that wants to listen, because
- 15:21Speaker 1: to me, the guys who didn't do this should not
- 15:24Speaker 1: be lumped in with the guys that did do it.
- 15:27Speaker 1: And also, why all of a sudden do we just
- 15:30Speaker 1: let this slide under the rug. To me, it's a
- 15:33Speaker 1: Players Association thing, it's a Major League Baseball associated it's
- 15:37Speaker 1: a Major League Baseball thing. Like Jerkson Profar are still
- 15:40Speaker 1: going to get his money minus eighty games, he still
- 15:43Speaker 1: gets his contract. Anybody know who Jose Asukar is. He
- 15:49Speaker 1: was another guy that was an outfielder for the Padres
- 15:51Speaker 1: last year who had an opportunity to maybe break into
- 15:56Speaker 1: the big leagues. You know what, he ended up going
- 15:59Speaker 1: to the Mets this year. Now he's dfayed and you
- 16:02Speaker 1: sit there and you go, well, what if he had
- 16:04Speaker 1: done steroids, would he have had a breakout year? Well,
- 16:07Speaker 1: the Padres didn't need him anymore because Profar had a
- 16:10Speaker 1: breakout year. There's more than just it affecting the game
- 16:15Speaker 1: and the outcome and the Braves now because he led
- 16:18Speaker 1: them astray saying that this was oh, this was actually me,
- 16:22Speaker 1: I just changed my lower half. There's like, to me,
- 16:28Speaker 1: I'm just not like you went and worked on your
- 16:30Speaker 1: lower half with Fernando Tatisa and his dad.
- 16:35Speaker 2: Sorry, like I'm.
- 16:36Speaker 1: Just maybe I'm wrong, and maybe I'll get roasted for
- 16:39Speaker 1: this because I'm a career two nine hitter.
- 16:42Speaker 2: I get it.
- 16:43Speaker 1: If I had done steroids, I might have hit two eleven.
- 16:46Speaker 1: Who knows, But you know what, I didn't do it.
- 16:51Speaker 1: But just come out and be honest. Let's ever let
- 16:53Speaker 1: everybody be honest with what happened, because not everybody should
- 16:58Speaker 1: be lumped into the Oh well, he tested positive, so
- 17:01Speaker 1: that's a that's a you know, that's a red mark
- 17:04Speaker 1: on his career. Like, let everybody come out. Everybody that's
- 17:07Speaker 1: ever tested positive, come out and say what it is.
- 17:09Speaker 1: And if you don't want to say to me, that
- 17:11Speaker 1: assumes more guilt.
- 17:13Speaker 4: Okay.
- 17:14Speaker 3: So Profar actually came up a few days ago when
- 17:17Speaker 3: we were in Cincinnati, and I'm going to run the
- 17:19Speaker 3: clip back. Yeah, good player, really really good on bass. Guy,
- 17:24Speaker 3: very good.
- 17:26Speaker 1: And he raised his average ex of velocity his average
- 17:29Speaker 1: ex of velocity by five.
- 17:30Speaker 2: Mile per hour.
- 17:32Speaker 3: Wow, which is insane.
- 17:34Speaker 2: Which is insane at that point in your career.
- 17:36Speaker 1: Yeah, I don't know how you do that.
- 17:40Speaker 4: That is true, probably went down. It's a weight size
- 17:42Speaker 4: and bat.
- 17:44Speaker 1: Is that what it was? He went higher, he went
- 17:46Speaker 1: a longer and heavier bat, and so he just started
- 17:48Speaker 1: hitting longer and longer and shorter, longer, shorter, darker, and
- 17:53Speaker 1: lighter bat. Yes, two tones, flame tempered bats, and he
- 18:00Speaker 1: was taking he was taking a bone and boning down
- 18:02Speaker 1: the bat.
- 18:03Speaker 2: That's what it was.
- 18:04Speaker 4: And the knob was not there anymore.
- 18:09Speaker 3: All right. So here's the exit below surge for jerks
- 18:14Speaker 3: and profile from twenty twenty three to twenty twenty four
- 18:16Speaker 3: that Kratz was talking about. When you watch that clip,
- 18:18Speaker 3: you're like, oh, Krat's new Nope, but he didn't know.
- 18:21Speaker 3: But you can do some math in a number of
- 18:24Speaker 3: ways and go this seems fishy, but I'm going to
- 18:28Speaker 3: kind of believe it. There's your exit velocity spike. I mean,
- 18:32Speaker 3: nobody does this remem from eighty six point five to
- 18:35Speaker 3: ninety one point one. Sometimes early career, maybe something happens
- 18:39Speaker 3: and you get stronger and you make a change. But
- 18:41Speaker 3: you know what is he thirty thirty one? Whatever it is.
- 18:45Speaker 3: To see this spike, it certainly adds to the case.
- 18:49Speaker 3: Alex Verdugo was picked up a couple of weeks ago,
- 18:52Speaker 3: we were like, oh, it's kind of some extra depth. Okay,
- 18:54Speaker 3: well they probably knew that there was a situation brewing
- 18:58Speaker 3: and that happened.
- 19:00Speaker 4: Because No, No, I was was just going to say, oh,
- 19:03Speaker 4: go ahead, go ahead, jod go ahead. No. I was
- 19:05Speaker 4: going to say, like when you find out that you
- 19:08Speaker 4: failed the drug test, unless this doesn't happen anymore, it's
- 19:12Speaker 4: you get it, like a couple of weeks. Notice if
- 19:14Speaker 4: I'm not mistaken, like you get ten to fourteen days, Hey,
- 19:18Speaker 4: you know we're gonna do this, then you can say, hey,
- 19:21Speaker 4: I want to get it looked at again. Whatever heck
- 19:23Speaker 4: that is. I'm just drawing a blank appeal, thank you.
- 19:26Speaker 4: And after the appeal, they're like, hey, came back nav again.
- 19:29Speaker 4: We're going to announce it at this time. So they
- 19:32Speaker 4: didn't know ahead of time. That's that's for sure. So
- 19:35Speaker 4: we do. Unless things have changed, they're like, oh, you
- 19:38Speaker 4: got it, we already announced it. No, that can't happen.
- 19:40Speaker 4: That's that's not for the but go ahead, cratzy.
- 19:42Speaker 3: Sorry.
- 19:44Speaker 1: No, what I was going to say was the rule
- 19:46Speaker 1: used to be the team does not find out because
- 19:49Speaker 1: I remember asking the players Association, because it was like,
- 19:52Speaker 1: wait a minute, a team signs a suspected steroid user
- 19:56Speaker 1: or whatever like, and they can just go out and
- 19:58Speaker 1: get somebody new in the meantime while they're waiting for
- 20:01Speaker 1: the test. And what I was told, maybe Ken knows more.
- 20:05Speaker 1: What I was told was the team does not find
- 20:08Speaker 1: out unless the player tells the team, unless the player
- 20:12Speaker 1: leaks it. I think you remember the whole Ryan Braun
- 20:14Speaker 1: thing like that should not have been leaked until the
- 20:19Speaker 1: investigation was completed, because I know some other guys that
- 20:22Speaker 1: tested positive and that investigation took a long time, oh man,
- 20:26Speaker 1: and it grinded on them. It grinded on them so bad,
- 20:29Speaker 1: like they were the worst player ever when they were
- 20:31Speaker 1: when they were during during that investigation part of it.
- 20:37Speaker 3: So he might have told them. He might not, but whatever,
- 20:39Speaker 3: we can ask at some point, I'm sure. I mean,
- 20:41Speaker 3: the show goes deep on this, all right, last thing
- 20:43Speaker 3: real quick, because you guys are pretty heated on this.
- 20:45Speaker 3: Should the suspension be longer? Should you go to a
- 20:48Speaker 3: full season now that it's pretty rare, No.
- 20:54Speaker 1: Because they haven't, because they haven't perfected the system yet.
- 20:57Speaker 1: They haven't perfected the dudes that test positive and didn't
- 21:02Speaker 1: do any actually didn't do anything, And I agree with
- 21:04Speaker 1: Todd it's probably five percent. But I know there is
- 21:09Speaker 1: guys out there. I know for a fact there are
- 21:11Speaker 1: guys out there that tested positive and did not take anything,
- 21:14Speaker 1: and they haven't perfected it yet. So no, But what
- 21:17Speaker 1: I think they should do is they should start hitting
- 21:20Speaker 1: you where it hurts. And I'm not saying guaranteed contracts,
- 21:22Speaker 1: because you can never take players guarantee contracts away. Hit
- 21:26Speaker 1: him where it hurts. You know what, You're never allowed
- 21:29Speaker 1: to be an All Star again. You're never allowed to
- 21:32Speaker 1: be a whatever because there's plenty of guys. Oh he's
- 21:36Speaker 1: an ambassador now for this team. Two time offender, this
- 21:41Speaker 1: guy's the nicest guy ever, two time offender. This guy
- 21:46Speaker 1: got popped and he didn't even he got popped in
- 21:48Speaker 1: a paper trail and people are like, wow, what a
- 21:51Speaker 1: team leader. Amazing, he made his first All Star game.
- 21:55Speaker 1: All that stuff. Your awards should be stripped away.
- 21:59Speaker 3: Okay, I like it. Yeah, we'll obviously talk to Ken
- 22:03Speaker 3: about this later.
- 22:04Speaker 4: Yeah. I think you bring up some good points. I'm
- 22:07Speaker 4: not I'm not sure I'm about the All Star part. Yeah,
- 22:10Speaker 4: I mean, because you know, you see in other sports
- 22:12Speaker 4: as well. The guys still come back make all stars.
- 22:14Speaker 4: But I mean, maybe take those eighty days. I mean,
- 22:19Speaker 4: or maybe I don't. I just don't know. I don't
- 22:20Speaker 4: want to expect it. But if you get to spend
- 22:22Speaker 4: it for eighty days, do you get those eighty days
- 22:24Speaker 4: on service time?
- 22:25Speaker 3: Still we don't remember about the service time, but like, hey,
- 22:29Speaker 3: you don't get.
- 22:29Speaker 4: If that's the case, take those eighty days away from
- 22:32Speaker 4: service time as.
- 22:33Speaker 3: Well, that it doesn't matter as much. But I get
- 22:35Speaker 3: what you're saying.
- 22:36Speaker 4: For an early player, there's got maybe there's something more
- 22:39Speaker 4: that that they have to do.
- 22:40Speaker 3: But if you're a superstar in a Hall of Fame candidate,
- 22:44Speaker 3: then I mean, you're not getting in. People aren't going
- 22:46Speaker 3: to vote you in these days. But anyway, all right,
- 22:48Speaker 3: let's just uh continue the conversation later on with Ken,
- 22:52Speaker 3: but good deep dive here, profar Out. Braves are struggling
- 22:55Speaker 3: to They're winless so far to start the year. Dodgers
- 22:58Speaker 3: took them out easy last night. We'll take some little
- 23:01Speaker 3: fangs the Tigers get on the board after falling to
- 23:04Speaker 3: the Dodgers in the first few games. They won nine
- 23:06Speaker 3: to six yesterday Obviously, We're not gonna get to every
- 23:08Speaker 3: single game in every show, so we're trying to do
- 23:10Speaker 3: this morning breaks. Let us know if you like it.
- 23:12Speaker 3: Tigers are now one and three. Jackson job is nasty.
- 23:15Speaker 3: Tiger's had a six run first off Emerson Hancock, who
- 23:18Speaker 3: I spoke about as the person I'm concerned about this offseason. Yes,
- 23:23Speaker 3: there's a lot down the middle quadrant of the plate
- 23:27Speaker 3: and for the Tigers labor torres left oblique strain ten day,
- 23:30Speaker 3: I l but Tigers are gonna be good. I was
- 23:34Speaker 3: pretty pissed about some of the criticism on the Tigers
- 23:38Speaker 3: after falling in three games to the freaking Dodgers. Like relax, Okay, also,
- 23:42Speaker 3: they didn't get trounced. They're gonna be good. But anyway,
- 23:46Speaker 3: they lose glabor for some time period. So does that
- 23:48Speaker 3: mean Cole Keith goes to second and uh at first again?
- 23:55Speaker 4: For now? I wouldn't move. He's going pretty good. Yeah,
- 23:58Speaker 4: leave him where he's at. But everybody else, you know,
- 24:03Speaker 4: aj hintskin and maneuver people left and right. And you know,
- 24:06Speaker 4: you think about the schedule that this team has run.
- 24:09Speaker 4: The get go this West Coast swing, Oh my goodness,
- 24:13Speaker 4: you know if they could come out somewhere sort of
- 24:14Speaker 4: five hundred, that would be fantastic. Do I think it's
- 24:16Speaker 4: gonna happen. Probably not, But again, this team has done
- 24:20Speaker 4: it before. Hinch has moved guys around in different spots
- 24:23Speaker 4: in the batting order, in different spots on the field,
- 24:26Speaker 4: different dhs. He is not afraid to put guys anywhere
- 24:30Speaker 4: and move them around. So I'm not really worried about this.
- 24:34Speaker 4: It stings a little bit, Labor Torres. I love the guy,
- 24:39Speaker 4: you know, he finally got out of New York and
- 24:41Speaker 4: now you got a ten day Johnny. I think it'll
- 24:44Speaker 4: be a lot, not a lot more, but I think
- 24:45Speaker 4: it'll be more than ten days until he gets back
- 24:47Speaker 4: on his feet a little bit. But to start the
- 24:49Speaker 4: year off like this, it's just to kick in the
- 24:52Speaker 4: rear end, you know.
- 24:53Speaker 3: Yeah, it's a one year contract. He's trying to prove
- 24:55Speaker 3: it and get back to the market at a young
- 24:56Speaker 3: age and make make bank. Yeah, Keith played second yesterday.
- 25:00Speaker 3: Want to make sure I was right on that. But
- 25:02Speaker 3: Toork's gonna play first. I guess at least for now,
- 25:05Speaker 3: you got to keep that bat in the lineup. Suddenly
- 25:06Speaker 3: he's didn't clean up. He was two for five yesterday.
- 25:09Speaker 3: Is off to a ridiculous start.
- 25:10Speaker 4: It's got to be a torpedo bat.
- 25:13Speaker 3: No, we'll get to that, kidding.
- 25:16Speaker 1: If you want to look up, take advantage of your opportunity.
- 25:19Speaker 1: Spencer Torkolsen like people are like, oh, bro, I didn't
- 25:22Speaker 1: get any chance. They only let me start on opening day. Hey,
- 25:26Speaker 1: that was your chance. Look at what Toork's doing. I
- 25:28Speaker 1: don't know that he's going to hit three hundred and
- 25:30Speaker 1: make an All Star team or any of that, but hey,
- 25:33Speaker 1: he took his chance right now and he's getting clean
- 25:35Speaker 1: up for the boys.
- 25:38Speaker 3: Hey, a reminder to everyone. Our watch along is tomorrow night,
- 25:41Speaker 3: the first one we'll do more seven o'clock Eastern time,
- 25:44Speaker 3: and it is the Yankees and the Diamondbacks. We'll have
- 25:47Speaker 3: perspective on the Yankee side with Derek Lewandowski, our Pinch
- 25:50Speaker 3: Stripe Territory officionado and host Jesse Friedman, host of the
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- 26:00Speaker 3: free to get an account, and then we'll stream the
- 26:02Speaker 3: game together and give you kind of an alt cast.
- 26:05Speaker 3: So we'll do our version of the Manning cast Ft style.
- 26:15Speaker 3: Let's hit this. Red Sox are in the news a
- 26:17Speaker 3: lot right now, Kratz, what did you think about the
- 26:19Speaker 3: Garrett Crochet extension. I saw it. I was like, oh, wow,
- 26:22Speaker 3: he's still under team control for a couple of years.
- 26:24Speaker 3: Good for him, Great job on that deal. I mean,
- 26:26Speaker 3: that's a big money deal for someone I just talked
- 26:29Speaker 3: to Ken about that. You know, has had injury concerns,
- 26:32Speaker 3: that had one good season last year. Stuff is off
- 26:34Speaker 3: the charts. But the Red Sox clearly did not want
- 26:37Speaker 3: to let him get to free agency.
- 26:40Speaker 1: I don't think he wanted to get the free agency either.
- 26:42Speaker 1: He said it last year, Hey you want to trade
- 26:44Speaker 1: for me, you got to you gotta extend me if
- 26:47Speaker 1: you trade for me. The White Sox were like, oh crap,
- 26:51Speaker 1: Like I get it.
- 26:53Speaker 2: He's not dumb.
- 26:54Speaker 1: This is good money too, Like this is you just
- 26:57Speaker 1: you brought up Corbyn Burns. Corbyn Burns was in a
- 27:00Speaker 1: open market. Crochet knows this is like, this is a
- 27:05Speaker 1: pitching is fleeting. Like if you come off a Tommy
- 27:08Speaker 1: John surgery, you got about six years to your next one.
- 27:11Speaker 2: Is the average not for everybody? You know?
- 27:14Speaker 1: Is that sped up because he throws a hundred. Is
- 27:16Speaker 1: that sped up because he throws a ninety two mile
- 27:19Speaker 1: an hour slider because his arms at a different angle.
- 27:21Speaker 2: We don't know.
- 27:22Speaker 1: But good for him to get it and the Red
- 27:26Speaker 1: Sox to me, I love what they did. I thought
- 27:29Speaker 1: the Orioles should have done this with Corbyn Burns. I
- 27:31Speaker 1: thought they should have said, we traded for you. We
- 27:33Speaker 1: gave up some big pieces for the Red Sox. They
- 27:36Speaker 1: gave him Kyle Teel monstrous piece in that. There's other
- 27:40Speaker 1: pieces too, but lock it in. This is worth it
- 27:43Speaker 1: to the Red Sox, and this is really worth it to.
- 27:46Speaker 4: Crochet absolute stud. It's gonna be a great pitcher for
- 27:50Speaker 4: a long time, in my opinion, a top five pitcher
- 27:53Speaker 4: in the league, one of the best left handers you're
- 27:56Speaker 4: going to see play the game for a very long
- 27:58Speaker 4: time if you could stay health. I think this is
- 28:01Speaker 4: a great job by the Red Sox to lock a
- 28:03Speaker 4: guy in then needs to be locked in. He's young,
- 28:06Speaker 4: he's spry, he throws the ball really well, and he's
- 28:09Speaker 4: going to be a staple for the Red Sox moving forward.
- 28:12Speaker 4: And now he's got he could sit back and relax
- 28:14Speaker 4: and just play the game too as well. You know,
- 28:16Speaker 4: everybody that comes up they get paid, don't. I'm not
- 28:19Speaker 4: saying they don't get paid a lot of money. But
- 28:21Speaker 4: to get that contract under your belt, you could kind
- 28:24Speaker 4: of breathe a little bit better knowing that, Hey, I
- 28:26Speaker 4: don't you know, necessarily have to you know, go out
- 28:29Speaker 4: there and be Nolan Ryan every day. I could just
- 28:32Speaker 4: be myself and still get guys out and still perform exceptional.
- 28:36Speaker 4: Not a bad deal at all for both. And yes,
- 28:39Speaker 4: I did say top five.
- 28:41Speaker 3: He can get another bite at the apple. Yeah, I
- 28:43Speaker 3: mean so if he opts out after twenty thirty, that's
- 28:46Speaker 3: his age thirty one season. I mean, good for him.
- 28:48Speaker 3: But the owner of the Red Sox completely learned his
- 28:52Speaker 3: lesson here. I think that's important too. Right, here's cheap.
- 28:55Speaker 3: I mean, it's true. John Henry definitely has had a
- 28:58Speaker 3: lot of success. He wants to win, but he was
- 29:00Speaker 3: cheaping out. And I also had PTSD from past deals,
- 29:03Speaker 3: and that happens, right, That hurts. Chrisale will be the
- 29:05Speaker 3: first one to tell you that he felt like he
- 29:08Speaker 3: was a bust after that contract was signed. Of course,
- 29:10Speaker 3: they won a World Series, but that was right before
- 29:12Speaker 3: the contract was signed, and John Henry wants to avoid that.
- 29:16Speaker 3: So what does he do. He basically finds the guy
- 29:18Speaker 3: who looks very much like Chrysale and says, I'm going
- 29:22Speaker 3: to sign a long term now, so I don't let
- 29:24Speaker 3: him get the free agency because We've kind of sucked
- 29:26Speaker 3: the last few years and I'm getting crushed by fans
- 29:29Speaker 3: and they were starting to talk with their wallet. And
- 29:33Speaker 3: let's not overlook that Kratz ratings were down on the
- 29:36Speaker 3: TV side, stadium was looking empty, and then it had
- 29:38Speaker 3: been in a long time. This is super, super devoted
- 29:42Speaker 3: or fan base to the franchise, but you got to
- 29:45Speaker 3: show some effort on both sides. And you cannot ignore
- 29:48Speaker 3: paying top flight starters when you're a team like that.
- 29:51Speaker 3: You can't just completely skip that part of the equation.
- 29:55Speaker 3: There is supreme risk, but you might as well at
- 29:57Speaker 3: least do it with some younger pitchers. I know he's
- 30:00Speaker 3: he's you know, had some injuries and also we just
- 30:02Speaker 3: haven't seen him as a starter for long. But it's
- 30:04Speaker 3: the guy who at least you're gonna get in those
- 30:07Speaker 3: you know, mid to late twenties for the length of
- 30:10Speaker 3: that deal.
- 30:11Speaker 1: Young young is key there. He's not even twenty six yet,
- 30:14Speaker 1: he'll turn twenty six this season. But to me, who
- 30:17Speaker 1: got him this contract?
- 30:19Speaker 2: More? Was it?
- 30:21Speaker 1: Because we talk about, oh, you know he's got PTSD
- 30:24Speaker 1: from the David Price signing or the or the uh,
- 30:28Speaker 1: you know, Chris Sale signing, But who got it for him?
- 30:31Speaker 1: The fact that Chris Sale shows if he's healthy, he
- 30:34Speaker 1: can bounce back and be a cy young even though
- 30:37Speaker 1: he didn't do it in Red Soccer Land? Or was
- 30:41Speaker 1: it the mookie Betts like I have gotten so much
- 30:44Speaker 1: flak for letting a superstar go. So which of those?
- 30:48Speaker 1: Which of those cases? May John Henry say, all right,
- 30:52Speaker 1: this is an opportunity we have. This dude's still only
- 30:54Speaker 1: twenty five years old. How do we lock him up
- 30:57Speaker 1: to be our future eight? He's not an AC yet,
- 31:01Speaker 1: but a future ace.
- 31:03Speaker 3: I'm going to go off the board here and give
- 31:05Speaker 3: you a name that you would not expect me to
- 31:07Speaker 3: throw out there. And I haven't seen this anywhere, so
- 31:09Speaker 3: maybe I'm coming up with something. But Yamamoto who signs
- 31:13Speaker 3: with the Dodgers a year ago, and of course he
- 31:16Speaker 3: comes over from Japan with all the credentials, But don't
- 31:18Speaker 3: overlook the biggest part of that signing and why he
- 31:20Speaker 3: got that much money last year. Yong super young starter
- 31:24Speaker 3: and obviously signed for a long period of time. This
- 31:27Speaker 3: deals about half that, less than half that in terms
- 31:31Speaker 3: of years, and you're getting a guy during those age
- 31:34Speaker 3: you know, twenty he would be, so he's twenty five
- 31:36Speaker 3: right now. So yeah, what twenty seven, twenty eight, twenty nine, thirty.
- 31:39Speaker 3: I mean you're getting those similar years that you're going
- 31:41Speaker 3: to get with Yamamoto, and it's at about half the
- 31:44Speaker 3: price of Yamamoto's contract and about half the years of
- 31:48Speaker 3: Yamamoto's contracts. So do you think that's a factor. We
- 31:50Speaker 3: don't see starters hit the market that often at this
- 31:53Speaker 3: young of an age.
- 31:55Speaker 1: No, I agree, I agree with that, but I don't
- 31:58Speaker 1: think like I think the Red Sox had to do this.
- 32:02Speaker 1: I think this is a good ship. This is a
- 32:04Speaker 1: great show. I mean, think about the last four weeks
- 32:08Speaker 1: since they signed Bregman, something that they haven't done, and
- 32:13Speaker 1: since they now have extended crochet like this should Red
- 32:18Speaker 1: Sox fans you can still be pissed about your team's
- 32:20Speaker 1: start or the fact that you know they don't have this,
- 32:23Speaker 1: or that that's fine, ownership's doing it ownership that I
- 32:28Speaker 1: was critical of is doing it. They're doing things to
- 32:32Speaker 1: put their team in a good place. I mean we
- 32:34Speaker 1: heard from Corbyn Burns the Red Sox made a good push,
- 32:38Speaker 1: it wasn't enough to draw them away from being home
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- 33:53Speaker 3: And we'll start with the Cubs and the Sacramento A's
- 33:58Speaker 3: the opening of the ballpark that already exists, but now
- 34:01Speaker 3: is a major league park for years to come. And
- 34:04Speaker 3: the Cubs welcome to the ace to Sacramento with authority,
- 34:09Speaker 3: including a cycle from Carson Kelly, and basically everybody got
- 34:13Speaker 3: in on the fund. Wit am I taking the over
- 34:16Speaker 3: all year long at this ballpark? Is that a real number?
- 34:19Speaker 3: I watched mostly the Dodger game, and then I would
- 34:21Speaker 3: flip back every once in a while and I'm like,
- 34:23Speaker 3: three more, three more, two more?
- 34:24Speaker 4: Holy crap, look at him. Unbelievable hitting for the cycle.
- 34:29Speaker 4: I mean, that's I mean, that's a memory and something
- 34:32Speaker 4: we'll never forget. You know, you're at you're at a
- 34:34Speaker 4: minor league ballpark. Balls are flying left and right. I
- 34:38Speaker 4: feel like he got jammed on the triple that he
- 34:40Speaker 4: hit the right center that was incredible. Gotta be the
- 34:42Speaker 4: torpedo action. But anyway, this he now packed house, everybody
- 34:48Speaker 4: enjoying it. The crowd looked excited. I even know that
- 34:52Speaker 4: even though the score was sixteen to three, Scottie, I
- 34:55Speaker 4: think you're onto something here.
- 34:56Speaker 3: Man.
- 34:57Speaker 4: It could be an over all day, every day stadium.
- 35:00Speaker 4: So good for the Cubbies coming out there getting going,
- 35:03Speaker 4: especially after a slow start against the Dodgers and coming
- 35:05Speaker 4: out a little sluggish. But yeah, just welcome to Sacramento, man,
- 35:10Speaker 4: nothing more you can say about it. It's here. It
- 35:13Speaker 4: is bold teams Tampa Sacramento Welcome. It's it's a real deal.
- 35:17Speaker 3: Yeah, eighteen three Cubs were like, we're not happy to
- 35:20Speaker 3: be playing in a minor league park. We're gonna show it.
- 35:22Speaker 3: Lawrence Butler was asked about the whole deal once he's
- 35:24Speaker 3: finally in there and settled yesterday, and you said, the
- 35:26Speaker 3: clubhouse is pretty nice. But he's like the minor league
- 35:29Speaker 3: field and park park. It's a minor league park, and
- 35:32Speaker 3: they put forty million dollars into the whole situation. But
- 35:35Speaker 3: there's the quote he says, Sacramento's clubhouse is quite nice.
- 35:37Speaker 3: And by the way, I'll add, I mean they have
- 35:39Speaker 3: a two story situation. You got to have, you know,
- 35:43Speaker 3: some extra room in there. You got multiple teams that
- 35:45Speaker 3: are using it home park wise, yeah, he said, but
- 35:47Speaker 3: the stadium feels like a minor league stadium, and that
- 35:51Speaker 3: is what we're gonna have here. We've got two teams
- 35:53Speaker 3: doing this now, and MLB is okay overseeing that. But
- 35:57Speaker 3: John Fisher spoke to the press yesterday, I and Drelik
- 36:01Speaker 3: wrote some good stories on the whole situation. You know,
- 36:05Speaker 3: he did not seem concerned about anything going on obviously
- 36:09Speaker 3: with the Vegas plans and basically everything there is all
- 36:12Speaker 3: written up as hey, we're here for a little layover.
- 36:16Speaker 3: Because Drelik spent about a week there in Sacramento and
- 36:19Speaker 3: he said it was kind of weird, right. The fans
- 36:21Speaker 3: are excited to be able to see some major league games.
- 36:24Speaker 3: And of course here's the part I wanted to get
- 36:26Speaker 3: to with Fisher for krats because I know he's gonna
- 36:28Speaker 3: love it. I'll take the quote, my favorite quote from
- 36:30Speaker 3: the story, and I'm sure we will get a lot
- 36:32Speaker 3: of fans who are new to baseball and want to
- 36:35Speaker 3: see what this is going to be like. And then
- 36:38Speaker 3: we'll also get a lot of fans who will be
- 36:41Speaker 3: you know, Chicago Cubs fans and Yankees fans. He's like
- 36:45Speaker 3: giggdy and Kansas City fans who are going to come
- 36:48Speaker 3: out and support their team against the Athletics. And for us,
- 36:52Speaker 3: it's all about bringing a lot of passion into the
- 36:54Speaker 3: ballpark and we think that we'll be able to achieve that.
- 37:03Speaker 3: What's going on because he can't. He loves talking about
- 37:06Speaker 3: other teams and other players. So I just I'm reading
- 37:10Speaker 3: through and I'm like, okay, you know, like someone's probably
- 37:13Speaker 3: not coaching him, and.
- 37:14Speaker 4: You're like, you're doing good, You're doing good.
- 37:15Speaker 3: And then he's like, and I love other teams coming
- 37:17Speaker 3: at the park and beating us up.
- 37:20Speaker 5: Oh, I can't wait for Judge because think about it,
- 37:25Speaker 5: he's going to He is essentially wants to go to
- 37:28Speaker 5: the smallest market possible in baseball in Las Vegas.
- 37:32Speaker 1: If he doesn't have all these other exciting teams coming
- 37:35Speaker 1: into town to play, my a's he's got jack because
- 37:40Speaker 1: he doesn't know how to connect with the fans. We
- 37:43Speaker 1: just showed Stu Sternberg like standing up there. If Stu
- 37:46Speaker 1: Sternberg really cared about the fans and all the debacle
- 37:49Speaker 1: and everything that everybody went through, Like, hey, we're suffering
- 37:52Speaker 1: through this hurricane together. He'd be down, not in the
- 37:55Speaker 1: suite that they made for him and his cronies. He'd
- 37:58Speaker 1: be down with the people. So John Fisher show up
- 38:02Speaker 1: for the people, go face to face with the people
- 38:04Speaker 1: that say you should sell, explain to them why you
- 38:07Speaker 1: shouldn't sell. And you're wanting to put a product out
- 38:09Speaker 1: there for the true as fans. But no, he's like,
- 38:14Speaker 1: oh man, it's so neat. The Cubs came in whole
- 38:17Speaker 1: historic Cubs. Can you believe sho Haano Tani's coming to Sacramento.
- 38:22Speaker 1: HiT's unvolieved. It's gonna be great. They're just gonna They're
- 38:25Speaker 1: gonna sell it. They're gonna have more posters about who
- 38:27Speaker 1: they're playing than who's on their team.
- 38:31Speaker 3: Well, there's barely any Sacramento stuff up. I mean, that's
- 38:33Speaker 3: what the article says here from Drelik, and the mayor
- 38:37Speaker 3: of Sacramento said, I'm calling them the Sacramento A's. I'm like,
- 38:40Speaker 3: that's right with your chest, baby. He said, I'm gonna
- 38:43Speaker 3: buy myself a Sacramento age jersey and hat very soon.
- 38:46Speaker 3: By the way, that's not gonna be available from MLB,
- 38:50Speaker 3: so it's probably gonna be from a shop selling it illegally,
- 38:52Speaker 3: So don't call them out too much. They get in trouble. Anyway.
- 38:55Speaker 3: Back to the quote, he said, they're not calling them
- 38:59Speaker 3: that as in sacremento, but we can call them that.
- 39:02Speaker 3: And the Kings and the Sacramento River Cats were obviously
- 39:06Speaker 3: all involved with getting this ballpark into better shape, including
- 39:10Speaker 3: the natural grass instead of the turf that they wanted
- 39:13Speaker 3: to roll with initially to save money, which would have
- 39:15Speaker 3: been a disaster, and a King spokesman told Evandrelic that
- 39:21Speaker 3: they could interview one of their executives to talk about this,
- 39:24Speaker 3: but only if the team could approve which quotes were
- 39:27Speaker 3: used in advance of the publication. The Athletic declined to
- 39:31Speaker 3: conduct an interview under those terms. The Kings have already
- 39:34Speaker 3: commented publicly on the stadium project, so Drelk said, it's
- 39:38Speaker 3: an interesting choice when they're trying to bring a team
- 39:41Speaker 3: into the city and they will only let you talk
- 39:43Speaker 3: to them right that that ownership group and team situation
- 39:47Speaker 3: if they approve the quotes. Things are just always weird.
- 39:54Speaker 3: This situation, she is the right word for this. Did
- 39:57Speaker 3: you see the tool shed.
- 40:00Speaker 4: I did see the tool set. If they.
- 40:04Speaker 2: Press yeah, it was.
- 40:07Speaker 4: It looks like a porter John. You can't go there.
- 40:11Speaker 3: It got windy at one point. That thing could bowl over.
- 40:15Speaker 3: I mean it could. You can. You can buy that
- 40:18Speaker 3: actually from our boy's on the show earlier.
- 40:22Speaker 4: Mister Lord.
- 40:23Speaker 3: Yeah, Brad Lord.
- 40:24Speaker 4: Listen, that looks like one of those COVID tents back
- 40:27Speaker 4: in twenty twenty that they made. So they just they
- 40:30Speaker 4: found the same supplies and made it pretty good, you
- 40:33Speaker 4: know what. Listen, at the end of the day, at
- 40:35Speaker 4: least the media knows where they need to go and
- 40:37Speaker 4: they can stay in there for a long time if
- 40:39Speaker 4: they want. It's not like, oh, you got to be
- 40:41Speaker 4: set time. So I give them credit for that one.
- 40:43Speaker 3: Yeah, except if there's some natural disaster warning you do
- 40:46Speaker 3: not want to be in that thing. Get to a
- 40:48Speaker 3: real safe place. Not that makes for sure, ish, but anyway, Yeah,
- 40:52Speaker 3: it's gonna be weird, you know. I mean on TV,
- 40:55Speaker 3: it looks like a minor league park. Kratz looks like
- 40:58Speaker 3: I'm watching one of the mi ILB games, and there's
- 41:01Speaker 3: the concourse and then upstairs. You know, you don't have
- 41:05Speaker 3: the multiple decks. You just have the the mezzanine, which
- 41:09Speaker 3: is really just some sweets and that's it.
- 41:11Speaker 4: That's the park, all right.
- 41:13Speaker 1: When the Yankees come in, are they going to extend
- 41:16Speaker 1: Are they going to expand that that media tent, because
- 41:19Speaker 1: if not, it might be one hundred and ten degrees
- 41:22Speaker 1: the dude standing outside of that.
- 41:24Speaker 3: Jones forget the Yanks not big enough. The Dodgers have
- 41:29Speaker 3: like thirty Japanese media members, maybe more.
- 41:32Speaker 4: They'll I was thinking the same thing. That's so funny.
- 41:35Speaker 3: They'll not that thing over if you're trying to get
- 41:37Speaker 3: every media member in for a Dodgers A's matchup.
- 41:41Speaker 4: Especially depending on whose pitching.
- 41:43Speaker 3: Yeah, I'm with you. But anyway, they started off their season,
- 41:46Speaker 3: so we'll see how it goes. Cubs certainly had a
- 41:48Speaker 3: great time with the beginning of that thing. Let's get
- 41:52Speaker 3: to a couple winless teams. Tell me which team you're
- 41:56Speaker 3: more concerned about, the Minnesota Twins or the Milwaukee Brewers.
- 42:04Speaker 3: Royles beat up the Brewers yesterday. Maybe it's not the
- 42:06Speaker 3: Torpedoes eleven to one. They're pitching staff kind of seems
- 42:10Speaker 3: like it's in shambles already, but I'm still gonna have faith.
- 42:12Speaker 3: Brewers are gonna Brewer. Maybe not. Twins fall nine to
- 42:15Speaker 3: nothing to the White Sox. Chris Paddock ate up all
- 42:18Speaker 3: nine of those runs in three and a third, including
- 42:21Speaker 3: three homers, all from the Vets, Ben and Tendee, Andrew Vaughn,
- 42:24Speaker 3: Michael A. Taylor, and Martin Perez with six shutout innings,
- 42:28Speaker 3: no hits allowed, off Perez to three walks, nine strikeouts.
- 42:31Speaker 3: Maybe you had a point Kratz. Martin Perez said, Hey,
- 42:33Speaker 3: we might be a playoff team. Hey they might be
- 42:35Speaker 3: better than Minnesota. They won't. But the Twins look really
- 42:38Speaker 3: bad to me. I'm more concerned about them. What about you.
- 42:41Speaker 1: I'm more concerned about the Twins only because, like, if
- 42:46Speaker 1: you're if you're trying to if you're trying to figure
- 42:49Speaker 1: out how to improve improve on the edges, obviously you
- 42:53Speaker 1: need a Royce Lewis in the lineup. Obviously you need
- 42:56Speaker 1: to add to your lineup in the offseason. Because they
- 43:00Speaker 1: just missed out in the playoffs last year. They started
- 43:03Speaker 1: out really hot. They need to turn it around fast.
- 43:09Speaker 1: Because I'm afraid for Rockleball Deli's future. I don't think
- 43:13Speaker 1: I don't think it's gonna happen in the first month.
- 43:15Speaker 1: I asked Ken about it before. But if they don't
- 43:18Speaker 1: turn this around, that's who, to me is one of
- 43:21Speaker 1: the solid anchors of this team. Whether or not he
- 43:25Speaker 1: has a good voice in the clubhouse. I believe he
- 43:27Speaker 1: does from what I've heard from guys. But to me,
- 43:30Speaker 1: I'm more concerned about the Twins than the Brewers because
- 43:34Speaker 1: the NL Central is, in my opinion, is gonna be
- 43:37Speaker 1: kind of muddling. Muddling or meddling. I don't know, it's
- 43:40Speaker 1: gonna be kind of just everyone's gonna be right around
- 43:42Speaker 1: the middle there, middling. To me, I think the AL
- 43:48Speaker 1: Central the Twins can't get that far behind because some
- 43:51Speaker 1: dudes are gonna start running away with it.
- 43:54Speaker 4: Now I'm gonna go the opposite way. I'm I'm thinking
- 43:56Speaker 4: the Brewers just because listen the hangover from Land last year,
- 44:01Speaker 4: No Devin Williams. They're getting beat pretty bad. And then
- 44:05Speaker 4: the pitching's not looking too good either, and we always
- 44:08Speaker 4: talk about this, let's not let's pump the brakes. That's
- 44:10Speaker 4: all this. Listen, these games all count, they all count,
- 44:14Speaker 4: and you look back on the season. Now we lost
- 44:16Speaker 4: by three games. Well, what happened at the beginning of
- 44:17Speaker 4: the year we went five and twenty, you know, whatever
- 44:20Speaker 4: it is example, But yeah, you think about what happened
- 44:23Speaker 4: last year, the home run by Pete Alonzo and next
- 44:25Speaker 4: thing you know, Brewers coming out putting up a goose egg.
- 44:29Speaker 4: Right now, who would have saw that coming. So they
- 44:31Speaker 4: got to figure it out. They got good management, and
- 44:35Speaker 4: I think they'll be fine. But at the same time, it's,
- 44:38Speaker 4: you know, just like anything else, it still plays in
- 44:40Speaker 4: your mind.
- 44:41Speaker 3: They lost the Domins to and he's I always call
- 44:45Speaker 3: it the spark plug in terms of vibes and personality there.
- 44:49Speaker 3: I mean, they've got other fun guys in the clubhouse,
- 44:51Speaker 3: but you know that one hurts too. Twins just feel
- 44:54Speaker 3: like it was such a collapse and then nothing was
- 44:57Speaker 3: done in the offseason and the teams in limbo with
- 44:59Speaker 3: the the sale. It's a weird spot for them. But
- 45:04Speaker 3: I do like some of the pitching there, especially the bullpen.
- 45:06Speaker 3: It's just they got blanked by the White Sox. That's
- 45:09Speaker 3: really all we have to say. Let's talk about Adam
- 45:11Speaker 3: Outavino coming off a rough spring with the Red Sox,
- 45:15Speaker 3: but he is going to join the New York Yankees,
- 45:16Speaker 3: at least for now. Devin Williams going on the paternity list.
- 45:20Speaker 3: So Ottavino late stages of his career, trying to latch on,
- 45:23Speaker 3: and he is back with the Yanks. Yeah, funky Ottavino.
- 45:28Speaker 4: We'll see how long this lasts.
- 45:30Speaker 3: Right now, you just need to just be mediocre with
- 45:34Speaker 3: the Yanks because they're scoring what ten runs a game exactly?
- 45:36Speaker 3: Ex Yeah, hey, twenty nineteen though he was money one
- 45:41Speaker 3: nine o era seventy three appearances for them, and then
- 45:44Speaker 3: you know the numbers fell off in twenty twenty. That
- 45:47Speaker 3: was COVID year, short sample size, all that. But anyway,
- 45:50Speaker 3: we'll see if you can kick it with the Yanks.
- 45:52Speaker 3: Last year with the Mets was a little over four
- 45:55Speaker 3: trying to hang on here towards the end of his career.
- 45:58Speaker 3: He's gotten up. What is what is that about of Vino? Anyone?
- 46:01Speaker 4: No, look it up. But he goes down as one
- 46:06Speaker 4: of those guys. We're both Yankees and Mets. Thirty four.
- 46:10Speaker 3: Nine.
- 46:11Speaker 2: I was gonna say thirty eight.
- 46:12Speaker 3: Yeah, good for him. Yeah, doing it in the league
- 46:17Speaker 3: for a minute. Also didn't get to the Mets, but
- 46:21Speaker 3: they smashed the Marlins yesterday and Pete Alonzo hit a salami.
- 46:25Speaker 3: Here we go the right center field.
- 46:27Speaker 4: To right centerfield. I was that's living right right there. Yeah,
- 46:30Speaker 4: that's living right So I.
- 46:32Speaker 3: Feel like no one's talking about Pete yet.
- 46:34Speaker 4: It's good. Let him stay under the radar. Let's talk
- 46:37Speaker 4: about Sodo the whole time. He doesn't he doesn't need it,
- 46:39Speaker 4: he doesn't care, he doesn't want it. Let him stay
- 46:41Speaker 4: under the radar. Let Sodo talks take off and all
- 46:44Speaker 4: of a sudden, you're gonna see this team just boom skyrocket.
- 46:47Speaker 4: Pete has been in the limelight with the Mets for
- 46:50Speaker 4: a long time now, and he's still gonna be Don't
- 46:52Speaker 4: get me wrong, but for him, he's enjoying everything right now.
- 46:57Speaker 4: They have a squad that's, you know, going to be
- 47:00Speaker 4: pretty good. And if they can hit like this and
- 47:02Speaker 4: he going right center like that with these watch out.
- 47:07Speaker 1: That was a Mets That was a Mets sequence that
- 47:10Speaker 1: they've paid a lot of money for this offseason.
- 47:12Speaker 2: That was awesome.
- 47:14Speaker 1: Soto had a great at bat with runs on first
- 47:16Speaker 1: and second. I thought they were gonna steal them three
- 47:19Speaker 1: to two. They didn't. They kept them. They kept them
- 47:22Speaker 1: there because they know, you know what, the rare times
- 47:24Speaker 1: that Soto takes that borderline pitch you don't want them,
- 47:27Speaker 1: you know, strike them out, throw them out so they
- 47:30Speaker 1: didn't steal them. Soto takes a slider in the dirt.
- 47:33Speaker 1: Pete just took like I get at his home run.
- 47:35Speaker 1: His Grand Slam was awesome. But the pitches before that
- 47:38Speaker 1: that he took, he fouled off a three to one heater.
- 47:41Speaker 1: He just looked very comfortable up there. And then obviously
- 47:44Speaker 1: he did that with some extra strength.
- 47:48Speaker 3: Yes he did. Yeah, I think he's gonna have a
- 47:50Speaker 3: huge year. I do. Anyway, if you want more on
- 47:53Speaker 3: the Mets, Mets Up is the show. It's part of
- 47:55Speaker 3: the ft netwhere you can see the QR code bottom
- 47:57Speaker 3: corner of the screen. And then one more quickie on
- 48:01Speaker 3: the Dodgers. Two things is watching the game yesterday. Freddie
- 48:04Speaker 3: Freeman's day to day, so he's out right now. He
- 48:05Speaker 3: tweaked the surgically repaired ankle in a very baseball way
- 48:10Speaker 3: entering the shower.
- 48:12Speaker 4: Yeah, that's you know. I mean, even if you have
- 48:15Speaker 4: flip flops sometimes I I don't know exactly what their
- 48:18Speaker 4: shower looks like, but it can be slippery. I would
- 48:23Speaker 4: like to hear a little bit more about that. I mean,
- 48:25Speaker 4: not the glory of details. But how that happened that,
- 48:29Speaker 4: that's just that's a tough one, man. I feel bad.
- 48:31Speaker 4: That's that's a really bad one there. Yeah, that's unfortunate.
- 48:34Speaker 3: And it was that at the with the Dodgers at
- 48:37Speaker 3: the clubhouse or is that at home? I mean, if
- 48:39Speaker 3: it's at home, krats we got we gotta maybe switch
- 48:42Speaker 3: it up. If it's in the clubhouse, then I know
- 48:45Speaker 3: you gotta put those those boards down that make it
- 48:47Speaker 3: less slippery. Did you guys ever slip in the shower
- 48:50Speaker 3: in the clubhouse?
- 48:52Speaker 1: Oh yeah, you should see. You should see my shower shoes.
- 48:54Speaker 1: I still have them them John's were them Johns were
- 48:57Speaker 1: slippery on the bottom, Yeah, Todd, I still have them.
- 49:00Speaker 1: Read the book one time, Okay, read the book one time.
- 49:03Speaker 1: A lot of danger in the show. I'm just saying,
- 49:06Speaker 1: just saying, even on April Fool's Day, a lot of danger.
- 49:11Speaker 3: And then lastly, Mookie Betts already put I think almost
- 49:14Speaker 3: ten pounds back on wants to do another ten. So
- 49:19Speaker 3: chef's plural is what I learned when I was watching
- 49:21Speaker 3: the game yesterday. He's got multiple personal chefs and they're
- 49:25Speaker 3: making them food even to eat during the games, right.
- 49:29Speaker 3: I mean, you give one of the most competitive talented
- 49:31Speaker 3: guys in the world at basically everything a task and
- 49:33Speaker 3: he's like, cool, I'm gonna hit homers and have full
- 49:37Speaker 3: meals during the game.
- 49:40Speaker 2: I don't know if he's eating a full meal during
- 49:41Speaker 2: the game.
- 49:42Speaker 1: I mean, my guy might be sucking down some apple
- 49:45Speaker 1: sauce packets or something. Look like, Mookie's not movies. Mookie
- 49:49Speaker 1: knows what he needs to do. He's getting a couple
- 49:51Speaker 1: supplements in there. He's getting some shakes. He doesn't need
- 49:55Speaker 1: more than one JEF. He's fine.
- 49:59Speaker 3: Let's la one more reminder pretty often over the next
- 50:03Speaker 3: twenty four hours because it's a new thing and it's
- 50:06Speaker 3: free to sign up for playback, but we're gonna be
- 50:08Speaker 3: doing altcasts watch alongs, so it's cool. We're very excited
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- 50:38Speaker 3: that we can watch it all together, all right, crats
- 50:41Speaker 3: hats last licks.
- 50:43Speaker 1: Sorry, I was just downloading the playback app so that
- 50:46Speaker 1: I can watch when you guys talk about the game
- 50:49Speaker 1: without me.
- 50:50Speaker 3: You the race, You'll be on the next one or two.
- 50:52Speaker 3: You'll be on with us soon.
- 50:54Speaker 2: Nope, I'm busy, too bad.
- 50:57Speaker 3: You're busy every night, forever.
- 51:00Speaker 1: Night, forever the whole season. I'm watching nine games and
- 51:02Speaker 1: I don't blink one time.
- 51:05Speaker 2: That a good profar.
- 51:07Speaker 3: Man. I gotta say though, like I really missed, you know,
- 51:10Speaker 3: sitting back last night, Like we'll steak will you know,
- 51:14Speaker 3: watch a late night ball game, good pitching matchup. It's
- 51:17Speaker 3: it's nice. It calms me down. I'm a little high.
- 51:20Speaker 4: Figure going on the Carnivore died. I feel like I'm
- 51:22Speaker 4: gonna try.
- 51:23Speaker 3: I've done it. I mean, I'm Paddy there
- 51:27Speaker 4: You chut up man, h