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Orioles Fire Brandon Hyde · The 3-0 Take

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10 gentlemen, welcome to the Three O Take, where we talk all
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things Major League Baseball. Here's Kyle Corwin and Nate
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Reyes. It all starts right now.
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Welcome back to the Three O Take presented by Chinook Cedary.
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This is episode 537. I'll be your host, Kyle Corwin.
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I'm here with my Co host Nate Reyes.
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Nate. KC how are we?
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I like the emphasis you put on 537.
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I don't know it's just I know it's a random number.
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I had, it feels impressive. I had impressed.
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Well, I had to say it with conviction because I wasn't
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entirely sure if that was actually the episode.
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It was. So I'm like, you know what?
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So commit to it. Let me just double check here.
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Yeah, No, 537. This is 537.
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That's a big deal. We've been around the block,
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folks. Been grinding, been grinding.
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Jack Lyder was grinding. Don't you love when?
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I mean, I'm not wishing ill will against Jack Lyder, but I mean,
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he was, he was sort of on the hook there for potential no
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hitter. And we were possibly going to
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have to kind of wait it out. But you know, gives up what you
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say, a little little bomb. Yeah, Andre Diaz took him to the
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right center. The kind of.
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Clears the air for us so. Yeah.
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And like, it's, it's not like we're not rooting for no
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hitters. It's just like timing is
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important in our in our field, you know, that's all.
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What do you think? We're just going to record and
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Jack throws a no hitter and then we wait till Wednesday or
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Thursday to talk about it? That's not how that works.
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We'd have to figure it out, so yeah.
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Yeah, I'm not. I'm not.
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Yeah. I'm not pulling or wishing ill
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will against Jack Leiter. No disrespect.
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No disrespect. No disrespect.
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You know who I do have disrespect for, though, is the
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Baltimore Orioles front office. Let's just start right off the
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top here. Brandon Hyde fired.
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And here's the thing, I understand that we say all the
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time the managers going to typically more often than not
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the first one to go and we say that a lot and that's just sort
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of the reality of it. But in this particular case it
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made zero sense. Is there like is there an amount
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less than 0%? Because that's what it that's,
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that's the amount of sense that it made negative percent sense.
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What are we doing? What a mess of an organization
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right now. And I, I don't, I can't
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understand, I can't understand. I can't, I don't, I don't know
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what's going on. How do you have a new ownership
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group that comes in Part 1? Partial owner, being your
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franchise player, your biggest legend in Cal Ripken Junior and
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having like this whole new wave of excitement coming through
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with this organization, this whole new chapter and it took
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quickly quickly take such a left turn.
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I I just, I don't know, I there's so much blame to go
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around. There's so much blame to go
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around and I is, is Brandon Hyde completely innocent?
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No could have done a better job at something.
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I'm sure. I'm sure.
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But like, look, the roster configured sucked.
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We knew this coming in. They weren't doing anything in
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the offseason. The better their very large hole
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in pitching. They have a ton of a ton of
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youth that is really highly regarded in this game.
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Didn't turn any of that around into anything to plug this hole.
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That youth is now not performing very well.
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They're not good offensively. We know how bad pitching is.
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That see, that's where I disagree with you.
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I think the pitching has been excellent for the Orioles.
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In fact, we're witnessing right now we've got, I mean, we've got
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the game on ace Zach Aflin, huge offseason acquisition on the
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bump today. Get back, yeah.
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On the bump today had an incredible, I mean, he only gave
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up 8 / 10 hits across 5 and a third.
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What more do you, what more do you want from your prized
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offseason acquisition? I mean, that's that's what we're
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is that not what we're hoping for?
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If you're an Orioles fan, to have to have Zac Eflin going out
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there and doing what he's doing, the ace that he is you to.
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Dial back this this sarcasm. I don't like taking, look, I
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don't like taking victory laps like this often, partially
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because I don't get many opportunities to do that because
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I'm wrong more often than not. But you could see this coming
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from a mile away if you're the front office of the Baltimore
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Orioles. And and how many times have we
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said this and you thought after what you did in this this past
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winter, you're brushing your hands going, I like where we're
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at. I think we're in a good spot
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with this, with this rotation would like to know what, what
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sort of recreational drugs you are partaking in because this
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wasn't the answer. And again, you could see this
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coming from a mile away. And it's playing out, I would
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argue worse than maybe you would have expected if you were, if
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you were a realist going into this.
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You're going, this is not going to work out.
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But there's somehow speaking to the staff, performing worse than
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I think even somebody like you or me would have anticipated.
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This is crazy. Let's be real, let's just look
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at this with with without any type of bias, just through
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numbers themselves. Zac Eflin is a back end starter.
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Any other rotation and it's no knock against Zac Eflin.
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He's a professional athlete who is is playing at the highest
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level. He's doing better than you and I
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but like, let's not try to don't fart in my face and tell me it
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smells good. Dude.
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Like Zac Eflin is not an ace. Zac Eflin is not a front end
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starter. Zac Eflin is not your savior
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coming off the IO to rejuvenate this rotation.
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Stop telling us that. Stop acting like that is is is
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what's going to save and turn around this horrific start.
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Stop. And even if you're fortunate
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enough to get Grace Grayson Rodriguez back, because I think
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the jury's still out on that. I think they're hoping for him
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to come back. I don't know if that, I don't
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know if that's a guarantee. Even if you get him back, he's
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not going to be that savior either.
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Look, let's just be honest. It's it's insane.
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It's insane. And for Brandon Hyde, look like
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I I was kind of on the fence in the beginning.
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I was like, you know what, like this team has turned it around.
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I love that when you see managers that are very clearly
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in that position during a rebuild period, to have somewhat
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of a reward to stick around when when the light has been reached
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at the end of the tunnel. What we thought they gave him
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that opportunity. Now that there's been enough of
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a sample size, it makes me wonder, and can all of the blame
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be put on a manager? No, there has to be, there has
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to be accountability on the players for a lack of
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performance. And there's absolutely been a
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lack of performance. But I'm turning to the front
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office here and the only thing that I can land on, dude, is I
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know no one wants to talk about it.
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I know it's rarely said, but this organization tanked for
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years. That's how they got this core.
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They tanked, they underperformed for years.
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Now, do you have to have a really good scouting department
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and a really good developmental side of things in your
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organization? Yes.
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You have to draft well, and they did, and they landed big pieces.
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Did they develop those big pieces?
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Yes. That's important too.
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Are these pieces likely going to be a core moving forward and be
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All Stars and and potential MVPS?
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Yes. All of that still has to go,
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right? But when you're a loser
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organization and you need to tank to become relevant again,
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it's kind of hard to just sit there and say, here we go.
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We're going to now flip the switch and turn into a winning
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organization. You're still a loser
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organization. It's still lipstick on a pig
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right now. Man, that's, I mean, that's a
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take. I know it's harsh but like it,
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is it wrong? Am I crazy insane?
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We know that they tanked. We watched it happen.
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Yeah. But I think to your point,
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though, about the sample size, I think we're, so I wouldn't say
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so deep, but like we've had what back-to-back post season runs
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for the OS now and and we sort of have gotten a glimpse at, OK,
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this is what the team is post tank, post equipping itself with
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all of these these young stars. I don't, I, I feel like we're in
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a new era with the Orioles. So I'm trying to look at this
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brain and hide firing through that lens.
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And I'm not, I'm, I'm trying to separate it from the, the, the
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tanking era or the just the downright pitiful era that we
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saw what, just a handful of seasons ago, or at least the end
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of it. But trying and and trying to
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separate those, I'm looking at this Brandon Hyde situation
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going, this wasn't the solution. Like, sure, the team has not
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performed. I mean, they've been they
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haven't No, did they get a they got a win?
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No. Did they get swept by Texas two
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years ago? That.
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Seriously, when we were there, that was a sweep.
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Because they went back to Texas, dropped the first one in Texas
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and then they they got they, they dropped both to Kansas City
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last year, if I, if I recall. So we're looking at a winless in
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the post season type of team the last couple years.
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And then you, you, you, you bounce back from those two
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finishes with how you've started this year.
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You and and in between. A terrible offseason where
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everyone was telling, everyone could see this.
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Which is my that's my point. You bounce back from those two
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finishes last year, equip air quotes, equip your team the way
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you did this offseason. And we're hoping for better
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results. Haven't gotten those results,
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have gotten the complete opposite as far the other end of
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the spectrum as you can. That plays out the way that it
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does. And then you say, OK, well,
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Brandon has got to go. What do you expected?
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This is why. This is why I can never
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understand when people are like, fire the manager, fire the
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manager. So like I'm we're dealing with
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it right now with Alex Kora, with the Reds, with Red Sox fans
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who are like, this is the solution, let's get it, get rid
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of Alex Kora, OK? I mean, I know small sample size
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surely, But they fire, they fire Brandon Hyde, they give up A10
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spot to the Nationals, the Nationals and they're about to
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get swept and they're not home in the new Brandon Hyde list
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era. And then they put up an 8.
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I mean, they've given up 8 through I think it was what
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through like 4 innings, four or five innings again to the
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Nationals. So and to the comment earlier in
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the chat, looks like this move looks like it sucked the life
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out of the team, not gave the team life.
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Couldn't agree more. Firing the manager can be a
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solution at times. We've seen it play out with the
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Phillies. This was not the move and the
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front office knows that This is to cover.
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This is to cover themselves for the the the near future.
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And I think once fans wise up, those who haven't, I think, I
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think smart Orioles fans and I know they're out there.
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I think once I think the the the less than smart Orioles fans who
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haven't wised up yet when they finally do and realize, oh, this
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wasn't the thing that we needed to do because our staff still
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sucks. And our offense, while, you
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know, just covered with stars up and down at times, they're
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under, they're underperforming. So yeah, maybe Brandon Hyde
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wasn't the move. Mike Elias needs to go.
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And, and I don't know, man. I, I, it's, it's pitiful.
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It really is. And there's no other way to look
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at it. In my mind, there's no other way
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to look at it. If if this team tanked for so
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many years to get this good and they don't know what to do with
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it now that they are good and this team is good when healthy,
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when when ready to roll, this roster is is solid enough to
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where you can fill in the gaps by making smart moves for the GM
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to sit on his hands, for Michael Eyes to do nothing this
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offseason. Nothing.
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He had everything he needed to go make this team successful and
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he did nothing. One thing I wonder is like are,
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are we our interim managers just like the way like that's just
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the standard now? Like there is no like, hey,
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we're firing you, but we have someone else in mind because in
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my mind, interim coaches are just more of the same.
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It's more of the same, especially if he's already on
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the staff. Like it right did that.
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Are you speaking to that coach behind Brandon Hyde's back a
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week before and saying like, hey, how much do you disagree
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with what's going on with Brandon Hyde's?
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Like, no, that you're not doing that.
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Any coach that's on his staff is fully backing that.
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That manager. That's how it goes.
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That's why they're hired. And if you have some type of
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internal disagreement, that's already cancerous.
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So I it's going to be more of the same.
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I just wonder if like interim coaches are just the way of, of
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sports firing now. Like, do you not have someone
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else in place if you're really trying to change things and
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change the culture, change the voice?
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Something tells me you need someone that hasn't been in that
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room for the first two months. That's just me.
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I don't know. And again, that's the weird
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timing of this. If if it's July and the Orioles
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are 8 to 10 games back, I get that.
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I get I, I kind of get the like, hey, you know what?
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That's a long enough point in the season we've we're in, you
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know, 8090 games at this point. Like I, I think we know what
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this season is at this point. I, I don't know what this season
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is for the Orioles, because you could see this offense turn
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things around and completely pop off and be back in the hunt.
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Like, it's not crazy to see that, and it's not crazy for
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this team to go make moves and still find pitching that is
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still doable. Yeah, but you need so much like
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we're not talking about like a Sandy Alcantro away from now all
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of a sudden being a force in the postseason like they are down
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bad right now. And that it just further speaks
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to the the cowardly nature of this, of this firing.
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This didn't need to happen. They know it didn't need to
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happen. And Brandon Hyde's probably on
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the other side of this now going good luck.
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I, I mean, my hands were, my hands were tied.
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I mean, what? What was I supposed to do with
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this? No, I agree and.
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Then and they just, I think today, yesterday DFA Ed Kyle
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Gibson. So it's like, well, that
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experiment didn't really work. Well, who who was who didn't
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have a job and was brought on a week before opening day, if
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that. I think it was days before
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opening day. No, I thought that.
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Well, I thought it was like very recent, wasn't it?
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I thought they brought him in to fill out the rotation like quite
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literally days before. I could be wrong.
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Could have already been into the season but like you knew
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pitching was an issue for the entire offseason and and at
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least give the guy a full spring training.
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March, March 21st. Yeah, you're right.
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It's, it's decisions like that. And I know it's just a small
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thing, but I, I think that's a microcosm of like the way
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decisions are being made right now.
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It's a simple thing. You knew you needed depth.
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Maybe Kyle Gibson isn't your dream guy, but when all these
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other pieces come off the board in the offseason and you still
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haven't made a move, at least give the guy some of a spring
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training. You gave him no spring training
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and then you come out and expected for him to do well.
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Coming into today, they've got the they, they got a 533 ERA as
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a team, the worst in the American League, third worst in
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Major League Baseball. And I can only imagine, right
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I'd I know for certain that one of those teams is the Rockies,
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which basically don't even count.
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They don't count and. I don't even know who the other
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team is, but all that's to say one of the worst Staffs in
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baseball. But yeah, let's go ahead and bid
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farewell to our manager. That makes sense.
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And to your point, like, OK, fine.
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If you want a new voice, fine. But don't like, I don't know.
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I don't, I don't know what you expect to change.
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I don't. I don't foresee anything
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changing with this move. But that's just me.
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Any other thoughts on the Brandon Hyde firing?
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I didn't. I don't know his his past as far
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as coaching goes, but I think it seems to be kind of a popular
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move to have your bench coach as like a former manager.
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So I could see him being a bench coach somewhere soon.
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Yeah, next year could see that like a team that likes that.
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You know what, the Yankees brought on Brad Osmus as their
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bench coach last year. So it's like.
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Somebody that maybe didn't have a ton of success as a manager,
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their third base coach is Luis Rojas.
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So like former managers definitely get jobs.
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I know we don't talk about it unless it they move into like a
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new managerial job, but there's a good chance he's going to
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remain in baseball. There's a good chance he'll find
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a coaching job elsewhere. And, and I hope he does get a
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fair crack at being a manager again where there's a competent
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GM in the driver's seat. Michael Isis needs to go.
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What's my last thought? Speaking of going, Jose Alvarado
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is going to be going to Cancun or somewhere because he can't
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play baseball because he's been suspended 80 games without pay
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for violating MLB drug policy, tested positive for exogenous
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testosterone, which is APED suspension starts or is
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effective immediately, and as a result, given the nature of the
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rule, will also be ineligible for the postseason should the
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Phillies make it this year. Lee's a team with 7 saves coming
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into Sunday, and it's four and one with a 27 and 20
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appearances. 25 strikeouts to four walks over 20 innings.
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Not good news for the Phillies. These are always such certainly
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dumb, dumb, dumb things. These are always so stupid to
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hear about. It's such a it's frustrating to
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me as an honorary Phillies fan who who recently received that
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honor, I think within like the last week or two, shout out
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Henry. It's it's frustrating to me
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because we talked coming into this year about, well, you, I
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don't think as much you, I think you flipped a script like the
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day of when we did our pre season predictions episode.
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Like, no, no, I'm, I'm totally all in on the Phillies this
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year, but I just, I foresee this window starting to kind of close
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just a little bit. And I think I said before the
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season started, I, I give the Phillies like one last
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legitimate shot. Like sure, can they make runs
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beyond this year? No doubt, but I'm talking trying
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to bottle up that magic that we've seen over the last few
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years. Granted, it hasn't it hasn't
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panned out the way they would have hoped or me as an again, as
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an honorary Phillies fan would have hoped and as a as Bryce
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Harper's greatest fan would have hoped.
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But I think you're that magic is running low.
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And when you lose a key element to the equation like Alvarado,
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I'm sure you're going to get him back for for a little bit longer
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this year once the suspension's up.
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But that losing him for the postseason, that's a that's a
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huge blow, huge blow. Yeah.
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And I think they kind of took a chance on Jordan Romano to see
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if he could come in and like find rediscover what he was over
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a few years in Toronto of like being a really good closer.
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And it just it hasn't looked good at all.
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You know, the weight is falling on a guy who just finished off
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their inning with Matt Strom. They did have I I.
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I'm curious to see because their rotation is really good,
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especially now that like. Well -1 name who we'll we'll get
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into in just a minute. But.
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Yeah. Otherwise, rotation is good and
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it's it's, it's interesting because like, I know we say it
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every year like the easiest holes to plug at the deadline
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are are bullpens. I don't know about you, but I'm
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getting the vibe that like bullpens across the league this
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year are just not very good. Like we're not seeing a clear
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cut dominant bullpen. We're seeing big closer names
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being demoted, struggling and I'm not seeing a super like
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there's going to be a lot of teams that need to fill in the
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bullpen and the Phillies need somebody.
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This is going to have to get resolved somehow, some way.
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And they don't have the farm to like, I don't know how this move
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or a move is going to be able to happen.
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And I wouldn't be surprised if, like a Taiwan Walker ends up
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getting pushed to the bullpen and just having to accept some
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type of new role. You saw this able kid that made
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his debut today. He looked pretty good.
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And like, I wonder if maybe there's some type of transition
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between the rotation of the bullpen that needs to happen to
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find some innings back there. I don't know.
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The what was I going to say? Oh, to your, to your, to your
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point about the, the lockdown bullpen or or lack thereof, I
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think, I mean, I don't know, I don't have the data in front of
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me, but just based on the way we've seen baseball evolve over
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the last few years and we've we've touched on this less of of
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a dependence, less of an importance placed on starting
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pitching, more of a reliance on, on the bullpen.
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These guys are going to be more taxed.
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You're not going to be able to, you're not going to be able to
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to structure a bullpen traditionally the way you used
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to. Like you're not going to have
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your, you're not necessarily going to have your 789 guys
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because you're seeing a shift into bringing maybe your best
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arm in higher leverage situation.
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So you're not going to have true closers as much anymore like
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we've talked about. And because of that, guys are
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going to be placed in a different situations.
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Guys are going to be throwing more innings.
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And then on the closer, we're just seeing less of a an
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emphasis placed on the traditional closer role.
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Like you're seeing a lot of closer by committee situations
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and you're seeing I think maybe a quicker trigger pull on some
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of these closers who are struggling because of that.
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Because you have other guys you're like, well, let's just
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slot him in to the 9th and see if he can close down some games
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for us. Yeah, and teams go from there.
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So to your point, I, I think the, the bullpen bullpens in
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general, I, I think need as much help as they can get.
27:17
And going back to the original point, if you lose a guy like
27:20
Jose Alvarado, who you more often than not can rely on for
27:24
some of those higher leverage situations, you lose out on
27:26
that. Not a good place to be.
27:29
I could see something because they don't have a ton of capital
27:33
that they can move. I wouldn't be surprised if they,
27:36
like if the Orioles stay out of the hunt, I wouldn't be
27:39
surprised if they go get like Gregory Soto back, You know what
27:42
I mean? Like, bring back a familiar face
27:43
and it's who's going to be up for grabs, Who's going to be,
27:47
you know, very cheap. I wouldn't be surprised if
27:50
something like that happens. Of course, you got to turn to a
27:54
lot of these teams that are underperforming and say, like, I
27:57
wonder if there is a name that's up for grabs.
27:59
Will like in the meantime, there's innings that need to be
28:02
found and they this isn't like something that you, they can
28:05
just sit around and wait for the deadline for.
28:09
So I'm just I'm really curious to see what direction they go
28:12
towards. You mentioned the rotation being
28:17
pretty strong and for the most part looking looking pretty
28:23
good. Zach Wheeler has been excellent.
28:25
Jesus Lozardo also been excellent, but a name in
28:30
particular Aaron Nola has struggled mightily placed on.
28:38
I mean it has there been a more obvious ghost I Elston.
28:44
I feel who who just had one recently that we, I feel like we
28:49
just had this conversation and I'm pretty sure it was a
28:52
starter. Stroman Stroman still on the
28:54
Ghost, IL. No, it was like it was within
28:57
the last week or two, somebody got put up on the shelf and we
29:00
talked about it and I was like, is this not the most obvious
29:02
ghost in of all time? I'm, I'm struggling to remember
29:06
who it was. But anyway, I think this is the
29:11
new most obvious ghost in of all time because he was put on the
29:15
15 day IL with a sprained right ankle.
29:17
I'm going to go ahead and say that's not the case.
29:22
Probably not. Nola is sporting a What has he
29:27
got this year? He's got a 616 on the year, 1:00
29:33
and 7:00, and has already given up 11 homers on the year.
29:42
What happened to Aaron Nola? It's been bad for a while.
29:47
I'm going to pull up the overall stats.
29:52
It's been, it's been pretty bad for a while.
29:57
And I think the Philly's success, I, I mean, I'm not
30:03
going to sit here and say they've been fantastic, but like
30:06
they've been relevant year after year.
30:13
I mean, he made, he's making starts like he's, he's rolling
30:18
it out there 20/22 he had 205 innings.
30:22
He he definitely chews up innings.
30:24
It's just, it's not at like a level of production you would
30:31
expect. You know, this year's safari has
30:35
a 69 ERA plus last year was a 116, which is solid.
30:41
But again, that's like that's not the 1-2 punch that you're
30:46
expecting 96 ERA plus and 2023. So like, it's not awful, it's
30:56
just it's not good enough. It's not good enough.
31:00
A 616 ERA this year. Like it?
31:03
Makes you wonder if they were, if the Phillies were sort of
31:05
anticipating some regression here and that's why they went
31:08
out and got Lizardo. I mean, it's it never hurts to
31:11
have too much pitching, but it just makes you wonder.
31:14
And again, I don't know if maybe if they foresaw how how well
31:18
Lizardo's even going to throw this year.
31:19
So maybe they. Lozardo's been good.
31:21
Rangers, Suarez coming back off the IO has looked good since
31:25
he's been back. We know Christopher Sanchez is
31:27
the real deal. Like obviously Zach Wheeler is
31:30
like a Sion candidate every year.
31:32
Like that rotation is deep. Then that's what makes me wonder
31:36
if like someone's going to have to take a new role.
31:41
And I'm, I wonder if this IL phantom IL stint is going to be
31:46
followed up with something new for, for Enola.
31:50
And, and I haven't looked at like pitch metrics at all.
31:52
Like I, I wonder if how much velocity is down.
31:55
I wonder how much, you know, opposing batting average has
31:59
gone up on certain pitches. Like I, those are things that
32:02
only a team can really know if they, if they have their guy.
32:06
But like I, it sucks. It hasn't been good enough.
32:13
And it like at at this point right now, it's hard to believe
32:17
that he's like a trusted, sharp eaten name in an NLDS series.
32:24
It's just it's hard to, it's hard to believe that there's a
32:28
ton of faith in him. Which is a long ways away, which
32:31
is why I'm not, I'm not like fully hitting the panic button
32:34
yet for the Phillies, but it I'm.
32:35
Not hitting the panic button just because they're depth.
32:37
Like, yeah, their rotation is good.
32:39
Yeah, yeah. They still owe him a lot of
32:43
money too, I think. Right.
32:45
And he's not getting any younger.
32:47
He's 32 this year. I wonder what that contract is
32:54
like. 72 back in 23 So what, five years?
33:00
Yeah, yeah, 2030, this is a tough one.
33:08
Basically making 24 1/2 a year, that's not super tradable.
33:15
I. I had, I had.
33:17
It's too or. I think it's far too early.
33:20
To be talking, I get it. I I think he's what's nice is
33:23
that he has been healthy and he has made his starts and and he
33:27
is chewing up innings. But again, that's not 25,000,000
33:32
dollars, $25 million means like you're a guy that I want to own
33:37
a lean on deep into a post season run.
33:39
And it just hasn't looked like that for a few years now.
33:42
Consistently anyway. There's still time to figure it
33:45
out. Maybe a little drop of an angle.
33:49
That always seems to be the fix for these guys.
33:51
It's like drop an arm slot up or down and like you find something
33:56
new, call me. Crazy, but he's isn't he
33:58
already? Sorted.
33:59
He's pretty low. He's pretty low.
34:02
Maybe go up, see what happens, see what like.
34:04
I don't try it out. Yeah, he's like pretty out.
34:09
Like he's. He's definitely, like, out here.
34:14
That was right out. You can't see me.
34:16
You can't see. Where is that?
34:18
Out here? Cool.
34:20
Yeah. See out here.
34:21
Yeah. You see where my arm's at.
34:24
Definitely. Let's talk about Guy.
34:34
This guy is turning into such a cornball.
34:35
Let's talk about Juan Soto's return to the Bronx.
34:39
That made some news. Dude.
34:40
I'm. I'm kind of I'm.
34:42
I'm, I think I'm kind of out on this, on the whole Juan Soto
34:46
thing. I, I said when he was with the
34:49
Yankees, I said this sucks that I have to root against Swan Soto
34:54
because I really like Juan Soto. But just seeing the way this
34:59
offseason went, seeing the way he is, sort of began his, his
35:05
lengthy tenure with the Mets, or so we can assume.
35:10
Who knows, maybe they trade him in the offseason.
35:12
I don't know, because he just bounces around from team to team
35:17
until he find it, finds a new one he likes.
35:21
I think I'm, I'm kind of just out on that.
35:23
Like the ego is getting to be too much for me.
35:25
He, I, I texted our fantasy league group chat over the
35:28
weekend. I'm like, he his ego is eating
35:30
this attention up. Like he.
35:32
Yeah, And you watch it like when they had a camera on him, he's
35:36
like, he's trying to play it off as though he's, he's tuning
35:39
everything out. He's he's focused on what he's
35:42
doing. But I'm like you, we know this
35:45
guy is hearing everything and is loving every second.
35:50
He he loves the attention. I think, I think there's a level
35:56
of him enjoying attention. Of course, I think that there
36:03
was maybe a little bit of like a misconception or or a different
36:08
expectation of what this weekend was going to bring.
36:12
On on whose behalf I like I. Think that.
36:15
I think there was some type of appreciation that I think he was
36:21
going to receive. I think in his mind he was going
36:24
to receive. Not necessarily a warm welcome,
36:28
but I think like they made they made it to the World Series.
36:31
He had one of his best years of his career.
36:35
I think that there was something in the back of his mind where he
36:38
expected that there was who's the crazy radio guy for the Mets
36:43
that no one ever likes? The bald guy who just has the
36:46
most ridiculous takes. Oh, not Sal.
36:51
What's his name? I think it is Sal.
36:52
Is it Sal? I think it's Sal.
36:54
Something just the most ridiculous takes.
37:00
He had a Yankee another like Yankee radio guy on and I just I
37:06
saw this clip and it made me think that like I wonder if
37:09
there's just a misconception of what's going on here.
37:13
He was like, do you think there will be a tribute video for Soto
37:18
and the Yankee radio guy was like, no, what do you for one
37:23
year? No, absolutely for dude took a
37:29
couple extra bucks to go across town.
37:32
No, he's not getting a tribute video.
37:35
And it makes me wonder if like, is there like not a total
37:40
understanding of reality here? And did Juan Soto maybe share
37:45
some type of similar thing? It just seemed odd like that the
37:50
tip of the helmet while you're getting hammered with booze was
37:55
like a. Which by the way, you want to
37:57
talk about one of the biggest cornball moves of all time?
38:00
Like, sure, I'm going to, I'm going to take my shot at Soto
38:03
here for sort of just eating it all up and everything.
38:06
But on the flip side, that whole turn your back thing for the
38:11
Yankees, what is what is this? Is this like high school
38:15
basketball? Yeah, I don't know.
38:18
What in the world was that? I'm honestly surprised.
38:22
I didn't love it. I didn't hate it.
38:23
I'm. Surprised they didn't all whip
38:25
out like a newspapers like they do in the in those rivalry games
38:29
in like middle school or high school.
38:31
We don't care that's. That's so valid in high school
38:34
though, yeah. Keywords in high school like
38:38
these are these are full blown adults that paid actual real
38:41
money to go to the. Same that there were like when
38:44
everyone turned around, you saw like a number of 22.
38:49
I'm like, well, this is stupid. You can't turn around and wear
38:51
his jersey. Like that's embarrassing.
38:55
So I don't know honestly. The guy who?
38:57
Leads the Bleacher creatures. Drives me insane.
39:00
I don't like him. The old guy Fireman Ed was like
39:03
back in the day was the guy like that was the man that lead the
39:06
crew. But like this guy's like, I
39:08
don't. Was it no Dominguez took 24 who
39:13
somebody took? 2222.
39:14
That's what, yeah, yeah. But that's right.
39:16
So that's probably their justification.
39:18
And also people. Who are buying jerseys Yankee
39:21
jerseys with names on the back? I I already discrediting you.
39:27
So the ones that have 22 with Soto is like double whammy.
39:31
But I thought that was interesting.
39:33
IA lot of stuff was I thought was well done on the Yankee
39:40
side. I'm really, really thankful that
39:43
there was no tribute video. I don't know if you saw the clip
39:46
of like the pregame warm up where Judge is running out to
39:50
center. Soto runs out to center and
39:53
Judge just like immediately. I don't think he saw him.
39:55
I I saw Judge in his zone. I don't think that was
39:58
intentional. No, no, no.
40:00
No, but I do like the fact that there wasn't like this like
40:05
welcoming by anybody. There was no Welsh ring of like
40:10
I saw a clip of pregame BP Aaron Boone comes over and hugs him
40:14
like that's a manager player relationship.
40:17
That's fine. They did also give him the the
40:21
the their his ALCS ring back in the tunnel.
40:28
I think it was after before the game.
40:30
So like that happened. I'm.
40:31
Sorry, a a what? They gave him a what?
40:35
They're yeah, they have like ALCS rings I think.
40:37
I know. I just wanted to hear you say
40:38
it, that's all. Yeah, that's such a such a silly
40:43
concept. I agree.
40:45
I've never been on board. I've never understood why those
40:47
are a thing. I think it's stupid, I think
40:49
it's ridiculous when people hang banners for wild.
40:54
Card finishes, not even wins. It's just like, yeah, we made it
40:57
to the wall, made it to the wall.
40:59
Terrible. I agree there should be nothing
41:02
except World Series rings, but like all of that stuff was done
41:05
behind and I, I think it was all well done.
41:09
I, I think that there's parts of this weekend that earked Soto in
41:16
a way. And as much as he wants to smile
41:19
and kind of laugh and play it off, he gets in the box and he
41:22
taps Austin Welsh shin guard and like smiles and like, I just I
41:26
don't know if there's any type of like misconception.
41:33
There are You're not accepted. Like you're you're.
41:37
We've deleted you from our minds in a way.
41:40
Again, this kind of goes back to my comments originally about the
41:43
ego thing. I think as, as he, as he gets
41:48
older, I think it's only going to get worse.
41:51
Now I'm, I'm not saying what he's like 40.
41:52
I don't I'm not saying it's going to be getting
41:54
exponentially worse at that point, but I'm just saying like
41:56
in this little window that we're in right now or he, I mean,
42:00
let's face it, he's hopping he's been hopping around teams and
42:03
he's making his way around the league and he I think he's he's
42:08
getting to a point in his career where he's starting to feel like
42:10
the league somehow maybe and I'm I'm.
42:13
A little villain. Yeah, he's sort of thinks the
42:16
league. He's like the center, the
42:18
central part of point of the league, and I'm like like you're
42:21
good and I I've I've called you a generational talent many times
42:25
and still believe that you are. But like I don't have have like
42:30
take the glasses off man, see things the way they are like
42:33
you. This was not going to end well
42:35
for you in the. No, I didn't.
42:37
I didn't like the I didn't like the tip of the cap and the
42:40
smiling. I didn't like the laughing.
42:42
When I think it was yesterday. Was it yesterday?
42:50
I don't remember what they rode on through.
42:53
There was like a fastball up and in and kind of like brushed him
42:56
back and and Soto's like smiling.
42:58
And it's like, no, dude, we're not like this isn't cool.
43:02
Like we're not like, you know what I mean?
43:04
Like you didn't spend 5-6 years with these guys and what like
43:08
it's it was one year. You did great.
43:11
We came up short. Like there's no fond memories,
43:16
you know what I'm saying? Like and I think that he thinks
43:19
there is. I don't know it's.
43:20
You can't have the you can't have it the best of both the
43:23
worlds, man. You can't like leave for the
43:24
paycheck when we know that that's why you left and then
43:27
also like have your ties and and vibe with the guys across town.
43:32
That's. Just not the two other things I
43:34
don't know if anyone saw, but like the Yankees broadcast
43:36
didn't go to commercial break after the top half.
43:39
They wanted to stay on to see him run from the dugout and go
43:43
to right field for the first time.
43:44
And then that's when you're talking about, you know, the
43:47
Bleacher creatures like turning around, but he was way, way, way
43:53
late out of the dugout, like pitcher on the mound already 3
44:00
or 4 pitches into his warm up every other player on the field.
44:03
And then he makes his way out there.
44:07
And then later in the game, there was.
44:08
Like that was intentional. Yes, he's.
44:11
Milking all of. That, that's what.
44:13
I'm saying, man. And then, hey, bro, am I good to
44:16
come out now? Like down in the, he's like down
44:18
in the tunnel. Like, yeah, you're purposely
44:20
being slow, like just go. And then late in the game,
44:23
there's a deep fly ball to the track.
44:25
And he he like, backs his up, backs up to the fence.
44:29
And then he like, doesn't turn around to flip the ball.
44:32
He just launches it over his head, which I thought was a
44:34
weirdo move as well. I don't.
44:37
And it wasn't like a little flip.
44:39
It was like, oh. Yeah, he hooked it.
44:40
It was like a. Heave to like the second deck.
44:44
Yeah, Ball got tossed back, by the way.
44:45
I don't know if you knew that the Yankee fans were like, no,
44:49
we're not. There's like a if he would have
44:50
turned around, there was like a Mets fan kid like right in front
44:54
of him could have given like this little 10 year old like the
44:57
ball of his. Light made this kids day, but
45:00
no, you got to heave it deep into the bleachers and that ball
45:04
just gets launched back. Like up to the light.
45:06
Here, I'm here for the pettiness.
45:07
I'm here, I'm here for all of it.
45:10
So far he hasn't had like a super impactful series.
45:14
Yeah, I know he had that three walk game and a stolen base, but
45:19
like I don't know if you saw the SAC fly that was short shallow
45:22
right field and he 3 hopped it home then wasn't in anywhere
45:26
near being in time. It's just like all of that.
45:29
I'm soaking all of it in but I don't think there's any like.
45:33
You meant, by the way you meant impactful game in this series,
45:37
right? Exactly.
45:38
You said impactful. Oh, I see what you're saying.
45:40
Nevermind. Yeah, he hasn't been like a
45:42
difference maker. Sure, sure, sure.
45:44
Yeah, yeah, so far. So obviously I'm going to
45:47
probably regret it and he's going to have two, two bombs
45:49
tonight off of Freed. But you know, we'll see.
45:53
Hey, we'll we'll be keeping score for that.
45:55
We'll be there. That little plug, little plug.
45:57
Be sure to join us for our live stream where?
45:59
We're natalby teach us how to keep keep score.
46:02
Bring your books, BABYOB. Last thing I'll say on it,
46:05
though. He there was there should have
46:08
been no expectation that he was going to get a tribute video
46:10
because they get they gave John Sterling who gave his life to
46:14
that team like ATV. So let's we're not we're not.
46:19
Yeah, they said here's your here's your Sony.
46:23
Now hit the road buddy buddy boy and so don't think he's.
46:28
Getting anybody's number, but we ain't giving you a trivia video.
46:32
So don't think he's getting a trivia video.
46:36
Wasn't even there for like a calendar year.
46:37
Insane. Oh boy, let's talk about the
46:43
twins, huh? Let's talk about the twins and
46:47
I'll, I'll start right off by saying I owe the twins an
46:50
apology. I I think when I made my my
46:53
cheeky comment last time it was. A little cheeky, it was a little
46:57
I didn't disagree, but I. When I made my cheeky comment
47:00
about, well, this, I think at the time it was an 8 game win
47:03
streak. Yeah, I guess it'd been like
47:05
about a week or so ago. I was like, yeah, well, this
47:07
eight game win streak has catapulted them from 4th in the
47:10
American League Central to 4th in the American League Central.
47:15
I guess at the time I don't, I didn't realize how stacked or
47:20
like how closely stacked, yeah, how tight the division was
47:26
because they are now. And granted that, I mean,
47:28
they've tacked on five wins since then, but they are now in
47:32
second behind only the Tigers, the Tigers who are playing
47:40
rather well. But yeah, I, I just want to get
47:44
that apology out there. Yeah, there's seven and three
47:46
and the last 10 for the the Tigers.
47:47
So they're playing wild, 30 and 16.
47:49
Twins are behind them, as I mentioned, 26 and 20 coming into
47:53
Sunday. So since that comment, you've
47:58
left the Royals and the Guardians who are are neck and
48:02
neck. But yeah, man, they, they just
48:05
keep on winning. What's the, what's the status of
48:08
the day? I haven't.
48:08
Tried. I was just, I just pulled that
48:10
up. They're down 41 in Milwaukee
48:13
going into the bottom of the sixth, so it could all end and
48:20
they could very well be back in fourth place next week.
48:23
So I yeah, so. Which end everything I just said
48:27
yeah, so everything I just said goes out the window and it's not
48:31
I'm. Not like trying to like
48:32
completely dog on them and just trash them.
48:34
But like like we said, the AO Central's tight and in the top
48:38
four teams are White Sox don't exist in my mind, but the rest
48:42
of the division is competitive and in literally every game
48:50
they're four games back. Cleveland's 4 1/2 back at the
48:53
time of this recording in in Kansas City's 5 1/2 back.
48:56
Like again this. They could be back and forth
48:58
place this time next week. You never know.
49:02
I think that's the way they all Central is going to go.
49:06
I wonder when they're next. Nope, perfect.
49:11
They're facing the Guardians next starting tomorrow and then
49:15
the Royals right after that. So it's going to be interesting
49:20
to see if this hot streak, which I don't know if the win streak
49:23
ends today, but we can still call it a hot streak if it
49:25
continues on into these divisional matchups.
49:29
But six games against against your division is no joke.
49:33
So is this real? Is it not I It's hard to say.
49:39
Their pitching staff does look good.
49:41
I'll give them that. Like they're starting pitching
49:43
does look really solid. Last last night was their third
49:47
straight shut out. Yeah, Saturday night.
49:50
Yeah. And it's it's not just Pablo.
49:54
You know, Joe Ryan looks really good.
49:59
I'm curious to see if this is if this is real and if not, like I
50:07
bet other teams are watching because if they do end up in
50:11
fourth place in this division come deadline time, like there's
50:14
a lot of valuable names that you could pick off of this.
50:18
So hell Central man, there is a real chance we could see three
50:28
teams representing the Central in this post season.
50:33
I'd like it in a year where the the American League as a whole
50:37
is kind of, kind of. Booty cheeks.
50:41
The tigers look legit dude. They're not going anywhere.
50:44
That looks real. Can I interest you in Jackson
50:48
Job in a fantasy trade by chance?
50:54
Let's get that out there. Let that marinate a little bit.
50:55
Let that marinate. Yeah, you just put me on the
50:58
spot. Yeah.
50:59
No, just I'm throwing it out there.
51:01
Let me look at the game log. You don't need to do that.
51:04
I'm just throwing it out there. Yeah, as you mentioned, pitching
51:09
has been excellent. Whether or not they stop, stop,
51:15
they're starting out there. Whether or not they can keep us
51:18
up, we shall see. I mean, we'll know probably
51:21
within a within the hour. But, you know, good on the
51:25
Twins. Glad they finally got out of
51:28
4th. Starting to get old, old and
51:31
musty down there being that close to the White Sox.
51:38
Let's talk. Oh, before I forget because I
51:42
just saw a Pirates promo, let let us let's talk about this
51:48
broadcast call real quick. Let me find Call the week.
51:51
This was excellent. Here we go.
51:53
Before we continue with this telecast, we have to address
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what is on everybody's minds and hearts.
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July 29th, 2022. Our beloved score book first lit
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up the screens here with Philly's television.
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It was more than just a scoreboard, it was a legend, an
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unforgettable icon. Its name, once met with
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chuckles, quickly became synonymous with good times and
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fierce robberies. As the final out arrives on its
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bright and brilliant run, it will be missed, Gone, but never
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forgotten. Before we continue with.
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Love that. And if you have no idea what
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they're talking about, it was the, the good old, there you go,
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the old, the old poop, the old poop game.
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Such a legendary score bug really was.
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And it, I mean, it was it. It wasn't the score bug
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necessarily, but the score bug allowed for this masterpiece to
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unfold. And it was when the Phillies and
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Pirates would match up and you start the game, you got the P of
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the Phillies, you got the P of the pirates.
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And in the middle you got a nice fresh start to a game.
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OO spelling out poop. I'm sure you've seen it as I
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mentioned, but that is no longer since the the Phillies have
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since done away with that square bug.
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We're we're no it we're no longer able to get the, the poop
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games. So they, they, as you heard, did
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that nice little tribute. I honestly, when that started,
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I, I thought I was sitting down. I, I was about to watch.
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I well, that's what I'm saying. I thought I was getting ready to
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sit down to watch the mat like the first round of the masters
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or something. I'm like.
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This is this is crazy. I thought someone passed away
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like I, I really, it sounded like quite the remembrance.
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So look, I mean, that's a nine two for me.
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That's a that's a nine two call. Like if we're if we're going to
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give something a nine, that's that for me.
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That's that's a job well done. You didn't hear crock like
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butting in and and chuckling and interrupting at all.
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Oh, you we had, you know we had. They had him on mute.
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No doubt he. Had his mic turned off but in.
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Fact. He was probably out of the room
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if we're being honest. I love you're keeping that a
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9/2. That's a 9/2.
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Let me let me run that back one more time before I commit.
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Do you have the video? Do you see the video?
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July? 20.
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Ninth yeah, but I told you we get flags when we true first lit
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up the. Screens here with Phillies
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television. It was more than just a
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scoreboard. It was a legend, an
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unforgettable icon. Its name, once met with
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chuckles, quickly became synonymous with good times and
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fierce rivalries. As the final out arrives on its
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bright and brilliant run, it will be missed.
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Gone, but never forgotten. This is the I got the I got the
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thing you're talking about. This is what they, this is what
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they had while he was doing the broadcast.
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Just just, I mean, that's top shelf.
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That's in the clouds. Dude like with the sun shining
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down like incredible. Poop.
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Scoreboard yeah, I'm going to have to go.
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Honestly, I don't think I realized it was only three
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years, three seasons. I I seemed like they had had
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that for a while, but. Awesome.
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Yeah, I guess I'll give that a. I don't know.
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I don't want to get swept up in the emotion of it, but I think
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I'm. I'm very emotional about it,
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but. I'll go, I'll go 8-9.
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Sure, sure. I mean, that's strong for me.
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That's strong. That's 8-9 is strong.
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Yeah. It's really going to take
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something extraordinary to, Yeah, get me into the.
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Shout out, shout out Philly's production.
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That's just to have the awareness.
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That's that's awareness right there.
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That's that's leaning into something that you know, people
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are talking about. It's not like trying to trying
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to act all high society like, oh, we're above this.
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No, lean into the fact that you don't have the poop scoreboard
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because people genuinely miss the poop scoreboard.
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That's right. That's that's how you do it.
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That's how you do it. It's impressive.
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You think the Yankees would do something like that?
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No, no, no, no, no. Bunch of chumps.
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All right, closing the book here.
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Shohei threw a bullpen just the other day, made-up the 50
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pitches. This was Saturday afternoon, 50
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pitches. Dave Roberts says that he would
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rather have him ready to go down the stretch in October,
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September and October rather than May or June.
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I'm like, whoa, hold your horses there, Dave.
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You don't know that you're going to be playing in October.
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Hey, just saying and laugh all you want, but there's nothing
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guaranteeing the Dodgers are going to be in the post season
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this year. I agree it's too early.
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Can't be talking like that, Dave.
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I took the under on the 105, so I'm with you.
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What did he say, Dave? Speaking of Dave, he he made a
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guarantee. What was that guarantee he made
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like a year or two ago? Do you know what I'm talking
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about? No, I mean to put you on the
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spot here, but he he hasn't been great with with guarantees.
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It was something about the the World Series or something.
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Do you have? Do you have any idea what I'm
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talking about? I don't.
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I do not. Oh yeah, he said we're winning
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the World Series in 2 in 2022 and they did not win the World
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Series in 2022. So yeah, he's, he's over here
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spouting off like, oh, he'll be in October.
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I don't know, Dave. I mean, it's like 99.9% chance,
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but it's baseball. It's like the IT is baseball, I
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think. People who don't know me or
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think that I'm the the biggest idiot.
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Yeah, probably. But there is like a weird just
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confidence in in their starting pitching at the moment.
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And it's like, yo, we got a lot of guys on the shelf, you know?
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I dude, I'm glad you brought that up.
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I saw something the other day. Kershaw just made his his return
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yesterday. Yeah, good, right.
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I didn't see numbers, but I. No, I think he gave up like 5.
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Yeah. Where did I I saw I saw this
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graphic. 14 pictures on the IL. Yeah, but don't worry, let's
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show. Hey, take his time.
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Well, I, I mean, I can look at both of those things separately
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and say you can address them. You know, it's not one's not
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going to solve the other. And if you rush one, you're
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going to be in an even deeper. Way rush this is as slow as it
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could possibly go we've. Talked about this though, this
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is I, I genuinely believe this is going to be the last ex
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experimentation with Shohei the pitcher.
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That was that was I was looking back at our hot takes from back
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in March or the other day. That was one of my that was one
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of my storyline takes that I had.
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I said we're going to see the last inning from Shohei the
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pitcher this year. And if they if they rush it even
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a a percentage point, we could very well be looking at the end
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of Shohei the pitcher. That's just me.
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Bryce Harper. The aforementioned Bryce Harper
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notched his one thousandth RBI on Friday night and a little
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bloke single to left little Nugget here.
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I I believe this is credit due to MLB.com. 14th player in MLB
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history to reach 1000 RBIs, 1000 runs and 1000 walks before
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turning 33. 11 of the previous thirteen are in the Hall of
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Fame. Babe Ruth, Lou Gehrig, Jimmy
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Foxx, Mel OTT, Ted Williams, Mickey Mantle, Eddie Matthews,
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Ron Santo, Frank Thomas, Jeff Bagwell and Jim Tell me the
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other two Barry Bonds, Albert Pujols.
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Wow, that's some company. That's pretty good company.
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That is some company and people just like forget or maybe just
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don't respect for some reason how long he's been doing it and
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how good he's been doing it, you know what I mean?
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Well, I. Just like take it for granted.
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I watch. I feel like I take it for
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granted. I'm like just forget how insane
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he is. Yeah, I mean, I was watching the
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the game today, the Phillies and Pirates, because Skeens was on
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the bump in in Philly today. And they're they're doing the
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whole promo like former first overall, first overall picks
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going up against each other. And they're talking about like
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the history of all that, man. I'm sitting there going, my
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goodness, dude, Bryce is like the grizzled vet in this
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situation going up against the the youthful Paul Skeens.
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And I'm like, in my mind, Bryce Harper's still 2325 at most.
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Bro's been doing it for a minute now.
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So I was thinking about the other day because we, we had all
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this talk with the whole Pete Rose Hall of Fame thing.
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And I was like, you know what? I have my own thoughts and
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opinion, opinions about the Hall of Fame.
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But I can't wait to book my ticket to go up there When when
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when Barista Bryce gets inducted.
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Dude, I had the coolest question for you.
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I can't let me see if I wrote it down somewhere.
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I had like a like a I'm so mad at myself.
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I didn't write it down. I had like a fun like baseball
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question. I I don't know what you just
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said that sparked it Free Surprise, no.
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You. You lit up.
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I think it was something about. Hall of Fame, Pete.
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Rose I think it was something or I don't remember what the exact
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question was, but it was something around like the.
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I don't know, something around like your favorite player that's
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not on your favorite team kind of thing, but I don't remember
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what the exact question was. Whatever.
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Was on Jersey related? No, it wasn't Jersey related.
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It was just, I don't know, it was a cooler question than that,
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but that was like the topic of it.
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I mean, I'll be honest with you, this year's not a great, great
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example for that question because I like I'm looking at,
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I'm looking up and down the Red Sox roster.
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I just don't have a favorite guy this year.
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That's a tough place to be. I can just don't like Raffi,
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like even even before all the the drama with with Devers, like
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I just for some reason I could never really like latch onto
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him. I don't know if it's like his
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personality. He's just kind of like goofy and
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aloof. I like, I don't, I don't know if
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that was it, but I could just I was never like, Oh yeah, that's
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like my favorite guy. Like Xander was was my guy.
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Then he obviously heads to San Diego.
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But like this year. Like I Duran doesn't do.
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It yeah, I was, I was literally just about, I guess Duran kind
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of slots in by default, but I don't know.
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And like our guy Liam, friend of the pod, he you know, he was on
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the shelf there for a minute and just hasn't, hasn't had the the
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greatest go of it thus far. But I don't know.
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That is a tough place to be. I know what you mean.
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Don't know if I got a guy this year.
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Fair enough. I'll see if I can remember that
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question. It was a good, it was a good
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question. Maybe you can think on it and
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get back to me tonight during our live stream.
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As as we mentioned, we're doing a live stream tonight.
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We have I think we mentioned it last episode and I've put out a
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a post or two about it reminding you folks.
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But we're doing a live stream tonight for Sunday night
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baseball Mets at Yankees where Nate is going to teach myself
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and anybody that wants to join how to keep score.
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If you already know how to keep score and you just want to hang
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and and. More than welcome.
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Hang, watch some baseball chat, join in the chat with some other
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baseball fans. The more the merrier so.
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Hop on in. We'll be getting on probably
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like 6:45 Eastern. It's like, what is that for you
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three 45645 Eastern man, that's early for you.
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Holy cow. Yeah, that's such a weird.
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Time. I love it.
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I love, I love, I love a Sunday that doesn't get late, you know
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what I mean? Like a Sunday night that's just
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real slow eases in Sunday nights are great your.
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Sunday night baseball game is ending at 7:00.
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That's the best. It's the best.
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It's the. Freaking best dude.
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It's like it ends and you're just like perfect, like you.
1:05:50
Want to watch a movie and. Get a couple episodes of a show
1:05:53
in like, yes, absolutely. I'm in.
1:05:56
I'm in sweats and comfies real early.
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But this won't this won't be our our only time doing this.
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We're going to try and do this once a month.
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So if you're busy tonight and and you can't hang, that's cool
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too. But like we are going to try and
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we don't know if it's solidified as once a month, but we're going
1:06:13
to try our best to do it a few more times and make sure you got
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your books. We're going to hop on a little
1:06:22
early. I'm going to kind of walk you
1:06:23
through just, you know, some things you're going to need to
1:06:26
know before first pitch. So then again, if I don't know
1:06:32
everything, like I'm not, I don't keep score every day.
1:06:35
So if you're in there and you know how to keep book and you're
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like, hey, actually, it's, you know, I find this to be a little
1:06:41
easier or I do it this way, you're going to see you'll learn
1:06:44
Kyle that like it's very customized in a way.
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Certain things are just this is how you do it.
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And then a lot of other stuff is like AI prefer this.
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So there's there's some opinions you can share on it.
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And yeah, we're hanging out and we have fun.
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So it might be a stupid question, but I'm assuming bring
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pencil, correct? Yeah, yeah, I was going to say
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that if, if you're not super confident, if this is your first
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time, I would probably recommend a pencil.
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If you've been doing it a while, your a pen is you know, nothing
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wrong with that. And if you really like to be
1:07:23
organized, my wife likes to have multiple colored pens for each
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team. So if you want to have because
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you're going to flip that book back and forth, one for each
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each team. And if you like to kind of make
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sure that your eyes are going to the right page, you can use a
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color for a certain team. And yeah, so be prepared.
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Love it. Yeah, that's all I got.
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We'll see you guys 6:45 Eastern or whatever that time means for
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you. If you're in a different time
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zone, 645 Eastern will be hopping on a little early.
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Get the get the the intro, get the things you need to know as
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Nate mentioned before we get going and then we're going to
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watch some ball. So grab some, grab some grub,
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BYOB. Grab some Chinook seeds.
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Grab. Oh, I'm up for sure.
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Have those. I'm bringing those.
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No doubt, yeah. And we'll see you guys there.
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Don't go chasing curveballs, love.
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You all as always, looking forward to talking more baseball
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with you guys soon. Until next time, stay filthy.