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MLB Talk with Matt Snyder, Bill Seals on the Cyclones & Big 12 football media days & Trent's Picks presented by Circa Sports · The Lunch Rush with Trent Condon

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  Our number 2 Miller and Condon Iowa Sports Radio network as we
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  take you until 2:00 off the bench, coming up from 2 until 5.
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  Overtime Iowa, 5 until 6. Let's talk to our friend Matt
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  Snyder. We talk baseball with Matt every
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  Monday, most Mondays during the season.
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  This time next week, we'll be on the precipice of Home Run Derby.
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  He. Sound excited?
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  Yeah. It's just the week that there's
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  nothing going on. Hello, Matt Snyder, how are you?
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  I love the All Star game. Don't get me wrong, I know you
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  do too. Hello, Matt Snyder, How are you?
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  I'm great. You know, it's, yeah, a fun time
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  for baseball when we have a lot of the attention on us.
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  Absolutely Yep, no doubt about it.
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  Well, a lot of ground to cover with you.
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  I I guess we'll, we'll start with the All Star game just
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  cause the the extras were announced yesterday.
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  Biggest omission would be Suzuki in your world where who would
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  who got left off? That should have been a part of
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  it. Yeah, I think what Frame Revell
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  does on the American League side, and I easily could put him
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  over Brian Wu. I mean, the the Mariners got 4.
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  So it's not like it was a representative from a team that
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  had to have somebody to squeeze them out, say Suzuki.
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  I thought that's a big one. I mean, 25 home runs, the Major
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  League leader in RBI. It's it has to be rare that the
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  Major League RBI leader is not an all.
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  Apparently it's happened twice, Matt.
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  Apparently it's. Happened twice, OK, at least
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  that one you can kind of see how it happened, right?
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  Like say Suzuki was always going to win the DH voting and then
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  Schwarber making it over Suzuki, you can kind of justify that and
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  he's a more established quantity and it would say at DH, you can
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  see that one, the framer Valdez one I thought was pretty
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  egregious as well. And I know that he just his OPS
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  increased by like 79 points over the weekend, but Michael Bush is
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  fifth in OPS in the majors right now.
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  Now, again, 79 points got added on in the weekend series in the
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  all three games were probably decided before that.
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  Those are probably a little too late too, too little too late.
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  Plus, nationally, first baseman Freddie Freeman, Pete Alonzo,
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  metal. So again, you can see how that
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  happened. Hey, when will we get the
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  starters and is there a chance we get skeins versus Scubble?
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  They revealed those Monday right at the press conference before
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  media day. Gotcha.
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  So we got I. Don't know exactly what time it
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  will it probably something like 2 eastern.
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  They'll do the press conference with the starting pitchers, and
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  that's when they reveal the starting lineups.
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  I think there's no way in the world that it will not be school
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  on the American League side. He didn't even start last year
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  as Colburn Burns last year. So this will be school's first
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  start in the All Star game. So I don't see why anybody else
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  would be picked. I guess you could say Freed
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  returning to Atlanta, but why wouldn't that be as big a deal
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  when school's the best pitcher in the world right now?
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  I think you got to make that choice and wait.
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  Then again, it is Aaron Boone deciding, I suppose, to try to
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  go with Freed. Yeah, thinking that'd be a bad
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  choice though. I think it's got to be school on
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  the NL side man. I mean Zach Wheeler or Paul
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  Schemes, I don't feel like he can go wrong either way because
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  team started last year. Schemes is still a major selling
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  point. He's still one of the best
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  pitchers in the world, but Wheeler's never started it
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  before and he is as absolutely as deserving as Schemes.
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  So tough choice on the NL side. I think AL side should be
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  Google. I guess the only complication
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  there is but the boom freed Atlanta thing, but it should be
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  Scubal. And then on the NL side we'll
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  see if it's Keens or Wheeler. But that, that one feels like a
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  complete toss up. One Soto, if his name was John
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  Smith and he didn't just sign a $765 million contract.
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  Did you? Nice.
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  He'd be Hunt, right? I mean the expectations.
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  This guy's in the top ten in almost every offensive category
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  that matters is OPS is over 900, OPWRCS at 175.
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  I mean the the analytic numbers plus the counting stats.
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  Anybody else puts up those numbers?
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  It's a no brainer. Is it just a contract?
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  I think so. And the snubs I wrote, yeah,
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  basically the exact same thing. Like if he had a different
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  contract and a different name and somebody saw top three and
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  on base percentage, 21 home runs.
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  Oh, he's absolutely an All Star. And I mean, it's over 500
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  slugging percentage, right towards the top and on base
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  percentage. And again, 21 home runs.
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  Now, a lot of that came late and we had two months of what's
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  wrong with Juan Soto talk. Yep.
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  And when that happens, all the other players in the league hear
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  it and my hunt is the player vote.
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  There might have been some kind of impact there.
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  And you do wonder if there's a jealousy factor on the contract.
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  I mean, we've dealt with this. I know that it's leaked into
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  women's basketball, even with the Caitlin Clark and why he was
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  way too low on the the players. But you know, I remember Bryce
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  Harper, I feel like a lot of times, especially early in his
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  career, he was way lower on the player vote than he should have
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  been because of all the attention he got.
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  I feel like that steeped in here a little bit.
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  Like you said, if if this was a like a rookie and we'd never
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  heard of him before and he was third or fourth and on base
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  percentage with 21 home runs, it'd be an absolute no brainer.
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  And he'd be the first guy everybody mentioned on the snubs
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  instead, like I was that ESPN was on the reveal.
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  They they were running through all these stuff.
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  They didn't even say his name. And I was like, how can you not
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  bring up Juan Solo? Let's get to let's get to a
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  games on the field. And man, it's I know the blue,
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  the Blue Jays are red hot. But to me, the team in the
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  American League, that's really got my attention and I think
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  baseball's attention, especially when they go into Dodger Stadium
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  sweep the Dodgers, right, these Astros.
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  What is it about this team? Matt, I'm going to ask you the
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  same question last week because probably, you know, they, they
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  keep losing their guys, right? Well, they never overcome this.
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  Oh my God, Kyle Tucker guy, This is the That's the end.
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  Alvarez has been hurt all year. It's just it's one thing after
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  another. Yet here they are again.
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  If you would have said, you know, last year at this time,
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  OK, they're going to let out Bregman, walk in free agency,
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  they're going to trade Kyle Tucker, Jordan Alvarez is going
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  to be hurt basically all year. I mean, his -.5 WAR right now, I
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  would say, oh, they're going to stock, they're going to be
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  awful. Instead, you look at the
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  production of getting from Cam Smith, Jake Myers producing
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  center, Altuve acclimating himself to left field, doing
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  Jose Altuve things. And man, Jeremy Pena was playing
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  like an MVP candidate when he went down.
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  He'll be back. Your Don will be back
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  eventually. Pitching wise, they've been
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  banged up. But Hunter Brown taking a step
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  forward, Bomber Valdez is an egregious, egregious snub on for
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  the All Star game. Again, that's a great one too
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  right there. And they're going to get
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  healthier in the second-half in the rotation, whether it's
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  Eragetti, Luis Garcia, Christian Javier, JP France, they have a
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  bunch of guys who are throwing live VP and getting ready to go
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  on rehab assignment. So we'll see how they figure out
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  their rotation. But then in the bullpen, Brian
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  Abreu, I actually I think he's a snub for the All Star game since
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  they had a few set up men in there and Josh Haters 25 for 25
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  and stays unbelievable top to bottom.
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  They are a master class in next guy up and they've been doing
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  that for years and years and years going back to when they
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  let Garrett Cole walk, going back to when they let Carlos
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  Correa walk in free agency and plug Jeremy Pena in and then won
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  the World Series. That's just what they do.
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  You Darvish is back into the rotation starting tonight.
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  Oh, is he good, Padres? I'm going to guess it's going to
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  be probably a slower type of build up for him.
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  But boy, you add that kind of experience, that kind of playoff
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  chops that he has into that Padres team.
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  How dangerous do you still see San Diego?
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  Yeah, they they're one of those teams who they just need to make
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  the postseason and if everything clicking right at the same time,
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  it's one of those teams that you could see them making a deep run
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  like when the Rangers won the World Series or when the
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  Phillies got to the World Series from a wild card spot.
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  It's a type of team where they have very little Major League
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  depth. So any injury becomes glaring
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  which and the Joe Musgrove Tommy John surgery last year in the
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  playoffs. Heading into this year, their
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  rotation depth has been pretty depleted.
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  But like right now to meta season Randy Vasquez and you'd
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  prefer not to have to lean much on Randy Vasquez, but now they
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  get you Darvish back. We'll see how he is.
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  Obviously they wanted to be hitting his stride come
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  September and then into October. But yeah, it's they're top
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  heavies. But if you get for native Tatis,
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  Junior, Jackson Merrill, Manny Machado firing at all cylinders,
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  throw in some Zander Bogarts, Jake Conworth, Luisa Rise, they
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  can go in the playoffs. And then the back of the Bolts
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  in with All Star Jason Adam, with Robert Suarez, the
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  rotation, Pavetta, Steve Darvish, that that's the type of
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  group that reminded me of maybe a little bit of the 2019
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  Nationals where they only had like 8 or 9 good players, but
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  they just got everybody hot at the right time and then they
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  carried that and then do a championship.
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  By the way, Luisa Rice struck out last night.
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  Doesn't happen often. Thought it would make that part
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  of the programming. Absolutely.
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  All right, so let's get to Trent.
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  And I talked about this an hour ago.
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  When it comes to the Cardinals, we kind of rehashed Trent was
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  off all last week and you know, I think when he left they were
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  in the playoffs and now they're one game out of the wild card.
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  So when it comes to the trade deadline or leading up to it and
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  John Mosaic, we know he's out after this year.
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  How do the Cardinals handle that or how do teams in similar
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  situations handle that? You know you're about to either
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  buy or sell or stand pat and the ultimate decision is it going to
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  be a by made by a guy that's no longer there at the end of
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  September. I mean, surely he'll work with
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  Bloom there and at least they've laid the foundation.
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  It's not like some of these other places like in Washington
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  where they didn't know Rizzo was going to be fired a week before
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  the draft and now they're drafting number one overall.
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  At least they're kind of working together with the transition.
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  But remember, they barely did anything in the offseason.
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  They didn't really commit to one side or the other.
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  Generally speaking, what teams do.
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  And we're talking about where the Cardinals are now.
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  We're talking about where the Reds are, where the Diamondbacks
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  are over the American League. There's a bunch Twins, Royals,
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  Angels, Rangers. They have to repair for both
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  ways. They have to do a bunch of
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  scouting and prospects. If they for other teams, if they
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  want to sell, they have to talk about which of their prospects
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  they'd be OK with giving up. If they want to buy it, that's
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  just the way it goes. So they are right now, I would
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  imagine preparing to do either or and when it gets time, like 3
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  or 4 days beforehand, then you say, hey, we've got to make a
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  decision one way or the other. Or sometimes teams do a little
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  bit of both where they kind of, I guess with the Cardinals, it
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  would look like shedding Nolan Arenado's salary and maybe you
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  move on from Sunny Gray in a trade.
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  And then that would also probably entail just getting rid
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  of Nicholas for whatever. And then try to maybe buy
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  younger players who are Major League ready and something like
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  that. And you try to do both and say
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  we still got a chance to compete this year, but we're also
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  setting up for next year maybe a little bit.
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  What the Tigers did last year, I know they didn't really
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  necessarily buy much, but they sold Jack Flaherty, but they
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  didn't get rid of any long term pieces because they wanted to
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  compete next year. And then, lo and behold, they
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  got hot down the stretch and got some playoff experience, too.
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  Year ago the Guardians were in the ALCS, this year the duct
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  tape broke and now they are looking at A10 game losing
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  streak and certainly out of contention.
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  Guys like Stephen Kwan still got a couple years of arbitration in
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  front of him. Carlos Santando is a one year
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  deal. He's 39.
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  But the biggest obviously is Jose Ramirez.
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  If they are going to completely tear this thing down, maybe very
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  well could be the time is now. What would Jose Ramirez return
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  come trade deadline? I think it would be the biggest
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  return that anybody got this year.
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  I don't think anybody else is even in that ballpark.
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  It's not just because of how good he's been for so long, but
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  it's it's this contract, this player, this team friendly
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  contract that he signed with the Guardian.
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  Three more years, over 20 million a year, sure, but he
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  plays like a 40 to $45 million player.
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  So especially if you're talking about a larger market team who
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  can absorb this type of deal and not really have it hurt them and
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  they add a player of his caliber.
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  I mean, I am absolutely dreaming right now.
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  He's talked about the Cub, but I like Matt Shaw and I think he's
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  going. To be good, but.
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  If you could make a move and somehow include Shaw on that
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  deal and you'd bring Jose Ramirez for the next years, I
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  would be going crazy. I would think that was better
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  than the Tucker deal. So, yeah, I mean, but you know,
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  if he did come on the market, you'd have to compete because
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  the Yankees need a third baseman.
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  The Dodgers right now have Max Muncie banged up, and I'm sure
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  they would absolutely love to grab Jose Ramirez.
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  So there would be competition. Pretty much every contender
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  would take a look. By the way, it's not just you
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  who need a third baseman. If a player like that came on
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  the market, you make room for a guy like Jose Ramirez.
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  Speaking of the Guardians, the gambling investigation with Luis
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  Ortiz. Makes no sense to me.
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  Incredible. How much money could you
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  actually get down on that type of?
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  Bet right, you and I, I mean, if we put a limit of you're not
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  getting the $500 down on that bet, just incredible short
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  sightedness and just how ridiculous that people believe
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  that they can get around something as crazy as this kind
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  of prop bet and you're not going to get caught.
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  I, I'm at a loss on it. I really, I, I didn't think that
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  stuff like this was going to be as big of a problem as it was
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  back when the the White Sox threw the World Series in the 19
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  teens, because the players are rich nowadays.
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  Back then, they weren't. Back then, they needed second
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  jobs in the offseason. Yeah, they could get bought off,
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  but you're you're, you're risking being banned for life
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  from a profession where even if you're only a Luis Ortiz, you
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  could still make $10 million before you're 30 years old.
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  It's hard to imagine coming anywhere even in the same
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  ballpark of that and, and gambling on a pitch prop.
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  I I don't understand it. And even all those guys who won
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  your suspensions, if you saw they were all betting small
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  amounts, it was like 20 bucks. Three of the four guys who are
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  caught were dude were down. Three of the four guys who are
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  caught were losing and the one who won only won like 80 bucks.
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  So it's like. You're again, this is a
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  livelihood where you can make millions and millions before you
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  turn 3035 years old and you're betting $20 and risking being
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  banned for life. It doesn't really add up to me.
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  I don't get it. I'm with you.
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  And even if he was funneling that information to, you know,
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  people he was indebted to, they're not going to be able to
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  bet any more than I mean, the limit on can get caught.
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  Everything gets flagged when there's high amount.
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  Yes, it's it's unbelievable to me that see, we're watching this
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  guy just do this to himself. All right, let's get back to I
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  want to I want to focus in on the Cubs with you as we saw the
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  three-game series against the Cardinals.
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  Cardinals got Game 2 of it blow out last night.
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  So So what did what did the Cubs do other than third base?
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  And I'm with you on shy. I really liked how he plays
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  defensively. The average is going the wrong
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  way. I'm just blown away by whoever
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  catches is going to come up with a big hit, whether it's Kelly or
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  McGuire or am I what what else do they do?
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  I don't think who Cappy wants to get like an heraldist.
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  Chapman man. I see plenty throwing it up
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  there at a buck 2. Where would you where would you
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  address if it was up to you? Well, I mean, it never hurts to
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  get a reliever, but I don't see dedicating significant resources
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  to the bullpen because there's been so many guys who have done
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  such a good job there that I trust the operation that Jed
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  Hoyer and Craig Counsel have in place right now.
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  It's the one that I know Keller blew it on Saturdays.
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  That's fresh. But he's been great.
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  Valenti has been great, Keller has been great, Presley has been
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  great. Since that Giants meltdown,
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  which is one of the greatest meltdowns of all time Field bar,
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  Palmer and Flexen, they've all been so good.
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  I I'm not worried about that. I think you need another
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  starting pitcher because right now, Imanaga and Boyd, they
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  definitely look like a good 1-2 punch.
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  If you're not going to get an ace, I would want a three
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  between those two and Tyone. I don't know how much Colin
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  Ray's going to hold up all year. Ben Brown, I don't want to count
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  on Kate Horton right now, 52 innings in the majors.
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  I don't know how much higher they want him to go.
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  He's going to get to an innings cap at some point.
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  So I think you're looking at a #3 starter type and that's where
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  you see all the smoke, right? It's Mitch Keller is one of the
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  names you keep seeing and I think he would fit perfectly in
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  there. The Cubs like guys with cutters
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  like that. He he would improve moving from
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  the Pirate system of pitching to the Cubs system of pitching.
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  I mean, you just look at what it's done for Matthew Boyd
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  alone. And and I know part of that was
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  with the Guardian last year, but still, this is the best version
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  of Matthew Boyd there's ever been.
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  Mitch Keller could benefit from stuff like that.
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  So somebody like that, if the Angels fall out, I've mentioned
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  him on the show before, Tyler Anderson, especially given that
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  he's a lefty and this is Justin Steele's spot in the rotation
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  and still being a lefty, somebody like that is I think
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  the biggest need. And then I think you're open to
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  third base, not just if Jose Ramirez becomes available, but
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  somebody like, let's say a Eugenio Suarez.
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  He's his contracts up at the end of the year.
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  So he's a free agent. If you think, you know what,
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  we've got a chance to get Suarez here and not give that much up.
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  And really, if you want to swing for Suarez and Meryl Kelly
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  together, that's the year that solves both of your issues
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  there. And you can that you can plug
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  Suarez in. I mean, where 6th or 7th in this
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  Cubs order and he can hit 40 bombs in a season.
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  That'd be ridiculous. I think you add that in a
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  heartbeat. And then that's only a rental
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  and you can go back to Shawn next year.
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  Six game losing streak ends for the Yankees.
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  Alert A meter concern. I didn't I I don't think in my
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  wildest of dreams I'm sure Ken would even agree.
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  I didn't think that Blue Jays three-game deficit was going to
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  turn into a three-game fleet in real estate.
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  It was unbelievable for that to happen.
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  I guess the Yankees should be reassured that they held on
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  yesterday, but I still don't know how fired up I am about
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  getting a 5 nothing lead and having to sweat it out and won
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  64. The bullpen has been a problem.
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  The starting rotation needed another starting pitcher before
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  Clark Schmidt went down. Now it's even worse.
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  They have Max Freed, who's amazing, Carlos Rodon, who is
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  good but inconsistent, and then a bunch of question marks.
• 18:47
  Will Warren, Marcus Stroman, What's loose?
• 18:49
  He'll going to be when he comes back.
• 18:51
  They need a lot of pitching. They could probably use a bat at
• 18:55
  third base, and I've mentioned several third baseman that would
• 18:58
  click kick Jazz over to 2nd where he's much better suited
• 19:01
  defensively. They've had defensive problems.
• 19:04
  I almost feel like they need more than they can get.
• 19:07
  They need like 2 starting pitchers, 2 relievers, 1/3
• 19:10
  baseman. That's a huge laundry list
• 19:13
  heading toward the trade deadline for a team that doesn't
• 19:15
  have a ton in their farm system. So I honestly, they're still
• 19:21
  really good. They're going through a down
• 19:23
  stretch. Those happen.
• 19:24
  The Blue Jays are probably due a down stretch at some point, but
• 19:29
  I I mean I wouldn't be surprised if the Blue Jays won this thing.
• 19:33
  I I still don't think the Rays can survive all these Rd. trips.
• 19:37
  Coming up, I don't either. So I think it's, I think it's
• 19:39
  Yankees or Blue Jays, and I think it's probably going to go
• 19:42
  down to the wire. Yeah, there's, they're saying in
• 19:44
  New York that the Cody Bellinger's catch and then throw
• 19:47
  to first base for the double play was what's going to save
• 19:50
  the year for the Yankees. Save the season and maybe it
• 19:53
  will, maybe it will. It was a hell of a play.
• 19:55
  I'll give him that. It was a certainly hell of a
• 19:57
  play. Matt
• 19:58
  talkingbaseballcbssports.com Matt, look forward to catching
• 20:02
  up with you next week. We'll kind of do our look back
• 20:05
  at the that's not more than the first half, but to pre All Star
• 20:09
  break as we reached that point in the season.
• 20:11
  Matt Snyder, Thank you as always, buddy.
• 20:12
  Appreciate it. All right, take care.
• 20:15
  Good to talk to you, Matt Snyder, CBSSports.com, as we
• 20:18
  talk a little MLB. Glad you brought that up.
• 20:20
  I meant to do it in the first segment, the Luis Ortiz.
• 20:22
  Yeah, I mean, Trent, what is he thinking?
• 20:26
  One of those nights you're having a couple of drinks with
• 20:28
  your buddies, say hey, you know what, we could get away.
• 20:30
  How can it come to that? It's.
• 20:32
  A can you bet 100? Can you get 100 bucks down?
• 20:34
  Maybe 500 maybe? And just say for me for
• 20:38
  instance, a $1020.00 better, I put a $500 bet down that alone.
• 20:44
  Is going to yeah, red flags yes and.
• 20:46
  Then you couple it with something this innocuous, yes,
• 20:49
  something that I've never bet before.
• 20:52
  More flags are going right. And for it, and we're talking
• 20:55
  about it, it was the first pitch of an inning.
• 20:57
  He's either going to hit the batter or it's going to be a
• 20:59
  ball and he's firing on that. And the and the second time he
• 21:03
  did it was nowhere near the strike.
• 21:04
  Zone. And that's where even more flags
• 21:06
  go up. And he's going to just, he just
• 21:09
  has ruined his whole career for 1/5.
• 21:13
  Have you seen the amount of Bunny?
• 21:14
  I've not seen the amount. They haven't released that yet,
• 21:16
  but they will. But they will.
• 21:19
  I saw this brought up the Yankees there at the end.
• 21:21
  This is their schedule for the rest of the month.
• 21:24
  Mariners, Cubs are the next playoffs.
• 21:28
  They go to the Braves coming out of the break.
• 21:29
  OK. Then they go to Toronto
• 21:32
  playoffs, Philadelphia playoff and the Rays for four.
• 21:36
  We might. That last Rays game of the
• 21:38
  four-game series is July 31st. We could be talking about the
• 21:41
  Yankees selling with that schedule.
• 21:44
  Yeah, it's not a stretch. And with Matt what he just
• 21:48
  mentioned, that's why I jumped into my mind.
• 21:50
  They have so much need. What's better?
• 21:53
  We saw them do that what four years ago?
• 21:55
  Is that when they had that sell off that goes four years ago.
• 21:58
  It's so rare for them, but what? And it was a big deal, but it
• 22:01
  worked incredibly well. They bounced back and they
• 22:03
  because of their financial flexibility, we're able to do it
• 22:06
  right away. Just something to file away for
• 22:09
  July 30th. Do you have a single bet on the
• 22:11
  Yankees on any type of bet under wins?
• 22:16
  I don't have. I don't.
• 22:17
  I don't have a Yankees period. I have.
• 22:20
  They were my throw out before the year.
• 22:22
  Both New York teams under. It was in fact, I was looking at
• 22:25
  that when I got home. I have four teams in the
• 22:28
  American League that I bet before the season to win the AL,
• 22:30
  just win the Ali have. Let me pull it back up here.
• 22:35
  The Orioles. No shot they're going to finish
• 22:38
  last in their division. The Rangers?
• 22:42
  Yeah. The Mariners at 12 to one.
• 22:44
  Good. Shot Yep, you're alive.
• 22:46
  And the Blue Jays at 25 to 1 to win the American League.
• 22:52
  I don't think they will, but they're playing exceptionally.
• 22:55
  Well, if Springer keeps hitting like this, oh.
• 22:56
  My God. And he's, you know what?
• 22:58
  He was a snub. He's excited.
• 23:00
  Might get some attention for that.
• 23:02
  All right, we're going to catch up with Bill Seals on his way to
• 23:04
  Texas for Big 12 Media Days. Here's before we do that,
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  Sports Radio Network. I'm Hillary Condon, welcome back
• 23:38
  just past 130 on a Monday, top of the hour off the bench.
• 23:43
  Off the bench, Sean Roberts, Lucas Strain from 2:00 until 5.
• 23:48
  Bill Seal cyclonereport.com, part of on three media making
• 23:52
  his way down to Dallas to cover Iowa State and Big 12 media
• 23:55
  days, which begin tomorrow in Frisco.
• 23:58
  He joins us. Bill Trenton, Ken, thank you for
• 24:00
  coming on. Before we get into Big 12 stuff
• 24:03
  and Iowa State stuff, just Trent was just commenting during the
• 24:06
  break and I hold concur a Cyclone report.
• 24:09
  I think the website looks really good.
• 24:10
  Bill, you have to be happy with the transition.
• 24:14
  Yeah, Yeah. I think it, I think it's going
• 24:17
  great. You know, as with any
• 24:19
  transition, the first couple days are always, always kind of
• 24:23
  tricky. But I think we've gotten past
• 24:25
  that phase and I got a report last night from on three that
• 24:29
  they're actually ahead of the schedule as far as this whole
• 24:33
  transition goes. And now they're on to some other
• 24:37
  projects that I think are really going to enhance what you're
• 24:40
  getting right now on cyclone reports.
• 24:42
  So really excited about it. Looking great and you're going
• 24:45
  to have a lot of great content coming up as you're making the
• 24:48
  long drive down to Texas and what on your way through Kansas
• 24:52
  right now that Turnpike that's got to be the rest we're stretch
• 24:54
  of Rd. in America that thing is so.
• 24:55
  Boring. See, I don't mind it.
• 24:56
  Doing it at night, it feels like you are all alone out there
• 24:59
  outside of the area. I like it.
• 25:02
  You know, I, I, I guess I'm more of a glutton for punishment.
• 25:05
  I've, I'm taking the route through Joplin.
• 25:08
  So I'm going to go through eastern Oklahoma and, and in
• 25:12
  through, yeah, eastern northeast Texas, I guess.
• 25:16
  So, yeah, it's, it's not a bad route.
• 25:19
  So cut through a lot of that construction that we've had on
• 25:23
  the I-35 and Oklahoma City, going to go all around that.
• 25:28
  Big 12 released their pre season teams today.
• 25:31
  Iowa State has three, all on the defensive side of the football,
• 25:35
  Dominic Orange, Jeremiah Cooper and John Tez Williams.
• 25:38
  And correct me if I'm wrong, I think all three are accompanying
• 25:41
  Campbell tomorrow, correct? That is correct, yes.
• 25:44
  Good, good, good state depending on that.
• 25:49
  Yeah. I, I, I think they, the media
• 25:52
  did a good job there. They're not picking teams.
• 25:54
  This year, so all the. Focus went into went into
• 25:57
  picking players. Yeah.
• 25:59
  So they better get it right or they'll take that away next
• 26:01
  year, right? And I I completely believe that
• 26:03
  the fact that Arizona State was picked last and won the
• 26:06
  conference is the reason there is no pre season rankings
• 26:09
  anymore. But that's just me.
• 26:10
  Sorry, Trent. No, no problem at all.
• 26:12
  So you look at the defensive side of the football, they're
• 26:13
  going to be outstanding over there.
• 26:15
  You know, an intriguing 1 though of the five guys that are going
• 26:18
  is Tyler Miller, a guy that big size definitely has had that.
• 26:21
  And Ken and I were talking about, you know, the schedule
• 26:24
  close games a year ago if they go the other way this year.
• 26:27
  But this offensive line and Tyler Miller maybe in
• 26:29
  particular, I think that maybe there's more reason than for
• 26:34
  optimism early in the season where that offensive line has
• 26:36
  had trouble seemingly every year than any other just because of
• 26:40
  the experience that they have. A Tell us a little bit about
• 26:42
  Miller in the offensive line as a whole.
• 26:45
  Well, yeah, he kind of one of those guys that was thrown in in
• 26:50
  early, I think got a lot of playing time really early in his
• 26:54
  career and and I I think has had to do a lot of physical
• 26:59
  maturation that you know what that carry in that that was 69
• 27:03
  frame. I think now you look at him and
• 27:05
  you're like, gosh, that guy's, that guy's going to play on
• 27:08
  Sundays. And I think he's really
• 27:11
  developed, I think helped last year, Jalen Travis kind of on
• 27:15
  the the opposite side, they're flanking him.
• 27:17
  But I think this is, this is Tyler Miller's offensive line
• 27:21
  right here at that, you know, maybe last year was upwards in a
• 27:25
  way. He'd come back for his super
• 27:26
  senior year. And this year it, it's Tyler
• 27:29
  Miller's gig and, and they Iowa State's guy as far as you look
• 27:33
  at the line overall at 7 guys back with a pretty good amount
• 27:38
  of playing experience. So there will be some sorting
• 27:41
  through to do. I I think it's a foregone
• 27:44
  conclusion at this point. Brendan Black's going to move in
• 27:48
  and play center. That opens it up for Dylan
• 27:51
  Barrett to start there. He's back healthy.
• 27:55
  Trevor Bohr, another one I'm thinking on that offensive line.
• 27:59
  He's a breakout candidate. What we saw of him coming back,
• 28:03
  I think he's battled maybe a little bit of injury as well,
• 28:07
  but what we've seen of him so far has been really good.
• 28:10
  So you look at Bohr maybe as a breakout candidate, that
• 28:14
  offensive line. What about when it comes to the
• 28:17
  injuries at the linebacker position last year?
• 28:20
  How far how a forthcoming do you think Campbell would be as far
• 28:23
  as their progression and and of the of the guys that to miss
• 28:27
  significant time. I mean, who's the most I need to
• 28:31
  put like this? Who means more to that defensive
• 28:34
  side of the ball would be Bacon coming off the year he had prior
• 28:37
  to getting hurt. We heard so much about Prozina
• 28:40
  and how he was, you know, so ahead of everybody seemingly as
• 28:43
  a freshman last year and he was banged up during the year.
• 28:46
  Which of the injured linebackers do you have, do you think, and
• 28:50
  does Campbell think, and maybe Haycock has the biggest
• 28:53
  opportunity to have the biggest impact on the defense this year?
• 28:58
  Well, I I think Caleb Bacon's return is going to be crucial at
• 29:02
  that at that mic spot. They they being so short there
• 29:07
  last season and I think it hurt other areas of defense, but
• 29:11
  everybody expected Bacon to be a stalwart.
• 29:14
  I think it indications are he's going to be that this year.
• 29:19
  You you also look maybe out of that will position Carson
• 29:23
  Willich, getting him back. It's going to be huge and it's
• 29:26
  going to be an interesting training camp battle because
• 29:30
  Cooper evil played more snaps than any linebacker last year.
• 29:34
  I right up there with anybody across the board on defense.
• 29:38
  He's not going to want to give up that starting position.
• 29:40
  But you know, will it's just chomping at the bit to get back
• 29:44
  out there and time's running short on his career as well.
• 29:48
  He's one of the veteran guys. So McLaughlin, I think we we saw
• 29:53
  they they've got some pretty good depth at Sam.
• 29:55
  But it would be nice to I think I think for cycle and fans to
• 29:59
  have Will McLaughlin out there full time.
• 30:02
  He was really, I think towards the stretch run last year,
• 30:06
  putting behind him that back surgery that that cost him some
• 30:10
  games. So, yeah, I think all
• 30:12
  indications though, this, this is a healthy unit going in to a
• 30:16
  camp and I, I think one of those tailgate tour stops, Matt
• 30:22
  Campbell even told the crowd that this is the best group of
• 30:25
  linebackers top to bottom he's had in his time and aims and I,
• 30:30
  I don't. Think some good ones.
• 30:31
  Yeah, I don't think that's hyperbole either.
• 30:34
  I think he could be could be correct there.
• 30:37
  You know the quarterback position, so Sam Levitt,
• 30:39
  offensive pre season player of the year, the that was announced
• 30:42
  earlier today. And you think of Rocco and I saw
• 30:44
  him on a list in the Big 12. I think he was 7th on the list.
• 30:47
  And at first it's kind of head grabs your attention, right?
• 30:50
  And then he looked through the quarterbacks.
• 30:51
  Good quarterbacks. The depth of this conference and
• 30:54
  obviously the top end guys like Levitt non down, but you think
• 30:57
  of Jalen Daniels and what he can be when he's healthy.
• 30:59
  Avery Johnson waiting for him to break out.
• 31:00
  Sawyer. Robertson.
• 31:02
  Morton, Hoover, the TCU and Texas Tech quarterbacks who I
• 31:04
  really like, even Dev and Dampier, who people love coming
• 31:07
  in from New Mexico out to Utah. The depth at quarterback of this
• 31:11
  conference, it's nuts. And it's really not a knock on
• 31:13
  Rocco if you put them six seventh on a list because
• 31:15
  they're just so many Dang good quarterbacks in this league.
• 31:19
  Well, yeah, it's you look top to bottom in the Big 12 and I don't
• 31:24
  even think going into camp, what what are there maybe going to be
• 31:27
  two quarterback battles going into camp?
• 31:30
  I mean, what Colorado? I I think that the transfer
• 31:34
  Salter from Liberty probably gets that job.
• 31:37
  I think he wins it. Retzloff, Yep, I think Retzloff
• 31:41
  still sounds like he is going to go ahead and transfer from BYU.
• 31:45
  So that opens up a training camp battle there.
• 31:47
  But so, yeah, I think you you look look at most of these
• 31:50
  teams, they're set at the quarterback position.
• 31:53
  And I think back what was the 4th was the 4th team, I believe
• 31:58
  by Phil Steele. And I think, you know, maybe he
• 32:01
  plays with a little chip on his shoulder thinking he's probably
• 32:05
  a little better than that. Then you you look at at his
• 32:08
  numbers like, gosh, put up great numbers that yardage wise
• 32:12
  touchdowns maybe wanted wanting to cut down on some of the picks
• 32:17
  this year, the pick sixes that cost Iowa State at times, but he
• 32:21
  cleans that up. He's going to be the league
• 32:24
  right? Right along with Levitt from
• 32:26
  Arizona State. Bill Seals from Cyclone
• 32:28
  Reporters joining us as he makes his way to Big 12 Media Days
• 32:31
  which begin tomorrow. So how will he cover it 'cause I
• 32:35
  think the national media is going to gravitate to the
• 32:37
  receiver position knowing what they lost.
• 32:40
  Will, will Campbell kind of temper expectations on Seoul and
• 32:44
  Townsend? How do you think he handles that
• 32:47
  question that is sure to come? Because I mean, when you're
• 32:50
  they're replacing, you know, a second and a third round pick,
• 32:53
  both by the Texans, 2 guys that had remarkable careers.
• 32:56
  How does he handle the receiver question?
• 32:59
  Well, I think probably how you would would expect to maybe
• 33:03
  temper expectations. He will not want to overlook
• 33:08
  some of the guys that he's got back in in that receiver room.
• 33:12
  Eli Green, we're waiting maybe for a little more out of him.
• 33:16
  Dominic Overby, he, he's 1. You, you look at out outside of
• 33:20
  those two transfers, Overby might have the highest upside of
• 33:25
  any of those younger guys coming back.
• 33:27
  So he'll he'll want to, he'll not want to focus entirely on
• 33:31
  those two transfers, but just the receiver room in general.
• 33:35
  And also I think what Chase Seoul missed a little time over
• 33:40
  the spring as well. I think he was in and out with
• 33:43
  an injury. So they're, they're wanting to
• 33:45
  get him back. I'm sure he's 100% right now,
• 33:48
  but get him back and going through all of training camp
• 33:52
  once that gets started. Yeah, Eskeldson, he popped when
• 33:55
  he had his opportunities last year as well.
• 33:57
  So some depth there, no doubt. Hey, Bill, thanks for jumping on
• 34:00
  with us. Safe trip down there.
• 34:02
  We will talk to you once you get back and you can recap it.
• 34:05
  But in the meantime, we'll read about it.
• 34:06
  It's cyclonereport.com. cyclonereport.com, part of on
• 34:10
  three media. Bill Seals joining us.
• 34:12
  Thank you, Bill. Appreciate it.
• 34:14
  Thanks guys. Appreciate you having me.
• 34:16
  Yeah, good to talk to you Bill Seals as we check in on the Iowa
• 34:20
  State beat with our guy Bill Seals going to be a lot of guys,
• 34:24
  a lot of radio teams in this building guy going forward to
• 34:27
  have a field. We're going to be fighting for
• 34:28
  Bill Seals absolutely. I wouldn't we he's good at what
• 34:31
  he does. Covered him for a long time over
• 34:33
  there. We'll take a time out.
• 34:34
  Trent's plays of the day. They're coming up next circus
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  sports sponsor, though, so you never we couldn't.
• 34:39
  Bet last week? No.
• 34:40
  I opened up the app in Florida. Unavailable.
• 34:43
  Yeah, so we just didn't bet. You all right?
• 34:47
  You really made it through OK. Yeah, no, no shakes, nothing.
• 34:50
  Nothing. Yeah, I can give it up.
• 34:52
  Yeah, when the plane landed, did you make a bet right away or?
• 34:56
  I did play, did play 2 three things yesterday, went two and
• 35:00
  one. So we're back on the right side
• 35:01
  of things. Well done 145.
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  I'm Hillary Condon, welcome back.
• 35:15
  Final segment here on a Monday. Off the bench is next.
• 35:18
  Then tomorrow morning gets underway at six.
• 35:20
  The first quarter, Heather Burnside and Alec Bussey, who
• 35:23
  will be live at Big 12 Media Days tomorrow.
• 35:26
  Heather and Alec tomorrow from six until 9.
• 35:28
  Dan Patrick pushes back 9:00 to noon, no more Colin Cowherd.
• 35:33
  We stay in the same time slot. Noon to two.
• 35:35
  No changes here, but off the bench to until 5:00 with Sean
• 35:39
  Roberts and Lucas Strain. Well, Trent Circus Sports
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  sponsors your plays of the day. Do you do you recall prior to
• 35:47
  going on vacation, did you have a winning week?
• 35:50
  You were putting one together, but I don't remember the last
• 35:52
  couple of. Days I I think I did, if memory
• 35:54
  serves, I do have here in my app over the last 30 days plus 12.7
• 36:00
  units, 48 and 35. That's pretty good with a week
• 36:03
  off in there. Yeah, we'll definitely take
• 36:05
  that. If we could stack those up over
• 36:06
  the course of a year, Yep, and we'd be sitting pretty.
• 36:08
  Right now, you're one in a row. I'm not going to hold my breath
• 36:12
  that that's going to happen. I am not a tout.
• 36:16
  I am not a professional. There are very few people in the
• 36:19
  world that make money at this. I know the legislation that is
• 36:22
  concerned some gamblers. I know we have a few listeners
• 36:25
  that will impact. For most of us guys, it's
• 36:28
  probably not going to impact us. Nope, that's for sure.
• 36:31
  That aside, we'll try to bounce back.
• 36:34
  I got three games tonight, one in the WNBA, 2IN baseball.
• 36:38
  Let's open things up in Cincinnati for the Reds play
• 36:42
  host to the Marlins. Marlins played a little bit
• 36:44
  better over the last. Week and a half, I agree.
• 36:46
  But the guy that's going today, he's junk.
• 36:49
  Junk Jansen junk. Brady Singer's perfectly fine.
• 36:53
  I'll delay the -132 give you the Reds as they look to hang around
• 36:57
  in the division. Gonna do the same.
• 36:59
  And it's the old adage for me. You Darvish is taking the ball
• 37:01
  for the Padres. A guy coming off injury.
• 37:04
  I like to fade. Zach Allen has been bad for his
• 37:06
  standards this year. Those look better at times here
• 37:09
  as of late. I'll grab the plus money, give
• 37:11
  me the Diamondbacks plus one O 5 there and then to the West where
• 37:16
  the dream play host to the Valkyries and you actually know
• 37:19
  where both of those teams play. Yes, because you have become a
• 37:22
  fan of the WNB. Caitlin Clarke's WNBA.
• 37:24
  That's right. Give me the Valkyries, that
• 37:26
  team. They're way better than anybody
• 37:28
  thought. They're plucky, they're tough.
• 37:31
  They they don't have a ton of I just they're going to hang
• 37:35
  around. That dream team, though, is
• 37:36
  really talented and it feels like they're still kind of
• 37:38
  meshing at times, but when they click, they can be up there.
• 37:41
  Speaking of that, the Liberty haven't covered now in 10
• 37:44
  straight games. They're what eating.
• 37:46
  Or so is Vegas just setting the number too high because of?
• 37:50
  I think they're O nine and one ETS in the last 10.
• 37:53
  Liberty going the wrong way perhaps, or maybe just
• 37:55
  overvalued. And Fever and and the Valkyries
• 37:57
  played this week, don't they? I think they do.
• 37:59
  I think they played later on in the week in Indianapolis.
• 38:04
  Caitlin will be back. I don't know if she will.
• 38:06
  Wednesday at 11. AM really 11 AM, you know, July
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  9th. Oh, it's a big day in
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