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Astros Are Back · The 3-0 Take

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Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to the three OT 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 OT person by Sea Kick.
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This is episode 451. I'll be your host, Kyle Korne.
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I'm here with my Co host Nate Reyes.
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Nate. We are back, we are back.
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We are back. I'm energized.
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I'm just now realizing my mic is really low but I don't.
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Yeah, 'cause we were super laid back for the Home Run Derby live
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stream watch party. Yeah, shout out for those who
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joined. That was that was fun.
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That was fun, this is our first time getting together since
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then. We didn't do anything post All
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Star game. Yeah.
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So this is yeah, I guess technically this is post All
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Star game, but you know what I mean?
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We didn't do anything right after the fact.
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Took a little bit of a break, but yeah.
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That live stream was fun, man. Gave away some, gave away some
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cash, hung out with the with the folks, gave away some, gave away
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a jersey, gave away some pizza, gave away a hat and just watched
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a lot, a lot of home runs. Yeah, how are you?
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How quick? Like, I don't know.
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Recap. Not recap, but maybe like a
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quick reaction on the whole week on Derby, All Star game, how it
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was done, broadcast, what you liked, what you did, like
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anything. Anything to report.
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Can I just say 2 words? Sure.
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Chandran. Sure, that's fair.
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You're allowed to. You're allowed to say that.
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I I mean, they don't, they don't give that award to schmucks.
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And I got I got criticized and I'm still in passing getting
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criticized criticizing you, still getting criticized for my
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comments on Ryan Ripken and and company's stream about Jaron
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Duran. Who's criticizing you?
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Just everybody is this manufactured?
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Just everybody. You're an idiot.
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There's no manufactured hate. Nobody wanted to listen to me.
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I said, I said, forget about Shohei Otani.
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Jaron Duran's the face of baseball.
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And people are like, whoa, man. So yeah, Jane Duran's face.
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Baseball. Boys popping off.
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I did see like a like a TikTok that was like a like a revenge
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low light reel of like some of the mistakes he made a few years
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ago. Like specifically that home that
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like inside the park home run that went over his head.
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Homies homies picked it up man. Added a couple of tattoos to the
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sleeve. Could have put a couple of L BS
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on. Yeah, he's good, he's good.
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No, there's not much I can say there.
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Then he ran into one. Oh, yeah.
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Oh, yeah, that well, that's why he got the award that he got.
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He stepped up when his team, when the league needed him.
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Which, by the way, that makes it for those for those keeping
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track at home, that's ten out of the last ten of the last 11 All
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Star games for the American League.
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Yeah. And then I think I somebody was
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like, that's just the last 11. Go back to 1988, I said.
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The American League is 28 and seven since 1988.
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I think we're hearing rumblings of transitioning away from from
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the uniforms. Yes, I think someone's
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listening. Seems like an easy win for Major
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League Baseball. No, like I feel like people have
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been talking about this for long enough.
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People have been fed up with the jerseys long enough where it's
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like, can we just go back to it? This isn't like an old head
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versus new age conversation. This is just something that I
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think a lot of people want. I will, I will safely.
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I, I don't like throwing around the word majority a lot, but I
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feel like I'm I'm safe and sane that the majority want to go
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back to just guys having their own teams uniforms, that it's
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that simple. Yeah.
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But I, I like it. I think it's, I think it's might
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happen. There might be a little
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something there. Your quick thoughts on and we
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don't have to belabor the the All Star game necessarily.
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I know it's been a minute now so we can talk about current
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events, but your quick thoughts on Paul Schemes and Aaron Judge
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almost not happening. My quick thought First off, Jeff
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Passan pissed a lot of people off because the Sodo at bat, he
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had tweeted out judge Skeens. It's happening now.
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Obviously he's at the ballpark and everyone on Twitter is like,
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bro, we're still halfway through this Sodo at bat.
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Like did you have like, can we remember that a little bit?
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So it kind of spoiled that in in my mind and I I knew that was
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going to be a good ABI knew it was going to be a walk, but I
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knew it was going to be a good AB.
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So props to props to Soto for making that happen.
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But yeah, I'm a little bummed with I I would have liked for
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Judge to milk that out a little bit and just seen one like let
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one go by, give us a few seconds.
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It was over before people even knew what was happening.
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But it's, I mean like pull and roll over.
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I think it was 100 or 101 fastball up.
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It was kind of crazy. I just don't know why Bruce
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Bochy went with the lineup that he did.
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I feel like we had it pretty much laid out there.
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Gunner Soto judge. Why Quan?
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Congrats, man, That's a that's a big time honor to make it to the
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All Star game. Your starter.
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But like Gunner Soto judge, that was the that was an easy, easy
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recipe right there, just right in front of you.
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Anyway, that's all I had to say on that.
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It's an oversight by Boch, not too many of those in his career.
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Yeah, I had to watch majority of the game on mute so I wasn't
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able to catch much of the the in game stuff because as I
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mentioned on the Home Run Derby live stream, which again, shout
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out to those of you who joined us.
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That was a great time. Hopefully we can do something
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like that soon. But yeah, I was out of town in
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Colorado this past week. So it it worked out well that we
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had a little bit of a break because I would probably not
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have been able to catch much baseball.
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In fact, didn't really catch as much this weekend as out of
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liked Yeah, but shout out shout out to the the family the the
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extended family that listens. We got a, we got a handful of
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them, like just about just about everybody checked in with me and
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asked me how it's going, like how that's.
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Big time. How's the show going?
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What are you all up to for the break?
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And I was like, we're laying low for once.
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Yeah. So shout out.
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Shout out to those of you Colorado family, Texas family,
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even East Coast family. Much love.
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Much love to you guys. Caught a Rockies game, Friend of
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the pod Jay Cave absolutely taken over the game that we were
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at. Think he tied it up with a
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double. I want to, I want to say tied up
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with a double or something. He it was a clutch.
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It was a clutch AB think he ended up on 2nd, drove in a run
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and then it just hit a nuke to right center.
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That was fun to watch. I think I haven't, I'm not
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looking at numbers out of whatever, but I don't there's
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there. I'm getting the vibe that he
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could he could potentially provide something to a
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contender. I think he's kind of liking it
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in Colorado, honestly. Like you can tell.
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Yeah, I think he likes wherever he goes.
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He's just that kind of dude. That's the kind of player he is
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trying to think. Oh, do you need, do you need
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food there? I did.
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I got did I not text you? I'd we got those, I was
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recommending to everybody those nachos that you and I got that
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last time, the monster nachos. Chicken Monster nachos, Yeah.
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I think I got the pork pulled pork, pulled pork monster
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nachos. Those are fantastic.
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Yeah, yeah. That's big time.
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That's big time, love. Course, last thing I'll say on
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the All Star stuff like the next day after the All Star game, I'm
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searching, I'm searching Reynolds in Atlanta for next
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year. I've got the list dwindled down
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to a few that I think I'm I may pull the trigger on one of them
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because there's free cancellation.
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My question to you though, as we're sort of planning this out,
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thinking about this really live here on air.
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Would it make sense to go to to meet down there Saturday and
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just make the most of the weekend?
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Or should we go out there Sunday and then just roll right into it
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with the Home Run Derby Monday? Because I think if I'm if I'm
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not mistaken. That's.
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What I was going to say, they do like the whole don't they do
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like the whole fan fest thing and then they do the like red
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carpet. The I'm pretty sure that's I
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think the fan fest is Saturday. Maybe the red carpet stuff is
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Sunday. I think we take the whole
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weekend if we're making the trip, you know what I mean?
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That's kind of what I'm thinking.
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Yeah, I think we take the whole, the whole as much of it in as we
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can, you know. Because I very well may, may
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pull the trigger like today, boy, just to lock it in.
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I mean, we if, if something comes up, if something comes up,
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we can always, we can always pull the plug, but.
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And the wives might be coming on this one.
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They might be coming. This we're we're stepping it up
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a little. Bit well, this the the rental
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that I'm looking at is going to house.
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It's it can house four people. So for whatever reason, the
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wives like we don't want to come.
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Maybe we'll just invite some other people with this.
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I don't know. Maybe Ryan can come down with
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us. I don't know.
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There you go. But yeah, I may.
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I might just pull the trigger. Not going to lie.
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I like that. I might do it.
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I like the spontaneity out of you speak.
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Speak it into it, into existence.
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We might just do it. All right, let's let's get into
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it here. But but first,
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that's for the people that saw the title of this episode like,
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oh, it's the the we're good. They're going to talk about the
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Astros. I don't want to listen.
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Grow up. Yeah, grow up.
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Yeah, you brought this on yourself.
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They did. You brought this on yourself.
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You were kicking them while they were down.
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And look, again, I don't really have a dog in the fight.
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I don't really care how the Astros season goes one way or
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another because again. I don't even like them.
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It's worth repeating a majority of the guys on the team have
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nothing to do with the reason that you don't like the
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franchise. We we're going to say it so
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we're blue in the face, but we said, you said specifically you
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said for those of you that are laughing, just wait.
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And you said, I hate that it's coming, but it's coming.
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And here we are. Here we are Astros in the first
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place in the American League West.
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They even this weekend had a day where they had sole possession,
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which was the first time all year, which is kind of
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considering. The start was crazy.
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Kind of mind blowing, but they have they have certainly
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arrived. What was the lowest of low?
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Was it like 10 games under 500 at one point?
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It was. According to Optus stats on
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Twitter, on June 18th, the Astros were 33 and 40 and 10
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games out. Just 24 games later, which I
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believe this was as of like Saturday or Sunday, they're now
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in first. They're the second team in MLB
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history to go from being 5 plus games under 510 1/2 games back
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to being in first place and fewer than 25 games along with
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the Miracle Braves of 1914, as we all remember fondly.
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Yeah. That was a good team.
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Sitting in front of the radio, just listening, you know?
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Taking it in, yeah, with a cup of warm milk.
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Those miracle Braves love that team.
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That was a good, that was a good squad.
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With the old with the old paddle ball game.
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Old Johnny Long legs. Mick Dickerson just playing.
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Remember that game? Playing with yeah, playing with
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a paddle ball, playing with their Yo Yos.
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Was Yo Yos even invented at that point?
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Of course they were. I remember though, I remember, I
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remember playing with it like it was yesterday back in 1914.
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Yeah, who doesn't? But like, I, I, I can't even
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sound surprised anymore. Like I'm not, I'm, I'm and it's
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not a bit anymore. Like I know we keep saying like,
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oh, we've been saying this, but legitimately we have been saying
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this for some time. And I'm still concerned for
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those of you that don't understand why or how this
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happened, it happens every year regardless how they how they
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start, they end up at the very least being a part of the
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picture. And here we are.
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We haven't even reached August yet and they're threatening to
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just cruise right on by the Mariners and everybody else
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that's in their way. So I mean, what more do we say
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beyond that point? Like it's just what they do.
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How much of this is the Mariners just kind of coming back down to
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earth, but also the Astros being what they normally are?
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Is it a combination for it to happen this quickly?
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I think it's a combination of that.
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I think it's a combination of of Seattle just kind of coming back
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down to the, the enter in the the they are who they, they are
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who we thought they were GIF, you know what I mean?
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I I'm at the point now, No, no. They don't excite me.
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They don't. Like I've, I'm sure my thoughts
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on the Mariners have evolved over time, but at this current
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stage, I'm, I'm just not all that like riled up when I think
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about the Mariners. I'm not like, oh, this is a team
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that could go deep in October. Like the the bit surrounding
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this club for the longest time was like, can they even get to
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October? And now it's like, OK, yeah, had
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a little taste of it. Didn't really do much to to at
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what? What do they say?
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Whet the whet the appetite or whatever didn't didn't really do
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much. I just, I, I think the
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pitching's been good. I'm curious to see, I think
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Robbie Ray is due back pretty soon.
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So it's like, you know, what do you, what do you get out of
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that? At the top of the list of things
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that don't really do anything for me.
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Go ahead and and Robbie Ray coming back to the list.
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I know. I mean, what are we talking
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about? Like this is a team that even
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when fully healthy doesn't really move the needle.
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They the the output is minimal and even like even your your
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guys that that you hope lead the charge in terms of grabbing
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national headlines such as a Julio Rodriguez, as we've
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already mentioned, is having a rather pedestrian year.
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Few years now. Yeah, so it's like they're
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they're just waiting for that stardom to fully blossom.
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I don't know if that's, we can't say for sure that it's coming.
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You'd like to think that it's coming, but you don't know for
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sure that it's coming. So given that it's like are why
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are why are why do people feel obligated to latch onto the
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mariner? I mean, I get it.
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If you're just tired of the Astro story, I, I understand
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that you, you want to latch onto them to maybe see something
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else, but like, they haven't, they haven't, they haven't shown
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us or given us any reason as to why we should believe that
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that's a that's a realistic track.
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Yeah, I mean, I, I think rotation for rotation, when you
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compare the Astros in in the Mariners, like you can see that
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that could be a little bit of a wash if the Mariners are doing
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what they. I mean, like it's not like
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George Kirby and and you know, Logan Gilbert are are chumps,
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you know what I'm saying? I think you could say it's a
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little bit of a wash there, but like the back end of the Astros
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lineup wise, like it's I'm I'm almost taking Astros at pretty
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much every position. You know, what's crazy is that
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they're now, we'll get into it here in a minute, but like, now
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I think they're both really in play for a little bop at first
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base. I think they're both looking for
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the same things at the deadline and it's going to make things a
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little more interesting. But I'm not surprised, man.
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This is just like when you have a group of guys that they've
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been to the ALCS like 17 times in a row.
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Like they just they, this is what they do.
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They know how to do this. And it's the marathon mentality
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of like, you know, it's OK if we started this way, we're just
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going to feel our way out and and eventually get to the point
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where we need to be. And now they're at that point
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and no one believed us. No one wanted to believe it.
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Hate them all you want, but like you, you got to still game has
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to respect game. You know what I mean?
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They're good. They're real good.
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How about you or Don getting a cycle?
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How about that? Oh, you're dipping into my
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clothes in the book. No, it's all right.
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Hey, it's worth noting you're Don Who maybe you're Don is
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finally getting back to like 100% You're Don there because
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you, I mean, I threw around the word pedestrian just a minute
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ago. I'm not saying he's had a
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pedestrian near by any stretch, but you can ask him.
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I I would bet and I would venture to say that he'd
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probably tell you that this hasn't been the best run through
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basically July that that he's ever had.
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But maybe this is something that'll truly get the get the
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wheels and the gears turn in for your.
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Are the numbers? Are there numbers that me?
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Well, that, but that's. Your Don standards.
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You mean that's what. Yeah, that's what I'm saying.
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Your Don standards, I don't like.
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He's just he hasn't been in the he just hasn't for at least from
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my point of view from from where I'm standing, I haven't heard
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your Don's name as much as guys like Gunner.
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I mean obviously Shohei as we as often and as frequently.
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As we've heard. And I'm just telling you as
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through maybe what June, let me here, let me pull something up
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for you. Let me see.
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He's on your fantasy team. I know.
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OK, well, you want to look at it through the perspective of of
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fantasy. I was just looking at this
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yesterday. It's pretty, pretty fascinating,
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Jordan. Jordan Alvarez has slightly more
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points than Rafael Devers. Jaron Duran I get.
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What you're saying? Way less than Governor
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Henderson. Bobby Witt MVP status.
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That's yeah, I'm not saying again, people are going to hear
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that and go what are you talking about?
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Your Don's having a a great year.
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I'm yes, like if you're looking at if you're looking at league
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average, your Don's having a great year.
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I'm talking about your Don standers.
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He's not he at least up until late, he hasn't been going off
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the way I think you would expect as a, as what I think is going
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to be a a perennial MVP candidate.
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But I hear I, I keep hearing a lot of talk about the tiebreaker
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or maybe not a lot of talk, but I've I've saw I was reading a
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handful of articles we're talking about like, yeah, the
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importance of the tiebreaker and the Mariners getting getting the
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win on Sunday was huge as they wrap up the series of the
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Astros. And then I'm going.
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It's a nice thought to talk about and it's certainly a a
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factor. That's a play, but it's not
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really a play, if we're being honest here.
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Come on, the Astro, this, the tiebreaker is not going to go
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ahead, quote me, Sharpie, whatever you want to call it.
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The Astros are not going to need a tiebreaker at the end of the
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season. The tiebreaker will not be
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relevant between the Astros and the Mariners come the end of the
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season. I would concur.
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I would concur. I mean, it's interesting right
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now. I think, let me pull it up here.
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Through 10 matchups this year, Mariners hold a six, four
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advantage against the Astros. So that's worth noting.
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But that, I think more so, is relevant to the start that the
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Astros had because everybody was beating the Astros.
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They play 13 now, right? They had yeah, they have one
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series. Let me see.
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It's a final series of the year. I don't know if that's at the
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end of the season or if they're just talking about like the last
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time these two teams play, but that'll be in Houston.
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And it says as long as because the Mariners are up 6/4, as long
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as they don't get swept, they will own the tiebreaker.
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But it's my point is that that's not going to even matter.
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Yeah, I think so too. I just, I don't know if the
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Mariners are in a position roster wise to make that deep of
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a run. I think.
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I think I'm more so leaning to the fact that they have been in
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this position now just because of the Rangers and Astros being
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that subpar up to this point. I've, I, I don't, I wouldn't be
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surprised if the Astros win this by 5 games.
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The roster's just there and I, I, I have no idea.
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I think I don't, I don't have no idea where they're at farm wise,
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but I think the the Astros have less holes.
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You need guys to step up in in Seattle.
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You need you need stuff to start happening.
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By the way, the note about your Don that I was trying to pull up
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through June only had sixteen home runs.
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And I know I say only, but again, yeah, looking elsewhere
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around the league. It just I think he's still going
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to end up with a 35 home run season.
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I think it's just nuts. What I think it's more respect
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on what we're seeing across the league.
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Like we're seeing, we're going to see and that's 3-4, maybe
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five guys over 40 home runs this year and they.
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That's entirely my that's go back to the beginning of this
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conversation. That's entirely what I'm saying
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is. Like he's not one of those guys.
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He's just he's not in the mix right now with these other guys.
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But who knows, We'll see what can be many of the season has
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has in store. I kind of had to say it for
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later, but it probably just makes sense to talk about it
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now. Ty France placed on outright
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waivers by the Mariners. Let's not forget this man was an
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All Star. Yeah.
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Two years ago. Yeah, I get it.
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What was he getting like 2220 something?
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I don't have his numbers on the year, but in the he's played 26
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games since he came back from a fracture in his heel.
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I believe he's slashing 159, two 75227 with one home run and four
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RBIs. Yeah.
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Yeah, that's tough. The old lower half injury,
25:37
injuries below the waist never really seem to to go away when
25:41
you're that age. I feel for him a little bit.
25:44
Outright waivers I believe I read means that if he does clear
25:48
waivers, he's still a mariner and then he is allowed to be
25:51
sent down. Yes, Seattle, Yeah, they placed
25:57
one outright waivers he's been placed on, which I guess isn't
26:01
just a variation of it. Irrevocable waivers.
26:04
I read players outrighted typically can be assigned to
26:07
their to the minor leagues. But because France has more than
26:10
five years of Major League service, he can refuse the
26:12
assignment. And if he signs as a free agent,
26:14
his new team will owe him a prorated portion of the Major
26:18
League and minimum, while the Mariners pay the difference.
26:26
Trying to think of who would take a shot.
26:30
I've seen speculation that the Astros would take a shot that.
26:33
'D be crazy because such a slap in the face if he just gets sent
26:38
over there and hits like 280, you know?
26:42
'Cause who do they got over there now?
26:43
Singleton, I think it is, yeah. He that's been, that's been bad.
26:47
He's been kind of cheeks, but yeah, I've I've seen the Astros
26:53
turn around and maybe it's like the proximity effect.
26:56
Maybe it's maybe it's like the recency bias, but I've I've seen
26:58
the Astros turn around and I mean, why not?
27:05
Frankly, I don't see how that's any different than like a Jose
27:07
Abreu situation. That's kind of what I'm
27:09
thinking. I.
27:10
Mean if you're the Astros, why not just go?
27:13
Why not just go get a locked out?
27:15
I don't know what's happening with Tristan Cassis.
27:20
No, like he was supposed he was supposed to be back I think like
27:23
2 plus weeks ago still out. So I don't, I don't know what's
27:27
going on there. Can't think of anybody else.
27:33
And Dom Smith has been been holding it down enough, I think,
27:36
to not to negate needing to shake up the the old apple cart.
27:42
So. Tough, tough for Ty.
27:51
Tough for Ty. Luke Riley, just slot in there.
27:54
I mean, he's normally an outfielder.
27:55
Does he play first at all? Rookie Tyler Locklear is
28:02
prepared to take over the duties at first base.
28:06
All right, we'll see. It's not going to matter.
28:09
Yeah, I don't think it will either.
28:11
Not going to matter Ozzy Albies headed to the IL like expected
28:23
to miss likely 8 weeks. Is that that's basically just
28:32
it, right, you know, yeah, back in October if.
28:38
Yeah, I get trounced by the Phillies again.
28:40
I don't, I mean. Are we, I mean, is it, are we
28:43
just there? Can we just be there with
28:46
Atlanta, just be like? What do you mean?
28:51
How, how, how many times are you going to get kicked back down
28:54
the mountain? You know what I mean?
28:56
These are gut punches after gut punches.
28:59
When you say there, can we be there with you, with the Braves?
29:02
What are you, what are you saying?
29:03
I at the at. Are you saying at the point of
29:06
no return? At the point of there, it's just
29:09
not this. It's not happening.
29:10
Not this year. I if they sneak into a wild card
29:15
spot, great. But like at a certain point,
29:18
man, what is crazy though, is that you can still look at the
29:22
middle of that line up and be like Riley Olson Azuna.
29:26
And you're like, that's still kind of nuts.
29:31
But at the same time, I'm like, how many?
29:33
And I think, you know, with Freed, Freed has like the
29:36
forearm thing going on, right? Yeah, he just got sent to the
29:39
aisle this weekend, I believe. I What do we?
29:46
What do we got? I mean, Matt, Matt Olson, Austin
29:52
Riley, again, to draw sort of like a parallel to the Yordan
30:00
thing. I'm not saying they're Yordan.
30:02
I'm not saying Yordan is these guys.
30:03
I'm just saying in terms of conversation about guys, I think
30:07
coming into the year that you were expecting to have better
30:09
numbers at this stage of the season, both Austin Riley and
30:14
Matt Olson only have thirteen home runs.
30:17
And I know that's not the only metric, but that's the first one
30:20
that jumps off the page. You can look at advanced metrics
30:22
and say, well, they're providing, they're providing in
30:26
other capacities, but it's like bare minimum you're going to
30:30
need, you're going to need some power from those guys.
30:32
And they're they're, it's just lacking.
30:35
There's too much going on, man. There's too much going on.
30:38
I think Michael Harris is also on the IL.
30:45
There's only so much you can overcome.
30:48
There's only so much of the next man up mentality that are is
30:50
going to be able to like get by. I mean, if I told you on opening
30:57
day that at the end of July that Marcelo Zuna was going to be
31:02
your headliner of the year, you're probably thinking that
31:07
that season didn't go as expected.
31:10
Yeah, that's a good point. Was Ozzy even doing that well?
31:18
You know how I feel about Ozzy Alvis.
31:20
I, I, I'm sorry, I just don't get it.
31:24
I don't get the infatuation with Ozzy Alvis.
31:27
And I'm not trying to kick a man while he's down and I'm not
31:29
trying to ruffle the feathers of Braves fans.
31:31
I know you all love him dearly, and I know that a lot of times
31:35
fan bases get attached to a guy that maybe isn't as good as they
31:41
they might think he is. That's just how how fandom
31:44
works. I understand.
31:44
I think we've seen now Dansby. I don't want to comment on
31:50
Dansby. I don't want to upset I've I've
31:52
already I've already planted my flag on on Ozzy.
31:55
I don't need to add more fuel to the fire here.
31:58
But with Ozzy, I I mean like, what are we?
32:05
I need to pull something up here.
32:07
We've done this before. We've done this before when when
32:10
it's hard and, and granted it's been a minute since we did any,
32:14
any sort of ranking around the league position, position wise.
32:19
Second base is just so, so thin. It's like, so like, I, I, I
32:26
don't think the argument of saying he's a top five second
32:28
baseman in baseball really just, it doesn't hold that much water
32:31
right now, you know what I mean? Yeah, and I'm not saying that
32:36
he's not like that argument can be made certainly three time All
32:40
Star Silver Slugger, 2 times Silver Slugger, but I just don't
32:49
think he's this he's this must have that brave fans make him
32:54
out to be when like when he when Ozzy goes down.
32:57
Now, if they're making that argument based on the vibes and
33:03
personality and and chemistry and just what he brings from
33:06
that front, I'll, I'll hear that out.
33:09
But this isn't exactly a guy when he goes down performance
33:13
wise, that's really going to make you suffer that bad.
33:18
Like your season isn't over if you lose Ozzy Alby's.
33:22
You won the World Series without Ronald Ocuna Junior.
33:25
Don't tell me that Ozzy Alby's is the glue that holds your
33:29
World Series hopes together. Yeah, I mentioned earlier of
33:36
like the lower half injuries. Same applies to hands, wrists,
33:43
fingers, hands. This it's it's doesn't come back
33:50
the same way. And I believe it was dumb last
33:55
year, wasn't it? Or is that two years ago?
33:57
I think it was a broken thumb for a while.
34:05
I think that what or maybe it was two years ago, I think it
34:08
was two years ago. I think it was two years ago
34:10
because I believe I was at the game it happened at.
34:15
I could be wrong. And so was that in September.
34:18
Yeah, that was there for for my buddy's bachelor party.
34:22
Yeah. So, yeah, I think I was at that
34:24
game. Yeah, man, I, I think I'm with
34:29
you. I think I'm with you.
34:30
I've never really been like fully on board there, but
34:34
overall I just, I just think the Braves are pretty cooked, man.
34:40
I, I'm not going to say sell, but I think you could do a
34:43
little bit of like a, like a, you know, like a we're just,
34:52
we're just having. This whole conversation, we're
34:54
just talking about like the value that each guy brings.
34:56
Then we get to the point at this, at this point, the
34:58
conversation, you go, you know, I think the Braves are just
35:03
pretty cooked. I mean, hey, you said it, not
35:08
me. You know how I feel about the
35:10
division specifically the at least at this stage in the game.
35:15
But I just want it on record that you said that, not me.
35:19
I think they're they're, they're obviously good enough to hold on
35:22
to this wild card spot, potentially even the top wild
35:24
card spot. I just don't see a, a, a thing
35:31
where they can look at this deadline and be like, we're a
35:35
couple moves away from being able to hoist that trophy again.
35:39
Just doesn't feel that way. Not with these big of names that
35:43
have gone down. Then you kind of just, I think
35:46
you got to take this one on the chin.
35:48
If you're a Braves fan, just let the let the Phillies fans chirp
35:52
this year. Let them be loud, because
35:54
there's not much you can do or say right now.
35:58
Look, I have, I just have one challenge for the Braves.
36:04
You know what? I'll make this promise.
36:07
I'll make this promise to Braves fans if the season pans out, if,
36:13
if the the paces that have been set for this division hold true
36:18
for the remainder of the season, if the Phillies end up taking
36:20
it. I'm not going to say anything to
36:23
Braves fans, but I will make this promise to Braves fans.
36:28
If you finish beneath the New York Mets this year, you will
36:34
never hear the end of it for me, and I can promise you that much.
36:41
Four, they're they're currently four games behind you in the
36:44
rearview mirror if you if you let the the Mets overtake you in
36:49
the division. I'm not saying at any point, I'm
36:52
just saying by the end of the year, you just better hope that
36:59
doesn't happen in a year that the Met, again, the Mets were
37:02
not supposed to compete. Just just know you've been
37:08
warned. It's a lot of injuries though.
37:11
Not it's the Mets, it's the Mets.
37:14
It's the Mets. What are we talking about?
37:16
It's a lot of big injuries. No, I I don't care.
37:21
Frankly, I don't care. Ask me if I care.
37:24
I still think they're cooked. Ask me if I care.
37:28
I don't think you care. I don't care it's the Mets dude.
37:31
Like even with the injuries you should still be better than the
37:35
Mets. One would think.
37:40
One would think. Oh no, they better hope that
37:47
doesn't happen. That's all I'm going to say the.
37:50
Philly side of you is growing by the day.
37:55
It's absolutely not, it's just it's more of a brave thing at
37:58
this point. The corresponding move, though,
38:02
they they didn't wait around long, picked up Whitmer Field,
38:07
added him to the squad, they added Whitmerfield.
38:18
That's really all I've got there, I mean.
38:20
I think Whitmerfield can play solid defense and hit 268 so.
38:25
Yeah, he can certainly be a replacement for Ozzy Alby's
38:29
that's there's no there's no doubt in my mind that that can
38:32
take place. I mean, I I'm of the belief that
38:37
they could have been worse. Like you could have been left
38:39
with somebody a lot worse. I think.
38:42
I think there's still some. I mean, he's what, 35I?
38:49
I still think there's a little bit, I'm not saying like
38:51
untapped potential, like we haven't seen the peak wit
38:54
Merrifield's career. I'm not saying that.
38:56
But like I, I, I think you can still get a little bit out of
38:58
him for these last couple of months to to hold it down.
39:02
Professional hitter who's going to play professional defense.
39:09
It's all you need to squirm your way into the wild card spot.
39:14
Is he going to put up Joe Morgan numbers?
39:15
No. He's going to give you the
39:21
minimum that you need at that position.
39:26
I like the move personally. I I think it was a little bit
39:30
interesting from the Phillies to do it.
39:34
I saw the Rob Thompson interview about it.
39:37
He's like this one hurt. He's like, I've been in baseball
39:40
a long time and these conversations are never easy,
39:43
but this one was tough. So I think it just shows that
39:46
like the level of of value that a whit Merryfield brings,
39:52
whether it's numbers are outside the numbers, I think there's
39:56
some value there. So good move.
40:02
Probably not that much of A drop off.
40:06
I know I said what I said about Ozzie Alby's.
40:09
I mean, it's definitely better than Whit Merryfield.
40:11
You can be wrong. Yeah, well, I think it would be
40:16
a little bit of a drop off. I mean, the guy was, let me see
40:19
here, he's hitting $1.99 through 53 games.
40:26
He's also never gotten to this point of not playing every day.
40:30
He's just, he's been in this weird spot between the way he's
40:35
treated with like the Royals, the Blue Jays, this like infield
40:39
and outfield situation, the, you know, playing twice a week kind
40:43
of thing. I think it's be good for him.
40:46
I think if he plays everyday in Atlanta, you're going to see him
40:50
capable of doing some stuff. I'm correct in saying that the
40:56
Royals let him go at the right time, right?
41:04
Hit hit 281 and 44 games for the Jays in 2020.
41:09
Twos All Star last year hit 272 with 11 bombs.
41:15
I mean. That's that's the, that's the
41:17
medium right there. That's that's the normal.
41:20
You'll get normal. If he plays every day you'll get
41:22
normal. I mean, but you're seeing,
41:24
you're seeing him hit north of 300 with Kansas City and then it
41:27
kind of trickles off as he gets older.
41:29
Yeah. Yeah.
41:32
But All in all, I think to your point, drop off may not be that
41:36
bad. So I think that's the take away
41:38
here is that Whitmerfield, I think at the very least can hold
41:40
it down. But to Nate's point, he said
41:44
they're cooked, so doesn't really matter.
41:48
Yeah, like if you're a Braves fan and you can get mad all you
41:54
want, but like, let's be honest, let's look at what you've lost
41:57
and you tell me if you're able to make a deep run.
42:01
That's I think they know that the division is out of hand at
42:05
this point and I think you know what it takes as a fan base, you
42:12
understand what it takes for a roster to be able to do what
42:16
they need to do in October. It's a hoisted trophy and and I
42:20
don't see it just being realistic.
42:23
They just got Eddie Rosario back too.
42:25
I don't know if you saw that. Cooked.
42:27
I'm over this. Let's move on.
42:29
Let's stop talking about the Braves.
42:31
Clayton Kershaw set to make his first start of the season this
42:35
this week. Thursday to be exact.
42:41
Dave Roberts said this weekend that he would be ready for the
42:45
finale against the Giants. This is perfect.
42:51
This is perfect. If you're the, if you're the,
42:54
you're basically like Kershaw's in like Tiger Woods mode, You
42:58
know what I mean? I'm just going to play majors,
43:01
you know, I'll just show up in August.
43:05
Give me the ball against the Giants.
43:07
I'll be. Good.
43:07
Give me let me show up the end of July, beginning of August,
43:11
I'll give you 12 starts and then we'll go into the postseason
43:14
feeling better. So this is good.
43:19
This is good. I saw Glass now it's potentially
43:21
coming back day after right? I was about to.
43:22
Say yeah, he. Or the day before.
43:26
Dodgers will get Glass now back for the series against the
43:31
Giants. So is he?
43:34
Oh, he's scheduled. He's Wednesday.
43:35
He's he's he's scheduled Wednesday.
43:37
Yeah. And then Kershaw is what I say.
43:41
Thursday. Yeah.
43:42
So day before. That's big.
43:45
I also wonder how much of the, the glass now thing was just a
43:48
little bit of load management. There's let's, let's not be
43:54
naive. Let's not be naive here, people.
43:56
The the load management and the IO manipulation is a thing.
44:01
And I know Billy Eppler was the one that that took that hit, but
44:07
every team does it. It's so real in baseball now.
44:11
It did I, I correct me if I'm wrong.
44:14
I don't think it used to be a thing really, but it's it's
44:18
evolved into being a thing in baseball.
44:20
But The thing is, is that Major League Baseball doesn't want to
44:24
admit it. They, they, they want to turn
44:26
people's eyes and attention away from the fact that, oh, this
44:29
thing that everybody's getting on the NBA for, yeah, Major
44:33
League Baseball does it too. But we don't want to say that
44:35
because we're the blue collar all American sport and always
44:38
have been. It's super easy to do with guys
44:41
that like, I've had a pretty lengthy injury history as well.
44:45
For sure, for sure. And it's like you can sit there
44:52
and and tell us that you're the blue collar all American sport,
44:55
but the 2nd that the amount of money that's involved in
44:59
baseball as is today gets jumbled up.
45:05
All that stuff goes out the window.
45:06
You're going to get caught up in trying to protect these stars
45:10
just the same way that they do in the NBA and elsewhere in the
45:14
sports world. That's just the reality of it.
45:16
So Major League Baseball needs to just stop pretending this is
45:20
a thing. It's very real.
45:23
Let's just hope it doesn't get out of hand.
45:26
What are you laughing at? Soto just hit a home run and
45:29
this is this is becoming laughable how slow these home
45:32
run trots are being with the them in the race.
45:34
Just going back back and forth with the slowest possible home
45:38
run trots. To be fair, he did go upper deck
45:41
to right field, but. Are we going to see a Yankee or
45:44
a Ray in this game? Walk.
45:47
Just the whole way, the entire if.
45:51
Yeah, if you don't know what we're talking about, just look
45:55
up how slow these home run trots have been in the last few days.
45:58
Look up Jose series. Would you say second home run of
46:01
the day? Scumbag or no, I don't know one.
46:04
His home run today. He's had two in this series, but
46:08
O2 in the series. That's right.
46:09
Yeah, he had one yesterday. It was really slow.
46:11
Hit another one today, slower today.
46:14
Check out around third base. Yeah, I was going to say check.
46:16
Out his his little stretch around third, there it was.
46:20
It's quite comical. I'm still holding out hope.
46:23
No, that's whoa. We need to be careful with my
46:25
words here. I'm not holding out hope because
46:27
that would sound or that would just be really weird.
46:30
I'm, I'm holding on to the belief that at one point down
46:38
the line in Major League Baseball, we're going to see
46:41
whether it's a rivalry or just two teams that don't really like
46:45
each other. We are going to see a player in,
46:51
in an attempt to mock the other team pull down his pants and
46:55
just like take a dump on first base.
46:57
Like we are going to see something so egregious in our
47:00
lifetime because like, it's only going to get worse.
47:03
We're seeing guys literally walk around third base.
47:07
Yeah, that we're going to. This is the can of worms that
47:11
were opened a few years ago. And this is This is why we were
47:14
we were yelled at and called old heads and called boring.
47:19
And it wasn't what was happening at the time.
47:21
It's what we knew was going to come.
47:23
And watching what's happening, it's all coming to fruition.
47:27
Perfectly said. It wasn't like when we were
47:29
talking about it when this whole let the kids they they were
47:32
Major League Baseball was giving the guys shirts to wear that
47:35
said let the kids play. And like, it's not what's going
47:38
on now. It's what it's the can of worms
47:40
that's opened that's going to lead to what we're going to see
47:43
down the road. And sure enough, like, and, and
47:47
it's, it's hilarious to watch because all these players like,
47:50
no man, we're just out of here having fun.
47:52
Let the kids play. But the second somebody takes a
47:53
little bit too long rounding third base, then it's whoa, no
47:58
cap on my Mama. I'm going to throw hands on God.
48:02
Like it's, that's what, that's where we're at now.
48:04
And it's like, OK, well, you all, you all just going to eat
48:07
yourselves alive. Going back and forth on the the
48:11
state of the game and what should be allowed, what
48:12
shouldn't be allowed. I'm over it, I'm over it.
48:17
I'm all good. I'm all good with I'm all good
48:19
with pimping a home run. I'm all good with a little bit
48:21
of chin music after the fact. But beyond that, like we, we
48:26
don't need the, we don't need the theatrics because it's just
48:29
going to rip the game apart because guys are going to get
48:31
their feelings hurt and then nobody's going to want to
48:33
freaking play anymore because they're going to want to pick up
48:35
the ball and go home. Oh, so I'm so done with it,
48:40
dude. I'm done with this whole this
48:43
whole narrative. It's I'm over it.
48:46
I'm over it. Monday, KC built different.
48:50
Monday daytime, Daytime Monday KC Too much Mike Trout could be
49:02
could be back. I think he's actually I don't
49:07
know if he's officially set to make his return, but I think he
49:10
the the return is imminent. Cool.
49:13
I saw as soon as Thursday against the A's.
49:17
That's a good team maybe to match up.
49:18
Actually, no, I take that back. I need to I need to show some
49:22
respect to the A's here. He's been playing decent ball.
49:26
Decent ball is an understatement.
49:31
The some of these box scores, dude, they put up, let's see
49:36
here, they put up 18 against the Phillies, 13 against the Angels
49:42
the next day they put up 8 the day after that, put up five.
49:46
That like, I don't know what's happening to the A's right now.
49:52
I don't know where this offense is coming from.
49:53
Probably Brent Rooker and Brent Rooker only guys baseballs right
49:58
now. Look up Miguel and do hard
50:00
numbers. I'm not going to go into it, but
50:03
it's what Miguel and do hard numbers are crazy.
50:08
You'd be you're going to be insanely surprised there.
50:12
And he's like split in time with Rooker.
50:14
He's not even playing every day. Trying to find just some quick
50:19
numbers here. He's hitting three O 4 and 200
50:25
ABS for Oakland. Wow.
50:34
Not bad, right? Good for Miguel Anduar there's.
50:42
Going to be some names to move there but I don't I don't I
50:45
whatever. Back to the trout thing.
50:50
I feel like this is just a whole lot of news today that just
50:55
doesn't get me fired up. I think the only people that
50:59
care about this Mike Trout news are fantasy owners.
51:03
Well, it's, it's I, I failed to mention this off the off the
51:06
top, but the reason we're recording Monday today is
51:11
because again, I was out of town in Colorado this past week and
51:15
we got in late and didn't really want to have to worry about
51:19
squeezing an episode in prior to getting to bed to get ready for
51:22
the work week. So here we are, recording today.
51:27
During the work day. Well, I'm on my lunch break in
51:31
case anybody's listening. In case anybody's listening,
51:34
this is my lunch break. So just relax.
51:41
Why did I share that information?
51:44
Oh, because today I was, I was pulling, I was pulling together
51:47
the, the, the rundown, the agenda.
51:49
And I kind of had the same thought.
51:51
I'm like majority of this news on this fine Monday doesn't
51:55
really doesn't really get me going.
51:56
For the But here we are. But here we are for the people
51:58
you know. I mean the.
51:59
People need us. I think that's partially due to
52:02
the fact that we're we're only coming off three games.
52:05
We guys I think are. Yeah.
52:08
Little bit, little bit sluggish, little bit, yeah, you know,
52:12
fresh off the break, you're kind of easing back into it a little
52:14
bit. But yeah, we we don't really
52:17
have much to go off from the past few days.
52:20
So this is kind of what we're dealing with.
52:22
But you're you're really struggling to find the find the
52:26
the juice with the mic trout stuff.
52:28
I I'm very over it. I'm very over it.
52:32
I saw, I saw a clip of him hitting off the tee on the field
52:37
and I'm like, I don't know, in my mind that's a little bit of a
52:41
scumbag move, you know what I mean?
52:43
We're just like you. If you're going to do tee work,
52:45
you could just keep the balls in the cage, you know what I mean?
52:49
So we're out here. Wow, we're at the.
52:51
Point in Mike Trout's career where you think he's just
52:53
pulling off scumbag moves. How that's like that's like just
52:56
it's a little I felt and on this whether how to fall on BP, I'm
53:01
not sure, but I thought it was a few weeks ago and they were like
53:04
he's swinging off a tee and man's is on the field and I'm
53:07
just like, do we need that? How?
53:11
Far he's fallen in the eyes of Nate Reyes.
53:14
Unreal. I'm just over it.
53:16
I'm just over it. I appreciate what you've done
53:18
for our game, but I'm tired of hanging on every word of all the
53:24
updates that we need to do to keep up with your 85 game season
53:29
every year. I no, I refuse.
53:33
I refuse to turn on Mike Trout at this point in his career.
53:37
I know I've, I know I've wavered.
53:39
I know I've echoed this, a similar sentiment at times where
53:43
I'm like, I'm just done, but I'm at the point now and I, I'm like
53:48
this with everything. Meredith tells me this all the
53:50
time. I won't like something if it's
53:56
like all the rage. Like everybody's talking about
53:57
it. Like whatever, Taylor Swift.
54:00
Like, not that I was planning on talking about Taylor Swift.
54:02
Taylor Swift's a perfect example.
54:04
Big ricochet here. I like it.
54:06
No, for real no, I'm trying to give her some props here.
54:09
When when she was just like all the rage up like pre Travis
54:13
Kelce. I'm like I no, I'm done.
54:17
I still don't listen to her music.
54:18
I just want that on record. No, I'm good.
54:20
But I'm like, I'm done with Taylor Swift.
54:23
I I I'm tired of hearing about it.
54:25
But the second she started catching straight or not
54:28
straight as pretty, pretty direct hate with the whole like
54:32
NFL thing. I'm not going to say I turned
54:36
into a Swifty, but I'm like, let's dial it back a little bit
54:39
here. She's what do you want her to
54:41
do? Just like sit in a a dark room
54:43
all day and just not do anything.
54:46
Relax. So I'm kind of the same way with
54:48
Mike Trout where it's like everybody was, oh, Mike Trout's
54:51
the greatest man. And then you and I were kind of
54:54
on the same page where it's like.
54:55
Well, I don't like showing current guys goats.
54:58
I hate that. Like you have, yeah, you have to
55:00
show it you like you have to. And he did there for a while,
55:03
but then very quickly fell off the injury Cliff and just hasn't
55:07
been able to recover. But now everybody's kind of on
55:12
the same page as you where they're just like, I'm I'm, I'm
55:15
over it. Let's talk about show.
55:16
Hey now. And it's like, whoa, whoa, whoa,
55:17
whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa. Let's not forget about Mike
55:21
Trout over here. So I've, I'm, I refuse.
55:24
I'm over this. Story what do we like I get it
55:27
he's going to come back and he's probably going to still end up
55:29
having like forty home runs by the end of the season and it's
55:33
for a wasted ass angels team well that's like.
55:36
Well, that's not. Cool, the same thing I've read.
55:39
I've seen this movie 1,000,000 million times and it's just
55:43
it's, it gets worse every time I see it.
55:45
So I I don't want to watch it anymore.
55:48
I get. It but I'm just saying I'm I'm
55:50
not going to be on the wrong side of history when his career
55:53
is over and it's time to reflect back on Mike Trout's career and
55:56
everybody is like, yeah, man, Mike Trout was great.
55:58
It's like no, no, shut up, no, and I'm not saying you, I'm
56:02
saying the people that are going to then all be like buddy, buddy
56:05
Mike Trout, like no, I never I I didn't turn on the guy when he
56:09
didn't have anybody else in his corner.
56:11
I was there. Oh, he's got plenty of
56:15
delusional people on his corner. As the meme goes, if Mike Trout
56:19
has one fan, something, that's me.
56:22
If Mike Trout has no fans, I'm dead.
56:24
That's that's where we're at now.
56:27
That's where we're at because it doesn't sound like anybody
56:30
really cares about the remainder of Mike Trout's career.
56:32
By the way, Speaking of angels, I need.
56:35
You dismisses me combined. I need you to apologize to me.
56:39
For what? For Joe Adele.
56:41
I told you who he was. I told everyone who he was.
56:45
And you tried to get me to apologize in May.
56:48
Yeah, because he was good at the time.
56:51
And I now look at it, I said hey.
56:54
Let's take a look at what Joe Adele is doing here.
56:56
You're like, no, the guy sucks. I said, well, no, He's actually
56:59
playing pretty well right now. Look again, I'm not responsible
57:02
for what happens in July. I made an apology.
57:05
I said at the time, I said at the time that he was, he was
57:11
playing well. And it warranted in my mind, an
57:16
apology from you because you were just like unnecessarily
57:21
ruthless against the guy. And I'm like, whoa, whoa, whoa.
57:24
This isn't even like a house. He's not even really a household
57:26
name. And you're just picking out Joe
57:28
Adele from the crowd. And like, I don't like that guy.
57:31
He's. Sitting 198 now.
57:33
That's yeah, that's nice. So anyway, we all knew.
57:37
I knew and everyone said that I owe apologies.
57:42
I ain't apologizing to nobody. All right, Conor McGregor, let's
57:45
talk about Kodai Senga. Kodai Senga talking about
57:48
returns could be back sooner than we think.
57:54
In fact, this week, I believe Friday against the Braves, the
57:58
aforementioned Braves. Wow.
58:02
I mean, you want to talk about a, a good team to bring him back
58:04
against. Bring him back against a team
58:07
that might finish beneath the Mets.
58:11
That's pretty smart. That's pretty, pretty smart on
58:14
behalf of the Mets. You're talking about a team that
58:16
could finish below you in the standings and that's similar.
58:19
It's like the same thing you would do with like the A's or
58:21
something. Like bring him, bring him back
58:22
against the team. It's scuffle a little bit.
58:24
It's a good time, it's a good time.
58:27
I'm I'm looking forward to see it to to see in the return,
58:30
though I I feel like we we were cut short of a of a.
58:36
Super hot start this year didn't.
58:37
He Yeah, Well, no, not hold on. This would be.
58:48
Or is this his season debut? This would, yeah, season debut.
58:51
I thought he started the year. No, no, you said hot start and I
58:54
agreed with you because I thought you were talking about
58:55
like last year just as a whole. But yeah, no, he hasn't.
58:58
He hasn't pitched this year. Well, this just shows you how
59:02
much I care about the Mets. Yeah, we know, We know.
59:06
He went 12 and seven with a 298 last year, led the team and wins
59:12
ERA and strikeouts, which not really saying much 'cause it's
59:14
the Mets, but. Is the resurgence the New York
59:17
Mets need? Here's the question is go get
59:22
that. First round exit.
59:25
No, no, no, no, no. From this point forward, we're
59:28
not when we're talking about the when we talk about the Braves
59:30
and the Mets, we're not talking about the playoffs.
59:31
We're talking about who finishes above who, and Kodaisenga might
59:37
be The X Factor that the Mets need to surge past the Braves.
59:43
I agree. Then they need to, they need to
59:47
really just stand, stand firm on keeping Peter Alonso in place.
59:53
If I mean, what's more important, Matt's the the future
59:56
of your franchise or whether or not you can, you can outlast the
1:00:00
Braves this year. If you can surge past and
1:00:03
outlast the Braves this year, how?
1:00:04
Long does that carry you? You know what I mean?
1:00:08
I mean, you want to talk about morale?
1:00:10
It's a big booster that's for years.
1:00:12
You can. You can hold that.
1:00:13
But but look, look at what we've talked about today.
1:00:16
Today alone, you tell me. You tell me this.
1:00:19
What's what's a better edition? Whit Merrifield or Kodaisenga?
1:00:25
That's true. That's what.
1:00:27
That's. What we're dealing with here,
1:00:28
yeah, that's what we're dealing with here.
1:00:32
I like that. I like that breakdown.
1:00:34
I'm. I'm I'm almost kind of pulling
1:00:37
for this upset at this stage. Now we've talked about it
1:00:39
enough. I.
1:00:40
Am I Mets fan now? Am I let's go Mets or are we
1:00:44
both? Are we both Mets fans now?
1:00:46
Like are we pulling for this? No, I can't do it.
1:00:51
I kind of, I just kind of want to see it because I just want to
1:00:54
see how, believe me, I don't have like this personal vendetta
1:00:57
against Braves fans, but I would just love to see how they
1:00:59
respond. Some could say greatest fans
1:01:04
have a personal vendetta against you.
1:01:05
That's understandable and that's reasonable, but I explained on
1:01:08
the Home Run Derby live stream watch party that I'm just kind
1:01:12
of, I'm just kind of laying low. But if they want to, if they
1:01:15
want to throw something in my face, I'm going to throw it
1:01:17
right back at them. Yeah.
1:01:19
Typically tying the Phillies into it somehow because that's
1:01:24
just an easy win and that and that argument.
1:01:28
But I would just be curious to see how the how Braves like what
1:01:32
the what the response from Braves fans would be if they
1:01:34
finished in third this year. I think that would really hit
1:01:37
home, you know, real kick to the nuts that.
1:01:43
'D be tough closing the book here.
1:01:50
Shohei Otani. Oh my.
1:01:53
Has joined Aaron Judge as the only members in the 30 home run
1:01:56
club so far this year. And this in crazy fashion.
1:02:02
We're not going to talk about who he did it against, but it
1:02:04
was 473 feet on Sunday Night Baseball.
1:02:08
Here's what doesn't make sense is that how does he hit it out
1:02:11
of Dodger Stadium and then Solaire hit one like 10 rows up,
1:02:16
dead center field and quarters 478?
1:02:19
Yeah. How does that happen?
1:02:21
I don't understand that if that if I've if I've ever seen 515
1:02:24
feet. I think I just saw it.
1:02:26
Don't tell me it's 473. I don't buy that nuke job
1:02:31
though. Crazy.
1:02:37
Unreal. You already stole it earlier.
1:02:40
You're Don Alvarez hit for the cycle on Sunday as well.
1:02:46
And my next note here very much related in route to his triple
1:02:52
that he he tallied on Sunday, Julio Rodriguez got caught in
1:02:58
the crossfire a little bit, collided with a wall trying to
1:03:01
make a play on it. X-rays came back in negative.
1:03:05
The ankles like. Yeah, that I watched it.
1:03:08
I watched it back, that was. Didn't look good.
1:03:10
Not didn't look good, but sounds like all things considered
1:03:15
should be hopefully all right, says Scott.
1:03:18
Scott survey says it's a little bit of an ankle sprain, so
1:03:22
hopefully all good there on that front.
1:03:25
And lastly, Jim Leland, Adrian Beltre, Todd Hilton and Joe
1:03:31
Mauer. What a group.
1:03:33
Our Hall of Farmers. What a group.
1:03:36
What AI love that we are now in this, this time and place where
1:03:41
we can be like I these are all dudes that I watched.
1:03:44
These are all dudes that I specifically remember Jim Leland
1:03:48
just ripping heaters in the dugout blowing back some darts.
1:03:54
Providing an awesome closing to his speech that I that I sent
1:03:58
you that was. Amazing.
1:03:59
Yeah. If for those unfamiliar, go look
1:04:01
up Jim Leland's speech. Just nailed it.
1:04:05
I love. I love that I Todd Hilton didn't
1:04:08
disappoint. Todd Hilton was exactly who Todd
1:04:10
Hilton was. He's said in his speech.
1:04:13
He's like, the last thing I want to do is sit up here and talk
1:04:15
about myself. But what an honor it is.
1:04:17
Like, that's cool, man. That's cool.
1:04:19
That guy is is the dude Adrian Beltre?
1:04:23
No duh. What a group.
1:04:28
Side note, have they done the whole Cooperstown patch on the
1:04:33
hats? Have they done that before?
1:04:35
Because I I feel like I just noticed that for the first time
1:04:37
and I was a big fan. I don't know.
1:04:40
Like for for the games being played this weekend, like all
1:04:42
the players had the the Cooper Sound or the Baseball Hall of
1:04:45
Fame patch. I would have liked, I would have
1:04:46
liked them to be better, better on the hat.
1:04:49
You could see that it was like, you see like the side angles
1:04:53
like sticking out. It was like separated.
1:04:56
I got like a little bit of a better performance there, a
1:04:58
little bit more new era, but overall very cool, very neat.
1:05:05
That was a nice touch and being in, I will say, being at at
1:05:08
Coors this weekend, in fact, we're literally like, because I
1:05:13
don't know, the ceremony was yesterday, right?
1:05:15
Sunday. Isn't that when they do the
1:05:16
ceremony? Yeah, being there this weekend
1:05:21
for the game Friday. I mean, all sorts of Todd Hilton
1:05:25
stuff around the park. So that was cool to see as they
1:05:27
were getting ready for their their guy to get inducted.
1:05:32
I'm really happy he made it in. I'm really happy you made it in.
1:05:36
I, it seems to me that we're trending towards potentially
1:05:40
Andrew Jones getting in with this next ballot.
1:05:43
I think he's, his numbers are climbing.
1:05:45
So that's like my next, that's like my next, you know, mission.
1:05:50
Just get the word out. You know that's got to happen.
1:05:56
I think it will. I think it needs to.
1:06:00
That's crazy. That's an absurd name to not
1:06:02
have. I don't know what are we doing.
1:06:05
We're not going to put him in because he played for so long.
1:06:07
It's like, OK, so then we're also going to punish the guys
1:06:12
that played. We're going to we're going to
1:06:14
keep him out for the reason that we get on people that don't play
1:06:17
long enough. It's like, well, you didn't play
1:06:19
the you didn't play for the sweet spot amount of time.
1:06:21
What is that? Shut up.
1:06:23
Andrew Jones is a Hall of Famer. Let's let's relax.
1:06:26
One of, if not the greatest center fielder.
1:06:28
No. OK, one off, one off, one off.
1:06:30
Can't say the but. One off.
1:06:33
Top ten center fielder of all time.
1:06:34
Slam dunk solidified. Secured.
1:06:40
Sharpie set in stone. Mark your calendars.
1:06:46
I don't know. No cap.
1:06:49
All riz. Sheisty I.
1:06:55
Don't know what the hell. No, cap, and that's on my Mama.
1:07:01
All right, let's get out of here.
1:07:03
Anything else you got for the folks?
1:07:07
Yeah. I mean, I was just kind of
1:07:09
curious if you had an answer you.
1:07:12
Didn't ask me a question. Well, I was I was thinking about
1:07:14
like, you know this the other day and it's just it's kind of
1:07:18
been with me, you know, when is when is it's ITS OK and when is
1:07:26
IT apostrophe S the move, you know what I mean?
1:07:30
So I feel like my phone and my my computer just correct things.
1:07:36
Do we need like a little? Do we need like a little grammar
1:07:38
lesson? Here I just.
1:07:39
Wasn't sure if you just knew that off the top.
1:07:41
You know it's is an abbreviation with with an apostrophe.
1:07:47
It's is an abbreviation for. It is sure.
1:07:53
It's without an apostrophe refers to that person's thing,
1:08:01
item, home. Whatever it is, it's the dog.
1:08:07
You should talk about. A dog, it's dog.
1:08:10
House, It's food. That's without an apostrophe.
1:08:14
So for the first time ever, the apostrophe is not possessive,
1:08:17
but everything else it is possessive.
1:08:19
That's I. Yeah, I guess that's how if you,
1:08:22
if you want to explain it that way, Yeah, I guess so.
1:08:29
There's this TikTok where the dude's talking like in Spanish
1:08:32
of like, if you say this word, this word, this word, and
1:08:35
they're all just like super close.
1:08:37
It's great. And he does like the whole
1:08:40
sentence of it. You'll, you, yeah, you'll find
1:08:43
it. All right.
1:08:44
That's all for me. I just a good way to end it, you
1:08:47
know? There's that thing.
1:08:50
Can you just like share some other things while I try to find
1:08:52
this this clip real quick? I did have a note, but I did
1:08:57
have a note that I, that I'd like to, I don't know, I don't
1:09:01
know if this is something we can settle right here and now, but
1:09:03
I, I'd like to maybe just like get it out there as a pole for
1:09:06
the people. But you know, I was, I was
1:09:09
fighting with my wife yesterday about what what is a better
1:09:17
addition slash snack slash go to celery or carrots And I was
1:09:26
curious if you had a had an opinion on that.
1:09:30
If given a choice, I'm probably going carrots.
1:09:34
I'm going celery where I don't think carrots are great.
1:09:43
I don't think carrots are worth their time.
1:09:45
I think they're very overrated. I think a celery can dance
1:09:50
around in Buffalo sauce ranch, or you can mess around with
1:09:53
peanut butter. Can carrots do that?
1:09:55
I don't think so. So there's that too.
1:10:01
That that was on my mind as well.
1:10:04
I got a lot on my mind lately. That sounds like it.
1:10:06
I can't find this video, but it was basically just this, like it
1:10:09
was the same thing you were going to talk about.
1:10:11
It was like a French. It was like fun phone, phone and
1:10:17
it was it was like Google Translate and it was like 16
1:10:20
different meanings. I'm just like what what, what is
1:10:23
language? Like what, what is happening
1:10:24
here? Anyway, that's that's kind of
1:10:27
all I got. We will see you guys.
1:10:29
Are we getting back on schedule here?
1:10:31
Are we going to try to pick it up Wednesday?
1:10:33
Whatever you want, man. It's whatever you want.
1:10:39
Let's say yes, I've I have a feeling there's going to be some
1:10:41
things happening today and. True.
1:10:42
Yeah, we're getting, we're getting closer to trade, trade
1:10:46
season. So maybe we'll have a thing or
1:10:48
two to talk about. Let's hope.
1:10:50
Let's hope in the meantime. Nod, nod.
1:10:53
We love you and you don't. Don't you dare ever go chasing
1:10:56
curveballs. We love you and as always,
1:10:58
looking forward to talking more baseball with you guys soon.
1:11:01
Until next time, stay filthy.