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MLB talk with Matt Snyder, Scott Dochterman talks Hawkeyes & College Football & Trent's Picks presented by Circa Sports · The Lunch Rush with Trent Condon

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League Baseball and is a Hall of Fame voter Matt Trenton Ken,
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thanks for coming on as always appreciated.
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I want to start with maybe there was a lot of great baseball
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played, but but school bulls start was it Sunday?
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I think it was Sunday morning just got unbelievable through
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his final pitch of the game was 102 miles an hour.
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Just remarkable. I I did find it somewhat odd,
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though, that the the Twitter's going crazy about and he pitched
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a complete game. Look up Bob Gibson.
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Look up Bob Gibson if you have some free time for those folks
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out there that think that this you never happened before.
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Anyways, it's today's it's today's game and Scooble is on a
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is a high level as there possibly can be.
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What a start. Absolutely.
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Yeah, He he's the best pitcher in the world.
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And for a while it was always, we had like future Hall of
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Farmers in discussion. It was, hey, is it Clay Kershaw,
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Maxers or Zach Grankey? And there are some years, Justin
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Berliner obviously in there for a lot of years, but I don't
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think that there's any question right now because the school
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came back from that major surgery 20/23.
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He had 15 starts. He was unbelievable in those
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fifteen starts. And then last year it was, can
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he do it full full year? He did it for a full year.
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This year it was how will his arm respond that he went all the
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way up to 192 innings from only 80 the previous year.
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And I think we're seeing the answer right now is that he's
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locked and loaded as the best starter in baseball for the
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foreseeable future as long as he doesn't go.
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And hopefully he doesn't. Maybe Paul Schemes jumps up with
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him in that mix here within the next few months or even the next
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year. But feels like Schemes might
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need a little more help from his teammates and he's just not
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getting that. And yeah, Google on top of the
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game. It was his first career complete
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game. I'm with you on wanting the
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starting pitchers to be more of a main character and I'm sure
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we've discussed this before. We talk every week.
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One of the reasons I love Sandy Alcantra so much, In his die
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young year he had like 7 complete games and nobody else
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had more than three. And I asked him about it, the
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All Star game, and he said I view it as my job to complete
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the game. And that's kind of old school
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starter mentality. Looks like potentially another
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Cy Young coming down the level for school after what he was
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able to do. Hey, I had a award race question
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for you and Aaron Judge speaking the American League.
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I mean, run away the gap between him and everybody else.
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But Bobby Witt's always in the conversation what he does just
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all around what if he does with that bat with just not a very
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deep Royals lineup. Could you make the argument
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right now, though? Second behind Judge in the MVP
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race should be Cal Rally. What he's doing in terms of not
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just power, which is elite, but also catching.
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This guy was a Gold Glover a year ago and I'm going to guess
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he hasn't regressed a ton there back behind the plate.
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Cal Rally should he be second in our MVP balloting right now?
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Yeah, I think that's a good. I mean, I hadn't thought much
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beyond first place, which is like we're going to need
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something historic to derail judge here, whether it's
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unfortunately a long term injury or he hits 100 for like 3 months
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or something. Just that doesn't even seem
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possible. But yeah, I mean, it's look, the
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Royals are in fourth place right now.
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They're 16. The mayors are in first.
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That always help. The thing about the Mariners is
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you always expect them to pitch well, but their offense has
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actually been really, really, really good as long as you
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adjust it for ballpark. And Raleigh, their best sitter
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by by far. I mean, seventeen home runs.
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No one else in the team has more than 10.
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So 372 on base percentage for a catcher.
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Get out of here. That's amazing defensive
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metrics. He's he's in the positive
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everywhere. So to play that demanding of a
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position and to rate that highly offensively, yeah, I mean, you
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got to say that's that's a good starting point.
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I was just pulling up the AL war leaders right here.
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Just it's always. By no means am I saying that's
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the only thing that matters, but it's an easy way to just look at
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the screenshot. Judge first by an absolute mile.
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Bregman and 2nd but. He's he's on the injured.
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List and the Red Sox have been disappointing.
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And then you've got Cal Raleigh right there with Bobby Witt
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Junior. So yeah, I think Raleigh, I
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think you nailed it. Since since the roles are part
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of the conversation, this Jack Caglione story is that he say
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his name. Caglione.
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Caglione. He's worked his way up.
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Yeah, I'm not either. Sorry.
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Well, we'll know soon, though, I think.
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And I wonder what are they kind of doing?
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Are they slowing his is clock down, kind of like what the Cubs
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did to Chris Bryant? I mean, he's been, he's fast
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tracked. He's now in AAA.
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He's played, he's played four games.
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He's hit five home runs. He did the same at AA.
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The Royals are last. At least they were going into
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the weekend as far as home runs in Major League Baseball.
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This guy's got a thunderous bat. Is it too early or should Royals
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fans be starting to ask themselves, you know, what are
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we waiting for? When's he going to get here?
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Yeah, I think when you go to the trouble to send a guy to a level
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that six games is just too quick to say, oh, Yep, yeah, you're
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under promotion there. By the same token, if he was
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owed for those six games, you want to send them back down to
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AA. So I think maybe a little bit
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more time in Omaha, I would be. Look, it's difficult to know
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here because the Royals are traditionally a team that
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doesn't spend that much money, but under new ownership and
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under this new front office, they went out and remember, they
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were 56 and one O 6 two years ago, but they still went out and
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spent money in the offseason. Then they made the playoffs last
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year, they locked up Bobby Witt Junior.
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I don't think just because of money right now when we're
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staring down the barrel of June with them being six games out
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and in fourth place, wanting to win that AL Central, wanting to
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get to the playoffs, I don't think that they would hold a guy
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down just for a few bucks, relatively speaking.
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So I think it's probably let's let's let's let them have three
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weeks or so in Omaha. And if he's still killing the
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ball like that, then they'll bring him up.
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I want to be surprised just before the All Star break at
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this rate. Question for you in the American
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League East, you know, year after year, best division in
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baseball, the power, the amount of the spent, the one team that
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doesn't spend the raise do it as well as everybody.
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Well, yeah, the Yankees are winning, but outside of that
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garbage, it's a bad division. What's going on?
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Yeah. Is there anything that you can
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point to, Matt, at, any reasoning behind it?
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Is it, you know, kind of what we have now with this structure,
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with the luxury tax, Could that be a piece of it?
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Why is the American League he seemingly taken a big step back
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the last couple years? I think it's just a coincidence
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right now this year, just looking at like the Rays
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especially, look, they were at a transition anyway last year when
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they traded a Rose Arena and Paradis and it was kind of like
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a reload period. But then they deal with losing
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their ballpark and they're playing their home games in
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George Severn Field in Tampa. But they got completely the
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schedules. Really, if you go look at the
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schedule, they completely overloaded them with home games
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early in the season because in July and August it's going to be
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so sweltering. They're on the road almost 12
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July and August, so they're playing this unfamiliar ballpark
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and they're playing almost every day there.
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It's hard to judge what happened with them.
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The Blue Jays, I think they just kind of looked like a mediocre
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roster anyway. And the Red Sox are
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disappointing. But surely the Red Sox are
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disappointing. I thought they were going to be
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better than this. They just don't have
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consistency. The rotation, it's only Crochet
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who's been consistent. Walker Walker Bueller, not
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Walker. Walker Bueller is starting to
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put things together there, but still just not that consistent
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in the rotation. Bregman endeavors need help
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offensively, especially from Duron.
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And now Bregman's hurt. And as you saw what happened
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yesterday, Dever's draws three walks because Bregman's not
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there. Then, of course, the Orioles are
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the most disappointing team in baseball.
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They didn't address the pitching staff enough in the offseason,
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as we all know. But then everything with the
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offense, they were. They were fourth in OPS last
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year, their 20th this year. They were fourth in runs scored
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last year, their 25th this year. Everything is falling apart with
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Baltimore, so I feel like it's just a bunch of different stuff
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all over the place instead of one thing.
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Fairpoint, I want to talk about the Phillies, who have the best
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record in the National League. As we sit here today, they're in
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a very difficult division. I think the Braves with Acuna
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doing what he's doing, the Mets seemingly aren't going to go
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anywhere at this point. The Phillies are in for a
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dogfight. It's going to be tough to
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maintain their spot up there, but right now that's where they
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sit. Is that sustainable?
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I think so, yeah. I mean, they're going to they're
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going to go through stretches where where they look a little
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like not very good for a quick stretcher.
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Remember, they started 6:00 and 1:00 and then they had a down
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stretch and they went into. By the time they lost their
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Friday game to the Cubs, they were only 1313.
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But they've been gangbusters ever since then.
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Best team in baseball since then, they've been amazing.
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I think they'll go continue to go through ebbs and flows.
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I mean, they had Jordan Romano at the start of the year was
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terrible. Now he looks like he's their
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closer, especially because Jose Alvarado got popped for PED than
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they're going to need what Strom and Kirkering is the bridge
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there to the closer. They're probably going to have
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to get somebody in front of the trade deadline.
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But if you look at it's not like they've had everything go
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perfectly for them to this point.
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Offensively, the only one who's really been great so far is
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Schwarber. Like Bryce Harper's been good,
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Trey Turner's been good, but they could be better than this
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and nobody else is really over performing at all.
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And if you look at the rotation, Wheeler's just doing Zach
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Wheeler things. Lizardo's been great, but maybe
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that's just being freed from Miami.
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Sanchez has been fine. Nola was actually awful, and now
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he's on the injured list. And Ranger Suarez started the
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year on the injured list. He's only had four starts.
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So there are areas where you could say, oh, maybe there's
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some regression from Lizardo. Maybe Schwarber won't continue
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to hit home runs at this pace. Although I would argue a little
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bit on the second point, But elsewhere on the roster, it's
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not like they've had everything break perfectly.
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So yeah, I think they're going to be this good all year.
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As we hit this checkpoint, a team that all three of us of us
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like coming into the earth, the Texas Rangers can't hit, haven't
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been able to hit degrom yesterday, doesn't get a
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strikeout for the first time in his career, I.
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Didn't know that really. You get swept by the Yankees,
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you lose 2 out of three to the White Sox yesterday, lose to the
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Blue Jays 2 to one. Did we just miss on this team?
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Is it time to, if we got any stock left, start, start selling
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it off right now in the Texas Rangers?
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Yes, I'm ready for a while. For a while earlier in the
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season, I kept just saying let's wait, let's wait, let's wait.
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But at this point, figure is is on the ender list again.
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That happens far too often, especially now that he's up in
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his 30s Marcus Simeon is 34 and looks completely broken and
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lost. And that makes you worried that
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he's completely cooked Adolis Garcia We just went through this
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last year. And so it when it's getting
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close to a year and a third of being in a slump, that's not a
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slump anymore. That's just who you are.
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John Peterson's awful right now. Burger's been in the minors.
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Yeah, it's just I thought there were going to be bounce backs
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offensively. Wyatt Langford's good, but he's
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not great. Evan Carter, they had to leave
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in the minors for a while. Now he's up.
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He had a little short spurt, but now he's bad again.
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There's just so many areas where things have gone wrong
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offensively and as good of work as they've gotten from Ivaldi
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and degrom and Molly, and they should be much better.
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Yes. Like the rotation was one of
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their biggest question marks heading into the year as well as
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they've pitched in the rotation. Then you see the three games
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under 500. Oh, it's because the offense is
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brutal. Yeah, I I'm selling everything
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right now. We're past Memorial Day.
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I know Ken always like, especially to talk about past
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Memorial Day, that kind of attempt.
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I'm pretty much done what's on at this point so.
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They got something out of Patrick Corbin this year so far.
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That's a good point. Yeah.
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Corbin's actually 3.7589 start. Like, I mean, come on, that's
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just not scoring. That's Trent's free square when
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he pitches every fifth day. But again, this year, so is
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Seattle the team to beat out there?
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Matt, are you buying the Mariners?
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I think so. Yeah, I think so because like,
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I'm not obviously OK, the the A's really fell apart after they
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got everybody's hopes up there. And again, the Vagabond
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situation like the the razor and it's tough to just not really
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have a home. The Angels, obviously I'd be a
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fool to buy in them. And I just said I'm out of the
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range or still we're left with the Astros and the Bears.
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Wouldn't be surprised to see the Astros get back, but I feel like
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it's a changing of the guard year.
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The Astros just, they seem a little more, although they're
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hot right now, but they still seem a little more mediocre than
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good. So hey, don't choke this one
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away again, Mariners. This one looks like it might be
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real. Because the offense.
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Is actually good. The offense is actually good.
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Cubs playing really well. You mentioned, you know, I think
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this just backs up the point on Caglione to leave him down
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there. I mean, Matt Snot was left, Matt
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Shaw was left down here. Look how that's turned out.
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Since he's been back, he has been unbelievable both
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defensively and with the bat in his hand.
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So the Cubs obviously need starting pitching.
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We're starting to get to that. You know, we're past Memorial
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Day, we're moving the All Star break, July, end of July,
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etcetera will be coming. I'm hearing some from from
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Toronto people that Gossman might be on the block.
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Wouldn't that make sense for the Cubs?
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I think he's got this year and one more left on his contract.
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It's not crazy the the the amount of money that he's owed.
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Should that be the type of pitcher that the Cubs should be
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targeting? That I I would be down with
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that, yeah, for sure. The other thing I I where I had
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my sights were the Cubs really seem into this lefty, the lefty
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pitcher thing in Wrigley Field. Because there's something with
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the split where since they put in the new video board and the
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scoreboard and the way those the wind patterns and the weather
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patterns go, that it's much better to have lefty starters
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than righties, which is why they went so hard after Imanaga.
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It's why they targeted Matthew Boyd in the offseason.
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Steel went down. So that's where I looked at.
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I believe it was the last week on the show.
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I mentioned Tyler Anderson of the Angel lefty last year of his
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contract. If the Marlins make Ryan
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Weathers available, he's under team control for few more years.
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That would make sense as well. But if you're looking for a guy
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who's been an ace before, who's a writer, who's been through the
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battles, absolutely, Gosselin would be a great fit on that
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team. They're going to have to do
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something because Ben Brown right now just doesn't look like
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he's going to work in the rotation.
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And you don't know how long Colin Ray's going to hold on.
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You don't know how long they want to go with Kate Horton, so.
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When even when the. Imanaga comes back, let's say in
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another month. You're talking about Imanaga boy
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Tyone, and then, well, who's it going to be from there?
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If it's Colin Ray, that's great, but you still need one more
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spot. And I don't know if they want
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Kate Horton to stay there for the rest of the year.
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And again, Brown's becoming a problem, so they're going to
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have to do something. We've talked so much about PCA,
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talked about, you know, Kyle Tucker, what it's going to take
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to re sign him. What about the bullpen?
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Palencia has come in, taken over that closer role.
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He's been out staying. We know he's got the velocity.
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That's not a problem. It's the control with him.
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Stocks, even Porter Hodge, Daniel Palencia.
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Not who becomes the better pitcher, who becomes the better
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closer throughout the rest of their career.
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Out of those two guys, who you taking?
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Gosh, who knows, man, there's just look, relievers are still
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volatile. It can change year to year and
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it is nice to see, even though Palencia, like it looks like
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right when the Cubs anointed him the closer he blew that game
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against the Marlin. But man, you could kind of argue
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that Tucker probably should have caught that ball in right field
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and then talking about Valencia being perfect and save
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conversions. But he looked, you know, he's
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gotten the last couple. He he seems like he's the type
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of guy who could do it because he just pumps 102 up there and
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he has an off speed pitch he can command.
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But it's nice to bring that righty out pumping 102.
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It's interesting how things, like I said, relievers are so
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volatile. We talked about this already,
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right, how it said Palencia Pomerans, Caleb Theobar, Brad
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Keller, though, that's going to be your circle of trust for some
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right there. Who would have thought that
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heading into the air, like heading into last year, Albert
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Edward Asley was the closer. So things can change so quickly.
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It looks like they're still trying to work Ryan Presley
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back. We'll see on the the Porter
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Hodge injury. Barry Weathers probably pitched
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his way out of there flexing. Flexing's actually been giving
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him good garbage time innings, so maybe he'll work his way in
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at some point. I assume they'll trade for
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somebody. I don't know if it'll be
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somebody expensive that's like a top notch closer or if they'll
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get to the point where they're comfortable just leaving
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Palencia there. We'll see, but I assume they'll
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trade for somebody with depth. Ideally.
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Pie in the sky is probably do it with the starting pitcher.
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So if it's a Gossman type, you grab a Blue Jays reliever.
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If it's Tyler Anderson, you grab an Angel reliever.
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Something like that. Yeah, Palmer has been
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unbelievable. They got him for what?
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A song, right? I mean, Seattle gave him away.
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Unbelievable. Matt Snyder, Great stuff as
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always, brother. We'll talk to you in six days,
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Monday at the to kick off our second hour.
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Thanks for what you you do for us Matt Snyder.
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Appreciate it. See you buddy.
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Good to talk to you Matt Snyder, CBSSports.com as we talk a
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little MLB Cubs are fun team. Yes, they are.
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They really are. They're an incredibly exciting
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team to. Watch their offense.
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They swipe bags. PCA's worth the price of
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admission. They can blow up at any time.
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Yeah, that adds to the entertainment value.
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What and and what night did they a long weekend.
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He watched so many. They came from way back again.
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Cincinnati. I don't know that's.
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Saturday or Friday? One night was yeah, was on the
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weekend. Anyway, Niko Horners yet to hit
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a home run. I don't know why they want to
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run this dude out of town. He has a Gold Glover.
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He's great defensively and he's good, good with the badness.
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Was not there yet, but this year anyways.
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Well, take your time out. Scott Dockerman is going to join
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us next. More on the impending.
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Where are we going with college sports?
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Seems like we're on the cusp of some movement.
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Doc will help us out on that. We'll go over his fun little
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article as he predict the first three weeks of the TV schedule.
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That's next. Miller and Condon take you until
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2 on the Iowa Sports Radio Network.
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Mary Condon, welcome back just before 1:30 on a Tuesday.
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Trent's plays of the day coming up here in 20 minutes.
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Scott Doctorman writes for The Athletic are the interesting
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piece out today on his forecast for the first three weeks as to
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the television partners for these prospective games coming
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up with these games, schedule games coming up.
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We'll get to that in just a second.
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Doc Trenton, Ken, thanks for coming on.
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Appreciate it. How are you?
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How was your weekend? Yeah, it was a busy weekend, saw
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a lot of family. My son's heading to Germany in a
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couple weeks, so we had a party for him.
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So now I just need a vacation for my vacation.
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Or at least three days vacation, anyway.
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Good stuff. Well, I'll get to your piece in
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a second where I want to start with you Doc.
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It seems like these SEC meetings taking place in Florida are
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positive or negative, depending on what side of the argument
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you're going to be on are are going to move the needle.
19:56
These seem like they're impactful meetings.
19:57
Sankey is kind of, I don't know, throwing down the gauntlet, but
20:01
he's making it very clear who the power brokers are.
20:04
Not that we didn't need to reminded that it's the SEC and
20:07
the Big 10, but it seems like this might be our summer topic.
20:11
Scott Dockerman What lies ahead in college athletics?
20:16
For sure. And I think once the house
20:18
settlement goes through and it could be today, it could be
20:20
tomorrow, sometime this week, better be anyway pretty soon,
20:24
but that it's going to be on to the next stage, which is, you
20:27
know, what happens with the College Football Playoff in 2026
20:30
and beyond. And, and I think it's a foregone
20:32
conclusion that they're going to go to 16.
20:34
That was something that we kind of been hearing in the fall when
20:37
the, the, the discussion was to 14.
20:39
And then there are a couple of 80s saying, well, if we're going
20:41
to go to 14, let's just pull the Band-Aid off, go to 16.
20:44
But along with that is been the push mostly from the Big 10
20:49
about adding, you know, 4 automatic bids from the Big 10
20:55
and SEC and then two from the Big 12 and ACC and then kind of
20:59
down the line. And that's, that's going to be
21:02
the the biggest topic and of discussion.
21:05
And it's going to be how much can the ACC and Big 12 get?
21:11
Because they're really not in a position of strength.
21:13
And then it's going to be how much can they the Big 12 or Big
21:17
10 and the SEC weather without looking completely overbearing
21:21
on this. So it's, it's going to be, yeah,
21:24
it's going to be a topic for a long time.
21:26
It felt like Sankey just kind of reached a tipping point.
21:28
And I think it was a question, I think it was Ralph Russo that
21:31
asked the question of the AP and he just, he let it fly.
21:34
He talked about the sanctity of the game and the betterment of
21:38
the game and those kind of things.
21:39
And the SEC says, yes, they wanted to survive.
21:43
My question for you is, is there any recourse?
21:45
Is there anything that the Big 12 and the ACC specifically,
21:49
anything at all that they could do or do?
21:50
They just got to sit in the corner, take their two bids and
21:52
shut up. Oh, I think there's somewhere in
21:56
the middle there, Trent. And by the way, we're blessed to
21:58
have. Rob Yeah, you got Russo now?
22:01
So, you know, once Nicole left, so, but I'll say this.
22:05
But yeah, I think there's some things that they can do to kind
22:07
of push this thing along. I I mean, when you look at, you
22:12
know, if, if they have 16 teams, which is way it's going, if, if
22:15
the Big 10 and Big 12 or big 10 and SEC can convince them each
22:19
day that we're going to have 4 automatic qualifiers.
22:21
If I'm the ACC in the Big 12, you kind of have to start
22:25
working together on this. And I think one thing that they
22:28
can do, I mean, they're not going to get a, but you know, if
22:31
there could be a, a combination of can we get 5 and meaning
22:36
guaranteed 2 for each of the leagues.
22:39
And then like say the next highest ACC or Big 12 team
22:43
automatically gets in, then you, you then you've got a little bit
22:47
of leverage to you. You can actually, you know that
22:50
that may mean you have somebody who's 18, but they still get in
22:54
versus somebody who's 18th and won't get in if it's they're
22:57
behind, you know, straight up at largest.
22:59
So I think that's probably one thing to do, but the the plan to
23:05
have like a first round and and buys with 16 teams, I just I'm
23:09
not sure if I kind of get that. I think that's a little bit
23:13
crazy to add another round of tournament play.
23:16
I just don't know if that's the rational part of this.
23:20
But the other thing that I think is probably more radical for the
23:23
ACC and Big 12 is to maybe incorporate some sort of a
23:27
working relationship, an association, if you will, of
23:31
regular season football that to kind of then be able to get into
23:35
over 5 teams as out of one association.
23:38
But that's probably down the road a few years.
23:41
Yes, that hopefully it's got more teeth than what would what
23:43
do we have a few years ago? The alliance with the alliance,
23:47
yes. There's no contract.
23:51
Then you don't have an alliance anyways.
23:54
So what when will or have the Big 10 already had these
23:57
meetings? Will we hear from Petiti next?
23:59
Does he follow the Big 10 meetings?
24:01
Follow anytime soon, Doc? They had their meetings a week
24:06
ago in California, but they are different altogether than the
24:10
other leagues. And that that they are very they
24:12
keep themselves very quiet. They don't want to discuss
24:15
anything. Tony is is Tony operates almost
24:19
exclusively behind the scenes and that's his preference.
24:21
He just doesn't want to have a lot of, you know, like Sankey,
24:25
even when they've had the kind of their SEC big big 10 divide
24:29
the world summits that they've, you know, thank you.
24:32
He's been the one talking most of the time, whereas Patiti is a
24:35
little more direct. And here's a couple of things.
24:37
And, and so it kind of speaks to their personalities a little bit
24:41
more. And, and, you know, when you
24:43
talk to the people in the big 10, they speak very highly of,
24:45
of Tony Patiti. Mm hmm.
24:47
They like him. They like the way he operates
24:49
and, and he is personable. He just doesn't, you know, maybe
24:52
it's all of his years as being a, a network executive.
24:55
He just doesn't want to be out front all the time.
24:57
And and hopefully we can, you know, I, I put my bid in there
25:01
to say, hey, if he wants to talk, I'm here anytime.
25:04
Actually had that conversation about two hours ago.
25:07
So we'll see if it Nets anything.
25:10
I hope so because he does need to have his voice out there
25:13
because they are very powerful institution.
25:16
Doc, you put out your latest article predicting what we're
25:20
going to see television wise for the first three weeks of the
25:22
season, and I'm sure I'm not alone here in the state of Iowa.
25:25
First thing I look. Forward to where did I scroll?
25:27
Right away. Week 2, Iowa, Iowa State, you
25:30
have that one ticketed 3:00 central kickoff on Fox.
25:33
How good do you feel about that prediction?
25:37
I feel really good now I'm the time may change a little bit
25:40
here, you know, but I, I am, I feel pretty confident that
25:44
they'll be on Fox because when you look at the at the schedule
25:47
that day, the Big 10, yeah, Big 10 is hurting when it comes to
25:53
home games in that middle week. I wrote a little bit about it
25:55
when you got your best games or at the other team, you know, TV
26:01
contracts, you know, Illinois at Duke and you've got, you know,
26:04
Iowa and Iowa State and and a couple others like that.
26:07
It's just, it's really hard for them.
26:08
But but you know, the Big 12 has a as a deal with box.
26:11
I think that's probably more than likely going to happen.
26:14
So, you know, it now could be a little later, a little earlier,
26:18
you know, but I, I would within like 1/2 an hour of it.
26:21
But I I'm pretty confident that that's where it's going to end
26:23
up. But no chance it'll be the big
26:25
Noon kickoff, right? No, it can't be.
26:28
It can't be Big 10, so that has to be at a Big 10 venue.
26:31
So that's why Penn State, I mean, Florida International,
26:34
Penn State. But now I understand why you've
26:36
got that one there. I did not realize.
26:38
Yeah, that makes some sense. You know what, I the more I look
26:41
at week #2 kind of feels like a #2 right?
26:45
In a lot of ways. It's not the best week, Doc.
26:48
I mean, Michigan, Oklahoma, I'll give you that one.
26:50
That is the five star game of the week.
26:52
Kansas, Missouri, maybe he's got a chance.
26:55
Iowa Iowa State's on any list as far as the best games that week.
27:00
Yeah, I think, yeah, Kansas, Missouri, obviously Michigan,
27:04
Oklahoma, but I mean, I, I, I feel reasonably sure that Fox
27:08
will probably end up with big noon kickoffs in, in Ames that
27:12
day, so. I mean I.
27:16
Yeah, but you know, they just won't have the big noon game
27:18
because they're not going to go to Happy Valley.
27:21
But but I think that they'll they'll probably set up shop in
27:24
Ames for for that day. And, you know, so it'll be what
27:28
the would that make it the third time in the last four trips?
27:34
I think so. Yeah, that, that there'd be some
27:36
sort of pregame show. I, I think that's probably going
27:39
to happen. I mean, I'm not going to say
27:40
100%, but I want to say it's a high 90 percentage possibility.
27:45
I I think that's probably what about?
27:47
Ashton Kushner, was that the the the weather delay game that he
27:51
was the guest picker? Was that the one?
27:54
You. You were.
27:55
In the press box doc I used to probably.
27:57
I was there early, you know, because that was way because
28:00
those games like the the big or the game day was there, you
28:05
know, until like at 11 and then the game didn't kick off till
28:08
mid afternoon. So I was one of them.
28:10
I can't remember right. You know, I try to read when I
28:12
can't, but so there was like 15,000 people there.
28:17
I think it was the day of the big rainstorm that prolonged
28:22
Seihawk and almost forced Seihawk to go into November a
28:26
few months later. Doc, earlier today, Iowa State
28:29
put out a release couple of new names that had been a couple
28:32
guys that we do had been committed and we're going to be
28:33
moving on out of the transfer portal and then a couple of new
28:36
names that were in there. I would now with the potential
28:40
flexible roster, do you anticipate they're going to do
28:43
anything? And it might be the look guys
28:45
that are down the depth chart, maybe guys that didn't find
28:47
homes in the portal that were there that are walk on types.
28:50
But with this roster limit potentially one O 5, but it
28:54
could be expanded. Anything at all that you
28:56
anticipate I was going to be doing here this offseason?
28:58
Well, I've already picked up a couple of players that I you
29:01
know, I don't know that they would have had the ability to do
29:04
so or I mean, they were they would have been really tight.
29:06
I mean they're over one O 5 now. I and so now they they have that
29:10
chance to to pick up. I would I wouldn't be surprised
29:14
if they grabbed a couple of extra lineman.
29:16
You kind of need them just for practice purposes.
29:19
I mean, they only have to walk on lineman counting George, what
29:23
Nahas, you know, would come from Iowa State to Iowa and Kale
29:27
Winter, who's probably good enough to be a scholarship guy
29:30
at a lot of schools. So they they usually thrive on
29:33
that. They usually need several.
29:34
And then when you lose a guy like Joey Van Wetzinger, who
29:38
transfers out even before spring practice ends, they could they
29:41
could use a couple of guys just for the scout line.
29:45
So it wouldn't surprise me at all if they're able to to go out
29:48
and do that, take a flyer on somebody while they can.
29:50
Iowa is kind of penalized for doing everything the right way
29:55
when it came to this because, yeah, there's going to be some
29:57
grandfathering in, but they, you know, they, they don't have to
30:01
say how they were going to grandfather them in.
30:03
They don't have to justify it. They just do it.
30:05
And and so I would anticipate, yeah, I mean, they might pick up
30:07
a couple more. I don't know if they'll get too
30:09
heavy, but, you know, now they have what, three walk on
30:12
defensive lineman and and they should probably have a few more.
30:15
I think ultimately Doc is is college.
30:17
Football Playoff moving closer towards February or closer back
30:22
to January 1st as far as the end date.
30:25
I think it's staying pretty much where it is.
30:28
It's just a matter of how they want to, what they want to do.
30:32
If they want to add another round.
30:34
You know, like we're saying that if they had four new playoff
30:37
spots and then you're going to have what, 9 playing 16 and and
30:42
10 playing 15 and then the winners of that play the next
30:46
round and then there's still another pie.
30:48
It's very complicated. I don't see that coming.
30:50
But but I think what may make sense is to to move the playoffs
30:55
to a position, position up maybe a week from where it was last
30:59
year and play it like right after the championship round.
31:02
So then you can stay away from the NFL.
31:05
That's been the real hard thing. So yeah, they're talking about
31:07
moving into like a first round to Army Navy weekend.
31:11
And maybe that's the case because I kind of think it got
31:13
too late last year and I think it's going to be too late this
31:16
year. I think they need to move that
31:18
more into the second ish week of January and kind of end it
31:24
because this shirt got a little cliche even though you had two
31:27
massive blue bloods in there, but still I I think that's
31:30
probably the route that they'll go so they won't go any later
31:33
the. 16 team bracket that I think we all feel we're going to
31:36
get here very, very quickly. Is this a good thing for Iowa or
31:41
is the system where it was 12 or even 4, was that better for the
31:45
Iowa Hawkeye football program, the Hawkeyes alone, this new era
31:49
that we're embarking upon? Great question, Trent.
31:52
I would say I look at it this way, that the best route for
31:57
Iowa to win a national title, which you know it's not gonna
32:00
happen, but had had a chance to happen, was the BCS with two
32:05
teams. If they could have gotten in
32:07
there in O2 or O91 game, winner take all, that would have been
32:12
their best bet. The deeper it.
32:14
Goes in the. Playoff, the less chance they're
32:16
going to have because they just don't have the depth and the,
32:18
and the overall talent to weather that three or four
32:21
playoff, you know, game run. However, when you're looking at
32:24
it from Iowa or Iowa State's perspective for that matter, is
32:28
get into the tournament and maybe win a game or two and then
32:30
you have one of the most memorable seasons in school
32:32
history. And, and I think the 16 team is,
32:34
is probably better for them four playoff spots is, is better for
32:39
for Iowa, because I talked to Brett Bielema about this a few
32:43
months ago and, and he loves it from the idea of we talked about
32:47
the old Big 10 W and forget that they didn't win in Indianapolis,
32:53
but it but that that division play allowed teams to feel like
32:59
they had a chance to for meaningful football in November.
33:03
And you got all the way to, you know, you're a game behind with
33:06
two weeks to go. You're still playing for
33:08
something. But now when you're an 18 team
33:11
league and you've got these blue bloods and you're all in the
33:13
same division, it's hard to think, well, you know, we're,
33:17
we're two games behind. We just have no chance.
33:19
Then what do you what do you playing for to go to the Outback
33:22
Bowl? You know that.
33:23
So I think this is helpful. But if if you have something to
33:26
shoot for, like last year, they would have been six, they would
33:28
have played the playing game against Indiana.
33:32
And so that's something to shoot for.
33:34
And if they can get to that position in the future, I think
33:36
that would be that'd be great for the program.
33:38
And if you think about it, if they host a game in early
33:41
December against somebody else in the Big 10 with the right to
33:44
go to the playoffs, that is, that's going to be one or more
33:48
memorable games. We'll see in in Iowa.
33:51
Doc, I know college. Football is your primary beat,
33:53
but you did cover Caitlin Clark periodically, including when she
33:56
was here in May Obviously she's obviously tickets have fallen
33:59
43% secondary market since the news of her being gone from the
34:04
league for a couple of weeks. So while she heals from her
34:06
injury, is there a way that CBS can get out of next Saturday?
34:10
Not this coming because they were scheduled to be big CBS
34:14
prime time 7:00 at night against the sky.
34:16
Boy, if they could put that on CBS Sports net, I'm guessing
34:19
they would in a heart beat to get this off national TV because
34:23
I think it's going to be embarrassing when people realize
34:25
just how impactful she is. I, you know, that's a great
34:30
question. I, I don't know the answer to
34:31
that. I would say, you know, this is
34:34
this to me comes down to if you're following the WNBA and
34:39
you don't like the Caitlin Clark phenomenon and you're, you know,
34:42
think that everybody else is equal to her in whatever way,
34:46
you know, if this shows it, it is that she tips.
34:49
She's the straw that stirs the drink.
34:51
And when you see ticket prices falling, you're going to see TV
34:54
ratings fall for the fever. And and they're an entertaining
34:57
team, no doubt, and other players who are very
34:59
entertaining too. But she's the superstar and you
35:02
just have to get used to that. And and so being out two weeks,
35:05
a game like like that, which I'm sure CBS was really excited for,
35:09
I think it just shows you it just shows you what what she
35:12
means to the sport. And they've got to figure
35:14
something out there. I mean, I think everybody just
35:17
needs to rally around that as opposed to shut it down.
35:20
So we'll, you know, hopefully it's only two weeks and then
35:23
she'd come back and kind of lead the way again.
35:26
But you know, the, the fans and people speak with their eyes and
35:31
their wallets, you know, and you've got to follow that.
35:34
Otherwise, you know, you're just fooling yourself.
35:37
Scott Document. From the Athletic Doc, great
35:39
stuff. I know he got an interview lined
35:40
up later on this afternoon. I'm not going to ask you what it
35:43
is. I'll read about it in the
35:44
Athletic when it gets published. Thank you Scott document.
35:46
Appreciate your contribution. Hope to you schedule allows to
35:49
join us on Monday. Appreciate it, doc.
35:52
All right. Thanks.
35:53
Guys, appreciate you. Yeah, good to talk to you,
35:54
Scott. Dockerman from the Athletic as
35:56
we check in on the latest as we go around a lot of sports
35:59
coverage there with Doc. All right, Trent's plays of the
36:01
day, they are next. Miller and Condon on the Iowa
36:05
Sports Radio Network. I'm Miller and Condon, our final
36:07
segment. So we do each and every day we
36:10
turn over to Trent's plays of the day.
36:12
Circus sports available in the state of Iowa.
36:14
Available in the state of Illinois, Of course, downtown
36:18
Las Vegas. If you get out to Las Vegas,
36:20
highly recommend you get off the strip and head downtown LV.
36:24
I saw they had a couple of concerts over the weekend.
36:26
Oh yeah. How many?
36:27
How many? There's three stages, right?
36:29
There's one by the D and two right by one by the Golden Gate,
36:32
one by the one by Circa and it was just mobbed and it's such a
36:36
great place to watch people. It is.
36:38
Oh, have. A gummy and watch.
36:39
People and just sit in the back. I I can't.
36:42
Do that because I have issues. You sure do.
36:45
I don't have a real high tolerance for that stuff, so we
36:49
we look to stay away from that. I do enjoy my alcohol though,
36:52
and we'll yeah, we'll have a couple pops when we're out there
36:54
in less than two months. I hear you the.
36:57
Countdown. Begins for summer trip out to
37:00
Circa. Taking the cash out there.
37:03
Yep, sign up the contest. Signed up for the contest.
37:06
And hopes and dreams what could be life changing?
37:11
Is there a someone who will be? Just one time.
37:13
Right, just getting close now. This is not going to be life
37:16
changing. I have 4 plays.
37:17
What are they? 3 Baseball. 1.
37:21
In. Basketball, no WNBAI looked
37:25
hard, had a couple of leans, but nothing to play.
37:27
I'm going to play the Pacers to start.
37:29
I'm going to lay the two 2 1/2 that's out there.
37:31
I got a 2. I just think they're better and
37:35
they come back by the Knicks. There was nothing that I saw
37:37
that said OK, they figured it out.
37:39
They got hot cat. Are the Pacers going?
37:42
To shoot as poorly as they did in game three?
37:44
I don't think so. At the end, they shot well in
37:46
the. Beginning not at home.
37:47
What? 5A25A stretch that they had from
37:50
three Halliburton's old man. Back in the building, win one
37:53
for pops and that's what it is. Pacers minus the 2-3 in
37:57
baseball. Give me Spencer Spider plus
37:59
money. Even at the Phillies I'll grab
38:00
the plus one O 2 with the Braves.
38:03
I'm it's a good series. I'm going to play the Twins.
38:05
Joe Ryan against his old team. Wait a second, you're betting?
38:08
On the Twins On the twins Dangerous.
38:10
Proposition will lay the -120 with the Twinkies and then one
38:14
more. I am going to take Parker and
38:17
the Nationals tonight. Mitchell Parker, a lefty.
38:19
Second most strikeouts in baseball against left handers.
38:22
The Mariners plus 140 on the Nats.
38:26
All right, there you. Go, we'll see who you did and
38:28
we'll talk about it tomorrow. More talk coming up the drive
38:32
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38:33
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38:36
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38:38
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