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Aaron Judge in a League of His Own · The 3-0 Take

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Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to the Three O Take, where we talk
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all things Major League Baseball.
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Here's Kyle Corwin and Nate Reyes.
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It all starts right now. Welcome back to the Three O Take
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presented by Sea Kick. This is episode 438.
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I'll be your host, Kyle Cord, and I'm here with my Co host
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Nate Reyes. Nate.
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Oh boy, this almost didn't happen.
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It was almost the end of us. Just kidding, but the unit, once
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again, technical issues, promise.
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You know, maybe like another 5-10 years of doing this, we'll
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get it to where we're we're good to go without the tech issues.
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Doubt it, but the universe said Nope.
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This is an opportunity for Kyle to give Aaron Judges props and
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it's going to happen as much as I tried to get out of it.
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Awfully convenient Verizon Wi-Fi failures.
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Dude, I was ready to throw this laptop across the room.
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I can assure you there was no there was no fake outages taking
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place. I it's one of those days.
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Nothing seems to go right, but what better way to cap it off
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than by having to talk about Aaron Judge for however long we
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talk about him so. That's great.
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What a day. I love that.
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I hate it. I hate it.
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Nate, we are two months, 2 plus months into the season.
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And as our listeners very well know that is, well, I, I, I've
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mentioned before, I'm with you on it.
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But I, I want to credit you for, for the, the two-month sample
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size, as it were, because that's something that you're big on,
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something you believe in and something that you think is a
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good indicator for how the season is going to go, whether
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it be for a player, for a team, Gives you enough of an idea of
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how things are going, whether good or bad.
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So with that said, wanted to just off the top here, talk
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about where things are at. I know games are going on right
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now, but we're we're about 60 games through the season.
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In fact, I'd say majority of the teams are exactly 60 games
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through the season. Some of the some of the teams a
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little more, a little more obvious in terms of their
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success. Some of these teams we can
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pretty much write off in terms of any sort of playoff hopes,
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shout out Chicago White Sox, good luck.
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But looking at the standings, is there anything that jumps out at
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you? Is there anything that you
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anticipated happening again, whether good or bad?
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Is there anything that has surprised you thus far?
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My biggest surprise, I mean, if we're going to go like one team
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per league, I'm I'm not going to sit here and say I was a
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believer in the Blue Jays, but like this, this is pretty this
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is pretty alarming, you know what I mean?
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And and when you talk about like a roster that is, I think a lot
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of other ball clubs would kill for, you know, like you got a
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couple names in there that you would expect just another year
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of maturity, another year of being able to take that next
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step. Like, you know, the Vlads and
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the bows and but it's just like that pitching staff and, and you
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know, I, I just, I don't understand.
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I'm kind of lost, man. Like vibes are high in Canada.
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We have these renovations in the park.
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It seems like like Vlad and PO are ready to earn contracts long
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term, whether it's with this organization or another, but
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it's like, it's just weird, man. Like I, I don't know, I don't
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follow. It doesn't compute.
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So that one's a big one for me. I think the other one would
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would probably be the Reds. I know that was like a little
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bit of a bold take, but I wasn't alone there, You know what I
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mean? There's a lot of there's a lot
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of people that were pretty high on the Reds and not like sitting
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here and saying the NL Central, you're going to see like a 95 to
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100 game winner lead that or win that division.
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But I mean, at the moment they're seven games under 500,
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They're 9 1/2 back in the division in last place.
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And it's just like, it's super underwhelming, so.
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And somehow only surprises, somehow only three games back in
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the wild card. Yeah, it's, it's just the top,
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the the NL is just so top heavy. For me taking the the one in
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each league route, I would, I would say that I think this
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again touching on the the two-month sample size, I think
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the Royals have proven 60 games through 60 plus games through
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that. They are they are real.
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They're very much here to stay. I would, I would venture say for
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the remainder of 2024 and that they're legitimate.
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They're a legitimate threat come October.
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Yeah, I would imagine some sort of they're going to hit some
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sort of slide sometime in the near future as majority of these
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seems. I mean, you have to be
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absolutely dominant up and down the roster to make it through
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162 relatively unscathed. So I'm not going to sit here and
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say that the Royals are are going to be free and clear of
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any sort of skid that that's coming.
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But I think they, they've proven that they're not going to be
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they're not going to be at the bottom of the division, yeah,
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come September. So love to see that I.
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Real quick on that, I, I was talking to my father-in-law the
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other day and he's got like one of his good friends that when
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Arizona, a lot of people in that generation snowbird.
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So you'll get people here for, you know, from like October to
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April and then they go to wherever other city during the
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summer. But one of his good friends is
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from Kansas City, huge Chiefs fan and he's like, yeah, the
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city is bumping when the Chiefs are rolling, but it's way
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different when the Royals are going.
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It's like. Really.
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Yeah, he's like, it is baseball town, like we.
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It's just it feels different when the Royals are hot.
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Wow. So it's cool to see, man.
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It's really cool to see. That makes me, that makes me
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feel good, man, 'cause I, it's well documented.
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I was, I was high on the Royals this to start the year, to start
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the season. And like I said, I, I, I think
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I, I think they're well on their way to towards at least
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contending for a, a spot in the postseason and my goodness.
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Would seeing. Bobby Witt in the postseason
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just not be the greatest thing. Honestly.
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My goodness. And then in the National League,
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kind of a little bit under the radar of a pick, but the
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Nationals, they're as it stands right now, they're just about
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where I had them pegged to start the to start the year when when
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I was talking about how they're not going to compete for the
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division, certainly and with the way the Phillies are playing,
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not even a question. But they have improved and
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granted, they're, they're four games under under 500 at at the
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moment. That's, that's kind of still
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where I had them. Like I'm, I'm not, I'm not, I'm
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not saying they're going to be 10 games over when it's all said
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and done, But they're, they're making improvements.
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And I'll be honest, I've been saying for a handful of seasons
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now like just give it time, get let it, let these pieces fall
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into place, let these pieces develop and they'll be, I think
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they'll be a lot better in the near future.
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And I think, I think with the help of CJ Abrams and and names
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like that, I think think they're in a good spot.
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Yeah, that's, I mean, if they if they win, if they finish the
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season at 500, like I would consider that a wildly
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successful turn around and like a very good step forward in the
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right direction. So I'm with you.
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I'm just, I'm surprised. I I know you're in the area.
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So like it's easier to to kind of have that finger on the pulse
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a little bit. But I am surprised too.
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So good for them. Funny enough, you taken two of
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the the negative surprises and I just, yeah, without even
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thinking about it, took two of two of the the more positive.
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Surprises. Based on your Wi-Fi, I thought
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you're gonna be the -1 tonight, yeah.
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You know what? Well, that that's a, a great
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segue into our next topic, which is our our headlining topic, and
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that is Aaron Judge. This is this is your guy.
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So I'm going to let you run with this, but just know that I do
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have some numbers prepared to give this man his flowers as it
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stands to, to start the month of June.
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But tell us, just tell U.S. Open our eyes to the world of
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Aaron Judge and what you've been able to witness.
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Not really. I mean we can talk Judge for
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sure, but we I feel like you can't talk Judge right now and
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not mention Soto. So maybe give us give us an idea
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of just how insane this turn around for Judge has been.
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I, I mean, we'll read off some Nuggets.
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I've have like random Nuggets to read off as far as numbers go,
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but I, I think it's maybe one of the best months of baseball I've
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ever watched offensively. Like it is it, it's kind of
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laughable when you see what he's doing.
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I I it's hard. It's hard to put into words, man
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like it's it's obviously the the I love the depth of what that
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lineup has become when these two guys are going right.
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I wasn't worried after he started.
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Like I think I was for sure comp with there's there's a
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ridiculous amount of Yankees fans that were like, send them
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down, let them get right. And I'm like, what are you
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talking about? Hold on, hold on this.
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Is news to me. This is legitimate news to me.
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Are you serious? I'm not kidding.
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There was like a big number of Yankee fans that were like, send
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them down and I'm like, what are you talking about?
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Do you think any of them were over the age of 20?
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I don't know, dude, I don't know, Probably not.
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I there's probably some bots mixed in.
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It was it was strange. It felt it felt weird and we got
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to remember that like he did miss a big chunk of spring
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training and like having a slow start is having a slow start.
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Like it is what it is. I will say I think a lot of his
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turn around in the, the, the credit has to go to to Soto for
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every single pitcher to deal with Soto before getting to
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Judge. It changes everything for Judge
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to be able to see. I mean, and, and it's a big
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credit to the way Volpe has been doing too.
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I mean, a huge jump up from his rookie year.
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So to see 1012 pitches before he even gets to the dish is like
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that's a huge advantage. And every pitcher, it's like you
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have to be on, you have to, you have to be spot on with Juan
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Soto. You got to be spot on again
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after more often than not losing that battle to Juan Soto.
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So it, it's a crazy, crazy jump for what he's doing.
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And I wanted to look back because I remember, I remember
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recording and I wanted to find the exact day.
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Here it was, let's see, I think it was the last game.
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Is that it? That's it.
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It was the last game of the Tigers series.
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It was May 5th. That was on a Sunday.
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Be recorded after that game and I said to reach school pitched
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and judge hit a home run to right and I said it's coming,
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here it comes. You absolutely said that.
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This is this is like the tell when he starts going the other
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way and he starts because it the like the few games before it was
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like, all right, a ground ball through the right side, all
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right, a hard line drive to the right side and all of a sudden
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there's lift to the right side and you're like, he's back here.
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It comes. And sure enough, it's when he
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starts staying middle of the field and everything's just left
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center tanks and right center tanks.
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It's absurd, man. And it's the fastball's in, it's
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the off speed down. He's he's covering everything.
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It's it's one of the most dominant offensive months I've
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seen from a Yankee ever, much less like another player.
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Can I can I throw some some numbers at you?
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You got some Nuggets. Let's see, we have the same
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Nuggets. We probably have the same
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Nuggets. Let's try it.
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Well, let's let's recap his month of May.
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He was was it today, yesterday that it was announced that he
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was the player of the month, which everybody knew that was
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coming. Like even if you weren't
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thinking about it, if you had to guess, probably you're in judge
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over the month of May, a 371 average.
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He he had 14 bombs, 27 ribbies, had an on base of 488 slug 928
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and an OPS of 1415. In this giant series, arson
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judge, as it were, went six for 10, had three bombs, including a
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two Homer game. I think that was on Saturday,
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possibly Friday, Saturday. 6 ribbies and he even had two
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stolen bases. Yeah, since this is from Codify.
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Codify nobody has more home runs since April 27th than Aaron
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Judge because of course they don't.
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Also, nobody is has more hits, walks, runs, RBI or total bases
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since April 27th. And just one more nugget here
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for you related to that regarding the total bases.
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In the month of May, he had 85 total bases, which was 13 more
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than the next man in line, Jose Ramirez with 72.
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To put things into perspective because we can look at some of
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these names and go, wow, these guys.
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Not even if if I hadn't even mentioned how many total bases
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Aaron Judge had and you had to guess these names, you're
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probably going they're probably up there on the list because
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these guys are balling out right now.
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Corey Seeger 62. Bobby Witt, who's just been
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playing out of his mind 61. Rafael Devers, who is there for
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a stretch, was the hottest hitter on baseball 60 Brent
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Rooker, who took has been one of the the lone bright bright spots
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for the Oakland A's 59. Juan Soto, who will touch more
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on 59. Kyle Tucker, who's pushing for
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an MVP, names Yeah 58, and Bryce Harper, who was the National
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League Player of the Month, 56. And mullet judge again. 85 S the
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difference in total basis between your AL and NL players
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of the month 29 yeah yeah, he's Aaron judge is on another planet
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right now and there's. Been a lot of, and there's been
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Rd. trips. So like if anybody wants to sit
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back and just start claiming Yankee Stadium stuff, there's
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been a big mix of Rd. trips in here, specifically this long one
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through California and Petco and and and Oracle.
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We're both looking like regular fields that just didn't seem to
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matter. Which is just crazy because
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going back to your original one of your original points and
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saying that this is one of the most impressive season or months
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you've seen offensively maybe ever for him in in various
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statistical categories. I don't have the the complete
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list, but you can go back and look.
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He had the best calendar month of his career regarding OPS with
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50 plus plate appearances in May with a 1415.
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As I mentioned, his previous high was May of last year at
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1356. So quite literally that that may
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have been based on how you want to, based on what statistics you
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want to use to prop up your case, we might be looking at
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Aaron Judge's best month all time of his career.
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And then that's crazy. We didn't have the same Nuggets,
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by the way. One's kind of close.
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Lay it on me, what else do you got?
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These are To be fair, we thought we were going to record last
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night, so I have screenshots of tweets that may be outdated at
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this point. They didn't play today, but I
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don't think this was including, maybe it was, I don't know,
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whatever. Bob Nightingale tweeted
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yesterday, two days ago, Aaron Judge with another Homer
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tonight, now has 278 career home runs in just 895 games.
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The quickest to 300 home runs. Sammy Sosa with 1052 games.
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Judge needs 22 more home runs to get to 300 and he's most likely
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going to do it in like 100 less games than Sammy Sosa.
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Nuts. Another nugget nugget chef.
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I mean, just a great account there.
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Oh, I think, I know. I think we got this one.
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You got this one. I think so.
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Aaron Judges 1544 OPS over his last 25 games is the third
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highest OPS by any player over a 20 game span in the last 15
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years, behind Christian Yelich at 1576 in Shohei Otani in 1549.
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Yelich did in 2018, Otani did in 2022.
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That's what I was talking about. Like this is legit one of the
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you know, that's one stat. That's just OPS, you know what
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I'm saying? Like this is absurd.
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And then my last nugget, which is easy home runs, is MLB ranks.
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Not just AL, MLB ranks. Home runs first, Slugging first,
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OPS first. WRC plus first Barrel percentage
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first. Hard hit percentage first Double
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S 2nd. Walk percentage 2nd.
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Is this this is on the season, not just May.
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This is the whole season. So when you're talking about the
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hole that he started in in April, that's what that's why I
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asked, 'cause I wow for him to in a month climb that list to
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not just be in the conversation to lead major categories.
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Again, Soto being a part of the picture.
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And there was a great segment on on MLB Now today, this morning.
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I got to give them credit. It was Harold Reynolds, it's
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obviously Ryan Kenny, and it was Bob Costas.
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And they talked about like, you're not a fan of some of
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these names. I wasn't a fan of some of these
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names. But when you're talking about
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Stroman, Verdugo, Soto being added to this lineup and being
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added to this clubhouse, it's completely changed.
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Like the personality, it's completely changed, like the,
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and you've made fun of it, like the dog mentality, but like
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it's, it's worked. It's it's flipped things around
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and it's helped. Like everything else on the
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roster has been pretty. I mean, that's pretty like they
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use the word stale. It's been a pretty stale roster
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until you enter in these guys. So a lot of credit goes to all
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of that. And like the everything that
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comes out of the guy's mouth is spot on.
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Everything that's Aaron Judge says is a captain is just spot
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on. And he just, he decides.
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He was quoted saying he was like, I just kind of feel it out
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each day. Like if, if Anthony Rizzo needs
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to be a leader that day, I sit back and let him be the leader
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and let him be the vocal one. If I let you know, if I I got to
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step in and be that voice. So it's like he's adopted this
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role. I it's hard to imagine a guy
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more comfortable. Man, it's it's fun to watch.
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Stop doing this to me. Don't make me like him.
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Don't make me like him. Crazy, but you meant every
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interview listen to in any behavior.
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I get it I get it. I understand I'm going to sound
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biased here. It's OK, and that's fine, and
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you can hate the Yankees all you want, but it's like he's he's on
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this trajectory of the respect that Derek Jeter just had
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widely. You can throw numbers at him,
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you can argue whether he was an overrated shortstop.
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You can argue all these numbers and, and, and argue against the
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Yankees and all that stuff. But when it comes down to it,
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the guy has respect from everybody.
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Aaron Judge is following that path.
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I. Hate to say it, but I I would
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hope that you would agree with me on this.
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I don't think he can say all the right things in the same fashion
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that Jeter did, but it's not going to matter until he wins a
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ring. Like the fact that the fact that
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he doesn't have one yet, that's alarming.
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But it's, and I, and I don't say that as a knock against the guy.
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It's well, I do, I do, but I don't.
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You get what you get where I'm coming from.
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But he there there won't be anything that he can do to put
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himself at at in that echelon, in that upper echelon that
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Jeter's in and really any other all time Yankee that you want to
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plug into that conversation until he joins them in the ring
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conversation. And he's not there yet and he's
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not even close to reaching the ring totals of some of those
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guys. But the fact that he doesn't
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have any, that's that's a little alarming.
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So. I'm at the point like I don't, I
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don't know what else it takes for this team to win a ring.
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You better, You better. Figure it out this year.
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This isn't it. Like, I don't know what it looks
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like and I may not witness it again for a while.
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If it doesn't happen with whatever is happening right now,
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whether it's this year or next year and they run it back with a
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carbon copy of the roster, I don't know.
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But it it's got to happen. The man's 32 like it's got to
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happen. Man, we're getting old.
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We're running out of time, yeah. Getting old.
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Let's let's switch gears here, talking about Aaron Judge being
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back. In that same vein, wanted to
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talk about maybe some other names that we would like to
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think are back after maybe a slow start or maybe coming off
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of a a slower end to last year or maybe you're finally getting
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back into the swing of things. I think the US Air Force is
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flying. Over and it's that it's that
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stupid St. Sweeper, you know, have you
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seen, do you have those out there?
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We got Yeah, I know what you're talking about.
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Looks like a big Zamboni or whatever.
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They got they. I tell you what man, they do
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some weird things at weird times at your place.
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So random. It's so random.
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Like landscaping in the middle of the like 100° day, like why
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not do that in the morning and then St. sweeping at dinner
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time. Like folks are just trying to
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enjoy a nice meal and the street sweepers are like, no, this is
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our time. What is this about man?
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It's hard to say what is this about.
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We got some clean streets though, let me tell you.
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Yeah. I mean, at at what cost though?
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I mean. Well I could tell you the exact
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cost cause HOA is absolutely bending us over so.
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Boom. Hate that.
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Speaking of bending over, let's talk about what your Don Alvarez
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has been doing to these pitchers recently, dude.
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And I'm glad we got, I'm glad we got pushed to tonight because
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sure. Lo, lo and behold, got another
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bomb update from Jordan Alvarez in fantasy.
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Glad I kept him as through some of the numbers I pulled through
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his first 60 games of the season.
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He he started off a little slow for his standards.
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He was still, he was, he still had the pop, but he wasn't.
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He wasn't spraying it around the field.
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He wasn't putting in the seats as at the clip that I would
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venture to say he would have been happy with.
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Through his first 40 games of the season, he was hitting 256.
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He had 40 hits with eight home runs, 21 ribbies, 23 runs
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scored. And again, that was in his first
26:47
40 games of the season. His last.
26:49
His 20 games after that he his average bumped up to 333.
26:55
He had three home runs in that stretch and seven runs scored,
27:00
five ribbies, seven runs scored. So nearly like was halfway to
27:05
his home run total from the previous 40 games of the season
27:08
in half that time thereafter. So starting to starting to pick
27:14
things up and then you can tackle, you can say he's halfway
27:17
to his home run total from that 40 game stretch now officially
27:21
now that he's he's locked another one tonight.
27:23
So the thing that I think is is leading to this success, his
27:34
strikeout rate is down from last year, however, his walk
27:41
percentages as well. So I think for your Don, if he
27:47
can get that walk rate back up, if he can start seeing more
27:51
pitches, if he can start seeing it deeper into the count, into
27:54
counts, I think you're going to start seeing 'cause you, 'cause
27:58
you, you very well know if you're able to get deeper into
28:01
counts, you're able to foul some balls off you.
28:04
You as a hitter are at the advantage because you're seeing
28:07
more and more of what the pitcher has and that giving it
28:10
back. And your Don is not going to be
28:13
somebody that's going to shy away from taking full advantage
28:16
of that advantage. So I think if he can get that,
28:18
that walk percentage up, if he can start seeing some more
28:21
pitches, I think he'll be much better off.
28:24
And the, the other thing to keep in mind with Yordan is his May
28:29
versus June splits, regardless of whether or not that walk
28:33
percentage comes back up. I I think we can sit back and
28:36
and just settle in for the month of Yordan because career wise
28:42
for Yordan, from May to June, his average jumps from 285 to
28:47
3:31, his slug jumps from 5:26 to 684, and his OPS jumps from
28:54
890 to 11160. My gosh.
29:00
And as somebody that loves month to month splits, I've said that
29:04
many times on here before, that makes me really excited.
29:08
Yeah, as his fantasy manager. So I'm I'm really thrilled
29:13
about. It's a good get.
29:15
It's a good get. I'm thrilled about what's to
29:17
come for your Don. Yeah, and, and talk about the
29:20
rest of that lineup, like Kyle Tucker, as you mentioned before
29:23
entering, you know, MVP conversations, it seems to me
29:28
that Bregman has started to turn things around, started to get a
29:31
little bit hot. So like the better that lineup
29:33
gets, it's it's it's makes things even more challenging
29:38
anyone else. So anyone opposing them is in
29:42
trouble. You want to alternate.
29:44
Yeah, who? Who do you got?
29:45
Who's the batter you think is heating up?
29:48
Yeah, give me, give me one of your favorite players based on
29:51
what you're wearing. Give me Brent Roker, dude, boom.
29:55
Give me Brent Roker. And the tough thing is that
29:59
like, it's I, I can't go as deep.
30:01
I don't think there's enough sample size considering last
30:04
year was his rookie year. So it's like it's hard to just
30:06
get into, you know, what his career month numbers are, but
30:12
just looking in the month of on on I believe RotoWire or stat
30:22
stat muse, one of the two. I can't remember what I was
30:25
using today. They do like a split where you
30:27
could just automatically grab March and April.
30:30
So which is stupid. We've already had that argument,
30:34
so I'm not going to pull up that thread.
30:36
March and April 20 games hit two O 6 in May 26 games hit 335 home
30:49
runs to six home runs in May, a climb of 13 RBIs to 22 RBIs.
30:56
Here's the big jump though. OPS jumps from 769 in March and
31:03
April all the way to 997 in May K rate drops from 40% to 29% in
31:13
May WRC plus jumps from 1:23 to 186.
31:21
I was like, what's going on? How does this happen?
31:24
You know what I mean? How does my guy just get it
31:27
going? And again, he's young and he's
31:29
playing for a lifeless organization.
31:31
So it's like you can't blame the guy for a slow start.
31:36
But he came onto the scene last year and I think everyone was
31:38
kind of waiting was like, is this guy real?
31:41
You know what I mean? And you see him turn it on in
31:44
May and you're like, he's back. He's in that conversation again.
31:48
And obviously, like the lone bride, you know, star over
31:51
there. But I figured out what it was.
31:54
And it it seemed to me like he was just not great timing wise.
31:58
And you probably just like, duh, yeah, obviously he's going to be
32:02
not great with timing, but the pull percentage, that's where I
32:05
found the biggest jump. March and April, he was only
32:10
pulling the ball 24% of the time in May, 55% of the time.
32:17
So my man started to get the barrel going, started
32:20
recognizing stuff and probably understood that the way he was
32:24
getting attacked. And and that's what good hitters
32:26
do. They figure out how to like, go
32:29
find that hole that pitchers have discovered and start
32:32
covering it. So Brent Roker, I I think the
32:39
A's got got something cooking, man.
32:41
And I like it's going to take some time.
32:44
This is probably similar to what you've been saying about the
32:46
nationals last few years. But like, I think they, they got
32:50
some stuff. If they really hold strong on
32:54
Brett Roker, they really hold strong on Mason Miller and like
32:58
start building around these names.
33:01
You can see something. The tall ask.
33:04
It is a tall. Ask.
33:07
It's not a tall ask, however, to wonder whether or not Max Freed
33:12
is back because he is Max Freed on the season five and two with
33:16
Adra of 297. However, his K per nine rate is
33:20
at the lowest it's ever been in his career at 7.3.
33:25
However, his last four starts have been excellent.
33:31
His last four starts, he's rocking a an ERA of 127.
33:35
He's only allowed four earned runs over 28 and a third in that
33:39
span. He's had outings of eight and
33:41
nine innings pitched and has 22 total K's.
33:46
My goodness. His exit V low and hard hit
33:48
percentage are down from last season.
33:50
I, I want to say his exit V low is in the 99th percentile right
33:54
now. He is, he's utilizing his sinker
33:58
more, relying on his curveball less, which I feel like, I mean,
34:03
I could just be pulling this out of thin air, but I, I feel like
34:07
sinker usage has been something talked about very heavily over
34:13
these two months of the season. I don't know if there if that's
34:15
becoming more of a trend amongst these top arms, but I, I feel
34:21
like I keep hearing sinker a lot more.
34:23
And they're even as we've talked about with the the splinter,
34:27
they're they're pivoting off of the sinker itself to, to figure
34:32
out different ways to, to alter movement or velocity with that
34:36
pitch. So I don't know, maybe this
34:38
maybe the sinker's becoming more of a more of a commonplace pitch
34:44
for these some of these arsenals.
34:47
Additionally, his ground ball rate is the second higher
34:50
highest it's ever been. So it sounds like as as Max
34:57
Freed with every day of his age that passes, is finding new ways
35:02
to adapt, new ways to adjust. And he is he's making it work.
35:07
He is playing for a contract too, playing for a contract.
35:10
And he, it's, it's, he's looking good doing it right now.
35:15
I mean, his, like I said, these last four starts have been very
35:19
impressive. And it's what I said, you go
35:22
back to his, I'd want to say it was ACG against Miami where I
35:26
was like, you know, this is great 'cause he, he stumbled out
35:29
of the gate there early in the season.
35:30
But I said, you know, give him, give him this start to build off
35:34
of this, this CG and you know, it, it's hard to put too much
35:39
stock into it because it's the Marlins.
35:40
And as we know, Marlins are an unserious franchise, but we said
35:46
just sit tight, see how he rebounds from this this slow
35:50
start. And he's he's hitting every,
35:53
every stride that we would expect him to at this point.
35:55
So. I love that subtle jab, too.
35:59
I think we just need to start saying unserious franchise.
36:03
I love that it's sophisticated, but it's also a jab, so I
36:07
appreciate that. That's the Marlins for you.
36:09
I wonder where you go is man, I'm really curious because like
36:14
I, I don't know what it is and, and Braves fans get in the chat
36:17
and let me know. It just doesn't feel like
36:20
Atlanta wants him back. It just doesn't.
36:23
I don't get that sense. And I don't know if he, if the
36:27
way he plays forces their hand, but I, I just, it's hard to say.
36:34
I, I don't know if maybe a, a just has this like mentality if
36:39
I will find this production. Look at what Chris Sale's doing
36:42
and maybe he's just like, I will find this production elsewhere
36:45
without giving you that bag. Yeah, but they're playing,
36:48
they're playing with fire in that regard.
36:49
Like even with Chris Sale, I don't know if that's the guy you
36:52
want to point to and be like, I can find Max Reed, Max Reed
36:56
production elsewhere because Chris Sale is a walk across the
36:59
street away from being out for the rest of the season.
37:01
So for. Sure, I'm not saying Chris Sale
37:04
is the guy you know is moving forward, but I just I'm curious
37:07
to see if if how this progresses and like as good as he's doing.
37:17
I don't know if the Braves, especially down Akunya,
37:20
especially down Strider can go win this division.
37:25
So it's like, do you do you bring him back after what is
37:31
most likely going to be a wild card appearance, losing momentum
37:36
on a deep run? I know it's just May or just
37:38
June, but like, I don't know, it's so weird to see how that's
37:41
going to play out. And I think dude's going to get
37:45
some some money, so. Yeah, but I want to put it past
37:49
the Braves to to figure out something.
37:50
They're they're Wizards when it comes.
37:52
To I kind of want them to say. I kind of want them to say
37:55
because like you like it. It's weird to just have like
37:58
that piece of the core go away. So yeah, who do you got, my guy?
38:05
I'm going with one of my fantasy men.
38:09
That sounded weird. It sounded real weird.
38:13
Yeah, Let's, let's, let's you know, let's.
38:22
Sorry, Sorry. It had to be done.
38:28
Had to be done. Sorry.
38:30
It's just a crazy, I mean full confidence just rolled right
38:36
into it. One of my fantasy men came out
38:40
way too smooth. One of the players that
38:43
represents the Dodgers pitching on my fantasy team, Gavin Stone.
38:51
I I was a huge benefit of Mr. Bobby Miller last year, a a free
38:59
agent pick up early in the season, Gavin Stone.
39:07
I had this feeling, I don't know what it was, but I was like
39:10
something about the Dodgers and young pitching is going to make
39:13
this happen. And I was close to dropping
39:15
them. March and April, five starts,
39:18
which is great. This is perfect because he made
39:20
five starts, then made five starts in May.
39:23
It's a very easy sample size to compare.
39:25
Had a 468 ERA in May 197 144 whip dropping down to a one O
39:36
whip. Hard hit percentage takes a big
39:39
dip at 32%. March and April drops down to
39:42
18% and the K to walk percentage jumps from 5 1/2 to 14 1/2.
39:52
So my man has started to figure out this the, the swing and miss
39:57
stuff and batting average against drops from 2:53 to 2:27
40:01
in the month of May. So heck of a month.
40:05
Something that like is when you see a young guy figure things
40:09
out, like maybe you get punched in the face.
40:11
We're we're seeing names that are like being sent down and,
40:15
and going back to AAA to cook some more.
40:19
And so it's, I don't know what it is about like the just Major
40:24
League Baseball right now of like not wanting to send young
40:26
guys back down. And I was worried about Gavin
40:30
Stone. So I was like, I wonder if the
40:33
Dodgers are doing that or they're just fitting into the
40:35
mold of scared teams that are aren't wanting to take that dip.
40:39
So but look at him figure it out, man.
40:42
Five starts in May and did it did really good.
40:45
So curious to see if he can keep it rolling.
40:48
But I like the young kid. It's fun to watch.
40:53
I love it honestly. I based based on what you're
40:56
telling me that pretty much lines up with, I hate to say my
41:00
interest in Gavin Stone, but those numbers that you shared
41:04
from from early or early on, I was kind of interested to see
41:09
how this year would pan out for him, but then he he started
41:11
slipping. I was like, I feel like I need
41:13
to look elsewhere for some young arms to latch on too.
41:17
But it from what you tell me, it seems like need to be checking
41:21
out some some Gavin Stone starts moving forward.
41:24
Yeah, I recommend it. Glad to hear it.
41:26
Glad to hear it for the the lad. Any other notes there on on guys
41:32
we think are back 'cause we got a we got a topic here that I
41:35
didn't foresee covering, but last night made for quite a
41:39
story so wanted to give you a chance to wrap up anything
41:42
before we move on. This is just keep an eye out on
41:45
some of those other teams, man. It doesn't have to be the the
41:49
big dogs. The A's got some some dudes to
41:51
watch. It's just there's good names all
41:54
around the league that you got to just keep an eye out for.
41:59
I'm about it. Let's talk about, you know, you
42:04
know, Speaking of keeping an eye out, do we need to keep an eye
42:08
out for Tommy Pham? Like if we talk about him right
42:11
now, is he going to show up at our door ready to dismantle?
42:18
Ready to dismantle our. Our faces.
42:20
This is a make my Day stay. So let's go.
42:22
Tommy. Pham, I'm knocking my door.
42:25
I'm just kidding, I. Don't know.
42:29
Are you Tommy Pham dude, once again, make it.
42:33
I saw I saw a comment today that perfectly summarized Tommy
42:37
Pham's career. I feel like is 80% of Tommy Pham
42:41
headlines are related to things that have nothing to do with
42:44
actually playing the game of baseball.
42:47
And that's that's pretty much accurate.
42:49
And and I know a play at the plate is what sparked all this.
42:53
So it's sort of right, sort of not, but you get you get what
42:56
we're saying here. The Tommy Pham incident with
43:01
William Contreras, like what are we?
43:07
There's so many. I feel like there's so many
43:08
things on pack here. If you didn't see the play, pull
43:12
it up. You'll you'll see what we're
43:13
talking about. Play at the plate.
43:16
He gets hosed at the plate. There's a a ball.
43:18
It's not even close. Yelich, it was Yelich, right?
43:21
Yelich throws it in, hoses him at at the plate, the route he
43:26
took. That's the biggest thing for me.
43:30
What do we talk? You can't run to the pitcher's
43:35
mound on your way home. That's bet he was halfway there.
43:39
Yeah. Like I, I got AII saw a
43:42
screenshot of the feed from the camera down the left field line,
43:48
and it was it was that view. Yeah, dude, it was.
43:51
It was just. Absurd.
43:53
Like outside of the third baseman?
43:55
Almost. I gotta I gotta send this to you
43:58
this. You need to see this.
44:00
It was insane and I'm going water.
44:04
Is this is this what they're teaching, teaching the guys in
44:10
the league now, because this is not what what we were taught.
44:14
I mean, I get, I get what he's going after, but I mean, you
44:17
look at that. My goodness, dude.
44:19
I mean, it's terrible, yeah. It gets hosed at the plate, gets
44:26
up. William Contreras is, as you
44:29
would expect, pumped after play at the plate, which I I feel
44:32
like wasn't wasn't really addressed enough, wasn't really
44:35
talked about enough. Like, I don't care if I, I, I
44:38
think Tommy Pham took issue with the fact that he was getting he
44:41
was pumped because because the, the play was so like it was so
44:50
it was clear as day that he was out.
44:51
Like he beat him by like half the, the length of the base
44:55
path. I think William Contreras is
44:59
probably just pumped it, you know, any play to play.
45:01
I don't care if it's he's out by a mile or it's bang, bang play.
45:04
Any play to play. That's a big deal.
45:05
That's one of the more exciting plays in baseball.
45:09
But Tommy Pham took exception to it.
45:10
And we've got I've got the audio here queued up from his presser
45:17
after the fact, and here it is. One run ball game, close play at
45:25
the plate, and I actually wasn't even fucking close.
45:29
There's a shallow fly ball to left field you.
45:31
You would expect the left fielder to throw the base runner
45:34
out on that play. But the situation of the game,
45:38
you know, like third base coach sends you, you got to go.
45:43
I'm I'm nailed out at at home by a mile.
45:47
I'm I'm going to the dugout and then, you know, I hear the tough
45:51
guy with all the hoorah shit, you know, so I'll never start
45:56
anything, but I'll be prepared to finish it.
45:59
There's a reason why, you know, I do all kinds of fighting in
46:02
the offseason because I'm prepared to fuck somebody up.
46:05
So you can take it as what it is.
46:12
Easy, Tommy Pham. It's a It's a family.
46:15
Show on dude yeah, thanks. I'll probably have to flag the
46:18
episode now. Tommy, we do we make every
46:21
effort to keep this a family program and you're out here just
46:23
ruining it for everybody Apologize apologize for for the
46:28
language. But you know, I'm not surprised.
46:32
And I think I think the narrative after this incident
46:37
has it has been for just about every other Tommy Fam incident,
46:39
is that he just comes across as a fake tough guy.
46:43
And I'm not gonna sit here and say that he is with certainty,
46:46
but it's just the way in which he he talks about it just gives
46:51
off the vibe of like, all right, dude, like how many times you
46:54
gonna say it? The instance in which you did
46:58
get physical, it was a slap. So what are we?
47:01
What are we really supposed to take from that?
47:03
Excellent point, excellent point.
47:05
Maybe that's why he got into like fighting classes in the
47:10
offseason was after the slap. That's a great point.
47:13
That's a great point. Because it's like what a what a
47:16
my guy. He's like, I can't be
47:18
embarrassing myself like this. I know.
47:20
So that, I mean, look, you mentioned the angle like I have
47:25
no problem with Will and Contreras being like you clearly
47:29
were coming at me there. You're 6 feet inside the
47:33
baseline and you're obviously like seeking contact.
47:36
I'm going to eat that and flex on you all day.
47:40
I'm totally fine with that. And I'm actually a big fan of
47:43
like whatever attitude he's bringing to the Brewers.
47:47
I don't understand the I never understand the chirping while
47:56
I'm working backwards towards my team mates.
48:00
Hold me back, hold me back and I'm just going to keep leaning
48:04
back away from you. It's so, I'm so sick of it.
48:09
I'm so sick of benches clearing when nothing happens.
48:13
Make it real for me. Make this the NHL.
48:16
Let it eat. Just get after each other.
48:21
And then the shadow boxing as he's watching that, that really,
48:25
that really tipped me over the edge.
48:28
The shadow. Yeah,
48:41
ridiculous. Who are you?
48:42
Trying to impress Tommy Pham. What was?
48:45
That the guy's delusional. The guy's absolutely delusional.
48:48
What's crazy is that we keep hearing reports of like how good
48:51
of a teammate he is too I. Don't.
48:54
I don't. Get it?
48:55
I don't get that. I'll be first.
48:57
I'll be the first to acknowledge I'm probably the major.
49:00
League, it's probably the guy you love to play with but hate
49:03
to play against. I I could understand that after
49:07
like maybe the first or second incident, you're like, OK, maybe
49:10
there's just more to this guy that we don't really know, but
49:13
it's the same thing every time. It's like the like he, I mean,
49:19
we don't need to play it again. But if you go back and listen to
49:21
that audio from the post game presser, it sounds like pouty,
49:24
like at the end when he, when he's talking about like this is
49:28
what it is, man, check it that what you will like.
49:31
He just sounds like pouty and just like constantly angry and
49:35
just looking and, and I get it, man.
49:36
People, people have different life, life stories than me.
49:41
And like they, you know, search upbringings can, can, can lead
49:45
you to have that kind of mentality.
49:47
So I, I get that from that point of view, but from a baseball
49:52
perspective, if you consistently talk about how you're this guy
49:56
that can just end somebody's career, end somebody's life from
50:00
all these classes that you're taking, then like one of these
50:04
instances, maybe let that show. If that's what you're truly
50:09
about, if that's what you've made your identity to be, then
50:13
let it show, because otherwise it's just all talk.
50:17
I agree I. Agree.
50:18
For the record, I'm not volunteering to be confronted by
50:22
Tommy Pham. I'm not saying that, I'm just.
50:25
I'm I'm he would he would kick my ass absolutely for.
50:29
Sure. Can we, we, we've, we've talked
50:35
about the the play itself. Can we talk about the call?
50:37
Did you by chance hear the call? No, dude, you didn't hear.
50:42
So OK. Oh, this is this would be good.
50:44
So the White Sox announcer, I don't even remember the guy's
50:47
name. I looked it up today and already
50:48
forgot. Probably for good reason.
50:50
The guy stinks tough. Remember earlier this year where
50:55
it was the IT was the walk off? I want to say it was a Gavin
50:58
Cheats walk off. And he said he's like for all
51:03
the haters, the second time, like for the first time all
51:07
season, the White Sox have won two in a row.
51:09
We talked about this. You remember this and he's like
51:12
Southside stand up. You remember?
51:14
You remember that? Yeah.
51:17
OK, so it's the same guy and the guy, the guy stinks, but we need
51:21
to, we need to run through that call because it was please.
51:25
Please. Here's the threat to the play
51:28
and he's out and Contreras is barking at him.
51:35
Tommy Pham barking back. He's not backing down.
51:39
He doesn't like that. And now home plate umpire Edwin
51:42
Jimenez has to hold back Pham. Nah, we ain't taking that.
51:48
We ain't taking that from the Brewers.
51:51
I don't care how many LS we got this year, we ain't taking that.
52:02
That's basically it. That's the cringiest thing I've
52:05
ever. Are you kidding me?
52:07
I saw a tweet today that said it sounded like like a drunken frat
52:11
bro. Yeah, trying to like.
52:14
We ain't taking that. Throw hands with somebody.
52:18
How old are you? I don't understand that.
52:21
I don't understand that dude. Like I've I've listened to a lot
52:24
of baseball and like I understand being slightly biased
52:28
towards your team. I understand like a local guy
52:31
being a rooting for your team. That was not not good.
52:40
Like that's just bad, bad broadcasting.
52:44
That's tough. That's a real tough look.
52:47
There's a whole lot wrong going on in in Chicago.
52:50
We ain't taking that from the Brook Stop, man.
52:54
You are, you are. You're taking it from everybody.
52:58
Every day, taking it from everybody, the.
53:00
Whole season, you're taking it from everyone.
53:03
Everyone gets the right to bark at you.
53:06
Was it 11 straight now? Are they even playing tonight?
53:09
Probably miserable. They probably hope they're
53:12
they're off. And here's The thing is that
53:14
Tommy Pham's going to make us eat our words.
53:16
He's going to get traded. He's going to go play for a
53:19
contenders, a lot of rumblings about the Braves, and he's
53:22
probably going to have some great postseason performance.
53:25
And there's nothing wrong with that.
53:26
He's a good ball player and he dominates lefties.
53:29
And you know, sometimes he need a tough guy in that clubhouse.
53:34
But like, it's just a reoccurring theme here.
53:39
Yeah, I agree, Andrew. I agree.
53:44
Andrew says as much as I dislike Fam, I feel like deep down he'll
53:47
be a brave after the trade deadline and lead us back to the
53:49
World Series. Yeah, that would be that.
53:52
It's just, it's one of the. Ironic.
53:53
Yeah, it's one of those guys that you just truly deep down
53:58
don't really want to see see succeed.
54:00
But they just, they not only do they find success, they just go
54:04
on to have these moments where it's like, all right, well,
54:06
sick. There's nothing I can really say
54:08
to that. So.
54:08
Right. And that's kind of kind of where
54:12
we're at. Kind of where we're at, Yeah,
54:14
just a just a mess, man. But that.
54:18
But you said it best. The the White Sox are taking it
54:20
from everybody. So I mean, what?
54:25
I didn't care. That's a It's a miserable
54:27
franchise to watch. They're on.
54:28
Pace to be one of the worst of. All time I I think I'd rather
54:31
watch the Marlins. I really would.
54:35
I think they're actually on pace to.
54:37
I'd rather watch Pace the Ace. I'd rather watch the Rockies.
54:40
I'd I would rather watch any other team than the White Sox.
54:44
Yeah, it's crazy, crazy, unreal. Unreal.
54:54
Good stuff, though. Good stuff.
54:56
I know you got to get out of here.
54:58
We'll keep it quick here, though.
55:00
Blake Snell back to the IL. Yeah.
55:04
Can I, can I just ask you a question?
55:06
Yeah, friend to friend here. Should I, Should I drop Blake's
55:13
now from the fantasy squad? I, I yeah, I do.
55:17
I mean, is it worth even holding out hope for?
55:19
Maybe a bounce back later in the year.
55:21
I don't see it, man. I don't see it.
55:24
There's so many. This is such an unfortunate
55:27
thing 'cause like I've never root for a guy's like demise or
55:30
downfall, but like there were so many people saying this and it
55:37
was obvious when we watch free agency, it was it was smacked us
55:42
right in the face that there wasn't a ball club that was
55:45
willing to meet his slash. Scott, Boris's ask.
55:50
We saw this, everyone saw this and I think fans were like, Nah,
55:54
that's crazy. Got to give the NL Cy Young his
55:58
money. The this is what we've seen a
56:03
lot of his career. This has happened a lot of times
56:06
like this. I mean, not not this bad dude.
56:09
I know the injuries and like, I know that's a factor and I know
56:13
missing spring training is a huge factor.
56:15
And that's kind of your, your own camp's fault, by the way.
56:18
Like I, I don't think we're, we could just sit here and be like,
56:20
oh, poor Blake Snell. And like you and your camp
56:23
decided to to not pull the trigger on a lot of teams,
56:28
including the Yankees, who made a bigger offer than what he
56:31
ended up getting. It's just nuts.
56:36
When I was watching the other day, I, it was on his 99th pitch
56:39
and it was in the middle of an at bat.
56:41
And it was kind of a big moment in the game.
56:44
I think the Yanks were down like 3-1 or something like that.
56:48
And, and he like tweaked the back and I was like, really?
56:51
So like, this was going to be his last hitter.
56:53
It's 100 pitches. There was a guy in the bullpen
56:55
trying to get hot. And I was like, now he walks off
56:58
in this, you know, the next guy gets as much as he wants to warm
57:02
up. And I thought that was, I
57:03
thought that's what it was. I really thought it.
57:05
And then the IL stint and I'm like, Dang, this is.
57:09
No, he at that point, I think he had given up three because I
57:14
kept, I kept seeing a lot of a lot of people talking about how
57:18
that was somehow one of the best starts he's had this season of
57:22
the I think 6 starts he's had, which like 3, you know, three
57:28
runs given up over I think he was into the sixth maybe.
57:33
Yeah, I think he got. It that's not, that's not
57:35
terrible by any stretch, but for you to sit there and say like
57:37
that's his best start of the season, yeah, that's true Cy
57:41
Young season. That's that's indicative of of
57:44
just his current situation. Where?
57:47
Where? Soto Gotcha.
57:48
Like yeah, deep too. Soto went over triples Alley
57:55
left on left. Unreal.
57:59
Unreal. Yeah, I would drop them.
58:02
I would. I think I may have to, even
58:04
though you're probably going to come in and scoop them up.
58:06
I. Won't and stash.
58:07
I should that's right that's right that's right.
58:11
Spencer Torkelson talking about being dropped, sent down to AAA
58:20
to hopefully figure this thing out.
58:23
It was funny. It's.
58:24
OK, I'm OK with it. Yeah, yeah, for sure.
58:27
Former number number one overall pick in the 2020 draft.
58:32
I did, I did. I saw a video which I had never
58:37
seen before. And honestly, I was sitting
58:39
there thinking I was like, you know, as as time passes, we're
58:42
going to start seeing more of this.
58:44
As I saw a clip of him, I I want to say it was from like a
58:50
perfect game thing or, you know, showcase.
58:54
Yeah, well, yeah, but it was more of like just like a a
58:58
standard highlight reel. It looked like it was just him
59:00
taking swings. I don't think it was in a game.
59:03
But I'm sitting there thinking like, you know, as more time
59:05
passes, then the more video and, and things that are being taken
59:09
to these guys as they come up, like we're going to be able to
59:11
reference these earlier videos a lot more than we used to be able
59:15
to back in the day. But anyway, it was it was a
59:19
video of him taking the hacks and the, the the poster or the
59:27
the person that tweeted the video says something to the
59:31
effect of I wish I could have seen.
59:34
I wish I could have figured this out then what we know now.
59:38
And it was something to the effect of it's just, it's a a
59:44
pretty unathletic kid that just was able just figured out how to
59:49
mash. And if if you go back and look
59:50
at this video and I, I get it, he's like, I want to say he was
59:54
12 or 14 in the video. But if you go back and look,
59:57
you're like that looks like that looks like the kid you played in
1:00:03
like coach pitch with. And you're like, he's probably
1:00:05
not going to amount to anything. But somehow he figured out a way
1:00:08
to make it work and become a number one overall pick.
1:00:10
But it just makes you wonder, like, is there was there like a
1:00:14
learned mashing there with with Spencer Torkelson?
1:00:19
That's that somehow maybe has been lost a little bit as of
1:00:22
late and he's struggling to to recapture.
1:00:25
That yeah, it's definitely a confidence issue too, because I
1:00:28
mean, like it when he first came up like this is a hopeless
1:00:32
Tigers team, you know what I mean?
1:00:34
Like there's it's not a whole lot going on.
1:00:37
It doesn't seem like there's much hype and it's like you're
1:00:40
making that transition over from 3rd to 1st, but you're also in
1:00:44
this weird spot where like Miguel Cabrera is still here.
1:00:47
It it was a hard way to come up and like just sit and it was a
1:00:52
hard way to like not get consistent normal ABS.
1:00:57
I I think like we're he, we got to remember they still young.
1:01:01
So I'm not I'm not like overreacting here.
1:01:04
I think it's a good thing that he's going down.
1:01:06
I like that he's going to get more time any of my like hitting
1:01:10
nerds out there. I would expect him to to
1:01:12
probably spread out a little bit, get into his legs a little
1:01:15
bit and I could see the hands getting lower a little bit.
1:01:18
He's really like quick. He's like, you know, that that
1:01:21
down angle, like get it back spin, but he's very in and out
1:01:25
of the zone. I think you're going to see that
1:01:27
swing kind of like flatten out if he does find success.
1:01:30
And that was like Jose Abreu's issue, right?
1:01:33
Like not a lot of launch angle in and out of the zone gets sent
1:01:37
down. It seems like he's starting to
1:01:39
come around, but like flatting out a little bit, getting, you
1:01:42
know, a little more barrel lag. So I think that's probably going
1:01:46
to happen for him if he does find success, which I hope he
1:01:49
does because the dude can't hit. And I'm I'm I'm liking what the
1:01:54
tigers are like putting together.
1:01:55
So hope he finds success. Hope he's back and it's nothing
1:02:00
crazy. Yeah, I mean, Javi Baez even put
1:02:04
the nail the coffin of the Red Sox over the weekend.
1:02:08
So, you know, maybe things are looking up for the Tiger.
1:02:11
So would like Spencer Torkelson to be a part.
1:02:14
Of that and I hope that conversation was just like,
1:02:16
dude, go get right, get back here.
1:02:18
Get back here as soon as you can.
1:02:20
Yeah, that I hope that that's what it was.
1:02:23
So I hope he takes it that way. Any thoughts on this betting
1:02:28
scandal before we get out of here?
1:02:31
I didn't really know what to take of it.
1:02:33
I don't know, I. Didn't know who that was, did
1:02:34
you? Tukapita Marcano.
1:02:38
I know I'm not. I know I'm butchering that too.
1:02:42
Tusa pita? Never heard of her.
1:02:44
Tukapita. Adios, good luck.
1:02:47
Marcano, facing a potential lifetime ban for betting on
1:02:51
baseball after the MLB received info that he wagered on games
1:02:55
involving the Pittsburgh Pirates when he was with the team last
1:02:58
year, has yet to be formally penalized.
1:03:03
I hate it. This is all according to the to
1:03:06
ESPN has yet to be formally penalized.
1:03:09
I thought he got the life life sentence or life not sentence
1:03:12
but lifetime ban. Yeah, he's dead.
1:03:14
They're going to shoot him. They're going to show up to his
1:03:17
door and they're going. To shoot him, it's possible.
1:03:21
They're going to literally just right to the Dome on his front
1:03:27
porch. I think I saw on that update
1:03:29
too, there's like three or four more names.
1:03:31
Yeah, there's. What is it here?
1:03:34
We didn't get the names, but four other minor.
1:03:36
Leaguers facing potential discipline as well for gambling.
1:03:43
It's crazy, man, That's crazy. Rule 20 MLB Rule 21 explicitly
1:03:48
states that a player who bets on games involving his own team is
1:03:50
subject to a lifetime ban. Oh, this is important.
1:03:55
I think we're officially in that generation that doesn't know who
1:03:57
Pete Rose is. I think we're officially there
1:04:00
like kids that are like, I don't never heard of them.
1:04:02
I don't know who Pete Rose is. They've probably never even
1:04:05
heard that story. Yeah, yeah, they're probably,
1:04:09
they're probably hearing about Tucapita Marcano going, oh man,
1:04:13
this has never happened. Well.
1:04:16
Especially guys that like, maybe not Americans that didn't like,
1:04:18
grow up, like hearing that name as a kid, you know?
1:04:22
Yeah, like I I bet these people don't even know.
1:04:26
Scary. Apparently he was on the IL when
1:04:30
he was placing the bets. Sure, why not?
1:04:33
What else we got going on? Kick back, hang out, throw some
1:04:38
bets out there chilling on the couch.
1:04:40
It's tough, man. If anything if if he if he
1:04:45
ceases living, just know that Manfred was the was the one who
1:04:50
pulled the trigger. Yeah, yeah.
1:04:55
Pete Rose has a real, real big opportunity here.
1:04:58
If this, if these names were bigger, Pete Rose would have a
1:05:02
real big opportunity. How is David Fletcher still
1:05:05
allowed to do do what he's doing?
1:05:08
Have they not shot him yet? I'm confused.
1:05:11
I'm confused as like his name came out in the Ohtani report
1:05:15
and he's still just throwing knuckleballs AAA.
1:05:19
Well, I think what's going to happen is first they have to
1:05:22
take care of E pay. So they're probably going to put
1:05:25
him in a jail cell, shoot him there.
1:05:28
And then once they take care of that, once you forget about him,
1:05:31
then they're going to move to David Fletcher, probably out in
1:05:34
a field somewhere. Just take him out.
1:05:36
Just bury him right there with that headstone.
1:05:38
And then, then, then 2222 Capita Marcano take him out, right on
1:05:45
his front porch, right on his doorstep.
1:05:48
Sad man Just sad. It's a tough story.
1:05:55
This is Manford World now. That's how he that's how he
1:05:59
handles his business. He got tired of hearing about
1:06:01
all how lightly he took it on teams like the Astros and and
1:06:05
whatnot, he said. All right, you know what?
1:06:07
I'm going to take it to the other end of the extreme.
1:06:10
Yep. Oh well.
1:06:13
It's going to show up to show up in a mask.
1:06:17
Take these guys up, all right? That's all we got.
1:06:23
Try to keep it quick, but yeah, you know how that goes.
1:06:26
Yeah, last thing I randomly found out I have Tyler Rogers
1:06:31
number in my contacts. Did I tell you this before?
1:06:36
You have never once mentioned that.
1:06:37
No idea. I was like scrolling through,
1:06:40
you know, you get like the suggested friends from your
1:06:42
contacts on my social media. Tyler Rogers pops up and it's
1:06:46
like he's in a Giants uniform and he's like got his arm around
1:06:50
his twin brother in like a minor league uniform.
1:06:52
They're from Colorado. But it comes up as suggested and
1:06:55
I'm like, OK, so then I like go to my phone and look it up and I
1:06:59
got his number and I'm like, how did we did we play together at
1:07:03
some point? Like how did this so weird?
1:07:08
Not Trevors. I don't have Trevors, but I do
1:07:10
have Tyler's. Who's the righty from
1:07:13
underneath? Well, I mean, if you really want
1:07:15
to get a hold of Trevor, I'm sure you can just reach out to
1:07:17
Tyler I. Mean.
1:07:18
That's super weird. I don't know either.
1:07:20
Touch. I don't remember either but they
1:07:23
went to high school down the road.
1:07:25
I bet you played with him and just had to realize it just
1:07:28
didn't follow his career path the rest of the way and it turns
1:07:31
out he was a big leaguer. It's pretty cool.
1:07:33
Whatever, That's all I got. That's my it's my fun statement
1:07:37
of the day. Love that.
1:07:38
Love that. All right.
1:07:41
Well, again, apologize for the, the shake up in the schedule.
1:07:47
We, we really try to keep it to Sunday, Wednesdays.
1:07:50
But there was nothing to talk about when we sat down
1:07:56
yesterday. And then fortunately we had the
1:07:59
the fortunately or unfortunately, depending upon if
1:08:02
you're a White Sox fan, had the Tommy Pham thing pop up and the
1:08:06
snail news, I think even the Torkelson news.
1:08:09
So fortunately we had some things pop up, but we should
1:08:12
hopefully be back Wednesday barring any any shake up or
1:08:18
emergency. So we will talk to you guys
1:08:21
then. Yes, Sir, Don't go chasing
1:08:23
curveballs. We love you all and as always,
1:08:26
looking forward to talking more baseball with you guys soon.
1:08:29
Until next time, stay filthy.