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Ep. 111 : September Player Of The Month PC · Cards & Categories

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Speaker 1: Hello, and welcome everybody to Episode one eleven of Cards
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Speaker 1: and Categories. I am Mike cool Eard from Rasball, joined
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Speaker 1: as always by my very good friend Jeremy Brewer, also
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Speaker 1: from ras Ball. We are in the throws of the
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Speaker 1: playoffs right now. We are recording on October eighth. We
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Speaker 1: are right in between the first two DS games of
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Speaker 1: the elimination day did not eliminate anybody where. It's the
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Speaker 1: sixth inning of the Toronto Blue Jays New York Yankees
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Speaker 1: game right now. So if you want to follow along
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Speaker 1: as we kind of give you live updates, that's where
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Speaker 1: we're at. But brew how have you been enjoying these
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Speaker 1: playoffs so far?
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Speaker 2: They they've been a fun playoffs. It feels like every turn,
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Speaker 2: every time I think something's going in a certain way,
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Speaker 2: somebody turns around and makes the diff happened. So I
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Speaker 2: think it's been very fun to watch so far. Excitement, storylines.
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Speaker 2: I think there's a little bit of everything right now,
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Speaker 2: and I think everybody agrees that. I don't know if
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Speaker 2: you saw the viewership numbers, and those were actually up
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Speaker 2: the best wild card that we've had, which it was
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Speaker 2: up over sixty percent compared to last year, just viewership
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Speaker 2: in general of the Wildcard series. So I think it's
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Speaker 2: been a fun, fun postseason so far. Even if I've
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Speaker 2: gotten a few things wrong, it's still been fun.
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Speaker 1: Yeah. I mean, I think it certainly has helped that.
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Speaker 1: You know, that Red Sox Yankees series was real fun
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Speaker 1: and that probably boosted the ratings pretty well going off
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Speaker 1: of the games.
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Speaker 2: And I mean that was the most watched wild Card
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Speaker 2: game so far this season. Yeah, and I mean especially
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Speaker 2: it kind of spoke to our little millennial hearts as well,
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Speaker 2: because you know, when we were kind of in the
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Speaker 2: prime of our junior high high school lives, like, oh
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Speaker 2: it was was Red Sox Yankees, and so getting back
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Speaker 2: to it, and like those teams do not like each other,
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Speaker 2: and you've got Alex Rodriguez and David Ortiz goating each
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Speaker 2: other on the Fox like set up before.
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Speaker 1: And after the games. It is really fun, and especially
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Speaker 1: just the players that are there, it does feel like
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Speaker 1: it's the makings of another kind of great era of
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Speaker 1: Boston New York clashes. And then yeah, San Diego Chicago
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Speaker 1: was great. Detroit Cleveland, even though it was rounding roundly
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Speaker 1: panned as like being boring baseball and so many jokes
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Speaker 1: I saw in terms of hearkening back to nineteen eighties
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Speaker 1: baseball in terms of like all singles and you know,
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Speaker 1: fundamental plays and stuff. That was still an exciting series
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Speaker 1: going all all three games. And then yeah, we had
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Speaker 1: the Dodgers sweep the Reds, which wasn't unexpected, I don't think.
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Speaker 2: And yeah, but they did more convincing fashion than I expected.
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Speaker 2: Like that's true, like they I mean, yeah, we expected
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Speaker 2: that to happen, but like they made it look easy.
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Speaker 1: And yeah, we are on our way right now to
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Speaker 1: two game fives and the DS it looks like so far,
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Speaker 1: well actually just one the Detroit Seattle. The off days
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Speaker 1: and stuff, the staggered off days has really been throwing
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Speaker 1: me off. So we've only it's two to one between
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Speaker 1: Chicago and Milwaukee right now, and then it's possible Toronto
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Speaker 1: finishes it off tonight, but you know, it would be
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Speaker 1: great to see the Yankees comeback so we can get
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Speaker 1: another game five there. And we've also got the beginning
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Speaker 1: of the Dodgers Phillies. Actually it's probably like just about
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Speaker 1: first pitch as where we're talking right now. So what
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Speaker 1: moments have really kind of stood out to you so
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Speaker 1: far out of ever all the action that you've seen,
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Speaker 1: it has been quite the deluge of fantastic baseball. But moments, players,
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Speaker 1: plays that stood out to you at all.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean there's a handful. I think, you know,
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Speaker 2: I was gonna generalized statement. I think we can get
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Speaker 2: into a little This is like I think young pitching.
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Speaker 2: Just as a generalized statement, we've seen some big performances
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Speaker 2: from young guns and that that's been fun. I think
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Speaker 2: we can also call out I would just say a
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Speaker 2: few big names in this Blue Jay's Yankees series right now.
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Speaker 2: Vlad Junior like making an appearance and like making noise
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Speaker 2: like he's never really, at least in my opinion, been
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Speaker 2: like a big stage hitter at this point, and he's
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Speaker 2: definitely doing that right now. And then there's this Air
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Speaker 2: Judge guy that's trying to like meet him there as well.
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Speaker 2: And I really I feel like the Yankees have been
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Speaker 2: care of the back of like two players this entire
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Speaker 2: postseason with Cam Cam Slipper Slitler and Aaron Judge. Between
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Speaker 2: those two, that the Yankees would not still still be
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Speaker 2: in the in the playoffs here. And I think the
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Speaker 2: the other thing that I would call out is it
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Speaker 2: feels like the Phillies don't quite know what they're doing.
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Speaker 2: They made some bad choices on the bass paths they have,
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Speaker 2: like their bullpen rotation choices have been a little questionable.
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Speaker 2: It seems like they're not quite sure what's going on
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Speaker 2: and there and the Phillies faithful make sure that they
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Speaker 2: know it, if you know what I mean. So those
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Speaker 2: are some of the key things that have stuck out
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Speaker 2: to me at this point. How about you one of
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Speaker 2: the big things that have jumped out to you so far?
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Speaker 1: I think the first thing that's kind of stood out
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Speaker 1: to me is but some of the big taters that
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Speaker 1: we've seen between that air and judge home run last
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Speaker 1: night where he daunted it off the foul pole, just
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Speaker 1: did feel like Judge got just all of the demons
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Speaker 1: kind of out of his system with that homer and
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Speaker 1: turned around a Louis Varlin one hundred miles in our
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Speaker 1: pitch that was like a foot inside just got in
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Speaker 1: front of it and just drilled it off the foul
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Speaker 1: pole to put the Yankees back into that game, and
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Speaker 1: then they just trounced them from there on out. Although
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Speaker 1: it looks like the Blue Jays bullpen chaos game is
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Speaker 1: holding up so far tonight, but that was I think
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Speaker 1: cool to see, just to just to allow Judge to
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Speaker 1: be able to kind of show some postseats and success,
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Speaker 1: because I mean, I think it would be unfortunate for
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Speaker 1: him to kind of go down as this generation's or
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Speaker 1: maybe even like MLB's greatest hitter time like it's been
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Speaker 1: Bondsie in and then if he has to kind of
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Speaker 1: always wear that that mark, that stain of having no
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Speaker 1: postseason success, at least you know he has that homer
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Speaker 1: to look at. The other homer I think about is
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Speaker 1: last night we also saw cal Rawley hit a sixty
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Speaker 1: first homer of the season to the guy wearing the
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Speaker 1: double shirts.
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Speaker 2: I forgot to bring that.
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Speaker 1: So if you haven't seen this clip, there was a
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Speaker 1: guy sitting in left field in Detroit, which incredible because
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Speaker 1: this is a left handed homer from cal Rally. So
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Speaker 1: we had to go Apo Taco hit it right to
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Speaker 1: the guy and the shirt says Cal hit sixty one. Here,
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Speaker 1: rips off the shirt and it says Cal hit sixty
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Speaker 1: two here. The guy was back at the game today.
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Speaker 1: He met cal Rawley last night. Just like a great
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Speaker 1: little story I am really looking forward to that game
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Speaker 1: five between seattleed and Detroit. It's going to be a
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Speaker 1: barn burner between George Kirby and Tarique Scoble going at
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Speaker 1: each other that like I would be not wanting to
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Speaker 1: be in that situation find the Mayn having to face
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Speaker 1: triaks Google to be able to get into the Alcs,
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Speaker 1: But it kind of feels like that's pretty fitting for
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Speaker 1: that franchise. The third homer, This is probably my favorite
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Speaker 1: moment was in yesterday, Yeah, Yesterday's game with Milwaukee that
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Speaker 1: Andrew Andrew Vaughn bomb in the in the first inning
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Speaker 1: to tie the game back up and send just really
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Speaker 1: like I was going bananas over that. Great to see
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Speaker 1: Andrew vaugh succeed in this this playoff run and kind
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Speaker 1: of have that big moment and really like the Brewers
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Speaker 1: have some sort of special magic. They couldn't pull it
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Speaker 1: out tonight, but I think they are going to rally
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Speaker 1: past those Cubs that you know, it was a little
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Speaker 1: bit of like a dying breath from the Cubs and
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Speaker 1: things have really been put together well in Milwaukee. And
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Speaker 1: then maybe the last moment is just the the head
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Speaker 1: over heels catched by Ryan McMahon in the wild Card
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Speaker 1: series going into the dugout in Boston. As you know,
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Speaker 1: the Yankees came back in that series and clinched it.
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Speaker 1: So lots of kind of scene out moments, and I'm
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Speaker 1: just looking forward to where the rest of these playoffs
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Speaker 1: go because they've been a blast. We've gotten some of
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Speaker 1: like the best teams I think in the field in
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Speaker 1: terms of what we've seen all season, and so it's
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Speaker 1: really setting up for I think a pretty classic last
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Speaker 1: couple of weeks of the season here.
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Speaker 2: I want to throw one more in there. I also
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Speaker 2: think Jackson Curio getting hurt and then coming back and
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Speaker 2: hit a bomb, like just adding to your homers. Like
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Speaker 2: I when the reporters came out of like inconclusive imagen results,
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Speaker 2: I'm like, that's like that's not negative, that's not positive.
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Speaker 2: That's just not good. And then he's back in the
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Speaker 2: light up. Then they're like, eh, he's And I love
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Speaker 2: the fact that they're like, he's not one hundred percent,
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Speaker 2: but he's still what we need. And then he comes
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Speaker 2: out there just laces a massive homer, and so like, yeah,
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Speaker 2: that's playoff baseball for you. It wasn't quite Kirk Gibson's style,
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Speaker 2: but like it was still you know, fun to see.
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Speaker 2: So there's been a lot of highlights so far. That's
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Speaker 2: absolute for sure.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, And I mean, let's get back to the talking
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Speaker 1: point that you brought up in terms of just some
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Speaker 1: of the performances we've seen out of the young pitchers
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Speaker 1: so far, some of our favorites from the season that
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Speaker 1: we hyped up on this pod or in my piece,
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Speaker 1: especially for the waiver wire between We've seen an absolutely
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Speaker 1: historic performance from Cam Schlitzler in the in the wild
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Speaker 1: Card it was more big mixed bag tonight, but still
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Speaker 1: he looks like he's gonna be a certain kind of
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Speaker 1: staple of that Yankees rotation as long as he can
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Speaker 1: stay healthy going to the future. You know, the twelve
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Speaker 1: k's in that wild Card outing just absolutely dominant over
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Speaker 1: eight innings. We've seen a great tray of savage out
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Speaker 1: in two with eleven k's in his win in the
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Speaker 1: wild Card series. And then we've also seen Jacob Missiowski
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Speaker 1: stepping back up, who had you know, a rough last
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Speaker 1: few months of the season, came back pumping the heat,
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Speaker 1: looking excited against the Cubs, and then i mean maybe
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Speaker 1: the saving grace for all baseball card collectors in twenty
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Speaker 1: twenty five, possibly Roki Sasaki, closer for the Los Angeles Dodgers,
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Speaker 1: has looked unstoppable. That the fastball splitter combo has really
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Speaker 1: played up and he has not been scared of the moment.
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Speaker 1: So lots of really fun young arms, And do you
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Speaker 1: think that there's something going on there is? Is there
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Speaker 1: some sort of trend do you think in the league
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Speaker 1: where like it does feel like one of the narratives
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Speaker 1: that always gets created during the amibi playoffs is this
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Speaker 1: is how you win a baseball game? You know, between
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Speaker 1: like and maybe we didn't get as much last year
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Speaker 1: because it was pretty obvious how the Dodgers won the
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Speaker 1: World Series, but you know, you see the success of
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Speaker 1: the Milwaukee Brewers, what the Orioles have done over the
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Speaker 1: past couple of years. When you get into the playoffs,
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Speaker 1: that becomes the driving narrative. Do you think some of
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Speaker 1: these young young arms and just like flamethrowers are going
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Speaker 1: to become some of the narrative going forward in baseball?
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Speaker 2: I think to a degree it is like you know
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Speaker 2: it for a few years, Like I think the pitching
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Speaker 2: has he started to evolve faster and the hitting to
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Speaker 2: a degree, and you're getting a lot out of these
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Speaker 2: arms are coming up stronger than they have. Like even
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Speaker 2: glazed Over Connley early had you know, a great, great
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Speaker 2: outing behind Camper Schlitler. He just got let down by
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Speaker 2: his defense a little bit. But the guy he was
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Speaker 2: nasty as well. So like you had a lot of
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Speaker 2: guys doing some some cool things out there, and it
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Speaker 2: does feel like it's the kind of the young flamethrowers,
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Speaker 2: Like there's a weird change into the guard right now.
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Speaker 2: Like I know there are a few all call it
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Speaker 2: aces out there, but if you look globally across the game,
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Speaker 2: I feel like the aces, like the true aces that
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Speaker 2: we call out there. When I'm saying aces, like top
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Speaker 2: five or six arms in the game, they're like at
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Speaker 2: the end of their careers. The Kershaws, the de Grams,
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Speaker 2: the Shusers. I'm sure I'm missing somebody that like they're
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Speaker 2: all you know kind of you know, leveling off, and
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Speaker 2: then you have this change in the guard where there's
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Speaker 2: not I feel like there's nobody for like a ten
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Speaker 2: year period and then now you hit your schemes, you
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Speaker 2: hit your schools, and then you have some of these
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Speaker 2: other young guys coming up, and it's kind of like
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Speaker 2: this bookend that we're seeing that change into the guard.
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Speaker 2: And even though de Gram and Sure's are and Kershaw
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Speaker 2: power pitchers, it feels like this crop it just like
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Speaker 2: a little bit more like an extra extra ten percent
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Speaker 2: of power. The one thing I would love to see, like,
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Speaker 2: are any of them gonna be able to go deep
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Speaker 2: into games? Like That's what's been really interesting is uh, yeah,
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Speaker 2: I'm I'm I know Schlitzer did, but the Savage, Masarowski,
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Speaker 2: like Sasaki, like nobody's getting tons of innings here. They're
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Speaker 2: just dominant when they're in the game. And so I'm
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Speaker 2: really interested to see how these guys develop. But I
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Speaker 2: also love the fact that the teams are like, you're
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Speaker 2: you're good, You're valuable. I don't care that you've only
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Speaker 2: been on like your Savage for example, like you have
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Speaker 2: no real experience at the mL level, and they're like, yeah,
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Speaker 2: here you go, just go for it like that. I
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Speaker 2: just love that the teams are willing to commit to
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Speaker 2: the guy that's like on fire and showing what he has.
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Speaker 2: Don't play traditional baseball play to win.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, And I mean I think, yeah, I think we
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Speaker 1: are maybe saying a little bit of a trend where
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Speaker 1: I you know, set you up with that leading question
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Speaker 1: a little bit in terms of us. You also look
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Speaker 1: at these guys, I mean, Yay Savage and miss Rowski
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Speaker 1: obviously were pretty high picks, but you can tell that
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Speaker 1: like someone that like just pitching lab stuff that has
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Speaker 1: been applied in more advanced organizations, And especially you're looking
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Speaker 1: at like Milwaukee, Toronto, New York. The AL version I
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Speaker 1: mean New York NL version is now too with David
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Speaker 1: Stearns around. But all these teams are some of the
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Speaker 1: more cutting edge teams. And I don't think it's a
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Speaker 1: coincidence that they're pumping out these new young arms that
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Speaker 1: just have absolutely off the scales on Bonker stuff on
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Speaker 1: stuff plus because you know they're being created in a
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Speaker 1: pitching lab and it's just like impossible to hit. I
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Speaker 1: guess the big question will be going forward is you know,
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Speaker 1: can they keep the health together? Can you continually be
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Speaker 1: throwing some of these really advanced pitches where like especially
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Speaker 1: I think about like the Savage with his splitter, like
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Speaker 1: splitters don't tend to age arms very well. You know,
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Speaker 1: it kind of tears up your forearm tears up your elbow.
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Speaker 1: But we've talked about this a little bit over over time.
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Speaker 1: Is that like you see it in Paul Schemes too,
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Speaker 1: Is like, not only are these younger players, younger pitchers
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Speaker 1: more open to some of these advanced like pitch development techniques,
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Speaker 1: but I think they're also pretty open to lots of
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Speaker 1: different ways of training and keeping their body healthy. And
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Speaker 1: so I have a lot of faith in like what
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Speaker 1: Schemes has been doing. And he just doesn't seem like
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Speaker 1: he seems invincible. I know he's probably not, but you
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Speaker 1: do wonder if maybe there is some advancements on the
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Speaker 1: training stretching, kind of strength training overall that goes into
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Speaker 1: these players that maybe we can keep some of them healthy.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, I hope. So it does feel like the kind
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Speaker 2: of divide across the league is also growing to a
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Speaker 2: degree between the haves and haves nots, in that in
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Speaker 2: that kind of dynamic, you can tell the teams that
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Speaker 2: just can't seem to get these guys healthy and get
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Speaker 2: them through and other teams doing doing better. And frankly,
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Speaker 2: I think like the Blue Jays have seen maybe he's
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Speaker 2: turn to corner here, Like with the Es savage, like
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Speaker 2: it seems like they're figuring things out when for years
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Speaker 2: it felt like they just could not figure out what
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Speaker 2: they're doing with pitchers. Maybe it's just one guy, I
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Speaker 2: don't know, but it does feel like there's something has
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Speaker 2: changed with a few teams, but there's still a number
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Speaker 2: of teams out there that don't feel like they really
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Speaker 2: know how developing pitching. Like I'll call it like it
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Speaker 2: is like the pod race for example. I know the
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Speaker 2: man in the playoffs, they they've really struggled to develop pitching,
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Speaker 2: and then they send these guys away, Like Robbie Snelling's
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Speaker 2: a great example. He had like a good year for
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Speaker 2: them and then just fell apart some of the Marlins
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Speaker 2: and all the guys just like just blasting through the minors.
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Speaker 2: He would be in the same conversation if the Marlins
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Speaker 2: were anything besides terrible, and I'm excited for see what
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Speaker 2: he can do next year. So there's there's definitely has
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Speaker 2: a growing vibe those haves and have nots in the
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Speaker 2: pitch side.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, I think that's totally fair, and it is
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Speaker 1: also verrely supporting our our love of giant six foot
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Speaker 1: six dudes who just like whip the ball really hard
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Speaker 1: because those are the guys that have success have had
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Speaker 1: success between you know, Schlitler's sixty six two twenty five,
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Speaker 1: Yay Savage six four two twenty five, Miserowski six seven
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Speaker 1: one ninety seven. Uh, early on, I'm gonna make that
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Speaker 1: an outlier that's not part of this. Yeah. I think
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Speaker 1: that there is something there too, where like it's not
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Speaker 1: a coincidence that we keep discussing that type of player
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Speaker 1: because I think there is something where once you've got
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Speaker 1: such a huge body that in wingspan that you're working
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Speaker 1: with and you're looking at that extension that you can
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Speaker 1: get out of a six to six frame, it seems
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Speaker 1: like everything else from there is gravy. So Uh, something
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Speaker 1: to keep in mind I think is we're entering the
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Speaker 1: off season for our fantasy game that like there are archetypes.
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Speaker 1: I think you could start picking out from the pitching
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Speaker 1: side that will make it a little easier to map
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Speaker 1: things across. I think for fantasy baseball then maybe it
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Speaker 1: traditionally has been and then on top of it, we
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Speaker 1: just have so much data that makes it so much
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Speaker 1: easier too. Like prospects Savant is a huge help to us,
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Speaker 1: and that's there's only going to be more and more
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Speaker 1: data out there. As you know, lots of that information
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Speaker 1: gets into people's hands. So just make sure as a
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Speaker 1: fantasy player you are using those tools available to you
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Speaker 1: because they are very useful.
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Speaker 2: They are, and I could probably name almost like ten
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Speaker 2: starters going to next year that pitch like partial seasons
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Speaker 2: this year that you could argue as a top twenty pitcher.
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Speaker 2: Like it's hard to stay there because of track record,
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Speaker 2: but you go across like the Nolan mclan's, the Jonah Tongs,
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Speaker 2: Peyton Tole like plus all the guys we just talked about,
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Speaker 2: Like there's a lot of guys out there that you
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Speaker 2: look at it and be like, wow, they pitched partial seasons,
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Speaker 2: but like it's not hard to imagine them being a
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Speaker 2: top twenty pitcher. And so it's going to be really
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Speaker 2: interesting the draft table next year where a lot of
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Speaker 2: these guys go, because you could see a lot of
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Speaker 2: them jumping out the draft boards or guys getting scared
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Speaker 2: to take the risk, which are all fair, All fair.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, I think that's very fair. I do want to
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Speaker 1: revisit Sasaki a little bit because like this has been
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Speaker 1: really impressive seeing what he's been able to do. You know,
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Speaker 1: he's thrown so far as we're speaking, two and a
18:19
Speaker 1: third's innings, two saves with no walks so far, three strikeouts,
18:25
Speaker 1: and it's looked untouchable and so obviously putting him into
18:30
Speaker 1: the shorter stents I think is really helped. But then
18:32
Speaker 1: you also kind of pull the lever of Sasaki's doing
18:36
Speaker 1: this in the highest leverage situations. He's shut down the
18:38
Speaker 1: Phillies in Philadelphia the other night, showed just ice in
18:43
Speaker 1: his veins, getting that lasted out in terms of it
18:46
Speaker 1: looked like that tide was turning and the Dodgers were
18:48
Speaker 1: going to let that game slip away, especially given the
18:51
Speaker 1: bullpen issues they've had, and Roki Sasaki looks to be
18:54
Speaker 1: the salve there. So is Sasaki showing you enough to
18:58
Speaker 1: like push him back into some of the territories where
19:01
Speaker 1: we were considering him, I mean, maybe not like towards
19:05
Speaker 1: the end of draft season when he was going as
19:07
Speaker 1: maybe like a top ten guy, But is he giving
19:09
Speaker 1: you more faith in what he can do? And are
19:13
Speaker 1: you thinking, hey, this guy is showing what we needed
19:16
Speaker 1: to late in the season to be able to believe
19:18
Speaker 1: in him for twenty twenty six.
19:21
Speaker 2: Yeah, I'll call it renewed hope, I think. But it's
19:24
Speaker 2: also like it's a pattern that we've seen with guys
19:27
Speaker 2: coming over from Japan on the pitching side of things,
19:29
Speaker 2: that they seemed to take a few months to figure
19:33
Speaker 2: things out, and he had some injury issues, which is
19:36
Speaker 2: which also drove But like, look at Yavamoto right now.
19:39
Speaker 2: The guy is just unbelievable. And at the beginning of
19:43
Speaker 2: i'd say last year when he was there, like there
19:45
Speaker 2: was a lot of questions can he do this? Was
19:47
Speaker 2: it look like things are not working so well? Like
19:50
Speaker 2: it's it's not. It's been relatively i'd say like fifty
19:54
Speaker 2: to fifty for guys coming over that there's like this
19:56
Speaker 2: adjustment period, whether it's the ball, the game, the speed
19:58
Speaker 2: of the game, what it is like these are still
20:00
Speaker 2: professional athletes and they do make adjustments, but it seems
20:04
Speaker 2: that they take time. So I put that in the
20:05
Speaker 2: back of my head plus what we're seeing right now,
20:07
Speaker 2: and I've definitely got hope. Am I jumping him way
20:10
Speaker 2: up the draft board? Not yet, because I do think
20:12
Speaker 2: I have some questions of what his role looks like
20:14
Speaker 2: next year. I do not believe they can commit to
20:16
Speaker 2: him as a closer. I don't think that makes sense.
20:19
Speaker 2: But I do also think that they're gonna be cautious
20:22
Speaker 2: with him, and the Dodgers have zero problem being cautious
20:24
Speaker 2: with pictures. Like I think that's kind of something they
20:26
Speaker 2: have shown as they're like they believe they have the
20:29
Speaker 2: depth and they believe they have the talent that if
20:31
Speaker 2: they want to play, you know, take a guy through
20:34
Speaker 2: five innings every start or skip starts or something like that.
20:37
Speaker 2: Like I think that's what's gonna probably happen with Sasaki
20:39
Speaker 2: next year as they just try to build him up,
20:42
Speaker 2: and so I think this talent will be there, But
20:44
Speaker 2: I do think that there's there's gonna be a cap
20:46
Speaker 2: on the ultimate value.
20:48
Speaker 1: Yeah, and I mean I think from the baseball card side,
20:51
Speaker 1: I mean I hinted at this because he is Sasaki
20:53
Speaker 1: was plastered all over tops chrome. He was really anchoring
20:57
Speaker 1: a lot of these different releases. And kudos to you
21:01
Speaker 1: if you got some late season investments in Sasaki, because
21:04
Speaker 1: I'm looking on sportscard investor dot com right now, all
21:07
Speaker 1: of this prices are already jumping because I think people
21:10
Speaker 1: already see where this could end at the end of
21:13
Speaker 1: October in terms of you might be looking at Roki
21:16
Speaker 1: Susaki closing out a world series for the Los Angeles
21:20
Speaker 1: Dodgers and just picking up that save as well as,
21:23
Speaker 1: like you know, putting together some number of saves over
21:26
Speaker 1: the next coming weeks. So unfortunately, the ramp up in
21:30
Speaker 1: the market's already happened, so you've probably missed it. But
21:33
Speaker 1: if you had been sitting on Susaki's it might not
21:36
Speaker 1: be a bad time to move them right now, because
21:40
Speaker 1: I don't know like how much the market is gonna
21:43
Speaker 1: kind of go beyond this, because it was already pretty
21:47
Speaker 1: hot for Susaki dipped with the injuries heating back up,
21:51
Speaker 1: and so maybe we should have brought them up in
21:54
Speaker 1: our investment for the playoff run discussion, but at that
21:57
Speaker 1: point there was no indication that societ was going to
22:00
Speaker 1: be even like on these rosters and in this role.
22:03
Speaker 1: So certainly something to keep in mind if you've been
22:05
Speaker 1: ripping a lot of twenty twenty five product and have
22:08
Speaker 1: maybe some Saki's laying around, that market is picking up
22:12
Speaker 1: very very quickly, so look for those cards to be
22:16
Speaker 1: hot commodies over the next couple of weeks.
22:18
Speaker 2: I'm glad you called that out because you know me,
22:20
Speaker 2: I always got some random one center around. I got
22:23
Speaker 2: it Rokie Susaki, Well, I think twenty nineteen Kira PSA ten.
22:28
Speaker 2: It's just sitting around because because I think it was
22:31
Speaker 2: basically going for like twenty bucks a while back. It
22:33
Speaker 2: was like going for greening costs during the injury time frame.
22:37
Speaker 2: So I think it's time to dig some of that
22:39
Speaker 2: fun stuff out.
22:40
Speaker 1: Yeah, And I mean he's only twenty three, Like his
22:43
Speaker 1: entire career is in front of him too, So like
22:45
Speaker 1: if there ever is another role, I will be back
22:47
Speaker 1: in and trying to put some away because, like I
22:51
Speaker 1: do think that this is a guy who, you know,
22:53
Speaker 1: if things keep trending in this direction, and like you
22:57
Speaker 1: said with Yamamoto, you can kind of see where things
23:00
Speaker 1: could start going forward for Susaki.
23:02
Speaker 2: Always by the talent, Always by the talent.
23:04
Speaker 1: That's a good point, yes, and especially high end Japanese talent.
23:09
Speaker 2: Yeah, that also plays.
23:11
Speaker 1: With all that. How are you feeling about your predictions?
23:13
Speaker 1: You called Milwaukee Seattle World Series last week? Still feeling
23:18
Speaker 1: all right?
23:19
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean I'm still feeling right. I'm a little
23:21
Speaker 2: I'm a little on edge with the al side of
23:25
Speaker 2: that only because of one guy, which is Treeked Schooble,
23:28
Speaker 2: Like I think he could throw my whole plane. I
23:30
Speaker 2: do still think the Mariners are one of the better
23:32
Speaker 2: complete teams, and but again I think they played better
23:36
Speaker 2: in a longer series and so this like that, that's
23:39
Speaker 2: what what what worries me. But yeah, again they're gonna
23:41
Speaker 2: have one of their races going as well, so I'm
23:44
Speaker 2: still feeling pretty good about that. I don't again, I'm
23:48
Speaker 2: not seeing the the the Yankees have enough to really
23:51
Speaker 2: take that deep dive. The Blue Jays have actually really
23:54
Speaker 2: surprised me, but I'm just I don't think I can
23:58
Speaker 2: buy it like they do. See a little bit more
23:59
Speaker 2: up and down team on the al side of things.
24:02
Speaker 2: I still do like the Brewers. I still think they
24:04
Speaker 2: are the better team. But the Dodgers look really good.
24:09
Speaker 2: Like I I they look better than I thought they
24:11
Speaker 2: would going in, and so maybe they were just saying
24:14
Speaker 2: bagging the whole time, but they they look good. But
24:18
Speaker 2: I'm gonna stick to my guns. I got them both
24:20
Speaker 2: still in Okay, I'm gonna I'm gonna stick to my guns.
24:22
Speaker 2: How about you, Are you want to make any any adjustments?
24:26
Speaker 1: No, I mean, I think I'm feeling pretty good because
24:28
Speaker 1: I do think that, like it is, all, they have
24:30
Speaker 1: to take a long flight from Detroit to Seattle tonight.
24:35
Speaker 1: I believe they do have an off day tomorrow, so
24:37
Speaker 1: like that is gonna help that series overall. Let me
24:40
Speaker 1: check that. I'm pretty sure they have an off day tomorrow.
24:42
Speaker 1: Never Yeah, yeah, yeah, they do, so they will. That's
24:47
Speaker 1: a long travel, and I mean, I think that is
24:49
Speaker 1: gonna really grind on the Tigers. They also got to
24:54
Speaker 1: the soft underside of that Mariner's bullpen today and so
24:57
Speaker 1: it will be all hands on deck, and I think
25:00
Speaker 1: that will help the Mariners over all. But like you said,
25:03
Speaker 1: I mean, you can't count the Tigers out when they're
25:05
Speaker 1: putting the reigning side on the mound. Who's honestly going
25:10
Speaker 1: to win his second and he's just lights out. And
25:12
Speaker 1: I feel great about the Dodgers, Like the one weakness
25:15
Speaker 1: was that bullpen, and Rokie Sasaki immediately shored that up.
25:18
Speaker 1: So I'm feeling pretty good about where things are headed there.
25:22
Speaker 1: So although the Blue Jayson looks really really great, I
25:26
Speaker 1: kind of maybe should have given more credence to putting
25:29
Speaker 1: them into the World Series.
25:30
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean I just can't see it happening consistently.
25:34
Speaker 2: That's the thing for me. But like they've looked a lot,
25:37
Speaker 2: a lot better than I thought they would, So yeah,
25:39
Speaker 2: we'll see. We could look like a bunch of fools
25:41
Speaker 2: here in a week.
25:43
Speaker 1: Okay. Well, yeah, as you can say, we're really excited
25:47
Speaker 1: about the playoffs. We've just got a couple of bits
25:49
Speaker 1: of news before we get into our main segment after
25:53
Speaker 1: a break, which will be the September Player of the
25:55
Speaker 1: Month PC. So it is a monthly tradition around here,
25:59
Speaker 1: one of our favorites. But like I said, let's get
26:02
Speaker 1: into those news and notes. First bit of news we
26:05
Speaker 1: have is Skip Shoemaker is now the manager for the
26:10
Speaker 1: Texas Rangers after Bruce Bochie has moved into an advisor role,
26:15
Speaker 1: so kind of ushered out retirement and negotiated retirement I
26:19
Speaker 1: think in some sort as I mean, we kind of
26:22
Speaker 1: saw this come in in terms of when Shoemaker moved
26:25
Speaker 1: into that front office with the Rangers. And I've heard
26:28
Speaker 1: that I think he also has a offspring that goes
26:32
Speaker 1: to TCU down in Texas, so like he wanted to
26:35
Speaker 1: move down there to be closer to his kid. And
26:38
Speaker 1: now he's going to be running the Rangers was going
26:41
Speaker 1: to be a hot commodity because of all the openings
26:44
Speaker 1: that have happened. We didn't discuss that too much last
26:46
Speaker 1: week because it's not quite as fantasy and baseball card
26:49
Speaker 1: relevant to us. But we are going to have lots
26:51
Speaker 1: of shake up in the managerial positions around the league
26:54
Speaker 1: as we get into twenty twenty six. But Shoemaker is
26:58
Speaker 1: probably the one where, like I can maybe convince myself
27:02
Speaker 1: that it would make some sort of difference, and especially
27:04
Speaker 1: seeing how the Miami Marlins played for him and what
27:07
Speaker 1: he was able to juice out of some of those
27:10
Speaker 1: really rough shot teams and being able to get them playing,
27:14
Speaker 1: and I mean I think we can we saw some
27:16
Speaker 1: of that cascading down into what the Marlins did this year.
27:20
Speaker 1: But I mean CLAYT. McCall is also a great manager.
27:22
Speaker 1: So with all that said, any sort of boost you
27:26
Speaker 1: might be giving to the Rangers going into twenty twenty
27:28
Speaker 1: six because of this with Skips, you maker or any
27:30
Speaker 1: other thoughts around this managerial hiring, Yeah, I mean I
27:33
Speaker 1: really like it.
27:34
Speaker 2: I'm very high on Skip. I think he's a very
27:37
Speaker 2: good players manager, and I think it's a drastic change
27:41
Speaker 2: that they have on their hands from Bocie. But I
27:45
Speaker 2: kind of look at it is that the Rangers should
27:47
Speaker 2: be able to get back to what we expected rather
27:50
Speaker 2: than like a big jump up from that. Like I
27:52
Speaker 2: think they've very much underperformed this year, and I think
27:55
Speaker 2: that they maybe get back to let's say average. I
27:58
Speaker 2: think they get back to being kind of what we
28:00
Speaker 2: can expect they do injury issues and things like that.
28:03
Speaker 2: But I mean, don't get me wrong, they had a
28:05
Speaker 2: number of guys that really really underperformed, and I'm excited
28:09
Speaker 2: to see Marcus Simeon turn things around. Why Langford continue
28:12
Speaker 2: to grow just young, like some finally capitalized in that potential,
28:18
Speaker 2: Like there's a lot of Corey seekers just just stay
28:21
Speaker 2: on the field. I think there's a lot of a
28:23
Speaker 2: lot of fun things that can happen with that team,
28:27
Speaker 2: and I'm excited. I think they're going to be in
28:29
Speaker 2: the discussion next year, and I think, like I said,
28:32
Speaker 2: all kind of all tides rise there just a little bit.
28:35
Speaker 1: Yeah, Yeah, I think that is all very fair because
28:37
Speaker 1: I do think it's a great core, good chance they
28:40
Speaker 1: add Sebastian Walcott to that corps as well, getting into
28:43
Speaker 1: next year, so it could be a pretty dangerous team
28:45
Speaker 1: because they've also got the rotation pretty much. I mean,
28:50
Speaker 1: I guess it's to gram and lighter and some of
28:53
Speaker 1: the other pieces they have around there. But they'll build
28:54
Speaker 1: it out. They'll figure it out.
28:56
Speaker 2: Yeah, Okay.
28:57
Speaker 1: Next bit of news is on the card side, because
28:59
Speaker 1: this was kind of an interesting development out of nowhere.
29:03
Speaker 1: It just was released on socials today from Tops and
29:07
Speaker 1: it really caught my eye. They're starting a new program
29:10
Speaker 1: where if you are the owner of three super fractors
29:15
Speaker 1: that stand out for a player, and you have to
29:17
Speaker 1: be able to prove it to Tops in some form
29:20
Speaker 1: or fashion and the three cards that you're looking at.
29:24
Speaker 1: They use the example here of Junior Camenaro and all
29:27
Speaker 1: the socials that they've been putting out there. If you
29:29
Speaker 1: have the super Fractor Auto of the Bowman first Chrome,
29:34
Speaker 1: the MLB Debut patch card, which is you know, really
29:39
Speaker 1: took off with the Paul Skime situation, and then the
29:41
Speaker 1: TOPS Chrome Auto all the super Fractor one of ones,
29:46
Speaker 1: you get the right to be able to get a
29:48
Speaker 1: special card from TOPS that is called the Three Kings card,
29:52
Speaker 1: which is I mean, they've been dogging this on Reddit
29:55
Speaker 1: all day. It is a pretty ugly looking card, but
29:58
Speaker 1: it's fun in terms of it combines the pictures from
30:01
Speaker 1: all three of those cards that were the super Fractors.
30:04
Speaker 1: It's its own super Fractor and then is signed by
30:07
Speaker 1: the player. It's a separate one of one, but you
30:10
Speaker 1: have to have all three pieces to put together. It's
30:12
Speaker 1: like the Infinity Gauntlet of super Fractors for baseball players.
30:16
Speaker 1: What do you think about this new program from tops?
30:19
Speaker 2: It's it's it's an interesting one. I guess this is
30:22
Speaker 2: the way I'm going to look at it, like, and
30:25
Speaker 2: I think the folks on Reddit and I've looked it
30:27
Speaker 2: on Twitter a little bit have are probably right like
30:32
Speaker 2: the rich get richer type of scenario here, Like to
30:34
Speaker 2: be able to own those three cards. First of all,
30:36
Speaker 2: not all players have those three cards, which I think
30:39
Speaker 2: is a big thing. But to be able to own
30:41
Speaker 2: all three and find all three is a pretty big thing.
30:45
Speaker 2: And for a big name like you're paying big dollars
30:47
Speaker 2: for that, and so like again, I'm sure there's gonna
30:50
Speaker 2: be some run on like a weird middle reliever trying
30:53
Speaker 2: to trying to make that happen, but just to get
30:56
Speaker 2: you know, you could see somebody spending some big money
30:58
Speaker 2: in these cards just to get this and then sell
31:00
Speaker 2: the other ones off. Like it's kind of a weird,
31:02
Speaker 2: gimmicky thing. I love the creativity, but I just feel
31:07
Speaker 2: like they could have maybe dedicated their resources elsewhere. It
31:10
Speaker 2: gets kind of my my view on it. So that said,
31:13
Speaker 2: I also haven't read the fine print, and I think
31:16
Speaker 2: we've all read learned with Tops, you got to read
31:19
Speaker 2: the fine print because there's you know, basically says you know,
31:23
Speaker 2: you get all three. It can be played one time,
31:26
Speaker 2: like there seems to be no caveats, and I just
31:29
Speaker 2: I just think it would it would probably happen, like
31:35
Speaker 2: there's gonna be some caveat. And I also say, like
31:38
Speaker 2: if you actually go out to tops dot com, they
31:40
Speaker 2: actually have like f a Q and all kinds of
31:43
Speaker 2: things like that. But also it is listed that Jackson
31:45
Speaker 2: Curio and Junior Common Arrow have already been claimed, and
31:49
Speaker 2: so that's that to me is really really interesting. And
31:55
Speaker 2: there's like a picture of a guy stayanding next to
31:57
Speaker 2: Junior Common Junior Junior Common Narrow actual you know, I
32:00
Speaker 2: think it's sectional man Tario showing the card and things
32:03
Speaker 2: like that. It's like I don't know how they how
32:06
Speaker 2: they got into this, but clearly there was a little
32:08
Speaker 2: collusion or something going on that, you know, somebody thought
32:11
Speaker 2: through this. There's probably some guy that works at TOPS,
32:14
Speaker 2: so hey, I got all these you should do something.
32:17
Speaker 2: But it's it's gonna be interesting, It's all I'm gonna say.
32:20
Speaker 2: But it it I think it does. It does hit
32:23
Speaker 2: the hobby a little bit wrong from the high end
32:26
Speaker 2: of things that we've talked about how the hobbies become
32:28
Speaker 2: a little bit harder to play in and it's become
32:30
Speaker 2: a little scarce to uh if you want to play
32:33
Speaker 2: on the high end because of the cost. And all
32:35
Speaker 2: this does is just double down that.
32:37
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, I think so too. And I think the
32:40
Speaker 1: odd thing about this is there's just so many players
32:43
Speaker 1: that collect their own cards nowadays that like this three
32:47
Speaker 1: Kings card, the percentage of m will be players that
32:50
Speaker 1: will own them is probably a higher than any other
32:53
Speaker 1: card out there, because especially when you're talking about those
32:55
Speaker 1: middle relievers where they're only getting like a cup of
32:58
Speaker 1: coffee and they don't necessarily have a lot of cards
33:01
Speaker 1: they'll be coming out. I find that those of the
33:03
Speaker 1: type of guys who really collect their cards, and especially
33:05
Speaker 1: when you're talking the Rookie Patch autto as well as
33:08
Speaker 1: the Bowman First and the Tops Chrome Superfractors. A lot
33:12
Speaker 1: of those guys collect their own stuff, which is also
33:15
Speaker 1: kind of odd because then it's like you sign it,
33:18
Speaker 1: send it out, and it comes back to you, and
33:20
Speaker 1: then it's gonna be the same sort of thing with
33:22
Speaker 1: this Three Kings card, where I would I would imagine
33:25
Speaker 1: the percentage of them that are owned by baseball players,
33:28
Speaker 1: are claimed by baseball players is higher than other cards.
33:31
Speaker 1: So it's gonna be such an unattainable card for all
33:35
Speaker 1: those reasons, and it'll be Yeah, I think it will
33:38
Speaker 1: be interesting to see maybe how many actually kind of
33:41
Speaker 1: get out into like the public, how many of these
33:44
Speaker 1: Three Kings cards actually get onto eBay and things like that.
33:47
Speaker 1: But that's something that we will see in the future. Okay.
33:52
Speaker 1: Other than that, we have a few baseball card calendar
33:55
Speaker 1: release updates in terms of they added Bowman Chrome Sapphire
33:59
Speaker 1: coming out out next week on ten to fifteen, So
34:02
Speaker 1: that'll be hitting shelves, especially hobby shops. You will not
34:05
Speaker 1: find that in any Walmarts targets. Is a very high
34:08
Speaker 1: end release in terms of following Bowman Chrome. Now it's
34:12
Speaker 1: a Sapphire edition and going to have lots of great
34:15
Speaker 1: cards in there. We also had the addition of Panini
34:17
Speaker 1: National Treasures in mid November, but really the end of October.
34:22
Speaker 1: We've got two of our favorite sets between Top Holiday
34:25
Speaker 1: and Update coming out, so we will focus on those
34:28
Speaker 1: when they come out in the near future. But before
34:31
Speaker 1: we do that, we're going to take a short break
34:33
Speaker 1: and we're going to be back with the September Player
34:36
Speaker 1: of the Month PC picks. So stick around, all right,
34:57
Speaker 1: Welcome back, everybody. We are going to get into our
34:59
Speaker 1: main segment discussing the September Players of the Month from
35:03
Speaker 1: the AL and NL and then making PC cards PC
35:07
Speaker 1: picks for our pod PC. And if you're not familiar
35:11
Speaker 1: with this exercise, it is a monthly exercise that we
35:13
Speaker 1: go through. It's one of our favorite segments that we
35:16
Speaker 1: do is we go through and review who was handed
35:19
Speaker 1: the Player of the Month awards by MLB, and then
35:22
Speaker 1: what we go and do is find some of our
35:24
Speaker 1: favorite cards with those players and then quote unquote put
35:27
Speaker 1: them in our pod PC. We have a big list.
35:30
Speaker 1: Go into those show notes, you'll be able to see
35:32
Speaker 1: the big list of all the cards that we put
35:34
Speaker 1: in there so far. This is also a great pod
35:37
Speaker 1: to link up and go to rasball dot com find
35:40
Speaker 1: the post that goes and is related to this pod.
35:44
Speaker 1: It'll also be in the show notes. We'll have pictures
35:46
Speaker 1: of all these cards that we're about to describe so
35:49
Speaker 1: you can see them. But what we do is we
35:51
Speaker 1: pick these favorite cards of these players to cement into
35:54
Speaker 1: our PC. So you know, we're gonna have some bas cards,
35:57
Speaker 1: We're gonna have some inserts, we're gonna have some one
35:59
Speaker 1: of one, so it runs the gamut. Also a little
36:02
Speaker 1: fun to follow along. You know, if you're a cards
36:04
Speaker 1: and category super fan out there, maybe you are building
36:07
Speaker 1: this PC on the side, I'm just waiting for the
36:09
Speaker 1: day that, like we run into somebody that's been doing
36:11
Speaker 1: a little bit that they'll be fantastic. But we've got
36:15
Speaker 1: five names this month because one of our players doubled
36:18
Speaker 1: up in the NL, so we will get into that.
36:21
Speaker 1: But before we move over to the NL, let's start
36:23
Speaker 1: on the AL side because it happens alphabetically and as
36:28
Speaker 1: two ball no Or's like me, No AL starts on
36:30
Speaker 1: the left side, so you go left or right.
36:34
Speaker 2: We're not going to that discussion again.
36:37
Speaker 1: So yes, we just picked a card for the players
36:40
Speaker 1: that won these awards, and surprise, surprise, Aaron Judge won
36:44
Speaker 1: in the al. Once again, we're about to put in
36:46
Speaker 1: our twelfth and thirteenth cards of our PC. That is
36:50
Speaker 1: only roughly one hundred and ninety five cards for Aaron Judge.
36:56
Speaker 1: So it's about, you know, we're pushing non negligible amounts
37:03
Speaker 1: of Aaron Judge cards in our PC. Good thing he's
37:05
Speaker 1: got like a million cards on the market. So he's
37:08
Speaker 1: coming off a month that maybe is capping his third MVP.
37:12
Speaker 1: I don't know. It's gonna be a fascinating coin flip
37:13
Speaker 1: between him and Cal. But his September was out of
37:17
Speaker 1: this world. Ten homers, twenty seven runs, seventeen RBI, three
37:23
Speaker 1: stolen bases, three seventy five twenty seven seven sixty five
37:28
Speaker 1: slash line to round out his season and finish it
37:31
Speaker 1: in style after that elbow injury kind of derailed him
37:34
Speaker 1: a little bit. Got him up to fifty three homers.
37:37
Speaker 1: That was a two forty one WRC plus in September,
37:40
Speaker 1: just outstanding a two to four WHC plus on the
37:44
Speaker 1: season for Aaron Judge. That is Banana's stuff. Like I said,
37:48
Speaker 1: we put a lot of cards into our PC for
37:50
Speaker 1: Aaron Judge just because we've been recording this pod over
37:53
Speaker 1: the prime of his career. So what card did you
37:56
Speaker 1: pick to put in for this month?
37:58
Speaker 2: Well, I definitely feel like it's like my my real
38:01
Speaker 2: PC where I buy a card and then I sometimes
38:03
Speaker 2: get home like wait, I already have this card. I
38:05
Speaker 2: feel like that's where we're at with Aaron Judge. So
38:07
Speaker 2: I didn't actually look back at the PC, so I
38:09
Speaker 2: don't think this one's in there. But but if if
38:13
Speaker 2: you want to call me out, like you can, you
38:15
Speaker 2: can double me up. But like if I double's ever
38:18
Speaker 2: heard anything?
38:18
Speaker 1: Right, So it's not in there that you were about
38:21
Speaker 1: to say, So I can.
38:23
Speaker 2: Okay, I feel better because I usually check, but I
38:26
Speaker 2: just rolled with things and like, I love this card.
38:28
Speaker 2: So I'm going with one of my favorite favorite sets,
38:31
Speaker 2: which is Tops Triple Threads.
38:33
Speaker 1: Uh.
38:33
Speaker 2: This is the twenty twenty four version, and what say
38:36
Speaker 2: Tops Triple Threads. It's very specifically the relic versions or
38:41
Speaker 2: the patch game you use everyone to call it, where
38:43
Speaker 2: Triple Threads loves to spell things out on cards with
38:46
Speaker 2: the relics and the patches in it and I absolutely
38:49
Speaker 2: love that. And this one simply says Judge. It's just Judge,
38:54
Speaker 2: and it's got three different patches in it. It's got
38:57
Speaker 2: a white pinstripe patch in it, it's got bat patch
39:02
Speaker 2: relic in there, and it's got a what it looks
39:05
Speaker 2: like a way great jersey for the Yankees as well,
39:08
Speaker 2: all game used. And it's just it's a great card.
39:11
Speaker 2: I love the the kind of creativity that Triple Threads
39:16
Speaker 2: brings them into this. And what I also think is
39:19
Speaker 2: fun is that the value really actually oscillates with the
39:24
Speaker 2: saying on the card. I've noticed this with players, and
39:29
Speaker 2: sometimes they are really cool sayings that you just and
39:32
Speaker 2: that you can't find them the prices through the roof.
39:34
Speaker 2: And I think this one, like for Aaron Judge. I
39:36
Speaker 2: found ones just said like Homer and all kinds of
39:39
Speaker 2: other things like power producer or you know whatever, but
39:42
Speaker 2: this one was just Judge, and I thought it was
39:44
Speaker 2: just a great, great card because of how clean and
39:47
Speaker 2: simple it is. This one is out of thirty six.
39:51
Speaker 2: They like to do all their cards out of kind
39:52
Speaker 2: of odd numbers like thirty six, eighteen to nine. It
39:55
Speaker 2: is kind of what they what they do and it
39:57
Speaker 2: is actually available right now on eBay for two hundre,
40:00
Speaker 2: which is in grand scheme of Aaron Judge card Triple
40:03
Speaker 2: Threads cool names like that's actually not that far out
40:07
Speaker 2: of line, and so this is relatively available, relatively reasonable
40:11
Speaker 2: to buy. So I'm adding this one to my PC.
40:13
Speaker 1: Yeah, I think this is a great pick, like you said,
40:16
Speaker 1: it is. I'm looking at some of you can see
40:18
Speaker 1: on the eBay like similar cards of what you made. Also,
40:21
Speaker 1: like you know, one says like two time a home
40:24
Speaker 1: run leader with leader shortened to l d R and
40:28
Speaker 1: the D looks weird because you can't have the male
40:30
Speaker 1: part of the D on the on the patch relic.
40:33
Speaker 1: But with this, Judge, it works pretty well. Like the
40:36
Speaker 1: letters you can tell it says Judge, you don't have
40:39
Speaker 1: to kind of like work hard to figure out what
40:41
Speaker 1: it's saying. And on top of it, it's just so
40:45
Speaker 1: straightforward in terms of what it's trying to communicate that, Yeah,
40:48
Speaker 1: this is a great pick. Like you said, things can
40:50
Speaker 1: sometimes get convoluted on these cutouts for triple Threads, but
40:54
Speaker 1: not this one. This is a This is a perfect
40:57
Speaker 1: one to put in the PC for Aaron Judge.
41:00
Speaker 2: All Right, where did you go with, mister Judge. I'm
41:02
Speaker 2: sure you added another cheap one to the collection here.
41:07
Speaker 1: This one, I mean relatively, it's not that that expensive
41:10
Speaker 1: compared to like the whole grand scheme of Aaron Judge cards.
41:14
Speaker 1: I'm looking at twenty twenty five Panini Boys of Summer
41:17
Speaker 1: lumber signatures out of seventeen, and so what this card is.
41:22
Speaker 1: We've talked about Boys of Summer a little bit in
41:24
Speaker 1: terms of it is a nicely designed set from Panini,
41:29
Speaker 1: and this this card, especially because like there is no
41:34
Speaker 1: name usually on the back of the jerseys for the Yankees,
41:38
Speaker 1: you can't really tell that it's a non licensed card
41:40
Speaker 1: from the swing with Aaron Judge. You're just missing that
41:44
Speaker 1: MLB logo on the top of the jersey, but otherwise
41:47
Speaker 1: it looks like a licensed card for Judge. And then
41:50
Speaker 1: you've also got a signed sliver of bat relic where
41:57
Speaker 1: it just bleeds because it's raw wood, and it's an
42:00
Speaker 1: interesting kind of autograph because of that. And you know what,
42:03
Speaker 1: We've got so many Aaron Judge cards and the PC
42:06
Speaker 1: at this point, we're getting close to having him sign
42:09
Speaker 1: just about every material that appears on a baseball field
42:13
Speaker 1: and so I figured we had to do this to
42:15
Speaker 1: put in the piece of rob wood. Maybe that's what
42:17
Speaker 1: we can shoot for in the future, we'll get like
42:20
Speaker 1: Aaron Judge signed blades of grass and stuff. Well, I mean,
42:25
Speaker 1: we almost got with the cornstock.
42:26
Speaker 2: So yeah, you're not so far off. We almost did.
42:29
Speaker 1: So that's why I had to go with this one.
42:32
Speaker 1: I just want to put everything that Aaron Judge is
42:34
Speaker 1: signed into our PC because I have a feeling we
42:37
Speaker 1: have a lot more Aaron Judge cards to put into
42:39
Speaker 1: our PC over the coming years.
42:41
Speaker 2: I agree with you, and I have to give Panini
42:44
Speaker 2: credit because we give tops so much grief about their choices,
42:48
Speaker 2: and I think Panini knows who they are, knows they
42:50
Speaker 2: don't have a license, and they lean into it and
42:53
Speaker 2: they try to make it seem as much as possible
42:55
Speaker 2: that they have licensed cards. And that's exactly what this is.
42:58
Speaker 2: You you cannot tell unlicensed card. Only the really sharp
43:02
Speaker 2: guys like you can tell the you know, the MLB
43:05
Speaker 2: logos missing things like that, But otherwise it is the
43:07
Speaker 2: cleanest of clean cards, and it's just a fun, fun auto.
43:13
Speaker 2: I can just imagine Aaron Judge trying to sign this
43:15
Speaker 2: thing and just being frustrated all get out because you
43:17
Speaker 2: can tell that the signature is a little a little
43:19
Speaker 2: uh sketchy here, just because you can tell the hesitation
43:24
Speaker 2: like that. They didn't they didn't like say, in the
43:25
Speaker 2: bat now at all. They just kind of through the
43:28
Speaker 2: woodshepper here and had judged sign it. So it's us.
43:32
Speaker 2: It's a fun one, that's for sure.
43:35
Speaker 1: Okay, let's move over to the nlside, because this is
43:37
Speaker 1: the guy who doubled up on the awards, winning both
43:39
Speaker 1: the NL Player of the Month and Rookie of the Month.
43:43
Speaker 1: We are talking outfielder from the Washington Nationals Daylan Lyle As.
43:47
Speaker 1: He probably also like won a couple of fantasy leagues
43:49
Speaker 1: out there with his September considering you know, he was
43:53
Speaker 1: an easy waiver wire ad for most of the season. Honestly,
43:56
Speaker 1: was like floating around in like five percent unless in
43:59
Speaker 1: me and Laura Holts like articles every week. He capped
44:03
Speaker 1: off his season with a crazy September, a two thirty
44:07
Speaker 1: WRC plus with a slash line that saw him hit
44:10
Speaker 1: three ninety one four forty seven seventy two came with
44:14
Speaker 1: six homers, twenty runs, nineteen RBI, seven triples in September alone,
44:20
Speaker 1: which is I mean, that's a forty two triple pace.
44:25
Speaker 1: That's absurd. I would love to see somebody really push
44:28
Speaker 1: past twenty triples again, it's been a while. I think
44:31
Speaker 1: the last person to maybe do it is probably Curtis Granderson,
44:35
Speaker 1: and maybe Dalan Lyle is the one that can lead
44:37
Speaker 1: us to some triples glory in the future because he
44:40
Speaker 1: looks to be a mainstay in that Washington Nationals outfield
44:44
Speaker 1: going forward. So pretty limited set of cards here because
44:48
Speaker 1: he is a twenty twenty one second round pick, but
44:50
Speaker 1: you know, wasn't really highly touted when he was picked
44:53
Speaker 1: back in twenty twenty one and honestly kind of flew
44:56
Speaker 1: through the national system out of nowhere as a twenty
44:59
Speaker 1: two year old and looks like he's going to have
45:02
Speaker 1: a really bright future ahead of him. So what card
45:04
Speaker 1: out of the limited selection did you go with for
45:06
Speaker 1: Daulian and Lyle.
45:08
Speaker 2: Yeah, you're right, the selection was limited, and I just
45:10
Speaker 2: didn't want to go with any just basic you know,
45:13
Speaker 2: first Bowman or something like that, like even though they're
45:16
Speaker 2: licensed and all that. Then I want to go a
45:18
Speaker 2: little bit different because I just I wanted to find
45:19
Speaker 2: something fun and I'm going to go with the twenty
45:22
Speaker 2: twenty one Leaf Draft State Pride Auto card. The one
45:27
Speaker 2: I'm looking at here is the black version out of fifteen,
45:30
Speaker 2: only cost about fifteen dollars at this point in size.
45:33
Speaker 2: It's a very very available, but it's a really unique
45:38
Speaker 2: kind of set that they do. The State Pride which
45:40
Speaker 2: puts the state flag behind the team. And I'm not
45:44
Speaker 2: going to quiz you on which state flag this is,
45:47
Speaker 2: but it is the Commonwealth of Kentucky and it says
45:51
Speaker 2: United we stand, Divided we Fall, which is kind of
45:54
Speaker 2: the logo or say the slogan there for the state
45:57
Speaker 2: of Kentucky. And it's just a really really cool card.
46:01
Speaker 2: He's from Louisville, and I think it's a unique thing
46:05
Speaker 2: that Leaf does that doesn't get a lot of appreciation
46:09
Speaker 2: in the hobby. But it's just kind of a cool
46:10
Speaker 2: looking card and it's unique, and whenever when you don't
46:13
Speaker 2: have a whole lot of cards out there, the unique
46:15
Speaker 2: ones should get a little extra attention. Even though it's
46:18
Speaker 2: all the first Bowman's and things like that, they can
46:20
Speaker 2: all they get attention for him right now, and it
46:23
Speaker 2: is deserved. But I want to go a little outside
46:25
Speaker 2: the box here with something different. That's said. His signature
46:27
Speaker 2: could use some work. Looks like it was a little shaky,
46:31
Speaker 2: and you know we'll get that figured out over the
46:35
Speaker 2: years as he signs a few more things.
46:37
Speaker 1: Yeah, you can tell they was signed by an eighteen
46:39
Speaker 1: year old, that's for sure. And you can see it
46:41
Speaker 1: in just like all of its autos that came through
46:43
Speaker 1: in leaf and like it's consistent at least, you know,
46:47
Speaker 1: he really loves using that very basic signature. But I
46:51
Speaker 1: think this is a great choice. Yeah, great looking card
46:54
Speaker 1: and you found one. It's eighty percent off on eBay
46:57
Speaker 1: right now, so snatch it up if you are Dalen
47:00
Speaker 1: Lyle fan out there.
47:02
Speaker 2: Eighty percent off. It's uh, that's the sale I've ever seen.
47:05
Speaker 2: That's called marketing it.
47:08
Speaker 1: Okay, my choice. I'm gonna go with the twenty twenty
47:13
Speaker 1: five tops Now seven thirty seven, which is Dalen Lyle's
47:17
Speaker 1: really kind of first rookie card. It has the RC
47:20
Speaker 1: stamp on it, which means he is coming to tops
47:22
Speaker 1: update in a couple of weeks. But with this tops
47:26
Speaker 1: Now card commemorates I know we've given tops Now some
47:29
Speaker 1: grief here and there over the over the years in
47:32
Speaker 1: terms of some of the things they commemorate, but this
47:35
Speaker 1: one was certainly a moment I will remember from late
47:38
Speaker 1: in the season. If you recall, there was this game
47:41
Speaker 1: between the Nats and the Mets that went into extra innings,
47:45
Speaker 1: and it's especially was very tense because the Mets were
47:48
Speaker 1: still in the prime of like the playoff race there,
47:51
Speaker 1: and there was a huge robbery of a home run
47:54
Speaker 1: for Jared Young in that late innings, but it was
47:58
Speaker 1: capped by Dalen Lyle in the tenth inning hit an
48:03
Speaker 1: inside the park home run, and just kind of really
48:05
Speaker 1: took all of the muster out of the Mets in
48:08
Speaker 1: terms of that playoff race before they went down to
48:11
Speaker 1: Miami and eventually lost out. So it's a great picture
48:16
Speaker 1: of him after he's gotten up after sliding into home.
48:19
Speaker 1: Francisco Alvarez looks dejected in the background while Dalen Lyle
48:23
Speaker 1: is just like screaming his heart out. Just shows you know,
48:27
Speaker 1: that would have been his eighth triple if he hadn't
48:29
Speaker 1: gone all the way home. But great little card, great
48:32
Speaker 1: little commemoration of the highlight of Dale and Lyle's career
48:36
Speaker 1: so far.
48:37
Speaker 2: I love the raw emotion of this card from both
48:40
Speaker 2: both players. It is pure dejection of pure elation at
48:45
Speaker 2: the same time. So this is this is a good pick,
48:47
Speaker 2: and I'm excited that the Lyles getting a rookie card
48:50
Speaker 2: an update. It just feel like that was actually kind of,
48:53
Speaker 2: I don't say a late ad, but I'm a little
48:55
Speaker 2: surprised that they were able to make that happen. So
48:58
Speaker 2: I think it's a good and he'll be kind of
49:00
Speaker 2: a sneaky, sneaky fun pick for update here. So good,
49:04
Speaker 2: good pick.
49:05
Speaker 1: All right, let's move on to the pitching side, back
49:08
Speaker 1: to the Al. We're gonna go with the al Pitcher
49:11
Speaker 1: of the Month and it was another New York Yankee
49:13
Speaker 1: here as they swept both the pitcher and batter of
49:15
Speaker 1: the month. The pitcher was Max Fried who I in
49:19
Speaker 1: September put up a five and zero record over thirty
49:22
Speaker 1: three and a third innings with thirty five k's to
49:25
Speaker 1: nine walks a one eighty nine RA. As you know,
49:29
Speaker 1: cappt out a really great season that I didn't see
49:32
Speaker 1: coming for him in the Bronx as his first year,
49:34
Speaker 1: a two eighty six ERA over one hundred and ninety
49:37
Speaker 1: five and a third innings nineteen and five record, one
49:40
Speaker 1: of the few first, like top pitching picks that really
49:46
Speaker 1: gave you money in the fantasy game. So with that,
49:50
Speaker 1: Aaron Judge or not Aaron Judge, bat Max reed here,
49:54
Speaker 1: you know, not too many cards in a new Yankees uniform,
49:58
Speaker 1: lots of stuff in padres in Braves uniforms. Which route
50:01
Speaker 1: did you go?
50:02
Speaker 2: Well? I did start to get on the Yankees path
50:04
Speaker 2: because I did feel like he deserved to be in
50:07
Speaker 2: a Yankees uniform in the PC pick and I saw
50:10
Speaker 2: a card that you picked, and I almost went that
50:11
Speaker 2: way before knowing that you went there. But then I
50:14
Speaker 2: saw a card that I just could not avoid. And
50:17
Speaker 2: I have a tendency to maybe cheat in our PC
50:19
Speaker 2: every once in a while, and I'm doing it a
50:22
Speaker 2: little bit here. But it's it's okay. It's okay because
50:25
Speaker 2: of the guy that I'm I'm bringing in. I found
50:28
Speaker 2: and I didn't know this card existed, So that's why
50:30
Speaker 2: I was so excited about this one. I found a
50:32
Speaker 2: dual auto from twenty twenty twenty twenty twelve Bowman Draft.
50:39
Speaker 2: It's out of twenty five. It is a dual auto
50:41
Speaker 2: of Max Freid in Clayton Kershaw and it is just
50:46
Speaker 2: a beautiful card and I, like I said, I'm cheating
50:50
Speaker 2: because I'm getting a Kershaw Auto out of the deal here.
50:53
Speaker 2: But I you know, if I'm gonna not have him
50:55
Speaker 2: the Yankees uniform, why not go back to early days
50:58
Speaker 2: and in the Pods uniform. And I think it's just
51:02
Speaker 2: a fantastic card, you know, like I said, from like
51:06
Speaker 2: they called the Top ten. This one's a p S
51:08
Speaker 2: A eight version available for about seven hundred dollars on eBay.
51:12
Speaker 2: But even for a Kershaw signed card, that's actually pretty
51:16
Speaker 2: seems pretty reasonable. And you know, you have to have
51:20
Speaker 2: to love the early cards of some of these aces,
51:25
Speaker 2: and a lot of times when you end up with
51:26
Speaker 2: these dual cards, it's it's kind of, you know, one
51:29
Speaker 2: guy brings it down and for the GUYLI freed to
51:34
Speaker 2: be as good as he is. And still somehow bringing
51:36
Speaker 2: this card down against Kershaw's is impressive in its own right.
51:39
Speaker 2: So there's there were a lot of duels out there,
51:41
Speaker 2: mostly him and Spencer Schrider and a J. Smister Shover.
51:45
Speaker 2: But I didn't feel like that was right. I felt
51:47
Speaker 2: like it was okay to go back to the early
51:49
Speaker 2: days and sneak in a Clayton Kershaw Auto to the PC,
51:53
Speaker 2: So yes, I'm loving it.
51:55
Speaker 1: I think it's a great, yeah, great, fantastic pick. And
51:58
Speaker 1: what ties them together is that they were both number
52:00
Speaker 1: seven overall picks and so that is I think a cool,
52:04
Speaker 1: kind of momentous little thing. And both lefties, so you've
52:08
Speaker 1: also got the duality of Padres and Dodgers on one
52:12
Speaker 1: card together. As you know, Freed was drafted by the
52:15
Speaker 1: Padres and started in that system, So grape find great pick.
52:19
Speaker 1: I also had no idea these cards existed either. Okay,
52:24
Speaker 1: you hinted at it. The card that I went with,
52:27
Speaker 1: it's pretty it's a pretty basic pick in terms of
52:29
Speaker 1: twenty twenty five Top Series two the Golden Mirror variation
52:33
Speaker 1: super short print of Max Freed, mostly because there aren't
52:37
Speaker 1: a lot of cards in him in a Yankees uniform,
52:40
Speaker 1: and in fact, I was poking around, I don't think
52:43
Speaker 1: there's any autographed cards of him in a Yankees uniform yet,
52:47
Speaker 1: so maybe we'll start seeing some an update or other
52:51
Speaker 1: sets that are going to be coming out this winter,
52:52
Speaker 1: but those don't exist. So this is probably the most
52:56
Speaker 1: desirable Max Freed card out there currently with him in
53:00
Speaker 1: a Yankees uniform, and it's just barely it's from the
53:03
Speaker 1: day that he signed. It's a picture of him in
53:05
Speaker 1: an empty Yankee stadium wearing the Yankees jersey and hat
53:09
Speaker 1: over his shirt and tie after he inked his mega
53:14
Speaker 1: deal there. And so, yeah, if you're looking for the
53:18
Speaker 1: card of Max Freed and a Yankees uniformed collects, I
53:21
Speaker 1: think this has to be your option.
53:23
Speaker 2: Yeah, I think you're absolutely right. So, like I said,
53:25
Speaker 2: I saw this one, I'm like, yeah, if I'm thinking
53:27
Speaker 2: of the Yankees one, it's probably this. And I think
53:29
Speaker 2: you have to we have to call out that the
53:31
Speaker 2: Golden Mirror. We probably won't give it as much credit
53:34
Speaker 2: as we as we need to, Like that has been
53:36
Speaker 2: something that Topps has gotten right over the last few years.
53:39
Speaker 2: It's in maybe as part of the stadium club lovers
53:42
Speaker 2: that we are where they're bringing amazing photography in and
53:47
Speaker 2: then kind of just putting on a pedestal. And so
53:50
Speaker 2: I absolutely love this card. I think it's great and yeah,
53:53
Speaker 2: it's good ad to the PC.
53:55
Speaker 1: All right, Well, I should have also probably mentioned those
53:57
Speaker 1: were the third and fourth Max Freed cards we put
53:59
Speaker 1: into our PC because he was a repeat winner of
54:02
Speaker 1: the Picture of the Month award. The guy on the
54:04
Speaker 1: NL side also a repeat winner for this year, as
54:07
Speaker 1: these are his third and fourth PC cards. We're talking
54:10
Speaker 1: Yoshinobo Yamamoto from the Los Angeles Dodgers, who capped his
54:15
Speaker 1: year with a fantastic September only went one to no
54:18
Speaker 1: only picked up win win, but it was a point
54:21
Speaker 1: sixty seven ERA over twenty seven innings with thirty four
54:24
Speaker 1: k's and eleven walks caps off a great great season
54:28
Speaker 1: from him, especially considering his draft price. He was an
54:31
Speaker 1: ace for you in fantasy with a two to forty
54:34
Speaker 1: nine ERA over one hundred and seventy third and two
54:37
Speaker 1: thirds innings with twelve and eight record and two hundred
54:41
Speaker 1: and one strikeout see clips that two hundred strikeout mark,
54:43
Speaker 1: so rounding into form with that giant twelve year, three
54:47
Speaker 1: and twenty five million dollar contract coming to fuition paying
54:51
Speaker 1: off for the Dodgers in year two. Where did you
54:54
Speaker 1: go for your Yoshinobo Yamamoto card here in September?
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Speaker 2: Well, I have enjoyed the fact that I was looking
54:59
Speaker 2: back at the PC on this one realized the first
55:01
Speaker 2: Moto card I cheated but On as well and got
55:04
Speaker 2: a duel with him and Otani, so I had to
55:08
Speaker 2: be good this time around, but I went, I you
55:12
Speaker 2: know me, I love the Japanese card, so I did
55:14
Speaker 2: go overseas for this one. I went with his twenty
55:16
Speaker 2: nineteen BBM, and I'm gonna say this, this is an
55:21
Speaker 2: amazing name for a card, Premium Glory his. I'll call
55:28
Speaker 2: it a jumbo patch card out of thirty from the
55:33
Speaker 2: BBM set. And not only is it a jumbo patch,
55:36
Speaker 2: but it is the patch from the where I think
55:40
Speaker 2: it's truly part of the buffalo saying on the front
55:46
Speaker 2: of his jersey you can hid of make it out.
55:48
Speaker 2: I believe it's like the end of the F in
55:51
Speaker 2: the A and then the L as what I believe
55:56
Speaker 2: it is, but it's it's like a purely a strong
56:00
Speaker 2: portion of the jersey that really really sticks out. And
56:04
Speaker 2: these cards I can have seen in the BBM sets
56:08
Speaker 2: where the Genesis sets over there with these really really
56:11
Speaker 2: cool patches, are extremely desirable, extremely hard to get your
56:14
Speaker 2: hands on because you are playing kind of with this
56:16
Speaker 2: overseas market. This one right now, if you want it
56:19
Speaker 2: is a thousand dollars on on on eBay that says
56:25
Speaker 2: is a PSA six, But there's only two that have
56:28
Speaker 2: actually ever been put into PSA, so hey, maybe crack
56:31
Speaker 2: this one and resubmit it or something like that. I
56:33
Speaker 2: don't know what the actual issue with it is. It
56:35
Speaker 2: looks like maybe as a soft corner or two on
56:38
Speaker 2: this one, but still the patch on it is just
56:41
Speaker 2: just an amazing patch. So I had to had to
56:43
Speaker 2: stick to the to a Japanese card, and I had
56:45
Speaker 2: to find a really really cool patch because you know,
56:47
Speaker 2: I'm a sucker for those.
56:49
Speaker 1: Yeah, and what a fine man. This thing is a beauty,
56:51
Speaker 1: And I mean some of the other suggestions that come
56:54
Speaker 1: along with it on eBay might have to tuck away
56:56
Speaker 1: for future Yoto a PC pick, because there were some
57:00
Speaker 1: beautiful cards of his in Japan, but you found a
57:04
Speaker 1: premium one that this is certainly like. Not only is
57:08
Speaker 1: it like a highly desirable card because of it being
57:11
Speaker 1: from the Japanese market, but even though it's out of thirty,
57:15
Speaker 1: this is like a one of one considering how sick
57:18
Speaker 1: the patch on it is. And that happens a lot
57:21
Speaker 1: when you get just really great patches that capture the
57:24
Speaker 1: entire logo or a great piece of the jerseys, so
57:28
Speaker 1: great find.
57:30
Speaker 2: All right, where did you go with mister Yamamoto.
57:33
Speaker 1: All right, I went with This is another one where
57:37
Speaker 1: I was going through it with the Roki Susaki cards there,
57:40
Speaker 1: and I mean, the Yamamoto market is picking back up again.
57:44
Speaker 1: I had to go to the twenty twenty four Top
57:47
Speaker 1: Stadium Club Beam Team short print, so I don't think
57:51
Speaker 1: we've ever put a Bean team into our PC, which
57:53
Speaker 1: is kind of surprising. It's one of my favorite designs
57:56
Speaker 1: that it's from the mid nineties. It actually it stands
58:00
Speaker 1: out to me as more of a basketball insert. Which
58:03
Speaker 1: speaking of which, Tops got the license back for NBA
58:06
Speaker 1: cards again, which is they look really good. I might
58:09
Speaker 1: have to get into some of those. I haven't collected
58:11
Speaker 1: basketball cards in forever, but they look sharp, especially in
58:15
Speaker 1: this year's twenty twenty five design. But this Beam Team
58:18
Speaker 1: card from Yamamoto, the reason I picked it is I'm
58:22
Speaker 1: pretty certain it's from the picture is from his MLB
58:26
Speaker 1: debut when they were in Japan at the beginning of
58:28
Speaker 1: twenty twenty four. That you look at the background of
58:32
Speaker 1: where they are, they're certainly in a dome, and I
58:35
Speaker 1: don't know any stadium in MLB that has that outfield
58:40
Speaker 1: fence look to it. So if you are looking at
58:43
Speaker 1: this card, and you know your your your ballpark's really good,
58:47
Speaker 1: or your Japanese ballparks, and you think I'm wrong, go
58:51
Speaker 1: ahead it, reach out and correct me. But I'm like
58:54
Speaker 1: ninety ninety five percent certain this is from his MLB debut.
58:58
Speaker 1: The picture, and then on top of it you get
59:00
Speaker 1: the great classic beam team design with the foil kind
59:05
Speaker 1: of holographic pattern on the sides, the big old word
59:08
Speaker 1: art Beam Team on the top of it. You can't
59:11
Speaker 1: go wrong with this card. It's it is a short print,
59:13
Speaker 1: so it's going to run you somewhere between like ranges
59:18
Speaker 1: from like forty to seventy five bucks is what I'm
59:20
Speaker 1: looking at, but that might be ticking up considering where
59:23
Speaker 1: the Dodgers are headed this postseason.
59:26
Speaker 2: I think this was fun. I am pretty certain. I'm
59:28
Speaker 2: actually trying to find some pictures here. I'm pretty sure
59:31
Speaker 2: sure you're right that this is from his debut, which
59:34
Speaker 2: is just a cool little catch here. And I also
59:37
Speaker 2: love the fact that you said it makes the kind
59:38
Speaker 2: of that basketball connection because that stadium club logo on
59:41
Speaker 2: it is so much circa nineteen nineties basketball card, and
59:46
Speaker 2: that is a cool, cool call out here. So yeah,
59:50
Speaker 2: this is a fun one. I absolutely love it. Didn't
59:52
Speaker 2: realize the value on some of these beam teams and
59:55
Speaker 2: kind of you know, I think they've made a little
59:56
Speaker 2: bit more rare than what it used to be. So
59:59
Speaker 2: this is a cool fine the little fact toys that
1:00:01
Speaker 2: you're able to pull into this that I would not
1:00:04
Speaker 2: have caught that myself.
1:00:05
Speaker 1: All right, well, we've just got one player left because
1:00:08
Speaker 1: Dylan Lyle doubled up on us between or not MVP,
1:00:13
Speaker 1: but Player of the Month and Rookie of the Month.
1:00:15
Speaker 1: And so we've just got the Rookie of the Month
1:00:17
Speaker 1: and the AAR left. And this is gonna be a
1:00:20
Speaker 1: fun one because every once in a while on our
1:00:22
Speaker 1: PC we get the random odd ball that really sticks
1:00:25
Speaker 1: out like a sore thumb. That's what Joey Cantillo is
1:00:28
Speaker 1: going to be for the rest of time as he
1:00:29
Speaker 1: is in the Cards and Categories PC. After putting up
1:00:33
Speaker 1: twenty nine innings of a one to fifty five era
1:00:36
Speaker 1: with twenty eight k's to six walks, went to to
1:00:39
Speaker 1: oh for the Guardians down the stretch and save their bacon.
1:00:44
Speaker 1: Like without Joey Cantillo, the Guards would not have made
1:00:47
Speaker 1: it into the playoffs. He's really what carried them down
1:00:49
Speaker 1: the stretch and shored up that pitching staff that was
1:00:53
Speaker 1: kind of in tatters to be honestly out to be
1:00:56
Speaker 1: outside of Gavin Williams, they didn't have too much going
1:00:59
Speaker 1: on there. As you know, the pitching has kind of
1:01:01
Speaker 1: hit a little bit of a bump. But the twenty
1:01:03
Speaker 1: five year old South Pod Joey Cantillo might be bringing
1:01:07
Speaker 1: in that Guardian's rotation back on the up and up.
1:01:10
Speaker 1: So actually quite a few cards here for him because
1:01:14
Speaker 1: when he was drafted by the Padres in twenty seventeen,
1:01:16
Speaker 1: which was a long time ago, he was floating around
1:01:19
Speaker 1: in lots of bowman sets for a long time. So
1:01:21
Speaker 1: where did you go for Joey Cantillo.
1:01:25
Speaker 2: Yeah, so, first of all, Hawaiian native and one of
1:01:29
Speaker 2: the last guys from the nineties born in the nineties.
1:01:32
Speaker 2: That does not make me feel terribly old because he's
1:01:34
Speaker 2: born in December of ninety nine. But I'm going with
1:01:37
Speaker 2: a twenty twenty Tops Pro debute card for Joey Kntillo,
1:01:42
Speaker 2: partially because I believe I have a version of this
1:01:44
Speaker 2: card already in my collection. I don't know if it's
1:01:47
Speaker 2: this exact one. I wouldn't have a chance to pull
1:01:49
Speaker 2: it out before this, but it is him following through
1:01:53
Speaker 2: on a pitch for the Lake Ellsnore Storm team in
1:01:58
Speaker 2: the miners there, and it's just a very simple card.
1:02:03
Speaker 2: I'm actually a big fan of Pro Debut, very accessible
1:02:06
Speaker 2: set if you've never ripped it before. Usually it's like
1:02:09
Speaker 2: seventy eighty bucks for a box you get maybe four
1:02:12
Speaker 2: autos things like that. It's very very fun set to
1:02:15
Speaker 2: get in and it's cheap. It's eight bucks for an
1:02:19
Speaker 2: auto best offer maybe you can get it for four.
1:02:22
Speaker 2: But I think it's just a fun card and I've
1:02:25
Speaker 2: always enjoyed the especially twenty twenty version of Pro Debut.
1:02:29
Speaker 2: Just that twenty twenty card design overall was a really
1:02:32
Speaker 2: really strong one. So go with twenty twenty Pro Debut
1:02:35
Speaker 2: card for the I'll help the odd ball in our
1:02:38
Speaker 2: PC here.
1:02:39
Speaker 1: Yeah, I think this is a great pick, great great
1:02:41
Speaker 1: hat for the lake Elson or a Storm back in
1:02:44
Speaker 1: the day with just the eyes from their logo and
1:02:47
Speaker 1: Joey Cantillo's got a pretty slick signature, so it is
1:02:51
Speaker 1: a great looking card. It's a cheap card and honestly,
1:02:55
Speaker 1: maybe not a bad investment going into the off season
1:02:58
Speaker 1: because twenty five years old. We've talked about our love
1:03:01
Speaker 1: for big, old young pitchers. Six foot four two twenty
1:03:04
Speaker 1: five lefty rained in the locks this year. He might
1:03:08
Speaker 1: be a pretty great sleeper pick going into twenty twenty six.
1:03:12
Speaker 2: Absolutely, so all right, finish us out? Did you go
1:03:15
Speaker 2: bigger than the eight dollar card a little bit? I mean,
1:03:18
Speaker 2: this one's still pretty affordable. We're looking at It is
1:03:21
Speaker 2: a more basic pick because Joey Cantillo, his rookie cards
1:03:25
Speaker 2: were in twenty twenty five Tops products this year, So
1:03:29
Speaker 2: I went with the Tops Chrome Auto, but I'd do
1:03:32
Speaker 2: the blue wave refractor just to add a little bit
1:03:35
Speaker 2: of extra color match because we didn't really do any
1:03:39
Speaker 2: other color matches this month. But true, that's odd for us, I.
1:03:43
Speaker 1: Know, so I had to bring it back home. I
1:03:45
Speaker 1: would have dead the red, but I couldn't find an
1:03:47
Speaker 1: of five Joey Cantio Auto out there. So the much
1:03:51
Speaker 1: more approachable version is the one fifty to get the
1:03:54
Speaker 1: blue and still has a sharp signature, still has taken
1:03:59
Speaker 1: the full time to put out that signature down on
1:04:01
Speaker 1: all the products he's signing, And this one should run
1:04:04
Speaker 1: you like twenty to thirty bucks again honestly, like I
1:04:09
Speaker 1: might be looking for some Joey Cantillo autos and tucking
1:04:12
Speaker 1: them away going into next season, because if he breaks
1:04:15
Speaker 1: out and makes an All Star game, I mean that
1:04:18
Speaker 1: just bass chrome auto is going to be worth twenty bucks.
1:04:21
Speaker 1: One's probably trading for more like five six right now.
1:04:24
Speaker 1: So great season for Joey Cantillo. And it's just a
1:04:27
Speaker 1: classic kind of card of him pitching, so nothing too special,
1:04:31
Speaker 1: just great blue ray wave pattern. And on top of it,
1:04:35
Speaker 1: you get the twenty twenty five tops design on it,
1:04:39
Speaker 1: which I think is going to really go down as
1:04:41
Speaker 1: one of the great kind of tops designs of recent memories.
1:04:46
Speaker 1: So especially why we were mentioning why the basketball product
1:04:49
Speaker 1: looks so great this year too, So that's where I went.
1:04:52
Speaker 2: Yep, I like it, and I think it's a great call.
1:04:54
Speaker 2: He does a really really good signature, and I think
1:04:58
Speaker 2: the fact that he's maintained it to cards cards five
1:05:01
Speaker 2: years apart, that signature is not changed very much. It
1:05:05
Speaker 2: is very impressive. So I like this pick. I like
1:05:08
Speaker 2: the sneaky color match there, and I believe that you
1:05:12
Speaker 2: have the city connects Jersey on it's and so that's
1:05:17
Speaker 2: that's that's just another cool little inklean of this one,
1:05:20
Speaker 2: but yeah, very available and a stinky guy for for
1:05:23
Speaker 2: next year, so might have to might have to dig
1:05:25
Speaker 2: into him a little bit more with the end of
1:05:27
Speaker 2: the season because I'm guaranteed most people aren't thinking about
1:05:30
Speaker 2: Joey Kntiel.
1:05:31
Speaker 1: No no, not not now with the Guardians out of
1:05:34
Speaker 1: the playoffs now too, so good person to tuck away.
1:05:37
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