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Another “Brawl” · The 3-0 Take

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Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to the three O take, where we talk
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all things Major League Baseball.
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Here's Kyle Corwin and Nate Reyes it.
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This is episode 467. I'll be your host Kyle Corwin.
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I'm here with my Co host Knight Reyes Knight.
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One final travel pod, my friend. One more Rd.
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Rd. for the boys as a reminder, yours truly, Myrtle Beach, Nate
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Reyes in California so. The phone IA just important
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fires out here. Important to you from the road.
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We'll be back home next episode, so we'll be back in our usual
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setups, but for now, we are coming to you live from the
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road. Got some things to talk about
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here off the top, though it's not necessarily it doesn't
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warrant its own segment, but can we just touch on this Bowden
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Francis situation here real quick?
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The poor guy can't get the job done.
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Well, I mean, he gets it done for 8 innings, takes no hitters
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into the 9th, but then he's like, oh, here's an opportunity
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for me to give up a home run. Let me just go ahead and do
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that. And he's done that now I think,
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I think I read or not read. I told you before, we hopped on
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twice in his last four outings. That's big time.
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That's good. That's good baseball though, you
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know what I mean? If you're Bowden Francis,
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though, are you, are you thinking to yourself like maybe
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this whole no hitter thing just isn't, isn't for me?
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Just not feeling it, you know, just not that's not not my
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thing. Whatever, it's all good.
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I mean you could I mean these are quality stars, very good.
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I think high quality stars. I think what the I didn't see
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what the pitch count was, but I think what the underestimated, I
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don't know, maybe understated aspect to the difficulty of a no
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hitter or perfect game is again, I don't know what the pitch
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count was at. But when the when it starts
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getting high and you can't really work hitters the way you
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were, maybe towards the beginning or middle of the game,
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you got to start attacking the zone a little bit and you're
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susceptible to this kind of stuff.
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A little bit of juice, a little bit of pop.
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You know, if you're going to leave something in the zone,
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it's going to get hit. But that's the beauty of no
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hitter. You know what I'm saying?
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It's about like somewhat economical ABS that second or
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third time through the lineup and then the fourth time,
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hopefully you still have some wiggle room pitch count wise to
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be able to work around guys. Otherwise you're going to have
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to fill it up and this is what happens.
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He was at he finished up the 8th at or no, I'm sorry, the 7th
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because I was locked in for the the last handful of innings
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because your boy is on my fantasy team and I needed a big
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outing from him today. And so I'm just I'm tracking.
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I mean I was tracking from just about the the beginning of the
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outing, but he got to the 7th and I want to say he was at one
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O 2 and they're going, you know, we've I was listening to the
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broadcast ago. You know, we've seen this play
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out this year where you have a guy, not not necessarily with
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the Jays, but just generally around baseball, you have a guy
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with an opportunity to do something special, take it into
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the 8th, take it into the 9th. But you got to look at it, You
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got to look at the pitch count. And it's like, well, do we do we
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prioritize the, the feats over his health, over the, over the
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potential win, over the opportunity to win.
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And they were talking about that.
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They go, you go, they were going, you've got a one run
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game. He's at 102.
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And then he goes out in the eighth, gets the 1st 2 outs in
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the eighth on two pitches. And they go, I think everybody
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in the ballpark, probably in the dugout, took a sigh of relief to
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go, OK, we can push this to the 9th, gets to the 9th, No luck.
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But what he's doing in between the 8th and 9th, is there
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something he's doing in the dugout?
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You know what I mean? Like.
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Well, I I can do that. There's one thing that probably
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isn't helping the situation. Vlady flew out to the track.
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I want to say in the eighth comes back into the dugout base
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of the steps. That's basically where where
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Francis is sitting and starts doing push ups like right in
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front of them as the whole like, oh, I got to, you know, can I
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get a little more beefed up if I'm trying to hit these out And
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I'm like, my brother, we got a guy trying to complete the no
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hitter. Let's move it along.
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Let's move it along. Not to say that was the reason
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couldn't close the deal, but. You never know.
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You never know. Yeah, I mean, you never know
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what what's affecting these guys mentally.
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Speaking of mental, you'd have to be mental to throw at a guy
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when you've got Bryce Harper on the base pass behind you, and
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that's exactly what Edwin Useda. There it is.
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Like that? You like that?
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Yeah. I'm impressed.
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Well. Flair Useda.
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That's what Edwin Useda of the Rays did on Tuesday night.
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I'm just going to go ahead and say it.
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How many times do we have to say this?
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I'm over the the the brawl culture.
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Yeah. I'm over the and I'm not even
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gonna I'm not even I'm air quotes brawl culture.
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Just let the boys eat. And you know, I, I, we're at a
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point now where I don't know if it's much, if it's as much as
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the league preventing these guys from just letting it eat or if
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it's the guys themselves getting in their own way there where
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they're, they're all, they're all bark, no bite there.
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We know that there's a percentage of guys around the
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league that would, would throw hands without question.
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But are we at a point now where we have to start?
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I mean, we might be at a point where we have to start asking
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the question. Maybe these guys don't want to
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throw hands. Maybe they're just in it for the
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dramatics. Well, I'm not going to go as far
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as saying it soft. You said you said I didn't say
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soft, but like how many it's, it's, it's a tired act.
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It's a tired act. They, they, they cut to the
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bullpen and the guys are coming in like the the horsemen, the
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cavalry. Like what?
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Stop. I'd be so mad if I was.
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How many more times do we have to watch this go down before we
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we put an end to it? Either be done with it or let
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them throw hands. Yes, throw hands please.
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Something something. I don't want to watch this
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anymore. I'm so sick of it.
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I'm so sick of it being labeled a bra.
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Like it's not a brawl. Like go fight, punch, kick,
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tackle something. And spare me the whole like,
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well, from the perspective of the league, well, we have to
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protect our assets and we can't be encouraging fighting.
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What do you think the NHL does? They have assets out there on
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the ice and they're still they're still dropping gloves.
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OK. And I know that's like that's a
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a cliche comparison. That's what we always go to.
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Well, let's, let's make it more like the NHL.
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Make it like the Junior Hockey League.
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What a peewee hockey. I don't care.
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Just something that's different than this.
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It looked it's because the game's gotten soft.
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But if you think about it, so many parts of the of the game
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have been removed, like breaking up double plays gone hard plays
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at the plate, you know, catcher blocking the plate, like all
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that stuff's kind of gone. The policing the game side of
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things has also faded. You know, like I'm going to buzz
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your tower a little bit. Like, you know, Bob Gibson,
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Randy Johnson, they talk about like, I don't want you that
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close my plate. That's the only reason I'm doing
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it now. It's like you hit a 450 foot
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tank against me last AB. So now I'm going to brush you
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off. Like, no, that's, that's not how
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it works. Like it, it's just it's gotten
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soft. It's heavily policed.
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And I think the worst part of this with Yucida is that it's
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just like you can very much tell it's just he was getting lit up.
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Like you're upset that you're getting lit up.
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But are you going to, are you going to hit him with a sinker
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though? That that's where the confusion
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for me always comes into play is like, you have to like it's,
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it's easy to get swept up in the heat of the moment, Like if
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you're watching the game live or if you're at the game or if
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you're even like involved in the game.
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If, if, if you're, if you fit one of those capacities and you
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see it live, you go, Oh, well, very obviously this was
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intentional. But if you look, if you look at
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the broadcast, you can see that he hits him with a 96 mile an
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hour sinker, which that's impressive in and of itself.
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Like that's a story on its own. 96 mile an hour sinker.
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Is that what you're going to throw at a guy if you're
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genuinely upset with him? If it's right, right, I could
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see it because it's going to have that tail back in the most
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of these sinkers aren't really sinkers anymore.
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Well, that's like hard 2 seamers.
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Oh, that's what it. Registered as He said it was a
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change up, he said. I, I, he said I threw it.
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I hit him with a change up. Essentially just denying that it
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was intentional, which turns out.
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To save 96 an hour, change up. Turns out, well, it turns out
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the league assumed it was intentional because they hit him
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with a three-game suspension today.
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I'm I'm assuming a, what do you call it?
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Why am I blanking? What what's the word reversal?
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Not a reversal. What's the word appeal?
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Appeal, yes. I mean, I am certain an appeal
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is coming because that's what always happens.
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They, they, they deny it, They say, oh, it was a change up and
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then they, they appeal it. So I'm sure that's coming.
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But to your point, he was getting lit up and and
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Castiano's had a had a point. He's like, you know, you just
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see guys making the way around the base pass.
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It's pretty easy to understand why this would happen.
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But you, I don't know, you just look at the situation, 2 outs in
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the eighth guy on 2nd, the sinker change up, whatever you
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want to call it. I don't know it's.
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I can see, yeah, I could see the pause because I mean, like
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you're down. What?
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You're down. Four at that .5.
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At that .5 you you, you can look at it from both sides because
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it's like, OK, well you're down 5 why not let it eat in the ribs
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or on the backside or whatever. Castellanos, who's after that
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start? Let me watch the game,
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whoever's. 5th Whoever's fifth in that lineup.
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Probably not start whether the lefty they have in that lineup
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because I'm going to go ahead and assume you're wanting you're
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wanting that right on right matchup.
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I guess I mean the stock, yeah. I don't know.
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Are we giving him too much credit for for saying that he
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was like waiting for the right side match up to to unfold for
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him to make this happen? Because we talk about all the
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time the IQ on these guys, not what it used to be.
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So maybe he's just like, oh, here's a guy that looked at me
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the wrong way. I don't know.
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Why is it that, like, how is it that the Phillies knew right
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away? Like, you saw the breakdown,
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like Castianos immediately got hit, started yelling, Bryce
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Harper immediately started saying we don't do that.
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How did they immediately know that it was on purpose?
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Normally there's like this little bit of a pause, hit, 2-3
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seconds go by, you start walking down the line, there's eyes,
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there's a little chirp, and then it gets into something.
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This was like hit hey, like immediately.
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Well, I mean, you and I have both played and and you, you
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have a feel and I would imagine a majority of these guys who
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have played for like 80% of their life, they've been around
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the game long enough to know that they're sort of a now I
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don't want to say a buzz, but like there's, there's certainly
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momentum that that builds in that direction as as guys cross
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the plate, as as walks are issued, as extra base hits are
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tallied from off the same guy. And this guy, it was just not
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his night. And it gets to a boiling point
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where you got a guy who in and of himself is like can, can be
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pretty fiery times. Nick Castellanos, He gets hit
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and then right away I'm sure he's going OK.
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My, my guy, we've seen how this inning is gone.
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Harper's probably thinking the same thing.
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You have to imagine that a lot of those guys in that Phillies
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clubhouse are on the same page with the way they think about
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things, with the way they process things.
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They all seem pretty close. So I I would imagine as soon as
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that happens, as soon as that goes down, that's when that's
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when the the the pop or the top blows off and then it just
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ensues. And Amanda, the the thing that I
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am over though is the raise just as a whole between this between
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the guy you and I have talked about a handful of times.
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Race be for a lot of people. I I'm over it, man.
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The, the arrogance at times. And I'm not necessarily applying
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the the arrogance label here to you, Sita, but I'm like, can we
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just dial it back? Can we just have a regular
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baseball game? Just take your lumps and move
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on. If this was intentional.
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I'm telling you, dude, what? Everyone, everyone was ready to
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like jump on the Yankees when they had their little tiff over
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the last few years. But let's face it, like the
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Rays, you have issues with a lot of people.
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Just saying. Don't understand?
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Let's move along here. Yoshinobu Yamamoto.
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Nailed that. Made his return for the first
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time since we. Tapped in today.
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I'm locked in made his return to the mound for the first time
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since June 15th. Put up 4 innings, allowing four
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hits, one and run with eight KS and did it in 59 pitches.
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He was on a pitch limit, easing him back into it as we imagined
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would be the case going up against Shota Iminaga.
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He went a little deeper given he wasn't on such a pitch limit.
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Went 7 innings, gave up seven hits, three earned runs.
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Only had four KS to Yamamoto's eight, but also had zero walks.
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This was the game. Days and four innings.
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Yeah, Yep, this was the game we talked about last episode.
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Like, hey, this might be 1 you want to you want to tune into
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might might want to flip on if you if you got an open window to
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catch a ball game. And I I was sure to do that.
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So was was tuned in for this one.
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But I got to say I didn't see Tommy Edmond being the
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difference maker Dodgers, at least in the the early going.
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His first two home runs of the season for him, having missed a
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a good amount of time on the IL first two home runs of the year
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came in the same game for the Dodgers.
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However, the Cubs came back and won at six three.
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They had a five run 8th. So this game had a little bit of
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everything. But like I said, didn't think
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Tommy Edmond would necessarily be as as much of a factor in
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that game, especially going up against Imanaga.
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But it was it was given that Yamamoto was was on a limit.
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I think it had a little bit of a little bit of everything that we
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were looking for so. Yeah, dude, just seeing like,
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even the pregame stuff with like, Otani, Yamamoto, Imanaga,
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like, it's so sick. It's so sick.
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And you know, you like, we talked about it last time, like
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all of Japan had to have been tapped in for this.
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Like, these are their stars, man.
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Like, these are their big time names.
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And didn't disappoint. Good game.
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Little sloppy defensively with the Dodgers.
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Yeah. I mean, I I think that like,
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there's certain things about the Dodgers that have me a little
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nervous, but Yamamoto coming back is a huge thing.
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It's just like, I don't know, relying on Kiki, nothing against
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Tommy had been, but like, we're relying on guys like this like
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regularly isn't what they had in mind, couldn't have been what
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they had in mind. So I don't know.
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But the Cubs, man, they're just, they're playing good ball.
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They're playing good ball, kind of pushing the envelope a little
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bit. Good, timely hitting, look like
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solid defense. But Crow Armstrong, kid just
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doing all kinds of stuff in center field, robbing home runs
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to end it, weird sliding plays at the track.
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That one weird play. Yeah.
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Just overall, it's like solid. Going back to the Japanese stars
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featured in this game, I, I, I was thinking about it today and
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I'm like, I'm as, as I'm pulling the, the rundown here together
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for the, for our notes, I, I couldn't help but compare and
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contrast the the the names featured in this game, like the
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Japanese stars and then comparing it to what happened in
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the game we just talked about with the quote UN quote brawl.
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I'm like, I tell you what, man, Western baseball could learn a
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thing or two from from these Japanese players, 'cause I'm
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seeing, I'm, you mentioned the pregame like I'm seeing, I'm
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seeing just cordial behavior. I'm seeing respect paid to one
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another. I'm seeing bows, I'm seeing tips
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of the caps. I'm not saying it's got to be
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that extreme, but I'm like, hey, if we're not going to throw
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hands, why don't we just be decent human beings instead of
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running our mouths constantly? I hate it.
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I don't hate it. Seems like they're doing all
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right for for for themselves over there in Japan and.
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Times have changed, I guess. I don't know level of respect,
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but you're right, I like it. I'm not a fan of it.
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The head nods. The bows.
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Big fan. I think that's the the
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conclusion I've arrived at. I'm a fan of both extremes, like
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either if, if we're going to if we're going to light this thing
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up. Yeah, do that like no, punch
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each other in the throat or bow and get over it.
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Karate chops to the trachea or yes pre AB bows to one another.
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That's there's no middle ground. For me it's one or the other.
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Pick one. Whichever camp you're in, pick
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one. That's cool you're on board with
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that. Speaking of picking one of the
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three Rangers starters that are going over the next few days,
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which which one are you excited to see back?
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We got Kumar Rocker making his big league debut on Thursday or
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his friend of the pod Ryan Ripken likes to say Thursday.
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You've got Jacob degrom making his season debut on Friday and
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you got Max Scherzer returning from the IL as well who will be
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going Saturday. Can I preface this by saying I
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have this weird and it's not fair to Kumar Raker whatsoever,
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but I have the. I have this weird mental
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connection between him and Jack Leiter and I'm like, I hope for
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his sake that it doesn't go the same way it did for Jack Leiter
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because there seemed to be a fair amount of height for Jack
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Leiter, albeit maybe a little deluded comparatively when when
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looking elsewhere around the league.
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But Kumar Rocker in a similar boat.
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I'm just hoping that it goes. I'm hoping it goes better for
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him. I opted not to pick him up for
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fantasy because of that. I'm like.
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I think that's smart. The off chance that it just goes
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S real quick, he's I think he's getting.
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Caught in like 60. Pitches anyway so.
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I think I'm over the Kumar story, to be honest.
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I think I'm kind of over it. You think it's just been too
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drawn out at this point? He's just had, he's just been
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too many hurdles. Too many hurdles, too many
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injuries. I don't, I haven't really like
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looked at what his minor league numbers have looked like to this
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point. It's just, I don't know, man.
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I'm just I'm kind of over it, kind of over it.
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I am I'm gonna lean towards more excited about the ground.
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I think the ground, you know what I mean?
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Like this is your guy. If you're if you're a Ranger fan
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like this is your ace in the hole.
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This is your this is your main man.
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This is your this is your Maverick, right?
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Like you need him back. You need him rolling.
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I'm not gonna say this year. I think we're we all know what
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this year is for the Texas Rangers, but this is like, you
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know, something new to get excited about for next year,
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hopefully. And Scherzer, Yeah, I I don't
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know. Scherzer Yeah, I mean, sure, you
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could argue that the. Hard to disrespect the Hall of
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Famer, but I'm. Yeah, no, I, well, I mean,
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we've, we've had takes on both sides of the coin regarding
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Scherzer over the life of this podcast, certainly.
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But yeah, don't want to, don't want to just slander the guy for
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wanting to get back. Because if on the flip side, if
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the guy was like, I mean, I could come back, but I'm just
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going to coast it out to the end of the year because we're not
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going anywhere, then we'd be having the opposite
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conversation. And I don't want to be having
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that conversation. So, yeah, of the of the three
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though, I think in terms of excitement, like Scherzer, we
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kind of know what you're going to get there.
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He's already, he's already made some appearances.
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This year hasn't been ideal, but that's the one to me where I'm
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like, I wouldn't, I don't know. I, I, I feel like we'd be OK if
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you were just like, hey, because he's already said he wants to
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pitch in the next year. So it's like, if that OK, if
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that's the case, we, we can give you a pass here because we've
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seen how the ends of his seasons have gone health wise.
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He just, he runs out of gas. Yeah, he gets he gets his arm
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gets fatigued and it just doesn't it doesn't pan out well
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too often. So it's like, OK, we can give
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him, we could give him a pass if that's what if that's the route
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he wanted to take. But to Grom, I'm excited for him
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to at least get just a couple opportunities here, maybe even a
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few opportunities to get his because people are like, why are
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you coming back? What?
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What's it for? It's for nothing.
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I disagree. I look at this and go, OK, if if
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the Rangers are going to, they're going to tell you
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they're they're making a late push here.
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But I think behind closed doors, the Rangers of chalk this season
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up as hey, it is what it is. We'll let's look ahead to 2025.
24:58
If that's the case, if that's even the conversation that maybe
25:01
has made its way to Jacob degrom and like, hey, we're excited to
25:05
have you back, but don't feel like you got to be our savior.
25:09
If that's the conversation that's taking place.
25:12
I'm, I'm looking at this if I'm Jacob degrom as an opportunity
25:16
to get in the right headspace to prove to myself that the work
25:20
that I've been doing to come back has paid off and that I'm
25:24
still that guy. Because I think a lot of people
25:27
forget how dominant this guy can be when healthy, when on.
25:33
And I think this is this, this small remaining window that they
25:37
have can prove or or can prove to be and a, a jumping off
25:44
point, you might say for 2025, Because if he didn't have this
25:48
opportunity to at least just get into some game action, then
25:52
you're not going to you're not going to really know.
25:54
You're going to you're going to have some ABS, you're going to
25:57
be throwing flat grounds and you're that's all you're really
26:00
going to be able to go off of. But if, if you can get into game
26:02
action, especially, I don't even, I don't know who he would
26:06
line up against for the remainder of his potential
26:08
outings this year. But if you can get up against
26:10
some guys that are actually if, if you can get up against some
26:13
teams that are actually playing for something, fighting for
26:15
something, you're going to be getting their best.
26:17
So it's like, what better way to to use this app as an
26:22
opportunity to prove yourself that that things are moving in
26:25
the right direction for you? Yeah, well, I mean, there's a,
26:28
there's a couple things that I think of #1 like, get some
26:33
positivity out of this season, right?
26:36
Like take something with you into the offseason, bring
26:38
something into, you know, a solid point for you to work off
26:42
of and and kind of just build off of through spring training
26:44
and in the next year. The other thing is that like
26:51
you're talking to a team that is filled with veterans.
26:58
It's filled with pride and competitiveness and filled with
27:05
a Hall of Fame manager that is probably saying, you know what,
27:09
boys like, yeah, 7 1/2 out of the wild card at the moment,
27:13
eight out in the division. We're probably done for the
27:17
year. But overall, like, let's bring
27:20
some teams down with us, you know what I mean?
27:23
Like, I don't want to be that that doormat for these these
27:26
other teams trying to compete. He can get into the postseason
27:30
if they're still fighting for a spot.
27:32
So, you know, there's some there's a sense of pride there.
27:35
Like I don't think it's it's time to throw in the towel.
27:38
But that type of mentality is going to teach, you know, your
27:41
young core. And let's face it, like no,
27:43
sure, as there is not the core. This isn't your guy moving
27:47
forward. The Grom may be at the back end,
27:51
but like overall your core, you're talking about a lighter,
27:53
you're talking about a Kumar, you're talking about Jonah Heim,
27:57
Josh Young, Evan Carter, Corey Seeger.
28:01
You know, you're talking about guys that are like, you know, be
28:03
like, hey, we're going to go continue to do this moving
28:06
forward. And there's a sense of pride
28:08
that we need to carry ourselves with.
28:09
There's a professionalism that we need to still bring to the
28:12
table every day. And so it's like, you know, I, I
28:17
don't, I don't want to see them laying down and not competing.
28:21
I want to see what they've got. And again, something to build
28:24
off of because a majority of these names are going to be back
28:27
next year. So.
28:30
And this is what we were expecting, by the way, right?
28:33
Like it's so hard to repeat. Sure.
28:36
Yeah, it's so hard to repeat so. No, for sure.
28:40
I just think it maybe we were probably hoping for a little
28:44
more than what they've given us this year, but.
28:47
For sure, I was hoping for more closer finish at least.
28:50
Yeah. But I mean, if you're not going
28:51
to repeat, maybe doesn't matter if you're eight games out or
28:57
four games out it, it may not matter at that point.
29:00
But tell me a little bit. Give me your thoughts here on
29:04
Jason Dominguez talking about being part of it, of a potential
29:09
core seems to be up for the remainder of the year and it
29:12
seems as though he will be getting opportunities just about
29:17
every day from here on out. Give me your thoughts on that.
29:21
Yeah, it's going to, it's, it's about damn time #1 I heard, I
29:27
read a lot of reports that there was, you know, kind of some back
29:30
and forth between the front office and the other names that
29:35
were fighting for this. Other guys felt like he maybe
29:38
wasn't ready. I don't know.
29:41
The Verdugo experiment is, is so strange, all of this like this
29:45
weird loyalty to a one year guy, like a guy that's going to be a
29:49
free agent next year. It's very strange.
29:54
So it's going to be a just thing to see how they how they do it
29:58
health wise. I think like when you see
30:00
lefties on the mound, there's a good chance for Dugos obviously
30:05
going to be out. There's a good chance that, you
30:08
know, Stanton is going to be in as DH.
30:10
So like, you know, you're likely going to see going to see him
30:17
and left and then, you know, judge and and center and then,
30:20
you know, set on right. So I mean, it's a good
30:23
opportunity. This is good.
30:25
This is good time to come up. He came up last year at this
30:28
time and we saw some flashes of brilliance.
30:31
But let's face it, like the guy's nickname is the Martian.
30:34
Like he's there's so much upside here.
30:37
There's such a high ceiling. So it's like it's good to see
30:41
him get this type of experience. And it's about thing time that
30:44
they've started to write him in the lineup every day because
30:47
like this team needs a spark. Would they need more athleticism
30:51
on the bases? They need, you know, higher
30:54
quality defense, higher quality at bat.
30:55
He's a switch hitter. You can plug him in that like
30:58
anywhere from 5:00 to 7:00 in the lineup, kind of alternate
31:04
between Stanton or behind Wells. He's a threat, dude.
31:08
And like this guy is just he's the future.
31:13
He's the future so personally if it was up to me, I'd like to see
31:19
him in center. I'd like to see Judge in right
31:21
and Soto and left. It's been a lot of blunders in
31:24
right field. No no offense to Soto but like
31:27
he's not as good as Judge in right and Dominguez is better in
31:33
center than Judge so it's AI. Don't know.
31:38
It's so hard to see the decisions being made, but big
31:43
thanks to DJ Lemahieu going into baseball jail with some kind of
31:48
made-up My L stint. And chances are he's probably
31:53
not going to be back for the rest of the year, I would guess.
31:58
Speaking of the Yankees, can we give some much deserved love to
32:04
Seth Lugo? Bro carved up the Yankees on
32:10
Tuesday night, but when you when you zoom out big he's.
32:15
Carved up a. Lot of teams for the majority,
32:20
if not the whole year. Tuesday night goes up against
32:24
the Yankees in the Bronx. 7 innings, 10 KS, zero walks,
32:29
three hits allowed, all of which were singles at one point during
32:33
the game. He retired 17 in a row and not a
32:37
single Yankee reached second base against him.
32:42
He is knocking on the door, talking about carving for the
32:45
majority of the season. He's been healthy.
32:47
He's been available, which as you know, the best of ability is
32:51
availability, and he has been. He has been available.
32:56
He is knocking on the door of 200 innings.
32:58
He's at 193. Kansas City has not had a
33:02
starter throw 200 plus in a single season since Edison
33:07
Volquez back in 2015, barely reaching the market 200 and a
33:11
third. So he's got three starts left, I
33:16
believe against the Tigers, the Giants and the Braves.
33:23
And by the way, I, I want to say we talked about innings within
33:30
the last week or two, just what is what the landscape is looking
33:34
like around the league. His 193 as of this morning,
33:39
we're the most in baseball and, and touching on more of just
33:45
his, his dominance and needing respect and the love that I
33:49
don't think we unfortunately have given him as much this
33:53
year. 294 ERA, which is the 5th best in all of baseball.
33:57
And say what you will about wins, he's tied for the most in
34:00
baseball at 16 with a couple of guys by the names of Chris Sale
34:06
and Tarek Schuble. You may have heard of them.
34:09
They are currently in their respective hunts for Triple
34:14
Crowns. We're looking at a possible
34:16
double crown, double Triple Crown season of baseball this
34:20
year. So that'd be awfully sick.
34:26
But yeah, just not much more to say on on Seth Lugo.
34:29
But just needed to address that and and acknowledge the fact
34:34
that we can sit here and talk about Bobby Witt.
34:37
We can talk about some of the other arms on that staff.
34:40
So like Seth Lugo cannot be left out of that conversation has
34:45
played a huge, a huge vital role for the Royals and where they
34:50
are currently at right now, despite the the recent skid
34:55
they've they've hit. You can only think, you can only
34:59
imagine that they'll they'll right the ship and and they'll
35:03
be playing some October baseball, or at least I hope so.
35:06
I don't know. I mean, maybe if you're not
35:10
exactly on board with the Royals, maybe you're not wishing
35:12
that, but I think most people would it be it would be a
35:15
refreshing sight to see Bobby Witt in Kansas City in October.
35:21
So that's what I'm I'm looking forward to in that regard.
35:24
Yeah, he's, I mean, look, Seth Lugos being the the biggest
35:28
steal and, and I think he's probably not getting the
35:32
recognition that that he that he deserves just because of that.
35:38
I mean, he doesn't, it's not like super sexy, you know what I
35:41
mean? And I know you mentioned a ton
35:43
of punch outs against the against the Yanks yesterday, but
35:46
like that's not necessarily his game.
35:48
It's not necessarily his style. He's got like I think 40 less,
35:52
3040 less strikeouts compared to Google at the moment and then
35:58
30-40 more hits. He's a pitch to contact guy.
36:01
I mean, and shoot, it's it's probably a combination of how
36:07
quiet the Yankees offense can be at times.
36:10
But also like this man was spotting up dude.
36:13
He was he was hitting his spots overall and like just the
36:17
movement and and the corners that he's hugging.
36:20
Like if you are a fan of pitching, not just throwing and
36:28
searching for strikeouts, if you're a fan of actual old
36:31
school true pitching, what Seth Lugo, highly impressive, highly
36:40
impressive. I I can't wait to see a
36:42
postseason star to his. It's it's going to be a show.
36:47
Talking about the postseason, the guy that you are certainly
36:50
going to see in the postseason, Kyle Schwarber, just a little
36:54
note here, now has 14 lead off home runs this season, which is
37:00
a Major League record. Kind of sucked though.
37:03
He did it in a game in which he was later pulled from due to a
37:07
what did he like Hyperextended his elbow, I think.
37:12
But I think reports back or test came back positive.
37:14
I don't think there's anything I don't think there's anything
37:17
wrong internally structurally. So I think we're I think
37:22
Phillies missed a missed a a bullet there.
37:28
That would have been a huge blow to their late stretch here as we
37:36
approach the middle of September.
37:39
But what's crazy to me, I've I've I read this when I was
37:44
pulling some notes together. He has 35 homers this year,
37:50
which was the 45th at, well, his his 35th this, this one we're
37:57
talking about, was his 45th leadoff Homer of his career.
38:04
Do you know how many of those he's hit since joining the
38:07
Phillies? Only what, 2022?
38:15
2 not even 3 full seasons. I'm lost.
38:21
Read those numbers again. Start over. 35 homers on the
38:26
year. This year, yeah.
38:28
His most recent? Yeah.
38:31
Which was which set the Major League record for lead off home
38:34
runs. OK.
38:37
Was the 45th lead off Homer of his career.
38:42
But 35 of them have come this year. 35 home runs overall this
38:49
year. 35 overall home runs this year Let's let's let's here
38:53
let's go back to. The normally been in the lineup
38:55
thought he was leading off quite often.
38:59
He's got 14 lead off home runs this year.
39:04
OK. He's got 35 home runs in total
39:08
this year. OK.
39:13
He has 45 lead off homers in his career.
39:18
How many of those have come since joining the Phillies back
39:24
in 2022? Of the 45.
39:27
Of the 45 minder, Yeah. How many?
39:38
38. All right, well, you just ruined
39:40
the whole thing. It was 32.
39:41
I thought 32 was going to be an impressive number given he's
39:44
only hit 45 of them and he's been playing for God knows how
39:47
long, but he has 32 in a Phillies uniform since 2022.
39:54
Of of the 45. I just thought that was a wild
39:56
stat. I.
39:57
Was going to look it up. Do we need to give Joe Madden
39:59
some credit here? I feel like he was the one when,
40:02
you know, he was in Chicago that like really tried this out,
40:06
right? Is that where he was in the line
40:10
up in Chicago? It's been so long I couldn't.
40:12
I don't even. Remember of Chicago I.
40:15
Towards the end of that run. That's what I was about to look
40:16
up. I thought that I thought that
40:20
Joe Madden was the one that that wanted to try that.
40:24
How long has Schwarber been in the league?
40:27
I mean, that was 16. How long?
40:29
How long had he been around before that?
40:36
It couldn't have been much longer than that. 15, OK, yeah,
40:43
I was like, it's 15, maybe a year, man.
40:48
He's an old. He's an old dog now, man.
40:50
Trying to find it. He's been around the league.
40:53
Find the It's so hard on your phone.
40:58
I'm looking at baseball savant. Baseball Savant normally shows
41:04
like where he hits in the order, right?
41:06
Batting order splits, There we go.
41:07
Perfect. Why is it just showing the
41:11
Phillies though? I don't want just 2024 on his
41:16
whole career. It's too hard.
41:24
Batting order splits, Almost there.
41:28
Batting order splits. I'm not almost there.
41:35
It's too hard on your phone. Trash.
41:46
Yeah. Any who's I think it was, I
41:50
think it was like, I think it was like after they had won the
42:02
World Series, where he like came back after not playing for
42:04
months and he was like tracking pitches 'cause he couldn't
42:08
swing. He ended up coming back and
42:10
being huge in the World Series. I think the following years when
42:14
Joe Men really started messing around with that.
42:17
I don't know how consistent it was, but it seems like once you
42:22
got to Philly, they were like, yeah, this is your thing.
42:24
Yeah, at least planted the seed, if anything.
42:26
Yeah, yeah, yeah. That's where he loves it.
42:29
Yeah. I mean, you look at the numbers,
42:30
that's that's where he belongs in a lineup.
42:32
Doesn't matter what city he's in, that's where he needs to be.
42:35
And that's where they've got him in Philly.
42:37
So good on the Phillies for leaning into it fully.
42:42
Speaking of leaning into it, Manny Machado has done just that
42:47
and has done it enough time to put him at the top of the Padres
42:51
all time home run leaderboard. Granted, it's only 164 home
42:56
runs, but I think that's just a tip of the cap to a guy that's,
43:05
I mean, look, let's let's call spade a spade.
43:08
This guy has this guy's matured. We, we've talked about on here
43:12
on more than for on more than one occasion.
43:14
He's, he's had his ups and downs in his career.
43:17
But this is a guy that I think a lot of guys in that clubhouse
43:22
can lean on a lot of guys or a, a, a player that a lot of those
43:27
guys can come to if they've got questions, if they need, you
43:31
know, leadership, guidance, advice, whatever, fill in the
43:33
blank. And this is just I, I think a
43:40
way to that that we can look at this that marks just how long
43:44
he's he's been doing it and and been doing it for the Padres.
43:47
Like he you want to talk about another guy that's not a not
43:50
exactly a spring chicken. Manny Machado has has, has been
43:54
sticking it out. And I, I would venture to say
43:56
the majority of Padres fans are hoping that he can at least be a
44:01
part of one ring while he's still there under this contract.
44:07
And one would hope, I mean, they've they've goodness
44:10
compiled some rosters that I think the front office thought
44:15
could do it, but has has yet to pan out.
44:18
This year might be a little different.
44:20
Time will tell. But 164 home runs?
44:24
The new Padres record did it in six seasons, and the record that
44:30
was previously held by Nate Kolbert was held for. 50.
44:36
Years, 50 years dating all the way back to 1969.
44:42
So yeah, just a little tip of the cap there to Manny Machado
44:46
and one final tip of the cap to Keter Montero.
44:49
CG shutout versus the Rockies. And it wasn't just ACG shutout,
44:54
it was a Maddox did it. 96 pitches allowed, just three hits
44:57
and zero and runs, zero walks and five KS.
45:02
Had not pitched into the 7th in his professional career before
45:08
this season, but he goes 9 and faces the minimum 27 hitters
45:14
because the three the three guys that got on all grounded in the
45:20
double or or part of double plays that followed.
45:26
And I love that. I mean that you want to talk of
45:29
patient. That's pitching.
45:31
That's big time. I, I, I want to say, I mean,
45:36
this isn't exactly like a groundbreaking take, but I think
45:39
we're, I think the pendulum is swinging back.
45:43
I really do. I think it will.
45:47
Even if it hasn't, even if it hasn't started yet, I think the
45:51
seed is being planted that, hey, we don't have to have these guys
45:57
come out and throw 200 miles an hour.
46:01
What are you over there talking about?
46:03
This Yankees team is going to make you.
46:05
Need to stop watching Yankee games while we record because it
46:09
I. Can't.
46:10
It ah, it influences your ability to process things
46:16
rationally. Unbelievable.
46:20
Stop watching Yankee games while we record.
46:24
But what I was saying is I think the pendulum, if it has not
46:28
started to swing back, if it has not started yet, the seeds are
46:33
being planted and that we have as he continues to look off
46:36
screen and watch the rest of the Yankees game, you have I I would
46:41
hope the seeds being planted for in a a shift in approach.
46:47
We're seeing guys do things. And it's not like we even the
46:50
guys we talked about Seth Lugo, and I'm not saying Peter Montero
46:54
is necessarily going to go on and have this long grand career,
46:56
but we're we're seeing guys do it well, pitch effectively, pick
47:03
pitch efficiently, oftentimes maybe lacking the the ultra high
47:08
velocity. So where if it happens enough,
47:12
and I think that we're getting to that point, you're going to
47:14
look around and be like, OK, maybe this is like a thing that
47:17
we can get back to. We don't have to have guys go
47:20
out and they're going out there throwing 200 miles an hour.
47:23
Yeah. I, I don't know if that's going
47:26
to happen, but I would like to think with the, the, we'll call
47:31
it uptick in success with maybe the lower end velocity guys, I
47:38
would like to think that maybe that's the direction we're
47:40
headed. Yeah, I'd hope so.
47:43
Here's a trivia question from from the Co sister-in-law.
47:48
It's Wednesday. It's trivia night.
47:52
Love that you ready for it? No, but yeah.
47:56
First native New Yorker to manage the Yankees.
47:59
This is all you, buddy. First native First native New
48:04
Yorker to manage the Yankees. I feel like Yogi was from I was
48:18
from New York. Final guess there, there's no
48:22
multiple choice, huh? It's just straight after.
48:24
It traditional trivia here. I just don't know if Yogi was
48:34
from New York. That's that's a good guess,
48:40
though. Yeah, we'll send it, Nate, says
48:43
Yogi Berra. But anyway, that's all I really
48:46
had wanted to wrap up just acknowledging the passing of
48:54
James Earl Jones, a true legend. I mean, you could just say like
49:01
across the board, but if you want to get into specific,
49:03
specifically in in the the the movie world and even more
49:08
specifically, you want to drill down even further the baseball
49:11
world. I mean, there was a handful of
49:14
baseball movies that I think touched reached multiple
49:19
generations. I mean, some of my favorites
49:23
include him, Field of Dreams, The Sandlot.
49:26
I mean, this is one of those guys that you would he his name
49:32
would trend on Twitter or something.
49:34
He'd go, you'd have to rush to you'd have to rush to Twitter
49:37
like, oh, it God is today the day 'cause I mean it.
49:40
He has been around the block. He had lived a long and a long
49:44
and happy life is what it sounds like.
49:49
But sadly, we, we arrived it that day and it's just tough
49:54
because I mean, this, you want to talk about a legend, this
49:56
guy. And and it's easy to throw that
49:59
name around, but I've this was a guy.
50:01
I mean, we're talking, you want to you want to talk Star Wars.
50:04
I know that that used to be a big thing with you and as a as a
50:08
kid. Like Darth Vader, whether you
50:10
like Star Wars or not, you have to wreck you.
50:11
You have to understand that like that's, that's one of the
50:18
biggest movie characters of all time.
50:20
You know what I mean? Like, and I know he wasn't in
50:24
the suit walking around, but the man was the voice.
50:26
And like that's, you know, everyone knows Luke, you're you
50:29
know, I'm your father. Stuff like that's that's a
50:34
legend. And man, that that speech, you
50:40
know, it's in in Field of Dreams.
50:44
It's it's just stuff that'll always stick with you.
50:47
That's his voice is like just a our childhood memories in a in a
50:54
way. So yeah, sad.
50:57
Definitely sad. He will be missed, but he, I
51:03
think I, I did see AI saw a tweet acknowledging in the past
51:09
and it was something to the effect of like, he literally
51:13
won't go anywhere because he's just going to live on through
51:17
his work through. That's what's sweet about it,
51:21
the. Power of his voice, like he like
51:23
he for as long as we pop in the the movie or, or streaming or
51:28
whatever we're doing, you're James Earl Jones is going to
51:32
stay. He's going to stick around and
51:33
he's going to be you're going to hear that voice and you're going
51:36
to witness his acting and just this the skill set that he
51:42
brought to the table, which was like no other.
51:46
So yeah, he will be missed. And it's a sad day for for
51:54
baseball movie fans. I know that much.
51:57
Yeah. You got anything else before we
52:00
get out of here? Yeah, always.
52:03
It's funny how we end up always recording.
52:06
I guess we won't maybe next year, but just another another
52:12
year gone by and look at it's scary to me how how I don't know
52:18
like younger generations or social media in general, just
52:22
kind of made a joke out of it in certain ways and have played
52:25
around. But like this is a this is a
52:29
monumental day and and understanding a great law for
52:36
our country and understanding great sacrifice for our country.
52:40
This day changed lives and generations and overall just
52:47
wanna remind everyone that, you know, be extremely grateful for
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our first responders and our and our people in service.
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You know what I mean? Like this is that's the ultimate
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sacrifice in my mind and to do it selflessly for our country.
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And I pray that like someday they're the unity of of what our
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country felt on September 12th is is going to be revisited at
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some point and, and the unity and the much needed togetherness
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that everyone felt. So yeah, yeah, big day in, in
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our history, big day. And I know our life as, you
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know, growing up right down the street from from the Pentagon
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and like witnessing a lot of that stuff first hand.
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And, you know, your dad, you know, sacrificing and, you know,
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doing what he did for his career.
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Like it's, it's stuff that I wish we could all remember.
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And it's very strange that we joke about it the way we do or
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the way people do nowadays. It's kind of disturbing.
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But yeah, just reminder to appreciate all all the people
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out there serving for us and keeping our our home safe and
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our country safe. And that's all that matters to
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me. So yeah.
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But outside of that, don't go chasing curveballs.
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We'll see you back home and you won't have to listen to me
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echoing in a hotel room much longer.
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And you won't have to listen to me in a spare guest bedroom with
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slanted ceilings and decor from what looks like the 80s.
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Yeah. Anyway, we love you all and as
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always, looking forward to talking more baseball with you
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guys soon. Until next time, stay filthy.