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Are the YANKEES and METS built for the playoffs? · NY's Sports Loud Mouth (VIDEO)

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What I am excited. This is inside baseball.
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All right, guys, we got a few stories we kind of just threw
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together for you. There's a couple that we've been
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following. Goody was going to do it.
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He could not make it tonight. He's really shaken up by some of
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the stuff that happened today. I guess he was a really big fan.
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So I just wanted to shout out Goody right now.
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Let's get into some music for baseball.
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Tommy here it is. Big news.
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He blew his save, of course, because I'm starting him in the
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fantasy playoffs right now. But a role this Chapman has had
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a scoreless streak at 5050 was it 50 straight job you got got
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this one for me. 50 straight for Chapman.
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Here it is. Yeah, 50 straight without a hit
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or a run. 50 straight batters. One, one hit.
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Chapman this year is the number one closer in baseball for the
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Red Sox. It's not particularly close.
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He is dominated this season. He's got a 114 ERA.
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He's vintage and maybe he's like a.
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Tick down. And he couldn't do that with the
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Yankees. What a joke.
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But he is dominating. He's the best closer in baseball
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this year. Can you believe at this point?
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And look, we know what his truck, he's got a little bit of
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a checkered past. The guy wins everywhere he goes
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and he's an excellent player. If he keeps doing this for a
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couple of more years, there's going to have to be some real
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talks about him, you know? He's never going to the Hall of
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Fame because he won't. What he did, OK, it is an
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amazing story. But we all know and Jabba could
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tell you, relief pitchers come and then they go.
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They they have one good season and then they have a bad season.
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They have one good season and they have three bad seasons.
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It it's just, it's a nice story to hear that Aroldis Chapman
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playing in the American League East, one of the hardest
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divisions in all of baseball, is having one of his, probably one
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of his best seasons since Cincinnati, since the Cincinnati
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time. I just, it's, it's a great
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story. I, I could care less.
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It doesn't matter. The Red Sox aren't going
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nowhere. So it's it's worthless.
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What do you mean they're tied with the?
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Yanks. They're not.
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They're not going any. They're going to play in the
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playoffs. Who cares?
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They're not winning anything. It doesn't really matter, so it
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doesn't matter. I mean, they're a playoff team.
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They're not the freaking Sacramento A's, you know.
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They're. Not going.
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Why are they the scapegoats right now?
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Then you have the Rockies that are like 40 and 119 or whatever,
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but yeah. They're not selling me with
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Heraldus, Chapman. I'm not saying the Red Sox are
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going to like any like the make or break with anything is going
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to be with Heraldus, Chapman or any of the other.
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Really, you know what I want to do with Heraldus Chapman?
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I want my ass with him. I, I, he was with the Yankees.
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Yankees paid him so much money. Did absolutely nothing for the
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Yankees. I'm done.
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I don't wouldn't say he did nothing.
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He was. They never did they did they
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ever win with him? Did they ever win?
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Well, you know why they didn't win?
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Because Al Prove has got the buzzer going like this because
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he knows what pitch is coming or else he would have won.
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Did they win? That's fine.
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You could say that, but I would say that they Jabba, you're
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muted, but I definitely want to hear what you got to say.
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No, I no, I just said they haven't won with anybody.
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That's what I'm saying, true. Fish, I want to mention this
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before Jabba goes to the Nationals might have just gone
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too good of an underdog run. You might have not beaten them
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anyway. I don't care.
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They took out the Brewers, the Dodgers and the and the
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Cardinals like and then cheating Astros team.
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Yeah, a role just Chapman. What I do remember is when he
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went to the Cubs and he won a World Series and yeah, that was
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that was the last time that he actually pitched well in the
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playoffs. OK, that was the last time with
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the cops. I don't want to see him in the
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playoffs, do you? Right.
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Now I don't want to see him in general and literally they've
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came out and said this is this is legitimately the first year
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that he's been able. Why he's not throwing as hard is
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because he's tried to locate his fastball.
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If you look at his fastball command and strike percentage,
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it's the best it's ever been because he just basically
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instead of just trying to throw out, which he's still throwing
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hard, but not as crazy hard as he has, but he still touched one
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O 4. But yeah, it's that's crazy to
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think about. Like, I don't care if you're 27,
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if you're 7 to not give up a hit or a run.
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Like good for him. Whether you don't like him as a
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person, who cares? But that that's pretty
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impressive. But even and then when he was
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with New York, he averaged almost 30 saves other than the
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year that he was hurt. So it's not like he didn't
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wasn't good. He's very steady.
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He's he's going to compile enough numbers to be a top ten
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closer of all time. Breaking.
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News. 450 saves if he if he plays long enough.
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You realize he's a top ten closer of all time.
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That's what it means if you can have those numbers.
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I mean, we don't. I maybe you didn't think of him
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while you're watching it, but I think people would have said
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that, you know, growing up in the 70s watching some of the
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guys that got ahead too. So just wanted to bring that one
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up. We got another story here.
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Let's get into some Yankees. Let's not, please.
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Volpe sat today, says it's an ongoing saga.
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Here's Boone on the situation. They decided to sit him.
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He was hitting balls off a tee place at home plate. 1/2 hour
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later they announced the starting lineup and he's not in
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it. Caballeros in it.
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That sounds like it's weird that he was hidden like that.
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Like I guess thought he was playing, Boone says.
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We're in day-to-day mode, we're playing for a lot right now and
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I have a decision to make every day with the lineup, allegedly.
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I guess he has a decision to make with lineup and whatever
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tough decision I think that is, I'll make it.
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And my hope is that he can kind of get it going here to a point
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where he's that guy. Because I think when we're at
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our best, he's out there impacting us on both sides of
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the ball and frees up Cabbie to play a different role too.
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But that said, I'll make a decision day by day.
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He's batting 171 with a 573 OPS in 63 games since June 25th.
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He's the worst in baseball in the last 72 games.
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He's terrible. He sucks out loud, he makes
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errors still, he looks like. I just don't understand how you
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can keep trotting him out at this point.
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It's not him. That's not even to talk about.
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It's not him. We'll start with Volpe.
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It's not him, it's Brian Cashman and and all the analytic guys.
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They have nobody else. They're they're going to fill
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the spot in. They don't really have anybody
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on that roster that really isn't a dominant shortstop.
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You know where the Yankees are going to be going in the
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offseason. They're going to be looking for
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a competent shortstop that actually can hit.
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I and I you know what's so funny?
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Somebody got came up to me, this guy, Mike, I want to give a
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shout out to Mike. I know you're listening to the
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show right now. You came to me a couple of days
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ago when I was running on a treadmill and you said the
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biggest mistake the Yankees made was get rid of DD Gregorius.
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He brought it up to me. Ever since Deedee Gregorius has
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been gone, they have not filled in that shortstop position since
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then, and he was the heart and soul of those teams when they
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were making runs in the playoffs.
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I absolutely agree. Deedee Gregorius, ever since he
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left, the Yankees have not found a person or player to fill in
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that spot. And it's been a big problem.
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I I think that the Yankees right now are in a position where
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they're just guessing and they're trying to figure out who
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can fill in that hole. And that's the hardest and most
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difficult defensive position besides catcher to play on a
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baseball field, especially in the playoffs.
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You're putting, you're putting a youngster in a position to fail.
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And I, I just, I, I'm not trusting that Volpe is the right
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guy in the playoffs if the Yankees are going to get over
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the hump and go to the World Series again.
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I'm scared just thinking about Volpe on this roster.
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You want to pick the mentality at this point when the Yankees
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are trying to battle through, no matter what spot they end up
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getting into, whether they win the division, whether they are
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one of the wild card teams, you want to still have the positive
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mentality. Why is it just like all right,
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say Cavallaro is playing very good and not throw Volpe under
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the bus like that and just say, all right, it's the defensive
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speed, whatever replacement if you report him in a second?
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They're both not good. I, I, I know that Caballero, at
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least you could play multiple positions.
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He obviously cooled off after his hot start after he got
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traded for from the race. But still, why didn't think of
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it that as more of a positive rather than trying to put
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yourself in the headlines much more than you have to with the
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Yankees still kind of up and down at this point, even though
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they probably make the playoffs now?
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Yeah, I mean, Boone said it's day-to-day, which what does
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day-to-day mean? I mean, he said that before and
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it sucks. And as much as the game has
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changed where it's become analytical and, you know, last
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72 games, he's the worst statistically.
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And it's you're not trying to, you know, kick him while he's
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down and pour salt in the wound. It's just, it is what it is.
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And you can work as hard as you want.
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And obviously they're showing that he's working and he cares.
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But sometimes it's just it doesn't come across.
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You got to go and start a new day and see what happens.
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But I don't think it's your best choice to run them out there
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right now. I don't, I don't know what the
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answer is, but it's I don't think it's him.
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Here's the answer. Just don't play a shortstop.
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I think you're better off. Just just get a couple of third
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basemans, have them split the difference, you know what I
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mean? Just just play the shift.
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I'm not allowed anymore. I know.
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But that's what I would advocated for it too.
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I I would, I would. Now if I had Joe Madden, I'd
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just shift, shift the third baseman.
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That's what I would. Do so if the Volpe stuff with
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Boone isn't madding enough. How?
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Let me raise you 2 really good starts by our starting pitchers
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the last two games. Only two runs given up in the
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six innings in the last two starts by Will Warren and Carlos
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Rodan. What does the bullpen do
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yesterday? Giving up ten runs in three
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innings. Today, giving up nine runs in
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three innings. And they get blown out 12:00 to
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2:00 and 11:00 to 2:00 by a real team with terrible ownership, as
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we found out, the leadership in their front office, but a much
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better baseball team than them in the Tigers right now.
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What are they doing with his pen man?
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You know what, I'm going to let Jabba go first because he knows
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a little bit more about the pen than I do, So go ahead, Jabba.
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I mean, where, where do I start? I was looking up stuff.
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And then Katie Sharp, she is great with stats on there.
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And it's the first time in franchise history the bullpens
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giving up nine plus in back-to-back games.
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And it's the first time since 1988, since 1988 and before that
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was 1908 that they've had back-to-back 10 plus run losses.
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Like this is a bad stretch. And literally we talked it's
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they went four and two against the Astros and the Blue Jays.
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And after they have two good series, which that's a good
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series. You, you go and you're above 500
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against those two teams. Put yourself in a great
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position. And not to say the Tigers aren't
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very good, but now you need to go in and keep that momentum.
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And they just they've absolutely laid an egg.
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It's I don't know what you do with the pen at this point.
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It's go, I mean, let's go Bull Durham, you sacrifice a chicken
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or what? I don't, I don't have any idea
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at this point. It's, it's, it sucks because it
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feels like you're saying the same thing over and over, but
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you who, who are you going to run out now?
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Like you don't really. Do you flip a coin and see what
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what's going to happen? You're all about no idea.
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You're all about flipping coins. So I.
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Don't know if you were talking about Max Jersey, I don't know
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if you guys saw it, but he was making fun of CB Buckner in the
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he was flipping a coin and CB calling strikes and balls.
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It's hilarious. You want to know something?
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Here's the Here's the problem with the New York Yankees.
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They spent, they spent drafts. I mean, they gave away pieces to
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bring in these pitchers. You brought in two quality
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relief pitchers. And since they've come to the
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Yankees, they haven't done really anything.
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You have Devin Williams, who was the best closer in baseball for
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how many years this goes, was a top three bullpen arm for so
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many years. He comes to the Yankees, he's
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one of the worst in the league. How bad could he get?
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No, he. He is the worst in the league.
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He's the he's he's over 50 innings, pitch qualifying.
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He has the highest ERA in base. It's horrible.
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How does that happen? I mean, I understand it's New
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York. I understand there's a lot of
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pressure, but how much pressure are you going through?
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I, I mean, it's just, it's, it's pathetic.
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And, and again, to me, the most important part of the playoffs
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is how your bullpen is doing going into the playoffs.
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And the Yankees right now don't look very good.
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As you heard from Jabba, the numbers would tell you they're
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as bad as they can be. So I, I'm I'm starting to get
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worried even if they there's a number one team in the wild card
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that that doesn't bode well for them even if they have home
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field. Advantage and I.
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Actually I'm I'm probably I'm rather than not have home field
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advantage playing a bigger ballpark, I think they got a
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better chance. Right now it's the Red Sox, so
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it's not that much bigger. But either way, like you should,
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I want to relate this back to what you were talking about what
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Chapman Jabba is like. Sometimes you see organizations
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try to have their pitchers change different styles and
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that's what all the praise I was giving him with the Dodgers like
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rebirthing all these random pitchers that were failures on
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other teams. The Yankees seem to like doing
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the opposite where I like Camila Duvall when they traded for him
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and and fish. You know this as a fantasy guy
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like from 22 to 24, like the beginning of 24.
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He was probably, along with Cater and Diaz, the best closer
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in baseball for that stretch. But it seems like they're trying
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to do many, too many bad things of what he's been doing in the
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past. And same kind of thing with
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David Bednar, just too much. You can't trust with these
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relievers. I don't know, I I just see like
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a bunch of guys that are put in a uniform and not really a team.
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Yeah, it just doesn't feel like like champion teams that win
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championships don't play like this.
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I'm sorry. You know, like they can get hot,
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but this is not what championship winning baseball
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looks like to me. There's I just don't see it.
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If they can somehow, you know, survive and get win the AL East
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with Toronto collapses, maybe they got a shot, you know,
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getting lucky with a good match up in the first round, But I
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can't see any other way they get get out of it.
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And I I really don't think they get past the first the the wild
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card. I I don't think they can if they
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if they're going to play like this, I mean, if Max free goes 6
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innings, shut up all they're still going to lose 9 nothing
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putting in the guys in this pen. I mean, think about it like,
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what are you going to? Do and who do you put in and
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what situation? Nobody knows what they're doing.
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I guess Bednar. I guess Bednar is the closer
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because. He's the only one.
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Hasn't sucked, you know, of the all the guys they got.
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I mean, Duval, you said it was a good player Once Upon a time.
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But you know, I would assume after playing that many innings
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he's got some wear and tear on the arm and he's probably
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adjusted mechanically because it hurts a little bit and he's not
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exactly the same guy. Maybe you can get healthy and
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become that guy again, but he isn't right now so who cares?
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He isn't going to help us right now.
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They got a bunch of guys you have.
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The worst one was what Jake Bird.
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They traded for him. He gave up like 20-5 runs and
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got 2 outs and they had to throw him in the minors.
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It was. Ridiculous.
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I think he's just hanging on AAA now.
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Yeah, and bringing him back, that was terrible.
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Anyway, the reason why I bring up that they could still sneak
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into the A at least because I'm going to go through a little
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injury report with you guys right now.
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I'm going to go down the list of injuries from this week and the
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big one starts in Toronto with Beau Bichette going on to the 10
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day IL. He had a left knee sprain on
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September 9th, retroactive the September 7th.
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This is a guy who had a bounce back year, but the problem with
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him was his knees since he got hurt a couple of years ago.
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Yeah, it played through a torn MCL a couple of years ago.
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He's never been the same. This is the best he's looked
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since back then and guess what? It's another knee problem right
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now. If they don't have them, I don't
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know if Toronto is a World Series contender.
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I didn't think he was. They were anyway, but definitely
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not if they don't have them, because that's the speed element
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you need in the. Playoffs, he'll be fine.
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They're just right now protecting him and making sure
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that he's going to be ready for the playoffs.
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Yeah, no, they're going to protect him to the point like,
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like you're saying, fish. It would take a monumental
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collapse for them to like miss the playoffs completely.
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I I don't love their playoff identity either way, but like
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they definitely need him in order to make it work because
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the line of death wallet is pretty good.
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Needs somebody like that that's electric to get on base and I
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get great. Is he a free agent after this
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year? Yeah, I don't think they
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extended. Him.
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And if I were the Yankees, if I were the Yankees, that's what
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I'm gunning for. I'd move him to shortstop.
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I think he's damaged goods. I take, I really, I really take
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him afraid of him. Here's the here's the play that
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he got hurt on. It was against the Yankees.
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It was Austin Wells's play at the plate and very simple,
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simple play. Got a single, We're going to
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have a play at the plate. You guys take a look that
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doesn't look like just an ordinary injury.
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He went right to the bottom of the knee.
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That's usually some kind of meniscus or like Patella tendon
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type of thing. They're not saying exactly what
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was sprained. If it's a Patella tendon sprain,
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you ain't seen them the rest of the season.
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You know, I don't care how good he is.
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It was raining that day. You could see in this.
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Not great guys, not great for them if they lose them.
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But the Yankees might benefit from it.
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We'll see with Michette again, it's some of the other injuries.
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There's another big, big injury he's been playing through a
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bunch of pain in the second-half.
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Another big time free agent. You think that the Yankees
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should get Arrow? Yeah, I'm talking about Cubs
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outfielder Kyle Tucker. We've seen a lot of calf
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injuries this year. That have turned in basketball
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into Achilles injuries that have really hurt franchises.
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I think Tucker. I mean, I had Tucker in fantasy
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as my big get. I'll tell you what, I'm very as
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a fantasy guy, pissed off at him.
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But you want a guy that's going to play through pain, but he's
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in a contractor. Not a smart move for a guy in a
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contractor. He played through a broken thumb
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for a couple of months. He played through it and he was
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bad, right? He was bad.
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So his numbers are a little depressed in the second-half of
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the year. Now he has a calf problem.
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The Cubs are definitely contenders, but they need this
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guy back, don't they? They're going to pay him and,
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and it seems like he's staying with the Cubs.
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I everything that I've read that it would be like the Yankees are
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going to have to absolutely overload a significant amount of
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money to pry him away from the Cubs.
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He loves Chicago, he wants to stay there and he believes they
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can win a championship over there.
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I I think he's going to be fine. Another guy that they're just
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going to protect and wait for the playoffs.
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He's fine. Calf injuries and calf injuries.
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I don't. Jabba with no more than half.
21:23
Injury could be 6. Weeks.
21:25
Yeah, he'll be fine. He'll be ready for the playoffs,
21:27
trust me. Yeah, they're like you said
21:29
fish. They're safe enough as a
21:31
contender now where they can try to be it minimalized even though
21:34
they have the DH in some some games as well.
21:36
Like I mentioned, I don't trust their pitching in the playoffs.
21:38
I haven't trusted their with the trade deadline moves, but they
21:41
still have built enough of a wins as well as the Brewers are
21:44
playing. They're not going to win the
21:44
division, but like, they're not the Mets and the Padres that
21:47
have just been streaky in the second-half of the season and
21:49
where they were at risk of losing their playoffs, but
21:51
they're kind of sealed at this point in the first wild card.
21:53
Yeah, it's, it sucks no matter what injury, even if you're
21:58
trying to protect him and you don't want it to get worse and
22:01
you don't really have that much time.
22:03
So I don't think it's for him to go to it that fast and for him
22:10
to have previous knee injuries kind of tells me something to
22:13
like there was something like usually you try to walk it off
22:17
like, oh, you know, I got caught, but that was very
22:20
blatantly like Ouch, that hurt immediately went to it.
22:22
He wouldn't even let IKF put his arm around him like he was
22:25
trying to get off. So it sucks for him just because
22:30
you don't want to go into the playoffs banged up because then
22:34
like we talked about earlier, it can it can affect you in more
22:37
ways than one, your performance going into your walk gear and
22:41
how you how you go into the playoffs.
22:43
So yeah, it's protecting him or not that that that's a key
22:47
component for them to get to where they want to go.
22:50
The next major injury that happened and by the way, that
22:53
they also have their closures on injured list to Danny Palencia.
22:56
The Cubs lost their closure for a short time.
22:59
We'll see how he is, but he came kind of came out of nowhere this
23:02
year and was pretty solid for them.
23:04
Trey Turner, though, pulled his hamstring and the Phillies were
23:10
competing. They're obviously clinched, but
23:12
a hamstring strain, you never know until you see the degree of
23:15
it. Didn't look great when he went
23:17
down. So we'll see what happens with
23:20
Trey Turner. Having one of the best seasons
23:22
he's had in a little while. Really kind of brought some of
23:26
the power back to his bat that he's really been the top of
23:30
their lineup, driving it, being on base for Kyle Schwarber and
23:34
Harper and those guys. I mean, and obviously Alec Bombs
23:38
had been injured all year. He's back on the IL, but they
23:41
got a lot of firepower. But they need that guy at the
23:43
top to really jump start it. Trey, Trey Turner, I remember
23:47
when he won the World Series with the Nationals.
23:49
Do you remember that? He, he, he had a hurt foot
23:53
throughout the playoffs and he played with a hurt foot.
23:56
The foot was all messed up and the guy played and, and he
23:59
played well. I am not.
24:01
He's another guy. They're going to just protect
24:04
him. They already clinched let him
24:06
sit out for the next week, week and a half before the playoffs
24:08
start and and you'll be fine. I, I he's another one.
24:12
I'm not really worried about Trey Turner.
24:14
He's I the guy plays her. The only reason why he's he's
24:17
probably going to sit out and he's going to take care of
24:20
himself because they already clinched.
24:21
They don't need him to play and the best thing to do is to make
24:24
sure that he's ready for the playoffs.
24:25
So I'm not really. Worried.
24:26
Yeah, they have enough lineup depth to so sure at the the Mets
24:29
are free falling, so the Phillies will win the division
24:31
at some point, probably either this weekend or next week.
24:34
Right now, I the the Philadelphia Phillies are
24:36
probably the team to beat. Even with Milwaukee, they're the
24:39
team they. Agree with you on that.
24:40
They were my pick at the start of the year and I don't see any
24:42
reason why they shouldn't be. Yeah they're bullpen has
24:44
blunders on occasion, but like obviously Zach Wheelers injury
24:47
hurts but they have a ton of starting depth but even that
24:50
like for the short term is not going to be as concerning.
24:52
They're definitely a threat if again, if their bullpen is even
24:55
just average, I think they're going to be fine.
24:57
I agree with. You and I don't trust Milwaukee
24:59
either. I don't need.
25:00
Milwaukee, I mentioned a few weeks ago, screams.
25:02
They just got swept. They scream 2021 Giants today
25:06
like they're having a nice season.
25:07
They can pitch, But their offense, is it that trustworthy?
25:10
I don't know. I'm with you, I'm with you.
25:12
I The Phillies are as dangerous as it gets, as much as a pain in
25:16
that. Trey Turner, obviously with his
25:17
legs, you got to protect your hamstring.
25:19
I mean, hamstrings can linger forever and the only, only break
25:23
really for a hamstring is just rest.
25:25
And he's obviously not going to get that now.
25:26
But they're line up so deep with what they can do and, and
25:29
they've been battling injuries anyways.
25:31
But yeah, they're, they're stacked, obviously.
25:33
And you got a guy like Schroeber that's kind of holding
25:35
everything down there. But they're, they're line up top
25:37
to bottom. If you get guys half healthy,
25:40
they're I, I, yeah, I, I, I would say they're one of the
25:43
favorites are top 3 for sure. Definitely top three pitching
25:46
wise. We'll see.
25:49
Yeah, yeah. We'll see Pitching wise what
25:51
they can, if it if it holds up and we'll we'll see what
25:54
happens. So just wanted to get to 1 last
25:57
part of this before I do. Just talking about the Astros.
26:00
Luis Garcia junior came back from Tommy John.
26:03
Looks like after his second start might have to have a
26:07
second procedure. Really bad luck for the
26:09
youngster. And Hader hasn't resumed
26:12
throwing yet for the Astros. So that's kind of worrisome at
26:15
this point that he hasn't even ramped back up.
26:17
So they may be in trouble over there with the pitching.
26:20
And let's finish off with the two teams you just mentioned.
26:24
The Brewers and the Mets are down a couple of Mcgill's.
26:28
Yes, Trevor McGill is injured and so is Tyler and we may not
26:34
see either one of them back during the regular season.
26:37
Trevor McGill, obviously the closer for the 1st place
26:40
Brewers. That's a problem for them.
26:43
He threw live batting practice. He's going to try to get another
26:47
batting practice in this weekend and then he might be able to
26:51
come back. He's been out for a while.
26:53
That could be part of their swoon a little bit not being
26:55
able to hold leads late in the in the game without him.
26:58
They didn't had Shelby Miller, who they acquired to take his
27:00
place and set up for him. He felt a pop.
27:03
He's got a torn elbow. He's done.
27:06
So they they kind of are going through it as well.
27:08
Tyler McGill, the Mets see what it says.
27:13
Right elbow sprain has continued to experience forearm tightness
27:17
and he is shut down. Not a great day to be in McGill.
27:21
Unfortunately. In Major League Baseball, there
27:24
you go and there it is. That's inside baseball for this
27:28
evening. Boys and by the way, Tyler
27:30
McGill was supposed to come on a show but back to out at the last
27:33
minute so and I'm not wishing anything bad harm for Tyler
27:38
McGill. I I think he's a great pitcher
27:39
and I think the Mets need him, but.
27:41
They're going to because their pitchers don't have lengths.
27:43
They have a bunch of young kids, man and.
27:46
They're pitching well. Though are you going to trust
27:48
the youngsters in a playoff? I don't know.
27:49
It's tough to tell. Right now I wouldn't.
27:52
That's a lot of. Pressure.
27:52
I don't trust anything right now.
27:53
It's a lot of pressure on a bunch of kids.
27:55
I know what job is going to say you have nothing to lose, But
27:58
it's still, to me, you're putting a kid in a position, you
28:02
know, and a lot of fans are. They're expected with the money
28:05
that they paid Juan Soto and Lingdor and all these free
28:08
agents that they brought in, they're expected to make a run.
28:11
Oh yeah, they're definitely still going to be thought of as
28:13
a good playoff identity with what they did last year, too.
28:16
And they're gonna, like I said. Who are they matched up right
28:18
now if the season were dead? So it would be the Cubs, I
28:20
believe right now. They're they're screwed.
28:22
It's flip flopping with them and the Padres, I think who gets
28:24
that second and third wild card they're.
28:26
Better off with the Padres. They do not want to play the
28:28
Cubs. Well, no, they wouldn't play.
28:29
They wouldn't play the Padres. In that case, I believe they
28:31
would play the Phillies again. Then they'll be even more.
28:33
I'm, I'm worried about the Phillies too.
28:34
I agree with you. I think the Mets right now,
28:37
they're going to have to try to be creative with kind of those
28:39
stretch guys at the moment. That's why I agree with.
28:41
I think they need McGill because he could pitch in both roles and
28:43
still be, I guess, valuable in that way because you can't trust
28:47
these guys to get. Late I just don't trust the
28:48
young kids I I'm not about saying the young kids aren't
28:51
good McLean special tongue is good.
28:53
They've got some good sprung. These are good young pitchers,
28:57
but you're you cannot trust that these guys are going to be your
29:03
guys in the playoffs. It's scary.
29:05
And if I was a kid and I again, Jabba's done it before, but
29:09
Jabba had veteran players like you're talking about Derek
29:13
Jeter. Look at the players that Jabba
29:15
had on his roster when when they won a World Series in 2009.
29:19
You're talking about Hall of farmers from top to bottom, mark
29:22
to share as a borderline Hall of Famer at first base, CC
29:25
Sabathia, Derek Jeter, Mariano Rivera, you go up and down.
29:29
When you look at his team, you have Lindor, OK, You have Soto,
29:33
OK, Pete Alonso. After that, they're all young.
29:37
Nemo, you're going to bet on these youngsters.
29:38
You're going to bet and nobody in that with that roster as far
29:41
as pitching is concerned, where you're going to trust that these
29:44
guys are going to have your back.
29:46
And Clay Holmes, are you going to bet him but on him?
29:49
No, Clay Holmes is not. Going to he's going to be in the
29:50
bullpen, but that's what I'm saying.
29:53
I'd be worried if I was a Mets fan with the pitching and and
29:56
what the pitching is going to give you in length.
29:59
So I I disagree. I think the Mets are in a lot of
30:02
trouble. That's that's all I.
30:03
Mean it's just depth. I will have I will have the
30:05
Nimos on my back at all times. One of the greatest families
30:08
ever. I'm sure I know you hang out
30:10
with his brother and, and you know the family.
30:12
So that's great. I just, and I, I think Nimmo is
30:16
a great defensive player. I just, I think there's a lot of
30:19
pressure, not on the not on Nimmo, but the young pitchers.
30:23
I think the Mets are expected to compete with the money that
30:27
Steve Cohen paid. Remember Steve Cohen said five
30:29
year plan, they're going to win a World Series.
30:32
It's been over five years and now they just paid 1 soda,
30:34
almost $800 million. I mean, if you're a Med fan,
30:37
you'd have to be worried about depending on these youngsters.
30:41
And you have Sanga, who they paid money to come here to
30:43
America, who's now in the minor leagues in Syria.
30:46
He'll be in the bullpen in the playoffs, so.
30:47
All right, ladies and gentlemen, we call this.
30:49
What's that smell? Hold up, what is that smell?
30:52
What's that smell? Wow, you don't see that every
31:00
day. All right, ladies and gentlemen,
31:02
it's pretty simple. This is an easy segment.
31:05
You know how it how it gets done.
31:07
We're going to tell you a story and we're going to tell you what
31:09
it smells like. It could smell like whatever you
31:12
want it to smell like in speedies, whatever smells he's
31:15
trying to bring out of this. Feature Sean Smith.
31:18
I mean, that would it's going to be interesting anyways, I'm
31:22
going to go poops, I'm going to go fish.
31:25
I'm going to go speedy. Jabba me.
31:27
Here we go. All right.
31:29
So to start off my What's that smell?
31:31
Let me raise the music. A little louder.
31:32
It's a little low. But I'm going to be going to
31:35
this past weekend of NFL games. We all saw the first Sunday of
31:40
week one with the NFL. And we also talked about the
31:42
Colts and Dolphins matchup that we saw, of course, a lot of good
31:46
things. If you're a Colts fan, if you
31:47
want to see it offensively and defensively.
31:50
And of course offensively, Errol can attest to the Daniel Jones
31:53
performance. But I want to go and focus on
31:55
the defense more because new Colt safety Cam Bynum actually
31:59
got himself a pick in the first quarter of the game against two.
32:03
And I want to focus on what the hell is this touchdown
32:06
celebration? I don't know what that is right
32:08
there. That's like a ants in my pants
32:10
kind of dance right there. I'm going to replay it again for
32:13
you guys. I don't know what that is.
32:14
Oh my God he he literally is like gyrating his hips while
32:18
also I don't even know what is going on there.
32:20
It looks like he has ants in his pants.
32:22
I'm not sure, maybe he has. Some look that, look that up.
32:24
He's been practicing that like there's videos of him.
32:26
From like 10 years ago, right? I've seen that exactly 10 years
32:29
ago he practiced when he wanted to do that dancing.
32:32
Hey Cam. Looks like you got it.
32:34
However, it's a little little goofy.
32:36
Little goofy to point out, however.
32:38
Great performance he had himself a game, honestly.
32:39
But what does that smell like? Well, it smells like a dude wipe
32:43
after Daniel Jones was finished with that Miami Dolphins team.
32:46
So there you go. Cam Bynum was on that Vikings
32:48
team that loved to do a lot of those crazy celebrations before
32:51
he signed with the Colts, so he probably got it from there.
32:55
All right, I'll take over the next one.
32:58
Tommy, you got to hit mute when you play videos and download
33:00
this myself. There we go.
33:03
Oh, here it is. We talked about, I talked about
33:06
this in the Sports Minute a week ago.
33:08
Yes, Drake the artist put a $300,000.
33:14
Bet I am a legend. Sinner.
33:16
The mush. To win the US Open.
33:20
But what is it everybody know about Drake other than he got
33:23
clapped by Kendrick last summer? He.
33:25
Loses every bet that he puts in. He loses every bet and he tells
33:31
everybody about it so we can all watch him lose together.
33:35
We knew that Sinner was going to lose, who was just unstoppable
33:40
until the bet was placed by Drake.
33:42
What a mistake. Of course, he fell to Alcaraz
33:46
for the second time in A major this year.
33:48
He won the other two he finished second into.
33:51
Guess what Drake bet on him on both of the ones he lost this
33:57
calendar year. What does that smell like?
34:00
Well, Drake, it smells like syrup sandwich flavored humble
34:04
pie. Time for you to sit down.
34:07
I did the I did the one three months ago with him doing the
34:10
Leafs bet and now he just stole. He also bet on the the Ravens to
34:14
beat the Bills and like I said, we all know how how that turned
34:16
out. To know when I was making my
34:18
pics. All right, I'll move on to a
34:21
story about Bill Belichick and his girlfriend getting rejected
34:26
by for four different trademark by the US Patent and Trademark
34:30
Office, which basically there were four different of Bill
34:33
Belichick's sayings. The Bela straighter in 2009, do
34:36
your job 2013 and then the two with the Super Bowl parade no
34:38
days off and they ignore the noise and they're trying to
34:41
spoof it like Taylor Swift with parentheses.
34:44
Bill's version just trying to be unoriginal whatsoever.
34:47
Just now trying to shed more Taylor Swift highlights into the
34:51
NFL, too. So what does that smell like?
34:53
It smells like new Taylor Swift. Everest Tourist singer Sean
34:57
Smith, sweaty after losing his wrestling match with Harold and
35:01
Java, doused in some famous North Carolina tar performing
35:05
for those Swifties. Speedy has the most elaborate
35:08
smells like I don't even. Know where to his.
35:11
Smell just doesn't stop it. Like two things.
35:13
It's it's a whole. I think corporate Sean Smith.
35:18
I would have just said it smelled.
35:19
Like it's like a biosphere. I I think I would have just said
35:22
it smells like Sean Smith's ass, which is probably stanky.
35:28
I'm going to go with what's that smell is, is I think I smell an
35:33
ass whooping coming and there's going to need a lot of dude
35:37
wipes when Terence Bud Crawford from Omaha, NE takes on Canelo
35:44
in Vegas on Saturday. And probably half of Omaha or
35:49
Nebraska will be there representing because Bud travels
35:53
very, very deep as well as Canelo does.
35:55
But it's going to smell like championships coming back.
35:59
And I know you're a boxing guy Errol, so don't go against Bud
36:02
Crawford because I will fly there and cut your legs off.
36:05
As long as she's using dude wipe and taking care of my 2 hole I'm
36:08
good. First of all, just so you know,
36:10
I hate Canelo Alvarez. I've always hated Canelo
36:13
Alvarez. Never did never liked him.
36:16
I I didn't say he wasn't a good fighter.
36:18
I'd never liked him. And if you would ask me right
36:22
now who's winning that fight, it's going to be Bud.
36:24
I mean, he's ambidextrous. He can fight right hand, he can
36:27
fight left-handed. He put on some weight for this
36:29
fight. He looks sensational.
36:30
He put on good weights, not bad weight.
36:33
Bud put on great weight for this fight.
36:36
He worked really, really hard. You see the training.
36:38
I've watched every bit of it. Go watch Netflix, The two dot
36:42
the documentary that they have right now on Netflix.
36:44
Bud looks sensational. I'm so excited for Bud.
36:47
I want to see him like the flow of Canelo.
36:49
Canelo has been ducking and weaving some of the best
36:51
fighters in the primes of their career.
36:53
Bud is in the prime of his career right now and this is the
36:56
best time to lay Canelo out. I think this is going to be a
37:01
great fight. I think Bud's going to dominate
37:04
it and Canelo cannot stop the the ability Bud has on stepping
37:09
in and stepping out and be able to change both sides of the way
37:13
he fights right hand in a left. Hand Interesting to see if Bud
37:15
can handle a punch though going up two weight classes he could.
37:18
100% I've seen I've seen bug but.
37:21
First of all, he can handle a bullet.
37:23
He can handle a punch. Well, here's the thing.
37:24
Bud trains with heavyweights and he spars with heavyweights.
37:28
So he does. You're not telling me something
37:30
I don't know. He's 45 minutes north of me.
37:32
Yeah, so, but I've, I've been following Bud for a long, long
37:36
time and this guy trains with heavyweights and does a very
37:39
does a good number on on heavyweights.
37:42
I think he's going to be fine with Canelo.
37:43
Canelo doesn't hit as hard as he used to.
37:45
And I think Canelo to me is washed up and he should shut his
37:48
mouth and zipper his lips because when he goes to these
37:51
reports, when he goes to these weigh insurance, he stands there
37:55
like he's the Canelo Alvarez from 1015 years ago.
37:58
And even when he was there 10-15 years ago, who did he beat in
38:02
the prime of their career? Couldn't beat triple GI Mean
38:04
that was an absolute robbery. Triple G won two out of the
38:07
three fights. It was absolutely despicable
38:10
what the, you know, the boxing world did to triple G.
38:13
And Triple G was at the tail end of his career when he beat
38:16
Canelo. So that's all I'm going to say.
38:18
All right? My, what's that smell goes to
38:21
what's going on in the world right now?
38:23
Just think about this. I'm a Florida State fan.
38:25
Did anybody hear about this story?
38:27
4 men arrested on the connection of the shooting of FSU Ethan
38:33
Pritchard Tallahassee, FL Four people have been arrested in
38:37
connection of the shooting of Florida State linebacker Ethan
38:40
Pritchard, Florida Department of Law Enforcement Commissioner
38:43
Mark Glass said on Wednesday. Glass said that Pritchard was
38:47
not doing anything wrong when he was ambushed outside of his
38:50
apartment last month. He added that Pritchard was
38:53
dropping off family members and an aunt and a child when he was
38:57
shot in the back of his head. OK, you know what that smells
39:02
like? It smells like people don't know
39:04
what the F they're doing. They put themselves in in harm's
39:07
way and it unfortunately puts him in a harm's way for trying
39:11
to help people and put himself in in a position where he's
39:14
going to be almost killed. I mean, it's a terrible story
39:18
and I don't want to mention any of the politics, but what's
39:20
going on in the world right now, it's just despicable.
39:24
And and, and and, and people are getting murdered innocently,
39:27
getting, you know, stabbed, shot.
39:31
Why can't we just get along? We're a country.
39:33
We should be together on everything that's going on in
39:35
the world right now. We shouldn't be killing each
39:37
other. It's just a horrible story.
39:40
Thank God Ethan Pritchard is OK and he's going to survive and
39:44
hopefully play football again. So.
39:46
Errol, we talked about it earlier today.
39:48
We can disagree on politics. We can call each other idiots.
39:52
But since we're airing it out and we talked, it's like, OK,
39:55
cool, let's go hang out and watch the game.
39:57
No, who cares? It's just politics.
40:00
Who cares? It's not everything and people
40:04
make it everything. It's crazy.
40:06
Like any of the politicians care about use individually anyway.
40:09
Let's just get why. Are we killing you people?
40:12
Why are we killing people? Why are we shooting our own
40:14
people? It's just we're stabbing people
40:17
that innocent people are dying. And this is a horrible story.
40:21
He did nothing. He was he he took his Anna and
40:24
and a child home and he gets shot in the back of the head.
40:28
The guy suffice. 4 Four people jumped him, though.
40:31
Four people, yeah. So.
40:33
Four people were arrested. No, they were involved with it.
40:36
They were involved with it. So this was like an organized
40:40
hit on this guy basically, is what they're saying.
40:42
So they're they gave the names Jayden Batson, Karen Miller,
40:47
Korone Miller, Germany, Atkins and another minor.
40:51
That's what they said. So those are the names.
40:54
So honestly, it's a horrible story and thank God Prichard is
40:59
going to survive. I mean, you get shot in the back
41:01
of the head and you survive something.
41:03
Like this. Very lucky the way it hits you I
41:05
guess. It's a horrible story,
41:07
unfortunately. Fortunately, he's safe, but it's
41:11
unfortunate that you have crazy, ridiculous people out there.
41:14
And that's why I don't even know what it smells like.
41:16
Smells like people are just out of their friggin minds and, and
41:19
honestly, there has to be something done.
41:21
What's going on in the world right now?
41:23
This is this is not safe. It's not a safe place to live
41:26
when you're hanging out on a bus in North Carolina and, or a
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train and, and somebody sitting there and somebody just comes
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right over your shoulder and stabs you to death.
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It's, it's a horrible, it's horrible what's going on right
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now in the world. It's, it's, it's, I'm scared.
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I, I'm a, I'm a pretty big guy. I'm, I tell my girlfriend all
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the time, do not leave with, don't go somewhere without me
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because I'm afraid that something's going to happen.
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You know, so it is a really scary world right now.
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So my, my, my heart goes out to Ethan Pritchard.
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My heart goes out to the Kirk family.
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What happened today? I mean, it's it's a horrible,
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horrible story. I don't want to get into it.
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I'm not getting into politics, but it's a horrible story right
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now and I know that's why goody didn't come on the show tonight
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Speedy, any guests? Yes, we do have guests. 8:45 on
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Monday. Is your guy the one you met at
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the Heisman Trophy? USA TODAY college football
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reporter and enterprise writer Scooby Axon will be joining us
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again. I got a lot to talk with Mr.
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Scoopster because he told me he thinks Travis Hunter is going to
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be a breakout player. It'll be very interesting.
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So that's 8:45 on Monday and then on Wednesday returning to
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is our guy Jeremy. Mitzi will be coming back on at
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9:45. I can't wait.
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So. So I guess our two guests that
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will argue about the gremlin well.
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Yeah, well, I, by the way, I've got my Gremlin shirt at the
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Gremlin. I got it made.
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Jacksonville Jaguars #12 I am going to promote the Gremlin.
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So maybe eventually he will, you know, go out there and tell him
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so. What the back says Gremlin?
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Yeah, it's. Going to say the Gremlin.
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A Gremlin. Nice, I just wanted I wanted to
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