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MLB talk with Matt Snyder & the ABS, Steven M. Sipple on the Cornhuskers & Trent's Picks presented by Circa Sports · The Lunch Rush with Trent Condon

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Hi, Miller Condon, welcome back. Our second hour of our program
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will take you until 2:00 off the bench at that time, 2 until 5.
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Hawk Central goes tonight, by the way, Hawk Central tonight
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coming up later on this evening. Still to come, Stephen M simple
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head to Lincoln. But right now let's talk some
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baseball. He's our guy.
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Matt Snyder, CBSSports.com. One week or not quite one week
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approaching, one week in the book.
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Matt, good to talk to you as always.
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Love this segment. I want to start with ABS because
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I can't get enough of it and I'm going to.
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I go out of my way to find where CB Buckner is behind the plate.
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I don't care if I want to watch the teams or not, I just want to
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see this guy that's clearly overmatched and shouldn't have
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his job get overturned time after time after time.
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I love IBS, your thoughts? Yeah, I something I hadn't
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thought about, which I feel stupid for not having thought
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about it, but it adds an extra layer of the interactive crowd
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participation because you'll see if if somebody in the opposing
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team challenges something and then they're wrong, then there's
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a big roar from the home crowd or vice versa where somebody at
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home challenges the call and they wanted the crowds all into
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it. Like that's another extra little
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wrinkle. But I think the main takeaways
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for me is it's good to have this.
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There are so many big pitches that can change the complexion
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of that bat, which in turn can change the complexion of the
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game. The umpires don't want to be on
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the hook for those. We have the opportunity to fix
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that. It's so good that it's a media
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and doesn't take long. As opposed to sometimes when
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there's A tag on the bases and it's 3 minutes and you're like
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what are we even doing here? Just get it over with.
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It doesn't happen with this. It's just cut and dry.
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Did it hit the strike zone or not?
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It's great how fast it is. And, and, and I think another
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thing, and I've heard several broadcasts talking about this,
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you know, I, I have to flip around so I, I don't hear every
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broadcast what they say, but I have to imagine it's happening
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in a lot of broadcasts. And they're pointing out, I
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think this is going to give people a new found respect for
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actually how good the empires are because most of the misses
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every once in a while you get bad ones.
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And yet there are bad empires in general, as you said, Ken, but
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for the most part, they're pretty much right like 95% of
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the time. And when they do miss it, it's
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by what, .1 inch? So I hope that most people
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understand they're so good. By no means is this Major League
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Baseball saying we don't trust these guys.
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We're just giving the avenue to not like have them get doxed
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after a huge call and have their lives ruined.
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Anything like that. It's, hey, we've got this
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mechanism, we can fix the bad calls.
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And most of the empires seem to go with it.
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You know, like right when there's a challenge, they'll
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kind of say, all right, they're challenging it, they step away,
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they're smiling a lot of time. I I think it's great.
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Yeah, I do too. And I'm I'm glad you mentioned
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that about how the empire is receiving it.
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I'll go back to oh God, 15 years ago.
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So so Tim McClellan and the late Eric Cooper, both the Moines
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guys, they used to they were in here all the time.
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It kicks. You know, they had a show on
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Tuesday night, believe it or not, I'm side view was
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phenomenal. If you were based, it really
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was. So I remember asking them when,
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when replay came, you know, their thought they didn't like
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it a bit, did not like it, no place for it in the game.
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But very quickly they changed their tune and we're much more
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receptive to it. So I'm wondering those umpires
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that really don't aren't loving the ABS, if they'll come around
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to seeing the benefits and how this does make the game better.
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And you think about some of the historic terrible calls.
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We can think about Denkinger. We can think about Jim Joyce at
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first base on the Armando Galraga Perfect game.
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You could see how much it just tore Joyce up.
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He knew he missed it. He was accountable.
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If there's replay there, that's a perfect game and he's not on
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the hook for that. I don't think that you want to
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be umpires for the most part. You know, you have some famous
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ones that people know for being good, and there are some who
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make the Hall of Fame. But for the most part, the only
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time you talk about an umpire is to talk about how much he stuck.
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And if we can fix some of those misses, then you can avoid that
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fate to to an extent. One other thing I've noticed or
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noticed right before the year began, a couple people pointed
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this out is the incredible shrinking baseball players that
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is happening across the league. Suddenly guys that were 6 foot
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one are back down to being 5 foot 10.
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And we're seeing this happen in a lot of different ones because
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it goes by right, your measurements.
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Do I have this right, Matt Snyder?
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That this is a way that things are measured and, well, it's not
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worth it to steal an inch anymore on your baseball?
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Card. It's not, no, because every
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individual player has an exact height and that's how they
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determine the height of the strike zone.
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So the plate's always going to be the same, obviously, but the
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height, obviously Jose Altuve's strike zone is much different
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than Aaron Judges. So every player has an official
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measurement. And I actually got a chuckle out
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of that. It took me back to like my
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freshman year in high school when we looked at the football
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program the first year and I was like, why is this?
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Show me as two inches taller, like 15 lbs more.
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And my dad was like, oh, that's just what they do.
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That's what they're trying to make everybody look bigger.
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That's awesome. Good self.
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Well, let's get to let's get to the plane.
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What we've seen so far this year, again, four or five games
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into it. Just maybe a take away for two.
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Let's do the good prior to the slow start.
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What have you seen that surprised you in a positive
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fashion a handful of games into the year?
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Yeah, I mean, there's only so much we can do right?
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Because we don't want to go crazy and overreacting.
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Rangers pretty good. I mean, to start in Philly and
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then go to Baltimore and be sitting three and one right now.
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And that game they lost in Philadelphia on opening day.
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Gosh, like basically 2 swings to the bat, three run, home run and
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A2 run home run for the Phillies.
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They're right. They're really close to being
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undefeated. Impressive for me the Guardians
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to go into to Seattle and make 2 out of that series and then go
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to LA and win again. I, I don't love the roster, but
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we we can have this conversation every year with the Brewers and
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the Guardians. It's just they get as much
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possible out of the talent that they have.
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So those are probably the main ones.
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I thought the Braves were going to be a good bounce back team
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and they took two or three from what I think is going to be a
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good Royals team and they shut down what I think is going to be
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a good offense from the age. And you know, on the flip side,
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the A's OM four now, it is a really tough task when you go
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from spring training in Arizona and you're going to be home at
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Sacramento to go to Toronto and then go to Atlanta.
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So that's a tall order to start the season.
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But OM4 and not a ton of offense so far for them.
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Very disappointing. Two teams that were certainly
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under the radar but caught the eye of both the hosts here, the
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Pittsburgh Pirates and the Sacramento or just the A's,
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whatever we're calling them until they make their way to
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Vegas on two teams that we were not alone.
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There was a lot of buzz here. Slow starts out of either of
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them concerns or it's baseball. We're four games in.
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Well, on the Pirates, you can make the argument that they
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should, that they almost could have swept them back.
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I mean, they were O'Neil Cruz. If they had a real center
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fielder, they probably get that of the first on Opening Day and
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you never know how the rest of that game goes.
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And then they lost an extras when they had a lead in the
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second game. But you know, you do have O'Neil
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Cruz as your center fielder and stuff like that is going to
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probably happen. So that counts part of the part
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of the game. I, I, I thought they didn't have
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that much roster depth for me. I was a little less bullish on
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them than other people were, but you know, again, gosh, it's only
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four games and going to at Mets and at Reds start the season.
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Not the easiest thing to start the season 4 because the Mets
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are probably going to be pretty good and the Reds look really
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good so far. Took two or three from a playoff
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Red Sox team and then got the great pitching from Chase Burns
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in the Bolton last night getting that 2 nothing win.
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I'm headed to Cincinnati tomorrow for Paul's games
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against the Reds. And interesting.
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Yeah. Like, how do schemes bounce
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back? I don't think that opening day
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was fully his fault, but we can't completely let him off the
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hook. I mean, he was walking, guys.
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He wasn't getting outs. But yeah, there was tough
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contact. And yeah, there were fly balls
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that should have been caught. So it'll be interesting to see
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how he bounces back. I assume he's going to be
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dominant and amazing. Four games into actually three
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games in and I was just stunned by the way Giants fans.
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I don't know what they expect. I mean, it's the Yankees that
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are in the they're dugout. It's not like it's the Rockies.
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The Yankees are pretty good. This just in.
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But the wait, Giants fans, I mean, they he does not have a
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very long runway. If it's if if you listen to the
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fans, they do not like. How do we say his name?
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Vitello. Tony.
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Yeah. Tony Vitello, the new skipper of
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the Giants. I'm shocked.
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Four games in and they want him gone.
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Well, part of it is college guy. And then after the game he tries
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to take accountability and say which I'm good, I like
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accountability. But he said, oh, I that's
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probably on me. I shouldn't have given him a
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fire and brimstone speech. It's like, all right, well,
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these aren't kids. What do you do?
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You go into Major League Baseball players and you're
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yelling and screaming and, like, punch in the wall or, like, most
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guys are going to roll their eyes at that and be like, dude,
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we have 162 of these. This isn't college.
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You need to make an adjustment here.
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But they got the W last night. He got his win.
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He got under his belt by the skin of their teeth.
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They had that 3 nothing lead. It shrunk down to 32 in the
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night, but they got the win. Yeah.
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Like, you're going to go through bouts where you don't hit in
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that ballpark. And the Yankees pitching staff
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is among the best pitching Staffs in baseball.
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So it might have just been a bad timing thing, but I can see why
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him trying to come right out of the gates and manage like his
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college is not going to rub fans the right way.
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And again, like last night, he completely changed the lineup
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around and it's like this is 162 game grind.
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You can't react like that. But of course it works.
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So I'm sure that he'll he'll leave the line up the same for
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the next game until they lose a couple more than he'll switch
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things up again. We'll see.
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I expect them to be mediocre, just around 81 wins again for
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like the fourth straight year. A reminder once again, Mets
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weekly column with his power rankings.
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A much listened read every single week and he usually joins
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us once we get into the heart of baseball season on Mondays as we
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react to it. I thought you had a really good
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note in yours as you have the Cubs sitting at #10 and your
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updated power numbers. Pete Crow, Armstrong, three bun
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hints all last year. He's got 2 already this season.
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Just to put that in the back of the bind a little bit, maybe
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bump up that batting average and on base percentage just a little
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bit more. Overall, though, your thoughts
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on the Cubs. Love the start we saw from Kate
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Horton. Love what we saw out of Cabrera
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so far in the season. Your thoughts overall on the
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your Cubs? Yeah, there's always a wrestling
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match in my head at the start of the year between analysts and
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fan. And then from a fan perspective,
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really angry losing opening day, really angry to lose two of
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three from what looks like a bad national team.
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Of course, they kicked the crap out of the Phillies last night
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and there's three and one now. Stuff like this happens.
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I will say it kind of when Ken brought up the Giants fans and
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they like, it did cross my mind at how I felt in the Cubs.
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It's like you have the entire offseason to wait, then you get
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excited for the season and then if you're the Giants, you get
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your butt kicked for three games and look absolutely thoughtful
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and doing so. It's hard to not overreact
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because these are the only games we've had to go on.
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And you get so excited for the season and you get all the
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pageantry of opening day and everybody comes out and then you
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lay an egg. Your team lays an egg and you're
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like, why was I even excited? You go through those emotions
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and it's just we got to we got to get back into the grind.
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But for the Cubs, I would say I would much rather be 3 and one
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than two and two right now. But in the grand scheme of
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things, everything's fine. And I still think it's going to
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be a really good team this season.
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And I still think that the Cubs are going to win the Central.
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But of course, seeing the Brewers pull off that win on
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Sunday, I was like, man, they're just they're going to do this
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crap again all year, aren't they?
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So I don't know seems. Like it?
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Let me bring up the Blue Jays. I love the fact that the
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strikeout numbers. Gossman strikes out 11 Opening
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day. Cease outdoes him the next day,
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struck out a dozen. Eric Lauer, who wasn't even
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going to be in the rotation or is only going to be in there
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briefly, he strikes out nine now.
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Cody Ponce goes down last night. Bieber's a ways away.
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The Blue Jays off and running. Would you say that?
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Yeah, I think so. I mean, last night was weird.
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I know. Losing 14 five to the Rockies of
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all teams, it's probably a little jolt to the system there.
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But hey, you're, you're when you start 3 and O you have the
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luxury. You can drop one there.
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I assume they bounce back and they take the series from the
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Rockies and then they're going to be 5 and one through 6 games.
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And that is awfully, awfully good.
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Need to get the, as you've mentioned alluded to a little
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bit there. That rotation.
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You need to get healthier. The rotation between Bieber and
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you, Savage especially, but there's depth losses there with
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Barrios and and Boden Francis, though, hey, Lauer's the type of
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guy that you can plug in there. Hopefully Ponce is OK.
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That's a bummer. Did all that work back to Major
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League Baseball? And then that happens.
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And then the bullpen only can only string itself together for
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so long. But man sees increased use of
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the change up. We've hardly seen that from him
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before. If that's an added element to
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his arsenal there. I mean, we've seen him finish in
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the top five inside on voting twice before.
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That could be quite a 1-2 combo with Gossman and Seized.
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And if you look later in the season, you know what you Savage
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can do, You know what Bieber can do all of a sudden?
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That's quite a rotation right there.
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So some news from earlier today, a guy that we've been hearing
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about for the last couple of years now, Cole Emerson
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potentially making his way up now before his debut, he got an
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extension. We saw this with Jackson Cheerio
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with the Brewers, and that was kind of all eye opening.
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So we've seen it before. Maybe it's not as big a surprise
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as when Jackson got his with Milwaukee.
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But take us in a little bit here.
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And is this going to become the norm for these top flight guys
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even before they're in the majors?
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Hey, let's get them signed up for a while.
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There was a wave of them a while back and then teams got away
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from them because a couple didn't work out.
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I Scott Kingery comes to mind with the Phillies.
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There was something there and it just didn't really come to
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fruition. And then teams go away.
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I think everything goes in waves.
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So I have no doubt that teams will try to find a good price
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point. But there's also, if you have a
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top client talent like let's say Polsky for example, he's not
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going to sign like a six in eight years, $60 million deal.
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He's just not. So I I assume teams will get it,
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will continue to try and there are, there are targets you can
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always find, OK, this guy's not going to try to break the bank.
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We think he's going to can be an everyday regular for a long way.
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So let's shoot and and somebody like the Brewers, especially
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with Jackson Chario, that that looks like it's going to be a
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great deal. But I don't know if we're going
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to see it more frequently. It's just something to keep in
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mind as there are top prospects coming up.
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If it looks like he's going to be a regular, even a friend's
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All Star, maybe teams will take a shot there and say, hey, let's
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hit on something here. I know he'd already been in the
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majors for a little bit, but something like Ozzy Albee's
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where you get an incredibly team friendly deal and that can help
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you sign guys elsewhere and build around that.
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So yeah, I mean, Emerson looks like a really, really good
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prospect. So there's a chance that this
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could turn into a very, very club friendly deal, you know,
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going back 15 years or so, something like Ryan Braun, Evan
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Longoria, again, they were in the majors before they signed,
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but they were really, really early in their Major League
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stance when they signed long term deals that ended up being
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very club friendly. PCA signed one this weekend as
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well. Hey, let me ask you about the
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Cardinals. I don't think they're going to
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be very good, but they might be fun.
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I I've watched I've watched a couple of innings this weekend
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in between basketball. Obviously that Weatherholt, he
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gets your attention. Rookie playing second base.
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We know Mason Wynn is worth the price of admission on any given
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day. I'm not sure they're going to be
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able to pitch, but maybe this is a team that, look, the
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attendance numbers aren't going to be what they were, I don't
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think. But maybe this is a fun team,
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and maybe that'll give Cardinal fans something to at least have
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hope for. Look, if you're going to root
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for a bad team, I would much rather be one that can hit and
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can't pitch, one that can't hit at all, right?
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Because you don't want to watch 2, nothing, 21 losses every
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single game. It would much rather be 8:00 to
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5:00 and you have a chance to come back no matter what the
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score is. Much like on opening day against
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the Rays where they gave up that Hugh Jennings that responded
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with the Hugh Jennings. Yeah, between Weatherholt,
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Herrera, when you know, there's still Nolan Gorman and Jordan
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Walker are not too old at all. They could still get things
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figured out. You could see power up and down
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that lineup for sure. And there's been very
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encouraging fans from Walker. He's still not even 24 years
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old, and Gorman's not even 26. So between all those names in
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there, yeah, it could be a very exciting offense in support of a
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staff that just can't pitch. So hey, that's always a lot of
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fun. As I said, if you're going to
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have to go through a rebuild, it might as well be a team that can
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put a bunch of big crooked numbers on the board instead of
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1 where it's just pulling teeth and thinking, man, the pitchers
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have to be perfect so we can't win.
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That's just not fun. Matt, as you've known in our
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decade of conversing about baseball, I sometimes I take you
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down weird directions. So they got another one here for
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you to kick off our baseball season conversations.
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So we started talking about the ABS system and a way that's
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taking away pitch framing. But what if we go the other way?
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What if it now becomes a pitch that is a strike and now the
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catcher tries to make it look like a ball?
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And then you have them waste a challenge because of, I mean,
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could we see and these these catchers have done such a great
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job of becoming great framers and it's such an important part
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or became such an important part of the job that is going to
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dissipate a little bit here. Could we go the complete
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opposite direction? Now I'm making strikes and
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framing it to look like a ball. I had never even thought of
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that. So, you know, at some point
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there will be a team, whether it's somebody like the Brewers
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or the Rays and the way that they always try to find these
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avenues that no one else is looking at.
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The Astros under Jeff Lew now, when he first took over, yeah, I
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could totally see a team trying to figure out how to exploit it
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and re teaching the catchers. The only thing I would say in
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the near term is these pitchers are so good.
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The stuff moves so much so fast, there's hardly any reaction
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time. The catchers are robotic in how
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they train themselves and how they do things.
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It'd be awfully hard to try to change course.
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So we would have to. It would be years down the road
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when they were more used to this kind of extreme framing.
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Nowadays where you know, they used to if the ball was a little
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outside the corner, they used to just move the glove in a little
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bit or maybe like turn their hand to the side.
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Now they start way outside and like catch it with their glove
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on the move in the middle of the zone and the moving target.
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I don't know how you unteach yourself that and go to the
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opposite way. That seems like it would be
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really, really hard. But the fact that they have
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evolved shows that it's possible to to change habits.
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So maybe that was an interesting one.
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Yeah, it is last thing for me. Speaking of changing habits, my
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habit was ESPN on Sunday night. No longer will that be the case,
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did I? I watched the Guardians in the
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Seahawk are the Seahawks and the Mariners on on Sunday evening on
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Peacock, watched Hancock. Unbelievable out of him on on
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Sunday night, but your thoughts on the broadcast overall and
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what did you think? Apparently the analysts it's
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going to be revolving analyst of course, Panetti is the constant.
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Your thoughts on Peacock? What they put on on Sunday
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night, assuming you saw it. Very encouraging start.
20:06
I think Bonetti is outstanding and it's such a good idea to go
20:11
with one color analyst from each team because we've seen for
20:14
years on social media fans get used to in baseball.
20:18
This isn't like the NFL where we watch a different national
20:21
announcer every single week. Fans get used to your regional
20:24
guy and there's so many games. You can't expect someone like
20:28
John Smoltz to know everything about every single team.
20:30
You just can't. It's unreasonable.
20:33
So you get one expert from each team in there and the fans are
20:37
used to that guy or woman, whatever the case may be, who
20:42
you hear that person talking to you every single game.
20:45
That's your comfort zone. You have an outstanding play by
20:48
play guy. You have your color guy.
20:50
I think about for the Cubs, JD will be in the booth with
20:52
Panetti. That will be amazing.
20:54
J DS awesome and you get used to those guys.
20:58
I think it is an outstanding idea.
21:00
I wish somebody would have come up with it sooner.
21:02
It'll be very interesting to see if they start going to that for
21:06
the playoffs, how that works, because the playoffs is
21:09
different. You know, usually the color
21:12
guys, they're free to go for the playoffs, so they might have to
21:15
earn a little extra pay. But I just speaking from
21:18
experience as a fan, if the Cubs are on a Fox broadcast, no
21:23
offense to John Smoltz, I would much rather see JD in the booth
21:26
but small just because he's with the Cubs every single day and he
21:29
knows them very well. Yes, he does.
21:31
So it's a great. Team.
21:32
I think it's a brilliant idea. Cardinals and Detroit Verlander
21:37
scheduled to pitch Sunday Night Baseball.
21:39
It's still a Peacock of when does NBC pick it up?
21:42
Any idea? Maybe after the NBA, I'm.
21:43
Guessing. I don't know.
21:44
I don't know. I actually I have Fubo and they
21:46
have a dispute with NBC so I have to be a Peacock anyway, so
21:50
I don't know. Monday or two.
21:53
Here's another thing I want to say about what they've done so
21:55
far. Mariners, Guardians, and then
21:58
Tigers, Cardinals. How cool is it that they're
22:00
actually rotating and revolving teams instead of just having it
22:03
be like Yankees, Red Sox or Dodgers, Giants every?
22:06
Single. Week Sunday Night Baseball on
22:09
ESPN had really devolved into it's only a handful of national
22:13
teams. It's nice to see something
22:14
different. Good stuff.
22:16
Talk to you next Tuesday, pal. Appreciate you coming on.
22:19
As always, love this conversation with you.
22:21
We'll talk to you in a week's time.
22:22
Thank you, Matt Snyder. Take care.
22:24
Good to talk to you. Matt Snyder, CBSSports.com as we
22:27
do our weekly conversation on Major League Baseball.
22:31
You'll have to use your schedule allows check it out.
22:33
Peacock. So Bonetti.
22:36
He does Detroit. I wonder who.
22:38
I can't remember who the analyst is.
22:39
I can't either. I can't.
22:40
I can't think. I don't get there very often for
22:43
Tigers games. Yeah, I, I love the idea that
22:47
they're doing. And did you check, was that also
22:51
on that, remember the NBC Sports Network on DIRECTV?
22:54
What was that? No, I didn't.
22:56
I forgot about doing that. Yeah, what was that?
22:58
6 Something 6/18. Something like that, yeah, right
23:02
around where FS 2 is. Yes.
23:04
Because we learned that during basketball season that the games
23:08
that were on Peacock on your DIRECTV right was a dedicated
23:11
channel there and then you can flip.
23:12
I wonder I'll I'll look this week.
23:14
I will as well, potentially. Oh, it's Easter.
23:17
It's Easter. By the end of the evening, yeah,
23:21
you're done. Kids get the candy, right?
23:23
They'll be having a good time. You've been up doing family
23:25
stuff since Bright and. Early.
23:26
That's right. Dad's going to watch a little
23:27
baseball. Flip it on, What did you say it
23:30
was? Cards Tigers not.
23:33
Brutal 2 Midwest teams. I like it.
23:36
All right, we'll take your time out.
23:37
We'll get Brian Walton sometime this week as well.
23:39
I'm not saying we'll have them all season long.
23:41
You will. But who knows?
23:42
It might be a fun team. No, no.
23:46
Simple. Next, Miller and Condon on the
23:49
Iowa Sports Radio Network. It's.
23:52
Time for SIP, Stephen M Simple talks with myself and Ken on
23:58
Nebraska football. I mean I have.
24:00
A radio show. We have callers.
24:01
I pay attention to my Twitter notifications and all that.
24:05
There's definitely some. Frustration.
24:07
We talk Cornhuskers, and you never know what else is going to
24:10
come up with 30 years on the Nebraska beat.
24:16
Here's Stephen M Simple. As long as they're paying me to
24:18
talk, I'm just going to keep doing it.
24:21
I'm Miller Condon, just passed 1:30 on a Tuesday.
24:25
We take you until 2:00. Transplays of the day Circus
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sports sponsor. Those those coming up here in
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about 15 minutes. Let's put a bow on Nebraska's
24:33
basketball season. Men's basketball, spring
24:36
football has already come and gone.
24:38
And Stephen M Simple joins us to talk spring football as he does
24:40
each and every year. Hello, Sip Trenton Kent, thanks
24:43
for coming on. This really caught me off guard.
24:45
I had no idea that it the calendar had moved.
24:48
Normally these events, I think our and I think Nebraska's been
24:52
the same As for the most part as I when I was state like the
24:55
third weekend, fourth weekend in April.
24:57
The spring game comes and goes, but this year was early.
25:01
What was behind that sip? Yeah, it is typically, it is
25:06
typically earlier or excuse me, later.
25:08
Yeah, mid-april to late April. What rule has said, Matt?
25:14
Rule is that, you know, when you get all these new guys games,
25:20
the Portal 16 kind of wanted to get them going.
25:25
I don't know if acclimated to the right world, just just get
25:27
them in the program, get them in football, just get them wrong.
25:33
And then he also talked about kind of there's there's this
25:40
stuff, there's a notion of when you start early, if you get
25:45
banged up, you get more time to recover.
25:48
So there's some of that. Yeah.
25:51
It was kind of an those are the main things.
25:54
It was very odd here, kind of odd to be done this early.
25:58
It was odd to start that early. But they're done now.
26:02
They're not done with football. You know, they go in, I hope.
26:06
I don't know a lot of college football fans.
26:09
It's kind of hard to understand the schedule, I think.
26:11
But they they started up back work again on Monday, yesterday,
26:16
OK, Five different weeks and they're still training.
26:19
They still go all down there. You know, there's still a lot of
26:21
weight training. There's still football activity.
26:25
It's not like they shut it down. So it's a little different in
26:28
the way they track. Quarterback position is going to
26:31
certainly look different. Give us kind of the headlines,
26:33
if you will, coming out of spring practice and I guess the
26:36
big questions that still remain after you get a little glimpse
26:39
of them. Well, the the big headline is
26:44
Anthony Calandria is the start UNLV.
26:46
Yep. Yeah, they brought in a kid from
26:49
UNLV, a senior, and it's a much different look than Dylan Rayola
26:54
because he runs. No, he's not.
26:56
He's not run first. He can really scoop.
26:59
I mean, on his first series, there's a third and four and he
27:04
and he rolled to his left, didn't see anything downfield,
27:10
just tore up field 12 yards first down.
27:13
You wouldn't have saw that last year.
27:16
And now he's fast. He does everything fast.
27:19
He talks fast. He runs out on the field fast.
27:22
He runs off the field fast, calls, plays fast.
27:26
This, this does everything fast. They're going to run some tempo
27:29
looks like, by the way, So that that that was something too.
27:37
Now, I don't they're not going to be a tempo team per SE, I
27:39
don't think. I do think you'll see more of
27:42
that. And he's a clear cut #1 there's
27:44
really a battle for two between. You guys might remember TJ Latif
27:49
because he played against Iowa and then they brought in Daniel
27:52
Kalin from Virginia, who's actually a Bellevue West kid,
27:56
Bellevue, NE kid, so who've been at Virginia.
28:01
So that's they're in good shape at quarterback.
28:04
What's the knock if there is one on Calandria Sip?
28:09
Oh, turnovers. Is it?
28:11
Yeah. Interceptions.
28:13
Yeah, I seem to have a. Lot his his ratio at Virginia.
28:17
He was at Virginia before UNLV. His ratio at Virginia was 26
28:24
touchdown passes and 20 interceptions.
28:30
OK, yeah. Now he, he improved at UNLV.
28:36
He was 27 and 9 there, 27 TV's, 9 interceptions.
28:42
Kind of kind of got it under control, had a big year.
28:46
Here's the Mount W player of the year.
28:48
He he's interesting. I mean, he's smaller, but he's
28:55
not. I'll tell you what, he's not
28:58
evil When you see him at the podium.
29:01
I mean when you see him out on the field, you're like, oh, I
29:03
don't know if he can do this. He's so small.
29:06
Maybe when you, when you see him in like the in a press area at
29:09
the podium, he's put together. I think he can probably handle
29:12
it. Offensive line a year ago you
29:16
told us it was going to be better than I was.
29:18
You missed on that one sip and that's OK.
29:20
We can't get them all right. But Brendan Black and Iowa State
29:22
guy, he's over there. How the online looking very
29:25
difficult at times to exactly pull a whole lot of online in
29:29
spring practice. Certainly.
29:30
What were your thoughts on upfront?
29:32
I hope I didn't say that. You did.
29:36
You did I, Don't forget. Oh God, we kind of it kind of
29:44
got better as the year went on last year, but they weren't as
29:46
good as I that's for damn sure. I they should be better.
29:52
They that's a way different. Look, they're going to have
29:55
three. They brought in three guys from
29:57
the portal. They're going to start.
29:58
You mentioned Brendan Black, he's going to start at right
30:01
guard. Paul Mbanga from LSU is going to
30:06
start at left guard, right tackles, tree Baba latte he came
30:13
in from South Carolina. So there's three guys that they
30:17
really like. There's this start that's it add
30:21
to add to they really like their center Justin Evans and he's
30:26
legit. And then they like their left
30:28
tackle who's also a transfer, but Chancellor last year and
30:32
from Alabama, Richard, I like him up front.
30:36
I think I like him up front on Austin.
30:39
I don't like him up front on defense, but the they it's the
30:42
hey, I don't want to jump ahead too much steal questions, but
30:46
it's the same story here. It's everything is about being
30:52
able to trying to stop the run. I mean that's and I don't know.
30:57
I don't know. We'll just have to see on that.
30:59
I'm not. They brought in a couple guys.
31:02
One kid from Pit looks like he's viable.
31:07
Maybe they got another guy from Boston College and show too much
31:11
on Saturday. Then it's the same guys.
31:15
I'll say this sip and I think I can speak for Trent before we
31:17
move over to basketball. When it comes to Brendan Black,
31:20
we we watched him as a freshman. I thought this guy's the limit
31:22
for this kid. He was a nasty, nasty, nasty
31:26
SOP. But then it kind of, I mean, he
31:28
wasn't bad by any means, but he never took that strep, right,
31:31
Trent? That's a perfect way to.
31:32
Characterize it. We both loved him as a freshman.
31:35
Hopefully he's got something left.
31:36
Let's go to basketball. Sip comes to an end.
31:38
But by all, by any measure, right, Obviously it didn't end
31:41
well in Houston the way that the fan.
31:43
Base wanted great well for for Nebraska fans.
31:46
Yeah, I'm just saying by any measure, that's a successful
31:50
season. No longer do you have to hear
31:51
that they've never won a game in the tournament.
31:54
That box was checked. A pretty successful year for
31:57
Hoiberg squad, all things considered.
32:01
Oh God. Right through here.
32:03
I mean, yeah, they've never been won a game in the NCAA
32:07
Tournament, you know, So getting to the Sweet 16 was, I mean, how
32:13
it was amazing. Now, it wasn't amazing in the
32:15
sense that Bros, they were picked 14 in the Big 10, for
32:20
what that's worth. But then they won 20 in a row,
32:23
you know? So, you know, the expectations
32:26
got pretty high around here about the time they beat
32:30
Illinois at Champaign, right? Then they, then they then they
32:35
damn near beat Michigan in Ann Arbor without two of their main
32:39
guys. So you know, yeah, now.
32:44
Now you just wonder what? What next?
32:48
Let me interrupt. Is Frager staying SIP?
32:52
Yeah, good, good, because they can obviously build on him.
32:56
They got Sanford for another year.
32:58
That's huge, those two guys. Frager made some big shots
33:01
against Iowa and Price. Sanford was unbelievable.
33:03
But we also heard it on your station SIP and losing to Iowa
33:09
after what the past what 10-12 years have been and everything
33:12
outside of. Volleyball is Co host.
33:14
Yeah, yes. Not real pleased about that one.
33:17
I mean, how much did it sting for the fan base going inside
33:19
their mind and getting the Sweet 16, having this incredible
33:23
success that the program has never seen seen before?
33:26
And then again, to have a season come to a close, losing to Iowa.
33:31
That's kind of complicated. I think the overriding feeling
33:35
though, what I've got. And I didn't know how it would
33:37
be in the moment. Like, you know, as it was
33:39
happening and it was clear I was going to win the game.
33:42
And then in the immediate aftermath, I honestly didn't
33:45
know how to size it up from the point of view of others.
33:51
I don't get, I mean, that's what I'm trying to do because I don't
33:55
get emotional about stuff. I'm paid not to, you know, So I
33:59
I just like to hear from other people around me.
34:02
And the sentiment I got in the in the aftermath was that most
34:08
people were just happy with the season.
34:11
And it so wasn't like Jake. Jake is Jake.
34:16
I love it. I've done a show for him for 10
34:18
years. He's very emotional.
34:22
But I know, I think by and large, people are just happy to
34:27
get that far. And you know, it sucked that
34:31
they had to lose to Iowa, but I don't think it, if you're asking
34:34
me, did it ruin what Nebraska accomplished?
34:37
No, it didn't. Maybe in the minds of a few
34:40
people, Some people. I don't think the preponderance
34:46
of the fan base it it was. So I don't think it was so
34:50
crushing that it just marred the rest of the conversation.
34:55
I don't think that it. Last thing, do you know what Sam
34:58
Hoiberg's going to do? Is he going to follow the old
35:00
man into coaching? Do you know?
35:02
Yeah, I think what what Sam is said he's going to do, Kenny, is
35:06
you're going to try to play, you know, you're going to try to
35:09
play pro basketball somewhere. It's not in the NBA, but
35:14
somewhere I say that. After all, I know he's starting
35:17
for the Pistons next year, but I, I, I was going to try to
35:23
play. He's going to try to play.
35:25
I didn't get that. Then then if it doesn't work or
35:29
what he's done, he's going to get into.
35:31
Broadcast is he? I did see him do a couple of
35:34
interviews and I think he did a game actually, and it wasn't a
35:37
basketball game, but he he put it on the game.
35:40
Maybe he did a headset. He was wearing a headset for
35:42
something. It sounded pretty good.
35:44
Do you know what I'm talking about?
35:45
Sip. Well, he did a women's
35:47
basketball game that. Might probably be what it is,
35:48
yeah. Yeah, yeah.
35:50
So, yeah, he he's, he's not. He doesn't want to get into
35:53
coaching. His dad counseled him,
35:56
counseled, counseled his boys don't get into coaching too much
36:00
stress, which it is. But but so, yeah, he's going to
36:06
go a different route. I mean, Sam was magnificent this
36:09
year. Just magnificent.
36:10
He really was true. Absolutely.
36:12
SIP. Thanks for jumping on, putting a
36:14
bow on it. Appreciate the relationship.
36:16
How we do. We'll talk to you.
36:18
Talk to you down the road. Thank you.
36:19
Stephen M. I hope so take.
36:21
Care, Yep you will take care. Good to talk to you.
36:23
Stephen M Simple from 93.7 over in Lincoln where he does morning
36:28
drive with Jake. Yes, I.
36:30
Didn't know his name was Jake. Gets emotional.
36:32
Jake the head Jake was. Did you play the audio?
36:37
I Yes it was. Great, it was really good.
36:39
We get this far. Can you imagine?
36:40
And this was before they got beat just kind of greasing the
36:43
skids for to get this far and there's a team, the other team
36:47
on the floor is those God forsaken.
36:49
They beat us in everything. It's true.
36:51
It's they've they cost burst a lot of dreams, right?
36:56
What is it, 10 out of 11 now in football?
36:59
Crazy. 8 out of 11 in men's basketball.
37:03
Yeah, in women's basketball. The only thing is volleyball, it
37:07
is wrestling. Iowa had their worst dual season
37:10
in decades. They still beat Nebraska.
37:13
It's to beat Nebraska. And probably their highlight
37:15
victory of the season came against the Huskers.
37:17
Even on the wrestling mat. Let's keep that going.
37:20
That's fun. I enjoy that.
37:21
No, I I think the entire state does DC and it's.
37:25
Even some hot Now basketball. Men's basketball is different
37:28
because of the Hoiberg angle. Yeah, but Cyclone fans have to
37:31
hate. You mean yes?
37:32
Right, you can't hate it as much because of Hoiberg.
37:34
You, but they got their nose rubbed in the carpet a whole
37:38
bunch on the football field. Cyclone fans did by Nebraska.
37:42
Oh sure, Cyclone fans hate them. Absolutely.
37:45
And then the mocking applause as you're coming off the field
37:48
after they beat 84 to 10. Yeah. 145 Trench blaze of the
37:53
day are next. Miller and Condon talking sports
37:56
with you on the Iowa Sports Radio Network.
37:58
I'm Miller. Condon, welcome back.
37:59
By the way, the boys off the bench today at WCI Pools and
38:03
Spas. Giving away that hot tub today.
38:05
Yeah, believable. Like what was it, 16 grand?
38:08
Yes, I believe so. That sounds right, yes.
38:10
I'm right in Urbandale, Northwest Urbandale Drive in
38:13
Urbandale. They're coming up.
38:15
I think they're going to give it away today at 4:00.
38:18
You can't rich to win. It's hard.
38:20
It's closed. The contest is closed.
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38:35
Both basketball games yesterday. You laid the lumber.
38:37
You were rewarded in both of them.
38:40
We were. We had a four in one day
38:41
yesterday. A baseball hitting, too.
38:43
Yeah, we hit we two out of three there or only lost those God
38:46
forsaken White Sox pulled off a victory and ended the undefeated
38:51
run out of the Marlins as once again we have no undefeated
38:54
teams. Left keep rubbing that into
38:56
who's the last team is there? How many teams are still
38:59
winless? Oh, that's a good. 1A's Yes, the
39:03
answer's one. That's it.
39:05
The A's, The only team that has yet to win a ball game.
39:07
O and four start. And everyone just beating
39:10
everybody up. I mean, right now the Twins are
39:13
just a game and a half back of the wild card.
39:14
Race they're they're right there.
39:17
Magic number. Have you calculated it?
39:19
Too many, Yeah, too many is the number for that.
39:22
God forsaken. They're awful.
39:24
They're that bullpen. Yeah, it's not good.
39:26
It is gross. It's not good.
39:28
Yeah, I watched. Like I said, I think I got to it
39:31
in the 4th inning yesterday on 668.3.
39:33
I think it is now on DTV. But yeah, they're not good.
39:38
Not at all. And they're off today.
39:40
Are they against the Royals? They are, yes.
39:44
Back at it against the Royals on Wednesday.
39:46
So. Yesterday must have been
39:47
obviously for an afternoon game. Royals home opener.
39:49
Home opener and. They always build in that day
39:51
after because they will lose that the gated mission.
39:54
So we'll go through that and the Twins home opener is.
39:58
Got to be. Friday against the Rays.
40:01
Bailey Ober will get the ball in day Game 310 on Friday
40:06
afternoon. We'll get a couple of day games
40:08
on Friday, actually quite a bit. A lot of other home openers
40:10
that'll be happening. There's no perfect solution.
40:12
When you start the season this early, you're going to play
40:15
games of cold weather happens every year.
40:18
There was been games, I think it was Cleveland one year where it
40:21
just started downpart snowing. I mean just Blizzard conditions
40:25
and it was like the middle of April.
40:27
I. I sat in one Opening Day for
40:29
year number two of the Colorado Rockies when I lived in Denver
40:31
was against the Phillies. It was snowing sideways.
40:34
Snow inside. Was it cool?
40:36
Cool is in temperature. Cool.
40:38
Just cool to be there. Just cool to be there.
40:40
We're hammered. So yeah, plenty, plenty of Coors
40:44
banquets flowing through the veins at that point.
40:46
Makes it a little bit more fun, but you're not going to stick it
40:49
out for three hours. No, no, no, no, no, no.
40:51
You know me, I don't stay anyways.
40:52
That's true. That's true. 3 baseball plays.
40:55
We got no college basketball. I mean, tomorrow they're back
40:57
though. The right there's no WNIT,
40:59
there's nothing I mean and I was trying to dive deep, but they.
41:03
Don't get NIT and the Crown tomorrow.
41:05
That is correct, yeah. We'll get both of them going. 3
41:07
baseball plays all one, even money.
41:11
The Reds get to go with Williamson.
41:13
I know a lot of people are excited about Chandler.
41:15
He had a great debut a season to go start number one of the year.
41:19
I didn't. I got a nudge towards Cincinnati
41:21
at this point, so I'll grab the plus 100 with the Reds.
41:25
The A's got to win a game. Oh, it's.
41:26
Today. Today is the day.
41:29
What's Savali, who is just, I mean, you talk about that
41:33
prototypical plug them in as your number 5.
41:36
He's going to be fine. Not good, not great, not awful.
41:40
He's in the right spot. He's.
41:41
Just he's your 5th starter, you go there and that's Savali and
41:45
he gets it done against the Bravos.
41:47
It's going to be a big number, plus 139.
41:49
Well, that's not as big as I thought.
41:50
Still good? We're going to grab another
41:52
number here, Give me Tampa. I just, there's something about
41:55
Shane Mcclanahan that I love that that hard throwing lefty, I
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don't know if he's ever going to hit his apex, but boy, we talk
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about upside. I still think it's there.
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Now he's going up against Woodruff.
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Not an easy assignment. We'll take the plus money here.
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Tampa on the road plus 1/12 in Milwaukee tonight.
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All right, so you've got the Brewers, you've got the A's and
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you've got the Reds, all right? And no basketball tonight.
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Not dipping your toe in NBA waters.
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Nothing. Like that?
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Not yet. There was a couple that I will
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tell you the NBA in today's environment too.
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It's impossible to watch, Trent. You can't put a bet in now at
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155 like I do every you don't know who's playing and with all
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these teams tanking on top of it, it's.
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Brutal. It is.
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Told you I tried to watch on Sunday night and there was no
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other nothing on I I couldn't do it.
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I couldn't do it. Well, that's going to do it for.
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Us you got hockey tonight. I've got hockey.
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Jets in action? They are, they play in Chicago,
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so I'm going to watch Chicago at Wrigley Field and Chicago at the
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United Center Chicago kinda night.
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That's going to do it for us. Appreciate you being with us.
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Boys are in WCF pools and spas. They're coming up next.
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Miller and Condon noon to two to talk sports with you.
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Thanks for being with us on the Iowa Sports Radio Network.