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Episode 29 MLB Trade Deadline and WWE Summerslam #notmytribalchief · Los Pickups Podcast

• Los Pickups Main: see whole number. You're okay. I'm calling it right now. We're we're we'll get a live review, live reaction. Nico Horner. Nico Bomb. Jesus Christ. Who baby? Nico Horner, my sweet delicate flower. Huh. Are you horny for Horner? I'm horny for Horner. I think It's hard to hear you complain about your team when you guys put up ten so easily. Yeah, but we can also easily get up ten. Yeah, but as long as you can still put up ten you just out ten the other guy. Not not not to mention we literally lost a series to the Yankees before we met up with the Dodgers because we couldn't h fucking hit a damn team. Yeah. Volpey's not that good bro. Dude, that k that that kid needs a break. Dude, that's why he's fucking up. There was a tweet where it's like, for the first time in a long time at the MLB trade that like not a single shortstop was traded. And then somebody subtweeted, Damn, really? They don't realize Volpe's that good? I hear you they they sent him back down. Dude. And it's a bit brutal. They brought somebody else back up. Yep. So No, it's I mean it's hard to feel bad for Yankees too, you know, and Yankee fans altogether 'cause well, you know, it's the Yankees. I think I don't I think yeah. I don't fuck with the Yankees more than I don't fuck with the Dodgers. I'm the actually I'm the flip the flip side of it though, I think. yeah. Yeah, I actually and I and I was thinking about But I think it's my West Coast bias. I yeah. I think that's what it is. Yeah. And your West Coast indifference. Yeah. Yeah, pretty yeah. I don't really fuck with any Californian teams. Yeah, I know. And that's that's the that's the like epiphany I had that made everything click and made me just like, that's why. Don't argue with them anymore. Like it's without the West Coast bias, so many of our make way more sense. So but it made me see you in a different light than I think a good way or a bad way. Yeah, in a good way. Yeah. Because I understand you better. So obviously that's better, right? blind hatred, I guess. Well no, if I'm gonna go into my you know my little head brain about it. It's five minutes, cool. It's my little head brain is obviously like this guy has no West Coast alliance, obviously that's an issue. It's slightly irritating. But then I'm like, but there's no reason for him to have a West Coast bias. It's like every Mexican I know is from the West Coast. True. Up until you. Sorry. That's fine. No, that's there's Mexicans are everywhere, bro. Yeah. Yeah. So like I no, I get it now and it makes more sense. But like everything From Washington is like channeled through California essentially. Yeah. Well that's like a s that's the the funnel, right? It's a straight shot basically. Right. So then it just I think it's not so often that anyways. I get you. Neither here nor there. It just made me understand my friend better. And so I think less arguments will come out of it. That's not true. But the the arguments is what makes less nonsensical arguments. Yeah. But but I'm trying my butt I'm trying to It'll be fun. It'll be fun. Remember the camera's up here. my bad. It'll be I keep looking at the fucking laptop. My bad. My bad. Well, that being said, and that wonderful, heartfelt, and wholesome moment brought to you by just kidding. No, that's the cold open. That's us. We are those pickups. Thank you for tuning in once again. come to y'all from the Pacific Northwest, bringing you your weekly dose of degenerisms, tisms, and betweenisms and all them big old titties and everything in betweenies. We got my boy. Bobby Fresh. And the man himself? Slan O A Z, sorry, I think that's what I've been saying lately. And I'm Ernesto. Very good to check in with you guys once again. We got plenty of good stuff for y'all on the docket. couple things you want to discuss. Lots of good stuff happening in the world of sports. the biggest one right now for us, well the two biggest ones, the MLB treadline has come and gone. Lots of movement. It was a free-for-all. a lot more movement than I was expecting, if I'm gonna be honest. And of course, we just had SummerSlam. Bing bing bing bing. And a lot of Great things happen. Yo, shout out to Roman Reigns, but we'll get to that here in a minute. That being said, MLB traad landline, we all our teams had some movement, significant movement, trying to make a playoff push, making sure that we're trying to keep playing some beautiful baseball going into October. you know what? Let's get let's let's let's get the mariners going real fast. Aslan, we had a good move for you guys that came up through at the last minute there. walk us through that. Let me Google it. Last the dude's last name is Ward. one second. Taylor Taylor Taylor Ward. Taylor Ward. Bueno momento, bueno momento, no momento. so the first big move was trading Luis Castillo with or Castillo. regionally where you're coming from. True. that was the first piece. That was kinda like the first domino for the Mariners trades. Luis has been tied to trade talks for some time, especially w I think with the frustration with the whole piggybacking method earlier in the season. Right. that's kinda when things started coming out. But he wasn't the only one, right? The people were talking about Emerson Hancock. People were talking about Kirby. I did wanna talk about why Gilbert's name wasn't coming up, but I'll talk about that after everything. Okay. So Elise Castillo ended up moving. We sent him over to the White Sox. and returned we got some main prospects like I guess Sir Anthony. Sir Anthony. Yeah. Serantoni? Ser Antoni? Sure. Is that how you say that? Dominguez. I'm just gonna go Sir Anthony 'cause he probably has like he was probably grew up in the US and like he got a very unique name from his parents. I've never known anybody last name Dominguez that actually didn't come from like This is from the Dominican Republic, bro. So you're just gonna leave it. That was a really unfortunate time for you to pause. I can't help it. But also his name is Sir Anthony, which is hella funny. Any left hand pitcher from the White Sox got sent over for Luis Castillo and then we got some prospects out of that too. And it says Ancash. And mainly the White Sox took Luis Castillo's. contract which he was owed like twenty mil plus twenty mil this year and plus twenty mil next year. And according to a bunch of analysts, according to my insiders, they were saying that the the the what's it called? The contract was like un untradable. Which I never buy into that shit based off like my years of like watching NFL everybody can get traded and there's always somebody who's gonna eat that shit. Yeah. You know? If you got a GM was not a dumbass. Or whatever the baseball equivalent is to a GN. I mean, no, you g you have it right. a and to be fair, it's not like you know, Luis Castillo is just like some hideous fucking chut or whatever. Is he the same guy, you know, from two or three years ago? No, he's he's clearly on the decline. Still a serviceable pitcher. Overpaid, sure. But he's still gonna eat up innings for you guys. He d he doesn't have quite the strikeout rate that we've got this season. Not for us. my bad. For for Chicago, the white the Southsiders. and Which look like they're re they're tooling up too. They're trying to make a push too. Which is kind of crazy 'cause this is like the first year that they're good in a woman. Wh which is kinda nice because on o honestly be based on their farm system which has been really good, they're kind of ahead of schedule. So if they actually end up with a wildcard spot, if not the division, bro, shout out to the Southsiders. Y'all deserve something good for the first time you fucking love these miserable bastards. So Yeah, fuck the South Side. But no But absolutely to to coin to coin a I thought you were gonna give me shit for I was trying to rage bait you. No, not that not gonna work on me anymore. That's a lie too. But not it didn't work that time. Okay. to to coin a phrase of one of our good friends, with black voodoo devil magic, the mariners pulled off an awesome trade. An awesome trade to get that contract off the books and then of course, you know, got some good pieces in return. Yeah, I guess mainly the catcher, Boston Smith, I heard that he was he's like up and coming in the minors. And then Nolan Jones is a little is is a body. He's a body to have. True. right fielder, I guess if I'm reading that correctly. he can put two in the any outfield position really. Cool. Thank you for clearing that up. so that happened bada bada bum. Let's see. Was the only other real big move I guess yeah. Right? Taylor Ward? And then what happened after? Yeah, so Taylor Wood was I I would say was it was your biggest move. Taylor Ward is coming from Baltimore, the Orioles. The Orioles. didn't know much about him, but in return, the Mariners gave up Alex Hopp. Hoppy? Mm-hmm. I think it's Hopp. Hopp? Yeah, yeah. Brock Moore and then Harrison Crayling, which are all minor leaguers, prospects. Yes. They're all prospects, thank you. Taylor Ward, when I looked into him, second in walks for the season, which is great, 'cause I think Part of the I mean last year part of the problem with the mariners was that I didn't think there was people getting on base often enough. and then obviously base getting on base leads to runs. And I think that they have that with Cole Cole Emerson and Cole Young. Colt Emerson, Cole Young. That's what I said. Cole Emerson. And well I said I didn't say old you gotta you gotta like unhinge your job over the Thanks. You're welcome. Colt Emerson and Cole Young, aka what I call them the sweet life of Zack and Cody. because they're both the young white guys. Shout out Zack and Cody. I don't know if they want to be shot out for that. No, they're they're both cool. Are they? One's a shitty actor, the other one's a decent actor. No, the Anyways, so there I Based on the eye test, they're getting on base. but, you know, then it's dependent on like fucking Julio or Cal or Naylor or Randy to come in and fucking hit it out of the park for us to be able to put up some runs. Is what it feels like. Is that what it's happening? I don't know. This is the Aslan I test. What I do know is that this dude coming in is second in walks and he's trajectorying to be top ten in MOB history. Which I hear that in the other top in the top ten four of them is just like very bonds. So yeah. that's cool. That's gonna lead to stuff. He has not been like the best like w home run think if I'm interpretating interpretating interpretering that's great. He he's having he's having a down year for for a pro from a power standpoint. But coming from the Angels when he was on the Angels he was a heavier name. I think he's only got seven this year, so far. But his you know his wild rate is to the roof, he gets on base and it gives you an option to be a a pretty you know, a prominent figure on the lead off spot in my opinion. Which I'm In retrospect, right? So now that we're hitting past the second half, there was some retooling that the Mariners needed to do. I think this definitely helped. I was kind of hoping that with getting rid of Luis Castillo's contract, that they were ramping up to a bigger move, another move, right? Other than Taylor Ward, because they were gonna have so much money cleared up by that. Maybe it comes in the offseason, who knows? Maybe it comes into paying some of these guys. Maybe we pay Taylor Ward because he's a rent over this year essentially. So we'll see what happens with that. I was hoping for a little bit more 'cause I think we still need I don't think this is gonna clear up our offensive woes. I was hoping we could get somebody that could be like just a spark to the team. Right? I saw some sluggers being tossed around. and kind of more of an all in perspective. Because at this point, whoever's gonna make it essentially has yeah, you're gonna make it past You're gonna try to hold on for as long as you can. But essentially you're gonna have to beat the Dodgers. Can we beat the Dodgers with the team we have right now? ellipses. Dot dot dot. We will see when we cross that bridge, you know? But it's like at this point, whatever you do to your team is to fucking take down the Dodgers or whoever else is gonna be in that fucking position. Or maybe the Cubs at this fucking rate. You know, because of the moves that they were making. So I was hoping for a little bit more, but Seattle, Seattle, they're a little bit stingy, they're a little bit conservative when it comes to these moves. Seattle never in any of the sports teams does like a huge like splash of a trade, right? They always they're depend very much on like the home grown farm system. So we'll see what that ends up being. but I do like the move after hearing about the stats and learning more about Taylor. Taylor Ward. Not Tyler. Taylor Ward. So that's the AZ analysis for the Mariners trade deadline. Who is Tyler Ward? Who's Tyler Ward? I think I think there's a Tyler Ward on the freaking No, I get No. It used to be No, I get confused because when people tell me name like Taylor Tyler, right? They'll tell me Taylor and then I'll be like, Alright, just remember it's not Tyler because if you call him Tyler, that's the wrong name. But then I'm like, wait, was it Taylor or Tyler? So Mm. Taylor, I like also actually I do want to give a shout out to Luis Castillo because I'm hearing a lot of support from the fan base right now. but I do know that there was a lot of shit. he took a lot of shit for kind of being on a down Down year, down couple years or so, not being the the all star that maybe he was. But I just wanna reiterate because a lot of the fucking Seattle fans and other Seattle teams tend to shit on players when they're not doing well and they've contributed to their organizations and I'm not one of them 'cause I come from a championship preceded precedented team. Luis Castillo, thank you for everything that you've done for the Mariners. I was only along for the ride for like the past couple of years, but I know that you still contributed a lot to the team to where the teams at, you had the stability and those workhorse innings that you contributed. I hope you know that you are respected. I see a lot of respect for you out there, but if there's any disrespect, don't listen to them. They're just Seattle fans. For sure. That's absolutely true. Right on the head. Prominent figure in the clubhouse, honestly. Like even the despite you know all the struggles, all the bullshit with the piggyback riding and you know, obviously it wasn't making him happy individually, but he made sure I mean it went out of his way to make sure it didn't affect the c the clubhouse as a whole. Like he was still being you know around Still being a good teammate, showing up for the for the team. One of the dudes you were happy for when we made it that far. Precisely. You know. Exactly. Yeah, and honestly, I thank you, Luis. I I really hope I really wish him the best. I hope he does very well on the south side. That's not when he plays us. So let's go with let's go with me next. Yeah. And then we'll finish off with you because you have a a lot to talk about. But what I mean I mean. There's just one player I really want to do. They're getting slapped right now. now bro. We we ha we have a lot to talk about about routine. Actually and then before we move on from the Mariners, it's the bottom of the That's a good actually good good way good way to put it because we do have more other than the trade line to talk about the doctors. Precisely. Yeah. Bottom of the fourth Tigers versus Mariners and I believe somebody had a three run reading it. Interesting. Tigers are doing well. Ish. It was in the three run. Anyways, they're three runs right now, bottom of the fourth. I I was making that gesture because Hopefully something happens. Hopefully something happens. It's still early. Still very early. Lots of baseball not to be played. yeah. Tons of baseball, dude. Don't tend to do well playing from behind. But not putting up ten runs every other fucking time. You can chase me from behind you. That's a it's a great view. But that being that being said, the Cubbies. The Cubbies made some moves, you know, a lot of people have a lot lots of things today. We made we made a lot of solid moves at this trade deadline. Sorry, one sec. The Cubs just beat the Dodgers in game two of a three game set. So I'm ecstatic. You cannot see me on camera right now being that emotional, but I'm very overjoyed. Because the Dodgers have lost. And it was thanks to the Cubs. And I'm happy. Yo. No, cheer. Cheer. Fly the W baby. So with school bowl starting. Wel welcome to the National League Central there, bud. So here we are. Cubs made a plethora of the Cubs made a plethora of moves that essentially just signal to the rest of the league we're trying to win now. Okay? And if there's ever, in my opinion, a team going on in to try to make sure that they can you know compete and and and make the Dodgers work in d in this year's playoff run. I think so. It's gonna be us. Yeah. and and we made a move to do so, I think. you know, type shit. I'm just gonna throw this out. Right now, do I still think our team is better than like on paper is it better than Dodgers? No, I'm not crazy. Like they have a superior pitching staff no matter what. we yes, did we improve in that department? Absolutely. But do the Dodgers have four four four legitimate aces on their roster? and then it just so happens to be that one of them can hit nukes from the offensive standpoint, too. so and the moves that Now we had first I'm gonna give a sh honorable mention to David Penerson. We traded for him from the Knicks about three weeks ago. so prior to the trade deadline, but he was t I'll still consider him a trade deadline move. He had a horrendous ERA coming to us from the Mets. I mean he played from the Mets, enough said. so coming to us where we have arguably the best defense in the league, that was gonna change. Well, he's got a sub 2.0 ERA since joining the Cubbies in his in his first three starts with us. Coincidence, I think No. So shout out David Peterson. Wait, was that what you were expecting him to do? to bring them bring him in? The ERA down. Yeah. Did we just have this argument where you said somebody had a five ERA and I was like it's four point four but Yeah, I'm I'm expecting him to bring it down too. Okay. It's not what it seemed like you were that that wasn't what I felt. I have my reservations because you're he's thirty five and he's also he himself has been giving up bombs. you our defense can't stop a home run ball. Okay. Is there a stat? Sorry, go ahead. For sure. But well, nice segue. The guy he's talking about is Kevin Gossman. Kevin Gossman is the same guy who struck out Shel Hey Otani in the World Series last year, by the way. We picked him up from the Toronto Blue Jays. Now in that particular then? Yep. Okay. 'Cause it was like not to be named yet. no that's that's a different that's a that's a different move. no, we traded Jameson Tyon to the Blue Jays for a player to be named later. Got separate separate deal. So it's anything we made two trades with the Toronto Blue Jays, but the big one was getting Kevin Gaussian So, like I said, my reservations about him is that he's not been the same guy who was an AL, you know, signed young candidate last year and the year before. th if you wanna talk about having a young year, this is gonna be it for the guy. giving up bombs left and right, yeah, the Blue Jay Zivas isn't all that. I'll give I'll give him that. but he's gotta keep the ball in the park. No elite defense is gonna j you know, jump forty feet in the air to try to track the ball. You know what I mean? Yeah, Wim Minyama Only well this last game, like around Kyle Tucker was the only one fucking scored a point. Which is funny. A run. A run. Yeah. Yeah. I'm laughing because I was fucking calling them points. It's still a point. It's last year. Everyone's like, It's a run. It's a run. It's a run. It's a run. It's a run. Alright, well the run's a fucking point. So You feel better? Do you guys feel better? Yeah. Okay, cool. Since it's a run and not a fucking point. Kevin Gosman. And it's two leagues, it's not a conference. They're not conferences, they're two separate leagues. Do you really want to run? Do you really want to do this right now? No, sorry. But I am sorry for interrupting. Go ahead. Fuck Fuck's sake. so Kevin Gallsman, I have a lot of a lot of expectations for you, man. I think we're gonna be able to write the ship with you. and you have the playoff experience, so therefore w if we do, and God willing we will, we need it to make a deep playoff run, you're gonna be l leading leading our rotation, big dog. another big name. This one came in at the l at the at the at the last minute during the trade deadline yesterday. we bring in Clay Holmes. Taylor from the New York Mets as well. I mean, Clay Holmes, arguably one of the better pitches in the last decade. You can use him in a relief closer situation, or you can start him. Dude is coming off an injury. He fractured his fibula ear early in the year, but he is on track to make his it may make make his return in the next couple of weeks, which I'm really excited for. Fibula's a leg. In the leg, yeah. Yeah, he'll be alright. He'll be alright. but the guy's got a crazy delivery. Like it he his arm angle basically makes him look like he's throwing a submarine pitch, but honestly it's not and it throws b b batteries off balance all the time. He's still got some heat, he's got a great pitch combination. I'm excited for the guy. I should fucks up your elbow though. And and we'll s and we'll see. The guy's gonna be I think a big figure for us and and overall, the the big question mark coming from this trade is that we gave up Rojas, our number two prospect in our farm system and that pretty much just guts our entire field farm system as an organization. To be fair, We had probably the seventeenth or eighteenth ranked farm system in the entire league prior to this trade. Well, might as well just, you know, gifted the farm, no pun intended, if we're trying to go on go on in and win the shit this year. So, I like the move. We also got Taylor, Teron Taylor, who's an outfielder who is crushing left-handed pitches right now. He's batted like three hundred against left left at least all on the year. Bang. Nice. that signals to me that he's gonna be platooning with Ian Happ, who has been abysmal hitting from the right side. He's he's one of our s he's our switch hitter. Mm-hmm. Can't hit for shit from the right side. And obviously means he cannot hit left handers. That being said, I love you Happy my birthday twin. But he's gonna be platooning left field left field for him or in potential situation where it they can DA's as well. But how big of a deal are but you never know with prospects at the end of the day. You get a good feeling. Yeah, that's a very good point. But in my eyes, this could be the Mets get back for PCA. So, for a little context for you folks listening at home, when the Cubs traded for Petro Armstrong back in the day, Javier Baez was part of that deal. And you guys know how much I love Javier Baez. He was one of the mainstays in the 2016 World Series Championship for the Cubbies. Now, when that trade happened, broke my heart. But we got PCA in return, and now PCA is now an MVP candidate. Back-to-back all-star appearances. He's he we stinked him to a fat deal for the Cubs. Okay. Okay? Now, this potential trade has potential makings for them to get their Pete Coral Armstrong in Rojas. So what we what what we right away? No. The guy's twenty one years old. He he he might make the mid b the big league roster next year, but we're talking like two, three years down the road before we see him regularly pla playing for the Mets. But the chance But but the possibility still remains. We don't know, you're absolutely right. There's a lot of Isn't it like a good chance though that it's more than likely not gonna amount to what everyone thinks? Not with this guy. Like I I to prospects in general. To your point, if it was a any one of the mill prospect, sure. This guy's got like actual legitimate big, big stuff. Like he's gonna be playing at the MLB baseball for a long time. Okay. So Time will tell, yes, but the l the likelihood that it's gonna you know putter not too much. My understanding was that sorry, go ahead. I keep interrupting. No no no it's good. this this is what this is what the show is about. Go ahead, finish your thought. my understanding is that you never know that like minor talent is gonna translate actually into major league talent. So why not just cash in on actual people that are tried and proven, right? Tried and true. Right. When you got the chance in front of you right now. Right. So that's my argument. Yes, maybe this kid has the making. be something great. For sure. But I I guess my general point is like Where did Cal It's like a fucking draft pick. You know? You know, you don't know what the fuck you're gonna hit with a draft pick. A top ten draft pick doesn't some amount to shit sometimes. No, that's half the time. Shout out Patrick Williams, you fucker. so Shout out Brandon Ive. I don't think he's talking about it, but you know. so that's why I'm like Bummer. Yeah. But I get what you're saying. Maybe the talent level and baseball is just hard to But the thing is, like just like with everything else, only time will tell in this particular situation because it's all hypothetical. The potential's there. What's club control or looking like for the guy that you got though? that's the thing. They're rentals. So when I say we're going all in, we're going all in. Another thing that I I'm not a huge fan of baseball, the whole club control term. Feels ownership like instead of just saying like he's on contract for three more years. That's a conversation for a whole nother episode. No, because you're absolutely right. It's been a point of contention for a very long time, but we will not talk about it right now. That being said. Remet remember remember everything. Club control. Two league system. Runs versus points. Things that irritate our slang. Growing list of things in baseball. That I will get used to, but just is kind of annoying. Two MVPs. And gone. Big potato stuff, little potato stuff. You know what I'm saying? Don't don't little dog me. If you know, you know. Don't little dog me. Relax. Where's I I was making a Spider Man Ramsey, you idiot. I see. God damn. Little potatoes. Little potatoes, big potatoes. We've all seen it now. Yeah, let's go, fellas. Yeah, yeah, yeah. That being said, the last two moves that the Cuds made bolstered up our bullpen. This is where our other top five prospect came into play. Shout out Mo Baller. I hope you do well, big bub. You're gonna do great things. Go be great in LA. I hope you the best or wish you best. but yeah, we give him a mobile for Ryan Zevrajohn. Ryan Zeverjan is a six foot five flamethrower. Minor control issues, sure. But the guy's gonna throw gas. And we need that. Especially if we wanna make guys swing and miss. And talking about team control, we he's got he's under he's under club control until twenty thirty. So we're gonna be okay. Holy Shut up. So here we go. Alright, and then the last one, this one's a development project. Okay. Dude's coming off, Tommy John surgery, so he's not gonna throw in the big leagues this year. Braxton Garrett from Florida Marlins, Miami Marlins. Gahim Bit high risk, high reward. Not really much to say right now. Like I said, it's c he's coming out with Tommy Johnson's year. We're not really gonna know until next year. If the is it next year. But we'll talk about that later. But here we are. That rounds us out. That was in the trade for Rojas. negative. That's a second trade. we gave up three other prospects in that one. The big one being Justin Long or Jonathan Long. who was like our top first baseman. prospect but he didn't really have a clear path to the show because well we got Michael Bush. So here we go. I see. Okay. Okay. All this to beat the Dollar so here we go. Put all the chips on the table. All the chips in, here we go. We'll worry about next year, next year. You know what I'm saying? So that brings us to Thanos himself. Okay? We got the dodges. We're gonna talk about Thanos. Yeah. With a dude who's like the least Thanos guy out of all of us. True. He's way too humble. Too humble. Too nice. I wish he talked too much more shit. It would make me feel less. But I'm gonna f I I'm gonna try, I'm gonna serve him with a layup and hopefully he'll just knock that bitch in. So here we are. We're gonna try. We made a good point earlier. Okay. If you have the opportunity To be Thanos and dominate, what did you guys? And that's what brings us to the Dodgers. Riley? Take it away. So the biggest signing, I think the biggest trade actually, because we did trade players. We traded three players for Tarek School Ball. school. Mystery I don't want to pitch in the U in the World Baseball Classic, sure. Yeah. My my bad tissue. but it it was three players from our farming system with Sayri Hope, River Ryan and Brady Smith. Brady Smith and Ryan River Ryan were both right handed pitchers. They haven't really done much for the Dodgers, so but they are still really young, so that's good for the Detroit Tigers and building that relationship with them. And then center fielder Zaire Hope. Why are you shaking your head? That's all you gave up for Scoobyl? Yep. And I and we signed a I have my opinions and my conspiracy about that, but this is your time to sign But we got one year a one year contract with Scoobyl. Allegedly. Thirty two mil. It's not allegedly, it was actual contract they signed. I know. Like he's not going to sign again is what there's always a chance. There's there is a chance. You never know. But I'm I'm happy we got really good pitchers on on the Dodgers right now. With Yamamoto, she in Sasaki, and Nasku Ball. So five good pitchers. Sasaki Sasaki gives up a lot of though that's the only downside to Sasaki button. Yeah. But i earlier the season he was getting really easy fine he's gonna be fine. Yeah. Yeah that's Those are good pictures. I'm glad you got another good picture. That's crazy. Yeah man, you you I mean you must be doing some, right? Yeah, and then we got we got two captures as well. one from the Mets and then I think from the Orioles, I believe. You're just so chillax about it. Yeah. Never change. Solid. So the Dodgers got Terry School. The fuckers got they got four aces on their on their roster right now. And I'm saying four because Otani's not fucking pitching the rest of the year. For for for injury purposes. No. Yeah. That still means they fucking have four aces in the rotation. So on any given day, you're gonna flo you're gonna face a flamethrower. Good luck. To get opposing lineups all across the league. So yeah, we'll find now in the postseason too what that looks like. Chill out. Give me a second. Yeah, give me a second. That being said The argument or not even the argument, the conversation or the point that we brought up earlier was like, okay, if you have a chance to to sign big players. If you're gonna bust out the checkbook, yeah. If you if you're gonna be a big market team and and have the capacity to do so, shouldn't you just be doing what the Dodgers are doing? Theoretically. No matter the most part. No no no matter what else people think. I mean, dude, we're not too far removed. The Yankees was doing the same shit. Yeah. Right. People act like we forgot. Bro, they had Matsui, they had Gina. They Arod, they had the Sheriff. Bro, th they had one through nine. They had a fucking powerhouse of a lineup. Yeah. Yeah. Not to mention CC Sabatia, Roger Clemens. Bro, like like they were stacked. They didn't they didn't win very many World Series because they were stupid. But still, on their on the roster they were phenomenal. Yeah. The Bronx Bombers as as as they put it. Yeah, I I my original sentiment with like what the Dodgers was were it w it was pretty frustrating and irritating to see that they were just giving blank checks to people, right? And doing making all these crazy transactions, right? But after actually going through a school bowl, it makes it like I'm building a slight admiration with like their dedication to winning. So I'm not talking as much shit about I I'm not a Dodgers fan. I still think that they are the Empire, right? But the evil Empire for you non Star Wars speaking folks. Yeah. Or like No, not even the fucking there's nobody in the NFL even pulling the shit off. It's it's kind of unprecedented with collecting all these fucking infinity stones. But I don't know, props to them. Because if they were my team I'd be like, you know, fuck you, let's go get another ring and another one and another one and another one on top of whoever is coming my way, right? facing up against whoever. I will say, technically they did have a close series against the Blue Jays last year though, right? They they went game seven. So, you know, like it's anything can happen still. S school bowl is not gonna fucking just change that. But they are setting a mentality, right? They're setting a precedent by making all these moves and by pulling through and they're once you have that championship mentality, that's half the fucking battle to to making it through these seasons. I mean, people are saying that they're ruining baseball. I think it's actually the opposite if you're thinking of your owner's standpoint. Because if you're an owner making billions, millions of dollars, why aren't you fucking spending this type of money and these players? Because and giving your fan base something to back up behind is what I'm coming from. So like it i I don't think the Dodgers are really ruining baseball in a sense. I I just think they're They're dealing their card they're dealing their hands very well and they all I mean they've always had a good they've had a good farming system. They've had they have good people on the inside valuing and looking to sign other players and really good players. I mean, Edwin Diaz is not the best pitcher, but he is a great pitcher and an I think he's an aura pitcher. But just A horror picture. Okay. But Aura. Aura. Like he has aura. Yeah, he has aura. I mean if you got a team the trumpet blasting as your as your walkout song, that's that's pretty cool. Maybe the Dodgers are the only team actually playing baseball. N don't say that. Let me say this. Let's correct that. No, I'm not correcting it. I'm a double down. Maybe they're the only ones doing it, because look at what the Cubs just did to try to beat him. 'Cause they know that they're gonna fucking meet them eventually. What why do the Cubs give all that up? Because they know that eventually they're gonna go against the Dodgers. So it forced the Cubs's hand. It should be forcing everyone's hand. Everyone should have been trying to fucking happy happy hip all these three ages. Forcing hands. That looks like you're fisting something. Does it? A little bit. I think that says more about you than it does to me. It says more about you than it does to me. It shouldn't have been forcing everybody's hands. Everyone should be happy, happy hippie hippoing, right? Or hungry, hungry hippoing all these free agents. I'm trying to make a point here. Right? So, yeah, if there's fucking money there to be spent, spend that shit. Which is what the Dodgers did, are doing, and that's what the Cubs did because of what the Dodgers are doing. And if this influences every other team to try to make these pushes, then you won't be complaining next year, or in two years, because then next year there will be a lockout. You won't be complaining. complaining in two years that your team isn't fucking pushing because the Dodgers made your team push. If your owner's not a bitch, rest my case. I'm gonna grab another beer. You guys can simmer and continue the discourse. Well while while I respect his take I do as someone who just started watching baseball like two months ago. But he makes some interesting points, I would say. You know, he has some really good rants, dude. I I I I don't understand. I do appreciate how he doubles down and just fucking take it. Yeah, he just goes. So what's so wrong? That's what I respect. I'm not saying it's wrong. No no no. so what's the other side about it, right? Because yeah, there you could conspiracize that like Tariq Tariq damn Terek Scuble didn't want to go anywhere else and said he didn't even give any other team a chance. I'm going With the Dodgers. Yeah, you guys should just trade me because I'm going with them anyways. Yeah. That's speculative. Which they were only that is speculative. That is speculation. A lot of teams wanted to sign him, but they didn't pull the trigger. Yeah, but that doesn't mean he wants to go to them. Look. He actually wanted to stay. With Detroit? Yeah. Is this the same dude that said he wanted to play and represent the United States of America? And then eventually didn't. Got me there. Look, I'm just admiring what the Dodgers are doing. I still think School Bull's kind of a punk. Right? And he got punked by the Cubs today, you know what I'm saying? And he did. But I think it's just the adjustment to the West Coast, this dude wouldn't understand. It's a totally different lifestyle. The West Coast is a totally different lifestyle. Dude has like over he has over a hundred and twenty he's gonna have like a hundred and maybe mid a hundred and thirty five, a hundred and forty What's the fucking shot? No, sorry. Strikeout. Strikeout. Strikeout strikeout. Sorry, sorry. He's gonna have like a hundred and forty roll there. A hundred and forty, a hundred and strike five, a hundred and forty five, strikeouts. On the year? Yeah, on the year. Okay. Yeah. Okay. 'cause he already had he already had a hundred and sixteen with Detroit and then now six with the Dodge. Today. Today. For sure. So sorry, I Okay, so what is the argument though? Is that small market teams can't afford big name players and a lot of That is the argument, that's the But is that just the narratives that these fucking owners are going away along with? If this dude owns a fucking team an MLB team cash out. They're making all that money off the fucking fans and the twenty dollar beers every time I'm there. You know you what's crazy though? But it depends on the market though. Cause here, the per team the exam the example I'm always gonna come back to and it's relevant today, is the Tampa Bay race. Dude, they've been to the world they've been to the World Series more times than the Cubs have in the last fucking twenty years. And they're doing really well this season again. And they're leading the division again this year. Yeah. Are they small market? They're small market it's Tampa Bay. What the Bucks. The Bucks? the all the Buccaneers. They have if you if your city can have a a baseball team and a football team, I don't think you're essentially small potatoes. Don't forget hockey. Don't forget hockey hockey. But I mean no, that's a great call out because baseball is not a bas it's not a baseball town. It's a football and hockey town. Yeah. 'Cause the lightning wear actually. No. Are you from Tampa Bay? I have to I can watch the games too. I I watch every fight any any Tampa highlight that comes up, there are so many fucking empty seats. Yeah. Like that shit don't make sense. And again, this is a good team. They have a good ball play. They're winning they're leading the division. Well, and then the other side of the coin is like the Marlins are doing fairly well with a ragtag team too as as Yeah, they're they're in Miami though. Might be Right, but they're not spending big bucks is what I'm saying. they kinda did one time and then they kinda blew up in the face. Shout out Derrier. But that's I'm not saying historically, I'm saying right now in this season the Marlins aren't doing so bad. Right? They they're but they're not a team that's been signing. They could fuck around and win it w win it win get a you want a car spot. So so then either cash out on a fucking good coach and not just a fucking coach who used to play for your team that you fucking feel bad to fire. But the problem with that the the problem with that is you have a situation that's happening with Toronto right now. Dude, the the Toronto, the Blue Jays were literally one win away from a World Series against your Dodgers. Yep. Lost. And now fast forward to now, they're not even in the playoffs. They're shitty to stuff. That's actually crazy because he's he has yet to hit a home run in his home stadium this year. It's gonna be Cal. Which is weird. Well Cal can't ball anymore. So And it it it it's also coming from because his dad used to play right? His dad used to play for the Blue Jays. True. Yeah. Well so and he just he he just signed a fat contract. Yeah. Yeah. Is that no baby black junior junior. Yeah, to to sign that contract in the office and then play like he's playing this year? Wow. Yeah. That's that's surprising. Maybe it's a love button. Also maybe trying to yeah. don't know. Maybe they're looking for next season. So back to the Dodgers. Yeah. you heard my rant. You don't got a rant? I have a rant, but it it we c we kinda cut him off. No, I mean He doesn't have a rant. He's just happy to have good pictures. Was that really your final answer? No, I do you guys not hear what I said earlier? Yeah, he did say something actually. Yeah, be re what is it? Yeah, he was saying that like good pictures? No That was a good one. But after value within the team and then also like we're not Like how do you blame them, right? Actually we're not We're not criminals to baseball. We're not Yeah, yours. I gotta tweet. I gotta tweet. You're the mad Titans. Mookie Betts traded because the Red Sox were cheap with their extension. True. Braves chose Olson over Freeman. True. Angels refused to win around Otani. True. Yankees wouldn't pay Yamamoto more than Cole. Arte vetoed a Pages trade. Rays didn't want to pay Glasno. Cardinals gave up on Edman. A's DFA'd Max Muncie. And now Ter Tigers refuse to pay School Bowl. So what the f t the Dodgers are gonna be like, Yeah, we could buy him, but we're really gonna ride with the team that we have right now 'cause we believe in them. Fuck that shit. Put the rims on the new Ferrari. Get that new exhaust. Get the sports version. All wheel drive, baby. Why not? It's a blank check, no? If you've got it like that. Theoretically, yeah. Chicago's a big town. Yeah. Look what you guys are doing. You're making moves. Yep. Yeah. I feel like I'm really driving this conversation. No, I don't no you can make good points. It's not it's not I it's not spiel to spiel spiel, it's combo, it's conversation. Yeah. So give a rebuttal. I think I've said this in like previous podcasts though, where like I knew about like Freddie Freeman not getting that contract with Atlanta. You did say that before. Well you did say this about the players. I didn't also not getting signed what he was doing with the Red So like it it's just like an ongoing thing that Dodgers are giving these guys second chances in this league. Not second chances. Well not second chances give what they're want but what they're also worth and their value. Right. And they're performing well. And or or they have performed really well. So like I just it's it's hard you can't keep arguing. It's hard to argue with it it's hard to say that it's sustainable because I know for a fact that not every market has the means to do so. Okay. So like yeah. If you have the capacity if you have the capacity, do some capacity. Capacity. Capacity. If you have the capacity. If you have the capacity. if you if you have the means to go ahead and actually spend the money, put together this all star roster, right? Of course, go for it. I and you shouldn't be you shouldn't be chastised for that. Agree. Is it annoying? Yeah. Because I'm looking at it from another standpoint. I'm looking at it from a socialist standpoint, if if you will. Like politically socialist? Not literally, but like from like you can be as rich as you want, but no one should be poor. And that I apply that to every major league ball club. So it i if you if you have to amend to ship spread the wealth if you will a little bit then maybe a cap space isn't the worst idea. That way it gives other teams fair market value to go ahead and pursue other superstars. Because like let's let's be real for a second. We're talking about a franchise that doesn't have like okay you have you have franchises that are looking to have two, three, maybe four all stars superstars if you will. The Dodgers are a walking all-star team. You know what I'm saying? The Yankees, arguably, well except for except for Bobby, is a walking all-star team when healthy. From the Bellingers to the Judges to the Stantons, you know, to the Chisholms. You know what I'm saying? They they have big name players. But you lo you go down to Tampa Bay, do y'all know anybody from Tampa Bay? Who has the best record in the American League East? Jonathan that I know. I barely started watching baseball. So and that's my point though. Yeah. So like, okay, what's to say like a and I know this this also ultimately comes down to the players whether or not they want to fucking sign and stay and live in Tampa Bay, you know, for for eight months out of the year. But Isn't isn't it beautiful in Tampa? It's fucking Florida. Don't you wanna don't you want a water puppy? I'm gonna I'm gonna I'm gonna call Cap. Why? Without the acidity, right? So Cap no Acidy. Because if Cleveland can give Deshaun Watson a quarter of a billion dollars and guaranteed Cleveland the Cleveland Browns are the worst example you can come up with because they're not because they're a piece of shit team that never amounted to anything. They have listen to me. You wanted me to fucking give a spiel and ran you been talking the whole time, right? Well because you're almost like I was talking. And you cut me out and you interjecting with the fucking Cleveland Browns of all fucking teams. Just trying to prove a point, but you just you know what? I'll give you that. You just helped me prove my fucking point. Okay, so what's point? You you're using the Cleveland fucking Browns as an example of the one. If there was an R word floating around right anywhere right now, it's them for the decisions that they've pulled off. Okay. So you can't use them. That's not a vowel That's not a valid argument. No, you're saying that teams are incapable of spending money. I'm telling you that's bullshit. That's cap. Also, if you're an owner, you can spend money. You're talking about a football team compared to a baseball team. Yeah, well, baseball has so much fucking history, right? It's football generates more money. It's built off legacy, right? J football generates more money and football all the time. No no no. There's a hundred and sixty games out of the year with team with people playing to show up to those games. You can't tell me that fucking the the in the the owners are generating less money in the in the fuck in the MOB than they are in the NFL. There's 160 games and fans are showing up every day. Even if the tickets are forty bucks, you only get six seventeen games where people are paying two hundred dollars a game. Every football game is sold out. Not the case for baseball. That's cap. That is not cap. I can show you the data. Cleveland does not get sell sold out sold out. Cleveland does sell out their home games. Capacity. Cap Acid. Cap Acety. Cap Acid. Cause funny enough, a team as ridiculous and dysfunctional as the fucking Browns, their fans fucking love them. They're the they're so why do we got and they show up? So why do we got broke ass motherfuckers as owners of the MO O B teams? I don't know, talk to the fucking MLP PA. I'm saying get your money up and quit complaining. I mean you can make the argument for Seattle. Seattle is a huge city. And why didn't you? Seattle's yeah, why isn't Seattle Because they never fucking spend. The temperature spend. I'm saying I hope if the Dodgers keep doing this that the Seattle does wake up and start. So at this point, if they're not gonna if they're gonna cheat and skip out like that, then alright, let's move the Mariners. Let's move the Mariners, let's move the race. If they're not gonna cash out, sure, but I think that there's worse cases than this. Sorry. You're turning this on me. If MLB is turning point You're turning me on, dude. You're turning me on right now, bro. You're turning me you're turning on your You're you're you're No, no. But I'm sure if we're gonna be on the room If we're gonna if that's the standard then we can go with that standard. But I think there are worse cases than the Mariners of people not spending fucking money. I can't name them because I don't watch enough baseball. But I don't know. The fucking Marlins for one. I Brewers, what the fuck is in Milwaukee? I don't know. Like they have a good baseball team. Arizona. What the fuck is in Arizona? You know, like too actually. But we're doing good. We're doing good. We just got the top of yours. No. No, but what things are I'm not waiting. Rewind. I'm sorry. Rewind. You guys are catching up. Just because you sell a team, just because you sell a team doesn't mean that it has to be Alright? Just sell it to a fucking richer dude in Seattle. And get that going. Like Bill Gates? Bezos or something. I don't know. Fucking somebody who knock them. Bezos will fucking shell out money. Fuck those guys? I know. Anybody else. like the Dodgers owners aren't over here funding detention centers. We want to talk about that shit? I mean, yeah, we can. Alright. Well, I'm just saying, yeah. They're the ones fucking winning World Series over here. Don't fucking And you're over here fucking justifying their habits. I'm not justifying. I'm admiring. I'm not justifying. Holy shit. That's what he said. I feel like we got nowhere with this. No, no, we got nowhere, we absolutely got nowhere. We have all the capacity to do cap acid. Cap acid cap acid. And we fucking shit the bed. No, it was a pretty successful talk though. That was unproductive. How the fuck are we gonna wrap this shit? hold on, alright. We're ending this on a very uneducated note. This is a a conversation. But this is literally how we interact with each other. I thought we were trying to be credited. I thought we wanted to be credible. we I mean we were for a second. I think we're good. That's the most pickups stance on top. Sell it seems to richer fucking owners within the city and you know, start giving out blank checks. I will say No, I think it was a productive conversation and and this is why. I think both of us made good points. Not saying one is more right than the other or more wrong than the other. Because in reality of it, at the bottom line, as the f as a baseball fan, as baseball fans, what we want to see is competitiveness. We want to see good product, right? We want to see teams go head head to head and and and put together good rosters. And some of us want that to happen no matter how it happens. Precisely, which is exactly what the Dodgers are doing, right? And then, like your to your point, they're forcing teams like my Kobe's to do the same, right? And figure it out. Yeah. Okay? So here we are. Now, is it the right way to do it? I don't know. Is it ethical? Probably not. But are we gonna be are we gonna be watching? Probably. Yeah. Right? Uh-huh. C come October, w w when is goal time? We'll be watching them duke it out like the the heavyweights that they are. Right? Mm-hmm. Yeah. I'm I mean I'm gonna be watching more games now just because World Cup's gone and over with, so I'm just gonna keep track of everyone. This dude just made sense of the whole fucking bullshit ass conversation we had. Yeah. You actually made it seemed like yeah, it was productive. It makes me feel better about that. It's because it was productive. It was. That's not what I felt at all. I thought it was. I thought it was I mean we got off the handles a little bit, but that that's just but that's that's our personality. But that that's like the comedic part portion of it. So like that's what we want in this. I was telling my We're not trying to be like after a night of like professional analysts or after a night of turning up and Winatchie 'cause I went home for the weekend. Shout out the ballie. I was getting a ride from my mom's fiance dude. She's driving, he's like, like yeah, then you got like we're talking about the my house. He's like, Yeah, and you got that space, undisclosed space. and I'm like, Yeah, I turn that into my podcast studio He's like, nice. What do you guys talk about? And I'm like, Well it's sports. You know how I get when I a little bit like It's two other mees. So it's kind of a good time. Solid. God, that's cool, dude. Yeah. You know? So I just it's funny. It's funny. It's a good time. I love it. Glad we made sense of that conversation. Hope it was productive. Hope you guys had fun. Absolutely. I I I think we're we're in store for a good second half. All of our teams are making a final push for the postseason. And yeah. Postseason baseball is nothing else quite like it in my opinion. Honestly no. It's entertainment. Hey? If the mariners don't make it, I hope the world just burns up. Well, on that note I feel like if the forty niners would do the same, you would do that. You would say that exact same thing. Yeah. Yeah, yeah, no for sure. I think it you'd be a bit more animated though. I didn't even watch you like did I? We technically did. We the hobby Patriots shit the bed. Right. Dude on TikTok there was a video, somebody made an edit of the Patriots, and they're like, This is what happened when we met the fucking the supposed number one defense when they went against Houston in the playoffs. Yeah. The Texans. And I was like I responded on TikTok. I was bored. I was like, yeah, it's fucking easy to score points when what Fucking CJ Stroud is throwing Dollar Tree Turkey Burgers to a defense. Four Dollar Tree Turkey Burgers. Bro. He threw four fucking interceptions in the playoffs. Yep. And of course, I was like, as a Niners fan, like, you guys didn't even like stand a chance against the Patriots or the Seahawks. Like it's fucking embarrassing. I wanna be making a fucking edit of my team. I got smacked in the Super Bowl like that. And they're like, Bro, you got belt to ass on the way there. Bro, you lost forty one six. I couldn't say shit. And that's and that's where my shit talking ended. I let's see if somebody else has had some tick. God damn. Let's not go down that rabbit hole right now. but WWE was the next thing, right? Yes it was. You wanna intro that? So, I mean any any final thoughts on that. Can I can I can I intro it? Do you want to? I mean I don't I mean, can I just say who who got defeated and who I feel like you should do it. Yeah, I just felt really flat. I don't know. Yeah, it's Roman Reigns Okay. No no no. Start night one. Night one. Night one. So like stuff. Roman Reigns is like the that was the main main event. The main main Cody Roads and the So we gotta wait until then. 'Cause the most I'm gonna be able to contribute is off of night one. So Fair enough. Do you so did you do you did you have a pulled up? I yeah, night. Per perfect. Perfect. Alright, so that good luck to the Mariners, good luck to the Dodgers, and good luck to the Cubbies. Shout out to the MLB season for having a lot of fun, and we'll circle back to see how our guys are doing. Alright. That being said, SummerSlam. SummerSlam and WWE is arguably the second biggest event of the year in the world of WWE in pro wrestling. What do you mean? In pro wrestling. Anyway, so I love fucking what you guys are. You're you're fucking annoying. So my point is SummerSlam turned in the last couple of years has turned into a two nine event. Last year it was in New Jersey. This year it was in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Night one, night two, August first, August second. Night one, arguably I would say, was probably the less entertaining or the less or the least thought of storylines, that brought like a lot of ent enthusiasm and or like entry to the overall event. Night two was an absolute banger. But that doesn't mean to say that night one didn't have some positives and some things they actually take away from it. Night one was cool. I liked it. I liked it too, but it what it didn't hit as quite as good as Night Two before you shut the fuck up. So here we go. Night one since it's the one that you actually watched. You know Roman's like he's probably the same age as you You know Roman's like ten years younger than you, right? But he's probably older than actually he's probably older than you. He's forty one, first of all. for real? Yeah. So so his prime at forty? No. No. My goats get in their prime at twenty. my god. Anyway. So night one, do you know off the top of your head? Fucking go take us into night one. I'm just gonna ignore you for a second. Alright, cool. Go ahead. So night one to start it off we had Live Morgan versus E.O. Sky. Was a world a women's world championship match. Live Morgan ended up beating E.O. Sky. It was a decent match. Both are great wrestlers. I like Live Morgan. I like E.O. Sky. I think I like E.O. Sky more. She puts a trash can over her head. And then she jumps off like a ten foot cage onto like a bunch of other girls. That didn't happen this event though. No, no, no, no. But like that's badass. That's why that's what she's known for. Shout out Eo Sky, I love you forever. Love you forever, Eosky. Liv Morgan ended up winning that. I was kind of hoping for a Dom Interjection game if you're Like Eo's gonna win and then Dom comes in to save her or something like that. I don't think we saw Dom at all. Nah, I think But they're still like together, that's the storyline though. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Dirty Dom. Dirty Dom. Shout out Dom and he comes into play later. then there was a six man tag team match, morph the bloodline, I guess. Versus LA Knight and Royce Keys and Solo Sickoy. Can we do it like an o like an honest like not not buy I guess the choreographed entertainment? Huh? Over choreographed entertainment? That's the argument. You want me to be un No. You want me to be shut the fuck up? You don't even recognize them as athletes, bro. Yeah. Because I think Roman Reigns is a wannabe Jason Momoa, but that's all I gotta say. that's pretty that's pretty bad. That's a pretty b that's pretty wrong. So, LA Knight, Solo Sokoa and Royce Keys ended up beating the Bloodline Jacob two and the Usos, which I am glad Jimmy Jay is so fucking out of his prime, it's fucking ridiculous. I did think Royce Keys, his physique, crazy. That dude's fucking ripped, bro. He's huge. He should be pushed. Just the way that he looks. Just for his physique, I I d I I haven't seen it. but I'll believe you on it. He he he has potential. That's not a just no bad mic work. Yeah, he he's just not there yet. I can think of a couple of people who had bad mic work. Then after that and then LA Knight solo sequoi and Royce Keys won. So after that there was a Gunter versus Nick Aldus match. I'm not a fan of Gunter. Nick Aldus came back and wrestled for the first time in three years. Shout out to him. I think he was going through some shit. They gave him a huge applause. But Gunter kinda tired of him. They call him the legend killer. He just beats people for like no reason. But he has like no substance to his character. He just like beats people. Like it doesn't accumulate tender. Hey, you put some respect on the get her out of this thing. He doesn't accumulate anything. He just wins the fucking c he the He's the legend killer bro. Yeah he doesn't o he held the fucking world heavyweight belt when Roman had a fucking go film a movie or some shit. I don't give a fuck. Six woman tag team match, we had Fatal Influence versus Fatal Influence. Page and the Bella Twins. And this is the guy who says Thailand was good. By the way. I watched it my brother, it was good. Fatal influence defeated Paige and the Bella Twins. Dude, I've Good. The Bella Twins need to get the fuck out of the the the WWE. My brother doesn't get drunk. He doesn't he can't he can't do it. But I'd better He can. I think He's more of a smoker. Personal. I actually I put twenty bucks at Cruz Whoopset. Right here? Right here? I'm literally Shawn Michaels and that's Cruz. He's the undertaker. wait, how old is Oba Femi? Walk with them taking those next. How much is or how old is Oba Femi? Oba Femi is like twenty eight. And how old is Brock Lesnar? That d what are you getting what are you trying to get at? We're gonna talk about that here in a second. But that's not being at for night one. But I'm not there yet. Okay. Six Woman Taxi match, Fatal Influence defeated Paige and the Battle Twins. Good. Battle Twins get the fuck out. You guys are washed. undisputed WWE match. CM Punk defeated Cody Rail Cody Rhodes. And Cody Rhodes was ambushed by Randy Orton. The rattlesnake! The legend killer. Viper. Huh? The Vipers? my bad, the Viper. Rattlesnake's not him. My bad. Yeah, that's my bad. Alright. I'm a my bad. And I'm a dumbass. You are a dumbass. Alright. Wait, he's a viper? That's his name. Or his nickname. Like why d why do they call him the Viper? You know like how they call Messi the greatest of all time or some shit? It's kinda the same shit, Riley. but are but like ten times better. 'Cause he actually deserved it. True. it's it's not it's not funny when we do it? now I gotta shut up. my bro. Jesus Christ. I deserve it. Alright, just fucking sit like a good boy. And just talk about how funny they are. Look up Google them and tell me what you think. You want me to sit like a good boy? Yes. shit. hey. Well he doesn't have to get X. Sitting on my lap is fine. That kids do it to Santa all the time and nobody bats an eye. That wasn't the case. Sorry, but you paused my Royal Rumble. so and Randy Oren ended up ambushing Cody Rhodes. I think they put up a great match CM Punk and Cody Rhodes. I like the CM Punk WWE's second life resurgence that he's having. Obviously he's not in his physical prime, but he's still putting up great matches. Cody Rhodes is gonna put up good matches. I don't know what you do with Cody Rhodes moving forward. I feel like he hit his prime, his peak way too early. You you have you have to in my opinion, you have to turn him heal. Yeah, yeah, yeah. You have to turn him heal. I was telling my brother I don't know how you are called the American Nightmare and Never Turn Hill. I think they should capitalize on that. It's kind of already there, right? So then yeah, glad Randy Oren came up in the mix to fuck that up for him. Maybe that starts a rivalry. Anyway, CM Punk ended up Retaining his belting the belt, right? So I don't know. It's gonna start a feud with Cody Rhodes and Randy Orin. I really want Randy Orin to have another shot at the belt though. A real shot. Like actually a whole belt. Yeah. after that though we got a kind of a quick Quick Hell in the Cell match between Oba Femi and Brock Lesnar. That's what I was hoping didn't happen. I wanted an actual like forty-five fifth like hour-long match between Oba Femi and and Brock Lesnar in the Hell in the Cell cage. In the nineties and the early two thousands, Hell in the Cell used to me mean like brutal, like fucking like everybody's war-torn, beat the fuck up. Like the blood, it's all scratched. Like their backs are scratched from the cage of being fucking thrown on the cage. You know? And nowadays I just haven't seen like any hell in the cell matches where like people even bleed. I think the closest we got was Cody Rhodes when he tore his fucking his peck. That wasn't even And that was that was brutal looking. Brutal looking, but it didn't even happen during the theme. Yeah. Right? Like nobody just And I I just miss when people used to like bleed for the inter for for the business. It just doesn't feel that way anymore. Still, I wanna give them it was still great. It was two heavyweights going at it. I really liked that they did do something new in Brock Lesnar tearing the the the pad off the ring and exposing the wood. Yep. And he was going to I think it was setting up a power bomb on Obafemi, so he had him up here like this. Maybe. He had him grabbed. Anyways, he turned him upside down. Tell me how had him ready for a pile driver? He was he had him a certain way and then he looked at everybody and set him up for a pile driver. So then he tombstoned Obafemi on the hardwood planks and did the Undertaker like little To try to pin him and Obafemi kicked out because he's the one that's gonna get over. I wish they did more with the hardwood floor there because that's new. So I wish like maybe he would have F fived him on there. 'Cause fucking Brock Lesnar took two hundred and something pound Obafemi and just landed on his knees, 'cause the tombstone, if you're doing it properly, you're just landing on your knees, right? But it's like four hundred pounds landing on your knees. So ow, right? F five him on the thing or have Obafemi power slam him, power slam him right on on the wood, right? And then throw another fucking chair or shit or thrown through a table or something. But that would have been cool. I like the Carnage. Anyways, Oba Femi ended up winning. Brock Lesnar gave a nice little speech towards the end saying that Oba Femi is the future being crowned essentially. not sure what's gonna happen with Brock Lesnar since he was supposed to retire like two matches ago. Maybe this was his actual retirement match. but Obafemi Obafemi has been over and this pretty much I hope sets Obafemi maybe for a crash course with that man, Roman Reigns over there. in which case Roman Reigns also gives up that shit and credits him for the future. And then he can go recover and retire since he has underlying illnesses yes to take care of. And movies to film. I'm gonna have a Nesto cover night two, since I had to drive seven hours back to where I am living at and missed night too. Cool. I like how you just like not Huh? I like how the underlying illnesses is like just kinda like Huh With showing under the under the carpet that the fact that the man's got Well he has to recover, right? Yeah, but no. So the so then the belt obviously has to be held up since we're waiting on him to make an appearance when he feels good. He was here yesterday. What are you talking about? He he showed him yesterday. I'm glad. I guess I'll see him when he's on Raw at some point, like in every three months. In two weeks. In two weeks and then he'll be gone for two months. He's got like another eight appearances leading up to money in the bank. So I know I don't know I don't exactly understand where you're getting it. You know what I'm saying? And you refuse to acknowledge. Because you're too busy acknowledging. You refuse to acknowledge because you're too busy acknowledging. is that what that is? And he is Yeah, it kinda looks like Spider Man, huh? Yeah, it depends. I can't wait till Obafemi takes that over. Yeah, okay. So he's gotta deal with LA Knight first. the Femi is over LA Knight. What are you talking about? No, Roman has to deal with LA Knight first if you've been paying attention. And he better be careful. And you better be careful. god. Okay. Yeah, the megastar. Yeah. Who like botches every other fucking move. Yeah, this motherfucker over here who is depending on being fucking the rock's nephew to be anything. Because it w it took him until he was thirty-five before he can actually put a sentence on the fucking mic. I bet if he was podcasting at twenty-eight, like I am now, that motherfucker would. be able to go on the rants that I do. I am better on the mic at twenty eight than Roman Reigns ever will be, ever will have been, and I fucked that up already. But you know what I'm talking about. The g the man that's better on the mic. That's him. Nice job. The evil genius. The evil genius. Roman Reigns. Roman can reign. SummerSlam night two, here we go. Thank you so much for your wonderful bullshit input. So here we are. Night two. Lots of good shit also that took that that took place during that event. I watched both of it both nights and I have to say night two was better for multiple different reasons. Not just not just because Roman Marines retained and closed a beautiful chapter of what the shield. It usually is. Night two is. Where they h keep everything. Anyway, as I was speaking, I was rudely interrupted. now I'm interrupted. So we get the things going on. I mean I'm gonna go out of order a little bit. I'm going based off what was like to in my opinion, like the like the most like disappointing. I was very I was very much looking forward to the Danhausen Dominic Mysterio human money is on a poll match. Okay. Hundred K on the line. Hundred K on the line, it was fucking Dan Housen money. In the fucking bag. lots of opportunity there. Danhausen, I will say, and this is my c potentially controversial take. He's gonna be basically on every program, whether it be Raw or SmackDown, and he's doing so well. But in typical WWE fashion They're gonna cram him down our throats and we're pretty much gonna be sick of him in here in about four to five months. But I digress. We'll get there here in a minute. The math itself had mad potential to be fun because I mean you got Dominic Mysterio who is like the the perfect guy to hate, really, for obvious reasons, but I'm a big fan, you know what I'm saying? I mean I mean that he's obviously Ray's son and it's the Eddie Guerrero i Eddie Guerrero's godson or whatever, which is really cool. I mean Eddie Guerrero's grill son. If you know you know. Allegedly. But the match itself was kind of done. Yeah the the the mini housing showed up put up a fight my big forehead fucking JD McDonald showed up, put up a fight, Mollywap all the mini housing. So that part was fun. It was a spectacle for sure. but like the overall like It was only like six minutes all together. Damn for real? Was it a ladder match? No, it w it was human monies on a pole match. So they literally had one corner where they s a bag of money like like the cartoon sheet, like a sack like a sack of cash with the dollar bill sign. Yeah. And they just put it on one corner post and you had to go get it dim. that's how that's how you won. That's kinda stupid. Yeah. Damn, for SummerSlam you can't even fucking do those. Or no. Dominic Mysterio. Danhausen defeated Dominic. Yeah, because he hit him with the U R curse and then Pyro. Don't curse the don't curse the fans. What the fuck? And then Pyrotechnic shot up, burnt Dominic Mysterio and then. Dude, I feel like I have to be high to watch this. And and it allowed Dan Housen to find Actually you actually really would enjoy it if you wanted to. Yeah, if you stopped if you stopped fucking shitting on it. but that's how that ended up being. the next this the next one honestly should have been the worst match of the night in my opinion, but I just needed to get Danhausen out of the way because, well I was disappointed. I was down I was disappointed. Baron Corbin makes his return, takes the title match against Trick Williams, who in my opinion is a rising star. and I'm pretty sure this is signaling his turn. In his career to basically start getting main events. Like he's gonna start going after like the bigger bigger belts. Yeah. Or at least in those lines. so it was a very lackluster match. Baron Corbin looks slow, not very athletic. Yeah, he's big, he's he's brooding, he's intimidating, but as far as like his actual ring work, I was not I was not impressed. to take a belt, to take a belt, and then also I'm so sick of celebrities making appearances. You don't like Lil Yaddy? I'm I'm fine with Lil Lil Yaddy, but he fucked up his both both of his spots. There was literally one time where you can hear it on the on the live broadcast where Corbin had to be like, Yachty, Yaddy, Yaddy, hit me with the fucking kendo stick. He probably wasn't even in there mentally. He straight up forgot. So like shit like that, bro. Like that that's annoying. Because you got Corbin over here like yelling. At him awkwardly standing waiting for him to hit up. How the fuck is Vicky Guerrero gonna make a fucking living out of doing shit like that? And pulled it off great. Everyone hated Vicky. It's part of the show. You know? She she made it part of the show. She's world-class. Yep. And fucking these dudes come in expecting it. Thinking it's gonna be a walk in the park. Yeah, and it's like, dude, come on now. Now you gotta be on it. I agree with that. I agree. so that that was a bit that was a bit annoying. if you don't watch this shit like we do, you can't shit on it man. I'm sorry. D like d on a you know what? I'm gonna pause right here for a second. You know how your dude was crying when he got that fucking red card after he kept pushing all these motherfuckers throughout the tournament and he was still bitching and crying and getting his ass kicked out of the tournament because he should have been kicked out of the tournament hella fucking earlier. What the fuck is his name? Fernando? Or some shit? It was Fernandez. Fernandez? Wait, Enzo? Yeah. But hold on, I mean that's not the route I was taking, so we what is I feel like that's way different. My bad. I was just trying to find a way to hear. I know. He Ignore him for a second. I was I was so confused on his No, no, no. He was trying to hurt you. I know. It just you're hurting me. You hurt me. Hey, hurt people, hurt people, okay? Okay, we need to relax. I'm sorry. Okay. It's just like respect just respect the WWE, Okay. I I under I understand you didn't grow up on this shit, bro. But hey man, like if there w if there was ever like a human parallel to a superhero for us, it's these motherfuckers. 'Cause like th these are all j what it's what they are. You got the the fucking costumes, you got the entrances, you got the pyrotechnics, you got the choreograph moves, the crazy ass finishers. Dude, that lady crying, this guy has been hurt. he had a pretty serious neck injury, where he had to actually have surgery. There was Th there was a a minute there thinking that he he was done. All right. So the fact that he actually showed out and came back for us, that girl crying is a perfect. For the first time. Almost a fucked up neck injury. Yep. And look what this dude does. He's like forty five. He doesn't fucking care. He he wants to put on a good show. Look. And and I don't and I don't even like the motherfucker. Me neither. I don't But I respect the hell out of him. Like he is putting on a show. Okay. He's making sure that i it like it's it's like what my Mike included. I retaliate too hard. I'm sorry. No, you you're fine. I was honest very generally confused on your I did I I jumped over there I I just I didn't know what else to show up. But but but my point still stands. Like these guys are as close to like superheroes for us in real life as like our animes that we watch, our Marvel and D C movies that we watch. This is as close as it's gonna get to us in my opinion. Because bro who Any any one of us, at what point did we not, you know, do a power bomb on our siblings or jump off the bed doing a flying elbow onto the fucking couch or whatever, you know what I'm saying? Or a suplex in the pool with our homies. You know, you know you know what I mean? Chris can tell you, I sweep chin music him off a trampoline. Sweet chin music, bro. Yo, shout out to Heartbreak Kid. Which also you're getting very sentimental and I love it. Yeah. You gave us a hard cut off time though? Shit. It's okay. It's okay. It's okay. So let's wrap it up. Let's get into the let's get into it. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I'm okay with the time. I just No, that's cool. We're well we're gonna go a little over, but sorry. so but yeah, Corbin wins. Which is what we're watching. Right now. He takes the belt off of Trick Williams. Trick Williams is gonna be pretty much doing the main main belt now. Okay. which is what I'm predicting. And yeah, we're we're gonna find out here pretty soon. the next match is actually funny enough, this particular match with Kevin Owens that we saw be prior to that. Yeah. great to see him back. kind of annoyed that he won the number one contenders. Yeah. like I I don't think he should right away. I don't think he should have won. I I I'm a I was hoping Finn Balor. Yeah. Finn Balor, a hundred percent. I'm a huge Finn Balor fan. it was a fatal four way that that became a fatal four way last minute. It was initially gonna be Finn Balor versus Sandy Zayn, but then you throw in Gunther and then you throw in Kevin Owens as a surprise guest or entrance. Kevin Owens wins after becoming they're coming back from a serious injury and now he's the number one contender for his for for the WWE disputed belt which is CM Punk's belt. But we'll we'll get to that here in a second. Kevin Owens is CM Punk. say what? I just wish it was Finn versus CM Punk. Me too. That that that that would have been perfect. So the women's ladder match, so the women's dub undisputed championship right now is gonna have an interim champion because the current title ho holder is Rhea Ripley. She's hurt and she's gonna be out for a minute. So emphasis on the term interim. So like that means when she comes back, she gets the belt back, which a lot of people are not happy about. they will have a match? Something like that. To settle it? I I don't know yet. nothing official has been coming up. That's what I'm hoping for. I i it would only make sense that they go, you know, ch chop for chop, right? Yeah. But it's this was a ladder match between five incredible superstars. Dan Hellson. Yeah. Dan Hells is the little guy. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. No I I looked him up already. gotcha. the the the w the women's the women's ladder chan or ladder match was to determine the interim champion. You got Chelsea Green, Jade Cargill, Charlotte Flair, st Tiffany Stratton and then Lash Legend who's an another up and coming su women superstar in my opinion. great match, great use of the ladders. I felt bad because Tiffany Stratton was thrown through a ladder. Normally they give. She's little, so it just she she bounced off that bitch. So I know that fucking hurt. ultimately Chelsea Green, who I think is well more than deserving, is now the WWE women's championship right champion right now. Do you have a crush on her? No. Okay. She's just she's just very likable. She's f she's funny as fuck. She's she's like there's a term there's a term in in in wrestling called a jobber. Basically their job is to make the like the big names look good. That's what Chelsea's been s her entire WWE run. She's so much more than that. And but the thing is, she was so good making other wrestlers look good, they just kinda kept her there until now. It's like it's been like thirteen years in the making. Jesus Christ. Thirteen years. Yeah, I mean she she she's held like the mid the mid card belts a couple times and a couple tag team belts. But no, th this is the one you want. It's 'cause a lot of the times these like jobbers they have to reinvent themselves and like they have to go out of their way to make the cr 'cause a lot of times the the WWE does kinda like give you a character and gives you parameters to work in within like the character that you're that you're given. But sometimes you have to go out of your way to like be charismatic enough for the crowd to care about you more than just like a mid carrier. And so like there's several wrestlers that have have to go reinvent themselves, had to go through like a different angle or different shtick or something that made the crowd get going, like Jay Uso with his fucking lights and he got the and it bought him like two or three more main events. And so But but the thing is like whether he likes it or not, the majority of fans loved it and they kept eating that shit up. So what is it gives you opportunity. What does that do? It gives you the chance to t to get out there in front of the crowd that much more. whether you have people like him or other people that just don't fuck with him. And and the same thing with with with my guy Roman. Admittedly he yeah, he's he's about as as big a Neppo baby as you can get. He was force fed to the crowd until eventually he made the character himself, like or not himself, but his own. And he got better in the ring, got better on the microphone, and the dude just oozes aura, bro. You like like the guy is just he's a he's a walking, like, multi million dollar like advertisement in himself. People people want Roman Reigns. I would say Roman Reigns is bigger than Jason Momoa. for for different reasons. Yeah, I I was just kind of making a stick. No, no, I get you. No, no, I get you. but funny enough Jason Momoa Minecraft Jason Momoa. Please. It's okay. Hey, fuck off. I'm serious. No, I'm just saying don't don't shit on Aquaman dog. I'm not I'm saying that motherfucker's Aquaman and we're talking about some dude who can't even land a fucking script in a movie. Okay. He's Aquaman, bro. Huh? Yeah, he is Street Fighter. I was actually about to say he is Street Fighter. Who's also connected with who? Jesus Christ, bro. I'm sorry. I But God forbid I got a family that hooks me up. Yeah, dude, God forbid you. Yes, bro. Let God forbid nepotism, dog. Should be about merit. What the fuck is this? Yeah, okay, sure. I I'll I'll I'll take the high roll when literally everyone else is doing the same shit. Who? Randy Orton? Cody Rhodes? Cody Rhodes had to reinvent self. It's true. He had to go to AEW to reinvent Sol. I get what you're saying, but he still had a foot in the door thanks to his dad and his brother. Randy Orton took a fucking thumbtacks all on his back fighting fucking Mick Foley. Two by fours on fire with barbed wire around them fighting McFoley before he even fucking got a shot as a legend killer. What the fuck is Seth not Seth? Dumb fuck done. Roman. I don't know Roman. What's the most hardcore shit Roman's ever done? I don't know. Other than just fucking win matches. Tribal warfare. Has the dude ever bled? Has he ever bled for the business? Is that really your argument? I'm saying, has he ever done anything that hardcore for the business or is it all this just fucking He's literally doing all this while still having leukemia. Which he's the one who packs houses? Alright. Sorry. He wins. He there's no bigger draw in the industry right now than him. Legitimately. A bigger draw. Do you redact? He's not gonna redact. I'm not redacting because yeah, it's gonna be a big draw because people were forced to watch it for ten years. People were forced to fucking watch it for ten years. Are you fucking kidding Of course. It's the Kim Kardashian effect! You fucking kidding. I fuck with Kim Kardashian! No, but she's fucking huge because she kept g doing the Kardashian examination. She came out with a sex tape, boom, everybody's faces. Then it was the Kardashian follow the Kardashians every fucking season. We don't see an ad modern Kim Kardashian, Chloe Kardashian. If that was the case Would not Ray J be bigger? Ray J is huge. Yeah, it is. I'm saying this, Kardashian effect. Force feed someone just enough, of course they're gonna be fucking big. That's all anybody can think about because that's all anybody sees. If everybody, if everybody every Monday is tuning in to WWE Raw and they're seeing fucking Roman Reigns' face, eventually it's gonna be a fucking thing. That's not a good not a good example. The only thing I'll give that motherfucker credit for is that he's a 49ers fan. Roman. Rachid? Rachid might be too. I think he's a certified blood. A quarter of dense staples. credit to Roman Reigns. You're I can't wait s till you stop raining, but for the time being, I'm glad that people are having fun watching you. That being said, thank you for watching. If there was ever a time for the expression that goes they hate us because they ain't us was applicable, this is it right now. Los pickups. So Lost Dodge. You hate us because we ain't I've had a couple beers, but I'm not that drunk. We're not doing all that. What are you doing? I thought it was funny. I thought it was funny. Gotta leave. But yeah, well Roman Roman Reigns keep retained. Guys, it's just a joke. Mu much to this man of this bitter motherfucker. I he retained. It was a great match. If you know the story, I'm sorry we can't get much into the story between Roman Reigns and Seth Rollins because I feel like these guys gonna cry. And overall, congrats. It was great. SummerSlam is great overall. I think it was a s a success. I'm looking forward to Money in the Bank and War Games shortly after that. we'll keep you guys updated with all that good shit. But yeah. anything else you guys want to add besides clapping your cheeks? I'm going. Yeah, you are buddy. If this if this if we get a hundred views on YouTube, we'll do a live reaction to Money in the Bank. If we get ten emails, we'll do a live reaction of money in the bank. Stay tuned. At the end of the day, it's just jokes. I'm not that serious. Yes, he is. I'm not a huge I'm not a fan of Roman Reigns. Obviously I'm gonna respect what I'm gonna do, and I'm gonna cut out certain things that I said this episode that you're not gonna be able to listen to. No, you're gonna man. No, I got a fucking job line up I'm trying to get Some of them was kind of bad. So If we get famous enough where I don't have to work another job, and then this is just it, then you could hear me fully filtered. Unfiltered. Right, right, right. Thank you. He's a little flabbergassy right now. Yeah. I gave him a solo. It's just a little it's WWE. It's just he doesn't have the cap acidy right now. No. I'm saying this is choreographed entertainment, right? This is choreographed entertainment. This is not choreographed. This is just entertainment. WWE is choreographed entertainment. Alright? Whatever I say about the dude, obviously I'm biased. That's it. I get it. You're biased. It's not a personal slight. I respect your respect for Roman. That's fine. You don't respect Roman? I respect that Hmeso's respect for Roman. So no, he doesn't respect Roman. No my god. He's okay. He's a 49ers fan. I can't hate the guy. You gotta respect him. I feel like if he's fighting the Kimian and doing All this you gotta respect him. What's his real name? I respect his fucking real name. I'm annoying. Alright. Gabbo Janoi Demai. Stupid motherfucker. Hey, we are Los Pickups coming to y'all for the Pacific Northwest. Thank you so much for tuning in. Please shoot us more emails. We're looking forward to your beautiful and bright shiny faces. The video quality will improve. Keep shooting us emails. We are at Los Pickups podcasts at gmail.com. Again, Los Pickups Podcast at gmail.com. Shoot us. Your commentary, questions, and everything in between. Thank you so much. We'll catch you guys on the next episode. And we're coming to you actually it sounds like our boy has to say one more thing. 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