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A’s Extend Rooker · The 3-0 Take

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  Ladies and gentlemen, welcome. To the three O take where we
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  talk all things Major League Baseball, here's Kyle Corwin and
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  Nate Reyes. It all starts right now.
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  Welcome back to the three O take presented by Sea Kicks episode 5
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  O1. I'll be your host Kyle Cord.
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  I'm here with my Co host Nate Reyes.
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  Nate. Officially on the road to 1000.
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  First step, five hundreds behind us.
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  I'm ready to move forward. Part of me wishes, I don't know,
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  part of me wishes that we had done 500 to round out the year.
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  Versus start the new year. Versus start the new year.
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  But it's also kind of cool being able to kick off the year with
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  500. I don't know.
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  Either way, your point still stands.
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  On to a, on to a. 1000, you know what I mean?
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  I'm not here to talk about, not here to talk about past
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  milestones. You know what I mean?
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  Look into the next one. Yeah, that's right.
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  That's why now we roll. You got something on your mind?
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  I do. I.
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  Lay it on me, Lay it on me. I I think, I think social media
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  should ban position rankings for the MLB.
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  I'm so glad you brought this up dude.
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  I. Think it needs to just be
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  removed. I am so over the like the fact
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  that we're in the year 2025 and you still have people.
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  Does not settle correctly in my head.
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  Crazy. Crazy.
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  Yeah, somebody said last year earlier today and I was like
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  02023. Nah, wrong.
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  No, but the fact that we're in the year 2025 and you still have
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  people getting worked out like losing their minds in the
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  comment section about like doesn't no ball.
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  I'm not this isn't anything. This isn't related to us because
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  we we stopped doing those rankings a long time ago.
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  But you know, like any of these baseball outlets or whatever
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  that put out like their their take on on different positional
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  rankings or even all time rankings, which is a whole
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  another conversation. Never went open though, but I
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  can, yeah. How do you not know that this is
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  just, it's click bait and you're getting you're you're you're
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  losing? Sleep.
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  You're falling into the trap. Come on.
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  Falling into the trap I just I I think I've got to be honest, I
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  haven't even looked at all the positions I don't need to look
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  at all the positions. I don't even know if all the
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  positions have been released from the MOB account, but the
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  second I saw Byron Buxton listed above, Mike Trout in center
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  field like I'm out, I'm out, I'm done Like I'm I can't I'm not
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  going to look at these. Your TikTok is not going to trap
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  me into into the whatever algorithm says.
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  If you look at it a certain amount of time, it's going to
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  continue to flood your feed with it.
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  I'm not I'm done like it. These are awful.
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  Everybody hates them and it it doesn't even matter because like
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  you and I put a lot of thought, we put days of research into
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  picking and choosing these rankings and it we.
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  And for what? We got ruined.
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  We got ruined in the comments section.
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  It's a thankless job. It's a it's a winless job and
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  let's just let it die. It's got to be done.
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  It's got to be over. I'm all out.
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  Don't need them no more. For the record, I still stand by
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  our positional rankings from from years.
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  Back like we for sure we. We had our case and, and you
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  know, to the credit of some people that were falling along
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  with those, they, we, we changed some minds, I think some
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  rational, reasonable minded people.
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  But then you just get the people that lose just go insane over
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  the, over these position rankings.
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  So yeah, I agree with you. I, I think it's time to just
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  time to let it go. Let it go.
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  Let's sit now. Let's talk some Let's talk.
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  Let's talk some kind of Elsa guy, are we?
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  That now that you want to talk about leaving stuff in 2024, the
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  whole let it the, the Elsa reference every time somebody
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  says let it go, we got to be better.
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  We got to be. I saw, in fact, I saw a TikTok
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  the other day where it was like, you don't want to be friends
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  with this type of person. No, it was like, you don't want
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  to be friends with this type of person.
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  And it's the person that you mention any, any portion of a of
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  a song lyric and they immediately break out into song
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  of that song lyric. I got to say, I can't stand
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  those people. But you might not get along with
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  my wife then. Teach their own now pages.
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  Pages are right. She's good people.
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  The problem is that it's typically only like one or two
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  songs and that's all she'll do for the week until I hate the
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  song. And then you no longer want to
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  hear it. And yeah, and then she moves on.
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  ADHD, man, it's a wild thing. It's a wild.
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  Thing Speaking of moving on, can I, can I just confess something
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  true? I think I've moved on from
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  giving the A's just, you know, just no, no, no, just making
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  noise on on what the A's are doing.
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  Are they are they spending money right now to avoid a grievance?
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  Are they spending money right now to essentially check a box?
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  Yes and yes. Do I care anymore?
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  No, I do not. I like, I, I like watching the
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  A's be forced to spend money. I like seeing the A's going out
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  and retaining guys, bringing guys in.
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  Brent Rooker, five year, $60 million deal.
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  Am I disappointed for for Brent that he has to stick it out in
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  Sacramento and and potentially Vegas depending upon how things
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  shake out? Yeah.
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  I mean, I wouldn't wish that. I wouldn't wish that upon
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  anybody having to play, having to play your big league career
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  in a, in a less than adequate ballpark, not even a Major
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  League ballpark at that. But you know, I was thinking
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  about today this the what's what's happening with the A's
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  right now is a perfect example. It it's, it gives you a glimpse
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  into the world of A, not a I'm blanking.
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  It's what people have been calling for.
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  Not a ceiling, not a ceiling. Floor.
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  Yes, it gives you a glimpse into the world of what a salary floor
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  would look like. And, and sure, I know it's more
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  nuanced than that, but ultimately this is what you're
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  looking at. Like you're looking at a team
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  like the A's who otherwise would not be making these moves, would
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  not be spending this type of money.
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  They're going, well, you know, we got to do something.
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  So they go out and they do something and they're not,
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  they're not going out and and dropping $500 million contracts
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  on, on guys, but you know, they're doing more than what
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  they would have had this not been in place.
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  Sure. I think it #1 if we're making
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  confessions, I didn't know that that that Brent Rooker played
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  for a few teams. I didn't either.
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  I didn't either. This was the.
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  Reason he was 29. I was like the twins when did
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  this. Happen.
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  They had no idea, had no idea. No, he had.
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  I'm looking at it now. I mean, 2020, it's his first
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  year on the on the Baseball Reference page, seven games, 58
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  games in 2021, only 16 games in 2022.
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  And then obviously 2023 and 2024 with the A's and where he kind
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  of came out of the scene. I didn't know that.
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  I If you asked me, I I would have guessed he was 26, 27.
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  He's a late bloomer. He is and.
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  That's totally fine. Like there's nothing wrong with
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  that. I just I didn't know.
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  I didn't know. So I'm going to confess that
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  first next confession is that like I get mixed emotions about
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  this because when you're a fan of other teams, you can't help
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  but say like, oh, my roster would be great if they went and
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  got this guy. I mean, there's certain teams
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  and names that you can kind of fall back on a couple names
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  around the league where you're like, well, that organization's
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  never going to lock him down and keep them.
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  Like, I wonder. And every deadline there's like,
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  I wonder if we can get that guy and just completely bolster our
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  line up for our rotation. And he was one of those names to
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  me where it was like, it seems like if he's going to play a
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  bunch of games, he's going to hit 30 homers.
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  That's just kind of how he is. And it was like, man, like, I
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  would love to see if he was up for grabs at a deadline.
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  I would love to see him go switch over to a, you know,
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  competitive organization and pop off in the postseason.
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  So like, it's a mixed emotion thing for me.
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  Now, don't get me wrong, I can the A still move him under
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  contract, Of course. Can he still get shipped out of
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  there? Sure.
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  This is a fairly friendly deal. Yeah, fairly tradable deal.
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  So it's like, that's still a thing.
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  But like it, yeah, it was weird. I had like a weird like, Dang, I
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  wish I could have seen him go elsewhere while he's in this
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  like shorter late bloomer window.
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  That late bloomer's half. That's just the way it goes.
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  Like, let's face it, Aaron Judge, late bloomer this this
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  window isn't going to be forever so.
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  Also, technically speaking, he is 30, just turned 30 a couple
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  months ago. Even worse.
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  That makes me feel even worse. Yeah, so.
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  But you know, good for Brent. Like this is going to be your
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  like this is going to be this, yeah.
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  Like this is going to be the bag that you get when it when it's
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  all said and done. Like this, obviously with the
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  with the stage that he's at in his career, like this is going
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  to be big. But this is, you know,
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  comparatively to what he had been making, this is.
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  That's what I'm saying in life change 2022, you're 27 years
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  old, you're not getting any time, you're not getting any
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  opportunities and you're like, I feel like I got something in the
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  tank. I mean, there's a lot of guys
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  that hang it up at that point. If you're not cracking in by
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  232425 years old, if you're not on the scene impacting a big
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  league roster, like more often than not, you see those guys
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  hang it up, especially if they're, you know, quad A type
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  guys like this. So I'm glad to see that he stuck
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  around. I'm glad to see that, like late
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  bloomers are awesome. This is a good story for any guy
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  that's maybe hanging around in AA AAA that's, you know, in that
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  mid 20s or age where it's like, dude, just hang tight.
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  Someone's going to give you a chance.
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  And he did. And like, no, it's not an
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  astronomical bag. It's not a ton of money that
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  you're seeing. He's not a superstar, but like
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  good for him, good for his family and like that.
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  That's I think it almost more realistic dream and story when
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  you talk about Major League Baseball players, something
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  that's can be obtainable. It's very, very it's already
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  rare to get in the league. It's even more rare to be a
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  superstar and make, you know, contracts in the hundreds of
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  millions of dollars. So to have this, it's like, you
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  know, this is cool, man. This is a good story.
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  He's easy to root for and he's going to hit probably 40 in
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  Sacramento this. Is a classic.
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  Brent Rooker is a classic case of be ready when your
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  opportunity comes along. Yep.
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  You know. How many coaches told you that
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  growing up? Like it's every coach, every
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  level. And you just I don't think you
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  could really never clicks. Yeah, it could never it, it
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  never really clicks. But there's there's certain
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  cases like you were saying that like these these stories are
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  already rare enough. But when you get a guy like
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  Brent Rooker, who, as the cliche goes, stays ready so he doesn't
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  have to get ready, like this is a perfect opportunity because
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  like you were saying, you look at the just the games played
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  alone with the way that his career had shaken out. 2022,
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  he's playing 14 games. Yeah.
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  Well, yeah, no, 1616 if you want to tackle the two.
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  Yeah. If you want to tackle the two
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  with the Potters, 16 games before things really, really,
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  really take off for Brent Rooker.
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  So this is just it's an awesome story.
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  And like I said, it's it's going to be the bag that that he gets.
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  Yeah, I think it also speaks to like, I think we're getting a
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  little numb to those younger superstars, the Tatis's, the
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  Juan Soto's, the guys that come in at 1920 years old.
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  And we're just like, oh, the league's getting younger.
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  Like the league's getting better earlier.
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  Like that's still rare. That's still insane.
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  It's very normal to have peak athleticism in that 28 to 30
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  range. And that's what we've seen free
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  agents, you know, hitting free agency for the first time for
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  decades. Like this is what it is.
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  It's you're still the athletic shape physically and now you're
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  your mentals are getting correct because you're at that age of
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  maturity and it's almost like the perfect storm of an athlete.
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  So let's not forget that this isn't as crazy.
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  It's the young guys that are the crazy ones.
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  And we were just talking about this what like a month or two
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  ago where I'm just, I'm so over the narrative in sports.
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  And it's purely result of what you were just talking about, how
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  you get these guys like Tatis coming along and even, and guys
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  like Soto, they come along so early and they just dominate so
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  early that we think that this is, it's the normal.
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  And that it somehow negates sort of the bell curve that that
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  exists of it being OK to be 30 years old, not just in baseball,
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  but any sport and still be like pretty successful.
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  Like the, it goes back to that meme that I, I see come across
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  my feet every now and then where it's like it's, it's from the
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  perspective of like a, a sportscaster.
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  And it's like, here he comes. He comes and steps up to the
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  plate, 30 years old. It's a miracle.
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  But can we chill? Talk like that?
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  And I see. Just because you're, I feel that
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  way when we get up in the morning.
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  We're not professional. Athletes, we're not professional
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  athletes. We're allowed to feel like that.
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  Yeah. But it's, you're totally right.
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  It's and it's the reality of it is, is you hear that narrative
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  more in the offseason because we you're, you're talking about
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  deals. You're, you're hearing about
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  proposed contracts, what guys are looking for, Well, is he on
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  this side? Is he on this the, the right
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  side of 30 or the wrong side of 30 is stuff like that.
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  So you hear more and more of that, but it's like, let's not
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  forget that you're allowed to be like, you're allowed to look at
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  an athlete who's, say, 31 and go, he's still like, there's
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  still potential that he could go on and have, Oh yeah, multiple
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  successful seasons from this point out.
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  Oh yeah. It's not that far fetched.
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  Still plenty left and I don't know, like you, you can't.
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  The league isn't going to be filled with 23 year old future
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  hall of Farmers. It's just it's just not how it
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  works. You can still have successful
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  seasons and and teams and rosters and whatever you want to
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  call it, like in that 30 to 33 range, like there's still plenty
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  of success there. Now, are we saying go sign that
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  guy to a 10 year deal? No, those are the deals that are
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  typically biting people in the booty.
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  But I think you can still find success in your in your young
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  30s and especially with a body that's like probably not as beat
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  up, you know what I mean? Like Brent Rooker is arguably a
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  healthier 30 year old than what you would see because of not
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  having to go through years and years of, you know, flying and
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  traveling and hotels and injuries and rehabs and, you
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  know, all that kind of stuff. So yeah, five year deal makes
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  sense. Does he stay in a the whole
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  time? Does he get to see the new
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  stadium in Vegas? We'll see.
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  Speaking of age, let's switch gears here and talk about a guy
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  even further down the line. 45 What is he 42?
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  42 Justin Verlander signs a one year, $15 million contract with
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  the San Francisco Giants. Look, I'm just going to go ahead
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  and say it. I and I'm going to get out in
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  front of this because we know me, the people listening, the
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  people watching know how you tend to lean when it comes when
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  it comes to giants talk. So I'm going to go ahead and get
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  out in front of any potential negativity coming from your
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  direction talking about well, I just don't get it.
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  I just don't get it. And I'm going to say I like this
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  deal. You know, he's 42 years old and
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  people may balk at that and they go, I don't care who it is, it's
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  42. I disagree.
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  You know what I say? It does matter who it is.
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  We're talking about Justin Verlander.
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  This guy's going to be pitching to those 45 years old.
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  So this we're not even, we're not even at the end of the road
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  here like we're we're still looking at a AA23 year span.
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  I'm sure that he's trying to, he's trying to run out here.
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  So this isn't even the final stop for Justin Verlander.
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  So even if it was, I'd still like this deal.
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  It's one year, it's $15 million. That's pennies of, of that's
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  pennies out of the bank that you've been trying to empty for
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  years, as we've talked about on, on anybody and everybody.
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  So you know what, you get a, you get a, a surefire Hall of Famer
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  in here. You know, we talk all the time
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  about veteran presence in the clubhouse, how important that
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  is. And you get you, you have a
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  realistic chance for a guy to come into a pitcher friendly
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  park and possibly have can we call it a renaissance?
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  Like I know we had a down year. He's coming off a down year.
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  Yeah, that's what I was looking up.
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  Would you say the deal was worth?
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  $15 million one year. Yeah, I, I mean, there's not,
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  it's a pretty high reward if he, if he does what he's supposed to
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  do. And, and, and last year I
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  believe he made like a good chunk of starts before he ran
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  into an injury. I don't remember what the injury
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  was was it was like a it was something weird.
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  It was like a neck injury or something like that.
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  That kind of took him out last year.
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  But if you look at the numbers before, he went out the first
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  time for an injury. Shoulder and neck.
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  Shoulder, yeah, so. If you look at the numbers
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  before, I think he was dicing. I think he was kind of lighting
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  it up. Well, he finished with, if we're
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  talking last year, he finished with a 548 and had a whip of 138
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  and he only, he only logged 90 in and so.
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  But if you look at the the chunk of starts, I don't know how many
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  start, maybe 5-6, seven starts before the injury, I think it
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  was pretty good. I think he did OK.
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  Let's pull up the old game log here.
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  And it makes you wonder, it's like, well, let's face it, dude,
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  he's 40 plus the body don't recover the same way.
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  And maybe that injury was something that he struggled to
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  get over and that's OK. Nothing wrong with that.
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  So maybe he's fully healthy. Maybe he comes back and has a
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  good spring training. Maybe he steps in to a rotation
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  that is a very hodgepodge, strange rotation if you read it
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  out loud. But is it competitive?
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  Yes. Are the Giants at least taking
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  steps in a direction? Yes.
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  So I can't be that negative, but I can't help but feel like
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  they're one of the most desperate teams in baseball and
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  they reek of desperation. Yeah, but like I said, you, you
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  could have, I don't know, you could take it one of two ways.
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  You could look at it and say, well, you could maybe throw $15
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  million for one year at somebody less risky.
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  I'm taking I'm, I'm going the other direction with it and
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  saying you're throwing $15 million at a guy who again, is,
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  is a Hall of Famer and is very, I'll just call it likely to
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  bounce back from last year. And when he bounces back, Justin
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  Verlander on an OK day, you'll absolutely take that out of the
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  five spot, which I think is what he's projected to be in that
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  rotation. I'll take.
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  I'll take. Justin Verlander out of the five
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  spot on it with an OK outing every day of the week.
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  So I like, I just don't even know.
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  I don't know. Like I said, I'm not trying to
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  be. I don't think there's enough to
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  be too negative about this. There's a lot of question marks
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  when you look at this rotation outside of Logan Webb, who you
• 23:16
  know. We all know.
• 23:18
  He we all know what he what he is and what he does.
• 23:22
  He got Robbie Ray coming back for an injury.
• 23:25
  Jordan Hicks had his flashes last year as a first, you know,
• 23:28
  first year as a starter. So we'll see there.
• 23:35
  You know, Kyle, Kyle Harrison had a a fairly solid rookie
• 23:42
  year, I would say maybe he steps in and and kind of lives up to
• 23:47
  the name a little bit. So like, yeah, when you slot in
• 23:51
  Verlander in that area, like there's a lot worse decisions
• 23:56
  you can make. But I would argue that it does
• 24:02
  kind of feel like they're just they always chase names.
• 24:06
  They just always chase names and they kind of fall in love with
• 24:10
  that. So I'm not going to sit here and
• 24:14
  and say it's a bad deal, but I'm not going to sit here and say
• 24:18
  the Giants are taking the West. Not that, not that he's
• 24:25
  obviously not looking for a one year deal, which I think is why
• 24:28
  his free agency continues to go on.
• 24:29
  So it's not the greatest example, but a guy take a guy
• 24:32
  like Nick Pavetta who's still available right now, would you
• 24:38
  rather throw because he he turned down the qualifying
• 24:41
  offer? So we'll just call, we'll just
• 24:44
  call it 20. Would you rather throw $20
• 24:46
  million at Nick Pavetta on a one year deal or would you would you
• 24:51
  rather throw 15 at Justin Verlander?
• 24:57
  Nick Pavetta is kind of a weird. I'm just confirming, looking at
• 25:00
  numbers. I mean, it's it's a it's a weird
• 25:05
  one because it's like, I think you know what he is at this
• 25:09
  point. Yeah.
• 25:14
  First full year as a starter for.
• 25:16
  Well, no, he had those early years.
• 25:18
  I didn't realize he was with Philly.
• 25:20
  Yeah, back in the day. I think he kind of just know
• 25:24
  what he is. He's he's going to give you an
• 25:27
  ERA in the fours and he's probably going to throw 150
• 25:31
  innings. Yeah, 150 is generous.
• 25:34
  We'll probably say 140 innings and you kind of know what that
• 25:38
  is. I think I'd probably take a
• 25:42
  Verlander because of what the ceiling is.
• 25:46
  You know, we're talking about last year being a really rough
• 25:52
  year for Verlander. You could argue would probably
• 25:56
  be a somewhat normal year for a Nick Pavetta.
• 26:00
  So you're right. I'd probably say give me give me
• 26:04
  old man Verlander and let's see what we can squeeze out of him.
• 26:10
  For the safe sake of a hypothetical, say, say you put
• 26:14
  Verlander and Nick Pavetta in the same scenario that both have
• 26:18
  down years. Who would you rather have than
• 26:21
  if if you're not getting the the value from him on the field in
• 26:25
  the clubhouse? In the pen, in the workouts, who
• 26:29
  would you rather have? There's lead.
• 26:31
  There's lead. There's something totally
• 26:33
  different when when the presence of a future Hall of Fame are
• 26:36
  first ballot, surefire top 15, arguably higher pitcher of all
• 26:44
  time that holds weight, that holds weight.
• 26:49
  There's a lot I can rub off into into youth, into just routine
• 26:59
  into just how about a guy goes, you know, how a guy goes about
• 27:02
  his business, how he treats other teammates.
• 27:05
  Like there is a lot that can just kind of fall into this.
• 27:09
  And yeah, I mean, you know, you talk about like, I saw this, saw
• 27:18
  this interview that someone, I don't remember what page it was,
• 27:21
  somebody was interviewing Royals Walt.
• 27:24
  They were kind of asking him about like the glory days and
• 27:27
  what he felt like wasn't, you know, his favorite rotation to
• 27:30
  be in. And he talked about when he was
• 27:32
  an Astro with Clemens and Pettitte, and he's like, you
• 27:37
  know, those guys have had a decade in the league at that
• 27:40
  point plus. And it's amazing to be able to
• 27:44
  be around those guys and see how they operate and just pick
• 27:48
  little things and take that. So if you're a young Kyle
• 27:52
  Harrison, you're like, yeah, if you're a Logan Webb who is on
• 27:57
  the upwards trajectory of having a solid, solid career, like,
• 28:02
  yeah, you can take whatever you can from a Justin Verlander.
• 28:05
  So yeah, you're talking me into it.
• 28:09
  I can't. I can't hate on it that much.
• 28:12
  I'm just not going to sit here and pretend like, you know,
• 28:16
  we're going to see a sub 380 inning Justin Verlander.
• 28:23
  I think those days are gone. No, but I'm in thinking more
• 28:30
  about it. I could see AI could see a
• 28:32
  three, five, Yeah, if you give me 35160 all day out of again
• 28:41
  out of the bottom of your rotation all day every day of
• 28:45
  the week, twice on Sunday, please and thank you.
• 28:51
  Speaking of things, we'd like to see Vladdy junior to the Sox.
• 28:57
  Give me give me a little more into this because I can't get
• 29:03
  there so. Well, it's it's from widely
• 29:07
  trusted source and MLB insider Bob Nightingale wrote that if
• 29:17
  the Blue Jay quote, if the Blue Jays do not sign Guerrero to an
• 29:20
  extension before spring training, he will test free
• 29:23
  agency next winter. And if he hits the open market,
• 29:25
  the expectation is that Guerrero would join the Boston Red Sox
• 29:29
  heading into 2026. Bob Nightingale went on to
• 29:35
  reference comments made by his friends who said that he would
• 29:39
  reportedly love to play in Boston.
• 29:42
  Which, you know, you can never go wrong there, right?
• 29:45
  You know, if the friends are saying it, it must.
• 29:49
  It must be on the on. The verge of sources.
• 29:53
  I don't think Bob's got any sources.
• 29:55
  How would you even go about finding the friends of Vladimir
• 30:00
  Guerrero Junior? He's got no source.
• 30:02
  Can we, can we, I, I think people just gloss over that and
• 30:05
  like, Oh yeah, you're talking to his friends.
• 30:06
  How, how do you, how would you go, assuming they're still like
• 30:11
  they're in the Dr. How do you go about tracking those people
• 30:15
  down? I don't know.
• 30:18
  I don't know. I don't know how.
• 30:20
  Look, I'm not trying to hate. Things are just done differently
• 30:23
  in the Dr. No, no, no, for sure, for sure.
• 30:25
  I'm talking about Nightingale. Yeah, but that's what I, I, I
• 30:29
  see videos of Vlad Senior just like hanging out, like wearing,
• 30:36
  like he's got a little belly now and he's just hanging out like
• 30:38
  wearing a polo and. Basketball shorts, as he should.
• 30:41
  At like, like an outdoor table and he's just hanging out with
• 30:45
  people and they're just like, they're just listening to music
• 30:48
  and he's just vibing like barefoot.
• 30:50
  You're just like, OK, like, yeah, you're just, you're just
• 30:54
  soaking it in, like, is Bob down there?
• 30:57
  You're telling me Bob's going down there and like seeking out
• 31:02
  friends of Vladdy? Like who are you calling them?
• 31:07
  Are they picking up your call, Bob?
• 31:09
  No, you know, no, I he's not. He, there's no way he's going to
• 31:14
  the Dr. You know what I think of when I think of.
• 31:16
  Bob Frosted tips, doesn't he? Who?
• 31:19
  Nightingale. Yeah, look up the picture.
• 31:23
  Get out of here. I think he's got frosted.
• 31:26
  Tips. There's no way he has frosted.
• 31:31
  Tips, get out of here. No, you know, I had AI maybe.
• 31:42
  No, I think he's just. I think he's just a blonde.
• 31:45
  It's like a bleach, bleach blonde guy.
• 31:48
  I don't know. I'm not going to comment on his
• 31:49
  hair. I don't know what's going on
• 31:51
  there. What I do know, though, is what
• 31:54
  I think of when I think of Bob Nightingale in the Dr. It's Toby
• 31:58
  from the office saying that he's going to Costa Rica.
• 32:00
  It's like that's just, that's just not, that's just not a fit
• 32:05
  that I see happening. That's just that's breaks his
• 32:08
  neck the first day. Yeah, he says I'll go to Costa
• 32:14
  Rica when I'm 65. That's Bob Nightingale.
• 32:18
  That's what I see. Watching Entourage in Spanish in
• 32:22
  the hospital, Yeah. That's Bob for you.
• 32:27
  Yeah, yeah, that's what I'm saying, man.
• 32:29
  I just, I don't know. Anyway, back to well, let's talk
• 32:32
  about the landing spot. Let's.
• 32:34
  Talk about the fit, the potential fit, first of all,
• 32:38
  well before we even get the fit, the money side of it.
• 32:41
  Yeah, first, I don't see him getting an extension before
• 32:45
  swing training. No, he has made it abundantly
• 32:48
  clear. I share the number he's wanting.
• 32:50
  $100 million short of what he's asking for.
• 32:53
  That's a big number. I'm I could not be more
• 32:59
  convinced that Vladimir Guerrero junior does not want to play in
• 33:03
  Toronto beyond this season. Yeah, like he could not be
• 33:07
  making it more clear. He, the Blue Jays could have
• 33:10
  offered $750 million and he said thanks, but I'm looking for 800
• 33:16
  million. That's what I that's what I
• 33:19
  genuinely believe to be going on here.
• 33:21
  So I'm not, I'm not going to be caught off guard or, or shocked
• 33:28
  at what he says yes or no to in terms of contract.
• 33:31
  And, and frankly, I don't think him saying that he's asking for
• 33:34
  450 million is entirely accurate.
• 33:37
  I think if the Red Sox will just use the Red Sox for the for this
• 33:42
  scenario, because that's who's rumored to be somewhat
• 33:44
  connected. If the Red Sox came out and said
• 33:47
  we'll offer you 360, my bet is that assuming all of their
• 33:53
  offers are are comparable, he's taking that tomorrow because I
• 33:58
  just don't think he wants to play in Toronto anymore.
• 34:01
  And quite frankly, why would you want to play in Toronto?
• 34:05
  Like, I know they kind of get laughed at as like the little
• 34:07
  brother of Major League Baseball because it's literally Toronto
• 34:10
  and nobody else. Very good things about the city.
• 34:12
  No, no, for sure. And, and it, it's, it comment is
• 34:16
  less about the city itself and more about just the
• 34:19
  organization. It it just seems, I don't know
• 34:23
  you. I just feel like you're out of
• 34:24
  the loop up there. They have severely botched all
• 34:31
  of all of this, all of the youth, the core, the
• 34:37
  opportunities to extend. They have royally botched this
• 34:45
  to the point where you want you got guys that want out.
• 34:50
  And yeah, I don't. There's no way he signs an
• 34:53
  extension before swing training. I would go ahead and assume you
• 35:00
  maximize an offer before the deadline.
• 35:05
  That's when he's going to be most sought after and I'm
• 35:11
  curious to see what team is in what position.
• 35:15
  I don't. I can't really specifically
• 35:17
  think of too many other suitors. The Mets, I mean, depending upon
• 35:25
  what happens with the Alonzo situation.
• 35:28
  Feels like the Northeast, doesn't it?
• 35:30
  Yeah, yeah. And.
• 35:32
  I didn't see like a Seattle pull in that trigger.
• 35:37
  No. And I think you and I, last time
• 35:39
  we talked about it, I think you and I differed on this, but I, I
• 35:42
  personally don't feel as though the Yankees are in the mix here.
• 35:47
  I think they're going to be in the running.
• 35:49
  Sure, for themselves, but in terms of what, Vlad?
• 35:53
  What he prefers. I don't think, I don't know, I
• 35:55
  don't think again, going back to his comments back, what was it
• 35:58
  at last year's deadline where he's like, you know, I, I take
• 36:01
  back what I said, the Yankees are this, that was a business
• 36:05
  move. Yeah, it was a business move.
• 36:07
  It was a business move. I think it's what's crazy.
• 36:10
  Is that like not crazy? What's difficult about having
• 36:14
  him land there? Is that like his dad played
• 36:18
  during the era of hating like everyone hated the Yankees?
• 36:23
  And so I think, you know, with his dad obviously being a, you
• 36:27
  know, advising him in these scenarios, like he's there's
• 36:32
  probably some bias there. So I think they're going to be
• 36:35
  in the hunt. I think that you will read about
• 36:38
  them being 1 of this five to seven teams that are, you know,
• 36:42
  pursuing him next offseason. But what I mean is, is there a
• 36:48
  team that is willing to take a shot at him as a rental and
• 36:55
  they're in a good position around the the deadline next
• 36:58
  year? And is that a Red Sox team that
• 37:02
  is performing well in the hunt? Let's try and get him to fall in
• 37:10
  love with this team and city during a post season run to give
• 37:14
  us somewhat of an advantage during the negotiations of free
• 37:17
  agency maybe. Or is it some kind of surprise
• 37:22
  team that says, hey, like let's go grab him for a few months.
• 37:29
  We probably won't be able to re sign him, but let's see what we
• 37:34
  can do with him in in this short, you know, little home
• 37:38
  stretch of the season. So I'm curious to see it, but
• 37:42
  he's got to hit free agency, right?
• 37:44
  I mean. Certainly.
• 37:49
  It's weird, man. Like I, I, I feel like we have
• 37:56
  an idea of players and then when that time comes of them hitting
• 38:02
  free agency, you almost like walk it back a little bit and
• 38:06
  you start hearing all these details of like their issues.
• 38:11
  You know what I mean? Like before this free agency, I
• 38:15
  was like, oh, Bregman's going to get whatever he wants.
• 38:17
  Like there's going to be multiple suitors.
• 38:19
  He's probably going to sign somewhere pretty quickly.
• 38:22
  And then you like, you start to deep dive.
• 38:24
  Like you remove the name out of it and you deep dive into
• 38:27
  numbers and you look at age and you just start looking at things
• 38:31
  as time goes like, oh, now I see why like Pete Alonso, Peter
• 38:38
  Lanza, I what did the Mets offer him like 90 mil?
• 38:43
  What was that offer? It was something terrible.
• 38:46
  No, but that that's what I'm saying though, is these guys,
• 38:50
  you know, careers, these guys numbers are even more so under
• 38:55
  the microscope during the offseason because that's all
• 38:57
  people do is that and that's all they have time for is they just
• 39:00
  sit around like, how can we dissect every angle of this guy?
• 39:05
  And these organizations more so are looking for ways that they
• 39:08
  can dissect and, and warrant or justify offering XY or Z in
• 39:16
  order to compete for one of these free agents or, or put a
• 39:19
  trade package together for one of these these guys that they're
• 39:22
  after. I have issues with Vlad guys 25.
• 39:29
  I have issues with Vlad in Boston just because of you're
• 39:33
  going to go and assume that this is AI can't see anything under
• 39:41
  eight years. I just it doesn't it wouldn't
• 39:46
  make any sense for anything under eight years.
• 39:53
  And then you're in a position where like you like Devers is in
• 39:56
  in flat, like flat is not going to be playing first base at 32.
• 40:01
  I don't see that. He's going to be a full time DH.
• 40:04
  By 30, well, something would have to give if he ends up
• 40:08
  embossing because. That's what I mean.
• 40:10
  Raffi's got the first leg in to that's.
• 40:12
  What I mean? DH slot before before Vladdy I
• 40:15
  would imagine. So do you do do the Red Sox, you
• 40:20
  know, make a run at that and say, hey, if we get a ring
• 40:25
  before then, you know, before that issue comes up, we get a
• 40:29
  ring or two, who cares? We'll deal with that.
• 40:32
  We'll cross that bridge when we get there.
• 40:34
  You know, is it worth it in their eyes?
• 40:38
  I'm trying to think of other suitors, man.
• 40:40
  Like I could, I definitely could see the Mets, you know, him,
• 40:48
  Soto Lindor as as like a, you know, 123234 situation.
• 40:59
  Yeah, that could work. Sorry, I've got just a little
• 41:06
  side note here. Little big league.
• 41:08
  I was telling a little bit little bit of league is on MLB
• 41:10
  Network right now and it's insane to me assuming it was him
• 41:15
  and not a stunt double. Well, he's in the movie, but
• 41:17
  Randy Johnson makes the appearance later in the movie
• 41:22
  and after they were the Mariners record to final out.
• 41:26
  He's they're celebrating on the mound and assuming it's him and
• 41:29
  not a stunt double, he's jumped and it looks like from from the
• 41:33
  back, you know, at least it looks like him like long hair
• 41:36
  and everything freaking 8 feet tall.
• 41:39
  It's crazy to me that they had him like jumping up and down on
• 41:41
  the mound. Wouldn't what it wasn't I'm sure
• 41:43
  it wasn't crazy back then, but like you look you look to the
• 41:46
  way things are now like Edwin Diaz situation in the world
• 41:50
  baseball classic. No chance they would have done
• 41:52
  that. I don't know had they know what
• 41:54
  they know now. Anyway, sorry, side note, but
• 42:00
  yeah, who knows. I mean, I'm sure as as time goes
• 42:03
  on the the list of suitors will increase, but I think as of
• 42:06
  right now you're looking at the Northeast Pervadi.
• 42:12
  I really can't think of any I just any other landing spot that
• 42:16
  feels good. I just, I'm going to need proof
• 42:20
  that the Red Sox are willing to spend money again, but we
• 42:22
  haven't seen it And, and you know, we can throw the, the Soto
• 42:26
  example out there. Well, they didn't have to spend
• 42:28
  it. So we we won't really know if
• 42:30
  that would have come to fruition.
• 42:34
  And they're just, they're keen on, on trying to make trades,
• 42:37
  make deals, which I I get like you've got, you've got some
• 42:40
  depth there in the, in the, in the system that you can sort of
• 42:44
  play with. But.
• 42:45
  That's the other thing too. Man, you're talking about the
• 42:47
  money. One of the best prospects in
• 42:49
  baseball, that's going to be what's his name coming up?
• 42:53
  Roman, Anthony. Yeah, man.
• 42:54
  I mean, like, you can't just ignore that and say that you
• 43:01
  have to lock somebody down. But at the same time, you know,
• 43:05
  we have this discussion all the time.
• 43:06
  It's like proof is in the pudding with players and
• 43:10
  prospects aren't anything until they prove it and.
• 43:13
  Proven talent over prospects every time.
• 43:17
  So it I'd be curious to see it. I think it'd be silly and
• 43:23
  something regrettable if it is an acquisition before the
• 43:27
  deadline and if the Red Sox send that guy to the to the Blue
• 43:31
  Jays, I think that's a mistake. I think that would be.
• 43:34
  I think that would be a big mistake.
• 43:35
  Roman Anthony's off the table without a doubt.
• 43:38
  It would be it'd be some combination if they went and got
• 43:41
  him early. It would be some combination of
• 43:44
  others. But I assuming he makes his free
• 43:47
  agency, I think that's what they're they're they're banking
• 43:49
  on. I think a lot of other teams are
• 43:51
  as well. I think they'll if they are
• 43:54
  willing to spend this money that they say they're willing to
• 43:56
  spend, that's where they're going to try to make it happen.
• 43:58
  I don't think there'd be no sense in pushing the limits and.
• 44:04
  He's Blue Jays man. These blue.
• 44:08
  I just, I, I am just baffled. I'm just baffled of what this
• 44:15
  has turned into. Can I attempt to baffle you?
• 44:19
  With a haircut, by the way. Did you see that?
• 44:21
  I did see that I don't. Hate it I don't hate it.
• 44:25
  I don't hate it. I wasn't a fan of the long the
• 44:27
  hair, just. I mean, it was him, like it,
• 44:29
  that was him. Yes, yeah, it was just Lord
• 44:31
  Farquaad hair that. I just no, that's Corbin Carroll
• 44:35
  and if you. That's the same hair.
• 44:38
  Yeah, nobody really seemed to agree with me on that.
• 44:40
  Go look at a picture of Corbin Carroll and pull up Lord
• 44:42
  Farquaad. Same guy, same.
• 44:44
  Color pull up, pull up pull up Corbin Carroll in the in the D
• 44:48
  Backs red uni and then pull up a picture of Lord Farquaad.
• 44:51
  Same guy, same height, same guy. What are we?
• 44:55
  What are we talking about? Can you?
• 44:58
  You mentioned being baffled. Can I attempt to baffle you a
• 45:02
  little bit more? Bring on the baffle.
• 45:08
  Uh oh, Whose quote was? This I knew we were coming up on
• 45:13
  this AI scary man.
• 45:37
  It's insane, dude. I made that in.
• 45:40
  Like it took me probably 35 seconds to type out the lyrics
• 45:45
  for that, and within a minute they cranked that out and I'm
• 45:49
  like, well, that saved me a lot of that.
• 45:53
  Saved me a lot of money on having to dish out for a studio
• 45:57
  session for somebody. I would have gotten in the
• 45:59
  studio for us, but it's all good.
• 46:01
  No, no. Yeah, yeah, for sure.
• 46:03
  Oh, we can save you for another. If we come up with a segment,
• 46:06
  I'll get you. I'm in.
• 46:08
  We'll get you. We'll get you on the mic.
• 46:10
  Shoot me the auto tune in a little bit.
• 46:12
  I just need that and I'm in. We'll make it work.
• 46:15
  Yeah. Whose quote was this?
• 46:23
  But when you're talking about attendance going down, when
• 46:25
  you're talking about blackout restrictions, when you're
• 46:27
  talking about jersey sales, you're talking about all these
• 46:29
  numbers tanking and regressing each year, something needs to
• 46:32
  change. So how do we do that without
• 46:35
  changing the game? This is an example.
• 46:38
  We're not changing the distance between the mound and the plate.
• 46:40
  We're not changing the balls, we're not changing the size of
• 46:43
  the field. We're not changing the height of
• 46:45
  the fences. None of that stuff's changing.
• 46:47
  But it is something to shed a little more light on the players
• 46:50
  and to give a little more love around, you know, gives a player
• 46:53
  a chance to express their personality a little bit without
• 46:56
  having to tweet, without having to answer questions from their
• 46:58
  locker that, you know, after a game.
• 47:00
  So this is something that is raw, and I'm cool with it.
• 47:04
  From Episode 118 to Mike or not to Mike from March 9th, 2020,
• 47:14
  this would have been our most likely.
• 47:16
  Our. Our last or second to last
• 47:19
  episode before the world shut down.
• 47:28
  I'm going to say me and I'm going to say we were talking
• 47:36
  like maybe players weekend. I don't know.
• 47:46
  Was it me? That was you?
• 47:52
  No, I think well, the the like I said, the episode was titled To
• 47:57
  Mike or Not to Mike, so it would have been a topic of discussion.
• 48:00
  At that point. Yeah.
• 48:02
  And I, I don't remember, maybe it was just that baseball is
• 48:06
  proposing a more like regularly occurring Mike schedule or
• 48:13
  something. I don't know what happened, but
• 48:16
  it was important enough or or big enough of a story I guess,
• 48:18
  that we decided to headline it. But.
• 48:21
  That was what's a big story in the moment.
• 48:24
  That was your take and. Then forgettable down the down
• 48:27
  the road. Yeah, we're talking about that.
• 48:31
  I mean, just stop interviewing them.
• 48:36
  I don't want conversation. Mic them up, let it stay miked
• 48:42
  up and let's hear some raw stuff.
• 48:46
  But I'm still in the camp that baseball needs its own Hard
• 48:50
  Knocks version. We need something that's raw,
• 48:54
  unedited, just pure in the offseason.
• 48:57
  Ryan Burr, when we interviewed Ryan Burr shut out, shut out
• 49:02
  former White Sox reliever. Who's he with now?
• 49:05
  Had you saw he got BB signed with somebody?
• 49:07
  Was it the Nationals? I think it was the Nationals.
• 49:10
  I think he was. I think he was in the He was on
• 49:14
  a roster in the postseason. He's with, I was with the Blue
• 49:21
  Jays. Last year.
• 49:23
  No, no. This year.
• 49:25
  No, he's he's still with the Blue Jays.
• 49:29
  I think he is. I swore somebody we interviewed
• 49:34
  over the years, just with the Nationals.
• 49:36
  I saw signed with them over the offseason.
• 49:38
  I just can't remember who that was.
• 49:42
  Anyway, not important. Ryan Burr, when we had him on
• 49:46
  handful of years ago, actually it was probably right around
• 49:48
  this time, right around COVID. He had the idea, if you recall,
• 49:53
  of having some sort of. Like like a bullpen show.
• 49:57
  Yeah, like a hot mic bullpen or just even like a streaming
• 50:01
  option where you can just like, I want to watch tonight's Red
• 50:03
  Sox, Yankees game through the lens of the bullpen.
• 50:07
  And it's they would never do it, obviously, but he, he was the
• 50:11
  one suggesting an idea like that.
• 50:13
  And he's like, yeah, I'd, I'd be down for it.
• 50:14
  So you wouldn't have to imagine if a guy like that's behind it,
• 50:17
  yeah, there's probably other guys who have like.
• 50:19
  They got it. They got it.
• 50:21
  Let's get it, let's get it spicy.
• 50:22
  Let's get it poppin. I think we are dominating this
• 50:27
  game, by the way, I don't think we don't miss too much.
• 50:31
  We're crushing. Whose quote is this?
• 50:36
  Yeah, we're we're crushing it, which goes to show you how long
• 50:39
  we've been doing this. We we know each other's sakes
• 50:42
  and how they evolve over time, even ones from years ago.
• 50:45
  Yeah. Yeah.
• 50:47
  Well, well done. I did have something.
• 50:52
  Oh. How breaking is breaking?
• 51:02
  Oh, I know what you're talking about.
• 51:03
  It's not full breaking news, so I'm not going to run it out all
• 51:06
  the way. I love how you go straight to
• 51:08
  your phone when I play that. No, just breaking news.
• 51:12
  Notification was. That's all.
• 51:14
  Merch is officially back. I know I I hinted at it last
• 51:19
  episode. I said it's back, but it's not
• 51:21
  like actually back yet because we have to iron out some final
• 51:24
  things. Got those things figured out.
• 51:26
  She back. Merch is back and I tell you
• 51:32
  what, we had some we had some fun with it this go around.
• 51:35
  We sure did, man. This is the best by far, I think
• 51:40
  the best collection of stuff we we've come out with to date.
• 51:43
  Like we've, we've had, we've had shops before and, and you know,
• 51:47
  it was sort of like an afterthought, but we really put
• 51:50
  some, some thought into these options and we think you are
• 51:54
  going to love it. Even for the first time ever we
• 51:56
  got some jerseys in the shop. Dude, I'm hyped.
• 52:01
  The jerseys I'm I'm ordering hours.
• 52:04
  I'm I'm putting in an order for hours like tomorrow we got a
• 52:08
  home three O take jersey. We got a road 3 O take jersey
• 52:12
  and just when you thought we were done with jerseys, no throw
• 52:15
  in that Alti throw in the alternate.
• 52:17
  We got a blue alternate on there.
• 52:19
  I might even you know what I'd even let's just go full set.
• 52:23
  I need to design a red, we can get a red one in there, cover,
• 52:27
  cover all of our all of our bases and maybe even throw in
• 52:30
  like an alternate black. Maybe we'd get creative with a
• 52:32
  black uni. I don't know, who knows.
• 52:35
  But yeah, we got some, we got some thrill tape jerseys in the
• 52:39
  shop, in the new shop. We got some Tees in there and
• 52:44
  the, I think our wheelhouse. You're you.
• 52:46
  You and I have always just been hat guys till we die.
• 52:50
  And I think, I think that's going to continue to be our
• 52:53
  wheelhouse. We love, we love hats.
• 52:55
  There's plenty of hats in there. Nate's rocking one of them as we
• 52:58
  speak. He's got the beanie on.
• 52:59
  This is a this is a high quality beanie.
• 53:02
  It's a high like a firm like sturdy beanie.
• 53:08
  It's not like a floppy like you know what I mean?
• 53:10
  Like this is this is high quality.
• 53:12
  The stitch like this clean, my wife already took it.
• 53:19
  Probably threw some makeup in the inside a little bit, yeah.
• 53:23
  It looks clean and the hat you're wearing.
• 53:25
  Last episode was another another option we got on there and I
• 53:28
  know people were asking about it.
• 53:30
  It's in there, It's in there somewhere.
• 53:32
  There. It is there.
• 53:33
  It is that. How about that throat take?
• 53:35
  That's clean the rope hat. Little rope hat action, the
• 53:38
  white, the white white snapback enclosure on the back.
• 53:43
  Love it. So go go check that out.
• 53:45
  Stay filthy. Version of that row pat too.
• 53:47
  Yes, stay filthy version which mine should be here any day and
• 53:53
  then a a a cure carefully curated don't go chasing
• 53:57
  curveballs hat that's going to be Nate's favorite.
• 54:00
  Oh boy, can't snap back. It's going to be clean.
• 54:04
  It's. Going to be real nice.
• 54:06
  Going to put an order for that in as well.
• 54:09
  So yeah, been waiting a long time to finally come out with
• 54:12
  with what we feel is a solid collection of merch and we
• 54:17
  finally got that out there for you guys.
• 54:20
  So it is available. You go to our website
• 54:21
  3otake.com/shop that's THREEOHTA ke.com/shop.
• 54:30
  You can find the link I posted on social.
• 54:32
  It's in our bio on our social platforms, so that should cover
• 54:36
  that. But very excited about that.
• 54:38
  Go check it out. Go support the pod.
• 54:41
  If you get anything, tag us, put on your story, Yeah, you're
• 54:45
  automatically going to be put on our story, correct?
• 54:51
  Oh, and the last thing I had before we get out of here, the
• 54:57
  resolution that I shared, if you recall, one of my one of my New
• 55:00
  Year's baseball related resolutions, and it was actually
• 55:03
  the one I was looking forward to most this year.
• 55:06
  One of my three that I shared was to this year was going to be
• 55:13
  the year that I made I, I converted a non baseball fan or
• 55:18
  somebody that was just otherwise indifferent about baseball into
• 55:22
  a baseball fan. I have since identified the
• 55:25
  subjects for this project. That's good.
• 55:29
  He's a guy from our church. He's in, he's in our small
• 55:31
  group. Super cool dude.
• 55:33
  You, you may have even met him. I don't.
• 55:34
  Is this going to take a while? Like is it like we need to sit
• 55:40
  down and watch a game together? This.
• 55:42
  Project Oh yeah, like it's going to be like we're going to we're
• 55:45
  going to we're sort of going to map this out over the course of
• 55:48
  the year like we're going to we're going to have to hit up
• 55:50
  some nationals games that'll help.
• 55:52
  They're the closest maybe make our way up to Baltimore for a
• 55:56
  game. And we were even talking about
• 56:00
  it tonight because I was, I was with him and his wife earlier
• 56:04
  tonight. And I was like, you know, we
• 56:06
  possibly like we could make this a full blown like content, like
• 56:12
  a, like a, a campaign almost. And I was thinking about like we
• 56:15
  could even make, we could even document the like maybe even
• 56:18
  make an account, like its own separate account and just
• 56:21
  document the whole thing. He's an LA guy, so he's going
• 56:25
  to, he's going to commit. He, I was like, you're going to
• 56:27
  have to commit to a team from the jump because like, we don't
• 56:30
  want to be figuring this out on the fly.
• 56:32
  He's like, well, naturally I'm an LA guy, so let's just go,
• 56:35
  let's just go Dodgers. And I'm like, you know, he's
• 56:37
  like, am I going to get some hate for that?
• 56:38
  And I was like from people that don't, from people that don't
• 56:41
  understand how that works. I'm like, you've literally
• 56:44
  you're from there. I, I have no problem with it.
• 56:47
  So that's that's what we're looking at and I'm excited about
• 56:51
  it and I'm looking forward to sharing the journey with with
• 56:54
  our listeners and our and our viewers.
• 56:56
  It's going to be it's going to be an interesting, interesting
• 56:59
  I've. Had I've had this idea that I
• 57:02
  feel like we could do like a, like a asking for a friend
• 57:09
  segment that if there's anybody that ever want to like wants to
• 57:12
  ask a stupid baseball question, then we could read it off and
• 57:16
  like talk about it, right? I love it.
• 57:19
  It's kind of fun. So maybe if you can like
• 57:22
  document any questions that he has, we'll call him out.
• 57:26
  We won't. We had a kid can remain
• 57:28
  anonymous. But even if it's like a wife,
• 57:31
  like a wife question. So if any of you listeners or
• 57:34
  your wife asked a stupid question when you're watching a
• 57:36
  game and you're like, I got to tell the boys about this, send
• 57:40
  us Adm or. Hold on, hold on if you're a
• 57:43
  baseball girl. Shout out to.
• 57:45
  Shout out to the baseball girl hat and shirt on the on the show
• 57:49
  He's. Doing or saying or he has no
• 57:51
  idea why you're into it and he has a question and he's an
• 57:54
  idiot. Like, let's get into it, you
• 57:57
  know? We all think, let's make that a
• 57:59
  thing. Asking for a friend, yeah.
• 58:02
  I like that. Did you catch my little plug
• 58:04
  there for the baseball girl? You did Hat and shirt.
• 58:07
  You did plug it and it's nice. It's clean.
• 58:09
  The shop, there's a little statement, little statement to
• 58:11
  you, Just let people know. Yeah.
• 58:13
  Yeah, I like that. We need to.
• 58:14
  Let's get that going. I like how you have one locked
• 58:18
  in. Already you've got a target
• 58:19
  acquired. That's good, it's good.
• 58:22
  It's. Good.
• 58:23
  It's good resolution. Too we I was like, I was like,
• 58:26
  dude, what do you like? We need a name for this project.
• 58:28
  And he was like, he knows very little about the Dodgers or
• 58:32
  baseball in general. And he but he knows Jackie
• 58:34
  Robinson. He's like, what if we just
• 58:35
  called it Project 42? I said this guy's cool.
• 58:40
  Yeah. I said yeah, we'll, we'll get
• 58:42
  out that cooler. So.
• 58:43
  So. Project Oh, he's one of the
• 58:45
  coolest dudes I. Know Project 42 it is be on the
• 58:50
  lookout for for some content for that.
• 58:51
  I'm really excited about this and I got other I got other guys
• 58:54
  from our group to get involved who are baseball fans.
• 58:56
  So it's going to be, it's going to be like a full blown, nice,
• 58:59
  full blown campaign maybe. He's going to want to join in on
• 59:03
  our keeping book on Sunday nights that we're going to.
• 59:07
  There you go, you know, because that's a good way to learn.
• 59:11
  Let's face it, that's a great way to learn and understand what
• 59:16
  things mean. Why is he on 2nd?
• 59:18
  How did he get there, you know? That's a great point out here
• 59:24
  getting in the community. Look at us.
• 59:26
  Look at us, man making a difference stand.
• 59:28
  Up a little bit, show off that shirt this.
• 59:30
  Is number what this? It's like 4 or.
• 59:34
  Five. OK, yeah, it's it's recorded.
• 59:37
  Beautiful. I lost.
• 59:40
  A bet as a. Reminder Yankees took the final,
• 59:46
  what, five games of the season series?
• 59:49
  I want this framed. I'll send it to you when I'm
• 59:53
  done. Because I'm literally never
• 59:55
  wearing this ever again once I've paid my dues and worn this
• 59:58
  shirt. As you can see, there's three of
• 59:59
  Nate. A rod and Jeter I might I might
• 1:00:03
  wear it. I'll.
• 1:00:05
  I'll send it to you, I think, Mike.
• 1:00:06
  Evans was wearing his own. Shirt with his face all over it
• 1:00:10
  the other day why can't I why can't you you got three faces
• 1:00:13
  there you. Go.
• 1:00:15
  All right. You got anything before we get
• 1:00:16
  out of here? No.
• 1:00:19
  Just do me a favor and don't go chasing curveballs.
• 1:00:22
  We love you all and as always, looking forward to talking more
• 1:00:23
  baseball with. You guys soon.
• 1:00:25
  Until next time, stay filthy.