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Who Will Win the Home Run Crown? · The 3-0 Take

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Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to the Three O Take, where we talk
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all things Major League Baseball.
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Here's Kyle Corwin and Nate Reyes.
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It all starts right now. Welcome back to the three O take
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presented by Chinook Cedary this episode 558.
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I'll be yours, Kyle Korne. I'm here with my Co host Nate
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Reyes. Nate.
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Casey, how are we? This is a true welcome back.
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Well, hiatus. It's good to be back.
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How many hiatus? A week at North Myrtle, you have
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to specify because we don't. When we go down there, we don't.
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We don't. We're not mingling with the
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Myrtle folks. It's 2 two different.
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There's, there's stigma to this. Oh yeah.
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You heard, you heard a dirty Myrtle.
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Yeah, we're we're North Myrtle. Little nicer.
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Little little cleaner, better options for food things here,
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here and there. We, we it's.
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Just like a Scottsdale versus Phoenix argument.
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Yeah, I, I would venture to say so you, I mean you would know
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that better than I would, but I we're probably along the same
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lines there, but. Like a like a Manhattan versus
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the Bronx. Yeah, that's exactly what we're,
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that's exactly what we're working with here.
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But good to be back week there was able to we're talking about
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before we hopped on here ran the cookout gauntlet, which isn't a
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thing like we made it a thing me and my in laws like.
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A little gauntlet. I because you asked me what it
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was, I said, well, I'll tell you on the pod.
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Basically when we started taking this trip like 6 years ago,
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2020, whenever COVID, whenever COVID first hit, it's.
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Insane to say out loud. We, we started, we started going
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to cookout like a few nights out of the week that we were there
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like, hey, because we all love cookout, love, love the shakes.
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And we're like, you know, we're already going to cookout like
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2-3, maybe even 4 times during the speech week.
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Like how crazy would it be if we got a cookout shake every night
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of the week that we're here? And it's kind of just been this
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running joke. Never been like a realistic
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thing that we really try to pursue.
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But this year we got 3-4 days into it and we're like work, we
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could do this. And as the week go, it's, it's
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not for the faint of heart. Like people start, people start
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dropping out. And it came down to it was me,
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my sister-in-law and brother-in-law, the three of us
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completed the cookout gauntlet 7 shakes in seven days.
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It was, it was one of the biggest accomplishments in my
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life. That's one of the biggest
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accomplishments in my life. Good for you.
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Thank you. So I'm I'm swearing off sugar
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for the next probably couple weeks to balance things out.
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Did you switch them up or did you keep doing the same ones?
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Switch them up. Yeah, they got a whole, they got
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like 40 plus flavours, so a lot to work with there.
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You can combine flavours. So it was it.
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We had a good time. Good for you.
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Look no disrespect but being there a week you don't look that
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much more tan. I think tan.
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Well, if I was, if I was rocking like a fresh white tea, maybe,
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but I personally feel like I'm glowing.
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So to me, that's all that really matters.
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You may you may not agree, but I, I, I feel like I have a nice
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a nice healthy glow. So I'm I'm feeling great heading
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into this new. Week Are you a are you a peel
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kind of guy? The peeling going on.
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More than I'd like to admit at times, but we'll see how this
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week goes. Sure, sure.
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Good stuff. Welcome back.
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Glad to be back. Glad to be back talking some
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ball. We got some things to get into.
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Not as much. Maybe a little bit of a lighter
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week. I think you brought up the point
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before we hopped on. We're I mean, we're these are
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the dog days. Folks like the you hear, you
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hear about them, we're living them.
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But still some things to get to right off the top.
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I want to talk about this home run race that we're we're now in
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the midst of because as I said to you, I think Kyle Schwarber
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just seemingly out of nowhere inserting himself into the mix.
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Dude's been on a heater as of late.
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Admittedly, I was, I was a little checked out this past
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week because you know, I'm, you know, I'm trying to fight waves
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and trying to make sure I'm properly applying sunscreen and
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everything. So I'm not, I'm not on, I'm not
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on my PS and QS. I hate my team so I'm not on my
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PS and QS either. I kind of hate baseball right
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now personally, but I don't know if anyone else is feeling that
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this this the sport is pissing me off.
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Yeah, it happens, man. You're you're in you're in real
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life team, your fantasy teams cooked it's.
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I'm really looking forward to fantasy football.
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It's I'm I'm. With you, that meme that you
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posted, I'm which one? Which one was I am I?
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Am I? Paul, you got Paul Walker and
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and Vin Diesel, you know the classic Fast and Furious meme.
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You got them, you got them hitting a fork in the road.
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They're going to separate ways. And I said the meme was like,
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hey, you've got your you've got your fans that like baseball,
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but then you've also got your fans that like baseball, who
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also like football. And you've hit that for, you
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know, now that we're getting pre season underway in the NFL,
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we're hitting that fork in the road where, you know, look, no
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district, it's OK. We're going to have to just tip
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our collective, our caps to one another and be like, well, I
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guess we'll see if we'll link back up in March.
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Because there's no, there's no convincing the, the, the die
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hard football fans who also love who also like really enjoy
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baseball. There's no convincing them that
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like, Hey, you should stick around.
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Even though I, I've never understood the argument why the
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football people that also like baseball decide to split off
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when they do, It's like just ride out the like this.
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We're we're, we're coming up on the best part of the baseball
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season. I'm fully The older I get, the
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more I'm fully, fully, truly convinced that fall is the
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greatest time of year, the best. It's not even close.
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It's really not even close. The fact that we've been
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bamboozled into thinking that summer is the best.
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It's just. Wrong.
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Yeah, we we talked about that at the beach, like outside of the
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beach, like it's just otherwise it's hot and miserable and
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sweaty like the fall is. I mean, especially can't.
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Wear half your closet. Exactly.
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I'm a little, I'm a little chunky.
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I'd like to wear my, my thicker clothing.
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You know what I mean? Like, that's what fall is built
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for. I want a bowl of chili, you
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know? But no, it's 118 and we can't do
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that right now. Is it fall is the greatest?
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Yeah, we broke our record the other day.
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Fall is the greatest because you have all of it.
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You have all of it. You got post season baseball,
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you obviously got football. You know, for basketball fans,
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it's knocking on the corner, it's knocking on the door.
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It's like man it. Doesn't make sense to me.
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Like I was saying though, like when when these these football
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fans also like baseball, when they choose to split off, it's
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like the second pre season gets here, I'm out.
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It's like no ride out the best part of the the baseball season.
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If you like both sports equally or, you know, comparably ride
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that out and then you've got football to carry you through
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the next year. Like, sure.
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And then you only have to wait a little bit until spring training
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is here. So like, I don't know the the,
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the split, the timing of the split for football fans confuses
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me sometimes. I agree you're not a lot because
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pre season football is stupid. I will say I'm not.
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I haven't really been a college football like a huge college
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football guy. I think I'm going to try to, I'm
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going to try it out a little bit more, try it out a little bit
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more this year. Yeah.
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I think I'm just going to try to dive in a little bit.
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But yeah. And it's like you're also like
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fantasy football hype for sure. You're in the, you're in the
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thick of that. It's I love fantasy baseball.
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I think fantasy football's better.
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Yeah. I mean, on the fantasy realm,
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it's just better. I mean, there's a level of in
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frequency is not the right word, but just like the the nature of
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the football season as it compares to the baseball season,
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like you can't beat that from a fantasy perspective.
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Like, yeah, you have so many matchups.
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Yeah. Meanwhile, baseball's a grind.
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It's not. It is.
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And that baseball, fantasy baseball, is not for everybody.
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It's not for the faint of heart, that's for sure.
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Back to home. Runs, Yeah, long, long way of
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saying, long winded way of saying that we are in the dog
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days. But Kyle Schwarber just in the
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midst of all of this has inserted himself into the
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conversation of home run king for the 2025 season.
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Can we just look at look at the leaderboard as it stands right
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now coming into the day? Well, Shohei, I think what was
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it last night, just just crossed over the 40 threshold for I
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believe the fourth time in his career.
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Kyle Schwarber currently sits at 41 and big dumper at 44.
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Is it just me or things kind of like the pace has drastically
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slowed down? Yeah, Well, I think that's the
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nature of the, the, the time of the year that we're at.
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I mean, even you got Aaron Judge getting dinged up a little bit.
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He's, he's falling off the, I won't say falling off the trail,
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but he's, he's trailing at 30, him and him and Gino Suarez both
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at 37. Like even him and and well, you
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can. As Carlos Parade trots, trots
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the bases at Yankee Stadium. Yeah, I'm I'm going to ramp this
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TV down and. Big time.
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This is why I'm on fantasy football now.
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I mean, you could make the argument that any of these guys
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could really get on a heater and and either close the gap or
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create a very large gap at the top.
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But I think of the four like Shohei and Judge or the two
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where I'm like, when they come, it's not just a small bunch,
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it's a big bunch that they're coming in.
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So you never know. I mean, I, I could see, you
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know, these top five guys. You're sniffing 50.
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Sure. You're a betting man.
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You were at the casino last night.
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So let me let me ask you. This but I was there.
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Well, still a betting man. I mean, you're there.
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Your presence has to count for something.
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If you had to bet today, simple question, who do you think's
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taken The Who do you think's taken the crown?
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Because I wanted to go recency bias, but I do think just
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because of like the fact that the wear and tear is so much
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less on Schwarber and that's that's the whole argument to Cal
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Raleigh is that like he's not even just like a, an average
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catcher. He's an incredible catcher and
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he catches every day. Like he just doesn't really miss
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games very often. I think that wear and tear is
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like eventually going to get to you, whereas Schwarber does get
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to DH and this is clearly the time he comes alive.
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I would go Schwarber. And that's a little recency
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bias, but it's kind of what's. What's impressive for me for
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Schwarber is the fact that he's doing this in a contract year as
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well. Like this he is having, you
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know, say, we say it all the time.
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People love to bring up the fact that he's like a 220 hitter.
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He's hitting 252 right now in addition to the 41 Homer.
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So you know, I, I, I, I think the general consensus is that
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Schwarber is going to earn himself at this stage in his
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career. He's, this is his thirty age 32
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season. He's earned himself a what, 3-4
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year contract? I don't know why they can like
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the at least my perception of him has him older than 32.
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Just been doing it for so long, I guess.
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Like the Cubs feel like a different lifetime ago.
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I feel like he's been in Philly forever.
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But yeah. He's made multiple stops.
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In Chicago. He was with the Nationals, He
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was. I know.
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Red Sox, like, it's like there's a big gap in between.
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But I'm just saying, like when you think back of him as a Cub,
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you're like, that doesn't even feel right.
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And in a weird way, I almost feel like I remember him being
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kind of old. Not like old but like I'm like.
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Kind of like a vet of that, yeah.
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Like a. It doesn't make any sense.
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I, I think a lot. I think I, I think a lot depends
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on hinges on the on the success of the Philly season.
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They look really good. You think they're going to throw
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stupid contract at them if they win if if?
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They I think if they win the World Series, you'll see you'll
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see a Strasbourg S type situation and hopefully there's
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better success on the player end of a post World Series deal.
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But just what he's brought, the crew, man, what he's done for
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this team is insane and he deserves it.
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You say it when you say Strasburg, you just mean in
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terms of the, you mean as it as it relates to like.
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A very clear overpay. Right, right.
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You're not talking in terms of money or length or anything.
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You're just saying like the nature of the deal.
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Yeah. Yeah, like a very clear overpay
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so. You know, Davey, Davey D is just
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chomping at the bit, waiting to win this whole thing so he can
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just throw away stupid. Yeah, throw out some stupid
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contracts. I'm.
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Going to plug in my I'm going to turn this outlet on.
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I'm going to Paige is going to hear about this.
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She's hit, she's hitting these switches over here and my
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charger is plugged in one of those switches that's on the on
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the light switch. Yeah.
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We're going to real, real professional operation we've got
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going on here. Real rinky dink.
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What would you expect? What would you expect?
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Hey, shout out while I'm while I'm looking at it, shout out to
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to JV Justin Verlander becoming the 10th pitcher in MLB history
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to reach 3500 strikeouts. Love that holding it down on the
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fantasy squad for the last couple starts.
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Have you? Yeah, but back to the homers,
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specifically as it as it pertains to Cal Raleigh and
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Judge. Can we revisit real quick just
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what this ALMVP race is is looking like now?
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I mean, obviously you've been paying closer attention to Judge
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even with the the stint on the shelf.
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Has the conversation really changed at all, or is Judge
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really still the the clear? MVP Yeah.
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No, not anymore. No, I think it's, I think it's,
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I mean averages has started to get lower and lower.
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It's like in in the three 30s now, which is still insane to
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just be like, that's still incredible. 337.
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But it's just to me, it goes back to the catching thing and I
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I think like as a sport and and for the voting it, I just I
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can't help but feel like it has to be celebrated to see a
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catcher doing this and it feels like a missed opportunity.
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But who knows, man, if Judge goes on one of these runs and
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starts to close the gap home run wise and he's hitting, you know,
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340 when it's all said and done, it's like that's kind of hard to
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it's kind of hard to argue with. I don't know what about for you,
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because I mean, like I, I understand if there's some bias
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there, but like there's bias against my conversation here,
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but I have bias for so that's why we're here.
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This is why we do the podcast. I mean, he's got 30, as I
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mentioned, 37. Homer is an OPS of 1137.
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Yeah. And he's hitting 337 again.
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That's just like your elementary counting stats here.
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Like we're, we're not even getting into the the deeper
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levels of this discussion, right.
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But yeah, no, I don't know, like Cal Raleigh doing it behind the
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dish, 44 Jacks, 946 LP's, he's sitting 248.
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How? It's not like I get it right
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field compared to the position of catcher.
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I get I get the conversation there.
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There's a very clear difference in terms of the toll it takes.
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However, it's not like Judge is just DH ING all year.
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Sure. Like he's he's contributing on
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both sides of the ball, but what Judge is doing offensively is
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what Raleigh's doing behind the dish enough to.
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Yeah. I mean, it's it's kind of the
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conversation we've been having all year.
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But I think the only thing that's made it interesting, the
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only layer that has been, you know, added to this conversation
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is the fact that Judges has now missed a little bit of time.
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But he's, you know, he's back. He seems like.
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Yeah, it's, it's taking him a while to get.
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That's why I'm, I'm curious to see if like he does, I think he
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will click back in. But he's I don't even know what
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his stretch has been since he's been back.
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I think it's been pretty rough. He's like 3 for 30 something.
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Well, I'm just saying like, I'm not saying like.
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He's not out. He's.
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Mechanically, production wise back.
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I'm just saying presence wise, he's back as Otani goes yard.
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So that puts him at 41 on the on the leaderboard, tying him with
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Schwarber at at #2. There we go.
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Yeah, man, I it is weird because like it, it's almost the same
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argument for Otani. Like, have we become numb to how
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good they are, how good of a hitter Darren Judge and Otani
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are? Like because they do it so often
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is that kind of it's taking away from them, like hurting them in
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any way, you know, because that is, I think there's a little bit
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of, I'm kind of missing the word, but it's not like
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saturation to it. But like, like you kind of feel
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this is the norm and you forget how incredible they are.
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And like, we are definitely watching from each side to the
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greatest hitters ever, not just this generation, but ever.
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Yeah, that we've ever seen, but yeah.
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Yeah. Now I'm with you going back to
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your question, though, kind of putting a ball on this.
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I in terms of who I think runs away with it all right, I
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shouldn't even say run away with it, but who's ultimately crowned
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the leader of this pack when it's all said and done because
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it is it's going to be an interesting race.
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Like I said, we've got I mean, if you want to I I think you can
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safely put judge in the mix, even though he's you know, he's
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slipping behind a little bit haven't missed a little bit of
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time. Safe to say it'll take a a good
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week or two and he'll be right back into the end of the thick
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of it. But if you even if you want to
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include a guy like Gino Suarez, who's right there with judge,
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we're looking at A5 man race. What's what you said in terms of
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Regency bias? I don't want to play into that
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too much. But you did make a point about
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Schwarber. And this time of year, like
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when, as we get closer to the end of the season, I feel like
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is when Schwarber kicks in another notch like you hear all
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the time about June Schwarber. But I would be here.
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I would, I would want to see what his what his splits are as
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as we get into, as we wrap up summer, getting into early fall
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because like you said, with the wear and tear combined with what
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his splits might look like is this might be the season of
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Schwarber. Is the perception of the
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Phillies like just different for for baseball fans versus Philly
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fans? Cuz I don't know why this year
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just feels so much different than years past for the Phillies
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where it just. I, I feel like we, I feel like
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we've gone back to what we were feeling a few years ago.
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I feel like the first, and I don't know when the switch
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happened, but a seemingly overnight, the perception around
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the Phillies was like, cuz if you remember and not I'm not
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like I'm not Tooting my own horn here, but I, I was like, I'm
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going to give this team one more year.
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And then they the way that they started the season, I'm like, I
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feel a little bit justified in saying what I said.
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But then like I said, some seemingly overnight something
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switched with the Phillies and I'm like, I'm feel, I feel the
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way about the Phillies right now that I did 20/22/22 like that,
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that little stretch that they had.
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So I don't know. I don't know what that's what
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that's what that's credited to. And then they had they they make
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some additions at the deadline to bolster things the.
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Deadline was a good turning point for a lot of people too,
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but like I, we got to have the the conversation of like the
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division is a lot lighter this year than it has been in years
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past. And the Mets are three falling
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right now. I don't know, something in the
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water in New York I guess, but like there.
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Literally. Yeah, probably.
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Probably it's very specific water, good bagels, not good for
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sports. I don't know.
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And the Braves like whatever, don't even exist.
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So that's a part of the conversation too.
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Where are we? Are we going back to like a
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similar word? We're just used with the home
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run race? Like, are we fatigued of the
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Phillies success to this point just because no one's really
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challenged them at any point? And are we just like locking
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them in for the postseason and automatically considering them
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one of the best teams in baseball or the best team in
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baseball just because of that? Like, I don't know, there's like
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a fine line. I don't know if I'd say there's
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fatigue. I there.
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This is actually is an interesting conversation.
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Like who if we're, if we're ranking teams that if we're
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putting these team like all 30 teams on a fatigue scale.
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I, I don't think the Phillies are.
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I mean, are the Phillies even in the top five?
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I don't, I don't think there's a fatigue around the Phillies.
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I think, I think with the Dodgers, obviously, I think the
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Padres, you could slot the Padres in ahead of the Phillies.
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There's, I'm, I'm not saying, I'm saying specifically this
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year, like if we're looking at the 2025 Phillies, are we just
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like we don't really need to look at like the divisional race
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at the moment. Cal Raleigh just hit 45, by the
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way. We don't really need to look at
25:27
like the the divisional race, like especially at this free
25:30
fall that the Mets are in the rest of the divisions booty.
25:37
When you look at the NL, like the Cubs have the same record.
25:42
The Brewers are the best team in the NL and the best team in
25:45
baseball at the moment. You're just like, why is it that
25:49
we're just so easily fixated on are the Phillies going back to
25:53
the World Series? Like especially after this
25:55
deadline? Like I, I, I think this is the
25:59
hardest Rd. through the NL that they're going to have when it
26:04
comes to this post season. Well, I think it's because of
26:08
that run that I mentioned, like you look at back at the last few
26:11
years, you're going OK. They've they've shown you that
26:13
they can, they, they may not have won it yet, but they,
26:16
they've shown you that they can get there.
26:19
They're capable of theirs, capable of getting there.
26:21
So I it would be easy for me to see why people would just
26:25
default to being like, OK, so the Philly, if the Phillies are
26:28
back, then I'm just going to go ahead and slot them in as a team
26:31
that could serve as the strongest threat or one of the
26:35
strongest threats on the NL side of things.
26:40
But we'll see, man we'll see. Like I said, I don't know when
26:42
the switch with the Phillies happened.
26:45
It would have had to have been within the last month.
26:49
Something something really, at least for me, in my perception
26:52
of the team, something switch. So we'll we'll see how things
26:55
shape out for them. But Speaking of the Dodgers and
27:02
a threat to win it all coming out of the National League,
27:08
Clayton Kershaw over the over the weekend went up against long
27:13
time competitor Max Scherzer, Former teammate Max Scherzer.
27:19
I always forget that I was reading some, I don't.
27:23
I read some articles about it and they were saying, I saw, I
27:25
saw that attribution like, oh, former former going up against
27:29
former teammate Max Scherzer. I was like that.
27:30
That doesn't count. It's like.
27:32
That's not a thing. Randy Johnson in Houston were
27:35
just like, I don't really think about it like I don't just
27:39
doesn't doesn't come come up on my my Wikipedia page in my
27:44
brain. Yeah, not you know the other
27:47
thing, but they, if you don't know the back story, very
27:51
interesting story. They were four selected 4 picks
27:54
apart in the 2006 draft, have both won three Cy Youngs, and
28:01
their first match up was how many?
28:07
Hold on, how many? Speaking of which, it was a
28:09
Randy Johnson start day. That's funny is Randy Johnson
28:15
and Greg Maddox start day in like.
28:19
OO8 Both were scratched on September 7th.
28:23
Randy Johnson and Greg Maddox both were scratched and then the
28:26
people that were in attendance had to watch Max Scherzer and
28:31
Clayton Kershaw. These two little young bucks go
28:35
out. And the complaint was like,
28:36
imagine getting tickets to this match up and this is what you
28:39
got to see, you know? It was 6179 days after their
28:48
first match up. They went up.
28:50
Obviously Scherzer with the Jays, now Kershaw still with the
28:52
Dodgers. Look, the narrative, the
28:59
narrative around this game, Scherzer and Kershaw, it's like
29:03
what I saw so many people have been like, nobody wants to watch
29:05
this. They're washed.
29:06
They're just milking it for the money.
29:08
And I'm like you clear, Like you, just if, if you're of the
29:12
belief that they're just hanging on for the money, like you, you,
29:17
I'm not going to say I'm not going to be the you don't know
29:19
ball guy. But like you're, you're clearly
29:21
just not paying attention to or, or you haven't paid attention to
29:28
the, the makeup of, of these guys in terms of how it like, in
29:32
terms of the types of competitors that they are and
29:37
like what they, what they're striving to do in their career.
29:41
And you know, like what their, what their goals are.
29:47
What I mean, sure, the money is nice, no doubt.
29:52
But like, I would have to imagine that the day that that
29:56
Max Scherzer, I mean, I won't even I won't even say Clayton
29:59
Kershaw because he's he's had a different Rd. to get to where he
30:03
is. But a guy like Max Scherzer to
30:05
me, the second that he that he hangs up the spikes, how many,
30:11
how many months, if not years is it going to take him to finally
30:16
come to grips or come to terms with the fact that like he can't
30:20
go out and dice people up. Like he he's going to be the
30:25
type of guy that he's going to be probably 62, trying to
30:29
convince his circle, the people he's hanging out with that if
30:34
they just gave me a shot, if they just gave me a spot start,
30:37
I could go out and do it. That's the kind of, that's the
30:39
kind of guy we're talking about here.
30:41
That's, I think that's some of the greatest makeup or, or the
30:45
makeup of some of the greatest pictures we've seen.
30:48
You know what I mean? It's like even at this age,
30:51
you're like, you've been retired for 10-15 years and like that
30:54
isn't gone. I could still strike you out
30:57
right now at my age like that. CC Sabathia just got inducted
31:00
into the Hall of Fame. He, I guarantee you, he thinks
31:03
that he could go out and still get it done.
31:05
Yeah, 100% Clemens, same way. It's just like it's there's
31:09
there's guys that just like are that you can't remove that.
31:14
I'm still going to find a way to get you out.
31:15
I may not have what I had in the tank back in the day, but I can
31:18
get you out. You know what I mean?
31:19
Like there's still that that edge to him.
31:24
And then and then I think in in a different way.
31:28
Kershaw's had a really a really impressive year in my mind.
31:35
Then I'm not going to sit here and dive into numbers and and
31:37
compare it to like league leaders or even prime Kershaw
31:42
days. But like I think you can look at
31:45
Kershaw and say he is he's done after this year.
31:48
He's officially leaving it all on the table and like he's, I
31:50
think able to go out on top no matter the result of this season
31:57
for the Dodgers. I think he's able to go out on
32:00
top saying like I'm pretty comfortable with my performance
32:04
this year. I was healthy.
32:06
I made a lot of starts. What is he He's he's going to
32:08
finish with a a decent amount of starts, won't he over 20.
32:12
I was. Actually just going to look that
32:14
up. Is that in play?
32:15
It's 20 starts in play it's made 14.
32:21
Not quite. Not quite in play, maybe.
32:28
Oh well, we got time. Like 2 months.
32:32
Yeah month and 1/2 yeah, I think it could happen.
32:40
It's about right either way. So by the way, it's just like I
32:44
it's very cool like don't take it for granted.
32:47
I I think it's, I think what's cool about this and like, even
32:53
if it got blown up a little bit more, especially bringing back
32:55
like their date, like, you know, that match up back in the day
32:58
with the debuts. And it's like I, I think we have
33:06
a sport that's very full circle, you know, and it's like,
33:10
appreciate those moments, appreciate the full circle
33:12
moments. It's very cool to see.
33:15
It's very like all of the things that have happened in our game
33:19
since the last time that this was like the graphic that we're
33:25
going off of. And I know there's been a bunch
33:27
of matchups in between. Like you get to you get to see
33:30
these cool moments of like a full legend on each side, still
33:37
doing it, still trying their hardest.
33:40
Then every pitcher kind of fades the in their own ways.
33:43
It's rare, especially for that for that position to be fully
33:48
dominant when you're all done. Just not how it works.
33:54
I I think like how quickly people forget we're two years
33:58
removed from Kershaw giving us 24 starts with an ERA of 246 in
34:05
an All Star year in which he was 35 in 2023.
34:11
I I do hope he calls it after this though.
34:13
It just kind of feels that way. I don't want to see him struggle
34:17
along for another one. And no disrespect, I don't think
34:23
2020 starts is necessarily like the standard that we should be
34:27
chasing for multiple years. Sure, but.
34:32
You got to, well, I mean, go on. But I mean, the shirt that
34:35
you're wearing the All Star game, you got to think that the
34:40
the nod there was maybe an was an indicator that yeah, you
34:45
know, maybe this is kind of this is kind of it.
34:49
Yeah, he's taking it in, man. He's doing it well and he's like
34:52
producing. And I think that's like that's
34:55
got to be the most satisfying part of it.
34:57
It's like I am producing for my team.
35:01
So Scherzer, I don't know. Scherzer it's hard to tell.
35:05
Verlander It's hard to tell. Both of them feel like it's a
35:09
little bit of stat chasing going on.
35:12
Verlander said he wanted to go to what he was 45.
35:15
Yeah, and that's, he said that a few years ago, didn't he?
35:22
He's 42 right now. He ain't getting to 45.
35:26
And not getting to 45. Mid 19 starts this year, 4291
35:33
and 8. Serviceable, I guess, but like,
35:37
what are we talking about? He's just he's he's.
35:43
Going after the OR No, not not Verlander.
35:48
Verlander has already got the the strikeouts.
35:51
It's the. Wins.
35:54
Verlander is going for wins, isn't he?
35:55
I think he's trying to get to 300 wins.
35:58
Oh, he's not getting 300. He's at 263.
36:01
Yeah, well, I'm saying like that was.
36:04
Oh, right. Yeah, like desire to get that
36:06
was the next. I think he felt like that's how
36:09
long it would take him, but. That was the next thing, yeah.
36:12
A shame on any baseball team that's going to give him a shot
36:14
that long based on what we've seen.
36:17
Anyhow, we're off on a tangent here.
36:19
Yeah, we're swirly. Up on tangent here.
36:22
Dog days, man, just dog day conversations we're.
36:25
Sucking some balls man, just talking to some ball.
36:29
Oh shoot, did did Caroli go deep?
36:36
Yeah, let's. You didn't hear me say that
36:37
earlier. I did not hear you say that.
36:42
So he's at 45 now. Yeah, Yep, Yep, Yep.
36:47
I got the Twitter notifications back on.
36:51
Now I'm getting all the home run buzzins.
36:53
That's an interesting one to have, by the way, as far as
36:56
notifications. On the MLB home runs account.
36:58
I don't hate it. I love it, dude.
37:01
Sometimes there's days when we're just like, man, I'm not
37:03
looking. But then there are days where
37:04
I'm like, it's nice to know. Keeps it tapped in a little bit.
37:08
Well, it's, I mean, it's nice in cases like this when you're
37:10
looking at when you're keeping tabs on like Raleigh and
37:12
Schwarber, but when it's like Johnny Bag of potatoes has third
37:17
home run. Of the year.
37:18
Yeah, like what are we? I could do without this
37:22
notification. Any who's Speaking of Johnny Bag
37:26
of potatoes, This individual is not the bag of potatoes.
37:31
In fact, they call them Johnny Bag of money.
37:34
Roman Anthony signing an 8 year contract extension includes a
37:41
$5,000,000 signing bonus, $130 million.
37:48
I'm always intrigued by these these contract extensions when
37:52
it when it comes time to look at the escalators, it's like what?
37:56
What could this really Max out at?
37:59
I think. You'd end up being pretty fat,
38:00
couldn't it? 2. 30.
38:03
Yeah, it's. Pretty good 2:30 for the Red Sox
38:06
outfielder. I'm, I, you know, going back to
38:10
the, the fantasy baseball conversation, I, I told you the
38:12
other day, this is a guy that from, even aside from fantasy
38:17
baseball, I'm just generally excited to, to watch this guy's
38:21
career play out. But specifically from a fantasy
38:24
perspective, I'm like, I'd be intrigued and locking this guy
38:27
up and fantasy, but I'm this dude's just a ball player, man.
38:34
Dude is a ball player. And this is going to be one of
38:37
those contracts where I, I'm trying not to let bias play into
38:44
it here, but I feel like this is one of those contracts that's
38:46
going to you. You don't have to have the
38:48
concern of like, is this going to age well?
38:52
I feel like you can kind of just look at it and know all.
38:56
Right. Fair enough.
38:57
This dude, I mean, I love the timing of it.
39:03
I think it maybe should have you.
39:04
You probably could have even knocked this out a little
39:06
earlier. But the fact that it came at a
39:08
time when the Sox are just playing some ball, which real
39:14
quick on that going back to the deadline, just revisiting that
39:21
conversation. I, I, I'm curious as to how your
39:29
team's acquisitions have been doing, because you did say, I
39:36
think it was how how did we phrase it?
39:39
I think I think we said weak ass team and and how we did nothing
39:46
at the deadline. August, what are we talking
39:48
about? Are are we seriously talking
39:51
about this? I'm just saying I think the
39:54
collapse of my team has nothing to do with your team.
39:57
I think your team is still weak. They're.
39:59
Trending in completely opposite directions.
40:02
That's fine. Which is what I was saying about
40:05
the timing of the Roman Anthony like this.
40:06
You want to talk about vibes like this is this is something
40:10
this was a this was a gift from above just got sprinkled in.
40:14
Hey, you know vibes could not be higher.
40:17
See, now I'm going to step in and play devil's advocate.
40:19
Tremendously locked in. Tremendously locked in.
40:23
Here you go. Here's a Roman Anthony.
40:25
Here, here. Here's some.
40:26
Here's here's an extension for your boy.
40:28
OK, are so devil's advocate? Sure are.
40:34
Are we really offering a potential of $200 million to
40:41
somebody who doesn't even have 50 career hits in the show yet?
40:46
Like it Are we, are we going to have that conversation?
40:51
Yeah, I think I saw. That's crazy.
40:54
Is it the the highest or second highest or largest contracts
41:00
with that qualifier of like fewer than whatever?
41:04
It's it's either the qualifier you want.
41:06
It's either the the largest or second largest.
41:08
I don't remember who would have who would have been the other
41:10
individual? Hasn't even had 200 babies in
41:15
the show. It's crazy.
41:17
It's like that is insane. So I get what you're saying.
41:21
Like I, I think you can see it with certain players and I'm not
41:24
saying he's is that player or isn't that player.
41:28
I'm just saying like the standard being set of like
41:30
buying out arbitration this quickly is pretty wild.
41:36
It's pretty wild. What are you saying is the the
41:39
negative here? Like what are you saying there's
41:41
a a risk by doing this? Or are you saying this is a,
41:45
this is a backfire on him? I think you could go either way
41:50
because there was a lot of the argument saying like, what are
41:52
you doing? You know, we've seen the
41:54
examples of a Ronald Acuna that like if that is the ceiling and
41:59
that's who you become, kind of shot yourself in the foot as far
42:05
as money goes. But I'm just saying the standard
42:09
of like these teams handing out extensions and and buying out
42:13
arbitration. It's just nuts because what?
42:20
$100 though for the the upside that exists here.
42:25
And on the flip side for him, I think we know.
42:29
We know the. Benefits of it right, like it's
42:31
the security for the player and it's the it's the value striking
42:37
you know while it's hot for the team, but there's I think
42:42
there's just there's commitment to that for an organization
42:47
there's commitment to saying this is our guy like I think
42:51
that's what it says more than anything.
42:53
I think if we put finances aside and we put even the caliber of
42:58
player for you to this quickly say this is our guy, Well, it's
43:04
just strange to me. You can't just.
43:06
Stumble into being the top prospect in baseball, Like, you
43:09
got to show there's got to be something there that that you
43:13
know, serves as evidence. How many?
43:16
How many times we've heard that? How many #1 prospects have we
43:22
seen flop? Yeah, and there's been misses,
43:24
but like on the flip side, you you've seen, you've seen
43:27
triggers pulled early on contracts that you you get to
43:31
the end of it and you're going man, what a mistake on behalf of
43:34
the player, I, I just. Think it's too early to call.
43:37
I think it's obviously too early to call whether it's going to
43:40
age well or not. And then I think the safety net
43:42
is like if it doesn't age well, like it's like not that much
43:45
money. So whatever.
43:47
I think it is the commitment to the guy and your organization
43:52
going this direction for eight years when you don't really
43:57
know. I'm excited.
44:03
I would I I'm not trying to rain on your parade.
44:05
And I all I'm saying is that like it is, it is kind of crazy.
44:10
Like, you look at like the Bobby Witt junior situation where you
44:16
see him as like an MVP candidate after an incredible season.
44:19
And then the extension comes in. You know what I mean?
44:24
I'd like to see a little bit more.
44:25
I'd like to see a full freaking season.
44:27
I'd like to see 400 ABS under this cat before I'm I'm rolling
44:32
out that type of security. I can see.
44:37
Why? It's a vibe check.
44:38
I can see why. It's like get the get the
44:41
organization hyped about it. But to your point, if if, if you
44:45
wait until he's got 400 ABS under his belt, the price like
44:49
the price tag only goes up. I get it.
44:51
But that much really going to say it's going to go up that
44:55
much well. I just threw that out because
44:57
that's the number you throw out. But I'm saying like it if you
44:59
wait a year, 2 years, whatever, it ends up being it.
45:03
And he continues to do what they believe is, and presumably he
45:07
believes he's capable of doing price like only goes up.
45:11
Yeah, that's why I was excited. It's weird, man.
45:16
These are weird. These this whole standard that
45:19
has been like thrown out there. It really is Alex and Topless
45:24
that started this different. Situation, but it's it's why I
45:30
liked what they did with crochet.
45:32
They, they've locked him up before he, he really got into
45:37
the the depths of this Cy Young caliber season.
45:41
There's some risk involved when you're doing that.
45:43
And like, you got to give credit to a team that's willing to take
45:46
that risk. Yeah.
45:49
And I think it does put him in good shape, obviously
45:51
financially for plugging other holes or or spending that money
45:55
elsewhere on the roster. And this could look fantastic
45:58
when he is in an MVP conversation in three, 4-5
46:02
years, potentially. So, yeah, it's this weird thing.
46:08
I don't know. I got it.
46:10
I'm interested to see what like, because Acuna being the 1st of
46:14
this ilk, I'm curious to see what post arbitration buyout
46:21
Acuna is to see what you know, like for the first time we're
46:25
seeing someone move into that chapter of this.
46:28
We're still so new in the way this is being done and it is
46:33
cool. That just reminded me.
46:37
I can't. I heard about some, I don't
46:41
remember what player it was. You hear about some lawsuit of
46:47
you. Have you heard of those
46:48
financial backing organizations or like agencies for players in
46:54
the minor leagues? Is this you?
46:58
Something with the thing you see commercials for on TV where it's
47:01
like you can be a part of this guy's financial earning.
47:05
Is that what you're? Talking about money, I don't
47:07
know how they make money, but there's a there's a player that
47:10
just I think it was Tatis. It was Tatis.
47:14
He is suing the agency because he had signed with an agency in
47:21
when he was in the minor leagues.
47:24
And this agency basically is like, we'll fork over the money,
47:28
like we'll pay for your housing. We'll we'll give you some money.
47:30
We'll give you guarantee that your organization isn't, but in
47:34
turn, we're getting 10% of all your future contracts.
47:37
Oh yeah, I'm seeing it right here.
47:39
And then I think Tatis is basically saying, like you took
47:43
advantage of me of being a kid. Tatis received $2 billion
47:48
upfront in exchange for 10% of future earnings.
47:51
Tatis signed a $340 million for 14 year contract in February
47:55
2021. Which it's like I'm, I don't
47:59
know if I can be on the Tati side of that argument.
48:01
Like it feels like the agency did exactly what like you take a
48:05
gamble, you know what I mean? Like you back you're that's an
48:08
investment. You back a player and if it if
48:12
he doesn't pan out, you're out 2,000,000.
48:14
If it does pan out, you should be getting 34 million right now.
48:20
Anyway. I don't know off on a tangent
48:21
again, but that that I thought that was pretty interesting.
48:24
I thought that was kind of cool. I thought you were talking about
48:28
this. It's like the oh, here we go.
48:34
I thought you were talking. It could.
48:35
Be one of these agencies. I thought, no, I thought you
48:37
were talking about, I saw a commercial where it was like the
48:40
athlete income sharing system. Oh, yeah, sure.
48:47
Speak of the devil. Emmanuel Claus, say he.
48:49
I think he was part of this. He was one of the guys I most
48:54
random commercial, but it would they'd come on and they'd be
48:57
like you can. I don't even remember what they
49:00
said, but it was like you can essentially like have a piece of
49:03
the pie if this guy's earnings, if such and such a thing.
49:08
And I'm like, that's such a wild system to have in place, but you
49:12
know, but it makes. Sense if you, if you have one of
49:15
these smaller companies that that's how you're making your
49:17
money, you're publicly traded and like you can bring in money
49:22
that way. Yeah, something like that.
49:26
It seemed like it was a little. Bit of a how sick would that be
49:29
though? Like how sick would it be if you
49:32
you're like you had money to throw in and you're like, all
49:34
right, I'll put in 10 grand and it gets me 1% of a potential
49:39
Tatis contract down the road. And then all of a sudden he
49:42
signs a $300 million contract. You're like, there's my money
49:46
back, maybe let's roll. So that'd be cool, man.
49:50
I don't know. Very cool.
49:52
Speaking of cool, did you see that jerks and profile catch?
49:58
I'm all for these low fences. Yeah, I like low fences.
50:02
I don't need them everywhere, but I like each ballpark having
50:06
a little section that's a little low.
50:08
Side note on that, did Little League, did the Little League
50:14
fences get shorter? Are these kids just that much
50:18
smaller? Because I saw a clip, you know,
50:21
we're like in prime Little League World Series, you know,
50:25
like regionals. Actually they may have maybe
50:29
that I guess the tournament actually started the World
50:31
Series. We're in like prime season for
50:33
that. So I've seen these clips
50:34
floating around and I'm like those fences are maybe 16 inches
50:39
high. Anyway, that reminded me of that
50:44
when I saw the pro Far catch. I don't know.
50:47
Some of these kids put some swings on it though.
50:51
Dear Lord. We don't, we don't need to go
50:55
down the rabbit hole of the the size of the Little Leaguers
50:58
nowadays. But aren't they like just
51:00
generally smaller across the board?
51:02
I don't. And then you have the occasional
51:04
one that's like our size is 11. Is that because we've had this
51:09
conversation before? Is it because the kids just,
51:11
like, aren't outside playing as much?
51:13
Like they're not growing at the same rate because you look at
51:16
some of the like, I know we're like past 30 at this point, so
51:19
it probably just seems different.
51:21
We're not that age. To be bigger.
51:23
You think? Oh, like, overall, if you're
51:25
going to take the average, yeah. Because I mean like look at like
51:30
the average height of a man 40 years ago was like 3 inches less
51:36
than what it is now. Fair.
51:40
So I feel like that's just especially with what we're
51:42
eating. Hello, you want to go down a
51:44
rabbit hole that. Might.
51:46
Be no tinfoil hat for what we're consuming overall.
51:51
I would rather not talk about food, especially after this
51:54
cookout gauntlet. I'm I'm abstaining from food
51:56
place for a week. But yeah, anyway, no the the
52:00
fences though you bring up a good point.
52:02
I'm all I'm all about the shorter fences for for things
52:05
like this. Profar was in the Little League
52:07
World Series, by the way. Sure.
52:09
Was for pure Sal yeah, catch of the year candidate man, I wish I
52:17
could play it on here but I'm not I.
52:19
Still, like the Denzel Clark one more more difficult.
52:23
Yeah, that's why. That's why I said candidate and
52:26
asked it more, presented it more as a question as opposed to a
52:29
statement. I vote Clark more, but yeah,
52:34
good good catch. Season saving for the Braves for
52:39
sure. Jabs.
52:48
Sorry, I got to take jabs where I can because I'm running out of
52:51
room there. Why is that?
52:55
Because my team is only going to be.
52:57
That's a that's a great Segway because that's actually what I
53:00
was going to bring up next. Do you have any thoughts, just
53:04
briefly, on the state of the Yankees right now because the
53:07
acquisitions that they made at the deadline have been booty
53:12
your your Hall of Fame closer can't even stay healthy at an
53:17
old timers game. He's out here tearing Achilles
53:20
like what's happening? What's?
53:21
Happening Cursed. I think it's officially cursed.
53:24
Aaron Boone got tossed again today.
53:26
Just not a curse is in place. So you guys have the curse now?
53:33
I think so. And I I it was brought to the to
53:37
the Nestor Cortez, Freddie Freeman tank in in the World
53:43
Series. It was switched off when he was
53:46
traded for Devin Williams and Devin Williams took the curse.
53:50
But yeah, I think it's there, dude, There's not there's I
53:57
don't know. I want to, I want to.
54:02
I don't know what I want to do, but I I don't know why I
54:05
continue to turn these games on. There's people, there are people
54:10
right now listening that absolutely hate you for being
54:13
like, well, I'm just my team's cooks.
54:16
I'm checking out. I can't watch another game.
54:18
Meanwhile, you guys are. Tied for the last place in the.
54:24
Wild six games back in the division, very much still in
54:28
play, and you hold the wild card spot the the audacity, the
54:34
audacity. The acquisitions were the fact
54:37
that I was excited that it like solidified the fact that Devin
54:41
Williams isn't being brought back at the end of the year
54:44
clearly had nothing to do with the lack of performance or
54:48
production. But it was the fact that like
54:49
they went and got controllable guys who are exciting, who I
54:53
think will be good and have been OK.
54:58
It was just a rough start to that era.
55:04
I don't know. Aaron Boone needs to get fired.
55:08
You said moving on Posada, Jorge Posada would be a dream.
55:14
Speaking of a dream, dream was achieved this weekend for A1
55:18
Gen. Powell, first female umpire to
55:21
work a regular season game in the major leagues.
55:26
I told you before we hopped on, I said, you know, given the
55:33
nature of of this occurrence, this event seemed very locked
55:38
in. Like.
55:40
All business you're seeing her on the on the field, seeing her
55:46
at the which by the way, we've talked about this before.
55:50
Credit to you. I think you've been of the two
55:52
of us. You've pushed this much more
55:54
stronger than I have. They had a naturally they had a
55:58
little bit of AI. Think it was a post game
56:00
presser. Maybe it was pre game.
56:01
I think it was post game for the umpires and they, you know,
56:06
they're congratulating or talking.
56:08
But I saw people in the comments being like this needs to be a
56:11
regular occurrence. We need to have them.
56:13
After garbage games of like 23 missed calls behind the plate,
56:17
like, yes, let's have that. Not just yeah.
56:24
All business, though, in the press, we're in the only field.
56:27
Probably good point is that I I'm curious to see the first
56:30
manager that gets in her face starts screaming at her.
56:33
Just I need to see that moment. I need to see what that what
56:36
that brings out of her it. You know, like I.
56:45
Look, let's just call a spade a spade.
56:47
Like this is a controversial thing and people like there's
56:50
people on both sides of people that are celebrating it and
56:52
people that are like, why is this a thing?
56:55
The reality of it is, is the way that society currently operates
57:04
is that there's presumably going to be instances where you're
57:08
going to have, I'm not going to say Aaron Boone, but as a guy
57:12
that gets ejected a lot, maybe more prone to it.
57:15
But you're going to have someone in a situation where they get
57:19
tossed and they're going to want to get up in the face of Jen.
57:23
And it's going to be, it's just going to be interesting to see
57:27
how that fallout happens because you're going to be, you're going
57:33
to have people being like, well, why are you yelling at a woman?
57:35
And then it's going to be, well, she's no different than anybody.
57:38
It's just going to be an interesting conversation.
57:40
That's all. That's just different in our
57:43
sport because like we obviously have seen female referees in
57:52
other sports. Our sport is very specifically
57:57
like there's opportunities to scream at the umpires routine
58:03
that like that's a part of our game more than it is a part of
58:08
other games. Then I'm not saying you don't
58:10
have football coaches yelling at refs or basketball coaches
58:12
yelling at refs because like absolutely you do.
58:16
But our managers get tossed because of yelling and what they
58:19
say. And it's specifically in the
58:21
rule book that you can't argue certain things and that will
58:25
cause you to get tossed. And there are the the the words
58:29
in particular that get you automatically tossed if there
58:33
there is a short list of words that you cannot say if you want
58:37
to stick around. So it's going to be interesting.
58:40
It's going to be interesting to see, I think like, yeah, moving
58:52
on, I guess. So you got to, we got
58:54
politically correct things that we got to stick to.
58:56
So I, I'm not for it. I'm not against it.
58:59
I just, I'm all about the best people at their job having that
59:02
job. And I'm sure she's good at her
59:05
job. Yeah, which goes back, goes back
59:07
to what I was saying. Seems like she's all business,
59:09
you know, you got plenty people, you know, vouching for the work
59:13
she's put in. So, you know, respect, respect
59:15
for, for the history that's been made.
59:21
I guess all really got nothing, nothing to to noteworthy to to
59:27
really tack on here unless you got anything else.
59:36
No, I don't think I'm all good. Cheers.
59:42
Anything we need to promote? Did we?
59:43
Did we settle on when the next when the next score keeping is
59:50
going to be? Just to give people learning how
59:53
to keep book, just to give people an idea when that might
59:56
be. If we haven't, it's fine, but I
59:58
didn't know if we'd settled on something.
1:00:00
We're between two dates. We're.
1:00:03
Between I think the Little League Classic, Speaking of
1:00:06
Little League, I think we're we're siding between that and.
1:00:10
Mets Mariners, which like, I don't.
1:00:12
The only thing is that we've had every.
1:00:14
It's been a Mets game seemingly every freaking time.
1:00:17
Every. Time.
1:00:19
That's the only reason I'm hesitating on that one.
1:00:22
So it would either be that or the 24th, which is soxy Yankees
1:00:29
funny enough, so we'll let you know which.
1:00:33
I don't know if I have the heart.
1:00:35
My God, stop you. You're literally in the
1:00:39
postseason today. Stop with the like I.
1:00:46
You're kidding. You think that I mean?
1:00:50
On paper, you are in the playoff and you're acting as if your
1:00:54
team is 20 games back. Might as well be.
1:00:58
Might as well be. People, they're people that
1:01:03
cannot stand the the, the pity party that you're throwing.
1:01:07
Around I'm not throwing a pity party.
1:01:08
I'm you are absolutely. I don't know if I can sit there
1:01:12
and I and and actually talk crap with you for four hours while we
1:01:18
keep book because I hate my team.
1:01:20
I don't need a pity party. Is there every time you don't
1:01:24
hate your team? Because if I remember, I feel
1:01:26
like you hated them when they were in the World Series last
1:01:29
year. Like I don't this team doesn't
1:01:30
deserve to be here. Like is there?
1:01:33
No, I was hyped beginning of the year.
1:01:36
I was hyped after the deadline. This team's better than last
1:01:39
year. Somehow we're worse.
1:01:40
I don't. I don't know what else to do.
1:01:44
Any who's? Football.
1:01:45
Fantasy football. Yeah, we'll, we'll keep we'll,
1:01:49
we'll we'll keep talking about it.
1:01:51
We'll figure out a date for our next score keeping for those
1:01:53
that want to join us. That's always that's always a
1:01:56
blast. I I, as I've said before, I
1:01:59
thoroughly enjoy doing those. So keep an eye out for for when
1:02:02
that gets decided. I'm going to make it a personal
1:02:07
mission to work on getting some new merch on the shot.
1:02:13
I full full the full acknowledgement here, full
1:02:19
accountability. I have really dropped the ball
1:02:22
on promoting that. So I need to I need to get back
1:02:26
in the lab, especially with it was some new some new artwork,
1:02:30
maybe incorporate some new some new things.
1:02:34
As you can see here on the stream.
1:02:35
If you're watching or if you're listening on your podcast that
1:02:38
you'll probably see our our updated artwork worth just our
1:02:41
our beautiful faces from our from our looking.
1:02:45
Mugs right there. From our shoot in Atlanta.
1:02:48
So who knows, maybe, maybe get some, maybe that'll serve as
1:02:51
some inspiration to get some new merch up on the shop.
1:02:56
Other than that, though, should be everything.
1:02:59
We'll see you guys. What's today, Sunday?
1:03:00
We'll see you guys Wednesday. Does Wednesday work for you?
1:03:05
I think Wednesday works for me. We'll talk.
1:03:12
Tentatively, Wednesday, maybe Thursday, we'll we'll let you
1:03:16
know. We'll talk.
1:03:18
This is the reality of not doing this full time.
1:03:22
Yet adults, man, adults. Whether your friends do it,
1:03:30
whether your favorite players do it, whether your favorite teams
1:03:34
do it, Whether your least favorite teams do it, you don't
1:03:40
do it. Don't go chasing curbles.
1:03:43
We love you all, is always looking forward to talking more
1:03:45
baseball with you guys soon. Until next time, stay filthy.