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AL Cy Young Race · The 3-0 Take

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  Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to the Three O Tape 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 Tape
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  presented by A SeatGeek. This is episode 464.
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  I'll be your host, Kyle Corwin, and I'm here with my Co host
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  Nate Reyes. Nate, hello.
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  Just going to, I'm just going to get this out of the way, give my
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  Amanda a round of applause here. I'm proud of you.
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  That's a good dub. I'm not.
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  I'm not going to sit here and and and whine about my team
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  laying an egg because I don't think it would have mattered.
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  Your team put up some crazy numbers in fantasy these last
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  two weeks. So you're going to end at what,
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  660 averaging 330 points per. I mean, that's big.
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  That's, that's, that's a big time performance.
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  So I'm not even going to sit here and say I lost.
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  I, I think it's because you just outright beat me.
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  This wasn't just because my team laid an egg.
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  So Congrats, Sir. Good luck in the ship.
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  And I mentioned this in the group chat.
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  My, my attention is now shifted to to fantasy football.
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  That's when I say now it's probably been the last week or
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  so. It was.
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  It was ugly quick. It got ugly quick.
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  I appreciate it. Thank you.
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  I I wasn't even going to say anything unless you brought it
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  up. No, it was, it was a good, good
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  fought match up. I've accepted my fate for the
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  last. I mean, it's, it's a slow death,
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  but it feels, it feels better this way, I think, especially
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  coming into a recording. I mean, we had like a week last
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  two week matchups in the play in the in the playoffs of the three
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  O take fantasy league. And when I saw you, you had
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  Freddy Freeman on the bench with like a week left.
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  I was like, he's checked out. Well, what's pissing me off is
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  that they've been going day-to-day with him, like, and
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  then he would like randomly be written in the lineup after my
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  infielder was already played a morning game.
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  And I'm like, all right, well, if this is how it's going to go
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  and George Kirby, you're dead to me.
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  I will never speak anything positive about you ever again.
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  That's it. That's all I got.
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  Or or find yourself on Nate's fantasy team.
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  Ever, ever again. Yeah, it was.
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  It's a good fight, good battle. But on to the championship.
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  And I'm going to try for my first ever crown in fantasy
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  baseball. Have yet to win.
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  We've been doing this league for some time now.
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  Have yet to win. So this this might be my shot.
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  This might be my only my only chance.
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  Need it? We'll see.
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  Need it. We'll see.
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  Speaking of the crane, Yeah, maybe like that.
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  Like that. Thank you.
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  Thank you. Speaking of the crown, there's a
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  particular pitcher who is in pursuit of the Triple Crown, and
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  he's also in the middle or might even say wrapping up the
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  American League Cy Young race. There's some names in the mix,
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  but I think I think it's safe to say this individual is leading
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  the way. But there has been a a massive
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  swell as of late for what I believe will be the candidate
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  that's going to give him the best, the best run for his
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  money. And we are talking about Tariq
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  Scubble. Terek, Terek.
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  Scubble I knew I'd do that and. I like Tariq more personally.
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  I mean, if I'm, if I'm Terek Scubble, I'm honestly, I'm kind
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  of going Tariq, if I'm being honest with you.
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  Yeah, Terek Scubble and Emmanuel Class A.
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  It seems as though Corbin Burns has has, has fallen from grace.
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  I don't know if he's necessarily in the hunt.
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  It's been a a brutal, brutal might be a little strong, but
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  it's been a somewhat ugly month as of as of today.
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  So as it stands right now, I think it's between Tarek Schuble
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  and Emmanuel Class A are are what do you think, Nate?
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  Are we given the are we given the nod to the starter?
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  Are we given the nod to the closer, both of whom have been
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  completely dominant in their respective roles?
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  I mean, Emmanuel class AI don't know if you've seen he has an
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  ERA plus of 589 as of right now. I don't even know what that
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  means. Like I I don't know.
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  I don't even know logically how to make how I can make sense of
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  an ERA plus of 589. I didn't one I didn't know that
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  was possible too. Don't quite know how he even
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  achieved that mark. But here we are 7 whip.
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  That's different dude. Running through some numbers
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  here, entering entering September, Terry Skubal has made
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  27 starts, 168 and a third and in T16 and four leads all of
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  baseball with sixteen wins I believe, right?
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  No, the American League or all of baseball.
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  All of baseball I'm. Going to say all of baseball.
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  I think it's all baseball. Not that it was a barometer
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  anymore. Not that it matters what when it
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  comes to the Triple Crown, ERA of a 251 and ERA plus A166 leads
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  all of baseball and strikeouts and has AK percentage of 30.3 as
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  well as a WAR of 5.8. So as I mentioned, leads all
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  baseball 16 wins. Leads all a baseball with an ERA
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  of 251. Leads all a baseball with 201
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  strikeouts. And he'll probably have, what,
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  four more starts, right? Yeah, he made his start on
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  Saturday. Went 8 innings, allowed four
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  hits, 1 earned run, zero walks and eight clay. 8K's an absolute
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  master classroom from school. 3232 starts as a full is a full
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  year, right? That's a heck of that's a heck
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  of a campaign right there. I think.
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  With what he's been able to do and and how he's been able to
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  maintain it. Yeah, those are, those are
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  important numbers for me. I, I think health is, is a big
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  factor and especially in today's game on the mound.
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  So I, I, I, I'm giving edge there.
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  I love that we're over. We're north of 200 strikeouts.
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  That's, you know, that's rare nowadays.
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  And we're going to again, get in that 200 inning range, which I
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  can appreciate as well. After, after four or five more
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  starts, I think he'll be pretty close.
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  That to me is impressive. That's me is very impressive.
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  I love what Class A is doing. Don't get me wrong.
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  I love what's happening over there.
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  I I can we can we just is there a, is there a reliever award?
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  There is a reliever award. I mean, it used to be, wasn't
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  it? Or no, that was still a Pigeon
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  award. It was the Rolaids.
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  I was going to say, was that for?
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  Specific. It was a Rolaids reliever.
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  Yeah. Can we?
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  Relief Rolaids Relief Man Award. Can we name, can we name that
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  after MO? Can we just name AI mean we we
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  like naming awards after guys. Cy Young is after a guy, Hank
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  Aaron. Roll A, the Roll A's Relief Man
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  Award, was an annual MLB award given from 1976 to 2012 to the
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  top relief pitchers of the regular season.
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  Does it say what it's called now?
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  Do they just stop doing it? That's really weird.
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  Well, I do. I do know that we've like
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  started to get into the the football model, like first team,
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  all pro kind of thing. I got you, which I do like by
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  the way. I'm a fan of that.
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  According to Wikipedia, the greatest source of information
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  and the most accurate source of information that you can find on
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  the Internet. In 2013, Sanofi acquired Roll
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  AIDS from Johnson and Johnson. So Rollins is dead, is what
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  you're saying? McNeil Consumer Healthcare and
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  the award was cancelled. So we just got rid of the award
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  because we lost the sponsor. That's what you're telling.
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  Money talks, baby, Money talks. That's crazy.
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  All right, let's get a Let's get a Let's get a MO award going for
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  the relievers. All right, let me.
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  Speaking of, Speaking of reliever, Speaking of MO,
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  Speaking of, well, we haven't mentioned his name yet, but a
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  guy that comes to mind for me is Edgar Martinez.
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  It's to me, it's a similar, it's a similar conversation because I
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  I instinctively want to jump the gun here and say look at the
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  body work that Tarek School has been been putting forth this
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  year. How do you not give it to a guy
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  that's out there every fifth day notching 678?
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  I don't know, sometimes 9 innings, Yeah.
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  How do you not give the how do you not give the Sai Young to
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  that guy? But it goes back to the
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  conversation that that you and I had when Edgar Edgar Martinez
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  was on the cusp of or he was on the brink.
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  I would say possibly there's a threat that he wouldn't make the
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  Hall of Fame. I guess, given the nature of his
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  position and the conversation that took place between us as
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  well as a lot of other people is it's part of the game.
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  Like how, how do you punish the guy for succeeding and and and
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  thriving in a position that is a part of the game and that is an
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  institution of the game? Sure.
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  It's not Class A's fault that the that the closer role exists.
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  He just fits into that role, does it very, very well and puts
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  up numbers, like I said, that don't even make sense.
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  He has an ERA plus a 589. How'd that make sense?
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  Don't even know. He just recorded his 40th save
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  of the season over the weekend, which also gave him the career
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  franchise record for Cleveland, 149.
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  And I think he's only what, like 26?
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  So it just. Speaks 3rd, 3rd consecutive 40
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  save season. I mean that that's stupid.
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  Have you seen the comps by the way between him and MO?
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  Like at this point in his career.
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  At this point of his career and, and if you just look at if you
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  compare career rates and I know it's different, MO's longevity
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  far exceeds what class. A19 years is yeah, it's stupid,
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  but. Yeah, like his, I think his
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  strikeout at, at this stage, his strikeout rate is higher, his
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  walk rate is lower. There was a couple other metrics
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  there that I think Class A has the current edge over Mariano.
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  Just just for a frame of reference for Mariano cracked 40
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  saves 9 times in his career and two of those seasons went over
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  50 saves. So it's just that's what that's
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  what the best ever at that position means.
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  And he's on his way. Like he's he's trending.
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  Like what can you say Class A is trending?
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  And not to discredit anything Mariano's done, but we have to
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  remember class AS has a whole month of baseball left and he's
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  pitching. He's pitching for a team that's
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  currently in the hunt and giving him opportunities to get these
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  saves and to put up these numbers and to and to add to
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  this body of work that again, mathematically just doesn't seem
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  to make sense. Like that's the kind of season
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  we're looking at for Class A. But on the flip side.
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  It's it's just hard. Yeah, yeah, it's really hard for
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  me to go go away from that and more so this year than like any
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  other year, you know what I mean?
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  I I just love like you, you putting your foot on the ground
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  and saying like I'm showing up every day this year, I'm making
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  every start. It's just as important when we
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  see when we see shortstops playing, you know, 155 plus
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  games, like that's a big deal nowadays.
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  It shouldn't be, but it is. And especially with what we've
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  seen like with the arm injuries and for him to do this and not
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  just show up every day, but also being dominant.
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  And I think if you were to ask majority of the of the names and
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  the majority of the hitters across the league, they would
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  probably say it's Google's the toughest AB right now.
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  And it's no knock against Class A, but let's face it, a save is
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  is typically just three outs. You know what I mean?
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  Well, well, I mean, let's not, let's not discredit the I'm not
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  even. Going to tear him down, but like
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  that's the argument like you, what we're having to do is value
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  a starting pitcher versus a closer like that's.
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  No, I yeah, I agree. You know what I mean?
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  I agree but like just to say it's 3 outs like it.
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  It's widely accepted that the last three outs are the toughest
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  in the game to get and I think you and I would both agree
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  there. But to to the people that are
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  are trying to state their case for scuba by just saying, well,
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  we don't care about your guy that comes out and faces three
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  batters every few nights. It's like, well.
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  He's throwing more often. I mean, I get that there's pros
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  and cons each one, you know what I mean?
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  There's there's arguments for each side.
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  I just, I think it's, I think it's a lot it, it holds a lot
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  more water in my mind as a starter specifically this year.
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  I mean, the fact of the matter is, is, is that they're both.
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  I mean, I think we can, we can all agree that the awards are
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  influenced heavily by recency bias.
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  What have you done for me lately?
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  What have you done for me down the stretch?
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  This is true too. I mean, we're talking about that
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  with, with the, the National League Rookie of the Year
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  conversation with, with what Jackson Merrill's been doing and
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  how he's just seemingly vaulted his way up the, the, the
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  leaderboard there. They're both showing up right
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  now. Like Class A has just been
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  lights out scuba. I mean, just looking at his last
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  last five games, So going back roughly a month. 7 innings, 2
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  earned runs, 9K6 innings, 1 earned run, 9K6 innings, 1
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  earned run, 5 KS. 5 innings, 3 earned runs, eight KS.
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  And then, as I mentioned over the weekend against the Red Sox,
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  8 innings, 1 earned run, 8 KS. Yeah, see, like that one, that
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  15 inning start with three earned runs and eight KS is kind
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  of a clunker for his standard, which is nuts because that's
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  still is that's still a quality start, right, No 6.
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  Yeah, I got to go 6. But the fact that he's putting
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  up 8 KS over 5 innings, I mean, they are both showing up and
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  they're both, they're making it impossible for that to be a
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  factor, for that to be a part of the conversation.
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  It's like, OK, well, who's they're both having great years,
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  but who's who's who's shown up lately?
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  They both have. And the fact that the guard, as
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  I mentioned, the fact that the Guardians are, are playing the
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  way that they've been playing all year, the fact that Klase is
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  certainly been a part of their success, a huge reason for that.
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  It it's, it really just comes down to the conversation of
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  starter versus closer because the numbers, respectively, are
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  top of the game. Yeah, both league leading in
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  their categories. It's just, it's really hard to
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  compare those two. And that's what I'm saying is
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  that like I, I think we need like a reliever award.
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  I I think it needs to hold just as much weight as a Cy Young
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  like not that the Rolaids are out.
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  Like can we create a new award without a sponsorship in in make
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  it mean something, because this this season should mean
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  something for Class A not winning the Cy Young potentially
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  should shouldn't be awardless season.
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  In my mind, dominant fun to watch and just I'm he's must see
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  TV in the in the postseason. It's going to be you're going to
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  be glued. It's already, you know, the back
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  end of a ball game. But goodness, dude.
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  I know they say, I know they say pitching wins championships, and
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  I would, I would tend to agree. But there's something especially
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  sweet about a team having an established closer in the
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  postseason. Yeah, and having him come in to
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  lock down your ball games without a question of who it
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  might be that comes through that door.
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  Right. Like it's just get to that, get
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  to that, you know what I'm saying?
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  Like that's your goal. You're up by three or less.
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  You're in the 9th inning of a postseason game.
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  You know a manual Class A is coming into the game.
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  And say what you will about flexibility closer by committee,
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  the fact that the Guardians have a manual Class A to look at and
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  to and to rely on that that's worth its weight in gold.
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  You, you you can't, you can't beat that feeling or that
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  security in the postseason. Like you may, yeah, if you got
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  some big, you got some big boppers, they may, they may lean
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  into a couple in a given, in a given series.
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  But to know that you have that guy, to your point, Nate, just
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  get to that guy and it's it's lights out.
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  It's game over that I mean. I mean, it's, it's to the point
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  where now you're you're playing AN8AN88IN game.
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  If you're the other team, you only have 8 innings, you know
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  what I'm saying? And but you talk about how how
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  well they've pitched across the board, across the roster.
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  Like if you can turn this, if you can turn a postseason game
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  into a six or seven inning game realistically with dominance on
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  the back end. This is what I was talking
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  about, dude. Like the Guardians make me
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  nervous. If you're a fan of an AL team
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  and you're in the postseason hunt, you should be nervous
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  about the Cleveland Guardians because now they're swinging it
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  and everything we've seen the last few years has just been
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  pitching and then they get to the postseason.
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  The bats don't show up. Now they're swinging it and
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  they're like really swinging it. It's not just hanging middle of
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  the pack. They got dudes that are leading
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  leagues so look out. You still going school though?
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  I still got to go school. I still got to go if you get me,
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  if you get me 200 innings and 200 strikeouts in an ERA under
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  three, that to me is pretty much the blueprint to a Cy Young year
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  last time. At this rate, he may get to 250
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  strikeouts. It's very possible, but the last
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  thing I'll say on it, I, I, I think it's not I, I don't want
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  to call it an unfair advantage, but I think the thing that
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  school has working for him is the expectation was there at the
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  start of the season, people were, were were putting him.
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  Also, that was my preseason pitch, so I got to, I got to
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  keep riding that. Exactly, but it's like you and
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  and other people as well. We're already putting him in
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  that conversation to to my confusion.
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  I I, I go back to what I said it.
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  I just feel like he kind of came up out of nowhere in the in the
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  sight on conversation, specifically ahead of the 2024
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  season. I was like, I mean, he's
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  throwing it well, but like, are we really going to just catapult
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  him to the, to the forefront or, you know, near the front of that
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  conversation and he's lived up to it.
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  So the fact that he was already, he was already in the
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  conversation before the year even started and he's been able
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  to ride that out and and perform to that level to that
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  expectation, I feel like only furthers his case.
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  I mean, not that not that we need to take pre season
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  predictions in the into account or or pre season awards into
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  account, but the fact that he's been able to do what he's done
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  under these expectations has been impressive.
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  So yeah, I would probably have to go school as well.
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  As dominant as Class A has been, and not to discredit his role as
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  a closer because I think as much as baseball wants to change the
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  the way they value certain roles when it comes to pitching, I
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  still think having as an established lockdown closer is
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  invaluable. However, I think what Scuba has
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  been able to do over the course of an entire season, staying
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  consistently healthy and putting together the body work that he's
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  done is is extremely impressive and his kept the Tigers in the
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  conversation. I mean he's almost accounted for
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  1/4 of their wins this season. Yeah, well, let me ask you this.
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  If he does stumble, if we throw two or three more clunkers into
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  this and Class A gets so gets north of 45 saves and keeps
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  doing what he's been doing, I think it's AI think it's a more
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  difficult conversation. I mean, I think it's a difficult
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  conversation now. I think you're right.
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  I think it gets more difficult. But I think, I think if it pans
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  out that way, if Scooble, who if Scooble slides in September and
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  and Class A continues to to light it up.
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  Because you made a good you made a good argument at the beginning
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  is that like the guardians are still very much in it and the
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  tigers are definitely fading. So it's.
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  Still in it technically, but. They're they're just running out
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  of days on the calendar and the Guardians are going to continue
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  to have those opportunities. Class A is going to continue to
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  have those opportunities. It's going to be interesting.
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  You know who's not going to have those opportunities?
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  Who? Chicago White Sox.
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  Oh man, wrapped up, wrapped up the weekend.
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  Well, not technically. If you want to count Monday as
• 23:21
  the weekend, Shout out, Labor Day, shout out, big day, shout
• 23:25
  out. Americans wanting a a a well
• 23:27
  earned day off from from their labor.
• 23:29
  Big day wrapped up the traditional weekend.
• 23:34
  We'll call it setting their franchise record in losses.
• 23:39
  They currently sit at 31 and 107.
• 23:44
  They broke the the record, the franchise record that was set
• 23:48
  back in 1970 when they lost 106. Don't forget, though, if you're
• 23:58
  wondering like how bad can this White Sox team possibly be, we
• 24:04
  still have a whole month left. Yeah.
• 24:06
  They're currently on pace. I got I got some I got some
• 24:08
  Nuggets here for you. They are on pace.
• 24:16
  Let's see, on pace for 36. This is this is according to the
• 24:20
  Bennett Kay on Twitter. White Sox are now 31 and 107,
• 24:23
  which is a win percentage of 225.
• 24:26
  They're now on pace for 36.39 wins.
• 24:30
  They are OK. So if they go 8 and 16 to finish
• 24:35
  out the season, that'll be a winning percentage of 333, which
• 24:39
  will give them the fewest wins in the MLB expansion era, which
• 24:42
  is from 1961 on. Come on, need it.
• 24:46
  If they go 9 and 15, that will give them the worst winning
• 24:51
  percentage in the expand in OK, yeah, I'm sorry, 8 and 16,
• 24:57
  that'll give them the fewest wins in the in the expansion
• 25:00
  era. And if they go 9 and 15, that
• 25:02
  will give them the worst winning percentage in the expansion era.
• 25:05
  And if they go 11 and 13, that would be the worst record in the
• 25:09
  21st century. Yeah.
• 25:12
  So we really, I mean, let's just keep it under 40 wins, you know,
• 25:19
  just for a nice number that's like a nice target, let's just
• 25:23
  keep that under 40 dubs. That sounds backwards.
• 25:27
  It does sound backwards. Now that I look at.
• 25:28
  That I didn't want to stop you, but it did sound bad.
• 25:30
  The Bennett K what are you doing to me here?
• 25:32
  I, I I I assume that this was valid information, but the the.
• 25:36
  I would have all of those. Yeah, what are we doing?
• 25:40
  If they went 11 and 13, that would give them the fewest wins.
• 25:45
  Yeah, see, I I feel like that's the stat for the.
• 25:47
  Now I'm yeah, now that I'm flipping it.
• 25:50
  You're discrediting this tweet. Is that what you're saying?
• 25:52
  Well, it's it's raising some questions now down.
• 25:56
  Under the bus if you go if you go. 11 and 13, how does that
• 26:00
  give you the worst record in the 21st century?
• 26:02
  But if you go 8 and 16, how is that not the worst record in the
• 26:09
  21st century? I think it is on top of also
• 26:15
  being the the least wins and whatever.
• 26:18
  I don't know, I'm over it. Like I said, let's just stay
• 26:21
  under 40 dubs. That's what we're rooting for.
• 26:24
  Well, Speaking of 40, according to Scott Merck and Scott,
• 26:26
  hopefully you don't let me down here, the White Sox have lost
• 26:29
  forty of their last 44 games. They're the second team in the
• 26:32
  modern era to have a stretch of 40 losses over 44 games span in
• 26:35
  a single season, along with the. What year?
• 26:46
  1916 you're not going to guess it, the 1916 A's who lost 41 of
• 26:53
  44 Speaking of the. Philadelphia A's.
• 26:55
  Yes, yes, if you Speaking of the A's, if you're curious about how
• 26:59
  this team stacks up against last year's worst Seaman baseball,
• 27:03
  the Oakland A's, the 2023 Oakland A's, they finish at 50
• 27:06
  and 112. And as I mentioned, the the this
• 27:10
  current White Sox team is on pace for, call it, 36 wins.
• 27:15
  I need it. I need it. 100 / 120 losses is
• 27:21
  absurd. They've been shut out 15 times,
• 27:24
  they've been swept 22 times and they've blown 51 leads.
• 27:28
  They own the three longest losing streaks in Major League
• 27:31
  Baseball this year. They've been swept socked 22
• 27:35
  times. They've been swept 22 times.
• 27:40
  That's got to be a record 22 sweeps.
• 27:45
  I'm, I'm at the point now where I think that everything they do
• 27:47
  is a record. Damn.
• 27:49
  Not a good record. Not a good record.
• 27:51
  What's Grady doing? This is not on Grady.
• 27:56
  This is no. I'm saying what was he doing
• 27:58
  saying yes to this job? Oh yeah, I mean.
• 28:02
  If I would have said yes to this.
• 28:04
  I mean, if you're, if you're working like what did we say?
• 28:07
  He was working like a 15 an hour, $15.00 an hour job.
• 28:11
  If, if a MLB managerial position opens up, even if it's a, even
• 28:15
  if it's a temporary tag, I might take this, although it is the
• 28:19
  White Sox. I don't know.
• 28:20
  That's tough. That's really tough.
• 28:25
  They are. Oh, how many games back are
• 28:28
  they, you ask? They're 39 games back of 4th
• 28:31
  place. So they're more games back than
• 28:35
  they have wins. They're more games back of 4th
• 28:39
  place than they have wins. Let that sink in.
• 28:46
  Wow, wow, my goodness. Of The Who of the the Tigers?
• 28:54
  The Tigers. That's what I was going to say.
• 28:57
  But shout out the American League Central, though.
• 28:59
  We just got done talking about how the Tigers are still
• 29:02
  technically not dead. Yeah, and they're in fourth
• 29:05
  place in that division, so shout out the Tigers, I guess.
• 29:08
  Shout out to Central for sure. Much better baseball this year I
• 29:13
  put out. I put out a tweet like a week or
• 29:15
  two ago and I was listing out predictable headlines that you
• 29:21
  could have seen coming at the start of the year.
• 29:23
  I think I think this is one of them.
• 29:25
  I think the central improving quality wise as a whole was, was
• 29:30
  certainly predictable sans the White Sox.
• 29:33
  I I think we can exclude them from this conversation, but the
• 29:36
  other four teams, that division, they're playing, playing high
• 29:40
  quality ball right now and I like it.
• 29:42
  You know my stance. Get them out of Chicago.
• 29:48
  Burn it down. Start over.
• 29:53
  They're currently riding I I just love all the the numbers
• 29:55
  associated with this team right now.
• 29:57
  They're currently riding A10 game losing streak.
• 29:59
  They've got a -291 run differential.
• 30:02
  I I will give it to them. They're consistent with their
• 30:04
  losses, 54 at home, 53 on the road.
• 30:11
  But I think it if you were to take away one thing from this
• 30:14
  segment here, it's that as we said, more games back of 4th
• 30:20
  place then they have wins. That's so tough.
• 30:28
  That's that's disgusting. Get the the 2024 Chicago White
• 30:34
  Sox should be the inspiration and and the the organization,
• 30:40
  the example needed to implement relegation in baseball.
• 30:45
  Like can we get the Durham Bulls up here or something?
• 30:47
  Can we get like the, can we get the I, I, I don't know the, the,
• 30:55
  the Portland Sea Dogs up here? 47 1/2 games back.
• 31:00
  It's somebody up here the the White Sox are are.
• 31:04
  Do you know the do do do you know the A's run differential
• 31:06
  last year? You know what that was?
• 31:08
  Probably a lot better. Are you asking me or do you
• 31:12
  know? I don't know, they're at -291.
• 31:16
  White Sox this year? What did I say?
• 31:20
  You said 291. Yeah.
• 31:22
  Last year the whites. Oh, Yikes.
• 31:23
  The the A's were negative 339 last year, but they finished
• 31:28
  5112 so they made do with what they had.
• 31:31
  There's another month they're they'll get there.
• 31:33
  They'll get there. Last 10.
• 31:35
  Oh, and 10. They're such garbage.
• 31:40
  Get get them, drop them down a couple levels, get the get the
• 31:44
  sea dogs up here. They've had the little E next to
• 31:47
  their name in standings for like 2 weeks now.
• 31:51
  Yeah, sometime, sometime. Out of Chicago.
• 31:58
  Let's talk Clayton Kershaw here, Clayton to the 15 day IL And
• 32:04
  look, I'm just going to go ahead and get it out of the way.
• 32:07
  I had I had a lot of people coming at me for my post
• 32:10
  following the the injury that he suffered in Arizona this
• 32:15
  weekend. I wasn't watching the game
• 32:19
  necessarily at the at that given moment.
• 32:21
  I have been watching Dodgers D backs this weekend, but I wasn't
• 32:24
  watching the game at that moment when he suffered this injury.
• 32:27
  I can't watch. Yeah.
• 32:29
  That's that's tough. Yeah.
• 32:32
  I feel bad for you man. That's so.
• 32:33
  It's so dumb. Like, get it?
• 32:35
  Get this. Like at least with the, with
• 32:37
  with the Orioles and the Nationals, I can watch on
• 32:39
  Masson. Like if they're if, if Boston's
• 32:41
  in town it's blacked out, I can at least pull it up on Mass and
• 32:44
  watch it that way. But for like if you have a
• 32:47
  situation where you don't have a a cable connection or you don't
• 32:50
  have your parents. There's no way to watch log in.
• 32:53
  The Diamondbacks don't have a cable network right now.
• 32:56
  There you go. That's that's rough.
• 33:00
  It's crazy. Yeah, that whatever.
• 33:03
  We don't need to pull up that thread.
• 33:07
  But yeah, I wasn't watching at the moment, but all I see is
• 33:10
  people freaking out. Oh, this is is this the end of
• 33:14
  the Hall of Famer's career? This was the and I saw like
• 33:16
  other tweets, this was the last, the last time we're ever going
• 33:20
  to see Clayton Kershaw on a Major League mound.
• 33:23
  And I'm going, Oh my God, what happened?
• 33:24
  Like, did he did he get shot? Was there a a sniper in the
• 33:27
  crowd? So I put out the post with the
• 33:31
  injury. Like I said, I'm just going to
• 33:35
  go ahead and get out in front of it here.
• 33:36
  I should have done a little more digging around.
• 33:38
  I should have looked into his reaction afterwards.
• 33:40
  I pulled up the video. It looked painful, whatever it
• 33:43
  was, But I just put out the post with somebody's tweet
• 33:49
  superimposed over a picture of Kershaw walking off the field.
• 33:52
  And I was like, have we seen the last of Clayton Kershaw?
• 33:54
  And all these people go, no, overreaction.
• 33:57
  Hardly not the case, buddy. Watch some baseball.
• 34:01
  It's like, it was just a question.
• 34:03
  Like, have we seen it? Is this it?
• 34:05
  Like, I don't know. I don't know what this means for
• 34:06
  Kershaw. Maybe, maybe a bone spur in his
• 34:09
  in his big toe is what sets him over the edge.
• 34:11
  Maybe we have seen the end of Clayton Kershaw.
• 34:14
  It's like, you know what? Yeah, maybe.
• 34:16
  Maybe he looks at it and it's like, I don't want to do this
• 34:18
  anymore. I'm done.
• 34:19
  And then these people coming at me in the comments are going to
• 34:21
  look like idiots. Well, it's the Dodger fans.
• 34:24
  They already except Murray Fresh after a Ding Dong too.
• 34:31
  It was like right after. Corbin Carroll, I saw people
• 34:34
  saying like, did Corbin Carroll just send Clayton Kershaw into
• 34:36
  retirement? I'm like, come on now.
• 34:39
  But you you just have to assume when this, when something like
• 34:42
  this happens, it's it's something with the, it's
• 34:44
  something with the shoulder, something with the elbow,
• 34:46
  something with the back, the. Back is the normal one, yeah.
• 34:49
  Kershaw just doesn't have a good history when it comes to these
• 34:54
  kinds of things. So when you see oh, Kershaw was
• 34:56
  pulled prematurely from the game after Home Run.
• 34:59
  Dodger fans are weird because like I feel like they can talk a
• 35:02
  lot of noise against Kershaw, but they don't let other fan,
• 35:08
  like other fans from other fan bases talk.
• 35:11
  You notice that I but yeah, I. Respect it though.
• 35:14
  It's like we're going to Boo our guy, but only we're allowed to
• 35:16
  Boo our guy. I, I get that there's like a
• 35:19
  protective nature there. I I.
• 35:21
  Get that we're the same way about like Clay Holmes.
• 35:24
  Like, yeah, 100% feel that. Don't talk to you.
• 35:27
  Can't say bad things, but I can't.
• 35:29
  Yeah, like, yeah, that's fair. I.
• 35:31
  Guess I can talk about how the Red Sox defense at at times this
• 35:34
  year has been the worst in baseball.
• 35:36
  But only, only, only we're allowed to say that.
• 35:38
  You can't. You can't run your mouth about
• 35:41
  sure about our defense because then I'm going to talk about how
• 35:43
  we have one of the best offenses in baseball and just shove it
• 35:45
  right back down your throat anyway.
• 35:47
  It's not about Red Sox or Yankees.
• 35:50
  Here's what I will say, though, is that the Dodgers, their
• 35:52
  Dodgers have expanded the lead a little bit.
• 35:55
  They have kind of gave themselves a little bit more of
• 35:58
  a cushion. It's up to five now in the
• 36:00
  division. So I think 5, right?
• 36:06
  D backs. D backs smoked them today,
• 36:08
  didn't they? I was watching that game.
• 36:10
  I didn't see what it what it finished up.
• 36:12
  Yeah, the five, five game lead. Score wise.
• 36:15
  Five game lead in a month. I mean, that's that ain't easy,
• 36:21
  so. Oh yeah, Yikes.
• 36:25
  Steve backs put up 14 on them today, but that's after dropping
• 36:28
  the first two of the series. So you said it's a five.
• 36:31
  Yeah, yeah, a little bit of a cushion.
• 36:33
  They still got one more on on on Monday or today if you're
• 36:36
  listening on Monday. Yeah.
• 36:38
  So that'll be interesting. I don't know how much of an
• 36:42
  impact this has on the the Dodgers at this point.
• 36:44
  I think this series has has helped them.
• 36:46
  Like you said, it's kind of and we'll see what happens in in
• 36:49
  Game 4, but taking the first two games of the series to start
• 36:54
  things off certainly helps. It takes a little bit of
• 36:56
  pressure on you, needing to shore up your pitching
• 37:00
  immediately right away to fend off the rest of the division,
• 37:05
  but. They're calling anybody up.
• 37:07
  I haven't really paid attention to much.
• 37:09
  There was a course. Obviously there's obviously what
• 37:12
  I mean was September call up specifically wonder if they're
• 37:16
  calling anybody, but there's not a limitation on September call
• 37:21
  UPS, right? It's I think it dropped down and
• 37:24
  like 1. Did it drop down a guy?
• 37:27
  One number, yeah. It's possible, but it's the
• 37:32
  same, it's the same issue for for the Dodgers.
• 37:34
  You you just need to shore up your pitching, especially giving
• 37:39
  how how the OR given the health of it over the course of this
• 37:43
  year, how that's gone. And you need to figure out AI
• 37:48
  don't want to call it a Plan B, but you need to figure out a a
• 37:53
  an approach to handle the starts that Clayton Kershaw used to
• 37:58
  take in the postseason because we can talk about it till we're
• 38:04
  blowing. You're lucky.
• 38:05
  To get 4 innings out of them now.
• 38:07
  That's what I'm saying. So like, let's just.
• 38:10
  Yeah. Let's let's figure something
• 38:12
  else out because this isn't it. And, and I with it, with this
• 38:15
  injury and him missing more time after already missing the
• 38:18
  majority of the season, I, I don't really know what Clayton
• 38:22
  Kershaw is going to provide you at this stage to finish out the
• 38:25
  year or to finish out the postseason.
• 38:29
  The other thing I I heard and I had a Co worker say this shout
• 38:34
  out. Well, former Co worker now shout
• 38:36
  out Troy though. But my buddy Troy, he said that
• 38:40
  because he's a Cowboys fan and he said that the Yankees and the
• 38:47
  Cowboys are the same in a way that and I'm going to throw the
• 38:50
  Dodgers in this category. The regular season just doesn't
• 38:53
  matter. We're at the point where it just
• 38:56
  doesn't matter. Do whatever you need to do.
• 39:00
  If you go the two games over 500, if you win 120 games,
• 39:05
  whatever, if it doesn't end in a ring, it doesn't matter.
• 39:08
  So like we're now at that point. I think I'm I think I'm
• 39:13
  unofficially officially not recognizing 2020 anymore.
• 39:23
  Like I don't I just I don't know when it happened, I was like,
• 39:27
  what do you want them to do? Like, you know what I mean?
• 39:29
  Like that they won, but it's just like it's it's kind of lost
• 39:34
  its luster to this point, yeah. Yeah, I'll be honest with you.
• 39:36
  I see. I see that.
• 39:38
  Speaking of Kershaw, I see that clip of him running onto the
• 39:41
  field after they won it and I, it just makes me uncomfortable.
• 39:44
  I'm like I, I don't like, I'm happy for him, but I'm not like
• 39:48
  I'm not. It's not the same.
• 39:52
  It just doesn't. It just doesn't it, It doesn't
• 39:54
  bring me that same level of joy that I would get from seeing
• 39:56
  somebody else who's worked their entire career to get a ring
• 39:59
  finally get one. It's just, that's just the
• 40:01
  reality of it. Like it's nothing against him,
• 40:02
  but it's just that's kind of how it is.
• 40:06
  Yeah, it's all good. Whatever.
• 40:11
  I do like Kershaw. Love Kershaw but it's just tough
• 40:16
  self break. The Royals making some some
• 40:22
  veteran editions with the bats following Vinny Pasquantino's
• 40:28
  injury, Who by the way will be out six to eight weeks, which is
• 40:33
  just a massive blow for the Royals.
• 40:35
  We'll just call that the season, yeah.
• 40:39
  Yeah, although you never know that could that, I mean, I
• 40:43
  don't, I don't recall the timeline exactly of the the
• 40:46
  Schwarber. That's what I was going to say.
• 40:48
  You could pull a Schwarber. You could pull a Schwarber.
• 40:50
  We could see something like that with with Vinny making a making
• 40:54
  a heroic come back into the the the stages of the postseason.
• 41:02
  That's a that's a minimum ALCS appearance.
• 41:04
  Sure, sure, I get the earliest. Probably a World Series thing.
• 41:10
  We can see it, but they acquire, they, they add Tommy Pham,
• 41:16
  Robbie Grossman and acquire Yuli Guriel in a trade.
• 41:20
  And people wonder like yo, what's the deal with the the
• 41:22
  trade? I saw that question being asked
• 41:24
  a lot. He was acquired on a minor
• 41:28
  league deal and because he has not played at the big league
• 41:31
  level this year, he is eligible to be traded after the deadline.
• 41:35
  Interesting. So he will hopefully.
• 41:39
  I think he's they've already got him in the line up.
• 41:40
  I think he played today. I think he he had a knock or
• 41:43
  two. So he's already making an impact
• 41:45
  and I. He'll play pretty good first
• 41:46
  base too. Yeah, I'm, I'm just going to go
• 41:48
  ahead and say it right now. He he's going to have some some
• 41:53
  heroic AB down the stretch. There's just that.
• 41:57
  Yeah, it's yeah, the Astros. He's eligible to be traded post
• 42:04
  deadline, but I I think we're we're past the playoff
• 42:08
  eligibility with him, correct? Got to be.
• 42:12
  Is that how that works? Got to be.
• 42:13
  So this, this heroic AB that he's most likely going to have
• 42:18
  is going to come some point late September and it's going to give
• 42:21
  them a, a huge morale boost, a huge push.
• 42:24
  Just wait. For it, I like the you said,
• 42:26
  Robbie Grossman too. Robbie Grossman, who, by the
• 42:29
  way, have you I I looked up his splits.
• 42:33
  Guys dominates against righties. Guy mashes, no lefties.
• 42:37
  Really. Mashes against lefties verse
• 42:40
  righties he's slashing 170 two 270-720-7484 verse lefties
• 42:49
  279-380-8438 nineteen weighted weighted runs created plus of
• 42:54
  136 so mashes lefties so. And fam Fam also matches
• 43:00
  lefties, so. Fame was a surprising,
• 43:05
  surprising DFA. I agree by Saint Louis he would
• 43:08
  be eligible, right? Or we just passed that point if
• 43:13
  you're being added. That's a good question.
• 43:19
  Is it like? Is it like service time with
• 43:21
  another team? Did we, did we determine is it
• 43:26
  the start of September, was that the cut off for eligibility or
• 43:29
  was it it wasn't deadline related?
• 43:34
  And you're asking the wrong guy. I I just ain't that guy.
• 43:39
  Well, I don't know the answer to your question.
• 43:41
  I don't know if FAM would be eligible.
• 43:43
  Maybe it was somewhat rhetorical.
• 43:45
  But I can go ahead and just about guarantee you that this
• 43:51
  mixture, the this trio here will certainly provide them some
• 43:59
  production down the stretch. But Pasquatch is a tough blow.
• 44:02
  That is tough blow. And you know, good for the
• 44:04
  Royals like this. This is what a lot of and we we
• 44:08
  we talked. I literally went on a a a mini
• 44:11
  rant last episode about this. But good on the Royals for for
• 44:14
  handling the deadline, handling the offseason the way that they
• 44:17
  did, because there's a lot of teams that would have added
• 44:21
  names like this. They would have added a trio of
• 44:24
  fam Grossman and Guriel and called that a trade deadline.
• 44:30
  But they're doing this post that like they're they're doing this
• 44:32
  after the fact. And so because of that, I'm
• 44:37
  looking at these editions going, OK, like they're, I mean,
• 44:40
  they're not going to not going to take the league over by storm
• 44:44
  by any means, But that's some, that's some much needed depth,
• 44:48
  some some pop off the bench. Doesn't Why do I feel like MJ
• 44:53
  Melendez could play a little first base too, couldn't he?
• 44:57
  I think he has. He's played right.
• 45:00
  He catches, obviously, but I think he has.
• 45:04
  Played. 1st no I why do I feel like this year was his first his
• 45:09
  first time playing? Third, am I crazy?
• 45:12
  First, you mean? Isn't that what I said third?
• 45:15
  Did I say third? Oh, number three was was on my
• 45:17
  mind positionally. No, he he played a little third
• 45:22
  last year, but yeah, he he has played a little first this year.
• 45:26
  So definitely, definitely mix if.
• 45:28
  Because I was going to say because like Fam and Grossman
• 45:30
  are obviously going to be in the outfield.
• 45:31
  So just shifting things around a little bit.
• 45:34
  Good on the Royals, man. Good on the Royals for still
• 45:36
  being in the hunt and able to make these types of moves and
• 45:39
  still try to win ball games. And these are veteran names.
• 45:43
  These are good ABS. These are you're getting good
• 45:47
  ABS and you're getting average Major League defense.
• 45:54
  Lastly here, Nate, let's talk, let's talk Chicago Cubs, a team
• 45:59
  in particular that I think a lot of folks have maybe written off,
• 46:02
  but they are not, they're not dead yet.
• 46:05
  They swept the Nationals this weekend.
• 46:07
  They've current, they've won six straight entering the new week.
• 46:11
  They're nine and one in their last ten, and they're only 3 1/2
• 46:15
  back in the wild card. Can I tell you about their
• 46:22
  offense? Yeah, 'cause I'm not hyped up
• 46:24
  yet. The Cubs offense have scored
• 46:29
  fourteen runs four times in their last eight games.
• 46:34
  Goodness, get get this. I'm gonna have to sit up for
• 46:37
  this one. The Chicago Cubs offense, the 99
• 46:44
  runs that they scored over their last 10 games is the second most
• 46:49
  over A10 game span in 100 years. The last time or the most runs
• 46:55
  that were scored was back in 1930 when 100 and four runs were
• 46:59
  scored in A10 game span. Goodness.
• 47:04
  That's the kind of offense we're looking at right now.
• 47:07
  However, I ask you this is it too little too late?
• 47:12
  Looking at the wild card on the National lakeside, is it too
• 47:15
  late for the Cubs? It, I mean, at this point, I'm
• 47:19
  I'm going to go ahead and just Sharpie in the Diamondbacks and
• 47:23
  the Padres. I just don't see that fade
• 47:26
  happening in a month. So it comes down to the the
• 47:32
  Braves and the Mets. Will they fall?
• 47:38
  Will that happen? I mean, give me your, give me
• 47:43
  your honest thoughts. We are now officially in
• 47:45
  September. Give me your thoughts on the
• 47:47
  Mets right now. Did you think it would last this
• 47:49
  long? I did not.
• 47:50
  Because I'll be honest with you, it's making, it's making me a
• 47:52
  little nervous. I don't want them.
• 47:53
  I don't. I just don't want it.
• 47:55
  I don't want it to happen. I don't want to hear the
• 47:58
  nonsense. I just don't want to hear it,
• 48:02
  especially for a first round exit because you know that's
• 48:05
  what's going to happen. I don't want to hear it.
• 48:09
  I need the Braves to hang on to this or for the Cubs to hop
• 48:16
  skippity hop over and and take it.
• 48:19
  But I don't even I don't even understand.
• 48:23
  You could you could offer me a few $100 to try and name the
• 48:27
  Cubs line up and I don't think I could really don't think I
• 48:31
  could. It's.
• 48:34
  Going to be interesting, you know, like what was it about a
• 48:39
  week or so ago? We're talking about how like,
• 48:41
  well, it looks like the postseason picture is coming
• 48:43
  into clarity. Like I think at this point we
• 48:46
  know who's in. It's just a matter of seating.
• 48:48
  But you've got teams like this that are just kind of hanging
• 48:52
  out in the shadows. Well, the Cubs haven't been
• 48:54
  hanging out in the shadows. I mean, they're they're surging
• 48:56
  right now. Like I said, nine and one in the
• 48:58
  last 10. They've won six in a row.
• 49:01
  So they're they're surging through the shadows as opposed
• 49:05
  to just hanging out. But it's like you can't with the
• 49:08
  month left. You can't write the Cubs off.
• 49:11
  Yeah, that's good. That's good.
• 49:15
  This organization needs to figure it out, though.
• 49:17
  You need to give your fan base an I.
• 49:19
  Don't know what your hatred for Chicago sports is.
• 49:22
  I I. Don't know where it comes from.
• 49:24
  And you can ask any Cubs fan, ask them.
• 49:28
  They're not happy with what their organize their what their
• 49:30
  front office has been doing. It's weird, it's strange, and
• 49:34
  it's directionless. And I'm giving props to this is
• 49:38
  Craig counsel. This has nothing to do with
• 49:41
  front office. This is Craig counsel and some
• 49:44
  good ball players. That's about it.
• 49:47
  And it's not like Bellinger is out here putting up MVP
• 49:50
  performances or even a performance that warrants that
• 49:54
  contract he got. This is a great council.
• 49:59
  I mean, it is, I'm, I'm not, I'm not saying it's not.
• 50:01
  But do you think when the when when they asked him to be the
• 50:05
  manager of their ball club that they they had the expectation or
• 50:09
  the assumption that they were going to finish ahead of the
• 50:12
  Mets in the wild card race? I think they would have.
• 50:17
  Not to say that it won't happen, but like as it stands right now,
• 50:20
  like, I mean, we're they're they're up against the Mets and
• 50:24
  we're talking about one of the best managers in baseball.
• 50:28
  Not his fault. I'm, I'm not saying that, but
• 50:31
  I'm just saying I don't want to give like extra credit to Craig
• 50:34
  counsel for what he's done because at the end of the day, I
• 50:41
  don't know take, take. I think I think this is about as
• 50:45
  good as you could expect the cup season being in the hunt with a
• 50:50
  month left ish. Ish.
• 50:52
  Yeah, I would agree. I would agree.
• 50:54
  This is about as good as you could hope for, especially when
• 50:57
  you were a quasi seller at the deadline.
• 51:00
  Oh, that's so true. Sell enough.
• 51:04
  Yeah, there's. This is what I'm talking about.
• 51:06
  Yeah, yeah. But I mean, to their credit, no,
• 51:10
  in their defense, they didn't. Nobody saw this stretch coming.
• 51:15
  Yeah, especially again with the deadlines that they had.
• 51:18
  Nobody saw this coming. And this just puts a, a wrench
• 51:20
  into things. And it one of my, one of my
• 51:23
  least favorite parts about post deadline September baseball is
• 51:28
  when things start shaking out, got teams go on runs, players
• 51:31
  start performing extra poorly or, or more impressively.
• 51:38
  And then you got the, you got the revisionist history folks
• 51:41
  that are like, OK, well, what were we doing at the deadline?
• 51:44
  It's like, OK, we didn't have the benefit of, of, of
• 51:47
  hindsight. If if you're the Cubs, you
• 51:49
  didn't know that this this run was coming.
• 51:52
  But if you did, sure, yeah, maybe we would have handled the
• 51:54
  deadline a little differently. Maybe we would have supplemented
• 51:56
  a little bit to to improve our chances of beating the OR
• 52:00
  finishing ahead of the Mets. But they didn't know that.
• 52:04
  So they're kind of just making do with what they've got into
• 52:06
  your point. I think Craig Counsel has played
• 52:08
  a huge role in that. And if if they find a way to
• 52:11
  squeak in which you got a little bit of a hurdle to get over
• 52:15
  here, I think all the more credit belongs to Craig Counsel
• 52:19
  yet. But they haven't done anything.
• 52:21
  Stay hot, man. This is there's always one team.
• 52:24
  Why can't it be them? You know, there's always one
• 52:26
  team that makes a make some type of run, sneaks in and then kind
• 52:30
  of does some damage because it's just all about being hot at the
• 52:33
  right time. We've seen it year over year.
• 52:36
  It's all about being hot at the right time, so why not them?
• 52:40
  But not the Mets, please. All right, to wrap up here, I'm
• 52:42
  going to spring a little something on you.
• 52:44
  You had no idea this was coming, but I I like springing a game on
• 52:47
  you here. All right, you've got 30
• 52:49
  seconds. Name the five Major League
• 52:51
  Baseball teams in the postseason Hunt named after animals.
• 52:54
  Go. Cubs.
• 52:58
  You've got Diamondbacks, you've got Orioles, you've got pressure
• 53:18
  Tigers, I guess if we can consider them.
• 53:24
  Come on, Mariners. That's not an animal.
• 53:32
  That's. Not it's not a, it's not a fish.
• 53:35
  No dude, a mariner is like a. Fisherman.
• 53:43
  A seaman of sorts. A pirate of sorts.
• 53:47
  A sailor of sorts. Not an what did I miss?
• 53:49
  What did I miss? Technically, mathematically,
• 53:54
  it's the Cardinals. I never already got there.
• 53:59
  Not out of the mix. Yeah, that's fair.
• 54:01
  That's that's not bad. That's, I mean, did I get the
• 54:06
  other four were right. Right the list the list is
• 54:08
  pretty pretty short of of teams that are in the hunt.
• 54:11
  So I mean you immensely I feel like you could have blocked out
• 54:13
  like half the league, but you know under pressure haven't just
• 54:18
  dumped that on you out of nowhere.
• 54:19
  That was four out of five as as passing.
• 54:22
  Yeah, that's that's. Making working through what
• 54:26
  teams are. When you're working through a
• 54:27
  division, you're like, what's a twin?
• 54:30
  No socks, not an animal. Inanimate objects.
• 54:36
  Yeah, it's tough, man. It's tough.
• 54:38
  What's a Philly? No one knows.
• 54:41
  Couldn't tell you. Yeah, I saw, I thought of you.
• 54:45
  I saw this GIF or like a meme or whatever that.
• 54:49
  Hold on, I don't like that you said the word Phillies and then
• 54:53
  transition to I thought of you. Why?
• 54:56
  Why are you making the connection there?
• 54:57
  Are you? Are you calling me a quasi
• 54:59
  Phillies fan? You like a play on words and I?
• 55:01
  Beat those allegations by. The way here's why.
• 55:03
  Let me get there. It's a guy.
• 55:06
  It's like an old like portrait of like an old guy and he's like
• 55:08
  holding a goose and the caption of like the guy says I'm a
• 55:12
  piece, a people person and the goose His caption is I'm a geese
• 55:18
  goose. I'm.
• 55:27
  So I'm a geese goose. That's what the Phillies make me
• 55:30
  think of because it's like Philly Phillies.
• 55:31
  It's like you like that though. You're going to go find that.
• 55:38
  You're going to find that gift. Oh, I'm.
• 55:39
  Going to find it. I'm a female person.
• 55:42
  I'm a geese goose. I knew you'd like that.
• 55:47
  That's good. That's good.
• 55:48
  That's good. All right, well, that's all I
• 55:50
  got. You got anything else for the
• 55:52
  folks? Have a happy Labor Day.
• 55:55
  Yeah, get after it tomorrow, whatever you're doing.
• 55:58
  If you're sleeping in, get after that.
• 56:00
  If you're productive, get after that.
• 56:03
  If you're going to the lake and eating a bunch of crap food and
• 56:10
  drinking and swimming, get after that like I will.
• 56:13
  What are you doing? Going to hang out with the
• 56:17
  parents maybe and sprinkle in some pickleball.
• 56:19
  There it is, getting into that, getting into.
• 56:21
  Pickleball a little bit recently I.
• 56:22
  Need to get into it I think. It's, I'm not going to lie, it's
• 56:26
  I, I see the, I see the draw, I see the appeal.
• 56:29
  Are your knees OK? It depends to your point getting
• 56:34
  after it, it depends how how hard I get after it because.
• 56:37
  If how many opponents? If I'm yeah, if I'm playing
• 56:39
  leisurely, which is rarely the case because I just like being
• 56:43
  super aggressive. Anything competitive wise so.
• 56:46
  100%. More often than not, my knees
• 56:49
  are feeling a little bit, but I I got to just push through.
• 56:54
  I mean, I'm 30, I can't. How's your how's your brother?
• 56:57
  He's pretty good. Is he?
• 56:59
  Yeah, the whole family's actually pretty good.
• 57:01
  Yeah, really. We we get moving around.
• 57:02
  I mean, it's it's way better than tennis.
• 57:04
  Tennis is impossible. If you don't actually play
• 57:07
  tennis, Tennis, you don't even bother.
• 57:09
  It's a waste of time because you spend 3/4 of the time chasing
• 57:13
  the ball. It's it's a waste of time.
• 57:15
  Yeah, but pickleball, that's a sweet spot.
• 57:17
  What was that like commercial where David Ortiz, they were
• 57:20
  like doing tennis lessons or whatever after he retired, he's
• 57:23
  like. Yeah, just just walk over the
• 57:26
  fence. Yeah, that's.
• 57:29
  That's me. That's any time I play.
• 57:30
  That's all. That's all that happens.
• 57:32
  I'm hitting it well over that tall fence.
• 57:34
  I immediately go into like BP mode.
• 57:36
  I'm like, oh, let me get this backhand right to the ball.
• 57:39
  A to BA to B, I'm not going to hit a roll over to third base.
• 57:42
  I'm going to launch this. Yeah, forget.
• 57:44
  The top spin I got to get pickle.
• 57:46
  Pickleball doesn't, like, go very far, right?
• 57:49
  Like you can hit it pretty hard without it going.
• 57:51
  Yeah, too deep, Yeah. I like that.
• 57:54
  But to answer your question that that's probably what's in the
• 57:56
  mix for me tomorrow, so. It's a good day.
• 57:58
  It's a good day. We shall see.
• 57:59
  You can work up a sweat playing that.
• 58:00
  Yeah, really. I don't have to get into that.
• 58:05
  I don't like that. Highly recommend.
• 58:08
  Good deal. Good stuff.
• 58:10
  Let's have a good week. I'm going to.
• 58:12
  I'm going to do a whole lot of nothing this week.
• 58:15
  It's awesome. It's the way it should be.
• 58:17
  Yeah, I guess we'll see you folks here in a few days.
• 58:22
  Dreary day off don't go chasing curveballs.
• 58:25
  Love you all as always, looking forward to talking more baseball
• 58:27
  with you guys soon. Until next time, stay filthy.