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MLB All-Star Starters SET · 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 it.
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  All starts. Right now, welcome back to the
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  three O take presented by Chinook Cedry.
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  This is episode 549. I'll be your host, Kyle Horton.
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  We're here with my Co host and Nate Reyes.
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  Nate. KC how are we?
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  Good man, Good. Just got back from the Great
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  White North. Tell me about it guy.
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  Like an. Hour ago so I'm ready to talk
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  baseball it you know it was I'll give them this I'll I'll give
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  Canada this. They from what I saw, very
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  clean, very efficient, very polite people are very polite.
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  Had Tim Horton's like two or three times.
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  Where, where are you running into people?
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  Like where? Where were your stops?
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  Did you? So you went to Tim horton's?
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  Obviously some gas had to get some gas.
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  No, actually didn't. We got it.
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  We got we we filled up in Buffalo right on the other side
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  made it in rode out that entire tank before we came back and
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  fueled back up in Buffalo, but made it up to Toronto Toronto
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  for the game. Watch watch a Yankees loss up
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  there at the Roger center. Hey, let me just say real quick
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  before we get into. It I don't have the heart for
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  it, I don't have the heart for it.
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  No, nothing but the Yankees. I, I, I have better things to do
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  with my time. Me.
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  Me too. The Roger Center I told
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  Meredith, I said, this is and you may understand, we may have
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  talked about this and you may have like an answer to this
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  thing and you or or maybe you don't and you just think this is
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  weird. I there ballparks on TV that I
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  don't enjoy watching baseball. Does that make sense?
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  Like do you do you have does that resonate with you
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  whatsoever? Like if there's just are there
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  parks that you just don't enjoy watching baseball games at
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  Rogers Center for me is at the top of that list.
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  But I got to say, I told Meredith, having been to a game
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  now, having gone to the Rogers Center for the first time this
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  week, that's changed. That's changed for me.
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  I like Karen. I thoroughly enjoyed my Rogers
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  Center experience. Very, very nice ballpark outside
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  of the fact that it's, you know, the indoor playing on turf
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  nonsense, which I'm, I'm never going to be a fan of.
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  Yeah, it was tough though. Like the next day was the roof
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  was open and everything. You didn't get to experience it
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  that way. Canada Day the next day it was
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  freed in Gauzman the red uniforms the the weather was a.
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  Way to do it? Perfect.
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  Yeah, that would have been a headache to get to, but.
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  Well, what are you? Great, great experience at
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  Rogers. I saw the picture you were you
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  were up on. I think it was like the second
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  level up the third baseline a little bit.
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  We were, we were sort of all over.
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  We got standing room only because it was sort of a last
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  minute thing. I was like, hey, what if we
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  because we're Niagara and I'm like, what if we shot up the
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  coast when I caught the, the, the Jays game tonight?
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  And so I sort of last. Bought a standing room only
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  ticket by the way. It's kind of nice.
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  I've never done that but I would probably be into it.
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  I feel like it's way less stressful.
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  Yes. I mean, it sucks when you need a
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  place to sit after you've been standing for six or seven
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  innings, but if you can power through, it's worth it.
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  It you, you feel more free, you feel more.
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  Free, sure. Trying to think of games I don't
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  like watching on TV. Detroit.
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  Honestly no disrespect but like I I don't like watching their
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  games. No disrespect, I don't know.
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  What it is about that park, it's just super blah to me.
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  Maybe it's way different there. Just very blah.
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  I've been there. I haven't been there for a game,
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  but I would I I was able to to walk around the park when I was
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  in Detroit. Nice park.
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  Did you? What did you eat at the game?
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  I sent it to the group chat the the the little tender bucket
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  that they got there. And in fact, I think this this
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  may have been one of the first times I've ever gotten the
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  drink, the souvenir cup with the tender bucket and fries on top
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  of poking up the middle straw poking up the middle.
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  That was, that was, that was it's.
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  All right there, let's. I mean, you don't even need your
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  hands. It was a fan, I thoroughly
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  enjoyed it. Do you notice any any weird
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  stuff? Anything different?
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  Were the drinks? Were the drink options the same?
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  Did you notice a different type of chicken up there?
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  Was where the chicken tendees. Oh, but they had, they kept,
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  they had it plastered everywhere around the park at at this Roger
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  Center, it said Canadian Hinds made with Canada's tomatoes.
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  And I'm like, I don't, I don't entirely understand what that
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  means or what that's about. This, this is a part of my beef.
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  I got to be real. This is a part of my beef.
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  Tasted the same to me. All in all, though, the, the
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  candidate experience was, it was, it was good.
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  I, I mean, I've, I have my thoughts.
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  I, I won't, I won't necessarily go into, into a bashing mode.
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  I mean, there were some, there were some things that I saw that
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  rubbed me the wrong way as an American saw and heard.
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  But you know, I'll leave it at that.
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  I understand that the Canadians don't like Americans all that
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  much. And you know what?
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  Yeah. We did last thing I'll say on
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  the matter, we caught the Canada Day fireworks at the Niagara
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  Falls. So you're thinking, you're
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  thinking going into this like this is going to be a pretty,
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  this is going to be a a pretty impressive showing.
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  I kid you not, the small town down there.
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  And I told Meredith, I said the small town down the road that we
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  go to catch fireworks at. Better.
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  Like on a bad day outperformed what Canada did for their quote
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  UN quote Independence Day. I think we know fireworks.
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  I think that's just, that's our, that's our bread and butter.
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  I'll just leave it at that. I'll leave it at that.
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  Yeah. But anyway, enough about Canada.
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  You know, it was nice. It was, it was a good
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  experience. But.
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  Last question, any merch? Did you save anything?
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  No, it felt weird. I went into the team store on 2
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  separate occasions when we first got there and then on the way
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  out and I looked at, I looked at Meredith and I said this doesn't
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  feel right. You know, like I, I was maybe
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  going to pull the trigger on, on something retro, but I was.
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  I felt very weird when we went to Camden and I got oriole swag
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  because I was like this. It's just, it feels strange.
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  Yeah, I mean, you got a cow jersey, so I mean.
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  That's but like cow. Cow was like the the fall back.
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  You know what I mean? There isn't like a classic Blue
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  Jay that you're dying to have his jersey for.
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  No, there I was keeping an eye out for the 93 World Series
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  stuff, you know, year, year. I was born and everything.
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  And there was this sick Joe Carter, Touch Them All Joe
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  T-shirt that I was going to get. They didn't have my size and it
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  was overpriced. I'm like, I know I can find that
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  elsewhere. So I just, you know, I just
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  walked out with nothing but my souvenir cup.
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  Which, by the way, do you hang do?
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  You hang on. Promise, promise, last thing
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  I'll say. I we, we hung on to both that we
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  got because she got the same thing.
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  Free refills. I may, somebody may have already
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  told me that, but I had to confirm up for myself.
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  Free refills at Rogers Center on the souvenir soda.
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  So you know that if they've got, if there's one thing that's a
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  positive to take away from Canada, I guess it's that.
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  Decent take away anyway, good breakdown guy.
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  In the words of the great philosopher Michael Scott, it's
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  great to be back in a country that has movies again.
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  So true. Feels good to be back.
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  Now we get the real Independence Day celebration coming up this
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  week and boy am I am I excited. But I'm excited to talk about
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  this All Star roster. You know, some some good, some
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  bad. Nate, I think you and I can both
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  agree, although we varied in our roster selections in in our
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  roster votes rather when we when we cast our ballot, I think we
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  agreed that what we're what we're seeing here, some some
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  errors, some omissions. The American League, what couple
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  hours ago, the AL and NL starters for the All Star game,
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  which we will be at. I'm going to plug that any
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  chance I get, we'll be we'll be at the All Star game will be at
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  the Home Run Derby. So catch us there.
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  Bro. It's crazy.
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  We're in the month. We're week and 1/2.
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  We're in the month that it's going to happen.
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  We're a week and a half away. Crazy.
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  That's big time. I'm coasting this month, by the
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  way. Like just got back from this
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  trip. We got the 4th this weekend.
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  Yeah, dude. And then the next weekend.
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  That's nice. Yeah.
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  How about it? I'm hyped for that too.
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  That's real nice. I'm I'm amped, but yeah, I don't
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  think we're going to see the right names taking the field in
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  that first inning. Wrong names?
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  You got it wrong, America. You got it wrong.
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  Who? Who votes for this stuff?
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  Who Who knows how to read? You don't know how to read.
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  Javi Baez And we're not even in the no disrespect segment, but
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  truly, truly like. And I'm not, I'm not trying to
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  like be cute here. Truly no disrespect.
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  Javi Baez Quite the resurgence. It's a fun story.
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  It's a great story. It's nice.
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  Which by the way, Speaking of Detroit, I knew they were close
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  to Canada, but I don't I it, I just, it never it.
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  I don't think I ever wrapped my mind around how.
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  Close. It doesn't compute that like we
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  have some of a like Americans further north exactly in Canada.
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  Super weird. I don't love that personally.
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  Super weird, but I get it. The whole the Great Lakes and
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  all that. I I I get it it it makes.
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  Sense there is something, is it like Nova Scotia or something
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  like South like it should be ours.
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  Nova Scotia, I think is like below Texas, yeah, It's South,
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  man. That's how S it is.
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  It's in the South. I don't know.
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  I don't know. They'd be playing in the AFC
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  South. For sure.
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  It's crazy. But anyway, Javi Baez well,
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  they, they got Aaron Judge, Riley Green the the, when we
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  cast the perfect ballot check if you recall, we cast the perfect
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  ballot there there was, it was without error.
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  We had Judge and obviously and Riley Green on there, but Javi
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  Baez no Ryan O'hearn. I, you know, again, no
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  disrespect. I'm happy for him.
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  But if we're trying to, if we're trying to win a game and I say
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  we as you know, 2 American, 2 American League homers, we'll
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  just, we'll just be blunt, 2 American League homers.
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  If we're trying to win this game, are we going to win it
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  with Ryan O'hearn as our DH? Honest question.
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  The answer's no, No disrespect. You have Craig Breslow to thank
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  for that. Let me ask you this.
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  I was watching this. The Sox game had the volume on
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  before we hopped on. But now, I mean, I got it on.
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  It's on mute. But I had the volume on earlier.
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  And on the broadcast, Lou Maloney was talking about, he
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  said, you know, Jacob Wilson's, he's had a good couple months.
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  But to me, Bobby Witt is my All Star shortstop.
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  And I'm like, this is another layer to this conversation
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  because you've got the conversation where it's like
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  who's who? Who are the most popular people?
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  Who are the people that are getting voted in?
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  And then it's who are the objectively speaking, like, like
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  start to finish career, who are, who are the guys that we feel
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  like are most worthy? Like a Bobby Witt, Like 9 times
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  out of 10, you're going to want Bobby Witt be as starting as
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  your shortstop for the American League.
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  Understandably so. But I had to kind of, I had, I
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  had to buck back a little bit. I was like, yeah, he's having
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  that. He's having a good couple
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  months, but that, that's the whole point.
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  That's the whole point. We have we, we, we have
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  different All Star. Rosters every year yeah and
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  that's the whole point of like at the end of the year you have
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  like your first team you know what I'm saying like like your
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  first team all pro like that's that's kind of that argument
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  right like when you get to the end of the year say like this is
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  first team this is second team. I think the All Star game is
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  like literally there's never a perfect way to solve it because
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  I get the argument Like I understand what you're saying
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  like it it his statement isn't far off from what you just said
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  about Ryan o'hearn. You know what I mean?
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  Like it, it kind of is there where you're like.
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  No, he, Ryan, it's slightly different.
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  Ryan O'hearn's having a great year, but this was solely
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  because Raphael Evers now plays for the Giants.
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  Like 100%. Yeah, No, it's a little a little
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  different case. I just I don't understand the
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  who's vote? Who's voting are are you reading
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  at all? Are you looking at all and how
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  much, how much do we need to sell when these teams are like
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  go vote your team, go vote Rockies, vote Padre, like you
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  know what I'm saying? Like we've talked about those
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  commercials all the time. Or it's just like, no, no, no,
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  they put into the ballot and then vote.
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  They tweet, these teams tweet out straight ballots of their
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  entire roster. That's like, go vote for our
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  boys. I'm like.
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  How about not I have. I bet that there's like stupid,
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  like a like a like a front office raffle for all the
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  employees that work for the organization, Like, hey, come,
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  come show your ballot, get a raffle ticket for all the you
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  know what I'm saying? Like there's, there's just it's,
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  it's lost all integrity. It has.
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  It's lost all integrity man the. Conversation, it's just the
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  conversation or like the, the discussion surrounding it just
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  gets old. Like we have the we have this
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  conversation every year and nothing changes.
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  I know that's why I'm so frustrated.
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  But like, every Tigers fan wanted Javi Baez gone six months
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  ago. He wasn't on their postseason
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  roster last gone. They wanted him out of baseball.
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  They wanted him out of their uniform.
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  And now all of a sudden, all these voters are coming out of
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  the woodwork. I don't understand.
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  And like, if we're if we think it's a cool story, like, I don't
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  know, one could argue Byron Buxton is just as cool of a
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  story. Yeah, but it's the.
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  Twins, come on. But I I get that part, I get
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  that part. Fed up with this man.
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  I'm fed up the. National League, All in all, the
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  National League and really pull. It up, I got to pull it up
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  again, I got to pull it. Up the National League, Ronald
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  Cunha junior. I get it.
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  I'm not even going to. I'm not even going to Stupid,
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  stupid, no, like it is, but I get it.
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  And there's nobody is going to hear you out.
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  Like if you have anything to say about the Ronald Cunha pick for
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  being a starter, nobody's going to hear you out.
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  So I'm not even going to waste my breath.
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  I like, I get it. Another situation where it's
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  like 9 times out of 10, you're going to want Ronald Cuna Junior
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  starting in your outfield. It's just it this year, he
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  wasn't deserving to be the starter and it wasn't it.
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  It was no fault of his own. He just missed time.
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  But I get it. Neither was Freddy Atlanta.
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  Neither was Freddy. Remind me again, who was who was
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  the rightful heir to that? Who did we pick?
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  Did we not pick Freddie? We did not pick Freddie.
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  Who am I? Oh, Pete Alonzo.
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  Pete Alonzo, that's. Right.
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  Yeah, Pete Alonzo, what? The year Pete's happened, Yeah.
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  Yeah, yeah. Either way though.
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  Frankie Lindor was not the right pick.
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  Did I think we settled on Manny? Correct.
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  Even though you you tried to push me on Eugenio.
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  I think we settled on Manny. Settled on Manny.
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  Yeah. So Manny.
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  Manny's fine, James. Wood.
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  James Wood got robbed just. Fused me.
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  James Wood got robbed Hwy. Robbery from Ronald Lacuna.
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  There's there's just it's just he's it's.
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  Look, see, Braves fans, you, you drive me crazy.
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  You drive me crazy. I don't know the right the right
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  thing to do with that is let, let let Ronald take the field.
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  But then James Wood has to has to have more time.
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  Come on, this is crazy. Just it doesn't mean anything
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  anymore. We're we're, we're teetering
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  into the NBA territory. We really are.
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  No Ellie de la Cruz, no Jeremy Pena.
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  As finalists, be there. As as finalists I I don't get
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  it. Conversation is the same, never
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  changed the results. Voting, you said it last year, I
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  don't want to vote anymore. I'm just I'm not into it.
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  However, also game in Philly next year.
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  I don't care if Bryce has 2 broken legs, he is going to.
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  He my our our sweet young Prince will be the starting first
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  baseman at the All Star game next year.
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  Is that as far out as we know? You're a part of the problem.
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  No, stop. You're a part of the problem.
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  No, not a problem. Because everyone has said that.
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  Everyone said that. I don't care if Ronald Cuny has
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  been here 2 weeks, he's starting this game.
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  It's. Different because it's Bryce,
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  our sweet young Prince. Is that as far as we know for
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  the All Star game, Philly? Do we know beyond that?
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  I feel like we know one more beyond that, do we not?
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  I think actually maybe it is just Philly.
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  I think they go year by year. Yeah, I think they, I think they
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  do that. 'D be good.
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  I'd be down to go to Philly. I would too.
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  The food in Philly really gets me, gets me excited.
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  I would make it happen. Cheese steaks everyday.
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  You could just come out for the WBC or no, not come out, but
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  like we could meet at the WBC and then you just, we just fly
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  back here and then you just, you know, work remote for two to
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  three months. I live there.
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  For a while and we just drive up to save on on travel logistics.
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  Get an get an alert for dust storm.
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  Sorry. Wow, that that I live on.
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  Mars. Dude you sent that screenshot
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  the other day. I've never seen that.
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  The air, the air quality index at 500, the high you said it was
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  the Max. It's the Max, it's the highest
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  the index goes. I have never seen that amount.
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  Either me either crazy I got everyone.
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  Everyone here is just fully, fully normal.
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  If you're watching, if you're watching the if you're watching
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  on live stream, I'm not even kidding.
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  This is what Nate sent us the other day.
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  It literally said Chandler, hold on, there it is.
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  Look at that 500. The worst this scale can go.
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  It looks like Mars. I don't.
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  I don't know what it meant. I don't know why it wasn't like.
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  What is that? It wasn't like overly windy.
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  It wasn't even overly hot. It was only like 1 O 11-O2. 100°
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  at 10 AMI would. Rather die.
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  I would rather die, but I don't know what.
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  I don't know what that was. But yeah, that we also get
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  alerts for for dust storms. So it's almost monsoon season,
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  bro. I'll start sending some clips of
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  that because when those carts start rolling in, it's
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  different. It's crazy.
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  It's crazy. Speaking of the wind blowing,
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  you know who's been sucking Is the Mets, 3 and 14 in their last
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  17 games coming into the day. Good math.
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  Yeah, that's right, 3 and 14 in their last 17 games coming into
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  the day. No, no, that includes today.
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  That includes today because they lost, they lost the early game.
• 22:16
  Oh no, they had a double header so.
• 22:19
  Yeah, this was after my fantasy team got banged yesterday with
• 22:24
  postponements. Good night.
• 22:26
  Yeah. Weather's all over the place,
• 22:28
  man. 3 and 14 in their last 17 after game.
• 22:34
  One of the double headers today because I I was prepping my
• 22:37
  notes in the passenger seat coming back from Canada today so
• 22:41
  they had already finished game one.
• 22:43
  Why he was driving, huh? Yeah, I said, hey, can you do me
• 22:46
  a solid and just carry me for like an hour?
• 22:49
  Just. Give me like an hour.
• 22:51
  I think I took like an hour. Where is it?
• 22:53
  The pride aside. It's hard.
• 22:56
  It's hard. I I know I I got to drive man.
• 23:00
  I do too. What are you doing?
• 23:01
  If not, I have nothing to do. Yeah, that's really the only
• 23:06
  time I do it is when I'm like, hey, we're on a road trip or
• 23:08
  coming back from like, you know, on on recording day.
• 23:11
  I got to, I got to take care of these notes and she, she helps
• 23:14
  me out. But yeah.
• 23:15
  During that span, 17 games, the Mets have a run differential of
• 23:19
  -61 the offense is averaging three runs per game and the team
• 23:25
  ERA in that span is 644. We'll get into it.
• 23:34
  We'll get into this particular team in a minute.
• 23:36
  But the Mets, in their previous series, coming into the series
• 23:40
  against the Brewers, against the Pirate, they play the Pirates
• 23:42
  were swept in that series. They were outscored 30 to 4, the
• 23:48
  first time the Mets have allowed nine plus runs in three straight
• 23:52
  games since 2007. They went 12 and 15 in the month
• 24:01
  of June. And the sweep against the
• 24:10
  Pirates pushed their Rd. record to 19 and 25.
• 24:16
  And then they lost Today, Game one.
• 24:23
  This this 3 and 14 stretch for the Mets, their worst stretch
• 24:28
  since 2018. They are up five two right now.
• 24:31
  Top 6. Yeah, this is Anthony De Como,
• 24:39
  he said. Pick any 17 game sample over the
• 24:42
  past 20 seasons and it's only gotten this bad on 2 prior
• 24:45
  occasions, 2018, June and July 2012.
• 24:50
  All in all, the Mets suck. Who?
• 24:55
  Nationally, the National League East as a whole is kind of wild
• 24:59
  right now. The Met I.
• 25:01
  Don't know what to. Do the Marlins, the Marlins
• 25:07
  Philly's holding it down for now.
• 25:11
  And by the way, here come the Marlins on an 8 game heater.
• 25:14
  The Nats full intended disrespect.
• 25:18
  What do you like? How, how are we letting the
• 25:21
  Marlins get away with this? You you're telling me you can't
• 25:25
  put together a product that's better than the Marlins?
• 25:33
  Yeesh. I would have bet.
• 25:34
  I would have bet good money that the Nationals had a better
• 25:37
  record than the Marlins. I mean, there's an All Star
• 25:41
  break, you know, I would have bet good.
• 25:42
  Money going into the break, I would have probably said into
• 25:46
  the break and by the end of the year I'd feel like that'd have
• 25:49
  been a safe bet, but here we are I.
• 25:52
  Would have put a mortgage payment on that.
• 25:54
  I don't know if I'd go that far. It's a good thing.
• 25:57
  Good thing I'm not a degenerate like some of you.
• 25:59
  I don't have that kind of money. I mean, me neither.
• 26:03
  To be fair, they could still make it happen.
• 26:05
  They're only three games back of the Marlins.
• 26:07
  But what kind of what kind of life are you living, Nats fans?
• 26:12
  If that's if that's what you're saying, that's what you're We're
• 26:15
  only three games back of the Marlins.
• 26:21
  So the story of the Mets is they obviously suck on the road.
• 26:26
  I mean, there's 16 games over 500 at home.
• 26:35
  It's the road, it's the road situation.
• 26:40
  But bro, I mean, you can't be giving up, can't be giving up
• 26:44
  those kinds of runs to the. That is crazy.
• 26:47
  Do those home roads splits 29 and 13 at home?
• 26:50
  Yeah, like you are taking care of business at home.
• 26:56
  That's it's a little. That's that has to be one of the
• 26:59
  better marks in baseball. It's a little, it's a little
• 27:03
  less. Who has more wins at home?
• 27:07
  Detroit has 30. Houston's got 32.
• 27:10
  L as got the Doyers got 31. That's it.
• 27:16
  Good for the Mets, man. I mean, it was a great start.
• 27:19
  Like I'm not. It's tough bro.
• 27:24
  Like I think we as a fan of your own team, watching your team
• 27:34
  everyday, I think it's so easy to fall into like a we suck.
• 27:41
  The world is a is on fire around us.
• 27:44
  There's no not a single move that's going to save us.
• 27:48
  I think you just forget that, like you get locked into the
• 27:53
  short term. You forget how long this season
• 27:55
  is. You forget that the there's a
• 27:57
  reason we play 162. There's a reason why it takes
• 28:01
  this long to kind of settle in. And I got I don't, I know it's
• 28:08
  not exciting. That's why we're here.
• 28:10
  It's why I have a podcast, right?
• 28:12
  Like we got it. We got to be able to share our
• 28:13
  opinion about the now, about the present.
• 28:16
  But it's like, you got to remind yourself bro, like.
• 28:20
  Yeah, you got. A long season.
• 28:22
  You got to find some balance where it's like, yes, you got,
• 28:27
  you have to acknowledge that it's 100.
• 28:29
  And 60. 2 Sure, it's like you have to acknowledge that there's
• 28:32
  162, but like what's the alternative?
• 28:35
  We just wait till September 20th to then start picking up talking
• 28:39
  like we don't really know. We have to analyze it and and
• 28:42
  discuss what's happening now. Like if, if a team like the Mets
• 28:47
  is going to hit this June swoon that we, you know, we, we talk
• 28:51
  about all the time that it's almost inevitable across the
• 28:53
  league. If this snowballs into into
• 28:59
  July, then we're going to have to continue to talk about it.
• 29:03
  And you know, there's going to be Mets fans being like, well,
• 29:05
  there's, well, maybe not. That's not a great example
• 29:07
  because Mets fans are always down on themselves and down on
• 29:11
  the team for the most part. Well, yeah, that Frank the Tank
• 29:14
  dude who's just constantly posting ridiculous videos after
• 29:21
  each. I get it.
• 29:22
  Hey I I'm ready to cancel this. For like a a rough week.
• 29:26
  I mean I I think I've cancelled this Red Sox season like 6 times
• 29:30
  already. Yeah, I'm with you.
• 29:33
  But you know, if there's snowballs into July, like that's
• 29:35
  going to be a noteworthy conversation because as we
• 29:38
  talked about, the National League East as a whole is kind
• 29:40
  of weird right now with the with the Braves not really knowing
• 29:43
  what the Braves are doing. The Phillies could go on like
• 29:48
  the the Phillies could easily just go on a rough streak just
• 29:51
  like this, like we've seen it. But for now, at least, they're
• 29:54
  quietly a top to division. And I don't feel like enough
• 29:58
  people are really talking about it.
• 29:59
  But that could easily slip away in a matter of a week.
• 30:02
  So it's it's, I don't know. Well, what I was, I know that
• 30:05
  this isn't necessarily like on topic for right now, but I mean
• 30:08
  like look at the AL Central a month ago we had four playoff
• 30:12
  teams. Now look at it, what happened?
• 30:18
  It is the loop dumpster fire. The AL Central completely
• 30:26
  imploded. We just talked about this like 2
• 30:28
  weeks ago. Implosion.
• 30:32
  One team over 500, I mean, it just happens to be like one of
• 30:38
  the best in baseball, Well, tied for the best team in baseball
• 30:44
  coming in today. Just weird, brother.
• 30:47
  Like it's a weird sport. It's very odd.
• 30:52
  That is, yeah, the Guardians are are Next up in that in that post
• 30:56
  season chase. Obviously the Tigers are holding
• 30:58
  down the Central, but the Guardians are Next up and
• 31:00
  they're three games back out of a wild card spot.
• 31:03
  Yeah. And which again like we just
• 31:05
  talked about that could change over that could you know that
• 31:07
  could change in a week, but. They're really good.
• 31:10
  That's crazy though. There were.
• 31:12
  There were four teams. This is what makes this is what
• 31:16
  makes things so weird at the deadline.
• 31:21
  And I don't always mean to like bring up the trade deadline as
• 31:24
  like a potential savior for some of these teams, specifically the
• 31:27
  Mets. By which, by the way, every
• 31:30
  every like trade rumor headline trending post about the trade
• 31:37
  deadline has the Mets attached to every name.
• 31:40
  Every name, the Mets are attached to it, so they're going
• 31:44
  to do something. But you have teams where like,
• 31:48
  because of how the weirdness, you have teams that are within
• 31:54
  striking distance, like should the D backs?
• 32:00
  Should the D backs sell? Probably, but they're 2 1/2 back
• 32:05
  in the wild card. That's another.
• 32:09
  That's a bunch of. Teams that are in there like the
• 32:11
  Cardinals, should they sell? Yeah, like probably it would
• 32:16
  make sense. That's a very.
• 32:18
  Currently hold a wild card spot like I.
• 32:22
  It's weird. It's a very weird time of year.
• 32:25
  It's a conversation we have at this time of year every year.
• 32:28
  And it if you're if you really want to, you know, pinpoint it,
• 32:32
  this goes back to the expansion of the playoffs, where now this
• 32:36
  is the again, this is the conversation we have this time
• 32:38
  of year every year because it's like it's it's a question of,
• 32:45
  you know, should would we be better off selling knowing that
• 32:51
  this isn't really our year? Like in our heart of hearts, we
• 32:54
  know this isn't our year. Yes, but Ken, should.
• 32:57
  Should we hang on to the slim hope that maybe we do get in and
• 33:03
  maybe turn this into our year? If.
• 33:05
  We if we get hot. At the right time. 1000% because
• 33:08
  you look at what the Tigers did last year, there was a soft
• 33:11
  sell. They got rid of Flaherty and
• 33:13
  then went on a run and they needed starting pitching depth.
• 33:16
  So like when you have those examples, you can't help but get
• 33:21
  nervous that this deadline is going to be kind of a dud
• 33:26
  because of the teams that are probably going to hold on to
• 33:28
  their chips. And then you have your stupid
• 33:32
  teams at the bottom of the league like the Rockies, who
• 33:35
  just never sell, never trade anybody.
• 33:40
  No disrespect. Hey, super quick tangent here.
• 33:45
  And you know, I'm going to, I think I'm going to start doing
• 33:48
  this. Hold me to this.
• 33:50
  I don't I, I, I might want to make this thing.
• 33:52
  I think when we record, assuming there's baseball on at the time
• 33:56
  and sorry, not to detract from our conversation, but if there's
• 33:59
  baseball on and we're watching and I see an instance of just
• 34:04
  garbage fundamentals or lack thereof rather, I'm just going
• 34:08
  to call it out. Nate, tell me how this makes
• 34:12
  sense. Red Sox are down.
• 34:14
  I think it just went a commercial.
• 34:16
  I think we're in a 7th. We're down two runs.
• 34:20
  It was 5 to 3. Romo Gonzalez just hit, hits a
• 34:23
  wall scraper guy. There was a guy on scored.
• 34:28
  Make it 5, four no outs, hits a wall scraper instead of pulling
• 34:33
  up at second. No outs, running score position,
• 34:38
  tries to stretch it to third, tries to stretch it into a
• 34:40
  triple, gets thrown out of third base.
• 34:41
  One out, nobody on. It's a rally killer.
• 34:46
  Little League, little Little League, I don't like I, I, I
• 34:50
  could not care less about how much faster, stronger, how, how,
• 34:57
  how much harder they throw. If you'd have zero, like if you,
• 35:03
  if you lack baseball IQ, it's a miserable product.
• 35:08
  I'm sorry, it's it's, it's just bad baseball.
• 35:12
  And I my fear for the sport is if we continue in this
• 35:15
  direction, people are actually going to forget what, you know,
• 35:19
  respectable fundamentals even look like they go, oh, it's not
• 35:22
  like that's the norm to just get thrown.
• 35:23
  Out of Kyle, the analytics say you have a 78% chance of scoring
• 35:28
  if you can get to third base with less than one out.
• 35:30
  Stupid. I'm I'm done.
• 35:33
  Anyway, enough of the enough of the National League East.
• 35:37
  Let's talk Luis Severino here. This.
• 35:42
  Talk to NL E for like 6 seconds. Enough of that.
• 35:46
  Enough of that. No, we talked.
• 35:47
  We talked a good chunk on the on the on the Mets, the Marlins.
• 35:50
  Let's go Marlins. Marlins, let's go Pirates.
• 35:57
  Tell Allen that the Mets suck. Let's go Pirates.
• 36:03
  Louise. Louise Severino.
• 36:05
  Apparently the A's quote can't wait to get rid of him before or
• 36:12
  at the trade deadline. And honestly, this is just this
• 36:17
  is gold to me. This whole situation, you make
• 36:21
  him your franchise high. Point that there was a total,
• 36:26
  but that's just a total BS move in the offseason to bring him in
• 36:32
  for multiple years. It was a it like they were they
• 36:35
  were trying to posture themselves.
• 36:36
  Is it like it was APR move fake Funny.
• 36:42
  The highest paid player at what was it like $67,000,000, the
• 36:50
  richest guaranteed contract in franchise history, hasn't even
• 36:54
  finished his first season yet with the team and they're
• 36:58
  already telling you we can't wait till this guy is out of
• 37:01
  town. And honestly it I mean like
• 37:04
  who's who do you have to blame beside yourself?
• 37:08
  I think we saw it coming. If you're the age like this is
• 37:12
  you, yeah, but not this. I mean, maybe like a year and a
• 37:18
  half and like, let it I, I, I would have guessed maybe of
• 37:21
  getting a year through. It, I'm not going to say we saw
• 37:23
  it coming early, but like over the last few weeks, just it like
• 37:27
  the Super unavoidable narrative of his home Rd. splits and how
• 37:33
  brutal it is in Sacramento and then his comments about it being
• 37:37
  like pitching and spring training.
• 37:41
  And I mean, he's got an ERA that's through the moon at home
• 37:44
  like you. He said he's not the only one
• 37:47
  who feels the same way about. He's not the only one with those
• 37:50
  kind of splits. About the park, his splits at
• 37:53
  home for those for those taken notes.
• 37:57
  Write it down. Actually, we'll start with a,
• 38:00
  we'll start with the road. On the road, he's two and two
• 38:03
  with an ERA of three O 4 across 8 starts.
• 38:09
  It's very soft. 16 earned runs, 26 strikeouts to 14 walks at
• 38:19
  home O and seven with an ERA of 679 across 10 starts. 43 earned
• 38:30
  runs and 45 strikeouts to twenty walks.
• 38:39
  His whip is almost half a run high or half, you know, half a
• 38:43
  it's one 112 on the road and his whip at home is 159.
• 38:57
  That's I get it. I mean it's.
• 38:59
  She's not going to work, man, Not going to work.
• 39:03
  Go, go request a trade, go somewhere else and be the guy
• 39:09
  that I know you to be, Luis Severino.
• 39:11
  Be the guy that I drafted in fantasy.
• 39:15
  Did you really? I sure did.
• 39:17
  I actually like just dropped him this past week because it it it
• 39:21
  got to be unbearable. I couldn't do it anymore.
• 39:24
  It's. Tough to sit a guy just because
• 39:28
  he's, you know, he's pitching at home.
• 39:31
  I was like, well, I guess I'll have to spot start somebody else
• 39:34
  in place of this guy. Boy, yeah, man.
• 39:39
  I mean, it's all good. Like he's he's not a part of the
• 39:44
  core. I I don't see a bright A's
• 39:49
  future with Luis Severino in in the picture.
• 39:53
  I thought it would last a little bit longer than this.
• 39:56
  I hope they get a decent return. Where does he go?
• 40:02
  For the record, I still stand by my opinion at the start of the
• 40:07
  season when I thought that both this move and the Jeffrey
• 40:11
  Springs move were good additions.
• 40:12
  Jeffrey Springs is actually having like a not half bad year.
• 40:17
  Luis Severino. White starter with that white.
• 40:20
  Literally is having a half Goodyear springs has splits.
• 40:28
  Someone someone else in that rotation has rough splits.
• 40:31
  Oh, I can't remember if it was springs or not.
• 40:34
  Yeah, I don't know, but. Sears is just kind of been rough
• 40:38
  everywhere. I don't know where does he go?
• 40:45
  Where do you want him to go? Where does he go?
• 40:47
  Jacob in the chat Severino to Atlanta.
• 40:49
  I said we would take anyone. That's true, and we got a little
• 40:53
  more on that coming up in in a little bit.
• 40:56
  It's not a pic. Shout out to Jacob, by the way.
• 41:00
  Figured we'd just go ahead and give him the plug here.
• 41:03
  Give him give him some plug you. Love.
• 41:06
  I was at the game in Toronto. I wasn't able to keep up with
• 41:10
  everything that was happening. Give was written on man.
• 41:12
  Inform the people as to what happened.
• 41:14
  Jacob, big Braves fan for those who don't know, lives in the
• 41:20
  Philly area or PA in general, Makes his way into enemy
• 41:26
  territory to a Phillies game the other day.
• 41:29
  Wearing a Braves hat, by the way.
• 41:31
  Bold and decides to rock the 999 challenge. 9 beers, nine dogs in
• 41:39
  nine innings. And we have video proof that it
• 41:44
  was. It was a humid night, let's just
• 41:47
  put it that way. Homie was drenched, put in the
• 41:51
  work meat sweats galore, hiccups galore.
• 41:57
  He was going with the tall boys by the way.
• 42:01
  So that that helped the beer situation.
• 42:04
  I, I think, I think it mentally helps when you can drink like a
• 42:09
  larger beer with less, like less, you know what I mean?
• 42:12
  Like a larger beer. I don't.
• 42:14
  I don't. Drink more quantity versus more
• 42:17
  beers, less quantities. And then the visits, I, I think
• 42:21
  that would get in your head a little bit, so.
• 42:24
  Hold on, go back to this tall boy thing.
• 42:27
  More Oz More oz than like the you're.
• 42:29
  Saying that helps. I would, I would, I would think
• 42:33
  that helps because like, I don't, it's just like a mental
• 42:37
  hurdle for me. If if I have to literally pound
• 42:43
  nine of these or ten of these, you know what I'm saying?
• 42:47
  Because it's not quite double the amount of Oz in those tall
• 42:51
  boys, but it's enough to where you could do five of those and
• 42:55
  that basically gets you over the 9 beer oz total.
• 43:03
  So it's like, imagine like a like a 8 oz versus a 16 ounce
• 43:06
  soda, you know what I mean? So he only did half of the He
• 43:11
  didn't do 9 beers, he did half. He did 5 tall boys which equates
• 43:16
  to basically 10. OK, now I'm now I'm regular size
• 43:21
  beers but he doesn't sound valid to me.
• 43:24
  But you know, whatever, I'm not the judge and jury here.
• 43:27
  You know, the boys, the boys allowed it.
• 43:29
  I, I, I allowed I, I think that's a good pass.
• 43:35
  Dogs went down. I, we didn't get video proof of
• 43:37
  the dogs. We just he just kept going on
• 43:40
  video showing us the dogs in containers, which by the way, a
• 43:44
  little bougie out there in Philly.
• 43:45
  They had him in like the plastic like to go containers might just
• 43:50
  put that bad boy in some foil and charge me $1.50 less.
• 43:54
  Like what do we don't need to, we don't need to get it up, up
• 43:57
  in that in the plastic. Phillies don't care about the
• 43:59
  environment. They don't, but he knocked it
• 44:03
  out man. He did, he did well and I think
• 44:05
  he he honestly did it in like 7 innings, potentially less.
• 44:10
  I think he was done in the 6th and I'm not AI don't know.
• 44:16
  Blew up his bathroom after that. Well, we don't need to get into
• 44:19
  the specifics. I'd I, I.
• 44:22
  He said he was working from the toilet the next day.
• 44:27
  Understandable. So I'm not a beer his.
• 44:30
  Employer is be aware of those zoom calls.
• 44:34
  He said it was the 997.5 challenge.
• 44:39
  Solid 7 and 2/3. I'm not a beer guy.
• 44:43
  I mean, I don't, I don't drink, so I'm not, I'm not familiar.
• 44:46
  With feeling, man. I'm not familiar with the game,
• 44:50
  but that just doesn't seem valid to me.
• 44:52
  I get I get the conversion Oz play yeah, I get it.
• 44:56
  But like I'm going to need I'm going to need 9 cans or or cups
• 45:02
  at the end of this. I like the five things.
• 45:04
  Yeah, no, I mean. I get, I get, I get it.
• 45:08
  But I don't want to come after the guy's integrity for it, you
• 45:12
  know? Well, I mean, he was in
• 45:15
  shambles. We are about integrity on this
• 45:17
  show and you know, it just seems like we're we're taking
• 45:19
  shortcuts with this, but I hey, I've never even attempted it.
• 45:23
  So I'm not I'm not going to shame the guy.
• 45:25
  All I'm saying is if if it's the 999 challenge and you're having
• 45:30
  five tall boys, is it is it the 959 challenge or is it the 999
• 45:38
  with an asterisk? I.
• 45:39
  Don't know because you're saying like there there is the aspect
• 45:43
  of the mental hurdle that needs to be hurdled by having 9 beers.
• 45:49
  Correct, like seems like a shortcut, but that's just me.
• 45:52
  Anyway, enough about the 999 or the 959, not my place to say.
• 45:59
  It's kind of like a home run without a fence, you know what I
• 46:01
  mean? Yeah, I mean, it's like, where
• 46:03
  do we draw the line? You know?
• 46:04
  Sure, you could keep running and it's a home run in the book, but
• 46:08
  I mean, what did we? Sorry, Jacob, this was supposed
• 46:12
  to be a shout out. Now.
• 46:15
  Now it's. This was a detail that I was not
• 46:17
  Privy to at the time. I'd I was unaware.
• 46:19
  I thought it was a clean 999. But now I'm finding out that,
• 46:22
  well, you know, you know, you convert it to shout out revoked.
• 46:26
  You carry the one, you carry the one you convert it to to Canada
• 46:31
  dollars. There's a whole lot of mental
• 46:34
  gymnastics going on. Let's see.
• 46:35
  What the what he was drinking, I don't know what kind of beers.
• 46:41
  We got to move on. Well, I mean, no, I'm curious.
• 46:44
  The videos are crazy, by the way, there's a lot of videos in
• 46:48
  here. OK, all right, here we go.
• 46:50
  It's the. Hey, it's still impressive, no
• 46:53
  doubt in the chat, still impressive.
• 46:54
  I I'm not saying this out, I'm just saying. 24 ounces in these
• 47:02
  tall boys. 24 ounces, it's a lot of that's a lot of O ZS.
• 47:11
  Look, I get the Oz. I'm just saying we're talking
• 47:14
  about like trying to, it's trying to reduce the mental
• 47:18
  hurdles, trying to adjust the, the the play here of the 999 by
• 47:25
  going 959 just seems sketchy. That's all.
• 47:28
  That's all I'm saying. I do know that I'd be in I'd be
• 47:33
  in terrible shape for a few days.
• 47:38
  I would I would be worried about myself.
• 47:42
  Shout out to the boys in the chat for sponsoring that by the
• 47:45
  way, because they said once you get through 5, the the the boys
• 47:50
  started venmoing to pitch and he's like, I got the 6th
• 47:53
  covered. I got the 7th inning covered.
• 47:56
  Like that's that's big time how we drop like 400 bucks.
• 48:01
  Just boys being boys. Speaking of boys being boys,
• 48:05
  this guy, the D backs game, He's not.
• 48:07
  I think he's like a middle-aged man.
• 48:09
  I wouldn't call him a boy. Banned by Chase Field for the
• 48:14
  remainder of the game. Did you see the I mean, you're,
• 48:16
  you're an Arizona guy. So I'm sure this is on your on
• 48:19
  your feed multiple offenses. Yeah.
• 48:24
  Like he's done this? I think I'm confused because I
• 48:28
  saw conflicting reports that said it was.
• 48:30
  Anyway he he he's done this anywhere from like three to five
• 48:34
  times. I don't know what the actual
• 48:36
  number is, but has interfered with the with the home run
• 48:39
  caller or some variation of a play.
• 48:43
  There's there, he came to mind. The second I saw the replay.
• 48:46
  I was like, I've seen this guy before.
• 48:48
  And also there's one in Coors Field, similar situations, just
• 48:53
  an older, older guy. I think he got hit in the
• 48:56
  noggin. I think there was something like
• 48:58
  that. That sounds right.
• 49:00
  That Coors Field, but he's like, he's just like a ball hawk out
• 49:04
  there, man. And I feel like there's
• 49:05
  something situation like similar situation.
• 49:08
  I don't know if there's like a season ticket kind of thing
• 49:12
  going on because I'd hate to see that.
• 49:17
  I I, I, I feel like it's appropriate to give the band
• 49:24
  because it was just the rest of the year, right?
• 49:29
  Yeah. He doesn't have like a lifetime
• 49:30
  ban from. Chase no, they, they the D backs
• 49:33
  came out and said he'll have the I think the statement was this
• 49:36
  fan will have the opportunity to return to Chase Field in 2026 so
• 49:39
  long as he meets certain terms and abides by our fan code of
• 49:43
  conduct. My question is, is what?
• 49:45
  Why are you trying to impede on plays that are impact negatively
• 49:51
  impacting your team? Oh, he's just trying to ball
• 49:55
  out, man. Just trying to make a play.
• 49:59
  Trying to make a play. Dude was sprawled out a grown
• 50:03
  man sprawled out a long like treating it like it's a gymnast
• 50:07
  pole doing his routine trying to make a play like this kid is.
• 50:13
  We're not talking like a 10 year old bro.
• 50:17
  We've been talking, we've been talking about too many negative
• 50:20
  fan situations recently. And I'm, I'm sorry to get
• 50:22
  worried. Like can we just be better like
• 50:25
  as, as fans? I'm not saying we have to go
• 50:27
  back to like. Well, I mean, I think we all
• 50:29
  know where we where we stand with adults having gloves at
• 50:33
  games. I think it's got to be, it's got
• 50:36
  to stop. Minus the Home Run Derby.
• 50:40
  All out that because I think. You even you even throughout the
• 50:43
  idea of bringing our gloves for that or maybe the All Star game,
• 50:48
  something like that. I don't remember what you said.
• 50:50
  I don't even think it's going to matter for where we're at.
• 50:52
  We're we're not going to be in in home run land, but we'll be
• 50:56
  there. But it's like we don't have to
• 51:02
  go back to like the 30s where everybody was just wearing
• 51:05
  suits, golf, clapping every time something could happen.
• 51:08
  But like, can we find some middle ground to where we're
• 51:11
  not, You know, like pole dancing on the outfield wall the the
• 51:15
  racing? 70s where they're like trotting
• 51:17
  around the bases with the player.
• 51:20
  That's that's my ideal middle ground, like a, a clutch one
• 51:25
  run, like let let a few select fans out onto the field, you
• 51:29
  know, maybe do like a little background check, but like let
• 51:31
  it let fan involvement. We're all about fan involvement
• 51:35
  here with with Major League Baseball, so they say.
• 51:38
  This guy, I guarantee if if I'm in charge of advertising slash
• 51:43
  marketing slash social media, if that's my title for the Savannah
• 51:49
  bananas, I'm calling this guy because they have their outs,
• 51:52
  bro. Like if you catch it like the
• 51:55
  fans are a part of it. If you catch it on the fly, it's
• 51:57
  an out for that team. He's getting a call.
• 52:01
  He needs to get a call. I don't mind this like I I
• 52:04
  don't. The band is tough.
• 52:07
  Because like bands, like when you look at a band, you're like,
• 52:09
  all right there. There's a dude making ridiculous
• 52:13
  comments to a person. There's a guy who won't let go
• 52:19
  of Mookie Betts. Like those types of things are
• 52:22
  like, yeah, bam, of course, Bam. This one, I'm just like, I, I
• 52:28
  don't know. I don't know.
• 52:29
  Did he get a slap on the wrist beforehand?
• 52:33
  Were the Diamondbacks like Yo one more time and you're out for
• 52:38
  the season? Whether or not he did like
• 52:42
  regardless, just have some self-awareness.
• 52:44
  Be like, whoa, I'm I'm putting myself, I like, I'm inserting
• 52:47
  myself into this conversation one too many times, like once,
• 52:50
  you know, so be it twice. OK.
• 52:53
  I mean, the the odds of that happening to somebody like me or
• 52:56
  you slim to none like I've Yeah, I've.
• 52:59
  Made a heck. Man, I've maybe gotten like 1
• 53:01
  foul ball in my life. Maybe.
• 53:03
  I've never actually. Yeah babe, that that that might
• 53:09
  be a stretch. I don't even know if I've ever
• 53:11
  gotten a foul ball. I've gotten a ball tossed to me,
• 53:13
  but never, never foul ball. I got a ball tossed to me in the
• 53:19
  Wild Card game 2019 when the Nationals, you know, quote, UN
• 53:24
  quote, upset the Brewers and then ultimately Tran.
• 53:27
  Grisham. That was the Tran Grisham play,
• 53:29
  wasn't it? Through the wickets and right.
• 53:32
  Yeah, and funny enough, I think he was actually the guy that
• 53:34
  tossed me the ball. Really.
• 53:37
  Yeah. I I don't even, I think I just
• 53:39
  put two and two together. Crazy.
• 53:41
  Anyway, this guy ends up impacting a home run play in,
• 53:45
  what, four or five straight consecutive seasons?
• 53:48
  They had a streak going like have have.
• 53:50
  Could could continue the streak? Next true could I've got to
• 53:55
  slide over to right. You got to think if he gets hit
• 53:58
  with this again that we might be talking lengthy ban if not
• 54:03
  forever. Grow mustache, you know.
• 54:08
  True. Speaking of mustaches, you know
• 54:13
  who has mustaches? You know who has mustaches,
• 54:24
  Nate? No.
• 54:29
  Well, really, it's facial hair. But for the sake of the bit, can
• 54:32
  you just can you just guess who has mustaches?
• 54:36
  My Aunt Linda. No, Nate Pirates have mustaches.
• 54:50
  The Pittsburgh Pirates. I'm not Co signing on this.
• 54:55
  Making, correct me if I'm wrong, making the team debut.
• 55:00
  Have I done a team before for the credit cannon?
• 55:02
  Maybe the first segment, I maybe had mixed it up a little bit.
• 55:07
  If not, though, I jury's out if I go back and check and confirm
• 55:13
  the Pirates of all teams, of all teams, the Pirates making their
• 55:21
  Credit Canada A-Team debut. The Pirates have outscored
• 55:29
  opponents 43 to 4. Let's go Pirates over their last
• 55:34
  six games coming in a little hot.
• 55:39
  Sorry. Yeah, let's cut that.
• 55:44
  The most runs scored over a six game span while allowing fewer
• 55:47
  than five runs in MLB history, according to Optus Stats.
• 55:52
  It's getting worse. You sound like you're
• 55:54
  underwater. The Let's Go Pirates.
• 56:00
  According to Joe Block on Twitter, this is the third time
• 56:05
  and Bridge the Buck Taylor Podcast Don't Shut Up.
• 56:08
  Never Forget it's the third time the Pirates have shut out their
• 56:13
  opponent in all three games of a series.
• 56:15
  The last time coming in 1976 against the Cardinals, who they
• 56:21
  swept and shut out three straight times.
• 56:25
  Today, the Pirates hitching staff has not allowed a single
• 56:36
  run in the past 31 innings on his home stand.
• 56:41
  Pirates went six and O and I already mentioned, outscored
• 56:43
  their opponents 43. It's a 4.
• 56:46
  Who was one of their opponents? The aforementioned.
• 56:51
  Tell Allen that the Mets suck. Let's go Pirates.
• 56:57
  The according to Bleach report walk off.
• 56:59
  The pirates are 12 and 26 when they fired Derek Shelton.
• 57:04
  They've gone 26 and 24 under Don Kelly.
• 57:08
  Told you I like Don Kelly. They're talking about, well,
• 57:13
  we're driving through Pennsylvania today on our way
• 57:15
  back from the Great White North, and I was thoroughly enjoying
• 57:20
  it. Like the vibes were high on this
• 57:22
  Pirates broadcast. And I think it's Neil Walker
• 57:26
  who's the the other guy. He was, he was singing the
• 57:31
  praises of, he was singing the praises of Don Kelly, really
• 57:34
  talking about how the how he's cut from the old school cloth,
• 57:37
  how we really were talking fundamentals earlier.
• 57:39
  There's a guy that really tries to drive that home and you know,
• 57:44
  it's, it's paying off. It's paying off.
• 57:47
  You know, it's all things considered as good as I think it
• 57:49
  can for the Pirates. You know, two games over 500
• 57:52
  under Don Kelly. That's not a bad, that's not a
• 57:54
  bad start to a potential, potential removal of the interim
• 58:01
  tag. I could see that.
• 58:04
  Not a bad start to the the Don Kelly era.
• 58:08
  We'll see. I'd love to like see what I
• 58:13
  don't think there's any way of like tracking it or looking it
• 58:15
  up, but like teams that are 12 plus games back in the division,
• 58:23
  how those teams perform in the month of like June and July.
• 58:32
  You know what I mean? Like each year, because I wonder
• 58:35
  how many of these guys are like, I might have a chance to get out
• 58:38
  of here. Like if I play my cards right
• 58:42
  for the next month I could get out of here.
• 58:45
  It's exciting, you know? Wonder how much of that goes
• 58:50
  around. It's a little bit of an extra
• 58:52
  juice. It's Yeah, this is crazy.
• 58:55
  I did. I'm just now finding out.
• 58:57
  Shout out bridge Buck Tovers tell me that Neil Walker's Don
• 59:00
  Keller's brother-in-law. The things you learn.
• 59:03
  And I'm also you. Imagine Neil just up in the
• 59:05
  booth trashing him. Well, everything that he was
• 59:10
  saying sounded like a valid. Point Anthony Volpe makes me
• 59:16
  want to. Stop.
• 59:18
  We're talking about the hottest team in baseball outside of the
• 59:21
  Marlins, the Pittsburgh Pirates. Yeah, OK, wow.
• 59:26
  There's conflicting reports on, on social.
• 59:30
  I've seen some noteworthy counts referring to him as the inner,
• 59:33
  inner manager. But I am being informed that he
• 59:35
  is not the interim guy. You know what I mean though?
• 59:38
  Like, yeah, he's, he's the manager for this year.
• 59:40
  But I'm saying if this is a guy, maybe they want to like parlay
• 59:42
  this into a, a longer term thing.
• 59:45
  Parlay, parlay, you know, make this a multi year situation.
• 59:52
  Not a bad start. At least I agree next to love
• 59:56
  when managers wear the socks up. You know, I actually haven't
• 1:00:00
  seen. Big socks up guy.
• 1:00:02
  I believe I'm going to open. I'm going to open my window a
• 1:00:05
  little bit because I want to see this.
• 1:00:11
  It's crazy. I live on a different planet.
• 1:00:13
  It's nuts. Is this a dust storm?
• 1:00:15
  Yeah, but it's not here yet, but it's it's around.
• 1:00:18
  It's coming, it's coming. It's.
• 1:00:20
  Just brown outside. That's the music I hear in my
• 1:00:31
  head. When you say that there's a dust
• 1:00:33
  storm coming, that's what I hear.
• 1:00:34
  Like that's what I'm envisioning.
• 1:00:35
  Just chaos ensuing anyway. Can't talk about this team
• 1:00:40
  anymore. Well, good.
• 1:00:42
  We're moving on because Next up on the credit Canon slate for
• 1:00:45
  today, the aforementioned Miami Marlins, Otto Lopez, a name that
• 1:00:53
  you, we, we, I think it was last episode.
• 1:00:57
  Who was it? Cool name by the way.
• 1:00:59
  Very cool name. Woogy.
• 1:01:01
  Woogy Woogy Rocket Power. Who was it last episode that we
• 1:01:06
  talked where I said when I say that I was unfamiliar, you
• 1:01:14
  Remember Me saying this? Who are we talking about?
• 1:01:19
  Oh, it was Jacob Wilson. I was familiar with Jacob
• 1:01:22
  Wilson, but his game? Talking was pop.
• 1:01:24
  Yeah, a little pop. Yeah, that's what we're
• 1:01:26
  referring to. Kind of the same vibes here when
• 1:01:30
  I say I'm unfamiliar with Otto Lopez's game.
• 1:01:33
  Dude's been, dude's been balling out a little bit lately over the
• 1:01:36
  last week, hitting 375, two homers, 12 rubies and an 1191
• 1:01:42
  OPS over the last week. And I think just saw that he
• 1:01:45
  announced that he's going to be playing for Team Canada in next
• 1:01:49
  year's WBC. So, you know, hate, I hate that
• 1:01:52
  tone. I hate that forum.
• 1:01:55
  But you know, it's an opportunity, I guess.
• 1:02:06
  So good for Otto Lopez. Moving on, trying to look up
• 1:02:10
  these stats real quick. Well, the the the marks on the
• 1:02:15
  year aren't anything necessary to write home about, but that's
• 1:02:17
  not what this segment's about. Understood Five 10185.
• 1:02:25
  All right. Speaking of Canada, George
• 1:02:30
  Springer, a guy that you just love, Yankee killer George
• 1:02:38
  Springer over the last week hitting 429 coming in, coming
• 1:02:43
  into today, 429 Sue homers, 11 ribbies and an OPS at 12:34.
• 1:02:50
  And by the way, a massive Grand Slam for the Jays on Canada Day
• 1:02:58
  in the Reds with the roof open. Just a a cinema, as the kids say
• 1:03:05
  cinema Nate. According to Blue Jays Today on
• 1:03:09
  Twitter, George Springer over his last 10 games, 457 A, 513 on
• 1:03:15
  base, 714 slug, 12/27 OPS15 ribbies in that span and only
• 1:03:22
  one strikeout. I hate him.
• 1:03:29
  Yeah, that's all Nate really was going to say for this particular
• 1:03:33
  player. So we'll just move on.
• 1:03:35
  Next up, making his return, I think his second appearance on
• 1:03:40
  the credit Cannon list. Jacob degrom Nate Jacob degrom
• 1:03:45
  is having a Cy Young caliber season in his last six starts
• 1:03:49
  since June 1st, 5 and O with an ERA of 166 and 38 strikeouts on
• 1:03:58
  the year. On the year, Hey Jacob, degrom
• 1:04:04
  has already eclipsed the 100 inning mark.
• 1:04:07
  How many A. 101.1 or 101 and a third Jacob degrom.
• 1:04:14
  So high baby Mets reunion would be crazy.
• 1:04:18
  I'm seeing a lot of that. I'm seeing a lot of people
• 1:04:21
  talking about how this would be a storybook ending.
• 1:04:23
  I'm like. I would.
• 1:04:26
  A lot of things got to go right there.
• 1:04:27
  A lot of things got to go right. Beg.
• 1:04:30
  To not go back there. If I was him, you think, yes, I
• 1:04:38
  would never ever want to go back.
• 1:04:45
  I mean, where would you want to go if you're Jacob Grom?
• 1:04:49
  Anywhere but there. Anywhere else?
• 1:04:51
  Yeah, I saw that coming. I mean, they, I don't, I don't
• 1:04:56
  know what, I don't want any Braves fans in the chat saying
• 1:04:58
  they're that they're buying. First off, they're not buying
• 1:05:02
  anybody. The Braves need to be selling.
• 1:05:04
  So we're not going to say Atlanta Cubbies.
• 1:05:09
  Cubbies would be cool. The good new Cubs.
• 1:05:13
  You know you. Would it doesn't feel right.
• 1:05:23
  Let me let me look who who's realistically in the mix here.
• 1:05:27
  They they could be in the mix for a guy like Jake Brown.
• 1:05:29
  What's that? What's left on that contract?
• 1:05:32
  I hate to say it, but yeah, that would that wouldn't be a bad
• 1:05:35
  fit. Yeah, I'll look up the contract.
• 1:05:37
  Let's see, I what about? What about the Giants?
• 1:05:51
  I could see that very realistic possibility.
• 1:05:57
  I mean, at this point you're punting on the division.
• 1:05:59
  I would, I would guess. I mean, you're not going to say
• 1:06:02
  that, but. You're.
• 1:06:03
  Already 9 games back. Jesus contract is rough.
• 1:06:09
  Is it bloated? Club option in 2028 at the age
• 1:06:15
  of 40. He is owed 38 mil next year, 37
• 1:06:21
  in 2027. He's 37 years old, isn't he?
• 1:06:25
  Yeah. Crazy.
• 1:06:28
  Time flies. That is not very nice of a
• 1:06:36
  contract to trade for. Like that's why I could see the
• 1:06:38
  Giants doing it because that's just, I feel like they have a
• 1:06:40
  ton of money that they never get to spend.
• 1:06:42
  Does that make sense? Well, I've been the devil.
• 1:06:46
  Recently. Yeah, the devil's thing changes
• 1:06:48
  the conversation a little bit, but I still feel like they've
• 1:06:51
  got some in the well, no, I actually haven't checked their
• 1:06:53
  payroll situation or their their in the financial situation, but.
• 1:06:58
  Willie Don, That's true. Things could have probably.
• 1:07:01
  I could see that in the chat. Blue Jays man.
• 1:07:04
  In the chat, he could switch Texas teams, maybe hit across
• 1:07:07
  town to Houston. It's not terrible.
• 1:07:12
  That also doesn't feel right and it's not like a it's not like a
• 1:07:16
  an Astros hate thing. I that doesn't bother me.
• 1:07:19
  It's it's just AI. Don't know if it seems like a
• 1:07:22
  fit to me. Currently in 10th at 195 mil.
• 1:07:28
  The Giants. Wouldn't be a bad move.
• 1:07:35
  It's I should lighten up. Is that is that sandstorm here?
• 1:07:38
  Crazy, but the wind is going in every direction.
• 1:07:41
  It's nuts. That's like 1 Bush.
• 1:07:43
  It's blowing that way. This tree is blowing this way.
• 1:07:45
  That tree is blowing that way. It's neat.
• 1:07:51
  Speaking of going multiple directions the the Braves, I
• 1:07:57
  don't I don't, I don't know what's what to make of the
• 1:08:01
  Braves this year. I really don't like there for a
• 1:08:03
  minute it was like, OK, we've bounced back from the horrific
• 1:08:06
  start and now I I just don't know.
• 1:08:09
  I don't know. And the news that we got what
• 1:08:13
  today? About Schwellenbach.
• 1:08:16
  Spencer Schwellenbach, This is sort of like a weird, you know,
• 1:08:20
  half hearted thing. Credit.
• 1:08:22
  Cannon, What are we talking? About hear me out.
• 1:08:26
  That's why I was saying it's like I have it's a lukewarm.
• 1:08:29
  It's like a weird, you know, I'm not, you know, like.
• 1:08:33
  Words are tough. It's I don't feel good about it.
• 1:08:37
  I'm just going to say that, but Spencer Schwellenbach.
• 1:08:42
  This is just. Stop.
• 1:08:45
  Hear me out. Super uncalled.
• 1:08:46
  For. Some could say that that was the
• 1:08:51
  blow that took out his elbow. Oh, that's, that's not what I'm
• 1:08:55
  saying. But some could say Spencer
• 1:08:59
  Schwalenbach hitting the shelf with a fractured elbow.
• 1:09:05
  I saw that he will likely be out until at least September, which
• 1:09:09
  is crazy because I feel like if I fractured my elbow, I'm just
• 1:09:12
  like, I'll see you when I'm 35. We'll give a.
• 1:09:16
  We'll give it a go then. What happened by the way?
• 1:09:19
  Because I saw this retroactive till like last week.
• 1:09:25
  Couldn't tell you is. There a comeback or?
• 1:09:27
  I've been out of the mix for the last better part of a week, so
• 1:09:32
  I'm the wrong person to ask. I'm in I'm in the dog days
• 1:09:34
  personally so I tried to. Stay in the loop.
• 1:09:37
  I tried to stay in the loop but just.
• 1:09:41
  Help us out man. What's hard in this guy?
• 1:09:43
  Like how does that how does a fractured elbow just Willy
• 1:09:47
  nilly? And also I saw like the the
• 1:09:50
  press release where it was just snuck in at the bottom of all of
• 1:09:54
  the other transactions, which is just buried to me.
• 1:09:57
  Bury the lead for sure on that. The the credit Canon aspect of
• 1:10:02
  this, though. Let me let me let me get to that
• 1:10:06
  because that's the that's the whole reason we're we're really
• 1:10:09
  talking about it here. Nate in his last four starts
• 1:10:14
  prior to hitting the shelf since June 11th, 3 and O with an ERA
• 1:10:19
  of 2.733 strikeouts across those four starts in order starting
• 1:10:25
  with the June 11th start against the Brewers.
• 1:10:29
  Honestly, not a bat, not a not a stretch to turn your nose up at
• 1:10:34
  the Brewers, the Mets twice home Rd. and then the Phils in those
• 1:10:41
  four starts. 9 innings. 7 innings. 7 innings. 7 innings.
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  Solid. Three of those matchups in
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  division. Solid.
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  Solid. That's what you love.
• 1:10:54
  But don't matter much no more, does it.
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  Doesn't matter, you know, feel for the kid, but sounds like
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  he'll he'll be back sooner than sooner than I would.
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  I know that. Like I said, at the very least
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  he'll be back sooner than I would be.
• 1:11:09
  So I don't know if he like elbowed something or someone.
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  We can really get to the bottom of this.
• 1:11:16
  It's it's, there's this thing we've got.
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  It's called Google. I'm not a very good googler,
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  though you've told me that there's a method to it.
• 1:11:31
  It's very simple method. People try to get like all cute
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  with it. I'm like just type, just type in
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  the keywords like just like I just typed in Spencer
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  Schwellenbach elbow and I look for the article that looks like
• 1:11:42
  it's going to answer the question that I have.
• 1:11:45
  And what's the result, Sir? All Star candidate fells
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  discomfort while notching a career high 12 strikeouts
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  against the Phillies. Imaging performed the a day or
• 1:11:59
  two later showed a small fracture, doctors, Schwellenbach
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  said. And yes, I'm seeing in the chat
• 1:12:06
  just now doctors used the term freak accident, Schwellenbach
• 1:12:14
  said. Honestly, from the bump in Velo
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  I've had in the last month, maybe my elbow just wasn't ready
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  for it. Who knows, it could have been
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  anything. So there's your answer.
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  What a boring answer. I mean, what do you want him to
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  say dude like. I, still out of bed, elbowed my
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  locker. That's what Chris Sales said
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  when he said he like, had the he fell off his bike or whatever.
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  Like, no, nobody believes that. Nobody.
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  Any. Better than better than just
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  miraculously happening. He said it was a freak accident.
• 1:12:51
  That sounds like it's a freak accident.
• 1:12:53
  That's the That's the textbook definition of a freak accident
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  if there ever was 1. Shark attack.
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  That's what I wanted you to pull up.
• 1:13:05
  That's what I was hoping for. Instead I got nothing.
• 1:13:10
  I wouldn't call a shark attack a freak accent.
• 1:13:12
  There's there's some you have some awareness, like know where
• 1:13:16
  you're at in the water. What?
• 1:13:22
  Nothing. What do you seen on your TV?
• 1:13:24
  Nothing. Hey.
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  Just a nuke. Just an Aaron Judge nuke to come
• 1:13:36
  come back from an 8 nothing deficit.
• 1:13:42
  That's great. It actually double s for the
• 1:13:44
  Judge comment and for this, no disrespect.
• 1:13:48
  Speaking of the Yankees, this game that I was at, this game
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  that I was at in Toronto, Jay's Yanks, I texted you this, this
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  guy. And maybe I'm in the minority
• 1:14:03
  here. Maybe like this is a move.
• 1:14:04
  Maybe this is a vibe, this guy. Well, bummed you didn't get a
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  picture of this by the way. I tried, but he walked.
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  He walked by me too quick and I was like, well, I'm not going to
• 1:14:13
  be that. I'm not going to follow this guy
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  around the concourse. Although I mean, you know.
• 1:14:16
  You had standing room only, what else is there?
• 1:14:20
  OK, Nate, I get it. I'm poor.
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  We can't afford, we can't afford seats.
• 1:14:24
  Oh I would happily take standing room only.
• 1:14:26
  No, I'm kidding. We we could have, but I was
• 1:14:28
  like, I don't care enough about this game to spend more than I
• 1:14:31
  have to. I just want to be able to get
• 1:14:32
  into the park, which by the way, it poured down rain the entire
• 1:14:37
  way there. I was hoping that it would have
• 1:14:39
  lightened up when we parked because we had to walk about a
• 1:14:43
  mile or so to the No, it was like half a mile.
• 1:14:47
  Poor dot. Don't even get me started dude.
• 1:14:51
  I could go on and on about this Canada trip.
• 1:14:53
  The driving was a nightmare. It was like they had converse
• 1:14:56
  exit. They had they had conversion
• 1:14:59
  charts driving down the highway like hey, this is what our speed
• 1:15:02
  limit is right here. But in case you need to know,
• 1:15:05
  here's what it is. I'm like just the whole like
• 1:15:09
  what is a kilometer mean? That was me driving the entire
• 1:15:13
  time. Anyway, back to my point.
• 1:15:16
  This guy walks by in a game worn helmet that he had clearly
• 1:15:21
  purchased from the the Authentics portion of the team
• 1:15:27
  store at the Rogers Center. That's so tough.
• 1:15:31
  And what's interesting is it had a #48 on the back.
• 1:15:34
  I caught a glimpse of the number on the back.
• 1:15:36
  So I did a little digging without knowing the answer for
• 1:15:42
  sure, because it could have been like one of a few guys,
• 1:15:44
  depending upon like how long they keep keep these game used
• 1:15:48
  items around. If we're going with the
• 1:15:51
  realistic or the the most recent realistic option.
• 1:15:55
  Because you know, no disrespect, I I don't necessarily think
• 1:16:00
  they're going to be giving away a Jose Reyna helmet, which he
• 1:16:06
  wouldn't even he wouldn't even have a helmet.
• 1:16:10
  It would be Spencer Horowitz or friend of the pod Ross
• 1:16:18
  Stripling, or 48 for the Jays. Also would never have it.
• 1:16:23
  Yeah, but he liked hitting and it's, it's possible that he just
• 1:16:26
  had one, maybe took some BP on, on.
• 1:16:28
  A. Is there like some pine tar on
• 1:16:30
  it? Could you see anything?
• 1:16:32
  It looks it looked relatively clean.
• 1:16:36
  It wasn't caked or anything, but just a weird the the whole
• 1:16:40
  purpose here just seemed like a bizarre move to be walking
• 1:16:43
  around in a game wide. Helmet nut job just walking
• 1:16:49
  around crushing a Tim Horton's doughnut with a helmet on.
• 1:16:56
  Just a just a weird weird time up there in in.
• 1:17:00
  Canada the hockey guy, is she some weird things?
• 1:17:03
  Spitzer Horowitz helmet like no disrespect.
• 1:17:08
  I've got a lot a lot of other ways I can spend my money.
• 1:17:13
  I've got a lot of other. And you know, yeah, you know,
• 1:17:17
  they they up charge those things like, yeah, probably 10X what
• 1:17:22
  they're really what I'd really be willing to spend.
• 1:17:25
  The fact that someone was like, put it, put it in the store, put
• 1:17:30
  it on display, I promise we'll we'll get off this thing.
• 1:17:32
  Somebody we'll get off this thing.
• 1:17:35
  Somebody, somebody will take this off our hands.
• 1:17:39
  Guarantee it. That's crazy.
• 1:17:41
  Little did they know this guy, no disrespect.
• 1:17:44
  Little did they know this guy couldn't wait to get home to try
• 1:17:49
  it on, he said at the ballpark. Now we go.
• 1:17:53
  Queue it up again for me. Yeah.
• 1:18:02
  Closing the book Braves DFA Alex Verdugo on the year had a human
• 1:18:08
  had actually been a disservice to the to to the teams he was
• 1:18:12
  employed by -.2 WAR on the year this is for this is for all of
• 1:18:21
  2025. The Braves obviously didn't see
• 1:18:24
  any any more value beyond that he's hitting.
• 1:18:28
  What is he? He's in 239 this year.
• 1:18:33
  But just All in all, not a good baseball player. 6 percentile, 6
• 1:18:40
  percentile, batting run value, according to Baseball Savant.
• 1:18:49
  18th percentile and base running an eighth percentile in fielding
• 1:18:58
  run value. Just not a good baseball player.
• 1:19:02
  So that's really all I had for that.
• 1:19:03
  I didn't want to spend any more time beyond that talking about
• 1:19:05
  Alex Rodugo, if we don't have to, but just not a it's not
• 1:19:10
  good. I did see people taking some
• 1:19:13
  shots at Brian Cashman, though, saying this guy can't even.
• 1:19:18
  Yeah, yeah, yeah. Hang on, Hang on to a Major
• 1:19:21
  League team in 2025. It was on your World Series team
• 1:19:23
  last year. Quintessential Cashman move
• 1:19:26
  there. Classic.
• 1:19:30
  Well, the number of guys that have taken up so much playing
• 1:19:34
  time that end up released the next year from someone else,
• 1:19:40
  it's just it's incredible. Love it.
• 1:19:44
  Does he does he find another job?
• 1:19:46
  Honestly wouldn't be surprised if he didn't.
• 1:19:50
  Yeah, just like a fart in an airplane.
• 1:19:56
  I mean making his way around. What I was going to say is that
• 1:20:05
  you're you tell me that you can't find this elsewhere in
• 1:20:07
  your system. Like if you actually like, if
• 1:20:09
  you do need some outfield help like you do, you need to go to
• 1:20:12
  this? Well, I don't think you do.
• 1:20:15
  It's crazy, like, I don't know, there's so many guys that still
• 1:20:17
  have jobs and I'm just like, you don't, you don't want to see
• 1:20:21
  what's in your system. Like you don't want to give a
• 1:20:24
  kid a? Shot.
• 1:20:25
  That's what I'm saying and you know, like credit to the Braves
• 1:20:28
  for doing it like, you know, I have my thoughts about Alex
• 1:20:31
  Verdugo, but like it to me it made sense like OK, let's take a
• 1:20:34
  flyer on this guy. It didn't pan out.
• 1:20:36
  But if you're, if you're another team around the like, elsewhere
• 1:20:39
  around the league, I think you know what you need to know now.
• 1:20:42
  Like I don't think we need to try that.
• 1:20:45
  Yeah, yeah, I agree. We we know.
• 1:20:52
  We know. Anyway, any final thoughts
• 1:20:56
  before we get out here? I swear I had something I don't
• 1:21:04
  know. Guess it's all gone.
• 1:21:07
  Reminder Friday. Let me check the weather, I
• 1:21:12
  hope. We're getting good weather
• 1:21:13
  Friday. Oh, that's right.
• 1:21:17
  You hit the little. You hit the little little.
• 1:21:19
  Parade put Canada, Canada Day to shame, No disrespect.
• 1:21:24
  Well, some if they keep running their mouse, that disrespect's
• 1:21:30
  only going to go up. But but Friday we're going to
• 1:21:36
  hit the little a little parade and then come back.
• 1:21:40
  And we, we discovered last year that our, our neighborhood pool
• 1:21:43
  does a little pool party. So we'll go over, pop in for
• 1:21:45
  that, maybe grab a couple dogs. Now, do you guys talk to people
• 1:21:49
  like what a like when you go to these things?
• 1:21:53
  Do you know people at your neighborhood community?
• 1:21:55
  Yeah, yeah, we're, we're decent. We're we're pretty good friends
• 1:22:00
  with the people on our little little square here.
• 1:22:04
  We'll do that. We'll come back.
• 1:22:06
  We don't, we don't get out much that.
• 1:22:09
  Hey, you know man, it's. My neighbors are lucky to get a
• 1:22:11
  head nod. The American way, No, we'll come
• 1:22:17
  back from that. We'll go over to the parents,
• 1:22:20
  probably grill out a little bit and then we'll go down to the
• 1:22:22
  fireworks show that as I mentioned, Will.
• 1:22:25
  It's nice. Without a doubt, 100% put the
• 1:22:30
  Canada Day fireworks display that I saw to shame.
• 1:22:36
  Yeah. It's a bit of a bummer.
• 1:22:39
  This time of year is kind of a not, not, not good for sparks to
• 1:22:45
  be sent out into the atmosphere. You know what I mean?
• 1:22:47
  Yeah. I mean, 11 sparkler incident
• 1:22:50
  gone wrong and all of Canada, all of Arizona is set a blaze.
• 1:22:56
  Yeah, yeah, pretty much. So no fireworks.
• 1:23:02
  I don't think I'm going to have a hot dog on Friday.
• 1:23:07
  That's I think we're going BBQ. We don't like pulled pork.
• 1:23:14
  What is some Mac? Some Mac salad.
• 1:23:16
  Yeah. Oh, you got to have the Mac
• 1:23:17
  salad. I'll, I'll let, I'll let the
• 1:23:19
  pulled pork slide. That's a that's a strong move.
• 1:23:21
  That's a strong play. Pulled pork Mac salad, Yeah, I
• 1:23:24
  mean, if you would have said like some watermelon if.
• 1:23:27
  You would have said like chicken breasts.
• 1:23:28
  I'd have been like. Nah, Nah, Nah Nah.
• 1:23:30
  You can literally have that. The I think the only way to
• 1:23:33
  pivot is BBQ. I think that's the only other
• 1:23:35
  way you can pivot. That's ours, arguably more ours
• 1:23:40
  than hot dogs are so. Oh, pulled pork.
• 1:23:43
  Yeah, yeah, yeah, for sure. Yeah, yeah.
• 1:23:46
  You know. Yeah, final thought.
• 1:23:52
  Have a happy 4th folks. You know, sorry if you're
• 1:23:56
  Canadian and you're listening to this, like if you're a Jays fan
• 1:23:58
  or a long lost Expos fan and you, you listen, this probably
• 1:24:02
  wasn't the episode for you and I apologize, but not really.
• 1:24:07
  Look, no disrespect to Canada, but we we are at a point in time
• 1:24:15
  in society right now where it's the popular thing just to be
• 1:24:18
  running your mouth about about the good old US of A.
• 1:24:22
  All I'm saying is if it really hit the fan, if it really hit
• 1:24:28
  the fan, I think the tune of some people and some countries
• 1:24:33
  out there would change awfully quick if it really hit the fan.
• 1:24:39
  So just be mindful. Just be mindful.
• 1:24:44
  You talking to zombies about how you talk about the Stars and
• 1:24:47
  Bars? That's right.
• 1:24:50
  Not zombies, but if it got to that point, you know?
• 1:24:56
  We're still taking it. We'd be at the.
• 1:24:57
  Forefront Anyway, have a happy 4th.
• 1:25:00
  Enjoy your BBQ, Nate and everybody else on the planet, or
• 1:25:05
  at least in our country. Enjoy your hot dogs.
• 1:25:09
  Enjoy some. He ain't having a dog.
• 1:25:13
  No, enjoy your hot dogs. Enjoy.
• 1:25:16
  We got some good baseball on deck.
• 1:25:17
  I love that the 4th is on a Friday this year, by the way.
• 1:25:20
  It's it's it's hard to imagine something better.
• 1:25:27
  Better on a better on a Friday or a Saturday, I mean.
• 1:25:32
  I I mean, I, I would put it up there with like.
• 1:25:37
  AI guess Friday's better by default because you get the you
• 1:25:40
  get the naturally longer weekend, but.
• 1:25:42
  Right. Like a, like a, like a Christmas
• 1:25:44
  on a Thursday would be pretty awesome because it's like,
• 1:25:48
  obviously Friday's not happening, you know?
• 1:25:53
  Well, I mean that really, that whole week isn't happening.
• 1:25:55
  That whole week, that whole week is barely alive so.
• 1:25:59
  Definitely not. Yeah, not Friday.
• 1:26:01
  Yeah, anyway, yeah, have a good 4th and Sunday.
• 1:26:07
  We'll see you Sunday. We'll see you Sunday.
• 1:26:09
  Keep an eye out we'll be doing we are in July now, so we'll be
• 1:26:12
  doing a a a score keeping live stream sometime soon yeah we're.
• 1:26:18
  Going to have to find. Probably after it'll be post All
• 1:26:21
  Star breakout. Imagine cause a little busy.
• 1:26:24
  A little busy. With the All Star game stuff
• 1:26:26
  going on. But anyway, that's all we got.
• 1:26:29
  We'll we'll see you guys Sunday. See you.
• 1:26:35
  Don't go chasing curveballs. Love you all Canadians.
• 1:26:40
  True, we love you all. And as always, looking forward
• 1:26:42
  to talking more baseball with you guys soon.
• 1:26:44
  Until next time, stay filthy.