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Padres Catch the Dodgers · The 3-0 Take

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Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to the Three OT where we talk all
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things Major League Baseball. Here's Kyle Corwin and Nate
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Reyes. It all starts right now.
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Welcome back to the Three OT presented by Chinook Sedery.
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This is episode 559. I'll be your host, Kyle Korne.
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I'm here with my Co host Nate Reyes.
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Nate. Casey, how it right?
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So you said you went to a subway today and.
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I regret it. I regret it with all you.
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Regret it, you say? It's not sitting well, which is
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a shame because really we're going to get into what I believe
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is one of our favorite topics. Non baseball of course, and that
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is food. Couple mentions of food right
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off the top here. We got for me.
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That we're going to get into well, we're going to talk about
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the the Brewers man and like just the the food stories that
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have blossomed food related stories that have blossomed
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it's. What?
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We're powered. On makes from one might even say
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from from this run, this magical run, that they're on pancakes,
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Nate. Pancakes.
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Specifically, pocket pancakes. Pocket pancakes I put out.
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I put out a video today and I I'm sure you've seen it because
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I try to put it everywhere because I'm a firm believer in
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it. So I wanted to get the word out.
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I wanted to get the message out. The reality of success or
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succeeding in baseball boils down to 1 simple thing and it's
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that you vibes. Vibes more specifically a thing
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to rally around that creates said vibes.
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Like I said in the video, you go back.
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Like I said, or the TikTok, you go back quarter century, you've
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got the Angels back in O2 with the Rally Monkey.
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You've got you've got a rally squirrel in there.
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You've got a raccoon. You've got the beards with the
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Red Sox. You've got Grimace last year,
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that you got the sausage for the Twins, a whole bevy of things.
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The sausage is crazy. You got the home run jacket,
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Blue Jays. That's more of like a feel like
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it's more like, it's more of like a I'm saying.
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Sausage isn't a prop. No, yeah, it was.
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But it I feel like it became more of a thing than just like,
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oh, we hit a home run here, we can throw a jacket on you.
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It was like the the sausage with the Twins.
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Like why are we talking about this on the post game presser?
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I don't know. But we're winning baseball games
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kind of that thing. The Dodgers thing again.
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That's that's well, that's like an extra base hit thing.
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This is, I'm saying like a thing you're getting the mixed up.
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We're getting like celebrations and and things like that.
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Like you're sort of muddy in the.
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Waters I think if they're inside jokes, you're going to become a
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thing. The well, there was nothing
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inside joke about the pocket pancakes.
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Pat Murphy just hey whips it out of his pocket on on the I think
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it was Apple TV broadcast a while back.
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They've got they've since gone 12 and O with the win today
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against the Pirates, a 12 to five win over the Pirates,
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they've now pushed their winning streak to 1212 games.
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They've outscored their opponents 103 to 39.
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Without question. At this very moment, the best
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team in baseball, 76 and 44, A run differential of 159.
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Wonder what it's like to be at eighty wins pre.
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And I get like we've had teams before.
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I'm not just saying it, but like, I wonder how good it's got
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to feel to have eighty wins before you get to September.
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That's what they're going to be at.
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That's nice. I honestly hadn't thought about
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that like crazy. In my mind, I think like the
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threshold of a good team. I would say I'm, I'm giving a
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good team 88 wins, 8788 wins, 90 plus is, you know, really,
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really good and they're now in that conversation to, to crush
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that potentially. I saw they were talking about on
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the Sox broadcast tonight. I don't remember the exact
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number, but it was like 5 of last year's playoff teams had 88
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or fewer wins or something like that.
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And to your point, the Brewers are knocking on the door of 80
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by the end of the month. It's.
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A good place to be. Month left to go.
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Yeah, that's nice. What do you tell me your
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thoughts on how this shapes your or or forms your opinion about
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the Cubs? Because obviously what the
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Brewers are doing right now is of another world.
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But like, how much? How much of this do we pin on
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the Cubs? Like you, can we really call
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this a choke job or can we just call this the Brewers running
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away with their division? Definitely a little both.
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I was watching a clip from, I think I told you about it, the
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Johnny Manzel's podcast, and Anthony Rizzo was on it.
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And he's like one of the things that's not really talked about
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is like a clubhouse knows when they need a little juice at the
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deadline and they know when they're a good team and like a
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little shot in the arm is going to do wonders.
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And I'm really, I think a lot of people were just disappointed in
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the Cubs deadline and and I felt like I kind of hyped it up
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myself just because I was in the mentality of like, it's very
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Yankees and Sodoesque of like you're you're trying out for
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Kyle Tucker. Like this is your audition for
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Kyle Tucker to sign back here, right?
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And I feel like they could just done a little bit more.
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They were a good team if there was holes to fill and they
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didn't fill them. And I feel like, you know, that
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Clubhouse probably felt it kind of what Rizzo was saying.
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Like, you know, Clubhouse notices that and look like, and
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he addressed this, like sometimes the front offices
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don't line up. And like everyone thinks it's
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it's a video game at the deadline where all you got to do
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is just throw offers out there. And it's just a yes, yes.
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It's just it's not that simple. Your prospects have to line up
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with the guy you're looking at and that team's organization,
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that organization's, you know, holes that they want to fill
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with your prospects. And if it doesn't line up, it
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doesn't line up. So I think I don't want to
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discredit what the Brewers are doing.
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I think the Cubs are in a really good place and they've had a
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good year and it's been turning a corner over the last few
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years. This is just very disappointing.
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I feel like they're sliding. But to credit that and what you
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were talking about the run differential with the Brewers,
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this is a team that like has gotten to the point where
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they're just they're not going to beat themselves.
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And that's how these mid, mid to small market teams have to
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operate. If you're not going to attract
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the superstars in in free agency, if you're not willing to
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fully commit at the deadline, you kind of have to just play
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good baseball. And that's what they do.
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And it's refreshing because it is very anti today's game.
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There's not a ton of swing and miss in their lineup.
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They play good defense. They do well on the bases.
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Pitching is is really good. The fact that Brandon Woodruff
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has just come back and immediately been a stud like
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that, all that stuff's really important.
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Yeah, for real. Big time little.
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Teaser. As far as the pancake goes, I
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did have a question and I can't remember I.
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Do we know what pocket that came out of?
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Well, I mean, the options are important question.
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Well, the options are pretty limited.
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I would think. Pat Murphy's got it.
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I mean, he's got to be a uniform guy like these managers.
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Have he's not. He's got that VP jacket.
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ASU legend Pat Murphy, by the way.
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That's what I'm. Saying BP jackets got the the
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pockets up here. Well, I mean, I was just
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thinking lower half here. I'm thinking back, back pant
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pocket. No.
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Is that is that safe? I think that's where my problem
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is with this because like, I also like back pocket in the in
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the dead of summer in the Midwest.
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And then who? Was it?
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Who was the moist pancake? Who was the woman?
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It's not Tricia Whitaker. Why am I thinking the name
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Tricia Whitaker? Who?
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Is who is that? Why does that sound right?
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That why does that sound right? It's the girl.
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Who used to cover? The rays she used to cover the
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rays. I don't remember her name
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though. I don't know, nobody seemed to
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be talking about it, but did he not hand her the pot the the
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pancake to take a bite and she also had some she.
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She also had some. Kind of a wild move that I don't
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feel like got enough attention. Yeah, that's something I feel
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like we need to address. Look.
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I'm just. Or follow up on rather.
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Look, I the Midwest been the summer, a lot of humidity around
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those lakes. You know what I mean?
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Like I get I just I don't know. I don't know.
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I think it was Tricia Whitaker, by the way, what a pull.
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Well, that's a. Crazy good pull.
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Thank you. Thank you.
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I think it. Isn't that the that's like the,
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I don't know what they call it, but that reporter.
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Yeah. Even though I don't, I don't
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like that term title. I don't.
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Sport. Yeah, wrong sport.
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Yeah, it literally. Yeah.
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Sure enough, that was her with Pat Murphy.
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Yep. Yeah.
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Former Rays, I believe. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
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Six seasons with the race. Have we have we had any more
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updates on the pancake? Has there been more pancakes
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since? Is this a daily thing?
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Like where are we at with this? I need details.
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I don't have an update on the status of of of the OR the
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ongoing status of of the pancake in the role that it might might
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serve in their dugout. However, I did have another
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update of food related to what the Brewers have done with their
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12 game-winning streak. You may or may not have heard
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about the burgers that a lot of Brewers fans are talking about
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right now because you just hear Brewers fans throwing out
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burgers. Burgers we want, burgers.
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We what are you talking about as a non Brewers guy?
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Yeah, fill me in. What are these burgers about?
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So I did a little research. George Webb, It's a Webb's.
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It's a Milwaukee restaurant chain.
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OK. So stay with me here.
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George Webb's, a Milwaukee restaurant chain, has a long
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standing tradition of giving away free hamburgers when the
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Milwaukee Brewers baseball team wins 12 consecutive games.
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This promotion, formalized in the 1960s, is tied to the legacy
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of George Webb, who founded the restaurant chain in 1948.
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The tradition was initially based on a prediction made by
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Webb about a local baseball team winning twelve straight games
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and has been honored twice in the restaurant's history, in
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1987 and 2018. All right.
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Make that. Make that 3.
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Good deal. See I remember something like
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when I was in Denver. The Rocky.
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I think they still do the Rockies.
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If they score 7, you get a free Taco from Taco Bell and it's you
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got to be like in the Denver metro area Taco Bells to take
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advantage of that. I think the angels do something
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like free, they're linked up with Mickey D's.
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I think they give away medium fry or something with like a
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minimum purchase which is stupid.
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That's just, that's just the McDonald's thing.
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What are we doing anyway? Who's Someone needs to step in
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from the pancake market and really take advantage of what's
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happening with the Brewers. Yeah, that's a missed
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opportunity if they. Don't it?
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It really is. I don't know if I want like a
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like an IHOP, you know? No, I want something kind of
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like the burgers, something local.
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It's not local, but I was thinking of like the pancake mix
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that we have upstairs. It's like the crusties or
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whatever, Like the big old bag crusties.
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Crusties, not crusties. Not like the Krusty Krab.
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We're talking Krusties. It's the Big Blue bag.
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I'm sure people know what I'm talking about.
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You just take the you take a scoop, drop it in.
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Hey, shout out, Chinook. Speaking of food, shout him out.
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Shout him out. No, but you take the you take
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the pancake mix, drop it in, mix some water.
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You got some pancakes. Somebody like that needs to step
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in and and really take advantage of of what the Brewers are doing
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right now. Yeah.
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There we go. Laura Krusties.
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There we go. That's what I'm talking about.
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So burgers all around. The last thing I'll say on on
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what the Brewers are are doing from a baseball perspective now
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that we've sort of covered the food bases here.
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Got that again, going back to my point about a team needing
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something to to rally around to really help go on a run, The
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Brewers are proving that it's something as silly as a pancake
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can. Even if things aren't going as
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well, maybe internally or on the field or whatever it may be.
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A lot of times if you, if something like this pops up, you
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you sort of roll with it, you ride with it.
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The fans buy in, they get behind it.
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You got fans creating posters with pancakes on them.
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It sounds silly. It sounds stupid, but I'm
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telling you like this is not a bit I've, I genuinely have been
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saying this for years. That and you, I, I promise you,
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I've said it on this podcast before, go back and find the
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receipts. Having something to to get
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behind can vary, especially this time of year like we're
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approaching the the tail end of the season here can really do
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wonders for a team's mojo heading into heading into the
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fall. Well, unless you're the Mets
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because they had the Pablo Sanchez night that I think they
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won ten straight and then it's been a free fall since.
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Well, that's just the Mets. But yeah, they, that example and
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grimace both proved to work. They, they, they sort of proved
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my theory again, I, like I said, like, sure, like I said in the
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TikTok today, it's not, it doesn't guarantee a World Series
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title by any stretch. But it's nice little thing.
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It gives you a little little boost.
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Like we talked about last episode, we're we're in very
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much the dog days right now. It's always nice to have a
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little little shot to the arm every now and then with
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something as silly as a pancake. The fact that the Brewers have a
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six game lead on the best record in baseball, at least in the win
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total, the win column. Six games, that's all.
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That's the rest of baseball, you're saying?
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All of baseball. Well, with that said, going back
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to the Cubs real quick, are we Brewers taking the taking the
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division at this point or you know, we're not even in
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September yet? Are you giving the Brewers the
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division right now? Yeah, at the time of this
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recording, 7 1/2 games, I just, I don't think that's it would
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take an epic collapse. And I can't see that happening
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because again, like it, this isn't, this isn't A-Team.
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And, and no disrespect to some of these other teams that like
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live and die by one thing like that.
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They're not a team that lives by home runs that are just, they're
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just bludgeoning teams at the moment.
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They're not a team that shuts down everybody That and, and
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pitching is just absolutely more dominant than we've ever seen.
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Like, this is just a team that's good all the way around baseball
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and they don't beat themselves, so I can't see them collapsing.
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So I'm going to give them the division.
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And I'm going to be honest, like the NL overall has kind of
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cooled off. Like it's kind of we talked
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about for a while. Like the narrative for at least
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half the season was how much better the NL is than the AL.
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Now that I'm looking at, I'm just like, really, 'cause some
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big teams have pretty much fallen off at this point between
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the Diamondbacks, the Giants and the Braves, I'm writing all of
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them off talking about the Red. Like no disrespect, but the Reds
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being a game and a half back from the last wild card spot,
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like it's just not as impressive as what we initially thought,
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that's all. All right, last thing promise on
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the Brewers here and then we'll move on to your point, though,
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about it taking it would require an epic collapse for the Brewers
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not to win the division coming at the I'd I'd pulled this tweet
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before they had notched their 12th in a row today.
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So this would have been this was like late morning when I pulled
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this, but uncovered uncovered MLB on Twitter again prior to
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today's game. The Milwaukee Brewers are 50 and
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16 in their last 66 games, 26 and four in their last 30 and 14
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and one in their last 15. That that 66 game pace that was
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that I mentioned in the beginning there 1516.
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That's a 754 winning percentage. That's not sustainable.
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No, it's not. Of course it's not.
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But I mean, we we taught in the same way we talked about in the
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beginning of the season of like, hey, there's going to be woes
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during the season. Let's just load up and put as
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many wins in the bank as we can to eventually, you know, live
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through those woes. It's a whole different story
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when you're winning ball games and there's a lot of other teams
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limping to the finish line and that's what they're doing.
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And 90 wins is absolutely within reach, and that puts you into a
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strong conversation. Now the problem is is that
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they're probably still going to be slept on when they get to the
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postseason because that's just how it is.
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Aren't they pacing for like 102 right now?
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Yeah. And that's what you're saying is
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that like it's not sustainable. They're not going to continue
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to, you know, live to this, to this standard.
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But I mean, I don't know, man, I I kind of like the fact that.
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Pat Murphy is like found his way in this game.
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Like I, I, I like his managing style.
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I think he's pretty much locking himself into the to the NL
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manager of the year conversation at this point.
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And I like that. Like you're getting a guy who,
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you know, I said ASU, like, you know, being at that college
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level for a little while and like, I'm still that teacher.
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I think that's his mentality. He's like, I'm hard on my guys,
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but I'm still going to teach. And that's what a good coach is.
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And I love that he's in that middle ground of like, I'm sure
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there's still gut feel and not totally reliant on analytics.
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And you know, you got to remember that it takes a front
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office to also buy into that manager style and that's why
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they're winning. Good for them.
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I don't want to put this on Pat Murphy, but I as we're as you
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were just talking about him, I had this glimpse into the future
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of him taking a turn, the way Brian Snicker took a turn.
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Age wise, no. No, no, just in terms of
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perception by the fans, like right now, Brewers fans like
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this is we love Pat Murphy. This is our guy.
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Who knows, maybe they're going to win the World Series just
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like the Braves did. And then a handful of years
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later, you've got majority of fans calling for his job.
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And I know like a lot can change in a few years, but it, and
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again, I'm not, I'm not putting this on Pat Murphy.
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I wouldn't wish this upon Pat Murphy, but I, I could just see
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because I feel like, you know, sort of similar in, in different
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facets. I think that I would.
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Overall, I would say that the Brewers are a less whiny fan
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group. That's fair, Yeah.
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And honestly, watching, yeah, yeah, very much so.
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I would say, you know, no disrespect, but some.
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I'm not part of a whiny fan group so.
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It's like in a post season spot, it's like I'm we'll see you next
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March. I don't know what to tell you.
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No. OK, swear.
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Last thing on the Brewers, then we'll move on.
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It has been really cool. Like we're just watching what
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the Brewers have done and seeing just sort of like you kind of
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get a glimpse in it, just like some traditional old school
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baseball city kind of thing. I don't know.
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It's really cool to see, man. Like the fans are the fans could
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not be more behind the scene right now.
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They love the Brewers. The the team obvious, as we've
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talked about, is just playing out of their minds right now.
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It's really cool to see and it's, you know, it's, they're
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not a, they're not a major market team like the it's, it's
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just, it's a different style of baseball and it's, it's been fun
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to watch. I will say.
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OK, Speaking of big market teams, let's let's move on here.
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Let's talk about the Los Angeles Dodgers and San Diego Padres.
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The San Diego Padres have, as of right now, sole possession of
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first place and the National League West.
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As of right now. As of right now, yeah, 'cause
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they won 11 to one against the Giants today, they've won five
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straight and 14 of their last 17.
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The Dodgers are playing right now.
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So yes, as of as of right now, regardless of that, I saw a
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nugget that the Padres stand by the first time San Diego has
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been in first place in August or later since 2010.
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That's nuts right after this like era.
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I'm really surprised by that stat.
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It also shows how dominant the Dodgers have been during this
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era as well. Exactly right, because you can't
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say you can't say this era for the Padres, but also leave out
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that like it's and I'm not saying you're doing that, but
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I'm just saying like, you know, the nature of the beast for the
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Padres is that like you can play out of your mind year in and
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year out, but that's how. Hard it is to win a a World
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Series. Oh.
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My goodness, as long as you're. Really, really different.
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As long as you're in this division with the Dodgers, you
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are going to be up against it, yeah.
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They're doing exactly what they should be doing.
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It's survive on the road, dominate at home.
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And at the moment they're 18 games over 500 at home and
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pretty much breaking even on the road.
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And that's kind of how it should go.
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Survive on the road, dominate at home.
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Talk about a team that restocked at the deadline as well versus a
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team that surprised they didn't do more at the deadline in the
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Dodgers. Can you take a brief
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intermission from the Dodgers Padres real quick?
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Sure, you got something? I got actually one more thing
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about the Brewers. Are you sitting on a pancake?
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No one more thing about the Brewers.
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Last thing I say about the Brewers Promise, truly, this is
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actually like something that I wanted to touch.
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Quote of the episode, by the way.
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I know, last thing, last thing about the Bears.
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Real quick, though, for real peripheral.
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I should have started the segment with this because I feel
26:06
like this is very important. I owe Andrew Vaughn an apology,
26:11
apparently. Can I?
26:14
Can I play the clip from our trade deadlines prediction
26:17
episode? I'd like, I'd like that clip to
26:20
be played. Sure, let me let me play the
26:21
clip here got Josh Naylor going to the Brewers because
26:24
currently. The never ending hole at first
26:27
base. Oh my goodness, man, Andrew, is
26:29
it playing? It's not playing.
26:30
Yeah, it is. Is it?
26:32
Yeah. You Really.
26:34
I can't. I can't hear it.
26:35
Andrew Ball, I'm not worried about you.
26:36
Who has? It OK hasn't.
26:38
I don't know if anybody can hear it.
26:39
I saw. A highlight of him hitting a
26:41
Homer and his first day be. If 2O5 with 7 jacks is OK and as
26:47
a Brewer though on an on base at 2:43.
26:50
I mean does it matter like this is?
26:51
It's his 2025 campaign. No disrespect.
26:56
No following any of those. No, it's just statistical data.
27:00
I'm not I'm not. I'm not necessarily taking a
27:03
narrative here. I'm just sharing numbers.
27:05
I hear you. As a Brewer 2 Jacks, he's
27:11
sitting 350 / 7 games. Hey, come on.
27:15
I, I mean sure like it's it has it been a, a, a good start to
27:21
his tenure there? Sure.
27:23
Is this a guy you want to take into October?
27:25
No, I've got Josh Naylor going to the Brewers because
27:30
currently. Oh my goodness, man, all.
27:35
Right, I sorry, I literally can't hear anything.
27:38
So I don't I don't like if that doesn't turn out on the
27:41
recording, I'm sorry, but maybe you just get a whole bunch of
27:43
nothing there. But if if you heard it, Nate and
27:47
maybe the the listeners heard it.
27:49
They know what they know what I'm apologizing for.
27:51
Andrew Vaughn has apparently turned into Albert Pujols.
27:55
Well, here's why. Early, early Cardinals Albert
27:58
Pujols, it seems. You, you didn't say no
28:02
disrespect. I gave you the opportunity to
28:03
say disrespect after you gave me the stats off and you didn't.
28:08
And now look where you're at. You're having to go.
28:10
Let's put that hand up. Well, put her up.
28:12
I was just supporting, I was reporting the numbers.
28:15
I was reporting the numbers that were available to us at that
28:18
moment in time. So I'm the head, I'm not going
28:21
to apologize for sharing the numbers, however accountability
28:25
here, however he has he has bounced back with with this
28:31
Brewers tenure that he's now a part of since July 7th.
28:36
Jeff Passan before today's game. Since debuting for the Brewers
28:41
on July 7th, Andrew Vaughn has the sixth highest average in MLB
28:44
with 347, sixth best OPS, 1055 in the second most RBI is 32.
28:51
Any who's I just I wanted to get that on record.
28:55
Andrew Vaughn, I wasn't familiar with the game.
28:58
I know and he was getting a lot of shade thrown at him this
29:01
morning in our group chat for his hairline.
29:05
Well, I mean, it's also tough. Can't expect him to throw No
29:11
disrespect there. Any who's back to the Dodgers
29:15
Padres Nate do can the let's just let's just cut it straight.
29:19
Can the Padres win the National League West this year?
29:22
I mean, can they? Sure.
29:25
Nate, let's just cut it straight here.
29:26
Will the Padres win the National League West this year?
29:38
I don't like committing to it. I don't know.
29:45
I just, I, they have a group with this roster that like,
29:49
knows how to win. They've been around for a while.
29:56
You want to. You want to know what's
29:57
interesting? What do you want to do?
29:58
What do you want to say? Well, you want to know what's
30:00
interesting. You know who has the easiest
30:04
strength of schedule in all of baseball for the remainder of
30:08
the year? Dodgers.
30:10
The Los Angeles Dodgers. You know who has the second
30:14
easiest schedule remaining in all of baseball for the
30:16
remainder of the year? Padres.
30:18
The San Diego Padres. All right, all.
30:22
Right. So take take that for for what
30:25
you will either way though, regardless, to your point, I'm
30:31
not going to commit right at this very moment.
30:33
I, I yes, I'm with you. I, I think they can obviously
30:37
you were what, 4042 games out I think for until until the
30:44
postseason and Padres currently hold the top spot, top that
30:49
division. So I'm going to go ahead and say
30:51
yes, it's certainly within the scope of possibility.
30:56
However, regardless how you feel about who's going to come out of
30:59
the National League West or at least win the National League
31:02
West, because safe to assume that both teams are coming out
31:07
of the West, the fact that the Padres have done what they've
31:11
done is nothing short of impressive.
31:14
July 3rd they were what, 9 games back?
31:22
10 games back. Yeah, it's true.
31:25
In the win column. That's nice subway burps.
31:35
Never again. Yeah, let's not do that again.
31:44
Since that. Since that date, July 3rd,
31:47
Padres are 22, well, 23 and 12 now.
31:51
Dodgers are 13 and 20. So sort of trending in opposite
31:57
directions here. And I, I think I'm at a point
32:00
with the Dodgers where like, especially now that we're on
32:06
this side of the trade deadline and knowing what they did and or
32:11
didn't do, we're at the point now where the injuries are kind
32:17
of just what they are. Like we we've, we've given you,
32:20
you know, baseball, say we like baseball fans have given you
32:25
enough slack in being like, OK, like we understand what you're
32:31
dealing with. But you're also the Dodgers.
32:33
You are also the deepest team in all of baseball and really all
32:37
of the like the mankind planet, the history of mankind coming
32:43
into this season and you're still in first place.
32:47
So like hats off to you Dodgers. But like, how are we just going
32:54
to is this just going to be an excuse that we ride until the
32:57
World Series if we make it that far?
32:59
And then if we fall short, what's like, well, look at the
33:02
injury, It's, it's, it's a honestly, it's kind of a win
33:05
win. If you're a Dodgers fan, no
33:06
disrespect, but it's like you say, you make it to the World
33:09
Series, you fall short. Well, look at what we had to
33:12
deal with all year. Look at the adversity we had to
33:14
deal with adversity. If you win the World Series and
33:18
it's like, well, look at what we had to deal with and look at
33:22
what we still did. Plus the hangover, plus the
33:27
World Series hangover. You know, you got to have that
33:30
into account and they're still sound like they're out of it.
33:35
I don't know. No, and I'd.
33:38
Like to see the Padres go go in it.
33:39
I mean a World Series game in Petco would be absurd.
33:46
I tell you what, that'd be nuts if the NLCS started today.
33:53
I'm 100% taking the San Diego Padres.
33:57
Padres fills Don't know how that's going to line up, but
34:03
that. 'D be sick.
34:04
I'm saying if we saw a, if we saw a Dodgers, Padres, NLCS and
34:09
it started today, I'm 100% taking the Padres all.
34:16
Right. I like that bullpen.
34:18
I do like the bullpen. That bullpen is going to be a
34:21
nightmare. You've got like what, 5-6 guys?
34:27
They could theoretically close a game for you if needed and
34:34
presumably could be closing on another team if they weren't in
34:38
this back end. That's I envy the Padres.
34:49
Same. I mean, really, how, how can you
34:53
complain? Really, if you're a Padres fan,
34:57
you're in San Diego, got a beautiful ballpark.
35:02
I haven't been. I still need to get out there
35:03
sometime soon. It's great.
35:05
I'm I'm feeling a trip to San Diego within the next calendar
35:11
year. I'm feeling it.
35:13
I really AM. Yeah.
35:17
You've got Don Orsillo in the booth.
35:22
It's a vet. Who which by the way, you sent
35:24
me that clip from his no go down by way of the K from the from
35:35
the sock series. I mean, what's not to like?
35:40
Man, I I better not hear and we talked to Winan earlier.
35:44
I better not hear any winan coming out of San Diego, man,
35:47
like you got nothing to complain about.
35:49
You got a heck of a ball club. You got a good zoo, real.
35:54
Good zoo, you got St. Tacos, you got.
35:58
Well, you got you got California taxes, but sure, you got a good
36:03
zoo. Yeah, good seafood.
36:08
I can't vouch for that, I've never been, but I would imagine
36:12
being that close to the ocean. No life, no life out there, no
36:18
compliance. Good pizza at the ballpark, by
36:20
the way. Best pizza I've had in a
36:22
ballpark before, hands down. Not normally a ballpark food
36:26
that I would pull a trigger on. I did there.
36:30
Why was it just like none of the other options intrigued me as
36:33
much or as you just heard about the?
36:35
Pizza, proximity to the seat and we were a little late getting to
36:40
the seat. Didn't have dinner?
36:41
You had good seats for that game, I remember.
36:44
Oh yeah, I spent yeah, 'cause I was like first time in the
36:46
ballpark. I really want to kind of take it
36:48
in. And it was like, I don't, I
36:57
think it was like I had to show my negative COVID test to the
37:03
usher, so. It.
37:06
Was like a couple weeks after people were let in back into the
37:10
stadium A. Weird time that was.
37:12
It was strange, yeah. I got to get out there, I said.
37:23
I said I got to get out there. Yeah.
37:26
You were looking right at me when I said that.
37:28
You. Froze Man, you're on Internet
37:29
sucks tonight. My bad.
37:32
I'm on man. I'm on Ethernet.
37:34
I don't know what else you want me to do.
37:39
Talk to the higher ups. Is that me?
37:44
I don't know who that is. Maybe rookie.
37:49
See what he knows. Hats off the Padres putting a
37:57
bow on it, what they what they've been able to do.
38:02
Like honestly, that's got to be just objectively, that's got to
38:05
be a a challenging task to well, maybe I don't know.
38:11
What do you think? Do you think it's it's easier to
38:14
sort of slide another use that loosely slide under the radar if
38:19
you're a team like the Padres and everybody's just talking
38:22
about the Dodgers all the time? Or do you think that that can
38:27
sort of be a challenge where it's like, hey, don't forget
38:30
about us? It's hard to say.
38:34
Because it this isn't the first year we've seen these two teams
38:38
sort of, you know, Duke it out for the entire year.
38:45
So that concept isn't, it's. Weird.
38:47
It's like a, it's like more solidified that they're the
38:51
little brother because they're such a, I'm not going to say
38:57
like gap in talent, probably a gap in depth and a gap in
39:02
spending that it really does feel like there's.
39:08
Which is crazy to say when you're talking about the Padres
39:10
who throw money at any breathing thing.
39:14
I'm kind of winging it on that. I could be wrong.
39:19
Should we look that up? I'll look it up.
39:23
Well, I I feel like a gap in spending almost sounds sort of
39:27
like derogatory, like, you know, the Padres could do so much more
39:31
when it. No, it's yeah.
39:33
It's like. They are spending, but nobody's
39:35
consider them. I don't consider them like a
39:43
yeah. They're 8th in spending.
39:45
Total payroll 215 I mean that's 125 million or 1000 million
39:54
dollars, $125 million less than than the dodgers Dodgers at the
39:59
top of 340. So I mean that's a significant
40:02
gap but again, like I'm not complaining I'm not like
40:06
slapping the you know poor franchise, you know, super
40:14
underdog David Goliath kind of tag on it.
40:18
I'm just. Saying that, I feel I feel like
40:20
it's more solidified of like a little brother, but you now have
40:26
I don't know. It does feel like the end of the
40:27
window for like a Xander Bogart's and Manny Machado.
40:32
And I know that like Fernando can still step in and and
40:36
Jackson American still step in and like be in their prime, but
40:40
it does feel like it's kind of coming to a close.
40:44
So I'd like to see it. It'd be nice.
40:47
That's a that's a world as long as the Yankees aren't in it.
40:49
That's a World Series champion that I'm like, good for you
40:52
guys. I'm I'm happy about that.
40:54
You know the. First one, exactly.
41:01
I saw some, I saw somebody today say, whoa, Shohei Otani's
41:07
pitching on my TV right now. Haven't seen that in a minute,
41:10
not going to lie. We should talk about him, huh?
41:14
Yeah, let's get into that. Let's get into show.
41:16
Hey, but real quick, last thing I'll say on the Padres.
41:19
For real, though, I saw somebody today say that T-shirt, this
41:24
last thing, I'll say no, but for real, somebody was like Padres
41:31
or obviously the little brother, but they're at an age now where
41:36
they're ready to fight back. And I'm like, I OK, like that's
41:39
something that's a full that's like a a perspective I can
41:43
subscribe to where I'm I'm not I'm not ready to hand over the
41:47
crown to the Padres. And, you know, as, as as eager
41:50
as Padres fans might be to grab that crown, I think most
41:55
reasonably minded people can look at this and go, no, like
41:58
this. Let's let's let's pump the
42:00
brakes here. Dodgers still reign supreme, but
42:04
the Padres are, I think at a point, and they showed it to us
42:08
last October. They're ready to.
42:10
I think they're at a point now where they're ready to throw
42:11
some punches and I'm. Excited little brother.
42:14
Little brother has landed some punches that the older brother
42:16
has felt. Oh, yeah.
42:18
And older brother's like, yo, that's going to hurt a lot more
42:21
in a few years. And then now it's just like
42:24
those little pencil markings of getting higher and higher in the
42:29
Padres. And it's just eye level.
42:32
I'm coming for you. Been beating up on me for too
42:35
long. Here we come.
42:40
It'd be nice to see. It'd be nice to see.
42:44
I guess that. I mean, imagine it's must watch
42:47
TV if it's a Padres, Phillies and LCS.
42:52
That's electric factory at both stadiums constantly.
42:57
Well, don't forget we got that. What was it 2 years ago now?
43:04
Yeah, I think it feels a little bit sweeter post Dodgers World
43:10
Series. True.
43:11
If the Padres, if it lines up to where they have to get through
43:15
the Dodgers, yeah, I think that makes it even sweeter.
43:21
That's the only way this can happen, by the way.
43:24
We can't have like a wild card exit from the Dodgers if it ends
43:27
up going that way. That'd be crazy, but I'd be here
43:32
for it. I would be here for.
43:34
It I'm here, I'm here for the well, I was just out here for
43:37
the drama, but Nate's here for the downfall.
43:40
Real quick. I'm not there.
43:42
Something I am apparently not something I am here for.
43:45
I'm just seeing this in the chat, Chinook said.
43:48
To cook bacon inside pancake mix.
43:51
Is that a move? That kind of sounds like a move.
43:54
No, I hate that. We've got both of those things.
43:57
I may and I'm working from home tomorrow.
44:00
I might try that tomorrow. I don't hate that play.
44:05
I'm a big. I'm a big.
44:06
Peanut butter on pancakes guy, by the way.
44:09
Same. I'm hey, I'm Hand.
44:11
Syrup. Double up double.
44:15
Can't say I've done both simultaneously.
44:17
But I recommend it. I could subscribe.
44:19
World changing hot syrup. Heat that thing up, put it in
44:22
the measuring glass cup thing. That and the mic.
44:28
That I don't do enough. I don't heat up my my syrup
44:31
enough. Big difference.
44:34
But I can subscribe to that. Speaking of subscribe, go ahead
44:37
and hit that like. Please do that.
44:40
Now let's talk Hawaii. Let's talk about the beautiful
44:46
land that is Hawaii and Shohei Otani just trying to wreck it
44:51
all. No, I'm kidding.
44:52
I to be honest with you, I, I don't, I'm just going to say I
44:58
don't. I'm not fully grasping what's
45:00
happening here. I'm not.
45:01
Fully grasping either. I'm not good bits.
45:04
Yeah, I'm not going to pretend to to be a real estate expert or
45:10
an expert even on this situation because it sounds a little bit
45:13
over my head. Real estate agents get in the
45:16
chat. Let us know.
45:18
Real estate agents, hit us up, let us know what's happening.
45:21
Get in the chat. What's crazy though, is I've
45:23
seen people that I can, I don't know for certain, but I can
45:27
pretty much assume based on the abundance of typos in their
45:32
comments on social media that they're not real estate experts.
45:38
And boy, are they confident in what actually happened here.
45:46
And I'm thinking you don't know. None of us really know what
45:52
actually happened here. All all I know.
45:55
You tell me your details that you know.
45:57
I'll see if I know anything different.
45:59
OK, So the way that I understand this is that Shohei Otani was
46:08
being, can I say, used by a, a luxury housing development as
46:17
sort of a like a marketing chip almost.
46:23
And I don't know if this was an exchange because I think Shohei
46:26
had interest in this development and, and, you know, and living
46:30
here, getting a home here, wherever, whatever that means,
46:33
however often he would go there, who knows?
46:38
And I, I don't know if this was an exchange, like, hey, you can
46:41
we use your likeness in exchange for, you know, I don't know, a
46:44
discount or paying you out, right?
46:48
I don't know what it actually amounted to.
46:53
Then apparently Ohtani's agent was like, actually, I don't know
46:59
if I agree with with what's being proposed here.
47:04
And so he pulled the plug and then apparently it's sort of
47:08
caught it caused this project to what was it, $240 million
47:13
development project on the Big Island to sort of collapse.
47:19
Is is that fair to say? I kind?
47:21
Of heard it a little differently.
47:23
I heard it was like like Otani actually like owned this
47:31
development. Him and his camp like owned this
47:34
development and they were making like, they started making like
47:39
too many like ridiculous requests for this development
47:46
and the building process has already started.
47:48
And then Otani and camp were just like, we're out, we're
47:51
done. And I think there was something
47:57
about like this general contractor having like a 10%
48:03
profit or whatever after, after the properties were sold, then
48:08
it was valued to be at $240 million total.
48:12
So they were going to supposed to have, I don't know, that's
48:15
kind of, I mean, again, this is like broken details that I got.
48:21
I don't really know. I mean, I I don't understand
48:23
real estate too much so. Bigger picture here though, this
48:31
isn't. Just another blemish on the
48:33
image. That's what I'm saying.
48:35
And, and like, if you're Shohei Otani, I like, I don't.
48:41
What does this mean? Is this yet another instance of
48:44
Otani surrounding himself with somebody that doesn't
48:48
necessarily have his best interest in mind at the like,
48:53
regardless of that, whether or not this, this agent of his is
48:57
somebody that has his best interest in mind.
49:00
If you're Shohei Otani, how are you not just sort of laying low?
49:05
Like, I'm not, I'm not saying that you have to fall off the
49:07
grid because you can't because you're Shohei Otani, but why are
49:10
you getting swept up in these like Mega Millions housing
49:16
development deals and get and being put in a situation to
49:21
where something like this could even happen?
49:23
Like with with all that happened with E pay and and all of that.
49:28
People are people are still talking about that.
49:32
So like, I don't know, maybe, maybe outsource these kinds of
49:38
things to a, a circle of people even further beyond where you
49:43
currently have it operating because having it this close to
49:46
where it's your literal agent handling these things, I don't
49:50
know if that's the wisest thing. And again, who am I to sit here
49:53
and give Shohei Otani financial advice?
49:56
I'm not. It's just, it seems odd to me
50:00
that it's yet another instance of Shohei Otani being swept up
50:05
in a, a multi $1,000,000 scandal.
50:08
And I feel like it would probably, you know, I, I, I keep
50:11
seeing this, this, this comment in the, in the replies on social
50:16
where it's like, if I had a nickel for every time this
50:19
happened, I'd only have two nickels, which isn't a lot, but
50:23
it's weird that it's happened twice.
50:25
And that's kind of how I feel about this whole show.
50:28
Hey, situation where it's like how many, how many multi
50:31
$1,000,000 scandals does it take before you step back and blank?
50:36
Maybe we should lay low for a minute.
50:39
I got the George. W quote spinning in my head the
50:42
Fool me once shame on shame on me, fool me twice Can't be
50:50
fooled again Can't be fooled again I.
50:57
Can't get fooled again. I don't know, man.
51:00
I don't know what's happening. I don't know what's going on.
51:02
I mean, I look, it just kind of shows like how hard it is to be
51:08
like a superstar and remain unscathed.
51:12
I feel like there's scandals surrounding every celebrity and
51:19
I think there's few athletes that cross into that echelon of
51:24
I'm also a celebrity because of how good I am.
51:28
You know what I mean? Like, for example, Mike Trout
51:31
was the face of baseball for us for a, a a long while, but like,
51:36
did everyone in the world know who he was?
51:38
No, you know what I mean? Like there's few like LeBron
51:42
James is like he's crossed in that Kobe Bryant.
51:45
These are Michael Jordan. These are names that like cross
51:47
into celebrity status. So I mean, it's, it's all eyes
51:55
all the time. It's tough, man.
51:58
I don't know. Yeah, but I get, I agree with
52:02
you. I, I I'm with you on that.
52:04
But I mean, I'm, I'm up the camp to like normally where there's
52:07
smoke. There's fire.
52:13
So like a duck talks like a duck.
52:17
What I'm, what I'm saying though, is you're, you're
52:21
saying, well, it goes to show you how hard it is to be a
52:26
superstar and, and stay unscathed.
52:28
I feel like in that, which again, I agree with you, but in
52:31
that scenario, the individual in question is making a concerted
52:37
effort to sort of stay out like to the best of their abilities
52:41
to stay out of the, the limelight, at least off the.
52:45
Field seems like he does because he's never showing his face
52:49
anywhere. His teammates never see him.
52:51
Outside, yeah, because he's got his, he's got his little hench
52:54
men doing his dirty work like I like.
52:57
Again, be he could It's possible that he's innocent in this
53:01
situation and he just got swept up in a bad deal.
53:04
Who's to really say? But how many more?
53:06
Again? How many more multi $1,000,000
53:08
scandals is it going to take before we go, you know, maybe
53:12
show hey is not the guy we thought he was?
53:14
It's fair is like Ronaldo or Messi.
53:18
Have they ever been in any scandals?
53:20
I'm not a big football guy, but I'm not sure if because I mean
53:24
like talk about like known around the world.
53:28
Those guys are known. They.
53:30
Are they are? Streets and the whole city shuts
53:33
down. They are, but they still walk
53:36
around. I likewise.
53:38
I'm not a big football guy, but from what I can gather, or from
53:44
what I have gathered, both seem to be pretty upstanding
53:49
gentlemen. I could be wrong.
53:51
I feel like Ronaldo kind of gives me the ick.
53:53
I don't know. You're a little little, you're a
53:56
little sketchy. I don't know why I can't explain
53:58
it. Messy, yeah, I think Messi is
54:02
definitely like on the if we're if we're putting them on a
54:04
scale, I think Messi is definitely like the hey, I would
54:07
I would, I'd get a lunch with that guy.
54:10
Not that I wouldn't get a, not that I wouldn't get a lunch with
54:13
with Ronaldo, but yeah, it's different.
54:18
But. Yeah, I mean, this whole tiny
54:20
thing is just a mess like I don't.
54:24
Trying to get trying to get Hawaii back on the map.
54:27
You know, they just keep taking blows.
54:29
Crazy man, don't be. Don't be messing with Hawaii
54:34
folks. Just just just leave them be.
54:38
I agree. Speaking of.
54:41
But I agree. Speaking of blows, let's let's
54:45
get going with the return of the it's been what, two or three
54:50
weeks? Return of the Mac.
54:52
It has been a while. It's been a minute because I
54:54
didn't do it when I was at the beach because because I don't
55:03
know why I didn't do it. Well, maybe it's because that's
55:06
at the beach. I just didn't think to pull pull
55:08
some names together. However, leading us off here,
55:13
Shay Banglears over the last 15 days coming into the day
55:18
Wednesday hitting 411 with 7 homers, 11 ribbies and an OPS of
55:26
13 O 7. No player in baseball has a
55:30
high. According to MLB Deadline News
55:31
on Twitter, no player in baseball has a higher F4 since
55:34
the All Star break than Shay Langelier's also is tied for the
55:43
most Homer since the break with none other than Kyle Schwarber.
55:48
Good company. Kyle Schwarber been on a tear of
55:52
his own. Next up, George Kirby.
56:01
Why do I think that? Is this his debut for the credit
56:03
cannon? George.
56:05
Yeah, probably. It might be think we've got, I
56:08
think I've got Brian Wu on here before, but I don't, I don't
56:13
recall if I've had George Kirby on here.
56:15
George Kirby's last four starts 7 innings, 0 earned runs, seven
56:22
KS and a win 6 innings 2 earned runs, nine KS and a win. 6
56:27
innings, 0 earned runs, six KS and a win. 6 innings, 2 earned
56:32
runs, nine KS and a win. George Kirby say to say he's
56:41
back, and this is huge for a Mariners team that is on an 8
56:49
game-winning streak as of right now.
56:51
Yo, that's this is just this is a team I do not want to deal
56:54
with in the post season. Well, can I completely, I
56:57
realize now that we didn't even we completely skipped over that
57:00
because we were, I was talking about the Brewers so much and I
57:03
just had so many follow up points to the Brewers.
57:05
Can we talk about that real quick?
57:08
I feel like you wrote the Mariners off.
57:16
Well, I mean, if you're having me put my hand up.
57:18
I'm no because I don't remember it.
57:21
No, that's yeah, no, that that's fine.
57:24
Yeah, no, that's cool. No, but they, the Mariners have
57:27
caught up to the Astros coming in today, both tied atop the
57:32
American League West. Again, Mariners ride an 8
57:35
game-winning streak coming into the day, trail the Astros by as
57:39
many as seven games early last month, but are now are now.
57:50
This this. Controlling their own destiny.
57:52
They're like if they go wild card and they work their way
57:56
through the wild card, like you still have to worry about
58:01
dealing with their pitching staff when they get to the
58:03
division series. You know what I mean?
58:05
Like this is a team where like if they can get momentum and get
58:10
through a wild card round, look out because the way that
58:14
rotation would set up in the ALDS would be like, OK, now
58:18
you're getting like Logan Gilbert game three potential,
58:21
you know what I mean? Like it flips over and you're
58:24
like, I'm dealing with an ace in the middle of this thing.
58:27
Could get scary. Now they got some some pop in
58:30
the lineup, too. Coming into today, 23 and 13
58:35
since the 1st of July have actually jumped up to 3rd on
58:44
draft draftking odds to win the World Series.
58:48
Good deadline as well. Well, tie.
58:52
That's a little misleading. They're tied for third with like
58:55
three other teams. Yeah, still tied for third.
59:04
Real quick, I just had this thought.
59:06
What would your reaction be it? Let's just say you were in a
59:11
coma and you just woke up and I said, Nate, you're never going
59:18
to believe this, but the 2025 World Series features the
59:24
Mariners and the Padres. What would your gut reaction be
59:27
to that? That's nice.
59:31
Are you, are you feeling that or I'm?
59:33
Feeling that a little bit. I'm feeling that a little bit.
59:36
That's nice. I I think I could come around on
59:39
that too. Yeah, I think I could.
59:45
I think I could. I wouldn't.
59:47
I would. I would want to.
59:49
I would want, yeah. I mean the AL, I don't know.
59:55
It's hard to say that the Tigers would be more exciting than the
1:00:00
Mariners. No disrespect.
1:00:06
Yeah. But like, cold baseball in
1:00:09
Detroit for a World Series is kind of cool.
1:00:13
We seen that recently, not recently, but in the past.
1:00:18
Feel like it gets kind of cold in Seattle too, so I guess
1:00:20
that'll work. But they got the roof.
1:00:23
I need cold weather. It's my rule.
1:00:27
I would. Actually, I can't say what I
1:00:29
would do if if they close the roof, they would.
1:00:34
It wouldn't be, it wouldn't be good.
1:00:35
I wouldn't be happy. Yeah, you would have no mock
1:00:39
turtlenecks. None.
1:00:42
Such a loser move. I don't know none.
1:00:47
But yeah, the last thing about the Mariners is, and we've said
1:00:50
it on here before, our biggest hang up was their lack of
1:00:53
offense. But they have seemingly fixed
1:00:54
that. So you combine that with what
1:00:56
they're doing on the bump. Yeah, I, I could he's, I could
1:01:00
talk myself into it. Having having the M's in the
1:01:04
series. I like that.
1:01:08
I'm with you. As it pertains to the American
1:01:10
League West, though, you still riding Strohs.
1:01:18
I don't know, it's hard to say. Feel like the Mariners had a
1:01:21
better day? Now here, let's here's a here's
1:01:24
an exercise for you. Let's let's say, let's just
1:01:28
label the Astros as the favorites, the favorites in the
1:01:33
clubhouse, and the Dodgers the favorites in the clubhouse.
1:01:36
You can only pick one of those to win their respective division
1:01:41
and the other has to finish second.
1:01:45
Which team are you picking to win their division?
1:01:49
Astros. Which means you'd have the
1:01:52
Padres winning the West. Because I think that the
1:02:00
Mariners could survive the wild card round and I don't think the
1:02:04
Dodgers could. So I'm just going with my heart.
1:02:10
Beautiful. I love that.
1:02:12
Yeah, I love it. Going with my heart.
1:02:18
My team sucks so I'm just going for vibes at this point.
1:02:21
You I hate credits you, man. It seems like you're you're sort
1:02:27
of up for sale here as it pertains to like your fandom
1:02:30
coming into September down to stretch shocked up, which is
1:02:34
crazy again. What I mean, what are we really?
1:02:37
You talk about a whiny, spoiled fanbase.
1:02:40
You still hold the postseason spot as it sits right now.
1:02:44
So I don't know why you're why you're complaining.
1:02:47
Like I said, eventually, I'm focused on fantasy football
1:02:53
right now. All right, I'm going to clip
1:02:56
this and I'm going to I'm going to be sure to play this if the
1:02:59
if the Yanks go on a little bit of a run, don't count on it.
1:03:02
But if for whatever reason they do, I'm going to clip this so
1:03:06
that when they go on a little bit of a run, I'm going to say,
1:03:10
Nate, you're going to turn your TV off and focus up on fantasy
1:03:14
football. Yeah, I like that.
1:03:21
This team has you so messed up in the head right now.
1:03:24
I'm, I'm, I'm psychotic at this point.
1:03:27
Like I'm in the loony bin. It's scary.
1:03:30
Physically I'm not there mentally, I'm in the loony bin.
1:03:33
I get, I get pills on the tray next to my mashed potatoes and
1:03:37
bread roll. That's.
1:03:41
Oh, this is getting. This is getting dark real quick.
1:03:44
Speaking of scary, you know who else has been scary?
1:03:48
Brandon Woodruff this this has to be a debut.
1:03:53
He's only made six starts, but in those six starts since his
1:03:57
return, he's gone 4 and O with an ERA of 229 with 45
1:04:02
strikeouts. He's tallied 8 plus KS and four
1:04:05
out of those six starts. Your guy Justin Havens on
1:04:09
Twitter. Well, he actually, he he started
1:04:14
today for the Brew Crew, I believe.
1:04:16
Obviously they got the win, so sort of outdated, but this was
1:04:20
prior to today's game, said Brandon Woodruff on the bump
1:04:23
this afternoon, who made his season debut on July 6th.
1:04:26
Of the 79 qualified pitcher since July 6th, Woodruff's
1:04:29
strikeout rate, which is 34.9%, is tied for the third highest
1:04:33
behind Dylan Sees or behind Dylan Sees and Tarek Schuble,
1:04:38
and tied with Zach Wheeler. It's good company.
1:04:41
Rather. Side note, Dylan sees kind of
1:04:44
turned it on a little bit. Kind of feeling the pods.
1:04:49
Not quite cannon worthy yet, but maybe.
1:04:52
No, no, I mean that I don't. I just don't throw.
1:04:55
I don't throw the the cannon around.
1:04:58
You don't aimlessly like you don't like.
1:05:00
You got to got to do something to get in.
1:05:04
You you just can't doing that. Gavin Williams Gavin Williams is
1:05:12
2 and O with an ERA of 1/3 O and 28 strikeouts and four starts
1:05:17
over the last month. And again, this was coming into
1:05:19
today. I think he made a start this
1:05:21
afternoon for the the guards. He actually, excuse me, I don't
1:05:28
even think we talked about it. He he took a no hitter through 8
1:05:31
and a third versus the Mets on what was that August 6th.
1:05:35
So it was like a week ago, his last start before today.
1:05:41
So good on Gavin Williams for being a.
1:05:46
A. Somewhat of a bright spot for
1:05:50
the guards who are how they, how they been playing how the guards
1:05:55
been playing seven and three in the last 10 drop today right in
1:06:03
the wild card. Is it where seasons seasons are
1:06:06
one and lost? You know what I mean?
1:06:09
Guards are the first team out right now.
1:06:11
They're they're only game and a half out of your your Yanks.
1:06:17
I know. Don't sleep on the guards.
1:06:22
I didn't. I was the only one who picked
1:06:24
the guards. Everyone was out on the guards
1:06:26
pre season. I was the one.
1:06:29
I'm the one fan. You're mistaken, actually.
1:06:37
No, you are. You are correct.
1:06:39
I had the Royals one in the central, so you are correct.
1:06:46
And lastly here, you know him, you love him.
1:07:00
Peter Alonso saved him for last. Hey look, we take our shots at
1:07:07
Peter. Pretty cool.
1:07:09
Pretty cool feat for for Peter. For young Peter though, is now
1:07:14
the all time leader in home runs in Mets history.
1:07:18
His I think he he hit 253 and 254 in the same game if I'm not
1:07:24
mistaken. But his 253rd I know you don't
1:07:28
care. The 253rd career Homer broke his
1:07:31
tie with Darryl Strawberry, so Peter sits atop the record books
1:07:37
for the New York Mets. So wanted to give a little want
1:07:39
to shine a little light on that. I don't want to hear any Met
1:07:42
fans cheering for him. He didn't want them.
1:07:46
Did you see the Mad Dog take when he was on MOV Now or ESPN?
1:07:49
I I was. Teeing off on him, I saw he.
1:07:52
He was going off on something. What did he say?
1:07:54
He. Was just like he begged to come
1:07:57
back. Why are you guys like, you guys
1:07:59
can't be all in his camp now like.
1:08:01
He he, he begged. Him to be there well and he's
1:08:04
like what kind of no one talked about that record before now.
1:08:07
So it's like, what are we talking about?
1:08:09
Well. And I can't believe I'm
1:08:12
defending Mets fans here, but. Who would have guessed?
1:08:15
No respect. Solid career obviously, but who
1:08:21
would have guessed Daryl Strawberry was that was leading
1:08:22
that list? That's what I'm saying.
1:08:24
They're pretty pretty, you know, the Mets have have been a joke
1:08:28
for at at certain points, obviously, but All in all,
1:08:31
somewhat of a prestigious franchise and to think that.
1:08:35
Thought there would be a. Peter Alonso's now the guy this
1:08:38
early. Yeah.
1:08:42
No, but what I was saying is in defensive Mets fans, they're not
1:08:47
the ones with the checkbook. You know?
1:08:49
Like, I'm sure there were a lot of Mets fans that did want
1:08:52
Peter. Maybe not though.
1:08:58
He's just corny. The tip the the helmet tip of
1:09:01
the cap just. Oh, OK.
1:09:05
The guy's such a weenie. He's a weenie, but he's he's the
1:09:09
Mets weenie. And nothing seems to, nothing's
1:09:13
going to be changing about that anytime soon, it seems, because
1:09:17
he's going to retire before he plays for another team.
1:09:19
I think. I think we know this.
1:09:22
He will. He will retire well before he
1:09:29
should if asked to play for another team.
1:09:35
I can see that. I could absolutely see that.
1:09:37
So tip of the cap, tip of the helmet to Peter Alonso.
1:09:41
That's all I got, my friend. You got anything else for the
1:09:43
folks? Nope, stay away from Subway.
1:09:48
Well stay away from the subways that are like the only food
1:09:53
option in town that's. Yeah.
1:09:55
That's when you get in trouble. Your boy was on the road today,
1:09:59
travelling up near the Grand Canyon.
1:10:03
There was a there was a subway that's connected to a Love's gas
1:10:06
station. The subway was attached to a gas
1:10:09
station, too. Yes, Subway and Carl's Junior
1:10:13
were right next to each other in the Love's gas station.
1:10:16
You told me that Carl's junior was attached to the gas station,
1:10:19
which is why you went to the subway.
1:10:22
No, I was standing. They were right next to each
1:10:24
other. They share the fountain drink.
1:10:27
That's crazy. Could get your fountain drink
1:10:31
for both sides, yeah. No chance you don't have food
1:10:35
poisoning that flares up tomorrow.
1:10:37
No chance. I was standing in front of the
1:10:39
menu at Carl's Junior and I'm just like, I haven't been here
1:10:42
in a while, but like, I just, I'm not 18 anymore, you know
1:10:47
what I mean? Like, I can't.
1:10:48
You have onion rings and like mozzarella sticks on your
1:10:52
burgers. Like I just, I can't.
1:10:59
I can't pull trigger on that. I got to go to Subway and I
1:11:04
regret it. I regret all my decisions.
1:11:06
I should have. I should have just gone like
1:11:07
through the Loves gas station and got like a bag of Doritos or
1:11:10
something. But.
1:11:14
Michael said there's one in Searcy, AR.
1:11:17
Yeah, that get old Searcy. I'm guessing that the subway,
1:11:22
the single subway that's in Searcy, AR No disrespect, maybe
1:11:26
they're probably good people, but.
1:11:28
They didn't even have the. Probably some foodborne.
1:11:31
Illnesses there. What's the the Rosemary bread?
1:11:34
They didn't even have that as an option.
1:11:36
It was whiter wheat. That's all we got here.
1:11:40
I mean, who's really venturing outside, white or wheat at
1:11:42
Subway? Oh, Rosemary.
1:11:43
The Rosemary one was the one that hit.
1:11:45
I don't remember what it was. It was like garlic in Rosemary
1:11:48
or something. I don't know, let me.
1:11:49
Rephrase who's who's really expecting options beyond white
1:11:55
or wheat at a gas station subway?
1:11:57
They've really dumped a ton of money into their marketing
1:12:01
recently. There's a lot like over the last
1:12:04
like 5-6 years there's just been a lot of big names.
1:12:08
Speaking for Subway, the menu looks a little different.
1:12:13
Just didn't deliver. I almost pulled trigger on the
1:12:16
the cookie too. Isn't that like glass tray by
1:12:19
the cashier? Now that never fails you.
1:12:22
I don't need it. I don't need it and I said no.
1:12:26
I would venture at even a gas station subway in the middle of
1:12:29
nowhere. Those probably still hit, so I
1:12:31
wouldn't have faulted you for that, but yeah.
1:12:33
Would you get tuna? Did you get like tuna on your
1:12:36
sandwich? No, I got a cheese steak.
1:12:38
Just a terrible idea. Terrible.
1:12:41
I wanted a hot sandwich and I was just like, I regret it.
1:12:46
I regret it all. That's a that's a look of regret
1:12:51
right there. That's that was it was six hours
1:12:56
ago and I I can't even think about eating.
1:12:59
I might have a bowl of cereal for dinner, like I said.
1:13:04
I feel for you man. Let me know.
1:13:06
People check in on Nate tomorrow, make sure he's doing
1:13:09
all right. I know my boss comes into town
1:13:11
and spending the whole day with him tomorrow, which is not good
1:13:14
and you're. Going to have you're going to
1:13:16
have food poisoning on top of it.
1:13:18
Roll the windows down. By the way, real quick before we
1:13:22
go leave a little parting story here for you folks to to really
1:13:27
enjoy. Somebody apparently like threw
1:13:30
open our trash can yesterday. Like we leave the bin out front
1:13:34
for pick up on Monday nights and they pick it up Tuesday morning.
1:13:38
Oh, yours not at not like a work thing is your personal.
1:13:42
No, no, no, Like at our house, we leave the bin, there's like a
1:13:45
little, little grass patch. All the all the neighbors sort
1:13:48
of drop their bins off and. They chose yours.
1:13:51
Meredith gets home from work and she's I, I get home shortly
1:13:55
after her and she's like pulling the hose out with a trash can
1:13:58
upside down. I'm like, what is, what are you
1:14:00
doing? And she's like, yeah, somebody
1:14:02
you threw up in our trash can. And I was trying to figure out.
1:14:06
Hooked in the sun all. Day, dude, it was corn and there
1:14:11
was corn in there. No.
1:14:15
What? Who does that, man?
1:14:18
If you're listening, if you're watching and you have to toss
1:14:21
your lunch, don't do it in somebody's.
1:14:24
Trash bin Just do it in the grass.
1:14:26
Just do it in the grass and and then cover it up or something.
1:14:30
Don't throw up in somebody. Like if you're going to throw up
1:14:32
in the trash bin, throw up in your own trash bin.
1:14:35
What a. Yeah.
1:14:36
PSA don't throw up in people's trash cans you don't like.
1:14:39
Live on the streets of like a inner city either like I don't
1:14:43
understand, like you're in a neighborhood that's such a wild.
1:14:47
It's crazy. Could have been the corn, sausa,
1:14:50
Chipotle. They always have some type type
1:14:53
of poisoning going on, don't they?
1:14:56
It's possible, man, that are they.
1:14:58
Throwing some brands under the bus today aren't.
1:15:00
We there was no question that it was corn.
1:15:03
Any who's that's all I've got. You got anything else?
1:15:06
Good stuff, good stuff. Well, clearly your neighbor
1:15:09
doesn't listen to this advice, but don't go chasing curveballs.
1:15:13
We love you all as always. Looking forward to talking more
1:15:14
baseball with you guys soon. Until next time, stay filthy.