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April Standings Are Already INSANE · 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.
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  Welcome back to the Three O Take presented by Chinook Ceder this
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  episode 6 O 4. I'll be your hosts, Kyle Korne
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  here with my Co host Nate Reyes and JB in the corner.
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  All right, you messed up the whole flow.
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  KCJB How are we happy? Jackie Robinson Day.
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  I felt weird, you know, this whole time I'm saying my Co is
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  Nate and JB is just hanging out in the corner.
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  But to be fair, you do flip it to him.
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  I get my guy, I get my guy. Yeah, well, I'm just trying to
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  get my guy too. You know, boys, we're three
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  weeks into the season. You believe it?
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  Jackie Robinson Day. All right.
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  Did you guys see the Machado take by the way?
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  I did not. Enlighten us.
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  Manny Machado is not wearing 42 this year.
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  What? Because he the quote basically
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  said this is Jackie Robinson Day, not Dodgers Day.
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  He doesn't like the blue 42, he said.
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  I'm not a blue guy, he said. I love Jackie Robinson.
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  I he means the world to me, something like that.
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  But it was like, I'm not. I'm not about the blue.
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  Dang, I was really hoping I would kind of like it.
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  No, I hate that. I was really hoping it would
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  have been like a profound take and I would have been like, wow,
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  another reason I'm coming around on Manny Machado after all these
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  years. No, I like it, but like no, it's
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  stupid because it's like that was hit his blue 42.
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  That was his that the way it's it's designed the color that was
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  Jackie Robinson. So the whole like, it's not.
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  Did he really say it's not Dodgers Day, 'cause if that's
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  what he said, that's stupid. Like just wear the 42, dude.
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  Now you just look like an idiot. For I think the aspect of I
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  liked the fact that we saw the different 40 twos.
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  Do you remember that commercial where it was like it would flash
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  into all the 42 jerseys and then it would get to the Dodger blue
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  one? And I like that aspect to it.
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  But that wasn't. But that wasn't Jackie, though.
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  Understandable. I think 42 is 42.
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  I think the number, you know, is what it is like.
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  I, I think the honour is still there.
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  I just, I kind of get what he's saying and I like the little bit
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  of like a, you know, the Dodger jab in it.
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  No, like this. I think I'm in.
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  I think it's fine because I'm not a Dodgers fan and I'm not a
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  Padres fan and it doesn't affect me that much.
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  I like the little spark between them.
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  I get what you're saying like this was, but like we did it for
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  a freaking decade. That's of that's normal 42 we're
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  OK we got switched it. All right, we got multiple
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  points going on here. My point to your point about the
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  jab thing, Jackie Robinson at this stage in the history of
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  baseball, I mean for for a while now, but most certainly at this
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  stage in the game in 2026 transcends rivalries that
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  involve the Dodgers and Padres, namely.
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  So I don't, I don't know that the jab is really necessary,
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  especially considering the fact he played for the Dodgers.
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  Second of all, I, I'll, I'll say it again, I don't understand his
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  beef with just wearing the 42 that Jackie wore it.
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  It doesn't make sense to me. I get what you're saying.
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  I get it. I think that's I, I, I'm of the
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  camp. It's kind of like the, the All
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  Star game. You like, you know, randomly
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  switching up from wearing each team's jersey to like an
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  American, American League, National League thing.
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  I kind of liked the day, Yeah. I mean, obviously it started
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  with like certain names, like we at one point we only had a
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  couple names wearing 42. And then like the more the
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  league caught on and then the whole like everybody wore it and
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  then names went away and it was just 42.
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  And then now it's like the blue 42.
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  So I see both sides of it. I just, I think I like the way
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  all the different 40 twos look. I think it's I think it's unique
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  I. Got a little bit of a timeline
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  here. It looks like back in 97, which
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  was, which was the 50th anniversary at that time, I I
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  mean, they were saying the last player to wear 42 regular was
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  was was MO Mariano Rivera Selig embraced the Griffey's gesture.
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  Griffey wore 42, then I think in 97.
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  Selig liked it. He encouraged other clubs to
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  have a player wear number 42. It got to a point where in 2007
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  this started to be more. There was there was some
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  pushback. Several players thought 150
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  players wearing number 42 was far too many.
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  It was supposed to be an honor, Tori Hunter said.
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  So like there was a little bit of pushback even back in the
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  very beginning in 2007 when they started when when they started
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  doing this league wide. 2004 was actually the the first official
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  Jackie Robinson day 97 was when they retired it.
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  That's where 97 came in and Griffey wore it as as like an
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  honor piece. Sounds like Tori Hunter's
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  gatekeeping a little bit there, a little bit.
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  I don't know, like that. I mean, it kind of kind of goes
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  against literally the entire. Point of it.
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  The whole point of it, but yeah. 2009 is when everybody started
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  wearing it. It wasn't until 2022 that it
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  became 42's rendered in Dodger blue.
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  So I feel like when you're looking back at like a hey, this
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  is a thing we've been doing to honor Jackie.
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  The blue part of that is relatively new.
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  I would say in the Manny case, like, hey, I don't mind you
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  raising a fuss about it, but like denying to wear it is, is
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  another thing. I, I don't know, I, I, I feel
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  like that's Jackie's thing. You guys seen the movie 42?
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  Yeah. I like the the moment in that
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  movie where they kind of nod to the fact that we do this, where
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  he said tomorrow I'm going to wear number 42 so they can't
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  tell us apart. Like that's my favorite part of
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  that movie, right. And then it was someday we'll
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  all wear 42 and like that wasn't actually said, but but they took
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  that part in that movie and kind of nodded to the fact that we do
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  that. I think that's really cool.
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  I think complaining about it being Dodger blue and and going
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  for change your Manny Machado. You probably have a voice and
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  change it's. Also a fairpoint.
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  You know what I mean? Yeah, I get it.
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  Look, I'm not, I'm not saying I would do it myself.
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  I'm not saying I would have these same comments.
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  I'm just saying that I kind of get more just because of the
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  fact that I I enjoyed all the different 40 twos.
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  I think that and I get Kyle's point to where it's like it's
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  the fact that it's Jackie's. So I don't think anyone's wrong
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  in this scenario. Maybe Machado, but me personally
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  I like the old ones. Can I get a round of applause?
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  Happy Tax Day as well. Oh, that's insane now.
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  Jackie Robinson Day, No. Yeah, that's crazy.
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  It's National Banana Day while we're at it.
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  That's. Perfect the.
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  Real. Yeah, I found I got an e-mail
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  from Duncan. Kind of wild.
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  Come on. Just all over the place.
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  Man, get with it, Duncan. Yeah, banana cold foam.
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  Shout out Duncan anyway. Did it hit?
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  Was it good? I.
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  Didn't. No, no, I didn't get it.
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  I just got the e-mail. Oh.
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  I got that. Yeah, it kind of sounds good.
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  Not gonna be. Yeah, Shout out, Duncan.
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  Can I get a round of applause for not interrupting you at any
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  point during that, that, that segment?
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  Homie got called out and it's. Yeah, OK.
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  Yeah. So we talked about this, we
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  talked about this on our Sunday clubhouse on Sunday.
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  First one we addressed the fact that I interrupt Nate a lot.
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  I I think it was said in the chat, Kyle do be interrupting
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  Nate a lot. So I think we threw out the idea
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  of maybe incorporating some sort of like time out, maybe put me
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  in the penalty box. You guys have the ability to
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  mute me if if need be. To be fair, it's not something
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  I've ever really noticed that much and I get now.
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  Or, well, you get angry. You get angry if I drop in a
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  breaking news out of nowhere. It's the soundboard.
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  I'd rather you verbally interrupt me then hit a freaking
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  button. But OK, well, I've made it
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  progress. I've made it known that the
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  mute, but you can mute me if if necessary, if need be, if it
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  gets out of hand. So just use that, use that at
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  your discretion. Let's get into some let's look
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  around the league, shall we? I mentioned we're three weeks
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  into this thing. I, it's still kind of hard to
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  believe and I don't know, man, I feel like we got a, there's a
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  lot, there's a lot of storylines around the league right now for
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  this stage of the season. Usually it, I feel like it takes
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  a minute for things to heat up a little bit, but I mean, there's
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  a lot going on in baseball. I mean, Mike Trout, they, I
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  think they need to replace the Statue of Liberty with the
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  Statue of Mike Trout, honestly. Guy needs to come to New York.
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  Dude, the. No, no.
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  Absurd. No, I don't know why he would do
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  that. Real close for his family.
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  Family was there. Oh, he hit another one tonight.
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  Yes, it's 4. Yeah, dude, I was just talking
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  about. I was talking about the game
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  where he was going toe to toe with Judge.
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  I didn't realize he went deep again.
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  Yeah, they both did. Well, that's not what we're here
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  to talk about. We're here to talk about Mike
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  Chaup you mentioned judge. Well, anyway, no, that's just
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  one of many storylines around base right now is the the, what
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  do you call it? The the resurgence, the return
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  of my I don't I feel weird saying those things when it
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  comes to one of the greatest of all time, But it is good to see.
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  It's good to see Mike back, man. It's good to see the that swing
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  back. Yeah, it's coming.
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  It's coming along. Good series.
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  I mean, still hitting like 2:30, so you'd like to see that number
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  go up. We're not here to talk about
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  that either. We're here to talk about the
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  damage that's been done on behalf of Mike Trout all.
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  Right, then you talk about it. No, no, no, I just want to throw
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  that out there because it's literally the first thing that
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  pops up on MLB.com. I was I wanted to look or or get
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  your all's thoughts more so on on what the standings are
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  looking like. Again, still super early, but
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  three weeks in, I feel like is a big enough sample size to to
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  lend itself to some discussion, some observations.
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  I'll I'll call it. And you know, nothing, nothing
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  that you got to take to the bank.
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  But there, there's certainly some things that make you go and
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  I'd, I'd, I'd say there's a few things around the league right
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  now that's making, making me go, Oh, you know what?
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  I really wanted to hit the pirate music button right there.
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  But I've I have learned that when I play that now we get
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  demonetized. Oh.
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  Really. Yeah.
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  So I don't know what to do. We going to find.
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  Another one it's. I mean, I've, I've made that
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  such a staple. It's iconic at this point.
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  I don't know how if I can just if I can find something else
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  like that. Wait, the song or the Michael?
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  Scott no the song. Song.
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  Yeah. It's called like battleship or
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  something. I get an e-mail and it's like
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  you sharing revenue with so and so pirate ship by such and such
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  or battleship or whatever it's called.
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  So let's. Turn to AI.
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  Let's turn to AI. No, there's other ways.
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  I can't. I can't.
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  There's other ways. You know what?
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  I don't even care. 1st place Pittsburgh Pirates.
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  How about it? How about it?
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  Just got another dub tonight against the lowly, pathetic, no
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  disrespect, Washington Nationals, but JB, tell us
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  about. Give them the floor.
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  Give them. The floor.
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  The floor is yours, my friend. Talk.
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  Talk to us about the the Pirates and that.
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  Well, I mean, what is their winning games look at?
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  This guy team wins a couple games just like, I mean, what
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  else? That's what we do.
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  We just win games and what else do you want me to say?
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  I've been talking about it a lot like we've had.
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  Ryan O'hearn started the year hot, kind of carried a little
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  bit. O'Neill Cruz is just coming off
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  a heater right now, kind of carried the team a little bit.
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  There's still a ton of mistakes. There's still a ton of things
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  that need cleaned up. I think that's the thing that
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  makes me feel best about it is that the fact that like, I feel
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  like they haven't even been clicking on all cylinders yet.
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  Up until up until this weekend, only four players on the Pirates
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  had hit a home run. So like, it's not like that that
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  it's, it's a full like this isn't a hot team yet.
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  That's, I mean, not to, I'm not going to try and steal Thunder
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  from the Pirates at all, but it, it feels like no one is, it
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  feels like no one is what no one's that like all these teams
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  are outside of the, you know, the Dodgers for the most part,
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  kind of the Padres as well. Everyone's like 2 games over 503
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  games over 500. Yeah, it's been a weird start to
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  the year. Like it's just very even across
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  the board. And it's kind of like you've
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  seen really poor performances from teams and you've seen good
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  performances. Like it's, it's almost still
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  feeling like spring training, you know?
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  I would say this though. I mean, the Yankees out of the
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  gate were hot. Yeah, and then drop five
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  straight. So right.
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  And so, yeah, exactly. But you see what I'm saying on
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  that though? Like they had a they had a time
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  when they were hot. You could say the Padres are hot
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  right now. I think they've run off 6
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  straight, right? Yeah.
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  And they're playing. They're playing Seattle today.
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  Yeah, in the middle of a six straight or six game-winning
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  streak. Nine and one in the last 10.
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  And you could say like looking at at the, the Dodgers and and
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  the Braves, where's the Braves? Yeah, run differential, they're
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  live right now. But run differential of plus 41,
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  I think there's been a a fair amount.
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  I mean, they're five and five in their last game, but like,
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  they've been hot at at certain times.
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  And the Mets right now ice cold, the the Brewers ice cold.
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  Does that make sense? Yeah.
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  Sure does. This is not going to work dude.
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  You're going to have to interject.
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  He's like waiting to try not to interrupt Kyle.
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  Corwin yes. OK, just make it.
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  Just going back to Nate's comment earlier about the Red
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  Sox being 711, Whoever caught that?
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  Maybe you didn't catch that, but I, I picked up on it.
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  He dropped a little 7:00 and 11:00.
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  I knew right away what he's talking about.
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  Just quick comment on that. You can say all you want about
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  7:00 and 11:00, but you know what is special about 7:00 and
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  11:00? You're a Duncan guy, dude.
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  This has nothing to do with Duncan.
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  You know what's special about 7:00 and 11:00?
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  Slurpees. OK, whatever Yankee.
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  Whatever record the Yankees have right now probably doesn't have
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  Slurpees. So dude.
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  We're busting our tail against the Angels.
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  I'm thrilled. Although I I must interject.
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  This is my only Yankee statement of the night.
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  If you want it to be, you guys need to look up how bad Jordan
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  Romano has been against the Yankees for like the last like 7
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  years. Dude he just blew another one.
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  Yankees just walked it off. He has been.
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  Oh, that was to win. That was to win.
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  That was ball game. Jordan Romano cannot play
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  against the Yankees. There's something about it,
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  anyways. Going back to your point, I
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  think it was JB about or no, Nate, it was you about the other
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  than the Dodgers, a lot of these teams just looking sort of
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  mediocre As of right now, the second best team in the American
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  League. Again, this is as of this very
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  moment, the Tampa Bay Rays. They're the second best team in
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  the American League in our two games over 500.
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  So you can only imagine if you look at the if you look at the
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  league standings, just look at the rest of the American League
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  and it's atrocious. How about the Twins?
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  Yeah, I don't. I don't, I don't particularly
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  know what's going on in Minnesota.
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  Very, very peculiar behavior going on in Minnesota.
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  Check in on The Who did? Who did you guys have for your
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  your worst team drafts? I think I ended up with the
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  Twins and Rockies. And the Twins.
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  And Rockies. I went.
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  I went nationals. I think you you don't have the
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  White Sox, do you? No, because I had them being 500
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  or better I. Don't remember, continue.
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  Sorry. I'll, I'll look.
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  It up, I thought I did I. Still got the notes.
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  No, I didn't have the White Sox. I literally I have them in the
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  A's at 500 or better this year, so I wouldn't draft them.
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  That episode was all over the place to be fair.
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  Yeah, and it was between them and the twins and I I thought
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  you were going twins. I have the Cardinals and the
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  White Sox, OK? I do not have what you guys had
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  now. You're going to make me look
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  this up? I think JB had.
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  I think it's the Rockies. Yeah, and the twins.
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  'Cause it was up to Kyle to pick between the twins and another
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  team, and I thought he was going twins.
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  He has the Nationals for one of them, yeah.
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  Yeah. But I don't remember what his
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  other team was. Pull it up.
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  Two teams each to try and total up the most losses.
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  We're going to total up those combined losses and see who wins
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  at. The end of the year.
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  All right, I'll go first pick the Rockies.
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  Yeah, go ahead and give me the Washington Nationals.
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  I will take the sucks if you're a fan of any of these teams.
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  I think probably the six teams picked will be understood.
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  I. Mean, I guess, but it just, it's
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  kind of hard to hear. The boys doing a worst team's
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  draft and really shedding light on just how garbage they are,
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  but that's fine. I will go Cardinals and White
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  Sox. You knew it.
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  Yeah, I'm doing good. I'm taking the Los Angeles
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  Angeles. Oh yeah, I think.
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  JB just won. Yeah, I'll go twins.
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  Yeah. Angels, yeah.
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  To be fair, the the Angels and the twins, Oh no, that's the
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  A's. I was going to say, we're only
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  one loss off between Angels and Twins.
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  Anything else around the the league that sort of jumps out at
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  you that's a little jarring maybe.
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  I don't know if anyone saw the Giants being this bad to start.
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  I mean, obviously we didn't. We were high on Tony Vitello and
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  that's had some shaky stuff going on, weird clubhouse stuff,
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  weird sound bites, weird quotes. That just doesn't look like it's
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  really gelling that well, there's, you know, there's weird
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  stuff going on with Matt Chapman and Casey Schmidt.
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  It's just, it's a lot of odd. I mean, they're -27 run
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  differential at the moment they're six and. 1218 Major
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  League games under his belt. I got not ready to throw it out
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  yet. I'm just saying that that's a,
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  that's a, you know, you can't, can't win the division in April,
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  but can can you lose it? The Giants on April 14th last
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  year were 12 and four. They finished 81 and 81 guys.
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  It is still early. Wait, were we, did I understand
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  you correctly, Nate, are you, are you saying that we should be
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  looking at the division for the Giants in the first place?
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  No, I'm just saying in general the division can't be 1 in
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  April, but it general the division.
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  Can't be 1 in April. That's.
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  What you're going to say, but it can be lost.
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  And I'm not saying that anyone had them winning the division,
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  but like, Yikes, dude. I mean, this is this is bad.
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  This is real bad. Can I say that I'm I'm
• 23:13
  thoroughly impressed with what I've seen out of the San Diego
• 23:16
  Padres thus far? I am too.
• 23:19
  We'll get in, we'll get into a particular individual who's I
• 23:23
  think we can, we can credit for a decent bit of that success,
• 23:27
  but my goodness. It's just the vibes are
• 23:32
  inaccurate. I mean that video, I don't know
• 23:35
  if you guys ended up watching it, but that video I sent you, I
• 23:37
  mean, this was I guess a week ago at this point, but the the
• 23:40
  Don Orsillo call from the. Was it the sheets?
• 23:44
  Was. It no, it was the one the day
• 23:46
  before. I think it was Xander.
• 23:48
  I think it was a Zander Grand Slam.
• 23:50
  Yeah. What Grandson walking off slam
• 23:53
  Diego, the return of San Diego, all that.
• 23:55
  I'm like, if that's just a a snapshot of what's going on in
• 24:00
  San Diego right now, sign me up. I know.
• 24:02
  But the fact that that was back-to-back nights, by the way.
• 24:05
  So in those, in those alternates, I'm going to, I'm
• 24:08
  not, I'm going to start it. I'm not going to say city
• 24:11
  connects. I'm going to say alternates in
• 24:13
  those alternates looking real good.
• 24:17
  Yeah, dude. I mean, it's just it's good
• 24:18
  ball. I'm impressed.
• 24:21
  And like JB said earlier, six in a row Braves interesting start
• 24:28
  for, you know, being so banged up before even really getting
• 24:34
  going. Pitching staff I think I saw was
• 24:37
  like third best starting ERA in in baseball.
• 24:45
  Yeah, I think I saw that either yesterday or the day before.
• 24:49
  Don't know if that's, you know, obviously changed since then,
• 24:51
  but like, you know, to be down starters and and that's how
• 24:54
  they're starting now. Like that's that's awesome.
• 24:57
  Just a lot of weird stuff. Do we need to do we need to, do
• 25:02
  we need to talk Lindor? What's going on?
• 25:07
  I, I keep hearing, I keep hearing the names swirling
• 25:10
  around. I, I mean, I don't have my ear
• 25:12
  to the ground in, in Queens because it's probably smells
• 25:15
  like pee. But what, like what's going on?
• 25:18
  You know, like what's going on with Lindor there?
• 25:21
  It's the it's the like a lot of like head plays dude, like a lot
• 25:26
  of bat. Forgotten how many outs there
• 25:28
  are not covering second on double play balls getting picked
• 25:32
  off like just like random weird. He's also obviously hitting off
• 25:39
  to a really slow start hitting wise.
• 25:41
  Like I get the hand injury that is the ham ate bone.
• 25:45
  He didn't have a good spring. Is that still lingering?
• 25:48
  But it's like and then the whole stuff mixed with like the
• 25:51
  opening day in City field. Everybody's dapping up Sodo.
• 25:56
  But like though that interaction wasn't like super friendly.
• 25:59
  I don't know if we're dissecting that too much.
• 26:02
  Just a lot of weird stuff around Lindor.
• 26:04
  And we've talked about it before.
• 26:05
  We've said that when he went there initially, we were like,
• 26:09
  Mr. Smile in Cleveland is going to eventually lose his joy
• 26:13
  playing for this organization. And it kind of seems like it's
• 26:19
  it's happening. It's hard to watch.
• 26:24
  The Mets are a hard watch, but yeah.
• 26:26
  Especially right now, I think the power is easy to blame on
• 26:29
  the on the ham 8, the slow start, the whole, the whole 9
• 26:33
  yards, right? The defensive stuff is not I, I
• 26:36
  don't understand it, Kyle. It is, it is like ground ball up
• 26:40
  the middle. And once Simeon goes after the
• 26:43
  ball like he just kept going. It's on the right side of the
• 26:47
  bag. It's.
• 26:48
  On the right side of the bag, like he clearly should have been
• 26:51
  looking for a double play and Simeon had to run to the bag,
• 26:54
  barely got the out and certainly wasn't going to get anything at
• 26:57
  first. But then the pick off is just
• 26:59
  like they threw the pick off and he froze and he just stood there
• 27:03
  and waited for him to tag. He was still fixing his oven
• 27:06
  Mitt and it was literally the next half inning after
• 27:10
  forgetting how many outs there were on just stepping on 2nd and
• 27:14
  not turning in double play. Yeah, I feel like we're seeing
• 27:17
  that. I'm not, I mean, stupid, you
• 27:21
  know, stupid mental play is stupid mental play.
• 27:23
  But so I'm not I'm not trying to like bail indoor out like he
• 27:27
  needs to be. He's going to be paid what he's
• 27:29
  paid if he's going to be anointed, you know, the the
• 27:32
  leader of the team needs to be held to a higher standard.
• 27:35
  So like I said, I'm not trying to bail him out, but I feel like
• 27:37
  we've seen just a, a general fogginess, general fogginess.
• 27:45
  In fact, we've. Seen a general fogginess from
• 27:48
  guys around the. League where it's civil war.
• 27:51
  General, it's general foggy, huge.
• 27:55
  I just feel like I can't be, I can't be, I can't be called for
• 28:01
  this twice. It's like double jeopardy.
• 28:02
  I'm going to say it again. I've just feel like we've seen a
• 28:05
  general fogginess from gut. You can't.
• 28:09
  It's double jeopardy. You have a fogginess is got to
• 28:14
  be the coldest general out there.
• 28:16
  General out there. I can't, I can't.
• 28:25
  I'm done. I'm done.
• 28:27
  No, but like I don't, I, I don't, I don't remember it being
• 28:30
  like this to where you get, you get the the slowness out of the
• 28:36
  gates. OK, it's still early.
• 28:38
  Understood, but like we're just seeing, we're just seeing guys
• 28:43
  space it out all together, not forgetting how many outs there
• 28:46
  are, like you said, just not knowing where to be on certain
• 28:50
  plays, base running mistakes, which that's just a that's
• 28:53
  commonplace in baseball now, but we're just seeing, I feel like
• 28:57
  even worse base running mistakes and, and just an overall lack of
• 29:02
  awareness. I I.
• 29:03
  Think like I'm fine, I'm not fine with it.
• 29:07
  I think I can. I can understand why young guys
• 29:12
  that come up make some of these mistakes and understand the fact
• 29:15
  that like obviously the the fundamentals are being taught
• 29:18
  the same way in modern League Baseball that they used to be.
• 29:20
  But like for A10 plus year vet that I there's no excuse there.
• 29:29
  There's no excuse. And when you're scuffling this
• 29:34
  bad, when eyeballs are on you this much, I don't know, like
• 29:40
  there, I mean, there's speculation where it's like, I
• 29:42
  hope he's OK, like at home, you know what I mean?
• 29:44
  Like, I hope he's not like anything off the field going on
• 29:47
  in his mind that is like, you know, and that's not good.
• 29:52
  Well, to your point, a guy that fits that bill, who's been in
• 29:54
  the league that long making, you know, just having this sort of
• 29:59
  lack awareness, just not knowing where to be, whatever that I
• 30:04
  feel like is a again, I don't want to speculate wrongly, but
• 30:08
  that I feel like that's a fair assumption to be like, well,
• 30:11
  it's not, it's not early season nerves.
• 30:15
  It's not, you know, just major debuts.
• 30:18
  Like that's not what we're dealing with with a guy like
• 30:19
  Glenn Dore. We're we're talking about a guy
• 30:21
  that's been around the league for a number of years now and
• 30:25
  he's still doing these kinds of things.
• 30:27
  So it makes you wonder if if that's what it is.
• 30:30
  There was a lot of conversation around his tiff with Nimmo and
• 30:36
  now like Pete Lonzo not being there.
• 30:40
  Like how? How much of the clubhouse drama,
• 30:45
  how much of the lack of cohesion is Mr. Smile, the guy that we
• 30:53
  like at one point all loved to watch, kind of maybe a little
• 31:00
  divisive. I'm not going there yet.
• 31:07
  Hey, credit to JB for believing him.
• 31:09
  He traded. Traded for him in fantasy.
• 31:12
  I sent him JB. On a low?
• 31:14
  On a low, what'd you send back? What was it?
• 31:17
  Another guy out of NDP? Yeah, neither one of them had a
• 31:21
  home run yet. No, I was saying that based on
• 31:25
  the the hand issue I was, I was more OK shipping Lindor out from
• 31:30
  a fantasy perspective because I'm like, you just never know
• 31:33
  how these kind of things go. But like we're talking about,
• 31:36
  this isn't even related to the Ammate.
• 31:37
  This is we're talking about issues that are so far away from
• 31:43
  being related to a Ammate. So I, I don't know what's going
• 31:46
  on in Queens there's. The handmaid's apparently been
• 31:49
  bugging him for the last two years and he's still gone 3030.
• 31:52
  So that 30 double S30 homers last three years, he's done
• 31:57
  that. So I'm not concerned about that
• 31:59
  necessarily. It's, it's mostly, I feel like
• 32:03
  this started before the Mets started on this slide.
• 32:06
  So it's not that he's just annoyed that they're losing
• 32:09
  either. I don't know.
• 32:12
  I'm a big Lindor guy. I'm rooting for him to pull out
• 32:14
  of this. I don't care if the Mets lose
• 32:16
  the rest of the games, but Lindor is my guy.
• 32:18
  Yeah, I'm gonna get it. There's also other stuff with
• 32:20
  like Seeger and Simeon didn't apparently gel well.
• 32:24
  So like, is Simeon being there now an issue with Lindor?
• 32:27
  Like it, there's just a lot of question Marks and like the
• 32:30
  miners just can't get out of there somewhere.
• 32:32
  Divas in baseball. Yeah, that's a big thing too.
• 32:35
  Like, I think that's a thing that we need to maybe get over a
• 32:38
  little bit. You have the biggest diva
• 32:40
  playing right field for you right now.
• 32:42
  We. Just need guys getting in
• 32:44
  clubhouse fights more often and just deal with it and move on.
• 32:47
  Bash it out like. Is it Papple Bond Harper style?
• 32:51
  No, not no. I'm saying behind closed doors,
• 32:54
  not like that. Well, the I don't.
• 32:57
  But if that's what it takes. That's what it takes to go in
• 32:59
  like a different direction. I don't know if you guys saw the
• 33:03
  sorry, the the Rizzo, David Ross like 2016 Cubs podcast thing
• 33:10
  that they started, they started a podcast and now they're I
• 33:14
  don't know if it's David Ross, it's definitely Rizzo with
• 33:17
  somebody else might be David Ross.
• 33:19
  But they had Jon Lester on. They were talking about this
• 33:21
  story that like Rizzo, Rizzo did something and and it rubbed Jon
• 33:30
  Lester the wrong way. And Jon Lester just so
• 33:33
  apparently it was telling the story of like in the clubhouse,
• 33:36
  just got in his face and screamed at him.
• 33:39
  And then it was good. Like it was squashed, you know
• 33:41
  what I mean? And if I it's just kind of feels
• 33:46
  like baseball's gotten a little bit softer since that era has,
• 33:51
  you know, of players have phased out.
• 33:54
  And you know, we're talking those, those Lester's, those
• 33:57
  papal bonds, those CC's, those guys that are like willing to
• 34:01
  raise their voice and not be so buddy buddy and like actually
• 34:05
  run that club. You kind of have an enforcer.
• 34:08
  And when you look around the league, you kind of wonder like
• 34:13
  those guys used to stick out. They used, used to know who the
• 34:16
  enforcer was. And now I would say majority of
• 34:19
  teams you look at you're like, I don't know who that is.
• 34:22
  I don't know what guy in what uniform is laying down the law.
• 34:26
  But nobody wants to step in to be the enforcer on forget
• 34:32
  baseball team, a sports team, because the the the direction
• 34:38
  that sports are heading and have been heading for some time now
• 34:42
  are just like we don't do it that way anymore.
• 34:46
  Like guys are dapping each other like across, across sides of the
• 34:52
  field. They're dapping each other up
• 34:54
  before the game, post game, in the middle of the game.
• 34:57
  Like it's just a different style where it's like we don't need
• 35:01
  to, we don't need to be policed. We're just out here sort of
• 35:04
  doing our own thing and we're fine with that.
• 35:08
  So who if they want to not stick out like a sore thumb, who wants
• 35:14
  to jump in and fill that role and sort of be the quote UN
• 35:19
  quote old fashioned guy to sort of wrangle guys Because there's
• 35:23
  there's too many, too much money, too many egos now for for
• 35:28
  guys to fall in line for for younger guys, for for the
• 35:32
  talented guys to fall in line. Listening to the voice of some,
• 35:36
  you know, grizzled vet, if you will.
• 35:38
  I don't know. It's just I don't think we're
• 35:40
  going to see much of that anymore.
• 35:42
  Maybe some of that, the production of the younger
• 35:45
  players too, not just the fact that they're there.
• 35:48
  But hey, look at the, look at the numbers.
• 35:52
  Yeah. Yeah, You know what I mean?
• 35:54
  I also think that part of that could be the amount of roster
• 35:59
  movement we see in the game and all the games now.
• 36:02
  I mean, the NFL, I've got no clue who plays for anyone until
• 36:06
  Week 4. It's ridiculous how much those
• 36:09
  teams change every year. Minus the quarterback and a
• 36:12
  receiver. Everyone else is different.
• 36:15
  And you know, obviously Major League Baseball has a ton of
• 36:18
  movement as well in its own right and and have for a long
• 36:22
  time. But even mid season and
• 36:25
  offseason and everybody's different.
• 36:26
  You just never know when you're going to have to play with
• 36:28
  somebody and then you've already played with half the league.
• 36:33
  And because of that you get more of that before after the game
• 36:38
  and, and WBCS probably increased that a lot because you're
• 36:43
  playing with guys in the WBC, Dominican winter leagues, like
• 36:47
  all those guys and all those different things, like you're
• 36:50
  playing with these guys in different, in different parts.
• 36:54
  And it makes it. Back in the day you played with
• 36:57
  the same franchise. Yeah, Unless something weird
• 37:00
  happened. Right.
• 37:02
  You hated those. Guys, four years in in minor
• 37:04
  league service before you're getting called up and you're
• 37:07
  you're earning your stripes in a way.
• 37:09
  But anyway, old man talk over. That's a great segue, my friend
• 37:14
  JB talking about a guy that's going to be with a team for a
• 37:18
  while. Let's switch gears here to talk
• 37:19
  Kevin Mcgonagall. Yes.
• 37:24
  Eight-year, 150 million bones contract starts next year.
• 37:33
  I think I said it before, this guy just looks like a ball
• 37:36
  player. Sure does.
• 37:39
  And I'm excited about this. And I, I, I, I'm pretty sure
• 37:45
  I've said this before. I don't know why contract
• 37:49
  contracts like this are being labeled as risks, $150 million
• 37:57
  for a guy that if you have any sense in your, your scouting,
• 38:03
  your talent, talent evaluation, even if he's not a superstar,
• 38:07
  $150 million for a guy to stick around for eight years.
• 38:12
  I, I, there's you, you cannot call that a risk.
• 38:15
  You can't label that a risk. I mean, I'm with it.
• 38:20
  If anything you break, you come out of that having broken even
• 38:24
  that right, I mean. And then, if you get lucky, he
• 38:28
  blossoms into a stud. For sure, because like if you
• 38:31
  look at the, you know, if you look at like the Atlanta Braves
• 38:35
  with Ozzy Alby's, you know what I mean?
• 38:36
  Like a couple good years, but then like, you know, some injury
• 38:39
  stuff and like some things that haven't panned out all the way.
• 38:42
  But like overall you're, I don't, it's not out of budget,
• 38:47
  you know what I mean? Like you're OK with what you
• 38:49
  spent during that chapter and you kind of just, it sucks how
• 38:55
  it's going to end or what do you maybe get moving forward?
• 38:58
  But I like that it it kind of it starts to build around youth a
• 39:05
  little bit more versus waiting for this like entering into
• 39:10
  prime and then all of a sudden he's a year from being a free
• 39:13
  agent. You know what I mean?
• 39:14
  You can't build around that because he's likely going to go
• 39:17
  to free agency. So when you recognize and and
• 39:20
  the the fact that all these organizations are like pouring
• 39:23
  into scouting and development and recognizing talent earlier,
• 39:27
  getting these guys on the field earlier, putting them at the top
• 39:31
  of the lineup, playing shortstop role every day, almost like that
• 39:36
  allows you to start to get an idea of what you want to do.
• 39:41
  59187 By the way, love that short King in Detroit.
• 39:50
  They kind of got a type. I feel like him, Colt Keith and
• 39:53
  Carrie Carpenter are like all the same person.
• 39:56
  Is Carrie Carpenter short king? I think he is.
• 39:59
  Let me see. How do I feel like he's not?
• 40:01
  How do I feel? Like he's 661.
• 40:02
  I was. Going to say I was going to say
• 40:03
  yeah. He's just kind of squatted down.
• 40:06
  He's in the box I guess, But still like the white guy that is
• 40:12
  throw throws right, hits left. Probably should be a second
• 40:15
  baseman. Yeah, Cole Keith, 62211.
• 40:21
  Well, well, I mean, for every, every Ellie de la Cruz and
• 40:27
  Carlos Correa, you got to have a Kevin Mcgonigal, you know, like.
• 40:31
  Yeah. We can't go 100% into the north
• 40:35
  of 6th 3 territory for the shortstops.
• 40:37
  We got to send some short kings. The other thing to look at, I'm
• 40:41
  scrolling through the stats for the Tigers team leaders.
• 40:44
  Kevin Mcgonnell Batting average of 312.
• 40:49
  Kevin Mcgonigal, OBP 421 hits Devin Mcgonigal 20 guys balling
• 40:58
  immediately. Freaking stud man.
• 41:03
  More walks than strikeouts. Yeah, I love that.
• 41:06
  Like he's a, he's a total complete player.
• 41:09
  The Ozzy Alby's comp is a little strange, though.
• 41:13
  I mean, that guy's not making more than $7,000,000 in a
• 41:15
  season. What was that?
• 41:17
  You mentioned the Aldi's contract.
• 41:19
  What was the what was that contract, JB?
• 41:21
  It was more like 770 was. It it was 735.
• 41:26
  Oh, maybe Was it a kunya? That was more like 7.
• 41:29
  Acunya was a little bit more. 770.
• 41:35
  Yeah, 7:00. 35 eight years, 100 for Acuna.
• 41:42
  OK see that's more of the mindset I had, but I just got it
• 41:46
  wrong. When is that contract?
• 41:47
  But still, but still you're talking about you're never
• 41:51
  hitting the $20 million mark. Yeah.
• 41:54
  Like I think it tops out at at 17,000,000 on the two options
• 41:58
  for 27 and 28 are club options. So he could be a free agent in
• 42:08
  27. It's not going to be they're
• 42:10
  going to pick up the club option for 17,000,000.
• 42:13
  There's no doubt. But but when I mean when you
• 42:17
  look at the numbers of, of what Mcgonagall, I mean, I haven't
• 42:20
  seen the breakdown of Mcgonagall, but the the
• 42:22
  breakdown of, of Connor Griffin's just came out and
• 42:26
  obviously he got 10 more million.
• 42:29
  You're a pirate. He's still getting, I think like
• 42:32
  12 signing bonus and, and whatever.
• 42:35
  But so the interesting thing of this is Mcgonigal and and
• 42:39
  Griffin, they're signed through the same season.
• 42:42
  Griffin's was nine years, Mcgonigal's was eight years.
• 42:45
  Mcgonigal signed his contract for the Tigers, signed him to
• 42:49
  the contract on basically the day that that meant the
• 42:53
  extension was applied to next year.
• 42:56
  Yeah, you get 21 days from the beginning of of the of the
• 43:00
  season if you can. If you sign before that, it can
• 43:03
  apply to the current season. If you sign after that, then it
• 43:06
  has it goes on to next year. You can't sign it for this year.
• 43:09
  So his is 8 years, but it doesn't start till next year.
• 43:13
  Griffin's was early enough that they could apply.
• 43:15
  He's got a $1 million contract this year, you know what I mean?
• 43:19
  That goes to four and then six and then but like at the at the
• 43:23
  height of that it's 27 million so.
• 43:27
  That's a lot of money. That's a lot of money and there
• 43:29
  is risk right there still 140 million and 150 million for
• 43:34
  these guys and is still risk on the they could get hurt and
• 43:39
  never play again and you're going to pay, you know what I
• 43:42
  mean, you're going to pay that 27 million to the player.
• 43:45
  So, and that's, I mean, Tigers may be a little more well off
• 43:53
  than than Pittsburgh, but that 27,000,000 if, if they don't
• 43:56
  have a player for that, it's crippling.
• 43:58
  I just, I, I like the aspect of the of like the confidence boost
• 44:03
  that it gives, like right off the RIP.
• 44:06
  Yeah, you know what I mean? Like, this isn't July.
• 44:10
  This is, we're three weeks into the season and we're like, yeah,
• 44:15
  we don't even, we don't even have enough of a sample size.
• 44:18
  But we believe in you. And how much is that going to do
• 44:21
  for these these guys that are, you know, like it's got to be a
• 44:25
  little bit weird. It's got to be, you know, that
• 44:28
  come up it and maybe I have a slow start.
• 44:30
  Maybe I'd like, do I get sent back down?
• 44:33
  Do like, you know, like all of those conversations.
• 44:36
  But it's just for the organization to believe in you
• 44:40
  immediately, basically still in your debut phase.
• 44:45
  It's pretty cool. I'm a fan of it.
• 44:49
  They're in fields a little. Weird though, by the way, the
• 44:51
  Detroit Tigers infield is strange to me.
• 44:55
  I don't really know what to think of it because I think he's
• 45:02
  a second baseman. I don't think, I mean, I don't
• 45:04
  think he's a long term shortstop.
• 45:06
  I think he's a second baseman. So in the Colt, Keith, I think
• 45:10
  is looked pretty good offensively to start, but that
• 45:15
  you know, like the Glaber mix. I just, I'd like to see how that
• 45:22
  infield progresses during the length of this Mcgonigal era.
• 45:30
  Yep, Cole Keith also on a a early contract like he signed
• 45:37
  long term as well. Colt, Emerson, Cooper Pratt.
• 45:44
  Super Pratt and that's it and that's more of the Colt Keith
• 45:47
  variety. Colt Keith's was six years, 28
• 45:50
  million. So I mean again, signed through
• 45:56
  29 at no more than 5 million and then the club options are 1013
• 46:01
  and 15 in the next three years. So also affordable, but like
• 46:05
  those are the kind of guys that that can just be those
• 46:10
  supporting players and and just lock them up, don't have to
• 46:12
  worry about going through arbitration and all those
• 46:14
  things. These things are valuable for
• 46:16
  for clubs and players alike. Those I like and that's that's
• 46:19
  more the Aussie contract. But yeah, I like that.
• 46:22
  It's like you you don't have to feel overly committed to him
• 46:26
  being a starter everyday if it like if they're scuffle.
• 46:30
  And if they turn into something bonus, you know what I'm saying?
• 46:33
  If they light it up so, but as far as KG and and and Mcgonigal
• 46:38
  go, I mean this is prospects one and two.
• 46:39
  These guys are, we're not doubting much for these guys do.
• 46:45
  You have any Mcgonigal card? I don't, I don't disappointed.
• 46:54
  That's my I'm. JP couldn't help but just loop
• 46:58
  KG into that conversation. He's like, yeah, you know, it's
• 47:04
  fair. We're talking Mcgonigal, we're
• 47:06
  talking Connor Griffin, naturally.
• 47:08
  So let's let's dive into it a little.
• 47:09
  More No, it's a good call. It's hey, it's it's one and. 2
• 47:13
  Mcgonigal. Bonnie.
• 47:14
  Mcgonigal just broke Connor Griffin's record of of the
• 47:18
  contract for these young for the rookies.
• 47:21
  So yeah, it's he's very much a part of this, and he's won, and
• 47:24
  Mcgonagall's too, so take that. Suck it, Casey.
• 47:28
  You know, if you know who might break the all time contract
• 47:32
  record of any player ever if he keeps playing the way he's going
• 47:36
  to the way he's playing right now.
• 47:46
  I don't know who. Jordan Walker, the return of the
• 47:54
  credit can and Jordan Walker, our first candidate.
• 48:02
  What's happening here? What's something doesn't?
• 48:06
  Something doesn't smell right. Don't mean to interrupt.
• 48:09
  I may have gotten catfished on social media because Manny
• 48:12
  Machado is wearing 42. Oh.
• 48:16
  We spent almost 10 minutes. Look it up man.
• 48:22
  You got? Are the quotes at least real?
• 48:24
  This Oh my you. What platform did you see it?
• 48:30
  What platform did you see it on? Instagram.
• 48:34
  Do we have to start over? No, you know what?
• 48:37
  You know what? He's getting muted.
• 48:41
  Yeah, that's right. Yeah, you sit and think about
• 48:46
  what you did. Holy cow.
• 48:49
  Now I got to confirm. I was like, there's no way you
• 48:53
  would say that on Jackie Robinson Day.
• 48:56
  Yeah, holy. Let's see.
• 48:59
  Yeah, I'm probably going to. Well, he.
• 49:00
  Still might, still might even said it, but still just wearing
• 49:03
  it. I'm going to search Machado 42
• 49:05
  and he's going to be like, I've never been more proud to wear
• 49:08
  the blue 42 than I than I am today.
• 49:12
  Dude, we oh. No.
• 49:17
  We spent way too long talking about that.
• 49:24
  Oh my gosh. All right, That's that's long
• 49:31
  enough. I guess.
• 49:32
  I don't know. That what MOB facts that's
• 49:36
  that's the one. No way MOB, it was.
• 49:41
  Even like a fake reporter it was MOB.
• 49:44
  The one that looks like Fox. That's the one, Padres.
• 49:49
  Like Padres region account that was like Co tagged on it.
• 49:54
  Oh, it's Jackie Robinson Day. Not everyone being oh, I thought
• 50:04
  you were better than that. It's tough, man.
• 50:07
  It's no wonder. We did numbers.
• 50:08
  It's in white. Oh my gosh.
• 50:12
  OK, well. That remains.
• 50:15
  No, it quite literally I. Like the old 40 twos?
• 50:19
  It invalidates the 1st 10 minutes of this podcast anyway.
• 50:25
  It's not a real podcast, Jordan Walker.
• 50:33
  Jordan Walker, What's going? I something, something,
• 50:36
  something's not passing the smell test.
• 50:38
  I I said this on our Sunday clubhouse.
• 50:41
  You don't. Well, at the time I think you
• 50:44
  had. Six You think he's doing
• 50:45
  steroids? No, yes, no.
• 50:49
  All I said was you don't play a full season or for his
• 50:53
  standards. You don't play a full season,
• 50:55
  have 6 homers, and then I have 6 homers by Week 2 the next year.
• 51:01
  That's the whole point of why they're sticking with him was
• 51:05
  because of this power. That's his, it fits his profile.
• 51:10
  It's not like he's he just spent.
• 51:12
  It's not like he pulled a Trent Grisham and went like 8 years in
• 51:15
  the league hitting two home runs and then pops off for 30.
• 51:22
  Or Joe Adele, What do you hit 37?
• 51:27
  I'm not a Joe adult. We know, We know.
• 51:32
  You're also not a check your sources guy either apparently.
• 51:34
  That's a tough look. That's a tough look.
• 51:37
  The hand goes up. You can't.
• 51:39
  The hand goes up. The mute.
• 51:41
  I've served my. I've served my time.
• 51:43
  No, I know. But you know, sometimes when
• 51:45
  you're a kid and you messed up and you were accountable, you
• 51:48
  still got sent to time out. You still got, you know.
• 51:52
  Yeah. What's the word I'm thinking of?
• 51:56
  Grounded. You still got grounded.
• 51:58
  I don't know, This is why. This is why TikTok is king for
• 52:01
  me. Oh yeah, super reliable source.
• 52:05
  Way better than these stupid. Instagram sucks, Facebook sucks.
• 52:09
  You know how many fake? Facebook's the worst.
• 52:12
  Facebook's the worst. With fake ones just like AI
• 52:14
  accounts all over the place. The the people in like comments
• 52:17
  eat it up. They're like like Xander Bogarts
• 52:23
  hates Muslims. Well, I'm out.
• 52:27
  You'll never see me watching a Padres game again.
• 52:30
  Please. Do please do not make that out
• 52:33
  of context clip on that on that ex.
• 52:38
  Account. Please do not, we will get
• 52:40
  cancelled. Anyway, yeah, Jordan Walker.
• 52:45
  I don't know what he what he's putting in his Wheaties, but
• 52:48
  something's working. That's huge.
• 52:51
  Coming in today leads all of baseball.
• 52:53
  He's 66250 according to B ref coming in today leads all of
• 52:57
  baseball with eight homers. OPS north of north of 1000.
• 53:01
  As you would expect, it's already it's already posted a
• 53:05
  WAR of 1 1/2 and we're only three weeks into the season.
• 53:08
  Love that. That's nice.
• 53:10
  I think this is a classic example of a player who was
• 53:15
  probably just rushed to the majors, 16 homers his rookie
• 53:22
  year, but they didn't really know if he was outfield, third
• 53:25
  base. They couldn't really figure it
• 53:27
  out #4 prospect. They Yep, sent him down, called
• 53:31
  him up. They kept doing that.
• 53:34
  I he's only 23. He's at the age where he he
• 53:38
  should really be kind of figuring this out and getting
• 53:42
  close to it, maybe a little ahead of the curve for guys big
• 53:45
  like that. There's a lot of times it it
• 53:47
  takes a little bit longer at what was what was Judge's first
• 53:50
  like breakout season at 25. I think he's.
• 53:53
  Like 3027. Was it 27?
• 53:56
  I thought Judge was a little bit.
• 53:58
  He's old man, I think. It was like last year, but like
• 54:02
  we're. Still waiting on.
• 54:03
  We're still waiting on like O'Neill Cruz.
• 54:05
  I mean, not saying he's going to be anything like that, but
• 54:07
  waiting for him to judge was 25 in 2017.
• 54:11
  He had 52 home runs. He was 25 the year he broke out.
• 54:18
  Let's start. Kevin Mcgonigal.
• 54:19
  Yeah. So anyway, Conor Griffin, shout
• 54:23
  out to my guy. Jordan Walker, Credit Candid.
• 54:26
  Yeah. So O'Neill Cruz, we're waiting
• 54:29
  on this guy. We're just calling out tall
• 54:32
  guys, man. Yeah, and then who happened to
• 54:35
  wear the black and gold? Aaron Judge.
• 54:39
  Rodeo Cruz. He's.
• 54:41
  Also 6. 7 and up go hand up. Look, we're all we've all made
• 54:44
  mistakes. I don't think that that's speak
• 54:47
  for yourself not. Yeah, I'm not.
• 54:50
  There, I'm not there. I'm talking about tall guys with
• 54:53
  the long swings take longer to happen, take longer to to
• 54:57
  develop. Sometimes I think Jordan
• 54:59
  Walker's actually doing pretty well if he's going to break out
• 55:02
  of 23 James Wood style, right? I mean, how old's James Wood?
• 55:06
  He's older. He's younger.
• 55:09
  My guy. We're still talking about the
• 55:11
  tall guys, right? 66.
• 55:17
  He broke out last year at 22. I'm saying I, I think Jordan
• 55:24
  Walker might be a little bit on time here or early if.
• 55:27
  Yeah, no, that's a good point though about a guy maybe be in a
• 55:30
  rush because I feel like we've in even in just the last, call
• 55:33
  it half decade, I feel like we've seen a number of these
• 55:35
  guys that do get rushed up and then they they just they just
• 55:40
  don't recover right away. But maybe this is a case, you
• 55:43
  know, where maybe guy does bounce back the right away the
• 55:48
  next year anyway, A guy that hasn't really fallen off nor
• 55:55
  needed a bounce back. My guy, Mason Miller, holy
• 56:05
  smokes. Have you guys seen what Mason
• 56:10
  Miller is doing to start this year?
• 56:14
  Talk to me. Well, first I want to share this
• 56:19
  nugget that I saw earlier today and I'm 99% sure it's it's
• 56:23
  accurate. Padres traded for Mason Miller
• 56:26
  on July 31st last year. He's given up two earned runs
• 56:32
  since this. This season, he has faced 27
• 56:43
  batters, 20 of them have been retired via the strikeout.
• 56:50
  Punchy. Yeah.
• 56:55
  Question is this going to be, is this going to be a name that we
• 57:02
  see in the Cy Young conversation?
• 57:06
  I mean, if this continues, there's no way it isn't.
• 57:09
  I mean, because you remember how how heavily we were talking
• 57:12
  Emmanuel Klaasse, what was I was?
• 57:14
  Going to ask 20, was he finished in that voting?
• 57:16
  Was that 20? Four he was. 24 I think.
• 57:21
  He was third. And 24 yeah.
• 57:26
  And I think people, some people were even making the argument
• 57:28
  that he could have been second because that would have been
• 57:34
  that was. Scubal and then Seth Lugo.
• 57:36
  Seth Lugo, Right. And then the last year was
• 57:39
  crochet or scubal crochet. Yeah, yeah.
• 57:42
  So people were like Seth Lugo. Look at what Amanda Cosey's
• 57:45
  doing. Got Seth Lugo on the squad.
• 57:47
  Yeah, I bet. But yeah, man, what what Mason
• 57:52
  Miller is doing is absolutely insane.
• 57:55
  Like throwing shutter 0 Hope as a hitter, when you step into the
• 58:01
  end of the box you're getting one O 3.
• 58:05
  Yeah, like an 88 mile an hour slider or whatever.
• 58:11
  Just stupid. Gross. 21.6 strikeouts per night
• 58:16
  it's. Pretty good.
• 58:21
  Well, I mean, if, if if you look at the numbers I just shared,
• 58:24
  Mason Miller. Cannon on them.
• 58:26
  Yes, I'll do it again. For how good he's been to this
• 58:32
  point in the season, Mason Miller has thrown a complete
• 58:35
  game. And oh, by the way, it was a 20
• 58:39
  strikeout game. That's a good way to look at it.
• 58:48
  That's a good way to look at it. That's crazy.
• 58:50
  Yeah, what a monster. Insane.
• 58:56
  You know who else has been a monster?
• 58:59
  Unless you all had any other thoughts on Mason Miller here?
• 59:01
  We go do. You want me to do it?
• 59:05
  If you make a comparison to Santana or somebody in the back
• 59:09
  end of the Pirates bullpen, I'm going to.
• 59:11
  Blow. Up.
• 59:13
  I don't listen. I don't have to because Mason
• 59:16
  Miller's from Pittsburgh. I'll give you that.
• 59:20
  I'll give you that. He's a yinzer.
• 59:22
  I'll, I'll let that slide. I'll let that slide, Yeah.
• 59:27
  Born August 24th, 98 in Pittsburgh, PA.
• 59:31
  In that Andy Bahas. Yeah.
• 59:42
  Where did this come from? Knew it was in there, man.
• 59:48
  Yeah. Did we though?
• 59:49
  We did. Did we?
• 59:51
  I feel like we're rewriting history a little bit.
• 59:54
  No, we knew it was in there. I don't know who we.
• 59:57
  Is the amount of opportunities that guy's gotten in that lineup
• 1:00:01
  day in, day out in the postseason, It was coming.
• 1:00:06
  Coming into today, 5 homers, he's hitting 39720 RBIs.
• 1:00:13
  Crazy. On base of 433 slugging, 698 OPS
• 1:00:18
  of 1131 and an OPS plus of 219. Pretty good third and base third
• 1:00:31
  and all of baseball and OPS behind Jordan Alvarez and Ben
• 1:00:38
  Rice. I don't like the way you said
• 1:00:41
  that there was a tone there and you know there was a.
• 1:00:45
  Tone, I mean, doesn't count. Ben Rice, I feel like has played
• 1:00:48
  like what, four games this year? Cause 'cause Boone doesn't know
• 1:00:52
  how to construct a lineup. You.
• 1:00:54
  Are MLB the facts or MLB facts? That's that's probably your
• 1:00:59
  account just out there spreading false.
• 1:01:02
  Yeah, I set you up for wasting my time on this podcast, like in
• 1:01:06
  10 minutes about a quote that was never shared.
• 1:01:11
  But yeah, that's Andy Paw has. He has he has 18 plate
• 1:01:15
  appearances with runners in scoring position already this
• 1:01:19
  season. He's he's 9 for 18 with three
• 1:01:24
  homers and 16 RBIs in those in those situations, it's it's a
• 1:01:29
  667 Babbitt. It's ridiculous.
• 1:01:31
  Yeah, but yeah, I mean, it's certainly it.
• 1:01:35
  It certainly benefits you as a player to be surrounded by the
• 1:01:38
  rest of the Dodgers lineup. However, if you're not one of
• 1:01:44
  those established perennial MVP candidates, I feel like that'd
• 1:01:48
  be a lot of pressure to bear on your shoulders, like having to
• 1:01:54
  having to keep up with with, you know, the mookies and the
• 1:01:58
  Freddy's of the world and the show haze like.
• 1:02:02
  Keeping up with the mookies. That'd be, you know, that'd be a
• 1:02:06
  tall, that'd be a tall order. But he's to the, I mean, again,
• 1:02:09
  I know it's early, but he's, he's delivering, he's answering
• 1:02:12
  the call. I mean, he's hitting.
• 1:02:14
  I'm not, I'm not, I'm not arguing against Paws, right?
• 1:02:18
  But there is, there are some things here.
• 1:02:20
  He's hitting 7-8 in that lineup. I mean, just look at.
• 1:02:23
  Brandon, I'm not, I'm not walking Andy Paws.
• 1:02:26
  Just kidding. In any scenario when I'm when
• 1:02:30
  you're about to flip the line up over to Shohei like he's going
• 1:02:34
  to have to beat me. And so far he is 55.
• 1:02:41
  What is it? Five O 3, No 500, even 500 even
• 1:02:46
  batting average on balls in play right now.
• 1:02:50
  Obviously, like league averages around 300.
• 1:02:52
  That will almost always swing back.
• 1:02:57
  He's he's killing it. That's those are crazy numbers.
• 1:03:00
  But we're saying the same thing though, because to your point,
• 1:03:03
  like he's not going to get walks to flip the lineup over or
• 1:03:07
  whatever the situation may be, which is to the point that I
• 1:03:11
  said it benefits you to, to be in that lineup.
• 1:03:13
  Of course. However, if you're going to get
• 1:03:17
  pitched to 99% of the time you're going to have to do
• 1:03:22
  something with the at bat and that that's what he's doing.
• 1:03:26
  So that's what I'm saying. I feel like in a in a situation
• 1:03:28
  like in in a situation like his where you're not quite the
• 1:03:32
  Mookie, the Freddy, the show, hey, what have you, it could be
• 1:03:36
  easy maybe to sort of get, you know, overshadowed a little bit.
• 1:03:40
  But he's he's he's joining the party for sure.
• 1:03:45
  Moving right along here. Ben Rice leading all of baseball
• 1:03:55
  with a 1245 OPS coming into today.
• 1:04:02
  Nate thoughts awfully quiet. We didn't hear the I want to
• 1:04:07
  hear, I want to hear it. Don't do it.
• 1:04:11
  What did you not hear? I mean, are we doing the credit
• 1:04:14
  cannon or what? I don't know which one changes
• 1:04:20
  the volume of the sound board. OK, here I found this is.
• 1:04:26
  Worthy of a mute. I found it.
• 1:04:28
  No, I found it. I found it.
• 1:04:29
  This is worthy of a mute. Nada.
• 1:04:36
  I hit it. Worthy.
• 1:04:38
  Turn it all the way down all. Right.
• 1:04:40
  Hold on. Worthy of a mute.
• 1:04:43
  This is disrespectful. Ben Rice.
• 1:04:45
  Disrespectful disrespectful. I tried telling you guys this
• 1:04:51
  was in here. If you look at the.
• 1:04:54
  Baseball savant, Just the believer in everybody today.
• 1:04:57
  The baseball savant page, dude, the guy they showed it today
• 1:05:02
  that it's 100th or 99th percentile on exit, Velo on
• 1:05:07
  barrel. Just like the guy hits the ball
• 1:05:10
  hard. What do you want?
• 1:05:14
  I, I think I just stumbled upon a revelation.
• 1:05:18
  I think that's the problem tonight.
• 1:05:20
  You are. You're just a believer in
• 1:05:21
  everybody, so much so that you're believing in.
• 1:05:26
  You got there, you arrived there.
• 1:05:28
  Thanks. Jackson Merrill have robbed home
• 1:05:30
  run, by the way. I feel like he's robbing home
• 1:05:31
  run once a week. Shortstop is just real, real
• 1:05:39
  good at the top of the line up. Also ranking really high.
• 1:05:44
  I think he's got like a 22 or 23% walk rate at the moment.
• 1:05:48
  So terrible at ABS challenges. That's my only knock.
• 1:05:52
  Just really not good with the ABS but everything else looks
• 1:05:57
  good. I like it and looked I'm
• 1:05:59
  actually like surprised how well he's looked at at first base.
• 1:06:03
  I was expecting a lot worse. You'll be proud of me.
• 1:06:06
  I don't. I doubt you saw it, but I I
• 1:06:12
  quote tweeted talking Yanks today.
• 1:06:15
  This was this was the tweet. This was the tweet from
• 1:06:18
  yesterday when I said Aaron, Aaron Boone tells us Paul
• 1:06:20
  Goldschmidt will start over Ben race once again tonight against
• 1:06:23
  left-handed pitcher Reed Detmer's.
• 1:06:26
  To which I quote tweeted and I said I dream of a version of
• 1:06:29
  baseball where the best nine players play all the time,
• 1:06:32
  regardless what side of the plate they bat from, what arm
• 1:06:35
  they throw with or who's pitching to them.
• 1:06:38
  Yeah. And I feel like I've said that
• 1:06:40
  in in a variety of different ways.
• 1:06:42
  But the root of that is something that I stand by the
• 1:06:45
  root of that and believe. In being an idiot and I'm pretty
• 1:06:49
  sure Reed Detmer, he diced by the way Reed Detmer's carved
• 1:06:52
  them up and I think he's a reverse split guy.
• 1:06:56
  JB, correct me if I'm wrong on that.
• 1:07:00
  And it showed he also in that lineup was Cody Bellinger
• 1:07:06
  sitting. I think we had another name
• 1:07:12
  sitting, someone else said, It's just like, I don't understand
• 1:07:15
  that. Moving on, That's not what this
• 1:07:17
  segment's about. Are you asking Reed Detmer's?
• 1:07:20
  Yeah, splits. OK.
• 1:07:23
  No, you're right. This is not what this segment's
• 1:07:26
  about. You know what this segment is
• 1:07:27
  about? Brandon Lau JB, talk to us about
• 1:07:43
  Brandon Lau. It's like I I want to hear what
• 1:07:48
  you have to say about Brandon Lau.
• 1:07:50
  I I put his name. Double wind bombs in Chicago.
• 1:07:54
  Sorry, that was. Disrespectful.
• 1:07:56
  Didn't I feel like? One of them, One of them was.
• 1:07:58
  What is OK, that doesn't account for the the six other homers,
• 1:08:03
  right, that he's gotten this year?
• 1:08:07
  Yeah, Explain that one, Nate. Guy looks good.
• 1:08:11
  I don't really appreciate the Brandon Laos Lander this.
• 1:08:17
  This is what you trade for, right?
• 1:08:19
  He's got to figure out a way to get on base else otherwise.
• 1:08:25
  Does he? He had 397 on base.
• 1:08:31
  Or no, I'm sorry, not on base the average.
• 1:08:33
  The average could use some work. Disrespect I I don't it's 397 on
• 1:08:38
  base. I don't care about your batting
• 1:08:40
  average. If you're getting on base,
• 1:08:41
  you're getting on base I. Guess, I guess.
• 1:08:43
  But to have 7 homers? 15 Risk 68.
• 1:08:47
  I know it's just those numbers just don't really align well in
• 1:08:52
  my in my soul. What is league average?
• 1:08:55
  Average. That's, I mean it obviously it
• 1:08:58
  moves it's. Hard to ask but at this point.
• 1:09:00
  Right. Like say last year, what was
• 1:09:03
  what was like 250? If I just look at teams like
• 1:09:11
  kind of middle of the pack, yeah, it's a little bit less
• 1:09:13
  than that. The the Brewers were 15th at a
• 1:09:17
  237, the Arizona Diamondbacks 14th at 2:38.
• 1:09:22
  I outresearched JB. According to Google, the league
• 1:09:25
  average for 2025 across all of baseball was 246.
• 1:09:30
  Yeah, that sounds. Right. 22 points higher.
• 1:09:35
  You said 268, right? Yeah, 2. 68 I mean his two
• 1:09:38
  seasons where he hit 39 and 31 home runs, he was 247 and 256.
• 1:09:45
  Obviously the the one year much better than the than last year.
• 1:09:50
  But no, I mean, get on base. I you're a one daughter right
• 1:09:54
  now, dude. I, I, I don't care.
• 1:09:56
  I don't care if you're in 200, if you're if your OPS is A1 dot
• 1:09:59
  you're you're fine. Wow, that's not a tech I thought
• 1:10:03
  I'd hear from JB. Is that, is that like there are
• 1:10:07
  multiple ways of getting on base, Batting average is one of
• 1:10:10
  them. So like I, I love a high batting
• 1:10:13
  average, but if you have, if you have a guy with a 299 average
• 1:10:18
  and another guy with a 246 average and the guy with a 246
• 1:10:22
  average has a higher on base percentage, is that means he's
• 1:10:24
  on base more often and that's more valuable to your team.
• 1:10:28
  Hey, I hear you. I'm not.
• 1:10:30
  The you know. The batting average hill is not
• 1:10:32
  one I'm necessarily willing to die on.
• 1:10:34
  I just, you know, I look, I, I, I don't need to be crucified.
• 1:10:38
  All I said is I just thought I could use some work like.
• 1:10:42
  I thought it was unfair. Get me up into the 8:00 today,
• 1:10:45
  get me up into the two 80s with 7 bombs.
• 1:10:48
  At this stage of season, I'm feeling a lot better.
• 1:10:50
  That's all. It was insane.
• 1:10:51
  You had to hit 390. That's all I'm saying.
• 1:10:57
  Yeah, you're. You're fine, you're fine.
• 1:10:59
  What's Connor Griffin hitting? Not, not near that.
• 1:11:03
  Yeah. I mean, these are the questions
• 1:11:04
  we really need to be asking. He's fine.
• 1:11:08
  What's Speaking of average? What's Marcel Ozuna hitting
• 1:11:11
  right now? Hey, but Ozuna and I'm not, I'm
• 1:11:15
  not sitting here like trying to defend guys, right?
• 1:11:17
  But Ozuna's got some A swings off lately.
• 1:11:20
  Let's let's play that game. Who has a a batter?
• 1:11:23
  A Betty? Better batting average at the
• 1:11:26
  moment right now, Marcel Ozuna or Ryan McMahon.
• 1:11:31
  Oh, I think I'm. Going to give the slight edge
• 1:11:36
  to. Ozuna.
• 1:11:38
  I might, yeah. I might have to go Ozuna.
• 1:11:41
  It's going to be close. So I I had.
• 1:11:47
  I mean, it's the margins got to be razor thin.
• 1:11:52
  No disrespect. Some, some some Ozuna from the
• 1:11:57
  Braves on the Pirates. From the Pirates, Ozuna
• 1:12:02
  currently at 1:18. Wow, he's north of 1.
• 1:12:09
  Way higher. Way higher.
• 1:12:11
  And here Guy McMahon at 119. Razor thin.
• 1:12:20
  Razor thin, but McMahon destroying him in in on base 260
• 1:12:27
  to to one Oh I. Love it.
• 1:12:32
  I mean, it doesn't get much more razor thin than that.
• 1:12:35
  Yeah, Ozuna, five hits, five hits in his last or four hits in
• 1:12:39
  his last three games. It it's starting to come around
• 1:12:42
  a little bit. I think again, when you're
• 1:12:44
  talking about a guy like that kind of known commodity, you
• 1:12:49
  know what you're going to get from him.
• 1:12:54
  You know what you're talking about him.
• 1:12:57
  Yeah, You know what you're going to get from Nate when we bring
• 1:13:00
  up the whole Kimberly Otani thing, and that's just outright
• 1:13:04
  rage. What's talk to me?
• 1:13:06
  What if you don't know? If you don't know?
• 1:13:08
  No, no, no, no, no, no, Hold on. I'm going to lay the groundwork.
• 1:13:11
  If you don't know what we're talking about, there was.
• 1:13:13
  Everyone knows. There was there was a moment.
• 1:13:16
  There was a moment from the game on.
• 1:13:18
  I believe it was a Monday night where Craig Kimbrell for the New
• 1:13:25
  York Mets. I mean, how much longer does
• 1:13:28
  this? Go on.
• 1:13:29
  Yeah, that's that's its own story.
• 1:13:31
  Craig Kimbrell of the New York Mets is just not looking home,
• 1:13:37
  goes to throw. Meanwhile, Francisco Alvarez
• 1:13:40
  runs out in front of home plate. Be like yo-yo, yo, don't throw
• 1:13:44
  the ball. Meanwhile, Otani just has the
• 1:13:50
  biggest look on his face as if he's just seen a ghost.
• 1:13:54
  I think the umpire dips out. Just madness.
• 1:13:58
  Anyway, some accounts have posted about it, but Nate.
• 1:14:02
  Some has it was ever I was. I was scrolling through
• 1:14:09
  Instagram for 30 straight seconds.
• 1:14:12
  It was every single baseball page posted about it.
• 1:14:16
  MLB Facts. Number one was MLB.
• 1:14:19
  Fax at the top of the page. They got that one right.
• 1:14:23
  It was all over the place. It was just like what?
• 1:14:26
  What? This isn't a thing.
• 1:14:27
  Who cares? And Wing.
• 1:14:30
  And with that post on MLB fax, there was a quote at the bottom
• 1:14:33
  that said Ohtani was quoted saying that he slept with
• 1:14:37
  Kimbrel's mom. And Nate was like what I bought.
• 1:14:43
  It. Yeah, I bought it.
• 1:14:45
  I don't. Know I mean why no one's talking
• 1:14:48
  about the Orioles manager getting hit with the ugly Finder
• 1:14:51
  and breaking his jaw, but I see 12 different posts.
• 1:14:55
  Baller, by the way, he was right back out, wasn't he?
• 1:14:57
  Saw like 12 different posts on the Otani thing so that was
• 1:15:00
  stupid and annoying but it's like it not getting posted that
• 1:15:06
  it was not. It wasn't point of reason right
• 1:15:10
  there. Oh yeah, yeah, the guy that
• 1:15:12
  brings up the pirates every segment.
• 1:15:13
  Yeah, that's the voice of reason, anyway.
• 1:15:15
  He's not a pirate song. So I trust him.
• 1:15:19
  JB is JB is scanning, scanning post events, being like who was
• 1:15:25
  a pirate that almost got thrown out in the box.
• 1:15:30
  No, no, what I was going to say is it's an objectively funny
• 1:15:35
  moment. You plug in, you plug in Corey
• 1:15:40
  Seeger, you plug in No Cal Raleigh, and that has the same
• 1:15:45
  reaction. It's still just as funny.
• 1:15:50
  It wasn't anything. I think I think you could play
• 1:15:52
  on big dumper on that. I think I think you could go
• 1:15:55
  there Kyle or Kyle Seeger, Corey Seeger.
• 1:15:58
  No way, no it it is because it's Otani, but I actually.
• 1:16:04
  Why am I wasting my time? This happened three days ago.
• 1:16:07
  It was a no pitch. There's people stepping
• 1:16:10
  out-of-the-box and we're talking about it three days later.
• 1:16:12
  This at least was real life and it really happened on like the
• 1:16:15
  1st 10 minutes of this podcast anyway, but it.
• 1:16:18
  Sparked great conversation. Yeah, talking about how?
• 1:16:25
  No, whatever, whatever. Freaking which is why it's worth
• 1:16:29
  it for people to to post it so much if it is Otani.
• 1:16:33
  The truth is that's what gets clicks.
• 1:16:36
  That's what gets conversation. So yes, I agree with you Nate.
• 1:16:40
  However, I kept. Scrolling.
• 1:16:42
  If it grows the game, I I'm for it.
• 1:16:45
  Unbelievable. Anyway, let's game.
• 1:16:47
  Let's wrap up Mike Campbell when he's retired.
• 1:16:50
  That's how I'm going to end that conversation.
• 1:16:51
  That's another layer that made it funny.
• 1:16:53
  Is the fact that he's at the the crux of all of this anyway?
• 1:17:06
  Marez, question of the week. Nice.
• 1:17:09
  No prep on this. This is, yeah.
• 1:17:12
  Let's see, that's on me. I was in an all you can eat trip
• 1:17:16
  night tonight and I, I. Just I I had comments about that
• 1:17:20
  plate. I don't know if you saw it freak
• 1:17:22
  me out. Keep going.
• 1:17:24
  The plate needs to be studied. I'm an adult, I can eat food
• 1:17:30
  that touches like what are you 3?
• 1:17:34
  No Sir, you only eat chicken tenders most of the time.
• 1:17:38
  Second of all. Because I like chicken tenders.
• 1:17:40
  Your cantaloupe was swimming in in baked bean sauce and you're
• 1:17:44
  telling me that food's allowed to touch?
• 1:17:47
  That's not the same. It's not like your burger bun
• 1:17:51
  accidentally touched the dollop of ketchup.
• 1:17:54
  This was. I wasn't there hanging out with
• 1:17:57
  baked beans. I wasn't there to worry myself.
• 1:18:03
  The the lion doesn't concern itself with the opinion of
• 1:18:08
  fruit. Swimming in baked beans.
• 1:18:11
  Okay. I was there for one mission.
• 1:18:13
  It was to eat fried shrimp until it was coming out of my eye
• 1:18:18
  sock. Not in the group chat.
• 1:18:19
  Let's just wow, let's out them wow that's Oh yeah, really some
• 1:18:24
  women's that's really fake women's get out of here man
• 1:18:28
  just. The alignment is so questionable
• 1:18:32
  like whatever, just I just, I don't appreciate it.
• 1:18:37
  Shrimp does look good though. Oh, it's.
• 1:18:39
  Slap, dude. Anyway, Ray's question of the
• 1:18:43
  week. Just a pasta noodle sitting on a
• 1:18:45
  strawberry there. Like what do we do?
• 1:18:47
  It's. Terrible.
• 1:18:54
  Oh, man. Yeah, it shows you how dialled I
• 1:18:57
  was on the shrimp I wasn't paying attention to.
• 1:18:59
  No pasta, macaroni salad, strawberries.
• 1:19:03
  Anyway, Ray's Question of the Week Game 7 World Series.
• 1:19:08
  OK, set in the scene here, game seven of the World Series, a
• 1:19:13
  perfect game is being thrown. Would you rather be the center
• 1:19:19
  fielder to make the crazy diving catch to win a 1 nothing game,
• 1:19:25
  win the whole thing? Or that same perfect game is
• 1:19:30
  being thrown, but you're on the other side and you hit the home
• 1:19:35
  run to win the game. Home.
• 1:19:40
  Presumably 1 Nothing. I think I I think I want it to
• 1:19:43
  be the. But I'll be.
• 1:19:45
  Historical if you're in Santa, yeah.
• 1:19:49
  And it's like you were played your highlights played forever
• 1:19:54
  like wise in in Chicago, you know, like that was sick.
• 1:19:59
  Yeah. What?
• 1:20:00
  Who? Dwayne.
• 1:20:02
  Dwayne Wise. The.
• 1:20:04
  Chicago The home run robbery, The Mark Burley.
• 1:20:09
  Yeah, come on guy. That's what I'm saying is that
• 1:20:11
  like I think if you make a play like that, if.
• 1:20:14
  You talk about Burley's perfect game.
• 1:20:15
  You replay. It's like, yeah, the replay.
• 1:20:18
  Is fit, Yeah, No, I I hear what you're saying.
• 1:20:20
  You're you're looking at through the lens of the perfect game.
• 1:20:22
  I've I was looking at through the lens of the world game seven
• 1:20:24
  of the World Series, where, yeah, I feel like your
• 1:20:26
  highlights get getting played. But it is game seven either way.
• 1:20:29
  Winning. That's what I'm saying.
• 1:20:30
  The World Series either way. The World Series aspect of it is
• 1:20:34
  awash for me. You're winning the World Series.
• 1:20:36
  It's the last play of the World Series.
• 1:20:37
  Yeah, I'm going to go. To centerfield.
• 1:20:40
  To me, it's Centerfield. I think that Game 7, the World
• 1:20:43
  Series perfect game, has to be bigger than.
• 1:20:46
  I mean, I don't know. You're also talking about
• 1:20:48
  there's only been one game. I can't say it.
• 1:20:51
  I'm not allowed to say it. You guys have to say it.
• 1:20:53
  I can't say it. Touch a ball, Joe, you'll never
• 1:20:55
  hit a bigger home run in your life.
• 1:20:57
  Game 6. I'm not talking about games, I'm
• 1:21:00
  talking about a Homer to win the World Series.
• 1:21:02
  Because it's Maslowski. Yeah.
• 1:21:06
  Greatest home run ever hit. Well, I don't know about that.
• 1:21:10
  You. Can't.
• 1:21:10
  That's undeniable. I mean, Jared Duran off home
• 1:21:14
  run. Jared Duran had a Homer in
• 1:21:15
  Minnesota this this week That was pretty sick.
• 1:21:18
  After he flipped off some fans. Didn't even get into that.
• 1:21:24
  Yeah, I'm kind of, kind of done with that at this point.
• 1:21:26
  But anyway, I'm taking that. No, Give me the Homer every day
• 1:21:34
  of the week, twice on a Sunday. I don't know, I don't know.
• 1:21:37
  Yeah, no, Give me the home or every day of the week.
• 1:21:39
  Twice on Sunday, there's no contest.
• 1:21:42
  The walk off celebration at home on a walk off World Series
• 1:21:46
  winning home run. It's a walk off, which means
• 1:21:49
  you're at home, which means the place is going to come unglued.
• 1:21:53
  That's another good point. A diving catch is still I'm
• 1:21:57
  switching back. Come on, I'm switching back.
• 1:21:59
  You're still you're winning the World Series either way.
• 1:22:02
  Yes, but the yeah. But I need the crowd behind that
• 1:22:07
  moment. I think the the.
• 1:22:08
  Catch would I mean you're going to get the reaction from the
• 1:22:10
  fans with a catch, but it's going to be 10X on a Homer if
• 1:22:15
  not more. Sure.
• 1:22:19
  Also, this is an this is a 00 ball game.
• 1:22:24
  That's kind of crazy too, you know what I mean?
• 1:22:27
  Yeah, yeah. The one side of it is the other
• 1:22:31
  side of it. You're already winning.
• 1:22:36
  True, valid point. And you could have hit the hey,
• 1:22:40
  here's the thing, I'm making the diving catch.
• 1:22:42
  Nothing or 8. Nothing.
• 1:22:45
  It doesn't matter. Yeah, if you're on defense, you
• 1:22:48
  have to be winning. That's what he's saying.
• 1:22:52
  He's saying in the defensive situation you're up 1, nothing,
• 1:22:54
  but you're not winning in the. That's what I'm saying.
• 1:22:57
  Situation. It doesn't exist.
• 1:22:59
  Yeah, exactly because it doesn't exist.
• 1:23:00
  Like you can't. There's no one going to be on
• 1:23:02
  base and it's still a perfecto and it has to somehow be a walk
• 1:23:06
  off. So that'd be a 00 ball game.
• 1:23:07
  It'd be 00 if you're if you're picking the home run.
• 1:23:10
  Yeah. What I'm picking, what I'm
• 1:23:12
  picking is making the diving catch to preserve the the
• 1:23:17
  perfect game, Game 7, the World Series.
• 1:23:19
  What you don't know is I hit the home run in the eighth.
• 1:23:26
  That would be probably like the first dogpile to happen like in
• 1:23:29
  center field, you know? Oh, if I make that dive and
• 1:23:33
  catch you got a thing there. We're late fall.
• 1:23:36
  I'm sliding a little bit. It's late fall, right?
• 1:23:38
  Or it's or it's fall. I'm sliding a little bit and I'm
• 1:23:42
  just going to lay there like this.
• 1:23:43
  I'm not moving. It's like everybody's.
• 1:23:45
  Coming to me 34°. Actually, The thing is, is
• 1:23:48
  nobody's coming to me. They're all going to the
• 1:23:51
  pitcher. I'm laying out there by myself.
• 1:23:54
  I'm soaking it in. No, that's what I'm saying
• 1:23:56
  because I think everyone rushes to center field at that point.
• 1:23:59
  No, they rush to the pitchery. That's perfect game.
• 1:24:01
  No, that's a question in and of itself.
• 1:24:03
  Do you go to the mound for a a pitcher who just threw APG to
• 1:24:08
  win the World Series or do you go to the guy that just made the
• 1:24:11
  Sports Centre top 10 catch to win it?
• 1:24:15
  I think you're going the outfielders are going to pick
• 1:24:18
  you up so you can all run into I.
• 1:24:19
  Need that. Yeah, I need that catcher.
• 1:24:22
  I need that catcher sprinting 300 feet in his gear to dead
• 1:24:26
  center. But you know what the you know
• 1:24:29
  what the perfect game means to a catcher, too?
• 1:24:31
  So he's going to the pitcher. They just had a thing that that
• 1:24:35
  they're not gonna. They're they're together
• 1:24:37
  forever. I'm going yard at home.
• 1:24:39
  I'm going yard too, but I also just made a diving catch.
• 1:24:46
  The the coolest thing to me, the coolest thing about that would
• 1:24:51
  be the fact that my guy just pitched a perfect game and he's
• 1:24:56
  so he's the star of the show. Not my diving catch.
• 1:24:59
  He got 27 other outs too. I love that JB is just painting
• 1:25:03
  the scene of the whole night. He's like I went 4 for four on
• 1:25:06
  the night with a walk. You can do whatever you want.
• 1:25:10
  I mean I I get it but. You didn't drive in any runs.
• 1:25:13
  If you hit the home run, you got one good at.
• 1:25:15
  Back I play 7 defensive positions.
• 1:25:19
  Let's let's alter it slightly. Let's alter it slightly.
• 1:25:23
  Instead of a diving catch, what if it's a home run, Rob?
• 1:25:27
  It's the same. For me, yeah, it doesn't matter
• 1:25:29
  at all. It doesn't change it, no.
• 1:25:31
  No, and because. In that situation, you still got
• 1:25:34
  the bottom of the inning, so it's not like it it loses the
• 1:25:37
  game for you. But.
• 1:25:44
  No they he's saying home run rob to win the game.
• 1:25:49
  Yeah. Right.
• 1:25:50
  What I'm seeing this if. You miss if you miss.
• 1:25:53
  This is. This is you're up.
• 1:25:56
  This is like a one nothing or. OK, my point still stands.
• 1:25:59
  If you miss the catch to rob it, the game isn't over.
• 1:26:05
  You still have. The game is over, sure, but it
• 1:26:07
  doesn't. I mean, the game's not over, is
• 1:26:09
  what I'm saying. Yeah, the the the best they
• 1:26:12
  could do is tie the game right there one to one.
• 1:26:15
  But in my scenario it's 4 nothing.
• 1:26:17
  And have to be 1 nothing. It can be 5 nothing.
• 1:26:20
  It could be 12. Nothing.
• 1:26:22
  Yeah. And it could be all the 12 JB's,
• 1:26:25
  12 RBIs, like what are we talking about?
• 1:26:28
  4 Grannies. I don't see that.
• 1:26:30
  Well, that's not how math works. Yeah, you're right.
• 1:26:34
  That's five years anyway. Six years.
• 1:26:39
  Good stuff. All right, well, that was we
• 1:26:43
  talked more this episode about a quote that was never said and a
• 1:26:49
  hypothetical about Game Seven World in the World Series and
• 1:26:53
  it's April. Here's the thing.
• 1:26:54
  That was a wild book. Those are wild bookends.
• 1:26:57
  Any other player I would have immediately picked up on the
• 1:27:01
  fact that it was fake. I think it was because it was
• 1:27:04
  Manny Machado and I was like, yeah, this checks out.
• 1:27:07
  But he he played for the Dodgers.
• 1:27:11
  Yeah, he did. He hates it there.
• 1:27:14
  I get it OK. Speaking of my guy, my favorite
• 1:27:18
  player, Shohei Otani, first, I think the first time in a long
• 1:27:24
  time he is starting tonight without hitting.
• 1:27:26
  I saw that. Kind of wild.
• 1:27:33
  Short trivia for you here. OK.
• 1:27:37
  There were two teams last year who on April 15th.
• 1:27:41
  Oh, that Jackson, Merrill, Rob. I told you, yeah.
• 1:27:44
  Sick. Anyway, sorry Jimmy, go.
• 1:27:46
  Ahead Yeah, two teams last year who went first place on April
• 1:27:49
  15th last year who did not make the post season.
• 1:27:52
  Who are they? Sorry, what?
• 1:27:55
  Say it again. Last year April 15th yeah first
• 1:27:58
  place and then division missed the playoffs. 2 teams last year
• 1:28:03
  did this. The were the Mets in last year.
• 1:28:11
  The Giants actually weren't. Now that's that's a pool because
• 1:28:14
  he said, or I said earlier, they were 12 and five.
• 1:28:16
  They weren't in first place. That's crazy.
• 1:28:20
  Were the were the did the Mets get in last year?
• 1:28:25
  The Mets were they were not in the post season.
• 1:28:29
  But they weren't first. Is that a guess?
• 1:28:33
  Yeah. Then yes, that's one of them.
• 1:28:36
  It can't give you the answer. They were 11:00 and 6:00.
• 1:28:39
  So when you're looking at these teams right now who are 11 and
• 1:28:42
  six, you don't know ahead of you.
• 1:28:46
  Oh, it's, it's also the Twins. It's the Twins and the Mets.
• 1:28:50
  It's. The Twins last year.
• 1:28:52
  Too. Not the twins.
• 1:28:53
  Not the twins. The twins were 6:00 and 12:00.
• 1:28:58
  What they should be this year. That was the Tigers.
• 1:29:00
  If you remember, the Tigers were hot the whole first half of the
• 1:29:03
  year and then. Farts, farts.
• 1:29:09
  Finally, the Well, I know it wasn't the Red Sox.
• 1:29:16
  No, it was not. The.
• 1:29:31
  The Astros. Not the Astros. 8:00 and 9:00.
• 1:29:34
  The Astros were at this at this date last year.
• 1:29:39
  Rangers. Yeah, I was going to say the.
• 1:29:41
  Rangers. Rangers were ten and seven,
• 1:29:42
  yeah. Nice.
• 1:29:43
  The top three teams in the American League, at 10 and seven
• 1:29:47
  were the Yankees, Rangers and Tigers.
• 1:29:49
  Nice. And the Yankees, obviously we're
• 1:29:55
  fine. Rangers, Tigers kind of had.
• 1:29:59
  I mean, Tigers made it, but barely.
• 1:30:02
  Barely the Tigers. Yeah.
• 1:30:04
  Let's get out of. Here.
• 1:30:06
  Reminder about Sunday Clubhouse. Yeah, should be good. 2:00
• 1:30:15
  Eastern this Sunday. Come hang out.
• 1:30:17
  We'll be watching the afternoon slate wrap up wrap up your wrap
• 1:30:22
  up your weekend with the boys. You know why not?
• 1:30:25
  Yeah, come hang out. I'm I'm working on getting I'm.
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  Going to have the new whopper. I'm so.
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  Excited for that. Yeah.
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  Yeah, I'm excited for that. I'm working on getting a guest
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  to hop on maybe and chat a little bit.
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  So we'll see. We'll see what comes of that.
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  So stay tuned for that. But yeah.
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  Join us Sunday this coming Sunday, every Sunday. 2:00 PM
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  And he. Given Sunday and he given the
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  Sunday 2:00 PM Come come talk ball with us, throw up big
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  inning on your TV or whatever your screen of choice and and
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  come hang out with us and we can we can all enjoy this great game
• 1:31:01
  of baseball together. And we will guaranteed to either
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  be 30 seconds before or 30 seconds after you on.
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  Big no middle ground. That's right, JB hit me.
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  Let's go baseball. Don't go chasing fake quotes or
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  curveballs. I'm a Red Sox fan.
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  We love you all as always, looking forward-looking forward
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  to talking more baseball with you guys soon.
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  Until next time, stay filthy.