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ABS System Coming to the All-Star Game · The 3-0 Take

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  Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to the Three O Take where we talk
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  all things Major League Baseball.
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  Here's Kyle Corwin and Nate Reyes.
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  It all starts right now. Welcome back to the Three O Take
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  presented by Chinook Cedry this episode 551, I'll be your hosts,
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  Kyle Cord. I'm here with my Co host Nate
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  Reyes. Nate.
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  Casey, how are we, buddy? How are we?
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  Last pod before Atlanta. It it's here it's here.
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  This my going. So my week was going so slow
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  until today. My work day felt like it was
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  like 2 hours long. Is that a, is that a good sign
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  of things to come? Like the rest of your week going
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  to just fly by? I don't.
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  Know it's hard to say. I feel like tomorrow could be
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  rough because then it's just like it's not Friday yet, but
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  like, I don't know. Basically is I I actually feel
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  like my week is flying by because I'm feeling the heat on
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  trying to finalize these details for this trip that we're about
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  to go on, including what we were just talking about before we
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  hopped on this the punishment for the loser for our Wiffle
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  ball Home Run Derby have yet to finalize that, but we'll we'll
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  revisit that at the end. So stick around.
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  But it's here that we're knocking on the door.
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  Atlanta, here we come. I'm unbelievably hyped.
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  It's. It's the most nonchalant I am.
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  I am busting at the seams. I am jumping through the roof.
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  Well, what's what's weird dude is I was thinking about it on
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  the on the drive home from work. I was like, I don't know if this
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  is the same for you. Do you watch?
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  Like what? What content do you consume?
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  No free ads, but like what content do you consume on a on
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  like a day-to-day basis? Like a not like what you sit
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  down and watch with the wife, but like, do you, are you, do
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  you get into the. Podcast.
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  Stuff do you do? Podcasts, a podcast, I'm all
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  right. The people are like, oh, I'm a
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  big YouTube person. I just, I have a hard time
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  sitting down and like turning something on a YouTube.
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  It's either a show if I'm sitting down in front of the TV
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  or I'm listening to a podcast. Why do you ask?
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  Well, 'cause like I, I watch like a lot of YouTube golf and I
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  feel that I wonder as like listeners and fans and for those
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  that have like been hanging out with us for a while, you've seen
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  that we've, we've done a couple trips.
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  We try to do 1. I think the most we've gone is
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  like every other year. Like that's the furthest out.
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  We'll go try to do ideally stuff every year if we can.
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  But I wonder if like as listeners, you almost get like
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  desensitized to traveling, like going on a trip, you know what
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  I'm saying? Like you're like, I watch a lot
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  of YouTube and golf. So like these guys are traveling
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  all over the country. They're playing golf at like
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  different courses and you're just like, oh, it's just another
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  thing they're doing. And I think it's like strange,
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  because I wonder if you, the listener feel the same way.
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  But we're about to, it's going to be fun, man.
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  We're going to pump out like a ton of content.
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  There's going to be a ton of videos.
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  There's going to be interviews, there's going to be challenges,
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  there's going to be streaming, there's like, we're doing so
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  much. I mean, not to like fully give
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  it away. There might be a banana suit
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  involved. I don't know.
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  I, that's just what I, that's what I heard.
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  There might be a banana suit involved in this trip to the All
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  Star game. I, I couldn't, couldn't tell you
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  for sure. That's just what's been rumoured
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  out there. But I'm hyped because like I, I
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  consume that kind of stuff all the time.
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  Like I consume like guys just being guys, hanging out, doing
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  guy stuff, travelling and I'm like I need it, inject it in my
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  veins and here we are. It's happening so.
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  In the chat. The wife and I are headed to ATL
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  on Sunday. Now cruises in the Derby.
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  Let's go pirate. Let's go pirate.
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  That's a that's a great reminder for anybody.
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  Sorry, I'm I feel like I'm just going to want to talk about this
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  All Star week, the whole podcast.
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  So forgive me, forgive me in advance.
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  But another reminder if if if you're listening, if you're
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  watching and you're going to be there or at the very least in
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  the area. I'm not that we're going to like
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  drive to your house or your Airbnb, but like if you're in
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  the air, maybe we could meet up. We're going to have a lot of
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  we're going to have a lot of downtime.
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  Like we're going to be cranking out a lot of content, going to a
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  lot of events, doing team store tours, going to going to some.
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  Actually, I can't. I won't even say oh.
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  That was cool. That's, I'm excited for that
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  one, but I, I can't say that's nuts.
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  But yeah, we're going to have, we're going to be doing those
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  things. But in on the flip side, we're
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  going to have some down time. So we'd love to meet up with
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  some some listeners, some watchers and the like.
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  Yeah. Spencer in the chat says hitting
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  the Waffle House might have to hit a Waffle House.
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  I I feel like they got to set a certain time cut off though for
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  an Atlanta Waffle House. I don't know if I'm trying to go
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  there past like noted. Well, I'm not trying to go there
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  past. It's a different crowd that
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  shows up after midnight, I feel. Well, really any Waffle House,
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  but specifically in Atlanta. Like I have to imagine those
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  Waffle Houses past like 10:00 get pretty pretty rowdy.
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  Yeah, yeah. Who's to say?
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  I guess we'll find out. Maybe we maybe we just risk it.
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  Risk it for the biscuit or the waffle.
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  Nate, let's talk some ball. Speaking of the All Star week,
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  well, before we do that in the chat, Bridge of October, I mean,
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  you can't go to the Waffle House before midnight.
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  There's no reason to go there when.
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  It's also also a valid point that's.
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  Fair. It's.
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  Also a valid point, have you noticed Jake and Josh have like
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  inverted logos? Oh, yeah, let's go, Pirates.
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  Speaking of All Star week, Nate, it was announced today I think
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  right today. I said that with a lot of
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  confidence, but I'm pretty sure it was announced today that the
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  automated ball strike system is coming to the All Star game on
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  to next Tuesday. What do we think about this?
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  This was a cash grab, I think. How so?
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  I mean no disrespect. We're we're going, I'm excited
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  about going. But like, I, I think everyone
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  can kind of argue that like it's the the All Star game has lost
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  its fastball over the last few years.
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  You know, yeah, I don't think we can.
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  I don't think that's a crazy stretch.
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  And so I think this maybe brings on some eyeballs say, hey, like,
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  you know, at least we get to see it on the big stage, get to see
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  it on national TVA little bit. Plus like, I, I don't know,
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  umpires are kind of checked out for the All Star game anyway.
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  So maybe this helps. I, I did some, some soul
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  searching today and I said, you know what?
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  It's time to grow up. It's time to be an adult.
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  It's common, bro. And that's what I'm exactly what
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  I was about to say. It's I, I just need to come to
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  terms with like the fact that this is what the, the ABS system
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  is what we're going to have. So why try to fight it?
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  And, and of course you're going to have your people that are
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  saying like, well, like if, if there's enough of an outrage,
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  no, when is the last, when is the last time Major League
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  Baseball or really any business or, or corporation or operation
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  change their course on something like that where they're, they've
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  been talking about it for so long.
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  And then they're like, well, OK, you know what?
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  There's enough. There's enough outrage.
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  The uniforms. I know, but in the grand scheme
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  of things, that's so inconsequential.
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  But something like this really impacts the game.
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  They're not going to walk it back.
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  Yeah, they can't. They're not going to change.
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  They're not going to change anything.
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  We're we're going to have a lockout.
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  I, I don't feel good. I don't feel good about that.
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  I get what you're saying though. Like it's just, you might as
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  well like get prepared, you know, it's coming.
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  I, I like the, I like the challenge system.
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  I really do. I think it's a very simple, easy
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  thing. I like that it's limited.
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  I like that it's just low at the top of the top of the Dome and,
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  and it gets challenged and you just see your little tennis
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  court simulation thing up on the scoreboard and it's, it's done
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  moving on. I just, I, I don't, I don't see
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  the reason to go on like full blown all the way to it, that's
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  all. You know, I mean, I guess it's
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  smart on on behalf of Major League Baseball.
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  I'd I didn't with I mean, were there grumblings or not
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  grumblings? But like were there rumors of
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  this happening for the All Star game?
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  I feel like it's just kind of I mean I'm sure they I'm sure they
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  like behind closed doors have been talking about it for some
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  time, but I think as fans, we had no idea this was happening.
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  But I'm like, I, you know, I guess it's, I guess good on on
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  behalf of Major League Baseball to like get it out there, put it
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  on, like you said, put it on the national stage and at least give
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  us a chance to see it in real time at this level, not in the
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  like the Atlantic League or, or something that doesn't really
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  impact the day-to-day of Major League Baseball and have it not
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  really matter at the end of the day.
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  Like it'll give us a display or it'll, it'll put it on display.
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  It'll give us a, a closer look that I'm sure they're going to
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  have, you know, infographics and everything queued up for the
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  broadcast. So to really hammer home, you
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  know what this system is all about, what it's going to do,
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  what it's going to help. That's a good point is that
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  that's something that we're going to have to kind of rely on
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  you, the listener for, for anyone that's not attending,
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  obviously we're going to be there in person.
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  So we're not going to be able to experience it the same way.
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  So when we get back and we kind of have like a recap, I'd like
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  to know what that experience was like, you know, like I'd like to
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  know how how it was viewed and, and I don't know, man, I don't
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  love it. I really don't.
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  I really don't just. Going to have to grow.
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  I'm just going to have to grow up.
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  It's where it's headed. It's where it's headed.
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  Well, I mean, I'm not going to fight it.
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  Also, real quick, just Baller. I mean, do I know Baller?
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  Do I know Ball swapped out Corbin Carroll in my fantasy
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  lineup today for William Bray. You just right in the hot hands
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  and man's just went deep so. I love when that pays off.
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  Just putting no one ball. On I'm fighting for my life in
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  fantasy on notice. Fighting for my life, quite
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  literally. Yeah, that in that's never.
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  Good 1% playoff chance. Especially this early in the
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  year dude. I need some assistance.
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  Crazy. Any other thoughts on the A/B
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  A/B S system though? I don't think we're going to get
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  to see like the full downside to it because I don't no one's
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  really swiping bags in the All Star game, so I don't think it's
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  going to be like a tell on how the catcher reacts to it.
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  That's a good point when I had not considered you're saying
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  like how you're saying like how it impacts the the art of
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  catching as it were that. We've that we've talked about
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  this. This won't give us that test.
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  That's fair. Yeah, Yeah, I'm in one game.
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  You're only going to be able to learn so much from it.
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  Well, I mean you, like I said, you've been able to see it at
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  other levels, other in other areas of the game, but not not
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  necessarily in, you know, baseball games that have any
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  sort of significance such as this one.
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  However, it's coming and we just got to suck it up.
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  Speaking yet again of All Star Week, more Home Run Derby
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  participants have been added, the latest I believe Sade Junior
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  Caminero. In addition to that we also have
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  O'Neill Cruz of the Pirates and then Byron Buxton have been the
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  last have been the the latest 3 to be added since we last
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  talked. I would ask you which of those
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  excites you the most, but I think I already know maybe.
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  My prediction. No, I'm saying of those three,
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  which one you're? Because, I mean, I predicted
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  O'Neill Cruz to be in it. Well, I was like, that needs to
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  happen. And then it did a few days
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  later. Sure, but when I shared the news
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  with you today, the junior Cameron, when I when I broke the
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  news to you, I mean I, I would have thought that their judge
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  had been added to the Derby the way you.
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  Responded, This is look, this is about this is pure
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  entertainment. This is about a show, you know
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  what I mean? And when I when I put in the
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  group chat, I was like, think back to his walk off in winter
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  league last year. That was pure entertainment.
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  And that's when I sent you the smalls like, Oh my God, you mean
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  that's the same guy? I completely forgot I had not
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  put two and two together when thinking about the the potential
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  impact for electricity at this Derby.
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  Well, I mean, like these names, I, I understand if it's not like
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  the household names, I understand that you may not be
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  super hyped if, if we're missing the judges and the Schwarbers
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  and the Pete Alonzos and the, you know what I mean?
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  Like, I, I get that we're kind of missing that element, but as
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  far as like athleticism goes and like able to put on a show.
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  Byron Buxton drops tanks, O'Neill Cruz literally hits the
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  ball harder than anyone in baseball and Junior Caminero is
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  going to have one button done on his jersey and four chains
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  popping and and going to be like.
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  I got to, I got to pull this. I got I got to refresh myself on
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  this winter ball. The IT took him 45 minutes to
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  round the bases, bro. Oh.
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  OK, yeah, I absolutely remember this.
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  See what I mean? Hold on.
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  Oh, yeah, here it is. OK, you're.
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  Going to put it up. Yeah, I guess I could here give
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  me a, give me a SEC. Flag.
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  It's not MLB, right? Who knows, man?
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  Some producer that works for Winter League?
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  Hello yo. Remind me who else we got in it?
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  Who we talked about last episode.
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  Cal Raleigh, Acuna. And who was the other one?
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  We just talked about this. Why am I blanking Cal Raleigh
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  Acuna? Who?
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  Who was? The third one, we just talked
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  about this I. Don't remember, This is why I
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  asked you. You're you're not helping James
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  Wood. James Wood So there's there's
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  six that we're up to six, Yeah, we're up to 6.
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  So we got two more slots. Look, here's that.
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  Here's that. This is going to be pure gold.
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  Hold on. Where is it?
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  Here we go. Hiro Ascencio, a leader in Wego
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  Salvado at all of Tiempos. No, no, no, no.
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  I can't believe it. I can't believe it.
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  Oh my goodness. Oh boy, are we in for something?
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  I'm. Telling you.
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  We are in for a show. I'm telling you, look at this,
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  man. Three days, turn around the
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  bags. Yeah, and in no hurry, bro.
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  This wasn't a walk off by the way, This was just a this was
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  just a take the lead in the top. Of the Go ahead, Homer, what are
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  we doing? Throws the helmet.
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  Oh man. This is going to be electric.
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  Oh, the real question is what do you think is going to happen if
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  he wins it? That's what I'm saying.
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  That's what I'm saying. This is going to be so
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  entertaining if you know ball, this is going to be, I think,
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  one of the best home run derbies we've seen in some time.
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  I genuinely feel that way. That's like raw talent wise.
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  We've seen what James Wood is capable of doing.
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  Junior Caminero I'm pretty sure has the fastest bat speed in
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  baseball. O'Neill Cruz hits the ball
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  harder than anybody. Cal Raleigh has really started
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  to solidify himself in the MVP conversation as a favorite and
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  is leading the league and setting like as far as a
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  collective group goes. This is insane.
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  This is I I understand that we don't have the household names
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  in the big names, but like this is going to be.
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  Great average bat speed to your point.
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  O'Neill Cruz, number one in baseball. 78.5 #2 on the list.
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  Junior Caminero at 78. Told you like James?
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  James. Wood 8th.
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  These guys are going to put on a freaking show, man.
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  It's going to be fun. It's going to be really, really
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  good and, and I highly, highly suggest tuning in and being
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  locked in. These guys are going to put on
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  the show. Hey, can we hey, shout out Jacob
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  in the chat. Hey homies, can we let's, let's
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  clap it up. Nate had a chance.
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  Nate had a chance there to just take a negative route, honestly,
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  a route that I took this morning, but I'm not going to
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  fully double step. You had a chance to really poo
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  poo on this on this Derby field so far.
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  And I'm, I'm, I'm genuinely proud of you for, for really
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  making, for really driving that point home that it's going to be
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  a worthwhile endeavour. It's going to be great, dude.
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  It's going to be great. And like when you think of like
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  the layout in Atlanta and you're going to see balls getting just
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  absolutely smoked to right, right center and you see
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  skyscrapers in the background. You have to chop house and
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  write. You have balls hammering off the
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  brick like it. This is going to be a show and
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  we're going to have a great view.
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  And these guys, I, I'm telling you, I, I genuinely think this
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  is going to be the best Home Run Derby you've seen in a long
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  time. That's, it's exciting I was
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  going to say that's crazy, but I'm not going to I'm not going
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  to Pooh Pooh it because there is I, I have to believe that
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  there's potential for, for some fireworks here.
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  Who OK, who we said there's 62 spots left.
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  Who would you fill out knowing who's already said no and who
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  still could potentially be on the table?
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  Who? Oh, Ian in the chat said it's
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  going to be the best in the last four to five years easily.
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  See, that's what I'm saying, bro.
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  This is what I'm saying. If you know ball, you know, you
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  know what pop is coming, you know what type of athleticism is
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  coming. This is crazy, dude.
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  I It's going to be good. When's the last time Nate in the
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  field had to convince Kyle of something in a positive manner?
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  That's what we do, guy. That's what we do.
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  This is crazy. Who, who would you fill out the
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  last two spots with? Obviously, like I said, not
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  being able to go with with the with the guys such as a Pete
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  Alonzo Schwarber who have said no.
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  OK. It's just I'm kind of looking
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  through. While you do that, while you do
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  that, I'm actually going to. We were talking about it in our
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  fantasy group chat this morning, and I said, you know, when the,
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  when the Caminero news broke, I was like, I kind of sent like
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  the just like straight face emoji, just like Junior
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  Caminero's in the Home Run Derby.
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  And then, you know, the boys came to Caminero's defense.
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  They're like, whoa, this doesn't this doesn't move the needle for
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  you. And I'm like.
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  This is my this is my rookie of the year pick too.
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  No, Yeah, yeah. Junior Caminero.
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  Yeah, that's that's news to me. I don't remember that being the
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  case. I'll pull up the notes.
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  But I brought up the I brought up the question like, OK, throw
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  all throw what we have in the field already out the window.
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  Throw out the guys who have said no out the window.
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  Start from scratch. Who would your who would your
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  dream, who would your dream Home Run Derby Field be if you could
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  choose? I said trying to find it here.
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  Had had some surprises in here, I'm sure.
• 24:13
  Shohei Otani, Cal Raleigh, Ronald Cunha Junior little home
• 24:21
  cooking. Aaron Judge just because he has
• 24:25
  an OPS of like 6000 right now. Kyle Schwarber, James Wood, Pete
• 24:32
  Alonso. Yes, Pete Alonso, because.
• 24:35
  This is just wood in there already.
• 24:37
  This is just what he does. And O'Neill Cruz, that's my 8I.
• 24:44
  Don't know if I can rattle off an 8 an 88 spot an 8 piece for
• 24:48
  you right now, but I'll say my next to my my dream next to
• 24:53
  right now for like counting out the guys that have said no, give
• 24:59
  me Ellie De la Cruz and and Gino Suarez.
• 25:05
  Yeah, I I think if I were to bump Pete, because on second
• 25:10
  thought, I'm like this is his event, but like I would, I would
• 25:13
  love to see a spot like that filled with somebody else.
• 25:17
  I would probably go, yeah, Caglione would be sick.
• 25:24
  Had he had a better like month like it would, it would just
• 25:28
  feel real, like it would just be uncomfortable watching this guy
• 25:31
  in the Derby knowing the, you know, struggle struggles he's
• 25:34
  had. It would it would bring back
• 25:36
  like our our no disrespect, but our hometown guy, Justin Borr.
• 25:45
  One of the one of the best. You talk about a perfect fit for
• 25:49
  a Derby. That guy was made for the Derby.
• 25:53
  I know, I know. But it was one of those things
• 25:55
  where it's just like, was it too soon?
• 25:57
  Like did he not have enough eyes on him yet?
• 26:03
  It's kind of one of those things, kind of one of those
• 26:06
  things. I don't know if Cag's got enough
• 26:08
  eyeballs on him yet. I don't know if he's earned it
• 26:10
  yet either. Like you said, it's been a rough
• 26:13
  start. No, but like, like I said,
• 26:16
  honestly at this point, say there was one spot left and it's
• 26:19
  like, OK, you could have CAG Leone knowing what he did on his
• 26:24
  way up to the big leagues, or he could go with Kyle Sowers.
• 26:28
  No disrespect not to, not to, you know, throw so many
• 26:32
  ricochets at at the Sowers. He's caught a lot lately.
• 26:35
  The last the last week or so. But like, who would you rather
• 26:38
  have? Kags or or sowers?
• 26:40
  I'm going kags. Yeah, for sure.
• 26:42
  Yes, our sweet Prince Bryce. Great pick.
• 26:45
  I saw he went deep today. I think it was his first Homer
• 26:48
  since coming back from the the wrist issue.
• 26:51
  I, I get the argument, I really do.
• 26:54
  But The thing is just like I, I think this event is starting to
• 26:59
  become more of like, let me show you what Max effort looks like.
• 27:11
  I don't want to see a guy in his 30s.
• 27:13
  I don't want to see a guy that's been in the league for 8/10/12
• 27:16
  years who's like got the Hall of Fame already in sights, you know
• 27:21
  what I'm saying? I want to see like, yo, I want
• 27:24
  to see like 2223 year olds with like just absolute like, I have
• 27:30
  No Fear. I have no regard for taking this
• 27:34
  time to rest. I'm going to put on a show
• 27:38
  that's I want to see like peak athleticism.
• 27:41
  I think that's what we have. I really do.
• 27:44
  I think that's what we have right now.
• 27:46
  I mean, I I guess, but like outside of the injury for Bryce,
• 27:52
  like if he didn't have like if he wasn't coming off of that,
• 27:54
  dude has one of the most violent swings in baseball and he put it
• 27:59
  on full display in DC. Granted, I know that was what,
• 28:03
  freaking seven years ago now. That's what.
• 28:05
  See, that's what I'm saying. Yeah, that's kind of. 202526
• 28:10
  years old. That's what this event is for.
• 28:14
  As awesome as it can be to see. I think we already have that in
• 28:21
  a Cal Raleigh. Like we have the home run leader
• 28:23
  in Cal Raleigh. We have kind of like the the
• 28:26
  boring guy, check boxes checked. Everyone else is like freak,
• 28:35
  freak athlete. I think this is the most most
• 28:38
  athletic field you've seen. All right.
• 28:44
  Well, I'm excited. Fernando Tati is another one
• 28:47
  that hadn't been named. Would also be a great pick.
• 28:51
  I like that too. OK, in the chat.
• 28:54
  Hunter Goodman may end up in it. I you know of all the names I've
• 28:58
  seen thrown out there. That would hurt.
• 29:00
  That would hurt. Yeah, it would hurt, but I could
• 29:02
  very easily envision a scenario where we wake up to a
• 29:06
  notification in the morning. Hunter Goodman has been selected
• 29:10
  for the Home Run Derby. And then you're sitting there
• 29:12
  going, well, the Derby really just took a hit there, no?
• 29:16
  Disrespect, no disrespect, but that would take a hit that would
• 29:18
  Hunter. Goodman took some strays when I
• 29:21
  was trying to make the case that we need to do away with the
• 29:23
  whole every team needs to be represented the All Star game
• 29:26
  thing. And Hunter Goodman was a was
• 29:28
  somebody that people were throwing out there in defense of
• 29:31
  like, no, like what about Hunter Goodman is having a good year.
• 29:33
  Yeah, is having a good year, but.
• 29:34
  You've been spraying strays as of late.
• 29:39
  I mean, this is a tumultuous time in baseball.
• 29:42
  You know we got the. Word.
• 29:44
  The word. A lot.
• 29:44
  Thank you. There's How do you?
• 29:45
  Spell it. TUMULTUOUS.
• 29:51
  Tumultuous. You know, there's a, there's a
• 29:59
  lot of texts flying around. There's a lot of opinions flying
• 30:02
  around. Also Jacob in the chat it says
• 30:08
  Cal Raleigh Boring Jacob. You got to have the one boring
• 30:12
  guy. Our our our Jacob and I's
• 30:15
  relationship is seems fractured right now with him trying to
• 30:19
  pull a fast one with that 999 challenge recently.
• 30:23
  Our relationship seems. What 'cause man's has done it
• 30:28
  twice in the last two? Weeks.
• 30:29
  Yeah, bro. Jacob shout out Jacob in the
• 30:31
  chat. He wanted a he wanted a proper
• 30:33
  call out. Here's your call out, Jacob.
• 30:35
  Jacob, as you can see on the screen there that is the
• 30:39
  individual responsible for two nine, well like 1 1/2, I guess
• 30:44
  2999 challenges. He did one.
• 30:48
  Where was the first one? Philly?
• 30:50
  Yeah. And then the other one was last
• 30:54
  night at Camden. Shout out, you doing it?
• 30:57
  I think it was like a rain delay game, right?
• 30:59
  There was at least some bad weather.
• 31:01
  He texted me asking for a shout out and I was like it.
• 31:03
  It might have to be. It might have to be an
• 31:07
  intervention at this point. Yeah, yeah, I, I mean.
• 31:12
  To run that back. That's a good point to chat.
• 31:14
  It's basically an 18/18/18 which that, that's that's a cry for
• 31:18
  help, but at a. Certain point, yeah.
• 31:23
  All right, Jacob, redeeming yourself.
• 31:25
  I, I too, said Michael. But I threw out Michael Bush as
• 31:28
  an option. And the more that I hear it, the
• 31:30
  more I like it. I like that.
• 31:32
  I would do. I would do Michael Bush or Gino
• 31:35
  Suarez. I wouldn't want both, if that
• 31:37
  makes sense. I don't know why, but that's the
• 31:40
  way I feel about that. Yeah.
• 31:42
  Is that OK? Yeah, it's acceptable.
• 31:46
  I yeah all out John and chat Jacob's original 999 was his
• 31:51
  legit as pools his final season Homer numbers sure it counts,
• 31:54
  but doesn't really I mean talk about perfect illustration.
• 31:58
  I mean talk about yeah it counts like we'll give it to you, but
• 32:02
  John gets it yeah yeah, John. John gets it, and so do we.
• 32:09
  Jacob see a doctor. Yeah, get.
• 32:15
  Of the mental and physical kind, it's that.
• 32:17
  Jordan GIF where he's like, stop it, get help.
• 32:20
  That's that's basically the message that we're trying to
• 32:23
  send to you. 299 nines in the course of what, 2-3 weeks?
• 32:28
  2 weeks? I That's more hot dogs than I've
• 32:31
  had in 10 years. Right.
• 32:34
  It was the night that I was at the at the Blue Jays game, yeah,
• 32:36
  which was like. 3rd of July. Wait, was that a week ago?
• 32:42
  Dang yeah, Jacob twice in a week.
• 32:48
  Jacob needs help Twice in a week.
• 32:51
  Week and a half maybe. Still jarring anyway, talking
• 32:57
  about a guy that's hot dogging it.
• 33:01
  Rafael Devers bro, what is going?
• 33:06
  On Segway, thank. You one could say 9 out of nine
• 33:12
  out of nine segue. One could.
• 33:15
  Rafael Devers, what are you doing, guy?
• 33:20
  It was reported through this man because this is not a good look.
• 33:24
  So it was reported that Rafael Devers had stood up Giants
• 33:29
  legend Will Clark, who had offered to provide some
• 33:33
  assistance, some sort of talking through some, some side session
• 33:38
  coaching on playing first base. Because as you remember, Rafael
• 33:43
  Devers said they're the ones that make meaning the, the, the
• 33:48
  powers that be with the Giants, He said they're the ones that
• 33:50
  make the decision. I'll play wherever they tell me
• 33:52
  to. OK?
• 33:55
  Apparently did not show up on any of the three days that Will
• 34:00
  Clark was out there waiting at first base to help him out.
• 34:03
  Apparently he got shut up and this came from the horse's
• 34:05
  mouth. Will Clark on his podcast, who I
• 34:08
  think he shares with Eric Burns, if I'm not mistaken, there's a
• 34:14
  name. They they do podcast together.
• 34:18
  And he said it himself. This wasn't just like this
• 34:20
  wasn't speculation. This wasn't like where's Devers?
• 34:23
  And they kind of look around and they just assumed that he like,
• 34:26
  no, this was straight from Will Clark's mouth.
• 34:29
  He said he stood me up. He said, let me find that quote.
• 34:35
  He. Called him.
• 34:37
  Didn't you call him Devers? Who knows?
• 34:40
  He's he didn't say Devers, he said Devers.
• 34:43
  He. Said I don't know what the F
• 34:44
  happened, he said. I I said he didn't want to go
• 34:48
  out and be at first base and be 20 feet in front of their
• 34:51
  freaking dugout with what went on in Boston.
• 34:53
  Now he's working with me at first base.
• 34:56
  He didn't want to have to go through all the BS through the
• 34:58
  press and the media. And so I completely understand.
• 35:00
  But Rafael Devers, next time I'm in San Francisco, your tail will
• 35:04
  be on the field at first base. Just letting you know that Clark
• 35:08
  went on to say the Devers would be on 1st, even if it meant he
• 35:11
  had to grab him by the back of the neck and drag him out there
• 35:13
  himself. I'll.
• 35:20
  Have to dissect there I I haven't heard great things about
• 35:25
  Will Clark from the fan perspective.
• 35:27
  Based on comments, I don't think he has like the best personality
• 35:38
  review as a whole, but he is a legend.
• 35:45
  And this kind of seems like it like it's like teed up for you.
• 35:51
  You know, if you're Rafael Devers and you just you just
• 35:56
  want to be like kind of win the fan base over quickly.
• 36:00
  That's I mean that's that's clickbait stuff, man.
• 36:03
  That's straight clickbait, easy headline stuff.
• 36:08
  If there's some pictures snagged of you hanging out with a Giants
• 36:11
  legend. But now this whole this like
• 36:18
  kind of spins the whole narrative of like, was were the
• 36:27
  Red Sox correct? Were did they kind of get ahead
• 36:31
  of this? Well, here's here's my thought
• 36:33
  on that. And because like I've said
• 36:35
  before, the Red Sox are just phenomenal at kicking people on
• 36:43
  the way out the door when they when they shoot them out of
• 36:45
  town, they will they will just spew the most random PR nonsense
• 36:49
  just to, you know, just to cover themselves, make themselves look
• 36:53
  good and make fans go, oh, I guess I see why they kind of did
• 36:56
  that. I think there was something with
• 36:58
  Tito with like pills or something like outing him for.
• 37:02
  Yeah, it was, it was a whole, it was a whole mess, dude, just I'm
• 37:06
  like, come on. Like we got to be better anyway.
• 37:09
  When, when this whole thing happened.
• 37:12
  I'm going, is this another situation or is this another
• 37:16
  instance of that? But like I said, this is coming
• 37:21
  from Will Clark. Like this is independent of
• 37:24
  anything the Red Sox are saying or could have said Like this.
• 37:29
  You know, this is like happening in a vacuum essentially, where
• 37:32
  it's like Devers could have shown up and I don't know.
• 37:35
  I don't know if there's more to that because I heard that like
• 37:39
  he said, maybe he's just trying to duck the media and stuff or
• 37:43
  or something like that. But I'm like, like you said, it
• 37:46
  just seems like a layup. I don't, I don't know what
• 37:48
  reason you would have for not doing that.
• 37:50
  And so because of that, it makes it makes one what you said at
• 37:55
  the presser of like, oh, I'll just play wherever and makes
• 37:57
  that a little questionable. And it also makes the Red Sox
• 38:01
  look better in the grand scheme of things.
• 38:03
  Like, OK. And I, I was reading some
• 38:05
  article today and it was like he was Devers was was chalked up
• 38:10
  throughout the duration of his his young, call it young career
• 38:15
  as a member of the Red Sox, as this happy go lucky kid who just
• 38:18
  loved hitting homers and and spitting his gum out and seeing
• 38:22
  how far he could kick it after games.
• 38:23
  That was something he did, but the article went on to say like
• 38:29
  maybe there was something a little deeper beneath the
• 38:32
  surface under the hood that just the average fan or or the
• 38:37
  general population, which is going to be the case in any
• 38:41
  situation. We're we're obviously only aware
• 38:43
  of what's made public. But I had to agree with that
• 38:48
  original stance of like Devers is this happy go lucky kid.
• 38:52
  At least he seems like it, but the more and more we hear about
• 38:55
  it, it's like maybe this. Maybe there was a lot more.
• 39:03
  I don't I don't want to say like bad blood, but just not team
• 39:10
  friendly nature there. I don't know, like I, I don't
• 39:15
  know, but he's not, he's not helping his case with, with
• 39:17
  stuff like this. No, man, it's tough it and it's
• 39:22
  difficult when you, I mean, just to get a quick update on it, the
• 39:29
  Giants are definitely in the playoff picture.
• 39:31
  So it's just like, it's strange. That you, don't you?
• 39:37
  I don't think it's much thanks to him either.
• 39:39
  No, no, it's not. And so that's what I'm saying is
• 39:41
  that like it's strange to come in and like kind of already
• 39:48
  ruffle feathers in that way. And you know, that's like, it
• 39:55
  could be a little embarrassing if I'm Will Clark, like I'm I'm
• 39:58
  probably a little embarrassed if I get stood up and I'm like, I'm
• 40:03
  memorialized here, like everyone knows who I am here.
• 40:08
  I don't know. It's very odd, very odd
• 40:11
  behavior. And I don't know.
• 40:15
  I was was Will Clark like. I'm unfamiliar, was he like
• 40:23
  known for his defensive abilities?
• 40:28
  Admittedly, that was it was before my time I.
• 40:31
  Can't say I got I thought he was more of a hitter than anything
• 40:33
  else, but well. Still, well, any like we've like
• 40:36
  we've covered anything is better than what Devers is, is
• 40:39
  providing you because again, as I said, Rafael Devers since his
• 40:42
  call up was the worst, the worst defensive third baseman in
• 40:49
  baseball. Yeah, yeah, man, I, I don't
• 40:53
  know, whatever you want, I'll do whatever you want.
• 40:56
  Like that's the whole conversation.
• 40:58
  I'll do whatever this team needs.
• 40:59
  And like, if you, if you, if you're getting treated and that
• 41:04
  was the narrative, you would think, hey, let's kind of just
• 41:08
  leave that in the past. Let's get ahead of that and make
• 41:12
  sure it doesn't become the narrative moving forward.
• 41:14
  And now it is. And now every baseball podcast
• 41:19
  is talking about it. And now Will Clark, loudmouth or
• 41:22
  not, has gotten a lot of coverage and, and a lot of a lot
• 41:27
  of reposts going on the last few days.
• 41:29
  And it's just like, I it's tough, man.
• 41:34
  Like at a certain point, it's like, what's the common
• 41:37
  denominator here, Mr. Devers? Well, Speaking of Devers, Andrew
• 41:45
  in the chat asked would Deavers be a good Home Run Derby
• 41:48
  participant to get his image back up, if that's possible.
• 41:52
  Has. He done it before, I feel like
• 41:56
  he did it once. I, I can't recall I I can't
• 42:00
  recall him doing it. I mean, I agree.
• 42:02
  I think he'd be great. I think he'd be great.
• 42:08
  Yeah, it says he's declined invitations.
• 42:10
  Participate. I think you'd do well.
• 42:16
  He has reportedly reportedly sighted feelings that he's not a
• 42:19
  home run hitter in batting practice as his reason for
• 42:22
  declining. I, I, I get that, I get it.
• 42:27
  Sometimes you just don't feel like you got the juice when
• 42:30
  you're hitting 40. I won't hold that against him.
• 42:33
  I just no, no, no, this is not a good look.
• 42:39
  Like I said, the Giants are in, they haven't had a superstar in
• 42:44
  a while. They're very much like a doubt
• 42:47
  us fly under the radar type team, you know, So it's like
• 42:53
  it's weird to get your first superstar in a while and like it
• 42:58
  has a lot of negative narrative going on.
• 43:04
  I don't know if there's any truth to this tweet, but Rob
• 43:06
  Reinhardt on the Twitter I'm I'm, I'm, I mentioned it right
• 43:13
  off the jump. I don't know if there's any
• 43:15
  truth to this, but if there is, it's interesting.
• 43:16
  Rob Ryan Reinhart on Twitter says the San Francisco Giants
• 43:19
  front office is seriously concerned with character defects
• 43:23
  shown by Rafi Devers recently, per source.
• 43:25
  I'm told it started with him. No.
• 43:26
  Showing first base practices with franchise icon Will Clark
• 43:30
  culminated in a tirade aimed at teammates and clubhouse staff on
• 43:33
  the Giants loss to the A's on Friday.
• 43:35
  Tirade. I don't know what a what a mess.
• 43:42
  I'm over it. I'm done talking about Devers.
• 43:45
  Fine with me. What about Devers?
• 43:47
  Devers, I'll talk about Devers. I'm I'm out, you know a guy that
• 43:54
  I'm in on Jacob Mesorowski. This dude is the truth.
• 43:59
  I know we've talked, we talked about him what, a week or two
• 44:03
  ago, but. Guy just continues.
• 44:07
  Does that start that lined up with him and skiing same day,
• 44:10
  right? Yes, that's what it was.
• 44:12
  Yeah, yeah. Speaking of which, in his young
• 44:17
  career, Jacob Mesorowski has already has already out dueled
• 44:24
  Skeins and Kershaw. Oh yeah, good little line
• 44:31
  against the Dodgers yesterday. Which I know out doing Kershaw
• 44:35
  in the year 2025 is requires I I guess a footnote, but still.
• 44:43
  So. Did you see the thing, by the
• 44:46
  way, where Kershaw apparently said he didn't know him and Miss
• 44:53
  Roski was he said, Kershaw said. I know him now.
• 44:59
  Huh. That was super impressive after
• 45:02
  the start against Dodgers, since that was unbelievable.
• 45:05
  It was really special. That's cool.
• 45:08
  That's got to that's got to feel pretty good.
• 45:10
  And then Miss Roski said I saw something online that he didn't
• 45:13
  know who I was, so I hope he knows me now.
• 45:17
  No need to, this isn't bulletin board material.
• 45:20
  No need to get hyped up, you know.
• 45:22
  No, no animosity needed, no no ill will spoken towards towards
• 45:27
  Kirsch. I know it's a good line, but did
• 45:31
  you happen to hear? And I'd say hear not see
• 45:37
  Ohtani's home run off of him in the first inning.
• 45:41
  No. The sound of it was like, Oh my.
• 45:51
  431. Feet I mean it was a nuke to
• 45:54
  center, but like the sound of it was like was like as if he was
• 45:59
  taking BP in the stadium was empty like it was.
• 46:03
  Loud. I love that.
• 46:06
  But good line and and that's a great way to rebound, yeah.
• 46:10
  That's a great way to rebound. Because that was in the mouth
• 46:12
  right away. That was literally a lead off
• 46:14
  home run. Yeah, yeah.
• 46:15
  And then he he goes on to strike out.
• 46:17
  I love how it says career high 12 batter.
• 46:19
  So it's like, OK, what is that like?
• 46:21
  It's been a month. But still that mean that's
• 46:25
  that's impressive. This kid, I mean every start
• 46:28
  that he adds to his his resume only builds the case that this
• 46:34
  guy is legit. This isn't just like a oh, like
• 46:37
  a young buck comes up for a cup of coffee and like strings
• 46:40
  together a few starts while they need some some spot starts.
• 46:43
  Like no, if this if he continues to do this or even like slightly
• 46:48
  less than what he's giving you, he's going to be a mainstay in
• 46:52
  this rotation. Like this is insane what he's
• 46:54
  doing. Big time.
• 46:56
  It's crazy and I know we made that joke about the whole like
• 46:59
  Andy and and Toy Story throwing Woody away once he got buzzed,
• 47:03
  but like I'm seeing a lot of Jacob Mesrawski content like the
• 47:09
  the the breaking down the nickname and I think they
• 47:11
  finally settled on the Miz. I think is what I saw is that is
• 47:15
  that what is that correct? I'm.
• 47:16
  Going bored with that. I mean, it's different.
• 47:20
  It's not not too not too flashy, nice and simple.
• 47:23
  I think it's kind of like a play on the Wiz, right?
• 47:26
  Right. Yeah, I know.
• 47:27
  That's what I'm saying. Yeah.
• 47:29
  It's it's you can work with that.
• 47:32
  You can work with that big handing that.
• 47:36
  Handing the Dodgers their 6th consecutive loss, by the way,
• 47:41
  last night. No, I thought, didn't they play
• 47:46
  today? Was it 6 after last night?
• 47:49
  I thought it was today. Did they not play today?
• 47:52
  Oh, that's right, they did play today, so that.
• 47:54
  'D have been their 5th yesterday, but today was 6th
• 47:57
  today. They've been swept in
• 47:59
  back-to-back series. Man, time to hit the panic
• 48:03
  button about the Dodgers. No, I'm just.
• 48:05
  Kidding. No, not quite.
• 48:06
  I would never do that. Well, how?
• 48:09
  Well, here's a question. How many games would the Dodgers
• 48:11
  have to lose in a row for you to panic?
• 48:16
  In a row. In a row, they're already at
• 48:18
  six. How many games will the Dodgers
• 48:21
  have to lose in a row for you to panic?
• 48:23
  What do you mean by panic? Like cancel the season.
• 48:26
  It's it's, it's subjective. My panic is like they're they're
• 48:33
  going to miss the playoffs. They've lost their first.
• 48:37
  Kind of like where the Yankees are right now.
• 48:39
  You lose your first place spot in the division and there's
• 48:43
  major questions about you even getting into the postseason.
• 48:48
  I think that would require the Dodgers to lose at least 15 in a
• 48:51
  row. Just just out of curiosity,
• 48:58
  let's let's look at what they've got Let OK, let's play out that
• 49:03
  scenario. Oh, they got a series against
• 49:06
  the the Giants, so round out the first half.
• 49:11
  So you'd have to lose. That puts you at 9:00.
• 49:14
  If you got swept there, then you got three games against the
• 49:17
  Brewers that put you at 12 and then you got a three-game set
• 49:22
  against the Twins. So you'd have to get swept by
• 49:24
  the the Giants, the Brewers and the Twins.
• 49:29
  The Brewers not. Twice during the stretch, which
• 49:32
  is not easy to do. Yeah, I mean, .00000001 chance
• 49:38
  that happens, but if you had to pick three teams to do it, like
• 49:42
  they could be worse, yeah, you could have worse teams to pick.
• 49:45
  But yeah, I mean, that's still like going back to the original
• 49:49
  point though, six games for the Dodgers.
• 49:51
  That's I don't know if they snap it, if they snap it next game,
• 50:00
  whatever, like 6 games. If that's like your version of
• 50:04
  if that's if if you're the Dodgers and that's your version
• 50:06
  of like the June swoon and it just happens to come.
• 50:09
  Are they in the stretch before the break?
• 50:11
  Were they almost like the only team to be like immune to?
• 50:15
  Panic. Well, that's why I asked.
• 50:19
  Like what would it take for you to hit the panic button even
• 50:23
  for? Them I'm like, I'm hesitant to
• 50:24
  hit the button after 15 straight.
• 50:27
  I'm pretty hesitant still. Hey, I'm with you.
• 50:30
  At least this time in the during the season their.
• 50:36
  Last thing before we move on here, they've lost 6, so they'd
• 50:42
  have to lose 9 more if they lost not or yeah, if they lost nine
• 50:47
  more games that would put them at, they'd still, they would
• 50:50
  have a record of 56 and 47. They would still be 9 games over
• 50:56
  500. This is never going to happen
• 51:01
  anyway, so. It's fun to.
• 51:03
  It's fun to. As much as we can hope for it.
• 51:07
  It's fun to speculate. It's fun to dream.
• 51:09
  Now, I wouldn't wish that on the Dodgers.
• 51:11
  I don't. I don't really care.
• 51:12
  Do what you're going to do. We'll, we'll see how it plays
• 51:15
  out in October. Speaking of October, a guy that
• 51:19
  probably is not going to be there, Aaron Judge, the last 10
• 51:25
  days, Credit Cannon. This might be a debut.
• 51:28
  No, no, it couldn't have been a debut for Judge.
• 51:30
  No, he was. He was pretty early on during
• 51:33
  this segment, but I don't love the way it started.
• 51:36
  Well, it's reality. I'm I'm.
• 51:38
  No. What?
• 51:39
  Do you want me to mislead? The people.
• 51:41
  Oh, Speaking of the play offs, the guy that's going to be at
• 51:43
  the World Series again, that's not going to happen.
• 51:45
  Aaron Judge. Say that either.
• 51:49
  Look, not every Yankee that gets a credit can and has to have a
• 51:53
  jab mixed in, guy. Go back and listen to the the
• 51:57
  I've I've talked about. I've I've given props to Max
• 52:00
  Freed on here. I've given props to call us
• 52:03
  Rodon. With.
• 52:06
  Jazz maybe Rodon I don't think free.
• 52:09
  I'm I'm I'm straight with Freed Clark.
• 52:12
  Schmidt, you gave. Clark Schmidt in there as well.
• 52:14
  Now he's cursed. Maybe this is the bat.
• 52:16
  Maybe the this could be another conversation.
• 52:21
  The Curse of the Cannon you. Don't want to put it out there
• 52:23
  just yet. Pirates of the Caribbean, The
• 52:26
  Curse of the Cannon, Working on another prequel.
• 52:31
  Would that be 7? Would that be Pirate 7?
• 52:34
  Maybe. Part 6:00 Somewhere in there
• 52:40
  Aaron Judge over the last 10 days coming into today Wednesday
• 52:45
  hitting 419 and let me just clarify.
• 52:48
  Let me let me qualify this by saying it is weird putting Judge
• 52:53
  in the credit Canon segment because of the year he's having.
• 52:56
  It's like what what like what sample like I at any point this
• 53:00
  year I really you could. Just do it.
• 53:02
  You could just do it. Yeah, taking a 10/14 day sample
• 53:05
  or like 15 day sample and be like, OK, but I just happened to
• 53:09
  check the numbers. I'm like, this seems worthy of
• 53:12
  making this round 'cause it's been a minute, but just know
• 53:15
  that, you know, he All in all could really just be during in
• 53:19
  this segment pretty much every week, but that would be boring.
• 53:22
  With that said, last 10 days Judges hitting 4/19 with six
• 53:26
  homers, 12 ribbies and an OPS of 1623 according to Yankees Muse
• 53:35
  on Twitter, which I thought this was very interesting, well more
• 53:42
  funny than interesting. 2025 Aaron Judge has tied the Yankees
• 53:45
  record for homers before the All Star break with 34.
• 53:48
  Then coming in today he had 34. That record was set by 2024
• 53:53
  Aaron Judge who happened to break 2022 Aaron Judge's record.
• 53:59
  So this guy, when, when, If you need a Homer before the break,
• 54:03
  this, this is your guy. So good.
• 54:07
  Good for Judge swinging it well. Yeah, one for 2:00 tonight with
• 54:11
  a couple more ribs, by the way. So all those numbers slightly
• 54:14
  climb. Guys not going to sniff the end
• 54:18
  of October, but you know this is still an impressive run.
• 54:21
  Next up, Corey Seeger over the last 10 days hitting 324.
• 54:28
  It it's less about the stretch he's on now and, and you can
• 54:31
  speak to this, but he was on your fantasy team before you
• 54:33
  traded into me. It's a little slow getting out
• 54:37
  of the gate, but he's had he's had a very impressive run over
• 54:43
  the last, we'll call it two weeks, hitting three over the
• 54:45
  last 10 days, hitting 320 for coming in today, hitting 324,
• 54:49
  four homers, 8 ribbies and A12O7 OPS.
• 54:53
  According to Depressed Ranger on Twitter, Corey Seager over the
• 54:59
  last 30 days slashing 281-430-6573 with 7 homers, a
• 55:05
  1009 OPSA, 178 weighted runs created plus with it, which is 8
• 55:13
  eighth best in baseball, 57.1 hard hit percentage, which is
• 55:17
  which is fifth in baseball, 1.6 F, 4 second best and 19.7 walk
• 55:23
  rate, which is third best. So he's fine in it, He's fine in
• 55:28
  it. So good for good for Seger and I
• 55:30
  think, I think he's on a 13 game on base trick too, so he's
• 55:36
  figuring out ways to make it happen.
• 55:37
  So good. For Seeger, yeah, guys rolling.
• 55:41
  I think it was some hamstring issues early on.
• 55:44
  Seems like he's kind of healthy now.
• 55:45
  Couple IL stints, seems like he's he's back.
• 55:49
  Rangers go, as Corey Seeger goes.
• 55:52
  And you know, You know what Nate the Red Sox go as Trevor Story
• 56:00
  goes, making his return, his long-awaited return to the
• 56:06
  credit cannon segments. I'm it was jokes.
• 56:11
  It it's been all nothing but jokes the last week.
• 56:14
  But I'm I'm putting my foot down.
• 56:15
  I'm tired of the Trevor story slander.
• 56:18
  One of the better short stops in all of baseball as of late.
• 56:23
  Tell me I'm wrong. Tell me I'm wrong.
• 56:25
  The numbers back it up. As of late in there oh.
• 56:29
  Yeah, yeah, because he was the worst qualified hitter in all of
• 56:33
  baseball for an entire month. I'm not.
• 56:34
  I'm not going to pretend that that was not reality, however,
• 56:38
  however got well, I tell you what you know who's not going to
• 56:42
  be on this segment is Anthony Volpe, Trevor Story over the
• 56:45
  last 10 days hitting four O 5, four O 5, which is knocking on
• 56:50
  the door of what judge has been doing the last 10 days.
• 56:52
  By the way, four O 5 with four homers here, 14 ribbies, 14
• 57:00
  ribbies and a 1232 OPS. Nate, you know how many
• 57:07
  shortstops in Major League Baseball have 15 plus homers and
• 57:10
  and 55 plus RBIs? Two Elie de la Cruz.
• 57:25
  Start Over and Trevor Story. I mean, it's about times making
• 57:31
  enough money. Chill since June 1st he's
• 57:35
  slashing 315346567913I don't know why that that's got 4/4
• 57:43
  slashes waited runs created plus 149.
• 57:54
  I mean, what, What more needs to be said?
• 57:56
  Moving on, Zach Wheeler, the last 30 days, the last month
• 58:03
  he's three in one with an ERA of .6854 strikeouts across six
• 58:11
  starts since June 9th. And by the way, threw a threw
• 58:18
  ACG against the Reds last start out on the 6th. 12 KS in that in
• 58:24
  that performance. Nate, where do we stand on the
• 58:27
  National League Cy Young I? Was going to ask that because I
• 58:31
  feel like every time it comes up it's just like a lock for Paul
• 58:35
  Skeens. I don't.
• 58:38
  I don't think it's been a lock for at least a couple weeks.
• 58:45
  And then we just don't talk about it, Zach.
• 58:47
  Wheeler not forget this year since what did I see today?
• 58:55
  I think since he got since he got since.
• 58:58
  No, I think it was at the from the start of his Philly's
• 59:03
  tenure. Dude has been one of the best
• 59:06
  pitchers in baseball. I mean, we kind of know that,
• 59:08
  but like when you really sit and look at the numbers over the
• 59:11
  duration of time, it's insane. But this year coming into today,
• 59:19
  sporting an ERA of 217 to skeens is 194.
• 59:22
  Has 148 strikeouts to skeens is 125.
• 59:26
  Has a WHIP of .84 to skeens is 92.
• 59:32
  Opponent batting average 177 to Skeens is 186 and they both have
• 59:37
  logged 116 innings. Who's your National League Cy
• 59:41
  Young right now? For sure, Wheeler.
• 59:45
  Easy peasy man. People aren't going to like it.
• 59:49
  These games mean more. There we go.
• 59:53
  I was trying to find live odds. He's now the favorite -140
• 59:59
  according to FanDuel Sports book Paul Skeens.
• 1:00:02
  Up next at Plus 1/15. Seems to be a pretty big gap
• 1:00:07
  before you get to Logan Webb and two other names by the way, who
• 1:00:12
  also wear Philly uniforms bro Christopher Sanchez and Ranger
• 1:00:18
  Suarez, which is crazy. Who is that first one you said?
• 1:00:21
  Talked about Christopher Sanchez.
• 1:00:23
  This is what I was talking about.
• 1:00:25
  With this rotation bro can continue.
• 1:00:29
  No, no, no, keep going. I just wanted to.
• 1:00:32
  So I was trying to tell people that I mean, if this was the
• 1:00:37
  Lizardo trade put them and I know it's kind of been like up
• 1:00:41
  and down for Lizardo this year. But like this when going well is
• 1:00:47
  a problem in the postseason, all they got to do is hit and play
• 1:00:51
  defense. That's it.
• 1:00:53
  Pitching is taken care of. Christopher Sanchez is a freak.
• 1:01:00
  Stay with your chest, Nate. I did.
• 1:01:07
  Christopher Sanchez is a freak. Christopher Sanchez.
• 1:01:13
  Is a freak over the last month. Christopher Sanchez is 2 and one
• 1:01:21
  with an ERA of 171 with 42 strikeouts across six starts
• 1:01:27
  since June 8th. Is this a credit cannon?
• 1:01:30
  First teammates during the same episode.
• 1:01:34
  I wondered that. I wondered that I'd be I I was
• 1:01:36
  sure to pair them together. Could be, but it's it's.
• 1:01:41
  It's quite possible. Something to consider.
• 1:01:47
  Funny enough, I feel like the Yankees may have actually been a
• 1:01:50
  candidate for that earlier with those aforementioned names.
• 1:01:55
  I don't. Know.
• 1:01:57
  Hard to say. It's hard to say, but yeah, good
• 1:02:00
  on Christmas. I mean, going back to June 8th,
• 1:02:03
  he's only had one start, less than 7 innings.
• 1:02:09
  One of those starts was eight against the Marlins.
• 1:02:14
  Every other start, 7 innings, 7 innings, 8677.
• 1:02:19
  I mean, talk about it all the time.
• 1:02:22
  Length out of starting pitching is you just don't you don't see
• 1:02:26
  it as much anymore. But the fact that him, not just
• 1:02:29
  him like we've talked about that the staff is cooking right now
• 1:02:33
  in Philly. That's what I'm saying.
• 1:02:35
  If they're, if they're in the post season, that is a concern
• 1:02:39
  because that shifts a whole series.
• 1:02:43
  If you have one of your starters going 7-8 innings, that shifts
• 1:02:47
  everything, gives the extra an extra day for the bullpen.
• 1:02:51
  Look out. Look out.
• 1:02:56
  I just wanted on record that this was still, this was the
• 1:02:58
  last year that I I was given giving the Phillies a shot.
• 1:03:03
  So I was out on them. If they go on a run, I'm I'm in
• 1:03:06
  the clear as, as an honorary Phillies fan, it's true.
• 1:03:10
  Shout out Henry for bestowing that honor upon me.
• 1:03:15
  I'm in the clear. I I don't have to.
• 1:03:17
  I don't have to find receipts or anything.
• 1:03:21
  That's that's been documented. Yeah, lastly here Nate for the
• 1:03:25
  credit cannon, Seth Lugo, how about it?
• 1:03:30
  And the over the last month, 3 and O with an ERA of 125 with 38
• 1:03:36
  strikeouts across six starts since June 12th.
• 1:03:39
  Cordian Jake Eisenberg on Twitter last night was Seth
• 1:03:43
  Lugo's 50th career start as a Royal.
• 1:03:45
  His 290 ERA as a Royal is the lowest in franchise history
• 1:03:52
  among pitchers that have made at least 50 starts with the team.
• 1:03:55
  That's crazy. What uniform is he wearing after
• 1:04:00
  the deadline? I hate that we're having a
• 1:04:05
  conversation about the Royals being seller like I this was
• 1:04:09
  just not something that I anticipated.
• 1:04:11
  I get it, but age, you're not in it.
• 1:04:15
  This has to be the, this has to be the move.
• 1:04:17
  This has to be your marquee move as far as sellers go.
• 1:04:25
  I mean, like bias aside, if the, if the Red Sox were looking to
• 1:04:37
  do what they're talking about doing, where they're going to be
• 1:04:39
  buying and selling, which I, I, I hate that.
• 1:04:43
  I've never, I've never understood that.
• 1:04:44
  That I don't get it either, but in this scenario I do just based
• 1:04:47
  on the cluster in the outfield. Well, like, oh, OK, let me let
• 1:04:54
  me clear, let me clear that up. If you're if you're like
• 1:04:57
  offloading to clear up a log jam, I'm talking about like
• 1:05:02
  maybe multiple. Players soft soft sell based on
• 1:05:06
  where you are in standings kind of thing.
• 1:05:07
  Yeah, like multiple players being being shipped out that
• 1:05:10
  like, I don't know who, who who's to say, but this could be
• 1:05:17
  a situation. I mean, what's Seth Lugo going
• 1:05:19
  to fetch at the deadline or what's he going to require I.
• 1:05:23
  Think he's going to get a lot of play because the Red Sox weren't
• 1:05:27
  in. I think the Dodgers are
• 1:05:30
  obviously in the hunt. Well, the Sox have been linked
• 1:05:33
  to Joe Ryan. Whether or not there's truth to
• 1:05:36
  that, which I'd I'd have reasonably that that could be a
• 1:05:39
  possibility. I could see that.
• 1:05:40
  If you're going to go after Joe. More play than Joe Ryan?
• 1:05:44
  For sure, because more teams would be willing to to fork over
• 1:05:48
  what's needed. But but what I'm saying is if,
• 1:05:50
  if, if you're, if you were linked to Joe Ryan, whether or
• 1:05:53
  not that's lost team or not, if you're willing to to go after
• 1:05:57
  that, it it's like what? It's like what we said for them
• 1:06:00
  in the offseason. They were linked to Soto.
• 1:06:01
  Whether or not that was true. If you're linked to Soto, then
• 1:06:04
  you'd be more willing to or, or you'd be willing.
• 1:06:08
  You wouldn't, you wouldn't balk at a guy like Alex Bregman where
• 1:06:13
  it's like, OK, if we're going to go after Soto, why not go after
• 1:06:16
  Bregman? But yeah, I could, I could see
• 1:06:23
  if if you need a guy to supplement the rotation, which
• 1:06:27
  they do I'm. Going to say Dodgers, Astros are
• 1:06:33
  probably at the top. I can see the Mets in that
• 1:06:37
  conversation as a little reunion.
• 1:06:41
  Little throwback. Yeah.
• 1:06:44
  I like it. I.
• 1:06:48
  Don't know any other thoughts. Now lot going on right now, lot
• 1:06:53
  going on in the league. I like it.
• 1:06:56
  I like when I like when the news wire is hot, it's hot heading
• 1:07:01
  into the break and it doesn't like it's not like fizzled out
• 1:07:04
  or people are just like kind of crawl it like, you know, just
• 1:07:06
  give me a day off like no, we're we're roll.
• 1:07:09
  We are full steam ahead into this all saw break you.
• 1:07:12
  Have like a bunch of divisions that are in the Congress, like,
• 1:07:14
  you know what I mean? Like there, there's not really,
• 1:07:17
  there's been some shake up, there's been some scuffling,
• 1:07:21
  there's been new teams added into the conversation that have
• 1:07:23
  like stepped into potential buyers.
• 1:07:26
  Like we got a lot going on, a lot going on.
• 1:07:31
  Closing the book here, Nate, let's let's settle on this.
• 1:07:37
  No, no, no, don't, don't, don't, don't do that.
• 1:07:43
  I'm going to need I'm I need you to lock in.
• 1:07:46
  I'm, I'm sensing this like one foot in, one foot out kind of
• 1:07:50
  thing. You are.
• 1:07:51
  You were dropping excuses in the in the fantasy group chat today
• 1:07:55
  as to why. You don't think I think I think
• 1:07:57
  the golf swing is going to be a a very difficult factor to deal
• 1:08:01
  with. I mean, sure, but you act as if
• 1:08:07
  I'm out there taking BP every day.
• 1:08:09
  Like if it I I've swung a Golf Club more in the last year than
• 1:08:15
  I have a baseball bat. How about that?
• 1:08:20
  And that's a fact. I told you how we how we almost
• 1:08:24
  ran over Obama at the golf. Course, that's true.
• 1:08:27
  That's also a fact. Got photo evidence?
• 1:08:33
  So I mean, I'm hanging out at the golf course as well.
• 1:08:35
  I do, I Am I good at golf? No.
• 1:08:38
  I said in the chat I I've got you, but I've got you on the
• 1:08:42
  oppo ground. I don't know why you're so
• 1:08:45
  confident about just handling me in the in the lefty round.
• 1:08:51
  Left I feel I feel better about my lefty swing than than my
• 1:08:55
  right. Well, that's just not true.
• 1:08:58
  But. Yeah.
• 1:09:00
  Yeah. All right, OK, well, we need to
• 1:09:02
  settle on some things here. What is what is the wager?
• 1:09:05
  I, I alluded to it earlier. I had the idea today and dropped
• 1:09:12
  it in the fantasy chat to get a little feedback, see what the
• 1:09:14
  see what the guys thought. Banana costume.
• 1:09:18
  I thought, oh let me just snag one from Amazon real quick.
• 1:09:20
  It's like 30 bucks. And then I was reminded by Nate
• 1:09:24
  that he has a banana costume. So it just felt like a natural.
• 1:09:29
  It does feel right. A natural solution to the
• 1:09:32
  question of what is going to What is the loser going to have
• 1:09:36
  to do? It does feel right.
• 1:09:38
  Post losing the the Wiffle Ball Home Run Derby, which I believe
• 1:09:44
  TBD like from an official standpoint but tentatively
• 1:09:50
  scheduled for Sunday night. Which I think is is is solid.
• 1:09:55
  I think that's a good time. We get in Saturday, kind of get
• 1:09:58
  the lay of the land over the next 24 hours and then we just
• 1:10:03
  we go all in. Yeah.
• 1:10:05
  We'll go all in Sunday night with football, Home Run, Derby.
• 1:10:08
  How do what are you? What's what's the pitching
• 1:10:11
  scenario is is. Let's talk this.
• 1:10:15
  Let's talk this through I'm I'm open to ideas.
• 1:10:20
  I mean, are we, are we throwing junk in there?
• 1:10:23
  Is it, is it just BP? I almost look, I'm in the camp.
• 1:10:33
  I'm not fully in the camp, but I am in the camp.
• 1:10:35
  Again, 1 foot in, one foot out. Right of of just a a gentleman's
• 1:10:42
  handshake on on standard BP. I mean, I'm OK with that.
• 1:10:46
  It'll, it'll also depend on where we're starting from
• 1:10:49
  because we're obviously not standing at home plate because
• 1:10:51
  this is going to be like a middle.
• 1:10:53
  The field that I've got, I've got my eye on, or two fields
• 1:10:57
  that I've got my eye on are middle school fields which are
• 1:11:00
  like a. It's a great size for just like
• 1:11:01
  a wreck or like a recreational style thing, but specifically
• 1:11:06
  for this. We'll have to, like, at least
• 1:11:08
  go. Yeah, at least I was thinking
• 1:11:12
  the back of the cut out, but that's just me.
• 1:11:15
  But maybe second base. But I mean, if we're doing that,
• 1:11:20
  if we're going to need all the distance we all the help we can
• 1:11:22
  or all the help we can get with distance, I think we may just
• 1:11:26
  have to go gentlemen's. Gentlemen, gentlemen's shake on
• 1:11:30
  standard VP toss. Standard VP.
• 1:11:32
  I'm, I mean, I'm OK with that. I'm not, I'm not here to, I'm
• 1:11:35
  not here to rack up kays, you know, OK, so we've, we've
• 1:11:39
  settled on that my my tentative plan 4/4 rounds.
• 1:11:45
  OK, I was going to ask about structure SO4 rounds. 4 rounds.
• 1:11:49
  So I was looking around I'm like what are some ways that we could
• 1:11:52
  maybe like spruce it up? I saw a suggestion of doing like
• 1:11:58
  rounds within rounds. So like if if you win around, it
• 1:12:05
  counts as as like a win for that round, if that makes sense and
• 1:12:09
  you do like best of five or something like that.
• 1:12:12
  It was, it made more sense when I was reading it, but I was
• 1:12:15
  thinking just go 4 rounds total home, total home runs at the
• 1:12:21
  end, 2 rounds at the beginning, standard homers or you know,
• 1:12:25
  standard scoring. Third round would be the lefty
• 1:12:30
  swing, the lefty swing round, and then the fourth round would
• 1:12:34
  be the Moneyball round, where homers count for double.
• 1:12:42
  Or I mean, that was just an idea.
• 1:12:43
  Is there? Is there another way?
• 1:12:45
  Is there another structure idea for the Moneyball route?
• 1:12:49
  I just figured that was simple enough.
• 1:12:51
  Count as double gives, gives guys chance, gives one of us a
• 1:12:55
  chance to get back into it if we're down.
• 1:12:57
  Yeah, does that. Does that work?
• 1:13:00
  I'm fine with this. I'm fine with it.
• 1:13:02
  OK. Banana costume on the streets of
• 1:13:08
  the streets of the Battery. Yeah, let the people know like
• 1:13:10
  what's the, what have, what have we?
• 1:13:12
  I think it sounds like we've decided.
• 1:13:14
  We've decided what's what's going down here.
• 1:13:17
  So. OK, here's how about like a
• 1:13:18
  bonus wager, OK? A lot.
• 1:13:21
  The more wagers the better, whether it's this, our MVP 2005
• 1:13:25
  World Series that we've got planned, literally.
• 1:13:28
  Come over the wager with that, too.
• 1:13:29
  Yeah, I. Will I will depend on anything?
• 1:13:31
  Like a bonus wager maybe? Like if if there's a sweep, the
• 1:13:44
  banana costume then has to be worn the whole the whole all
• 1:13:48
  like the whole day. How would you sweep though when
• 1:13:52
  every round? No, but that's what I'm saying.
• 1:13:55
  Like it it we can decide do we want to do like you, you win a
• 1:14:00
  round and then that's and then we do like best of five or do
• 1:14:02
  you just want to go 44 rounds of 10 pitches each and whoever has
• 1:14:07
  the most at the end of it. Wins.
• 1:14:09
  I get what you're saying. I mean I'm open to either, I
• 1:14:12
  just thought that that was it is an easy enough structure to to
• 1:14:16
  keep tally of. Right.
• 1:14:21
  Well, what what do you think of like some type of if we do the
• 1:14:24
  four round structure and it's not like a win, win per round
• 1:14:31
  kind of thing. It's just one overall dub.
• 1:14:33
  What is the bonus that forces you to wear the banana costume
• 1:14:38
  into the game, Not just the on the street interviews slash
• 1:14:45
  trivia questions. We could set a a gap like a.
• 1:14:55
  Differential like a wind differential.
• 1:14:56
  Yeah, that's what I was looking for, differential.
• 1:14:58
  Most. Like a a Homer differential.
• 1:15:02
  What I mean, what do we think? Like a double, like a double
• 1:15:05
  digits. I was thinking, yeah, I I was
• 1:15:07
  kind of settling in on 10 because those that moneyball
• 1:15:10
  round, you could, I mean, you could rack up.
• 1:15:12
  And get in a. Groove.
• 1:15:13
  Quite the differential. And get in a groove.
• 1:15:15
  And honestly, the more I think about it, I'm I almost wonder if
• 1:15:20
  10 swings of of two homers each is too much.
• 1:15:26
  Maybe it's 8 swings. Well, are we doing?
• 1:15:30
  Maybe it's 5 outs. OK, First round is 10 outs.
• 1:15:39
  What'd you say second round was? I said two traditional rounds of
• 1:15:43
  10/10/10 swings or outs or whatever.
• 1:15:50
  What if it's? What if it's double?
• 1:15:53
  Well, that's the other thing. Outs or swings?
• 1:15:56
  That is, that's what I'm thinking here.
• 1:15:58
  So like round one is 10 outs. I think that like let's we
• 1:16:02
  haven't, we're not taking any practice hacks.
• 1:16:05
  We're coming into this raw broken old.
• 1:16:10
  I think it's 10 outs first round, maybe second round is 10
• 1:16:17
  swings, third round is oppo, last round maybe it's just five
• 1:16:25
  swings. Walk me through that one more
• 1:16:38
  time. 10 outs, first round. So like we're going old school,
• 1:16:44
  like to where you could in theory just keep it.
• 1:16:47
  Keep it going. Keep the hot hands, yeah?
• 1:16:49
  OK, 10 outs first round, 10 swings second round.
• 1:16:56
  I jot this down. Oh, OK, hold on.
• 1:16:57
  We're switching swings. Yeah, round for round, 10 outs
• 1:17:02
  first round, 10 swings, second round oppo hold.
• 1:17:05
  On hold on round 110 outs, Round 210 swings.
• 1:17:12
  So that that is a finite is what you're saying.
• 1:17:15
  That's like a finite round in theory, right?
• 1:17:18
  Round 3 Oppo. And that's maybe like a.
• 1:17:30
  We could alternate, we could, you could go out swings, out
• 1:17:34
  swings. Although are we getting too
• 1:17:37
  complicated? I don't want to make it too
• 1:17:38
  complicated. I.
• 1:17:40
  Don't know, trying to think of the right thing for oppo.
• 1:17:45
  I was kind of thinking of like, if you whiff twice in a row,
• 1:17:49
  that's the end of your round. I got to.
• 1:17:54
  I got to. I got to be able to remember
• 1:17:56
  this. Yeah, I don't know.
• 1:17:58
  I don't know what we do for. Oppo I think if just 8 outs.
• 1:18:08
  Maybe it's just 4 less. I think if we go.
• 1:18:18
  Yeah, that's a good point In the chat.
• 1:18:20
  You definitely want to go swings in the bonus round because yeah,
• 1:18:23
  if you go out in the bonus round, that's that's K, you're
• 1:18:25
  just inviting chaos. That's a banana.
• 1:18:29
  That's a banana suit the whole day for sure.
• 1:18:31
  OK, how about this oppo is timer?
• 1:18:33
  How about that? Maybe we get it.
• 1:18:36
  Why? What if we get a timer round in
• 1:18:38
  there? Maybe that second round timer
• 1:18:44
  just two minutes. We'll have multiple phones, I
• 1:18:49
  guess we could possibly make that work 2 minutes.
• 1:18:56
  Well, we're going to have limited wiffle balls to work
• 1:19:00
  with, so that that would require chasing stuff down over the
• 1:19:03
  course of two minutes and not over complicated.
• 1:19:05
  It's not a. It's not a bad argument.
• 1:19:07
  That's not a bad argument. Yeah, pitcher could slow you
• 1:19:10
  down. Yeah, you could just be taking.
• 1:19:12
  Your there would have to be some integrity.
• 1:19:14
  Involved no, no, no for sure, but it's the it's the limited
• 1:19:16
  wiffle ball thing that that I'm I would be.
• 1:19:20
  Leery of I throw great BP by the way.
• 1:19:23
  I I believe it. I believe.
• 1:19:25
  I throw really good BP just letting you know.
• 1:19:29
  No yips. Well, Speaking of integrity.
• 1:19:33
  You're Yippy, no? No, no, I'm not Yippy.
• 1:19:35
  Full, full transparency though, we're talking integrity.
• 1:19:39
  I will let you know that the majority of guys that I threw BP
• 1:19:42
  to in the cage pre game practice, things like that.
• 1:19:46
  The one, the most common take away I had the the feedback that
• 1:19:51
  I got most was that I didn't put enough on it.
• 1:19:55
  Like guys were getting guys were getting out in front too much
• 1:19:58
  and they're like, put a little more on it so I can meet it
• 1:20:00
  deeper, deeper. So that's something you're going
• 1:20:03
  to have to keep an eye on. I mean, I can, I'll, I'll try to
• 1:20:06
  make changes, make it a little more sure, a little more
• 1:20:09
  hittable, but that just know that that's my instinct.
• 1:20:11
  Sure. All right, so we're 10 oz then
• 1:20:21
  10 swings. What if we mix in junk for the
• 1:20:30
  oppo round? I mean, that's, that's evil.
• 1:20:34
  We're allowed. Allowed to start throwing some
• 1:20:35
  junk. But I do I do like the the the
• 1:20:40
  potential for. Some some ugliness.
• 1:20:43
  Some leveling the playing field. Yeah.
• 1:20:46
  OK, so round one we're going 10 outs, Round two we're going 10
• 1:20:51
  swings. Round 3 Oppo.
• 1:20:54
  With junk. But what is that?
• 1:20:57
  What's the out? How do you get out?
• 1:21:00
  What's the situation there? I just say we go.
• 1:21:04
  Do you like that? Maybe that's three whiffs.
• 1:21:06
  Let's no, let's not let's not get let's not get cute with it.
• 1:21:10
  Let's not overthink it. Let's I like the alternating
• 1:21:13
  because you said round the bonus round, you're going to want to
• 1:21:15
  go swing. So yeah, let's go, let's just
• 1:21:17
  alternate. Let's go 10 outs, 10 swings.
• 1:21:20
  Oppo round is 10 outs with junk and then bonus is.
• 1:21:28
  Double. Moneyball 2 homers. 5 swings.
• 1:21:37
  Well, we could just go 10 swings. 10 swings, that's fine.
• 1:21:39
  Yeah, just keep it 10 all the way across.
• 1:21:40
  Yeah, keep it. Keep it easy or keep it
• 1:21:42
  consistent. Yeah, I like that.
• 1:21:46
  All right, I'll dig it. All right, and no junk on the
• 1:21:53
  last round. No junk only, only junk on round
• 1:21:58
  3. Yeah, good.
• 1:22:01
  All right, I like that. And have we officially decided
• 1:22:04
  banana? Oh, we OK, so we said, we said
• 1:22:08
  Homer differential of 10 or more requires.
• 1:22:12
  You got to wear it. You got to wear it the rest of
• 1:22:14
  the night. But what if it?
• 1:22:16
  What if it? What if we can't get into the
• 1:22:19
  stadium? I have a feeling we'll be fine.
• 1:22:30
  How about this? You know what the worst would be
• 1:22:35
  worse than this. You got to fly home with it on.
• 1:22:43
  Stop. No, no, the content.
• 1:22:48
  The content comes with screeching halt when we arrive
• 1:22:51
  at the airport on departure day. I'm not wearing a banana suit to
• 1:22:55
  the airport because you're. Alone.
• 1:22:58
  At that point, you know I'm a little friend laughing at you.
• 1:23:01
  First of all, they wouldn't even let me on the plane, but I'm
• 1:23:03
  1000% getting pulled over for a random search even if they did
• 1:23:08
  let me get. Through the the security line,
• 1:23:10
  obviously. SUS Crazy.
• 1:23:12
  Yeah, tough wager. We'll get in.
• 1:23:19
  I think we'll get in. We'll get in what?
• 1:23:23
  I think you, I think you can get into the ballpark with it on if,
• 1:23:28
  if the differential is that bad, I don't think it will be by the
• 1:23:33
  way, I. Think it'll be it'll be closer
• 1:23:35
  than we think. Any other any other thoughts on
• 1:23:39
  this that we do We don't need to go into the what we're what the
• 1:23:41
  plan is for World Series. That might be more of a in order
• 1:23:45
  to make this more competitive. Maybe we just go a little.
• 1:23:51
  I don't know. Should we go like just friendly
• 1:23:53
  series for the World Series? I mean, we can I I'm down.
• 1:23:57
  I'm I'm down to put a wager on the world on the MVP.
• 1:23:59
  I'm down. I'm down.
• 1:24:00
  OK, all right, I but I'm, I'm, I'm going to lose that.
• 1:24:04
  I for sure. You've been playing that game
• 1:24:06
  forever. Right.
• 1:24:09
  I mean, I agree, I'm not. I'm not denying that it.
• 1:24:12
  Will be on PlayStation though. That's what I'm saying a little.
• 1:24:14
  Different than what you're used to.
• 1:24:16
  What we could do if TSA If anyone's locked in on my bag and
• 1:24:22
  they see a PlayStation Two and a banana costume in that puppy,
• 1:24:25
  they're going to be like this guy.
• 1:24:28
  This guy is a pedophile. Yeah.
• 1:24:32
  Can't be trusted. I don't know what's what's what
• 1:24:36
  that bag is going to look like, but I feel bad for the guy that
• 1:24:40
  has to open that anyway. Yeah, let's put a wager on it.
• 1:24:46
  I mean, doesn't that be crazy? Because I, I mean, I full
• 1:24:48
  transparency, I agree with you. Like I've, I have been playing
• 1:24:51
  that game a lot, but what we could do is just juice the
• 1:24:54
  sliders and just make it like try to level the playing field
• 1:24:56
  as much as we can. I hate that either.
• 1:24:59
  But yeah, we'll come up with a wager for that that'll be best
• 1:25:05
  of seven. And as a reminder, we, I think,
• 1:25:08
  I think we'll be able to start that best of seven.
• 1:25:11
  We'll get on that Saturday night, we'll get.
• 1:25:12
  Saturday night, Yeah, When we. Get in when we get 2.
• 1:25:16
  That actually might be even better actually, because you
• 1:25:19
  know it'll get busier, especially with the the Derby in
• 1:25:22
  the game Monday, Tuesday. Yeah.
• 1:25:24
  Maybe we even try to now we'll we'll figure it out, but.
• 1:25:28
  Yeah, don't get crazy here. Don't get crazy.
• 1:25:30
  We'll be we'll be kicking that off Saturday night.
• 1:25:35
  I don't hate the idea of a food challenge though.
• 1:25:38
  Food punishment. Oh, for the MVP, give me like
• 1:25:47
  what? Just toss out a, an idea of what
• 1:25:50
  you're thinking. Just so I'm, I'm on the, I'm in
• 1:25:52
  the realm of what you're thinking.
• 1:26:00
  I don't know, I don't know some, some more quantities, you know,
• 1:26:07
  eat a lot of something. I mean, the good thing is the
• 1:26:12
  wives won't be able to say no to whatever it is.
• 1:26:14
  Right, right. That's key information there we.
• 1:26:17
  Just we can't, we can't go live with that, that that's where
• 1:26:20
  you'd run into potential issues. It was diabolical, but it was
• 1:26:26
  suggested that this for the wiffle ball hunter Derry not
• 1:26:29
  even MVP. That loser has to shave their
• 1:26:31
  beard, which would be. Bro I can't do.
• 1:26:33
  That I can't do that either. Talk about pissing off your
• 1:26:36
  wife. Mine would not be happy.
• 1:26:45
  Maybe if I was still playing college ball and there was a
• 1:26:48
  little less here to work with. Right, right, right.
• 1:26:50
  You know, I, I, I've puffed up a little bit so.
• 1:26:53
  Jawline isn't what it used to be.
• 1:26:54
  Yeah. You don't want to.
• 1:26:55
  You don't want to see this. I'm, I'm grateful and blessed
• 1:26:58
  that I, that I can grow this. But you don't want to see it
• 1:27:01
  without it. Yeah, we'll workshop the the
• 1:27:06
  wager. I'm just glad we, we solidified
• 1:27:10
  this, this Home Run Derby wager. I'm looking forward to it.
• 1:27:15
  I think that's going to be fun. And for those of you wondering
• 1:27:17
  like, like what's the context of wearing it the next day or the
• 1:27:20
  day after? We're going to be doing, we're
• 1:27:23
  going to be pumping out content. We're going to be roaming the
• 1:27:26
  streets of the Battery, getting some, doing some interviews,
• 1:27:31
  getting some some Tik Toks. Passing out some Chinook seeds.
• 1:27:35
  Passing out some seeds, doing some trivia, doing some TikTok.
• 1:27:39
  So if you're like I said, if you're in the area, look for us,
• 1:27:42
  look for the guy in the banana costume.
• 1:27:45
  And I'm even bringing stickers, dude.
• 1:27:48
  Some like high quality pod logo stickers.
• 1:27:52
  So it's going to be good and all that to say that's when you'd be
• 1:28:01
  wearing the banana costume or the loser, we'll say.
• 1:28:11
  You. Tama tell you want me to play
• 1:28:18
  before we go here, let me let me add, let me drop in the the the
• 1:28:25
  quick, the quick hitter I I made today for the Derby to promo it.
• 1:28:52
  Oh boy, this is going to be good.
• 1:28:56
  This is going to be good. I'm excited.
• 1:29:00
  I'm going to need you to lock. In maybe maybe something
• 1:29:02
  embarrassing it like the All Star game where we got to like
• 1:29:05
  you got to like start it the wave or something like that.
• 1:29:10
  You have to start. You have to try to start a wave
• 1:29:12
  until it's successful. OK, I I like that.
• 1:29:16
  I like that. That's good.
• 1:29:20
  I saw somebody, somebody recommended.
• 1:29:22
  It was like you have to walk around with a a sign or a shirt
• 1:29:26
  that says like Otani or Acuna's mid all day.
• 1:29:30
  Like I have to explain it, but I like the wave because that'd
• 1:29:33
  make for that'd make for a good, good content.
• 1:29:35
  Yeah. And you know what's it's?
• 1:29:37
  That's just fun, man. That's.
• 1:29:38
  Just that's just fun. Good, good old fashioned.
• 1:29:41
  So that's the MVP. That that which means we'd have
• 1:29:44
  to get the the series in before Tuesday because you could do it
• 1:29:48
  at the All Star game. OK, Is it the All Star game?
• 1:29:53
  The waves? The waves going to happen at the
• 1:29:54
  game? Yeah.
• 1:29:57
  All right, I'm writing it down. Easy enough.
• 1:30:01
  So the banana punishment would potentially be on Monday that.
• 1:30:05
  'D be Monday. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
• 1:30:08
  We'll know. We'll know Sunday night who's
• 1:30:10
  who would have to wear it Monday, and then Tuesday can be
• 1:30:12
  the wave. Yeah.
• 1:30:15
  Until it's successful. So you could be doing this for,
• 1:30:19
  that's right, an hour, that's right, we paid all this money.
• 1:30:26
  To make an ass out of ourselves. Not even that, but to
• 1:30:29
  potentially miss like a third of the game trying to start a
• 1:30:32
  wager, but or start start a wave.
• 1:30:34
  But you know, that's that's what we do.
• 1:30:37
  Yeah. All right, so the wager just to
• 1:30:40
  just to finalize here, the wager for our MVP 2005 Best of Seven
• 1:30:44
  series live from All Star Week in Atlanta is you have to start
• 1:30:50
  the loser of that series will have to start a wave at the All
• 1:30:53
  Star game until successful. Because if, if you're like, if
• 1:31:01
  you don't start, well, if you're like, oh, for 2O, for three on
• 1:31:06
  attempts, you could get some booze, you could get some.
• 1:31:11
  Yeah, you piss some people off. Yeah, And you might even get
• 1:31:15
  some people that work this event coming down the stairs being
• 1:31:19
  like buddy enough, give it, give it up.
• 1:31:22
  What do you do at that point? Yeah, I don't know.
• 1:31:25
  My hope is that it's the All Star game and people were there
• 1:31:29
  just to have fun and they're not super worried about wins and
• 1:31:31
  losses, you know? Yeah, that's that's all we can
• 1:31:38
  hope. That's a tough punishment.
• 1:31:40
  That is, I'm at first I was like, oh, that's kind of fun.
• 1:31:43
  But now I'm we're talking about like a potential fallout.
• 1:31:45
  I'm a little nervous. Yeah, because you got to get
• 1:31:49
  vocal. You can't just stand up and
• 1:31:51
  randomly do it. You got to be like waving 123,
• 1:31:58
  you know? All right, here we go.
• 1:32:02
  Let's run it back. Yeah, You're going to get booed
• 1:32:05
  for sure. Yeah.
• 1:32:08
  Yeah, because I'm on the band, the wave team, which is crazy,
• 1:32:13
  crazy. I'm in that camp, but I don't do
• 1:32:17
  it when it comes around to me so.
• 1:32:19
  You're one of those guys. I am.
• 1:32:21
  I'm a hardo. Any who's there it is people.
• 1:32:27
  We made it. We made it.
• 1:32:31
  Next stop, Atlanta getting in Saturday afternoon.
• 1:32:36
  We'll be there through the All Star Game.
• 1:32:40
  You're lucky you get to sleep in a little bit Saturday.
• 1:32:44
  Yeah, but we're getting in like around the same time.
• 1:32:46
  Yeah, but I got to get up early because I lose 3 hours.
• 1:32:49
  Sure, sure, you. Know, but coming back is nice.
• 1:32:54
  I was going to say you can salvage.
• 1:32:55
  Lose. I only lose like an hour.
• 1:32:57
  You can salvage part of your work day if you really wanted
• 1:33:00
  to. Just in case, just in case we
• 1:33:04
  have spies, you know, we don't need to get out.
• 1:33:06
  Get that out there. All of Wednesday is spoken for.
• 1:33:10
  All right? Get back late.
• 1:33:12
  That's fair. That's.
• 1:33:14
  Getting back. Get back real late.
• 1:33:16
  No, I mean if you, I, I meant you could salvage the work day.
• 1:33:20
  Like if you wanted to be the hard O and work, you know, over
• 1:33:23
  those overtime hours that you work almost every day, if you
• 1:33:28
  wanted to salvage some of those hours, that's obviously what I
• 1:33:31
  meant. Yeah, I won't.
• 1:33:34
  I'm. I'm I'm counting on it.
• 1:33:39
  I'm probably going to have to get back.
• 1:33:40
  I'm going to get back at like noon and just take some like
• 1:33:42
  some of those cleansing pills just to clean out my system from
• 1:33:47
  everything that occurred over the prior four or five days.
• 1:33:51
  You know, it's coming up. I think gloves are coming off
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  for me eating wise. What does that even mean?
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  Like I don't. Know gloves are never really on
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  even here. Yeah, I was going to say like
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  this is where you, this is where you lock in.
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  Not really. I think I was put on my story.
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  I was eating a skillet cookie last night at Chili's SO.
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  Gloves are already off. Maybe you're just priming
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  yourself. Speaking of food, last thing
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  before we go, Jacob in the chat, the one food you're wanting to
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  try while we're there. Is there anything food wise that
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  that we need to that we just have to do while we're there?
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  Because I have to imagine. The I have something, I don't
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  know if you're on board with it and I don't know how it fits
• 1:34:39
  into the schedule. What do you got?
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  But I've been to Atlanta once and I had the most incredible
• 1:34:46
  chicken and waffles at this place and it was like.
• 1:34:52
  You're but this might be my first chicken to waffles.
• 1:34:55
  Actually I don't know if the. Chicken was like spicy.
• 1:34:57
  It was like a Nashville hot type chicken.
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  That's fine. And then it was like they had
• 1:35:02
  collard greens in the waffle. I'm out.
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  How do you feel about collard greens?
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  I'm out. No.
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  But you might be able to get non you might.
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  Be able to get your regular waffles.
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  But I'm telling you that that might have to be the case.
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  I don't know the proximity to it.
• 1:35:18
  It's on this like they have like this pond in Atlanta, like this
• 1:35:24
  big like lake pond thing. And then there's like this like
• 1:35:29
  10 mile walk line thing where people like walk and bike.
• 1:35:35
  And there's like a little market that starts at that walk line.
• 1:35:40
  You walk in and there's just like a bunch of little
• 1:35:43
  individual restaurants in this market.
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  And thank you, Laura. Collard greens are great, but
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  it's I get it's a little different.
• 1:35:54
  It's in the batter of the waffle, which is a little wild
• 1:35:57
  but incredible. So that would be the one thing I
• 1:36:01
  would say. Are you seeing this in the chat?
• 1:36:05
  No. Jake says they have a massive
• 1:36:10
  sandwich at the park. Last time he was there says his
• 1:36:13
  in law shared it and it fed four to five of them.
• 1:36:16
  What is this about? What is this about?
• 1:36:19
  Is this actually that large of a sandwich or are you just like
• 1:36:22
  related to mice Naturist? I mean no disrespect of course,
• 1:36:29
  but no disrespect. The Home Run Stack sandwich is
• 1:36:35
  massive offering or featuring 2 beef patties, candied bacon,
• 1:36:41
  smoked brisket, red slaw, onion rings, curly fries.
• 1:36:46
  Yes, I remember seeing this. It doesn't like I don't.
• 1:36:54
  I can't see. We might have to, might have to.
• 1:37:00
  This is. Just like the Google AI thing.
• 1:37:04
  It looks gnarly though. Look at that thing.
• 1:37:10
  Yeah, we may need to. I'm down to try.
• 1:37:13
  Chicken that's not. I'm down to try whatever weird
• 1:37:17
  thing, whatever weird things await us, truly.
• 1:37:20
  That's like a $60.00 burger. Well, yeah.
• 1:37:23
  Maybe. Yeah.
• 1:37:26
  Maybe like one or two specialized things in the park,
• 1:37:29
  but. Except there 1871 grill which is
• 1:37:34
  in five different sections. It's probably how many dollars
• 1:37:39
  that sandwich cost. Meatloaf sandwich.
• 1:37:43
  Let's try that. Southern nachos.
• 1:37:51
  Oh, I'm seeing in the chat that that sandwich has Coca-Cola BBQ
• 1:37:55
  sauce. I'm buying that.
• 1:38:01
  I want to see. If not the sandwich, just the
• 1:38:03
  sauce. How much is the home run stack?
• 1:38:06
  It's it's 100 bucks. No, it's not.
• 1:38:15
  Does it actually feed four to five people?
• 1:38:18
  I mean for 100 bucks. That's why I'm asking it better.
• 1:38:23
  Jacob wants to know if we're doing a food vlog.
• 1:38:25
  Jacob always our vlogs are end up being primarily food vlogs.
• 1:38:31
  It's it's crazy like we, we're a baseball podcast, but you go
• 1:38:34
  back, go back and watch the vlog from our from the world Baseball
• 1:38:38
  Classic. Tell me how many times you see
• 1:38:41
  food mentioned in there. All right, here we go.
• 1:38:42
  I found an article on it. Looks ridiculous.
• 1:38:49
  I mean, that's, that's what, that's what I'm here for.
• 1:38:56
  There's no price. I don't understand.
• 1:39:03
  It's crazy. We'll figure it out.
• 1:39:11
  Could happen. They may not have it because it
• 1:39:14
  it may be like a specialized All Star thing.
• 1:39:16
  Who knows? Everything could be new,
• 1:39:19
  different. Who's really say?
• 1:39:22
  But anyway, we'll figure it out when we get down there.
• 1:39:26
  Anyway, but we've got the. Wager set for the MVP 2005
• 1:39:30
  series and the Wiffle Ball Home Run Derby and I am looking
• 1:39:34
  forward to it. Any last reminders for the folks
• 1:39:38
  because the next time they hear from us, we'll be down there.
• 1:39:42
  Just keep an eye out for on socials.
• 1:39:45
  Stuff's going to get posted. Yeah, it's going to be a little
• 1:39:50
  bit. Obviously it takes some editing
• 1:39:51
  and stuff so like that's going to be days after we get back,
• 1:39:56
  but the the posts are going to be often.
• 1:40:03
  What is it? What's the early and often
• 1:40:06
  that's? Early and often, yeah.
• 1:40:07
  If I would venture to say, I mean, I'll try to get our
• 1:40:12
  content on on across all the platforms, but I would venture
• 1:40:16
  to say when in a bind, I'm probably posting the TikTok.
• 1:40:21
  No, I'm actually probably going to go TikTok.
• 1:40:23
  Like if I, if there's a video we do and we're we're in a rush and
• 1:40:26
  I'm trying to get it out, it's probably going to TikTok.
• 1:40:29
  Like I said, I'll, I'll try to get it out elsewhere.
• 1:40:32
  But if you're not following us on TikTok, what are you doing?
• 1:40:37
  Get over there. What are you doing?
• 1:40:38
  Get over, get over there and do that.
• 1:40:41
  Jacob says he is scheduled to follow live stuff.
• 1:40:44
  That's a good, that's a good thought, I think.
• 1:40:45
  Post the schedule. Yeah, maybe, maybe once we get
• 1:40:49
  in or maybe even beforehand, we can just map out a schedule and
• 1:40:55
  let people know like when things are going to be as best as best
• 1:40:59
  we can. So yeah, keep an eye out for
• 1:41:01
  that. We'll I'll try to, I'll make a
• 1:41:03
  reminder, write myself a reminder here to do that.
• 1:41:07
  But otherwise you got anything else.
• 1:41:09
  That's it, man. Let's go do this thing.
• 1:41:13
  I won't do it there. I'm not going to do it here.
• 1:41:16
  You shouldn't do it anywhere. Don't go chasing curveballs.
• 1:41:20
  Love you and as always, looking forward to talking more baseball
• 1:41:22
  with you guys soon. Until next time, stay filthy.