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Can We Cast the PERFECT All-Star Ballot? · The 3-0 Take

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Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to the Three O Take where?
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We talk all things Major League Baseball.
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Here's. Kyle Corwin and Nate Reyes it.
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All starts. Right now.
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Oh. Welcome back to the three O take
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presented by Chinook. Siri, this is episode 547.
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I'll be your host Kyle Corn. I'm here with my Co host Nate
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Reyes. Nate KC.
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How are we? I'm feeling the juices are
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flowing, man. You know, we literally just
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talked about it before we hopped on.
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But shout out to the LSU Tigers. And I'm not necessarily saying I
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got a dog in the fight for in this College World Series, but
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what fired me up yesterday last night was watching that kid for
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LSU go CG winning the ball game by a score of 1 to nothing
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through like AI. Think it was 127 pitches maybe?
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That's big time. The coach comes out.
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I think he's got like one out left.
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He'd just given up like a Walker hit or something.
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I had it on in the background. We had some people over, but I
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was trying to, I was trying to keep an eye on it.
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The coach comes out, think you need like one more out and
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everybody's going crap. This is where he's not going to
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get the full 9 classic baseball moment.
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Coaches like this is your game to finish.
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Leaves him in there, gets the win.
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Dude, I need more of it in Major League Baseball.
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I wonder if there's like a psychological aspect to that
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because I don't think managers get enough credit with like, the
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psychological aspect to helping players.
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But like, imagine going that way, You know what I mean?
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Like amping up your guy so much by like walking out like that.
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Like I'm going to hold my breath because I might get pulled right
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now, but he allows me to talk my way into finishing this thing.
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And then it's like, good luck if you're in the box after that.
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Good luck. I got fired up.
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I'm not. I'm not.
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I'm not at the ballpark. I'm not in this game.
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And I'm like, let's freaking go. Yeah, it's sick.
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I do, I do. I love Coastal Carolina for just
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like their their uniforms and their colors I think are so sick
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and I love that. Like, I don't know, man, it's
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such like a baseball College World Series school, like, you
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know what I mean? It's like that school does not
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matter in any other sport. No offense, no, no disrespect,
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but like it's just college baseball for that school, you
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know what I mean? So the part of me is like, we've
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seen LSUA lot. We've seen that a lot.
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There's always dudes coming out of that school.
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Something about Coastal Carolina, man, I'm like, I'm
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kind of into it. But when you have your guy go CG
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game one, you got the entire staff to throw at your Game 2
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to, to finish this off, you know, it's like anybody gets in
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trouble, you can just bring in the next stud.
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It's going to be hard to hard to see LSU losing this thing.
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Hard to overcome that. Yeah, man, I got the juices
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flowing. So I'm I'm I'm ready to talk
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some ball today. I am ready to do and achieve the
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unthinkable. We are going to cast the perfect
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All Star ballot, which is going to be difficult to do given that
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we presumably will have different picks for our ballot.
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So this. Is, well, this is the first time
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that you and I have. I did mine yesterday.
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I did 1 yesterday, you did one yesterday.
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So we're coming in with those answers versus every year we've
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done this, we've like talked each other through it.
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Now we're going to try to convince each other to maybe
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change some picks, which I like. Well, that's what I was going to
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ask. Are we, are we settled on, on,
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on submitting A singular ballot here because you, you mentioned
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what we've done in the past. I I think we submitted our own
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respective ballots, like separately.
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Yeah, I think we've agreed on everything, but we can do a
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collective one if you want. That's yeah, that's going to be
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the challenge. We're going to have to talk each
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other into some pics here, yeah? By the way, I think you can put
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this game on. It's on ABCI.
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Don't have I'm not logged in on ABC.
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What's like the ESPN on ABC thing anyway?
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What do we should we set some parameters for this?
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Should we like set some what? Are you thinking this is a what?
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This is an open experiment here. I'm I'm down.
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For whatever you, you remember in Friends where like Ross and
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Rachel are talking about what to name their kid and they had like
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vetoes to give like veto, veto correct.
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Maybe, maybe we're allowed like 1 veto each.
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If if we're like really saying no, I, I'm, we're not, we can't
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find common ground. So then what happens in in place
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of a veto? The guy that doesn't have the
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guy that doesn't have the veto wins.
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I don't know. Let's, we'll, we'll workshop it.
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We'll workshop it. We'll workshop it.
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All right. I think we're going to be pretty
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similar. I I feel very level headed with
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my choices. I feel very, that's a great way
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to describe it. I feel very level headed, but I,
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I also feel pretty strongly about my picks.
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Like I, I, I looked at the numbers and also that they, I'm
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going to keep it real with themlb.com.
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I hate that they indicate who are The Who are the number one
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and two. I hate that.
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Leaders right now talk about skewing the votes.
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Yeah, that sucks. Don't do that.
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That's terrible. Like.
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Don't do that. Don't.
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Lead the people, like, don't lead me to the water.
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Like just let me find the water myself.
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Yeah, You know, I. That not to go on too much of A
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tangent, that kind of reminds me the Michael Kay had a kind of a
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cool idea when he was talking about like instant replay in
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like challenges. He was like, if there's a way
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for New York, the people in New York, whatever, that it reminds
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me of, like the banker and dealer, No deal, by the way,
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just like a dark shadow of a figure walking around, like, we
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don't know what these people look like.
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They stay in New York. Do we really know that it's in
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New York? I.
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Don't know, but but he was saying like if there's a way for
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them to not know the call, like not know safer out, not no
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catcher, you know, no catch, like for them for somehow some
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way to not know the call and then make the decision strictly
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based on the replay. I was like, that's a really cool
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idea because you were saying like, let's figure out these
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votes on our own. Like you don't need to sway me
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into the most popular vote. You don't need to sway me into
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that call. Let me just figure out the call.
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Anyway, tangent. No, that, I mean, that's, that's
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exactly what I'm saying. Like if if you're listening or
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watching and haven't and you don't know what we're talking
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about, haven't voted yet. If you go on the ballot on
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MLB.com and actually here, that's actually a great segue
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here. Let me, let me, let me pull this
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up here. OK, All right, here we are.
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So as you can see, they've got the, the top 2 vote getters at
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each position, which I hate for many reasons, One of which
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again, I don't feel like you should be leading me to, you
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should be leading the voters. But also like, if you're going
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to do 2, why not do three? Like, why stop it?
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I don't know. That's just a, that was a minor
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gripe. I'm like, that's fair.
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You know, top 3 is a pretty standard, respectable gripe,
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standard range. Anyway, we are going to set out,
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as I said, to do the unthinkable.
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We are going to, we are going to craft the ultimate, the perfect
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All Star ballot, the infallible ballot, the ballot to beat all
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ballots, OK. Excellent.
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So let's just start where they have let us and that is the
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position of first base. Nate, I tweeted out yesterday, I
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said we are, we are. We're putting our votes out
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tomorrow on tomorrow's pod meeting today.
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And I said prepare to be upset. And I'm just going to go ahead
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and say right now, I think some people are going to be upset
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right off the top. Probably, but that's OK.
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That's we're not here to to people.
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Please. Well, I'll be honest with you.
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My ballot. This is our ballot.
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I'm not here to Nate, please. Understandable.
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By that maybe I'm not either. By that I mean that I'm not
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selecting the current top vote getter and Paul Goldschmidt.
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For. My American League first
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baseman. You know why?
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Because that's a disservice to the rightful vote getter.
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Vote earner. The representative that should
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be at first base in the American League, Jonathan Aranda.
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OK, I'm glad because. I mean, what are for?
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Those for those not watching, shame on you First off.
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Second off, I understand. I mean, if there's a time to
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watch now, it's, I mean, this is the episode.
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To do, but if you can't see on your screen, Paul Goldschmidt's
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the number one vote getter right now.
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Vladdy is the number 2 for the American League first base slot.
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But Jonathan Aranda has had a fantastic year.
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Fantastic year. Real sneaky.
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I mean, the OPS is near 100 points higher than than Paul
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Goldschmidt. More RBI, more RBI, and he's
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hitting fifty points higher, 30 points higher, 30 no.
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Oh, he's hitting 298. Yeah, 298 to 325.
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Like. 27 points higher. That's a big jump, dude.
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So yeah, Jonathan Aranda is, is absolutely my my vote getter as
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well. And what I did I on my notes, I
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put like this like this guy over this guy.
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So I put like who I would put as my my second one and I put
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Aranda over Goldie. I made a note as well.
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Yeah. And and the fact that Vladdy
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like it if if you're so drawn to Paul Goldschmidt just because of
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the resurgence, the the sort of renaissance season he's having,
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I can understand. But to have Vladi.
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But like, it's not even like Aranda's second.
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Yeah, where's this crazy man? Where's the respect?
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I know lot of disrespect. I hate it.
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I'm all about, no disrespect, but Aranda's getting a whole lot
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of it On the National League side, we've placed our votes for
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Jonathan Ron. On the National League side,
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Freddie Freeman, the top vote getter, hit and coming in today,
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hitting 322, nine homers, 41 ribbies, 919 OPS.
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Folks, I hate to hope, to hate to break your hearts, but that
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is not the right guy. That is not the right guy for
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first base because you know who is?
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Nate, Take it away. Peter.
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Alonso, what are we doing? What a great year.
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Higher OPS than Freddie, more RBIs than Freddie, double the
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amount of home runs than Freddie and he's still in 294.
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If if he was hitting like 230, I'd be like, OK, this may be a
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harder decision, but Pete it in 294 and having this pop.
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Yeah, it's Peter. Easy enough.
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Second base. This one's interesting.
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I'm wondering how you're feeling right now Glaber is in first
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place and what it was Jackson Holiday in second place.
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Jackson Holiday, what are we doing?
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I mean, come on. Well, no disrespect, but also
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the second base position, I mean, historically is a it's
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light. It's a weaker offensive
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position, no doubt. But this year in particular,
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like not very, yeah, not very packed with the production here.
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Yeah. Is there anyone that kind of
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tickled your fancy and was like, I could maybe give this guy a
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nod? You know.
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Without revealing your your pick.
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No, it's not. Yeah.
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I mean, it's not who I went with, but a guy that piqued my
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interest a little bit. Your fancy was tickled.
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My, my, my fancy was tickled. Brandon Lau.
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See, that's my vote. He I went Brandon Lau.
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OK, well, that's the wrong answer, but it's Brandon Lau
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hitting 26. See, this is what I'm saying.
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This is this is where the voting systems flawed.
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You just look at these numbers alone, like if you want to go in
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advance metrics, whatever, but these numbers alone, a higher
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average in Jackson Holiday, more homers than Jackson Holiday,
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almost twice the amount of RBI is Jackson Holiday and a higher
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OPS in Jackson holiday. And he's second.
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Brandon Lau is not even not even one of the top vote getters.
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So I don't know how that makes sense, but Brandon Lau is not
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the answer, Nate, because I'll be I'm going to keep it real
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with you. I think the I think the people
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got it right. You were.
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I have I this was a tough one for me.
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I but I put Brandon Lau over. Glaber yeah, I I think I've got
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the the people having this one right, You know, obviously
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Brandon Lau can. You talk me through it.
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Well, you know, it it maybe, OK, maybe it's unfair to the rest of
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the All Star field because I can't pick and choose when to
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use the team success narrative, but I feel like I went that
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route with Glaber Torres where I'm going.
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He's playing a a part in that offense that is part of the best
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team in baseball. And this is the Glaber Torres
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that I the year I'm I'll be honest with you, the years are
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sort of flying by. I think it was coming into last
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season. I was like, Glaber Torres is
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going to have he's just going to go off this year, isn't he?
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And then it ended up not being the case as much.
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But this is sort of the start to a year, or at least the first
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half of the year where I was like, this is more along the
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lines of what I was thinking getting back to that, that, you
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know, the glimmer in the pan, the flash in the pan that we had
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seen in years past. And I think he's on that track.
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And again, given the fact that the Tigers are doing what
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they're doing, that's why I went Glaber here.
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But talk me through Brandon Low. I mean 15 home runs to 7.
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I OK, well let me ask you this and you probably maybe you can
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look it up for me. Can you pull up his splits?
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By chance I knew you were going to go this route because it is
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in Steinbrenner field. Well, yeah, I mean, it's not,
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I'm not, I'm not accusing the guy, but I'm more so curious
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because I I, I would like to know what the, what the home Rd.
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splits are for Brandon Lau. Because if you take out, well,
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let's see here. So this could be interesting.
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This could be interesting. He's got eleven home runs at
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home, 4 on the road he's got. But to be fair they haven't
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played a ton of Rd. games because they're they're front
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loading all of their home games due to being in Tampa and like
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trying to beat all the bad weather with rain coming right?
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Sure, but he's. Hitting 278 on the road compared
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to a 256 at home. He's got a 417 slug on the road
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to a 494 at home, a 772 OPS to a 781 OPS at home.
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So like it's not that bad. Like I, I think he's, I think
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he's playing good ball. It was to me like there wasn't
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enough of a gap between their OP s s and he's got double the
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amount of home runs. Like that's where I'm at.
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And the fact that the Rays are doing what they're doing this
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year, I get what you're talking about.
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Like the Tigers arguably being the best team in baseball.
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I don't think Labour is a, is a is a massive reason for that.
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And I think it's one of those like knowing Labour, you could
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see these stats just be these stats at the end of the year.
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Like you could see him maybe tacking on like four or five
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more home runs and him finishing at 11 or 12 home runs this year.
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And he's going to have an OPS around 760 and he's probably
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hitting around 26270. Like it's just, that's just kind
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of who he is. Like it's.
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You think he's going to fall off a Cliff that bad?
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I don't think it's falling off a Cliff because I think this is
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just, this is just what he is. As it as it stands right now,
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what you're saying? Yeah, like, I don't think it
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gets better than this. Like this.
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I'm just who he is now. And, and I think like with the
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resurgence of of Javi Baez, like, I don't know if the Tigers
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are going to continue to, you know, utilize him every day in a
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way. And I know this, this is an All
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Star vote. We're not talking about like how
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the season's going to finish and who an All Star would be at the
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end of the year. But in my mind, like the Rays
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doing what the Rays are doing, Brandon Lau's a big part of
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that. All right.
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I mean, I'll be honest with you. I I don't.
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You're not willing to die on the Glaber.
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Hill Yeah, I'm not willing to die on the Glaber.
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Hill Fair enough. I'm being honest.
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I've got Brandon. Here.
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I've got Brandon Lau on my fantasy team, so it's I
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obviously saw something in him to to warrant picking him up.
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But I tell you what, with the month of April that Christian
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Campbell had, he was he was set to be a lock with, again, going
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back to how weak the field is at second base.
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He was set to be a lock and then just plummeted.
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Yeah. So, OK, you know, I I'll allow
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this one. I'll go.
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I'll go. Brandon Lau.
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All right. We can.
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We can meet in the middle here. We'll go.
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Brandon Lau. Good deal, we might have two two
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Rays hanging out in the starting lineup, bro.
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Oh, if people get their head out of their booty.
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Hold on. I'm trying to trying to figure
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out, oh, I see you're saying with the Rhonda.
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Yeah, OK. I was, I thought you were saying
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there's one to come. I was like, I'd, I don't know,
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I'd I'd have to check the rest of my line up here on the
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National League side of second base.
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I think there's. There's only one right answer
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here. There's only one right answer
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here, Katel Marte leading the field.
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Dear Lord, having a year. I don't think it's particularly
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close if I recall. It's not.
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It's not and. Brendan Donovan minus the minus
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the jacks. Throw them some flowers, throw
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them some flowers. Definitely having a good year.
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I like that and I had to when I was looking up numbers.
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I had to double check on how many games Katel Marte has
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missed and it hasn't been that bad.
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I think he's still played like 70 games or something.
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So he's still, I know he started off the season on the IL and
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then I think he had one more IL stint at another point.
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But I mean, the OPS north of 1000, he's got 13 Jacks sitting
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over three like he is. He is the reason the
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Diamondbacks are still like kind of hanging on to this year and
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it's not by much it's a very small thread, but he's a big
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reason for it. So could tell for sure you know
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how old he is we've. Talked about this he's.
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A sneaky one. He's like 33 I.
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Mean that's not. No, but like.
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You you had him pegged it being younger.
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Yeah, because like, I don't know, like I just, I feel like
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he didn't have. He's 31.
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I feel like he didn't have, like you didn't come onto the scene,
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didn't come onto the scene as a big name until as of recent.
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They also got to remember he spent his first two seasons with
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the Mariners. True, very true.
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Wild any who's yeah already told it up a 2.8 war this year.
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It's good to tell. Let's let's move it on.
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Also, I've seen in the chat casuals love batting average.
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I hope that's not AI hope that's not a shot at us.
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Yeah, I think I think you and I have have since moved on.
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Not not forsaken batting average by any stretch, but we've moved
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on to to greener pastures in terms of evaluating offensive
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talent. I put when I was doing this,
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when I was doing my voting on my phone, I sorted it by OPS,
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correct? That's kind of the most
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important step for me. I was using average really as
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just like a tiebreaker and even even like a fall back.
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Yeah. Even then, even if it was like I
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would in order for me to use batting average as a justifier,
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the gap, like you said earlier, the gap would have to be so
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substantial to even warrant using that as a metric to decide
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between one versus the other anyway.
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You're casual bro, Such a casual.
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Third base all the American League side.
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Who's who's running this this vote right now?
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Who's in first place? We got Alex Bregman in second
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place. Jose Ramirez, currently the top
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vote getter hitting 3/24/13, jacks 36 ribbies, 916 OPS.
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I I went with the people here. Honestly if Bregman was stayed
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healthy. That's what I was going to say.
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If if Bregman was still even still playing right now, I think
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this would be a different conversation.
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But like him being out and it's been out for a while, it's
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impressive that he still has those numbers after he's been
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out for what, 3 weeks now? Close to it.
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So the fact that you still got 11 jacks.
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But yeah, Jay Ram has, even after a little bit of a slow
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start, Jay Ram has come on. I had to.
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I had to stop. Oh, I'm sorry.
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Go ahead. No, I was just going to say I
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had to stop myself from saying like if Bregman had stayed
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healthy this entire season, it wouldn't be much of a question.
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But I think it would be more of a conversation than we're the
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I'm I'm indicating because Jay Ram has had, I mean, to no one
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surprise, he has had quite the first half here.
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So. Little Little never thought
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about voting for him, but little nod to Junior Caminero.
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Yeah, you know what? He. 19 Jacks, I think, yeah.
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I mean. 50 ribs. My goodness. 833 up.
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Yes, Not bad, not bad at all. But yeah, we're going, we're
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going. J Ram here, National League
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side. This is interesting.
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I'm real curious on what you're. Thinking, Oh yeah, OK, this was
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another one. This was this was another one
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where I knew we were going to upset some people here.
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All right. So first place currently is
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Manny, 2nd place is Max Muncie. Max Muncie's a joke.
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Yeah, yeah, yeah. I'm sorry.
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No disrespect. No disrespect.
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Actually, no disrespect. Disrespect to Max Muncie, I'm
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glad you got the eyesight figured out and everything.
24:48
And you're, you're having a little bit better of a, a
24:50
campaign, but you're, you're no second place in my book, Mr.
24:55
Muncie. So intended disrespect there.
24:59
I'm going to keep it real with you here.
25:03
The real #2 in my opinion, and this is going to upset some
25:08
people, Eugenio Suarez, because if I'm going to an All Star
25:15
game, I don't like I I just don't have interest in watching
25:21
A1 dimensional player. And no disrespect to you, Henrio
25:27
Suarez, 25 Jacks is nothing to turn your nose up at.
25:32
I understand. But to me, I got to give it to
25:40
our guy Manny Machado. And I look, I, I, I said I've
25:48
said be prepared to be upset. And I know that's going to
25:50
ruffle some feathers, but that's my vote and I'm sticking to it.
25:54
And I'd I have a feeling that you're going Eugenio Suarez.
25:58
I have Gino over Manny. I do.
26:01
All right, let's hash this one. Out 25 Jacks brother like that
26:05
is hard to leave that off and we're still a few weeks out.
26:10
He could creep up close to 30 if he's got 2728 jacks before the
26:18
for the All Star game. You're nearly on pace for for
26:22
5560 like and not an All Star. That's crazy.
26:28
Manny's great. Manny's been great hitting three
26:32
O 9. You know, 12 Jacks is nothing to
26:35
like, shrug at 876 OPS. We know the defense is elite.
26:39
But like, I don't know, man, Gino is to this point where
26:44
like, if if the Diamondbacks don't start turning it around,
26:51
that man's going somewhere and going to be very impactful in
26:56
the postseason. Like that's what he's bringing.
27:00
I I mean I get it 25. And the OPS what is Manny's at
27:08
876? What's Gino at 890?
27:12
2. Now we got it.
27:15
We do have a 50 point difference in batting average, so.
27:18
But that's what I'm saying is like. 58 point at.
27:21
You can. You can solely attribute
27:26
Suarez's OPS to just his home run power.
27:32
Manny's got like half the homers, but he's still, he's
27:36
still in that in that territory. I get it.
27:39
He's a double S machine. I get it.
27:43
And he's hitting three O 9. See the Going back to my point
27:45
earlier, this is an example. Of like 58 points.
27:48
That's a big gap. I'm not saying batting average
27:51
is the end all be all and it shouldn't be, but like that's
27:54
that's noteworthy enough to me where I'm like, you're still in
27:59
the same ballpark OPS. You're also, I mean a well above
28:03
average defender. All I'm going to say is he's
28:07
just watching. I will, I will let it slide.
28:10
I'm not going to die on the Gino Hill.
28:12
But if this man has 50 plus home runs at the end of the year that
28:18
we look back and say he wasn't an All Star?
28:23
OK. Well, we're OK.
28:25
You're in your Suarez as of right now. 2.6 wore on the
28:30
season. Manny's can be higher cause of
28:32
defense. Manny's at three.
28:38
Yeah, I'm, I'm like I said, can we agree?
28:46
Can we agree? But these are the top 2?
28:49
Sure, No doubt. No, these were the 2 that I was
28:51
assigned to. And it I'll, I'll be honest with
28:53
you. It was a it was a tough
28:53
decision. I'll be honest with you.
28:55
I'd take Austin Riley over over Max.
28:59
Max. Muncie I'd take.
29:01
Where's Austin? Probably take Matt Chapman over
29:05
Max Muncie. Like when?
29:10
Are we going to have a conversation about Kebrien
29:12
Hayes? I think that, I think that I
29:14
think it's all done. No disrespect but.
29:19
What I don't know, I could see him switching, switching teams
29:24
because he's still very, very, very good defensively.
29:27
No doubt. He's going to bring some value
29:30
somewhere. He's maybe going to take a step
29:32
back as like an everyday role or everyday player into a role.
29:35
But it's tough, man. It's it's hard to watch.
29:41
The hitting is just really, really bad.
29:43
It's it's gotten worse every year since his rookie year.
29:47
Oh, OK, interesting. Interesting.
29:50
Before we move on here, interesting note in the chat,
29:53
has many hasn't many led the league in airs this year?
29:57
Has he actually a Platinum Glove defender leading the league in
30:01
airs? Gets lazy with throwing man.
30:05
Well, that's just Manny being Manny, you know?
30:09
That seems to that little saying phrases seem to been passed off
30:16
from generation to generation. I wonder what the next Manny is
30:19
going to be. So just the name that carries
30:22
that baggy pants and little hot dog style of play.
30:29
How many errors does Manny have this year?
30:32
He's got. Oh, Yikes.
30:35
Yeah, he's got 11 leading the league.
30:39
OK, well, OK, generally, generally speaking and above
30:47
average defender, I mean, he's a Platinum glove winner.
30:49
So at the very least, so, you know, whatever.
30:52
OK, my case kind of falls apart defensively a little bit this
30:55
year, but still more of a multi dimensional player than Eugenio.
30:58
Are we going, are we going? Are we willing?
31:02
Are we willing to agree? Manny here?
31:04
I'm willing to agree. All right, so 11 compromise
31:10
each. Yeah, I want Brandon Lau.
31:12
You're going, Manny. I'm curious.
31:14
I think, I think there's some tricky spots, but I think we're
31:17
I think we're going to agree over the next couple.
31:22
Let me put my notes here. Shortstop on the American League
31:25
side. Dude, when I say that I was
31:33
unaware. Yeah.
31:37
You know exactly what I'm talking about.
31:38
Yeah, exactly. When I say that I was unaware
31:43
about the year that Jacob Wilson is.
31:45
Having Yeah, I knew that he was. I knew he was just a bat to ball
31:50
guy. I knew that he just never struck
31:53
out. I knew that he also never
31:54
walked. I knew that he's got happy feet
31:57
in the box. I knew that the average was
32:00
going to be good. I didn't realize the pop would
32:05
be there a little bit too. Bros hitting.
32:07
Well, that's another. Can you look up, let's look up
32:11
some splits for Jacob Wilson because I actually saw an
32:16
interesting note yesterday where it was talking about how the
32:27
like a good chunk of the next portion of the home schedule for
32:31
the A's is going to be at a certain time of day.
32:34
And I don't remember if it said like late afternoon, evening,
32:37
whatever, but it said it was going to be consistent and that
32:39
that was going to make the field play even smaller.
32:42
You'd have to look up the game times.
32:44
I I don't know what they are, but.
32:45
That's interesting. Yeah, that it was going to make
32:49
the field play even smaller. So that's only going to
32:51
contribute I would imagine to these to this production thus
32:55
far, but. Jacob splits.
32:59
Coming into the day hitting 353, nine homers, 40 ribbies, 890
33:05
OPS, and look, I understand Bobby Witt's not having the same
33:08
caliber year that he had last year, but it's still Bobby Witt.
33:12
And it's crazy. Like I, it's safe to say this is
33:15
a, this is the down year of Bobby Witt.
33:18
This is like the low end of production, which is nuts.
33:22
He said like 283 guys would kill for that.
33:26
Yeah, I can. I hit 283 in the big leagues.
33:27
Yeah, 100%. OPS of 831.
33:31
Getting over to Mr. Wilson's splits.
33:35
Pretty interesting hitting 368 at home to A336418 on base to a
33:45
361 on the road. 533 slug to a 460 slug for a 951 OPS at home
33:52
and an 821 OPS on the road, which is still very respectable.
33:58
Here's where things get crazy, though.
34:01
It's their day versus night games, and that's just the thing
34:03
that you were bringing up during the day.
34:06
He's hitting 440 night 300. So maybe I think that's what it
34:15
was. I think they're going to be
34:16
like, they're going to have a lot of afternoon games coming up
34:19
is what I read. And then how that's going to,
34:21
like I said, just make the field play smaller.
34:23
You're going to see a lot more run production over the next.
34:26
He's 1.112 OPS during the day, A755 at night.
34:33
There you go. So that tells a lot of the
34:38
story. But look, man, the A's have are
34:45
are doing things different. The A's are doing things
34:48
different this year. There's a lot of excitement with
34:51
a lot of different guys. And I do feel like a, a, a, a
34:55
new chapter has started and, and we can get all corny and just
34:59
say, hey, it's getting out of the Coliseum.
35:00
And you know, yes, they're going to be in Sacramento for a couple
35:03
years. And obviously the chapter is
35:05
moving in a new direction, going to Vegas, fine, all of that
35:08
stuff. But like, there is legitimate
35:10
talent on the field and this kid is a refreshing style of play.
35:18
I'm 100% behind Jacob Wilson. And to that point, like, this
35:24
isn't just some quirky, like you said, guy that I think a lot of
35:28
people interpret him to be of this.
35:30
Just bat the ball. Like, let me just crank out some
35:33
singles each game and call it a date.
35:36
Like, no, this guy is going to be the starting shortstop at the
35:39
All Star game. Yeah.
35:42
I do want to give some flowers. I do want to give some flowers,
35:46
by the way, because if you scroll up a little bit, I was
35:48
actually kind of leaning Jeremy Pena as, as the second place
35:54
spot. Yeah, yeah.
35:56
Over Bobby Witt. And I love Bobby Witt, but
36:01
Jeremy Pena is, I feel like really kind of coming into
36:04
himself this year and like getting back to what everyone
36:08
was being hyped about and why the Astros decided to move on
36:13
from Carlos Correa. This is the type of player he
36:16
needs to be if they're going to build around him.
36:18
And the Astros are going to keep doing what they what they need
36:20
to do. Yeah, I'm with you there.
36:25
But yeah, without a doubt, Jacob Wilson, the leader in the
36:30
clubhouse, was shortstop out of the American League, National
36:33
League. Let's see if we did our research
36:36
here because I'm very much against both the 1st and 2nd
36:41
place voters. There's no research that needs
36:43
to be done here. That means it's right in front
36:46
of our face right now. Francisco Lindor, the top vote
36:50
getter hitting coming in today, hitting 26715 homers, 41
36:54
ribbies, 8O8O3 OPS. Not bad.
36:57
Not bad, not great, but not bad. Definitely not first place
37:01
worthy. Neither is Mookie Betts hitting
37:04
255, nine homers, 37 ribbies, 732 OPS.
37:09
No, no, no, no, nae nae. Not the top vote getter.
37:16
But you know who should be the top vote getter right now but
37:18
isn't? Say it, tell the people.
37:21
Ellie De la Cruz. Oh, no.
37:28
Oh, no. Oh, no.
37:30
I you're not oh, I know. You're, you're a Trey Turner
37:34
truther. I I.
37:36
Went Trey over Ellie and. OK, that was, well, to be fair,
37:40
that was the guy that I was. Yeah.
37:41
OK. OK.
37:43
As a Trey truther myself. But I don't think I put enough
37:49
looks into Ellie because now that I'm seeing numbers, I think
37:52
I, I think I got to switch. Trey Turner hitting two 98.9
37:57
homers, 35 ribbies, 805-0805. O PS Elie De La Cruz hitting
38:03
264. So a little bit of a difference
38:06
there. 17 homers, 52 ribbies, 835OPS.
38:10
I think that's what did it for me.
38:12
Like, I know there's a big gap between RB is and I know there's
38:19
like a big gap between home runs, but I don't know, like
38:23
kind of the the argument you were having with Gino's OPS
38:28
being attributed to his home runs.
38:30
That kind of gives me that same feeling for Ellie.
38:34
And I don't want to punish Ellie for, you know, for the ballpark
38:37
he's in just because it's it's definitely hitter's ballpark,
38:40
but it's more of the home run Hitter's ballpark.
38:43
It's not necessarily a a very big outfield for double S and
38:49
triples. So I don't want to like punish
38:51
him for that argument, but at the same time, like I can't give
38:58
the nod to Ellie so easily on RB is just based on where you know
39:05
Trey is hitting in the lineup and and there's a big gap
39:07
between average 2. So like this one was a tough
39:10
one. I don't know if I'm willing to
39:12
die on the Trey Hill either. On to your point about extra
39:16
base hits. Trey's got 25 double S, no
39:19
triples to Ellie De La Cruz's. He's got 14 double S and a
39:29
triple. So a lot of those, a lot of that
39:34
OPS is attributed to those home runs, which like say what you
39:37
will, it's not I. Can't more than half.
39:39
Yeah, I can't say hey, like that's that's a bad thing.
39:44
Like, I can't punish you for hitting home runs, but I would
39:50
say the same sentiment about about Ellie De La Cruz.
39:54
But what we said about about Bobby Witt, like, if this is,
39:59
you know what I'm saying, like, if this is like not the most
40:02
spectacular season and this is kind of the floor for you, it's
40:06
still very impressive. I still think Ellie De La Cruz's
40:11
top three dynamic players as far as all tools go in baseball.
40:17
But I, I, I leaned towards Trey here.
40:22
All right. Where are we going?
40:23
Where are we going to settle here?
40:24
I don't know man, I mean make your arguments.
40:28
Well, I mean, outside of the, I mean, Trey's got a sizable gap
40:39
hitting for average. I understand more homers, more
40:42
ribbies, higher OPS. What's?
40:46
Hold on? Let me see here.
40:48
Let's see. Let's see.
40:50
Defensively. Yeah, we know Ellie's not great
41:01
defensively. Right.
41:09
I'm a sucker for a good quality defensive shortstop.
41:14
Shame on you for bias does play something so boring.
41:21
Where are we at with Trey? Wait, now hold on.
41:27
OK, that nevermind. That was 2023.
41:28
Yikes. LED all of baseball in 23 errors
41:32
for Trey in 2023. LED all of baseball in 2023.
41:37
Ellie LED all of baseball in 2024.
41:42
This. I don't know man.
41:44
This is tough. And I believe Ellie's got 21
41:51
swipes to trays 19. See, that's kind of a wash.
41:55
I mean, what's the what's the tiebreaker here?
41:58
How? I don't know.
41:59
What's the OBP clip they're getting on?
42:02
344 for Ellie, 355 slug, 450 for Trey, 493 for Ellie OPS plus
42:11
1/23 for Ellie, 120 for Trey. I don't know.
42:17
Have we said War 2 for 2.4 for both?
42:23
I don't know dude this is tough. I.
42:25
I anybody. In the chat going I am, I'm OK
42:30
going Ellie as the RBI's tiebreaker because it is like
42:35
it's what is it, 17 RBI gap 35 to 52, right?
42:43
To 17, yeah. I think if Trey was hitting like
42:49
315 or 320, I think that would be my tiebreaker.
42:58
But I, I think, yeah, I think I got to go, Ellie, I guess.
43:02
I don't know, man. It's tough.
43:05
It's tough. It's crazy that neither of these
43:07
two guys are the top 2 vote getters though, right?
43:11
That's like, and, and Lindor is having a nice year.
43:19
I could maybe see him in the 2 hole.
43:22
But getting votes is like, come on.
43:27
Ellie finished 8th in MVP voting last year for anybody that
43:30
cares. You know what?
43:35
Maybe I'll just make that my tiebreaker.
43:37
Trey Turner was not. It did not receive MVP votes.
43:40
Are not fair enough. Which obviously carries great
43:44
weight, obviously carries great weight for the 2025 season.
43:47
Yeah, this is a tough one, but I can.
43:49
I can lean, Ellie. I can give.
43:50
You that man, I thought. I thought we were both on the
43:52
same page when we both kicked Lindor and Mookie to the side.
43:58
I did. I thought so too 'cause I know
44:00
how much of A Trey guy you are. I love Trey but.
44:03
Yeah, I like Ellie a lot, I don't think.
44:05
And he look, let's be honest, who has the better chance of of
44:09
having an absolute putting on an absolute show at the correct
44:14
It's probably Ellie. So.
44:17
Which going OK, so I'm glad you brought that up.
44:19
We're going going to see a show going back to our National
44:25
League third baseman conversation.
44:27
Yeah, Manny putting on a show? No.
44:30
Well, I think Manny put on a show, but if we're talking, if
44:32
we're looking at fire, if we're looking for fireworks, Eugenio
44:36
Suarez might be the guy. Gino could sneakily win, you
44:40
know, pop a couple and win MVP and you're just like, whoa.
44:47
I don't know. I'm wondering if I should change
44:49
my vote on the National League side for third base.
44:53
We'll revisit it. We'll we'll have a chance for
44:55
final, final arguments. OK, catcher.
45:00
OK, American lady, we already know absolute luck.
45:03
Carlos Narvaez. Hey, he's like, I think he's
45:09
like top three in rookie of the year voting right now.
45:12
So put some respect on his. Name as a 38 year old.
45:18
I'm just playing. He's 30 for anyone that's
45:19
wondering. I know he's spent a a million
45:23
years in the minor league system for the.
45:24
Yankees, It's not 38 though, it's 30.
45:28
Bo Naylor, come on down. Hitting $1.78.
45:33
It should be. It should be illegal to have
45:36
names on here if you're hitting below 200.
45:38
I'm sorry like. If you're not, if you're not off
45:43
the Interstate, you can't be on there.
45:47
It's Cal Raleigh baby 31 Jacks. That's disgusting.
45:52
It's absurd. Can we talk about the fall off
45:55
of Adley Rushman? What is happening?
45:57
I. Don't know man.
46:00
What is going on with him? Did he have?
46:04
Who am I thinking of? Didn't he dump his girlfriend
46:06
before the season? And everyone's like I.
46:09
Was going to say. Everyone's like, oh, here comes
46:11
Adley getting locked in, getting locked in.
46:15
Here he comes. He's been terrible for like a
46:18
year now. Like for a long time.
46:22
Did he Who? Who?
46:26
Did he had just have a like a two Homer game or am I thinking
46:29
of somebody else? To bring his OPS to a total.
46:34
Of 6, No, it was definitely no. We had a Homer back on the 16th,
46:40
but that was it. Otherwise, nothing to write him
46:43
about the last like 3 weeks. Yikes.
46:51
Yeah, I mean, I don't know, he's missed some time, but still,
46:58
what are we doing? Yeah.
47:00
Cal Raleigh though, my goodness and if for the people that are.
47:04
Essentially get be like the top. I know it won't be just because
47:07
it's popular popularity contest, but should probably be getting
47:11
the most votes of anyone. I would.
47:15
This is historic. Disagree, yes, but I mean and
47:20
don't is this some like reverse psychology trick to make me
47:24
defend or like make a case for judge being the top vote getter
47:28
or you just want to hear me glaze there and judge right now?
47:31
I'm. I'm not.
47:32
Against it. I mean how?
47:34
How would Aaron judge not? In what world did Aaron would
47:37
Aaron Judge not be the top folk getter?
47:42
I don't know, I, I just, I'm putting a lot of value in the
47:44
fact that he's, you know, he's a catcher, catching and producing
47:48
is, is. Which goes back to what I was
47:51
saying about Eugenio being A1 dimensional guy.
47:53
People probably hear me say that and they go, well, all Cal
47:56
Raleigh's doing is hitting home runs.
47:57
It's like, not even close, actually.
48:00
He's playing one of the most challenging positions in all
48:05
sports, actually. So we're not going to overlook
48:09
that. And one of the best at it, by
48:11
the way. Yeah.
48:13
Easy pick for Cal Raleigh behind the dish.
48:16
National League. Where are we at here?
48:21
Yeah, National League Top vote getter right now, Will Smith
48:24
hitting 328, nine homers, 42 ribbies, 969 OPS.
48:30
Carson Kelly. Carson Kelly, the number 2 vote
48:34
getter is wrong, correct? I mean the man, the man above
48:39
him people have been. Correct.
48:42
People have been cooking me in the comments being like, Hunter
48:45
Goodman should be the representative for the Rockies,
48:49
and he presumably will be. But even though he won't be
48:53
starting, no. Man, Will Smith is.
48:57
Just is having an insane year. Hunter Goodman's having a great
49:03
year. Deserving.
49:04
Of some respect. It's good to see and like it's
49:08
not this isn't like a, you know, participation trophy for the
49:13
Rockies of like him being on the roster, which he likely will be.
49:18
You're going to need a couple catchers.
49:20
This is like a legitimate deserves that spot.
49:24
So I'm glad that we're we're going to have some we're going
49:28
to have a white sock on this team that you're just like
49:30
really like we just 'cause we have to have somebody.
49:34
This for the Rockies is this is solid man, impressive.
49:38
Good for Hunter Goodman, but it's Will Smith.
49:43
Will Smith coming out of the National League?
49:44
Correct. 69 OPS. Can we let's just for the sake
49:52
of suspense, let's come back to the outfield.
49:58
Let's just knock out the best. Yeah, let's the best.
50:01
We got some things to talk about with the outfield.
50:03
So let's just let's get let's get down to it with the DH here.
50:08
American League. I'm curious if you agree here.
50:12
We probably. Dude, the DH coming out of the
50:18
American League did not excite me whatsoever.
50:21
And we have Raphael Devers to thank entirely for this being a
50:27
lackluster position now. Yeah, I guess the leader I get,
50:37
I think the fans have it right as of right now, do they not?
50:41
Ryan o'hearn. I have Rooker over Ryan o'hearn.
50:46
All right, well, let's look at Ryan O'hearn hitting three O 510
50:48
homers, 29 ribbies, 867 OPS to Brent Rooker's 272, which is
50:55
lower, 15 homers 5 higher or five more than O'hearn. 41
51:00
ribbies more than O'hearn, 832 OPS, which is the 35 points
51:07
lower. State your case.
51:10
I just didn't like Ryan O'hearn's comments.
51:14
What do you say? Well, after Devers got traded,
51:17
he's like, I'd like to think the Red Sox front office or
51:20
whatever, like huge shout out to them.
51:22
I mean, that's I mean, if you're going to say something, that's
51:25
my only reason. It was like 3 weeks before the
51:28
All Star game. Like relax guy, you're not going
51:30
to you think you just have a lock on on the All Star position
51:35
for. Like have some awareness.
51:37
He he knows he's at least in the running.
51:40
I mean, look at this dude Jock Peterson hitting a buck 31 two
51:44
homers, 6 O five O 7. Judge is hitting five O 7.
51:50
At this point he's in Anthony Santander 179 six homers, 18
51:55
rubies, 577 OPS. Jorge Solaire hitting two O 7.
51:59
Abraham Toro. Abraham Toro is like at the in,
52:04
like the upper. Yeah, you know, for upper
52:07
echelon of this list, a lackluster list at that.
52:12
There's just, you know, Yandi Diaz put some put some shine on
52:16
his name. Yandi's coming.
52:19
That guy's been swinging. It may be getting a cannon soon.
52:24
Soon Yandi hitting 28312 jacks, 44 ribbies, 796 OPS.
52:30
So yeah, that's. What I'm saying bro, screw up.
52:33
No, no, hold on, screw up. I I'm willing to.
52:35
I was just, I didn't like the comments, that's all.
52:39
So. It was, it had to have been in
52:42
jest. I didn't hear the tone, but you
52:44
got to think he's just having fun with it.
52:48
You're not actually bothered by Ryan O'hern's comments, are you?
52:52
Well, that and him, you know, we talked about him being like the
52:55
number one trade deadline guy and it's just like, what are we
52:57
doing? What are we talking about?
52:59
That's not his fault. But yeah, the fact that Ryan
53:01
O'hearn's getting touted is like the go Too bad.
53:04
I'll have a prediction. I predict that before I buy the
53:08
All Star game, Yandi Diaz will have better numbers than at
53:12
least three of those 4 categories that we're looking
53:14
at. Then O'hearn, yes, Well, he's
53:18
already got more homers. He's already got more RBIs.
53:23
He's got 20, what, 22 points to come up with on average and 70
53:31
points on OPS. I'll, I'll, I'll, I'll put that
53:35
in. Seven.
53:37
Wait 71. Yeah, 7171 points.
53:44
I'm coming for. I'm coming for you.
53:45
I'm. It's Yandi.
53:47
Yeah, I might even switch it. I don't even want Brent Rooker
53:49
anymore. I want Yandi, he's on my fantasy
53:53
team. That's fine.
53:54
Well, you're you can switch to have him as your number 2
53:57
because Ryan o'hearn as of right now is.
53:59
The guy. OK, fair.
54:03
For now, for now. Hey, I'll, I'll hear you out,
54:07
but we're placing our vote right now.
54:09
So you know, we got to go with what we know.
54:13
National League DH. Boring.
54:15
Just go do it. Hey, before we click the button
54:22
though, can we talk about the year Christian Yelich is having?
54:28
Welcome back, Welcome back, say Suzuki.
54:31
Say him a. Quality very good year.
54:33
Suzuki, I think he just, I think he just went yeah, yeah, just
54:36
moments ago. That's good because I watched
54:39
him make a play on a ball in right field.
54:41
That was pretty sad to to see. Gavin Smith and another name,
54:48
Chiefs Who? What did I say?
54:50
You you can you combine Gavin Sheets, Gavin Smith?
54:55
Gavin Smith, welcome. To the show, No Gavin Sheets is
54:59
what I was saying. Gavin Sheets having a having a
55:02
good year out in San Diego. I mean, Schwarber is not
55:06
anything to to just shrug at. Here 43 jacks that's that's
55:12
Eugenio Suarez dude. You would make the same argument
55:16
for Schwarber as you would Suarez, except.
55:21
Except Schwarber isn't actually these.
55:23
Players I know it's tough to compare these players because
55:27
This is why they get paid This is why schwarber and Gina are
55:30
getting paid it's because like this is what they do we're we're
55:33
not paying them to hit 228290 you know like they're doing
55:38
exactly what they should be doing I.
55:40
Get it, But I'm going to go with the more multi tooled player.
55:49
Before we scroll up, what jersey is Marcela Zuna going to be
55:53
wearing at the end of the year? You had a prediction on that?
56:03
Was there, I can't remember, was there any truth to that rumor
56:05
with him in Boston with the package that.
56:11
Chris Sale. Yeah.
56:16
I'd be hard to be hard to see that happening, but.
56:24
No, but I thought no, no, not with, not with Duran.
56:28
I'm not talking to Duran, said. There was.
56:31
The Braves got brought up in the Devers conversation, didn't
56:34
they? I.
56:35
Don't. Know, I think Ozuna was part of
56:37
that. I except I don't know if that
56:40
how much. Again, I don't know if there was
56:41
any truth to that, but probably not.
56:45
I don't know man, are you just going to assume that he's not
56:47
going to be wearing a brave uni by the end of the year?
56:50
I think the Braves are smart. Plug him as a Mariner.
56:58
Him and Randy are better, probably good friends.
57:01
Probably boys. Yeah, I can see it.
57:05
I can see it. But show.
57:07
Hey, Otani hitting 28825 jacks, 44 rubies, 996 PS What?
57:16
What does? What's Cow's OPS this year
57:21
again? Do you remember?
57:22
One, it's like just under 1100. 1039 Holy cow, dude.
57:29
Yeah. Holy cow.
57:31
Holy cow. All right, here's where things
57:35
get interesting. That T-shirt exists, except for
57:39
a different cow. Let's.
57:42
This is where things get fun. This is where the best.
57:45
This is the. Best of the whole ballot?
57:48
This is where feelings are going to be hurt.
57:51
Yeah. Yeah.
57:53
This is where feelings are going to get hurt.
57:56
Aaron Judge. I hate to say, buddy, you're on
57:58
the outside looking in this year.
57:59
Shut up. I mean, 1195 OPS is all you
58:04
could put together. Give me a break and you're
58:08
supposed to be the face of this sport.
58:10
My goodness. OK, we'll go Aaron Judge as as
58:14
the clear leader, the top vote getter hitting three I'm.
58:17
Super excited to see where you go after this here.
58:20
Are you now? Yeah, give me what?
58:29
Give me what you have. OK, well my number two pick, My
58:36
number two pick, I'm looking at him right now.
58:38
Byron Buxton. Byron Buxton, How about it?
58:43
Have a year man hitting 28016, Jacks 40.
58:48
Back. RB is and an OPS of nine O 6.
58:52
Bro is back. I regret dropping him in fantasy
58:56
without. A doubt he's the ultimate
58:59
teaser. I was just waiting for the for
59:01
the inevitable. Shoot a drop.
59:03
Yeah, out three to four months headline, but here we are.
59:09
All right, buddy, who's that third spot going to?
59:14
My third pick, I'm just double checking here.
59:19
I already know who who the pick is.
59:21
I'm just making sure I didn't overlook anybody.
59:23
No disrespect. My third pick, again going back
59:30
to lacking awareness of of the year that this individual is
59:33
having Riley Green. Dude, we're 3 for.
59:39
Riley, Let's go. Yes, Riley Green of the Detroit
59:44
Tigers, hitting 29117 homers, 59 RBIs and an OPS of 875 and he.
59:54
How many games have we played so far this year?
59:56
Where are we at? We're at Dang.
1:00:04
Sorry I had something else pulled up.
1:00:05
Where'd it go? So the Tigers have played 6662
1:00:10
games and I was curious on how many?
1:00:16
No, not hunter Green Riley Green has played.
1:00:26
I'm confused. He's played 76 games.
1:00:34
What's wrong with baseball Reference?
1:00:35
What? Are you trying to figure out?
1:00:38
The Detroit Tigers are 40 and 22, but somehow the Baseball
1:00:42
Reference page has Riley Green appearing in.
1:00:48
No, these tigers, this year, tigers are 49 and 30.
1:00:52
I don't know what you're looking at.
1:01:00
What is wrong with my ESPN app 40 and 22?
1:01:05
What is happening? Clear your.
1:01:08
Cache I don't I don't know. Maybe I'm bad at that.
1:01:11
I am bad at that. We can't trust any of the stats.
1:01:14
I just read off for the last half hour on players.
1:01:17
Now love that you get this guy says all the time ESPN trash
1:01:23
ESPN's trash and continually uses ESPN services for his for
1:01:28
his research it makes. Sense to me, I'd like to say I
1:01:31
just I can cruise through all right.
1:01:32
So he has he has plenty of games.
1:01:34
He's played 76 games. Yeah, 'cause I was worried, I
1:01:38
thought he was out for like the he didn't start the year with
1:01:41
them. So I was like, how many games
1:01:43
has he played? But the fact that he's put up 17
1:01:45
jacks and 59 ribs, like hitting 291, this is absolutely the
1:01:51
choice. He's playing very good defense
1:01:53
out in left field as well. Like, dude is a freak man.
1:01:58
Dude's an absolute. Stud rounding out the outfield,
1:02:02
Riley Green on the National League side.
1:02:06
This is where this is where some feelings are going to get hurt
1:02:13
if they haven't, if they haven't been hurt already.
1:02:15
This was hands down the hardest vote for me was the NL outfield
1:02:26
hands down. For me.
1:02:31
Who's your number one? I I would I'm going to refrain
1:02:36
from ranking my NL outfield votes because I don't.
1:02:40
Who's your number 3 then? Would we go backwards here?
1:02:47
I don't want I want to refrain from ranking my National League
1:02:51
outfielders. OK, so so.
1:02:55
My number one was clear to me. Well, let's start with you.
1:02:59
Who who is your number one? My number one was Jason Hayward,
1:03:03
the recently DFA D Jason Hayward, bro, No, no, no, no
1:03:08
full disrespect, full disrespect to the recently DFA Jason
1:03:12
Hayward. It's.
1:03:13
Crazy to me that Jason Hayward has a job and JD Martinez
1:03:16
doesn't. At I don't get how baseball
1:03:20
works sometimes, man. Who's your who's, who's your
1:03:23
top, Who's your number one? That's so clear.
1:03:25
James Wood. Thank you.
1:03:27
OK. Yeah, Yep, James Wood has been
1:03:31
fantastic. Keep going.
1:03:35
There we are. There we are.
1:03:38
Just crazy good numbers. 21 jacks, 57 ribs, 935 OPS.
1:03:43
Which is better in every category except batting average
1:03:47
and not by much. She's only four points lower
1:03:51
than Kyle Tucker. He's got every, he's got a beat
1:03:53
and everything else like that is the number one vote getter in my
1:03:58
mind for the NL outfield. Been great and he's going to
1:04:02
continue to be great. He's he's, you know, he's going
1:04:07
to be up there as far as national greats, as long as he
1:04:10
sticks around, as long as they keep him around, I should say.
1:04:15
OK, so Kyle Tucker, obviously in the mix for Nano Tatis, another
1:04:20
guy that's in the mix here, a guy that I once said also in the
1:04:24
mix, a guy that I actually went with is my, we'll just call it
1:04:31
#2. OK.
1:04:34
I can find him on here somewhere.
1:04:42
I know, I know exactly what you just saw.
1:04:44
I know exactly what you just saw that made this so difficult.
1:04:48
I spent 10 or 15 minutes just in the NL outfield.
1:04:54
Is it in our in our effort to craft the the perfect All Star
1:04:59
ballot? Is it a sin to have Corbin
1:05:02
Carroll in the National League outfield?
1:05:04
Here's where we're struggling people because like the 20 home
1:05:07
runs easy like that should get you in 44 RBIs that should get
1:05:11
you in a 914 OPS that should get you in, but he's sitting 255.
1:05:15
How many? How many swipes does he have
1:05:16
this year? I don't know, I don't trust my
1:05:19
stats anymore. Don't look at ESPN, go to
1:05:21
literally anything else. Near near near.
1:05:28
He's got 10 swipes. The on base actually isn't
1:05:35
great. OK.
1:05:37
Let's 41. Let's do this, let's do this.
1:05:39
Do we both are? Are we both in agreement?
1:05:44
OK, let's, well, let's just say let's compare Corbin Carroll to
1:05:48
Kyle Tucker. OK, Kyle Tucker.
1:05:57
My goodness, there's a lot of names.
1:05:59
Kyle Tucker hitting 282. Better. 14 homers.
1:06:03
Only 6 less. 44 RBIs. Better was it?
1:06:09
Yeah, I think he had 41. 912 OPS.
1:06:14
A lot better. Really. 912 to no.
1:06:21
Carol's hit 914 OPS 9 four. Yeah.
1:06:25
Numbers. Numbers are tough math.
1:06:27
And he also has the same amount of RBIs coming in today.
1:06:29
So wrong on both counts. I'm on fire today.
1:06:34
You're crushing it 282 to 255. I mean, that's a substantial
1:06:43
enough gap. Let's just stop dancing around
1:06:46
it. Let's put Alex Verdugo where he
1:06:47
belongs. Alex Verdugo, you are the top
1:06:52
vote getter of the 2025 All Star Voting.
1:06:55
Has not touched all four bases yet.
1:06:58
That's crazy. Wait, a big a big goose egg in
1:07:02
the home run category. Love that starts with AV.
1:07:07
Keep scrolling, it's alphabetical.
1:07:09
Oh, it's alphabetical goodness. 0 homers, 6 O3 OPS.
1:07:19
Oh, this is the only time that you and I will refuse to say no
1:07:25
disrespect because that is full disrespect, full intended.
1:07:29
Thanks for nothing, Alex. Regina.
1:07:31
Ugliest disrespect All right let's let's shake things up
1:07:38
here. You know it's it's.
1:07:40
He hasn't been around long enough.
1:07:41
I know, I know. But like, he's going to be
1:07:47
there. It's Atlanta.
1:07:49
He's going to be there. Dang, that's such a good point.
1:07:54
So, but like with that said, I'm not I'm not wasting one of our
1:07:58
votes. I'm not I'm not parnishing this
1:08:01
this perfect ballot here with a vote for a guy that just hasn't
1:08:05
been around. So I'm going to go James Wood.
1:08:13
I can. I'll hear you out on the Kyle
1:08:15
Tucker over. I don't have Kyle Tucker.
1:08:19
I have Corbin Carroll. OK, so then who's the third
1:08:26
name? Because we got to we got to
1:08:27
figure out which two were dwindling.
1:08:28
We're we're zeroing in on here. Who's your who's your last guy?
1:08:34
I. Don't want to say it.
1:08:36
Yeah, you do, PC. OK, that's who I also have.
1:08:41
So we have the same outfield on both sides.
1:08:44
Both sides, yeah, but I. I'm liking it less.
1:08:51
I I really did. I felt better about it coming
1:08:54
in. But now I'm looking.
1:08:59
Yeah, no. I don't know, 61 rib eyes.
1:09:02
Yeah, yeah, yeah. And 868 OPS.
1:09:05
That's good enough. Yeah, good enough, good enough.
1:09:08
Austin Hayes, appreciate your service.
1:09:10
Juan Soto, not good enough. Be better.
1:09:15
Yeah. That's not not worth being a
1:09:16
billionaire for. I'm going to need a better OPS
1:09:19
from you billionaire. Yeah.
1:09:24
OK. Then who's our third?
1:09:25
Guy that's I think it's Corbin Carroll or or Kyle Tucker,
1:09:31
right? Fernando.
1:09:37
Fernando Jackson Merrill. Nice.
1:09:44
Missed. He's missed time.
1:09:46
Billy Ramos. Nice.
1:09:47
He actually just got upgraded today off off the.
1:09:50
The Tigers are going to win this, by the way, LSU.
1:09:58
I'm going to. I'm going to have to go.
1:10:03
I think I got to go. Corbin Carroll.
1:10:04
Here 6 more jacks, slightly better OPSI bet he's got a lot
1:10:11
of double s He has 13. Double s What's what's his
1:10:23
what's his defense looking like? How many?
1:10:40
How many swipes you say he had? 1010 yeah, he only had one error
1:10:43
in the outfield. Kyle Tucker's got 18.
1:10:48
She got 18 swipes. Tuck.
1:10:50
Kyle Tucker. Yeah.
1:10:56
He's sitting 30 points higher. Almost.
1:11:05
Cubs are already getting PCA. So what are you saying?
1:11:13
Do we spread the love? Give it to Corbin.
1:11:18
No, I was saying Kyle Tucker had more swipes.
1:11:20
He had what I say 18I. Know from seeing the Cubs
1:11:24
already getting PCA. And, well, I I'm not here to
1:11:26
worry about spreading the love. We're here to present the
1:11:29
perfect ballot. I'm seeing Andy Paas in the
1:11:34
chat. 29216 Jacks. Big nod there.
1:11:37
Big nod. Age 40. 7.
1:11:39
Big nod, big nod. I'll take Andy Paas over Juan
1:11:46
Soto. I mean you.
1:11:50
You would almost have to. Yeah.
1:11:54
It's not much of a case to be made there for Juan Soto.
1:11:58
Boy, it's the OPS for me. I mean, that's a big gap between
1:12:03
Indy Paas and Carolyn Tucker. We we've been at this for a
1:12:10
while. I think we need to, we need to 0
1:12:13
in on this. Yep, that's, that was our vote.
1:12:19
That was our original vote and we're sticking to it.
1:12:21
It was sort of going back to how we started this thing about
1:12:24
reviews and and evidence being able to overturn.
1:12:29
I didn't see enough evidence there to overturn.
1:12:32
Right. It's a, it's a call.
1:12:34
Call stands not call confirmed. Correct, correct.
1:12:39
For now, it's a couple weeks left.
1:12:40
All right, we can probably do this again.
1:12:43
Maybe we maybe we make that a plan when we get there Saturday
1:12:47
we throw one last ballot in or something.
1:12:49
They'll probably have to be in by then, huh?
1:12:53
Well, about. Yeah.
1:12:54
Well, yeah. When do they have to be in?
1:12:57
What do you think they tell these guys like Sunday night?
1:12:59
Like, hey, Congrats, you've made it to the All Star game.
1:13:01
Get on the next flight out here. I'd like to take that.
1:13:04
When's voting due? It's probably soon because
1:13:07
remember they do the multi phase thing where you got to you got
1:13:10
to pick your starters and and so on and so forth because they do
1:13:15
like the you do like the top three, I think and then you got
1:13:18
to pick starter or something like that.
1:13:19
I don't know, I. Don't know either.
1:13:21
Who knows? 51 LSU Bottom 5.
1:13:24
But how about that? Well, that was fun.
1:13:26
There's our, there's the perfect.
1:13:27
Hour and a half, What else do we got?
1:13:29
Do you want to talk about anything else?
1:13:32
Right now, just closing the book here real quick.
1:13:34
Mets just wrapped up a seven. I think it was a 7 game losing
1:13:38
streak. They snapped that on Saturday
1:13:40
with the win convincing win if I'm not mistaken.
1:13:43
Astros, to your point from last episode, running away with the
1:13:47
American League West, it seems the Mariners just coughing it
1:13:51
up. Shame, shame, shame.
1:13:53
But there's a lot of baseball left.
1:13:55
But I'm just going off a track records here.
1:13:58
So do with that information what you will.
1:14:03
Ron Washington out indefinitely as manager of the Los Angeles
1:14:08
Angels. Yeah, I'm not a fan of that.
1:14:13
Apparently it was shortness of breath, fatigue and just general
1:14:19
lack of energy. It seems that, yeah, I think
1:14:24
they're going to have to get some.
1:14:25
I don't know what the latest is on that.
1:14:26
I think he's probably getting. Absence from work?
1:14:28
Because that sounds like me. Yeah, probably.
1:14:31
Going to have to get evaluated by some doctors, some some
1:14:34
medical experts, make sure everything's good there.
1:14:37
We got to have we got to have old Ron Washington in the game.
1:14:41
You, you can't have that. We can't have to an extended of
1:14:44
an absence. There I know all all the Braves
1:14:47
fans in the chat have always been been like, hey, you know,
1:14:51
shame on you Angels for doing this to our guy.
1:14:53
Should have just stuck it out as a third base coach and infield
1:14:56
coach. You had it made in the shade.
1:15:00
Putting this the Angels are just putting undue stress on this
1:15:02
guy. Yeah.
1:15:04
Although correct me if I'm wrong, it's been a minute since
1:15:08
we talked to angels. You're wrong.
1:15:13
Am I wrong 2? Games under.
1:15:18
Probably 2 games under. That's a team that has a lot of
1:15:22
pieces, by the way. That is a team that has a lot of
1:15:24
pieces that can move. Relatively balanced American
1:15:30
League West. I mean, like I said, Astros are
1:15:33
sort of picking up steam here, but.
1:15:36
They're like a team of everyone's Plan C signings, you
1:15:43
know what I mean? It's just a team made-up of of
1:15:48
those guys and Mike, Chuck. It's like when it's like in a
1:15:53
video game, if you're, if you're running like a, a dynasty or
1:15:56
something and you don't set yourself as the first pick in
1:15:59
the draft and you're like, you're like 22nd on the board.
1:16:05
You kind of just end up with like slop, no disrespect, but
1:16:09
like you kind of just you, you finish the draft and you're
1:16:13
like, I'm not really excited about this.
1:16:15
But but they do have a lot of guys that could that could help
1:16:21
in places. Although I think Solaire just
1:16:23
went on the IO get better, Rosh get better.
1:16:31
Lastly, here raise and talk to sell the team raise are in
1:16:33
advance talks to sell the team to a group led by Florida home
1:16:36
developer Patrick Zalupski. Sounds like a winner to me.
1:16:46
Oh boy. No disrespect, Zoo.
1:16:51
I I saw this, I read that he is the CEO of Dream Finders Homes,
1:16:57
a company that builds and designs homes.
1:16:59
I can foresee an expansion of that company to maybe include
1:17:03
construction of baseball stadiums because they're in need
1:17:06
of 1. Yeah, stop using ours.
1:17:14
That's all I got. Let's have a good week.
1:17:20
Dude. Dude.
1:17:23
I forgot to tell you, Paige was she was going to a concert.
1:17:30
She went to a Post Malone concert last night.
1:17:33
And so she was like changing out her purse, you know, to like get
1:17:36
the into like a smaller one for the venue.
1:17:41
And she's like looking through the purse and she finds this
1:17:43
quarter and she's like, it's kind of a cool looking quarter.
1:17:47
Like what's this? She flips it over to me and it's
1:17:50
like one of those like commemorative quarters that has
1:17:53
like some historical person on the back.
1:17:58
And I was like, oh, that's cool. I've never looked.
1:18:00
I've never seen it. So like, I looked it up, bro.
1:18:04
This quarter apparently is super rare because there's a typo on
1:18:13
it. What it says instead of in God
1:18:20
we trust, it says in COD we trust with AC instead of AGI.
1:18:26
Looked it up and. This is like fish people.
1:18:30
It's being sold for like $2500 on eBay.
1:18:37
On the low end it's like $900. How are you?
1:18:42
How positive are you that you're just not misreading this?
1:18:44
Quite. I mean, I see.
1:18:47
I had, I took him to my dad's house yesterday and he has like
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one of those little magnifying glass things.
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I use that and I took a picture and you could, I like zoomed all
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the way in. You can absolutely see it's AC.
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Dude I OK I'm looking. I googled in Cod We Trust, which
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is unfortunate now because now I'm going to just get weird like
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fish people cult ads asking me to join their like Facebook
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group. The 1st result that I'm seeing
1:19:22
the phrase in Cod We Trust on AUS Quarter is a playful
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alteration of the official motto in God We Trust.
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It's not an official coin, but rather humorous error that has
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gained some popularity among collectors.
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While some believe these coins are valuable due to the error,
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most are likely worth only their face value of $0.25.
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So what? 2024D Zitkala SA in Cod We Trust
1:19:47
Air recorder being sold for $2500.
1:19:51
OK, being sold I could list, I could list this pen on eBay for
1:19:56
$9 million. What are they selling for?
1:20:01
Look it up bro. Like what have they sold for
1:20:04
rather? I don't know how to find that
1:20:05
information. That's what I need to know.
1:20:07
Seeing $1000 on eBay, $949 on eBay they sold.
1:20:15
For that much. I don't know.
1:20:17
How do you find stuff that's sold?
1:20:19
It's anything that's being sold. You should be able to filter it,
1:20:23
but to know what's. What is in the Google machine?
1:20:27
I don't have AI, don't have an eBay account guy.
1:20:32
I didn't know eBay was still alive.
1:20:36
All right, well, if you just disappear off the face of the
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map because. You blame the COD people,
1:20:42
They're coming for me. You.
1:20:44
No, I was going to say because you just inherited millions of
1:20:47
dollars from this COD quarter. I'd appreciate that.
1:20:52
And we'll know. We'll know why, why you
1:20:54
disappeared. But anyway.
1:20:56
Fired How do How do you find sold frequently bought together?
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That's not it. That's not it.
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My brother there's got it like just filter it.
1:21:12
Filter what guy? Let me do it.
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Thank you. One job.
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All right in in cod we trust sort by put in.
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ZITKALA quarter. Is it Kala?
1:21:33
Yeah, that's the, that's the lady on the back looks like
1:21:36
that. OK.
1:21:38
She's a big deal bro. You're not on 1/4.
1:21:43
Well, I think this is a fake quarter, So does it really make
1:21:46
a difference? OK, I filtered it by sold.
1:21:50
I hold on Zitcala. Good news, I need a new couch.
1:21:56
Zitcala filtered by sold. OK.
1:21:59
Do you want me to read you the prices?
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Yeah, the prices they've sold, yeah, $3.50, four, 99, four.
1:22:09
$199. $4.99 Fifteen. Dollars we're getting there.
1:22:15
It's climbing $2.00. Can you take this by highest
1:22:20
talking about filter coming at me?
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The highest it you said, oh, we're getting higher.
1:22:28
That was the highest. It was $15.00.
1:22:30
That's the highest it is sold for.
1:22:31
So you're telling me these people on eBay are just like, I
1:22:35
think this is worth $2500? Yeah, that's like eBay one O 1.
1:22:40
You'd you can list it for anything you want, but it's
1:22:44
what's important to know what the real value and worth is.
1:22:48
You got to, you got to look at what it's sold for because
1:22:50
that's what the market would, that's the interest at the
1:22:53
market has in it. Well, I don't I don't like your
1:22:56
answers. I mean, hey, $15 still.
1:23:00
I mean, that's like a. That's a big return.
1:23:02
That's a Chipotle bowl for one of you.
1:23:05
No guac. So I mean, you this, this.
1:23:10
Hey, Kyle, Tucker just went deep.
1:23:13
This could push him over the edge.
1:23:18
Kyle Tucker just went deep. He trusts in COD all.
1:23:21
Right. Let's revisit the the let's
1:23:25
revisit the ballot here. No, I'm not doing that anyway.
1:23:30
No. Yeah, not doing that.
1:23:32
We're done. But yeah, good luck in your
1:23:35
dealings with the the Colt Fish people.
1:23:38
But I'll find someone who really cares about it.
1:23:41
I don't need you putting me down.
1:23:43
Care for it $15.00 worth. No.
1:23:48
Hey man, I love you this many dollars worth.
1:23:52
Yeah, I'm looking at about two GS.
1:23:57
You're not selling for two GS anyway, good luck.
1:23:59
Have a good week folks. That's all I.
1:24:02
See those curveballs out there? Don't go chasing them.
1:24:08
Yeah, Laura, in the chat it says they're fake.
1:24:11
Yeah. You don't know you're sorry.
1:24:13
You have you. Don't know Laura.
1:24:15
You're being, you're being misled.
1:24:17
You, you don't know. We love you.
1:24:18
And as always, looking forward to talking more baseball with
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you guys soon. Until next time, stay filthy.