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MLB Insights, Hall of Fame Debates, and Baseball Analytics Evolution · Scene Projects Sports Network

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Welcome into the Scene Project Sports Network.
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I am your host, Bubba Starts.
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You are here tonight for the first ever episode of seven eight nine, the premier baseball show
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on the planet.
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I'm joined by my cohost, Big b.
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What's happening, b?
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Nothing.
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I'm glad we get the first week of baseball in.
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Weather's turning nice here in Minnesota.
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My bracket is still kinda hanging in there for the NCAA tournament, but I love this time
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because it it's all about baseball now.
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And, you know, in a couple months, we'll be watching the little leaguers on TV while we
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watch the big Leaguers.
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And, you know, for me, it's just living out my childhood, you know, when I get to talk
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baseball.
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So
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Yeah.
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Well, we got a special guest tonight that knows a little bit about Little League and knows a
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lot about balls.
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Shady Grady, welcome to the show, brother.
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Yeah.
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What's up, y'all?
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What's up, guys?
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How are we?
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You know, that that guy right there, Shady, I mean, he's probably could talk more ball.
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He probably knows more ball than me, you, and coach Cody all put together in one.
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So
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Yeah.
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We got a lot of ball in the room.
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Speaking of Cody, did he make it home from from Wyoming yet?
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I don't know.
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I haven't seen it, but congrats to them on another w.
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You know, but, you know, football outside, you know, it it it it's to me, it's baseball
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season.
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It's opening week.
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You know, I one of these times, I'm gonna have to take off work to get to opening day.
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I've never been to an opening day.
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I know it's just a regular baseball game, but there's just something about being at the first
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game.
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So
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The first pitch of a new season, there there's definitely something about it for sure.
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Yeah.
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So but I I guess first off, since this is our premier show, let's talk about the teams that
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we like to follow.
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Katie, I'll start with you.
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I know you got some connections with in Seattle, but I don't know if that's the team
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you follow.
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But
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Yeah.
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No.
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Alright.
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So repping repping the Braves.
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Born and raised down here in the South.
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So came from North Carolina, but definitely a Braves fan.
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Some story out of, opening night with the Braves.
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Cannot remember the kid's name, but he hit a walk off home run on opening night.
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His mom had passed, like, three months ago.
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Oh, no.
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Yeah.
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But it was his first ever game, rookie night.
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Hit a walk off home run for the Bravos.
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Bravos are hurting right now.
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Pitch and staff, everybody went down.
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Strider, Schwellenbach.
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I don't really even know who's pitching for the Braves right now, but they they squeaked out a
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win, so we'll give them a little a little golf clap.
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But, yeah, Seattle, Seattle's starting off a little rocky as well.
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Kyle Riley off to a o and nine start, I believe, with the nine strikeouts.
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Oh.
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So he's gonna come out of it.
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They'll come out of it.
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So we got hot starts and cold starts there.
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Sorry.
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Nope.
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Nope.
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I got it.
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All that
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all that time off, B, I forgot how to run a show.
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Yeah.
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But you're off for good reasons.
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But, Bubba, I mean, you know, I know you're a Vikings fan.
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You know, I you know, where is your baseball allegiance lie?
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Yeah.
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Grew up in the city of Chicago, man.
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That's where my family is all from.
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So grew up a diehard Cubs fan.
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They never I mean, obviously, they've had disappointed seasons disappointing seasons, but
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we we grew up with that.
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And they never pretended to be something else.
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So they've never pissed me off to the point where I renounced my Cubs fandom like the
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bears.
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So this is something that is near and dear to me.
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My grandma on my dad's side loved the Cubbies.
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And so I got lots of fond memories, obviously, being in the friendly confines at Wrigley
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Field.
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There's really nothing like it.
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And so, yeah, love the Cubs.
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You know, have been tuning in.
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Obviously, I've lived in South Dakota for most of my life, over thirty years now.
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So I really, you know, continue to follow the team.
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Obviously, we have the MLB TV apps and things like that to be able to watch along.
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So, yeah, I have always continued to follow the team.
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I really love the radio broadcast more than anything.
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Yeah.
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So I'll usually buy, you know, TuneIn Radio, I think, app had had them on.
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I don't know if they're still around or if they do it or if the MLB, everything kinda goes
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through the the official app.
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But, yeah, man, summertime's a great time for for just being outside.
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Right?
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And I think that's my favorite part about baseball is that the weather's always
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beautiful.
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There there's nothing like going to a game.
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You got a 162 chances, for those moments that, you know, change our lives.
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Right?
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Even if you're just a fan watching the game and watching a walk off home run if you're in the
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stadium and, like, that energy to me.
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And I think that's why I love the game of baseball so much.
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Right?
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I think a lot of people find it really boring.
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Right?
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Like, how do you get through it?
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It's so long and it's this it's like, for those brief moments in the stadium or on the field,
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everything's on one man or another.
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And as a player, you know, I played through high school.
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I loved it.
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I loved it and didn't really you know, it was probably the one sport that I may have had a
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chance.
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If I wanted to
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go on and continue to play in college, I I I maybe would've, you know, had a chance to walk
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on in baseball.
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Just rangy.
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I was a center fielder for the back half of my career.
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Always played in the outfield, but great eyesight and instincts.
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So, yeah, man.
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I love it.
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I love being out on the grass and, you know, now as a fan and someone raising small
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children, that's my baseball season.
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Right?
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It's being out there with the kids and teaching them the game, and there's just so much to
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learn from the game itself.
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And I think that's what's really, you know, my favorite part of the summer.
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Yeah.
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For me, I mean, living in Minnesota, who else can you root for?
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But the twins, I mean, a lot of bad seasons, but good thing that during the eighties and
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nineties when I was really into baseball, we come home and we turn on WGN.
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We got the Cubs.
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You got the TBS with the Braves.
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Occasionally, you get another team on there.
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So, you know, yeah, my heart's with Minnesota, but overall, I sit down, watch a good game.
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You know, I'm just like every other sports, you know, if I get a good game, I'm good.
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You know, grew up a Kirby Puckett fan, so I know Shady, tired for '91, but, you know, I
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mean, that was honestly probably the best world series for me.
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I mean, game seven, great pitches dueled.
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I could've went either way.
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But, you know, I I kept playing baseball up through my mid thirties out here in, you know,
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Northfield, kinda hung it up.
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Just You did?
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There's my son.
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You did?
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Yeah.
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So went to a couple rookie tryouts at the Twins host every, you know, every year.
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So, you know, stuff like that.
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So but, no, I I love baseball.
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Love watching the little leaguers play.
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I love watching, you know, definitely the major leaguers play, go to Saint Paul's saints games.
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Just that interaction.
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I I I think it is more of a body experience with me and my son, you know, you know, just
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just like that.
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But no.
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But yeah.
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We can get into some topics that we always like to talk about.
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Yeah.
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Well, Bea, why don't we since this is the pilot episode essentially and this was all kind of
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your idea, I'm gonna let you kind of tell us what the format of the show is going to be and
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what it'll kinda look like as we go through the season.
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Yeah.
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I mean, it's a long season, so we are gonna have a lot to talk about.
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I mean, you know, definitely talk about the past week of baseball, upcoming matchups, you
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know, maybe some hot topics that come up.
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I mean, like, she brought up and we can talk about it.
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You know, Kyle Riley struggling already.
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You know, should've in my eyes, you know, should've probably agree.
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Should've been MVP last year.
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I think he got robbed of that, but, I mean, outside of that, you know, you know, keep
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update on our teams that we like, keep, you know, any moves, maybe bring out a topic here
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or there that everybody's always wanted to talk about because I I know I I wanna get you guys'
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opinion on a couple topics.
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But but yeah.
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So kinda just open for them and just see how baseball goes, you know, and, you know, if
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something pops up, you know, we got the Sunday night game, so we could always live score that.
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And
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I was gonna say, as a Minnesota show, big b, Zebby Matthews, I coached him at Smoky
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Mountain.
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He was a freshman when Cal was a senior.
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He's in, I wanna say, y'all's farm program, but he should be coming back this year.
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Yep.
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Nope.
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He is in our farm program.
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Matter of fact, I was able to meet him last year at a meeting group for the Twin Scare Man.
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Didn't have nothing for him to sign.
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And then I told I'm sorry about you got that big bald head, b.
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Yeah.
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No.
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But then got a got a couple packs of baseballs, and the first card I pulled out the next day
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was a a Zebby Matthews.
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But, yeah, Minnesota kids, definitely, you know, love watching the you know, hearing about
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the Minnesota kids growing up and playing.
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I mean, you know, somebody will probably comment my feelings on Joe Bauer.
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True story.
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He's got the he had the talent.
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I just he I he wasn't the locker room guy I grew up watching.
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He wasn't the puck at the Hermes, you know, and stuff like that.
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And he got paid to be it.
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And, you know, there's just some things that kinda bug me, but, you know, it is what it is.
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But let's start off.
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Opening day, I mean, Aaron Judge went o for five with four strikeouts.
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Everybody's talking about how he slumped already.
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You know, Shane, you brought up
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It's five at bats out of how many they'll take this year,
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and he's done.
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He's Well, yeah.
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And that's the that's what one of the and that's what one of the radio personalities I
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heard say.
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It's only five at bats, but then they start talking about how he played in the World
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Baseball Classic.
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The bats put a toll on him.
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So, I mean, I wanna get your guys thought.
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I mean, yeah, it's only five at bats, but, I mean, did the World Baseball Classic kinda put
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a wear and tear on these guys that are starting off slow?
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You know, Shady, I'll start with you.
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Oh, 100%.
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1100%.
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As a guy, I'll say this.
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This will be an unpopular take, and I'd love it if any professionals wanna chime in on this
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because I never I don't know anything at that level.
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But I can tell you that when they take you out of the format you're used to and be in the MLB,
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that's about the same format, but this was the World Baseball Classic.
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So everyone on the USA team had their strict schedule.
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You can't do more than this.
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You can't do less than this.
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Because you had to be in shape coming in, but you couldn't do too much to where you're
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injured because, like,
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look at the way you're
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everybody on the braids is injured.
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So I don't know.
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I think it affected more of
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Stady, for the casual fan real quick, can you just explain the World Baseball Classic and
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kind of explain Sure.
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How it how it's different?
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I know it's kind of a part of spring training.
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Right?
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It's in that time period, but this is competitive baseball for these guys.
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Oh, it's very yeah.
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They're very competitive.
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So, basically, every nation that has a program, which would be, I assume, pretty much quite a
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couple of them, probably over 50 or 60.
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So they'll weed it down out of the tiers.
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So there'll be, like, The Netherlands and some other people that are still hit heavy hitters,
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but you just don't think about them.
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The Netherlands would include people like Andrew Jones, Ozzy Alves.
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I'm trying to think of some other people that were pitchers, like, maybe in I can't remember.
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But, anyways, like, The Netherlands was part of Curacao, Jerks and Profar, Javascope.
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But, like, some of these smaller nations that are really tiny will have really good teams
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like Venezuela and stuff like that.
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So when they break them up, they're broke up a part of, and you can claim different
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territories and stuff like that too.
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Like, Austin Wells was playing for The Netherlands or somebody like that.
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But, yeah, they'll break it down.
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I think the I don't know how many teams were in it, but I think the format's, like, basically
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20 some teams, and then they'll do pool play, and then it'll break down into brackets.
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Yeah.
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It's like it's like the Olympics on the side, you know, or soccer playoffs where they set up
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with all these teams.
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They play down, and then, you know, and then they get the championship game.
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And, you know, which one's a which one's a good one?
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I mean, you know
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But where some of these guys have been playing for, you know, a decade Mhmm.
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That are now a part of this competitive stretch where you're expected to perform at a high
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level, the highest of levels in the beginning of the season where most guys would have a very
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slow ramp up.
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Right?
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You're preparing for a 162 game season that last seven months essentially.
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Right?
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Especially if you're dipping into the playoffs.
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So you're you're kind of getting out there and pushing your body like it's at midseason form,
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but you're doing it in, like, week three of practice.
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Yeah.
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With with playoff adrenaline.
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Yep.
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Yeah.
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Every game matters.
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I mean, heard all the interviews and, you know, how the you know, everybody loves wearing the
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colors for their country.
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Some said it means a lot more than, you know, aka their team colors, but, you know Think
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about
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Logan Webb.
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Logan Webb took the mound, and for his entire MLB career, he's never thrown a ball over 98
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miles an hour.
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Yeah.
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I think he was topping out at a 101.
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Yeah.
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It's
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like, hold on.
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Woah, buddy.
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Yeah.
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That in general does get a flowing, but so yeah.
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So, yeah, that's the baseball classic.
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And I know you guys didn't win it, but who ended up winning?
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Venezuela.
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Venezuela.
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Right?
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Yeah.
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Yeah.
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Know.
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And all them.
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Yeah.
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Yeah.
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So yeah.
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So Aaron Jones starts off slow.
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You know, Kyle Riley started off slow, but
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Andrew Riggsman.
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Andrew Riggsman.
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Riggsman hit two home runs today.
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Yeah.
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Oh, he come around.
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Yeah.
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Give it up
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for Roger.
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They lost six or three, but he hit he hit two home runs.
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He's Aaron Rodgers.
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Like I said, it's so early.
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And especially for teams that are still I mean, like, it's been a really bad winter in New York
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City.
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So I don't know if the Yankees were at home starting out their season.
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They started out away all week.
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Yep.
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Right.
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Well and that's what the Cubs usually do.
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Was really
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surprised by the And that's what I think a lot of Northern teams, Midwestern should do is
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start off south, unless you have a dome, you know, because we never know what it's gonna be
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like here.
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Twins were in Baltimore.
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Right?
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Yeah.
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Twins were in Baltimore this week to start off, and then I think they're off tomorrow.
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They play the Royals, so they go they come back up.
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So might be a little chilly one up there.
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So their home opener is this week?
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Their home opener is oh, let's see here.
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Let's see.
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Twin schedule.
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You think I would know?
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I think I think it's I think it's on Wednesday,
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April.
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What's their stadium like?
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Blue Jay.
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Their home home it was the thirteenth against the Red Sox.
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Oh, that can't be great.
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No.
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Rose Rose Twins.
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They opened up with the Rays on the third Friday.
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Their stadium, it's nice.
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I mean, it's definitely you can walk around and still see the game as you're walking around.
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They're not a bad seat in the place.
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No.
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It's it's nice, man.
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We we were on the concourse.
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We had outfield bleacher seats in the left field power alley right against the bullpen.
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Yeah.
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It's Yeah.
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You see the sky you see downtown from your seats, and I wish they would've put a I mean, I
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wish they would've put a retractable dome on there or a roof on there because, you know, it
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can get cold up here.
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But I did go to the second game of the target field opener, and it started sprinkling.
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Nobody moved.
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Everybody started cheering because they're out there.
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It's pretty good.
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It was a nice day.
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So but, yeah, there it's nice stadium.
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Definitely, if you're in town, Shady, we're about to hook up and go catch the game.
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I got plans dream plans of, like, a trip to all the cool stadiums.
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You gotta go to Dodgers.
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You gotta go to Wrigley.
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I gotta get to Wrigley.
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That is a bucket list of mine.
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I used to wanna get to KC when it was when they had the waterfall and stuff since they've taken
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them out and talking about rebuilding.
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I'm just like, yeah.
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If I get there, I get there.
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But Have
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y'all heard anything about the Brave Stadium?
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Do y'all know anything about it?
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Uh-uh.
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Not not the old one.
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This one.
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The one true
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is The new one?
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No.
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See, this is what I don't understand because, like, that's why I asked with Ministoga because
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they used to have the dome.
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And, like, my old habit was playing Twitch, I played baseball and Twitch all the time.
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I love playing at the Twins' old stadium because the lefty, Joe Mauer, you know,
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Morneau, any of them guys, they put it out there in the seats.
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But, anyway, they don't, like, glorify, like, these stadiums like we did, like, growing up,
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man, like Fenway and Yankee Stadiums, the house
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the
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roof built and all this stuff.
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Sorry, kids.
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My son-in-law moment here.
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But if you go to Truist if you go to Truist, they went out to East Cobb.
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They said Atlanta's getting too packed.
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I think this is what Ted Turner was thinking.
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He's just old.
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He was like, oh, it's too packed in Atlanta.
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Get out of here.
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He went out to East Cobb and bought so much land and built a circus and put a baseball
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field in the middle of it.
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You don't even park at this place.
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You take trains into this place like it's Disney.
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Really?
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Yes.
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But I'm not playing.
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You have to cross bridges to get into this place.
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And then when you like, even if you're really, you know, at the cheapest seat in the house,
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you're in the outfield.
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You can zipline back to that sedge platform.
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You can zipline across the stadium, across the park, back to your car.
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No way.
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I swear on everything from Oh, no.
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If you do this
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if you do that, you may miss a chance for TI, Eric Church.
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One of these guys might just be parked outside because this thing takes up eight blocks.
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There's a
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movie there.
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There's a movie theater.
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There's shopping restaurants, a Hilton hotel, an outdoor pool that's over the center field
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wall.
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And this is all just behind the stadium.
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Yeah.
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They should really add another camera up here that shows this thing.
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Yeah.
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Oh, we're gonna have to see if we could surprise a video on that.
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But Yeah.
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I'm looking it up right now.
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It's Universal Studios.
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So yeah.
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They they're, you know, always had nicknames for stadiums like you said, you know, the house
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that Ruth built, you know, Fenway Park, you know, and and stuff like that.
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You know, sometimes the basics there are just enough.
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I mean, some sometimes you get just a little bit too fancy, and it's just gonna cost the
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people more to go.
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I know we're big ball guys, and I know I've talked about it on my other shows with c two c.
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What's your guys' thoughts on the analytics part of the game?
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The extra runner and the extra innings.
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Shady, what's your thoughts?
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With the extra what?
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An extra innings?
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The the extra the growth runner on second, they call it, the analytics plays.
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I hate it.
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I mean, just because, it's trying to speed up the game.
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I understand baseball is slow and everything, but just throwing a gallon second base.
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Last out goes to second base.
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Alright.
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Like, hold on a minute.
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Now now we're gonna start, like, telling people to stop running the bases that don't wanna do
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it, you know, because they hit home runs.
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I mean, I get it.
21:03
The ABS system, on the other hand, as a pitcher, I kinda like it because there was tons
21:10
of calls that I wanted overturned, but at the same time
21:14
At least wanted a second look.
21:15
Right?
21:16
A second opinion.
21:17
I don't know if I've got, like, a South Park opinion, but, like, I feel like the umpires
21:21
are,
21:21
they took our jobs.
21:26
Bubba, what's your thought?
21:27
What's your thought?
21:29
Yeah.
21:30
I really wasn't following everything coming in, so I I was a little surprised.
21:34
I don't even know all the challenge rules the challenges that they've had for a couple of
21:39
seasons either, and they're probably always changing.
21:41
I don't follow the game close enough to keep up with a lot of this stuff, but I I think it was
21:47
inevitable.
21:48
Right?
21:48
As technology gets better and better, I mean and exactly what kinda Shady just alluded to,
21:54
like, it's only a matter of time before it's it's just the machines doing it.
21:59
It's just the cameras capturing it.
22:01
There are no umpires on the field.
22:03
And, eventually, it's, you know, it's Futurama, and it's that crazy game they play in there.
22:08
Right?
22:09
Like Right.
22:10
It's
22:11
Well, I mean football or whatever.
22:13
It'll you know?
22:14
Yeah.
22:14
The analytics and the challenges I mean, get the call right.
22:18
You know?
22:18
Okay.
22:18
I can I can understand wanting to do that?
22:22
I mean, because face it, you know, if we look at Twins history, Ron Gang getting pulled off
22:28
the sec first base probably gets overturned, and that changes the world series.
22:32
Joe Bauer had a blue double that got called back against, I think, Oakland right on the
22:39
foul line.
22:40
They called it foul, and it was fair.
22:42
So, I mean, there's moments there, but the runner at second base, for me, it's one of
22:48
those where I I wish they wouldn't do it right away, but if the game got later to, like, the
22:55
thirteenth, fourteenth inning, then possibly let's throw it out there.
22:59
But, I mean
23:00
Well, really came down to it wasn't even time.
23:03
It was wear and tear on your team.
23:05
Yeah.
23:06
Right?
23:06
When you're pulling you know?
23:07
And for the Cubs, you know, years ago, Anthony Rizzo would always come on it.
23:12
You know?
23:12
It's the thirteenth inning, and Rizz is out there throwing 40 mile an hour shady lollipops,
23:18
throwing BP.
23:19
Right?
23:20
And
23:21
top, man.
23:22
That's it.
23:23
Hey.
23:24
I promise you I can make it move.
23:26
That I understand.
23:31
Because at the end of the day, we and I think everyone here is is very aware of it, but other
23:36
fans need to be as well and especially, you know, purists of the game that this is a
23:41
business.
23:42
Yep.
23:42
These are billion dollar companies.
23:44
These are tens of millions of dollar athletes.
23:48
Somebody going out and throwing out an arm in the seventeenth inning of a game that everybody
23:55
in the stands has left, you know, it it just doesn't make a lot of sense.
23:59
And it's no different than football.
24:00
I mean, look at the the overtime football rules in the regular season and what you're kinda
24:06
doing in there to just try and get a decision.
24:09
Right?
24:09
So I don't really have a problem with it.
24:11
It's definitely weird to see it.
24:14
I think, like, the implementation of it even as we get more used to it.
24:19
But five more years go by, and it's just the way that it's always been, and you don't even
24:24
realize it.
24:24
So I feel like things like this are they're always a shock to the system when it's brand
24:29
new, and then everybody gets used to it.
24:32
And these leagues have gone through enough big changes like this that they're not afraid of
24:36
those moments maybe like they were twenty years ago.
24:40
I mean, there was a time when instant replay wasn't a part of sports at all.
24:44
No.
24:44
Right?
24:45
And that's even hard to, like, remember.
24:47
You would get them on the broadcast, but they wouldn't be using them in in the game and and
24:52
on the field.
24:53
So you know?
24:53
And that was another thing that people, you know, the challenges and all the things or were
24:58
screaming for, but it I think it's made the game more fair in a lot of ways.
25:06
And
25:07
yeah.
25:08
Yeah.
25:09
Yeah.
25:10
Just looking at the night's game, by the way.
25:13
Hello, Danielle.
25:15
Four nothing in Seattle, end of four.
25:17
So looks like Donovan went deep for a three run shot maybe.
25:24
Kyle Riley's over two, but, you know, they're we we're not gonna talk about what they're
25:29
doing because we never talked about it because we won't jinx it.
25:32
But so moving on.
25:37
You know, you guys talk about kind of the money aspect of things and changing and does baseball
25:44
need a salary cap?
25:46
Shady?
25:48
Oh, man.
25:48
I'm a say this for everybody on YouTube that does or anybody that does baseball content.
25:55
The lockout is coming, boys.
25:57
Our chances are still alive.
26:00
Yes.
26:02
I don't know, man.
26:03
I studied sport management.
26:05
So, like, I studied the Sherman antitrust law, like, where it all even, like, really started
26:10
between, like, having to pay people differently.
26:12
Like, Ruth Ruth really started the whole thing.
26:15
I was like, hey.
26:16
We gotta pay this guy something different.
26:18
He's doing more than anybody else.
26:19
Nope.
26:20
But now here we are, and you kinda gotta have a hard argument because in doing sport
26:27
management, I also got to see how much the guys in the Premier League make.
26:31
Yep.
26:33
So if we think people are making money, that league don't even equal Neymar's contract.
26:40
Yeah.
26:41
So That's crazy, the money that's in, this football.
26:46
Right?
26:47
But, also, none of those I've never seen a a a football, you know, soccer stadium empty.
26:53
Right?
26:53
Like, they sell out every single weekend.
26:56
That's the coolest thing I've ever heard.
26:58
They actually are sold out generationally.
27:01
If you die, they call your kid.
27:04
If they don't pick up, they call the next of kin.
27:08
I that's in 02 Arena in London.
27:11
They do that.
27:13
You're telling me that Bank of America's doing that?
27:15
Hey, David Tepper.
27:16
I'm talking to you.
27:19
Yeah.
27:19
No.
27:20
Talking about the zip line and the say, so I found a video, and I'm gonna roll this.
27:23
And it's
27:24
got a
27:24
toy wire and them, but I wanna bring this onto the stage, and we're just I gotta see it, man.
27:30
I told you it was real.
27:35
Oh, man.
27:35
This the news.
27:36
Yeah.
27:37
Friend Sarah.
27:37
And you may say, what's going on?
27:38
I'm strapped in, to a zipline, but we gotta talk about some of the other things going on
27:43
here at this stadium.
27:44
They have games, like an amusement park.
27:46
They have a rock climbing
27:47
wall.
27:47
This place is
27:48
incredible because they have to figure out how to get fans out of their couches and and out in
27:52
front of their 60 inch plasma screen and here to the ballpark.
27:55
So one of the coolest things, Sarah, this is the first ever and only zipline in a pro sports
28:01
stadium Yeah.
28:02
And we're about to try it out.
28:03
I'm with my friend Meredith, and she has challenged me to a race down the zipline.
28:07
Her grandfather, Ron, is watching at home, so you better bring it because you know what
28:11
happens if you lose And
28:12
this is the whole outfield wall they're about to go down.
28:15
We're gonna see you in a little bit.
28:16
Wish me luck, guys.
28:17
Here we go.
28:17
In three, two, wait.
28:18
Oh, wait.
28:19
One.
28:19
Go.
28:21
All
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the way down right there.
28:25
Good stuff, Koi.
28:26
Makes me a little Wow.
28:30
So I grew up close to Sturgis Motorcycle Rally and famously the Buffalo Chip Campground, and
28:40
that's what they do.
28:41
Right?
28:41
It's all bikes, but it's a circus.
28:43
There's a zipline, and there's freaking carnival games and and all kinds of crazy
28:47
stuff.
28:48
So but, I mean, this is this is where the the stadium experience is going.
28:54
You know?
28:55
When you got your kids out there and you're bringing your, you know, young kids, like, you
28:59
gotta have something to engage all of these people when they're coming out.
29:03
And, obviously, that means you get to charge more for your tickets because you're providing
29:07
an experience, not just the game.
29:10
I think you're gonna see more and more stuff like this.
29:13
And you really I mean, you are.
29:16
You you are seeing it around it, and I think baseball lends itself to more fun stuff like
29:22
this more than football because you kinda have to pay attention to football a a little bit
29:27
more.
29:28
Right?
29:28
It's a different it's a different experience.
29:31
Well, and I
29:31
and I think too that thinking about it, Toronto, when they built the Skydome, whatever
29:38
it's called now, they had a Hard Rock Cafe out there.
29:41
So, I mean, it was kind of like, hey, let's go out and eat and, you know, probably had to buy
29:46
the ticket, but we got to watch a game while you're playing.
29:49
I know when they're talking about, you know, building the new Twin Stadium, there was some
29:55
rumblings that, hey.
29:56
How about we get rid of Camp Snoopy, and let's put the baseball stadium there around the ball
30:00
and make it you know, so they're talking about that and which would have been a kind of a cool
30:06
idea.
30:06
But, yeah, it'd be kinda cool to go out to Atlanta and, you know, see what the prices are
30:10
and, you know, kind of see what's going on around there.
30:14
And it cannot be expensive to fly from Minnesota to Atlanta.
30:17
Those are two of the biggest hubs in the country.
30:19
So and vice versa for you, Shady.
30:22
So I think we make a couple of games happen this year on the show and everybody getting
30:28
together.
30:28
We'll shoot some content in the stadium and to do our own little tours.
30:33
Right?
30:33
If a Bleacher Report can get access, well, so can SPSN.
30:38
That's right.
30:39
Yeah.
30:39
That is right.
30:40
So another topic that always comes up, you know, especially with, know, new people getting
30:46
around.
30:49
Barry Bonds, Pete Rose, should they be in the hall of fame?
30:52
Should they not be?
30:54
Bubba, I'll start with you.
30:55
What do you what do you think?
30:56
We are think we should juice them all up and see what happens.
30:59
That's my own personal appear you know, opinion.
31:03
Well, what the thing is is everybody has seen it, Shady, you could probably 100% agree with
31:08
this.
31:09
Everybody said the hardest thing the hardest thing to do is hit a fastball.
31:12
Yeah.
31:13
Yeah.
31:14
It
31:14
doesn't matter how big you are.
31:15
You know?
31:16
Like, you still
31:17
have to have the hand eye coordination.
31:19
Being a little bit faster definitely helps that.
31:22
But, you know, you're talking about somebody who wasn't he wasn't using them in the prime of
31:28
his career.
31:29
Nope.
31:30
He was using them to extend the career that he had.
31:33
I mean, he wasn't in the greatest shape ever, but you're talking about a man who grew up in
31:38
the league.
31:39
He'd been playing.
31:40
Right?
31:41
Wasn't he, like, 17 when he came into the league too?
31:43
Yeah.
31:44
He was pretty young.
31:45
Yeah.
31:45
Super young.
31:46
Right?
31:47
So you talk about someone who's seen more pitches than maybe anybody on the planet up to
31:52
that point.
31:53
Well and look who's not bothering us.
31:56
I mean
31:57
Right.
31:57
Bobby.
31:58
Now was
31:58
gonna be whacking them out, you know, a 100 yards into the bay, you know, without a little
32:05
help?
32:07
We'll never know.
32:08
The world will never know.
32:09
But that's that's what I know.
32:10
Where
32:12
every pitch is a paycheck, and you know other guys are doing it.
32:16
That's that's a tough time, man.
32:18
That's a tough time to be a ball player when you know everybody's doing something that's in
32:23
a gray area.
32:24
How do you not?
32:25
And it's it's a shame.
32:27
The Pete Rose thing, Pete get Pete Rose in the damn hall.
32:30
Like, that's ridiculous.
32:31
Gonna be.
32:32
He's gonna be.
32:32
He's on what's called a probation period.
32:35
It's got two more years, and then he'll be inducted in.
32:39
And I I I really wish I'd do those two guys' names that sat down with his daughter.
32:46
I don't know who they are.
32:47
Those two guys are going to hell.
32:49
Like, who goes and sits down with the guy's daughter after he dies and is like, hey.
32:53
Listen.
32:54
Now that he's dead, we can let him in the hall of fame.
32:56
Like, I know that's hard.
32:57
A two year probationary period is probably the best thing for it.
33:00
You know?
33:00
That way everybody gets calmed down.
33:02
I would punch that guy
33:03
in the head.
33:04
Yeah.
33:05
Yeah.
33:05
It's it's not fair.
33:06
Not fair to the man that that gave everything, and now you've seen all the betting scandals
33:11
that have gone on around these other sports leagues since then, and it's it's atrocious.
33:17
It's one of the best that ever played the game.
33:19
And and the thing is is, you know, you vandal, but you still use all his, you know, all his
33:24
footage from the all star game, all his, you know, all what's that?
33:30
They they still idolize the player.
33:32
Yeah.
33:32
Yep.
33:33
Greatest player.
33:34
Me to me, if you wanna if you wanted to put him in as just the all time hits leader and not say
33:40
anything about his managerial career, I'm fine with that.
33:43
And honestly, now that he's passed, I kinda wish the family would just say, no.
33:47
We don't wanna put him in there.
33:48
You know, let him you know, and that's just me.
33:50
I mean, he does belong in there.
33:52
I I do believe, but I I backed the family 100%.
33:56
They said, no.
33:56
We don't wanna put him in.
33:57
You didn't want him in there when was alive.
33:59
You know, we don't want him in now.
34:00
But Barry Mons, I think he should be in the hall of fame.
34:04
I think the guy was on a hall of fame career before the Roy's.
34:08
You know?
34:08
All he did was make him stronger, make him hit fly balls that are probably warning track power
34:14
into the seats and home runs like Bubba said into the bay.
34:17
So
34:19
And what a show.
34:20
That's why I say juice them all up, man.
34:22
That those seasons were electric, man.
34:25
Sosa and Maguire and, like, dude, those were those were awesome times, man.
34:31
Watched brought baseball back with the Sosa.
34:34
And and that and that is what really brought baseball back was the Sosa McGuire home run
34:39
battle because every day when they started getting hot, you're looking at the scoreboard
34:43
and be like, okay.
34:44
What did McGuire do?
34:45
Oh, he did do anything.
34:46
Oh, Sosa hit one, so now he's above him.
34:48
I mean, it was just a battle back and forth and, you know, so, you know, it was definitely
34:55
something to bring back and, I mean, Shady, I know you said it and Bubba, we probably are
35:00
thinking the same thing.
35:01
With the lockout, what's gonna bring baseball back next time?
35:04
I mean, what are they gonna do?
35:05
You know?
35:06
The juice.
35:07
That's what I'm telling you, man.
35:09
Let them all
35:10
You got me dragging one down.
35:13
Barry Bonds.
35:14
Barry Bonds.
35:15
Yes.
35:16
He's gotta be.
35:17
He's gotta be.
35:19
I I mean, not only I mean, Pete Rose is probably arguably the greatest player ever.
35:23
Mickey Mantle, y'all can all throw that out there and everything.
35:26
But that was kind of the argument with Cal Raleigh almost winning the MVP last year Nope.
35:31
Is the fact that he got to 60.
35:34
So I've seen I've seen all this in person.
35:39
I I haven't seen Barry Bonds in person hit the ball in the bay.
35:43
I would really pay to go back in time, but that time machine ain't here.
35:47
I've seen Sammy.
35:48
I've seen Mark, and I've seen other people.
35:50
And I've I've trained with Alan Thomas, who is the strength and conditioning coach with the
35:55
White Sox.
35:58
Can't teach it.
36:00
Can't teach it.
36:01
I've seen some of the greatest athletes.
36:02
I played against Madison.
36:04
I coached Cal.
36:05
I I've never seen what Barry Bonds was doing, and I can't I don't know.
36:09
Go to the go to ends of the earth, and I guarantee you, you won't find
36:12
it.
36:13
Yeah.
36:14
If you wanna punish it, I don't understand.
36:17
That's like the put that put that guy or anybody that don't want Barry Bonds in the Hall
36:22
of Fame, anybody that expelled Simone Biles from the Olympics.
36:25
All y'all just need to get on an island because it don't make no you can't make rules about
36:30
stuff that other people can do.
36:31
It's not fair.
36:32
It's it's not their fault that they're special.
36:36
No.
36:36
I totally agree.
36:37
I totally agree.
36:38
I mean, they definitely need to get in.
36:40
I mean Go.
36:42
You know, Barry Bonds just to me, Barry Bonds was a student of the game.
36:46
I mean, he, you know, watches some documentaries, some interviews that he's, you
36:49
know, they're, like, floating around on the Internet.
36:52
And, you know, he's just still a game.
36:54
He can go back.
36:55
There's one that's talking about him versus Greg Matty.
36:58
And Mattys.
36:59
And he could talk every pitch by pitch on what he was thinking, and, you know, Maddox does the
37:04
same thing.
37:04
I mean, you know
37:06
Got got a real story for you.
37:09
Alright.
37:09
Bubba referenced it earlier, and he said, can you make it move?
37:12
What he's doing is he's making a joke at me when the braves actually sent a scout sent a
37:17
scout to actually talk to me, and they said, hey, mister Grady.
37:20
Can you make it they didn't call me mister.
37:22
They said, hey, bitch.
37:24
Hey.
37:24
Can you
37:24
make it move?
37:26
And I said, yeah.
37:27
I can.
37:28
But I couldn't.
37:29
So I lied to him, but after one pitch, he went walking back up.
37:32
But I got lucky with the people I got surrounded by, like, as I played.
37:37
I never got to, like, play in the pros, but I was really lucky everybody I was surrounded by.
37:42
One guy at it was a weeklong showcase of, like, I guess, really the best kids coming up in the
37:48
South.
37:49
Like, USA had their thing.
37:51
Like, team USA did the junior thing, and that's where the main players were.
37:55
But, like, then you had, like, little sub ones.
37:58
This one was for the Southeast Region.
38:00
And Greg Maddock's pitching coach was down there.
38:03
And I remember he told us a story one day about him and Javi Lopez down there.
38:09
And he said that they were betting Greg money.
38:12
John and Tom were betting Greg money how many he could put in the mitt that they were gonna
38:17
blindfold Hobby.
38:18
And every like, the coaches came in about that time, and they were like, you're about to do
38:21
what?
38:22
Like, no.
38:22
You're not.
38:23
You're not
38:23
doing this to our main catcher.
38:25
So Eddie I think they let Eddie do it.
38:28
So Eddie got the blindfold, put it on, and Greg proceeded.
38:31
The pitching coach stood next to Eddie and told Eddie when to close the glove.
38:35
Greg proceeded to hit nine out of 10 in the glove.
38:39
Said the first one, Eddie closed the mitt too soon.
38:42
And he hit never hit Eddie once.
38:46
And I'm like, that's a different level, man.
38:50
Well, that is a different level because, I mean, I saw they they're talking to Maddox
38:55
about or no.
38:57
I think it was Javi, a matter of fact.
38:58
They're talking to the catcher about the pitch call.
39:01
He's like, Greg Maddox called his own pitches.
39:03
I didn't lay one finger down.
39:05
You know, he just gave me the signal, and I put my glove there, and that's where it was.
39:10
So
39:10
Different.
39:11
Different.
39:12
You know?
39:12
I would I would I honestly do wish the Braves pitching staff that they have with Maddox and
39:17
Smoltz and Glavine were able to win a a lot more than what they did.
39:22
I mean, they that that trio is my top three.
39:26
Oh, yeah.
39:27
Arguably, the best trio of pitching around.
39:30
Yeah.
39:31
Yeah.
39:32
Well, those teams, man.
39:34
But it just shows you how difficult the the baseball season is Mhmm.
39:40
Which really makes it one of the greatest professional sports that we have to stay locked
39:45
in mentally for a hundred and sixty two games and to go out there and to give everything and
39:53
then to that's just to get into the playoffs and have to go and play under that pressure.
39:58
Stadium's full of people.
39:59
And like I said at the top of the show, that it comes down to one man against another man and
40:05
and and maybe another one in the field making making a play.
40:09
Like, I just I I love that.
40:10
Yes.
40:11
It's a team sport, but it takes exceptional individual talent to bring it all together.
40:17
So it just shows you, you know, how great the game is.
40:21
Well, yeah.
40:21
I mean, it it's a two sport, but yet it's still kinda one on one because you got a pitcher in
40:27
the batter, and pitcher's trying to get the batter out.
40:30
The batter's trying to, you know, do what he can to help his team get some rounds, get on
40:35
base, and stuff like that.
40:36
So, yeah, it's a combination of one on one plus the ability of a a team aspect because you
40:43
know?
40:43
So
40:44
I forgot.
40:45
We hadn't said anything about Paul Skeens yet.
40:47
We can't be a baseball show and not talk about poor Paul Skeens.
40:51
What do y'all think is gonna happen with the entire season?
40:53
Did y'all see the first outing he has?
40:56
Two two two and a third innings and four or five runs.
41:00
ERA six
41:01
even know if he made it that long.
41:03
No.
41:03
He did.
41:04
He did.
41:04
Because Yeah.
41:05
I had a buddy text me.
41:07
He goes, oh, Paul's got shelled.
41:09
I'm just like, what?
41:10
And
41:11
Yeah.
41:12
He didn't really get shelled, but O'Neil definitely did not help him.
41:15
Yeah.
41:15
Yeah.
41:16
They they're saying everybody's saying that O'Neil dropped a couple easy ones.
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Yeah.
41:22
He went two thirds, four hits, five runs, two walks, a strikeout, 37 pitches, and a 6.5 yard.
41:33
Bubba, you've
41:33
worked a lot.
41:36
Yeah.
41:36
They look pretty they look pretty easy, but, you know, again
41:39
Pittsburgh, or did he get traded last year?
41:41
Nope.
41:42
Nope.
41:42
He's still in Pittsburgh.
41:43
Well, yeah,
41:45
Didn't get any help either.
41:47
Yeah.
41:47
That's his problem.
41:49
Place for a terrible organization.
41:51
Yeah.
41:51
Yeah.
41:52
And and, again, money comes through.
41:55
35 I you sure.
41:56
You could've left him in there, but why?
41:59
No.
41:59
They got him.
41:59
Why?
42:00
Well, and let's I'm sorry.
42:01
Why would
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you leave your best player, the only guy that's selling tickets, and leave him out there to do
42:08
it?
42:08
Right.
42:08
He'll be fine, man.
42:09
Guy's a great pitcher.
42:10
Well, and that's why I talk about analytics because, you know, in the eighties or '78,
42:16
nineties, you know, your starter had to go six, seven innings before you got to the bullpen.
42:21
Now it's, oh, can we get it through five?
42:24
You know?
42:25
The guy's throwing a one hitter through five has 70 pitches.
42:29
We need to pull them, and it's just like, god.
42:32
Let them go.
42:33
Let them you know, let let's take the, you know, rope up and just let this guy go.
42:37
I mean, the twins did that the opening day.
42:40
Ryan, I think, pitched five in the third.
42:42
Couple hits had a shutout going, looking fine, and, you know, then, of course, they pull them
42:47
and, you know, and it all fell apart.
42:50
Yeah.
42:51
Yeah.
42:51
Well, you know, I I think there's there's two things, especially early in the season.
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You have
42:58
a lot of I get the early in the season talk, but, again, they're professionals.
43:03
Let them you know?
43:06
I mean, preseason, you know, it used to be okay.
43:09
The first couple games, yeah, the pitcher threw an inning.
43:12
The hitters all got one at bat.
43:14
Now it's like that through the whole preseason.
43:15
I don't think anybody I mean, you might get a pitcher to pitch a couple of it, but, you know,
43:20
all everybody's thinking, like, one at bat here and there throughout the game, and, you know,
43:25
it's not like how it used to be.
43:26
I mean, everything changes.
43:29
Yeah.
43:30
I'll agree.
43:31
I'll agree, like, I don't know, like, 50%.
43:36
One, it depends on who the heck is coach you gotta realize, like, even from college.
43:42
Like, college, we did that system pretty much everywhere because you only, I mean, you only
43:50
get five to seven.
43:51
If you're a weekend starter, you might get that little bit extra if you're a senior.
43:55
But, really, it's it's Johnny Holstaff.
43:58
And just the amount of info that goes into it, the amount of people that go into it.
44:05
Like, the room I was in junior college, and the amount of pictures we had the first day was 72.
44:11
Wow.
44:12
And you gotta weed that down to 25.
44:16
So it's like, do we even know each other?
44:21
Yeah.
44:22
Well and I think so much of coaching, was just in a feel.
44:25
Right?
44:26
You know, some of the old movies, you know, give me one more coach.
44:29
Give me one
44:30
more.
44:31
Yep.
44:32
And, you know, guy you're you're just going off of, you know, watching him.
44:38
Now you have all the analytics to say, look, man.
44:40
That ball that ball ain't moving like it did.
44:43
He's lost two miles an hour off the fastball.
44:45
He's cooked.
44:46
Oh, yeah.
44:47
And and
44:47
the other half of that is, you know, I I think trying to maybe get a little bit more out of
44:53
these players, not just over the course of the season, but over the course of a career.
44:58
I don't know what kind of language is being put in some of these contracts either about things
45:04
because guys wanna play as long as they can.
45:06
Right?
45:06
That's their livelihood.
45:08
So maybe they're not willing to go and to throw that extra inning knowing that it might lead to
45:13
an early Tommy John surgery.
45:15
Right?
45:15
It it may lead to or an early shoulder surgery.
45:18
So and because it's not just the teams and the coaches that are looking at the analytics, it's
45:23
the players as well.
45:24
And now we're able to look at not just the, you know, speed and spin and all that, but you can
45:30
I mean, we have technology to look at the biomechanics and to say, hey?
45:34
You're dip you're dipping here.
45:36
You're gonna cause an injury because of this.
45:38
Right?
45:38
So, yeah, there there's a lot that that goes into it now.
45:42
And think ultimately, I mean, it makes the it makes the game better.
45:47
It doesn't make it more pure, if that makes sense.
45:51
Right?
45:52
Like, doesn't take it back to the the twenties.
45:55
Right?
45:55
It it's you were never gonna get back to that level.
45:58
No.
45:58
But I think it makes for a better product across the board.
46:01
That's why I said You
46:03
can get that pure.
46:05
You just gotta go to that.
46:07
Yeah.
46:08
The
46:09
little series is the only thing that's that pure.
46:11
Yeah.
46:12
And and the thing is is yeah.
46:13
I mean, that's why the seven no hitters, Noah O'Reilly Ryan through the all the complete
46:19
games.
46:20
I mean, those those records aren't gonna be broken.
46:24
And and I gotta say, I might not be a big Dodgers fan like I was in the eighties with
46:28
Hersheiser and Venezuela and all that.
46:30
But Yodamoto, when he came and said that, yeah, I'm pitching to the World Series if if needed.
46:36
He was ready to go, and they brought him in.
46:39
I mean Oh, yeah.
46:39
He's a psycho.
46:41
Yeah.
46:41
I gotta I gotta say, give him respect.
46:44
And, you know, and and go back to, you know, Jack Morris, you know, game seven.
46:49
You knew he wasn't coming out anytime soon with how close that game was.
46:53
The talent level across the board is leaps and bounds Oh, yeah.
46:58
Better than the years past.
47:01
I don't know that you have better.
47:03
The standout players are better, but the floor has been raised to such an exorbitant level
47:10
than it was even in, I would say, the eighties.
47:13
I mean, how many of these guys were ripping darts like Grady and slamming a beer in the
47:18
dugout, you know, coming back out maybe a little, you know, in
47:23
the back of
47:24
the field.
47:24
Like right?
47:25
Come on.
47:25
We we've all seen the dance at this point and the what the bulls were doing before Jordan got
47:31
there.
47:32
So, I mean, I I think some of these activities pretty ubiquitous.
47:36
Oh, yeah.
47:37
I mean, it's it's definitely it changed the game.
47:40
Still the same game.
47:42
I mean, the players definitely are a lot better.
47:44
This is probably the one sport where I would probably take current players over old school
47:49
players in a seven game series, you know, because it'd be bigger and better.
47:55
It it'd be tough.
47:56
No.
47:58
I mean, I'm with you.
47:58
I want the new players too, but y'all you both of y'all guys have said it.
48:03
But big b, you said it first, but I'm a say it differently.
48:07
Hitting and pitching.
48:08
Hitting is all about timing.
48:10
Pitching is about messing up that timing.
48:12
Yep.
48:13
And you just said it with the other one.
48:15
Like, really, it's it all comes down to that.
48:18
And it's I can't remember really where I was going with that.
48:22
I was too busy to not light that cigarette.
48:24
Sorry
48:24
about that.
48:26
No.
48:27
But it it it is.
48:28
I mean, hitting is they're all about timing, and everybody says it.
48:32
You know, his time is a little off this week, you know, and and that's why they probably take
48:36
a little break here a couple of days, you know, just to get back in there.
48:40
And pitching is there to, you know, definitely mess up the time because if somebody's got a
48:45
good curveball, good seeker, good knuckleball, and starts throwing fastballs, I mean and then
48:51
throws that off speed stuff.
48:52
I mean, we've seen hitters look really ridiculous on the the bad swings.
48:58
Well, they've just been that's what I was gonna say.
49:00
They've been cutting down the mistakes.
49:02
Baseball is a game of mistakes.
49:05
Three out of 10, you're a Hall of Famer, so the less mistakes you make.
49:08
And they've they've been figuring out backspin and all this.
49:10
They're looking at analytics completely different.
49:11
So look for look for some raw based Dominican who goes really hard.
49:17
Mhmm.
49:18
Netherlands, Venezuelan, Puerto Rico, Dominic.
49:24
I don't know where in the
49:25
next coming over from Japan and stuff every year.
49:28
You know?
49:28
I mean guys are super strict.
49:31
Yeah.
49:31
Trust me.
49:32
Japan does not play around.
49:34
From 12 years old, no family.
49:38
No.
49:38
You don't get to see your family.
49:39
Did you win or lose?
49:41
You lost.
49:41
No family this week.
49:43
Well, we saw it in mister Baseball, how strict they were and stuff like that.
49:48
It probably got worse.
49:49
I mean
49:49
I'm telling you.
49:51
But so but Yeah.
49:55
Be special segments for the show or plans for stuff like that?
50:02
Obviously, we'll touch on standings as we get further into the season.
50:07
I don't think any of it matters right now.
50:08
I know the Cubs lost their first series of the year to the nationals.
50:13
They're one and two, but in a 162 game season.
50:20
Yeah.
50:20
So, I mean yeah.
50:22
I mean, everybody's you know you know, you got the Dodgers, the Brewers, Marlins, Yankees,
50:32
trying to all battle it for an unbeatable season right now, standing three and all.
50:37
I know a lot of Yankee fans think that's gonna happen, but it's not.
50:41
You know?
50:42
But yeah.
50:44
Oh, yeah.
50:45
No.
50:46
You know, maybe next week we give our little, you know, year predictions after we see the
50:52
baseball a little bit.
50:53
I mean I mean, even money I mean, everybody's probably saying the Dodgers are gonna do it
50:58
because all they did was reload, you know, and stuff like that.
51:03
Yankees, you know, so maybe we
51:05
My prediction is we don't make it through the season.
51:08
That's why players go on strike.
51:10
There we go.
51:12
Dude, if that happens, man, yeah, if that happens, they're gonna have to really think
51:15
about something to really get the baseball players back.
51:20
I mean, you know, I mean
51:22
I was gonna say, I'll make I'll make a prediction.
51:23
I'll make a prediction.
51:24
Alright.
51:25
Go ahead.
51:26
I'll make a prediction for Gold Glove.
51:29
Okay.
51:30
We're going with Alec Thomas, Arizona Diamondbacks.
51:34
He's getting a start this year.
51:36
I bet he wins a Gold Glove in his first year.
51:39
Oh, that'd be something.
51:41
I would love some yeah.
51:43
We'll get some betting in here.
51:44
B, you work at a casino, don't you?
51:47
I do, but we
51:47
do not have legal betting.
51:49
Oh, that's you're like the only casino on the planet right now.
51:53
Every every casino around Minnesota has legalized betting.
51:58
You know?
51:58
So but no.
52:00
Where I work at, we we have a plan in place.
52:03
Once that sucker goes live, then we could bet it.
52:07
It'll probably be in our casino the next day.
52:10
So Perfect.
52:11
Have the have the marketing team get a hold
52:13
of me.
52:14
Okay.
52:16
It's Shaney Vince.
52:17
I'm telling you, we already got the segments built.
52:21
Yeah.
52:21
No.
52:22
But no.
52:22
I'm I'm excited.
52:23
This was, you know, our opening day for July.
52:28
Can't wait to see what the other, you know, hand handful of weeks goes.
52:33
Where the show goes and who we could have on.
52:36
I mean, you know, Shady, always welcome.
52:39
I know, you know, we'll be reaching out to a lot of other people to try to get them on.
52:43
So Yeah.
52:45
Yeah.
52:45
I mean, just an excuse to talk, Paul.
52:47
That's all it is.
52:48
We're not gonna get too specific with the teams.
52:51
Obviously, we'll talk about, you know, top stories in the MLB.
52:55
We're gonna cover a little bit of our three favorite teams.
52:57
Shady, if you're gonna be in all the time, obviously, we're gonna talk braves.
53:00
We're gonna
53:01
talk cubs.
53:01
We're gonna talk twins and things that are going on with those teams.
53:06
And I think just you have an excuse to to talk ball every week for me is really a blessing.
53:13
It gives me a reason to kinda tune in to the MLB during the entire season.
53:18
We don't get a lot of games out here.
53:20
I don't pay for ESPN or any of those things really.
53:23
So but I follow along enough to to stay in it.
53:27
And, really, I mean, things don't start heating up until July.
53:30
So
53:31
Yeah.
53:31
July, around the around the all star break.
53:34
You know?
53:35
Boys, just wait wait till you see how I use this new show to get us in these stadiums and
53:40
get some special treatments.
53:41
So that's
53:41
all I'm saying.
53:42
We are I'm all I'm all on the creator
53:44
of the year for a reason.
53:47
Can't wait to get this show out there.
53:51
Great reason for us to reach out to these stadiums, to reach out to the teams, and to get
53:57
some of these people on the show with us and come in and talk.
54:00
And, you know, if we're willing to bring in some interview segments and this could become,
54:04
you know, a a longer show, obviously, keeping it a little shorter tonight as we get our feet
54:09
under us.
54:09
But
54:09
Yep.
54:10
I I think there's some really great stuff coming from this show, and nice to just dip
54:15
into the the the sports world in all of them.
54:20
And I know we talked about a hockey show, you know, this year.
54:24
I don't know if we'll quite get that off the ground this season.
54:28
If the wild make a deep run, maybe I'll I'll consider something else.
54:33
Well, if the Wild and Wolves make the playoffs, I mean, I I guess we gotta have a show here and
54:37
there.
54:38
I mean, even if it's both together, I mean, you know, so
54:43
Yeah.
54:43
We'll figure something out.
54:45
We're just getting our feet wet here.
54:46
Shady, appreciate you tuning in with us, man.
54:49
Always a pleasure.
54:50
Can't wait to get some golf content out there.
54:53
I know Shady got his skunked golf.
54:56
Hey.
54:56
Thank you.
54:57
Yeah.
54:58
They're great people, man.
54:59
And you know what?
55:01
I know I know b can't get the day off of work for the skunked classic in June.
55:08
Although, did that change because your schedule changed too?
55:12
You said it's a great
55:13
I could try to see, but, yeah, it's gonna be no.
55:18
No.
55:18
It's not because we have a big concert that weekend.
55:21
We have Rock the Island.
55:23
So we got a lot of rock bands coming in, Buck Cherry's headlining, I think.
55:27
So a two day event.
55:29
So, yeah, I will not
55:30
be I'm gonna pick you up in Minneapolis.
55:32
We're gonna hit the concert, and then and then we're gonna drive through the night to get to
55:38
the stunk classic.
55:39
Well, you could just pick up Cody, and he'll do all the driving.
55:42
So, I mean.
55:44
I like where your head's at, b.
55:46
And shady's gonna pop in
55:48
the back and do what kids do in the back of the bus.
55:51
Pass out.
55:52
Yeah.
55:52
No kidding.
55:53
Yeah.
55:55
Yeah.
55:55
Awesome, man.
55:56
Well, b, great idea.
55:59
Appreciate you, cohosting this one and being part of it.
56:03
We'll keep it going.
56:04
Tune in every Sunday at 7PM central time, and check out the seven eight nine baseball show
56:12
for my cohost, Big b, and our special guest, Shady Grady.
56:17
I'm Bubba Starts, and we'll see you next Sunday.
56:20
See you guys.
56:21
Have a good one.