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Luis Arráez Traded · The 3-0 Take

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Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to the Three O Take, where we talk
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Here's Kyle Corwin and Nate Reyes it.
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All starts. Right now, welcome back to the
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This is episode 430. I'll be your host, Kyle Corn,
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and I'm here with my Co host Nate Reyes night.
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We back, we're good. We're good.
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OK, tough start. Here we go.
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All right, we're officially on a streak now, by the way.
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I've made two episodes in a row, so they call that a streak.
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I think maybe. What's the line for Major
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League? You win one.
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We won yesterday. Yeah.
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We won today, we win tomorrow. That's called a winning streak.
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All right, So maybe I need. I need.
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All right, That's fair. That's fine.
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That's cool. It's acceptable.
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May not make it to a third in a row if your Internet keeps
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acting up the way. They expected time.
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No, I don't get it. It's.
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Fine, what do? We pay for, you know what I
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mean? Like what?
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What are we paying for in reality?
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Yeah. What's going on there?
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They expect that monthly payment every month, Yeah, but you know,
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it's fine if if. It's cutting out in the middle
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of important things. Internet just drops out in the
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middle of podcast episode It's fine.
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Hey look we're we're past the month into the season mark but
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wanted to get your take on. I didn't.
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I didn't necessarily tell you I was going to ask you this, kind
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of putting on the spot here, but.
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Sounds about right. What's something around the
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league, A-Team, a player that has piqued your interest a
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little bit, that maybe you're keeping an eye on or maybe
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watching a little bit more of in 2024 than years or seasons past?
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Is there is there a A-Team or a player out there in particular
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that that has moved the needle for you?
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Team wise I you know me like I never really.
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I just have my false hope in my my own team Player wise, I
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there's been a few I've noticed I was actually going to save
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this for the end but I keep seeing like Jung Hu Lee
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defensive highlights and I'm like, I don't think we knew, you
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know, I don't think we were aware of what this guy was
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capable of. Grandson of the wind, I believe
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they called him. It's a sick nickname.
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That's fire. Yeah, that for sure has me, Has
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me going a little bit. Let me think here.
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I would say it a lot of the other names are kind of typical
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like, you know, just like normal names.
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Ellie de la Cruz, like doing what, you know, doing what he's
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doing. It's just anytime you see, like
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when you're scrolling, you see these names, you're like, I have
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to stop and watch. It's kind of that I I feel a
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little bit of that going. I think it's just the normal
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names outside of that man, like the typical household names.
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I think I'm trying to come up with like a like an under the
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radar pick, but I don't really have anything.
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Like everything's just looked looks solid like Mason Miller
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with the A's. Like that's just fun to watch.
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Like that's that's just craziness.
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I think Clay Holmes, you know like as it to be a little bit of
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a Homer here. I feel like Clay Holmes is
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starting to get more attention. I saw like the Brandon Hyde
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interview after one of the games that the Orioles series, and he
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was like, that's just, it's absurd, you know?
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So yeah, it's just baseball, man.
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It just feels good to have it back.
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It's still, I'm still in this weird period because of like the
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wedding and the honeymoon. Like it's still surreal to me
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that, like we're actually in the season.
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And I'm sure a lot of you guys have been like, I'm over that.
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Like, I that faded away a couple weeks ago for me.
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I'm still like, I've had to play catch up from being gone and out
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of the country for a week and then also like all the wedding,
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you know, festivities leading up.
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So I'm still like trying to find.
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I'm still trying to settle in for 2024.
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I mean opening day. Opening Day for you is basically
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like 3 days ago. For I know that's that's legit.
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Like what it was. Yeah.
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That's kind of what we're building off of.
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Yeah, it's a weird year for me. This is just been a weird
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season. Alright with it, it's cool.
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It's been a weird year of baseball.
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So. Every time I look at the
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standings, I'm like, I'm surprised.
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Like, I don't know how this happened for a lot of teams, but
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I'm here for it. I'm cool with.
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It no, it falls right in line. It's it like I said, it's the
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same thing going on with the baseball season right now.
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I feel like we have this conversation every year when
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when is the for you? It doesn't have to be the answer
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for everybody, but for you personally.
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When what? What, at what point of the
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season do we do We get to where we go?
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OK, we can start evaluating these teams, these players,
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these hot streaks, these slumps for what they for what they are.
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Yeah, yeah, I got you. Not that it's like not an
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irreversible point. You know what I mean?
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Like not like they can't recover.
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But I feel like June, like when May ends and June, June starts,
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I'm like I think this is who they're going to be all year and
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they not not like you have your exceptions like you have your
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guys that can have a hot month and kind of battle back or like
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fight back and and some of their stats that they're seeing on the
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big board. But like yeah, I think two
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months because at that point what that's how many a BS is
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that. I mean that's that's like 200,
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yeah, 180 a hundred and 8200. ABS quick math, yeah.
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Yeah, and you know me, like we always should say, they know us
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because we always lean hitters. But like pitchers, you know, if
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you're healthy, that's like you're you're, you know, 1011
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starts in. Yeah, somewhere around that
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range, you know what I mean? I I think that I think that's a
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fair answer and I I think what you were getting at, correct me
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if I'm wrong here, I think what you were trying to hint at was
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it's not that things can change throughout the remainder of the
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season, but the trajectory of their season is kind of set on
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its course. It's either they're either going
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to be trending a little bit upward or trending downward.
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Or you're like fighting to recover from your start.
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Right, right. But at least the direction that
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they're headed, it has been determined and from that point
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you, you see adjustments made throughout the rest of the
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season. But guys, I would, I would
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venture to say two months in the season are going to be a little
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bit more solidified and like award conversations like I think
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and then it comes to mind Tariq Skubal having a great start to a
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year, but I think if he, if he hits June still pitching the way
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he is, OK. Tariq Scooble is going to be a a
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remaining name, a contending name for the Cy Young by season
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10. Situations like that where you
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can look at it and go, OK, they're here for for the long
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run. Yeah, and like potential
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sophomore slumps, like another name, like Corbin Carroll has
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got a lot of people worried right now.
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I'm not worried, worried. I'm a little sweating.
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There's a little, there's a little moisture on the brow.
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Right now. But end of May, beginning of
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June, that's where I'm like I think we're we're we're in the
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middle of it. You know like it's it's it's
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hard to recover from 2 bad months And for me I don't know
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like I think we agree here like March is March is awash like
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March is nothing. I don't even really consider
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Baseball March to count. Three to five games.
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Yeah. Like April and May are where,
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yeah, we get our first taste test, so.
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For the record, I've been well documented.
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Yeah, you believe that April first should?
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Be April first, not a day, not a day earlier that that's all I'll
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say on that matter. Yeah.
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With that said, little over a little over a month in some
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narratives are starting to build.
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Some stores are starting to be created, but I think one story
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that we did not see coming this early in the season was the Luis
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Arayas trade from the Marlins to the Padres.
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At what point do the San Diego Padres stop acquiring middle
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infielders because they're well on their way to acquiring every
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last one? Yeah, a little confused.
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I don't hate it because like when you add that, you know,
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like a a batting title type guy to your to your lineup, it's
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like you can't complain about it.
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But like who's the odd man out here, you know?
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And I was looking up numbers because again, like I'm, I'm
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playing catch up. And I was curious to see because
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like Tyler Wade, you know, former Yankee, like I, you know,
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that name kind of jumps out to me, has had a lot of games.
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He's had a lot of ABS. And then I was like, well,
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what's up with Manny Machado? Manny Machado has barely played
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third base. Like, what is that about?
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Like, how did we go from Manny Machado, best defensive
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infielder in the game to like, you're 31 and now you're
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basically ADH 70% of the time? Is that a health thing?
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Like, I don't follow the Padres enough to know, are we managing
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Manny's health? And then you have like the slow
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start from Xander, like Louisa Rice can also play first base.
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We've seen him do that too. But like, Jake Cronenworth is
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off to a pretty decent start. Like Hassan Kim, like you made
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that move. So like you doubling down on
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Haasan Kim being being the short stop.
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So like, I don't know what's going on, but they're hitting.
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I think I saw that. They're like team average is
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like 250 which is 5th or 6th in the league.
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I don't know just pulling numbers out of my butt.
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But the the weird thing for me is the is the Manny Machado
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stuff. Like the, yeah, five games at
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third base this year, 27 at DH. So, like, what's that about?
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What are we doing there? What are we?
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What are we paying him for? I have possibly an unpopular
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opinion on the matter of Luis Rise presumably being the
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primary DH for the Padres as well as reported.
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Is this Is this old fashioned to say that I don't think that the
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DH role should be filled by a contact hitter like is that?
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Is that lame of me to say? Is that old fashioned?
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Is that old head the designated hitter Historically up until, I
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mean you could even say including 2024 because I feel
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like the the majority of teams out there are using that as a as
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a slot to slide in a league average to above average power
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bat. And then the Padres are going,
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no, we're going to take this generation's Tony Gwynn and slot
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them into the DH role, which that's a whole another
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conversation that we have to get into.
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But I don't. I don't it doesn't make sense
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why I I I will say I I agree with the move on buying low.
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I don't know quite what I mean. I I know the names but I don't
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know ranking wise in terms of what kind of haul it took to to
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get Louis rise. So I.
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I was thinking it was a 6th and 9th ranked prospect.
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OK, so I mean. Seriously.
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You buy low. Like I agree with that element
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of it because the the Marlins quite literally came out and
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said like, hey, not our year and everybody with eyes can see
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that. So I I I agree from it from that
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point of view, but the fit doesn't make sense.
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The fit on the on the Padres side, the timing for the Marlins
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for me. Like what?
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If you know that, If you know that now, you're going to know
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that when the value starts rising.
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Like, give some of these other teams an opportunity to maybe
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have a guy like, you know, slumping or maybe have an injury
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that happens. Like the value can rise as the
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season goes on. I don't see the rush to make
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this move for the Marlins. I Everything about the Marlins
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has been just surrounded by question marks for like a full
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straight year. I feel like I don't know what's
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happening. Like the like the the GM move,
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like the the skip, like letting him out and then like the the
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like. Now the Pablo move is like
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officially like that book ends. So now you technically gave up
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Pablo for a batting title season out of Horizon and like 6th and
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9th ranked prospects and the Padres.
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Which, Not to mention that batting the batting title season
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ended in a wild card sweep at the hands of the Phillies last
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year. So.
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Like what? I don't understand.
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I would have, I would have sat on this.
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That's like, that's if you know what this season is, which,
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which, like I think if anyone's being being objective here.
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Like we understand that the Marlins were going to have this
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season and I think everyone saw it.
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The writing was on the wall coming into the season.
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It's a month in. We knew what they were starting
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with. They we know like their lack of
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depth. This doesn't stop being the
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narrative in June, July, but like at that point you may have
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more bidders. At that point you may have more
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value. I I don't understand the timing.
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No, it's a great point. And the when I when I was when I
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mentioned the fact that they basically came out and said,
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yeah, this is not our year, I was referencing the quote by
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president there, the team president, Peter Bendix, where
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he came out in. Goob, by the way, looks like a
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straight Goob. Yep.
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Straight out of analytics, University came out full
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transparency, said we are unlikely to make the playoffs
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this year. It's like Peter, we get it.
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You know that. We know that.
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Your team knows that. The league knows that.
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But don't, to your point, Nate, don't show your hand this early.
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Don't Just don't just fold this early.
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Because while the while the the postseason is certainly out of
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the picture, you can still utilize the time that is in
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front of you. Yeah, and I'm not a baseball
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president, but I feel like it's pretty simple to see that you
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use the time that's before you between now and the deadline to
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increase his value. Right.
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And I maybe the, I think I saw somewhere that was like the 20
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they have the 29th ranked farm system in baseball.
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It's not good. I don't think it was in good
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shape. At all, Yeah, that would make
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sense. So at that point, like, what's
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the rush like? It's not like someone in AAA is
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knocking on the door. Like I need to get Major League
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time in. So keep going.
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But I'm just saying, like, I don't it doesn't make sense to
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make that move. You're already, you're already
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in the hole. I'm not saying don't make that
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move. I'm saying why now?
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Why May 4th or third whenever it went down trash Padres wise.
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I mean again just going back to the question like who's the odd
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man out the the outfield looks sets Profar Merrill looks like
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he's off to a good start. Right.
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This is Tatis is doing. Yeah Profar is Profar.
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Hold on yeah Profar is doing Profar stuff like the last.
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I don't know. It was like the second-half of
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last year and then Jackson Merrill looks like he's.
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Settling in nicely. I don't know.
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Like Rookie of the Year maybe? This is from the ESPN report
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regarding the plan that's in place for the the Padres lineup
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says Louise Rise is expected to start games as the Padres
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designated hitter, but the club plans to cycle through the DH
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spot. Jake Cronoworth, Xander Bogarts
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and Manny Machado could also get a pass there.
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Bogarts has been the club starting second baseman.
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So who plays third? Like, because you can't just say
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I'm going to rotate through DH and not include Tyler Wade in
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the conversation, if that's who your primary third baseman is,
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who I think has had the most games at third base this year.
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All I know is that you can make this real easy on yourself.
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Free up a little bit of a log jam, do what you got to do.
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Eat whatever, preferably the entire contract.
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Eat the entire contract and send Xander back to Boston for league
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minimum. And there you go.
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You fix, you fix your issue. You fix your issue.
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Do do what the Marlins did. Eat the contract the Marlins are
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eating? Let me got the numbers here.
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Miami is paying San Diego 77 million, 898,000,602 dollars of
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the 8,491,398 remaining for the final days of Arises contract.
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Padres are paying $592,796 for Luis Rise.
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Yeah, come to think of it, outside of Manny, they their
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entire infielder is just a bunch of second baseman.
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Like when you. Break a bunch of It's a bunch of
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middle infielders. That's entirely my point.
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Like Jake Cronenworth, like it. I don't.
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We didn't really get the move to over to first base and I know
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he's been there most of the time for the last few years, but like
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I don't. I haven't looked at numbers.
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I don't know if he ranks as like an above average first baseman.
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Am I crazy? Was was Jerkson Profar in the
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infield? I think he played a little first
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base last year too. I swear he was elsewhere in the
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infield, but maybe not. Yeah, he yeah, he played short
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for the Rangers back in 18. He's bopped around the outfield,
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has played first, played, second played.
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Yeah, he's played every, literally everywhere in the
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infield. In fact, he has played
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everywhere except pitching and catching, and I'm sure that's
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that's coming at some point too. He's had two games at first base
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this year already, so yeah. What is happening offload Xander
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and make this easy for yourself, Padres.
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That's all you got to do. You're saving money from.
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Are you chalking that up as a country?
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Are you chalking that up as a no Xander?
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Xander. In a Padre uniform like you're
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just Are we over it? I hate it.
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I hate. I know you hate it, but like.
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And look. Look, I got to objectively like
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being non bias. Yeah, no, I'm I'm chalking up.
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I'll go on record as Xander. I'm chalking up Xander, Senor as
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a Padre, as short as it may be, as a failure and what's to come,
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I'm going to just preemptively chalk it up as a failure
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because. And it's not a knock on him.
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It's because he I'd. I don't know the guy I would
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venture to say never fully got happy there never fully got
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settled in because he wanted to stay in Boston and I don't think
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that he could I I don't think he ever shook that and and and
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that's contributed that's a leading people to say that
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Xander is washed that he's in decline which I do not believe
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to be true. He's not going to be a elite
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shortstop for you, but he's going to be above league average
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despite the numbers that are currently reflecting right now.
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And I think he can give you that elsewhere, preferably Boston.
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He's not going to give that to you in in San Diego.
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I hate to say it, but yeah, I'm, I'm chalking that up as a nail.
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So bring bring our boy back home and we'll we'll get, we'll get
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him back into shape. Whatever.
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Who's next for the Marlins? Which by the way, last thing
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I'll say on that, a lot of Red Sox fans wild and yes, I'm a Red
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Sox fan myself, so I'm not trying to like alienate myself
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here. But there are a a a number of
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Red Sox fans that are acting like all of a sudden the depth
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that we have on this roster warrants not not needing Xander
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Bogart's back in a hypothetical situation.
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I'm like this was not the song we were singing a month ago.
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So don't, don't all of a sudden, just because we're winning some
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ball games, don't all of a sudden act like we're too good
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for Xander Bogart's. Because if you recall this team,
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Raphaela. Been doing.
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Raphaela's been great. They they should have had.
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Yeah. He had a great day to play
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today. I think he hit one out.
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Actually, yeah, he did. I had to listen to it on the
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radio, 'cause we were driving home, but Raphael's been doing
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great. But I'd have to check the
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numbers. But as of like three to four
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days ago, worst defensive team in baseball.
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Not to say that, not to say that Xander's going to fix your
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defensive woes single handedly, but just collectively speaking
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to the caliber of player that we we had and still do have on the
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Red Sox, they just happen to be playing a little better.
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So that's all I'll say on that matter.
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What was your question for me before I jumped in with that?
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Just Raphael. I mean, he has he?
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No. No, no, you're asking about the
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Marlins. You're asking.
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About the Marlins, yeah, I'm assuming there's some arms that
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are going to be offloaded at some point.
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Yeah. So who's next and when?
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You can go ahead and chalk up Lizardo, right?
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Oh. Forgot to mention, the Luis Arai
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is not a total rental. He doesn't become free until
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after next year, so that's kind of nice.
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That's a budgetary pick up anyway.
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Lizardo's rehabbing in in Low A. In fact, I think he went today.
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Did you see? He went today 5 2/3, one hit,
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six KS. Yeah, he'll, he'll be gone.
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I mean, if you're going to start, if you're going to start
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at the top with Ryze Lizardo's next.
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I feel like we got to move on. Feel like we're, we're going
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deep on the Padres Marlins here. Yeah, that.
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That'll about do it. We'll see you guys now.
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I'm just kidding. Dodgers sweep the Braves.
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That's next on our list. I saw a note that the Braves
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again. I was out this weekend.
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We're at the Outer Banks, celebrating Rookie's first
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birthday. There you go.
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And Meredith's birthday. But rookie's was today.
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Meredith is tomorrow. It's crazy that the dog comes
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first, but that's fair. Well, I get it.
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He's. Born he was born the 5th, quite
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literally comes. First, I hear.
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You in the in the in the in the Roman calendar as as we say.
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Dodgers. The Braves.
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Dodgers. Braves.
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Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, Yep, Yep.
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That's where we're at. Dodger sweep the Braves.
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But like I said, I was out this weekend so I wasn't aware of the
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implications coming into the into the series.
27:02
But I saw a note that said the Braves arrives arrived in Dodger
27:05
Stadium with the best record in the majors, though they left
27:08
with the second best record in their division.
27:10
So not again to reiterate, it's the first week of May.
27:17
No reason to freak out over jumps or drops in standings such
27:22
as that. But it was it was of note that
27:26
even just a three-game series could could change the the
27:30
narrative that much. So I think you mentioned oh that
27:36
was what I didn't. I didn't look up.
27:37
You mentioned Shohei hit a ball like 600 feet today.
27:40
Yeah, he hit 2 today. I think it was 460 to left
27:46
center. What?
27:51
464. What an alien dude.
27:57
Off AJ Minter. Left, left.
28:00
That's right. Where's this ball go?
28:03
Yeah, that's a that's a shock. Dude, like, I don't think people
28:06
understand that. Like, whatever.
28:09
It's maybe they do. Yeah, Dodgers are banging, dude.
28:16
I mean, Muncie's rolling, Shohei doing Shohei things.
28:23
I think Tay Oscar got a couple clutch knocks too.
28:27
Braves are just, yeah, it's all good, just a little smudge on
28:32
the schedule. Like, I don't think it's that
28:34
big of a deal. I don't think it's time to sweat
28:36
it. Obviously still off to a good
28:38
start. You mentioned the Dodgers just
28:43
banging it. Over the last 12 games they have
28:48
an 884 OPS and on the pitching side they have a 182 ERA team
28:54
wise, which are both tops and the majors.
28:57
We know the starting rotation is going to be be doing their
29:00
thing. I think the the back end is
29:02
still a little bit of a. And Bueller?
29:06
Bueller comes off the IL soon, right?
29:09
Is it tomorrow? Yeah.
29:11
So. Add more, man, rich get richer.
29:17
I got it real tough over there. Yeah, yeah, I don't think
29:23
anybody in Braves Country is worried.
29:25
Feel free to pop into the chat if you are, which is would be
29:28
crazy. I'm being, I'm being accused of
29:39
having full on allegiance to the Phillies in the chat right now.
29:42
I don't appreciate it. I don't understand why this is a
29:46
narrative that's being built. This this narrative has been
29:48
brewing for the last calendar year.
29:51
Incredible how you have a blind spot to how self induced this
29:56
is. Do you brought this upon
29:58
yourself Sir? Especially come October.
30:03
Ask me how I've brought this on myself.
30:06
Show me where my bias lies. The Bryce Bias has bled into
30:11
Philly bias. That's that goes back to DC,
30:15
What are we talking about? That's not even.
30:17
It's, it's but the Philly the Philly love has has far exceeded
30:22
the national love. Trey.
30:25
My love for Trey also goes back to DC.
30:28
It's a there's a lot going on. There's a lot Schwarber, There's
30:31
a lot that it's like. Boston.
30:33
Yeah, that's what I mean. It's all kind.
30:35
Of and DC. Yeah, it's all kind of.
30:38
People forget, people forget. A lot of these guys played right
30:43
down the road and that's that's where that's where the
30:46
appreciation was rooted. That's where it began.
30:51
So stop accusing me of being this die hard Phillies fan.
30:54
I'm not a die hard Phillies fan. I had a choice.
30:58
Be talking about the Braves, So this shows how much.
31:02
I had a choice this year to go to.
31:05
Speaking of Braves, I had a choice to go to Opening Day this
31:07
year between the Phillies and Braves because it was right up.
31:09
Well, I say right up the road, what, a couple hours up the road
31:13
to Philly? I could have went to that, but I
31:15
chose not to 'cause I didn't want to be accused of crap like
31:17
this throughout the year. But it seems like opening.
31:19
Day. Opening day would have really
31:21
brought that down on you, for sure.
31:23
Yeah, no one. No one in Atlanta or outside of
31:30
Atlanta coming out of the woodwork the last few year.
31:32
Brave fans, that's all hyphenated, by the way.
31:36
Needs to be worried. It's 20 and 12.
31:40
Little bit of a skid the last 10.
31:43
I've dropped the last three obviously with the sweep, but
31:45
like I don't. I'm not where I would be a
31:47
little concerned pitching wise. I think everyone knows that.
31:51
Obvious reasons. Again, I was gone for 10 days,
31:54
but like Strider going down is going to leave a pretty big
31:57
hole. But they'll figure it out, man.
32:01
Like has has again. I was out this weekend.
32:06
I apologize. Has Max Freed made his?
32:10
Yeah, I like how people are listening and they're like these
32:12
guys haven't even watched baseball.
32:14
I did watch baseball this weekend, but specifically not
32:17
the Braves. Again, how would you expect me
32:19
to if apparently I'm a die hard Phillies fan?
32:21
Why would I watch the Braves has Has Max Reed made his his recent
32:27
start? He's due up here shortly, isn't
32:28
he? Or did he go this weekend?
32:30
You're asking the wrong guy again.
32:32
OK. Well, that's helpful.
32:34
I It's like baseball has been like shoved down my throat with
32:40
trying to absorb all of the things.
32:43
He went. He went today.
32:44
Yeah, yeah, yeah. That OK?
32:45
Yeah. That's what I thought I knew he
32:46
was. He was due around the turn here
32:49
soon. He went today.
32:50
And. That's right, Shohei.
32:52
Give a 4 / 7. Yaya.
32:56
OK, Yeah, I'm gonna need he. He had that.
33:00
He had that bright spot against the Marlins, But the Marlins are
33:04
happy Cinco. De Mayo by the way, what's that
33:07
about? Do you know what that is?
33:08
I'm I'm the one that's Mexican. But like, what's what's so good
33:12
about Cinco de Mayo? It's rookie's birthday, I know
33:14
that. It's easy to remember.
33:18
Yeah, that's you got some easy, you got some easy anniversaries.
33:24
I do, yeah. Wedding anniversary.
33:26
New Year's Eve for the wedding anniversary.
33:28
Never forget that one. Yeah.
33:31
Cinco de Mayo. Love that you can remember my
33:35
birthday because of Meredith's being so close.
33:38
Like it all works out for. You my birthday typically kicks
33:43
off the post season slash ends the regular season depending
33:48
upon the the flow of that given year.
33:50
So a. Good way to look at it all.
33:52
Good. All good benchmarks.
33:53
All good checkpoints. Yeah, yeah.
34:00
What do the Braves have coming up?
34:01
But Freed, as I was saying for Freed, he had that he had that
34:05
bright spot against the Marlins. But I'm going to need to see a
34:08
little bit more consistency out of out of his stars before I can
34:11
feel confident in that again. So to your to your point, yeah,
34:15
going to need to see a little bit more pitching wise.
34:21
Think Bryce, Elder. Bryce Elder's not doing half
34:23
bad, despite Braves fans seemingly not wanting him to be
34:28
as much a part of the mix as he is or is poised to be.
34:35
They they don't come off as a a bunch that's easily satisfied,
34:40
you know? No, no.
34:43
I sure the last couple stars have been, yeah.
34:46
But the Braves, I mean, moving forward, they're going to go two
34:50
against the Sox, three against the Mets, three against the
34:53
Cubs, four against the Padres, three more against the Cubs,
34:57
then close it out with close out the month with Pirates, Gnats,
35:01
and first game of the set with with the A's.
35:05
They're probably going to have a pretty good May.
35:07
So no need to worry. And it's the Dodgers this is
35:12
They're the regular season heroes.
35:14
That's what we're used to. To that point about not being
35:20
easily satisfied for Braves fans, I was looking for a tweet
35:22
and I found it. Shout out Bronx Bombers on on
35:26
Twitter, he said. He quote tweeted.
35:29
Bean eater buzz Braves guy. He said this fan base is such a
35:35
miserable bunch. And then Bronx Bombers quote,
35:38
Dom quote, tweeted said something about Braves fans ever
35:41
being upset really doesn't sit right with me.
35:43
They're 20 and 11 with a young, talented core.
35:45
They're coming off six straight division titles and they won a
35:48
World Series ring three years ago.
35:50
I swear, if the Yankees had that, I would never in all caps
35:54
be upset. The most valid tweet I've read
35:58
in a long time. It's incredibly accurate.
36:02
Yeah. Relax.
36:04
Relax, Braves fans. They're hungry.
36:06
You got it Good. I get it.
36:09
But you got it good. They're hungry.
36:12
Do they? Do they do they have it good as
36:15
as you're making it out to be. I mean, I know I just read all
36:17
that off. Sure, they've got it good.
36:18
But is it that good? I.
36:23
I mean, the Phillies own you in the postseason.
36:27
Oh boy, here it goes again. You might as well turn into this
36:30
kid. That's not it.
36:32
I will it when we're talking playoffs, playoffs, playoffs,
36:36
playoffs. I mean, we're talking
36:39
postseason. That's just, that's that's
36:40
called hard fact, my friend. But we're not here to talk about
36:43
the postseason, because it's May I.
36:44
Don't know. I mean, I think that if you were
36:46
to ask a Braves fan with this core, you would probably expect
36:51
three rings at some point. I think the Albies Acuna Olsen
36:57
and even though he's newer to the scene, Olsen and Riley core
37:02
should give you 3 rings. Michael Harris.
37:05
Michael Harris, Strider, We go down the list but.
37:09
What? What's?
37:12
What's again? What is going on?
37:16
Did you put a post out or something?
37:18
Saying like I did no such thing. Indicating this is the second
37:21
comment thus far asking about. Love it.
37:25
Keep it rolling. My Phillies fandom being
37:28
announced tonight. I didn't put out some posts that
37:31
said that I would that any such thing was happening.
37:34
Your big Eagles guy too, huh? Fight Eagles fight on the way to
37:39
victory. Is that how it goes?
37:41
I don't know. I just know that from
37:43
Invincible. Great movie, great movie,
37:46
fantastic movie. Let's talk about football
37:49
movies. Now what was I getting after?
37:53
What were we talking about? Braves core?
37:57
Oh yeah, question. What?
37:59
What's Sean Murphy's contract look like again?
38:02
Is he a part of that? I don't think so.
38:06
I could be wrong, but I don't think so off the top of my head.
38:13
But also, I'm not surprised if he is, you know, because like
38:16
everyone is. You look that up and I'm going
38:19
to transition us seamlessly talking about Sean Murphy, a
38:21
former club of his. We're going to transition.
38:25
Talking to some. He is.
38:27
He is what he's. Did a six year 73.
38:29
That's what I thought I six was. The number that came to mind was
38:33
that. I hate them.
38:36
I hate these deals. Shut up, Braves fans.
38:40
Just shut up. You.
38:42
You've got it good. Just let it be.
38:49
It's hard of hearing. You're complaining.
38:52
Complain too much. You interrupted my seamless
38:55
transition into talking about one of Sean Murphy's former
38:57
clubs, The Oakland A's serious question for you, and this is
39:03
not a joke. This is not a bit.
39:04
Also, I like the I like the baseball in the hand.
39:06
That's a nice touch. I have been looking through we
39:10
we did a Big Spring cleaning donation situation.
39:17
Dude, you would not believe the amount of crap I gave away.
39:20
You would not believe it. I think I counted between
39:24
shirts, hats, pants, shorts, sweats, sweatshirts.
39:34
It's like 65 pieces of clothing, like items because we itemize
39:38
like the donation. I live right.
39:41
I'm married, a psychopath. So we like we just itemize
39:44
everything and like write everything down, you know?
39:49
And yeah, 65 things. My closet is half gone.
39:56
Got rid of some old jerseys. Those were the Those were the
39:59
ones that were. They were a little bit tougher
40:01
to get rid of, to be honest, but anyway, I found a ball when I
40:04
was. Not like jerseys you wore in
40:05
like Little League you're talking like.
40:07
No, I had like, AI had a She really gave me so hard, a hard
40:13
time about this. But it was a Michael Jordan
40:14
Wizards jersey. I got it in 6th grade for sure.
40:20
Like, not something anyone could wear at this point.
40:24
But still, it's like it's a it's an MJ jersey.
40:26
But I have a Bulls one. I kept that one.
40:28
I kept that. One.
40:29
OK, That's fair. I had a Shaq Heat jersey.
40:33
Gave that away. No idea why I had that.
40:35
It's snitched too. It's nice.
40:39
Clinton Portis, Redskins jersey. OK.
40:42
That's fire, yeah. Yeah, gave that away.
40:46
Santana Moss, Redskins jersey. OK, so how did we get to the
40:51
baseball? It was just.
40:52
I found it. You just found it.
40:54
OK? That's what we're getting at.
40:57
Yeah. That's good to know, though,
40:58
about the jerseys, because I I've got some jerseys in the
41:00
closet. Like I got a stitched Ladainian
41:03
Tomlinson Chargers powder blue jersey.
41:05
Though that's fire. Why do you have that?
41:08
That's so random in this he. Was like one of my favorite.
41:10
Him. I love Lt., Yeah.
41:12
Him and my him and Peyton were two of my favorite players.
41:15
Unbelievable. I used to do in the Madden like
41:18
drafts, like where you set up a franchise and do like the
41:23
fantasy draft style. Then I would always set my
41:27
myself to the first pick. 1st pick, yeah.
41:29
Just you're like 10. Just run the table, yeah?
41:32
100% Lt. was always on the squad.
41:34
Yeah, anyway. So yeah, Speaking of Lt. the
41:37
Oakland A's a serious question. How?
41:42
How? And I cannot emphasize enough,
41:46
this is a serious question. How long?
41:55
How much longer do we think this team is going to be relevant and
41:59
part of the conversation? What do you consider relevant?
42:03
For the Oakland A's, if they're even flirting with 500, to me
42:09
that's relevant, and especially we said it last episode,
42:12
especially in the American League West right now.
42:16
Who knew they all W was so soft, by the way.
42:19
They're in third. Yeah.
42:20
What? A what a week?
42:23
What? Just a pit of pillows.
42:26
Who'd A Who'd A thunk that the Central would be better in the
42:30
West? Who'd A thunk that?
42:37
I I feel like we could have gotten there.
42:41
If we were, I could have there. Yeah, come on.
42:44
We were talking about it at the at the beginning of the season.
42:47
We're talking about how well, I was high on the Royals, you
42:50
guys, you and Ryan were given, given the props to the Royals.
42:53
And we were like, I mean, I hope this isn't revisionist history,
42:57
but I think we were like, OK on the Tigers and then the Twins
43:01
and Guardians, I think. I think we knew I.
43:06
Didn't, I don't know, be there. I just didn't see that, like
43:09
Mariners are leading the division at 19 and 15.
43:13
Not that. That's like.
43:14
Which goes back to my point about the the Oakland A's.
43:17
They're 1718 right now. They're game below 500, which
43:20
for their standards may as well be 20 games over.
43:23
Because this may be as good as it gets for them, but it begs
43:28
the question again, how long do we think they're going to hover?
43:34
Two weeks. OK, well that's no fun.
43:37
I'm not buying in, are you? I'm going to buy in.
43:52
For that long soundtrack, by the way, there's the A stadium has
43:55
never been filled to that. Level.
43:57
Yeah, there never have been that.
44:00
Never been enough in the Colosseum.
44:02
Anyway, keep going. Speaking of which, talking about
44:04
attendance, A-Team where they talked about the Marlins.
44:06
I saw a picture from a game I think it was this weekend.
44:10
It was like 6000 people which I know is like a near sell out for
44:14
the for the the A's standards but that pulp, I mean we all
44:19
know what the Colosseum looks like empty but lone Depot empty.
44:23
That's not much better if we're being honest.
44:25
But enough about the Marlins. Actually, you know what?
44:27
Yeah, I I give me. I'm done.
44:33
I'm done harping on the A's so much.
44:35
The the Marlins are my new dumpster.
44:38
Boom again. I was gone this weekend.
44:43
Was not able to update the soundboard.
44:45
So again, in lieu of claps. Perfect.
44:50
Are you having to hit that again over and over?
44:54
Nope. I Just how much?
44:55
How much do you think that cricket got paid for that?
44:57
You know, I I hope we got a good deal out of that.
45:01
Was there some sort of nil deal? Let's help taken care of there.
45:06
I sure hope so. Well fed with some gnats.
45:08
Do they eat gnats? I think.
45:10
I don't think so, because gnats are like half their body size,
45:13
so no anyway. Yeah.
45:17
All right. I'll give him an extra week
45:19
because of this aforementioned transition of harping.
45:24
I don't know if that's enough. I don't know if that's enough of
45:26
a bump for you to say, oh, I'm not going to harp on the A's
45:29
anymore. I'm going to move, I'm going to
45:31
move to hate in the Marlins now. So I'm going to give him an
45:34
extra week Now, if you're going to, if you're going to make
45:37
that. No, seriously.
45:38
If you're going to make that broad of a jump, if you're going
45:41
to make that bold of a statement, you're going to need
45:44
to commit to more than an extra week for the A's.
45:49
In fact, I like doing this with you.
45:50
Give me a date. Give me a date in which you
45:53
think the A's will fall out of the theoretical conversation,
45:59
the conversation that we're having right now, the very fact
46:01
that we're talking about the A's because they're hovering.
46:04
When do you think that stops? Well, now that I'm pulling up
46:07
their schedule, it's not today. OK, No, no, no.
46:17
I'm not going to allow this. Yeah, Nate stops today.
46:21
Nate, don't make me an Oakland A's fan by the end of this
46:23
podcast. I'm about to.
46:25
I'm about. To four-game set?
46:26
No, They're four-game settings. The Rangers.
46:29
Three against the Mariners. The Rangers.
46:31
The Astros. Three against the Royals.
46:34
Hold on, you're going to. They're going to get.
46:38
Into it So many different places right now.
46:39
No. Stop.
46:41
Read it again. Who read the teams again?
46:44
Four against the Rangers. American League West, who you
46:47
said was soft. Yeah, but it's still.
46:51
American League West Who you said was soft.
46:53
Who else? The whole thing is the West.
46:55
That's the whole point of this stretch.
46:57
Keep going. Three against the Mariners.
47:00
American League West, who you said was soft.
47:02
Four against the Astros. American League West, who you
47:05
said was soft and also by the way, playing like absolute
47:09
garbage. Three against the Royals.
47:13
OK, that's. They'll put up a fight against
47:15
Royals. 7:11, That's fourteen games.
47:20
Realistically, you're telling me they go seven and seven there?
47:25
Hey, I mean look at this. We're due for a bet.
47:27
We're due for our 1st 2024 bet. I love it.
47:31
I love it. I give.
47:32
Me an over and under. Let's set the lines.
47:34
Hold on, hold on, hold on. No, no, no.
47:35
I love. I love your idea, but let me
47:37
just go backwards here. Your Yankees.
47:41
For who All intents and purposes having a having a solid year, as
47:45
we well know split a four. Gamer with the Yankees two and
47:50
two. That's a split.
47:52
If my math does serves me correct.
47:56
They swept the Orioles or no, they.
47:58
I'm sorry. They took two of three from the
48:01
Orioles, which we talked about. They swept the Pirates, which
48:07
whatever. Yeah.
48:09
They took they They haven't lost any of the last four of their
48:13
series. They took two or three from the
48:14
Marlins, which by the way, didn't even mention the fact
48:17
they put up a 20 spot on Saturday.
48:20
And then they give up 12 the next day.
48:23
Well, I would take the day off mentally two if I put up a 20
48:26
spot. Sure, sure.
48:30
I mean, you got to let the Marlins win at least one let's.
48:32
Set this line. Let's set this line I want to
48:35
recount. I want to make sure it's 14.
48:36
Four +3 is 7. Let's do.
48:39
This. Hold on.
48:40
No, no, no. You said four.
48:41
It's 33 against the Rangers. No four against the Rangers,
48:45
1234. Three, right.
48:47
No, no. Yeah, yeah, yeah, you're right.
48:49
I see tomorrow 940. Yep.
48:51
Then set 7. 4/7. Four against the Astros, That's
48:56
11. Three against the Royals.
48:59
It's 14. 14. All the fingers What's the line
49:05
at? Are you gonna say, let's put the
49:07
line at Are you gonna ride? This I'm not a I'm not a betting
49:11
man in that regard. They're gonna throw these.
49:14
Don't throw these turns at me. You're riding this whole, you
49:17
know, 500 baseball club thing. So if you set the line at 6 1/2,
49:23
you take the over. That's seven wins.
49:26
I'm gonna take the under. That's fine.
49:30
I'll take 500. They go 500 or better.
49:33
All right. Is that what we're saying?
49:34
Chat. Let us know what we're going to
49:35
bet here, Because I'd like to do something with fantasy, like
49:42
some kind of super uneven trade, you know?
49:44
Yeah, that's. Fantastic.
49:47
Yeah yeah like a like a just a joker card trade that we.
49:53
Get I mean that's that I look I'm I'm all about going in on a
49:57
trade but is that are are we willing to commit to those
50:01
stakes this early in the. Season.
50:02
It's a big one. I don't know.
50:04
You're the one. That's all.
50:05
You know, using the Boo sound board against me for calling the
50:09
A's what they are. Yeah.
50:16
All right, that's that's a decent, that's a decent, that's
50:22
a that's a decent, that's the leader in the clubhouse right
50:27
now. So 500.
50:29
The A's go 500 better over the next 14 games, which honestly a
50:35
week from today or however, however long it takes them to
50:38
play the next seven games, we'll know at that point because
50:40
they're going to run the table. These first seven games, they're
50:44
going 7, they're going seven. And no, I'm not saying that, but
50:47
yeah, they're going 500 better. The next one that, come on,
50:50
that's the easiest. Over I have never, ever, ever in
50:55
my life watch consecutive A's baseball games if they weren't
50:59
playing the Yankees. So this is opening a whole new
51:03
world for me. I love this.
51:05
I'm. I'm going to be so locked at
51:08
hold on, hold on. Oh boy.
51:13
In the chat, please let us know what you think of Fair bet is I
51:17
would love some kind of fantasy thing.
51:19
Some type of fantasy implications.
51:21
Where did this? The Bills?
51:22
All warped. Where'd you get that thing?
51:24
Shut up. I'm the biggest A's honk ever.
51:31
Had that ever known to man. I've had this hat for years.
51:34
I've I. For the longest time, I thought
51:36
this was the cleanest hat in baseball.
51:38
And I honest, I still kind of might stand by that.
51:41
Looks good. I mean, that's a clean lid.
51:44
But I tell you what, man, I'm going to become the biggest ace.
51:47
Honk. How do we feel?
51:49
OK, maybe like a, like a, like some type of public punishment.
51:57
I don't know. Something you remember when what
52:00
was it? A couple years ago.
52:01
Murray bought you. What did he buy you?
52:04
It was like a Mets beanie. The Mets shirt.
52:06
Who says we got to believe I had to wear it on an episode?
52:10
I think we circle back to that we should buy something off of
52:14
this Garbage fanatics website and loser has to wear it for
52:18
like consecutive episodes. I'm, I'm.
52:22
We could go as far as you want with this.
52:24
Honestly I'm pretty confident on this bet.
52:28
I said like an entire month of episodes.
52:30
You got to wear something that's stupid.
52:35
That's a fair punishment. I don't.
52:36
I don't hate that one. Well, the reality is we have to
52:38
deter. We have to figure this out
52:40
before tomorrow. We can't, like, come back to
52:42
this because the game's true. The stretch starts Monday, So we
52:46
need to figure this out by episode's end.
52:49
What do we have to wear? Well, I mean, if I lose the bet
52:56
and I become the biggest A's honk over the next 14 games, I
52:59
don't know if the punishment of me wearing.
53:02
Not A's, not a stuff, but it's got to be something like we
53:04
don't want to wear. Oh, just on the pod.
53:07
Don't. You got to something to wear.
53:09
On the pod? Yeah, OK, do.
53:14
You ever watch How I Met Your Mother?
53:17
Yes, There was a straight. Oh, it was the rubber ducky tie
53:24
that Barney had to wear for like a year straight.
53:27
Yeah, and he had to try to. Didn't he have to try to pick
53:30
women up with the at the bar with that on?
53:32
Yeah, yeah, we can come up with something.
53:35
We'll come up with something. But again, we got to do it
53:38
before episodes end. We'll figure it out.
53:39
Also one of the things. That or by the start of the game
53:42
or by the start of the game tomorrow.
53:44
One of the things that didn't get donated with all my stuff, a
53:48
Stormtrooper tie that stayed. Clean.
53:52
Yeah. So I got a lot of caught, a lot
53:54
of heat for that one. But I was like, no, it's going
53:56
to have to stay here. Salvation Army, it just doesn't
54:00
know what to do with that. I I don't think they would have.
54:02
It would have sat on the shelf for too long, you know?
54:07
I I agree. Ace Honk.
54:12
Nice. Maybe we have to.
54:14
You have to get your first tattoo.
54:16
That's. I mean, I'm getting a tattoo
54:18
over the Oakland A's. I'm sorry, that's not.
54:22
Happening. Not that confident, huh?
54:25
It's fair to see. Whatever.
54:27
No, I'm just. I'm just what do we got next?
54:28
I'm not an idiot. Speak.
54:32
Speaking of garbage, Alec Manoa, In his first start since August
54:36
of last year, 4 innings pitched, 7 runs, six earned, six hits,
54:42
4K, six walks. Against who?
54:48
No. Did I read that backwards?
54:50
Six hits, four walks, 6K's. Against two changing hats again,
55:08
you got a lot of got a lot of hats over here.
55:11
You got a lot of sub 500 team hats on deck, just ready to
55:15
pull. Yeah, what is that about, man?
55:17
What is that about? The Washington Nationals?
55:25
Hey, whoa, whoa, pump the brakes.
55:27
I didn't think so. Put some respect on the
55:29
Washington Nationals. They're 17 and 17.
55:33
Hello. Put some respect on them.
55:39
We talked about it earlier. If you haven't seen the the
55:45
Jesse Winker home runs and then like the trot situation, you're
55:52
just not it. You're not that man, Jesse
55:56
winks. You're not that guy.
55:59
How did you feel about that? I think it was the debut of the
56:01
pullover, like the pullover jersey, right?
56:04
Yeah. And if you recall, I didn't have
56:06
the, I mean they weren't like disparaging comments if actually
56:11
no, I yeah, I said they were going to be retired by the end
56:13
of the season. So yeah, pretty, pretty
56:15
disparaging comments. Gave me, gave me high school
56:18
summer ball vibes. Yeah.
56:25
Basically what I was getting at is that I think that my thoughts
56:29
on them now versus when they first came out, little
56:32
different. I think they look a little
56:33
better in person. I mean, if we're being honest,
56:37
the red, white and blue is just it's the simplest.
56:39
It's hard. To mess up.
56:41
It's really hard to mess up. It's hard to not come out of a
56:45
situation where you're creating a new red, white and blue jersey
56:49
and come out with AW, like it's hard to to not do that.
56:52
No pun intended. Yeah, the No pun intended.
56:56
The Alec Manoa starts good claps, good claps.
56:59
I don't think we should put claps in.
57:00
I think we should. You're right.
57:01
I think. I think this is the move moving
57:03
forward. Yeah, good claps there.
57:07
Look, I don't know. When is the experiment over,
57:09
like, just toast, dude, He's it's done.
57:13
It's done. And this go, this goes against,
57:17
this is, this is not falling into line with what you and I
57:19
were talking about the beginning about like guys needing a A2
57:23
month sample size before you kind of really know.
57:26
We know now we know because he's across the minors, across Major
57:31
League, the entire reason he was sent down in the 1st place going
57:34
back to last year. We just, we know what this guy
57:37
is now and it's it's unfortunate.
57:40
Like I I hate seeing like even if it's a guy that I don't
57:44
particularly like, which Alec Noah don't necessarily like.
57:48
You just hate to see a guy's career come crashing down like
57:52
this. I mean I know there's certain
57:53
people that are are pulling for his downfall.
57:56
I'm not. I'm not going to actively pull
57:58
for his downfall. You're going to actively pull
58:00
for his downfall, I get it. And the only reason I say.
58:05
It's the arrogance for me, that's no.
58:07
No, no, no, no. Yeah, for sure, for sure.
58:08
But I'm just saying, like, even at the level of baseball we
58:11
played like when when you suck, when you struggle like that is
58:16
the lowest place to be it. Just like you could say that
58:20
across, like all athletics. Like it's that just sucks
58:24
because you dedicate your life to it and then you come out and
58:27
you just cannot make it work and that's what's happening.
58:30
Like they sent him down to try and work on some things.
58:32
It does not appear as though anything has been fixed.
58:35
I mean, he apparently outdueled Paul Skeens, so take that as you
58:39
will, but generally speaking it seems as though we know where
58:44
this guy is AT. And you know to your point, for
58:48
me, the the the taste that's going to be left in our mouths
58:51
is the arrogance like it. The guy just, he ran his mouth
58:54
too much for too long. And you you can only really get
58:59
away with that if you can back it up and he can't.
59:03
It's not like he was just sent down to AAA the whole time.
59:06
He got torched at every level, like he went to rookie balls
59:11
level and like still got beat up.
59:14
Like I It's done. It's all done.
59:17
Don't tell me you have a Blue Jays hat to throw on just
59:22
rotating. No, no, we're going.
59:25
We're going back to the original.
59:26
All right, by the way, that not a cleaner hat out there to be
59:33
honest. And I'm like, I'm AU of a guy,
59:36
but that ASU hat is pretty unbeatable.
59:40
Yeah, this was. For those who don't know, this
59:42
was a a purchase from our World Baseball Classic.
59:47
Trip caught a game at the ASU that was That was good time.
59:51
Snag this hat, because why wouldn't you?
59:54
It's true. And if you don't know what we're
59:57
talking about, you're going to need to go to the YouTube and
1:00:01
while you're there, as they say, smash the subscribe button.
1:00:06
We're well on our way. We we're trying to reach our
1:00:09
goal of 2000. But anyway, yeah, Alec Noah
1:00:14
torched. At every level.
1:00:15
Guy stinks. That's about all we got there.
1:00:19
Trey Turner will miss not much to really talk about here, but
1:00:23
will miss at least six weeks with a left hamstring strain
1:00:28
after being injured in the Phillies game against the Giants
1:00:33
on Friday. It's big blow.
1:00:37
Big blow. You hate to see it.
1:00:39
Yeah, I I don't. It's Sosa.
1:00:43
Isn't that like bad of a fall off.
1:00:46
Like don't get me wrong he's not Trey Turner.
1:00:47
But it's not like a horrible fall off Sosa gives me, which I
1:00:54
there's no reason why you or any other fan base that isn't a
1:00:58
Yankees fan would understand the comp.
1:01:01
He gives me Eduardo Nunez Vibes. Sosa does like this.
1:01:06
Like, I'm going to give you average stuff and it's slightly
1:01:10
above average defense and like that's what you're going to get
1:01:13
from me and you're going to be OK.
1:01:17
Castellanos needs to figure out what is going on.
1:01:23
Bryce took Logan Webb deep tonight.
1:01:26
That absurd Brandon Marsh is hitting.
1:01:29
I mean like there's there's guys are going to like pick up the
1:01:31
slack. But yeah, Trey Turner is a is a
1:01:36
blow for sure. Six weeks.
1:01:44
That's tough. Hammies, man.
1:01:46
They'll get you, yeah. When was last time you stretched
1:01:49
your hammies? I was going to ask you, did you
1:01:52
ever pull your hammy? I've never pulled my hammy.
1:01:54
I did pull my hip flexor and that was miserable.
1:01:59
Yeah, hip flexor is no fun. Man, that was.
1:02:01
A lot of these things you don't realize how often or how.
1:02:05
Like, yeah, aggressively. You use these things on a
1:02:08
day-to-day basis until something happens and you're like, whoa.
1:02:12
Yeah, my hamstrings are I I think that Trey Turner with a
1:02:17
bad hamstring is still probably better hamstrings.
1:02:21
Yes. Yeah, he's got more things going
1:02:24
on than I do with my hamstrings at the moment.
1:02:27
Yeah, that ham a a strained hamstring for Trey Turner is
1:02:35
undoubtedly. Better than my current scenario.
1:02:39
That ranks higher on the list of all time hamstrings.
1:02:44
Than yours? Yep, at my peak.
1:02:47
Fully healthy. Yes, at my peak.
1:02:49
Yes, OK. Just want to make sure we're on
1:02:51
the same page here. Yep, we're long past peak.
1:02:53
We're long past prime mine. Included to answer your
1:02:57
question, last time I stretched my hamstring stretched in
1:03:01
general. Not like top shelf.
1:03:05
I got to reach this this like extra box of Mac and cheese.
1:03:10
That's a stretch in and of itself, but that's a stretch I'm
1:03:13
willing to make. But in terms of just like
1:03:17
physical workout kind of stretch, you know, warming up
1:03:21
for the gym. Just a couple of those, the old,
1:03:25
the old that one of those, the. Classic the classic arm across
1:03:28
the chest. It really didn't do anything,
1:03:30
but we did it anyway. The hamstrings, dude, I don't
1:03:36
know. I mean, I haven't done legs and
1:03:38
who knows how long, so that's that's a an issue in and of
1:03:42
itself. But the upper body, yeah, I
1:03:44
just, I crank out a few, I crank out a few push ups and I'm like,
1:03:47
all right, let's go, let's go put up what we can.
1:03:49
Loser of the A's bet has to has to stretch I think.
1:03:53
I think that's that's. Probably.
1:03:55
Well, it seems like a it seems like a win for whoever, I don't
1:03:58
think, I think. The first couple, The first
1:04:00
couple, yeah, it's probably not a win.
1:04:03
But long term though, that's that's that's adding years to
1:04:07
your life if we're being honest. Yeah, last thing really wanted
1:04:11
to cover here was the topic of closer entrances you I
1:04:18
mentioned. I thought it was.
1:04:22
I thought it was Johann Duran. I think a lot of people did.
1:04:26
I think we've all been saying, yo.
1:04:27
We've been duped. We've been speckled, Dorf.
1:04:32
Spell that real quick. So it's actually Johann Duran,
1:04:42
you. Weren't going to spell speckled
1:04:44
dorfs. OK, I was trying to skate past
1:04:46
it. Speckledorf.
1:04:48
SPEKLEDOR. Is it APH or is it an F?
1:04:57
No, it's definitely an F, But is it 2FS Speckledorf FED?
1:05:03
It's 1F. Did we forget AC in Speckled?
1:05:06
That's a big question. Did I not say?
1:05:07
That you've skipped over C? That's.
1:05:10
Oh, it's there's definitely AC. What is it?
1:05:12
A. What's the sound when you get it
1:05:15
wrong in spelling bee. Johann Duran.
1:05:20
I I hate that. But the.
1:05:22
The I mean it's the guy's name. I know, I know.
1:05:26
I just it. I think we should change it, I
1:05:27
think. It's not like his nickname, it's
1:05:29
his God-given name. You know, I hate it.
1:05:31
I think we should talk to him. I think we should talk to him
1:05:34
about it. The Twins broadcaster and like
1:05:36
the the PA announcer in the stadium both, said Johann.
1:05:41
Yeah, we thought the the broadcast team was was sipping
1:05:46
some juice behind the the mic because we're like we looked at
1:05:50
each other like. Yeah, some Minnesota cider, the
1:05:53
broadcast team, and then one Twins fan in the chat to let us
1:05:58
know if we're crazy for just now realizing this.
1:06:03
Johann Durant? Apparently it is, but close your
1:06:07
entrances back to the original point of conversation here is,
1:06:12
is this entrance better than Edwin Diaz's?
1:06:15
Because I think the belief. The belief before.
1:06:18
Actually, no, I don't even want to say belief.
1:06:20
I think the speculation because there's a lot of Orioles fans
1:06:24
that would tell you Felix Batista's entrance was better
1:06:27
than Edwin Diaz's. But you take the Orioles fans
1:06:31
out of it. I would venture to say the
1:06:33
majority of people have Edwin Diaz's entrance as the best in
1:06:36
baseball. And I'd I'd probably agree.
1:06:39
Like I know it gave him grief about it last year or when it
1:06:43
when it first when it first arrived, because it was all they
1:06:46
talked about. Yeah.
1:06:49
All they talked about Timmy trumpets everywhere, trumpets
1:06:54
everywhere. Mr. and Missus met with trumpets
1:06:56
everywhere. I never need to hear another
1:06:58
trumpet. Trumpets in the crowd
1:07:02
everywhere. Now we've got Duran's and I, I,
1:07:09
I, I tweeted it. I said this is better than Edwin
1:07:13
D's entrance and I stand by. There I do.
1:07:15
I do agree. If you if you watch the clip
1:07:18
when the flames come on and the beat drops fire.
1:07:22
Literally. Yeah, big time.
1:07:24
Big time. Is that Pitbull?
1:07:26
Who is that? Do we know?
1:07:28
Couldn't tell you It's definitely not Pitbull.
1:07:30
It's not Mr. It's not Mr. Worldwide, not Mr., Three O 5,
1:07:33
not Mr., not Dolly. Yeah.
1:07:37
Mr. Where Where? I That was pretty good.
1:07:40
I. Mr. Three O 5 Darling.
1:07:46
I know you want me. Dude, you know the guys.
1:07:50
Isn't he from like New Jersey? The guy is literally from new.
1:07:56
I'm like 99% sure he's from the Mid-Atlantic.
1:08:01
Nope, he's definitely from Miami.
1:08:05
No, it's kind of hard. To stand by, stand by, stand by.
1:08:08
No, no, no, no, no. Stand by.
1:08:09
What's? His real name?
1:08:12
Armando. Christian Perez, Stand by.
1:08:16
Hold on. I'm not crazy.
1:08:17
I promise you. I promise you.
1:08:19
Let's let's go down to his his, his early life here, man.
1:08:27
It's got a lot of history on. He's got a lot of hits too.
1:08:30
I don't think you realize it. A lot of bangers.
1:08:36
You're telling me that rap part wasn't Pitbull?
1:08:40
I don't think so. Gave me Pitbull.
1:08:43
Oh, here we go. Early Life and Background was
1:08:47
born in January 15th, 1981 in Miami to Cuban immigrant
1:08:51
parents. He learned English by watching
1:08:56
Sesame Street as a child. Sure, so did I.
1:09:00
Telling you he briefly stayed with a foster family in
1:09:03
Rossville, GA, attended South Miami Senior High School.
1:09:10
Nope. I'm like, where?
1:09:15
Hold on, You go on with whatever you're going to say.
1:09:21
Johann Duran I Number one. I'm a fan.
1:09:26
When the lights go out, I'm a fan.
1:09:30
With the flashlights, I think there's got to be a certain
1:09:34
point where you don't need to call it out, you know what I
1:09:36
mean? Like grab your phones like that
1:09:39
needs to go away. I think it just needs to be
1:09:41
known. I think it will.
1:09:43
It needs to be a big enough entrance for you to know that to
1:09:46
do that. But overall, I give it like a
1:09:49
strong, I give it like an 8.8 intro, you know?
1:09:55
The tough thing is you see where where closers.
1:09:59
I mean, am I just being? Am I just being a Homer by
1:10:04
saying MO is like still? Yeah, that's You're never going
1:10:08
to top mouse. And it's like the coldest
1:10:10
because it's like. Miami.
1:10:12
No lights, no like. And that, like that wasn't a.
1:10:16
Thing it's just MO coming out like and no like walking no
1:10:20
like, it's just MO. I think that's the coldest, but
1:10:26
I think the Braves do something with the lights, too, during
1:10:31
pitching changes. I think they all.
1:10:33
Yeah, they do the they do the chop.
1:10:35
They do the chop with their phones.
1:10:37
Yeah, which is electric. Is that was that?
1:10:40
Their workaround was that. The workaround say that no.
1:10:44
I think that was the workaround to like cancel culture.
1:10:46
They were like, well, we could do the chop, just turn the
1:10:49
lights off and no one is really going to be able to catch us
1:10:54
you. Know.
1:10:54
Well, doing the chop isn't exactly a workaround when it's
1:10:58
quite literally what people were trying to cancel them for.
1:11:01
But I see your point. Like doing in the dark under the
1:11:04
cover of darkness, yeah. Yeah, so also like Minnesota,
1:11:08
I'm going to need you to fill the seats a little bit more if
1:11:11
that's going to be your play. You know what I mean?
1:11:13
Like you got to be. You're exposing yourself if
1:11:16
you're not a sell out crowd, that's all.
1:11:22
Mr. Where Where? Are you still still deep diving?
1:11:26
Dude, I'm going to find some website that says that Pitbull
1:11:30
lived in New Jersey. Oh, you will.
1:11:35
A new study finds that New Jersey residents trust owners of
1:11:38
pitbulls, the least of all dog breed owners.
1:11:41
There's a typical. Is that relevant?
1:11:44
Is that relevant? Google says it is.
1:11:52
I swear to you dude, I watched a special on him one time.
1:11:58
Very interesting. Guy's got a heck of a story.
1:12:03
I'm telling you. He lived in somewhere in the
1:12:05
Mid-Atlantic. This is where we're at three O 5
1:12:11
man. We have covered a lot today.
1:12:16
Yeah, which leads us to our our closing closing point.
1:12:21
Do you have a three O green light for us today?
1:12:22
I did the jungle lead thing, so now like, let me manufacture
1:12:26
something off the top of my head, 'cause I you don't need
1:12:28
to. We OK, we need to make that a
1:12:30
point. We don't.
1:12:31
We we should only bring something to the table if
1:12:34
there's something to share. Like we don't need to
1:12:36
manufacture green light. Like if we've got a rant brewing
1:12:39
or if we've got something that we really need to address, then
1:12:42
we share it. But we don't need to feel
1:12:43
obligated to bring that to the table.
1:12:46
So if you don't have anything, if you're not feeling
1:12:47
particularly spicy right now, or.
1:12:50
Then I'm taking it. I'm just going to take it.
1:12:51
Yeah, I'm just going. To take this one, nothing's
1:12:53
pressing on your heart at this point in time.
1:12:56
Green light, I decided that's OK.
1:12:59
I don't want this one. The green light, yeah, you have
1:13:03
the ability to to let the ball go by you.
1:13:06
I don't need to. The green light is.
1:13:09
Just you have one. The opportunity to be taken I
1:13:13
have a green light. Can we talk about these oven
1:13:17
mitts? There it is.
1:13:20
I like this one. So I've I've been done on these
1:13:27
oven mitts for some time, but after seeing seeing Harrison
1:13:30
Bader's monstrosity, dude, what are we doing?
1:13:35
It's a big one. I mean, that thing was no less
1:13:43
than 16 inches. That's what she said.
1:13:48
The the also good claps, good claps.
1:13:54
Paige and I were at lunch the other day that like a little
1:13:58
like sports bar thing across the street and like this travel team
1:14:04
came in. They're probably like 13-14
1:14:05
years old and one of the kids had the oven mitts still in the
1:14:09
back pocket and I'm like bro with heavy, heavy, heavy, high
1:14:14
black, heavy eye black in the mullet.
1:14:18
I was like, man, this. Anyway, it's the oven Mitt.
1:14:24
The oven mitts are getting out of control and.
1:14:26
Bigger than any oven Mitt I have in the kitchen, by the way, for
1:14:29
my frozen pizzas. Well, there you go if you try.
1:14:34
If you tried to put your oven Mitt that's in the kitchen on
1:14:38
and swipe a bag, the odds of you getting to said bag are probably
1:14:44
going to be a lot lower for obvious reasons.
1:14:48
Are going to be a lot lower than a guy like Harrison Bader, who's
1:14:51
using a glove that's no less than 71 inches.
1:14:59
I'd like to know how many IL stints we've seen because of
1:15:03
like a broken finger or like a dislocated finger or something.
1:15:06
I don't think it's as common as the oven Mitt is.
1:15:12
I think we're on to something here, I think.
1:15:14
I think this was just a ruse. Like if we think like the elbow
1:15:18
guard sure happens. Shin guard a bit.
1:15:21
Shin guard? Sure happens quite a bit.
1:15:24
Cup happens. We don't want to talk about that
1:15:28
though. We're just going to breeze past
1:15:30
that one. The helmet, by the way.
1:15:33
Did you see that? Who was that on?
1:15:36
The Mets? Slid into second, Took the
1:15:39
helmet off, Kept the helmet on the bag.
1:15:42
What are we? Doing it was Pete Kroll
1:15:44
Armstrong, by the way. It was the Mets game.
1:15:47
Odd. Oh, it was a cubby.
1:15:48
Yeah. Yeah, yeah, that's right.
1:15:50
Odd. Not legal.
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Shouldn't be legal. If it is, no.
1:15:57
Using a a piece of equipment improperly.
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And that's the whole argument behind the Mitt.
1:16:02
Is that like it's just like this length that you're adding to
1:16:06
your Edward Scissorhand fingers? Now that could be something I'd
1:16:12
get on board with some Edward Scissorhands instead of the MIT.
1:16:16
No, but this goes back to the whole conversation we had.
1:16:21
I mean honestly at this point, it's been years since we had
1:16:23
this conversation. But I remember talking about, I
1:16:26
don't remember what started it or what we were referencing or
1:16:29
talking about at that point in time.
1:16:30
But it was a it was a heated topic of discussion but it was
1:16:33
talked about home run trots and I said if if we let this go
1:16:39
unchecked because this was, this was like in the heat in the
1:16:43
heart of the let the kids play movement back when they were
1:16:47
like plastering on T-shirts and it was on every MLBTV commercial
1:16:51
Let the kids play. Just jamming it down.
1:16:53
Our Dolly Three O 5 Miss worldwide.
1:16:56
It was all that, it was all that.
1:17:01
I said, if we let this go unchecked, you're going to see
1:17:07
guys running the bases. They're going to be stripping
1:17:12
their clothes off, They're going to be taking dumps on each base.
1:17:16
They're going to be, well, they're going to do a euro, step
1:17:18
to the base, take a dump on the bag, go to 2nd, do the same,
1:17:24
third the same 4th. Who knows, they might shoot
1:17:27
somebody in the crowds crossing home plate.
1:17:29
I don't know. We're going to start seeing it
1:17:32
because if it goes unchecked, who's to, who's to stop anybody,
1:17:36
any one of these guys from doing any of those things?
1:17:39
Well, maybe like the police for from.
1:17:42
Shooting. I need you to reel this in.
1:17:43
Yeah, I need you to tone it. Tone it down here.
1:17:45
What are we? What are we on here?
1:17:48
Reeler back. That that point apart, hey,
1:17:51
there's no need to reel anything back.
1:17:53
I'm this this circle? Is this point is coherent the
1:17:57
same thing? What is it?
1:17:59
Oh, is there a caboose to this train of thought?
1:18:02
One of the best things you could say.
1:18:06
The point is that going unchecked, we're not going to,
1:18:14
we're not going to see an end, We're not going to see an end to
1:18:17
this oven Mitt thing you're going to start seeing.
1:18:19
It's going to be ever so slight, ever so subtle.
1:18:22
Half an inch. Half an inch and then next thing
1:18:27
you know these guys are going to take their drop step to steal a
1:18:29
bag. They're going to stick their
1:18:30
hand out and they stole the bag. Swipe I'm.
1:18:35
Back. There.
1:18:39
And you laugh and people laugh. They think I'm being ridiculous.
1:18:43
Unless Major League Baseball comes out and implements
1:18:47
legislation against it, who's to say?
1:18:52
There's no rule to my knowledge, that says there has to be a
1:18:56
limit on the oven Mitt length. So what's stopping somebody from
1:18:59
snagging? And we've we see these plays all
1:19:01
the time. Bang, bang.
1:19:03
An inch makes a huge difference. Don't say anything to that.
1:19:07
No, no, no. An inch makes a huge difference.
1:19:12
Size matters here. We are all over the place in
1:19:17
this episode. I'm here for it.
1:19:19
I'm talking about the oven Mitt. I haven't even had a sip of
1:19:22
anything yet today, nor have I go to mile.
1:19:29
That's all I wanted to say. Left unchecked, left unchecked,
1:19:37
this this could turn into a a real story I.
1:19:45
Think we're out of stuff now? I think that's it.
1:19:48
Yeah. Change your name.
1:19:51
That's all I wanted to say. Do you got anything else for the
1:19:54
people? This is absurd.
1:19:56
No happy single file, yeah. This is a fun one.
1:20:00
Oh oh oh oh the bet. What is our final?
1:20:02
What are our final wagers? What's our final wager for the
1:20:05
bet as have to go over their next 14 games, They have to go
1:20:10
500 or better for me to win the bet.
1:20:12
And if they go, if they're under 500 ball for the next 14 games,
1:20:16
you win the bet. What's the wager?
1:20:21
Keep in mind we could decide before first pitch on Monday and
1:20:25
I could like tweet it out and post it for those so it's on
1:20:29
record at least, and then we can reference it next episode.
1:20:32
Yeah. Unless you think.
1:20:35
Unless you got something right now that you can think of.
1:20:41
Shave your legs. Absolutely not.
1:20:46
Once you start, Once you start shaving something, it comes back
1:20:50
thicker, coarser. The biggest myth?
1:20:52
That's the most middle school myth.
1:20:54
It's absolutely not. No way.
1:20:57
I shave my head all the time and it's still not coming back.
1:21:01
I think everywhere except the head, I think everywhere except
1:21:04
the head. And on that note, we're going
1:21:06
to, we're going to moratorium on.
1:21:08
That we could we could we could swim into some dangerous waters.
1:21:13
There any who's. I don't know, man.
1:21:17
Wager for the bet like I don't know what do you.
1:21:26
I think it's has to. I think we have to wear
1:21:28
something, I think. That's fine.
1:21:29
Yeah, that's fair. That's fair.
1:21:31
Something that has to be worn. Oh.
1:21:33
Hold on, I got an idea. Stand by.
1:21:35
I was. Going to say like, I think our
1:21:38
wives would get mad but like wear something of theirs.
1:21:46
I mean, I I no, I think we make it.
1:21:50
I I feel like we got to make it Oakland age-related.
1:22:00
I I think we make it something Oakland age-related and we make
1:22:04
it have to be something that has to be worn on the podcast.
1:22:11
How? Are they selling?
1:22:12
Are they selling any Sacramento as stuff yet?
1:22:15
When I. When I said stand by I I
1:22:18
immediately did a Google search of the Oakland A's mascot to see
1:22:23
if they had like an elephant head that we could wear on the
1:22:27
mascot, because that would be that.
1:22:29
Would be tough. We'll we'll think on it.
1:22:36
We can, we can we? Have until what time is that
1:22:38
game? I think it's at 9:40 tomorrow
1:22:41
Eastern. Yeah, tomorrow, Tomorrow at
1:22:48
9:40, Monday at 9:40 PM Eastern. We got all day.
1:22:51
So I'll I'll put out a tweet with the wager and that way
1:22:55
it'll be on the record and we can revisit it next episode.
1:22:58
All right, all right. Maybe we poll it too.
1:23:01
Maybe we get a couple ideas and and we got to throw a poll.
1:23:04
On there. That's fair.
1:23:06
I like it. That's all I got.
1:23:08
Unless you got anything else. We're out of here.
1:23:11
We'll go chasing curveballs, folks.
1:23:13
We'll have you on as always. Looking forward to talking more
1:23:15
baseball with you guys soon. Until next time, stay filthy.