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Gerrit Cole DONE for 2025 · The 3-0 Take

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  Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to the Three O Take where we talk
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  all things Major League Baseball.
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  Here's Kyle Corwin and Nate Reyes.
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  It all starts right now. Welcome back to the Three O Take
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  presented by Sea Kick. This episode 519.
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  I'll be your host, Kyle Cord, and I'm here with my Co host
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  Nate Reyes. Nate.
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  What's up, buddy? What, what, what day is it?
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  We're I don't know the date. I don't know day of the week.
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  I don't know it is it spring? Is it still the end of winter?
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  Days are longer. It's it's light out when I wake
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  up. Baseball still doesn't feel like
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  it's it's close, but it is close.
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  I haven't watched any spring training.
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  Like I'm in this weird like limbo stuck in between Stranger
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  Things world at the moment and I hate it.
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  I think it's safe to say we're at that point in spring training
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  where it's like, OK, I think we've seen what we need to see.
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  Let's all the. All they're all checked out.
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  Why can't I be? Checked out.
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  Let's yeah, let's, let's get it. Let's get it going towards
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  opening Day. Let's get it going.
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  How about it? I was, I was thinking to you
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  earlier, by the way, I don't, I don't know how to, I don't know
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  how to feel about the Red Sox Netflix docu series.
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  Breaking news, Justin from Jeff Passan.
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  Kansas City Royal star Bobby Wood Junior did not suffer a
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  broken bone when he was hit on the left forearm by a 96 mile an
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  hour fastball today, sources tell ESPN.
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  While the timetable for his return is unclear, wit is wit is
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  expected to avoid a long absence.
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  That's what we like to hear. That's what we like to hear.
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  Friend of the program Bobby Witt Junior avoids the long absence.
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  But this, this docu series you're talking about.
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  Yeah, dude, I don't know. I saw that.
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  I watched the trailer today. They're hyping it up as if it's
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  not a team that finished 500 yeah and missed the playoffs.
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  I don't I'm I'm not entirely sure how you're really going to
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  be able to milk this for eight episodes.
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  I love the concept. Don't get me wrong.
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  I I think this like ML BS take on Hard Knocks whatever is just.
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  That's what I'm saying. Like, yeah, like it, it's, I'm
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  caught it. I'm kind of on the fence about
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  it for multitude of reasons. Obviously it's the Red Sox.
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  So like I'm not super intrigued, but then at the same time, the
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  Red Sox didn't do well last year.
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  So like that makes it a little easier.
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  But then overall, this is like the first Hard Knocks ish show
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  for baseball. Like I want to watch it, but but
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  I but I don't because I don't care about the Red Sox.
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  You know what I'm saying? It's a weird thing.
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  Like if the Yankees were in it for the first one, Like, I feel
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  like you'd feel weird being like, oh, I'm excited that this
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  is a thing, that this, this show has become a thing.
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  Sure, yeah. But like, I don't know if I need
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  to watch it, but at the same time, I feel like I do need to
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  watch it. I'm going to watch it for us.
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  I'm going to watch it for this for this podcast and this.
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  Podcast dude, I, I mean, I'm a socks guy and even 8 episodes on
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  a team that for all intents and purposes uninspiring.
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  I don't, I mean, I'm going to watch the whole thing, no doubt,
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  but it's, it's going to be kind of hard to get through when you
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  know the end result, you know? That that's, that's what I was
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  going to say. So many of the the names that
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  are in in that are already gone. The fact that it's going to be
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  after opening day when this finally comes out, it's like I
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  wish I could have been able to consume this sort of sort of put
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  a bow on last year and and then we go full bore into 2025.
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  But now it's like I got to start 2020, the I got to start the
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  2025 season opening day. A few days pass and then I get
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  to look back on an OR I get to watch an 8 part docu series on a
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  team from last year that finished 500.
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  That it's whatever. Yeah, and I'm kind of with you.
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  That's the thing about like Hard Knocks is like live.
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  It's like the week and it's, I don't know, maybe they just have
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  a bigger budget, but it's Netflix.
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  So like they can't have that small of a budget.
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  I don't I don't know what to do. It worked for full swing.
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  Full swing with it was the G1 and that was like after the
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  season. So I like it.
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  For me, I'm like I, I can kind of see how that works.
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  But Hard Knocks is like live. It comes out like two days after
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  you watch that pre season game. They turn that thing around
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  quick. Man that that editing team is on
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  it. I saw a note the other day it
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  said Netflix is set to spend $18 billion on content this year.
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  Just cool. 18 Billy. 18 Bill. Speaking of which, that's
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  basically what Garrett Cole got paid, and he's set to miss the
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  entire 2025 season and presumably maybe a little more
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  or a little bit of the 2026 season with Tommy John.
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  Nate, you saw this coming. It's official.
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  Where's your head at? Wait, how does this impact or
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  affect your expectations or lack thereof for the 2025 season?
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  I don't even know. I don't even know.
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  I'm in a weird place. Like I'm in a real weird place.
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  OK. You knew how I felt last year.
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  You knew how I felt about this team last year because like I
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  was, I feel, I feel like I was one of the few people that saw
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  what that team was in reality. They over performed, but like
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  they're winning, kind of covered up all of their issues and then
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  all their issues were brought to light on the biggest stage.
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  What's weird is that the offseason was spent taking care
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  of those issues that were brought to light.
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  Then you lost a superstar, then injuries came.
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  Like it's like, I don't know, like I'm like there's aspects to
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  it where I'm like, OK, I'm excited to see this team
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  actually play defense. I'm excited to see this team
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  that got rid of like multiple bad baserunners.
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  I'm excited that there are bullpen and staff got stronger
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  and then injuries happened and I'm like, I like the things you
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  fixed, but now this is going wrong.
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  You know, you ever seen those stupid like apps?
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  There's always like an ad for this like app or game where it's
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  just like it's like a little like cartoon family and they're
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  like in the house and it's freezing because the winds
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  blowing through the window because the windows broken.
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  And then it's like, do you want to put firewood in the fireplace
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  or do you want to fix the window or do you you know what I'm
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  saying? Or do you want to stop the
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  flooding? Like, yeah.
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  And then you do that and then like something else goes wrong.
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  That's. It's like it's like those or not
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  Venn diagrams, but those those things where it's like pick two
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  of three. It's like a good paying job,
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  sleep and like free time and you can only pick two and then the
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  if you try to if you try to pick another one then another one
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  says Nope. Good luck.
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  Like all that, like the other stuff goes wrong.
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  I'm just like, that's kind of how I feel at the moment.
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  So like, not to mention, you know, the Red Sox got better and
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  sure did. You got to assume that the Rays
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  are going to be more competitive than last year.
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  You got to assume that the Orioles, despite not doing what
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  everyone hoped for, they're still going to be a problem.
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  Yeah, but we. Blue Jays, are they Like, are
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  they going to have some bounce back seasons from people?
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  Are they going to double down on success?
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  Try and get Vladdy to stay at the deadline like.
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  Don't no, no, no, no, no, no, no.
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  Let me stop you there. Don't let your pessimism after
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  this Garrett Cole, TJ news inflate your feelings about
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  other teams in the league. I mean, jokes aside by aside, I
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  think your your feelings are around.
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  The Red Sox are fair. I think you're correct in saying
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  that the Rays, as they usually do, figure out a way.
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  We've been saying that for literally eternity.
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  But like with the Orioles, we, you just don't know.
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  With the Jays like I, I mean. The Orioles are still going to
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  win. They're still an 86 to 88 win
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  team in my opinion. And what if that offense goes
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  cold for an extended period of time?
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  Then what? Then what I.
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  Don't know. I don't know.
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  Usually in baseball, you need one side of the ball to be to be
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  going right at a given time. If you're at the other side of
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  the ball is falling short and they only have one side of the
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  ball right now, and that's offense.
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  So that offense goes cold. I don't know what the Orioles do
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  all that to. Say if they're bullpen, you
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  know, with Batista coming back, it's like, and then it's hard to
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  say that that offense is going to go cold because like you, you
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  have all this core that's gotten, you know, one year
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  older. It's just like, I don't know, I,
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  I don't I don't know how to feel.
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  I don't know I don't know if the Yankees becoming more balanced
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  after losing Soto makes them better than last year.
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  I don't know if they performed so well last year that it, it
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  was, it was the standard or it wasn't the standard.
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  Like, I don't, I don't know where I'm at.
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  Like, I, I love Max Freed. I I, I, I'm excited about him
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  but like to rely on him as an ace after all the injuries.
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  Like, I don't know. You don't have a choice.
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  To to see a super excited Louis Hill going down with a, you
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  know, a lat and being done for at least two or three months
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  like so. Did I just hear a Louis Hill?
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  Louis Hill? Is it not Louise Hill?
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  You just Shorty. You just shorthand it.
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  OK. That's what I thought.
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  Yeah. I like that.
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  Louis Hill. I like that, yeah.
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  It's flow. It flows.
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  Yeah. Oh yeah, I like it.
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  Well, I I can't go on record as saying that I like that, but.
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  Yeah. And then like, I, I don't know,
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  I don't have any faith in Rodon. I don't have any faith in
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  Stroman. Clark Schmidt is is hopefully
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  going to chew up innings. But like overall, I, I don't
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  doesn't really do it for me. Like Will Warren has gotten some
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  starts, but like, is he going to step up and have 25 starts?
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  I people have talked about like, are they going to go make a
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  splashy trade? But like they've done everything
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  they can to stay under that tax threshold.
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  They're at the cap. They don't have any more room.
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  They can't go anywhere else. So you can't go and add somebody
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  without subtracting somebody. But in reality, there's not
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  really anybody that they can subtract.
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  It's it's a nightmare. It's a nightmare.
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  I would, I'm going to assume some.
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  I mean, I've heard names that are like, they're just, they're
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  not splashy names. They're not exciting names.
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  They're not names that like really do anything for anybody.
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  You know, when when you go look at like the back end of a
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  Cardinal staff at like a Eric Fetty, Steven Matz is over
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  there, like it's like that's the kind of thing that Cashman's
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  going to do. It's going to be that type of
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  stuff. It's not going to be a Sandy
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  Alcantra. It's just not going to happen.
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  Well, you're up against the clock.
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  Yeah. I mean, you got to figure it out
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  because nobody, nobody is going to make even a remotely
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  noteworthy trade for. Like, they don't.
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  Those things just don't happen in the first three months of the
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  season. So either get it done while
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  you're still in camp or you're just going to have to wait till
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  the deadline if you're still in it at that point.
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  Which who's to say if if they would be or not?
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  I don't know. Yeah, I don't think it's going
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  to happen. I, I think I said this last
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  week, they're notorious for snagging a guy that got, you
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  know, let go after spring training, a vet that, you know,
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  maybe had some time with another organization, but they just
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  didn't have the, the roster spot for him.
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  And then that's where they'll kind of swoop in and go get a
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  veteran. They'll like, I thought it was
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  going to be like a, you know, the third baseman or a left
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  fielder, but now it's I don't even know, man.
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  I wasn't super into the roster configuration last year.
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  I'm not super into the roster configuration this year.
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  I'm I'm kind of at that point where like I'm, I'm about done
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  with Brian Cashman. And then overall, like, I can't,
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  I can't blame him too much if Hal is tying one hand behind his
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  back. Got a question in the chat, Nate
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  Cookie Carrasco or Will Warren for the fifth spot?
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  Yeah, I don't even I haven't watched the cookie Carrasco
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  start, so I don't know I'm going to assume will Warren, but I'm
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  it sucks like losing faith this quickly, like they're you and I
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  have talked about having like this.
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  We're all at the this starting line at the same time, like you.
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  Even if you have an inkling, you still have like this, like this
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  random, like delusional faith and like, it's hard to to take
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  hits like this. I don't, I legitimately don't.
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  Don't remember the last time you were a cocky Yankees fan.
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  Like genuinely not like putting up, not like not faking it, not
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  trying to like hype yourself up, like legitimately firing from
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  the hip, letting it eat. Like 2018, because like 2017 was
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  like, right there and close, yeah.
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  I mean 2018 came down to the the LDS between stocks and Yanks and
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  and that was AI mean. That was a heck of a year for
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  both of those teams. Obviously one more so than the
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  other. But I mean that that was the
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  last time you probably were feeling like actually good
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  because even last year, but this you were just waiting for the
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  other shoe to drop for the Yankees last year.
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  Oh, A. 100% the whole year, the whole year, then even through
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  the post season. Like it just, I knew that this
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  I, I, I, when you watch a team everyday, like you can kind of
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  see that it's not just about the win total, it's about other
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  aspects. And, and they were ugly at
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  times. They were very ugly at times.
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  The ceiling was high, but the floor was like really low.
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  And that's not what good teams are, are made-up of.
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  So I don't know, man, they they just, I'm kind of sick of this
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  era of like they hoard prospects.
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  They they act like these prospects are, are worth the
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  world. And then they limit their
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  playing time or keep their playing time inconsistent.
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  And then when they get to the show, they're typically not as
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  good as what everyone made them out to be.
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  And then they're not having any trade value anymore.
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  And then you bring in some old guy like, that's just what they
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  do. It's it's been the same formula
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  for too long. And that's what gets me to this
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  point of like, I'm, I'm going to watch them every day.
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  I'm going to root for him. I'm still going to yell at my TV
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  out of frustration and expect them to play better.
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  But I'm, I'm struggling. I'm struggling.
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  Putting a ball on this, Gerrit Cole, obviously, as we mentioned
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  out for the year, any concern moving forward, assuming he
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  comes back at some point next year, returns the bump.
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  Any concern now that he'll have this under his belt?
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  It's hard to say, man. It's hard to say.
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  We saw what it did to Verlander this late in your career, you
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  know what I mean? Like he's obviously not the
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  same. It's one thing if you're 242526
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  years old and you get TJ, you're like, oh, you got plenty of, you
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  got a long, you know, highway ahead of you to, to let that
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  career figure itself out. You know, at this age, it's
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  like, you don't know, not that, you know, Garrett Cole's 3839
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  years old, but he's up there. So there's some concern.
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  There's still, I think, three years left on that contract and
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  yeah, I don't know, really glad they got freed.
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  I'm. Like no kidding.
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  Made that happen. Maybe that's why this was the
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  maybe this was like in the back of their head as as a
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  possibility because he did have elbow issues last year and he
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  obviously missed a lot of last year.
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  So it was like, yeah, it's time to transition into somebody
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  else. This is a transition.
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  It's a heck of a segue. Take 3.
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  This is a heck of a transition. I can't.
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  I'm not going to feel good about this quote, I can already tell.
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  Whose quote was this? Whose quote was this?
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  I mean, probably not a great deal.
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  I mean, I think Yankee fans are hoping for the best pitcher in
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  baseball for about 5 years. I think if you hope for anything
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  more than that, you're getting a little over the top.
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  But you're also seeing a possible trend with, you know,
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  fighting the clock. Verlander is still a stud and
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  he's deep into his 30s. So I mean, you're starting to
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  see a possible trend. This was from the Three O Take
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  episode 110 Free Agent Flurry, December 17th, 2019.
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  Based on certain words being said, I know it's me and I'm
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  not. I'm not going to throw myself
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  under the bus here. Well done, well done.
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  I have a tell and I'm not proud of it, but that's me.
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  But. I, I gave you a softball there,
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  but I figured, man, what a what a, what a transition.
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  It's a. Good little little reality
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  check, though, It's a good little reality check because
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  like that's, I think that holds up.
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  I think it holds up. You know, we've, we'd fall in
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  love with names and we expect everyone to age gracefully
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  because of how big of a name they are or how many milestones
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  they have in their career or even, you know, locking them in
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  as a Hall of Famer. That's great.
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  But like, these contracts just don't age well.
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  These contracts rarely go well when it's all said and done.
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  Yeah, I just don't know. I mean, to be fair, I think
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  we're seeing front front offices and ownership.
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  Do you know, finally seen the write down on the wall and
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  they're just not they're not getting these or you're not
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  seeing as many of these senseless deals.
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  But there for a while I was wondering, I was like, how many
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  of these do we need to see age poorly for for people to realize
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  like I don't know, maybe we shouldn't be locking guys in for
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  1415 years. Crazy.
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  And that's and that's the that's AAV problem.
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  That's the that's the issue with like you're going to see it with
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  Soto, you're going to see it with Vladi that they're not
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  going to age well. They never do.
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  That's just how it goes. It is what it is.
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  But Alexandopolis changed the game with these buying out
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  arbitration years early extension, team friendly deals.
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  It's going to be the norm at a certain point.
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  Speaking of locking a guy in, the Dodgers locked up a manager,
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  Dave Roberts, on a four year extension on Tuesday.
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  The new deal runs from the 26th season to the 29th season and is
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  the new record for AV on a manager's contract, topping
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  Craig Counsel's contract. But I think, but I think what
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  like barely topping? Statement contract.
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  Barely topping counsel's contract.
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  I believe it was very small, small margin, but nonetheless,
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  Dodgers get their guy for another four years.
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  I'll be honest, I did if you would have asked me this. 2-3
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  years ago. 2-3 years ago I was, yeah, I was thinking three years
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  ago I would have said no, you're crazy.
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  There's no way Dave Roberts is managing this club in 2029, but
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  here we are. And to be fair, I mean, it's
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  possible he's not like, you know, maybe they cut ties early
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  or something, who knows. But on paper at least, he is
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  locked into 2029. And that's just, it's wild to me
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  because, and I feel like we bring this up anytime we talk.
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  Dave Roberts, there was so much of the fan base calling for this
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  guy's head because they they said this guy over manages this
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  guy's in over his head. This guy is good for nothing
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  more than a divisional title. How now, Now what, how, how we
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  feeling now Dodgers fans, are we happy?
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  Are we finally, finally happy with this decision?
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  Because I mean, you want to talk about a baseball guy.
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  And I know that gets thrown around maybe more than it
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  should, but I genuinely feel like Dave Roberts is just a
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  baseball guy. And I, I, I think we've talked
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  about like with the shift in, in personnel in front offices and
• 23:47
  now more so I, I feel like with managers, you're, you're, you're
• 23:51
  seeing maybe a little bit of shine away from the overly
• 23:55
  analytical minded people. And you're getting to, and I'm
• 23:58
  not saying that the people that are in these positions aren't
• 24:01
  analytically minded, but I'm just saying like you're still,
• 24:04
  you're still seeing people now more so than I think you did a
• 24:09
  few years ago that have a have a true feel for the game.
• 24:13
  And I think Dave Roberts has a feel for the game, despite an
• 24:18
  occasional maybe over reliance on an analytic what an analytic
• 24:24
  report says or or you know what have you.
• 24:27
  But I I think this is a good, I think this is a good move for
• 24:31
  the Dodgers. And with with everything that
• 24:34
  you have going on right now, like, why not?
• 24:36
  Why not? This is a This is a extending
• 24:39
  Dave Roberts is a footnote in this offseason.
• 24:44
  Yeah. A footnote extending the manager
• 24:49
  through 29/20/29 would be the highlight for a lot of teams.
• 24:54
  This is like this is Backpage newspaper type stuff here.
• 24:59
  Yeah, well, I mean, they've just run out of pages.
• 25:04
  So much, so much to fill in, man.
• 25:08
  Yeah, no brainer in my opinion. I've got a question for you
• 25:12
  though, do you think? I love when you hit me with
• 25:16
  questions. You should do it more.
• 25:18
  Do you think Dave Roberts has the easiest managerial job this
• 25:26
  year or the hardest? No, we've already set.
• 25:32
  We've we talked about this when they brought in where, where did
• 25:37
  we draw the line? Like what was what?
• 25:39
  Remind me, what was the move where we're like, OK.
• 25:44
  This. I think it was Kirby Yates,
• 25:46
  wasn't it? Was it?
• 25:49
  Yeah, Yeah, you're probably right.
• 25:50
  I think it was one of those. Kirby Yates like minor right
• 25:53
  after. I know, I know what you're
• 25:59
  thinking, no. No, it was.
• 26:03
  It was to What's wrong with me, the freaking lefty, The lefty
• 26:10
  reliever that everyone wanted this year.
• 26:11
  Oh, Scott. Tanner Scott.
• 26:12
  Yeah, Tanner Scott. Yeah, those couple dominoes
• 26:15
  fell. Yeah, I remember that.
• 26:16
  Yeah. I think you're right, Tanner
• 26:17
  Scott was that was like the because it was like a few days
• 26:20
  after Snell, wasn't it? No, Snow was snow was early.
• 26:24
  Snow was early. I thought it was like really
• 26:27
  close to another deal. I think you're right.
• 26:32
  There were some dominoes that fell sort of consecutively
• 26:34
  there. And and I think I going back to
• 26:37
  what I was saying, I think you're right.
• 26:38
  I think it was one of the lesser moves where it was like, man
• 26:43
  didn't see this happening. But at the same time, you could
• 26:46
  very easily see this happening in the chat.
• 26:50
  You mean the move where the Dodgers brought on an entire
• 26:52
  Japanese pro team? Yeah, that, that one.
• 26:55
  Maybe it was right after, I think it was Sasaki.
• 26:58
  And then like 3 or 4 days later, yeah, Tanner Scott came through
• 27:03
  and we're like, really? Yeah, and, and, and that's where
• 27:06
  I went on that rant. And I said something to the
• 27:08
  effect of like, you have no choice but to run the table here
• 27:14
  because you're too good, not. Yeah, that's the that's the why
• 27:18
  I brought up the question. That's why, like is it, does he
• 27:22
  have the hardest job? Does he have the easiest job?
• 27:28
  Well, if I'm standing by that take of you have no choice but
• 27:32
  to run, run the table this year, then I have to I have to assume
• 27:36
  or I have to stick by the fact that I believe he's got the
• 27:39
  toughest because of the expectations on this team.
• 27:44
  I mean, you are going to be under the microscope.
• 27:47
  Every I think he's got the easiest job because he can't be
• 27:52
  blamed because every button he presses is a freaking star.
• 27:58
  Every button he presses is a start.
• 27:59
  Not like it falls on the player this year more than Dave Roberts
• 28:04
  ever. Like in any of the situations
• 28:06
  that we've, we've gone after Dave Roberts in the past.
• 28:10
  It hasn't necessarily been about a player not fulfilling what
• 28:17
  they're supposed to be. You know, like not living up to
• 28:18
  the hype. It's it's been Dave Roberts
• 28:22
  pressing a button in a weird time because of analytics or
• 28:26
  because of following the script, right?
• 28:29
  Like now it's like every button you press, it's like, well, I
• 28:34
  don't blame you. I don't blame you for pulling
• 28:37
  out glass now in the 5th inning because you're, you know, if
• 28:40
  you're bringing in Tanner Scott right after Kirby Yates,
• 28:44
  whatever you're going to be doing in the 6th, 7th, 8th and
• 28:47
  9th innings, like I get you pressing that button.
• 28:52
  It makes sense. You know what I mean?
• 28:55
  That's why I feel like it's the I.
• 28:57
  Guess, but no, I, I just can't I can't get on board with that
• 29:00
  because it's like if, if for whatever reason this team hits a
• 29:05
  slide, who are they going to look to Sure, the accountability
• 29:11
  needs to fall on that roster on that lineup because of how good
• 29:14
  they are and how otherworldly like half that starting lineup
• 29:19
  is. But what if no, I'm not even
• 29:22
  going to say what if when they hit a slide, because it's
• 29:24
  inevitable in this game. Some some teams are shorter than
• 29:29
  others in a given year, certainly, but when they hit a
• 29:32
  slide, who who else is there going to be The Who like who
• 29:36
  else are you going to have to look at?
• 29:37
  It's going to have to be Dave Roberts because it's like you're
• 29:42
  going to have to, you're going to have to be a manager now
• 29:45
  because your team is at a point right now where they they're
• 29:48
  just, they're, they're struggling.
• 29:50
  So, Dave, we're going to have to ask you to step and.
• 29:52
  Be a. Manager because as a as it
• 29:54
  stands right now going into the season, he can sit on his hands
• 29:58
  and do nothing. And they're, they're going to,
• 30:00
  they're going to, they're going to win 5, four or five games a
• 30:04
  week in their sleep. But when they.
• 30:07
  An inevitable slide he's going to have to step in and manage.
• 30:10
  I think when those slides happen, it's it's going to be
• 30:13
  other, other factors. I think it's going to be injury
• 30:16
  based. I think it's going to be, which
• 30:23
  is weird because like they're basically injury proof for how
• 30:26
  deep they are every button. I guess.
• 30:33
  Every button works, it's. The only thing I could.
• 30:39
  Imagine blaming him for is like if somehow the clubhouse gets
• 30:46
  out of whack, which is hard to imagine when you have Freddie
• 30:49
  and Mookie as leaders in there. Everyone's bought in I I think
• 30:57
  he's not the easiest job. I don't know if I think of
• 30:59
  Mookie as like a bona fide leader, if we're being honest.
• 31:05
  Mookie's a guy. I think he's AI, think he's a
• 31:08
  clubhouse gem. I'm calling him a leader, You
• 31:11
  know what I mean? Like, I think he's just like,
• 31:12
  cool as a cucumber, like, you know, just a good teammate.
• 31:17
  I think he's a really good team. No, no, no.
• 31:18
  Yeah, for sure. But I'm, I'm saying like it, and
• 31:22
  understandably so with the money he's making.
• 31:23
  But if there's a brawl that breaks out, is Mookie Betts
• 31:26
  going to be in the middle of it? No, he's not.
• 31:30
  No one's hitting Mookie like no one's going to hit him, so I
• 31:33
  think he wouldn't. Yeah, but you know how that
• 31:34
  stuff goes, man. Guys just they, they start
• 31:37
  seeing red, you sort of lose sight of the bigger picture.
• 31:39
  That it is weird. Like I, I did hear him in an
• 31:42
  interview where he was talking about like how Otani, just like
• 31:46
  he is, isn't around anybody. And I think that's kind of
• 31:51
  difficult. I wonder if that starts to
• 31:53
  become a little strange for guys.
• 31:56
  He doesn't go to dinners, he doesn't go hang out with the
• 31:59
  he's too big, he's too popular to go out and be with the team.
• 32:05
  So he just he shows up, you see him in in the locker room, you
• 32:08
  see him get some working on the field, and then he's gone after
• 32:12
  the game and just falls back in the shadows like Batman.
• 32:17
  I don't know that. Like that's the only thing in my
• 32:22
  head where I'm just like, what? What could go wrong for the
• 32:24
  Dodgers? Because injuries are going to
• 32:28
  happen. They have an 8 man rotation.
• 32:33
  Injuries are going to happen. You have $40 million put into
• 32:38
  your in your bench. You know what I'm saying?
• 32:43
  Like I, I'm not worried. In the chat, 562 is Robert's
• 32:52
  worst season there in terms of winning percentage.
• 32:54
  His first season. 500 win, 100 plus win seasons.
• 32:58
  I'm going. To make it this year, they're
• 32:59
  going to win 100 games. I mean, I see 73 at best.
• 33:08
  By the way, quick little segue here.
• 33:09
  You your your your shirt is getting some love in the chat
• 33:14
  for sure. I mean, that's a, that's just a
• 33:17
  that's a good TI can't. Imagine.
• 33:19
  Love some good Mitchell and Ness.
• 33:21
  Love some good Mitchell and Ness.
• 33:23
  They they have like a line like this.
• 33:25
  There's like a whole bunch of different players free, no free
• 33:28
  ads, but like Mitchell and Ness is fire.
• 33:30
  So like. You.
• 33:31
  Yeah, I think, I think I have the Clemente version of that
• 33:33
  one. Yeah, Yeah, actually.
• 33:35
  Yeah, I know I do. Looks like an old school
• 33:37
  baseball card. It's the same line.
• 33:39
  Yep. I mean I know I have a Clemente
• 33:42
  share I was just thinking of. Yeah.
• 33:44
  Thinking of us that same line. Speaking of Roberto Clemente,
• 33:50
  Major League Baseball is pressuring the Tampa Bay Rays to
• 33:53
  sell the team. Just go with it.
• 33:56
  Just go with it. Cuba is close to.
• 34:02
  Well, not it's not. Cuba, it's he's Puerto Rican,
• 34:06
  Puerto Rican, that close to. Come on, guy.
• 34:11
  Where's Puerto Rico? Yeah, it's close, but it's not
• 34:13
  Cuba. Come on man, you should know
• 34:15
  this. I thought it was Cubo.
• 34:18
  Where does dads from there? Biggest, biggest Clemente fan I
• 34:21
  know. Anyway, Yeah.
• 34:28
  Perfect transition. Major League Baseball pressuring
• 34:32
  the race to sell the team. I love it.
• 34:37
  I love it. I love it.
• 34:38
  Like, make something happen. Let's get the ball rolling here.
• 34:44
  Let's get the ball rolling and yes, in the chat at the If I
• 34:46
  remember I will. I'm rocking the Clement nature
• 34:48
  next episode. Let.
• 34:53
  Me show off your shirt now. True.
• 34:56
  Yeah, yeah, yeah. Check this out.
• 34:59
  If you're watching, you can see the the jersey.
• 35:03
  I mean, look at that. That's clean.
• 35:05
  Got the got the word mark on the sleeve.
• 35:08
  Got the, got the flag and the number on the back.
• 35:13
  I love the flag. I think, oh, there's no number
• 35:16
  on this one. That's right, because it's just
• 35:17
  the chest logo, but I mean, clean dude.
• 35:20
  Yeah, he's got Nate's, got the Gray one on the chair.
• 35:23
  And then a little shameless plug.
• 35:24
  Little baseball guy, old baseball guy, Dad hat.
• 35:27
  I love this hat so much. Anyway, yeah, let's get
• 35:33
  something going. Off center freaks me a little
• 35:35
  bit like the curvature. You're so right dude, what am I
• 35:40
  doing? Whatever that that needs work.
• 35:44
  It's fine. That's my own fault.
• 35:46
  It's my own fault. Yeah. 3otake.com/shop Yeah man,
• 35:55
  with with the rays like this is kind of a crap or get off the
• 36:00
  pod situation. Like you know what figured out?
• 36:02
  I was figured earlier because they're going to be playing at
• 36:07
  Steinbrenner Field. Why are they playing at their
• 36:11
  own facility? Don't they have a brand new
• 36:14
  spring training facility? You know, I've been, I've been a
• 36:23
  baseball fan for some time, but I don't think I've ever had the
• 36:26
  thought or or thought to one thought the question like where
• 36:30
  do the Rays have spring training?
• 36:35
  I'm ashamed to admit that, but I'm pretty sure it's it's not
• 36:41
  like the you bore city or whatever, whatever it's called
• 36:45
  how Ybor Ybor Boy city. Well, that's where the that's
• 36:48
  where their actual situation is. But aren't they in?
• 36:55
  I mean, I didn't. I knew they didn't play like the
• 36:59
  Charlotte Sports Park. It's like a brand new park,
• 37:03
  Charlotte. County.
• 37:06
  Oh, is it? It's Port Charlotte, isn't it?
• 37:09
  Isn't that I know, I know Port Charlotte, But is that the same?
• 37:12
  Is that that's where they play, right?
• 37:13
  I've got to be honest, I'm not overly familiar with Florida.
• 37:17
  Yeah, I'm not a big Florida guy. I mean I I.
• 37:19
  I love Florida, don't be wrong. I'd.
• 37:22
  Be open to being a Florida guy, I'd.
• 37:24
  Be real open to being a Florida guy.
• 37:25
  Out of Florida Man. Now that's a big difference.
• 37:27
  I want to clarify, I don't want to be a Florida Man.
• 37:29
  Not trying to make headlines, but I'd be open.
• 37:31
  Next half, Florida guy. Florida guy.
• 37:33
  Yeah, not a hurricane guy personally, but other than that,
• 37:38
  yeah, warm water. Did you figure it out?
• 37:43
  Port Charlotte? Is that what you said?
• 37:45
  Port Charlotte, Yeah. Charlotte.
• 37:46
  Charlotte. Is that near Tampa?
• 37:48
  County. Dude, I I OK, let's look at the
• 37:53
  map. It's north of northwest of Fort
• 37:59
  Myers. It's South of Tampa, southeast
• 38:02
  of Saint Petersburg. It's ever so slight.
• 38:06
  It's it's more S than E if, if you will, Goes to show you how,
• 38:13
  how little I'm invested in why. Are they?
• 38:16
  Playing plain conditions of the race.
• 38:20
  I I don't know. Well, that's obvious because
• 38:24
  it's that's it's proximity to where your fan base is.
• 38:27
  Why would you, why would you try?
• 38:29
  Why would you make your fans travel?
• 38:31
  What I'm guessing is like, because it's in our damn place.
• 38:35
  Yeah, that's like, that's like, that's like Fenway burns down
• 38:41
  and then they're like, hey, hey, we're going to go play our games
• 38:45
  in in Rhode Island or something. Like no, you would find
• 38:49
  something that's a little closer and just make it work there.
• 38:52
  You're not going to tell people to.
• 38:53
  You're not going to tell people to.
• 38:54
  They're not going to freaking Georgia.
• 38:57
  They're still they're down the road.
• 38:59
  That's. That's not a down the road.
• 39:02
  Come on. All right, let's let's pull it
• 39:05
  up here. Tropicana Field.
• 39:10
  We'll, we'll, we'll use that as home base.
• 39:15
  It's an hour and 13 minutes, dude.
• 39:17
  Nobody's driving an hour and 13 minutes.
• 39:20
  You're asking their games anyway.
• 39:23
  You're exactly, you're asking the very few that do attend the
• 39:27
  games to drive an hour, 15 minutes.
• 39:29
  And that's right now that's nine.
• 39:31
  That's almost 9:30 Eastern in rush hour, whatever rush hour
• 39:36
  looks like for them. I don't, I don't know.
• 39:38
  I hear it's terrible. I hear it's all.
• 39:39
  To go to their own field, the bridge, the.
• 39:41
  Bridge. The bridge or the tunnel?
• 39:43
  Whatever it is, I hear it's terrible.
• 39:46
  It's just a bridge. It's hour 13, hour 15 with no
• 39:49
  traffic. You're going to tell people in
• 39:52
  rush hour 81 * a year, hey, we need you driving hour 15.
• 39:56
  Not happening. So I don't know why that was
• 39:59
  even a question of why don't they play their own spring
• 40:02
  training park Because it's too far away.
• 40:05
  Come on. Tropicana Field and Steinbrenner
• 40:08
  Field are 25 minutes away. OK.
• 40:13
  So. And we just got done talking
• 40:15
  about how the other option is an hour 15 away.
• 40:19
  Why is this a conversation? If you're driving 1/2 hour, you
• 40:22
  might as well drive an hour to go to your own field where you
• 40:26
  could put up your own freaking merchandise.
• 40:28
  There's Bears or Yankee players and Yankee.
• 40:32
  Ones no, no, no, no, no no no name above the field.
• 40:37
  And you're paying the Yankees millions of dollars.
• 40:41
  When you just spend. Millions of dollars to build
• 40:44
  your. Brownfield, you are literally
• 40:47
  already you're you are so you could be further from being
• 40:51
  right. You literally idiotic.
• 40:53
  You're already short changing the amount of time.
• 40:55
  See, I said it was an hour 15. You're like, well, you might as
• 40:58
  well drive an hour. It's an hour 15.
• 41:00
  And again, that's with no traffic.
• 41:03
  So we'll go ahead and just chalk it up to an hour 45.
• 41:05
  Are you driving an hour and 45 minutes?
• 41:09
  This is ridiculous. No, I'm not even this it we're,
• 41:13
  we're, we're off topic here. We're, this isn't even about
• 41:16
  what we originally intended to talk about.
• 41:19
  I mean, I'm, I'm here for it. I'm if there's an opportunity to
• 41:23
  point out your erroneous ways. Ridiculous dumpster fire of an
• 41:27
  organization just needs to get out.
• 41:32
  I know we've, we've probably answered this question a a dozen
• 41:35
  times, but if and there's, there's more logistically at
• 41:39
  play here. But say you, you pluck the rays
• 41:44
  out of Saint Pete, Where do you drop them?
• 41:47
  Where are you at right now? Because frankly, I, I change, I
• 41:51
  my answer evolves with at with time.
• 41:54
  Where are you at right now? If you had to pluck them and
• 41:56
  drop them somewhere else, where are you putting them?
• 42:03
  I'd probably just renovate and move the sound out of Nashville
• 42:09
  just for how big Nashville is right now.
• 42:11
  Everybody's moving to Tennessee. It's a big deal there.
• 42:14
  Like I know a lot of a lot of people are saying Portland, OR,
• 42:17
  but like I don't think Portland and Nashville are on the same
• 42:22
  trajectory as far as as far as hype and where money is, You
• 42:27
  know what I mean? I mean, personally, I mean, I've
• 42:31
  got family in Nashville. It's not like a massive city.
• 42:37
  Not not saying that that that there the Ray's future
• 42:41
  destination or any future incoming expansion team has to
• 42:46
  end up in a massive city, but just sharing my thoughts on the
• 42:51
  perception of it. It's not like a huge city which
• 42:52
  which you know, might be more appealing.
• 42:55
  It might be more appealing, might be more appealing.
• 43:00
  Population in Nashville 715,000 according to Google in 2022.
• 43:09
  What does that do? Doesn't do anything for me 2025.
• 43:20
  I'm kind of with the dude. 1.3 million.
• 43:22
  Put him in Nashville. Did you see the I don't, I mean,
• 43:26
  I don't know if this would be specific to a relocation or if
• 43:30
  this would apply to a relocation versus just a new expansion
• 43:34
  team. But the Nashville stars, I
• 43:36
  don't, I don't know the full situation there, but like I
• 43:43
  don't, I don't know if that's what the new team would become,
• 43:47
  but I, I, I dig it, man. I dig the vibes.
• 43:50
  I I like the location. Where'd that come from?
• 43:53
  Nashville stars. Look it up.
• 43:55
  I I dig the location, I dig the the vibe of the city.
• 43:59
  I think they. Can 600,000.
• 44:03
  I think they could do wonders there with, I mean, I don't
• 44:07
  know, not a, I'm not a land expert, but I, I would imagine
• 44:10
  Nashville would be a great place to do like a battery lights,
• 44:16
  like you could really build up the surrounding air.
• 44:18
  Not that you would frankly really need to, because
• 44:21
  Nashville is already kind of popping.
• 44:22
  Like that's what I'm saying and I they stay in the LE, you know
• 44:29
  what I mean? That doesn't, like, mess things
• 44:31
  up at all. It's true I.
• 44:35
  Don't think of any other places. I hear true Raleigh, Raleigh
• 44:41
  Raleigh's in the mix. Utah is tough.
• 44:43
  I would go Raleigh before I went Utah because North Carolina is a
• 44:47
  much north. Carolina is great.
• 44:49
  Much more baseball intensive state.
• 44:51
  Yeah, couldn't say anything negative about North Carolina
• 44:55
  even if I tried. It's a good state.
• 44:59
  I was a resident there for three years.
• 45:01
  What? Alabama?
• 45:03
  New Orleans. I could see New Orleans.
• 45:09
  I could, again, I could see North Carolina before I saw
• 45:13
  maybe not New Orleans, but what was the other one?
• 45:15
  You said Alabama, not Alabama. No, I don't think Alabama's
• 45:20
  never been in the mix. It's been like Raleigh,
• 45:22
  Portland, Montreal. I don't know where.
• 45:26
  Which, I don't know, I'm kind of out on Montreal anyway, I mean.
• 45:29
  I'm out. Yeah, No.
• 45:33
  I don't know. Anyway, yeah, make something
• 45:36
  happen. Let's just, whatever you're
• 45:38
  going to do, figure it out. New ballpark, renovating the
• 45:40
  trop, relocating. Just do something.
• 45:43
  Closing the book here, MO Von Reports came out recently.
• 45:47
  MO Von confirmed he used HGH to recover from a knee injury on
• 45:52
  the back end of his career. He said he was quote trying to
• 45:57
  do everything he could said I knew I had a bad degenerative
• 46:02
  knee. I was shooting HGH in my knee.
• 46:05
  Whatever I could do to help the process, whatever I'm I'm over
• 46:17
  making AI mean whatever. This doesn't.
• 46:20
  And people say oh it's because he play won an MVP with the Red
• 46:23
  Sox and literally has nothing to do with it.
• 46:25
  Half the time I I I forget who MO Von even played for outside
• 46:30
  of Boston. It was with California Angels.
• 46:35
  Mets there's. Somebody else?
• 46:36
  The Mets. That's right.
• 46:37
  Yeah. See, I'm not.
• 46:38
  I don't have any like personal connection or like I don't have
• 46:44
  any rooting interest at this this stage in the game.
• 46:47
  So like it is what it is. The news is what it is, but I
• 46:52
  whatever, I mean, MO Von, clean or not, he was he was going to
• 46:58
  hit 43040 home runs in his sleep.
• 47:02
  So whatever, I don't know. Already a pretty big guy.
• 47:08
  He's a huge guy. And if you're trying to heal up
• 47:11
  a knee, I'm not, you know, I'm not saying that's right,
• 47:13
  whatever. But it's it's worse than
• 47:16
  sticking it in your butt. Well, let's pause.
• 47:20
  Pause. Let's not clip that, please.
• 47:26
  Yeah. So anyway, nothing really.
• 47:31
  Nothing really noteworthy there. Just wanted to meet you.
• 47:33
  Move along. Just stick it in the butt.
• 47:38
  It was reported that Yamamoto and Imanaga are set for game one
• 47:43
  of the Tokyo series. You confirmed?
• 47:47
  Because I was, I, I couldn't remember.
• 47:49
  It's it's next Wednesday. Yeah, what?
• 47:53
  What is what? Real.
• 47:55
  Meaningful. Well, we'll just say real
• 47:59
  baseball is going to be played next Wednesday.
• 48:04
  I are there people that are like actually like genuinely excited
• 48:08
  about this? Well, here's here's my take on
• 48:11
  the matter. I would be more excited and I'm
• 48:15
  not look, if you if you're into if you're into the the I'm going
• 48:19
  to call it an exhibition series, even though the games count,
• 48:22
  it's to me, it's just more of an exhibition.
• 48:24
  It's more of like a display of ML BS prowess.
• 48:33
  I if it didn't, if it wasn't presented as like opening day,
• 48:41
  then I'd be like, you know what this is, this is cool.
• 48:43
  I would care more about it. I would think I would be more
• 48:45
  interested in it if I didn't feel like it was, if they were
• 48:49
  trying to threaten true opening day with this international
• 48:52
  series, whether it's in Japan or, or, or wherever.
• 48:56
  Like if this was, which I know it's it's it's tough
• 48:58
  logistically, but if this was the same, if this was opening
• 49:01
  weekend, awesome. I, I, I immediately care way
• 49:05
  more about it because it I don't feel like I'm being force fed
• 49:09
  this fake opening day. And I know that take probably
• 49:11
  is, is a little more unpopular. And you know, if for whatever
• 49:15
  reason, because it's like super early in the morning, if for
• 49:18
  whatever reason I'm awake, sure, I'll watch it.
• 49:21
  I might even catch a tail end of it, but I'm not going to go out
• 49:23
  of my way to watch it. But if this was, if this was if
• 49:26
  the timing was different, I think I would care more.
• 49:28
  But I, I'm, I'm, I'm super ultra protective of traditional
• 49:33
  opening day and I don't want anything coming close to even
• 49:36
  remotely close to threatening that.
• 49:38
  Just do it like that same day, like do it like that same
• 49:43
  Thursday really early. Now that now that I could get on
• 49:49
  board with like you wake up super early and like it's a
• 49:52
  whole day that I could get on board with.
• 49:55
  Half the teams don't play Friday because they always do that for
• 49:58
  like rain outs and stuff and cancellations.
• 50:01
  So have them play Friday and then you have another game
• 50:05
  Friday that you or nearly wouldn't have had anyway.
• 50:08
  We figured this out last year. They come back right and play
• 50:11
  more spring training games. Yeah.
• 50:14
  Because it's Wednesday and then Opening Day isn't for another,
• 50:17
  what, 8 days that I'm sorry that is.
• 50:22
  It's so silly. So silly.
• 50:24
  It's weird. Anyway, you see the Astros City
• 50:30
  Connect leak. Another one.
• 50:34
  Yeah, they were one of the one of the teams getting a new one.
• 50:36
  Socks are another one that's yet to be revealed.
• 50:39
  I'm going to lie, dude, I'm digging it.
• 50:45
  Look it up. Yeah, look it up, look it up.
• 50:48
  No, look, all you got to do, all you got to do to to get people
• 50:53
  like Nate because you know, I mean, I'm, I'm kind of with you.
• 50:56
  I'm like, can we just settle on something and and at least stick
• 51:01
  with it for a while? And so just keep pumping these
• 51:02
  thing out as a money making machine.
• 51:05
  My biggest hang up with these thing at this stage now is that
• 51:09
  you call them city connects. Half of these jerseys do not
• 51:12
  connect to the city whatsoever. It's just an alternate.
• 51:17
  Brand them differently. Just just call it like the Nike
• 51:20
  alternate series or something, I don't know.
• 51:22
  The one picture that's like sitting on a box, fold it up
• 51:27
  that. Yeah, that's the one.
• 51:32
  It says strokes. I like it.
• 51:34
  I'm digging it, dude. It's it's very yeah, very yeah.
• 51:39
  Taps into the old, old school vibes, which I love.
• 51:43
  And it's got, it's got the the logo from the 90s.
• 51:47
  Don't love the socks? Now I hate those Photoshop
• 51:50
  gradient socks, but the jersey itself?
• 51:52
  Money. Big fan.
• 51:54
  Big fan. So the Red Sox are getting one,
• 51:56
  too. They're getting a new one.
• 51:58
  It's supposed to be green. No leak.
• 52:00
  No leak yet, but it's going to be green that we do know.
• 52:05
  Speaking of orange, the Orioles it was it was it was rumored
• 52:12
  that they were bringing back the the all orange uniforms, but
• 52:16
  they officially announced this week that they're bringing back
• 52:21
  the all orange Uni's. I'm on board, very much on
• 52:24
  board. There's few colors that work.
• 52:28
  This is one of those colors. Yeah, with the with the top and
• 52:32
  bottom give me that all orange uni baby year for.
• 52:38
  It got to be a universal decision to wear your pants up
• 52:40
  though. Pants down, looks like your
• 52:46
  prison suit. Yeah, Yep, yeah, honestly.
• 52:54
  If you're a baggy pant guy. Yep, didn't have a preference on
• 52:57
  it until you mention it and I just gave a good look at it.
• 52:59
  Nope, that's a prison suit if you wear them down.
• 53:01
  So socks up, O's socks up. That's right.
• 53:06
  I always say socks up. Really, it's pants up.
• 53:09
  It's pants. Pants up socks.
• 53:10
  The socks are always up. Just the.
• 53:13
  Pants. Does that still have that like
• 53:15
  that like white stripe that like white and black stripe for like
• 53:18
  the belt line on the pants when they used to have that like the
• 53:25
  beltline had its own colour situation going on maybe they
• 53:30
  back in? It's not.
• 53:31
  It's not showing on here on on the 2025 versions.
• 53:37
  Yeah, I'm for it. I'll dig it.
• 53:39
  I'll dig it. You want to do a little draft a
• 53:42
  little. Draft.
• 53:43
  Not a full blown draft, folks. Stick with us if you're going
• 53:46
  to. Oh God, we got to get a draft.
• 53:47
  20 people No, this isn't even a this isn't even a player draft.
• 53:52
  This has nothing to do with people per SE.
• 53:57
  We are drafting if if you follow us on TikTok and I hope you do
• 54:03
  if you're listening or watching right now well, if you're
• 54:05
  watching stay in the chat and they can do it after.
• 54:10
  But if you're listening to this tomorrow the next day, you can
• 54:14
  do it simultaneously. Ever head over to our TikTok,
• 54:17
  hit that follow button. But I put out, I put out a
• 54:21
  question, put out a question. I said which MLB team has the
• 54:28
  best thing? And this is what the draft is.
• 54:30
  It's the best MLB things. And what I mean by that, it can
• 54:35
  be, it can be anything. Again, this isn't this isn't
• 54:39
  player related. It's not it's not personnel
• 54:42
  related. It's like, what is the best
• 54:44
  thing? And some of the examples, and
• 54:45
  I'm just going to go ahead and use them as examples because I'm
• 54:48
  sure they're going to get picked up like the actually, no, I'll
• 54:55
  stay away from those just in case you hadn't thought about it
• 54:59
  as much as I have the I haven't the.
• 55:05
  Fire from the hip today. The the O chant that Orioles
• 55:12
  fans do for the, for the pregame, the a real common what
• 55:20
  like the Ivy at Wrigley, Like each team has something or some
• 55:25
  things plural that make them who they are and that are just
• 55:29
  iconic. Everybody knows about well, most
• 55:32
  people, everybody should know about these things.
• 55:35
  I would, I would hope that we're we're about to draft, but we're
• 55:39
  going to draft 5 things each and see who has the better lineup of
• 55:44
  MLB things, the best things, whatever, whatever you it's,
• 55:48
  it's pretty open-ended. You can make it what you want
• 55:51
  and, and I'm it's going to take a lot for me to say Boo, shoot
• 55:55
  down and answer vice versa. You for me like it.
• 55:58
  It's like that's that doesn't really count as an answer.
• 56:00
  It's pretty much whatever you want to make it and there's a
• 56:04
  lot to choose from. So shall we get started?
• 56:08
  I think what was our last draft? I think I ran away with it.
• 56:18
  No, the the last draft was the. The hit positions, I didn't
• 56:25
  erase it. Which one was That was the
• 56:31
  position though. Yeah, Yeah, I did win that one.
• 56:33
  Yeah, I won that one that that I do recall.
• 56:35
  I I do recall. So I'll go ahead and take first
• 56:37
  pick. Oh boy, I don't know if I won
• 56:40
  first pick. This is it's a lot of pressure.
• 56:43
  I'll take back-to-back picks, I don't mind.
• 56:49
  Well. OK, here's the deal.
• 56:51
  I I'm just going to, I'm going to go ahead and get out in front
• 56:53
  of this now because they're like I said, there are so many quote
• 56:57
  UN quote things in baseball that we're not going to be able to
• 56:59
  get to all of them. And I'm sure that I'm going to
• 57:02
  be missing something. Or or.
• 57:05
  Overlook just a massive pick. So I'm just going to go ahead
• 57:09
  and get out in front by saying that.
• 57:11
  With that said, though, and I'm going to you know what this is.
• 57:21
  This is what a winner looks like.
• 57:24
  This is what a winner willing to do whatever it takes to get the
• 57:27
  dub. I'm going to go against my
• 57:30
  better judgement and go with what I believe is the most
• 57:35
  iconic thing in the sport. And I'm going to go with my
• 57:41
  first pick, the New York Yankee pinstripes.
• 57:52
  OK, good luck. Little gamesmanship, are we?
• 57:59
  Good luck bouncing back from that.
• 58:02
  Fair enough. Well, I will take the
• 58:08
  aforementioned Ivy at Wrigley. Follow me up with Roll Call at
• 58:19
  Yankee Stadium for the right field bleachers.
• 58:23
  That's that's strong, not a bad three pick, not a bad three
• 58:27
  pick. I feel like the Wrigley, the the
• 58:28
  Ivy's got to go to there, but not a bad, not a bad, you know,
• 58:32
  maybe could have found some a little better, but that's fine.
• 58:36
  My second pick. Give it.
• 58:46
  This is going to ruffle some feathers.
• 58:49
  I I do believe I do declare with my second pick.
• 58:56
  Oh, let's try to get back-to-back picks.
• 58:57
  Give me the tomahawk chop. OK.
• 59:05
  The tomahawk chop. So I've got the pinstripes and
• 59:09
  the tomahawk chop. I think I think the leader in
• 59:12
  the clubhouse right now, if I'm being honest with you.
• 59:14
  No, I've got, I've got some, some humdingers coming, I think.
• 59:19
  I've got if if it makes it to my last pick and I and I snag it, I
• 59:23
  think it's I think it's game over my third pick give me.
• 59:29
  Wait, what'd you just do? What'd you say?
• 59:31
  Tomak chop. OK, Yeah, yeah.
• 59:33
  Tomak chop for I'm can't believe I got this at my 3:00.
• 59:39
  Go ahead, just give me give me the green monster.
• 59:43
  Yeah, that's fine. Give me the green monster, is
• 59:51
  it? Should we just declare the draft
• 59:53
  over after three picks? How you feeling I mean?
• 59:56
  Give me. You think you're going to bounce
• 59:58
  back with four and five. Give me the you mean 3 and 4?
• 1:00:13
  No, you have. Oh, right.
• 1:00:14
  Yeah, yeah, yeah. My bad, my bad.
• 1:00:20
  Give me the Utah St. home run marker.
• 1:00:27
  That's good. That Camden Yards.
• 1:00:29
  That's a great pick. Then give me the splash down
• 1:00:41
  counter in San Francisco. So like, we'll just call it for
• 1:00:48
  for the sake of the draft, we'll just call it like the splash
• 1:00:50
  hits in San Francisco. All right, all right.
• 1:00:54
  I like that. See what's left on my list here.
• 1:01:03
  I jotted down some thoughts earlier just to make sure.
• 1:01:06
  I feel like I'm doing pretty well for just shooting from the
• 1:01:09
  hip here. I, I mean, that's I like, I like
• 1:01:12
  when we shoot from the hip from time to time.
• 1:01:18
  So this is it for me. 4:00 and 5:00.
• 1:01:24
  I got to be selective here. What do I want?
• 1:01:30
  Give me. Give me the Philly fanatic.
• 1:01:45
  I was hoping to grab him at 5:00.
• 1:01:46
  Give me Philly Fanatic. And then I got I got my last
• 1:01:52
  pick here. Try it.
• 1:02:06
  Yeah, man, I'm trying to like. If you get me here, I'm.
• 1:02:11
  If you steal this one from me, I got to really take some time to
• 1:02:14
  think because I don't have a back.
• 1:02:15
  Trying to spread the love. How to back up to Philly?
• 1:02:24
  Trying to. Spread the love here.
• 1:02:26
  But I mean, I have a real chance here to just put the, you know,
• 1:02:40
  I could finish this thing. Let's do honorable mentions
• 1:02:51
  after this. Yeah, yeah, I like that.
• 1:02:53
  Yeah. See, I'm I'm down to 1 left on
• 1:03:01
  my list because we pretty much actually no, I'm down to two,
• 1:03:06
  but I don't know which one of these two that I want more.
• 1:03:11
  In fact, I think I know I you said you have a backup to the
• 1:03:15
  Philly Fanatic. I have two backups now, I
• 1:03:17
  thought. I think I know what your backup
• 1:03:20
  is. Just racking my brain just to
• 1:03:27
  make sure I don't give me trying to think of which I got to play
• 1:03:39
  to the audience here. I got to think of which one's
• 1:03:41
  going to draw more. I'm overthinking this.
• 1:03:52
  Give me give me go Cubs go. Give me go, Cubs, go.
• 1:04:00
  Solid. All right, well, you didn't
• 1:04:03
  steal either of them, so just got to figure out which one I
• 1:04:06
  want to do. I mean, I guess this is like the
• 1:04:12
  same like the same. It's kind of like in in line
• 1:04:16
  with what you did, like Fenway, like the monster at Fenway.
• 1:04:23
  I'm going to go Roberto Clemente Bridge.
• 1:04:27
  That's good. Yeah.
• 1:04:28
  I was going to say I I didn't. I was going to take that angle,
• 1:04:32
  but I just didn't know how to say it.
• 1:04:33
  It was like essentially what I was thinking of was like the
• 1:04:36
  view like PN. I didn't want to say PNC Park
• 1:04:38
  because of that would be me saying like, oh, I think PNC
• 1:04:40
  Park is the best, which I mean it's top three for sure, but I
• 1:04:43
  didn't want to tread in those. I think the bridge is like.
• 1:04:47
  The bridge in in particular is that's a, that's a strong pick.
• 1:04:51
  What was the other one you're side in between?
• 1:04:53
  Is that it for you? Was that your last pick?
• 1:04:54
  That was my last pick. That's fine.
• 1:04:56
  Yeah, my honorable mention. What was the one you're deciding
• 1:04:59
  between? Well, now we kind of like now I
• 1:05:05
  just thought of a better one that I feel like I I would bump,
• 1:05:08
  but I don't want to double up with the Orioles so.
• 1:05:10
  I had the warehouse. The warehouse was like that, but
• 1:05:16
  the other one I was thinking of was the the Big Apple for the
• 1:05:20
  Mets coming. Yeah, that's a good one.
• 1:05:22
  That's a good one. I also had I had purple row in
• 1:05:27
  Coors. That's a good one.
• 1:05:29
  That's a solid one. That's a sneaky 1.
• 1:05:31
  Yeah, but that it wasn't going to.
• 1:05:33
  Win. I don't think that, yeah, I
• 1:05:34
  don't think that gets a ton. But I mean, I mean, if we're
• 1:05:36
  talking like uniqueness here, I mean it doesn't get much more
• 1:05:39
  unique than that really. Yeah.
• 1:05:41
  But I, I mean, I didn't say it had to be unique.
• 1:05:43
  I just had to say like the best thing.
• 1:05:45
  So it's, yeah, however you define it, man, there's so many.
• 1:05:49
  We there's a lot that you could do here reading through some
• 1:05:52
  reading through some of the comments here.
• 1:05:54
  Do you like the train and the train?
• 1:05:58
  Well, Daikin. Well, Daikin, Bernie Brewer down
• 1:06:02
  the slide. That was what I thought about
• 1:06:04
  today. Yeah, I know, I know.
• 1:06:07
  I want to. I want to I want to sub that one
• 1:06:14
  in. Here's the thing though.
• 1:06:14
  I don't know how many votes that's winning you either.
• 1:06:17
  It's a great one. It's a.
• 1:06:19
  Great one that's better than the splash hits.
• 1:06:22
  Splash Splash Hits was a. Yeah, but look at the market
• 1:06:26
  you're playing too. You're playing to a much larger
• 1:06:27
  market potentially with with the giant pick.
• 1:06:30
  I'm like getting the fans are dormant.
• 1:06:32
  I haven't seen them in years. That's not true.
• 1:06:38
  What else we got? Yeah.
• 1:06:41
  Good luck. Good luck.
• 1:06:44
  You. You.
• 1:06:44
  You chose to not go with the Bernie Brewer slide.
• 1:06:49
  You lost those votes, and now you just nullified your Giants
• 1:06:52
  votes. Good.
• 1:06:52
  Good job. Good job.
• 1:06:56
  The Sausage Race, also in Milwaukee.
• 1:06:58
  Not bad. You said the train, Sweet
• 1:07:02
  Caroline. Somebody said the pot at Rocky
• 1:07:05
  Stadium, the pool in Arizona. It's good one.
• 1:07:13
  The Bleacher creatures, which I guess you kind of covered with
• 1:07:16
  roll call. Yeah.
• 1:07:19
  Tomahawk, chop towels, Hill throwback, you know, You know
• 1:07:26
  what else we got here? Philly fanatic.
• 1:07:31
  Philly fanatic. Yeah, I mean.
• 1:07:34
  Philly fanatic was was. I was getting him on the way
• 1:07:36
  back around if you didn't. Handful of folks which this
• 1:07:43
  would be my final thought here. A lot of folks in the in the
• 1:07:46
  comments talking about since he's opening day I heard nothing
• 1:07:51
  but great things. About that, maybe need to like
• 1:07:54
  do that? We need to do that one year.
• 1:07:56
  That would be. That would be awesome.
• 1:07:58
  The Electric. I don't know if we can pull it
• 1:08:00
  off next year because. You'd have to get you a drone I
• 1:08:03
  think world. Baseball Classic is next year.
• 1:08:06
  True. Can you fly a drone you know how
• 1:08:09
  to? You know how to fly one of
• 1:08:10
  those? I don't know how to, but I'm an.
• 1:08:12
  Xbox controller, right? Yeah, I'm sure they there's
• 1:08:16
  probably some restrictions flying over that many people,
• 1:08:18
  but who knows, maybe not, who knows.
• 1:08:23
  Anyway, that's all I got. Good stuff.
• 1:08:26
  That's a good one. Good quick little draft.
• 1:08:30
  No research draft except you got new.
• 1:08:34
  Well, I just pulled some thoughts together.
• 1:08:36
  I mean, those weren't going to go on Left unsaid had I not
• 1:08:39
  jotted them down. I just wanted to make sure I I
• 1:08:42
  didn't forget any of them. Anyway, you got anything else?
• 1:08:49
  I don't think so. I'm ready for this week to be
• 1:08:52
  done, I know that. Preach.
• 1:08:56
  Give me the weekend, you know. Preach.
• 1:09:00
  I don't know. That's about it.
• 1:09:02
  We'll talk to you Sunday and. Talk to you Sunday.
• 1:09:08
  We're almost there, folks. We're almost there, curveballs,
• 1:09:14
  We're almost there. We love you all.
• 1:09:15
  And as always, looking forward to talking more baseball with
• 1:09:17
  you guys soon. Until next time, stay filthy.