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Hello one, Welcome to Backwards and
Nerds Facebook podcast with the British twist.

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I am your host is Evening Russell
Esom, and I feel like I am

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a shepherd herding his sheep tonight because
today I am joined by the delightful on

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Pringle. How are we doing good, sir? I'm good. I actually

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wanted to start the show myself.
I wanted to host it, but I

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was going to start it with Welcome
to x Wings and Blurgs, a Star

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Wars park podcast with the British twist. And joining me tonight is Darth Esom

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and Rob You're going to be called
Boba Navera And I was just going to

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annoy John just talk about stars for
the first ten minutes. Russell, why

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do you hate Star Wars? Uh? I think right now I would rather

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talk about baseball. I think there's
a lot of good reasons to like and

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dislike Star Wars. But as Tom
had alluded to, we are also joined

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by Randy L Rob Nevres. How
are we doing? Rob? The Forces

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with me? And I hope it's
with you too. Yeah, I don't

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know. Does that make me the
great grandson of an evil emperor? Or

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am I just a random person with
some medical ourians, which is the truth

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that I should go for. But
that's very good. There's gonna be three

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three new films, by the way, very exciting. Um, there's been

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some baseball. We have yet to
speak to you, guys and girls since

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the baseball season has started, but
here we are. I think there's no

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other place that we can really start
than the Rays are good? But how

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good are the Rays? Rob?
I think, Barry, I think we'll

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go to you first to give your
obviously fan, maybe rose tinted opinion on

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and what the Rais has done so
far and why they are eleven and O.

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Well, I'd start by saying,
as a fan, I'm not Rose

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tinted because I'm also on Twitter,
which which isn't fun every time there's a

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win. Rather than enjoying the win
now and all, look at this wonderful

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new thing that's happened, it's all
about Oh no, it's not deserved because

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look at the opposition. It's no
good, no, no, come on,

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let's just first of all, we
are eleven games already over as we're

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recording this, eleven games over five
hundred, and that is valuable that eleven

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games are in the bank. They
are done. Doesn't matter who you're playing

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against. Like, good teams will
lose against the worst teams. This year,

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so far, the Rays haven't done
that. Now, yes, absolutely,

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the Tampa Bay Rays have been playing
against very weak opposition. We've so

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far swept the Tigers, the Nationals, the A's, and again, as

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of recording this weird two games up
in four game series against the Red Sox,

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who, let's face it, are
pretty shocking themselves. However, the

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point here is that they are not
just inching past these teams. Of these

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eleven games, two of them have
been competitive, and that was the one

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nothing victory over the Red Sox two
nights ago, and there was the nineteen

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income back against the Nationals. Now, if you take the rest of them

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out of it, all those games
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And you can only beat what is
in front of you. Now that's

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a cliche, I get it,
absolutely, but in this instance it's absolutely

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true. Now you're going to go
through the season, you're gonna slide a

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couple of games where you're just gonna
get that last run past the A's.

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You're just gonna gonna, you know, hold down the Nationals with a little

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bit of luck. But that's not
what the Rays are doing. The net

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Raids are blowing through these teams at
the moment. And I'm sure you can

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point at some Babbitt stats or some
you know, woeb and ever, but

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but they're good. They're winning,
they're winning well, and that is why,

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Yes, you've got to take this
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assault in that they are playing against
crap teams, but they are playing well

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against those crap teams. So I
think you'll probably find that, No,

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the Rays are not the best team
in the division. Granted, however,

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they are probably a very good team
who are going to do very well this

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year. They are already, you
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towards their goal for the season,
you know, of reaching roughly one hundred

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wins. So yeah, great,
I'm all about it. I mean,

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it's good, the pitching is good, the hitting is good. There's power,

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there's running, there's speed, there's
slap hitting, there's a little bit

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of everything. It's all working right
now. So take the intangibles from these

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from these these games that are won
against teams that you should be winning and

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and use them the confidence and move
that all forwards into into the games that

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are coming up, and we'll see
how they do against the Astros and the

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White Socks. But you know,
it's staying easy for a while, so

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this this form could carry on for
a while. I think the one thing

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you past up all of that conversation
conversationships given us rob the Tampa Bay Rays

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have a two seventy nine Babbits,
so I think it's you don't have to

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worry about babbit. Look, mate, that's not that's not what's been going

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in your favor. I think you
obviously did cover it. Like everybody who's

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not a raised fan is going to
come out and go look at the people

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you've beat, And to me,
I think the analytical approach to that is

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to say that, like, you
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for all of those series. So
the worst you should have been is six

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and three getting out of that first
three series, so you were three games

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better than you should have been,
which is like, Okay, that's good,

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And I think kind of in the
way it does the games against Boston

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they're a little bit beat up as
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should have taken this series three and
one. So you get it. If

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you get out of the series with
a thirteen and o record, you just

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actually only four games higher than you
probably should have anticipated to be. So

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it's pretty awesome to act actually win
thirteen games in a row. But people

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I think are just over inflating way
just to going like, oh, it's

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Ted wins, that's that's something.
So therefore they're trying to dig it down

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to kind of say that it's not
it's not that something that that's amazing.

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But yeah, you all right,
you're gonna beat what's in front of you,

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and Tampa have done it. Well, Tom, have you seen a

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single ball or moment of a tamparee? I have? I have watching Rays

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baseball. They're looking really good.
I really like watching. They're a fun

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team. They've always been a fun
team. Well, I wanted to ask

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Rob though, was they they had
any like they've been really lucky in terms

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of injuries or anything at the moment
as anyone who's like missing from the lineup

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at the moment or the rotation,
you think, do you know what when

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we get this person, Matt,
they're just going to get even stronger.

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Yeah, you've got Tyler glasnow sat
on the bench right now. He is

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recovering from a from a string down
his side. Who else has been out?

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but Tyler Glasnowing being the main one. Um. I think even look at

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last year, they had a lot
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they're sort of you know, got
the Lows and the Franco's are back,

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and that's that's the difference. That's
the difference at the moment. So yeah,

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there's there's still more to come.
The rotation right now is looking mighty,

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absolutely mighty at glasnow into that and
I think it's it's it's really really

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scary. It's funny though as well
asn't it because if this had happened in

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the middle of the season, people
would be talking about it because it's a

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winning streak, but they wouldn't be
talking about as much as they are now.

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It's only because it's the start of
the year and they haven't lost the

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game yet. That's all the only
reason why people are getting really excited about

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it. Yeah, the oppositions not
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you know, people's teams still drop
games, against these rubbish teams, and

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the Rays haven't done that. They've
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Rob, it's brilliant to be hit
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starts out. I think that's great. It's good, good fun to watch.

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Yeah, everyone keep wins about strength
schedule, but do you know what

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other teams are going to play ship
teams as well, so it doesn't really

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matter. It will all come around
eventually. Yeah, if the race go

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five hundred for the rest of the
season, they're a ninety two win team,

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which will be so good, which
which is pretty good I think.

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Obviously, the losses of Flynn,
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of expose when you say expose the
raise underbelly of pitching. But they pitched

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a fullpended game and gave up no
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the raise underbelly of pitching is not
the same some other teams when you kind

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of have to go to your fifth
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wouldn't have been the main talking point
if they hadn't gone up as is,

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Thomas said, the main talking point
for probably most of the season, even

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probably until the last couple of days
has been the pitch timer or the pitch

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clock, whatever you want to call
it. Games are now it looks on

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average twenty seven minutes shorter than they
were in the previous season. How has

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that affected kind of like your viewing
experience? Because for me, like I

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will usually I'm a quad boxer,
Like I'm really bad at like using the

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MLB TV putting on like four games
using my attentions kind of barely seeing what's

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going on. That's what I usually
do in Cleveland aren't playing. When Cleveland

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and playing, our generally will have
that on one screen and watch that.

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But when Cleveland aren't playing, I'll
try and watch tons of different games.

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But when I was at the MLB
Europe event down a Passing Savenues on like

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the opening weekend, it just felt
actually the games just progressed well, and

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you kind of you saw one game
and then you saw another game, and

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you saw another game to actually see
more teams play than you had before.

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So we'll start with you Tom on
this one, Like, have you kind

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of watched many games live? Have
you actually kind of therefore managed to see

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more stuff than normal because of the
pace of play? So this was this

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is kind of my good and bad
thing because I really love the fact of

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the game too quicker. I mean, it makes such a different especially as

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like someone in Europe, like it
makes such a difference that you can watch

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a game and you can start watching
the second one if you get to at

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a normal bedtime like's it's not bad, like you can start going into it

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quite quickly, and it's really good
in that sense. And what I also

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really dislike is what I used to
do all the time was sit on the

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computer and do something else at the
same time, and I sort of give

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the only iPad and then go back
down to the computer and then go back

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up and back down. I can't
do that anymore, Like I need to

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watch the game, and it's really
it's frustrating in that sense. So I

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think John mentioned it now WhatsApp group, like you've kind of lost that lovely

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ebb and flow of the game and
the sort of gentle parts and the exciting

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parts. So while I love it
that I can watch games and they as

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you say, they progress, which
is fantastic, and I think the pitch

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timer is just brilliant. Well,
I absolutely love and Rob you mentioned it

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the other day and what'sapp people stop
pissing about with their gloves in the batting

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box. I used to infuriate me
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But on the flip side, like
I said, I've got to sit

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and watch it. I've actually got
to watch baseball now, which is really

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tricky when I'm trying to do other
things at the same time. So yeah,

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it's it's really good and I love
it, but also it frustrates me

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that it's not like test cricket.
Wait, it's nice and gentle. It's

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a bit t twenty now, it's
all a bit crazy, completely agree.

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I fixed a toaster last year and
that was during a game, and I

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couldn't even conceive fixing a toaster now. So you know, if my toaster

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breaks, I am. I am
forty quid in a hole straight up because

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of the rule changes. So personally, I'm I'm not happy, not happy.

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You're not even enjoying the fact that
it's. Yeah, I can I

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can watch a game. I can
sit down and I watch a game,

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um as if I were watching a
game of football, Like I sit down

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and I am watching a game.
It's my physical it's my primary activity rather

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than the back and forth. Now, I think it's great. Right now,

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I am worried about the tigue when
we are one hundred and twenty games

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into the season and I'm just like, I can't focus that much. You

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know, I don't know it's your
fatigue, not playing fatigue. I thought

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you were going to get onto some
serious of whole about like player, it's

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what about me and my pressure self
in Europe? Me watching games that are

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perfect for me? Why aren't they
playing here all the time? I want

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me, me, me, me
me. I think you've both kind of

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said some salient points, like I
definitely have watched baseball games while playing video

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games at the same time, because
it doesn't doesn't grab you all of your

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attention all the time. This is
definitely when it's a solo person experience when

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you're watching a game. I find
it's very different when you're watching games with

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people than when you're watching them by
yourselves. But this pace of play has

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actually drawn me into watch what's going
on and not actually just flip to something

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else, because I know that I
can just go ten seconds looking thirty seconds

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looking the way, ten seconds looking
thirty seconds the way. It's now like,

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oh, I'll watch the baseball for
two two and a half minutes while

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and then that might be an inning
and inning maybe longer, But then I

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also know I've got two and a
half minutes then when they're in a end

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until the next one starts, because
we still have two and a half minutes

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of adverts between every single innings.
If you want to do these things,

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do you guys ever listen much on
radio or have? You're pretty much all

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he's been just to kind of a
TV broadcast person. I've never done the

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radio. I think Gav mentioned it, didn't he recently and how much he

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liked it. I've never done it, and I feel like I should,

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especially when I'm like driving and stuff
like that, But then again, I'm

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generally not driving that late at night, So yeah, I should do because

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I've been told it's very good and
obviously they're clearly describing it. So maybe

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I can do with the things and
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we're saying about, like getting interested
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So I mean, I've definitely noticed
is my two kids who are five and

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eight now want to watch it,
and they sit and actually get engaged with

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it and watch it, which I
find a really interesting point in terms of

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young people getting into the game because
they actively want to watch it. I

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mean, they're five and eight,
or they're interesting is playing Lego City on

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the PlayStation or trying to paint something. So for them, it's like they're

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properly engaged with it and they're interested. So maybe I'll work in that sense.

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But no, I do need to
try radio. I want to try

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radio. I should do. I
do. I do listen to it,

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but I've obviously finished working venues.
I finished very late often so my drive

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homes about half an hour, so
I usually catch half an hour of radio

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on the way home. But I
mean notice the difference, not really,

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not really. I just noticed that
the adverts too bloody loud. Quite frankly,

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I'm constantly turning the dial whenever the
adverts come on. They're scary because

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they make me jump because I'm driving
late at night. Anyway, Um,

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we're picking it hairs and we're complaining
about something. It's great that they've they've

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given us a it's a better product
like the game to watch out if I

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want to sit down and watch a
game. It is now better to watch.

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So yeah, we're picking, splitting, splitting hairs, picking picking it

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bits, but it's it's better.
It's just better. It's deer and simple

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for me. Do you know what
I've not thought about it and not really

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noticed it is our announcers stories like
getting shorter and they're not doing as many

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I've not really tuned into it and
listened to it because you used to get

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like really long drawn outs, not
like I don't mean bad, but like

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Vince Scully ones, you know,
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I feel like there might have been
a drop off in those where they've got

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to do like quick, short,
sharp things. So maybe, you know,

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an answers might not be as good
in the future because they don't need

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to tell that story and have extra
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think that's valid. Yeah, I
think you're right. I think one,

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we just don't have Vin Scully like
broadcasters anymore. I just don't think that's

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that's something which has been pushed by
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for a long time, we genuinely
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and your color commentator, and some
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I've felt that at the start of
the season some of them seems slightly rushed

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in what they were saying. I
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but they've kind of found their groove
now knowing kind of like what they

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can say I will not say from
another side from me creating my violation Twitter

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account and trying to find some of
the videos I found in some of the

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earlier ones, like they would be
over to a replay and be showing a

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replay and then the violation has happened, so they even missed like the whole

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fifteen seconds of the person looking to
home play and what actually happened, so

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they have to show it in a
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games that was like that. So
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point of view, I think that's
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that works, because I think those
guys who have had to really be quick

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with replays or pull away from them
because the game is actually is actually flowing

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faster, so it will be.
It will be very interesting to see how

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this progresses if we do see differences. But I don't know. Nobody whant

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nobody has this long, amazing,
drawling story that goes over multiple innings anymore.

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It's all one where they interviewed the
owner of the Brewers when it was

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to frigging first home game of the
season, and it was just like,

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it was just path. It was
just like, let's throw the softball out

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to the owners so that you could
say some very nice comment about all the

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money that he's been spending on on
the club. So yeah, I think

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I think that's going to be the
way it goes forward. Robber, you're

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gonna add something, No, No, I totally Russell. I want to

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add something. Is there do you
know if there's anywhere where we can find

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out about and pitch time violations?
Is there anything available out there? I

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mean, I mean that genuinely,
because you've worked very hard on what you've

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done, so please tell peop where
they can find out about it. Okay,

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wanted to actually track the violations or
but basically when I wanted to look at

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it, like three or four days
into the season, I found that nobody

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had done it. So I just
made a Twitter account which is just MLB

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PTV, so majorly big pitch time
violations. I just tweet out the leaderboards

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and I go find the clips of
people sleepwalking, which I think is an

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absolute amazing term. I can't take
credit for it. I saw contang go

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use it first, as much as
I would love to take credit for that

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term, and I very much also
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side as well. So yeah,
so yeah, just keeping track of those,

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just pushing that and just getting that
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see what the leaderboards are. It
kind of amused me because effectively, the

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first I think for six games of
the season, Cleveland had each had a

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picture of one picture do one violation
per day, and I was like,

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well what, and then you just
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it's then Earn and Karen Check has
done another one since then, so

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it's like, yeah, I think
there are going to be some very interesting

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things to pull out of him.
It. At a point in the not

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too distant future, there's some interesting
things around how which badders are taking time

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outs like on two strikes now to
kind of just make sure that that moment

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doesn't happen. Still, like fifty
percent of the violations are happening on zero

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zero, so that's just people not
waking up. So the fact the plate

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appearance has actually started, which it
is kind of ludicrous in itself, but

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yeah, that's a Twitter account.
You'll see me and probably bad flips occasionally

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pushing this very round the Twitter account. And if you're seeing the blurb,

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it's me, So thank you Tom
for a language blot. What if we

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seen so far from the point of
view of stolen bases, like Rob,

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how have the Rays been going at
it? Yeah? Yeah they have.

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I think everyone has. Um.
I don't think it's been silly yet.

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Again, this is it's it's so
so so early. It's hard to tell

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if I'm going to get fatigued by
this part way through the season. Again,

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not them, they can run their
athletes. My brain, my silly

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brain, whether or not it's going
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way through through the year. I
think in this last weekend gone and again

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this is this is just what I've
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I've seen a couple of runouts for
both sides. I've seen picture catchers

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starting getting the balls down there.
Now, I don't know if that's something

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that's changed or if that's just luck
of the drawer. I've happened to see

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it. But um no, I
think the running game is great. Um

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you know the constant step part and
throw overs. I did used to like

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that bit of the game, but
it did slow it down, and I

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see no problem with that. So
yeah, crack on, and the bigger

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bases are. I didn't think I'd
be able to notice the bigger basis,

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but I can. You know,
I can cut up, I can,

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I can see it. I can
see the bigger basis. They are definitely

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Biggs, Tommy, I mean,
Robbie, you suggesting that you love the

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kind of like the PANTOMIMESK level of
kind of like the pickoffs, where as

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soon as one pickoff happened, everybody's
like, I love the cameramen. And

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now I realize it's partly due to
delay. But the directors, whoever they

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do it, they always knew they
would always cut to the runner getting his

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lead, and you knew that there
was going to he was either going to

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go or there's gonna be a pickoff
attempt, and just the concentration and the

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look on and the easy leaning,
isn't heleaning? I used to love all

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that. I used to really love
that kind of moment of because I'd be

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terrified to do it. There is
no way I would ever be able to

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steal the base. I would think
about it and I would lose my nerve

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every single time. So I really
enjoyed that sort of does he go?

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Doesn't he go? Now now it's
really more just a sort of a amp

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yourself up, get your legs set, and then just go when you're ready.

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So a little bit has gone,
but I'm enjoying it right now.

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Right now it's just fun. But
it might be too too much a bit

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later. I don't know if I
missed something. Can pitch. There's not

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the pickoffs anymore so. As part
of the pitch time rules that they've basically

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introduced, they're only allowed to disengage
with the rubber twice basically in the bat

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which equivalent to be basically when there's
a runner on base. Even see,

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you can only pick up twice.
If you pick up a third time,

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it becomes a balk, and basically
the person is the runner is allowed to

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just go to second or third depending. The runner can just like tease him

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into throwing it twice and then the
running nos is like, well, fuck,

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I can go for it now.
Yeah, And so there are some

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hidden ideas about what you can do
or not do with that. Nobody's really

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played with it too much. There
was some discussion that some teams might actually

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do the two pickoffs to kind of
put the runner into think that they're going

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and then may even do the third
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the guys thinking, well, they're
not going to pick off, but it's

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still an out if they get thee
out. But if they don't get the

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out, it's a balk. No
one's really tested that one so far.

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Most of the stats kind of show
the same thing that historic, the opposite

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to what historically used to happen.
So if someone would throw a pick off,

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the likelihood of that person stealing a
base afterwards would decline. That's kind

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of like the standard way it works, because they now know they're on edge,

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they're looking for it. What we've
had so far this year is as

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soon as one pickoff has happened.
The stolen base break is now higher afterwards

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because they're now just kind of like, well, they can only do it

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one more time. They're actually kind
of these things are these things are playing

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out in a different way, And
if we weren't going to too many details

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here because it's what's needed or not, what's actually happening in the scene is

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a lot more kind of easy stolen
bases compared to kind of like so there's

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a lot more things that are just
don't even look close or are you things

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that aren't even like throwdowns because they're
getting that good a jump and they're working

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kind of like against it. I
find really interesting is that, like there

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are teams like Cleveland who have stolen
nearly twenty bases in ten games, but

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then teams that I also think are
fairly analytical, like the Dodgers who have

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two stolen bases. Well it's like
it's like, well, I know,

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maybe the Dodgers is a slower team
or something like that. Cleveland has already

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that's insane already built on their idea
of like running. They did it last

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year even when it wasn't too much
of a thing. But there are yet

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there are teams that like I think
Arizona Baltimore they both have got like seventeen

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stolen bases, and there are teams
that there are teams that are in like

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one, two, three, four. I think Minnesota only have one so

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far this season. So this this
hasn't been picked up by everybody, which

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is a really interesting, I think, an interesting side to it because I

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just thought everybody's going to steal more
because it was kind of it was fairly

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ubiquitous. That's kind of what we
saw like in the minors. So this

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is something really too, I think
for people to really look out on is

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that there are teams that are going
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Hm, that is very interested.
I don't know if you can pull

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it up now, Russell or you
already know it. But are we already

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up on stolen bases this year compared
to last year? Oh yeah, it's

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close to Yeah, it's close to
like a fifty sixty percent increase. I

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think they said for like the first
it's probable plateau over time because sometimes like

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April and Marchers is usually a little
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But I think teams of it's a
little bit more in their their ideas.

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The other thing with I'm saying is
that the success rate is higher it's

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usually been around. It's like a
good like six seven percent more success,

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which means there's still their way above
like the point you have to be successful.

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It's about three to one ratio generally
in today's run environment, where you

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have to three stolen bases and one
court stealing. Like that's that's a fine

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ratio. Like you're you're you're,
you're posit, You're in just about the

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good by doing that. So yeah, some teams might I think some teams

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might try and steal more because they
can push that line a little bit down

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to be even more aggressive. But
yeah, that's awesome. That's really good

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for the game. Though surely because
it's more exciting, that can't be a

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bad thing. No, I mean
you might end up seeing more injuries,

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which clearly would be bad. But
okay, well it's going to be fun.

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But as Rob said, I think
it's it's whether you kind of notice

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it, Like I think for me, I think I noticed I've noticed less

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groundball double plays because I think I've
seen people be a second or be at

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or be at third when they would
have would have been at short or been

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a first normally. And I think
that's just because well I'm watching Cleveland mainly

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and they are they are runners.
So yes, Russell, Yes, Well,

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Daniel Vogelback steal a base this year
as per the hilarious advert, given

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the fact that the New York Mets
are one of the teams that are I

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think I think they've got above ten
stolen bases, so they're one of the

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teams are looking like they're actually trying
to do things. I want to say,

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yes, he has over six hundred
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which is basically the active record.
I can't remember who was seconds, whoever

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00:26:03.720 --> 00:26:07.720
was second on that list with like
two hundred stall the base last week,

407
00:26:07.119 --> 00:26:11.559
So I'm gonna say, Daniel Vogeback
will steal a base. Yeah, in

408
00:26:11.759 --> 00:26:22.680
the prediction twenty three will steal base. If none of you have seen the

409
00:26:22.720 --> 00:26:27.480
advert with with Daniel Vogeback and Buck
Showater for the explaining the rules, it

410
00:26:27.640 --> 00:26:32.119
is the best of the MLB adverts
over over the offer, I will,

411
00:26:32.160 --> 00:26:34.799
I will, I will just like
to add one slight amendum to what you

412
00:26:34.839 --> 00:26:42.480
said. The MLB propaganda wow,
very much. Like they've basically just gone

413
00:26:42.519 --> 00:26:45.920
like, here are our rules here. You will love them by having Brian

414
00:26:45.960 --> 00:26:52.000
Cranston tell you that these rules are
amazing, or by creating like a funny

415
00:26:52.039 --> 00:26:55.440
ad, not just let them play
out and see where the people like actually

416
00:26:55.480 --> 00:26:57.319
like it. They've been gone like, no, you will like these rule

417
00:26:57.400 --> 00:27:00.400
changes. Hey, look just just
in what TikTok tells me to do that,

418
00:27:02.680 --> 00:27:06.119
just to let you know many Michado's
granted and double played for the Padreays

419
00:27:06.160 --> 00:27:08.079
to lose, so they still exist. Oh well, cheers. I didn't

420
00:27:08.119 --> 00:27:11.160
say that the Cleveland managed to blow
a lead and they had the bases loaded

421
00:27:11.160 --> 00:27:14.839
in the bottom of the nights,
but I can tell you that happened as

422
00:27:14.839 --> 00:27:19.079
well. But yes, have you
always seen the lack of the shift?

423
00:27:19.200 --> 00:27:23.880
I know if you've listened to the
commentary, like this has been something that's

424
00:27:23.880 --> 00:27:27.319
been talked about every time that I'm
listening in there. When that ball goes

425
00:27:27.759 --> 00:27:30.480
through first, first and second and
they go like, well, that would

426
00:27:30.519 --> 00:27:33.960
have been an easy out in the
shift last year, and I'm like,

427
00:27:33.000 --> 00:27:37.960
well, yeah, but there's also
been a few, isn't that? But

428
00:27:37.039 --> 00:27:40.960
yeah, rule I don't like that
is the one I don't like, I'm

429
00:27:40.960 --> 00:27:45.039
really not enjoying that. It feels
like we are forcing them to not be

430
00:27:45.119 --> 00:27:48.119
able to do their thing properly.
Obviously, every time it does sneak through

431
00:27:48.160 --> 00:27:52.039
and you see the guys like flying
both directions to and they just can't get

432
00:27:52.119 --> 00:27:55.079
close it because it's right up the
middle. You know, it's no,

433
00:27:55.160 --> 00:27:59.960
it's not right. This is not
this isn't right because we're restricting them unnecessarily.

434
00:28:00.079 --> 00:28:00.799
I don't. I don't get it. And yes, maybe it's a

435
00:28:00.799 --> 00:28:04.160
bit hypocritical because we're restricting the pictures
on how long they're allowed to have a

436
00:28:04.160 --> 00:28:07.920
little rest, But yeah, I'm
not I'm not about this one. This

437
00:28:07.920 --> 00:28:10.119
one is. This one has not
sat as well with me. Why does

438
00:28:10.200 --> 00:28:12.759
Rob hate pictures? Why does he
hate pictures and people being fatigued like he

439
00:28:12.799 --> 00:28:18.039
loves people being fatigued. Why why
robbed? I kind of, yeah,

440
00:28:18.079 --> 00:28:21.359
I kind of get Rob's point,
But then also he just said exactly what

441
00:28:21.400 --> 00:28:23.359
baseball wanted, didn't They They want
balls in play, and that balls know

442
00:28:23.519 --> 00:28:26.240
and play. Some of it just
being picked off really quickly and throw it

443
00:28:26.240 --> 00:28:30.079
into first base. It's in play, and it's excitement. It's people on

444
00:28:30.079 --> 00:28:33.680
the basis. Then you've got people
stealing bases, which is what you want,

445
00:28:33.720 --> 00:28:37.160
And then you've got games happening like
maybe not as quick because you've got

446
00:28:37.160 --> 00:28:40.759
people on basis. However, that's
what they want, don't they. So

447
00:28:41.640 --> 00:28:45.119
I'm kind of with robbing a way, but I'm also with baseball in a

448
00:28:45.119 --> 00:28:47.759
way that I think, yeah,
I've not noticed it, but I think,

449
00:28:47.799 --> 00:28:52.799
you know, they need it and
it works and it's good. They're

450
00:28:52.839 --> 00:28:55.079
kind of didn't they do it in
cricket with people on the leg side and

451
00:28:55.119 --> 00:28:57.400
things like that. They stop people
doing that and having a ridiculous amount of

452
00:28:57.400 --> 00:29:02.039
people in the slips wherever it may
be. You know, they have to

453
00:29:02.039 --> 00:29:04.359
make these adjustments to keep it exciting
otherwise it's going to end up just being

454
00:29:04.400 --> 00:29:07.799
a bit bland. And yeah,
it's not the baseball we knew and grew

455
00:29:07.839 --> 00:29:11.519
up with, which you know,
wasn't that long ago. But things have

456
00:29:11.599 --> 00:29:15.640
to change at some point then,
and this is probably a good one.

457
00:29:15.880 --> 00:29:19.920
Sorry everyone. Yeah, to me, it definitely feels counterintuitive. It kind

458
00:29:19.920 --> 00:29:25.440
of feels that like when we have
Rob Manford saying that like analytics race is

459
00:29:25.440 --> 00:29:27.920
an arms race to analytics is an
arms race to nowhere, that was basically

460
00:29:27.960 --> 00:29:32.680
means like, well, you just
completely don't understand like what marginal gains is.

461
00:29:32.799 --> 00:29:34.720
I think you should have a good
conversation with David Brailsford, who could

462
00:29:34.720 --> 00:29:41.599
literally call you, and probably Dick
Montford, whom I'm a hundred percent saying

463
00:29:41.599 --> 00:29:45.000
where there's words were put into Rob
Manford's mouth came from. You just don't

464
00:29:45.119 --> 00:29:49.599
understand the way like sports or even
the world works, that you make a

465
00:29:49.599 --> 00:29:53.680
gain on something and then if everybody
else catches up, you make a gain

466
00:29:53.720 --> 00:29:57.359
on something else, like and if
there is a detriment to the viewing,

467
00:29:59.240 --> 00:30:02.200
I could made it, get it, And I think the detriment that people

468
00:30:02.240 --> 00:30:10.240
had was the ball that went straight
through the middle was a single for one

469
00:30:10.319 --> 00:30:12.839
hundred and twenty years of baseball,
and the shift took that hit up the

470
00:30:12.839 --> 00:30:17.119
middle away from being a single,
and people went, oh, that should

471
00:30:17.119 --> 00:30:18.759
be a single. Oh wait,
it's an owl. And they were like,

472
00:30:18.000 --> 00:30:21.279
oh, it's good hitting to hit
it like straight back up the middle,

473
00:30:21.279 --> 00:30:25.079
And so their view of the game
was changed too much by the shift.

474
00:30:25.200 --> 00:30:27.359
The funny thing to me is that
this change the rules now doesn't stop

475
00:30:27.480 --> 00:30:30.160
that from happening. I've seen a
lot of teams have like the second base

476
00:30:30.279 --> 00:30:37.799
or short staff virtually like omber bag, so they're still shifted and they pick

477
00:30:37.920 --> 00:30:41.759
up. I've seen plenty of second
baseman pick up the ball on the other

478
00:30:41.799 --> 00:30:45.119
side of the bag from where they
started, because yeah, this is how

479
00:30:45.160 --> 00:30:48.680
they're going to do it. So
we don't know what's actually going to come

480
00:30:48.680 --> 00:30:52.759
out on the other side of what's
actually happened. The initial stats looked like,

481
00:30:52.839 --> 00:30:57.920
actually it's those little short flies into
right field against the pull hitters where

482
00:30:57.920 --> 00:31:03.960
the second baseman would have been deep
that have actually are happening. Now we're

483
00:31:03.000 --> 00:31:08.839
not maybe seeing more balls in play
through with the defense that maybe they want

484
00:31:08.880 --> 00:31:12.519
to see, but who knows.
Right now. What I do know is

485
00:31:12.519 --> 00:31:17.519
that we get to see the glorious, glorious of the Royals doing effectively a

486
00:31:17.640 --> 00:31:21.240
five man infield. Have you guys, have you seen have you seen this?

487
00:31:21.680 --> 00:31:22.720
I haven't seen it. No,
I saw you put it on the

488
00:31:22.720 --> 00:31:25.920
sheet, and I don't actually know
what it is. So the Royals have

489
00:31:26.000 --> 00:31:30.680
basically been pulling one of their outfielders
to stand where like the second masman would

490
00:31:30.720 --> 00:31:33.200
have stood in an old shift to
basically well, yeah, well we can

491
00:31:33.200 --> 00:31:37.160
move our outfielders. However, we
like, they're not allowed to be out

492
00:31:37.279 --> 00:31:41.640
infieldersn't not allowed to go onto the
grass. The funny thing is that the

493
00:31:41.680 --> 00:31:44.039
first player I saw them do it, they did it against Joey Gallo.

494
00:31:44.759 --> 00:31:48.440
The guy hit hit the grounder perfectly
to the guy in right field and it

495
00:31:48.559 --> 00:31:52.480
absolutely muffed it because it was a
right it was it was an outfielder being

496
00:31:52.519 --> 00:31:56.599
in that position trying to take a
ground ball instead of the infielder. How

497
00:31:56.599 --> 00:32:00.880
it's been done before, so maybe
it isn't working this. The other thing

498
00:32:00.000 --> 00:32:05.000
is that right now the stats I
think it's like a four hundred or a

499
00:32:05.039 --> 00:32:08.640
four fifty Wober against it, So
it's definitely it's only like forty odd,

500
00:32:08.960 --> 00:32:13.000
not even forty, or plate prints
it's like twenty five plate appearances against it.

501
00:32:13.519 --> 00:32:16.279
But the numbers aren't holding up so
far. But you you're going to

502
00:32:16.359 --> 00:32:22.359
see teams try and do different things. Now they've got new limitations of what

503
00:32:22.400 --> 00:32:24.920
they're going to do. They're still
going to try and be creative. It's

504
00:32:24.960 --> 00:32:30.240
just in a within a slightly different
framework. I wonder, I wonder if

505
00:32:30.240 --> 00:32:37.200
teams to have do you say,
great big shoes, just random shoes,

506
00:32:38.559 --> 00:32:42.000
great big shoes to stop the ball, so they can kind of you know,

507
00:32:42.559 --> 00:32:45.240
they'll cover more space with their enormous
shoes and they can just stop it

508
00:32:45.240 --> 00:32:47.480
with their foot. Do you know
what this might be like my base running

509
00:32:47.480 --> 00:32:52.519
glove article. Just everyone just wears
clown shoes. It's very tricky to me.

510
00:32:52.799 --> 00:32:54.559
Yeah, but there's no limits on
the length of shoe. So you

511
00:32:54.599 --> 00:33:01.359
just have this giant shoe as a
barrier that many plays that you've seen somebody

512
00:33:01.599 --> 00:33:05.559
like take one off the shoe,
then pick it up clean and throw the

513
00:33:05.680 --> 00:33:08.559
first But when have you ever seen
somebody wearing a giant shoe? I mean

514
00:33:09.359 --> 00:33:14.519
a circus? Well yeah, yeah, but I've never seen him. I'm

515
00:33:14.599 --> 00:33:20.319
gonna be careful not to avoid ball
any windows here. When have you seen

516
00:33:20.400 --> 00:33:22.880
him, you know, take a
ball off his off his foot? You

517
00:33:22.880 --> 00:33:27.519
know it's it's it's all good.
It doesn't happen in the circus because they're

518
00:33:27.519 --> 00:33:30.440
not trying it. Put some giant
shoes on on Trey Turner. I mean,

519
00:33:30.519 --> 00:33:36.359
yeah, he's everywhere. Tray turn
its clown shoes. That's the time

520
00:33:36.440 --> 00:33:39.279
of the episode. But still he's
gonna slide and he's gonna come back up,

521
00:33:39.279 --> 00:33:44.279
and he's gonna even brilliant. Then
in the end, you have to

522
00:33:44.319 --> 00:33:50.559
wear a nose part of it.
Yeah, and make up a sad phase

523
00:33:50.640 --> 00:33:52.759
with him. Come on, it's
ridiculous. Just get ridiculous. Anyway,

524
00:33:52.799 --> 00:33:57.480
My point was going to be,
sorry, what what about teams that have

525
00:33:57.720 --> 00:34:01.880
recently converted outfielders. He used to
play in the infield somewhere, and maybe

526
00:34:01.920 --> 00:34:07.200
they could be utilized a bit better
for this five five man infield jobber.

527
00:34:07.680 --> 00:34:08.800
Yeah, there could be. You're
gonna you're gonna see some very You're going

528
00:34:08.880 --> 00:34:15.000
to see some interesting things like last
year Austin Riley when when Atlanta did put

529
00:34:15.000 --> 00:34:16.960
the person in the short road field, Austin Riley went out, there is

530
00:34:16.960 --> 00:34:20.880
a third baseman, which is very
different to while other teams do. We're

531
00:34:20.880 --> 00:34:25.840
going to get exposed. I think
some second base second base and who aren't

532
00:34:25.840 --> 00:34:31.800
that good and have been protected by
a shift or this allows those I think

533
00:34:31.840 --> 00:34:36.119
Max Munks is good, but this
allows those people who would have played like

534
00:34:36.599 --> 00:34:40.760
two or three infield roles and an
outfield rolled to be kind of hidden because

535
00:34:40.800 --> 00:34:45.039
they've been able to work to work
against it. But we just don't know

536
00:34:45.079 --> 00:34:50.639
what's going to happen, Like everything
that happens with rule changes in sport,

537
00:34:50.920 --> 00:34:54.559
there are unintended consequences and which don't
know what these ones are yet. I

538
00:34:54.639 --> 00:35:00.400
think so far the five man five
man infield and Rob's great shoes were something

539
00:35:00.480 --> 00:35:07.719
that theo Epstein did not did not
think about when he was Pascal implementing these

540
00:35:07.840 --> 00:35:13.079
rule changes. I can't wait for
that rule to come in that you have

541
00:35:13.119 --> 00:35:16.239
shoe size has to be a maximum
of two over your current shoe size.

542
00:35:19.880 --> 00:35:22.159
Well, yeah, I just imagine
that, like you're going to be much

543
00:35:22.199 --> 00:35:30.119
slower when you're running. So I
think the shoes, we need to have

544
00:35:30.119 --> 00:35:32.639
a clown shoe runoff. That's what
we need to don't know, we need

545
00:35:32.719 --> 00:35:36.559
loafers, That's what we need so
they can just slip them on like slip

546
00:35:36.599 --> 00:35:38.880
on the big shoes, slip out
into the running shoes, bopp off off

547
00:35:38.880 --> 00:35:45.719
they go. Clown shoes sponsored by
Crocs. Maybe they can have a knit

548
00:35:45.920 --> 00:35:49.800
on the shoe as well. Yeah, I think saying you can't have amit

549
00:35:49.920 --> 00:35:54.719
on the shoe. Yes, I
think the rules on. One other new

550
00:35:55.599 --> 00:36:00.639
rule for this year that I didn't
put on the sheet, but I want

551
00:36:00.639 --> 00:36:05.519
to actually quickly discuss is the sponsor
patches. Have you guys, have you

552
00:36:05.559 --> 00:36:09.440
picked these out, I don't think. I think don't think half of the

553
00:36:09.440 --> 00:36:15.360
teams actually have them. I think
the only ones that obviously I've noticed is

554
00:36:15.360 --> 00:36:20.239
because they talked about it in the
season, the Presbyterian Hospital ones that got

555
00:36:20.239 --> 00:36:22.320
put on the Mets, but the
boot were red and white, and therefore

556
00:36:22.320 --> 00:36:27.239
everybody was like, well, you're
putting Phillies colors on the Mets, and

557
00:36:27.280 --> 00:36:30.760
so the Mets Twitter fans complained even
before they got put on, and Steve

558
00:36:30.800 --> 00:36:35.280
Cohen was like, oh, yeah, we're looking to we're looking to change

559
00:36:35.320 --> 00:36:38.119
the color. I've not noticed them
at all. I think this is because

560
00:36:38.119 --> 00:36:44.440
we're more used to European sport,
where advertisement is like literally all over everything

561
00:36:45.559 --> 00:36:47.599
when it comes to since the sport, when it's like, oh, you

562
00:36:47.679 --> 00:36:51.719
have your main kit sponsor, and
you have your trading kit sponsor, and

563
00:36:51.800 --> 00:36:55.920
you have armed sponsors and cap sponsors
and all of the sponsorships all the way

564
00:36:55.960 --> 00:37:00.440
around the field. So I haven't
noticed it, But yeah, I'm kind

565
00:37:00.559 --> 00:37:05.760
quite interested that neither of you two
did. Oh my word, what I

566
00:37:05.800 --> 00:37:08.440
did see is what the Padres have. The biggest one. I do haven't

567
00:37:08.440 --> 00:37:13.719
even noticed. What have I got. I've not even noticed, genuinely Motorola,

568
00:37:13.800 --> 00:37:16.920
isn't it? Have they Okay,
I've not even genuinely. Yeah,

569
00:37:17.159 --> 00:37:22.199
they've got big a big round brown
circle with the with the white hair minute

570
00:37:22.239 --> 00:37:25.639
on the on the sloop. I
thought that was that was Madre's. I

571
00:37:25.679 --> 00:37:30.440
think it's just like excited about mothers
and do you want do you want to

572
00:37:30.480 --> 00:37:36.760
know the quality India India quality index
media value. I like to call quimn

573
00:37:37.440 --> 00:37:51.280
and for sponsoring, don't we're sponsor
logo some professional? Um quite genuine?

574
00:37:51.320 --> 00:37:58.280
This is a genuine page right per
season, annal what I signed up for

575
00:37:58.360 --> 00:38:05.639
today? Media sponsorship legos on professional
sports jerseys per season? So Major League

576
00:38:05.639 --> 00:38:09.760
Soccer is five and twenty six thousand
dollars, NBA's two million, NHA is

577
00:38:09.840 --> 00:38:15.000
one point five million dollars. MLB
is twelve point three million dollars. But

578
00:38:15.119 --> 00:38:22.480
what as in that? This is
the quality index media value? So I'm

579
00:38:22.480 --> 00:38:28.159
assuming it's showing how much it's worth
having these sponsor logos on the jerseys like

580
00:38:28.159 --> 00:38:31.079
form LB, because you've got so
many games clearly that sponsorship logos give me

581
00:38:31.119 --> 00:38:36.800
there constantly and it reckons here.
The exposure time per game is thirteen point

582
00:38:36.840 --> 00:38:39.480
eight minutes for him I'll be competitive. I guess it's also the kind of

583
00:38:39.480 --> 00:38:43.320
the side to it is that it's
just never happened, so when it happens,

584
00:38:43.400 --> 00:38:45.480
it would it would get a lot
of like media presence. I don't

585
00:38:45.480 --> 00:38:50.400
know how much she goes watched football
when it happened. But when Real Madrid

586
00:38:50.440 --> 00:38:53.320
and Barcelona got sponsored for like the
first time, I think in the early

587
00:38:53.400 --> 00:38:58.880
naughties, everybody was like, like, they've never had sponsorships. Now they've

588
00:38:58.920 --> 00:39:01.119
done it, and it was like
and Barcelona did it for UNICEF, and

589
00:39:01.159 --> 00:39:05.320
it was like, oh, yeah, well we're doing a sponsorship for a

590
00:39:05.400 --> 00:39:08.880
charity or whatever. It's good.
And then eventually it became like some Saudi

591
00:39:08.880 --> 00:39:14.639
Arabian company gave them a lot of
money. So yeah, I think I

592
00:39:14.639 --> 00:39:16.440
think because it's a Jersey patch as
right, you don't really notice it how

593
00:39:16.519 --> 00:39:20.280
much. I mean, I've not
even noticed the Padres one. Supposedly it's

594
00:39:20.280 --> 00:39:22.800
the biggest one. Yeah. This
this website talks about the exposure time of

595
00:39:22.840 --> 00:39:27.840
their game, so it's the exposure
quimn for game. Okay, I think

596
00:39:27.840 --> 00:39:34.039
we'll move on from Quinn m.
There have been a couple of teams that

597
00:39:34.079 --> 00:39:36.599
have had some very good starts that
aren't the raised they were a little bit

598
00:39:36.679 --> 00:39:44.920
more slightly less anticipated. Um.
Texas and Arizona have both played very well

599
00:39:45.000 --> 00:39:50.880
so far, and would either of
you like to discuss about Texas Arizona?

600
00:39:51.000 --> 00:39:55.320
Would you like to giggle in silence
for further amounts of time? Rob,

601
00:39:55.360 --> 00:40:04.719
do you have any thoughts on Texas
being good? They are good? Yeah?

602
00:40:04.800 --> 00:40:10.079
Sorry, sorry, this is this
is what I deal with, boys,

603
00:40:10.119 --> 00:40:22.760
and yes. So the Texas Rangers
are currently leading the Al West with

604
00:40:22.840 --> 00:40:27.360
a with a seven and four record
and have looked good for it. They

605
00:40:27.400 --> 00:40:30.440
actually have a pretty high positive run
differential, and he's even been based off

606
00:40:30.440 --> 00:40:35.400
the fact that, like Jacob deGrom
hasn't even had that greater starts. I

607
00:40:35.400 --> 00:40:38.199
would like to have either of my
two colleagues back, but they still both

608
00:40:38.239 --> 00:40:43.639
seem to be absolutely giggling their life
away. I've got the Grom in my

609
00:40:43.679 --> 00:40:47.920
fancy team. He looked very very
good. Grom looked absolutely superb. Yeah,

610
00:40:47.960 --> 00:40:51.400
he had a good good he had. I feel de Grom had a

611
00:40:51.880 --> 00:40:55.119
Otani game the other day where he
pitched very well and then got a no

612
00:40:55.199 --> 00:40:59.119
decision because the people behind him blew
up. So I think this is going

613
00:40:59.159 --> 00:41:00.280
to be something we might see.
Well, that was that was very metsy

614
00:41:00.320 --> 00:41:02.280
for him as well, though,
wasn't it? That was very metsy?

615
00:41:02.840 --> 00:41:07.920
They can him feel at home?
Yeah, yes, he can't even do

616
00:41:07.960 --> 00:41:13.559
the good old fashioned thing of scoring
his own home run or scoring the own

617
00:41:13.599 --> 00:41:17.199
not harbi that actually in a one
nail game. So yes, this Texas

618
00:41:17.239 --> 00:41:22.039
team has has looked reasonable. I
think we all thought that that was that

619
00:41:22.199 --> 00:41:24.079
was a possibility, but we were
basically waiting for the arms to break,

620
00:41:24.159 --> 00:41:30.360
and I guess can they gain enough
games in credit before those arms break?

621
00:41:30.480 --> 00:41:36.400
Rob? Have you seen much of
them? I mean, I've seen absolutely

622
00:41:36.480 --> 00:41:43.599
nothing of the honesty is appreciate.
No, I did. I did put

623
00:41:43.639 --> 00:41:45.519
them on. I did have them
on in the background, but it was

624
00:41:45.639 --> 00:41:47.880
very much background. I would say. I think with both of these teams,

625
00:41:49.159 --> 00:41:52.960
what I had noticed was it's more
of a stats thing is that there's

626
00:41:52.000 --> 00:41:57.639
nothing sort of really stands out about
why they're so good. You know,

627
00:41:57.719 --> 00:42:00.719
if you if you look down at
the ra's for the d back for example,

628
00:42:00.840 --> 00:42:06.599
that the rotation is looking pretty sick. And then if you if you

629
00:42:06.679 --> 00:42:09.480
go back over and you have a
look at the stats for the Rangers like

630
00:42:09.480 --> 00:42:13.800
that, there's there's not a lot
of guys who've got much going on at

631
00:42:13.840 --> 00:42:16.400
all. You've got a catch who's
hidden pretty well. You've got Cory Seger

632
00:42:16.440 --> 00:42:20.519
who started well, but then other
than that, there's there's not a lot

633
00:42:20.639 --> 00:42:23.599
of sort of you know, there's
guys who kind of jumped out and started

634
00:42:23.639 --> 00:42:30.039
adding to the war totals early.
Like, it's fairly stagnant. So where

635
00:42:30.039 --> 00:42:32.920
these winds have really come from is
a little difficult to put your finger on.

636
00:42:34.000 --> 00:42:37.159
And it's it's because they're just pushing
through, I think, rather than

637
00:42:37.599 --> 00:42:39.920
dominating and saying yes, it's because
they're fantastic pitching, or yes it's because

638
00:42:39.920 --> 00:42:45.920
they hit the snot out of the
balls. It's just middling along enough.

639
00:42:45.199 --> 00:42:50.000
So I don't know how much of
it's sequencing versus how good they actually are.

640
00:42:50.000 --> 00:42:52.880
I'm not I've not seen anything to
to really turn my head yet,

641
00:42:52.920 --> 00:42:57.199
which is part of why I've not
really watched the Rangers in any great detail.

642
00:42:58.599 --> 00:43:01.840
It's tay to ha bad were analyzing
because on our prediction, Pard,

643
00:43:01.880 --> 00:43:05.800
we were massively down on the Diamondbacks
and the Rangers, and they're looking all

644
00:43:05.880 --> 00:43:07.000
right, But then again, it
is the start of the season, and

645
00:43:07.079 --> 00:43:10.960
without looking can you guess who's got
the highest WRC plus for the Texas Rangers.

646
00:43:13.159 --> 00:43:17.679
I would imagine it was Corey Sieger. He's beaten by one by somebody

647
00:43:17.719 --> 00:43:23.880
else. Oh, it is,
of course the ex Padre speed demon Travis

648
00:43:23.960 --> 00:43:30.360
Jankowski, who is leading the Diamondbacks
WRC plus with one eighty seven leading the

649
00:43:30.440 --> 00:43:37.039
Rangers. Sorry, Ngers, I'm
assuming this is a backup catcher that has

650
00:43:37.079 --> 00:43:39.199
not I mean, I don't want
to backup catcher, but he's not played

651
00:43:39.280 --> 00:43:43.800
much time, which is the reason
why he's only played six games. But

652
00:43:43.880 --> 00:43:46.119
I mean he's played six games,
he's only a thirteen play appearances, two

653
00:43:46.119 --> 00:43:51.480
solen bases. Obviously for good old
Trav with his flowing locks, I'm assuming

654
00:43:51.480 --> 00:43:53.119
he's still got long hair. I'm
going to check him out now, carry

655
00:43:53.159 --> 00:43:57.400
on. But yeah, like I
think the say is like, I think

656
00:43:57.400 --> 00:44:00.639
a lot of the players are kind
of hitting reasonably well. Billian isn't,

657
00:44:00.639 --> 00:44:01.559
which is like when you when you
think that they're going to do well,

658
00:44:01.599 --> 00:44:04.599
it's going to be off the back
of it. But obviously, with the

659
00:44:04.599 --> 00:44:08.880
Sega hitting well, it doesn't kind
of matter too much that m. Simeon

660
00:44:09.000 --> 00:44:15.119
isn't on the on the Arizona side. Um, obviously, once again you're

661
00:44:15.199 --> 00:44:19.360
kind of talking about pitching as what
kind of drives a lot of their a

662
00:44:19.360 --> 00:44:24.599
lot of their prowess. I think
zat Gallen is having another who would kind

663
00:44:24.599 --> 00:44:28.119
of season. I think is going
to maybe once again have one of those

664
00:44:28.199 --> 00:44:32.159
kind of FIP seasons where we all
love it from a from an analytical point

665
00:44:32.159 --> 00:44:37.400
of view, but maybe the eara
doesn't doesn't match kind of what the under

666
00:44:37.400 --> 00:44:43.360
an aspects are. But yeah,
it's very entertaining to see like the d

667
00:44:43.480 --> 00:44:46.840
Backs on the top of that on
the top of that division ahead of San

668
00:44:46.880 --> 00:44:51.760
Diego, La and San Francisco.
I don't know how long it will last,

669
00:44:51.800 --> 00:44:54.320
the same with Texas being ahead of
like Houston and maybe even like LA

670
00:44:54.320 --> 00:45:00.800
and Seattle. But um, it
is it is amusing to watch these things.

671
00:45:00.119 --> 00:45:04.719
Tell what I tell, what is
amusing Watching Madison Bumgarner be a bit

672
00:45:04.800 --> 00:45:10.320
shit, that's amusing. I don't
like him. I think he's an arrogant

673
00:45:10.360 --> 00:45:15.480
fool um. He definitely has had
his moments. I was trying to remember

674
00:45:15.599 --> 00:45:21.679
what the name of his Oh yeah, what's his his rodeo name? His

675
00:45:22.320 --> 00:45:25.679
name like Bucky Buckie Long Johnson or
something, like that, it's ridiculous.

676
00:45:27.039 --> 00:45:30.199
Yeah, well I remember, I
remember that he dated a woman called Madison

677
00:45:30.239 --> 00:45:35.960
ban Garner. What we know that? Yeah, he wants dated somebody who

678
00:45:36.079 --> 00:45:39.199
was also called a woman who was
called Madison Bumgarner. No, yep,

679
00:45:42.159 --> 00:45:49.480
so it just shows his Mason Saunders. Yeah. All I remember about that

680
00:45:49.639 --> 00:45:54.039
is I know that the Baseball Reference
page for Madison Bumgardner, where it has

681
00:45:54.079 --> 00:46:00.920
his salary, also has below it
his rodeo winnings from like the competitions that

682
00:46:00.559 --> 00:46:05.760
he took part in. That is
excellent. That is fine work from them,

683
00:46:06.039 --> 00:46:09.000
well done. So I think that's
all of the major talking points.

684
00:46:09.079 --> 00:46:13.559
There are obviously, like lots of
players that are have played well, but

685
00:46:13.639 --> 00:46:15.679
we'd like to kind of see up
or down, but I think we'll try

686
00:46:15.679 --> 00:46:21.159
and cover them in our Too Good
Too Bad that we have not stolen from

687
00:46:21.320 --> 00:46:27.440
a long running British television program that
is a completely and utterly owned in invention.

688
00:46:27.719 --> 00:46:34.480
So, mister Pringle, would you
like to start us off with your

689
00:46:35.000 --> 00:46:38.000
what I'm assuming is Wade Miley.
Yeah, I'd love it to be Wade

690
00:46:38.000 --> 00:46:42.119
Miley, but I haven't got his
Baseball Reference page yet. It's it's going

691
00:46:42.159 --> 00:46:45.239
to be Hassling Kim actually who I've
really enjoyed watching. He is fun,

692
00:46:45.719 --> 00:46:50.440
and what I've enjoyed is the fact
that he came to the league and wasn't

693
00:46:50.440 --> 00:46:52.320
particularly great with the bat, and
everyone was worried about him with a fastball,

694
00:46:52.400 --> 00:46:54.920
and it was kind of proven he
wasn't that good. But in the

695
00:46:54.960 --> 00:46:59.239
field he was really good fun to
watch, and he could throw people out

696
00:46:59.280 --> 00:47:01.320
and it was all nice fun.
Last year, I believe he picked it

697
00:47:01.360 --> 00:47:05.719
up quite a lot, and then
this year he's had an excellent start and

698
00:47:05.760 --> 00:47:08.719
it has been good fun to watch. I haven't really got much more analytics

699
00:47:08.719 --> 00:47:12.679
wise to talk about him, but
I'm sure you might do Russell while you're

700
00:47:12.719 --> 00:47:14.960
loading his page, or he probably
just got it in your head already.

701
00:47:15.559 --> 00:47:17.119
No, I think he's had a
good start. Like I think he's what

702
00:47:17.320 --> 00:47:22.480
hitting just under three hundred, and
it's kind of shown some power obviously with

703
00:47:22.199 --> 00:47:27.199
two home runs. But yeah,
I think I think I'd be very interested

704
00:47:27.199 --> 00:47:30.800
to see if he's one of those
players that's actually from off the WBC well

705
00:47:30.880 --> 00:47:34.880
obviously, like Korea didn't have like
the greatest tournament, but he had he

706
00:47:34.920 --> 00:47:37.400
had a pretty pretty good tournament there. So we're interesting to go with that.

707
00:47:37.519 --> 00:47:42.920
I think, Rob, what is
a give us a good a good

708
00:47:43.400 --> 00:47:46.880
Well, you just mentioned it WBC. It's the afterglow from the WBC UM

709
00:47:47.199 --> 00:47:51.639
and I think this is this is
coming from a spectator point of view,

710
00:47:52.480 --> 00:47:54.320
and there's some players who carried it
over as well. I mean, we've

711
00:47:54.360 --> 00:47:59.719
we've seen the interest in show how
he's been been huge, That that fantastic

712
00:48:00.280 --> 00:48:04.760
plate appearance show against Mike Trout was
was brilliant, and I think that's really

713
00:48:04.760 --> 00:48:07.239
sort of set us up for the
season. It was it was his baseball.

714
00:48:07.239 --> 00:48:10.079
It's not just flaccid spring training,
which we're all bored out by the

715
00:48:10.119 --> 00:48:13.920
last minute we had. We had
the World Baseball Classic. We've got Randy

716
00:48:14.000 --> 00:48:16.639
Rose Rain, you know, posing
doing his doing his his arm folds,

717
00:48:16.639 --> 00:48:21.519
you know, and he's come out
of the blocks absolutely flying. And again

718
00:48:21.639 --> 00:48:23.599
me and myself, I you know, we all do we lose we lose

719
00:48:23.639 --> 00:48:28.079
interest in spring training halfway through probably
not even halfway through. This year,

720
00:48:28.079 --> 00:48:30.159
there was actually something to watch that
was meaningful and it was interesting. And

721
00:48:30.239 --> 00:48:36.440
I've come into the baseball season already
up on baseball, rather than oh here

722
00:48:36.440 --> 00:48:38.159
it is again waking me up to
it I'm already await I'm already I was

723
00:48:38.199 --> 00:48:42.079
ready for it. I as a
watcher, have hit the ground running for

724
00:48:42.079 --> 00:48:44.719
it, and I mean I'm enjoying
it thoroughly. So I think the after

725
00:48:44.760 --> 00:48:47.880
glow of that has been brilliant and
long way it continue and let's get let's

726
00:48:47.880 --> 00:48:51.320
get more of them one even if
GB isn't in it anymore, you know,

727
00:48:51.400 --> 00:48:53.360
it was. It was great to
watch and I think I think this

728
00:48:53.719 --> 00:49:00.000
World Baseball Classic has finally caught the
imagination of the Americans, which I fortunately

729
00:49:00.159 --> 00:49:02.239
where the sport is. That is
the thing we really need is is we

730
00:49:02.239 --> 00:49:06.800
need America to be interested in it
as much as as Japan is, as

731
00:49:06.880 --> 00:49:08.920
much as career is, to really
sort of sort of give it something that

732
00:49:08.920 --> 00:49:13.000
that's worth what And there is a
buzz about it and it's palpable and I

733
00:49:13.159 --> 00:49:15.840
really felt that come through it,
and it's it's been a great start the

734
00:49:15.880 --> 00:49:17.880
season. Yeah, it's been.
It's been pretty awesome for me to see

735
00:49:17.920 --> 00:49:22.880
like Lewis Rayas still just continue to
bang things out in Marlin Stadium, like

736
00:49:22.960 --> 00:49:25.360
he obviously had a very good game
there for Mexico, and it just kind

737
00:49:25.400 --> 00:49:30.079
of seems to continue one from there. I think he's Yeah. He obviously

738
00:49:30.079 --> 00:49:34.440
he hit for a cycle yesterday,
which, as we all know our podcasts

739
00:49:34.559 --> 00:49:42.239
thoughts on a cycle that would probably
end up in the bad But Marlin's first

740
00:49:42.239 --> 00:49:45.719
one, isn't it? Yeah,
that that is something worth commenting on.

741
00:49:45.400 --> 00:49:49.679
It was quite ridiculous that that that
they hadn't actually got one, considering the

742
00:49:50.079 --> 00:49:53.760
likelihood of them occurring. So move
on to one of my goods I'll talk

743
00:49:53.800 --> 00:49:59.159
about. I'll take this in the
absence of one of our square colleagues.

744
00:49:59.199 --> 00:50:02.599
I think we need to talk about
chap Matman. He has probably had the

745
00:50:02.639 --> 00:50:07.039
best start in Major League Baseball.
I think he might have been behind Adam

746
00:50:07.079 --> 00:50:09.920
Duval if Adam Duval hadn't injured himself
and therefore not played a few games now,

747
00:50:10.079 --> 00:50:15.159
But Matt Chapman and his glorious five
eighty one babbit, So that tells

748
00:50:15.159 --> 00:50:19.719
you how long this is going to
continue, Boys and Girls is yes,

749
00:50:19.760 --> 00:50:22.599
currently has a four seventy seven average
and is slugging at eight forty one.

750
00:50:22.760 --> 00:50:28.039
So for just all you people who
just can't quite do the mats in your

751
00:50:28.039 --> 00:50:31.199
head, that is a two eighty
two w RC plus across forty eight played

752
00:50:31.199 --> 00:50:38.239
appearances. Hind of good, very
good. Yeah, and obviously like Chapman,

753
00:50:38.280 --> 00:50:42.199
who somebody's like his bat has gone
up and down kind of like for

754
00:50:42.320 --> 00:50:45.320
his career. We we all know
how such a phenomenal defensive player he is

755
00:50:45.360 --> 00:50:50.400
and will kind of hopefully continue to
do with that. But he's yeah,

756
00:50:50.440 --> 00:50:54.159
he just he just looks so happy
in that playing in that Toronto lineup.

757
00:50:54.360 --> 00:50:57.719
I don't know if it was obviously
like towards the end of the eight with

758
00:50:58.320 --> 00:51:00.639
the A's when it was just like, oh, I'm the good person and

759
00:51:00.719 --> 00:51:02.480
then kind of everybody else is leaving
and so I'm going to jump ship,

760
00:51:02.480 --> 00:51:06.519
and oh now I'm kind of I'm
at a team where I'm good, but

761
00:51:06.559 --> 00:51:08.760
I'm not even maybe regarded as like
one of the better players on this team.

762
00:51:08.800 --> 00:51:13.639
And it's just seems to have had
this batting renaissance. So it's been

763
00:51:13.639 --> 00:51:24.159
pretty cool to see Boman give us
a bad um bad I'm searching for one.

764
00:51:24.239 --> 00:51:27.679
Voll pay is a bit ship so
far, isn't it. Everyone was

765
00:51:27.719 --> 00:51:31.400
all excited about him. A bit
of rubbish. Let's write him off now,

766
00:51:31.519 --> 00:51:36.039
send him down, send send him
down. Voll paid down hashtag voll

767
00:51:36.079 --> 00:51:40.079
paid down. Oh wait there oh, Uh, this is a bit rubbish.

768
00:51:40.159 --> 00:51:45.280
Jeff Donaldson's a bit rubbish as well. A good in accident, which

769
00:51:45.519 --> 00:51:49.559
we'll come back to you for us
to put your second good Tom. But

770
00:51:49.800 --> 00:51:52.559
I think I think obviously the things
that add on too, like Vulpine quite

771
00:51:52.519 --> 00:51:55.320
a few of the things, is
that just you have to sometimes people realized

772
00:51:55.320 --> 00:51:59.519
that, oh, somebody can be
great in spring training and then realize that

773
00:51:59.719 --> 00:52:02.800
you know that like eighty percent of
the people you're playing against aren't actually major

774
00:52:02.840 --> 00:52:07.639
league players, or aren't major league
players trying to play their best, and

775
00:52:07.719 --> 00:52:10.719
so when you then get into the
majors and actually have to play regular season

776
00:52:10.719 --> 00:52:15.079
games, it's it's a little bit
more different. I think if New York

777
00:52:15.119 --> 00:52:19.000
continue to win, they'll still just
let him head out. He may no

778
00:52:19.079 --> 00:52:22.119
longer lead off as he's been doing
in a few games if he kind of

779
00:52:22.119 --> 00:52:25.480
continues to struggle, But yes,
I think that'll go. Rob gives a

780
00:52:25.480 --> 00:52:30.440
bad. I've got a serious one. I've got a serious bad. And

781
00:52:30.480 --> 00:52:35.280
that is the plight of Austin Meadows
and Daniel Bard at the moment. There

782
00:52:35.360 --> 00:52:38.519
is some positive to this and that
it is finally becoming okay for professional athletes

783
00:52:38.519 --> 00:52:44.840
to talk about the mental health and
I absolutely lord and applaud that, but

784
00:52:45.119 --> 00:52:47.119
it can't be taken away from the
fact that these two guys in particular are

785
00:52:47.199 --> 00:52:52.519
going through some really awful stuff at
the moment. You could you could see

786
00:52:52.559 --> 00:52:57.840
it in them. They don't look
good. They can tell that they're struggling

787
00:52:57.840 --> 00:53:00.960
at the moment, and I think
we just want to push smallers and hope

788
00:53:00.960 --> 00:53:02.400
then got back to where where they
want to be. Because it's it's not

789
00:53:02.519 --> 00:53:07.119
nice, it's not nice to have
its a public um, but it is

790
00:53:07.239 --> 00:53:08.960
it is good that they can finally
talk about it, so there is a

791
00:53:08.960 --> 00:53:14.760
positive in there. H Yeah,
it's obviously you don't you don't want to

792
00:53:14.760 --> 00:53:16.360
see any of the players go go
through this, but it is. It

793
00:53:16.519 --> 00:53:22.159
is. It's brilliant to see that
this can actually be spoken about, I

794
00:53:22.199 --> 00:53:28.360
think, and not be kind of
held against players by ownership and so and

795
00:53:28.440 --> 00:53:32.559
so forth. Um. Bad for
me, Um, this isn't quite known

796
00:53:32.599 --> 00:53:35.880
to a lot of people. I
actually quite like the White Sox and I've

797
00:53:35.920 --> 00:53:37.559
not been able to like the White
Sox for a long time because Tony the

798
00:53:37.599 --> 00:53:42.360
Russa has been in charge of them, and my deep hatred for him outweighed

799
00:53:42.440 --> 00:53:45.039
my life of some of the White
Sox players, but they can't keep that

800
00:53:45.119 --> 00:53:51.280
place fit. Like it's like,
obviously we've gone through the season and there's

801
00:53:51.320 --> 00:53:54.800
already like him and AZA's having issues, Moncada's having issues. It's like,

802
00:53:55.239 --> 00:54:01.039
you have such an interesting lineup which
could make good make the division, that

803
00:54:01.159 --> 00:54:05.199
the Central Division be interesting. I
know, Tom, you have your views

804
00:54:05.199 --> 00:54:09.119
on the Ale Central and I kind
of agree with them to a greater extent,

805
00:54:09.760 --> 00:54:13.840
but having a if it could be
a three horse race of teams that

806
00:54:13.880 --> 00:54:19.000
are like actually above five hundred,
it would be entertaining. And Chicago just

807
00:54:19.039 --> 00:54:22.440
seemed to not be able to keep
their players fit, and so we're constantly

808
00:54:22.440 --> 00:54:25.239
just being like, oh, if
only Chicago, if only the White Sox

809
00:54:25.280 --> 00:54:30.400
actually had some foot players. But
yeah, it's like him and is injured,

810
00:54:30.480 --> 00:54:36.519
Anderson is injured. Obviously Hendrix has
been missing time for his like not

811
00:54:36.679 --> 00:54:39.400
Hodge Foma coming into it. I
do have to say this is on the

812
00:54:39.480 --> 00:54:45.639
bad, but it is absolutely hilarious. But Joe Kelly is injured for the

813
00:54:45.719 --> 00:54:47.599
Chicago White Sox. And did you
hear about how Joe Kelly got injured?

814
00:54:49.280 --> 00:54:52.800
You spoiled it for me, But
yes, definitely reveal all for the listeners

815
00:54:52.840 --> 00:54:57.519
if they haven't heard it. So, when O'Neil Cruise did a really crappy

816
00:54:57.519 --> 00:55:02.000
slide, I managed to break his
ankle. Obviously there was a kerfuffle afterwards

817
00:55:02.039 --> 00:55:07.599
because Zavella said some pretty naughty words, and so obviously when this happens,

818
00:55:07.599 --> 00:55:13.440
the bullpen players decided they have to
jog in. Well, mister mister Kelly,

819
00:55:14.039 --> 00:55:17.360
hold a hammy, or I think
he's stranged, is groined, sorry,

820
00:55:17.639 --> 00:55:22.480
strange is groined, basically running in
from the bullpen and therefore is now

821
00:55:22.519 --> 00:55:25.239
having to go on the fifteen day. I l I think if there's any

822
00:55:25.280 --> 00:55:29.079
part of me that's ever felt that
I could be a major league player,

823
00:55:29.400 --> 00:55:31.320
it's the fact that one of the
guys still out there pitching and managed to

824
00:55:31.440 --> 00:55:37.719
pull his groin jogging in from the
bullpen, gently jogging in to try and

825
00:55:37.719 --> 00:55:44.480
get into their handbags and pushing okay
back to Tom. You can have your

826
00:55:44.519 --> 00:55:52.400
good now. Frenchie Cordero. Amazing
more Frenchie Cordero for the Yankees. He

827
00:55:52.519 --> 00:55:54.760
was fun at the Padres. He
was rubbish, but he was fun.

828
00:55:55.320 --> 00:56:01.280
Him Jabari Blash Jankowsky, they were
all fun, all rubbish, but it's

829
00:56:01.320 --> 00:56:07.880
so good to see him hit him
well more Franchie Corderra please. So I

830
00:56:07.920 --> 00:56:09.760
don't think anyone's checked him, an't
they? No? No? No.

831
00:56:09.960 --> 00:56:13.320
The thing is like, is he
any good right now? Yeah? He's

832
00:56:13.400 --> 00:56:15.079
he hit that he is for.
He hit another home run today against Cleveland,

833
00:56:15.280 --> 00:56:20.679
so he's absolutely hot. I don't
know if you know Tom, but

834
00:56:20.880 --> 00:56:23.760
have you probably never listened to like
the Stackcast demobi podcast or the Bullpark Dimensions

835
00:56:23.760 --> 00:56:30.239
like he love him because like back
when that started I think, which is

836
00:56:30.239 --> 00:56:34.039
like twenty eighteen or even like twenty
seventeen, like his underlying numbers were like

837
00:56:34.239 --> 00:56:37.920
this guy is going to be legit. Yeah, And it's been kind of

838
00:56:37.920 --> 00:56:39.679
like a long running joke that like
when any of them talks about the guy

839
00:56:39.800 --> 00:56:43.079
being legit, they're just like,
well, are they just the next Franchie

840
00:56:43.079 --> 00:56:46.239
cordierro or are they actually like going
to be legit? So I imagine those

841
00:56:46.239 --> 00:56:52.519
guys are absolutely loving it that of
seeing him home run title is in a

842
00:56:52.599 --> 00:56:58.000
season. Oh, I doubt he's
even played many games in a season.

843
00:56:58.079 --> 00:57:01.119
So let's say, Okay, I
was good. I was gonna make a

844
00:57:01.199 --> 00:57:06.480
guess, but I didn't think he
played probably hasn't even played like three hundred

845
00:57:06.519 --> 00:57:08.599
plate apparances in a season at one, but any points, it's well,

846
00:57:08.800 --> 00:57:13.559
he got his eight in a season
with Tunes and seventy five plate appearances of

847
00:57:13.599 --> 00:57:15.639
Boston, So yeah, let's I
mean, what's the end at the moment

848
00:57:15.760 --> 00:57:19.760
is on three, so you know
he's nearly halfway there. He's on form,

849
00:57:19.840 --> 00:57:21.719
and he hit another one today.
Oh where there you go? Then,

850
00:57:21.719 --> 00:57:25.280
so it's halfway there and we are, what seven games in for him?

851
00:57:25.639 --> 00:57:31.119
Remarkable rather your second good the Pittsburgh
Pirates. Never thought I'd say that

852
00:57:31.360 --> 00:57:36.400
the Pittsburg Pirates are really fun.
There might not be particularly good, but

853
00:57:36.719 --> 00:57:38.239
that is a really fun team to
watch. Now. Yes, that has

854
00:57:38.280 --> 00:57:44.960
been hampered slightly by the breaking of
O'Neill Cruiser's leg, but that aside,

855
00:57:45.400 --> 00:57:47.239
which is a hard thing to put
aside because he's so massive, you know,

856
00:57:47.320 --> 00:57:52.920
Gi Juan Bay, Gi Manchoi,
Rich Hill Cuts going back like this

857
00:57:52.960 --> 00:57:55.760
is a genuinely fun, interesting team
to watch. They look like they're having

858
00:57:55.760 --> 00:57:59.920
fun when they're playing as well,
and I'm enjoying that. So long lived

859
00:58:00.039 --> 00:58:07.039
the slightly less Dire Pirates. I
decided. I decided in twenty twenty when

860
00:58:07.079 --> 00:58:08.960
we're all in lockdown to go back
and watch some games from the year before.

861
00:58:09.239 --> 00:58:14.039
And whilst Tom and John decided they
were going to watch players teams that

862
00:58:14.079 --> 00:58:15.639
were good, they were going to
do the winner stays on. I decided

863
00:58:15.639 --> 00:58:19.599
to do the watch the teams that
were bad and the loser stays on.

864
00:58:19.800 --> 00:58:22.800
So I watched an awful lot of
Pirates Baseball in twenty twenty, which,

865
00:58:22.840 --> 00:58:25.119
let's face it was quite gloomy time
in the first place. I then added

866
00:58:25.360 --> 00:58:29.400
shedloads of Pirates baseball on top and
got with tell them to a very dark

867
00:58:29.440 --> 00:58:31.960
place. However, finally now they
started to look a bit more fun.

868
00:58:32.039 --> 00:58:37.480
So yeah, the Pirates, Yeah, I think. I think anything that

869
00:58:37.960 --> 00:58:40.320
obviously has has cuts in it,
so it's going to be fun like no

870
00:58:40.360 --> 00:58:49.239
matter regards you add the great gemn
Joy into that I have. I met

871
00:58:49.320 --> 00:58:53.320
up with the Bunch guys last week, and so I went back and relistened

872
00:58:53.360 --> 00:58:57.920
to some of their musical numbers they
did. I don't know if you guys

873
00:58:57.960 --> 00:59:01.559
remember them, but Henry had one
to like this Chubby Man, so like

874
00:59:01.639 --> 00:59:08.519
this Handsome Man by Morrissey, which
is about this team man. Just like

875
00:59:08.800 --> 00:59:13.199
I'd completely forgotten it, and now
it's back in my head. I actually

876
00:59:13.199 --> 00:59:15.599
love it. But yeah, I
was honestly shocked that it was the first

877
00:59:15.599 --> 00:59:20.599
time that like two Korean players at
the homeward like for the same team in

878
00:59:20.599 --> 00:59:23.159
in a tournament, in a game. So no, it is has been

879
00:59:23.239 --> 00:59:29.119
great to see. Um, so
that comes on to me for another good

880
00:59:29.679 --> 00:59:32.840
Um, I'm gonna go with so
probably let's go with that, let's put

881
00:59:32.920 --> 00:59:36.920
let's build off it. Let's go
with Brian Reynolds. He's been absolutely phenomenal

882
00:59:37.039 --> 00:59:39.159
for for the Pirates, which is
I don't know whether it's a good thing

883
00:59:39.280 --> 00:59:43.679
or a bad thing, whether how
long he's actually going to be a Pirate,

884
00:59:44.480 --> 00:59:47.519
if he's if he's playing like this, well, um yeah, I

885
00:59:47.559 --> 00:59:52.719
think he's already got like five home
runs, he's been, he's stolen in

886
00:59:52.719 --> 00:59:55.840
a couple of bases. He's pretty
much up there on the Aribia charts.

887
00:59:57.840 --> 01:00:00.000
Uh so, yeah, he's he's
been as and a fun one to watch,

888
01:00:00.119 --> 01:00:05.000
and yeah, it's it's very nice
to see players to kind of get

889
01:00:05.000 --> 01:00:07.840
built up as like, oh this
guy is trade bait or people are going

890
01:00:07.920 --> 01:00:12.360
to sell them. I don't know
how it feels as a player. Is

891
01:00:12.360 --> 01:00:17.480
he asked basically to be traded and
they kind of said no, so but

892
01:00:17.559 --> 01:00:21.599
he's then still gone out there and
absolutely smashing it. So I don't know

893
01:00:21.599 --> 01:00:24.519
if he's making his trade value even
higher, which means that they might say,

894
01:00:24.599 --> 01:00:28.519
yes, is this what is this
his way of getting out of Pittsburgh.

895
01:00:28.559 --> 01:00:30.920
It's like, I gotta play phenomenally
and then they've got to get rid

896
01:00:30.960 --> 01:00:34.360
of me. But now if he
plays too well, does that mean the

897
01:00:34.400 --> 01:00:37.719
Pirates end up with a too good
a record and then he doesn't You can't

898
01:00:37.760 --> 01:00:40.679
get out of Pittsburgh. I mean, it can't just be down to one

899
01:00:40.679 --> 01:00:44.000
man though kind of I get your
point, but it's not down to one

900
01:00:44.000 --> 01:00:45.119
man. He's not going to do
it solo. He's not Mike Track.

901
01:00:49.119 --> 01:00:52.599
This isn't the NBA, no exactly. Yeah, it's just well, it's

902
01:00:52.800 --> 01:00:54.800
like a guy in contract year,
isn't it. He's going to be playing

903
01:00:54.840 --> 01:00:58.000
his hard to get out of there. He wants to, he wants to

904
01:00:58.039 --> 01:01:01.840
impress, and the better offer that
it's get, they'll take it. Yep,

905
01:01:02.559 --> 01:01:07.639
Um, Tom, do you have
another bad? Yes? The Detroit

906
01:01:07.719 --> 01:01:14.480
Tigers are terribly bad. Wow,
they are so rubbish. I just looked

907
01:01:14.480 --> 01:01:19.480
at their roster. Oh my word, they are bad. Yeah, that's

908
01:01:19.480 --> 01:01:22.880
one of the worst teams I've ever
seen. Some of these stats are bismore.

909
01:01:22.639 --> 01:01:30.320
I would just have you looked at
the Oakland Athletics, but no part

910
01:01:30.519 --> 01:01:35.039
we reckon who would win? When
are they playing each other? Let's find

911
01:01:35.079 --> 01:01:38.599
that out. What's the opposite of
the immovable object and the unstoppable force.

912
01:01:38.639 --> 01:01:45.199
It's it's that it's whatever the opposite
of the unstoppable the immovable force of the

913
01:01:45.280 --> 01:01:52.079
unstoppable object. They don't play Oakland
until September. That's disappointing. Well,

914
01:01:52.159 --> 01:01:55.679
yes, I mean they're going to
get even worse with the players that they

915
01:01:55.719 --> 01:01:59.880
trade away and oh no, wait
there we've got something July. Yeah,

916
01:02:00.159 --> 01:02:05.480
bad, aren't they? Wow?
Yes. I think kind of what some

917
01:02:05.559 --> 01:02:08.599
of us were hoping coming into this
season with Tigers is that the likes of

918
01:02:08.760 --> 01:02:14.960
like Spencil Talklson and like right Green
might come come up and like hit better,

919
01:02:15.239 --> 01:02:17.079
and you'd be like, okay,
like these guys can can maybe do

920
01:02:17.159 --> 01:02:24.599
something. Um still not really been
seen. Like a Kilber Duo went down,

921
01:02:24.880 --> 01:02:28.039
didn't start on the roster, but
I think he's back up again,

922
01:02:28.119 --> 01:02:31.920
which is which is good fun.
Don't look at heavier by as his stats.

923
01:02:32.039 --> 01:02:35.679
I think it's just the only thing
I can say, Like, I

924
01:02:35.719 --> 01:02:39.679
absolutely love the guy because I think
he's defensive wizard and I have probably defended

925
01:02:39.760 --> 01:02:45.639
him for probably too long to say
that he's he's a reasonable MB player.

926
01:02:45.800 --> 01:02:52.000
But the guy just swings and nap
pitches. I just don't understand it.

927
01:02:52.039 --> 01:03:00.280
And his WRC plus is minus eighteen. Oh wow, I think I think

928
01:03:00.599 --> 01:03:04.880
I don't. People aren't familiar with
the WRC plus. One hundred is average

929
01:03:04.920 --> 01:03:10.639
and he's minus eighteen. Yes,
so far below average. Yes, I

930
01:03:10.719 --> 01:03:15.159
think I don't know what he's at
now. But when I last looked at

931
01:03:15.199 --> 01:03:16.960
did he'd even hit anything above a
singles? So far? So I think

932
01:03:17.000 --> 01:03:22.920
his average and his slugging with the
same. So it's not good given the

933
01:03:22.920 --> 01:03:28.840
fact that he's supposed to give up
some of his contact for power and now

934
01:03:28.880 --> 01:03:31.519
he's not even the power. I
think a lot of fans in the UK

935
01:03:31.679 --> 01:03:37.440
live the Tigers vicariously through Jed like
he's somebody that I think most of us

936
01:03:37.440 --> 01:03:44.840
will follow just because it's entertaining.
It's kind of bit masochistic entertainment, or

937
01:03:44.880 --> 01:03:47.079
maybe not not right the White way
of saying it. What's the probably a

938
01:03:47.079 --> 01:03:52.000
bit of shardam freud er. If
it's it's it's just like, no matter

939
01:03:52.000 --> 01:03:55.239
how bad my team is, guess
what they are the Tigers. Yeah.

940
01:03:57.400 --> 01:04:00.119
I don't worry though, because Bias
can opt out after this year, so

941
01:04:00.320 --> 01:04:03.599
probably do that and look for a
better deal somewhere else. Or No,

942
01:04:03.840 --> 01:04:09.400
he's going to be around until when
is that twenty twenty seven? Never mind?

943
01:04:09.480 --> 01:04:15.800
Jed, Well, it is Miggie's
contract up this year. They finally

944
01:04:15.159 --> 01:04:18.480
finally lose Miggie this year, so
he's going this year. Yeah, that's

945
01:04:18.519 --> 01:04:24.679
thirty million that they won't spend.
Yeah, Meggie's got a better WRC plus

946
01:04:24.679 --> 01:04:29.480
at the moment at fifty four because
he's not really playing. Yeah, Rob,

947
01:04:29.519 --> 01:04:35.320
have you got a second bad?
Yes? Scheduling. I loved the

948
01:04:35.559 --> 01:04:40.400
balance schedule. I love the idea
that everybody plays everybody. I don't love

949
01:04:40.400 --> 01:04:44.199
it for the early season. It
felt a bit weird. Um. I

950
01:04:44.239 --> 01:04:46.159
think early early on, you want
the games. You know you're you're you're

951
01:04:46.199 --> 01:04:48.320
into it. You want to see
the rivalries, you want to see your

952
01:04:48.880 --> 01:04:54.320
your teams that you want some familiar
back. Um. I just thought,

953
01:04:54.320 --> 01:04:58.760
you know what, what, Toronto
have only just gone home to start with,

954
01:04:58.800 --> 01:05:00.639
which is a bit of an odd
in the sched Well, they didn't

955
01:05:00.639 --> 01:05:02.559
get a single home series in the
first view, which which seems strange.

956
01:05:03.199 --> 01:05:09.159
You had San Francisco starting in New
York, you had the Billies in Texas.

957
01:05:09.199 --> 01:05:12.000
It was just all a bit weird, you know. And yes,

958
01:05:12.159 --> 01:05:14.400
I do like the interleague play,
but I think there should have been a

959
01:05:14.400 --> 01:05:15.760
bit of a grace period over the
first week or two. It just it

960
01:05:15.840 --> 01:05:19.000
just didn't sit right. It just
didn't sit right. I didn't quite like

961
01:05:19.079 --> 01:05:21.800
it. I know it's not rational, but I didn't like it very much.

962
01:05:23.079 --> 01:05:27.639
And I would have preferred that they've
stayed in with the traditional a little

963
01:05:27.639 --> 01:05:30.760
bit, a little bit into the
season before we started going all over the

964
01:05:30.800 --> 01:05:33.000
shop. Can we just scraped the
league yet? Can we just get rid

965
01:05:33.039 --> 01:05:39.239
of them? If MLB ever expanded
to thirty two? I think it's happening.

966
01:05:39.239 --> 01:05:43.519
Tom's but yeah, well completely pointless
now, isn't it. Well?

967
01:05:43.599 --> 01:05:45.400
The choices. We either get the
NFL approach or we get the NBA approach,

968
01:05:45.440 --> 01:05:48.400
which one is better or worse.
I don't want to go to the

969
01:05:48.480 --> 01:05:55.239
NBA because we now have seven eight
nine play ins to get into terrible and

970
01:05:55.320 --> 01:05:59.760
those teams, Why what are they
doing and they don't they play seven games

971
01:06:00.199 --> 01:06:02.559
for every single round as well,
they do have to the Yeah, but

972
01:06:02.679 --> 01:06:06.880
that's just the way got like.
You've got teams playing like four and every

973
01:06:06.920 --> 01:06:11.360
single time because the eight seed has
managed to get through and it's so bad.

974
01:06:12.440 --> 01:06:15.519
One for the eight in basketball is
just one. That's just that's what

975
01:06:15.639 --> 01:06:19.559
it is. Um. Yeah,
I do kind of agree with you,

976
01:06:19.639 --> 01:06:24.480
Rob. I think personally, I
would have something where like end of the

977
01:06:24.519 --> 01:06:28.119
season, start of the season,
and maybe middle of the season you would

978
01:06:28.159 --> 01:06:31.440
be playing against your division just kind
of like just and then you sprinkle in

979
01:06:32.039 --> 01:06:36.119
like the the other games kind of
through that. I guess that is an

980
01:06:36.119 --> 01:06:43.400
absolutely logistical nightmare to try and to
just try and do that, and I

981
01:06:43.519 --> 01:06:47.599
for one, don't want to be
out there creating. I don't know how

982
01:06:47.599 --> 01:06:50.599
they do it. I would assume
they have some sort of computational matrix that

983
01:06:50.679 --> 01:06:55.880
could pop out possibilities for them,
or they have some poor bastard who has

984
01:06:55.880 --> 01:06:59.159
to create the whole entire thing by
hand. I really don't think they do

985
01:06:59.199 --> 01:07:02.719
it. There's no one person does
that, just because that would be absolutely

986
01:07:02.760 --> 01:07:08.639
I've seen horrendous. I've seen the
NFL one the NFL one is all to

987
01:07:08.679 --> 01:07:12.360
do the algorithms and putting it like
making sure teams aren't playing each other again

988
01:07:12.360 --> 01:07:15.199
and get into visual games in there. But then they also tie in all

989
01:07:15.199 --> 01:07:17.400
the events that are already booked into
stadia as well. I don't know how

990
01:07:17.440 --> 01:07:20.480
they can do for a base like
NFL. You've got seventeen games now in

991
01:07:20.480 --> 01:07:24.559
a season, so it's not as
bad. How to how do you plan

992
01:07:24.719 --> 01:07:29.000
baseball games? Like admittedly there aren't
concerts going on in the baseball stadium,

993
01:07:29.480 --> 01:07:31.280
but there's got to be some things
that can't clash and stuff like that.

994
01:07:31.400 --> 01:07:35.559
So it must be absolutely mental trying
to do the scheduling. Yeah, it's

995
01:07:35.559 --> 01:07:39.480
got to be bizarre. It also
annoys me that basically any time that I

996
01:07:39.559 --> 01:07:43.840
go to Lake New York at La
Chicago, San Francisco, that they aren't

997
01:07:43.840 --> 01:07:45.320
on at the same time, which
I guess is that actually there's a reason

998
01:07:45.400 --> 01:07:48.599
why, like yeah, the A's
and the Giants don't play at the same

999
01:07:48.639 --> 01:07:50.800
time, and the Mets and the
Yankees don't play at the same time.

1000
01:07:51.239 --> 01:07:55.079
That's probably like police singed and results
in and all of these other things that

1001
01:07:55.079 --> 01:07:58.400
that has to go into it.
U But yeah, as a as a

1002
01:07:58.440 --> 01:08:02.400
tourist, it's annoying. I'll give
you my final bad which is Cleveland spent

1003
01:08:02.440 --> 01:08:05.639
money and the players in the player
turns out to be not particularly good.

1004
01:08:06.440 --> 01:08:12.039
Josh Bell has gone four at four
forty two to start the season with no

1005
01:08:12.159 --> 01:08:18.239
home runs, two runs and three
a RBIs it's um, it's below my

1006
01:08:18.359 --> 01:08:24.640
worst expectation of what would happen.
I think I mentioned on the preview podcast

1007
01:08:24.680 --> 01:08:28.359
that was like he had a good
first half and a bad second half,

1008
01:08:28.359 --> 01:08:32.039
and I was hoping for just somewhere
in between. And it's worse than the

1009
01:08:32.079 --> 01:08:36.880
world the bad second half. So
who knows, I think I think To

1010
01:08:38.000 --> 01:08:40.680
be honest, I will have to
double check, but I do you think

1011
01:08:40.680 --> 01:08:45.960
he did get a hit tonight?
So he has? He is now up

1012
01:08:45.000 --> 01:08:50.039
to five hits for the season.
So it is it my fancy team.

1013
01:08:50.079 --> 01:08:54.960
So I know that he's bad as
well. So bad. What's got funny

1014
01:08:55.000 --> 01:08:57.039
with that is I probably would have
told a lot of people to take him

1015
01:08:57.079 --> 01:08:59.600
over Josh NHLer, and then Josh
Niler is actually having a pretty good start

1016
01:08:59.600 --> 01:09:02.920
to the season. Yeah. I
could have also added in like Armed Rosario

1017
01:09:02.960 --> 01:09:08.199
here from a Cleveland point of view, because he's been absolutely bog shite and

1018
01:09:08.279 --> 01:09:12.479
he's still playing number two and it's
just like what changed the team? But

1019
01:09:12.520 --> 01:09:16.000
he did hear ding it tonight,
Yes, but he also struck out with

1020
01:09:16.159 --> 01:09:18.960
the basis loaded down by one run
in the bottle of the night. So

1021
01:09:19.800 --> 01:09:25.560
yes, I will have thumbs up
and thumbs down. I just want to

1022
01:09:25.640 --> 01:09:28.399
kind of quickly go over just a
couple of the other players that have been

1023
01:09:28.479 --> 01:09:30.560
really good, just so we can
kind of end on a positive note instead

1024
01:09:30.560 --> 01:09:38.000
of ending on a bad note.
John decided to ask some of the people

1025
01:09:39.239 --> 01:09:45.600
in our discord group on who had
kind of performed well this so far this

1026
01:09:45.680 --> 01:09:47.159
year. So we're just kind of
like rattle off a list of what we've

1027
01:09:47.319 --> 01:09:51.800
kind of kind of got here Orlando. I think I think that's have been

1028
01:09:51.840 --> 01:09:59.640
one that people weren't anticipating, and
it's actually done pretty pretty well for Atlanta.

1029
01:09:57.479 --> 01:10:01.560
Um, I'm just chuckling down to
see somebody has put not Josh Bell,

1030
01:10:02.239 --> 01:10:09.279
which it's chuckling onto me. Ian
Hap that's something. He's picked up

1031
01:10:09.319 --> 01:10:13.159
a three year contract with the Cobs
today, so that's going to be awesome.

1032
01:10:13.279 --> 01:10:16.760
I will hopefully be continuing to push
my friendship with Ian hap By continuing

1033
01:10:16.760 --> 01:10:20.880
to wear my Myrtle Beach Pelican's cap
for any further interviews on stuff that he

1034
01:10:20.920 --> 01:10:24.840
does for the London series, So
you can kind of go like, oh,

1035
01:10:25.000 --> 01:10:26.880
is that a Pelican's cap, and
I can be like, yes,

1036
01:10:29.479 --> 01:10:35.439
please be my friend. Indeed,
um, we've got Dylan Ce's being Dylan

1037
01:10:35.520 --> 01:10:42.880
cec Dansby Swanson. Oh, Tommy, you went for you went from Nellie?

1038
01:10:43.640 --> 01:10:45.920
He's hitting some bombs, is he? Nellie Cruz has been good Man

1039
01:10:46.159 --> 01:10:49.840
likes. It's not surprising if he's
still jacked up, but I'm not saying

1040
01:10:49.840 --> 01:10:53.840
he is, just to clarify for
any lawyers out there, but he's been

1041
01:10:54.039 --> 01:10:56.880
he's been hitting well. He's been
in some good ding as as well,

1042
01:10:57.039 --> 01:11:00.760
some very important ones as well for
the Padres. So yeah, Cruises then

1043
01:11:00.880 --> 01:11:03.760
doing a good start on forty seven
the BRC plus at the moment it's gonna

1044
01:11:03.760 --> 01:11:09.119
played six games, but when he
has played he's been great. No,

1045
01:11:09.319 --> 01:11:13.760
that's good to hear, and yeah, so obviously I think we'll we'll end

1046
01:11:13.800 --> 01:11:18.199
it there today boys and girls which
now need to do a quick I'm going

1047
01:11:18.239 --> 01:11:27.399
to do a quick raffle to determine
who our discord mug winner is so very

1048
01:11:27.479 --> 01:11:30.039
nice. I managed to, after
some long winded effort, find a way

1049
01:11:30.039 --> 01:11:33.199
of exporting all the names of people
from the Discord server so I could put

1050
01:11:33.199 --> 01:11:41.079
it into a random raffle thing,
and so I can russell easam, isn't

1051
01:11:41.079 --> 01:11:44.560
it well? I did try and
delete us from the people who could win

1052
01:11:44.600 --> 01:11:47.399
this. Rob and Tom can probably
see this if I move slightly. But

1053
01:11:47.479 --> 01:11:53.680
I do have quite a few of
those mugs just by, so we may

1054
01:11:53.720 --> 01:12:00.960
be running a few more prize opportunities
to win those mugs. So if it

1055
01:12:01.039 --> 01:12:04.039
is she needs to say her name
and then clearly destraw it again. Just

1056
01:12:04.520 --> 01:12:12.039
keep Tom, Rob, Tom Tom
again. Okay, And so the winner

1057
01:12:12.439 --> 01:12:16.000
is someone called Phil Rockies. So
we'll be reaching out to you on the

1058
01:12:16.079 --> 01:12:21.159
Discord group with the opportunity to give
us your address and we shall post you

1059
01:12:21.199 --> 01:12:29.880
a London Series Cups and Cardinals thermal
mug. Congratulations to Phil Rockies or not

1060
01:12:29.960 --> 01:12:34.119
in our discard group. Samus surnames
Rockies when he's a rent fair very awkward.

1061
01:12:35.520 --> 01:12:40.239
Well yes, so thank you Rob, but thank you Tom for joining

1062
01:12:40.239 --> 01:12:44.159
me today. This has been an
absolute delight. I very much do enjoy

1063
01:12:44.199 --> 01:12:48.119
it chatting baseball with you with you
find guys, because it just it just

1064
01:12:48.159 --> 01:12:55.159
goes somewhere. We don't really know. Qu quim I will. I will

1065
01:12:55.279 --> 01:12:58.439
end this podcast with telling you that
I will not watch the rest of Blobifett.

1066
01:13:00.479 --> 01:13:03.640
You've got to do it, just
Russell, please. So Russell got

1067
01:13:03.640 --> 01:13:06.039
like two or three episodes and went
this is rubbish and turn it off and

1068
01:13:06.079 --> 01:13:10.239
never went back. You need to
finish it, come on, just plow

1069
01:13:10.399 --> 01:13:12.880
through it. Come on, man, You've not got a lot going on.

1070
01:13:13.000 --> 01:13:17.000
Just I've gone into a whole of
CA dramas. My friend, I

1071
01:13:17.119 --> 01:13:20.760
am. I am sunk deep in
the CA dramas right now. Very much.

1072
01:13:20.760 --> 01:13:27.239
Recommend the glory to anybody freaking grief
while don't don't say it wrong,

1073
01:13:27.479 --> 01:13:34.239
don't say anything not so yes,
as always, I'm not going to do

1074
01:13:34.239 --> 01:13:42.159
it as always watch it morning.
What type of hole will you end up

1075
01:13:42.199 --> 01:13:46.720
in? Then? Yeah, it's
yeah, it's not quite about that boy,

1076
01:13:47.680 --> 01:13:53.039
quite a bad. I really hope
people aren't listening with their kids.

1077
01:13:53.079 --> 01:13:56.039
This is terrible. Well, you
the one who swore like four times in

1078
01:13:56.119 --> 01:14:03.079
this podcast. I know as soon
as you. I've got no vocabital.

1079
01:14:03.199 --> 01:14:06.840
Like these guys are all like university
educated I'm not. I'm just I'm just

1080
01:14:08.000 --> 01:14:11.199
common gutter filth. Yeah, but
you're the one who has kids, so

1081
01:14:11.279 --> 01:14:15.159
surely has the filter to not slap. Well, that's what gutter filth do,

1082
01:14:15.159 --> 01:14:16.479
don't They have kids because they've got
nothing else to do. They get

1083
01:14:16.479 --> 01:14:23.600
bored at home. I think we'll
definitely time to cut the podcast. You

1084
01:14:23.880 --> 01:14:26.520
can say that because I am good
to fail and I've got kids. So

1085
01:14:29.239 --> 01:14:32.640
yeah. You can find us at
bat flips and nerds dot com. You

1086
01:14:32.640 --> 01:14:38.760
can find us at bat Flips Underscore
Nerds on Twitter, Rob Tom, are

1087
01:14:38.760 --> 01:14:41.640
you going to write anything about baseball
and not too distant future? Yes or

1088
01:14:41.720 --> 01:14:45.119
no? Yes, Okay, look
forward to seeing those on the websites.

1089
01:14:45.159 --> 01:14:48.840
You might see something for me or
not. I'm just looking at stats and

1090
01:14:48.880 --> 01:14:56.279
they're not really writing anything about it
because I get bored. Hopefully this has

1091
01:14:56.279 --> 01:14:58.880
been entertaining for you, and we
shall speak to you in the not too

1092
01:14:58.960 --> 01:15:05.640
distant future about MLB baseball. Goodbye. We forgot to mention that Evan gattis

1093
01:15:05.640 --> 01:15:41.039
as a bell end. Hello and
welcome to Backlips and sorry that's good at

1094
01:15:41.079 --> 01:15:45.760
the end. Boom