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Speaker 1: And Greene's site takes it's everyone to church twelves and

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walk into Fantasy Baseball Live. Today is June fifth, not

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nine thirty in the morning. I was always in here

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with my good buddy, mister Tim McCleod. Tim, how's it hanging?

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Speaker 2: Well, it is rich at my age. Everything gravity works,

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gravity works.

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Speaker 1: As Sem and I were chit chatting before I got

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on the show. You said you had a funny story.

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Speaker 2: Well, yeah, for most of our listeners that don't know

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most most probably do. And you know as well. I

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I have a part time job at the hospital and

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I'm basically chauffeur to the nurse to a lot of

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the nursing person now, especially the nurses, a committment by

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the town. And this, uh, this one nurse and she's

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just a wonderful person. She has to be. She laughs

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at most of my jokes.

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Speaker 1: Okayme, you are funny.

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Speaker 2: Well, this morning she texts me okay, and she's very

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prompt and very efficient. She says, can you pick me

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up at the hospital at seven thirty, So of course

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I sent her a text back saying I'm sorry, I'm

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booked for seven thirty, but I can do seven twenty

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nine or seven thirty one, your choice. Wow, So I

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get a bit, I get a big haha, a smiley face.

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And as she walks and walks out the door, she's

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got her finger pointing to her arm as if I

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was a minute late. Ey, So yeah, that was Yeah,

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it was good for a chuckle this morning. And everybody

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needs a chuckle after working twelve hours and emerge right first?

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Speaker 1: For sure? So do these people live out of town?

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Because you live in a rural area, you you bring

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the healthcare workers in. Is that how it works?

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Speaker 2: Basically? They were. They're brought in on contract for three

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six nine months. Uh okay, sure, oh okay, and the

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hospital provides them with accommodations and transportation is part of

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the bio as well. So they most most are living

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within a mile or so of the hot okay. But

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that's just part of the gig, got it. It's just

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part of the gig. And I try and bring a little,

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a little levity to this. You know, hey, nice after

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working twelve hours emerged She laughed.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, it's that that service is actually the I think

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a big company is called Bayata. Could be wrong here,

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but that that's what they do and there's a lot

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of nurses who, like you know, the living in a

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place for six months to a year and then move

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in to a new place, and apparently that they get

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paid a little bit more because you know, they're they're

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willing to be contract workers, which allows hospitals and medical

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centers to expand and con track their their staff as

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need it. So it's it's it's interesting.

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Speaker 2: Yeah it is, and it's a fun job. Come on,

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let's face it, rich. Who wouldn't want a job? Okay,

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where you get up? Okay, you had to work and

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all you do is drive nurses back and forth and

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shoot the breeze and yeah it's a good gig.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, there you go. There any interested in baseball at all?

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Is it all hockey? No?

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Speaker 2: Actually, most of them of the nursing personnel we have

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are from the out of town, are from India or

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the Philippines. Okay, so cricket, cricket, cricket and soccer, yes

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it's not soccer. I state's football, yes, defintely.

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Speaker 1: Well that's about to start here. Uh the world keeps

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about ready to start, which is always a lot of fun.

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Though FIFA might be the most corrupt. Uh. Any organization

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in the world. Those guys are just awful and uh,

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but they they put on a good show. You have

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to give it to them.

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Speaker 2: Yeah. No, they they did a trial run of something

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that's happening in Vancouver and the president of FIFA wanted

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a police escort from the airport to their meeting place

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and he was abruptly turned down. So I don't think

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we'll see any more people of events here. Come on,

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you're flying in on a plane for a meeting. We're

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not giving you a police escort reserved for you know,

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heads of state. Okay, so you can attend a meeting.

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I just said, gom ass, like.

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Speaker 1: Come on, that's that's part of it. They just they

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feel they feel entitled. They've got a great product. It's

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a worldwide product. I get it. But man, it's but

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the corruption. I mean, you just you type in corruption

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and FIFA on the internet. I mean, you'll spend the

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rest of your life reading about it. It is remarkable

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what goes on there. And I don't know if you've

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been following the price of tickets here in the US,

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they're doing on demand pricing, which a lot of concerts

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do now, et cetera. And I know to get like

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a nosebleed seat here in New Jersey at the Meadowlands

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whatever they call it. Now it's four or five thousand

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dollars for a ticket and good tickets are like twenty

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five grand. I mean it's insane.

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Speaker 2: Well yeah, I hope, I hope attendance is down falls

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flag on a space and they end up with egg

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on it. I have some of the stories I've heard

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are just they're insane. And then you know, asking for

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bonds to get into the country, you know what I mean.

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I think they weren't a thousand bucks. Yeah, Like I said,

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I just don't. I just don't like the way that

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whole it's a big, huge money grab. Television works just fine.

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Speaker 1: Yep, yep, that's what we'll be watching. We'll be not

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not going to go see Uruguay and and Panama play

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for five grand apiece. I'm going to pass on that.

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Speaker 2: Well, yeah, I think spring Steen is a much better

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by my friend that was about.

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Speaker 1: Don't get me started on that. But you know, the

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one demand pricing. If if you're if you're willing to

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stand outside and wait till the very end, the tickets

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will plummet as the as as the event gets closer

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and closer, but you've got to be at the reading,

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and you've got to be willing to go in front

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of the stadium and wait for the wait for that time.

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But you can get really inexpensive good seats, but it's

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like five five minutes before game time.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, well yeah, and again you got to be willing

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to play that game.

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Speaker 1: Yep, Timmy, we've got we've got a great show. I've

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got nine questions, but I I so let's do the

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tenth one. This is our take ten with Tim Aaron Judges.

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Everybody's waking up to the Aaron Judge news and to me,

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the thing that just struck me was and we think

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he will play sometime during the season. That was that

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was jarring that there's a chance Aaron Judge is not

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going to play again this season.

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Speaker 2: Well, they're say in four to six weeks before there's

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a possibility he can go back to taking swings, depending

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on how things happen. Well at four to six, because

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it's a rib injury, that four to six could easily

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be six to ten, which is June and July rehab

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simon August. Yeah, it could be we could be looking

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at a situation where Aaron Judge is for the both

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of the season and that shocking. It came coming out

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of nowhere, like wow, he.

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Speaker 1: Was out for the last three games. And you know,

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it's always a thing where they say just not sure

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what the problem is and then all asud bam, it's this,

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And they were talking. I was reading articles. I was

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trying to figure out what a stress reaction in the

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rib is. Sounds like it's more convoluted than just he

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fractured a rib. It sounds more involved in that. But

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they were considering uh thoracic outlet syndrome surgery, which obviously

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would have lost him for the season. So whatever he's

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got going on is complicated.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, it's not good. Yeah, I yeah, it's.

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Speaker 1: And there's really nothing as a fantasy manager. I mean,

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you lose Judge, You're you're in trouble. It's as simple

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as that.

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Speaker 2: Well, yeah, it's it's almost like losing a certain Texas

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oakfielder for the whole year who looks like he might

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be back relatively soon.

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Speaker 1: So well that was that was That was a subtraction.

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If you ask me, it was so bad, Wil like

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you and I at least sitting here at June fifth,

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look really really wrong on that call, and we hopefully

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it's it's going to right itself.

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Speaker 2: But boy, well, and the thing is, with an injury

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like that must much like the injury with Judge. You know,

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they could come back and look ready to go, and

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you know, you go down for your rehab assignment and

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find out very quickly you're not ready to go, and

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it adds another month, you know what I mean. It's

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it's not like you break your break your wrist. Okay,

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you know it's going to be six to eight weeks, right,

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and odds are pretty good, you know when when it's healed,

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you're going to be ready to go within two to

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three weeks. Right. The injuries we're talking about are very

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susceptible to re injury, Okay.

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Speaker 1: And swinging a bad thing, girls, yeah, yeah, totally.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, no, it's uh yeah. And I am firmly

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now convinced that, yeah, you can hurt yourself swinging a

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bad yes, going back a month or so ago.

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Speaker 1: So I like to do this every few weeks, every

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once a month something like that. It's just I mean,

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just take a look at the standings and we mix

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up on Fridays, we talk about whatever. We want to

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talk about, baseball stuff, fantasy stuff, prospect stuff. So we're

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gonna talk a little baseball stuff here. So let's take

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a look at the standings, shall we.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, we have a tail of two cities, still, don't we.

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Speaker 1: I'm gonna start, Yeah, I'm gonna start in the middle though.

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We're going to the Al Central. Yes, the Chicago White Sox,

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mister McLeod. Mm hmm. Let me check something here. If

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if the season ended today, mm hmm, the Chicago White

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Sox would be in the playoffs. The wild Card currently

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is the Yankees, the White Sox, and get this, the

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Athletics at thirty and thirty two.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, and the Athletics aren't going anywhere until they find

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a bullpen. I suggested on the discord site that they

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trade Lawrence Butler, okay, for Jeff Hoffman. That'd be that'd

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be a win win, I think. But the boat their

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bullpen blew another game last night. They unless I.

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Speaker 1: Harris that blew it really well?

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Speaker 2: Yeah, no, it wasn't Harris. I can't remember who it was,

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but it was a combination. Medina was in there and somebody.

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The Athletics have to the.

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Speaker 1: Canal.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, he got smoked.

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Speaker 1: Canal is we're naming him come a Clouds.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, you're not gonna win with that. You're not going

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to make the playoffs with that unless they make a

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move soon, Toy shore up that bull bend. I feel

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more comfortable with Texas right now than I would with

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the Athletics.

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Speaker 1: Here's this is like the Orioles have been terrible, right, terrible? Yeah,

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half a game out of the wild Card.

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Speaker 2: Well, yeah, there's a lot of terrible there. And the

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J's are the same thing the Jays right now. Jays

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have injury problems big time, but the J's are in

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that same boat. They're thirty and thirty three, three games

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under five hundred. The Tigers are thirteen games under five hundred.

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And you go to the West and you've only got

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one team over five hundred, the Mariners. It's I'm just

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looking to see I'm gonna count them off.

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Speaker 1: Here.

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Speaker 2: We have one, two, three, five, five teams in the

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AL that are over five hundred a third of the

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way through the season.

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Speaker 1: Well, this is you know, Manford said he wanted parody,

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This is parody.

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Speaker 2: Well, yeah it is. And the Yankees are one of

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those five teams and losing Aaron Judge is not going

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to help their cause.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, as the race are still in first place. And

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this is show you how hot they were after in May, right,

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because they're two and eight in the last ten, so

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they've hit a tailspin here at the beginning of June.

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But they won everything in May. And there's still thirteen

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games over five hundred, and that is losing eight out

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of the last ten games.

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Speaker 2: Well yeah, and if you look at the five teams

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that are over five hundred, the Yankees just lost Judge.

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The Raids are coming down to Earth. The White Sox

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are still plugging away. Cleveland has no offense, okay, and

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Speaker 1: Had no offense either?

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Speaker 2: Well, yeah, they they're they're eight and two in the

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past ten, so they they're finding the Robbins. Julio is

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heating up, and the two young kids, Emerson and Young

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they're playing a lot better Seattle. If I had to

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Mariners at number one.

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Speaker 1: Well, it's their pitching is tough to be to know.

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George Kirby is just not the same guy anymore. So

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let's let's so let's talk about the Central. Uh who

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went to Central?

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Speaker 2: The White Sox go White Socks.

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Speaker 1: Okay, so who wins?

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Speaker 2: They're only a game, They're only a game out.

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Speaker 1: Who's who will? He's particularly with the Yankees and losing Judge,

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York Yankees and they they've got lots of money, but

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losing Judge, that's that's just not reply.

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Speaker 2: Well. Now that the J's have traded for Simmon Woods Richard,

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I'm gonna go with the Jays to win that division.

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Speaker 1: I don't think it's Simeon Woods Richardson, but I kind

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of like that call as well.

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Speaker 2: They've survived almost five hundred with a slew of injuries,

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and they're starting to get the guys back, and as

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they get them back, I think the Jays are Jays

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are going to be substantially over five hundred before it's

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all said and I Cleveland's got to find got to

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find some offense.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, they just they just haven't.

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Speaker 2: Yeah. Yeah. And the Mariners, I like the path that

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they're on. The Other teams in the AOST they've all

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got serious flaws and I don't see them. You know,

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I said the Athletics have to get a bullpen. No bullpen,

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no well card.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, they the back end. The Angels are terrible, the

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Royals are shockingly terrible, the Tigers are shockingly terrible, and

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the Red Sox are shocking. Those four teams, but the

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Angels were never in it. But three of those four,

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the Royals, I expect it better, the Tigers and the

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Red Sox for sure, and they're just they're not any

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good well.

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Speaker 2: And one of the problems is going to be if

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they're looking at trading within the American League, there's nobody

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that there's not that many teams that are going to

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be buyers. I don't think in the AL.

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Speaker 1: Really now, come on, no, so all of the all

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of the race will probably be buyers. The Guardians are

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gonna be buyers, Mariners will be buyers. Yankees will be buyers.

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if they're still in it, But the Rangers are gonna

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be buyers or Orioles, the Blue Jays, I think there'd

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be plenty of buyers there.

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Speaker 2: I think they're gonna just gonna play it out and

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say see see see what happens. I don't think the

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Rais will spend any money. I don't think Cleveland will

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spend any money. The team that could be the big

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buyer could be the White Sox. The Athletics have the offense,

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so they could maybe look at pitching. But Seattle's line up,

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I think they're pretty happy with it. The Yankees, what

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are they going to buy. They got the best pitching,

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and you know what I mean that they don't want to.

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I don't think they'll invest in them in improving their bullpene.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, they're going to buy it back. By the way,

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Carlos Lean, as predicted by myself, is in the bullpen.

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Speaker 2: Uh, that would seem like the right spot.

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Speaker 1: Yes, it would, indeed, So that's good. Yeah, just let

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them hunted one hundred miles an hour and say hit it.

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So I think we see them up here and as well,

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that's just going to make that bullpen even deeper.

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Speaker 2: Exactly.

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Speaker 1: I don't think you can count out the Yankees. I

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know Aaron judges that it's a disaster, but I mean,

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I don't think you can count them back because they

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can go out and acquire anybody. I'm rooting for the

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White Sox. I'm rooting for the Athletics, and give me

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the sleeper cera tem me that the White Sox and

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the and the Athletics. I do think the Rangers and

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the Orioles and the Blue Jays will be comers. I

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would not be surprised to see them two out of

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three those in the playoffs.

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Speaker 2: At the end, totally agreed. It's it's wide open right now.

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It really is. And you know what, you can look

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at the Rays and say, yeah, the thirteen games over

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five hundred, but to two and eight in the last ten.

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You'll look at the lineup. They could easily go two

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and eight in the next ten and guess what the

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Yankees are in first. The Yankees will come to that

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back down to earth a little bit, I would think,

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But again, their pitching is so strong, man. I I yeah,

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it's gonna be up. The Rais are in a situation

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where if they have another ten game stretch like this,

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when they're going to be back in the pack with

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Baltimore in Toronto, so who knows what's gonna happen, you know.

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Speaker 1: I mean, I think the Yankees could go armed for

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arm with the Mariners and even without judge, their offense

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is better than the Mariners, So.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah it is. Yeah, it's fascinating. Though there's again

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you got parody, but is it a good parody? I

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don't know.

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Speaker 1: Out of the four teams that have been really bad

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to start the season, the Astros, the Red Sox, the

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Tigers and Royals, which one of those will make a

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push in the second half.

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Speaker 2: None of them.

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Speaker 1: I can't believe that the Red Sox are as bad

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as they are. I watched totally pitch that guy should man,

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he's good.

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Speaker 2: A big, big, big time.

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Speaker 1: Yeah.

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Speaker 2: The problem is is they got that They got themselves

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basically the nine games under five hundred, and they still

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don't have Roman Anthony and the.

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Speaker 1: Crochet is starting to throw a little bit, so you

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figured he's gonna be back in a couple three weeks.

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They got Crochet and totally inn early three lefties A man.

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Speaker 2: I like that set up, Yeah, I like I like

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the setup too, But I think this is going to

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be the year that where Boston basically says, okay, injuries

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destroyed us, Okay, we're gonna reset it. We're gonna get

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some of our younger players up. We're gonna get them

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the experience and basically take twenty twenty six and use

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it as a base for building on that young talent.

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That's what I think is going to happen with Boston.

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They'll trade a role this chapin to somebody, okay, and

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you know some of the some of the veterans on

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short contracts. They'll make some moves that way. But I

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just don't think Boston will ramp it up. I think

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they'll use the time to develop their young talent getting

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ready for twenty twenty seven. Because Roman and Anthony could

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be he could be who knows, you know what I mean,

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he's experiencing more pain. He could be weeks months away.

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Speaker 1: How about the athletics training for role as Chapman.

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Speaker 2: That would work. Yeah, that would be a positive step.

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And yeah, they need to fix the bullpen. If they don't,

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then it doesn't matter what that wonderful offense will produce.

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You know, you just look right now, they've allowed two

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hundred and ninety eight runs. There's only a couple teams

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that have allowed that level this year, one of them

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being Baltimore, one of them being the Twins, them the

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Astros and the common denominated with those teams is very

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shaky pitching. If the if the if they can't, if

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Oakland can't because of the park, resolve the starting pitching issue. Okay,

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and that's the reality they gotta have. They gotta have

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somebody in the bullpen that can shut things down at

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least to protect leads. And if they don't have that,

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then they're just totally ooked.

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Speaker 1: Right, just just went run through my cage jump comment.

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They didn't even want to comment on it.

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Speaker 2: So, yeah, you look really good. Yeah he did, he did.

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Let's go to the.

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Speaker 1: Let's go to the National League. You know, the Braves

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are just I mean, they're eight and a half games

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up and the Phillies, the Mets are last place fourteen.

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Can anybody catch the Braves in the East? No, I agree,

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I agree. The Phillies just the Phillies just can't string

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up together. They got argument the best pitcher in baseball guy,

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and nobody can hit.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, they're the Phillies have been seven seven and they've

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gone seven and three over the past ten and they've

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they've gone from a situation where they were sitting basically

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on par with the Mets at one point in time.

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The four games over five hundred. The Phillies can have

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a very very good second half, and uh, can they

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catch the Raves? Probably not, but they've got a good

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team and they're playing well, very well.

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Speaker 1: Let's skip to the National League West. Can the Diamondbacks

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or Padres catch the Dodgers. They're six and a half

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until the Diamondbacks and Padres are seven games out?

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Speaker 3: No, I agree, I mean yeah, yeah, if you I mean,

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I'm thinking if you lost Otani Otani is the Dodgers

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Aaron Judge, that would hurt because that that offense is

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not as deep. The pitching is ridiculous. It's it's just

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like the yanking engine the Maritors pitching. But offensively they

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they you know, they could stumble if they lose Otani.

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I think if they lose Otani, I think I think

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they can replace everybody else. They lost Mookie Bets and

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they were fine without him.

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Speaker 2: Yeah. And the thing we know with the Dodgers is

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they're not afraid to spend some money well and get players.

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I Trek Scoogle is going to find a home somewhere.

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And the odds are the Dodgers of the favorite. So

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that's another arm if they're you know, looking at the

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free agents heading into twenty twenty seven or twenty twenty eight,

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those two. If the Dodgers were to lose a big bat,

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they can find a way to get a big bet

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and they will. We know it based on history, right,

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So I don't see anybody going anywhere near the Dodgers.

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Speaker 1: Without looking tim The Dodgers have allowed one hundred and

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ninety seven runs score, though the smallest number in all

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of baseball by by thirty. Who is who has given

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up the second at least amount of runts?

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Speaker 2: Don't look, uh, I'm gonna go. I'm gonna go with Milwaukee.

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Speaker 1: You're absolutely correct. Twelve run score. That is impressive MM.

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Speaker 2: And you look at they've been dealing with injuries off

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and on to their offense. Once they get everything on track,

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Milwaukee's got a they've got a good they've got a

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good team. They've got a strong bullpen. Your Eve had

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some maturity issues, so he's back in the eighth inning.

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That's his penance for now, but he'll get a lot

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more saves as things go along. You don't do a

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pelvic thrust into your opposition at your opposition's doug out.

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That's that's not a real cool thing to do, and

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and there's a lesson being taught right now, and that

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he's back working in the eighth inning. It's got nothing

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to do with talent. It's hey, we don't do those things.

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Their manager said, we don't do those things. So guess what,

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now pay a price for it. But you're eva and

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he'll be back pitching in the ninth.

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Speaker 1: The Cups Cups have faltered a little bit. They were

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actually leaving that division about three weeks ago. And now

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if the season ended, they would find themselves on the

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outside looking in because where we only have five teams

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that were five hundred, and the American League you've got

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nine teams over ten teams excuse me, over five hundred.

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Speaker 2: So that's crazy, and all five of them in the Central, all.

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Speaker 1: Five of the Central, that is correct.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, you read. They're dealing with a myriad of injuries.

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They're still sitting a game over five hundred. It's gonna

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be fun to watch how that unfold. But right now

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Pittsburgh and Saint Louis, two unlikely teams, are battling it

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out for a second in that division. Both of them

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well won five the other four games over five hundred.

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Uh that's me be fun to watch. It really is.

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Speaker 1: Do the Pirates make it into the playoffs this season?

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You've you've been saying now I've been saying, yes.

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Speaker 2: I'm I'm gonna hold it. No, simply because I like

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Saint Louis a lot, and they're young. The young talent

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is is starting to deliver in a fairly big way,

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and the Cubs will go out and get what they need.

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I think they have in the past, So it's going

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to be tough for the Pirates. Say the Pirates could

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be ten games over five hundred and not make the

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playoffs because of the Phillies.

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Speaker 1: Uh so, yeah, I mean, so who do you think

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makes it the wild Card? I mean, first of all,

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the Brewers going to win the Central or the Cubs.

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00:27:48,279 --> 00:27:49,440
Speaker 2: Yeah, Brewers.

471
00:27:49,880 --> 00:27:53,119
Speaker 1: Okay, So that leaves who for the Wildcard. We currently

472
00:27:53,160 --> 00:27:55,599
have the Pirates, Cardinals, and Diamondbacks.

473
00:27:57,079 --> 00:28:02,480
Speaker 2: I'm gonna go with the Cubs and Cards.

474
00:28:04,599 --> 00:28:11,039
Speaker 1: Cubs cards and who's the third Billy Cubs cards will

475
00:28:11,079 --> 00:28:15,160
come on, Cubs cards and Phillies. I like the Phillies.

476
00:28:15,240 --> 00:28:21,920
I'm going with Pirates. I'm a Pirate fan here, Cubs,

477
00:28:21,960 --> 00:28:25,640
Pirates and Phillies. That feels right.

478
00:28:26,960 --> 00:28:29,720
Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm yeah, We're I'm going with the cards, You're

479
00:28:29,720 --> 00:28:33,920
going with the pirates, Yeah, yeah, with pirates. Yeah Yeah.

480
00:28:34,000 --> 00:28:35,759
I think it's going to be close on both.

481
00:28:36,200 --> 00:28:40,720
Speaker 1: I'm not suggesting that Connor Griffin is Aaron Judge, but

482
00:28:40,799 --> 00:28:43,799
he is out, and they keep saying it's not too serious.

483
00:28:45,119 --> 00:28:49,119
I I for the moment, I will give, I will

484
00:28:49,160 --> 00:28:51,720
believe that, but I am a little anxious because I

485
00:28:52,079 --> 00:28:54,000
think Connor Griffin is going to blow up here in

486
00:28:54,039 --> 00:28:57,079
the second half if he's healthy, and I think that's yeah,

487
00:28:57,279 --> 00:29:00,079
that's what they're looking for. They need a superstar, and

488
00:29:00,119 --> 00:29:02,200
that's their superstar sitting right there.

489
00:29:03,359 --> 00:29:06,599
Speaker 2: Yeah. My concern with Griffin is that injury. It's a

490
00:29:06,599 --> 00:29:07,400
flexer strain.

491
00:29:08,079 --> 00:29:08,319
Speaker 1: I know.

492
00:29:09,240 --> 00:29:12,319
Speaker 2: Yeah, Wyatt Langford's dealing with a flexer strain, isn't he

493
00:29:12,759 --> 00:29:14,279
and he's been out for two months.

494
00:29:14,119 --> 00:29:20,680
Speaker 1: Basically Yeah, yeah, I don't know. Yeah, So flexer strains

495
00:29:20,720 --> 00:29:25,799
usually you associate them with pictures. So maybe they think

496
00:29:25,839 --> 00:29:27,559
Kunor Griffin could come back as a d H.

497
00:29:30,759 --> 00:29:35,200
Speaker 2: Yeah. I don't see him returning short term to anything

498
00:29:35,279 --> 00:29:37,319
much more than that, because are they going to take

499
00:29:37,319 --> 00:29:39,960
a chance on putting him in a situation where he

500
00:29:40,000 --> 00:29:43,599
needs brace or Tommy John surgery. I don't think they will.

501
00:29:44,279 --> 00:29:47,200
Speaker 1: Yeah, all right, let's go to the Mets and Giants.

502
00:29:47,519 --> 00:29:50,799
The Mets are twenty seven and thirty five. The Giants

503
00:29:50,799 --> 00:29:53,119
are twenty five and thirty and I think both have

504
00:29:53,480 --> 00:29:59,240
underperformed given their payroll. Yeah, who finishes ahead? Who finishes

505
00:29:59,240 --> 00:29:59,920
ahead of the other?

506
00:30:02,039 --> 00:30:04,759
Speaker 2: Uh? The Mets well finished head of the Giants.

507
00:30:06,799 --> 00:30:08,799
Speaker 1: Something's wrong with the Mets, Tim, I don't know what

508
00:30:08,880 --> 00:30:12,599
it is. That just yeah, they got argue that well,

509
00:30:12,640 --> 00:30:15,519
they got a top five player in Soto, they got

510
00:30:15,519 --> 00:30:18,759
Lindor has been hurt, doesn't no word on when he's

511
00:30:18,799 --> 00:30:22,319
coming back. They've got great young pitching who's underperforming. I

512
00:30:22,839 --> 00:30:27,079
don't get what's happening with the Mets. They just lose.

513
00:30:28,200 --> 00:30:33,599
Speaker 2: Yeah, they're yeah, there there's a lot of eyes maybe

514
00:30:33,640 --> 00:30:34,960
and not enough team.

515
00:30:35,920 --> 00:30:36,880
Speaker 1: Yeah, maybe that's it.

516
00:30:38,160 --> 00:30:40,759
Speaker 2: Yeah, I don't know that if you just look at

517
00:30:40,799 --> 00:30:44,039
the talent, you know, Linda coming back, but you know,

518
00:30:46,119 --> 00:30:53,519
right now there are two games behind the Marlins. Yeah yeah,

519
00:30:53,519 --> 00:30:57,519
and the Marlins have no offense, and Yuri Prez is

520
00:30:58,480 --> 00:30:59,759
gonna be missious.

521
00:31:00,240 --> 00:31:00,720
Speaker 1: Yeah.

522
00:31:01,000 --> 00:31:05,839
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's too bad. I really thought Perez is going

523
00:31:05,880 --> 00:31:08,400
to have a great year, and the Marlins were going

524
00:31:08,480 --> 00:31:11,799
to be a you know, they're going to be a

525
00:31:11,799 --> 00:31:14,519
team to be reckoned with, but not this year.

526
00:31:14,559 --> 00:31:18,079
Speaker 1: I don't think, no, no, And you take a look

527
00:31:18,079 --> 00:31:21,119
at the Mets. I mean, Bashett has just been I

528
00:31:21,119 --> 00:31:23,160
think we're talking about him if he's not been very good.

529
00:31:23,200 --> 00:31:26,359
But their pitching staff is Peralta, who finally had a

530
00:31:26,440 --> 00:31:32,599
really good outing, Nolan McClain, Christian Scott, and then it's

531
00:31:32,680 --> 00:31:35,480
Sean and I who really should have had that mic

532
00:31:35,599 --> 00:31:39,279
Ronando surgery that Trek Scuba has because he's got bone chips.

533
00:31:39,359 --> 00:31:42,000
That's that's why I can't pitch this season. He finally

534
00:31:42,000 --> 00:31:45,359
had a good outing. But Clay Holmes is hurt, code

535
00:31:45,400 --> 00:31:48,160
I Singa is hurt. So they don't have enough pitching.

536
00:31:49,240 --> 00:31:53,519
Speaker 2: David Peterson's working following an opener, yeah and inconsistent. Yeah,

537
00:31:54,799 --> 00:31:56,960
and you know they could be they could be looking

538
00:31:57,039 --> 00:31:58,880
at moving for all the possibly.

539
00:31:59,240 --> 00:32:04,119
Speaker 1: Or Devin William Well, yeah, if they can't. If anybody

540
00:32:04,200 --> 00:32:07,119
takes a good stuff to me, let's let's let's take

541
00:32:07,119 --> 00:32:08,960
a break and come back and start to hit some

542
00:32:09,039 --> 00:32:09,839
fantasy questions.

543
00:32:09,880 --> 00:32:11,960
Speaker 2: Here sounds good.

544
00:32:21,839 --> 00:32:24,359
Speaker 1: In case people have not heard Corman Burns hurt his

545
00:32:24,440 --> 00:32:28,160
shoulder during his rehab and now they're thinking he might

546
00:32:28,319 --> 00:32:30,400
not pitch the season. That's a brutal blow for the

547
00:32:30,680 --> 00:32:34,319
Diamondbacks and not a good situation for fantasy managers.

548
00:32:35,279 --> 00:32:38,119
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's a is it terrorist muscle or something?

549
00:32:38,799 --> 00:32:39,519
Speaker 1: That's what I've read.

550
00:32:39,640 --> 00:32:42,680
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, something along those. Yeah, they're not going to

551
00:32:42,759 --> 00:32:48,920
push Burns. I'd be shocked if we see him this year. Yeah,

552
00:32:48,960 --> 00:32:51,519
it's a real BOTTYX bring up. There is one.

553
00:32:52,440 --> 00:32:54,920
Speaker 1: All right, let's uh we have the debate. And it's

554
00:32:55,000 --> 00:32:58,519
fun because Sandlin and Jump are pitching on the same

555
00:32:58,680 --> 00:33:00,839
days at the moment, so hopefully the teams will still

556
00:33:00,839 --> 00:33:03,920
have the same number of off off days in between.

557
00:33:04,400 --> 00:33:08,079
Sandlin out pitch Jump in game one, Jump out pitch

558
00:33:08,319 --> 00:33:12,200
Sandlin in Game two. Who do you take for Game three?

559
00:33:13,599 --> 00:33:18,680
Speaker 2: Best two out of three? Whoever? I best two out

560
00:33:18,680 --> 00:33:21,799
of three? I I really don't know. I was really

561
00:33:21,920 --> 00:33:26,200
disappointed in Sandlin's You know what happened to that pinpoint

562
00:33:26,279 --> 00:33:29,960
control of ninety seven miles on our basketball? Yeah? Yeah,

563
00:33:31,039 --> 00:33:36,799
by the way, yeah exactly. Yeah. Everything was set up

564
00:33:36,839 --> 00:33:39,359
for success and you found a way to fail through it.

565
00:33:39,519 --> 00:33:43,400
So again, young players ups and downs I'm going to

566
00:33:43,440 --> 00:33:48,920
stick with Sandlin simply because I really don't like half

567
00:33:49,079 --> 00:33:51,440
where Jump's playing half his games.

568
00:33:51,599 --> 00:33:57,960
Speaker 1: Well, jumps at Houston on Sunday, Okay, and Sandlin. Let

569
00:33:58,039 --> 00:34:00,599
me see where Sandlin is. I picked him up on

570
00:34:00,599 --> 00:34:03,759
a couple of leagues, which was a disaster, spent the fortune,

571
00:34:03,799 --> 00:34:07,720
and he did not pitch. Well, Uh, Sandling, let's see

572
00:34:07,880 --> 00:34:15,559
here Philadelphia. Maybe go down here for the Cubs. Uh

573
00:34:15,880 --> 00:34:16,639
he's at the Cubs.

574
00:34:18,400 --> 00:34:19,519
Speaker 2: I don't know. I'm just guessing.

575
00:34:19,800 --> 00:34:22,840
Speaker 1: Oh, you're kissing. Okay, he's at Philadelphia.

576
00:34:23,639 --> 00:34:25,599
Speaker 2: Okay. I knew it was. The second matchup was a

577
00:34:25,639 --> 00:34:26,519
tough one. I knew that.

578
00:34:26,800 --> 00:34:30,280
Speaker 1: So and I'm not starting him at all. I am

579
00:34:30,320 --> 00:34:32,960
starting in that league. I got the league, I got Sandline,

580
00:34:32,960 --> 00:34:35,079
and I got Cage Jump. I am starting Cage Jumping

581
00:34:35,159 --> 00:34:38,800
that Sandlin, and I am not starting Tanner Bibby in

582
00:34:38,840 --> 00:34:42,280
that league at Texas. So I might drop Tanner Biby.

583
00:34:42,400 --> 00:34:43,360
I hate Tanner Biby.

584
00:34:44,840 --> 00:34:47,639
Speaker 2: Uh. Yeah, I think I have one share and my

585
00:34:47,760 --> 00:34:50,440
pitching is totally shot, so I don't care, So I'm

586
00:34:50,519 --> 00:34:54,280
starting him. Yeah, it's beyond a building.

587
00:34:54,800 --> 00:34:56,800
Speaker 1: All right. So Tim and I are so opposite, so

588
00:34:57,320 --> 00:35:02,440
I agree with you. I don't like jumps, uh pitching

589
00:35:02,480 --> 00:35:05,840
half Hiss half his games and Sacramento, but I think

590
00:35:05,880 --> 00:35:09,639
he's got the better arm. But Sandler was definitely disappointing.

591
00:35:10,679 --> 00:35:14,440
Speaker 2: Yeah, very much so. And uh the one one one

592
00:35:14,519 --> 00:35:16,840
of the leagues that I have Sandlin, and I was

593
00:35:16,920 --> 00:35:21,480
locked into the most starts. So yeah, I've got him

594
00:35:21,519 --> 00:35:25,280
going against Philly, and yeah I've got I've got a

595
00:35:25,360 --> 00:35:32,000
box of Toms and Tiland all handy excres, all right.

596
00:35:32,400 --> 00:35:35,480
Speaker 1: And Toms is my preference. I'm a Tom's guy over Roldes.

597
00:35:35,519 --> 00:35:36,239
What about yourself?

598
00:35:38,280 --> 00:35:42,840
Speaker 2: Ah, yeah, it looks like Tom's. I'm just looking at

599
00:35:42,880 --> 00:35:45,719
the container of the sitting right in front of me. Yep.

600
00:35:46,840 --> 00:35:49,760
Speaker 1: I carry a sleeve of Tom's with me every every

601
00:35:49,800 --> 00:35:53,159
waking moment. So my daughter does as well, because we

602
00:35:53,280 --> 00:36:01,400
both have very problematic stomach. So flex it's just a partner.

603
00:36:01,559 --> 00:36:05,679
This just the deal. Justin Verlander is expected back this weekend.

604
00:36:05,719 --> 00:36:08,280
He's got a nice matchup, at least he did when

605
00:36:08,280 --> 00:36:10,079
I wrote this a few days ago. The Marriags have

606
00:36:10,159 --> 00:36:12,559
been hot. He's up against the Mariners. Do you dare

607
00:36:12,960 --> 00:36:15,519
Justin Verlander? No?

608
00:36:16,480 --> 00:36:18,599
Speaker 2: No, the Mariners are coming around. They're eight and two

609
00:36:18,639 --> 00:36:23,199
in the past ten games. Julio is playing like Julio

610
00:36:24,840 --> 00:36:27,480
Rodarine is having a good year. Luke really, no, I

611
00:36:27,800 --> 00:36:31,119
and the kids. No, I'd be sitting Justin Orlander.

612
00:36:31,639 --> 00:36:35,119
Speaker 1: Yeah, I think so too. I think so too. TJ.

613
00:36:35,320 --> 00:36:37,760
Frieda was taking us a sixtieth outfielder off the board

614
00:36:37,880 --> 00:36:40,599
is now back in triple A after hitting one seventy

615
00:36:40,679 --> 00:36:44,159
nine with two home runs. Disappoint it, right, I mean

616
00:36:44,239 --> 00:36:48,159
that's a number four, that's a strong number four outfielder,

617
00:36:48,199 --> 00:36:51,039
even a low win number three outfielder. It just wet

618
00:36:51,079 --> 00:36:51,440
the bed.

619
00:36:53,280 --> 00:36:55,519
Speaker 2: Well, you know what, if you look at last year, okay,

620
00:36:56,079 --> 00:37:00,239
the power is down, the walks are down, okay, and

621
00:37:00,320 --> 00:37:02,559
last year he walked eighty one times okay, but the

622
00:37:02,599 --> 00:37:05,400
watcher down this year and the strikeouts are up. Uh,

623
00:37:05,840 --> 00:37:10,000
maybe last year was a one off. I'm starting to

624
00:37:10,119 --> 00:37:12,719
think in that direction, you know what I mean. You're

625
00:37:12,760 --> 00:37:15,360
looking at a fifteen home run bad who walked eighty

626
00:37:15,440 --> 00:37:18,800
one times last year. That holds value, especially at the

627
00:37:18,880 --> 00:37:21,679
top of the lineup in Cincinnati, okay, where they don't

628
00:37:21,719 --> 00:37:25,360
have a true leadoff at per se. But if he's

629
00:37:25,639 --> 00:37:30,639
not walking the power, it's yeah, it wasn't good, and

630
00:37:30,760 --> 00:37:37,840
he struggled all year, so maybe last year was a

631
00:37:37,960 --> 00:37:38,599
one and done.

632
00:37:40,480 --> 00:37:44,320
Speaker 1: Well, let's you know, his average exit of velocity is

633
00:37:45,039 --> 00:37:47,519
eighty eight miles an hour. Last year was eighty seven,

634
00:37:47,559 --> 00:37:49,079
so it has come up a little bit. He's never

635
00:37:49,199 --> 00:37:51,800
hit the ball very hard. He's always hit him with

636
00:37:51,800 --> 00:37:55,960
a heavy launch on it, right, so seventeen degrees high launched. Yeah,

637
00:37:56,119 --> 00:37:59,519
so sprint speeds at the thirty thirty third percent tile,

638
00:37:59,639 --> 00:38:02,960
So he's not fast. So it really is a contact

639
00:38:03,039 --> 00:38:05,440
guy that gets on base, and that's been down a

640
00:38:05,480 --> 00:38:06,400
little bit this season.

641
00:38:07,880 --> 00:38:11,559
Speaker 2: Yeah. Yeah, if you've got a contact guy who's not

642
00:38:11,679 --> 00:38:14,079
making contact, it's not good, is it? No?

643
00:38:15,039 --> 00:38:17,199
Speaker 1: Expected not averages one ninety six?

644
00:38:18,679 --> 00:38:21,199
Speaker 2: Yeah, and if you look, they called up Marte okay

645
00:38:21,800 --> 00:38:26,280
to replace him. Okay, Well, Marty in the past week

646
00:38:26,320 --> 00:38:29,039
hasn't hit anything. It hasn't been a good week. So

647
00:38:29,239 --> 00:38:32,320
this isn't a boat Marte, this is a boat Friedle.

648
00:38:32,760 --> 00:38:36,639
Speaker 1: Yeah, in my opinion, I agree. I mean, Fredo's been

649
00:38:36,639 --> 00:38:40,719
a zero and the underlying statistics do not look encouraging

650
00:38:41,320 --> 00:38:43,000
for him to be anything more than like a ten

651
00:38:43,079 --> 00:38:47,079
tent type of player. If that, yeah, maybe a tense.

652
00:38:46,960 --> 00:38:51,519
Speaker 2: Six well yeah, and you know, Cincinnati needs a lead

653
00:38:51,559 --> 00:38:54,519
off that and he fulfilled that role last year. But

654
00:38:54,639 --> 00:38:57,400
if your walks are down, that even takes that aspect

655
00:38:57,440 --> 00:39:00,440
of his game out of the equation, right, So yeah,

656
00:39:00,559 --> 00:39:03,760
I think the call up in Marte based on what

657
00:39:04,000 --> 00:39:06,800
Marte has done recently, Like he's had a good year

658
00:39:06,880 --> 00:39:10,079
down on the farm. You know, you're you're looking at

659
00:39:10,119 --> 00:39:13,199
a guy that's how many home runs as Marte hit?

660
00:39:13,960 --> 00:39:18,400
Oh seven, eight home runs, nine stolen based in nine

661
00:39:18,440 --> 00:39:21,920
eighty four ops. That is great, But the past week

662
00:39:22,119 --> 00:39:26,559
hasn't been a good win for Marte, and hey, Friedel

663
00:39:26,800 --> 00:39:29,119
basically just played himself out of the job for now

664
00:39:29,440 --> 00:39:32,440
and it could be a long wait if Marte. If

665
00:39:32,480 --> 00:39:33,880
Marte does anything.

666
00:39:35,159 --> 00:39:41,320
Speaker 1: Any interest in Martee? Yes, so he'll be a waiver

667
00:39:41,400 --> 00:39:42,039
wark guy for you.

668
00:39:42,960 --> 00:39:45,639
Speaker 2: Yes, He's definitely a waver waiverware guy.

669
00:39:46,360 --> 00:39:49,800
Speaker 1: Okay, a big waiver wark guy. I mean, somebody that

670
00:39:49,840 --> 00:39:51,599
you're going to put towards the top of the list.

671
00:39:52,800 --> 00:39:57,280
Speaker 2: Well, I looked at I looked at at hitters and

672
00:39:58,519 --> 00:40:04,159
right now, because of the timing on the Edwin Arroyo

673
00:40:05,519 --> 00:40:10,280
call up, Okay, I think I would still have a

674
00:40:10,440 --> 00:40:15,239
Royo ahead of Marte. But the Reds are definitely a

675
00:40:15,360 --> 00:40:18,639
team as a team that are going to inspire some

676
00:40:19,960 --> 00:40:22,280
spending in that fab budget this week.

677
00:40:25,320 --> 00:40:30,440
Speaker 1: Arroyo done since spin up one for eight, one for eight, Yeah,

678
00:40:31,400 --> 00:40:38,280
struck out a lot, so struck out six times. Yeah.

679
00:40:40,079 --> 00:40:44,119
Speaker 2: I'm I'm hoping we see an uptick hitting into the weekend.

680
00:40:44,199 --> 00:40:47,119
But that's a situation that everybody's going to have to

681
00:40:47,480 --> 00:40:51,159
monitor hitting into Sunday, because if Arroyo doesn't do much

682
00:40:51,239 --> 00:40:56,559
Friday Saturday, then I would say Marte. If Arroyo steals

683
00:40:56,599 --> 00:41:00,519
a base or two, you know, starts hitting, then I

684
00:41:00,559 --> 00:41:02,760
would go with the Arroyo. It's one of those very

685
00:41:02,880 --> 00:41:08,000
much state of flux things. But the Reds bats definitely

686
00:41:08,480 --> 00:41:10,079
will be of interest this weekend.

687
00:41:10,480 --> 00:41:12,920
Speaker 1: And Arroyo is really young still. He doesn't turn twenty

688
00:41:13,000 --> 00:41:17,400
three until until August, so I mean, you got got

689
00:41:17,480 --> 00:41:19,960
to get him a chance to figure it out, to

690
00:41:20,119 --> 00:41:22,320
me a second break, come back, and get our best

691
00:41:22,360 --> 00:41:25,719
two segments coming up. What happened to these guys is

692
00:41:25,760 --> 00:41:29,280
the next one. I hope you got answers, my friend.

693
00:41:30,760 --> 00:41:31,079
Speaker 2: Nope.

694
00:41:39,360 --> 00:41:41,639
Speaker 1: I mean this is a pretty easy list to put together.

695
00:41:41,719 --> 00:41:43,719
I got eight names that could have been eighty names.

696
00:41:43,760 --> 00:41:47,559
I mean it's easy, you know. And I tried to

697
00:41:48,400 --> 00:41:51,920
pick some guys that were drafted earlier, people were counting on,

698
00:41:52,079 --> 00:41:55,360
and a couple of maybe sleepers that people were counting on,

699
00:41:55,440 --> 00:41:57,679
and it just hasn't come together. And the first is

700
00:41:57,760 --> 00:42:00,920
Michael Bush. He was the thirteenth first basement off the board.

701
00:42:00,960 --> 00:42:03,519
He hit thirty four home runs last season. He's got

702
00:42:03,679 --> 00:42:07,000
six tempt six the number between five and seven.

703
00:42:07,559 --> 00:42:12,760
Speaker 2: Six. Okay, yeah, you're right, Yeah.

704
00:42:14,000 --> 00:42:18,000
Speaker 1: I mean this is gonna turn round. Should we just

705
00:42:18,039 --> 00:42:20,400
wait for the for everything to warm up? And he's

706
00:42:20,400 --> 00:42:25,320
already got platoon splits. I mean, this just doesn't look good,

707
00:42:25,440 --> 00:42:26,320
doesn't feel good.

708
00:42:28,079 --> 00:42:31,280
Speaker 2: He's going to bounce back, I'm right, I'm reasonably confident.

709
00:42:32,360 --> 00:42:34,039
All he needs to do is have a month where

710
00:42:34,039 --> 00:42:36,320
he hit six or seven and he's back on pace again.

711
00:42:37,239 --> 00:42:39,559
And I think he's got the potential to do it.

712
00:42:39,719 --> 00:42:44,079
So I'm I'm hoping and betting on a bounce back

713
00:42:44,079 --> 00:42:44,840
from Michael Bush.

714
00:42:45,800 --> 00:42:49,559
Speaker 1: Interesting in ex velocity and twenty twenty five was ninety

715
00:42:49,639 --> 00:42:54,079
two point two. This year it's eighty eight point seven.

716
00:42:54,800 --> 00:42:58,320
Twenty twenty four eighty nine point nine, so it's even

717
00:42:58,800 --> 00:43:01,360
There was growth last sea and he's just fallen off,

718
00:43:01,880 --> 00:43:05,800
which is weird. You don't typically see eggs of velocities

719
00:43:05,920 --> 00:43:08,480
and a young twenty eight year old player dropped like that,

720
00:43:08,760 --> 00:43:13,119
So that would indicate likely an injury or just swing

721
00:43:13,239 --> 00:43:14,199
mechanics aren't there.

722
00:43:15,599 --> 00:43:18,320
Speaker 2: Yeah. I still think we're going to see twenty five

723
00:43:18,400 --> 00:43:20,119
plus home runs coming the end of the year at

724
00:43:20,159 --> 00:43:20,840
a Michael Bush.

725
00:43:22,599 --> 00:43:25,199
Speaker 1: You know he's gonna have to get busy toom h

726
00:43:25,239 --> 00:43:28,480
he is. Here's one of that kind of surprised me,

727
00:43:28,599 --> 00:43:31,000
Jackson Merrill that the speed of power have been oka

728
00:43:31,119 --> 00:43:34,480
five from runs, ten stolen bases sent in two o six.

729
00:43:34,639 --> 00:43:37,559
He was a number one Outfitter's a fourteenth outfielder off

730
00:43:37,599 --> 00:43:40,079
the board. You can't hit two o six with your

731
00:43:40,119 --> 00:43:41,719
number one outfielder. You just can't.

732
00:43:43,440 --> 00:43:44,880
Speaker 2: Uh, well, apparently you can.

733
00:43:46,679 --> 00:43:50,360
Speaker 1: So he was the sexy pick last year and had

734
00:43:50,400 --> 00:43:53,679
a lousy season again A little still a sexy pick

735
00:43:53,800 --> 00:43:56,039
this year, and it was it's not as good? Has

736
00:43:56,119 --> 00:43:57,000
this not been great?

737
00:43:58,119 --> 00:44:03,400
Speaker 2: No? The last year we rode off to injuries. This

738
00:44:03,559 --> 00:44:07,400
year we expected to see more towards that rookie campaign

739
00:44:07,480 --> 00:44:11,960
and it just hasn't happened. I have to think, and

740
00:44:12,079 --> 00:44:14,199
I'm betting on a bounce back in the second half

741
00:44:14,280 --> 00:44:16,360
in Jackson Merrill. I don't have anything to support it,

742
00:44:16,920 --> 00:44:21,639
but I just don't. I just think Jackson Merrill is

743
00:44:21,639 --> 00:44:24,119
a better ballplayer than what we've seen. Now. Hey, he

744
00:44:24,239 --> 00:44:26,400
asked me two months from now if he's still hitting

745
00:44:26,440 --> 00:44:31,199
two oh six with eight home runs and twelve stolen bases. Yeah, Well,

746
00:44:31,320 --> 00:44:33,840
maybe maybe I'll have a change of heart, But for now,

747
00:44:33,960 --> 00:44:35,400
I'm going to bet on the bounce back.

748
00:44:36,360 --> 00:44:38,840
Speaker 1: So that's what the data says. The data shows average

749
00:44:38,840 --> 00:44:44,280
exuvelocity fifty four percentile eighty nine point seven, so there's

750
00:44:45,000 --> 00:44:48,119
fifteen to twenty home run pop there. He's fast eighty

751
00:44:48,159 --> 00:44:51,239
six percent, should be able to steal bases. The problem

752
00:44:51,320 --> 00:44:54,840
is he's just his contact skills have have He wrote

753
00:44:54,880 --> 00:44:58,599
it that rookie season, it was a seventeen percent straightout rate.

754
00:44:58,639 --> 00:45:02,039
It's up to twenty five now. And he just doesn't

755
00:45:02,079 --> 00:45:05,480
walk enough. So he's a pretty aggressive approach. So when

756
00:45:05,519 --> 00:45:08,400
you're not, when you're striking out too much, not getting

757
00:45:08,440 --> 00:45:12,480
on base, your run scored a going down and you

758
00:45:12,599 --> 00:45:14,679
look at it and it's a number three outfielder as

759
00:45:14,679 --> 00:45:16,159
opposed to number one outfielder.

760
00:45:18,000 --> 00:45:23,360
Speaker 2: Yeah, and for somebody that young that showed that much potential.

761
00:45:23,480 --> 00:45:25,400
I can't give up on I can't give up on

762
00:45:25,480 --> 00:45:31,039
it yet. Yeah, by at some point in time, if

763
00:45:31,159 --> 00:45:33,480
we don't see improvement, I don't think you have any

764
00:45:33,559 --> 00:45:36,159
choice but to say, hey, maybe this is a new

765
00:45:36,239 --> 00:45:42,000
reality and adjust accordingly. At least you're getting some speed,

766
00:45:42,800 --> 00:45:43,719
you're getting something.

767
00:45:44,280 --> 00:45:47,840
Speaker 1: Yeah, but yeah, yeah, he really needs he needs to

768
00:45:47,920 --> 00:45:50,159
work on his approach. I mean he needs to. I

769
00:45:50,199 --> 00:45:51,719
think if you can get a little bit more patient

770
00:45:51,760 --> 00:45:54,360
at the play, that's probably gonna unlock everything. Because when

771
00:45:54,360 --> 00:45:56,000
you get aggressive at the plate, you know this time,

772
00:45:56,079 --> 00:45:57,719
I mean they just you're not going to get a

773
00:45:57,760 --> 00:45:59,400
good pitch of the first couple of pitches that a

774
00:45:59,440 --> 00:46:01,039
picture throws, you know, as you're gonna swing at it,

775
00:46:01,079 --> 00:46:04,199
it's Boba Schett, who's coming up next. It's exactly the problem.

776
00:46:05,360 --> 00:46:09,800
Speaker 2: Yep, it is and is a problem just for kicks

777
00:46:09,840 --> 00:46:10,280
and grins.

778
00:46:10,480 --> 00:46:14,400
Speaker 1: Jackson Merrill went to one of my uh grew up

779
00:46:14,400 --> 00:46:16,039
in the same area I grew up, and he went

780
00:46:16,079 --> 00:46:19,760
to a competing high school, so they were always way

781
00:46:19,840 --> 00:46:25,920
better than my high school and everything, sports, everything.

782
00:46:26,760 --> 00:46:30,119
Speaker 2: Yeah, when you got Jackson Merrill playing high school, yeah, yeah,

783
00:46:30,599 --> 00:46:32,280
I probably have a pretty good team.

784
00:46:32,320 --> 00:46:35,639
Speaker 1: I would think, yeah, Boba Shed is next. He was

785
00:46:35,679 --> 00:46:37,760
a tenth shorts up off the board. Tim and I

786
00:46:38,400 --> 00:46:41,400
called this one out as be careful soccer A soccer

787
00:46:41,480 --> 00:46:44,360
picked cheer. Tim has been saying this for years. He

788
00:46:44,480 --> 00:46:47,280
swings at everything in the first pitch and it's it's

789
00:46:48,119 --> 00:46:52,880
it happens, demmy. And he had that season last year

790
00:46:53,480 --> 00:46:56,119
where things seemed to come together. But he's sitting two

791
00:46:56,239 --> 00:46:59,320
twenty six with a two point eighty one base percentage.

792
00:47:00,480 --> 00:47:02,400
I mean, he looks like he's going to hit those

793
00:47:02,440 --> 00:47:05,400
fifteen home runs that he did last season. But forty

794
00:47:05,440 --> 00:47:08,000
two million dollars, that's the problem. And he's a forty

795
00:47:08,039 --> 00:47:11,639
two million dollar player and he's okay, But he's not

796
00:47:11,800 --> 00:47:12,960
a forty two million is he?

797
00:47:14,599 --> 00:47:19,079
Speaker 2: What you see is what the Mets got. No, he's not.

798
00:47:20,000 --> 00:47:20,719
He's the third.

799
00:47:20,639 --> 00:47:24,199
Speaker 1: Highest he's the third highest paid player in baseball this season.

800
00:47:26,360 --> 00:47:27,280
Speaker 2: Well done, New York.

801
00:47:28,239 --> 00:47:31,199
Speaker 1: I it's crazy. I think he's okay.

802
00:47:31,320 --> 00:47:33,119
Speaker 2: Yeah, I thought it was. I thought it was crazy

803
00:47:33,159 --> 00:47:33,920
when they signed him.

804
00:47:34,599 --> 00:47:37,199
Speaker 1: He's a middle infielder. He's a middle infielder in fantasy.

805
00:47:37,239 --> 00:47:41,239
He's you know, he's roster, but he's not a number

806
00:47:41,280 --> 00:47:44,800
one starter. He's not a number one shortstop, just not well.

807
00:47:45,159 --> 00:47:48,960
Speaker 2: No, I'd be much happier with Angel Martinez twenty rounds

808
00:47:49,039 --> 00:47:51,559
later than not to eighty OBV.

809
00:47:51,840 --> 00:47:54,920
Speaker 1: Yeah, he's been in a tailspin of late Angel Martinez,

810
00:47:54,960 --> 00:47:56,440
but yes, I agree.

811
00:47:56,400 --> 00:48:01,840
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, it's yeah, I'm hey. My thoughts on Movi

812
00:48:01,920 --> 00:48:04,239
Shuter world documented they haven't changed.

813
00:48:04,760 --> 00:48:08,320
Speaker 1: Yeah. I think I think he's gonna end with fifteen

814
00:48:08,360 --> 00:48:10,679
eighteen home runs. I think he's going to hit to

815
00:48:10,920 --> 00:48:16,559
thirty to forty two or three stolen bases. That's the player, and.

816
00:48:16,639 --> 00:48:19,480
Speaker 2: The Jays are very very happy, and we'll thank the

817
00:48:19,599 --> 00:48:24,960
Mets for taking that situation and signing him so that

818
00:48:25,079 --> 00:48:28,639
the Jays didn't have to come back to him and

819
00:48:28,800 --> 00:48:31,039
offer him a deal. I think the Jays are very

820
00:48:31,119 --> 00:48:32,440
happy with the way that shook down.

821
00:48:33,519 --> 00:48:36,719
Speaker 1: My fourth guy is not a not a guy that

822
00:48:37,000 --> 00:48:40,840
was number one shortstop taking the draft, but it was.

823
00:48:41,400 --> 00:48:43,119
I think he was on your sleeper list. He was

824
00:48:43,199 --> 00:48:46,079
kind of on my sleeper list. That's amazing. To win

825
00:48:47,679 --> 00:48:50,119
two home runs, five stolen bases in a two thirty

826
00:48:50,159 --> 00:48:54,880
five batting average is not what I expected. I'm surprised

827
00:48:54,920 --> 00:48:59,920
he's still playing. Uh in Saint Louis Well.

828
00:49:00,400 --> 00:49:04,280
Speaker 2: I think the glove takes care of that situation, but

829
00:49:04,480 --> 00:49:06,760
I don't think he's healthy. I don't think the knees

830
00:49:06,800 --> 00:49:10,400
one hundred percent, and I think it's affecting his overall numbers.

831
00:49:10,760 --> 00:49:16,199
So basically, I'm expecting better out of when if he's healthy,

832
00:49:16,440 --> 00:49:18,360
and I don't think he is right now, So I'm

833
00:49:18,400 --> 00:49:19,800
going to health road on that one.

834
00:49:20,360 --> 00:49:24,519
Speaker 1: He's still only twenty four. Average exivelocity is not good

835
00:49:24,679 --> 00:49:27,480
eighty six point seven, down from eighty eight point three

836
00:49:27,639 --> 00:49:32,280
last season, so tims theory of injuries is probably valid.

837
00:49:32,400 --> 00:49:35,960
There suspect that batting average is two forty seven. He's

838
00:49:36,000 --> 00:49:41,760
still got good speed at seventy percentile, so so she'll

839
00:49:41,760 --> 00:49:43,559
be able to steal some bases if they let him.

840
00:49:43,599 --> 00:49:45,840
But the power is just it has there's out growth

841
00:49:45,880 --> 00:49:48,519
in the power. That's that's suppressing everything.

842
00:49:49,679 --> 00:49:52,920
Speaker 2: Yeah, it is. That's why I strongly believe, and I

843
00:49:53,079 --> 00:49:55,440
know he's missed a few games with I believe it's

844
00:49:55,519 --> 00:49:58,719
his knee and that's where he had his problem last year.

845
00:49:58,920 --> 00:50:02,559
So I I'm attributing a lot of what I believe

846
00:50:02,599 --> 00:50:05,719
we're seeing with Mason Wynn to hell and the fact

847
00:50:05,760 --> 00:50:08,360
that I don't think he's anywhere close to one hundred percent.

848
00:50:09,880 --> 00:50:13,360
Speaker 1: Matt Chapman looks done. Maybe he's not bad. He was

849
00:50:13,400 --> 00:50:16,199
the eleventh third base went off the board. Twenty one

850
00:50:16,239 --> 00:50:18,760
home runs last season, nine stolen bases. Get this, Tim,

851
00:50:18,840 --> 00:50:22,880
He's got two home runs zero. That's the number at

852
00:50:22,920 --> 00:50:26,000
the bottom of the list. Zero. I mean they did

853
00:50:26,079 --> 00:50:28,679
have three hits yesterday, So maybe things are starting to

854
00:50:28,760 --> 00:50:32,280
turn around. But it's been absolutely brutal with Matt Chapman.

855
00:50:33,880 --> 00:50:35,920
Speaker 2: Yeah, if you look at his history, he's a two

856
00:50:36,000 --> 00:50:41,760
forty bat Okay, so the batting average is there, but

857
00:50:44,679 --> 00:50:47,760
two home runs. I would say the maximum you're looking

858
00:50:47,840 --> 00:50:49,840
at there over the balance of the season is maybe

859
00:50:50,519 --> 00:50:54,480
fifteen to twenty if he picks up the pace. And

860
00:50:54,639 --> 00:50:57,280
again you're talking about the pace out of a guy

861
00:50:57,320 --> 00:51:01,239
who's been basically a career to forty guy. I don't

862
00:51:01,280 --> 00:51:04,039
hold out a whole lot of hope for Matt Chapman.

863
00:51:04,119 --> 00:51:05,760
I'd be looking for another option.

864
00:51:07,159 --> 00:51:10,480
Speaker 1: Here's what's strange about Matt Chapman, going back as far

865
00:51:10,559 --> 00:51:13,360
as the eye can see, ninety two mile an hour

866
00:51:13,400 --> 00:51:15,960
ex of Aloste, ninety three mile an hour, acidly ninety

867
00:51:16,000 --> 00:51:18,920
three mile hour last year ninety two point two, this

868
00:51:19,119 --> 00:51:21,760
season eighty seven point six.

869
00:51:23,559 --> 00:51:26,159
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's not good drop off like that.

870
00:51:26,400 --> 00:51:28,599
Speaker 1: You just I mean he's older. Yes, you start to

871
00:51:28,639 --> 00:51:32,679
see a nice gradual decline. You don't see a five

872
00:51:32,800 --> 00:51:36,440
mile hour difference in your eggs of avelossit something's something

873
00:51:36,559 --> 00:51:37,920
does not compute here.

874
00:51:39,199 --> 00:51:43,920
Speaker 2: Well, sometimes players do fall off a cliff. It ends

875
00:51:44,159 --> 00:51:49,800
rather abruptly, rather than that slope that you were talking about. Yeah,

876
00:51:49,880 --> 00:51:52,840
I don't Maybe there's an injury, and you know that's

877
00:51:52,920 --> 00:51:56,760
not being document Hey, I don't know. All I know

878
00:51:57,079 --> 00:52:00,400
is that he's going to have to struggle and you know,

879
00:52:00,800 --> 00:52:02,719
very he's got to play real hard to.

880
00:52:02,760 --> 00:52:05,639
Speaker 1: Get that speed's still there eighty eighth percentile. I mean,

881
00:52:05,719 --> 00:52:09,960
it's still it's tremendous bat speed. It's just he's just

882
00:52:10,079 --> 00:52:12,440
not hitting the ball hard, which doesn't make sense.

883
00:52:14,079 --> 00:52:17,360
Speaker 2: No, it doesn't. Again, there might be an injury, but

884
00:52:17,800 --> 00:52:21,960
I'm not holding out hope for Matt Chapman to bounce

885
00:52:22,039 --> 00:52:22,679
back per se.

886
00:52:24,719 --> 00:52:27,559
Speaker 1: You know why the uh the Giants are playing poorly.

887
00:52:27,639 --> 00:52:29,000
I mean if we took a look at the stat

888
00:52:29,119 --> 00:52:32,800
cast data of Rafael Devers and it's it's ugly too.

889
00:52:32,920 --> 00:52:35,119
I mean when you're to make guys in the middle

890
00:52:35,119 --> 00:52:37,639
of the lineup just aren't hitting, You're you're not very good.

891
00:52:38,039 --> 00:52:42,360
Speaker 2: Yeah, no, when you're when you're counting for sixty to

892
00:52:42,440 --> 00:52:47,159
seventy home runs and a lot of RBIs and you

893
00:52:47,280 --> 00:52:51,280
see the numbers you're seeing. Yeah, it's it's self explanatory.

894
00:52:53,079 --> 00:52:57,920
Speaker 1: Ye all right. Next guy on my list is Stephen Kuant.

895
00:52:57,920 --> 00:53:00,000
I mean, you feel like we're beating up on Stephen Quants.

896
00:53:00,119 --> 00:53:02,199
This one home run, two stolen bases, a two and

897
00:53:02,280 --> 00:53:05,559
nine batting. It's just awful. Did you see this turning

898
00:53:05,639 --> 00:53:06,199
around at all?

899
00:53:07,440 --> 00:53:09,559
Speaker 2: Well? And better because you sure didn't buy him for

900
00:53:09,639 --> 00:53:14,199
the home run and stolen base production. Yeah, he's got

901
00:53:14,320 --> 00:53:18,559
to be on your bench right now. And just hope

902
00:53:18,639 --> 00:53:22,719
better days I had because if he is not hitting

903
00:53:23,000 --> 00:53:26,840
to seventy plus his overall value at the bottom of

904
00:53:27,360 --> 00:53:30,440
a lineup, it's not there.

905
00:53:31,760 --> 00:53:35,840
Speaker 1: Yep, totally agree. Lawrence Butler thirty six outfielder off the board,

906
00:53:36,000 --> 00:53:38,639
Steven Kwan the thirty seventh outfielder off the way. There's

907
00:53:38,679 --> 00:53:43,079
a guy that these are number two, number three outfielders

908
00:53:43,280 --> 00:53:45,679
and Butler's three arm runs for stolar base is on

909
00:53:45,800 --> 00:53:48,039
one sixty one bat I don't know why this guy's

910
00:53:48,039 --> 00:53:51,000
still in the major leagues. He's platooning now, I mean,

911
00:53:51,280 --> 00:53:53,840
he's mostly on the bench. It's it's a bad, bad

912
00:53:53,920 --> 00:53:55,440
situation here with Lawrence Butler.

913
00:53:56,280 --> 00:54:00,800
Speaker 2: Yeah, and Bolt he's playing well, yeah, exactly, not great off. Yeah,

914
00:54:02,239 --> 00:54:07,199
the last I looked, so yeah, yeah, you know what,

915
00:54:07,320 --> 00:54:09,519
I think we should have paid more heading into the spring.

916
00:54:09,599 --> 00:54:12,920
I think we should have paid more attention to Butler's

917
00:54:12,960 --> 00:54:17,199
one hundred and seventy nine strikeouts last year and less

918
00:54:17,400 --> 00:54:20,239
attention to the twenty one home runs in twenty two

919
00:54:20,320 --> 00:54:25,840
stolen bases. I agree with you, and I think, yeah,

920
00:54:26,320 --> 00:54:29,239
I think we didn't and as a result, we paid

921
00:54:29,239 --> 00:54:32,440
for a twenty twenty player. But there were warning signs

922
00:54:32,519 --> 00:54:35,679
last year with the strikeoat levels being that high, and

923
00:54:35,920 --> 00:54:38,880
I think we I think we just simply brushed them

924
00:54:38,960 --> 00:54:43,840
off for favor of the twenty twenty type player that

925
00:54:44,000 --> 00:54:45,199
he was and.

926
00:54:46,920 --> 00:54:52,000
Speaker 1: In the twenty second percentile. He's not fast, but.

927
00:54:53,840 --> 00:54:55,239
Speaker 2: Yeah, and he's proving it this year.

928
00:54:57,599 --> 00:55:00,880
Speaker 1: He's still hit the ball reasonably hard, but I mean,

929
00:55:02,000 --> 00:55:04,480
you know, the contact skills are just awful.

930
00:55:05,039 --> 00:55:07,400
Speaker 2: I mean just he has to hit two forty over

931
00:55:07,440 --> 00:55:09,800
the balance of the year to break them Indoza line

932
00:55:09,880 --> 00:55:14,280
basically yeah, yeah, and he's not going to get the

933
00:55:14,320 --> 00:55:16,440
playing gume to do it. I think he's going to

934
00:55:16,440 --> 00:55:18,559
be back. I think he's going to be in Turbola.

935
00:55:18,719 --> 00:55:21,559
Speaker 1: Sometimes I think so too. They got to figure out

936
00:55:21,599 --> 00:55:25,239
what's I mean. Look, I always thought this guy was

937
00:55:25,760 --> 00:55:28,039
I never thought he was a twenty twenty type of player.

938
00:55:28,119 --> 00:55:32,199
Thought he'd have some power. I thought the speed would decrease,

939
00:55:32,239 --> 00:55:36,159
which it has. I don't think he should ever be

940
00:55:36,239 --> 00:55:38,719
a number three, number four outfielder. He's the number five

941
00:55:38,840 --> 00:55:41,320
type guy, and hopefully he can go back and find

942
00:55:41,320 --> 00:55:44,000
it because at the moment, you can't roster this guy.

943
00:55:44,199 --> 00:55:44,800
You just can't.

944
00:55:45,679 --> 00:55:45,719
Speaker 2: No.

945
00:55:47,719 --> 00:55:50,199
Speaker 1: Geraldo Perdoma to me, he had his breakout last season

946
00:55:50,239 --> 00:55:52,719
twenty one runs and twenty seven stolen bases in a

947
00:55:52,800 --> 00:55:55,880
two ninety batting average. This season, three home runs and

948
00:55:55,920 --> 00:55:58,960
he's hitting two twenty three. I think he's got eight

949
00:55:59,079 --> 00:56:01,840
or nine ten stole basis. But there's the number ninth

950
00:56:01,880 --> 00:56:04,280
short stop off the board that this has not been good.

951
00:56:05,840 --> 00:56:08,400
Speaker 2: No, And I think going back to last spring, we

952
00:56:08,599 --> 00:56:12,920
talked about Credomo and the very real possibility that regression

953
00:56:13,119 --> 00:56:17,599
was going to be going to be in play. I

954
00:56:17,719 --> 00:56:20,559
thought it was. I didn't. I didn't think we'd see

955
00:56:20,599 --> 00:56:25,039
a repeat of twenty twenty seven home runs and stolen bases.

956
00:56:25,679 --> 00:56:29,480
But I sure didn't expect what we're seeing. I think

957
00:56:29,519 --> 00:56:34,559
there's a bounce back in order, okay, and we'll see

958
00:56:34,760 --> 00:56:37,480
we'll see the batting average, I think rebound. But I

959
00:56:37,559 --> 00:56:40,119
think at the end of the day, twenty twenty five

960
00:56:40,440 --> 00:56:42,239
will prove to be his career year.

961
00:56:43,159 --> 00:56:46,159
Speaker 1: I think you're right. I think I agree with all accounts.

962
00:56:46,199 --> 00:56:47,599
I think we'll see a bit of a bounce back.

963
00:56:48,079 --> 00:56:50,119
But he's not the twenty seven home run guy. He

964
00:56:50,320 --> 00:56:52,760
just that's that's not who he is or whatever it

965
00:56:52,880 --> 00:56:56,440
was that was twenty seven stolen bases or run.

966
00:56:56,320 --> 00:57:01,159
Speaker 2: Twenty Yeah, I think I think he's I think he's

967
00:57:01,159 --> 00:57:04,719
twelve to fifteen home runs with a decent batting average

968
00:57:04,760 --> 00:57:07,239
and twenty five to thirty stolen base is a good player,

969
00:57:08,039 --> 00:57:10,400
but not like I said, I think twenty twenty five

970
00:57:10,519 --> 00:57:13,599
is going to be going to be the plateau.

971
00:57:14,639 --> 00:57:17,840
Speaker 1: Give me a take our final break. Let's take our

972
00:57:17,880 --> 00:57:19,599
final break to come back and do a little bit

973
00:57:19,639 --> 00:57:30,880
of predictions. In about a week to ten days, we

974
00:57:30,960 --> 00:57:33,840
will be at the halfway market. The season, which seems insane.

975
00:57:34,000 --> 00:57:39,199
Forty two of the games have been played, and I'm

976
00:57:39,360 --> 00:57:41,679
trying to figure out cy Gong MVP and Rookie of

977
00:57:41,719 --> 00:57:44,239
the Year, and I'm struggling, Mister McLeod, I mean, there's

978
00:57:44,320 --> 00:57:47,199
some yeah there, it's wide open. So let's just do

979
00:57:47,320 --> 00:57:52,039
a couple of these. I got I got the wrong.

980
00:57:53,159 --> 00:57:56,360
Speaker 2: Did I have a break for just twenty seconds to

981
00:57:56,880 --> 00:57:58,360
quick jet off the air? Sure?

982
00:57:58,599 --> 00:58:02,039
Speaker 1: Yep, Tim, Tim, I wanted to pull me aside to

983
00:58:02,079 --> 00:58:05,679
say my al Cy Young prediction of Jacob Mazeroski. He

984
00:58:05,800 --> 00:58:08,360
plays for the Brewers in the National League. Guest, thank you, Tim,

985
00:58:08,679 --> 00:58:12,840
I am aware of that now, I don't uh, all right,

986
00:58:12,920 --> 00:58:14,760
so I got nobody for al Sie Young. Who do

987
00:58:14,800 --> 00:58:16,920
you got, Tim? Uh?

988
00:58:19,039 --> 00:58:21,119
Speaker 2: I'm I'm going I'm going out on a bit of

989
00:58:21,239 --> 00:58:22,920
the al is a bit of a mess. I'm gonna

990
00:58:22,920 --> 00:58:27,559
go with Gavin Williams. He's been very good nine and

991
00:58:27,719 --> 00:58:31,639
three ninety four Straycos. Could he win twenty games in

992
00:58:31,679 --> 00:58:34,280
Strayco two hundred and fifty? If he does, I think

993
00:58:34,360 --> 00:58:36,639
that's got to put him in near the top of

994
00:58:36,719 --> 00:58:38,000
the list for the AL side.

995
00:58:40,480 --> 00:58:49,039
Speaker 1: Yeah, good call, National League. Uh So that's that's who's

996
00:58:49,079 --> 00:58:53,000
your stretch for your al signing. I got Parker Messick.

997
00:58:53,039 --> 00:58:55,199
I don't think he wins, but he's been very, very

998
00:58:55,239 --> 00:58:57,119
good and surprised the heck out of me.

999
00:58:58,440 --> 00:59:02,639
Speaker 2: Yeah. I like Messic well, the guy that I that

1000
00:59:02,800 --> 00:59:05,199
I pulled out a sort of nowhere, somebody who's come

1001
00:59:05,239 --> 00:59:08,800
out of nowhere. But you know, so far, Will Warren

1002
00:59:09,119 --> 00:59:13,320
is seven and one with a three twenty two year A. Now,

1003
00:59:13,400 --> 00:59:15,519
if he ends that's after two months. If he ends

1004
00:59:15,599 --> 00:59:18,000
up at say sixteen and three, sixteen and four with

1005
00:59:18,119 --> 00:59:21,000
a three fifteen area and straights out two hundred, that

1006
00:59:21,119 --> 00:59:23,880
would be quite the season, wouldn't it. Then I don't

1007
00:59:23,920 --> 00:59:26,320
think we can rule that out. So I'm I'm gonna

1008
00:59:26,360 --> 00:59:27,159
go with Will Warren.

1009
00:59:28,559 --> 00:59:31,360
Speaker 1: I'm going with my favorite as Cam Schlitler. I know

1010
00:59:31,440 --> 00:59:37,360
had a rough outing last but he's been dominating. It's

1011
00:59:37,480 --> 00:59:39,880
not a guy that I feel totally confident about. But

1012
00:59:40,000 --> 00:59:42,119
I was. I was going through the Cy youngs. I

1013
00:59:42,239 --> 00:59:44,559
thought the National League looked a lot better than the

1014
00:59:44,599 --> 00:59:48,440
American League. That's where much. Yeah, So anyway, so let's

1015
00:59:48,480 --> 00:59:51,920
go to that nationally National league, cy Young, I've got

1016
00:59:52,039 --> 00:59:53,199
Christopher Sanchez.

1017
00:59:55,360 --> 00:59:59,199
Speaker 2: Yeah, so or why that's kind of yeah. Yeah, I

1018
00:59:59,320 --> 00:59:59,920
mean I could.

1019
00:59:59,760 --> 01:00:01,960
Speaker 1: Definite make the argument for show Heyo Tani. I mean

1020
01:00:02,079 --> 01:00:04,039
definitely he's got a some one here.

1021
01:00:05,599 --> 01:00:11,159
Speaker 2: Yeah, but again, it's it's a long season and man, Sanchez,

1022
01:00:12,599 --> 01:00:15,559
he's just been flat. O Domin streak finally ended at

1023
01:00:15,639 --> 01:00:19,079
more than fifty innings, and believe it or not, that

1024
01:00:19,920 --> 01:00:25,360
his total is the longest consecutive streak in the history

1025
01:00:25,480 --> 01:00:28,559
of the game for a h for a LEFTI.

1026
01:00:29,000 --> 01:00:34,719
Speaker 1: Yeah, he's been but I mean, oh yeah, he is.

1027
01:00:35,280 --> 01:00:37,440
I mean, look, I'm going to give mine away. He's

1028
01:00:37,480 --> 01:00:39,880
the m v P. And there's no question, I mean,

1029
01:00:39,920 --> 01:00:42,840
there's zero question he's he's gonna win that he should

1030
01:00:42,840 --> 01:00:46,199
win it unanimously. There is a good chance he went

1031
01:00:46,719 --> 01:00:49,679
so young, Tom, I mean, he's been phenomenal.

1032
01:00:51,159 --> 01:00:53,159
Speaker 2: He has. But I've got to I got a name

1033
01:00:53,239 --> 01:00:57,559
that I got to throw out there, simply because I

1034
01:00:57,800 --> 01:01:02,760
think there's a chance that he should finish at least second.

1035
01:01:02,920 --> 01:01:04,960
I think if he hit sixty home runs, I think

1036
01:01:05,039 --> 01:01:09,039
Kyle Schwarber, that might be enough to throw Inani.

1037
01:01:09,480 --> 01:01:12,440
Speaker 1: No, I because you got to throw in the pitching.

1038
01:01:13,840 --> 01:01:16,719
Speaker 2: I know, I'm trying to. I'm trying to trying to

1039
01:01:16,800 --> 01:01:19,920
find a reason to pick anybody out of and.

1040
01:01:20,079 --> 01:01:24,960
Speaker 1: He's orderline, he's borderline, if not leading candidate for National

1041
01:01:25,039 --> 01:01:29,800
League Cy Young. Yes, and he's hitting three hundred. I

1042
01:01:29,840 --> 01:01:31,920
mean he had struggles, but he's back to three hundred.

1043
01:01:31,960 --> 01:01:34,599
He's hitting I mean he's ridiculous.

1044
01:01:35,679 --> 01:01:38,480
Speaker 2: Yeah, but voters love the long ball. No, that's check.

1045
01:01:38,599 --> 01:01:44,840
Speaker 1: Sorry, okay for Nationalague saying I got Sho Tani and

1046
01:01:44,880 --> 01:01:47,880
I also have Brats and Ashcraft making the bold prediction

1047
01:01:48,000 --> 01:01:49,760
he will get more votes than Paul Skins.

1048
01:01:51,000 --> 01:01:54,119
Speaker 2: My bull predicted prediction is that Chase Burns will get

1049
01:01:54,159 --> 01:01:55,519
more votes in ball skis.

1050
01:01:56,320 --> 01:01:59,119
Speaker 1: That's I think that's a good call. He's been very good.

1051
01:02:00,199 --> 01:02:05,159
H let's go with the nationally MVP. I got show here, Tony,

1052
01:02:05,199 --> 01:02:07,480
You got Kyle Schwarber or are you going with Showy?

1053
01:02:08,559 --> 01:02:11,760
Speaker 2: Yeah, Showy's gonna win it. But I was just trying

1054
01:02:11,800 --> 01:02:14,440
to find somebody other than the Shoe that might have

1055
01:02:14,559 --> 01:02:17,239
a chance, and Schwarber would be the pick. And if

1056
01:02:17,280 --> 01:02:18,960
he can hit sixty plus home runs?

1057
01:02:19,400 --> 01:02:21,519
Speaker 1: Is he your stretch guy or do you have another

1058
01:02:21,559 --> 01:02:22,119
stretch guy?

1059
01:02:23,199 --> 01:02:30,360
Speaker 2: Uh? My no, I My my stretch guy is Jordan Walker.

1060
01:02:31,440 --> 01:02:33,760
Speaker 1: Yeah, he was almost my guy too. I think that's

1061
01:02:33,800 --> 01:02:35,000
a good call. I'd be great.

1062
01:02:36,079 --> 01:02:39,440
Speaker 2: Yeah, fifteen home runs, eight Stonlee bases forty four, two

1063
01:02:39,519 --> 01:02:43,159
ninety one batting average. Hey, I'm always been been somebody

1064
01:02:43,239 --> 01:02:46,079
to support the underdog, So I I like your pick

1065
01:02:46,159 --> 01:02:48,239
a lot and he's having a great year. But I

1066
01:02:48,599 --> 01:02:50,719
got to I had to find somebody different. Jordan Walker,

1067
01:02:51,320 --> 01:02:52,599
he's my he's my stretch.

1068
01:02:52,800 --> 01:02:55,480
Speaker 1: I don't know how they they get Comeback Player of

1069
01:02:55,519 --> 01:02:58,079
the Year. I I don't know if that fits for Walker,

1070
01:02:58,199 --> 01:03:02,360
but Coley seems like he should. He should get some

1071
01:03:02,679 --> 01:03:07,159
kind of award for being lost in the desert for

1072
01:03:07,280 --> 01:03:09,800
three years and has finally emerged. I mean, you know

1073
01:03:09,880 --> 01:03:12,039
what I mean. He needs to make knowledge for what

1074
01:03:12,119 --> 01:03:12,559
he's doing.

1075
01:03:13,519 --> 01:03:16,480
Speaker 2: But he's definitely a fantasy MVP.

1076
01:03:16,960 --> 01:03:23,159
Speaker 1: Yeah. Yeah about the Moses award, Moses wandering in the

1077
01:03:23,199 --> 01:03:26,440
desert for forty years or forty days or I don't.

1078
01:03:26,239 --> 01:03:29,079
Speaker 2: Know, Well, I know Moses. Moses worked with tablets, and

1079
01:03:29,199 --> 01:03:31,320
Jordan Walker causes to take a lot of them in

1080
01:03:31,320 --> 01:03:33,159
the past couple of years. So yeah, there's that.

1081
01:03:33,679 --> 01:03:36,239
Speaker 1: It's very very clever, very clever. Tell me your brain

1082
01:03:36,320 --> 01:03:39,679
works very quickly. I got I got a Neil Cruz

1083
01:03:39,719 --> 01:03:41,679
the look. He might get to sixty, but this is

1084
01:03:42,360 --> 01:03:44,679
this is a guy with speed and power, and you

1085
01:03:44,800 --> 01:03:48,800
throw Neil Cruse, you throw on Connor Griffin and Paul Skiings.

1086
01:03:49,039 --> 01:03:53,719
Jared Jones looked good last week. Yeah, I love what

1087
01:03:53,840 --> 01:03:55,360
the Pirates are doing.

1088
01:03:56,480 --> 01:04:02,639
Speaker 2: Yeah, I am for everybody except Unting. That's my problem.

1089
01:04:03,119 --> 01:04:06,360
Speaker 1: Yeah, uh a l MVP.

1090
01:04:06,639 --> 01:04:07,039
Speaker 2: This was.

1091
01:04:09,480 --> 01:04:11,280
Speaker 1: I don't know, Tim, I have no idea. I got

1092
01:04:11,800 --> 01:04:15,840
Jordan alvarezer Witt Junior with Junior's leading in war. But

1093
01:04:16,079 --> 01:04:19,880
I mean the the both the the Astros and Royals

1094
01:04:19,920 --> 01:04:20,559
are terrible.

1095
01:04:20,639 --> 01:04:24,400
Speaker 2: I don't know who do you got, Okay, I I'm

1096
01:04:25,719 --> 01:04:29,760
I am going You're gonna love this BIC because you

1097
01:04:29,880 --> 01:04:32,320
were all over this guy and I liked him too,

1098
01:04:32,840 --> 01:04:33,320
like you.

1099
01:04:34,480 --> 01:04:38,400
Speaker 1: No, Ben Rice, Oh, that's a great call. That's a

1100
01:04:38,480 --> 01:04:40,239
great hits.

1101
01:04:40,320 --> 01:04:43,320
Speaker 2: He's gonna hit forty home runs. I'm I'm hoping he

1102
01:04:43,400 --> 01:04:46,039
picks up the slack for Aaron Judge and if the

1103
01:04:46,159 --> 01:04:49,079
Yankees win the division, Ben Rice, I'm gonna go with

1104
01:04:49,239 --> 01:04:49,880
Ben Rice.

1105
01:04:50,440 --> 01:04:53,239
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's a good call. With Junior's been really good,

1106
01:04:53,280 --> 01:04:55,599
by the way, Remember didn't have any in April and

1107
01:04:55,679 --> 01:04:59,239
he's got nine or ten now, eighteen nineteen stolen bases

1108
01:04:59,320 --> 01:05:01,639
hitting hmm, yeah, he's.

1109
01:05:01,559 --> 01:05:03,559
Speaker 2: Up in the twenties. I think in the strolling basis.

1110
01:05:03,800 --> 01:05:07,280
It's just every time I look at the box score, Yeah,

1111
01:05:07,360 --> 01:05:09,800
he steals a base. Yeah, Bobby Whit's the top three

1112
01:05:09,960 --> 01:05:10,679
pick next year.

1113
01:05:12,519 --> 01:05:15,599
Speaker 1: My stretch on the al MVP if he stays with

1114
01:05:15,800 --> 01:05:20,760
the Angels is Michael Trout. Yeah he's been great.

1115
01:05:20,960 --> 01:05:21,480
Speaker 2: That's cool.

1116
01:05:21,880 --> 01:05:24,480
Speaker 1: Yeah, he's got like a four twenty one base percentage,

1117
01:05:24,519 --> 01:05:26,199
eighteen home I mean he's been great.

1118
01:05:27,559 --> 01:05:29,679
Speaker 2: Yeah for a for an afterthought at the draft table

1119
01:05:29,719 --> 01:05:32,079
because he was really would he go as a fourth

1120
01:05:32,159 --> 01:05:32,920
fifth outfielder?

1121
01:05:33,400 --> 01:05:35,840
Speaker 1: Yeah, I got a bunch of leagues as has a

1122
01:05:35,920 --> 01:05:37,320
fourth fifths been great?

1123
01:05:38,320 --> 01:05:41,559
Speaker 2: Yeah, he's most certainly has to be. It was. It

1124
01:05:41,599 --> 01:05:43,400
would be good for Trogy, it would be good for

1125
01:05:43,480 --> 01:05:44,320
the game of baseball.

1126
01:05:44,920 --> 01:05:48,800
Speaker 1: Yeah, for sure. Uh, Timmy, who's your stretch?

1127
01:05:50,599 --> 01:05:51,360
Speaker 2: My stretch?

1128
01:05:51,719 --> 01:05:51,840
Speaker 3: Uh?

1129
01:05:52,599 --> 01:05:53,360
Speaker 2: Where are we here?

1130
01:05:54,360 --> 01:05:56,719
Speaker 1: For we recovered a l m VP.

1131
01:05:58,280 --> 01:06:03,000
Speaker 2: Oh for a l m VP. Uh, yeah, you're gonna

1132
01:06:03,079 --> 01:06:04,880
like this. When I went with a Chicago member of

1133
01:06:04,920 --> 01:06:09,320
the Chicago White Sox and he hasn't played in Japan,

1134
01:06:11,239 --> 01:06:14,000
Miguel Vargas is on pace to go forty to twenty.

1135
01:06:15,199 --> 01:06:18,760
That should earn him some boats. You would think Vargas

1136
01:06:18,840 --> 01:06:22,760
has just been great. Yeah he yeah, he has been really,

1137
01:06:22,880 --> 01:06:26,599
really good. So I'm sticking with my all in on

1138
01:06:26,679 --> 01:06:29,880
the White Sox and my my deep sleeper pick would

1139
01:06:29,880 --> 01:06:32,239
bring Miguel Vargas. If he continues to pace, he's on,

1140
01:06:32,440 --> 01:06:33,519
he's going to get some boats.

1141
01:06:34,519 --> 01:06:36,920
Speaker 1: AL Rookie of the Year. I said it should have

1142
01:06:37,000 --> 01:06:39,880
been more Kami. It still might even if he comes

1143
01:06:39,920 --> 01:06:42,280
back the last six weeks of the season and then

1144
01:06:42,360 --> 01:06:46,639
right maybe to Okamoto or you to fall with Kevin McGonagall,

1145
01:06:46,760 --> 01:06:50,400
who's hit but three home runs and it stoping loud.

1146
01:06:50,639 --> 01:06:52,760
I don't know who you got for AL Rookie of

1147
01:06:52,800 --> 01:06:53,079
the Year.

1148
01:06:54,400 --> 01:06:58,840
Speaker 2: Well, because I'm old, crotchety and stubborn, I was all

1149
01:06:58,920 --> 01:07:01,400
in on okamotos I'm still staying there. He's up to

1150
01:07:01,480 --> 01:07:04,880
thirteen home runs. Now, he's on pace for thirty home

1151
01:07:05,000 --> 01:07:09,000
runs plus. Yeah, I think the batting average will come back.

1152
01:07:09,800 --> 01:07:11,039
I'm gonna stick with Okamodo.

1153
01:07:11,599 --> 01:07:14,440
Speaker 1: Iaceath for Akami comes back here in the next you know,

1154
01:07:14,599 --> 01:07:17,119
in a month or so and can pick it up.

1155
01:07:17,119 --> 01:07:20,280
Because of that guy was on a unanimous Rookie of

1156
01:07:20,320 --> 01:07:22,039
the year and it's just it's a real same.

1157
01:07:23,639 --> 01:07:25,639
Speaker 2: Yeah it is. And you know what, he could come

1158
01:07:25,719 --> 01:07:28,239
back after missing two months and still hit forty home runs.

1159
01:07:28,320 --> 01:07:30,440
I would give him. That would give him review of

1160
01:07:30,440 --> 01:07:30,679
the Year.

1161
01:07:30,719 --> 01:07:34,880
Speaker 1: I was totally totally my stretch. It might not be

1162
01:07:35,000 --> 01:07:38,840
such a stretch because he's been really good at Sambasaiah.

1163
01:07:38,840 --> 01:07:40,800
I mean he's hitting with powers, starting to hit a

1164
01:07:40,840 --> 01:07:42,480
little bit and the orioles are starting.

1165
01:07:42,239 --> 01:07:43,280
Speaker 2: To work a little bit better.

1166
01:07:43,800 --> 01:07:46,719
Speaker 1: If he has a huge second half, you could be

1167
01:07:46,800 --> 01:07:47,880
looking at Sambasaiah.

1168
01:07:49,440 --> 01:07:51,880
Speaker 2: Totally agree. I think it's a great pick. And you

1169
01:07:52,079 --> 01:07:55,920
already mentioned my pick. Yeah, we've only seen eight starts

1170
01:07:55,960 --> 01:07:58,159
from Peyton totally, he's got a two twenty sixty year,

1171
01:07:58,199 --> 01:08:01,280
a fifty one strikeo in forty seven and there he's

1172
01:08:01,320 --> 01:08:03,880
only allowed three home runs. So I think we got

1173
01:08:04,000 --> 01:08:06,159
to get a picture in there somewhere in the rookies

1174
01:08:06,239 --> 01:08:09,639
and eight total. He's having a great start to his career.

1175
01:08:10,199 --> 01:08:13,599
Speaker 1: Needs to ditch the mustache, if I might add, the

1176
01:08:13,719 --> 01:08:16,079
mustache is a good book. Yeah, not a good look.

1177
01:08:16,239 --> 01:08:18,439
Speaker 2: It looks like he's doing it, looks like he he

1178
01:08:18,520 --> 01:08:19,479
looks like he's fifty.

1179
01:08:19,720 --> 01:08:21,359
Speaker 1: I mean, it makes him look really old.

1180
01:08:22,720 --> 01:08:24,920
Speaker 2: So he's going with the Dennis.

1181
01:08:26,159 --> 01:08:28,520
Speaker 1: Of dialog. No, No, it's not like a porn stash.

1182
01:08:28,600 --> 01:08:33,199
It's a big, bushy stash. It's it's not a good look.

1183
01:08:33,239 --> 01:08:37,680
I don't like its Nastali Rookie of the Year. Look,

1184
01:08:37,720 --> 01:08:40,039
I'm going first. I got Connor Griffin. I know that

1185
01:08:40,119 --> 01:08:42,359
might be a stretch. He's hurt yet, but I think

1186
01:08:42,600 --> 01:08:47,039
you're looking at a guy Rookie of the Year. Voters

1187
01:08:47,239 --> 01:08:49,880
like the vote for guys who are going to have

1188
01:08:50,119 --> 01:08:52,039
great careers as well, and it's all set up for

1189
01:08:52,119 --> 01:08:56,039
Condor Griffin provided he comes back reasonably healthy. We were

1190
01:08:56,119 --> 01:08:59,640
starting to see the big uptick. He's young, he's exciting.

1191
01:08:59,800 --> 01:09:02,239
That's the kind of guy that you want for Rookie

1192
01:09:02,279 --> 01:09:02,680
of the Year.

1193
01:09:05,039 --> 01:09:07,800
Speaker 2: Yeah, I can't. I can't argue with that, not at all.

1194
01:09:07,840 --> 01:09:10,159
The only the only concern I have is that fleck

1195
01:09:10,199 --> 01:09:10,600
your string.

1196
01:09:11,159 --> 01:09:13,560
Speaker 1: YEP, totally agree. Who's your guy?

1197
01:09:14,760 --> 01:09:17,119
Speaker 2: Well, you're gonna like this one because my guy is

1198
01:09:17,159 --> 01:09:22,359
also your guy. But in a different category. I'm going

1199
01:09:22,479 --> 01:09:25,960
with Carson Benji. I think he explodes in the second

1200
01:09:26,039 --> 01:09:29,359
half and he goes twenty twenty five and runs away

1201
01:09:29,399 --> 01:09:29,560
with it.

1202
01:09:31,039 --> 01:09:33,439
Speaker 1: Uh, he's been very very good of late. He is

1203
01:09:33,560 --> 01:09:36,439
my stretch guy. I got his broad up Carson Binge,

1204
01:09:36,640 --> 01:09:40,600
not Benji, but I like to say, you like to

1205
01:09:40,680 --> 01:09:42,119
put the e on the end of that, which is

1206
01:09:42,119 --> 01:09:42,960
sexually pretty yeah.

1207
01:09:43,079 --> 01:09:48,359
Speaker 2: Well yeah, everybody with a knee gets like bolt hey, yeah, Benjay.

1208
01:09:49,840 --> 01:09:52,399
Speaker 1: Yeah. For Americans we speak funny, so.

1209
01:09:54,399 --> 01:09:57,119
Speaker 2: So of US Canadians and we had used to everything.

1210
01:09:57,119 --> 01:10:01,760
Speaker 1: Uh, who's your stretch then, Carson Bingch, I've got Carson

1211
01:10:01,800 --> 01:10:02,640
Bench's your stretch.

1212
01:10:03,600 --> 01:10:05,239
Speaker 2: My stretch is JJ Weatherwold.

1213
01:10:06,000 --> 01:10:07,680
Speaker 1: Yeah, it might not be much of a stretch. He could,

1214
01:10:07,800 --> 01:10:09,279
he could. He could win it out right.

1215
01:10:10,199 --> 01:10:11,680
Speaker 2: That's yeah, That's why I was going, they could win

1216
01:10:11,720 --> 01:10:14,359
it out right. So far nine homer, seven, stolen base.

1217
01:10:14,720 --> 01:10:20,199
He's a twenty twenty player, and he could win it all,

1218
01:10:21,039 --> 01:10:23,359
as you said, And that's exactly how I think I

1219
01:10:23,520 --> 01:10:29,000
got those that waited through the trials and tribulations of

1220
01:10:29,159 --> 01:10:34,039
last ball when we anticipated seeing him. You don't have

1221
01:10:34,159 --> 01:10:35,640
much to complain about this year, do you.

1222
01:10:36,800 --> 01:10:39,119
Speaker 1: Hey, both Binge and weather hauled. I mean, if you

1223
01:10:39,239 --> 01:10:41,600
take a look, I mean really struggled to begin the

1224
01:10:41,760 --> 01:10:44,359
season and just I mean you got to give the

1225
01:10:44,479 --> 01:10:47,920
Mets and the Cards credit for sticking with these guys.

1226
01:10:48,800 --> 01:10:50,640
A lot of teams would have demoted them and then

1227
01:10:50,720 --> 01:10:55,439
they've just started to slowly, not overnight, slowly put stuff together.

1228
01:10:55,640 --> 01:10:57,880
And it's same thing with Connor Griffin. These guys that

1229
01:10:58,560 --> 01:11:01,960
they're young, they just need patience from the teams, and

1230
01:11:02,760 --> 01:11:04,960
if you have it, I think these guys will explode

1231
01:11:05,000 --> 01:11:06,640
and they look like that's what they're doing.

1232
01:11:07,840 --> 01:11:11,760
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's going to be right fascinating. I can hardly

1233
01:11:11,840 --> 01:11:15,600
wait until we do like a trial mock going into

1234
01:11:16,079 --> 01:11:19,079
say the first five rounds. I think we could see

1235
01:11:19,119 --> 01:11:24,000
some really really fascinating stuff in a mock draft. And

1236
01:11:24,079 --> 01:11:27,479
about another month or so, you know, guys, we're going

1237
01:11:27,560 --> 01:11:30,399
to see a third, fourth, fifth round where there might

1238
01:11:30,439 --> 01:11:33,279
be less than ten players from last year that were three,

1239
01:11:33,359 --> 01:11:38,560
four or fives repeating in that same position heading into

1240
01:11:38,640 --> 01:11:41,880
next year. So I'm looking I'm looking forward to seeing

1241
01:11:43,640 --> 01:11:46,600
where all these young players are going to fit into

1242
01:11:46,640 --> 01:11:48,039
the big scheme of things next year.

1243
01:11:49,159 --> 01:11:52,119
Speaker 1: Totally agree. There's more coming as well. So Tammy very

1244
01:11:52,199 --> 01:11:54,760
quickly as we're starting to run over here, what hit

1245
01:11:54,840 --> 01:11:58,439
are you targeting and what picture are you targeting hitters?

1246
01:11:58,479 --> 01:12:01,279
Speaker 2: I'm looking at the reds it'll be either probably a

1247
01:12:01,399 --> 01:12:01,880
royal room.

1248
01:12:02,039 --> 01:12:03,079
Speaker 1: It'll be a royal orm.

1249
01:12:03,079 --> 01:12:05,000
Speaker 2: Marquelle one of the two. I want to see what

1250
01:12:05,119 --> 01:12:07,600
happens this weekend before I commit, But I think we

1251
01:12:07,640 --> 01:12:10,000
should all be looking at the reds when it comes

1252
01:12:10,039 --> 01:12:14,000
to spending. So bab who we're looking at still up

1253
01:12:14,039 --> 01:12:18,199
in the pictures? Hey, here we go. I see this name,

1254
01:12:18,279 --> 01:12:20,760
and when I see this name, my first thought is

1255
01:12:20,840 --> 01:12:23,920
Mutt Lang, the great producer. Okay, and he could end

1256
01:12:24,000 --> 01:12:27,079
up with more saves than Alex Lang of the Royals.

1257
01:12:27,159 --> 01:12:30,399
But right now, Alex Lang is a hothand back to

1258
01:12:30,520 --> 01:12:34,319
back saves in Kansas City. Yeah, yeah, he looks to

1259
01:12:34,359 --> 01:12:39,520
be the guy, at least as of nine to thirty

1260
01:12:39,640 --> 01:12:41,640
six a m. Central on Friday.

1261
01:12:41,960 --> 01:12:46,000
Speaker 1: I mean, yeah, it's you know, the incumbent is just

1262
01:12:46,119 --> 01:12:48,159
really struggling. Is a big part of the reason that

1263
01:12:48,279 --> 01:12:50,960
the Royals are just in a tailspin. I mean, just

1264
01:12:51,199 --> 01:12:53,520
blue games left and right over the last couple of weeks.

1265
01:12:53,920 --> 01:12:56,600
Good stuff, Pim, Thanks for hanging on an extra ten

1266
01:12:56,640 --> 01:12:58,720
minutes with me. It was a lot of fun, covering

1267
01:12:58,760 --> 01:13:02,199
a lot of material. And we'll be back on Sunday,

1268
01:13:02,199 --> 01:13:04,920
as we're always back on Sunday. What's your weekend looking like?

1269
01:13:06,159 --> 01:13:09,720
Speaker 2: Uh, what's my weekend looking like? Uh? Pair of the

1270
01:13:09,800 --> 01:13:13,640
quiet just gonna be looking at some games, and based

1271
01:13:13,760 --> 01:13:18,239
on my early assessment of the waiver wire, I'm going

1272
01:13:18,319 --> 01:13:21,760
to be working this weekend. Okay, It's been one of

1273
01:13:21,840 --> 01:13:24,039
those weeks where I'm gonna have some digging to do,

1274
01:13:24,199 --> 01:13:27,760
but hopefully I can find some interesting names that will

1275
01:13:27,960 --> 01:13:29,800
benefit each and every one of us.

1276
01:13:29,960 --> 01:13:34,199
Speaker 1: Richard, Well, to me, my whole weekend is going to

1277
01:13:34,800 --> 01:13:40,159
be spent buying my ticket to the Somerset Patriots Tuesday

1278
01:13:40,319 --> 01:13:41,720
night game. You know why?

1279
01:13:43,359 --> 01:13:48,600
Speaker 2: Uh summer there? Uh no, but I I know it's

1280
01:13:48,640 --> 01:13:50,199
got to involve a stud rookie.

1281
01:13:50,720 --> 01:13:53,840
Speaker 1: Nope, Bartolo Cologne is making an appearance.

1282
01:13:55,640 --> 01:13:58,399
Speaker 2: Big sex, big sexy.

1283
01:13:58,760 --> 01:13:59,159
Speaker 1: You know what?

1284
01:13:59,680 --> 01:14:04,560
Speaker 2: There is his room for another Bartola home run in

1285
01:14:04,680 --> 01:14:06,439
the book is good.

1286
01:14:06,600 --> 01:14:08,600
Speaker 1: I will try. I will try to get a picture

1287
01:14:08,640 --> 01:14:12,479
to see if he's lost any weight, so see see

1288
01:14:12,479 --> 01:14:16,520
how retirement is uh is taking to him. So usually

1289
01:14:16,560 --> 01:14:19,880
they he's just up in the stand not the standza

1290
01:14:21,199 --> 01:14:24,119
the food here is no, what's the area and the

1291
01:14:24,199 --> 01:14:27,439
food the food court kind of thing when you walk

1292
01:14:27,520 --> 01:14:31,279
up the stairs whatever that area is. Yeah, whatever you

1293
01:14:31,399 --> 01:14:36,279
call that that's that's where the place, yeah, mezzanine. Yeah,

1294
01:14:36,359 --> 01:14:38,479
so that's that's where he'll be. And it's so I

1295
01:14:38,560 --> 01:14:40,159
know what it's going to be, so I should be

1296
01:14:40,199 --> 01:14:43,760
able to get a picture of him, so big, big, sexy.

1297
01:14:43,840 --> 01:14:46,399
So that's what I'm doing, buying tickets for for the

1298
01:14:46,840 --> 01:14:49,560
bartol And I don't know what I'm doing this week

1299
01:14:49,680 --> 01:14:54,439
is just we've been empty in our storage unit out

1300
01:14:54,760 --> 01:14:58,079
so okay, because we've got a bigger unit so we

1301
01:14:58,159 --> 01:15:00,680
can put stuff now. We can put all of Christmas

1302
01:15:00,760 --> 01:15:01,359
junk in there.

1303
01:15:01,880 --> 01:15:02,760
Speaker 2: So that's empty.

1304
01:15:02,920 --> 01:15:05,520
Speaker 1: And I turned my key in and said, I'm done

1305
01:15:05,560 --> 01:15:07,960
with you folks. Take this away.

1306
01:15:08,039 --> 01:15:08,680
Speaker 2: Cat, that's all.

1307
01:15:09,000 --> 01:15:11,760
Speaker 1: That's it. I don't need to spend more money keeping

1308
01:15:11,840 --> 01:15:14,079
our junk in and we're going to throw away a

1309
01:15:14,199 --> 01:15:14,960
lot of the junk.

1310
01:15:15,760 --> 01:15:20,560
Speaker 2: So yeah, yeah, we've got a storage unit here, and

1311
01:15:20,640 --> 01:15:23,359
at some point in time one of the happiest days

1312
01:15:23,399 --> 01:15:25,119
of my life will be when we can do the

1313
01:15:25,159 --> 01:15:27,760
same thing that you're doing, because you know, turn the

1314
01:15:27,840 --> 01:15:30,279
key in, because it means all of that junk that

1315
01:15:30,319 --> 01:15:33,439
we thought it was necessary to keep, that's all it is,

1316
01:15:33,520 --> 01:15:35,560
actually junk, that's junk.

1317
01:15:36,039 --> 01:15:38,800
Speaker 1: It was so cathartic man, you we'd find stuff. So

1318
01:15:38,920 --> 01:15:41,439
it was interesting. There was four big boxes that were

1319
01:15:41,479 --> 01:15:43,800
sitting and we had carried these things for the last

1320
01:15:43,880 --> 01:15:50,119
six years because they were of Lori's grandmother's dishes. And

1321
01:15:50,880 --> 01:15:54,520
they're interesting because they they're over one hundred years see,

1322
01:15:54,640 --> 01:15:57,359
not quite. They were made in nineteen forty nine, so

1323
01:15:57,479 --> 01:16:00,600
they were post World War two. They came up with

1324
01:16:00,760 --> 01:16:03,920
something after World War two because they wanted the soldiers

1325
01:16:04,000 --> 01:16:07,159
to feel, you know, that they had something to come

1326
01:16:07,239 --> 01:16:09,880
back to. So they made this what they called fancy

1327
01:16:10,239 --> 01:16:15,319
every day China, and it was it was every day

1328
01:16:15,479 --> 01:16:18,159
It wasn't real china, but it was just everyday dishes.

1329
01:16:18,920 --> 01:16:21,880
And the value is only a couple hundred bucks, right,

1330
01:16:21,960 --> 01:16:24,560
so it's not like it's really fancy expensive. But they're

1331
01:16:24,680 --> 01:16:27,640
very ornate and very cool looking, and that was the

1332
01:16:27,720 --> 01:16:32,479
whole idea. And Ory's grandmother when she passed away, before

1333
01:16:32,520 --> 01:16:34,800
she passed away, said I want you to have my

1334
01:16:35,920 --> 01:16:39,680
lovely every day you know stuff, and I want you

1335
01:16:39,760 --> 01:16:43,000
to use it. So we've been carrying this stuff since

1336
01:16:43,039 --> 01:16:46,720
we've been married for forty years, and we probably should

1337
01:16:46,760 --> 01:16:49,720
have ditched it years ago, but Laurie just will not

1338
01:16:49,840 --> 01:16:52,640
give it up. So we finally got that out of

1339
01:16:52,880 --> 01:16:56,760
out of storage and it's huge. Tommy, there's I think

1340
01:16:56,800 --> 01:16:59,840
it's a set for sixteen. I mean, it's it's unbelievable

1341
01:17:00,039 --> 01:17:02,960
and it's it's I don't know, so, but I did.

1342
01:17:03,159 --> 01:17:05,720
Speaker 2: You can make it a Christmas tradition.

1343
01:17:06,960 --> 01:17:10,199
Speaker 1: Yeah, we've got Christmas dishes too though, so a couple

1344
01:17:10,279 --> 01:17:15,720
another ideas. It's like, but yeah, but Laurie's grandmother's dishes

1345
01:17:15,840 --> 01:17:19,159
are now in our apartment ready to be used. So

1346
01:17:19,600 --> 01:17:22,520
that's okay, that was the big deal. So and then

1347
01:17:22,560 --> 01:17:24,359
I took took a look at the value of them

1348
01:17:24,399 --> 01:17:28,800
and it's like, we've spent twenty times the value in

1349
01:17:29,000 --> 01:17:32,239
storing them the one time value what the dishes are.

1350
01:17:33,159 --> 01:17:35,800
Speaker 2: Well, you know, ch maybe what I could do is

1351
01:17:35,880 --> 01:17:39,640
I could swap you, okay, my stereo from nineteen seventy

1352
01:17:39,680 --> 01:17:41,520
three year dishes outside.

1353
01:17:42,439 --> 01:17:45,039
Speaker 1: I mean, it's it's amazing because I took a picture

1354
01:17:45,079 --> 01:17:46,840
of it. I took a picture of it and I

1355
01:17:47,039 --> 01:17:49,920
sent it to an AI, my AI sent assistant. I said,

1356
01:17:50,439 --> 01:17:53,279
tell me everything you know about these dishes, and he

1357
01:17:53,399 --> 01:17:55,319
starts telling me, like when they were made with the

1358
01:17:55,560 --> 01:17:58,399
uh what exactly to the month that they were made

1359
01:17:58,479 --> 01:18:01,319
in and so forth. I think it's rich. Don't get

1360
01:18:01,359 --> 01:18:06,720
too excited. These are not very valuable. They're more personal value. Like,

1361
01:18:06,840 --> 01:18:09,359
what do you mean they're they're almost one hundred years old,

1362
01:18:09,439 --> 01:18:12,640
he goes, yeah, but they were like made in mass quantities.

1363
01:18:13,640 --> 01:18:17,600
Speaker 2: Great, yeah, yeah, yeah, I know where you're coming from.

1364
01:18:17,680 --> 01:18:20,560
And dishes at one point in time in a household,

1365
01:18:20,680 --> 01:18:26,479
silverware and specialty dishes were huge. The china collection, you know,

1366
01:18:26,880 --> 01:18:30,520
going back to my my grandmother's on both sides had them,

1367
01:18:30,720 --> 01:18:33,039
and they passed them down and they got passed down.

1368
01:18:33,720 --> 01:18:38,119
And what was once deemed to be very very important

1369
01:18:38,319 --> 01:18:42,760
in the social you know, the family social thing is

1370
01:18:43,279 --> 01:18:47,399
no longer. It's it's not you know, I mean time

1371
01:18:47,439 --> 01:18:47,960
has change.

1372
01:18:48,319 --> 01:18:50,680
Speaker 1: Yeah, we don't have every china. We don't have formal

1373
01:18:51,000 --> 01:18:53,399
chinaware we never have had it. We've we've got white dishes,

1374
01:18:54,039 --> 01:18:56,600
that's white everyday dishes that you throw the dish wash.

1375
01:18:57,720 --> 01:18:59,840
Speaker 2: Yeah, we have the same thing. And I prefer paper

1376
01:19:00,079 --> 01:19:02,119
late because then I don't even have to watch the

1377
01:19:02,319 --> 01:19:03,000
damn things.

1378
01:19:03,199 --> 01:19:07,640
Speaker 1: Right, you get carried out and you get the uh,

1379
01:19:08,159 --> 01:19:10,520
you get the paper plates. That's a big deal. It's

1380
01:19:10,600 --> 01:19:11,880
it's day. We're living man.

1381
01:19:13,000 --> 01:19:15,159
Speaker 2: But you take the containers, you pull the lid back,

1382
01:19:15,239 --> 01:19:18,000
and you got a plate. Okay, you want.

1383
01:19:19,600 --> 01:19:23,359
Speaker 1: To everyone on salad Lauria, Laura get the real uh

1384
01:19:23,600 --> 01:19:27,199
salad uh utensil sound. I'm like, why don't you use

1385
01:19:27,239 --> 01:19:28,920
the paper ones or the plastic ones?

1386
01:19:33,279 --> 01:19:35,279
Speaker 2: Yeah, I get it.

1387
01:19:36,520 --> 01:19:39,119
Speaker 1: So that's what I'll be doing this afternoon. Anyway, Temmy,

1388
01:19:39,399 --> 01:19:41,279
we we'll see you on Sunday, my friend. Be well

1389
01:19:41,359 --> 01:19:42,439
and have a good weekend.

1390
01:19:43,359 --> 01:19:45,319
Speaker 2: Yeah, it'd be safe. Be well and have yourself a

1391
01:19:45,359 --> 01:19:46,840
good weekend. Catch your Sunday books.