Speaker 1: Greeting societations. Everyone at We're twelve and welking to Fantasy
Speaker 1: Baseball Live. It is August twenty third, about three thirty
Speaker 1: in the afternoon. Tim, I think we've got five weeks
Speaker 1: left in the season because it gets it's done on
Speaker 1: the twenty ninth or September. That's crazy, right.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's an early ending this year. So yeah, we're
Speaker 2: heading into I believe five weeks left and hopefully Rich
Speaker 2: You're involved in a couple of races and things are
Speaker 2: rolling along.
Speaker 1: I am a couple of raises, and unfortunately every one
Speaker 1: of my players seems to be hurt. Andy Pais was
Speaker 1: a unexpected disaster this weekend for me after I crawled
Speaker 1: my way back up to the top, and I'm like, oh,
Speaker 1: you got to be kidding me.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I heard that. That hurt a lot of people.
Speaker 2: And we're starting to see, you know, players like like
Speaker 2: Weathers Okay, he's lost.
Speaker 1: Now I got him in four or five leagues, yes.
Speaker 2: M Yeah, We're starting to see some not big names,
Speaker 2: but contributing names. Yeah, names, players you don't want to lose.
Speaker 1: And well, Ryan O'Hart is my big one. I I
Speaker 1: I thought he was sicky good he was a perfect
Speaker 1: corner infielder and lost lost essentially for the season, and
Speaker 1: it's yeah again it's it's I lost Juan Soto, which
Speaker 1: is not I mean, that's been a disaster. But believe
Speaker 1: it or not, Ryan O'Hearn is almost as bad. I mean,
Speaker 1: it's just a guy that you throw in there and
Speaker 1: you don't even think about it. He's just been great
Speaker 1: and then you lose it and it's like, oh my gosh.
Speaker 1: He was on the waiver wire and it's back to
Speaker 1: Rehee Hoskins, who also is on the IL. So.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and you know, you take a look at those
Speaker 2: twenty eighty type I call him twenty eighty type players. Yeah,
Speaker 2: you don't replace them all that easily. And what did
Speaker 2: you think this week about the Katel Martes situation.
Speaker 1: I want to talk to you about that on Friday.
Speaker 1: I just ran out of time. It is really weird,
Speaker 1: I mean did I mean, it sounds like he's not
Speaker 1: physically hurt from what I can tell, It's just he
Speaker 1: just didn't show up for work one day in Boston
Speaker 1: and Troy Lavella said, you know, I don't know where
Speaker 1: he is. I don't think he's hurt, and then the
Speaker 1: next thing, you know, they put him on the restricted list,
Speaker 1: then they put him on the IL and and then
Speaker 1: they people saw him at the hotel bar the next day.
Speaker 1: I mean, I don't know what is going on.
Speaker 2: Yeah, he ended up at the casino. I think the
Speaker 2: next yeah, he hear something like that and I and
Speaker 2: now the rumors are starting to pop up that they
Speaker 2: haven't been happy with them for a while now and
Speaker 2: they were looking at trading them, and I it's bizarre.
Speaker 2: And the timing, you know, for the Diamondbacks fighting for
Speaker 2: a wild card spot, and the timing couldn't be worth
Speaker 2: my worse. I think my gut feeling is he's never
Speaker 2: going to play another game in Arizona.
Speaker 1: Is but is he tradable I mean, or is somebody
Speaker 1: else going to take him on? It's tough.
Speaker 2: Well, yeah, I don't know how it's going to shake down.
Speaker 2: But I don't think I don't see a future in Arizona.
Speaker 2: I really again, unless something changes and everybody kisses and
Speaker 2: makes up. It's just not a good situation at all.
Speaker 2: It really isn't.
Speaker 1: Look. I mean, we hold these professional athletes, you and
Speaker 1: I try not to, but you do just because it
Speaker 1: is what it is that you high him. You put
Speaker 1: them up a little higher. You think, well, this hocket
Speaker 1: possibly happened. This kind of stuff happens in the workplace
Speaker 1: tim as you know, all the time, and people just
Speaker 1: stop showing up and like, where's Bob, where's Mary? Well,
Speaker 1: I don't know, and you you got to find out
Speaker 1: they just had enough and left.
Speaker 2: Well. I know one of our one of our regular
Speaker 2: contributors on the Discord site, they were talking about it yesterday.
Speaker 2: One of his uh he's a dentist and one of
Speaker 2: one of his good friends. All of a sudden one
Speaker 2: day one of his assistants, one of his assistants just
Speaker 2: didn't come in. Yeah, no, no, nothing, just didn't didn't
Speaker 2: show up. And yeah, two and a half months later
Speaker 2: showed up one one to know when should go back
Speaker 2: to work. I don't I don't get it, but you're right.
Speaker 2: It happens in the real world all the time because
Speaker 2: people disappear, they just leave, find another job, and not
Speaker 2: even a courtesy just say sorryan era.
Speaker 1: So there's a great Larry David bit Larry David, creator
Speaker 1: of Seinfeld, and had the Larry David show out. I
Speaker 1: don't know if you're ever watch any of this stuff.
Speaker 1: But he worked for He was a writer on Saturday
Speaker 1: Night Live and early in his career, and he would
Speaker 1: write bid after bit after bit, and nothing would ever
Speaker 1: make it to the show. Nothing would ever make it.
Speaker 1: So one day he just went in and he was
Speaker 1: so upset. He just went into Lorne Michaels, who runs SNL,
Speaker 1: and this is I've had enough, I'm tired of this.
Speaker 1: I quit. I'm never coming back. You suck, everybody sucks.
Speaker 1: And he just left. So he gets home and his
Speaker 1: next door neighbor says, what are you gonna do? Like
Speaker 1: how are you gonna pay your rent? And he goes, oh, oh,
Speaker 1: I shouldn't have quit. He goes, no, you shouldn't have quit.
Speaker 1: So then they concocted a thing of how to get
Speaker 1: him back in and he would just come in on
Speaker 1: Monday morning Tim and act like nothing ever happened. He
Speaker 1: would just show up and pretend that he never had
Speaker 1: the explode to just go back. So he did that
Speaker 1: and they're like, what are you doing in this room?
Speaker 3: You quit?
Speaker 1: He goes, what are you talking about?
Speaker 2: It?
Speaker 1: It quit? And but it didn't work.
Speaker 2: They saw the fa Yeah, there wasn't a check two
Speaker 2: weeks later for his services.
Speaker 1: Yeah, they made a whole Seinfeld episode based on that.
Speaker 2: It's very very funny.
Speaker 1: But anyway, so yeah, but it is the Katel Marte
Speaker 1: thing is odd. And I agree that it's going to
Speaker 1: be tough for him to come back. And I mean,
Speaker 1: he's one of the better players on the on the
Speaker 1: Diamondbacks and they're without him. But they got Jordan Lawler,
Speaker 1: who's who's played well since he came back.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and he's that last look still healthy.
Speaker 1: Yeah, well that's that could change any day.
Speaker 2: Yeah, there is a history there, but no, I just
Speaker 2: found it very bizarre, very very bizarre.
Speaker 1: I think it is. Let's take a look at some
Speaker 1: of these games that are going on. Tim's first one
Speaker 1: to Saint Louis Ford to nothing over the Phillies. It
Speaker 1: sounds exciting. Let's see what Let's see what Bias has done.
Speaker 1: And he is over three with another strikeout. He's got
Speaker 1: four hits since he came up to all four home runs.
Speaker 1: I did started this weekend because he was two lefties,
Speaker 1: two very good lefties, but I figured and he did
Speaker 1: hit a home run against Lozardo, but is over three
Speaker 1: today against Christopher Sanchez, has not gotten hit off of
Speaker 1: a right handed picture yet.
Speaker 2: Okay, Yeah, a little disappointed. Not a disaster for Sanchez.
Speaker 2: Six and two thirds innings, four and run, seven strikeouts,
Speaker 2: but I needed a couple. I needed a big game
Speaker 2: from Christopher Sandez today and it was not to be.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that sucks. Rek Scuble finally won a game and
Speaker 1: he was down three to nothing after the first inning
Speaker 1: and then buckled down. He's he's been very, very good
Speaker 1: timmy since the trade. But I guess not vintage Terrek Scuble.
Speaker 2: No, he's saving that for the playoffs.
Speaker 1: He could very well be. Yeah, A lot of a
Speaker 1: lot of articles written about the PCA has got the
Speaker 1: National League MVP locked up over show Heyo Tani? What
Speaker 1: say you?
Speaker 4: Ah?
Speaker 2: I think he's got to be uh. I give him
Speaker 2: an edge right now. But people shouldn't forget that Otani
Speaker 2: did have a pretty good first half on the mound.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 3: I was going to say that, Yeah, yeah, I believe it.
Speaker 2: I believe Otanisa was solidly under two and when you
Speaker 2: look at the offense coming from him, I wouldn't I
Speaker 2: wouldn't totally pencil PCA in as the recipient quite yet.
Speaker 2: I think it's a I think it's a solid two
Speaker 2: horse race and a two week slump in September by
Speaker 2: either one of them. Uh yeah, it's not over in
Speaker 2: the in the NL.
Speaker 1: Well, it's my belief that show hey Atani should win
Speaker 1: it every year as long as he pitches. I mean,
Speaker 1: because only if he only pitched a half a season,
Speaker 1: it doesn't matter. There's no way that PCA could have
Speaker 1: as good as the season has been. It can't be
Speaker 1: better than show hey Atani's offensive season plus is pitching
Speaker 1: just can't be.
Speaker 4: Now.
Speaker 1: No, if Shotani's not pitching, then all of a sudden
Speaker 1: gets more benefit because he's a great center fielder. But
Speaker 1: I don't know. I think these these guys need to
Speaker 1: look at it's the whole package. I think they're forgetting
Speaker 1: that pitches.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I don't think there's a player you know, O
Speaker 2: Tani might might not win it this year, he might
Speaker 2: not win it next year. He might win it two
Speaker 2: years from now. But looking at the overall level of skill,
Speaker 2: there is nobody who's talented in the game to show
Speaker 2: you Otani is is he had nighton two record, a
Speaker 2: one to seventy nine year, a a point ninety five
Speaker 2: whip and to go along with that. You said thirty
Speaker 2: homers driven in eighty eighty four runs score to eighty
Speaker 2: nine average, eight stolen bases, and now they're saying he
Speaker 2: could pitch next week. Okay, that ninety five strikeouts, but
Speaker 2: it was in the eighty five and two thirds innings,
Speaker 2: Like yeah, it's you look at the combined numbers and
Speaker 2: he is by far the greatest player we've ever seen
Speaker 2: of our generation and for many other generations as well.
Speaker 2: He's doing things I never I never would have considered
Speaker 2: twenty five years ago that this is even possible.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, what a war is a weird thing? Uh
Speaker 1: PA's Wars eight point five show you Tonys four point
Speaker 1: one is an offensive player. Haven't looked at us defensively,
Speaker 1: but there's some weird ones in the in the top ten.
Speaker 1: I mean, I'm looking at JJ Weatherhold has had a
Speaker 1: really nice season. He's seventh and more. Really, and Lewis
Speaker 1: Arise is one better than Shoheo Tani from an offensive standpoint, Really.
Speaker 3: I I how can he pos?
Speaker 1: How can how can Louis Arises six home runs and
Speaker 1: ten stolen bases in a slug of four forty four
Speaker 1: equal better than what Showhyo Tani's on with thirty home
Speaker 1: runs and a five forty nine slug. I don't understand.
Speaker 2: Thatah well, again, whatever defensive metric goes into that calculation,
Speaker 2: it doesn't reward dhs. So it's got to be substantial
Speaker 2: enough of a defensive contribution to the to the overall
Speaker 2: number that Yeah. And again, yeahs.
Speaker 1: Defensive as a negative obviously, because he's a he's a DH,
Speaker 1: so he would be third in war Jordan Alvarez would
Speaker 1: be one PC forty two point eight, and then show
Speaker 1: you Tony thirty five point two. So so most of
Speaker 1: most of well, defensive is matting big for Pi Crow Armstrong.
Speaker 1: But then if you throw the pitching in, I don't
Speaker 1: I just think it, it's gotta be better.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and again, if you look at the offense this year,
Speaker 2: it is a little disappointing when he's coming off fifty
Speaker 2: four home runs, one hundred and thirty RBIs, and fifty
Speaker 2: nine stolen bases. I that that twenty twenty four season
Speaker 2: from O Tawni. I that's incredible, it really is. Yeah,
Speaker 2: fifty to fifty Not many players have gone fifty to fifty.
Speaker 1: Yeah, well, it does seem like peaker arms. Unless it
Speaker 1: gets hurt. It's probably gonna I'm probably gonna win a
Speaker 1: good game between the between the Rays and Orioles. And
Speaker 1: then the race finally broke through in the sixth inning
Speaker 1: against Shane Bosio. Pitched well, just tired here at the end.
Speaker 1: And now they're up three to nothing in the Orioles.
Speaker 1: I mean they're still in it four games under. They
Speaker 1: got to keep winning though, Tim, They just got to
Speaker 1: keep winning.
Speaker 2: Well with it being as bunched up as it is.
Speaker 2: Anytime you lose two games in a row, that you
Speaker 2: might have to crawl over four teams to get those
Speaker 2: two games back, and that just puts you where you were,
Speaker 2: not where you want to be. And yeah, it's it's
Speaker 2: it's going to be tight right to the bitter end.
Speaker 2: We saw a great, great game from Dylan Cees yesterday again,
Speaker 2: but the jayser on the short end of a five
Speaker 2: to two score today. Yeah, they won yesterday.
Speaker 1: As you said that they needed to win one out
Speaker 1: of the three. I think they need they need this
Speaker 1: game Tim today.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and it does not look like it's like it's
Speaker 2: going to happen. Jose Sorana walk three A loved seven hits.
Speaker 2: I ain't gonna work in le Bronx two uh uh?
Speaker 2: And Ben Rice with two RB eyes, he's just just
Speaker 2: hugging along. What's he up to? Now? Eighty two? He's
Speaker 2: going to get to one hundred RBIs that's a throw
Speaker 2: goes home run totals. It's he's carrying the Yankees, isn't he.
Speaker 1: I think he's the best offensive player on that team.
Speaker 1: I'm not even sure it's close. I mean that what's
Speaker 1: going to happen with Judge comes back and needs to
Speaker 1: play thh And what's going to happen when when gian
Speaker 1: Carlos Stanton comes back? I mean I I finally people
Speaker 1: are starting to say, what what did the Yankees do here? Yes,
Speaker 1: the guy they got from Washington is a good player,
Speaker 1: and he's been a good offensive uh leuis Garcia Junior.
Speaker 1: But they got too many of those kind of players.
Speaker 1: And Elliott Ramos has been a zero since they picked
Speaker 1: him up.
Speaker 2: Yeah, Lombard Junior and Joan they're playing well well combined
Speaker 2: today they're what four for five, four runs scored an
Speaker 2: RBI from Jones and I think it's a stolen all
Speaker 2: he got caught stealing. But no, the two kids hitting
Speaker 2: down you know, six seven, six, seven, eight in that
Speaker 2: area of the lineup. They've been getting it done. They've
Speaker 2: been playing very very well. So but you know, you
Speaker 2: look at the Yankees. You talk about Stanton, Well, Stanton
Speaker 2: is out with a calf injury and rehaving that calf injury,
Speaker 2: he injured his other calf, so he's totally capped, totally calfed.
Speaker 2: It's it's done. Okay, we won't see Stanton, I don't
Speaker 2: think this year. Not with a new calf injury on
Speaker 2: top of the first one. He's still rehabing. Yeah, it's yeah,
Speaker 2: they're gonna pay him and he might not. He might
Speaker 2: never play another game in New York.
Speaker 1: Spencer Jones, Yeah, I can't wait to see where you
Speaker 1: have him ranked coming into next season. I tapped out.
Speaker 1: I don't understand. I think there's twenty twenty type of upside,
Speaker 1: maybe even twenty five, twenty five, twenty five. But he's
Speaker 1: gonna hit two ten. Yeah, he's gonna have a three
Speaker 1: hundred one base percentage. That's the guy is.
Speaker 2: Yeah, to deal with that asset slash liability and find
Speaker 2: someplace to fit him in where you know he's he's
Speaker 2: the type of player. Knowingly you cannot. You can't pair
Speaker 2: him with another high slug low batting average type player
Speaker 2: and make it work. You know, then you're looking at
Speaker 2: two thirteenths of your two fourteens of your offense is
Speaker 2: going to be a drag on your batting average. That
Speaker 2: means you're gonna have to sacrifice somewhere else. He's not.
Speaker 2: He's going to be a hard player to draft and
Speaker 2: construct a team around, that's going to be functional in
Speaker 2: all five offensive categories. It's you're gonna have your hands full.
Speaker 1: And if he gets a little unlucky to him and
Speaker 1: he hits one eighty with a two seventy on base percentage,
Speaker 1: you know it's gotta be tough. Like I don't know
Speaker 1: how Jacob Marcy is still being allowed to play, but
Speaker 1: he is. The Miami Marlins are not the New York Yankees.
Speaker 1: I just don't think he'll play if he's got that gun,
Speaker 1: and it's totally within the rama possibility, that's who he
Speaker 1: could be next.
Speaker 2: Well, yeah, and you fit that all into the fact
Speaker 2: that the Yankees have forty h types. Yeah, yeah, it's.
Speaker 1: Well, he is pretty athletics, so he can't play at
Speaker 1: least in the UH in the outfield, but I don't know.
Speaker 1: I'm glad you've got him, man, because I I he's
Speaker 1: over my head. I don't I don't know what to do.
Speaker 2: So it is It's fader for great discussion, though, isn't it.
Speaker 2: And I guaranteed when we start looking at the oatfield,
Speaker 2: we'll probably dedicate a good ten to fifteen minutes to
Speaker 2: try and to sort that one out. And said to
Speaker 2: rank him, I there's gonna be a lot of thought
Speaker 2: involved in that process because I.
Speaker 1: Guess the only good news with him is I think
Speaker 1: we know who the player is. At least I've been
Speaker 1: saying it for years. He is the player he is.
Speaker 1: It's just now, what do you do with him?
Speaker 3: Well?
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's like it's like Luis or Rise. We know
Speaker 2: the player he is, what you do with him? Schwarver,
Speaker 2: we know the player? You know what I mean? It's uh.
Speaker 2: And that's where proper planning and team construction comes to
Speaker 2: before And I know personally, one of the things that
Speaker 2: I really don't like doing is drafting for a deficit somewhere,
Speaker 2: especially reasonably early, and then having to scramble later on
Speaker 2: remembering when you're on a sixty second clock that you
Speaker 2: forced yourself into a deficit. So now you've got to
Speaker 2: compensate for that. And when you're working on short clocks,
Speaker 2: that becomes that becomes a problem. Or else you get
Speaker 2: to the end of the draft and oh, that's interesting.
Speaker 2: My projected team batting average is two thirty five.
Speaker 1: You know, I mean that's when you panic and you
Speaker 1: signed Lewis a Rise, or you panic and you signed
Speaker 1: Chandler Stimpson that those and you get those guys on
Speaker 1: your and you know you've made a mistake. Yeah, you
Speaker 1: just have.
Speaker 2: Yeah it's good. Yeah, not good at all.
Speaker 1: And it's not to say those those players aren't helpful,
Speaker 1: but if you've had to do that, then you're putting
Speaker 1: all your eggs in one category basket and one player,
Speaker 1: and that's always dangerous because again, Lewis the Rise was
Speaker 1: terrible last season. He didn't hit.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, yeah. If if you got a Rise and
Speaker 2: you end up with a two sixty five batting average
Speaker 2: out of them, oops, you get you've now got problems
Speaker 2: in even more categories.
Speaker 1: I watched the Marlins game yesterday against the Nationals, first
Speaker 1: of the Nationals without would that's that's a tough team,
Speaker 1: So I think he's getting close to coming back. And
Speaker 1: Dylan Cruise, Man, it's he's not happening. Tim, I'm sorry.
Speaker 1: I love the guy. I don't know what's happened to him,
Speaker 1: but it ain't happening. He's not a very good baseball player.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's now, what is it, August twenty third. We
Speaker 2: got five weeks left in the season, and Dylan Cruz
Speaker 2: has twenty nine RBIs and a two twelve betting average
Speaker 2: and he's hitting in the three hole today.
Speaker 1: And the thing that's weird, I mean it's a little
Speaker 1: bit like Spencer Jones. I mean he is fast. His
Speaker 1: average eggs of velocity is ninety point eight. He's got
Speaker 1: plenty of You've got plenty of omp, He's got plenty
Speaker 1: of speed. He can't hit. That was what he was
Speaker 1: supposed to be able to do with it.
Speaker 2: Yeah, oops, Yeah, it's a problem.
Speaker 1: Yeah, he just chases everything as Chase rates. Just I
Speaker 1: don't know what happened there, Tim. I hate it when
Speaker 1: I'm so wrong. Really bums me out.
Speaker 2: Yeah. I got a decision to make on him in
Speaker 2: one league where there's a cap involved, and I don't
Speaker 2: think I'm keeping Dylan Cruz next year. I just can't
Speaker 2: forward to tie again because there's a cap. Okay, we're
Speaker 2: looking at total salaries, and you're keeping players based on salaries.
Speaker 2: I don't think I've got them at a good price.
Speaker 2: But I don't think I can commit even a marginal
Speaker 2: plus sort of dollar value to a guy like Cruise
Speaker 2: heading into next year. I've got to look elsewhere.
Speaker 1: Yeah. Whatever Patreon members brought up kind of on this
Speaker 1: topic we're talking about, is should we spend some time
Speaker 1: maybe on our Friday show talking about guys and keeper
Speaker 1: leagues and guys and dynasty leagues that maybe have fallen
Speaker 1: off like a Dylan Cruz and are they worth keeping
Speaker 1: or you know what, maybe they've been distarted and like
Speaker 1: should somebody still invest in Dylan Cruise and some of
Speaker 1: these other Like the same thing with Jacob Marcy's another
Speaker 1: guy that's going to be in the bubble in a
Speaker 1: lot of keeper leagues. Like what do you do with him?
Speaker 2: Yeah? For the most part, I would say, yeah, and
Speaker 2: it keep them all sort of format that changes things
Speaker 2: rather drastically. They two of the three keeper leagues I'm
Speaker 2: involved with, one of your keeping to a dollar value. Okay,
Speaker 2: as many as you want, and the other one you're
Speaker 2: keeping fifteen. And again there's salaries involved as well, so
Speaker 2: that really changes. It changes the way you look at players.
Speaker 2: It really does. You know, hey, do you keep a
Speaker 2: cheap Dylan Cruise over a more expensive Safer Pick. There's
Speaker 2: a lot more variables you have to weigh into it,
Speaker 2: but and it keep them all. Yeah, unless you've got
Speaker 2: something on your twenty five miners, unless you've got on
Speaker 2: your seven man reserve. If you've got somebody better than
Speaker 2: Dylan Cruise, you've probably got a really good team. But
Speaker 2: for the most part, I think people will end up
Speaker 2: keeping players like that hoping to see better moving forward.
Speaker 1: I'm seeing guys like I'm seeing guys like Dylan Cruz,
Speaker 1: and leagues I play in which are keep them all
Speaker 1: starting to hit the waiver war. I mean, these people
Speaker 1: are getting sick of them because.
Speaker 2: You can build better players into the reserve roster than
Speaker 2: Cruise is proving to be able to deliver.
Speaker 1: Right, Remember in this in this game that we play, Timmy,
Speaker 1: you've got seven reserves. You need five pitchers. Probably in
Speaker 1: those reserves at least four, but five, maybe six, And
Speaker 1: all of a sudden you got one or two guys
Speaker 1: that you can and you can find. If you've got
Speaker 1: a strong diningsted League team, you're gonna have a better
Speaker 1: player than Dylan Cruz. If you don't think, you're not
Speaker 1: in the money. If you got if you're playing Dylan
Speaker 1: Cruise every day, you're not in the money. It's gonna
Speaker 1: be tough.
Speaker 2: Yeah. I was going to say, Yeah, what you want
Speaker 2: is guys with multi position eligibility in that format. Yeah,
Speaker 2: that's the ideal situation. So it allows you to build
Speaker 2: on your pitching.
Speaker 1: The Mets in White Sox or zero zero, Yeah, pitched
Speaker 1: pitched well and Nolan mcclaim with another strong start.
Speaker 2: Yeah through seven ins, Yeah, one hit, the walk four
Speaker 2: is yeah, six strikeouts through six and it's a it's
Speaker 2: a bullpen sort of to day for the White Sox.
Speaker 2: But it looks like they they better save an arm
Speaker 2: or two in that bullpen because they're looking at they're
Speaker 2: on their fourth pitture now. Yeah, it could be a
Speaker 2: six pitcher sort of day for the White Sox. McLean
Speaker 2: they said, or walks or a concern, but they're not
Speaker 2: hitting them.
Speaker 1: I just quickly googled what's the status of Onan Soto
Speaker 1: and that's announced that he could Timmy could the word
Speaker 1: that begins with a sea could return in September.
Speaker 2: Okay, so he's day to day with a definite possibility.
Speaker 1: Yeah, as a player on the team that he doesn't like,
Speaker 1: the player on the team he doesn't like. In Francisco Lindor,
Speaker 1: the Mets are terrible this season, even though they played
Speaker 1: better since the trade deadline. What's the motivation?
Speaker 2: Yeah, there isn't.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, you know.
Speaker 2: It's interesting though, and you got to start of a
Speaker 2: chuckle with Kansas City Royals are actually playing pretty good
Speaker 2: baseball right now.
Speaker 1: I know, seven and three to eight or two in
Speaker 1: the last ten. Yeah, yeah, too little too late. That
Speaker 1: was a phrase I was trying to remember last Friday
Speaker 1: Twitter show, too little too late. I did use it
Speaker 1: correctly in the show. I popped into my head when
Speaker 1: we were doing the show. But it is too little
Speaker 1: too late for the Royals.
Speaker 2: Yeah, definitely. Benny Bees actually been playing well the past
Speaker 2: couple of weeks too, which is nice to see Bobby Bobby,
Speaker 2: which strole is thirty fifty today, Yep, he's gonna.
Speaker 1: Yeah mcgonagall's two more, two more hits and yeah, my
Speaker 1: buddy Max Clark won for two Betty two fifty six,
Speaker 1: so he's he has calmed down a little bit. He's
Speaker 1: not hitting for any power. Uh, it's only got one
Speaker 1: I mean. And the weird thing is he hasn't sold
Speaker 1: on a base yet, so he's just pretty much been
Speaker 1: a single hitter.
Speaker 2: Mmmm. And the Tigers could not afford to lose today
Speaker 2: to the Royals. Not good for the Tigers chances at all.
Speaker 2: They've you got to win games against the Royals, you
Speaker 2: really do. And I know they've been hot, but you
Speaker 2: still you've got to win those games. Uh.
Speaker 1: The Astros my buddy to hit a home run, which
Speaker 1: is good. Yeah, Parade's with a home run. Christian Havier
Speaker 1: pitch well and then started to get beat up. Eight
Speaker 1: strikeouts and he's not going to get a decision because
Speaker 1: it's for innings pitch. So that's a bummer if you
Speaker 1: started him. And I'm God help me, Timmy. I for
Speaker 1: Andy Payis. I'm putting in Lawrence Butler. That's that's what
Speaker 1: it's gotten.
Speaker 2: That's that's where we're at. OK.
Speaker 1: So he's a little bit better over the last couple
Speaker 1: of weeks. I'm sure he's due for a cold spell again.
Speaker 1: But that's that's where I'm at.
Speaker 2: Well, And you know what, every time you turn around,
Speaker 2: there's a different a finding his way to the aisle.
Speaker 2: Was Jacob Wilson, Jacob will Jacob Wilson this week, and yeah,
Speaker 2: you look at the lineup. You got, you know, Bold
Speaker 2: as your leadoff guy, Cortes, gell Off Butler, Tommy White's
Speaker 2: moved into the fifth but the other Max Muncie Walton,
Speaker 2: her Nez servant. Yeah, that team is a shadow of
Speaker 2: what it was heading into the twenty sixth season.
Speaker 1: It's Nick nick Kirki los Nick Kirtchief. You've lost your
Speaker 1: Aaron Judge by the way, Lawrence Butler just with a double.
Speaker 1: He needs to hold that for next week. That's when
Speaker 1: I needed to.
Speaker 2: Yeah, wait till next week, Lawrence.
Speaker 1: Yep, Rangers up three nothing over the hapless Angels. Tim's
Speaker 1: trying to rewrite history a little bit and his closer
Speaker 1: report saying that Natari is Sammy Natari's on the I
Speaker 1: L that was his guy. I just want to clear
Speaker 1: the record here, Timmy ben Joyce got the job before
Speaker 1: Natari went on the I L just f y.
Speaker 2: I I'm still better. I'm still I wasn't sure, so
Speaker 2: for quite a while, my friend, you're not buying that
Speaker 2: bullshit because absolutely know what's happened there. Yeah, the meter
Speaker 2: is bouncing off the right side of the dial. Right
Speaker 2: a boat now right, I'm.
Speaker 1: Reading that, shaking my head going, oh, that's creative writing that, that's.
Speaker 2: Finest, thank you, thank you.
Speaker 1: Let's see what's happened here. How's our buddy? Uh? White
Speaker 1: lank for nothing today? So he's been okay though, look
Speaker 1: at Kyle Quantrell's six h six strikeouts.
Speaker 2: Yeah, hey, roll with him and until you can't no more.
Speaker 2: You're a guy who's disappointed me. Recently. He seems to
Speaker 2: have hit a little bit of a wall, is mister Bennett. Yeah,
Speaker 2: for the for the Red Sox, he's the arras up
Speaker 2: to three sixty six, But it just seems like he's
Speaker 2: he's still he's okay, but he's hit a wall. Yeah,
Speaker 2: he's got him gonna.
Speaker 1: Play better against the against the Giants.
Speaker 2: You just do yeah and tug tug boat.
Speaker 3: Yeah, here's your buddy.
Speaker 1: He will be reappearing. He'll be appearing on Tim's waiver
Speaker 1: war of course.
Speaker 2: Uh.
Speaker 1: And then the final game that's got a score is
Speaker 1: the Guardians up five to nothing. Uh, Foster Griffin looks
Speaker 1: like he's in line for the win if he can
Speaker 1: just stay the course. It's only one any but against
Speaker 1: the Rockies, Tim.
Speaker 2: Well, you know, I've heard a lot of a lot
Speaker 2: of chatter about Sagana again, you know, having having a
Speaker 2: pretty good year in Colorado. Yeah, yeah, and the past
Speaker 2: few outings he's regressed a little bit. Today two innings pitched,
Speaker 2: eight hits, five earned runs. Uh, the area is now
Speaker 2: up to five. So yeah, but.
Speaker 1: In all respect, that's actually pretty good.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's not a total disaster in colrad I don't know.
Speaker 2: I just got my fingers crossed that Griffin gets through,
Speaker 2: gets through five innings.
Speaker 3: Need them, Yeah, I need it.
Speaker 2: I need them badly too. Am going in every league
Speaker 2: I think today, So yeah, I need I need a
Speaker 2: good effort from from Griffin. Oh you're athletics. You got
Speaker 2: a run scored a butler because they just scored four
Speaker 2: runs against double.
Speaker 1: They got a double. This is how bad the Athletics
Speaker 1: have been. They are one game worse than the Colorado Rockies.
Speaker 2: That's bad.
Speaker 1: Yeah, they got eighty losses and the Colorado Rockies are
Speaker 1: seventy nine. So what have we got thirty five games left.
Speaker 1: It's a good shot that one or both of them
Speaker 1: are going to get to one hundred losses.
Speaker 2: I would think, so. Yeah, but hopefully it works out
Speaker 2: for you and you can say the Butler did it.
Speaker 1: I hope it does to me to take a break
Speaker 1: it back and let's take a look at your waiver wire.
Speaker 1: My friend, I actually got a couple of questions before
Speaker 1: we do that.
Speaker 2: Sure, I'm kidding.
Speaker 1: Tim and I were talking about the Arizona Fall League.
Speaker 1: I know Tim's still off trying to figure out what
Speaker 1: he's going to do. I think I will be partaking
Speaker 1: in the Arizona Fall League this season, so I'll be there.
Speaker 1: I don't know when I'm going to go. Laurie is
Speaker 1: off with a friend of hers for a week. I
Speaker 1: think they're going on some girls getaway things. So I
Speaker 1: got the dogs and stuff like that, so that takes
Speaker 1: I think that's opening weeks. So I was a real
Speaker 1: bummer on that. So I have to figure out when
Speaker 1: I'm going to go there. But I haven't. I have
Speaker 1: not done that yet, but something I'll take a look at.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm probably looking at the first week in November
Speaker 2: when they have the all Star the All Star weekend.
Speaker 2: That because after the first couple of weeks, I don't
Speaker 2: think it really makes that much difference. If there's injuries
Speaker 2: or players have basically played themselves out, they're gone the
Speaker 2: first two weeks anyways, So once you get into week three,
Speaker 2: there's not unless there's an injury, there isn't that much change.
Speaker 2: I don't think.
Speaker 3: Maybe it's a double edged sword.
Speaker 1: The first week is the best week, right, because that's right,
Speaker 1: everybody's fresh, it's exciting, et cetera, et cetera, and you're
Speaker 1: going to get maybe players are going to play a
Speaker 1: couple of weeks. The downside is it's it's really hot.
Speaker 3: It's really hot.
Speaker 2: M hm. My thermostat, my personal thermostat is not like
Speaker 2: really hot anymore. Rich not that it ever did, but
Speaker 2: I mean, I just can't do it anymore.
Speaker 1: The first week in October, I've been there a lot.
Speaker 1: I mean, it's and then I usually go, it's hot.
Speaker 1: I mean, you're talking one hundred and five hundred and
Speaker 1: eight degrees and half the games are in the afternoon,
Speaker 1: and Temmy, you just you're just there miserable. I mean,
Speaker 1: at least I am.
Speaker 2: So yeah, yeah, I I just can't do it. It's
Speaker 2: not negotiable. The solars, my Canadian thick like boutine blood
Speaker 2: does not adapt well to do anything over about eighty
Speaker 2: five degrees. Let it let alone a hundred.
Speaker 1: N Yeah, for sure. As we talked about, not have
Speaker 1: your bias, Josh bias. Anything else to comment on his
Speaker 1: start here and again another over three day to day.
Speaker 2: No, I hey, he's gonna hit. He's gonna hit some
Speaker 2: home runs, and he's gonna hit have some overs. Man,
Speaker 2: that's just the way it's going to be. Take what
Speaker 2: you take, what you take, what you get, and be happy.
Speaker 1: Kate Anderson look great, I thought, he looked. At the
Speaker 1: first five plus innings, he looked. He just gave up
Speaker 1: a couple of home runs and fell apart in the
Speaker 1: sixth inning. He'd only thrown eighty one pitches when they
Speaker 1: took him out. I haven't gone back and watched the game.
Speaker 1: I did not watch it as it was occurring, but
Speaker 1: I mean, he pitched well.
Speaker 3: And I think it's yeah.
Speaker 1: I think he's going to have some really good outings
Speaker 1: for the rest of the year.
Speaker 2: I agree, And at the same point in time, I
Speaker 2: think we also have to remember this is his first
Speaker 2: visit visit to the big leagues, and it's not double A,
Speaker 2: it's not triple A. It's one step beyond that. So
Speaker 2: they're we we've we've seen the best pitchers in the
Speaker 2: game struggle. Kate Anderson is not going to be He's
Speaker 2: there's going to be days. It's all or is true.
Speaker 2: He's still learning his craft, but I'm glad he's learning
Speaker 2: it at a level where he's going to be facing challenges,
Speaker 2: per say, as compared to in the high minors, where
Speaker 2: he just proved there wasn't any anymore.
Speaker 1: Right, Yes, now, just just our Patreon members know this
Speaker 1: because I've written about Kate Anderson probably as much about
Speaker 1: any other player, just because every game he pitched was
Speaker 1: was phenomenal. This is not this is not a big arm.
Speaker 1: This is a guy who throws ninety three ninety four
Speaker 1: miles an hour, and that's that's what he did on
Speaker 1: his first dounage of ninety three point six that he averaged.
Speaker 1: He's got a great slider, and but it's he's not
Speaker 1: gonna blow guys away. So if he has any in
Speaker 1: his fastball is not great. It's just not velocity great.
Speaker 1: It doesn't have a lot of high spin on it,
Speaker 1: so it doesn't stay high in the zone. So I
Speaker 1: don't think he's I still maintain he's not going to
Speaker 1: be an ace. He's going to be a really good
Speaker 1: number three starter. That's just me, But I think he's
Speaker 1: going to be one of those guys that has a
Speaker 1: Max Freed kind of career that he just goes out
Speaker 1: there and gives you a great outing. Max Freed's probably
Speaker 1: a two now, so maybe that's what Kate Anderson can
Speaker 1: turn into. But this is not. This isn't a Jacob
Speaker 1: Miseerowski kind of level, or back in the day, Paul
Speaker 1: Skeene's kind of This is not the same kind of player.
Speaker 2: Which is why of yours coating the stat line, don't
Speaker 2: forget about Ryan's sloan right exactly.
Speaker 1: That's why I still have Ryan Slow high slowan higher
Speaker 1: than Kate Anderson in that system. It call me crazy,
Speaker 1: but to me, if Kate Anderson has any kind of
Speaker 1: control problems or any kind of command problems, can't throw
Speaker 1: that can't locate as fastball or as pitches, it's going
Speaker 1: to get hit. Jacob is Rowski's not going to get
Speaker 1: hit right because he's still it's still ninety nine miles
Speaker 1: an hour, right, and you can make those mistakes.
Speaker 2: Yeah, you can't make them, which again is something we've
Speaker 2: talked about over years and is my love of the
Speaker 2: soft tosting saucing lefty. Well, that only works, okay when
Speaker 2: you're hitting the corners cont that's right. Yeah, Well, when
Speaker 2: you're coming in with an eighty nine mile an hour basketball,
Speaker 2: it'd better not be anywhere near the heart of the
Speaker 2: plate because if it is, it'll be in the heart
Speaker 2: of the bleachers. You don't have there's no margin for
Speaker 2: error as the velocity decreases or that margin of or
Speaker 2: shrinks rather rapidly. And if you can, like like MISERASKI
Speaker 2: if you hey, if you can fire it in at
Speaker 2: one hundred hundred and two miles an hour, well, yeah,
Speaker 2: the breaking stuff that isn't working. But they're not going
Speaker 2: to hit that fastball anyway, that's right.
Speaker 1: Yeah, And then and then most guys are going to
Speaker 1: be cheating on the fastball, and that's when they're gonna
Speaker 1: get beat by just an average curveball because you're gonna
Speaker 1: be chea You're already starting your swing and it's like, oh,
Speaker 1: here comes a curveball, and you know you're dead. You
Speaker 1: know it's it's Sunny Gray is a kind of a
Speaker 1: comparable and even though from the right side. Another guy
Speaker 1: that does he do a little bit harder in his
Speaker 1: early early days. That's another guy that's not a ninety
Speaker 1: three mile hour guy that's got can really pitch and
Speaker 1: sequence as well. It's got really good secondary and he's
Speaker 1: a great pitcher. I think that's who Kate Anderson's going
Speaker 1: to be. But this not a guy that I would
Speaker 1: if I had a Dynasty leaguer keeper, I wouldn't be
Speaker 1: saying Ace. I would be saying a really good Max
Speaker 1: Freed slash Sunny Gray type of pitcher.
Speaker 2: And that's a good that's a good player who can
Speaker 2: have it's very long, long, successful career. Yeah, just not
Speaker 2: that final notch up with the ladder. And yeah, it's
Speaker 2: pretty tough to It's pretty tough unless you you've got
Speaker 2: a full repertoire that will is still fear in the
Speaker 2: heart of man. And I don't think it's fastball does.
Speaker 1: When I took him mind instead of Kate Anderson in
Speaker 1: my Dynasty link uh first year player draft. I I
Speaker 1: wish I could go back and change that, but I
Speaker 1: can't so, uh but I, I mean, I I wish
Speaker 1: I'd had Kate Kate Anderson at least one leak. I
Speaker 1: just don't. I just don't. And that's the way it goes.
Speaker 2: And you won't get him now unless you're ridiculous.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I'm just gonna let it go because look, he's
Speaker 1: particularly now. Everybody thinks he's going to be a cy
Speaker 1: Young Award winner, and maybe he will be, but I
Speaker 1: you know, it's ceased to it's it's hard to trade
Speaker 1: for Max freed Max Freedo. It's a tough guy to get.
Speaker 2: Yeah. I tried trading for Max Clerk right now. What's
Speaker 2: it gonna cost you?
Speaker 1: Even though he's really not done anything Fantasy wise since
Speaker 1: he's been called up that the upside is still pretty substantial.
Speaker 1: I bet you.
Speaker 3: I tried to.
Speaker 1: I tried to trade last week and I tried to
Speaker 1: trade Josh Bias and I just did I just did not.
Speaker 1: This was after his first after his first game. I
Speaker 1: tried to just to see what I could get and
Speaker 1: I just didn't get anything. Tim No one was buying it.
Speaker 1: Maybe it's because they're all Patroon members and they all
Speaker 1: read will just trying to sell them. There must be
Speaker 1: something going on here.
Speaker 2: So well, yeah, every time I try and trade a
Speaker 2: dynasty format, but yeah, I have I have people revisiting
Speaker 2: podcasts okay for the next two days, okay, And you
Speaker 2: know McLeod doesn't like him. We stay away from this guy.
Speaker 2: And in reality, no, it's McLeod needs helping another category,
Speaker 2: you know. And yeah, but you're right though, what we
Speaker 2: say and do reflects with people in our leagues. It's
Speaker 2: just the way it is, right.
Speaker 1: Yeah. I struggle in trading in dynasty leagues just because one,
Speaker 1: I usually overpay and people know that and then they
Speaker 1: give me ridiculous trade offers. You know. It's it is
Speaker 1: Max Freed for a bag of balls, and it's like,
Speaker 1: come on, you can gotta give me something. I'm okay
Speaker 1: to overpay. I get it. I get why I have
Speaker 1: to do that, even though I'm not maybe not even
Speaker 1: doing well in the league. But you got to make
Speaker 1: it reasonable. I mean, give me some dignity, and they
Speaker 1: just don't.
Speaker 2: Yeah. Man, it's a challenge at times. I agree.
Speaker 1: George Klassen pitched a gym on Saturday. Tim and Ryan
Speaker 1: Ryan Johnson, also both for the Angels, also pitched well,
Speaker 1: he was seven innies, pitch, one hit, zero runs, three
Speaker 1: strikeouts and two walks. I know, George Klassen major waiver
Speaker 1: war Johnson, No, why not?
Speaker 2: Uh. I was focusing on opportunities from a two start
Speaker 2: pitching perspective perspective, and I sort of like Classing a
Speaker 2: little bit more than.
Speaker 1: John He's got much better arm, that's for sure.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I you know, I yeah, I I don't know
Speaker 2: long term what tox. I haven't looked long term as much,
Speaker 2: but right now I'm giving class in the edge and Johnson,
Speaker 2: I'm just not. At this time of the year, we
Speaker 2: should be looking if we're taking a chance on pitchers,
Speaker 2: unless it's a dynasty where there's you know, a keeper aspect,
Speaker 2: we should be focused on very very short term. And
Speaker 2: I've got them both in the two start pitching real uh.
Speaker 2: And one of the problems with both of them is
Speaker 2: it with Kakuchi coming back today, do they go with
Speaker 2: a six man rotation? And yeah, that maybe they do.
Speaker 2: I think it would be wise with the young pitching
Speaker 2: that they've got right and Kahucci coming back off of injury,
Speaker 2: it'd be smart to go with a six man rotation.
Speaker 2: Then both of them Hoole value. But right now we
Speaker 2: don't know, so in lieu of that, I think you've
Speaker 2: got to be careful with both simply because we don't
Speaker 2: know one of them. One of them could get shipped out, right.
Speaker 1: Ship What do you mean shipped out?
Speaker 2: Yeah?
Speaker 1: I think that would be Johnson over Classen. But I mean,
Speaker 1: who knows what the the the Angels are going to do?
Speaker 2: Yeah, exactly.
Speaker 1: If you were to have asked me on Friday when
Speaker 1: we did our show, who Craig Keemberrell played for, Tim, Yeah,
Speaker 1: I would have been completely guessing. He has been DFA
Speaker 1: buy multiple teams this season. And I laughed out loud
Speaker 1: when he got a safe for the Royals yesterday. I
Speaker 1: did not know he was playing for the Royals. He's
Speaker 1: not on your waiver, he's not on your waiver wire,
Speaker 1: he's not on your closer report. This is just a
Speaker 1: RANDO save.
Speaker 2: Yeah, if you if you would have, if you were
Speaker 2: to ask me, I would have said Samsung or your Muri.
Speaker 2: I would have guessed it Asia if I didn't. Yeah, Yeah,
Speaker 2: I happened to fall closers.
Speaker 1: Honestly sounded like they sounded like food. Tim, you said that,
Speaker 1: I thought that was some kind of uh, some kind
Speaker 1: of sushi roll or something.
Speaker 2: Team Korea and a team in Japan. That would have
Speaker 2: been my random guess. But no, he's still kicking around
Speaker 2: and he's still doing that seagull imitation or whatever he
Speaker 2: does before he before he throws, and yeah he Yeah,
Speaker 2: good for him.
Speaker 1: But it's it's random, right, You're you're not gonna, You're
Speaker 1: not gonna.
Speaker 2: I'm not no, I'm not suggesting anybody go. And now,
Speaker 2: hey we see what happens this week. If he gets
Speaker 2: a couple more, well yeah that might change things, but
Speaker 2: right now, very random.
Speaker 1: Ye all right to me, it's taking another break. And
Speaker 1: then we get to your waiver wire and I really
Speaker 1: christ interesting that Christian.
Speaker 5: Moore, m h, I know it's a struggle for you
Speaker 5: this week.
Speaker 3: Why don't you tell us a little.
Speaker 1: Bit about what it was like going through and creating
Speaker 1: the waiver, which I know is a struggle every time
Speaker 1: this time of the year.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's it's a total struggle. It really is. You're
Speaker 2: you're looking for players that that aren't there, and especially
Speaker 2: this year, and I think moving forward you will probably
Speaker 2: tend to get worse as compared to that or the
Speaker 2: call ups It's pretty much done, isn't it. You know,
Speaker 2: you're not getting every most everybody that that will be.
Speaker 1: We still got September. We still got September calls. I mean,
Speaker 1: Charlie Condon is still not appearance.
Speaker 2: Right, but I he's been mentioned, yes, yeah, so again
Speaker 2: looking at it from my point of view, pretty much everybody,
Speaker 2: unless somebody does something totally off the wall, like the
Speaker 2: Brewers call up my day that would be cool. Were
Speaker 2: the odds of it happening probably not all that great.
Speaker 1: Or that's that's almost zero per.
Speaker 2: Wall caught in Texas. You know what I mean, Everything
Speaker 2: that could happen now that has the potential to be
Speaker 2: an impact has pretty well happened, hasn't it.
Speaker 1: Mm hmm?
Speaker 2: Unless you know of somebody that you think might get
Speaker 2: called up, that is getting called up for more than
Speaker 2: just a look sie sort of thing, you know what
Speaker 2: I mean, we'll play you every fourth game and you
Speaker 2: it's it's your it's our due diligence to give you
Speaker 2: a reward for a great season, that sort of thing.
Speaker 2: Are there any players that you think that still could
Speaker 2: get called up? There could be substantial contributors.
Speaker 1: I have a couple of thoughts substantial contributors that that
Speaker 1: I can't say. I I think Charlie Condon would get
Speaker 1: called up for a look. See, I am disappointed in
Speaker 1: the Dodgers.
Speaker 2: Now, yes, I was going to bring that up.
Speaker 1: You can sit there and say, how can you possibly?
Speaker 1: I mean that the best team in baseball, back to
Speaker 1: back World series, they always make the right call, you know.
Speaker 1: And but with pause going down, they're turning it over
Speaker 1: to Alec Thomas.
Speaker 2: Yeah, they've got six oatfielders sitting there chomping at the
Speaker 2: looking for playing time.
Speaker 1: Yeah. I mean, and I just wrote up James Tibbs
Speaker 1: either for this weekends. Uh, those Monday's daily notes are
Speaker 1: hot prospects of the week. Yet another great week is
Speaker 1: up to twenty seven or twenty nine home runs, hitting
Speaker 1: three to zero something. I mean, I know what this
Speaker 1: poor guy's got to do.
Speaker 2: And maybe they'll go Hope House, Hope doing well.
Speaker 1: Hopes and uh, Hopes was traded in Detroit. He hasn't
Speaker 1: played well, by the way since since its move. So yeah,
Speaker 1: so's it's been of a struggle. But I get it.
Speaker 1: I mean part of the problem is Alec Thomas is
Speaker 1: a great center fielder and and James Tibbs, the third
Speaker 1: is not a center fielder, so who goes in there
Speaker 1: and airparks not a great center fielder. So the promise
Speaker 1: they were a little light on centerfen So I'm sure
Speaker 1: that's what they would come back and say, Look, we
Speaker 1: got to have We're not like the Yankees where we're
Speaker 1: going to put a d h at every position. We're
Speaker 1: gonna and hope for the best st bringing up to
Speaker 1: the songs. I guess I get. It's just a this
Speaker 1: is a bit of a bummer that. Yeah, these guys
Speaker 1: like TIBs and Air and Zach Error just they're not
Speaker 1: going to see the big leagues, which bums me out.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I agree, And I thought the same thing when
Speaker 2: I saw Alex Thomas. But then I remembered the defense,
Speaker 2: the glove, the out. Yeah, and it fits what the
Speaker 2: Dodgers need to do, even though as a fantasy player
Speaker 2: of the game, it doesn't fit our plans at all.
Speaker 2: I had him in originally the article and I look
Speaker 2: at what he's done. Oh no, we don't count defensive metrics.
Speaker 2: So I yanked him simply because it was a name
Speaker 2: that I didn't believe was going to contribute to our
Speaker 2: fantasy teams, and that's what we're all a boat still right, yeah,
Speaker 2: looking at but the game our game.
Speaker 1: So I wrote about the situation at some points coming
Speaker 1: out in the next two days. I can't remember again
Speaker 1: which article I put it in. I mean, Alec Thomas
Speaker 1: is a zero offensively and how good are the Dodgers offensively?
Speaker 1: Really if you think about it, I mean, obviously Otani's world,
Speaker 1: Max Munsey is Max Munsey their best, second best offensive player.
Speaker 2: Well, Tucker actually showed some signs of life, and yeah
Speaker 2: they Mookie bets in in spurts and who else do
Speaker 2: we have to look at on that rock s Freeman
Speaker 2: and Edmund and.
Speaker 1: These are guys that are quite frankly we talked about
Speaker 1: this mid season. These are guys past their prime. And
Speaker 1: you know, I don't know. Losing payoffs is a big
Speaker 1: problem I think for them. Hopefully it comes back for
Speaker 1: the playoffs. But getting another offensive player like a TIBs
Speaker 1: the third might at least as a bench bet, might
Speaker 1: might have been a smart movie. But what do I know?
Speaker 2: Well, and he's still have time to adjust for it.
Speaker 2: But can I give.
Speaker 1: You another player? Can I get it? Give you another player?
Speaker 2: Sure?
Speaker 1: I think there should be an investigation as to Ralphie.
Speaker 1: Why Ralphie Velaskaz is not Yeah, first first base and
Speaker 1: with the Cleveland Guardians. Uh again I wrote about it.
Speaker 1: I think he makes my hot prospects of the week.
Speaker 1: I forgot who's playing first base? Oh, they brought They
Speaker 1: brought a Nathaniel Lowe. You mean to tell me that
Speaker 1: Ralphie Velaskaz can't give you more production than Nathaniel low
Speaker 1: who's been okay in spurts. But really I don't understand that.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I that's money. More would be that I would
Speaker 2: think coming out of Cleveland.
Speaker 1: Another another player is sever King.
Speaker 2: Yeah, he's been on fire.
Speaker 1: The five more home runs this week. He's gonna make
Speaker 1: my hot He's made my hot prospects of the week again.
Speaker 3: Uh.
Speaker 1: And I don't know if they've moved C J Abrams
Speaker 1: maybe C the CEA Trews hit the I I think
Speaker 1: they're supposed to move to a second base. I don't
Speaker 1: know what's happening with that whole drama, but they got
Speaker 1: to get sever King up. I mean, they need to
Speaker 1: let him spend a month up with the club, keep
Speaker 1: his service time down. Blah blah blah blah blah, it's time, right.
Speaker 2: Yeah. Yeah, I mentioned him a couple of weeks ago
Speaker 2: when they made the move originally to get Abrams, you know,
Speaker 2: off a short stop. Yeah, but then again, everybody is
Speaker 2: everybody is saying in the in the media that no,
Speaker 2: they're going to keep him down.
Speaker 3: I don't understand.
Speaker 1: I don't understand that.
Speaker 2: I I don't either, because he's proving that there's nothing
Speaker 2: left to prove. There's nothing left to prove. Yeah, hey,
Speaker 2: why don't they just send him home and you can,
Speaker 2: you know, work in the backfields on his d or
Speaker 2: whatever and get his golf handycap down. Yeah yeah, not
Speaker 2: having him in on the big league roster, do at
Speaker 2: least get a feel for the that next step would
Speaker 2: aid them a great deal. I believe in their twenty
Speaker 2: seven season.
Speaker 1: I don't know how the Rays fit this guy into
Speaker 1: their lineup. Okay, but Xavier Isaac's got I think he's
Speaker 1: got up the thirty home runs. This guy's got massive power.
Speaker 1: He's actually cut a strikeouts down a little bit. I
Speaker 1: mean YONDI Diez is playing DH Okay, yeah, first base,
Speaker 1: but Kelly, that guy can provide some pop for them,
Speaker 1: and they need pop. Well, love to see him come
Speaker 1: up in September.
Speaker 2: Can he can he play, even at a low level,
Speaker 2: anywhere in the oat field.
Speaker 1: I don't think he's ever done that.
Speaker 2: Okay, because you look at their oat field and you
Speaker 2: got Chandler Simpson, Johnny De Luca, and Cedric Mullens. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 2: there's an opportunity in the oakfield. But I mean other
Speaker 2: than that, Hey, he's actually a.
Speaker 1: Very good He's actually very good. First basement, that's the
Speaker 1: problem with now I'm looking through his game. There's no outfield.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and you know Randa is not Diaz and Aranda
Speaker 2: aren't going anywhere. That's their one two in their lineup. Yeah.
Speaker 1: So yeah, yeah, so this is yeah, yeah, so Xavier
Speaker 1: Isaac and double a twenty four home runs, eighteen stolen bases,
Speaker 1: two fifty six average, a four to one one base percentage,
Speaker 1: and a five fifteen slug Go on.
Speaker 2: Come on, tell me, well, come on, they've got Ryan
Speaker 2: Bladi's sitting there in our game of Tao and Kenny Piper.
Speaker 2: You know, why do they need why do they need? Yeah?
Speaker 1: I know what they would tell me. It's like Wilson
Speaker 1: defense matters. This isn't fantasy base I get it. But
Speaker 1: I mean I got guy's big, strong kid.
Speaker 3: I don't know.
Speaker 1: Carson Williams, by the way, is he just off? Everybody's
Speaker 1: ready to cut hits, so we're done with him?
Speaker 2: Of course. Yeah, that's the way. That's the way it rolls,
Speaker 2: isn't it. You have a bad season until you resurrect
Speaker 2: your career.
Speaker 1: Yeah, you know, two bad seasons?
Speaker 2: Yeah what Yeah? Two twenty four average three twenty yeah,
Speaker 2: seven or eight with eleven home runs nineteen stolen bases.
Speaker 1: It's not striking out a third of the time.
Speaker 2: Yeah, one hundred and twenty nine case to forty seven walks. Yeah,
Speaker 2: not great.
Speaker 1: Yeah, let's see, I see if I can give you
Speaker 1: one more Zach Zach Venus up will probably be demoted
Speaker 1: very soon. It's gotta be somebody in Colorado that they
Speaker 1: can bring up. Oh. I told Charlie Condon is the
Speaker 1: guy that they should bring up.
Speaker 2: Yeah Condon, Yeah, you know what what sort of I
Speaker 2: was just looking looking at it, Davey, because I saw
Speaker 2: you during the week. I saw Adele Lamigora. Okay, I
Speaker 2: took I took a look, okay, and yeah he was
Speaker 2: up for well. He played five games in a row
Speaker 2: and got a few hits. And in the last seven
Speaker 2: days posted a twelve seventy twelve seventy eight ops and
Speaker 2: the homer six RBIs And then I noticed they demoted
Speaker 2: him on Friday.
Speaker 1: How many home runs did he hit? How many RBIs
Speaker 1: did he get? Gotta be more than that. That's all
Speaker 1: they care about, is is those those nineteen seventy statistics
Speaker 1: they read. I think that's all they did. Remember they
Speaker 1: tried to hire me for their analytics departments.
Speaker 2: Yeah, good call by you, right, good, good goal.
Speaker 1: My first meeting would be this is whip. Tomorrow we
Speaker 1: will talk about X.
Speaker 2: E r A.
Speaker 3: Yeah, how was calculated?
Speaker 2: And day three you're going to say, WTF means? And
Speaker 2: we're not going to use it as much anymore?
Speaker 1: Oh my goodness? All right, all right to mey, let's
Speaker 1: get to your way, war my friend. Enough of this,
Speaker 1: goof and off t us A Dela Santas our buddy. Yes, yes,
Speaker 1: swipe eighteen bases? Is that true?
Speaker 2: Yes?
Speaker 1: How is that possible?
Speaker 2: I don't know. I'm double checking it myself, right, I
Speaker 2: sort of ran out the time. I want to make
Speaker 2: sure I didn't get Zach Bean's stats in there. Somehow.
Speaker 2: Delas Sandos first base recall from Jacksonville. Yes, yeah, sixteen,
Speaker 2: actually sixteen last year.
Speaker 1: He's not fast.
Speaker 2: No, yeah what Yeah that nineteen would leave him tied
Speaker 2: for the lead league, for the team lead and home
Speaker 2: runs on the Marlins.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 2: No, the next he'd be tied with Hernandez. I believe
Speaker 2: with nineteen. Yeah, there's a team that needs some offense,
Speaker 2: like there is. Is there such a thing as less
Speaker 2: than nothing when it comes to power? If it is,
Speaker 2: the Marlins are it. There's just nothing there for power.
Speaker 2: You can look at their lineup and you know Stours,
Speaker 2: especially with Stowers on the IL. I just hope they
Speaker 2: give the kid a chance to play on a regular basis.
Speaker 2: And again, Miami needs any power they can possibly get
Speaker 2: because they have literally none.
Speaker 1: I'm trying to find a split I think he's a
Speaker 1: split guy. If I'm not mistaken, I might be getting
Speaker 1: the bemlick confused with a bemlick. Ortiz, it's the splits.
Speaker 2: Yeah, Arties is definitely a spot guy.
Speaker 1: Yeah, he's definitely a split guy. Here they are, there,
Speaker 1: we are. Let's go to twenty twenty six. It's pretty
Speaker 1: good strikeout right, right, I mean yeah, it'sretty aggressive at
Speaker 1: the plate. That's not good. But let's see if we
Speaker 1: got splits. Uh No, I mean he's doing okay, thirteen
Speaker 1: home runs versus right, five against left handed, so there's
Speaker 1: definitely more power, yeah, going against the right, but it's
Speaker 1: not they're not really there. I would call them modest
Speaker 1: splits against.
Speaker 2: Lefties, Okay, not enough that it should make a difference.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and he's a bright handed hitter too, so he
Speaker 1: just probably it's probably more comfortable with that. But it's
Speaker 1: it's a good call. If he's been called up, it'd
Speaker 1: beging to see him play, Tommy, I just began to
Speaker 1: see him play. Give him. Give them a chance.
Speaker 2: That's where I'm at, Yeah, give him, give him a chance.
Speaker 2: They don't have anybody they've really other than Kyle Stowers
Speaker 2: and Hernandoz and they don't really they have any power,
Speaker 2: and they're gonna have to find them somewhere. I don't
Speaker 2: know how they do it, but they're going to have to.
Speaker 2: You can't. Their offense right now resembles Cleveland Light. Yeah,
Speaker 2: and yeah, it's a problem.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, I agree. Unfortunately, they've got all these flawed
Speaker 1: I mean, Denison de Los adless flawled. I mean, it's
Speaker 1: they got a lot of flawed players. They just don't
Speaker 1: have a complete guy that I think they thought Jacob
Speaker 1: Marcy could be that guy. I erroneously thought maybe he
Speaker 1: had turned a corner, and it turned out he had not.
Speaker 1: But it's Marcy's flaunt. All these guys kind of come
Speaker 1: up and they could do some things well, but they
Speaker 1: just don't have a complete player.
Speaker 2: Yeah, Edwards Lopez, Yeah yeah, yeah, in Casey yeah yeah.
Speaker 2: You go through their whole line if you can list
Speaker 2: them all.
Speaker 1: They all have interesting things about them. Yeah, they do this,
Speaker 1: but the probably platoon guys or speed guy, power, power average,
Speaker 1: it's just it's near Yeah.
Speaker 2: Yeah, Ruiz place for them too, doesn't he Yeah?
Speaker 1: Uh whenstruise, Yeah, I can't remember now I'm starting because
Speaker 1: he's got like we talked about him, he's got like
Speaker 1: twenty nine tony nine stolen bases or something.
Speaker 2: Yeah. Every time I see a stolen base from him
Speaker 2: in a box score, I smile and chuckle.
Speaker 1: Yeah he is uh is Miami Marlins. Wow. Okay, let's
Speaker 1: get back to George class. And we talked about him
Speaker 1: a little bit. I love the arm here.
Speaker 2: Yeah, A big question for me. You know, he's he's
Speaker 2: coming off two great oatings, shut out the astros on
Speaker 2: one hit over seven and hopefully a six man rotation
Speaker 2: is part of the plan. And then I would say
Speaker 2: Glasson is a guy he should look at.
Speaker 1: Long term for all you people dynasty leagues. I think
Speaker 1: he's probably works better in the bullpen. He just doesn't
Speaker 1: have a great he doesn't have great control, he doesn't
Speaker 1: have a great pitching h like Batters, that's not a
Speaker 1: good change up or splitter. But I mean, look, he's
Speaker 1: have a success. If you're going for a title to him,
Speaker 1: this is what you care about, go get them.
Speaker 2: Yep. Yeah, we're down to five six starts, Okay out
Speaker 2: of all of these pictures. The odds of yeah, unless
Speaker 2: you're in an incredibly tight race, a blow up right
Speaker 2: now is not going to change the overall scope of
Speaker 2: things for the most part. But wins and strikeouts, Yeah,
Speaker 2: I've got some leagues. I'm targeting two star pictures. We're
Speaker 2: we're going to discuss some of them a little bit
Speaker 2: further on. You can take a few more chances right now.
Speaker 1: I wrote to our Patreon members about Christian Moore here
Speaker 1: at some point in the last few days, and it
Speaker 1: was it was good to see him get the call
Speaker 1: and also good to see he see you include him
Speaker 1: on the waiver wire.
Speaker 2: Well, yeah, I I think the odds are fairly good.
Speaker 2: We're going to see better than what we did the
Speaker 2: first goal round. You know, there's there's there's some power,
Speaker 2: there's some speed. Uh yeah, hey salt Lake is Yeah.
Speaker 2: It's not a pitcher's park. I don't believe. But ninety
Speaker 2: three ops and three and thirty four at bats at
Speaker 2: Triple A. If you're looking for a middle infielder to
Speaker 2: replace Dansby Swanson or whomever, I'd give him a look.
Speaker 1: This way, he's had a very very good season, So
Speaker 1: yes he has. He was again one of the Angels
Speaker 1: guys that they picked in the first round, wanted to
Speaker 1: get in there quickly, if you recall, as soon as
Speaker 1: he got signed, he made it all the way to
Speaker 1: the Double A. In this first two or three weeks,
Speaker 1: it looked great and then you hurt and guess what,
Speaker 1: Timmy's not that good. He's better than what he showed,
Speaker 1: but he's not that good.
Speaker 2: No, he's not somebody here from a dynasty perspective, you're
Speaker 2: gonna want to build your team around.
Speaker 1: But if he's sitting around in your waiver wire, I'd
Speaker 1: be going and picking them up. I mean, he's definitely, yeah,
Speaker 1: a bit of a rebirth this season. The data looks
Speaker 1: pretty good on him, so agreed, Cal quantrelle I'm I'm
Speaker 1: happy for Cal Quantrell because he went to I couldn't
Speaker 1: remember if he signed with the Rockies who got traded.
Speaker 1: I just remember feeling bad for him because Quantrell is
Speaker 1: one of those guys that's sneaky good, and particularly those
Speaker 1: drafted whole leagues, which I love to play. I love
Speaker 1: getting him in like the forties because nobody thinks he's
Speaker 1: any good and then he puts up decent numbers and
Speaker 1: he's really doing it this season.
Speaker 2: Well yeah, you know, he's only allowed three earned runs
Speaker 2: the past four starts. Two are quality starts. He's got
Speaker 2: a tough matchup this week against the Brewers. But when
Speaker 2: you're hot, you're hot. He's pitching well today thus far.
Speaker 2: So you know, hey, just because he's probably, say Cal Quantrell,
Speaker 2: they can all get hot, and he does occasionally. And
Speaker 2: when he does get hot, uh yeah, you gotta you
Speaker 2: gotta take a look at him and get him active.
Speaker 1: I don't think he's a bad picture I mean, he's
Speaker 1: he's a guy that's the back of the rotation guy.
Speaker 1: But I think he's sneaky good. It just when he
Speaker 1: went to Colorado, it was brutal and yeah, good to
Speaker 1: see him out of there with Texas. Now I agree,
Speaker 1: let's let's take a quick break and come back and
Speaker 1: finish up your list. And I got another name for you.
Speaker 1: I just want your thoughts.
Speaker 6: On Okay, Okay, we were riffing on Saturday.
Speaker 1: It's Friday when we were talking about a players and
Speaker 1: you mentioned Brandon Fought, and I did get a chance
Speaker 1: to circle back to you on Drana fut. I don't
Speaker 1: recall him being on your waiver wire recently, but he's
Speaker 1: been great.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 1: Is this is this the real Brandon fod or is
Speaker 1: this another tease of Brandon Fought?
Speaker 2: I don't know. I really don't. His last outing he
Speaker 2: allowed fiber and runs. Okay, that's the one. There we go. Yeah,
Speaker 2: so I want to see that next outing before. All
Speaker 2: I know is I picked him up a number of
Speaker 2: weeks ago, and I've had this in a couple of leagues.
Speaker 2: He's actually elevated me in one league to the point
Speaker 2: where I'm in first but okay, a combination of him
Speaker 2: and a couple of other pictures that I just basically
Speaker 2: was throwing, throwing it against the barn wall and hoping
Speaker 2: it would stick, and yeah it did. So he's been
Speaker 2: huge for me because I've had him throughout this whole run.
Speaker 2: But pending his next outing, he might find his way
Speaker 2: to the waiver wire. As I searched for a two
Speaker 2: to start pitcher, I can't afford to I can't afford
Speaker 2: to wait. I've got to have, you know, I gotta
Speaker 2: have some thing happening now. It's a regraft league. I'll
Speaker 2: worry more about whether it's a real Brandon Fat sometime
Speaker 2: in November. I just take what he's given right now
Speaker 2: because it's great.
Speaker 1: It's been very, very, very good and a guy that
Speaker 1: I almost feel like their careers have been parallel and
Speaker 1: parallel bad. I mean, Grayson Brandon Fat was supposed to
Speaker 1: be really good coming up through the Arizona pharm system.
Speaker 1: Grayson Rodriguez was supposed to be the Orioles number one starter,
Speaker 1: and both of them, their careers have just either gone
Speaker 1: sideways or just gone nowhere. And Grayson Rodriguez makes your
Speaker 1: list and like three or four years ago that would
Speaker 1: have been unheard of, and all of a sudden, now
Speaker 1: he looks like he's hot. He makes Tim waverar Ten's
Speaker 1: wayver warm.
Speaker 2: Yeah, you know, he had at a couple under runs
Speaker 2: against the Astros at seven innings six Draicho. It's past
Speaker 2: five votings. He's struck out thirty one twenty seventy eights. Fitch,
Speaker 2: he'd loved ten earned runs, and I put a caveat
Speaker 2: it's not quite vintage Rodriguez, but it's definitely a step
Speaker 2: in the right direction. And again, if you're searching for
Speaker 2: pitching late in the year, uh yeah, he's pitching well
Speaker 2: right now. Take a look at him.
Speaker 1: My buddy, Elmer Rodriguez. I hate the fact that he's
Speaker 1: getting probably going to get a chance because of Ryan Weathers,
Speaker 1: but I think he's going to get a chance.
Speaker 2: Right Well, it's it depends on what the what the
Speaker 2: what the Yankees do? Because if I'm not mistaken, isn't
Speaker 2: Clerk Schmidt just about ready to roll?
Speaker 1: I don't know.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I think he's I think he's getting close. And
Speaker 2: Max Freed I'm hearing is not going to be on
Speaker 2: for a long time. There could be a spots starting there.
Speaker 2: I just wanted to mention him because of the possible
Speaker 2: He's pitched really well down on the bomb.
Speaker 1: I love, you know I love.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, I know you do.
Speaker 1: And I'm looking at Clark Schmidt. I see I don't
Speaker 1: see a stout line for him.
Speaker 2: Uh well, not even on rehab.
Speaker 1: I just I went to fan Grasse. I typed in
Speaker 1: game log, or typed in minor. I typed, there's not
Speaker 1: a twenty twenty six drop down.
Speaker 2: Oh no, As a matter of fact, No, Schmid isn't
Speaker 2: that close. I was wrong. He's heading out.
Speaker 1: It's marked the time, it's marked the time. Tim is
Speaker 1: not not wrong admitting that he's wrong. It's even a
Speaker 1: bigger that's even a fact.
Speaker 2: Yeah. The only thing bigger would be as if it was,
Speaker 2: you know, a closer, a player from Japan or Korea.
Speaker 2: There's the there's the ultimate. No. I thought he's already
Speaker 2: started his rehab, But no he hasn't. So I take
Speaker 2: back everything I say about things getting that crowded. But
Speaker 2: uh and before I before, I proved myself wrong twice
Speaker 2: in one show. I'm looking at.
Speaker 1: So let's let's figure this out. So Schmid's not ready.
Speaker 1: Three just went on the I l Yeah, Elmer is
Speaker 1: the next guy outright, Are you missing anybody?
Speaker 2: Uh? Okay, mac vabree, he's throwing a book and Saturday
Speaker 2: it's not as severe this time. He's Boone is saying
Speaker 2: it could be the fifteen day stint, could be around
Speaker 2: the minimum before he's back. So yeah, they're gonna need
Speaker 2: They're gonna need Elmer for at least to start, Yeah,
Speaker 2: maybe more.
Speaker 1: All right, let's keep our fingers crossed. Love love, love Elmer,
Speaker 1: Elmer Rodriguez. So uh and then Javier is Santa Jay.
Speaker 2: Yeah. Second a short stuff, third base outfield, covers covers,
Speaker 2: the covers them all weekues of for first base and catcher.
Speaker 2: He's had a good week, slugged a couple of home runs,
Speaker 2: drive driven in eight runs that puts him second on
Speaker 2: the offensive charts for the year for the Marlins. Uh.
Speaker 1: But I think we can both agree he's not that
Speaker 1: good of a baseball player the right he's okay, he
Speaker 1: makes good contact, He's not that good of a player.
Speaker 2: No, it's the thing that I find a feeling about
Speaker 2: him right about now is second base, short stuff, third
Speaker 2: base outfield. That means I can have an extra picture
Speaker 2: probably on my reserves push me over the top. And
Speaker 2: it's the extra pictures I'm trying to focus on on
Speaker 2: right now for the most part, and having an injury
Speaker 2: replacement type type reserve slot on my you know, on
Speaker 2: my reserves.
Speaker 1: One of my many teams. I mean, I can't keep
Speaker 1: them all straight, which is a problem. I lost my
Speaker 1: shortstop last week and I had to find a replacement,
Speaker 1: and of course the waiver wires nothing. So you know,
Speaker 1: I sort by who's having the good last week or two,
Speaker 1: you know, you do all that kind of God help me.
Speaker 1: Taylor Ward came up. I'm like, it is Taylor Ward.
Speaker 1: No the guy. Wait, Taylor wait with the uh, with
Speaker 1: the with the rays. I'm like, all right, so I
Speaker 1: put a very minimal bit, I think one dollar stuff.
Speaker 1: I get them nothing to absolutely nothing.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 2: When I start looking at players of that, the first
Speaker 2: thing that comes to my mind is that an old
Speaker 2: expression I use every once in a while, like shoot
Speaker 2: me now.
Speaker 1: Now it's like, I guess jay, I mean, I didn't
Speaker 1: even know if maybe it was I don't even know,
Speaker 1: but it's just you know, you get to this and
Speaker 1: it's your You're you're taking players you know, are no good.
Speaker 1: You have to do.
Speaker 2: Spot. Yeah. Yeah, it's beyond tossing dart. It's tossing darts
Speaker 2: in an imaginary wall.
Speaker 1: Let's go to your closer report. You got Ben Joyce. Uh,
Speaker 1: he looks like the guy timmy over under makes it
Speaker 1: to the end of the season with that hit in
Speaker 1: the I.
Speaker 2: O Oh, well, based on his history. H I'm gonna
Speaker 2: go against the odds. I'll go with the underdog position.
Speaker 2: He does make it to the end of the year.
Speaker 2: And the other thing we have to mention is you
Speaker 2: know Tanner Scott's moved back into the closure role. Yes, yes,
Speaker 2: in Dodger in Dodger Land, with Diaz going on the
Speaker 2: I L. And the other the other thing of interest
Speaker 2: is the Cubs activated Valencia. Now, I don't think he's
Speaker 2: taking Dug that.
Speaker 1: Blew up last last night so he didn't pitch.
Speaker 2: Well, yeah, he's lurking in the shadows. If he can
Speaker 2: put the string together a couple of good games and
Speaker 2: web struggles at all. Uh, Yeah, that that could get interesting.
Speaker 2: There could be some saves coming up Valencia and Chicago.
Speaker 2: Some of the guys I'm looking at for next year,
Speaker 2: like Duarte and New York for the Mets. If do
Speaker 2: you want to stash a few guys, Duarte is one
Speaker 2: guy that I would stash.
Speaker 4: Uh.
Speaker 2: If Justin Martinez is still kicking around, I would look
Speaker 2: at me adding him for the future.
Speaker 1: He was taking it all my legs. But that was
Speaker 1: I agree with you there.
Speaker 2: Yeah. And the other player that interests me is a
Speaker 2: player that we we both got burnt on through no
Speaker 2: fault of our own.
Speaker 1: But of course not we're perfect in every way.
Speaker 2: Yes, Miller Miller in Boston, he's the number two guy
Speaker 2: there in right now.
Speaker 1: And Eric Miller, Go Eric Miller.
Speaker 2: So Eric Miller, Yeah, he's behind Chapman, but who knows
Speaker 2: what's going to happen heading into next year? Okay, I
Speaker 2: wouldn't give up on Eric Miller in a dynasty or
Speaker 2: a keeper type format. He's got a good arm and
Speaker 2: who knows what's going to happen next year with Chapman
Speaker 2: and Boston that whole situation. Uh, you know, Wedlock's hurt. Uh,
Speaker 2: he's on a fairly long term deal. But like I said,
Speaker 2: I I haven't given up on Eric Miller, not yet.
Speaker 1: Anyway, I'm gonna have taken your advice and I have
Speaker 1: not given up on him at all as well, So
Speaker 1: I've kept him. I think he's got a great arm.
Speaker 1: I did the research and this was a good arm
Speaker 1: and it just unfortunately got moved.
Speaker 2: So yeah, the arm was good. The circumstances not so
Speaker 2: much for us fantasy bok.
Speaker 1: All right, let's let's do two star pitchers and then
Speaker 1: we'll circle back and get Tim's recommendations for two star pitchers.
Speaker 1: I don't know if Matt Wilkinson. Are you sure he's
Speaker 1: a two star pitch pitcher?
Speaker 2: No, No, I screwed.
Speaker 3: Up because he's that's I thought he was pitching way.
Speaker 2: Yeah he's pitching today. Yeah, yes, yes, yeah that no,
Speaker 2: I thought he wasn't pitching until tomorrow. That's my football.
Speaker 2: That's two for one show and fessing up to it
Speaker 2: unheard of.
Speaker 1: Twice.
Speaker 2: That's what I ever tell you. I have an alcohol problem.
Speaker 1: Rich Oh lord, you know this one. This is this
Speaker 1: is another one of my kryptonites. Zebbie Matthews Minnesota Twins
Speaker 1: fifty two percent rostered at athletics. So he's going into
Speaker 1: Sacramento against Jeffrey Springs and then home against the White Sox.
Speaker 1: When they did this last night, his they didn't have
Speaker 1: a White Sox picture out there, Zebbie Matthews.
Speaker 2: Oh past, totally. I can't. I'm not starting him and
Speaker 2: I'm not starting him in that bandbox in uh Sacramando
Speaker 2: and the White Sox. Yeah, they're due for an explosion.
Speaker 2: Zebbie Matthews could be the perfect recipe for that. So
Speaker 2: I'm staying totally away from Zebbie Matthews.
Speaker 1: I'm wondering if Zebbie Matthews turns into Brandon fat like
Speaker 1: the guy that got totally got both of them totally wrong,
Speaker 1: good stuff, fastballs, a little straight with both of them.
Speaker 1: Maybe Zebby Matthews gonna have a run like Brandon Fattz having.
Speaker 1: I don't know if Brandon Fattest turned the corner, but
Speaker 1: he's definitely. I wonder if one one year, we're gonna
Speaker 1: look at Zebi Matthews don't have a ten game streak
Speaker 1: like Brandon fattis having.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I think it's entirely possible.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's not like the stuff isn't there, it's just
Speaker 2: he hasn't good. Yeah, he just hasn't got it all
Speaker 2: together yet. And I hey, I'll take him next year
Speaker 2: as a as a flyer in deeper leagues like drafting holes.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I'll definitely be able to get him. Yeah.
Speaker 2: Yeah, he'd be like that Quantrill somewhere in the Yeah,
Speaker 2: in the forty second round. Yeah, why not. He's gonna
Speaker 2: have a job probably, so you know.
Speaker 1: Maybe kind Freeland that's probably a no. But he is
Speaker 1: at Washington Andrew Alvarez and he is at Landa. That's
Speaker 1: why I put him in here because it's two road starts.
Speaker 2: Well, I'm all in on Andrew Albroz, so I can't
Speaker 2: be all in on Kyle Freeland. So that's a that's
Speaker 2: a pass for me.
Speaker 1: Jeffrey Springs Athletics thirty seven percent rostered. I get these
Speaker 1: from I don't have access anymore to CBS, so I
Speaker 1: get this from from fan tracks Minnesota. He's home against
Speaker 1: Minnesota and Zebby and he's home against Baltimore and Chris Bassett.
Speaker 2: Jeffrey Springs, Uh, that's a pass for me. He's going
Speaker 2: to have to pitch lights out to get at w
Speaker 2: and looking at the Athletics offense right now with all
Speaker 2: the injuries, I just don't see that one happening.
Speaker 1: Chris Bassett Baltimore thirty seven percent roster at Saint Louis
Speaker 1: and Matthew Liberatory in at Athletics and Jeffrey Springs.
Speaker 2: Yeah, we got a theme here happening everywhere. You're asking
Speaker 2: about everybody that's pitching in Sacramento, and I got a
Speaker 2: pass on the Sacramento thing.
Speaker 1: I just I just read the guys that are not very,
Speaker 1: very well rostered. So I'll skip the next one because
Speaker 1: that's what we'll do it now. Because this is one
Speaker 1: of Thames. I think he's gonna say yes, Max Sureser,
Speaker 1: which is surprisingly twenty seven percent rostered and fantracks. I
Speaker 1: thought that was wow. Kansas City Royals home against Kansa
Speaker 1: City Royals and Ceph Luga, the very hot Kansas City
Speaker 1: Royals and Seattle to be determined to wonder he's on
Speaker 1: your list. That's a good call.
Speaker 2: Yeah, Casey and Seattle their offenses, you know they're not
Speaker 2: that great. I think he's going up against the Logan
Speaker 2: Gilbert Seattle. Yeah. I again, the potential for low scores
Speaker 2: is there? Are you saying Max is going to pull
Speaker 2: it together and have a couple of good games next week.
Speaker 2: I like the fact that he's pitching against a couple
Speaker 2: offenses that are questionable.
Speaker 1: Very again, Royals have been hot, but I think questionable
Speaker 1: is reasonable. And then my last guy is Carson Wisenhunt,
Speaker 1: who's had one good game I think in a bunch
Speaker 1: of awful games. Another guy they kind of liked, but
Speaker 1: he hasn't put it together. Twenty four percent rostered. Tough
Speaker 1: matchup Cincinnati with Chase Burns and then home against the
Speaker 1: Arizona Diamondbacks and Mitch Brett.
Speaker 2: Yeah, Arizona's been playing pretty good ball, and South Stewart
Speaker 2: do for a three homer nine rbi outings. So no,
Speaker 2: I'm going to stay away from I'm going to stay
Speaker 2: away from Whisse.
Speaker 1: So Tim has got Mex Scherzer as his two starter,
Speaker 1: and he's also got Andrew Alvarest.
Speaker 3: Temmy, why that one?
Speaker 2: That one is a that's a total no brainer from
Speaker 2: my from my persot, I could end up being proven
Speaker 2: wrong on it. But Andrew albers his pitched fairly well. Yeah,
Speaker 2: you go back and you look. You know, the last
Speaker 2: his last four starts, he's gone at least five innings
Speaker 2: in each outing, He's only allowed a total of six
Speaker 2: runs and all he's got to show for his two losses.
Speaker 2: Alvarez has been getting absolutely no support and this week
Speaker 2: he's facing off at home against Kyle Freeland of the
Speaker 2: Rockies and Tyler Phillips of the Marlins. Does it get
Speaker 2: any better than the two start week against the Rockies
Speaker 2: and Marlins. You know, I'm liable to get smoked on
Speaker 2: this one, but everything is lined up. I'm picking up
Speaker 2: Alvarez all over the place, and I'm rolling them out there,
Speaker 2: Rockies and Marlins. Rockies away from Coors and the Marlins,
Speaker 2: don't matter where they are. It's to me, it's a
Speaker 2: perfect setup for a good week from somebody who's been
Speaker 2: pitched pretty good.
Speaker 1: I think it makes totally logical sense. I love this
Speaker 1: set up there. Hopefully it'll work out for everybody sick
Speaker 1: or find a break to me come back. I've got
Speaker 1: a couple of random stuff for you here.
Speaker 4: Okay, you mentioned Kuchi.
Speaker 1: Five pitch seven, hits, five and runs, four strikeouts, one walk.
Speaker 1: You got four strikeouts?
Speaker 2: Then, okay, he's also signed to a contract, so that
Speaker 2: that does.
Speaker 3: So he's going a bitch, Yeah, yeah, I.
Speaker 2: Would think so. Yeah. So yeah, six Van rotation please.
Speaker 1: Yeah, Dodgers up one to nothing. Let's see what's happening here.
Speaker 1: The Dodgers are throwing Blake snow and the Pirates are
Speaker 1: throwing backer.
Speaker 2: Okay, oh, Tawny scored the run and nobody drove him
Speaker 2: in and he stole the base.
Speaker 1: Red Sox up five to three. Here they've come back
Speaker 1: a little little bit against the Giants. Wilkinson got hit
Speaker 1: a little bit hard Tommy three and two thirds an
Speaker 1: He's pitch seven hits, four earned runs, two strikeouts, did
Speaker 1: the damage. Home run came from some car a second
Speaker 1: of the season. Wow, you can't give up a home run,
Speaker 1: Derek so Card, You just can't. Yeah.
Speaker 2: I think Mickey Gaspar with another ARV. I looked at
Speaker 2: I looked at him. He started the week off okay,
Speaker 2: with homers on three consecutive days. Okay, Mickey Gaspar and
Speaker 2: then did nothing for those. Look, he's hit three home
Speaker 2: runs all year, Okay. I couldn't recommend him based on
Speaker 2: three homers Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, unless, of course, you count
Speaker 2: retro stats, and most leagues don't like he's had a
Speaker 2: good week. But I just don't see it moving forward.
Speaker 2: Maybe in the deepest of leagues you could take a
Speaker 2: look at him as your number two catch, or like
Speaker 2: in the twenty team, or you know, in an only League.
Speaker 2: He was probably picked up last week, but there just
Speaker 2: wasn't enough to get me excited.
Speaker 1: That is a wrap, my friend, good stuff. I loved
Speaker 1: your waiver. I always love your waiver. I think it's great,
Speaker 1: and I actually wanted to give you a couple of kudos.
Speaker 1: That was kind of hard on you this week, so
Speaker 1: I want to give you a little love here. Uh
Speaker 1: looked at that first. It's kind of interesting. The first waiver.
Speaker 1: We're back on March twenty nine. A couple of games
Speaker 1: that you have had in there that you absolutely nailed.
Speaker 1: Dylan Dingler, well done, mister McLeod. Wow, yeah, Brady House,
Speaker 1: well don there, mister McLeod.
Speaker 2: Yeah. There's a good and the bad and the ugly here.
Speaker 2: I know there is no.
Speaker 1: I'm not going to give you the ugly. Anthony. There's
Speaker 1: one I'm gonna which I find is really really funny.
Speaker 1: I'll get to that, I mean, Anthony, Kay, another great call. Uh,
Speaker 1: Nason Nunyas No, I mean yeah, batt and second to Washington,
Speaker 1: be a good spot for the Unspeedzer has stolen up
Speaker 1: to seventy bases across hind that's just an absolute nailing
Speaker 1: of that. But you know who else is on this list.
Speaker 1: This is funny, Okay, Devinson di Les Santos. We have
Speaker 1: fully we've come full come, full circle, right, that was
Speaker 1: really really funny.
Speaker 2: First and first and one of the last. Yeah, I
Speaker 2: know the I always enjoy the first, the first three
Speaker 2: four waiver wires, those those to me are are really
Speaker 2: important ones. And I'll take a look at the end
Speaker 2: of the year and see and see how I did
Speaker 2: in week two, three and four. But I think it's
Speaker 2: just imperative that if you can get guys the earlier,
Speaker 2: you can get them, and if you hit with them,
Speaker 2: you got a full season ahead of you. That really
Speaker 2: does count in the way anything anything early. Yeah, it
Speaker 2: gets you out of the gate. And it's Alid bat Well.
Speaker 1: Louis Varland. You had, you know, you had a pre season,
Speaker 1: you had the first couple of weeks of the season,
Speaker 1: so that was definitely a guy that you nailed on
Speaker 1: as well. Chick April fifth, real quick, just to see
Speaker 1: if anything clops up. Let's see here, yeah, Josh.
Speaker 2: Last last fall.
Speaker 1: Yeah, good names in here. It's funny. Max Scherzers on
Speaker 1: this list too. It's that's another guy we come full circle.
Speaker 1: And here Tim was recommending Ryan Walt Schmidt back on
Speaker 1: April fifth. It took him a while to me, but
Speaker 1: he finally got the call. Yeah, so that's that's a
Speaker 1: good call too.
Speaker 2: Yeah, the Diamondbacks didn't agree with me as far as
Speaker 2: the timing of things, but yeah, I.
Speaker 1: Got Clig Peter too. He finally got the job.
Speaker 2: Yeah, he finally got the job.
Speaker 6: Yeah.
Speaker 1: Yeah, like a walk down memory lane.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, I hope for sight failure sometimes I think.
Speaker 1: So we've got this couple f yiyes. So I've got
Speaker 1: I'm on vacation. I'm here all week this week podcast
Speaker 1: next Sunday, and then Laurie and I are off on
Speaker 1: from the second of September through that's a Wednesday all
Speaker 1: the way through Tuesday. So there will be no show
Speaker 1: that Labor Day weekend everyone, so we will not a
Speaker 1: little bit dark. Then, so I apologize. It's my my anniversary,
Speaker 1: isn't it now. It's so we called our empty Nester getaway.
Speaker 2: So okay, there we go. I knew there was something
Speaker 2: coming up at the beginning of September every year. I
Speaker 2: don't know why I was thinking anniversary.
Speaker 1: So we always go away together. A lot of times
Speaker 1: we go away and we go with other people, and
Speaker 1: this is always just the two of us, and this
Speaker 1: is honoring our kids not being in our home anymore.
Speaker 2: So you're taking six weeks off. We've done our job.
Speaker 1: They're off the payroll now. So we actually started when
Speaker 1: they were still on the payroll. So they started when
Speaker 1: my daughter went away to college. So she's thirty five now,
Speaker 1: so that was probably seventeen eighteen years ago, maybe thirty three,
Speaker 1: so anyway, so that so we've been doing it. We
Speaker 1: go away every year. We did that every year except
Speaker 1: for and we always got just the two of us
Speaker 1: and we're going back to California. But there's something we
Speaker 1: go to probably every five years. It's called Pageant of
Speaker 1: the Masters. It's a weird thing. It's a Laguna Beach, California.
Speaker 1: It is an art show that has real live characters
Speaker 1: in it, real life people. So they'll have they'll have
Speaker 1: a painting of a picture like the American Gothic, remember
Speaker 1: that one with the two older people with man with
Speaker 1: the pitchfork. So they'll have a big life size portrait
Speaker 1: up there, but they'll actually be actors in those photographs
Speaker 1: and they post they have to they have to hold
Speaker 1: a post for like four or five minutes as a
Speaker 1: narrator talks about the picture. It sounds goofying. It is,
Speaker 1: but it might be one of the coolest things we've
Speaker 1: ever seen. It's just amazing to see the details they
Speaker 1: go to the to do these paintings and how they
Speaker 1: show you, how the actors kind of get I think
Speaker 1: their actors. I think anybody can do it, but you know,
Speaker 1: the actors kind of get in to do it. So
Speaker 1: we're going to be doing that. We're going for the
Speaker 1: closing I think it's a twenty fifth year doing It's
Speaker 1: where actually going for the closing show and meeting some
Speaker 1: of the people behind the scenes, and so it's going
Speaker 1: to be a whole thing. So it's one of the
Speaker 1: things that we we've always loved to do. So every
Speaker 1: five years we go and do that.
Speaker 2: That's awesome. It sounds like a blast, lot of fun.
Speaker 1: And then another thing I'm want to share with Tim.
Speaker 1: So on the nineteenth of September, we have we talked
Speaker 1: about this performing Arts center that's here in Morristown, New Jersey,
Speaker 1: which we love. We go to it as much as
Speaker 1: we possibly can. Right my first one of my first
Speaker 1: concerts I ever went to when I was a pimpled
Speaker 1: fourteen year old thirteen year old. So rush Ufo and
Speaker 1: Cheap Trick Open, Cheap Trick open the show, and Cheap
Speaker 1: Trick is on their fiftieth anniversary. They're coming to our
Speaker 1: Marristown Performing's Arts. We've got fifth throw tickets, Tommy Center Stage,
Speaker 1: ready to go. I'm gonna be reliving my childhood over again. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and watching the boys and Cheap Tricks. So I'm very
Speaker 1: very excited about that. Laurie's like, Cheap Trick, I'm like,
Speaker 1: we have to go. It's an amazing show. These guys
Speaker 1: are fun. You're gonna love it.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 2: So yeah, no, I one of my early concerts actually
Speaker 2: the first time I saw a Cheap Trick. They were
Speaker 2: just releasing their first album and they opened Kiss. I'd
Speaker 2: never heard I'd never heard of them.
Speaker 1: I neither had not heard of them.
Speaker 2: Either, and they absolutely rocked the place. It was great,
Speaker 2: it was awesome. I I didn't even statily in the Kiss,
Speaker 2: but I love Cheap Trick, went out the next day,
Speaker 2: bought the album and have all the early stuff.
Speaker 3: That's yeah, I knew you went to Kiss because I was.
Speaker 1: That's very jealous of that. But you left. I didn't
Speaker 1: realize you left before the show was over.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it wasn't. I just yeah, it's Kiss, right, Yeah,
Speaker 2: it just didn't cheap trick. Like I said. The next day,
Speaker 2: I went out bought the album, the first album, and
Speaker 2: became an instant fan. They were so much they were
Speaker 2: so much fun and Yeah, and they actually didn't get
Speaker 2: jerked around by the I definitely give Kiss credit for that.
Speaker 2: They didn't get jerked around as the opening act, which
Speaker 2: was cool. It wasn't a long performance, but at the
Speaker 2: same point in time, Yeah, they didn't have the volume
Speaker 2: down a one and a half or anything like that,
Speaker 2: which I have seen in the past.
Speaker 1: Do you remember what what year that was? Because I
Speaker 1: saw a cheap trick. I want to say so I
Speaker 1: was born in sixty threes. I want to say I
Speaker 1: was seventy seven, seventy six, seventy eight, something like that
Speaker 1: is what I saw.
Speaker 2: Okay, I will look real real quick. Oh it would
Speaker 2: be it's seventy six, seventy seven. I think somewhere in there.
Speaker 1: I might have saw him a year or two after you,
Speaker 1: because I don't think my parents would have let me go.
Speaker 1: I probably would have had it been fourteen. I don't
Speaker 1: think my parents would let me go on I'm twelve
Speaker 1: or thirteen to a rock concert. So but at fourteen
Speaker 1: I might have gotten away.
Speaker 2: With you might have gotten away with it.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 2: No, it was Actually one of the highlights of my
Speaker 2: live performances. Was in Sudbury and I saw Lynard skinnerd
Speaker 2: the original band the year before the plane crash open
Speaker 2: for Edgar Winter with Rick Derringer.
Speaker 1: They opened for Edgar Winter.
Speaker 2: Really yes, wow, yeah, yeah it was. It was their
Speaker 2: first date in Canada after a European tour. That was
Speaker 2: what were they looking at? It was the Give Me
Speaker 2: Back My Bullets tour or whatever. But it was all
Speaker 2: the original band and they absolutely tore the place apart.
Speaker 2: It was an amazing evening. And Derringer with Edgar Winter
Speaker 2: that was, you know, the Frankenstein era. Sure You Ride. Yeah,
Speaker 2: it was probably one of the best concerts I've ever seen.
Speaker 1: So I saw So, I saw Rush. I just looked
Speaker 1: on the inner Internet's got everything on it. Rush, UFO
Speaker 1: and Hip took place nineteen seventy seven. It was Rush
Speaker 1: as a farewell to King Store. I definitely remember that now,
Speaker 1: and it was the Baltimore Civic Center, November thirteenth, nineteen
Speaker 1: seventy seven. I was fourteen years old. Somehow my brother
Speaker 1: was four years older than me, so they trusted he
Speaker 1: would look after me. So so they let me go.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I can't even I can't even find it. I
Speaker 2: can't even find it. Oh, there we go. I can
Speaker 2: tell you exactly when it was. July nineteenth, nineteen seventy seven.
Speaker 1: So you saw him the same year I did. Yeah,
Speaker 1: just a few months after this, so they must have
Speaker 1: opened up for Kiss, and then a few months later
Speaker 1: they were opening it up for UFO and Rush.
Speaker 2: So okay, yeah, I'm just looking at the set list
Speaker 2: now for Kiss. Yeah it popped up. Yeah, it's crazy.
Speaker 2: It's crazy what you can you can find on the internet.
Speaker 1: Eh, yeah crazy. Here's here's the set list. Uh, there's
Speaker 1: a Russia setlist. They just have Russia set lists. They
Speaker 1: don't have a Cheap Tricks set list. No, anyway, we digress.
Speaker 2: Yes, we have our our our love of music. Yeah
Speaker 2: that's Kiss. I'm just looking at.
Speaker 1: I can't believe you walk down on Kiss. I mean
Speaker 1: I was on a huge Kiss fan, but looking back,
Speaker 1: I would I wish I'd have gone to a Kiss
Speaker 1: concert and with all the pyrotechnics and stuff like that,
Speaker 1: I just I just didn't do it.
Speaker 2: Yeah, no, yeah, that is the date. I just googled
Speaker 2: cheap Trick in Sudbury and it came up with the
Speaker 2: same the same date for Kiss. Yet they had the
Speaker 2: open for Kiss on forty nine years ago, July nineteenth,
Speaker 2: nineteen seventy seven. I would have been nineteen years old.
Speaker 1: Yeah, you'd have been my big brother. Yeah, I have
Speaker 1: be my big brother, kept me out of trouble.
Speaker 7: I don't think we want to revisit the No, I
Speaker 7: would have got you into trouble, throwing you under the
Speaker 7: bus and giggled rich I could.
Speaker 1: I could. Back in the day, the way it was
Speaker 1: when I went to concerts, there was This was back
Speaker 1: when marijuana wasn't legalized. It's all legalized now and they
Speaker 1: don't let you smoke an arenas. But the whole concert
Speaker 1: was just teeming with with doobies and and it was
Speaker 1: the cigarettes would be passed down on the aisle and
Speaker 1: I remember getting passed to me and my brother taking
Speaker 1: that and and basically passing it on. I mean he
Speaker 1: did take care of me and get my personality. It's
Speaker 1: a good thing he did, so.
Speaker 2: I would have been the guy probably passing it down you.
Speaker 7: Great, Oh yeah, yeah, and everybody had everybody had a
Speaker 7: bit lighter because for the encore that's right, Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 7: you had a bit later there was none of this
Speaker 7: like camera thing and yeah.
Speaker 1: You turn your light on the back of your phone.
Speaker 2: Yeah. Yeah, I'm surprised more places didn't burn to the
Speaker 2: ground over the years. I know, eight thousand people holding
Speaker 2: up bick lighters. What's the odds of getting out of there? Everybody?
Speaker 2: You know, I would light I would put my bic
Speaker 2: lighter up there and hold it up there, half hammered,
Speaker 2: and I'd be always looking for where the exits were.
Speaker 2: You know. I was the confident person at that.
Speaker 1: So it's interesting you were participating that, but you had
Speaker 1: the wherewithal to know this is mad and what's the
Speaker 1: way if this goes south? How do I get it?
Speaker 1: That's actually impressive.
Speaker 2: Yeah, don't feel me now.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that proves maybe irresponsible, but not a dumb person.
Speaker 1: You were always very smart saying this could go sideways
Speaker 1: and how do I get out of here?
Speaker 2: Yeah? No, I I still would have thrown you under
Speaker 2: the bus. See what this kid was doing at the concert, mom, Yeah,
Speaker 2: to rescue him concert. It was terrible.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's funny, all right, Temmy. We will hopefully see
Speaker 1: you on Friday. Everybody has a good week, and good
Speaker 1: luck with your teams unless you're playing up against me.
Speaker 1: And come on, Lawrence Butler.
Speaker 2: We want to say next week that the Butler actually
Speaker 2: did it. Be safely well, folks, and we'll catch you
Speaker 2: all on Friday. Have a good week.