The Red Sox Embarrass the Yankees | Ep. 44

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spk_0 All one, all two, all three.

spk_0 Podcast doesn't have 44 August 25th, baby.

spk_0 This is it.

spk_0 Great series of rivalries.

spk_0 We have Bravesmets.

spk_0 We had Padres Dodgers.

spk_0 And we had the Yankees versus the Red Sucks.

spk_0 I should take that back because the Reds,

spk_0 they didn't suck this weekend.

spk_0 The Red Sucks actually,

spk_0 it's time for the Yankees to call them their daddy.

spk_0 At least this season.

spk_0 Because if we go back, we look at the notes,

spk_0 we look at the facts of the matter is,

spk_0 June, Red Sucks beat them two out of three.

spk_0 Okay.

spk_0 Later in June, Red Sucks swept them three in a row.

spk_0 This weekend, three out of four for the Red Sucks.

spk_0 So if you look at that, that was an eight game win streak for the Red Sucks.

spk_0 And I guess they have one more series left,

spk_0 but as of now, eight and two against the Yankees in 2025,

spk_0 the worst Yankees have done against the Red Sucks since 1912.

spk_0 That's three big booms if you're a Red Sucks fan.

spk_0 Um, I mean, where were you in 1912, Mitch?

spk_0 Not here.

spk_0 And we're not even here.

spk_0 Babe Ruth wasn't even on the scene in 1912.

spk_0 Babe Ruth wasn't even alive yet.

spk_0 Damn, pre- Babe Ruth.

spk_0 That is crazy.

spk_0 And it's not even, I mean, eight and two, that does blow my mind, eight and two.

spk_0 Eight and two.

spk_0 You think there'd be a season sweep somewhere over 120 something years,

spk_0 115 years, whatever the fuck.

spk_0 Well, at the end of the day, the Yankees kind of got their lunch

spk_0 force fed to them up their butt this weekend.

spk_0 Um, and they're not taking it well.

spk_0 I mean, Anthony Volpin might not ever play again.

spk_0 Judge, I mean, Yankees, you know, every time the Yankees have a bad year,

spk_0 they can say, well, at least we got judge.

spk_0 You got an MVP.

spk_0 I don't think judge is going to win the MVP anymore.

spk_0 He is now tied in a war with Cal Raleigh.

spk_0 I think Cal Raleigh has comfortably surpassed judge in the MVP conversation.

spk_0 Some would disagree with that.

spk_0 We'll get to that a little later on, but judge sends coming off the I.O. with the, with the, um,

spk_0 what was what do you injure again?

spk_0 His hand is are like, um, so the TG, though, the potential TG, but he's hitting 207

spk_0 since coming back in 17 game 775 OPS plus.

spk_0 I think he's got three home runs.

spk_0 So not good for Aaron judge.

spk_0 I mean, even worse is Max Fried.

spk_0 He had a great start against the Red Sox, but before that, it was really bad.

spk_0 Yeah. So Max Fried at the end of June had a 1.92 ERA.

spk_0 I think that was the second best ERA in baseball.

spk_0 Sense June, the end of June, 5.94 ERA for Max Fried.

spk_0 I don't know where that would rank in the league, but some people are starting to call him

spk_0 Max Fried.

spk_0 A little disrespectful, but some people are calling that.

spk_0 Um, so the Yankees kind of get, um, boss around, bro.

spk_0 And coming to the series, Yankees were actually hot.

spk_0 I mean, this month, they were terrible.

spk_0 Made all the errors.

spk_0 People wanted to ban the team from even playing, but going into the series, eight and two

spk_0 the last time, five game winning streak into the series.

spk_0 The team was pitching well.

spk_0 Team was hitting well.

spk_0 Everyone is actually hitting well other than Aaron judge, but jazz hit two homeers,

spk_0 charisma hit two home runs.

spk_0 John Carlos stands been one of the best hitters in the league.

spk_0 But when they play against big brother, Boston Red Sox, they just get embarrassed.

spk_0 I mean, break it down for me, Mitch.

spk_0 What was the ins and outs?

spk_0 Even coming into the series, the Red Sox were three and seven in their last ten.

spk_0 So you, if you're Yankees fan, you got to feel really good about this series going in.

spk_0 It's a four game series.

spk_0 You have a two game lead.

spk_0 And it just did not work out the first game.

spk_0 Uh, Louis Kiel had a five inning start, allowed two runs, but then Camilo Duval blew it.

spk_0 And the Yankees.

spk_0 He's been terrible for the Yankees since getting there.

spk_0 The other guys have cleaned up a little bit, but I mean, Jake Bird's still in the minors,

spk_0 isn't he?

spk_0 Yeah.

spk_0 So I mean, it's just David Bednar.

spk_0 Bednar is doing okay.

spk_0 But I think I think Duval's got like a six plus ERA on the Yankees.

spk_0 Not to interrupt you.

spk_0 Now, I gotta go check that.

spk_0 I have a different Yanke or New York reliever on my radar, but Duval has a six forty eight

spk_0 ERA with New York after having a three oh nine ERA in San Francisco.

spk_0 Oh, the bright lights.

spk_0 But yeah, the Red Sox pen covered four point one scoreless innings in that first game.

spk_0 They won Roman Anthony hit a big two run homer Nathaniel Low.

spk_0 He got dropped by the nationals got picked up by Boston.

spk_0 It's been really good in Boston.

spk_0 Game two was a pitcher's duel Brian Bale went seven scoreless innings max freed went six

spk_0 scoreless innings.

spk_0 But the Yankees allowed a RBI double to Carter Wong who entered the game as the third worst

spk_0 hitter in baseball.

spk_0 And they allowed two hits to him and he had the game the only run involved in that game.

spk_0 And then game three care crochet struck out 11.

spk_0 The Red Sox just destroyed the Yankees pitching Paul Blackburn got picked up by the Yankees

spk_0 immediately allowed seven runs.

spk_0 Paul Blackburn that's a you're throwing out there if you're the Yankees.

spk_0 So I mean, if you're a Red Yankees fan, that's just a demo.

spk_0 It doesn't even matter that you won on Sunday.

spk_0 That helps a little bit a little bit.

spk_0 I mean, the Yankees reaction is like you think they'd have the are out of a playoff spot

spk_0 way out of it.

spk_0 Right now they got what a 95% chance to make the playoffs.

spk_0 The Yankees have the second best have the best odds to win the World Series out of any

spk_0 American league team still after the series.

spk_0 They're a half came back of the Red Sox, but the reaction from the fan base, you wouldn't

spk_0 know that.

spk_0 I guess that's to be expected coming out of the Bronx, but.

spk_0 And then some could argue that fucking calculation is way off.

spk_0 It does feel high for a team that doesn't seem like they have any chance to win the division.

spk_0 They don't have a chance to win the division.

spk_0 Well, I can't say they don't have a chance to win the division.

spk_0 They're down five and a half, they're down five and a half games back to the Toronto

spk_0 Blue Jays.

spk_0 But the thing about the Yankees, yeah, on paper, like you look at them like compared

spk_0 to the Blue Jays, like you could say, they're probably as good as them, probably better

spk_0 than them.

spk_0 Based on the players they have, they got a lot of good offense.

spk_0 If Max Friedz, if Max Friedz is pitching well, like he is, he's better than any start

spk_0 of the Blue Jays have.

spk_0 They're bullpen with Bednar and Duval on top of what they already had, probably better

spk_0 than the Blue Jays bullpen, but it's the little things, Mitch.

spk_0 It's the sloppy little Yankees.

spk_0 They don't know how to field.

spk_0 I mean, Volpe is number one example of that.

spk_0 I mean, he's my not even playing anymore, right?

spk_0 His defense has been bad, but his offense has also been very bad.

spk_0 I think this time around, his benching was because he had been one for, what was it?

spk_0 One for 28.

spk_0 In the last 10 days, one for 28, he has one hit in the last 10 days.

spk_0 And then on, what was it?

spk_0 Saturday, he tried to make this play behind the runner and it just gave the Red Sox a free

spk_0 base runner.

spk_0 I don't know how what happened with Anthony Volpe, but this was a goal, Glover, two years

spk_0 ago.

spk_0 And right now, he's the worst defender in the league, out of the above average.

spk_0 He has the second most errors in baseball behind Ellie De La Cruz and he's a negative, I

spk_0 don't know, I don't think he's the worst, but he's a negative, out of the above average,

spk_0 shortstop, and he can't hit.

spk_0 So it's like, you get the worst of all outcomes here.

spk_0 Yeah.

spk_0 That's what they say, defense don't slump.

spk_0 Defense don't slump, but Anthony Volpe 100% isn't a defensive slump.

spk_0 And I think it's probably in his head more than anything.

spk_0 And you know, maybe it's good to give him some breaks, but Michael K in the broadcast,

spk_0 quote, it can't get much worse than this.

spk_0 How much is enough?

spk_0 You are the New York Yankees embarrassing doesn't even come close to describe the Yankees

spk_0 performance against the Red Sox this season.

spk_0 Unbelievable.

spk_0 And that's for a team that has the best odds to win the World Series out of any American

spk_0 league team.

spk_0 So is it an overreaction or are they started arguing whether Aaron Judge was good?

spk_0 I think I think the Bronx is burning.

spk_0 Aaron Judge might be cooked.

spk_0 I mean, you seven, 75 OPS plus over 13 games.

spk_0 You can't come back from that.

spk_0 It's probably like a league average hit, right?

spk_0 Yeah, I mean, this one dude Brandon J B supreme said,

spk_0 low, I remember when Yankees fan Earl was one of the only Yankees fans that said,

spk_0 we should let judge walk three years ago.

spk_0 And I can't lie.

spk_0 I fully understand why he said that.

spk_0 The favorite of Aaron mother, Rick and judgment.

spk_0 You've had enough.

spk_0 Like you've given the reins.

spk_0 You get made into captain and he had didn't win the World Series last year.

spk_0 And now is frickin arm hurts.

spk_0 So you got two options either kill him on the field execution style or trade him.

spk_0 I probably trade him for value.

spk_0 That's just me.

spk_0 I like the hat Jack with the fuck to get that.

spk_0 I got this at the Braves game.

spk_0 Oh, with me.

spk_0 Yeah, I thought you had the one same one I had, but a little different.

spk_0 Love it.

spk_0 Braves back your back on the Braves bandwagon.

spk_0 The lower case A though I don't love.

spk_0 I wish it was an uppercase A.

spk_0 It's old school, bro.

spk_0 Hank Aaron episode 44.

spk_0 You wore it for 44.

spk_0 Good shit.

spk_0 I did it on purpose.

spk_0 I knew that respect.

spk_0 Jack, they do have an uppercase A hat.

spk_0 It was a panic.

spk_0 Joey was rushing me.

spk_0 We were in the freaking in the pro shop and Joe.

spk_0 Did they call it a pro shop in baseball?

spk_0 I know team store team store and Joe was like,

spk_0 and then freaking for like hounding us because we were with Uncle.

spk_0 We're trying to get back to the to the season time to the national anthem.

spk_0 I believe.

spk_0 Yeah, well, you're we're good Americans.

spk_0 Yes, sir.

spk_0 Where it just for like, like that's us in the Middle East.

spk_0 Go America.

spk_0 No, no, we don't support war here.

spk_0 A podcast doesn't at podcast doesn't.

spk_0 Paul made the existing.

spk_0 You got to defend the protect this house.

spk_0 Where would where would like where would judge go for real?

spk_0 I know that's not going to happen.

spk_0 I don't like but like where would he go?

spk_0 No where.

spk_0 Yeah, did you see that question?

spk_0 I know it's not going to happen.

spk_0 Where would he go for literally nowhere?

spk_0 It's not possible.

spk_0 It's not asking again in like seven years.

spk_0 You got a better chance to get in trade a jack.

spk_0 And you got no trade clause.

spk_0 Aaron judge is a New York Yankee for life.

spk_0 Judge and pinstripes.

spk_0 That's peanut butter and jelly sandwich, bro.

spk_0 There's no judge without pinstripes.

spk_0 And now there's no pinstripes without judge.

spk_0 I mean, it's pretty.

spk_0 The Yankees without Aaron judge would be.

spk_0 I mean, since Aaron judges got there.

spk_0 Now I bet the Yankees would have probably got some other guys if they didn't have Aaron

spk_0 judge because they're going to spend.

spk_0 But if you took a sense Aaron judge got into the league in 2016 or the fuck and you took

spk_0 Aaron judge off the Yankees, they would probably be as good as like.

spk_0 The Guardians have been since 2016.

spk_0 Judge debuted late into 2016 to position player war.

spk_0 Aaron judge has just has 58.8.

spk_0 The next best player is Glebert Torres at 15.9.

spk_0 So he's the best player going right now.

spk_0 Other than Otani and Cal Raleigh.

spk_0 But I mean, we just talked about how bad Yankees are.

spk_0 But do we have to give the red socks credit?

spk_0 You know, I always shit on the red socks every time they come up because they don't really

spk_0 have that pop.

spk_0 I like this new kid they brought up though.

spk_0 He looks cool scrap.

spk_0 You know what I'm talking about?

spk_0 No.

spk_0 He, I don't even know his name, but he has a crazy first name and he has very little.

spk_0 The password.

spk_0 This guy.

spk_0 That guy has star potential.

spk_0 All I had to do is see a picture of him, a couple of videos of him.

spk_0 I'm like, that guy has star.

spk_0 See, his name is a random generated password.

spk_0 Yeah.

spk_0 I mean, yeah, that's his nickname.

spk_0 The bad.

spk_0 I don't know why his, is that why they call him the password?

spk_0 Yeah.

spk_0 Nice.

spk_0 Yeah, the password.

spk_0 He looks like a like a tribal chief dude like crazy horse or something.

spk_0 Like, he looks pretty freaking cool.

spk_0 Little big bat.

spk_0 I think little big bat.

spk_0 Not bad.

spk_0 But yeah, so shout out to the red socks.

spk_0 Do they, they move in the second place.

spk_0 And they're feeling good about themselves.

spk_0 The blue jays, they stay in first place.

spk_0 They beat Jack Smiley on two out of three and they have this bucket of burgers, bro.

spk_0 Do you see the slob?

spk_0 27 all you can eat are for what they call it?

spk_0 They cut this grub tub.

spk_0 They have this drink slash burger thing on the menu in Toronto.

spk_0 We get three bacon cheeseburgers or you can get tenders in it and it comes in like.

spk_0 A big goal.

spk_0 Soda and there's a straw in the middle of the three burgers.

spk_0 So you can drink soda and then eat three burgers around the soda.

spk_0 And it's only $27 and you get three burgers and a soda.

spk_0 This might be the best deal and baseball concession wise.

spk_0 I'm going to and that's Canadian dollars too.

spk_0 That's Canadian freaking dollars.

spk_0 That's a quick tariffs.

spk_0 I think that is one of the dumbest things I've ever seen.

spk_0 Dude, three burgers and a bowl.

spk_0 That's a cup.

spk_0 And then think about it, bro.

spk_0 After you eat them, you can bring this cup home and you can use it as a hat.

spk_0 Because it looks like a bucket if you flip it over.

spk_0 And if you crush all that soda and three burgers in one game,

spk_0 you can wear it as a hat for the later innings.

spk_0 Could be a rally cap.

spk_0 That is $19.52 US dollars.

spk_0 I don't think you can find a better deal.

spk_0 Three sandwiches and a large drink out of baseball game.

spk_0 But what cost?

spk_0 Not literally, but you know what I mean?

spk_0 $27.80.

spk_0 Yeah.

spk_0 Healthcare is free in Canada.

spk_0 So it's actually a good deal that even better deal.

spk_0 But yeah, that's going to raise your cholesterol.

spk_0 That's a lot of cows.

spk_0 But if you get diet soda, protein,

spk_0 hey, you got to do what you got to do.

spk_0 The blue J's beat the Marlins two out of three, dude.

spk_0 Did you see that psycho-ass picture for the Marlins that post game interview?

spk_0 What is his name?

spk_0 He got traded to the Marlins.

spk_0 Something Phillips.

spk_0 I guess you're right on the name.

spk_0 This guy's bullpen entrance from the bullpen for the Miami Marlins granted.

spk_0 You know, it's not the biggest, high energy crowd in the world.

spk_0 Okay, a lot of times there'll be, you know, 20 Cuban people and then like

spk_0 40 other people there.

spk_0 And like that's how they rock than in Marlins, a lot of games.

spk_0 And he comes in out of the bullpen and they're doing the flashlights and he just

spk_0 fucking smack himself in the face three times, runs in, closes out games for the Marlins.

spk_0 When they need it, it's intense.

spk_0 It's very intense.

spk_0 He got at least one save this weekend, that one game they won.

spk_0 But the real story comes down to is Mr. Bieber's back on the mound.

spk_0 Shane Bieber.

spk_0 Shane Bieber coming off the TJ.

spk_0 He released a like a teaser trailer right before his start.

spk_0 And then he went out and he had a nine strike out game in six innings,

spk_0 allowed one run on two hits.

spk_0 I saw he's getting into the media game.

spk_0 Did he make a thank you Cleveland video?

spk_0 I'm going back and seeing what it was.

spk_0 It felt like a.

spk_0 I'll be honest.

spk_0 It didn't hook me.

spk_0 I watched the first 15 seconds.

spk_0 I didn't watch the first seven.

spk_0 Yeah, it didn't hook me.

spk_0 It was a little slow starting, but you know what we have tick tick tick,

spk_0 tick tock brains.

spk_0 We're like, do where's the hook?

spk_0 Come on Shane.

spk_0 Two seconds and we're out.

spk_0 Staying Shane.

spk_0 Oh, it's got a director.

spk_0 Yeah.

spk_0 I didn't even make it that far.

spk_0 Oh, the what the director, that's my man.

spk_0 And the guy used to do that ship, the suffer Trevor Bauer.

spk_0 I forget I'm blanking on his name.

spk_0 Tucky green.

spk_0 Yeah, Tucky.

spk_0 Great videographer.

spk_0 Make some good shit.

spk_0 It worked for him, bro.

spk_0 Nine strikeouts in his debut.

spk_0 I'm sure I hope his fuck that was his velocity up or anything.

spk_0 I mean, come it off.

spk_0 Tommy John, that is usually the concern.

spk_0 So as fastball Velo in this start was 92.5.

spk_0 Which is exactly what it was last year with the Guardians.

spk_0 And but he only had like one start with the guardians, but compared that to 2023.

spk_0 It's about in mile an hour faster than 2022 and 2023.

spk_0 So he's doing harder now, at least in his first game in his first game.

spk_0 All right, Shane.

spk_0 That's a, I mean, that is a massive event.

spk_0 Like if it could be one of the biggest expectors going into the post season.

spk_0 If Shane Bieber is close to what his peak was, which was a sight young.

spk_0 So maybe not you don't even have to be that good.

spk_0 But if you are an all star level pitcher and the blue jays just got this guy for,

spk_0 I mean, I don't know who they traded, but I'm going to guess not much.

spk_0 And they add that's, you know, he could be the number one starter on the team.

spk_0 He's capable of it.

spk_0 Kyle Steven was the guy traded to the Guardians.

spk_0 I feel like we said it at the time, but this has the, it had the potential to be one

spk_0 of the most valuable trades at the deadline because they got him back within a month of the

spk_0 deadline. So you have seven eight starts from Bieber.

spk_0 I mean, it came out of nowhere.

spk_0 Really was like, okay, Shane Bieber.

spk_0 This guy hasn't pitched all year, but now he's getting traded.

spk_0 How do you get traded if you're not playing?

spk_0 But then he is playing in first game back nine Ks.

spk_0 One run on two hits.

spk_0 All right.

spk_0 And if you go look at what Mac Shurs has been doing lately.

spk_0 I think the blue jays might just scrape together one of these like,

spk_0 their starters are all old.

spk_0 They got a bunch of geezers on the team.

spk_0 The blue jays starting pitching all year too has not been great.

spk_0 They are 19th this year in starting pitching.

spk_0 So like the offense has carried them even during that hot streak in June and July.

spk_0 It was all the offense.

spk_0 And if they have now an ace caliber pitcher, I could be huge.

spk_0 I'm kind of having hope for Shursers.

spk_0 Shursers last four starts in August.

spk_0 He has a 1.80 ERA.

spk_0 Not fucking bad for old Max dude.

spk_0 What's his VLOG?

spk_0 I don't care.

spk_0 Is it good?

spk_0 For the season, it's 93.6.

spk_0 Hey, it could be worse.

spk_0 I mean, what was Max and his prime was getting up there into to 99, right?

spk_0 Looks like his average in his prime was about 95.

spk_0 But is he striking mother fuckers out still?

spk_0 I mean, he had a game the earlier this year with 10 11 Ks.

spk_0 And a loss against the Tigers.

spk_0 I mean, he's not striking out time.

spk_0 His last five.

spk_0 This is his second lowest strikeout rate of his career makes, but he finds a way.

spk_0 He finds a way.

spk_0 He finds a way, man.

spk_0 He's a professional pitcher.

spk_0 All right.

spk_0 Then we got the Dodgers over there as former team.

spk_0 They had another old fart out there.

spk_0 You Darvish.

spk_0 I feel like he's been fucking turning back the clock too.

spk_0 Everyone forgot about you.

spk_0 You Darvish and his contract is hilarious.

spk_0 I feel like you Darvish has a good start every other start.

spk_0 He's getting paid until he's like 45.

spk_0 Like legitimately, yeah, for no reason.

spk_0 $30 million a year until 2028, which will be his age 41 season.

spk_0 Yeah.

spk_0 And you hit a rail that had against the meds, seven scoreless innings.

spk_0 Next start against the Diamondbacks.

spk_0 You got rocked for three runs and four innings.

spk_0 Start after that one run and six innings.

spk_0 Great.

spk_0 Next start got rocked for runs and four innings.

spk_0 Then last start against the Dodgers.

spk_0 The most important start.

spk_0 One run given up in six innings.

spk_0 For Mr.

spk_0 you Darvish and the Padres reverse, reverse.

spk_0 Fucking slap the Dodgers in the face.

spk_0 I mean, last week the Dodgers come in trailing the boys and they kind of coming

spk_0 in and bear some.

spk_0 They take all the Dodgers and men and say bitch.

spk_0 Fucking bop them in the nose.

spk_0 Then they turn around to go lose two to the Rockies.

spk_0 It's almost felt I feel like the Dodgers just kind of squander like a great

spk_0 opportunity.

spk_0 At least they lost all their momentum because they swept the Padres after

spk_0 all this all this losing.

spk_0 They're like, all right, actually we are the goats.

spk_0 Then they go to Colorado and lose two out of four.

spk_0 Two out of four and show how he gets shelled and they're like, all right,

spk_0 that momentum is down.

spk_0 So now we I think they went into the series tied.

spk_0 They had a one game lead going into the series and then they get slapped in

spk_0 the face the first two games.

spk_0 I mean, I was thinking this is going to be a freaking, this is going to be a reverse

spk_0 slap.

spk_0 When Lori on a rubbed the grand slam in the first inning yesterday, I was like,

spk_0 oh man, the Padres are going to sweep.

spk_0 But the Dodgers often showed up late.

spk_0 Yeah.

spk_0 They scored runs against the Padres bullpen, which I mean, that's something not

spk_0 a lot of teams have done that nobody.

spk_0 The second half.

spk_0 What is the stat that you had on here?

spk_0 I mean, I checked it today.

spk_0 I think they had the second best bullpen in the second half now, but going into

spk_0 the series, it was the best by like two runs going into the series.

spk_0 They had a 1.99 bullpen area, which was nearly a four run lower than the second

spk_0 best bullpen.

spk_0 The brewers who had a 2.94.

spk_0 Yeah.

spk_0 And the good thing about that is like a lot of times.

spk_0 Oh my God.

spk_0 Yeah.

spk_0 You look at their fan graphs.

spk_0 They have that on the roster resource where if you're in the top 30, they put

spk_0 your shit in red.

spk_0 They're one, two, they have five.

spk_0 Five relievers in the top 30 in relief pictures.

spk_0 Based on the fan grass power rank.

spk_0 Okay.

spk_0 So five out of their eight relievers are elite relievers.

spk_0 Jeremy Astrada, Adrian Moriel, Jason Adam, Mason Miller, Robert Sures, not

spk_0 freaking bad boys, not freaking bad.

spk_0 But like I was saying, a lot of times you know, you get a hot bullpen and then you

spk_0 kind of like, all right, these guys are pitching well now, but can we trust them?

spk_0 But this seems legit as shit.

spk_0 Like they have a.

spk_0 One of the rarest bullpens, bullpen of the decade, perhaps of the decade,

spk_0 bullpen of the decade, perhaps.

spk_0 I mean, what would you say the bullpen of the decade?

spk_0 This is a tough question.

spk_0 Will Smith, Tyler, Matt, like AJ, mentor and Jesse Chavez.

spk_0 Hey, but that was the bullpen of the decade for three weeks in the playoffs.

spk_0 And that's how you win a world series.

spk_0 So it really comes down to like, how good is your bullpen for two, three weeks?

spk_0 I mean, I trust this bullpen too.

spk_0 If you have Mason Miller coming out in the eighth inning, Jeremiah Astrada, he,

spk_0 I mean, he gave up a two run home or yesterday, but generally he's been a very good

spk_0 reliever and he's fifth on this flow chart.

spk_0 And then the is a David Morgan who's coming in out of long relief.

spk_0 And he has like a, yeah, a 1.72 ERA.

spk_0 He's their long reliever.

spk_0 So you got to give it up for the frickin' Padres, man.

spk_0 And they, I mean, they're, they're trade deadline moves.

spk_0 I would say probably worked out better than anyone's.

spk_0 So far.

spk_0 Yeah.

spk_0 I mean, I mean, I like the Bieber move with Toronto could be the biggest X factor.

spk_0 There is, but like they went out and got Mason Miller.

spk_0 They got Ramon, Loriano who he's been a beast.

spk_0 The best hitter in the league almost probably.

spk_0 Freddie for me has been a much better hitter than Elias Diaz.

spk_0 And then let's check in on Ryan O'Hern.

spk_0 He's the one guy who had been about league average since being traded.

spk_0 No, he's got a 130 WRC plus two.

spk_0 So all four of these guys are making big differences on the Padres.

spk_0 And it helps momentum wise that they've just won the series and now they're

spk_0 back tied in first place with the Dodgers.

spk_0 Yeah.

spk_0 So I mean, they lose two out of three, but he still feel like you got kind of

spk_0 got the moment.

spk_0 Oh, they won two out of three.

spk_0 I apologize.

spk_0 They lost the last one, but this is a real division, man.

spk_0 This is like a real.

spk_0 I'm very excited.

spk_0 And I'm a little annoyed that the schedulers didn't make the Padres Dodgers,

spk_0 like have one more series.

spk_0 Can we like do a flex?

spk_0 Or hopefully we get a 163 situation.

spk_0 They're there.

spk_0 No more 163.

spk_0 Fuck, man.

spk_0 We we we should know this, Joey.

spk_0 We watched the Braves and the Metts last year and that 162 where the

spk_0 Diamondbacks sat at Chase field.

spk_0 And they were waiting and hoping that one of the teams won both games

spk_0 because there was no tiebreaker.

spk_0 Yeah.

spk_0 Oh, well, no 163.

spk_0 But here it is.

spk_0 Oh, and then there's also this thing going on with the reliever rule.

spk_0 Have you seen that?

spk_0 That M O B, the reliever rule that they're going to put in place.

spk_0 And I am thinking that they're not putting it in place until next year.

spk_0 But like there is a situation where if Shohei Otoni is a reliever in the play

spk_0 off and he blows a ninth inning lead that he's not allowed to bat in extra innings.

spk_0 No, I think there's not a thing.

spk_0 So the Otoni rule allows him to start as a pitcher and then move the D H,

spk_0 but he can't go from D H to pitcher.

spk_0 But if he's a relief pitcher, it doesn't apply.

spk_0 It only applies to starting pitchers.

spk_0 Right.

spk_0 So if he if he's not starting, which Bob Nightingale, trust him how much you want.

spk_0 But he said the Dodgers were considering using Otoni as a reliever in the playoffs.

spk_0 Yeah.

spk_0 Which I will tell you won't happen.

spk_0 I feel like Bob Nightingale is corrected every single report.

spk_0 Some people call Bob Nightingale.

spk_0 You ever read Bob Nightingale juniors for the Wednesday reporting?

spk_0 Only when I'm looking at Wednesday.

spk_0 Are they related?

spk_0 They are good.

spk_0 It'd be funny if they're not.

spk_0 It's like that basketball player Kenneth Lofton, Jr.

spk_0 Thought he was Kenny Lofton's son for the longest time.

spk_0 He is, dude.

spk_0 Kenny Lofton had a son in MBA.

spk_0 Am I wrong?

spk_0 And he played for Miami, right?

spk_0 Kenneth Lofton, Jr.

spk_0 The basketball player is not related to Kenny Lofton, the center fielder.

spk_0 Kenny Lofton, some play basketball.

spk_0 Question mark.

spk_0 Kay Lofton, some play basketball.

spk_0 AI mode is always here.

spk_0 Thinking.

spk_0 Thinking, working on this, putting it all

spk_0 together to make you would have found this by now.

spk_0 Lofton is not related to former baseball player Kenny Lofton.

spk_0 God damn, dude.

spk_0 They've duped all of us.

spk_0 Yes, Kenny Lofton's son Kenneth Lofton, Jr.

spk_0 is a professional basketball player who played in the MBA for the Memphis Grizzlies.

spk_0 Yeah, but Kenny Lofton, Jr.

spk_0 His dad's name is Kenny Lofton.

spk_0 So it sounds like it's confusing information.

spk_0 Well, we got one source that says the AI.

spk_0 The AI overview says Kenny Lofton's son, Kenneth Lofton, Jr.

spk_0 Is a pro basketball player?

spk_0 Because Kenneth Lofton, Jr.

spk_0 His dad is Kenneth Lofton, Sr.

spk_0 Who probably goes by Kenny Lofton, but it's not Kenny Lofton.

spk_0 Shares the name.

spk_0 Oh, it's a big.

spk_0 But Kenny Lofton was a basketball player.

spk_0 His dad.

spk_0 Not his dad.

spk_0 Kenny Lofton, the baseball player was also a basketball player who never played baseball.

spk_0 Okay.

spk_0 We got drafted.

spk_0 Who the fuck is Kenneth Lofton, Sr.?

spk_0 He is just a dude.

spk_0 Dude.

spk_0 It was Kenneth Lofton, Reed Rex, Jr.

spk_0 The Wave.

spk_0 Who served in the US military and worked for the US Postal Service for 18 years.

spk_0 All right.

spk_0 The guy has two dads.

spk_0 All right.

spk_0 We got to the bottom of it.

spk_0 Kenny Lofton's son is a baller in the MBA.

spk_0 I take off like a rocket.

spk_0 A large one, a game.

spk_0 But yeah, man, anything else on this big Dodgers series?

spk_0 I mean, I'm disappointed there was no fights.

spk_0 I'm very disappointed.

spk_0 Those last two series really were without incident work.

spk_0 Yeah.

spk_0 It hurts our channel.

spk_0 You know why?

spk_0 It's because they got they got Mason Miller in there.

spk_0 Now the Dodgers know if they act up, they're getting a hundred and fucking four to the brain.

spk_0 Before you had Mason Miller, that was less of a threat.

spk_0 Now they get the nuclear bomb coming in.

spk_0 You don't want to mess around with this pod raise team because they can just get Mason Miller

spk_0 out there, though, it's someone's head and then just have one of their other seven relievers come in.

spk_0 He's just as good.

spk_0 So they do have an intimidating.

spk_0 What would you call that?

spk_0 They got a Moab in the bullpen.

spk_0 Precision air strike.

spk_0 So we'll see what's going on with the West as a season progressed.

spk_0 I would still give the Dodgers the edge.

spk_0 Still given the Dodgers the edge.

spk_0 There is a tweet by Alden Gonzalez that says the podries have the lowest remaining strength of schedule.

spk_0 And the Dodgers have the fifth lowest.

spk_0 You got to say easiest or hardest.

spk_0 You can't say lowest.

spk_0 Yeah, I'm assuming he says easiest because the podries have to play the twins or Yols Rockies twice.

spk_0 They got the fourth lowest strength of schedule.

spk_0 I guess that means easiest, but that's not the word you should be using whoever said that.

spk_0 Alden Gonzalez.

spk_0 Even like weakest schedule would be fine.

spk_0 Yeah, do weakest.

spk_0 Lowest strength.

spk_0 Who do you think has the lowest weakness in this room?

spk_0 You.

spk_0 Thanks.

spk_0 Yeah.

spk_0 Oh, shit.

spk_0 Are you trying to trip him up?

spk_0 A little.

spk_0 I was just kind of giving him the same vibe, but flip.

spk_0 OK, yeah, that's as good.

spk_0 You got me.

spk_0 I have the lowest weakness in the room.

spk_0 And we're moving on to the highest weakness in the room.

spk_0 Well, Zach Wheeler's weak.

spk_0 I mean, he's what happened to Zach Wheeler?

spk_0 He's out for the season, bro.

spk_0 This is the, this is the worst thing that's ever happened to Phillies this year.

spk_0 Am I right or am I right?

spk_0 Zach Wheeler, who is going to be a Saiyong?

spk_0 No, he wasn't.

spk_0 Paul Skien's was probably going to win the Saiyong runner up.

spk_0 Saiyong runner up had a chance.

spk_0 Um, the radic outlet surgery and is out six to eight months.

spk_0 Now, Jack, you are a paramedic and Mitchell, you probably read into this.

spk_0 I don't know what this means.

spk_0 I know he was dealing with the blood clot and I know I'm guessing this is related to that.

spk_0 But what is the radic outlet syndrome?

spk_0 So I put the definition down.

spk_0 It's when there's pressure on blood vessels or nerves in the area between the neck and the shoulder.

spk_0 This space is known as the the radic outlet.

spk_0 Compression of the blood vessels and nerves can cause shoulder and neck pain.

spk_0 And it can also cause numbness in the fingers.

spk_0 There are apparently two variations of this one ended Stephen Schausberg's career.

spk_0 Oh, shit.

spk_0 The other was a surgery that Merrill Kelly had to undergo in 2020.

spk_0 And Merrill Kelly is still pitching.

spk_0 Apparently it's more like Merrill Kelly's surgery and not like the nerve damage that Stephen

spk_0 Schausberg had.

spk_0 I mean, that's the last thing you want to hear.

spk_0 If you're a Philly's fan, it's like, yeah, this is the thing that Stephen Schausberg had.

spk_0 Yeah.

spk_0 Cause that guy never pitched again.

spk_0 No.

spk_0 I mean, he's what is he, he's like 34 right now and he's retired.

spk_0 Stephen Schausberg.

spk_0 I think it can be a, like a genetic abnormality or it can be like an injury based.

spk_0 So which one is it?

spk_0 I would guess it's an in a genetics, right?

spk_0 I mean, blood clot, it's not like an injury that you could get from pitching.

spk_0 It's not that blood clot.

spk_0 And it's like pressure behind his ribs.

spk_0 I don't know, I don't know like much about this, but that's my understanding of it at least.

spk_0 And I think it can be caused by like, I don't know, like a physical abnormality in your body.

spk_0 Or being pregnant, we'll do it too.

spk_0 I think he's literally just had a baby.

spk_0 You think he's pregnant?

spk_0 Well, yeah.

spk_0 His wife got pregnant.

spk_0 She popped one out like a month ago.

spk_0 And then she transferred that specific symptom to him.

spk_0 Hey, man.

spk_0 Love is love.

spk_0 I don't know if it's contagious.

spk_0 Okay.

spk_0 Well, I don't know.

spk_0 I'm not the expert here.

spk_0 All I know is that Zach Wheeler is out for the season, man.

spk_0 And that fucking sucks if you're a Philly's fan, because that is your number one picture.

spk_0 If you're a met's fan, you love it because you're subhuman being who's probably rooting for Philly's pictures to die.

spk_0 Because that's what met's fans do.

spk_0 But with Zach Wheeler out, I mean, luckily, if there's any team to lose their number one side young picture,

spk_0 it would be the Philly's.

spk_0 They still got Christopher Sanchez, Hey, Zuzardo, Taiwan Walker.

spk_0 He's going to be back in the, in the starting five.

spk_0 He deserves it based on his numbers.

spk_0 But I'll tell you what, man, that starting five in the playoffs without Zach Wheeler looks a lot weaker,

spk_0 especially the way Aaron Nolan's been pitching, bro, because like, it looks like he might not even be on the team in the playoffs.

spk_0 If it continues like this.

spk_0 And the last three or four years when the Philly's had been a problem in the playoffs for everybody,

spk_0 it was Wheeler and Nola one, two punch.

spk_0 And that's you don't want to run into.

spk_0 Then they got Ranger Swarris to shut your mouth and two or third time around.

spk_0 But now they're going to probably might be without both of those guys.

spk_0 Yeah.

spk_0 Nola is funny.

spk_0 I was looking at his start against the nationals this week.

spk_0 And it was better.

spk_0 But he also allowed two homers and allowed three runs.

spk_0 I don't know.

spk_0 He's had such a bad season.

spk_0 I don't know if that's a promising start for him.

spk_0 I don't know if that's a promising start.

spk_0 I don't know if you're, yeah, if you're a Philly's fan.

spk_0 Fuck, dude, either the eight should change his fast in this game.

spk_0 But you're, I mean, you're right.

spk_0 Of all the teams to have your ace go down, Christopher Sanchez and Ranger Swarris one, two,

spk_0 it's still a really good rotation.

spk_0 It's good.

spk_0 It's good, man.

spk_0 But coming from a brave fan, knowing what happens when Ranger Swarris is your third picture and not your second picture,

spk_0 it does make a big difference.

spk_0 Yeah.

spk_0 And then it's also like Zach, you know, Zach Willer in the playoffs has been like,

spk_0 insanely amazing.

spk_0 Not only like, it just sucks for the boys and Philly's, man.

spk_0 It sucks.

spk_0 They are on a four game winning streak.

spk_0 At least going into the series who would.

spk_0 Against the nationals, they play the Nats again.

spk_0 So yeah, well, there you go.

spk_0 They want to have three against the Nats for whatever that's worth.

spk_0 Taking care of business Zach Wheeler has a two 18 year in the playoffs.

spk_0 It's amazing.

spk_0 All right, Trayton, we got hot again.

spk_0 Love that for Tray, standing ovation.

spk_0 Maybe they got to start booing Tray because he's hot.

spk_0 It worked the other way around.

spk_0 When he was cold, they gave him a standing ovation.

spk_0 He got hot.

spk_0 So now he's hot in order to keep him hot, you start booing him when he's up.

spk_0 Good work.

spk_0 Just an idea.

spk_0 You got to try something here, the Philly's.

spk_0 And then you got the Schwarboms and you got a, what Durand blew a save.

spk_0 That's concerning.

spk_0 I get the Nats against the Nats, but at home with the music, with the music.

spk_0 Oh my God.

spk_0 It was a weird blown save though.

spk_0 Just Daly and Lyle hitting an RBI single.

spk_0 I know him.

spk_0 You do, yeah.

spk_0 I've heard of Daly and Lyle.

spk_0 He has the Mariah Carey walk-up song, of course.

spk_0 Um, he had an RBI single, Reach Second.

spk_0 The Mariah Carey one.

spk_0 I got a, got a, got a Puck of the Sun.

spk_0 And I got a, I'm an, I'm an, I'm an, no, his, his walk-up song is fantasy.

spk_0 Mm-hmm.

spk_0 I don't know.

spk_0 Anyway, good.

spk_0 But then he reached second on the throw home and then he stole third and re-emilital.

spk_0 Throw it away.

spk_0 And that was kind of it.

spk_0 That's just not Philly's baseball.

spk_0 Can't let Damien while Lyle, Lyle, walk you off on a freaking stolen double steel.

spk_0 Philly's need to clean it up, man.

spk_0 Cause guess what?

spk_0 The Mets are on their tail.

spk_0 All right.

spk_0 The Mets are not out of it yet.

spk_0 They got a series against each other.

spk_0 The Mets just took two out of three of the Braves.

spk_0 So, hey, finally you did it, Mets.

spk_0 You beat the Braves.

spk_0 Couldn't sweep us.

spk_0 We got you yesterday, bang, bang, boom, baby.

spk_0 But the Mets did beat the Braves.

spk_0 Two out of three.

spk_0 Love the Braves season so bad.

spk_0 Well, eight and five against the Mets.

spk_0 I'm happy about that.

spk_0 Honestly, between the Bristol trophy and this, this is our World Series.

spk_0 Yeah, this is our World Series.

spk_0 And the Mets want to say, oh, you're so, cause you beat us.

spk_0 We beat you fucking.

spk_0 I know this is a bit of being a Braves fan.

spk_0 Being like, couldn't sweep us, though.

spk_0 Couldn't sweep us.

spk_0 Couldn't win every game.

spk_0 Yeah, they can.

spk_0 No one could beat us.

spk_0 I mean, everyone could be it's except for the Mets, which if there's one team that you

spk_0 have picked and not be able to beat the Braves, for me, be the Mets.

spk_0 And I'm saying, oh, this is your World Series.

spk_0 Bro, we fucking, we were alive to see our team win a World Series.

spk_0 Yeah, I mean, the Mets have been embarrassing the Mets for at least 20 years in a row.

spk_0 In a row.

spk_0 There's not been one year and last 20 years where the Mets were better than the Braves.

spk_0 They were named their kid after their stadium, cause he embarrassed you guys so badly.

spk_0 And it's just been the whole, my whole lifetime.

spk_0 Yeah, and guess what?

spk_0 We also, even though we lost game one, Hellsley, we took you to the fucking chop house, bro.

spk_0 982, ERA.

spk_0 Damn, man.

spk_0 With the Mets.

spk_0 Was it garbage time?

spk_0 Yeah, but 982, ERA.

spk_0 Not looking great.

spk_0 Yeah, it feels like at any team that added at the Deadline bullpen guy, they all suck.

spk_0 Except for the Padres.

spk_0 But, I mean, I guess I'm just thinking about the Yankees and the Mets, but those are the two teams.

spk_0 I mean, Durand just gave him a run, so maybe that just skewed his ERA badly.

spk_0 But what is Durand's ERA since then?

spk_0 It's like one point.

spk_0 He's done pretty good.

spk_0 Kyle Finnegan of the Tigers has done really well.

spk_0 I call him.

spk_0

spk_0 I did want to talk about Nolan McLean.

spk_0 McLean.

spk_0 Let's do it.

spk_0 Of the Mets.

spk_0 He's a rookie.

spk_0 He was the second career start.

spk_0 He has one of the nastiest curveballs I've ever seen.

spk_0 His spin rate in his first two starts, he leads the league in spin rate.

spk_0 Damn, more than Charlie Morton.

spk_0 And he had a strikeout against Matt Olson.

spk_0 That was just incredible.

spk_0 I'm going to show it if you're watching it on YouTube.

spk_0 But it looks like it's a strike.

spk_0 85% of the way there.

spk_0 And then it nearly hits Olson in the back foot.

spk_0 Geez.

spk_0 This dude was a potential two way prospect.

spk_0 But his pitching was just so much farther at long than his hitting that he gave up hitting last year.

spk_0 And I was a little upset about it until I watched him throw his curveball.

spk_0 And I'm no longer mad about it.

spk_0 Very impressive picture.

spk_0 He has a lot of only two runs in his first two starts.

spk_0 Matt's a good need on bro.

spk_0 They came in the series with the worst record in MLB in August.

spk_0 Four and six of the last ten.

spk_0 They won two out of three against the braves.

spk_0 So that puts them up to seven in 14 in August.

spk_0 Not great.

spk_0 Frank the tank's not having a good time.

spk_0 But with all that being said, bro, they're playing the Phillies now.

spk_0 Is the three game series where they are in Philly or are they in New York?

spk_0 They are in New York.

spk_0 If there's any time to flip the narrative like the Padres and Dodgers just did.

spk_0 Or the Dodgers did the Padres last week.

spk_0 The meds have a chance to do that.

spk_0 I mean, as bad as they've been, seven games back of the Phillies.

spk_0 They got three games coming up against them.

spk_0 So, hey, you sweep it.

spk_0 You're back in it.

spk_0 And I think they have seven more games left on the season.

spk_0 Yeah.

spk_0 September 8 through 11 is a four game series with the meds.

spk_0 So I think since June 12, the method of the best record in baseball,

spk_0 like June 12, since then they've been top five worst human baseball.

spk_0 Like they've been bad for months.

spk_0 Like extended streak and they've had their ups.

spk_0 They've had winning streak, some small ones.

spk_0 But like they've been bad.

spk_0 Way worse than what they should be.

spk_0 Way worse than what they are on paper.

spk_0 If they can go to Philly, are they in Philly?

spk_0 You just said it.

spk_0 I just said in New York.

spk_0 New York.

spk_0 If they could sweep the Phillies at all.

spk_0 Phillies are sad, sack withers gone.

spk_0 Durand just blew a save.

spk_0 You know, we can, we can change the narrative for the meds.

spk_0 If not, if they get swept by the Phillies or the Phillies knock them out and make them bad,

spk_0 then they got more problems because the reds are on their tail.

spk_0 Reds are only a game and a half back of the meds.

spk_0 And I think meds fans are very aware of that.

spk_0 I don't think the rest of the cares or even thinks the reds are in the playoffs.

spk_0 They're probably only two fan bases aware.

spk_0 Yeah, right.

spk_0 Everyone else is like, reds.

spk_0 What do you mean the reds?

spk_0 Playoff team?

spk_0 You don't think like the reds in your head, like the reds in the playoffs, you're like, what?

spk_0 28 fan bases in baseball think the reds got eliminated last month.

spk_0 Right.

spk_0 But like they do have some credence to be there, bro, because this pitching staff is legit.

spk_0 A game and a half back of the meds.

spk_0 Their offense of the deadline has been terrible.

spk_0 One of the worst offenses in the league.

spk_0 LA Dala Cruz has had like a five 76 OPS in August.

spk_0 So that's a big reason why this offense is very centered around one player.

spk_0 And that's Mr. LA Dala Cruz.

spk_0 But they're pitching staff.

spk_0 Second best pitching staff in baseball since the deadline Brady singer has been lights out.

spk_0 1.95 VRA on her green since he's gone back.

spk_0 Has been beast.

spk_0 I mean, he's been beast all year when he's healthy.

spk_0 Zach let tell that was a pick up.

spk_0 He's pitched well enough in Andrew Abbott.

spk_0 This during the stretch, they have the second best record in baseball, not best record.

spk_0 Second best pitching staff in baseball has a 4.62 ERA.

spk_0 So a couple bad starts for Andrew Abbott has skewed his ERA and that small sample size.

spk_0 But if Andrew Abbott's pitching the way he fucking is supposed to be, like this legitimately is one of the best pitching staffs in baseball.

spk_0 So it's a team that yeah, not as good as the meds over a full season probably.

spk_0 But one and a half came his back.

spk_0 The toxic mech meds environment like.

spk_0 Shake can go South quick in this series.

spk_0 If you're the meds and you lose the feelings, I don't know who the reds are playing.

spk_0 They just lost two at three of the diamond backs, which.

spk_0 It's got reds are playing the Dodgers in LA.

spk_0 But then they play the Cardinals after that to in the month.

spk_0 They do the reds and the meds play each other September five through the seven.

spk_0 Yeah, I mean the reds, the red schedule right now is not looking good for them.

spk_0 Alright, so they're playing the Dodgers on the road and they play St. Louis.

spk_0 That's good.

spk_0 But then they play Toronto, then the meds, then the Padres.

spk_0 So.

spk_0 But then you have the A's Cardinals.

spk_0 Cubs is a tough one pirates, but then you get the brewers at the end of the year.

spk_0 That's a brewers team that should have already clinched the playoffs by then.

spk_0 Yeah, I mean, you're going to get a light version of the book.

spk_0 We need to survive the next 12 games first of all because you're playing the meds.

spk_0 You're playing the Dodgers and you're playing.

spk_0 The Padres and the and the blue chase.

spk_0 That's as bad as hard as it gets.

spk_0 Did you see how cabri and haze has been hitting on the reds?

spk_0 This shock worse qualified hitter.

spk_0 He has a 123 WRC plus with the reds.

spk_0 Alright, he went from being one of the worst hitters in baseball and a very good defender.

spk_0 But now he's hitting in Cincinnati.

spk_0 That is that could be huge.

spk_0 He has the worst OPS qualifier qualifier in the league this year.

spk_0 I want to say.

spk_0 Let's see.

spk_0 Yes.

spk_0 So cabri and haze on the year as a whole is the worst hitter in baseball for qualified hitters.

spk_0 Of course, that's 608.

spk_0 But change a scenery.

spk_0 It's American small park.

spk_0 Maybe.

spk_0 Great American small park.

spk_0 He has four homers on the year.

spk_0 And the guy can fucking pick it, Mitch.

spk_0 One of the best defenders in baseball.

spk_0 Yes, sir.

spk_0 So we're looking at the reds, man.

spk_0 And know what else they have?

spk_0 Good leadership quality and good vibes in the clubhouse with the gum chewer himself.

spk_0 Tony Frank.

spk_0

spk_0 Yes.

spk_0 He's won a World Series before.

spk_0 Do we know multiple?

spk_0 Do we know this?

spk_0 Jack, what year did the Red Sox break the streak?

spk_0 The Babe Ruth Curse.

spk_0 What year was that?

spk_0 When they won the World Series, finally after 80, whatever years it was.

spk_0 2008.

spk_0 Oh, man.

spk_0 Fuck, that was the Phillies, bro.

spk_0 When was it?

spk_0 2004, 04 socks.

spk_0 You don't remember it.

spk_0 I do remember it.

spk_0 I remember people being, because you know, everybody's like, yelling.

spk_0 And I remember something about the Cubs one year.

spk_0 Everybody's like, oh, finally.

spk_0 They were yelling that year.

spk_0 Yeah, they were yelling, man.

spk_0 2016 people were yelling in 2016.

spk_0 Yeah, they were really fucking yelling.

spk_0 All kinds of stuff.

spk_0 Bro, bring me back summer 2016.

spk_0 Ooh.

spk_0 Yeah, dude.

spk_0 Cubs won the World Series.

spk_0 That was 2016.

spk_0 That's what you're thinking of.

spk_0 And then the 24 socks.

spk_0 Feaver pitch.

spk_0 You ever see fever pitch?

spk_0 Yeah.

spk_0 Jimmy Fallon.

spk_0 They had to rewrite the script.

spk_0 Because they didn't realize the red socks were going to be good that year.

spk_0 Damn, it's like Spider-Man with the Twin Towers.

spk_0 Exactly.

spk_0 I'm not familiar with that lore, but sounds interesting.

spk_0 They had a CGI of the Twin Towers out of the first first Spider-Man movie.

spk_0 The first one.

spk_0 Because it came out in 2002, but they filmed it.

spk_0 2001.

spk_0 No.

spk_0 Don't do that.

spk_0 It's not the sound.

spk_0 I was a misclick, my bad.

spk_0 Both of them.

spk_0 Two misclicks.

spk_0 I meant to press the...

spk_0 I was trying to boo al-Qaeda.

spk_0 Yeah, yeah.

spk_0 Not a fan of al-Qaeda on this podcast.

spk_0 We hate terror on this podcast.

spk_0 I disavow al-Qaeda.

spk_0 But moving on to the real terrorists, the Rockies.

spk_0 Oh my God, dude.

spk_0 They suck dick at baseball.

spk_0 I mean, Rockies Pirate Series is weekend.

spk_0 Mitchell and the notes goes,

spk_0 Skins... Scott's score.

spk_0 The only notes we have on this is Skins went seven scoreless,

spk_0 which is the only thing that's actually...

spk_0 And Bubba Chandler made his debut.

spk_0 Oh, true.

spk_0 How did he do?

spk_0 I didn't even... I missed that.

spk_0 He came out of the bullpen.

spk_0 Had a forining save.

spk_0 Okay.

spk_0 They...

spk_0 Bubba Chandler had a bullpen.

spk_0 That's interesting decision.

spk_0 Yeah, especially if you're gonna pitch him for foringings.

spk_0 That's...

spk_0 Why not just start him?

spk_0 I mean, yeah.

spk_0 Why would they do that?

spk_0 I don't get it.

spk_0 The limit is innings, I guess.

spk_0 But...

spk_0 He became the fourth MLB player to have a forining save in his debut.

spk_0 All right.

spk_0 He's the third best prospect, according to MLB pipeline.

spk_0 His first career strikeout was 100 on the black.

spk_0 Very nice.

spk_0 Yeah, I mean, this is the future of the Pittsburgh Pirates right here is...

spk_0 This guy, I mean, obviously, Paul Skins is the most important player on the fucking franchise.

spk_0 Everyone knows.

spk_0 But Bubba Chandler...

spk_0 Like...

spk_0 I guess it's really...

spk_0 It's in his hands.

spk_0 A lot of this is whether Paul Skins stays on the Pirates or gets straight in next year.

spk_0 Because next year, you got...

spk_0 Jared Jones coming back, presumably, off Tommy John.

spk_0 Another big prospect.

spk_0 You got Paul Skins, obviously, best pitcher in the world.

spk_0 And then you got this guy, Bubba Chandler.

spk_0 Chandler.

spk_0 Why might...

spk_0 Why don't you have Chandler?

spk_0 Chandler.

spk_0 Bubba Chandler.

spk_0 Chandler.

spk_0 Like, for Mr. Beast.

spk_0 Chandler.

spk_0 That's how you remember.

spk_0 Mr. Beast.

spk_0 Chandler.

spk_0 Bubba Chandler.

spk_0 And you can't forget Bubba.

spk_0 I mean, come on.

spk_0 Bubba.

spk_0 Is he a top five Bubba of all time?

spk_0 Bubba Gump Shramp.

spk_0 Bubba Gump.

spk_0 Bubba Gump's number one first time.

spk_0 Yeah, that's number one.

spk_0 Who's that other Bubba?

spk_0 There was another big prospect named Bubba back in the day who didn't win.

spk_0 For the Royals Starling.

spk_0 Bubba Starling.

spk_0 There was a Bubba Crosby for the Yankees and the Dodgers.

spk_0 So, I mean, there's not a lot of Bubba's to compete with.

spk_0 I mean, number one spots pretty fucking impossible to knock that off.

spk_0 But Bubba Chandler, you got to, you got a good chance at number two if you end up being what people think he can be.

spk_0 But Paul Schienz is really a story.

spk_0 Seven squalas innings on Sunday against the Rockies.

spk_0 I know it was against the Rockies.

spk_0 It was at home too, right?

spk_0 At home.

spk_0 So against the Rockies, but whatever.

spk_0 Seven innings pitch.

spk_0 No runs again.

spk_0 Seven K.

spk_0 So Paul Schienz to his first 50 starts.

spk_0 That was his 50th start of his career.

spk_0 His young career.

spk_0 Second lowest ERA of all time through 50 starts.

spk_0 And it's .01 runs off.

spk_0 Who?

spk_0 Vita Blue, who's number one with a 2.01.

spk_0 Basically the same.

spk_0 Through 50 starts, 2.02 ERA.

spk_0 Nine four whip.

spk_0 Bro.

spk_0 Ponets have been hitting 196 against him.

spk_0 And it's been less than two years.

spk_0 The guys already started two all-star games.

spk_0 He's about to win Sai Young.

spk_0 Okay.

spk_0 Like so.

spk_0 If you take this for what he's on pace,

spk_0 it'd be the best pitcher of all time.

spk_0 I feel like he's the pitcher equivalent of Aaron Judge.

spk_0 Why I'm already just taking him for granted.

spk_0 Yeah.

spk_0 Yeah, for sure.

spk_0 And it sucks too, because he's pitching for a team

spk_0 that doesn't matter.

spk_0 He's been able to overshadow that,

spk_0 make up for that by dating, Livy Dunn,

spk_0 which cancels out the bad pirates.

spk_0 It's like hot, famous girlfriend,

spk_0 terrible team, kind of evens out,

spk_0 where you're still relevant.

spk_0 If it wasn't for Livy Dunn,

spk_0 if he was pitching for the pirates on the team

spk_0 that bad and doing this good,

spk_0 maybe not as much fanfare.

spk_0 But now she's on the things with fanatics,

spk_0 and she's naked in the pool.

spk_0 He's thinking, why is the tub that she's in?

spk_0 Why is it in a football stadium?

spk_0 Because they're getting ready.

spk_0 They're trying to get people to bet on football

spk_0 coming up for the football season.

spk_0 But she's clearly associated with baseball.

spk_0 Yes, that's true.

spk_0 But we're on a pictures mound in the bathtub.

spk_0 She's also associated with LSU though.

spk_0 I was about to say that Mitchell, great point.

spk_0 LSU, huge football school.

spk_0 Fair enough.

spk_0 The Tigers.

spk_0 So, yeah, so if you want to bet on football,

spk_0 Livy Dunn will inspire you to bet on football

spk_0 and lose all your money,

spk_0 which is a noble thing to do.

spk_0 Bet on the Tigers.

spk_0 But anyway, Nolan Ryan, he's a pretty good pitcher, right?

spk_0 You've heard of Nolan Ryan.

spk_0 Very good pitcher.

spk_0 Some would say the best pitcher of all time.

spk_0 I mean, probably not.

spk_0 Somebody said it.

spk_0 Somebody said Nolan Ryan's best pitcher of all time.

spk_0 I mean, how many no hitters the guy have?

spk_0 Seven.

spk_0 Seven no hitters.

spk_0 So, I'm going to say a best pitcher of all time.

spk_0 Sue me.

spk_0 All right.

spk_0 Through his first 50 starts,

spk_0 316 strikeouts.

spk_0 Paul Scans, 351, baby.

spk_0 Clay and Kershaw.

spk_0 Someone say he's the best pitcher of all time.

spk_0 Someone probably has that that.

spk_0 I say it.

spk_0 Who?

spk_0 Clay and Kershaw.

spk_0 Clay and Kershaw is the best pitcher of all time.

spk_0 Someone would say that, right?

spk_0 Jack Schwartz, one of them.

spk_0 368 base runners allowed.

spk_0 In his 51st starts.

spk_0 Paul Scans, 297.

spk_0 That's 70 less bases allowed.

spk_0 So Paul Scans.

spk_0 Best pitcher in baseball.

spk_0 I'm saying it right now.

spk_0 Second best pitcher in baseball.

spk_0 Tarek Scubel.

spk_0 Scuby Snacks.

spk_0 And he's on the Tigers.

spk_0 And our Tigers are hot, right?

spk_0 Two weeks ago, I was down on the Tigers.

spk_0 And now they have a 10 and a half game lead in the central.

spk_0 Respect.

spk_0 Wrap it up, baby.

spk_0 Wrap it up.

spk_0 Don't get complacent Tigers.

spk_0 We need you for the playoffs.

spk_0 But you are going to the playoffs.

spk_0 They played the Royals.

spk_0 Another team, a sneaky team that has a chance right now.

spk_0 Like I would be getting a little, you know, a little optimistic for Royals fans.

spk_0 They come to the series eight and two of their last 10 in August.

spk_0 They're 12 and seven.

spk_0 And their offense has been doing well.

spk_0 I mean, there are top 10 offense in August, which nothing indicates that this should be a top 10 offense

spk_0 other than Bobby Wood Jr., which is kind of their offense.

spk_0 And Passquatch has been hitting well, right?

spk_0 He's had a good second half.

spk_0 He has the fourth most homers since the All Star Break in baseball.

spk_0 Let's go, Passquatch.

spk_0 And now they're three games back of a wildcard spot.

spk_0 Let me check their playoff odds real quick.

spk_0 I have it up.

spk_0 It's 17.2 after this week.

spk_0 So not great, but you know those playoff odds around this time.

spk_0 They can change a lot.

spk_0 I mean, last year at this time, I bet the Tigers had what, a 5% chance to make the playoffs last year.

spk_0 I believe it.

spk_0 So there are three games back of the Seattle Mariners.

spk_0 Still, they got a little bit of a chance here.

spk_0 They lose two out of three to the Tigers, though.

spk_0 Yeah, this year is, if the Royals had gone in and swept the Tigers, I think they're in a position very similar to the Reds.

spk_0 But, and these were fairly close games.

spk_0 Game 1 and 2 was a two-run game.

spk_0 Both of them were two-run games.

spk_0 So if the Royals had just flipped the script there, maybe their playoff odds are much higher than 12 or 17%.

spk_0 But I think the Tigers, this was a good series for the Tigers to kind of take care of business and kind of steal the deal that they're going to win the division.

spk_0 I mean, it just also, you think about the guy they lost.

spk_0 I mean, why am I blanking on the guy who lay lost, man, who was the best pitcher in Bay, Bubek, out for the season, who had lowest ERA forever this year.

spk_0 You lose, Bubek, which hurts.

spk_0 And now Seth Lugo sent signing extension, which was at the deadline, so around August.

spk_0 In 29, it extends, he has an 8.07 ERA, sending that extension.

spk_0 And he gave up six runs in game three, which they ended up winning.

spk_0 But still, it's like a team like the Royals, they're really, you know, they're really battling for that last spot.

spk_0 It's really going to take a lot because they're competing against teams that are a lot better than them.

spk_0 Like, let's be honest, the Yankees, we saw last in the playoffs, a lot better than the Royals, as bad as the Yankees have been, as sloppy as they've been, a lot better.

spk_0 The Mariners definitely better than them.

spk_0 And that's the team they're chasing right now.

spk_0 So if the Royals want to do it and pull an upset off right now, they need Seth Lugo to not have an 8 fucking ERA.

spk_0 Their remaining schedule is going to be very interesting though.

spk_0 They have one more series against the Tigers. They have a series with the Phillies, Mariners and Blue Jays.

spk_0 But other than that, they're facing the White Sox, the Angels, the Twins, the Guardians, who have really fallen off.

spk_0 The Angels again and the A's.

spk_0 Yeah, so I mean, yeah, I mean, their schedule coming up is three games against the White Sox, then against the Tigers, which is a tough series, but divisional series.

spk_0 Not that they're even going for the division. So I guess that doesn't matter.

spk_0 But then the Angels, then the Twins, like you said, and the Guardians.

spk_0 So there is definitely an opportunity for the Royals.

spk_0 Seth Lugo needs to be better.

spk_0 I mean, that's the reason why they were good last year.

spk_0 And that's the reason why they had hope this year is that starting pitching staff was amazing.

spk_0 But guys like Michael Waka and Seth Lugo, they can't be mid.

spk_0 They need to be elite, which they have in the past two years.

spk_0 So my eyes on you, Mr. Waka, Mr. Lorenzen.

spk_0 Reagan's what happened to Rick Cole Reagan. Is he hurt?

spk_0 I think he's hurt too. I'm just looking at since Bubix last start.

spk_0 The Royals are 18th and starting pitching area.

spk_0 Yeah.

spk_0 And before that, I feel like they were.

spk_0 Am I exaggerating top five?

spk_0 I think so. I think so.

spk_0 So I mean, they're three games back.

spk_0 Another team that's kind of on that little like playoff odds are low, but they're still in it is a Texas Rangers who are our four and a half games back of the last Wild Card spot.

spk_0 A game and a half back of the Royals and four and a half games back of the Mariners.

spk_0 They played the Guardians and I mean, the Texas Rangers totally shit the bed after I called them my team the second half.

spk_0 At first, they were fired. Then they went on a six and 13 skid were no one on the team can hit for some reason, even though they were the best offense in the league like two years ago.

spk_0 They're blaming the left field wall.

spk_0 I mean, that makes a lot of sense. What's up with the left field wall?

spk_0 No idea. The Rangers people, the meteor, they're saying it's not the same stadium.

spk_0 There might be something with ventilation that's causing it to be like a wind tunnel.

spk_0 Right.

spk_0 But from park factors, the Rangers ballpark has gone from being one of the easiest parks to hidden to being one of the hardest parks to hidden.

spk_0 And they haven't changed any of the dimensions.

spk_0 They just killed a Dolos guards see his career.

spk_0 I mean, that guy, you know, a Dolos car see has the lowest on base percentage in baseball this season.

spk_0 A Dolos car see it's like a 270.

spk_0 I mean, that's the big bopper, bro, the Cuban missile.

spk_0 You can't call every guy from Cuba, the Cuban missile. I apologize.

spk_0 That's the role of this jamming. He's the Cuban missile.

spk_0 But guys like a Dolos need to step it up if they have a chance.

spk_0 They did have a good series against the guardians. They just, they just butt pooped the guardians.

spk_0 I was quarter 19 to three and swept them. They won four out of five. They got their playoffs up to play off odds up to 10% which is not great.

spk_0 But Rowdy to Les, he's been good and good. I mean, I guess it's worked out to have the three fattest guys in the league.

spk_0 It's funny. The Mariners released him because he wasn't producing. He has a 155 OPS as a Ranger.

spk_0 Josh Naylor has a one 18 or 115 OPS plus as a Mariner.

spk_0 So the Mariners might have played themselves.

spk_0 You play yourself. You should have kept Rowdy. Now he's on the Texas Rangers.

spk_0 I'm not completely out on the Rangers either.

spk_0 I would say the Rangers have a better chance to make the playoffs than the Royals.

spk_0 I know I've said it all year, but on paper this offense should be good.

spk_0 And the pitching staff has been good all year.

spk_0 I mean, the hypothesis is that the pitching staff is so good because the park factors are holding the balls on.

spk_0 Oh my God. Can we just, you got to blame the park?

spk_0 How else is Patrick Corbin one of the best pitchers?

spk_0 It wouldn't make a lot of sense. I mean, right?

spk_0 Texas Rangers, you have the number one starting pitching staff in baseball by ERA by Whip and by his two nine.

spk_0 Their bullpen is the fourth best bullpen in the league by ERA.

spk_0 And their offense is 23rd.

spk_0 This guy Dan Edson has a bunch of the pitchers splits.

spk_0 Patrick Corbin has a 365 year at home and a 543 ERA on the road.

spk_0 The Grom has a 211 ERA at home and a 346 ERA on the road.

spk_0 Jack Leiter has a 345 ERA at home and a 481 ERA on the road.

spk_0 Native Aldi is the only guy who's better on the road.

spk_0 He has a 226 ERA at home and a 139 ERA on the road.

spk_0 Kumar Rocker has a 243 ERA at home and a 929 ERA on the road.

spk_0 What the fuck is happening in Texas, bro?

spk_0 I mean, I feel like this might be one of those conspiracy theories that's kind of true.

spk_0 Yeah, where there's smoke, there's fire. There's a lot of evidence.

spk_0 I mean, it shocks me that they have the number one starting staff.

spk_0 And everything they do offensively is terrible except for stealing.

spk_0 Well, we'll look into that too. We'll get some boots on the ground out there in Texas.

spk_0 You send in Jack to Texas?

spk_0 We'll go to Texas.

spk_0 Yeah, I say I love Texas.

spk_0 Let's go to Texas.

spk_0 I mean, how?

spk_0 I said, the ventilation, they're saying the air conditioning is different or they opened up a window or something.

spk_0 Like, it's an indoor stadium.

spk_0 I don't know, the fence moved back.

spk_0 No, they haven't touched the dimensions, but there's clearly something that's causing a change.

spk_0 Like a vent?

spk_0 Like an AC unit?

spk_0 Maybe it's the greenhouse effect because they have the...

spk_0 It could be the greenhouse effect.

spk_0 I mean, a couple years, I mean, all that heat coming in from the open windows because they have a dome, but the ceiling is glass.

spk_0 Could be global alarm.

spk_0 Is it hot in Texas?

spk_0 That's what they say.

spk_0 It's the greenhouse effect.

spk_0 I'm sticking to it.

spk_0 Texas is famous for having weird...

spk_0 They're stadium, they're old stadium, outdoor stadium, had like a wind tunnel to right field.

spk_0 The power rally.

spk_0 You got to get somebody in the audience to compensate, not the audience.

spk_0 What do you call it?

spk_0 Crowd.

spk_0 You just need one big 40 and people going...

spk_0 Whenever the pitch comes, everyone behind home played blows at once.

spk_0 Together.

spk_0 Well, I'm pretty sure teams have been caught for that or accused of it, and maybe they never proved it, but like just literally in domes.

spk_0 Like putting on the AC or like turning the fans in the stadium on to blow out towards when their team is hitting, and then when they're not hitting, the other fans come on and it blows in.

spk_0 I'm pretty sure that was a big conspiracy theory at the Metro dome in Minnesota.

spk_0 In Minnesota.

spk_0 So maybe they're just fucking themselves and they're just...

spk_0 They haven't blowing in the entire time.

spk_0 They can't figure out how to go the other way.

spk_0 I say make that part of baseball. That would be fun.

spk_0 Hey, is there a rule against that?

spk_0 Probably.

spk_0 Like putt putt golf style, you know what I mean?

spk_0 Like a mini golf map situation.

spk_0 Obstacles.

spk_0 Putt a windmute down.

spk_0 I come down from the ceiling, tries to catch fly balls and shit.

spk_0 That'd be cool.

spk_0 All right, now you're talking banana ball, but other.

spk_0 That's a good point.

spk_0 Yeah, you're getting a banana ball territory.

spk_0 Well, Jack's raised, man.

spk_0 They had a freaking weekend.

spk_0 Two out of three against the Cardinals.

spk_0 Wow.

spk_0 I mean, sorry boys.

spk_0 You're a Cardinals fan.

spk_0 It sucks, but you went down to Tampa Bay.

spk_0 I guess they don't play in Tampa Bay.

spk_0 And I don't even know where the series was.

spk_0 It was in Tampa.

spk_0 All right, good.

spk_0 But they don't play in Tampa.

spk_0 Right?

spk_0 Where's Steinbrenner Field?

spk_0 Jack, you're local.

spk_0 Steinbrenner Field's in Tampa.

spk_0 It is in Tampa.

spk_0

spk_0 Well, the biggest takeaway from this series is the guy, Junior

spk_0 Caminero, who unfortunately plays for the Tampa Bay race and no one cares about him at all.

spk_0 But we care.

spk_0 This guy's got 37 home runs this year.

spk_0 And he's 21 out of no, like I wouldn't, I would have guessed 25.

spk_0 I mean, he was home run Derby runner up.

spk_0 But he was also when he competed.

spk_0 I think his betting odds for the home runner be where the lowest in the field.

spk_0 Yeah.

spk_0 No one thought he could hit.

spk_0 And let's see what he had at the All Star Break.

spk_0 He had 23 homeers at the All Star Break.

spk_0 So he has 14 homeers in the last month.

spk_0 There have only been nine hitters in MLB history.

spk_0 21 are under to hit 35 homeers.

spk_0 And he's done that and blown past it in August.

spk_0 Yeah, and they'll probably get some good, good trade, good guys back in that trade in the next year and a half.

spk_0 They tried them at 22, 23.

spk_0 Yeah, unless they give him the Wander Franco deal.

spk_0 They might shy away from that.

spk_0 You're going to ask Jack what he thinks of Wander Franco for the third time.

spk_0 I mean, he's hot.

spk_0 He's evil. He's bad.

spk_0 He's hot right now.

spk_0 What am I in prison?

spk_0 I think he is in prison.

spk_0 You don't have to worry about that, Jack.

spk_0 I think Wander Franco on house arrest or something.

spk_0 Now I'm here just like, what do you think about Jim, Jim Frankas?

spk_0 And I'm like, oh, he's in prison.

spk_0 He should be in prison.

spk_0 He's an evil guy because that's I it doesn't look bad on me.

spk_0 If I say an innocent person should be in prison.

spk_0 But if I say a person who should be in prison is playing great Paul.

spk_0 That's a problem for me.

spk_0 What do you think about Jackie Robinson?

spk_0 Jackie Robinson.

spk_0 Now that's a guy who should I mean, I want to stat you of him in my home.

spk_0 You know what I mean?

spk_0 Respect.

spk_0 That's a guy who knows ball and knows the significance of the historical basal players.

spk_0 Let's see the knuckleball.

spk_0 You been working on it?

spk_0 Oh, I was trying to switch the camera at the same time and it threw me off.

spk_0 We need a camera back here so we can get the ball cam.

spk_0 Yeah.

spk_0 Let me hit another one.

spk_0 There you go.

spk_0 Around camera.

spk_0 In over, Mitch's computer.

spk_0 And probably the best knuckleballer on the pot.

spk_0 Fucking no chance.

spk_0 Anyway.

spk_0 What does he mind?

spk_0 Okay, we're gonna break that.

spk_0 I feel like you did that on purpose.

spk_0 Let's get back to business.

spk_0 Okay, the Astros.

spk_0 Orioles lose their streak of sweeping.

spk_0 I'm not sweeping, but winning series against contenders.

spk_0 They play the Astros again, man.

spk_0 This keeps happening every time these teams keep playing each other back to back to back to back to back.

spk_0 The Astros take three out of four.

spk_0 That feels good if you're a national fan.

spk_0 They stay in first place.

spk_0 Two game lead over the Mariners.

spk_0 You can't stop them.

spk_0 But the big news out of this series is this catching prospect who just signed an eight year 67 million dollar extension.

spk_0 Never fucking played a game in his life.

spk_0 And Major League Baseball barely.

spk_0 He played four games.

spk_0 Four games.

spk_0 At the time of the extension.

spk_0 And that's enough to get 67 million dollars.

spk_0 Four games.

spk_0 It's all took for this guy.

spk_0 So I guess the real story about this is like, you had Adley Rushman.

spk_0 Now you locked this guy up for eight years.

spk_0 Granted, it's 67 million over eight years.

spk_0 So that comes out to about eight million dollars a year.

spk_0 But that's also covering that pre-operatoration where they're supposed to make under a million dollars a year for the first three years.

spk_0 Yeah.

spk_0 And then I was looking it up on spot track.

spk_0 There's not a lot of catchers in M.O.B.

spk_0 making eight million dollars a year.

spk_0 He's going to be one of the highest paid catchers off the bat.

spk_0 That actually shocks me.

spk_0 Yeah.

spk_0 I mean, let's do it.

spk_0 We can arrange by catchers right here.

spk_0 We look at the full ranks of catchers.

spk_0 I mean, JT Real Muto's making twenty three million dollars a year.

spk_0 But the only catchers making eight million.

spk_0 There's nine catchers in M.O.B.

spk_0 making over eight million dollars a year.

spk_0 One of them is already on the Orioles and it's not Adley Rushman.

spk_0 Gary Sanchez is getting paid to half million dollars.

spk_0 He's the seventh highest paid catcher in the league.

spk_0 Gary Sanchez, the backup catcher for the Orioles, who's now the third string, I guess.

spk_0 I mean, he's been injured.

spk_0 Yeah.

spk_0 All of their catchers died in mid-June.

spk_0 Is Adley hurt?

spk_0 Adley's hurt again.

spk_0 Yeah.

spk_0 But I mean, the conversations, this is, are they like moving on from Adley?

spk_0 Not that they're moving on from him, but now he's potentially a trade piece in the way the Orioles operate ball on a budget.

spk_0 It seems like that.

spk_0 I mean, he was supposed to be the all around catcher, right?

spk_0 He came up, he hit, he played defense.

spk_0 Next, Buster Posey.

spk_0 Finish second rookie of the year.

spk_0 And since then, he's just gradually declined.

spk_0 Yeah, he's not been hitting the way people thought he was.

spk_0 I mean, this guy got called up and the Orioles went from the like a joke franchise.

spk_0 One of the worst teams in baseball for like half a decade in a row.

spk_0 He got up and they kind of turned around out of nowhere in 2022.

spk_0 No one expected anything and then he came up and they went on that run.

spk_0 They missed the playoffs.

spk_0 But the next year, 100 wins last year made the playoffs under Adley.

spk_0 But yeah, this year Adley's got a 684 OPS.

spk_0 It's a 91 OPS plus.

spk_0 You know, not exactly the guy that they thought they were getting.

spk_0 Still two time, also anus over slugger.

spk_0 I think the thing about Besayo is that he's not supposed to be a defense guy first.

spk_0 He's a catcher who's supposed to hit.

spk_0 And I think maybe the idea is that you have the DH spot.

spk_0 You rotate him in between DH and catcher and Adley and him can coexist.

spk_0 I mean, the Braves kind of have this too, where they have Sean Murphy, who was an all star in 2023.

spk_0 Kind of up and down season since then.

spk_0 And they have Drake Baldwin, who's one of the better hitting catchers in baseball.

spk_0 And they just split time occasionally in one of them will DH.

spk_0 And you can never have too much catching.

spk_0 Like having great catching is a luxury.

spk_0 You can't.

spk_0 But if you're a team like the Orioles who is a cheap franchise,

spk_0 small market team who doesn't have a high pay roll ever,

spk_0 and you're getting to give this guy $8 million a year over the next eight years,

spk_0 making him top 10 paid, highest paid catcher, and you have Adley.

spk_0 And you're going to have to pay Adley at least that much once he gets arbitration next year, right?

spk_0 Yeah, this upcoming off season he will be getting paid,

spk_0 even though we said a bad two mediocre seasons in a row.

spk_0 Yeah.

spk_0 So I mean, just based on managing resources and where you want to put your money,

spk_0 the Orioles ball in a budget, it seems like trading Adley.

spk_0 They're definitely going to listen to it.

spk_0 But I feel like at this point, because of how average he's been as a hitter or below average,

spk_0 you're selling low one Adley technically.

spk_0 Unless you just think this is who he is and this is his baseline and he actually make it worse.

spk_0 Yeah, it's true.

spk_0 But at the same time, when we saw at this deadline, there's not really a lot of catching going around.

spk_0 It's a rare position.

spk_0 Yeah, I mean, Freddie for me and was the big catch.

spk_0 Yeah, so people will give up, you know, I guess he's got a 91 OPS plus,

spk_0 but if he's a catcher and you know, he's got a silver slugger and a two time all star like,

spk_0 you can get pieces for it and the, I mean, what the Orioles really need more than anything right now going forward is pitching.

spk_0 It's not really catching.

spk_0 It's interesting for us.

spk_0 Orioles are one of the most interesting teams, man, where it feels like they could just turn around next year and be good again.

spk_0 Maybe, but it feels like maybe are they just squandered this like elite window that they had with Gunner, Adley, Jackson,

spk_0 even, you know, Westberg and cows are coming up all at the same time.

spk_0 And then grace and Rodriguez, like you felt like these guys have unlimited young talent all coming up and are great at the same time.

spk_0 And then this year, it has just been a complete shit show.

spk_0 And it almost feels like it's time to rebuild.

spk_0 And it just happened in six months.

spk_0 Like they went from like being picked as by some people to win the division.

spk_0 Maybe some people to win a world series to now.

spk_0 Okay, it's how to tear it down.

spk_0 We'll see, we'll see, we'll see, we'll see, we'll see.

spk_0 Oh, we'll see.

spk_0 But going on to another orange team, the Giants and the Baruch Roo.

spk_0 Giants beat two out of three against the Brewers.

spk_0 Not too concerning if you're a Brewers fan because you guys, I mean, you sound like a spool of brat complaining losing two out of three after you won 30 games in a row, basically.

spk_0 However, your boys on the other end of the town, which is a completely different state, I guess, other end of the division.

spk_0 I don't know.

spk_0 What am I saying?

spk_0 They're in our part.

spk_0 They're in our part close.

spk_0 It's your neighbors, right?

spk_0 The Cubs swept the Angels.

spk_0 So now what is the division lead now for the Brewers?

spk_0 It's five games.

spk_0 Only five games, which is a good lead, but not a great lead.

spk_0 That's a lead that you can see go away in a week.

spk_0 Yeah, I mean, I guess they got all the, they're still going to, are they going to play each other coming up?

spk_0 That would be.

spk_0 They are done for the year playing each other.

spk_0 That's why they had this weird five game series.

spk_0 Last week, the Brewers stretch right now was terrible.

spk_0 They're playing 19 games in 18 days.

spk_0 They're right in the middle of it.

spk_0 Uh-oh.

spk_0 And they don't have another off day until September 2nd.

spk_0 Are we going to be here in three weeks and say the downfall needs to be studied?

spk_0 We might.

spk_0 Are we going to be studying the downfall of the Brewers?

spk_0 We'll be talking about the Brewers downfall while we play the Phillies on Dollar Dog Day.

spk_0 Oh, I didn't know they were bringing that back.

spk_0 They're Dollar Dog Day back in Philly.

spk_0 Yeah, Monday.

spk_0 It's not for first.

spk_0 It's a be-o, it's a bogey.

spk_0 Oh, no, wait, wait, this is Dollar Dog Day and Milwaukee.

spk_0 Yeah, yeah.

spk_0 Phillies sold out there.

spk_0 Lost their blue collar shit.

spk_0 They don't do that shit.

spk_0 They traded it to Milwaukee.

spk_0 They will buy one, get one hot dog, bitch.

spk_0 I don't want a free.

spk_0 I want one dollar hot dog.

spk_0 Well, you can go to Milwaukee and get that.

spk_0 They give you say, oh, it's a $2 hot dog, but if you buy one, you get one for free.

spk_0 I'm like, no, bro, I want one hot dog for one dollar.

spk_0 And I want to buy two hot dogs for two dollars.

spk_0 You buy one hot dog for two dollars and you get one for free.

spk_0 Yeah, this is $2 and you get two dogs both times.

spk_0 But if it ain't Dollar Dog night, it loses.

spk_0 And what if you want three hot dogs?

spk_0 What if you want three?

spk_0 What if you want five hot dogs?

spk_0 Yeah, and it's like discriminating as odd numbers.

spk_0 And I won't stand for it.

spk_0 Yeah.

spk_0 And also, that's also a false premise because you know they're charging more than $2.2 a dog

spk_0 on BOGO night.

spk_0 That's just my two cents.

spk_0 But I'm glad to see the brewers are still going out dollar dogs.

spk_0 But they lost the giant.

spk_0 The giants came in two out of ten.

spk_0 Lost two fucking eight out of the last ten.

spk_0 Three game losing streak.

spk_0 They've had the worst record in MLB in the second half.

spk_0 The offense has been shit.

spk_0 The pitching has been shit.

spk_0 They've lost in runs in the second half.

spk_0 And the brewers on the other hand have been first and fucking everything.

spk_0 But you know, this was definitely not a series.

spk_0 I saw the giants winning.

spk_0 But yeah, Logan Webb had a good start in the second game of the series.

spk_0 And they won seven to one in that game and then they won four to three on Sunday.

spk_0 So is it time to start looking at the as the giants has legit contenders?

spk_0 No, I think that the ship sailed two months ago.

spk_0 Five games bought.

spk_0 I don't think the giants are going to make the playoffs this year.

spk_0 Maybe next year.

spk_0 Same thing with the angels, bro.

spk_0 And Mike, you need to start hitting home runs, bro.

spk_0 You're pissing me off.

spk_0 Mike Trout has an home run two months.

spk_0 I checked on that thought of you.

spk_0 I was like, I wonder if Joey is hit his was a 22 homeers, wait two and a half.

spk_0 And he's at 20 still.

spk_0 I mean, he's going to get it.

spk_0 But you know, I sprinkled in some 30 and 40.

spk_0 If he doesn't hit the 30, it's just not going to hit this is only the second time he's played more than 100 games this decade.

spk_0 Yeah, he stayed healthy.

spk_0 But after the injury, he really tailed off a bit.

spk_0 His power numbers, especially 1.2 war on the season for Mr. Trout.

spk_0 And I want to say over the past like three or four weeks, it's been a little slow for Mr. Mike.

spk_0 In August, he's got a 706 OPS.

spk_0 When you talk about the best hit of all time, it's not great.

spk_0 Kyle Tucker.

spk_0 We titled the last one.

spk_0 And what was it?

spk_0 Should you be worried about Kyle Tucker?

spk_0 He had a very good series.

spk_0 He had three homeers.

spk_0 And so did PCA, right?

spk_0 Did PC have three?

spk_0 I don't know.

spk_0 I don't think he had three.

spk_0 I think he had a good series to do.

spk_0 I know he had at least one.

spk_0 Yeah, Kyle Tucker had a great series.

spk_0 Three homeers, seven RBIs, five hits.

spk_0 I think those days off kind of helped him out.

spk_0 Hey, bro.

spk_0 I mean, I think we might have found the X factor for the Cubs.

spk_0 I mean, Kyle Tucker and PCA go away for a month.

spk_0 They suck for a month.

spk_0 They come back and they have a good series.

spk_0 I guess he didn't really have a good series.

spk_0 PCA didn't hit one home run.

spk_0 But if PCA hits one home run in the series, did you do ungood?

spk_0 And Kyle Tucker does good.

spk_0 The team's going to do good.

spk_0 If those two guys aren't doing good, the team is not going to do good.

spk_0 But luckily they did good and they were doing good.

spk_0 And now we're only five games back.

spk_0 Are the brewers?

spk_0 We'll see.

spk_0 Not counting the Cubs out.

spk_0 And I'm definitely not going to count the Mariners out.

spk_0 The Mariners win a series too.

spk_0 And the fucking story of the fucking day or the weekend for the Mariners is our boy, the big

spk_0 Dumper, brother.

spk_0 Everyone was about to say the fall off needs to be studied with Dumper coming out of the

spk_0 All Star break.

spk_0 But that guy got hot again.

spk_0 Sounds like, uh, Cal Raleigh might actually be a good baseball player and it's not a fluke.

spk_0 Shocking.

spk_0 I mean, you don't hit 50 home runs on a fluke unless you're Brady Anderson.

spk_0 Does he have 50 yet?

spk_0 He's have 49.

spk_0 49 home runs.

spk_0 So he broke the record for most home runs by a catcher past Salvador Perez.

spk_0 Uh, he ended up hitting how many this weekend?

spk_0 He only, he only hit two this weekend, but it was on the same day.

spk_0 He only hit two this weekend.

spk_0 Bro is cooked.

spk_0 But he ties Aaron Judging War.

spk_0 Does he lead Judging anything else?

spk_0 I mean, it's going to come down to.

spk_0 You basically just leads in home runs, played appearances and his defense.

spk_0 Yeah.

spk_0 So I mean, the guy has more home runs than him.

spk_0 And he's way better defense than him because he plays catcher.

spk_0 Judges slowing down.

spk_0 Oh, and he's got Aaron Judge and stolen bases.

spk_0 That counts for something.

spk_0 Yes, six more stolen bases than judge.

spk_0 I'm definitely given the MVP to Cal Raleigh because it means it's arguably the best season

spk_0 for a catcher in history.

spk_0 Yeah.

spk_0 You know, I mean, I think on some of those other stats, there have been better seasons by OPS,

spk_0 by RBI's and that stuff.

spk_0 But when it comes to homers, not even close and the other stats are comparable.

spk_0 And then you have defense on top of that.

spk_0 I know some people have been giving him shit like always framing is not good or his defensive metrics aren't elite for a catcher.

spk_0 First of all,

spk_0 I don't believe any of those stats anymore, any defense and metric like

spk_0 and you can kind of trust it.

spk_0 But is it that much more reliable than just looking at how many errors a guy has a fielding percentage?

spk_0 Like I think it might be marginally more accurate.

spk_0 But like how everyone says like, oh, you're going to judge a guy based on errors or fielding percentage?

spk_0 You're fucking stupid as fuck.

spk_0 Who does that?

spk_0 You don't think in 20 years we're going to look back at these fielding metrics and be like,

spk_0 oh, you're looking out above average.

spk_0 Are you fucking stupid?

spk_0 Like just because it might be a little bit more accurate than errors doesn't mean that it's the end all be all.

spk_0 All right.

spk_0 So don't tell me that Cal Raleigh sucks at framing because of this stat.

spk_0 I don't know how much, how close you're paying attention to how good a guy is at framing.

spk_0 But I don't think anyone fucking knows.

spk_0 You guys have mentioned framing a couple times.

spk_0 Will you explain it to me real quick?

spk_0 Yeah, throw the ball at Joey.

spk_0 It's like when you're catching and the ball is, um,

spk_0 it's the art of making a ball look like a strike if you're a catcher.

spk_0 So like, I missed it.

spk_0 So that's bad framing.

spk_0 But like, I can, I XE know exactly what you mean now.

spk_0 You can convince the umpire that a ball is a strike by the way you catch it.

spk_0 And some players are a lot better than the others.

spk_0 And it's a very valuable skill.

spk_0 And Cal's good at it.

spk_0 He's okay.

spk_0 I don't know.

spk_0 I think last year he was a bit, he was better.

spk_0 But um, they have a lot of stats.

spk_0 They've dug into the numbers.

spk_0 Like what a stolen strike can do or a lost strike can do.

spk_0 And the difference between being in a two-oh count, two balls, no strike count,

spk_0 and being in like a one-one count.

spk_0 I don't have the numbers on me, but it's like a 30% difference in batting average.

spk_0 And you know what, you know, I have another fucking take that no one has,

spk_0 uh, no one ever talks about because you literally can't measure it.

spk_0 But it's probably the most important thing a catcher can do is literally

spk_0 they're the ones calling what pitch to throw.

spk_0 Like is that not more important?

spk_0 Catchers have like 30 binders of pitch information and they were just like studying it.

spk_0 Yeah.

spk_0 Like is that not more important?

spk_0 Killing a guy to throw a slider on this count against this pitcher, uh,

spk_0 then even framing or whatever other metrics are.

spk_0 How good you are throwing batters out like that seems to be every single pitch is on you mostly.

spk_0 I guess the pitcher has the final call, but like we can't really measure

spk_0 who's the best at calling pitches.

spk_0 But the Mariners pitchers, how have they been this year?

spk_0 Pretty good.

spk_0 I always assumed one of the best pitching staff.

spk_0 It is a suggestion.

spk_0 But some pitchers like Chris sale for the Braves who won the Sa Young.

spk_0 He basically said, I never shake off a pitch.

spk_0 They call a pitch, also the pitch.

spk_0 Yeah.

spk_0 And then also young pitches, they're not going to be calling off the catcher and like they don't know

spk_0 actually what the best pitch the throw is and they're going to trust their catcher.

spk_0 But if you have a catcher, you can trust you like this guy calls the best pitches.

spk_0 He knows what pitches call.

spk_0 You're going to trust him.

spk_0 If you have a catcher, if you don't really trust him, you're like, why would he pick that pitch here?

spk_0 I don't know about that.

spk_0 You have less trust in him.

spk_0 And then you get scrambled up and you're going to be don't meet balls.

spk_0 It is a fascinating part of the sport.

spk_0 You read and I've never seen that.

spk_0 We were talking about the Orioles catcher, catcher, Pesayo.

spk_0 And this weekend, the pitcher was getting kind of annoyed at the catcher over probably pitch selection.

spk_0 So these guys, they have a detailed game plan.

spk_0 The catchers know batting tendencies, what pitches, batters do better on, what pitches

spk_0 they do worse on.

spk_0 And it's their job to kind of figure out where in the count, certain pitches should be called

spk_0 and the location of the pitches.

spk_0 It's up to the pitcher to execute.

spk_0 But the catchers have done all of this game planning.

spk_0 And also on top of that, like the game plan can say what it is, but like of one day,

spk_0 the guy's fucking slider isn't doing well.

spk_0 And you can recognize it early.

spk_0 Like this shit's not biting like it usually is or it's a little wild or whatever.

spk_0 Even if the Skydipport says you should those sliders in this count.

spk_0 If you're a smart catcher, like, I don't know, the slider's not looking that good this year.

spk_0 This game, let's throw the change up or whatever the fuck.

spk_0 And like that's the type of thing that you can't measure in defensive war.

spk_0 It ain't happening.

spk_0 So the haters online say that Cal Raleigh isn't a good catcher.

spk_0 I'm gonna say you don't know what the fuck you're talking about.

spk_0 It's one of the reasons Jack that a lot of MLB managers are former catchers

spk_0 because they know the game better than anybody.

spk_0 They've worked with the pitchers on this side.

spk_0 They're haters on this end.

spk_0 And they just end up having a better concept of the game.

spk_0 And the fact that Cal Raleigh has to do all that game planning and all that thinking

spk_0 on top of actually hitting 50 home runs, that's the impressive part.

spk_0 And the, I guess, physical toll it takes on you to be catching and getting hit by foul balls

spk_0 and squat in the entire game while being that good at the plate.

spk_0 It does not happen.

spk_0 So rare that a catcher is top five in the league and hitting it.

spk_0 Never happens.

spk_0 What do you think of as like, like, well, I see this was so weird

spk_0 because if you think about, like, I always thought about pitching as offense,

spk_0 but pitching is defense technically.

spk_0 It's the only sport where the defense has the ball.

spk_0 So like, who do you think of as leading the defense?

spk_0 The, I guess the catcher is the...

spk_0 Because he's like orchestrating.

spk_0 Yeah.

spk_0 And he's doing more than just calling pitches, obviously.

spk_0 And then when the ball is in his hands, it's a big decision time.

spk_0 Seems like a stressful position.

spk_0 Oh, yeah, brother.

spk_0 That's why every time, every time a hitter is like an elite hitter

spk_0 and he's a catcher, they're like, how about you just not be catcher?

spk_0 It's like, rare that guy hits that well.

spk_0 And they're like, you can be catcher and hitting.

spk_0 Usually if they identify this guy as an elite hitter with the lead power,

spk_0 let's move him to a position that's less intensive on your body

spk_0 and we can just maximize his hitting.

spk_0 So Bryce Harper, Philly Superstar, when he was 16 and 17, he was a catcher.

spk_0 But he was such a good hitter that the nationals...

spk_0 I mean, it wasn't going to just be the nationals.

spk_0 Any other team that picked him, they weren't going to keep him that catcher

spk_0 just because he was such a good hitter and the wear and tear of being a catcher.

spk_0 So what's the word, drastic, that they moved him to the outfield.

spk_0 But if you're a great defensive catcher who can hit,

spk_0 when you get up to the major league level, you're going to make a lot of money.

spk_0 And you're probably going to be in baseball for 20, 30 years after your attire.

spk_0 That's why Cal Raleigh, big dump on my Mount Rushmore.

spk_0 For Mount Dumpmore.

spk_0 Top four biggest asses.

spk_0 I wouldn't say biggest, but best asses.

spk_0 I mean, his ass has a presence, for sure, in aura.

spk_0 His asses are the first thing to add to a room in the last thing to leave.

spk_0 That's right, baby.

spk_0 Beating from the back, they say.

spk_0 So you got anything else on this series other than Cal Raleigh being the MVP?

spk_0 You're getting Oswores.

spk_0 He says, his first week as a Mariner, first week and a half back with the Mariner is terrible.

spk_0 He went two for 30.

spk_0 Since then, so about 15 days, he's been a 131 WRC plus hitter.

spk_0 So that's big for the Mariner's going forward.

spk_0 The offense overall, wanted to have it.

spk_0 In general, since probably the All Star Break hasn't been fantastic.

spk_0 But if you have Swar is hitting the way he was in Arizona, that could be a big boost.

spk_0 Especially since the Astros offense has a hole.

spk_0 I'm going to say they've been lucky to still be in first place.

spk_0 They've been bottom 10 in offense and pitching since the All Star Break.

spk_0 Yeah, honestly, it's shocked.

spk_0 It's like, I mean, the Astros are still two games up with all the injuries.

spk_0 And to me, this seems like they haven't been playing that well.

spk_0 I don't know the record off the top of my head.

spk_0 You might have just said it.

spk_0 No, since the beginning of August going into the series, they were eight and eleven.

spk_0 So they won, what, so 11 and 12 now.

spk_0 But they were in August 24th in the R.A.

spk_0 24th in WRC plus 28th in runs.

spk_0 It is shocking that they're not worse.

spk_0 Yeah.

spk_0 If the Mariner's offense, if Swar is gets back on track, Rally, back on track, Randy, back on track.

spk_0 That could be big.

spk_0 Yeah.

spk_0 The Mariner's just went on a skid, bro.

spk_0 I mean, they lost eight at eight at a 10 games.

spk_0 That of five game losing streak going into the series against A's.

spk_0 Couldn't take advantage of the Astros.

spk_0 They could regret it because now your dawn's coming to back soon.

spk_0 You never know.

spk_0 I mean, you do, I don't know.

spk_0 You never, you just never, you never know.

spk_0 You just don't really know.

spk_0 And that's, that's the beauty about it all.

spk_0 You just, I don't know anything.

spk_0 You don't even, Abjak knows literally nothing about shit.

spk_0 He's what you would call a fuck ass.

spk_0 He knows fuck ass about anything.

spk_0 Oh.

spk_0 But you do a new standup clip.

spk_0 I saw your standup clip.

spk_0 Yeah.

spk_0 Funny shit, dude.

spk_0 Thanks, brother.

spk_0 Thanks for popping off.

spk_0 She was getting numbers, dude.

spk_0 Yeah, people in the comments being like, I only know you from a baseball punch.

spk_0

spk_0 Like, eight shout out.

spk_0 Check out Jack's Instagram TikTok new clip.

spk_0 Five minute.

spk_0 Five minute clip on, yeah.

spk_0 Earned material.

spk_0 You see, right?

spk_0 You've been to five minute clip and they're like, we won't show this to new viewers.

spk_0 And it's like, well, what the fuck's the point?

spk_0 But on TikTok, they're like, we'll show everyone.

spk_0 So shout out TikTok.

spk_0 Shout out to Johnny.

spk_0 You're better to stick off sticking to TikTok.

spk_0 And you're better off sticking to rock and roll because the way he's with bars is not honorable.

spk_0 Shout out to the Chinese people.

spk_0 I just did, we just did Moomoo or Brand deal.

spk_0 And one of the comments is that they're a Chinese company.

spk_0 And that we shouldn't promote them because they're Chinese.

spk_0 I'm like, did I fucking love Chinese people?

spk_0 Wait, you see who's just in China.

spk_0 It's wrong with that.

spk_0 No, I'm just saying things about Chinese people.

spk_0 And they seem nice.

spk_0 They're a great crowd.

spk_0 They actually like yell things in unison and shit.

spk_0 It's like a very organized audience.

spk_0 Same thing in Korea.

spk_0 That's fascinating to me.

spk_0 Like, I wish that we were all on that shit more often.

spk_0 And it happens very rarely.

spk_0 Well, we are an individualistic society.

spk_0 Yeah, but we need to come together now more than ever.

spk_0 Yeah.

spk_0 Let's start some, let's seize the land, kill the rich people.

spk_0 Yeah.

spk_0 And do some communism.

spk_0 And do chance in unison.

spk_0 Make Bernie the chancellor.

spk_0 We should get a chancellor.

spk_0 No, that means we should get one.

spk_0 I'll be the first one.

spk_0 My question is this, Mitch actually even liked baseball.

spk_0 Because I feel like you're not really a baseball fan.

spk_0 And you don't really...

spk_0 I'm so confused by this question.

spk_0 I read this really.

spk_0 I thought it was a, this Mitch actually played baseball.

spk_0 Mitch does not play baseball.

spk_0 He hasn't played baseball in what, 12 years?

spk_0 You play slow pitch.

spk_0 Yeah.

spk_0 Still have this wealth on my shin.

spk_0 It's been two weeks.

spk_0 Play just today though.

spk_0 Yeah, we're going to get a shin cam put in so we can keep showing Mitch's shin updates on.

spk_0 Mitch is on the IOW right now.

spk_0 Yeah, we put him in the torture chamber.

spk_0 Yeah, I'm very confused.

spk_0 Does it not seem like I like baseball?

spk_0 Yeah, man, you better fuck it.

spk_0 Am I Anthony Rendon of this podcast?

spk_0 Yeah, it's because you're monotone, bro.

spk_0 You got to have more energy up here.

spk_0 You got to be excited.

spk_0 Mitch goes to more live baseball games than anyone I've ever met.

spk_0 Mitch is literally like, um, tires of the game yesterday.

spk_0 And it's the game two days.

spk_0 And it's like, you don't even like the match.

spk_0 I know, I don't even like the team.

spk_0 It just goes there every now and then it's game.

spk_0 I didn't grow up with live baseball anywhere near me.

spk_0 It's like, uh, I got to take advantage of it.

spk_0 Oh, poor Mitch.

spk_0 No, I'm from Boone, North Carolina.

spk_0 Our closest team is the Hickory Crawl Dads growing up like 15 minutes away from NHL NFL

spk_0 Moby.

spk_0 It's nice.

spk_0 Florida's dope and that bush gardens.

spk_0 You got it all.

spk_0 You're the only fucking person.

spk_0 Oh, you have to be from Florida to go 15.

spk_0 Florida is the only place that has professional sport.

spk_0 Florida fucking sucks.

spk_0 There's a reason.

spk_0 There's a reason you don't live there anymore.

spk_0 Boss.

spk_0 Surrogates.

spk_0 There's fucking.

spk_0 It's a crack.

spk_0 Crocodiles.

spk_0 Nobody think.

spk_0 Oh, you mean hurricane.

spk_0 Okay, you got it.

spk_0 Hurricanes.

spk_0 Crocodiles.

spk_0 It's alligator.

spk_0 It's not crocodile.

spk_0 An alligator.

spk_0 There's only.

spk_0 There's a lot.

spk_0 There are some crocodiles now.

spk_0 Actually, there's Nile crocodile in swampland.

spk_0 You don't think I've been paying attention?

spk_0 You got to put them there and they're not supposed to be there.

spk_0 And they're eating all the wildlife.

spk_0 You do.

spk_0 They weren't supposed to put anybody there.

spk_0 That's a place that there's not supposed to be.

spk_0 Yeah, that's a fact.

spk_0 And then you know, you know,

spk_0

spk_0 it's the Australia of America.

spk_0 Mm hmm.

spk_0 Uh, Mitchell, no.

spk_0 The current blooper was, this is a crazy comment.

spk_0 This is for the question below.

spk_0 Did you know that the fanatics half-jap, the fanatic has a half-jap and he's brother.

spk_0 His name is Slyly.

spk_0 And he's the mascot for the Hiroshima Toyo Carps of the MPB.

spk_0 I'm an EastPA resident who has been to Japan a few times and I love the MPB and only

spk_0 find out found out about this last year, LOL.

spk_0 Still not my MPB team though.

spk_0 Sorry, fanatic.

spk_0 That's fucking funny.

spk_0 This is the, uh, the brother.

spk_0 It very much is a relative of the fanatic.

spk_0 They got a Japanese fanatic.

spk_0 But yeah, the current blooper of the braves for year two was the mascot for the carp.

spk_0 Really?

spk_0 Yeah.

spk_0 So the guy who's behind the blooper suit now is not the original blooper.

spk_0 Because he was in Japan because he was in Japan being this guy.

spk_0 So the bloopers related the fanatic kind of, yeah, technically once replaced.

spk_0 There's an article about when Sayas-Azuki played in Atlanta for the first time.

spk_0 He was excited to see the guy who's behind blooper because they like lived in the same

spk_0 area.

spk_0 And blooper beats with the fanatic.

spk_0 Blooper talks more shit about the fanatic than anyone.

spk_0 Blooper does not like the fanatic on an off-cam.

spk_0 Blooper, I barely know her.

spk_0 Stop.

spk_0 There's no sexual undertones in this podcast and you just made one.

spk_0 Listen, when it comes to mascots, there's nothing but sexual undertones.

spk_0 I mean, that's shit.

spk_0 What are you?

spk_0 Just to miss his met.

spk_0 Kind of hop with the rest of the merch mid.

spk_0 I wouldn't fuck any of the mascots.

spk_0 Who's the second hardest mascot in MLB?

spk_0 That's a great question.

spk_0 Who's the second hardest mascot?

spk_0 I can't picture any except for that.

spk_0 I might take that one for winter right now.

spk_0 I think he's the second hardest mascot.

spk_0 I mean, number one obviously is a given.

spk_0 But after that, like, you're going to go with the blue and the blue.

spk_0 Is Mrs. Met the only female mascot?

spk_0 Lou the seal.

spk_0 That's a good call.

spk_0 She's a lady.

spk_0 Pull her up.

spk_0 Let me see that thing.

spk_0 I mean, it would be Lou the seal's mom, though, wouldn't it?

spk_0 Mama seal.

spk_0 And she, I mean, she's definitely his mom.

spk_0 Hey, she's not half bad, you know?

spk_0 As they say and where is that Chicago or Philly?

spk_0 Where do people go?

spk_0 That's not bad.

spk_0 What are you talking about?

spk_0 No, actually, these are terrifying.

spk_0 Yeah, why is Lou the also short?

spk_0 Yeah, we need hotter mascots.

spk_0 Well, when we get a new expansion teams,

spk_0 that's probably going to be one of the priorities with the league.

spk_0 When we get the second team in Philadelphia,

spk_0 that could be the big rivalry.

spk_0 Who's got the hottest mascot?

spk_0 All right, well, is there anything else

spk_0 as we just talked about mascots, sexy mascots?

spk_0 I don't think so.

spk_0 I don't think so either.

spk_0 I'm just on fucking page number seven

spk_0 of sexiest mascots on Google.

spk_0 And it's, I think it's time to log off.

spk_0 You're up in the comments, dude.

spk_0 Who do you think's the second hottest mascot in MLB?

spk_0 I think it's time to log off.

spk_0 All right.

spk_0 I'm going to put in a wild card for the Bobcat.

spk_0 What's his name, Baxter?

spk_0 Baxter.

spk_0 Baxter's in good shape.

spk_0 Yeah, I mean, if we're not being homophobic,

spk_0 that's a sexy mascot.

spk_0 Yeah.

spk_0 Congratulations, Baxter.

spk_0 He's got the quads.

spk_0 Second, second, sexiest, female.

spk_0 He's like doing it for me a little bit, look at you.

spk_0 OK, he said, well, maybe Baxter will be open to coming

spk_0 on the podcast next episode.

spk_0 He'll be coming, all right.

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