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hey everyone welcome back to

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inside the diamonds podcast

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this is episode seven I'm

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your host jc and I'm joined

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again tonight by cj how you

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doing cj I'm fantastic now

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after a long day and being

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sick this weekend I get to

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talk some baseball this is

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like a stress reliever for

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me so I'm excited to get

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this going yeah it's happy

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to not be alone that is one

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thing for sure

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I felt bad.

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Work's been kicking my ass left and right.

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Last Monday, I couldn't even move.

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It's getting better now,

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but I couldn't even move.

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I stayed in bed until I

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could and then got up

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Tuesday and went back to work.

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I apologize for that.

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Sorry.

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I'm glad you made it through

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and you kept it to the end.

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the time limit we wanted.

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So I'm sure it wasn't easy,

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but I appreciate you moving

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forward without me.

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And hopefully that doesn't

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happen too often for us.

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So I think everybody's going

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to be glad it's not just my voice.

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That's going to be the one thing.

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Well, eventually,

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eventually if we get more

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people on board with the

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website and joining us and stuff,

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we'll find some more people

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that can filter in and give

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a little bit more direct

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views on certain teams.

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They're talking about, you know,

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you and I,

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pay very close attention to, you know,

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everything that's going on,

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but eventually it's going

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to be nice when we do get

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those lined up and have

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additional people in here

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with a little bit different

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point of view and a little

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bit of different perspective on things.

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So why don't we jump right into tonight?

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We'll start off with just

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some kind of highlights,

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some things that have

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happened in the last week.

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And you know, the first thing I have is,

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have we seen a team as bad

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as this Chicago White Sox team before?

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It's been a long time and to

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go eight games in this

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early of his year and been

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shut out eight times.

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It's pretty putrid.

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Now, mind you,

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loose Robert Junior been out.

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Jimenez just came back and

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Makata 60 days worth.

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He's still a bat.

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He's out.

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So they're missing.

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They're probably missing

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their three have been at different times,

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been missing three of their best bats,

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but still.

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It's awful.

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Yeah.

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It's tough to watch.

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You ready for this?

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Yep.

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So the only player on that

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team right now that starts,

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that is hitting over 250 is

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Gavin Sheets at 254.

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On top of that,

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now this is my interesting thing.

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Now granted, this is only,

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we're only in mid-April.

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We still have five months of

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a season left.

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So this can change.

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They can catch, they can get hot.

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You know,

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they're not gonna make the playoffs.

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I think that we can rule

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that out right now.

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But these stats can change.

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But here's where they're at right now.

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190 is a team batting average.

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That's 30th in the league

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and the third worst all time.

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Their on-base percentage is 263.

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That's 30th in the league

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and the seventh worst all time.

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Their OPS is 549,

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which is 30th in the league

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and seventh worst all time.

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They've also scored 45 runs

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this season through 22 games.

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They're playing tonight, though.

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They've scored three runs.

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But through the 22-game pace,

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they've scored 45 runs.

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They're on pace for 331 runs.

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The lowest ever by a team is

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372 by the St.

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Louis Cardinals in 1908.

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Holy shit.

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Now, I'll add in the three tonight.

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So, let's do – I'll do 48.

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Divided by 23 times 162.

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So they're on pace right now

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for 338 runs with tonight's

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game being played right now.

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They're up 3-1.

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And that's still lower than

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the Cardinals by 33 runs.

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34 runs, actually.

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That's awful.

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I was looking at it just

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curious in regards to this

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is going to be someone, you know,

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in my mind thinking without

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really diving into it, without looking,

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pulling it up.

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I was like,

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there's got to be a couple of

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teams that have got to be, you know,

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within 10 runs, you know,

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of the White Sox.

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The next closest in runs

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scored is the Oakland Athletics at 65.

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Chicago currently has a

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minus 78 different differential.

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That is by far the worst in

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the league right now.

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The next closest is the

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Rockies at minus 50 minus 57.

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That's it's horrendous.

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And they don't really have

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much in by the means of pitching either,

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you know, they've got some nice stories,

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but at some point in time,

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Yeah, probably.

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What are they going to?

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They can't.

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Are they just going to hold

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on to the kids down in the

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minors and let them continue?

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But do they have anyone

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that's worth bringing up?

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I know.

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Montgomery's the only one

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that anyone ever really mentions,

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but he's not ready.

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They have a lefty, Noah Schultz,

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who's pretty good.

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But other than that,

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they have no one coming.

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No.

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So that to me was when I...

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You know,

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this morning before heading into work,

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I do all the rundowns of

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every single game the night before,

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watch them all, wake up an hour early,

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watch them all.

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And it came up while they

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were talking about it.

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And I was just like,

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it just sparked my interest

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in how piss poor the

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Chicago White Sox are.

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And it's sad because it

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wasn't too long ago that

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they were a decent team and, you know,

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in the playoffs and were

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barely winning the World Series.

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So, yeah.

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Don't you feel like you're

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friends with that division?

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Like,

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don't you feel like every team in

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that division has a run of dominance?

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Like, the Tigers did it a couple years ago,

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like, 2013.

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Like, that was the Tigers' time frame.

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Then it was, like, in 2007,

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that time frame was the Guardians.

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You know, the Twins ran it, like,

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for a while.

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The White Sox had it in, like, 04.

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And, like,

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I felt like they were always there in 04,

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03, 02.

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The Royals had their run

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where they won the World Series.

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I feel like that's the division where –

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somebody always just stakes

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their claim and it's their

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division for a couple of years now,

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granted last year, the twins won it.

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And right now the guardians seem fantastic,

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but I don't know.

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That just seems like it

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seems like a team of runs

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in that division.

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Yeah, no, I agree with that.

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And I think probably just

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without even diving into it

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to me with that statement,

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the one that seems to be

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always average or above in that,

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in the run is the guardians.

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And it's been a long time

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since they've been in the bottom.

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Now, mind you, that you've had the Royals,

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you've had the Tigers who

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are building back and the

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White Sox fought back and

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the Twins have been

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horrible to a couple of years.

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But it is very much so a

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division where they do go in spurts.

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They're either really poor

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or they're all the way at the top.

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And it'll be very

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interesting to see that division,

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how that shakes out.

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But the other thing that

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caught my attention,

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and this actually happened

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when I was doing some

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fantasy baseball reviews

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and I was looking for

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catcher help because I'm

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still missing some catchers.

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Not in our league because I

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need a hell of a lot more help than that.

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But Travis Darnot.

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He had five home runs and 10 at-bats.

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I think it's six now, right?

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Six in his last four games?

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No, this is before play today.

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I pulled the numbers.

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He has six home runs in four games.

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And through those four games,

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he's hitting 600 with six home runs,

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10 RBIs, and only one strikeout.

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It's not sustainable, obviously,

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because when Murphy comes back,

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he'll be there.

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But that, to me,

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was just to get that kind

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of unexpected production

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from a catcher who's a backup,

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who could catch and start for many teams.

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I'd love him on the Red Sox

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as much as Wong does well,

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but you have a power bat like that.

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Whoa, whoa, whoa.

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Wong's fine.

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McGuire's fine.

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We'll get to that in a little bit.

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But those two are fine,

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and we got Kyle Till coming.

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I'm not worried about the

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Red Sox catching him.

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Let's slow the time down.

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I'm glad you brought that up

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because that's something I

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want to ask you later on

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when we get to the prospect situation.

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There's something I was

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talking about with my son,

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and I just want to bring that up later.

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But that was one that caught my attention.

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And then the –

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The other thing that really

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kind of caught my attention for me was,

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again,

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we're not meant to focus on the AL

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Central, but the Twins twofold.

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Louis Varlin, for me,

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going into this season,

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I was at high hopes for him.

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Rocco Baldelli has now

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basically disowned him and

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doesn't even want him back

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until he finds whatever it

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was he had previously.

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But he is lost.

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And that's too bad because

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they do need starting pitching,

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even though they brought up that – shoot,

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they brought up a guy with

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a hyphenated name,

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came up and pitched a great spot start.

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Simeon Richards-Woods.

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Yes, yes.

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Simeon,

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he looked – I think he was acquired

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from Toronto a couple years ago.

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He was a prospect.

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It was just a throw-in.

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Oh, for Brad Barrios.

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Yeah.

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He threw a great game, and he went down.

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I'm hoping he gets called back up.

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But the bigger thing when I

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was looking at the Twins –

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is that they've been started

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the year without their dominant closer,

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you know, Honda, right?

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Yeah.

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He went on a rehab

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assignment today down to St.

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Paul.

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So when looking at the

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central and seeing this news, Varlin was,

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you know, getting lit up.

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I think he's given up 27

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runs in his four starts.

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So if they find someone to

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fill that void and they get, you know,

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Joe Ryan's pitching well,

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and now they get their backend, uh,

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closer back they shift

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everyone down into those

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late you know seventh and

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eighth inning hopefully

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they can start to rebound

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and I think that'll be a

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team that'll be fun to

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watch um going into may and

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june to see how they read I

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see if they see what's

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really there uh but duran

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is one I like to watch I

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love I like to watch him

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throw as a closer they have

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injuries though I'm trying

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to pull out right now

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Correa just went down.

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Kepler just came back up.

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He's not even hitting 200 yet this year.

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Royce Lewis is hurt, last I thought.

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They got a lot of problems,

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and they don't have DiScafani.

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Nope.

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Royce Lewis is a string quad.

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Oblique for Correa.

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DiScafani's hurt.

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I mean...

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Listen,

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I wrote about why the Tigers are

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going to run away.

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I thought they were going to not run away,

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but win the AL Central.

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And I said the Twins didn't

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have the pitching to compete.

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Now, the Tigers have played the Twins.

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I'm going to pull this up

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out of the Tiger schedule

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because I believe they

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played seven games now.

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And so there's only six left

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against the Twins.

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Yep.

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And the Tigers are two, three, four.

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Four and three through those seven games.

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Yep.

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No.

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Let's go through the scores

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there for a second.

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I'll ignore the first one.

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It was 11-5.

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4-1, close game.

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4-3, close game,

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which the Tigers won that game.

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Ooh, actually, no.

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Okay, 8-2, the Tigers won that game.

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Tigers won 5-4, and then they lost 4-3,

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and then they won 6-1.

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So a lot of one-run games.

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And let's also not mention,

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forget that the Tigers'

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offense has been struggling,

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and in this Tampa series right now,

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they've picked it up.

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So that article looks okay.

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I mean, granted, like we said,

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the twin and I go back to

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the twins pitching is just not there.

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Like my eight,

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letting my eight ago as a

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tiger screen and watching him pitch,

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I get why they let him go.

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I mean,

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the home run ball is just killer to him,

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but they're going through it.

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I think Sonny gray is a tough loss.

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He looked good.

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This first start for the Cardinals.

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So it'll be interesting, but that, that,

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the,

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Duran going on a rehab assignment for me,

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just not that I'm – I don't

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think the Twins have what

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it takes to win that division.

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I still think the Tigers are up there,

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and I think the Guardians

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are still – they've got so

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many bats that are just

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putting the bat on the ball right now.

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They're producing,

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but their numbers aren't staggering,

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the Guardians.

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No, just consistent from top to bottom.

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Like I looked at it today

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because we were going to do

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a segment on them,

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but I pulled up some numbers today.

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Like the bat that really

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stood out to me a lot was Josh Naylor.

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He had a good year last year.

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He had over 300 last year.

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The Naylor brothers are

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something to watch there.

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But the pitching.

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And again, I went back,

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I go back to the article I

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wrote about the Tigers in the division.

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Shane Bieber's done for the year.

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And I don't know.

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I've,

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I've heard this in multiple places that,

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Tristan McKenzie's coming

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back from an injury from last year,

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and they're keeping him on a pitch count.

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He's not the same pitcher.

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Somebody said this the other day.

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I was listening to something,

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and somebody mentioned it.

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I think he was touching 92-93 last year.

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He's dropped to 89-90.

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So he neglected surgery and

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chose to go through, I forget what it was,

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physical therapy or something.

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He went through something

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else instead to try to

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figure out the arm issue.

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And clearly,

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whatever it is he's going

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through isn't working.

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I mean, granted, he is 2-2,

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but he has a 5 ERA.

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Yeah, it's high.

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With a 1.61 whip, 11 strikeouts,

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and an 18 innings pitch.

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Now, who does he remind me of?

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Marcus Stroman.

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Is he going to strike people out?

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No.

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But there's something going on,

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and you lose that arm on

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top of Bieber already.

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Now we're talking trouble.

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And so.

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Curry can come up and fill in for,

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I don't mean he can fill in for Bieber,

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but he can fill in a rotation spot.

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He's not Bieber,

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but they don't have much

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more depth further down.

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No.

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So that,

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that division to me is just going

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to be interesting,

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but I think getting Duran

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back allows the twins to

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battle in that second,

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third place and then see

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the white socks and, and, uh,

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you know,

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hopefully not the guardians fall

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off the face of the earth.

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Cause I did pick them to finish second,

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but we'll see, it'll be very interesting.

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But those were just the, the, you know,

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outside of the norm and

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basics and some we'll get to later,

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but those were the things

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that kind of stuck out to

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me as intriguing when doing

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some little bit of quick

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research this morning and

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over the weekend.

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What about for you?

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I got four.

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So the first one we bring up

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and everybody's talking

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about this and I think it's hysterical.

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Have you seen the Aaron

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Boone video from yesterday?

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Yeah.

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How do you – what do you do?

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The poor guy,

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he's looking at the other bench coach,

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right?

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And you can clear his day seeing the video,

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see the guy behind the home plate yell.

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I don't know what he yelled.

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I didn't hear it.

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But it was a quick hook.

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And poor Boone because generally, you know,

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Boone is always running his yap.

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But it was great.

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When I watched the video,

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I was at work and I saw it pop up on my,

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I get notifications for

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everything baseball, Twitter related.

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I saw it pop up and Boone

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gets ejected and there was

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a video so I pull it open

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and all I see is Boone,

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he's checking his fingernails like,

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did I cut them long enough

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or short enough this week?

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Am I good?

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And all of a sudden he's

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tossed and he's like, what did I do?

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And then they slowed it down,

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and there's the video of

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the guy in slow-mo yelling

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something to the umpire,

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and the umpire takes his

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mask off and tosses him.

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I couldn't stop laughing.

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That's Aaron Boone.

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Everybody talks about it.

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He's the guy that only has a

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job because of one home run.

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Oh, fuck.

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And, yeah,

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it breaks all of the Boston fans' hearts.

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I'll have to tell you a story about my –

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That year in the heartbreak

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and what I was physically

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meant to personally going

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through during that time.

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And I don't want to share it on air,

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but when Boone hit the home run,

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I was woken up.

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I'll tell you off air.

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It was, it's gross.

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You don't, no one else wants to hear it,

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but I just,

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I thought that was hysterical.

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And I, I really, I didn't watch the game.

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Like I forgot.

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I had a lot going on at work anyways.

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And I was dealing with, you know, my,

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I was sick all weekend.

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So I was dealing with getting better.

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But so when I saw the video pop up,

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I completely forgot there

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was a one o'clock game.

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And so I tuned in after that.

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So I don't even know like what led to it.

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It sounded like it was like

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a hit batter before.

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And like,

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Boone was arguing or something like that.

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And then the fan,

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the fans reaction behind

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him was hysterical.

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Like you just yelled something.

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You just sat there stone-faced like,

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and Boone's saying it wasn't me.

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It was him.

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Like even the bench was

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bench coach was yelling.

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It was him.

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And he's just sitting there stone-faced.

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Yeah.

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They both immediately turned around,

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but how empty is that stadium up front,

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you know,

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in a one o'clock game that Boone,

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they knew exactly who it was too.

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They pointed right at him.

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How about the umpire

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doubling down after it?

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I didn't toss a fan.

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Nope.

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I think I saw, I haven't read them yet.

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I should have read them before we did this,

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but.

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he came out today and said something.

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I don't know what he said today,

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but I just thought the

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whole scene... If you

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haven't seen the video, just go look.

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It's hysterical.

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He's literally just checking

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his fingernails like, oh, okay.

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It wasn't animated enough.

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Just a simple conversation

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with a bench coach, keeping quiet,

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and then they both

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immediately kind of perked

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up when it was said, too.

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Then the ump throws him.

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It was pretty comical to watch and just...

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If he was any other team,

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probably wouldn't care.

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But where it's the Yankees and Boone,

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everyone's kind of posting it out there.

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So it was definitely – that's a good one.

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Unless it was Angel

00:18:27.400 --> 00:18:28.260
Hernandez behind the plate,

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then I really wouldn't know about it.

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He would have pointed in the

00:18:30.303 --> 00:18:31.003
other direction, though.

00:18:31.023 --> 00:18:31.664
He would have missed that

00:18:31.805 --> 00:18:32.945
call and called the other coach.

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It would have been somebody in left field.

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That's right.

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You're out.

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God, that guy is horrible.

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If I got a dollar for every

00:18:40.695 --> 00:18:42.778
meme I saw with the phone

00:18:42.798 --> 00:18:45.019
calls Angel Hernandez missed, you know?

00:18:45.640 --> 00:18:46.580
The best one I got,

00:18:46.601 --> 00:18:48.202
and I got this before the season started,

00:18:48.823 --> 00:18:52.605
was one of my best friends posted it,

00:18:53.007 --> 00:18:54.567
shared it, or tagged me on Facebook,

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and it really said, like, November,

00:18:57.431 --> 00:18:58.171
I miss baseball.

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December, I miss baseball.

00:19:00.113 --> 00:19:01.233
January, I go so on and so on.

00:19:01.854 --> 00:19:02.474
April 1st,

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and it's a picture of Angel

00:19:03.635 --> 00:19:05.498
Hernandez that said, F this guy.

00:19:05.998 --> 00:19:06.178
Yeah.

00:19:10.030 --> 00:19:12.113
Oh, the guy's horrible, but hey,

00:19:12.753 --> 00:19:13.294
he's going to have

00:19:13.354 --> 00:19:14.335
something over somebody

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because he's still doing it.

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All right,

00:19:16.576 --> 00:19:17.656
so the second one I want to talk

00:19:17.676 --> 00:19:20.558
about is the Oakland A's.

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We all knew we're not going

00:19:21.660 --> 00:19:22.580
to be a good team this year.

00:19:23.060 --> 00:19:23.961
I think we all checked it.

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I mean, granted, they're in fourth place,

00:19:25.722 --> 00:19:28.005
so kudos to them through, what,

00:19:28.384 --> 00:19:29.925
less than 25 games to start the season.

00:19:30.846 --> 00:19:34.068
Mason Miller, that guy is nails.

00:19:34.088 --> 00:19:35.490
180 ERA, a one-width.

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20 strikeouts and 10 innings pitched,

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eight games, five saves,

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and he's touching 103.

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The A's could trade him at the deadline.

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Oh, my gosh.

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And they might get a top 10

00:19:50.250 --> 00:19:52.651
prospect and maybe another

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one in the top 100.

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So Saturday,

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Saturday I watched the Cubs

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and Adelzai blow the save

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against the Marlins in the first game.

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So then I go and watch

00:20:03.019 --> 00:20:04.019
Miller the other day, and I'm like,

00:20:04.058 --> 00:20:04.579
holy shit.

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You know,

00:20:05.694 --> 00:20:07.316
the Cubs have got a log jam out

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in the outfield.

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They've got a couple of different,

00:20:09.577 --> 00:20:10.538
you know, arms out there.

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I'm like,

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I wonder what it would take to

00:20:11.898 --> 00:20:12.298
get Miller.

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The guy's just a power arm.

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I mean, he sat those three guys down,

00:20:18.682 --> 00:20:19.983
lights out, hitting 103.

00:20:19.983 --> 00:20:22.185
He's pretty incredible.

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Yeah,

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I just couldn't believe when I – 103.

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You see Soto just stare at him afterwards?

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Yeah.

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It wasn't a stare like, holy,

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I'm going to get you.

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It was like out of disbelief.

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What the fuck did I just face?

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I think he struck out all three.

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Yeah.

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And there wasn't a single

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pitch net at bat that was under 100.

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Of all three at bats, I think.

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Yeah, Judge included.

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It was Volpe, Soto, and Judge.

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How about Judge getting booed?

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Yes.

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It's only about our time, right?

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Something's wrong with him.

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That toe is not right.

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We said it in the AL predictions.

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Yeah.

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It's only a matter of time.

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See,

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he's turned into a Yankee that I like

00:21:18.324 --> 00:21:19.265
because I like the fact

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that he came out and he literally said,

00:21:21.365 --> 00:21:22.346
yeah, I get it.

00:21:22.625 --> 00:21:23.885
If I was them, I'd boo me too.

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And I love that.

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I went up to it.

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You had a bad day.

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You're having a bad start.

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I love that.

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But Mason Miller, that guy could take it.

00:21:32.980 --> 00:21:33.101
Oh,

00:21:33.161 --> 00:21:35.663
he could fetch so much talent for that

00:21:35.723 --> 00:21:36.203
A's team.

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That's Sacramento A's.

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Gosh.

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I mean, I don't know.

00:21:43.269 --> 00:21:43.990
So the third one,

00:21:44.010 --> 00:21:46.093
you're going to enjoy this one.

00:21:47.053 --> 00:21:47.773
Jared Jones.

00:21:50.957 --> 00:21:52.438
Did you see the strikeout

00:21:52.478 --> 00:21:53.759
when he made Terang just

00:21:53.838 --> 00:21:55.019
basically buckle?

00:21:55.681 --> 00:21:57.363
That was part of my notes for this part.

00:21:57.563 --> 00:21:59.223
So I want to go through his

00:21:59.263 --> 00:21:59.984
numbers really quick.

00:22:00.753 --> 00:22:05.876
He's 2-2 with a 2.79 ERA, a 0.83 whip,

00:22:05.876 --> 00:22:09.118
39 strikeouts, and 29 innings pitched.

00:22:09.859 --> 00:22:10.619
And he has touched

00:22:10.880 --> 00:22:12.320
seven-plus strikeouts in

00:22:12.580 --> 00:22:13.622
every single start he's

00:22:13.642 --> 00:22:14.863
made in his big league debut,

00:22:15.242 --> 00:22:16.463
big league career so far

00:22:16.483 --> 00:22:17.243
through five starts.

00:22:18.244 --> 00:22:19.586
And then that video of Terang.

00:22:20.526 --> 00:22:22.607
And some of you said it today,

00:22:22.627 --> 00:22:24.028
and I don't know if it's true.

00:22:24.269 --> 00:22:25.269
I didn't look up the stats

00:22:25.328 --> 00:22:26.069
or anything like that.

00:22:26.150 --> 00:22:28.550
But apparently they faced

00:22:28.611 --> 00:22:29.791
each other in the minors before.

00:22:31.864 --> 00:22:32.744
I mean, probably,

00:22:32.805 --> 00:22:34.866
if you look at how these teams play,

00:22:35.487 --> 00:22:37.628
and most likely they have,

00:22:37.709 --> 00:22:39.470
but that was ugly.

00:22:40.070 --> 00:22:41.112
That's not something that

00:22:41.231 --> 00:22:42.393
Terang's going to live down

00:22:42.792 --> 00:22:44.173
or let down in that clubhouse.

00:22:44.334 --> 00:22:45.315
That'll be something that

00:22:45.335 --> 00:22:47.096
they'll share quite often.

00:22:47.115 --> 00:22:52.661
I just couldn't believe that swing.

00:22:53.141 --> 00:22:53.761
That was fantastic.

00:22:53.781 --> 00:22:54.382
That was a great pitch,

00:22:54.402 --> 00:22:55.823
and he walked off the mound like he knew,

00:22:55.843 --> 00:22:56.983
like, yep, I got you.

00:22:57.785 --> 00:22:57.984
Yeah.

00:22:58.766 --> 00:22:59.125
Yeah.

00:22:59.943 --> 00:23:02.345
He's a guy – no, I said it last year,

00:23:02.424 --> 00:23:03.144
all last year,

00:23:03.184 --> 00:23:04.605
that I loved watching Uri Perez,

00:23:04.766 --> 00:23:06.205
and Uri Perez is out for the year.

00:23:06.306 --> 00:23:08.186
So my new guy to watch,

00:23:08.307 --> 00:23:09.548
I'm tuned in to every Jared

00:23:09.567 --> 00:23:10.508
Jones start this year

00:23:10.528 --> 00:23:11.969
because that guy looks really good.

00:23:12.128 --> 00:23:13.588
And I've said it before,

00:23:13.709 --> 00:23:14.609
and we'll talk about it later,

00:23:15.690 --> 00:23:17.750
what they have pitching coming.

00:23:18.830 --> 00:23:20.192
That team is going to be good.

00:23:20.832 --> 00:23:24.353
They are going to be very good.

00:23:24.653 --> 00:23:25.834
I don't know if they won tonight.

00:23:25.894 --> 00:23:27.294
I haven't seen them come up actually,

00:23:27.334 --> 00:23:28.454
so I don't even know if they won today.

00:23:29.214 --> 00:23:30.315
I don't think they played yesterday.

00:23:31.155 --> 00:23:32.276
But entering play today,

00:23:32.516 --> 00:23:33.435
if they didn't play yesterday,

00:23:33.455 --> 00:23:34.395
they've lost six straight.

00:23:34.415 --> 00:23:35.336
They got swept by the Mets

00:23:35.537 --> 00:23:36.696
and they got swept by the Red Sox.

00:23:37.457 --> 00:23:39.038
And they look like against the Red Sox,

00:23:39.218 --> 00:23:40.157
they look like the Oakland A's.

00:23:40.637 --> 00:23:42.239
I mean, they didn't look whatsoever.

00:23:42.259 --> 00:23:43.959
And the Red Sox were walking wounded.

00:23:43.979 --> 00:23:46.799
No O'Neal, no Devers.

00:23:47.940 --> 00:23:48.460
That's next.

00:23:48.519 --> 00:23:49.040
We'll get there.

00:23:49.520 --> 00:23:50.520
Yeah.

00:23:50.740 --> 00:23:51.820
So I guess we'll just go there, I guess.

00:23:52.082 --> 00:23:53.001
So we'll be right into it.

00:23:53.801 --> 00:23:55.321
The Red Sox, I mean,

00:23:55.722 --> 00:23:56.782
let's talk about a road team.

00:23:57.781 --> 00:23:58.462
what'd they come home?

00:23:58.482 --> 00:24:00.644
10, uh, seven and three, the first 10.

00:24:01.305 --> 00:24:02.766
So they're 10 and three on the road.

00:24:02.806 --> 00:24:03.487
They lost tonight.

00:24:03.527 --> 00:24:04.267
So 10 and four.

00:24:04.287 --> 00:24:06.689
And think about what they're doing.

00:24:06.909 --> 00:24:07.829
Devers is still out.

00:24:08.210 --> 00:24:09.711
Costas is going to be out for some time.

00:24:10.612 --> 00:24:12.073
And Tyler O'Neill just came

00:24:12.114 --> 00:24:13.674
back and I don't even know

00:24:13.694 --> 00:24:14.375
what he did tonight.

00:24:14.776 --> 00:24:16.096
I was at my nephew's

00:24:16.136 --> 00:24:17.357
baseball game and I got home,

00:24:17.478 --> 00:24:18.358
showered and then I had a

00:24:18.398 --> 00:24:19.740
meeting and then I came into this.

00:24:19.859 --> 00:24:21.941
So I didn't get to see much of the game,

00:24:22.040 --> 00:24:23.982
which I don't like doing, but I had it on,

00:24:24.002 --> 00:24:24.963
I had it on the radio.

00:24:24.983 --> 00:24:25.023
Um,

00:24:27.785 --> 00:24:29.306
Rafael looks great at shortstop.

00:24:30.166 --> 00:24:30.866
I mean, I love that.

00:24:31.086 --> 00:24:31.426
Finally.

00:24:31.948 --> 00:24:32.867
Finally, they make the call,

00:24:32.907 --> 00:24:33.669
and finally you have a

00:24:33.709 --> 00:24:34.730
shortstop for the season.

00:24:36.891 --> 00:24:37.791
But the big thing about the

00:24:37.832 --> 00:24:38.951
Red Sox that I want to talk

00:24:38.991 --> 00:24:42.275
about that some people seem to forget,

00:24:42.375 --> 00:24:43.494
and I said to a lot of people,

00:24:44.455 --> 00:24:45.836
was the Andrew Bailey effect.

00:24:46.798 --> 00:24:47.077
Mm-hmm.

00:24:47.518 --> 00:24:48.419
Entering play tonight,

00:24:48.439 --> 00:24:52.060
they had a 1-7-3 ERA as a team,

00:24:53.082 --> 00:24:53.882
as a starting pitching.

00:24:54.823 --> 00:24:54.962
Yep.

00:24:56.431 --> 00:24:58.352
That's ridiculous.

00:24:59.692 --> 00:25:02.515
And I wrote about it on Saturday.

00:25:02.535 --> 00:25:04.236
I think I posted it where I

00:25:04.296 --> 00:25:05.455
include Pavetta.

00:25:05.476 --> 00:25:06.836
I include Whitlock.

00:25:07.357 --> 00:25:08.798
I had Bayo.

00:25:09.979 --> 00:25:11.220
Bayo during, I mean,

00:25:11.940 --> 00:25:12.961
everybody says this and I

00:25:13.040 --> 00:25:14.481
actually heard it somewhere else today.

00:25:15.461 --> 00:25:17.683
Everybody says Bayo during

00:25:17.703 --> 00:25:18.743
the day is a problem.

00:25:19.164 --> 00:25:22.807
Bayo at night is fantastic.

00:25:23.826 --> 00:25:24.866
His numbers this year,

00:25:24.886 --> 00:25:26.508
I believe from what I heard,

00:25:26.528 --> 00:25:27.788
and I'm doing this off the top of my head,

00:25:27.868 --> 00:25:30.069
so if I'm wrong, don't come after me.

00:25:33.512 --> 00:25:34.472
During the day this year,

00:25:34.492 --> 00:25:36.173
he's under three for an ERA.

00:25:36.835 --> 00:25:38.635
At night, he's over three.

00:25:39.876 --> 00:25:42.179
His start this season was

00:25:42.199 --> 00:25:43.038
against Baltimore.

00:25:43.439 --> 00:25:44.799
And if you remember that game,

00:25:44.839 --> 00:25:45.661
it was opening day.

00:25:46.541 --> 00:25:48.542
He gave up three runs, but one was earned.

00:25:49.750 --> 00:25:52.471
I mean, Durant catches that ball.

00:25:52.750 --> 00:25:53.852
Yeah, exactly.

00:25:54.711 --> 00:25:54.951
So,

00:25:55.132 --> 00:25:56.952
and I don't know if you saw him Friday

00:25:56.992 --> 00:25:57.212
night,

00:25:57.472 --> 00:26:00.134
but that looked like – I don't want

00:26:00.153 --> 00:26:00.614
to do it.

00:26:00.874 --> 00:26:02.234
I don't want to say it yet,

00:26:02.654 --> 00:26:04.276
but that reminded me of Pedro.

00:26:04.976 --> 00:26:06.376
It reminded me of Pedro.

00:26:06.436 --> 00:26:07.096
And it was Pirates.

00:26:07.116 --> 00:26:08.237
Spent a lot of time with him.

00:26:08.897 --> 00:26:09.637
They're on a scuffle.

00:26:10.018 --> 00:26:11.558
Like, the Pirates are not good right now,

00:26:11.638 --> 00:26:12.638
but that looked like Pedro.

00:26:12.659 --> 00:26:14.039
Pirates won tonight 2-1,

00:26:14.599 --> 00:26:16.079
and three hit the Brewers.

00:26:16.721 --> 00:26:17.560
So, finally, they're back.

00:26:19.320 --> 00:26:20.961
Falter went seven innings

00:26:21.061 --> 00:26:21.922
and struck out eight.

00:26:22.502 --> 00:26:23.522
Jared Jones pitched last night.

00:26:23.542 --> 00:26:24.263
We just talked about it.

00:26:24.844 --> 00:26:25.744
So they did play last night.

00:26:26.204 --> 00:26:26.704
I think they won.

00:26:26.944 --> 00:26:28.685
They've taken the first two

00:26:28.705 --> 00:26:30.386
games against the

00:26:30.446 --> 00:26:32.228
division-leading Brewers.

00:26:33.269 --> 00:26:35.869
So very weird team, but pitching is key.

00:26:37.990 --> 00:26:41.153
But I just – one last one I

00:26:41.192 --> 00:26:43.273
want to talk about is did

00:26:43.314 --> 00:26:44.634
everybody hype up the Dodgers too much?

00:26:49.864 --> 00:26:51.766
I mean, that division isn't great.

00:26:51.925 --> 00:26:53.587
Blake Snell, look at what he's done.

00:26:54.228 --> 00:26:55.549
Jordan Montgomery made his

00:26:55.589 --> 00:26:56.570
first start on Friday.

00:26:56.651 --> 00:26:57.531
He looked okay.

00:26:58.271 --> 00:27:00.134
I mean, that division's wide open,

00:27:00.575 --> 00:27:02.036
but it's probably still

00:27:02.056 --> 00:27:02.856
going to be the Dodgers,

00:27:03.017 --> 00:27:04.898
but they're not going to be.

00:27:04.939 --> 00:27:06.441
I don't think they're going to be the 100.

00:27:06.441 --> 00:27:07.461
I mean, they may win 100 games,

00:27:07.541 --> 00:27:08.762
but they're not going to be

00:27:08.782 --> 00:27:09.483
whatever you thought they were.

00:27:09.503 --> 00:27:10.724
They're going to run away with everything.

00:27:12.365 --> 00:27:13.527
Doesn't look like it yet.

00:27:13.826 --> 00:27:15.647
Yamamoto could figure it out.

00:27:16.387 --> 00:27:19.169
Perhaps Buehler's going to come back.

00:27:19.489 --> 00:27:19.869
I know.

00:27:20.670 --> 00:27:22.611
Buehler's going to come back eventually.

00:27:23.270 --> 00:27:24.791
The bats will all come together.

00:27:24.832 --> 00:27:26.512
But they're missing more

00:27:27.093 --> 00:27:30.815
pieces in that lineup than Milwaukee.

00:27:31.615 --> 00:27:33.596
Yep.

00:27:34.115 --> 00:27:34.717
I said it before.

00:27:35.196 --> 00:27:36.356
We all know what the deal was.

00:27:36.778 --> 00:27:37.577
Paxton's there.

00:27:37.958 --> 00:27:40.259
He can't go the second half of the season.

00:27:40.318 --> 00:27:41.759
He'll probably be out the second half.

00:27:42.611 --> 00:27:44.391
Kershaw comes back, they replace him.

00:27:45.172 --> 00:27:45.951
I said it before.

00:27:45.971 --> 00:27:47.231
I'll say it time and time again.

00:27:47.751 --> 00:27:49.352
But I also said this multiple times.

00:27:49.952 --> 00:27:53.012
As a Red Sox fan, my manager, Alex Coro,

00:27:53.353 --> 00:27:54.294
is not in the contract.

00:27:54.614 --> 00:27:56.193
And my bold statement was

00:27:56.614 --> 00:27:58.153
the Dodgers aren't going to

00:27:58.173 --> 00:27:58.875
win the World Series.

00:27:59.755 --> 00:28:01.734
And Dave Roberts is going to lose his job.

00:28:01.914 --> 00:28:02.835
And Alex Coro is going to

00:28:02.875 --> 00:28:03.635
manage the Dodgers.

00:28:05.875 --> 00:28:07.596
You were sick this weekend.

00:28:08.876 --> 00:28:09.717
And I got sick.

00:28:10.309 --> 00:28:12.611
when I saw Glasnow's pitching line,

00:28:16.292 --> 00:28:17.573
he was lights out the other night.

00:28:17.593 --> 00:28:19.854
And I talked so much trash

00:28:19.933 --> 00:28:20.794
saying that he wouldn't, you know,

00:28:20.814 --> 00:28:22.015
he hasn't done this, this, this.

00:28:22.734 --> 00:28:24.715
And right now after, you know,

00:28:24.895 --> 00:28:26.336
the opening game series,

00:28:26.376 --> 00:28:28.317
when he was over in, in Seoul, Korea,

00:28:29.097 --> 00:28:30.438
he's been pretty good,

00:28:30.878 --> 00:28:32.479
pretty damn good as advertised.

00:28:32.538 --> 00:28:33.740
And I think the last time out,

00:28:33.779 --> 00:28:34.740
he pitched seven innings

00:28:34.779 --> 00:28:36.441
and had eight strikeouts and just was

00:28:38.159 --> 00:28:39.579
So that team will be very

00:28:39.640 --> 00:28:40.519
interesting to watch.

00:28:40.599 --> 00:28:44.280
But I think that without

00:28:44.401 --> 00:28:47.521
seeing Yamamoto face on a day-to-day,

00:28:47.642 --> 00:28:51.742
game-in, game-out sequence,

00:28:53.903 --> 00:28:55.084
I think they very easily

00:28:55.124 --> 00:28:56.443
could have been overhyped

00:28:56.503 --> 00:28:57.585
and people on paper had

00:28:57.625 --> 00:28:59.884
them winning 110 games and

00:29:00.724 --> 00:29:01.605
going all the way and

00:29:01.645 --> 00:29:03.306
basically being handed the

00:29:03.326 --> 00:29:04.326
World Series trophy.

00:29:05.166 --> 00:29:06.366
Not quite like that right now.

00:29:07.355 --> 00:29:08.496
all knew a glass now was

00:29:08.516 --> 00:29:09.416
going there as long as he

00:29:09.457 --> 00:29:10.916
stays healthy he's the

00:29:10.957 --> 00:29:13.998
number one yamamoto nobody

00:29:14.018 --> 00:29:14.939
knew what he was they threw

00:29:14.959 --> 00:29:15.898
the bag at him I mean

00:29:15.919 --> 00:29:17.219
granted red sox fans wanted

00:29:17.239 --> 00:29:18.599
him so bad he doesn't look

00:29:18.680 --> 00:29:21.421
great I mean I and I wrote

00:29:21.480 --> 00:29:22.840
he could he be a bust I

00:29:22.861 --> 00:29:24.922
wasn't saying he was but I

00:29:24.942 --> 00:29:25.981
said could he be very

00:29:26.041 --> 00:29:28.462
easily could be his uh

00:29:28.502 --> 00:29:29.303
spring training stats

00:29:29.343 --> 00:29:31.144
against minor leaguers were

00:29:31.183 --> 00:29:32.243
not good so if you want to

00:29:32.263 --> 00:29:33.765
go to the website and find that article

00:29:35.160 --> 00:29:36.961
Or when this video gets posted to Facebook,

00:29:37.000 --> 00:29:37.842
I'll tag it in the bottom.

00:29:38.383 --> 00:29:38.603
Yeah.

00:29:38.663 --> 00:29:39.583
He might be.

00:29:40.243 --> 00:29:41.444
He very well might be.

00:29:41.964 --> 00:29:42.625
And that was, again,

00:29:42.685 --> 00:29:43.747
that goes back to that was

00:29:43.807 --> 00:29:44.527
just spring training.

00:29:45.208 --> 00:29:46.189
And then if we all remember

00:29:46.209 --> 00:29:48.750
to start in Sewell, that wasn't pretty.

00:29:48.770 --> 00:29:50.011
Yeah.

00:29:50.152 --> 00:29:51.673
Soto just homered, or was that earlier?

00:29:53.314 --> 00:29:53.773
I don't know.

00:29:54.335 --> 00:29:55.375
Ugh, this team.

00:29:56.355 --> 00:29:57.477
Yeah.

00:29:57.497 --> 00:29:58.397
I think that's the biggest

00:29:58.438 --> 00:29:59.499
thing with anything, though,

00:29:59.558 --> 00:30:04.750
is these guys coming from overseas –

00:30:04.750 --> 00:30:06.789
What is the true expectation?

00:30:07.371 --> 00:30:08.290
What do you expect to get

00:30:08.351 --> 00:30:10.530
from them in regards to boss?

00:30:10.570 --> 00:30:11.391
Because you'll hear people

00:30:11.411 --> 00:30:13.311
know this is exactly what we expected.

00:30:13.392 --> 00:30:15.432
It'll give them through June

00:30:15.471 --> 00:30:16.553
and then see what you have.

00:30:16.673 --> 00:30:18.232
When it counts in crunch time,

00:30:18.272 --> 00:30:19.472
that's when you'll see him.

00:30:20.692 --> 00:30:22.134
Early on, he does not look good.

00:30:22.933 --> 00:30:24.314
And that team in general

00:30:24.814 --> 00:30:26.894
looks average at best

00:30:26.934 --> 00:30:28.555
compared to what everyone was thinking.

00:30:29.154 --> 00:30:31.976
Aside from Mookie and Shohei and Freeman,

00:30:32.155 --> 00:30:32.596
those three.

00:30:33.669 --> 00:30:35.150
yeah and like you said glass

00:30:35.190 --> 00:30:37.351
now but I mean you could go

00:30:37.391 --> 00:30:38.550
through a handful of teams

00:30:38.570 --> 00:30:39.432
or you can name three

00:30:39.471 --> 00:30:40.531
hitters and a pitcher that

00:30:41.353 --> 00:30:42.313
look good to start the year

00:30:43.012 --> 00:30:46.934
the orioles the yankees you

00:30:46.954 --> 00:30:49.036
know there's yeah go

00:30:49.096 --> 00:30:50.156
through and say that about

00:30:50.176 --> 00:30:53.939
you know so but like you

00:30:53.959 --> 00:30:56.319
said average that average is the word

00:30:57.415 --> 00:30:59.237
I mean, are they going to win the NL West?

00:30:59.356 --> 00:31:00.396
I don't see the NL West

00:31:00.517 --> 00:31:01.737
being that competitive.

00:31:01.977 --> 00:31:03.238
Maybe the Padres figure it out.

00:31:03.438 --> 00:31:04.657
Maybe somebody steps up for

00:31:04.678 --> 00:31:06.278
them and that's it.

00:31:06.439 --> 00:31:08.979
But Snell looks terrible in San Fran.

00:31:09.898 --> 00:31:11.940
So I don't know how I feel.

00:31:11.980 --> 00:31:13.681
Has he made it into the fourth inning yet?

00:31:14.260 --> 00:31:15.000
I don't think so.

00:31:15.904 --> 00:31:16.404
I can pull it up.

00:31:16.424 --> 00:31:17.224
It's been pretty bleak.

00:31:17.766 --> 00:31:19.226
I think it's been pretty bleak, Sam.

00:31:19.865 --> 00:31:20.747
I made that argument.

00:31:20.807 --> 00:31:21.126
Like, well,

00:31:21.166 --> 00:31:22.307
I didn't want him in Boston for

00:31:22.326 --> 00:31:22.846
that reason.

00:31:22.886 --> 00:31:24.708
He's not a guy, even if he is on,

00:31:25.048 --> 00:31:26.407
how often does he really go

00:31:26.928 --> 00:31:29.128
more than six?

00:31:29.489 --> 00:31:30.009
Very little.

00:31:30.028 --> 00:31:33.670
Maybe,

00:31:33.710 --> 00:31:36.270
but I bet you he's a pain in the ass.

00:31:37.531 --> 00:31:38.311
He seems like one.

00:31:39.340 --> 00:31:40.382
How much is Bailey going to

00:31:40.422 --> 00:31:41.803
have for an impact on a guy

00:31:41.843 --> 00:31:43.023
that's won two Cy Youngs?

00:31:43.324 --> 00:31:44.785
Not saying that Bailey's not

00:31:44.825 --> 00:31:45.685
a great pitching coach,

00:31:46.486 --> 00:31:47.826
but is he one of those guys

00:31:47.866 --> 00:31:48.988
that thinks he knows

00:31:49.489 --> 00:31:50.910
everything and kind of just

00:31:51.230 --> 00:31:51.930
blows him off?

00:31:52.250 --> 00:31:52.730
I don't know.

00:31:52.790 --> 00:31:53.431
I don't know the guy

00:31:53.451 --> 00:31:54.893
personally and haven't read

00:31:54.952 --> 00:31:55.792
anything like that,

00:31:55.893 --> 00:31:57.994
but I kind of get that vibe.

00:31:59.236 --> 00:32:01.017
Let's also not forget that

00:32:01.798 --> 00:32:03.598
every year after he wins the Cy Young,

00:32:03.759 --> 00:32:04.440
he falls off.

00:32:04.539 --> 00:32:04.799
Shit.

00:32:05.942 --> 00:32:06.963
shit after that.

00:32:06.983 --> 00:32:08.505
That's all there is to it.

00:32:08.925 --> 00:32:11.728
So far, this season... Oh,

00:32:11.768 --> 00:32:12.528
that's not what I want.

00:32:12.627 --> 00:32:13.568
I want his game logs.

00:32:16.391 --> 00:32:16.871
Don't mind me.

00:32:18.372 --> 00:32:18.992
I'm still working.

00:32:19.012 --> 00:32:19.854
I'm pulling it up.

00:32:20.854 --> 00:32:21.795
So three starts.

00:32:22.055 --> 00:32:23.056
He hasn't made it into the

00:32:23.096 --> 00:32:23.736
fifth inning yet.

00:32:24.336 --> 00:32:24.836
Oh, no, he has.

00:32:25.538 --> 00:32:26.397
Four and two-thirds.

00:32:26.618 --> 00:32:27.459
Most recent start.

00:32:29.220 --> 00:32:30.000
Wow, impressive.

00:32:30.601 --> 00:32:32.282
Those are Jordan Witt numbers.

00:32:32.303 --> 00:32:33.884
Those are Jordan Witt numbers.

00:32:34.740 --> 00:32:37.143
That ERA of 11.57 is ugly.

00:32:37.962 --> 00:32:38.864
Yeah, it's bad.

00:32:40.244 --> 00:32:44.208
But he also didn't have a spring training.

00:32:44.228 --> 00:32:48.270
I don't care, right?

00:32:48.471 --> 00:32:51.512
You're only throwing side sessions, this,

00:32:51.553 --> 00:32:52.153
that, and the next thing.

00:32:52.173 --> 00:32:53.134
You're still working out.

00:32:53.615 --> 00:32:55.175
So if you look at it and you give him,

00:32:55.796 --> 00:32:56.977
if we come back to Blake

00:32:56.997 --> 00:32:58.759
Snell and just look at his

00:32:58.818 --> 00:33:01.140
May numbers and take out April,

00:33:01.480 --> 00:33:02.560
I'll be interested then to

00:33:02.601 --> 00:33:03.241
see what it looks like.

00:33:03.595 --> 00:33:04.715
That's when we revisit them.

00:33:04.895 --> 00:33:05.455
I agree with that.

00:33:05.476 --> 00:33:06.537
Okay.

00:33:06.557 --> 00:33:08.557
All right.

00:33:08.597 --> 00:33:09.598
So is there anything else

00:33:09.618 --> 00:33:10.778
that kind of just hot topic

00:33:10.878 --> 00:33:12.220
that kind of hit you this week?

00:33:13.060 --> 00:33:13.580
That was it.

00:33:13.601 --> 00:33:15.201
I think we're going to,

00:33:15.301 --> 00:33:16.323
I think we plan on covering

00:33:16.343 --> 00:33:17.542
the other one a little bit later on.

00:33:18.163 --> 00:33:18.304
Yep.

00:33:19.192 --> 00:33:19.471
All right,

00:33:19.531 --> 00:33:21.393
so right now you've heard CJ and

00:33:21.452 --> 00:33:22.653
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00:33:22.693 --> 00:33:23.554
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00:33:24.234 --> 00:33:25.556
We've mentioned it in every

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00:33:57.846 --> 00:33:58.768
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00:33:58.807 --> 00:33:59.749
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00:33:59.788 --> 00:34:01.230
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00:34:01.290 --> 00:34:02.951
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00:34:02.991 --> 00:34:04.973
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00:34:05.634 --> 00:34:06.415
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And like we mentioned earlier, you know,

00:34:15.088 --> 00:34:16.090
depending on your passion

00:34:16.130 --> 00:34:17.070
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00:34:17.110 --> 00:34:17.990
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00:34:18.710 --> 00:34:19.972
join us for an episode or

00:34:20.032 --> 00:34:22.213
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00:34:22.273 --> 00:34:23.313
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00:34:23.333 --> 00:34:24.054
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00:34:24.114 --> 00:34:26.175
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00:34:26.215 --> 00:34:27.516
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00:34:27.556 --> 00:34:27.936
We've got.

00:34:29.186 --> 00:34:30.068
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00:34:30.108 --> 00:34:31.570
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00:34:31.630 --> 00:34:32.773
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00:34:33.213 --> 00:34:34.235
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00:34:34.275 --> 00:34:35.297
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00:34:35.336 --> 00:34:36.418
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00:34:37.280 --> 00:34:38.302
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We have a program here where

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00:34:59.204 --> 00:35:00.286
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00:35:03.262 --> 00:35:04.905
So I wanted to kind of touch

00:35:04.965 --> 00:35:06.806
base because it has been, you know,

00:35:07.106 --> 00:35:08.628
almost under 25 games,

00:35:09.068 --> 00:35:10.449
but there's been some injuries.

00:35:10.510 --> 00:35:11.670
There's been some different

00:35:12.150 --> 00:35:14.313
developments and some surprises,

00:35:14.413 --> 00:35:15.193
but I wanted to kind of

00:35:15.233 --> 00:35:17.976
just ask you a question in

00:35:18.016 --> 00:35:20.679
regards to right now, AL and NL,

00:35:21.400 --> 00:35:25.543
which division race now in hindsight,

00:35:25.563 --> 00:35:25.983
you know,

00:35:26.304 --> 00:35:27.784
we've done our projections and everything,

00:35:27.844 --> 00:35:28.885
but right now with everything,

00:35:28.905 --> 00:35:29.487
the way it is,

00:35:30.701 --> 00:35:32.242
which race is most

00:35:32.322 --> 00:35:33.862
intriguing to you right now

00:35:34.043 --> 00:35:36.324
after the first few weeks of the season?

00:35:37.583 --> 00:35:37.824
So wait,

00:35:37.864 --> 00:35:39.905
I'm doing one AL and one NL or am

00:35:39.945 --> 00:35:40.365
I doing one?

00:35:40.405 --> 00:35:42.467
No, just one, one division in general,

00:35:42.827 --> 00:35:43.226
which one?

00:35:43.246 --> 00:35:44.447
I had one, you know,

00:35:44.467 --> 00:35:46.809
panic figure out another one.

00:35:47.168 --> 00:35:48.010
Um, no, no.

00:35:48.030 --> 00:35:50.251
And I'm going to go to the

00:35:50.271 --> 00:35:50.990
American league East.

00:35:52.152 --> 00:35:52.371
Okay.

00:35:53.072 --> 00:35:55.092
And so the reason I say that, Oh no,

00:35:55.172 --> 00:35:56.353
is my computer about to die?

00:35:56.373 --> 00:35:58.815
Hold on.

00:36:04.090 --> 00:36:04.610
I saved it.

00:36:04.670 --> 00:36:05.072
We're all good.

00:36:06.773 --> 00:36:07.152
Sorry.

00:36:08.052 --> 00:36:08.994
I'm sticking with the

00:36:09.014 --> 00:36:11.215
American League East.

00:36:11.235 --> 00:36:12.835
The reason why I say that is

00:36:13.675 --> 00:36:14.476
how tight it is.

00:36:15.056 --> 00:36:15.956
Everybody seemed to think

00:36:16.018 --> 00:36:16.838
the Yankees were just going

00:36:16.858 --> 00:36:18.438
to run away with it once

00:36:18.458 --> 00:36:19.199
the season started.

00:36:20.539 --> 00:36:22.661
I made a bunch of notes.

00:36:23.300 --> 00:36:24.262
The first one I have is the

00:36:24.302 --> 00:36:25.262
Blue Jays are starting to

00:36:25.302 --> 00:36:26.682
figure things out after

00:36:26.722 --> 00:36:27.603
their rough start.

00:36:28.103 --> 00:36:28.905
They're right up there.

00:36:29.625 --> 00:36:31.206
I didn't mention this in my

00:36:32.405 --> 00:36:33.226
news and notes from

00:36:34.112 --> 00:36:36.173
you know, the first quarter,

00:36:36.753 --> 00:36:37.793
first 25 games, whatever.

00:36:37.813 --> 00:36:42.715
Jose Barrios, a 0.85 ERA, which is,

00:36:43.014 --> 00:36:43.494
I believe,

00:36:43.614 --> 00:36:44.996
second or third in the American League.

00:36:46.175 --> 00:36:47.175
I mean, they got an ace.

00:36:47.615 --> 00:36:48.896
He's finally figured some stuff out.

00:36:49.996 --> 00:36:51.496
And that team has depth.

00:36:52.217 --> 00:36:54.498
I mean, Alec Manoa looks good in AAA.

00:36:55.438 --> 00:36:56.338
The Orioles are back in

00:36:56.378 --> 00:36:57.579
first place at Frank tonight.

00:36:58.552 --> 00:37:00.193
And that's despite their

00:37:00.253 --> 00:37:01.614
number one overall prospect,

00:37:01.655 --> 00:37:03.155
Jackson Holiday, when his struggles,

00:37:03.615 --> 00:37:05.097
they're still finding a way to win games.

00:37:05.938 --> 00:37:06.117
So,

00:37:06.217 --> 00:37:07.559
and they're still giving him a chance to,

00:37:07.579 --> 00:37:09.019
oh, Otani just went Yabo.

00:37:11.360 --> 00:37:13.362
And then they just called up

00:37:13.481 --> 00:37:15.342
Heston Kirchstead.

00:37:15.704 --> 00:37:16.284
I don't even know how you

00:37:16.304 --> 00:37:16.983
say his last name.

00:37:17.264 --> 00:37:18.445
It's one of those last names.

00:37:19.365 --> 00:37:20.447
The Red Sox are still there.

00:37:21.467 --> 00:37:23.088
They're fighting all these injuries.

00:37:23.128 --> 00:37:23.228
Like,

00:37:23.248 --> 00:37:24.028
I don't know what's going on with

00:37:24.048 --> 00:37:24.969
Devers and who knows what's

00:37:25.009 --> 00:37:25.769
going on with Yoshida.

00:37:26.516 --> 00:37:28.077
but they're dominating with the pitching.

00:37:28.356 --> 00:37:29.757
Their bullpen looks fantastic.

00:37:29.797 --> 00:37:30.478
I mean, great.

00:37:30.518 --> 00:37:33.159
They lost tonight, but a four to one score,

00:37:33.179 --> 00:37:33.579
some runs.

00:37:34.199 --> 00:37:35.400
I mean, the offense is fine,

00:37:35.559 --> 00:37:38.601
but you're missing two, three solid bats.

00:37:40.202 --> 00:37:40.963
I mean, at the end of the day,

00:37:40.983 --> 00:37:42.103
I had to add costs as soon

00:37:42.123 --> 00:37:43.423
as maybe on some time, Devers,

00:37:43.443 --> 00:37:44.324
who knows what he's going through.

00:37:44.364 --> 00:37:45.304
No, she is this lineup.

00:37:46.266 --> 00:37:46.905
They'll be right there.

00:37:47.146 --> 00:37:48.547
I think, I think there's still going to be,

00:37:48.586 --> 00:37:49.586
they'll probably be a 500 team.

00:37:49.847 --> 00:37:50.668
They just went back to back.

00:37:51.920 --> 00:37:52.659
Freddie Freeman.

00:37:53.721 --> 00:37:54.541
On the very next pitch.

00:37:54.601 --> 00:37:54.981
Oh, no.

00:37:55.262 --> 00:37:56.643
Just like the wind blew it in.

00:37:57.202 --> 00:37:57.503
Wow.

00:37:57.842 --> 00:37:59.023
That looked out.

00:37:59.543 --> 00:38:00.445
These camera angles this

00:38:00.465 --> 00:38:01.744
year are terrible.

00:38:01.804 --> 00:38:03.326
Oh, my God.

00:38:03.746 --> 00:38:05.007
Every game I watch,

00:38:05.047 --> 00:38:07.568
the camera angles are terrible.

00:38:08.449 --> 00:38:09.590
Like the camera just made it

00:38:09.610 --> 00:38:10.090
seem like it was the

00:38:10.130 --> 00:38:12.271
biggest bomb at the Nationals Park.

00:38:13.172 --> 00:38:14.311
And it was just a routine

00:38:14.331 --> 00:38:15.092
fly out to right field.

00:38:15.112 --> 00:38:15.713
So I don't know what the

00:38:15.753 --> 00:38:17.094
wind is there or what's going on,

00:38:17.114 --> 00:38:18.153
but that looked like it was a bomb.

00:38:18.835 --> 00:38:18.934
Sorry.

00:38:18.954 --> 00:38:19.054
Okay.

00:38:19.943 --> 00:38:23.706
So the Red Sox, I think,

00:38:23.746 --> 00:38:25.567
will still be there.

00:38:25.646 --> 00:38:27.047
I think the pitching has surprised people.

00:38:27.146 --> 00:38:28.108
If they can continue that

00:38:28.128 --> 00:38:28.967
and there's no injuries,

00:38:29.889 --> 00:38:30.608
they should be right there.

00:38:31.369 --> 00:38:31.969
The Yankees.

00:38:32.710 --> 00:38:34.811
I mean, as a Red Sox fan,

00:38:34.871 --> 00:38:36.311
the rivalry will live forever.

00:38:36.952 --> 00:38:38.572
But they're doing what

00:38:38.592 --> 00:38:39.512
they're doing with Judge

00:38:39.552 --> 00:38:41.114
Struggling and no Garrett Cole.

00:38:41.994 --> 00:38:42.215
Yeah.

00:38:43.235 --> 00:38:44.675
I mean, and then on top of that,

00:38:44.715 --> 00:38:46.356
the Rays were 500 entering tonight.

00:38:47.197 --> 00:38:47.317
And

00:38:47.778 --> 00:38:47.918
Like,

00:38:47.958 --> 00:38:49.219
I had them in last place in my

00:38:49.239 --> 00:38:49.719
prediction.

00:38:50.139 --> 00:38:51.260
But they're still the race,

00:38:51.659 --> 00:38:52.539
and they find ways to

00:38:52.579 --> 00:38:53.880
compete every single game.

00:38:54.360 --> 00:38:55.161
I mean, Tyler,

00:38:55.420 --> 00:38:56.780
they've lost two straight now.

00:38:57.141 --> 00:38:58.141
The Tigers won the first two

00:38:58.161 --> 00:38:58.782
games of the series.

00:38:58.802 --> 00:38:59.862
They're going for a sweep tomorrow.

00:38:59.882 --> 00:39:01.322
And they're going to face

00:39:01.501 --> 00:39:03.443
old friend Tyler Alexander,

00:39:03.862 --> 00:39:04.822
who I actually liked.

00:39:06.643 --> 00:39:07.543
I'm excited to see him

00:39:07.603 --> 00:39:08.543
actually make a start

00:39:08.603 --> 00:39:09.463
tomorrow against the Tigers

00:39:09.503 --> 00:39:10.344
and see how that goes.

00:39:11.284 --> 00:39:12.704
But you can never count the Rays out.

00:39:12.744 --> 00:39:13.585
Like, they find a way.

00:39:14.672 --> 00:39:15.813
They're just a scrappy.

00:39:15.974 --> 00:39:16.675
They're scrappy.

00:39:16.954 --> 00:39:18.217
They have been for years.

00:39:18.336 --> 00:39:19.998
It's, you know, they've always got the,

00:39:20.298 --> 00:39:21.639
the pitching has always

00:39:21.760 --> 00:39:23.702
been something they find arms.

00:39:24.282 --> 00:39:25.543
It's a pitching factor.

00:39:26.143 --> 00:39:26.905
I think they're going to

00:39:27.025 --> 00:39:29.166
struggle for at least the next two weeks.

00:39:29.186 --> 00:39:30.329
I think losing your closer,

00:39:30.349 --> 00:39:31.108
because I think they just

00:39:31.148 --> 00:39:33.190
put Pete Fairbanks on the 15 day aisle.

00:39:33.751 --> 00:39:34.853
Losing your closers is tough.

00:39:35.313 --> 00:39:35.773
And yeah,

00:39:36.248 --> 00:39:37.349
If you're 500 right now,

00:39:37.369 --> 00:39:39.393
if that hurts you over the next, what,

00:39:39.492 --> 00:39:41.175
I think he's 15-day IL.

00:39:41.215 --> 00:39:41.956
So you're looking at

00:39:41.976 --> 00:39:43.697
probably – I forget when it

00:39:43.717 --> 00:39:44.918
was retroactive too.

00:39:45.619 --> 00:39:47.661
So probably we'll say two weeks.

00:39:48.063 --> 00:39:48.663
That's tough.

00:39:49.043 --> 00:39:49.403
That's tough.

00:39:49.423 --> 00:39:49.925
That could hurt.

00:39:49.945 --> 00:39:52.447
They do have Jason Adam, though,

00:39:53.047 --> 00:39:54.250
that has closed before.

00:39:54.269 --> 00:39:55.251
Because let's face it,

00:39:55.311 --> 00:39:57.318
Fairbanks misses at least –

00:39:57.318 --> 00:39:59.438
He's on the IL or injured

00:39:59.458 --> 00:40:00.840
list at least twice a year.

00:40:01.360 --> 00:40:02.960
So they've got other guys with experience,

00:40:03.001 --> 00:40:03.681
which is, again,

00:40:03.742 --> 00:40:04.983
goes back to the pitching factory.

00:40:05.023 --> 00:40:06.923
They just have arms that

00:40:06.963 --> 00:40:07.744
come out of nowhere.

00:40:08.324 --> 00:40:09.385
You could never count them out.

00:40:09.625 --> 00:40:10.465
And I mean,

00:40:10.846 --> 00:40:12.206
it's hands down right now the

00:40:12.226 --> 00:40:13.327
best division in baseball.

00:40:14.047 --> 00:40:15.728
So that race, Red Sox,

00:40:16.289 --> 00:40:17.230
even if the Red Sox weren't

00:40:17.289 --> 00:40:20.052
in it as a fan, I love that division.

00:40:21.512 --> 00:40:21.932
So I...

00:40:22.710 --> 00:40:24.411
I'm always locked into the AL East,

00:40:24.492 --> 00:40:25.431
even being a Tiger swim.

00:40:25.731 --> 00:40:26.992
The AL East is just such a

00:40:27.112 --> 00:40:28.032
wide open thing.

00:40:30.054 --> 00:40:33.896
So for me, I'm, I was instantly, you know,

00:40:33.936 --> 00:40:34.755
where I'm doing a lot of

00:40:35.096 --> 00:40:36.617
work for the NL central

00:40:36.817 --> 00:40:37.938
instantly drawn there,

00:40:38.757 --> 00:40:40.599
but due to the injury to

00:40:41.458 --> 00:40:44.099
Spencer Strider and knowing

00:40:44.119 --> 00:40:46.702
how the Phillies bats

00:40:47.081 --> 00:40:48.461
generally are hot and cold.

00:40:48.541 --> 00:40:50.282
And right now they're, you know,

00:40:50.682 --> 00:40:51.784
not everyone's clicking and,

00:40:52.525 --> 00:40:54.068
But they're pitching.

00:40:54.949 --> 00:40:55.891
Ranger Suarez,

00:40:55.931 --> 00:40:57.273
I think it's 16 straight

00:40:57.313 --> 00:40:58.755
innings without an earned run.

00:40:59.476 --> 00:41:00.918
And he was hurt a good chunk

00:41:00.978 --> 00:41:02.119
of the beginning of last year.

00:41:04.202 --> 00:41:07.007
The NL East, and it's just in my eyes,

00:41:07.027 --> 00:41:08.608
it's a two-team race.

00:41:09.672 --> 00:41:11.253
You know, one's going to win the division.

00:41:11.273 --> 00:41:12.215
The other one's going to win

00:41:12.394 --> 00:41:13.695
one of the top wild cards.

00:41:14.476 --> 00:41:15.976
But with Strider going out,

00:41:16.876 --> 00:41:19.458
and we've discussed Sale

00:41:19.539 --> 00:41:22.360
before in regards to his injury history,

00:41:22.860 --> 00:41:24.242
can he make it through a full year?

00:41:25.782 --> 00:41:27.923
Do the Braves have enough pitching depth?

00:41:28.083 --> 00:41:29.885
Although Ronaldo Lopez has

00:41:29.925 --> 00:41:31.646
looked pretty good as the

00:41:31.666 --> 00:41:33.206
fifth starter to start this year,

00:41:33.246 --> 00:41:34.708
has been, you know,

00:41:34.967 --> 00:41:35.768
a lot better than what I

00:41:35.809 --> 00:41:36.809
think anyone expected.

00:41:37.389 --> 00:41:39.030
Doesn't he have the best ERA in baseball?

00:41:39.849 --> 00:41:41.791
That I'm not 100% sure of.

00:41:42.190 --> 00:41:43.311
Wouldn't surprise me,

00:41:43.391 --> 00:41:44.512
but he's been lights out.

00:41:44.871 --> 00:41:45.572
It was up there.

00:41:45.632 --> 00:41:46.952
He must have pitched recently.

00:41:47.432 --> 00:41:48.373
It was up there the other

00:41:48.393 --> 00:41:48.873
day when I looked.

00:41:50.054 --> 00:41:51.815
But the Phillies only trail

00:41:51.914 --> 00:41:53.255
the Braves by two games.

00:41:53.896 --> 00:41:56.177
The Braves going into tonight were 16-6.

00:41:57.117 --> 00:41:57.677
The Phillies,

00:41:57.856 --> 00:42:01.018
who just lost tonight 8-1 to the Reds,

00:42:02.079 --> 00:42:02.798
are 15-9.

00:42:05.059 --> 00:42:06.380
Let's not forget, too, the Braves –

00:42:07.161 --> 00:42:08.862
They have Bryce Elder,

00:42:08.882 --> 00:42:10.103
who they just called back up.

00:42:10.742 --> 00:42:10.963
Yeah.

00:42:10.983 --> 00:42:12.523
And they still have Smith

00:42:12.563 --> 00:42:13.804
Shauver down in AAA.

00:42:14.003 --> 00:42:16.023
So, I mean, the Strider injury hurts.

00:42:16.043 --> 00:42:17.684
He's got some depth.

00:42:17.704 --> 00:42:18.945
The Strider injury hurts

00:42:19.025 --> 00:42:20.025
because of who he is.

00:42:20.605 --> 00:42:21.585
But the depth, like you said,

00:42:21.606 --> 00:42:22.365
the depth they have,

00:42:22.666 --> 00:42:24.885
add him back to this or add, you know,

00:42:24.965 --> 00:42:26.246
any of these names that can produce.

00:42:26.266 --> 00:42:28.567
I love that team.

00:42:29.487 --> 00:42:31.007
I would not be surprised, though.

00:42:32.273 --> 00:42:36.215
when all the bats, Schwarber, Harper,

00:42:36.315 --> 00:42:37.576
all the bats start to click

00:42:37.615 --> 00:42:38.356
in Philadelphia,

00:42:38.436 --> 00:42:39.777
if their pitching can stay healthy,

00:42:40.458 --> 00:42:42.858
I would not be shocked to

00:42:42.918 --> 00:42:44.360
see the Phillies win that division,

00:42:45.119 --> 00:42:47.661
just knowing what could

00:42:47.702 --> 00:42:49.623
happen to that Braves pitching staff.

00:42:49.902 --> 00:42:51.923
So that to me is going to be an even more

00:42:52.498 --> 00:42:54.059
interesting race now there's

00:42:54.340 --> 00:42:55.681
right now early in the year

00:42:55.721 --> 00:42:56.802
there's plenty of divisions

00:42:56.842 --> 00:42:57.802
that we've talked about

00:42:58.143 --> 00:42:59.143
that are all great and

00:42:59.184 --> 00:43:00.224
going to be fun to watch

00:43:00.824 --> 00:43:03.266
but this philly's team now

00:43:03.327 --> 00:43:04.347
where I had them finish in

00:43:04.407 --> 00:43:07.510
second is this enough for

00:43:07.550 --> 00:43:09.972
them to perhaps pick up

00:43:10.092 --> 00:43:11.614
three games and win that

00:43:11.675 --> 00:43:14.157
division who knows um did

00:43:14.197 --> 00:43:14.876
you see tonight it's gonna

00:43:14.896 --> 00:43:17.239
be interesting huh did you

00:43:17.259 --> 00:43:17.960
see tonight's game

00:43:18.715 --> 00:43:19.556
They got swamped.

00:43:20.195 --> 00:43:22.177
So the Braves – I'm going to the Braves.

00:43:22.396 --> 00:43:22.998
Oh, the Braves.

00:43:23.117 --> 00:43:23.998
Okay, no, I didn't.

00:43:24.018 --> 00:43:24.838
I know they were winning.

00:43:25.378 --> 00:43:27.581
So the Braves in two games this week,

00:43:27.641 --> 00:43:28.581
they're playing the Marlins,

00:43:29.222 --> 00:43:30.282
have outscored the Marlins 8-0.

00:43:30.302 --> 00:43:30.543
Yeah.

00:43:30.902 --> 00:43:32.844
In two games.

00:43:33.525 --> 00:43:35.186
But Max Freed had a complete game shutout.

00:43:36.367 --> 00:43:36.686
Really?

00:43:37.487 --> 00:43:39.869
Nine innings, three hits, six strikeouts,

00:43:40.009 --> 00:43:41.010
didn't allow a walk.

00:43:42.349 --> 00:43:43.010
Wow, that's –

00:43:46.891 --> 00:43:47.913
Getting him back and having

00:43:47.932 --> 00:43:48.853
him healthy is good.

00:43:48.873 --> 00:43:49.693
Yep.

00:43:49.713 --> 00:43:51.735
Tell me about something from

00:43:51.755 --> 00:43:52.536
the Braves that actually

00:43:52.817 --> 00:43:53.536
made me think of it.

00:43:54.277 --> 00:43:55.539
I kind of feel like getting

00:43:55.719 --> 00:43:56.519
kind of feel a little bit

00:43:56.539 --> 00:43:57.581
from Michael Sirocco.

00:44:00.722 --> 00:44:01.003
Yeah.

00:44:01.304 --> 00:44:02.804
Getting shipped off to Chicago.

00:44:03.485 --> 00:44:05.027
And he hasn't been good.

00:44:05.047 --> 00:44:05.887
That sucked.

00:44:07.068 --> 00:44:07.208
No.

00:44:07.228 --> 00:44:09.250
He got teed off on the last

00:44:09.309 --> 00:44:09.869
start from him.

00:44:09.929 --> 00:44:11.871
I haven't tuned into many White Sox games.

00:44:12.532 --> 00:44:13.213
But the last start.

00:44:13.233 --> 00:44:14.934
I saw him play the Royals.

00:44:14.954 --> 00:44:15.335
That was it.

00:44:17.793 --> 00:44:18.753
Yeah, I saw him play the Tigers,

00:44:18.813 --> 00:44:19.512
and that was early,

00:44:19.592 --> 00:44:21.293
but he didn't look good.

00:44:21.773 --> 00:44:22.434
But, no, I agree.

00:44:22.454 --> 00:44:23.793
I agree with everything you said.

00:44:23.813 --> 00:44:25.355
That's a two-team race.

00:44:25.715 --> 00:44:26.755
The Phillies are exciting.

00:44:27.074 --> 00:44:27.974
The Braves are good.

00:44:29.215 --> 00:44:30.675
I don't know how I feel

00:44:30.715 --> 00:44:31.996
about the Phillies

00:44:32.016 --> 00:44:33.217
potentially winning the division.

00:44:33.237 --> 00:44:34.817
I think the Braves make it

00:44:34.836 --> 00:44:37.838
like a seven-game difference.

00:44:38.097 --> 00:44:40.197
It all depends on sale, honestly.

00:44:44.010 --> 00:44:44.670
I'll say this.

00:44:44.829 --> 00:44:46.811
It'll be Sale and Freed.

00:44:47.271 --> 00:44:48.751
Can they both stay off the

00:44:48.931 --> 00:44:50.932
IL for a significant amount of time?

00:44:52.293 --> 00:44:54.273
I think Sale's the only one because,

00:44:54.373 --> 00:44:55.494
like we just said,

00:44:56.255 --> 00:44:59.715
the call-up of Elder

00:44:59.876 --> 00:45:01.637
doesn't replace Strider.

00:45:01.657 --> 00:45:04.717
It fills the void,

00:45:04.797 --> 00:45:05.998
and he looked good yesterday.

00:45:06.018 --> 00:45:08.059
I mean, he went 6-2 third shutout innings.

00:45:08.849 --> 00:45:09.750
But I think they still have

00:45:09.829 --> 00:45:10.789
pitching in the system.

00:45:11.371 --> 00:45:13.972
They call up that if sale goes on the IL.

00:45:14.612 --> 00:45:15.672
Now, again, like you said,

00:45:15.693 --> 00:45:17.313
if it's freed goes on the IL,

00:45:17.494 --> 00:45:19.155
then we're causing concern.

00:45:19.675 --> 00:45:21.635
Yeah.

00:45:22.036 --> 00:45:23.878
Even if it's Morton or

00:45:23.898 --> 00:45:24.818
somebody else gets hurt,

00:45:25.918 --> 00:45:28.219
then the one pitcher going down,

00:45:28.420 --> 00:45:30.541
I'm okay with.

00:45:30.942 --> 00:45:32.682
After that is where I start

00:45:32.702 --> 00:45:33.983
to get a little nervous about them.

00:45:34.123 --> 00:45:34.983
And that's where I think the

00:45:35.023 --> 00:45:36.164
door opens for the Phillies.

00:45:37.532 --> 00:45:38.813
I mean, the Nationals,

00:45:39.052 --> 00:45:41.233
despite them being down, I think it's 4-1,

00:45:42.054 --> 00:45:42.914
haven't been bad.

00:45:43.873 --> 00:45:45.014
No, they've got some talent.

00:45:45.934 --> 00:45:46.894
Gore's looked good.

00:45:47.074 --> 00:45:48.675
Abrams has looked fantastic.

00:45:50.096 --> 00:45:51.056
They've got a lot coming.

00:45:52.576 --> 00:45:54.376
There's a lot of different stuff.

00:45:54.396 --> 00:45:57.097
And I think at the end of each month,

00:45:57.177 --> 00:45:58.137
it would be interesting to

00:45:58.217 --> 00:46:00.577
see where each race lands

00:46:00.657 --> 00:46:01.818
and who's surprising us.

00:46:01.918 --> 00:46:05.539
But now moving on from that,

00:46:07.485 --> 00:46:08.706
There's a team out there

00:46:08.766 --> 00:46:10.268
right now that isn't as bad

00:46:10.309 --> 00:46:11.168
as the White Sox,

00:46:11.248 --> 00:46:13.331
but they look fucking horrendous.

00:46:13.550 --> 00:46:14.632
They're close to it.

00:46:14.771 --> 00:46:18.155
Yeah, to the Cubs, the Astros right now.

00:46:18.795 --> 00:46:20.797
And they just, all their bats,

00:46:20.838 --> 00:46:21.938
and I kind of kiddingly

00:46:21.998 --> 00:46:24.400
said this to you about the pitch calm.

00:46:25.661 --> 00:46:26.922
Now, you know, everything's being,

00:46:27.364 --> 00:46:28.585
all these pitches are being

00:46:28.664 --> 00:46:31.226
called from the remote

00:46:31.266 --> 00:46:32.447
control back and forth

00:46:32.527 --> 00:46:33.528
between the pitcher and catcher.

00:46:34.362 --> 00:46:35.784
But the Astros look horrible.

00:46:35.864 --> 00:46:37.585
Jose Abreu is lost,

00:46:37.625 --> 00:46:40.226
has four hits as the time we started.

00:46:40.306 --> 00:46:42.288
Four hits and I think 59 at-bats.

00:46:42.768 --> 00:46:44.050
He's barely touching that

00:46:44.050 --> 00:46:45.831
.050 batting average.

00:46:46.291 --> 00:46:48.012
Oh, it's horrible.

00:46:48.331 --> 00:46:49.413
I think he was under.

00:46:49.713 --> 00:46:50.253
He was under.

00:46:50.333 --> 00:46:50.773
He was under.

00:46:50.833 --> 00:46:52.155
He was like, I think he was .096.

00:46:52.454 --> 00:46:52.875
That was 5'6".

00:46:52.894 --> 00:46:53.815
Maybe I saw the number wrong.

00:46:53.856 --> 00:46:55.396
Maybe, yeah, one of the two.

00:46:55.416 --> 00:46:55.476
But...

00:47:01.380 --> 00:47:01.961
For me,

00:47:02.802 --> 00:47:04.123
with this team and knowing the

00:47:04.184 --> 00:47:05.003
division they're in,

00:47:05.023 --> 00:47:07.266
and they've got some older assets,

00:47:07.385 --> 00:47:08.527
at what point in time do

00:47:08.547 --> 00:47:10.168
they start selling some pieces off?

00:47:10.989 --> 00:47:12.431
So when you sent me this

00:47:13.070 --> 00:47:14.532
manifesto to plan this out,

00:47:14.952 --> 00:47:15.972
I started thinking about it.

00:47:16.134 --> 00:47:18.074
And the one thing is I will

00:47:18.135 --> 00:47:19.516
say to start the season,

00:47:19.936 --> 00:47:20.958
they just look old.

00:47:21.998 --> 00:47:22.239
Yeah.

00:47:22.579 --> 00:47:23.719
We just look slow.

00:47:23.820 --> 00:47:24.541
Everything about them.

00:47:24.561 --> 00:47:25.842
We were excited, what,

00:47:25.942 --> 00:47:27.503
two weeks ago about a no-hitter for them?

00:47:28.244 --> 00:47:28.344
Yeah.

00:47:29.590 --> 00:47:30.791
They just don't look hot.

00:47:31.333 --> 00:47:32.175
But the thing about this

00:47:32.355 --> 00:47:35.021
Astros team and their lineup with Altuve,

00:47:35.121 --> 00:47:37.927
Bregman, Peña looks okay.

00:47:38.246 --> 00:47:39.590
He's the only one that's

00:47:39.630 --> 00:47:40.331
really looked good.

00:47:40.773 --> 00:47:43.777
altuve too um jordan alvarez

00:47:44.117 --> 00:47:45.978
I the astros as much as I

00:47:46.018 --> 00:47:47.019
dislike them because of

00:47:47.059 --> 00:47:48.221
that whole cheating scandal

00:47:48.882 --> 00:47:50.063
I still find myself

00:47:50.163 --> 00:47:51.043
watching them and like

00:47:51.083 --> 00:47:52.105
locked into their games

00:47:52.646 --> 00:47:53.487
this is a team that can

00:47:53.527 --> 00:47:55.148
catch fire at any time yeah

00:47:55.728 --> 00:47:57.570
and so going to your

00:47:57.690 --> 00:47:58.731
question of when do they

00:47:58.771 --> 00:47:59.833
sell I think they're gonna

00:47:59.972 --> 00:48:01.894
as long as there's that

00:48:01.994 --> 00:48:03.617
possibility and with the

00:48:03.697 --> 00:48:04.677
rest of the division

00:48:05.682 --> 00:48:06.663
having the issues they have.

00:48:06.702 --> 00:48:06.842
I mean,

00:48:06.862 --> 00:48:08.623
they're in that AL West where the

00:48:08.744 --> 00:48:10.563
A's aren't good, the A's aren't good.

00:48:10.583 --> 00:48:13.605
The Rangers are missing pitching.

00:48:13.664 --> 00:48:13.965
Granted,

00:48:13.985 --> 00:48:15.085
they're going to get Scherzer back,

00:48:15.144 --> 00:48:17.105
it seems like, what, by May or June?

00:48:17.125 --> 00:48:19.025
Yeah.

00:48:19.326 --> 00:48:21.025
And the Mariners haven't looked great.

00:48:21.766 --> 00:48:23.146
They're off to another slow start.

00:48:23.626 --> 00:48:24.507
The door is open.

00:48:25.286 --> 00:48:27.567
And so, the Astros catch fire,

00:48:28.027 --> 00:48:28.807
they're right back in it.

00:48:28.887 --> 00:48:30.347
So, are they even going to sell?

00:48:31.507 --> 00:48:34.108
So, I think no matter what,

00:48:34.148 --> 00:48:34.869
they're a team that

00:48:35.646 --> 00:48:36.365
week before the trade

00:48:36.405 --> 00:48:37.467
deadline we talked about

00:48:37.487 --> 00:48:39.967
they that's where they do

00:48:40.027 --> 00:48:42.047
things unless things are

00:48:42.088 --> 00:48:43.588
real bad at the end of may

00:48:44.268 --> 00:48:46.608
and but even so like you

00:48:46.648 --> 00:48:47.289
said they've they've

00:48:47.909 --> 00:48:48.889
depends how far they're

00:48:48.929 --> 00:48:50.311
gonna get hot eventually

00:48:50.650 --> 00:48:52.170
right for how long because

00:48:52.210 --> 00:48:54.472
of the age how far out if

00:48:54.512 --> 00:48:56.972
they're five like seven

00:48:56.992 --> 00:48:58.193
games out they're not

00:48:58.233 --> 00:49:00.253
selling if they're 12 games

00:49:00.313 --> 00:49:04.695
out then they the doors open yeah but

00:49:05.666 --> 00:49:06.786
Verlander just came back,

00:49:06.865 --> 00:49:08.567
so we'll have to see.

00:49:08.726 --> 00:49:10.447
Hunter Brown has been a huge letdown.

00:49:11.027 --> 00:49:12.047
I thought Hunter Brown was

00:49:12.088 --> 00:49:12.768
going to be their best

00:49:12.827 --> 00:49:14.148
pitcher this season,

00:49:15.748 --> 00:49:16.708
which is unfortunate.

00:49:17.668 --> 00:49:18.429
I agree.

00:49:18.630 --> 00:49:19.789
I think a lot of this as

00:49:19.849 --> 00:49:21.010
we're going through and as

00:49:21.050 --> 00:49:22.130
we continue to build

00:49:23.431 --> 00:49:25.451
podcasts as the season goes on,

00:49:25.512 --> 00:49:27.132
we'll have more discussions around

00:49:27.898 --> 00:49:29.019
what are the needs?

00:49:29.039 --> 00:49:29.920
Who are these teams that

00:49:29.940 --> 00:49:30.581
could be selling off?

00:49:30.641 --> 00:49:31.661
I know you and I share

00:49:31.722 --> 00:49:32.842
different messages back and

00:49:32.902 --> 00:49:34.224
forth in regards to teams

00:49:34.284 --> 00:49:36.164
and where certain players would fit.

00:49:36.306 --> 00:49:38.367
But right now, this Astros team,

00:49:38.387 --> 00:49:40.648
I don't think there's a

00:49:40.708 --> 00:49:41.710
better way to describe it

00:49:41.789 --> 00:49:43.291
other than the fact that, like you said,

00:49:43.670 --> 00:49:45.552
they just look old and slow.

00:49:45.592 --> 00:49:46.213
And that's how it's

00:49:46.273 --> 00:49:47.554
translating on the field,

00:49:48.175 --> 00:49:51.117
is they're just slow right now.

00:49:51.376 --> 00:49:52.938
And maybe once the season

00:49:52.998 --> 00:49:53.958
and the weather heats up,

00:49:54.559 --> 00:49:55.639
obviously it's always warm

00:49:55.659 --> 00:49:56.561
down in Houston, but

00:49:57.255 --> 00:49:58.956
maybe those old legs will

00:49:58.976 --> 00:49:59.976
get stretched out a little

00:50:00.016 --> 00:50:00.838
bit and they'll start doing

00:50:00.858 --> 00:50:01.518
a little bit better.

00:50:01.597 --> 00:50:02.177
But if not,

00:50:02.278 --> 00:50:03.438
it will be very interesting to

00:50:03.478 --> 00:50:04.179
see what they do.

00:50:05.619 --> 00:50:08.581
So you've done a lot of work

00:50:09.882 --> 00:50:11.143
for the website with

00:50:11.182 --> 00:50:12.282
covering the prospects.

00:50:12.322 --> 00:50:13.324
And I just want to kind of

00:50:13.884 --> 00:50:15.465
each week kind of touch

00:50:15.525 --> 00:50:17.425
base with you and see who

00:50:17.465 --> 00:50:18.266
do you think the top

00:50:19.827 --> 00:50:21.047
prospects were from your

00:50:21.068 --> 00:50:21.608
top 100 prospects list?

00:50:21.628 --> 00:50:21.708
Yeah.

00:50:23.853 --> 00:50:24.074
All right.

00:50:24.273 --> 00:50:25.693
I'm really, this is my favorite.

00:50:25.713 --> 00:50:27.335
Give me my favorite part of our podcast.

00:50:27.974 --> 00:50:31.436
So I'm going to try my plan going forward.

00:50:31.476 --> 00:50:32.596
We'll try to be pick a

00:50:32.615 --> 00:50:35.317
pitcher and a hitter each week and do it.

00:50:35.476 --> 00:50:37.597
My, I guess ITDs.

00:50:38.277 --> 00:50:39.637
And as I get better with the graphics,

00:50:39.677 --> 00:50:40.597
maybe even make one.

00:50:42.378 --> 00:50:44.639
ITDs hitter and pitcher of

00:50:44.699 --> 00:50:45.858
the week for the minor leagues.

00:50:46.818 --> 00:50:50.900
And I hate picking the same person for,

00:50:52.068 --> 00:50:52.887
Back-to-back weeks,

00:50:52.927 --> 00:50:54.009
and I talked about it last week.

00:50:55.028 --> 00:50:56.469
My pitcher of the week for this week,

00:50:57.590 --> 00:50:58.650
it has to be Paul Skeens.

00:50:59.351 --> 00:51:01.771
And for those of you that

00:51:01.831 --> 00:51:03.432
have seen our top 100,

00:51:03.432 --> 00:51:05.373
it will be updated.

00:51:05.492 --> 00:51:09.655
My plan is probably May 6th

00:51:09.715 --> 00:51:11.376
or 7th I'll have it updated.

00:51:12.096 --> 00:51:13.356
My birthday is May 3rd,

00:51:13.436 --> 00:51:15.817
so I'll be busy that whole

00:51:15.856 --> 00:51:17.117
weekend doing birthday stuff.

00:51:18.126 --> 00:51:19.106
And so once I get back to

00:51:19.126 --> 00:51:20.947
the grind on the 6th or the 7th,

00:51:21.007 --> 00:51:22.148
I'll probably have this updated.

00:51:22.588 --> 00:51:24.068
He'd probably be my number one prospect,

00:51:24.108 --> 00:51:25.108
assuming Jackson Holliday

00:51:25.128 --> 00:51:27.530
has graduated by then.

00:51:28.309 --> 00:51:29.269
But this past week for the

00:51:29.329 --> 00:51:30.550
Indianapolis Indians,

00:51:31.251 --> 00:51:33.271
he went three and a third in one start,

00:51:33.711 --> 00:51:36.072
zero runs, one hit, two walk,

00:51:36.112 --> 00:51:37.054
and eight strikeouts.

00:51:38.434 --> 00:51:39.253
So that's what?

00:51:40.215 --> 00:51:41.635
Ten outs recorded,

00:51:42.034 --> 00:51:43.135
eight of them were strikeouts.

00:51:44.391 --> 00:51:46.233
Am I dreaming or did he have

00:51:46.273 --> 00:51:48.275
an immaculate inning too in that outing?

00:51:49.115 --> 00:51:52.057
I feel like that was, yes, I believe so.

00:51:52.577 --> 00:51:53.159
I believe so.

00:51:54.079 --> 00:51:56.121
And so to just go over his season numbers,

00:51:56.701 --> 00:51:58.181
he doesn't have a decision yet.

00:51:58.882 --> 00:52:01.125
He has not a lot of run yet or run yet.

00:52:02.144 --> 00:52:05.507
He has a 0.71 whip in 27

00:52:05.507 --> 00:52:07.769
strikeouts in 12 and two thirds innings.

00:52:09.731 --> 00:52:10.911
And so everyone knows you

00:52:10.952 --> 00:52:12.072
can't have a decision and,

00:52:13.603 --> 00:52:14.204
In baseball,

00:52:14.224 --> 00:52:15.425
unless you go into the fifth inning.

00:52:15.925 --> 00:52:17.144
So he's not going to have

00:52:17.164 --> 00:52:18.766
his – he's not going to get

00:52:18.826 --> 00:52:20.166
a win or a loss,

00:52:20.565 --> 00:52:21.527
and he can't get a loss if

00:52:21.547 --> 00:52:22.786
you're not allowing any runs.

00:52:23.347 --> 00:52:23.447
No,

00:52:23.487 --> 00:52:25.507
you can get a loss if it's less than

00:52:25.527 --> 00:52:26.047
five innings.

00:52:28.309 --> 00:52:28.608
Really?

00:52:28.688 --> 00:52:30.130
Even if you haven't allowed any runs?

00:52:31.849 --> 00:52:33.670
That's not – I mean,

00:52:33.710 --> 00:52:35.891
that's not – I'm saying, yeah,

00:52:35.992 --> 00:52:37.052
right now with his earned

00:52:37.112 --> 00:52:40.478
runs that he's allowed, he's not –

00:52:40.478 --> 00:52:42.579
he's not in trouble of facing a loss.

00:52:42.898 --> 00:52:44.139
Like if they go down one, nothing,

00:52:44.219 --> 00:52:45.679
it's not tied up after two

00:52:45.760 --> 00:52:47.240
innings that he could take.

00:52:47.900 --> 00:52:48.141
Yes.

00:52:49.302 --> 00:52:51.902
But it's, he's, he's fantastic.

00:52:51.983 --> 00:52:54.324
And I'll add one bit to the

00:52:54.364 --> 00:52:55.445
Paul schemes after you're,

00:52:55.864 --> 00:52:56.905
you're done with the rest of it.

00:52:58.045 --> 00:53:00.226
And then as far as the hitters,

00:53:01.106 --> 00:53:01.907
I couldn't pick one.

00:53:02.588 --> 00:53:02.947
I couldn't.

00:53:03.007 --> 00:53:03.188
Yeah.

00:53:04.028 --> 00:53:04.548
I picked two.

00:53:04.568 --> 00:53:06.369
So I'll start with the

00:53:06.449 --> 00:53:08.010
highest of the rankings.

00:53:08.751 --> 00:53:08.891
Yep.

00:53:09.331 --> 00:53:11.052
First, baseman Kyle Manzardo,

00:53:11.432 --> 00:53:13.092
who is ranked 55th overall

00:53:13.253 --> 00:53:15.152
from the Cleveland Guardian system.

00:53:15.172 --> 00:53:15.994
He plays for the Columbus

00:53:16.034 --> 00:53:17.014
Clippers and AAA.

00:53:18.153 --> 00:53:21.514
Last week, he went 10 for 24,

00:53:21.514 --> 00:53:24.235
which equates to a 417 average.

00:53:24.996 --> 00:53:26.876
He had three home runs, four RBIs,

00:53:27.036 --> 00:53:28.637
eight runs scored, and four walks.

00:53:29.916 --> 00:53:30.536
This season,

00:53:30.637 --> 00:53:33.858
he's hitting .308 with a .985 OPS,

00:53:34.038 --> 00:53:34.737
four home runs.

00:53:35.038 --> 00:53:37.679
So all three of his four

00:53:37.719 --> 00:53:38.858
home runs came last week.

00:53:40.177 --> 00:53:42.277
10 RBIs, and 13 runs scored.

00:53:43.458 --> 00:53:45.440
And this kid, I mean,

00:53:45.460 --> 00:53:46.059
I don't know what

00:53:46.400 --> 00:53:47.260
Cleveland's got at first.

00:53:47.300 --> 00:53:48.021
I think it's Naylor.

00:53:48.061 --> 00:53:49.561
So I guess you're stuck there.

00:53:49.581 --> 00:53:52.224
I don't know what you do with DH.

00:53:52.824 --> 00:53:55.746
He might be stuck in AAA for a while.

00:53:55.766 --> 00:53:56.246
Who's the guy?

00:53:56.346 --> 00:53:58.666
Esteban Florio that used to

00:53:58.706 --> 00:53:59.588
be with the Yankees.

00:53:59.608 --> 00:53:59.987
That's right.

00:54:00.088 --> 00:54:00.969
Has been DHing.

00:54:01.969 --> 00:54:02.168
Now,

00:54:02.389 --> 00:54:04.771
Manzardo was also traded last year

00:54:04.791 --> 00:54:07.331
from the Rays for Aaron Savali.

00:54:08.333 --> 00:54:08.532
So...

00:54:10.088 --> 00:54:10.309
I mean,

00:54:10.349 --> 00:54:11.989
the Rays do have a top prospect in

00:54:12.289 --> 00:54:13.110
Xavier Isaac,

00:54:13.190 --> 00:54:14.291
but he hasn't done much to

00:54:14.331 --> 00:54:14.911
start the year.

00:54:15.831 --> 00:54:16.733
So I wonder if the Rays are

00:54:16.753 --> 00:54:17.572
kicking themselves a little

00:54:17.592 --> 00:54:18.614
bit for making a mistake on

00:54:18.653 --> 00:54:19.735
trading the wrong prospect

00:54:19.974 --> 00:54:21.355
because Manzaro has been

00:54:21.835 --> 00:54:22.835
decent to start the year.

00:54:22.856 --> 00:54:25.038
I mean, if you look at the rankings,

00:54:25.077 --> 00:54:26.637
I believe off the top of my head,

00:54:26.677 --> 00:54:27.559
I'm not looking at them.

00:54:28.318 --> 00:54:29.539
Isaac and Manzaro were like

00:54:29.840 --> 00:54:30.581
right next to each other.

00:54:31.221 --> 00:54:31.800
They were close.

00:54:32.262 --> 00:54:34.202
So they're in like the 50s.

00:54:34.242 --> 00:54:35.483
So Manzaro's 55.

00:54:35.523 --> 00:54:37.244
I think Isaac was in the lower 50s.

00:54:37.284 --> 00:54:39.025
But they're all right.

00:54:39.045 --> 00:54:39.786
They're both right there.

00:54:40.931 --> 00:54:41.690
And the final one,

00:54:42.791 --> 00:54:45.333
as a person born and raised

00:54:45.353 --> 00:54:45.972
in New Hampshire,

00:54:46.914 --> 00:54:48.173
I love watching the Fisher Cats.

00:54:48.233 --> 00:54:49.855
This guy is actually in AAA now,

00:54:50.735 --> 00:54:52.016
but I walked into a lot of

00:54:52.056 --> 00:54:53.155
Fisher Cats games last year,

00:54:53.175 --> 00:54:54.536
and he was a lot of fun to watch.

00:54:55.336 --> 00:54:57.237
He's the 86th overall prospect,

00:54:57.818 --> 00:54:58.958
Aurelvis Martinez.

00:55:00.259 --> 00:55:01.579
And I've actually seen a lot

00:55:01.599 --> 00:55:02.760
of tweets this week that

00:55:03.021 --> 00:55:03.960
people want him called up.

00:55:04.840 --> 00:55:05.621
and it's time.

00:55:06.442 --> 00:55:07.882
And they have, you know,

00:55:08.443 --> 00:55:10.023
Keiner Falefa's playing third,

00:55:10.364 --> 00:55:11.505
Biggio's at second,

00:55:11.525 --> 00:55:12.525
you got Bichette at short,

00:55:12.606 --> 00:55:13.927
and Guerrero at first.

00:55:15.827 --> 00:55:17.628
I don't hate the idea of calling them up,

00:55:17.648 --> 00:55:18.650
but I think you're in a

00:55:18.690 --> 00:55:19.751
tough position where then

00:55:20.210 --> 00:55:21.331
are you going to mix and

00:55:21.391 --> 00:55:24.614
match Biggio and Keiner

00:55:24.653 --> 00:55:26.155
Falefa at third base and

00:55:26.394 --> 00:55:27.496
play the matchup?

00:55:27.516 --> 00:55:29.817
Because I believe Keiner

00:55:29.836 --> 00:55:32.039
Falefa's a righty off the top of my head.

00:55:32.849 --> 00:55:34.831
So then Vigio's a lefty, so what,

00:55:34.851 --> 00:55:35.891
are you going to play the

00:55:35.931 --> 00:55:36.913
matchup and you're going to

00:55:36.952 --> 00:55:37.893
mix and match a third base?

00:55:38.853 --> 00:55:39.655
Tough spot to be in.

00:55:40.655 --> 00:55:41.755
I wouldn't be surprised if

00:55:41.976 --> 00:55:44.117
there is a move there, but I don't know.

00:55:44.137 --> 00:55:45.039
Their bullpen's good.

00:55:45.119 --> 00:55:46.719
Their starting pitching's good so far.

00:55:47.601 --> 00:55:48.460
But this week,

00:55:48.621 --> 00:55:51.583
Martinez went 10 for 28 with

00:55:51.844 --> 00:55:52.884
a .357 batting average.

00:55:54.025 --> 00:55:55.146
Not as good as Manzardo,

00:55:55.525 --> 00:55:56.626
but the stat that's really

00:55:56.646 --> 00:55:58.849
stuck out to me is five home runs.

00:55:58.849 --> 00:56:04.164
13 RBIs, eight runs scored in three walks.

00:56:05.346 --> 00:56:06.706
So, so far this season,

00:56:07.045 --> 00:56:08.567
and this is where it really sticks out,

00:56:09.226 --> 00:56:14.548
he's hitting .333 with a 1.073 OPS.

00:56:15.309 --> 00:56:16.289
He has six home runs.

00:56:16.829 --> 00:56:18.289
So five of those six just

00:56:18.329 --> 00:56:21.530
came last week with 18 RBIs.

00:56:22.811 --> 00:56:24.771
So he had five entering the

00:56:24.811 --> 00:56:27.592
last week series and 20 runs scored.

00:56:28.193 --> 00:56:28.833
And so he had eight.

00:56:29.797 --> 00:56:30.418
eight last week.

00:56:31.679 --> 00:56:32.239
He, uh,

00:56:32.599 --> 00:56:34.079
he's with the Buffalo Bisons right

00:56:34.099 --> 00:56:34.920
now in AAA.

00:56:35.360 --> 00:56:36.780
They play the Iowa Cubs.

00:56:37.260 --> 00:56:38.702
So I'll at least see two or

00:56:38.742 --> 00:56:40.061
three of those games this week,

00:56:40.101 --> 00:56:42.784
whether it be live or re rewatch them.

00:56:43.244 --> 00:56:44.164
So I'll be interested in

00:56:44.184 --> 00:56:46.204
locking in on him to see how he does,

00:56:46.304 --> 00:56:47.846
especially following last week.

00:56:47.985 --> 00:56:49.706
But when you were talking

00:56:49.746 --> 00:56:51.146
about schemes and you and I

00:56:51.186 --> 00:56:52.088
talk about them quite a bit,

00:56:53.588 --> 00:56:55.188
and I'm looking at Jared Jones,

00:56:55.849 --> 00:56:57.469
I'm looking at Mitch Keller and,

00:56:58.282 --> 00:57:00.443
And he's not a number five starter.

00:57:01.043 --> 00:57:01.804
Skeens is not.

00:57:02.324 --> 00:57:04.445
But if you have Mitch Keller, Perez,

00:57:04.885 --> 00:57:09.608
then you throw in Jared Jones,

00:57:09.748 --> 00:57:11.288
and then you throw Marco Gonzalez,

00:57:11.327 --> 00:57:14.009
who's more of a finesse type of guy,

00:57:15.210 --> 00:57:17.710
and then you follow with Paul Skeens.

00:57:18.851 --> 00:57:19.010
Like,

00:57:19.030 --> 00:57:21.112
just thinking in terms of messing

00:57:21.132 --> 00:57:22.452
with the opponent's batters.

00:57:22.873 --> 00:57:23.432
You go in,

00:57:23.452 --> 00:57:24.813
you have to face a lefty who's

00:57:24.893 --> 00:57:26.554
more of this, I won't call him...

00:57:28.146 --> 00:57:29.405
Jamie Moyer ask,

00:57:29.485 --> 00:57:30.706
but he's more of a finesse

00:57:30.726 --> 00:57:32.467
guy throwing junk at you,

00:57:32.507 --> 00:57:33.427
controlling the zone,

00:57:33.568 --> 00:57:34.648
not overpowering you.

00:57:35.007 --> 00:57:36.148
And then the next game you

00:57:36.188 --> 00:57:38.108
have to face a guy that's on fucking BBs.

00:57:40.349 --> 00:57:41.849
I want to see him come up

00:57:41.889 --> 00:57:43.929
because the pirates aren't

00:57:43.969 --> 00:57:44.931
that bad of a team.

00:57:45.010 --> 00:57:46.891
And you throw in there and

00:57:46.951 --> 00:57:47.972
you all of a sudden have a

00:57:48.012 --> 00:57:48.672
pitching staff.

00:57:48.692 --> 00:57:49.731
That's pretty frigging

00:57:49.811 --> 00:57:50.771
formidable right now,

00:57:50.831 --> 00:57:51.753
the way they're all throwing.

00:57:52.932 --> 00:57:53.592
I would, I just,

00:57:54.172 --> 00:57:54.992
when you mentioned that

00:57:55.032 --> 00:57:56.173
earlier and we've been

00:57:56.213 --> 00:57:56.793
talking about them,

00:57:57.574 --> 00:57:58.713
There's no pressure on the

00:57:58.753 --> 00:58:00.835
guy to come in because you

00:58:00.855 --> 00:58:02.434
can still keep Bradley Falter.

00:58:02.894 --> 00:58:04.096
And you could almost do

00:58:04.556 --> 00:58:06.596
those two guys if you let

00:58:06.615 --> 00:58:08.255
him pitch both three innings.

00:58:08.817 --> 00:58:10.336
You're saving your bullpen some,

00:58:10.376 --> 00:58:11.436
and I don't care who starts.

00:58:13.077 --> 00:58:14.737
It would be a waste for him.

00:58:15.938 --> 00:58:17.117
I'd like to see him make two

00:58:17.159 --> 00:58:19.239
more starts at AAA and see

00:58:19.278 --> 00:58:20.539
him get to five innings

00:58:20.619 --> 00:58:22.579
pitched in each game and

00:58:22.619 --> 00:58:23.360
see how that goes.

00:58:24.121 --> 00:58:25.483
I think you were going to

00:58:25.503 --> 00:58:27.003
write about it the other day and mention,

00:58:27.043 --> 00:58:27.724
like, oh,

00:58:28.105 --> 00:58:31.126
the idea of him getting called up soon.

00:58:31.987 --> 00:58:33.568
And I said to you that I had

00:58:34.570 --> 00:58:36.490
an idea to when that was going to happen.

00:58:36.550 --> 00:58:37.552
I saw it a lot of places,

00:58:37.592 --> 00:58:39.454
and that's what sparked my interest on it,

00:58:40.074 --> 00:58:41.074
was his girlfriend.

00:58:41.094 --> 00:58:42.615
For those of you who don't know,

00:58:42.715 --> 00:58:44.998
he's dating the LSU Gymnastics.

00:58:45.018 --> 00:58:46.838
I don't even know what they're called.

00:58:46.858 --> 00:58:51.402
Not player, but LSU Gymnastics girl.

00:58:51.461 --> 00:58:52.202
Gymnast, thank you.

00:58:52.802 --> 00:58:53.324
Libby Dunn.

00:58:54.476 --> 00:58:55.097
they were waiting for it

00:58:55.157 --> 00:58:56.657
because she is very popular

00:58:56.697 --> 00:58:58.257
on Tik TOK and all social

00:58:58.277 --> 00:58:59.577
media that they were

00:58:59.597 --> 00:59:00.498
waiting for her to finish

00:59:00.518 --> 00:59:03.498
her season or a season finished Saturday.

00:59:03.518 --> 00:59:07.159
So are they waiting for the, you know,

00:59:07.199 --> 00:59:08.800
cause the pirates can make it's all,

00:59:08.960 --> 00:59:10.320
it's all money based for the owners.

00:59:10.641 --> 00:59:12.621
So are they waiting for her season to end?

00:59:12.721 --> 00:59:13.521
And all of a sudden now

00:59:13.581 --> 00:59:14.521
she's coming to Pittsburgh

00:59:14.541 --> 00:59:15.661
for games and that brings

00:59:15.722 --> 00:59:16.822
in more money for Pittsburgh.

00:59:16.842 --> 00:59:18.501
We'll have to see this week,

00:59:18.862 --> 00:59:20.663
but I forget what day he,

00:59:20.702 --> 00:59:21.722
I think he pitched yesterday.

00:59:21.742 --> 00:59:21.822
Yeah.

00:59:23.182 --> 00:59:23.804
Yeah, I think so.

00:59:23.824 --> 00:59:25.726
It might have been today.

00:59:25.746 --> 00:59:28.007
I was going to say, so today's Tuesday.

00:59:28.027 --> 00:59:28.728
So that means he pitched

00:59:28.768 --> 00:59:31.811
today and he pitches Sunday.

00:59:31.831 --> 00:59:33.793
I'm going to pull it up real quick.

00:59:33.813 --> 00:59:34.514
Hold on one second.

00:59:35.315 --> 00:59:37.777
I'll pull up how they did today.

00:59:40.179 --> 00:59:42.742
For anyone that hasn't seen

00:59:42.822 --> 00:59:44.485
Paul Skeen's pitch or hasn't,

00:59:45.961 --> 00:59:46.643
For some of you,

00:59:46.663 --> 00:59:47.402
you may not even pay

00:59:47.463 --> 00:59:48.945
attention to minor league baseball.

00:59:49.405 --> 00:59:50.385
You may not know who he is.

00:59:50.545 --> 00:59:53.588
I highly recommend going to the website,

00:59:53.829 --> 00:59:54.909
pulling up the articles,

00:59:54.929 --> 00:59:56.692
anything tied with Paul Skeens.

00:59:57.072 --> 00:59:57.873
But at the same time,

00:59:57.932 --> 01:00:00.275
go to YouTube and see some

01:00:00.295 --> 01:00:01.416
videos of this guy throw.

01:00:02.036 --> 01:00:02.797
He's unreal.

01:00:02.918 --> 01:00:04.858
The only thing right now to

01:00:04.878 --> 01:00:05.900
your comment about seeing

01:00:05.920 --> 01:00:08.161
him go into the fifth inning, I wonder...

01:00:09.309 --> 01:00:12.050
going just just over nine

01:00:12.170 --> 01:00:14.271
outs he hasn't seen because

01:00:14.291 --> 01:00:15.411
he's not walking anybody

01:00:15.751 --> 01:00:16.951
he's not giving up any hits

01:00:17.291 --> 01:00:18.871
he hasn't seen and had to

01:00:18.972 --> 01:00:21.393
face the lineup more than

01:00:21.592 --> 01:00:23.512
once you know unless it's a

01:00:24.054 --> 01:00:25.134
series where he's starting

01:00:25.173 --> 01:00:26.414
tuesday and then pitching

01:00:26.454 --> 01:00:28.135
sunday he's not having to

01:00:28.175 --> 01:00:30.255
go through that lineup and

01:00:30.356 --> 01:00:31.576
seeing if anyone makes any

01:00:31.615 --> 01:00:33.036
adjustments so that to me

01:00:33.135 --> 01:00:34.856
is something that I'd be I'd

01:00:35.418 --> 01:00:36.539
very interested to see how

01:00:36.559 --> 01:00:37.621
that happens because that's

01:00:37.940 --> 01:00:38.621
that's what they're going

01:00:38.641 --> 01:00:39.442
to do in the big leagues

01:00:39.481 --> 01:00:39.983
they're going to make

01:00:40.023 --> 01:00:41.983
adjustments so I'd be very

01:00:42.045 --> 01:00:42.965
interested to see how it

01:00:43.005 --> 01:00:44.346
does at the triple a level

01:00:44.786 --> 01:00:45.967
to see what these guys are

01:00:46.007 --> 01:00:48.530
doing to kind of adjust to

01:00:48.590 --> 01:00:52.213
his speed and just his

01:00:52.353 --> 01:00:53.514
arsenal of pitches in

01:00:53.554 --> 01:00:55.094
general right and that's

01:00:55.114 --> 01:00:56.155
why I want to see him throw

01:00:56.195 --> 01:00:57.757
five inks is for that exact

01:00:57.858 --> 01:01:00.820
reason I mean he's got it

01:01:00.980 --> 01:01:02.260
he looks fantastic I just

01:01:02.280 --> 01:01:03.101
want to see if he can go

01:01:04.527 --> 01:01:06.449
five in it well I want to

01:01:06.489 --> 01:01:07.909
see you said the lineup

01:01:07.949 --> 01:01:10.490
turning over yeah if he can

01:01:10.530 --> 01:01:11.692
adjust and how he does I

01:01:12.853 --> 01:01:13.693
mean great he's gone three

01:01:13.713 --> 01:01:14.614
and a third so he's done

01:01:14.634 --> 01:01:15.514
that for the top of the

01:01:15.594 --> 01:01:17.295
order but yeah you know

01:01:19.576 --> 01:01:20.476
from the looks of it going

01:01:20.496 --> 01:01:22.038
three and a third he gave

01:01:22.077 --> 01:01:23.217
up one hit so he faced the

01:01:23.237 --> 01:01:24.659
top two hitters of the

01:01:24.699 --> 01:01:26.480
lineup oh and two walks so

01:01:26.500 --> 01:01:27.460
he faced the top four

01:01:27.521 --> 01:01:29.942
hitters of the lineup yeah so

01:01:30.992 --> 01:01:33.514
but a second time, maybe a third time,

01:01:33.594 --> 01:01:34.876
you've got to extend him.

01:01:35.715 --> 01:01:36.577
What's the plan here?

01:01:37.197 --> 01:01:37.978
What are we doing with him?

01:01:39.259 --> 01:01:39.478
Yeah.

01:01:40.860 --> 01:01:42.681
I don't think he's seen more

01:01:42.721 --> 01:01:45.193
than 60 pitches, 60,

01:01:45.193 --> 01:01:47.864
65 pitches in a start yet.

01:01:47.965 --> 01:01:48.465
He might have.

01:01:49.545 --> 01:01:51.047
It was just some crazy

01:01:51.086 --> 01:01:51.967
number they threw out there

01:01:51.987 --> 01:01:53.068
when I was listening quick,

01:01:53.148 --> 01:01:55.429
but he definitely lights out.

01:01:55.489 --> 01:01:56.911
I would highly recommend him.

01:01:57.438 --> 01:01:58.498
you know, paying attention,

01:01:58.577 --> 01:02:00.679
go to the top 100 prospects,

01:02:00.739 --> 01:02:03.259
pull up his page itself,

01:02:03.518 --> 01:02:04.458
read that article.

01:02:04.639 --> 01:02:06.739
He's a phenomenal pitcher.

01:02:06.880 --> 01:02:09.059
And if you're not aware of who he is yet,

01:02:09.800 --> 01:02:12.760
you will be very soon.

01:02:12.900 --> 01:02:14.101
If he's not called up soon

01:02:14.380 --> 01:02:17.360
and Jackson Holiday graduates before that,

01:02:18.181 --> 01:02:20.001
then he'll be the number one prospect.

01:02:20.021 --> 01:02:20.902
There's no question about it.

01:02:20.922 --> 01:02:21.402
Hands down.

01:02:22.902 --> 01:02:23.402
Hands down.

01:02:23.822 --> 01:02:26.103
So here's something before we close.

01:02:28.106 --> 01:02:30.788
You like Kyle Teal as a catching prospect.

01:02:31.268 --> 01:02:31.527
I do.

01:02:33.108 --> 01:02:33.969
Ethan Solis.

01:02:34.809 --> 01:02:35.871
Who would you rather have?

01:02:37.010 --> 01:02:38.552
Solis is younger, much younger,

01:02:38.831 --> 01:02:40.673
at being only, I believe, only 18,

01:02:40.673 --> 01:02:41.853
maybe 19 max.

01:02:44.516 --> 01:02:45.456
But who would you rather

01:02:45.516 --> 01:02:46.197
start your team with?

01:02:48.188 --> 01:02:49.027
And you don't have to answer

01:02:49.047 --> 01:02:50.028
me now if you don't want to

01:02:50.148 --> 01:02:51.528
wait until the next podcast.

01:02:51.809 --> 01:02:53.250
But that was something to me

01:02:53.710 --> 01:02:55.771
when I was paying some attention to him.

01:02:55.831 --> 01:02:57.532
And I believe he's in high A

01:02:58.351 --> 01:02:59.733
for the Padres that that

01:02:59.773 --> 01:03:00.753
was one because I've heard

01:03:00.793 --> 01:03:02.153
you talk about Kyle Teal.

01:03:02.574 --> 01:03:03.434
I've heard about him from

01:03:03.474 --> 01:03:05.195
being from New England more

01:03:05.215 --> 01:03:06.396
and more than I have Ethan.

01:03:06.925 --> 01:03:10.608
But to me, that's one that is something,

01:03:10.827 --> 01:03:11.807
if you don't want to answer now,

01:03:11.827 --> 01:03:13.688
we can definitely hit it the next podcast,

01:03:13.748 --> 01:03:14.389
and maybe you can do a

01:03:14.409 --> 01:03:16.510
little bit of work and look at it.

01:03:16.590 --> 01:03:17.690
But for me,

01:03:19.092 --> 01:03:20.273
those are the two right now

01:03:20.353 --> 01:03:21.592
that stick in my mind in

01:03:21.632 --> 01:03:23.454
regards to two of the best

01:03:23.753 --> 01:03:25.135
catching prospects in the league,

01:03:25.155 --> 01:03:25.914
and I don't know which one

01:03:25.954 --> 01:03:26.556
I'd rather have.

01:03:27.356 --> 01:03:29.016
They are two of the best.

01:03:29.336 --> 01:03:30.677
I want to wait and see what

01:03:30.717 --> 01:03:31.418
happens this week,

01:03:31.478 --> 01:03:33.059
so I'll do it next podcast.

01:03:33.875 --> 01:03:36.177
But I will say, so here's the tough part.

01:03:36.197 --> 01:03:37.818
This is why I don't want to do it tonight.

01:03:39.338 --> 01:03:40.960
I watch a lot of college baseball.

01:03:41.719 --> 01:03:43.161
And I've written articles

01:03:43.201 --> 01:03:44.222
about college baseball.

01:03:44.942 --> 01:03:46.463
Because I have, like I've said before,

01:03:46.483 --> 01:03:47.523
I have two TVs in my room.

01:03:47.563 --> 01:03:48.405
So on Friday nights,

01:03:48.485 --> 01:03:49.264
if my girlfriend goes to

01:03:49.304 --> 01:03:50.505
bed or if I'm by myself in

01:03:50.525 --> 01:03:53.188
the living room, I have two TVs going.

01:03:53.248 --> 01:03:54.108
The big screen,

01:03:54.148 --> 01:03:55.188
if the Red Sox and Tigers

01:03:55.248 --> 01:03:56.230
aren't on late night,

01:03:56.889 --> 01:03:58.190
I got MLB beginning.

01:03:58.411 --> 01:03:59.992
And the little TV has college baseball.

01:04:00.431 --> 01:04:01.452
So I'm following everything.

01:04:02.148 --> 01:04:03.409
it's baseball season in my

01:04:03.449 --> 01:04:05.210
house and it's I'm full go

01:04:05.230 --> 01:04:07.751
um so I watched a lot of

01:04:07.771 --> 01:04:09.731
kyle teal in college and

01:04:09.751 --> 01:04:10.773
the idea of him coming to

01:04:10.793 --> 01:04:12.273
the red sox was my favorite

01:04:12.353 --> 01:04:13.934
like he was it was maybe

01:04:14.094 --> 01:04:15.255
one mock draft I saw that

01:04:15.275 --> 01:04:16.155
he was projected to come

01:04:16.195 --> 01:04:18.976
here but he was even before

01:04:19.016 --> 01:04:19.998
all that I said I wanted

01:04:20.038 --> 01:04:21.157
kyle teal to be a red sock

01:04:21.458 --> 01:04:22.958
and I liked his bat at virginia and

01:04:26.128 --> 01:04:28.291
So that's why if I gave an answer now,

01:04:28.592 --> 01:04:29.713
I'd probably say Teal.

01:04:30.052 --> 01:04:32.476
I've followed Salas in the minor leagues,

01:04:33.317 --> 01:04:35.139
but right now I'd say Teal.

01:04:35.559 --> 01:04:37.081
But I want to do more research,

01:04:37.141 --> 01:04:38.222
and I want to watch both of

01:04:38.262 --> 01:04:38.762
them this week,

01:04:38.842 --> 01:04:40.985
and I want to give my full,

01:04:41.204 --> 01:04:42.367
unbiased answer.

01:04:43.106 --> 01:04:43.186
Okay,

01:04:43.206 --> 01:04:45.126
it's fair enough to allow you to prepare.

01:04:45.166 --> 01:04:47.007
I kind of hit it with you last minute.

01:04:47.027 --> 01:04:48.849
Do you have anything else

01:04:48.929 --> 01:04:49.849
that you'd like to mention

01:04:49.909 --> 01:04:51.949
before we wrap this thing up tonight?

01:04:51.989 --> 01:04:53.510
Trying to keep it as under

01:04:53.530 --> 01:04:54.911
an hour and a little just

01:04:54.990 --> 01:04:56.771
shy of an hour and five

01:04:56.811 --> 01:04:57.572
minutes right now.

01:04:57.652 --> 01:04:58.773
Anything else you'd like to add?

01:04:59.373 --> 01:05:00.873
Well, since you just brought up Salas,

01:05:01.434 --> 01:05:02.894
wild to me that the Rockies

01:05:02.934 --> 01:05:04.976
just took the lead from the Padres.

01:05:05.036 --> 01:05:06.056
Granted, it's the fourth inning,

01:05:06.096 --> 01:05:08.396
but it was 2-0 last I saw,

01:05:08.416 --> 01:05:09.318
and I looked up, and now it's 5-4.

01:05:11.135 --> 01:05:14.697
Also, what's up with the Boris guys?

01:05:14.956 --> 01:05:16.458
So we talked about Snell.

01:05:16.677 --> 01:05:18.518
Everyone's leaving him.

01:05:19.159 --> 01:05:19.679
Not even that,

01:05:19.760 --> 01:05:21.820
but none of them are producing.

01:05:22.121 --> 01:05:24.061
The Boris four aren't doing anything.

01:05:24.501 --> 01:05:25.202
What were they doing?

01:05:25.603 --> 01:05:27.583
Again, just like we said with Snell,

01:05:28.244 --> 01:05:29.824
I think Montgomery looked the best.

01:05:30.965 --> 01:05:31.186
Yes.

01:05:31.945 --> 01:05:33.686
But again, now with that,

01:05:33.867 --> 01:05:34.907
we also had a lot of

01:05:34.947 --> 01:05:36.208
discussion on Montgomery

01:05:36.889 --> 01:05:37.708
and thinking he was

01:05:37.768 --> 01:05:39.329
probably the worst of the four pitchers.

01:05:40.248 --> 01:05:41.829
in more average than error,

01:05:41.949 --> 01:05:42.829
not four pitches,

01:05:42.869 --> 01:05:44.570
but of the clients that

01:05:44.610 --> 01:05:45.271
were still out there,

01:05:45.570 --> 01:05:46.510
he was probably the one

01:05:46.530 --> 01:05:48.552
that was getting hyped the

01:05:48.592 --> 01:05:49.693
most just because of what

01:05:49.713 --> 01:05:52.675
he did with the Rangers, you know,

01:05:52.914 --> 01:05:53.655
one hit wonder.

01:05:54.076 --> 01:05:56.016
I think he is that number three starter.

01:05:56.036 --> 01:05:57.757
And I think it'll be very

01:05:57.858 --> 01:06:00.699
interesting to see at the end of May,

01:06:00.719 --> 01:06:01.900
if we look at those guys

01:06:02.400 --> 01:06:03.400
and then compare them and

01:06:03.440 --> 01:06:04.121
see where they're at,

01:06:04.840 --> 01:06:06.222
but it doesn't look good right now,

01:06:06.302 --> 01:06:07.503
holding out all that much time.

01:06:07.583 --> 01:06:08.202
What were they doing?

01:06:08.222 --> 01:06:09.284
They missed spring training.

01:06:09.304 --> 01:06:09.344
Um,

01:06:10.009 --> 01:06:10.690
It's just different.

01:06:12.951 --> 01:06:13.851
Even the bats, though.

01:06:14.192 --> 01:06:14.572
Chapman,

01:06:14.932 --> 01:06:16.474
he just popped an egg because he

01:06:16.494 --> 01:06:17.494
just popped up to the plate.

01:06:18.074 --> 01:06:18.574
He's hitting 226.

01:06:18.635 --> 01:06:18.815
Yeah.

01:06:18.936 --> 01:06:23.458
I mean, I'll think over 200.

01:06:23.559 --> 01:06:23.838
Yeah.

01:06:23.878 --> 01:06:27.501
Who's the other one?

01:06:27.561 --> 01:06:29.503
It's very interesting.

01:06:29.722 --> 01:06:30.204
Bellinger.

01:06:30.364 --> 01:06:31.864
Bellinger's been struggling, too.

01:06:32.844 --> 01:06:35.666
so not as bad you know not

01:06:35.746 --> 01:06:37.766
as bad but they're not they

01:06:37.806 --> 01:06:40.168
don't look well yeah was it

01:06:40.188 --> 01:06:41.349
bellinger there was another

01:06:41.369 --> 01:06:42.048
one I saw that was hitting

01:06:42.088 --> 01:06:43.309
a buck something when I saw

01:06:43.349 --> 01:06:46.110
it it was just it was

01:06:47.231 --> 01:06:48.853
mind-boggling that those

01:06:48.932 --> 01:06:50.172
four were struggling out of

01:06:50.193 --> 01:06:52.954
the gate stress and

01:06:53.014 --> 01:06:54.034
pressure because of the

01:06:54.074 --> 01:06:55.735
fact that they were all

01:06:55.775 --> 01:06:57.737
talked about from november

01:06:58.914 --> 01:07:00.835
until march when they signed

01:07:00.974 --> 01:07:02.295
and some of them late march

01:07:02.775 --> 01:07:03.996
so that's gonna weigh on

01:07:04.036 --> 01:07:05.336
you at some point right are

01:07:05.376 --> 01:07:06.416
they are they calling out

01:07:06.456 --> 01:07:08.777
boris because according to

01:07:08.798 --> 01:07:11.320
reports snow was throwing

01:07:11.960 --> 01:07:13.521
full bullpens all off

01:07:13.541 --> 01:07:18.523
season so no he did just

01:07:18.563 --> 01:07:19.682
win the cyan we already

01:07:19.722 --> 01:07:20.603
touched upon it yeah

01:07:21.572 --> 01:07:24.175
He's pretty shit after that,

01:07:24.295 --> 01:07:25.996
but it'll be definitely interesting.

01:07:26.016 --> 01:07:26.797
That's something we want to

01:07:26.817 --> 01:07:28.298
keep an eye on and just kind of this,

01:07:28.458 --> 01:07:29.199
a lot of different

01:07:30.320 --> 01:07:31.661
underlying storylines that

01:07:31.701 --> 01:07:32.942
we can kind of touch on.

01:07:33.043 --> 01:07:34.284
But, you know, for me,

01:07:34.364 --> 01:07:35.123
I think it's going to be

01:07:35.164 --> 01:07:35.945
very interesting.

01:07:35.985 --> 01:07:37.746
Give them, give them a month of May,

01:07:38.086 --> 01:07:39.027
see where things land.

01:07:39.748 --> 01:07:41.128
And let's really dive into

01:07:41.168 --> 01:07:42.489
these Boris clients that

01:07:42.530 --> 01:07:43.951
just were free agents.

01:07:44.411 --> 01:07:45.992
And now, you know, another thing,

01:07:46.313 --> 01:07:48.155
if you're a Boris client

01:07:48.534 --> 01:07:49.195
and you're heading into

01:07:49.235 --> 01:07:50.356
free agency next year,

01:07:51.632 --> 01:07:52.512
How comfortable are you?

01:07:53.253 --> 01:07:53.512
Yeah.

01:07:54.634 --> 01:07:56.094
So there's a lot of stuff there.

01:07:56.173 --> 01:07:57.813
But I think the biggest

01:07:57.873 --> 01:08:00.954
thing for me as we close out and,

01:08:01.034 --> 01:08:01.235
you know,

01:08:01.275 --> 01:08:02.954
you and I both have full time jobs.

01:08:03.956 --> 01:08:05.295
We're both slammed with work,

01:08:05.416 --> 01:08:06.096
personal life.

01:08:06.396 --> 01:08:08.577
Both have kids and my kids

01:08:08.637 --> 01:08:09.717
are starting their softball

01:08:09.737 --> 01:08:10.777
and baseball seasons.

01:08:11.237 --> 01:08:12.878
But I'm still finding time

01:08:12.898 --> 01:08:15.918
as much as I can with this

01:08:15.978 --> 01:08:18.198
passion of baseball and writing.

01:08:18.418 --> 01:08:19.458
And I think that's where.

01:08:19.891 --> 01:08:20.512
for you and I,

01:08:20.533 --> 01:08:21.755
and we've mentioned it in

01:08:21.795 --> 01:08:23.096
these different little call-outs,

01:08:23.578 --> 01:08:24.519
but if you have any

01:08:24.658 --> 01:08:26.863
interest in talking baseball,

01:08:26.943 --> 01:08:28.085
writing about baseball,

01:08:28.786 --> 01:08:30.047
and don't be intimidated if

01:08:30.068 --> 01:08:31.229
you've never written before.

01:08:32.131 --> 01:08:33.713
I've never written before, you know,

01:08:33.753 --> 01:08:35.176
other than work emails and different

01:08:35.509 --> 01:08:37.250
proposals and stuff like that for work.

01:08:37.770 --> 01:08:40.771
So we have different tools to help you.

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We have a lot of good people

01:08:42.432 --> 01:08:43.252
that are willing to work

01:08:43.292 --> 01:08:44.092
with you and kind of give

01:08:44.113 --> 01:08:44.854
you some pointers,

01:08:44.993 --> 01:08:45.854
let you know what we're

01:08:45.873 --> 01:08:47.194
doing and just work with you.

01:08:47.614 --> 01:08:49.275
So if you're interested, but hesitant,

01:08:49.716 --> 01:08:51.957
just reach out, reach out to us,

01:08:51.976 --> 01:08:52.837
go to the website,

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01:08:55.038 --> 01:08:57.239
backslash join us and let

01:08:57.300 --> 01:08:58.220
us know what you're thinking.

01:08:58.400 --> 01:08:58.961
And at least

01:08:59.564 --> 01:09:01.225
Let us talk to you and give

01:09:01.246 --> 01:09:02.405
you a couple of ideas of

01:09:02.485 --> 01:09:04.186
what we're doing so that

01:09:04.226 --> 01:09:05.768
you maybe feel comfortable

01:09:05.787 --> 01:09:06.507
and want to join us.

01:09:07.028 --> 01:09:08.708
It's a pretty laid back atmosphere.

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There's no real true requirements.

01:09:11.489 --> 01:09:14.131
Just be active and at least

01:09:14.171 --> 01:09:15.430
try to put out some content

01:09:15.451 --> 01:09:16.572
a couple of times a week.

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And we can show you

01:09:17.931 --> 01:09:18.931
different ways of different

01:09:18.952 --> 01:09:22.353
ways to engage the fan base

01:09:23.073 --> 01:09:24.354
and just come join this

01:09:24.394 --> 01:09:25.514
growing team and help us

01:09:25.554 --> 01:09:26.594
kind of be a part of it and

01:09:26.673 --> 01:09:27.974
see where we can take this thing.

01:09:28.094 --> 01:09:30.194
So that was really the last thing I had.

01:09:30.215 --> 01:09:31.755
Anything else from you?

01:09:31.774 --> 01:09:34.815
The only last thing I want to say,

01:09:34.895 --> 01:09:37.336
the very last thing is the Royals.

01:09:37.355 --> 01:09:39.476
13 to watch.

01:09:40.176 --> 01:09:41.317
It could be interesting and sneaky.

01:09:42.176 --> 01:09:43.216
Mike Trout hit another home.

01:09:44.377 --> 01:09:44.917
Old watch.

01:09:44.978 --> 01:09:45.658
Another one.

01:09:47.488 --> 01:09:48.710
I'm watching the bottom right corner.

01:09:48.729 --> 01:09:49.690
We got a three,

01:09:49.730 --> 01:09:50.752
two in the bottom of the eighth,

01:09:50.891 --> 01:09:51.813
but that Royals team,

01:09:52.412 --> 01:09:53.194
they put up a good fight

01:09:53.213 --> 01:09:54.595
against the Orioles this past weekend.

01:09:54.614 --> 01:09:56.315
So they're a team to watch

01:09:57.497 --> 01:09:59.179
and a great game.

01:09:59.198 --> 01:10:01.180
It's a great game.

01:10:01.220 --> 01:10:02.140
Doesn't have to always be a

01:10:02.180 --> 01:10:03.402
favorite team either, but no,

01:10:03.721 --> 01:10:04.823
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