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Speaker 3: Fastball is hammered high and deep in the right set
Speaker 3: of field towards triples Alley, way back there.
Speaker 1: Still going one hump and up over the wall for
Speaker 1: an automatic double.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's good.
Speaker 4: We've talked about the leadoff spot a bunch in Boston,
Speaker 4: and you know, for a variety of reasons, we've mixed
Speaker 4: and matched a bunch of different guys. But he likes
Speaker 4: being in that spot. I think he gives us a
Speaker 4: good at bat, and regardless of how it goes, I
Speaker 4: feel like he kind of sets the tone a little bit.
Speaker 4: He's coming more and more out of his shell and
Speaker 4: really starting to see the competitor that he is. But
Speaker 4: he kind of set the tone for you know, the
Speaker 4: game with the first app bat that one would I
Speaker 4: would put the asterisk to even more so, and then
Speaker 4: you're getting on base in front of Raffie.
Speaker 5: So yeah, it was huge. There is Tony V talking
Speaker 5: about well, probably his favorite giant, right Drew Gilbert, who
Speaker 5: continues to put out there and every thought it's like
Speaker 5: basically Tennessee volunteer nepotism that he keeps playing him so much,
Speaker 5: and yet here it is Drew Gilbert in the month
Speaker 5: of August hitting two fifty. No it's not three hundred,
Speaker 5: but it ain't one to fifty with a ops of
Speaker 5: seven ninety, which you know, that's that's party don good.
Speaker 5: He's drawn seven walks in the month of August, is
Speaker 5: on basis three twenty four in the month of August,
Speaker 5: So all numbers that you can kind of handle as
Speaker 5: a numbers even better in July two sixty four, batting average,
Speaker 5: three point thirty nine on base, little less power, you know,
Speaker 5: all things that you can handle. As we talked to
Speaker 5: him last week about a possible greg Or Blanco type
Speaker 5: role where he plays against right handed pitching and man
Speaker 5: center field defensively pretty well, it's funny this, he says.
Speaker 5: Some of the metrics are that he doesn't play center
Speaker 5: field as well this year, but I still like him
Speaker 5: out there. He's got a pretty good arm and uh so, yeah,
Speaker 5: I mean this is what we're talking about ever He's like, wait, Mante,
Speaker 5: you guys are actually talking Giants. But yeah, we're gonna
Speaker 5: talk to Daynekyper in just a few minutes here, and
Speaker 5: Marcusardi took us down the road of the Fourth Wing Night,
Speaker 5: which was bonkers insane. But I mean, you know, I mean,
Speaker 5: are you there's a pack of forty nine or Giants
Speaker 5: fans that are like, I don't need to see Drew Gilbert.
Speaker 5: He's Tony's pet from Tennessee, blah blah blah. There's some people
Speaker 5: that are angry, Yes, there definitely are, and there's others
Speaker 5: who are like, huh. And we had him on the
Speaker 5: show last week talking about he's a more serious player,
Speaker 5: less nonsense and producing more and that maybe there's a
Speaker 5: role or almost certainly there's a role for him on
Speaker 5: next year's Ross.
Speaker 2: I would agree with that, Murph.
Speaker 6: Now, I'd say people are angry and they have a
Speaker 6: right to be since the Giants are fifty three and
Speaker 6: seventy eight, and I'm sure there's a portion of the
Speaker 6: Giants fan base that has just completely checked out and
Speaker 6: he's done watching Giants games, So maybe that's why they
Speaker 6: don't want to see Drew Gilbert. I'm not in that camp.
Speaker 6: I was still at the ballpark last night for Fourth
Speaker 6: Wing Night, hanging with all the romantic novel enthusiast and
Speaker 6: I'm not gonna say I'm a chili goober enthusiast. But
Speaker 6: he's one of the guys that was actually in the
Speaker 6: lineup last night that I do want to see more from.
Speaker 6: He's the guy that I think has a chance to
Speaker 6: potentially be on the opening day roster next year, and
Speaker 6: everything that you just said about his ability to bad
Speaker 6: against righty's and how his bats have gotten better each
Speaker 6: and every week, especially when you break down some of
Speaker 6: his numbers since the All Star break. Obviously there's a
Speaker 6: huge glaring hole in his swing against lefties. The lefty
Speaker 6: on lefty numbers are still bad, even though he's shown
Speaker 6: some flashes throughout the year that maybe he can get
Speaker 6: more competitive in those bats against lefties as well. And
Speaker 6: I would even add on top of it everything you
Speaker 6: just said about him defensively as well, Like I don't
Speaker 6: really agree with the metrics saying he's a bad center fielder.
Speaker 6: I thought he's played a pretty damn good center fielder,
Speaker 6: so I think there's value there. I'm not saying this
Speaker 6: is a guy that I want to see hitting lead
Speaker 6: off and playing center field next year. But there's a
Speaker 6: role on the roster for a fourth outfitter, a guy
Speaker 6: that can be a late game defensive replacement, and a
Speaker 6: guy that can give you a little bit of speed
Speaker 6: on the base path.
Speaker 5: If you care about baseball, Savant's red and blue stuff.
Speaker 5: His arm strength is in the eightieth percentile and his
Speaker 5: range is in the seventy fourth percentile, So he's top
Speaker 5: half of baseball in terms of range and arm strength.
Speaker 5: The other marks where he shows well are his chase percentages,
Speaker 5: now in the seventy second percentile. The only thing that
Speaker 5: comes off really poor is average exit vilo. He's in
Speaker 5: the eleventh percentile. He had a long stretch where I
Speaker 5: was like, bro, is he hitting? Is that a wet
Speaker 5: Sporting News? There was a time in April, May and
Speaker 5: June he was just hitting weak ground ball after weak
Speaker 5: ground ball. I would like to see if his average
Speaker 5: exit VELO in the last month and a half.
Speaker 2: Well, I was gonna say the last month and a half.
Speaker 6: Hell, the last couple of weeks he's got two or
Speaker 6: three bombs locked out, So.
Speaker 5: He's one of the guys we talked about at the
Speaker 5: t's like you know, last night's because last night's lineup
Speaker 5: was Rafael Devers, Jung Houley and seven Strangers, seven Dwarves,
Speaker 5: Drew Gilbert being one of them. We talked about others.
Speaker 5: You know, well, Drew Kavanaugh's becoming a little bit of
Speaker 5: a regular. And by the way, I got no beef
Speaker 5: with Drew Kavanaugh. He could be my backup catcher. Yeah,
Speaker 5: I'm okay with Drew Cavin. Yeah, right now, I'd say
Speaker 5: he's probably the league Kennon. It to be that combination
Speaker 5: with Daniel Sussac going further next year from behind the plate,
Speaker 5: with the guys putting it down in the squad. I mean,
Speaker 5: Shae Whitcomb's just you know, he's a guy that picked
Speaker 5: up Off Waivers ten days ago. Former Triple A phenom,
Speaker 5: Graham McCrae, I love him. I want it to work.
Speaker 5: He's gonna have to really dramatically prove that he strikes
Speaker 5: out Christian costs is you know, he is who he is.
Speaker 5: Nate Furman was a guy that got in the Alex
Speaker 5: Cobb trade. But the guy I think maybe last night
Speaker 5: that might be most interesting. And you guys are gonna scream, man,
Speaker 5: don't crash your car. Ryan Walker. Wow, Ryan Walker, he's back.
Speaker 5: I mean curly sent out a text of the group.
Speaker 5: You know, given the Buddy Kennedy treatment. Ryan Walker, Ryan Walker.
Speaker 5: But I said, to be honest, I'm interested to see
Speaker 5: the stuff has been there. We've seen him get big
Speaker 5: league hitters out. It was twenty twenty four, it was
Speaker 5: two years ago. And then we've seen the downfall. We've
Speaker 5: seen the mental downfall, the physical downfall. So he needed
Speaker 5: a long stretch of mental and physical tinkering. Came back
Speaker 5: last night new pants, yeah, pants down, pants on the
Speaker 5: ground and through two innings of shut out baseball. Now
Speaker 5: again the Reds, you know, not the best batting average
Speaker 5: team in the league, seventy lost team. But still, dude,
Speaker 5: that's a guy I'm gonna keep an eye on. I'm
Speaker 5: willing to give him another chance. Am I crazy?
Speaker 2: No?
Speaker 6: I would not say you're crazy, because coming into the season,
Speaker 6: you're not the only guy that thought Ryan Walker had potential.
Speaker 6: Shout out bus or Posey who went into the season
Speaker 6: with Ryan Walker penciled in to be their closer, and
Speaker 6: that wasn't just praying and hoping on strategy that Ryan
Speaker 6: Walker would suddenly emerge as a dominant closer. It was
Speaker 6: based on some of the stuff that we've seen from
Speaker 6: Ryan Walker over the last couple of years, and that
Speaker 6: crossfire action, the combination with that slider that sweeps across
Speaker 6: his own with that two seam four seamer combination that
Speaker 6: he can run inside like, he's.
Speaker 2: Got good stuff.
Speaker 6: We just don't want to see it in the ninth
Speaker 6: inny Like closing out ball games. We've talked to so
Speaker 6: many different closers on this show. It's a different mentality.
Speaker 6: It's different getting those last three outs. Ryan Walker's number
Speaker 6: is in the sick or seventh inning throughout his career
Speaker 6: have been pretty damn good. He's not an eighth inning guy.
Speaker 6: He's not a ninth inning guy. He's not a high
Speaker 6: leverage situation. But when your bullpen's been this bad this year,
Speaker 6: you need to figure out if you have any pieces
Speaker 6: moving forward.
Speaker 2: I mean next year.
Speaker 6: I'm looking at a guy like Dylan Smith as a
Speaker 6: guy that's locked himself into a bullpen roll, not sure
Speaker 6: where any he's gonna be pitching, But that's the point
Speaker 6: you start. You got to start stacking those guys up.
Speaker 6: So that you don't go into next season with so
Speaker 6: many questions in the bullpen.
Speaker 5: I said it to you a week or two. I've
Speaker 5: loved Dylan Smith from the jump. The first time I
Speaker 5: saw him, I say, here's a guy who attacked the
Speaker 5: strike zone. I like it. And yeah, he's had some
Speaker 5: bad fortune and some blown losses like little Rory Murphy says.
Speaker 5: It was not little anymore. He said he's going forward. Dad,
Speaker 5: I'm like, nothing means less than a reliever's one loss record.
Speaker 5: Do not throw that out the window. I said, there
Speaker 5: are other things. I said, just watch him pitch. He
Speaker 5: attacks that said, I had a small bone to nitpick. Yeah,
Speaker 5: I was watching the ninth inning of a fifty three
Speaker 5: and seventy eighteen. Yes I was. I didn't think that. Actually,
Speaker 5: Tony should have pitched Dylan Smith last night. I'm like,
Speaker 5: we're trying to sweep a series, trying to build a
Speaker 5: winning culture. You might need him Tuesday Wednesday. You didn't
Speaker 5: need him in a five to nothing game. I actually
Speaker 5: was a little miffed. I was a little myft.
Speaker 6: Imagine how I felt sitting at the stadium, still still
Speaker 6: hanging out with the fourth wingers, trying to a fourth
Speaker 6: wing gown. Yeah, you know, I was hanging out, take
Speaker 6: my rounds around the ballpark looking for a fourth wing
Speaker 6: angel myself. But I was hanging out, wanted to watch
Speaker 6: the end of the game. And all of a sudden,
Speaker 6: I hear a walk of Flokka through the pieces and
Speaker 6: I'm like, wait, Dylan Smith's coming out. We're about to
Speaker 6: go hard in the paint now. I do get hyped
Speaker 6: up when I hear a little walka at the ballpark.
Speaker 6: Not your traditional baseball music, that's for sure, shout out
Speaker 6: brick Squad. But yeah, I was a little surprised to
Speaker 6: see Dylan Smith in that situation last night.
Speaker 5: It's that small nitpick, but I like him so anyway,
Speaker 5: that's the deal, man. It was a crazy night. Remember
Speaker 5: the Giants still have not swept a series. They are
Speaker 5: one third of the way there. Uh and tonight they
Speaker 5: go against Cincinnati again. And who do we got tonight?
Speaker 3: I had the U.
Speaker 5: I had the tonight's pitching matchup. But it's it. I
Speaker 5: got it, Marcus, I got it.
Speaker 2: You got it?
Speaker 3: Is it?
Speaker 5: Adrian Howser? You got Adrian? Will he open or will
Speaker 5: will they open for him? Or will they straight pitch?
Speaker 3: Him.
Speaker 2: He's listed as he started today.
Speaker 6: As we saw yesterday with the roster moves, it will
Speaker 6: not be Tugbow as the opener.
Speaker 2: He was optioned back down to Sacramento.
Speaker 5: Yeah, which although Tony said he could be back this
Speaker 5: week and they get a double header again, I think
Speaker 5: he's gonna be back there. They planned two against Arizona
Speaker 5: on Saturday and nothing on Sunday? Is that right?
Speaker 6: So I believe they moved that to a double header
Speaker 6: so that they could travel to Atlanta on Monday because
Speaker 6: they have this make because of the makeup game, So
Speaker 6: no Giants game on Sunday.
Speaker 2: How about that?
Speaker 3: Weird?
Speaker 2: That is odd?
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Speaker 3: And Kype.
Speaker 5: We've joked so many Tuesdays through the year about you
Speaker 5: gotta come on after a win, you gotta come out
Speaker 5: after a win. You got and we got one Giants
Speaker 5: five red zero with a wild lineup, Kype.
Speaker 2: So, good morning, Hey morning Pipe.
Speaker 3: Yeah, good morning.
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Speaker 3: So I'm driving to the park and uh, you know, look,
Speaker 3: I did not make the trip to Cleveland or Boston,
Speaker 3: so I'm I can't wait to get to the park.
Speaker 3: It's sitting next to Mic for another month and a
Speaker 3: half and you know, and every once in a while
Speaker 3: that pops in my head that oh yeah, there's a
Speaker 3: Monday night game. I have the show tomorrow. And then
Speaker 3: I looked at the lineup and I thought, yeah, this
Speaker 3: is really funny, nice, nice try, right, and uh and
Speaker 3: what do they do? They play a perfect game? Uh,
Speaker 3: you know when we fill out our scorecards before the game.
Speaker 3: And now, I mean, we've done it together for the
Speaker 3: last thirty five years and it gives us a chance
Speaker 3: to talk and you know, write some numbers down. So
Speaker 3: we always write down the average home runs and RBIs
Speaker 3: and I started to look, and I looked at the
Speaker 3: Reds from their cleanipitter down at Stevenson Sworerez McLean the day,
Speaker 3: Travino Johnson, they had sixty five combined home runs. And
Speaker 3: then I looked at the Giants. Now Trent Hill is
Speaker 3: your cleanupitter, followed by Kavanaugh, Furman, Whitcomb, McCrae, Costs. They
Speaker 3: had three. So here we go, sixty five big flies
Speaker 3: to three. And what do they do? They play a
Speaker 3: perfect game. And the one thing that you know, Mike
Speaker 3: and I realize throughout the course of a game that
Speaker 3: you have to be really careful that you don't I
Speaker 3: want to use the word make fun, but that you
Speaker 3: don't make fun of this lineup, because then you're taking
Speaker 3: credit away from the guys that finally got to the
Speaker 3: big leagues like these young players did and started last night.
Speaker 3: I mean, look, when choey Otani gets up in the morning,
Speaker 3: he looks in the mirror, he can say, look, I'm
Speaker 3: a big leaguer, and so can Nate Furman. And I
Speaker 3: think that's important to realize that these guys did something,
Speaker 3: and maybe more than something, a lot to get to
Speaker 3: where they're at and deserve to be in that lineup. Now,
Speaker 3: it takes injuries and trades and you know, other things
Speaker 3: sometimes to give a guy a chance, but you have
Speaker 3: to take advantage of that chance and be prepared, and
Speaker 3: these guys have done that. So I mean, look after
Speaker 3: that game last night, I mean, I'm looking forward to
Speaker 3: this game as much as if all the regulars were
Speaker 3: healthy and in the lineup. I mean, I want to
Speaker 3: see these guys run around. And the other thing I
Speaker 3: thought of is is this is the perfect lineup for
Speaker 3: my radio partner on Tuesday mornings, mister Murphy, because this
Speaker 3: is what he's been crying about for years. Play the
Speaker 3: young guys, play him. And there you have it in
Speaker 3: that game last night.
Speaker 5: Well that is true to a degree. For sure. I'm
Speaker 5: thinking a little bit more Joe swar Gonzalez, you know.
Speaker 5: But hey, listen, you're right all these guys are. And
Speaker 5: that actually leads to the question Dwayne that Marcus and
Speaker 5: I were kicking around right before you came on, is
Speaker 5: how many of these guys do you think are a
Speaker 5: legit part of the story in twenty twenty seven. Now,
Speaker 5: we all assume there's going to be a twenty twenty seven,
Speaker 5: but you know, and we identified two. We identified Gilbert,
Speaker 5: and I believe it or not, I extended an olive
Speaker 5: branch to Ryan Walker with his pants down. Now, and
Speaker 5: you know this, but there may be others take those
Speaker 5: two and others that you think can be really a
Speaker 5: part of the story in twenty twenty seven that we
Speaker 5: saw last night.
Speaker 3: Well, I think he'll can be. I mean, I mean,
Speaker 3: if you want to put a label on him and say, well,
Speaker 3: you know what is good at ball contact as he
Speaker 3: makes and as good as he is at all three
Speaker 3: opticals positions, you know, he could be your perfect fourth
Speaker 3: or fifth outfielder. But don't get me wrong, I mean
Speaker 3: he may actually play into some people's minds that he
Speaker 3: can play every day. So I think, I mean, I
Speaker 3: really think that he's got a shot. And I know
Speaker 3: that the catcher does for sure, you know, And I
Speaker 3: don't know if he'll ever be a guy that's going
Speaker 3: to catch one hundred and thirty games, but he certainly
Speaker 3: could be a guy that could catch fifty or sixty
Speaker 3: and do very very well. I mean he's he showed
Speaker 3: signs of being a good receiver and that he's act
Speaker 3: and plus he's a left handed hitter. Every organization looks
Speaker 3: for catching, that's that's where their hitter is left handed.
Speaker 3: I think of all this group, the guy that's probably
Speaker 3: got the most overall talent is the kid in right field,
Speaker 3: Grant McCrae. But we've said this before about him, is
Speaker 3: he just needs to make a little bit more contact.
Speaker 3: I mean, gosh, he's a fabulous defender, and he's got
Speaker 3: a great arm, and he can run, and he's a
Speaker 3: left handed hitter. So you have to be really careful
Speaker 3: that you don't give up on these guys too soon
Speaker 3: and then all of a sudden you find them in
Speaker 3: another organization and you go what we had him and
Speaker 3: and I don't want Grant McCray to be one of
Speaker 3: those guys where he goes off to the Washington Nationals
Speaker 3: and now he's their starting center fielder. I think you
Speaker 3: have to give some of these guys a long rope
Speaker 3: before you know, you start to offer them to other teams.
Speaker 3: I think Christian Koss is always going to be a
Speaker 3: guy that you think about being on the roster because
Speaker 3: of his ability to play short and he's a grinder.
Speaker 3: So I mean, I don't know that much about wickhamb.
Speaker 3: I do know that when we started looking into his
Speaker 3: past that you know, he's played in the big leagues.
Speaker 3: He's got a couple of home runs. It just doesn't
Speaker 3: look like he's taken advantage of the seventeen games maybe
Speaker 3: that he's played in. So I'm sure I've missed a few,
Speaker 3: but I think you might be surprised at the number
Speaker 3: of people. And I agree with you with Walker. I
Speaker 3: think Walker figured it out. And Mike actually said that
Speaker 3: before I did. When you saw him pitch in a
Speaker 3: triple A game this past week, he said, Jesus didn't
Speaker 3: look like the same guy. I mean, even forget about
Speaker 3: the haircut. So yeah, I mean you might be surprised
Speaker 3: at the number of people that are on this that
Speaker 3: was in the lineup last night, that could dot at
Speaker 3: some point the roster next year, given the fact that
Speaker 3: we're all hoping there is next year.
Speaker 6: Kai, what do you think the mentality or the approach
Speaker 6: is for some of these guys that are trying to
Speaker 6: make their name at the big league level. Because you
Speaker 6: can look at it through the lens of Oh, there's
Speaker 6: additional pressure. They're fighting for their jobs, they're trying to
Speaker 6: stay at the big league level. Or you can look
Speaker 6: at it, Hey, maybe this is a weight off their shoulder.
Speaker 6: There's not a lot of pressure to win right now,
Speaker 6: is it? Maybe give them more of a carefree attitude
Speaker 6: and approach.
Speaker 2: At the plate.
Speaker 3: You better even have a care free attitude at all
Speaker 3: ever you know, and then care free. I get it.
Speaker 3: You're not saying that these guys aren't taking it serious.
Speaker 3: But you do have to play like this is the
Speaker 3: last game you're going to play in, and you have
Speaker 3: to play like your hair's on fire. You really do.
Speaker 3: And because everybody's watching, not just mom and dad and
Speaker 3: brothers and sisters and girlfriends and wives. Everybody's watching, and
Speaker 3: everybody's going to have their own opinion. And one part
Speaker 3: of the opinion you want people to have is this
Speaker 3: guy busts his tail wherever he goes. And that's why
Speaker 3: you have to take I mean, these guys that were
Speaker 3: in the line of last night, you may not have
Speaker 3: heard many of them, but it's up to them that
Speaker 3: after the game you might remember their name so that
Speaker 3: you can cheer for him tomorrow and that's what some
Speaker 3: of these guys did. Last night.
Speaker 5: You mentioned Turner Hill. I was in the car during
Speaker 5: the third inning when Dave Fleming was he was kind
Speaker 5: of making a case for the guy. He was like,
Speaker 5: I you know, it's on even thirteen at bats, all
Speaker 5: these asterisks, and he's a little older, but he said,
Speaker 5: you know, merrit Buster Posty says, it's a meritocracy. This
Speaker 5: guy hid his way into the big They say he
Speaker 5: likes his approach. He had a double off the wall
Speaker 5: last night Andrew walk so he takes good angles in
Speaker 5: the outfield, runs the base as well. And you know
Speaker 5: most fans roll their eyes. They want shohe O Tani,
Speaker 5: they want Kyle Schwarber. I don't want Turner Hill, but
Speaker 5: I mean Giants put him down fourth in the lineup
Speaker 5: last night. And is he a guy who's got a
Speaker 5: chance to make a name.
Speaker 3: Yeah, he does. And I think you look at some
Speaker 3: of the successful teams. You know, the Brewers are an example.
Speaker 3: I mean they are running out people I've never heard of,
Speaker 3: and and I'm doing a great job, and now they
Speaker 3: have the best record in baseball. At times, the Dbacs
Speaker 3: run out people that I've never heard of, and they contribute,
Speaker 3: and then the next year they're more than just a contributor.
Speaker 3: They're in the lineup all the time. And I think
Speaker 3: he's one of those kind of guys. I mean, he's
Speaker 3: got think about this. He's got two months, the past
Speaker 3: two weeks he's been here, and now what's coming up.
Speaker 3: I think there's thirty one games left. He's got thirty
Speaker 3: one games to already make a way better impression than
Speaker 3: what he already has for those thirty one games, and
Speaker 3: you have to take advantage of it. I mean, there
Speaker 3: are second chances in this game, but that first impression
Speaker 3: is so important, and I think he's made a really
Speaker 3: good first impression. So I like him. I like to
Speaker 3: see him in the lineup, and I like his bats,
Speaker 3: although I don't think he's a cleanupitter.
Speaker 5: No, probably not Kaip.
Speaker 6: Last night we saw Devers go deep for his twenty
Speaker 6: seventh homer in the season. He went deep out in Boston,
Speaker 6: and I know you weren't Fenway Park, but there was
Speaker 6: a lot of reaction towards Rafael Devers, and there was
Speaker 6: some criticism when he left the city of Boston that
Speaker 6: maybe he's not the biggest leader in the clubhouse But
Speaker 6: then there was a report yesterday that, without Willie Domas
Speaker 6: and obviously without Matt Chapman and some of the leaders,
Speaker 6: that Raphael Devers actually spoke to a lot of the
Speaker 6: team at the batting cages.
Speaker 2: Before yesterday's game.
Speaker 6: Just your reaction to everything that happened in Boston this
Speaker 6: past weekend, but also maybe Rafael Devers now stepping up
Speaker 6: here in San Francisco in the leadership role.
Speaker 3: Well, every day the guyants have a hitters meeting and
Speaker 3: all the hitters are there and the hitting coaches and
Speaker 3: they go over a lot of things. And I was
Speaker 3: told by a couple of different people that Rafie Devers
Speaker 3: stood up. I mean, remember Chapman's not there. I mean
Speaker 3: Willia Domas might have been there, but your voice, definitely,
Speaker 3: you know, is a little bit tuned out when you're
Speaker 3: on the il, and you know, Rappie doesn't say a lot,
Speaker 3: and we don't know how well he speaks English because
Speaker 3: he just doesn't do enough interviews for us to know.
Speaker 3: And the report is that he got up and he
Speaker 3: specifically talked to all the young guys about this is
Speaker 3: your chance, and you need to do whatever you can
Speaker 3: to take advantage of it. And also, by the way,
Speaker 3: along the way while you're doing this, you have to
Speaker 3: have fun. Smile every once in a while, have some
Speaker 3: fun because and he may have said this, probably not,
Speaker 3: because when you smile on the field, people know it
Speaker 3: and they notice it and they realize that, yeah, you know,
Speaker 3: this guy's having fun and he's pretty good. So good
Speaker 3: for Rappie to stand up and say something. And I mean, look,
Speaker 3: he's he had to wear three days in Boston, where
Speaker 3: you know, Boston fans are not going to say, God,
Speaker 3: a great guy he is. They're just not. He's not
Speaker 3: one of theirs anymore. You know, forget about the fact
Speaker 3: that he helped lead them to a World Series. They're
Speaker 3: just not. I mean, that's not what they do in Boston.
Speaker 3: So here he's wearing it for three days in Boston,
Speaker 3: and he comes back and he stands up in the
Speaker 3: meeting and he's talking to these young players. Good for him,
Speaker 3: and to me, that shows that, yeah, there is a
Speaker 3: sign that there's leadership in this guy. And he just
Speaker 3: let it out yesterday and then he it's a three
Speaker 3: run home run, and there's nothing better than backing it
Speaker 3: up when you do that. I tried it all those
Speaker 3: years and it only worked once. And I know what
Speaker 3: it feels like, because you feel like, not only did
Speaker 3: you make a point in the meeting, but then you
Speaker 3: made even a bigger point after the meeting.
Speaker 5: I mean, he's been here a year and two months now,
Speaker 5: maybe just getting more and more settled. Maybe the Boston
Speaker 5: weekend changed something in him a little bit. Like I
Speaker 5: don't know about Kype Boston fans. You said, yeah, they're
Speaker 5: just not gonna you play there. You played at Yankee
Speaker 5: Old Yankee Stadium too. You also then went to the
Speaker 5: nationally and you went to Philly. So who where did
Speaker 5: where was the rag? The most?
Speaker 4: Like?
Speaker 3: Who?
Speaker 5: What fans are you?
Speaker 3: Like?
Speaker 5: Man, these guys, these guys are just these guys are animals.
Speaker 3: Yeah, probably Yankee fans. I mean yeah, I mean they knew,
Speaker 3: they knew all about your family. I mean this is
Speaker 3: before the internet, but they did all their homework about
Speaker 3: beyond about your mom and dad and everybody else. I
Speaker 3: actually thought about going in the stands one time. Uh
Speaker 3: what true? Has been really a bad idea? I mean, okay,
Speaker 3: this is skinny, this skinny little turd going into the stands.
Speaker 3: Are you kidding me? A? So? Uh? You don't think
Speaker 3: about the Boston fans is they're like, they're like sarcastic, tough,
Speaker 3: you know, and they got that action. I got married one,
Speaker 3: so I heard that accent twice a week, and you know,
Speaker 3: and there's always a moderate cuss word involved too. And
Speaker 3: you know what, I look, my wife, Michelle had four
Speaker 3: brothers and h and every one of those brothers was
Speaker 3: exactly like all those those fans sitting in the stands.
Speaker 3: When they got bored, they look for a fight, you know,
Speaker 3: stuff like that. But you know what, they're fun. They
Speaker 3: were all a lot of fun. And I think probably
Speaker 3: that's what you could say about Red Sox fans. Look,
Speaker 3: I didn't play enough to not appreciate the fans in Philly.
Speaker 3: But from what I'm told from you know, our our
Speaker 3: families that had to deal with the Phillies in twenty ten,
Speaker 3: they were really mistreated in Philadelphia and and then that
Speaker 3: should never happen. But you know, Philly is Philly, so
Speaker 3: and I'm sure there are probably some forty nine er
Speaker 3: families that could probably tell you the same thing. Yeah,
Speaker 3: Philly's tough.
Speaker 5: It is tough. So the one time you thought about
Speaker 5: going up was that at Yankee Stadium.
Speaker 3: That was it?
Speaker 2: Yeah, Yankee Stadium, it is.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean the oddex Circle. I mean, when you're
Speaker 3: getting loose, you could take five steps in your by
Speaker 3: the front row. So if they have fans that lean
Speaker 3: over and they want to get in your grill, you
Speaker 3: know they're not that far away from you. I mean
Speaker 3: you just gotta ignore them. But on that particular day,
Speaker 3: I don't know what happened. Maybe I had too much coffee.
Speaker 5: Yeah, his old Yankee Stadium. That's not the new Yankee
Speaker 5: Stadium for sure, Kype. Last one is are you keeping
Speaker 5: an eye at all on one of my favorite things
Speaker 5: in the Little League World Series?
Speaker 3: I don't darn it.
Speaker 5: I was gonna ask, you have granddaughters, you need to
Speaker 5: get on board with k Rasmus. She's the star of
Speaker 5: the summer. She's a gal who wears a bow in
Speaker 5: her hair and pitches for the Alabama team that won
Speaker 5: the Southeast Region. And she's nasty. She just tied Money
Speaker 5: Davis's record for strikeouts by a girl. And she's got
Speaker 5: a curveball that falls off the table and she hits.
Speaker 5: And here's the catch. Her family bloodlines are crazy. Her
Speaker 5: dad was Corey Rasmus who played in the BIGS. Her
Speaker 5: uncle was Clint Rasmus, who played in the BIGS. Her
Speaker 5: other uncle was Kolby Rasmus, who had a fairly significant
Speaker 5: playing career. Her mom played Division one softball at Southern
Speaker 5: miss Her cousin is on the team with her Riiker,
Speaker 5: and her grandpa coached the nineteen ninety nine Alabama team
Speaker 5: that went to the Little League World Series. You gotta
Speaker 5: check it out because you got granddaughters. You're a girl,
Speaker 5: Grandpa Kenley Rasmus.
Speaker 3: Murf, you know more about this young lady than you do.
Speaker 3: Jay Whitcomb.
Speaker 5: Well, the Twitter helps. I'm on a graphic they have
Speaker 5: with a great little arrow of relatives in her family.
Speaker 3: Well, you know, and now that you brought all that up,
Speaker 3: and now that you mentioned her, I definitely will. We'll
Speaker 3: keep an eye on her. I always try to keep
Speaker 3: track of what's going on with some of the local
Speaker 3: teams here in California, and then also if there's anything
Speaker 3: going on in the Midwest, and if that doesn't, you know,
Speaker 3: if that's not happening, you know, then my brain wanders
Speaker 3: off to other stuff. But I will keep an eye
Speaker 3: on it. Now. Absolutely. I had a cousin Murph, who
Speaker 3: lived across the streeter. It was the first cousin, and
Speaker 3: she was a year older than I was. And her
Speaker 3: mom was on the the the league of their own,
Speaker 3: the Racine Bells. Yeah, her mom, my aunt Ruth, was
Speaker 3: one of the players on that team. And ends up
Speaker 3: that Cindy was the best all around baseball player in
Speaker 3: our area.
Speaker 5: Cindy, your cousin, hands hands.
Speaker 3: Down first cousin. My dad and her dad are.
Speaker 2: Brothers and both farmers, and Cindy Kuiper.
Speaker 3: Cindy Kuiper, they had a big backyard, and and she
Speaker 3: couldn't play.
Speaker 5: Because there's no league or they didn't letter.
Speaker 3: No, we had a league the play and so okay,
Speaker 3: so great, she can't play in our little league. Well
Speaker 3: where can she play, right? I mean, they don't have
Speaker 3: leagues for girls. This was this would have been nineteen
Speaker 3: fifty nine, nineteen sixty, And so when I hear about
Speaker 3: girls that get a chance to play, I don't care
Speaker 3: in what league and whether they're good or not. It
Speaker 3: just it just, you know, it warms my heart because
Speaker 3: here's of course Cindy, who was way more talent to
Speaker 3: than all of us, and she had to watch from
Speaker 3: the sideline.
Speaker 5: Well, Kelly Rasmus is doing it for her. That's a
Speaker 5: crazy story. Yeah, she's Unfortunately they play today at noon.
Speaker 5: They're in the elimination bracket, so one loss and they're done.
Speaker 5: She can't pitch unfortunately until Saturday, because she threw so
Speaker 5: many pitches last night, so you don't get to see
Speaker 5: her hurl. But they got a chance to fight their
Speaker 5: way to Saturday and see if she can pitch again.
Speaker 5: She's just fun to watch because she chews gum. She's
Speaker 5: you know, she wears the ribbon in her hair, and
Speaker 5: Marcus as my pitching guru. Here the curveball.
Speaker 2: Oh, it looks just like her dad's.
Speaker 5: They they so these days on Twitter type they do
Speaker 5: a thing where they they you can you can mimic
Speaker 5: two shadow figures against each other. So you're watching her
Speaker 5: pitch next to her.
Speaker 2: Dad, same mechanics type.
Speaker 5: It's just like they did with tug Boat.
Speaker 2: They did it with Tugboat with him as well.
Speaker 3: They say the apple doesn't fall far from the tree.
Speaker 3: You know it's usually father son, right mother daughter? Well,
Speaker 3: this is even better.
Speaker 5: Yeah, it's awesome. You got to check her out, and
Speaker 5: I know you have how many granddaughters.
Speaker 3: Too, two seven and five, and then the little guy
Speaker 3: is about to turn a year.
Speaker 5: So, well, did they play any softball at all? Or no?
Speaker 3: Well, I mean any of the oldest one she played.
Speaker 3: You know, they played softball, and it's it's probably the
Speaker 3: most grueling two hours you're going to spend because you
Speaker 3: got nine people chasing a ball, right right, right right.
Speaker 5: Yeah.
Speaker 3: So I'll tell you one quick story. So I go,
Speaker 3: I don't know, last couple of months ago, and she's
Speaker 3: on the mound. They actually don't pitch, but they positioned
Speaker 3: somebody there, right, So she's at that spot and and
Speaker 3: I'm second inning and I'm walking through the outfield with
Speaker 3: my lawnch hair and you know, coffee and whatever. And
Speaker 3: she's on the mound and there's the pitch goes and
Speaker 3: she turns her back on the hitter and she looks
Speaker 3: at me and she goes, I want to go home.
Speaker 5: Oh no, the love of the game.
Speaker 3: I bust I bust out laughing. And however, my daughter
Speaker 3: did not bust out laughing.
Speaker 5: Yeah, oh god, Oh she was a little hot.
Speaker 3: She got she got to beat the.
Speaker 5: Yeah, you gotta play. You were out here. You don't
Speaker 5: put on your team, Come on, we need you to
Speaker 5: make a play.
Speaker 3: But I kept thinking, I wish there was a way
Speaker 3: that at that age, somehow you can make things a
Speaker 3: little bit more exciting. But there wasn't so much standing.
Speaker 5: Around, right it is. That's the knock on baseball for kids,
Speaker 5: is that it's you know, at video game era, that's
Speaker 5: too slow.
Speaker 3: So yeah, and that's why the pitch clock works.
Speaker 5: What he's no, what, I think we need a lot more.
Speaker 3: But anyway, the next time I see Himurpha wants you
Speaker 3: to rub your stomach and look at me and go,
Speaker 3: I'm hungry and I want to go.
Speaker 5: Well, fifty three and seventy eight. A lot of jazz
Speaker 5: there as I say that, But not last night. Not
Speaker 5: last night. We got the win.
Speaker 3: By the way, they need to go seventeen and fourteen
Speaker 3: to win seventy games. So that's what I'm going for.
Speaker 5: So you just blew past the one hundred lost thing
Speaker 5: like we're worried about that. We want ten and twenty one.
Speaker 3: You want seventeen and four to get the seventy. Okay,
Speaker 3: that's got you know, not that that's going to make
Speaker 3: a difference, but hey, just for fun, why not?
Speaker 5: And Ryan Walker shall lead them. All right, Kype, we
Speaker 5: loved it, have a great one, see you soon, all right,
Speaker 5: Thanks the great Dwayne Kuiper. And I can't leave the
Speaker 5: segment without shouting out two of my best all stars ever,
Speaker 5: Remy and Victoria. I had two gals on my Little
Speaker 5: League All Star teams that were freaking studs, and they
Speaker 5: were at the center of the line up in some
Speaker 5: big positions. And then also shout out Moby. Little League
Speaker 5: was the first Little league in America to force a
Speaker 5: to legal She petitioned the Supreme Court and President Nixon.
Speaker 5: Jenny Fully, we were the first little league in America
Speaker 5: to have a girl play. Wow, nineteen seventy four. There's
Speaker 5: a little there's a little plaque and statue thing at
Speaker 5: the at the park. Nice. Yeah, so he's right. I
Speaker 5: mean you saw this gal. Yes, she's the real deal.
Speaker 5: And she got a game tying knock last night too.
Speaker 2: And I love seeing stories like this.
Speaker 6: You mentioned Monette Davis in the Strikeout Record by a
Speaker 6: Girl in the Little League World Series. Monete Davis is
Speaker 6: now playing in the Women's Professional Baseball League, and shout
Speaker 6: out to our very own San Francisco fire Bells, who
Speaker 6: currently have the best record in the league.
Speaker 5: Well, the fact that you knew the nickname gives him
Speaker 5: a plus.
Speaker 2: I'm a San Francisco fire bell head.
Speaker 5: There's a statue of Tony Stone, who was like one
Speaker 5: of the first great baseball female players in San Francisco
Speaker 5: in lot A the Mission Area what do they call
Speaker 5: that area? The Mission Park? A Mission Bay area that
Speaker 5: the Giants are built with that arsaical bakery and flower
Speaker 5: and water, peafield work and everything. Yeah, and yeah, there's
Speaker 5: a statue of her, Tony Stone. She's a female player.
Speaker 5: So anyway, go Kinley go. Although she can't pitch till Saturday,
Speaker 5: and they're in the elimination backers they live in day
Speaker 5: to day. The real team is Iowa and Vegas. They're
Speaker 5: facing off in the Winner's bracket final tomorrow. I follow
Speaker 5: this stuff, all right, A little lous that barrows at
Speaker 5: eight point fifteen on these Sports Leader.
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Speaker 7: As you mentioned, I don't think there will be any
Speaker 7: impact on the football team. However, you know, perception becomes reality.
Speaker 7: You know, the fort and As get off to a
Speaker 7: bad starter, they have a bad season. We all know
Speaker 7: that a lot of people will be poin the finger
Speaker 7: at Jed York for creating a distraction.
Speaker 5: And there's Matt Mayoko, our forty nine Ers insider on
Speaker 5: the Sports Leader NBC Sports Brizone. He was on with
Speaker 5: the Afternoon Boys yesterday talking about that absolutely bizarre and
Speaker 5: shocking story of forty nine Er owner Jed York being
Speaker 5: arrested for disorderly conduct and possessing criminal tools, which sounded
Speaker 5: really weird. Then we found out that he had solicited
Speaker 5: a prostitute via an online ad and it was a
Speaker 5: sting operation and the cops got him at a mobile
Speaker 5: park where he said the address was yet one hundred
Speaker 5: and forty dollars was the negotiated price, and people are
Speaker 5: just digesting this as one of these crazy, crazy, crazy stories.
Speaker 5: Lots of stuff coming out from it too. We found
Speaker 5: out now that sadly Jed and his wife Danielle, who
Speaker 5: we know, we know the family, we know the couple
Speaker 5: had filed for divorce in May, which is sad. They
Speaker 5: have a thirteen year old and a ten year old.
Speaker 5: And now that Jed I'd heard from somebody that now
Speaker 5: might be moving permanently back to Ohio for tax reasons.
Speaker 5: And it just brings to question these you know, peragumarate
Speaker 5: after twenty five years, he was a guy who was
Speaker 5: here for a long time, did a lot of salary
Speaker 5: cap stuff, and he's gonna do fortyniners enterprises and now
Speaker 5: Jed possibly move into Ohio and also having this legal trouble.
Speaker 5: Just kind of wondering, like the forty nine ers hierarchy,
Speaker 5: is it less stable than it was a year ago?
Speaker 5: Kind of feels like it is. And would that affect
Speaker 5: the team at all? I mean, that's the big question.
Speaker 5: And Matt said perception, He's right, you know week one.
Speaker 5: You know, first of all, now, I don't think Jed's
Speaker 5: going to Australia, right, No, I would not expect him
Speaker 5: to be on that trip. I mean, I think he's
Speaker 5: probably gonna lay low for most of the season.
Speaker 6: I would imagine, Yeah, that would probably be the best
Speaker 6: advice that his legal team, and I'm sure the forty
Speaker 6: nine ers are gonna give them.
Speaker 5: Yeah. So if the forty hours starts slow, which, by
Speaker 5: the way, they're playing the Rams, so losing to the
Speaker 5: Rams could very well happen. Will there be this belief
Speaker 5: that between the Kyle Shanahan accident and now the Jed
Speaker 5: York arrest that the forty nine ers are sort of
Speaker 5: throwing the substation just for fun.
Speaker 3: Yeah?
Speaker 5: Are they cursed for lack of a better word.
Speaker 6: Yeah, See, I'm not ready to say they're curse, but
Speaker 6: it definitely does hurt the overall perception of the organization
Speaker 6: and the image of the forty nine ers, an organization
Speaker 6: that is one of the most well rounded, respected organizations
Speaker 6: across all sports. Like we're talking about a championship legacy
Speaker 6: type of culture that we speak about when we talk
Speaker 6: about the forty nine ers. So when you throw in
Speaker 6: this offseason the Kyle Shanahan car crash Inciday, which was
Speaker 6: a weird story on its own, now you throw in
Speaker 6: this Jed York situation you mentioned it, the forty nine
Speaker 6: Ers the last year or so have already kind of
Speaker 6: been a punchline around the league because of the substation.
Speaker 2: This just makes it even worse.
Speaker 6: Like I literally was just scrolling through Twitter and I
Speaker 6: just saw a meme posted of somebody with a substation
Speaker 6: behind the trailer park out on Ohio.
Speaker 2: Like, the jokes are going to be there.
Speaker 6: I don't think it's going to have a huge effect
Speaker 6: on the actual players in the locker room and the
Speaker 6: performance on the field, but overall, from like an outside perspective,
Speaker 6: this is just flat out embarrassing for Jed York and
Speaker 6: embarrassing for the forty nine ers.
Speaker 5: I mean, the more we talk about it, the more
Speaker 5: I think about, Like the team takes the field and
Speaker 5: You're right, they're the butt of the jokes, like America
Speaker 5: is laughing at them. They were already freaking out about
Speaker 5: the substation, as you mentioned, and then this is just
Speaker 5: gonna so they're gonna have to somehow push back again.
Speaker 5: They gotta beat the rams, they gotta waiting cures all.
Speaker 6: Like, the Internet is not gonna forget about the storyline.
Speaker 6: The same way, even though Robert Crafts and the Patriots
Speaker 6: were able to move on and won a Super Bowl,
Speaker 6: people are still posting memes and jokes about Robert Craft
Speaker 6: with this story resurfacing now, so a couple of.
Speaker 5: Things that are different. Craft was able to get the
Speaker 5: charges dropped. He never pled guilty or no contest. Jed
Speaker 5: has already pled no contest and it's done. It's like,
Speaker 5: you can't say it's funny. The niners said, we have
Speaker 5: no comment as this is a legal situation. We're like,
Speaker 5: wait a minute, the lea, it's done, it's solved. They
Speaker 5: actually said it's been resolved, and it has been resolved.
Speaker 5: So I would like to comment from the forty nine ers.
Speaker 5: I wonder how Jed's gonna handle is. Is he gonna make
Speaker 5: a statement? Is John Lynch, as the adult in the building,
Speaker 5: gonna wind up making a statement or are they just
Speaker 5: gonna just nothing to see here? Move along? There is
Speaker 5: that theory you just move on, you know, you just
Speaker 5: kind of like wait for the next shiny object to
Speaker 5: take the Twitter, the social media's attention. So we'll see
Speaker 5: what that strategy is. I'm looking at the strategy of
Speaker 5: the clock and I see Matt Barrows is going to
Speaker 5: join us, and he'll have thoughts on the power structure
Speaker 5: Perrague jed uh and what effect this would have on
Speaker 5: the team as they get ready for Vegas on Thursday
Speaker 5: take on the Raiders. Also, we have a discussion who's
Speaker 5: gonna play. I don't think Ayby's gonna play. You think
Speaker 5: you might see somebody?
Speaker 6: Yeah, I think you're gonna get the dress rehearsal. But
Speaker 6: we'll talk to Matt Barrow. Social is usually the second
Speaker 6: to last, but now there's only three. Well, especially because
Speaker 6: now there's that weak gap in between. How there's no
Speaker 6: preseason game of the week before flying out, so maybe
Speaker 6: this is the dress order.
Speaker 5: Let's do this, Let's get the clock right. We went
Speaker 5: along with Kaype. It was fun, and we'll talk to
Speaker 5: Matt Barrows.
Speaker 2: Oh just laughing. Two to nine.
Speaker 6: Give us a quick reminder that don't forget about the
Speaker 6: Brandon Ayuk memes and jokes as part of this off
Speaker 6: season disaster as well.
Speaker 2: Oh man, I was ready to move on from BA.
Speaker 5: Did he check in yesterday?
Speaker 2: No?
Speaker 6: No, I think there were some fake tweets going around,
Speaker 6: but nothing confirmed that I know from BA.
Speaker 2: I'll have to check again. I don't follow him anymore.
Speaker 5: Oh boy, you're gonna beat the Rams after all this.
Speaker 5: We'll see Matt Barrows from the Athletic talking forty nine ers.
Speaker 5: Next on the Esports Leader