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Speaker 3: Marcus Thompson of The Athletic covers it all. Obviously does
Speaker 3: a ton of Warriors. He's done that for years and
Speaker 3: years and years, but also focuses on the 49ers who
Speaker 3: are in the news. After Jed York gets arrested for
Speaker 3: a $ 140 solicitation of prostitution and pleads no contest, does
Speaker 3: the whole deal, pays the fines, it's done, it's dusted,
Speaker 3: it's over. The question is what will be the lingering
Speaker 3: effect on the ownership structure, et cetera, et cetera. Plus,
Speaker 3: you know, they got to beat the Rams week one. So, Marcus,
Speaker 3: good morning. Welcome back to Murph and Marcus. How you doing, man?
Speaker 4: What up, Marcus? Man, what's going on? I only got 120.
Speaker 4: So I guess I'm not doing that great. See, there
Speaker 4: you go.
Speaker 1: Sorry.
Speaker 4: There you go. My fault. I know. I know.
Speaker 3: Everybody's got them. Everybody's got them. The 140 seems to
Speaker 3: be a really big focus for people. It really does.
Speaker 2: It does.
Speaker 3: All right, buddy. What does this mean? So Parag Barate
Speaker 3: left a couple months ago. Nobody really paid attention to it.
Speaker 2: And now this.
Speaker 3: Now we find out the sad news that Jed and
Speaker 3: Danielle are filed for divorce in May.
Speaker 4: I don't know.
Speaker 3: Is there something there about the 49ers' ownership structure or
Speaker 3: the hierarchy, the top of their executive chain being a
Speaker 3: little unstable?
Speaker 4: I mean, of course it is. And especially as we
Speaker 4: see the constant drama this team goes through, there's a
Speaker 4: lot of self-inflicted wounds that end up becoming a cloud
Speaker 4: over their training camp and leading into their season. And
Speaker 4: you got to wonder... If it's messy up top, it's
Speaker 4: probably going to be messy trickling down, right? It's going
Speaker 4: to be messy at the bottom. You always look to ownership.
Speaker 4: I mean, this team cannot have a peaceful training camp.
Speaker 4: It's wild. And for this to be the latest thing,
Speaker 4: it really just shows that I'm sure they want to.
Speaker 4: I'm sure they're trying, but it just feels like they're
Speaker 4: incapable of of a peaceful, calm, productive training camp. And
Speaker 4: now the owner is in it. So, yeah, I think
Speaker 4: all of this stuff starts from up top. That's the
Speaker 4: first place to go when looking for accountability.
Speaker 5: Marcus, this is an organization that's won five Super Bowls.
Speaker 5: It should be one of the most well-respected organizations, not
Speaker 5: just in the NFL, but across the sports landscape. But
Speaker 5: right now, it doesn't feel like that. With this Jed
Speaker 5: York situation, with the Kyle Shanahan car accident, You throw
Speaker 5: in Brandon Ayuk in the substation. It kind of feels
Speaker 5: like the 49ers are being viewed as a laughingstock right now.
Speaker 5: How bad of a look is this right now for
Speaker 5: this 49ers organization?
Speaker 4: I mean, I think this is the worst look, but
Speaker 4: I do think this matters because they are such a
Speaker 4: respected franchise. I mean, this is one of the the
Speaker 4: premier franchises in the NFL historically. So I think that's
Speaker 4: why it's such a big deal. And this is the
Speaker 4: worst of them all. I mean, the substation, you know,
Speaker 4: there's a lot of like internet cuckoo behavior, right? So
Speaker 4: it's almost like, Hey, what are we supposed to do?
Speaker 4: Except for the fact that they put the, put the,
Speaker 4: put the stadium there. But, but this is, this is,
Speaker 4: I mean, a car accident happened, right. And how that
Speaker 4: was handled. How they came out about it was, you know,
Speaker 4: a self-inflicted wound and, you know, brought about all of
Speaker 4: this drama. You know, another sign that they just really
Speaker 4: bundled these situations. But this is bad. Like, this is
Speaker 4: where you become the laughingstock, right? What is it? Wheat Hill? Wheat?
Speaker 4: What's the place called?
Speaker 3: Wheat Hill Mobile Park. Wheat Hill Mobile Park.
Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah. Like, this is the type of stuff that
Speaker 4: ends up, you know, in cartoons and stuff. You know,
Speaker 4: as the joke that doesn't go away. Now we heal
Speaker 4: this type of stuff that becomes part of, like, the zeitgeist,
Speaker 4: and now people don't ever forget it. And, you know,
Speaker 4: it's a cultural phenomenon. So to make this blunder, this
Speaker 4: type of blunder, in this age, right, in this era,
Speaker 4: it's probably more embarrassing than it is harmful. But these,
Speaker 4: you don't really get away from that easily.
Speaker 3: Yeah, and you're right. I mean, with all, you know,
Speaker 3: the car accident and Parag and divorce and this, it's all,
Speaker 3: it's tough. And it trickles down. It does. It does.
Speaker 4: Man, oh, man.
Speaker 3: I mean, they're going to go out to practice today
Speaker 3: and they're going to go to Vegas Thursday. And I mean,
Speaker 3: we'll see. They'll have to push back against this narrative
Speaker 3: for sure. Larry Kruger texted in to say he thinks
Speaker 3: one of the angles is that maybe Kyle and John
Speaker 3: come out with more job security issues. Because stability is
Speaker 3: what they need now. I mean, I don't know if
Speaker 3: Kyle and John's jobs were insecure at all.
Speaker 4: I mean, for sure, like, it would be really hard
Speaker 4: to make a change in that sense. And if you're
Speaker 4: doing that, like, it's like, yeah, you're completely starting over. Right? Like,
Speaker 4: all right, we're doing it. We need a full reset.
Speaker 4: And that's even more risky because what if you mess
Speaker 4: that up? It just feels like, to be honest, John
Speaker 4: Lynch feels like the most stabilizing force in his relationship
Speaker 4: with Kyle. But you could also talk about how they
Speaker 4: handle contract situations and somehow that's always a thing. Perhaps,
Speaker 4: I don't even think it's always a bad thing to
Speaker 4: tell a player, hey, you're not getting what you need.
Speaker 4: But when you add all this stuff and you deal
Speaker 4: with the Brandon Ayoub situation, you know, perhaps everybody has
Speaker 4: a place where they can tidy up. But that does
Speaker 4: feel like the most stable part, and probably because it's
Speaker 4: just directly connected to football. But they still haven't done
Speaker 4: the thing that they're there for, which is win the
Speaker 4: Super Bowl. So, like, it just feels like a lot,
Speaker 4: and there's always something, and they're the franchise that always gives, right?
Speaker 4: So from our perspective, it's great. If they're not winning,
Speaker 4: if they're not acquiring big names, Right? They're, you know,
Speaker 4: using pocket change to have a little fun in East Palestine, Ohio. Oh, boy.
Speaker 5: Well, Marcus, I know that the path to potentially winning
Speaker 5: Super Bowl this year starts week one down in Australia,
Speaker 5: and it sounds like the 49ers could have some reinforcements.
Speaker 5: They announced this weekend that George Kittle was activated off
Speaker 5: the PUP list. Now, no guarantees that he plays week one,
Speaker 5: but after hearing that news this weekend, how would you
Speaker 5: handicap his odds for playing week one against the Rams?
Speaker 4: I would still... Put them pretty low. I mean, that's
Speaker 4: a long way to travel, and they are spending a
Speaker 4: week out there. So maybe that helps some. But then
Speaker 4: you got to come, you know, you got to make
Speaker 4: this trek back. And we all know flight ain't really
Speaker 4: good for recovery. So it's a good sign, but, you know,
Speaker 4: it's just based on their history and how critical he
Speaker 4: is and how they seem to be, one devastating injury
Speaker 4: from being derailed, I would guess they would choose caution
Speaker 4: in this situation. But it is George Kittle, and, you know,
Speaker 4: to do these violence for breakfast, keeping him off the
Speaker 4: field might be tough. But I'm saying, hey, relax. Welcome back,
Speaker 4: but hold off. And it's not like they don't have
Speaker 4: anything tied in. Like, you know, Purdy will have somebody
Speaker 4: to throw the ball to who he feels good about.
Speaker 4: It won't be Kittle, but he'll have something. So, to me...
Speaker 4: if the smart money is on the rest of them.
Speaker 2: Yeah, could be, could be.
Speaker 3: We'll see. As Matt Barrows said, your colleague at the athletic,
Speaker 3: that the ramp up is going to have to be
Speaker 3: steep because they leave a week from tomorrow. I mean,
Speaker 3: that's really soon. And these Achilles injuries, Marcus, I mean, you,
Speaker 3: I don't know, same as the, think back to, we've
Speaker 3: talked about this before, I think, but used to be
Speaker 3: a career ender. And now it happened in January. And
Speaker 3: he's talking about playing in September. Mike Crabtree even came
Speaker 3: back faster than this. And, Who was the running back
Speaker 3: for the Rams? Was it Kyron Williams who came back
Speaker 3: so fast? Cam Akers. Cam Akers. I mean, man, is
Speaker 3: that the same in the NBA?
Speaker 4: It's getting there, yeah. I mean, Tatum came back pretty fast,
Speaker 4: Jason Tatum, after tearing his. You know, Damian Lillard, he
Speaker 4: took longer, but he was older, right? He was in
Speaker 4: his late 30s. You know, Klay took a little longer.
Speaker 4: I think the younger... The younger players are recovering faster.
Speaker 4: It's definitely not... Remember, it used to be you're done.
Speaker 4: And the other key part I think we're seeing, like,
Speaker 4: as far as the progress goes, is even when you
Speaker 4: came back, you lost a lot, and it was noticeable.
Speaker 4: I think that's a little bit fading, too. I think
Speaker 4: you're seeing athletes come back from Achilles and refinding some pop,
Speaker 4: all right, and still not losing some explosiveness. So that
Speaker 4: bodes well. You know, NFL players are already... Right. So
Speaker 4: if anybody can get there, it's them. I remember I
Speaker 4: remember Jerry Rice broke paradigms about ACL when he came back.
Speaker 4: So NFL players are built a little different. So I'm
Speaker 4: not surprised at all.
Speaker 5: Marcus, you just mentioned a name, Clay Thompson, and we
Speaker 5: actually just played sound on our show yesterday of him
Speaker 5: talking about his recovery from that Achilles injury, but also
Speaker 5: his decision to sign with the Miami Heat after completing
Speaker 5: the buyout with the Dallas Mavericks. How do you think
Speaker 5: Clay Thompson is going to fit in in Miami on
Speaker 5: and off the court, Marcus?
Speaker 4: I was about to say, what are we talking about?
Speaker 4: In the arena? I think he's going to fit in
Speaker 4: well in Miami. Is there any player more made for
Speaker 4: South Beach than Clay Thompson? No. It just feels so
Speaker 4: perfect that Klay is there. If anybody knows how to
Speaker 4: enjoy the chill vibe of Miami and South Beach, it's
Speaker 4: Klay Thompson. Also, I do think he fits on the
Speaker 4: basketball court. I think it's a great choice by him
Speaker 4: because he has the thing they don't have. Like, they
Speaker 4: need shooters badly. They got Bam. They got Giannis. I mean,
Speaker 4: the paint is congested, right? That's the most packed the
Speaker 4: paint team. Like, everybody will pack the paint, and they
Speaker 4: need people who can shoot. They lost Norm Powell. So,
Speaker 4: you know, Andrew Wiggins is a pretty good shooter. He
Speaker 4: can burn you from three, but he's not somebody who
Speaker 4: terrifies defenses. Clay out there, man. Clay, you still think, hey,
Speaker 4: this dude could just go crazy, and he's going to
Speaker 4: open up the lane for them. Like, it's a perfect fit.
Speaker 4: I think he might even end up starting because the
Speaker 4: fit is so good, where in Dallas, you know, he
Speaker 4: spent a lot of time coming off the bench, and
Speaker 4: he's trending towards this, all right, off the bench, higher gun.
Speaker 4: I could see him being so useful for what they
Speaker 4: have that they start him. And you know Clay want
Speaker 4: to start, so you know he's still– he still feel
Speaker 4: like he's one of them guys and he could probably
Speaker 4: become that in Miami.
Speaker 3: That's, I mean, just love to see, I can't wait
Speaker 3: for the social media content from, it's going.
Speaker 2: To be lit.
Speaker 4: It's going to be lit. Deliver the good.
Speaker 3: Hey, Warriors did make one small transaction. If not small,
Speaker 3: Brandon Williams, six foot one guard out of Arizona scored
Speaker 3: 13 a game in Dallas gets to the rim, gets
Speaker 3: to the line. You like it?
Speaker 4: Absolutely. You know, I normally get a little weary about
Speaker 4: getting guys because they hurt you. And Brandon Williams is
Speaker 4: one of them guys they just couldn't guard. And it's like, man,
Speaker 4: let's go get this guy because we can't guard him.
Speaker 4: But in this case, he does the thing they need.
Speaker 4: He is a put my head down and go get
Speaker 4: a bucket. He's tough. He's physical. This to me is
Speaker 4: a good pick. I think they need it. two or
Speaker 4: three of these, these type of players, they're not going
Speaker 4: to move the needle. You're not going to win the
Speaker 4: press conference, right? You're not going to silence social media,
Speaker 4: but man, these players are pretty good and they, they
Speaker 4: have value and you've seen them, you've played against them.
Speaker 4: So he's good. He's fast. He's athletic. He's young. He
Speaker 4: can get hot. Like, yeah, no, this is to me.
Speaker 4: I like this figure. I like this a lot. I think,
Speaker 4: I think this was a sign of what they, this
Speaker 4: is the direction I would have went from the beginning.
Speaker 5: Marcus, one last question for you real quick on the
Speaker 5: Golden State Valkyries, who beat the Minnesota Lynx last night
Speaker 5: for the first time in franchise history. Now I'm seeing
Speaker 5: people on social media saying that it's their biggest regular
Speaker 5: season win ever. Obviously, for those of the audience that
Speaker 5: don't know, the Minnesota Lynx had the best record in
Speaker 5: the WNBA. So how significant do you think that win
Speaker 5: was last night?
Speaker 4: I actually think it was huge. Because when you begin
Speaker 4: bullied by a team, you know, especially, and they just
Speaker 4: got through celebrating, like on your court, right? And, you know,
Speaker 4: Minnesota's a team, they talk. Like, you know, Kayla McBride
Speaker 4: hit the night-night after she hit the big three to
Speaker 4: basically seal it. Like, you got night-nighted on your own court.
Speaker 4: To me, that loss on, you know, I think it
Speaker 4: was Wednesday, put like a doubt over the Valkyries. Probably
Speaker 4: not in their locker room, but it was like, okay,
Speaker 4: this is a championship team and you can't beat them
Speaker 4: maybe you're not a championship team yet. So for them
Speaker 4: to go into Minnesota and beat them and hold them
Speaker 4: to the lowest total they've had offseason, and they didn't
Speaker 4: have Courtney Williams, but they still had enough. Like, that
Speaker 4: was a we'll-see-you-in-the-playoffs type of win. Like, if it's 1-2
Speaker 4: and it comes down to the finals and it's me
Speaker 4: against you, That win will make them feel a whole
Speaker 4: lot better that they can beat them. Because they didn't
Speaker 4: just beat them. It wasn't luck. It wasn't like, oh,
Speaker 4: it was a fluky win. Man, they made Cheryl Reeves
Speaker 4: pull a plug with three minutes left. She sat the starters. Like,
Speaker 4: that was a resounding response by the Valkyries. And I'm
Speaker 4: telling you, I don't know if people are paying attention,
Speaker 4: but Veronica Burton is the most... Bay Area point guard
Speaker 4: we've ever seen. Like she, I mean, people would love
Speaker 4: this woman, man. She does everything on the court. And
Speaker 4: she was a big reason. She shut down Olivia Miles
Speaker 4: for the second time this season. Shut down Olivia Miles.
Speaker 4: And Natalie Nicosia was like, you go at Olivia Miles
Speaker 4: every time. So not only did she shut her down,
Speaker 4: she went after her. And this is the type of
Speaker 4: player that the Bay loves, just tough as, is all
Speaker 4: get out and can play. So that was a monster
Speaker 4: win that I think has playoff implications, even though it
Speaker 4: doesn't do much in the standings.
Speaker 3: Interesting.
Speaker 2: Good stuff.
Speaker 3: Playoffs don't start until September 27. So we've got a
Speaker 3: month to go, man.
Speaker 4: With only five games.
Speaker 3: They clinched too early. They're like the Dodgers.
Speaker 2: They clinched too early.
Speaker 4: Well, it's the FIBA World Cup. They've got a FIBA
Speaker 4: World Cup break.
Speaker 3: Hydration break for the next month. But anyway, we'll be
Speaker 3: looking forward to that. And you're right. Who knows? Now
Speaker 3: the Lynx have a little seed of doubt in their heads.
Speaker 2: So, all right.
Speaker 3: Wide-ranging chat, Marcus. And, you know, dude, stay out of
Speaker 3: the Wheat Hill. Mobile home community.
Speaker 4: I promise you, I promise you it won't be 140
Speaker 4: for me. If I ever go that route, which I won't,
Speaker 4: but if I ever did, uh-uh.
Speaker 3: They're calling it San Francisco 149ers. There you go, buddy.
Speaker 4: Oh, boy. All right, Marcus, be good. We'll be reading you. Thanks, man.
Speaker 4: All right. Peace.
Speaker 3: He's laughing. All right. We'll finish up. We don't have
Speaker 3: to talk about jet all the time. We can talk
Speaker 3: about Turner Hill hitting cleanup or, uh, you guys, uh,
Speaker 3: what you discovered at the ballpark last night or Kidley
Speaker 3: Rasmus is curveball.
Speaker 5: Talk a little four wing action at the ballpark.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 3: Or Padres owners or things like that. Uh, just a
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Speaker 3: pleasant Hill who won yesterday. Who can win today? You
Speaker 3: got to hear a sticks or Chicago song though. Don't
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Speaker 3: Adios, Pelota!
Speaker 6: To the deepest part of the ballpark, right next to
Speaker 6: the 415 side, a three-run homer for Rafael Devers, and
Speaker 6: now it is 5-0 Giants.
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Speaker 4: Oh, yeah.
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Speaker 4: I got you. I got a sheet for you.
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Speaker 3: This is hilarious. It's like a little, like, renaissance thing.
Speaker 2: Like, brrrr, do-do-do-do-do-do.
Speaker 3: Anyway, please, tickets are on sale now through LiveNation.com. That
Speaker 3: was one of the more underrated Paulie Mac tunes, Come
Speaker 3: Say JaVale, Come Say JaVale, Come Say JaVale McGee. Might
Speaker 3: have been a Tony, Creative Tony production.
Speaker 4: What a parody.
Speaker 3: I think Creative Tony got a lot of those.
Speaker 4: Oh, yeah.
Speaker 3: So anyway, hopefully somebody wins the tickets, and then we'll
Speaker 3: be happy.
Speaker 5: Yeah, hopefully Stix... are as impressive as Rafael Devers swinging
Speaker 5: the stick yesterday.
Speaker 2: There you go, buddy. You like that?
Speaker 3: Come sail away with a fastball from Chase Burns.
Speaker 5: Yeah, had that sail out to the deepest part of
Speaker 5: the ballpark out to the 415 section.
Speaker 3: Incredible performance against one of literally, metrically, numerically, one of
Speaker 3: the best pitchers in all of baseball. Yeah, Chase Burns
Speaker 3: is a dude. He's a Cy Young candidate. He's on
Speaker 3: a bad team. They've lost 70-whatever to the Giants. I mean,
Speaker 3: they're as bad as the Giants almost. But this guy
Speaker 3: was literally in the Cy Young conversation, 14-2 to 2-5-1,
Speaker 3: huge strikeout numbers, dominant, and they just attacked him. Tony
Speaker 3: Vitello had some interesting comments after the game about being
Speaker 3: hooked up. He felt like the team was like– and
Speaker 3: I don't know. There's kind of– you can read it
Speaker 3: in a negative way that the implication is that prior
Speaker 3: in the season they were not hooked up. I think
Speaker 3: it just means like committed to the process, committed to
Speaker 3: every pitch, committed to winning. We have that cut, Jacob,
Speaker 3: about him being– you know, I'll hook you up.
Speaker 2: All right.
Speaker 3: We used to have that sound by two.
Speaker 2: Here it is.
Speaker 3: Here's a Tony V about last night's lineup, which was crazy, right?
Speaker 3: Had Raphael Devers, Jungle Lee, and seven strangers, right? And
Speaker 3: including Shea Whitcomb and, and, and all sorts of nonsense.
Speaker 3: Turner Hill, Turner Hill, that'd clean up.
Speaker 4: Yes.
Speaker 3: Drew Cavanaugh, your five hitter, Nate Furman, your guy's six hole.
Speaker 3: But Tony praised him.
Speaker 7: To win a game during the regular season, I'm a
Speaker 7: firm believer you just got to have guys that are
Speaker 7: hooked up. And right now, again, hopefully we all can
Speaker 7: work together, whether it's our group as coaches or the players,
Speaker 7: both sides together to show results that back that up
Speaker 7: and boost confidence. But they're hooked up. They're hooked up
Speaker 7: right now. And like you said, it is baseball. There's
Speaker 7: a bunch of reps. Anything can happen. And to win
Speaker 7: a game, you just got to come out and you
Speaker 7: got to play hard. And it'd be nice to say,
Speaker 7: you know, mistake free or flawless or clean or whatever.
Speaker 7: But that's not true. We made several mistakes tonight. Boston
Speaker 7: beat us and they had a little league home run
Speaker 7: against them. You know, things are going to happen. But
Speaker 7: I feel like if you're hooked up and got the
Speaker 7: right mindset, it's there. And it kind of started with
Speaker 7: a little fresh vibes. You know, it was great for
Speaker 7: everybody to meet Shea. Rafi kind of leading the hitters
Speaker 7: meeting with some thoughts with now Willie, not there next
Speaker 7: to his side. He kind of just took the reins
Speaker 7: and said some things. And I think it all was
Speaker 7: going in the right direction in the first inning. And
Speaker 7: fortunately we had stuff on the scoreboard to back that up.
Speaker 3: Okay. So Tony's, you know, listen, it's meaningless, right? They're
Speaker 3: 25 under it's as meaningless as it gets. They're on
Speaker 3: their way to one of their worst seasons in the
Speaker 3: history of the San Francisco franchise. And yet if you're
Speaker 3: a hard, Oh, and you want to look hard enough,
Speaker 3: there's little things. There, he mentioned Rafael Devers leading the
Speaker 3: hitters meeting. This is after the weekend where he had
Speaker 3: an embarrassing, you know, he got swept in Boston. He
Speaker 3: got booed in Boston.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 3: And his team got swept.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 3: Like a lot of them. It's embarrassing for Rafi. He
Speaker 3: doesn't show that.
Speaker 4: He doesn't want to show up in Fenway and lose.
Speaker 3: And he doesn't show it. He's very hard to read.
Speaker 3: He's kind of stoic.
Speaker 2: He doesn't do media.
Speaker 5: Although I did find it a little fascinating that Rafael
Speaker 5: Devers had a nice little chuckle on his face Friday
Speaker 5: in Fenway when he was getting booed.
Speaker 4: Like.
Speaker 5: He probably had the thoughts to himself, like, can you
Speaker 5: believe this? I won this town a championship and they're
Speaker 5: going to boo me. And then, of course, he goes
Speaker 5: deep on Friday, but did not have a great weekend Saturday, Sunday.
Speaker 3: No, but he comes back and he homers yesterday. Bagley
Speaker 3: wrote a piece today and it's about he posts every game.
Speaker 3: Somebody said that to us this past weekend, too. I forget.
Speaker 3: It might have been Mike or whatever. 131 games. Now,
Speaker 3: the joke would be, yeah, you know, given a few
Speaker 3: of those strikeouts and errors, I'd like to see him
Speaker 3: post a few less.
Speaker 4: Ha ha.
Speaker 2: But no, you want this guy.
Speaker 3: He's literally your best.
Speaker 4: Hitter.
Speaker 3: I mean, although Casey Schmidt, you can make an argument
Speaker 3: Casey Schmidt was on pace to have a better season. No,
Speaker 3: I would disagree.
Speaker 5: I'd say that Raphael Devers still had more home runs
Speaker 5: than Casey Schmidt at the time when Casey Schmidt got injured.
Speaker 5: I'm not really ready to knight Casey Schmidt as a
Speaker 5: better hitter than Raphael Devers. Casey Schmidt was having a
Speaker 5: better year, but Raphael Devers is still the better overall hitter.
Speaker 2: No, no, no.
Speaker 5: I just meant this season. Having the better season overall. Yeah,
Speaker 5: I think Devers was still on pace to have a
Speaker 5: better year than Casey Schmidt.
Speaker 3: Let me look it up here.
Speaker 5: I know that Devers was leading the team in home
Speaker 5: runs when Casey got hurt.
Speaker 3: So right now, let's see. I've got to get some
Speaker 3: of their advanced stats.
Speaker 4: Yes, please.
Speaker 3: AI is like, would you like advanced stats?
Speaker 4: Yeah, take that for data.
Speaker 3: When he went down, Casey Schmidt had 21 home runs.
Speaker 3: Devers now has 27.
Speaker 4: I don't know.
Speaker 3: Home runs are not the only metric.
Speaker 2: No, they're not.
Speaker 4: Okay.
Speaker 3: So OPS, Casey's was 784 when he went down. Devers
Speaker 3: is currently... At 796. Others, well, that's all I have
Speaker 3: for you there.
Speaker 5: Well, I'd say this, too, even just beyond the numbers, too.
Speaker 5: It's the presence of Rafael Devers in the lineup. It's
Speaker 5: that presence that he brought to the Red Sox lineups
Speaker 5: when they were winning World Series.
Speaker 3: Like, there is a factor in having Rafael Devers.
Speaker 5: Now, I'm guessing in about 30 seconds, we're going to
Speaker 5: get texts about the factor of Rafael Devers and the
Speaker 5: fact that the Giants are 35 games under 500 since
Speaker 5: making that trade. but you still can't deny that Rafael
Speaker 5: Devers knows how to hit a baseball.
Speaker 1: No.
Speaker 3: And you know, at this point to the contract, what
Speaker 3: is it? 33 million a year or something like that.
Speaker 3: What is it at this point with each passing year,
Speaker 3: it's going to get less scary. You know, it's funny.
Speaker 3: Eugenio Suarez was the reds five hitter last night. He's
Speaker 3: 35 years old. No, listen, he, you know, he's not,
Speaker 3: he's not an all-star or anything, but he has 18
Speaker 3: bombs and 65 ribs. I mean, Rafi Devers might be
Speaker 3: one of those guys who, when it comes to the contract,
Speaker 3: might be one of those guys who's just such a
Speaker 3: born hitter that even if he gets a little bit
Speaker 3: of a boiler when he's 34 years old, he still
Speaker 3: might be able to hit the baseball.
Speaker 5: Well, that's if you don't believe he's 34 years old already.
Speaker 5: What kind of crazy conspiracy is that? People think Devers
Speaker 5: is older.
Speaker 4: Than he is.
Speaker 3: I don't know what to say about that. I mean,
Speaker 3: there's crazy people out there. So, I mean, listen, he
Speaker 3: led the hitters meeting. He's, I think, you know, it's funny.
Speaker 3: I did the Tony Mazz baseball hour in Boston and
Speaker 3: he was like, you know, he's a bad teammate. You know,
Speaker 3: he's a cancer. And I was like, well, I said,
Speaker 3: I don't, I can't say that with certainty out here.
Speaker 3: I've yet to find a person on the record or
Speaker 3: off the record, dog him as a teammate. You don't
Speaker 3: hear the whispers.
Speaker 4: You don't.
Speaker 3: They're like, no, we like Rafi.
Speaker 4: We do.
Speaker 3: We like Rafi.
Speaker 4: We do.
Speaker 3: You know, the finger wag was bad.
Speaker 4: Yeah, that's the one incident that the optics were bad.
Speaker 3: I mean, you know, we all have our days. And
Speaker 3: that spoke to the Tony V thing, although it feels
Speaker 3: a little bit, if you're paying attention to Tony this
Speaker 3: last couple weeks, he's starting to assert himself just a
Speaker 3: little more in his comments about the team, calling him
Speaker 3: out a little bit more.
Speaker 5: Look at the lineups. It looks like a Juco lineup.
Speaker 5: That's why he's calling him out for playing Juco ball.
Speaker 3: And he can kind of, yeah, exactly. I mean, I
Speaker 3: wrote this jock blog last week about like, as you
Speaker 3: bring them back next year, it's like, I mean, obviously dude,
Speaker 3: it's like you can easily make the argument to not
Speaker 3: bring them back. It's like, bro, are you kidding me?
Speaker 3: It's been a disaster, been a fricking disaster just for fun.
Speaker 3: And I know this isn't apples to apples, but I
Speaker 3: looked it up just for fun. And I found sure enough,
Speaker 3: the data I was looking for, Bobby Cox, when he
Speaker 3: started his career, lost 90 plus his first two years.
Speaker 3: joe tory dude had a terrible start to his managing
Speaker 3: career in fact one year i think he lost 99
Speaker 3: another year he lost 95 another year he lost 96
Speaker 3: i just wrote dude how'd the yankees hire this guy
Speaker 3: he was a terrible i mean grown men weep when
Speaker 3: this guy walks down the street now now are we
Speaker 3: saying he's gonna be bobby cox and joe tory no
Speaker 3: but what we are saying is that bad seasons happen
Speaker 3: terrible seasons happen they do bruce bocce lost 98 in
Speaker 3: 2017 he also won three world series but So I'd
Speaker 3: say all things on balance, you bring them back because
Speaker 3: this was Buster's vision, and yeah, it sucked this year.
Speaker 2: They get an F.
Speaker 3: It's a failing grade this year, but that doesn't mean
Speaker 3: that next year has to be the same.
Speaker 5: No, not at all, and that's why they're going to
Speaker 5: run it back. With Tony V, once again, Buster Posey
Speaker 5: said no questions asked, but you're right. There should be
Speaker 5: questions because something needs to change. Like, this is not
Speaker 5: the type of offseason when we're going to be sitting
Speaker 5: here saying, oh, they're going to get Randy Rodriguez back
Speaker 5: next year. That's worth 20 wins, and they'll be back
Speaker 5: in the wildcard conversation. Like, no, there's a lot of
Speaker 5: work to do for next season. which of course could
Speaker 5: involve some prospects or maybe even some of the players
Speaker 5: that were seen recently, like Dylan Smith last night in
Speaker 5: the ninth inning, or maybe even a revival of Ryan Walker,
Speaker 5: which I know probably has people turning the radio off
Speaker 5: right now, but you need to figure out what you
Speaker 5: have before the season starts so that we're not talking
Speaker 5: about the Giants being walked off 11 times in one season.
Speaker 3: You can make an argument that the entire thing can
Speaker 3: change with a bullpen. Like if they like I'm watching
Speaker 3: the Padres and the Red Sox, these last two series
Speaker 3: and the guys they brought out of the pen. If
Speaker 3: the Giants brought guys like that out, well, they win
Speaker 3: a lot more games. I got news for you, right?
Speaker 5: Guess who's closing out ball games for those two teams.
Speaker 5: Mason Miller and Aroldis Chapman, two of the best closers
Speaker 5: in baseball. But it's Nicky T tried telling us earlier
Speaker 5: this year. You can't win without a close. It's not
Speaker 5: just the ninth inning, though.
Speaker 3: No, you're right. They got guys stacked up, including Eric
Speaker 3: Miller in Boston.
Speaker 1: Oh, boy.
Speaker 3: Yeah, who all of a sudden found out how to
Speaker 3: throw strikes. Well, he's now everything the Giants wanted him
Speaker 3: to be. Is that pitching coaches? Reunited with our guy,
Speaker 3: Andrew Bailey. Yeah, and are the Giants pitching coaches not
Speaker 3: getting it done? I think there's ample evidence that that
Speaker 3: could be the place where you make your change. All right, guys,
Speaker 3: wanted to do a little Giants there today. What do
Speaker 3: we got tonight? 645, you go Adrian Hauser. House. Adrian
Speaker 3: Hauser today, and then day game tomorrow. And then Arizona
Speaker 3: comes in. Ready for this? Thursday, Friday, double dip Saturday.
Speaker 3: That's Jeff Kent day, by the way.
Speaker 4: Ooh.
Speaker 3: No game Sunday because this rain out makeup Monday in Atlanta,
Speaker 3: the league made an agreement that the Giants could take
Speaker 3: Sunday off and fly to Atlanta for a rain out makeup.
Speaker 5: For the Giants. First opportunity of the season to get
Speaker 5: a sweep. If they beat the Braves on Monday, it's
Speaker 5: officially a sweep.
Speaker 4: Unless.
Speaker 5: Unless.
Speaker 3: They sweep the Reds. Yeah, that's true.
Speaker 4: Ah, good point.
Speaker 3: Turner Hill and cleanup, buddy. Will he bat Turner Hill
Speaker 3: and cleanup again?
Speaker 4: Why not?
Speaker 7: Sure.
Speaker 3: I mean, what are your other options at this point?
Speaker 4: Yeah, uh-huh.
Speaker 7: Sure.
Speaker 2: Send him back out there.
Speaker 3: All right, guys.
Speaker 2: We'll give away those.
Speaker 3: We'll find out who won those sticks tickets and then
Speaker 3: do what did we learn today. And thanks to the
Speaker 3: Vigilante for stepping in today.
Speaker 4: Yeah, thanks, JV.
Speaker 3: On the Sports Leader.
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Speaker 3: Boucher, what are we hearing here? What are we hearing here?
Speaker 5: This right here is Waka Flocka.
Speaker 2: Brick Squad!
Speaker 5: This is the walk-up music, the warm-up music out of
Speaker 5: the bullpen for Dylan Smith.
Speaker 2: I've never been to a game he pitched, so I
Speaker 2: didn't know that.
Speaker 5: Oh, dude, last night in the ninth inning, as I'm
Speaker 5: trying to find the love of my life on fourth
Speaker 5: wing night last night at the ballpark, I hear walk-a-flocka
Speaker 5: coming out of the bullpen, and I knew it was
Speaker 5: Dylan Smith.
Speaker 3: He shouldn't have pitched in that game, by the way.
Speaker 2: What do we got, Dr.
Speaker 3: Boucher?
Speaker 2: Waka, waka, flaka.
Speaker 5: Well, it is time for today's Stanford Health Care Health Report.
Speaker 5: And I should have proof read this before I checked
Speaker 5: the script because I don't have anything on my sponsor sheet.
Speaker 5: So I'll go from the top of the dome. Willie
Speaker 5: Adamas was placed on the I.L. Oh, you got an
Speaker 5: update for me.
Speaker 4: What's this? Oh, yeah.
Speaker 3: Well, we got all types of roster moves.
Speaker 5: We got all types of news yesterday with the Giants
Speaker 5: announcing that Willie Adamas is going on the I.L. Victor
Speaker 5: Barracuda also dealing with a right knee bone bruise. JT
Speaker 5: Brubaker has some bruised ribs after trying to make that
Speaker 5: diving play, diving off the mound to catch that bunt.
Speaker 5: So guess who showed up yesterday in San Francisco? Welcome back,
Speaker 5: Grant McRae. Welcome back, Ryan Walker. Hello, Anthony Molina. Hello,
Speaker 5: Shea Wickham and Nate Furman back with the big league
Speaker 5: squad as well. And that, my friends, was today's Stanford
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Speaker 3: Well done. Way to make that up there, buddy, on
Speaker 3: the fly. Okay, what did we learn today? Well, Marcus,
Speaker 3: you helped me out, buddy.
Speaker 1: I learned.
Speaker 2: Go ahead.
Speaker 3: You can play it there, JV.
Speaker 2: Inquiring minds want to know, what did OG Murph learn today?
Speaker 3: Bro, I learned that Marcus was out at the ballgame yesterday.
Speaker 3: Give me a little Tom Petty need-to-know here.
Speaker 5: Oh, I need to know.
Speaker 2: A little Tom Petty.
Speaker 3: And you said you saw a lot of people going
Speaker 3: to get something here today. And you going to get
Speaker 3: a pickup or something like that.
Speaker 5: Well, dude, I saw a line that started outside of
Speaker 5: 58 social and went up all three levels on the
Speaker 5: ramp all the way to the top deck because people
Speaker 5: were waiting in line for their special event ticket giveaway.
Speaker 3: And I said, well, what is it? Fourth wing, a
Speaker 3: popular adult fantasy romance novel written by Rebecca Yarrow's People say,
Speaker 3: have called it dragon smut. Dragon smut. A woman deals
Speaker 3: with a tense growing attraction to Zayden and it features
Speaker 3: magical dragon combat and apparently a few ripped bodices too.
Speaker 2: So I learned that. Yes, we all learned.
Speaker 5: I didn't know that I was going to the ballpark
Speaker 5: to get involved in a book club.
Speaker 2: Are you going to read it?
Speaker 4: No, absolutely not.
Speaker 2: I don't know how to read, Murph.
Speaker 3: That's a rhetorical question. I do believe that... JV here
Speaker 3: said he got it for his girlfriend. Yeah, he's a
Speaker 3: big romance guy. You got her fourth wing, didn't you?
Speaker 3: I did, and I told her to text in, but
Speaker 3: she didn't.
Speaker 4: Okay.
Speaker 3: Well, there you go, buddy. What does that say about
Speaker 3: the state of your relationship?
Speaker 2: What does that say about our show?
Speaker 3: We'll figure that out next time you pinch hit.
Speaker 4: Better than yours.
Speaker 3: Fair and biased with John Lund is next. You're listening
Speaker 3: to KBR AM and KBR FM. These sports are at
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Speaker 7: They're hooked up.
Speaker 2: Yo soy la madre de los padres.
Speaker 3: Kinley Rasmus.
Speaker 4: Murph, you know more about this young lady than you
Speaker 4: do Che Whitcomb.
Speaker 3: This book, Fourth Wing, has been described as dragon smut.
Speaker 4: I promise you it won't be 140 for me. If
Speaker 4: I ever go that route, which I won't, but if
Speaker 4: I ever did, uh-uh.
Speaker 3: That's the end of the game.