WEBVTT - O's offense really struggles in series finale loss to Angels. 0:00:07.720 --> 0:00:12.200 Hey, Birdland, welcome in one series. Post trade deadline is 0:00:12.240 --> 0:00:16.000 in the books. One cold later for years. Truly been 0:00:16.040 --> 0:00:19.439 an interesting few days in my household. But since you're 0:00:19.480 --> 0:00:21.880 just watching, you can't get this terrible cold. I got 0:00:21.960 --> 0:00:25.080 lucky for Tim and Brad and everybody today. It's been 0:00:25.120 --> 0:00:28.960 an interesting few days nursing this baby. But the Orioles today, guys, 0:00:29.000 --> 0:00:31.680 it was disappointing. Four to one. They lose to the 0:00:31.720 --> 0:00:36.320 Angels and the offense just is not showing up. We 0:00:36.440 --> 0:00:40.080 posted this stat numerous times, thirteen runs were less. Now 0:00:40.440 --> 0:00:43.720 they have scored in ten of the last twelve series, 0:00:44.200 --> 0:00:48.680 remarkably because of the pitchers. They have a winning record 0:00:48.760 --> 0:00:52.600 in those thirty six games nineteen and seventeen. But what 0:00:52.880 --> 0:00:55.680 could it be if they just get a few more 0:00:55.800 --> 0:00:59.280 runs which they're not getting. Six runs against the Phillies, 0:00:59.480 --> 0:01:03.600 shut out twice, nine runs against the Angels, and guys, 0:01:03.640 --> 0:01:05.720 it wouldn't have taken much to get a sweep here, 0:01:05.840 --> 0:01:07.520 which they did not get. 0:01:08.360 --> 0:01:10.959 Yeah, it's just been kind of baffling really when you 0:01:11.000 --> 0:01:11.800 look at this offense. 0:01:11.840 --> 0:01:13.520 I was supposed to be one of their big strengths. 0:01:13.560 --> 0:01:16.360 You know, score some runs and hopefully the pitching comes around, 0:01:16.400 --> 0:01:18.840 and now for the last two months, we've been talking 0:01:18.840 --> 0:01:20.720 about the pitching non stop and the hitting has just 0:01:20.840 --> 0:01:23.720 not been enough to you know, kind of get them 0:01:23.760 --> 0:01:25.920 these wins. And like Steve, like you said, yeah, it's 0:01:25.920 --> 0:01:28.080 a series win, but very easily could have been a 0:01:28.080 --> 0:01:31.040 sweep today with just a couple you know, big hits there. 0:01:31.120 --> 0:01:33.600 It's just they're they're not able to come through here recently, 0:01:33.600 --> 0:01:34.479 and it's it's. 0:01:34.400 --> 0:01:35.840 Kind of hard to wrap your head around it. 0:01:35.920 --> 0:01:38.200 And obviously a lot of motions in the clubhouse and 0:01:38.240 --> 0:01:40.319 everything these last couple of days. So got to give 0:01:40.319 --> 0:01:43.399 the team credit to definitely getting a series win, but 0:01:43.440 --> 0:01:45.880 it's gonna be some tough competition here, and they now 0:01:45.880 --> 0:01:48.720 find themselves, i think, behind four different teams for that 0:01:48.800 --> 0:01:52.040 final wildcout spot, and even though they're only one game behind, 0:01:52.080 --> 0:01:54.200 it's tough to really jump over or one and a 0:01:54.240 --> 0:01:57.120 half games behind. It's really tough when you start sacking 0:01:57.120 --> 0:01:59.520 teams ahead of you to get ahead of them because 0:01:59.520 --> 0:02:02.240 now you're looking for four losses to gain any ground 0:02:02.280 --> 0:02:04.559 in the standing. So that's kind of where they're behind 0:02:04.600 --> 0:02:06.120 the eight ball. But you know, I got to give 0:02:06.160 --> 0:02:08.040 them credit that they got the series there wasn't a 0:02:08.040 --> 0:02:11.040 ton of offense, but the pitching still has just been tremendous, 0:02:11.080 --> 0:02:13.040 and the starting pitching has gone a long way these 0:02:13.080 --> 0:02:13.919 last couple of months. 0:02:14.919 --> 0:02:17.320 Yeah, if you start with the positive, I think we 0:02:17.320 --> 0:02:21.120 were all kind of wondering what would this club be like, 0:02:21.520 --> 0:02:25.200 especially the first game after the trade deadline, because just 0:02:25.560 --> 0:02:28.840 seeing all the interviews prior to Tuesday's game, you could 0:02:28.840 --> 0:02:32.440 tell they were really emotional. Gunner Henderson, especially because he 0:02:32.520 --> 0:02:35.400 was in the same draft class as Adlee Ruchman Colden 0:02:35.480 --> 0:02:38.240 Cowser saying that Adley's in his wedding like that. There 0:02:38.320 --> 0:02:41.560 was a ton of emotion in that clubhouse prior to 0:02:41.639 --> 0:02:45.000 Tuesday's games, So you give them credit for winning that game, 0:02:45.040 --> 0:02:50.200 winning Wednesday. Trevor Rodgers was spectacular last night, and Kate 0:02:50.320 --> 0:02:55.000 Povich stepping stepping up, dig pitching well with traffic Tuesday, 0:02:55.040 --> 0:02:57.400 and then today, Look, Brandon Young would tell you he 0:02:57.440 --> 0:02:59.960 didn't have his best stuff today. I think that's obvious. 0:03:00.160 --> 0:03:03.480 But Zach Netto, that was the one big blow, the 0:03:03.520 --> 0:03:06.520 three run homer. But with how the offense is performing 0:03:06.600 --> 0:03:09.400 right now, the three runs felt like six runs. It 0:03:09.440 --> 0:03:12.520 felt like seven runs. They only had four hits today. 0:03:13.360 --> 0:03:16.600 You know, Gunnar Henderson ran into it out at home 0:03:16.680 --> 0:03:18.160 plate to end an inning. 0:03:18.200 --> 0:03:21.280 There. It's ugly for this offense right now. 0:03:21.520 --> 0:03:24.240 You flash the graphic up there, Steve fourteen hits in 0:03:24.320 --> 0:03:26.880 this series. They have twenty seven hits in the last 0:03:26.880 --> 0:03:30.040 two series, including the Philly series and this one against 0:03:30.080 --> 0:03:34.040 the Angels. The offense just isn't giving them nowhere near 0:03:34.120 --> 0:03:34.880 enough right now. 0:03:36.560 --> 0:03:39.520 Really disappointing because that's an area that we counted on 0:03:39.720 --> 0:03:43.760 this season. And as you said, fourteen hits, shut out 0:03:43.840 --> 0:03:46.600 twice to end the Philly series. It's a theme for 0:03:46.680 --> 0:03:50.360 the Orioles Friday night. Great win. Let's see if they 0:03:50.400 --> 0:03:53.840 can get the series against the Phillies. They don't first 0:03:53.840 --> 0:03:55.920 two against the Angels, and I don't think they played 0:03:55.920 --> 0:03:57.920 great in the first two in that series, but they've 0:03:57.960 --> 0:03:59.600 beat a bad team and then they had a chance 0:03:59.640 --> 0:04:03.320 to sweep them and then could not pull that off. 0:04:03.600 --> 0:04:05.800 So I'm not sure what the answer is here, but 0:04:05.960 --> 0:04:08.920 this deep end of the season, it's starting to look 0:04:09.040 --> 0:04:12.440 like this is who the offense is more so than 0:04:12.480 --> 0:04:13.400 it's an outlier. 0:04:13.960 --> 0:04:16.240 Yeah, that's what it kind of seems like. It's it's 0:04:16.279 --> 0:04:18.960 the same guys. If they produce they win games, and 0:04:19.120 --> 0:04:22.520 if they don't, then it's kind of not The offense 0:04:22.600 --> 0:04:24.840 just isn't there. So it's it's like you're saying, it's 0:04:25.279 --> 0:04:27.240 it's been four months, so it's not like this is 0:04:27.240 --> 0:04:29.320 a couple of week stretch or something like that. And it's, 0:04:29.800 --> 0:04:32.080 like I said, it's shocking, it's hard to like, kind 0:04:32.080 --> 0:04:34.000 of when you see all these stats, it's just really 0:04:34.000 --> 0:04:36.160 hard to believe that this is the offense that we 0:04:36.279 --> 0:04:38.560 had thought about in spring training and thought it was 0:04:38.600 --> 0:04:40.520 going to carry this team all the way through the season. 0:04:41.240 --> 0:04:43.960 That they're just not performing to the levels that we expected. 0:04:44.000 --> 0:04:46.039 And it's just hard to win games when you don't 0:04:46.040 --> 0:04:46.560 score runs. 0:04:46.720 --> 0:04:47.080 You can't. 0:04:47.120 --> 0:04:49.480 It's the pitching has done everything they can and at 0:04:49.480 --> 0:04:51.520 some point it's going to come back to the mean 0:04:51.520 --> 0:04:53.240 a little bit. I feel like they've been pitching so 0:04:53.440 --> 0:04:56.520 well that it's kept them afloat in the standings right now. 0:04:56.560 --> 0:04:58.800 But it's just kind of it's kind of just hard 0:04:58.800 --> 0:05:01.000 of fathom, like you said, thirteen fourteen hits this series. 0:05:01.080 --> 0:05:04.040 It's just not the offense that we are we're expecting 0:05:04.040 --> 0:05:06.040 at all this season, and it's just kind of hard 0:05:06.080 --> 0:05:06.480 to believing. 0:05:06.520 --> 0:05:08.120 You just wonder where's it gonna come from. 0:05:08.160 --> 0:05:10.359 At this point, it's they're gonna be trying some different 0:05:10.400 --> 0:05:12.520 guys in the lineup. They're gonna be trying some of 0:05:12.560 --> 0:05:14.480 the newer guys. They're gonna be getting more at bets 0:05:14.520 --> 0:05:16.560 for guys that I feel like, uh, you know, they're 0:05:16.560 --> 0:05:18.039 gonna find try to find out who they have for 0:05:18.080 --> 0:05:20.680 twenty twenty seven. So it's guys just have to step up, 0:05:20.720 --> 0:05:22.480 and it's there's no other way to put it, and 0:05:22.880 --> 0:05:24.760 you need your stars to do with that we expect 0:05:24.800 --> 0:05:26.440 them to do. And then you need the guys that 0:05:26.440 --> 0:05:28.800 are gonna start getting more regular at bats just show 0:05:28.839 --> 0:05:31.400 that they're ready to be pieces for twenty six and 0:05:31.520 --> 0:05:32.640 twenty seven then beyond. 0:05:33.760 --> 0:05:37.800 I think today was especially disappointing guys considering the starting 0:05:37.880 --> 0:05:42.000 pitcher and Ryan Johnson, the Angels starter today. 0:05:41.760 --> 0:05:44.080 Has really, really, really, really struggled. 0:05:44.440 --> 0:05:48.440 Outside of his two starts against the Orioles, his last 0:05:48.480 --> 0:05:51.719 one in Anaheim. You combine both starts, the one in 0:05:51.760 --> 0:05:55.080 Anaheim the one today, he's going ten and two thirds innings, 0:05:55.120 --> 0:05:58.160 four hits, one run, six walks, nine strikeouts. It's a 0:05:58.200 --> 0:06:01.080 point eight four ERA, a point nine four whip, one 0:06:01.200 --> 0:06:04.400 twenty five batting average. The rest of his outings against 0:06:04.440 --> 0:06:06.880 the rest of the league guys eight seven eight, ERA 0:06:07.400 --> 0:06:09.880 one seven eight whip and a three to zero nine 0:06:09.920 --> 0:06:13.520 batting average. So he's getting shelved against everyone else. But 0:06:13.600 --> 0:06:16.640 this Orioles lineup just couldn't figure it out. And I 0:06:16.640 --> 0:06:20.719 think what was so disappointing about today? He had five 0:06:20.839 --> 0:06:24.200 walks and a hit by pitch and it didn't score. 0:06:24.800 --> 0:06:28.680 You know, Jackson Holliday came up bases loaded situation where 0:06:28.720 --> 0:06:30.640 he just walked a couple guys, He swung at the 0:06:30.640 --> 0:06:34.080 first pitch, grounded out to the second baseman, and you 0:06:34.120 --> 0:06:37.280 look at the game as a whole, eight walks, one 0:06:37.360 --> 0:06:40.440 hip by pitch. None of those nine base runners came 0:06:40.520 --> 0:06:41.400 around to score. 0:06:41.800 --> 0:06:44.200 That just can't happen. It can't happen. 0:06:47.160 --> 0:06:52.000 So had the Orioles won today, amazingly enough, they would 0:06:52.000 --> 0:06:56.200 be at this hour tied for the AL third wild card. 0:06:56.760 --> 0:07:00.280 Going into today, they needed Cleveland to lose to ask. 0:07:00.360 --> 0:07:04.520 Then Cleveland lost, Texas did not play, the Ools would 0:07:04.560 --> 0:07:07.719 have gained the half game to tie Texas at fifty 0:07:07.800 --> 0:07:11.520 seven and fifty eight. They would be in a playoff position. 0:07:11.800 --> 0:07:14.960 If they won the game, today. They also would have 0:07:15.000 --> 0:07:17.200 been within one game of five hundred for the first 0:07:17.200 --> 0:07:19.560 time since the end of April. A lot of good 0:07:19.600 --> 0:07:22.320 could have come out of a win today that Storials 0:07:22.360 --> 0:07:24.280 didn't get. When we come back, I want to ask 0:07:24.400 --> 0:07:28.200 the guys this question. It sounds a little ridiculous to 0:07:28.240 --> 0:07:30.400 say it this way, but is this team okay? And 0:07:30.440 --> 0:07:32.440 that's what I mean? How much the vibe? How are 0:07:32.480 --> 0:07:36.480 they holding up after what happened Monday? Because I don't 0:07:36.480 --> 0:07:39.520 think we got definitive answers in the last three days. 0:07:39.560 --> 0:07:41.720 I think we're still going to be sorting that out. 0:07:41.920 --> 0:07:43.920 But let's check in on that in a moment on 0:07:43.960 --> 0:07:45.160 Birdland Territory. 0:07:46.160 --> 0:07:48.160 For parents looking for a new path to help your 0:07:48.200 --> 0:07:50.840 child succeed this year, there's still time to enroll in 0:07:50.960 --> 0:07:54.880 K twelve powered online schools. 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K twelve serving three million students and counting. 0:08:46.880 --> 0:08:49.680 So we ask, is this team oka coming out of Monday? 0:08:49.760 --> 0:08:53.160 The trade, the emotion we heard from the clubhouse as 0:08:53.200 --> 0:08:57.560 they lose several players they were fond of, including of 0:08:57.559 --> 0:09:00.760 course Adlie Richmand, the face of the reill, the first 0:09:00.800 --> 0:09:04.760 draft pick of Michaelias, et cetera, et cetera, And guys, 0:09:04.760 --> 0:09:06.640 I don't think we know the answer to that yet. 0:09:07.000 --> 0:09:09.040 I think the one lost record is going to be 0:09:09.080 --> 0:09:12.760 the real Teltale here And will this spur them on 0:09:12.880 --> 0:09:15.640 to get a playoff spot? It might? Will it drag 0:09:15.720 --> 0:09:19.160 him down over weeks. When Brandon Hyde was fired last 0:09:19.240 --> 0:09:23.760 year and I went into that clubhouse, it was down man, 0:09:23.800 --> 0:09:26.000 and you watched the Ools play for about a week. 0:09:26.200 --> 0:09:28.960 They were not a good team. They were trying to 0:09:29.000 --> 0:09:31.560 get their bearings on straight. I don't think this is 0:09:31.640 --> 0:09:35.800 the same thing because I think players realize and Brad, 0:09:35.840 --> 0:09:37.760 you can talk to this more than Tim and I. 0:09:37.840 --> 0:09:40.520 It's a business. Life goes on. We say goodbye to 0:09:40.600 --> 0:09:44.280 good friends all the time. You got traded, Zach got traded. 0:09:44.480 --> 0:09:46.200 A lot of big names have been traded from the 0:09:46.200 --> 0:09:50.120 Orioles Man he got traded, Sodo got traded, Harper got traded. 0:09:50.240 --> 0:09:55.040 This is part of baseball, and so long winded a 0:09:55.080 --> 0:09:57.719 way of saying, we don't know that answer yet. 0:09:57.720 --> 0:10:00.000 I don't think yeah, And I don't think you're gonna 0:10:00.080 --> 0:10:02.199 to know the answer honestly until these last fifty games 0:10:02.240 --> 0:10:04.400 are played. I just feel like this is with the 0:10:04.440 --> 0:10:06.679 group that they have left, it's not going to be 0:10:06.720 --> 0:10:08.360 a short answer. It's not gonna be a one week 0:10:08.400 --> 0:10:10.040 it's not going to be a two week. I really 0:10:10.080 --> 0:10:12.480 think you're gonna have to judge the group that's left 0:10:12.520 --> 0:10:14.320 by the fifty games and where they stand at the 0:10:14.360 --> 0:10:16.720 end of the season, and that can be tough because 0:10:17.040 --> 0:10:19.480 when you're so close in the standings like it is 0:10:19.480 --> 0:10:21.520 in the al right now, you want the quick answer 0:10:21.520 --> 0:10:23.680 because you want to be in a position to go 0:10:23.760 --> 0:10:25.800 make a playoff run. But I just think with the 0:10:25.840 --> 0:10:27.760 moves that they made, this is going to be more 0:10:27.760 --> 0:10:31.079 of a long, two month winded answer as opposed to 0:10:31.160 --> 0:10:34.280 series by series or week by week. Like you said, 0:10:34.280 --> 0:10:37.280 when you lose the personalities that they lost, the guys 0:10:37.280 --> 0:10:39.240 that are really close in that clubhouse, the leaders of 0:10:39.280 --> 0:10:41.560 that clubhouse, it's gonna take a little bit of time 0:10:41.600 --> 0:10:45.120 and like, like we've talked about probably almost too much 0:10:45.160 --> 0:10:47.040 at this point, but twenty eighteen a little different. 0:10:47.360 --> 0:10:48.680 We knew we were going to get traded. 0:10:48.880 --> 0:10:50.600 There was guys going all over the place, and we 0:10:50.640 --> 0:10:53.199 didn't really have time to think about it too much 0:10:53.240 --> 0:10:55.080 because other guys knew they were going to go. So 0:10:55.480 --> 0:10:57.880 this group is now together and there's gonna be nobody 0:10:57.920 --> 0:11:00.120 else leaving. This is who they have, So I think 0:11:00.120 --> 0:11:02.640 it's just going to be more of I don't want 0:11:02.640 --> 0:11:04.000 to judge it by one series. I don't want to 0:11:04.040 --> 0:11:05.920 judge it by Oh, they play the Rangers and they 0:11:05.920 --> 0:11:08.240 get they lose that series. This this isn't gonna work. 0:11:08.480 --> 0:11:09.679 I just think it has to. You have to look 0:11:09.720 --> 0:11:12.959 at it as a fifty game experiment. I guess I 0:11:13.000 --> 0:11:15.160 don't know of another way to kind of look at it. 0:11:15.160 --> 0:11:16.240 That's not the way you want to look at it 0:11:16.280 --> 0:11:17.960 when you're one game out of the wild Card, but 0:11:18.000 --> 0:11:19.200 I just think that's kind of the way you have 0:11:19.240 --> 0:11:21.560 to look at the group that's left, because I think 0:11:21.880 --> 0:11:23.920 with the guys they have left, it's just really hard 0:11:24.160 --> 0:11:25.839 to look at it over a six game span, a 0:11:25.920 --> 0:11:27.920 whole game span. You just really got to give it 0:11:27.960 --> 0:11:29.760 the full two months of the season and kind of 0:11:29.760 --> 0:11:30.480 see where they're at. 0:11:30.480 --> 0:11:30.680 Then. 0:11:32.200 --> 0:11:33.600 Yeah, it was kind of funny. 0:11:33.640 --> 0:11:37.000 We had Adam Jones on the show on Monday, and 0:11:37.120 --> 0:11:41.640 obviously he's an assistant to Michael Lias, and full disclosure, 0:11:42.320 --> 0:11:44.920 I was not expecting Adam Jones to still come on. 0:11:45.120 --> 0:11:48.280 Because this was in the midst of Hadley getting traded, 0:11:48.320 --> 0:11:50.560 everyone's getting traded. I was just thinking and would have 0:11:50.600 --> 0:11:53.400 totally have understood if he would have said, Hey, I 0:11:53.440 --> 0:11:55.160 don't think this is a good time to come on. 0:11:55.240 --> 0:11:58.520 But to his credit, he came on, and I was 0:11:58.960 --> 0:12:01.960 saying to Canada, one of my co host We got 0:12:01.960 --> 0:12:02.719 to ask him about that. 0:12:03.040 --> 0:12:05.840 We can't not ask him about Adley having him come on. 0:12:06.600 --> 0:12:10.800 And he created a great answer, man, like he really did. 0:12:10.840 --> 0:12:13.960 And and he brought up twenty eighteen Brad and and 0:12:14.000 --> 0:12:16.280 he was saying, I think he was saying they were 0:12:16.320 --> 0:12:18.800 about to play a series at the Bronx, and he 0:12:18.920 --> 0:12:20.600 was bringing up the Will Smith. 0:12:22.840 --> 0:12:25.880 Of him at Fresh Prince looking around him. He was 0:12:25.880 --> 0:12:27.960 bringing that up where all my guys at. 0:12:28.040 --> 0:12:30.720 But yeah, you know, Adam, Adam was saying, like, look, 0:12:30.760 --> 0:12:34.320 this is a great opportunity for a lot of guys 0:12:34.400 --> 0:12:39.480 right now. You know Poso and Nervaez, and you look 0:12:39.480 --> 0:12:44.000 in the outfield with Franklin and Dylan Beavers and Colden Cowser. 0:12:45.360 --> 0:12:46.360 It's not ideal. 0:12:46.920 --> 0:12:50.000 And there is the human element of it that I'm 0:12:50.040 --> 0:12:54.680 sure absolutely shocked guys. I mean, they told the story 0:12:54.760 --> 0:12:57.040 that they were going to see Spider Man together and 0:12:57.640 --> 0:12:59.880 Adley got the call and then they didn't go. And 0:13:01.960 --> 0:13:06.360 Tyler Wells, you know, he was with like it sucks. 0:13:06.600 --> 0:13:10.240 The aspect of it where a lot of those guys 0:13:10.320 --> 0:13:13.480 came up through the minors with Adley Rutchman or especially 0:13:13.600 --> 0:13:18.240 during the COVID, the weird you know Booie situation, Steve 0:13:18.240 --> 0:13:20.760 with the player development when Gunner was with him, Like Gunner, 0:13:21.480 --> 0:13:24.040 he could barely even talk about it on Mondays. So 0:13:24.559 --> 0:13:27.679 I think it's guys still processing things right now, and 0:13:28.040 --> 0:13:31.240 I'm with Brad, it's going to take a while to 0:13:31.280 --> 0:13:35.319 figure it out. And this stretch of sixteen games, it's tough. 0:13:35.360 --> 0:13:40.320 It's all teams are chasing. It's Twins, Rangers, the Rays twice, 0:13:40.440 --> 0:13:43.920 the Yankees. This is a tough stretch and it's certainly 0:13:43.960 --> 0:13:47.440 a step up in competition over the Angels. But I think, 0:13:47.760 --> 0:13:50.840 kind of like what Adam told us on Monday, you 0:13:50.920 --> 0:13:53.120 have to use this as a rallying cry. If you're 0:13:53.160 --> 0:13:56.360 the guys in that clubhouse, like you have an opportunity 0:13:56.760 --> 0:14:00.439 to really carve out a role, make an impression on Michaels. 0:14:00.520 --> 0:14:02.679 The rest of the front off is Craig albrin As 0:14:03.520 --> 0:14:06.280 not just for this season, but twenty twenty seven and beyond. 0:14:08.720 --> 0:14:11.960 Here's what's happened here. Over a course of years, this 0:14:12.120 --> 0:14:17.000 young corps came up and hit the ground running pretty well. 0:14:17.640 --> 0:14:22.400 Gunner was an MVP candidate. Adley and Gunner were rookie 0:14:22.400 --> 0:14:24.560 of the Year candidate's Rookie of the Year Cawser, two 0:14:25.320 --> 0:14:29.680 All Star appearances, great stats turned the Orioles into winners, 0:14:30.040 --> 0:14:33.800 But then the Young Corps did not take a collective 0:14:33.800 --> 0:14:37.840 step forward. In fact, the opposite has happened. Several players 0:14:37.880 --> 0:14:42.000 and collectively that Young Core fell back, and so did 0:14:42.040 --> 0:14:46.120 the Orioles. So for me, I get the human element here. 0:14:47.320 --> 0:14:50.360 But I'm saying, if you're the team, is it a 0:14:50.400 --> 0:14:52.960 bad thing to trade from a team that has been 0:14:53.040 --> 0:14:57.160 losing for over two calendar years? So maybe a shake up, 0:14:57.240 --> 0:14:59.760 a breakup to get you you got to the band 0:14:59.840 --> 0:15:03.480 is no longer together. Maybe some of that is not 0:15:03.600 --> 0:15:06.120 the worst thing to happen. And we're gonna see how 0:15:06.120 --> 0:15:08.760 the players respond. As we've been saying for the last 0:15:08.800 --> 0:15:11.560 few minutes, we don't know how this is gonna work out. 0:15:11.920 --> 0:15:15.200 Yeah, and I think they made Yeah, Steve, I think 0:15:15.200 --> 0:15:17.080 you're one hundred percent right. I think it's kind of 0:15:17.120 --> 0:15:19.520 the first reality check these guys have had. They've kind 0:15:19.520 --> 0:15:22.440 of had this almost like this cushion and bubble like, oh, 0:15:22.440 --> 0:15:24.920 we're not going anywhere where the Young Core. You know, 0:15:25.280 --> 0:15:27.360 we're gonna win or lose with us. But I think 0:15:27.360 --> 0:15:29.760 this is just a reality check of this is the 0:15:29.800 --> 0:15:31.800 business of baseball and it sucks at times. 0:15:31.840 --> 0:15:32.800 There's no other way to put it. 0:15:32.840 --> 0:15:34.840 As a player, you have some of your best friends 0:15:34.840 --> 0:15:36.240 on the team, but at the end of the day, 0:15:36.560 --> 0:15:38.920 the team is going to make decisions based on what 0:15:38.920 --> 0:15:41.160 they think is best for the team moving forward. 0:15:41.200 --> 0:15:43.480 And it's it's not fun, it's not easy. 0:15:43.520 --> 0:15:45.880 But I think it ruffled some feathers and I think 0:15:45.880 --> 0:15:48.760 they realize that if you're trading Adlie, there's really nobody 0:15:48.800 --> 0:15:51.560 that's kind of untouchable in this organization. There's nobody untouchable 0:15:51.600 --> 0:15:54.960 in this lineup that can't go somewhere or you know, 0:15:55.320 --> 0:15:58.480 God forbid something like you get dfaate or something like it. 0:15:58.680 --> 0:16:01.360 Just it becomes a harsh reality that you need to 0:16:01.400 --> 0:16:03.600 produce at the big league level. There's no hiding from 0:16:03.640 --> 0:16:05.920 your stats, there's no hiding from records of the teams 0:16:05.920 --> 0:16:08.120 that you're on, and if things aren't going in the 0:16:08.200 --> 0:16:11.600 right direction, they can make these Jurassic moves like trading 0:16:11.760 --> 0:16:14.360 the head piece of this young Cores, And I think 0:16:14.600 --> 0:16:16.920 this has really sent the message to this clubhouse that 0:16:17.280 --> 0:16:19.400 all right, it's time to produce or you know, stuff 0:16:19.440 --> 0:16:19.920 can happen. 0:16:19.960 --> 0:16:20.680 Guys can get. 0:16:20.560 --> 0:16:23.320 Traded, you might not be playing for the Oils anymore, 0:16:23.360 --> 0:16:24.920 and it's just kind of the reality of the game, 0:16:24.960 --> 0:16:27.040 and it's I think it's just all kind of I 0:16:27.080 --> 0:16:29.280 think this was a Jurassic move they made to get 0:16:29.360 --> 0:16:31.160 rid of all the guys that they did. But I 0:16:31.160 --> 0:16:33.080 think it's a big wake up call, and I think 0:16:33.120 --> 0:16:35.360 it is a rallying cry for this team that we 0:16:35.400 --> 0:16:37.120 need to get together, and it's got to get together 0:16:37.160 --> 0:16:39.360 here soon. Otherwise we're not going to get to play 0:16:39.400 --> 0:16:41.440 baseball and see each other every single day, and that 0:16:41.440 --> 0:16:43.360 can be a hard thing to realize, especially when you're 0:16:43.400 --> 0:16:45.280 a young player, like a lot of these guys still are. 0:16:46.800 --> 0:16:49.200 Brad, I think you made a really good point when 0:16:49.240 --> 0:16:52.560 you were on Must Show a couple hours ago and 0:16:52.840 --> 0:16:55.600 someone asked you about Gunner and his struggles, and you 0:16:55.640 --> 0:16:58.080 think of all of these guys where Gunner, of course, 0:16:58.160 --> 0:17:01.000 was drafted at a high school. Adlee was a one 0:17:01.000 --> 0:17:04.240 to one. Jackson Holliday's a one to one. Colden Cowser 0:17:04.400 --> 0:17:07.119 was a fifth overall pick. A lot of these guys 0:17:07.160 --> 0:17:11.479 have so much pedigree heading into their professional career where 0:17:12.440 --> 0:17:17.320 this is their biggest downturn that they've had maybe in 0:17:17.359 --> 0:17:21.040 their baseball career at this point, and now it's just 0:17:21.600 --> 0:17:22.679 how do you respond? 0:17:23.080 --> 0:17:25.480 How do you get the train back on the track? 0:17:26.280 --> 0:17:28.840 Yeah, and it's tough because a lot of times when 0:17:28.840 --> 0:17:30.800 you're a high round pick, like you said, especially high 0:17:30.800 --> 0:17:34.280 school kids, they never have struggled like it's been, you know, 0:17:34.320 --> 0:17:36.000 your first round pick, second round pick. 0:17:36.240 --> 0:17:37.359 You're dominating high school. 0:17:37.359 --> 0:17:39.280 You get to the minor leagues, that seems like an 0:17:39.280 --> 0:17:41.119 easy test to get to the big leagues with some 0:17:41.160 --> 0:17:44.720 of these guys especially had success immediately, so there you 0:17:44.720 --> 0:17:46.840 think it's just going to be up from there. But 0:17:46.880 --> 0:17:49.200 then there's just there's so much in the game that 0:17:49.400 --> 0:17:52.480 it can you can underperform, you can run into a 0:17:52.520 --> 0:17:53.879 slump and you don't know how to get out of it. 0:17:53.920 --> 0:17:57.440 You don't know where to go to when you're struggling, 0:17:57.440 --> 0:17:59.760 and it's it's got to be tough to try to 0:17:59.760 --> 0:18:01.240 figure it out on the fly like a lot of 0:18:01.240 --> 0:18:03.800 these guys are doing, and you start beating yourself up. 0:18:03.800 --> 0:18:05.840 And I think that's kind of what I had mentioned 0:18:05.840 --> 0:18:06.720 on the show with Gunner. 0:18:06.760 --> 0:18:07.800 I think it's it. 0:18:07.760 --> 0:18:09.800 Is some physical like I said, I think with his 0:18:10.320 --> 0:18:12.840 inside fastball struggles. It's kind of led to some of 0:18:12.880 --> 0:18:14.840 the stuff that's going on, but it's almost like you 0:18:14.840 --> 0:18:17.720 don't even know where to grasp onto to go and 0:18:17.840 --> 0:18:20.600 like use prior experience of struggles or oh I did 0:18:20.640 --> 0:18:23.280 this or this gets you back to like almost neutral 0:18:23.320 --> 0:18:25.760 when you're a player. So I just think it's a 0:18:25.760 --> 0:18:27.840 lot of stuff coming at them at the same time. 0:18:27.880 --> 0:18:30.600 Now you throw your best friends being traded away, and 0:18:30.640 --> 0:18:32.520 you're just kind of thrown for a whirlwind right now. 0:18:32.520 --> 0:18:35.160 I can't even imagine the amount of emotions these guys 0:18:35.160 --> 0:18:37.359 are going through, because when you're in the minor leagues 0:18:37.359 --> 0:18:40.240 and you establish a group like they had, the tightness 0:18:40.240 --> 0:18:42.720 that you have in the minor leagues is like un 0:18:42.800 --> 0:18:45.560 any like unlike anything else that you experience you get 0:18:45.600 --> 0:18:47.600 to the big leagues. Guys have families, you know, the 0:18:47.680 --> 0:18:49.240 age gap is way different. But when you're in the 0:18:49.320 --> 0:18:51.600