Speaker 1: What's up, everybody. It's me Joey p joe Pisapia and
Speaker 1: this is Fantasy pros MLB leading off. That's, of course
Speaker 1: the Welsh, and it's all of you, the Peanuts and
Speaker 1: the Cracker Jacks hanging out here, just talking baseball on
Speaker 1: a fun Friday lot To get to We've got some
Speaker 1: minor league notes, a ton of them, a big injury
Speaker 1: to talk about. But first, you know, Welsh, we have
Speaker 1: an ongoing theme here on the program. You know, some
Speaker 1: say you look like John Lackey. I say you look
Speaker 1: like Rico Bronia when he played with the Arizona Diamondbacks.
Speaker 1: A lot of people think that they see you in places,
Speaker 1: and one of our fans of the show, I wanted
Speaker 1: to point this out, hit us up on the on
Speaker 1: the Twitter machine, and he said that he thought you
Speaker 1: looked like a young mac Miller there, or maybe an
Speaker 1: older mac Miller. He looks like a young.
Speaker 2: Wel a fat or older that looks like a younger wy.
Speaker 1: I gotta tell you, though, I never thought of that one.
Speaker 1: I don't know if you've gotten this one, but I
Speaker 1: wanted to bring this up at the top for all
Speaker 1: the Peanuts and the crack Jacks, everybody watching on demand
Speaker 1: on our YouTube channel Fantasy Words MLB and of course
Speaker 1: live on Twitch, Twitch dot tv Slash Fantasy pros that
Speaker 1: this one. I don't know if you get this when
Speaker 1: you're out, but maybe what you should do is, you know,
Speaker 1: start making some reservations at some restaurants as him, see
Speaker 1: if you can get some better tables.
Speaker 2: What do you think, well, a couple things with that.
Speaker 2: Don't think I can unless we live in zombie world.
Speaker 2: I'm not sure if you're aware Mac Miller is not alive,
Speaker 2: so that.
Speaker 1: Wouldn't people don't know.
Speaker 2: That wouldn't quite work. I have not gotten mac Miller.
Speaker 1: But I will say, of all of the.
Speaker 2: Ones that I've got, I'll take it. I'll take in
Speaker 2: my large, vast chest of variants, like there is an
Speaker 2: entire MCUC the Welsh cinematic universe where I am. I'm
Speaker 2: wack Miller here, I'm definitely the skinnier. I see it.
Speaker 2: I'll take it. I'm here for it. It is not offensive,
Speaker 2: but it is now the long list. The list of
Speaker 2: my variants might be as big as my best friends.
Speaker 2: So I don't know, but yes, there is some. There's
Speaker 2: something there like I said, when I'm skinnier, you know,
Speaker 2: and heavily on drugs, that yeah, definitely.
Speaker 1: Well, there's still time at the end of the show.
Speaker 1: But I'm telling you, I think that there's an opportunity.
Speaker 1: But I think most people don't realize. They just know
Speaker 1: the name. They hear it and they go, oh, and
Speaker 1: then they could google a picture, although if they see
Speaker 1: I guess maybe that kind of ruins it. Oh, you know,
Speaker 1: unlived at some switches of tome zones. Yeah, now I
Speaker 1: couldn't name a Macmiller for you, but but again I
Speaker 1: knew he existed, and you kind of do have a
Speaker 1: mac Miller quality, which is which is fun. I wanted
Speaker 1: to start something that's right. Also, I wanted to start
Speaker 1: the show with something fun because we got depressing news
Speaker 1: at the top of the show. It's big news. A J.
Speaker 1: Smiths shover not good. So it was a weird confluence
Speaker 1: of events yesterday because he got hit by ball right
Speaker 1: that came back at him and everyone's like, oh, no, hope,
Speaker 1: he's okay. He was. He stayed in the game and
Speaker 1: I don't know if it was the next pitch or
Speaker 1: just the next at bat. But then you saw the
Speaker 1: moment where the elbow popped and Spencer Strider, I don't
Speaker 1: know if you saw this and saw the whole thing.
Speaker 1: Spencer Stroyder went immediately to the manager and said, you
Speaker 1: gotta get Hi out of here. You gotta ge him
Speaker 1: out of there. It pop like. Basically he knows, Spencer
Speaker 1: Schrider knows what it looks like. So A J. Smith
Speaker 1: Sharver automatically goes to the il. He's gonna go for
Speaker 1: further evaluation. It's terrible. He's been really good three at
Speaker 1: six ERA. The last start wasn't so hot though, one
Speaker 1: four to two whips, so the trend hadn't been as
Speaker 1: good recently. And I wonder if the elbow had been
Speaker 1: bothering him and he was trying to work through it.
Speaker 1: And now the Braves have a hole in their rotation,
Speaker 1: as do fantasy managers. So let's try to first of
Speaker 1: all talk about where we go from here in Redraft,
Speaker 1: and then what it's gonna look like here for a J.
Speaker 1: Smith Schaffer. They say, well, he's gonna miss a few weeks.
Speaker 1: But Welsh, I think you and I both look at
Speaker 1: this and go it feels like a Tommy John, what's something.
Speaker 2: Pops he's going to need a little bit more than
Speaker 2: just self care. Aj Smith Shaver is in trouble, especially
Speaker 2: because the number one thing I take away from all
Speaker 2: of it is on the mound, he looked at his
Speaker 2: manager and he's like, I heard something pop. That's never good.
Speaker 2: There's never a good ending to that. So yeah, I
Speaker 2: think this is a this is going to be a
Speaker 2: bad run. And I think even after the game they
Speaker 2: said this is like a significant injury, and we know
Speaker 2: what realm that goes. So yeah, he'll take some time off.
Speaker 2: It's probably gonna be for things to taper down. Then
Speaker 2: they're going to take a longer. Look, I would have
Speaker 2: a decent expectation that he's going to miss significant time
Speaker 2: if you got your IEL spots. I'm never one to
Speaker 2: be like just throw out the guy, you know for
Speaker 2: no reason. Even if we think he is going to
Speaker 2: be out for the season, we just don't have a confirmation.
Speaker 2: Go and put it out there, go and go and
Speaker 2: put him on the IEL. Wait to see. But I
Speaker 2: have a full expectation that he's going to be done.
Speaker 2: So he is going to be gonzo in redraft. And
Speaker 2: if this is as bad as we think it's going
Speaker 2: to be. It does hurt the dynasty value, the keeper
Speaker 2: value more than anything, because if you're keeping like eight
Speaker 2: or ten guys, well he might have been in the discussion,
Speaker 2: especially if it was like a cheap coster around. It's
Speaker 2: not just going to be if he's going to miss
Speaker 2: all of next year.
Speaker 1: So this is being dramatic about it. Well, look, Holmes
Speaker 1: will stick in the rotation now we know that. So
Speaker 1: who plugs in that fifth spot for then? Because I
Speaker 1: hold my breath, you know, you get run out of
Speaker 1: the Lopez hurtshaw Vor hurt within the organization? Is there
Speaker 1: somebody that you think can I mean, I don't want
Speaker 1: to see Bryce Elder again, that's for damn sure.
Speaker 2: Well you're probably going to see Bryce Elder. That'll be
Speaker 2: the one. I'll be the one called up. But the
Speaker 2: guy to take a look at, he said a little
Speaker 2: bit of rough go Hurston Waldrip was a guy that
Speaker 2: we saw last year. He kind of moved up pretty quick.
Speaker 1: Still giving up some stuff. He's cleaning up the arsenal.
Speaker 1: Is it gonna be reliever?
Speaker 2: Is he going to be a starter. I think that's
Speaker 2: someone that they could end up taking a look at.
Speaker 2: But one thousand percent they need to go and look
Speaker 2: at the trademarket. I don't know who the trade with
Speaker 2: right now, because you know, Sandy is the pilot garbage
Speaker 2: and what teams are selling and stuff like that, but
Speaker 2: they they are going to be in the market for
Speaker 2: someone one.
Speaker 1: H I just don't see. You know, you're looking at
Speaker 1: the Orioles who are out of it, the White Sox
Speaker 1: who are out of it. The Athletics are starting to
Speaker 1: you know, they're you know, just the record of the
Speaker 1: last in the month of May has just been just dreadful.
Speaker 1: Just overall, the Marlins are out of it. The Pirates
Speaker 1: are out of it. So where does that that arm
Speaker 1: come from? I don't know. I mean, Mitch Keller would
Speaker 1: be the guy I think of all those teams that like,
Speaker 1: I could just say, okay, if there's one guy that
Speaker 1: I'd want, it's Mitch Keller. But we'll keep a close
Speaker 1: eye on that and see what happens. Pitching today. It's
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Speaker 1: So get on there. Lee is trolling me in the chat,
Speaker 1: says a guy from New Jersey wearing Pats gear, Shane Joe.
Speaker 1: First of all, I'm not from New Jersey. I'm from
Speaker 1: New York. And when I grew up in New York,
Speaker 1: I realized a couple of things. Buffalo is very far away,
Speaker 1: and the Jests and Giants played in Jersey. So in
Speaker 1: nineteen ninety three, in my ute, I became a Patriots fan.
Speaker 1: Went through the Bill Parcells years with Willia mc ginnis
Speaker 1: and Chris Slade and Curtis Martin, had Mi drew Bledsoe
Speaker 1: Jersey into the Pete Carroll years and subsequently into the Dynasty.
Speaker 1: So I'm not a bandwagon Patriots fan either, but I
Speaker 1: appreciate Lee you trying to call me out to the table.
Speaker 1: I'm always ready. I'm always ready for you. Let's get
Speaker 1: to another thing here. Chris Sale's always ready. Outstanding performance
Speaker 1: from him. He went got eight strikeouts and six innings.
Speaker 1: Every time him and Wheeler matchup, it's an over. That's
Speaker 1: the second time this year. And I was gonna bet
Speaker 1: it yesterday just on print under, and I was like,
Speaker 1: you know what, because last time I remember specifically, I
Speaker 1: was like, Oh, I'm taking the under. There's no way
Speaker 1: this game goes over wrong, one hundred percent wrong. He
Speaker 1: got his twenty five thousand strikeout. It's actually the least
Speaker 1: amount of innings to get that mark, which I thought
Speaker 1: was pretty impressive for one mister Chris Sale. Not impressive
Speaker 1: Zach Wheeler. I don't know why. He just struggles against
Speaker 1: the Braves. Six runs and four hits, five and a
Speaker 1: third Welsh. Any takeaways from this matchup that again was
Speaker 1: all Chrisale.
Speaker 2: Sale looked phenomenal. I was actually texting with a friend
Speaker 2: of the show, Dennis Sidler, who helped provide us with
Speaker 2: some of the Chris Sales stuff. I mentioned this before,
Speaker 2: but he has a long history. Actually The Athletic wrote
Speaker 2: an article about his relationship with Chris Sale. He's an
Speaker 2: awesome guy. But we were talking about Sale and I
Speaker 2: was just like, there was nobody easier to buy in
Speaker 2: the first.
Speaker 1: Month of the season.
Speaker 2: Is visionist because it doesn't matter now, but there's just
Speaker 2: was like nobody easier to buy that he was going
Speaker 2: to fix it. And he looked lights out yesterday. He was,
Speaker 2: you know, he was giving all the lefties out. Schwarber
Speaker 2: was having fits with him, and he just kind of
Speaker 2: regained it and you know, not taking any like you know,
Speaker 2: like self preservation of like what he did for himself,
Speaker 2: but giving the credit to the pitching coaches and some
Speaker 2: of the other pitchers helping him. And he's still got
Speaker 2: a couple more years into it in this like Hall
Speaker 2: of Fame looking career. But I thought he looked phenomenal.
Speaker 2: But both of these guys look good early on, because
Speaker 2: I watched this game through like the first four or so,
Speaker 2: and then it opened up and it was that one
Speaker 2: beginning foreign runs, Ozzie hitting that big homer through the
Speaker 2: first three. These guys both looked like this was going
Speaker 2: to be a one nothing game. So I don't know
Speaker 2: what the takeaway is outside of like, Chris Sale has
Speaker 2: vaulted bout go. Actually, let me ask you, Chris Sailor
Speaker 2: Jacob the Groom rest of season Chris Sale.
Speaker 1: That's that's easy. I got no chill on that one, Welsh,
Speaker 1: how about you? Yeah, No, I'm Chris, I'm Chrisselle as well. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean that's it's a pretty easy one right there.
Speaker 1: Breaking news too. Taylor Simpson just got sent down and
Speaker 1: I had to go run to verify. Not that I
Speaker 1: don't trust the Penis and the Crackerjacks, but they reinstated
Speaker 1: Jake Mangham an option Taylor Simpson. This is this is
Speaker 1: a fantasy tragedy. He had three steals yesterday.
Speaker 2: About ninety seconds ago. If you rewind, you'll see my
Speaker 2: face react.
Speaker 1: I probably got a little bit that one was like,
Speaker 1: and I was like, that can't be true, right.
Speaker 2: But I didn't want to jump over you, and since
Speaker 2: I knew we had a ray coming up, I was going.
Speaker 1: To wait to do it. It's too big.
Speaker 2: I am shocked that they did this. One hundred percent
Speaker 2: manipulation has to be based on service time of you
Speaker 2: know what, excuse me, what amount of time he would
Speaker 2: be in the majors. They have to be sending him down.
Speaker 2: So he goes under that number because there is no reason.
Speaker 2: He has been lights out, the averages up, He's stealing bases,
Speaker 2: he makes tons of contact. It makes this isn't Jordan
Speaker 2: Walker from that year, Remember he two seventy and they
Speaker 2: sent him down. This makes no sense.
Speaker 1: Out of pure manipulation.
Speaker 2: This is this one actually shocks me. I couldn't believe
Speaker 2: when I saw it. I was like, this doesn't look real.
Speaker 1: I it's wow. I mean I feel manipulated with just
Speaker 1: as a as a fantasy person. So and it's funny
Speaker 1: because our fantasy bros. League. I just picked him up,
Speaker 1: and I was like, you know what, I need some
Speaker 1: more stolen bases here. I'm gonna pick up Simpson. You know,
Speaker 1: I just can't ignore it anymore. I can. I can
Speaker 1: handle him in that lineup I have, and then he
Speaker 1: gets sent out. Today it's raise raised with Simpsons. Do
Speaker 1: God anyway? At least another Ray's been good. Junior Camerarow
Speaker 1: three for five with a homer, career high six Ribbies.
Speaker 1: He's been hot. We've been talking about it. So remember
Speaker 1: he's only twenty one years old. I think people forget
Speaker 1: that sometimes about Junior Camonaro. He's still just a boy.
Speaker 1: Sure the slash is still not great, but this is
Speaker 1: what we want. We want him to get red hot
Speaker 1: and hopefully this continues. Mackenzie Gore, I bet the under
Speaker 1: on the seven and a half and of course he
Speaker 1: went eight strikeouts, so good for him. He's the first
Speaker 1: guy to reach one hundred strikeouts. Do you other nationals
Speaker 1: have been the first in a season to reach one
Speaker 1: hundred strikeouts? Welsh, peanuts and cracker Jacks. Would you like
Speaker 1: to guess whom that might.
Speaker 2: Be that said, well, I'm sorry, what was it that
Speaker 2: they reached?
Speaker 1: There's one two nationals who have been the first in
Speaker 1: the season to reach one hundred strikeouts? Okay, Strasburg has
Speaker 1: got the one that is one and then sure that
Speaker 1: is correct. Gosh, you're so smart and handsome, so good.
Speaker 1: Oh you're so you're handsome, You're smart. You've got it all,
Speaker 1: You've got it all. Good enough, I'm smart enough, you know,
Speaker 1: gotsh People like you, they do, they like you Welsh?
Speaker 1: All right, let's continue. I'm trying to drop Chandler since
Speaker 1: oh wait, hold on, go ahead.
Speaker 2: No, yeah, hold on on, McKinsey Gore.
Speaker 1: I wanted to stop here. McKinsey gore is so.
Speaker 2: Tough from evaluation tough, but I think, sorry, you got me.
Speaker 2: He I think he tests the limits of like do
Speaker 2: I sell super high on him versus wanting to, you know,
Speaker 2: keep going.
Speaker 1: I think you want to keep going on.
Speaker 2: I think McKenzie gore is pushing that line as obviously
Speaker 2: he's performed at the level of like a top ten
Speaker 2: sp this year. But you look, he's lowered his walks
Speaker 2: this year while raising the strikeouts thirty six percent k percentage,
Speaker 2: seven percent walk rate. It's a sub three and a
Speaker 2: half ERA, which is phenomenal. And it's been that secondary
Speaker 2: stuff man his curveball and slider forty six and forty
Speaker 2: nine percent withff rate. As a matter of fact, I've
Speaker 2: mentioned this before, it's still holding those five pitches. Four
Speaker 2: of those five pitches have a forty six or higher
Speaker 2: percent withff rate. And his fastball has been pretty money
Speaker 2: as well, even though it's got a three eight hundred
Speaker 2: batting average against. I think mackenzi Gore has solidified himself
Speaker 2: as a no doubt top fifteen sp the rest of
Speaker 2: the year, and I think there's some tough decisions out there.
Speaker 2: I'll give you one right now. I think mckenzi Gore
Speaker 2: for with George Kirby rest of the year, and I
Speaker 2: don't know how that feels with him healthy, that's okay.
Speaker 2: I mean he got banged up a little bit. But
Speaker 2: like you think about the value, I think there's some
Speaker 2: other big ones. How about Framber Valdez or mckenzigre.
Speaker 1: And head to here because I want those big strikeout
Speaker 1: totals in a weekly basis, but Framber in a I
Speaker 1: think Framer gives you more wins and rodeo in the
Speaker 1: season long. And Framer's just so solid, like he's just
Speaker 1: such an underpet. You know. That's like my soft spot
Speaker 1: is Framer Valdez. You know that I love Framburke. You know,
Speaker 1: if I was having a rotation and he was, if
Speaker 1: we were doing like some MLB the show startup, I'd
Speaker 1: want Framber Valdez in the draft in my rotation. I
Speaker 1: just want that guy, like he's just a good pitcher.
Speaker 1: But it's I get it. I mean, in certain formats,
Speaker 1: especially with strikeouts matter more, or strikeouts are two points
Speaker 1: or something. I want Gore, that's for sure. Shout out
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Speaker 1: Ernie Clement, how about a day for him? I'm bout
Speaker 1: day for the Blue Jays. Can we just talk about
Speaker 1: that for a second. Three for five with a homer
Speaker 1: for Clement, a double five ribies, Bobashet hit a homer
Speaker 1: in double vlad hit his eighth homer in the season.
Speaker 1: Jose had nine strikeouts. The athletics are struggle bus and
Speaker 1: a good night for the Blue Jays, Welsh, very good
Speaker 1: night for the Blue very good night for well.
Speaker 2: With the Vladimir Guerrero homer, beating up on Lopez and
Speaker 2: beating up on the Ages.
Speaker 1: We both got home.
Speaker 2: And I did that was nice, super annoying. By the way,
Speaker 2: you hadn't had a homer in forever. I had really
Speaker 2: wasn't kidding any and it was like, let me get
Speaker 2: a little bit more of a lead. But you and
Speaker 2: I are still a little bit hard Away definitely annoyed
Speaker 2: that of all the day.
Speaker 1: Home together forever. It's been a week. I was a
Speaker 1: little cold. I'm back, I'm back. Let's go Ozzi Alby's
Speaker 1: he was cold, but he's starting to heat up too.
Speaker 1: Don't look now. We talked about just sometimes just by
Speaker 1: low on a player on principal. Ozzie Alby is one
Speaker 1: of those guys. He homer walked, drove in three runs yesterday,
Speaker 1: so good for him and Mike Trout apparently is going
Speaker 1: to return today. Welsh, how are your feelings about that?
Speaker 1: My feelings are no rehabit. It's a great day. Branda
Speaker 1: Woodriff needs five thousand up starts. Mike Trout needs zero
Speaker 1: at bats to get ready. Right, Yeah, well, I mean
Speaker 1: what you I guess Trout missed a lot. He's been
Speaker 1: He's in a month, hasn't he Am I crazy?
Speaker 2: Or it's a completely different world. He's play a different
Speaker 2: world for pitchers and stuff like that. But Trout, like
Speaker 2: all we heard with Trout was like, hey, ran around
Speaker 2: the field, he played catch.
Speaker 1: Now he's in a game. I don't know.
Speaker 2: Maybe those are the things that keep getting him hurt.
Speaker 2: Maybe he should kind of play through and get things going.
Speaker 2: But I'm not complaining. I'm very glad that he's back.
Speaker 2: I want to go back just one step really quick.
Speaker 2: Do you are you like a massive buyer right now
Speaker 2: in Azy Abbey's because let's say he's kind of like
Speaker 2: even back out a tiny bit now we're not on
Speaker 2: the super low average is coming back up two forty one,
Speaker 2: six homers, five stolen bases, Acuna's back in the lineup.
Speaker 2: Do you want to get out and buy on Albi's
Speaker 2: that he's going to be a top let's say, four
Speaker 2: second basement rest of season? Are you still worried about
Speaker 2: all the things that got us here that had been
Speaker 2: kind of tapered down for him?
Speaker 1: I don't know if you can still low on him
Speaker 1: after the last two Yeah, that's what I'm saying.
Speaker 2: It's kind of medium. It's like you can't buy some because.
Speaker 1: Hundred multiple times. And maybe I don't know, maybe he's
Speaker 1: just better when we're on the Cooni's around. Maybe that's
Speaker 1: his buddy, and maybe mentally it takes pressure. I don't
Speaker 1: know what it is, but all I can tell you is,
Speaker 1: you know, a Coonia wasn't around last year and Alb's
Speaker 1: slumped and a Coonie has gotten back and Alby's picked
Speaker 1: it up again. I don't know. I don't think there's
Speaker 1: a there's no rhyme or reason for that. But he's
Speaker 1: done too much good in his career for me to
Speaker 1: write it off. I'll buy medium on Ossie Albi's I'm
Speaker 1: not buying a price though, still on principle because there
Speaker 1: was enough bad last year and enough bad this first
Speaker 1: month and a half of the season. But the last
Speaker 1: couple of weeks are encouraging. But again, this is why
Speaker 1: you watch the shows, is why you subscribe to the channel,
Speaker 1: so you don't have to have these kind of problems.
Speaker 1: Problems also for the Dodgers Bullpen lately with Tenor Scott's struggling.
Speaker 1: Interesting transaction they acquired Alexis ds from the reds now
Speaker 1: Das once upon a time was a closer for the
Speaker 1: last couple of years. Do you think is any possibility
Speaker 1: in deeper leagues where Alexis Daz somebody you kind of
Speaker 1: and see if they can get right and maybe starts
Speaker 1: to work into that closer role for the Dodgers.
Speaker 2: Oh, possibilities out there, for sure, But I think he's
Speaker 2: got a little ways to go. His fastball completely tanked.
Speaker 2: Inosara's put out a tweet you can see and just
Speaker 2: a rolling chart of just how bad it had kind.
Speaker 1: Of tanked down.
Speaker 2: I think what they did was they provided themselves with depth,
Speaker 2: but not a for sure guy, you know, just a
Speaker 2: hunch put in there Copeck, a dark horse or the closer.
Speaker 2: I completely agree with that, because he's out there playing
Speaker 2: right now that you're gonna have, let's say in.
Speaker 1: Two or three weeks.
Speaker 2: In theory, you could have Kopek, you could have Alexi's Dias,
Speaker 2: and you could have Tanner Scott in there. And I
Speaker 2: think they're going to try some other stuff out. They've
Speaker 2: got to rework Alexis Diaz to get that fastball back,
Speaker 2: and he has got closer stuff. It just might not
Speaker 2: be in enough time that a guy like Michael Kopek
Speaker 2: could take it over or Tanner Scott gets right.
Speaker 1: Tanner Scott has.
Speaker 2: Had this little clump of these bad blow ups that
Speaker 2: I'm not one hundred percent sure will take him out.
Speaker 2: But I do think when Copek is active, they might
Speaker 2: play around with like a Leveragy situation. If there's more lefties,
Speaker 2: maybe Tanner Scott comes in the eighth and then Kopek
Speaker 2: can get a save. I'm personally not running to the
Speaker 2: wire to go pick up Alex's DS right now thinking
Speaker 2: I'm getting saves next week, because even if he were
Speaker 2: to be up in the Mangers, I don't think he's
Speaker 2: gonna be thrust into that role quite yet, and frankly,
Speaker 2: he might not at all this season. This is a
Speaker 2: later year type of thing. If it happens, great speculation.
Speaker 2: Why the hell would any other team not speculate on
Speaker 2: a guy who's been a former closer unless you can't
Speaker 2: go and rework. So I mean, if you got to
Speaker 2: just fix that fastball, every organization should have guys that
Speaker 2: can rework this. Why do the Dodgers get to make that?
Speaker 1: Why they can't keep gonna go away with this? But
Speaker 1: you know what, it's Jesse Pinkman. Look, I think this
Speaker 1: is the perfect Tanner Scott by though, because those people
Speaker 1: are panicking they see the DS signing like this really
Speaker 1: is the weekend to go by on Tanner Scott because
Speaker 1: I still think it's hard to imagine what they're paying him.
Speaker 1: That he loses that role like he it would have
Speaker 1: to be bad for a long period of time. Also,
Speaker 1: bad news and something we were concerned with. Jordan Lawler
Speaker 1: optioned back down to Triple A, so I thought this
Speaker 1: would be the big guy option that we would be
Speaker 1: you know, pulling our hair out about metaphorically speaking of course.
Speaker 1: But when you're looking at Lawler, he just wasn't playing,
Speaker 1: And I think that's that was the odd part. When
Speaker 1: they called him up, we all said, well, where's he
Speaker 1: gonna play? Well, we have a plan. We're gonna play
Speaker 1: in four days. Yeah, sure you are, buddy. I mean,
Speaker 1: this is a hot mess here, I mean very frustrating
Speaker 1: here for Lawler. Lawler should be a chip that some
Speaker 1: team goes out there and tries to pry away and
Speaker 1: give the Diamondbacks something because I just don't know what
Speaker 1: else to create him.
Speaker 2: It would be it would be a great point if
Speaker 2: the Diamondbacks were like a really good team.
Speaker 1: They're not.
Speaker 2: They're going to be more likely to go sell off
Speaker 2: pieces that are going to be coming off the book soon.
Speaker 2: Zach Allen Ihanio Swarez.
Speaker 1: I don't think a half the ra well.
Speaker 2: I mean, if if he bounces back, good point, who
Speaker 2: wants Sandy OCNCA they might not be able to. But
Speaker 2: the Diamondbacks are not good enough where you're gonna sell an.
Speaker 2: I mean, I guess to your point, if there was
Speaker 2: a trade out there and was that piece, maybe they
Speaker 2: think they can just bounce.
Speaker 1: Back past Really tough to tell Wildcard Walsh.
Speaker 2: I think they are going to in a couple of
Speaker 2: weeks be closer to sellers than they are going to
Speaker 2: be buyers. But I just don't know your point's valid
Speaker 2: on Lawler, Like what are you doing with him? I
Speaker 2: feel bad because it's like we talk about the insanity
Speaker 2: he was in Triple A. He was one of the
Speaker 2: best minor leaguers there. But then as soon as he
Speaker 2: was coming up, I even came on here to say, like,
Speaker 2: we are going to hold stuff back a little bit
Speaker 2: because I think there could be value, but we have
Speaker 2: to temper our expectations. And then Tory Lavella just lied
Speaker 2: to our faces. Uh, they did not give him the
Speaker 2: playing time he also there's there's an article that was
Speaker 2: written about this that there was some clear breaking breaking
Speaker 2: ball struggles against righty's that he had in Triple A
Speaker 2: that got completely exploited at the major leagues, where all
Speaker 2: he did was strikeout, had no hits offensively look like
Speaker 2: a mess and it's we're like three years into this
Speaker 2: thing with him, so it is messy, it's dirty. I
Speaker 2: don't know what the trade would look like, and I
Speaker 2: think the Diamondbacks are in a weird spot. But as
Speaker 2: I was asked about a week ago, someone was like, Hey,
Speaker 2: how much longer a re lease should I hold on Lawler?
Speaker 2: You shouldn't because he wasn't getting the playing time and
Speaker 2: he's been optioned again for in the.
Speaker 1: Middle of Vargas Vargas whatever. The first thing, you know, like,
Speaker 1: it's it's ridiculous where he's at right now. So that's
Speaker 1: like that nick over the other guy past the password.
Speaker 1: Here's a question from keV. Mo was offered six dollars
Speaker 1: camon arow five dollars YEARI Perez for my twenty three dollars,
Speaker 1: Reagans an eight dollars Shaw and a keeper points league
Speaker 1: do you trust? Do you just do the Camanaro for
Speaker 1: Reagans or Shaw for Perez individually too? I feel like
Speaker 1: I answered this question once before already, so keVs keV
Speaker 1: really wants this. Maybe it was on the Twitter machine,
Speaker 1: So Welsh, what's your take on this one?
Speaker 2: I think like Reagan's is a little bit more of
Speaker 2: like a win Ish now piece. But I mean I
Speaker 2: want I want the in a vacuum.
Speaker 1: I kind of want.
Speaker 2: Camanaro Perez if you're rebuilding at all, absolute no brainer.
Speaker 2: But you can Reagan's for Camonaro. That's a total keeper
Speaker 2: piece trade. I'd rather have Uri over Matt Shaw, So yeah,
Speaker 2: I like that.
Speaker 1: I like that some on the Camanaro side too. Sometimes
Speaker 1: the best trades are the ones you don't make. Let's
Speaker 1: get to the rookie. Lookie here Angels prospect who Welsh
Speaker 1: was just mentioning the earlier this week. Christian Moore two
Speaker 1: for five, two Ribby's runs scored on Triple A yesterday
Speaker 1: at Salt Lake City. He's now thirteen for thirty one,
Speaker 1: four nineteen batting average in his last eight games and
Speaker 1: Triple A's got a homer in ten. RBIs with three
Speaker 1: stolen bases. So if you need some help in second
Speaker 1: base world in some of your deeper leagues, more might
Speaker 1: be a stash right now, Welsh.
Speaker 2: I completely agree. I think he will be up in
Speaker 2: the nearest future. I think they also let go of
Speaker 2: Tim Anderson because you brought in Chris Taylor into the fold.
Speaker 2: But you know, Christian Moore, he's kind of figured it out.
Speaker 2: Double A was this weird thing. It's also not a
Speaker 2: thing that the Angels do a lot. They usually don't
Speaker 2: send guys to Triple A, and they've let him figure
Speaker 2: things out. I think they're finally doing the right thing
Speaker 2: where they're gonna really want him to be prepared. I
Speaker 2: would expect him in the next month or so, he's
Speaker 2: going to be a guy that we're going to see.
Speaker 2: And you know, if this as this team kind of
Speaker 2: falls apart a little bit, probably gonna move on to
Speaker 2: some pieces, does it you know, do you really need
Speaker 2: you on Mankata?
Speaker 1: Did you need Tim Anderson?
Speaker 2: Get those guys, push those guys to the side, and
Speaker 2: like guys like Christian morgana.
Speaker 1: It is funny gold Monkey. I was watching Catching On
Speaker 1: with Jeopardy and last night Justin Nixon Garcia was a
Speaker 1: clue on Monday, and I knew the answer from watching
Speaker 1: this show. There you go, there you go. See we're
Speaker 1: making people smarter here or leading off this. This is
Speaker 1: what we do. Now. You're not gonna see Cole Young
Speaker 1: probably anytime soon for the Mariners at least it I'll
Speaker 1: think so. But just want to say he was five
Speaker 1: for six with two runs. Well, he's blocked another guy.
Speaker 1: Crawford's there. Why you think they'll move on from Crawford.
Speaker 2: I don't, no, I don't, well no, but Crawford is
Speaker 2: their shortstopko stop. Definitely, no, definitely more prone to be
Speaker 2: a second basement. You know, this is funny that this
Speaker 2: one is brought up because I've had had him on
Speaker 2: this like long list of redraft prospects but hadn't done
Speaker 2: anything with it. He is murder balling everything in Triple A,
Speaker 2: and there had been some rumors that had floated around
Speaker 2: about him coming up to the majors. I actually think,
Speaker 2: like next week we're gonna have to have a talk
Speaker 2: about him on prospecting with the Welsh because I think
Speaker 2: we're getting close. I really do think we're getting close.
Speaker 2: And I think second, he played second base in the AFL.
Speaker 2: He moved over there, he got hurt a little bit.
Speaker 2: He's played a ton of second base because they also
Speaker 2: have Colt Emerson who's on that team, who is a
Speaker 2: I don't want to say world class, but a higher
Speaker 2: class defensive shortstop. So Cole Young can definitely move over
Speaker 2: and be a second basement and you got Polanco over
Speaker 2: at third.
Speaker 1: I think it's I think it's And he's done nothing
Speaker 1: for you know a while. Have that right? Well, they
Speaker 1: had Ryan Bliss second base before you hurt. I cant
Speaker 1: always hurt too. But I like the teas for prospecting
Speaker 1: with the Welsh Christian Moore Cole Young, We've got some
Speaker 1: new names. I don't want to talk about Bubba Chandler anymore.
Speaker 1: One day, if I show up and Bubba Chandler is
Speaker 1: in that sheet for any other reason besides he got
Speaker 1: called up, we're gonna have words. Also, speaking of the Pirates,
Speaker 1: Thomas Harrington nine runs.
Speaker 2: You and Cody and Anaheim both don't want to walk.
Speaker 1: Thomas Harrington nine runs, nine hits and three to two thirds.
Speaker 1: Not a good outing for him. Brady House of the
Speaker 1: Nationals though, two hits, homer, two walks in triple A,
Speaker 1: David Festa five scols in triple A by the way,
Speaker 1: House just putting his out there. Nine for twenty one
Speaker 1: with two homers, two doubles his last five games, so
Speaker 1: he's really heating up. He does strike out a little bit,
Speaker 1: but a guy to keep an eye on. Blade Tidwell
Speaker 1: of the Mets system eleven strikeouts in five and two
Speaker 1: thirds for Triple A Syracuse. Also for the Mets, running
Speaker 1: Mauricio Homer again, reach base three more times and now
Speaker 1: he's hitting five sixty wash with three homers in seven games.
Speaker 1: Mauricio is definitely pushing for some kind of opportunities sooner
Speaker 1: than later, so he might be another Stash Kumar Rocker
Speaker 1: four innings for him, struck out five and Triple A
Speaker 1: he's gonna be back soon. And then our friend Jack Caglione,
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Speaker 1: it just never stops, he never stops hitting, and he
Speaker 1: had a double yesterday in the game. He is just
Speaker 1: absolutely raked in triple A. And what are you doing
Speaker 1: right now if you're the Royals, Like, what do you
Speaker 1: have to lose? I understand the control. I understand, like
Speaker 1: we've got to wait till June. But the minute the
Speaker 1: clock strikes midnight on Super two, you must, Kansas City Royals.
Speaker 1: Give this guy a chance. I don't care if he
Speaker 1: strikes out. You need to give him an opportunity. You
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Speaker 1: I wrong or am I right? About this Caglione thing? Like,
Speaker 1: come on, he's got nothing to learn? Like, am I
Speaker 1: not wrong? Or am I right? Yeah? I mean Jack
Speaker 1: Kegley oone should be up.
Speaker 2: There's a there's a report out from some of the
Speaker 2: like royal blogs that are kind of connected and stuff
Speaker 2: that we might be in a two week window of cats.
Speaker 2: Anything can happen, of course, but he's working with some
Speaker 2: of the you know, some of the hiring coaches the outfield.
Speaker 1: He's been in the icefield. One of my favorite players.
Speaker 1: I didn't want to say actually autograph of this player.
Speaker 1: I had a sures of this player because it was
Speaker 1: a player that was beloved by me and a good
Speaker 1: friend of mine in high school. It was an ongoing bit.
Speaker 1: It was Rusty Kuntz. I wonder why he was Rusty
Speaker 1: Kuntz who played for the Royals and he played for
Speaker 1: the White Sauce Rusty k Rusty Kuntz ku t z Koontz.
Speaker 1: There's no n in there. Oh No, there isn't it? Yeah,
Speaker 1: Rusty Rusty. No, but keeps saying that's his name. It's name.
Speaker 1: It's not Coon's, it's it's not it's not an Oh,
Speaker 1: there's no double O in there. It's a you. It's okay,
Speaker 1: we're not gonna get canceled for this. I was trying
Speaker 1: to avoid. I was, and I forgot, and you saved
Speaker 1: me from forgetting. So now I'm really excited because that's
Speaker 1: a pros pro. He's out there, and you know what,
Speaker 1: if you can't learn something new from Rusty Kuntz, then
Speaker 1: you're lost. And Jack hag Leon's learning from one of
Speaker 1: the best. He's been there forever. He's been around forever.
Speaker 1: You know, he's played on lots of teams. He's been around.
Speaker 1: Let me tell you, Rusty has been around the major
Speaker 1: leagues for many years. That's all I have to say.
Speaker 1: You got you got me. That's his name, just like
Speaker 1: that the guy's name we can't pronounce. It's just his
Speaker 1: name who Dick fits well. More on him maybe later
Speaker 1: in the show. Fun Fact kent to my Aida, kent
Speaker 1: to my Aida. Gave him nine runs yesterday. He just
Speaker 1: got three outs in his start at triple Ah poor
Speaker 1: kentamayta As three up and three down. Luis Garcia four hits,
Speaker 1: drove in two runs. Nice to see him have a
Speaker 1: good day. Austin Riley two for three, a double and
Speaker 1: a homer, two walks and four rebis and Chandler Simpson,
Speaker 1: who was in the ups, got sent down. This is terrible.
Speaker 1: Three stolen bases yesterday, one for four with a walk,
Speaker 1: a run scored, I mean three steals. Ugh the downs.
Speaker 1: Ryan Gusto struggled, obviously not a good night for him.
Speaker 1: Jordan Romano walked three guys, but he didn't give up
Speaker 1: a run. Somehow came away with the save of Romano
Speaker 1: was not the answer, A Phillies right back to square one.
Speaker 1: And you know the interesting thing, Welsh and I was
Speaker 1: just looking at this when we were talking about the
Speaker 1: standings of teams. When you check out, you know, on
Speaker 1: you look at the standings page, you could see how
Speaker 1: teams have done against teams that are over five hundred.
Speaker 1: You know what I'm talking about. The Phillies are just
Speaker 1: thirteen and twelve, where the Mets are eighteen and ten
Speaker 1: against teams over five hundred. I think that matters, and
Speaker 1: I think that's a really interesting stat that when push
Speaker 1: comes to shove here for the phil I still believe
Speaker 1: in the Phillies pitching is gonna be good enough to
Speaker 1: win over that division. But I'm still terrified that that
Speaker 1: bullpen's not going to be enough, and they got to
Speaker 1: make a move and I just don't know where it's
Speaker 1: coming from. H and Jacob Lopez and need to make
Speaker 1: a move in the rotation. But yeah, well, I mean,
Speaker 1: what are you gonna do where the closure coming from?
Speaker 1: Like you gonna make Ranger Suarez or closer? I don't
Speaker 1: think so, Oh, you're talking about the Phillies.
Speaker 2: I'm sorry, think you're talking about the Yeah, you need more.
Speaker 1: Because Alvarado is not coming back for the playoffs, you know,
Speaker 1: he is ineligible.
Speaker 2: Well, one of the things that can happen is what
Speaker 2: they're gonna do with Andrew Painter. Another prospect you want
Speaker 2: to talk about. Andrew Painter has been lights out. He's
Speaker 2: in triple A. He's getting up to seventy pitches. Would
Speaker 2: they possibly kind of diminish that to be maybe in
Speaker 2: like a bullpen roll to you know, like the old
Speaker 2: Chris Sale, like have him in relief for a year.
Speaker 2: I actually think that's a possibility. He's throwing a lot
Speaker 2: of cutters fastballs. You know, he can up his velo
Speaker 2: or do you put him in the rotation and then
Speaker 2: do you throw somebody? I mean, ranger doesn't really make sense.
Speaker 2: I'm really not sure what you do. But you could
Speaker 2: kind of move that through, but I don't know. Andrew
Speaker 2: Painter's gonna make it kind of We see.
Speaker 1: The discussion about our beloved Rusty got We didn't but
Speaker 1: the chat got flagged Intwitch for commenting about did they
Speaker 1: really It's Friday? Everybody lighting up? It's fun. Jacob Lopez
Speaker 1: he sucked spelled to the k. By the way, Hey,
Speaker 1: that's how you say it's not a c your animals.
Speaker 1: Jacob Lopez seven runs, six hits and an inning and
Speaker 1: two thirds. He's been terrible. The athletics pitching's been terrible.
Speaker 1: What more can I say? I thought the A's were
Speaker 1: gonna be fun. Uh, they started off fun and now
Speaker 1: they've just absolutely fell apart. But maybe some good news
Speaker 1: as JJ Blede went four or five with a double
Speaker 1: stolen base. He's falling around. You might want to pick
Speaker 1: him up if you need some outfield help. Because Austin
Speaker 1: Hayes went on the IL ten days for him with
Speaker 1: a left foot contusion. Logan Gilbert won running one and
Speaker 1: two thirds innings and triple A and Colton Kowser, rehabbing
Speaker 1: from a broken thumb, had three doubles in four at bats.
Speaker 1: So JJ blday, I want to go back to him
Speaker 1: for a second Welsh because was it Denzel Clark? Is
Speaker 1: that who was the guy they brought up there? Right?
Speaker 1: He has like forty eight strikeouts and forty eight at
Speaker 1: bats I think or something. Sodastrom's completely stopped hitting. I've
Speaker 1: seen a lot of Sodastrom stuff in the chat. You're
Speaker 1: welcome everybody, for those of you who traded him at
Speaker 1: the in the first of May. But the Athletics are
Speaker 1: in a bad spot right now. You know, Butler's come around,
Speaker 1: but all of a sudden, Kurt's got hurt, Sodastrom stopped hitting.
Speaker 1: The pitching's just been terrible, and I don't know if
Speaker 1: there's a way out of this for the Athletics, do you.
Speaker 2: Well, They've got a lot of guys in the miners.
Speaker 2: I mean, Bliday was if you're alluding to the JJ
Speaker 2: Bleday is going to be up soon. He was just
Speaker 2: sent down because he was part of the problem. He
Speaker 2: could definitely come back up. But they've also got this guy,
Speaker 2: Henry Bolt, fantastic baseball name, really good player, power, speed, combination,
Speaker 2: Colby Thomas, players that I thought would actually be up
Speaker 2: before Clark and probably will be up soon in place
Speaker 2: of Denzel Clark because as you mentioned, he has a
Speaker 2: seventy eight percent K percentage.
Speaker 1: That's tough to do.
Speaker 2: It's a short sample size, but it's hard to strike
Speaker 2: out almost eighty percent of the time. Henry Colby Thomas,
Speaker 2: I think the asier MESSI they're kind of reckon shop
Speaker 2: here changing the whole thing out. But JJ blu Day
Speaker 2: was part of the problem, so I'm not one hundred
Speaker 2: percent sure he's going to be the first to go
Speaker 2: to So I actually think it should be Colby Thomas,
Speaker 2: and he's a.
Speaker 1: Big power bat.
Speaker 2: We'll see, but I think over the next month, if
Speaker 2: these things keep falling apart. They're going to just start
Speaker 2: designating and guys like miguelan you Are or JJ Bladay.
Speaker 2: I think those are the ones that could get optioned
Speaker 2: in place of this plethora of outfield prospects at Triple
Speaker 2: A that they have.
Speaker 1: Walkie Penguins says. Baseball Reference says, his name is pronounced Klutz,
Speaker 1: Sure it is, yeah, how I was saying. How I
Speaker 1: was saying to remember Phil Rizzuto and many other announcers
Speaker 1: in the eighties and the early eighties of my youth,
Speaker 1: when he was playing, They did not pronounce it that way.
Speaker 1: Nobody did. They just accepted it and they moved on
Speaker 1: and that was it. One of my favorite things, too,
Speaker 1: is listening. I remember as a kid trying to listen
Speaker 1: to Ralph Kiner pronounce any anyone's name that was not American.
Speaker 1: The funniest thing ever, like because he was because he
Speaker 1: was usually drunk somewhere around the fourth or fifth inning
Speaker 1: of most games, and hilarious. I remember there was a
Speaker 1: catcher in the Cubs named Hector Villanueva. This is a
Speaker 1: true story. I have ever told this story to you. Welsh.
Speaker 1: The Hector Villaneev's all right, this is a great story,
Speaker 1: and then we'll move on. So there was a big
Speaker 1: hefty catcher, right big you a big guy, uh and
Speaker 1: his name was Hector Villan Oeva and Ralph Kiner. The
Speaker 1: first time he got he goes, I'll bring to the
Speaker 1: plate Villain o'wavy. He's a yeah, fresh up from Triple A.
Speaker 1: Blah blah blah. He just didn't quite get it. Second
Speaker 1: time up, it's a true story. I'll bring up the
Speaker 1: Cubs catcher Hector well Vellan von uh oh for one
Speaker 1: on the day. The third time he came up, he goes,
Speaker 1: and I'll bring up the hefty catcher from the Cubs.
Speaker 1: Here's a big boy. He's a big boy. Should we
Speaker 1: bring back drunk analysts? Should that be?
Speaker 2: Like who is the last? Like true drunk in the booth?
Speaker 2: I think it's Mark Grace. But I think it's Mark Grace.
Speaker 1: You know what, I'm all for that It makes the
Speaker 1: Harry Doyle school of broadcasting. I want open for business.
Speaker 1: I want to I want to see it.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean Harry Carey was like the epitome of it.
Speaker 2: But like Mark Grace is the last? Like getting lit
Speaker 2: during the game announcer that I can remember.
Speaker 1: It's all very straight lace it is. There's very little
Speaker 1: room for error. And everyone's name is Koontz, even though
Speaker 1: it's not spelled that way. All right, all right, let's
Speaker 1: get to our best bets of Friday with Joey p
Speaker 1: in the Welsh David Peterson David Peenison dammit over six
Speaker 1: strikeouts plus one oh eight today against two the Colorado Rockies.
Speaker 1: Why because they're the worst. They can't hit anywhere anytime,
Speaker 1: any plays. They're terrible. And Peterson's been pretty solid. They
Speaker 1: strike out a ton and Pearson's been really solid. You're
Speaker 1: getting plus money. I'm gonna take it today. You can
Speaker 1: pair that with the Mets on the money line as
Speaker 1: well if you want to increase that. But I got
Speaker 1: another bet for you with the other team from across
Speaker 1: town that's traveling across the country, and that's the Yankees
Speaker 1: on the run line tonight with Max Freed against the Dodgers.
Speaker 1: That's right on the run line. I said it minus
Speaker 1: one and a half at plus one twenty for the
Speaker 1: Yankees to beat the Dodgers in their own building. And
Speaker 1: Aaron Judge with an RBI minus one oh five. You
Speaker 1: put those two things together for a little same game
Speaker 1: parlay you get plus two thirteen. Those are my bets
Speaker 1: for fun Friday. How about you, Welsh, what do you have?
Speaker 1: Let's go plus money.
Speaker 2: San Diego run line minus one and a half. We
Speaker 2: got Nick Povetta going Mitch Keller, but the Pirates stinky
Speaker 2: San Diego run line minus one and half.
Speaker 1: Really like that one.
Speaker 2: We're gonna go with Marl Kelly over four and a
Speaker 2: half strikeouts. The pretty essentially the number two pitcher for
Speaker 2: the Diamondbacks is they've only got two right now. It's
Speaker 2: Corbyn burns him and then everything else is LA four
Speaker 2: and a half strikeouts.
Speaker 1: Minus one twenty.
Speaker 2: Nationals can get a little bit tougher, but bottom of
Speaker 2: that lineup, I think it's gonna be a little bit
Speaker 2: more susceptible. And Merrel's been going deeper into games, and
Speaker 2: then I like an alt line play Max Free. Max
Speaker 2: Freed at six strikeouts is plus one thirty five today
Speaker 2: going up against obviously a Dodger team where if he's
Speaker 2: getting touched up, that's the problem, but the Dodgers are
Speaker 2: gonna strike out. They are going to strike out. Max
Speaker 2: Freed has been one of the best pitchers in Baseball
Speaker 2: so far this year. I love an alt line at
Speaker 2: dis plus money, so San Diego and the Freed one
Speaker 2: really jumped out as far as just the plus money
Speaker 2: odds you are going to get back Kelly little bit
Speaker 2: maybe riskier, but like I said, him going deeper into
Speaker 2: games really plays well here. So a couple k props
Speaker 2: San Diego run line.
Speaker 1: Let's do it. Let's do it, and don't remember. Oh,
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Speaker 1: let's look at the home run board and see where
Speaker 1: we're at. You got another one yesterday. Look at you
Speaker 1: back up to seventeen nineteen Ao. I believe I should
Speaker 1: be at thirteen now, so I want to say thirteen.
Speaker 1: We can get the official official number there on the
Speaker 1: count all on at fourteen. I'm selling myself ere every
Speaker 1: time you're you're right there, man.
Speaker 2: If I hadn't got that homer yesterday, I would just
Speaker 2: be gripping for life on you.
Speaker 1: You would be only you'd be nineteen over cookie chubs.
Speaker 1: Right now, Georgie is still at the top, far out
Speaker 1: right behind number two, twenty five and twenty three homers, respectively,
Speaker 1: So I am two homers away from that board. Coming
Speaker 1: for you board. Let's go. Sammy Sosa Jersey on the
Speaker 1: line autographed by Sammy Sosa, not Sammy Sousa. Just want
Speaker 1: to point out it's an O sound, because there's an
Speaker 1: O in there now. I took speech in college as
Speaker 1: part of my conservatory acting program. I understand the difference
Speaker 1: between a dipthong and a liquid u and all those
Speaker 1: kinds of things. And I'm just telling you sosa ssa,
Speaker 1: that's how it's pronounced with the oen there. So let's
Speaker 1: an argument. Was there an argument? I think wondering about
Speaker 1: my pronunciation skills today, I think they're questioning I think
Speaker 1: they should be questioning you. Oh it doesn't feel great, Joe.
Speaker 1: I think I think they just don't like the way
Speaker 1: it sounds. And that's unfortunate, because you know, life is
Speaker 1: life sometimes, you know, pieces of pieces. Yeah, not so great.
Speaker 1: Don't remember that? Is it? Well? She is? Don't remember.
Speaker 1: Make sure you forget. That's a brunoism. There you go?
Speaker 1: All right, Well, why don't you go first today? So
Speaker 1: you got a little pressure on you now, because I'm
Speaker 1: putting on some pressure I do. I mean, I get
Speaker 1: to that home run board before I left, and I'm
Speaker 1: getting real close, real close. Oh are you leaving soon?
Speaker 1: Where last day? I go right to football full time?
Speaker 2: Oh no, it's getting closer to that, you know. Actually
Speaker 2: I was stimpy to go with your guy here. I'm
Speaker 2: gonna go to Fernando tatish kind of picking on the
Speaker 2: pirates here. This is an imp perpetuity unless I do
Speaker 2: end up making a change. I found the slate kind
Speaker 2: of a little bit difficult today, even though you know
Speaker 2: there's a couple of pictures you could absolutely pick on
Speaker 2: trying to go with just like a big bat going
Speaker 2: into the weekend. So Fernando Tatis, I even kind of
Speaker 2: considered many machado. But I think we're gonna get a
Speaker 2: nice weekend of mister Tatis Junior.
Speaker 1: And that's my play, all right. Wonkey said, when is
Speaker 1: the last time you both hit a home on the
Speaker 1: same day. I think it happened once earlier this year. Oh,
Speaker 1: I think that happens more often than I think, But no,
Speaker 1: but only one so far this year. This is definitely
Speaker 1: like only the second time.
Speaker 2: When's the last time we both been on the board
Speaker 2: in let's say May first, last year.
Speaker 1: Last year, last year. I don't because you got that.
Speaker 1: I remember I was read hot to start the year.
Speaker 1: I was like top five for a while, and then
Speaker 1: I got stone cold, and then you started climbing up.
Speaker 1: There was a I want to say June, like June
Speaker 1: and June early July.
Speaker 2: I would almost argue I'm not sure if my recollection
Speaker 2: is we've never been on the board may first and
Speaker 2: be on together, because you're right, I was ice cold
Speaker 2: last year and you were red hot, and then we
Speaker 2: went in different directions. But I don't know if it
Speaker 2: crossed on the board at all. Someone could tell me differently,
Speaker 2: but I'm not sure if we've been on the board
Speaker 2: together four times.
Speaker 1: Says we chose the same guy and hit on the
Speaker 1: same Yeah, yes, it was the same player. I don't
Speaker 1: remember who it was. Was it Trout or something stupid
Speaker 1: like that. It feels like Fernando Tatis.
Speaker 2: Or But you're getting different players.
Speaker 1: Is that's nice? All right? So you're with Tetus, I'm
Speaker 1: with Pee Alonzo this weekend against the the Colorado Rockies. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I think I think Polar Bear is gonna get me
Speaker 1: at least one, maybe two, maybe two tonight, who knows.
Speaker 1: We'll see how it goes. So that's gonna be a
Speaker 1: fun time. So we went long today because it's a
Speaker 1: fun Friday, and there's a lot to talk about, big injuries, obviously,
Speaker 1: pronunciation of names, a lot of prospect stuff. So hit
Speaker 1: that waiver wire hard this weekend and figure it out. Oh,
Speaker 1: it was Aaron Judge last week. There you go, so
Speaker 1: we both got a judge Homer see see fun things happening.
Speaker 1: There you go. That'll do it for us, but the
Speaker 1: story of the game goes on for the Welsh. I'm
Speaker 1: Joey P. We'll see you next time. Kids. Thanks for
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