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Speaker 2: haven't watched the show on the YouTube channel, this might
Speaker 2: be the one that you want to because it's been
Speaker 2: a weird offseason for myself and the Welsh. Maybe we
Speaker 2: looked a little bit different than last time you saw
Speaker 2: us together, but we promised you our incredible fan base
Speaker 2: here that you would all get us to wig out.
Speaker 2: If we've got to seventeen thousand subscribers on the YouTube channel,
Speaker 2: not only do we get there, we're approaching nineteen thousand.
Speaker 2: So y'all are amazing. So we decided to wig out today.
Speaker 2: My wig obviously, I chose a little bit of the
Speaker 2: hair metal band variety, whereas Welsh he went full tiger King.
Speaker 2: And let me tell you, Welsh, it is glorious.
Speaker 3: Well my name is Welsh Exotic.
Speaker 4: And you know who will not be watching this stream today,
Speaker 4: Carol Baskin won't be watching this stream today.
Speaker 3: I guarantee you that rocker Joe Yeah.
Speaker 2: And I see all of our old friends here already,
Speaker 2: go cards, I see, Let's see Joey here, I see
Speaker 2: Lee here, Cody's here, the Wonky Penguins here, everybody's here.
Speaker 2: All our rowdy friends are here today to hang out
Speaker 2: with us. So again, it's great that we're back. Fantasy
Speaker 2: Baseball's back, wagerings back, everything is back. So let's get
Speaker 2: after it here and let's start of course with the headlines,
Speaker 2: Jordan Montgomery finally signed with the Arizona Diamondbacks twenty five
Speaker 2: million dollar deal plus a twenty five million dollar vesting
Speaker 2: option and what origa is on the shelf Welsh, This
Speaker 2: feels like a really good signing for the d Backs.
Speaker 3: Uh, this is a great signing for them.
Speaker 4: By the way, how we can transition into being serious
Speaker 4: is a plus for us.
Speaker 2: By the way, maybe I'll take my glasses off just
Speaker 2: to be a little bit more serious.
Speaker 3: Yeah, to makeup or anything like that. I mean I
Speaker 3: went full on. I shaved the handlebar and everything like that.
Speaker 2: I went full mullet. I mean, you know, I saw
Speaker 2: this and it's funny because the guy on the Amazon
Speaker 2: wig you know, model kind of looked exactly like me
Speaker 2: with this. So I said, well, there you go. It's
Speaker 2: just kind of meant to be.
Speaker 4: Well. The great thing with the Diamondbacks, even though they
Speaker 4: will never financially recover from this investment with Jordan Montgomery
Speaker 4: of twenty five million dollars on the year, it's exactly
Speaker 4: what they needed. They needed the depth. They had nothing
Speaker 4: they were gonna put up. Tommy Henry and Ryan ry
Speaker 4: Nelson had a great spring but Jordan Montgomery, this is
Speaker 4: exactly what they needed to do. It's a great landing
Speaker 4: spot for him. You've got a great defense, you've got
Speaker 4: a great offense behind you. This is one of those
Speaker 4: moves you guys got a lot of value if you
Speaker 4: were drafting knowing he was gonna sign.
Speaker 3: I don't think he's gonna miss much time.
Speaker 4: I think he's gonna probably throw a game in the
Speaker 4: backfields here, probably in the next couple of days, and
Speaker 4: then he's probably gonna do one minor league starting triple
Speaker 4: A and he'll be up. So maybe he misses one start.
Speaker 4: Bunch of innings three four era projected across most actually
Speaker 4: four to one to eight. Bat X does not like him,
Speaker 4: but ATC likes him a decent amount. Three eight, one
Speaker 4: hundred and seventy plus innings, double digit wins.
Speaker 3: It's great. Welsh Exotic approves.
Speaker 2: Welsh exotic absolutely approves. By the way, Uh, Mikey here
Speaker 2: in the chests as Welsh might be the sexiest blonde
Speaker 2: I've seen in a while. Mikey, you gotta get out more.
Speaker 2: That's the only thing I could say to that.
Speaker 4: This is my natural hair. Do you hang around with
Speaker 4: tigers enough and you get this.
Speaker 2: The weirdest thing is I would never say you look
Speaker 2: like that guy, and then you put this wig on
Speaker 2: and you shave down to the handlebar, and it's uh
Speaker 2: kind of unsettling.
Speaker 3: It actually is.
Speaker 4: Unsettling, Like, well, I've been in jail for a came
Speaker 4: a little bit of wait.
Speaker 3: But I'll tell you what, when I get out, I'm coming, Carol.
Speaker 2: Nobody has more fun in the baseball world than us. Also,
Speaker 2: Ezekio Tovar is he gonna have a lot of fun.
Speaker 2: Seven year contract extension with the club through the twenty
Speaker 2: thirty one season. It's kind of weird to see twenty
Speaker 2: thirty numbers. I don't know. I'm not quite ready for
Speaker 2: all that. But this was a player we talked about
Speaker 2: quite a bit, and clearly the Rockies see the same
Speaker 2: thing we have, which is a young player with a
Speaker 2: lot of upside. They're locking him up. He was one
Speaker 2: of our favorite late middle infielder guys. So that's a
Speaker 2: great thing there. If you haven't gotten any shares of Tovar,
Speaker 2: or maybe you're in a shallow league and he's floating
Speaker 2: around the waiver wire, maybe go pick him up. Also,
Speaker 2: we really didn't talk much about this. I have a
Speaker 2: social video coming out here in probably you know somewhere
Speaker 2: around today that Otani in the whole betting shenanigans with
Speaker 2: the interpreter. Really haven't touched much on this. We did
Speaker 2: talk about it a little bit with Craig miss yesterday.
Speaker 2: If you missed that, it's on the Betting Pros channel.
Speaker 2: Craig Misch came on. We did a full primer for
Speaker 2: MLB Futures Win Totals, World Series Awards, all that stuff.
Speaker 2: And I had mentioned I was in on Altani early
Speaker 2: in the season and then I kind of faded off
Speaker 2: of him after this whole story broke because even if
Speaker 2: he's proved innocent, I feel like the old school sports writer,
Speaker 2: baseball writer voter. They don't like any of the betting
Speaker 2: anywhere near their baseball and I think it's gonna hurt him.
Speaker 2: Even if he hits fifty home runs this year. I
Speaker 2: think he's gonna lose votes because of it. For right
Speaker 2: or wrong? What do you think about this O Tommi scandal?
Speaker 2: And you think it's gonna have any impact on him
Speaker 2: as the season chugs on.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I think they're petty.
Speaker 4: I think writers are petty and they pick anything that
Speaker 4: they possibly can to hold back. There were things that
Speaker 4: were working against him by the way, you know, like
Speaker 4: having Mookie Bets and Freddie Freeman on that team, the
Speaker 4: Dodgers itself super teams, you know, players on super teams
Speaker 4: and stuff like that. Yeah, but I think they're petty
Speaker 4: enough that, you know, I'm actually shocked that his number
Speaker 4: went up. It went from like plus nine hundred to
Speaker 4: plus like seven to fifty. On some books, I think
Speaker 4: it would go down. I'm a lot less interested in
Speaker 4: going and betting on ATONI though, I will say, did
Speaker 4: my final draft last night. I actually did it live
Speaker 4: on the Fantasy Pro MLB Twitter spaces.
Speaker 3: That was fun, Bung. You guys came and joined it.
Speaker 2: Well you were alive on spaces. I didn't know you
Speaker 2: were drafting. Yeah.
Speaker 4: Well I took I took over the account, and I
Speaker 4: hung out answered fantasy questions. But I was live doing
Speaker 4: my final DC at the ninth pick, and I took o'
Speaker 4: tony and I took the util and I had to
Speaker 4: build around that. So I'm not afraid in fantasy. I'd
Speaker 4: be a bye if anyone is being weird about it.
Speaker 4: But from like a betting perspective. Yeah, I think MVP
Speaker 4: is gonna be pretty tough.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I would agree, and I was. I'm kind of
Speaker 2: bummed about that, you know, because I already had some
Speaker 2: investments early on. So there you go. It's gonna be
Speaker 2: an interesting season for the Dodgers. That pitching staff already
Speaker 2: having some issues. But here's from Go Cards, good friend
Speaker 2: of the show here Billy ray Cyrus and Tiger King.
Speaker 2: Maybe I am a little Billy ray Cyrs. Don't tell
Speaker 2: my heart though. I just don't think you would understand.
Speaker 2: I just don't think you would understand. All right, let's
Speaker 2: continue on here. Opening day lineup news and notes for
Speaker 2: everybody who's playing in those daily TS action leagues. Elie
Speaker 2: de la Cruz hitting six, Benson hitting of the two
Speaker 2: spot today, Jonathan Indian that same lineup leading off, Michael
Speaker 2: Garcia also leading off. So that's something we predicted, we
Speaker 2: talked about early in the spring. We saw the writing
Speaker 2: on the wall. Guess what now, the writing is in
Speaker 2: pen on the wall of the dugout. That was a
Speaker 2: beautiful thing. You see what I did? I put that
Speaker 2: together and I'd even plan that maybe we shouldn't do
Speaker 2: the show anymore that that might be the best thing
Speaker 2: that I've ever said.
Speaker 4: Well, you want to know what's really funny is people
Speaker 4: that know this. Joe and I have already talked about
Speaker 4: what nineteen and twenty thousand on the YouTube could get,
Speaker 4: And what you just did was kind of what your
Speaker 4: idea to twenty was.
Speaker 5: If you remember, Oh, well, well, we've been teasing the
Speaker 5: idea that if we get to twenty thousand subscribers that
Speaker 5: we might turn this into perhaps a one day Hamilton
Speaker 5: where we do some wraps and some things.
Speaker 2: That's on the table as being discussed. But it's your channel, everybody,
Speaker 2: so you let us know.
Speaker 4: I think they would love my idea, which well, we'll
Speaker 4: say for another show, not opening day, but my idea
Speaker 4: at nineteen or maybe even further's a pretty fantastic one.
Speaker 2: Is well, who woke up Scott Bogman this early to
Speaker 2: watch this show? How did this guy get here? I
Speaker 2: don't know a good friend of the show friend in
Speaker 2: real life. Anthony won't be by the way hold on
Speaker 2: hitting six Edward Julian out against Reagan's today, which is annoying,
Speaker 2: but I get it. He's a really elite lefty. I
Speaker 2: don't expec Julian to be out against every lefty but
Speaker 2: the elite ones to start the season. Fine. I just
Speaker 2: think it's a mistake by the Twins. You're never gonna
Speaker 2: get better at something if you don't give a guy
Speaker 2: opportunity to get better at it. And he not like
Speaker 2: he was sitting against left handed pitchers in double triple A.
Speaker 2: So this is stupid and his story. Ruiz is not
Speaker 2: starting today. Go ahead, Well, so the floor is I just.
Speaker 3: Wanted to throw in.
Speaker 4: There's a couple other little additions here, Angels released. We're
Speaker 4: not seeing Neto get moved up at all. The opening
Speaker 4: day lineup has Anthony Rindon leading off, no Shanwell, no Netto,
Speaker 4: and then the Cardinals are leading off Brendan Donovan.
Speaker 3: So that was one I had not expected.
Speaker 4: So throwing these all out here, which one is the
Speaker 4: most shocking to you? And which which one of these
Speaker 4: pieces has the biggest fantasy impact early on? I mean,
Speaker 4: Ellie going six India leading off Michael Garcia, is there
Speaker 4: a big impact and is there a surprise?
Speaker 2: I think labor tour is if I can go off
Speaker 2: the board hitting lead off today, because again that is
Speaker 2: temporary in air quotes because le Mayhew's hurt, but they
Speaker 2: think it's the Vulpi sixth glabor one. If Glaber gets
Speaker 2: off to a hot start. The only thing it's good
Speaker 2: it could potentially hurt is is RBI totals in those
Speaker 2: season long leagues. So that's a problem potentially. But I
Speaker 2: would watch very carefully. The Yankees margin for error is
Speaker 2: extremely thin right now, and I think that right, you know,
Speaker 2: it's you know, if Judge has that slump, if the
Speaker 2: toe issue happens, the Garrett Cole news, the pitching staff,
Speaker 2: I think is just I'm just not a believer. We'll
Speaker 2: see if I'm right or wrong. We bought some great
Speaker 2: things in here too. By the way, your comments, you
Speaker 2: guys look like a WWF tag team back when it
Speaker 2: was WWF totally rock and roll Express. Listen to me.
Speaker 2: We're gonna go out there, Me and my boy, the Welsh.
Speaker 2: We're gonna put a hurting on you. So we're gonna
Speaker 2: come from those tag time titles right here, Tag team
Speaker 2: of the Year, Me and the Welsh, let's go back.
Speaker 2: We're gonna make it look good always do. That's right,
Speaker 2: I whoa go It would end with like the fist
Speaker 2: in the air show.
Speaker 4: By the way, I want to point out, can you
Speaker 4: imagine somebody who's never watched this show that just came
Speaker 4: was like, what's going on?
Speaker 2: By the way, the people that are watching all the
Speaker 2: off season content and went, oh my god, what is
Speaker 2: just Yes, it's unsettling, I see you all, but it's
Speaker 2: also amazing. And the people, the cracker Jacks, you know
Speaker 2: what this show is about.
Speaker 4: I'm seeing some great compliment. I'll take these compliments. And
Speaker 4: somebody did put in here. I don't know if you
Speaker 4: can find the comment. Someone was like, what Welsh's wife
Speaker 4: must be? So many you guys have no idea. I
Speaker 4: shaved it and I looked at her. I was like,
Speaker 4: how does this look? She's like, it's the most It's
Speaker 4: the grossest thing I've ever seen. And I'm like, can
Speaker 4: you imagine.
Speaker 3: If I said that to you?
Speaker 2: Now? This is divorce potent. Like I told you the
Speaker 2: full beard if my people have said it on the
Speaker 2: YouTube comments, the full beard looks good. I've given you support.
Speaker 3: I agree I have.
Speaker 2: This is wretched.
Speaker 3: She asked me if this was going to be all day.
Speaker 4: She asked me, and I said no, after the show
Speaker 4: will probably give but maybe I'll bring up all day.
Speaker 3: By the way, I'm going to opening h Opening Day
Speaker 3: today with.
Speaker 4: The Diamondbacks with Bogman, so maybe you should wear it
Speaker 4: for opening ball. Let me throw this in real quick,
Speaker 4: so on those so I wanted to get your take
Speaker 4: on it. The Ellie hitting six is interesting. We kind
Speaker 4: of knew mikel Garcia bolt be at six. I think
Speaker 4: is something to be on the lookout for because if
Speaker 4: he hits in that spot has a few more RBIs,
Speaker 4: he could get moved up.
Speaker 3: But I'll tell you.
Speaker 4: This, Jonathan India leading off, if he gets this, he
Speaker 4: gets to continue doing this. We know Matt McLean has gone.
Speaker 4: Matt McLain, I don't even know. We said at the
Speaker 4: top of two, I got the.
Speaker 3: Tigers in my ears. I don't know.
Speaker 4: But Matt McLean had surgery. He's going to be out
Speaker 4: two to three months, maybe the season. At this point,
Speaker 4: Jonathan India has a legit shot to keep this lockdown
Speaker 4: all season long. And if they lead him off with
Speaker 4: a young team like that with Ellie, who will end
Speaker 4: up moving up? Jamer Candelario, there's a chance in ten
Speaker 4: man leagues India's out there. He might end up being
Speaker 4: a really big early season steal being able to lead off,
Speaker 4: So I think the India one is one to pay
Speaker 4: attention to.
Speaker 2: You're probably right. Also, why is O Hopi hitting eighth?
Speaker 2: Because it's opening day and the Angels are not a
Speaker 2: good organization. That's my answer to that. All right, let's
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Speaker 3: We Tigers love that trophy coming for them.
Speaker 2: Tag team championships. Boys, WHOA, let's get that's that's definitely
Speaker 2: we definitely have.
Speaker 3: Maybe I should do the other fist.
Speaker 2: Yeah, nineteen eighty three WWF. Actually it's more like Crockett
Speaker 2: Promotions WCW. If I'm gonna be honest a little.
Speaker 3: It's a little also like we're here to shake and bake.
Speaker 2: I don't know which thing I would do. I go
Speaker 2: this way, it's always the opposite. Oh, now you gotta
Speaker 2: go the other way. There you go, dude, shake a
Speaker 2: bake ba baby, there you go. We worked all day
Speaker 2: on that, right, let's get to three up and three down.
Speaker 2: Codai Senga throwing and catching at Cydney Field. That's great.
Speaker 2: By the way, Mets ragned out today. Also good. They
Speaker 2: can't lose him. Justin Verlander through thirty two pitches and
Speaker 2: live VP on Tuesday. He's working his way back. And
Speaker 2: then the last one here Jordan Hicks, five no hit innings,
Speaker 2: strike out ten guys. Giants win that game. So here's
Speaker 2: my question to you. I know Hicks are gonna have limitations,
Speaker 2: but is this one of these guys that people are
Speaker 2: gonna be running to the waiver wire week one if
Speaker 2: he has a good start.
Speaker 3: Of course, if he lights up with strikeouts. That's what's
Speaker 3: sexy about Jordan Wicks.
Speaker 4: This guy can strike out ten but I don't trust
Speaker 4: him for a full season. I think he is quintessential
Speaker 4: spot starter unless you're in like a big league. I'm
Speaker 4: looking for teams that I'm going to be looking for
Speaker 4: the lower half, strikeout teams, hitter friendly environments because his
Speaker 4: problem is he can completely fall apart. The guy can
Speaker 4: walk seven, you know, like this can be a disaster.
Speaker 4: But when he's on, he's on. So this is volatile.
Speaker 4: This is a guy that can ruin your ratios all
Speaker 4: week long. But if you can go and find you know,
Speaker 4: Colorado A's, you can find stuff like that. Those are
Speaker 4: the matchups that I'm gonna probably I'm gonna probably try
Speaker 4: to get.
Speaker 3: Well, you know, when when Wicks is going up against
Speaker 3: Carol Baskin.
Speaker 2: Yeah, uh, here's a question for you. You keep saying
Speaker 2: Wicks by the way too, you mean like John Wick?
Speaker 3: Yeah, sorry Wick, John Wick.
Speaker 2: Jordan Hicks. I think you mean, you know, like we
Speaker 2: look like Hicks. I think that's a that's one hundred
Speaker 2: percent right, Jordan, because I know they're gonna call you
Speaker 2: out on the chat about it, so I might as
Speaker 2: well do it before Jordan Hicks. Look, we're just so
Speaker 2: excited to be back for a long time, somebody said
Speaker 2: you look like Guy Fieri. I say, you look like
Speaker 2: Guy Fiery. If you never found flavor Town, I think
Speaker 2: that's what you look like.
Speaker 4: But when I have to have I don't remember even
Speaker 4: when Guy does Guy Ferry have the handlebar?
Speaker 3: Uh?
Speaker 2: He definitely has some weird mustache choices at the times.
Speaker 2: He's definitely got the sole patch and the mustache, but
Speaker 2: it is a different color than his actual haircum.
Speaker 3: Maybe if I brought oh, this is a little like, oh.
Speaker 2: My god, that is terrifying. You look talk about like
Speaker 2: fourth grade school picture. Wow. Oh my god, that's wow.
Speaker 2: I don't know, I got no words.
Speaker 4: By way, Jordan Hicks is a pitcher for the Cubs.
Speaker 4: I kept saying, I don't know why I kept saying
Speaker 4: that you'd be wis Jordan Wicks, And I just say
Speaker 4: that I'm I'm done. I'm done, Bye bye, turn out
Speaker 4: the camera, Welsh, who's on first?
Speaker 3: I don't know a third base.
Speaker 2: Matt McClain three down underwent shoulder surgery to address the
Speaker 2: cartilage damage repair the laborum. When do we see Matt
Speaker 2: McLain again, Welsh.
Speaker 4: As I was saying before, I think the earliest is.
Speaker 4: I mean, they said like it's at least a two months,
Speaker 4: so there's through May June. I'll take a guess after
Speaker 4: the All Star break. I don't think they're going to
Speaker 4: push him. I don't think they're going to need to
Speaker 4: push him. I think that's probably the play something after
Speaker 4: the All Star break, which has made him not rosterable. Really,
Speaker 4: unless you got IELs, I'd be down to pick him
Speaker 4: up and drop him on an eel. But if you've
Speaker 4: learned anything from playing baseball last couple of years, everybody
Speaker 4: gets hurt all the time, so it's only so long
Speaker 4: you're going to be able to manage your roster.
Speaker 3: And he would be a cuttable guy.
Speaker 4: Like if you're holding on and then three weeks everybody's hurt, Yeah,
Speaker 4: you're absolutely gonna cut Matt McClain, so you're not having
Speaker 4: a such a dead roster space.
Speaker 2: It's bad.
Speaker 3: This is not a good surgery you have at the
Speaker 3: start of the season.
Speaker 2: No, it's definitely not good. Brian wu is going to
Speaker 2: start the season on the injured list, whoo, which is
Speaker 2: unfortunate with the elbow inflammation, so that's kind of kicking
Speaker 2: the nuts there. And then Paul seawalled with the grade
Speaker 2: two left oblique streaking. So what do people do for
Speaker 2: saves in Arizona?
Speaker 3: The Ginkle Ginkle.
Speaker 4: I unloaded And this might be crazy, but I unloaded
Speaker 4: some fab on Ginkle across the board in multiple leagues,
Speaker 4: in multiple keeper leagues.
Speaker 3: I did it in.
Speaker 2: I love when you unload your Ginkle. It's one of
Speaker 2: my favorite things. What I do.
Speaker 3: I gotta get.
Speaker 4: I gotta go hard on the Ginkle because I think
Speaker 4: there's a possibility, it could be slight that Ginkle does
Speaker 4: not let go of this job at any point this year.
Speaker 4: I think that's a possibility. Now. Obviously Seawall seawall, but
Speaker 4: he's old. He keeps getting hurt. This injury might not
Speaker 4: be three weeks or a month, this could be two months.
Speaker 4: I think Ginkle is the guy. He's a must pick
Speaker 4: up in my eyes for save.
Speaker 2: Mike Mayer actually very funny in the chat running the
Speaker 2: Fantasy pros account. I'm still welsh. Is just exciting. It's opening day.
Speaker 2: We at least it names there's a million things going on.
Speaker 3: At least it had nothing to do with Kintamata. That's
Speaker 3: all that matters.
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Speaker 2: leading off. All right, Welsh, So it's time to get
Speaker 2: to some of the injuries we already talk about, but
Speaker 2: here's some other ones. Kevin Gosman this is good news.
Speaker 2: Struck out seven guys and three innings. Trending in the
Speaker 2: right direction. So Gosman was a guy that I was
Speaker 2: very afraid of because of the shoulder fatigue issue. It
Speaker 2: seems like you're going in the right direction. Are you
Speaker 2: buying this or are you still holding your breath all
Speaker 2: season with Cosmin Bye?
Speaker 4: Well, I mean you should always hold your breath with
Speaker 4: any picture that's been you know, rooming around with some
Speaker 4: injuries and stuff like that.
Speaker 3: But I was buying.
Speaker 4: I took any of the discounts I could. I got
Speaker 4: him in the ar Bogman Home League. I think of
Speaker 4: the fourth round. I got some third round late shares.
Speaker 4: This is a guy that was like number three sp
Speaker 4: and people are terrified. He was going after Paba Lopez
Speaker 4: in some cases, you know, Trek Scoop going ahead of him.
Speaker 4: So I'm not gonna worry. I'm gonna be beautiful with
Speaker 4: Kevin Gosman. Yeah, all right, I'm hopeful, but I'm a
Speaker 4: little concerned. I don't have you know, Gosmin was where
Speaker 4: I was going initially for American League, so young this year,
Speaker 4: and the shoulder thing just went nope.
Speaker 2: I'm just not gonna do it. I'm trying to find
Speaker 2: some discipline. Maybe after two three months I'll have that confidence.
Speaker 2: If everything's good, we'll see. Cardinals manager Alie Marmal says
Speaker 2: that Lars Nukebar took some soft swings on the weekend,
Speaker 2: so he's moving forward with that rib fracture on the
Speaker 2: left side, so that's a good thing. So we're getting
Speaker 2: Nukebar back sooner than later. He might be floating around
Speaker 2: there and some shallow leagues too. He might have gone
Speaker 2: on drafted because of some of the issues. There love
Speaker 2: any other injury that you've got your eye on here
Speaker 2: to as we start opening day that's really either troubling
Speaker 2: you or a guy working his way back. There're getting
Speaker 2: excited about.
Speaker 3: I don't know none that stands out.
Speaker 4: I mean, the Nupar one's actually a pretty interesting one
Speaker 4: because the newpar one could have an effect on Victor Scott.
Speaker 4: Everybody is very excited about Victor Scott, as we should be.
Speaker 4: He could be running wild, he could lead the league
Speaker 4: in stolen bases. Have given the opportunity. But when Nupar
Speaker 4: comes back, what is that going to do? Are they
Speaker 4: going to start getting finicky with the line. He's not
Speaker 4: really a center fielder, so it might not affect him.
Speaker 4: But then you have Edmund coming back, so that's a
Speaker 4: really really important one to watch. I'd also say I'm
Speaker 4: going to be paying attention to the closer situations and
Speaker 4: the guys that are gonna fill in. So like the
Speaker 4: Romano situation, if you're looking at like Brock Stewart and
Speaker 4: Griffin Jacks, or maybe that's in the Drawn situation, but you've.
Speaker 3: Got a handful of these, will these guys end up closing?
Speaker 4: Yeah, because Toronto's Jimmy Garcia who likely could be closing,
Speaker 4: so we have to watch is he going to be
Speaker 4: the guy in Milwaukee?
Speaker 3: Is going to be payoffs?
Speaker 4: So the injuries I'm actually most concerned about have to
Speaker 4: do with the closing market and the guys that are
Speaker 4: going to fill in. And I've been betting on Jimmy
Speaker 4: Griffin Jacks And as much as Payomps might be the
Speaker 4: guy in Milwaukee, I'm your Rebay. That's someone I've been
Speaker 4: picking up. But then watch McGill's gonna take it. So
Speaker 4: there you go, all the closers.
Speaker 2: You know, this is exactly why you know, when we
Speaker 2: do all those mock drafts in the off season, you
Speaker 2: see me fade closer all the time. I mean most
Speaker 2: of the time. You see me fade it and fade
Speaker 2: it fat Why because we're here an opening day and
Speaker 2: already there's all these new names that are coming up,
Speaker 2: and this is just day one. It's literally day one.
Speaker 2: It's the most volnerable position in all of baseball. Why
Speaker 2: are we making investments in it when we could be
Speaker 2: taking hitters or starting pitchers, especially hitters, because that's what
Speaker 2: you should be doing.
Speaker 4: I'm sorry, I think you need one. You need one,
Speaker 4: though I know you don't. That's fine. I need I
Speaker 4: need one. I did it last in my DC last night.
Speaker 4: I took I don't remember.
Speaker 2: What you last night. I loaded my GK.
Speaker 3: I tried last night. I got. I got Alexis DS.
Speaker 3: That's what I got. I got Alexis DS.
Speaker 4: And then I waited and then I played the speculation market.
Speaker 4: But sometimes I don't know, that can hurt you a
Speaker 4: little bit, Like Mason Miller is a great When someone
Speaker 4: just posted in here, I think it's key. And this
Speaker 4: is how I want to go into the season, having
Speaker 4: at least one guarantee closer and then.
Speaker 3: Speculate to your heart explodes.
Speaker 4: Get all the guys that you want, Get the ginkles,
Speaker 4: get the Michael Kopex get all those guys get the
Speaker 4: Wilson once.
Speaker 2: It was not pretty. It was some really good lines here,
Speaker 2: Mel Brown, Joe looks like an American gladiator. Fred Dinger
Speaker 2: a good friend, Fred Welsh, the Hammer Valentine also some
Speaker 2: good stuff. You got questions to drop them here, We'll
Speaker 2: try to answer them for you. A Lance asks a
Speaker 2: question India or Jeremy Pania. I go India hit at
Speaker 2: the top of that lineup, where do you go?
Speaker 3: I go India too. I mean, I'm not a Painia guy.
Speaker 4: Penia is just like the bad version of Carlos Korea
Speaker 4: and that kind of says a lot. Maybe he'll work out,
Speaker 4: and they trusted him as a as a leadoff hitter
Speaker 4: at one point, but I would go with India. He's
Speaker 4: leading off, He's a twenty twenty guy. I think the
Speaker 4: stolen based potential is better. Maybe there's a little bit
Speaker 4: more power with Paania better offense, sure, but I'll take
Speaker 4: the lead off India over Penia.
Speaker 2: Some guys coming up over and over in the chat,
Speaker 2: Mason Miller, Michael Kopek, who has more saves this year
Speaker 2: of the area like that? How's that for some fun?
Speaker 3: These are two of the worst teams in baseball.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I think Kopek might have that opportunity. I was
Speaker 4: trying to draft him ember I got sniped on him
Speaker 4: last night. It really hurts the only problem with the
Speaker 4: White Sox is they've got a bunch of just garbage
Speaker 4: relievers that are kind of the same, and everyone's like,
Speaker 4: you know, is it Brebia, is it Jordan Leisure? The
Speaker 4: A's have one clear guy, but I don't trust the A's.
Speaker 4: I don't trust the A's with Mason Miller. Mason Miller
Speaker 4: has the stuff to be a top ten closer in
Speaker 4: the league. It's just the A's are going to give
Speaker 4: him probably thirty opportunities, so he probably has, like you know,
Speaker 4: twenty two or twenty three.
Speaker 2: I would I would he not go to go He's
Speaker 2: not gonna go three days in a row back to back, maybe,
Speaker 2: but never that third day in a row.
Speaker 4: They're gonna not gonna have three days of winning in
Speaker 4: a row opportunities and there's no chance, So I would
Speaker 4: I would prioritize Miller if he were available. If you
Speaker 4: guys are playing ten team leagues or something like that,
Speaker 4: or someone cuts him. That's actually a better key point
Speaker 4: here is the A's are so bad, they could give
Speaker 4: and switch opportunities. If Mason Milly doesn't have a lot,
Speaker 4: people could cut him early. Yes, I would pick him up.
Speaker 4: But if Kopek is out there, pick him up just
Speaker 4: in case he has been handed that job, because you know,
Speaker 4: this is a starting pitcher that got put to the bullpen.
Speaker 3: He was hitting triple digits.
Speaker 4: The team still wants to push this guy, and there's
Speaker 4: no reason unless you have You lack confidence in Kopec
Speaker 4: being able to shut down a game that you're gonna
Speaker 4: have John Brebia or Jordan Leisure closing out and pre
Speaker 4: Lander Baroa is hurt. So I would pick up Copek
Speaker 4: if given the opportunity one.
Speaker 2: More India or Gorman, let's call it rest of season.
Speaker 3: I'd still go. I think Gorman can hit thirty this year.
Speaker 2: Okay, there's close.
Speaker 3: It's a lot closer.
Speaker 2: It is pretty close. We'll be doing our home run
Speaker 2: calls of the day. And remember, if you want to
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Speaker 2: yet for the home run champion this year? I know
Speaker 2: we were talking about some cool things last year in
Speaker 2: case you weren't around, we gave away a Corbyn Carrol
Speaker 2: autographed helmet which I went and got done. I got done,
Speaker 2: pies and mullets, get stuff done.
Speaker 3: That's what we do. We do have an official prize.
Speaker 4: It looks like it was announced that it is going
Speaker 4: to be an autograph Vladimir Guerrero Junior bats That's what
Speaker 4: looks like the prize and I would take that.
Speaker 2: Yes, sir as well. Also member kids, this is not
Speaker 2: just fantasy, not just MLB, it's a little bit more.
Speaker 2: It's also a little bit of betting. So without further ado,
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Speaker 2: All right, Welsh, here we go our bets of the
Speaker 2: day on opening day, the things we're in on again.
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Speaker 2: pros MLB. But at the same time, Welsh, here's what
Speaker 2: I'm in on. Schooble six and a half case over
Speaker 2: minus one fifteen over at bet three six five, Pablo
Speaker 2: Lopez five and a half case over minus one fifteen,
Speaker 2: also Cleveland to win today. This is to me one
Speaker 2: of the best. Look, I'm just gonna troll the A's
Speaker 2: all year long and guess what, one hundred times I'm
Speaker 2: going to be right. That's a good ratio. Cleveland minus
Speaker 2: one and a half plus one ten. Youre getting plus
Speaker 2: money on this, or if you want to push it
Speaker 2: a little bit more, the alternate line is minus two
Speaker 2: and a half, you get it plus one seventy five.
Speaker 2: I want to push it. If you are not comfortable,
Speaker 2: that's okay. But Scooble over on the strikeout prop, Pablo
Speaker 2: on the strikeout prop, and Cleveland to win by at
Speaker 2: least one and a half or two and a half
Speaker 2: if you're feeling lucky like I am today, Welsh, what
Speaker 2: do you have on the big board of bets today.
Speaker 3: Well, I'm gonna give one caveat.
Speaker 4: My top two prop bets of the day were Pablo
Speaker 4: Lopez Entrigu scouble, so I'm gonna just at least give
Speaker 4: you one. I really love the Pabo Lopez when last
Speaker 4: year struck out eight even in some walks on opening
Speaker 4: day last year, these one of the big strikeout guys.
Speaker 4: I am all about Pablo Lopez because it's five and
Speaker 4: a half minus one point fifteen at bet three sixty five, which,
Speaker 4: by the way, one of the better lines that I
Speaker 4: saw as that the line was actually ticking down a
Speaker 4: little bit, so something maybe to pay attention to if
Speaker 4: we're not in on it. But Pablo Lopez five and
Speaker 4: a half over on the strikeouts, I love a caveat
Speaker 4: because I love thee scouble one and I did do
Speaker 4: this as well. You can get Tek's Trek scouble six
Speaker 4: and a half over, Pablo Lopez five and a half
Speaker 4: over and get almost plus. It's two plus two forty
Speaker 4: nine on bet three, six, five if you want to
Speaker 4: parlay those two. Obviously don't want to be a huge
Speaker 4: advocate of doing massive parlays and stuff, but I love those,
Speaker 4: you know, in places where you can find alternate strikeouts,
Speaker 4: maybe even go like Scooble six and Lopez five. You
Speaker 4: might have to pay relatively close to even money, but
Speaker 4: that's not too bad either. Speaking of trek Scuble, one
Speaker 4: I really like today is Detroit first five minus half
Speaker 4: of a run, so essentially they've got to be up
Speaker 4: by a run that's minus one point twenty.
Speaker 3: We talked about it.
Speaker 4: If you guys haven't seen the video, go back and
Speaker 4: check out Craig mish with just setting.
Speaker 2: Very high on Schooble. Maybe my dark horse, say young candidate.
Speaker 4: Well that's what he said, because I you know, you
Speaker 4: like Luis Castillo, and who's pitching today. I really like
Speaker 4: George Kirby. He was saying, trek Scuble look out as
Speaker 4: the dark horse, say young award winner. So what better
Speaker 4: way than to come out slang in against Kansas City
Speaker 4: Royals who liked to strike out. They had believe it
Speaker 4: was eight strikeouts through the first five of their order
Speaker 4: on opening day last year and you've got young guy.
Speaker 4: You know, you got MJ Melinda hitting five, you got
Speaker 4: MIKEL Garcia leading off, So I think the strikeout potential
Speaker 4: it's there, So I'm I'm dialed into to that in general.
Speaker 4: But Pablo Lopez five and a half, Detroit first five
Speaker 4: minus half a run, and then this is one.
Speaker 3: I was just kind of digging around.
Speaker 4: Gabria Moreno total bases one and a half plus one thirty,
Speaker 4: So that's a plus money bet that I'm gonna jump.
Speaker 4: And and by the way, I said royals, but that was
Speaker 4: that was Pablo Lopez going up against a rose, which
Speaker 4: is another reason. Wick Also, yeah, I know I'm having
Speaker 4: I'm having a day with that. It's the wig that's
Speaker 4: getting to me. But that is a good reason for
Speaker 4: to follow Pablo Lopez. In general, Tiger's got the White Sox.
Speaker 4: I don't need to lay out all those reasons. We're
Speaker 4: gonna have tons of strikeouts on the front end, So both.
Speaker 3: Of those lie.
Speaker 4: But Detroit first five up a run, Pablopez five and
Speaker 4: a half strikeouts, Gabria Moreno total bases one and a
Speaker 4: half over plus on debt three six five. I'm gonna
Speaker 4: be there and I'm gonna be jumping up and down
Speaker 4: for Gabby.
Speaker 2: Let's go parlay of the day in case you want
Speaker 2: to play it. Detroit minus one and a half at
Speaker 2: minus one o six, Cleveland minus one and a half
Speaker 2: at plus one to eight, Baltimore minus one and a
Speaker 2: half plus one eighteen. All have their elite guys on
Speaker 2: the mound against weaker opponents. You put these three things together,
Speaker 2: you get plus seven eighty one. Throw a unit on that,
Speaker 2: and that, my friends, is your opening day of betting
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Speaker 2: You can get in there today again. Of Vlad Guerrero autograph,
Speaker 2: that sounds pretty cool to me, So Welsh, I decided
Speaker 2: to have some fun because you made fun of me
Speaker 2: all off season about how much I like this one player,
Speaker 2: and he's got a good matchup today, taking the righty
Speaker 2: bat here against a lefty pitcher. It's got a good ballpark,
Speaker 2: and I took Alex Bregman to start things off today.
Speaker 2: That's where I'm going with the home run. Alex Bregman
Speaker 2: going yard. Maybe not the most chalky guy, but you
Speaker 2: know what, if he goes yard today, I think that's
Speaker 2: a good start to my season. Welsh, where are you
Speaker 2: going with your home run call for today?
Speaker 5: Man?
Speaker 3: I hate that bat Alex Bregman. I hate him.
Speaker 4: I'm gonna go over to the Los Angeles Dodgers. I
Speaker 4: know Bogman's gonna be disappointed, and I'm gonna be picking
Speaker 4: on Miles Michaelis, who gave up twenty six homers last year,
Speaker 4: and I'm gonna go with leadoff hitter Mookie Bets to
Speaker 4: start it off. I will tell you my heart of
Speaker 4: hearts really wanted to pick O'Neal Cruz. I don't love
Speaker 4: that he's going up against a lefty, so that's why
Speaker 4: I am fading away from it a little bit. Gabriy
Speaker 4: Mareno might also be another dark horse one, but give
Speaker 4: me Mookie Bets to lead off because I'm ready to
Speaker 4: get on that board for the home run contest. I'm
Speaker 4: gonna win this, bat boyd this year. I want to
Speaker 4: minute now.
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Speaker 2: very excited. I feel like we were a little nervous
Speaker 2: today because we were just so excited. We were like
Speaker 2: Jojoe the Idiot's Circus boy. We were just really excited
Speaker 2: that opening day was going on. Welsh What are you
Speaker 2: looking forward to the most an Opening Day today besides
Speaker 2: you know, hanging out with your buddy Bogman and go
Speaker 2: into games and stuff.
Speaker 4: Yeah, no, I'm going to beg in downtown Phoenix. There's
Speaker 4: some sports books.
Speaker 3: I'm gonna be hanging.
Speaker 4: I'm gonna be live watching Opening Day because the last
Speaker 4: game I was at was the Diamondbacks losing the World Series.
Speaker 4: I'm also, by the way, you can follow me on
Speaker 4: Twitter at is it the Welsh probably tweeting out some stuff.
Speaker 3: Should be a fun time.
Speaker 4: What am I looking forward to besides confusing all of
Speaker 4: the pitchers and stuff. It is the matchup. The matchup
Speaker 4: of matchup is the Pablo Lopez matchup today. Cole Reagan's
Speaker 4: Pablo Lopez fuenomenal, that is.
Speaker 3: I mean, you want to talk about two buzzy pitchers.
Speaker 4: All season long, it was Cole Reagan's flying up. Pablo
Speaker 4: Lopez was going into you know, sometimes sp four. There's
Speaker 4: a lot of great things, Oneo Cruz, the hype Elie
Speaker 4: de la Cruz stealing bases my Diamondbacks. But you want
Speaker 4: to talk about matchups Pablo Lopez, Cole Reagan's that one.
Speaker 3: I am that it's a good one.
Speaker 2: Grouper super stoked about that is a good one. Actually,
Speaker 2: I'm gonna go the other direction. Usually as a Mets fan,
Speaker 2: I joke before, well they can't lose today, but typically
Speaker 2: they always win opening Day. So in a way, you know,
Speaker 2: I didn't get the opening day win today. That a
Speaker 2: good story, and usually it's the other direction the rest
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Speaker 2: now that Welsh is showing that gold chain because that
Speaker 2: really brings Could you do it one more time just
Speaker 2: for the people before we leave. I was gonna do
Speaker 2: the like, No, I want you to pull it because
Speaker 2: this version, this like Danish schoolboy, Welsh is.
Speaker 3: More excited for baseball. May excited for y'all baseball, good baseball.
Speaker 4: By the way, this thing came with like six piercings.
Speaker 4: My earloads are so thick.
Speaker 2: No, no, don't show. Oh yeah, well you.
Speaker 4: Didn't want to see where I didn't, I did not
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