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Speaker 1: It is me Joey p Joe Pizipia, That of course
Speaker 1: is the Welsh, and it's you, the Peanuts, the Cracker Jacks,
Speaker 1: all hanging out here talking some baseball, and we've got
Speaker 1: more baseball to talk about.
Speaker 2: I would like to change my name. I would like
Speaker 2: my name to be changed for the show. I'm going
Speaker 2: to get a new graphic. I would now like to
Speaker 2: be referred to as Ellie Dela Welsh. That is what
Speaker 2: it would be, Ellie Dela Welsh, in honor of the
Speaker 2: most exciting player in baseball.
Speaker 1: Ellie Dela Welsh. And I will be Joey Dela Cruz
Speaker 1: and then we can do the whole show the rest
Speaker 1: of the way, because it was exciting. A four hundred
Speaker 1: and fifty eight foot home run that almost left the stadium.
Speaker 1: A great call by the announcer too. That ball had
Speaker 1: a family, as Noah Cinderguard did not let me down.
Speaker 1: I picked it. I bet it Ellie Dela Cruz, win
Speaker 1: Yard Welsh. It was a good feeling, and it was
Speaker 1: a monumental blast for your first over.
Speaker 2: I text you immediately because I was sitting here doing
Speaker 2: some work and I was watching, and you know, sometimes
Speaker 2: I'm watching games and I got them on and I'm
Speaker 2: doing work and I'm not like fully engaged, I'm just listening.
Speaker 2: I turned over and I was like, all right, we
Speaker 2: got to watch this. He hit that ball. I swear
Speaker 2: to god, I was watching. I was like this. I
Speaker 2: was like, oh, Like I jumped, like I was terrified,
Speaker 2: Like somebody scared the crap out of me. That ball
Speaker 2: was murdered. Also low key hilarious was the kid that
Speaker 2: got the ball and negotiated with the Reds. I don't
Speaker 2: know if anybody saw this. I think on social media.
Speaker 2: This kid got the ball, the Reds negotiated, and not
Speaker 2: only like people were like, you could have got fifty
Speaker 2: one hundred thousand. He negotiated to meet Ellie after get
Speaker 2: a bat, a ball, and his entire crew that was
Speaker 2: with him, all these all his bros got to go
Speaker 2: and meet and he got a ball for each one
Speaker 2: of his buddies and the picture of Ellie with his
Speaker 2: whole true and every one of them have a baseball.
Speaker 2: It was pretty good, good vibes all around on Ellie.
Speaker 2: But boy, I feel way better about how I've been
Speaker 2: pontificating about Ellie and the excitement and maybe I've been
Speaker 2: a little over zealous. I don't feel so over zealous.
Speaker 1: Yes, And like every rookie, there's gonna be some ups
Speaker 1: and downs. I mean, that's just part of the rookie thing.
Speaker 1: And speaking of rookies, we'll get to the rookie lookie
Speaker 1: because we do have something to get to. But Jay
Speaker 1: here in the chat's got a question. Now that Ellie
Speaker 1: is called up, my na spot is available, who is
Speaker 1: the next big impact rookie lookie that I can stash.
Speaker 1: See it's a thing that I can actually stash and
Speaker 1: be worth adding to my roster. It's a ten person
Speaker 1: head to head league, So Welsh, I don't want to
Speaker 1: say the cupboard is bar because it's it's never bare
Speaker 1: when it comes to prospects. But I do feel like
Speaker 1: we've gotten We're in the first second week of June here,
Speaker 1: it does feel like we've gotten a lot of the
Speaker 1: prospects they were hoping for this year. But you're the
Speaker 1: prospect one host, You're the guy you're the guru, So
Speaker 1: who else should we be looking for in these scenarios
Speaker 1: where you have an NA spot and you can add somebody.
Speaker 2: Well, listen, we are a week away from me doing
Speaker 2: what I did last week and bitching and complaining if
Speaker 2: Christian and Carnolsi and Strand is not up like this
Speaker 2: is another red though. This is why the Reds are
Speaker 2: getting so exciting. As Ellie was putting up one twelves,
Speaker 2: he's putting up one tens like this guy is ready
Speaker 2: to go. Maybe the only problem is it's like, what
Speaker 2: are they going to do? I still say Strand comes
Speaker 2: up and he's the DH. He's the guy. He's an
Speaker 2: easy DH play. He could play a little, he could
Speaker 2: play third, he could play first. It gives him more flexibility.
Speaker 2: Joey Vado's looming, So I think that's kind of a problem. Ces.
Speaker 2: I've been calling for frickin' ever, so you know this
Speaker 2: is an easy one on the pitching side. Yes, thank you,
Speaker 2: By the way, that is the best compliment here is
Speaker 2: a rare slas couple days. Thank you. I'm we're going
Speaker 2: for it. We're going and we're gonna keep it going here.
Speaker 2: Thank you for all the comments. It makes me feel good.
Speaker 2: Gavin Williams. Somebody put it in the chat. Clearly, Gavin Williams.
Speaker 2: He is the top prospect of prospect, number one pitcher
Speaker 2: that's out there. He's in Triple A, he's slapping. It's
Speaker 2: just a matter of like, what is this team gonna do?
Speaker 2: You know what Aaron Savale is pitching today. He might
Speaker 2: be one of those biggest pieces that might get kicked
Speaker 2: if Gavin Williams were to come up, So watch and
Speaker 2: see if he gets kicked around. But Gavin Williams, Christian
Speaker 2: and Carlossi on strand, those are the two hitter pitcher prospects,
Speaker 2: the top of the heap at least, not that there's
Speaker 2: not other guys, but those would be the big two
Speaker 2: I'd focus on.
Speaker 1: Yes, and I've been on a heater Welsh these last
Speaker 1: couple of days. Yeah you have, man, I mean it
Speaker 1: is woo ooh the numbers are And of course I've
Speaker 1: reinvested into NFL because that's what I do. I take
Speaker 1: this money from here and I'm investing in all my
Speaker 1: NFL stuff. And there's even a free actually I used
Speaker 1: my free They gave me a free ten dollars bet
Speaker 1: yesterday on on FanDuel and I went ahead and I
Speaker 1: used it on the Alto Cruiz Homer, which was great.
Speaker 1: It was like three to one odds on that are
Speaker 1: pretty good.
Speaker 2: I mean, it's a great play. Anytime you can bet
Speaker 2: against now it's Cinergard. If you guys remember my bet.
Speaker 2: My play into that game was My favorite bet of
Speaker 2: the day was Red team total runs through the first
Speaker 2: five innings of two and a half. We got that.
Speaker 2: We got that the third inning after they scored six.
Speaker 2: So that was my investment in it. Anytime you can
Speaker 2: go get SnO Cyndergard, here's a sad piece. We won't
Speaker 2: be able to do it too much longer because No
Speaker 2: Cyndergard is not too much longer for this league.
Speaker 1: And yeah, also a bunch of games canceled yesterday. It
Speaker 1: was weird here in New Jersey. It looked like tattooine.
Speaker 2: Two different games canceled today. Yeah, you guys are going
Speaker 2: right thing.
Speaker 1: Let me tell you something. I walked. I took a
Speaker 1: picture of it too, and I sent it in our
Speaker 1: slack channel on the random channel there. But it was
Speaker 1: crazy yesterday. I mean, it looked like some weird post
Speaker 1: apocalyptic thing to smell. Yeah, it was very But yesterday
Speaker 1: the sun was setting, I took out the trash and
Speaker 1: I swear to God, it was like this weird sun
Speaker 1: haze thing. It looked like Luke Skywalker when he was
Speaker 1: looking out at Tattooine and I was out there trying
Speaker 1: to you know, I went to the Tashi station to
Speaker 1: pick up some power converters, you know, because I just
Speaker 1: got those new droids. And I looked outside and well,
Speaker 1: that's that's from Star Wars. That's what he says. You know,
Speaker 1: Oh okay, he's all complaining. He's like, but I was
Speaker 1: going to.
Speaker 2: Go to the Tashi station because the confirms aaah thing.
Speaker 1: I was like, what, No, No, the Tohi station is
Speaker 1: right next to the wah wah that's where it is.
Speaker 1: But it was it's been so weird, and you know,
Speaker 1: I know what the people have breathing issues and things
Speaker 1: like that. They cancel all the after school activities here
Speaker 1: in the area. There's no sports being played. Nobody went outside.
Speaker 1: They would give a mask. Now we're wearing masks to
Speaker 1: go outside. That's that's how weird things have gotten.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I say be safe everybody, because like you know,
Speaker 2: like air quality rating around one hundred is not great.
Speaker 2: And in Washington when they canceled the Diamondbacks game today,
Speaker 2: three hundred over three hundred, and I believe in I
Speaker 2: don't New York message, I don't even know. I don't
Speaker 2: even know who's all getting hit. It was like three
Speaker 2: p fifty seven, Like it is massively insane air quality
Speaker 2: stuff that's going on. So godspeed, and I think the
Speaker 2: second game, I believe it was the Rockies and whoever
Speaker 2: maybe just got canceled. I thought someone in the chat.
Speaker 2: I'm not sure if that's a fact, but I know.
Speaker 1: For sure the Nationals one is canceled again. That that
Speaker 1: I saw that it was the national No, what was
Speaker 1: it that was? I just saw it.
Speaker 2: I thought something the official one.
Speaker 1: No, it's it's significantly better here right now. So they're
Speaker 1: hoping they're gonna get the Yankee game in today here
Speaker 1: in the New York area. But it was weird, very
Speaker 1: strange thing. But let's get to some baseball. Soff. By
Speaker 1: the way, uh eue uh two K has a great
Speaker 1: name here, two Live Crews. That's a that's a good
Speaker 1: team name.
Speaker 2: Like you had both players. I actually have both players
Speaker 2: in one of my nfbc's I wish we could change
Speaker 2: the name. I would totally call it that. That's a
Speaker 2: great one.
Speaker 1: All right, let's get to some other headlines that aren't
Speaker 1: Eli de la Cruz. I guess we can do those.
Speaker 2: Corbyn Burns.
Speaker 1: Don't look now, but he might be turning things around.
Speaker 1: Eight shutout innings, nine k's, uh, pretty good. I think
Speaker 1: his next start if I saw correctly his next starts
Speaker 1: coming up against the Twins, I could be wrong on that.
Speaker 1: I gotta check that. But Corbyn Burns, this is an
Speaker 1: interesting time to start to buy low on some of
Speaker 1: the you know, maybe that window shut I don't know,
Speaker 1: but you can kick the tires on it. Chris Bassett
Speaker 1: eight innings against the Astro's strong performance for him forty
Speaker 1: nine innings and his last seven starts a two point
Speaker 1: zero two eer, a point eight six whip. I really
Speaker 1: like this picture. Last year when he pitched for the Mets,
Speaker 1: I love Chris Bassett was a very strong pitcher. I
Speaker 1: did not like to see him go. There was a
Speaker 1: great pickup for the Blue Jays, and he's been very good.
Speaker 1: Forty two k's in the last forty nine innings. Two
Speaker 1: Juan Soto big night for him, five for five, a
Speaker 1: three twenty one, five homer, twenty RBI stretched with five
Speaker 1: steals since May one? How you do in so obviously,
Speaker 1: I guess the trick to Gettingjuan Soto back was getting
Speaker 1: him that horrible, horrible statue. So the statue. I'd like
Speaker 1: to see the numbers since the statue because I think
Speaker 1: these kind of coincided where he's like, look, I need
Speaker 1: to be better. If this is the statue they're making
Speaker 1: of me, that's acceptable. I need to perform.
Speaker 2: Better that one. The left one hits to twelve, the
Speaker 2: right one hits three hundred.
Speaker 1: Did you all see that horrible Blue Jays AI thing
Speaker 1: that I sent you this morning?
Speaker 2: Yes? I did?
Speaker 1: That? Was that go to see? On Twitter? I retweeted this.
Speaker 1: Somebody made a Blue Jays commercial using ai and it
Speaker 1: is the most terrifying, horrific.
Speaker 2: It starts out a little like, oh, this is like
Speaker 2: goofy ai this and it turns people.
Speaker 1: Have hot dog hands and.
Speaker 2: They're like eating each other and it's like eating each other.
Speaker 1: It's so weird.
Speaker 2: But one thing I want to point out is like
Speaker 2: it's it's always not one for one, but this one
Speaker 2: soda situation. It is like it is paramount to like
Speaker 2: what we see with like star players. Star players aren't
Speaker 2: always going to necessarily be stars, but people are looking
Speaker 2: at like Manny Machado and we have the Aaron Nolan
Speaker 2: Aernado's stuff. It's just like the best players do get
Speaker 2: it figured out because they're the best players. So when
Speaker 2: they really struggle, this is why they're on the list.
Speaker 2: I've had one Soto on the by list on the
Speaker 2: trade video, I've had Nolan Aernado. I would put Manny
Speaker 2: Machado on there. Look at trade trying me all of
Speaker 2: these guys when they're in their biggest struggles and people
Speaker 2: are losing their mind, it's such a great time to
Speaker 2: buy proven, really proven commodities, even if there's not like
Speaker 2: all the things that are pointing in that direction. That's
Speaker 2: kind of how I've been with Manny Machado, and I
Speaker 2: would because Wan Soto has really gotten his feet back.
Speaker 2: Hard hit numbers top percent of the league, fifty eight
Speaker 2: percent on hard hit. His batting average is up to
Speaker 2: his XBA, which is great. Uh, he's just making better
Speaker 2: contact and he's actually got the second best barrel rate
Speaker 2: of his career right now. So turning in a great direction,
Speaker 2: thank god. Hopefully quite a while back you did pick
Speaker 2: up one.
Speaker 1: Sodo Randy Rosarina walk off homer for him. He's now
Speaker 1: hitting two ninety three, ninety four, four ninety eight. That's
Speaker 1: elite boys and girls, twelve homers, seven steals. Guy's been tremendous.
Speaker 1: Hazus Sanchez also been pretty good last thirty games three
Speaker 1: forty six, three ninety one, six sixty seven slash. Now,
Speaker 1: this is a player that's been kind of divisive, I know,
Speaker 1: over the years and the prospect market. What do you
Speaker 1: make of this run that Sanchez is on right now?
Speaker 2: Well, I used to love if if you followed me
Speaker 2: for a long time, you know my years of loving
Speaker 2: Haesus Sanchez. But you know, like anything else, I do
Speaker 2: want to claim he's my guy because I just kind
Speaker 2: of like, you know, fell off the table. But XP
Speaker 2: this is amazing, And I know people get annoyed with
Speaker 2: like expected stats. But not only hitting three hundred, his
Speaker 2: expected batting average is over three twenty right now, which
Speaker 2: is wild an expected slug well over five hundred hard
Speaker 2: hit numbers are there. The strikeout rate is the absolute
Speaker 2: lowest of his career, which you love to see, and
Speaker 2: he's just detroying fastballs. So what'll be interesting is if
Speaker 2: the pitch mix this year is more fastballs. But that's
Speaker 2: what he hits so well, it'll be interesting when pitchers
Speaker 2: start to, you know, readjust on him, because he's hitting
Speaker 2: under two hundred on breaking and offbe pitches right now.
Speaker 2: So I'm here for it. I'm here for the Jesus.
Speaker 2: You don't f with the Jesus and you pick up
Speaker 2: the Jesus.
Speaker 1: They're actually showing uh, the Big Lebowski the theater near me.
Speaker 1: You know, I told you that theater nered does all
Speaker 1: the you know, revival wheels. They show him, and I've
Speaker 1: seen Lebowski. I saw it in the theater. It's it's
Speaker 1: so great. But I think I might have go check
Speaker 1: that out.
Speaker 2: It's I mean, it's it's a it's a. It definitely holds,
Speaker 2: you know, like you go back.
Speaker 1: It's like those bizarre Oh it holds, it's fans.
Speaker 2: You know what I've been wondering, does Raising Arizona does that?
Speaker 1: I just saw it a couple of weeks ago. Oh
Speaker 1: really it it. It doesn't hold up completely, but the
Speaker 1: parts that do are very good. Still.
Speaker 2: That's what I love like it's like like, but it's
Speaker 2: still completely different movies. But like Spaceball still holds up
Speaker 2: and three As still holds up, those are like eighties
Speaker 2: and seventies.
Speaker 1: Michael Waka, I can't believe he's holding up seven strikeouts,
Speaker 1: sixings yesterday. This has been bizarre. I was gonna say,
Speaker 1: what what do we get through here? The Michael Waka
Speaker 1: turn around? Because he's got a three eighteen era, a
Speaker 1: one oh nine whip, he's got sixty four strikeouts a
Speaker 1: guy who's never been a big strikeout picture really sixty
Speaker 1: eight innings. I mean, I remember Michael Walker Cardinal days
Speaker 1: well also thinking he was going to be in that
Speaker 1: rotation for a decade and be a stud and he
Speaker 1: had like one and a half good years and that
Speaker 1: was it. But what in the hell is going on
Speaker 1: with Michael Walker Welsh and and what do you do
Speaker 1: here at this point with him?
Speaker 2: Yeah? I mean, I told you it's the change up.
Speaker 2: It's it's a I don't know, it's career high, but
Speaker 2: it's higher than last year. Over thirty six percent whiff
Speaker 2: rate on his change up. He throws that as the
Speaker 2: number one pitch fastball right behind it, and then He's
Speaker 2: got his variations of fastballs, cutters and sinkers and stuff,
Speaker 2: and all of those fastballs are just setups for the changeup.
Speaker 2: And I mean, I know who here watches Michael Waka,
Speaker 2: but when you watch man, it's bonkers to see what
Speaker 2: that change up does. Just how it dips and dives.
Speaker 2: It's like it's like a dodgeball. Dips dive, duck like
Speaker 2: that thing, just go whoop. And the fastball sets it
Speaker 2: up really great, and he's hitting his spots and you know,
Speaker 2: the zone chart looks fantastic. He's doing what you want
Speaker 2: with the change up. You're covering the bottom corners of
Speaker 2: the zone and under and then he just pounds fastballs
Speaker 2: in that. Guys aren't getting crazy. I don't think they're
Speaker 2: getting crazy crazy hard contact on let me look real quick, Yeah,
Speaker 2: I mean only one pitch has a ninety ev or
Speaker 2: higher and that's the four seam. Everything else is and
Speaker 2: it's only ninety point five. So there's not a lot
Speaker 2: of hard contact being made with a change up. I
Speaker 2: think this type of stuff is sustainable. So I'm in.
Speaker 2: I met on Michael Walka, especially if you're sitting out there.
Speaker 1: Guys, I know people are asking me, are you calling
Speaker 1: Ellie de la Cruz because we're getting close to game
Speaker 1: time there. No, I'm not calling Ellie today, not against Kersher.
Speaker 2: I almost was tempted to go under every like his
Speaker 2: fantasy point today on Price Paster, like eight and a half.
Speaker 2: I was going to go on, there's a.
Speaker 1: Great price Pig thing going on. Also, we're gonna get
Speaker 1: to that in the second too. But somebody who was
Speaker 1: saying in the chat here I gotta find it that
Speaker 1: Nicholas Cage's best movie, Oh here it is was BTT said,
Speaker 1: raising Arizona's Cage's best film. I think it's his best performance.
Speaker 1: I would say con Air and face Off in that
Speaker 1: same also vein of.
Speaker 2: You know what's interesting movies, Let me pus, let me
Speaker 2: push performances.
Speaker 1: It might be, it might be the best performance.
Speaker 2: Let me push just a tiny, tiny bit. Because Nicholas Cage,
Speaker 2: interestingly enough, has had completely different life spans, because he's
Speaker 2: he's making completely different movies now. Because I will agree
Speaker 2: with this, con Air is the best. Connor is number one.
Speaker 2: I would put the Rock and and like the Rock now.
Speaker 1: But I love that about the Rock that Sean Connery
Speaker 1: is actually James Bond like that is a cool theory,
Speaker 1: but I'm I think that movie's overrated. Moons also a
Speaker 1: great performance by Nicholas Cage two.
Speaker 2: Now all of his performances, though, they're so different, and
Speaker 2: this is gonna be wild, But I actually heard an
Speaker 2: interview that his favorite movie, and I saw this about
Speaker 2: six months ago, his favorite movie he's ever made is
Speaker 2: this movie called Pig, and it is phenomenal. It's he is.
Speaker 1: He's great in that movie too. Which adaptation, Oh yeah,
Speaker 1: but the screenwriter that's he's.
Speaker 2: Doing all these weird movies. Pig is really good. And
Speaker 2: he's done a bunch of these like aggressive, like horror
Speaker 2: movies too. But go check.
Speaker 1: I want to see Renfield because I love Nicholas Holt
Speaker 1: and it looks like a very funny movie. So I'm
Speaker 1: definitely going to check that out. But you're right, you know,
Speaker 1: if you look at the Nicholas Cage pantheon of films,
Speaker 1: it's pretty good.
Speaker 2: Here.
Speaker 1: Match stick Men, that's an underrated little movie. He does
Speaker 1: like some horrible straight B level to cable movies, and
Speaker 1: then he'll do something like match stick Men, or he'll
Speaker 1: do something like Renfield.
Speaker 2: You're like this is, but he's doing a lot of
Speaker 2: like taking money. His two most recent big ones of
Speaker 2: the last five years is Mandy and Pig. Go watch
Speaker 2: those all right?
Speaker 1: Checkout Pig, Yeah, you'll check that out. All right, Let's
Speaker 1: continue on here with the rookie lookie, because Joe Adele
Speaker 1: don't look now, kids, Joe Adell got called up. Nine
Speaker 1: fifty eight ops, eighteen homers, four steals. All right, Welsh,
Speaker 1: I know you're not the biggest Joe Adell guy, So
Speaker 1: are you running out there to pick him up at all?
Speaker 1: Or No?
Speaker 2: I am not, no way, absolutely not a home run
Speaker 2: leader too, by the way, in the minor leagues. Now,
Speaker 2: I think he's impressive.
Speaker 1: A home run leader in the minor league getting called up.
Speaker 2: No, I mean, if you want, you can, there's always
Speaker 2: a possibility. I leave open the possibility. But at the
Speaker 2: same time, what is this year twelve? You know, look
Speaker 2: started your trump. Remember that's Joe Adell in triple A.
Speaker 1: I think that might be a little a little like
Speaker 1: it's twelve.
Speaker 2: He's more thanking out almost thirty percent of the time
Speaker 2: in the minors. So what have you learned? He's he's
Speaker 2: eating mistakes better, but he's striking out at insane levels,
Speaker 2: and it's barely improving. He's striking out worse this year
Speaker 2: than he did in two thousand and one, which he
Speaker 2: was also in triple A. So could it work out? Sure,
Speaker 2: crazy athletic, more pitches over time, pitch recognition. I'm not
Speaker 2: gonna hold my breath. Not doing it in a ten,
Speaker 2: not doing it in a twelve. This also is going
Speaker 2: to probably be short lived. Joe Adell will figure it out,
Speaker 2: maybe at some point in his career. I just have
Speaker 2: been pretty saidfast. I don't think it'll be with the Angels.
Speaker 1: No, right, fair enough.
Speaker 2: So remember Mickey is on this team.
Speaker 1: Guys.
Speaker 2: Remember they got Mickey Moray, so they don't need Joe.
Speaker 1: Micky had that great run and then all of a
Speaker 1: sudden they went back to Taylor Ward. I feel like,
Speaker 1: and I'm thinking about, what the hell are you doing here?
Speaker 1: Why are we going back to Taylor Ward?
Speaker 2: After ally twenty one? If I said two thousand and one.
Speaker 1: So wait, how old is Jo Adell now?
Speaker 2: Since since that twenty he's twenty four. I mean he's
Speaker 2: still in that developmental time.
Speaker 1: It's just I mean that's I mean, if he was
Speaker 1: twenty six, I'd say, Okay, he's twenty four, Gunner Henderson.
Speaker 1: This is another young player too. We gotta talk about this.
Speaker 1: He's only twenty one. Gunner Henderson. Seven twelve ops, six homers,
Speaker 1: two steals through fifty two games. I know he had
Speaker 1: some injury issues too. He had the back issue recently too.
Speaker 1: He just came back into the lineup. What's the second
Speaker 1: half in your mind looked like for Gunner Henderson. Give
Speaker 1: me a stat line for Gunner Henderson last eighty games.
Speaker 2: Let's say, what was the stat give me will give
Speaker 2: me one more time. I mean I'm playing even.
Speaker 1: Twelve ops, six homers, two steals and fifty two games. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean the ops, the homer total, and maybe a
Speaker 1: batting average total he could.
Speaker 2: Do too, okay, Yeah, and he's hitting two oh four
Speaker 2: right now. He's had a expected batting average of two twenty.
Speaker 2: I think Gunner can get to two fifty on the
Speaker 2: back half of the year, but I think it's like
Speaker 2: another six or seven homers. And I'm being a little
Speaker 2: optimistic here. Here's you know what, let me say this better.
Speaker 2: I think there's a possibility that Gunner Henderson has sent
Speaker 2: down I've been saying that for quite some time. Hitting
Speaker 2: two hundred thirty percent strikeout rate, he's walked a whole bunch,
Speaker 2: which has kept him up here. So I think he
Speaker 2: can statistically do a little bit better than he's done
Speaker 2: with a better batting average. But I think he might
Speaker 2: end the year with one hundred and twenty or thirty
Speaker 2: games and it might be twelve to fifteen homers, two
Speaker 2: thirty batting average, eight stolen bases and what that means
Speaker 2: completely reserviceable player in redraft. But I've been saying for
Speaker 2: a couple of weeks, I think you can cut them.
Speaker 2: You know, there's no true shot. Signs of life will
Speaker 2: there be, There might be, and maybe you'll eat it.
Speaker 2: But it's June and he's hitting two hundred with a
Speaker 2: thirty percent strikeout rate, so you can go esak Parates
Speaker 2: is probably a better option right now from a fantasy perspective.
Speaker 1: Wow, that's right, way harsh. Well, no, look, I mean
Speaker 1: right now now, yes, but I'm hoping Gunner Henderson pulls
Speaker 1: it together. This has been too bad for too long
Speaker 1: for a player that I really thought last year showed
Speaker 1: a lot of promise. So I understand sophomore Slum's happened,
Speaker 1: but I'm hoping that he can improve it. If you
Speaker 1: can get to that eight twenty ops range with another
Speaker 1: you know, ten home runs in the second half, I
Speaker 1: think that's the player I'm looking for.
Speaker 2: The key you're also looking for is like better signs
Speaker 2: of life like that I think is going to be key.
Speaker 2: Now in June so far, here's a little bit of it.
Speaker 2: He has hit two fifty. Bet it's only three games.
Speaker 2: He was two thirteen last run. And you want to
Speaker 2: pay attention to strikeout rates that has dipped. It's twenty
Speaker 2: five percent so far. The previous two months both over
Speaker 2: thirty percent. So if what he's doing in June over
Speaker 2: three games continues, then this would be a good sign
Speaker 2: of life. But I would still like caution, what's it
Speaker 2: going to look like? He's not gonna be Corman Carroll.
Speaker 2: He's not going to be Eli.
Speaker 1: De la Cruz to no be a serviceable place. Look,
Speaker 1: third base sucks, So if again, if it could be
Speaker 1: serviceable or good even at third base, that's something to
Speaker 1: pay attention to. Similar to the the Bill Paxton conversation
Speaker 1: of a couple of weeks ago, this Nicholas Cage conversation
Speaker 1: has certainly sparked the chat here and a lot of
Speaker 1: people bringing up Honeymoon in Vegas and Leaving Las Vegas.
Speaker 1: I don't like any of the Nick Cage Vegas movies,
Speaker 1: to be honest with you, I think they're both super overrated.
Speaker 1: I remember they were huge successes at the time. I
Speaker 1: think it would be funny now now that I'm thinking
Speaker 1: about it, to watch them back to back, Like, is
Speaker 1: that is that marriage to Sarah Jessica Parker? What made him?
Speaker 1: What led to his alcoholism? Like, I kind of wonder
Speaker 1: if you can watch those I legit.
Speaker 2: Do not remember any of the Vegas movies.
Speaker 1: Yeah, they were completely overrated. I did, Like that's the thing.
Speaker 1: It's like some of them. Con Air is like and
Speaker 1: it was just on not that long ago, a couple
Speaker 1: of months. I end up watching it. Con Air is
Speaker 1: so goofy, especially on the rewatch. But I don't know
Speaker 1: what it is like it just got a great cast
Speaker 1: of people.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it holds up.
Speaker 1: It's got everybody from Buschemy to cusack In. It's was
Speaker 1: just like such a creep to and freepeak character. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's Garland Green. I want to say, what was there is?
Speaker 1: Why you want me in the bar at the Trivia
Speaker 1: Pete Alonzo, he's gonna be at the bar for a
Speaker 1: couple of days. He's got a risk intus, you have
Speaker 1: to taking a ninety seven mile hour fastball the risk.
Speaker 1: Although I heard Charlie Morton called him up and apologize,
Speaker 1: so apparently this didn't have all the implications that everybody
Speaker 1: on social media wanted to say. After he was yelling to.
Speaker 2: I wanted to ask you this, are you a big
Speaker 2: hit retaliation guy? Cinder Guard did the MLB the show
Speaker 2: thing right after Ellie hit the homer where he hit
Speaker 2: a guy and then Alonzo was chirping about Elder and
Speaker 2: then yeah, let's say let's pretend like that was retail.
Speaker 1: I'm a think we're port of hitting a guy who
Speaker 1: runs his mouth, so yeah, like I'm not hitting the
Speaker 1: next guy who hits home run off that is That
Speaker 1: is the lak To me, that was always the lamest
Speaker 1: thing ever. It's like, you gave up a home run
Speaker 1: to that guy, so what does that have to do
Speaker 1: with the next guy coming up? And it's like, hey, don't
Speaker 1: think that you're hitting a home run off me? Like
Speaker 1: it is. That is the lamest thing ever. When the
Speaker 1: next guy. If you can stay in the game long enough,
Speaker 1: that guy hit the home run off. Yeah, that's the
Speaker 1: guy you gotta worry about. I never understood that. Edward Cabrero.
Speaker 1: So hopefully just a couple of days, maybe we'll see. Uh,
Speaker 1: we're hoping he avoids a trip to the IL. Edward
Speaker 1: Cabrero was removed Wednesday with a blister. Keep an eye
Speaker 1: on that. Brandon Law is going to be shut down
Speaker 1: for two to three weeks for baseball activity. So that's
Speaker 1: the Xander Bogarts, the daily Xander Bogarts again still absent yesterday.
Speaker 1: Lords Guriel also still absent. Willia Damas did return, though
Speaker 1: with the concussion protocol. Finally, Altuve returned as well. Carlos
Speaker 1: Rodon I finished this, and I want you to rank something. Sorry,
Speaker 1: goay finish that want to rank something. Justin Steele through
Speaker 1: a bullpen session Wednesday. So I don't know about you, guys,
Speaker 1: but he's on check on to return right now on
Speaker 1: June seventeenth against the Orioles. That's apparently when he's coming back.
Speaker 2: I'm okay with that.
Speaker 1: You have my hands like this watching Justin Steele.
Speaker 2: I mean, I'm good to the rank rest of season,
Speaker 2: Kelly day La Cruz, Willia Damas, Xander Bogarts.
Speaker 1: Oh, man, this is a good one. I was down
Speaker 1: on Xander going into the year.
Speaker 2: Me too.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna go Ellie Xander. And the third one was
Speaker 1: a Domas Adamis Domas third.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I completely agree. I just wanted to see if
Speaker 2: we were there with Ellie.
Speaker 1: Oh, I'm there, I'm there, and look, I expect Ellie
Speaker 1: to have some valleys. Okay, like I'm not. I'm not
Speaker 1: saying like it's gonna be like night Ellie Della Valley's Yes,
Speaker 1: come on, just for fun, Louis arise two for four.
Speaker 1: Now he's hitting four oh three just despite the wels.
Speaker 1: Should I just want to throw that in there?
Speaker 2: Man, I decided I'm going to lay off because I
Speaker 2: did it. I haven't dropped the ICL episode. I kind
Speaker 2: of went in again and we had a voice smail
Speaker 2: about it. I got to lay off of it. But like,
Speaker 2: you know, he's.
Speaker 1: Awesome now our boys him says National Treasure is one
Speaker 1: of his best. I've never seen National Treasures great.
Speaker 2: They're great movies. You know, Nicholas Cage might be one
Speaker 2: of the most. Like he when we lose him one day,
Speaker 2: It's gonna be a worst world because I watched all
Speaker 2: of it.
Speaker 1: Did you want about profanity? That was for which one
Speaker 1: he did a Netflix special about profanity where every half
Speaker 1: hour was about the origin of a different curse word.
Speaker 2: No, I mean, he's always hilarious.
Speaker 1: And I'm sitting in like a chair by the fire
Speaker 1: with a smoking jacket hosting this show and it's so absurd.
Speaker 1: It's it's entertaining. I mean, it's it's like, got comedians
Speaker 1: on it talking about the words and all these things
Speaker 1: in the orders.
Speaker 2: I'm dying to see. I'm dying to see the exceptional
Speaker 2: talents of whatever with him and the Last of Us Guy,
Speaker 2: Mandalorian guy, the one it's about Nicholas Cage, the guy
Speaker 2: who's obsessed with the drug dealers.
Speaker 1: I didn't see that. I heard that.
Speaker 2: I want to see that really bad, also hilarious thing.
Speaker 2: There's this interview not to go on it, but Polly
Speaker 2: Shore was on Joe Rogan and apparently Polly Shore lives
Speaker 2: next door to Nicholas Cage. Half of this entire interview
Speaker 2: is Polly Shore talking about talking about Nicholas Cage and
Speaker 2: trying to get him on the show. And the weird
Speaker 2: like Nicholas Cage has like a no social media rule
Speaker 2: to come to his house and how he hangs out.
Speaker 2: Nicholas Cage is fascinating. He is fascinating.
Speaker 1: See Angelo supports the match. Sick men, great movie. Him
Speaker 1: and Sam Rockwell, they're con artists and tracks tracks Patten
Speaker 1: who I don't know. I've seen tracks in the chap before.
Speaker 1: In the end, Nicholas Cage turned out to be the
Speaker 1: national treasure. But he misspelled. He broke gauge inestet a Cage.
Speaker 1: But I think I know what he's saying there. All right,
Speaker 1: let's continue on with the three up and three down.
Speaker 1: Cormick Carrol all big up yesterday, four for five to
Speaker 1: run Homer, I think it's in the negative now his
Speaker 1: ry future. It's gonna be close to it by the
Speaker 1: end of this week. So if you haven't bet for
Speaker 1: Gorman Carroll for Rookie of the Year, I don't know which.
Speaker 2: I saw the DraftKings one this morning. I believe it
Speaker 2: was my eyes just plus one when I saw it
Speaker 2: on Okay, so it's plus one thirty five. But number
Speaker 2: two is Ellie Daily Cruz now at three sixty five.
Speaker 1: That becomes an interesting hedge. Now the interesting hedge is
Speaker 1: bet Ellie at a small number now, just in case
Speaker 1: he goes bananas and Corbyan Carroll got for big gets hurt.
Speaker 2: It's just the number isn't good enough. But three and
Speaker 2: a half to one on Ellie right now when Corvin Carroll,
Speaker 2: Corbyn Carroll half on Ellie. Yeah, it was like three
Speaker 2: sixty last week. No, no, it's like three sixty five.
Speaker 1: Listen.
Speaker 2: Corbyn Carroll almost has thirty combined homers and stolen bases.
Speaker 2: And it's June eighth. Think about that for a second.
Speaker 2: Almost thirty combined homers and stolen bases. Like, Ellie's awesome.
Speaker 2: Ellie's exciting. Unless Corbyn Carroll falls off the earth or
Speaker 2: gets hurt. I don't know how whatever Ellie could do
Speaker 2: could possibly catch the number one team in the NL
Speaker 2: and the best player on it who's hitting three hundred
Speaker 2: as a rookie and will be an all star. Ellie's fun.
Speaker 2: Corbyn Carroll with as long as that something happens. We
Speaker 2: got that now.
Speaker 1: I can't get out of my head. The conversations between
Speaker 1: Paul Shore and Nicholas Cage. It's it's very polly it's
Speaker 1: recycling day. Make sure you take out you recycling. He's like,
Speaker 1: I've got bottles, I've gotten news brat, take it all out,
Speaker 1: dragging it down now, Chill.
Speaker 2: Bro poly Shore, Nicholas Cage move.
Speaker 1: I just wanted to be sure that you didn't miss
Speaker 1: recycling Day because it only happens every two weeks, not one,
Speaker 1: but two. John Gray recorded twelve strikeouts yesterday. By the way,
Speaker 1: how good has he been. I'm so glad that I
Speaker 1: reinvested in John Gray last year, and I'm so glad
Speaker 1: I did it again this year. John Gray, I think,
Speaker 1: is going to figure it out. And I love that
Speaker 1: John Gray and Nadyavaldi are leading this charge for this
Speaker 1: team and they just go out there and help the
Speaker 1: bullpen and the Texas Rangers. By the way, the odds
Speaker 1: to win for the Texas Rangers. Have you seen them lately?
Speaker 1: Because it is absurd what they are. By the way
Speaker 1: he's looking at I'm gonna pull it up here in
Speaker 1: a second day.
Speaker 2: It's like Jacob de Grom just like he just took
Speaker 2: some of his aura and he was just like, here
Speaker 2: are my sons. Yeah, take my pitching powers.
Speaker 1: And they all like they drank the blood of Jacob
Speaker 1: de Grom one hundred it opened. They are plus one
Speaker 1: point fifty on betting pros right now to win that division.
Speaker 2: Isn't that Jacob de gram was splinter and he put
Speaker 2: it out to his ninja turtles the fours. I'll have
Speaker 2: it so that we also live update. Ellie de la
Speaker 2: Cruz has a hit and his first career stolen base.
Speaker 2: He got a hit and still it's he's ridiculous, but
Speaker 2: that way would have killed those fantasy points that we
Speaker 2: were going against. This is against Clayton Kershaw, the legends.
Speaker 1: I don't know. Uh. Let's let's also get the Joey
Speaker 1: Wimer some love two four for four or two bombs
Speaker 1: yesterday and a hell of a mullet. Three down. Christopher Morel,
Speaker 1: who we were ragging on the other day, it's gotten worse.
Speaker 1: He's now two for twenty nine so and he didn't
Speaker 1: even play yesterday, so they just that's a down. Max
Speaker 1: Scherzer wasn't good, but he did get the k prop.
Speaker 1: We locked that bad boy in at six and a
Speaker 1: half and he struck out ten. Let's go shures are
Speaker 1: only five and two thirds innings, five earned runs and
Speaker 1: Charlie Morton only four and two thirds and four earned runs.
Speaker 1: He's stunk too, Welsh. I want to get to the
Speaker 1: Prize Picks because they've got some fun going on a
Speaker 1: price right now. They got the little hot dog guys out,
Speaker 1: So what is that? I'll tell you in a second,
Speaker 1: But before you do, go see the hot dog guy.
Speaker 1: The tacos that thought there were hell of hot dogs.
Speaker 1: I don't know.
Speaker 2: Look, you know what they do look like hot dog.
Speaker 1: After that Blue Jays video, I don't know what to
Speaker 1: think about anything anymore because it was so upsetting. Again,
Speaker 1: go to my Twitter and go look at it. But
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Speaker 1: and Spencer Strider a six and a half against the
Speaker 1: Mets today, probably without Alonzo in a lineup, I would
Speaker 1: take all three of these. That's my prize picks. They
Speaker 1: basically give you like twenty to thirty percent off and
Speaker 1: it's like a limited time. So there's like a ticker
Speaker 1: going on. I guess, are they tacos? That's a hot dog.
Speaker 2: He's got those are tacos.
Speaker 1: He's got mustard underneath his mouth.
Speaker 2: No, it's like the Taco Tuesday thing.
Speaker 1: No, it's mustard. It's not a taco. It's a hot dog.
Speaker 1: It's baseball. He's holding a pennant.
Speaker 2: It's Wiener Thursday. What are we talking about?
Speaker 1: Well, I don't know Wednesday.
Speaker 2: It's a hot dog. It is a hot dog. Set
Speaker 2: doesn't make it a hot dog.
Speaker 1: It's a hot dog.
Speaker 2: Welco hot dogs move a little bit further outside the
Speaker 2: bun to.
Speaker 1: The ones that the longer buns that fit the hot dogs.
Speaker 2: So they do do a Taco Tuesday. And okay, so
Speaker 2: the developmental team, the art team just.
Speaker 1: Telling me, I can't combine them, but I would use
Speaker 1: them to build, use one of them. I can't take
Speaker 1: these with mustard of the Yeah, they've got little it's
Speaker 1: got a little mustard thing, right.
Speaker 2: All right, whatever, Okay, Wiener Thursday. Celebrate your wingers on Thursday.
Speaker 2: Everybody is hot dog a sandwich. I only like the
Speaker 2: Framber Streider one, and I would throw one of these
Speaker 2: in if you want to go. Also, if you don't
Speaker 2: like one of the ones I have, feel free.
Speaker 1: I can't play price picks. I'm annoyed because I live
Speaker 1: in New Jersey, but I didn't know I couldn't use
Speaker 1: all three. But I would definitely use the Framber one.
Speaker 1: Is nuts, it's three and a half, I mean.
Speaker 2: Take, I agree? Is crazy?
Speaker 1: Use that?
Speaker 2: I love the Strider one. I'm not messing with the
Speaker 2: Verlander one even though it's good. Here's my plays speaking
Speaker 2: of Framber Fantasy score thirty one and a half. Love that.
Speaker 2: Or you could play this strikeouts if that's what you wanted.
Speaker 2: Jean Carlos Stanton hits run RBI one and a half
Speaker 2: up against Lancelyn Today and Adley Rechman Fantasy score seven.
Speaker 2: Pair any all three of those, maybe with Strider. Or
Speaker 2: you could take out the Framber points and go with
Speaker 2: the strikeouts if you want a three piece, do whatever
Speaker 2: you want.
Speaker 1: Their discount dogs fred got it? Thank you like wah
Speaker 1: wah dogs like right dogs, you know? Or if you
Speaker 1: go to dollar Dog Night at the ballpark, all right?
Speaker 1: Betting wise today, I'm still going into the Yankees. You
Speaker 1: get plus one fifty there against them without judging the lineup,
Speaker 1: but sever Reno's pitch, and I know Linn is pitching.
Speaker 1: I know lin is all over the place, but whatever,
Speaker 1: plus one fifty is a good number. Framber Valdez minus
Speaker 1: one fifteen. I like that one for the Houston Astros too. Today,
Speaker 1: Zach Wheeler, it's still eight and a half, just like
Speaker 1: it was yesterday when I got canceled. I would go
Speaker 1: with the under on that. It's a big number, and
Speaker 1: even Framber at five and a half, i'd go over
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Speaker 1: Slate Franbur at eleven point one, Specerstrider at eleven point four.
Speaker 1: If you want to go at zach wee Are ten
Speaker 1: to eight, you could do that too. Philly and Cleveland.
Speaker 1: That's the stacks tonight, and then JT real Muto at
Speaker 1: two eight. I'm aind Rosario at two to five, starting
Speaker 1: to pull out of it a little bit. And Stephen
Speaker 1: Quanta towo eight also, I know, I know they're not
Speaker 1: a good offense. I know, but eventually things have got
Speaker 1: to turn around a little bit. Home run call to
Speaker 1: day for me, it's Trey Turner. I'm going back to that. Well.
Speaker 1: I've got what three now in a few days, so
Speaker 1: I'm trying to trying to keep pace. So Welsh still
Speaker 1: at the eighteen, Mark Razor at twenty three, at the
Speaker 1: very top of the board. Welsh, where you're going for
Speaker 1: your home run call tonight?
Speaker 2: Yeah, I thought real quick. We didn't do my bets.
Speaker 2: That's no big deal. But you've got a lot of
Speaker 2: Philly stuff, DFS, Phillies trade Turner. I almost picked Turner.
Speaker 2: I'm on the Phillies a lot today. If bet wise
Speaker 2: one and a half total also team total runs over
Speaker 2: the whole Game four and a half and Houston money Line.
Speaker 2: We've talked about. Those are my three bets and from
Speaker 2: my home run total. I literally was gonna take Trey Turner.
Speaker 2: Saw you did it. I was like, all right, I'm
Speaker 2: gonna move off of it. I'm gonna go with matt Olsen.
Speaker 2: I'm gonna go with matt Olsen today. I feel off
Speaker 2: on the home run calls. I need to get back
Speaker 2: a rhythm here and hopefully matt Olsen could get me
Speaker 2: goun because I don't want to be off that boarding
Speaker 2: on the board, he's exciting, and I don't want to
Speaker 2: be off of that board. So matt Olsen.
Speaker 1: I love tacos for the record, I just want to
Speaker 1: I could eat tacos every day. I love any any
Speaker 1: kind of tacos too. We took a Terriso. You got
Speaker 1: the beef tacos, you got the chicken tacos. You all
Speaker 1: do the shrimp tacos, the ficial, any tacos, all the
Speaker 1: tacos all day long. Somebody has before is burrito a sandwich?
Speaker 1: I don't think I can't reading this.
Speaker 2: Conversation the whole like hot dog, sandwich, burrito. Guess what
Speaker 2: a brito is? It's a burrito, a taco, a taco.
Speaker 1: The hot dog is sandwich I get closer to because
Speaker 1: it's bread, Like, it's not bread. It's not a sandwich.
Speaker 1: So that's an interesting conversation. But it's on a roll.
Speaker 2: That's fine, on a hot dog roll.
Speaker 1: Fun.
Speaker 2: Okay, it's a fun.
Speaker 1: You like, how you don't need a hot dog? What
Speaker 1: do you do? Because you're an vegetarian guy, so what
Speaker 1: do you have? Like the what do you do?
Speaker 2: That's right? Just a bun. Actually, we went to this
Speaker 2: this haunted mansion thing like I was just gonna say,
Speaker 2: and my.
Speaker 1: Daughter Haunted House of hot Dog.
Speaker 2: It was just like eighteen ninety nine, like Hotel and Wickenberg.
Speaker 2: And we went there and they had these food trucks
Speaker 2: out there and everything, and my daughter they had like
Speaker 2: the well I got this like macaroni and cheese food truck,
Speaker 2: and there was a hot dog food truck. And my
Speaker 2: daughter looked at us and was like, I want a
Speaker 2: hot dog bun with ketchup and we're like, we're not
Speaker 2: ordering that, And my mom took her over and they
Speaker 2: gave her two hot dog buns with ketchup, and she
Speaker 2: was very excited. And that is apparently all that she wanted.
Speaker 2: Whether she meant or not, she would have only wanted
Speaker 2: a hot dog. But and then my wife had a
Speaker 2: pickle dog. It was just a pickle in the middle
Speaker 2: of a bun. Is that a sandwich? The pickle in
Speaker 2: the middle of a hot dog bun?
Speaker 1: I don't know. We have to put that on a pole.
Speaker 1: If Mayor was here, we could do it, but we're
Speaker 1: running out of time. Anyway, that'll do it for us.
Speaker 1: But the story of the game goes on for the Welsh.
Speaker 1: I'm Joey p We'll see you next time. Cruise and
Speaker 1: joy oh, I said, Cruise said kid. I did, Joey,
Speaker 1: Cruise and Ellie we see you next time. And ellis bye,
Speaker 1: see you later. What a show.