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Speaker 1: Hello, and welcome to Waken Jake myself, Jake Story, Ellie,

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Speaker 1: Big Baby, David producing a little MLB free agency over

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Speaker 1: under some of the projections. I'm gonna go off our guy,

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Speaker 1: Kylie McDaniel. I shouldn't say is our guy. I'd like

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Speaker 1: him to be. We know Jeff Passing, he likes Kylie.

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Speaker 1: It's like a friend of a friend. At this point,

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Speaker 1: I replied to some of his tweets before when he

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Speaker 1: was just like the scouting guy.

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Speaker 2: Maybe our goal for twenty twenty five is makee Kylie

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Speaker 2: McDaniel our guy.

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Speaker 1: New goal. It's good to set goals for the year.

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Speaker 1: So we'll go through some of the big boys, go

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Speaker 1: through the protection projection, talk it out a little bit

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Speaker 1: for some of the top free agencies, and then a

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Speaker 1: little football weekend preview on the back end. So let's

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Speaker 1: just get into it. Why not high and tight today today,

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Speaker 1: big guy for the country, And why don't we start

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Speaker 1: off with the big guy Juan Soto for clicks. It's here, people,

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Speaker 1: it's happening, Jeff Passing. The first man on the list

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Speaker 1: is Juan Soto, outfielder, former team New York Yankees. Just

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Speaker 1: kind of interesting to see by war Wan Soto did

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Speaker 1: have his best year last season, which he's had a

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Speaker 1: lot of good years, but a reminder that his opening

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Speaker 1: day age of twenty six is when a lot of

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Speaker 1: guys get their big league opportunity. Really that Juan Soto

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Speaker 1: may be peaking right now. So with all of that,

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Speaker 1: you know he's going to be the top of the class.

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Speaker 1: We're seeing Yankees fans with blank checks at the stadium

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Speaker 1: crossing them out six hundred mil, seven hundred mil for

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Speaker 1: Wan Soto. Obviously, the years make things very interesting for

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Speaker 1: on soo any of the deferred money, I don't have

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Speaker 1: one soda playing the deferred money game. Why. I don't

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Speaker 1: think that's any of his business. I mean, unless it

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Speaker 1: reason to believe it's going to become the new trend.

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Speaker 2: And there's been obviously guys with deferred money before show.

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Speaker 2: Hey didn't invent that. Yeah, like on the scale of

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Speaker 2: what Otani did straight up like you just won't see again.

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Speaker 1: Yeah that was we think that was a one of

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Speaker 2: But for this.

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Speaker 1: And man, this is Kylie, So I didn't even know

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Speaker 1: he did this. He collected predictions along the way in

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Speaker 1: June and August, so these aren't These aren't just Kylie

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Speaker 1: McDaniel guessing. This is Kylie McDaniel getting opinions from people

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Speaker 1: inside the industry. The Wan Sodo projected contract that they

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Speaker 1: have brought to the table is thirteen years, six hundred

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Speaker 1: what the rumor is right. And again it's the formula

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Speaker 1: of how good are you, how well are you going

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Speaker 1: to age, and what age are you at now? So

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Speaker 1: Soto hitting it twenty six this I don't know if

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Speaker 1: this is surprising people, but these are my honest thoughts,

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Speaker 1: and again these could be very wrong. Thirteen years, six

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Speaker 1: hundred eleven million, that comes out to forty seven million

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Speaker 1: a year. I would take the under I'm a little

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Speaker 1: bit surprised by that forty seven MILI number. That feels

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Speaker 2: Z he Kighie expanded below. Basically, the reason he thinks

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Speaker 2: it's this number is that beats Sho Hee Otani's like

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Speaker 2: present day value number because technically Otani's contract obviously complicated

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Speaker 2: and people think, and that's what he's his aim is.

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Speaker 1: I could see the agent caring about that. I don't

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Speaker 1: Soto and Show Hey are still different free agencies, and

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Speaker 1: That's Wan Soto and show he O Tani are different.

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Speaker 1: Subscribe I Juan Soto. We already have questions about his defense.

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Speaker 1: It's been part of the Yankees offseason. Is that, hey,

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Speaker 1: highest of compliments you could give Soto. He is not

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Speaker 1: again he looked close to average, Like that's the best

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Speaker 1: Basically the best hitter in the world is available at

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Speaker 1: But sho he was getting paid to hit, to run,

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Speaker 1: the Dominican Republic, sure, fuck it, we ball. But Japan's

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Speaker 1: a different animal. They're baseball obsessed. A lot of people.

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Speaker 1: We're already seeing the ripple effect. Roki Sasaki is listed

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Speaker 1: we just saw Bryce Harper do it. A we don't

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Speaker 1: Like for me, it's not shots fired for me, that's

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Speaker 1: You can make that work for how good he is offensively.

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Speaker 1: Deal now if he signs with the Yankees, it's good

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Speaker 3: Blitzball Battle five Kit and y'all set for game number

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Speaker 3: two between Forgotten Rotten and Del Kariba. This is a

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Speaker 1: is gonna be thirty one. That's huge. That's the difference.

429
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Speaker 1: That's free agency. Someone feeling the effects of father time

430
00:26:02,240 --> 00:26:05,320
Speaker 1: more and more, thirty five years old. Don't let the

431
00:26:05,320 --> 00:26:09,600
Speaker 1: beard fool you. I just think that's gonna be your

432
00:26:09,600 --> 00:26:12,760
Speaker 1: difference maker, like they have Alex Bregman getting one year

433
00:26:12,920 --> 00:26:18,280
Speaker 1: less than Willie Damas and getting one hundred and eighty

434
00:26:18,280 --> 00:26:24,600
Speaker 1: seven million dollars. Again, this is not shots fired at

435
00:26:24,600 --> 00:26:27,720
Speaker 1: Bregman at all, as they listen the article. He hasn't

436
00:26:27,760 --> 00:26:30,800
Speaker 1: top twenty six homer since twenty nineteen, so he plays

437
00:26:30,800 --> 00:26:33,640
Speaker 1: a good hot corner. He is a threat. A reminder

438
00:26:33,720 --> 00:26:37,639
Speaker 1: his home stadium is pretty pretty goold for a righty

439
00:26:37,680 --> 00:26:41,359
Speaker 1: poll hitter that that's something that has to be taken

440
00:26:41,400 --> 00:26:45,480
Speaker 1: into consideration. I would go the under there, and maybe

441
00:26:45,520 --> 00:26:49,399
Speaker 1: I'm just doing it every other thing. Again, he is

442
00:26:49,440 --> 00:26:52,200
Speaker 1: the only third baseman, so maybe that's the only caveat

443
00:26:52,240 --> 00:26:54,720
Speaker 1: that's gonna clip me up. If there is a bidding

444
00:26:54,760 --> 00:26:59,800
Speaker 1: war between the Washington Nationals are a sneaky Bregman team.

445
00:27:00,359 --> 00:27:03,040
Speaker 1: People are wondering if Detroit gets involved because they've got

446
00:27:03,080 --> 00:27:06,080
Speaker 1: hinge there and the baby Tigers. I don't think they are.

447
00:27:06,240 --> 00:27:08,480
Speaker 1: They're still tied up in that hobby deal for a

448
00:27:08,520 --> 00:27:11,880
Speaker 1: couple of years. That for the Detroit Tigers to have

449
00:27:13,119 --> 00:27:15,880
Speaker 1: I don't know, fifty five million a year tied into

450
00:27:15,920 --> 00:27:19,240
Speaker 1: their shortstop and third basement and that short stop isn't playing,

451
00:27:20,359 --> 00:27:23,560
Speaker 1: I don't know. That just feels bad for Tigers fans.

452
00:27:24,800 --> 00:27:28,720
Speaker 2: You know, like I am with what we've been saying about,

453
00:27:28,760 --> 00:27:31,359
Speaker 2: like they should be in on somebody and look to

454
00:27:31,400 --> 00:27:35,719
Speaker 2: make another big addition. Probably, but they're telling us alf

455
00:27:35,760 --> 00:27:38,600
Speaker 2: they had to be like very sure about who that

456
00:27:38,640 --> 00:27:39,680
Speaker 2: guy's gonna.

457
00:27:39,359 --> 00:27:42,600
Speaker 1: Be, whoever they bring in. And hey, Bregman in a

458
00:27:42,640 --> 00:27:48,840
Speaker 1: way is a guarantey high for war playing defense, hitting enough.

459
00:27:49,560 --> 00:27:53,120
Speaker 1: I do wonder how it would look home Stadium being

460
00:27:53,160 --> 00:27:55,960
Speaker 1: Detroit instead of Houston. That's a dome, that's a short

461
00:27:56,040 --> 00:27:59,360
Speaker 1: left field instead of a big outfield. I can get

462
00:27:59,359 --> 00:28:03,639
Speaker 1: to Bregman's h pretty quickly. But you know, it's something

463
00:28:03,680 --> 00:28:05,480
Speaker 1: these teams have to think about. I just think for

464
00:28:05,520 --> 00:28:09,280
Speaker 1: Detroit to have that much money invested in the left side,

465
00:28:09,440 --> 00:28:17,119
Speaker 1: he is heavy pull. Bregman's still gonna get paid, and like,

466
00:28:17,200 --> 00:28:21,040
Speaker 1: this is his big contract, so I could see the

467
00:28:21,119 --> 00:28:25,080
Speaker 1: years being more important than the aav Hey. We also

468
00:28:25,119 --> 00:28:27,159
Speaker 1: said on Talking Baseball the other day, Bregman has the

469
00:28:27,240 --> 00:28:29,840
Speaker 1: vibe of a Justin Turner that could be playing until

470
00:28:29,880 --> 00:28:33,040
Speaker 1: the end. So maybe he goes a five year, juicy one.

471
00:28:34,080 --> 00:28:36,640
Speaker 1: I'm still I'm gonna try to sneak under the under there,

472
00:28:36,760 --> 00:28:39,160
Speaker 1: especially when it's just compared side by side with Willy.

473
00:28:39,520 --> 00:28:43,200
Speaker 1: I think I'm stamping that a team will believe in

474
00:28:43,240 --> 00:28:49,360
Speaker 1: Willy's value just just a little more. From there, we

475
00:28:49,400 --> 00:28:53,480
Speaker 1: could start to do a little more rapido fire, so

476
00:28:53,480 --> 00:28:56,440
Speaker 1: we got some of the pitchers. Oh, Pete the meat

477
00:28:56,760 --> 00:29:02,400
Speaker 1: mm hmm, I'll do Pete. Just because I said his name,

478
00:29:02,400 --> 00:29:05,840
Speaker 1: I skip Max Freed, so remind me not to unskip that,

479
00:29:06,720 --> 00:29:10,040
Speaker 1: uh pistol. Pete Alonzo will be thirty on opening day.

480
00:29:11,600 --> 00:29:15,000
Speaker 1: He is projected to get six years, one hundred and

481
00:29:15,080 --> 00:29:17,880
Speaker 1: fifty nine mill. That is twenty six and a half

482
00:29:17,960 --> 00:29:26,680
Speaker 1: mil per year aav Again, I will be kind of well,

483
00:29:26,920 --> 00:29:29,280
Speaker 1: let's see, when Freddy Freeman hit free agency, he got

484
00:29:29,360 --> 00:29:32,280
Speaker 1: six for one sixty two. When Paul Goldschmidt hit free

485
00:29:32,280 --> 00:29:35,400
Speaker 1: agency was five for one thirty. So again, if you

486
00:29:35,480 --> 00:29:40,040
Speaker 1: start doing the multiples of that, and supposedly Pete Alonso

487
00:29:40,120 --> 00:29:45,280
Speaker 1: turned down seven for one fifty eight and he made

488
00:29:45,320 --> 00:29:49,680
Speaker 1: twenty and a half mil last season. I've been bullish

489
00:29:49,720 --> 00:29:52,720
Speaker 1: on Alonso and the phrase I keep coming back to

490
00:29:52,840 --> 00:29:55,000
Speaker 1: and it's it's me trying to get in the shoes

491
00:29:55,040 --> 00:29:57,440
Speaker 1: of these guys who are running front offices and teams.

492
00:29:58,440 --> 00:30:01,280
Speaker 1: Pete Alonzo's do not become free agents a lot. He

493
00:30:01,440 --> 00:30:04,600
Speaker 1: is a lock for about thirty four homers, which that's

494
00:30:04,640 --> 00:30:06,400
Speaker 1: what he hit this year, and it was kind of

495
00:30:06,400 --> 00:30:10,200
Speaker 1: a down year for Pete. So hey, maybe there's advanced

496
00:30:10,240 --> 00:30:14,040
Speaker 1: analytics on Pete because, like I said with Bregman, some

497
00:30:14,080 --> 00:30:16,960
Speaker 1: of Pete's big, big years are a couple of years earlier.

498
00:30:18,440 --> 00:30:21,080
Speaker 1: But that power's not gonna leave. Like, even if the

499
00:30:21,200 --> 00:30:25,760
Speaker 1: contact leaves Pete a little bit, he's still gonna have

500
00:30:25,840 --> 00:30:28,320
Speaker 1: that pop. He's got the scoops At first he was

501
00:30:28,360 --> 00:30:33,400
Speaker 1: the best scoops first baseman. And again, I think being

502
00:30:33,440 --> 00:30:37,480
Speaker 1: a DH could be potentially a positive thing for him

503
00:30:37,600 --> 00:30:40,120
Speaker 1: or a team if you need that, and if you

504
00:30:40,160 --> 00:30:41,960
Speaker 1: do need him at first base for a few years,

505
00:30:41,960 --> 00:30:44,120
Speaker 1: like I think you're fine with that. Pete does enough.

506
00:30:44,200 --> 00:30:47,120
Speaker 1: He puts in good effort over there, he's picking balls.

507
00:30:49,160 --> 00:30:52,320
Speaker 1: The year gets interesting. So six years, twenty six and

508
00:30:52,320 --> 00:30:57,719
Speaker 1: a half million, Um, I feel like I've been just

509
00:30:57,760 --> 00:31:00,600
Speaker 1: doing in every other thing, but I'm gonna go over.

510
00:31:01,800 --> 00:31:06,840
Speaker 1: I think Pete gets paid. Man. That's like we were

511
00:31:06,880 --> 00:31:10,400
Speaker 1: talking about floor When it comes to Bregmant and a

512
00:31:10,520 --> 00:31:17,160
Speaker 1: damas Pete Alonso, his worst homer year in a not

513
00:31:17,320 --> 00:31:22,680
Speaker 1: full season was thirty four. Last year, his ops plus,

514
00:31:22,840 --> 00:31:25,600
Speaker 1: even though his other numbers look down, is the same

515
00:31:25,640 --> 00:31:28,160
Speaker 1: as the year before, it was one twenty three. He's

516
00:31:28,160 --> 00:31:32,400
Speaker 1: a career one thirty four OPS plus average. I just

517
00:31:32,480 --> 00:31:35,080
Speaker 1: think where baseball is at, and I continue to preach this.

518
00:31:35,680 --> 00:31:40,040
Speaker 1: You can find pitching, and look how the Dodgers just

519
00:31:40,040 --> 00:31:43,200
Speaker 1: got through the postseason. Obviously it's high end bullpen, but

520
00:31:43,760 --> 00:31:46,560
Speaker 1: you can find those guys Alex Vesia, like this isn't

521
00:31:46,600 --> 00:31:50,120
Speaker 1: shots fired, but it's just these are very solid lefties

522
00:31:52,760 --> 00:31:56,840
Speaker 1: Vesia and Banda, where they're lefties that got them through

523
00:31:56,880 --> 00:32:00,000
Speaker 1: two winnings of each playoff game they needed to win. Basically,

524
00:32:01,240 --> 00:32:04,320
Speaker 1: you can't find Pete Alonzo's like that. You can't call

525
00:32:04,400 --> 00:32:07,080
Speaker 1: up a guy from Triple A and be like, hey,

526
00:32:07,080 --> 00:32:09,120
Speaker 1: this is this is your matchup. You're going to be

527
00:32:09,120 --> 00:32:13,920
Speaker 1: our thirty five homer a year guy. I think there's

528
00:32:13,960 --> 00:32:16,320
Speaker 1: going to be a couple front offices that start salivating

529
00:32:16,360 --> 00:32:19,680
Speaker 1: about adding Pete's power to the middle of their lineup

530
00:32:20,760 --> 00:32:22,880
Speaker 1: that I think the market's going to be there. I

531
00:32:22,880 --> 00:32:25,280
Speaker 1: think he saved his season towards the end. And you

532
00:32:25,280 --> 00:32:27,200
Speaker 1: know what else he did. He played one sixty two

533
00:32:27,240 --> 00:32:29,920
Speaker 1: this year, and he balled out in the playoffs, and

534
00:32:29,960 --> 00:32:34,760
Speaker 1: he plays almost every game every year. God, his game's

535
00:32:34,760 --> 00:32:37,000
Speaker 1: played is very impressive. I know I've done this before.

536
00:32:37,360 --> 00:32:40,200
Speaker 1: And the second number is the twenty twenty season, one

537
00:32:40,320 --> 00:32:43,440
Speaker 1: sixty one games played his rookie year, fifty seven out

538
00:32:43,480 --> 00:32:47,000
Speaker 1: of sixty one fifty two, one sixty one fifty four

539
00:32:47,080 --> 00:32:49,760
Speaker 1: one sixty two. Has Pete never been on the IL?

540
00:32:51,000 --> 00:32:53,240
Speaker 1: Maybe let me have research on that. I mean that

541
00:32:53,400 --> 00:33:00,480
Speaker 1: is there's something to that. There's something to that. Give

542
00:33:00,480 --> 00:33:03,520
Speaker 1: me the over on Pete? So much for me going

543
00:33:03,640 --> 00:33:07,600
Speaker 1: rapid fire. Max Freed projected six years, one seventy five.

544
00:33:08,160 --> 00:33:08,920
Speaker 1: They're comparing that.

545
00:33:09,760 --> 00:33:11,800
Speaker 2: It's got hit in the handsprain desers in twenty one.

546
00:33:12,240 --> 00:33:14,040
Speaker 2: Damn only I Elston.

547
00:33:14,200 --> 00:33:18,080
Speaker 1: Damn so how many games in twenty one? He still

548
00:33:18,080 --> 00:33:19,600
Speaker 1: played one hundred and fifty two games?

549
00:33:19,680 --> 00:33:22,960
Speaker 2: So he missed ten day or before? Oh, because some

550
00:33:22,960 --> 00:33:24,800
Speaker 2: position players can still be just a ten day or.

551
00:33:24,880 --> 00:33:27,720
Speaker 1: Yeah, I guess so, So he just missed those ten games.

552
00:33:28,680 --> 00:33:35,080
Speaker 1: That's insane. It's insane. Max Freed a I like him,

553
00:33:35,080 --> 00:33:38,880
Speaker 1: and I need to buck the trend. Carlos Rodan got

554
00:33:38,920 --> 00:33:41,760
Speaker 1: six years, one hundred sixty two million in twenty twenty three.

555
00:33:43,560 --> 00:33:47,280
Speaker 1: Aaron Nola got seven for one seventy two. They have

556
00:33:47,480 --> 00:33:51,040
Speaker 1: Max for six for one seventy five. I'm gonna go

557
00:33:51,080 --> 00:33:53,120
Speaker 1: over slash. I'm gonna put it on Green and say

558
00:33:53,160 --> 00:33:56,240
Speaker 1: they just nail it. Why not get one right? But

559
00:33:56,280 --> 00:33:58,840
Speaker 1: I would lean over. I mean Rodan. I know Rodan

560
00:33:58,920 --> 00:34:04,080
Speaker 1: was dominant strike out wise, but his injury history was daunting.

561
00:34:04,600 --> 00:34:08,399
Speaker 1: I know Max Freed had a couple nicks here and there,

562
00:34:08,440 --> 00:34:11,200
Speaker 1: but you can butter knife some of Max Freed's numbers

563
00:34:11,200 --> 00:34:14,440
Speaker 1: that he has been a top three left handed pitcher

564
00:34:14,480 --> 00:34:17,759
Speaker 1: in the league since he's been around, and dude, for him,

565
00:34:18,120 --> 00:34:20,680
Speaker 1: this felt like a down year for Max Freed. It

566
00:34:20,719 --> 00:34:22,719
Speaker 1: was one hundred and seventy four innings to a three

567
00:34:22,760 --> 00:34:25,960
Speaker 1: two five R. He has a career three oh seven.

568
00:34:27,920 --> 00:34:31,759
Speaker 1: Max Reed's been incredible. Let's see if I can even

569
00:34:31,760 --> 00:34:35,480
Speaker 1: butter knife even better. In one hundred and twelve starts

570
00:34:35,480 --> 00:34:39,280
Speaker 1: since twenty twenty, Max Freed has a two eight one era.

571
00:34:41,440 --> 00:34:44,560
Speaker 1: Max Freed's nasty. Uh, so give me the over on

572
00:34:44,680 --> 00:34:50,440
Speaker 1: that easy, uh. Blake Snell projected four years one twenty

573
00:34:50,440 --> 00:34:53,400
Speaker 1: four more rapid fire. You guys know the Blake Snell

574
00:34:53,480 --> 00:34:58,200
Speaker 1: free agency situation from last year and whatever. He's thirty two.

575
00:34:58,360 --> 00:35:02,200
Speaker 1: Now are they giants in on him? Is someone in

576
00:35:02,280 --> 00:35:07,360
Speaker 1: on him? You know what? I'll go under just because

577
00:35:07,560 --> 00:35:11,960
Speaker 1: Snell's free agencies have been so weird and it's not

578
00:35:12,040 --> 00:35:14,840
Speaker 1: shots fired. I love Snell. I keep pushing for Snell.

579
00:35:15,560 --> 00:35:17,840
Speaker 1: I mean he might just enter this new world of

580
00:35:20,560 --> 00:35:22,600
Speaker 1: just get a new contract every year.

581
00:35:22,600 --> 00:35:26,520
Speaker 2: Hear too, get something funky that has some opt that's

582
00:35:26,560 --> 00:35:28,080
Speaker 2: available to you outpitch that.

583
00:35:28,320 --> 00:35:31,320
Speaker 1: If people keep doubting you, just do it and opt

584
00:35:31,360 --> 00:35:34,080
Speaker 1: out and ball again. Like, I don't know, I feel

585
00:35:34,120 --> 00:35:36,680
Speaker 1: bad to my guy for Snell, who probably would love

586
00:35:36,719 --> 00:35:39,040
Speaker 1: a forever home, would love the team offering him the

587
00:35:39,120 --> 00:35:42,400
Speaker 1: six year deal that he's saying, Hey, I've been the

588
00:35:42,440 --> 00:35:47,919
Speaker 1: best lefty. Don't mind Max freed over there. I don't know, man,

589
00:35:47,960 --> 00:35:50,200
Speaker 1: I just think we've seen him hit free agency. I

590
00:35:50,239 --> 00:35:52,439
Speaker 1: know there's a little bit of Boris stuff, but there's

591
00:35:52,480 --> 00:35:55,680
Speaker 1: obviously a little bit of Snell stuff in there, and

592
00:35:55,719 --> 00:35:58,000
Speaker 1: it's just his approach to pitching. Nothing about him as

593
00:35:58,000 --> 00:36:01,960
Speaker 1: a person, nothing at nothing on the returns of his performance.

594
00:36:02,160 --> 00:36:05,040
Speaker 1: It's just he goes about it a little differently. He

595
00:36:05,160 --> 00:36:09,240
Speaker 1: was nails down the stretch. I think him and whatever

596
00:36:09,320 --> 00:36:12,080
Speaker 1: team does it this year, they might be stoked to

597
00:36:12,160 --> 00:36:14,920
Speaker 1: do Hey, here's forty million year, let's do it for

598
00:36:15,000 --> 00:36:18,040
Speaker 1: two years or maybe you get an opt out again

599
00:36:18,040 --> 00:36:20,400
Speaker 1: after the first, or maybe it's Cody Bellinger style that

600
00:36:20,440 --> 00:36:23,400
Speaker 1: it's three years and you get two opt outs. Like,

601
00:36:23,840 --> 00:36:26,320
Speaker 1: I don't know. The snell Free agencies have just been weird.

602
00:36:27,239 --> 00:36:29,799
Speaker 1: I'm rooting for him to find a forever home, and

603
00:36:29,840 --> 00:36:32,000
Speaker 1: I keep saying that like he's a homeless dog. So

604
00:36:32,040 --> 00:36:33,160
Speaker 1: I need to stop saying that.

605
00:36:35,000 --> 00:36:39,680
Speaker 2: Passing out catch your Austin Hedges in the Cleveland Guardians

606
00:36:39,719 --> 00:36:40,160
Speaker 2: have a deal.

607
00:36:40,239 --> 00:36:44,040
Speaker 1: So it's incredible. That's incredible, good job for our guy.

608
00:36:44,440 --> 00:36:48,080
Speaker 1: The other breaking news we miss Kyle Hendrix to the Angels. Yeah,

609
00:36:48,080 --> 00:36:53,640
Speaker 1: that should that should solve their pitching problems. Let's see again.

610
00:36:53,680 --> 00:36:56,759
Speaker 1: I'll start doing more rapid fire. Anthony Santander three years,

611
00:36:56,800 --> 00:37:00,360
Speaker 1: sixty nine million, give me the over. I've had Toronto

612
00:37:00,440 --> 00:37:03,239
Speaker 1: overpaying for him for a little while. Now. I know

613
00:37:03,320 --> 00:37:05,879
Speaker 1: the war doesn't love him, but know what teams love?

614
00:37:06,239 --> 00:37:12,160
Speaker 1: Forty four switch hitting home runs Toronto or somewhere. Maybe

615
00:37:12,160 --> 00:37:15,040
Speaker 1: the Orioles even just pony up sixty nine million for

616
00:37:15,160 --> 00:37:25,480
Speaker 1: Anthony Santander. No no way, no way, Pop Tascar Hernandez

617
00:37:25,880 --> 00:37:30,640
Speaker 1: similar boat Santander's two years younger. They have Tioscar at

618
00:37:30,680 --> 00:37:34,839
Speaker 1: three years, sixty six million again. He made twenty three

619
00:37:34,880 --> 00:37:36,959
Speaker 1: and a half last year, but that was one year.

620
00:37:39,920 --> 00:37:45,040
Speaker 1: Ta Oscar give me the over. I'll say forever home again.

621
00:37:45,120 --> 00:37:47,279
Speaker 1: I think ta Oscar wants that, and I think LA

622
00:37:47,360 --> 00:37:50,080
Speaker 1: might be the team with them that they might say, hey, dude,

623
00:37:50,120 --> 00:37:53,279
Speaker 1: here's four years. We like you. Maybe they even bring

624
00:37:53,320 --> 00:37:56,399
Speaker 1: that AAV down a little bit. But if it came

625
00:37:56,440 --> 00:38:00,720
Speaker 1: out four years for eighty for ti Oscar, anyone blink?

626
00:38:02,800 --> 00:38:06,279
Speaker 1: I win it. Let's see is there anyone else I'm

627
00:38:06,320 --> 00:38:09,279
Speaker 1: super interesting? All right, let me wrap up with these

628
00:38:09,320 --> 00:38:14,760
Speaker 1: two guys, because man, there's a lot I don't know everything.

629
00:38:14,880 --> 00:38:17,239
Speaker 1: This whole game is a guessing game. You tell me,

630
00:38:17,440 --> 00:38:20,200
Speaker 1: you guys, go look at Kylie's article. If there's any

631
00:38:20,239 --> 00:38:22,160
Speaker 1: that stick out that you're like, that makes sense or

632
00:38:22,160 --> 00:38:30,040
Speaker 1: that doesn't make sense. Christian Walker, Arizona diamonbacks very important,

633
00:38:30,080 --> 00:38:32,680
Speaker 1: Pete Alonzo's free agency. It was a fun conversation with

634
00:38:32,760 --> 00:38:35,280
Speaker 1: Trev that teams are probably gonna go to Christian Walker

635
00:38:35,320 --> 00:38:39,520
Speaker 1: first because there's an argument he's better defensively and offensively,

636
00:38:40,320 --> 00:38:44,000
Speaker 1: if not all around. He easily has that argument right now.

637
00:38:44,120 --> 00:38:46,759
Speaker 1: He is older, He's thirty four years old. They have

638
00:38:46,840 --> 00:38:49,879
Speaker 1: him projected for three years fifty seven million. I think

639
00:38:49,920 --> 00:38:54,040
Speaker 1: I found my over range of the program. I'm gonna

640
00:38:54,080 --> 00:38:56,359
Speaker 1: go over there because jose Abray, you got three years

641
00:38:56,360 --> 00:38:58,280
Speaker 1: fifty eight and a half going into his age thirty

642
00:38:58,320 --> 00:39:02,200
Speaker 1: six season. Again, that was an astros weird one and

643
00:39:02,239 --> 00:39:04,080
Speaker 1: we all kind of opened up our eyes. But all

644
00:39:04,080 --> 00:39:05,920
Speaker 1: it takes is one team, and I don't know if

645
00:39:05,920 --> 00:39:09,400
Speaker 1: that's the Mets. I don't know who it is. Christian Walker.

646
00:39:09,840 --> 00:39:12,560
Speaker 1: Christian Walker is gonna have a big market. Okay, Edwin

647
00:39:12,640 --> 00:39:15,959
Speaker 1: and Carnassion got three years sixty mili at age thirty four,

648
00:39:16,680 --> 00:39:18,719
Speaker 1: and I think Christian Walker is doing more on both

649
00:39:18,760 --> 00:39:21,640
Speaker 1: sides of the wall of the ball that I'm going

650
00:39:21,719 --> 00:39:22,960
Speaker 1: ball that I'm going.

651
00:39:22,840 --> 00:39:27,239
Speaker 2: Over there, and he inflayed a little bit since then the.

652
00:39:27,200 --> 00:39:29,560
Speaker 1: Other one, well, I'm gonna do this one high and

653
00:39:29,600 --> 00:39:31,839
Speaker 1: tight and be a little rude. Glaver Torres three years

654
00:39:31,840 --> 00:39:34,239
Speaker 1: fifty two and a half million, I'm gonna go under.

655
00:39:34,920 --> 00:39:40,000
Speaker 1: Yankees didn't extend a qualifying offer, which again that probably

656
00:39:40,040 --> 00:39:42,279
Speaker 1: helps Glaver's free agency, but I think there's also a

657
00:39:42,320 --> 00:39:45,160
Speaker 1: reason behind that. Glaver's year on the whole did not

658
00:39:45,200 --> 00:39:47,319
Speaker 1: great out well. He is twenty eight, and I do

659
00:39:47,360 --> 00:39:49,800
Speaker 1: think a team's gonna take a chance on him on

660
00:39:49,960 --> 00:39:52,080
Speaker 1: It depends what Labor wants. Does he think he can

661
00:39:52,160 --> 00:39:56,319
Speaker 1: rehab to get himself up. But I don't see a

662
00:39:56,360 --> 00:39:58,279
Speaker 1: team going three years fifty two and a half, and

663
00:39:58,320 --> 00:40:01,200
Speaker 1: I don't think Labor's happy with that. Again, get in

664
00:40:01,239 --> 00:40:03,439
Speaker 1: the head of Labor, Torres. This guy was an All star,

665
00:40:03,520 --> 00:40:07,759
Speaker 1: really young, many time All star coming off one of

666
00:40:07,760 --> 00:40:12,920
Speaker 1: his worst seasons of recent at least not the shortstop year.

667
00:40:12,960 --> 00:40:15,880
Speaker 2: We don't talk about that, where he did finish it strong.

668
00:40:16,080 --> 00:40:18,200
Speaker 2: So he feels like he's in a good place as

669
00:40:18,239 --> 00:40:21,160
Speaker 2: a player. Yes, that's just don't reflect who he is.

670
00:40:21,360 --> 00:40:24,200
Speaker 1: I think Labor, that's how you feel. Again, maybe he

671
00:40:24,280 --> 00:40:26,640
Speaker 1: takes one of those Cody Bellinger types with a couple

672
00:40:26,760 --> 00:40:29,160
Speaker 1: ops outs if he can, if a team wants that,

673
00:40:29,520 --> 00:40:32,520
Speaker 1: I see him going two years somewhere. Here's two years,

674
00:40:33,000 --> 00:40:37,799
Speaker 1: here's seventeen. Mil Let's cook. You could still hit. He

675
00:40:37,840 --> 00:40:40,400
Speaker 1: can still hit free agency at thirty again, like I

676
00:40:40,719 --> 00:40:44,360
Speaker 1: think Labor's I think Labor wants that, which has me

677
00:40:44,440 --> 00:40:46,160
Speaker 1: taking the under on three years fifty two and a

678
00:40:46,200 --> 00:40:50,279
Speaker 1: half my last one, just because I keep forgetting this

679
00:40:50,320 --> 00:40:56,680
Speaker 1: guy as a free agent Shane Bieber. Well right, Shane

680
00:40:56,719 --> 00:41:01,200
Speaker 1: Bieber is twenty nine as of opening day. He had

681
00:41:01,239 --> 00:41:05,759
Speaker 1: Tommy John surgery in April. Typical Tommy John timeline is

682
00:41:05,800 --> 00:41:07,839
Speaker 1: about fourteen months and you need a.

683
00:41:07,760 --> 00:41:09,040
Speaker 2: Little more juice after that.

684
00:41:09,239 --> 00:41:13,600
Speaker 1: So so hey, you're a team willing to shame pay

685
00:41:13,680 --> 00:41:19,400
Speaker 1: Shane Bieber if you're playing a safe estimate he comes

686
00:41:19,480 --> 00:41:23,600
Speaker 1: back around the trade deadline. Who knows what you get

687
00:41:23,640 --> 00:41:26,919
Speaker 1: for Shane Bieber the rest of next year. But then

688
00:41:26,960 --> 00:41:31,600
Speaker 1: you have Shane Bieber, which is telling me he's gonna

689
00:41:31,600 --> 00:41:33,879
Speaker 1: at least get a two year deal. They have him

690
00:41:33,880 --> 00:41:37,680
Speaker 1: getting three for fifty four. I'm gonna hit you with

691
00:41:37,719 --> 00:41:40,239
Speaker 1: one more over. I think a team talks himself into

692
00:41:40,239 --> 00:41:47,080
Speaker 1: Shane Bieber. I mean, look at the the Giants traded

693
00:41:47,080 --> 00:41:52,320
Speaker 1: for Robbie Ray as he was coming off of Tommy John,

694
00:41:52,480 --> 00:41:57,080
Speaker 1: and he was owed more money than this. Yeah, and

695
00:41:57,120 --> 00:42:00,480
Speaker 1: I think, you know, obviously very different pictures never lefty

696
00:42:00,560 --> 00:42:02,520
Speaker 1: righty and the strikeout stuff and all that, But I.

697
00:42:04,520 --> 00:42:06,759
Speaker 2: Yeah, his can if it's under it's because of a

698
00:42:06,800 --> 00:42:11,479
Speaker 2: structural thing where like he's doing like a only two

699
00:42:11,560 --> 00:42:15,319
Speaker 2: years and whatever to write up, and even that can

700
00:42:15,360 --> 00:42:18,040
Speaker 2: get you close to that number. If you're going to

701
00:42:18,120 --> 00:42:20,239
Speaker 2: take a chance on the one and a half years

702
00:42:20,239 --> 00:42:22,080
Speaker 2: of Shane Bieber that you get.

703
00:42:22,200 --> 00:42:24,319
Speaker 1: Yeah, I pay. I don't know.

704
00:42:24,400 --> 00:42:27,600
Speaker 2: This number just feels like not where it lands.

705
00:42:28,040 --> 00:42:30,719
Speaker 1: It would be Shane Bieber saying I just want to

706
00:42:30,719 --> 00:42:33,080
Speaker 1: do one or two years, which he could do. It's

707
00:42:33,120 --> 00:42:36,320
Speaker 1: his free agency, and he'd have to really be betting

708
00:42:36,360 --> 00:42:39,279
Speaker 1: on himself. I think a team's going to be like,

709
00:42:39,320 --> 00:42:42,239
Speaker 1: we're in on you, Shane. It's you know, Tommy John

710
00:42:42,280 --> 00:42:44,680
Speaker 1: surgery happens now if we could get you at a

711
00:42:45,560 --> 00:42:47,920
Speaker 1: you know, Shane Bieber hit free agency, right, we're talking

712
00:42:47,960 --> 00:42:51,600
Speaker 1: about those thirty thirty five million a year. I don't know, man,

713
00:42:51,680 --> 00:42:54,440
Speaker 1: I think if someone throws twenty two at him for

714
00:42:54,880 --> 00:42:57,680
Speaker 1: three years, I think if you're Shane Bieber, you're pretty

715
00:42:57,680 --> 00:43:01,200
Speaker 1: interested in that because you could still hit free right. Yeah.

716
00:43:01,200 --> 00:43:03,839
Speaker 2: I mean he in this year that he was twenty

717
00:43:03,960 --> 00:43:07,680
Speaker 2: nine years old and going to hit free agency again

718
00:43:07,719 --> 00:43:09,800
Speaker 2: at the end of the year. Obviously it's only two starts,

719
00:43:09,840 --> 00:43:11,480
Speaker 2: but the first two starts of this year he was

720
00:43:12,480 --> 00:43:16,560
Speaker 2: absolutely bawling out Shane Bieber like he I think he

721
00:43:16,640 --> 00:43:19,520
Speaker 2: thinks he he in his said you have to believe

722
00:43:19,560 --> 00:43:23,359
Speaker 2: he has the motivation to go get the big deal

723
00:43:23,400 --> 00:43:26,799
Speaker 2: in a year or two because he can absolutely play

724
00:43:26,840 --> 00:43:28,240
Speaker 2: at that level as a scion.

725
00:43:28,719 --> 00:43:32,080
Speaker 1: He Uh, whatever team gets him will be very happy

726
00:43:32,120 --> 00:43:35,160
Speaker 1: this postseason. There's some other big ones. I'm gonna leave

727
00:43:35,239 --> 00:43:38,120
Speaker 1: Walker and a couple other guys. You know, we could

728
00:43:38,160 --> 00:43:40,040
Speaker 1: we could do this game all day, which would be nice.

729
00:43:40,280 --> 00:43:43,839
Speaker 1: Tyler O'Neill, but we won't. You tell me who you got,

730
00:43:43,840 --> 00:43:46,080
Speaker 1: who are missing or maybe an over under for the article.

731
00:43:46,360 --> 00:43:50,480
Speaker 1: I skipped Kakuchie. I'm sorry, I don't know. I skipped

732
00:43:50,520 --> 00:43:54,839
Speaker 1: Pivetta Severino. Uh, there's a lot of guys out there.

733
00:43:55,000 --> 00:43:57,279
Speaker 1: How Song Kim was next two years forty two and

734
00:43:57,320 --> 00:44:01,960
Speaker 1: a half. Give me the over someone will believe. Is

735
00:44:01,960 --> 00:44:06,200
Speaker 1: that just my line for everyone. Let's preview the football

736
00:44:06,200 --> 00:44:13,440
Speaker 1: weekend because it's a fun one Germany game. Before we

737
00:44:13,480 --> 00:44:19,040
Speaker 1: get there, it's Bengals Ravens on Thursday night. The Cincinnati

738
00:44:19,080 --> 00:44:22,000
Speaker 1: Bengals that I had mentally, they've hurt me too much.

739
00:44:22,880 --> 00:44:25,520
Speaker 1: They're four and five, they're three and one on the road.

740
00:44:25,520 --> 00:44:28,960
Speaker 1: They're playing a Ravens team that they should have beaten.

741
00:44:29,040 --> 00:44:31,719
Speaker 1: In overtime. McPherson had a kick they actually messed up

742
00:44:31,760 --> 00:44:35,239
Speaker 1: the snap in overtime and that the Ravens ended up

743
00:44:35,280 --> 00:44:40,200
Speaker 1: winning that game. The Ravens six and three coming off

744
00:44:40,239 --> 00:44:46,560
Speaker 1: a dominant win against my Broncos. These Ravens have won one, two, three,

745
00:44:46,719 --> 00:44:50,359
Speaker 1: four five. They've won six out of seven. The only

746
00:44:50,480 --> 00:44:58,000
Speaker 1: loss there was the Jamis Browns game where he revitalized

747
00:44:58,040 --> 00:45:01,600
Speaker 1: a city. I don't know. I'm I won't bet it.

748
00:45:01,600 --> 00:45:04,040
Speaker 1: It's Bengal or it's Baltimore minus six and a half

749
00:45:04,080 --> 00:45:07,480
Speaker 1: that just change in front of my eyes. Ravens are

750
00:45:07,520 --> 00:45:10,399
Speaker 1: my Super Bowl team, Bengals. I've counted them out if

751
00:45:10,440 --> 00:45:12,359
Speaker 1: they win. And the reason I won't bet this game

752
00:45:12,400 --> 00:45:14,279
Speaker 1: because you don't have to bet every game, especially if

753
00:45:14,280 --> 00:45:17,920
Speaker 1: you're a sports fan like me. If the Bengals do

754
00:45:17,960 --> 00:45:20,960
Speaker 1: win this, that'll be sick, like the Bengals hype train

755
00:45:21,040 --> 00:45:24,320
Speaker 1: will be back. Joe Burr and I love that. I

756
00:45:24,320 --> 00:45:26,279
Speaker 1: think it's great for the game. Joe Burr is one

757
00:45:26,280 --> 00:45:30,280
Speaker 1: of the best characters that the NFL has to offer

758
00:45:30,840 --> 00:45:35,080
Speaker 1: in like the best way, except I didn't like the

759
00:45:35,120 --> 00:45:39,239
Speaker 1: blonde hair whatever, But that's like, that's one of the

760
00:45:39,239 --> 00:45:41,959
Speaker 1: first Thursdays I think I've been like, let's let's watch

761
00:45:42,000 --> 00:45:45,800
Speaker 1: that one. Let's watch that one, which brings us to Sunday,

762
00:45:46,719 --> 00:45:50,080
Speaker 1: and it starts out in Munich, Germany. The New York

763
00:45:50,120 --> 00:45:53,960
Speaker 1: Football Giants play the Carolina Panthers. God does it get

764
00:45:53,960 --> 00:45:57,719
Speaker 1: any better? Nine to thirty am. I might push for

765
00:45:57,760 --> 00:46:00,560
Speaker 1: the NFL to have a nine to thirty am game everywhere.

766
00:46:02,000 --> 00:46:04,759
Speaker 1: I mean, it doesn't even have to be international, Like,

767
00:46:04,760 --> 00:46:07,480
Speaker 1: why don't we just have a morning game, dude, the

768
00:46:07,560 --> 00:46:11,400
Speaker 1: ten am game every week. People would love that. The

769
00:46:11,480 --> 00:46:14,880
Speaker 1: home teams would hate it and the road team but

770
00:46:14,960 --> 00:46:17,160
Speaker 1: America would love it, and you'd be the most watched

771
00:46:17,160 --> 00:46:22,160
Speaker 1: game besides the night games. I'm give me the NFL.

772
00:46:22,200 --> 00:46:27,319
Speaker 1: On the line, Giants Panthers yikes, yikes, which brings us

773
00:46:27,320 --> 00:46:33,880
Speaker 1: to one pm. My Broncos are facing the Kansas City Chiefs.

774
00:46:33,920 --> 00:46:40,040
Speaker 1: The Chiefs are eight point favorites in Arrowhead. Something doesn't

775
00:46:40,080 --> 00:46:44,280
Speaker 1: smell right here. The Chiefs were just nine point favorites

776
00:46:44,320 --> 00:46:46,879
Speaker 1: against the Bucks. Bucks took them to overtime and they won.

777
00:46:47,280 --> 00:46:50,919
Speaker 1: The reminder, the Chiefs are undefeated, and I just think

778
00:46:50,960 --> 00:46:54,040
Speaker 1: you gotta believe in stuff in sports. This is their

779
00:46:54,080 --> 00:46:56,439
Speaker 1: trap game before the Bills game that I've been teeing

780
00:46:56,520 --> 00:47:01,640
Speaker 1: up for weeks now that Broncos defense travels. The Chiefs

781
00:47:01,640 --> 00:47:04,880
Speaker 1: still don't feel like they're fully clicking, although those that

782
00:47:04,880 --> 00:47:09,200
Speaker 1: that last drive felt pretty pretty dominant in ot and

783
00:47:09,280 --> 00:47:12,840
Speaker 1: they still do whatever they want and DeAndre Hopkins with

784
00:47:12,960 --> 00:47:17,520
Speaker 1: Matt Patrick Mahomes feels like a difference maker. I bet

785
00:47:17,520 --> 00:47:19,920
Speaker 1: my horse season be scared, although I definitely have them

786
00:47:19,960 --> 00:47:23,239
Speaker 1: losing that game. But that's the great game. But let's

787
00:47:23,239 --> 00:47:25,920
Speaker 1: see if the Chiefs can stay undefeated going into Buffalo,

788
00:47:25,960 --> 00:47:30,520
Speaker 1: because that will be that'll be the first like NFL storyline,

789
00:47:30,800 --> 00:47:33,400
Speaker 1: like that will be all the media talks about for

790
00:47:33,440 --> 00:47:38,480
Speaker 1: a week. There's no World Series Baseball NBA has happened,

791
00:47:38,520 --> 00:47:41,439
Speaker 1: but has it? Like I'm I don't know. I thought

792
00:47:41,480 --> 00:47:45,239
Speaker 1: about watching a game tonight. We'll see. I'll let you

793
00:47:45,280 --> 00:47:50,920
Speaker 1: know what I do. Patriots Bears, No, sorry, not on

794
00:47:50,960 --> 00:48:00,320
Speaker 1: the Caleb train yet. No Bill's Colts also kind of noh.

795
00:48:00,440 --> 00:48:02,000
Speaker 1: I mean it feels like one of those weird ones.

796
00:48:02,040 --> 00:48:04,640
Speaker 1: The Colts could find something. Bills are only favored by four,

797
00:48:04,719 --> 00:48:10,040
Speaker 1: it's on the road, it's in Indie, But yeah, I

798
00:48:10,080 --> 00:48:12,680
Speaker 1: don't I don't feel a need to watch that. Falcon

799
00:48:12,760 --> 00:48:17,959
Speaker 1: Saints know. Also, no Saints fired their head coach. See

800
00:48:17,960 --> 00:48:20,520
Speaker 1: what that looks like? Niners Bucks is a sneaky Yes.

801
00:48:20,640 --> 00:48:22,839
Speaker 1: Niners coming off their bye week has them as five

802
00:48:22,880 --> 00:48:25,680
Speaker 1: and a half point favorites against this new Bucks team,

803
00:48:25,719 --> 00:48:28,200
Speaker 1: which it sucks that Godwin and Evans got hurt because

804
00:48:28,239 --> 00:48:31,080
Speaker 1: everyone around football that I like to listen to is like,

805
00:48:31,120 --> 00:48:33,160
Speaker 1: these Bucks really have something. They kind of have a

806
00:48:33,200 --> 00:48:36,560
Speaker 1: nice running game. Bucky Irving is breaking out a little bit.

807
00:48:38,760 --> 00:48:41,080
Speaker 1: I just think without those two weapons on the outside,

808
00:48:42,000 --> 00:48:44,240
Speaker 1: the Niners coming in off the bye week, even though

809
00:48:45,640 --> 00:48:49,720
Speaker 1: it's in Tampa, but I think that I think that'll

810
00:48:49,760 --> 00:48:51,279
Speaker 1: be a good watch. I think that's gonna be a

811
00:48:51,280 --> 00:48:58,400
Speaker 1: fun game. Who seven and two Commanders versus the six

812
00:48:58,640 --> 00:48:59,839
Speaker 1: and two Stillers?

813
00:49:00,920 --> 00:49:01,400
Speaker 3: Wow?

814
00:49:01,640 --> 00:49:05,759
Speaker 1: Who had this coming into the year. Commanders are undefeated

815
00:49:05,800 --> 00:49:10,800
Speaker 1: at home. The Steelers, I believe, coming off their bye week,

816
00:49:12,840 --> 00:49:15,719
Speaker 1: coming in to face the Commanders, I think I just

817
00:49:15,760 --> 00:49:19,640
Speaker 1: found my dog. Mike Tomlin and the Steelers defense coming

818
00:49:19,640 --> 00:49:23,640
Speaker 1: off of bye week. The Commanders, you know, they've had

819
00:49:23,680 --> 00:49:26,279
Speaker 1: a couple scares the past couple weeks. The Bears the

820
00:49:26,320 --> 00:49:31,360
Speaker 1: Hail Merry game, they should have lost that. The Giants

821
00:49:31,400 --> 00:49:33,960
Speaker 1: last week end up making it look close that Washington

822
00:49:34,000 --> 00:49:35,640
Speaker 1: minus two and a half favorites. I guess I was

823
00:49:35,680 --> 00:49:39,600
Speaker 1: giving out Jake's dog of the week Wolf Wolf. Give

824
00:49:39,640 --> 00:49:45,440
Speaker 1: me Pittsburgh Vikings Jaguars. No, no offense. That takes us

825
00:49:45,480 --> 00:49:49,400
Speaker 1: to the four pm slate Chargers Titans. I think the

826
00:49:49,520 --> 00:49:52,880
Speaker 1: Chargers wagon is going to leave the station this weekend.

827
00:49:53,320 --> 00:49:55,880
Speaker 1: And that's not just because I traded for their running

828
00:49:55,920 --> 00:49:59,960
Speaker 1: back in fantasy. But they're five and three. The Titans team,

829
00:50:00,280 --> 00:50:03,120
Speaker 1: I mean, they're fighting from behind this time of year.

830
00:50:03,840 --> 00:50:08,040
Speaker 1: Eagles Cowboys kind of a no. Although the Eagles with

831
00:50:08,120 --> 00:50:10,400
Speaker 1: a chance to go seven to two against the Cowboys

832
00:50:10,480 --> 00:50:18,640
Speaker 1: team without Dak that's really hurting. Yikes. Jets Cardinals, Yes, yes, yes,

833
00:50:19,440 --> 00:50:23,600
Speaker 1: the Jets on this potential warpath to save their season.

834
00:50:24,120 --> 00:50:26,160
Speaker 1: This is one of the big ones standing in the way.

835
00:50:26,239 --> 00:50:29,880
Speaker 1: The five and four Arizona Cardinals, I believe, leading the

836
00:50:29,960 --> 00:50:34,239
Speaker 1: division at five and four, host the Jets coming off

837
00:50:34,280 --> 00:50:36,759
Speaker 1: that Texans win, a couple extra days of rest for them.

838
00:50:37,280 --> 00:50:40,160
Speaker 1: Cardinals on a win streak. It has the Jets. It

839
00:50:40,200 --> 00:50:41,840
Speaker 1: basically has it as a pick them. They have the

840
00:50:41,920 --> 00:50:45,319
Speaker 1: Jets as a half point favorite. They might be right,

841
00:50:45,440 --> 00:50:49,480
Speaker 1: they might not be. You'd like to think Jets playing

842
00:50:49,520 --> 00:50:52,120
Speaker 1: for their season gives them a slight advantage in that tilt.

843
00:50:52,200 --> 00:50:54,160
Speaker 1: That is gonna be a fun one to watch little

844
00:50:54,239 --> 00:50:57,760
Speaker 1: Kyler running around and figuring it out while the Jets

845
00:50:57,920 --> 00:51:00,560
Speaker 1: try to tooth and nail whatever they can and their

846
00:51:00,560 --> 00:51:03,879
Speaker 1: offensive whippens. If it does click, I mean that catch

847
00:51:03,920 --> 00:51:07,640
Speaker 1: by Garrett Wilson, DeVante had a couple big ones Breeze's PCEs.

848
00:51:09,520 --> 00:51:11,959
Speaker 1: That's gonna be a fun game. And then it ends

849
00:51:11,960 --> 00:51:19,440
Speaker 1: with another one. Lions Texans your Sunday night game. Texans

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Speaker 1: undefeated at home, Lions undefeated on the road. Texans coming

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Speaker 1: off that loss to the Jets and missing their wide receivers,

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Speaker 1: while the Lions, man, they've got this form of beautiful

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Speaker 1: bullyball that they are just beating up teams and whenever

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Speaker 1: they set up to play. Golf's completion percentage is like

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Speaker 1: eighty percent this year. But man, the Texan's coming off

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Speaker 1: a lot lost. That's gonna be a great Sunday night watch.

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Speaker 1: Monday Dolphins Rams. Luckily, we'll talk to you before then.

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Speaker 1: But NFL slated. It's a full one and it's a

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Speaker 1: good time for it because there's no more baseball. Bengals Ravens. Thursday,

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Speaker 1: were watching have breakfast and watch Giants Panthers, maybe not closely,

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Speaker 1: but and then one pm, one pm Steelers Commanders. I'm

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Speaker 1: in on that. Four PM I guess the Jets Cardinals

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Speaker 1: feels a little less sexy. If you needed to skip it,

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Speaker 1: you'd be okay. And then that night game of Texans

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Speaker 1: Line should be pretty fun. So let's buckle up for

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