WEBVTT - These Teams Could Go OFF in the Second Half 0:00:00.080 --> 0:00:04.080 Hello to Waken Jake with myself, Jake's Story, Elly, Big Baby, 0:00:04.240 --> 0:00:08.880 David Mendelssohn. As we head into the second half of 0:00:08.920 --> 0:00:13.080 the baseball season, Little Friday for you. We tried to 0:00:13.119 --> 0:00:15.800 pre record for All Star Game. We got that Bailey 0:00:15.880 --> 0:00:18.480 up in and then we're like, oh, I actually need 0:00:18.480 --> 0:00:21.480 that for today, so we got a little backed up. Well, 0:00:21.480 --> 0:00:24.000 we left a banger for you this week, the Trevor 0:00:24.000 --> 0:00:25.040 Ploof episode. 0:00:25.720 --> 0:00:27.520 You guys like him. 0:00:27.920 --> 0:00:31.920 The numbers don't lie and if you give a clickbait thumbnail, 0:00:32.800 --> 0:00:35.200 you will get the clicks. And Trevor was fine too, 0:00:35.479 --> 0:00:39.320 although there was one. The comments were awesome. There was 0:00:39.360 --> 0:00:42.440 one comment that cut me deep though, was Waken Jake 0:00:42.520 --> 0:00:45.600 hosted by Trevor Ploof because he carried this episode, Not 0:00:45.680 --> 0:00:48.560 that I still think about it, not that it's still 0:00:48.600 --> 0:00:51.879 on my mind, same with my hair right now. For 0:00:51.920 --> 0:00:56.000 all the YouTubers and golf colaps twenty k subs on YouTube, 0:00:56.840 --> 0:01:00.760 thank you guys. I really appreciate that, and of course 0:01:00.800 --> 0:01:04.200 our friends over Dan Patrick. But we need to talk 0:01:04.240 --> 0:01:08.880 about baseball because it's the second half. It starts tonight. 0:01:09.800 --> 0:01:12.559 No Thursday games anymore. Out of the All Star break, 0:01:12.560 --> 0:01:15.280 they used to hit us with like three, Yeah, at 0:01:15.360 --> 0:01:18.800 least one. I'm kind of okay with it. It is 0:01:18.800 --> 0:01:22.720 a game I think that's pretty universally liked by the fellas, 0:01:22.800 --> 0:01:26.360 so maybe we support it. Maybe one game would be cool. 0:01:27.040 --> 0:01:30.880 That obviously sucks for that team, but maybe, like whoever's 0:01:30.920 --> 0:01:34.480 got the least travel. I don't know. It feels like 0:01:34.480 --> 0:01:35.640 there's a solution there. 0:01:36.520 --> 0:01:38.800 You know, if they kept that, it would be Yankees 0:01:38.880 --> 0:01:42.199 every year. That's okay, which I'm fine. I like them. 0:01:42.319 --> 0:01:44.920 We'll talk about them a little bit. We'll go through 0:01:44.959 --> 0:01:47.120 some All Star game. We'll walk you guys through the 0:01:47.160 --> 0:01:49.080 weekend a little bit, some of the highlights. Some of 0:01:49.080 --> 0:01:51.360 you like that. I guess before we get to that, 0:01:51.400 --> 0:01:56.000 we'll just do some some broad second half baseball. There's 0:01:56.040 --> 0:01:59.960 an ESPN article with second half previews, some rankings and 0:02:00.080 --> 0:02:02.440 playoff odds. Eh, we'll hop in there a little bit. 0:02:03.160 --> 0:02:05.280 I did want to check out some strength to schedule 0:02:05.360 --> 0:02:09.079 first of all, because I I would hear people reference 0:02:09.120 --> 0:02:11.080 it and I'm like, oh wow, that's a good piece 0:02:11.120 --> 0:02:15.720 of information, but i never really knew where to find it. 0:02:15.800 --> 0:02:19.200 The best place I've currently found is Fangraphs. If you 0:02:19.240 --> 0:02:22.679 go to their Playoff odds page. One of the columns 0:02:22.800 --> 0:02:27.840 is strength of schedule, and there's some interesting things to 0:02:27.840 --> 0:02:31.359 note in there. I still I'm looking for my perfectly 0:02:31.400 --> 0:02:36.280 and perfect strength of schedule analysis. That the algorithm would 0:02:36.280 --> 0:02:41.559 be something along the lines of like season win percentage 0:02:42.440 --> 0:02:45.240 and then like last ten game win percentage, and that 0:02:45.280 --> 0:02:48.360 would go into a formula because like, the Yankees just 0:02:48.400 --> 0:02:52.200 played the Orioles going into the All Star break, but 0:02:52.360 --> 0:02:57.760 did they like they played an Orioles team that, with 0:02:57.840 --> 0:03:01.639 help to the Yankees, came up against six game losing streak. 0:03:01.919 --> 0:03:06.120 But also like if you played the Yankees in May, 0:03:06.240 --> 0:03:08.880 you faced a very different team than if you face 0:03:08.960 --> 0:03:12.359 the Yankees in July or end of June. So that's 0:03:12.400 --> 0:03:15.360 where I'm still If one of the Waken Jake analytics 0:03:15.400 --> 0:03:19.200 nerds wants to get involved and give like a strength 0:03:19.240 --> 0:03:22.440 of schedule verus strength of schedule at time of playing, 0:03:22.960 --> 0:03:25.799 It's a stat that you almost can't do, but I'm 0:03:25.840 --> 0:03:29.519 interested in it. Strength of schedule. The rest of the way, 0:03:29.680 --> 0:03:33.640 I think some things to know. As I just told you, 0:03:33.720 --> 0:03:36.640 I mean, I'm not bound to strength of schedule, but 0:03:37.280 --> 0:03:43.360 it tells us something. And I don't know the two 0:03:44.520 --> 0:03:48.080 well actually the top three teams in strength of schedule, 0:03:48.640 --> 0:03:51.040 because I will say at four and five are the 0:03:51.120 --> 0:03:54.400 Rockies in the Marlins. Oh, if you wanted to, you 0:03:54.400 --> 0:03:58.600 could drop the obnoxious Well, they can't play them, But 0:03:58.720 --> 0:04:01.720 again those are it's one team in the rest of 0:04:01.720 --> 0:04:04.600 your second half schedule. Top three teams and strength the 0:04:04.680 --> 0:04:07.880 schedule the rest of the way the Boston Red Sox 0:04:09.320 --> 0:04:14.440 five to fourteen win percentage, the Tampa Bay Rays and 0:04:14.520 --> 0:04:21.720 the Cleveland guard Docks. So if you are into that 0:04:21.839 --> 0:04:24.760 kind of thing. The Red Sox, who have been surging 0:04:24.839 --> 0:04:28.200 lately and are becoming a well liked team in the 0:04:28.200 --> 0:04:32.000 American League, they've had a ton of injuries. I also, 0:04:32.240 --> 0:04:33.880 I'm not going to put a ton of merit in 0:04:33.920 --> 0:04:36.360 this just because the Red Sox have done a lot 0:04:36.360 --> 0:04:39.479 of their bidding to get to this point of the 0:04:39.520 --> 0:04:43.080 season against good teams. They took down the Yanks, they 0:04:43.120 --> 0:04:45.920 took down the Phillies. I think there's a brave series 0:04:45.920 --> 0:04:48.320 in there, like they They've played some of the heavy 0:04:48.400 --> 0:04:51.719 hitters and they've competed, So I'm not going to super 0:04:51.760 --> 0:04:54.040 hold that against them. That does make me worry for 0:04:54.120 --> 0:04:56.880 the race. I've been trying to buy a little bit 0:04:56.880 --> 0:04:59.400 of raise stock. The phrase I keep saying is the 0:04:59.480 --> 0:05:05.400 names are changing, like Brandon Loo, Josh Low, Randy has 0:05:05.400 --> 0:05:07.599 started to go YONDI started to go for a little bit. 0:05:07.680 --> 0:05:12.480 There Esak always going although Chris Rose traded him. Go 0:05:12.560 --> 0:05:15.279 check out the Trade Deadline Draft episode on Talking Baseball, 0:05:15.320 --> 0:05:17.440 one of the best pieces of content of the year. 0:05:20.320 --> 0:05:23.280 This makes me nervous for my race. I thought there 0:05:23.320 --> 0:05:26.360 was gonna be more coming, and maybe there is. You 0:05:26.480 --> 0:05:29.080 never fully know with them, but seeing that strength of 0:05:29.160 --> 0:05:32.120 schedule and them limping as hard as they could to 0:05:32.200 --> 0:05:35.360 get to five hundred at first, I saw their five 0:05:35.440 --> 0:05:37.679 hundred going into the break is like good for the Rays, 0:05:37.760 --> 0:05:41.520 like to say, we're at five to zero. Oh going 0:05:41.520 --> 0:05:45.200 into the All Star break. That's huge for how gnarly 0:05:45.240 --> 0:05:48.200 of a first half it was for them originally. But 0:05:48.240 --> 0:05:50.680 it seems like they'll be up against it a little 0:05:50.720 --> 0:05:54.039 bit the other team. So your top three before you 0:05:54.080 --> 0:06:04.080 get to Rockies, Marlins, Blue Jays, Cleveland guard Dogs, and man, 0:06:04.200 --> 0:06:09.080 some of the fangrafts win percentage stuff doesn't like them 0:06:09.320 --> 0:06:10.880 for how dominant they've been. 0:06:12.000 --> 0:06:12.400 Uh. 0:06:12.520 --> 0:06:15.159 It has the Cleveland Guardians as a fifty three point 0:06:15.160 --> 0:06:18.720 six percent to win the division, So I mean that's 0:06:19.440 --> 0:06:25.279 close to a coin flip. There's a lean there, But man, 0:06:25.400 --> 0:06:31.960 I just think the not contradiction the ESPN article that 0:06:32.000 --> 0:06:35.159 I mentioned that I think they had a bunch of 0:06:35.160 --> 0:06:38.119 writers contribute, So that's why I'm not referencing a writer. 0:06:39.720 --> 0:06:42.839 You know, my guy, Bradford Doolittle was involved. Oh but 0:06:42.920 --> 0:06:47.600 we got a ton of guys in here. Okay. They 0:06:47.960 --> 0:06:52.280 put the Cleveland Guardians in the first category of teams, 0:06:52.320 --> 0:06:58.560 the quote unquote Big Five, where they have the Phillies 0:06:58.920 --> 0:07:01.719 who deserve Big Five recognition for the first half of 0:07:01.720 --> 0:07:05.440 the season, the Yankees, which as much as we mentally 0:07:05.680 --> 0:07:09.400 have been fighting lately, sure Yankees have been great, which 0:07:09.400 --> 0:07:14.520 means the Orioles are in there, yep. The Dodgers, uh huh. 0:07:14.600 --> 0:07:16.520 And then they threw the guard Dogs in is the 0:07:16.560 --> 0:07:19.040 Big Five, which I don't know if I fully agree 0:07:19.040 --> 0:07:22.480 with that. There's some good arguments there. They clearly have 0:07:22.560 --> 0:07:25.160 a top of the lineup and other contributors throughout the 0:07:25.200 --> 0:07:30.600 lineup offensively and defensively. Their bullpen is Numero uno. So 0:07:30.680 --> 0:07:34.480 if that continues to ride, that's a pretty strong pillar 0:07:34.520 --> 0:07:39.560 of a team. But in Tier two, if you're gonna 0:07:39.560 --> 0:07:42.120 put the Brewers, I mean Brewers and guard Dogs have 0:07:42.200 --> 0:07:45.120 felt like a one A one B all year. And 0:07:45.200 --> 0:07:47.600 also the Braves they put in a tier below them, 0:07:47.600 --> 0:07:51.360 which I don't. I just can't do that. I mean, 0:07:51.400 --> 0:07:55.760 maybe that's me being just a mental sheep time of 0:07:55.840 --> 0:08:00.520 year to talk like that. I don't know. I don't 0:08:00.560 --> 0:08:03.120 have the guards up there. Chris Rose, who watches as 0:08:03.160 --> 0:08:05.920 much baseball on it as anyone and loves his Guards, 0:08:06.320 --> 0:08:08.280 He's been trying to pump the Brakes a little bit. 0:08:08.320 --> 0:08:11.720 There's a little fear factor of their starting pitching, which 0:08:11.760 --> 0:08:14.600 has been not great all year, But you could spin 0:08:14.680 --> 0:08:17.320 that as a good thing, like they're gonna have guys 0:08:17.320 --> 0:08:19.600 that they can call up, even guys you're familiar with. 0:08:19.640 --> 0:08:22.840 Tristan McKenzie got sent down, Like does it click for him? 0:08:23.040 --> 0:08:26.720 Are they gonna do the trade? The Cleveland fans not 0:08:26.920 --> 0:08:31.400 happy with our trade deadline draft episode because A nobody 0:08:31.400 --> 0:08:34.560 cares about the rules when they see a graphic, and 0:08:34.720 --> 0:08:37.160 B I don't know what to think with the Guardians, 0:08:38.520 --> 0:08:42.120 like yes, they should trade for help, and add is 0:08:42.120 --> 0:08:44.719 it a team that feels like they're gonna sacrifice the 0:08:44.760 --> 0:08:50.880 big pieces to move to attack one year? No? Like 0:08:50.960 --> 0:08:56.560 They've never done that. They've never done that, at least 0:08:56.559 --> 0:09:02.080 in the recent since post pandemic. That feels like, feels 0:09:02.080 --> 0:09:07.240 like recent history that I don't know. Seeing the Guardians, 0:09:07.440 --> 0:09:09.960 the Rays and the Red Sox up there, I guess 0:09:09.960 --> 0:09:12.200 I've just got Red Sox blinders on where I don't 0:09:12.200 --> 0:09:16.240 feel that too much. Raising guards I feel just a 0:09:16.280 --> 0:09:21.560 little bit because I want to see who do they 0:09:21.600 --> 0:09:24.720 have who else? In the central They have the Twins 0:09:24.760 --> 0:09:27.559 at thirty eight point two percent to win the division. 0:09:28.600 --> 0:09:31.959 That's a big boy number, and then the Royals at seven 0:09:32.000 --> 0:09:37.000 and a half percent. That's tough. Sorry Royals. And I 0:09:37.040 --> 0:09:40.400 don't know. I guess if I was DraftKings spinning this, 0:09:42.800 --> 0:09:47.840 if you were a Twins believer, I think there's a 0:09:47.920 --> 0:09:50.000 nice little sprinkle to be put in for them to 0:09:50.040 --> 0:09:54.040 win the division. The Twins lineup right now is a problem. 0:09:55.080 --> 0:09:58.400 And that's saying it in al a cool, hip young 0:09:58.440 --> 0:10:01.880 guy way. I really like where the Twins lineup is 0:10:01.920 --> 0:10:07.280 at right now, between Miranda finding it, their lefty slash 0:10:07.320 --> 0:10:12.640 switch hitters being consistent. Buxton turned on that if Buckston 0:10:12.679 --> 0:10:15.280 and Ryce Lewis go, which Royce Lewis has been out 0:10:16.400 --> 0:10:19.120 like even if Eddie Julian. Imagine if something kicks in 0:10:19.160 --> 0:10:21.000 with his swing again and they call him up. He 0:10:21.040 --> 0:10:23.840 was supposed to be their leadoff guy this year. The 0:10:23.920 --> 0:10:26.760 Twins have lineup options, and you know that's what Little 0:10:26.800 --> 0:10:30.160 Poppy likes. That if you're a guardian, if you're not 0:10:30.240 --> 0:10:32.840 about the Guards and you're about the Twins, there could 0:10:32.880 --> 0:10:36.760 be a little sprinkle there. The other one that I've 0:10:36.800 --> 0:10:40.559 stumbled into that I don't believe in. I believe in less. 0:10:40.559 --> 0:10:42.920 But this is more so if you like playing the odds. 0:10:44.360 --> 0:10:47.280 So let's reverse engineer this a little bit. Let's look 0:10:47.320 --> 0:10:51.520 at the what would you say, the weakest strength of schedule. 0:10:51.640 --> 0:10:56.439 But that's a good thing, yeah, the best strength of 0:10:56.559 --> 0:11:01.400 schedule in a bad strength of schedule. 0:11:01.679 --> 0:11:03.800 The weakest schedules left. 0:11:04.800 --> 0:11:09.120 Uh bottom of the list. San Francisco Giants, Hey, do 0:11:09.280 --> 0:11:13.400 something crazy not in on them. That's kind of rude, 0:11:14.679 --> 0:11:17.400 but hey, if you're a giant's hopeful you could put 0:11:17.400 --> 0:11:21.240 that little feather in your cap right above them. The 0:11:21.320 --> 0:11:26.120 Chicago Cubs, which I don't Both of those teams, in 0:11:26.160 --> 0:11:28.640 the words of Joe's McFly, are none of my business 0:11:28.640 --> 0:11:31.880 at this point. I don't really believe in either of them. 0:11:32.920 --> 0:11:35.040 Maybe this is why maybe I need to be more 0:11:35.080 --> 0:11:37.520 of a schedule snob. Maybe for one of these teams 0:11:37.559 --> 0:11:41.640 that's gonna click great, not into it. The next two 0:11:41.679 --> 0:11:46.959 teams get me a little more jazzy fizzle. The Atlanta 0:11:47.040 --> 0:11:52.120 Braves they have a four ninety opponent strength of schedule 0:11:52.160 --> 0:11:55.760 the rest of the way, and the New York Yankees 0:11:55.800 --> 0:12:02.000 at four ninety two. So I guess the Braves. I 0:12:02.000 --> 0:12:05.080 mean that division lead is massive. The Phillies have shown 0:12:05.200 --> 0:12:09.319 no signs of fading. We've seen the Braves put together 0:12:09.360 --> 0:12:12.920 a big second half before their World Series year. They 0:12:12.960 --> 0:12:15.520 went nuts, the offense started to click. They made a 0:12:15.520 --> 0:12:19.600 couple ads that they were the best offense in baseball 0:12:19.679 --> 0:12:21.760 the second half of the season. They pretty much rode 0:12:21.760 --> 0:12:25.040 that all the way to a title. And it was 0:12:25.080 --> 0:12:28.839 without Ronald Acunya. So I don't know if you're if 0:12:28.880 --> 0:12:31.720 you're a Braves person and you think the Phillies could 0:12:31.760 --> 0:12:34.240 slip up just a little bit. Who are listed as 0:12:34.280 --> 0:12:38.280 the seventh strongest strength to schedule the rest of the way. Again, 0:12:38.880 --> 0:12:41.400 this has Philly with the highest chance to win the 0:12:41.440 --> 0:12:46.280 division right now eighty seven percent. Eighty seven. That's higher 0:12:46.280 --> 0:12:55.840 than the Dodgers eighty five point three. Then it's Brewers, Guardians, Yankees, Mariners, Astros, 0:12:55.920 --> 0:13:00.400 Orioles twins, and then everyone else is less than at 0:13:00.440 --> 0:13:03.280 thirty eight point two percent Orioles forty two to five. 0:13:03.320 --> 0:13:06.040 So I mean them in the Yankees coin toss ish 0:13:06.160 --> 0:13:11.960 with the Red Sox getting some percentage points. I don't know. 0:13:12.240 --> 0:13:14.480 I'm interested to see because I am a strength of 0:13:14.559 --> 0:13:18.680 schedule believer, especially when you see it. You know, talking baseball, 0:13:18.720 --> 0:13:21.960 we essentially live week by week, if not series by series. 0:13:22.400 --> 0:13:25.240 That when you see a team in their schedule coming up, 0:13:26.080 --> 0:13:29.680 is Marlin's Athletics tend to think a big week is 0:13:29.720 --> 0:13:34.000 coming White Sox. I think the Nationals have unfortunately joined 0:13:34.000 --> 0:13:37.079 that party. But if you see a week where a 0:13:37.120 --> 0:13:40.360 team is playing Yankees or I'll take the Yankees out 0:13:40.400 --> 0:13:42.559 of it, if you see a team playing Braves Orioles, 0:13:43.760 --> 0:13:46.400 you don't look at that week the same way. Going 0:13:46.440 --> 0:13:48.280 back to my strength of schedule thing that I'm trying 0:13:48.320 --> 0:13:51.199 to figure out before, if you played Houston in April 0:13:52.000 --> 0:13:56.880 or not April, how do you measure that. Houston's win 0:13:56.960 --> 0:14:02.000 percentage right now is not impressive, But the past two 0:14:02.040 --> 0:14:04.880 months it is so like they don't score that right, 0:14:05.920 --> 0:14:09.200 I don't know. I don't have the answer. I'd like it. 0:14:09.760 --> 0:14:14.200 I mean, thinking selfishly about the Yankees, they they got 0:14:14.240 --> 0:14:16.520 their Houston games out of the Webster. Some teams they're 0:14:16.720 --> 0:14:20.080 numbers slightly screwed if they have seven games left for 0:14:20.240 --> 0:14:23.920 suston who's strength to schedule number, because that's just their 0:14:23.920 --> 0:14:24.960 winning percentage is. 0:14:24.880 --> 0:14:28.120 Going to be lower than their real life what they're doing. 0:14:29.360 --> 0:14:29.760 I don't know. 0:14:30.280 --> 0:14:34.120 Someone become part of opportunity, become part of my analytics department, 0:14:34.200 --> 0:14:42.800 and we could take down all of baseball, man, I 0:14:42.840 --> 0:14:46.960 don't know, from the strength of schedule. So yeah, I 0:14:46.960 --> 0:14:49.440 guess those are my biggest ones there. I guess I'm 0:14:49.480 --> 0:14:52.560 excited for my Yankees, and I think that's the only 0:14:52.680 --> 0:14:57.920 reason they are favored above the Orioles by fangraphs. The 0:14:57.960 --> 0:15:01.800 rest of the way Orioles are sitting very middle of 0:15:01.840 --> 0:15:04.040 the pack five h two win percentage the rest of 0:15:04.080 --> 0:15:06.160 the way, where the Yankees are at four ninety two. So, 0:15:06.840 --> 0:15:10.200 I mean, those numbers aren't they don't feel significant enough, 0:15:10.440 --> 0:15:11.040 but they are. 0:15:11.720 --> 0:15:14.440 Ye one's literally in the middle and one. 0:15:14.360 --> 0:15:18.160 Is very close to top to be top of the line. 0:15:18.360 --> 0:15:20.080 Yeah, and I guess when you think of it, the 0:15:20.120 --> 0:15:22.080 Red Sox, who have the hardest strength to schedule the 0:15:22.080 --> 0:15:24.240 rest of the way, have five to fourteen win percentage. 0:15:24.280 --> 0:15:27.640 That's the difference between a team right now that is 0:15:27.720 --> 0:15:32.200 a orderline a fringe playoff team if not in in 0:15:32.280 --> 0:15:35.040 the National League, or four eighty seven is a team 0:15:35.080 --> 0:15:38.640 that's out and like not liked right now. Like I 0:15:38.720 --> 0:15:40.680 was just tough on the Cubs and the Giants, that's 0:15:40.680 --> 0:15:44.520 where their win percentages are at. So uh and what's 0:15:44.520 --> 0:15:47.040 our what's our what's our player comp for that other 0:15:47.160 --> 0:15:50.960 tier the Mets, which again that's another case study of 0:15:51.000 --> 0:15:56.880 when have you played them? And like the the Houston Astros, Cardinals, 0:15:56.920 --> 0:16:00.280 they they just kind of cleared that. So some thing 0:16:00.320 --> 0:16:03.760 strength the schedule scope there that I'm interested to see 0:16:03.760 --> 0:16:06.760 how much I care about it in the second half 0:16:06.760 --> 0:16:11.720 of the season. I think the other things of note, 0:16:12.560 --> 0:16:15.440 going back to that ESPN article that they tiered it 0:16:15.480 --> 0:16:24.600 out in five tiers. I told you the Big five Phillies, Yankees, Dodgers, Orioles, 0:16:24.720 --> 0:16:33.440 Guards established contenders. Was their tier two with the Braves, Twins, Astros, 0:16:33.680 --> 0:16:38.880 Red Sox, Mariners in the Royals. I don't know, it's 0:16:38.920 --> 0:16:43.800 an interesting label for them established contenders, although they are 0:16:43.840 --> 0:16:45.680 one of the only teams that has entered the trade 0:16:45.680 --> 0:16:49.560 market so far on a price tag that seems significant, 0:16:49.680 --> 0:16:54.040 so very interested to see their deadline in second half 0:16:56.120 --> 0:17:01.960 three the NLS muddled wild card race, the New York Metropolitans, 0:17:02.040 --> 0:17:07.719 the Arizona Diamondbacks, San Diego Padres Man. How did they 0:17:07.800 --> 0:17:11.159 end up at fifty and forty nine? I thought we 0:17:11.240 --> 0:17:15.680 got rid of this five games over Padres That's where 0:17:15.680 --> 0:17:20.920 you should be, and you're just never there. Little limp 0:17:20.960 --> 0:17:25.080 into the break and they're missing Tatis. I think a 0:17:25.200 --> 0:17:27.640 Rise had a thumb injury that had him sit out 0:17:27.640 --> 0:17:33.720 the All Star Game. God are the Cardinals fun? We 0:17:33.920 --> 0:17:37.000 just had they were my answer to We posted our 0:17:37.040 --> 0:17:39.360 live show today from the All Star Game, and we'll 0:17:39.359 --> 0:17:43.280 walk through All Star weekend a little bit. We did 0:17:43.320 --> 0:17:45.880 the question team you're most excited for their second half? 0:17:45.960 --> 0:17:51.679 Mine is the Cardinals, and unfortunately, Cardinals fans, it's twofold. 0:17:52.680 --> 0:17:55.040 You guys have been in the playoff picture for a while. 0:17:55.640 --> 0:17:58.159 If it keeps going and you keep winning more games 0:17:58.200 --> 0:18:00.600 and maybe even play better baseball, there's a lot of 0:18:00.680 --> 0:18:05.359 room for growth Between Goldschmidt and some other ballplayers. I 0:18:05.440 --> 0:18:08.240 think it could be a really fun summer in Saint Louis. 0:18:08.600 --> 0:18:12.119 I also think they have bottom dropout of the ship 0:18:12.160 --> 0:18:17.840 potential in a big way that Pythagoa and win loss 0:18:17.880 --> 0:18:21.160 record wise, it has them as the second luckiest team 0:18:21.200 --> 0:18:25.920 in baseball, which, hey, maybe that is baseball because last 0:18:26.000 --> 0:18:28.760 year no one was saying that the Birds were lucky. 0:18:31.480 --> 0:18:33.920 But yeah, I would love if their corners can pick 0:18:33.960 --> 0:18:38.080 it up Goldschmidt and Aeronato. You have to think so, 0:18:39.160 --> 0:18:41.320 but you don't know so until it happens. If you 0:18:41.359 --> 0:18:44.640 ain't know so, you ain't low. So I think that's 0:18:44.640 --> 0:18:50.560 a rap lyric fabulous comment below. Reach out, reach out 0:18:50.600 --> 0:18:55.679 in the chat. And then the Pittsburgh Pirates, who the 0:18:55.760 --> 0:19:00.879 fact that they're sitting at five hundred and the Padres 0:19:00.920 --> 0:19:03.320 are a game over, the Diamondbacks are a game over. 0:19:04.359 --> 0:19:07.399 It makes the first half a win for Pittsburgh. Uh, 0:19:07.560 --> 0:19:10.160 they do need to go out and make that transaction 0:19:11.400 --> 0:19:15.400 because they told everyone they would, and so I hope 0:19:15.400 --> 0:19:19.360 they do. Because Brian Reynolds is really good and has 0:19:19.400 --> 0:19:25.439 gone nuts. He's also he's got one of those batting 0:19:25.480 --> 0:19:27.560 stances that when you actually look at it you're like, 0:19:27.600 --> 0:19:33.320 baseball's a sicko sport. Like he is very crouched, very extended, 0:19:34.080 --> 0:19:36.159 and there's just a lot of muscles popping out in 0:19:36.200 --> 0:19:38.360 different areas. It's like cool to look at, but it's 0:19:38.400 --> 0:19:42.000 also like you picture yourself doing a batting stance and 0:19:42.040 --> 0:19:44.520 then you see Brian Reynolds doing a batting stance and 0:19:44.560 --> 0:19:48.520 you're like, Okay, these two are not the same. Let's 0:19:48.560 --> 0:19:50.400 it maybe we might be able to bring that up. 0:19:50.760 --> 0:19:52.760 I forget if it was from the All Star Game, 0:19:55.440 --> 0:20:00.399 and a reminder to go check out his if you 0:20:00.440 --> 0:20:03.240 haven't seen his All Star announcement to the team. It's 0:20:03.280 --> 0:20:11.480 as not hype as it can possibly be. Sorry, Brian Vandyman. God, 0:20:11.560 --> 0:20:14.520 it's going to be an exciting break for them. Let's 0:20:14.640 --> 0:20:19.679 let's Pittsburgh get back in the mix. Let me see 0:20:19.880 --> 0:20:24.040 some playoff percentages that may interest the people, and it 0:20:24.119 --> 0:20:28.400 shows where computers maybe don't have everything figured out yet. 0:20:29.520 --> 0:20:32.480 Has the Astros at fifty seven point five percent to 0:20:32.520 --> 0:20:35.600 make the playoffs? I think everyone's leaning that it's a 0:20:35.600 --> 0:20:39.520 little higher Mariners at fifty six point three percent, in 0:20:39.560 --> 0:20:42.119 the Boston Red Sox at fifty two point eight the 0:20:42.240 --> 0:20:47.160 last team over fifty percent. All the National League teams 0:20:47.200 --> 0:20:52.560 are tanking each other's percentages. And this is where my frustrations, 0:20:52.720 --> 0:20:56.200 I guess, get acknowledged. Has the Padres at thirty nine 0:20:56.240 --> 0:20:59.879 point four percent to make the playoffs? How does that happen? 0:21:00.560 --> 0:21:03.399 That's the Giants just below that twenty six point four. 0:21:05.640 --> 0:21:08.679 Let's see what the second half has to provide the 0:21:08.760 --> 0:21:11.960 other team. That was just a popular conversation this weekend 0:21:12.040 --> 0:21:14.040 at the All Star Game, as maybe we talk a 0:21:14.040 --> 0:21:16.960 little All Star weekend even though it's not on the weekend. 0:21:17.080 --> 0:21:17.920 The week. 0:21:19.240 --> 0:21:22.400 Those Texas Rangers that hosted the damn thing, no one 0:21:22.480 --> 0:21:25.840 really knows what to do. We did our trade episode 0:21:25.880 --> 0:21:28.199 and we have some Rangers going. When you look at 0:21:28.200 --> 0:21:31.760 where they're at in the standings, them having that World 0:21:31.880 --> 0:21:36.800 Series with this front office, it turns into a question 0:21:37.160 --> 0:21:41.919 of I want to say, glass half full, glass half empty. Nothing. 0:21:42.040 --> 0:21:44.840 If the Texas Rangers did not win the World Series 0:21:44.920 --> 0:21:47.960 last year or go to the World Series, I think 0:21:48.000 --> 0:21:51.960 we would all be like, you gotta sell right. They've 0:21:52.000 --> 0:21:55.159 got a lot of rental pitchers. It hasn't felt like 0:21:55.240 --> 0:22:00.000 the season you gotta sell right with the World Series. 0:22:00.040 --> 0:22:02.320 Can see either side like, hey, we won it last year. 0:22:02.320 --> 0:22:05.080 We're getting some reinforcements back. Let's get hot and win 0:22:05.119 --> 0:22:08.560 this thing again. Or if you're the front office, you say, hey, 0:22:08.600 --> 0:22:11.520 we've got our big investments here. We did win it 0:22:11.640 --> 0:22:15.800 last year. Let's just get some assets and retool for 0:22:15.840 --> 0:22:18.840 the next three years instead of this year. They are 0:22:18.880 --> 0:22:21.080 gonna be one of the most interesting teams at the 0:22:21.080 --> 0:22:25.920 trade deadline and in the next In the next ten 0:22:26.040 --> 0:22:30.960 days or so, things are really gonna get sorted. I 0:22:31.000 --> 0:22:33.040 guess that's gonna be the fun thing to check in 0:22:33.119 --> 0:22:37.720 on in a little under two weeks is seeing the treadline. 0:22:37.800 --> 0:22:43.800 Season eight and two could change everything, where that three 0:22:43.800 --> 0:22:47.600 and seven could blow everything. So let's watch it together. 0:22:48.119 --> 0:22:50.359 Excited to yuckball with you guys. I think we are 0:22:50.359 --> 0:22:54.720 gonna have Bailey early next week. Now we'll give you 0:22:54.760 --> 0:22:58.760 the nitty gritty jamboy media behind the scenes at the 0:22:58.840 --> 0:23:02.920 All Star Game. We flew out. I flew out Sunday 0:23:03.080 --> 0:23:08.600 with beeps, safe travels in no qualms on our ends. 0:23:08.720 --> 0:23:11.760 The flight landed at its ideal destination. 0:23:12.520 --> 0:23:13.240 Remember that. 0:23:15.320 --> 0:23:21.119 Got in exciting mode? Oh my god? The Yankees game. Yes, 0:23:21.720 --> 0:23:23.920 everyone gets there and it's you know, if you've ever 0:23:23.960 --> 0:23:26.120 gone on a ski trip with friends, or you gone 0:23:26.119 --> 0:23:29.719 any sleepover party. You know you've got excitement. You're all 0:23:29.720 --> 0:23:33.600 in the same room. Trevor Plouf, Chris Rose, all of 0:23:33.640 --> 0:23:37.360 our New York City JM people. We're having a blast. 0:23:37.560 --> 0:23:40.000 Let's put on the Yankees game and record talking Yanks 0:23:40.000 --> 0:23:49.440 after a delicious moment, Ben Rice the Kid. It's a 0:23:49.480 --> 0:23:53.520 three run homer to give the Yankees a lead. The 0:23:53.600 --> 0:23:57.560 Yankees are about to sweep the Baltimore Orioles. They're about 0:23:57.560 --> 0:24:01.680 to be first place in the Ale East. Their whole losing, 0:24:02.320 --> 0:24:06.800 worst month of baseball about to be erased with one 0:24:06.840 --> 0:24:10.280 swing in one series. How nice is that? If you 0:24:10.320 --> 0:24:14.439 don't know what happened. The Yankees ended up losing that 0:24:14.520 --> 0:24:18.400 game with I think we landed on a ten to 0:24:18.440 --> 0:24:24.720 twenty percent Clay Holmes forty percent, Vulpi forty percent Doogie. 0:24:25.960 --> 0:24:28.120 You can you can change your numbers a little bit. 0:24:28.480 --> 0:24:30.919 Ground ball to short would have ended it. That Vulpi 0:24:31.000 --> 0:24:35.760 doesn't make the play on flyball to left that Doogie misplays. 0:24:37.000 --> 0:24:39.200 So it's tough for Clay. Although he has some walks, 0:24:39.280 --> 0:24:42.960 which we've talked about. Clay Holmes and that issue with 0:24:43.040 --> 0:24:47.080 him that the Yankees go back, they do win their 0:24:47.080 --> 0:24:50.399 first series in a month, but I don't know. It 0:24:50.440 --> 0:24:56.280 was lol Yanks in there literally Zoe Shelfy were laughing 0:24:56.320 --> 0:25:00.639 in our faces, and they both have boisterous content laughs 0:25:01.119 --> 0:25:04.560 that those stung a little bit. So I don't know. 0:25:04.640 --> 0:25:07.080 I guess in my head, I've been excited for Yankees baseball, 0:25:07.080 --> 0:25:09.000 but I could also go to a dark place real 0:25:09.080 --> 0:25:11.600 quick this weekend against the Rays at. 0:25:11.440 --> 0:25:14.280 Home, against the Rais at home. 0:25:14.800 --> 0:25:18.359