WEBVTT - Acuña’s BACK! Padres fix, Rox low 0:00:00.400 --> 0:00:03.480 Tap tap tap on the head next year, and we. 0:00:04.160 --> 0:00:06.280 Doesn't want to tap tap. 0:00:06.519 --> 0:00:09.080 I do want it, I want, I don't, I don't 0:00:09.080 --> 0:00:09.960 want anything else. 0:00:13.400 --> 0:00:17.919 By long weekend coming up Phraser Friday. By the way, 0:00:18.520 --> 0:00:21.119 we've talked a lot this week about foul Territory shop 0:00:21.200 --> 0:00:25.360 dot com getting very boosted. Did you know that the 0:00:25.440 --> 0:00:28.120 hats that you guys are wearing right now that have 0:00:28.360 --> 0:00:31.320 MLB's logo on the back of them. Yes, we did 0:00:31.360 --> 0:00:35.560 that at the time. That was cute, will be foul 0:00:35.680 --> 0:00:39.160 Territory logos. We have hats that have FT on the back, 0:00:39.640 --> 0:00:42.560 so we got smart, just like MLB did for those 0:00:42.600 --> 0:00:44.880 that like to wear their half backwards. 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So after the show, 0:01:16.880 --> 0:01:19.480 we talk about what we're going to send out on 0:01:19.520 --> 0:01:22.399 different social platforms, including what we're going to break up 0:01:22.600 --> 0:01:26.400 into smaller segments to put out there on YouTube. Right, So, Kratz, 0:01:26.480 --> 0:01:29.120 yesterday we had Chandeler Rome on the show, and for 0:01:29.120 --> 0:01:31.039 at least a few minutes of that conversation we went 0:01:31.080 --> 0:01:35.080 over the lack of hitting and pop from jose Altuvey. 0:01:35.560 --> 0:01:39.360 By the time we posted the interview, I feel like 0:01:39.400 --> 0:01:42.200 five seconds later he had two dingers and I had 0:01:42.200 --> 0:01:43.160 a big dub. 0:01:44.160 --> 0:01:47.640 Taking it over and all of our two bays props 0:01:47.680 --> 0:01:50.600 because not only did Chandler Rome say he's about to go, 0:01:50.880 --> 0:01:53.960 he could actually just go off the entire Mariner series. 0:01:54.000 --> 0:01:57.520 He said he might just get thirteen hits. Well, he 0:01:57.600 --> 0:02:01.720 went sackfly, two dingers, two for four for the boys, 0:02:01.840 --> 0:02:04.080 thirteen hits for the team, let's get it. 0:02:04.640 --> 0:02:05.040 Mm hmm. 0:02:07.680 --> 0:02:08.080 That's all. 0:02:10.720 --> 0:02:13.200 I don't think he's the type that's listening to the show, 0:02:13.400 --> 0:02:15.639 But if he did and we pissed him off a 0:02:15.680 --> 0:02:18.440 little bit, then I'm all for it because I like 0:02:18.520 --> 0:02:21.160 watching that little Man show. How much popp he's got, 0:02:21.360 --> 0:02:24.120 it's pretty impressive. So two homers for him yesterday against 0:02:24.160 --> 0:02:26.960 the Mariners. That's a big series this weekend. But let's 0:02:26.960 --> 0:02:29.320 get to what I think is the headliner of this 0:02:29.440 --> 0:02:37.399 Memorial Day weekend. We're charging Charging Todd Father. The time 0:02:37.440 --> 0:02:41.840 has come, almost exactly one year after Ronald Acuna Junior 0:02:41.919 --> 0:02:45.120 went down with yet another ACL injury. He's torn up 0:02:45.160 --> 0:02:49.160 both knees and had surgery on them. He returns one 0:02:49.160 --> 0:02:53.520 of the superstars of our sport who is anxiously awaiting 0:02:53.720 --> 0:02:57.560 big league games again, has been patient and now he's back, 0:02:57.880 --> 0:03:00.840 and he's back at a pretty good time. Atl lost 0:03:01.240 --> 0:03:04.080 yesterday to the Nats in ten innings. They lost to 0:03:04.120 --> 0:03:06.560 the day before. They should be a better team than 0:03:06.560 --> 0:03:12.240 the Nationals. Nationals playing them. Tough upcoming schedule Padres, Phillies, 0:03:12.680 --> 0:03:18.440 Red Sox, Diamondbacks, Giants, Brewers. That's a tough stretch coming 0:03:18.520 --> 0:03:21.360 up for Atlanta. You know what helps Todd Father, A 0:03:21.400 --> 0:03:24.680 guy who a couple of years ago had forty plus homers, 0:03:24.720 --> 0:03:26.519 seventy plus stolen backs. 0:03:27.639 --> 0:03:31.000 And listen, I'm gonna explain something to you. 0:03:31.040 --> 0:03:34.000 This guy's gonna come out fires guns of blazing, because 0:03:34.480 --> 0:03:36.920 you know from the quotes that snicker said too as well. 0:03:37.000 --> 0:03:38.920 He's been doing great and nothing but working out. His 0:03:39.000 --> 0:03:42.120 body's in great shape, he's lean, he's feeling good. Like 0:03:42.160 --> 0:03:44.480 this guy is ready to go. And I know, you know, 0:03:45.080 --> 0:03:47.320 he's been working down in the minor leagues a little bit. 0:03:48.120 --> 0:03:49.720 I know he dropped the ball, but still got the 0:03:49.720 --> 0:03:52.240 guy out at second base. He understood that he's hitting 0:03:52.240 --> 0:03:55.080 the ball. Well, this guy is ready to go, and 0:03:55.120 --> 0:03:58.880 from the looks and sounds of it, he's gonna take off. 0:03:58.880 --> 0:04:01.560 And I'm really excited this. This is good for baseball. 0:04:02.000 --> 0:04:04.640 It's good for the Bravos there, for the Braves, and 0:04:05.320 --> 0:04:07.800 you know, listen, everybody's still in it. There's still plenty 0:04:07.840 --> 0:04:09.680 of time to make a move here, to get after it. 0:04:10.000 --> 0:04:12.880 You know, they struggled in the beginning, but now look 0:04:12.880 --> 0:04:14.760 where they're out here and they're ready to go. So 0:04:15.280 --> 0:04:17.520 having this guy back, if you're a Braves fan and 0:04:17.520 --> 0:04:20.159 you're a Braves player, open arms, let's go. 0:04:20.360 --> 0:04:20.880 Time to go. 0:04:21.880 --> 0:04:25.000 It's an element to the lineup. He's not going to 0:04:25.080 --> 0:04:28.480 be the aircraft carrier. Let's just that's not me being negative, 0:04:28.600 --> 0:04:32.000 it's not me being anti Ronald le'cunya. It just means 0:04:32.040 --> 0:04:35.039 he's ready to go, and he's an element that you 0:04:35.160 --> 0:04:39.080 have to gain plan for. Sorry, there's no like there's 0:04:39.800 --> 0:04:44.600 there's nobody that can replace the aura, swag, whatever it 0:04:44.680 --> 0:04:51.679 is about Ronald Lacunya. You also cannot expect seventy seventy 0:04:51.680 --> 0:04:56.800 stolen base pace forty home home run pace for the 0:04:56.839 --> 0:04:59.839 rest of the season. Just expect to see him this 0:05:00.000 --> 0:05:03.599 a win if he plays two or three games this weekend. 0:05:03.880 --> 0:05:06.800 To me, you get him out there during this stretch. 0:05:07.160 --> 0:05:10.280 If he can play eighty five percent of the games 0:05:10.320 --> 0:05:12.240 that are out there, and that's why they've kind of 0:05:12.480 --> 0:05:16.080 waited for him to be ready, then that's a positive 0:05:16.160 --> 0:05:18.800 for the Braves. He'll hit a few dangers, steal a 0:05:18.800 --> 0:05:21.919 few bases. Let him get his feet under him before 0:05:21.920 --> 0:05:24.760 you start laying expectations on him. 0:05:25.520 --> 0:05:28.760 This was talked about a little bit a couple months ago, 0:05:28.839 --> 0:05:33.279 including on our show. Do you be careful with him 0:05:33.880 --> 0:05:37.240 during the regular season As far as stolen bases, there's 0:05:37.279 --> 0:05:39.880 not much that you can pull back on with a 0:05:39.920 --> 0:05:44.120 player like this who plays with ferociousness. But you can 0:05:44.240 --> 0:05:47.480 give him a yellow and a red light at times. 0:05:47.480 --> 0:05:49.719 Todd Father, right, you can't tell him, hey, don't go 0:05:49.839 --> 0:05:52.640 all out on a fly ball. I mean there's a 0:05:52.640 --> 0:05:55.040 lot of things right, you know that you can't really 0:05:55.080 --> 0:05:58.400 tell a player to chill on. You can actually stop 0:05:58.480 --> 0:06:01.839 him from being as aggressive on the base paths. If 0:06:01.920 --> 0:06:03.680 you are the Braves, would you do that? 0:06:04.600 --> 0:06:08.159 I think the one thing, and this might sound like 0:06:08.240 --> 0:06:12.479 so like uncircumstantial, like the you know you're worried about this. 0:06:12.920 --> 0:06:16.000 I think the biggest thing for me, I wouldn't say, 0:06:16.279 --> 0:06:19.839 you know, stop his aggressiveness. Little thing like this cratzy 0:06:19.880 --> 0:06:23.040 and you might agree, might not sliding feed first. I 0:06:23.080 --> 0:06:27.120 think honestly, guys who slide you know, head first with 0:06:27.160 --> 0:06:29.440 their hands now you can have you know, hand problems. 0:06:29.480 --> 0:06:31.960 I know he's got bad legs, but sliding feed first, 0:06:32.080 --> 0:06:35.359 you know, helps you from not getting a shoulder problem 0:06:35.360 --> 0:06:36.320 if somebody. 0:06:36.040 --> 0:06:37.680 Lands on you, or a hand or a risk. 0:06:37.839 --> 0:06:40.159 I know he's had the leg problems, but it's I 0:06:40.160 --> 0:06:42.880 think it's much easier sliding feed first. You might have 0:06:42.920 --> 0:06:45.480 to slow down just a little bit more, but understanding 0:06:45.560 --> 0:06:48.320 like I don't have to go guns and blazing Pete 0:06:48.400 --> 0:06:50.800 Rose all, you know, getting after it, that kind of thing. 0:06:50.839 --> 0:06:54.760 I wouldn't take the aggressiveness away, you know, because that's 0:06:54.760 --> 0:06:58.000 when usually sometimes you do get hurt. So I would 0:06:58.040 --> 0:07:01.000 I would say, listen, maybe let's trying feet first on 0:07:01.080 --> 0:07:03.200 all these bases instead ahead first. 0:07:03.880 --> 0:07:04.360 Yeah. I don't know. 0:07:04.400 --> 0:07:06.560 I don't know how tough that's gonna be for him 0:07:06.600 --> 0:07:09.880 to tuck that knee under the other leg. You know 0:07:09.920 --> 0:07:12.720 the old figure four when you're sliding feet first. If 0:07:12.760 --> 0:07:16.040 he's not used to it, I don't know. I say no, 0:07:16.240 --> 0:07:19.520 I say let him run. Let him run only because 0:07:20.720 --> 0:07:23.559 stealing bases. How many times do you see guys pulling 0:07:23.600 --> 0:07:28.240 hammies on stealing bases? Rarely? You see it running down 0:07:28.280 --> 0:07:30.960 the first baseline. Oh he's not running, Oh bobbled now. 0:07:30.880 --> 0:07:32.160 I'm going out. 0:07:32.200 --> 0:07:34.600 Failed it failed, it failed it. How many times do 0:07:34.640 --> 0:07:39.760 you see guys pulling up on plays in the outfield? Rarely? 0:07:40.240 --> 0:07:43.840 To me, it's all about him understanding the pace that 0:07:43.960 --> 0:07:48.800 he has to run on ground ball outs. Sounds sounds trivial. 0:07:50.240 --> 0:07:53.200 But when he's on the bases, let him go, let him, 0:07:53.320 --> 0:07:56.680 let him test his limit, because maybe that year that 0:07:56.760 --> 0:07:59.640 he didn't quite have the best year coming back, maybe 0:07:59.640 --> 0:08:02.200 he was a little too cautious, So let him. 0:08:02.080 --> 0:08:02.760 Test the limit. 0:08:04.600 --> 0:08:09.560 Okay, A couple other things with the Braves Orlando Arcia 0:08:09.800 --> 0:08:12.920 designated from assignment. He was an All Star in twenty 0:08:12.960 --> 0:08:16.840 twenty three, former teammate of Yours Krats, and less than 0:08:16.840 --> 0:08:20.840 two years after reaching the All Star Game, he is 0:08:21.120 --> 0:08:23.160 either going to be off the roster or in the 0:08:23.200 --> 0:08:27.360 minor leagues. But that's how quickly the game can change. 0:08:28.080 --> 0:08:30.760 It's not really necessarily an age thing. He's always battled 0:08:30.760 --> 0:08:32.040 the hit tool right. 0:08:32.920 --> 0:08:34.640 He has, he has and that's why he was an 0:08:34.679 --> 0:08:36.800 All Star the one year because he was hitting I 0:08:36.840 --> 0:08:40.280 think he was hitting to ninety at the All Star break. 0:08:40.320 --> 0:08:43.360 He fell off after that, but last year he hit 0:08:43.400 --> 0:08:49.440 too eighteen seventeen dangers. Like, I think the writing was 0:08:49.480 --> 0:08:52.720 on the wall for him to start this season because 0:08:52.800 --> 0:08:56.720 his strikeouts just ballooned the last season, and I think 0:08:56.880 --> 0:08:59.520 they were sick of some of the bats that they 0:08:59.559 --> 0:09:02.480 saw from Oh, he was still kind of productive. I 0:09:02.520 --> 0:09:06.240 was surprised because we just had who did we just 0:09:06.280 --> 0:09:10.160 have on talking about the Braves just the other day. Yeah, 0:09:10.200 --> 0:09:12.960 Grant McCauley was on and he said, yeah, Nick Allen. 0:09:13.000 --> 0:09:17.600 He's always been a glove first guy. Orlando Arcia is 0:09:17.640 --> 0:09:20.640 one of the best shortstops that I've played with. This 0:09:20.720 --> 0:09:25.000 guy is a big league shortstop and he's a glove 0:09:25.040 --> 0:09:29.199 first guy, so Nick Allen takes his spot. 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I just 0:11:04.760 --> 0:11:07.000 think it just was the quality of baths, like you said. 0:11:07.040 --> 0:11:11.960 So if I'm another team, you know, looking for somebody, 0:11:12.000 --> 0:11:14.840 maybe you try and fill him in and he gets 0:11:14.880 --> 0:11:17.040 his career back on track a little bit. 0:11:17.800 --> 0:11:17.960 You know. 0:11:18.240 --> 0:11:20.120 Question I want to see here, I want to see 0:11:20.360 --> 0:11:25.199 how Acunya gets worked in. And it's really based around Snicker. 0:11:25.840 --> 0:11:29.959 Can Brian Snicker run a lineup out there that is 0:11:30.000 --> 0:11:33.400 not nine every day guys? Is he able to make 0:11:33.440 --> 0:11:37.600 that adjustment or is he just locked into the nine 0:11:37.640 --> 0:11:42.080 everyday guys? And could that be the Braves downfall not 0:11:42.160 --> 0:11:44.240 being able to get all the value out of their 0:11:44.400 --> 0:11:46.240 entire lineup, out the entire roster. 0:11:51.120 --> 0:11:53.520 So you want to get some value out of Craig 0:11:53.600 --> 0:11:57.160 Kimbrel in your bullpen. That's the last piece of the 0:11:57.200 --> 0:12:00.880 puzzle here. All the big names come back to atl 0:12:01.000 --> 0:12:05.120 So Strider's back now, hopefully for good. Ronald Lacuna Junior 0:12:05.120 --> 0:12:08.680 returns this weekend. Creig Kimberl has a one two nine 0:12:08.679 --> 0:12:13.240 earned round average in Triple A. Braves bullpen has been 0:12:13.360 --> 0:12:16.840 mid this year, and we can show the list of 0:12:16.880 --> 0:12:20.199 what the bullpen looks like. I think you can squeeze 0:12:20.240 --> 0:12:22.440 Craig Kimberl on there if he's looking the way he 0:12:22.480 --> 0:12:26.079 does in Triple A. Stuff's always been there. Got to 0:12:26.120 --> 0:12:29.120 watch the walks. But it's basically the same script that 0:12:29.120 --> 0:12:32.880 we've said for a long time. Rats, you think the 0:12:32.960 --> 0:12:35.880 time is looming for Creig Kimberle to return to Atlanta, 0:12:35.920 --> 0:12:37.960 maybe for the final chapter of his career. 0:12:38.960 --> 0:12:40.800 Yeah, I mean they'll give him a chance. Well, but 0:12:40.880 --> 0:12:45.600 let's let's temper expectations on eras in Triple A. The 0:12:45.600 --> 0:12:48.720 biggest issue that Triple A hitters have that big league 0:12:48.760 --> 0:12:50.600 hitters who stay in the big leagues, not dudes that 0:12:50.679 --> 0:12:52.840 just go from Triple A to the big leagues, is 0:12:52.880 --> 0:12:55.120 swinging at too many pitches, and when you're a guy 0:12:55.120 --> 0:12:59.120 that doesn't throw a lot of strikes consistently. When things 0:12:59.120 --> 0:13:02.680 aren't going well, you can take advantage of triple A hitters. 0:13:03.080 --> 0:13:05.720 And I'm not saying because I haven't seen one single 0:13:05.760 --> 0:13:09.440 pitch of Craig Kimberl's in the bushes, but a guy 0:13:09.480 --> 0:13:11.480 with that track record, you got to make sure his 0:13:11.840 --> 0:13:16.120 end zone, pitch location that he's having in the bushes 0:13:16.600 --> 0:13:20.200 is good before you say, Okay, we're gonna supplant somebody 0:13:20.280 --> 0:13:23.440 and send them down to the bushes and put Kimberl 0:13:23.480 --> 0:13:24.120 in the big leagues. 0:13:25.800 --> 0:13:28.400 Yeah, and we we all understand triple A is not 0:13:28.480 --> 0:13:31.640 the major league, so, uh, one two nine is really good. 0:13:31.640 --> 0:13:34.400 I'm not taking that away from him, but you know, 0:13:34.520 --> 0:13:37.079 it's not the caliber in Major League Baseball. 0:13:37.120 --> 0:13:38.480 But it is a good sign for him. 0:13:38.480 --> 0:13:41.480 It's a positive sign that he's working well and we 0:13:41.520 --> 0:13:43.280 want to see it, you know, you know, the Braves 0:13:43.320 --> 0:13:45.520 people want to see it translate in the major leagues 0:13:45.520 --> 0:13:48.319 and he would fit perfectly in this bullpen right now, 0:13:48.320 --> 0:13:49.959 and hopefully it does translate again. 0:13:52.160 --> 0:13:56.760 Hey, the Minnesota Twins have made a miraculous run through 0:13:56.840 --> 0:13:59.280 their tough start to the season, and they always have 0:13:59.360 --> 0:14:03.920 to whether the injury bug two, Carlos Korea activated after 0:14:03.960 --> 0:14:07.800 that ugly collision with him in Byron Buxton. And this 0:14:07.920 --> 0:14:10.720 is a team Godfather that started slow than they won 0:14:11.040 --> 0:14:15.640 thirteen in a row. Actually a little triviacuse we did 0:14:15.640 --> 0:14:17.600 it yesterday and some people liked it. Do you know 0:14:17.640 --> 0:14:21.400 what was the longest win streak before that? It was 0:14:21.400 --> 0:14:24.360 in the last few years, longest win streak before the 0:14:24.400 --> 0:14:28.880 twins for them or for anybody, for anybody. I didn't 0:14:28.920 --> 0:14:30.920 realize because I feel like every year we get a 0:14:30.920 --> 0:14:33.160 double digit but I'm like, oh damn, we hadn't had 0:14:33.200 --> 0:14:36.360 one since this team, which I had forgotten about, but 0:14:36.560 --> 0:14:39.400 they picked it up. You guys know, it's probably a 0:14:39.440 --> 0:14:42.240 tough one to a lot of teams have had like 0:14:42.280 --> 0:14:44.520 ten to eleven. This was twenty twenty two. 0:14:45.400 --> 0:14:47.360 Was that the Yankees run that they made Like. 0:14:48.960 --> 0:14:52.000 No, okay, no, I mean the thing is a lot 0:14:52.080 --> 0:14:54.920 of teams have done the double digits ten eleven, but 0:14:55.080 --> 0:14:57.880 this one was in twenty twenty two and it was 0:14:57.920 --> 0:15:01.480 a fourteen game winning streak. I don't think you're gonna 0:15:01.480 --> 0:15:02.960 get it. When I when I looked and I read 0:15:03.000 --> 0:15:05.360 this in an article, and I kind of quizzed. Myself. 0:15:05.520 --> 0:15:07.880 I was like, hey, I don't remember that one. No, 0:15:08.240 --> 0:15:10.760 I don't seattle. 0:15:13.560 --> 0:15:15.800 With their pitching staff. Why I could see it happening. 0:15:16.240 --> 0:15:23.160 Yeah, they had a fourteen gamer in twenty twenty two. Wow, 0:15:23.840 --> 0:15:26.840 big tweet to show you that. I'm sure Aja wishes 0:15:26.840 --> 0:15:29.480 he could talk about as well. It's related to the 0:15:29.480 --> 0:15:32.400 Pittsburgh Pirates. We just spoke about them at the tail 0:15:32.480 --> 0:15:36.080 end of that conversation. The Pittsburgh Pirates last night scored 0:15:36.400 --> 0:15:39.440 more than four runs for the first time Todd bother 0:15:39.840 --> 0:15:45.280 since April twenty second, snapping a twenty six game streak 0:15:45.640 --> 0:15:49.480 that was a month ago. So when you consume our 0:15:49.520 --> 0:15:53.040 show in the offseason and most of us say, pirates 0:15:53.040 --> 0:15:56.520 still stink offense isn't going to get it done, And 0:15:56.560 --> 0:15:58.840 you see this play out and their season's already over 0:15:58.920 --> 0:16:01.440 and they're already working on the second manager this season. 0:16:02.480 --> 0:16:03.480 This is why. 0:16:04.600 --> 0:16:08.840 Imagine betting all those games that they wouldn't score three 0:16:08.880 --> 0:16:11.960 and a half runs. I mean, that would be someon 0:16:11.960 --> 0:16:14.120 would be pretty rich. I mean somebody probably did it 0:16:14.160 --> 0:16:16.280 for a couple of dimes or whatever. Cratzy, do you 0:16:16.360 --> 0:16:16.600 do it? 0:16:17.400 --> 0:16:20.680 No, it was looking it was the last the last 0:16:20.720 --> 0:16:23.520 like ten days i've been watching it, the number has 0:16:23.560 --> 0:16:26.240 just been it's been too high. It's been too high. 0:16:26.240 --> 0:16:28.680 Now they haven't they haven't gotten four every time, but. 0:16:28.880 --> 0:16:29.760 No, I got you. 0:16:29.880 --> 0:16:31.920 But yeah, four and a half though the under on 0:16:32.040 --> 0:16:34.560 four and a half hit for a month straight. 0:16:35.080 --> 0:16:37.280 Yeah, that's that's remarkable. 0:16:37.320 --> 0:16:40.000 But listen, you could tell you could tell it was 0:16:40.080 --> 0:16:41.680 just going south right from the get go. 0:16:41.800 --> 0:16:43.120 And this is what always happens. 0:16:43.120 --> 0:16:46.280 And we always talk about how the Pirates come out strong. 0:16:46.360 --> 0:16:49.200 Yeah they did okay in their first upcoming this year, 0:16:49.280 --> 0:16:53.440 but it's the blame game. You know, they blame one person, 0:16:53.480 --> 0:16:57.120 they blame this guy. You know, we're we're not spending 0:16:57.800 --> 0:17:00.560 you know, everybody is too much money. And that's that's 0:17:00.600 --> 0:17:02.640 just the way it goes. You know, even when I 0:17:02.760 --> 0:17:04.480 was there, it was it was just it was off. 0:17:04.720 --> 0:17:07.360 And you know, there's a bunch of good people there 0:17:07.400 --> 0:17:10.000 that are playing the game, which I love and still respect, 0:17:10.080 --> 0:17:12.679 but it's just it's not where it should be. 0:17:12.800 --> 0:17:15.000 And it starts from the from the top all the 0:17:15.040 --> 0:17:15.760 way to the top. 0:17:18.200 --> 0:17:20.720 This is in the spreading rumors category, But I feel 0:17:20.720 --> 0:17:22.680 like you don't report this unless you feel pretty good 0:17:22.680 --> 0:17:26.680 about it. Bruce Levine talking about the Chicago Cubs being 0:17:26.720 --> 0:17:31.000 the winner of the twenty twenty seven All Star Game sweepsakes. 0:17:31.119 --> 0:17:34.800 So this year is in Atlanta, next year is in Philadelphia, 0:17:35.240 --> 0:17:38.159 and I haven't seen the support from anywhere else. But 0:17:38.200 --> 0:17:40.520 he did clarify the breaking news with a follow up 0:17:40.520 --> 0:17:42.960 tweet and said the All Star Game will be awarded 0:17:43.000 --> 0:17:46.040 to the Cubs sometime this summer. MLB wants each city 0:17:46.080 --> 0:17:49.000 to have two years planning for the event. Derby Fantastic, etc. 0:17:49.359 --> 0:17:51.600 Sid sources told me Chicago will get a winfall of 0:17:51.680 --> 0:17:56.040 two hundred and fifty to three hundred. I'm assuming Llans millions. 0:17:56.080 --> 0:18:00.479 No, two fifty to three hundred. That's Bruce, Come on, Bruce, finish. 0:18:00.680 --> 0:18:03.359 Finish what you're talking about. Man, And you forgot that. 0:18:03.640 --> 0:18:06.760 He forgot the period and separate in summer dot MLB. 0:18:06.880 --> 0:18:07.680 There's no such thing. 0:18:07.760 --> 0:18:10.600 Maybe he got hacked. Oh maybe he got hacked. 0:18:11.359 --> 0:18:14.920 Maybe maybe, but you got it. You gotta finish it. 0:18:15.040 --> 0:18:18.240 Two fifty three hundred. That's awesome. Good for the car. 0:18:19.280 --> 0:18:21.679 That's that's that's like when you get a letter in 0:18:21.720 --> 0:18:26.200 the mail. You have won one million monies from. 0:18:27.520 --> 0:18:27.720 This. 0:18:28.000 --> 0:18:32.080 Just send me five hundred American dollars in gift cards 0:18:32.160 --> 0:18:35.600 and I will, and you're like, really, one million moneies, 0:18:35.640 --> 0:18:38.040 Come on, Bruce, two hundred and fifty to three hundred dollars. 0:18:38.640 --> 0:18:42.040 That will be a fun home run derby in Wrigley Field. 0:18:42.520 --> 0:18:44.760 They had to postpone it until the wind is blowing 0:18:44.800 --> 0:18:46.760 out for else it will suck. 0:18:49.119 --> 0:18:51.160 All Right, we're back ft FAM will give this one 0:18:51.160 --> 0:18:52.720 a couple of minutes, obviously, don't want to give it 0:18:52.760 --> 0:18:55.679 too much time, just more based on the trolls that 0:18:55.760 --> 0:18:59.600 cause the situations here with players. Leam Hendricks, friend of 0:18:59.600 --> 0:19:03.600 the show, so on Instagram posting that he's gotten death 0:19:03.600 --> 0:19:06.480 threats from fans. This is a week after Lance mccullors 0:19:06.520 --> 0:19:10.120 Junior was posting about that as well. Call it whatever 0:19:10.160 --> 0:19:13.520 you want, Twitter muscles, social media muscles. I mean, people 0:19:13.680 --> 0:19:18.000 send ridiculous things and hopefully authorities are able to find 0:19:18.040 --> 0:19:24.160 those people. So he laid it out. I think it's 0:19:24.200 --> 0:19:26.680 important to do this because I know a lot of 0:19:26.720 --> 0:19:30.280 players deal with this todd Father, you know, abuse of 0:19:30.320 --> 0:19:32.679 some kind. This is like kind of the ultimate on 0:19:32.760 --> 0:19:36.040 the verbal abuse side. But I do see some players 0:19:36.080 --> 0:19:39.280 being a little more transparent about this now because maybe 0:19:39.280 --> 0:19:42.400 they're frustrated that it happens, and not a lot gets done. 0:19:42.400 --> 0:19:44.520 So if you at least publicize it, you can get 0:19:44.560 --> 0:19:49.000 talked about within the public sphere and hopefully, you know, 0:19:49.080 --> 0:19:52.320 people get pissed. Things actually do happen. There's more public 0:19:52.359 --> 0:19:54.720 pressure to make sure that you know, I don't know 0:19:54.720 --> 0:19:56.480 what the laws are and whatever else. I know, you 0:19:56.520 --> 0:19:59.040 can't that threat people. That's a freaking crime. 0:20:00.040 --> 0:20:03.960 It's ridiculous. It's crazy. I had I had one. 0:20:04.040 --> 0:20:06.000 I had one when I was playing with the White Sox, 0:20:06.040 --> 0:20:08.720 and you know, I called our security up right away. 0:20:08.800 --> 0:20:12.159 They figured out. I actually found out who the person 0:20:12.400 --> 0:20:15.480 was and it was it was kind of scary. 0:20:15.560 --> 0:20:15.760 You know. 0:20:15.840 --> 0:20:18.679 It brought in some family members too as well. You 0:20:18.720 --> 0:20:21.240 don't ever want to hear that. That's like your worst nightmare. 0:20:21.359 --> 0:20:25.560 I feel terrible, terrible, terrible for both these guys mc 0:20:25.560 --> 0:20:29.159 colors and Hendrix. I don't think it's right. I think 0:20:29.200 --> 0:20:32.160 it's unfair. It's just something else on your mind when 0:20:32.200 --> 0:20:34.480 you lay on your pillow a night knowing that this 0:20:34.680 --> 0:20:38.000 son of a gun, whomever it is, girl boy, whatever 0:20:38.040 --> 0:20:41.600 it is, wrote this and has the audacity to say that. 0:20:41.640 --> 0:20:43.600 Now it's on your mind everywhere you go. You know, 0:20:43.640 --> 0:20:45.119 you got to go on the road and your family 0:20:45.160 --> 0:20:45.879 doesn't come with you. 0:20:46.000 --> 0:20:46.720 Now what you know? 0:20:47.760 --> 0:20:51.000 You know, it's scary, It's really scary, and you wish 0:20:51.080 --> 0:20:53.560 this never happened. People sometimes need to get a grip 0:20:53.560 --> 0:20:56.680 in life and and understand like everybody's human. 0:20:56.840 --> 0:20:58.320 This is this is ridiculous. 0:20:59.640 --> 0:21:04.399 Yeah, it's cowardice. It's just like and people say, oh, 0:21:04.440 --> 0:21:08.240 it doesn't affect you. It affects people because you question, 0:21:08.520 --> 0:21:11.840 like who is like, who's really that pissed that one? 0:21:11.920 --> 0:21:15.920 They would tweet that to you two? Like you see 0:21:15.960 --> 0:21:19.040 a lot of people. It makes you just step back. 0:21:19.119 --> 0:21:23.880