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Speaker 1: long weekend. One other thing before we start to take
Speaker 1: you inside what we do here. So after the show,
Speaker 1: we talk about what we're going to send out on
Speaker 1: different social platforms, including what we're going to break up
Speaker 1: into smaller segments to put out there on YouTube. Right, So, Kratz,
Speaker 1: yesterday we had Chandeler Rome on the show, and for
Speaker 1: at least a few minutes of that conversation we went
Speaker 1: over the lack of hitting and pop from jose Altuvey.
Speaker 1: By the time we posted the interview, I feel like
Speaker 1: five seconds later he had two dingers and I had
Speaker 1: a big dub.
Speaker 4: Taking it over and all of our two bays props
Speaker 4: because not only did Chandler Rome say he's about to go,
Speaker 4: he could actually just go off the entire Mariner series.
Speaker 4: He said he might just get thirteen hits. Well, he
Speaker 4: went sackfly, two dingers, two for four for the boys,
Speaker 4: thirteen hits for the team, let's get it.
Speaker 1: Mm hmm.
Speaker 2: That's all.
Speaker 1: I don't think he's the type that's listening to the show,
Speaker 1: But if he did and we pissed him off a
Speaker 1: little bit, then I'm all for it because I like
Speaker 1: watching that little Man show. How much popp he's got,
Speaker 1: it's pretty impressive. So two homers for him yesterday against
Speaker 1: the Mariners. That's a big series this weekend. But let's
Speaker 1: get to what I think is the headliner of this
Speaker 1: Memorial Day weekend. We're charging Charging Todd Father. The time
Speaker 1: has come, almost exactly one year after Ronald Acuna Junior
Speaker 1: went down with yet another ACL injury. He's torn up
Speaker 1: both knees and had surgery on them. He returns one
Speaker 1: of the superstars of our sport who is anxiously awaiting
Speaker 1: big league games again, has been patient and now he's back,
Speaker 1: and he's back at a pretty good time. Atl lost
Speaker 1: yesterday to the Nats in ten innings. They lost to
Speaker 1: the day before. They should be a better team than
Speaker 1: the Nationals. Nationals playing them. Tough upcoming schedule Padres, Phillies,
Speaker 1: Red Sox, Diamondbacks, Giants, Brewers. That's a tough stretch coming
Speaker 1: up for Atlanta. You know what helps Todd Father, A
Speaker 1: guy who a couple of years ago had forty plus homers,
Speaker 1: seventy plus stolen backs.
Speaker 2: And listen, I'm gonna explain something to you.
Speaker 3: This guy's gonna come out fires guns of blazing, because
Speaker 3: you know from the quotes that snicker said too as well.
Speaker 3: He's been doing great and nothing but working out. His
Speaker 3: body's in great shape, he's lean, he's feeling good. Like
Speaker 3: this guy is ready to go. And I know, you know,
Speaker 3: he's been working down in the minor leagues a little bit.
Speaker 3: I know he dropped the ball, but still got the
Speaker 3: guy out at second base. He understood that he's hitting
Speaker 3: the ball. Well, this guy is ready to go, and
Speaker 3: from the looks and sounds of it, he's gonna take off.
Speaker 2: And I'm really excited this. This is good for baseball.
Speaker 3: It's good for the Bravos there, for the Braves, and
Speaker 3: you know, listen, everybody's still in it. There's still plenty
Speaker 3: of time to make a move here, to get after it.
Speaker 3: You know, they struggled in the beginning, but now look
Speaker 3: where they're out here and they're ready to go. So
Speaker 3: having this guy back, if you're a Braves fan and
Speaker 3: you're a Braves player, open arms, let's go.
Speaker 2: Time to go.
Speaker 4: It's an element to the lineup. He's not going to
Speaker 4: be the aircraft carrier. Let's just that's not me being negative,
Speaker 4: it's not me being anti Ronald le'cunya. It just means
Speaker 4: he's ready to go, and he's an element that you
Speaker 4: have to gain plan for. Sorry, there's no like there's
Speaker 4: there's nobody that can replace the aura, swag, whatever it
Speaker 4: is about Ronald Lacunya. You also cannot expect seventy seventy
Speaker 4: stolen base pace forty home home run pace for the
Speaker 4: rest of the season. Just expect to see him this
Speaker 4: a win if he plays two or three games this weekend.
Speaker 4: To me, you get him out there during this stretch.
Speaker 4: If he can play eighty five percent of the games
Speaker 4: that are out there, and that's why they've kind of
Speaker 4: waited for him to be ready, then that's a positive
Speaker 4: for the Braves. He'll hit a few dangers, steal a
Speaker 4: few bases. Let him get his feet under him before
Speaker 4: you start laying expectations on him.
Speaker 1: This was talked about a little bit a couple months ago,
Speaker 1: including on our show. Do you be careful with him
Speaker 1: during the regular season As far as stolen bases, there's
Speaker 1: not much that you can pull back on with a
Speaker 1: player like this who plays with ferociousness. But you can
Speaker 1: give him a yellow and a red light at times.
Speaker 1: Todd Father, right, you can't tell him, hey, don't go
Speaker 1: all out on a fly ball. I mean there's a
Speaker 1: lot of things right, you know that you can't really
Speaker 1: tell a player to chill on. You can actually stop
Speaker 1: him from being as aggressive on the base paths. If
Speaker 1: you are the Braves, would you do that?
Speaker 3: I think the one thing, and this might sound like
Speaker 3: so like uncircumstantial, like the you know you're worried about this.
Speaker 3: I think the biggest thing for me, I wouldn't say,
Speaker 3: you know, stop his aggressiveness. Little thing like this cratzy
Speaker 3: and you might agree, might not sliding feed first. I
Speaker 3: think honestly, guys who slide you know, head first with
Speaker 3: their hands now you can have you know, hand problems.
Speaker 3: I know he's got bad legs, but sliding feed first,
Speaker 3: you know, helps you from not getting a shoulder problem
Speaker 3: if somebody.
Speaker 2: Lands on you, or a hand or a risk.
Speaker 3: I know he's had the leg problems, but it's I
Speaker 3: think it's much easier sliding feed first. You might have
Speaker 3: to slow down just a little bit more, but understanding
Speaker 3: like I don't have to go guns and blazing Pete
Speaker 3: Rose all, you know, getting after it, that kind of thing.
Speaker 3: I wouldn't take the aggressiveness away, you know, because that's
Speaker 3: when usually sometimes you do get hurt. So I would
Speaker 3: I would say, listen, maybe let's trying feet first on
Speaker 3: all these bases instead ahead first.
Speaker 2: Yeah. I don't know.
Speaker 4: I don't know how tough that's gonna be for him
Speaker 4: to tuck that knee under the other leg. You know
Speaker 4: the old figure four when you're sliding feet first. If
Speaker 4: he's not used to it, I don't know. I say no,
Speaker 4: I say let him run. Let him run only because
Speaker 4: stealing bases. How many times do you see guys pulling
Speaker 4: hammies on stealing bases? Rarely? You see it running down
Speaker 4: the first baseline. Oh he's not running, Oh bobbled now.
Speaker 1: I'm going out.
Speaker 4: Failed it failed, it failed it. How many times do
Speaker 4: you see guys pulling up on plays in the outfield? Rarely?
Speaker 4: To me, it's all about him understanding the pace that
Speaker 4: he has to run on ground ball outs. Sounds sounds trivial.
Speaker 4: But when he's on the bases, let him go, let him,
Speaker 4: let him test his limit, because maybe that year that
Speaker 4: he didn't quite have the best year coming back, maybe
Speaker 4: he was a little too cautious, So let him.
Speaker 2: Test the limit.
Speaker 1: Okay, A couple other things with the Braves Orlando Arcia
Speaker 1: designated from assignment. He was an All Star in twenty
Speaker 1: twenty three, former teammate of Yours Krats, and less than
Speaker 1: two years after reaching the All Star Game, he is
Speaker 1: either going to be off the roster or in the
Speaker 1: minor leagues. But that's how quickly the game can change.
Speaker 1: It's not really necessarily an age thing. He's always battled
Speaker 1: the hit tool right.
Speaker 4: He has, he has and that's why he was an
Speaker 4: All Star the one year because he was hitting I
Speaker 4: think he was hitting to ninety at the All Star break.
Speaker 4: He fell off after that, but last year he hit
Speaker 4: too eighteen seventeen dangers. Like, I think the writing was
Speaker 4: on the wall for him to start this season because
Speaker 4: his strikeouts just ballooned the last season, and I think
Speaker 4: they were sick of some of the bats that they
Speaker 4: saw from Oh, he was still kind of productive. I
Speaker 4: was surprised because we just had who did we just
Speaker 4: have on talking about the Braves just the other day. Yeah,
Speaker 4: Grant McCauley was on and he said, yeah, Nick Allen.
Speaker 4: He's always been a glove first guy. Orlando Arcia is
Speaker 4: one of the best shortstops that I've played with. This
Speaker 4: guy is a big league shortstop and he's a glove
Speaker 4: first guy, so Nick Allen takes his spot. Maybe they
Speaker 4: thought there was some offensive upside, as much as there's
Speaker 4: not much there with Nick Allen, they probably felt it
Speaker 4: was better than with oh Orland. Arcia is energy galore.
Speaker 4: I know, the whole thing with Bryce Harper in the playoffs.
Speaker 4: That's not why they ended up DFA and him. I
Speaker 4: think really his his at bats and just the quality
Speaker 4: of that bats diminished some last year. This year he's
Speaker 4: only gotten thirty two plate appearances.
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Speaker 2: We've all been in their crafts? Are you and I
Speaker 2: too as well? I don't know.
Speaker 3: I still think he's a really good ballplayer. I just
Speaker 3: think it just was the quality of baths, like you said.
Speaker 3: So if I'm another team, you know, looking for somebody,
Speaker 3: maybe you try and fill him in and he gets
Speaker 3: his career back on track a little bit.
Speaker 2: You know.
Speaker 4: Question I want to see here, I want to see
Speaker 4: how Acunya gets worked in. And it's really based around Snicker.
Speaker 4: Can Brian Snicker run a lineup out there that is
Speaker 4: not nine every day guys? Is he able to make
Speaker 4: that adjustment or is he just locked into the nine
Speaker 4: everyday guys? And could that be the Braves downfall not
Speaker 4: being able to get all the value out of their
Speaker 4: entire lineup, out the entire roster.
Speaker 1: So you want to get some value out of Craig
Speaker 1: Kimbrel in your bullpen. That's the last piece of the
Speaker 1: puzzle here. All the big names come back to atl
Speaker 1: So Strider's back now, hopefully for good. Ronald Lacuna Junior
Speaker 1: returns this weekend. Creig Kimberl has a one two nine
Speaker 1: earned round average in Triple A. Braves bullpen has been
Speaker 1: mid this year, and we can show the list of
Speaker 1: what the bullpen looks like. I think you can squeeze
Speaker 1: Craig Kimberl on there if he's looking the way he
Speaker 1: does in Triple A. Stuff's always been there. Got to
Speaker 1: watch the walks. But it's basically the same script that
Speaker 1: we've said for a long time. Rats, you think the
Speaker 1: time is looming for Creig Kimberle to return to Atlanta,
Speaker 1: maybe for the final chapter of his career.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean they'll give him a chance. Well, but
Speaker 4: let's let's temper expectations on eras in Triple A. The
Speaker 4: biggest issue that Triple A hitters have that big league
Speaker 4: hitters who stay in the big leagues, not dudes that
Speaker 4: just go from Triple A to the big leagues, is
Speaker 4: swinging at too many pitches, and when you're a guy
Speaker 4: that doesn't throw a lot of strikes consistently. When things
Speaker 4: aren't going well, you can take advantage of triple A hitters.
Speaker 4: And I'm not saying because I haven't seen one single
Speaker 4: pitch of Craig Kimberl's in the bushes, but a guy
Speaker 4: with that track record, you got to make sure his
Speaker 4: end zone, pitch location that he's having in the bushes
Speaker 4: is good before you say, Okay, we're gonna supplant somebody
Speaker 4: and send them down to the bushes and put Kimberl
Speaker 4: in the big leagues.
Speaker 3: Yeah, and we we all understand triple A is not
Speaker 3: the major league, so, uh, one two nine is really good.
Speaker 3: I'm not taking that away from him, but you know,
Speaker 3: it's not the caliber in Major League Baseball.
Speaker 2: But it is a good sign for him.
Speaker 3: It's a positive sign that he's working well and we
Speaker 3: want to see it, you know, you know, the Braves
Speaker 3: people want to see it translate in the major leagues
Speaker 3: and he would fit perfectly in this bullpen right now,
Speaker 3: and hopefully it does translate again.
Speaker 1: Hey, the Minnesota Twins have made a miraculous run through
Speaker 1: their tough start to the season, and they always have
Speaker 1: to whether the injury bug two, Carlos Korea activated after
Speaker 1: that ugly collision with him in Byron Buxton. And this
Speaker 1: is a team Godfather that started slow than they won
Speaker 1: thirteen in a row. Actually a little triviacuse we did
Speaker 1: it yesterday and some people liked it. Do you know
Speaker 1: what was the longest win streak before that? It was
Speaker 1: in the last few years, longest win streak before the
Speaker 1: twins for them or for anybody, for anybody. I didn't
Speaker 1: realize because I feel like every year we get a
Speaker 1: double digit but I'm like, oh damn, we hadn't had
Speaker 1: one since this team, which I had forgotten about, but
Speaker 1: they picked it up. You guys know, it's probably a
Speaker 1: tough one to a lot of teams have had like
Speaker 1: ten to eleven. This was twenty twenty two.
Speaker 4: Was that the Yankees run that they made Like.
Speaker 1: No, okay, no, I mean the thing is a lot
Speaker 1: of teams have done the double digits ten eleven, but
Speaker 1: this one was in twenty twenty two and it was
Speaker 1: a fourteen game winning streak. I don't think you're gonna
Speaker 1: get it. When I when I looked and I read
Speaker 1: this in an article, and I kind of quizzed. Myself.
Speaker 1: I was like, hey, I don't remember that one. No,
Speaker 1: I don't seattle.
Speaker 2: With their pitching staff. Why I could see it happening.
Speaker 1: Yeah, they had a fourteen gamer in twenty twenty two. Wow,
Speaker 1: big tweet to show you that. I'm sure Aja wishes
Speaker 1: he could talk about as well. It's related to the
Speaker 1: Pittsburgh Pirates. We just spoke about them at the tail
Speaker 1: end of that conversation. The Pittsburgh Pirates last night scored
Speaker 1: more than four runs for the first time Todd bother
Speaker 1: since April twenty second, snapping a twenty six game streak
Speaker 1: that was a month ago. So when you consume our
Speaker 1: show in the offseason and most of us say, pirates
Speaker 1: still stink offense isn't going to get it done, And
Speaker 1: you see this play out and their season's already over
Speaker 1: and they're already working on the second manager this season.
Speaker 1: This is why.
Speaker 3: Imagine betting all those games that they wouldn't score three
Speaker 3: and a half runs. I mean, that would be someon
Speaker 3: would be pretty rich. I mean somebody probably did it
Speaker 3: for a couple of dimes or whatever. Cratzy, do you
Speaker 3: do it?
Speaker 4: No, it was looking it was the last the last
Speaker 4: like ten days i've been watching it, the number has
Speaker 4: just been it's been too high. It's been too high.
Speaker 4: Now they haven't they haven't gotten four every time, but.
Speaker 2: No, I got you.
Speaker 1: But yeah, four and a half though the under on
Speaker 1: four and a half hit for a month straight.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's that's remarkable.
Speaker 3: But listen, you could tell you could tell it was
Speaker 3: just going south right from the get go.
Speaker 2: And this is what always happens.
Speaker 3: And we always talk about how the Pirates come out strong.
Speaker 3: Yeah they did okay in their first upcoming this year,
Speaker 3: but it's the blame game. You know, they blame one person,
Speaker 3: they blame this guy. You know, we're we're not spending
Speaker 3: you know, everybody is too much money. And that's that's
Speaker 3: just the way it goes. You know, even when I
Speaker 3: was there, it was it was just it was off.
Speaker 3: And you know, there's a bunch of good people there
Speaker 3: that are playing the game, which I love and still respect,
Speaker 3: but it's just it's not where it should be.
Speaker 2: And it starts from the from the top all the
Speaker 2: way to the top.
Speaker 1: This is in the spreading rumors category, But I feel
Speaker 1: like you don't report this unless you feel pretty good
Speaker 1: about it. Bruce Levine talking about the Chicago Cubs being
Speaker 1: the winner of the twenty twenty seven All Star Game sweepsakes.
Speaker 1: So this year is in Atlanta, next year is in Philadelphia,
Speaker 1: and I haven't seen the support from anywhere else. But
Speaker 1: he did clarify the breaking news with a follow up
Speaker 1: tweet and said the All Star Game will be awarded
Speaker 1: to the Cubs sometime this summer. MLB wants each city
Speaker 1: to have two years planning for the event. Derby Fantastic, etc.
Speaker 1: Sid sources told me Chicago will get a winfall of
Speaker 1: two hundred and fifty to three hundred. I'm assuming Llans millions.
Speaker 3: No, two fifty to three hundred. That's Bruce, Come on, Bruce, finish.
Speaker 3: Finish what you're talking about. Man, And you forgot that.
Speaker 3: He forgot the period and separate in summer dot MLB.
Speaker 3: There's no such thing.
Speaker 4: Maybe he got hacked. Oh maybe he got hacked.
Speaker 3: Maybe maybe, but you got it. You gotta finish it.
Speaker 3: Two fifty three hundred. That's awesome. Good for the car.
Speaker 4: That's that's that's like when you get a letter in
Speaker 4: the mail. You have won one million monies from.
Speaker 1: This.
Speaker 4: Just send me five hundred American dollars in gift cards
Speaker 4: and I will, and you're like, really, one million moneies,
Speaker 4: Come on, Bruce, two hundred and fifty to three hundred dollars.
Speaker 4: That will be a fun home run derby in Wrigley Field.
Speaker 4: They had to postpone it until the wind is blowing
Speaker 4: out for else it will suck.
Speaker 1: All Right, we're back ft FAM will give this one
Speaker 1: a couple of minutes, obviously, don't want to give it
Speaker 1: too much time, just more based on the trolls that
Speaker 1: cause the situations here with players. Leam Hendricks, friend of
Speaker 1: the show, so on Instagram posting that he's gotten death
Speaker 1: threats from fans. This is a week after Lance mccullors
Speaker 1: Junior was posting about that as well. Call it whatever
Speaker 1: you want, Twitter muscles, social media muscles. I mean, people
Speaker 1: send ridiculous things and hopefully authorities are able to find
Speaker 1: those people. So he laid it out. I think it's
Speaker 1: important to do this because I know a lot of
Speaker 1: players deal with this todd Father, you know, abuse of
Speaker 1: some kind. This is like kind of the ultimate on
Speaker 1: the verbal abuse side. But I do see some players
Speaker 1: being a little more transparent about this now because maybe
Speaker 1: they're frustrated that it happens, and not a lot gets done.
Speaker 1: So if you at least publicize it, you can get
Speaker 1: talked about within the public sphere and hopefully, you know,
Speaker 1: people get pissed. Things actually do happen. There's more public
Speaker 1: pressure to make sure that you know, I don't know
Speaker 1: what the laws are and whatever else. I know, you
Speaker 1: can't that threat people. That's a freaking crime.
Speaker 2: It's ridiculous. It's crazy. I had I had one.
Speaker 3: I had one when I was playing with the White Sox,
Speaker 3: and you know, I called our security up right away.
Speaker 3: They figured out. I actually found out who the person
Speaker 3: was and it was it was kind of scary.
Speaker 2: You know.
Speaker 3: It brought in some family members too as well. You
Speaker 3: don't ever want to hear that. That's like your worst nightmare.
Speaker 3: I feel terrible, terrible, terrible for both these guys mc
Speaker 3: colors and Hendrix. I don't think it's right. I think
Speaker 3: it's unfair. It's just something else on your mind when
Speaker 3: you lay on your pillow a night knowing that this
Speaker 3: son of a gun, whomever it is, girl boy, whatever
Speaker 3: it is, wrote this and has the audacity to say that.
Speaker 3: Now it's on your mind everywhere you go. You know,
Speaker 3: you got to go on the road and your family
Speaker 3: doesn't come with you.
Speaker 2: Now what you know?
Speaker 3: You know, it's scary, It's really scary, and you wish
Speaker 3: this never happened. People sometimes need to get a grip
Speaker 3: in life and and understand like everybody's human.
Speaker 2: This is this is ridiculous.
Speaker 4: Yeah, it's cowardice. It's just like and people say, oh,
Speaker 4: it doesn't affect you. It affects people because you question,
Speaker 4: like who is like, who's really that pissed that one?
Speaker 4: They would tweet that to you two? Like you see
Speaker 4: a lot of people. It makes you just step back.
Speaker 4: And unfortunately this is why stars sometimes don't put themselves
Speaker 4: out there to be connected with fans. It's it's sad.
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Speaker 1: in Colorado. Yesterday, Jonathan Parra, the homeplate umpire, according to
Speaker 1: Matt Gelb, said might have the worst strike zone that
Speaker 1: he has seen all season. You saw the scorecard, crats
Speaker 1: did it? Back it up?
Speaker 4: No, That's why I looked it up because Matt Gelb's
Speaker 4: he's rating. I even went into the scoring and the
Speaker 4: scoring for the game wasn't awful. I'm trying to pull
Speaker 4: it up here to get you the numbers. But the
Speaker 4: scoring for the for the game wasn't awful, and his
Speaker 4: scoring for the season wasn't awful. Yes, the pitch that
Speaker 4: he called that, Marshan Marsian tried to Yeah, his score
Speaker 4: for that game was, I mean he was ninety four
Speaker 4: percent called strike, ninety four percent called ball. Obviously we're
Speaker 4: making glaring that. I mean, that was glaring. And to me,
Speaker 4: if you watch that Jonathan the umpire, look how far
Speaker 4: in he sets up he is. He's almost in off
Speaker 4: the inside corner. He's never gonna be able to see
Speaker 4: that pitch away, especially coming from a lefty. He assumed
Speaker 4: that was gonna be a strike. The worst part he
Speaker 4: did it to Hunter Goodman, his catcher, like, come on, guy, Like,
Speaker 4: if you're gonna ring somebody up, ring up a third
Speaker 4: basement or something like a third base on that can
Speaker 4: touch it. Catchers, come on. Maybe Goodman wasn't catching that day.
Speaker 4: I don't I didn't see the lineup, but man, but
Speaker 4: his his scores throughout the season aren't that bad. This
Speaker 4: is just an egregious.
Speaker 2: Right.
Speaker 1: It gets fixed next year, god father.
Speaker 3: That's my one thing's fects next year, Come on, man it.
Speaker 4: I love the human element, Scott. Human element, That's what.
Speaker 1: I love, top father. These catchers with the like you know,
Speaker 1: it's out here, and they try and do it on
Speaker 1: every pitch right now, you know, some pitches like eight
Speaker 1: feet off the plate and they're like they're like.
Speaker 2: M Hmmsten, yeah, you got them terrible. I mean I
Speaker 2: got I got hair in my MoU excuse me, listen, listen.
Speaker 3: Here's here's my problem with umpires. And I've talked Joe
Speaker 3: Tory about this because I had an argument. I said
Speaker 3: something on after an interview about how bad you know,
Speaker 3: one of the umpires was back in the days.
Speaker 2: I man, you can't do that. I'm like, well, explain
Speaker 2: something to me, Joe.
Speaker 3: Why do umpires set up so far inside on the
Speaker 3: plate when why don't they set up directly in the
Speaker 3: middle point so they can see whether it's an outside
Speaker 3: striker and inside show. And his point was, well, the
Speaker 3: foul balls come back to the middle and umpire has
Speaker 3: been getting hit in the head, which understandable. I think
Speaker 3: they can get hit with a foul ball on either spot,
Speaker 3: but I guess it's more unlikely to hit him if
Speaker 3: they're on the inner part. So they if say I'm
Speaker 3: on the inside, look I'm on TV. Now I'm on
Speaker 3: the inner part. Let's look here. This is a guess.
Speaker 3: You're guessing right now if that's a striker ball. The
Speaker 3: catcher catches it right here, you were guessing whether it's
Speaker 3: a striker ball. Now if he catches it here, you're
Speaker 3: guessing if it's a striker ball. So it's hard and
Speaker 3: that is the human element. But that was just a
Speaker 3: really bad call. So I don't know, not sure.
Speaker 1: The answer is tap tap tap on the head next
Speaker 1: year and we.
Speaker 3: Have doesn't want it? Tap tap? I do want it,
Speaker 3: I want not, I don't. I don't want anything else.
Speaker 3: I don't want any other crap check swing baloney. What
Speaker 3: the heck is that guy?
Speaker 2: I know? That's it. That's it.
Speaker 1: But you're, yeah, just to clarify, you're good with what's
Speaker 1: going to happen next year, which is that call getting
Speaker 1: challenged and getting fixed because you wasn't in a position.
Speaker 3: Three strikes, three challenges. That's it.
Speaker 2: They're not going to do me.
Speaker 1: Well wait, no, I am going to agree with you.
Speaker 2: I'm just saying you'm good, okay. Albeit no, they do.
Speaker 1: Three challenges are good. But here's the only difference. For example,
Speaker 1: Umpire Auditor, which is it's umpire scorecard and order. Those
Speaker 1: are the two accounts that track all this stuff. Yesterday,
Speaker 1: Yanks Rangers. Yanks win one nothing, sixteen miss calls in
Speaker 1: the game, twelve of them go against the Rangers. If
Speaker 1: the Rangers are really on their game, they're gonna head
Speaker 1: tap twelve times and get them right and keep going.
Speaker 1: You know what I'm saying. I mean, obviously there's probably
Speaker 1: some post they might get it wrong.
Speaker 2: Get it wrong. It goes away right if you get
Speaker 2: it if you lose one.
Speaker 3: Okay, hey listen, you could have fifteen tap tap tap
Speaker 3: INDs and guess what, that's fair. Fine, that that changed
Speaker 3: the whole game. That's okay. I'm fine with that, but
Speaker 3: don't change. And I don't want anything else. I don't
Speaker 3: want to all of a sudden, Oh this worked out
Speaker 3: really good. We don't need a numpower behind home plane anymore. Now,
Speaker 3: that's ridiculous. So I don't want that at all.
Speaker 1: That's fair. It's gonna make them better, though, tom So
Speaker 1: you're describing how uh power wasn't set up correctly for
Speaker 1: that pitch right, Well, he keep picking on him and
Speaker 1: he misses those, and teams keep head tapping him, and
Speaker 1: all of a sudden he's getting blasted for flocking a
Speaker 1: challenges that go against him. He's gonna have to get
Speaker 1: better because that's like an umpire strikeout.
Speaker 3: Now we talk about accountability. That's one step forward for umpires.
Speaker 1: Yeah, for sure, it's a training session right now the cult.
Speaker 3: And I'd be a little embarrassed too if I'm back there.
Speaker 3: God man, they just challenged ten and got nine out
Speaker 3: of ten. Right, all right, let's lock it in here.
Speaker 1: You know what I'm saying one hundred percent. That's the
Speaker 1: part that I like is it is going to bring
Speaker 1: better quality so you don't have as many challenges. You're
Speaker 1: going to have to fix that if there's an issue. So, uh,
Speaker 1: let's let's hit the Rockies because we didn't really talk
Speaker 1: about them this week, but it's hard to avoid. They're
Speaker 1: still an eight wins on the season, so oh god,
Speaker 1: fifty games start of eight and forty two, worst in
Speaker 1: the modern era since nineteen oh one. Previous record they
Speaker 1: beat was actually recent the twenty twenty three A's back
Speaker 1: when they were in Oakland. Ten and forty for them.
Speaker 1: Previous worst start for the Rockies was their expansion year
Speaker 1: fourteen and thirty six. But we have a team, Todd
Speaker 1: Father on May twenty third, that's in single digits in
Speaker 1: the W column.
Speaker 3: And who do they play today?
Speaker 1: By the Phillies. Now they got the syanky Yankees.
Speaker 3: And listen, this is and I hate to say this,
Speaker 3: this is a series where the Colorado Rockies might win
Speaker 3: two out of three.
Speaker 2: It's just the way it goes. How this Yankee team,
Speaker 2: how they usually go.
Speaker 3: I'm not saying I don't I don't think it will happen,
Speaker 3: but if it does, don't be surprised. Teams come into
Speaker 3: New York they're not supposed to win, and eventually they do.
Speaker 3: It's like a you know, three to one game, and
Speaker 3: you're sitting there like what just happened?
Speaker 2: Like, oh, the same old Yankees.
Speaker 3: Just if I'm a Yankees fan, which I am another
Speaker 3: Yankee fan, don't think too much into this.
Speaker 2: If they don't win all three games, it's all up time.
Speaker 4: It's so true. It's so true, not that it's the Yankees,
Speaker 4: just that you go in as a fan saying, ah,
Speaker 4: this team's got eight wins. How do you even lose
Speaker 4: a single game to these guys. The reason is they
Speaker 4: have big leaguers on that team. Maybe they don't have
Speaker 4: a big league front office, but they have big league
Speaker 4: players on that team. Dudes that can do things, a
Speaker 4: pitcher that can throw well. But to win only eight
Speaker 4: games and essentially the first month and a two months
Speaker 4: of a season is crazy. And that's why they're break.
Speaker 4: They're two games up on the worst start since what
Speaker 4: was that stat?
Speaker 1: I forget wherever the stat.
Speaker 4: That's crazy, and it's it's awful and you should have
Speaker 4: an advantage in Colorado. It's almost like they were like,
Speaker 4: it's tough to play in Colorado. We're gonna fight against that.
Speaker 4: We're gonna make sure it's it is tough to play
Speaker 4: in Colorado for us and not the other teams.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean, even wipe that away. They're just on
Speaker 1: pace to be the worst team ever after we had
Speaker 1: the worst team ever. So here's where we're at with
Speaker 1: some of the bottom featers. And it's not just a
Speaker 1: money thing with the Rockies. They've actually spent money at times.
Speaker 1: They bought Chris Bryant a few years ago. It was
Speaker 1: the wrong call. So they're making the wrong buys right now,
Speaker 1: and that's part of the problem here too. My thing is, yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: that's definitely the manager's fault for making that decision. Sure.
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Speaker 1: it's eighteen to two something crazy where they just don't
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Speaker 1: dealing with that problem right now with their bullpen. Their
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Speaker 2: Yeah.
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Speaker 1: to cyud Blazer and Heath Fell on Friar Territory, that
Speaker 1: show that covers the Padres on a weekly basis. Heath
Speaker 1: Bell chiming in with what the Padres can do to
Speaker 1: get out of their rut. The losing skid is at seven,
Speaker 1: right or six six the losing skid that's six. Yeah,
Speaker 1: they lost. They got swept by the Mariners and then
Speaker 1: they got swept by the Blue Jays, which finished up
Speaker 1: yesterday with the blue Jays down a run in extras,
Speaker 1: catching back up and then getting the walk off. So
Speaker 1: here's what Heath Bell says, the old school way to
Speaker 1: do things. Things are where you climb out of a
Speaker 1: slump by hanging with the boys.
Speaker 7: To be honest with you, I mean, I'm at the
Speaker 7: level is they need to go get drunk. They need
Speaker 7: to go get hammered. As a team, they need to
Speaker 7: drink because I feel like they're pressing. I feel like
Speaker 7: they're not swinging at good pitches. I feel like pitchers
Speaker 7: are trying to do too much. But really, I mean
Speaker 7: some of the games that we've lost, it goes down
Speaker 7: to we're just not hitting the ball at all, and
Speaker 7: I feel like, you know, they got to mix it up.
Speaker 7: They got to do something a serious note. Maybe they
Speaker 7: need to don't take bad in practice today, or everybody
Speaker 7: hit the ball the other way, or but they need
Speaker 7: to Like early in the season, I was saying, this
Speaker 7: is a team. I feel like it's not a team
Speaker 7: anymore for some reason. You know, there it's getting a
Speaker 7: little bit more individual. We need to get back to
Speaker 7: a team. So like, have a team barbecue, have a
Speaker 7: go out together, go.
Speaker 4: See bad Bunny.
Speaker 7: You know, I'm not saying go get hammered, but yeah,
Speaker 7: that's kind of what we do back in the day.
Speaker 7: Go get hammered and just you'd show up the next
Speaker 7: day just hungover and you're like whatever, I just want
Speaker 7: to survive the day. And the funny part is you
Speaker 7: just do the little things. You're just like, okay, let
Speaker 7: me just try to put a good swing on the ball.
Speaker 7: Let me just try to throw strikes. And I mean
Speaker 7: David Wells was hungover and through a perfect game. It
Speaker 7: does happen. You know where the golden thong, asked Derek Jeeter.
Speaker 7: So you know, it's just one of those things. Maybe
Speaker 7: everybody needs to wear a thong that day, but they
Speaker 7: need to do something they really do. The thhole point
Speaker 7: is they need to talk about like how we're laughing
Speaker 7: and all this to get back and stop thinking about, man,
Speaker 7: we've lost how many in a row we're dropping in
Speaker 7: the standings, where hey, let's just go play baseball. Let's
Speaker 7: just win one at a time, don't worry about anything.
Speaker 7: That's what they really need to do.
Speaker 1: More from Heath Bell on Friar Territory. If you like
Speaker 1: the delivery there, Todd father obviously everyone drink responsible and
Speaker 1: he was kind of kidding, but there's things you do
Speaker 1: right as a team. Aside from strategy to try and
Speaker 1: get out of a rut.
Speaker 2: Yeah, you can.
Speaker 3: That was fantastic just the way he talks about I mean,
Speaker 3: you can't get away with any of that now. I mean,
Speaker 3: especially in the game with video cameras and everything else.
Speaker 3: You can put all the bats together and have like
Speaker 3: a little prayer with the bats in front of you
Speaker 3: and say something.
Speaker 2: You know, you could talk to your bat.
Speaker 3: You know, you could take a shower with your uniform
Speaker 3: on and get all the bad juju off of it.
Speaker 2: All that.
Speaker 3: There's all different types of stuff you could do, but ultimately,
Speaker 3: you got to find a way to win one game
Speaker 3: and that'll kick start your back to where you need
Speaker 3: to be.
Speaker 1: Good starting pitcher for the next game usually helps too, Kratz.
Speaker 4: That is the time that you have meetings. That's the
Speaker 4: time you have parties because you're like, eh, you know what,
Speaker 4: we got Garrett Cole going tomorrow, we got Dylan ciscoing,
Speaker 4: Michael King's been pitching. Well, let's make sure we do
Speaker 4: this right before. And sometimes those starters are like, come on, bro,
Speaker 4: like why do we always have the team parties before
Speaker 4: I pitch? Oh? Because you're the best pitcher.
Speaker 1: Hey, that comes with the contract. If you're an ACE,
Speaker 1: they're signing you up so that they can have successful
Speaker 1: team meetings.
Speaker 2: It need be.
Speaker 1: Let's get to you sho hoo Tani's progress. I know
Speaker 1: some of you probably sick of hearing it, but we're
Speaker 1: getting someone from inside a pretty direct here, giving us
Speaker 1: more info on when we'll see a two way player
Speaker 1: like this in our sport again. Mark Prior, pitching coach
Speaker 1: for the Dodgers on Dodgers Territory yesterday, said this.
Speaker 8: As as everything was show. He's unique and he's kind
Speaker 8: of an outlier situation. You know, there's days where he
Speaker 8: goes four for four and he's run around on the
Speaker 8: base pass and he comes in the next day and
Speaker 8: he's feeling, you know, tired and exhausted. You know, so
Speaker 8: the throwing work volume needs to be cut short or tweaked.
Speaker 2: To kind of manage that.
Speaker 8: And so it's been an ongoing learning process, I think
Speaker 8: for everybody involved.
Speaker 1: But he is getting closer.
Speaker 8: His last couple of bullpens, he's really ramped up kind
Speaker 8: of the intensity and all his pitches, and.
Speaker 2: So, you know, I think we're getting close.
Speaker 8: I think we're getting close to where he can start
Speaker 8: facing some hitters, whether that's in the next couple of
Speaker 8: weeks or you know, as we turn into into June.
Speaker 2: At the a lot of part of June.
Speaker 8: I don't think that's unreasonable, but honestly, things are are
Speaker 8: always a little bit TVD just because of what he
Speaker 8: does on the offensive side of the ball and what
Speaker 8: the stress of that takes on his body at times.
Speaker 1: Good stuff from pitching coach Mark Pryor, and a good
Speaker 1: point there, Kratz. I mean, he's also playing every day.
Speaker 4: He is playing every day, and he's going to be
Speaker 4: playing every day when he's pitching. So you would think
Speaker 4: they had this model, but you forget he hasn't pitched
Speaker 4: for the Dodgers yet. The Dodgers are going to try
Speaker 4: to build this model for him of how he feels.
Speaker 4: Give us a number rate on one to ten, how
Speaker 4: tired are you? The interesting thing is are they going
Speaker 4: to expect him to not dh so that he can
Speaker 4: start once he's fully back. I'm not even saying he's
Speaker 4: gonna be fully back this season. I'm saying, how are
Speaker 4: the Dodgers going to do it? Because the Dodgers leaned
Speaker 4: towards We're going to make sure he's not tired because
Speaker 4: they know it's associated with injuries, so how are they
Speaker 4: going to handle it? We get a little sneak peek
Speaker 4: there by Prior.
Speaker 3: Slowly and steadily, that's all I can say about him.
Speaker 3: Slow everything down, let him be him, take your time,
Speaker 3: as we talked about numerous times, and he'll be fine.
Speaker 3: You got to make sure from head to toe everything
Speaker 3: is in the right position for him to pitch and
Speaker 3: play as well meaning hit. So focus on that. Prior
Speaker 3: is a really good dude. Was in my or was
Speaker 3: in a big league camp with him, and he had
Speaker 3: some really good wisdom, and uh, yeah, they know what
Speaker 3: they're doing.
Speaker 1: Let's slap a guest reminder. Next week we should have
Speaker 1: Pete Alonzo back on. Remember he had to delay his appearance,
Speaker 1: so we should have Polar Bay. I think maybe Tuesday
Speaker 1: or Wednesday, So keep an eye on that. And happy birthday, Bucks,
Speaker 1: oh Walter, part of the ft fam. I hope you
Speaker 1: enjoy the weekend, maybe get a little golf in. Looking
Speaker 1: at matchups, We've got Freddy Peralta against Paul Skeens tonight.
Speaker 2: That's a good that's a good eat.
Speaker 1: I like it. What about an underrated pitching performance to
Speaker 1: look at krats for the kiddos that don't throw a
Speaker 1: billion Chris Bubach against Bailey Ober.
Speaker 4: I mean that is the two unique dudes where the
Speaker 4: one guy the velo's not there, but both dudes throw
Speaker 4: fastballs that guys are a day late and a dollar
Speaker 4: short on. And Ober's really turned it around and Boobich
Speaker 4: has been nails all season.
Speaker 1: Yeah, look at the lines and the recent performances for
Speaker 1: those two. It's standing out. Why is that? I mean,
Speaker 1: obviously we've talked about this before, but Todd Father, you
Speaker 1: got some guys you'll face like. I mean, Ober's huge too,
Speaker 1: doesn't throw hard yet you'll see him through a heater
Speaker 1: up in the zone and as a fan you're watching,
Speaker 1: you're like, they're so late on that they can't make
Speaker 1: contact on you know, ninety three.
Speaker 3: It's like Chris young Man when he when he pitched,
Speaker 3: he's seven feet tall, but he didn't throw hard at all.
Speaker 3: You just it's the it's the late life. I would say,
Speaker 3: it's the ball. It rises a little bit, it's downward tilt.
Speaker 3: They knew how to how to throw it. They would
Speaker 3: throw the ball down to you, they would rise it
Speaker 3: at seven feet tall and you're just like, man, they're
Speaker 3: just pinpoint controlled too. They would get that a couple
Speaker 3: of inches off the plate and you're like, oh man,
Speaker 3: now I'm in the hole and you're like, what happened?
Speaker 3: But yeah, that's what I did. They're crafty and they
Speaker 3: are underrated, and it's a it's a fun game to
Speaker 3: watch because you're like, why aren't these guys hitting the ball?
Speaker 2: Of course, that's what it is.
Speaker 3: But the matchup I'm looking at Nick Pavetta, Chris Saialeman,
Speaker 3: anything with Chris Sale in it, and Nick Pavetta, who's
Speaker 3: got good emotions.
Speaker 2: Both of them.
Speaker 3: Man, they leave it all in the line there. That's
Speaker 3: going to be a fantastic game to watch for me.
Speaker 1: Nick Pavetta against the boys, the old squad.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and the old squad too, yeah yeah, yeah.
Speaker 1: No, sorry sorry, he's against the Braves. Sorry right, yeah, yeah, bravos.
Speaker 4: But still meshing. You were meshing where Sales should have been.
Speaker 1: And where Pavetta had been for a long time. Mm
Speaker 1: hmm yeah. And that curveball, he's always had the stuff.
Speaker 1: That's been a good one and hey, Padres need to
Speaker 1: get back on track here. Tough sledding. As we talked
Speaker 1: about Yeah, not fun to run into salea Yeah. Hey,
Speaker 1: if you missed the top of the show, we spent
Speaker 1: a good ten fifteen minutes on what's going on with
Speaker 1: the Braves, so you can check that out. Obviously, they're
Speaker 1: getting some of the big boys back. Now you can
Speaker 1: start to really judge how you think the twenty twenty
Speaker 1: five Braves look. I will say some Braves fans are
Speaker 1: a little too harsh on their team. I did this
Speaker 1: on a radio hit recently. I was on one of
Speaker 1: the radio stations down there, and then they posted about it,
Speaker 1: and people like, bug off, like you don't know, crap,
Speaker 1: they suck, like they don't suck. Like you are way
Speaker 1: too spoiled as a as a fan. If you think
Speaker 1: the Braves this year haven't been good, you know, like
Speaker 1: you'll talk to some people down in that area and
Speaker 1: they're like, ah, yeah, not this year. I'm like, we're
Speaker 1: You're in the playoff race and you've been missing your
Speaker 1: two big boys for most of the year. Just give
Speaker 1: it a little time. I'm not saying they're gonna win
Speaker 1: the World Series, but this team's good.
Speaker 2: Yeah, who else are you going to root for? Come on?
Speaker 1: That's right, you'd have to move and guess what. There
Speaker 1: are a lot worse situations to be in ballpark. Battery success,
Speaker 1: recent World Series win, how much to complain about?
Speaker 4: Braves have a good kind of like that, always getting.
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