Speaker 1: It's time to raise the roof for our latest regular
Speaker 1: season episode. Welcome back to the pod everyone, part of
Speaker 1: the Just Baseball Network. I'm your host, Alex Murphy, our
Speaker 1: co host Gibbie should be one momentarily. We do have
Speaker 1: a very special guest who is here with me right now.
Speaker 1: He's already been on the pod, which is cool that
Speaker 1: he's a returning guest to the pod, Avery of Gate fourteen,
Speaker 1: the biggest Blue Jays podcast out there. I think we've
Speaker 1: already solidified that that's the case. Right at this point.
Speaker 2: We'll take that. We'll take that for sure.
Speaker 1: If not in.
Speaker 3: Top two, top three, we'll talk take claim to the
Speaker 3: top spot.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I will. Thanks for having me again, Alice appreciate it.
Speaker 1: Yeah, of course, yeah, Avery, thank you so much for
Speaker 1: coming on man as always much appreciated. So there's been
Speaker 1: a lot of things that going on this week with
Speaker 1: the Rays. The Rays are playing the Jays. Their series
Speaker 1: is wrapping up to I don't know. I would need
Speaker 1: to check if it's a day game or a night
Speaker 1: game night night game to night. Okay, that's what I
Speaker 1: would have thought, because I know that some teams do
Speaker 1: the mattin a stuff. The business person special type things
Speaker 1: some teams don't. But yeah, So the Rais and Jays
Speaker 1: have been playing this week in Toronto. There's been a
Speaker 1: lot of stuff happening on social media, which Avery has
Speaker 1: essentially been shut off too for good reason. I don't
Speaker 1: blame you at all for not seeing anything. So we'll
Speaker 1: get into that some more Ray stuff happening, because I
Speaker 1: want to get as we had Avery on the last time,
Speaker 1: talking about with new ownership, the race coming in and
Speaker 1: kind of what your thoughts were about that. Now we
Speaker 1: have the Rays apparently being the greatest team ever to
Speaker 1: be assembled through forty games or whatever it is, so
Speaker 1: we'll continue to talk about that. But Avery, I mean,
Speaker 1: how have you been. I know that you guys have
Speaker 1: had a lot going on. You guys tried to get
Speaker 1: something going earlier this week, but you guys decided to
Speaker 1: go join the grounds career at the Jays game. So
Speaker 1: how have you been? How? How are things gone?
Speaker 2: Good?
Speaker 4: Good?
Speaker 3: I mean it's really good when the Jays play well,
Speaker 3: and right now they are doing the exact opposite of that.
Speaker 3: So it's tough to tune in every night and tough
Speaker 3: to create you.
Speaker 2: Know that all too well?
Speaker 3: Sometimes like so I don't want to talk about the
Speaker 3: team when they're about to get swept again for the
Speaker 3: second time by the Rays.
Speaker 2: It sucks to watch.
Speaker 3: But you know the grounds crew stuff we did on Monday, Yeah,
Speaker 3: you sent me a message, is like, yeah, I'd love
Speaker 3: to do it, just can't can't do it today.
Speaker 2: Probably, but ground the grounds was really cool.
Speaker 3: They worked so hard and they're there for a long
Speaker 3: time and just I think very underappreciated or just no
Speaker 3: one really knows all the work that they actually do.
Speaker 2: So it's like, we should do should do video, we
Speaker 2: should really get to.
Speaker 3: The bottom of how much stuff they're doing so people
Speaker 3: can properly appreciate the grounds crew.
Speaker 1: Yeah, for sure. And then I know everything that happened
Speaker 1: with spring training, you guys toward the whole new complex
Speaker 1: that's in Dunedin. You met with Shapiro and talked with
Speaker 1: him about all that stuff. Like how I mean, do
Speaker 1: you feel like as a Blue Jays fan before we
Speaker 1: get into the whole Jay's Ray stuff, are you like,
Speaker 1: how are you feeling about the direction of the team
Speaker 1: right now maybe to where it was a couple of
Speaker 1: years ago, Like is it in that same realm of
Speaker 1: where you want it to be.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I think absolutely it's good too.
Speaker 3: It's good that it was kind of confirmed that it
Speaker 3: was being successful because I felt like the team was
Speaker 3: being run well. Everyone in here in Toronto is like
Speaker 3: it's sports fans everywhere. Everyone does the same thing, where
Speaker 3: just the all the doomers all the time, and like
Speaker 3: Toronto Maple Leafs hockey fans are the worst at that.
Speaker 2: So it kind of snuck into our baseball team.
Speaker 3: It's like they got to get shack in Shapiro and acts,
Speaker 3: they got to get them out of there. So that
Speaker 3: was always brutal. It was good to be just like
Speaker 3: it was a positive thing. They can win a little
Speaker 3: bit at least with this group, So the direction has
Speaker 3: been really good. I mean, I wish we could draft
Speaker 3: like the race and develop some players at the minor
Speaker 3: league levels. I would that would help the team out
Speaker 3: a lot on the trade market, something that they don't
Speaker 3: do very much now. They just got to sign all
Speaker 3: the top free agents for the biggest bucks. But I'm
Speaker 3: happy with the direction of the team's going. I think
Speaker 3: Shapiro is like a great ahead of it and h
Speaker 3: roscn still find some stuff that they'll be all right.
Speaker 1: As our co host Gibby Joints. Gibby, how you doing, man?
Speaker 5: Doing good? Thank you? That's up as much man. How
Speaker 5: how are we doing today?
Speaker 2: You guys are doing much better than I am.
Speaker 5: Yeah, you know, I I forgot. I literally forgot about
Speaker 5: the whole you're you uh like Toronto thing. I forgot
Speaker 5: about because I just joined.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 1: Well yeah, I mean this is the first time you
Speaker 1: guys are meeting. But Gibby, I mean, just have your
Speaker 1: thoughts been about what the Rays have done over the
Speaker 1: last like a couple of days week or so last year?
Speaker 5: Series pretty uh pretty still insane because I was talking
Speaker 5: about it last time how insane it was, and then
Speaker 5: they just they just keep winning somehow. I don't I
Speaker 5: don't really know, uh how how else to describe it? Uh,
Speaker 5: bitches don't love Sulcer. Though Soulcer didn't do good lat
Speaker 5: yesterday almost lost the game. I was gonna I would
Speaker 5: probably be a lot more mad if we actually lost
Speaker 5: that game yesterday. But they did one of those the
Speaker 5: Blue Jays did like a fake comeback where they they
Speaker 5: wanted to come back but then they.
Speaker 4: Kind of didn't. Uh.
Speaker 5: So it was it was a great I mean, it
Speaker 5: was it was great to watch, uh, very entertaining game overall.
Speaker 4: But yeah, I mean.
Speaker 5: Eventually, you know you're gonna have you're gonna have a
Speaker 5: bullpen guy that gives up five runs. You know, like
Speaker 5: are it was a very unsustainable you know winning uh
Speaker 5: track that we were on.
Speaker 1: But you know, you're saying that they can't be the
Speaker 1: best bullpen in baseball for like one hundred and sixty
Speaker 1: two games and.
Speaker 4: Have like a two R.
Speaker 5: Maybe I mean maybe they could, but uh, you know,
Speaker 5: we're kind of due for for crooked inning there. So
Speaker 5: I understood that. I really don't understand how we're still undefeated.
Speaker 4: Against the Blue Jays. I think they should have taken.
Speaker 5: One of these games from them right now. It's it's
Speaker 5: very surprising. I mean that, that's basically all I had
Speaker 5: to say.
Speaker 1: Hey, are you shocked by that? I mean, they're five
Speaker 1: and er right now. It's I know, I mean I
Speaker 1: know that yesterday's game was was relatively coast, but I
Speaker 1: don't really feel like a lot of like it feels
Speaker 1: kind of convincing at least, or like the race I've
Speaker 1: had convincing wins more or less than the Jays haven't
Speaker 1: been able to like pull through. Is that kind of
Speaker 1: how you felt?
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean they're just playing the worst brand of bastars.
Speaker 5: Yes, they look like they don't want to be out
Speaker 5: there when they play the just when they play the
Speaker 5: Rays though, I mean that's it's kind of ridiculous.
Speaker 2: They're getting their ass kicked. I mean I would feel
Speaker 2: the same way.
Speaker 4: I think the same way. Yeah.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 3: And then finally it's like Vlad gets on with the
Speaker 3: stolen base after and they get a little bit of
Speaker 3: energy in the building, and then we just just Taylor
Speaker 3: Walls single through the Rights? Howe are you kidding me?
Speaker 4: It was good?
Speaker 1: Yeah, Taylor Walls is uh, he's still the exact same
Speaker 1: guy that he was five years ago. I wish he
Speaker 1: was different. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, that's what we've been.
Speaker 1: We've been forced into it at this point. He's like
Speaker 1: a cockroach. He can't die.
Speaker 5: Xavier Edwards, he who shall not be named Nah, Carson Williams, Nah,
Speaker 5: Taylor Walls.
Speaker 4: That's that's my that's my short stuff.
Speaker 1: I don't understand how he's still here, but he is.
Speaker 1: And like he's good enough to wear like he's not
Speaker 1: egregiously bad enough to where he won't leave, like he's
Speaker 1: just okay enough to still be mediocre and stay on
Speaker 1: the team. And I don't know how that has transpired
Speaker 1: over time, but it's like he still has a job,
Speaker 1: so good for him.
Speaker 3: He's valuable, you guys know he's valuable defensively obviously.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's like shout out, you could get him on
Speaker 3: both sides, but it is, yeah, just how the bat
Speaker 3: hasn't really changed ever, so sick.
Speaker 5: So yeah, it reminds me of like when I was
Speaker 5: in like school, you know, back in like elementary school,
Speaker 5: and I was very bad at like English, you know,
Speaker 5: like routing. I didn't like writing very much, so you know,
Speaker 5: I would just I would do very good of my
Speaker 5: math and science and then you know I kind of
Speaker 5: like do like one or two assignments every now and
Speaker 5: then in the writing, and then I kind of passed there.
Speaker 5: That's what Taylor Walls does. He just does one or
Speaker 5: two A sign is on offense. You know, it's like
Speaker 5: I'm gonna I'm gonna do this one single and somehow,
Speaker 5: you know, kind.
Speaker 4: Of win us the game.
Speaker 5: I mean just every now and then he just does
Speaker 5: enough to keep it the offensive going where it's like, yeah,
Speaker 5: the defense it's just it's all there and we still
Speaker 5: need him.
Speaker 1: I mean, it's pretty accurate. I'm not gonna lie, that's that's.
Speaker 5: The best analogy I could I could come up with, Hey,
Speaker 5: he's just a survivor's.
Speaker 4: He's not gonna give up.
Speaker 1: Geez. I mean, yeah, I guess it's accurate. The other
Speaker 1: thing I was curious specifically in this series because Gibby,
Speaker 1: I'm sure that you've seen everything that's been going on
Speaker 1: social media. Avery apparently has avoided everything, which kudos to
Speaker 1: you for finding a way, but your co host, Johnny
Speaker 1: seems to be going on a rampage against Now this
Speaker 1: is in a general sense, because I don't I mean
Speaker 1: this this happened specifically with a bunch of Rais fans
Speaker 1: and Johnny, but like, in a general sense, Blue Jays
Speaker 1: fans are turning into like wanting to like murder the
Speaker 1: entire team and like things getting really bad. But I mean,
Speaker 1: on that, like, how much have you seen of it?
Speaker 1: And then also for those that don't listen to Gate
Speaker 1: fourteen and don't know enough about Johnny, can you please
Speaker 1: describe who he is as a person and how much
Speaker 1: he welcomes these sort of things online.
Speaker 3: Yeah, so I'll say, like I'm in every group chat
Speaker 3: I'm in has Johnny in it.
Speaker 2: And there's a couple of times where.
Speaker 3: He loves the group chat fight and now he just
Speaker 3: does it on Twitter all the time. There's no one
Speaker 3: who loves yelling back and forth with people more than
Speaker 3: john Like overten he I think he loves his favorite
Speaker 3: thing in the world.
Speaker 2: He loves it, and he's a guy.
Speaker 3: I always say it like I wouldn't get into a
Speaker 3: fight with him because he's got he'll never lose, like
Speaker 3: in his mind, he'll never lose it.
Speaker 2: So I just like I can't. I can't.
Speaker 3: I'm good to just not even engage on it. So
Speaker 3: that's how he is all the time. And I so
Speaker 3: I did catch up. I eventually saw and then I
Speaker 3: was just getting all raised stuff in my feed.
Speaker 4: People.
Speaker 5: Who's funny because I get a bunch of blue shay
Speaker 5: stuff now Ever since that, yeah, and no one wants
Speaker 5: to see the other side of it, and it's like
Speaker 5: everyone's just yelling out they're the worst fans.
Speaker 3: That Twitter is just full of the worst people in
Speaker 3: the world. Like you're you log onto the app, you
Speaker 3: know you're getting the worst stuff you've ever seen you
Speaker 3: got well, and everyone just thinks they're on a moral
Speaker 3: high ground compared to each other. Everyone's bad, it's all.
Speaker 3: No one uses Twitter for good anymore. Like it's just
Speaker 3: once you start to realize that and you can accept it.
Speaker 3: It's it was the one tweets like hopefully Chandler ships
Speaker 3: and tears his a cl Every bad fan is doing
Speaker 3: that nowadays.
Speaker 4: You can't.
Speaker 3: Like it's Twitter and toy twenty six. We know what
Speaker 3: people are gonna say about each other. And it's absolutely like,
Speaker 3: I never it's out on that.
Speaker 4: It really is fun. I think you're You're absolutely right.
Speaker 5: It's just it's just everyone's the worst now and and
Speaker 5: I saw the one meme where it's like the two
Speaker 5: dogs they're barking to each other to the fence and
Speaker 5: then when the fence opens, then they just stop. But
Speaker 5: they to stop fighting because they got no bite for
Speaker 5: each other. Dude, like like that that's how it always is.
Speaker 5: You know, it's always nice at the stadium when the
Speaker 5: when Toronto comes around, it's like.
Speaker 4: What what is this Twitter?
Speaker 5: Like it's not representative at all of of real life.
Speaker 2: It is not. It is. It is the craziest part
Speaker 2: and yeah, like the raised stuff.
Speaker 3: I mean, they're the Jays are just getting dog walked
Speaker 3: these two series in a row, so obviously people are
Speaker 3: gonna complain. And the way the Rays do it is
Speaker 3: I mean, I mean they're gonna hit like around is
Speaker 3: gonna hit the home runs too, but like goying to
Speaker 3: Luca bloop double for for the first round of the game,
Speaker 3: everyone's gonna freak out.
Speaker 4: Some people have been calling it terrorist ball.
Speaker 3: That's Johnny's one a thing. Yeah, that's that's the issue. Yeah,
Speaker 3: it's just like I love the way the race play.
Speaker 3: Gotta just there's not one way to play baseball, Like
Speaker 3: you can score runs other ways than just hitting home runs.
Speaker 3: And everyone clowns the Yankees for years on that they're
Speaker 3: gonna hit the most home runs and then hey, you
Speaker 3: face some really good arms in the playoffs, then maybe
Speaker 3: those home runs don't come and you can't manufacture other ways,
Speaker 3: And like the race, for a team that's not spending
Speaker 3: a lot of money, speed is gonna be the cheapest
Speaker 3: asset usually.
Speaker 2: So if you can hit a couple of guys and you.
Speaker 3: Can play that way, like why not doing Chandler Simpson
Speaker 3: watching him play baseball is a coach's dream, sure, like
Speaker 3: the hitting much improved defense this year too, Like that's
Speaker 3: we're figuring some things out at the big league level.
Speaker 2: But put the ball on the ground.
Speaker 3: Any hitting coach would tell Chandler Simpson, never hit the
Speaker 3: ball in the air.
Speaker 2: You hit the ball in the air.
Speaker 1: We tell them that. We're like, dude, stop hit like
Speaker 1: like line drives and ground ball like we need like
Speaker 1: the negative negative launch angles need him.
Speaker 5: To do.
Speaker 3: Any level you'd play at, and you have a hitting
Speaker 3: coach who's above sixty years old, he'd say, don't ever
Speaker 3: hit the ball in the air, Like it's not getting one.
Speaker 3: We all know it's not gonna get out of the park.
Speaker 3: Maybe we'll luck into one this year, but the chances
Speaker 3: of that are pretty low. But yeah, I just love
Speaker 3: when you put pressure on another team and you can
Speaker 3: just tell, not against the Blue Jays obviously, but you
Speaker 3: can tell when it just speeds everyone up and it
Speaker 3: just creates some some chaos. It's it's fun baseball to watch,
Speaker 3: But yeah, I guess it. Wish it wasn't for those
Speaker 3: five games.
Speaker 5: I like the one picture of Johnny with Ryan right
Speaker 5: behind Ryan Bass.
Speaker 1: Why was he on.
Speaker 4: The field I'm so confused.
Speaker 3: So we were we worked, we did a video where
Speaker 3: we worked the grounds crew for the day.
Speaker 4: Oh that's awesome.
Speaker 2: So we were we were sitting.
Speaker 3: They were all kind of standing in the well there
Speaker 3: and they're like, you guys can go sit down. I
Speaker 3: was beside him for a bunch of the time, and
Speaker 3: then yeah, I was just to the left obviously doing
Speaker 3: all of all of his stuff.
Speaker 2: The cameras were right there.
Speaker 3: But that picture where it cuts to him and he's
Speaker 3: just behind him is very funny.
Speaker 1: That's an incredible jot. Yeah, Ryan has been He's been
Speaker 1: fantastic this year, just doing random shit. Like I think
Speaker 1: yesterday or the day before that, he was up in
Speaker 1: one of the boxes one of the hotel rooms, yeah,
Speaker 1: overlooking the field because there was a couple of race
Speaker 1: fans that had rented out the room. So he did
Speaker 1: like a whole thing. He had the robe on, he
Speaker 1: had a glass of wine I guess was poured by them.
Speaker 1: I think he said he was going to try to
Speaker 1: go up to the sand tower potentially because I know.
Speaker 5: He wanted to do that hanging over the edge thing,
Speaker 5: which I would never do. I wouldn't do that. In
Speaker 5: ten thousand years. But it's cool that that's literally right
Speaker 5: next to the stadium, you know, it.
Speaker 4: Is it is, it is.
Speaker 2: It is cool.
Speaker 3: That's right down the street for me, and I don't
Speaker 3: think the weather's that goode right now. So we'll see
Speaker 3: if he ends up doing that today.
Speaker 1: Well I know that. So earlier in the year when
Speaker 1: they were in Saint Louis, he went in the middle
Speaker 1: of the game, or I guess it was at the
Speaker 1: beginning of the game, but still in the middle of
Speaker 1: the game, he went up to the top of the
Speaker 1: gateway arch and had like a live feed of him
Speaker 1: inside the arch. So I feel like he's going to
Speaker 1: try to do something like that. But like the whole
Speaker 1: I mean, he's normally on the sideline, he's normally you know,
Speaker 1: in next to the dugout whatever it is. But the
Speaker 1: fact that they caught Johnny right behind him, I mean
Speaker 1: that is gold, Like like that's the kind of shit
Speaker 1: that you guys can form for the rest of the
Speaker 1: year and just using as content like like that's the
Speaker 1: stuff that that is the good stuff. It really works.
Speaker 3: Yeah, And people were taking because we had to change
Speaker 3: the base that well we didn't have to. We were
Speaker 3: we were asked to and said yes to it. Obviously
Speaker 3: we changed the bases, like in the middle of the game.
Speaker 3: We were on the field and people just took videos
Speaker 3: of Johnny doing it and just would be making fun
Speaker 3: of him changing first base.
Speaker 4: So it was good.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's incredible, that's that's genuinely so funny. Yeah, this
Speaker 1: is so looking at the I mean the whole Chandler
Speaker 1: thing because you brought him up, and I want to
Speaker 1: talk about that, like people genuinely hate Chandler Simpson like
Speaker 1: like like like the hatred for him and how he
Speaker 1: plays baseball because everyone is just feast or famine, you know,
Speaker 1: it's the three true outcome thing, Like people hate him
Speaker 1: so much? Is the hate I mean from your end?
Speaker 1: And then Gibby, I want to get your take on
Speaker 1: it too, Is the hate warranted or no?
Speaker 2: So Jian and I got in a big, oh it's
Speaker 2: not fight.
Speaker 3: We were on stream when last year he said he's
Speaker 3: the most unethical baseball player, and I was I said,
Speaker 3: he's the most ethical baseball player. Like it's just he
Speaker 3: says different tools than the people you think are ethical,
Speaker 3: Like all he can do is hit the ball and
Speaker 3: ground and just be the fastest guy ever, Like he
Speaker 3: that's his ethical was the wrong term to fight over
Speaker 3: because one that doesn't matter. Yeah, Like, it's just because
Speaker 3: it's gil set is different than the players you like
Speaker 3: to watch. Doesn't mean he's a it's bad to it's
Speaker 3: bad viewing, it's bad baseball.
Speaker 2: I think.
Speaker 3: I think it's it's almost good for him, Like, hey,
Speaker 3: you you're doing this in a whole different way than
Speaker 3: most other successful players in the league. So I'm I'm
Speaker 3: a fan of that solid baseball because of the CHAOSI
Speaker 3: come the Blue Jays don't steal any bases, like they
Speaker 3: we have a bunch of guys.
Speaker 2: Who just plug it up. And I was like, oh,
Speaker 2: this is it's really boring.
Speaker 3: And that's why it took them last year to be
Speaker 3: this high slug team, like really really good driving people
Speaker 3: in to make them a really good offense.
Speaker 2: Year before, Like.
Speaker 3: They just don't run. So it's like I watched someone
Speaker 3: manufacture those runs.
Speaker 2: So cool to watch.
Speaker 4: It's fun.
Speaker 1: Yeah, give me how what is your thoughts on the
Speaker 1: on the Chandler Simpson discussion, considering that it seems like
Speaker 1: the rest of baseball is starting to dog on him
Speaker 1: more and more.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean, I guess it makes sense.
Speaker 5: I guess it would be the most frustrating player to
Speaker 5: to play against, you know, just because he's always on base.
Speaker 5: He and like it seems like you just can't get
Speaker 5: him out. You can't throw him out on the on
Speaker 5: the base pass, you can't you can't prevent him from
Speaker 5: getting to first some games.
Speaker 1: Uh.
Speaker 5: And then he's literally manufacturing runs, making everybody everyone just
Speaker 5: has to get into like rush mode when he's on
Speaker 5: on the base, and like it.
Speaker 4: Just leads to all these errors.
Speaker 5: I mean we saw it in this series with with
Speaker 5: that run he's slowly manufactured. Uh when when he stole
Speaker 5: second and stole third, uh, and then the ball went
Speaker 5: into the outfield and all that. So I mean, it's
Speaker 5: just it is the most frustrating thing. I don't know
Speaker 5: about where this what this ethics thing came from. I
Speaker 5: guess that's that's more from basketball Twitter and that was
Speaker 5: like that was kind of like their thing against Okay,
Speaker 5: see it's it's good calling. Okay, see like unethical because
Speaker 5: that is if.
Speaker 1: You can draw thousand get shots that see hey, if
Speaker 1: you if that's how you win games, is how you
Speaker 1: win games. Arsenal is like set piece FC and people
Speaker 1: think that that's unethical, like, yeah, if you win, who cares?
Speaker 5: But I don't know if the same argument can even
Speaker 5: be pie the baseball can can a player being unethical
Speaker 5: like like unless it's like, you know, I hit I
Speaker 5: hit line drive singles up against the picture every Yes,
Speaker 5: that would be that would be a little unethical maybe,
Speaker 5: But I can't. I can't find a reason for for
Speaker 5: players simply to be unethical.
Speaker 3: But the only thing I could I could think of
Speaker 3: is the early Gary Sanchez like Mike's and you know,
Speaker 3: prototype two ten hitter, you're gonna hit thirty bombs? Yeah,
Speaker 3: is that even unethical too? Like that that's where mine
Speaker 3: would my mind would take me.
Speaker 1: Well, I was gonna say, I mean, did Schworever hit
Speaker 1: like forty and hit like two a couple of years ago?
Speaker 4: Yeah?
Speaker 2: Sick, so sick.
Speaker 1: I mean that's what because my dad grown up, for
Speaker 1: whatever reason, he always liked Dave Kingman, and Dave Kingman
Speaker 1: was the same thing feast or famine hit like forty,
Speaker 1: you know, thirty forty homers a year. Couldn't hit for
Speaker 1: average for shit, but like that was his thing, and
Speaker 1: he hit a bunch of homers so yeah, it's not
Speaker 1: like this has been a thing. You know, this is a.
Speaker 3: New thing to Kyle Schwarver's twenty twenty three one ninety
Speaker 3: seven average, forty seven home runs.
Speaker 2: That's amazing.
Speaker 4: That is amazing.
Speaker 1: And the Phillies. I think, what was he making like
Speaker 1: twenty a year that year? That was worth the twenty.
Speaker 3: Mil Oh yeah, twenty mil for for not even a
Speaker 3: win h F four.
Speaker 2: That's it's amazing. Man, what a player.
Speaker 3: I think he's got like sixteen this year, yeah, seventeen seventeen.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, because he hit the one yesterday in Boston.
Speaker 1: I forgot about that.
Speaker 2: What's the average now to twenty nine?
Speaker 1: Ooh, you don't know Betters in the twos.
Speaker 3: Yeah, he was two forty eight in twenty twenty four
Speaker 3: and too forty and twenty five?
Speaker 4: Pretty good? Pretty good.
Speaker 1: Yeah, But that's I mean, I'm trying to think of
Speaker 1: because like Zunino did that the year that he was
Speaker 1: an All Star in twenty one, I'm trying to think
Speaker 1: of any other years where like a raised guy has
Speaker 1: done that. I mean, Jose Siri, well, okay, there's a
Speaker 1: couple I have in the back now that I'm thinking
Speaker 1: about this, So the one year that Brett Phillips was
Speaker 1: like legitimately a usable major league player. I think that
Speaker 1: was twenty one. He had like a two b war
Speaker 1: and he hit like two ten or whatever it was
Speaker 1: or two twenty, but he hit like fifteen bombs that year,
Speaker 1: so I do remember that. And then Jose Siri did
Speaker 1: the same thing where he couldn't hit for average for
Speaker 1: shit and still hit goddamn.
Speaker 4: Could he pimp a home run? Dude? Yeah, lose for that.
Speaker 1: That wasn't ethical, that was ethical ethical? Uh, pimp pimp
Speaker 1: job off Mason Miller, which, now, thinking in retrospect, the
Speaker 1: fact that he did that off of probably the best
Speaker 1: reliever in baseball right now is kind of wild.
Speaker 2: It's amazing, it's shocking.
Speaker 4: It's even in the league anymore. I don't know, I
Speaker 4: don't think so.
Speaker 2: I think he's.
Speaker 4: To Mason Miller. He might have been the last person
Speaker 4: who touched the Mason Miller ball.
Speaker 1: I mean, you know, that was a couple of years ago.
Speaker 1: But that's kind of accurate.
Speaker 5: Because he's going he's going on like a year a
Speaker 5: season and a half streak of like no like no
Speaker 5: earned runs or whatever.
Speaker 1: He's unreal. He is unreal. I mean in the same tone.
Speaker 1: And now I'm not going to quit Brian Baker to
Speaker 1: that because Mason Miller is on his own, He's on
Speaker 1: his own stratosphere. Brian Baker this year has been a stud,
Speaker 1: like an absolute stud in the back end of the
Speaker 1: pen for the race.
Speaker 3: And uh, the Jays hate him too, like that's it's
Speaker 3: kind of the whole thing, like when he because he
Speaker 3: was a then he went to Baltimore and then he
Speaker 3: started a bench's clearing brawl up brawl, but bench is
Speaker 3: clearing against the Jays while he was in Baltimore, and that.
Speaker 2: Would be the closer of the race.
Speaker 3: Yeah, they I don't know, like there's not many JAS
Speaker 3: players left from those teams, but yeah, just Brian Baker
Speaker 3: against the J's.
Speaker 2: They don't there's lore, they don't get along.
Speaker 3: And so I thought for sure Brian Baker being the
Speaker 3: closer was the only reason why it would happen. But
Speaker 3: I thought if the hitting the other team thing was
Speaker 3: was real, I thought he would be the perfect candidate
Speaker 3: to hit one of the J's guys back. But him
Speaker 3: being if he was pitching, it's a close game, and
Speaker 3: that's not how that would happen at all.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, give me what we were thoughts about that,
Speaker 1: because I know Nick Martinez went on went on WDAE
Speaker 1: and was talking about how there was a chance he
Speaker 1: might do something after Irana got hit, and I was like,
Speaker 1: I was like, like, if Irana hits a home run,
Speaker 1: then I feel like that's good enough for retaliation, and you know,
Speaker 1: to him getting hit, like you don't need to hit
Speaker 1: another guy?
Speaker 5: Yeah, yeah, I mean I don't. I don't know. You know,
Speaker 5: it was, you know, his wildest pitch of the season.
Speaker 5: I will say that, so it might have been intentional,
Speaker 5: but I don't really I don't really put too much,
Speaker 5: you know, emphasis on guys fighting because guys don't put
Speaker 5: too much emphasis on themselves fighting. I mean, the amount
Speaker 5: of fights that we've seen in Major League Baseball has
Speaker 5: just diminished to nothing because these guys, they know, they're like, hey,
Speaker 5: at the end of the day, I got to get
Speaker 5: myself paid, and you know, the silliest way for me
Speaker 5: to get injured, you know, is me fighting some guy
Speaker 5: or or or meat throwing baseballs at some guy, because
Speaker 5: then I'm gonna get one of my guys, you know,
Speaker 5: on a retaliation back. So that that's been very absent
Speaker 5: from baseball. But the thing is, I also love it
Speaker 5: when when it does happen, because it's like it's like drama,
Speaker 5: it's like high school drama, and and it's it's like,
Speaker 5: I just want to see one more mound charge my life,
Speaker 5: because you know, I've been watching John Boy's new History
Speaker 5: of the Mound Charge uh documentary that he's been making
Speaker 5: or you know, Secret Base over there, and that video
Speaker 5: is pretty spectacular, and I'd like to see one more
Speaker 5: mound charge, you know, you know, my life. So if
Speaker 5: if if I can, if I can entice that in
Speaker 5: any way by like you know, giving into social media speculation,
Speaker 5: maybe maybe I will. You know, I want to see
Speaker 5: some guys fight sometimes, you know, you know, I don't
Speaker 5: want to see one I want to see one guy
Speaker 5: just charge a motherfucker on the mound. It would be
Speaker 5: so funny, dude, one more time, it'd be so great.
Speaker 1: And this is this is John Boyce for people that
Speaker 1: are not John boy not two separate people, separate people.
Speaker 5: Ever since that happened, that that's been that's been a
Speaker 5: whirlwind to try to get around.
Speaker 1: Speaking wise, Yeah, so I mean avery, So from your end,
Speaker 1: I know that the Jays have played the Race twice,
Speaker 1: so you have that sense of seeing them through those games.
Speaker 1: Have you, like, what are your overall impressions of this
Speaker 1: team because I know that, I mean a bunch of
Speaker 1: people have talked about just like this is unsustainable. Like
Speaker 1: I know, I mean, I mean from our extent, I
Speaker 1: don't know how the fuck they're this good. Like I'm
Speaker 1: still figuring it out because like, I know that they're good,
Speaker 1: I think, but at the same time, at the same time,
Speaker 1: I'm like, I mean they're playing what Yeah, that's where
Speaker 1: it's trying to be put together. That can't happen. But like,
Speaker 1: from your perspective, how do you view this team because
Speaker 1: somehow they're many. I mean you already mentioned just them
Speaker 1: not being like the most glamorate, you know, not the
Speaker 1: glitz and glamor of some other teams, But like what
Speaker 1: has in If there's anything that's impressed you about what
Speaker 1: you've seen from them, whether it be the j Series
Speaker 1: or any other thing, what has impressed you about this team?
Speaker 3: I think that's what always impresses me about the Race
Speaker 3: when they're good, is like making this is in quote
Speaker 3: like scraps work from the the bottom of it, Like
Speaker 3: I want to put that as nice as possible, but
Speaker 3: it's like.
Speaker 4: You're not wrong. I mean I have to every year.
Speaker 4: I have to. It's like, all right, who's ride Valaide.
Speaker 2: Just moved out?
Speaker 4: Yeah?
Speaker 2: Exactly.
Speaker 3: So it's like you're gonna have really really high end
Speaker 3: skill with Yondi Junior and Ronda right, Like those three
Speaker 3: are going to carry the team. I mean you just
Speaker 3: look at the numbers. They're the softest hitting team of
Speaker 3: the baseball and if you if you, if you want
Speaker 3: to look at that over a full season, that's what
Speaker 3: people are saying. That's not going to be sustainable. And
Speaker 3: another race from Afar is are these are the pitchers
Speaker 3: gonna hold up?
Speaker 4: Like?
Speaker 2: Are are they going to be able to do that?
Speaker 3: Because they can win baseball games with the best of them,
Speaker 3: that's that is no problem, Like I you can you
Speaker 3: can win small amount of baseball games. I have no
Speaker 3: faith in this race. Seem to be able to do that,
Speaker 3: but it's like, hey, you're gonna get carried by the top.
Speaker 3: Are those bottom guys like Kevin cash Is gonna deploy
Speaker 3: them in a way where they're gonna try and be
Speaker 3: the most successful. It's bes he's one of the best
Speaker 3: in the business for a reason, right and right now
Speaker 3: he's cooking with absolute gas and it's fun to kind
Speaker 3: of watch from afar. But hey, it's like, if we're
Speaker 3: gonna look at this, these Actualoben numbers, if we're gonna
Speaker 3: look at the eggs of loss here, we're gonna look
Speaker 3: at how hard they're hitting the ball all the time.
Speaker 3: It's like, hey, I'm not gonna project that to be
Speaker 3: like a ninety win team, Like it's it seems like
Speaker 3: it's going to fall off. But you've put yourself in
Speaker 3: a position. What was it twenty twenty three as well,
Speaker 3: when they got out to the really hot start, is
Speaker 3: you put yourself in a position that you have to
Speaker 3: play some really bad baseball kind of not to make
Speaker 3: the playoffs, right, Like, you get off to this hot
Speaker 3: start and you can run that through the rest of
Speaker 3: the season. You play five hundred year what twelve gay
Speaker 3: fifteen games above five hundred, Like, yeah, you can, you
Speaker 3: can run that, and you're into the playoffs. But that
Speaker 3: was the year they lost to Cleveland in the playoffs,
Speaker 3: right where No.
Speaker 1: So so twenty two was the year where they probably
Speaker 1: had one of the worst teams that has made the
Speaker 1: playoffs in franchise history, and then they had that long
Speaker 1: ass game that went fifteen innings, and then yeah, the
Speaker 1: next year, the year with I guess the only way
Speaker 1: to stop a team is to just have their best
Speaker 1: player be caught for something non discretionary stuff. But that
Speaker 1: was the Texas series where they went in and then
Speaker 1: the Rangers absolutely destroyed them on their word World Series title.
Speaker 3: Yeah, so that's It's like, my worry is not the
Speaker 3: regular season rays right, you guys know that as well.
Speaker 3: They can they can win it big. It's like, hey,
Speaker 3: when we get these I mean, they've made quick work
Speaker 3: of the Jay's actual good pitchers as well, So it's
Speaker 3: not it's like when are those low eggs of velos?
Speaker 3: Is that style gonna work in a three game series
Speaker 3: where everything's up in the air, and maybe they're so
Speaker 3: good that they don't They play a five game series
Speaker 3: their first playoff series, So, uh, is this gonna work
Speaker 3: in the long term? I mean, I think they're just
Speaker 3: gonna be great in the regular season, and I know
Speaker 3: you guys want all the playoffs success, so it's like,
Speaker 3: I'm not everyone's gonna be able to say the Yankees
Speaker 3: are gonna be better.
Speaker 2: We dealt with the same stuff last year.
Speaker 3: The Yankees when they go to the expected win loss
Speaker 3: and be like, oh my god, we're scoring so many runs.
Speaker 3: You have course, you're expected win loss is gonna be
Speaker 3: better than the teams that are not. However, but yeah,
Speaker 3: I think they're gonna have a great regular season as
Speaker 3: long as the pitchers say healthy. Shane mcclann keeps doing
Speaker 3: what he's doing. I mean, you guys are in grace.
Speaker 1: I mean, he's been a reveling I'm so glad. I
Speaker 1: know on Gibb give me forgive me's sake, and give
Speaker 1: me's sake only. I'm so glad that Shane is doing
Speaker 1: well because you can finally wear that jersey with pride.
Speaker 4: Oh my god, dude, it's been. It's just been. It
Speaker 4: was just I had to.
Speaker 5: I had a jersey up here Avery that was just
Speaker 5: there for two seasons. I didn't touch it. It was
Speaker 5: just a raised city connect shamee to Clinton and Jersey,
Speaker 5: and I'm like, I'm just waiting for that day, Like
Speaker 5: you know, I kept getting delayed over and over again,
Speaker 5: but you know, it finally finally surfaced and he.
Speaker 3: Kind of like, sorry, it's kind of like the Eloy
Speaker 3: jersey that they were hanging up when he got hurt.
Speaker 3: That's that's what you were doing. So he was just
Speaker 3: hanging out there.
Speaker 1: Oh my god, man, r I p Eloy. He's still
Speaker 1: he's still alive. But that baseball career is shot.
Speaker 2: Oh my, he was a Blue Jay. He was playing.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it wasn't he there in spring training this year?
Speaker 2: He played major league games this year.
Speaker 1: The yeah, I don't remember that.
Speaker 2: He only hit singles.
Speaker 1: Oh wow, So he's like Chandler Simpson but swollen.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 3: That was to everyone's like, he got We got to
Speaker 3: keep Eloy, We got he has a one can't play
Speaker 3: a position. We can't keep Eloy. We can't have multiple
Speaker 3: dhs on a roster. It's not gonna work. Same handed
Speaker 3: bat and just can't play defense. He he opted out.
Speaker 3: I don't think anyone signed him so far.
Speaker 1: Man, I gotta I gotta fiel for. So we have
Speaker 1: the last game of the series tonight. I we need
Speaker 1: to check to see who the Rays are playing over
Speaker 1: the weekend. And I have no clue who the Jays
Speaker 1: are playing after this.
Speaker 5: Oh, we're playing Miami La Martin the Fish.
Speaker 1: Oh my god, the greatest rivalry in baseball history, the
Speaker 1: Citrus Series returns. Do the Jays have like because I
Speaker 1: know that they had that weird thing where they played
Speaker 1: the Phillies, like really often, do they have like a
Speaker 1: weird inter league rivalry that like people treat as something
Speaker 1: that's similar to what the Sitter Series is where it's
Speaker 1: just like, you know, shits and giggles for fun.
Speaker 3: No, but we play the Phillies twice a year because
Speaker 3: of that, Like that's the NL rival I guess. So
Speaker 3: they they play four games, two home or to some
Speaker 3: I feel like I just messed that up. But they
Speaker 3: play the Phillies more than anyone else in the NL. Why,
Speaker 3: I think that's World Series stuff. So they've just continued
Speaker 3: that on, uh from when they played them then.
Speaker 1: I mean I know that the weren't the Phillies called
Speaker 1: the Blue Jays back in the day in Philadelphia, like
Speaker 1: back in like the forties.
Speaker 4: Or something like that.
Speaker 2: I have no idea this is.
Speaker 1: I mean I should know this as someone who is
Speaker 1: from that area.
Speaker 3: So they play the Phillies two series every year like
Speaker 3: they're in a like they're an al team.
Speaker 1: Yes, they wear the Blue Jays back during like World
Speaker 1: War two era.
Speaker 3: Okay, yeah, like I'm saying six six games, one series
Speaker 3: at home, one away.
Speaker 1: I still don't understand why that connection because I remember
Speaker 1: that like as a kid, I was like, why the
Speaker 1: fuck are they playing like like other than the World Series,
Speaker 1: Like what's the connection because like it's not like, you know,
Speaker 1: Ronto and Philly are necessarily close to each other, like
Speaker 1: they could have picked another team that was closer to them.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I guess Detroit's obviously in the AL, so people
Speaker 3: feel that way about feel that way about Detroit obviously
Speaker 3: because that's the border of windsor so a bunch of
Speaker 3: Canadians are Tigers fans, and that Seattle's the same way.
Speaker 2: But those are both AL teams.
Speaker 3: So I don't think I can't think of an NL
Speaker 3: team like that so far, other than the Phillies one
Speaker 3: right now.
Speaker 1: Well, the Rays have the best one other than I
Speaker 1: think it's the I think it's the most enjoyable interleague
Speaker 1: series because neither fan base cares. And that's an agent
Speaker 1: like Gibby, Is that how you because that's how I
Speaker 1: feel about Like I know that we play it up,
Speaker 1: but like genuinely, no one like no.
Speaker 5: Yeah, no one, no one, Like, no one's like, oh
Speaker 5: I hate those Marlins so much.
Speaker 4: You know.
Speaker 5: It's it's it doesn't really come across all right, it's like, oh,
Speaker 5: it's the other team that has a lot of the
Speaker 5: same problems.
Speaker 1: That's accurate. I mean, I'm not gonna say I wasn't
Speaker 1: a fan of David Samson when he was like the
Speaker 1: president of the team because he was kind of a
Speaker 1: d bag.
Speaker 5: But that was that the guy who's on publatory. Yeah, okay,
Speaker 5: yeah he was. Yeah, he does talk about that all
Speaker 5: the time.
Speaker 1: Yeah, Like there was a whole thing about like them
Speaker 1: not wanting to disclose their taxes and like open their
Speaker 1: books to people, and it wasn't a good vibe. But yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean, you know, this is a very interesting series
Speaker 1: coming up with that, Like, is there anything that we're expecting,
Speaker 1: at least in this last game of the Race Jays
Speaker 1: series for either team? Like what would be the thing
Speaker 1: to every starting on the j side, what would be
Speaker 1: the thing to expect.
Speaker 4: On that end?
Speaker 3: Dylan C's is gonna pitch pretty well probably, and then
Speaker 3: they're not gonna score many runs. Like that's just it's
Speaker 3: just how it's going right now. We're gonna we're gonna
Speaker 3: pitch it. Okay, except for Gosman on Monday, but they
Speaker 3: said they were he was third base code relaying all
Speaker 3: his signs. They knew every pitch that was coming, and
Speaker 3: that's why they they put a.
Speaker 2: Beating on him.
Speaker 3: I mean, maybe that would have happen no matter what,
Speaker 3: but they they got to him good. But I think
Speaker 3: Dylan C's gonna pitch really well and it's gonna be
Speaker 3: a struggle to score runs. So let's see, Uh, if
Speaker 3: Griffin Jacks can stop that?
Speaker 1: Are you going into the jacket? Are you do you
Speaker 1: like the idea of Jack's being h what's it called
Speaker 1: stretched out to a start? Because I know that he
Speaker 1: was a starter back when he was with Minnesota before
Speaker 1: he moved, But like him getting stretched back out to that,
Speaker 1: I mean, do you think that that's gonna work.
Speaker 3: It's gonna have to right. How did the one inning
Speaker 3: thing not really work? He's got this great stuff. I
Speaker 3: was kind of shocked that it didn't work. Like I
Speaker 3: thought he could be a natural, like just closer like
Speaker 3: that could have been the number one guy. If it
Speaker 3: started to work and stuff's really good, it's gonna have
Speaker 3: to work.
Speaker 5: It's I think, mean the pictures are already running out,
Speaker 5: running a little, a little out.
Speaker 1: Yeah on orangs, Yeah they are.
Speaker 4: That is it. I think you're right. I think you're right.
Speaker 4: It is necessity at this point.
Speaker 1: It's not that it would be nice if it worked,
Speaker 1: it's that it needs to work.
Speaker 3: I think I think everyone in the organization needs it
Speaker 3: to work. Yeah, or else you're gonna I guess you
Speaker 3: can put them back to the bullpen. But there's most
Speaker 3: values not there right now without things.
Speaker 5: I think I think the Blue Jays have to win
Speaker 5: this game, like just from like a standpoint, it's like
Speaker 5: you have to you have to go to another series.
Speaker 5: Like the next time you see this team, if if
Speaker 5: you're oh and six against them, that's gonna be the
Speaker 5: worst feeling in the in the world. I mean one
Speaker 5: in five isn't much better. But it's like, Okay, we
Speaker 5: have beaten this team before. Uh so, like something's something's
Speaker 5: gotta give, and if you're going it like it would
Speaker 5: just be such a pain to restart the series later
Speaker 5: and be like, ah, here we go oh and six.
Speaker 5: We have to we really have to win this this
Speaker 5: next one. So yeah, I think I think Toronto is
Speaker 5: just very much looking to put everything into this game.
Speaker 4: Dylan SE's is going to.
Speaker 5: Give him that. In that shot, he's still he's still
Speaker 5: very good. So I like Dylan Seas a lot, so
Speaker 5: he was good on it. I kind of hope I
Speaker 5: kind of hope they win, you know, just just for
Speaker 5: Blue Jays fans sake, because I mean I've just been
Speaker 5: like the Twitter has just been blowing up. I mean,
Speaker 5: I haven't said anything to any any Blue Jays fans
Speaker 5: because I think the terrorism, even though I said something
Speaker 5: earlier about it, I think it's kind of right. I
Speaker 5: think we do have some some devil magic, you know,
Speaker 5: within within the franchise when it comes to the Blue Jays,
Speaker 5: that there is some unexplainable quantity quality or whatever to
Speaker 5: to the Rays in the Blue Jays that it just
Speaker 5: doesn't make any sense. And I think the next time
Speaker 5: the Blue Jays playing, it's gonna be it's gonna be
Speaker 5: at the Trump again.
Speaker 4: So it is. Yeah.
Speaker 1: Yeah, So I mean you guys tried to vex all
Speaker 1: that thing, right, you guys try to go there when
Speaker 1: the when when when was down? Yeah yeah, well when
Speaker 1: the when the insides were exposed?
Speaker 3: Yeah, well we we were just driving by because around
Speaker 3: the way Braydenton.
Speaker 2: Maybe does that make sense from from dun.
Speaker 3: Edon, Yeah, I think because they're playing the Pirates and
Speaker 3: we're just like we're driving past the trup, we might
Speaker 3: as well just go see what it's like.
Speaker 2: Yeah, roof was down down, I.
Speaker 1: Mean experience like seeing it, seeing it in that state.
Speaker 3: I was trying to get inside. I was like, we
Speaker 3: got we gotta get we gotta try and get it.
Speaker 4: We got to get the scoop man. I mean, that's
Speaker 4: what everyone wanted.
Speaker 3: It was just I mean it's sad, right, Like anyone
Speaker 3: who's a race and see that, you know, having the
Speaker 3: roof go Like if that happened at the Rogers Center,
Speaker 3: everyone be like tough watch and having that.
Speaker 5: That would be that would be you know, because that's
Speaker 5: a beautiful baseball stadium. That would be like so sad
Speaker 5: to the entirely.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's it's a good it's a good stadium.
Speaker 4: Now.
Speaker 2: The outside's ugly, Oh, inside's nice, inside's good.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 5: Whenever they did that renovation to like the upper outfield part,
Speaker 5: it just it's it just looks way better on TV.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it was. It was pretty ugly before. I will
Speaker 2: I will agree with that.
Speaker 1: So I have a question in terms of surreal things,
Speaker 1: what was and this is specifically spring Treding related. I
Speaker 1: think we'll get a kick out of it. What was
Speaker 1: more surreal seeing the trap as it was or visiting
Speaker 1: the Dollar Tree where the whole Reee Maguire thing went down.
Speaker 3: Oh man, the dollars thing was was special. I just
Speaker 3: just like you're so, you just drive by the parking lot, like, yeah,
Speaker 3: this is where he got arrested.
Speaker 2: He just couldn't believe it. Yeah, I'll say, ree Maguire.
Speaker 1: I was kidding. I know that you guys have done
Speaker 1: face in both and that was and I mean, like
Speaker 1: stuff like that is so funny to do. I mean,
Speaker 1: not as much of the chop thing, because you know,
Speaker 1: natural disaster hitting a stadium causing that much damage, that's
Speaker 1: not necessarily funny. The whole trying to vex the whole, uh,
Speaker 1: you know, get rid of the.
Speaker 4: Devilment, that's funny.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, that's funny. But yeah, I mean the whole,
Speaker 1: I mean, the Dollar Tree thing is just fucking nuts
Speaker 1: that that happened.
Speaker 2: It's everyone agrees it was just nuts that it happened.
Speaker 1: And and then done eating of all places you know
Speaker 1: they like. No, I don't know how far it was
Speaker 1: away from the stadium itself, because I know, I mean,
Speaker 1: I will say I know that the stadium and the
Speaker 1: spring training complex are separated, but in a general sense,
Speaker 1: I think that they and I think I might have
Speaker 1: talked with Elijah about this, but like that whole area
Speaker 1: and how they've done that with the stadium and the
Speaker 1: blue and like how Blue Jay spring training is done.
Speaker 1: I think I've done a fantastic job of it.
Speaker 3: Yeah, got some some money from the public, I'm pretty
Speaker 3: sure for that to keep them there, which I'm sure
Speaker 3: they were fine with.
Speaker 2: So it is cool.
Speaker 4: I think it's.
Speaker 3: Fifteen minutes away maybe park to complex. I always because
Speaker 3: we went a couple of years and I just assumed
Speaker 3: that they were all together.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and then you look over left field and it's
Speaker 2: just a school.
Speaker 3: Yeah, It's just it's like, okay, so maybe the PDC's
Speaker 3: not here.
Speaker 2: So that was fun to get to go around.
Speaker 4: It this year.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's fun memory for race fans. The Francisco Mahia
Speaker 1: what was it the Grand Slam and extras back in
Speaker 1: I guess that I guess that would have been twenty one, right,
Speaker 1: because that was because you guys were That was when
Speaker 1: the Jay's played in three different places because it was done.
Speaker 1: It was like progressively moving more up north as the
Speaker 1: year went on.
Speaker 3: Yeah, as it should be done, you know, start start
Speaker 3: the spring warm and just make your way up to
Speaker 3: Toronto when it's when it's really nice in the summer.
Speaker 1: It makes sense. The last thing that I hadn't give
Speaker 1: me if you have anything else, Felfree, We already kind
Speaker 1: of talked about the playoffs stuff, but a are you
Speaker 1: expecting the Jays to, like, knowing the roster that they
Speaker 1: have now, are you expecting them to rebound and make
Speaker 1: the playoffs? And then are you like, at this point
Speaker 1: with the Rays and what they've done, would you be
Speaker 1: surprised that they didn't make the playoffs?
Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean it would have to be a big
Speaker 3: time collapse.
Speaker 2: Right by the way the.
Speaker 3: All the al is playing, it's like it's kind of
Speaker 3: in a good spot to lock things up the Jays. Man,
Speaker 3: I will say yes, because I obviously want them to
Speaker 3: make the playoffs. But George Springer's back hasn't looked good, Barger,
Speaker 3: I don't know what he's got going on that he
Speaker 3: could be lost, and then it's just like a bunch
Speaker 3: of bunch of the bottom guys just haven't contributed. Flat
Speaker 3: is in this big slump right now. They have to
Speaker 3: turn it around or else is just gonna be an
Speaker 3: absolute waste of a season and just tough to build
Speaker 3: on any more. Meant him, I think skill wise positionally,
Speaker 3: like the pitching pitching staffs good. I'm we got Shane
Speaker 3: Bieber back that he's any sort of himself, that's really
Speaker 3: really good, I'll say, Yeah, it's just a fight for
Speaker 3: the third wild card at this point, I don't have.
Speaker 5: It's very it's very possible, just because of how bad
Speaker 5: the yell is so I mean even the Red Sox
Speaker 5: only like two games out of out of a the way,
Speaker 5: that's true, Red Sox coming back a little bits very
Speaker 5: it would be very easy for for somebody to claim
Speaker 5: that that wild card spot the way it is right now, Uh,
Speaker 5: you just have to play you literally have to play
Speaker 5: five hundred baseball and you can you can maybe get
Speaker 5: that spot.
Speaker 3: Yeah, cy go was that Marlins a couple of years ago?
Speaker 3: They were were they five hundred when they made the playoffs?
Speaker 4: Oh my god, that's right. They might have been below
Speaker 4: five hundred.
Speaker 1: No that I think they were like eighty Are you
Speaker 1: talking about the year, the full season, not the COVID year, right, correct? Yeah,
Speaker 1: so I think they were like eighty three and seventy
Speaker 1: oh okay, okay, so they were basically a five hundred
Speaker 1: team for the most part. Yeah, that was the That
Speaker 1: was the year when the video of everyone singing Bryce
Speaker 1: Bryson Stott's walk up song and then him hitting the
Speaker 1: Grand Slam. That's where that's from.
Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, good year.
Speaker 2: It's a great video though.
Speaker 4: That's great. It is.
Speaker 1: I mean, it's a great video. I hope that there's
Speaker 1: more videos that include just the fan reaction and sound
Speaker 1: instead of TV stuff, because like, I want to see
Speaker 1: that happen, Like I want the Ray if the Rays
Speaker 1: continue on this path again in the playoffs, I want
Speaker 1: to see something like that, like a pop crowd pop
Speaker 1: a moment like that at the trop and that'll I
Speaker 1: think that'll make a lot of people just feel great
Speaker 1: because they haven't had I mean, Troptober hasn't happened. I
Speaker 1: mean twenty three I'm not counting because that kind of bullshit,
Speaker 1: but like twenty one was the last legit one, right.
Speaker 3: Was that the was that the looplow Homer and the Yep,
Speaker 3: that's the best moment ever.
Speaker 5: Yeah, and then it just yeah, all these raised days
Speaker 5: just coming up, Francisco Jordan Luke dude.
Speaker 1: Then and then the series just stopped after that point,
Speaker 1: they just canceled the game and then the year and
Speaker 1: then the season ended.
Speaker 4: Nothing else happened, Yeah, nothing else, nothing else happened.
Speaker 1: It would be I just want gave me if you
Speaker 1: don't have anything. The Rays did take two at three
Speaker 1: against the Socks. They had that weird brain delay game,
Speaker 1: which I might be going to Boston this summer, so
Speaker 1: we'll see what happens to go to that series. Hopefully
Speaker 1: we can go meet up with a couple of the
Speaker 1: podcast guys that we've pot on Lansdown guys and the
Speaker 1: non another Socks podcast guys. Would be cool to see them.
Speaker 1: And then the Rays keep starving the children of Boston.
Speaker 1: So good job, good job, guys, keep it going. Uh uh, Gibby,
Speaker 1: got anything else before we wrap this thing up?
Speaker 4: No, I don't think so.
Speaker 1: Joe Adell has robbed another Homer.
Speaker 4: Oh yeah, dude, Well, I mean I love Joe Odell.
Speaker 1: That's your guy.
Speaker 4: That's my guy.
Speaker 5: You know, I'm sad he's on the angels.
Speaker 4: They never do anything. I'm sad.
Speaker 5: A lot of people are on the angels. Actually I
Speaker 5: feel I feel bad for them. But uh, I mean,
Speaker 5: just great stuff from Joe always. You know, he used
Speaker 5: to not really be good at that running Home one,
Speaker 5: so now he's just really good at it.
Speaker 4: So it's kind of it's kind of amazing.
Speaker 1: It's worth it. Every he got anything else?
Speaker 3: Nothing, God that Jason went bad tonight got bad.
Speaker 1: I love it all right? What every Thank you so
Speaker 1: much for coming on. Man, where can people find you at? Specifically?
Speaker 1: And everything that you guys got going on.
Speaker 3: A kateboard a French Canadian last name so c h
Speaker 3: E n I e are if people want to find
Speaker 3: me on everything thing and then keep fourteen podcast if
Speaker 3: any rate. I mean, I don't know why any race
Speaker 3: fans would want to listen to that, but it is it.
Speaker 1: Is very entertaining. I will I won't conclude. It's entertaining stuff.
Speaker 3: I appreciate it. Thank you guys so much for having
Speaker 3: me again. I appreciate it.
Speaker 1: Yeah right what Avery, thanks as always, man, really appreciate it.
Speaker 1: Thanks guys, a big thanks again to Avery for coming on.
Speaker 1: Be sure to follow what he has going on, and
Speaker 1: trust me, Gave fourteen is a good podcast. I know
Speaker 1: that there's been a lot of chaos happening this series
Speaker 1: between Jays and Rays fans, but they do great work
Speaker 1: over there, so be sure to follow them and watch
Speaker 1: that video of them doing the ground screw thing, because
Speaker 1: you guys saw it literally in the middle of the game,
Speaker 1: like why was Johnny behind Ryan? There was a reason
Speaker 1: for it. I knew about it going into it because
Speaker 1: Avery had DMed me and told me all that stuff.
Speaker 1: I just think it was very funny that it all
Speaker 1: kind of happened as is. But they do fantastic work,
Speaker 1: genuinely fantastic work. So I always love having them on,
Speaker 1: and I'm sure we'll have him on in the future.
Speaker 1: But with that being said, that's gonna do things, or
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