WEBVTT - Do the Rays Play Ethical Baseball? 0:00:12.760 --> 0:00:16.320 It's time to raise the roof for our latest regular 0:00:16.360 --> 0:00:18.799 season episode. Welcome back to the pod everyone, part of 0:00:18.800 --> 0:00:22.720 the Just Baseball Network. I'm your host, Alex Murphy, our 0:00:22.800 --> 0:00:25.119 co host Gibbie should be one momentarily. We do have 0:00:25.160 --> 0:00:27.480 a very special guest who is here with me right now. 0:00:27.640 --> 0:00:29.760 He's already been on the pod, which is cool that 0:00:29.840 --> 0:00:34.479 he's a returning guest to the pod, Avery of Gate fourteen, 0:00:34.560 --> 0:00:36.800 the biggest Blue Jays podcast out there. I think we've 0:00:36.840 --> 0:00:39.400 already solidified that that's the case. Right at this point. 0:00:40.159 --> 0:00:42.160 We'll take that. We'll take that for sure. 0:00:42.760 --> 0:00:43.440 If not in. 0:00:43.479 --> 0:00:47.559 Top two, top three, we'll talk take claim to the 0:00:47.560 --> 0:00:48.160 top spot. 0:00:48.479 --> 0:00:51.199 Yeah, I will. Thanks for having me again, Alice appreciate it. 0:00:51.360 --> 0:00:54.160 Yeah, of course, yeah, Avery, thank you so much for 0:00:54.200 --> 0:00:59.160 coming on man as always much appreciated. So there's been 0:00:59.160 --> 0:01:00.960 a lot of things that going on this week with 0:01:01.000 --> 0:01:04.360 the Rays. The Rays are playing the Jays. Their series 0:01:04.360 --> 0:01:06.520 is wrapping up to I don't know. I would need 0:01:06.520 --> 0:01:08.119 to check if it's a day game or a night 0:01:08.120 --> 0:01:10.480 game night night game to night. Okay, that's what I 0:01:10.560 --> 0:01:13.039 would have thought, because I know that some teams do 0:01:13.120 --> 0:01:15.760 the mattin a stuff. The business person special type things 0:01:16.080 --> 0:01:19.640 some teams don't. But yeah, So the Rais and Jays 0:01:19.880 --> 0:01:22.120 have been playing this week in Toronto. There's been a 0:01:22.120 --> 0:01:24.240 lot of stuff happening on social media, which Avery has 0:01:24.360 --> 0:01:27.759 essentially been shut off too for good reason. I don't 0:01:27.760 --> 0:01:30.119 blame you at all for not seeing anything. So we'll 0:01:30.160 --> 0:01:33.200 get into that some more Ray stuff happening, because I 0:01:33.240 --> 0:01:36.000 want to get as we had Avery on the last time, 0:01:36.040 --> 0:01:39.039 talking about with new ownership, the race coming in and 0:01:39.120 --> 0:01:40.720 kind of what your thoughts were about that. Now we 0:01:40.800 --> 0:01:44.920 have the Rays apparently being the greatest team ever to 0:01:44.959 --> 0:01:48.840 be assembled through forty games or whatever it is, so 0:01:49.600 --> 0:01:52.760 we'll continue to talk about that. But Avery, I mean, 0:01:53.040 --> 0:01:54.440 how have you been. I know that you guys have 0:01:54.480 --> 0:01:56.800 had a lot going on. You guys tried to get 0:01:56.840 --> 0:01:59.080 something going earlier this week, but you guys decided to 0:01:59.080 --> 0:02:01.280 go join the grounds career at the Jays game. So 0:02:02.000 --> 0:02:03.760 how have you been? How? How are things gone? 0:02:04.120 --> 0:02:04.440 Good? 0:02:04.720 --> 0:02:04.960 Good? 0:02:05.000 --> 0:02:07.160 I mean it's really good when the Jays play well, 0:02:07.160 --> 0:02:09.640 and right now they are doing the exact opposite of that. 0:02:09.720 --> 0:02:12.160 So it's tough to tune in every night and tough 0:02:12.200 --> 0:02:12.960 to create you. 0:02:12.880 --> 0:02:14.200 Know that all too well? 0:02:14.280 --> 0:02:17.079 Sometimes like so I don't want to talk about the 0:02:17.080 --> 0:02:19.120 team when they're about to get swept again for the 0:02:19.120 --> 0:02:20.080 second time by the Rays. 0:02:20.080 --> 0:02:20.919 It sucks to watch. 0:02:20.960 --> 0:02:24.000 But you know the grounds crew stuff we did on Monday, Yeah, 0:02:23.760 --> 0:02:25.720 you sent me a message, is like, yeah, I'd love 0:02:25.760 --> 0:02:28.519 to do it, just can't can't do it today. 0:02:28.320 --> 0:02:32.000 Probably, but ground the grounds was really cool. 0:02:32.160 --> 0:02:34.520 They worked so hard and they're there for a long 0:02:34.560 --> 0:02:38.160 time and just I think very underappreciated or just no 0:02:38.160 --> 0:02:40.160 one really knows all the work that they actually do. 0:02:40.200 --> 0:02:42.280 So it's like, we should do should do video, we 0:02:42.320 --> 0:02:43.000 should really get to. 0:02:43.000 --> 0:02:45.400 The bottom of how much stuff they're doing so people 0:02:45.440 --> 0:02:48.240 can properly appreciate the grounds crew. 0:02:48.760 --> 0:02:50.960 Yeah, for sure. And then I know everything that happened 0:02:51.000 --> 0:02:53.880 with spring training, you guys toward the whole new complex 0:02:53.880 --> 0:02:56.800 that's in Dunedin. You met with Shapiro and talked with 0:02:56.880 --> 0:02:59.800 him about all that stuff. Like how I mean, do 0:02:59.840 --> 0:03:03.120 you feel like as a Blue Jays fan before we 0:03:03.160 --> 0:03:07.880 get into the whole Jay's Ray stuff, are you like, 0:03:08.000 --> 0:03:10.400 how are you feeling about the direction of the team 0:03:10.480 --> 0:03:12.359 right now maybe to where it was a couple of 0:03:12.400 --> 0:03:14.320 years ago, Like is it in that same realm of 0:03:14.320 --> 0:03:15.200 where you want it to be. 0:03:15.880 --> 0:03:18.280 Yeah, I think absolutely it's good too. 0:03:19.320 --> 0:03:21.800 It's good that it was kind of confirmed that it 0:03:21.919 --> 0:03:24.720 was being successful because I felt like the team was 0:03:24.760 --> 0:03:28.200 being run well. Everyone in here in Toronto is like 0:03:28.520 --> 0:03:31.840 it's sports fans everywhere. Everyone does the same thing, where 0:03:32.080 --> 0:03:35.680 just the all the doomers all the time, and like 0:03:35.800 --> 0:03:38.600 Toronto Maple Leafs hockey fans are the worst at that. 0:03:38.720 --> 0:03:41.360 So it kind of snuck into our baseball team. 0:03:41.400 --> 0:03:44.440 It's like they got to get shack in Shapiro and acts, 0:03:44.480 --> 0:03:46.840 they got to get them out of there. So that 0:03:46.920 --> 0:03:51.160 was always brutal. It was good to be just like 0:03:51.240 --> 0:03:53.840 it was a positive thing. They can win a little 0:03:53.840 --> 0:03:56.120 bit at least with this group, So the direction has 0:03:56.120 --> 0:03:59.480 been really good. I mean, I wish we could draft 0:03:59.520 --> 0:04:02.440 like the race and develop some players at the minor 0:04:02.520 --> 0:04:04.120 league levels. I would that would help the team out 0:04:04.120 --> 0:04:07.360 a lot on the trade market, something that they don't 0:04:07.360 --> 0:04:09.120 do very much now. They just got to sign all 0:04:09.120 --> 0:04:12.400 the top free agents for the biggest bucks. But I'm 0:04:12.440 --> 0:04:14.560 happy with the direction of the team's going. I think 0:04:14.600 --> 0:04:17.360 Shapiro is like a great ahead of it and h 0:04:18.080 --> 0:04:20.800 roscn still find some stuff that they'll be all right. 0:04:22.200 --> 0:04:24.640 As our co host Gibby Joints. Gibby, how you doing, man? 0:04:25.200 --> 0:04:29.960 Doing good? Thank you? That's up as much man. How 0:04:31.200 --> 0:04:32.600 how are we doing today? 0:04:33.920 --> 0:04:35.600 You guys are doing much better than I am. 0:04:37.120 --> 0:04:41.000 Yeah, you know, I I forgot. I literally forgot about 0:04:41.040 --> 0:04:46.760 the whole you're you uh like Toronto thing. I forgot 0:04:46.760 --> 0:04:49.239 about because I just joined. 0:04:49.720 --> 0:04:51.360 Yeah. 0:04:51.360 --> 0:04:52.760 Well yeah, I mean this is the first time you 0:04:52.800 --> 0:04:55.200 guys are meeting. But Gibby, I mean, just have your 0:04:55.240 --> 0:04:57.680 thoughts been about what the Rays have done over the 0:04:57.760 --> 0:05:00.000 last like a couple of days week or so last year? 0:05:00.120 --> 0:05:06.440 Series pretty uh pretty still insane because I was talking 0:05:06.440 --> 0:05:08.960 about it last time how insane it was, and then 0:05:09.000 --> 0:05:12.680 they just they just keep winning somehow. I don't I 0:05:12.720 --> 0:05:18.280 don't really know, uh how how else to describe it? Uh, 0:05:19.240 --> 0:05:23.120 bitches don't love Sulcer. Though Soulcer didn't do good lat 0:05:23.720 --> 0:05:28.200 yesterday almost lost the game. I was gonna I would 0:05:28.279 --> 0:05:31.520 probably be a lot more mad if we actually lost 0:05:31.560 --> 0:05:34.320 that game yesterday. But they did one of those the 0:05:34.360 --> 0:05:37.839 Blue Jays did like a fake comeback where they they 0:05:37.880 --> 0:05:39.320 wanted to come back but then they. 0:05:39.320 --> 0:05:40.960 Kind of didn't. Uh. 0:05:42.360 --> 0:05:44.960 So it was it was a great I mean, it 0:05:45.000 --> 0:05:50.159 was it was great to watch, uh, very entertaining game overall. 0:05:50.360 --> 0:05:52.440 But yeah, I mean. 0:05:54.880 --> 0:05:57.320 Eventually, you know you're gonna have you're gonna have a 0:05:57.360 --> 0:06:00.719 bullpen guy that gives up five runs. You know, like 0:06:00.800 --> 0:06:05.560 are it was a very unsustainable you know winning uh 0:06:06.880 --> 0:06:07.800 track that we were on. 0:06:08.080 --> 0:06:09.800 But you know, you're saying that they can't be the 0:06:09.800 --> 0:06:11.720 best bullpen in baseball for like one hundred and sixty 0:06:11.720 --> 0:06:12.360 two games and. 0:06:12.320 --> 0:06:13.120 Have like a two R. 0:06:14.160 --> 0:06:18.839 Maybe I mean maybe they could, but uh, you know, 0:06:18.920 --> 0:06:21.800 we're kind of due for for crooked inning there. So 0:06:21.960 --> 0:06:28.080 I understood that. I really don't understand how we're still undefeated. 0:06:27.480 --> 0:06:31.240 Against the Blue Jays. I think they should have taken. 0:06:31.000 --> 0:06:33.960 One of these games from them right now. It's it's 0:06:34.080 --> 0:06:38.600 very surprising. I mean that, that's basically all I had 0:06:38.640 --> 0:06:39.000 to say. 0:06:39.600 --> 0:06:41.960 Hey, are you shocked by that? I mean, they're five 0:06:42.000 --> 0:06:44.760 and er right now. It's I know, I mean I 0:06:44.800 --> 0:06:47.280 know that yesterday's game was was relatively coast, but I 0:06:47.320 --> 0:06:50.080 don't really feel like a lot of like it feels 0:06:50.200 --> 0:06:52.840 kind of convincing at least, or like the race I've 0:06:52.880 --> 0:06:54.960 had convincing wins more or less than the Jays haven't 0:06:54.960 --> 0:06:57.560 been able to like pull through. Is that kind of 0:06:57.560 --> 0:06:58.320 how you felt? 0:06:59.240 --> 0:07:02.240 Yeah, I mean they're just playing the worst brand of bastars. 0:07:02.320 --> 0:07:04.240 Yes, they look like they don't want to be out 0:07:04.240 --> 0:07:06.080 there when they play the just when they play the 0:07:06.160 --> 0:07:08.680 Rays though, I mean that's it's kind of ridiculous. 0:07:08.760 --> 0:07:11.000 They're getting their ass kicked. I mean I would feel 0:07:11.040 --> 0:07:11.800 the same way. 0:07:11.840 --> 0:07:14.080 I think the same way. Yeah. 0:07:14.480 --> 0:07:14.680 Yeah. 0:07:14.680 --> 0:07:17.200 And then finally it's like Vlad gets on with the 0:07:17.360 --> 0:07:19.080 stolen base after and they get a little bit of 0:07:19.160 --> 0:07:21.920 energy in the building, and then we just just Taylor 0:07:21.960 --> 0:07:23.720 Walls single through the Rights? Howe are you kidding me? 0:07:26.760 --> 0:07:27.560 It was good? 0:07:28.040 --> 0:07:31.080 Yeah, Taylor Walls is uh, he's still the exact same 0:07:31.120 --> 0:07:34.240 guy that he was five years ago. I wish he 0:07:34.360 --> 0:07:37.560 was different. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, that's what we've been. 0:07:38.600 --> 0:07:41.160 We've been forced into it at this point. He's like 0:07:41.200 --> 0:07:42.600 a cockroach. He can't die. 0:07:42.840 --> 0:07:49.800 Xavier Edwards, he who shall not be named Nah, Carson Williams, Nah, 0:07:50.720 --> 0:07:51.560 Taylor Walls. 0:07:51.720 --> 0:07:54.040 That's that's my that's my short stuff. 0:07:54.360 --> 0:07:56.520 I don't understand how he's still here, but he is. 0:07:57.000 --> 0:08:01.080 And like he's good enough to wear like he's not 0:08:01.840 --> 0:08:06.160 egregiously bad enough to where he won't leave, like he's 0:08:06.480 --> 0:08:11.200 just okay enough to still be mediocre and stay on 0:08:11.240 --> 0:08:15.160 the team. And I don't know how that has transpired 0:08:15.200 --> 0:08:18.400 over time, but it's like he still has a job, 0:08:18.480 --> 0:08:19.880 so good for him. 0:08:20.640 --> 0:08:23.800 He's valuable, you guys know he's valuable defensively obviously. 0:08:23.960 --> 0:08:24.160 Yeah. 0:08:24.240 --> 0:08:27.040 Yeah, it's like shout out, you could get him on 0:08:27.160 --> 0:08:30.200 both sides, but it is, yeah, just how the bat 0:08:30.280 --> 0:08:32.800 hasn't really changed ever, so sick. 0:08:33.200 --> 0:08:36.240 So yeah, it reminds me of like when I was 0:08:36.280 --> 0:08:39.960 in like school, you know, back in like elementary school, 0:08:40.000 --> 0:08:43.680 and I was very bad at like English, you know, 0:08:43.960 --> 0:08:47.000 like routing. I didn't like writing very much, so you know, 0:08:47.080 --> 0:08:49.440 I would just I would do very good of my 0:08:49.520 --> 0:08:52.240 math and science and then you know I kind of 0:08:52.280 --> 0:08:54.720 like do like one or two assignments every now and 0:08:54.760 --> 0:08:57.719 then in the writing, and then I kind of passed there. 0:08:57.880 --> 0:09:00.400 That's what Taylor Walls does. He just does one or 0:09:00.440 --> 0:09:03.000 two A sign is on offense. You know, it's like 0:09:03.040 --> 0:09:07.480 I'm gonna I'm gonna do this one single and somehow, 0:09:08.280 --> 0:09:09.120 you know, kind. 0:09:08.920 --> 0:09:09.839 Of win us the game. 0:09:11.559 --> 0:09:13.920 I mean just every now and then he just does 0:09:14.080 --> 0:09:17.400 enough to keep it the offensive going where it's like, yeah, 0:09:17.440 --> 0:09:21.000 the defense it's just it's all there and we still 0:09:21.000 --> 0:09:21.360 need him. 0:09:21.840 --> 0:09:24.120 I mean, it's pretty accurate. I'm not gonna lie, that's that's. 0:09:25.440 --> 0:09:29.160 The best analogy I could I could come up with, Hey, 0:09:29.200 --> 0:09:31.439 he's just a survivor's. 0:09:31.240 --> 0:09:32.240 He's not gonna give up. 0:09:34.080 --> 0:09:37.840 Geez. I mean, yeah, I guess it's accurate. The other 0:09:37.920 --> 0:09:40.600 thing I was curious specifically in this series because Gibby, 0:09:40.640 --> 0:09:42.240 I'm sure that you've seen everything that's been going on 0:09:42.320 --> 0:09:46.920 social media. Avery apparently has avoided everything, which kudos to 0:09:47.000 --> 0:09:52.440 you for finding a way, but your co host, Johnny 0:09:52.600 --> 0:09:57.280 seems to be going on a rampage against Now this 0:09:57.360 --> 0:09:59.000 is in a general sense, because I don't I mean 0:09:59.080 --> 0:10:02.360 this this happened specifically with a bunch of Rais fans 0:10:02.360 --> 0:10:04.959 and Johnny, but like, in a general sense, Blue Jays 0:10:04.960 --> 0:10:07.520 fans are turning into like wanting to like murder the 0:10:07.720 --> 0:10:12.839 entire team and like things getting really bad. But I mean, 0:10:12.880 --> 0:10:14.720 on that, like, how much have you seen of it? 0:10:14.760 --> 0:10:17.480 And then also for those that don't listen to Gate 0:10:17.520 --> 0:10:20.120 fourteen and don't know enough about Johnny, can you please 0:10:20.160 --> 0:10:23.080 describe who he is as a person and how much 0:10:23.080 --> 0:10:25.200 he welcomes these sort of things online. 0:10:25.320 --> 0:10:28.720 Yeah, so I'll say, like I'm in every group chat 0:10:28.720 --> 0:10:29.960 I'm in has Johnny in it. 0:10:30.000 --> 0:10:31.760 And there's a couple of times where. 0:10:33.240 --> 0:10:36.080 He loves the group chat fight and now he just 0:10:36.160 --> 0:10:39.920 does it on Twitter all the time. There's no one 0:10:39.920 --> 0:10:43.360 who loves yelling back and forth with people more than 0:10:43.520 --> 0:10:46.840 john Like overten he I think he loves his favorite 0:10:46.840 --> 0:10:47.480 thing in the world. 0:10:47.480 --> 0:10:49.640 He loves it, and he's a guy. 0:10:49.800 --> 0:10:51.760 I always say it like I wouldn't get into a 0:10:51.800 --> 0:10:54.560 fight with him because he's got he'll never lose, like 0:10:54.640 --> 0:10:56.200 in his mind, he'll never lose it. 0:10:56.240 --> 0:10:57.800 So I just like I can't. I can't. 0:10:57.960 --> 0:11:00.400 I'm good to just not even engage on it. So 0:11:00.679 --> 0:11:03.760 that's how he is all the time. And I so 0:11:03.800 --> 0:11:05.640 I did catch up. I eventually saw and then I 0:11:05.679 --> 0:11:07.679 was just getting all raised stuff in my feed. 0:11:08.920 --> 0:11:09.240 People. 0:11:09.280 --> 0:11:11.240 Who's funny because I get a bunch of blue shay 0:11:11.360 --> 0:11:14.800 stuff now Ever since that, yeah, and no one wants 0:11:14.880 --> 0:11:17.040 to see the other side of it, and it's like 0:11:17.160 --> 0:11:19.480 everyone's just yelling out they're the worst fans. 0:11:19.520 --> 0:11:22.240 That Twitter is just full of the worst people in 0:11:22.320 --> 0:11:25.040 the world. Like you're you log onto the app, you 0:11:25.160 --> 0:11:28.120 know you're getting the worst stuff you've ever seen you 0:11:28.240 --> 0:11:31.120 got well, and everyone just thinks they're on a moral 0:11:31.200 --> 0:11:34.280 high ground compared to each other. Everyone's bad, it's all. 0:11:34.360 --> 0:11:36.640 No one uses Twitter for good anymore. Like it's just 0:11:37.120 --> 0:11:39.839 once you start to realize that and you can accept it. 0:11:40.320 --> 0:11:43.040 It's it was the one tweets like hopefully Chandler ships 0:11:43.040 --> 0:11:46.560 and tears his a cl Every bad fan is doing 0:11:46.600 --> 0:11:47.320 that nowadays. 0:11:47.400 --> 0:11:47.920 You can't. 0:11:48.240 --> 0:11:50.760 Like it's Twitter and toy twenty six. We know what 0:11:50.920 --> 0:11:54.840 people are gonna say about each other. And it's absolutely like, 0:11:54.880 --> 0:11:57.440 I never it's out on that. 0:11:58.040 --> 0:12:00.920 It really is fun. I think you're You're absolutely right. 0:12:01.000 --> 0:12:04.720 It's just it's just everyone's the worst now and and 0:12:04.840 --> 0:12:07.080 I saw the one meme where it's like the two 0:12:07.120 --> 0:12:09.480 dogs they're barking to each other to the fence and 0:12:09.520 --> 0:12:12.080 then when the fence opens, then they just stop. But 0:12:12.240 --> 0:12:15.160 they to stop fighting because they got no bite for 0:12:15.240 --> 0:12:19.320 each other. Dude, like like that that's how it always is. 0:12:19.360 --> 0:12:21.319 You know, it's always nice at the stadium when the 0:12:21.400 --> 0:12:23.520 when Toronto comes around, it's like. 0:12:23.640 --> 0:12:24.760 What what is this Twitter? 0:12:24.960 --> 0:12:28.360 Like it's not representative at all of of real life. 0:12:28.920 --> 0:12:31.800 It is not. It is. It is the craziest part 0:12:31.800 --> 0:12:33.920 and yeah, like the raised stuff. 0:12:33.960 --> 0:12:36.320 I mean, they're the Jays are just getting dog walked 0:12:36.480 --> 0:12:38.640 these two series in a row, so obviously people are 0:12:38.640 --> 0:12:41.360 gonna complain. And the way the Rays do it is 0:12:42.080 --> 0:12:44.040 I mean, I mean they're gonna hit like around is 0:12:44.040 --> 0:12:46.520 gonna hit the home runs too, but like goying to 0:12:46.600 --> 0:12:49.480 Luca bloop double for for the first round of the game, 0:12:49.520 --> 0:12:50.680 everyone's gonna freak out. 0:12:51.800 --> 0:12:53.760 Some people have been calling it terrorist ball. 0:12:54.240 --> 0:12:59.760 That's Johnny's one a thing. Yeah, that's that's the issue. Yeah, 0:12:59.800 --> 0:13:02.120 it's just like I love the way the race play. 0:13:03.240 --> 0:13:06.360 Gotta just there's not one way to play baseball, Like 0:13:06.400 --> 0:13:09.720 you can score runs other ways than just hitting home runs. 0:13:09.720 --> 0:13:12.520 And everyone clowns the Yankees for years on that they're 0:13:12.520 --> 0:13:14.680 gonna hit the most home runs and then hey, you 0:13:14.679 --> 0:13:18.240 face some really good arms in the playoffs, then maybe 0:13:18.480 --> 0:13:21.160 those home runs don't come and you can't manufacture other ways, 0:13:21.160 --> 0:13:23.600 And like the race, for a team that's not spending 0:13:23.600 --> 0:13:27.080 a lot of money, speed is gonna be the cheapest 0:13:27.120 --> 0:13:28.280 asset usually. 0:13:28.760 --> 0:13:30.240 So if you can hit a couple of guys and you. 0:13:30.200 --> 0:13:33.080 Can play that way, like why not doing Chandler Simpson 0:13:33.120 --> 0:13:36.960 watching him play baseball is a coach's dream, sure, like 0:13:37.000 --> 0:13:40.160 the hitting much improved defense this year too, Like that's 0:13:40.400 --> 0:13:42.480 we're figuring some things out at the big league level. 0:13:42.480 --> 0:13:44.360 But put the ball on the ground. 0:13:44.679 --> 0:13:47.720 Any hitting coach would tell Chandler Simpson, never hit the 0:13:47.720 --> 0:13:48.440 ball in the air. 0:13:48.920 --> 0:13:49.800 You hit the ball in the air. 0:13:50.480 --> 0:13:53.920 We tell them that. We're like, dude, stop hit like 0:13:53.920 --> 0:13:56.760 like line drives and ground ball like we need like 0:13:56.800 --> 0:14:00.480 the negative negative launch angles need him. 0:14:00.400 --> 0:14:00.560 To do. 0:14:02.400 --> 0:14:05.439 Any level you'd play at, and you have a hitting 0:14:05.480 --> 0:14:08.720 coach who's above sixty years old, he'd say, don't ever 0:14:09.080 --> 0:14:11.400 hit the ball in the air, Like it's not getting one. 0:14:11.480 --> 0:14:13.360 We all know it's not gonna get out of the park. 0:14:13.880 --> 0:14:16.720 Maybe we'll luck into one this year, but the chances 0:14:16.760 --> 0:14:19.560 of that are pretty low. But yeah, I just love 0:14:19.600 --> 0:14:21.400 when you put pressure on another team and you can 0:14:21.520 --> 0:14:24.640 just tell, not against the Blue Jays obviously, but you 0:14:24.680 --> 0:14:27.240 can tell when it just speeds everyone up and it 0:14:27.320 --> 0:14:30.680 just creates some some chaos. It's it's fun baseball to watch, 0:14:31.560 --> 0:14:34.040 But yeah, I guess it. Wish it wasn't for those 0:14:34.080 --> 0:14:35.320 five games. 0:14:35.560 --> 0:14:38.240 I like the one picture of Johnny with Ryan right 0:14:38.280 --> 0:14:44.680 behind Ryan Bass. 0:14:40.840 --> 0:14:45.480 Why was he on. 0:14:45.400 --> 0:14:47.240 The field I'm so confused. 0:14:47.680 --> 0:14:50.480 So we were we worked, we did a video where 0:14:50.480 --> 0:14:52.160 we worked the grounds crew for the day. 0:14:52.240 --> 0:14:53.560 Oh that's awesome. 0:14:53.840 --> 0:14:55.320 So we were we were sitting. 0:14:55.520 --> 0:14:57.240 They were all kind of standing in the well there 0:14:57.280 --> 0:14:59.320 and they're like, you guys can go sit down. I 0:14:59.440 --> 0:15:01.600 was beside him for a bunch of the time, and 0:15:01.640 --> 0:15:04.000 then yeah, I was just to the left obviously doing 0:15:04.000 --> 0:15:05.280 all of all of his stuff. 0:15:05.320 --> 0:15:06.560 The cameras were right there. 0:15:06.600 --> 0:15:08.960 But that picture where it cuts to him and he's 0:15:09.000 --> 0:15:11.160 just behind him is very funny. 0:15:11.520 --> 0:15:15.440 That's an incredible jot. Yeah, Ryan has been He's been 0:15:16.400 --> 0:15:19.720 fantastic this year, just doing random shit. Like I think 0:15:20.320 --> 0:15:22.400 yesterday or the day before that, he was up in 0:15:22.440 --> 0:15:25.400 one of the boxes one of the hotel rooms, yeah, 0:15:25.720 --> 0:15:28.040 overlooking the field because there was a couple of race 0:15:28.080 --> 0:15:30.200 fans that had rented out the room. So he did 0:15:30.240 --> 0:15:32.120 like a whole thing. He had the robe on, he 0:15:32.200 --> 0:15:34.440 had a glass of wine I guess was poured by them. 0:15:34.880 --> 0:15:36.440 I think he said he was going to try to 0:15:36.480 --> 0:15:39.320 go up to the sand tower potentially because I know. 0:15:39.640 --> 0:15:41.880 He wanted to do that hanging over the edge thing, 0:15:42.000 --> 0:15:44.400 which I would never do. I wouldn't do that. In 0:15:44.440 --> 0:15:47.440 ten thousand years. But it's cool that that's literally right 0:15:47.480 --> 0:15:49.200 next to the stadium, you know, it. 0:15:49.120 --> 0:15:50.560 Is it is, it is. 0:15:50.680 --> 0:15:51.200 It is cool. 0:15:51.320 --> 0:15:52.960 That's right down the street for me, and I don't 0:15:52.960 --> 0:15:56.720 think the weather's that goode right now. So we'll see 0:15:56.720 --> 0:15:58.440 if he ends up doing that today. 0:15:58.800 --> 0:16:01.080 Well I know that. So earlier in the year when 0:16:01.080 --> 0:16:03.360 they were in Saint Louis, he went in the middle 0:16:03.400 --> 0:16:04.480 of the game, or I guess it was at the 0:16:04.520 --> 0:16:06.240 beginning of the game, but still in the middle of 0:16:06.240 --> 0:16:08.040 the game, he went up to the top of the 0:16:08.040 --> 0:16:11.040 gateway arch and had like a live feed of him 0:16:11.040 --> 0:16:13.880 inside the arch. So I feel like he's going to 0:16:13.960 --> 0:16:16.200 try to do something like that. But like the whole 0:16:16.240 --> 0:16:19.560 I mean, he's normally on the sideline, he's normally you know, 0:16:19.920 --> 0:16:21.560 in next to the dugout whatever it is. But the 0:16:21.560 --> 0:16:24.840 fact that they caught Johnny right behind him, I mean 0:16:25.200 --> 0:16:28.120 that is gold, Like like that's the kind of shit 0:16:28.200 --> 0:16:30.200 that you guys can form for the rest of the 0:16:30.280 --> 0:16:32.880 year and just using as content like like that's the 0:16:32.920 --> 0:16:35.440 stuff that that is the good stuff. It really works. 0:16:35.840 --> 0:16:38.040 Yeah, And people were taking because we had to change 0:16:38.080 --> 0:16:39.800 the base that well we didn't have to. We were 0:16:40.000 --> 0:16:42.360 we were asked to and said yes to it. Obviously 0:16:42.760 --> 0:16:45.080 we changed the bases, like in the middle of the game. 0:16:45.120 --> 0:16:47.800 We were on the field and people just took videos 0:16:47.840 --> 0:16:51.200 of Johnny doing it and just would be making fun 0:16:51.200 --> 0:16:52.520 of him changing first base. 0:16:53.160 --> 0:16:53.760 So it was good. 0:16:54.000 --> 0:16:57.920 Yeah, that's incredible, that's that's genuinely so funny. Yeah, this 0:16:58.160 --> 0:17:03.120 is so looking at the I mean the whole Chandler 0:17:03.120 --> 0:17:04.639 thing because you brought him up, and I want to 0:17:04.680 --> 0:17:09.440 talk about that, like people genuinely hate Chandler Simpson like 0:17:09.440 --> 0:17:12.000 like like like the hatred for him and how he 0:17:12.040 --> 0:17:16.480 plays baseball because everyone is just feast or famine, you know, 0:17:16.560 --> 0:17:19.760 it's the three true outcome thing, Like people hate him 0:17:19.840 --> 0:17:23.040 so much? Is the hate I mean from your end? 0:17:23.080 --> 0:17:24.520 And then Gibby, I want to get your take on 0:17:24.600 --> 0:17:27.640 it too, Is the hate warranted or no? 0:17:28.720 --> 0:17:31.280 So Jian and I got in a big, oh it's 0:17:31.320 --> 0:17:31.800 not fight. 0:17:31.880 --> 0:17:35.120 We were on stream when last year he said he's 0:17:35.119 --> 0:17:38.640 the most unethical baseball player, and I was I said, 0:17:38.680 --> 0:17:41.520 he's the most ethical baseball player. Like it's just he 0:17:41.560 --> 0:17:45.680 says different tools than the people you think are ethical, 0:17:45.760 --> 0:17:48.080 Like all he can do is hit the ball and 0:17:48.119 --> 0:17:50.280 ground and just be the fastest guy ever, Like he 0:17:51.560 --> 0:17:55.680 that's his ethical was the wrong term to fight over 0:17:55.720 --> 0:17:59.720 because one that doesn't matter. Yeah, Like, it's just because 0:17:59.760 --> 0:18:02.480 it's gil set is different than the players you like 0:18:02.560 --> 0:18:05.840 to watch. Doesn't mean he's a it's bad to it's 0:18:06.200 --> 0:18:08.000 bad viewing, it's bad baseball. 0:18:08.040 --> 0:18:08.360 I think. 0:18:08.680 --> 0:18:11.760 I think it's it's almost good for him, Like, hey, 0:18:12.240 --> 0:18:14.600 you you're doing this in a whole different way than 0:18:15.160 --> 0:18:18.400 most other successful players in the league. So I'm I'm 0:18:18.400 --> 0:18:20.439 a fan of that solid baseball because of the CHAOSI 0:18:20.520 --> 0:18:22.760 come the Blue Jays don't steal any bases, like they 0:18:23.119 --> 0:18:24.159 we have a bunch of guys. 0:18:24.040 --> 0:18:25.520 Who just plug it up. And I was like, oh, 0:18:25.560 --> 0:18:27.040 this is it's really boring. 0:18:27.080 --> 0:18:29.679 And that's why it took them last year to be 0:18:29.800 --> 0:18:33.639 this high slug team, like really really good driving people 0:18:33.680 --> 0:18:36.600 in to make them a really good offense. 0:18:36.720 --> 0:18:37.600 Year before, Like. 0:18:37.560 --> 0:18:39.760