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What do you 0:02:47.680 --> 0:02:50.079 got going on right now? I'm drinking water. I don't 0:02:50.120 --> 0:02:51.280 need any liquid courage. 0:02:51.639 --> 0:02:54.880 My Yankees and one Soto were giving me so much 0:02:55.120 --> 0:02:55.919 hype right now. 0:02:56.560 --> 0:03:00.440 What a game? What a game? I love you, One Sodo, 0:03:00.520 --> 0:03:02.120 All right, I'll relax, I'll relax. 0:03:02.280 --> 0:03:06.280 But I mean I I was smiling as I mean, 0:03:06.440 --> 0:03:08.400 I wasn't smiling at the beginning. But as the game 0:03:08.480 --> 0:03:11.079 went along and won, Zota did One Soda things. I 0:03:11.280 --> 0:03:13.639 just thank the good Lord. Wad Soda is a Yankee. 0:03:13.639 --> 0:03:16.679 Dude, I mean Juan Soda with an outfield assist. Like 0:03:17.120 --> 0:03:20.320 the world is crumbling to the ground right now. Nester 0:03:20.480 --> 0:03:23.800 Cortes look really shaky. But from ber Valdez did Frober 0:03:23.840 --> 0:03:27.079 walk six. We're gonna walk through every game, That's what 0:03:27.160 --> 0:03:29.240 we're gonna do. We're gonna go through game by game 0:03:29.680 --> 0:03:33.200 as an opening Day recap. It's eleven oh eight pm 0:03:33.400 --> 0:03:36.360 on Thursday. This is the only time this season that 0:03:36.400 --> 0:03:39.000 I'm gonna record this late until we get the postseason, 0:03:39.200 --> 0:03:43.080 So just know that I'm looking out for you, whoever's listening. 0:03:44.000 --> 0:03:46.400 But Peter tell us who We're brought. 0:03:46.240 --> 0:03:48.760 To you by, brought to you by bet MGM, the 0:03:49.000 --> 0:03:53.840 King of sports books. Remember when you download on iOS 0:03:54.080 --> 0:03:58.800 or Android the bet MGM app, use code just Baseball, 0:03:58.960 --> 0:04:02.040 and after you depy, they will offer you a first 0:04:02.120 --> 0:04:06.800 bet offer up to fifteen hundred dollars once you use 0:04:06.920 --> 0:04:09.800 the code absolute no brainer. Do not leave free money 0:04:09.880 --> 0:04:13.400 on the table, but remember terms and conditions apply. Must 0:04:13.440 --> 0:04:16.760 be twenty one or older. Gambling problem call or text 0:04:17.160 --> 0:04:19.480 one to eight hundred gambler. Can we skip all the 0:04:19.520 --> 0:04:21.040 rest of the games and just talk Yankees for like 0:04:21.120 --> 0:04:21.720 forty five minutes? 0:04:21.800 --> 0:04:23.960 Or no, No, we cannot. I want to talk about 0:04:24.160 --> 0:04:26.680 all thirteen games. I want to talk about the nine 0:04:26.720 --> 0:04:29.640 games that happened this afternoon. I want to talk about 0:04:29.680 --> 0:04:32.480 all thirteen games that happen on Thursday, and then, like 0:04:32.960 --> 0:04:38.039 we did draft the two games that were postponed until Friday, 0:04:38.120 --> 0:04:41.640 that was Mets Brewers and Braves Phillies. But we'll kind 0:04:41.680 --> 0:04:44.760 of preview those games at the tail end. I do 0:04:44.880 --> 0:04:46.280 want to start with the first game that was kind 0:04:46.320 --> 0:04:48.160 of a loan in the window. It was the first 0:04:48.279 --> 0:04:53.640 domestic game at three o'clock. Also, really bad scheduling by 0:04:53.680 --> 0:04:56.360 Major League Baseball having the first game of the year 0:04:57.200 --> 0:05:00.880 not start until three o'clock. It was my one o'clock 0:05:00.960 --> 0:05:01.720 first pitch. 0:05:01.960 --> 0:05:05.400 Not their fault. Brewers versus Mets got postponed. That was 0:05:05.440 --> 0:05:07.799 supposed to be the one o'clock Was it at one o'clock? Okay, 0:05:07.839 --> 0:05:09.600 can't blame I can't blame them, but I agree with you. 0:05:09.640 --> 0:05:11.320 I was sitting there at one pm. I even tweeted 0:05:11.360 --> 0:05:13.719 it out that I'm just pacing through my apartment waiting 0:05:13.800 --> 0:05:16.479 for action. I need my opening day one pm game. 0:05:16.680 --> 0:05:19.040 And the fact that it got rained out, I felt 0:05:19.080 --> 0:05:21.680 like it was pursting the season a little bit. But 0:05:21.839 --> 0:05:23.720 thankfully we had a great opening day. It was a 0:05:23.760 --> 0:05:26.240 great opening day. What I will also say, you know 0:05:26.360 --> 0:05:28.040 I'm a big college basketball guy. 0:05:28.400 --> 0:05:31.400 Yes you are. I got a text that Clemson was 0:05:31.440 --> 0:05:35.960 beating Arizona at halftime, and my literal response was, oh shit, 0:05:36.080 --> 0:05:39.160 I forgot college basketball was on. I forgot about the 0:05:39.200 --> 0:05:42.080 Sweet sixteen because I was so enveloped in Opening Day. 0:05:42.400 --> 0:05:44.280 And is that more of a testament to Opening Day 0:05:44.360 --> 0:05:46.240 or is that more of an indictment on college basketball 0:05:46.279 --> 0:05:49.039 this year. I think it's a nice hybrid of both. 0:05:49.200 --> 0:05:51.320 I think it's a good in Medley. Having said that, 0:05:51.400 --> 0:05:53.200 I'm going to give all the credit to Opening Day. 0:05:53.800 --> 0:05:58.320 This delivered, And I want to start with Angels Orioles 0:05:58.560 --> 0:06:02.960 in Baltimore because the vibe at Camden Yards was immaculate. 0:06:03.440 --> 0:06:06.120 And you've got Mike Trout taking Corbyn Burns deep in 0:06:06.200 --> 0:06:10.120 the first inning, and then Corbyn Burns retires sixteen in 0:06:10.200 --> 0:06:14.360 a row and punches out eleven in six innings of 0:06:14.560 --> 0:06:17.720 one hit ball, Corbyn Burns, I'll tee you up in 0:06:17.800 --> 0:06:21.440 a moment, but before we get to that, this O's offense. 0:06:21.560 --> 0:06:24.720 Baltimore won this game eleven to three. I texted our 0:06:24.920 --> 0:06:28.000 big Just Baseball group text. I was like, yes, Like 0:06:28.960 --> 0:06:31.920 this lineup is the deepest in baseball because of the personnel, 0:06:32.400 --> 0:06:35.720 but it's also exhausting, Like they are so far and 0:06:35.760 --> 0:06:38.960 away gonna lead the league in pitches per plate appearance 0:06:39.600 --> 0:06:44.120 one through nine. This Orioles team is never gonna lay down. 0:06:44.520 --> 0:06:46.880 I feel like we won't see an uncompetitive at bat 0:06:46.960 --> 0:06:48.000 for one sixty two. 0:06:48.560 --> 0:06:51.960 And Adley Rutschman just continues his opening day dominance. I 0:06:52.040 --> 0:06:54.000 know he went two for two in his first two hits, 0:06:54.080 --> 0:06:56.880 and that means he was seven for seven in his 0:06:57.000 --> 0:06:58.400 last few opening days. 0:06:59.240 --> 0:07:01.480 He's only two because he came up mid season in 0:07:01.520 --> 0:07:04.720 twenty one or in twenty two, So opening day twenty 0:07:04.800 --> 0:07:06.960 twenty three and opening Day twenty four his career on 0:07:07.080 --> 0:07:10.720 opening day, he's what he's He started seven for seven. 0:07:11.520 --> 0:07:16.120 But I like how you mentioned pitches. Her played appearance 0:07:16.560 --> 0:07:18.640 that this team is going to see a lot of pitches, 0:07:18.640 --> 0:07:21.800 because you're one hundred percent right. You would expect a 0:07:21.960 --> 0:07:24.480 young team like the Orioles, with a lot of young 0:07:24.560 --> 0:07:27.320 guns trying to make their name in the show it's 0:07:27.440 --> 0:07:30.920 opening day, to be super aggressive to get out of 0:07:31.000 --> 0:07:35.080 their approach. Nope, it looked like a bunch of veterans 0:07:35.120 --> 0:07:39.040 who have been there for ten years. And what was 0:07:39.160 --> 0:07:41.440 kind of the Orioles problem in the playoffs, right, it 0:07:41.520 --> 0:07:43.720 looked like the lights were a little bit too bright. 0:07:43.600 --> 0:07:44.920 When they went up against Texas. 0:07:45.360 --> 0:07:48.760 Now we understand the Texas Rangers won the World Series, 0:07:48.880 --> 0:07:51.120 so it's not a bad loss to lose to them, 0:07:51.160 --> 0:07:54.640 but it did seem like a couple of players on 0:07:54.720 --> 0:07:59.280 the Orioles just looked their age. They certainly did not 0:07:59.360 --> 0:08:02.560 look their age. Mike Trout Homer's in the first inning, 0:08:03.000 --> 0:08:07.000 was any Orioles fan worried? And then instantly it was 0:08:07.040 --> 0:08:12.080 a waterfall of runs. They are dangerous, They're overwhelming. And 0:08:12.560 --> 0:08:14.760 when we were doing our win total bets, right Jack, 0:08:14.920 --> 0:08:17.080 we thought to ourselves, I mean, the Yankees had a 0:08:17.120 --> 0:08:19.240 great game, and I'm excited about them, But how can 0:08:19.280 --> 0:08:22.120 the Orioles not be the favorites in the American League 0:08:22.160 --> 0:08:23.160 and at least in the AL East. 0:08:23.560 --> 0:08:25.000 No, I think they have to be the favorites in 0:08:25.000 --> 0:08:28.000 the American League East. I do think that Houston should 0:08:28.080 --> 0:08:31.400 be considered as the co favorite in the American League 0:08:31.520 --> 0:08:32.959 just because of the pitching depth. 0:08:33.080 --> 0:08:35.800 I know that the Yankees beat them, so like now 0:08:35.920 --> 0:08:38.599 it's it's really Yankees versus Orioles. And when you consider that, 0:08:39.000 --> 0:08:41.040 you know the Yankees have won Soto, maybe it is 0:08:41.080 --> 0:08:41.560 the Yankees. 0:08:41.559 --> 0:08:46.040 You're right, I have no rebuttal that was awesome. Perfect. 0:08:46.880 --> 0:08:49.440 How about Corbyn Burns a bottom dude? 0:08:49.559 --> 0:08:53.400 Okay, we saw one quick joke. Quick do you remember? 0:08:53.679 --> 0:08:56.679 So Arum picked Corbyn Burns as his cy young pick 0:08:57.760 --> 0:08:59.679 and Corbyn Burns gives up a home run to Mike 0:08:59.720 --> 0:09:02.640 Traup and I texted the group chat, Hey nice cy 0:09:02.720 --> 0:09:05.040 young pick arm. Look at what he's doing. He didn't 0:09:05.080 --> 0:09:06.719 give up a hit after that. I looked like a 0:09:06.800 --> 0:09:09.280 total dunce and I was more just making fun of Arham, 0:09:09.840 --> 0:09:12.440 but he was just surgical. But at the same time, 0:09:12.520 --> 0:09:15.560 it's like the Angels lineup, you know, did them all 0:09:15.559 --> 0:09:17.280 the favors in the world. But he was still on 0:09:17.480 --> 0:09:20.400 and he looked like vintage Corbyn Burns. Think about it, 0:09:20.520 --> 0:09:23.440 Orioles fans, you're kind of now used to this offense? 0:09:24.520 --> 0:09:26.640 Are you used to a guy an opening day shove 0:09:26.760 --> 0:09:32.560 in six innings, one hit, one earned eleven k's down 0:09:32.600 --> 0:09:35.839 the Angel's throat. The only problem with the Angels is 0:09:35.880 --> 0:09:39.160 there pitching. It's not the offense that's a major issue. 0:09:40.160 --> 0:09:42.680 And Corbyn Burns shut it down. 0:09:42.760 --> 0:09:47.079 It was sick. So the curveball is not new to 0:09:47.200 --> 0:09:50.120 Corbyn Burns' arsenal at all. It is his second most 0:09:50.240 --> 0:09:53.319 used pitch. He throws it fifteen to twenty percent of 0:09:53.400 --> 0:09:55.719 the time over the course of you know, each of 0:09:55.760 --> 0:09:57.840 the last three seasons. If I'm going back to twenty 0:09:57.960 --> 0:10:00.600 twenty one, twenty one, he was eighteen percent of the time, 0:10:00.760 --> 0:10:03.120 eighteen percent of the time in twenty two, seventeen percent 0:10:03.200 --> 0:10:07.320 of the time in twenty three. That curveball felt almost 0:10:07.480 --> 0:10:12.280 remastered in Start one, and we saw Corbyn kind of 0:10:12.760 --> 0:10:16.319 roll out of the gate slow last year with Milwaukee, 0:10:16.360 --> 0:10:18.640 and maybe he was just frustrated, but like, remember that 0:10:18.720 --> 0:10:21.079 opening day start last year was not great, and the 0:10:21.200 --> 0:10:24.160 first month or so of Corbyn Burns was not great, 0:10:24.320 --> 0:10:27.079 and then he settled in and it was Corbyn Burns again. 0:10:27.160 --> 0:10:31.640 But man, like this felt like an invigorated Corbyn Burns. 0:10:31.720 --> 0:10:34.439 And yeah, you see it with the cutter, surely, but 0:10:34.600 --> 0:10:36.840 I really saw it with the curveball, and I saw 0:10:36.840 --> 0:10:38.559 it like how he kind of tinkered with it. And 0:10:38.880 --> 0:10:40.800 I was listening to the radio broadcast for a little 0:10:40.800 --> 0:10:44.439 bit for the Orioles and they were talking about how 0:10:44.600 --> 0:10:49.040 he really is hunting with with that curveball. Now, I mean, 0:10:49.120 --> 0:10:51.480 we saw it, and we saw him locking dudes up. 0:10:52.120 --> 0:10:54.640 It was the curveball that stole the show. When it 0:10:54.720 --> 0:10:57.520 feels like any other time we talk about Corbyn Burns, 0:10:58.080 --> 0:11:01.079 it's that cutter at ninety nine, doted on the corner 0:11:01.120 --> 0:11:03.120 and we love it and there's nothing anybody can do 0:11:03.160 --> 0:11:06.920 about it, that bender man. If Burns is right, if 0:11:07.040 --> 0:11:10.240 Bradish is back in early May, I hope he's back 0:11:10.280 --> 0:11:14.000 early May, and you get the best version of g Rod, 0:11:14.160 --> 0:11:15.719 or at least the version of g Rod that is 0:11:15.840 --> 0:11:18.680 improved from last year. I mean, that's a front three 0:11:18.840 --> 0:11:23.000 that I think can contend with really any team in baseball. Yeah. 0:11:23.000 --> 0:11:24.720 I'm not even gonna add anything more to the Corbyn 0:11:24.760 --> 0:11:26.719 Burns part because it's like one of those games where 0:11:27.200 --> 0:11:29.920 Steph Curry shoots sixteen and it's like, yeah, he's real 0:11:30.120 --> 0:11:33.040 good at shooting. Yeah, It's like, how much better do 0:11:33.160 --> 0:11:35.720 I have to talk to you about how good Corbin 0:11:35.800 --> 0:11:38.480 Burns is? He was, I mean, he was vintage one 0:11:38.520 --> 0:11:41.160 of the best pitchers in Major League Baseball. On Opening 0:11:41.240 --> 0:11:45.400 Day at home, Birdland is out there spurt and water 0:11:45.480 --> 0:11:47.160 for their guys. They don't have to do shit for 0:11:47.240 --> 0:11:50.440 the other team because they weren't scoring. One more point 0:11:50.480 --> 0:11:52.400 that I wanted to bring up about this game. Were 0:11:52.440 --> 0:11:54.840 you listening to the Orioles broadcast when you were watching 0:11:54.880 --> 0:11:58.559 the game, or you listen to Angels Orioles. Did you 0:11:58.640 --> 0:12:02.040 hear the interview with their new owner David Rubinstein. 0:12:02.720 --> 0:12:05.640 I did not, but I saw Kevin Brown tweet that 0:12:05.760 --> 0:12:08.000 he loved their conversation at the second inning. 0:12:08.720 --> 0:12:11.760 It was if I was a fan of the Orioles 0:12:12.400 --> 0:12:16.120 after everything that they've been through. To hear this man 0:12:16.280 --> 0:12:20.319 talk about what he wants to do. Ugh, I wished 0:12:20.360 --> 0:12:23.640 I was an Orioles fan during that entire statement, because 0:12:23.760 --> 0:12:25.880 you know when like Hedge fund guys come in or 0:12:26.040 --> 0:12:29.199 any owner and they want to take a big role 0:12:29.280 --> 0:12:31.959 in the team. Maybe it was their dream as a 0:12:32.040 --> 0:12:34.480 little kid and they want to pull a Jerry Jones 0:12:34.520 --> 0:12:38.640 where they're part GM part owner. No, he said, I 0:12:38.760 --> 0:12:42.120 have Michael Ias. I'm gonna let him do whatever he wants. 0:12:42.679 --> 0:12:45.360 And as an Orioles fan, knowing that Michael Oas is 0:12:45.480 --> 0:12:48.520 fantastic in the margins but hasn't had the ammo to 0:12:48.559 --> 0:12:51.440 go make the big move, and now these guys are 0:12:51.520 --> 0:12:54.400 coming in and they're like, well, we can help sell 0:12:54.480 --> 0:12:57.079 season tickets, we can help you know with charities, but 0:12:57.240 --> 0:13:00.840 like we're just trying to make the Orioles a better 0:13:00.960 --> 0:13:05.960 team financially to help Michael Lias continue to grow this team. 0:13:06.240 --> 0:13:09.240 He made some jokes about the Magna Carta. He asked 0:13:09.280 --> 0:13:11.320 if there was a mercy rule in the second inning. 0:13:11.559 --> 0:13:13.679 I love David Rubenstein. I just came away from that 0:13:13.760 --> 0:13:15.199 big like I wish you were my owner. 0:13:15.679 --> 0:13:21.199 So you're kind of done with the Steinbrenners. Huh. You know, 0:13:22.040 --> 0:13:23.679 you know we want to know, we're want to know 0:13:23.960 --> 0:13:26.400 you are. So I am going to go back and 0:13:26.480 --> 0:13:29.360 listen to that second ending conversation because everything that I've read, 0:13:29.640 --> 0:13:32.040 I really love the vibe and that just sounds like 0:13:32.080 --> 0:13:34.360 somebody that I would immediately latch onto. And you think 0:13:34.440 --> 0:13:37.360 about the people that are trying to replicate the Jerry 0:13:37.480 --> 0:13:41.600 Jones template. It never works. But the people that find 0:13:41.679 --> 0:13:44.079 their own way to be involved with the team and 0:13:44.240 --> 0:13:47.240 still trust their lead decision makers on the baseball front 0:13:47.640 --> 0:13:50.000 are the ones that are great at this. It did 0:13:50.080 --> 0:13:52.520 feel like Steve Cohen was overstepping his boundaries a little 0:13:52.520 --> 0:13:54.920 bit with Billy Eppler, and hey, it's not working. We'll 0:13:54.920 --> 0:13:59.040 see if Steve Cohen continues to overstep boundaries with David Stearns. 0:13:59.080 --> 0:14:01.440 I assume not be because he brought the right guy 0:14:01.640 --> 0:14:04.760 in to do it. But those two working in tandem 0:14:05.280 --> 0:14:08.400 is so important. That's why the Padres got really good. 0:14:08.760 --> 0:14:11.760 Peter Seidler loved the San Diego Padres. He wanted to 0:14:11.840 --> 0:14:15.679 see them be really good. He trusted AJ Preler and 0:14:15.760 --> 0:14:18.800 AJ Preller. While we think he's a madman, he's maybe 0:14:18.840 --> 0:14:21.920 the best drafter in Major League Baseball. They develop like 0:14:22.320 --> 0:14:26.440 very few others can, and man like when they're right, 0:14:26.560 --> 0:14:29.160 When they have that farm system replenished, he can go 0:14:29.320 --> 0:14:34.040 move for the big fish. Mike Elias just developed an 0:14:34.160 --> 0:14:38.000 organization that last year, at this time last year March 0:14:38.080 --> 0:14:41.600 twenty eighth, twenty twenty three, you could argue is twice 0:14:41.600 --> 0:14:44.520 as good as any other farm system in baseball. You've 0:14:44.560 --> 0:14:47.800 got that guy in place. Give him the keys to 0:14:47.920 --> 0:14:50.240 the Ferrari. He was driving a Honda Civic for the 0:14:50.320 --> 0:14:51.040 last five years. 0:14:51.480 --> 0:14:55.000 Now you're giving Michaelias money. Be afraid, rest of the 0:14:55.040 --> 0:14:55.840 American lad. 0:14:56.040 --> 0:14:58.880 It's Andrew Friedman. You've got a guy that was working 0:14:58.960 --> 0:15:01.440 on financial constraints, and you take him from a kiddie 0:15:01.440 --> 0:15:03.760 pool and you put him in the Atlantic Ocean and 0:15:03.960 --> 0:15:08.360 he can roam free. Cross sport reference. The vibe from 0:15:08.440 --> 0:15:11.560 David Rubinstein is very similar to Matt Ishbia when he 0:15:11.680 --> 0:15:14.080 took over the Phoenix Suns. Have you been following any 0:15:14.160 --> 0:15:17.840 of that, not even a little bit so Matt Ishbia, 0:15:17.960 --> 0:15:20.600 do your reading if you're interested. But he was like, 0:15:20.880 --> 0:15:23.320 I want to build the Sun's back up, and they're 0:15:23.400 --> 0:15:26.160 doing it. And right after Ishbia took over, they traded 0:15:26.200 --> 0:15:28.440 for Kevin Durant and they traded for Bradley Beal. So 0:15:28.960 --> 0:15:30.880 I'm all the way in on that. Should we move 0:15:30.920 --> 0:15:34.080 to the four o'clock first pitches? Let's do it. Let's 0:15:34.120 --> 0:15:39.640 start in Chicago Detroit and the White Sox pitchers duel 0:15:40.920 --> 0:15:43.040 who was better Crochet or Schooble. 0:15:45.040 --> 0:15:49.800 I mean, Scoople was unconscious, but Croche had a tougher 0:15:49.920 --> 0:15:53.360 assignment because have you seen this White Sox lineup? 0:15:54.000 --> 0:15:57.440 Mm? Hm, oh you have? What have you? I don't 0:15:57.560 --> 0:16:01.520 see it, but it's just listening. Have you seen it? 0:16:02.120 --> 0:16:03.760 I mean it was a dumpster. 0:16:04.360 --> 0:16:06.600 So I had Tiger's money line, for example, And I'm 0:16:06.640 --> 0:16:08.760 getting a little bit nervous in the later innings because 0:16:08.800 --> 0:16:10.320 I'm like, oh, what if the White Sox come back? 0:16:10.360 --> 0:16:13.440 They didn't never had a chance. So it's like Scoobal 0:16:13.520 --> 0:16:15.320 did scooble things. That's why I bet on him to 0:16:15.360 --> 0:16:18.120 win the cy Young Everything was working, but at the 0:16:18.160 --> 0:16:20.840 same time he's blown middle middle fastballs by guys It's 0:16:20.960 --> 0:16:23.800 just like I didn't I didn't come away from the 0:16:23.920 --> 0:16:28.360 start with Schooball learning anything new. I knew he was dominant. 0:16:28.760 --> 0:16:31.080 I knew that in his last two starts against the 0:16:31.080 --> 0:16:34.040 White Sox in the regular season in twenty three through 0:16:34.080 --> 0:16:39.000 twelve innings, only allowed two runs. Just dominates them. But 0:16:39.400 --> 0:16:41.480 how about Gerrit Croche? 0:16:42.680 --> 0:16:45.680 Holy shit, this was. 0:16:45.800 --> 0:16:51.920 His first start in professional baseball. The last time he 0:16:52.080 --> 0:16:56.880 made a start was at the University of Tennessee. Did 0:16:56.960 --> 0:16:59.400 you know that it was the first time the White 0:16:59.440 --> 0:17:03.520 Sox they're opening day starter when it's his first start 0:17:04.440 --> 0:17:07.960 since nineteen oh one with Roy Patterson. 0:17:08.640 --> 0:17:11.120 I mean it makes sense, Like why would you ever 0:17:11.320 --> 0:17:14.280 run a guy out? Think about this. The last time 0:17:14.520 --> 0:17:17.840 he threw the first pitch of a game was before 0:17:17.960 --> 0:17:21.920 the world shut down in March to twenty twenty. Yeah, 0:17:23.119 --> 0:17:25.680 it's a long time ago. Did you see the cutter? 0:17:27.040 --> 0:17:31.080 It's disgusting, Like what he does, how he cuts the 0:17:31.200 --> 0:17:34.760 ball is disgusting. And he's a big dude that works downhill. 0:17:35.480 --> 0:17:37.800 He throws hard. He doesn't throw one hundred and two 0:17:37.840 --> 0:17:40.560 anymore like he did a Tennessee but man, like he's 0:17:40.640 --> 0:17:44.000 in the mid nineties and that is it classified as 0:17:44.040 --> 0:17:46.040 a cutter. I know he's got a slider that's gross, 0:17:46.280 --> 0:17:49.680 but yes, it was the three pitches that looked like 0:17:49.720 --> 0:17:50.480 they were classified. 0:17:50.520 --> 0:17:52.800 It was this ninety eight mile an hour heater that 0:17:53.080 --> 0:17:56.879 just gets on guys high ride, big body. 0:17:56.960 --> 0:17:59.400 Garrett Crochet was he six six sixty seven. 0:17:59.480 --> 0:18:02.320 He looks enormous on the mound, just coming at you 0:18:02.440 --> 0:18:05.040 with all legs and it's like tight pants and it's 0:18:05.119 --> 0:18:08.320 just it's at you so fast. Then he has this 0:18:08.600 --> 0:18:10.879 ninety four mile hour cutter. He takes a little bit 0:18:10.960 --> 0:18:13.240 off it and just has that little bit of cut 0:18:13.400 --> 0:18:14.960 and guys just don't know what to do with it. 0:18:15.400 --> 0:18:18.280 And then the slider from hell. I was watching it 0:18:18.440 --> 0:18:21.160 big like, I mean, this is a diamond in the rough. 0:18:21.920 --> 0:18:25.800 I mean, this is incredible. But again the Tigers offense, 0:18:25.880 --> 0:18:27.440 I was also very disappointed with it. 0:18:27.520 --> 0:18:27.960 It's not good. 0:18:28.560 --> 0:18:30.640 I was just like, who are the guys in either 0:18:30.680 --> 0:18:32.720 of these lineups that are gonna make an impact today? 0:18:33.040 --> 0:18:35.560 So Luise Robert, Louise Robert is the guy in the 0:18:35.600 --> 0:18:38.359 White Sox lineup that's gonna make it impact. And then no, 0:18:38.560 --> 0:18:41.080 he didn't. And then you've got he went one for 0:18:41.160 --> 0:18:43.679 four with two punch outs, and then you've got you know, Tork, 0:18:43.840 --> 0:18:46.560 Like Riley Green's not at that level yet. I don't 0:18:46.600 --> 0:18:48.800 I don't even know if Tork's at that level yet. No, 0:18:49.000 --> 0:18:50.600 neither of them are. I mean they're both good. I 0:18:50.680 --> 0:18:52.600 both like them long term, but right now, I mean 0:18:52.600 --> 0:18:55.040 you can't compare them to Louise Robert right now. No, no, 0:18:55.320 --> 0:18:58.600 absolutely not. We were I just sent you a screenshot 0:18:58.640 --> 0:19:00.560 of the Guardian's lineup. I was like, this is really 0:19:00.720 --> 0:19:03.800 not good life. But it's like, Okay, Jay Ram is 0:19:03.840 --> 0:19:06.280 in the Luise Robert conversation, but aside from that, Bobby 0:19:06.280 --> 0:19:08.399 Witt Junior is in that conversation when it comes to 0:19:08.840 --> 0:19:12.000 you know, dynamic superstar hitters. But aside from that, the 0:19:12.119 --> 0:19:17.399 al Central is starved for talent. It was a one 0:19:17.480 --> 0:19:20.560 nothing game. It was a pitcher's dual. Schooble as of 0:19:20.720 --> 0:19:24.959 right now, is leading opening day starters in swings and misses. 0:19:25.080 --> 0:19:28.320 I think he got twenty whiffs in six innings. I 0:19:28.359 --> 0:19:32.359 mean he was discussing you combine Schoobling. Crochet's lines was 0:19:32.440 --> 0:19:37.280 twelve innings, eight hits, one run, fourteen punchouts, no walks 0:19:37.640 --> 0:19:41.560 between the two. Crochet I was expecting like three four walks. 0:19:41.840 --> 0:19:44.040 The fact that we got six innings, one run, eight 0:19:44.119 --> 0:19:48.639 punch outs, no walks amazing. I'm very happy. As a 0:19:48.680 --> 0:19:52.160 White Sox person, I'm I'm very happy. My dumb ass 0:19:52.200 --> 0:19:54.840 bet him under four and a half shrikeouts. He hadn't 0:19:54.840 --> 0:19:57.119 gone more than four innings in a spring training start. 0:19:57.480 --> 0:19:59.600 Then he goes six. I don't know what to do 0:20:00.080 --> 0:20:00.679 minute innings. 0:20:01.640 --> 0:20:03.280 One more thing that I wanted to run across you 0:20:03.359 --> 0:20:06.280 that I just found was interesting. Alex Lang is supposed 0:20:06.280 --> 0:20:09.760 to be the closer for the Tigers game one hundred 0:20:10.480 --> 0:20:11.840 one o one man our sinkers. 0:20:11.880 --> 0:20:13.520 I was like, holy shit, but. 0:20:13.560 --> 0:20:15.639 I mean he's always thrown gas with the sinker, but 0:20:15.840 --> 0:20:17.520 one oh one, I haven't seen that out of folly. 0:20:17.960 --> 0:20:21.359 But it was chafin for four outs and then fully 0:20:21.480 --> 0:20:24.439 got the last two. And I was thinking to myself, 0:20:24.520 --> 0:20:27.480 are they saving Lang? Did he lose the job? 0:20:27.840 --> 0:20:28.359 What is this? 0:20:29.000 --> 0:20:32.359 I was just I didn't I didn't understand. I mean, 0:20:32.400 --> 0:20:34.000 it worked out, didn't matter. I mean they could have 0:20:34.040 --> 0:20:36.800 thrown me literally in there and all. I mean these 0:20:36.840 --> 0:20:40.200 White Sox leeders that no shot, But I would have 0:20:40.440 --> 0:20:42.879 expected their closer in a one zero game an opening day, 0:20:42.920 --> 0:20:44.400 but I mean fully looked great. 0:20:44.520 --> 0:20:46.320 So did Chaffin. But again it's the White Sox. So 0:20:46.400 --> 0:20:48.360 I don't know, it is the White Sox. I don't 0:20:48.359 --> 0:20:50.359 know what happened with Lang. I don't have an answer 0:20:50.400 --> 0:20:52.200 to that, and I don't I haven't seen anything that 0:20:52.240 --> 0:20:54.879 aj Hinch said, so it remains to be seen. I 0:20:54.920 --> 0:20:57.600 guess I was looking for what aj Hinch might have said, 0:20:57.600 --> 0:21:00.680