WEBVTT - The Cycle: Rounding The Bases (Ep. 1022) 0:00:05.160 --> 0:00:08.280 Hello, everybody, Welcome into the Cycle. I am Ryan Warmley, 0:00:08.320 --> 0:00:11.400 joined as always by Mike Mayor. We are talking all 0:00:11.400 --> 0:00:14.560 things fantasy baseball. This is part one of three parts 0:00:14.560 --> 0:00:16.960 of the cycle, as we give to you every single week. 0:00:17.000 --> 0:00:20.520 We are rounding the basis with some trending topics, some 0:00:20.600 --> 0:00:23.599 news updates, some bigger picture stuff. This is kind of 0:00:23.600 --> 0:00:26.720 the catch all part of the show where we talk 0:00:26.760 --> 0:00:29.120 about really whatever it is that comes to mind for us. 0:00:29.120 --> 0:00:30.319 How are you doing here today, Mayor? 0:00:30.960 --> 0:00:32.680 I'm doing good. I'm really excited to get into this 0:00:32.720 --> 0:00:35.400 first segment to see if you're actually gonna drink alcohol 0:00:35.520 --> 0:00:36.080 on camera. 0:00:37.520 --> 0:00:41.040 Yes. Our first topic here is Brandon Hyde was fired 0:00:41.120 --> 0:00:44.239 a few days ago, and Worm does a tequila shot. Now. 0:00:44.320 --> 0:00:47.280 I promised to our audience that I would do with 0:00:47.320 --> 0:00:50.600 tequila shot on the show if Brandon Hyde was fired. 0:00:51.080 --> 0:00:54.200 It is ten am my time, Mayor here in Denver 0:00:54.280 --> 0:00:56.840 as of when we're recording this today, and I am 0:00:56.880 --> 0:00:58.520 still going to live up to it. So I have 0:00:58.640 --> 0:01:02.320 brought a little espolonneo and how do you pronounce it? 0:01:03.000 --> 0:01:06.759 Repisodo tequila here. I'm also rocking an Oriol shirt today 0:01:06.840 --> 0:01:08.640 kind of in celebration. Is a Funne One. It's like 0:01:08.680 --> 0:01:11.840 the Beatles, but it's like it's you know, Crossing Abbey Road, 0:01:11.840 --> 0:01:14.080 but it's four Oiols players. If anybody's watching YouTube, it's 0:01:14.080 --> 0:01:15.880 great shirt. They get compliments on it all the time. 0:01:16.640 --> 0:01:21.160 And I brought the bottle. I think it's it's Cal, 0:01:21.800 --> 0:01:24.440 it's Frank Robinson, It's it's not in this order, but 0:01:24.480 --> 0:01:27.440 it's Cal, Frank Robinson, Jim Palmer, and Brooks Robinson. 0:01:27.520 --> 0:01:29.520 Okay, so it's like famous. 0:01:29.520 --> 0:01:33.680 It's not like zach efln correct, It's it's like all time. 0:01:34.120 --> 0:01:37.160 It's probably the four best Orioles ever. I mean when 0:01:37.160 --> 0:01:38.919 you when you think about the oils, like the numbers 0:01:38.920 --> 0:01:41.080 that are retired to Candy Yards, it's like these guys 0:01:41.080 --> 0:01:43.639 and Earl Weaver, who's obviously a manager, not a player. 0:01:43.680 --> 0:01:46.760 So it's like pretty much the four the four Goats. 0:01:46.800 --> 0:01:47.840 I mean you could, I guess you could make an 0:01:47.880 --> 0:01:51.120 argument for like Eddie Murray in there and some other players, 0:01:51.120 --> 0:01:52.680 but yeah, I mean's that's pretty much what it is. 0:01:52.680 --> 0:01:54.560 But yeah, I brought the bottle so people would not 0:01:54.640 --> 0:01:58.600 accuse me of like just pouring something that wasn't tequila earlier. 0:01:58.800 --> 0:02:01.880 This is literally tequila and I'm pouring it on camera. 0:02:02.240 --> 0:02:04.120 I mean, that could be apple juice in a tequila 0:02:04.160 --> 0:02:05.040 boba for all we know. 0:02:05.120 --> 0:02:07.840 It is it is not, And I'm hoping I'm not 0:02:07.880 --> 0:02:10.280 gonna get in trouble for this because I did message you. 0:02:10.280 --> 0:02:12.160 I was like, I'm allowed to do this on air, right, 0:02:12.280 --> 0:02:14.000 and you said I don't see why not? 0:02:14.240 --> 0:02:17.720 So that and we asked no one else for for permission. 0:02:18.320 --> 0:02:22.480 Zero follow up. So uh, cheers to a new era 0:02:22.600 --> 0:02:23.400 for the Orioles. 0:02:23.840 --> 0:02:24.760 Cheers to you. 0:02:26.760 --> 0:02:28.000 All right, gonna be a great show. 0:02:28.680 --> 0:02:31.800 I would I would have done one too, But somehow 0:02:31.840 --> 0:02:33.920 I feel like showing up to daycare to pick up 0:02:33.919 --> 0:02:36.359 your kids with tequila on your breath is probably frowned upon. 0:02:38.120 --> 0:02:40.639 Uh well, I want everybody to notice too that, like 0:02:40.880 --> 0:02:42.840 you know, I'm this is a real tequila shot. There 0:02:42.880 --> 0:02:45.919 was no line, there was no you know, chaser here, 0:02:46.120 --> 0:02:48.720 just straight tequila. That's all you need when you're doing 0:02:48.720 --> 0:02:51.400 is shop. That's my stance on and do. I always 0:02:51.400 --> 0:02:54.200 say if I'm a if I'm drinking, if I'm sipping, 0:02:54.240 --> 0:02:56.240 it's gonna be like scotch or some kind of whiskey. 0:02:56.360 --> 0:02:58.560 If I'm mixing, it's gonna be wrong. If I'm shooting, 0:02:58.600 --> 0:03:01.200 it's gonna be tequila. That's that's definitely they go too. 0:03:01.240 --> 0:03:03.320 That went down really well. Actually, that's pretty I actually 0:03:03.320 --> 0:03:05.799 did tequila that, Teddy. More often you don't have to 0:03:05.840 --> 0:03:06.240 go back. 0:03:06.160 --> 0:03:07.799 And do like a slow mo of you taking in 0:03:07.800 --> 0:03:10.160 and see like what your your facial reaction. 0:03:09.960 --> 0:03:13.760 Was, see the reaction. Yeah, Well, anyways, I Brandon Hyde 0:03:13.880 --> 0:03:15.320 is fired, right, this is this is kind of why 0:03:15.320 --> 0:03:16.960 we're celebrating. I want to be really clear before we 0:03:17.000 --> 0:03:20.480 dive into this that fundamentally I don't really love like 0:03:20.720 --> 0:03:22.880 dancing on the grave of somebody who's lost their job 0:03:23.040 --> 0:03:25.760 like that's I recognize that there is a negative side 0:03:25.800 --> 0:03:28.720 to somebody getting fired, and we are having fun with it, 0:03:28.800 --> 0:03:31.079 but I, you know, I recognize that like a man 0:03:31.120 --> 0:03:34.120 lost his job, and I feel for that. Having said that, 0:03:34.160 --> 0:03:36.600 Brandon Hyde has more money than everybody in my family 0:03:36.600 --> 0:03:39.200 combined will make in our entire lifetimes, he will be fine. 0:03:40.040 --> 0:03:42.600 And the other thing with kind of celebrating and or 0:03:42.600 --> 0:03:45.480 at the very least being enthusiastic about moving on is 0:03:46.360 --> 0:03:48.480 it's not like he was given like short shrift here. 0:03:48.560 --> 0:03:52.680 He was given seven seasons as the Orioles manager. I 0:03:52.720 --> 0:03:54.920 know half of that time, he was dealing with the 0:03:54.960 --> 0:03:56.640 rebuild and was just kind of the guy having to 0:03:56.640 --> 0:03:58.840 wear those losses. I have a lot of respect for 0:03:58.880 --> 0:04:01.600 Brandon Hyde. I thought he was a very, very good 0:04:01.640 --> 0:04:05.040 manager for the rebuild. He was a good dude. I 0:04:05.160 --> 0:04:07.920 met him in person when I was back East covering 0:04:07.960 --> 0:04:13.520 the team, nice guy like. I have nothing bad to 0:04:13.520 --> 0:04:15.960 say about Brandon Hyde, except for once his team became 0:04:16.000 --> 0:04:18.719 a contender, he was just in over his head. I 0:04:18.720 --> 0:04:20.720 thought it was very clear when they got swept by 0:04:20.720 --> 0:04:23.000 the Rangers in the playoffs in twenty twenty three, I 0:04:23.000 --> 0:04:24.440 got very I thought it was very clear when he 0:04:24.480 --> 0:04:27.440 got swept by the Royals last year. Every time there 0:04:27.520 --> 0:04:32.480 was a serious, big, major series or game, I felt 0:04:32.480 --> 0:04:34.360 like he was getting out managed. I had a ton 0:04:34.400 --> 0:04:36.160 of problems, as I mentioned on this show, a lot 0:04:36.240 --> 0:04:40.720 with lineup decisions and sitting guys like Jackson Holiday and 0:04:40.880 --> 0:04:44.159 really not letting any young players get into a rhythm. 0:04:44.839 --> 0:04:48.480 Bullpen decisions I thought were crazy. A lot of the time. 0:04:48.760 --> 0:04:50.840 I just thought he was in over his head as 0:04:50.880 --> 0:04:52.719 the manager of a contending team, but as the manager 0:04:52.760 --> 0:04:54.280 of a rebuilding team, he was a lot of fun. 0:04:54.680 --> 0:04:57.239 I wish him definitely the best of luck moving forward. 0:04:57.240 --> 0:04:59.600 No ill will and even though we're having fun here. 0:04:59.600 --> 0:05:02.039 Like I said, I I do recognize and have empathy 0:05:02.120 --> 0:05:03.680 for the fact that he lost his job, But I 0:05:03.680 --> 0:05:05.120 do think this is a good step for the Orioles. 0:05:05.320 --> 0:05:06.800 The biggest problem is that it took as long as 0:05:06.800 --> 0:05:08.600 it did, Like it shouldn't have. We shouldn't have taken 0:05:08.680 --> 0:05:11.680 until now to replace him. And I'm really curious where 0:05:11.680 --> 0:05:12.279 they go from here. 0:05:12.320 --> 0:05:13.760 Well, I think they had to give him some leeway. 0:05:13.760 --> 0:05:15.320 They were like, look, you would take your lumps for 0:05:15.320 --> 0:05:16.919 a few years, Let's give you a long leash on 0:05:16.920 --> 0:05:18.120 the back end of this to see if you can 0:05:18.160 --> 0:05:21.479 turn this around. I think his biggest mistake was allowing 0:05:21.520 --> 0:05:23.400 them to build the Great Wall of Baltimore out in 0:05:23.480 --> 0:05:26.080 left field instead of chaining himself to the fence and 0:05:26.120 --> 0:05:28.560 forcing them not to move that wall back. Because that 0:05:28.720 --> 0:05:30.000 ruined Ryan Mountcastle. 0:05:30.600 --> 0:05:32.360 I was gonna say, you only feel that way because 0:05:32.360 --> 0:05:33.720 you love Ryan Mountcastle. 0:05:35.480 --> 0:05:37.000 I mean there were some other people didn't do any 0:05:37.000 --> 0:05:39.039 favors either. I don't think Austin Hayes appreciated it for 0:05:39.080 --> 0:05:40.160 his career development either. 0:05:40.760 --> 0:05:44.560 Yeah, and I recognize too that this year's team is 0:05:45.200 --> 0:05:48.039 not solely Hide's fault. There have been some injuries, and 0:05:48.800 --> 0:05:51.720 very importantly, there has been a real lack of pitching 0:05:51.800 --> 0:05:54.760 availability because Michael Ayas did not do a good enough 0:05:54.839 --> 0:05:56.680 job building the team of the offseason, and also the 0:05:56.720 --> 0:05:59.200 lineup isn't good enough. They lost Anthony Santander, who had 0:05:59.680 --> 0:06:02.760 mid already's homers last year, and they replaced him with 0:06:02.960 --> 0:06:06.360 Tyler O'Neil, who hasn't been good since opening day, you know, 0:06:06.440 --> 0:06:09.080 adlely taking a step back. It seems like there's some 0:06:09.120 --> 0:06:11.039 bad luck in there. But it's now been a year 0:06:11.040 --> 0:06:13.600 of this. Gunner has not been his usual stuff. I 0:06:13.600 --> 0:06:15.159 think he was rushed back from the injury that he 0:06:15.160 --> 0:06:17.560 had in spring training. But we're now into late May, 0:06:17.800 --> 0:06:20.000 like you know, those excuses start to run a little 0:06:20.000 --> 0:06:21.719 thin at a certain point. It seems like it's just 0:06:22.120 --> 0:06:23.839 kind of a down start to the year for him. 0:06:24.120 --> 0:06:27.039 Mullins started off hot and then got cold. You know, 0:06:27.080 --> 0:06:30.520 Westburg's been hurt, Cowser has been hurt. But this lineup 0:06:30.520 --> 0:06:32.279 wasn't good enough going into the year, I don't think. 0:06:32.640 --> 0:06:35.640 And the rotation was not even the top twenty rotation 0:06:35.720 --> 0:06:37.920 in baseball coming into the season, and that was before 0:06:37.960 --> 0:06:40.960 Eflyn got hurt and before, like you know, knowing that 0:06:41.000 --> 0:06:43.320 Grayson Roaldriguez has had a lot of injury problems like this, 0:06:43.560 --> 0:06:45.520 it just simply was not good enough that they lost 0:06:45.520 --> 0:06:48.520 Corbyn Burns did not replace him, They lost Santainder replaced 0:06:48.560 --> 0:06:51.520 him with Tyler O'Neill, And I recognize that, so I 0:06:51.520 --> 0:06:54.240 don't want to hold those issues against Tide. There were 0:06:54.279 --> 0:06:56.440 other reasons that I felt like Hyde should have should 0:06:56.480 --> 0:06:58.800 have been let go, But this was not a good 0:06:58.880 --> 0:07:00.600 job in the off season by Michael either. 0:07:00.839 --> 0:07:02.919 No, and that's with getting the best case scenarios so 0:07:03.000 --> 0:07:07.000 far with Tony Yuki Sigano. Like you, this is the 0:07:07.080 --> 0:07:08.840 highest range of outcome for him too, So if you 0:07:08.880 --> 0:07:11.000 weren't getting that, it would be even worse. Do you 0:07:11.040 --> 0:07:16.600 think from a fantasy perspective, are there any major changes here? 0:07:16.640 --> 0:07:19.520 Do you think we're going to see like a Kobe 0:07:19.520 --> 0:07:21.120 Mayo come up and get a long run here or 0:07:21.160 --> 0:07:22.680 do you think it's still going to be status quo 0:07:22.800 --> 0:07:23.280 for the words. 0:07:24.120 --> 0:07:26.600 The thing that's hard to answer about that is one 0:07:26.680 --> 0:07:28.720 of the litany of issues that I have with Brandon 0:07:28.840 --> 0:07:32.720 Hyde is I felt like he was far too deferential 0:07:32.760 --> 0:07:37.480 to Elias and it's hard to know how many of 0:07:37.520 --> 0:07:41.360 the lineup decisions we're coming from Hyde versus Elias and 0:07:41.400 --> 0:07:44.040 Sigma Dell saying like, Hey, our computer says X, Y 0:07:44.080 --> 0:07:47.640 and Z, So start these guys here and play them there. 0:07:47.880 --> 0:07:52.760 And Tony Manzilino is as an interim guy who's has 0:07:52.800 --> 0:07:55.520 it's basically admitted publicly that he's kind of run around 0:07:55.520 --> 0:07:57.560 like a chicken with his head cut off and is 0:07:57.640 --> 0:07:58.320 just like trying to. 0:08:00.040 --> 0:08:00.160 Think. 0:08:00.320 --> 0:08:01.880 I mean, he hasn't said that phrase, but it's been 0:08:01.960 --> 0:08:04.000 kind of implied. I think he said he didn't sleep 0:08:04.080 --> 0:08:06.800 until like the third night after this promotion. And you 0:08:06.800 --> 0:08:09.400 know they the Orioles didn't get the new manager bump. 0:08:09.480 --> 0:08:12.440 They lost like four in a row after after the firing. 0:08:13.320 --> 0:08:15.840 What is that the dead cat bounce? Is that what 0:08:15.840 --> 0:08:16.280 that's called? 0:08:16.360 --> 0:08:19.040 Yeah, but like the dead cat stay dead in this case, 0:08:20.240 --> 0:08:22.840 he has made it clear that he is here for 0:08:22.920 --> 0:08:26.880 the players, like he is not really concerned with anything else, 0:08:26.960 --> 0:08:30.680 is his his own coaching record, whatever. He is there like, 0:08:31.200 --> 0:08:33.480 you know, these players have been through a lot, and 0:08:33.559 --> 0:08:35.120 let's try and get this on track for them and 0:08:35.120 --> 0:08:38.160 put them in the best possible chance to succeed. Jackson 0:08:38.200 --> 0:08:40.240 Holliday has been batting lead off a lot since he's 0:08:40.280 --> 0:08:42.360 taken over. You know I did that some, but you know, 0:08:42.480 --> 0:08:44.240 I hope to see that continue throughout the rest of 0:08:44.280 --> 0:08:47.920 the year. And what I really hope, if you want 0:08:47.960 --> 0:08:50.760 to say, like and you Bordomine, have to write off 0:08:50.760 --> 0:08:52.600 the season, like for the playoffs at this point, they 0:08:52.640 --> 0:08:55.240 are just so far the whole day of digging them 0:08:55.360 --> 0:08:58.080 they've dug for themselves is just too too deep. I 0:08:58.120 --> 0:09:01.480 think that you should be thinking about twenty twenty six 0:09:01.520 --> 0:09:03.640 and you should be saying, I want to get Hessen, 0:09:03.720 --> 0:09:05.920 Kirstad and Kobe Mayo and if he gets called up, 0:09:05.960 --> 0:09:08.960 Samuel Bissio every at bat possible, and I don't care 0:09:08.960 --> 0:09:10.800 if it's against a lefty orl righty. I don't know 0:09:10.840 --> 0:09:12.960 if Elias is gonna approach it that way. I mean, 0:09:13.160 --> 0:09:15.000 another thing that really bothered me with Hyde was the 0:09:16.160 --> 0:09:21.920 just being so so driven by righty versus lefty, even 0:09:21.960 --> 0:09:25.960 ignoring when guys had reverse splits. And I want to 0:09:25.960 --> 0:09:29.080 see Holiday develop against left handed pitching. I want to 0:09:29.080 --> 0:09:32.120 see Kirstad do the same thing. I want to see 0:09:32.240 --> 0:09:35.120 Mayo if he gets called up again, just play every 0:09:35.160 --> 0:09:37.960 day and getting two We've seen it so often that 0:09:38.000 --> 0:09:41.000 these really strong prospects come up and don't hit the 0:09:41.000 --> 0:09:44.560 ground running. And it's happened across baseball, but it happens 0:09:44.600 --> 0:09:46.880 most consistently in Baltimore. And I think a large part 0:09:46.880 --> 0:09:49.880 of that is because these guys don't get consistent at bats. 0:09:50.000 --> 0:09:53.800 The only two players that I can remember right from 0:09:53.840 --> 0:09:55.880 the get go, as soon as they're called up they're 0:09:55.920 --> 0:09:59.719 playing every day are Adley and Gunner, and even they 0:09:59.800 --> 0:10:02.319 to a while to adjust. But everybody else has been 0:10:02.400 --> 0:10:05.679 this like, we're gonna wait for the right matchups and oh, 0:10:05.720 --> 0:10:07.880 you had two hits today, we're gonna sit you tomorrow 0:10:08.200 --> 0:10:09.800 just because you're facing a left tea and said, well, no, 0:10:09.880 --> 0:10:11.760 let's get the let's get the momentum going right. I'm 0:10:11.760 --> 0:10:14.440 locked in. It's a it's a rhythm sport. I just 0:10:15.040 --> 0:10:17.720 that was really frustrating. So I hope Tony Mansalino says, like, listen, 0:10:17.760 --> 0:10:20.280 we're just gonna play the young guys and get them 0:10:20.280 --> 0:10:21.840 at beats. And by the way, this team is talented 0:10:21.920 --> 0:10:23.720 enough that they could go on a run. I don't 0:10:23.720 --> 0:10:25.280 think it's a run to the playoffs, but they could 0:10:25.320 --> 0:10:28.280 go on a run just with guys getting hot, and 0:10:28.320 --> 0:10:30.560 if you ad they had a three run homer yesterday, 0:10:30.600 --> 0:10:33.280 and if Gunner looks like his MVP candidate itself like 0:10:33.280 --> 0:10:36.000 you did a year ago. So the fantasy implications is 0:10:36.000 --> 0:10:38.720 a long winded way of answering that is, I hope 0:10:39.040 --> 0:10:41.840 they just let the players play, and it's not like 0:10:41.880 --> 0:10:43.640 the whole coaching staff has turned over. I have a 0:10:43.679 --> 0:10:46.839 lot of problems with like their approach in the batter's box, 0:10:46.880 --> 0:10:48.839 and I think that does need work, But that's something 0:10:48.840 --> 0:10:51.360 that you revamp with a whole new staff. It's not 0:10:51.400 --> 0:10:53.679 gonna be the change in manager is gonna change all that. 0:10:54.160 --> 0:10:55.839 What you can hope for is that guy start playing 0:10:55.840 --> 0:10:57.839 hard again. I though I was really telling that in 0:10:57.920 --> 0:11:01.280 yesterday's game, their first win with Manson was one of 0:11:01.320 --> 0:11:04.920 their classic like comeback late, winning extra innings, like the 0:11:05.000 --> 0:11:07.280 kind of wins that they were doing all the time 0:11:07.320 --> 0:11:09.880 in twenty twenty three. So if they just start playing 0:11:09.920 --> 0:11:14.240 with a little more heart, excuse me, and giving guys 0:11:14.280 --> 0:11:16.200 every day a chance to get into a rhythm, I 0:11:16.240 --> 0:11:18.120 do think this can benefit fantasy managers. 0:11:18.440 --> 0:11:20.480 I think the other thing that could potentially benefit fantasy 0:11:20.520 --> 0:11:23.160 managers is and it's kind of hard to project this, 0:11:23.320 --> 0:11:25.960 and I'm not saying you can really buy low now, 0:11:26.000 --> 0:11:28.880 but it seems like the season is not going anywhere 0:11:28.880 --> 0:11:31.880 for the Orioles, which means what you're talking about, playing 0:11:31.920 --> 0:11:35.319 the young guys every day is either likely or more 0:11:35.400 --> 0:11:37.200 likely to happen in the second half of the season. 0:11:37.679 --> 0:11:39.760 And so if you can kind of like heading into 0:11:39.760 --> 0:11:43.400 the All Star break, make stash of Kobe Mayo, you know, 0:11:43.840 --> 0:11:47.840 get Kerestad, you know, on the cheap. I do think 0:11:47.880 --> 0:11:50.160 those kind of players could play every day in the 0:11:50.160 --> 0:11:51.760 second half of the season when there isn't a whole 0:11:51.800 --> 0:11:54.559 lot to play for other than player development. 0:11:56.600 --> 0:11:59.680 We are now giving away a Jose Ramirez signed Guardians 0:11:59.720 --> 0:12:02.319 jersey the courtesy of our friends at Pristine Auction dot com, 0:12:02.360 --> 0:12:03.880 and all you have to do to enter is to 0:12:03.960 --> 0:12:06.880 subscribe to the Fantasy Pros MLB YouTube channel right now, 0:12:06.960 --> 0:12:09.280 drop a comment below on any video, and that is it. 0:12:09.600 --> 0:12:12.000 We will be announcing one lucky winner right here on 0:12:12.040 --> 0:12:14.319 the channel, so make sure to turn on those notifications 0:12:14.640 --> 0:12:16.240 so you can know when new videos are up and 0:12:16.280 --> 0:12:20.280 to claim your prize. That's long enough on the Orioles, 0:12:20.280 --> 0:12:21.800 Thank you for letting me get that off my chest. 0:12:21.880 --> 0:12:24.600 Mayor and for celebrating to the degree I wanted to 0:12:24.640 --> 0:12:26.120 and for doing it tequila shop. 0:12:25.920 --> 0:12:28.480 And so everyone helped fast forwarded. Now we're heading on 0:12:28.480 --> 0:12:29.240 to second base. 0:12:29.600 --> 0:12:32.720 Because they were Yeah, that's too much Orioles. Stop for 0:12:32.720 --> 0:12:35.480 one episode. All right, let's go to our second topic here. 0:12:36.360 --> 0:12:39.319 This is more, you know, along the lines of close 0:12:39.400 --> 0:12:41.280 to you, near and dear to your heart. The tush 0:12:41.360 --> 0:12:45.680 push survives in the NFL. So we can take maybe 0:12:45.679 --> 0:12:47.440 thirty seconds on that of the I'm sure we've already 0:12:47.440 --> 0:12:49.880 turned off enough of our audience talking too much Orioles, 0:12:50.679 --> 0:12:52.679 but I wanted to kind of spin this into our show. 0:12:52.679 --> 0:12:56.800 What baseball rules would you like to see successfully get banned? 0:12:56.840 --> 0:13:00.199 I will just quickly say, Mayor, and I know you're 0:13:00.200 --> 0:13:02.200 an Eagles fan, so you might hate me for saying this. 0:13:02.480 --> 0:13:05.120 That's actually should have been banned. Now, the reasons for 0:13:05.160 --> 0:13:07.640 it being banned had nothing to do with a lot 0:13:07.640 --> 0:13:10.920 of the talking points from like the Packers or NFL media. 0:13:11.120 --> 0:13:12.960 It is not a safety concern. It is not a 0:13:12.960 --> 0:13:16.440 pace of play concern. It is not because one team 0:13:16.480 --> 0:13:19.800 has perfected it. In fact, most teams are really really 0:13:19.800 --> 0:13:22.200 effective at it. The Eagles just do it way more 0:13:22.200 --> 0:13:24.200 often than everybody else that the Eagles are the best 0:13:24.200 --> 0:13:26.640 at it, but like other teams can be, like the 0:13:26.720 --> 0:13:28.640 Ravens run their own version of it with Mark Andrews, 0:13:28.720 --> 0:13:32.280 Like this is not an Eagles problem. I just don't 0:13:32.320 --> 0:13:35.000 think you should have any plays in football that are 0:13:35.040 --> 0:13:38.840 designed to be one guy gets pushed from behind by 0:13:39.000 --> 0:13:41.640 his teammates or pulled. You know, if it were the 0:13:41.800 --> 0:13:44.679 kind of going the way forward, progress exists to not 0:13:44.760 --> 0:13:46.880 allow that for the defense to push you back. I 0:13:46.880 --> 0:13:48.880 don't see why we allow it for the offense to 0:13:48.880 --> 0:13:51.960 push you forward. It feels unfair to me if it 0:13:52.000 --> 0:13:53.920 happens kind of in a fluke scrum. Like I'm not 0:13:53.960 --> 0:13:56.360 saying you can never push anybody, although I wouldn't be 0:13:56.360 --> 0:13:57.880 opposed to that as a rule, like that's what it 0:13:57.960 --> 0:14:00.320 used to be prior to two thousand and five. But 0:14:00.520 --> 0:14:02.559 I don't like designing plays where the whole point of 0:14:02.600 --> 0:14:04.280 the play is like a guy gets pushed from behind. 0:14:04.600 --> 0:14:07.160 Just let them do sneak, you know, QB sneaks. Jalen 0:14:07.240 --> 0:14:08.840 Hurts will still be the best in football at it. 0:14:08.880 --> 0:14:11.480 So I wanted a band, but not having anything to 0:14:11.480 --> 0:14:13.000 do with the Eagles or safety or any of these 0:14:13.000 --> 0:14:14.760 other talking points, just kind of a general approach to 0:14:14.800 --> 0:14:15.120 the role. 0:14:15.400 --> 0:14:16.840 Yeah, that was the That was the whole reason, and 0:14:16.920 --> 0:14:18.760 I think that's why it failed too, that they like 0:14:18.920 --> 0:14:22.080 it was this sham attempt to like call it for 0:14:22.160 --> 0:14:24.560 like player safety and for like pace of play, which 0:14:24.600 --> 0:14:26.080 the only the only time I ever sold down a 0:14:26.080 --> 0:14:28.040 game was when the commanders jumped off side seven times 0:14:28.040 --> 0:14:31.640 in a row. But yeah, I know I didn't feel 0:14:31.680 --> 0:14:33.400 that strongly about it. Obviously as an Eagles fan, I 0:14:33.440 --> 0:14:35.520 was very happy to see the result. And social media 0:14:35.560 --> 0:14:37.840 has been amazing the last one of four hours, especially 0:14:37.840 --> 0:14:41.200 the actual Eagles account just like trolling everyone involved in 0:14:41.240 --> 0:14:44.800 this was it was amazing. But I do agree in 0:14:44.840 --> 0:14:47.320 a lot of senses it could be banned. I do 0:14:47.480 --> 0:14:49.160 agree with the kind of still that was like a 0:14:49.160 --> 0:14:52.840 sham attempt, but kind of expanding it more than just 0:14:52.880 --> 0:14:55.000 the toush push into like you can't because I think 0:14:55.000 --> 0:14:56.600 one of the more dangerous things is when like an 0:14:56.640 --> 0:15:00.200 offensive lineman comes running from five yards away and whow, 0:15:00.200 --> 0:15:01.800 I was into a pile to push everyone forward too, 0:15:01.920 --> 0:15:03.920 like that is a dangerous play and it's also kind 0:15:03.920 --> 0:15:06.480 of a not fair one. So I think, like, like 0:15:06.520 --> 0:15:09.680 you said that kind of stuff could be banned out 0:15:09.720 --> 0:15:11.320 of the game too, and I think it. I think 0:15:11.320 --> 0:15:12.680 it will next year. I think we're just going to 0:15:12.760 --> 0:15:14.280 get one more year of the Brotherly chev. 0:15:15.880 --> 0:15:17.920 I hope it is, but again not for any kind 0:15:17.960 --> 0:15:21.040 of Eagles reason or anything like that. What baseball rules though, 0:15:21.440 --> 0:15:23.760 would you like to see? Band We did kind of 0:15:23.800 --> 0:15:25.280 an episode where we do have a little deeper on 0:15:25.280 --> 0:15:26.520 this last year, but we have a lot of new 0:15:26.640 --> 0:15:29.680 viewers this year. We're our YouTube now, the podcast has grown, 0:15:29.680 --> 0:15:31.800 which were really grateful for, so for kind of some 0:15:31.880 --> 0:15:33.800 of our new listeners. And this is more of just 0:15:33.840 --> 0:15:36.360 a quick kind of reminder because these are similar rules 0:15:36.360 --> 0:15:38.680 that I picked last year and I put two down. 0:15:39.480 --> 0:15:43.040 One is the DH rule, and I said this last year, 0:15:43.080 --> 0:15:44.600 this is my favorite rule change that I would like 0:15:44.640 --> 0:15:47.640 to see. I don't want dhs, but I also don't 0:15:47.640 --> 0:15:50.160 want pictures to hit. I want just eight batters to 0:15:50.160 --> 0:15:51.640 bat in a lineup. And I know there's a lot 0:15:51.640 --> 0:15:54.840 of symmetry with nine in nine innings, and I get it, 0:15:55.160 --> 0:15:57.880 but I don't see why we just designate one player 0:15:57.920 --> 0:16:00.720 to do only half the game. And I know, like 0:16:00.760 --> 0:16:02.840 the Players Association will never let this happen, but like 0:16:03.200 --> 0:16:05.560 I think it should just be the eight players other 0:16:05.600 --> 0:16:09.040 than pitcher do both. And this would get the best 0:16:09.040 --> 0:16:11.240 players more at bats in a season because those guys 0:16:11.320 --> 0:16:14.040 hitting early there would be one few or batter before 0:16:14.040 --> 0:16:16.000 they get up again. I think it would help with 0:16:16.040 --> 0:16:19.640 some of the pitchers are too good problem in baseball too, 0:16:19.760 --> 0:16:22.600 because you're getting through the lineup more quickly, and therefore 0:16:22.640 --> 0:16:26.960 maybe pitchers, you know, are forced to If starters are 0:16:26.960 --> 0:16:29.000 forced to not go as deep when they're not pitching 0:16:29.040 --> 0:16:30.760 well because they're getting through the you know, the face 0:16:30.800 --> 0:16:34.280 and the best hitters more often, then the relievers are 0:16:34.280 --> 0:16:35.880 forced to cover more outs and then you don't get 0:16:35.880 --> 0:16:37.440 this guy coming in who can just throw one hundred 0:16:37.440 --> 0:16:39.400 and three because he's only facing one batter. Like I 0:16:39.400 --> 0:16:41.400 think it helps in a lot of ways, but at 0:16:41.440 --> 0:16:43.160 the end of the day, like I do, think it 0:16:43.200 --> 0:16:47.160 increases offense and it makes every player kind of unequal footing, 0:16:47.520 --> 0:16:49.320 and so I would really like to see the DH 0:16:49.400 --> 0:16:52.320 rule removed, but without bringing back pitchers hitting. What do 0:16:52.360 --> 0:16:53.160 you think about that one? 0:16:53.360 --> 0:16:55.440 I don't hate it, I do even though I grew 0:16:55.520 --> 0:16:57.280 up as an American League fan, I do kind of 0:16:57.320 --> 0:17:02.120 miss the strategy of having to hit and you know 0:17:02.160 --> 0:17:04.199 the late inning, like do I leave my starter in 0:17:04.280 --> 0:17:06.800 who's really good, or like sacrifice him because I need, 0:17:06.960 --> 0:17:09.200 you know, a pinch hitter. It also makes your bench 0:17:09.240 --> 0:17:11.639 more valuable. We just got to the point where pitchers 0:17:11.680 --> 0:17:15.280 were so bad at hitting that it just became like 0:17:15.920 --> 0:17:17.880 a mockery of the game. It was. It was so 0:17:17.920 --> 0:17:20.600 bad that they had to get rid of it. But 0:17:20.640 --> 0:17:22.960 I also don't hate the idea of just getting rid 0:17:23.000 --> 0:17:25.639 of the DH even though one of the greatest players 0:17:25.640 --> 0:17:27.440 in Red Sox's history was DH only, but he could 0:17:27.440 --> 0:17:31.480 play first base. David Ortiz, Yeah, I don't hate the 0:17:31.520 --> 0:17:35.280 idea overall. I hadn't considered the getting through the lineup 0:17:35.320 --> 0:17:37.760