Speaker 1: Hello and welcome to Waken Jake. Merry Christmas, Happy Hanukkah,
Speaker 1: felice Navidad. It's another way to say Merry Christmas. I
Speaker 1: was talking about that downstairs this morning. Anyways, let's talk
Speaker 1: sports instead of the languages on this beautiful December thirtieth.
Speaker 1: This will be the last Waken Jake of the new year. Hey,
Speaker 1: maybe I'm wrong, Maybe Bregman signs with the Yankees tonight. No,
Speaker 1: there's no rumors on that. We will talk about some
Speaker 1: of the remaining free agents because a lot of shoes
Speaker 1: have dropped since we last talked here. May have seen
Speaker 1: you on some other programming, but the last live episode
Speaker 1: of Waken Jake was Christian Walker's an astro.
Speaker 2: That.
Speaker 1: We have seen a lot of transactions since then. Mccutche
Speaker 1: into the Pirates. No, we're not going to start there,
Speaker 1: but a ton the first base market, Carlos Santana to Cleveland,
Speaker 1: Nathaniel Lowe Glabor Torres one year to the Detroit Tiger.
Speaker 1: Sean Mannaya gets the big contract on with the Mets,
Speaker 1: Walker Bueller to the Red Sox. Dreading that one a
Speaker 1: little bit, uh, and the big one, I mean Corbyn
Speaker 1: Burns signed with the Arizona Diamondbacks, which still a sentence
Speaker 1: when you say it out loud, feels a little wine.
Speaker 1: It still doesn't really feel real family wanted it? Were they?
Speaker 1: Who were they in the market? Did they call them?
Speaker 1: How'd that go down? I still want to know that.
Speaker 2: One of the rare like zero rumor.
Speaker 1: Major signings, no rumors. I'm I'm taking half pats on
Speaker 1: the back because I said I didn't have a Corbyn
Speaker 1: Burns team, like the Mets was supposed to be the
Speaker 1: layup and the Orioles was the backup layup. But the
Speaker 1: Orioles still haven't signed a big free agent, and the
Speaker 1: Mets it feels like they're investing in pitching or hitting,
Speaker 1: more so financially than the pitching where they're taking some
Speaker 1: chances on Montas Clay Holmes, although Maniah returns and he
Speaker 1: was really strong for them. But still like I I
Speaker 1: don't know, I think we've hit a weird part where
Speaker 1: with Sean and I where it's like, hey, I think
Speaker 1: Sean Maya kind of took off and had a big
Speaker 1: second half. Like I don't again, I don't know what
Speaker 1: we should be penciling Sean Mania in for. But if
Speaker 1: I think he's currently the Mets one b Sanga Manaya,
Speaker 1: but I still have my theory that they're going Old
Speaker 1: Brewers pitching factory. They will find pitching and they're paying
Speaker 1: for hitting because my god, Lindor Soto will Pete come back.
Speaker 1: Mark Fiento's Nimo gets paid a lot. People forget that
Speaker 1: and the rest of those kids, Jose Siri forgot about that.
Speaker 1: Might have to make my way to Flushing this year. Hmmm,
Speaker 1: Siri and Soto celebrate. Those will be good. Uh So
Speaker 1: let's get into that. Our guy and future friend that
Speaker 1: we've talked about on the program, Kyler McDaniel came out
Speaker 1: with his best and worst free agency and trade move
Speaker 1: so far. That's always uh. I feel like the editors
Speaker 1: at ESPN told him, like, hey, we need this one
Speaker 1: because it's tough.
Speaker 2: We have to be able to make this a title.
Speaker 1: It's a great click. It's a great click about the
Speaker 1: title of this. But let's start recapping through it, and
Speaker 1: then we'll get into some football a little bit because
Speaker 1: my college football playoff let me down a little bit
Speaker 1: to start give you some thoughts on that. Uh. In
Speaker 1: the NFL Sneaks and Ekes Closer to the post Cisson. Uh,
Speaker 1: so let's go through baseball, And I forget if I
Speaker 1: said it on the way through, because I kind of
Speaker 1: keep forgetting Jesus Lizardo. Yeah, traded to the Phillies. That
Speaker 1: one kind of got brushed out of the rug, like
Speaker 1: that guy was supposed to be one of the biggest
Speaker 1: trade prizes as of last year. And the Phillies make
Speaker 1: a strength of strike, so maybe let's start with them,
Speaker 1: and that maybe that's just because our resident Philly fans
Speaker 1: Shelfey is in the office today and said hi to him,
Speaker 1: Phillies man, and I laughed. I hit Shelfy with a like,
Speaker 1: oh it's been quiet. Huh. He's like, yeah, we're not
Speaker 1: doing nothing. They traded for Lozardo, which that's clearly something
Speaker 1: very talented starting pitcher added to one of the best
Speaker 1: pitching starting pitching staffs in baseball. They also signed Max Kepler, which, like,
Speaker 1: again for how free agency moves go, it's not one
Speaker 1: of the biggest moves this year, but it's also could
Speaker 1: Max Kepler hit thirty for the Phillies next year and
Speaker 1: we'd be like that was nice.
Speaker 2: Oh, we let them just have him.
Speaker 1: Definitely hitters ballpark Max Kepler's felt like he's had the talent.
Speaker 1: A little change of scenery surrounded by more talent, it
Speaker 1: could easily go the other direction. Welcome to free agency
Speaker 1: or baseball as a whole. And yeah, I guess it
Speaker 1: just has left the question mark are the Phillies done here?
Speaker 1: They reinforced their rotation with Wheeler Sanchez, Nola Suarez, Lozardo Yo.
Speaker 1: They also got Jordan Romano, So the Phillies standard is
Speaker 1: being held to a crazy area that we're like, it's
Speaker 1: been kind of quiet for Philly might have added a closer.
Speaker 1: Lozardo's listed as their five. He could easily be there three.
Speaker 1: We'll see how the season plays, and Max Kepler's probably
Speaker 1: more or less an everyday outfielder for them. That along
Speaker 1: with all the stars that were very familiar with at
Speaker 1: this point, Philly's been in the mix. It's just are
Speaker 1: they going to make the big move because supposedly they
Speaker 1: keep wanting to be in on crazy moves. See I'm
Speaker 1: a Moto. They were getting in on the bidding on
Speaker 1: him last year. Was it Sodo or was it someone
Speaker 1: else they were talking to this year that they were
Speaker 1: doing the same. Phillies like, we're in on them, but
Speaker 1: that doesn't mean we need it. We just think they're
Speaker 1: really good.
Speaker 2: I forget, and I think they ended up like not
Speaker 2: getting a SODO meeting, but everyone kind of thought they
Speaker 2: could be a sneaky one for him. Everyone keeps trying
Speaker 2: to speak Bregman to their into existence.
Speaker 1: That's I mean, that's honestly the final thing at this point,
Speaker 1: because if you're looking for guys to play, it's the
Speaker 1: Alec Bohm rumors. Shelfy casually, so I don't want him
Speaker 1: to be held to this. But he was like, I think,
Speaker 1: I think they keep Bomber and they rolled out till
Speaker 1: mid season and see what what it looks like. Who knows,
Speaker 1: because right now, if you're looking at a starting pitcher,
Speaker 1: who are you taking out of the rotation Ranger Suarez.
Speaker 1: I mean they still have time on Walker. They signed
Speaker 1: Joe Ross. Don't let that sneak by. You had an
Speaker 1: okay year last year. But yeah, I don't know. If
Speaker 1: they were trading Alec Bohm and signing Bregman, they would
Speaker 1: have to. It would be another move we know nothing about.
Speaker 1: I guess Brandon, I don't know. We keep doing this
Speaker 1: like Brandon marsh is listed as their center field there
Speaker 1: is is good. He's good, it's not it's not a
Speaker 1: weak spot.
Speaker 2: Good player.
Speaker 1: So uh, phillies are in the mix, will be in
Speaker 1: the mix. And man, there's a lot of coastal elitist
Speaker 1: stuff going on because a lot of the signings are
Speaker 1: a n l H crazy crazy all the talent that's
Speaker 1: leaving the ale and then b it's a lot of
Speaker 1: the coastal teams. I mean, even with my snakes getting
Speaker 1: involved there, and I probably should have started with them
Speaker 1: because it's Cordin Burn's o'clock. Uh is it? Six years
Speaker 1: to ten?
Speaker 2: Six years two six after two six years.
Speaker 1: Two ten, opt out after two crazy that there was
Speaker 1: some weird burn stuff going on about you know, his
Speaker 1: cutter had been declining a little bit and what what
Speaker 1: do the next few years look like for corn Burns
Speaker 1: finished last year thirty two starts at two nine to two.
Speaker 1: His cutter got better as the season went on, and
Speaker 1: the voice of god Ino Saras chimed in and was like,
Speaker 1: this is a good contract, Like corn Burns has one
Speaker 1: of the best pitches in baseball. It got better as
Speaker 1: the year went on, and there are some conversations about
Speaker 1: him and the Orioles working on different shapes for the cutter.
Speaker 1: So maybe they just tried some stuff and landed back
Speaker 1: where they did. And it's not like it wasn't a
Speaker 1: disaster class. It's not like corn Burns had a four
Speaker 1: to five and then they were like, hey, scrap it,
Speaker 1: thirty two starts, one hundred and ninety four innings a
Speaker 1: two nine two era and yeah, there's some funny business
Speaker 1: around it. There's a lot of times when we talk
Speaker 1: contract and then we land at the you know which
Speaker 1: you have a team gives them the best deal, which
Speaker 1: it feels like that's going I don't want to say
Speaker 1: by the wayside, but it's opportunity, it's money.
Speaker 2: There's a certain minimum that any team that's gonna get
Speaker 2: him is gonna have to reach.
Speaker 1: It's not exactly dollars and cents. But for Corbyn Burns,
Speaker 1: we had the three letter word thrown out there. Tax
Speaker 1: The Arizona taxes are better. It sounded like it was
Speaker 1: coming down to San Francisco in Toronto, which those teams
Speaker 1: have two of the worst taxes. So okay, I'm open
Speaker 1: to that being part of the conversation. It is a weird,
Speaker 1: interesting thing that doesn't get talked about with Baseball a
Speaker 1: lot that it's half your games. Yeah, so like when
Speaker 1: they play on road cities, they get taxed that rate,
Speaker 1: which is just bizarre, like.
Speaker 2: They like need accountant, it's not and like I get like,
Speaker 2: I get that legally, you know what happens another job
Speaker 2: does that move around?
Speaker 1: We go on a business we go to the All
Speaker 1: Star Game in Texas. It's not like for those three
Speaker 1: days unless you're supposed.
Speaker 2: To, like, unless somebody's trying to get us in trouble
Speaker 2: for it. We've been going to states that are knowing
Speaker 2: so we're paying too much.
Speaker 1: I don't know how it works. Seems a little ridiculous.
Speaker 1: I do know how it works. But so that was
Speaker 1: part of the Cornburn's decision, which, Okay, when you're talking
Speaker 1: that many dollars, and you know, I think Arizona was
Speaker 1: something like four percent and you're talking San Francisco, I
Speaker 1: think it's thirteen. And no one actually knows the Toronto number.
Speaker 1: Somebody definitely knows, but everyone says it's higher than that.
Speaker 1: So whatever, So half of his games he gets taxed
Speaker 1: at a four percent clip instead of thirteen percent. That's
Speaker 1: significant depending where the numbers landed. Now supposedly other teams
Speaker 1: had higher offers, so again, what was that gap? And
Speaker 1: the other thing I'd be interested in were the years.
Speaker 1: Like we were we were surprised when Max Freed's con
Speaker 1: track dropped and it was eight years, Like we were
Speaker 1: doing the thing in the office. It was six years great,
Speaker 1: seven years okay, and then eight years happened and we
Speaker 1: were all like, it's also okay, Also, okay, we got
Speaker 1: Max Freed. Let's worry about that when we have to
Speaker 1: worry about that. Corbin Burns reminder younger than Max Freed,
Speaker 1: Beard effect man effect six years and the money's in
Speaker 1: a similar place. So great for Corbyn Burns. Great for
Speaker 1: the Diamondbacks, which the whole thing. Hey, people didn't know
Speaker 1: what they'd be doing this offseason. Everyone thought the big
Speaker 1: Diamondbacks move would be dumping Jordan Montgomery, which hasn't happened yet.
Speaker 1: Currently listed in their rotation. We'll see their owner. I
Speaker 1: always have to look Ken Kendrick, I believe, Oh yeah,
Speaker 1: Ken Ken, one of the better names. Ken Ken came
Speaker 1: out and his Jordan Montgomery quotes were tough. What did
Speaker 1: he say? A horrible decision? That's tough. That's tough for Monty,
Speaker 1: that's tough for your GM, So see what happens. But
Speaker 1: it felt like they were gonna move Monty after the
Speaker 1: owner came out and said, it's a horrible decision. We'll
Speaker 1: see what happens there. I mean, that's twenty five, twenty
Speaker 1: five point two, something like that.
Speaker 2: That.
Speaker 1: Yeah, there was another one of the phn X guys
Speaker 1: that I've mixed it up with them before due to
Speaker 1: my Snakes fandom. He was like, I think the tweet was, Hey,
Speaker 1: if we sign Kirby Yates, is that a successful offseason
Speaker 1: for us? So the bar was low. No offense to
Speaker 1: Kirby eight, who was incredible last year. Go check out
Speaker 1: Kirby ATE's a stats. Any team could use Kirby eights.
Speaker 2: I think they stole on them.
Speaker 1: Still might Arizona that had done nothing. I think they
Speaker 1: were one of the teams that really hadn't brought anyone in.
Speaker 1: They traded Josh Naylor for Slade Secone, a competitive pick.
Speaker 1: I think they were in an interesting spot with Slade
Speaker 1: and who knows what they knew about Corman Burns at
Speaker 1: the time. They know that had momentum that you know,
Speaker 1: Slade who might have been their seventh or eighth starter,
Speaker 1: made him more expendable to bring in Josh Naylor. I
Speaker 1: also I got called out by Snakes fans, my people,
Speaker 1: because I've been saying that in my head Josh Naylor
Speaker 1: is a Jock Peterson replacement because Josh Naylor doesn't grade
Speaker 1: out great defensively that they've had two holes to replace.
Speaker 1: They've had to replace first base in DH Jack Peterson
Speaker 1: and Christian Walker, pretty significant holes. Those guys got contracts
Speaker 1: Jock signed. Yeah, no one talked about that. Someone probably did,
Speaker 1: is mine look good today? Or bad? Do I look older? Ooh?
Speaker 1: Is it something with this hair and jacket? I can't
Speaker 1: tell hair, Little q zip if you're on the YouTube,
Speaker 1: tell me there's something with this look? Is it Star
Speaker 1: wars y? I don't know. And a as you know,
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Speaker 2: Listen to the podcast apps.
Speaker 1: We're on YouTube, We're everywhere. And yeah, there's something this
Speaker 1: is unique for me. Maybe it's the marker. It's certainly
Speaker 1: different interesting Jim'll now I've said Josh Naylor is a
Speaker 1: Jack Peterson replacement lefty power. Naylor had a breakout year
Speaker 1: last year, and he doesn't grade out that great defensively.
Speaker 1: First base defense is a weird thing to measure. But
Speaker 1: the other thing that's just in my head, this old noggin,
Speaker 1: Christian Walker was the best. So when you think about
Speaker 1: organizations and philosophies and how the front office thinks, and
Speaker 1: everyone in our office was reading the book The Yankee
Speaker 1: Way for a month there that Okay, if you're the Yankees,
Speaker 1: the second baseman has to have a strong arm because
Speaker 1: they have to do really like organizations have little things
Speaker 1: that it's not always just put the best team on
Speaker 1: the field. It was hard for me to picture the
Speaker 1: Diamondbacks going from Christian Walker, who led every defensive leader board,
Speaker 1: to Josh Naylor. I had some Snakes fans reach out
Speaker 1: that said, they very much believe I want to say
Speaker 1: it's their first base coach, who's their infield defense guy.
Speaker 1: They said he's done good things, so they're thinking maybe
Speaker 1: they they can coach Naylor up a little bit. I'm
Speaker 1: not fully bought in. I thought it was interesting to
Speaker 1: see a fan base do that, because we rarely see
Speaker 1: the fan base give full compliments like that.
Speaker 2: It's like multiple people saying something too. Yeah, Sean Larkin,
Speaker 2: I have listed as third base coach, slashing field coach.
Speaker 2: I eat it on their site if we're If that's
Speaker 2: who you were told about.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I forget if it was him, or they have
Speaker 1: a roped up first base coach.
Speaker 2: Dave McKay is their first base.
Speaker 1: Everyone loves Dave McKay. Dave McKay who roped up seventy
Speaker 1: four year old Canadian man running first base, fake teeth.
Speaker 1: I like him twenty one homers in the show Born
Speaker 1: in nineteen fifty. Think about what that guy's see what
Speaker 1: he was twenty during Woodstock nineteen Sorry by Jimmy Carter. Alright,
Speaker 1: p Jimmy c one hundred wild it's cool, Wilt numbers.
Speaker 1: I want to see the Dbacks next move, as anyone does.
Speaker 1: And there's different ways they could go about it, and hey,
Speaker 1: if they had six hundred and ten million for corn Burns,
Speaker 1: which the other thing that's a crazy note in this
Speaker 1: whole conversation is they're one of the RSN teams that
Speaker 1: their TV contract has ended in a weird spot. I
Speaker 1: believe they were selling their games by themselves last year,
Speaker 1: like you could just stream them.
Speaker 2: Yeah, they were like the first team to kind of
Speaker 2: have to do a major pivot. I think yes.
Speaker 1: So again, was that good for them financially? It was
Speaker 1: good enough that they were able to spend two hundred
Speaker 1: and ten million dollars on corn Burns. Again, corn Burns
Speaker 1: wanted to come there. I mentioned the tax reasons. Also,
Speaker 1: his family lives there and he has three young kids.
Speaker 1: Now I want to say there was a rumor about
Speaker 1: twins or something.
Speaker 2: I think I know he has at least the set
Speaker 2: of twins, and I think there is a third. And
Speaker 2: spring training gets to be there two and he's from there.
Speaker 1: The Arizona spring training thing is no joke. Depending wherever
Speaker 1: you are from, think about it. Corn Burns is gonna
Speaker 1: live in Arizona. Now, he has half his home games
Speaker 1: there where his family already lives, and two months of
Speaker 1: spring training normally is away massive. That's massive to get
Speaker 1: the contract he's looking for and erase the name Diamondbacks.
Speaker 1: The joke I made that wasn't a joke. Oh, I
Speaker 1: was wearing the hat. I took it off. I put
Speaker 1: on this other team's hat like a fool. One of
Speaker 1: the Diamondbacks hats I have that they sent me. It's
Speaker 1: a cool one. It's got some of those cool like
Speaker 1: Arizona artwork on the brim whatever. It's their twenty fifth
Speaker 1: anniversary hat. They're a baby. They're a baby team. This
Speaker 1: is new, or at least they're coming out of infancy.
Speaker 2: They are among if not the newest team.
Speaker 1: Right they've gone. They went to the World Series two
Speaker 1: years ago or year however you'd measure that now. They
Speaker 1: won eighty nine games year they missed the playoffs just
Speaker 1: from that freaky Friday Mets Braves thing that went on. Obviously,
Speaker 1: they could have won other games during their season, but
Speaker 1: eighty nine wins and a World Series the year before.
Speaker 1: It's not like Cordin Burns is signing with I don't know,
Speaker 1: the Marlins or a whoever insert team here that if
Speaker 1: you took away the Diamonbacks the name and that just
Speaker 1: kind of how you know the franchise like new Arizona team.
Speaker 1: I don't know. Maybe I'm too gung ho on it.
Speaker 1: Maybe I'm just if you've got an owner that's willing
Speaker 1: to give out money like they have the past couple
Speaker 1: of years. They signed Jordan Montgomery, remember that signed us.
Speaker 1: I know the owner came back and said bad things
Speaker 1: Corn Burns. That surprised us. This is a World Series team.
Speaker 1: They had the number one offense in baseball last year.
Speaker 1: They signed e Rod, which that one was a surprise.
Speaker 1: Like the other thing that's just in my head is
Speaker 1: how much World Series money did they get. That's something
Speaker 1: we always talk about, whether it's selling tickets or people
Speaker 1: in the stands or whatever. Did the World Series type
Speaker 1: money and winning and packing the house? Did that allow
Speaker 1: them to get Corbin Burns? Because the best way to
Speaker 1: bring people in and have people watch is have a winner.
Speaker 1: Uh so maybe they realize that with some of the
Speaker 1: World Series money or my other like secret option that
Speaker 1: freaks me out that I tell dimback fans don't listen
Speaker 1: to this. The next move seems clear. It seems like
Speaker 1: they're gonna trade Jorn Montgomery because the owner said it
Speaker 1: was a bad move. Jorn Montgomery still has some value.
Speaker 1: We've seen the picture contracts that have been given.
Speaker 2: Out and on a one year, one year you could
Speaker 2: be clean of them if it doesn't work.
Speaker 1: This is a guy that's a year removed from we
Speaker 1: thought he'd get one hundred, if not more. So there's
Speaker 1: value there and like I said, there's either a first
Speaker 1: base or a DH spot open that that seems to
Speaker 1: be the move. Jollie Olive tweeted out Jordan Montgomery for
Speaker 1: Spencer toorklesin interesting some money shaking hands there, Spencer Toorkles
Speaker 1: in Arizona state. I don't know that's like that one. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's a young player not making a lot of high
Speaker 1: upside for Arizona.
Speaker 2: Again, they're always looking for more pop.
Speaker 1: So have you know that, Uh? Have Dave McKay just
Speaker 1: kind of teach him the ropes.
Speaker 2: And they did uh for the at the by the
Speaker 2: end of the year. I know they got Josh Bell
Speaker 2: for different reasons, but they they had him in the
Speaker 2: mix too. We played some amount of first space with
Speaker 2: having Christian Walker, so that's true. Yeah, and I mean
Speaker 2: him a nailer split some time there in DH.
Speaker 1: That's the other side. I poop pooed it for a second,
Speaker 1: but also, hey, sometimes you just do have to build
Speaker 1: the best team and maybe that's what they're looking for
Speaker 1: or so that would be the obvious move. It's manty
Speaker 1: out bringing another first basement or maybe there's something creative there.
Speaker 1: We don't know right now. Peven Smith is slotted in
Speaker 1: as a starting d H which year four of Diamondback
Speaker 1: fans being like, hey, I don't think we can bank
Speaker 1: on Peven Smith in the nicest way. He's got a
Speaker 1: couple splits out there over different parts of four years
Speaker 1: that have been nice. Otherwise it hasn't been reliable. It's
Speaker 1: been reliable.
Speaker 2: The one I've been thinking about for them is figuring
Speaker 2: out Monty for Yoshiet. I think they'd want more pop,
Speaker 2: but just thinking of guys that I that we think
Speaker 2: the team wants a team wants to.
Speaker 1: Be rid of socks, kind of getting off money there. Yeah, no,
Speaker 1: that we've we've discussed that one. There's there's so many
Speaker 1: ways they can go with it that I'm uh, I'm
Speaker 1: interested to see where they land. And hey, I mean,
Speaker 1: I don't know. What if What if the Dbacks are
Speaker 1: entering their Padres moment and the Alonso price is attainable
Speaker 1: and they trade Monty, Like is that just money out?
Speaker 1: Money in? I'm I'm not saying there's any smoke or
Speaker 1: fire there, but they rolled out two ten for Corbyn
Speaker 1: Burns I think it was like the it's like the
Speaker 1: sixth biggest AAV for a pitcher ever. Uh So, just
Speaker 1: a reminder when teams get frustrated, like when we get
Speaker 1: mad at the White Sox for never giving out big contracts,
Speaker 1: this is why. And I don't know. I I guess
Speaker 1: I'm just gung ho on Phoenix, Scottsdale and Arizona. Well,
Speaker 1: going back to the famous State Draft Don Boy Jake TV.
Speaker 1: I don't know, like that city has blown up. The
Speaker 1: sports teams are wildly popular there, Like the Suns are
Speaker 1: crazy popular, like they brought in Katie that was a
Speaker 1: whole craziness. Like the Cardinals have had their moments, the
Speaker 1: Larry Fitz Super Bowls and things like that that. I
Speaker 1: don't know. I think it's a sports town. They host
Speaker 1: spring training and this was part of my World Series
Speaker 1: rants with Arizona that like this should become a big
Speaker 1: baseball town. And they're making some strides that way. So
Speaker 1: let's see the next moves for them. I would love
Speaker 1: to see, Yeah, if they can, if they can make
Speaker 1: the Monty thing happen for another hitter. The dark thing
Speaker 1: for me for Snakes fans is Zach Gallen's on the
Speaker 1: last year of his contract. Like let's say this Cordon
Speaker 1: Burns thing all came together and Cordon Burns wanted to
Speaker 1: play there. We talked about the taxes, we talked about
Speaker 1: his family that Cordin Burns was like, hey, if you
Speaker 1: get me to two bills, I'm in. Was that money
Speaker 1: they were planning on giving to Zach Gallen?
Speaker 2: So the future money, does that make.
Speaker 1: Zach Gallen disposable? I don't think so this is all just.
Speaker 2: Yeah, probably not before the season, but if they went
Speaker 2: similarly to a year ago.
Speaker 1: I don't know. It's just it's interesting to think about
Speaker 1: because Corbyn Burns is one of those signings that isn't
Speaker 1: just hey, this is next year, like this is clearly
Speaker 1: affects their next two years, opt out and then I
Speaker 1: guess you could say a little more after that. But
Speaker 1: the Snakes they play for rings in the desert, and
Speaker 1: the Diamondbacks went from quiet offseason to now kind of
Speaker 1: electric with more room to wiggle. The San Francisco Giants
Speaker 1: are doing things. The Padres won ninety three games last year.
Speaker 1: What are they gonna do? As one of the wild questions,
Speaker 1: And the Dodgers they resigned Taoscar great, it actually is
Speaker 1: great and putting away World Series envy there for my
Speaker 1: Diamondbacks and my Yanks. He loves that city, they love him.
Speaker 1: Everything fits. I'm it's kind of how baseball is supposed
Speaker 1: to work, Like ta Oscar became beloved by that city
Speaker 1: and he fits the team, and he was a free agent,
Speaker 1: so just pay him what he deserves and he'll stay.
Speaker 1: And that's kind of how it's supposed to work. The
Speaker 1: one that's just complete, uh, part of my French bullshit.
Speaker 1: They signed Michael Conforto just for like bonus pieces like.
Speaker 2: That slip that in right before soda went down one.
Speaker 1: For seventeen I think seventeen and a half, like real money,
Speaker 1: Like this isn't I don't know, this isn't. They brought
Speaker 1: in a platoon guy to kind of come up, this
Speaker 1: is you know Glabor Torres that we're gonna talk about
Speaker 1: in a minute, Like that was a big move for
Speaker 1: the Tigers, Like the Tigers got a top of the
Speaker 1: lineup second basement, like Labor's probably gonna hit first or
Speaker 1: second for them, and he got one year fifteen. Confordo
Speaker 1: got more than that. And for the Dodgers it's an
Speaker 1: extra piece. They still have outman Chris Taylor, Mickey Rowe,
Speaker 1: Bobby Miller's currently listed as a Triple A pitcher for them.
Speaker 1: Otani's gonna pitch next year. It's the embarrassment of riches
Speaker 1: that they are currently at. And I think the other
Speaker 1: thing that's interesting is if they try to trade a
Speaker 1: James Outman or Andy Pahez, who both guys had really
Speaker 1: strong rookie years.
Speaker 2: Uh has currently listed in Triple A.
Speaker 1: I mean, where things really get sick, BBD. I know
Speaker 1: you've been dreaming of some Minnesota Twins trades for our Yankees.
Speaker 1: Coach Trev mentioned this. You know, relievers don't have the
Speaker 1: value we think they do. If it was a Duran
Speaker 1: for Andy Pahz Outman, I don't know like that. It
Speaker 1: just feels like that's gonna be the next Dodgers move
Speaker 1: is going to be them bringing in either a high
Speaker 1: leverage reliever or another just asset because they can that. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I don't know. The the NL West is insane like Rockies,
Speaker 1: Oh my god, you're out no offense to Kyle Farmer,
Speaker 1: wishing him luck there. The Giants are really investing in
Speaker 1: this team, and I don't know who they're keeping up
Speaker 1: with at this point. But like dude, Willie Adamas and
Speaker 1: Matt Chapman, those were both over a buck fifty. Jung
Speaker 1: hu Lee was a Hundie.
Speaker 2: They were in on this Corbn Burns deal too.
Speaker 1: Something They added Robbie Ray who he gets paid money.
Speaker 1: They were in on Corbyn Burns. They're probably gonna be
Speaker 1: on another starting pitcher looking at their roster, although there's
Speaker 1: some other BBD trades that have been dreamt up there
Speaker 1: that we will see how that plays out. But I
Speaker 1: don't know. Man. The the NL West Dinebacks won eighty
Speaker 1: nine games last year. Looks like they're making moves. The
Speaker 1: Giants eighty and eighty two. They keep trying to make
Speaker 1: bigger moves to get in the mix. And Buster Posey's
Speaker 1: running the team. Now watch it. The Dodgers are as
Speaker 1: automatic as a team can possibly be. Yeah, they can't
Speaker 1: win less than ninety games.
Speaker 2: No, impossible. The depth and high end talent is too good.
Speaker 1: Literally impossible. That's nuts. That's not how baseball is supposed
Speaker 1: to work.
Speaker 2: And they've done it together already. You might remember this
Speaker 2: past year. It's not one of those things where like
Speaker 2: sometimes first your teams together is a little sloppy.
Speaker 1: I mean the other the other joke that was making
Speaker 1: me laugh. Oh, Dave Roberts good manager now, so they've
Speaker 1: got that great manager, great Hall of Fame manager. So
Speaker 1: that yeah, the NL West. Let's see what the Padres do,
Speaker 1: because no one knows what they're doing with their money
Speaker 1: or their team. I mean they still they still have
Speaker 1: a lot of high end talent Arise Tatis, Merril, Machado, Cronenworth, Bogarts.
Speaker 1: I even still have some Louis Campusano stock. But we'll
Speaker 1: get there. Cease King, Darvish, Basquez, Waldron So I don't know.
Speaker 1: Their bullpen is still nasty, remember that. Remember this was
Speaker 1: the team that was beating the Dodgers. So the NL
Speaker 1: West is just a beautifully stacked disaster that I don't
Speaker 1: really know. I don't know where we're gonna land, and
Speaker 1: with the expanded playoffs and the centrals both kind of
Speaker 1: need to pick it up. I know they don't want
Speaker 1: to hear that from me, but whatever, Uh, let's round
Speaker 1: off some of these other moves. I think one of
Speaker 1: my favorite moves from the offseason is going to be
Speaker 1: Nathaniel O to Texas at first I or from Texas
Speaker 1: to the Nationals. Excuse me. Uh. At first I did
Speaker 1: not like it because I was like, Nathaniel low doesn't
Speaker 1: change the Nationals outlook for me. Nathaniel lo I think
Speaker 1: is really good. Nathaniel Lowe is the six hitter on
Speaker 1: one of these great teams in baseball. I'd be like, oh, yes,
Speaker 1: there are some ways that you can butterknife his numbers.
Speaker 1: That he has been as consistent and as good as
Speaker 1: a lot of hitters in baseball. If you do his
Speaker 1: last three seasons two seventy seven, three sixty seven to
Speaker 1: ninety eight, ohps one twenty four ops plus, like that
Speaker 1: is a really good baseball player. And I know, like
Speaker 1: the home run numbers don't trump like the His biggest
Speaker 1: flaw is no individual numbers off the map. Everything is
Speaker 1: a solid B two seventy seven batting average B three
Speaker 1: sixty on base it's probably closer to an A. But
Speaker 1: that's a B plus twenty homers a year B minus
Speaker 1: twenty seven doubles a year B. So it's just funny that,
Speaker 1: like almost because he doesn't have a MLB superpower, I
Speaker 1: think he gets knocked down a little bit. But he's
Speaker 1: won a gold Glove in this league. And yeah, he
Speaker 1: had a one twenty ops plus last year. Again, the
Speaker 1: stat line isn't as jumpie as like, okay, what was
Speaker 1: jin Carlos, This will be a fun game. Jin Carlos
Speaker 1: ops plus last year one fifteen. Now he had one
Speaker 1: of the weirder stat lines you'll see two thirty three,
Speaker 1: two ninety eight, four seventy five slug seventy two homers
Speaker 1: and one hundred and fourteen games. But it's just the
Speaker 1: concept to me that like, Nathaniel has done this. Now
Speaker 1: you know, since twenty twenty one, he has been Nathaniel
Speaker 1: Low and I think again it almost there was a Nathaniel.
Speaker 1: Maybe that's part of the problem. The sex appeal wasn't
Speaker 1: as high as it was for other hitters. That they
Speaker 1: he got traded for a relief pitcher with a lot
Speaker 1: of control, and maybe he's good and maybe that'll be
Speaker 1: the whole thing. And if Nathaniel has a bad year,
Speaker 1: you kind of have to pay him real money. So
Speaker 1: that's part of the thought process. We don't get into
Speaker 1: as front offices on our own, but for the Nationals
Speaker 1: who were rumored to be in an Alonso or Christian
Speaker 1: Walker or Carlos Santana, they were in the first base stance,
Speaker 1: but it was like, oh, do you bring in Santana
Speaker 1: to kind of guide these young players? Do you bring
Speaker 1: in Alonso? You take him from the Mets and you
Speaker 1: kind of set the tone. But how's Alonzo gonna They
Speaker 1: found a real safe spot here with Nathaniel Lowe set
Speaker 1: it and forget it at first base. The Nationals are
Speaker 1: going to be dictated by how their younger players develop.
Speaker 1: Does James would become one of the best players in baseball?
Speaker 1: That'll be a huge factor. Does Dylan Cruz become one
Speaker 1: of the best players of it? That'll be a factor.
Speaker 1: Where does cj. Abrams land in this whole thing? And
Speaker 1: they might be in the free agent mix still, he's
Speaker 1: one of the Bregman rumored teams. I don't it would
Speaker 1: be a surprise. But right now we're entering Bregman surprise
Speaker 1: territory because it's starting to get late early kind of
Speaker 1: seems like it's.
Speaker 2: Gonna have to be a surprise.
Speaker 1: I don't know, we'll see. I think there's enough teams
Speaker 1: that can fit Alex Bregman in that he's going to
Speaker 1: be okay. But yeah, I don't know the other thing
Speaker 1: for the Nationals say it just doesn't click next year,
Speaker 1: which I just talked about your beautiful NL West the
Speaker 1: NL East. What are your Mets expectations going to be?
Speaker 1: They're gonna be pretty high. They put in a lot
Speaker 1: of work. What are your Braves expectations gonna be pretty high?
Speaker 1: They're getting some dudes back and wantn't be surprised if
Speaker 1: they get involved in some of this offseason dance. The
Speaker 1: Phillies Uh huh. So, no matter what the Gnats really
Speaker 1: do this offseason, they're coming in as the fourth team
Speaker 1: in the NL East. So even if you like the Nats,
Speaker 1: say you got your nattitude up, you're into Jake Irvin.
Speaker 1: I think we all are. Mitchell Parker breakout continues. Yep.
Speaker 1: They signed Mike Soroka to a cheeky contract. He's got
Speaker 1: some numbers you'd like. He used to be really good.
Speaker 1: Like if it comes together for the Gnats, and maybe
Speaker 1: it does. Who also brought in Josh Bell today? Sure
Speaker 1: so maybe they are out on Bragwow, who knows? Are
Speaker 1: you gonna like the Gnats more than the Mets, Braves
Speaker 1: or Phillies coming into the season. No, So let's say
Speaker 1: the Nats, the thing isn't fully clicking next year, Well,
Speaker 1: Nathaniel Low if he's being Nathaniel Low, which for the
Speaker 1: past four years he's only proves that he is Nathaniel Low.
Speaker 1: You also have a pretty nice asset there. So if
Speaker 1: they need to flip him and go get some other pieces,
Speaker 1: whether it's at this deadline, the end of next season,
Speaker 1: or even the next deadline, I really like that move
Speaker 1: for them. And again, it was just kind of changing
Speaker 1: my scope from in my head them signing Alonzo and
Speaker 1: maybe him hitting forty two homers next year. That changed
Speaker 1: the Gnats feel and Low doesn't have that, But he
Speaker 1: also doesn't have the risk or the crazy contract that
Speaker 1: you're gonna have to sign Alonzo to. So I ended
Speaker 1: up really liking that move. Luis Garcia Junior, Good's it.
Speaker 2: Good year for him.
Speaker 1: It was a good year for him. Eighteen homers, twenty.
Speaker 2: Two steals, twenty four years old.
Speaker 1: More homers than Nathaniel Low. So let's see the other
Speaker 1: big moves that need to be checked off. Carlos Santana
Speaker 1: to Cleveland. Yeah, yep, Naylor out Santana in. He likes
Speaker 1: it there. They like him one year terms beautiful thing
Speaker 1: for Cleveland. That's how they operate. Manaiah, I guess I
Speaker 1: did that one quick. But Sean and Iah three for
Speaker 1: seventy five? Do I have that number right?
Speaker 2: I believe that's right.
Speaker 1: Same as Nathan Evaldi. Nathan Evaldi on our friend Kylie
Speaker 1: McDaniel's not favorite contracts oh age age age. Maniah comes
Speaker 1: back with the Mets. Leg I talked about briefly. He'll
Speaker 1: be towards the top of that rotation with Sang. I
Speaker 1: mean they're listing him as the one one hundred eighty
Speaker 1: one point two innings pitch last year, one hundred eighty four.
Speaker 1: Stray I gots a three four seven era, so he
Speaker 1: was class and he clearly found something and was tapping
Speaker 1: into something. So maybe there's more there. Uh. It is
Speaker 1: a you're playing a video game and the years twenty
Speaker 1: twenty seven, and you're like, oh, we're playing the Mets.
Speaker 1: Who's in their rotation Manaia Sanga, Montas Peterson, Clay Holmes Like,
Speaker 1: oh man, the video game really got weird. Video game
Speaker 1: really took off on us. Uh, let's see what that
Speaker 1: looks like. They clearly think they can tap into something
Speaker 1: pitching wise, and They only got five point one regular
Speaker 1: season innings out of Sanga last year, so they should
Speaker 1: get more than that. It's just a question of what
Speaker 1: can you fully bank on from these individual guys. But
Speaker 1: maybe three out of four fully click.
Speaker 2: And I guess we really do forget just how good
Speaker 2: Senga was in the year. He actually bitched third in
Speaker 2: the cy Young and like, there is enough you can
Speaker 2: you can start the year with this, even if you
Speaker 2: think they need another Manaiah or better come to playoffs,
Speaker 2: like you you can get that during the season if
Speaker 2: if another move doesn't come together before the season starts.
Speaker 1: And they they have they have enough depth pieces. I
Speaker 1: mean they Paul Blackburn, McGill, Griffin Canning, watch out change
Speaker 1: the scenery guy next, Luke Weaver. Buy some Griffin Canning stock.
Speaker 1: While you can try and tell me who's a budo
Speaker 1: can start. Let's see it.
Speaker 2: That.
Speaker 1: Yeah, he returns to the Mats. That's another one of
Speaker 1: those good free agent signings. Like, yes, he wanted to
Speaker 1: be there, they wanted him.
Speaker 2: Everyone like that.
Speaker 1: Let's figure this out. The only team that probably did it,
Speaker 1: San Francisco Giants. I think they are looking for maybe
Speaker 1: the Orioles. The last body for the rotation. The Orioles
Speaker 1: don't even the Heros are starting to get me mad,
Speaker 1: and part of it is because the Red Sox signed
Speaker 1: Walker Buehler, and I like Walker Buehler a lot, and
Speaker 1: you saw why in the postseason the Boston Red Sox.
Speaker 1: We're talking about all this talent moving around and a
Speaker 1: lot of it going to the National League. The Boston
Speaker 1: Red Sox, I think, can have a pretty good argument
Speaker 1: to be your second favorite team in the AL. It's
Speaker 1: tough to propel them above the Yankees. And there is
Speaker 1: a Derek Jeter height chart behind me if you're watching
Speaker 1: on YouTube. So again, maybe there are some biases that
Speaker 1: I'm not seeing. If I am, feel free to chime in.
Speaker 1: But Man Crochet, Yo, that was a big one. Walker Buehler,
Speaker 1: Tanner Hauke who broke out last year, three one two
Speaker 1: from Tanner Hawk, Brian Bayo, Cutter Crawford, both with different
Speaker 1: offerings of upside or consistency. That the Red Sox have
Speaker 1: their best rotation in a while. They may have their
Speaker 1: best bullpen in a while. Liam Hendricks or all this
Speaker 1: Chapman Slayton really broke out for them last year and
Speaker 1: then they've got some lottery ticket guys, Michael Folmer with
Speaker 1: the NRI they signed Justin Wilson. I don't know. I
Speaker 1: don't know about that. My look is throwing me off Stepanopolis.
Speaker 1: What is this? And that all goes with the Red
Speaker 1: Sox lineup, that they've got a mix of it all
Speaker 1: mostly lefties and mostly talented young baseball players. Then let's
Speaker 1: see if there's another move in there, or let's see
Speaker 1: if there's it feels like they're a righty move away.
Speaker 1: And maybe that's Bregman and oh my god, Red Sox
Speaker 1: fever will take off Bregman and Bueller. That's some Yankees
Speaker 1: nightmare fuel. Maybe it's a trade, maybe it's more pitching.
Speaker 1: Who knows. The Red Sox could not be done yet
Speaker 1: and they could still be arguably the number two in
Speaker 1: the AL. And if you're the number two in the AL,
Speaker 1: you got a damn shot. And maybe they're higher than that,
Speaker 1: because maybe maybe the Yankees are gonna miss Soto more
Speaker 1: than they thought, or maybe the Yankees aren't gonna round
Speaker 1: off their offseason, or maybe something's not gonna click. And
Speaker 1: if you don't like Texas or Houston or Seattle or
Speaker 1: Central yeah, Baltimore's done nothing. Sorry, Tyler O'Neal from the
Speaker 1: Red Sox. Tyler O'Neal was great last year, so I
Speaker 1: guess I should say that with a little less aggression.
Speaker 1: But I say that because they lost Anthony Santander who
Speaker 1: hit forty four homers, and they lost Corbyn Burns. They
Speaker 1: haven't lost Antonderr, he's still a free agent, but they
Speaker 1: have lost Corbin Burns, who was their ace. And there's
Speaker 1: something to the stability of an ace and a rotation that, like,
Speaker 1: I know Eflyn came over, was great, and I know
Speaker 1: the Gray Rod breakout was kind of happening while getting
Speaker 1: banged up. And I know they signed your guy Sugano
Speaker 1: and maybe he's the second coming, maybe he's the Burns replacement.
Speaker 1: And kind of like I was saying with the team
Speaker 1: across the interstate there the Nationals, you know they're gonna
Speaker 1: need Adlee Rushman a bounce back if they want to
Speaker 1: be good. They're gonna need Holton Kauser or Cedric Mullens
Speaker 1: to bounce back. Kouser another young guy to take a
Speaker 1: leap Like that's so Jackson Holliday be that guy, Jordan Westberg.
Speaker 1: God it takes a lot for me to not call
Speaker 1: him Jordan west Bug. Maybe we'll work on that, Maybe
Speaker 1: we'll meet him. Maybe he's a nice guy. Heston Kerstadt.
Speaker 1: I don't know. Are they gonna trade for Dylan See's
Speaker 1: Are they gonna trade more capital for another one year
Speaker 1: free agent pitcher that's gonna demand a ton of money.
Speaker 1: I don't know enough about the business model, but I
Speaker 1: know like last year's Brewer's trade I was can you
Speaker 1: say it didn't pay off for them? I mean, Cortin
Speaker 1: Burns is really good, but Joey Ortiz looks solid. Dl
Speaker 1: Hall we don't know, I don't know. I guess we
Speaker 1: don't know yet if Joey Ortiz is good, which Joey
Speaker 1: Ortiz played really well last year.
Speaker 2: James currently looks like he's a guy.
Speaker 1: Is he currently the Brewers starting short stop?
Speaker 2: It's I believe he's currently there. And I mean Orioles
Speaker 2: disappointing in the postseason and final result, not Burns his fault.
Speaker 1: But not Burns.
Speaker 2: You had one year guaranteed of him.
Speaker 1: Man Tyler O'Neil had a great year. Happy for him,
Speaker 1: and hey, there is more off season left. I thought
Speaker 1: about doing, uh, you know, some winter losers before. But
Speaker 1: there's a lot off you can still coming, you can
Speaker 1: still have a full off season, you can still have
Speaker 1: a full, happy off season. The Orioles could sign Santander,
Speaker 1: they could sign they could trade for Dylan Ceas and
Speaker 1: you'd be like, wow, Okay, that's good. So uh, if
Speaker 1: your team hasn't been getting mentioned a lot, there's still hope.
Speaker 1: But we're running out of some opportunities. I mentioned Glaber,
Speaker 1: but I'll mention again briefly. Happy for Glabe. You know,
Speaker 1: the defense at second base was tough that I was wondering,
Speaker 1: like how many teams would even allow Glaber to play
Speaker 1: second base and that's the only position he's played. And
Speaker 1: then the crazy part out of Tiger's camp was they
Speaker 1: said they were going to trade Torklsen and move cold
Speaker 1: Keith to first, which col Keith, if I remember, not
Speaker 1: one of the biggest cats you've seen on a baseball field. Okay,
Speaker 1: listed six two to eleven. In my head, I thought
Speaker 1: we were going to bring up a six flat here
Speaker 1: and do some yeah, some cleats. So hey, if they
Speaker 1: like him and they think that can work, and they've
Speaker 1: got some other young talented infielders Okay, and yeah, for Glabor.
Speaker 1: I mean just the way Glabor Torres hits and the
Speaker 1: way that team has been looking for hitting. Glabor Torres
Speaker 1: will hit with that team, And weirdly enough, I know
Speaker 1: it's an expansive ballpark, but I have Glabor Torres hitting
Speaker 1: some of his longest home runs in Detroit. There's one
Speaker 1: I can picture very vividly that I think I'd tweeted
Speaker 1: out without looking. I was like, is that Laborer's longest
Speaker 1: home run this year? I think I got point dexter.
Speaker 1: I think there was one or two more that were further.
Speaker 1: But I've seen him hitting that park and he just
Speaker 1: feels like the joke I keep using is let that
Speaker 1: go tique row, But it's a little symbolic of like,
Speaker 1: get away from the Yankees.
Speaker 2: Let's see get in a ballpark like that, you find
Speaker 2: a few more doubles.
Speaker 1: Like America Park two games last year, eight O four ops.
Speaker 1: This guy's a stud best ever, let's see the career splits, because, yeah,
Speaker 1: if Glabor had landed in one of these small ballparks,
Speaker 1: we'd be talking about can he find his thirty homer
Speaker 1: potential again? I don't want Glabor to find that potential again.
Speaker 1: If I'm being completely honest, I don't think that's the
Speaker 1: best version of Glabor Torres career in Kamerica two eighty three,
Speaker 1: three seventy seven A one dot ops five homers in
Speaker 1: fifteen games. Maybe it's the next Willia Damas. Imagine if
Speaker 1: Glaber couldn't see at Yankee Stadium this whole time, he could,
Speaker 1: he could. Uh, he just got coached very lightly at
Speaker 1: the start. And hey, for my central people, I'll tell
Speaker 1: you what you don't want to see. Top of the order,
Speaker 1: Riley Green, Glaber, Torres, Kerry Carpenter. Sure that'll score some runs.
Speaker 1: And again the Dodger signed Michael Conforto for more than
Speaker 1: that as a bonus piece. So that was a little
Speaker 1: bit of a roundabout catchup of what has happened. I
Speaker 1: think I've still missed a thing or two, but upcoming
Speaker 1: Alonso Bragman. Those are two of the big ones. Pete
Speaker 1: and the Mets have been linked. Supposedly their last offer
Speaker 1: was around three for ninety and Pete wants a lot
Speaker 1: more than that, So let's see who else comes to contention.
Speaker 1: Although are a lot of the first base spots filled,
Speaker 1: should the Blue Jays.
Speaker 2: They're one team that I've been kind of really thinking about.
Speaker 1: God, they're so righty? How did this happen again? Blue Jays? Hey,
Speaker 1: they got him? It is Will Wagner. Wow, let's see
Speaker 1: what goes on with them. Santander Profar is out there
Speaker 1: and that's gonna be a unique free agent that no
Speaker 1: one's going to know what to do with that. But
Speaker 1: after that, your offensive weapons are really limited, and pitching wise,
Speaker 1: we're actually, you know, whatever team signs Nick Pivetta is
Speaker 1: going to talk themselves into some Nick Pavetta and I've
Speaker 1: got no qualms with that. Our guy Jack Flaherty is
Speaker 1: out there looking for some big boy money that he deserves.
Speaker 1: Uh So, there's still a few significant pieces out there,
Speaker 1: like I can't the Jeff Hoffman is going to be
Speaker 1: a starting pitcher somewhere next next year. Let's see that
Speaker 1: story come out. Tanner Scott's gonna get some real money. Otherwise,
Speaker 1: we're starting to hit the point of free agency where
Speaker 1: it can be one or two guys that you're like, oh,
Speaker 1: I think they can help Quintana. Let's get some good
Speaker 1: starts out of him. Who else was I looking at?
Speaker 1: It was one of the Jesse Winker. Oh yeah, Hey,
Speaker 1: if we tap into some good Jesse Winker and he
Speaker 1: can play some corner and DH for us, Hey, we
Speaker 1: might get a good ballplayer there for a year. But
Speaker 1: that's just a different scope than what we're talking talking
Speaker 1: about for a lot of these other free agents teams
Speaker 1: that really need to get going. One of my favorite
Speaker 1: segments to do Baltimore Orioles gotta have it, gotta have
Speaker 1: something from you, and I think something's coming. I'm just
Speaker 1: nervous about what it is, and so are Orioles fans Toronto.
Speaker 1: My goodness, what is going on in the Great Noorte?
Speaker 1: Because I do not know. They are in on every
Speaker 1: free agent, it seems, but this roster is pretty bizarre
Speaker 1: right now. There's some money in that pitching staff, Springer,
Speaker 1: but Chette Vladder still there. Yeah, is your best lefty
Speaker 1: hitter Will Wagner, Nathan Luke's Joey Loper feto I don't
Speaker 1: know again, Santander to them had been my joke throughout
Speaker 1: the year. Maybe we'll see that come to fruition because
Speaker 1: they need some some switch hitting help. But those teams
Speaker 1: have been oddly out of the mix. I should be
Speaker 1: giving Tyler or Nea Moore credit, but still parts in
Speaker 1: parts out. It's not there. Uh, let's see athletics, No
Speaker 1: White Sox, no Cleveland kind of No, they've done there.
Speaker 2: They're they're they're a little bitt in bruised territories like yeah,
Speaker 2: blindly trust it to be good.
Speaker 1: Detroit supposedly still in the mix with Bregman. That one's
Speaker 1: always been weird for me. With the money to buy
Speaker 1: as I just I don't see it as a fit.
Speaker 1: But Detroit probably has some more work to do. The
Speaker 1: Royals are always looking to do something, Angels scaring themselves,
Speaker 1: Twins probably unloading stuff. Let's see what that looks like.
Speaker 1: Have the Mariners been oddly quiet? I think so yes.
Speaker 1: And we know they have that pitching. They've got a
Speaker 1: couple spots in their lineup where they could use guys
Speaker 1: right now. And they've got a couple okay spots. And
Speaker 1: that's the frustration. Man, juliocl Raleigh, Randy, go get Pete Man.
Speaker 1: Peter'll hit it out of there. I swear, I swear it.
Speaker 2: Just give him his money.
Speaker 1: They could use a lefty too, they have so much pitching.
Speaker 1: Houston feels like they have a couple of nuclear moves.
Speaker 1: We walked everyone through that a couple episodes ago. They've
Speaker 1: got some outfield spots and they've got some good fits
Speaker 1: that could slot in there potentially, although Jock was one
Speaker 1: of them and he's gone that again. Dere like that
Speaker 1: market has reopened up that I you know, as it
Speaker 1: gets later into free agency, I think the players get scared.
Speaker 1: But when there's limited, when there's still holes left and
Speaker 1: you're the last guy left, I think things are gonna
Speaker 1: work out that he would be a great fit in Houston.
Speaker 1: Our Texas Rangers man Jock Simeon, Seeger Wyatt, Langford, Jack Peterson,
Speaker 1: Adoley Scarcia, Josh Young, Evan Carter, Jake Berger, and Jonah Hine.
Speaker 1: They have Jake Berger with his twenty nine homers last year,
Speaker 1: slotted as their eight hitter. I'm not this isn't an
Speaker 1: official Bruce Bochie lineup, but I think there is gonna
Speaker 1: be some Tigers or some Texas stock being bought. Jack
Speaker 1: Peterson man he got the two year with an opt
Speaker 1: out three ninety three on base last year with twenty
Speaker 1: three homers and four under forty nine games. If there
Speaker 1: is a righty pitcher out there, throw Jock at him
Speaker 1: him and Boachi are going to be delightful. Texas is
Speaker 1: gonna be in love with him. He's gonna be beloved
Speaker 1: everywhere he goes. I mentioned Jonah him. They signed Higgy Yeah,
Speaker 1: Zeke Duran and Josh Smith on the bench, two guys
Speaker 1: that have been utill All Stars. Leodi Tavares is currently
Speaker 1: listed on their bench. Avaldi de Gram Gray, Molly Bradford,
Speaker 1: my guy, Dane Dunning surviving. I wonder if they could
Speaker 1: be looking to add another starting pitcher, and if I
Speaker 1: wonder if they could kind of trade it from some
Speaker 1: of their depth, or maybe they're one of these old
Speaker 1: school teams. Bruce Bochie, that depth is good. That's how
Speaker 1: depth used to be. So that's exciting. Let's see anything
Speaker 1: else on West No, I'm good there. National League Snakes
Speaker 1: in the fight. Atlanta could go either way. Sneaky Quiet
Speaker 1: Dylan sees maybe Cubbies have had a bit of an
Speaker 1: off season, without mentioning the VDL brew Han trade that
Speaker 1: let's see again. It feels like they have another move
Speaker 1: to make. It's just where are they're gonna make it.
Speaker 1: But they've already put in some work. I appreciate that.
Speaker 1: My Cincinnati Reds are kind of in a funky spot
Speaker 1: that I don't remember that Brady Singer Jonathan India trade.
Speaker 1: That was one of our first snacks of the off season.
Speaker 1: They could be done and we'd say, okay, and I'll
Speaker 1: come back to liking this team because they're kind of deep. Okay,
Speaker 1: get me off the reds page. Colorado never Dodgers super team,
Speaker 1: I am me never. Milwaukee. Milwaukee Mets have Mets Phillies
Speaker 1: have sneakily phillied while also still being in the mix
Speaker 1: for a nuclear move Pittsburgh, ah Mm, what what is
Speaker 1: we doing? Baby?
Speaker 2: Get someone cutches back?
Speaker 1: Padres similar vote, but different giants are in the mix
Speaker 1: for everyone. Saint Louis is not in. The Nats are
Speaker 1: teetering that. That's kind of where it's at for December
Speaker 1: thirtieth into the offseason. You're starting to get countdowns. I
Speaker 1: think it's less than three months till opening day, so
Speaker 1: we get with those March starts. Now under one hundred
Speaker 1: day mark, yeah, I think we're under ninety. So that'll
Speaker 1: lead to spring training, which will lead to everything else.
Speaker 1: Speaking of everything else, I mean we're laid in there,
Speaker 1: but I think it's a one ap week so let's
Speaker 1: just crank as we head towards the football, and I
Speaker 1: want to give one of our John Boy media friends
Speaker 1: a shout out here part of the inspiration today. I
Speaker 1: got Courage, he messaged me, and you know what I'm
Speaker 1: gonna I'll give the selfie to BBD to get on
Speaker 1: the screen because I was feeling a very similar emotion
Speaker 1: of you know, the holidays, and everyone's podcast is on
Speaker 1: a different schedule. Courage sent me a selfie of himself
Speaker 1: thinking into the distance, sending to Davis Wimbledon. He said,
Speaker 1: out walking, no waking Jake, no talking Yanks, no talking baseball,
Speaker 1: Glabour gone recent, Jake, Harron. POD's getting a little long.
Speaker 1: Things are getting dark, and I think we all kind
Speaker 1: of knew that holiday feeling. So I'm glad I could
Speaker 1: be back in the lab doing this. And I can't
Speaker 1: just skip football because we're at an hour, So let's
Speaker 1: talk about it a little bit. And I do need
Speaker 1: to throw my college football under the bus for a
Speaker 1: little bit because the first round of games were tough,
Speaker 1: the twelve team bracket that it was the first year
Speaker 1: they've rolled out, and I've talked about some of the flaws.
Speaker 1: There's courage, just in the distance, just wishing he could
Speaker 1: have headphones in hearing a voice talk about sports. I
Speaker 1: get that feeling. I know that feeling. So we're getting learnings,
Speaker 1: and it's also that weird thing that you need to
Speaker 1: preface this with. There's only one year of data, so
Speaker 1: we need to see more data. And I do think
Speaker 1: that's true. But one thing that clearly felt off was
Speaker 1: this Boise State getting a buy in a three seed
Speaker 1: compared to the other teams. That seemed a little ridiculous.
Speaker 1: But college football did the top top qualified automatic qualifiers
Speaker 1: from their leagues get in, And it was interesting. I
Speaker 1: was listening to Joel Klatt talk about that and they
Speaker 1: said that was non negotiable because they want championship games
Speaker 1: to matter, and by matter, they mean people pay money
Speaker 1: to go to the games. So that's where college football
Speaker 1: is that that Boise State in Arizona State should not
Speaker 1: have buys. It probably should have just been the top
Speaker 1: four teams. We're working on that, something that I think
Speaker 1: is egregious and will be changed and maybe not. And
Speaker 1: this is where you need more data and all of that.
Speaker 1: But given college teams home field advantage in a playoff game,
Speaker 1: I don't know. I think I heard Matt Lioner talk earlier.
Speaker 1: You're like, just make all of these bowl games like
Speaker 1: at different sites. And he gets a little tricky, right
Speaker 1: because you're start doing teams in regions, but like nca
Speaker 1: basketball does that, Like they don't just rank them in order.
Speaker 1: It's like, oh, the West Region and byus a twelve seed,
Speaker 1: Well why don't we make them that twelve seed even
Speaker 1: if it's not fair? And everyone kind of gets over it.
Speaker 1: So we'd have to figure that out with making these
Speaker 1: all bowl games, and maybe we will, maybe we won't,
Speaker 1: or maybe they like that. But SMU at Penn State,
Speaker 1: Pony Express got grounded quickly, and part of that was
Speaker 1: because of their quarterback. He played one of the worst
Speaker 1: games you could possibly play, so that's not good. But
Speaker 1: part of that was they had an early fourth and
Speaker 1: one where he could have scrambled, he threw it into
Speaker 1: the end zone for an interception. Bad. But also that
Speaker 1: Penn State crowd got insane. Same thing with Ohio State.
Speaker 1: Ohio State hosted Tennessee and then they thwomped them and
Speaker 1: they probably would have thow opped them anywhere neutral site
Speaker 1: in Tennessee even but the fact that they had home
Speaker 1: field and then Notre Dame Indiana, although that final score
Speaker 1: looks a lot closer than it was, and maybe these
Speaker 1: were the matchups this year and these teams never had
Speaker 1: a shot. And I talked about some of the quarterbacks
Speaker 1: and how the quarterbacks aren't where they need to be,
Speaker 1: or you'd be surprised how they look this college football playoff.
Speaker 1: But yeah, it was all home favorites. And I think
Speaker 1: I'm talking the spread too, which is insane, but college
Speaker 1: football home field advantage is worth like ten points. I
Speaker 1: know that's not exactly how the math works out, but
Speaker 1: we're also talking to playoff game. Penn State was nuts.
Speaker 1: Ohio State as well.
Speaker 2: So.
Speaker 1: Unfortunately the entertainment that those games potentially could have provided
Speaker 1: got overruled. And I'm not going to do the whole
Speaker 1: speech Alabama should have been in. I think South Carolina
Speaker 1: was actually the team that got screwed the most and
Speaker 1: all this, but I don't think it would have mattered
Speaker 1: because they would have been on the road road playoff games.
Speaker 1: These places were nuts, like Penn State, I think exams
Speaker 1: were over so it was literally just drunk kids there.
Speaker 1: That kind of matters. That's why we have home field advantages,
Speaker 1: so something to look into. Again, maybe it's just one
Speaker 1: year and it's how everything laid out, but like, Okay,
Speaker 1: Tennessee was the ninth seed, Ohio State was the eighth seed,
Speaker 1: and that gave Ohio State home field advantage. That's pretty significant.
Speaker 1: And maybe if that's as important and maybe we want
Speaker 1: to roll on with that. Cool, But yeah, that part
Speaker 1: just felt a little off to me. But I'm also
Speaker 1: a unique college football fan. So I'll tell you this
Speaker 1: for tomorrow. Penn State Boise State. If you haven't seen
Speaker 1: Ashton Jint play yet, uh please watch. He has loads
Speaker 1: of fun twenty nine rushing touchdowns this year, his unique
Speaker 1: stance in the backfield, and it's everything. Like I was
Speaker 1: the couple the few Boise State games I got to
Speaker 1: watch this year, which was actually more like again, it's
Speaker 1: probably three Boise State games, but like, what the hell
Speaker 1: am I doing? Anyways? He is complete, Like it's not
Speaker 1: like whoa Boise State opens up a huge hole. He
Speaker 1: beats one guy and goes like it's every carry with him.
Speaker 1: If he gets a little bit of space, he's got you.
Speaker 1: If he's bigger than you, he'll be bigger than you.
Speaker 1: If he's smaller than you, he'll be faster than you.
Speaker 1: And every run it feels like he's falling forward or
Speaker 1: getting a couple of yards when it's even when it's
Speaker 1: not the breakout runs. I'm very interested to see Everyone
Speaker 1: thinks Penn State is gonna kill him. Penn State is
Speaker 1: an eleven point favorite because they're good in the line.
Speaker 1: So Penn State is one of the few teams that
Speaker 1: they've held up with Ohio State and Oregon and that's
Speaker 1: where the game is right that maybe they're just dominant
Speaker 1: down there, and all that cool stuff about Ginty doesn't matter.
Speaker 1: I will be interested to see u. I the way
Speaker 1: everyone else who knows college football is talking about it
Speaker 1: that I respect is saying Penn State is going to
Speaker 1: give them the business in the way they talked about
Speaker 1: the home teams doing it last game. This isn't a
Speaker 1: home game. This is at a neutral stat the VRBO
Speaker 1: Fiesta bol Watch out eleven point Penn State. I don't know.
Speaker 1: I guess maybe I just want to believe in genty
Speaker 1: too much, and maybe they're going to be outclass and
Speaker 1: out skilled by Penn State across the field. But I
Speaker 1: don't know. A girl can dream for now Oregon Ohio
Speaker 1: State as I'll avenge myself from those first round matchups.
Speaker 1: I said right after the Oregon highho State game, if
Speaker 1: they could somehow get these teams to play in the playoffs,
Speaker 1: and we got it. It's in the quarterfinals, which some
Speaker 1: people aren't happy about because some people are like this,
Speaker 1: this might be the championship game. They will run it
Speaker 1: back with Ohio State as favorites in the Rose Bowl
Speaker 1: against undefeated Oregon who beat them. Yo, you want to
Speaker 1: talk about a coach being able to scream at the boys,
Speaker 1: you guys beat this team. We're going to a neutral
Speaker 1: site and they're the favorites. Meanwhile, Ohio State is playing
Speaker 1: with the vimen vigor of ten thousand suns because this
Speaker 1: is the whole crew that they never beat Michigan four years.
Speaker 1: Ryan Day supposed to be good as dead as a
Speaker 1: head coach, and they came down and they played one
Speaker 1: of the best games of the season. So that is
Speaker 1: much must watch. I started with Boise because that's New
Speaker 1: Year's Eve seven thirty pm. Ohio State Oregon is five
Speaker 1: pm New Year's Day. Okay, talk myself into that. Before
Speaker 1: that is Texas Arizona State your Chick fil A Peach Bowl,
Speaker 1: Texas is a thirteen point favorite. This is what I'm
Speaker 1: talking about with the buys, Like parts of this system
Speaker 1: are still clearly a little broken, and this is one
Speaker 1: of them. I don't know. Again, I hope these games
Speaker 1: aren't living up to their spread billing because that would stink.
Speaker 1: But Arizona State with scataboo, that'll be the word of
Speaker 1: the day on New Year's Day. The joke with him
Speaker 1: is you know how good is he gonna look? With
Speaker 1: Belichick in New England. That jokes about five years old
Speaker 1: now because he now coaches North Carolina. But White running
Speaker 1: back who plays just like an absolute dog. The receiving
Speaker 1: and the rushing are electric. That let's see what he
Speaker 1: can do to the Texas defense and Texas's offense has
Speaker 1: left a lot of questions out there. Uh, but I mean,
Speaker 1: this is the Texas Longhorns. There. Their two losses are
Speaker 1: to Georgia where Arizona State. This year it felt like
Speaker 1: they kind of came out of nowhere their losses to
Speaker 1: Texas Tech and Cincinnati, So you know that just feels
Speaker 1: a little different. They're head coach Arizona State. I think
Speaker 1: younger than me. That's tough. Yeah, that hurts Kenny Dillingham. Nice,
Speaker 1: it was a cool Wiki read again. Why was I there?
Speaker 1: Why haven't I read a book this year? But I
Speaker 1: read Kenny Dillingham's Wikipedia. Let's finish off Notre Dame Georgia.
Speaker 1: This is the last game of the day. This is
Speaker 1: the smallest line again, two kind of traditional powers here.
Speaker 1: Georgia as a one and a half point favorite without
Speaker 1: Carson Beck, who's declaring for the draft even though his
Speaker 1: season is over due to injury. Uh, I mean that
Speaker 1: is kind kind of the story that I'm It depends
Speaker 1: what you believe in. Like Georgia without Hey, Carson Beck
Speaker 1: hadn't played great for them recently that now they're going
Speaker 1: to their backup quarterback name my apologies. Who is Stockton
Speaker 1: Gunn or Stockton? That's right? Who's more of a run
Speaker 1: threat than a pass threat? That the Georgia offense was
Speaker 1: actually clicking decently because maybe they leaned into the run
Speaker 1: a little bit more, and maybe that's a good thing
Speaker 1: for them. We'll see their Notre Dame people are saying
Speaker 1: Notre Dame might be better than them on the lines.
Speaker 1: I was getting scared with that with an SEC school.
Speaker 1: You know, when we're seeing some of Notre Dame's footage
Speaker 1: against recently like Army Virginia, I don't know, maybe that's
Speaker 1: me being rude and noxious, but this is queued up
Speaker 1: to be one of the good ones personally, no clue.
Speaker 1: I love the way Notre Dame has been playing, the
Speaker 1: way they run the ball, it's just absolutely electric. I
Speaker 1: think Georgia can say the same thing, that it should
Speaker 1: be a fun one. And maybe it comes down to
Speaker 1: the quarterbacks and you've got inexperienced gunner sockedon versus Riley
Speaker 1: Leonard who's played a ton of college ball. I listen
Speaker 1: a lot of people like Notre Dame in that game,
Speaker 1: and not just because they're drunk irish guys. So I'm
Speaker 1: hoping that the next couple days redeem the college football playoffs.
Speaker 1: And if that whole first weekend was kind of a bust,
Speaker 1: what if this weekend is great? What if the following
Speaker 1: week is great where there's two games and then there's
Speaker 1: still a championship after that. So it's a ton of
Speaker 1: college football. And it's so funny how far college football
Speaker 1: has come to get to this point, because this is
Speaker 1: basically professional football, but hopefully we get some electric matchups
Speaker 1: in there, and then with my NFL association, I think
Speaker 1: I can be somewhat high and tightish because the NFL
Speaker 1: just plays every day now during the holidays, so that's
Speaker 1: pretty wild. Like this week technically happened going back to Wednesday,
Speaker 1: Christmas with the Chiefs playing Pittsburgh and Baltimore playing Houston.
Speaker 1: Both those games were a dud. I've got a few
Speaker 1: buddies in the group chat getting pretty hot that all
Speaker 1: of these short week games are kind of hot garbage,
Speaker 1: and I don't know. I think there's some data that
Speaker 1: would help, and one of those data points would be
Speaker 1: Baltimore Houston thirty one to two. So did you get
Speaker 1: to watch NFL football on Netflix on Christmas? You did?
Speaker 1: And I loved it. I'm a sports junkie. The games
Speaker 1: were bad, So we just got to figure this out again,
Speaker 1: We're evolving, Let's just figure this out a little bit better.
Speaker 2: Still did a Thursday game.
Speaker 1: I don't know, Still did and that was a great
Speaker 1: game because that was Seattle Chicago three final. Hey, I
Speaker 1: don't again, I don't know how many of you come
Speaker 1: for football stuff. I don't know how many just listen
Speaker 1: to it. Maybe some of you like it, and I
Speaker 1: appreciate that, Caleb Williams, some of the numbers are in
Speaker 1: a historic area. Let's see, they're obviously a disaster. They're
Speaker 1: they're head coach, and some of the timeouts called in
Speaker 1: that game, we're disgusting. Know who was in the building
Speaker 1: though in happ Chicago Bears posted him on their Instagram story.
Speaker 1: So it's good to be the king. Uh yeah, I
Speaker 1: don't know. The MVP conversation's fun. Go listen to the
Speaker 1: football guys talk about that, because I don't know what's
Speaker 1: gonna happen between Lamar, Josh uh Saquon Joe Burrow from
Speaker 1: the rafters. There was Saturday football. Oh so you're looking
Speaker 1: for the good game Chargers New England for seven, some
Speaker 1: of the quarterbacks that are getting run out this weekend
Speaker 1: by Golly again, Like it kind of doesn't matter if
Speaker 1: you've made it to this part of the NFL season
Speaker 1: and hey, there's some fantasy implications. You know, some championships
Speaker 1: are going down today, but you know, the teams that
Speaker 1: are out of it feel more out of it than
Speaker 1: they've ever been. That the one good game Saturday was
Speaker 1: my Denver Broncos versus Cincinnati Bengals goes to overtime. Joe
Speaker 1: Burr for four to twelve. Bo Nicks let a couple eat,
Speaker 1: but the Bengals and T Higgins three touchdowns. That'll go
Speaker 1: down as a fantasy legend in some circles. They get
Speaker 1: it done against the horse. He's in Cincinnati. Cincinnati has
Speaker 1: playoff hopes. They need my Broncos to lose. I want
Speaker 1: to say. The other thing is they need the Dolphins
Speaker 1: to lose next week, so that might not happen. Oh
Speaker 1: and they need they need the Broncos to lose the Chiefs.
Speaker 1: So the Chiefs are probably resting their starters, but they
Speaker 1: also might not be resting their starters because they're going
Speaker 1: to get a bye. So if they don't play that game,
Speaker 1: I think their next game would be like twenty five days.
Speaker 1: So if you're a rust person, which I don't know
Speaker 1: if the Chiefs are, you also can't get Mahomes hurt
Speaker 1: in a game that doesn't matter. So let's see how
Speaker 1: that sorts out. Rams beat the Cardinals thirteen to nine,
Speaker 1: again another kind of slop fest. It ended with Kyler
Speaker 1: coming back down the field plunks the receiver and the
Speaker 1: helmet pops up interception to lose. It was cool to
Speaker 1: see Arizona's tight end Trey McBride get the touchdown after
Speaker 1: setting the record for most receptions to start a season
Speaker 1: without getting one. Pretty insane for a tight end. That's crazy.
Speaker 1: Big weekend for the tight ends. Brock Bowers he set
Speaker 1: a bunch of rookie receiving records this weekend, So tight end,
Speaker 1: big back some of them literally what was that? Joe's
Speaker 1: McFly has gotten me with that one. He keeps calling.
Speaker 1: He keeps calling thicker people big backs, and I was like,
Speaker 1: can I use that? Is that appropriate? And he's like,
Speaker 1: I think so, So I don't know it's a problem.
Speaker 1: If it's not, I'm okay with being canceled big backs.
Speaker 1: Speaking of more good football game the Jets. They got
Speaker 1: obliterated by the Bills forty to fourteen final. It was
Speaker 1: uglier than that for a little bit. Jets had a
Speaker 1: zero on the scoreboard through three that team. Sauce Gardner's
Speaker 1: replying to people on Instagram, what a screenshot he Higgins
Speaker 1: He's put on t Higgins Instagram to not I would
Speaker 1: tell him to not sign with the Jets. That's not good.
Speaker 1: It's another thing you didn't see Belichick's Patriots doing on
Speaker 1: so media. Raiders and Saints knew no, no, no, pay
Speaker 1: that man. I will not be telling you that that's
Speaker 1: so bad. Will not be telling you that, oh bad
Speaker 1: the Jets. Speaking of Raiders and Saints, yep, the g
Speaker 1: Man forty five points. What a game against the Colts.
Speaker 1: Maybe it's ruined their draft position, but for a day,
Speaker 1: the Giants were the Kings of the Meadowlands. Their only
Speaker 1: home win. The kick returned touchdown was just a movie
Speaker 1: by a mere Smith Marsette. Uh so, yeah, they're currently
Speaker 1: after Shador was wearing Giants cleats. They're currently sitting at
Speaker 1: the four pick right position for a quarterback like.
Speaker 2: And they've had of the teams in the mix. I
Speaker 2: think they've had the strongest schedule even get up to two.
Speaker 2: I think they need some favors.
Speaker 1: Uh.
Speaker 2: And they play the Eagles will probably be resting next week,
Speaker 2: so it's it's a good time. It's a good time.
Speaker 1: Congrats g Man. Eagles roll on the Cowboys. Another shocker
Speaker 1: Cooper Rush and Kenny Pickett, and I do want to
Speaker 1: give a shout out to our guy Tanner McKee who
Speaker 1: came into this game and got two touchdown passes. So okay, Eagles, Saquon,
Speaker 1: they are rolling in the Giants or excuse me, Cowboys
Speaker 1: aren't a very sad place for the rest of this season.
Speaker 1: Let's see, what are the other games? They need to
Speaker 1: be discussed? My computer just froze on me. Tough at
Speaker 1: this at this point, let's see I talked about Joe Burr. Well,
Speaker 1: what was the nightcap game last night? Oh Falcons? This
Speaker 1: was actually fun. Falcons commanders a couple couple of the young,
Speaker 1: hopefully stud qbs in this league. Jaden Daniels has obviously
Speaker 1: put enough out there that everyone is now in the
Speaker 1: Jaden wagon, which reminder, well, Poppy was there early. That
Speaker 1: was a really fun night shift with Penix leading the
Speaker 1: boys some crazy throws late to get them in the mix.
Speaker 1: If you're a Falcons fan, you have to be excited
Speaker 1: what you saw there. But Jaden, man, he is unreal dude.
Speaker 1: When he it needs to get done, he gets it done.
Speaker 1: And he's maybe my favorite QB to watch now. I
Speaker 1: don't know. Everything he did is so composed and so
Speaker 1: gliding and so in control, but yet he fights for
Speaker 1: other yards It's not like like Kyler has hit a
Speaker 1: point now where he slides early and that's fine because
Speaker 1: he's he needs to do that to take care of him,
Speaker 1: to give Arizona the best shot. Like that's just smart,
Speaker 1: Jaden Lesson. There are times when he glides and gets
Speaker 1: through tackles while still getting down gently, where he's still
Speaker 1: picking up extra yards. Every facet of his game I
Speaker 1: enjoy and love to watch. The Commanders are eleven and five.
Speaker 1: They ended a twenty four year postseason drought. Twenty four football. WHOA,
Speaker 1: it's football, So he's the king of that town. That
Speaker 1: was a fun way to end. At the other Electric
Speaker 1: game yesterday that I skipped over because my page froze.
Speaker 1: No it's not Dolphins Browns twenty to three, some good
Speaker 1: QB play. No it's not Titans Jaguars. No it's not
Speaker 1: bu Panthers. They put up a big number five tds
Speaker 1: for Baker Packers, Vikes, the Vikings and Sam Donald get
Speaker 1: the twenty seven to twenty five victory. Packers started off
Speaker 1: slow and the Vikings really did not. Both of these
Speaker 1: teams are so good at spreading the ball around. Dobbs
Speaker 1: Craft on Tavian Wick's Melton, Reed, Musgrave Heath with catches, Jefferson, Naylor, Addison, Hockinson, Jones,
Speaker 1: Acres Ham Munt for the Vikings and Sam Donald's playing
Speaker 1: great and the team celebration after the locker room. If
Speaker 1: you haven't seen it on social media, go look it
Speaker 1: up today because it's really cool to see how beloved
Speaker 1: that guy is. And it's gonna lead to some fun
Speaker 1: Minnesota offseason stuff. Slash. They're just gonna franchise them. Everyone's like, whoa,
Speaker 1: it's gonna be this big, crazy conversation. You've got such
Speaker 1: an instant get out of jail free card. He's played amazing.
Speaker 1: We can pay him one year if he does this again,
Speaker 1: he's our quarterback. We'll trade the first rounder we took
Speaker 1: last year and if not decisions made could fight by
Speaker 1: the Packers. They get back in this one. It's too little,
Speaker 1: too late. Fikes complete the final first down on a
Speaker 1: cam Akers. WHOA. These two teams are really good. The
Speaker 1: Minnesota Vikings are fourteen and two good. Kevin O'Connell do
Speaker 1: I take credit for that tall, handsome Vikings coach saw
Speaker 1: something I didn't see this And it's just a really
Speaker 1: interesting playoff picture because If the Lions win tonight, they're
Speaker 1: the one seed, which means that drops the Vikes to
Speaker 1: like the five seeds. So we're going from number one seed,
Speaker 1: home field through the playoffs to road playoff game to start,
Speaker 1: like I the uh NFC in a wild place, and
Speaker 1: mostly because of that NFC North and how good it's
Speaker 1: been this year. That yeah, it's an ugly one PM
Speaker 1: slate because they moved the other good games to weird
Speaker 1: primetime games this week and then those games weren't great
Speaker 1: because they were off scheduling athletes or creatures of habit,
Speaker 1: but it still ended up on a high note. I
Speaker 1: mean that Falcons Commander's ot game that was worth the watch.
Speaker 1: We're seeing those young guys sling it. So a ton
Speaker 1: of all the playoff scenarios for this weekend. Here's the analytics.
Speaker 1: Watch some of the college football. There should be a
Speaker 1: couple of gems. Watch your fantasy weeks if you need
Speaker 1: them to play out. Although Week eighteen not for me.
Speaker 1: End your seasons in week seventeen, imo, but we will
Speaker 1: see what games matter. Can my Broncos survive the Chiefs?
Speaker 1: Chiefs playing their backups? Probably? I think there's a couple
Speaker 1: other games that are gonna be Vikings Lions end. It
Speaker 1: kind of a playoff game Sunday night. How do you
Speaker 1: like that? So we talked a lot of sports. I'm
Speaker 1: glad I got to I'm glad you guys were here
Speaker 1: with it. Glad I could see King Bebes before ringing
Speaker 1: in the New Years. So hope this got you guys
Speaker 1: through this weird part of the year, drifting through into
Speaker 1: the New Year's, the cold weather, the gray. We will
Speaker 1: be back, probably not Thursday Friday. I think we're catching
Speaker 1: up on other stuff. If there's something that we need
Speaker 1: to maybe otherwise. We might see you next week and
Speaker 1: we'll know, like the football playoffs. I don't know, wo
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