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Speaker 1: Podcast listeners, this is for you. Welcome to No Bunts,

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Speaker 1: a weekly baseball podcast. If you know nothing about baseball,

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Speaker 1: this is the pod for you. I'm tas Mellis with

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Speaker 1: me a couple other non baseball experts jay E Skeets, Hello, Hello.

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Speaker 2: I'm very excited for this. I'm excited to learn what

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Speaker 2: the hell is going on in baseball.

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Speaker 1: This is the perfect time to get in. It is

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Speaker 1: midway through the season, that's right, and the man making

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Speaker 1: the magic happen JD.

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Speaker 3: A whole other sport. I know nothing of that. That's

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Speaker 3: very exciting for me. Well, yeah, this is the first episode.

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Speaker 3: We're going to go weekly. Here, do this once a week.

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Speaker 3: Hopefully I don't run out of all my knowledge in

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Speaker 3: this episode, right, so we will have a second one

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Speaker 3: next week. Listen, We're not gonna do the day to

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Speaker 3: day baseball thing. I'm not gonna tell you what happened

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Speaker 3: on Monday night in baseball.

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Speaker 2: We're not talking Vorp on this show, right.

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Speaker 1: The only Vorp I know is David Vorp. I mean

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Speaker 1: David Thorpe. Bad joke. Listen. Yeah, we're not gonna get

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Speaker 1: deep into the analytics. They might come up here there

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Speaker 1: if you want the day to day stuff. I listened

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Speaker 1: to the Athletic MLB Show Monday through Friday. They do

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Speaker 1: a great job. This is gonna be sort of a

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Speaker 1: zoom out trying to understand the game because things have

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Speaker 1: changed since I was a hardcore fan. But I was

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Speaker 1: a hardcore fan growing up, loving the game, the nostalgia

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Speaker 1: factor playing it. You know, I've fallen out of love

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Speaker 1: with it, but I still want to know stuff about it,

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Speaker 1: so I do follow it, you know, and it as

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Speaker 1: a casual fan. And that's what we're gonna bring to you.

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Speaker 1: The stuff that's sort of surprising us, you know, as

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Speaker 1: former hardcore fans. Things I want to learn about the

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Speaker 1: stars of the game is very important to me, the

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Speaker 1: stuff that makes us laugh and cry. Heck, we've got

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Speaker 1: a baseball wedgie later in this show. What Yeah, Yeah,

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Speaker 1: I know, now I'm interested. Yeah, there's not just basketball,

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Speaker 1: there are baseball wedgies. We're gonna try some different things

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Speaker 1: in future episodes. Maybe go down to the Tampa Bay

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Speaker 1: Stadium because I've always wanted to see that ugly stadium

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Speaker 1: in person. To the to the Trump Yeah. Thanks, I

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Speaker 1: couldn't even think of the name.

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Speaker 2: Ye, I think that's what they call it.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I think so we're gonna go probably to a

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Speaker 1: minor league baseball game, hopefully Savannah Bananas are just down

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Speaker 2: Oh that's the team that goes like sort of crazy

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Speaker 2: overboard with like their festivities and within the game, and

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Speaker 2: it looks like it looks like a blast.

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Speaker 1: So okay, yeah they do some random stuff. Is it

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Speaker 1: for publicity? Sure?

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Speaker 2: Oh yeah, it's minor league base.

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Speaker 1: But it's fun. Actually, we got an email from a

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Speaker 1: gentleman who bruised the Terrapin beer at the Brave Stadium

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Speaker 1: Truest Park wants us to get down there, brews some

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Speaker 1: beers and watch the game.

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Speaker 4: Okay, that's how I was gonna put it for No Bunks,

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Speaker 4: which is about ten minutes old. Then it's ever happened

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Speaker 4: for a show we did for seventeen years.

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Speaker 1: That's a great question, Listen. We want to do different stuff,

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Speaker 1: is what I'm getting at. So send in your suggestions

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Speaker 1: No Dunks at the Athletic dot com obviously your questions

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Speaker 1: Bullpen mail bag will do some of that. We'll turn

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Speaker 1: to experts from the Athletic for random things I want

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Speaker 1: to know about. We'll turn to friends of the show.

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Speaker 1: Kenny Beacham is gonna come on. He just threw out

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Speaker 1: a first pitch for the White Sox. Kelly Dwyer, the

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Speaker 1: Great Kelly.

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Speaker 2: He knows a crazy amount about baseball. I don't know

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Speaker 2: about today's current game. I think he does as well,

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Speaker 2: but like a pitcher from eighty five on the Cardinals,

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Speaker 2: He's like an encyclopedia.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, and he introduced me to another pod that does

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Speaker 1: sort of time capsules of NBA seasons, like one season

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Speaker 1: from one team in one episode, the nineteen ninety two

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Speaker 2: Accident.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, of course we're going to talk about basketball today,

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Speaker 2: I've seen this movie that might happen.

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Speaker 1: So we're gonna we're gonna turn to our friends. Actually,

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Speaker 1: we've got a secret friend appearance later in this show video.

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Speaker 2: He's not kidding, it's so secretive.

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Speaker 1: I have, right, Okay, first question before we get to

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Speaker 1: actual baseball, are you okay with the name No Bunts Skeets.

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Speaker 2: I love it. I love it Dingers only we're swinging

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Speaker 2: no buffs too, no breaks is right there.

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Speaker 2: It's the umbrella that we're building here with all of

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Speaker 2: the sports. But but but but look look at me.

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Speaker 2: I played baseball. I think everybody hopefully listening at some

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Speaker 2: not built for power. Yeah, you know, I was never

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Speaker 2: the lineup? Leaf was lead off right right, slap some singles.

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Speaker 1: We'll talk about some great leadoff hitters, ok, right, now

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Speaker 1: that can that can yank it sometimes you know, oh

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Speaker 1: Yeah, it's a great name. And those are down stolen

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Speaker 1: And bunts are dumb. Bunts are way down because analytics. Yeah,

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Speaker 2: Because the numbers just say it's not worth it. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: The five best things in Baseball this week. Yeah, I

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Speaker 1: the All Star Game. I don't know if people say that,

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Speaker 1: That's why you're here.

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Speaker 2: Do we know that that's a good question. That's big.

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Speaker 2: You just figure like he's such an athlete, like I'm

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Speaker 1: That would make sense. I have no idea. So he

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Speaker 1: Swinging for the fences. Well in a contract year for

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Speaker 1: good debates on the athletic that I've read that others

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Speaker 2: Yeah, seventy percent winning clip. Yeah, in any sport. That

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I think people do they say that? I think so.

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Speaker 1: Yeah. So the Yankees are doing some things for themselves,

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Speaker 1: They have been wow wow. Yeah, we've got some home

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Speaker 6: longtime listener, first time caller. I won't talk about what

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Speaker 6: and it's pretty simple.

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Speaker 2: It is that bullpen.

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Speaker 6: That bullpen is lights out again this year, and we

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Speaker 5: Then appearing on no bunds not as charismatic on cameras

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Speaker 1: Well, the Braves are fifty two and thirty six. Last

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Speaker 1: On purpose, he came to Atlanta. Freddy Freeman did his

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Speaker 2: So had we get a better agent or I think

438
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Speaker 2: he'd probably still be with the Braves.

439
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Speaker 1: I've always getten that I think so sure felt like that.

440
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Speaker 2: And he's on the Dodgers. Yeah, who are I feel

441
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Speaker 2: like they have Okay, I saw that they have a

442
00:21:14,160 --> 00:21:16,320
Speaker 2: bunch of injuries, but they're also doing really really well.

443
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Speaker 1: Yeah they could. They could still be there in the

444
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Speaker 1: end when it all comes down to it. They're leading

445
00:21:20,240 --> 00:21:23,879
Speaker 1: the NLS fifty six and twenty nine. Yeah, they're so so.

446
00:21:24,080 --> 00:21:27,119
Speaker 1: Just a few more things about the first half. There

447
00:21:27,200 --> 00:21:29,840
Speaker 1: is universal DH now for everybody who doesn't know. As

448
00:21:29,840 --> 00:21:32,240
Speaker 1: I mentioned earlier, pictures don't have to bat anymore. I

449
00:21:32,240 --> 00:21:34,600
Speaker 1: don't think they're ever going to go back to pictures hitting.

450
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Speaker 2: How do you feel about that? I like it, Okay, why.

451
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Speaker 1: Because hitters are better because they hit better than pictures, right.

452
00:21:42,880 --> 00:21:45,439
Speaker 1: I mean it's kind of fun seeing a picture in

453
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Speaker 1: a warm up jacket when he gets on base and

454
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Speaker 1: not being able to slide properly. But but then it's

455
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Speaker 1: just it's just all there's always a worry, Oh, this

456
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Speaker 1: picture's gonna you know, pull a hamstring out there, because

457
00:21:56,400 --> 00:21:57,800
Speaker 1: he sprints five times a game.

458
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Speaker 2: And it was also weird that they were doing it

459
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Speaker 2: in one league and not doing it any together.

460
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Speaker 1: I mean, that's really strange. And there's it's just it

461
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Speaker 1: increases the ability of what you can do with a lineup.

462
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Speaker 1: You know, you can you steal more bases perhaps, you know,

463
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Speaker 1: it's just everybody in the lineup is better because of it.

464
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Speaker 1: You're not playing the small ball, which everybody does. Like

465
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Speaker 1: you know, Pitcher goes up there and bunts to get

466
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Speaker 1: a guy over. Yeah, no bunts.

467
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Speaker 2: But but the one thing I used to like about

468
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Speaker 2: it is I did love specially like when you get

469
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Speaker 2: into like a postseason matchup, I love the the idea

470
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Speaker 2: like that sometimes a manager would have to like make

471
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Speaker 2: the decision like Okay, we're in the sixth inning or whatever.

472
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Speaker 2: He's doing well on the mound. You know, we're trying

473
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Speaker 2: to figure out how many innings he's got left and

474
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Speaker 2: all that. But like, oh, he's up here in the order,

475
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Speaker 2: do we bring in a obviously a substitute batter. No,

476
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Speaker 2: that's not it. Yeah, it's while people.

477
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Speaker 1: Like the old double switch, the old double switch, I

478
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Speaker 1: guess that has been lesson now because starting pitchers don't

479
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Speaker 1: go as.

480
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Speaker 2: Long as true true.

481
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Speaker 1: Yeah, that's that is different since you know we used

482
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Speaker 1: to watch pitchers don't go as long. The numbers say

483
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Speaker 1: it's better to get him out of there, keep it,

484
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Speaker 1: get a fresh guy in there, don't let the hitter

485
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Speaker 1: see them the second or third time picking.

486
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Speaker 2: Up on their tails. Yeah, and the balls coming from.

487
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Speaker 1: The Yeah, so that's an interesting one. Yeah. The anyways,

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Speaker 1: I'm I'm okay.

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Speaker 2: So you're you're you're probably I mean, I see people

490
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Speaker 2: Sam says, I hate the DH So I guess there's

491
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Speaker 2: some people that.

492
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Speaker 1: I guess. I guess I would rather have everybody who

493
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Speaker 1: hits in the lineup play position as well. But maybe it's.

494
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Speaker 2: Gonna Yeah, I thought you were gonna say everybody that

495
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Speaker 2: hits has to throw a pitch the other way.

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Speaker 1: I don't know what the stat was, but I think

497
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Speaker 1: there it's some sort of record for positional players who

498
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Speaker 1: have pitched this season, like twenty six something. Stupid.

499
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Speaker 2: Well, that makes sense if you're saying that they're not

500
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Speaker 2: letting starters pitches.

501
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Speaker 1: Long and you're going to.

502
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Speaker 2: The pen more and all that.

503
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Speaker 1: Yeah, but guys who never pitched, like you know, third

504
00:24:06,200 --> 00:24:08,119
Speaker 1: bait Matt Chapman comes in, you know, like some of

505
00:24:08,119 --> 00:24:12,320
Speaker 1: them third baseman to throw a sixty mile per hour.

506
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Speaker 2: I use fun so that happens more often now, yeh,

507
00:24:15,359 --> 00:24:17,560
Speaker 2: because that when we were a kids. I remember that

508
00:24:17,760 --> 00:24:19,440
Speaker 2: was like, Oh, this is crazy.

509
00:24:19,520 --> 00:24:21,800
Speaker 1: That's the third basement's.

510
00:24:21,080 --> 00:24:22,560
Speaker 2: Going to the mound and he's going to try and

511
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Speaker 2: throw a pitch.

512
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Speaker 1: Yeah, okay, okay, yeah, I'll just fly through some things.

513
00:24:25,840 --> 00:24:28,280
Speaker 1: As we said, stolen bases are down, Triples are down,

514
00:24:28,320 --> 00:24:31,640
Speaker 1: mainly because teams are swinging for the fences, but also

515
00:24:31,760 --> 00:24:34,960
Speaker 1: because it's the hardest time in MLB history to be

516
00:24:35,000 --> 00:24:38,119
Speaker 1: a good hitter, because there's so many more pitchers coming in.

517
00:24:38,320 --> 00:24:40,719
Speaker 1: It's hard to sort of get used to it. Strikeouts

518
00:24:40,760 --> 00:24:44,000
Speaker 1: are up, home runs are down. Could be about eight

519
00:24:44,119 --> 00:24:47,399
Speaker 1: hundred fewer than last season, when all of a sudden

520
00:24:47,400 --> 00:24:50,639
Speaker 1: and done and sixteen hundred fewer than twenty nineteen. But

521
00:24:51,280 --> 00:24:54,440
Speaker 1: that also has to do with the ball. The baseball

522
00:24:54,720 --> 00:24:55,760
Speaker 1: is different year to year.

523
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Speaker 2: They're still doing this, they're still talking about the baseball changing.

524
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Speaker 1: It's totally true the ball changes from year to year.

525
00:25:01,720 --> 00:25:04,840
Speaker 1: Maybe it's I don't know, it's not a science like

526
00:25:04,880 --> 00:25:06,760
Speaker 1: they can't get it down the same now.

527
00:25:07,040 --> 00:25:11,640
Speaker 2: It's changing the cork inside, the leather, the stitching.

528
00:25:11,720 --> 00:25:15,520
Speaker 1: It's just wound less tight, I don't know, Cray. Yeah,

529
00:25:15,520 --> 00:25:17,920
Speaker 1: the ball's carrying more as the temperature does get warm.

530
00:25:17,960 --> 00:25:21,159
Speaker 1: It's true there are stats for that exit velocity and

531
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Speaker 1: all that. But anyway, I just want to run through

532
00:25:24,200 --> 00:25:26,080
Speaker 1: a few of those things. Yeah, and we'll get some

533
00:25:26,160 --> 00:25:29,359
Speaker 1: experts from the athletic to cover a few of those things,

534
00:25:29,400 --> 00:25:32,280
Speaker 1: and in Jared Dent type style, you know, I have

535
00:25:32,359 --> 00:25:34,800
Speaker 1: them on for a few minutes. And last thing I

536
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Speaker 1: want to say about the first half before we get

537
00:25:36,520 --> 00:25:39,760
Speaker 1: to some cool things that happened this past week. Just

538
00:25:39,800 --> 00:25:43,560
Speaker 1: the young phenoms I get excited for. There's O'Neill Cruz,

539
00:25:43,680 --> 00:25:47,960
Speaker 1: the Pittsburgh Pirates shortstop who's six foot seven. You don't see, Yeah,

540
00:25:48,000 --> 00:25:50,280
Speaker 1: a shortstop that doesn't happen.

541
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Speaker 2: See, I'm a little worried about baseball because the one

542
00:25:52,680 --> 00:25:55,160
Speaker 2: thing that baseball was great for was having like fatties

543
00:25:55,200 --> 00:25:57,520
Speaker 2: out there and like guys that are like didn't look

544
00:25:57,560 --> 00:25:59,919
Speaker 2: like athletes, and they looked like they could, like you know,

545
00:26:00,160 --> 00:26:03,520
Speaker 2: Chuck twenty beers after the game didn't take their you know,

546
00:26:03,760 --> 00:26:06,159
Speaker 2: conditioning all that serious. Like that was like the one

547
00:26:06,400 --> 00:26:09,640
Speaker 2: we're another sports. Football, you got to be an unbelievable athlete. Basketball,

548
00:26:09,680 --> 00:26:11,280
Speaker 2: of course, so you gotta be a certain size and

549
00:26:11,280 --> 00:26:14,000
Speaker 2: an unbelievale alp. But now baseball is just gonna go there.

550
00:26:14,040 --> 00:26:17,000
Speaker 2: We're gonna have all six seven guys you watch in

551
00:26:17,160 --> 00:26:23,520
Speaker 2: three decades, thirty years, six five guys every position all

552
00:26:23,960 --> 00:26:26,040
Speaker 2: who's the Angels superstar? I can do it on both

553
00:26:26,040 --> 00:26:28,960
Speaker 2: sides of the dots. Everybody's gonna be able to do that.

554
00:26:29,040 --> 00:26:31,919
Speaker 2: You watch, you watch, enjoy it right now, join your

555
00:26:31,920 --> 00:26:33,480
Speaker 2: fat guys. Well you got him, that's all I'm saying.

556
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Speaker 1: Not many of them, but yeah, there's still some large

557
00:26:37,080 --> 00:26:40,200
Speaker 1: men coming out of the pen. Okay, good Alejandro.

558
00:26:39,720 --> 00:26:41,400
Speaker 2: Kirk John, I've seen him.

559
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Speaker 1: He's starting in the All Star Game. Wow, that's he's great.

560
00:26:46,840 --> 00:26:47,600
Speaker 1: So yeah, there's still a.

561
00:26:47,600 --> 00:26:49,679
Speaker 2: Few of those six to seven that short, So that's insane.

562
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Speaker 1: That is insane. He's not hitting all that well, but

563
00:26:52,720 --> 00:26:56,920
Speaker 1: he's a great fielder. Julio Rodriguez's a Mariner's rook It's

564
00:26:57,000 --> 00:27:00,800
Speaker 1: kind of got the typical wiry baseball odd six three

565
00:27:00,880 --> 00:27:04,639
Speaker 1: two twenty eight. I enjoyed watching. He's one of the

566
00:27:04,680 --> 00:27:06,720
Speaker 1: most feared bats in the game as a rookie already

567
00:27:06,760 --> 00:27:10,240
Speaker 1: first month. Not great, striking out a lot chasing third strikes,

568
00:27:10,640 --> 00:27:13,359
Speaker 1: a lot of balls that were outside his strike soon

569
00:27:13,400 --> 00:27:17,359
Speaker 1: and some bad balls called against him. Robo umps are coming.

570
00:27:17,480 --> 00:27:20,760
Speaker 1: That's coming anyways. Well, we'll talk about that later. But

571
00:27:21,200 --> 00:27:22,320
Speaker 1: he's cool because.

572
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Speaker 2: We're gonna lose all the fat players and all the

573
00:27:24,040 --> 00:27:24,760
Speaker 2: fat umps.

574
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Speaker 1: Yeah, oh my god, we're gonna miss those fat umps.

575
00:27:28,240 --> 00:27:32,720
Speaker 2: We're able to make the robot humps large, dude.

576
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Speaker 1: You can pick your size robot ump. I don't I

577
00:27:37,240 --> 00:27:40,440
Speaker 1: don't know about this robot I'm saying because it's gonna happen. Yeah,

578
00:27:40,600 --> 00:27:42,960
Speaker 1: because there's so many balls. Even Aaron Judge we talked about,

579
00:27:43,000 --> 00:27:46,160
Speaker 1: he's the leader for missed strikes, the balls that are

580
00:27:46,440 --> 00:27:48,800
Speaker 1: usually low on him because he's sixty seven and the

581
00:27:48,840 --> 00:27:50,919
Speaker 1: balls counder his knees and they're called But is there

582
00:27:50,960 --> 00:27:53,000
Speaker 1: gonna be like a robot umpire.

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Speaker 2: I don't know, but it'd be cool, Like you know,

584
00:27:55,640 --> 00:27:58,040
Speaker 2: like sometimes you go to, like, uh, I don't like

585
00:27:58,080 --> 00:28:00,159
Speaker 2: a hotel and they have like a weird robot come

586
00:28:00,240 --> 00:28:02,880
Speaker 2: up to you to like sort of not check you in,

587
00:28:02,920 --> 00:28:05,040
Speaker 2: but like, hey, let's look at the map the directory

588
00:28:05,080 --> 00:28:07,640
Speaker 2: of this hotel. Yeah, I would like a really crappy

589
00:28:07,760 --> 00:28:10,280
Speaker 2: robot out there. I'd be great at the robots. It's

590
00:28:10,280 --> 00:28:13,560
Speaker 2: one hundred times worse than the actual human umps. And

591
00:28:13,600 --> 00:28:16,200
Speaker 2: people are kicking dirt on the robot ump and stuff

592
00:28:16,240 --> 00:28:16,520
Speaker 2: like that.

593
00:28:16,720 --> 00:28:18,520
Speaker 1: Yeah, but no, I don't think they'll be No, there

594
00:28:18,520 --> 00:28:19,520
Speaker 1: won't be any out there.

595
00:28:20,200 --> 00:28:20,760
Speaker 2: It should be.

596
00:28:20,880 --> 00:28:24,840
Speaker 1: It's strange though, But anyway, just quickly on Julio Rodriguez

597
00:28:24,840 --> 00:28:28,160
Speaker 1: because he steals bases, which is great, and he hits dingers.

598
00:28:28,480 --> 00:28:31,080
Speaker 1: He's the fastest player to reach fifteen homers and twenty

599
00:28:31,080 --> 00:28:34,880
Speaker 1: stolen bases in MLB history. He's got there faster than

600
00:28:34,960 --> 00:28:37,320
Speaker 1: Ellis Burks. I think you can kind of remember, yeah,

601
00:28:37,400 --> 00:28:40,640
Speaker 1: I do, Barry Bonds, Yeah, back when he was a

602
00:28:40,760 --> 00:28:42,560
Speaker 1: juice and Eric Davis.

603
00:28:42,680 --> 00:28:43,520
Speaker 2: Yeah, I remember that name.

604
00:28:43,560 --> 00:28:46,720
Speaker 1: He's on the Red Red and he's the first rookie.

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00:28:47,240 --> 00:28:49,280
Speaker 1: This is another stat I didn't care a lot about,

606
00:28:49,320 --> 00:28:51,760
Speaker 1: but I like the name here. Rodriguez is the first

607
00:28:52,080 --> 00:28:54,400
Speaker 1: rookie with fifteen or more home runs and stolen bases

608
00:28:54,440 --> 00:28:57,240
Speaker 1: before the All Star break since Devon White did it

609
00:28:57,280 --> 00:29:00,320
Speaker 1: in nineteen eighty seven. So he has me the All

610
00:29:00,360 --> 00:29:03,720
Speaker 1: Star team. He's twenty one years old. Julio Rodriguez is

611
00:29:04,200 --> 00:29:06,320
Speaker 1: joining only two players to be an All Star by

612
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Speaker 1: age twenty one. Really.

613
00:29:08,160 --> 00:29:09,640
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's the other thing about baseball.

614
00:29:09,640 --> 00:29:13,160
Speaker 1: They're all older than Yeah, it takes other time to develop. Yeah,

615
00:29:13,240 --> 00:29:16,200
Speaker 1: to get consistent, You get consistent you're older. You know

616
00:29:16,240 --> 00:29:18,600
Speaker 1: who they are? Though, Two players to be an All

617
00:29:18,600 --> 00:29:22,200
Speaker 1: Star by age twenty one, Yeah, and he's a Mariner.

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00:29:22,680 --> 00:29:25,080
Speaker 1: Both these cans play for the Mariners, Ken Griffy Jr.

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Speaker 2: Both of them did.

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00:29:26,560 --> 00:29:29,720
Speaker 1: Yeah, And this guy started his career Alex Rodriguez.

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Speaker 2: That's right, Okay, okay, all right, all right there we go.

622
00:29:32,280 --> 00:29:33,000
Speaker 2: Let's cragg about that.

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Speaker 1: This guys are stars. So we're gonna talk about some

624
00:29:34,520 --> 00:29:37,240
Speaker 1: more stars after the break when we get to the

625
00:29:37,400 --> 00:29:41,320
Speaker 1: five best things in baseball this week. And you got

626
00:29:41,320 --> 00:29:44,280
Speaker 1: to stick around for JD's animation or listen to it

627
00:29:44,280 --> 00:29:46,960
Speaker 1: because it's fantastic. We'll be back right after the break.

628
00:29:48,600 --> 00:29:51,240
Speaker 2: Back here. On the very first episode of No Bunts,

629
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Speaker 2: we were talking about what do we call in the

630
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Speaker 2: people joining us live on YouTube? The bullpen, the dugout?

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Speaker 2: They need a name. Some great suggestions I'll throw them

632
00:29:59,280 --> 00:30:02,400
Speaker 2: at you. Maybe a favorite from everybody out there. The

633
00:30:02,440 --> 00:30:08,160
Speaker 2: outfielders okay, okay, the foul poles fowl.

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00:30:07,960 --> 00:30:10,280
Speaker 1: Poll yeah, offside.

635
00:30:09,880 --> 00:30:13,920
Speaker 2: Uh bat chat. There are some laughs about that. The

636
00:30:14,000 --> 00:30:20,120
Speaker 2: sunflower streams the Homers. I don't mind the homers. Let's

637
00:30:20,120 --> 00:30:22,160
Speaker 2: go to the homers. What are the Homers saying? Okay,

638
00:30:22,360 --> 00:30:26,360
Speaker 2: this is my favorite, though real awesome baseball term. The

639
00:30:26,400 --> 00:30:27,400
Speaker 2: bleacher creatures.

640
00:30:27,680 --> 00:30:29,160
Speaker 1: The bleacher that's pretty good.

641
00:30:29,720 --> 00:30:32,000
Speaker 2: I think that's my favorite right now, outside of like

642
00:30:32,080 --> 00:30:35,760
Speaker 2: bullpen or dugout. JD, you like the bleacher creatures.

643
00:30:35,720 --> 00:30:36,440
Speaker 3: Out of that list?

644
00:30:36,520 --> 00:30:37,960
Speaker 1: Yes, yeah, I would pick that one.

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00:30:38,000 --> 00:30:40,080
Speaker 2: All right, We'll keep sending in your work in progress.

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00:30:40,160 --> 00:30:41,920
Speaker 2: I guess let us know live, let us know in

647
00:30:41,920 --> 00:30:44,840
Speaker 2: the comments section. Tweet in your names for everybody joining

648
00:30:44,920 --> 00:30:46,960
Speaker 2: us live on YouTube at No dunks Ink.

649
00:30:47,640 --> 00:30:50,560
Speaker 1: Listen, I love me some some flower seeds. Yeah, but

650
00:30:51,400 --> 00:30:54,000
Speaker 1: I don't want to be spitting at her audience here,

651
00:30:54,040 --> 00:30:57,000
Speaker 1: you know what. True, But that's that's great. Bleacher Creature.

652
00:30:57,040 --> 00:30:59,160
Speaker 1: The outfielders like that are onto it.

653
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Speaker 2: Yeah, people are at something about on deck, the on

654
00:31:01,920 --> 00:31:04,080
Speaker 2: deck pack, I mean.

655
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Speaker 1: The bleacher creatures.

656
00:31:05,200 --> 00:31:06,280
Speaker 2: Bleacher Creatures is great.

657
00:31:06,320 --> 00:31:08,680
Speaker 1: There you're lurking and you're.

658
00:31:08,240 --> 00:31:10,360
Speaker 2: Yeah, and you're and it just makes me think you're

659
00:31:10,360 --> 00:31:15,680
Speaker 2: all like this. Yeah, Okay, that's the leader in the

660
00:31:15,880 --> 00:31:16,720
Speaker 2: clubhouse right now.

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Speaker 1: Yes, very all right, let's get to the five best

662
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Speaker 1: Things in Baseball this week. Yes, JD with the Incredible

663
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Speaker 1: is JD.

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Speaker 2: This show is now forty minutes old. That's the best

665
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Speaker 2: intro I've ever seen you do. And yeah, we have

666
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Speaker 2: a show we've been doing for seventeen years, a basketball

667
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Speaker 2: show that's incredible. Wow.

668
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Speaker 3: I had a little bit of time, so and when

669
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Speaker 3: I have time, I can devote it to things.

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Speaker 1: Okay, the organ the organ is yeah, yeah, we got

671
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Speaker 1: to it.

672
00:31:55,520 --> 00:31:58,360
Speaker 3: Had to go with organ throughout right, perfect because his

673
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Speaker 3: rounders music is always the Yeah.

674
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Speaker 1: I'm sure we'll be doing this Best Things in Baseball

675
00:32:03,840 --> 00:32:06,040
Speaker 1: pretty often as well, because again we're not going to

676
00:32:06,080 --> 00:32:09,680
Speaker 1: recap games. But I like picking and choosing random things

677
00:32:09,680 --> 00:32:12,800
Speaker 1: that happen that get me thinking, get me excited, like

678
00:32:13,640 --> 00:32:19,320
Speaker 1: a baseball wedgie, Wild Royals Guardians, Yeah, the Cleveland Guardians.

679
00:32:19,800 --> 00:32:25,280
Speaker 1: There's the Guardians hit or launched a shot, a deep shot.

680
00:32:25,600 --> 00:32:29,520
Speaker 1: Now it hit the fence in left center field, but

681
00:32:30,080 --> 00:32:32,880
Speaker 1: above the fence there's sort of this other part of

682
00:32:32,920 --> 00:32:35,480
Speaker 1: the fence that juts out, creating a seam where a

683
00:32:35,520 --> 00:32:39,360
Speaker 1: ball can get stuck. So the ball off the bat stuck.

684
00:32:41,120 --> 00:32:44,480
Speaker 1: That's a baseball wedgie. Is our friends that Bleacher Report said, definitely,

685
00:32:45,480 --> 00:32:48,200
Speaker 1: and I love it. It's in Kansas City, and the

686
00:32:48,720 --> 00:32:51,840
Speaker 1: job of an outfielder when a ball, you know, it's

687
00:32:51,920 --> 00:32:54,440
Speaker 1: kind of like go like is touched by a fan,

688
00:32:54,840 --> 00:32:57,240
Speaker 1: or goes sort of under the fence, gets stuck there,

689
00:32:57,320 --> 00:32:58,000
Speaker 1: or gets stuck in.

690
00:32:58,120 --> 00:33:00,560
Speaker 2: Between weird and unusual where or.

691
00:33:00,520 --> 00:33:02,080
Speaker 1: I don't know, I don't know what's happening.

692
00:33:02,160 --> 00:33:03,000
Speaker 2: I can't touch it.

693
00:33:03,080 --> 00:33:05,280
Speaker 1: I can't touch it. Call it a ground roll double

694
00:33:05,600 --> 00:33:09,160
Speaker 1: because really you're supposed to go get it and throw

695
00:33:09,200 --> 00:33:11,320
Speaker 1: it in. But listen, I've been an outfield that's exactly

696
00:33:11,320 --> 00:33:14,840
Speaker 1: what you're to stop. I know what was on this

697
00:33:14,880 --> 00:33:15,680
Speaker 1: ground roll double.

698
00:33:15,760 --> 00:33:18,880
Speaker 2: That's a ground roll double. But if because if that

699
00:33:18,960 --> 00:33:22,240
Speaker 2: had hit three inches above. That's still in play, right.

700
00:33:22,160 --> 00:33:25,200
Speaker 1: Yeah, it comes back. Now there's video reviews in baseball

701
00:33:26,480 --> 00:33:28,760
Speaker 1: trying to dissect if it hits a line, if it's

702
00:33:28,800 --> 00:33:31,040
Speaker 1: a home run. That happens pretty often, but that's part

703
00:33:31,120 --> 00:33:34,880
Speaker 1: that's in play, that little jut out of a fence.

704
00:33:35,960 --> 00:33:38,240
Speaker 1: But he did the right thing because you could jump

705
00:33:38,360 --> 00:33:41,040
Speaker 1: up and miss it, right, you could like try and

706
00:33:41,120 --> 00:33:44,040
Speaker 1: grab at it if he couldn't pull it out of there,

707
00:33:44,080 --> 00:33:46,680
Speaker 1: because if it was wedged really hard, like a classic

708
00:33:46,760 --> 00:33:49,360
Speaker 1: NBA wedg, you maybe don't get it, and then the

709
00:33:49,600 --> 00:33:52,160
Speaker 1: umpires allow the runner to go go to third get

710
00:33:52,200 --> 00:33:54,880
Speaker 1: a rare triple. But he played that really well.

711
00:33:56,360 --> 00:33:57,800
Speaker 2: It goes under the fence, that's weird.

712
00:33:57,920 --> 00:33:59,840
Speaker 1: Did that ever happen to you as a as a

713
00:34:00,040 --> 00:34:02,520
Speaker 1: minor league or sometimes like a ball will go under

714
00:34:02,560 --> 00:34:04,000
Speaker 1: the fence and you got you're supposed to put your

715
00:34:04,000 --> 00:34:06,560
Speaker 1: hand up, Oh really, yeah, you're supposed to say, hey,

716
00:34:06,600 --> 00:34:09,040
Speaker 1: that's a double, because you know, sometimes you can't an

717
00:34:09,120 --> 00:34:12,719
Speaker 1: umpire can't see it, and he'll think is he still

718
00:34:12,760 --> 00:34:14,799
Speaker 1: chasing it? Like the runner can just keep on going

719
00:34:14,840 --> 00:34:17,000
Speaker 1: and an inside the park home run happens that kind

720
00:34:17,040 --> 00:34:21,200
Speaker 1: of thing. Yeah, So that's that's your job as an outfielder. No,

721
00:34:22,320 --> 00:34:25,040
Speaker 1: I like it. How that was in a home stadium

722
00:34:25,040 --> 00:34:25,479
Speaker 1: as well.

723
00:34:25,600 --> 00:34:28,040
Speaker 2: Like he knows his he knows, he knows every nook

724
00:34:28,080 --> 00:34:28,879
Speaker 2: and cranny.

725
00:34:28,560 --> 00:34:30,400
Speaker 1: Out there, and that was a real nook and cranny.

726
00:34:30,480 --> 00:34:33,040
Speaker 2: Yeah, I know, the closest to anything like this. I

727
00:34:33,040 --> 00:34:35,400
Speaker 2: think I've shared this story before on No Dunks. But

728
00:34:36,440 --> 00:34:39,840
Speaker 2: like my dream playing baseball, I was an outfielder again,

729
00:34:40,040 --> 00:34:43,759
Speaker 2: speed kills, and I always just wanted to take away

730
00:34:43,800 --> 00:34:46,040
Speaker 2: a home run, like to me, that's the coolest highlight

731
00:34:46,080 --> 00:34:48,680
Speaker 2: in baseball, like climb the fence, bring it back in

732
00:34:48,760 --> 00:34:53,000
Speaker 2: the into the field. And we were playing Corey Smith

733
00:34:53,040 --> 00:34:54,759
Speaker 2: he might be watching this. He loves baseball. He's a

734
00:34:54,760 --> 00:34:57,000
Speaker 2: big sports guy who I grew up with. Of course,

735
00:34:57,040 --> 00:35:00,239
Speaker 2: we were probably I don't know, twelve thirteen four team,

736
00:35:00,239 --> 00:35:02,920
Speaker 2: probably thirteen fourteen, and we played at this diamond. It

737
00:35:02,960 --> 00:35:05,160
Speaker 2: was small enough that you could hit dingers like guys

738
00:35:05,200 --> 00:35:08,200
Speaker 2: could not me, but other guys could put it out

739
00:35:08,200 --> 00:35:11,160
Speaker 2: there because it was a pretty small little field. And

740
00:35:11,200 --> 00:35:14,319
Speaker 2: I was playing left field and he put one up

741
00:35:14,320 --> 00:35:16,600
Speaker 2: there and it was it was a moonshot, and I

742
00:35:16,640 --> 00:35:19,239
Speaker 2: had time to like, oh, I'm I'm going to have

743
00:35:19,280 --> 00:35:21,720
Speaker 2: a chance to climb this fence. These are like obviously

744
00:35:21,760 --> 00:35:24,240
Speaker 2: like six foot high fences, just chain link fence around

745
00:35:24,239 --> 00:35:27,200
Speaker 2: a school. But I went up, I put my glove

746
00:35:27,280 --> 00:35:31,080
Speaker 2: over over the fence. The ball went in my glove,

747
00:35:32,120 --> 00:35:34,879
Speaker 2: and when I went to sort of snap it back,

748
00:35:35,560 --> 00:35:38,640
Speaker 2: it like trickled out and dropped, and it's like a

749
00:35:38,719 --> 00:35:40,360
Speaker 2: chain link fence, so you can just see the ball

750
00:35:40,480 --> 00:35:42,840
Speaker 2: drop on the other side of the fence. And it

751
00:35:42,880 --> 00:35:44,680
Speaker 2: was a home run. And I was like, Denis, I

752
00:35:44,719 --> 00:35:46,800
Speaker 2: was like, I'll never get a chance to do this again.

753
00:35:47,239 --> 00:35:50,040
Speaker 2: My will never happen again, because I guess I knew

754
00:35:50,080 --> 00:35:51,560
Speaker 2: I was not going to continue to play baseball for

755
00:35:51,560 --> 00:35:54,239
Speaker 2: some reason. But yeah, Cory Smith never lets me hear

756
00:35:54,239 --> 00:35:54,680
Speaker 2: the end of that.

757
00:35:54,880 --> 00:35:55,560
Speaker 1: Oh that's great.

758
00:35:55,640 --> 00:35:58,160
Speaker 2: Yea, yeah, there's my one good baseball story.

759
00:35:58,320 --> 00:36:01,160
Speaker 1: Lesson, we share a pickup story.

760
00:36:02,200 --> 00:36:05,280
Speaker 2: Baseball game stories from when I was thirteen or fourteen

761
00:36:05,320 --> 00:36:05,719
Speaker 2: years old.

762
00:36:06,120 --> 00:36:09,560
Speaker 1: All right, moving on to another outfielder. The second best

763
00:36:09,600 --> 00:36:13,080
Speaker 1: thing in baseball this week, it's more about Ronald Acuna

764
00:36:13,680 --> 00:36:18,040
Speaker 1: being named to the All Star Game and participating baby

765
00:36:18,560 --> 00:36:21,840
Speaker 1: in the home run Derby because he is the NLS

766
00:36:22,120 --> 00:36:26,000
Speaker 1: leading vote getter for the All Star Game, and he

767
00:36:26,160 --> 00:36:31,720
Speaker 1: is an incredible talent. There's some basketball crossover as well.

768
00:36:32,080 --> 00:36:34,400
Speaker 1: He's an Atlanta Braves outfielder. He likes to do the

769
00:36:34,480 --> 00:36:38,680
Speaker 1: tray Young I'm chilly. Yeah, he's done the Lebron sort

770
00:36:38,719 --> 00:36:42,360
Speaker 1: of stomp thing. He loves. He loves basketball. It's pretty

771
00:36:42,400 --> 00:36:44,400
Speaker 1: clear and it's just great for the game. He is

772
00:36:44,400 --> 00:36:47,080
Speaker 1: a great flashy player. Baseball needs a few more of those.

773
00:36:47,320 --> 00:36:49,719
Speaker 1: But also he's going in the event of the home

774
00:36:49,760 --> 00:36:52,200
Speaker 1: run derby the night before the All Star Game. I'm

775
00:36:52,239 --> 00:36:54,440
Speaker 1: not saying it's like the slam Down contest, but you know,

776
00:36:54,840 --> 00:36:57,360
Speaker 1: you know, you need him in there for name recognition

777
00:36:57,480 --> 00:37:00,200
Speaker 1: gets me more excited, and he will be there. He

778
00:37:00,320 --> 00:37:03,799
Speaker 1: was in it in twenty nineteen. He didn't win. That

779
00:37:03,960 --> 00:37:05,400
Speaker 1: was it was a wild That was a wild year.

780
00:37:05,440 --> 00:37:06,440
Speaker 1: There's Vlatty Guerrero.

781
00:37:07,040 --> 00:37:08,840
Speaker 2: Uh is that when they had a bunch of like

782
00:37:09,960 --> 00:37:12,200
Speaker 2: what do they call it, because they feel like they

783
00:37:12,320 --> 00:37:13,200
Speaker 2: changed the rules a lot.

784
00:37:13,280 --> 00:37:15,480
Speaker 1: Yeah. I think they stuck with it.

785
00:37:15,520 --> 00:37:17,000
Speaker 2: I know they had. There was one year where there

786
00:37:17,040 --> 00:37:18,839
Speaker 2: was like a bunch of ties, I guess, and they

787
00:37:18,840 --> 00:37:21,440
Speaker 2: had to like have these like dinger offs and stuff

788
00:37:21,480 --> 00:37:21,680
Speaker 2: like that.

789
00:37:22,080 --> 00:37:24,080
Speaker 1: It was that year. Yeah, that I think that that

790
00:37:24,200 --> 00:37:25,120
Speaker 1: is crazy.

791
00:37:25,920 --> 00:37:28,400
Speaker 2: Yeah, I remember Guerreroes.

792
00:37:27,440 --> 00:37:30,439
Speaker 1: Guerrero and two time champ Pete Alonzo, who's it? Yeah,

793
00:37:30,480 --> 00:37:31,080
Speaker 1: a Mets Gay.

794
00:37:31,200 --> 00:37:31,480
Speaker 2: Yeah.

795
00:37:31,480 --> 00:37:34,400
Speaker 1: So I think only three people have been announced to

796
00:37:34,480 --> 00:37:38,240
Speaker 1: this point because the other five will be officially announced.

797
00:37:38,280 --> 00:37:42,680
Speaker 1: But the Ronald Acuna, Pete Alonzo, who has the two

798
00:37:42,760 --> 00:37:45,440
Speaker 1: time Champa, two time champ going back. Yeah, he's got to.

799
00:37:46,040 --> 00:37:49,600
Speaker 1: And this was late breaking on Monday, Katie Wu of

800
00:37:49,640 --> 00:37:53,640
Speaker 1: the Athletic breaking that forty two year old Albert Pouhols

801
00:37:53,800 --> 00:37:54,440
Speaker 1: is going in.

802
00:37:54,600 --> 00:37:56,759
Speaker 2: Oh, I did see. I saw this this morning. Yeah,

803
00:37:56,880 --> 00:38:01,440
Speaker 2: Athletic Pulse. I believe the email news letter black Yeah.

804
00:38:01,200 --> 00:38:05,520
Speaker 1: Pools forty two, you know, not necessarily an all star

805
00:38:05,600 --> 00:38:10,640
Speaker 1: worthy season this year, right, but he's getting the legacy bump.

806
00:38:10,960 --> 00:38:12,600
Speaker 1: It's there's a legacy category.

807
00:38:12,680 --> 00:38:13,760
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's like Dirk and Wade.

808
00:38:14,280 --> 00:38:14,680
Speaker 1: Yeah. Yeah.

809
00:38:14,719 --> 00:38:15,759
Speaker 2: So who's the other is there?

810
00:38:15,800 --> 00:38:17,520
Speaker 1: No? Miggy Cabrera Yeah?

811
00:38:17,560 --> 00:38:17,759
Speaker 2: Okay.

812
00:38:17,960 --> 00:38:23,000
Speaker 1: And so those three, Alonso, Akunya and Pooh Holes will

813
00:38:23,000 --> 00:38:25,120
Speaker 1: be in the home runner. Will be five more to come.

814
00:38:25,239 --> 00:38:27,319
Speaker 1: But that's interesting to me.

815
00:38:27,400 --> 00:38:31,239
Speaker 2: And how many dingers all time is pooh Holes like

816
00:38:31,640 --> 00:38:31,960
Speaker 2: he is?

817
00:38:32,200 --> 00:38:35,000
Speaker 1: I saw he's on he's not leading by any means.

818
00:38:35,080 --> 00:38:37,280
Speaker 2: No, oh you mean no, I mean in his career.

819
00:38:37,880 --> 00:38:42,000
Speaker 1: We're talking to a five hundred home run guy. I mean, yeah,

820
00:38:42,280 --> 00:38:43,080
Speaker 1: did he hit five?

821
00:38:43,360 --> 00:38:43,560
Speaker 6: I know?

822
00:38:43,719 --> 00:38:47,320
Speaker 1: Meggie Cabrera has hit five hundred? Oh really probably? Wow?

823
00:38:47,520 --> 00:38:51,799
Speaker 1: Probably I think so. Look look both those guys anyways. Uh,

824
00:38:51,960 --> 00:38:55,160
Speaker 1: third here is sticking with Sorry, yeah.

825
00:38:55,000 --> 00:38:56,280
Speaker 2: Pooh Holes has six hundred.

826
00:38:57,440 --> 00:38:59,479
Speaker 1: Holy cat, Holy cat.

827
00:38:59,520 --> 00:39:02,160
Speaker 2: I would not have guessed that high. That's like, yeah,

828
00:39:02,239 --> 00:39:04,360
Speaker 2: fifth old time, I guess nuts.

829
00:39:04,400 --> 00:39:07,040
Speaker 1: All right, keep going, all right, good stuff. Sticking with

830
00:39:07,120 --> 00:39:11,840
Speaker 1: somebody else making headlines. Sho hey o Tani, you mentioned

831
00:39:11,880 --> 00:39:14,840
Speaker 1: him earlier. This guy just blows my mind because he

832
00:39:15,320 --> 00:39:17,600
Speaker 1: plays on what do we say, both sides of the

833
00:39:17,600 --> 00:39:20,960
Speaker 1: diamonds diamond Yeah, he's a two way superstar. He pitches

834
00:39:21,000 --> 00:39:23,680
Speaker 1: every fifth day and he suits up. He is a

835
00:39:23,760 --> 00:39:25,920
Speaker 1: d h right now, but he does suit up and

836
00:39:26,040 --> 00:39:31,120
Speaker 1: hit every single day. You find something sort of noteworthy

837
00:39:31,360 --> 00:39:34,439
Speaker 1: and something that player hasn't done, like every couple weeks,

838
00:39:34,480 --> 00:39:38,240
Speaker 1: like he struck out ten I think while hitting something

839
00:39:38,360 --> 00:39:41,959
Speaker 1: or other. He had eight RBIs a few weeks ago,

840
00:39:42,520 --> 00:39:44,959
Speaker 1: nineteen homers and fifty four RBIs and on the mound

841
00:39:44,960 --> 00:39:47,000
Speaker 1: he's eight and four with a two forty four e RA.

842
00:39:47,600 --> 00:39:51,080
Speaker 2: How is this not the biggest story in all of sports?

843
00:39:51,640 --> 00:39:52,920
Speaker 1: It's a fair question.

844
00:39:54,000 --> 00:39:56,360
Speaker 2: It's a story, but I feel like it could and

845
00:39:56,400 --> 00:39:58,840
Speaker 2: should probably still be bigger because I'm with you, even me,

846
00:39:59,000 --> 00:40:02,120
Speaker 2: who obviously, as you can tell, doesn't know anything about

847
00:40:02,160 --> 00:40:04,560
Speaker 2: baseball or not really following it all that closely, you

848
00:40:04,600 --> 00:40:06,439
Speaker 2: see the little nuggets like what this guy is doing,

849
00:40:06,440 --> 00:40:08,760
Speaker 2: and it's just like, feels like it still should be bigger.

850
00:40:09,160 --> 00:40:12,000
Speaker 1: Yeah, And I don't get why it's not, Yeah, because

851
00:40:12,160 --> 00:40:17,879
Speaker 1: it's just something that hasn't happened in the history of

852
00:40:18,000 --> 00:40:19,880
Speaker 1: you know, the last forty fifty years, Like you know,

853
00:40:19,960 --> 00:40:22,880
Speaker 1: it was a very different game when Babe was doing it,

854
00:40:22,920 --> 00:40:26,880
Speaker 1: and yeah, yeah, this is it's unprecedented. He was MVP

855
00:40:27,080 --> 00:40:30,200
Speaker 1: last year, so he was given the recognition. That was

856
00:40:30,200 --> 00:40:33,160
Speaker 1: his first full year as a pitcher and as a

857
00:40:33,600 --> 00:40:35,520
Speaker 1: positional player and as a hitter.

858
00:40:35,960 --> 00:40:37,919
Speaker 2: It is because his team, I know, there's the club,

859
00:40:38,000 --> 00:40:41,080
Speaker 2: like it's a meme tweet about like he does something

860
00:40:41,120 --> 00:40:43,920
Speaker 2: that's never been done before, and Trout hits eight home

861
00:40:44,000 --> 00:40:46,120
Speaker 2: run whatever the joke is, and then it's like and

862
00:40:46,320 --> 00:40:49,000
Speaker 2: Angels lose eight four. You know, it's like for whatever

863
00:40:49,040 --> 00:40:49,799
Speaker 2: reason they're not.

864
00:40:50,560 --> 00:40:55,160
Speaker 1: It doesn't winning doesn't matter like it does in in basketball,

865
00:40:55,239 --> 00:40:58,840
Speaker 1: you don't have to necessarily win to get the recognition.

866
00:40:58,400 --> 00:41:01,280
Speaker 2: To get the recognition, So it's it is strange.

867
00:41:01,560 --> 00:41:04,560
Speaker 1: I he gets me into the game more watching him,

868
00:41:04,800 --> 00:41:07,680
Speaker 1: watching the sound of the bat when when he cracks

869
00:41:08,280 --> 00:41:12,040
Speaker 1: a shot, and I do I agree. I don't think

870
00:41:12,080 --> 00:41:14,640
Speaker 1: there's really an answer, maybe just because it's sort of

871
00:41:14,680 --> 00:41:19,320
Speaker 1: incomprehensible to the media because it just doesn't happen. He

872
00:41:19,840 --> 00:41:23,600
Speaker 1: started in eighteen he was Rookie of the Year, and

873
00:41:23,640 --> 00:41:25,799
Speaker 1: then nineteen twenty there was a shortened season, there was

874
00:41:26,160 --> 00:41:28,080
Speaker 1: was a COVID and last year's when he made his

875
00:41:28,160 --> 00:41:32,839
Speaker 1: mark starting the full year and then continuing and he's

876
00:41:32,880 --> 00:41:33,400
Speaker 1: doing Really.

877
00:41:33,480 --> 00:41:36,359
Speaker 2: He's better at the plate or a better picture.

878
00:41:36,520 --> 00:41:39,840
Speaker 1: Or is he just equally I think he's equally dominant.

879
00:41:40,080 --> 00:41:42,120
Speaker 1: He has been having the year that he had last

880
00:41:42,200 --> 00:41:44,920
Speaker 1: year and so that kind of hurts him, I suppose,

881
00:41:45,440 --> 00:41:48,800
Speaker 1: But he is up there for al MVP. That's definitely

882
00:41:48,880 --> 00:41:52,960
Speaker 1: a possibility. Anyways, that's the third Actually just a note.

883
00:41:53,160 --> 00:41:57,839
Speaker 1: He had a very graceful appearance in a bench clearing brawl, like.

884
00:41:57,840 --> 00:42:00,600
Speaker 2: He is so graceful, giant.

885
00:42:00,760 --> 00:42:03,160
Speaker 1: Yeah, but he just does everything like this. I mean,

886
00:42:03,160 --> 00:42:05,440
Speaker 1: that's the great thing what you're looking for in a

887
00:42:05,440 --> 00:42:10,600
Speaker 1: baseball here. Just a smooth, sweet, silky swing. Everything he

888
00:42:10,640 --> 00:42:13,359
Speaker 1: does is silky. Even fight, you know, air quotes fight.

889
00:42:13,480 --> 00:42:17,000
Speaker 1: He jumped into a brawl and he like he pulled

890
00:42:17,160 --> 00:42:20,759
Speaker 1: one guy aside, and he like he likes like like

891
00:42:20,800 --> 00:42:24,480
Speaker 1: a mountain cat like he got into the next little fray.

892
00:42:24,600 --> 00:42:27,520
Speaker 1: It was amazing. It was a pretty cool clip. So

893
00:42:27,840 --> 00:42:30,719
Speaker 1: sho Heo Tani the third of the five best things

894
00:42:30,719 --> 00:42:33,400
Speaker 1: in baseball this week. Moving on to his teammate, you

895
00:42:33,480 --> 00:42:37,919
Speaker 1: mentioned him the fourth best thing. It's not the best thing,

896
00:42:38,000 --> 00:42:40,239
Speaker 1: but I find it, you know, the most interesting. That's

897
00:42:40,239 --> 00:42:44,840
Speaker 1: why I'm including here. The possibility, even the possibility of

898
00:42:44,920 --> 00:42:49,960
Speaker 1: the Los Angeles Angels trading Mike trep. Wow, now it's

899
00:42:50,040 --> 00:42:52,200
Speaker 1: been brought up. It's very very unlikely to happen. But

900
00:42:52,360 --> 00:42:55,239
Speaker 1: on the DVR in Law podcast DVR in Law, Keith

901
00:42:55,320 --> 00:43:00,399
Speaker 1: Law mentioned that where are the Angels here? Like you said,

902
00:43:00,440 --> 00:43:03,759
Speaker 1: they lose a lot, that's what they do. This is

903
00:43:03,800 --> 00:43:07,600
Speaker 1: his twelfth season in the league, Mike Trout, and he's

904
00:43:07,640 --> 00:43:09,600
Speaker 1: gonna be thirty one soon and they've made the playoffs

905
00:43:09,640 --> 00:43:13,480
Speaker 1: once and this was ages ago, in twenty fourteen, and

906
00:43:13,520 --> 00:43:16,439
Speaker 1: so they just continue to lose. He's thirty one. He's

907
00:43:16,840 --> 00:43:22,280
Speaker 1: in the midst of the biggest contract signed in professional

908
00:43:22,320 --> 00:43:26,040
Speaker 1: sports at the time twenty nineteen, a twelve year, four

909
00:43:26,160 --> 00:43:29,759
Speaker 1: hundred and twenty six point five million dollars deal that

910
00:43:29,920 --> 00:43:33,000
Speaker 1: was surpassed by Patrick Mahomes a little bit later. But yeah,

911
00:43:33,000 --> 00:43:34,839
Speaker 1: he's starting thirty one this summer. I should say he's

912
00:43:34,840 --> 00:43:37,279
Speaker 1: not thirty one quite yet. He'll be forty by the

913
00:43:37,320 --> 00:43:39,120
Speaker 1: end of the contract. So Keithought brings it up his

914
00:43:39,160 --> 00:43:41,319
Speaker 1: possibility of the Angels having to turn around. They just

915
00:43:41,360 --> 00:43:45,760
Speaker 1: haven't been able to produce the pitching to win baseball games.

916
00:43:45,840 --> 00:43:49,200
Speaker 1: And so that's why, Yes, Otani is amazing. Yes, Mike

917
00:43:49,239 --> 00:43:52,399
Speaker 1: Trout is phenomenal. Could be the best baseball player ever.

918
00:43:52,520 --> 00:43:53,840
Speaker 1: The analytics say, yeah.

919
00:43:53,719 --> 00:43:55,400
Speaker 2: I've heard that. I was just going to bring that up.

920
00:43:55,440 --> 00:43:58,000
Speaker 2: Our buddy Joel likes to say that that Mike Trout

921
00:43:58,400 --> 00:44:00,200
Speaker 2: is maybe the best baseball player of all time.

922
00:44:00,280 --> 00:44:00,920
Speaker 1: It's possible.

923
00:44:00,920 --> 00:44:05,799
Speaker 2: It makes me roll my eyes. Well, it's it's I mean,

924
00:44:06,239 --> 00:44:07,839
Speaker 2: I think a part of it is. Obviously his team

925
00:44:07,880 --> 00:44:11,440
Speaker 2: is not great and maybe the marketing of MLB. I mean,

926
00:44:11,480 --> 00:44:15,799
Speaker 2: Mike Trout fight. I don't know. I'm convinced if you

927
00:44:16,320 --> 00:44:19,400
Speaker 2: put Mike Trout in front of a hundred random people

928
00:44:20,640 --> 00:44:23,880
Speaker 2: and say, like obviously saying, who is this guy, I

929
00:44:23,880 --> 00:44:26,480
Speaker 2: don't know. My gut just says, not many people are

930
00:44:26,480 --> 00:44:29,960
Speaker 2: gonna be able to say, Oh, that's Mike Trout. Yeah,

931
00:44:30,040 --> 00:44:33,279
Speaker 2: I just obviously compared to like Lebron and blah blah

932
00:44:33,280 --> 00:44:34,279
Speaker 2: blah blah blah.

933
00:44:34,320 --> 00:44:39,000
Speaker 1: But you can't blame Trout for that. He's three time

934
00:44:39,120 --> 00:44:45,480
Speaker 1: MVP and he was second in MVP voting one, two, three,

935
00:44:45,840 --> 00:44:50,000
Speaker 1: four other times. So he's an incredible player. Oh yeah,

936
00:44:50,040 --> 00:44:52,600
Speaker 1: I mean, I guess, so a billion time All Star.

937
00:44:53,400 --> 00:44:55,520
Speaker 1: But I hear what you're saying. He's not Phil Nekro.

938
00:44:55,840 --> 00:44:58,720
Speaker 1: You know he's not. He doesn't have the name cash,

939
00:44:59,080 --> 00:45:02,520
Speaker 1: I suppose. But uh yeah, here we are.

940
00:45:02,280 --> 00:45:04,040
Speaker 2: A great name too. I know we're gonna get to

941
00:45:04,120 --> 00:45:07,160
Speaker 2: great names later. Mike Trout, that's a pretty memorable name.

942
00:45:07,520 --> 00:45:11,279
Speaker 2: You know. I don't know a lot of Trout's, do you.

943
00:45:11,320 --> 00:45:13,600
Speaker 1: No, Yeah, not a one. Yeah. I don't even know

944
00:45:13,600 --> 00:45:14,759
Speaker 1: who's this mic guy. I don't know.

945
00:45:16,040 --> 00:45:18,680
Speaker 2: Uh So people are wondering. The bleacher creatures are wondering,

946
00:45:19,280 --> 00:45:25,360
Speaker 2: who says no, Mike Trout for Kevin Durant, who says no,

947
00:45:25,600 --> 00:45:30,360
Speaker 2: let's talk. So is Mike Trout a better basketball player

948
00:45:30,400 --> 00:45:32,400
Speaker 2: than Kevin Durant is a better baseball player? I think

949
00:45:32,440 --> 00:45:35,080
Speaker 2: it's what we're gonna get here. They're both what we're

950
00:45:35,160 --> 00:45:37,120
Speaker 2: being told are like top ten players of all time.

951
00:45:37,239 --> 00:45:39,680
Speaker 1: I think Durant's got a silky smooth swing.

952
00:45:40,040 --> 00:45:42,160
Speaker 2: Yeah, I feel like Trout is gonna struggle at basketball.

953
00:45:42,160 --> 00:45:42,359
Speaker 1: I don't.

954
00:45:42,440 --> 00:45:45,560
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, so Katie is gonna be maybe a little

955
00:45:45,600 --> 00:45:47,520
Speaker 2: bit better at baseball. I feel like we can hide

956
00:45:47,560 --> 00:45:48,280
Speaker 2: him a bit too.

957
00:45:48,760 --> 00:45:51,279
Speaker 1: And that's and that's they're gonna ask for something more.

958
00:45:51,920 --> 00:45:58,080
Speaker 1: Okay from the Angels throwing the bleacher creatures throwing a

959
00:45:58,120 --> 00:46:01,080
Speaker 1: couple of bats and balls, and that's not all all right?

960
00:46:01,160 --> 00:46:03,200
Speaker 1: Last point, I want to bring up the trade deadline's

961
00:46:03,239 --> 00:46:05,920
Speaker 1: coming up August second. And I bring this up because

962
00:46:06,600 --> 00:46:08,719
Speaker 1: more teams look like they want to go for it

963
00:46:08,719 --> 00:46:12,560
Speaker 1: because of the new expanded playoff format, the playoffs just

964
00:46:12,640 --> 00:46:15,920
Speaker 1: like the NBA. Yeah it's true. Yeah, you know, in

965
00:46:15,920 --> 00:46:19,239
Speaker 1: baseball it's always been a fewer number of teams. Last

966
00:46:19,280 --> 00:46:21,600
Speaker 1: year is five in each league. It's up to six

967
00:46:21,680 --> 00:46:27,040
Speaker 1: this year. Wow. After the CBA negotiations, now MLB wanted

968
00:46:27,080 --> 00:46:29,440
Speaker 1: even more. They wanted seven in each league. To make it,

969
00:46:29,480 --> 00:46:32,680
Speaker 1: they wanted fourteen of the thirty teams essentially to make it.

970
00:46:32,920 --> 00:46:36,640
Speaker 2: You say, make it though wild card games to get it, Okay,

971
00:46:36,880 --> 00:46:38,560
Speaker 2: to really like playing games.

972
00:46:38,360 --> 00:46:40,920
Speaker 1: Yes, but but the playing game the format has changed.

973
00:46:41,000 --> 00:46:43,960
Speaker 1: It's not just a single game anymore. It's a series

974
00:46:43,960 --> 00:46:49,480
Speaker 1: of three. Yeah, so right now it's five in each league.

975
00:46:50,280 --> 00:46:54,759
Speaker 1: The top two divisions will get a buy Okay, sorry, six,

976
00:46:54,840 --> 00:46:56,640
Speaker 1: it's moved to six this year. So the top two

977
00:46:57,280 --> 00:47:00,759
Speaker 1: division winners get a bye, and then three three versus six,

978
00:47:00,800 --> 00:47:03,200
Speaker 1: a division winner versus a wild card, and then four

979
00:47:03,280 --> 00:47:06,160
Speaker 1: versus five. Two other wildcard teams play in a series

980
00:47:06,160 --> 00:47:09,080
Speaker 1: of three games, and then those two go on to

981
00:47:09,160 --> 00:47:12,680
Speaker 1: face the top two in a division series as per normal,

982
00:47:12,719 --> 00:47:15,640
Speaker 1: a five game series, and the championship series for seven games,

983
00:47:15,640 --> 00:47:17,600
Speaker 1: and then the World Series for another seven game. So

984
00:47:17,640 --> 00:47:19,680
Speaker 1: it's a series of three. And I think those two

985
00:47:19,719 --> 00:47:22,520
Speaker 1: series of three games three, six, four to five in

986
00:47:22,560 --> 00:47:26,359
Speaker 1: each league are all played at the same venue. They

987
00:47:26,360 --> 00:47:28,600
Speaker 1: don't go, oh do a one, one, one or two

988
00:47:28,640 --> 00:47:31,719
Speaker 1: to one. It's all the same venues. The higher seed, yeah,

989
00:47:32,000 --> 00:47:33,440
Speaker 1: hosts a three game series.

990
00:47:33,960 --> 00:47:38,080
Speaker 2: Wow. Okay, so basically you're saying the fifth and sixth

991
00:47:38,280 --> 00:47:43,319
Speaker 2: seeds in each league are really at a disadvantage because

992
00:47:43,320 --> 00:47:45,080
Speaker 2: they got to win. It's not just a one game

993
00:47:45,120 --> 00:47:47,080
Speaker 2: to get into the game two or three, and they

994
00:47:47,080 --> 00:47:48,239
Speaker 2: gotta do it all on the road.

995
00:47:48,760 --> 00:47:51,839
Speaker 1: All right, Yeah, it's interesting, but that's baseball. Three game

996
00:47:51,920 --> 00:47:54,120
Speaker 1: series in one city. I do like how they're not

997
00:47:54,160 --> 00:47:56,920
Speaker 1: going back and forth, you know, go one to one one.

998
00:47:57,880 --> 00:48:01,080
Speaker 1: I think it makes sense, and I'm I'm ninety nine

999
00:48:01,080 --> 00:48:03,360
Speaker 1: percent sure that's what's happening, because I listen to baseball podcasts.

1000
00:48:03,360 --> 00:48:05,640
Speaker 1: Some people don't even even the experts don't even know

1001
00:48:05,680 --> 00:48:07,920
Speaker 1: what's happening with the playoff format in terms of and

1002
00:48:08,040 --> 00:48:11,160
Speaker 1: just in terms of home team. But eventually, yeah, we're

1003
00:48:11,200 --> 00:48:13,640
Speaker 1: so we're twelve of thirty teams now make the playoffs,

1004
00:48:13,680 --> 00:48:17,279
Speaker 1: and it is a little bit more, you know, I

1005
00:48:17,320 --> 00:48:20,320
Speaker 1: think it feels like the playoffs because they're playing three games,

1006
00:48:20,320 --> 00:48:22,600
Speaker 1: at least a three game series rather than the wild

1007
00:48:22,640 --> 00:48:26,120
Speaker 1: card random one game. Right, it's still called wildcard, I

1008
00:48:26,160 --> 00:48:27,680
Speaker 1: do believe. But anyways, I think they're gonna get up

1009
00:48:27,680 --> 00:48:31,279
Speaker 1: to fourteen of thirty teams. So so I always looked

1010
00:48:31,280 --> 00:48:35,600
Speaker 1: that up in October. What's the playoff format again? Now

1011
00:48:36,000 --> 00:48:39,440
Speaker 1: the top two teams slightly incentivized to win more games.

1012
00:48:39,480 --> 00:48:43,480
Speaker 2: Are sounds like there's probably races going on. I know

1013
00:48:43,560 --> 00:48:45,560
Speaker 2: it's still all the wild cards. Well no, no, to

1014
00:48:45,560 --> 00:48:47,279
Speaker 2: get the one of those top one of those top

1015
00:48:47,320 --> 00:48:48,400
Speaker 2: two sets, I don't know.

1016
00:48:48,520 --> 00:48:51,640
Speaker 1: There's a good debate on the Athletic MLB Show, the

1017
00:48:51,680 --> 00:48:54,800
Speaker 1: Athletic Baseball Show about do you want a week off?

1018
00:48:54,960 --> 00:48:56,200
Speaker 1: Do you want that one too?

1019
00:48:56,480 --> 00:48:58,080
Speaker 2: Rust versus rest? Here we go.

1020
00:48:58,440 --> 00:49:02,520
Speaker 1: Now, pitchers they want they want the rest, but baseball.

1021
00:49:02,640 --> 00:49:05,800
Speaker 1: But hitters they like the rhythm. Yeah, that'll take you

1022
00:49:05,840 --> 00:49:06,480
Speaker 1: out of the rhythm.

1023
00:49:06,760 --> 00:49:07,600
Speaker 2: Yeah, I could see that.

1024
00:49:08,080 --> 00:49:09,439
Speaker 1: I think it. I think it depends on the team.

1025
00:49:09,440 --> 00:49:12,799
Speaker 1: If you have an ace or number two, you have

1026
00:49:12,840 --> 00:49:15,720
Speaker 1: a picture that needs some rest, he's hurt, for instance,

1027
00:49:16,360 --> 00:49:17,920
Speaker 1: then you want one of those top two seats. But

1028
00:49:18,239 --> 00:49:20,080
Speaker 1: I don't know. Maybe a three game set will do

1029
00:49:20,160 --> 00:49:22,120
Speaker 1: you good and then you can get out a roll

1030
00:49:22,160 --> 00:49:24,640
Speaker 1: if you're one of those wild card teams. But yeah,

1031
00:49:24,680 --> 00:49:25,440
Speaker 1: it's a good debate.

1032
00:49:25,480 --> 00:49:28,480
Speaker 2: Okay, here's a hypothetical because I sort of I could

1033
00:49:28,480 --> 00:49:30,239
Speaker 2: see why you would want to just keep playing, stay

1034
00:49:30,239 --> 00:49:33,560
Speaker 2: in the rhythm, you know, yeah, is it against the

1035
00:49:33,680 --> 00:49:36,680
Speaker 2: rules if you Okay, let's say the Braves are one

1036
00:49:36,719 --> 00:49:39,799
Speaker 2: of the top two teams. They're gonna week off like

1037
00:49:39,840 --> 00:49:42,920
Speaker 2: you're saying, yes, can't schedule a game. Schedule a game

1038
00:49:42,920 --> 00:49:46,239
Speaker 2: against the Savannah Bananas makes money for charity. Just get

1039
00:49:46,280 --> 00:49:47,880
Speaker 2: the guys out here, get the boys out on the field.

1040
00:49:48,080 --> 00:49:49,120
Speaker 1: If they get hurt, skeets.

1041
00:49:49,480 --> 00:49:51,640
Speaker 2: It's an exhibition game. What are the odds?

1042
00:49:53,719 --> 00:49:56,120
Speaker 1: Baseball is all about odds. I think we can get

1043
00:49:56,160 --> 00:49:59,359
Speaker 1: the odds that pronto. It's a good question. But yeah,

1044
00:49:59,440 --> 00:50:02,600
Speaker 1: good good baits about that. I don't know if teams

1045
00:50:02,600 --> 00:50:04,560
Speaker 1: are really incentivized to go for the top two seats.

1046
00:50:04,600 --> 00:50:04,960
Speaker 1: Maybe they are.

1047
00:50:05,560 --> 00:50:08,080
Speaker 2: Oh, you're gonna say teams are throwing crazy.

1048
00:50:08,080 --> 00:50:11,200
Speaker 1: Now, that would be crazy because it is tough. The

1049
00:50:11,280 --> 00:50:14,880
Speaker 1: days start rolling. Games become pretty regular when you get

1050
00:50:14,920 --> 00:50:16,400
Speaker 1: into those three games series. Then you get to the

1051
00:50:16,400 --> 00:50:18,960
Speaker 1: division series and the championship series. Playing a lot. You

1052
00:50:19,000 --> 00:50:22,360
Speaker 1: want your guys rested. And we'll talk about a great

1053
00:50:22,440 --> 00:50:24,520
Speaker 1: pitcher who's made his mark this year for the first

1054
00:50:24,560 --> 00:50:27,879
Speaker 1: time after the break because he's got a great baseball name.

1055
00:50:27,920 --> 00:50:30,719
Speaker 1: And we love our baseball names, our sports names. Here

1056
00:50:31,080 --> 00:50:33,120
Speaker 1: on no buns. We'll be back right after the break.

1057
00:50:35,000 --> 00:50:38,640
Speaker 1: Sports names the absolute best. I know you like big

1058
00:50:38,680 --> 00:50:41,399
Speaker 1: baseball players, heats, running around the bases. It is fun,

1059
00:50:42,960 --> 00:50:45,960
Speaker 1: but they're nothing without great sports names. So here are

1060
00:50:46,000 --> 00:50:58,080
Speaker 1: some great baseball names. Another great graphic with Rants Mulline.

1061
00:50:58,480 --> 00:50:59,560
Speaker 2: That's what I thought that was.

1062
00:51:00,040 --> 00:51:04,040
Speaker 3: I wasn't but I was just thinking of the best

1063
00:51:04,120 --> 00:51:06,759
Speaker 3: name I could think of in baseball and this Rance Melanicks.

1064
00:51:06,800 --> 00:51:09,960
Speaker 1: Is there a better name? The man's name was Ran

1065
00:51:10,400 --> 00:51:15,840
Speaker 1: Mullinix the name, and not not to be an old fogy,

1066
00:51:15,920 --> 00:51:18,600
Speaker 1: but that man never put on a batting glove. You

1067
00:51:18,640 --> 00:51:23,279
Speaker 1: think that guy would put an elbow pad or a

1068
00:51:23,400 --> 00:51:25,760
Speaker 1: helmet to cover his fate or you know, a little

1069
00:51:25,960 --> 00:51:31,000
Speaker 1: no batting glove in sight, no shin pad he liked,

1070
00:51:31,080 --> 00:51:34,799
Speaker 1: he looked, getting the little sticky pine tar, stepping up,

1071
00:51:35,400 --> 00:51:38,480
Speaker 1: waggling of fingers a little bit not quite Tony Fernandez

1072
00:51:38,600 --> 00:51:39,600
Speaker 1: esque pace.

1073
00:51:39,719 --> 00:51:44,560
Speaker 2: But Rance, so are you giving me or us the

1074
00:51:44,719 --> 00:51:46,680
Speaker 2: best baseball names of all time?

1075
00:51:46,960 --> 00:51:50,600
Speaker 1: Or no? No, we're not going to go crazy. I

1076
00:51:50,760 --> 00:51:53,800
Speaker 1: just like great names in the game today because you

1077
00:51:53,840 --> 00:51:56,040
Speaker 1: know we are casual fans here. We may have not

1078
00:51:56,160 --> 00:51:58,640
Speaker 1: heard of all these guys, so just a quick few

1079
00:51:58,680 --> 00:52:02,560
Speaker 1: of them to, uh, you know, get you excited about

1080
00:52:02,600 --> 00:52:03,640
Speaker 1: baseball this season.

1081
00:52:03,680 --> 00:52:05,759
Speaker 2: This is my therapy.

1082
00:52:06,400 --> 00:52:09,480
Speaker 1: The first one Spencer Strider.

1083
00:52:10,320 --> 00:52:13,760
Speaker 2: It's good. Wow. See Now is this guy fast?

1084
00:52:14,520 --> 00:52:15,120
Speaker 1: He's a pitcher?

1085
00:52:15,719 --> 00:52:16,720
Speaker 2: Okay, slider?

1086
00:52:16,719 --> 00:52:19,800
Speaker 1: Does he have a slider? Probably he takes a strider

1087
00:52:19,840 --> 00:52:22,440
Speaker 1: to the plate every time he throws a pitch. He

1088
00:52:22,480 --> 00:52:24,919
Speaker 1: may have the strider slider. That's gotta be a thing,

1089
00:52:25,000 --> 00:52:25,520
Speaker 1: I would hope.

1090
00:52:25,600 --> 00:52:27,839
Speaker 2: So it sounds like a fast guy. But he say

1091
00:52:27,880 --> 00:52:29,920
Speaker 2: he's a pitcher, he better have a slider in his arsenal.

1092
00:52:30,000 --> 00:52:33,640
Speaker 1: He's got a heater. He throws real, real hard, damn

1093
00:52:33,640 --> 00:52:34,080
Speaker 1: good here.

1094
00:52:34,239 --> 00:52:35,080
Speaker 2: Spencer Striker.

1095
00:52:35,239 --> 00:52:39,400
Speaker 1: Spencer Striker. Sure, he's twenty three years old and he

1096
00:52:39,440 --> 00:52:43,720
Speaker 1: has a mustache. Yeah, and I think it's an unironic mustache.

1097
00:52:43,760 --> 00:52:45,240
Speaker 1: I mean, I think he just likes it.

1098
00:52:45,280 --> 00:52:46,800
Speaker 2: Maybe he saw a top gun.

1099
00:52:47,280 --> 00:52:49,160
Speaker 1: Maybe the new one. Because I don't I don't think

1100
00:52:49,160 --> 00:52:51,680
Speaker 1: it's it's I think he's had it the entire season, though,

1101
00:52:51,680 --> 00:52:54,520
Speaker 1: I don't think. I don't think this is a trend.

1102
00:52:55,680 --> 00:52:58,240
Speaker 1: So he's he's he's only been starting for six weeks.

1103
00:52:58,239 --> 00:53:02,080
Speaker 1: But he is awesome. The Braves staff is awesome. Spencer

1104
00:53:02,440 --> 00:53:05,200
Speaker 1: Strokes on the Braves said, yeah, ok yeah, he's you know,

1105
00:53:05,320 --> 00:53:07,319
Speaker 1: could be their second best picture, even though they've got

1106
00:53:07,320 --> 00:53:10,080
Speaker 1: Freed and Right and Morton and Ian Anderson back you

1107
00:53:10,120 --> 00:53:13,520
Speaker 1: they're good and he's good. Spencer Schreider, just some simple

1108
00:53:13,560 --> 00:53:21,320
Speaker 1: alliteration kicking ass. The second one your Don Alvarez Air.

1109
00:53:22,080 --> 00:53:23,400
Speaker 1: You're Don. That's his nickname?

1110
00:53:23,480 --> 00:53:26,319
Speaker 2: Oh why because he can go take a take away

1111
00:53:26,320 --> 00:53:26,879
Speaker 2: a home run?

1112
00:53:27,480 --> 00:53:29,239
Speaker 1: Or is he I don't know about that. He's a

1113
00:53:29,280 --> 00:53:31,560
Speaker 1: d H and outfielder, so he could take away home run.

1114
00:53:31,600 --> 00:53:32,040
Speaker 1: I guess.

1115
00:53:32,239 --> 00:53:35,799
Speaker 2: Okay, I think I think it's Maurice for Dingers, they

1116
00:53:35,880 --> 00:53:36,680
Speaker 2: call him are as well.

1117
00:53:36,680 --> 00:53:39,240
Speaker 1: I'm good because his name sounds like Jordan's.

1118
00:53:40,000 --> 00:53:42,200
Speaker 2: I think, well, I mean, I get that far, but

1119
00:53:42,239 --> 00:53:44,480
Speaker 2: I was hoping it's because he puts the ball five

1120
00:53:44,560 --> 00:53:47,080
Speaker 2: hundred feet in the air, or he's jumping high like

1121
00:53:47,160 --> 00:53:50,200
Speaker 2: Jordan's snag away a home run like a young Skeets

1122
00:53:50,480 --> 00:53:56,640
Speaker 2: at Saint Joe's Field, Corey Smith going down left Fiel No, yeah, okay, I.

1123
00:53:56,600 --> 00:54:01,200
Speaker 1: Figure's not listen. If we start thinking about basketball nicknames,

1124
00:54:01,239 --> 00:54:04,040
Speaker 1: it's let's let's let's think of a play on words.

1125
00:54:04,719 --> 00:54:08,200
Speaker 1: Let's think of something that sounds a little funny. Air Jordon.

1126
00:54:08,600 --> 00:54:09,719
Speaker 2: That's good, it's good.

1127
00:54:09,760 --> 00:54:11,880
Speaker 1: Yeah. I think he's had it for a while and

1128
00:54:11,920 --> 00:54:15,520
Speaker 1: I think that is his uh yeah, his signature nickname.

1129
00:54:15,520 --> 00:54:18,560
Speaker 1: I don't think it's anything. You know, it's not a

1130
00:54:18,560 --> 00:54:20,200
Speaker 1: flash in the pan of a nickname, is what I'm

1131
00:54:20,200 --> 00:54:20,680
Speaker 1: trying to say.

1132
00:54:20,760 --> 00:54:24,200
Speaker 2: Is he a Nike athlete? Maybe I.

1133
00:54:26,000 --> 00:54:29,800
Speaker 1: Did a brief Google to make sure that it's his nickname,

1134
00:54:30,320 --> 00:54:35,160
Speaker 1: and I did see a lot of merch with Airjord. Yeah. Stuff.

1135
00:54:35,400 --> 00:54:38,960
Speaker 1: He's an MVP candidate in the AL. He's an astros

1136
00:54:39,000 --> 00:54:42,799
Speaker 1: d H and outfielder, and he's a very very good

1137
00:54:43,360 --> 00:54:49,120
Speaker 1: so yeah, Strider Alvarez and the last one. Brad Boxburger.

1138
00:54:50,760 --> 00:54:52,319
Speaker 1: His name is brad Boxburg.

1139
00:54:53,000 --> 00:54:57,319
Speaker 2: Okay, what does he do his baseball? His name is

1140
00:54:57,360 --> 00:54:58,680
Speaker 2: brad Boxburger.

1141
00:54:59,000 --> 00:55:02,200
Speaker 1: He's the BIRS pitcher. That's a great and that's that's

1142
00:55:02,200 --> 00:55:06,399
Speaker 1: the connection brewer with a burger, you know, the beer

1143
00:55:06,560 --> 00:55:09,560
Speaker 1: burger combo. I'm not sure if that's been a promotion

1144
00:55:09,680 --> 00:55:12,560
Speaker 1: in stadiums over his career, but usually been around for.

1145
00:55:12,719 --> 00:55:14,960
Speaker 2: Usually a brew and a dog or a brock Verst.

1146
00:55:15,000 --> 00:55:18,120
Speaker 1: Maybe a lot, but a brought Verst.

1147
00:55:18,200 --> 00:55:19,480
Speaker 2: Yeah, still works.

1148
00:55:19,600 --> 00:55:19,799
Speaker 1: Yeah.

1149
00:55:20,880 --> 00:55:23,280
Speaker 2: They sometimes come in boxes at yeah stadiums.

1150
00:55:23,440 --> 00:55:26,200
Speaker 3: You'd think they'd have like a box burger burger box.

1151
00:55:26,960 --> 00:55:29,319
Speaker 2: It sounds like, hey, okay, like we're at the game, like, hey,

1152
00:55:29,320 --> 00:55:31,040
Speaker 2: I'm gonna go grab some box burger some of you

1153
00:55:31,120 --> 00:55:31,440
Speaker 2: want one?

1154
00:55:31,680 --> 00:55:32,440
Speaker 1: One? Yeah?

1155
00:55:32,440 --> 00:55:33,200
Speaker 2: I grab a couple.

1156
00:55:33,640 --> 00:55:35,000
Speaker 1: Yea take a burger in a box?

1157
00:55:35,040 --> 00:55:35,279
Speaker 2: Why not?

1158
00:55:35,719 --> 00:55:35,919
Speaker 1: Yeah.

1159
00:55:36,080 --> 00:55:38,640
Speaker 2: I don't love the waiste that we're creating with that. True,

1160
00:55:38,840 --> 00:55:40,759
Speaker 2: but you know, if you can recycle.

1161
00:55:40,480 --> 00:55:44,319
Speaker 1: It can recycle. Yeah, hopefully like Vegas. We just went

1162
00:55:44,360 --> 00:55:47,880
Speaker 1: to Vegas. Oh my god, the waste. I don't think

1163
00:55:47,960 --> 00:55:51,680
Speaker 1: Mandalay Bay had a recycling bin, but one, I guess.

1164
00:55:51,680 --> 00:55:54,120
Speaker 1: It took me three days to find a recycling bin

1165
00:55:54,239 --> 00:55:57,680
Speaker 1: in Las Vegas. I found it at the stadium. Thank you,

1166
00:55:57,760 --> 00:55:58,480
Speaker 1: Thomas and Mack.

1167
00:55:58,560 --> 00:56:01,279
Speaker 2: Oh yeah they did have them there. Yeah, yeah, I

1168
00:56:01,360 --> 00:56:03,440
Speaker 2: bet you Mandalay Bay is going to say, don't worry.

1169
00:56:03,520 --> 00:56:05,160
Speaker 1: We all we we separate it.

1170
00:56:05,200 --> 00:56:06,439
Speaker 2: We separated yeah right yeah.

1171
00:56:07,560 --> 00:56:11,000
Speaker 1: Uh.

1172
00:56:11,200 --> 00:56:13,680
Speaker 2: Anyway, I just threw everything I had in the pool.

1173
00:56:15,520 --> 00:56:20,320
Speaker 2: The filter will get it done with that box burger.

1174
00:56:20,640 --> 00:56:23,279
Speaker 1: Just chuck the po'try's Yeah, that's what I found in

1175
00:56:23,320 --> 00:56:25,800
Speaker 1: my swimsuit, plastic bottle.

1176
00:56:25,840 --> 00:56:27,319
Speaker 2: What the pickle that I didn't need?

1177
00:56:29,360 --> 00:56:32,359
Speaker 1: There's some pickles in that definitely some pickles in that

1178
00:56:33,760 --> 00:56:38,719
Speaker 1: lagoon as it was called in anyway, that's it.

1179
00:56:38,760 --> 00:56:39,239
Speaker 2: Those three.

1180
00:56:39,440 --> 00:56:42,480
Speaker 1: That's it. Yeah, just three quick names. You know, don't overdo.

1181
00:56:42,520 --> 00:56:44,040
Speaker 1: We can come back to it later. If you're not,

1182
00:56:44,600 --> 00:56:46,960
Speaker 1: you know, huge into baseball, I'll dig them up for you.

1183
00:56:47,000 --> 00:56:49,920
Speaker 1: But yeah, box Burger has been around, Alvarez has been around.

1184
00:56:50,040 --> 00:56:53,160
Speaker 1: Spencer is just hitting his strider in Atlanta.

1185
00:56:53,360 --> 00:56:55,759
Speaker 2: There was one in the from the Bleacher Creatures. I

1186
00:56:55,800 --> 00:56:59,359
Speaker 2: think he still plays. I think he's Canadian. I think

1187
00:56:59,360 --> 00:57:02,919
Speaker 2: he's really good on the like is it Joey Vado Joey. Yeah,

1188
00:57:03,000 --> 00:57:03,879
Speaker 2: it's just a good name.

1189
00:57:04,080 --> 00:57:05,200
Speaker 1: That's a good solid name.

1190
00:57:05,120 --> 00:57:07,279
Speaker 2: Isn't he the guy that's like really charismatic and they

1191
00:57:07,280 --> 00:57:10,200
Speaker 2: make up all the time and he's straight up just

1192
00:57:10,280 --> 00:57:14,080
Speaker 2: talking to the to the booth. Well, an actual you know,

1193
00:57:14,120 --> 00:57:15,760
Speaker 2: professional sport is being played.

1194
00:57:15,880 --> 00:57:18,400
Speaker 1: Yeah, he's still he's still in the Cincinnati RD. It's

1195
00:57:18,400 --> 00:57:22,120
Speaker 1: a lifer for the rest. Thirty eight years old. I think, yeah, yes, Canadian,

1196
00:57:22,960 --> 00:57:25,280
Speaker 1: very proud to Yeah, he's done some cool things actually.

1197
00:57:25,720 --> 00:57:28,320
Speaker 2: It's just good. It's a good name. Joey. He's just

1198
00:57:28,360 --> 00:57:29,439
Speaker 2: a grown man named Joey.

1199
00:57:30,000 --> 00:57:34,520
Speaker 1: Whoa Yeah, nice short name. Nine letters, that's very short. Yeah,

1200
00:57:34,560 --> 00:57:37,520
Speaker 1: I think he goes. Let's see, given name is it

1201
00:57:37,600 --> 00:57:39,919
Speaker 1: joe or Joey? So he's one of these that looks

1202
00:57:39,960 --> 00:57:43,840
Speaker 1: like his given name is Joey. I know, Joseph Daniel. Okay, okay, okay,

1203
00:57:43,960 --> 00:57:46,160
Speaker 1: all right, that's fine, Okay, enough with the names. That

1204
00:57:46,280 --> 00:57:49,480
Speaker 1: was a blast. Hopefully you guys will be watching the

1205
00:57:49,520 --> 00:57:51,600
Speaker 1: All Star Game in the home run derby next week.

1206
00:57:52,040 --> 00:57:54,560
Speaker 1: It's a great time to get in because no buns.

1207
00:57:54,600 --> 00:57:56,640
Speaker 1: We'll be talking about that next week, and of course

1208
00:57:56,680 --> 00:57:59,000
Speaker 1: we'll be trying some new stuff. Don't forget there's a

1209
00:57:59,120 --> 00:58:03,320
Speaker 1: no breaks at tomorrow Wednesday coming up the Skeets with

1210
00:58:03,480 --> 00:58:06,320
Speaker 1: Graydon Gordian. Yes right, talking about the latest F one

1211
00:58:06,400 --> 00:58:09,680
Speaker 1: race that has its own feed, so go find it

1212
00:58:09,960 --> 00:58:12,680
Speaker 1: wherever you listen to podcasts or on YouTube. It's separate

1213
00:58:12,720 --> 00:58:16,760
Speaker 1: from the No Dunks feed. And that's it. Clipper bros.

1214
00:58:16,960 --> 00:58:17,920
Speaker 2: You heard it here first.

1215
00:58:18,080 --> 00:58:20,960
Speaker 6: Have a great time, turn up, love you guys awesome.

1216
00:58:21,200 --> 00:58:24,680
Speaker 2: Yeah, let me give you a little stat here. Always

1217
00:58:24,720 --> 00:58:28,200
Speaker 2: say goodbye. Back to the Home Run Derby. Yeah, you said,

1218
00:58:28,200 --> 00:58:31,120
Speaker 2: Pete Alonso going in it once again. He's going to

1219
00:58:31,160 --> 00:58:33,880
Speaker 2: try and become just the second guy all time to

1220
00:58:33,880 --> 00:58:35,680
Speaker 2: win the home run Derby three times. Can you name

1221
00:58:35,720 --> 00:58:36,280
Speaker 2: the other one?

1222
00:58:36,880 --> 00:58:38,160
Speaker 1: There's one guy who's won it three time?

1223
00:58:38,200 --> 00:58:40,760
Speaker 2: Yes, I mean you can get him. You were, you were,

1224
00:58:40,800 --> 00:58:43,520
Speaker 2: You were telling me I should guess this guy, Griffy

1225
00:58:43,800 --> 00:58:46,840
Speaker 2: Ken Griffy. I think Griffy's gone in it the most

1226
00:58:46,840 --> 00:58:49,800
Speaker 2: times too. I didn't know that anything you do now,

1227
00:58:49,920 --> 00:58:50,400
Speaker 2: So there.

1228
00:58:50,320 --> 00:58:51,040
Speaker 1: You go, thank you.

1229
00:58:51,120 --> 00:58:54,200
Speaker 2: Yeah, no, bunch, we're taking our name seriously here. All dingers,

1230
00:58:54,240 --> 00:58:54,560
Speaker 2: baby

1231
00:58:54,760 --> 00:58:57,280
Speaker 1: All dangers all right, embrace the day, people,