Speaker 1: Hello and welcome Awaken Jake, myself, Jake Story, Ellie, David
Speaker 1: Mendelssohn as we talk about the wide world of sports,
Speaker 1: couple flyer, baseball moves and signings. Justin Verlander Inner Circle
Speaker 1: Hall of Famer greesa Young's he is with your San
Speaker 1: Francisco Giants as they round in to form their off
Speaker 1: season talk about that. I did get a good chuckle.
Speaker 1: I just I clicked on an article that was grading trades,
Speaker 1: and it's funny how they landed on their answers.
Speaker 2: The Gavin Lux trade was bizarre.
Speaker 1: I kind of want to see if I have more
Speaker 1: thoughts on that. I'm not sure yet. Well, mention Michael Lorenzen,
Speaker 1: I don't know. He's an arm that'll get used. We
Speaker 1: will not talk about Drew Rasmus is extension.
Speaker 3: Rules are rules.
Speaker 1: Because there's also a football mecca of sorts, wild Card weekend,
Speaker 1: the football semi finals. As we all get through the
Speaker 1: next couple days. If you're a Cali person, I feel bad.
Speaker 1: I don't want to say I was being goofy on
Speaker 1: talking baseball. I was being a little goofy. I'm always
Speaker 1: a little goofy. But the Fires are like you like,
Speaker 1: remember Forever fires. I think one of our investor guys
Speaker 1: his house is like, well, yeah, so scary. So if
Speaker 1: you know anyone out out there, uh definitely you probably
Speaker 1: checked in, But check in. It's a pretty wild and
Speaker 1: if you're someone looking to get away for a little bit,
Speaker 1: that's kind of more my lane. And that's what we'll
Speaker 1: be doing here for a little bit. So uh, let's
Speaker 1: hit the baseball high and tight, Cuz again it's it's
Speaker 1: a legendary football wins this weekend unless Bragman signs. Justin
Speaker 1: Verlander signs with the San Francisco Giants for one year
Speaker 1: fifteen million dollars. What I was laughing at seconds ago
Speaker 1: I clicked on ESPN's I don't know. I just like
Speaker 1: to do a peruse of ESPN and the Ethnic before
Speaker 1: we get cruising, just to make sure I haven't missed anything.
Speaker 1: And I was laughing because this is Bradford Doolittle and
Speaker 1: David Schoenfield working together, Kelly Collabo, and they gave grades
Speaker 1: to the Giants, to Justin Verlander and the Tigers who
Speaker 1: weren't involved in the transaction. They gave the Giants an A,
Speaker 1: they gave Verlander a C and they gave the Tigers
Speaker 1: an f which I didn't even know. I didn't even
Speaker 1: know how connected we were. There a couple things. Let's
Speaker 1: check off some baseball layoff layups. No such thing as
Speaker 1: a bad one year deal. I would counter that it's
Speaker 1: a bad one year deal. That's kind of your answer.
Speaker 1: And man, Justin Verlander, who's got one of the prettier
Speaker 1: baseball references you will find for a picture. He's coming
Speaker 1: off his worst season. It is interesting thing he got
Speaker 1: an injury. Before that injury, he was pitching pretty decently.
Speaker 1: So if he comes in healthy, I think you can
Speaker 1: expect him to kind of be the mid to low
Speaker 1: threes era pitcher he's been the past couple of years.
Speaker 1: Could changing leagues help him? Could San Francisco's ballpark help
Speaker 1: him in some of their defense?
Speaker 2: Maybe?
Speaker 1: I think it's mostly gonna come down to if the
Speaker 1: forty two year old on February twentieth, how healthy is that?
Speaker 2: Being said?
Speaker 1: The one year contract thing for a pitcher that could
Speaker 1: be Justin Verlander. I think you like it, even if
Speaker 1: it's just the old bulls at spring training and we
Speaker 1: get stories about Logan Webb learned this from Justin Verlander.
Speaker 1: And Keaton win added some zip to his fastball from Verlander.
Speaker 1: Not exactly how it works. I mean, you get one
Speaker 1: of the most experienced pitchers all time, one of the
Speaker 1: best pitchers of the last two years.
Speaker 2: I was just laughing.
Speaker 1: I saw I think it was dr Who a post
Speaker 1: of all the leaders since in the two thousands. It's
Speaker 1: an interesting way to look at things.
Speaker 2: Pool hosts has a lot Juan Pierre is.
Speaker 1: Your steels king in the two thousands, and then it's like,
Speaker 1: sure's er Verlander.
Speaker 2: There's a couple other oddballs in there. That was fun.
Speaker 1: Mike trout ops people forget about him if they can
Speaker 1: tap into something from Justin Verlander. Hell, even twenty twenty three,
Speaker 1: he was twenty seven starts with a three to two two.
Speaker 1: He was actually a little slightly worse in Houston Mets.
Speaker 1: Justin Verlander was sixteen starts to a three to one five.
Speaker 1: And I remember that whole thing being like it didn't
Speaker 1: feel clean, like it didn't like right.
Speaker 3: Just felt like like nothing.
Speaker 1: Right, Like it didn't feel like Verlander was doing good.
Speaker 3: And he missed time to an injury while with the Mets.
Speaker 2: So he's a year removed.
Speaker 1: So from twenty seven starts, one hundred and sixty two innings,
Speaker 1: a three.
Speaker 2: To two two era.
Speaker 1: So if you get that for one year, fifteen million. Absolutely.
Speaker 2: Uh.
Speaker 1: Last year more recently, landed at seventeen starts, a five
Speaker 1: four eight, ninety innings pitched. You know, some of the
Speaker 1: numbers down. Again, he was good to start, got hurt
Speaker 1: and it came down. No jokes to be made here.
Speaker 1: His high school is Goochland High School in Virginia, so
Speaker 1: old dominion, same as Benny Pascentino, I believe, I believe so.
Speaker 1: And you know one of the great games he always
Speaker 1: play is what are what are you asking for Justin Verlander?
Speaker 1: If the San Francisco Giants are asking Justin Verlander to
Speaker 1: be there too next year, I'd be a little concerned
Speaker 1: technically and again I think this could get shimmied and shook.
Speaker 1: They have him slotted in the back end of their rotation.
Speaker 1: They have Logan Webb as stable as a pitcher.
Speaker 2: As you can get.
Speaker 1: Robbie Ray who only had seven starts last year, but
Speaker 1: again he should be more built up and be more
Speaker 1: than those seven starts at least. Jordan Hicks, who made
Speaker 1: twenty starts last year one oh nine innings pitched. Hopefully
Speaker 1: he can jump up to maybe like the one thirty
Speaker 1: range Kyle Harrison, the young lefty was kind of hunting
Speaker 1: hunting in a lot of his starts. He either had
Speaker 1: it or he did it. And then justin Verlander. And
Speaker 1: so you have some depth pieces between trist and Beck,
Speaker 1: Heat and Win as I mentioned Hayden, show me your
Speaker 1: bird song Land and Roupe that. Yeah, hey, there could
Speaker 1: be BBD. I'll ask you a question, if you don't mind, please,
Speaker 1: Who was the biggest piece the Yankees traded to get
Speaker 1: Juan Soto former Yankee Michael King? Where did Michael King
Speaker 1: learn his.
Speaker 2: Curveball from Corey Klueber, So Corey klueber.
Speaker 1: Brief stint with the Yanks, there there can be ripple
Speaker 1: effects of bringing an all time great pitcher that. I
Speaker 1: hope Giants fans are telling those stories in a couple
Speaker 1: of years or even this year, and they might get
Speaker 1: something out of him. So you have to if you're
Speaker 1: a Giants fan, like the a in the article said,
Speaker 1: I really like this for him. I wonder what else
Speaker 1: of a market was for them. Apparently the Tigers got
Speaker 1: an f out of this one. If he was willing
Speaker 1: to sign there. The other thing with him insures there
Speaker 1: what do they want to do? Justin Verlander has made
Speaker 1: four hundred million dollars playing baseball. He was gonna go
Speaker 1: wherever he wanted. If someone offered him fourteen mil. I
Speaker 1: think he would have been fine with that to go
Speaker 1: to another team. He apparently is kind into San Francisco.
Speaker 1: Is there a Buster Posey effect? Haven't seen that article yet.
Speaker 1: Does he believe in what's going on? Does he like
Speaker 1: pitching at a pitcher's ballpark?
Speaker 2: You know? Could that help him out? We will see.
Speaker 1: The NL West is becoming daunting and the San Diego
Speaker 1: story continues to feel like it's getting sad, although they
Speaker 1: still have a lot of talent on that roster. But
Speaker 1: the Giants and d Backs are continuing to kind of
Speaker 1: build their teams out. The NL West is going to
Speaker 1: be a blood bath of sorts. And you have to think,
Speaker 1: you know, of the Padres, Diamonbacks, and Giants, one of
Speaker 1: those teams is gonna have a tough year next year.
Speaker 1: And I don't know who it is. I I'd have
Speaker 1: to see everything on paper. You'd still think the Padres
Speaker 1: are going to do something because they have been silent.
Speaker 1: Maybe not because they're suing each other for ownership of
Speaker 1: the team. The Padres won ninety three games last year
Speaker 1: and we're up two to one on the Dodgers and
Speaker 1: we're like on path to win the World Series. So
Speaker 1: I know they've lost pieces, and it's it's really hard
Speaker 1: to compare the Padres and the Giants right now. The
Speaker 1: Giants lost Snell and CONFORDO, okay, significant, They've added Willia
Speaker 1: Domash and they've now added Justin Verlander. That hey, that
Speaker 1: Snell loss is significant. I mean I think it's eleven
Speaker 1: starts down the stretch. They were incredible, and he goes
Speaker 1: over to the Dodgers Junghu Lee will be back, So
Speaker 1: that's something that helps them. This is always my thing
Speaker 1: with the Giants. It feels like they've got room for
Speaker 1: one more hitter, and it's are they willing to do that?
Speaker 1: Because right now their bench is a little thin. Their
Speaker 1: DH is listed.
Speaker 2: As Wilmer Flores.
Speaker 1: So could they be in the business of anyone whether
Speaker 1: you want to go medium and do a JD. Martinez
Speaker 1: a flyer on someone or JAD turned them down last.
Speaker 2: Year right because.
Speaker 1: Him so maybe a bad example there. Maybe he still
Speaker 1: doesn't you know. Santan Dare's still out there for a
Speaker 1: couple of teams again, if you're looking for a So
Speaker 1: if the Giants get themselves another hitter, I think I
Speaker 1: could actually talk myself into it. We will see if
Speaker 1: they do that, because they don't necessarily need to. They've
Speaker 1: got a lot of talented guys. Ramos had a really
Speaker 1: good rookie year, Fitzgerald did two, but nobody knows what
Speaker 1: to do with that and that sample size. Matt Chapman
Speaker 1: locked up, Lamont Wade only gets on base, and Willie
Speaker 1: Thomas was a big signing one hundred eighty something mill
Speaker 1: So they could, in theory be done. I would like
Speaker 1: to see them add one more hitter. And Yeah, here's
Speaker 1: what I'll say about the Giants coming into the past
Speaker 1: few seasons. We've said the same things, and this team
Speaker 1: isn't that far away from those same things I would say,
Speaker 1: But it feels a little more entertaining. Willie Domas Matt
Speaker 1: Chapman was good for them. Justin Verlander starts, Logan Webb
Speaker 1: healthy for like a full year. Uh, They've got a
Speaker 1: rotation that each guy has upside. It's just what's gonna
Speaker 1: click and what's not gonna click in a year And
Speaker 1: with that tough division and hopefully some bounce back in
Speaker 1: their bullpen, they can be a tough team. But I
Speaker 1: still think when you look at that Giants lineup on
Speaker 1: paper compared to a lot of the plus lineups around
Speaker 1: the league, it's a little daunting.
Speaker 3: God.
Speaker 1: I kind of want to check out this art why
Speaker 1: they gave the Tigers because that was my pick when
Speaker 1: we did we did the free agency draft, I was like,
Speaker 1: go back to Detroit, do this all again. So I'm
Speaker 1: just wondering if they had any rumors or anything, or
Speaker 1: if they're just like, couldn't, Yeah, couldn't the Tigers at
Speaker 1: least offer this?
Speaker 2: So I don't know.
Speaker 1: I think another fun game Beaverton and let me know
Speaker 1: if I'm missing anyone.
Speaker 2: There's been.
Speaker 1: At least three old starting pitchers that have signed one
Speaker 1: year fifteen mil, oh, I think, So let me see,
Speaker 1: we've got Charlie Morton just happened to Baltimore, Justin Verlander
Speaker 1: to the San Francisco Giants, Alex Cobp to Detroit. So
Speaker 1: maybe that's what my article friends were being not happy
Speaker 1: about Sugano's thirteen mil for Baltimore.
Speaker 2: Let's see what that is.
Speaker 1: Boyd is fourteen to five for two years, so that's
Speaker 1: really uh yeah, that's a that's something. Max Schures are
Speaker 1: still out there, by the way.
Speaker 2: I don't know.
Speaker 1: It's gonna be funny to look at that handful of
Speaker 1: guys that you could have had for the same price
Speaker 1: at the end of the year, because I bet two.
Speaker 2: Of them are good.
Speaker 1: I bet two of them aren't welcome to baseball, welcome
Speaker 1: to analytics.
Speaker 2: So that's that, and it's exciting.
Speaker 1: He's still justin Verlander, famous wife, all time pitcher, could
Speaker 1: be good. I'm about it. That's fun baseball stuff. The
Speaker 1: one I don't really know where to lead you guys.
Speaker 1: My Cincinnati Reds have thrown a wrench in the equation
Speaker 1: as Gavin Lux gets traded to the Reds after they
Speaker 1: traded Jonathan India and everyone was like, oh, they finally
Speaker 1: finally cleared up that infield Gavin Lux is in town.
Speaker 1: They traded two prospects for him, well, one prospect and
Speaker 1: a draft pick. I did think it was funny and
Speaker 1: this is just dumb Jake stuff. But Mike Saroda is
Speaker 1: the outfield prospect Northeast guy By the way, the Dodgers
Speaker 1: drafted him out of high school and he said no,
Speaker 1: got drafted by the Reds and I think the third round.
Speaker 1: Still hasn't played pro ball. I don't know if he
Speaker 1: was injured or something. Oh, I don't know what that is.
Speaker 2: But then the.
Speaker 1: Dodgers traded for him. So how bad did the Dodgers
Speaker 1: want Mike Saroda? You know? And if I'm Mike Saroda,
Speaker 1: that's a good thing. I got drafted for turned them down,
Speaker 1: and then they traded for me.
Speaker 3: They won them.
Speaker 1: I'm interested to see the follow up on Mike Siroda
Speaker 1: and that competitive balance pick. But most importantly we know
Speaker 1: Gavin Lux, who got traded a two time World Series champ,
Speaker 1: Gavin Lux.
Speaker 2: That's a pretty big flex.
Speaker 1: Coming off a two war season with a massive second half,
Speaker 1: A pretty I can say it was a bad first half.
Speaker 4: But it's pretty easy to talk yourself into like miss
Speaker 4: the previous year, acl get literally getting his legs under him,
Speaker 4: and literally got under him.
Speaker 1: Uh in the second half, sixty one games, three to
Speaker 1: zero four batting average, a three ninety one on base
Speaker 1: a five O eight slug so he almost three four
Speaker 1: five for sixty one games to bring the season home.
Speaker 1: That being said, seventy eight games in the first half,
Speaker 1: two thirteen, batting average two sixty seven, on base five
Speaker 1: sixty two. BBD mentioned the injuries. Also the whole shortstop
Speaker 1: who's playing where? Like that was a little messy. I
Speaker 1: know in our heads that doesn't matter, like set the lineup,
Speaker 1: go hit, play defense. I've seen shortstop mess with a
Speaker 1: lot of players heads by this point.
Speaker 4: And I guess at twenty seven he it's somewhat of
Speaker 4: a full like all right, you don't face lefties anymore,
Speaker 4: like a little bit.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's tough.
Speaker 1: It's made there because that's also a little Dodger syndrome m.
Speaker 3: Hm, like same thing happened to Jock way back when.
Speaker 1: Right, And it's it's opportunity based and at a certain
Speaker 1: point you're a certain age that I wonder if that's
Speaker 1: what the Reds are thinking. We'll get to that in
Speaker 1: a second. What do we have Gavin Lux getting paid
Speaker 1: this year?
Speaker 4: I believe, and I think around this time tomorrow we
Speaker 4: will have like some official numbers on some year guys,
Speaker 4: but the estimates are under three million dollars.
Speaker 1: I was gonna say, because he made one point two
Speaker 1: last year, so and it kind of makes sense like
Speaker 1: he never had the gangbuster year.
Speaker 4: That really multiplies. Yeah, and and losing a full season
Speaker 4: to an injury.
Speaker 1: Right, so the two data points we do have a
Speaker 1: twenty four year old Gavin Lux had a three war
Speaker 1: season and one hundred and twenty nine games, two seventy
Speaker 1: six three forty six forty five ops. And last year
Speaker 1: I told you, I mean they ended up nearly even.
Speaker 1: But that big second half can make you dream upon
Speaker 1: if you're trading for Gavin Lux two years of hopefully
Speaker 1: pushing eight hundred ops type production. He hasn't done it yet,
Speaker 1: so you don't want to put that out there too much.
Speaker 1: And changing divisions, you're seeing less similar pitchers, and if
Speaker 1: you believe in lineup support and all that stuff, Dodgers
Speaker 1: to the Reds. But the Reds play in one of
Speaker 1: the best hitters parks that I think you can dream
Speaker 1: on Gavin Lux being in his prime, hopefully being recovered
Speaker 1: from a leg injury, being a pretty decent contributor. But
Speaker 1: where Because are Reds, who we applauded for getting Brady
Speaker 1: Singer for Jonathan India, They currently have Ellie de la
Speaker 1: Cruz at shortstop.
Speaker 2: Let's lock that in Janiel. It's the reference for BBD
Speaker 2: and a couple other people. What show was that?
Speaker 4: Uh Anti Donna's biggle has some fun. So some people
Speaker 4: are gonna be really into that drop, and some people
Speaker 4: are like, why have you wasted twenty more seconds on this?
Speaker 2: We'll like that joke.
Speaker 1: That's why you do it, and that's why you're subscribing
Speaker 1: right now, almost twenty five k. Thanks everyone, Thanks. I'm
Speaker 1: gonna lock in Ellie de la Cruz at shortstop. I
Speaker 1: think I'm gonna lock in Matt McClain at second unless
Speaker 1: he's a piece of trade meat. That will circle back
Speaker 1: on a second. But if let's do this, if they
Speaker 1: are on the reds Ellie's at short Matt McClain at second,
Speaker 1: that's kind of the end of the conversation there is it?
Speaker 1: Because I just remember Gavin Lux is where this whole
Speaker 1: conversation is around. Then we have Christian and Carnassio and Strand,
Speaker 1: who's kind of a first baseman fencer Steer I'll throw
Speaker 1: in here. He plays everywhere. They have him currently listed
Speaker 1: as the left fielder Gavin Lux, jam Or Candelario, And
Speaker 1: this is gonna be a bad reference because it's not
Speaker 1: referencing anything.
Speaker 2: So I don't know why I teed it up like this.
Speaker 1: If Santiago Espinal is on your team, he's gonna play.
Speaker 1: It's just a developing theory. It's kind of the IKF effect,
Speaker 1: Like they're versatile enough and they're not bad enough, but
Speaker 1: if they're on your team, they're going to play eighty
Speaker 1: one games minimum. How many to play? Last year, let
Speaker 1: me walk all over myself.
Speaker 3: There inter n anyone played appearances.
Speaker 2: D eighteen games.
Speaker 1: So the past four years, Santiago Espinal has played ninety
Speaker 1: two plus games. He plays solid defense, he plays positions,
Speaker 1: and he has like a slappy bat. Wow, his numbers
Speaker 1: are so like KF two sixty six, three, twenty one
Speaker 1: six eighty five ops. WHOA, I might have to put
Speaker 1: out a that's gonna be mean. I was gonna say,
Speaker 1: I need to put a warning to teams if you
Speaker 1: have this guy on your team, they're gonna play a lot,
Speaker 1: which I don't know if that's good. I don't know
Speaker 1: if that's good. Anyways, Sorry for the Santiago Espinal slander.
Speaker 1: That is, before mentioning the guy that was supposed to
Speaker 1: be like the future of the Reds noelvi Marte. He
Speaker 1: was the big piece they got for Luis Castillo, kind
Speaker 1: of a I don't want to say super prospect, but
Speaker 1: of sorts got was good pot for pds. Came back midseason,
Speaker 1: was not good. But you have to think they're not
Speaker 1: over him after you know a limp two hundred and
Speaker 1: forty two bad played appearances at the end of last season.
Speaker 1: That he has to be very much in the mix.
Speaker 1: I didn't mention, but this should be tied in Will Benson,
Speaker 1: who played a lot for them last year. The numbers
Speaker 1: weren't off the charts, but fourteen homers, sixteen stolen bases,
Speaker 1: he's twenty six, Like that's a baseball player. So the
Speaker 1: Cincinnati Reds are back to having a lot of position players,
Speaker 1: which that's a good thing. I think what's scary to
Speaker 1: me is after Ellie d la Cruz, who hit twenty
Speaker 1: five homers last year, I believe and has a chance
Speaker 1: to fully break out and kind of have. I mean,
Speaker 1: he kind of did break out. He had five war
Speaker 1: last year, but I mean we could be talking about
Speaker 1: if his numbers pick up across the board, you're talking
Speaker 1: about seven, eight, nine war type of guy. So let's
Speaker 1: see what happens with Ellie. I mean BBD. If you
Speaker 1: had to place a bet on not a draft, but
Speaker 1: double who's going to have the second most home runs
Speaker 1: on the Cincinnati Reds next year?
Speaker 2: You would pick god right, Chake Frayley.
Speaker 1: So for a team that I just mentioned has a
Speaker 1: lot of depth, and we've we've got not Jake Fraley,
Speaker 1: we've got six infielders, six outfielders, you can't lock in
Speaker 1: another guy for twenty homers twenty which in today's baseball.
Speaker 2: Like twenties.
Speaker 1: If you're an average power hitter playing a full seed
Speaker 1: every day, you're hitting twenty homers.
Speaker 3: I think freedom. So I was trying to say for
Speaker 3: the Reds people.
Speaker 1: Yelling they have one of the best hitters parks in baseball,
Speaker 1: so maybe that can be your spin zone that you're
Speaker 1: gonna get plus production from one of these guys. For me,
Speaker 1: the scent is this should be a move that leads
Speaker 1: to another move. I like Gavin lux as a ballplayer.
Speaker 1: Like I said, he could get two years at three
Speaker 1: million and six million, where he gives you two three
Speaker 1: war seasons.
Speaker 2: That's that's a massive win.
Speaker 1: And maybe the Reds are just thinking, hey, last year
Speaker 1: we had a lot. It always felt like we had
Speaker 1: two or three holes, and it just never felt cohesive.
Speaker 1: That maybe if we have this extra depth and Jamer
Speaker 1: has another bad year or one of the young guys
Speaker 1: has a down year, somebody gets hurt, that we can
Speaker 1: plug them and hopefully the wheel keeps on turning. I'm
Speaker 1: okay with that thought process, but it feels a step off,
Speaker 1: and I wonder if there's a trade for a hitter.
Speaker 1: I wonder if they do they have the money to
Speaker 1: sign for a hitter. My knee jerk reaction was like
Speaker 1: a Dylan Cease trade to have, like an actual like
Speaker 1: whoa the Cincinnati Reds pitch? Because I who have been
Speaker 1: brainwashed by myself into becoming a Cincinnati Reds fan because
Speaker 1: I liked all their young hitters so much. Funny how
Speaker 1: much a year can change things. I like their pitching
Speaker 1: more than their hitting. Hunter Green breakout happened. I keep
Speaker 1: reminding people this twenty six starts at two seven five
Speaker 1: Brady Singer, wherever you stand on them, he had a
Speaker 1: solid year last year, three seven to one, Andrew Rabbit
Speaker 1: three seven to two, Nick Martinez qualifying offer three to
Speaker 1: one Era last year Nick Lidolo had two point one
Speaker 1: war shut up Jake a talented young pitcher, and that
Speaker 1: is before we get to Rhet Louder, who was a
Speaker 1: top pick who U thirty innings from Rhet Louder last
Speaker 1: year a one to one seven ERA.
Speaker 4: Uh.
Speaker 1: And they have a couple other young arms they like.
Speaker 1: So in theory, the Cincinnati Reds.
Speaker 2: Could be done.
Speaker 1: They have some rod rotation depth. I don't hate their bullpen.
Speaker 1: They got some lefties and righties with Alexis Diaz on
Speaker 1: the back end, and it's like, okay, so maybe they
Speaker 1: just want depth in their lineup. Terry Francona is the
Speaker 1: manager you may have forgotten, and he's just gonna press
Speaker 1: all the right buttons and go. Since he go, I'd
Speaker 1: like to think there's another move, and I think it
Speaker 1: could be for a pitcher, And if it's Dylan Ceese
Speaker 1: for one or two young players, I think that's a win.
Speaker 1: Looking at Dylan Ceese, Hunter Green, and then if singer Abbott, Martinez,
Speaker 1: Ludola one of them clicks, you have like a good
Speaker 1: rotation in Cincinnati, which I feel like we haven't said
Speaker 1: that was anyone else with Bauer was on that Reds team.
Speaker 1: Was Sonny there?
Speaker 4: Sonny was there, Luis Castile was there. I don't know
Speaker 4: how broken out he was, but.
Speaker 2: Talent definitely that twenty twenty Reds team.
Speaker 1: I gotta tell Jolly to do that as a video Yeah,
Speaker 1: Man Bauer, Castillo, Gray Tyler, Molly d Scalfani and Wade Miley. Okay,
Speaker 1: easy on that those four all had legit. Bris l Iglesias,
Speaker 1: Michael Lorenzen, tj and Tone Archie, Bradley Brooks.
Speaker 2: Really what Jesse Biddle? What year is this? Are there
Speaker 2: two Jesse Biddles?
Speaker 3: Pedro Strope on the team?
Speaker 1: Wasn't there a Rocky Biddle was the old Expos reliever
Speaker 1: and he got rocked? Why do I know his name?
Speaker 1: Minus three point two career war Anyways, I'd like to
Speaker 1: think there's another move for the Reds going. I'd like
Speaker 1: to think it's in any direction. If this was a
Speaker 1: video game and the Reds had a little bit of money,
Speaker 1: could you just somehow, could you somehow get Dylan Ceese
Speaker 1: and then signed Pete Santander or something, then like you'd
Speaker 1: look at the Reds and be like, wait, is this
Speaker 1: a good team? Because the other thing that happened earlier,
Speaker 1: I was on the Reds and I was giving myself
Speaker 1: my normal Reds hype speech. Here we go, let's go Reds.
Speaker 1: I clicked over to the Royals and I like the
Speaker 1: Royals roster better than the Reds, and I think it's
Speaker 1: on like every front, Like I believe in the Royal
Speaker 1: star a little more. Bobby wit Junior, he showed that
Speaker 1: last year, like even India Wit Pascuentino Salve. Maybe I'm
Speaker 1: a little too biased to Michael Massey, but I like
Speaker 1: what's going on up there. You could argue the Reds
Speaker 1: have better depth, sure, but kind of the star in
Speaker 1: the meat of the lineup.
Speaker 2: I like that more for.
Speaker 1: Case Reagan's Lugo waka now Lorenzen. And then however they
Speaker 1: want to finish it boo bitch march Well Kyle Wright
Speaker 1: ever return. I don't know any young pitchers I know,
Speaker 1: not really, but also the bullpen man Ursig, Harvey Schreiber,
Speaker 1: and then they've got all those lefty Zerpa Lynch Long
Speaker 1: Christrattan that it's kind of like, Okay, the Royals. Where
Speaker 1: do I officially land on the Royals. They made the
Speaker 1: playoffs last year. The team has some juice, they have
Speaker 1: a star. It was an eighty six win team. Do
Speaker 1: I think they necessarily got better?
Speaker 2: I don't know.
Speaker 1: I think that kind of depends on India Pasquentino, Salvi,
Speaker 1: Michael Massey breakout alert. I kind of like the Royals
Speaker 1: more than the Reds, which I gotta be honest. For
Speaker 1: the Reds, that's a bad sign.
Speaker 3: M hm.
Speaker 1: Like. I hope the Royals run it back next year.
Speaker 2: But the Royals, they were second in starting pitching era.
Speaker 2: It's really good. The Reds last year.
Speaker 1: Oh my god, I accidentally just clicked on a booze ad.
Speaker 1: How do I get out of here?
Speaker 4: Is this?
Speaker 3: What is this? Reggie?
Speaker 2: Is that whiskey? They got me? Well done? Now I'm
Speaker 2: buying it. I'm drinking it.
Speaker 1: My Cincinnati Reds that I continue to try to talk
Speaker 1: myself into in a weak division. They won seventy seven
Speaker 1: games last year, twenty first and o PS sixteenth and
Speaker 1: starting pitching the ra eighteenth. And give me a little
Speaker 1: bit of an identity somewhere, and maybe a Trevino helped
Speaker 1: steal some pitches for them and that can help their
Speaker 1: pitching staff. I'd like if they could give me one
Speaker 1: more move in either direction. I can dream better, like.
Speaker 3: A new.
Speaker 4: Doesn't necessarily have to be best, but a new most
Speaker 4: reliable hitter or pitcher.
Speaker 3: Something with it with a big ceiling.
Speaker 2: I would love a.
Speaker 1: Hitter that looks like twenty five plus homers ideally thirty
Speaker 1: today's baseball. Or I'd love a starting pitcher that I
Speaker 1: could look at and say, well, you're gonna hopefully get
Speaker 1: thirty starts at a three five era. And I guess
Speaker 1: the part that surprised me when I originally did this,
Speaker 1: because again knee jerk reaction posted on social media. I
Speaker 1: was like Dylan Cees like Reds, that's an identity pitch
Speaker 1: a little bit. I kind of now believe in the
Speaker 1: reds pitching upside more than their hitting that.
Speaker 2: I don't know.
Speaker 1: Hopefully I'm missing something. The Reds have great American ballpark.
Speaker 1: Maybe that's where my head is at, Like, go get
Speaker 1: Dylan Ceese and you'll figure out hitting.
Speaker 2: But Reds.
Speaker 1: I need one more move to make sense of it. Meanwhile,
Speaker 1: watch out for whatever Mike Sirota and whoever the Dodgers
Speaker 1: pick with that pick. That's a little bit of the
Speaker 1: baseball update for now. We will see again whatever shoe
Speaker 1: drops next. There's been no real santandar rumors. Pete's kind
Speaker 1: of in a bad spot. It feels like Bragman. It
Speaker 1: still feels like he's in a good spot.
Speaker 4: Ultimately seem like Bragman's like going land where he won it.
Speaker 1: There's a lot of teams you can be like Bregman, Bergman,
Speaker 1: Red Sox, Mats, Nats. I have to feel like our team.
Speaker 1: Everyone wants the Tigers that we've done Pete, that whole
Speaker 1: first base wheel happened, carousel.
Speaker 2: But I don't know.
Speaker 1: I'm sorry to think he's gonna fall more into like
Speaker 1: a Cody Bellinger Matt Chapman three year with opt out,
Speaker 1: so if you have a forty homer year in the
Speaker 1: next two years, you'll get another big deal.
Speaker 2: But I don't know.
Speaker 1: It's entered a weird spot with Pete, and I didn't
Speaker 1: think it would. I thought a team would would talk
Speaker 1: themselves into that. Rats, Diamondbacks. Who's gonna come out of
Speaker 1: the woodwork for Pete?
Speaker 2: Yankees? No, No kombucha girl give again for a couple people.
Speaker 1: Let's talk a little football, because I told you this
Speaker 1: is kind of the big one college football. If you're
Speaker 1: not into it, I think this should be your weekend.
Speaker 1: We are down to well, oh god, I was going
Speaker 1: to say I was going to make a joke about
Speaker 1: one of the bad Bowl games it had South Alabama
Speaker 1: Western Michigan, but that was December fourteenth, So if you're
Speaker 1: looking forward to that game, it's not happening. No, there
Speaker 1: are three college football games left. Notre Dame at Penn State. Okay,
Speaker 1: some traditional northern colleges mixing it up. The Golden Domers
Speaker 1: have become i don't know, kind of yankee ish, right,
Speaker 1: like Notre Dame used to be college football's brand.
Speaker 2: They haven't really won the big one in a while.
Speaker 1: People said last week against Georgia was the biggest game
Speaker 1: they won in a long time. They play a fun
Speaker 1: brand of football. They want to run the ball. They've
Speaker 1: got a veteran quarterback, Riley Leonard, who's going to make plays.
Speaker 1: Not a ton through the air last week, but they
Speaker 1: didn't need a ton through the air. But their run
Speaker 1: game is really fun. Love and Price normally doing a
Speaker 1: lot of work, although Riley Leonard did a lot of
Speaker 1: the work last week as they beat a Georgia team
Speaker 1: with basically just a good end to the half. Penn
Speaker 1: State had been kind of one of they'd been a
Speaker 1: punching bag of college football for a little bit because
Speaker 1: another program that kind of landed Top ten. They won
Speaker 1: every game they were supposed to win. They lost every
Speaker 1: game they were supposed to lose. So it's kind of like, well,
Speaker 1: what are you? You're clearly not the elite, you're not bad,
Speaker 1: but how do we treat you? They beat SMU and
Speaker 1: Boise State, so even read that off makes me a
Speaker 1: little timid. But they won both those games dominantly, which
Speaker 1: which you like to see. They do have one of
Speaker 1: the best quarterbacks remaining in this whole dance. Drew Aller
Speaker 1: has elevated his stock. He had three touchdown passes against
Speaker 1: Boise no interceptions. Allen and Singleton are there to go
Speaker 1: to running backs. Singleton's a beast and it's funny Alan
Speaker 1: actually outplayed him last game against Boise. And if you're
Speaker 1: in the NFL world and you're just waiting to get
Speaker 1: to the next part of this conversation, they have a
Speaker 1: tight end Tyler Warren, who is just massive. There has
Speaker 1: been a couple of times they just give him the
Speaker 1: ball in the backfield because he's that good that it's
Speaker 1: just like, hey, figure it.
Speaker 2: Out, dude, we don't know how to get you the
Speaker 2: ball right now.
Speaker 3: So go.
Speaker 1: Two touchdowns receiving against both Boise State and just you know,
Speaker 1: some college players look different on the field.
Speaker 2: Is one of them.
Speaker 1: That'll be fun to see him on that stage. And
Speaker 1: I'd have to assume he's gonna be a first round
Speaker 1: pick and he is just massive. I think there's gonna
Speaker 1: be grant comparisons come to draft and if he has
Speaker 1: a big game, watch out.
Speaker 2: That.
Speaker 1: That's gonna be fun to see those two teams. One
Speaker 1: of them is going back to the national championship. Notre
Speaker 1: Dame did that a few years ago, but they got
Speaker 1: absolutely rolled by Alabama. Like they just didn't have a
Speaker 1: chance at that. It was like Alabama's peak and it
Speaker 1: was like Notre Dame wiggled in and it was a
Speaker 1: bad time. This will be a fun game. Notre Dame
Speaker 1: is the favorite. I was just talking myself by a
Speaker 1: point and a half, so it's pretty tight. I was
Speaker 1: just telling myself, like, oh, Penn State, they've got a quarterback.
Speaker 1: Notre Dame hasn't seen that. But Notre Dame just be
Speaker 1: Georgia who they've got, you know, Georgia compared to Boise State,
Speaker 1: and SMU is a different product on each line that
Speaker 1: this game is being played tomorrow night, So again I
Speaker 1: mentioned this as an explosive football weekend tomorrow night at
Speaker 1: the Orange Bowl fighting Irish Nitney Lions gone to my head?
Speaker 1: Why does he always do that? I guess I like
Speaker 1: Notre Dame. They just took out Georgia. They're feeling good
Speaker 1: about themselves. They kind of know who they are. They've
Speaker 1: got a good storyline. I like their head coach a
Speaker 1: little more than Penn State's head coach.
Speaker 2: And I don't know.
Speaker 1: The Notre Dame story is cool, like they lost to
Speaker 1: Northern Illinois and everyone was ready to fire their coach
Speaker 1: and Notre Dame's a joke and here we go and
Speaker 1: they have responded from that as good as a team can.
Speaker 1: So I guess I like that story a little more.
Speaker 1: James Franklin left my Vanderbilt, so some wounds.
Speaker 2: Just never heal.
Speaker 1: But that should be a fun one now on Friday,
Speaker 1: maybe because we've got a snowstorm in Dallas. Watch out
Speaker 1: supposed to get a half a foot and they don't
Speaker 1: know what to do with snow down there. Ohio State,
Speaker 1: the Ohio State the heavy favorites to win this whole dance.
Speaker 1: How quickly we've moved on from Ryan Day not beating
Speaker 1: Michigan over the past four years, they are the favorites.
Speaker 1: They are playing Texas, the Texas Longhorns, who their two
Speaker 1: losses this year are to Georgia in a couple of
Speaker 1: close games, or at least the second one was. So
Speaker 1: we'll see if there's any Texas in Texas effect. They're
Speaker 1: playing at Jerry's World. You'd like to think there's gonna
Speaker 1: be more burnt Orange in the crowd. I'll tell you this.
Speaker 1: Dallas is a commuter city, is at the transplant city
Speaker 1: that there's already a lot of Ohio folk there, and
Speaker 1: it's a fan base that travels that. I don't think
Speaker 1: we're looking at something odd here, a team that wouldn't
Speaker 1: travel unless flights from Ohio get canceled.
Speaker 2: We'll see about that. Texas.
Speaker 1: I'm interested to see are they gonna mix anything up.
Speaker 1: They ended up letting Clemson into the game a little bit.
Speaker 1: In their first game, Arizona State almost pulled out a
Speaker 1: miracle against them, and their defense that is supposed to
Speaker 1: be their strength continues to just have kind of these
Speaker 1: weird moments of what is going on here? Yours statline
Speaker 1: ends up looking good last game, people were wondering has
Speaker 1: he been playing hurt through the season because he had
Speaker 1: some moments of just bizarre kind of output on their end.
Speaker 1: And meanwhile, Ohio State I talked about Notre Dame looking
Speaker 1: in the mirror after losing to Northern Illinois and kind
Speaker 1: of doing you what are we doing, and how it's
Speaker 1: a great bounce backstory. Ohio State's looking to write an
Speaker 1: even better one. Ryan Day looking like he's on.
Speaker 2: The chop block.
Speaker 1: Into four years not beating Michigan, and this Michigan team
Speaker 1: was not a Michigan team that if they slipped up
Speaker 1: against Tennessee in a cold weather game, if they lost
Speaker 1: to Oregon, the undefeated number one team that they had
Speaker 1: lost to, Ryan Day could have been in a weird spot.
Speaker 1: And I don't know if he'd be the coach of
Speaker 1: Ohio State. I think after they beat Tennessee how they did,
Speaker 1: if the Oregon game was close, he would have been fine.
Speaker 1: But a reminder, they jumped out in front of Oregon cataclysmically.
Speaker 1: It's to Joe's McFly word that I try to mix
Speaker 1: in I mean thirty four to nothing. I think that
Speaker 1: word works there. That Ohio State has now become the favorite.
Speaker 1: It seems like they're clicking on all cylinders there. Wide
Speaker 1: receivers cannot be stopped. Jeremiah Smith, the wide out freshman
Speaker 1: wide receiver, he's drawn comps to Julio Jones, Andre Johnson,
Speaker 1: like the best of the best wide receivers you know
Speaker 1: that went through college football and just ripped it up.
Speaker 2: He's on that level.
Speaker 1: They have him in a book on the outside that
Speaker 1: the secret is they've kind of been feeding those guys
Speaker 1: the ball instead of focusing on the run, and nobody
Speaker 1: can stop them, even though they have a great run
Speaker 1: game with Henderson and Howard the quarterback chipping in where
Speaker 1: he needs to. It's gonna be interesting to see if
Speaker 1: what kind of fight Texas has for them. It's a
Speaker 1: five to five and a half point spread, which usually
Speaker 1: that means they're indecisive and they're trying to get you
Speaker 1: to take Texas because Ohio State and just how good
Speaker 1: they have looked Ohio Texas might be the last line
Speaker 1: of defense. Texas one of the favorites coming into this season,
Speaker 1: and they've shown moments of really high play between their quarterback,
Speaker 1: their running back, their defense, and can they get a
Speaker 1: Texas boost or even Ohio State hasn't seen something go
Speaker 1: the wrong direction in a while, they haven't seen a
Speaker 1: pick six, they haven't seen a bad fumble. Can they
Speaker 1: get something early that shows like, hey, this is an
Speaker 1: equal playing field, because right now they are rolling. I'll
Speaker 1: be honest, it's tough to bet against Ohio State right
Speaker 1: now with how good they do look. But tune into
Speaker 1: if you're a sports person, these are gonna be two
Speaker 1: fun ones to tune into. And by the way, your
Speaker 1: college football bracket, which we've talked about a little bit
Speaker 1: and we'll talk about more, how we need to make
Speaker 1: some changes and adjustments. The current seeds left are five, six, seven,
Speaker 1: and eight, So again how the bracket got built. In
Speaker 1: previous years, it would have been a different one through four,
Speaker 1: like a couple of these teams would have been in here.
Speaker 1: But this year, this is where we're at, and I
Speaker 1: think the product has gotten to a good spot. With
Speaker 1: that Arizona State eight Texas game that was just electric
Speaker 1: last week, I guess we could use one more signature game.
Speaker 1: But again, we are now at the point that the
Speaker 1: playoffs started previously, so I think I think we're in
Speaker 1: a good spot. So if college football is not your
Speaker 1: fancy m hm, the NFL will have what you're looking
Speaker 1: for into the weekend. As it is wildcard weekend, the
Speaker 1: NFL is rolling out one, two, three, four, five six
Speaker 1: games starting Saturday ending on Monday. Saturday. It starts off
Speaker 1: Chargers Texans Harbaugh remember Michigan Harbaugh and the Chargers are
Speaker 1: eleven and six. The turnaround happened, like he does everywhere
Speaker 1: he goes, and they will head to Houston, who a
Speaker 1: weird year for them, man ten and seven. No one
Speaker 1: else in their division finished above five hundred. The Colts
Speaker 1: had a very culty year. Meanwhile, Jacksonville died and Tennessee
Speaker 1: was bad enough to have the first pick in the draft.
Speaker 2: So what is Houston? CJ.
Speaker 1: Stroud took a step back and was that the league
Speaker 1: seeing him more? Was it the people having a target
Speaker 1: on them. I'm trying to see what's my best What
Speaker 1: is my best Texans win? They beat the Bills a
Speaker 1: while ago, so that's kind of an easy one.
Speaker 2: I guess.
Speaker 1: Since then, since then, the Texans best wins are the Patriots,
Speaker 1: the Colts, the Cowboys, the Jaguars, the Dolphins, and the Titans.
Speaker 1: They lost to the Ravens, the Chiefs, the titanss Lions, Jets, Packers.
Speaker 1: So a year that was filled with a lot of
Speaker 1: excitement for Houston. They've been off the map since off
Speaker 1: the map since early in the season. The Chargers in
Speaker 1: Houston are three point favorites, and I think you could
Speaker 1: tell by the way I was talking to myself. I
Speaker 1: think I'm talking myself into that. Justin Herbert Man twenty
Speaker 1: three touchdowns, three interceptions. Pretty impressive what he's done the
Speaker 1: lad mcconkee rookie season that he's put up. Yeah, I
Speaker 1: guess I was interested to I thought the Texans at
Speaker 1: home in a playoff game, you know, you think they'd
Speaker 1: be at least pick them or one point favorites. No,
Speaker 1: the Chargers minus three, And I think I just talked
Speaker 1: myself into more of that. The nightcap that you hope
Speaker 1: has excitement. A nine and a half point spread makes
Speaker 1: you a little nervous, and two teams that make you
Speaker 1: nervous on both fronts. The Ravens at one point my
Speaker 1: Super Bowl pick for this year. Man could Lamar use
Speaker 1: a big playoff game to shake some of his Google
Speaker 1: Google ougas against the Pittsburgh Steelers who Pittsburgh Steelers bellow
Speaker 1: the ball, Mike Tomlin, how do they do it?
Speaker 2: Defense? In this guy.
Speaker 1: They've lost their last four Eagles, Ravens, Chiefs, Begals. It's
Speaker 1: feeling different. It's feeling different for the Steelers who will
Speaker 1: head to Baltimore. They played the Ravens twice this year.
Speaker 1: They won the eighteen to sixteen Boswell Bowl six times
Speaker 1: three is at eighteen yep, they won that one. Then
Speaker 1: at the Ravens they lost thirty four to seven, with
Speaker 1: Baltimore opening it up late in that game. Baltimore is
Speaker 1: a much better team the Steelers. It's how can they
Speaker 1: score with the Ravens And I don't know if they
Speaker 1: can even on their bad day. Mark Andrew's fun stat
Speaker 1: with him after the first six weeks of the year
Speaker 1: with zero touchdowns, ended up leading the tight end position
Speaker 1: in touchdowns. There's a lot of people that had regretful
Speaker 1: fantasy trades, including my main league, I Caravell. Someone was
Speaker 1: very sad. No name's mentioned Andrew, but there's a couple Andrews,
Speaker 1: so that.
Speaker 3: Leaves it vague, including in this conversation.
Speaker 1: Right, So, yeah, it'd be cool if you get the
Speaker 1: division and raven Steelers. We're hard hitting and maybe a
Speaker 1: special team's play and Tomlin's got something up his sleeve.
Speaker 1: I'll tell you what. If the Ravens somehow lose this game.
Speaker 2: Watch out.
Speaker 1: The Lamar tone is gonna change bigger than you thought.
Speaker 1: He has used up all of his playoff leash. His
Speaker 1: playoff stats are pretty pretty not good. That yeah, this
Speaker 1: is kind of the year. He might be winning another
Speaker 1: MVP award. Everyone talks about now how his forty one touchdowns,
Speaker 1: four interceptions and how three of the four went off
Speaker 1: wide receivers hands. It's a special, special year from Lamar,
Speaker 1: who I think he has like a top five QBR
Speaker 1: in a season ever and that doesn't include the running,
Speaker 1: and he like passed VIC this year for what he
Speaker 1: does on the ground. Should be Ravens, big rivalry division game.
Speaker 1: Sometimes that's when the funk comes out. Should be Ravens
Speaker 1: by more than nine and a half sometimes Vegas knows though.
Speaker 1: So that's your Saturday Slate, Sunday Broncos Bills.
Speaker 2: My Broncos made it to the dance. Can you believe it?
Speaker 1: The Broncos ten and seven bow Nicks. It seems like
Speaker 1: they're getting better bow Knicks. Twenty nine touchdowns, twelve interceptions.
Speaker 1: I mean, their last game against the Chiefs shouldn't really count,
Speaker 1: although I heard Travis Kelsey was getting mad about that
Speaker 1: they're going into Buffalo Josh Allen, who's competing with Lamar
Speaker 1: for the MVP. Buffalo one of the tougher places to
Speaker 1: play in this league. A Cook kind of figured it
Speaker 1: out with the run game this year. His final stats
Speaker 1: over a thousand yard, sixteen touchdowns, a little guy that
Speaker 1: wasn't supposed to be able to find the end zone
Speaker 1: and just spreading the ball out to every receiver a
Speaker 1: little bit the same except for Courland Sutton on the Broncos.
Speaker 2: Nice year.
Speaker 1: Cortland, people were leaving him undrafted.
Speaker 2: Bo Nicks.
Speaker 1: I get it to an eight and a half point spread.
Speaker 1: I told everyone my dream, and dream is a very
Speaker 1: dramatic word.
Speaker 2: Actually it's kind of nice.
Speaker 1: My dream bet that I've never hit that I've wanted
Speaker 1: to hit is in most games there's a bet halftime
Speaker 1: full time that like, if you think the Bills are
Speaker 1: gonna win this.
Speaker 2: Game, you'd pick Bills.
Speaker 1: Bills and the odds are just slightly tougher because if
Speaker 1: you think the Bills are gonna the Bills should lead
Speaker 1: this game the whole way. There's usually tie and then
Speaker 1: the winner, which those odds are crazy. And then my
Speaker 1: dream bet you can bet one team to be leading
Speaker 1: at half and then the other team to win.
Speaker 2: That's my dream.
Speaker 1: I would love if my Broncos could execute that dream
Speaker 1: that Sean Payton has a plan. Bow Nicks and the
Speaker 1: boys come out and they put together a couple drives,
Speaker 1: maybe they get the ball first field goal at the
Speaker 1: half and they're up thirteen to ten, something like that.
Speaker 1: I don't think they can win this game. I will
Speaker 1: be interested to see man bo Nicks in some of
Speaker 1: these recent games. And the whole thing. Sean Payton said
Speaker 1: he saw Drew Brees and this guy and they used
Speaker 1: to just complete passes, and that's what they've been doing recently.
Speaker 1: Twenty six for twenty nine against Kansas City, Okay, backups,
Speaker 1: twenty four for thirty one against the Bengals, twenty nine
Speaker 1: for forty against the Chargers, and then it starts to
Speaker 1: thin out a little bit. Uh. I hope the old
Speaker 1: dog Champagne can win me over if there is a
Speaker 1: sneaky on side kick in this game, I will be furious,
Speaker 1: but maybe that's what they'll need to actually hang with
Speaker 1: the Bills, who are playing for a Super Bowl year
Speaker 1: this year. That is your one PM game at four
Speaker 1: point thirty Packers iggles.
Speaker 2: I want to have Justin pennickon.
Speaker 1: I think is as mom had a surgery or something.
Speaker 1: I don't know if I'm supposed to be sharing that,
Speaker 1: but he was spending time with her today, so we're
Speaker 1: hoping to have him next week and best wishes.
Speaker 2: If that wasn't supposed to be revealed, I'm interested to see.
Speaker 2: Pennick said.
Speaker 1: If the Eagles draw the Packers, that's a really bad
Speaker 1: matchup for the e Eagles and there would be a
Speaker 1: sweet Philly twist if they've gone on this run. They've
Speaker 1: been incredible. Eagles, Eagles, Eagles, They've become my favorite Sirianni
Speaker 1: God again. If they lose to the pack in Philly,
Speaker 1: that burnt that building could burn down. That being said,
Speaker 1: Philly is still my super Bowl pick because I think
Speaker 1: they've gotten back to running the ball and they're just
Speaker 1: so dominant at Itaquan is crazy two thousand yards missing
Speaker 1: the last game.
Speaker 2: Let's see what goes on with Hurts.
Speaker 1: He's been in concussion protocol. He practiced today. Eagles four
Speaker 1: and a half. I'll bet it they'll win by three.
Speaker 1: I'll be mad all around.
Speaker 2: Packers. What are you.
Speaker 1: Let's find out a lot of green Commander's Buccaneers your nightcap, Okay,
Speaker 1: Baker and Jaden Daniels. Sure, Buccaneers have been fun all year,
Speaker 1: and I wish that Chris Godwin injury never happened. The
Speaker 1: Commanders have been fun all year. Twelve and five. It's
Speaker 1: in Tampa. Remember they were going on their three game
Speaker 1: skid and they had one game before the bye week
Speaker 1: to figure it out. Against the Titans. It was close
Speaker 1: for or actually no, it was not close. They blew
Speaker 1: them out early. Titans showed a little fight, they beat them.
Speaker 2: They won out.
Speaker 1: Titans, Saints, Eagles, remember that one. Falcons, Cowboys. Everything's close
Speaker 1: with them. I love Jayden Daniels and I hope we
Speaker 1: get some Jayden and Daniels magic. I love Baker and
Speaker 1: Bucky Man. I'm surprised this is the Sunday night game.
Speaker 1: Feels like Packers Eagles. It was a little more national juice.
Speaker 1: Tampa Bay is a three point favorite, and I think
Speaker 1: that's right. Again, there's a lot of things you could
Speaker 1: look back on this Washington season. Remember the Giants game
Speaker 1: Week two that they should have lost, but the Giants
Speaker 1: didn't have a kick. And there's you know, the Hail
Speaker 1: Mary against the Bears, Like, oh god, Yeah, this this
Speaker 1: Washington season could have felt a lot different at a
Speaker 1: couple different stops along the way. And hey, they have
Speaker 1: some other things they can point back. The Steelers had
Speaker 1: a crazy comeback against them one week. Sit back and
Speaker 1: enjoy that breeze. What Baker has turned himself into in
Speaker 1: this second act of his career has been a ton
Speaker 1: of fun. What Jaden Daniels is doing and how electric
Speaker 1: that is is a ton of fun. Bucky Irving is electric,
Speaker 1: and I hope they feed him the.
Speaker 3: Rock scene where his season numbers ended up.
Speaker 2: Yeah, Bucky crushed man.
Speaker 1: And he's still sharing time with like a couple backs
Speaker 1: along the way, not only White, but they like their
Speaker 1: other guy forty four.
Speaker 2: Nice. That's real football talk when you say their number.
Speaker 2: Enjoy it.
Speaker 1: Hopefully, if we get a Baker Jaden shootout, a couple
Speaker 1: guys and that'll lead us into Monday Vikings rams, the
Speaker 1: coaches are connected, Minnesota one point favorite in La as
Speaker 1: scary LA. Let's see what's going on with that whole
Speaker 1: city in a couple days. Remember the Vikings were playing
Speaker 1: to get the one seed in a bye and now
Speaker 1: they're in LA and that city might be rallying around
Speaker 1: everything and Matthew, Stafford and McVeigh could be scary hours.
Speaker 1: And the last thing we saw from Darnold was he
Speaker 1: was having a pretty bad time out there. Let's get
Speaker 1: through the weekend and you'll hear from us before then.
Speaker 1: Enjoy it, you guys know, I've enjoyed my relationship with football.
Speaker 1: Did I watch a little NBA the other night?
Speaker 2: I did.
Speaker 1: Who's I watching? Not the Nuggets game? Who's on before them? Lakers, Lakers, someone,
Speaker 1: Lakers maths. A lot of guys missing, No Luca.
Speaker 2: No Kyrie.
Speaker 1: Yeah, hey, this is kind of the whole thing I
Speaker 1: saw there doing another NBA is doing.
Speaker 2: A rivalry week coming up.
Speaker 1: Oh, anything to make people believe it matters because guys
Speaker 1: aren't playing.
Speaker 2: I love it when the guys play. College basketball is
Speaker 2: in a weird spot.
Speaker 1: Everyone's pooping on them nowadays because they're saying guys don't
Speaker 1: know how to play basketball anymore. Maybe that's just on
Speaker 1: the old side of the Internet. I now live on
Speaker 1: with this jacket. Hey, enjoy the sports. Maybe we get
Speaker 1: the baseball breaking news.
Speaker 2: I don't know.
Speaker 1: And if not, it's okay to enjoy the football. I
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