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Speaker 1: When you do, It's me Joey p Joe Pi's ape
Speaker 1: of that, of course, is the Welsh. It's the beginning
Speaker 1: of a holiday weekend, so enjoy your Memorial Day. Everybody's off,
Speaker 1: the kids are off. Some kids are done with school
Speaker 1: already in some places. So hopefully you got some good plans.
Speaker 1: Hopefully there's some baseball in your plans as well. We
Speaker 1: got the Peanuts, we got the Crackerjacks, we got everybody
Speaker 1: here hanging out. Yesterday was a very fun show. Again,
Speaker 1: Thursdays are becoming the real mustcy TV round here. We
Speaker 1: used our AI technology for the first time. We may
Speaker 1: have some more AI technology to share with you today. Welsh,
Speaker 1: how did you sleep last night after yesterday's lasagna picture?
Speaker 2: For being honest, I slept horrible and I don't think
Speaker 2: I had to put a finger on it, and that
Speaker 2: might have been it. Just you know, you know, you
Speaker 2: like laying there at night and then look over and
Speaker 2: you see a shadow or something like that. Even as
Speaker 2: an adult, you're still kind of weirded out, like that
Speaker 2: was the Brett baby picture to me.
Speaker 1: Also, this this mean right here, this picture fine terrifying. Also,
Speaker 1: the pants are up awfully high. By the way, every
Speaker 1: time I look at this picture from yesterday from the
Speaker 1: AI technology, I noticed something else that upsets me. If
Speaker 1: you look at Francisco Alvarez his pants, it looks like
Speaker 1: he's wearing an apron. He's got pants on, so I
Speaker 1: thought they were pants at first, and then it turns
Speaker 1: out it's an apron. The whole thing is very upseting.
Speaker 2: I really don't like it. And your featured video you
Speaker 2: put out it just missed the best part, which was
Speaker 2: when we're talking about AI and all this crazy stuff
Speaker 2: and then Joe just goes the internet.
Speaker 1: It was.
Speaker 2: It was an amazing moment.
Speaker 1: If you missed yesterday's show, go watch it even at
Speaker 1: least around like minute eighteen. I believe the eighteen minute
Speaker 1: mark is where the role marks it.
Speaker 2: I marked it on the video. You can literally find out.
Speaker 2: You can find out the AI section. You have a videos.
Speaker 1: Let's get to the baseball and look. We got to
Speaker 1: start with the It's an old song for Minola Musical
Speaker 1: how do you solve a problem like Manoa? It's one
Speaker 1: of my favorite songs. How do you solve a problem
Speaker 1: like Alec Manoa? I don't know at this point. We
Speaker 1: spoke about it yesterday that when Danny Jansen wasn't catching,
Speaker 1: to be able to look out here because it seemed
Speaker 1: like him and Kirk had not been on the same
Speaker 1: page for whatever reason. But when Jansen started catching again,
Speaker 1: things are going better. Well yesterday again it was struggle
Speaker 1: buss for Manoa. Eighty seven pitches, forty four strikes and
Speaker 1: just three innings. He did get six strikeouts. I guess
Speaker 1: that's a positive. But look, we're sitting here and it
Speaker 1: is now Memorial Day weekend and he has a five
Speaker 1: to thirty seven ERA, a one to seven nine whip.
Speaker 1: The thirty eight walks is just absurd in the fifty
Speaker 1: three innings. I mean, you can't walk that many guys
Speaker 1: and survive in the major leagues. So, I mean, I
Speaker 1: guess here's the question. After the game, Welsh, there was
Speaker 1: a player's only meeting the Toronto Blue Jays, so I
Speaker 1: don't know what's going on there. But you know, we
Speaker 1: joked earlier in the year that the Blue Jays were
Speaker 1: kind of that that AAU team that just kind of
Speaker 1: shows up and they have no idea what fe they're
Speaker 1: playing on like that. That's kind of the fun about
Speaker 1: the Blue Jays. But this is the downside when you
Speaker 1: don't have the discipline when you're a younger team and
Speaker 1: maybe a you know, a younger manager. I don't know
Speaker 1: Welsh the Minoa situation. Last week, I was by and
Speaker 1: I thought it was turning around. Now now there's some
Speaker 1: real concern setting in for me.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I've been concerned for quite some time. I hate
Speaker 2: to be the reminder, but he was one of my
Speaker 2: busts for my big my big bus, that he was
Speaker 2: gonna fall apart, and one of the things.
Speaker 1: That again I do I again, every time I say AI,
Speaker 1: it happens. I don't know what time that one was scary.
Speaker 2: Something is happening with this show and Joe, Joe has
Speaker 2: unlocked Pandora's box and we're not ready for it. We're
Speaker 2: not ready for what Joe has unlocked. If you're not
Speaker 2: watching the video, I was about to start talking and
Speaker 2: Joe just went.
Speaker 1: It's something head from the eighties, the eighties reference for
Speaker 1: those of you might know. But continue on with al.
Speaker 2: So with Alec Minoa, the thing I don't think that
Speaker 2: I ever even put into consideration, and as stupidly as
Speaker 2: it is, like he was such a slow paced guy,
Speaker 2: whether you want to call it weight or whatever it is.
Speaker 2: But obviously like the fast pace of the game, there's
Speaker 2: so much strategy that I've noticed, especially lately, of how
Speaker 2: many players, whether it's pitchers or hitters, that are using
Speaker 2: the pitch clock and the timing as a you know,
Speaker 2: a form to get ahead of the other guy. So
Speaker 2: the Phillies try to screw a Zach Gallon, trying to
Speaker 2: not let him keep his pace and slow it down.
Speaker 2: So all of that to said, I don't think we
Speaker 2: ever really considered like Alec Minou in a faster paced game.
Speaker 2: He's a bigger guy. He also was a slow paced guy.
Speaker 1: That is, it's lit a bigger guy too. I mean,
Speaker 1: if we want to talk about it, and maybe that
Speaker 1: aren't a cardiovascularly prepared for this pitch clock change.
Speaker 2: Perhaps something that's a part of it also, and this
Speaker 2: might just be all intertwined in it. You know, his
Speaker 2: pitch mix has really changed. Last year he was primary
Speaker 2: four scene, he's sinker this year. All the pitches are
Speaker 2: less effective, they're all getting hit up more. His sinker
Speaker 2: is getting has a batting average of two thirty eight,
Speaker 2: but expected the three fourteen. His slider was a one
Speaker 2: ninety batting average against. It's a three fourteen this year.
Speaker 2: It's getting less with he's getting less wiffs. His pitch
Speaker 2: mixes changed. Maybe that's part of him trying to, you know,
Speaker 2: a company, and figure out what's going on with the
Speaker 2: new pace of the game. But guess what, none of
Speaker 2: it's working. So it's like, hey, how do we fix
Speaker 2: how do we get that? I don't know. I don't know.
Speaker 2: Maybe it's got to be a whole overhaul next season
Speaker 2: so that I'm out this year. I'm always down for,
Speaker 2: like you know, by super super crazy low, but I
Speaker 2: just don't know if that's going to exist with Alec Manoa,
Speaker 2: and I don't know if it's going to change this year.
Speaker 2: So I'm kind of I'm a little bit indifferent amount
Speaker 2: I'm not. I don't have scenarios where I've I've bought
Speaker 2: him rest of season.
Speaker 1: Blake Snell or Alec Manoa don't just make fart noises
Speaker 1: on the show. That's not acceptable.
Speaker 2: That's not it, I guess Manoa. I'm like, I don't know.
Speaker 1: I may ask that because in my home league that
Speaker 1: was a trade that actually took place about a month.
Speaker 2: Ago, garbage for Garden.
Speaker 1: At the time, I was like, oh, what a steal
Speaker 1: getting Minoa, And now I'm not sure.
Speaker 2: I've been I made the case earlier in the year
Speaker 2: to buying into Blake Snell. Blake Snell is more of
Speaker 2: a mid season guy, so just you know, beware that,
Speaker 2: like he also might end up, you know, having like
Speaker 2: kind of like Kyle Schwarber, Like I think Kyle Shwarber
Speaker 2: is like an insanely goodbye right now, and you know
Speaker 2: he picks it up in June low babbit like Blake
Speaker 2: Snell just also looks crappy, like he just doesn't throw
Speaker 2: strikes and he walks all these guys. I actually played
Speaker 2: his under and strikeouts yesterday and that worked out. So
Speaker 2: I don't feel good about any of my calls with
Speaker 2: Blake Snell. So I would rather pick Ai Ai Master.
Speaker 1: All right, I know you don't love this next guy,
Speaker 1: but we got to talk about this because Jake McCarthy
Speaker 1: getting recalled. Dominic Fletcher sent down a triple A. So
Speaker 1: McCarthy was awful when he was up earlier in the year,
Speaker 1: one forty three batting average, one homer twenty two games.
Speaker 1: It was terrible. April was just absolutely awful since he
Speaker 1: been sent down again PCL but still three thirty three,
Speaker 1: batting average four nineteen obp five thirty three, slugging, four dingers,
Speaker 1: four steals in twenty two games at TRIPLEA. So what
Speaker 1: a difference of twenty two games you're getting here? Do
Speaker 1: you have add Jake McCarthy for a buck this week
Speaker 1: now that you get this news and just see what happens.
Speaker 2: I liked her since he's been sent down, Since he'd
Speaker 2: been sent down, Jake McCarthy has figured.
Speaker 1: Since staving down. Yeah, look, I mean, you couldn't find
Speaker 1: a bigger difference in twenty two games and that of
Speaker 1: Jake McCarthy. And I know you're not a big Jake
Speaker 1: McCarthy guy to begin with, but again, we're looking for
Speaker 1: outfield help. McCarthy's there. He's flying under the radar for sure.
Speaker 1: He's only roster in like twenty percent of leagues right now.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm very confused. Maybe I just missed something with
Speaker 2: the Fletcher stuff. I thought it's gone well. But I
Speaker 2: obviously what this told the story was like they wanted
Speaker 2: McCarthy to work through something, probably the strikeouts, maybe a
Speaker 2: contact based thing, and then it didn't matter what Fletcher did,
Speaker 2: because Fletcher played good defense. Offensively, he was pretty solid,
Speaker 2: but the strikeout's the lowest of his career At Triple A.
Speaker 2: Jake McCarthy double digit walk percentage, he hit over three hundred.
Speaker 2: He was kind of, you know, hitting homers, hit having
Speaker 2: stolen bases. So maybe he'll kind of rev start this
Speaker 2: offense again. I would pick him up on the cheap,
Speaker 2: but I wouldn't be insanely optimistic because you know, like
Speaker 2: there are so many players that have established himself in
Speaker 2: that lineup. He will hit low in the lineup like
Speaker 2: the whole year. That's not going to change that whole
Speaker 2: preseason everyone's like, oh, he's going to be the number
Speaker 2: three hitter. No he's not, and that's not going to
Speaker 2: change whatever he does. So he'll at least be a
Speaker 2: six or seven. But you throw a buck on him,
Speaker 2: you go snag him off with waivers. If you got
Speaker 2: a little outfield struggles, he can run and maybe he'll
Speaker 2: pick up output.
Speaker 1: Look if you saw some of the stats from last year.
Speaker 1: I know you say he played over his head, and
Speaker 1: that might be very true, but look, April was bad,
Speaker 1: Triple A has been really good. Pick him up. See
Speaker 1: what happens here, I mean, and if you get a
Speaker 1: little hot streak in there, he becomes a useful player
Speaker 1: they can put in there, especially in those roto head
Speaker 1: to head formats because of the stolen bases. Randy Rose
Speaker 1: Arena continues to be awesome. Two for three yesterday. We
Speaker 1: love Randy Rose Arena. That Rai's offense, one of the
Speaker 1: best in baseball. Would have thought that, I mean, we
Speaker 1: thought they'd be improved with wonder Franco back and healthy.
Speaker 1: But between him and Yondy Diz, who by the way,
Speaker 1: also out again yesterday, so I don't know how long
Speaker 1: that's going to be. Pet Alonzo, it was two for
Speaker 1: Tuesday or two, but it was on a Thursday, so
Speaker 1: it doesn't matter. Peter Alonzo two for two with a homer,
Speaker 1: his eighteenth of the season. He had a stolen base,
Speaker 1: no less. He had two runs, two RBI, two walks,
Speaker 1: eight home runs in his last sixteen games. The first
Speaker 1: couple of weeks of May were not good for pet Alnzo.
Speaker 1: But man, he has come back ferociously. We have no
Speaker 1: rookie lookies today. I guess, you know, just one day
Speaker 1: without a rookie looking well.
Speaker 2: I will tell you the Reds, well, the Reds did
Speaker 2: something stupid and they had like all these injuries will
Speaker 2: will Myers, Will said, Will Myers, is happened to I
Speaker 2: don't hear having kidney stones or something. He's going on,
Speaker 2: which sounds horrible going on the il and the Reds
Speaker 2: brought up Will Benson. So yes, of course, not Lle,
Speaker 2: not Cees, not. They're bringing up Will Benson, so thanks
Speaker 2: for that.
Speaker 1: The Ellie call will be the Ellie to stay call.
Speaker 1: Like I think, whenever the Elle call happens, which I
Speaker 1: think is going to be somewhere in July, be today.
Speaker 1: It should be today. But I think what they're going
Speaker 1: to do is gonna ride out this month and then
Speaker 1: right after the All Star break he'll play the rest
Speaker 1: of the season. It started.
Speaker 2: I think before June fifteenth, we're going to see Ellie
Speaker 2: and Cees. So I would be making my half, I think.
Speaker 1: So yeah, I wouldn't be surprised if you saw a
Speaker 1: Cees by June fifteenth. But I think, Ellie, they're gonna
Speaker 1: I don't know, maybe this is the gut instinct. I
Speaker 1: just think that's it's like just they want to be
Speaker 1: one hundred percent surely ready, and I think you kind
Speaker 1: of do want to get him half a season at
Speaker 1: the big league level and then next year you can
Speaker 1: go in with him as your starting shortstop guy. Look
Speaker 1: the Reds. You know, if the Reds can figure out
Speaker 1: some pitching here and the pitching can get healthy, and
Speaker 1: they've got some talent there with Green and Lodolo. Just
Speaker 1: got to get these guys right. And it's been kind
Speaker 1: of stumbling there. But it certainly hurts when you're, you know,
Speaker 1: constantly looking at your offense being sputtering and things of
Speaker 1: that nature. So moving the offense and the defense goes
Speaker 1: a long way to giving these pictures some confidence, especially
Speaker 1: the younger pitchers. So but I can't wait to see
Speaker 1: him hit in that ballpark. Cannot wait. Let's get to
Speaker 1: the injuries. Max Freed started a throwing program yesterday, so
Speaker 1: that's good. We'll keep an eye on him. Kyle Hendricks
Speaker 1: came active yesterday for the Cubs and lost of the
Speaker 1: New York Mets. Logan Webb got pushed back to Saturday
Speaker 1: against the bruise because of that back issue. So again,
Speaker 1: keep an eye on that back thing. Would you start
Speaker 1: logan Web this week with all this back stuff going
Speaker 1: on on Saturday? I think I would take a pass
Speaker 1: a little word here.
Speaker 2: Now I'm gonna start. I like logan Web, you can
Speaker 2: go deep in again. I'm sure the back thing, but
Speaker 2: I don't think like they're pushing him back to make sure.
Speaker 2: So I just they're already showing us that they're not
Speaker 2: going to put him out there unless they feel he's
Speaker 2: really ready. He also is like a lot more comfortable
Speaker 2: with this new slider grip that he's going to be throwing.
Speaker 2: So I get your like trepidation. You also were like, hey,
Speaker 2: I don't want to start tyler Glass now, first start
Speaker 2: off an injury. I get all those things, but like the.
Speaker 1: Oh, no, I did want to start tyler Glass now. No, no,
Speaker 1: I did want to our taller glass now because that
Speaker 1: might be the only start I get from him all year.
Speaker 1: Well I got waited all this time. But Logan Web,
Speaker 1: my concern what the back is? You go out there,
Speaker 1: you know, tweaking, and all of a sudden it's like oop,
Speaker 1: little thing and you're out of it like that. I
Speaker 1: think in those head to head formats you're playing in
Speaker 1: where you have the ability be real careful. I also
Speaker 1: checked the weather that day, too, like if it's a
Speaker 1: Bomby cold day or something like that, like that would
Speaker 1: make me a little bit. I forget where the Giants
Speaker 1: are playing this weekend. Off the top of my head.
Speaker 1: I have to go back and look. Carlos Rodin is
Speaker 1: going to throw off a mound on Friday, so he's
Speaker 1: graduating from playing catch throwing off mounds. There you go.
Speaker 1: I assume an actual pitching mound, not like the candy
Speaker 1: Will Myers is a kidney stone. Oh that doesn't sound
Speaker 1: very pleasant at all for Will Myers and Bob Melboyne.
Speaker 1: The Padres manager says, Manny Machado with that hand issue
Speaker 1: is unlikely to be ready to return Friday, so maybe
Speaker 1: sometime middle of next week or by next weekend, you
Speaker 1: get him. It was a short marriage between the New
Speaker 1: York Mets and Gary Sanchez. The squeeze happened and Gary
Speaker 1: Sanchez got squeezed out. So do you think Sanchez will
Speaker 1: latch on somewhere else?
Speaker 2: I do not, unless there is some unless there's just
Speaker 2: a team that has a big catching need due to injuries,
Speaker 2: you know, Danny Jansen suffering fro an injury, maybe Toronto.
Speaker 2: But like Gary Sanche has been passed around a little
Speaker 2: bit this year, Like that he was with the Giants
Speaker 2: and couldn't get up and they had to, you know,
Speaker 2: because they put it to a minor league contract, if
Speaker 2: I don't know if everyone remembers. Also, Gary Sanchez signed
Speaker 2: to go play in like Japan or something during spring
Speaker 2: training because he had no offers. Then the Giants brought
Speaker 2: him in and there's only these little tiny needs. I
Speaker 2: kind of think Gary Sanchez is done. So goodbye.
Speaker 1: No, okay, well, sweet child, all right, here you go.
Speaker 1: So today in the news in baseball, no, this was fine.
Speaker 1: Today in the news, Rob Manfred was talking about the
Speaker 1: relocation vote for the Oakland Athletics to Las Vegas, which
Speaker 1: is something we all think is going to come down
Speaker 1: the pipe eventually. So again, we had as a team
Speaker 1: wide initiative here at Fantasy Pros across the board to
Speaker 1: start using AI technology wherever we can. And of course,
Speaker 1: I you know, being Jo Pi's APA, I'm going to
Speaker 1: find the dumbest way to use something, because that's what
Speaker 1: I do. So in case you missed yesterday again, it
Speaker 1: was a great story at MLB dot com about the
Speaker 1: Mets rookies making Lasagni together at Francisco Alvarez's house. This
Speaker 1: is the picture. It's upsetting. I didn't even notice the
Speaker 1: hands melting into the cheese.
Speaker 2: That's that I said yesterday, I said, the hands are
Speaker 2: melting into the cheese.
Speaker 1: Yesterday is when it really started to to pop for me.
Speaker 2: What was on? What was on? Francisco over is it?
Speaker 2: Put that back up real quick? Look above his missing eye.
Speaker 1: I don't know. I don't know what that white thing
Speaker 1: is either. Maybe it's like an order, It's like a
Speaker 1: post it note. Maybe that's the Maybe.
Speaker 2: That white hair.
Speaker 1: No, I don't know what that is. I don't know.
Speaker 2: Just ruin our day.
Speaker 1: Now, just get it, okay, I'm so, I asked, and
Speaker 1: I said, okay, you're going to move to Las Vegas.
Speaker 1: I want to know. Perhaps, And again, Ethan is always
Speaker 1: so great to us. Here are incredible graphics man about town.
Speaker 1: I asked Ai, I said, can you make a Las
Speaker 1: Vegas themed baseball logo? And it came up with two
Speaker 1: that I thought were actually pretty interesting.
Speaker 2: These aren't bad, so maybe possum I'm right.
Speaker 1: And so look here you go the Lagham's and the Laosus,
Speaker 1: so the the Leggi Laosus and the boy.
Speaker 2: Yeah, one thing has been clear AI in spelling is
Speaker 2: just it's a rough thing. AI has like first grade spelling.
Speaker 1: So I don't even think it's first grade spelling. Make
Speaker 1: this a I made these two logos for me. These
Speaker 1: are both actually really good.
Speaker 2: They're not bad. The names like the well, look I
Speaker 2: thought el.
Speaker 1: I don't know, it's it's just like those Mets jerseys.
Speaker 1: But I want to know what the peanuts and cracker
Speaker 1: Jacks thing here. I don't know if Wonky can get
Speaker 1: a poll going up there or mayor is actually paying
Speaker 1: attention today. But there's the one with the cards here
Speaker 1: with the which I think is pretty cool.
Speaker 2: Actually, I'm impressed that they they put an ace except I.
Speaker 1: Like what I said. I want a poker themed one
Speaker 1: and I want a Las Vegas theme one, and the
Speaker 1: other ones like the sign of the strip, and I
Speaker 1: thought both of these were actually pretty cool logos. Yeah,
Speaker 1: for the Lausus, what is that metal word?
Speaker 2: What is the sign.
Speaker 1: Leg?
Speaker 2: I don't know what it is I also, I want
Speaker 2: to point out this is my favorite thing, the cards.
Speaker 2: The card is an ace of Spade that's red, and
Speaker 2: then there's a diamond under the A too.
Speaker 1: Like this, So here you go. These are the new
Speaker 1: logos for the A's that I had AI makeup. I
Speaker 1: kind of like. But again, if you just think of okay,
Speaker 1: just think of them as if it's an Athletics or
Speaker 1: whatever it was, or Las Vegas, it probably would look
Speaker 1: pretty good. I think, which one you like?
Speaker 2: I know, which one I like?
Speaker 1: I don't know, but I love the It's like sixth
Speaker 1: grade French, like you're trying to figure out, like what
Speaker 1: the hell these words are. That's kind of I think.
Speaker 1: I like the strip one.
Speaker 2: To be I do too. I do too that I.
Speaker 1: Thought that would be unpopular opinion, but it's something kind
Speaker 1: of cool. I mean, I don't if they're going to
Speaker 1: change their name to the Aces or something, if they're
Speaker 1: allowed to do something like that, I don't know, but
Speaker 1: these are pretty good logo. So I think that's we
Speaker 1: want to hear from you guys. You like the one
Speaker 1: with the strip, or you like the one with the
Speaker 1: poker theme. I put two in there. So far, let's
Speaker 1: take a look. Uh, Casey just saw the ace of space. Casey.
Speaker 1: I gotta ask Casey because Casey could be a man
Speaker 1: or woman name and I like to know who we're
Speaker 1: dealing with here on the show Casey man or woman
Speaker 1: and especially with the K spelling, I'm not sure. Uh
Speaker 1: So we have a lot of you know, female baseball
Speaker 1: fans there in.
Speaker 2: Our chat AI and say they.
Speaker 1: Put an AI find out uh Las Vegas jokers. I
Speaker 1: guess with a mad clown logo that would.
Speaker 2: Be a gymnostic baseball you're doing it again.
Speaker 1: I know it didn't again, I didn't again. I know
Speaker 1: I don't know about AI.
Speaker 2: This is not this is not okay.
Speaker 1: Remember the Rise of the machines. With the rise of
Speaker 1: the machine.
Speaker 2: This is not as want everyone to know. This is
Speaker 2: three times in like thirty.
Speaker 1: The Las Vegas slutters too. That's also that's a good
Speaker 1: one too.
Speaker 2: You're gonna go back like a good cyborg. I and
Speaker 2: then next thing you know, you're half your head's going
Speaker 2: to be a robot. Like something's gonna happen to you.
Speaker 1: Joe, we are going to see the Las Vegas. Oh
Speaker 1: there is cousin. Donnie did not disappoint us. But I
Speaker 1: think that, you know, the move to Vegas is good
Speaker 1: for the A's. I mean, I think it's just time
Speaker 1: that Oakland stadiums. It's the worst in baseball and I've
Speaker 1: seen a game there. Not only is the worst stadium
Speaker 1: in baseball to watch a baseball game, it's the hardest
Speaker 1: to get to the neighborhood around. It sucks everything about
Speaker 1: it's terrible. It's outdated, it's cold, it's miserable.
Speaker 2: Comes up from the ground.
Speaker 1: There's possum, dead possum in the announced booth. It's it's
Speaker 1: a hot mess. It's a hot mess. But yes, the
Speaker 1: so we hope good luck you Vegas, Lucius.
Speaker 2: What's crazy, too, is it's probably one of the ones
Speaker 2: to you know, in every apocalypse thing, like you go
Speaker 2: to a stadium, like you in apocalypse go to the
Speaker 2: A's stadium. Like that's how bad it was, Like no
Speaker 2: one would want to go and like set up shop
Speaker 2: during an apocalypse like a new civilization and into the
Speaker 2: as Stadium because it's already it's already it's horrible.
Speaker 1: In case. He's a dude, so we know that too.
Speaker 1: I just want to know, like I want to know
Speaker 1: our friends here. You know, it's important to get to
Speaker 1: know each other. It's how we get to know everybody
Speaker 1: here in the chat. I don't want to want to
Speaker 1: know all of our friends in the chat here. Oh
Speaker 1: wait wait, uncle Ted talk is back in the chat.
Speaker 1: So I hope Uncle Ted is having a better day,
Speaker 1: That's all I hope. Let's get to three up and
Speaker 1: three down. Ty France. Two homers, unbelievable. Then play yesterday.
Speaker 1: It comes back. It's two bombs. Austin Riley at a
Speaker 1: pair of home runs yesterday. Alex Fato, how about this
Speaker 1: performance against the White Sox. Ten strikeouts and six innings.
Speaker 1: He is rostered like I think eight percent of leagues
Speaker 1: I saw or something crazy like that. Would you be
Speaker 1: picking him up after that performance? Yeah?
Speaker 2: Fato is interesting? Uh right, once at a time. I
Speaker 2: also taking advantage of the White Sox as fun as
Speaker 2: it was, I'm more focused on what apple would you? Alito?
Speaker 2: I don't. I had this little strikeout Harlay where it
Speaker 2: was under Snell strikeouts over Giolito. Ge Alito came out
Speaker 2: and we're gonna talk about him in a second, struck
Speaker 2: out all three in the first inning and then proceeded
Speaker 2: to walk seven it was one of the wildest insane
Speaker 2: performances I've ever seen. While Fato's over there just dison
Speaker 2: up white sox left and right. Ge Alito was garbage.
Speaker 1: I say, you can keep the A's logo, like you
Speaker 1: keep calling them the A's, but you make the A
Speaker 1: like the ACE. I think that would be really cool,
Speaker 1: you know, just kind of go full poker Tilton.
Speaker 2: I think it would probably be similar to like how
Speaker 2: you know, the Devil Rays just became the Raise. You
Speaker 2: would just probably not be the athletic and maybe athletics as.
Speaker 1: Yeah, maybe three down Giolito, I mean, I know what
Speaker 1: happened here. Seven walks, just completely lost it in three
Speaker 1: and two thirds, four earned for him alec Mano, where
Speaker 1: he already spoke about his five walk performance. Gross Aaron
Speaker 1: Nola again, Austin Riley just owns Aaronola. Six innings for him,
Speaker 1: five earned, three home runs. He's given up that e
Speaker 1: Ari is four five nine. You buying low on Aaronola.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm always buying low on Aaronola. But it might
Speaker 2: be at like, you know, it might be one of
Speaker 2: my huge mistakes this year, like I just refused to believe.
Speaker 2: I just think he's such a good command pitcher. Overall,
Speaker 2: I think this has been a bad run.
Speaker 1: But this is what he was a couple of years ago.
Speaker 1: Do you remember, Yeah, this was the guy he was
Speaker 1: in I have to look like twenty nineteen, I want
Speaker 1: to say, right, and then all of a sudden he
Speaker 1: kind of turned this corner around that COVID season and
Speaker 1: just became this lights out guy. He wasn't walking anybody
Speaker 1: the strikeout sols. But we used to always have these
Speaker 1: runs where it's kind of like, what's going on with
Speaker 1: Aaronla And then he looked really good. But I thought
Speaker 1: we were past that. Apparently we're not. Apparently we're still
Speaker 1: in the same wre So we've gone backwards with Aaronola,
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Speaker 2: Pretty many free money. Man, we almost cash yesterday. Kyle
Speaker 2: Freelan just crapped in our cereal Bowl because we got
Speaker 2: all the other like fun ones and he just didn't
Speaker 2: get that last sole out that we needed. But today
Speaker 2: we move on. I've got Justin Steel strikeouts five and
Speaker 2: a half over, Jordon Jordon fantasy score eight and a
Speaker 2: half over, and Ezekiel Tovar hit run RBI one and
Speaker 2: a half under. So that is my price picks the
Speaker 2: three twenty to pay one hundred cash is baby going
Speaker 2: into the weekend.
Speaker 1: Yeah, the Yankees brought up a kid to pitch tonight,
Speaker 1: so therefore I'm going Juan Soto with the hitter fantasy
Speaker 1: score over, Austin Riley seven and a half hitter fantasy
Speaker 1: score over, and uh Pete Alonso and Colorado eight and
Speaker 1: a half over. So let's go with that betting today again,
Speaker 1: San Diego and the money line minus four to twenty
Speaker 1: one twenty. Sorry about that, I've got.
Speaker 2: Something else on holiday are celebrating.
Speaker 1: It's gonna be a long weekend, uh minus one twenty.
Speaker 1: That's really funny. What I was looking was ahead because
Speaker 1: Juan Soto the home run prop in that game, by
Speaker 1: the way, point five over on DK plus four twenty five.
Speaker 1: That's what I was My brain was looking ahead. But
Speaker 1: I'm gonna Juan Soto's going yard today. He's not who
Speaker 1: I'm picking for the weekend, but I'm wagering on it
Speaker 1: today because it's a good get him four to one
Speaker 1: odds for him to go yard. He's been on a tear.
Speaker 1: They're throwing some young kid picture up there. They brought
Speaker 1: up from Triple A who was okay at double A two.
Speaker 1: But I'm telling his kids could get lit up today
Speaker 1: by the padres. Mitch Keller, six and a half is
Speaker 1: the number, Welsh. I mean it's minus one thirty eight
Speaker 1: to go the over. I would even push it to
Speaker 1: seven to get better odds, even get to the seven
Speaker 1: and a half, because this guy's been just crushing these
Speaker 1: numbers lately. Schuser's numbers low against Colorado to another bad offense,
Speaker 1: only five and a half plus one twenty you're getting
Speaker 1: on Surezer sale. Five and a half is the number
Speaker 1: over is minus one forty, So you gotta pair it
Speaker 1: with something else. Maybe go pair it with the w
Speaker 1: there potentially, but there's a lot of good things on
Speaker 1: the board today on the Friday for the betting slate, Welsh,
Speaker 1: what do you have?
Speaker 2: Yeah? I like that Keller one if you can get
Speaker 2: it six and a half. I saw it seven and
Speaker 2: I was just like.
Speaker 1: Yeah, well six and a half this morning when I
Speaker 1: locked it in on Betting Pros. Again, this is the
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Speaker 1: that's how you lock in these numbers early in the
Speaker 1: morning before the lines move too. Yeah.
Speaker 2: It's helpful too because you can look at it if
Speaker 2: you shot books. You know, some people like I kind
Speaker 2: of tend to just be like a one book guy.
Speaker 2: But if you like to shop different places and have
Speaker 2: money in spots, that list is going to tell you
Speaker 2: who has the best. So it is helpful. So I've
Speaker 2: got a couple here. Justin Steele back with him. I
Speaker 2: really like the five and a half strikeouts. It actually
Speaker 2: came down it was like one thirty five last night.
Speaker 2: I found it at minus one twenty, so I think
Speaker 2: that's a nice one. I'm in on the Justin Steele.
Speaker 2: I've got some of my normal plays that I like
Speaker 2: to do. I've got the Texas Rangers first five team
Speaker 2: total runs it was at one and a half. So
Speaker 2: I'm taking that and I'm pairing it with Seattle and
Speaker 2: Seattle and Pitt no run first inning. I usually don't
Speaker 2: do that, no nerfees, but I'm taking the NRIFI on
Speaker 2: Seattle pit and I'm taking the one and a half
Speaker 2: team total runs to the first five in Texas. I'm
Speaker 2: parlaying it together. It's plus one seventy five. I really
Speaker 2: love that one today, only two runs for Texas, the
Speaker 2: top team. I also played the team total runs on
Speaker 2: the Rays which was minus one oh five at two
Speaker 2: and a half through the first five, and back to
Speaker 2: that Texas game Texas Baltimore through the first five over
Speaker 2: four and a half runs which was minus one twenty.
Speaker 2: So I'm attacking the two big offensive teams. They are
Speaker 2: good plays today, so those are my best.
Speaker 1: This is getting a lot of tracture of the chats.
Speaker 1: I want to bring it up to you here, gott
Speaker 1: to drop One of these guys is from our good friend,
Speaker 1: mister Decide, because again I can't remember how to pronounce
Speaker 1: the first name properly, so please educate me again, mister Decide,
Speaker 1: because I got a lot of names in my head,
Speaker 1: and any given time, should I drop Jeff McNeil or
Speaker 1: Riley Green. We were just talking about Riley Green's for
Speaker 1: what emergence, I guess roster space. Obviously he's got to
Speaker 1: make a decision between these two. So who would you
Speaker 1: want to drop? Um?
Speaker 2: On my initial rea, I'm trying to pull up I
Speaker 2: want to pull out Jeff McNeill's page. I'm kind of
Speaker 2: more of a right green guy. The thing I always
Speaker 2: I don't like is Jeff McNeil.
Speaker 1: Well Neil's floor and Riley is ceiling.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and Jeff McNeil is like a little bit better
Speaker 2: Louisa rise in that like he's not quite a simp
Speaker 2: the stats, but he's still empty. And yeah, I mean
Speaker 2: it's he's hitting two ninety one this year, two homers,
Speaker 2: three stolen bases. It's all fine. But I'm a floor guy,
Speaker 2: and I like Riley Green has been just a monster
Speaker 2: in May, So that's a pretty easy Riley Green for me.
Speaker 2: I just want to make sure I wasn't missing.
Speaker 1: I kind of agree it's Riley Green for me too
Speaker 1: that i'd rather hang on to. Yeah, yeah, yeah, McNeil's safe,
Speaker 1: and typically I'm more of the floor guy too. But
Speaker 1: you know what, I think the floor of green can
Speaker 1: can be close enough that the upside is something we
Speaker 1: haven't even tapped into with this player yet.
Speaker 2: And maybe in this question it might not be possible.
Speaker 2: Maybe it's someone else. Maybe it's not these guys. You know,
Speaker 2: like McNeil does hold you up in batting average. He
Speaker 2: will score some runs, but like someone in the chat
Speaker 2: was like, he's a batting champion. You can't drop him. Yeah,
Speaker 2: but like you know, he's well look media to run RBI,
Speaker 2: doesn't steal bases, doesn't hit homers. He's kind of one
Speaker 2: in a half category place.
Speaker 1: Taus Tagus decide. Tagus Tagus is a dude. I know
Speaker 1: Tagus is a dude already that we know. I like,
Speaker 1: just get to know our peanuts and I didn't know
Speaker 1: what the heck of Wonky penguin was, and now she
Speaker 1: works for us, for God's sake, So you know, this
Speaker 1: is how we get to know our friends here on
Speaker 1: the program.
Speaker 2: Geez, Welsh, what flags do you wear on your shirt?
Speaker 2: That's the other thing that's very important.
Speaker 1: I'm wearing an Italian flag.
Speaker 2: I know you are.
Speaker 1: I know.
Speaker 2: I'm just saying this. These are things Joe wants to know.
Speaker 1: Important question here too from Jerry in the Chat show
Speaker 1: on Memorial Day. No, we're taking a day off. We're
Speaker 1: gonna take the holiday off. All the games are typically
Speaker 1: early anyway, so it's gonna be a nice, fun day off. There.
Speaker 1: Kids are off, and I'm gonna be severely hungover from
Speaker 1: the Taylor Swift concert the night before.
Speaker 2: Oh my god, you're a Taylor Swift concert.
Speaker 1: Huh Sunday night, baby, Sunday night. Let's go. All right,
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Speaker 1: off league and Welsh. Speaking of investments and things that
Speaker 1: we enjoy doing, let's talk a little DFS real quick. Here.
Speaker 1: You got a sliding scale, you got the cheap guys
Speaker 1: today Musgrovee and Libatur. Muscrobe is just seven point five.
Speaker 1: Livatoor is seven point seven. I don't care what happened
Speaker 1: in the bullpen. I told you yesterday I lost my mind.
Speaker 1: I don't care about that, not at all. Sliding scale
Speaker 1: up sures are in Colorado probably low roster percentage. With
Speaker 1: Way's pitch. Colorado stinks. So he's nine point one. Then
Speaker 1: you want to slide the scale all the way up.
Speaker 1: It's Chris Sale ten point one, Hunter Brown and ten
Speaker 1: point three at Mitch Keller at eleven four San Diego, Atlanta, Metz.
Speaker 1: And Houston. Those are the offenses. To take a look at.
Speaker 1: Houston's all, by the way on the year, incredibly middling
Speaker 1: when you look at where they are statistically speaking. They
Speaker 1: really need to figure some stuff out and figure it
Speaker 1: out fast. Value plays today Matt Carpenter two point six,
Speaker 1: Chez McCool make it two point seven, and Michael Harris
Speaker 1: at two point seven. Michael Harris dicey situation. I know
Speaker 1: we were big fades at the ADP, but man, it
Speaker 1: has not been good. I'm just going to continue to
Speaker 1: be a little patient here. I'm going Pete Alonzo for
Speaker 1: my home run call of the day. If we look
Speaker 1: at the weekend calls too, that's where I'm going. Pete
Speaker 1: Alonzo for the weekend and sign me up for Monday too.
Speaker 1: I want the Polar Bear in Colorado Primetime. Still at nineteen,
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Speaker 1: Or we're starting fresh again in June with new winners
Speaker 1: every single month. Welsh, where are you going for your
Speaker 1: home run call this weekend?
Speaker 2: Well, you know I had Wonsoda yesterday, so like you said,
Speaker 2: he'll go today since I'm behind and hopefully I can
Speaker 2: catch up to it over the weekend. I'm gonna go
Speaker 2: with your Don Alvarez going up against James Kapillion today.
Speaker 2: Hopefully it can get me some weekend homers. I want
Speaker 2: to get back on that board. I want to celebrate.
Speaker 2: I want to go into June back on that board,
Speaker 2: and I want to overtake it. My friends. That is
Speaker 2: the goal.
Speaker 1: That is the goal, and yes, to answer all the questions,
Speaker 1: I'm a swiftye. I like the Taylor Swift. It's I'm
Speaker 1: taking my daughters to the Tailor Swift concert. That's really
Speaker 1: what this is all about. It's about making them happy.
Speaker 1: But yes, I'm gonna enjoy myself. I like the Folklore
Speaker 1: album to be honest. That's my favorite of the Taylor
Speaker 1: Swift albums, and I will listen to that. It's a
Speaker 1: very very calming album. Very I like to do that. Well,
Speaker 1: show you a Swifty at all or no?
Speaker 2: Nope, I mean I don't have.
Speaker 1: A you have a daughter, So at some point this
Speaker 1: is gonna come.
Speaker 2: Up with some Yeah. I did think about this. I
Speaker 2: was thinking, you know, she probably is gonna want to
Speaker 2: listen or know, or her friends will become Swifties or whatnot.
Speaker 2: I don't know. But no, we don't listen. There's no
Speaker 2: Taylor Swift that's being played in the house.
Speaker 1: Yeah, although I mean I could live tweet from the concert.
Speaker 1: I could stream myself, you know, singing songs if everybody
Speaker 1: wants that.
Speaker 2: Maybe that's why I'm so salty. Maybe I need more
Speaker 2: Tailor Swift. Mabe, Taylor Swift will just turn into.
Speaker 1: Gona but we're gonna take a nice long weekend away
Speaker 1: from don't say it, away from the girl, maybe maybe
Speaker 1: maybe Welsh. This weekend I'll make a lasanni with all
Speaker 1: his friends. I'll come over. It'll be a good time.
Speaker 1: So that's it for us, but the story of the
Speaker 1: game goes on for the Welsh. I'm Joey, P'll see
Speaker 1: you next to that. Kids, enjoy the holiday weekend.
Speaker 2: Have a great weekend.
Speaker 1: H