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Speaker 1: Hello, everybody, Welcome into the cycle. I am Ryan warmly joined. Bye.

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Speaker 1: Guess who's back back again? Mayo's back, Tello friends Mike

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Speaker 1: Mayer back after his long vacation which immediately followed my

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Speaker 1: long vacation, so we didn't do a show together in

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Speaker 1: all of June. Now Here, first week in July, we

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Speaker 1: are back the dynamic duo ourselves. How was your trip, buddy?

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Speaker 2: It was great. It was a great June to not

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Speaker 2: spend it with you, so that was great all around.

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Speaker 2: I went to Switzerland, which was a lot of fun.

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Speaker 2: I also went to Long Island with two really young

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Speaker 2: of course, But happy to be back and happy to

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Speaker 2: be back talking baseball.

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Speaker 1: We weren't totally not in each other's lives, because you

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Speaker 1: one day to discuss work related matters for like forty minutes,

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Speaker 1: and the rest of my family was like, why are

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Speaker 1: at the beach. But so we had a nice little

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Speaker 1: up on here time baseball quickly though. Also, this is

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Speaker 1: July fifth, What did you do for the fourth?

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Speaker 2: I just since we just came off that big trip,

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Speaker 2: we just kind of like hung at the house and

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Speaker 2: just telling Blaine and Pat, the like neighborhood, like right

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Speaker 2: they do like a huge professional fireworks setup. So I

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Speaker 2: I'm not a huge fireworks guy, but you know, when

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Speaker 2: you have young kids there into fireworks and so it's

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Speaker 2: cool to see, like, you know, them experience that.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I've always found fireworks to be overrated and to

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Speaker 1: each their own. Like, if you really enjoy it, go

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Speaker 1: out and do it. I don't have a problem with it.

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Speaker 1: I do have a dog, and the dog actually did great.

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Speaker 1: So that was really cool because a lot of times too,

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Speaker 1: you can't really do that in Denver because of like

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Speaker 1: So it was really fun. And my dog did great.

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Speaker 1: So it was fun. Like I said, so you're.

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Speaker 2: Saying you had a dog on a rooftop with fireworks,

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Speaker 1: We weren't doing fireworks, we were watching fireworks, but yes, yes,

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Speaker 1: if you think of a typical dog is like, you know,

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Speaker 1: So while he was a champ. That's enough preamble. Let's

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Speaker 1: get into the show here. Quick note for everybody. If

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Speaker 1: By the way, before you jump into the round the bases,

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Speaker 1: did you listen while you were out? Because I did

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Speaker 1: listen to most, but not all, of the two shows

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Speaker 1: you did without me.

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Speaker 2: Well, I want to lie and say yes, but I

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Speaker 2: did listen to the first episode with Bogman. I have

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Speaker 2: not yet listened to the episode with Welsh, but I will.

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Speaker 1: The episode of Welsh is way better, so not just skiddy,

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Speaker 1: They're both great. You did hear Bogman cheat in the

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Speaker 1: two start pitcher competition, which we'll we'll get to at

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Speaker 1: the end of the show. All right, let's dive in.

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Speaker 1: We're gonna start with Louis Hill. And I wasn't sure

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Speaker 1: We had talked a lot in the early part of

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Speaker 1: That window is probably not entirely closed, but it's certainly closing.

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Speaker 1: And after these last few starts you think it's fully clear.

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Speaker 2: So I actually did, like I think in most leagues,

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Speaker 1: Or the playoffs. Already it's it's daily lineus. But you

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Speaker 2: Kelly dropped him before that start. I kind of wish

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Speaker 1: Now I was gonna ask think that is he if

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Speaker 2: Think I would because I like I as much as

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Speaker 1: I think you think do you think it's fatigue is

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Speaker 1: By the way, we're not talking about him in this

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Speaker 1: Bobman have been a couple of weeks ago, but it's

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Speaker 1: a similar thing and we're seeing it not play out

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Speaker 1: with Crochet yet, we are seeing it play out now

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Speaker 1: with Heel for whatever it's worth. And I know, you know,

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Speaker 1: And now it's caught up. Yeah. I mean for me,

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Speaker 2: There, Yeah, And same thing for me. It was, it

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Speaker 1: And it's important to really differentiate between Again, you're not saying,

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Speaker 2: Yeah, And like you said, he's got power speed, so

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Speaker 2: check check. And this year at TRIPAA he cut down

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Speaker 1: Well, Millie Mays was the say hey kid, you are

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Speaker 1: be a top five starring pitcher drafted by me going forward? Right,

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Speaker 2: Yeah? And I think that's the way you put it

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Speaker 2: Yeah, that was gonna be my definition. It's like you know,

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Speaker 2: eventual injury because you know, with how great he looks

434
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Speaker 2: and how great of a like bounce back story, this

435
00:18:36,800 --> 00:18:39,920
Speaker 2: is like we know he's just gonna, like, you know,

436
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Speaker 2: go get something from the fridge and break his elbow

437
00:18:42,119 --> 00:18:44,160
Speaker 2: or something, just because like that's what happens to Chris Sale.

438
00:18:45,040 --> 00:18:47,760
Speaker 2: Dylan Ceese hit a rough patch, but he's you know,

439
00:18:48,000 --> 00:18:49,680
Speaker 2: someone I've been on this year, but you know he's

440
00:18:49,720 --> 00:18:52,560
Speaker 2: he's up and down again. Zach Gallon again, like health

441
00:18:52,680 --> 00:18:54,600
Speaker 2: permitting has been really good. I think he's up there,

442
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Speaker 2: and then it's a lot of like you know, up

443
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Speaker 2: and down. Like even like someone I might have considered

444
00:19:00,160 --> 00:19:02,960
Speaker 2: in this upper tier a few weeks ago has showta Imanaga,

445
00:19:03,080 --> 00:19:05,359
Speaker 2: but he's you know, kind of hit a rough patch too,

446
00:19:05,480 --> 00:19:07,760
Speaker 2: so he's he's not in that upper tier. Maybe he's

447
00:19:07,800 --> 00:19:09,359
Speaker 2: in like this. I think I have him at like

448
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Speaker 2: fourteen right now, and my rest rankings.

449
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Speaker 1: Ranger Suarez another one who like based on how he

450
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Speaker 1: looked in.

451
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Speaker 2: Best Picture in Patrol.

452
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Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, you know there's there's like, there's pictures that

453
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Speaker 1: I like that I think are maybe a little undervalued.

454
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Speaker 1: I've talked that about Grayson Rodriguez, like I think he's

455
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Speaker 1: undervalued as SP twenty four here in our rest of

456
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Speaker 1: season rankings with consensus, you know to me, So here,

457
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Speaker 1: here's how I want to phrase this, because I have

458
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Speaker 1: an answer to this. If you had to pick one

459
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Speaker 1: picture not in that top four and you had to

460
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Speaker 1: place a bet on them being in that, not just

461
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Speaker 1: like n SB one, but like an elite like making

462
00:19:46,400 --> 00:19:49,240
Speaker 1: it a top five rest of season, you had to

463
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Speaker 1: bet on one, who would it be?

464
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Speaker 2: So there's an easy answer to this one, and it's

465
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Speaker 2: kind of cheating, but the easy answer would be health

466
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Speaker 2: permitting Gary Cole.

467
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Speaker 1: That is a good easy answer. Is not the one

468
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Speaker 1: I was gonna say, but it's a you know, it's

469
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Speaker 1: a good one. I mean, we talked a bit about

470
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Speaker 1: Cole with Welsh last week. It's it's it's a totally

471
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Speaker 1: reasonable health permitting answer. I was gonna say, like I

472
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Speaker 1: might say, Paul Skeens, and I know the innings are

473
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Speaker 1: gonna be a thing for him as well. And in

474
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Speaker 1: the Pirates aren't Pirates aren't very good? But like, like

475
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Speaker 1: I think he might just be the best pitcher in

476
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Speaker 1: baseball already. Like he is so so good just nine

477
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Speaker 1: starts into his career. That like, how is there a

478
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Speaker 1: question mark other than innings, like if the innings are

479
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Speaker 1: there in the second half of the season, Like, what

480
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Speaker 1: is the case against him being fifty third innings he's

481
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Speaker 1: thrown at the big league level. Through nine starts, he

482
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Speaker 1: has seventy strikeouts. This is as a rookie who was

483
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Speaker 1: drafted a year ago. His era is two oh six,

484
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Speaker 1: his whip is one oh three. I mean, like seventy

485
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Speaker 1: strikeouts to ten walks. I just like, like, what is

486
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Speaker 1: the case against him outside of inning? To me, that's

487
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Speaker 1: really it. So you can't guarantee innings from anybody. I mean,

488
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Speaker 1: anybody can get hurt. This is pitching. So I'm if

489
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Speaker 1: I'm kind of building out who I'd like to have

490
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Speaker 1: on my roster, I don't think there's anybody that would

491
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Speaker 1: be more fun outside of that top four to have

492
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Speaker 1: on my roster right now. The Paul Skins.

493
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Speaker 2: Yeah, the probably the most impressive thing I've seen from

494
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Speaker 2: Paul Skins in this short that's like small sample size,

495
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Speaker 2: is like I've seen him go out there and like

496
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Speaker 2: not have one of his best pitches, like he always

497
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Speaker 2: has that fastball, but like I've seen him go out

498
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Speaker 2: there and like he clearly like didn't have a feel

499
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Speaker 2: for his like the like splinker. I guess, yeah the

500
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Speaker 2: one day and he was like, no problem, Like I'll

501
00:21:35,040 --> 00:21:37,280
Speaker 2: just lean on the fastball, maybe throw a few more sliders.

502
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Speaker 2: Like he just like worked around it. And I'm like,

503
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Speaker 2: for like a young kid like that to just like

504
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Speaker 2: not have this like new bread and butter pitch and

505
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Speaker 2: just like like unfazed and just adjust is like kind

506
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Speaker 2: of work while to kind of see that maturity from

507
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Speaker 2: And I guess it helps when you throw a hundred

508
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Speaker 2: miles and urd like, no problem, I'll just throw one

509
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Speaker 2: hundred few more times.

510
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Speaker 1: Yeah, one other guy that I'll throw out there, Like

511
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Speaker 1: I don't think he's going to elevate into that tier,

512
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Speaker 1: but I did him so fascinate whenever I watch Cole

513
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Speaker 1: Reagan's pitch, Like, I just I think he's really really talented. Obviously,

514
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Speaker 1: he ended last season so well, like basically as like

515
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Speaker 1: a true ace from whatever point it was on in

516
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Speaker 1: like the middle of the summer, and he's been good

517
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Speaker 1: this year like for sure, like tons of strikeouts, and

518
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Speaker 1: you know, his era is under three three and a half,

519
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Speaker 1: so it's not like he's been like bad or anything.

520
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Speaker 1: He's just another one that I think is perhaps a

521
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Speaker 1: little undervalue there. But yeah, so, I mean I think

522
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Speaker 1: we agree that like essentially, like depending on your definition,

523
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Speaker 1: there's like four of them.

524
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Speaker 2: One one more name I want to ask you about.

525
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Speaker 2: How do you so like, obviously he's gonna miss some

526
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Speaker 2: time and there's some real health concerns there. But let's

527
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Speaker 2: say he comes back in a month and he's perfectly

528
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Speaker 2: healthy and we have no concerns. What about Yamamoto?

529
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Speaker 1: It's really hard to just throw away the injury concerns,

530
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Speaker 1: Like that's hard that it's hard off. I think he

531
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Speaker 1: might for me fall more into the category of like

532
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Speaker 1: a top twelve starting pitcher, but not in that elite

533
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Speaker 1: like kind of Mount Rushmore tier of who we have

534
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Speaker 1: rest of season? Would he be up there for you?

535
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Speaker 1: I think I think it's a reasonable name to bring

536
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Speaker 1: up and ask about. But even if you guaranteed me health,

537
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Speaker 1: I think he'd be more like in that five to

538
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Speaker 1: twelve range rather than that one, two, three, and four

539
00:23:19,880 --> 00:23:20,600
Speaker 1: are so locked in.

540
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Speaker 2: I think that's where I had him before the injury.

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Speaker 2: I had him at five just because of like do

542
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Speaker 2: you just leade upside and being on the Dodgers, I'm like,

543
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Speaker 2: I mean, I mean, now I have him like in

544
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Speaker 2: the twenties or something.

545
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Speaker 1: Those four names we mentioned Glass now on the Dodgers,

546
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Speaker 1: great team, gonna get like, I just think of wins,

547
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Speaker 1: let alone, strikeouts and everything else on the Dodgers, Zack

548
00:23:42,680 --> 00:23:45,200
Speaker 1: Wheeler on the Phillies, Corpa Burns on the Orioles, and

549
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Speaker 1: then Scooball on the Tigers. Obviously he's just really really good.

550
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Speaker 1: But three of those four are like on very very

551
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Speaker 1: good teams. So yeah, all right, let's move on to

552
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Speaker 1: the next topic here. I've been going to do this

553
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Speaker 1: for a while and I figured kind of the day

554
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Speaker 1: after fourth of July. We've both been on vacation for

555
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Speaker 1: a while. It felt like a good, you know, time

556
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Speaker 1: to come back with this is I want to make

557
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Speaker 1: the case for rules changes that we want to see.

558
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Speaker 1: So we've talked a bit about some rules stuff that

559
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Speaker 1: we're not big fans of in the past, and I

560
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Speaker 1: have one big one that I have I've talked about

561
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Speaker 1: on podcasts for years now. But not on this one,

562
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Speaker 1: so our audience I don't think will have heard it.

563
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Speaker 1: But it's it's the biggest rule change that I love,

564
00:24:26,000 --> 00:24:27,920
Speaker 1: and it will never happen, but it's just a fun

565
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Speaker 1: one for me, and I want to hear what rules

566
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Speaker 1: changes you would like to see too. There are, you know,

567
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Speaker 1: smaller ones that I've thought about in the past as well,

568
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Speaker 1: but I kind of have one big one and I

569
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Speaker 1: need to clear my throat, so I will let you

570
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Speaker 1: go first.

571
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Speaker 2: So for me, I have some like some obvious ones

572
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Speaker 2: that I can go through. For me, the one rule

573
00:24:49,560 --> 00:24:52,040
Speaker 2: change I want to see is I want to bring

574
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Speaker 2: the shift back. I want it back. Maybe I don't.

575
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Speaker 2: I don't like this whole you're not allowed to move.

576
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Speaker 2: I want play wherever you want. I wanted. I want

577
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Speaker 2: to get nuts. I want to see like just little

578
00:25:04,720 --> 00:25:07,399
Speaker 2: numbers down the third third base line with no one

579
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Speaker 2: in that vicinity going for a double. That's what I want.

580
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Speaker 2: I want, Like you know, live and die by the shift,

581
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Speaker 2: and you really kind.

582
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Speaker 1: Of still see that to be fair, like, because teams

583
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Speaker 1: will shift with the short step like just to the

584
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Speaker 1: left to second base and the third baseman at shortstop

585
00:25:21,760 --> 00:25:24,200
Speaker 1: accent you do still get those little numbers that go

586
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Speaker 1: for doubles every now and then.

587
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Speaker 2: Yeah, but you don't have the guy playing like shallow

588
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Speaker 2: right field, which I love. I mean, it was kind

589
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Speaker 2: of annoying to watch games games like that, but I

590
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Speaker 2: hate that we remove the ability to do that. And

591
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Speaker 2: the kind of crazy thing this year is that even

592
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Speaker 2: without the shift, like Babbitt is down and like averages

593
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Speaker 2: are down, and it's kind of weird that we like

594
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Speaker 2: remove the shift, which and like everyone was like, oh,

595
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Speaker 2: like batting average is going to go way up, but

596
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Speaker 2: like it hasn't at all.

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Speaker 1: I disagree with this one. I'm fine with. I don't

598
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Speaker 1: think there should be like very regimented you have to

599
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Speaker 1: stand in this spot, certainly. I the thing that I

600
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Speaker 1: like is two infielders on either side of the bag.

601
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Speaker 1: I do because I hated, like a very clean single

602
00:26:07,480 --> 00:26:10,000
Speaker 1: just oh right to this the third basement playing in

603
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Speaker 1: shallow rightfield. I hated that.

604
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Speaker 2: To me, that's not I love because then you get

605
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Speaker 2: like a guy beating out an infield single to that

606
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Speaker 2: guy in redfielder was great.

607
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Speaker 1: I would rather just be a clean hit, like that's

608
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Speaker 1: a good piece of like Like to me, the shift

609
00:26:22,920 --> 00:26:27,480
Speaker 1: most negatively impacted pull hitters, right, And to me, there's

610
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Speaker 1: nothing inherently wrong with being a pull hitter, So I

611
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Speaker 1: don't like that they are punished whereas somebody who's capable

612
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Speaker 1: going OPO is it isn't less. So like to me,

613
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Speaker 1: a good clean hit is a good clean hit. And like,

614
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Speaker 1: infielders have been standing where they were for a one

615
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Speaker 1: hundred years. I know, like Ted Williams was shifted on,

616
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Speaker 1: Like I'm not saying that it was never done in

617
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Speaker 1: the past, and it's not. This is like a hill

618
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Speaker 1: I'm super willing to die on. But personally, I like,

619
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Speaker 1: you can stand wherever you want as long as two

620
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Speaker 1: infielders are on either side of the bag. To me,

621
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Speaker 1: that's a big one. And and you know what, I

622
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Speaker 1: wouldn't care if you want to call an outfielder in

623
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Speaker 1: to stand in shower, if you want to pull the

624
00:27:06,520 --> 00:27:08,800
Speaker 1: left fielder over to stand in shallow right and say listen,

625
00:27:09,080 --> 00:27:10,680
Speaker 1: if you want to go opa, we're giving you all

626
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Speaker 1: of left field. Like I'd be more okay with that

627
00:27:13,119 --> 00:27:17,280
Speaker 1: because then the reward is like commensurate with the risk

628
00:27:17,440 --> 00:27:20,080
Speaker 1: that you're giving up. But like, yeah, just moving like

629
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Speaker 1: the third basement or shortstop over there, Like I never

630
00:27:22,160 --> 00:27:24,320
Speaker 1: was a big fan of that. It would be really frustrated.

631
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Speaker 1: Like even like teams are still shifting to a degree,

632
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Speaker 1: Like just yesterday, I was watching the O's game and

633
00:27:30,760 --> 00:27:33,280
Speaker 1: Gunnar Henderson hit a ball one hundred miles an hour

634
00:27:33,320 --> 00:27:35,800
Speaker 1: off the bat, a rocket up the middle that got

635
00:27:35,840 --> 00:27:39,320
Speaker 1: past the pitcher, and the shortstop fielded it so cleanly

636
00:27:39,760 --> 00:27:42,639
Speaker 1: because he was standing six inches to the left of

637
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Speaker 1: second base. Like that is a clean hit in every

638
00:27:46,240 --> 00:27:49,040
Speaker 1: iteration of baseball that has ever existed, and it's still

639
00:27:49,040 --> 00:27:51,520
Speaker 1: being taken away by the shifts because teams are smart.

640
00:27:51,600 --> 00:27:52,919
Speaker 1: So like it's still happening.

641
00:27:53,119 --> 00:27:54,560
Speaker 2: You don't want to be able to do that. You

642
00:27:54,640 --> 00:27:58,320
Speaker 2: want to just play shortstop play Derek g no I.

643
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Speaker 1: Bring that story up to say, like teams are still

644
00:28:00,280 --> 00:28:03,080
Speaker 1: finding a way to shift and take away base hits,

645
00:28:03,119 --> 00:28:05,800
Speaker 1: so it's not like it's completely gone. I am not

646
00:28:05,920 --> 00:28:07,680
Speaker 1: a fan of When I was a scout, we called

647
00:28:07,720 --> 00:28:09,680
Speaker 1: it a full ted. Williams was three in fielders on

648
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Speaker 1: one side of the bag. I'm not a fan of

649
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Speaker 1: a full ted. I prefer the halfted where it's sort

650
00:28:14,560 --> 00:28:16,840
Speaker 1: of shifted but not quite over that second base line.

651
00:28:16,920 --> 00:28:18,440
Speaker 1: To me, I think that's I think it's good to

652
00:28:18,480 --> 00:28:20,000
Speaker 1: have at least that little bit of delineation.

653
00:28:21,160 --> 00:28:24,360
Speaker 2: It would be great to announce a new rule where

654
00:28:24,400 --> 00:28:26,000
Speaker 2: you can't shift at all and call it the Derek

655
00:28:26,080 --> 00:28:28,320
Speaker 2: Jeter rule, like you can only shift five feet in

656
00:28:28,400 --> 00:28:30,680
Speaker 2: either direction. Yeah, it would be great.

657
00:28:31,320 --> 00:28:35,600
Speaker 1: I do love a good shot at Jeter. Okay, so

658
00:28:36,119 --> 00:28:38,960
Speaker 1: my And there's some little ones, like we've talked before

659
00:28:39,000 --> 00:28:41,880
Speaker 1: about how I really think the official scorekeeper should be

660
00:28:41,880 --> 00:28:44,760
Speaker 1: allowed to choose which pitcher deserves the win in a game.

661
00:28:45,000 --> 00:28:48,240
Speaker 1: Like like to me, if a guy goes seven strong

662
00:28:48,640 --> 00:28:50,640
Speaker 1: and then his bullpen gives up the lead in the

663
00:28:50,640 --> 00:28:52,040
Speaker 1: eighth and then they happen to hit a walk off

664
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Speaker 1: in the ninth, like the guy who went seven innings

665
00:28:54,240 --> 00:28:55,680
Speaker 1: should get the win. I don't care who was on

666
00:28:55,720 --> 00:28:58,480
Speaker 1: the mound when score change happened, Like I feel really

667
00:28:58,480 --> 00:29:03,320
Speaker 1: strongly about that. But the big one that I have

668
00:29:04,200 --> 00:29:06,520
Speaker 1: said for a while, and this was I first brought

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00:29:06,560 --> 00:29:08,080
Speaker 1: it up back when they were debate. There was a

670
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Speaker 1: lot of debate about like pictures hitting versus the DH,

671
00:29:12,680 --> 00:29:17,280
Speaker 1: and my stance has been I want neither. I want

672
00:29:17,920 --> 00:29:22,880
Speaker 1: lineups to be eight batters long, No DH and no picture.

673
00:29:23,720 --> 00:29:25,720
Speaker 1: And I like this for a couple of reasons. One,

674
00:29:25,880 --> 00:29:28,400
Speaker 1: I don't want the picture hitting because why why do

675
00:29:28,480 --> 00:29:29,560
Speaker 1: I care about this guy who's coming up?

676
00:29:29,600 --> 00:29:30,160
Speaker 2: It was terrible.

677
00:29:30,200 --> 00:29:33,080
Speaker 1: He's just gonna sacrifice bunt every time the occasional Bartolo

678
00:29:33,120 --> 00:29:35,320
Speaker 1: Colonne home run is not worth it. Like I'm I

679
00:29:35,360 --> 00:29:39,520
Speaker 1: don't need pictures hitting. I also don't need the designated hitter,

680
00:29:39,760 --> 00:29:41,360
Speaker 1: like I don't need a guy who's only up there

681
00:29:41,360 --> 00:29:43,440
Speaker 1: because he can only do half the game. Baseball is

682
00:29:43,480 --> 00:29:45,840
Speaker 1: fun to me because the same it's unlike football, the

683
00:29:45,880 --> 00:29:48,240
Speaker 1: same guy's played both sides. You have to field and

684
00:29:48,360 --> 00:29:50,920
Speaker 1: you have to hit. And I like that a lot.

685
00:29:51,120 --> 00:29:53,320
Speaker 1: And I know that it will never happen because the

686
00:29:53,400 --> 00:29:56,680
Speaker 1: DH has extended careers and like the NFLPA will never

687
00:29:56,720 --> 00:29:59,080
Speaker 1: allow it to change. And I also know that people

688
00:29:59,240 --> 00:30:05,680
Speaker 1: like the symmetry. Oh yeah, no, I don't think they do.

689
00:30:06,040 --> 00:30:10,960
Speaker 1: They keep for correcting me. I've lost my trand oh yeah,

690
00:30:11,840 --> 00:30:14,440
Speaker 1: I know it don't ever have. People also like the

691
00:30:14,480 --> 00:30:18,120
Speaker 1: symmetry of like a nine inning game, three outs, like

692
00:30:18,240 --> 00:30:20,480
Speaker 1: it all kind of divvys up. Well, you know, nine

693
00:30:20,520 --> 00:30:23,160
Speaker 1: batters in the lineup. A perfect game is everybody hits

694
00:30:23,240 --> 00:30:26,240
Speaker 1: three times exactly, you know, get through like twenty seven outs.

695
00:30:26,280 --> 00:30:29,760
Speaker 1: I get all that. I think this would help a

696
00:30:30,200 --> 00:30:32,640
Speaker 1: It gets your best hitters more at bats. I mean,

697
00:30:32,720 --> 00:30:36,440
Speaker 1: Gunnar Henderson leading off, if he's hitting every eight batters

698
00:30:36,440 --> 00:30:38,640
Speaker 1: instead of every nine, is gonna get I haven't done

699
00:30:38,680 --> 00:30:40,800
Speaker 1: the math, but what like, I don't know, thirty more

700
00:30:40,840 --> 00:30:42,400
Speaker 1: at bats in a season? Like that's fine. I want

701
00:30:42,440 --> 00:30:45,800
Speaker 1: to see the best players of baseball hitting more often. Yeah,

702
00:30:45,880 --> 00:30:48,280
Speaker 1: probably more. I that was a very quick shody math

703
00:30:48,360 --> 00:30:51,400
Speaker 1: by me. I want to see that happen. I want

704
00:30:51,520 --> 00:30:54,480
Speaker 1: to see hitters get through the lineup more often, which

705
00:30:54,640 --> 00:30:58,560
Speaker 1: means modern pitchers, you know, don't always love going through

706
00:30:58,600 --> 00:31:00,960
Speaker 1: the lineup a third time. Okay, well, now maybe you're

707
00:31:00,960 --> 00:31:03,320
Speaker 1: getting to the bullpen earlier, and because you're going to

708
00:31:03,360 --> 00:31:05,800
Speaker 1: the bullpen earlier, they have to cover more outs and

709
00:31:05,880 --> 00:31:08,400
Speaker 1: can't come in throwing ninety five mile an hour wipe

710
00:31:08,440 --> 00:31:10,880
Speaker 1: out sliders and one hundred and three miles an hour

711
00:31:10,920 --> 00:31:13,680
Speaker 1: all the time. Maybe this actually helps get us more

712
00:31:13,800 --> 00:31:17,040
Speaker 1: contact because the pictures, it's a more difficult task to

713
00:31:17,080 --> 00:31:19,239
Speaker 1: get through the lineup as many times as you need

714
00:31:19,320 --> 00:31:23,160
Speaker 1: in nine innings, and so maybe there's you know, maybe

715
00:31:23,160 --> 00:31:25,400
Speaker 1: it actually helps the hitting, which has been a huge

716
00:31:25,440 --> 00:31:27,760
Speaker 1: talking point about more balls and play and fewer strikeouts

717
00:31:27,760 --> 00:31:31,000
Speaker 1: and stuff like that. So I really like this idea.

718
00:31:31,080 --> 00:31:34,360
Speaker 1: I think if we were starting baseball from scratch, nobody

719
00:31:34,640 --> 00:31:37,520
Speaker 1: would say, hey, why don't we add a guy who

720
00:31:37,560 --> 00:31:40,600
Speaker 1: only does half the game, And nobody would say, hey,

721
00:31:40,640 --> 00:31:44,120
Speaker 1: why don't we have this specialized arm also hit. It

722
00:31:44,200 --> 00:31:46,560
Speaker 1: would be obvious that we would just have eight hitters

723
00:31:46,960 --> 00:31:50,680
Speaker 1: and nine fielders, because the ninth is the guy you

724
00:31:50,760 --> 00:31:53,960
Speaker 1: know on the mound. So I think that it's so

725
00:31:54,200 --> 00:31:55,960
Speaker 1: entrenched that clearly it will never happen. This is me

726
00:31:56,120 --> 00:31:57,680
Speaker 1: very much wish casting that I think this would be

727
00:31:57,720 --> 00:31:59,920
Speaker 1: a fun rule change. But I thought of this like

728
00:32:00,080 --> 00:32:02,520
Speaker 1: years ago when people were having this debate, and ever

729
00:32:02,640 --> 00:32:04,640
Speaker 1: since I've yet to hear a good argument against it.

730
00:32:05,960 --> 00:32:06,320
Speaker 1: I like it.

731
00:32:06,400 --> 00:32:08,200
Speaker 2: I'm on board with it. You know, it's hard for

732
00:32:08,280 --> 00:32:10,360
Speaker 2: me to be really anti DH as a Red Sox

733
00:32:10,480 --> 00:32:14,360
Speaker 2: fan who just watched David Ortiz just like own the

734
00:32:14,400 --> 00:32:16,040
Speaker 2: world for a while, like as a DH, but I

735
00:32:16,080 --> 00:32:18,600
Speaker 2: also think oprated he would have he would have been

736
00:32:18,880 --> 00:32:21,719
Speaker 2: now he's not overrid. I think he would have been

737
00:32:21,800 --> 00:32:23,280
Speaker 2: fine if he just had to like go out there

738
00:32:23,280 --> 00:32:25,520
Speaker 2: and play first base. Maybe not the last two or

739
00:32:25,520 --> 00:32:27,120
Speaker 2: three years of his career when he could like barely

740
00:32:27,200 --> 00:32:30,360
Speaker 2: walk because he literally had to like stop playing baseball

741
00:32:30,400 --> 00:32:32,440
Speaker 2: because like his feet hurt too much, even just as

742
00:32:32,440 --> 00:32:34,040
Speaker 2: a D eight. So I don't think he would have

743
00:32:34,040 --> 00:32:35,840
Speaker 2: been fine the last few years. But like two thousand

744
00:32:35,840 --> 00:32:37,520
Speaker 2: and four, he played a little bit of first base

745
00:32:37,560 --> 00:32:38,600
Speaker 2: here and there, like it was fine.

746
00:32:38,960 --> 00:32:41,400
Speaker 1: He was a grown man, threw temper tantrums and once

747
00:32:41,520 --> 00:32:44,720
Speaker 1: destroyed the Orioles bullpen phone because he was mad about

748
00:32:44,760 --> 00:32:45,040
Speaker 1: a call.

749
00:32:46,600 --> 00:32:48,200
Speaker 2: What was he doing in the Orioles bullpen?

750
00:32:48,360 --> 00:32:50,560
Speaker 1: No, like they're they're in the dugout, like the phone.

751
00:32:50,760 --> 00:32:53,200
Speaker 1: It was at like the phone front of the visit's

752
00:32:53,240 --> 00:32:55,360
Speaker 1: dugout to the bullpen. He took a bat to it

753
00:32:55,400 --> 00:32:56,040
Speaker 1: and shattered it.

754
00:32:57,160 --> 00:32:57,760
Speaker 2: I'm fine with that.

755
00:32:58,080 --> 00:33:00,320
Speaker 1: I'm no Yankees fan, but I was all is like,

756
00:33:00,360 --> 00:33:03,120
Speaker 1: whenever there's like an MVP debate, like a Rod Ortiz,

757
00:33:03,200 --> 00:33:05,280
Speaker 1: I was like, it's clearly a Rod because he's as

758
00:33:05,360 --> 00:33:08,360
Speaker 1: good of a hitter and also doing all this stuff

759
00:33:08,360 --> 00:33:09,560
Speaker 1: in the field that orties can't do.

760
00:33:10,240 --> 00:33:12,000
Speaker 2: That's just butteroids.

761
00:33:12,200 --> 00:33:14,640
Speaker 1: Well that's a different conversation for a different day. But

762
00:33:15,080 --> 00:33:17,760
Speaker 1: in the moment, I felt pretty strongly about it. Yeah,

763
00:33:17,760 --> 00:33:19,360
Speaker 1: I'm glad you're important. I think it's I think it

764
00:33:19,360 --> 00:33:21,200
Speaker 1: would be a great rules change that would make the

765
00:33:21,280 --> 00:33:24,040
Speaker 1: game more fun with the stars would get more opportunities.

766
00:33:24,440 --> 00:33:27,640
Speaker 1: It would, I think, help hitters in general, like you know,

767
00:33:28,040 --> 00:33:30,240
Speaker 1: got to take back some of the power from pictures

768
00:33:30,240 --> 00:33:32,840
Speaker 1: are so darn good now and we wouldn't have this

769
00:33:33,000 --> 00:33:35,480
Speaker 1: like useless debate of like pictures hitting versus h which

770
00:33:35,480 --> 00:33:37,440
Speaker 1: is largely gone now that they've made it universal. But

771
00:33:37,920 --> 00:33:39,680
Speaker 1: I just think it's to me, it would be a

772
00:33:39,720 --> 00:33:40,720
Speaker 1: no brainer. I would love to see that.

773
00:33:40,960 --> 00:33:43,320
Speaker 2: I think you'd get more cool stories like like the

774
00:33:43,400 --> 00:33:46,640
Speaker 2: Moneyball story where Ron was it Ron Washington had to

775
00:33:46,680 --> 00:33:48,360
Speaker 2: teach Scott how to break how to play first base

776
00:33:48,480 --> 00:33:53,560
Speaker 2: like that, Yeah, because he couldn't throw, like as a

777
00:33:53,600 --> 00:33:56,320
Speaker 2: catcher anymore. I think you would. I think you would,

778
00:33:56,640 --> 00:33:58,520
Speaker 2: you know, see some cool stories like that where like

779
00:33:58,640 --> 00:34:01,280
Speaker 2: you know someone who you know, like a David Ortiz

780
00:34:01,320 --> 00:34:03,880
Speaker 2: like has to play first base, or someone has to

781
00:34:04,000 --> 00:34:06,200
Speaker 2: you know, like a Kyle Schwarber like can play the outfield,

782
00:34:06,280 --> 00:34:08,239
Speaker 2: but like his value as a hitter or as a

783
00:34:08,280 --> 00:34:10,680
Speaker 2: player is drastically different. If you have to put him

784
00:34:10,680 --> 00:34:12,120
Speaker 2: in left field every night, then if you can just

785
00:34:12,160 --> 00:34:16,480
Speaker 2: date him, so I think you'd see some interesting it.

786
00:34:16,600 --> 00:34:20,200
Speaker 1: Also, I think would incentivize teams to have more depth

787
00:34:20,239 --> 00:34:22,719
Speaker 1: in the lineup because if you have like kind of

788
00:34:22,760 --> 00:34:25,480
Speaker 1: that defensive specialist who's really bad in the lineup, well,

789
00:34:25,560 --> 00:34:26,960
Speaker 1: now he's not one of nine, he's one of eight.

790
00:34:27,080 --> 00:34:29,279
Speaker 1: He's a higher percentage of your at bats in the

791
00:34:29,360 --> 00:34:30,920
Speaker 1: course of a long season, which is a lot of

792
00:34:30,960 --> 00:34:31,440
Speaker 1: at bats.

793
00:34:31,600 --> 00:34:34,879
Speaker 2: So yeah, I just would also kind of bring back

794
00:34:35,000 --> 00:34:37,839
Speaker 2: some of the because like, really the only good thing

795
00:34:38,000 --> 00:34:42,719
Speaker 2: about pitchers hitting was late game like pinch hitters, and

796
00:34:42,920 --> 00:34:45,800
Speaker 2: like the kind of like strategy that was involved, and

797
00:34:45,880 --> 00:34:47,400
Speaker 2: like having you know when your pitcher was up in

798
00:34:47,440 --> 00:34:49,279
Speaker 2: the lineup, and like double switches and like all that stuff.

799
00:34:49,320 --> 00:34:51,480
Speaker 2: You would bring some of that back in the opposite

800
00:34:51,600 --> 00:34:53,560
Speaker 2: with like if you have kyleeg Schwarber and left field,

801
00:34:53,840 --> 00:34:55,440
Speaker 2: if you have a lead in the seventh or eighth inning,

802
00:34:55,480 --> 00:34:57,319
Speaker 2: you probably need to pull him for someone who can

803
00:34:57,360 --> 00:34:58,600
Speaker 2: play a little bit better out there.

804
00:34:58,920 --> 00:35:01,440
Speaker 1: Yeah, I'm that we see ida Aye. This has been

805
00:35:01,480 --> 00:35:04,360
Speaker 1: my favorite rules change forever, So I'm glad that I

806
00:35:04,400 --> 00:35:06,320
Speaker 1: didn't have to make the case too strong for you.

807
00:35:06,640 --> 00:35:08,759
Speaker 1: Let us know for the listeners in the comments, so

808
00:35:08,840 --> 00:35:10,520
Speaker 1: you know, go ahead and reply to us on Twitter

809
00:35:10,760 --> 00:35:12,800
Speaker 1: or in the reviews. Let us know if you have

810
00:35:12,880 --> 00:35:14,360
Speaker 1: any rules changes of your own. We might do this

811
00:35:14,400 --> 00:35:16,759
Speaker 1: again later in the season if we, you know, want

812
00:35:16,800 --> 00:35:18,120
Speaker 1: to throw out someway.

813
00:35:18,440 --> 00:35:20,040
Speaker 2: I got one more quick one before we wrap up.

814
00:35:20,080 --> 00:35:21,960
Speaker 2: We don't have to discuss it, but like, for the

815
00:35:22,040 --> 00:35:24,600
Speaker 2: love of God, can we just get like universal baseballs,

816
00:35:24,640 --> 00:35:27,240
Speaker 2: Like the baseball is always the same, it's pre tagged.

817
00:35:27,360 --> 00:35:29,479
Speaker 2: It's just like we're not changing it. They're not bouncy balls,

818
00:35:29,680 --> 00:35:32,560
Speaker 2: just like one baseball, and that's what we use.

819
00:35:32,680 --> 00:35:34,200
Speaker 1: That's what I want, you know what I'll say very

820
00:35:34,280 --> 00:35:37,040
Speaker 1: quickly for my kind of one follow up is I

821
00:35:37,200 --> 00:35:38,920
Speaker 1: love and when I play adult softball, they have like

822
00:35:38,960 --> 00:35:41,400
Speaker 1: the orange bag to the side of first because so

823
00:35:41,560 --> 00:35:44,399
Speaker 1: you're not staying on the same bag. And every time

824
00:35:44,440 --> 00:35:46,920
Speaker 1: I fave play first base on a bag that doesn't

825
00:35:46,960 --> 00:35:48,359
Speaker 1: have that, like in the back of my head, I'm

826
00:35:48,400 --> 00:35:50,960
Speaker 1: like nervous about my foot getting like in the way

827
00:35:51,080 --> 00:35:53,880
Speaker 1: or whatever. Like just have the X second base. There's

828
00:35:53,920 --> 00:35:55,839
Speaker 1: no reason for first base to not have the extra

829
00:35:55,920 --> 00:35:58,600
Speaker 1: bag right there. I just think it would be super

830
00:35:58,640 --> 00:36:02,759
Speaker 1: easy and not chee the game in Yeah, okay, let's

831
00:36:02,800 --> 00:36:04,880
Speaker 1: move quickly because I do have another show to go

832
00:36:05,000 --> 00:36:07,319
Speaker 1: do shortly, so we'll go very quickly here through our

833
00:36:07,320 --> 00:36:09,839
Speaker 1: Bilo Sell High picks and also Waiver Central, and then

834
00:36:09,880 --> 00:36:12,239
Speaker 1: wrap up the show here. So kick us off with

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Speaker 1: your favorite buy it low.

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Speaker 2: It's my favorite by Low. I actually stole it from Kelly,

837
00:36:17,200 --> 00:36:20,759
Speaker 2: who wrote it up for this week's article on the site,

838
00:36:20,760 --> 00:36:23,680
Speaker 2: which is six Fantasy Baseball Players to Trade Now, and

839
00:36:23,800 --> 00:36:26,359
Speaker 2: it's it's our weekly one of our two weekly by

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Speaker 2: Low Sell High articles, this one is our featured pros one.

841
00:36:29,320 --> 00:36:32,319
Speaker 2: I did not contribute to this one, but I will

842
00:36:32,360 --> 00:36:34,839
Speaker 2: probably be back next week. But I stole this one

843
00:36:34,880 --> 00:36:38,080
Speaker 2: from Kelly because I really liked it. I'm a big

844
00:36:38,280 --> 00:36:41,279
Speaker 2: fan of Marcus Sime and I think I've traditionally kind

845
00:36:41,280 --> 00:36:42,959
Speaker 2: of had him as like a cell high in the past,

846
00:36:43,080 --> 00:36:45,160
Speaker 2: just because I always think he was a little bit overvalued.

847
00:36:45,200 --> 00:36:47,239
Speaker 2: But he just had a really bad June, and I

848
00:36:47,400 --> 00:36:51,040
Speaker 2: think just with this season long numbers, you can probably

849
00:36:51,360 --> 00:36:53,239
Speaker 2: get him for a deal right now, just because I think,

850
00:36:53,640 --> 00:36:55,960
Speaker 2: I mean, it's it might be hard depending on like

851
00:36:56,000 --> 00:36:59,160
Speaker 2: the position versatility, but and like what you're you know,

852
00:36:59,200 --> 00:37:02,920
Speaker 2: the other manager as to kind of like replace him.

853
00:37:02,920 --> 00:37:05,520
Speaker 2: But like I just I see like his numbers should

854
00:37:05,560 --> 00:37:06,920
Speaker 2: be a lot better than they are, and he just

855
00:37:07,000 --> 00:37:08,759
Speaker 2: like had a really rough patch. I think, you know,

856
00:37:08,840 --> 00:37:10,840
Speaker 2: the Marcus Sime manager is gonna be frustrated right now,

857
00:37:10,880 --> 00:37:12,719
Speaker 2: and I think you could. I think you can get

858
00:37:12,760 --> 00:37:13,319
Speaker 2: a deal for him.

859
00:37:14,440 --> 00:37:17,319
Speaker 1: I think it's a good call. I also drew mine

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00:37:17,360 --> 00:37:20,000
Speaker 1: from the Bilo cel High article which everybody should go

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Speaker 1: check out, and I highlight Dylan Cease which Rex rut

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Speaker 1: Chick I believe is how to pronounce his name and

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Speaker 1: one of our contributing writers, and I thought he made

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Speaker 1: a great case where Cese like has had a kind

865
00:37:31,680 --> 00:37:34,120
Speaker 1: of a rough stretch here in June, but his expected

866
00:37:34,200 --> 00:37:37,839
Speaker 1: era is basically a full run lower than his current era.

867
00:37:38,800 --> 00:37:41,000
Speaker 1: He obviously is still giving you you know, his whiff

868
00:37:41,040 --> 00:37:43,279
Speaker 1: and strike out rates are both ninety fifth percentile, as

869
00:37:43,400 --> 00:37:46,840
Speaker 1: was highlighted in the article. I think that you know,

870
00:37:46,880 --> 00:37:49,560
Speaker 1: regression is coming for him like towards that era, getting

871
00:37:49,760 --> 00:37:53,440
Speaker 1: you know, a run ish lower. You're getting great strikeouts.

872
00:37:53,480 --> 00:37:55,720
Speaker 1: And if somebody is looking at his last six starts

873
00:37:55,760 --> 00:37:59,080
Speaker 1: four nine four era in that stretch, somebody says like, hey,

874
00:37:59,320 --> 00:38:01,520
Speaker 1: you know, he hasn't been very good and I'm wanted

875
00:38:01,560 --> 00:38:04,160
Speaker 1: to get out from the Dylan Ce's business. He's somebody

876
00:38:04,239 --> 00:38:06,440
Speaker 1: that I would be willing to pay to buy low for.

877
00:38:07,040 --> 00:38:08,719
Speaker 1: But you don't need to buy like at you know,

878
00:38:10,000 --> 00:38:13,600
Speaker 1: horrible like terrible prices. You can like, I would pay

879
00:38:13,719 --> 00:38:16,480
Speaker 1: market price to get him when market price is buying low,

880
00:38:16,480 --> 00:38:17,839
Speaker 1: if that makes sense, Like, I don't think you need

881
00:38:17,920 --> 00:38:19,759
Speaker 1: to like low ball the guy for him. I would

882
00:38:19,920 --> 00:38:21,520
Speaker 1: give up something of value to get him because I

883
00:38:21,520 --> 00:38:23,840
Speaker 1: think he's going to be even more valuable going forward.

884
00:38:23,840 --> 00:38:25,920
Speaker 1: So I think that's a great call by Rex. Who

885
00:38:26,040 --> 00:38:27,000
Speaker 1: is your favorite cell high?

886
00:38:28,440 --> 00:38:31,080
Speaker 2: So I like the Dylan Cees bilow. I almost picked him,

887
00:38:31,120 --> 00:38:33,080
Speaker 2: but I've I feel like I've talked about Dylan Sees

888
00:38:33,080 --> 00:38:34,440
Speaker 2: a bunch on the show, so I didn't want to

889
00:38:35,000 --> 00:38:37,600
Speaker 2: go right back to that. Well, as everyone alredly knows

890
00:38:37,640 --> 00:38:40,480
Speaker 2: that I'm a Dylan Ceese fan, my favorite sell high

891
00:38:40,560 --> 00:38:43,359
Speaker 2: is Mason Win and I'm just so over Mason Win.

892
00:38:43,560 --> 00:38:45,920
Speaker 2: I'm so ready for this guy to just stop like

893
00:38:46,080 --> 00:38:49,280
Speaker 2: looking better than he is. And I think the breaking

894
00:38:49,320 --> 00:38:51,640
Speaker 2: point for me was recently, for some reason, I get

895
00:38:51,640 --> 00:38:53,680
Speaker 2: a lot of Cardinals twitter on my timeline. I don't

896
00:38:53,719 --> 00:38:55,440
Speaker 2: really know how that happens, but I get a lot

897
00:38:55,480 --> 00:38:58,359
Speaker 2: of Cardinals tweets, and I saw an account put out

898
00:38:58,480 --> 00:39:04,600
Speaker 2: like a poll and in like complete seriousness, they were saying, like,

899
00:39:04,719 --> 00:39:07,880
Speaker 2: if you were the Cardinals, would you trade Mason Wayne

900
00:39:07,880 --> 00:39:10,680
Speaker 2: for Jackson Holliday like in real life? And they were

901
00:39:10,760 --> 00:39:12,759
Speaker 2: like it was like the pole results were like I

902
00:39:12,840 --> 00:39:14,480
Speaker 2: would do it, and I think the team would do it,

903
00:39:14,600 --> 00:39:15,719
Speaker 2: or like I would do it, but I don't think

904
00:39:15,719 --> 00:39:17,880
Speaker 2: the team would do it, and like it was like

905
00:39:17,960 --> 00:39:20,640
Speaker 2: overwhelmingly like the Cardinals would do it, but the the

906
00:39:20,680 --> 00:39:23,399
Speaker 2: Orioles would not. But there were enough votes the other

907
00:39:23,480 --> 00:39:25,640
Speaker 2: way where I was like, what are we talking about

908
00:39:25,719 --> 00:39:26,000
Speaker 2: right now?

909
00:39:26,239 --> 00:39:29,560
Speaker 1: Everything overvalues their own players. I mean it's just like

910
00:39:29,920 --> 00:39:32,120
Speaker 1: jack Like if you look at the list of guys

911
00:39:32,120 --> 00:39:34,600
Speaker 1: who have been like the consensus number one prospect in baseball,

912
00:39:34,719 --> 00:39:38,840
Speaker 1: it's like all superstars and Waterfranco, Like it's all just

913
00:39:38,920 --> 00:39:43,319
Speaker 1: like the best players in baseball. So I like, yeah,

914
00:39:43,520 --> 00:39:47,040
Speaker 1: so like you just not like teams have no fans

915
00:39:47,080 --> 00:39:51,440
Speaker 1: of teams just seemingly have no concept of what that's worth. It.

916
00:39:51,640 --> 00:39:52,880
Speaker 2: It was wild to man. I was just like what

917
00:39:53,000 --> 00:39:54,719
Speaker 2: are we doing. I actually voted on it just to

918
00:39:54,760 --> 00:39:57,840
Speaker 2: see what the results were, and it was just it

919
00:39:57,920 --> 00:39:59,920
Speaker 2: was wild. Like the results were what they should have,

920
00:40:00,840 --> 00:40:04,279
Speaker 2: but in terms of like result like the majority, but

921
00:40:04,440 --> 00:40:07,440
Speaker 2: like the how much it was winning by, it was

922
00:40:07,480 --> 00:40:09,840
Speaker 2: like was it needs to be one hundred percent? Like

923
00:40:11,000 --> 00:40:12,400
Speaker 2: and it was just driving me nuts. And I was

924
00:40:12,440 --> 00:40:14,319
Speaker 2: like this, like he's he's like a great story. He's

925
00:40:14,360 --> 00:40:17,240
Speaker 2: a good baseball player, but like his value in fantasy

926
00:40:17,320 --> 00:40:19,080
Speaker 2: is really overvalued. Like he's hitting for a high average.

927
00:40:19,080 --> 00:40:21,560
Speaker 2: I don't know that that's gonna, like, you know, really

928
00:40:21,640 --> 00:40:24,080
Speaker 2: be sticky. I think he's like fine, and like he

929
00:40:24,160 --> 00:40:26,439
Speaker 2: steals a few bases and he doesn't really have much power.

930
00:40:26,560 --> 00:40:29,040
Speaker 2: And it's just like everyone just thinks this guy's great,

931
00:40:29,040 --> 00:40:30,839
Speaker 2: and I think he's like fine. But if you want

932
00:40:30,920 --> 00:40:33,080
Speaker 2: to tell me give me anything for Mason win, you

933
00:40:33,120 --> 00:40:34,280
Speaker 2: can have it, no problem.

934
00:40:34,440 --> 00:40:37,480
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's a good call. Micel High is Stephen Kwan.

935
00:40:37,560 --> 00:40:39,200
Speaker 1: We talked about this a couple weeks ago with Bogman

936
00:40:39,280 --> 00:40:42,400
Speaker 1: on the show. His batting average is already trying to

937
00:40:42,400 --> 00:40:44,520
Speaker 1: come down a bit because it was at like four hundred,

938
00:40:44,640 --> 00:40:47,040
Speaker 1: so it's still at three sixty seven. He's not really

939
00:40:47,120 --> 00:40:49,400
Speaker 1: running this year. He only has four stolen bases. He

940
00:40:49,440 --> 00:40:51,239
Speaker 1: does have a bit more pop. He's got eight home runs,

941
00:40:51,280 --> 00:40:53,520
Speaker 1: which is he had five last year sixty year before,

942
00:40:54,360 --> 00:40:57,440
Speaker 1: so obviously a bit more power, a bit less speed,

943
00:40:57,719 --> 00:40:59,239
Speaker 1: which is something that you kind of rely on Kuan

944
00:40:59,360 --> 00:41:01,239
Speaker 1: for the average, which I think will still remain high,

945
00:41:01,600 --> 00:41:03,160
Speaker 1: but again we're calling this to sell high. If you

946
00:41:03,200 --> 00:41:05,400
Speaker 1: can get somebody really good for Kuan, I think that

947
00:41:05,560 --> 00:41:07,800
Speaker 1: the batting average will continue to come down over the

948
00:41:07,840 --> 00:41:11,000
Speaker 1: course of the season, still will be very good, but

949
00:41:11,120 --> 00:41:13,080
Speaker 1: I think you can get a really good player, maybe

950
00:41:13,080 --> 00:41:15,400
Speaker 1: even a really good pitcher for Kuwan, depending on the

951
00:41:15,480 --> 00:41:17,759
Speaker 1: league and what other needs are going on in there.

952
00:41:18,280 --> 00:41:20,960
Speaker 1: So somebody's willing to buy him as a superstar, then

953
00:41:21,040 --> 00:41:22,440
Speaker 1: I'm willing to sell him as that.

954
00:41:23,440 --> 00:41:26,600
Speaker 2: Have you looked at his stat cast page recently, because

955
00:41:26,640 --> 00:41:27,040
Speaker 2: it's wild.

956
00:41:27,880 --> 00:41:29,440
Speaker 1: I looked at it yesterday. I don't have it up

957
00:41:29,480 --> 00:41:29,799
Speaker 1: right now.

958
00:41:30,760 --> 00:41:34,880
Speaker 2: It's just like like sweet Spot Chase with k percentage,

959
00:41:34,920 --> 00:41:37,720
Speaker 2: they're all like ninety nine hundred percentile, and like expect

960
00:41:37,719 --> 00:41:40,759
Speaker 2: the batting average ninety nine percentile, and like then when

961
00:41:40,760 --> 00:41:43,239
Speaker 2: you look at like the actual contact, Oh yeah, I

962
00:41:43,360 --> 00:41:48,040
Speaker 2: average exa BLASTI tenth barrel percentage, two hard eight percentage too.

963
00:41:48,160 --> 00:41:50,719
Speaker 2: It's just like it's either like one hundred or zero.

964
00:41:50,880 --> 00:41:51,239
Speaker 2: It's great.

965
00:41:51,360 --> 00:41:55,280
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's pretty wild. All right, let's quickly hit on waivers.

966
00:41:55,360 --> 00:41:56,680
Speaker 1: I'll go first. I'll just give you both at the

967
00:41:56,680 --> 00:41:59,520
Speaker 1: same time because I gotta get moving here. Luis Garcia

968
00:41:59,600 --> 00:42:02,879
Speaker 1: is my favorite hitter. He's basically a pacing for something

969
00:42:02,960 --> 00:42:05,560
Speaker 1: like a twenty twenty season with a batting average about

970
00:42:05,560 --> 00:42:09,040
Speaker 1: two sixty, and he's only rostered in sixteen percent of

971
00:42:09,120 --> 00:42:11,799
Speaker 1: Yahoo leagues. I just think that number is too low.

972
00:42:12,120 --> 00:42:15,680
Speaker 1: And I think with James Wood up, like the lineup

973
00:42:15,719 --> 00:42:17,200
Speaker 1: in the second half of the season might not be

974
00:42:17,280 --> 00:42:19,640
Speaker 1: super terrible, so there might be some more opportunities for

975
00:42:19,760 --> 00:42:23,719
Speaker 1: runs in RBI. He's still really young. Whenly twenty four,

976
00:42:23,760 --> 00:42:26,319
Speaker 1: he's had hot streaks this season. Two he's expecting bad

977
00:42:26,360 --> 00:42:28,680
Speaker 1: average is like twenty points higher than it is right

978
00:42:28,760 --> 00:42:31,120
Speaker 1: now anyway, So I like Luis Garcia. I think he's

979
00:42:31,239 --> 00:42:35,279
Speaker 1: under rostered. And then Dean Kramer for the pitcher. Part

980
00:42:35,320 --> 00:42:36,719
Speaker 1: of this is he looked really good, and I was

981
00:42:36,719 --> 00:42:39,000
Speaker 1: against the Mariners, so everybody looks good against the Mariners.

982
00:42:39,120 --> 00:42:41,000
Speaker 1: He looks really good in his first start back from

983
00:42:41,040 --> 00:42:43,560
Speaker 1: injury earlier this week. I forget. I actually don't have

984
00:42:43,600 --> 00:42:44,919
Speaker 1: it up. I think it was something like five innings,

985
00:42:45,000 --> 00:42:47,440
Speaker 1: eight strikeouts, you know, one hit, something like that. He

986
00:42:47,880 --> 00:42:50,200
Speaker 1: looked really good. He's obviously on a team that needs

987
00:42:50,200 --> 00:42:52,960
Speaker 1: starting pitching, like the spot in the rotation is his

988
00:42:53,400 --> 00:42:55,480
Speaker 1: unless he really falls off a cliff. It's not like

989
00:42:55,600 --> 00:42:57,560
Speaker 1: he's you know, there's a threat of you know, all

990
00:42:57,600 --> 00:43:00,719
Speaker 1: these other pitchers to take his his away from him.

991
00:43:00,760 --> 00:43:02,279
Speaker 1: And as of right now, he's scheduled to be a

992
00:43:02,320 --> 00:43:04,080
Speaker 1: two start pitcher this week. I think they might change that.

993
00:43:04,120 --> 00:43:05,480
Speaker 1: I think they might use the off date to bump

994
00:43:05,600 --> 00:43:07,800
Speaker 1: corburn Burns up to get that last start of the

995
00:43:07,880 --> 00:43:10,120
Speaker 1: first half against the Yankees, just because it is against

996
00:43:10,120 --> 00:43:12,040
Speaker 1: the Yankees. So he might not be a two start pitcher,

997
00:43:12,080 --> 00:43:14,040
Speaker 1: but right now he is, so he might get two

998
00:43:14,040 --> 00:43:16,040
Speaker 1: starts out of him next week. He's also somebody very

999
00:43:16,080 --> 00:43:18,840
Speaker 1: available twenty six percent rostered on Yahoo. So those are

1000
00:43:18,880 --> 00:43:20,920
Speaker 1: my two. Luis Garcia is the hitter and Dean Kramer

1001
00:43:21,040 --> 00:43:22,319
Speaker 1: is a pitcher. Who are your two?

1002
00:43:23,520 --> 00:43:25,640
Speaker 2: Sure, I'll give you both of mine as well real quick.

1003
00:43:25,680 --> 00:43:28,440
Speaker 2: I like the Dean Kramer pick. And I also you

1004
00:43:28,520 --> 00:43:31,200
Speaker 2: didn't mention it. But one thing I like about him

1005
00:43:31,200 --> 00:43:33,239
Speaker 2: is he's throwing a splitter now, and so I like

1006
00:43:33,360 --> 00:43:35,080
Speaker 2: whenever there's like a new pitch that you can kind

1007
00:43:35,080 --> 00:43:36,719
Speaker 2: of point to for some of that success. And so

1008
00:43:36,880 --> 00:43:39,640
Speaker 2: and like, you know, splitter is like the big trendy

1009
00:43:39,760 --> 00:43:44,120
Speaker 2: pitch this year, you know, after like sweepers. Yeah, and

1010
00:43:44,280 --> 00:43:45,880
Speaker 2: so a lot of people are having a lot of

1011
00:43:45,920 --> 00:43:50,000
Speaker 2: success throwing splitter. So I like that. My favorite hitter

1012
00:43:50,040 --> 00:43:52,600
Speaker 2: is Jose Miranda. He's been red hot lately and he's

1013
00:43:52,680 --> 00:43:54,640
Speaker 2: moving up in the Twins lineup. He's been batting like

1014
00:43:54,719 --> 00:43:56,719
Speaker 2: clean up. He moved up to second a few days ago.

1015
00:43:57,640 --> 00:44:01,600
Speaker 2: And with the hitting environment right now, he's only rosters

1016
00:44:01,640 --> 00:44:03,520
Speaker 2: in thirty six percent on Yahoo, which is kind of

1017
00:44:03,520 --> 00:44:07,600
Speaker 2: crazy with how good he's been recently, especially with that.

1018
00:44:08,080 --> 00:44:09,600
Speaker 2: You know, in a lot of leagues he's first base

1019
00:44:09,680 --> 00:44:12,719
Speaker 2: third base eligible, and pretty much he should be in

1020
00:44:12,760 --> 00:44:13,160
Speaker 2: every league.

1021
00:44:13,200 --> 00:44:13,400
Speaker 1: I think.

1022
00:44:13,480 --> 00:44:16,360
Speaker 2: I think he mostly plays third. I think in a

1023
00:44:16,400 --> 00:44:18,080
Speaker 2: lot of leagues, Like if you're on Yahoo, he'll be

1024
00:44:18,120 --> 00:44:20,359
Speaker 2: first base eligible as well too. But you know, two

1025
00:44:20,360 --> 00:44:23,920
Speaker 2: pretty shallop positions, and you know, you got to take

1026
00:44:24,000 --> 00:44:25,480
Speaker 2: hitting where you can get it. Right now with how

1027
00:44:25,840 --> 00:44:28,000
Speaker 2: weird the landscape is, even though as I mentioned earlier,

1028
00:44:28,040 --> 00:44:29,560
Speaker 2: it's you know, things are starting to heat up. So

1029
00:44:30,560 --> 00:44:32,120
Speaker 2: he's available in a lot of leagues. I would go

1030
00:44:32,160 --> 00:44:35,720
Speaker 2: get him. And my favorite pitcher is Andrew Abbott. He's

1031
00:44:35,960 --> 00:44:38,800
Speaker 2: available in about half of Yahoo leagues, right around fifty percent,

1032
00:44:39,360 --> 00:44:41,879
Speaker 2: and I like him because he's been pitching fairly well,

1033
00:44:42,320 --> 00:44:46,320
Speaker 2: but also more importantly two starts at home against the

1034
00:44:46,400 --> 00:44:49,040
Speaker 2: Rockies and at home against the Marlins, and I'm going

1035
00:44:49,120 --> 00:44:51,520
Speaker 2: to pick my two start pitcher for a very similar reason.

1036
00:44:51,520 --> 00:44:53,560
Speaker 2: I'm going to pick his teammate coming up in a

1037
00:44:53,640 --> 00:44:56,920
Speaker 2: few minutes. But I'm always looking at two star pitchers

1038
00:44:57,000 --> 00:44:59,680
Speaker 2: streaming all my leagues, and when you get two, those

1039
00:44:59,680 --> 00:45:01,319
Speaker 2: are two the best matchups you can get, especially if

1040
00:45:01,320 --> 00:45:03,440
Speaker 2: you can get the Rockies away from Coursefield. So Andrew

1041
00:45:03,480 --> 00:45:05,879
Speaker 2: Abbott the pitcher, and Jose Miranda on the hitting sign.

1042
00:45:06,640 --> 00:45:09,759
Speaker 1: Let's go to weekend excitement. I am most excited for

1043
00:45:09,760 --> 00:45:12,360
Speaker 1: a couple different things. Aaron Nola versus Max Freed on

1044
00:45:12,440 --> 00:45:15,239
Speaker 1: Friday Night tonight is a really fun one that I'm

1045
00:45:15,280 --> 00:45:17,960
Speaker 1: excited to watch. Paul Skan's just anytime he's pitching on

1046
00:45:17,960 --> 00:45:20,440
Speaker 1: the weekend. I'm gonna pick Paul Skans in weekend excitement.

1047
00:45:20,680 --> 00:45:22,960
Speaker 1: He's going up against the Mets, and then Garrett Crochet

1048
00:45:22,960 --> 00:45:24,880
Speaker 1: against the Marlins for a couple of reasons. One is

1049
00:45:24,920 --> 00:45:27,320
Speaker 1: because he is all these rumors about being traded and

1050
00:45:27,400 --> 00:45:29,080
Speaker 1: I'm just kind of curious to see how he continues

1051
00:45:29,080 --> 00:45:30,840
Speaker 1: to hold up with the inning stuff. But two, like

1052
00:45:31,400 --> 00:45:34,360
Speaker 1: Krochet going against the Marlins could be an all time start.

1053
00:45:34,560 --> 00:45:37,160
Speaker 1: So that's what I'm excited for. What are you excited for?

1054
00:45:38,000 --> 00:45:40,919
Speaker 2: So I'm actually excited because I'm not getting a great

1055
00:45:41,000 --> 00:45:43,760
Speaker 2: pitching matchup, unfortunately, but maybe I'll see some good offense.

1056
00:45:43,800 --> 00:45:46,160
Speaker 2: But I'm actually going I live about thirty minutes from

1057
00:45:46,200 --> 00:45:49,239
Speaker 2: the Braves Ballpark and I've I've yet to go there,

1058
00:45:49,360 --> 00:45:50,600
Speaker 2: and so I'm going to go there for the first

1059
00:45:50,680 --> 00:45:53,800
Speaker 2: time on Sunday and when they see Phillies Braves. A

1060
00:45:53,960 --> 00:45:55,640
Speaker 2: friend of mine from Jersey is going to be in town,

1061
00:45:55,640 --> 00:45:56,919
Speaker 2: and so I'm going to meet him at the game.

1062
00:45:57,480 --> 00:45:59,640
Speaker 2: And it looks like I'm getting Michael and Mercatto versus

1063
00:45:59,680 --> 00:46:02,799
Speaker 2: re Now the Lopez that was my pitching matchup that day, Yeah,

1064
00:46:02,880 --> 00:46:06,359
Speaker 2: right now, might get some offense on that day, but yeah,

1065
00:46:06,400 --> 00:46:09,680
Speaker 2: I'm excited for that. I'm not really excited to you know,

1066
00:46:09,760 --> 00:46:12,080
Speaker 2: it's really, really really hot down here, so I don't

1067
00:46:12,120 --> 00:46:13,920
Speaker 2: know how I'm gonna if I'm really gonna love like

1068
00:46:14,040 --> 00:46:17,239
Speaker 2: sitting in the Braves Ballpark at ninety five degree heat.

1069
00:46:17,320 --> 00:46:19,680
Speaker 2: But you know, anytime I can see him a baseball

1070
00:46:19,719 --> 00:46:21,000
Speaker 2: game live in a while, sometime you get to go

1071
00:46:21,040 --> 00:46:22,279
Speaker 2: to the ballpark is a good day.

1072
00:46:23,080 --> 00:46:25,600
Speaker 1: All right. Let's go to our two start pitcher competition.

1073
00:46:25,840 --> 00:46:28,279
Speaker 1: A quick recap from the last month, since we, you know,

1074
00:46:28,360 --> 00:46:31,320
Speaker 1: have not been on together. So Kelly picked for me

1075
00:46:31,400 --> 00:46:33,320
Speaker 1: in the first week. I was actually picked Logan Gilbert,

1076
00:46:33,320 --> 00:46:35,400
Speaker 1: who beat Dylan Ceese, was your pick, so that was

1077
00:46:35,440 --> 00:46:39,200
Speaker 1: a win for me. Then Tuma picked Pablo Lopez. You

1078
00:46:39,360 --> 00:46:42,320
Speaker 1: picked John Gray that second week, easy win for me

1079
00:46:42,360 --> 00:46:45,719
Speaker 1: as well. Those are both pretty faster pick. Yeah, we're

1080
00:46:45,760 --> 00:46:49,000
Speaker 1: not gonna there's gonna be no debating that one from you.

1081
00:46:49,800 --> 00:46:52,080
Speaker 1: So those are two wins for me. And then the

1082
00:46:52,120 --> 00:46:55,640
Speaker 1: first week you were out. Bogman made a mistake. He

1083
00:46:55,800 --> 00:46:57,759
Speaker 1: I told him that he couldn't repeat anybody, but I

1084
00:46:57,800 --> 00:46:59,839
Speaker 1: forgot to remind him the list of who the has

1085
00:46:59,880 --> 00:47:02,239
Speaker 1: already been picked, and he didn't check the outline. It

1086
00:47:02,320 --> 00:47:04,160
Speaker 1: was mostly my fault. I take the blame. He picked

1087
00:47:04,200 --> 00:47:06,480
Speaker 1: Aaron Nola, who you had already used, so I said, okay,

1088
00:47:06,520 --> 00:47:09,400
Speaker 1: we'll have a one exception. We each can use one

1089
00:47:09,440 --> 00:47:12,200
Speaker 1: picture repeated once, so I have that so in my

1090
00:47:12,280 --> 00:47:14,880
Speaker 1: back pocket. Nola did beat Ranger Suarez. We went with

1091
00:47:14,960 --> 00:47:17,440
Speaker 1: a couple of Phillies because two Phillies pictures had two

1092
00:47:17,480 --> 00:47:19,960
Speaker 1: starts each, and Nola was better. So you were finally

1093
00:47:20,000 --> 00:47:21,760
Speaker 1: back on the board for the first time in a while.

1094
00:47:22,880 --> 00:47:25,879
Speaker 1: And then last week Welsh picked for you. He picked

1095
00:47:25,880 --> 00:47:28,719
Speaker 1: Scooble and I picked Hunter Brown. That one is still

1096
00:47:29,160 --> 00:47:32,959
Speaker 1: waiting to be determined here. Currently the record through twelve

1097
00:47:33,040 --> 00:47:35,440
Speaker 1: completed weeks is I have seven and you have five.

1098
00:47:35,960 --> 00:47:38,399
Speaker 1: So who are you picking to try and get even

1099
00:47:38,400 --> 00:47:39,799
Speaker 1: closer to evening this thing up?

1100
00:47:40,640 --> 00:47:43,920
Speaker 2: Well, real quick, as we go seven to five as

1101
00:47:43,960 --> 00:47:46,640
Speaker 2: the official Italian in your favor. There were two nail

1102
00:47:46,680 --> 00:47:51,120
Speaker 2: bitters that we had someone else pick, like who won

1103
00:47:51,200 --> 00:47:54,239
Speaker 2: that week, and Tuma picked one and Kelli picked one,

1104
00:47:54,320 --> 00:47:57,399
Speaker 2: and they both picked you, And so I will say

1105
00:47:57,400 --> 00:47:59,040
Speaker 2: it's seven to five, it could easily be six six

1106
00:47:59,160 --> 00:48:00,920
Speaker 2: or seven five the other act because we had two

1107
00:48:01,120 --> 00:48:03,759
Speaker 2: real nail biers, even when I tried to, you know,

1108
00:48:04,680 --> 00:48:08,040
Speaker 2: tell them that they had to pick me because I

1109
00:48:08,080 --> 00:48:10,399
Speaker 2: think matchup a few weeks agother was George Kirby versus

1110
00:48:10,440 --> 00:48:14,120
Speaker 2: Matt Waldron. They literally they had like really close lines,

1111
00:48:14,239 --> 00:48:16,880
Speaker 2: but uh, Kirby allowed like one more run, but I

1112
00:48:16,920 --> 00:48:19,560
Speaker 2: had more strikeouts, and I think Tuma gave you the

1113
00:48:19,840 --> 00:48:21,520
Speaker 2: win for that one, much to my chagrin.

1114
00:48:22,360 --> 00:48:24,360
Speaker 1: Kelly gave me the win on Kirby, which I remember

1115
00:48:24,440 --> 00:48:26,840
Speaker 1: her picking because she got the strikeouts. And then Tuma

1116
00:48:26,920 --> 00:48:29,200
Speaker 1: gave me the win on Logan Gilbert versus Dylan Cees.

1117
00:48:29,760 --> 00:48:33,080
Speaker 2: There you go, there you go. So you got that one.

1118
00:48:33,160 --> 00:48:37,440
Speaker 2: Good for you, Good for you. So for I already

1119
00:48:37,440 --> 00:48:39,440
Speaker 2: alluded to my pick, but I'm going to so for

1120
00:48:39,560 --> 00:48:42,000
Speaker 2: my waiver pick, I picked Andrew Abbott because he's got

1121
00:48:42,120 --> 00:48:44,600
Speaker 2: two great matchups and for my two star pitchering one

1122
00:48:44,640 --> 00:48:48,279
Speaker 2: with Nicolodolo for the two same matchups, home against the

1123
00:48:48,320 --> 00:48:49,600
Speaker 2: Rockies and home against the Marlins.

1124
00:48:49,920 --> 00:48:52,200
Speaker 1: Go me. Actually, I think I figured I wrong. I

1125
00:48:52,239 --> 00:48:53,919
Speaker 1: think I think Tuma did pick me as the winner

1126
00:48:53,960 --> 00:48:55,520
Speaker 1: with the Kirby one. I think I misspoke there, But

1127
00:48:55,560 --> 00:48:57,839
Speaker 1: either way, I think you did too. By the way

1128
00:48:57,960 --> 00:49:00,920
Speaker 1: an unbiased third party picked me, so.

1129
00:49:01,239 --> 00:49:03,399
Speaker 2: That I would have given Kelly a really hard time

1130
00:49:03,480 --> 00:49:05,239
Speaker 2: if she picked as a.

1131
00:49:05,239 --> 00:49:07,279
Speaker 1: Winner, because I forgot that we have to wait two

1132
00:49:07,320 --> 00:49:09,560
Speaker 1: weeks to make the pick, not one. Yeah, so yeah,

1133
00:49:09,600 --> 00:49:11,600
Speaker 1: it was definitely too much. Anyways, my pick, I'm going

1134
00:49:11,600 --> 00:49:13,520
Speaker 1: with Ronelle Blanco, who you have used this year I

1135
00:49:13,640 --> 00:49:15,520
Speaker 1: have not. He also gets to start against some rounds.

1136
00:49:15,560 --> 00:49:17,480
Speaker 1: I find it really difficult to pick this week, partly

1137
00:49:17,520 --> 00:49:20,400
Speaker 1: because the guys that were good I've already used, so

1138
00:49:21,120 --> 00:49:24,040
Speaker 1: in trying to keep with that, you know, not repeating anybody,

1139
00:49:24,239 --> 00:49:26,279
Speaker 1: it was very difficult for me to find somebody that

1140
00:49:26,360 --> 00:49:28,680
Speaker 1: I liked their matchups and the pitcher and I hadn't

1141
00:49:28,680 --> 00:49:30,480
Speaker 1: already used. So I figured I go with Blanco. He

1142
00:49:30,480 --> 00:49:31,719
Speaker 1: hasn't been as good as he was at the start

1143
00:49:31,719 --> 00:49:32,920
Speaker 1: of the year, but he still has it in him

1144
00:49:32,960 --> 00:49:35,560
Speaker 1: for good starts, and obviously this Marlin start, I'm hoping

1145
00:49:35,600 --> 00:49:37,920
Speaker 1: we'll go a long way for me, so that'll be

1146
00:49:37,960 --> 00:49:39,359
Speaker 1: my pick. I do have to get out of here.

1147
00:49:39,719 --> 00:49:41,880
Speaker 1: Good to have you back, buddy, Glad to be talking

1148
00:49:41,920 --> 00:49:43,640
Speaker 1: baseball with you again. We will be back together at

1149
00:49:43,719 --> 00:49:45,120
Speaker 1: least through the rest of July here and then we

1150
00:49:45,200 --> 00:49:48,200
Speaker 1: might have some scheduling bookkeeping too, let everybody know about

1151
00:49:48,760 --> 00:49:50,839
Speaker 1: as we get into August and closer to football season,

1152
00:49:50,880 --> 00:49:52,920
Speaker 1: when our lives become a lot busier, But at least

1153
00:49:52,920 --> 00:49:54,799
Speaker 1: stick with us through July and then the show will

1154
00:49:54,840 --> 00:49:56,800
Speaker 1: still be around beyond that, but we'll let everybody know

1155
00:49:56,880 --> 00:49:59,680
Speaker 1: what's coming once we get there. So for Mayor and

1156
00:49:59,760 --> 00:50:01,080
Speaker 1: for all the guest who filed in the last month,

1157
00:50:01,120 --> 00:50:03,560
Speaker 1: I really appreciate it. I'm Ryan warmly thank you everybody

1158
00:50:03,600 --> 00:50:05,879
Speaker 1: for tuning in. We'll see you again next week. Thanks

1159
00:50:05,920 --> 00:50:09,400
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1160
00:50:09,480 --> 00:50:12,840
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1161
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