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Speaker 1: it's me Joey p Joe Pizipia. That of course is
Speaker 1: Scott Bogman, and I could see in the chat Bogs.
Speaker 1: I guess people consider us fashion icons. People were guessing
Speaker 1: what shirt we were wearing the leading money basically, was
Speaker 1: you wearing the red polo today?
Speaker 2: Oh?
Speaker 3: Yeah, that's usually my uniform. But we're going We're going
Speaker 3: Johnny Cash today, all black. So I like that, the
Speaker 3: man in black, and it's great to have Bogman here.
Speaker 3: Welsh is out there getting multiple illnesses from the water
Speaker 3: park for the rest of the afternoon, so I told him,
Speaker 3: I said, you know, get sure you get some monachos
Speaker 3: and a margarita and a whole thing of penicillin.
Speaker 2: I think, right, and a bucket just to carry around. Right.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's unavoidable. You know, it's a great cruise.
Speaker 3: A cruise I feel like a little more dangerous, but
Speaker 3: I probably okay, a.
Speaker 1: Little more legionaires diseasy? Is that a is it a phrase?
Speaker 2: Yeah?
Speaker 1: I just made it up. But we got a lot
Speaker 1: of baseball to get to today, so Bogs and are
Speaker 1: going to break everything down from last night look ahead
Speaker 1: to today's action too. And it's June first, So again
Speaker 1: another a demarcation in the season another time. Now we
Speaker 1: are two thirds a third of the wax excuse me,
Speaker 1: officially through the baseball season. So that is again when
Speaker 1: you start evaluating your teams and seeing what's working and
Speaker 1: what's not. It was fun to see lance Ln not
Speaker 1: working again. I have to say because I was pissed Bogs.
Speaker 1: I dropped that bomb a couple of weeks ago after
Speaker 1: defending him in draft season, and then what happened. He
Speaker 1: put out his best two starts and I was saying
Speaker 1: some choice words. They might have had some expletives in it.
Speaker 3: And then last night, to your rescue, Joe, I'm yes,
Speaker 3: he made he made lance Lin look like a goofall
Speaker 3: like he has most of this season. And you know,
Speaker 3: I mean in a regular league, you can probably just
Speaker 3: go ahead and toss him aside. Not that he can't
Speaker 3: put it back together, but I mean, just by what metric?
Speaker 2: What are we going on? Where's the positive? I don't
Speaker 2: know where it.
Speaker 1: Is well, speaking of shoe Heel Tani, let's talk about
Speaker 1: shoe Heel TONI and the not one but two homers
Speaker 1: he had off Lancelin yesterday, so that's good news for me.
Speaker 1: They crushed the White Sox twelve to five. That's what
Speaker 1: you want to see and Otani. This is the time here,
Speaker 1: folks too, where you know when Otani starts to have
Speaker 1: these big games. And we're talking about this on the
Speaker 1: Twitter verse. Yesterday I was in a conversation with our
Speaker 1: own Ryan Warmly and of course Mike maher my favorite
Speaker 1: person of the universe, and we were talking about, you know,
Speaker 1: the Otani wagering on Twitter, and I said, yeah, Mayor
Speaker 1: made the joke that you know, once it turns February one,
Speaker 1: Joe makes all these investments in Otani and I do.
Speaker 1: But this year I was very specific. So you got
Speaker 1: to watch these games. Now, if he has a run
Speaker 1: where he hit has like a smoking hot June, you
Speaker 1: might want to consider cashing out because the risk of
Speaker 1: him getting Delta the National League. To me, Bogs is
Speaker 1: just too great of a possibility. And I think you
Speaker 1: take your money in, whether it be for Cy Young
Speaker 1: or more importantly MVP, which is already in the negative
Speaker 1: basically for most sites.
Speaker 2: Okay, like I I understand what, I understand.
Speaker 1: You I missed you. I missed when I say things
Speaker 1: like that and you go, eh.
Speaker 3: All right, look man, I mean, look, it's gonna take
Speaker 3: a trade for Otani would be like, what does that
Speaker 3: even look like? Like they were talking about on MLB
Speaker 3: Network yesterday, they were talking about how much he's gonna
Speaker 3: make on his next contract, said six hundred million is
Speaker 3: probably what he's gonna get. Because if you combine Prout's contract,
Speaker 3: which is what he does with like I think it
Speaker 3: was like Verlander's contract or somebody, it was just absurd
Speaker 3: what he would get. And so if you're gonna have
Speaker 3: to pay him that much, what do you have to
Speaker 3: give up to get him? It's like an entire system.
Speaker 3: So I don't know who's gonna be willing to give
Speaker 3: up the top five prospects.
Speaker 2: Yeah, okay, well.
Speaker 1: He's gonna pay him and number two. They've got the
Speaker 1: prospects to do it. And they got a prospects. They
Speaker 1: can choose either Baby or Viento's one of those two
Speaker 1: third base prospects. They can put Mauricio and bite the
Speaker 1: bullet with him because I've got Lindor, so really, typically
Speaker 1: you don't want to do that. Jet Williams is another
Speaker 1: big prospect. They have a couple pitching prospects there too,
Speaker 1: the mets of the one built for it, and they
Speaker 1: have the will to do it, which I think at
Speaker 1: the end of the day, it takes the ownership's will
Speaker 1: to do it. I don't. I think the Dodgers are
Speaker 1: in it too, But the Dodgers, it would have to
Speaker 1: be Bobby Miller, it would have to be Miguel Vargas,
Speaker 1: it would have to be like that kind of a package.
Speaker 1: And I don't know if they're structured the way they
Speaker 1: want to be to move all those guys, like that's
Speaker 1: gonna be a very top heavy team. It's gonna be Mookie,
Speaker 1: it's gonna be Freeman, and it's gonna be Shoeyotani. Because
Speaker 1: they also got Kershaw. Wondering how much longer he's gonna pitch.
Speaker 1: I know he's been great this year, but we were
Speaker 1: all kind of like, oh yeah, maybe kershawill throw another year.
Speaker 1: He looks like a young but I don't know how
Speaker 1: much long are you're gonna go at it?
Speaker 3: I think every everyone has had the day dream of
Speaker 3: what if Otani was on my team? And I think
Speaker 3: you just did it out loud to a bunch of people.
Speaker 3: So it's a realistic dream for you if you're a
Speaker 3: Pirates fan or Diamondbacks fan, or you know, there's nothing out.
Speaker 1: Of I see Beef Curtains is trolling me in the
Speaker 1: chat such a Mets fan. Tried and true, Tony doesn't
Speaker 1: want to play for that loser franchise. I don't blame
Speaker 1: him if he doesn't want to play for that loser franchise.
Speaker 1: I don't loser franchise. I'm just telling you this loser
Speaker 1: franchise has the guy with the biggest payroll who has
Speaker 1: you know, wants to swing it around basically, and I'm
Speaker 1: telling you right now he doesn't care. Mitch Keller also
Speaker 1: doesn't care about your feelings. Now. I got the strikeouts,
Speaker 1: but he didn't get the earned runs number, which was shocking.
Speaker 1: He's been fantastic, so four runs and six intings, so
Speaker 1: it wasn't quite stellar as usual for Mitch Keller. But
Speaker 1: he's got ninety strikeouts now before June first box, can
Speaker 1: we do you just all drink that in?
Speaker 2: Mitch Keller can anyhow someone that should be traded.
Speaker 3: I mean, I know the Pirates are playing great, but
Speaker 3: come on, man, like, how long is that gonna last?
Speaker 3: You know, it's like since O'Neil Cruz went down, they've
Speaker 3: gotten so much better, which is weird, but I don't.
Speaker 1: Know, it is weird. Yeah, they lose their best player
Speaker 1: and all of a sudden they're like a contender. Here's
Speaker 1: a fun fact, though, there's only one other Pirates pitcher
Speaker 1: to ever have ninety strikeouts by June first, and it
Speaker 1: was in twenty thirteen. So if the Peanuts and Cracker
Speaker 1: Jacks can name that Pirates pitcher.
Speaker 2: Oh, I think that's got fun thing, all right.
Speaker 1: Well, don't don't spoil it when the kids guess. Hey, yeah,
Speaker 1: like when the kids guess around things. Josh Nailer four
Speaker 1: for five with two run homer, six ribbies and a
Speaker 1: steel What a knife for Josh Naylor For the Guardians.
Speaker 1: Anthony Santandero, who we were talking about as a by
Speaker 1: low a few weeks ago, Well that ship is sailed.
Speaker 1: He had another homer yesterday and he did he was
Speaker 1: seen by the way drinking from the dongbong once again.
Speaker 1: So the dongbong was in full action. That of course
Speaker 1: is Mike Mayer. Oh no wait, it's Ryan Mike Malcastle
Speaker 1: drinking from the dongbong. But just terrific. You know, Santanterra's
Speaker 1: just been brilliant in the month of May. Now we
Speaker 1: see if he can continue in June. Siria Ruiz has
Speaker 1: his major league leading twenty eight steals. Bugs. We're June first,
Speaker 1: and the guy's got twenty eight steals? Tell me, is
Speaker 1: it nineteen eighty two? Because it was like nineteen eighty two.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, Now I'm the greatest of all time.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean, Ruiz feels like he's gonna steal one
Speaker 3: hundred this year. I mean looks like it's gonna be
Speaker 3: better than eighty, which hasn't happened in a while as well.
Speaker 3: So I like it. I like the stole and based uff.
Speaker 3: Of course, you know, my team, the Diamondbacks, is the
Speaker 3: fastest team in the BIGS. It feels like right now.
Speaker 3: So you know, Corbyn Carroll, he had the little knee
Speaker 3: injury earlier in May, but he has been swiping NonStop recently,
Speaker 3: so yeah, Akunya has been stealing him. I like, I
Speaker 3: feel like I like baseball more when we see a
Speaker 3: bunch of swipes, it feels more Ah.
Speaker 1: It feels more intense. The pace has been great, and
Speaker 1: you want to see the athleticism in the game, because
Speaker 1: I think it got stripped out of it basically over time.
Speaker 1: I mean, especially last year. The stone based totals were
Speaker 1: so low last two years compared to what they were
Speaker 1: in the past. You go back and watch. I remember
Speaker 1: during pandemic, MLB Network was showing all those like old
Speaker 1: games from the eighties, and it seemed like no matter
Speaker 1: who was on first, there was a possibility drum steel Base.
Speaker 2: Yeah, at least dancing over there.
Speaker 1: There was at least something going on, and the picture
Speaker 1: had to care about it. And you just completely saw
Speaker 1: that taken out of the game. I'm so glad that
Speaker 1: it's back now. In all fairness, the answer to the
Speaker 1: trivia question, Mike Mayer did guess at first, but I'm
Speaker 1: not going to acknowledge him on the program, so instead
Speaker 1: we're going to give it to it. No, it's not
Speaker 1: Dylan Cole, It's not Cole for Dylan Love it is. Indeed,
Speaker 1: Michael got it right. Michael Impo Burnett was the guy
Speaker 1: to do it, and that also had seven hundred walks
Speaker 1: in those.
Speaker 2: That sounds exactly correct.
Speaker 3: I used to draft Burnett every year because of all
Speaker 3: the strikeouts your pile up.
Speaker 1: Yeah, well, didn't he throw a I remember at one
Speaker 1: point he threw it was a no hitter for Miami,
Speaker 1: wasn't it? It wasn't Miami we threw the no hitter for?
Speaker 1: Or was it with the Pirates? I remember he threw
Speaker 1: no hitter and he walked like seven guys in that game,
Speaker 1: or six guys.
Speaker 2: I mean, that sounds right.
Speaker 3: I just remember Edwin Jackson's eight walk no hitter against
Speaker 3: It was close to that Rays when he had one
Speaker 3: hundred and fifty eight pitches or whatever.
Speaker 2: Aj Hinch trash.
Speaker 1: Let's talk about one of guys for your Diamondbacks. Sawmy Henry?
Speaker 1: How about Tommy twenty five year old lefty. He's got
Speaker 1: a three seven six ERA, seven strikeouts and seven scoreless frames,
Speaker 1: so high on both career highs on both. Now he's
Speaker 1: only got twenty five k's and forty innings, so obviously,
Speaker 1: you know, I don't know if this is what we're
Speaker 1: expecting for him, but you know, with the Brandon Fodd
Speaker 1: experiment kind of going south quickly, what are your thoughts
Speaker 1: on Tommy Henry sticking around this rotation.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I don't know.
Speaker 3: Like Tommy Henry has proven that he's good enough to
Speaker 3: stick around. I don't know if he's a fantasy asset though,
Speaker 3: But I mean the Rockies are.
Speaker 2: Terrible, dude, are still.
Speaker 1: The Rockies?
Speaker 2: Man?
Speaker 3: Yeah, they get out of Colorado, they have a hard
Speaker 3: time hitting. And that's exactly what happened last night. The
Speaker 3: pitching is trash. I mean, they're so bad in the
Speaker 3: the rotation right now. Show that Donaldson Lamet came off
Speaker 3: the IL as a reliever and they pushed him into
Speaker 3: a starting role.
Speaker 2: So you know, it's just uh.
Speaker 3: I feel like Tommy Henry had a great start last night,
Speaker 3: but it was against the Rockies. So if you can
Speaker 3: get him against weak opponents, great, But I'm not throwing
Speaker 3: him out there against anybody hot or anybody good.
Speaker 1: I was right. It was in two thousand and one.
Speaker 1: He was against the San Diego Padres, and AJ.
Speaker 3: Everybody knows how good the Padres were. No one, they
Speaker 3: were right.
Speaker 1: And here we go. It was nine he walked nine
Speaker 1: guys struck out seven, walked nine in his no hitter.
Speaker 1: I remember that line going that's the most improbable, impossible thing.
Speaker 2: I've ever seen. Padre's actually might have been pretty good.
Speaker 1: And I was gonna say they were really good aund
Speaker 1: that time.
Speaker 2: That was actually, yeah, it was. It was the next
Speaker 2: twenty years after that until the years right after.
Speaker 1: Was it the ninety nineteen what was really good?
Speaker 3: And yeah, they went to the World Series and got
Speaker 3: swept by the Yankees, right right?
Speaker 1: That was the Ken Keman Eddy years of the sand Yeah.
Speaker 3: Yeah, Trevor Hoffman, Trevor how Offman and.
Speaker 1: All those guys there. Louis Varlin had seven Squirrels innings
Speaker 1: with five k's as well. And James Paxton, well, he's
Speaker 1: been frustrating. He's like great or terrible. Eight strikeouts for
Speaker 1: him over five innings last night. It's a classic Paxxton line.
Speaker 1: I'm sure next week it'll be four innings and five
Speaker 1: earned runs in the next start. But we'll see what happens.
Speaker 1: But let's continue on here with the injuries. Carlos Rodona
Speaker 1: is scheduled to throw a bullpen session Friday, so I guess,
Speaker 1: I guess at this point it's gonna give you a
Speaker 1: number ten starts over under. Carlos rodon got under under Still.
Speaker 3: I love Carlos Raddan. He's great talent. But I was
Speaker 3: a couple of years early. Actually. I think last year
Speaker 3: I might have just been one year early on the
Speaker 3: injury worry for Corlins, for done. And this was all
Speaker 3: stemming back to when the White Sox wouldn't give him
Speaker 3: a contract, wouldn't give him anything, you know. So I
Speaker 3: don't know, man, I just I fear for that guy
Speaker 3: staying on the field.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean I thought he had turned a corner
Speaker 1: last year. I really did. I thought, you know, it's
Speaker 1: san Franny looked really good, and I was like, Okay,
Speaker 1: maybe this guy's just figured it out. And lefties sometimes
Speaker 1: they take a little longer. Historic We've seen that happen
Speaker 1: to some talented guys because he was a great college pitcher,
Speaker 1: you know, he was one of those guys and he
Speaker 1: felt like, Okay, this guy's gonna get it and get
Speaker 1: it right away. And he never did a good picture.
Speaker 1: But I can't stay on the field. I can't say it.
Speaker 1: Look it's a great picture. Gien. Carlos Stanton hamstring issue
Speaker 1: is rejoining the Yankees. I had a Friday season opener
Speaker 1: against the Dodgers in LA so that's gonna be fun.
Speaker 1: I was watching a thing too that I didn't realize.
Speaker 1: I caught this in one of the reels. It might
Speaker 1: even be one of you sent me that gian Carlos
Speaker 1: Stanton was a punter.
Speaker 2: It might even yeah I sent you that one.
Speaker 1: Yeah, Yeah, I didn't realize it was a punter and
Speaker 1: apparently amazing at it.
Speaker 2: Yeah. They said he played strong safety.
Speaker 1: He was great.
Speaker 3: He played I think wide or something wide receiver, that's
Speaker 3: what it is. So he was great there too. But
Speaker 3: I can't remember who it was. It was some movie star,
Speaker 3: some editor guy. Yeah, some actor guy who said I
Speaker 3: thought he's gonna go to the NFL as a punter
Speaker 3: because he would boom it eighty yards. And I always
Speaker 3: liked that Joe piece of piaz theory on why gian
Speaker 3: Carlos Stanton is always hurt.
Speaker 2: It's because he's too fit.
Speaker 3: He's too way too stiff because of it, and he thout.
Speaker 1: I want you to think about this, if you go
Speaker 1: back in the day and you watch these guys way
Speaker 1: one hundred.
Speaker 2: Don't remember Bartolo.
Speaker 1: I remember I remember Bartola Gol making thirty five starts
Speaker 1: every year during two hundred and forty that's all I remember.
Speaker 2: Yeah, with three different families.
Speaker 1: They go play baseball for six months and then go
Speaker 1: work at Ace Hardware for the next three months before
Speaker 1: it was training again. Like you know, like I think
Speaker 1: it's I think there's something to be said for overtraining.
Speaker 1: I do, And I think that's why you get so
Speaker 1: many muscle tears and poles of these guys nowadays, because
Speaker 1: I think they're they're training them they're training the muscles
Speaker 1: for the activity instead of training the muscles by doing
Speaker 1: the activity. I just think that's that's the core problem, and.
Speaker 2: That's what you need to do. Stan.
Speaker 3: You need to go help people find drywall screws on
Speaker 3: Aisle eight in the off season, working at ad instead
Speaker 3: of working out.
Speaker 1: Aaron Boone totally looks like he works at Ace Hardware.
Speaker 1: Like he's definitely a guy regional manager. Move all this stuff. Yeah,
Speaker 1: he's like, now we've we've moved all the hardware sections.
Speaker 1: One the light bulbs or in another plays or you
Speaker 1: go down one eye. My favorite thing is you always
Speaker 1: go down that one isle at home depot and if
Speaker 1: that person doesn't work in that aisle, they have no
Speaker 1: idea where anything. It is, like, look, can I.
Speaker 2: Get a hold on their phone. Hold on what was
Speaker 2: it called?
Speaker 1: You know where hoses are? I'm in, I'm in, Uh,
Speaker 1: I'm in light fixtures. I got nothing here. Oh I
Speaker 1: can tell you about all the light fixtures. I have
Speaker 1: no idea where nails are. I got nothing. That is
Speaker 1: the worst. I hate that. By the way. Uh, Anthony
Speaker 1: Rizzo was out again with the next issue, So keep
Speaker 1: an eye on mad in those day to day leagues.
Speaker 1: MRI and Michael Conforto's heel came back clean on Wednesday.
Speaker 1: That's good news. Jose Alvarado U thirteen pitch live batting
Speaker 1: practice session, so we'll monitor that. Alec Bohm under what
Speaker 1: the MRI wednesday on his hamstring. They can ill afford
Speaker 1: the Phillies to lose another corner Kai because Bohm has
Speaker 1: been playing some first base for them after Hall went down.
Speaker 1: Like they really they're in a spot where they better
Speaker 1: make a deal for another corner ish kind of guy, because.
Speaker 3: It feels like they need to Bryce. Can you just
Speaker 3: stand on first and catch the ball. We want to
Speaker 3: ask you to throw it at all. You can underhand
Speaker 3: it if you need to throw it, it's fine.
Speaker 1: By the way, Mayor said It's one hundred percent true.
Speaker 1: People tell their cell phones to see.
Speaker 3: Whats Yeah, I mean it's happened every time I've gone
Speaker 3: home depot, so.
Speaker 1: They do it. Lows any of that stuff. So funny. Also,
Speaker 1: this is very big news. Justin Steele is going to
Speaker 1: undergo an MLR and has left forearm Thursday.
Speaker 2: Anytime you hear forearm, and it's usually not great, but.
Speaker 1: Yes, the forearm is always a terrible thing, and I
Speaker 1: love it. This is David Ross's quote. Manager. We're not
Speaker 1: sounding any alarms yet. Really really, yeah, we're not. And
Speaker 1: it's a show.
Speaker 3: We're standing next to the button and ready to hit it,
Speaker 3: but we're not sounding it yet.
Speaker 1: Oh I'm sounding the alarms and everyone's saying AI because
Speaker 1: every time I bring up any thing or talk about that,
Speaker 1: all of a sudden weird things happen to the evening.
Speaker 1: Happened twice now and it's really hilarious. By the way,
Speaker 1: did you ever catch our did well sharing our AI
Speaker 1: lasagna making experience.
Speaker 3: Going yes, yeah, yeah, I think you both shared that
Speaker 3: to me that was because it upsetting.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I don't like you guys.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's are playing well though, making some lasagna, hitting
Speaker 1: some beating the Phillies. According to Joe, here's the other
Speaker 1: question too, when it comes to Steele, like it feels
Speaker 1: like that's the end of the Cubs because I feel like,
Speaker 1: I know Stroman's been it's been very good.
Speaker 3: Uh yeah, I mean, look, it doesn't help obviously, so
Speaker 3: but I don't know if it's the absolute end.
Speaker 2: So uh, It'll still stick around for a little bit.
Speaker 3: But you know that teams are gonna start the injuries
Speaker 3: are gonna start piling up for a bunch of teams
Speaker 3: pretty soon.
Speaker 1: The best thing we could hope for was steel. It
Speaker 1: is some sort of weird like sometimes it's not even
Speaker 1: the forearm. It's like some other thing going on in
Speaker 1: the nightis or something like that. That's the best case scenario,
Speaker 1: but Bogs, it just feels like every time we hear
Speaker 1: these things.
Speaker 2: Every time we hear four arm, you know, you clutch
Speaker 2: your pearls.
Speaker 1: Not the forearm. Here's a fun one too. Julio Tehran
Speaker 1: is still around. He pitched six innings in a win yesterday.
Speaker 1: He only with two guys, So like it, I don't
Speaker 1: know how sustainable this is, but Julio Tehran is back
Speaker 1: in baseball and he got a win yesterday against Alec Manoa,
Speaker 1: So that just tells you where Alec Manoa is these days.
Speaker 1: Three up and three down. George Kirby struck out seven
Speaker 1: guys in eight innings against the Yankees. Kybrit Ruiz sticking
Speaker 1: it to his old team, the World Organization, not one
Speaker 1: but two dingers. Bookie Betts crushed on the prize picks yesterday.
Speaker 1: Ye hair of Solo Homers. Beautiful day to be alive.
Speaker 1: The downs. Josh Hader blew a third save of the year.
Speaker 1: We already talked about Lance Lin's eight earned runs and
Speaker 1: four innings gross as he already at six point five
Speaker 1: to five, and then there's Alec Manoa. Four innings, three hits,
Speaker 1: two or three walks. He only went four innings. He
Speaker 1: was fighting to get back into this game. Like, but
Speaker 1: the manager and the managers like, nah, bra just I.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I was listening to the game.
Speaker 3: They were talking about how the Blue Jays are kind
Speaker 3: of putting it on him, Like they were asking about
Speaker 3: like do you think it's mechanics? He said nope, And
Speaker 3: they said do you think it's you know anything?
Speaker 2: Nope, nope, nope.
Speaker 3: He said, I think the ball is in Manoa's court
Speaker 3: is basically what it boiled down to, like, it's just, uh,
Speaker 3: management is putting it on Minoa. They said they we
Speaker 3: have done everything we possibly can to help him out,
Speaker 3: so now they're kind of putting it on him to
Speaker 3: straighten it out.
Speaker 2: And he went out there and choked again. So I
Speaker 2: don't know.
Speaker 3: I think maybe the old change of scenery is gonna
Speaker 3: happen already. I mean, what else I mean when when
Speaker 3: management is already throwing you under the bus, Joe, what
Speaker 3: what I mean?
Speaker 2: What is there left? So love?
Speaker 3: Yeah, that's it. Okay, we'll go to the city of
Speaker 3: brotherly love. Trade him to Philly and he'll be great there.
Speaker 1: You go, Yeah, to Philadelphia.
Speaker 3: They're so nice in Philly. They're never mad at the players,
Speaker 3: So that's good.
Speaker 1: I guess the whole point when it comes to a
Speaker 1: guy like Alec Manoa, because I'm just bringing this up
Speaker 1: right now because I want to, you know, take a
Speaker 1: look at what those stats are. But this was a
Speaker 1: guy that rocketed through the minor leagues, a guy that
Speaker 1: really has booked outstanding in Major League Baseball the last
Speaker 1: couple of years. If you look at the you know,
Speaker 1: minor league track record. I know it wasn't a long
Speaker 1: one for him necessarily, and I think maybe maybe that's
Speaker 1: part of it, that he didn't spend a long time,
Speaker 1: you know, kind of figuring things out. So are they
Speaker 1: telling us it's a maturity issue, a preparation issue, Like
Speaker 1: I feel like that day.
Speaker 3: They really don't think it's anything that he's doing physically.
Speaker 3: They feel like it's between the ears. I mean, that
Speaker 3: is every signal that you have is management is not
Speaker 3: buying Manoa. They think it's between the ears and he
Speaker 3: needs to strain it out himself. Because they've done all
Speaker 3: the mechanical stuff, they've done all the pitch change stuff.
Speaker 3: They thought maybe a little bit like They're like, do
Speaker 3: you think the pitch clock is getting to him? They said, nah,
Speaker 3: he's gotten through that. We thought that maybe in the middle, but.
Speaker 1: Well, I think a lot of people thought that at first.
Speaker 1: But it's the walks at the end of the day
Speaker 1: that are just your doing. I mean, at a certain
Speaker 1: point you have to trust your stuff and you have
Speaker 1: to throw strikes, pound the zone and go after it.
Speaker 3: All.
Speaker 1: Right, enough, Alex Manoa talk, Let's get to some prize picks.
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Speaker 1: Prize Picks, I've got Joe Musgrove at five picture strikeouts
Speaker 1: on the over, Hazel's Wizardo six picture strikeouts on the under,
Speaker 1: going the under on this one, and Corbyn Carrol eight
Speaker 1: and a half hit he fantasy points. I'm going over
Speaker 1: on that, and just like yesterday, I went the over
Speaker 1: on Mookie Betts and Crush. That give me the guys
Speaker 1: with the hitter fantasy scores around eight eight and a half,
Speaker 1: who have power, who have speed, who can get your
Speaker 1: pin different ways. That's the key to that one box.
Speaker 1: What do you have here on the Price Picks.
Speaker 3: Taylor Ward hits Framber pretty well, so over one and
Speaker 3: a half hits runs and RBI is hitting four hundred
Speaker 3: in his career against Ramberg, so pretty solid there. Schures
Speaker 3: are over six and a half, k's Chris Sale over
Speaker 3: six and a half k's fill in Cincinnati have top
Speaker 3: ten highest K percentages in baseball. So you know, shorter
Speaker 3: slate today, less to pick from, but give me those strikeouts.
Speaker 1: I love it when the Peanuts and Cracker Jacks break
Speaker 1: news to us too. We have one here from Tristan Torres.
Speaker 1: Alec Bohm did and just go on the il with
Speaker 1: that hamstring. So there you go, left ham.
Speaker 2: String and Noah to play third. That's what's gonna happen.
Speaker 1: Now, you're just dying to get him in Philadelphia.
Speaker 2: No, but I mean he said he needs some love.
Speaker 2: It's the city, you brother, They love, they love everybody.
Speaker 1: When you have players struggling, you know, you have a
Speaker 1: couple of different ways you could deal with it. And
Speaker 1: I think whenever you have younger managers, they have less
Speaker 1: patience with guys or you know, some OF's older and
Speaker 1: they've just been there, done that a million times. It's
Speaker 1: kind of it's when you watch, let's say, the struggles
Speaker 1: of certain guys with Buck Showalter over the years. Like
Speaker 1: show doesn't panic about anybody, Terry Francona doesn't panic about anybody. Right,
Speaker 1: those guys don't care. They've been around, they've seen it.
Speaker 1: You know. I think there just becomes this undue pressure
Speaker 1: an organization like that, and I always said this about
Speaker 1: the Blue Jays. This year, I said, you know, the
Speaker 1: blue Jays are gonna have a lot more expectations on
Speaker 1: him this year. I want to see how they perform
Speaker 1: with expectations, because they've been the lovable darling here for
Speaker 1: a long time. But expectations, it's a whole different kind
Speaker 1: of pressure, and I don't think so far they've performed
Speaker 1: well collectively under that pressure. Betting wise today again, you
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Speaker 1: I've got Freddy Perol to four and a half k's
Speaker 1: the over Pablo Lopez four and a half k's. It's
Speaker 1: a small number. Cleveland does not strike out a lot.
Speaker 1: I think you can get to five, so we'll go
Speaker 1: the over on that one, but it is close. Muscrove,
Speaker 1: I'm already over there five and a half and then
Speaker 1: Chris Sales six and a half strikeouts for him, so
Speaker 1: I'm gonna go over on that one too. Against Cincinnati
Speaker 1: tenor Biby also five and a half k's. I think
Speaker 1: can go over that, especially against Minnesota who strikes out
Speaker 1: every two seconds. Bogs, are you looking at the wagering slate?
Speaker 1: What do you have today?
Speaker 3: Let's go Peven Smith over one and a half total bases.
Speaker 3: He's hit homers in three of his last nine games
Speaker 3: so and also leading off for the d Backs most games.
Speaker 3: So I like that, Zach Davies, we'll sack my d
Speaker 3: Backs today because they're playing late over four and a
Speaker 3: half k's that's plus money, and they're playing against Colorado
Speaker 3: who's terrible on the road, so we like that. We'll
Speaker 3: go with Taylor Ward is plus one fifty against Franbert
Speaker 3: because it's the old lefty lefty there Sea bowled over
Speaker 3: two and a half earned runs is minus one thirty five.
Speaker 3: But I mean Colorado starts have been terrible and Astros
Speaker 3: over four and a half total runs is minus one
Speaker 3: ten today and they have gone over five. They've gone
Speaker 3: five or more in five of the last six. So
Speaker 3: those are the bets that I like for today.
Speaker 1: You know, Bogs, everybody says that, you know, Twitter is
Speaker 1: a wasteland and social media is terrible. You know, I
Speaker 1: posted it like black books usually out for right football.
Speaker 1: We're working on the black book ever, all Fantasy Pros
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Speaker 2: It's my fault because your fault. Too long.
Speaker 1: No, but unfortunately there's been some you know, unforeseen family
Speaker 1: stuff going on from from my parents and stuff with
Speaker 1: their health last couple weeks, and I'm just behind on
Speaker 1: stuff like I always want need it today.
Speaker 3: I know your family, Joe, I need people today.
Speaker 1: Everybody's so nice. Hey, hope everything's okay, don't you know
Speaker 1: everyone's been very supportive and nice. Not me.
Speaker 2: I'm the need it today. Where's my black book? Where
Speaker 2: is it? Joe?
Speaker 1: Come on? Elon Musk even tweeted, Hey, bro, it's all
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Speaker 1: as well. For me today, looking at the DFS slate,
Speaker 1: it's funny. Usually these short slates, sometimes I just pass
Speaker 1: all together. Usually I'm on the FanDuel side of things too.
Speaker 1: But on DK today you want to play on DK
Speaker 1: because the prices are loose, and they never are on DK,
Speaker 1: but today they are. Chris Sale's just seven point nine,
Speaker 1: Tan or Biby seven point three, Bablo Lopez seven to six. Oh,
Speaker 1: what's going on? They got hammered last night and then
Speaker 1: they decided to just like set all the things. The
Speaker 1: most expensive guy is fran Bravaldes by far at nine
Speaker 1: point eight, which he's usable too obviously. Yeah, a lot
Speaker 1: of guys in the seven and a half range to eight.
Speaker 1: It's a great grouping. Boston Houston agains short slate so
Speaker 1: you can control a little bit more. Sometimes you get
Speaker 1: those short slates. We don't like to pitch, you don't
Speaker 1: like the matchups. This is one where you've got a
Speaker 1: lot to like. Justin Turner three to eight, Alex Kiroloffer
Speaker 1: three to one, Roycelissa two nine, a lot of guys
Speaker 1: you can help save some money on now to make
Speaker 1: those hitters count.
Speaker 2: With all those pictures being cheap, everybody's gonna have good hitters.
Speaker 1: So yeah, and what you got to do is also
Speaker 1: get involved in the home run contest too. Primetime at twenty,
Speaker 1: razor at nineteen. Still we did not get Welsh on
Speaker 1: the board with sixteen. Even though he's gotten sixteen, he's
Speaker 1: not here today so we can get away with this.
Speaker 1: But we have Joe dec. Eighty nine getting on the board.
Speaker 1: So that's the first time I've seen that name. Congratulations
Speaker 1: to Joe. Well, hopefully he'll be at the Joe meeting
Speaker 1: in the next week. We have one every single there's
Speaker 1: Joe meeting every week. Is Joe can?
Speaker 2: I can?
Speaker 1: I really? I never know all these years, it's.
Speaker 2: Not I'm just making that up. So that's sad.
Speaker 1: I say it now now I would like you finally
Speaker 1: after all these years. But nope, still a jerk. I'm
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Speaker 3: Give me Christian Walker. I'll stick with my Diamondbacks on
Speaker 3: a short slate against bag. You call me today, all
Speaker 3: this Corbyn carriny the Diamondbacks, Joe so.
Speaker 1: To do it?
Speaker 3: And also are the Mets playing the Rockies? I bet
Speaker 3: you'd take you taken way more Mets if they're playing
Speaker 3: the Rockies today. So uh, it's and Walker crushed one yesterday,
Speaker 3: so and he's just been he's about to go on
Speaker 3: a hot streak.
Speaker 2: He's right there.
Speaker 1: Here's one from Jonathan Appleseed. Is Bryce Miller for Kylee
Speaker 1: Schwarber a good trade? It is if you're getting Bryce Miller.
Speaker 2: So that's I don't know.
Speaker 3: Schwarber hits his hot streak, you know, around this time
Speaker 3: every year, with the weather warming up and everything. I
Speaker 3: think it's fair for sure.
Speaker 1: I watched college Schwarber take a couple of at bats
Speaker 1: the last couple of days, and he just looks terrible,
Speaker 1: like he said.
Speaker 2: Yeah, look, I mean it's a thin line between.
Speaker 1: You know, he was my biggest buck.
Speaker 3: That's gonna hear too fifty bombs and Joey Gallo. You know,
Speaker 3: the batting profile is terrible and he's been bad this year,
Speaker 3: so it's fair.
Speaker 1: I would say, yeah, that profile players. There's always when
Speaker 1: I stay away from the Gallows, the Schwarberg. I just
Speaker 1: I can't get there with those guys. And I understand
Speaker 1: they've got prolific power, and last year everything broke right
Speaker 1: for Kylee s Warber, but the repeatability of that was crazy.
Speaker 1: Oh here's a good one from Cody too. It was
Speaker 1: like Jordan Walker turning things around a little bit in
Speaker 1: triple A. So he's available in your league now, would
Speaker 1: be a good time to slide him on to the
Speaker 1: waiver wire. By the way, the Waiver Wire video comes
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Speaker 1: Some good names and breakdowns of La Dela Cruz and
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Speaker 1: check that out on Betting Pros on the YouTube. But Boggs,
Speaker 1: this is just Nuggets in five, nuggets and six, what
Speaker 1: do you say?
Speaker 3: Let's say nuggets in six. I just you know BAM's
Speaker 3: gonna have a tough time against So yeah, it.
Speaker 1: Seems like it seems like it. Who wouldn't Who wouldn't?
Speaker 1: But yeah, so good stuff. Scott Bogman. Always great to
Speaker 1: have you to catch up with you a little bit,
Speaker 1: and we'll see if Welsh. I want Welsh to come
Speaker 1: to tomorrow show, and I want him to have like
Speaker 1: one of those cartoony you know, ice packs on his
Speaker 1: head with a thermometer and.
Speaker 3: Oh yeah yeah, just cartoon burn around his head.
Speaker 2: Yeah yeah, yeah.
Speaker 1: The water park, it's it's gonna be great. He's right though,
Speaker 1: He's like, I'll be fine Friday. It's Saturday when it'll
Speaker 1: hit me and then I'll have antibiotics by Sunday. So
Speaker 1: tune in tomorrow to see how Welsh feels after the
Speaker 1: water park. That'll do it for us, But the story
Speaker 1: of the game goes on for Scott Bogman. I'm Joey P.
Speaker 1: We'll see you next time. Kids. Enjoy your Thursday.