Speaker 1: I feel one on one. You see a couple of
Speaker 1: me in my taste with me and my lemonade, because
Speaker 1: I let the way it taste. Best seat at the Pirates.
Speaker 1: Can he let me run the base?
Speaker 2: Yeah?
Speaker 1: My time is like my money because I can't afford
Speaker 1: to waste. Oh why see is alloyer? Take my date
Speaker 1: to my dates or the stick by the plate syndic
Speaker 1: case keep the case from my race at my pace.
Speaker 3: Cleared Brass and a.
Speaker 4: Snake Episode three eighty nine of Bucco Banter presented by
Speaker 4: Brave Bean Coffee Company. Boys, we have a trade with
Speaker 4: the San Diego Padres. It's exactly who you thought it
Speaker 4: would be.
Speaker 5: Jim. Let the fans know who the newest.
Speaker 4: Relief pitcher coming out of the bullpen for your Pittsburgh
Speaker 4: Pirates is gonna be.
Speaker 2: Well, I'm gonna give you the Yenzer pronunciation of it,
Speaker 2: and it's not Mason Miller. So here we go. Guys,
Speaker 2: do you hear about these buckets? They got this? Uh
Speaker 2: Ronnie Maranaccia from the Padres up there?
Speaker 5: Not not bad?
Speaker 6: I love that.
Speaker 3: No, I mean, guys, listen, I think at this point
Speaker 3: of the season, in all seriousness, but there was a
Speaker 3: lot that's better than Dennis Santana. And I was telling him, sure,
Speaker 3: I think we even might have mentioned this on our
Speaker 3: weekend show, Like just make a move now.
Speaker 6: It doesn't have to be your big splash move.
Speaker 3: I know there's like eleven days to the trade deadline,
Speaker 3: but like, go make that claim.
Speaker 6: That's how you got Dennis Santana in the first place.
Speaker 1: Go.
Speaker 3: I wanted them to take a gamble on Nate Pearson.
Speaker 3: He it wasn't gonna be your long term fix, but
Speaker 3: get him in the door and get Tennessee Tanna out
Speaker 3: the door.
Speaker 6: Just do that. Now, we can't afford to keep punting games.
Speaker 3: I feel like every week we're leaving a game out
Speaker 3: there and it's they're just starting to stack up boys,
Speaker 3: they're starting to stack up and I rod Marnachi or
Speaker 3: the number of sexy No. But I mean this is
Speaker 3: a guy just two years ago, that was when he
Speaker 3: was with the Yankees. I was like potential, high leverage,
Speaker 3: upside and just inconsistency in his career and the command
Speaker 3: has just not been there. He recently added a cutter
Speaker 3: to the mix. He's mostly a foreseen change guy, but
Speaker 3: if nothing else, it's a low risk.
Speaker 4: Interesting move risk indeed, and I think there's no reason
Speaker 4: to be upset about this move unless it is the move.
Speaker 5: You get what I'm saying here.
Speaker 4: If eleven days goes by and then that's your guy,
Speaker 4: then yeah, you have every right to be absolutely pissed off.
Speaker 4: But right now, like Scott said, you just need to
Speaker 4: make moves to switch something up because eleven days is
Speaker 4: a long time. Eleven games is a long time. That's
Speaker 4: a lot of games that you can win that could
Speaker 4: put you ahead in the wild card standings, and you've
Speaker 4: already sacrificed enough because of poor performances out of the bullpen.
Speaker 4: You could have made moves like this probably earlier. If
Speaker 4: this is the type of compensation that you're giving up
Speaker 4: international pools money, sure you could probably could have done
Speaker 4: that a little bit earlier. But maybe he helps out
Speaker 4: for eleven days. Maybe he doesn't. But there needs to
Speaker 4: be more right now, Like you mentioned, low risk move.
Speaker 2: It's it's it's addition by subtraction. At this point, guys,
Speaker 2: Dennis Santana cannot pitch another inning for the Pittsburgh Party
Speaker 2: this year. I mean, you know, even if he clears
Speaker 2: waivers and goes down there and does well. I just
Speaker 2: I will say. The odd thing about this is there
Speaker 2: was about a year stretch in there where Dennis Santana
Speaker 2: was one of the better relievers in baseball. I don't
Speaker 2: know what happened. I you know, obviously baseball is a
Speaker 2: funny game. Is there another sport where guys can just
Speaker 2: bottom out as quickly as they do in baseball? I
Speaker 2: don't think there is, because, like I said, for a
Speaker 2: good year there, man Dennis Santana, thirty teams would have
Speaker 2: taken Dennis Santana at one point.
Speaker 6: Yeah, you could have.
Speaker 4: Convinced me last year that he signed a three year
Speaker 4: contract with like the Dodgers, and I'd be like, yeh,
Speaker 4: that makes sense given a twenty plus million dollars like
Speaker 4: that would have made sense. But as Zach mentions here,
Speaker 4: that's just the life of a reliever squat. I mean,
Speaker 4: you know, it's pitching so hard, and it's so ball town.
Speaker 4: These guys are failed starters, and like they'll tell you
Speaker 4: that it's because something didn't work, but you found a
Speaker 4: way to make it work, and that doesn't always last.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean hindsight, but like this is the guy
Speaker 3: that you claimed off waivers and and most of his
Speaker 3: career has just been that of a journeyman, right. He
Speaker 3: hasn't been able to stick anywhere, and he hasn't pitched well.
Speaker 3: His success in Pittsburgh was a huge outlier. And you know,
Speaker 3: he could have probably gotten something for him at last
Speaker 3: year's deadline, and they chose to flip the other guy, David Bednard.
Speaker 3: That's all hindsight. I'm not saying they should have, but
Speaker 3: they could have, right, and you know.
Speaker 6: It just he ended up.
Speaker 3: It was just after that Cardinals game, They're up to nothing,
Speaker 3: he blew that save. I feel like Adam and I
Speaker 3: were getting ready to go down to do postgame and
Speaker 3: then it was like, oh they lost. Oh this is
Speaker 3: a totally different figure. And it's just like it just
Speaker 3: fell from there, guys, it fell from there. And you know,
Speaker 3: I wish him the best because he he brought a
Speaker 3: really good attitude to the ballpark every day and you
Speaker 3: would never know that he was going through what he
Speaker 3: was going through. U. But at the same time, it
Speaker 3: was necessary move, probably way overdue.
Speaker 2: Yeah, at least at least he gave us the Cavaliero moment,
Speaker 2: you know, on his way out the door. So you know,
Speaker 2: good luck God bless. But you can't do it here anymore, buddy.
Speaker 5: Yeah, there, there's got to be more moves. We're eleven
Speaker 5: days away.
Speaker 4: Like we mentioned, we're going to go through a lot
Speaker 4: of trades in this episode. If you have any trade ideas,
Speaker 4: drop them in the chat. We'll try and get to them.
Speaker 4: We have a lot that we're submitted through social media.
Speaker 4: Let's recap the Yankee series really quick. Game one gets
Speaker 4: off to a rough start. The Magician puts them ahead
Speaker 4: Jared Triollo, the bat's still going. I know Scott's absolutely
Speaker 4: hyped on that because he's the biggest Jared Triolo supporter.
Speaker 3: We're still putting together those apology for him, so just
Speaker 3: you know, be on the lookout for those.
Speaker 6: We'll be distributing. Right.
Speaker 4: So, Game one, they lose, you get game Game two's postponed,
Speaker 4: you get another double header. This team cannot catch a break.
Speaker 4: What is that three in three weeks? Boys, that you
Speaker 4: have to play two in one day. I mean, the
Speaker 4: occasional doubleheader is fun, but this just has such a
Speaker 4: task on your guys, or pay such a toll on
Speaker 4: your guys. And then Game two positives. Mitch Keller looked
Speaker 4: really good, right, they gave up the lead. Carmen macginski,
Speaker 4: they fight back, good stuff. Game three, Bubba Chandler looks
Speaker 4: the best he ever has been, and this is where
Speaker 4: things get a little.
Speaker 5: Sticky with the fan base.
Speaker 4: Bubba goes six and a third, He only gives up
Speaker 4: two hits, what one walk?
Speaker 5: He was on fire. He looked great.
Speaker 4: They pull him for Brandon Eisert and it immediately goes downhill.
Speaker 4: And a lot of people were in our comments saying, well,
Speaker 4: you can't blame the bullpen for this one. They didn't
Speaker 4: score any runs. I could still blame the bullpen for
Speaker 4: this one because it was a zero zero game.
Speaker 6: Theoretically you could do whatever you want.
Speaker 4: But exactly a free it's a free world. Guys, how
Speaker 4: do you feel about that situation? Because I feel like
Speaker 4: it's pretty split right now.
Speaker 3: Right I think you run him out there at the start.
Speaker 3: I mean, I think you continue going out.
Speaker 5: There with yeah, but you pull him in that situation.
Speaker 3: Right with one out, and you know, I think what
Speaker 3: would be huge and this is obviously not important to
Speaker 3: Yester's game, but obviously I think it would be huge
Speaker 3: to see him have a big second half, a big
Speaker 3: second half, And I think that's the name I'm circling
Speaker 3: as a guy that could take that next sleep after
Speaker 3: the All Star break. But that being said, yeah, Donnie
Speaker 3: Kelly's reasoning in the postgame, just be honest, wasn't the
Speaker 3: best for taking him out. And at some point you
Speaker 3: got to ask yourself, am I doing everything I can
Speaker 3: to win?
Speaker 6: And I'm not saying that he's not.
Speaker 3: But you know, we're getting too we're getting too cute
Speaker 3: with guys like Brandon Eiser should not be pitching in
Speaker 3: any meaningful outings. It should be like nine to one
Speaker 3: and he's coming in against one left handed batter and
Speaker 3: that's it.
Speaker 6: Like it's you can't throw this guy out there anymore.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's it's tough because I you know, I think
Speaker 2: there's there they're so concerned about, like protecting the pictures, right,
Speaker 2: whether it's Chandler because he's younger and you want to
Speaker 2: protect arms, or Mitch Keller and you want to protect
Speaker 2: his psyche. You know, it's like, at some point, I
Speaker 2: do think, you know, you need to let these guys
Speaker 2: go a little deeper, especially if your mantra seems to
Speaker 2: be organizationally, we're going to pull pictures early to get
Speaker 2: to our bullpen, which, by the way, the bullpen sucks.
Speaker 2: So it's like, that's that's a hard Those things don't
Speaker 2: really jive together. Yeah, I think too, Like Adam you mentioned,
Speaker 2: you know, like people are like this one's on the offense.
Speaker 2: Oh okay, this is a top five offense in baseball.
Speaker 2: They're not going to score five six runs every night.
Speaker 2: Like every once in a while, your team has to
Speaker 2: pitch and throw up zeros until your offense can do
Speaker 2: something like it's it's not on the offense in my opinion,
Speaker 2: like they're not going to do that every night, and
Speaker 2: sometimes your your staff has to keep you in a
Speaker 2: ball game and has to pitch well until you get
Speaker 2: it going offensively.
Speaker 6: And I'll tell you, I'll tell you what.
Speaker 3: Max Freed and Garrett Cole both looked phenomenal yesterday for
Speaker 3: the Yankees. I know we tagged Garrett Cole two times
Speaker 3: to take a lead and get on the scoreboard, but
Speaker 3: I mean both were generating a ton of whiffs at
Speaker 3: the plate and we weren't able to get it going
Speaker 3: in Game two against Max Freed.
Speaker 6: So yeah, I don't know.
Speaker 3: I much would I would have much rather have seen
Speaker 3: like Noah Murdoch in place of Brandon Eisert there.
Speaker 5: I tell you what I think.
Speaker 4: That's why I didn't hear much of what you guys said,
Speaker 4: because I know you're talking about the bullpen. But I
Speaker 4: looked to my right and my dog just pooped all
Speaker 4: over the ground, just diarrhead all over, which I guess
Speaker 4: is kind of just like what's going on with the
Speaker 4: brat's bullpen right now. Anytime you throw it out there,
Speaker 4: she had the timing perfectly, but right in front of
Speaker 4: my face. So album for later, Adam, I might get
Speaker 4: a whiff of it here pretty soon.
Speaker 6: That's what it's gonna get.
Speaker 2: It's gonna get stuffy in there.
Speaker 6: It's gonna get. I don't think Farrel, Weaver and Oakin
Speaker 6: can help with that.
Speaker 4: No, no, no, this was a crime committed against me though,
Speaker 4: this really was.
Speaker 5: And god the dog might be Gentley, Oh my god.
Speaker 4: All right, well, hey, listen, you split a road trip, right,
Speaker 4: But the problem is you should have won all three
Speaker 4: in Cleveland, and you really left a lot of stuff
Speaker 4: out there in New York. That being said, not all
Speaker 4: is in the dump slot. They're still in a good
Speaker 4: position right now, but you really really have to take
Speaker 4: advantage at least of these next eleven days until you
Speaker 4: make that move, right, because you have the Cubs really
Speaker 4: big series, and you have the Diamondbacks.
Speaker 2: That's another Yeah, that one's coming up big, isn't it.
Speaker 6: Yeah.
Speaker 4: So you got all these teams that are right there
Speaker 4: with you, and you're still finding ways to lose ball games, right,
Speaker 4: You're finding ways not to do. Other teams aren't beating
Speaker 4: you out right, You're finding ways to lose ball games.
Speaker 4: And that's really been the entire story of the twenty
Speaker 4: twenty six season is this is a potentially really good team,
Speaker 4: but you always have to put the qualifier there that
Speaker 4: potentially a really good team until they totally put it together.
Speaker 5: And we're just kind of waiting for that moment.
Speaker 6: Yeah.
Speaker 3: I mean, I like the pitching that we have going
Speaker 3: this weekend with Jared Paul and Braxton, but I also
Speaker 3: hate to see the pitchers that are coming in for
Speaker 3: the Cubs. Matthew Boyd is a difficult lefty that can
Speaker 3: be to see if it's not going to overpower you.
Speaker 3: But I think we've always really struggled with him and
Speaker 3: then showed at Minaga, who I know we struggled with
Speaker 3: on Saturday Versis Skeins. That'll be a really good matchup.
Speaker 3: So maybe got Jamison tie on, but I would love
Speaker 3: to take one of or ideally both first two games.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I think too, Like as Zach mentions here, anything
Speaker 2: specific you're seeing in regard to Laalan O'Hearn's offensive woes, Yeah,
Speaker 2: I think this is just baseball. It happens. They faced
Speaker 2: some lefties recently, a little maybe uptick there, and now
Speaker 2: they're going to face two more. I think they'll be fine.
Speaker 2: But yeah, like when they're not swinging the bats, and
Speaker 2: Reynolds has looked a little bit off. You know, you
Speaker 2: get three guys not really swinging the bat well in
Speaker 2: the lineup, and even the Pirates they're only so so deep,
Speaker 2: you know.
Speaker 3: So it's the dog days of summer, which you know,
Speaker 3: it's a great time to have the Wolf game.
Speaker 6: That's what people are telling me, at least, you know,
Speaker 6: I think.
Speaker 3: It's needed to reinvigorate the fan base and the team.
Speaker 6: So possibly the league, possibly the league.
Speaker 3: Yeah, they're gonna be on notice very soon, as soon
Speaker 3: as Monday, so stay tuned.
Speaker 4: I think when we're talking about what they're really struggling with,
Speaker 4: I think at least, what I've seen with O'Hearn is
Speaker 4: just getting behind in counts. I don't think anything there
Speaker 4: is wrong with the swing. I've seen him fell off
Speaker 4: a couple of pitches where it's like, man, he just misset.
Speaker 5: He's right on it.
Speaker 4: But both of them are getting behind in counts pretty quickly.
Speaker 4: And I know O'Hearn's taken a couple of pitches that,
Speaker 4: you know, it just doesn't seem like he's really comfortable
Speaker 4: with the zone right now. I think the swing is fine,
Speaker 4: but it seems like once you're getting behind in counts
Speaker 4: and you're forced to swing at pitches that maybe you
Speaker 4: would lay off or that that are not ideal to.
Speaker 5: Do damage on.
Speaker 4: And that's what you brought in a Brandon Law for.
Speaker 4: That's what you brought in a Rhyan o'h hearn for,
Speaker 4: is to do damage and hitters counts, and they just
Speaker 4: haven't been putting themselves in those positions right now.
Speaker 3: And then Brandon Lowe is getting attacked with fastbles up
Speaker 3: in the zone, which he struggles with when he's down early,
Speaker 3: and I think that's the rest of his history there.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, we'll get him back home and the friendly
Speaker 2: confines and see if that helps a little too.
Speaker 3: I will say this about this question, Mitch Keller. The
Speaker 3: first thing I went to go look at was his
Speaker 3: cutter usage, and it was up yesterday, so I'm just
Speaker 3: throwing my hands up. I don't know that the cutter
Speaker 3: does get hit hard. I didn't look at the hard
Speaker 3: hit rates or anything like that, but I was a
Speaker 3: little bit nervous about him going into the Yankee stadium
Speaker 3: against some of those lefties.
Speaker 6: Throwing that pitch, leaving it over the plate.
Speaker 3: I'll have to take a deep look at it. But
Speaker 3: that was the one thing I looked at first.
Speaker 4: I mean, he's spotting up right, He's putting himself in
Speaker 4: good situations early on in counts, and he got some
Speaker 4: nice ground balls. He was able to work a lot
Speaker 4: of hitters. You know, that Yankees lineup is just not
Speaker 4: impressive without Aaron Judge in there.
Speaker 5: It really is.
Speaker 4: And that, like no point did I really feel threatened
Speaker 4: Ben Rice. I mean, he's been unbelievable this year. But
Speaker 4: other than that, I felt like it was really underwhelming.
Speaker 4: That being said, the Pirates lost a series, but the
Speaker 4: starting pitching from Keller and Bubba looked really good, and
Speaker 4: I think it's really just getting ahead in counts. And
Speaker 4: you had that moment early on in the second game
Speaker 4: of the doubleheader where Bubba walked with the first guy
Speaker 4: and then he threw another one. Then Bill Murphy comes out,
Speaker 4: by the way the slow walk gone. Did they say
Speaker 4: anything about that?
Speaker 6: I did see him jogg the last time he went
Speaker 6: out there.
Speaker 4: So maybe we're trying to throw some people off a
Speaker 4: little bit, but just putting yourself in better situations, right,
Speaker 4: executing getting ahead and count and then allowing your arsenal
Speaker 4: to work for you. And if I was to put
Speaker 4: pinpoint anything with Keller and or Bubba, I'd say just
Speaker 4: really honing in early on and figuring out like, hey,
Speaker 4: how can I get oh one here? How can I
Speaker 4: get up I if I threw a ball, how can
Speaker 4: I work off of that ball in order to get
Speaker 4: back into discount? Not just throwing but pitching. I think
Speaker 4: that's what they used to their advantage.
Speaker 2: And Keller. Keller's fastball had some more zip on it too.
Speaker 2: I believe like he was throwing harder where he looked
Speaker 2: like he was in the sense of I think that
Speaker 2: break did him some good to kind of just gonna
Speaker 2: say that, Yeah, reassess maybe what's working what's not. Fastball
Speaker 2: velocity was up, so I mean, yeah, I mean who
Speaker 2: put it in there. The other zact that's in the
Speaker 2: chat with us said, Keller being a four e er
Speaker 2: a pitcher would be massive for them the second half. Yeah,
Speaker 2: I would submit. Just getting Keller back to quality startment, Mitch,
Speaker 2: whether that's five or six innings.
Speaker 6: Yeah, absolutely.
Speaker 3: I'll tell you what the Yankees don't have anymore either,
Speaker 3: is a quality arm in the pen like Ron Maranaccio.
Speaker 3: So we now have him in Pittsburgh. He's gonna be something.
Speaker 3: I'm interested to see what kind of role they're going
Speaker 3: to put him in. Obviously you don't have many options
Speaker 3: in the back end, but I'm sure we'll see him
Speaker 3: this weekend.
Speaker 6: Guys, let's get into some traits.
Speaker 4: Yeah, let me pull up the first one. This comes
Speaker 4: from Instagram. We've got a couple on the screen here.
Speaker 4: Cruise for Miller is just not gonna get it done.
Speaker 5: Mason.
Speaker 4: Miller might get moved, but it's not gonna be just
Speaker 4: for ONEO Cruz. We've talked about this, how there's maybe
Speaker 4: a couple of situations where it makes sense for the pirates,
Speaker 4: but trading off of this major league roster right now
Speaker 4: really doesn't add up if you're trying to sustain and
Speaker 4: keep this offense going. I don't know about what you
Speaker 4: guys think will stick on this one. First, I just
Speaker 4: this just doesn't work.
Speaker 3: I don't think the Podjas would do it. I think
Speaker 3: they'd hang up. I think they'd love to include a
Speaker 3: cruise in that deal, but I think they want some
Speaker 3: young talent coming back to and yeah, it would take
Speaker 3: a lot. You get Mason Miller till twenty thirty, and
Speaker 3: Sky brought the A's back Leo Davrees.
Speaker 6: Plus more last year. So just something to think about there.
Speaker 3: I would take this as more sarcasm than a real offer.
Speaker 2: That's the that's the problem though right now, Guys like
Speaker 2: you know, I'll be the first to admit I'm not
Speaker 2: really good at the trade proposal stuff and the value,
Speaker 2: but I at least acknowledge that and let other people
Speaker 2: kind of lead. Social media is wild because man, everybody
Speaker 2: is throwing out trades and you can't tell if they're
Speaker 2: serious or not because some of them are absolutely hideous,
Speaker 2: absolutely hideous.
Speaker 4: Yeah, there's real no winning in these situations. You could
Speaker 4: say a trade and someone's gonna call you a stupid idiot.
Speaker 5: That's just a nature of the game.
Speaker 4: And then we got Justinton for Justinton, Embarco for Adlei,
Speaker 4: Rutchman a little bit more interesting. You think it's that
Speaker 4: the price for Adlei it seems a little a little much.
Speaker 4: I don't know if it takes Justinton and Barco, maybe
Speaker 4: one of them and then a lower level guy. I
Speaker 4: feel like that the Orioles are in a weird situation.
Speaker 3: Yeah, that's a tough one because those are two very
Speaker 3: interesting pieces, and we know historically they've been struggling on
Speaker 3: on the on the pitching side. But just looking here
Speaker 3: real quick, it looks like Adlete's kind of turned it
Speaker 3: around this year compared the last year. Still would like
Speaker 3: to see a little bit more powerfu. I'll take two
Speaker 3: fifty behind the plate, three thirty OHBP seven sixty four
Speaker 3: ops the savant page.
Speaker 6: A lot of red there.
Speaker 5: Guys, very hitter, great teammate.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean, I could even see them asking for
Speaker 3: substituting something bigger than just Stinson in terms of an
Speaker 3: offensive player. Maybe not saying that he's bigger, but maybe
Speaker 3: a Barco and Eastern Carmichael and I don't know, some
Speaker 3: small piece.
Speaker 5: I think that's where I'm hung up here.
Speaker 4: I think there's another piece here that's probably at a
Speaker 4: lower level. Yeah right now that it's still going to
Speaker 4: be a significant piece to get it done. But I
Speaker 4: don't know if it's this package specifically, I'd love to
Speaker 4: have Adlie Rutschman.
Speaker 6: Would I do this?
Speaker 3: Yes, If the Baltimore offered this to me, I think
Speaker 3: I would do it.
Speaker 6: Yeah.
Speaker 3: I mean I same time, I just don't think, like, yeah,
Speaker 3: they that you need better than one sixty beyond that
Speaker 3: plate by Henry Davis and you need envy back. But
Speaker 3: like I'm the main focus. I'm giving up a big
Speaker 3: piece right now. It's for the bullpen.
Speaker 2: Yeah, And I don't know how other organizations view password
Speaker 2: at this point. You know, is he somebody that Okay, great,
Speaker 2: he was a taught prospect and he's hitting really well
Speaker 2: right now. But I don't know that they look at
Speaker 2: that like, you know, in the sense of, oh, he's
Speaker 2: having a really good June or July. It's it's how
Speaker 2: about how you project him forward in the majors. And
Speaker 2: so I don't know that he's somebody that teams would
Speaker 2: be like pining for I.
Speaker 6: Will say this.
Speaker 3: A friend of mine in the Red Sox organization told
Speaker 3: me that they didn't think he'd hit consistently at the
Speaker 3: big league level.
Speaker 6: Okay, well, so that's why they're comfortable.
Speaker 3: I also think the factors of all their young talent
Speaker 3: pushing to the majors was a big, you know, decision
Speaker 3: point for them as well.
Speaker 6: But you know, I tend to disagree.
Speaker 3: I still believe in the upside of the Password and
Speaker 3: you know, his short stint, he wasn't really elevating the
Speaker 3: ball as much as I'd like to see. But I
Speaker 3: think this is a guy. We saw it in spring.
Speaker 3: Even though you're gonna take those games with a get
Speaker 3: great of slid. I think this is a guy that
Speaker 3: could be a very valuable outfielder that could play all
Speaker 3: three position outfield positions very well.
Speaker 2: Well, let me flip this around real quick then, and
Speaker 2: you were on the other side of this equation. Mm hm,
Speaker 2: And do you want Password involved in a deal?
Speaker 6: If I'm Baltimore? Yeah?
Speaker 2: Do you do?
Speaker 6: You see that?
Speaker 2: As you see where I'm going with that is like,
Speaker 2: don't you want a little bit more than that?
Speaker 4: Yeah, It's not like he came up here and destroyed
Speaker 4: and then it was just a product of him going
Speaker 4: down because of other players. Yeah, he just didn't play well,
Speaker 4: and he didn't play well when he was up with
Speaker 4: the Red Sox either, So so.
Speaker 2: I just think that's a fair exercise to do sometimes
Speaker 2: when yeah, this stuff, I I think Barco makes sense
Speaker 2: in terms for Baltimore.
Speaker 4: They're always looking for pitching, but I think i'd air
Speaker 4: more on that side with that, or throwing in one
Speaker 4: of the catchers because they're getting rid of a catcher.
Speaker 4: But let's move on, because we could talk about this
Speaker 4: all day. This one comes from Michael Bradley on X.
Speaker 4: I'll blow this up here a little bit for myself.
Speaker 4: The Angels are gonna get Edward Florentino, Wyatt Sanford and
Speaker 4: Johann Delos Santos and the Pirates get read Debt Mers.
Speaker 4: I think this is too much a massive overpay.
Speaker 3: I like Redebt, Marzelle, I definitely do. I just think
Speaker 3: you're gift. I would not give Edward Florentino for red
Speaker 3: Debt Meers. Let's see what's his h contract status that
Speaker 3: it'd be a nice mix into this rotation too, because
Speaker 3: he's he's a lefty, has a big curveball. He's a
Speaker 3: bad guy because he went to Louisville. Yeah, only through
Speaker 3: club control through twenty twenty eight.
Speaker 2: So like, I mean, yeah, no.
Speaker 6: No, I remove Edward Florentino.
Speaker 5: We're talking then.
Speaker 3: Thinking, but I also think Johann Dela Santo's has blow
Speaker 3: up upside.
Speaker 6: I don't know. I mean I think Sanford could be
Speaker 6: the headliner.
Speaker 2: Yeah yeah, I mean, like, look, I want them to
Speaker 2: make a move too, but I would be I don't
Speaker 2: know if I'd be horrified if this was the the
Speaker 2: trade package, but I would be uh not happy.
Speaker 5: If we're talking Florentino. We're talking a big trade here.
Speaker 4: We're talking about a massive trade. We're talking blockbuster. You're
Speaker 4: trading a top one hundred prospect. At this point of
Speaker 4: the season, it's gonna get you a little bit more
Speaker 4: than that. This is this Candide is not going to
Speaker 4: be your four starter in this rotation, right right, Let's
Speaker 4: move on from this one. Tyler Callahan appreciated from X Pirates.
Speaker 4: Get Luke Weaver and Freddie Peralta. The Mets get Carmen macginski.
Speaker 4: The Mets will not do this.
Speaker 3: Also serious, but uh yeah, yeah, I don't know I
Speaker 3: absolutely not. I I don't want Freddy Proleta either. I
Speaker 3: would take I think you could start to entertain the
Speaker 3: name Edward Florentino and a Looke Weaver deal, you could.
Speaker 3: I'd rather move other pieces, but I think that's a
Speaker 3: fair ask plus something small rather than that. Other than that, Like, yeah,
Speaker 3: I don't think the Mets are are jumping at Kardon
Speaker 3: munchin skinny time soon.
Speaker 2: All right, So what if we let's let's just let's
Speaker 2: just get a little more creative here. What if it's
Speaker 2: Weaver and brass Ban what do what?
Speaker 5: What?
Speaker 2: Where do we go? How do we how do we
Speaker 2: make that happen? You know, get the old get get
Speaker 2: two of them?
Speaker 6: I mean that would be a deal.
Speaker 4: Right, Yeah, I think you're you still might be talking
Speaker 4: with Scott said, you're you could start to float bigger
Speaker 4: names out there. But what are the Mets really looking
Speaker 4: for right now? Like they pretty much have everybody on
Speaker 4: the table except for a handful of guys.
Speaker 5: I think they do the.
Speaker 2: Mets now what they're looking for?
Speaker 5: Not really, not really, you know, maybe some arms.
Speaker 4: But I'm trying to really figure out what a Luke
Speaker 4: Weaver deal is. And I don't know if anyone's really
Speaker 4: been able.
Speaker 5: To pinpoint that. What was what we brought up on.
Speaker 4: The show the other day, Scott that included Luke Weaver
Speaker 4: in it?
Speaker 6: Oh boy, I thought.
Speaker 5: It was Luke Weaver. Hunter Barco is mixed in there somewhere.
Speaker 3: Hunter Barco for sure. I think we talked about two
Speaker 3: arms at the top. Was it Barco and Kelly?
Speaker 4: It might have been Barco and Kelly. Let me see
Speaker 4: if I could, I can pinpoint it.
Speaker 2: And while you're while you're looking for that, let's just
Speaker 2: touch on the Karma Magensky thing real quick, guys, any
Speaker 2: chance you see Carmen mcginsky realistically moved at the deadline?
Speaker 2: I put it very very low, And if it did happen,
Speaker 2: I would take that as a sign that they they
Speaker 2: wanted him out.
Speaker 3: If he's moved, it's not because they necessarily want to,
Speaker 3: it's because they just can't deal with them anymore. And
Speaker 3: I know that's been part of the conversation in the past.
Speaker 3: But if you move him too, you got to supplement
Speaker 3: him with another arm. So now you need to get three,
Speaker 3: Like are you going to Colorado with floating Majinski In
Speaker 3: a prospect for Senzatela.
Speaker 6: I don't know. I like it's I just don't see it.
Speaker 6: I would bet against it.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it would just be indicative to me that boy,
Speaker 2: they really wanted to remove that situation. And that's the
Speaker 2: way the only way I think it happens.
Speaker 3: Did you guys see Caleb ferguson the other day telling
Speaker 3: the choice words.
Speaker 6: I would hate it, but you know, yeah, Scott.
Speaker 5: This was the trade that was proposed.
Speaker 4: It was Luke Weaver and aj Minter for Wyatt Sanford
Speaker 4: and Jeter Martinez.
Speaker 6: I mean that's I do that. I don't know if
Speaker 6: the Mets do that.
Speaker 3: I don't know if the Mets. I don't think the
Speaker 3: Mets are going to be buying it. Jeter Martinez probably
Speaker 3: what like a hazus Traviso who just started pitching again
Speaker 3: over at Geter Martinez.
Speaker 6: But uh, I don't know. It just doesn't feel like
Speaker 6: enough to me.
Speaker 3: I would do it if they if they want to,
Speaker 3: because aj Minter fills a left handed arm in the pen,
Speaker 3: and you could say toutlu to Brandon Isisert and then
Speaker 3: you get Luke Weaver in the back end.
Speaker 6: I think too, like you.
Speaker 2: Gotta be careful with these trade proposals where they don't
Speaker 2: end up being like fantasy football trade proposals where you
Speaker 2: just keep adding guys to get the guy you want,
Speaker 2: but all three of the guys you're giving away guys, right,
Speaker 2: you know what I'm saying, Like, it's gotta be. It
Speaker 2: can't be like three eh for like a starter, you
Speaker 2: know what I mean, Like it's gotta be. You gotta
Speaker 2: give something legitimate somewhere in there.
Speaker 5: Let's move on.
Speaker 4: Rodney from X proposes why Sandford a common name mentioned here?
Speaker 4: Boys White Sanford, your Donnie del Santos, Rafael Floores, Murph
Speaker 4: Gray for Mason Miller would add the password if needed.
Speaker 4: I mean, it's just not gonna get a dine. Also
Speaker 4: for the Padres, I just don't see them.
Speaker 3: I mean, I think they would be very interested in
Speaker 3: Murph Gray as a potential headliner, like I think any
Speaker 3: team would be. Because right now you're looking at am
Speaker 3: I gonna have to move Florentino or Gray, hopefully not
Speaker 3: both those would be headline pieces offensively, But looking at
Speaker 3: this like it just seems like we're trying to dump
Speaker 3: your Donnie and Raffy, and I just don't think there
Speaker 3: will do that.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's the whole app keep adding names until until
Speaker 2: it seems like.
Speaker 6: You've got enough. Murph and Wyatt are interesting.
Speaker 3: I mean, I'm sure they're interested in both of those guys,
Speaker 3: But I just I think your Donnie could be moved
Speaker 3: for a a maybe a guy like our friend Ian
Speaker 3: brought up Jonathan Lewisaga, which I really like that idea
Speaker 3: with the Diamondbacks, although they're close to us, and we're
Speaker 3: very close in the standings right now, but I don't
Speaker 3: think any I don't think you're going to get anyone
Speaker 3: big with your Donnie La Santos unless it's like in
Speaker 3: a huge package like this, But even then you're not
Speaker 3: getting the best closer in baseball here.
Speaker 4: In near Cono Cano and Adley Rutchman for Eastern Carmichael.
Speaker 4: Whyatt Sanford in a flyer man? People really want to
Speaker 4: trade why at Sandford?
Speaker 2: Yeah?
Speaker 6: They do?
Speaker 5: Diso man.
Speaker 4: Is it because it's a name people know, or it's
Speaker 4: like someone they just don't believe in, or they they
Speaker 4: want it to be a headliner.
Speaker 3: Interesting question though it's the first level of he's in
Speaker 3: the tier of guys. It's not named Rph Grade Edward Fotino, right,
Speaker 3: and I would say that Eastern Carmichael is pushing to
Speaker 3: be in that territory. To be honest with you, not yet,
Speaker 3: but I mean I think he's very undervalued as a prospect. Yeah,
Speaker 3: I know this doesn't get it done unfortunately.
Speaker 6: I think you're looking in your canoe. Would probably be
Speaker 6: a flying at that.
Speaker 3: And I don't think he's been anything special since he's debuted.
Speaker 2: But I like the thought, guys, is it necessary? Is
Speaker 2: Adli Rushman necessary?
Speaker 3: No?
Speaker 6: I don't think so, like with this with this team.
Speaker 6: I just I just.
Speaker 2: Feel like it's a distraction from what's really kind of needed.
Speaker 6: Yeah, I agree. I agree.
Speaker 3: Now, if you feel like your your back stop is
Speaker 3: going to be Henry and Raffi for the rest of
Speaker 3: the year, then maybe you start.
Speaker 6: To think about Catcher.
Speaker 3: And I don't think on the magnitude of an Adlie
Speaker 3: Ruschman necessarily, but you know, you may dabble.
Speaker 5: Control is adly under right now, not much.
Speaker 2: I think he's a free agent after twenty eight, No, no,
Speaker 2: it's sooner than that.
Speaker 6: I think it would have to be twenty seven. Seeing
Speaker 6: the other year.
Speaker 4: Before twenty eight, he's a free agent, so you have
Speaker 4: him in ARB three next year.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, I don't know.
Speaker 6: It's a good point. It's a good point.
Speaker 5: That's where I going with that.
Speaker 3: Zach Uh thoughts on Taylor Rod or Tyler Rogers sorry
Speaker 3: from the Blue Jays. Interesting, Oh wow, he's having a
Speaker 3: really good year. Yeah sure, I don't know. I'm kind
Speaker 3: of fixated on getting like a power arm to put
Speaker 3: in the back of that bullpen.
Speaker 5: You're just getting a different You're getting a much different
Speaker 5: look with Tyler Rogers.
Speaker 6: Yeah, yeah, that's true.
Speaker 5: I mean having a great year one five four e
Speaker 5: r A one or nine whip.
Speaker 2: Yeah, he's been lights out and they are they are
Speaker 2: going to start parting ways with some people in the
Speaker 2: in Toronto.
Speaker 6: Yeah, what do we got next, Adam, What do we
Speaker 6: have next?
Speaker 4: A lot of completely unrealistic proposals on here so far.
Speaker 5: Hopefully this has to be a troll.
Speaker 4: This is trolling. Sammy Stefford for Mike Burrows. Please stop it.
Speaker 4: Enough is enough, my my, I can only handle so
Speaker 4: much mentally throughout my days.
Speaker 3: And hear me out, hear me out, Sammy Sepia for
Speaker 3: Mason Miller. That now that guy's on a two first?
Speaker 5: Who hangs up first?
Speaker 6: I think Ben thinks about it.
Speaker 5: Ben, definitely about it.
Speaker 2: This trade suggestion is so bad that Adam's dog just
Speaker 2: crapped on the floor again.
Speaker 5: Dude, it's starting to smell real bad. Pretty soon.
Speaker 4: It's rough over here. I keep looking to my right
Speaker 4: and it's still there. I'm just hoping it goes away.
Speaker 6: Oh no, all right, let's see the next one.
Speaker 4: The next one we got here, got a couple from
Speaker 4: x We'll start with Nardo for Jim Stam.
Speaker 5: We're hanging up first.
Speaker 6: We're hanging up first Newcastle here, and I disagree.
Speaker 2: I think that both sides are upset.
Speaker 6: When this goes through.
Speaker 4: Okay, listen, we're happy with how the operation is going
Speaker 4: here right now. So so Jim, you're safe for another year.
Speaker 4: All right, you're past the deadline. Yeah, let's go to
Speaker 4: the top one. Doug on Excess, Sammy Stefora, Xander Meath
Speaker 4: and Callen Moss for Cano and Tyler Wells. So I
Speaker 4: think we're like in terms of realistic like maybe like
Speaker 4: I feel like I don't, I don't know.
Speaker 5: This one's weird.
Speaker 4: Xander Meath pretty much has no real upside right like
Speaker 4: he he has legitimately struggled his entire professional career, and
Speaker 4: I think he's back on the complex again rehabbing. He
Speaker 4: just has the stuff is absolutely disgusting. He just can't
Speaker 4: stay in the zone and he can't stay healthy. Sammy
Speaker 4: Stephora is on a heater right now. I really like
Speaker 4: Callen Moss. I understand why people might want to sell
Speaker 4: on him. I mean, what do you guys think. I
Speaker 4: don't think this gets done for Baltimore, and.
Speaker 6: So I think they need another.
Speaker 3: I think they would need a more appealing piece like
Speaker 3: substudent Xander.
Speaker 6: I don't think they'd want Palent either.
Speaker 2: That's I think you have to come stronger with a
Speaker 2: main a more major piece there.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I think you could headline it with like a
Speaker 3: Carmichael and maybe throwing a Lonnie White with Sammy Saphira.
Speaker 6: That could be interesting. But yeah, it's having a really
Speaker 6: good year, and so is Tyler Wells is I mean.
Speaker 3: One dot whip. I mean he's pretty been pretty solid too.
Speaker 3: So I mean these are all good suggestions as of
Speaker 3: relief relievers to acquire. I just I think we're just
Speaker 3: trying to dump some of the guys we don't want
Speaker 3: in our minor league system in some of these offers.
Speaker 2: Yeah, you gotta you got. It's gotta hurt a little.
Speaker 2: It's gotta hurt a little.
Speaker 4: Guys, we have in the chat DeNardo for picture Joey
Speaker 4: gallow what's going on with pitcher?
Speaker 5: Joey Gallo?
Speaker 2: By the way, I don't know, but I can dig
Speaker 2: for like a couple of days.
Speaker 6: Yeah, I don't think that's happened with anybody right now.
Speaker 2: He cannot be right, I mean.
Speaker 6: No, I don't think so.
Speaker 5: Let's see, let's just I I he's not. He's a
Speaker 5: free agent.
Speaker 6: That's hard, low risk signing, right there, boys.
Speaker 4: Joey Gallo, come on, we have Sho Heo Tani at home.
Speaker 4: It's Joey Gallo.
Speaker 5: Let's let's go to the next one right here.
Speaker 4: Password for literally any reliever, literally any I'm listening.
Speaker 3: Yeah, who do you give me a name? There's a
Speaker 3: lot out there. I want to bring up this one
Speaker 3: right here. What value does Levi Sterling have?
Speaker 6: I think he has value.
Speaker 3: I think he's as value as a guy that you
Speaker 3: can include as an enticing piece in a you know,
Speaker 3: three prospect deal or whatever. He's a guy that I'm
Speaker 3: really high on. I think he's gonna take He's gonna
Speaker 3: be the next picture to take a step forward in
Speaker 3: this organization a lot with Mike.
Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, you've been seeing the walks go down a
Speaker 4: little bit and the velos is staying consistent. I think
Speaker 4: he still has a lot more to work through. We
Speaker 4: kind of debated about this on the Down on the
Speaker 4: Farm episode the other day, which comes out every Tuesday.
Speaker 5: If you're looking for that. Does he finish the year
Speaker 5: in Greensboro?
Speaker 4: I said, maybe Scott thinks he stays down in Bradenton
Speaker 4: for a full year where they get him to go through.
Speaker 4: But that's a good problem to have, right Like, it's
Speaker 4: nice to see these guys starting to figure it out
Speaker 4: and seeing the upside that was there when they drafted him.
Speaker 4: But again, like Jim you mentioned it on our last
Speaker 4: live show, you got to have the stomach for this stuff. Man,
Speaker 4: gotta be okay parting with some of these guys that
Speaker 4: you can dream high on and most of them aren't
Speaker 4: gonna make it, at least in the pirate system.
Speaker 5: There's only so many spots. You gotta find the right fit.
Speaker 4: And uh, I think you know the answer is yes.
Speaker 4: I think people would be interested in Levi Sterling, but
Speaker 4: it's gonna be more of a If it's just Levi Sterling,
Speaker 4: it's not getting you a reliever right now.
Speaker 5: It's got to be packaged.
Speaker 3: Yeah, he'd be like the second third piece more than
Speaker 3: likely and like a bigger deal. So interesting guy, right,
Speaker 3: you know, if the walks continue to come down, the
Speaker 3: fastball command gets better. I think this is a guy
Speaker 3: that's gonna rock it up boards here sooner rather than later.
Speaker 3: Maybe we see him Greens run next year, but we
Speaker 3: probably finish in Brandonton any other offers.
Speaker 5: Here, Adham, we don't. We don't.
Speaker 4: I thought we'd we got through these pretty quick because
Speaker 4: most of them. I'll be honest with everybody, They're not good.
Speaker 6: I'm just gonna be honest. They all sucked.
Speaker 4: Yeah, let's be real like, and I'm not saying I
Speaker 4: would do any better.
Speaker 5: There's just no winning at this point of the year.
Speaker 4: Like you could throw out whatever names and it sounds good,
Speaker 4: but like we don't know what other teams are valuing,
Speaker 4: or how they're rebuilding, or what you know, space they
Speaker 4: have on their rosters or who they're adding to the
Speaker 4: forty man, it's gonna be an interesting deadline. You thought
Speaker 4: the Reds were going to be out of it they're not. Now,
Speaker 4: that's one less reliever that's on the board. But Roda
Speaker 4: Fadmine was going to be a big name that would
Speaker 4: have likely gotten moved if the Red Sox continued on
Speaker 4: the trajectory that they were. They just lost what their
Speaker 4: first one out of fifteen, So it just makes the
Speaker 4: market all that it's much more tough now, right, Like
Speaker 4: you're gonna have to probably overpay to get one of
Speaker 4: these high end relievers, and even the second tier guys
Speaker 4: might command a little bit more on the market because
Speaker 4: there's not as many options.
Speaker 6: Yeah, yeah, well go ahead, Jim No.
Speaker 2: I was just gonna say, let me. I mentioned this
Speaker 2: to you guys in a text earlier today. Foster Griffin.
Speaker 2: Doesn't that name, doesn't that situation that contract? Man, it
Speaker 2: seems like that would be attainable. Now, I'm sure a
Speaker 2: lot of teams would love to have him from you know,
Speaker 2: the Nationals, And now the Nationals I think are only
Speaker 2: a game and a half out, so they might not
Speaker 2: look to deal him anyway. But I just think that, like, man,
Speaker 2: would that be a super sneaky even if it's just
Speaker 2: a rental. Even if it's just a rental, and he
Speaker 2: goes out and capitalizes on this year that he's having.
Speaker 2: But I don't know that's about as big as I'm
Speaker 2: willing to dream when it comes to the deadline.
Speaker 6: Yeah, I like Foster Griffin a lot.
Speaker 3: He's a guy a name that I brought up, you know,
Speaker 3: earlier on maybe a month ago. I think he's a
Speaker 3: very interesting army guy that you could slot in as
Speaker 3: like a long relieve or two, and it could also
Speaker 3: spell some guys and starts.
Speaker 6: He's that lefty. We've been looking for a guy that
Speaker 6: the type of guy that Ben.
Speaker 3: Historically loves, the soft tossing lefty, and he's got some
Speaker 3: good stuff. I think he'd be a different look compared
Speaker 3: to all the big rightis we have in our rotation.
Speaker 3: Outside of that, boys, I thought I just saw I
Speaker 3: thought I came across a potential morselo Zuna trade on
Speaker 3: on Twitter, but it was fake.
Speaker 6: So, you know, I am gonna go back to my
Speaker 6: regular programming.
Speaker 2: I know people have mentioned Robbie Ray a lot. I
Speaker 2: just don't think that there the money works there either,
Speaker 2: you know, Like so you know, I boy, it's uh
Speaker 2: slim pickens and a lot of teams feel they're still
Speaker 2: in it, and you know that makes a painful, painful
Speaker 2: day at the cash register when you got to pay.
Speaker 5: For some of this stuff. Some positives.
Speaker 4: Wilbrid Hotel looked incredible in his first game back, three
Speaker 4: in one hit, no runs. I don't know if he
Speaker 4: walked anybody either, looked really good.
Speaker 2: He looked really good.
Speaker 4: I mean Christian Curtis in the series before looked good.
Speaker 4: When he's able to come back. There's some options there.
Speaker 4: Those are more like middle relief options, right, They're not
Speaker 4: really solving your biggest issue in terms of high leverage arms.
Speaker 4: But we just got it. We got to survive these
Speaker 4: next eleven days.
Speaker 5: You got it.
Speaker 4: You gotta have a winning record going into the deadline
Speaker 4: because you know there's gonna be any excuse not to
Speaker 4: make the big move if they just kind of just
Speaker 4: float along and stay at five hundred or around there.
Speaker 2: And and anybody not named Mason Miller, guys, is there
Speaker 2: any closer out there that? Because I still look at it, like,
Speaker 2: when we get to the ninth inning right now, are
Speaker 2: you not terrified, like like I mean like terrified, Jim, Well, yes, yes,
Speaker 2: but the pirates increase terrifying levels. But like that to me,
Speaker 2: is like, is there anybody out there that can close
Speaker 2: some ballgames that you can at least slot into that role?
Speaker 2: Because I just right now I don't I don't know
Speaker 2: who you would even put.
Speaker 3: I think the closest to a closer you could probably
Speaker 3: acquire Zephyr John from Angels Sendell.
Speaker 6: Is he closing?
Speaker 5: I don't know.
Speaker 3: I think he has Kirby Yates, but he's like forty
Speaker 3: the Angels like they have like a couple of guys
Speaker 3: that are closing.
Speaker 6: But I mean, yeah, I think that's.
Speaker 2: The problem though, right Like it's like if who who
Speaker 2: Who's going to be the back end? Like when you
Speaker 2: have to get out of you know, when you got
Speaker 2: to close out a game and it's a one run
Speaker 2: ball game or whatever. Who is that?
Speaker 6: Who?
Speaker 3: Can it be a Jared Triolo batting helmet? I absolutely
Speaker 3: need that, MAULSI give that to me. I need it.
Speaker 2: What did I What did I miss? Batting helmets? What
Speaker 2: are we doing here?
Speaker 4: Jared?
Speaker 5: He's an avid Jared Truolo.
Speaker 2: Uh lover, Yeah, I just didn't see a post on
Speaker 2: batting helmet.
Speaker 4: So now, uh, this one is interesting. Are you guys
Speaker 4: that thought process? We dropped tot him in too fast
Speaker 4: or do you have the belief that he needed a
Speaker 4: change of scenery.
Speaker 5: He needed a.
Speaker 6: Change change scenery.
Speaker 4: It's sometimes it's with relievers as well.
Speaker 5: Sometimes they just need a change of scenery.
Speaker 4: What we got here, Zachary Holderman needed Carl Willis to
Speaker 4: unlock him wasn't gonna happen in Pittsburgh.
Speaker 5: Uh. Louis Varland from the Jays, interesting name.
Speaker 6: I wonder what that price tag would look like, though.
Speaker 5: Probably pretty high.
Speaker 6: I would think, so.
Speaker 5: Pretty pretty good year. Paul Seawold, you are a pirate.
Speaker 3: I mean that's a fun like veterand to bring in because,
Speaker 3: like I keep saying, I love the young arms we have,
Speaker 3: especially at the top of the system. You can't rely
Speaker 3: on these guys to go into a postseason, like you
Speaker 3: shouldn't have to write. They're nice, nice depth right now,
Speaker 3: and they're guys that are probably gonna be a big
Speaker 3: part of the future of this organization.
Speaker 6: But to be nice to have some veteran presence back there.
Speaker 5: Who's gonna who's gonna fold first?
Speaker 6: Here?
Speaker 4: Man at this deadline, Like there's always that one move
Speaker 4: that shocks the world. But I don't know.
Speaker 5: Jord Onto the Rays, you think that's the move they make.
Speaker 3: I think I think the Rays and Brewers might make
Speaker 3: a splash this year. Fine it and I think the Rays,
Speaker 3: especially because the Al is theirs to take.
Speaker 6: Yeah, who else in the Central or West are gonna
Speaker 6: compete with the Rays.
Speaker 5: It's gonna be a hot Yankees.
Speaker 3: Are the second team that I would take in that
Speaker 3: in aar right now.
Speaker 5: The Red Sox are hot.
Speaker 6: But they're not healthy. Uh, you know, we'll see.
Speaker 5: Do they buy you know, it's it's it's really really interesting.
Speaker 4: Well, I guess we'll see, right, Well, we'll see in
Speaker 4: the next eleven days. We have the Cubs for yinzer
Speaker 4: paluz a weekend that's gonna be a tough one man.
Speaker 4: As you mentioned, Boyd and iman Aga, who the Pirates
Speaker 4: have historically just been atrocious against, Like there's not really
Speaker 4: another word to describe it, as they just he's been
Speaker 4: unhittable when he's been with the Cubs against the Pirates.
Speaker 4: So hopefully some of that yinser Palooza magic rubs off
Speaker 4: on the players this weekend. But really, big series. It
Speaker 4: hasn't gotten any easier this month. When we thought maybe
Speaker 4: the schedule is going to lighten up a little bit.
Speaker 4: It really hasn't because you found yourself in a position
Speaker 4: where you're in it.
Speaker 5: You're in the wildcard chase, you got a spot.
Speaker 4: Now you gotta keep climbing the ladder and fight off
Speaker 4: everybody trying to climb that same ladder. It's not going
Speaker 4: to be easy, and you can't make it difficult on yourself.
Speaker 4: You can't lose ballgames that you should win. Where at
Speaker 4: the point where it just it's not acceptable anymore. You
Speaker 4: can't just write it off. Every game matters.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's getting to the point where those those those
Speaker 2: bullpen games that you're losing. Now, boy, it gets harder
Speaker 2: and harder to overcome it. The Cubs, I mean, yeah,
Speaker 2: as bipolar as they've been, they're twelve games over five
Speaker 2: hundred and look pretty firm now in the in the
Speaker 2: wild card thing. So you know, this looks like it's
Speaker 2: coming down to maybe one wild card spot, maybe just one.
Speaker 6: Yep, that's what it's. That's what it feels like. Adam,
Speaker 6: how's the stench? Yeah, let's get up.
Speaker 4: I'm actually starting to get used to it as as
Speaker 4: we keep talking. So maybe we just keep this show
Speaker 4: going forever and I never have to clean this up.
Speaker 5: It's it's it's like a good foot long of poop.
Speaker 2: Wow, it's impact impressive.
Speaker 5: Actually yeah yeah.
Speaker 4: And to make matters worse, when I woke up this morning,
Speaker 4: there was poop on Like something's going on with her
Speaker 4: stomach right now because this never happens, so she must
Speaker 4: have ate something. But yeah, there's a lot of poop
Speaker 4: that I got to clean up and it just never
Speaker 4: goes well. I it a little bit, even gets on
Speaker 4: my finger. I'm gonna throw up.
Speaker 2: Now. Are we talking hard hardwood, carpets, tile, what do
Speaker 2: we got because that's a big that's a big thing here.
Speaker 4: It's hardwood, like real hardwood, which makes it worse because
Speaker 4: you gotta like get there's like little slits like my
Speaker 4: story is, Yeah, yeah, there's poop in my floor, for sure.
Speaker 5: There's this. My part.
Speaker 4: My place used to be in old basketball gym. It's
Speaker 4: in a school, so my floor is where the basketball
Speaker 4: gym used to be. Anytime Scott comes over, he just
Speaker 4: starts squeaking his freaking sneakers all over the floor. So
Speaker 4: there's little tiny cracks in between each piece of hardwood
Speaker 4: and there's poop in there.
Speaker 5: Now, So what do you can do about it.
Speaker 4: You know, I don't know that's a problem for Adam
Speaker 4: in like the next five minutes.
Speaker 3: All right, boys, this was fun eleven days until the
Speaker 3: trade deadline. Cubs are food this week and Diamondbacks are
Speaker 3: food subject to the Wolf Game. I think everything takes
Speaker 3: off after Monday. To be honest with you, I think
Speaker 3: that is gonna be when when.
Speaker 6: They play the World Series tape. You're just gonna start
Speaker 6: with us howling at the top of the rotunda.
Speaker 5: Yeah, let's plug it real quick.
Speaker 4: Monday, July twenty seventh, twenty twenty six, will be on
Speaker 4: top of the rotunda for the Wolf Game, and it
Speaker 4: will be magical. I'm telling you, you're not gonna want
Speaker 4: to miss it. Monday, it's already a bad day of
Speaker 4: the week. You gotta go to work after a weekend,
Speaker 4: hopefully after a winning weekend for the Buckos, but really,
Speaker 4: you got to start it all over again. You're gonna
Speaker 4: get the PNC Park, You're gonna get a standing room ticket,
Speaker 4: You're gonna make your way up to the top of
Speaker 4: the rotunda.
Speaker 5: You're gonna wear your.
Speaker 4: Best Wolf shirt or apparel, whatever it may be, and
Speaker 4: you're gonna come hang out with the boys. And we're
Speaker 4: gonna have a good time and we're gonna how I'll
Speaker 4: tell you that we're gonna.
Speaker 6: Be out lords this weekend. Rest the vocal courts and and.
Speaker 2: Let that chest hair out. Let that chest hair flow
Speaker 2: Jared Jones style, because I mean, that's what that's what
Speaker 2: you know, it's a wolf game.
Speaker 5: Yeah, all about this poop?
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Speaker 1: Been cease and the pirates can't they let me run
Speaker 1: the base? Yeah, my time is like my money because
Speaker 1: I can't afford to waste. Oh why see is alloyan
Speaker 1: tag my date?
Speaker 2: To my dates?
Speaker 1: Or to stick by the plate sitting