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Speaker 1: of course is the Welsh and it's you the Peanuts,
Speaker 1: the Cracker Jackson a Thursday and the trade wins they
Speaker 1: were blowing, Welsh. Why just yesterday I was out there
Speaker 1: just mind my own business. Next thing, you know, all
Speaker 1: the trade winds start blowing, players start moving from one
Speaker 1: team to another team. Things are getting a little crazy
Speaker 1: Major League Baseball and Welsh, I know you love to
Speaker 1: hear this because you probably never hear it at home.
Speaker 1: But you were right. You were right one more time, Welsh,
Speaker 1: you were right. The Angels are wrong because they're not
Speaker 1: trading Shotani and when they fall two games short of
Speaker 1: the wildcard and Shohiltani leaves and they get a draft pick,
Speaker 1: and they have emptied out some stores of other prospects
Speaker 1: that they already have that are still not really super
Speaker 1: villa to me. You will talk about the prospects that moved.
Speaker 1: We'll talk about the Giolito trade all these things. You
Speaker 1: think that the Angels haven't seen the playoffs the last
Speaker 1: ten years, and that's suppressing. You ain't seen nothing yet,
Speaker 1: because this was their chance to cash in get the
Speaker 1: Hall of the Century for a player that nobody. I mean,
Speaker 1: you could have gotten the Hall of a century. Now again,
Speaker 1: maybe I'm wrong, Maybe the the will wasn't out there
Speaker 1: for teams to really push in to get Hotani. I
Speaker 1: find that hard to believe. But Welsh basking your own rightness?
Speaker 1: How does it feel?
Speaker 2: Yeah, well, I'm just you know, I never thought they
Speaker 2: would trade him, simply because of them being the organization
Speaker 2: that traded maybe the greatest player of our generation. I
Speaker 2: think it He's almost an impossible task. I kind of
Speaker 2: think the Sodo stuff last year was really really tough,
Speaker 2: and I don't know if the teams that made the
Speaker 2: most sense were the teams that were offering the stuff
Speaker 2: that needed to be you know how we saw all
Speaker 2: these rumors of like the Diamondbacks are gonna make the
Speaker 2: trade and the Orioles like, I don't like he wanted
Speaker 2: to go there. I think they wanted to be respectful
Speaker 2: to that, and I just don't know if the huge
Speaker 2: trade patch because I think this trade was going to
Speaker 2: be held up against SODA's. The problem with Soto had
Speaker 2: so much more time. This is a pure rental, and
Speaker 2: if they were going to make the move, it would
Speaker 2: have needed to be a huge haul, like you said,
Speaker 2: and it might not just have existed. But at the
Speaker 2: end of the day, I just don't think they were
Speaker 2: really entertaining it. Maybe they got some good news about
Speaker 2: Mike Trout that we don't quite know about that he'll
Speaker 2: be back sooner they get a piece in. You know,
Speaker 2: it's hilarious too. I'm gonna watch for I'm gonna watch
Speaker 2: because they can't be done. If they're gonna do it,
Speaker 2: I will tell you this, more embarrassing will be if
Speaker 2: this is it. If they're doing this and they stop,
Speaker 2: that's embarrassing.
Speaker 1: Stocks wasn't that The big deal?
Speaker 2: Was that? And Winter Escobar? That was one. But you
Speaker 2: know what, I feel like they need to go get
Speaker 2: a bat. I feel like they're trying to buy two
Speaker 2: pieces that will replace Otani next year. So like, well,
Speaker 2: if we have Giolito and then we get blah blah blah,
Speaker 2: this could actually be the re signed pieces we have
Speaker 2: for Losingtan, for losing Otani, but it's just like Giolito
Speaker 2: doesn't do it. I'm not shocked about it. Anything can
Speaker 2: happen with Atani, and we just got the answer sooner
Speaker 2: than we thought. We got it about a week earlier
Speaker 2: than we thought, so we don't have to worry about
Speaker 2: it. It kind of changes the market a little bit, and
Speaker 2: I fully believe that there's got to be another trade
Speaker 2: or two coming for this team. Or it just looks even.
Speaker 2: It looks sillier than the mustakas and the Porto stuff.
Speaker 1: I picture the ending to this Otani saga very similar
Speaker 1: to the end of Dead Poets Society, old classic movie
Speaker 1: with Robin Williams. Great. We haven't seen it. Run to
Speaker 1: the streaming services, go watch it. But I think they
Speaker 1: should let all of the Angels fans when he does
Speaker 1: leave a free agency. I think they should let them
Speaker 1: all in to the ballpark and they should all stand
Speaker 1: on top of the chairs and they should say Otani, Mayotani, Yes, Otani, Mayotani,
Speaker 1: and then everyone should cry. And maybe you get Ethan
Speaker 1: Hawk in there too. Just let him do it one
Speaker 1: more time. See if you know Robert Charon Letary's character
Speaker 1: didn't make it through so I can't really have him,
Speaker 1: but you know, well, why not, Josh Charles, Let's get
Speaker 1: him all. Let's have him all go up there Otani
Speaker 1: Mayotani and send him off properly. Let me, let's talk
Speaker 1: about this Gelio trade because I don't get I know
Speaker 1: it's a rental, but geez, if I'm a White Sox fan,
Speaker 1: I'm not happy with this. Hall So Lucas and Rainaldo Lopez,
Speaker 1: they get back Edgar Caro and left handed pitcher Kai Busch,
Speaker 1: twenty nine year old impending free agent. That's what Jilito was.
Speaker 1: So it is a rental. So I get that three
Speaker 1: seven nine, one two to two whip a one thirty
Speaker 1: one k to forty two strikeout walk ratio at one
Speaker 1: hundred and twenty one innings twenty one starts. He's been
Speaker 1: very good. This gives them a legitimate number two with Otani,
Speaker 1: So that is taking care of Now, you're right, they
Speaker 1: still lack bats. Caro is considered one of the better
Speaker 1: prospects in the system. Nine to sixty five ohps, seventeen homers,
Speaker 1: one hundred and eleven games at single A. So he's
Speaker 1: still ways away.
Speaker 2: Well, no, no, he's in Double A now.
Speaker 1: Double A, but he's he's got seven to seventeen ops
Speaker 1: in double A.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and that's why so I made a tweet about
Speaker 2: it last night, like the Edgar Quero stuff or Carol
Speaker 2: is is kind of interesting that people an't giving him
Speaker 2: the credit and they're looking at what he's doing in
Speaker 2: double A and being like, oh, here's the struggles, and
Speaker 2: it's like, okay, well, I thin guy's twenty years old.
Speaker 2: They did the massive push thing that this organization does.
Speaker 2: There's a guy that would more typically be in like
Speaker 2: a high A at best and playing a full season here.
Speaker 2: He did that last year. He has more walks than strikeouts.
Speaker 2: This year he struggled statistically, but he just made was
Speaker 2: in the futures game. So three homers, like under two
Speaker 2: to fifty batting average doesn't look good, but he's got
Speaker 2: like almost a three ninety OVP, like I said, more
Speaker 2: walks and strikeouts, has incredible plate presence, and that organization
Speaker 2: doesn't have a like stud rookie prospect catcher. So in
Speaker 2: my eyes, there was a rumor that went out the
Speaker 2: Diamondbacks were really interested in Gilido and the White Sox
Speaker 2: wanted Brandon fought But the thing also came out saying
Speaker 2: they might be willing to move off of that. So
Speaker 2: I don't think a Brandon fought was out there. I
Speaker 2: don't think there was anything remotely club, but I think
Speaker 2: there's anything.
Speaker 1: I mean, how often you the Diamondbacks? Are you in
Speaker 1: it and they're in it? They're in it? Well, they're
Speaker 1: in it. I say, you go, you make that move.
Speaker 2: Straw made a really good move.
Speaker 1: What if we got Hendrix, Liam Hendrix and you could
Speaker 1: I mean, I wouldn't have like a deal you make.
Speaker 2: I wouldn't have cried about it. I wouldn't cried about
Speaker 2: it or anything. But like Brandon thought, Brett Stram moving
Speaker 2: him over to the first base side of the rubber
Speaker 2: I really helped. It really helped in that early start.
Speaker 2: But my point is is, like I don't think there
Speaker 2: was anything else out there that they could have got
Speaker 2: like this. Ky Bush looks like he's a potential rotational
Speaker 2: piece in the future. Left hander, he's in Double A,
Speaker 2: he's closer to the Major's got a good slider fastball,
Speaker 2: and been injured a bunch and had poor results this year.
Speaker 2: But like if I was a White Sox fan, I
Speaker 2: would be happy a two month rental to get a
Speaker 2: top one hundred prospect who can be a core piece
Speaker 2: in the organization. In Quero and ky Bush is a bet.
Speaker 2: I think it's the best that they could possibly do.
Speaker 2: It's way better than it looks. And Gilido goes to
Speaker 2: I don't know, a decent spot. I saw someone in
Speaker 2: the chat be like, I wish you went to the
Speaker 2: other LA team. Yeah, I once she went to the Diamondbacks.
Speaker 2: Dodgers would have been better. But this is still a
Speaker 2: much better place. And hopefully they can fix the walk.
Speaker 2: So hopefully some of the o Tani stuff can rub
Speaker 2: off and he can stop walking.
Speaker 1: Dudes. People are speculating because I shave that a trade
Speaker 1: to the Yankees for Joe Hayo Tommy is imminent. Woo.
Speaker 2: Yeah, you do look clean, Joe. And there's there's a
Speaker 2: You're in New York, I am?
Speaker 1: I mean myself and Dalvin Cooker in New York. Actually,
Speaker 1: I'm visiting New York on Saturday. I have lunch planned
Speaker 1: with my TV producer. We're gonna go grab some lunch together.
Speaker 1: So you never know. Things can be happening. We do
Speaker 1: have a.
Speaker 2: Fit, we do. We do have there's an official move
Speaker 2: that is ready to be announced on tomorrow's show, though
Speaker 2: for the leading off futures that.
Speaker 1: We oh, no, that's scared. I don't even know what
Speaker 1: you're talking about. So I'm already you know, I don't
Speaker 1: know if I do, I don't know. I don't know
Speaker 1: what's going on here. Speaking of underwhelming things, I'm at
Speaker 1: Rosario and his six seventy five ops are going to
Speaker 1: go from the Guardians to the Dodgers. So they continue
Speaker 1: to add these middle infielders slash, you know, guys that
Speaker 1: can kind of play everywhere, which makes sense. I mean,
Speaker 1: if you're the Dodgers, you want flexibility in the lineup.
Speaker 1: You've got some age on that team. I think you
Speaker 1: want to make sure that you're covering your bases. Guys
Speaker 1: who can play multiple positions or the playoffs are going
Speaker 1: to be certainly helpful too. So Rosario, despite all of
Speaker 1: his shortcomings this year, he moves over. They just acquired
Speaker 1: Kiki Hernandez that he before reacquired him. I should say
Speaker 1: they got back Noah Cinder Guard And finally this has happened.
Speaker 1: My cousin has one of the best Fantasy Baseball names
Speaker 1: ever for her team. It's the Cinder Guardians of the Galaxy,
Speaker 1: and finally it's come to fruition. So I think that's
Speaker 1: kind of cool. Like this actor I had texted her
Speaker 1: immediately when I saw It's like, oh my god, art
Speaker 1: imitating life or life imitating art. I don't know one
Speaker 1: of those two things. I won't welsh as in the
Speaker 1: hell out of it. But look, I don't know what
Speaker 1: you make out of this Welsh. Syndergarden is seven era
Speaker 1: am on Resarre Cindergard's era is higher than on Mario's
Speaker 1: ops if you just take the little decipol points away.
Speaker 1: I thought that was amusing. What are your thoughts on
Speaker 1: this trade?
Speaker 2: What a dumb ass trade? What a stupid trade? What
Speaker 2: a dumb trade? This was I saw it.
Speaker 1: I guess they're just looking for warm bodies right in
Speaker 1: the rotation, that's what they're doing.
Speaker 2: No, they're they're gonna if he is not designated for
Speaker 2: assignment in the next couple, I'll be shocked. They're both
Speaker 2: expiring contracts, so I guess there's that. I'm Edizario is
Speaker 2: so clearly the better player here. Syndergard is a shell
Speaker 2: of whatever the hell we think he is. I don't
Speaker 2: know what he I don't know what they're doing. It
Speaker 2: doesn't if they got money, okay, you know it's a
Speaker 2: cheap team. If they got some money that came in
Speaker 2: for this trade, for taking this on. But Cindergard I
Speaker 2: think costs more. So this was stupid and this was
Speaker 2: just like the rich getting rich or like why why
Speaker 2: they keep getting away with these like moves every trade
Speaker 2: the Dodgers do. People are like, you can take.
Speaker 1: All this, have vetoed it that what happens, Well, it's.
Speaker 2: Not, yeah, David Sterning, but it's not that bad.
Speaker 1: But it was pretty bad. I mean I get it.
Speaker 1: I think they're just trying to add another body to
Speaker 1: the rotation. If one of.
Speaker 2: These players was designated for assignment, that would not shock you.
Speaker 2: In this trade, who would have been.
Speaker 1: Uh, I mean Cindegard would have been first on my list.
Speaker 2: Of course, of course in the whole league, in the
Speaker 2: whole league of players starting. If I was like, I'm
Speaker 2: gonna give you three players you could pick that are
Speaker 2: gonna be designated for assignment, no Cinderguard would be at
Speaker 2: the top of that list. I don't understand it at all.
Speaker 2: And then they just get more pieces. I will tell you,
Speaker 2: we can wave goodbye to Miguel Vargas in any potential
Speaker 2: whatever this year, because with Key Hernandez and Amitersario coming in,
Speaker 2: there's no room for him, so there'll be nothing for
Speaker 2: him the rest of.
Speaker 1: The year, all right, there was no room for joy. Yesterday,
Speaker 1: Suspencer Strider took a tough no decision. He did strike
Speaker 1: out ten guys, so I got that part. But I
Speaker 1: didn't get my skinny parlay and I didn't get my
Speaker 1: big that parlay either. I'm pissed about that because the
Speaker 1: stupid Texas Rangers ruined that. Everything got ruined yesterday, Welsh.
Speaker 1: I'm not happy, awful gamble, everything was. I got to
Speaker 1: nail in my tire yesterday too.
Speaker 2: Everything's stupid here.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 2: I was driving to Pure Sports Complex to see some
Speaker 2: of the rookies out here, Jacob Gonzalez who just got
Speaker 2: draped by the White Sox. I pull up, I get
Speaker 2: a thing. I gotta nail in my tire. Why do
Speaker 2: you get a nail in How do you get a
Speaker 2: nail in your tire.
Speaker 1: Without somebody to get the get it plugged, or you
Speaker 1: get it replaced.
Speaker 2: You I haven't done anything yet. I luckily was able
Speaker 2: to get home because it was late at night. It
Speaker 2: was late at night, so when we're just sitting now
Speaker 2: in the driveways, that was hopefully the tires up.
Speaker 1: Yeah, well you gotta put a doughnut on there or something.
Speaker 1: You gotta do something, don't. You got the triple A.
Speaker 1: They come out for you. We got the trip, you
Speaker 1: got the triple A. Of course, live in the last
Speaker 1: Carlos ro Don also living that lie improvement, going in
Speaker 1: the right direction. I guess you could say I watched
Speaker 1: a part of this game before the women's soccer game
Speaker 1: at nine o'clock. I was, I was. I'm drawn to
Speaker 1: the women's soccer. I like the women's soccer games. I
Speaker 1: did a video for it. Em betting pros now. I
Speaker 1: feel like personally infested. Disappointing outcome with the tie. But
Speaker 1: I watched Carlos Rodan pitch relatively well, one run, five
Speaker 1: and two thirds, so him getting in the right direction
Speaker 1: is good. There's rumors that Aaron Judge, the first thing
Speaker 1: really talk about too, might be returning Friday. That's the
Speaker 1: buzz going around the New York area. We'll see if
Speaker 1: that's correct. Other injury news, Evaldi's going to start for
Speaker 1: the Rangers against the Padres on Sunday, A story of
Speaker 1: Raweez will begin his minor league rehab assignment Friday. That's
Speaker 1: tomorrow with Triple A Las Vegas. Mason Miller through a
Speaker 1: twenty pitch bullpen session Wednesday. So far so good. Fingers crossed,
Speaker 1: we'll see and Juan Soto, who wasn't playing, came in
Speaker 1: the game, got a pinch walk. SODA's going to undergo
Speaker 1: an MRI for the middle finger today, So bun nice
Speaker 1: middlefing Was it the middle thing? Oh? Yeah, it was
Speaker 1: his middle finger, which basically gives the middle finger to
Speaker 1: the rest of his season, because I'm telling you right
Speaker 1: now there's a good chance he goes on the IL.
Speaker 1: I think this is the death now of the Padres. Unfortunately,
Speaker 1: if that happens like for two weeks, if you're missing
Speaker 1: him or there's some serious surgery kind of thing, I
Speaker 1: don't know. Welsh, it doesn't sound good to me. Your
Speaker 1: thoughts on one SODA's middle finger.
Speaker 2: I think we've all had some thoughts with middle fingers
Speaker 2: and Soto for some of the year as we've been
Speaker 2: going through. Yeah, it's not good. I mean you got
Speaker 2: to think about like potential powers apping. You've got to
Speaker 2: think about overall just contact. So I worry about that
Speaker 2: and I think whether it's soda or not, whether this
Speaker 2: is going to push the you know, the ball over
Speaker 2: the line. Snell and Hater have been guys that have
Speaker 2: been rumored to be moved, and the rumors have been
Speaker 2: like they would move one or both of them at
Speaker 2: the deadline.
Speaker 1: The huge win for somebody.
Speaker 2: The podcasts actually might hold the cards, right because you
Speaker 2: know the other thing I didn't even mention, but it's
Speaker 2: implied he.
Speaker 1: Think about that is not only.
Speaker 2: Is not only did the Gilito trade like show us
Speaker 2: that Otani is off the market, but he was the piece.
Speaker 2: I think we said it on here, He's the piece
Speaker 2: I think that sets the market. What does that rental
Speaker 2: stud look like compared to what multi year players would
Speaker 2: look like? He is going to start. I believe the
Speaker 2: flood market of these moves. So what does a Snell
Speaker 2: bring back more than Gilie.
Speaker 1: He's walking the ballpark? Not much, But you're right, You're
Speaker 1: absolutely right. The Snell Hater combination, that would be a
Speaker 1: big haul for somebody to get a starting a left
Speaker 1: tennis starting pitcher and a closer. I think it's also
Speaker 1: the time too, just our having that conversation too about
Speaker 1: who is up next? Like if Bednar gets traded, are
Speaker 1: they going to Holderman? Are they going somewhere else? Like
Speaker 1: who's up next? For the Pirates we already talked about
Speaker 1: if Seawall gets traded potentially that Munyos is clearly going
Speaker 1: to be that guy. Is there any nobody else too?
Speaker 1: Like if Hater gets dealt, who steps into that role?
Speaker 1: In your opinion for the Padre because I think that's
Speaker 1: what everybody should be doing this weekend is getting ahead
Speaker 1: on the waiver wire. So are there some closer situations
Speaker 1: in your opinion that could help where people can get
Speaker 1: ahead of that waiver wire dealing and maybe help themselves out.
Speaker 1: You know what, maybe some bad teams, but still, you know,
Speaker 1: doesn't saves the rest of the year in season long
Speaker 1: rod or head to head rodo that makes a difference.
Speaker 2: It's a huge thing. Yeah, you know, the Pirates one
Speaker 2: is really tough. I'm like looking obviously Holderman is said
Speaker 2: is like their eighth Zinski. Maybe one of those guys
Speaker 2: I don't see, like a lockdown player who could get it.
Speaker 2: I guess you would just go with the setup guy
Speaker 2: and Holderman. If you were to go back over to
Speaker 2: San Diego, Robert Swarez probably gets that gig and he
Speaker 2: probably gets the first opportunity. So those might be two
Speaker 2: guys you try to look at because closers are needed
Speaker 2: in the market. Also on the inverse of this, pay
Speaker 2: attention because the worst thing that could happen is a
Speaker 2: guy like bed Nar goes to a place like like
Speaker 2: the Braves, you know, and they're just like, oh, we're
Speaker 2: not committed to they wouldn't. They just got Pierce Johnson.
Speaker 2: But you know, I'm getting at where he doesn't become
Speaker 2: a starter. A team like the Diamondbacks would be phenomenal
Speaker 2: for him because then he is absolutely the closer. It
Speaker 2: probably pitched him in the eighth and the ninth just
Speaker 2: because the bullpen is such garbage. So to not only
Speaker 2: the players going so hopefully you don't lose value, but
Speaker 2: pay attention to the teams that are going to be unloading.
Speaker 2: Maybe have a little speculative ad in the next couple
Speaker 2: of days on Robert Sworez Holderman, just in case if
Speaker 2: they do get locked in as closers.
Speaker 1: Hater to the Diamondbacks is a tough sell in that division.
Speaker 1: But if they could pull that off, I.
Speaker 2: Mean, I think Snell would be incredible. But to your point,
Speaker 2: the division.
Speaker 1: And that's that's even harder one of them. I could see.
Speaker 1: If you're going to give one, it's the closer.
Speaker 2: I think that diamond actually have to pay up. But
Speaker 2: I just don't think either one of those. I think
Speaker 2: the I think Bednar makes a lot of sense. I
Speaker 2: think the Diamondbacks could turn their attention there, maybe even
Speaker 2: get in the Keller talks. Keller, you know, they said
Speaker 2: the pirates were willing to listen. Diamond actually don't want
Speaker 2: to unload their roster. But if you have a controllable
Speaker 2: pitcher for multiple years and you can get a guy
Speaker 2: like Bednar in here, they might be willing to, you know,
Speaker 2: unload the farm a little bit.
Speaker 1: I'd be fascinating to see Mitch Keller and a good team.
Speaker 1: I get that would be a fascinating thing. Like does
Speaker 1: he does he? You know, when you give run support
Speaker 1: and good defense and all of those things that you
Speaker 1: would love to have as a pitcher. I wonder what
Speaker 1: you get out of mitche Kelly. I pretty much this
Speaker 1: on that guy you hadt the beginning of the year.
Speaker 2: Every Pirates player ever, You're just like, oh, you know
Speaker 2: what I would love to see for this guy.
Speaker 1: He loves see Brian Reynolds did a good lineup. I
Speaker 1: couldn't see him. He signed an extension. I could not
Speaker 1: believe that going into this year. He could have helped
Speaker 1: a lot of teams this year. Three up and three
Speaker 1: down and then more trade talk here you say. Kakuchi
Speaker 1: struck out eight guys and six innings with meryfield homeward
Speaker 1: and four Ribby's yesterday as they beat the Dodgers. Nolan
Speaker 1: Gorman three for five but not one but two homers
Speaker 1: yesterday as well, and they beat up the Diamondbacks eleven
Speaker 1: seven Welsh ear muffs, three down. Lance Lynn gave up
Speaker 1: seven runs and four and two third innings Wednesday against
Speaker 1: the Cubs. Marcus Strouman said, hold my beer, he allowed
Speaker 1: seven runs and three and a third innings. That's right,
Speaker 1: You've got nothing, lance Ln. Oh my goodness, if only
Speaker 1: someone had said that Marcus Stroman regression was coming. If
Speaker 1: only that was a show a handsome bald host that
Speaker 1: talked about how Marcus Strouman can't possibly keep this up,
Speaker 1: and it was true. Framer Valdez depressed me yesterday. Six
Speaker 1: runs and three and two thirds looks so good, Welsh
Speaker 1: looks so good. But a last, what can we do?
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Speaker 1: I started get a little mad dog russo there. I
Speaker 1: got very excited. Did you see the cl Joey Vado?
Speaker 1: I caught that this morning. I didn't see it yesterday. Car.
Speaker 2: You know what's so funny about that?
Speaker 1: We too. I was laughing.
Speaker 2: I was thinking about it's so funny you brought this up.
Speaker 2: Is like everybody's like, oh, Joey Vado is my favorite player.
Speaker 2: Joey Vato for president and stuff, and it was like,
Speaker 2: you want to know why to It's because it's not
Speaker 2: just because like he's super clever and stuff. He just
Speaker 2: like loves the game. There are so many jaded ass athletes,
Speaker 2: oh sure that are like, job, do you feel about this? Well,
Speaker 2: just trying to be here for the team of They
Speaker 2: say the same bull crap all the time. We never
Speaker 2: hear personality. Guys don't want to be there, entitled on
Speaker 2: their you know, their golden palace and everything, and you
Speaker 2: couldn't talk to him, can't look at that. And Joey
Speaker 2: Voda is just a dude that not only is he
Speaker 2: hilarious and funny, he just like loves life. He loves
Speaker 2: playing with the game, he loves messing around. It's just
Speaker 2: it's it's so much different that we see. I love
Speaker 2: the guy. I've been around m multiple times out here,
Speaker 2: every time. He's always a fun personality. That's it stuff.
Speaker 2: It's I wish there was more of that. I wish
Speaker 2: guys were more comfortable in their own skin in baseball
Speaker 2: and not worried they're gonna screw up a contract or
Speaker 2: screw up this or say the wrong thing.
Speaker 1: Joey vod is hilarious, love yes and the and the
Speaker 1: stuff he did with Russo yesterday. He just seems, like
Speaker 1: you said, he's enjoying himself, and he's enjoying he knows that,
Speaker 1: like the end is nigh. So this is it? Like
Speaker 1: you know, the Reds are relevant? What more could you
Speaker 1: ask for? Be nice for Joey Vado will be in
Speaker 1: the playoffs. I can't remember the last time that happened.
Speaker 2: And then you were talking like a week ago about
Speaker 2: like him and cut like we're all, look, oh my god,
Speaker 2: we love Joey.
Speaker 1: Vodo that I'm saying he shouldn't play every day. I'm
Speaker 1: saying you should be like a player coach. I think
Speaker 1: he's I think he's done. I'm happy for him. But
Speaker 1: this is a business show. This is a fantasy show,
Speaker 1: and Joey Bottle's not fantasy relevant. I'm sorry. He is
Speaker 1: relevant in real life. He is an amazing human being a
Speaker 1: great ball player. I had this argument with Oh my god,
Speaker 1: Ariel Con and I had the biggest argument once a knockdown,
Speaker 1: drag out rock 'em soccer and robot argument about Joey
Speaker 1: Vaddo being a Hall of Famer and I am but
Speaker 1: a hard no, hard no, like Joey Vado. To me,
Speaker 1: I never think of Joey Vado as one of the
Speaker 1: great players ever. I think Joey Vodo is a really
Speaker 1: good player, and he had some good seasons specled him
Speaker 1: with some not so good seasons and no postseason appearances,
Speaker 1: and we can we can blame that on him all
Speaker 1: we want or not. I don't know he's in the
Speaker 1: Hall of Fame of humans, but I don't know in
Speaker 1: terms of, you know, hall of famer, Like I know
Speaker 1: Fred McGriff is in the Hall of Fame. If you
Speaker 1: told me would you rather Fred McGriff or Joey Votto,
Speaker 1: I have no hesitation. I'm taking Fred McGriff. Fredm griff
Speaker 1: was on the Great power Hitters ever or period thirty
Speaker 1: one hundred for like a decade and like nobody cared forever.
Speaker 1: I think Paul Konerko's got better stats or snacks. He's
Speaker 1: got better both things. You go to Paul Canerko's house,
Speaker 1: he's got pretzels, he's got potato chips, he's got the talkies,
Speaker 1: he's got everything. I think Paul Canko has better Hall
Speaker 1: of Fame credentials than Joey vottem not.
Speaker 2: As good of a defender talkies.
Speaker 1: I love the canerkos. We can go find go ahead,
Speaker 1: go ahead, he nuts and cracker that's in the chat.
Speaker 1: Joey Bottle hall of Famer, Yes or no? I want
Speaker 1: to hear from you.
Speaker 2: You know, I'm not that big on this type of stuff,
Speaker 2: Like I think.
Speaker 1: I'm asking the peanuts.
Speaker 2: It's not that I hate it, it's just I think
Speaker 2: all Hall of Fames are are watered down, and they
Speaker 2: they have like a mission, you know, it's a get
Speaker 2: players in every year, and I think we start to
Speaker 2: get like, I mean, I don't want to say name,
Speaker 2: there's a name on top of my head. I'm not
Speaker 2: going to say because I'm not going to get people
Speaker 2: yelling at me. But like I just say, I'm like,
Speaker 2: was that.
Speaker 1: Al Derek Jeter? That's wrong?
Speaker 2: No, no, no, not at all. It's a recent one.
Speaker 2: But it's just like you get these guys when it's like, okay,
Speaker 2: they were good, but were they're Hall of Famer. I
Speaker 2: just think it's all water down.
Speaker 1: Who was it?
Speaker 2: I don't want come on, no, you got to tell
Speaker 2: I'm not looking at the stats. I'm not looking at
Speaker 2: the stats. Or anything like that. But because I need
Speaker 2: to be like locked into the stats.
Speaker 1: Everybody says no. But then somebody like Leo say, well,
Speaker 1: if this guy's a Hall of Famer, that guy's a
Speaker 1: Hall of Fame. That's the worst logic. Don't start using that.
Speaker 1: That's how you get everything watered down, Like the Welsh
Speaker 1: is saying.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it is pretty watered down. So it's just like,
Speaker 2: I don't know, Joe Vatto's been a pretty great player
Speaker 2: in our time, one of the better OBP guys.
Speaker 1: And he's a bazillionaire or two. He made so much
Speaker 1: money playing and not playing baseball. Let's get the prize packs.
Speaker 1: Pick a prize wash why not?
Speaker 2: Okay, So here's the deal you podcast listeners. You're gonna
Speaker 2: be kind of screwed today. I did give an extra
Speaker 2: option in here just in case because the games are weird.
Speaker 2: There's like a game like, right, is this episode is
Speaker 2: going to end? It's gonna be before the podcast is posted.
Speaker 2: Uh stuff is early, so blah blah blah. So sorry
Speaker 2: to you, guys. So I gave five or four here,
Speaker 2: I've got Otani strikeouts seven and a half. I love
Speaker 2: that play today, all on it So he's staying with
Speaker 2: the Angels. Hey, I'm happy strike strack strike so Otani
Speaker 2: seven and a half.
Speaker 1: He comes out there and as a blizter and gets
Speaker 1: hurt today. Oh my god, I get I can't. I
Speaker 1: don't even want to. I don't even want to show
Speaker 1: up tomorrow. That's that. I don't want to.
Speaker 2: You're gonna save that clip. If Otani gets hurt, it
Speaker 2: is on you. It is on you. If Otani gets hurt.
Speaker 2: So just for me, yeah, yeah, oh, someone in the
Speaker 2: I'm just telling you it's your fault. Someone in the
Speaker 2: chat just talked about the player that I was dicey
Speaker 2: about the Hall of Fame. Francisco Alvarez hit run RBI
Speaker 2: one and a half. I'll take it. Luis Robert hit
Speaker 2: run rb I one and a half. I'll take it.
Speaker 2: And then I'll do a combo of Pete Alonzo and
Speaker 2: Lane Thomas hit run RBI three and a half. So
Speaker 2: those are four pieces that I dig if I were
Speaker 2: trying to put one together pending when you're listening to this,
Speaker 2: what do you got?
Speaker 1: All right? I feel so guilty now I got Otani
Speaker 1: and Lorenz and combined KSE twelve and a half over
Speaker 1: I got Tanner, Biby and Dylan Ce's eleven and a
Speaker 1: half over and Otani on his own seven point five over,
Speaker 1: which means I pretty much chinxed him for betting today,
Speaker 1: code I sega five and a half strikeouts over. Just
Speaker 1: do it. Let's go. They're playing the Nats again. Here
Speaker 1: we go again. We'll try to do this to get
Speaker 1: the Mets and Senga and the over. Please, let's get
Speaker 1: back on track with that one. Jose Ramira is two
Speaker 1: point five RBI. You're getting plus one forty on that
Speaker 1: bad boy today against the White Sox, and you never
Speaker 1: whenever teams are trading players, that's when teams completely just
Speaker 1: shutter the doors. So now's the time. Not that you
Speaker 1: needed to, you know, but like you saw Lance linz
Speaker 1: outing yesterday, this is the time to start picking on
Speaker 1: the White Sox. That time starts now. Guys are getting jettisoned.
Speaker 1: The locker room's gonna be miserable. I'm looking for Jose Ramirez.
Speaker 1: You could probably invest more in him too, Welsh, what
Speaker 1: do you have on the betting.
Speaker 2: Side, Yeah, man, I mean I'm on a little cold
Speaker 2: streak right now, so I'm trying to break it. Yesterday
Speaker 2: really hit me. I not that much of cultreet. The
Speaker 2: other day I had like a million bets and the
Speaker 2: one just screwed multiple things. Yesterday was bad, so today
Speaker 2: a little bit easier. I'm gonna go with a strikeout
Speaker 2: Combo Otani and Kodei Senga Boom seven and a half,
Speaker 2: five and a half, the Segon ones really so I
Speaker 2: don't want to play that like it's like minus one
Speaker 2: seventy at five and a half. Give me those two together.
Speaker 2: And that's why the podcast listeners are gonna ge screwed
Speaker 2: because Otani's going here in like ten minutes as we're going.
Speaker 2: I love that one, and I will go with the
Speaker 2: Chicago Cubs money line at one point fifteen, and I
Speaker 2: think that might also be the first five one. If
Speaker 2: I could take the first five, I'd really like that
Speaker 2: with Justin Steele going. But I'm gonna back Justin Steele today,
Speaker 2: So that is my play. Those are all that I
Speaker 2: got right now.
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Speaker 1: all Welsh. There's no DFS today, So I got one
Speaker 1: more question for you about trades. Eduardo Rodriguez, where does
Speaker 1: he land when all a said and done? I say Houston?
Speaker 1: Where say you?
Speaker 2: I think that's the biggest possibility. There's a rumor out there.
Speaker 2: I saw it yesterday, a rumor of like Lancelin with
Speaker 2: the Rays, which doesn't seem like a right fit, but
Speaker 2: maybe that would be something.
Speaker 1: To give you that John c Riley, you know it's like, yeah, that's.
Speaker 2: Good, that's a good face. So like, let's assume maybe
Speaker 2: that were to happen. I think Edwardo U Sabo definitely
Speaker 2: on that Texas Rangers are a possibility. I think the
Speaker 2: Astro's got to be kind of near the forefront, and
Speaker 2: I think the Arizona Diamondbacks got to be in this.
Speaker 2: I mean, those three teams I just laid out, they
Speaker 2: should be the most aggressive I think on that pitching
Speaker 2: market right now. So who are the guys that are available?
Speaker 2: Lance Lynn, You've got Edwardo, and then I'm kind of
Speaker 2: drawing a blank.
Speaker 1: On Jordan Montgomery is gonna be out there.
Speaker 2: Jorge Montgomery. There you go. There's another one.
Speaker 1: That's the guy that I you know, see, Jordan Montgomery
Speaker 1: is like the low key the one I want. D
Speaker 1: Rodriguez is still you know, the one, but the one
Speaker 1: a for me that's like still floating out there now
Speaker 1: that Gilito's off the market. I think that Montgomery can
Speaker 1: help you, you know, because he's pitched in New York.
Speaker 1: He's pitched for the card like, he's pitched for teams
Speaker 1: that you know, in meaningful games, and that matters, you know.
Speaker 1: My only thing with with Eduardo Rodriguez is that that's
Speaker 1: my concern with him. He isn't really again I almost
Speaker 1: meant full mad. I'm with Regaez Welsh and I don't know.
Speaker 1: I don't know what are you gonna get him in
Speaker 1: a big game. I can't doubt it. Never pen to
Speaker 1: again in life with the red talks. Never happened, didn't
Speaker 1: happen at all.
Speaker 2: Your face is the best part of watching is watching
Speaker 2: your mouth and face.
Speaker 1: Is you have to make the faith.
Speaker 2: Are we gonna do it?
Speaker 1: Because it's the whole thing.
Speaker 2: See, I wish you had the hair, like we didn't
Speaker 2: get the wig.
Speaker 1: This year.
Speaker 2: It's really disappointed we didn't get to the next year.
Speaker 1: We'll have fifteen thousand and then. Look, I'm a man
Speaker 1: of my word. We did the mustaches. Now there's only
Speaker 1: so much to do, you know, we did all those things.
Speaker 1: Now I'm continuously like, again, it's just Peter Alonzo, pi
Speaker 1: Alonso pe Alonzo for me.
Speaker 2: What is this about.
Speaker 1: I'm in a zone, me and polar Bear in his
Speaker 1: own So I got two from me the other day.
Speaker 1: I let it ride. I didn't get it off. Rodnald's
Speaker 1: hoping you get a bullpen homer. But now they got
Speaker 1: the Nationals and I'm like, okay, let's go. I gave
Speaker 1: the Nationals. That's another opportunity for pet Alonzo home runs.
Speaker 1: Where are you going with your home run call for today?
Speaker 2: And I'm gonna give a backup because this is a catcher,
Speaker 2: and if he doesn't go, I'm going Francis Squavrez. I'm
Speaker 2: gonna stay in that team, Big Bomb Alvarez. If he
Speaker 2: doesn't go today, I'm just putting it out there. Goldie
Speaker 2: is going to be my backup. So just go as
Speaker 2: a guy no matter what, except if Goldie is And
Speaker 2: then look at Razormone with the.
Speaker 1: Said good night though the back Guy thirty eight home
Speaker 1: runs Blue Harvester at thirty seven. Tater's got thirty seven,
Speaker 1: so Harvester is now tied for second. Look at Harvester,
Speaker 1: Hoffman at thirty three, Randy at thirty two, Randy, I'll
Speaker 1: get Wonky Penguin up there. You loved it a penguin.
Speaker 2: Yeah, Kelly's trying to get that helmet. Kelly, my kid,
Speaker 2: Kelly's then nine, just got to get on a.
Speaker 1: Good I'll say this, if we won the helmet, nobody
Speaker 1: would be happy. If Wonky won the helmet. I feel
Speaker 1: like people would be happy.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I think so.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I think she's respected.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and I'll send We're neither amount of money, so
Speaker 2: the helmet just comes back to me anyways.
Speaker 1: So yeah, but we're neither We're neither respected nor loved.
Speaker 1: I don't know why people are here.
Speaker 2: Someday they really doesn't appreciate that you are.
Speaker 1: But I love I love all of you. I love
Speaker 1: you all. It's great time. This Otani business Welsh like, Uh,
Speaker 1: we just watched Back to the Future the other day.
Speaker 1: My kids had seen it a long time ago. They
Speaker 1: didn't really remember it.
Speaker 2: Well, it's A.
Speaker 1: Honestly, it's o A. It's fun it's funny. It's funny.
Speaker 1: You know. Yes, his mom is trying to sleep with him. Okay, fine, Like,
Speaker 1: once you get over that part, it's fine.
Speaker 2: Dad. I don't understand this part.
Speaker 1: But I'm thinking about the Sports Almanac, and I keep
Speaker 1: thinking about Otani, and I keep thinking about like the future,
Speaker 1: and I keep thinking about this moment where the angel said,
Speaker 1: and and I don't want to mince worries about this
Speaker 1: because I like good stories. I like the underdog. The
Speaker 1: idea of Trout coming back and the Angels loading up
Speaker 1: and getting in the playoffs, and Otani being in the
Speaker 1: playoffs for Major League Baseball will be the best thing
Speaker 1: for Major League Baseball. Just I'm not sold that they're
Speaker 1: gonna do it, and I'm just not sold there's enough
Speaker 1: time for them to do it, and I'm just not sold.
Speaker 1: In the end, they're not gonna regret this. So I
Speaker 1: guess we'll have to see what's gonna happen next and
Speaker 1: the offitune in tomorrow for what's gonna happen next year.
Speaker 1: That'll do it for us. But the story of the
Speaker 1: game goes on for the Welsh I'm Joey P. We'll
Speaker 1: see you next time. Kids and my al Tony, Oh
Speaker 1: my god.