WEBVTT - Blake Snell is back, Cubs look legit, Rays roar, Skenes velo drop, Alex Cora opens up on next chapter 0:00:05.480 --> 0:00:09.440 All right, Scott quit KP. Scott quit on us today, 0:00:09.920 --> 0:00:11.320 so it's just me and you. I hope you can 0:00:11.360 --> 0:00:13.720 deal with that. You went for the wife meter look, 0:00:13.760 --> 0:00:14.520 which is interesting. 0:00:14.600 --> 0:00:18.560 Look, don't worry, no, no, not wife beater. Fabletics tank top, 0:00:18.680 --> 0:00:19.799 Fabletics tank top. 0:00:20.200 --> 0:00:21.720 Yeah. See, I don't have the tats. I don't have 0:00:21.720 --> 0:00:23.319 the arms to pull that off, so I always have 0:00:23.400 --> 0:00:26.840 to go fully sleeve. If I had tats like you had, 0:00:26.840 --> 0:00:29.960 I'd probably be a little bit more open to the 0:00:30.000 --> 0:00:31.800 tank top look. But you know, some of us have 0:00:31.880 --> 0:00:34.239 like kind of hairy arms a little bit, see, like 0:00:34.280 --> 0:00:36.760 not fully shaven, so we kind of need to cover 0:00:36.840 --> 0:00:38.040 up certain parts of our body. 0:00:38.760 --> 0:00:39.840 That's fair, that's fair. 0:00:40.640 --> 0:00:42.120 I mean, you know, we all can't look as good 0:00:42.120 --> 0:00:44.600 as you, KP. It's okay. I forgive you for looking 0:00:44.600 --> 0:00:45.240 so damn good. 0:00:45.440 --> 0:00:48.200 You're you're a busy person. You're working all the time. 0:00:48.280 --> 0:00:51.680 I'm not working nearly as much as you. I have 0:00:51.800 --> 0:00:55.440 young kids. They keep me young in spirit, they keep 0:00:55.480 --> 0:00:59.200 me physically young. We just had different parts of our life. 0:00:59.240 --> 0:01:02.000 I'm sure you know a handful of years from now, 0:01:02.040 --> 0:01:05.080 when my my youngest is eleven months, you know, when 0:01:05.120 --> 0:01:08.280 she's a little bit older, the tank tops will probably 0:01:08.280 --> 0:01:08.920 get put away. 0:01:10.160 --> 0:01:13.560 Yeah. True. May your kids get to be teenagers and 0:01:13.560 --> 0:01:17.319 they will be like, Dad, everything you do is annoying, Dad, 0:01:17.400 --> 0:01:20.320 Why are you so annoying? Dad? Stop doing that. You'll 0:01:20.319 --> 0:01:23.240 see You'll see KP. You'll see KP when one day 0:01:23.280 --> 0:01:25.679 your kids are old enough to really get a little 0:01:25.720 --> 0:01:28.640 bit angry at you. But that's okay, it's okay. You 0:01:28.640 --> 0:01:29.800 get used to it after a while, and then they 0:01:29.880 --> 0:01:32.480 turn around and they're like, Dad, you're pretty cool. Actually 0:01:32.520 --> 0:01:34.040 when you go to when you know, you take them 0:01:34.080 --> 0:01:36.280 to the club and stuff and you pay for their drinks. 0:01:36.959 --> 0:01:40.360 Yeah, that is true. It's the circle of life. Kids 0:01:40.400 --> 0:01:42.400 can't live without their parents, and then they go through 0:01:42.400 --> 0:01:44.160 that phase or they want nothing to do with them, 0:01:44.240 --> 0:01:47.200 and then they come back around. Luckily, I'm still in 0:01:47.280 --> 0:01:48.400 phase one of life. 0:01:49.640 --> 0:01:52.560 True true. True. You know what else impresses your kids 0:01:52.600 --> 0:01:54.440 and well one of your kids and then your other 0:01:54.520 --> 0:01:56.560 kid is mad because they didn't get the opportunity to go, 0:01:57.000 --> 0:01:58.400 is when you get to go meet the pope. 0:02:00.160 --> 0:02:03.480 Yeah, I'm pretty sure that would be something your kids 0:02:03.600 --> 0:02:04.920 probably think you're pretty cool for. 0:02:05.720 --> 0:02:07.440 Yeah. Well, one of my kids got to go, so 0:02:07.520 --> 0:02:09.519 my daughter got to go the older one. My son didn't, 0:02:09.560 --> 0:02:12.440 he was playing summer baseball. But the White Sox, because 0:02:12.639 --> 0:02:16.120 they're an awesome organization, had a cool giveaway last night. 0:02:16.160 --> 0:02:17.560 I don't know if he saw this or now there's me. 0:02:18.400 --> 0:02:20.639 That was Saturday night. Danny Bell, who used to work 0:02:20.639 --> 0:02:23.000 at Fox was our guy. That was after the Pope 0:02:23.080 --> 0:02:26.240 night or after Saturday night the Ozzie Gean retirement. I 0:02:26.280 --> 0:02:29.880 had the popead on and people were super excited that 0:02:29.919 --> 0:02:31.480 I got to take a picture of it. But last night, 0:02:31.520 --> 0:02:34.760 the White Sox gave away forty thousand of these things 0:02:34.840 --> 0:02:37.760 k forty thousand popeats. 0:02:38.440 --> 0:02:42.280 It's pretty amazing. But I think in baseball timings everything, 0:02:42.560 --> 0:02:46.040 I don't think anyone saw this team doing what they 0:02:46.040 --> 0:02:48.720 were going to do this year. And you know, aj 0:02:49.000 --> 0:02:51.080 sometimes you have a young team with a lot of 0:02:51.120 --> 0:02:54.560 young players, they can get out of the gates pretty strong. 0:02:54.720 --> 0:02:58.800 You know, youth is a pretty important thing early in 0:02:58.800 --> 0:03:00.960 the season. A lot of people we're excited to be there. 0:03:01.000 --> 0:03:03.799 People are playing for their jobs. But I don't think 0:03:03.840 --> 0:03:08.120 anyone saw the Chicago White Sox kind of, you know, 0:03:08.280 --> 0:03:11.480 maintaining the success that they've had this season. And I 0:03:11.520 --> 0:03:15.600 think They've gone beyond everyone's wild wildest imaginations of what 0:03:15.639 --> 0:03:18.680 they were able to do this season. And I mentioned timing, 0:03:19.960 --> 0:03:22.560 you know, with Pope Leo, you know, taking over the 0:03:22.639 --> 0:03:26.920 Vatican being a White Stocks fan, there's something magical going 0:03:26.960 --> 0:03:29.840 on with this season. So I think the Pope pat 0:03:29.960 --> 0:03:33.120 is very fitting for where this team is at, what 0:03:33.200 --> 0:03:37.240 this team has been able to accomplish this year. And 0:03:37.280 --> 0:03:39.120 you know what, agent I was on the day you 0:03:39.200 --> 0:03:42.040 actually were visiting the Pope. I never kind of heard 0:03:42.080 --> 0:03:45.120 fully about what that experience was. Like, I mean I 0:03:45.120 --> 0:03:46.800 got I mean behind me right here you can see. 0:03:46.800 --> 0:03:49.720 I got to meet a you know, former president. And 0:03:50.680 --> 0:03:53.720 no matter how you feel about whatever party he represents, 0:03:53.760 --> 0:03:56.000 like there's only so many living presidents in the world. Like, 0:03:56.080 --> 0:03:59.680 if you get an opportunity to meet someone that important, 0:03:59.800 --> 0:04:03.240 that famous, it's really the cool perk of the job 0:04:03.320 --> 0:04:07.800 is sometimes our profession allows us to meet people like that. 0:04:07.920 --> 0:04:10.480 I can only imagine what that feeling is like meeting 0:04:10.520 --> 0:04:10.920 the Pope. 0:04:11.800 --> 0:04:13.720 Yeah, I mean he blessed my hat for me. In 0:04:13.760 --> 0:04:15.680 case you can't see my hat, I'm wearing the pope hat. 0:04:15.960 --> 0:04:18.440 They gave this to me. It's actually awesome. So peace 0:04:18.480 --> 0:04:20.080 be with you, Kevin. I don't know if you saw this, 0:04:20.160 --> 0:04:21.800 but they also did a Peace be with You where 0:04:21.800 --> 0:04:25.440 everyone if you've ever been to Catholic Mass, everyone went to. 0:04:26.360 --> 0:04:28.200 In Catholic Mass, they always do a moment where you're 0:04:28.200 --> 0:04:30.280 supposed to turn around and meet your neighbors and they 0:04:30.360 --> 0:04:31.800 call it. You know, you say peace be with you 0:04:31.839 --> 0:04:34.920 to your neighbors at church, and last night the white 0:04:34.960 --> 0:04:37.320 tux did that with forty two thousand people in the stands. 0:04:37.360 --> 0:04:39.080 I thought it was an awesome night. Everything they did 0:04:39.120 --> 0:04:43.760 was Pope inspired. Everything they did was just that way, 0:04:43.839 --> 0:04:46.080 and no matter what you believe in or whatever, it's 0:04:46.120 --> 0:04:48.440 cool to see forty two thousand people be able to 0:04:48.440 --> 0:04:51.000 get behind anything. I mean, we have enough problems, I'm 0:04:51.000 --> 0:04:52.520 sure with your kids trying to figure out what to 0:04:52.560 --> 0:04:54.560 have for dinner that everyone likes. And yes, I mean 0:04:54.600 --> 0:04:57.920 I played golf with multiple presidents. I've met multiple presidents, 0:04:58.240 --> 0:05:00.359 been to the White House of multiple presidents. But to 0:05:00.400 --> 0:05:02.600 go to the Vatican and meet the Pope was one 0:05:02.640 --> 0:05:06.640 of the coolest experiences because, look, he's from Chicago, he's 0:05:06.680 --> 0:05:09.080 a White Sox fan, and as someone that was raised Catholic, 0:05:09.360 --> 0:05:11.080 to be able to meet the Pope. Again. I've said 0:05:11.080 --> 0:05:13.280 this many times. I met more to my mom than 0:05:13.320 --> 0:05:15.120 probably it did to me, which is fair or not 0:05:15.160 --> 0:05:16.720 fair depending on how you want to look at it. 0:05:17.160 --> 0:05:19.920 But it was one of those things that is life 0:05:19.960 --> 0:05:22.159 changing because you look at it and say, damn, this 0:05:22.279 --> 0:05:24.160 dude is pretty cool. 0:05:25.360 --> 0:05:28.960 Yeah. I think to your point too, regardless of what 0:05:29.040 --> 0:05:31.520 religion you believe in, if you are religious, I think 0:05:31.520 --> 0:05:34.480 anytime we can have forty thousand people at least saying 0:05:34.520 --> 0:05:37.160 hi to their neighbors, whether they're blessing them or not, 0:05:37.279 --> 0:05:40.320 but interacting with each other, all kind of being on 0:05:40.400 --> 0:05:42.800 the same page. I don't think, you know, with the 0:05:42.800 --> 0:05:44.760 world we live in, if we can just have you know, 0:05:44.839 --> 0:05:48.000 even if it's that twenty seconds of good and maybe 0:05:48.680 --> 0:05:51.760 a quarter of those people go out and do something 0:05:51.839 --> 0:05:55.680 nice and there's this trickle down effects. So great job 0:05:55.720 --> 0:06:00.039 by the Chicago White Sox for kind of having the 0:06:00.080 --> 0:06:03.800 creativity to have the popat. Obviously the team is doing 0:06:03.839 --> 0:06:06.320 something a lot of people in the baseball world didn't 0:06:06.320 --> 0:06:08.840 expect them to do. Good on them for having that 0:06:08.960 --> 0:06:12.000 moment to have, you know, people just interact with a 0:06:12.040 --> 0:06:15.040 stranger and a neighbor, and the more good we can 0:06:15.080 --> 0:06:16.000 have in this world, the better. 0:06:17.000 --> 0:06:19.400 Well, I have to take the hat off now because Jeremy, 0:06:19.400 --> 0:06:22.000 our director, is yelling at me. It's too tall. It's 0:06:22.040 --> 0:06:24.640 too tall, KP. So I got to go back. I 0:06:24.680 --> 0:06:26.240 got to go back to the regular hat. But that 0:06:26.320 --> 0:06:28.200 is a nice souvenir that they gave me. They gave 0:06:28.200 --> 0:06:29.920 it to me early. So and do you know what 0:06:29.920 --> 0:06:31.960 this is called? Do you know what this hat is called? 0:06:32.880 --> 0:06:33.560 The popat? 0:06:34.240 --> 0:06:36.680 No, it's called a miter. It's called a miter. Yes, 0:06:36.720 --> 0:06:38.200 it's cool. It looks kind of like an oven mad 0:06:38.200 --> 0:06:39.680 if you look at it like this, like oh my 0:06:40.360 --> 0:06:43.119 food is done, I should grab it. But double sided. 0:06:43.200 --> 0:06:44.800 It even has a little tassels on it. So if 0:06:44.800 --> 0:06:47.120 you're lucky enough to get one last night, White Sox fans, 0:06:48.480 --> 0:06:49.200 peace be with you. 0:06:51.160 --> 0:06:55.520 Let's talk fathletics, shall we. They have apparel for every season. 0:06:55.720 --> 0:06:58.119 We're wearing it as we talk about it. It's soft, 0:06:58.160 --> 0:07:00.680 it's comfortable. I wear it on the show sometimes on FT. 0:07:01.080 --> 0:07:02.720 What else do you love about itcrats? 0:07:03.160 --> 0:07:05.360 Well, I have it on right now and I'm all 0:07:05.400 --> 0:07:08.719 about quality. But you know what, you know how good 0:07:08.760 --> 0:07:11.640 your clothes are when you're a parent and your kids 0:07:11.840 --> 0:07:15.320 keep stealing all of it. 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I mean, after talking to the Pope about 0:07:57.960 --> 0:08:01.160 the Pope, it sounds sacrilegious kp to go to the 0:08:01.200 --> 0:08:02.920 Cubs on the other side of town, the team. He 0:08:03.000 --> 0:08:05.160 is not a fan of Cub fans. I'm sorry to 0:08:05.160 --> 0:08:06.960 say that. I know he tried to claim him, but 0:08:07.000 --> 0:08:10.280 he is a White Sox fan. So let's be real here. 0:08:10.320 --> 0:08:13.120 But the Cubs are the seventy win club. They are 0:08:13.160 --> 0:08:16.400 hot as all get out. PCA is probably the National 0:08:16.440 --> 0:08:18.440 League MVP if I had a vote right now, he 0:08:18.560 --> 0:08:21.520 is for me. The problem with the Cubs they're in 0:08:21.560 --> 0:08:24.400 the same division as the Milwaukee Brewers, so they even 0:08:24.440 --> 0:08:26.520 though they keep winning, and they keep winning, they keep winning, 0:08:26.640 --> 0:08:29.520 they're finding it pretty hard to catch up and gain 0:08:29.560 --> 0:08:31.400 ground on the Brewers. KP. How good do you think 0:08:31.440 --> 0:08:34.120 the Cubs are and how dangerous are they in October? 0:08:34.920 --> 0:08:37.360 I think they're really good and I know we'll get 0:08:37.400 --> 0:08:39.959 to it later on the show. There's a couple injuries 0:08:40.440 --> 0:08:43.600 with the Milwaukee Brewers, but you know, they're within striking 0:08:43.679 --> 0:08:46.200 distance of the Brewers. And we've talked about the Brewers, 0:08:46.360 --> 0:08:49.120 you know, pretty much all year about being, you know, 0:08:49.760 --> 0:08:52.120 the best team in the National League besides the Dodgers, 0:08:52.120 --> 0:08:54.960 and I think the Cubs have finally putting themselves in 0:08:55.000 --> 0:08:59.400 a position where it's realistic to talk about them potentially 0:08:59.440 --> 0:09:02.760 catching them Ackey Brewers. And I totally one hundred percent 0:09:02.760 --> 0:09:04.760 agree with you if I had a vote to PCA 0:09:05.160 --> 0:09:08.880 is the clear cut MVP in my opinion. What he's 0:09:08.880 --> 0:09:12.040 been able to do, not only offensively, you know what 0:09:12.120 --> 0:09:15.400 he brings to this team defensively every single night. His 0:09:15.480 --> 0:09:18.840 ability to change the game on the base pass. I mean, 0:09:18.880 --> 0:09:21.199 he's on pace to be easy thirty thirty. If he 0:09:21.240 --> 0:09:23.720 gets real hot down the stretch, he might be a 0:09:23.720 --> 0:09:26.040 forty to forty guy. You know, we're we're talking about 0:09:26.920 --> 0:09:29.160 someone who even got off to a slow start this year, 0:09:29.240 --> 0:09:33.800 but you know, potentially a generational talent. And you know, 0:09:33.880 --> 0:09:35.559 I think this is what we always kind of expected 0:09:35.600 --> 0:09:38.600 out of the Chicago Cubs when Alex Bredwyn decided to 0:09:39.360 --> 0:09:42.400 leave Boston sign with the Chicago Cubs. I mean, he 0:09:42.480 --> 0:09:45.600 is a winner everywhere he goes. He raises the floor 0:09:46.400 --> 0:09:50.160 for every team and he makes everyone around them better. 0:09:50.160 --> 0:09:53.520 And he necessarily hasn't performed up to his standards that 0:09:53.640 --> 0:09:57.360 he believes for himself, but his presence is so important 0:09:57.360 --> 0:10:00.600 any clubhouse he goes to. And the Clubs are also 0:10:00.640 --> 0:10:05.240 a team that's been hampered by pitching injuries this year. 0:10:05.440 --> 0:10:07.000 And you know, they. 0:10:06.920 --> 0:10:08.760 Went out and they made kind of a you know, 0:10:08.880 --> 0:10:11.720 under the radar move and got David Peterson, you know, 0:10:11.960 --> 0:10:16.440 way before the official trade deadline. He's been great for them. 0:10:16.520 --> 0:10:19.360 I know they got help coming. Cabrera is on his 0:10:19.440 --> 0:10:22.800 way back, but you know, I think it's no surprise 0:10:22.960 --> 0:10:26.920 that the Cubs you know, are really putting himself on 0:10:26.960 --> 0:10:29.840 the map as a team that could not only catch 0:10:29.840 --> 0:10:31.720 the Milwaukee Brewers. I think this is a team you 0:10:31.760 --> 0:10:35.520 can really start, you know, kind of fantasizing about the 0:10:35.600 --> 0:10:38.479 idea that they can have a long run in October. 0:10:39.679 --> 0:10:42.200 Well, as a Cub fan, let's hope not okay, kap, 0:10:42.400 --> 0:10:44.800 let's hope not. Let's hope. It's very short, sweet and 0:10:44.840 --> 0:10:47.640 it's over with And know I'm just kidding, am I though? 0:10:48.320 --> 0:10:50.400 But hey, here's the thing they have. Guess they have 0:10:50.400 --> 0:10:52.840 Cabrera coming back. Peterson has been great. They've changed some 0:10:52.880 --> 0:10:54.720 stuff with his delivery. I know when I was there, 0:10:54.720 --> 0:10:57.440 he pitched Craig Council talked about kind of mixing up 0:10:57.440 --> 0:10:59.920 the usage and doing some different stuff. There's still four 0:11:00.120 --> 0:11:02.760 games back of the Brewers. They're playing great there. They're 0:11:02.760 --> 0:11:04.680 gonna be in the playoffs. They're gonna at least be 0:11:04.720 --> 0:11:07.600 a wild card if they don't catch the Brewers. They 0:11:07.760 --> 0:11:10.319 if they get Palencia back, it'll be really nice because 0:11:10.320 --> 0:11:12.320 that guy is really good when he's good. But their 0:11:12.360 --> 0:11:14.960 schedule coming up is interesting to me. Three more versas 0:11:14.960 --> 0:11:17.280 the thatts then that's say what you want, but they 0:11:17.280 --> 0:11:19.240 fight you the does score some runs, they'll give up 0:11:19.280 --> 0:11:21.760 a ton of runs. Three versus the Cardinals, we all 0:11:21.800 --> 0:11:24.480 know about that rivalry. The Cardinals are still trying to 0:11:24.480 --> 0:11:26.680 pretend like they're in this race. Right They're hoving around 0:11:26.720 --> 0:11:29.120 five hundred, playing well under Ali Marmal. But then it 0:11:29.160 --> 0:11:33.240 gets interesting. They play three versu. The White Sox at home, Okay, 0:11:33.800 --> 0:11:37.240 first place team. That rivalry is great. And then they 0:11:37.280 --> 0:11:38.920 go the West. This is where I think it's gonna 0:11:38.920 --> 0:11:41.200 get interesting for them, and not for the playoffs, but 0:11:41.240 --> 0:11:44.240 for the for the division. At Seattle. Seattle is gonna 0:11:44.240 --> 0:11:46.520 have to win those games. And then at Arizona. And 0:11:46.559 --> 0:11:50.120 if you've watched Arizona play lately, they are playing really, 0:11:50.200 --> 0:11:52.880 really nice, so listen, I think the Cubs are gonna 0:11:52.880 --> 0:11:54.520 be in the playoffs. I think the Cubs are very 0:11:54.600 --> 0:11:58.120 dangerous because the way they catch the ball and the 0:11:58.160 --> 0:12:00.000 offense that they can score, because they can really score 0:12:00.160 --> 0:12:02.079 some runs if they get any sort of pitching and 0:12:02.120 --> 0:12:04.880 they get showeda to stop giving up home runs and 0:12:04.920 --> 0:12:06.800 they get some of their other guys, their starters to 0:12:06.840 --> 0:12:08.760 step up and be good. I mean, they just got 0:12:08.760 --> 0:12:10.719 Clay Holmes, they just got Kevin Gosman, who you know 0:12:10.840 --> 0:12:14.600 very well, right, they have from some formidable dudes. I 0:12:14.640 --> 0:12:17.439 think the Cubs are really dangerous to the entire National League. 0:12:18.240 --> 0:12:20.640 Yeah, I think we're gonna find out. Like you said, 0:12:20.640 --> 0:12:22.320 I think there's no doubt in my mind that the 0:12:22.360 --> 0:12:25.440 Cubs are a postseason team, how they come out of 0:12:25.480 --> 0:12:28.640 this stretch and once again the Nats a team that's 0:12:28.800 --> 0:12:32.600 really really overachieved this year. They are extremely dangerous offense, 0:12:32.720 --> 0:12:35.000 They play the game the right way. You know, they 0:12:35.040 --> 0:12:39.080 got great young leadership and do terror there. They're they're 0:12:39.080 --> 0:12:41.880 a fun team to watch and although on paper the 0:12:41.920 --> 0:12:44.080 Cubs are a much better team that than Nots, just 0:12:44.920 --> 0:12:46.760 do a lot of things right. You know, they're there. 0:12:47.640 --> 0:12:49.520 If you don't go out there and pitch, well, they're 0:12:49.559 --> 0:12:52.280 gonna make you pay. And then you talked about, you know, 0:12:52.360 --> 0:12:54.880 just the rivalry with the Cardinals and then obviously the 0:12:55.640 --> 0:12:59.360 crosstown rival with the Chicago White soxup playing great baseball. 0:12:59.480 --> 0:13:01.559 Then you talk about that West Coast trip. I think 0:13:01.679 --> 0:13:04.400 we're going to find out right now how much Creig 0:13:04.440 --> 0:13:08.319 Council decides to you know, after this road trip. I 0:13:08.360 --> 0:13:10.280 think we're going to find out just Creig Council kind 0:13:10.320 --> 0:13:12.000 of push all of his chips in and do they 0:13:12.040 --> 0:13:14.800 try to win the Vision and at the expense of 0:13:15.400 --> 0:13:18.400 potentially having guys in the bullpen go three days in 0:13:18.400 --> 0:13:20.920 a row, three out of four. You know, how they 0:13:20.960 --> 0:13:24.520 manage their starting pitching, how they kind of manage these 0:13:24.559 --> 0:13:29.199 games is going to be pretty clear after this upcoming 0:13:29.640 --> 0:13:32.600 stretch of games. You know, if they're able to win 0:13:32.640 --> 0:13:34.400 a majority of those games, I think they put the 0:13:34.440 --> 0:13:37.240 pedal down. They try to win the division, put themselves 0:13:37.280 --> 0:13:40.920 in a better situation to potentially have that first round 0:13:40.960 --> 0:13:44.920 by in the postseason. If they kind of are mediocre 0:13:45.080 --> 0:13:48.520 during this stretch, you know, I think they are a 0:13:48.559 --> 0:13:51.599 little bit more conservative with their approach. Make the postseason, 0:13:51.679 --> 0:13:54.280 make sure you're not limping in down the stretch, keep 0:13:54.320 --> 0:13:56.520 some guys healthy, keep some guys in the back end 0:13:56.559 --> 0:13:58.760 of the bullpen fresh. But I think we'll know a 0:13:58.800 --> 0:14:02.840 lot after this three, three, six, nine to twelve, fifteen 0:14:02.960 --> 0:14:04.120 eighteen game stretch. 0:14:05.160 --> 0:14:07.240 Yeah, well, they don't want to have what happened last year, right, 0:14:07.240 --> 0:14:10.400 Remember Matthew Boyd had started on short rest and then 0:14:10.440 --> 0:14:12.560 he had to do it again against the Brewers and 0:14:12.600 --> 0:14:14.920 their pitching was all a mess. They'd like to get 0:14:14.960 --> 0:14:16.600 to a point where they have them lined up. Now, 0:14:16.679 --> 0:14:18.280 they would love to get a buy and not have 0:14:18.320 --> 0:14:20.400 to worry about that in the first round, but at 0:14:20.440 --> 0:14:22.720 the end of the day, they want all their pitching 0:14:22.760 --> 0:14:24.480 lined up. I mean, they have Carera coming back, Ben 0:14:24.560 --> 0:14:26.760 Brown hopefully coming back on her, Harvey coming back at 0:14:26.760 --> 0:14:30.840 some point. They have dudes coming back. It's gonna be interesting, 0:14:30.880 --> 0:14:34.000 is how Craig council works them all back in while trying, 0:14:34.040 --> 0:14:37.840 like you said, to win the division. There are injuries 0:14:37.840 --> 0:14:39.960 on the Brewers side also that we've talked about. So 0:14:40.760 --> 0:14:45.320 it's gonna just the whole thing is is fun. It's fun. 0:14:45.360 --> 0:14:47.120 It's fun when the Cubs are trying to win. It's 0:14:47.160 --> 0:14:49.160 good for baseball when the Cubs are trying to win 0:14:49.240 --> 0:14:51.960 because it keeps, especially when the Cubs and White Sox 0:14:51.960 --> 0:14:54.560 are trying to win. Because in Chicago it is a 0:14:54.600 --> 0:14:58.240 summer thing and they get behind one team or the other. 0:14:58.760 --> 0:15:00.880 People say they root for both. Not really supposed to 0:15:00.880 --> 0:15:03.520 do that, but the Bulls, the black Hawks, the Bears. 0:15:03.600 --> 0:15:06.440 Chicago can root for all those teams, but in Chicago 0:15:06.800 --> 0:15:08.920 those two teams are split. It's a little bit more 0:15:09.000 --> 0:15:11.760 Cub heavy than it is White Sox heavy, that's fine. 0:15:11.880 --> 0:15:13.600 But when they're both good and now they're both going 0:15:13.680 --> 0:15:16.400 to play each other trying to win, it's awesome. So 0:15:16.840 --> 0:15:17.720 it's crazy. 0:15:18.880 --> 0:15:22.000 Where are these next three games? Are they at Wrigley? 0:15:22.080 --> 0:15:25.760 Were they at They're at Wrigley, I'm pretty sure. Yeah, yeah, 0:15:25.800 --> 0:15:26.240 because it's. 0:15:26.120 --> 0:15:27.600 His first they played. 0:15:27.760 --> 0:15:30.200 They played at the White Sox and the White Sox one. Okay, 0:15:30.840 --> 0:15:33.760 that was the PCA. Remember PCA got yelled at by 0:15:33.800 --> 0:15:36.800 the fan and told me he had some night choice 0:15:36.800 --> 0:15:39.000 words for her because she told him he sucks. And 0:15:39.040 --> 0:15:41.480 then he I think they called him PC triple A 0:15:41.600 --> 0:15:43.880 and he didn't like that very much. Whatever, so fine. 0:15:43.920 --> 0:15:46.720 I'm sure I never said anything mean to a Cup 0:15:46.760 --> 0:15:49.600 fan either anyway. 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You're an Angel's legend. 0:16:54.880 --> 0:16:57.600 John Mozal said the primary reason to make changes was 0:16:57.640 --> 0:17:01.400 because the pitching coaches weren't sufficiently using the technology available. 0:17:01.640 --> 0:17:04.360 He said. The hitting coaches are also said no more 0:17:04.440 --> 0:17:07.040 firings during the season. Well, the season's almost over for 0:17:07.080 --> 0:17:09.680 the Angels. Actually was over in about April, so it 0:17:09.760 --> 0:17:12.720 can't really fire anybody else. What's interesting to me about 0:17:12.760 --> 0:17:15.480 Mike Maddocks and the pitching coaches John Cheaty getting fired 0:17:15.920 --> 0:17:19.040 are that John Mozelak had Mike Maddocks in Saint Louis, 0:17:19.040 --> 0:17:20.840 he knew what he was about. He probably could have 0:17:20.840 --> 0:17:23.320 gone to him and talked to him. But what technology 0:17:23.359 --> 0:17:25.879 weren't they using? Wow? Is there something that I'm missing 0:17:25.920 --> 0:17:30.160 that most organizations are using that maybe Mike Maddicks hadn't 0:17:30.200 --> 0:17:30.800 heard of before. 0:17:31.880 --> 0:17:35.160 No, he's probably familiar with all the technology, whether he 0:17:35.240 --> 0:17:37.199 was using the technologies or not. And I think the 0:17:37.280 --> 0:17:40.560 story came out with Redetmers wanting to use a track 0:17:40.640 --> 0:17:44.200 man and a bullpen something along those lines. And maybe 0:17:44.240 --> 0:17:46.680 it wasn't something that they were setting up every bullpen 0:17:46.760 --> 0:17:50.399 in order to you know, track movement of the pitches 0:17:50.520 --> 0:17:53.880 and velocities and spin rates and all that stuff that 0:17:55.119 --> 0:17:58.200 you know we have the ability to track now. But yeah, 0:17:58.720 --> 0:18:01.440 there's The angels are very interesting to me because obviously 0:18:01.480 --> 0:18:04.679 Perry Manasien was there and he was a probably hired 0:18:05.320 --> 0:18:08.440 He probably hired Mike Maddox. But I think the reason 0:18:08.480 --> 0:18:10.639 you probably go out and get a Mike maddox is 0:18:10.640 --> 0:18:14.040 because of his track record and his resume of being 0:18:14.040 --> 0:18:16.639 able to work wonders with pitchers and and a little 0:18:16.640 --> 0:18:20.280 bit more of that old school mentality of probably using 0:18:20.280 --> 0:18:23.680 his eyeballs, probably using his experience to try to get 0:18:23.720 --> 0:18:24.760 guys back on track. 0:18:25.880 --> 0:18:28.600 The Rays are real. The Rays are real, and they 0:18:28.640 --> 0:18:30.800 are a real threat to go to the World Series 0:18:30.800 --> 0:18:33.640 in the American League. Any thoughts on what Nick Martinez 0:18:33.680 --> 0:18:35.760 is doing at thirty six and how good the Rays are. 0:18:37.000 --> 0:18:40.320 That's amazing. You know, the Rays always finds someone like 0:18:40.359 --> 0:18:44.000 a Nick Martinez who has been a very valuable starter 0:18:44.200 --> 0:18:46.640 in the games, and he's actually been a valuable swingman 0:18:46.800 --> 0:18:49.080 for a lot of teams. He kind of fits any role. 0:18:49.200 --> 0:18:51.399 But I think anytime you're a free agent in the 0:18:51.480 --> 0:18:54.160