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Speaker 1: Better.

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Speaker 2: Welcome to nobuons here on the Athletic Podcast Network. I'm

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Speaker 2: tas Mellus and with me here in our Atlanta studio.

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Speaker 2: As always, it's super producer JD. Hello, Hey JD, and

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Speaker 2: as always my co host joining me from Taiwan, it's

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Speaker 2: Joel McMillan.

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Speaker 1: Hey, Jolie. It's been so long. Good to be back.

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Speaker 3: I would sing Reunited by Peaches and Her, but I'm

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Speaker 3: more of a bar tone. I can't hit those notes,

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Speaker 3: but it's good to see my friends.

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Speaker 2: We will talk and we'll be talking about people trying

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Speaker 2: to hit notes a little bit later.

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Speaker 1: That's a perfect segue.

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Speaker 2: For the the anthem singer yesterday at the home run derby.

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Speaker 2: We'll get to that a little bit later. But it

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Speaker 2: is so good to be back, Joel. I need to

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Speaker 2: get to know what happened in the first half of

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Speaker 2: this season because I've been NBA at Heart and we

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Speaker 2: haven't done a pod since last year. Skeets filled in

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Speaker 2: at the end of the year for me post injury,

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Speaker 2: so it's good to see you guys doing that. But

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Speaker 2: I just haven't been following the first half hard enough.

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Speaker 2: I'm wearing this Blue Jays jersey because I also haven't

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Speaker 2: worn that in a long time. Since the Blue Jays

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Speaker 2: have been good since last season, It's been some time.

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Speaker 3: Uh yeah, you want to bring up a sore spot

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Speaker 3: right away? That hurts right off the bat.

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Speaker 2: I did. I had that written down. I knew we

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Speaker 2: needed to talk about that. But let's get to the

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Speaker 2: first half of the season. Before we get to that

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Speaker 2: home run derby talk, We're going to head out some

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Speaker 2: awards in the Golden Glizzies Dogs for everybody, Joel, We've got.

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Speaker 1: Dobbs for everybody.

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Speaker 2: We've got great awards to hand out, honestly great awards,

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Speaker 2: because as I talked about what that bummer of a

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Speaker 2: start with a Blue Jays, gosh, nobody wants to talk

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Speaker 2: about that, there are real good things that have happened

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Speaker 2: through the first half. So let's hand out the first award,

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Speaker 2: the best Storyline.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, so the best storyline, No nominees, You're just gonna

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Speaker 3: get straight into the winners. And the best storyline is

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Speaker 3: can the Philadelphia Phillies.

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Speaker 1: Finish the story? There we go? There we go.

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Speaker 3: Sorry, I think I missed my cue. I think I

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Speaker 3: missed my cute apologies.

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Speaker 2: No, no, no, you don't apologize. This is a live show,

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Speaker 2: things will happen.

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Speaker 3: Yes, absolutely task It's no secret, you know. You know

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Speaker 3: I think JD knows and if you follow us on

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Speaker 3: No Underscore months. I'm a very big wrestling fan, unapologetically,

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Speaker 3: and one of the big storylines in wrestling recently was

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Speaker 3: can Cody Rhodes finish the story? It was almost a

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Speaker 3: two year storyline, and ironically he did finish the story

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Speaker 3: in Philadelphia this WrestleMania. Now can the Philadelphia Phillies do

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Speaker 3: the same thing. They've been close. They got to the

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Speaker 3: World Series in twenty twenty two. They you know, lost

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Speaker 3: in heartbreaking fashion in the NLCS last year to the

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Speaker 3: Arizona Diamondbacks.

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Speaker 1: They're knocking on the door.

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Speaker 3: This team, I feel is primed and destined to win

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Speaker 3: this year. I know a lot of people crown Dodgers

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Speaker 3: champions right away after the offseason they had, and I

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Speaker 3: get it, you know, they had a monster offseason on paper.

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Speaker 3: The Dodgers are absolutely loaded. But the Phillies I still

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Speaker 3: feel are the team to beat this year. I still

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Speaker 3: think a lot of people overlook them. They just had

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Speaker 3: a series against those Dodgers where they swept them. Now

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Speaker 3: it should be noted that the Dodgers are extremely banged

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Speaker 1: They're not at full strength.

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Speaker 3: But I kind of feel if the Phillies are going

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Speaker 3: to do it, they have to do it this year,

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Speaker 3: because I think going forward the Dodgers are just going

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Speaker 3: to get better, not only this year as they get healthier,

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Speaker 3: but you know that team is built to win for

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Speaker 3: the next several years are going to be very good.

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Speaker 3: So I think for me, the best storyline is ken

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Speaker 3: do it, and I want to see them.

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Speaker 1: Do it this year.

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Speaker 2: I will say a couple things. First of all, I'm

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Speaker 1: All that good.

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Speaker 2: Did the way you said that Rhodes line there didn't

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Speaker 2: the postseason. Although things are obviously bad offensively, they're starting

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Speaker 2: to get healthy, they should be better. But the Phillies

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Speaker 2: are great. There's no doubt about that, Joel. Eight All Stars,

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Speaker 2: should be Elie d'acruz starting. Dela Cruz is the guy,

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Speaker 2: and that brings us to our next award. Actually the

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Speaker 2: perfect segue by me, I should say Elie Delacruz has

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Speaker 2: been phenomenal, and this next topic, it's all about him.

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Speaker 2: The most impressive feat goes to Elie dela Cruz for

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Speaker 2: his steal on a throwback to the pitcher, which is

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Speaker 2: just astonishing. He stole a base when a catcher tossed

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Speaker 2: never seen it, Joel. I got to ask you. I

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Speaker 2: know he's done a lot of stealing this year. Forty

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Speaker 2: Is there a moment that that happened other than I

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Speaker 3: Nothing comes to minds Yeah, nothing comes to mind at

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Speaker 1: At this point.

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Speaker 3: Whether he's just hitting or on base, he's always doing something.

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Speaker 3: And he's just so ridiculously fast and quick and athletic,

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Speaker 2: Absolutely. You mentioned being able to speak Japanese. He was

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Speaker 2: great on camera this week when he met his favorite player,

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Speaker 2: Derek Jeter, was it was extremely cool to see that

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Speaker 2: and so that was cool. But there's just so many moments.

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Speaker 2: He tagged up on a fly ball from first base.

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Speaker 2: That's just what he does. He hit a ball up

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Speaker 2: And we talked about him lastyear when he was called up.

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Speaker 2: You know, it was obviously everybody's wishful thinking, but it

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Speaker 2: you're right. The Cincinnati Reds are a little disappointing in

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Speaker 2: that they're sub five hundred, although you know they are

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Speaker 2: he just got called up. He banged a homer his

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Speaker 2: first game, banged over his second game, and five homers

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Speaker 2: in seven games to start his career. What the hell?

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Speaker 3: One? Yeah, he won Player of the Week in his

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Speaker 3: I don't know the actual distance, but I don't know

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Speaker 3: how the Reds do it. Like every year, they're just

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Speaker 2: And we know you're in Taiwan obviously, but I heard

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Speaker 2: you're bound for Cincinnati as well to take in a game,

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Speaker 2: because I too. I'm here in Atlanta. It's only a

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Speaker 2: riveting all these young guys and what they're doing there.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, coming home, coming home this summer and gonna do

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Speaker 3: Oakland and Cincinnati.

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Speaker 1: So I was just checking it earlier.

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Speaker 3: That'll put me at twenty stadiums total, So I'm on

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Speaker 3: the home stretch.

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Speaker 1: After I do these.

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Speaker 2: Too, you're going to be a second half Golden Gizzy winner.

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Speaker 2: I think after you hit nineteen twenty. You're finishing getting

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Speaker 2: Oakland in before they moved to Vegas unfortunately, I guess,

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Speaker 2: but Cincinnati hasn't been an absolute pleasant surprise. But let's

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Speaker 2: move to the next award where you will give the

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Speaker 2: most surprising team away.

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Speaker 3: So, yeah, the most Surprising Team award goes to your

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Speaker 3: twenty twenty four Kansas City Royals.

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Speaker 1: The Royals. There we go, there's Bobby Wit.

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Speaker 3: Look at that smile and that gorgeous goatee. Had a

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Speaker 3: great performance in the derby last night. Yeah, the Kansas

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Speaker 3: don't care what anyone says. They were fifty six and

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Speaker 3: one hundred and six last year. They're fifty two and

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Speaker 3: forty five right now. They're just two games out of

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Speaker 3: He's definitely going to get some down ballot votes right now.

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Speaker 3: on this and make it serious, because.

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00:23:10,080 --> 00:23:11,000
Speaker 1: What a cool story.

436
00:23:12,080 --> 00:23:14,760
Speaker 2: Yes, and then there was a villain, as you said,

437
00:23:14,760 --> 00:23:17,200
Speaker 2: the team that they lost to also a tude namer

438
00:23:18,280 --> 00:23:21,960
Speaker 2: Wisconsin Whitewater.

439
00:23:22,080 --> 00:23:22,320
Speaker 5: Yeah.

440
00:23:22,400 --> 00:23:26,760
Speaker 2: Yeah, they lost eleven ten to them. Like as you said,

441
00:23:26,760 --> 00:23:29,119
Speaker 2: they were leading, So that's a great villain. This is

442
00:23:29,160 --> 00:23:34,520
Speaker 2: a great film. Wisconsin Whitewater. Yes, do it. Somebody's got

443
00:23:34,520 --> 00:23:35,639
Speaker 2: to make it. I don't see why not.

444
00:23:35,720 --> 00:23:37,119
Speaker 1: Well, we can do now.

445
00:23:37,200 --> 00:23:38,879
Speaker 3: Months in the future, we can totally cast.

446
00:23:39,400 --> 00:23:40,560
Speaker 1: We can cast this movie.

447
00:23:41,359 --> 00:23:45,560
Speaker 2: Done and done. Already thinking about it. I'm already making notes. Okay, So.

448
00:23:46,960 --> 00:23:49,439
Speaker 4: How sure are we that it was food poisoning and

449
00:23:49,520 --> 00:23:54,720
Speaker 4: not like m you know, the Jordan flew or the Yeah,

450
00:23:54,720 --> 00:23:57,240
Speaker 4: I'm gonna say it, they were maybe hungover with the

451
00:23:57,280 --> 00:24:01,160
Speaker 4: IVS and the duget pulling a lee Ellis.

452
00:24:02,000 --> 00:24:04,560
Speaker 1: Oh, it's possible, possible.

453
00:24:06,480 --> 00:24:09,240
Speaker 4: Yeah, I run it out there, conspiracy theory.

454
00:24:10,440 --> 00:24:13,480
Speaker 3: Well, we live in strange times. We live in strange times. Nothing,

455
00:24:13,560 --> 00:24:16,120
Speaker 3: nothing is out of the ordinator anymore. Yes, I feel

456
00:24:16,119 --> 00:24:17,040
Speaker 3: like we've seen everything.

457
00:24:17,600 --> 00:24:21,640
Speaker 2: No, that's sounds like it's part of the movie j D. Yeah, somebody,

458
00:24:21,800 --> 00:24:27,280
Speaker 2: somebody tried to poison that well, uh and some I

459
00:24:27,280 --> 00:24:29,640
Speaker 2: mean it gets to all of us. We all make mistakes.

460
00:24:30,480 --> 00:24:34,040
Speaker 2: I said Wisconsin Whitewater for some reason the first time

461
00:24:34,680 --> 00:24:37,440
Speaker 2: I would you say that. I don't know. I think

462
00:24:37,480 --> 00:24:39,280
Speaker 2: I was just in Las Vegas, as we were all

463
00:24:39,320 --> 00:24:42,919
Speaker 2: in Las Vegas for Summer League. Here in Vegas, they

464
00:24:42,960 --> 00:24:47,360
Speaker 2: pronounced Wisconsin Wisconsin. I just made that up. That's not true.

465
00:24:47,520 --> 00:24:53,080
Speaker 2: All right, Moving on, let's get to the Rookie of

466
00:24:53,160 --> 00:24:58,760
Speaker 2: the Year award, because with all apologies to Mason Miller

467
00:24:58,920 --> 00:25:03,680
Speaker 2: of Oakland, it's got to be Paul Skeins of Pittsburgh.

468
00:25:03,720 --> 00:25:08,320
Speaker 2: This guy has been stealing the highlights. Him and his

469
00:25:08,400 --> 00:25:11,520
Speaker 2: mustache are the story. I think both those guys will

470
00:25:11,560 --> 00:25:14,919
Speaker 2: win it, but Paul Skin's story has been incredible. He

471
00:25:15,040 --> 00:25:18,000
Speaker 2: just grabbed my attention when he started striking people out,

472
00:25:18,040 --> 00:25:22,399
Speaker 2: throwing so hard. He reeled me in when they beat

473
00:25:22,680 --> 00:25:25,639
Speaker 2: Los Angeles, going up against Shoeyotani and he struck him

474
00:25:25,640 --> 00:25:29,240
Speaker 2: out with three pitches that were one hundred miles per

475
00:25:29,280 --> 00:25:33,440
Speaker 2: hour in the For the first time in the pitch

476
00:25:33,520 --> 00:25:37,080
Speaker 2: tracking era, a starting pitcher has logged a strikeout with

477
00:25:37,119 --> 00:25:40,800
Speaker 2: three pitches, all swinging strikes, all one hundred miles per

478
00:25:40,880 --> 00:25:44,520
Speaker 2: hour faster him against Shoeyotani. Come on, that's that's good stuff,

479
00:25:44,520 --> 00:25:47,960
Speaker 2: even if you're not a stat nerd next to Sarah

480
00:25:47,960 --> 00:25:50,359
Speaker 2: for that stat The next at bat, Otani hit a

481
00:25:50,440 --> 00:25:52,639
Speaker 2: jack off Skin, so it was great. On one hundred

482
00:25:52,640 --> 00:25:56,080
Speaker 2: point one mile per hour fastball, the fastest pitch Otani

483
00:25:56,119 --> 00:25:59,760
Speaker 2: has ever homeward off of. But that was fun, okay,

484
00:25:59,800 --> 00:26:04,119
Speaker 2: But before that he was just so great. Even in

485
00:26:04,240 --> 00:26:08,000
Speaker 2: that game where he was just firing at everybody, but

486
00:26:08,200 --> 00:26:12,640
Speaker 2: his first start on May eleventh, when he was brought up,

487
00:26:13,440 --> 00:26:17,439
Speaker 2: the guy is just struck out everybody. Twelve K per

488
00:26:17,600 --> 00:26:20,679
Speaker 2: nine innings. If he qualified, he would lead the league

489
00:26:21,000 --> 00:26:24,359
Speaker 2: in k's per nine innings. He doesn't qualify, second to

490
00:26:25,160 --> 00:26:27,920
Speaker 2: Garrett Crochet. Actually he would be second to Garrett Crochet.

491
00:26:28,240 --> 00:26:30,240
Speaker 2: A great name. First time All Star. You know there's

492
00:26:30,280 --> 00:26:33,000
Speaker 2: thirty two first time All Stars, Joel. That's a lot.

493
00:26:33,200 --> 00:26:34,119
Speaker 1: I was not aware.

494
00:26:34,240 --> 00:26:36,960
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's a huge number. So Paul Skins becomes the

495
00:26:37,000 --> 00:26:41,320
Speaker 2: first rookie to start the All Star Game as the

496
00:26:41,320 --> 00:26:46,000
Speaker 2: pitcher since nineteen ninety five. He's the fifth rookie pitcher

497
00:26:46,000 --> 00:26:49,240
Speaker 2: to start an All Star Game all time, but the

498
00:26:49,280 --> 00:26:52,960
Speaker 2: first since nineteen ninety five. Joel, and I could see

499
00:26:53,000 --> 00:26:55,760
Speaker 2: you thinking about it. I could see you trying to

500
00:26:55,920 --> 00:26:58,040
Speaker 2: find the name that started ninety five?

501
00:26:58,840 --> 00:27:00,840
Speaker 3: It okay, give me give me a hit. Was it

502
00:27:00,880 --> 00:27:02,040
Speaker 3: AL or NL.

503
00:27:01,960 --> 00:27:06,600
Speaker 2: NL ninety five mL? I can give you more hints.

504
00:27:07,480 --> 00:27:09,359
Speaker 3: You're gonna have to give me more hints, task because

505
00:27:09,359 --> 00:27:10,160
Speaker 3: I'm drawn a bla.

506
00:27:10,320 --> 00:27:10,639
Speaker 1: All right.

507
00:27:10,720 --> 00:27:13,680
Speaker 2: You mentioned earlier, you said Elie de la Cruz is

508
00:27:13,760 --> 00:27:20,520
Speaker 2: learning Japanese. He could talk. Yes, nice, very nice call,

509
00:27:20,680 --> 00:27:26,359
Speaker 2: very nice call. Before that was nineteen eighty one, also

510
00:27:26,440 --> 00:27:32,119
Speaker 2: in La reference, I mean, wow, very nice. And before that.

511
00:27:32,160 --> 00:27:33,880
Speaker 2: I'm not even gonna give you a clues because it's

512
00:27:33,960 --> 00:27:36,000
Speaker 2: it's even before that. It's too long ago. It's way

513
00:27:36,000 --> 00:27:38,960
Speaker 2: too long ago. But that's been a long time, thirty

514
00:27:39,040 --> 00:27:41,840
Speaker 2: years since a rookie has started as the pitcher in

515
00:27:41,880 --> 00:27:44,760
Speaker 2: the All Star Game, and this guy just keeps doing it.

516
00:27:44,760 --> 00:27:49,159
Speaker 2: He already had two starts where he had six or

517
00:27:49,200 --> 00:27:51,159
Speaker 2: more no hit innings. It was six and then seven

518
00:27:51,280 --> 00:27:54,359
Speaker 2: and eleven k's and then they yanked him. Both times.

519
00:27:54,440 --> 00:27:57,000
Speaker 2: He had a six no hitter, six inning no hitter

520
00:27:57,040 --> 00:27:59,160
Speaker 2: going and a seven inning no hitter going, they yanked him.

521
00:28:00,040 --> 00:28:02,600
Speaker 2: That stinks because we want to see him finish it,

522
00:28:02,680 --> 00:28:04,199
Speaker 2: but I guess that's what happens. I mean there he

523
00:28:04,240 --> 00:28:06,240
Speaker 2: was only at ninety nine pitches this last one where

524
00:28:06,240 --> 00:28:08,920
Speaker 2: he was where it was seven innings, so I was

525
00:28:09,000 --> 00:28:11,200
Speaker 2: unfortunate that they yanked him after that. But he really

526
00:28:11,200 --> 00:28:14,360
Speaker 2: doesn't get he doesn't pitch much more than that. Really,

527
00:28:14,320 --> 00:28:16,920
Speaker 2: one hundred hundred and five at the most, I do believe.

528
00:28:16,920 --> 00:28:19,200
Speaker 2: I think it's like one hundred and three actually when

529
00:28:19,240 --> 00:28:21,720
Speaker 2: I was doing my stat work. But that is a

530
00:28:21,760 --> 00:28:25,040
Speaker 2: lot to have two starts six or more no hittings

531
00:28:25,119 --> 00:28:29,120
Speaker 2: eleven k's Randy Johnson and Max Scherzer combined for two

532
00:28:29,160 --> 00:28:32,160
Speaker 2: starts in their entire Hall of Fame careers with zero

533
00:28:32,240 --> 00:28:36,600
Speaker 2: hits and eleven strikeouts or more. Paul Skeens has two

534
00:28:36,600 --> 00:28:38,480
Speaker 2: of them in his first eleven starts of his career.

535
00:28:38,520 --> 00:28:41,680
Speaker 2: With this guy as a kid. So that's that's phenomenal stuff.

536
00:28:43,840 --> 00:28:47,560
Speaker 3: He's he's exciting to watch. He's exciting to watch. He

537
00:28:47,720 --> 00:28:50,920
Speaker 3: just throws gas. It's going to be interesting to see

538
00:28:51,200 --> 00:28:58,480
Speaker 3: tasks like like velocity has clearly, you know, dominated the

539
00:28:58,520 --> 00:29:02,680
Speaker 3: pitching landscape in recently. You know, guys are just throwing harder.

540
00:29:03,040 --> 00:29:06,360
Speaker 3: There's more Tommy john surgeries. It's going to be interesting

541
00:29:06,480 --> 00:29:11,400
Speaker 3: to see how these pitchers age because if they have

542
00:29:11,560 --> 00:29:16,600
Speaker 3: trouble developing off speed stuff, I don't know how long

543
00:29:16,640 --> 00:29:20,200
Speaker 3: they're gonna last. I feel like Noah Cindergard is kind

544
00:29:20,240 --> 00:29:24,400
Speaker 3: of a warning sign, you know. Four when he came

545
00:29:24,480 --> 00:29:27,240
Speaker 3: up a Blue Jay, we traded him to the Mets

546
00:29:27,760 --> 00:29:28,960
Speaker 3: and he was just this.

547
00:29:29,080 --> 00:29:30,840
Speaker 1: Overpowering, dominant guy.

548
00:29:31,080 --> 00:29:33,040
Speaker 3: Not on the level of schemes, but you know, like

549
00:29:33,120 --> 00:29:36,320
Speaker 3: he threw high nineties and you know, just had even

550
00:29:36,360 --> 00:29:39,560
Speaker 3: a slider in the nineties, and then he ran into

551
00:29:39,680 --> 00:29:42,880
Speaker 3: injury issues and now I don't even think he's signed.

552
00:29:42,920 --> 00:29:46,920
Speaker 3: He basically fell apart really quick. It's very impressive to do,

553
00:29:47,040 --> 00:29:49,360
Speaker 3: and your body can do that when you're young, but

554
00:29:50,400 --> 00:29:52,800
Speaker 3: you can't throw like you can't be throwing like that

555
00:29:52,920 --> 00:29:55,760
Speaker 3: your whole career and especially into your thirties.

556
00:29:55,840 --> 00:29:58,440
Speaker 1: So it's going to be interesting to see how he develops.

557
00:29:58,480 --> 00:30:00,720
Speaker 3: In a lot of these like velocity first guys, when

558
00:30:00,760 --> 00:30:04,000
Speaker 3: their body starts to fail them, you know, can they

559
00:30:04,000 --> 00:30:07,720
Speaker 3: make that step, can they transition into you know, developing

560
00:30:07,720 --> 00:30:10,840
Speaker 3: some of their secondary pitches, because obviously right now, Skins

561
00:30:10,880 --> 00:30:12,719
Speaker 3: and some of these other high velocity guys they can

562
00:30:12,760 --> 00:30:13,520
Speaker 3: get by with that.

563
00:30:14,080 --> 00:30:16,160
Speaker 1: But what's that going to look like in the future.

564
00:30:17,000 --> 00:30:17,440
Speaker 1: I don't know.

565
00:30:17,760 --> 00:30:21,640
Speaker 2: Yeah, that is a question for everybody watching pitchers who

566
00:30:21,720 --> 00:30:26,440
Speaker 2: are getting injured as we speak. So there is that

567
00:30:26,440 --> 00:30:28,600
Speaker 2: that side of the spectrum or people are watching right

568
00:30:28,600 --> 00:30:31,440
Speaker 2: now and wondering if it's just because people are throwing

569
00:30:31,480 --> 00:30:33,920
Speaker 2: too much. Guess we see spencer strider. Here in Atlanta,

570
00:30:33,960 --> 00:30:36,720
Speaker 2: we see a lot of cases and it has been

571
00:30:37,200 --> 00:30:40,840
Speaker 2: researched and people are trying to understand. And that's why

572
00:30:40,960 --> 00:30:44,240
Speaker 2: guys like Schens come out after one hundred pitches. They

573
00:30:44,280 --> 00:30:48,040
Speaker 2: can't fire as many pitches, so that is being regulated obviously,

574
00:30:49,000 --> 00:30:52,160
Speaker 2: but it is extremely interesting and people just wonder with

575
00:30:52,760 --> 00:30:56,080
Speaker 2: even hitting gone down this year versus last year, if

576
00:30:56,520 --> 00:31:00,440
Speaker 2: pitching is just too good, Joel. One thing, I want

577
00:31:00,480 --> 00:31:03,520
Speaker 2: to know what food is too good? Joel.

578
00:31:03,760 --> 00:31:08,800
Speaker 3: Oh, I'm glad you asked asks the Golden Glizzy and

579
00:31:08,840 --> 00:31:11,160
Speaker 3: I took a long time on this with Golden Grizzy

580
00:31:11,360 --> 00:31:13,040
Speaker 3: for best ballpark food.

581
00:31:13,600 --> 00:31:14,800
Speaker 1: We're going to Texas.

582
00:31:14,800 --> 00:31:16,760
Speaker 3: We're going to stay in Texas, and we're going to

583
00:31:16,840 --> 00:31:20,880
Speaker 3: go the garlic not meatball sliders.

584
00:31:21,800 --> 00:31:25,320
Speaker 1: Oh yes, Oh my gosh, look at those.

585
00:31:28,560 --> 00:31:30,400
Speaker 2: You haven't had that? Tough? You haven't had that.

586
00:31:30,560 --> 00:31:33,400
Speaker 1: This was tough. This was tough.

587
00:31:33,400 --> 00:31:36,880
Speaker 3: There were a lot of good choices, But I love

588
00:31:36,960 --> 00:31:41,400
Speaker 3: me some sliders and beat balls. Come on, you gotta

589
00:31:41,400 --> 00:31:43,880
Speaker 3: twist my rubber arm to have a couple of those.

590
00:31:44,720 --> 00:31:48,720
Speaker 3: My only knock on this snack and a lot of

591
00:31:48,720 --> 00:31:52,080
Speaker 3: the other ones I was looking at is ballpark snacks

592
00:31:52,120 --> 00:31:55,800
Speaker 3: are very creative and delicious, but man, they look extremely

593
00:31:55,840 --> 00:31:56,520
Speaker 3: difficult to.

594
00:31:56,480 --> 00:32:02,000
Speaker 1: Eat, Like, how do you approach that? Like you're getting messy?

595
00:32:03,000 --> 00:32:05,560
Speaker 2: Yeah, for all those who are listening to this podcast,

596
00:32:06,160 --> 00:32:10,160
Speaker 2: it is a large meatball, but it's in a slightly

597
00:32:10,200 --> 00:32:13,880
Speaker 2: smaller bun. I mean it's not it's not a huge bun.

598
00:32:14,000 --> 00:32:16,560
Speaker 2: But it looks like this looks like they stacked four

599
00:32:16,600 --> 00:32:18,000
Speaker 2: sliders in this sit.

600
00:32:18,200 --> 00:32:18,360
Speaker 1: Yeah.

601
00:32:18,360 --> 00:32:19,800
Speaker 2: With the slider you were.

602
00:32:19,760 --> 00:32:22,720
Speaker 3: Through it like you gotta take it off, and then

603
00:32:23,240 --> 00:32:25,480
Speaker 3: it just looks a bit complicated. Yeah.

604
00:32:25,480 --> 00:32:25,880
Speaker 1: I don't know.

605
00:32:26,240 --> 00:32:28,400
Speaker 3: I don't know if i'd want to be balancing that

606
00:32:28,720 --> 00:32:32,160
Speaker 3: on my lap task in a seat in the game.

607
00:32:32,320 --> 00:32:34,640
Speaker 1: Coordination is definitely not.

608
00:32:34,720 --> 00:32:38,280
Speaker 3: My strong suits, so I feel I'd be spilling that everywhere.

609
00:32:38,600 --> 00:32:41,880
Speaker 3: So I suggest, and let's take a page out of

610
00:32:42,200 --> 00:32:46,520
Speaker 3: Taiwan and East Asia's book. Here they use gloves a

611
00:32:46,560 --> 00:32:49,000
Speaker 3: lot when they eat, And at first I.

612
00:32:49,040 --> 00:32:52,960
Speaker 1: Was like, this is ridiculous. What are they doing. I

613
00:32:53,120 --> 00:32:54,360
Speaker 1: have totally changed.

614
00:32:54,600 --> 00:32:58,560
Speaker 3: I use gloves a lot when I eat now ribs

615
00:32:59,200 --> 00:33:05,080
Speaker 3: burger's wings. It looks a bit strange, but it makes

616
00:33:05,120 --> 00:33:06,080
Speaker 3: a huge difference.

617
00:33:08,400 --> 00:33:13,680
Speaker 2: Interesting. I will, I will, I do think that those

618
00:33:14,920 --> 00:33:18,080
Speaker 2: when dismounted from the presentation. I don't think they'd fall apart.

619
00:33:18,400 --> 00:33:22,400
Speaker 2: They are a little slider buns with a large meatball given,

620
00:33:23,720 --> 00:33:26,760
Speaker 2: But I think those buns would soak up that meat sauce. Yeah,

621
00:33:26,800 --> 00:33:28,400
Speaker 2: I think they're all right. I don't think they'd fall apart.

622
00:33:28,400 --> 00:33:29,880
Speaker 2: I don't think it would be that difficult. But you

623
00:33:29,880 --> 00:33:32,160
Speaker 2: think you need gloves, You need to strap.

624
00:33:31,880 --> 00:33:34,560
Speaker 1: Off that meatball slipping out? What are you talking? You

625
00:33:34,600 --> 00:33:35,880
Speaker 1: gotta you gotta.

626
00:33:35,640 --> 00:33:38,680
Speaker 3: Be focused, man, That meatball could go any direction.

627
00:33:38,800 --> 00:33:42,760
Speaker 1: It's covered in parmegean. It's wet. Yeah, it's it's a

628
00:33:42,800 --> 00:33:43,400
Speaker 1: wild card.

629
00:33:43,440 --> 00:33:45,360
Speaker 2: You know, that thing could fall out everything.

630
00:33:45,440 --> 00:33:47,480
Speaker 3: It's like a Tomato's like a tomato and a burger,

631
00:33:47,560 --> 00:33:50,160
Speaker 3: you know, like one fight. That thing's just shooting out

632
00:33:50,200 --> 00:33:51,560
Speaker 3: the side.

633
00:33:52,320 --> 00:33:55,240
Speaker 2: Uh, can you explain me a situation where you're wearing

634
00:33:56,480 --> 00:33:57,520
Speaker 2: gloves to eat?

635
00:33:58,880 --> 00:33:59,120
Speaker 1: Oh?

636
00:33:59,120 --> 00:34:06,440
Speaker 3: For sure, rin Chi koreem fried chicken wings, burgers.

637
00:34:06,520 --> 00:34:07,000
Speaker 1: What else?

638
00:34:07,080 --> 00:34:10,440
Speaker 2: Burgers? I love to see.

639
00:34:10,120 --> 00:34:14,440
Speaker 3: But now they make these ridiculous again, it's even it's

640
00:34:14,480 --> 00:34:19,040
Speaker 3: even trending here. They make these like triple stacked burgers

641
00:34:19,120 --> 00:34:23,360
Speaker 3: and it yeah, it's just it's messy. Yeah, and a

642
00:34:23,400 --> 00:34:25,520
Speaker 3: lot of stuff just falls out. So yeah, at a

643
00:34:25,600 --> 00:34:28,840
Speaker 3: lot of restaurants here, they just give you a pair

644
00:34:28,880 --> 00:34:32,839
Speaker 3: of plastic gloves along with your meal, and I'm all

645
00:34:32,840 --> 00:34:33,440
Speaker 3: about it now.

646
00:34:34,360 --> 00:34:37,840
Speaker 2: I will say we were eating together in Vegas this

647
00:34:37,880 --> 00:34:41,319
Speaker 2: weekend and I saw somebody carving up the ham at

648
00:34:41,560 --> 00:34:46,840
Speaker 2: JILEEO Andres Julio, which is always fantastic Jose Andres and

649
00:34:47,280 --> 00:34:50,279
Speaker 2: just incredible. He's an incredible person, incredible food everywhere. But

650
00:34:50,360 --> 00:34:53,160
Speaker 2: when I saw that person carving the ham, he was

651
00:34:53,160 --> 00:34:58,839
Speaker 2: wearing finger condoms or finger cots, like just to cover

652
00:34:58,920 --> 00:35:02,560
Speaker 2: up the fingertips, just just the fingertips, that's all he

653
00:35:02,600 --> 00:35:05,600
Speaker 2: was he was wearing which was just the tip, just

654
00:35:05,640 --> 00:35:08,520
Speaker 2: the tip, multiple times, multiple on multiple fingers.

655
00:35:09,640 --> 00:35:12,560
Speaker 4: Did you I noticed that guy too, But was he

656
00:35:12,600 --> 00:35:15,400
Speaker 4: wearing them the whole time or did he Did he

657
00:35:15,560 --> 00:35:18,120
Speaker 4: roll one of those on each of his digits?

658
00:35:18,320 --> 00:35:19,319
Speaker 2: Yeah? Every time?

659
00:35:19,400 --> 00:35:22,080
Speaker 4: Yeah, good question, Well, because he must have, right, like,

660
00:35:22,280 --> 00:35:25,080
Speaker 4: because he can't just he wasn't there the whole time.

661
00:35:26,120 --> 00:35:28,799
Speaker 2: And he was using it. I mean he was using

662
00:35:28,840 --> 00:35:31,719
Speaker 2: a knife, yeah, but I guess he was grabbing it

663
00:35:31,760 --> 00:35:33,799
Speaker 2: with the other side. No, I think he was. Yeah,

664
00:35:33,840 --> 00:35:35,880
Speaker 2: I agree, I think he was taking them off. And

665
00:35:35,920 --> 00:35:40,880
Speaker 2: maybe it's easier to take off one of those instead

666
00:35:40,880 --> 00:35:43,040
Speaker 2: of a glove, I guess.

667
00:35:42,640 --> 00:35:44,560
Speaker 4: But it's harder to put him on, like one at

668
00:35:44,600 --> 00:35:45,319
Speaker 4: a time, you know.

669
00:35:45,560 --> 00:35:46,840
Speaker 2: Yeah, I'd never seen him before.

670
00:35:47,000 --> 00:35:51,120
Speaker 4: I like this idea, Joel. I'm into it. Especially you

671
00:35:51,160 --> 00:35:54,160
Speaker 4: said that they provide the gloves, so it's just like, yeah,

672
00:35:54,200 --> 00:35:56,759
Speaker 4: so he just everybody's just at the table just just

673
00:35:57,000 --> 00:35:58,120
Speaker 4: puts on these gloves.

674
00:35:58,880 --> 00:35:59,960
Speaker 1: It's yeah.

675
00:36:00,640 --> 00:36:03,960
Speaker 3: At first, I was like, this is really bizarre, and

676
00:36:04,040 --> 00:36:07,640
Speaker 3: I was like no, But then yeah, I just I

677
00:36:07,960 --> 00:36:10,200
Speaker 3: got on board. I don't know how else to explain it,

678
00:36:10,239 --> 00:36:12,840
Speaker 3: but I'm a change man now. I'm all about gloves

679
00:36:13,200 --> 00:36:13,720
Speaker 3: and eating.

680
00:36:17,080 --> 00:36:22,400
Speaker 2: Yeah. I hate the waist, Yeah, that part of it.

681
00:36:22,560 --> 00:36:23,760
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's not ideal.

682
00:36:24,120 --> 00:36:30,360
Speaker 2: Yeah, but I understand. I understand. Even when Danielle, my partner,

683
00:36:30,360 --> 00:36:32,880
Speaker 2: who is a chef, she will put gloves on to

684
00:36:33,239 --> 00:36:35,279
Speaker 2: hack up a chicken like she just wants to. She

685
00:36:35,320 --> 00:36:37,359
Speaker 2: doesn't want to touch a chicken. I get it. I

686
00:36:37,360 --> 00:36:41,560
Speaker 2: get it, but I say no, I say no, let

687
00:36:41,560 --> 00:36:43,600
Speaker 2: me just hack it for you. I don't want those

688
00:36:43,640 --> 00:36:48,279
Speaker 2: gloves in the garbage just because I'm paranoid like that.

689
00:36:48,600 --> 00:36:51,640
Speaker 2: But I will say, Joel, because you haven't tried these

690
00:36:51,680 --> 00:36:55,040
Speaker 2: being in Taiwan and these being in Texas. Just to

691
00:36:55,200 --> 00:37:00,640
Speaker 2: show share you a couple streamers here, Hutski says, I

692
00:37:00,680 --> 00:37:05,160
Speaker 2: bet those are incredible. Teamax says they are. Loll and

693
00:37:05,520 --> 00:37:07,880
Speaker 2: I guess he's tried you already know, says they look amazing.

694
00:37:07,920 --> 00:37:09,239
Speaker 2: But I have a hard time spending that much money

695
00:37:09,280 --> 00:37:11,000
Speaker 2: on food or eating that big of a meal at

696
00:37:11,040 --> 00:37:14,160
Speaker 2: a stadium. Would crush them if they were free though,

697
00:37:14,960 --> 00:37:18,880
Speaker 2: So yeah, I'm sure they're a little pricey. That happens

698
00:37:18,880 --> 00:37:22,040
Speaker 2: at stadiums, that's for sure. But there you go.

699
00:37:22,120 --> 00:37:24,480
Speaker 1: Only live ones, the only lived ones. Just have those

700
00:37:24,520 --> 00:37:27,080
Speaker 1: sliders ones. That's all it takes.

701
00:37:27,719 --> 00:37:30,040
Speaker 2: Thank you for sharing that, Joel, and I want to

702
00:37:30,080 --> 00:37:32,080
Speaker 2: share something that you did last year for our next

703
00:37:32,080 --> 00:37:36,480
Speaker 2: Golden GLIZZI. You gave an incredible prediction. It's basically twelve

704
00:37:36,520 --> 00:37:40,239
Speaker 2: months ago when you said that Otani would be a

705
00:37:40,320 --> 00:37:43,440
Speaker 2: bargain at six hundred million dollars. So the best Prediction

706
00:37:43,480 --> 00:37:47,800
Speaker 2: award goes to you for July twenty twenty three. Otani

707
00:37:47,880 --> 00:37:51,080
Speaker 2: being a bargain at six hundred million, he signed for

708
00:37:51,400 --> 00:37:56,200
Speaker 2: seven hundred million after the season when he decided to

709
00:37:56,200 --> 00:38:01,520
Speaker 2: go to Los Angeles, which was a ride member for

710
00:38:02,200 --> 00:38:05,440
Speaker 2: I'm wearing a Toronto jersey. Everybody in Toronto thought that

711
00:38:05,520 --> 00:38:08,080
Speaker 2: he was coming to Toronto. The day of it was

712
00:38:09,520 --> 00:38:12,839
Speaker 2: the one, the one fun time on Twitter, because there

713
00:38:12,840 --> 00:38:15,400
Speaker 2: aren't too many fun times on Twitter anymore. But it wasn't.

714
00:38:15,440 --> 00:38:18,680
Speaker 2: It was just Robert from Shark Tank. It was flying

715
00:38:18,680 --> 00:38:21,719
Speaker 2: because they were tracking his flight and they thought it

716
00:38:21,760 --> 00:38:24,960
Speaker 2: was sho Heil Tani coming to Toronto when really it

717
00:38:25,000 --> 00:38:31,360
Speaker 2: was just Robert Hershevich getting off his jet. But anyway,

718
00:38:32,520 --> 00:38:35,080
Speaker 2: it was a great cable, you I gotta say, because

719
00:38:35,120 --> 00:38:37,000
Speaker 2: because everybody was saying, you know, five hundred, how much

720
00:38:37,040 --> 00:38:41,080
Speaker 2: is this guy worth? Five hundred, five fifty and six hundred?

721
00:38:41,840 --> 00:38:45,520
Speaker 2: You're right, it would be a bargain. Los Angeles thought

722
00:38:45,800 --> 00:38:48,400
Speaker 2: seven hundred will be enough, even though they've you know,

723
00:38:48,640 --> 00:38:53,880
Speaker 2: they've got this delayed payment. But you did it. You

724
00:38:53,920 --> 00:38:54,279
Speaker 2: did it.

725
00:38:56,160 --> 00:38:57,120
Speaker 1: Yeah, tasks.

726
00:38:57,360 --> 00:39:01,799
Speaker 3: You know, of all the terrible predictions I make, you know,

727
00:39:01,880 --> 00:39:04,200
Speaker 3: I get it right once in a while, and this

728
00:39:04,640 --> 00:39:07,359
Speaker 3: was one of those times. You know, speaking of that,

729
00:39:07,520 --> 00:39:10,240
Speaker 3: you know, the tracking the jet and everything. I remember

730
00:39:10,840 --> 00:39:12,720
Speaker 3: I was, you know, like we have our group chat

731
00:39:12,920 --> 00:39:16,160
Speaker 3: and there was like there was, yeah, they were tracking

732
00:39:16,200 --> 00:39:20,120
Speaker 3: the jet and also there was this rumor that Kakuchi

733
00:39:20,800 --> 00:39:25,440
Speaker 3: had rented out like a like part of the Japanese

734
00:39:25,480 --> 00:39:30,000
Speaker 3: restauranturant it's happening and task. I took a hook line

735
00:39:30,040 --> 00:39:33,040
Speaker 3: and sinker. I remember I was headed to bank like

736
00:39:33,080 --> 00:39:35,600
Speaker 3: I was flying the Bangkok. The next morning, I was like,

737
00:39:35,640 --> 00:39:36,600
Speaker 3: we're going to get them.

738
00:39:36,880 --> 00:39:37,920
Speaker 1: I was so stoked.

739
00:39:38,000 --> 00:39:41,640
Speaker 2: I left. How you always say, you always say we were.

740
00:39:41,160 --> 00:39:43,479
Speaker 3: Talking about part of the team. I'm part of the team.

741
00:39:44,080 --> 00:39:48,719
Speaker 3: Woke up, woke up the next morning and got the

742
00:39:48,760 --> 00:39:51,080
Speaker 3: news and not a great way to wake up, not

743
00:39:51,120 --> 00:39:53,000
Speaker 3: a not a great way to wake up on vacation.

744
00:39:53,280 --> 00:39:54,520
Speaker 1: But I rallied.

745
00:39:54,600 --> 00:39:58,480
Speaker 3: I had a great breakfast in a nag in southern Thailand.

746
00:39:59,000 --> 00:39:59,719
Speaker 1: What can you do?

747
00:40:00,000 --> 00:40:03,120
Speaker 3: But the crazy thing is is that it's rumored that

748
00:40:03,200 --> 00:40:07,319
Speaker 3: the Giants and the Blue Jays were also willing to

749
00:40:07,400 --> 00:40:11,880
Speaker 3: meet his price of seven hundred million. So basically Otani said, okay,

750
00:40:11,960 --> 00:40:14,319
Speaker 3: like I have these suitors, they're willing to.

751
00:40:14,280 --> 00:40:17,319
Speaker 1: Pay me what I want, which I'm assuming was seven

752
00:40:17,400 --> 00:40:18,080
Speaker 1: hundred million.

753
00:40:18,719 --> 00:40:21,400
Speaker 3: And you know, he ended up choosing the Dodgers, which

754
00:40:21,840 --> 00:40:23,880
Speaker 3: I guess in the end wasn't that much of a surprise.

755
00:40:24,080 --> 00:40:26,000
Speaker 1: But the reason I bought into.

756
00:40:26,040 --> 00:40:28,800
Speaker 3: It was because so much of the baseball and mainstream

757
00:40:28,800 --> 00:40:32,360
Speaker 3: media was Toronto's the front runners. He went to Dunedin

758
00:40:32,560 --> 00:40:35,520
Speaker 3: like he had meetings with them. Rogers is one of

759
00:40:35,560 --> 00:40:39,280
Speaker 3: the wealthiest owners. You know, they're huge communications company in Canada.

760
00:40:39,520 --> 00:40:42,040
Speaker 3: They clearly had the financial resources to do it, so

761
00:40:42,480 --> 00:40:47,640
Speaker 3: it sounded like it was a very real possibility. But yeah,

762
00:40:47,680 --> 00:40:51,200
Speaker 3: you know, going to them for seven hundred million, I

763
00:40:51,280 --> 00:40:53,880
Speaker 3: still feel even at that, like it's a discount.

764
00:40:54,000 --> 00:40:55,560
Speaker 1: He's having a crazy good year.

765
00:40:56,200 --> 00:40:57,960
Speaker 3: I don't think he's going to win MVP because he's

766
00:40:57,960 --> 00:41:01,000
Speaker 3: only the dh this year, but you know, like once

767
00:41:01,040 --> 00:41:03,120
Speaker 3: he gets healthy and he's able to pitch, I mean,

768
00:41:03,560 --> 00:41:05,360
Speaker 3: you know you're going to see the Dodgers kind of

769
00:41:05,400 --> 00:41:06,920
Speaker 3: in their final form.

770
00:41:07,000 --> 00:41:09,440
Speaker 1: But yeah, glad I got that prediction right.

771
00:41:11,320 --> 00:41:13,080
Speaker 2: I'm sorry it was such a tough day for you

772
00:41:13,920 --> 00:41:16,279
Speaker 2: finding out that he didn't sign with the Toronto Blue Jays.

773
00:41:16,320 --> 00:41:21,239
Speaker 2: First seven hundred million US dollars, which is a quick

774
00:41:21,280 --> 00:41:25,400
Speaker 2: billion Canadian that's a lot of money, obviously, but I

775
00:41:25,440 --> 00:41:29,880
Speaker 2: feel like he's worth it, and I forced JD to

776
00:41:30,080 --> 00:41:32,920
Speaker 2: dig up this photo of the Dodgers City connect. I

777
00:41:32,920 --> 00:41:36,040
Speaker 2: feel like he's already worth it. They're already making that

778
00:41:36,120 --> 00:41:38,320
Speaker 2: much money because I love the Dodgers City Connects. I

779
00:41:38,360 --> 00:41:42,319
Speaker 2: love the tone number one. It's like a cream. But

780
00:41:42,360 --> 00:41:44,640
Speaker 2: then just the little specs on it, you know, it's

781
00:41:44,680 --> 00:41:48,319
Speaker 2: not over the top. Or maybe I'm just swayed by

782
00:41:48,360 --> 00:41:51,480
Speaker 2: the batting helmet because it's a Matt Finish number one,

783
00:41:51,520 --> 00:41:54,879
Speaker 2: number two. It's got that script writing d over the la.

784
00:41:55,880 --> 00:41:59,080
Speaker 2: I think the sales of that have made show heyl

785
00:41:59,200 --> 00:42:01,960
Speaker 2: Tani worth it now. I don't know how many they've sold,

786
00:42:01,960 --> 00:42:05,560
Speaker 2: how much money they're making off of it, but those

787
00:42:05,600 --> 00:42:07,680
Speaker 2: are just nice period.

788
00:42:08,600 --> 00:42:11,520
Speaker 3: I would like to see this in a blue and

789
00:42:11,560 --> 00:42:14,840
Speaker 3: white lettering. I think that would look crisper, and I

790
00:42:14,840 --> 00:42:19,319
Speaker 3: mean like Dodger blue. But yeah, I mean that's a

791
00:42:19,520 --> 00:42:23,400
Speaker 3: decent city connect I feel over all the City Connects

792
00:42:23,440 --> 00:42:25,800
Speaker 3: haven't been great this year, but yeah, that looks pretty crisp.

793
00:42:25,840 --> 00:42:26,359
Speaker 1: I like it.

794
00:42:26,560 --> 00:42:30,600
Speaker 2: Yeah, you know, looking at it after a fifth and

795
00:42:30,680 --> 00:42:33,400
Speaker 2: sixth and seventh look, and I'm just swayed by the helmet,

796
00:42:33,440 --> 00:42:35,480
Speaker 2: I think more so than because it is it's pretty

797
00:42:35,520 --> 00:42:38,120
Speaker 2: low key. But with the Dodgers, I think you can

798
00:42:38,239 --> 00:42:41,000
Speaker 2: be And just a quick take, because I know you've

799
00:42:41,000 --> 00:42:45,040
Speaker 2: been talking about the Blue Jays City Connect, which is

800
00:42:45,080 --> 00:42:48,319
Speaker 2: supposed to be the Toronto Skyline, but it doesn't really

801
00:42:48,360 --> 00:42:50,200
Speaker 2: look like the Toronto Skyline. But I just wanted to

802
00:42:50,200 --> 00:42:52,080
Speaker 2: get I just wanted to get your quick take on it.

803
00:42:55,440 --> 00:43:00,560
Speaker 1: There's worse ones. It just seems lazy.

804
00:43:00,680 --> 00:43:06,280
Speaker 3: I like, okay, JD tests, you guys are true Torontonian's

805
00:43:06,360 --> 00:43:09,640
Speaker 3: I'm not. Does Toronto have an iconic skyline?

806
00:43:10,960 --> 00:43:15,719
Speaker 2: Yeah? Well yeah, the part of it that we all know.

807
00:43:18,360 --> 00:43:19,520
Speaker 4: Absolutely iconic.

808
00:43:19,680 --> 00:43:20,560
Speaker 2: Yeah yeah.

809
00:43:20,680 --> 00:43:23,080
Speaker 4: I mean it gets confused with Seattle every once in

810
00:43:23,120 --> 00:43:27,000
Speaker 4: a while, okay, because of this space needle. But yeah,

811
00:43:27,440 --> 00:43:29,680
Speaker 4: I think it is beside the dome. But beside the

812
00:43:29,719 --> 00:43:33,600
Speaker 4: Dome especially, I mean the the actual stadium where the

813
00:43:33,640 --> 00:43:37,640
Speaker 4: Blue Jays play is part of the iconic skyline.

814
00:43:38,920 --> 00:43:40,520
Speaker 1: Okay, I would agree.

815
00:43:40,760 --> 00:43:43,879
Speaker 3: I just feel that again, like it was a bit

816
00:43:44,000 --> 00:43:46,840
Speaker 3: lazy and night MOODE like, why do I want Jerseys

817
00:43:46,840 --> 00:43:50,880
Speaker 3: to look like my cell phone? I yeah, not feeling

818
00:43:50,920 --> 00:43:54,120
Speaker 3: the nightmode. And also to like when they wear these

819
00:43:54,160 --> 00:43:57,480
Speaker 3: it's they don't look good on TV. They look good

820
00:43:57,520 --> 00:44:00,880
Speaker 3: like in a promotional shoot and everything, but they just

821
00:44:01,000 --> 00:44:05,080
Speaker 3: don't look good on TV. It's hard to see the lettering. Yeah,

822
00:44:05,120 --> 00:44:08,439
Speaker 3: I just don't and like we don't wear black. It's

823
00:44:08,560 --> 00:44:10,480
Speaker 3: just not one of our colors. And I understand the

824
00:44:10,480 --> 00:44:12,800
Speaker 3: City connects like they use different colors to certain teams,

825
00:44:12,840 --> 00:44:15,360
Speaker 3: but just not feeling this.

826
00:44:15,640 --> 00:44:17,560
Speaker 1: But it's okay.

827
00:44:17,600 --> 00:44:20,200
Speaker 3: I don't think I would buy one, but I was

828
00:44:20,239 --> 00:44:22,879
Speaker 3: a bit disappointed, but I'm not going to say it's

829
00:44:23,239 --> 00:44:25,880
Speaker 3: terrible and jad and that also doesn't look like the

830
00:44:26,680 --> 00:44:29,680
Speaker 3: I don't know is that I feel like in one

831
00:44:29,680 --> 00:44:32,160
Speaker 3: of the versions I saw the variations that to me

832
00:44:32,320 --> 00:44:34,480
Speaker 3: looks like the Berlin TV tower.

833
00:44:34,560 --> 00:44:37,279
Speaker 1: That doesn't look like the CM tower. That's fair, that's

834
00:44:37,280 --> 00:44:38,240
Speaker 1: a fair because yeah.

835
00:44:38,120 --> 00:44:41,600
Speaker 2: We're looking at it on YouTube right now, and I'm

836
00:44:41,640 --> 00:44:47,600
Speaker 2: with you. It doesn't look exactly like the actual Toronto Skyline,

837
00:44:47,960 --> 00:44:51,120
Speaker 2: although I will say it does look good in person.

838
00:44:51,160 --> 00:44:53,960
Speaker 2: I'm told by our man Alex Canonis, who's worked cameras

839
00:44:54,000 --> 00:44:57,520
Speaker 2: for the Blue Jays for a long long time. As

840
00:44:57,520 --> 00:44:59,239
Speaker 2: you said, maybe doesn't look good on TV, but maybe

841
00:44:59,239 --> 00:45:03,799
Speaker 2: it looks better in Although it does look extremely digitized,

842
00:45:04,239 --> 00:45:07,680
Speaker 2: it doesn't look like, yeah, the actual skyline, and maybe

843
00:45:07,680 --> 00:45:10,480
Speaker 2: that's the point. It looks like you're playing Tetris or

844
00:45:10,520 --> 00:45:13,640
Speaker 2: Minecraft or something. Yes, yes it doesn't.

845
00:45:13,760 --> 00:45:15,040
Speaker 1: And JD.

846
00:45:15,280 --> 00:45:17,480
Speaker 3: It's just looking at this, it just kind of came

847
00:45:17,520 --> 00:45:20,000
Speaker 3: to my mind when you said sometimes the Toronto skyline

848
00:45:20,040 --> 00:45:23,520
Speaker 3: gets confused with Seattle one. Yeah, do you remember Rasier

849
00:45:23,760 --> 00:45:25,880
Speaker 3: and they I think it was like an opening. They

850
00:45:25,880 --> 00:45:28,479
Speaker 3: would have a skyline of Seattle and there would always

851
00:45:28,520 --> 00:45:29,480
Speaker 3: be like an animation.

852
00:45:29,840 --> 00:45:31,759
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's kind of what that looks like.

853
00:45:31,880 --> 00:45:34,560
Speaker 3: Yeah, that's giving me those vibes.

854
00:45:35,320 --> 00:45:38,040
Speaker 2: Great stuff. That's why I needed to ask you. We

855
00:45:38,480 --> 00:45:40,600
Speaker 2: haven't been around for no bun, so I needed to

856
00:45:40,680 --> 00:45:45,960
Speaker 2: ask you that shout out to you. Also, we got

857
00:45:46,000 --> 00:45:47,839
Speaker 2: to hand out some warm beers. We've given out all

858
00:45:47,880 --> 00:45:51,920
Speaker 2: the awards now some of the moments from this season

859
00:45:52,160 --> 00:45:53,240
Speaker 2: in Major League Baseball.

860
00:45:57,000 --> 00:45:59,360
Speaker 6: Yeah, this was questionable whether we would show it like

861
00:45:59,360 --> 00:46:06,279
Speaker 6: we did last year. Why not first one, Joel, you

862
00:46:06,400 --> 00:46:07,440
Speaker 6: take her away please?

863
00:46:08,520 --> 00:46:12,120
Speaker 1: So the first Warm Beer Award is the biggest.

864
00:46:11,880 --> 00:46:17,239
Speaker 3: Money burner, and for this yeah, maybe win a bit

865
00:46:17,280 --> 00:46:19,640
Speaker 3: of a surprise. But I actually went with the Texas

866
00:46:19,760 --> 00:46:23,640
Speaker 3: Rangers defending World Series champions. I know that might sound

867
00:46:23,719 --> 00:46:26,719
Speaker 3: a bit crazy, but yeah, there we go. We've got

868
00:46:26,800 --> 00:46:29,560
Speaker 3: Max Scherzer and Jacob de Grom. I mean, between those

869
00:46:29,600 --> 00:46:34,200
Speaker 3: two guys, they're making almost eighty million dollars, which is like,

870
00:46:34,320 --> 00:46:37,719
Speaker 3: I have forty forty five percent of Texas's overall payroll

871
00:46:38,239 --> 00:46:41,600
Speaker 3: and de Gram hasn't even pitched and Sure They're just

872
00:46:41,680 --> 00:46:45,520
Speaker 3: came back, So you know, that's a lot of money,

873
00:46:45,640 --> 00:46:48,879
Speaker 3: you know, to spend on guys not playing. Texas has

874
00:46:48,920 --> 00:46:52,000
Speaker 3: had a bit of a World Series hangover. Again, they've

875
00:46:52,000 --> 00:46:55,360
Speaker 3: been dealing with some injuries as well, most notably with

876
00:46:55,400 --> 00:46:58,719
Speaker 3: Sure's are to Gram. But yeah, you know they're in

877
00:46:58,800 --> 00:47:04,120
Speaker 3: for it. The AL West. Houston is after a tough start.

878
00:47:04,200 --> 00:47:07,840
Speaker 3: You know, they've rebounded. Seattle's you know, playing very well,

879
00:47:08,200 --> 00:47:10,080
Speaker 3: and like I alluded to earlier when we were talking

880
00:47:10,080 --> 00:47:14,200
Speaker 3: about Kansas City that a wildcard picture is very, very crowded.

881
00:47:14,280 --> 00:47:17,200
Speaker 3: So yeah, you know, the Rangers really need to get

882
00:47:17,239 --> 00:47:19,919
Speaker 3: their act together in the second half. The good news

883
00:47:19,960 --> 00:47:22,480
Speaker 3: is they're only five games out of first place in

884
00:47:22,560 --> 00:47:25,080
Speaker 3: the AL West. I don't know how many games they're

885
00:47:25,080 --> 00:47:27,479
Speaker 3: out in the wildcard race, but you know, well within

886
00:47:27,560 --> 00:47:30,840
Speaker 3: striking distance. But yeah, you know, like they've got to

887
00:47:30,840 --> 00:47:33,480
Speaker 3: get it together in the second half because they've got

888
00:47:33,480 --> 00:47:36,880
Speaker 3: some ground to make up. I think they have the

889
00:47:36,920 --> 00:47:39,600
Speaker 3: ability to do it, but they have to get healthy.

890
00:47:40,480 --> 00:47:43,240
Speaker 1: But Yeah. To me, it's the Texas Rangers, the biggest

891
00:47:43,280 --> 00:47:44,200
Speaker 1: money burner so far.

892
00:47:44,880 --> 00:47:47,480
Speaker 2: It's surprising it's seven and a half games that they're

893
00:47:47,520 --> 00:47:53,640
Speaker 2: out of the wildcard spot currently. It felt smaller than that.

894
00:47:53,680 --> 00:47:59,560
Speaker 2: But there's just a lot of good AL teams, So yeah, yeah,

895
00:47:59,640 --> 00:48:01,400
Speaker 2: that is that is a good one. I'm surprised he

896
00:48:01,400 --> 00:48:06,640
Speaker 2: didn't go with your Toronto Blue Jays, but I'll transition

897
00:48:06,760 --> 00:48:09,759
Speaker 2: to that because the most disappointing player warm beer goes

898
00:48:09,800 --> 00:48:14,680
Speaker 2: to Bobashet of the Toronto Blue Jays. He just he

899
00:48:14,680 --> 00:48:18,600
Speaker 2: doesn't look like himself. Maybe it's this introduction of the

900
00:48:18,640 --> 00:48:20,360
Speaker 2: city connects he doesn't like because it looks like he

901
00:48:20,400 --> 00:48:22,399
Speaker 2: doesn't want to play there. He just doesn't look right.

902
00:48:22,880 --> 00:48:27,239
Speaker 2: Bobashett is a so freaking good He led the league

903
00:48:27,239 --> 00:48:29,319
Speaker 2: in hits for two seasons before last year he got

904
00:48:29,400 --> 00:48:32,320
Speaker 2: hurt and now led the league in two seasons for

905
00:48:32,440 --> 00:48:34,960
Speaker 2: two seasons. Okay, that's that's hard to do. He's just

906
00:48:35,040 --> 00:48:37,120
Speaker 2: a good hitter, and then all of a sudden this

907
00:48:37,239 --> 00:48:41,560
Speaker 2: year he's hitting two twenty two. His slash lines aren't

908
00:48:41,600 --> 00:48:45,080
Speaker 2: good either, a two seventy five on base percentage and

909
00:48:45,160 --> 00:48:48,879
Speaker 2: just three twenty slugging this guy's a two ninety career hitter.

910
00:48:49,000 --> 00:48:53,160
Speaker 2: He's he's really good, and if you want to I

911
00:48:53,200 --> 00:48:54,560
Speaker 2: don't know what the answer is. I really don't know

912
00:48:54,600 --> 00:48:57,520
Speaker 2: what the answer is. I'm not sure anybody really does.

913
00:48:57,760 --> 00:49:02,080
Speaker 2: There's been the talk, obviously of the blow up of

914
00:49:02,160 --> 00:49:04,920
Speaker 2: Bobaschet and Vladimir Guerrero and whether the Blue Jays are

915
00:49:04,960 --> 00:49:06,080
Speaker 2: going to move on from that, so I don't know

916
00:49:06,120 --> 00:49:08,080
Speaker 2: if that has a part of it, But just reading

917
00:49:08,840 --> 00:49:14,080
Speaker 2: about him, looking at the stats especially, it's it's mind boggling.

918
00:49:15,040 --> 00:49:19,279
Speaker 2: The fastballs is really the puzzling part, because in twenty

919
00:49:19,400 --> 00:49:23,920
Speaker 2: nineteen he hit three fifty seven against all fastballs, twenty

920
00:49:24,000 --> 00:49:26,440
Speaker 2: twenty he hit three fifty one on fastballs, twenty twenty one,

921
00:49:26,480 --> 00:49:28,680
Speaker 2: three ten, next year three or nine, next year three,

922
00:49:28,760 --> 00:49:31,120
Speaker 2: twenty eight, and this year's two twenty six, all of

923
00:49:31,160 --> 00:49:33,960
Speaker 2: a sudden, Jason Stark writing those down, he's hitting one

924
00:49:33,960 --> 00:49:37,239
Speaker 2: to fifty three versus left handers, and he hit three

925
00:49:37,360 --> 00:49:40,400
Speaker 2: twenty one and slugg five thirty seven versus left handers

926
00:49:41,280 --> 00:49:45,719
Speaker 2: the five years before that is just weird, very very weird.

927
00:49:45,719 --> 00:49:49,839
Speaker 2: I don't know if the injuries have really hung on

928
00:49:50,040 --> 00:49:52,319
Speaker 2: for the entire offseason that he just doesn't look right.

929
00:49:52,320 --> 00:49:54,160
Speaker 2: But he's hitting one to fifteen in the first inning

930
00:49:54,239 --> 00:49:58,960
Speaker 2: this season. A lot of weird stuff period. That's just strange.

931
00:50:00,200 --> 00:50:03,560
Speaker 3: Ah tass, call me a calendar, because I got days

932
00:50:03,600 --> 00:50:09,799
Speaker 3: to talk about this this. You know, before we were

933
00:50:09,800 --> 00:50:12,920
Speaker 3: talking on the air, we were talking about sleep and

934
00:50:13,040 --> 00:50:17,720
Speaker 3: Apple Watch, and I got a notification that my BPMS

935
00:50:17,760 --> 00:50:21,839
Speaker 3: went up nine. It was it was above normal. I'm

936
00:50:21,840 --> 00:50:23,880
Speaker 3: going to give you a clue as to why that was.

937
00:50:25,360 --> 00:50:30,360
Speaker 3: It's just like Bashett is a symptom of just what's

938
00:50:30,400 --> 00:50:31,680
Speaker 3: wrong with the Jay's this year.

939
00:50:32,040 --> 00:50:33,400
Speaker 1: And their offense is awful.

940
00:50:33,400 --> 00:50:35,520
Speaker 3: They can't hit, They well, they can't do anything, but

941
00:50:35,840 --> 00:50:39,239
Speaker 3: specifically with the offense. I hate to say it, but

942
00:50:39,560 --> 00:50:43,320
Speaker 3: you know, Vlatty and Bow were supposed to be the cornerstones.

943
00:50:43,400 --> 00:50:46,680
Speaker 3: We're six years into this. They're not the guys we

944
00:50:46,719 --> 00:50:47,200
Speaker 3: thought they.

945
00:50:47,120 --> 00:50:48,680
Speaker 1: Were going to be. The guys. They're not the guys.

946
00:50:48,960 --> 00:50:52,680
Speaker 3: Vladdie and Bo are like the number three or four

947
00:50:52,760 --> 00:50:56,080
Speaker 3: guy on a championship team. Like if Vladdie was on

948
00:50:56,120 --> 00:50:58,719
Speaker 3: the Sorry, if Bo was on the Dodgers, he would

949
00:50:58,760 --> 00:51:02,560
Speaker 3: be like their fourth or fifth offensive best offensive player.

950
00:51:03,040 --> 00:51:05,680
Speaker 3: He's not the guy that's going to be carrying the load.

951
00:51:05,760 --> 00:51:09,960
Speaker 3: I just don't see him as that guy. And when

952
00:51:10,160 --> 00:51:15,080
Speaker 3: bow struggles with hitting, he's really bad because he's not

953
00:51:15,160 --> 00:51:16,200
Speaker 3: a great defender.

954
00:51:16,440 --> 00:51:19,240
Speaker 1: He's about league average defensively.

955
00:51:19,719 --> 00:51:22,239
Speaker 3: He really like every time he makes the throat of

956
00:51:22,280 --> 00:51:26,920
Speaker 3: first base, I kind of get a bit nervous, like

957
00:51:27,040 --> 00:51:29,320
Speaker 3: this is what he is, you know, this year. I

958
00:51:29,400 --> 00:51:31,160
Speaker 3: don't know what's wrong with him. I don't know if

959
00:51:31,160 --> 00:51:34,600
Speaker 3: it's injury and injury. I don't know if it's something mental.

960
00:51:34,680 --> 00:51:38,680
Speaker 3: But yeah, he just doesn't look like himself. I don't

961
00:51:38,719 --> 00:51:40,680
Speaker 3: think he's going to be a Blue Jay in the future,

962
00:51:40,680 --> 00:51:44,200
Speaker 3: whether they trade him or you know, he signs elsewhere.

963
00:51:44,239 --> 00:51:47,160
Speaker 3: He's a free agent after next season. I don't see

964
00:51:47,239 --> 00:51:50,080
Speaker 3: him part of Tronner's future plans.

965
00:51:50,239 --> 00:51:53,000
Speaker 1: And if I'm being honest, I'm.

966
00:51:52,840 --> 00:51:55,960
Speaker 3: Okay with that because he's not like to me, he's

967
00:51:55,960 --> 00:51:58,560
Speaker 3: not a trade turner. You know, he's not a guy

968
00:51:58,640 --> 00:52:01,400
Speaker 3: that you're gonna give the big bag to, like a

969
00:52:01,520 --> 00:52:04,680
Speaker 3: ten years, three hundred four hundred million dollar deal.

970
00:52:05,080 --> 00:52:06,920
Speaker 1: I feel that would be very foolish.

971
00:52:07,200 --> 00:52:08,840
Speaker 3: It'll be curious to see what he gets on the

972
00:52:08,840 --> 00:52:11,839
Speaker 3: free agent market, because, like you said, he's been an

973
00:52:11,840 --> 00:52:15,439
Speaker 3: elite offensive player. Borderline elite offensive player in the past

974
00:52:15,480 --> 00:52:20,080
Speaker 3: several seasons, he's really struggling this year. They're they're going

975
00:52:20,120 --> 00:52:22,399
Speaker 3: to hold on to him. I can't see them moving

976
00:52:22,520 --> 00:52:25,480
Speaker 3: him this year unless they get blown away. And I

977
00:52:25,480 --> 00:52:27,600
Speaker 3: feel if they moved him to they would be trading

978
00:52:27,680 --> 00:52:30,839
Speaker 3: but at his lowest value. As lowest point doesn't make sense,

979
00:52:30,920 --> 00:52:34,080
Speaker 3: especially if Toronto's got such a bad farm system. If

980
00:52:34,120 --> 00:52:36,480
Speaker 3: they were going to make that move, they'd obviously want

981
00:52:36,520 --> 00:52:39,840
Speaker 3: to maximize the value, and you know, trading him this

982
00:52:39,920 --> 00:52:43,520
Speaker 3: offseason or even this season, you know, doesn't make much sense.

983
00:52:43,600 --> 00:52:46,920
Speaker 1: But it's weird. It's it's sad.

984
00:52:47,040 --> 00:52:50,799
Speaker 3: It's frustrating to see him do this because we're a

985
00:52:50,800 --> 00:52:53,400
Speaker 3: team that's built to win right now and Bashett is

986
00:52:53,400 --> 00:52:56,400
Speaker 3: supposed to be a major part of that. But it's just,

987
00:52:56,680 --> 00:52:58,839
Speaker 3: for whatever reason, hasn't happened this year.

988
00:52:59,480 --> 00:53:02,120
Speaker 2: You mentioned Turner, uh, because I just want to end

989
00:53:02,160 --> 00:53:04,399
Speaker 2: this on a positive note. You gotta stay positive. You're

990
00:53:04,480 --> 00:53:06,839
Speaker 2: it's good to see Trey Turner back to who he

991
00:53:07,000 --> 00:53:10,160
Speaker 2: was when he signed that monstrous contract, because he wasn't

992
00:53:10,200 --> 00:53:13,480
Speaker 2: himself for a lot of last season. But he's he's

993
00:53:13,600 --> 00:53:17,439
Speaker 2: kicking butt in Philadelphia. Nine forty one. Ops. That's great

994
00:53:17,480 --> 00:53:21,279
Speaker 2: stuff for him to be doing in Philly, and obviously

995
00:53:22,000 --> 00:53:24,560
Speaker 2: that is the opposite of Toronto, the way they have

996
00:53:24,680 --> 00:53:30,680
Speaker 2: everything clicking offensively. And uh yeah, they've also got a

997
00:53:30,680 --> 00:53:32,640
Speaker 2: lot of big name players and they're dealing with a

998
00:53:32,680 --> 00:53:35,080
Speaker 2: lot of injuries and they're still rolling. But anyway, I

999
00:53:35,120 --> 00:53:38,240
Speaker 2: just want to end it on that note. The last

1000
00:53:38,320 --> 00:53:42,360
Speaker 2: warm beer is a cy yuck. What do you got, Joel?

1001
00:53:43,480 --> 00:53:45,160
Speaker 1: So Yeah, for our site, yuck.

1002
00:53:45,280 --> 00:53:47,319
Speaker 3: Maybe it's a bit of a cliche pick, but I'm

1003
00:53:47,320 --> 00:53:51,080
Speaker 3: gonna go with Washington National starting pitcher Patrick Corbin.

1004
00:53:52,160 --> 00:53:57,160
Speaker 1: He is just I don't know what happened to Patrick Corbin.

1005
00:53:57,280 --> 00:54:00,160
Speaker 1: It's really weird. He got totally say.

1006
00:54:00,239 --> 00:54:03,520
Speaker 3: Jammed after the first year of his deal he signed

1007
00:54:03,560 --> 00:54:05,960
Speaker 3: with the Mats. I think he signed a five or

1008
00:54:06,040 --> 00:54:10,800
Speaker 3: six year deal, won World Series with them in twenty nineteen,

1009
00:54:11,320 --> 00:54:13,840
Speaker 3: was a huge part of that rotation.

1010
00:54:14,280 --> 00:54:16,399
Speaker 1: And then since then he.

1011
00:54:16,560 --> 00:54:20,560
Speaker 3: Has just been really bad and he hasn't gotten better

1012
00:54:20,880 --> 00:54:23,960
Speaker 3: at all. He's last in whip. I think he's last

1013
00:54:23,960 --> 00:54:26,680
Speaker 3: in era right now. He only has one win on

1014
00:54:26,719 --> 00:54:31,440
Speaker 3: the season, and task guess who Corbyn's only win is

1015
00:54:31,560 --> 00:54:32,359
Speaker 3: against this year?

1016
00:54:34,400 --> 00:54:35,560
Speaker 2: The Toronto Blue Jays.

1017
00:54:36,040 --> 00:54:42,760
Speaker 1: You got it, so that hurts. Yeah, he just he's broken.

1018
00:54:42,880 --> 00:54:46,440
Speaker 3: But the Mats just continue to just send them out there,

1019
00:54:46,440 --> 00:54:49,160
Speaker 3: like well paying for you you know, they just you know.

1020
00:54:49,200 --> 00:54:51,919
Speaker 1: Roll them out there. He just eats innings.

1021
00:54:52,520 --> 00:54:55,880
Speaker 3: I can't like, maybe someone trades him at the deadline

1022
00:54:55,880 --> 00:54:58,239
Speaker 3: if they just basically need a warm body that can

1023
00:54:58,600 --> 00:55:00,080
Speaker 3: you know, throw pitches and eat it.

1024
00:55:00,400 --> 00:55:01,640
Speaker 1: He's probably that guy.

1025
00:55:02,000 --> 00:55:03,799
Speaker 3: But he was good, you know, like for his couple

1026
00:55:04,480 --> 00:55:06,880
Speaker 3: a couple of years there in Arizona's first year in Washington,

1027
00:55:06,960 --> 00:55:10,279
Speaker 3: but yeah, sign that big deal. And after year one,

1028
00:55:10,480 --> 00:55:14,600
Speaker 3: it just he got progressively worse. And it's I just

1029
00:55:14,640 --> 00:55:17,200
Speaker 3: want to make this note too, you know, you know

1030
00:55:17,320 --> 00:55:19,640
Speaker 3: for the old school fans who are like, oh, you know,

1031
00:55:19,800 --> 00:55:22,080
Speaker 3: pitcher wins are still a thing. We still need to

1032
00:55:22,160 --> 00:55:26,239
Speaker 3: value those. Patrick Corbin won ten games last year and

1033
00:55:26,280 --> 00:55:29,719
Speaker 3: his era was almost six, So that just kind of

1034
00:55:29,760 --> 00:55:32,759
Speaker 3: goes to show you, yeah, you know, pitcher wins, I

1035
00:55:32,840 --> 00:55:36,200
Speaker 3: still don't really you know, value them as much. But yeah, Corbin,

1036
00:55:36,239 --> 00:55:39,799
Speaker 3: I think he's one in ten this year, and but yeah,

1037
00:55:39,880 --> 00:55:44,080
Speaker 3: still goes out there every fifth day, and you know,

1038
00:55:44,480 --> 00:55:47,319
Speaker 3: God bless him, he does his best. But yeah, for me,

1039
00:55:47,360 --> 00:55:49,160
Speaker 3: it's Patrick Corbyn the total say Yak.

1040
00:55:50,120 --> 00:55:52,960
Speaker 2: He is a Sayyak showed to Jason Stark for this

1041
00:55:53,120 --> 00:55:56,319
Speaker 2: name because it's the opposite of say Young, which surprisingly

1042
00:55:56,360 --> 00:55:59,800
Speaker 2: he got votes for in twenty eighteen and twenty nineteen.

1043
00:56:00,160 --> 00:56:03,960
Speaker 2: I'm locked in on his page right now. He was

1044
00:56:05,840 --> 00:56:07,960
Speaker 2: he's one and nine right now, and he was the

1045
00:56:08,080 --> 00:56:13,600
Speaker 2: leader in losses for the last three seasons if you're

1046
00:56:13,600 --> 00:56:15,160
Speaker 2: into that win loss kind of thing. Yeah, yeah, it

1047
00:56:15,200 --> 00:56:17,840
Speaker 2: was nine of sixteen, nine and sixteen, six and nineteen,

1048
00:56:17,840 --> 00:56:19,960
Speaker 2: then ten and fifteen last year when he had a

1049
00:56:20,000 --> 00:56:23,000
Speaker 2: five point two. But even before that, yeah, he was

1050
00:56:23,640 --> 00:56:25,560
Speaker 2: he said six, and he was in the sixth world

1051
00:56:25,640 --> 00:56:29,480
Speaker 2: and he's almost there now right now. So that's a

1052
00:56:29,480 --> 00:56:32,600
Speaker 2: good one. And they, yeah, they continuously uh throw him

1053
00:56:32,600 --> 00:56:36,279
Speaker 2: out there despite not being the same guy as he

1054
00:56:36,360 --> 00:56:40,560
Speaker 2: was in Washington or at the beginning of his Washington

1055
00:56:40,640 --> 00:56:44,440
Speaker 2: run and Arizona, as you mentioned, all right, before we

1056
00:56:44,480 --> 00:56:46,759
Speaker 2: move on here, Joel, actually actually before we gets to

1057
00:56:46,800 --> 00:56:48,719
Speaker 2: the home run derby, I got to give myself a

1058
00:56:48,760 --> 00:56:54,480
Speaker 2: warm beer as well, because this spring, knowing that we

1059
00:56:54,480 --> 00:56:56,440
Speaker 2: weren't going to be doing no bunts every week, I

1060
00:56:56,480 --> 00:57:00,600
Speaker 2: was very excited to join a fantasy baseball league and

1061
00:57:01,040 --> 00:57:05,520
Speaker 2: our man. Cole invited me. I said, yes. He tried

1062
00:57:05,560 --> 00:57:08,160
Speaker 2: to push Bobachett on me at the beginning of the season,

1063
00:57:09,920 --> 00:57:14,239
Speaker 2: but since then, I haven't played a week. I haven't

1064
00:57:14,239 --> 00:57:16,720
Speaker 2: played a click. I haven't played it at all. I

1065
00:57:16,720 --> 00:57:19,720
Speaker 2: didn't play. So warm beer goes to me. I said,

1066
00:57:19,760 --> 00:57:22,200
Speaker 2: I'm coming in. I'm excited because I'm not going to

1067
00:57:22,240 --> 00:57:24,680
Speaker 2: be doing the baseball podcast. This will keep me entertained.

1068
00:57:25,560 --> 00:57:29,920
Speaker 2: But yeah, I'm disappointment. I mean, I'm far worse than Bobaschett,

1069
00:57:29,960 --> 00:57:33,000
Speaker 2: that's for sure. For literally, I don't know how I'm

1070
00:57:33,040 --> 00:57:35,600
Speaker 2: doing that league. I have no idea. I just I

1071
00:57:35,640 --> 00:57:38,360
Speaker 2: haven't even looked at it for since we got those

1072
00:57:38,760 --> 00:57:41,640
Speaker 2: trade offers. Just haven't done it. So warm beer goes

1073
00:57:41,680 --> 00:57:44,320
Speaker 2: to me, and I apologize to Cole in the league,

1074
00:57:45,120 --> 00:57:47,200
Speaker 2: but I also won't be looking at it for the

1075
00:57:47,240 --> 00:57:48,320
Speaker 2: second half. I don't think.

1076
00:57:49,480 --> 00:57:52,200
Speaker 3: Do you have a test? Do you have a funny

1077
00:57:52,200 --> 00:57:52,680
Speaker 3: team name?

1078
00:57:54,000 --> 00:57:54,640
Speaker 2: Great question?

1079
00:57:56,720 --> 00:57:57,200
Speaker 1: I think so.

1080
00:57:57,640 --> 00:58:00,400
Speaker 2: I'd like to think that I am funny at times,

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00:58:00,880 --> 00:58:03,200
Speaker 2: but I can't promise you that because I can't even

1082
00:58:03,200 --> 00:58:06,320
Speaker 2: tell it to you right this second. Okay, but before

1083
00:58:06,320 --> 00:58:08,680
Speaker 2: we go, I will find out and I will mention

1084
00:58:08,720 --> 00:58:12,960
Speaker 2: it Thanks for the question. Thanks for asking. But right now,

1085
00:58:13,000 --> 00:58:16,200
Speaker 2: let's get to the home run derby. As I check

1086
00:58:16,240 --> 00:58:21,200
Speaker 2: out my Fantasy league yesterday, ti Oscar Hernandez won it all,

1087
00:58:21,240 --> 00:58:24,280
Speaker 2: and that's why I'm wearing this Vladimir Guerrero jersey. I

1088
00:58:24,280 --> 00:58:27,120
Speaker 2: haven't worn it since last year, but to see Vladi

1089
00:58:27,160 --> 00:58:31,439
Speaker 2: Guerrero wearing the Hernandez jersey yesterday, I had to put

1090
00:58:31,480 --> 00:58:35,600
Speaker 2: on my Guerrero jersey because we're two degrees apart. And

1091
00:58:35,640 --> 00:58:40,440
Speaker 2: it was fun to start this. The whole broadcast I

1092
00:58:40,480 --> 00:58:42,320
Speaker 2: thought was fun at the beginning. First of all, the

1093
00:58:42,320 --> 00:58:45,920
Speaker 2: hats were great. I'm into the hats. Joel. Just this,

1094
00:58:46,520 --> 00:58:50,840
Speaker 2: the horizontal stripes behind the team's logo on a white background.

1095
00:58:53,200 --> 00:58:55,320
Speaker 2: They got me. They sucked me in.

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00:58:56,160 --> 00:58:56,720
Speaker 1: They look good.

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00:58:56,800 --> 00:58:57,080
Speaker 2: They did.

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00:58:57,240 --> 00:58:58,400
Speaker 1: Yeah, I liked them.

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00:58:58,720 --> 00:59:03,240
Speaker 2: And the guy introducing the players, Marcelo Hernandez, who's a comedian,

1100
00:59:04,440 --> 00:59:06,520
Speaker 2: he was killing it. He was he was really good.

1101
00:59:07,240 --> 00:59:10,160
Speaker 2: Here I'll give you some quotes from Marcel Hernandez. He said,

1102
00:59:10,200 --> 00:59:13,520
Speaker 2: big white guy. First name in English, last name in Spanish,

1103
00:59:13,680 --> 00:59:17,920
Speaker 2: Pete Alonzo. His forearms are the size of my back,

1104
00:59:18,400 --> 00:59:21,800
Speaker 2: Al Doles Garcia and if you can say his name,

1105
00:59:21,840 --> 00:59:28,080
Speaker 2: congratulations you speak English, Gunner Henderson. Gunner's not a common name,

1106
00:59:28,120 --> 00:59:29,880
Speaker 2: but anyway, I thought he was great. And then we

1107
00:59:29,920 --> 00:59:36,880
Speaker 2: had a tough national anthem from Ingrid Andress. Oh you

1108
00:59:36,920 --> 00:59:41,240
Speaker 2: know it was it was just tough. I just couldn't

1109
00:59:41,240 --> 00:59:45,480
Speaker 2: believe it. When the first note was missed, I thought, Okay,

1110
00:59:45,520 --> 00:59:49,680
Speaker 2: maybe that's her style, you know, just a but that

1111
00:59:49,800 --> 00:59:52,560
Speaker 2: wasn't it. It was just a lot of misses.

1112
00:59:53,960 --> 00:59:59,680
Speaker 3: Yeah, that that started bad and then just got progressively worse.

1113
00:59:59,760 --> 01:00:04,560
Speaker 3: But I posted something on our Instagram and someone commented

1114
01:00:04,640 --> 01:00:05,600
Speaker 3: and said they.

1115
01:00:05,520 --> 01:00:09,520
Speaker 1: Work in audio. They said they've never done like stadium audio.

1116
01:00:10,040 --> 01:00:12,480
Speaker 3: But they said like something was really fishy, like they

1117
01:00:12,560 --> 01:00:16,440
Speaker 3: had to have done rehearsals or like they thought maybe

1118
01:00:16,560 --> 01:00:18,720
Speaker 3: like they were her ear like you know, they wear

1119
01:00:19,560 --> 01:00:23,320
Speaker 3: an earpiece or whatever that I don't know helps them

1120
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Speaker 3: keep the rhythm.

1121
01:00:24,120 --> 01:00:25,520
Speaker 1: I have no idea what I'm talking.

1122
01:00:25,320 --> 01:00:27,240
Speaker 4: About here, so they can hear themselves.

1123
01:00:27,560 --> 01:00:29,600
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, yeah, thank you JD. Yeah.

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01:00:29,640 --> 01:00:31,640
Speaker 3: And he said like maybe there was a delay or

1125
01:00:31,720 --> 01:00:35,280
Speaker 3: something wrong with that, because he's like, yeah, she's been

1126
01:00:35,320 --> 01:00:41,240
Speaker 3: nominated for several Grammys, Like clearly she has thinking talent,

1127
01:00:41,640 --> 01:00:45,360
Speaker 3: but you just thought something was a miss with the audio. Production,

1128
01:00:45,480 --> 01:00:48,080
Speaker 3: because he's like, that doesn't add up?

1129
01:00:48,280 --> 01:00:49,160
Speaker 1: Does that make sense?

1130
01:00:49,240 --> 01:00:52,760
Speaker 4: Jd Oh, Like, I don't think she could hear herself.

1131
01:00:54,720 --> 01:00:57,880
Speaker 4: I assume that they rehearsed, you know, and the sound

1132
01:00:57,920 --> 01:01:01,360
Speaker 4: can be a little bit different when there's the you know,

1133
01:01:01,400 --> 01:01:03,760
Speaker 4: there's people in the stands as opposed to nobody in

1134
01:01:03,800 --> 01:01:07,560
Speaker 4: the stands. But yeah, I think she couldn't hear herself,

1135
01:01:07,640 --> 01:01:13,560
Speaker 4: or the the sound of the cut of her voice

1136
01:01:13,600 --> 01:01:16,000
Speaker 4: coming back at her from the you know, within the

1137
01:01:16,040 --> 01:01:18,440
Speaker 4: stadium was throwing her off. But yeah, she was definitely

1138
01:01:18,520 --> 01:01:21,600
Speaker 4: thrown off by something. I think she just probably couldn't

1139
01:01:21,600 --> 01:01:25,520
Speaker 4: hear herself correctly. Yeah, but I've been watching I've been

1140
01:01:25,560 --> 01:01:31,520
Speaker 4: watching Copa America this last month, and those anthems are,

1141
01:01:31,880 --> 01:01:35,720
Speaker 4: if you've watched them at all, absolute chaos, and the

1142
01:01:35,800 --> 01:01:39,320
Speaker 4: Euros as well, because they're all they do is they're

1143
01:01:39,360 --> 01:01:42,760
Speaker 4: just pumping in the anthem like a canned version of

1144
01:01:42,760 --> 01:01:46,760
Speaker 4: the anthem. The stands are singing, everybody in the stands

1145
01:01:46,800 --> 01:01:49,080
Speaker 4: are singing, the players on the field are singing, and

1146
01:01:49,120 --> 01:01:51,960
Speaker 4: they're all out of sync right because the sound, the

1147
01:01:52,000 --> 01:01:56,240
Speaker 4: way sound travels, it's just like it's complete chaos. It's

1148
01:01:56,320 --> 01:01:58,960
Speaker 4: just like it's like row row row your boat, but

1149
01:01:59,120 --> 01:02:03,120
Speaker 4: it just like it just keeps going around and around

1150
01:02:03,120 --> 01:02:05,280
Speaker 4: and around. And then at the final game they had

1151
01:02:05,360 --> 01:02:08,440
Speaker 4: like actual singers and the same shit was happening, Like

1152
01:02:09,120 --> 01:02:12,600
Speaker 4: the players on the field were like, you know, four

1153
01:02:12,640 --> 01:02:15,520
Speaker 4: seconds behind the people in the stands belting at the tunes.

1154
01:02:15,560 --> 01:02:20,439
Speaker 4: So stadiums are hard, although you know, but then there's

1155
01:02:20,560 --> 01:02:23,919
Speaker 4: no real excuse, like this is a tempole event. Get

1156
01:02:23,960 --> 01:02:27,680
Speaker 4: your shit together, MLB, like you hung her out to dry.

1157
01:02:27,760 --> 01:02:31,640
Speaker 4: She fought through it, she got through it, and now

1158
01:02:31,680 --> 01:02:37,120
Speaker 4: we have a new crown on the worst anthem ever

1159
01:02:37,240 --> 01:02:41,360
Speaker 4: I think, other than maybe Roseanne, but you.

1160
01:02:41,320 --> 01:02:50,320
Speaker 2: Know, honorable mention to Carl Lewis too great stuff. Yeah, yeah, obviously. Yeah,

1161
01:02:50,360 --> 01:02:53,960
Speaker 2: the ones going around last night were I can't believe

1162
01:02:54,000 --> 01:02:58,000
Speaker 2: she was trending last night as well. I mean I guess, yeah,

1163
01:02:58,040 --> 01:03:01,080
Speaker 2: she was trending because of what I up and at

1164
01:03:01,360 --> 01:03:02,560
Speaker 2: at the NBA All Star Game.

1165
01:03:02,880 --> 01:03:06,840
Speaker 4: But Fergie was a choice, right, Like she made They

1166
01:03:06,920 --> 01:03:09,480
Speaker 4: made a choice to do the anthem that way. She

1167
01:03:09,640 --> 01:03:11,280
Speaker 4: It wasn't like she was at a tune or anything.

1168
01:03:11,320 --> 01:03:14,840
Speaker 4: She just made a weird choice, a very good point,

1169
01:03:14,880 --> 01:03:18,040
Speaker 4: a big swing and a big miss on Fergie's. So

1170
01:03:18,120 --> 01:03:20,919
Speaker 4: I think Fergie should still be up there because what

1171
01:03:21,040 --> 01:03:25,360
Speaker 4: Fergie did was intentional. There's no way that last night's

1172
01:03:25,600 --> 01:03:26,360
Speaker 4: was intentional.

1173
01:03:28,600 --> 01:03:31,880
Speaker 2: Fantastic point. Fantastic point. And I would say, as a

1174
01:03:31,920 --> 01:03:38,240
Speaker 2: singer songwriter, ingrid address probably, I'm assuming has more more

1175
01:03:38,240 --> 01:03:40,920
Speaker 2: of a range than Fergie does. I'm just guessing. I

1176
01:03:40,920 --> 01:03:43,440
Speaker 2: don't know, I don't know. You might you see, because

1177
01:03:43,440 --> 01:03:46,120
Speaker 2: ferg doesn't do that in her songs, right, you know,

1178
01:03:46,800 --> 01:03:49,560
Speaker 2: she she's just my hump, my hump, like it's all

1179
01:03:49,640 --> 01:03:53,440
Speaker 2: the same stuff. She's not a singer, right, she is

1180
01:03:53,480 --> 01:03:53,960
Speaker 2: a singer.

1181
01:03:54,040 --> 01:03:55,200
Speaker 4: She is a professional singer.

1182
01:03:55,240 --> 01:03:59,000
Speaker 2: She's a professional singer, but she's not she's not ranging.

1183
01:03:59,560 --> 01:04:00,880
Speaker 2: But anyway, I.

1184
01:04:00,800 --> 01:04:03,200
Speaker 4: Hear what you're saying. I was her thing. I just

1185
01:04:03,200 --> 01:04:04,560
Speaker 4: wanted to go ahead and yil.

1186
01:04:04,880 --> 01:04:07,240
Speaker 3: Oh, sorry, sorry, sorry, I just want to say, Fergie,

1187
01:04:07,680 --> 01:04:10,840
Speaker 3: we've been piling on her a bit and JD I grew.

1188
01:04:10,680 --> 01:04:11,640
Speaker 1: With all those points.

1189
01:04:11,800 --> 01:04:14,320
Speaker 3: But I saw a clip of Fergie recently where she

1190
01:04:14,480 --> 01:04:17,320
Speaker 3: was doing like cartwheels or flips and singing.

1191
01:04:17,360 --> 01:04:18,120
Speaker 1: Did you ever see that?

1192
01:04:18,240 --> 01:04:18,439
Speaker 3: Yeah?

1193
01:04:18,800 --> 01:04:19,320
Speaker 2: I saw that.

1194
01:04:19,480 --> 01:04:23,880
Speaker 3: Yeah, that that that brings it back a bit for me.

1195
01:04:24,000 --> 01:04:26,080
Speaker 3: If you can do a gosh, darn car wheeler a

1196
01:04:26,120 --> 01:04:29,560
Speaker 3: flip and still hit your note. Okay, you watched it

1197
01:04:29,600 --> 01:04:31,400
Speaker 3: at the NBA All Star Game. But if you can

1198
01:04:31,440 --> 01:04:32,880
Speaker 3: do a backflip and kind of.

1199
01:04:32,840 --> 01:04:34,640
Speaker 1: Sing, that brings it back for me.

1200
01:04:36,280 --> 01:04:36,960
Speaker 2: She can do that.

1201
01:04:38,600 --> 01:04:39,520
Speaker 1: Yeah, it was impressive.

1202
01:04:41,400 --> 01:04:47,400
Speaker 2: That's that's phenomenal. I mean, I immediately think, is it

1203
01:04:47,440 --> 01:04:50,040
Speaker 2: is it hers actually singing while she's doing a flip.

1204
01:04:50,360 --> 01:04:53,200
Speaker 2: That's you know, you know, it's great the internet, nothing

1205
01:04:53,280 --> 01:04:57,640
Speaker 2: is real, but yeah, but you never know. Anyways, there's

1206
01:04:58,560 --> 01:05:00,640
Speaker 2: there's yeah, lots of people here on the stream team

1207
01:05:01,040 --> 01:05:06,680
Speaker 2: getting angry. Yeah, some people saying Fergie is definitely a singer.

1208
01:05:06,960 --> 01:05:09,919
Speaker 2: Ever heard of fer Delicious? Yes, of course, of course

1209
01:05:09,960 --> 01:05:14,720
Speaker 2: I've heard of fer Delicious. But anyway, onto on too

1210
01:05:14,800 --> 01:05:16,640
Speaker 2: quickly the home run Deer because it was fun to

1211
01:05:16,680 --> 01:05:23,000
Speaker 2: start and Alec Boom was booming it. He was so

1212
01:05:23,280 --> 01:05:27,480
Speaker 2: good to start it. It was great to see Bobby

1213
01:05:27,480 --> 01:05:31,240
Speaker 2: Wood Junior last through the first round because the Russell

1214
01:05:31,320 --> 01:05:34,840
Speaker 2: has thrown. It was just not clicking at first. His

1215
01:05:34,920 --> 01:05:37,760
Speaker 2: picture was not great at first, but it happened. Adules

1216
01:05:38,120 --> 01:05:40,360
Speaker 2: Garcia in front of his home field there in Texas

1217
01:05:40,440 --> 01:05:46,840
Speaker 2: hit bombs huge one and somehow it's Oscar Hernandez. Somehow

1218
01:05:47,560 --> 01:05:50,280
Speaker 2: he fished finished fourth in the first round, which was

1219
01:05:50,680 --> 01:05:54,840
Speaker 2: enough to get by. Uh. He's just just lasting and

1220
01:05:54,880 --> 01:06:00,320
Speaker 2: out lasting, note Pete Alonso. Uh. And and I'll just

1221
01:06:00,360 --> 01:06:03,320
Speaker 2: say something else about the first round. Gunner Henderson, who

1222
01:06:03,480 --> 01:06:08,760
Speaker 2: was eighth out of the eight hitters. I mean, he

1223
01:06:08,920 --> 01:06:13,760
Speaker 2: was great before the contest. He had his personalized Scooby

1224
01:06:13,800 --> 01:06:16,880
Speaker 2: Doo bat because he loves Scooby Doo. He even did

1225
01:06:16,880 --> 01:06:21,680
Speaker 2: an impression for ESPN, which was really really good. But

1226
01:06:21,800 --> 01:06:24,280
Speaker 2: he went eighth, and so there was talk maybe it's

1227
01:06:24,280 --> 01:06:26,560
Speaker 2: an advantage, you know how many home runs you have

1228
01:06:26,640 --> 01:06:30,920
Speaker 2: to hit. But literally from the Scooby do performance, this

1229
01:06:31,000 --> 01:06:34,560
Speaker 2: is the Scooby Doo impersonation. It was like an hour

1230
01:06:34,640 --> 01:06:39,520
Speaker 2: and fifteen minutes if I'm not wrong, before he hit

1231
01:06:39,760 --> 01:06:41,880
Speaker 2: it was a long time. Now he could get warm

1232
01:06:41,960 --> 01:06:44,560
Speaker 2: or whatever. But still he had the lowest number in

1233
01:06:44,600 --> 01:06:47,400
Speaker 2: the first round, which was you know, Gunner is still

1234
01:06:47,400 --> 01:06:50,680
Speaker 2: a great hitter and he was still lining them. But yeah,

1235
01:06:50,720 --> 01:06:52,600
Speaker 2: it was unfortunate only eleven home runs. Anyways, it was

1236
01:06:52,600 --> 01:06:55,560
Speaker 2: Bobby Wood Junior, Hozier Mires to, Oskar Hernandez and Alec

1237
01:06:55,640 --> 01:06:58,040
Speaker 2: Bohm in the second round Hernandez and Boem went to

1238
01:06:58,120 --> 01:07:00,720
Speaker 2: the swing off and then it was Hernandez versus Wit

1239
01:07:01,880 --> 01:07:04,160
Speaker 2: in the final. And it was a great ending, Joel,

1240
01:07:04,600 --> 01:07:09,360
Speaker 2: because Hernan's had fourteen and Bobby Witt hit two with

1241
01:07:09,480 --> 01:07:12,000
Speaker 2: two outs to tie it up or excuse me, to

1242
01:07:12,040 --> 01:07:15,280
Speaker 2: get within one. So it was it was extremely close.

1243
01:07:15,320 --> 01:07:18,280
Speaker 2: He's he's within one and his last swing to tie

1244
01:07:18,320 --> 01:07:22,440
Speaker 2: it was a bomb. Everybody watching it and it hit

1245
01:07:22,440 --> 01:07:25,520
Speaker 2: the wall. So that was a pretty great ending, and

1246
01:07:27,400 --> 01:07:29,560
Speaker 2: that was fun. It was fun. It was a bit long,

1247
01:07:29,680 --> 01:07:36,200
Speaker 2: i gotta say, but a good performance. Yeah, I overall

1248
01:07:36,240 --> 01:07:37,040
Speaker 2: I enjoyed it.

1249
01:07:38,240 --> 01:07:42,120
Speaker 3: I feel with all Star Games, you know, NBA, NHL,

1250
01:07:42,200 --> 01:07:47,160
Speaker 3: the four major sports, they're constantly weaking the formats.

1251
01:07:47,560 --> 01:07:52,120
Speaker 1: It's kind of annoying. But in saying that, you know.

1252
01:07:52,080 --> 01:07:55,720
Speaker 3: Like we watched the Derby last year live and we

1253
01:07:55,720 --> 01:07:58,080
Speaker 3: were having and a lot of people complained about this

1254
01:07:58,120 --> 01:08:00,280
Speaker 3: on social media having a hard time keeping.

1255
01:08:00,120 --> 01:08:01,760
Speaker 1: Up with the balls being hit.

1256
01:08:02,360 --> 01:08:06,320
Speaker 3: I clearly feel with the production they heard what the

1257
01:08:06,360 --> 01:08:09,440
Speaker 3: fans said last year because this was I don't know this,

1258
01:08:09,760 --> 01:08:12,720
Speaker 3: did you get? It was much easier to watch. Yeah,

1259
01:08:12,840 --> 01:08:16,320
Speaker 3: Like they had that camera from behind where and it

1260
01:08:16,400 --> 01:08:20,320
Speaker 3: was a great angle where not panoramic, but you could

1261
01:08:20,320 --> 01:08:23,960
Speaker 3: clearly see, you know, the field, and you could clearly

1262
01:08:24,000 --> 01:08:26,760
Speaker 3: see if it was a home run you weren't. It

1263
01:08:26,840 --> 01:08:29,840
Speaker 3: wasn't always like constant camera changes. It was it was

1264
01:08:29,880 --> 01:08:31,000
Speaker 3: easier to concentrate.

1265
01:08:31,400 --> 01:08:32,240
Speaker 1: I really like that.

1266
01:08:32,400 --> 01:08:34,760
Speaker 3: I think from a production standpoint, they kind of need

1267
01:08:34,760 --> 01:08:38,120
Speaker 3: to keep that going forward. I also liked some of

1268
01:08:38,160 --> 01:08:43,120
Speaker 3: the new formats as well as the new rules. I

1269
01:08:43,160 --> 01:08:47,639
Speaker 3: think it it just made things go smoother in a way.

1270
01:08:48,479 --> 01:08:52,760
Speaker 3: The pitching coach for Pete Alonso, I know, he was

1271
01:08:52,800 --> 01:08:55,639
Speaker 3: an older gentleman and I forget his name.

1272
01:08:55,920 --> 01:08:59,920
Speaker 1: He's he's apparently an or. I shouldn't say it.

1273
01:09:00,000 --> 01:09:04,160
Speaker 3: Obviously, he's a famously good picture for you know, to

1274
01:09:04,479 --> 01:09:08,960
Speaker 3: do this, but he just Alonso, because you know, Alonso's

1275
01:09:09,000 --> 01:09:11,000
Speaker 3: done well several times. He's wanted a couple of these.

1276
01:09:11,360 --> 01:09:13,800
Speaker 3: He just had a bad first round. I think he

1277
01:09:13,920 --> 01:09:17,680
Speaker 3: had bad pitches. He didn't look to me like he

1278
01:09:17,760 --> 01:09:20,759
Speaker 3: was getting the pitches that he wanted from that pitching

1279
01:09:20,800 --> 01:09:23,320
Speaker 3: coach who looked pretty elderly.

1280
01:09:23,520 --> 01:09:25,680
Speaker 1: You know what. And I'm not diminishing that. I'm not

1281
01:09:25,720 --> 01:09:28,640
Speaker 1: saying they can't do that, but yeah, I don't know.

1282
01:09:28,760 --> 01:09:30,680
Speaker 3: I feel Alonso could have did better if he had

1283
01:09:30,720 --> 01:09:33,719
Speaker 3: some if he had a better picture sort.

1284
01:09:33,479 --> 01:09:34,040
Speaker 1: Of say that.

1285
01:09:35,520 --> 01:09:39,200
Speaker 2: Dave Joss is his name. Yeah he didn't, Yeah he was.

1286
01:09:39,680 --> 01:09:44,479
Speaker 2: He was his picture when he won. I'm assuming here

1287
01:09:44,600 --> 01:09:46,800
Speaker 2: he's bringing him back as his home run derby picture.

1288
01:09:46,960 --> 01:09:51,280
Speaker 2: I'm reading this from Sporting News. He's bringing him back.

1289
01:09:51,760 --> 01:09:54,759
Speaker 2: He was with him in twenty one and twenty two. Yeah,

1290
01:09:54,800 --> 01:09:57,479
Speaker 2: and he won in twenty twenty one. So yeah, I

1291
01:09:57,479 --> 01:09:58,040
Speaker 2: was unfortunate.

1292
01:09:58,080 --> 01:10:02,720
Speaker 1: Okay, go ahead, but overall, yeah, overall, it was.

1293
01:10:02,880 --> 01:10:03,160
Speaker 4: It was.

1294
01:10:03,200 --> 01:10:04,200
Speaker 1: It was a great derby.

1295
01:10:04,400 --> 01:10:08,760
Speaker 3: Was there were no big Like for casual fans, I

1296
01:10:08,760 --> 01:10:10,599
Speaker 3: don't feel like there were any big names, But if

1297
01:10:10,640 --> 01:10:12,360
Speaker 3: you're like a baseball fan, I feel this was a

1298
01:10:12,360 --> 01:10:15,679
Speaker 3: good mix of both young guys and some veteran players

1299
01:10:15,720 --> 01:10:20,960
Speaker 3: and just some absolute moonshots too. It's crazy just how

1300
01:10:21,080 --> 01:10:23,519
Speaker 3: far some of those balls went, and some of those

1301
01:10:23,560 --> 01:10:25,599
Speaker 3: guys that looked like they were just looking their wrists,

1302
01:10:25,600 --> 01:10:29,439
Speaker 3: like especially a Doulas Garcia, he just made it look

1303
01:10:29,560 --> 01:10:32,439
Speaker 3: and it's not easy to do, of course, but he

1304
01:10:32,640 --> 01:10:35,519
Speaker 3: was just making it look super easy.

1305
01:10:35,560 --> 01:10:35,680
Speaker 1: You know.

1306
01:10:35,760 --> 01:10:38,920
Speaker 3: Jose Ramirez, too, switch hitter, was hitting from the left

1307
01:10:38,960 --> 01:10:41,839
Speaker 3: side of the plate last night, hit some absolute bombs.

1308
01:10:41,880 --> 01:10:45,080
Speaker 3: So yeah, I feel like baseball fans, this was a

1309
01:10:45,120 --> 01:10:49,440
Speaker 3: good home run derby. In terms of like attracting casuals.

1310
01:10:49,479 --> 01:10:51,200
Speaker 3: Maybe not so much. You want to get maybe a

1311
01:10:51,240 --> 01:10:55,800
Speaker 3: Vladdie or an Otani or you know, like another.

1312
01:10:54,880 --> 01:10:57,479
Speaker 1: Big name like that. But overall it was a great derby.

1313
01:10:57,560 --> 01:10:58,000
Speaker 1: Was close.

1314
01:10:58,080 --> 01:11:00,080
Speaker 3: We had a swing off, which is very rare. I

1315
01:11:00,080 --> 01:11:02,559
Speaker 3: don't even think we've ever had one of those before.

1316
01:11:02,680 --> 01:11:05,960
Speaker 3: So yeah, I liked it. I hope they can tweak

1317
01:11:06,000 --> 01:11:08,240
Speaker 3: it a bit more. I still think there's maybe some

1318
01:11:08,320 --> 01:11:10,439
Speaker 3: minor things they can do here and there, but I

1319
01:11:10,479 --> 01:11:14,080
Speaker 3: feel they're getting closer to a much entertaining Derby than

1320
01:11:14,120 --> 01:11:15,480
Speaker 3: it's been in recent years.

1321
01:11:15,840 --> 01:11:18,640
Speaker 2: All great points. You know, it kind of sucks that

1322
01:11:18,720 --> 01:11:24,200
Speaker 2: I bring up Ingrid addresses performance to start, because you're right,

1323
01:11:24,280 --> 01:11:27,559
Speaker 2: all the production tweaks were huge. We sat here twelve

1324
01:11:27,600 --> 01:11:31,360
Speaker 2: months ago to worried about a couple of things. Number one,

1325
01:11:32,120 --> 01:11:35,760
Speaker 2: the camera work and being able to try and just

1326
01:11:35,800 --> 01:11:39,519
Speaker 2: wrap your head around the balls going over the over

1327
01:11:39,560 --> 01:11:42,840
Speaker 2: the fence or wherever it was going while the hitter

1328
01:11:42,920 --> 01:11:45,400
Speaker 2: was hitting. Because you're right, there was so many switches

1329
01:11:45,680 --> 01:11:47,720
Speaker 2: of cameras last year, while this year it was a

1330
01:11:47,720 --> 01:11:51,000
Speaker 2: split screen, and our TVs are just good enough and

1331
01:11:51,040 --> 01:11:53,000
Speaker 2: the majority of TV's are good enough to see both

1332
01:11:54,800 --> 01:11:57,519
Speaker 2: as large enough images, and so you understand what's going on.

1333
01:11:57,560 --> 01:11:59,479
Speaker 2: You understood. You understood what was going on a lot

1334
01:11:59,520 --> 01:12:02,400
Speaker 2: better this year year versus last year. That's totally true.

1335
01:12:02,479 --> 01:12:05,720
Speaker 2: That part was good. I did like the flow of

1336
01:12:05,800 --> 01:12:10,320
Speaker 2: the little rule changes within it. It was better. And

1337
01:12:10,800 --> 01:12:15,080
Speaker 2: the swing offs, as you said in round two, was cool.

1338
01:12:15,360 --> 01:12:18,160
Speaker 2: It is a little weird that you get that extra

1339
01:12:19,240 --> 01:12:21,400
Speaker 2: ball extra pitch if you hit a four hundred and

1340
01:12:21,400 --> 01:12:25,000
Speaker 2: twenty five foot home run. That's kind of weird. But anyway,

1341
01:12:25,120 --> 01:12:28,720
Speaker 2: it doesn't really matter, because yeah, Adose with Garcia was

1342
01:12:28,760 --> 01:12:31,040
Speaker 2: great and he hit four twenty five home four hundred

1343
01:12:31,080 --> 01:12:33,080
Speaker 2: twenty five foot home run no problem. As you said,

1344
01:12:33,280 --> 01:12:35,479
Speaker 2: his hands were just strong and can Griffy sit it?

1345
01:12:35,600 --> 01:12:37,960
Speaker 2: He said it well, you know, the only three time

1346
01:12:38,400 --> 01:12:41,040
Speaker 2: home run Derby winner said it while he was on

1347
01:12:41,080 --> 01:12:44,000
Speaker 2: the broadcast. He said, that guy isn't you know, He's

1348
01:12:44,040 --> 01:12:47,479
Speaker 2: not all upper body, he's not moving everything. He's just

1349
01:12:47,760 --> 01:12:51,200
Speaker 2: got a quiet swing and he's just got monstrous forearms,

1350
01:12:51,280 --> 01:12:56,559
Speaker 2: slash hands. And I guess that's why the introduction said

1351
01:12:56,960 --> 01:12:59,800
Speaker 2: the introducer of everybody. He said his forums are the

1352
01:13:00,040 --> 01:13:03,600
Speaker 2: as of my back, and yeah, he's a monstrous but

1353
01:13:03,640 --> 01:13:05,400
Speaker 2: he's got so much power, so it is fun to

1354
01:13:05,439 --> 01:13:07,960
Speaker 2: see him and on his home field. That was pretty cool.

1355
01:13:08,000 --> 01:13:11,360
Speaker 2: And yeah, everything looked good. Obviously, that Texas Stadium looks

1356
01:13:11,439 --> 01:13:14,440
Speaker 2: nice when you see the glass, you see all those windows.

1357
01:13:14,720 --> 01:13:17,479
Speaker 2: It did look good. It was much better. It was

1358
01:13:17,520 --> 01:13:20,679
Speaker 2: well more, well well produced, far better than last year.

1359
01:13:21,960 --> 01:13:25,920
Speaker 2: I think the problem is that people who are getting

1360
01:13:26,200 --> 01:13:30,639
Speaker 2: or trending, it's unfortunate it's the singer rather than all

1361
01:13:30,640 --> 01:13:32,160
Speaker 2: these elements that we're talking about here.

1362
01:13:33,800 --> 01:13:36,800
Speaker 3: Right, quick question for you guys, what did you what

1363
01:13:36,840 --> 01:13:38,320
Speaker 3: do you think of Michael Buffer?

1364
01:13:38,520 --> 01:13:44,639
Speaker 7: Still like he he did the introduction? Does that still

1365
01:13:44,640 --> 01:13:51,960
Speaker 7: get you excited? I gotta say no, me too, me too.

1366
01:13:51,760 --> 01:13:54,120
Speaker 3: And no disrespect to Michael Buffer, like I kind of

1367
01:13:54,240 --> 01:13:55,479
Speaker 3: you know, like I get it, but.

1368
01:13:57,200 --> 01:13:58,559
Speaker 1: Yeah, it was just odd.

1369
01:13:58,720 --> 01:14:01,759
Speaker 3: And then you know tay Oscar. There was this clip

1370
01:14:01,760 --> 01:14:04,720
Speaker 3: of ta Oscar like in frame standing next to him

1371
01:14:04,760 --> 01:14:07,599
Speaker 3: and you know, let's get ready and ta Oscar just

1372
01:14:07,680 --> 01:14:11,320
Speaker 3: dead pain like, no expression, like nothing at all. I

1373
01:14:11,360 --> 01:14:13,400
Speaker 3: don't know, it just seemed weird.

1374
01:14:13,960 --> 01:14:18,200
Speaker 1: I don't know. Michael Buffer had a baseball game. Nah,

1375
01:14:18,360 --> 01:14:18,800
Speaker 1: not for me.

1376
01:14:21,880 --> 01:14:27,000
Speaker 2: Yeah, the crossover is a little odd, seems a little forced.

1377
01:14:27,520 --> 01:14:30,599
Speaker 2: I'm with you. Yeah, it felt forced. Another trying something out,

1378
01:14:30,640 --> 01:14:33,760
Speaker 2: So I'm okay with it. He ain't coming back. I

1379
01:14:33,800 --> 01:14:35,479
Speaker 2: feel like that's it was a one time thing.

1380
01:14:37,240 --> 01:14:38,160
Speaker 1: One's good enough for me.

1381
01:14:40,400 --> 01:14:43,800
Speaker 2: But it was fun to see ti Oscar Hernandez because

1382
01:14:43,800 --> 01:14:47,800
Speaker 2: I've always been a fan of everybody's. Everybody who knows

1383
01:14:47,880 --> 01:14:49,559
Speaker 2: him is a fan of him. And I know he's

1384
01:14:49,600 --> 01:14:54,439
Speaker 2: not He's not your your superstar type of player. This

1385
01:14:54,640 --> 01:14:59,960
Speaker 2: was his first time getting there since he's always at

1386
01:15:00,120 --> 01:15:02,960
Speaker 2: apparently to get in there, and you know, it's unfortunate

1387
01:15:03,000 --> 01:15:06,000
Speaker 2: when the Blue Jays did trade him, they wanted a

1388
01:15:06,040 --> 01:15:08,599
Speaker 2: reliever a couple of years ago, and here they are.

1389
01:15:08,640 --> 01:15:12,840
Speaker 2: Here he is now with the Los Angeles Dodgers helping out.

1390
01:15:13,760 --> 01:15:17,519
Speaker 2: And the interesting thing I heard Vladimir Guerrero say this

1391
01:15:17,600 --> 01:15:21,320
Speaker 2: to ESPN. He said, if he'd come back, ti Oscar

1392
01:15:21,400 --> 01:15:25,240
Speaker 2: comes back for a second title next year, I'm in

1393
01:15:25,840 --> 01:15:28,360
Speaker 2: So that'd be cool to see Vladdie come back as well.

1394
01:15:28,400 --> 01:15:32,680
Speaker 2: And those guys face off, and I know this is

1395
01:15:32,720 --> 01:15:36,320
Speaker 2: sort of like the three point contest now in the

1396
01:15:36,400 --> 01:15:39,919
Speaker 2: NBA's All Star Weekend in that there isn't a bracket

1397
01:15:40,880 --> 01:15:43,360
Speaker 2: to start. There's a bracket in the second round, but

1398
01:15:43,400 --> 01:15:45,599
Speaker 2: I want to see I want to see a bracket

1399
01:15:45,600 --> 01:15:49,000
Speaker 2: here of ta Oscar versus Guerrero, if that's possible, to

1400
01:15:49,040 --> 01:15:51,479
Speaker 2: go heads out. But either way, it was cool to

1401
01:15:51,479 --> 01:15:55,800
Speaker 2: see all eight guys just just fire away and then

1402
01:15:55,880 --> 01:15:59,080
Speaker 2: the four guys went into that bracket and things just went.

1403
01:15:59,520 --> 01:16:03,960
Speaker 2: They went, yeah, which I'm not And Griffy was saying

1404
01:16:03,960 --> 01:16:05,720
Speaker 2: this on the broadcast. He was saying, you know, we

1405
01:16:05,800 --> 01:16:07,800
Speaker 2: just had to sit there and get tired. Back in

1406
01:16:07,880 --> 01:16:10,840
Speaker 2: my day when these guys have a little bit more

1407
01:16:10,960 --> 01:16:14,200
Speaker 2: juice because there's the brakes are like you can call

1408
01:16:14,400 --> 01:16:16,760
Speaker 2: time for a second, and they're all tired. Hernande said

1409
01:16:16,760 --> 01:16:18,599
Speaker 2: he was tired after the whole thing. But I do

1410
01:16:18,720 --> 01:16:20,640
Speaker 2: think it's a bounce like it's not like you have

1411
01:16:20,680 --> 01:16:23,679
Speaker 2: to just drag a guy out and keep swinging, keep swinging.

1412
01:16:23,720 --> 01:16:25,760
Speaker 2: I tell you, you know, you throw the bat into

1413
01:16:25,800 --> 01:16:28,880
Speaker 2: the crop like it was fine, is all I'm trying

1414
01:16:28,880 --> 01:16:32,000
Speaker 2: to say. It was. There was balances of the time

1415
01:16:33,120 --> 01:16:36,000
Speaker 2: allotted to each of these players, so all in all,

1416
01:16:36,400 --> 01:16:37,479
Speaker 2: it was a good production.

1417
01:16:38,960 --> 01:16:43,200
Speaker 3: Yeah, And when you know I felt when when Vlatti

1418
01:16:43,439 --> 01:16:46,639
Speaker 3: gave Taoscar the home run shape, I kind of felt

1419
01:16:46,640 --> 01:16:47,760
Speaker 3: like that wolverine.

1420
01:16:47,800 --> 01:16:51,000
Speaker 1: Mean, looking at that photo of Jean Gray, you know

1421
01:16:51,200 --> 01:16:54,200
Speaker 1: that I kind of had that moment. I'm like, oh,

1422
01:16:54,360 --> 01:16:57,400
Speaker 1: that used to be us, baby. That was hard. That

1423
01:16:57,479 --> 01:16:59,080
Speaker 1: was hard. But I love Tail like.

1424
01:16:59,479 --> 01:17:03,040
Speaker 3: Just one of them, those positive dudes ever, always smiling,

1425
01:17:03,280 --> 01:17:05,759
Speaker 3: always happy, like, always got a smile on his face.

1426
01:17:05,800 --> 01:17:08,680
Speaker 3: So happy to see him win, happy to see him

1427
01:17:08,680 --> 01:17:12,519
Speaker 3: doing what well, he's a major component of that La offense.

1428
01:17:12,560 --> 01:17:14,519
Speaker 3: That was you know, that might have been the I mean,

1429
01:17:14,760 --> 01:17:17,320
Speaker 3: you know, obviously getting Otani, but that I feel was

1430
01:17:17,400 --> 01:17:19,360
Speaker 3: kind of one of the low key, under the radar,

1431
01:17:19,439 --> 01:17:23,280
Speaker 3: sneaky seals of the offseason that the Dodgers got was

1432
01:17:23,320 --> 01:17:26,120
Speaker 3: getting him because man, he's been worth his weight in

1433
01:17:26,160 --> 01:17:28,559
Speaker 3: gold and then some so glad to see him win.

1434
01:17:28,680 --> 01:17:32,360
Speaker 3: And interesting note test and I found this hard to believe.

1435
01:17:32,400 --> 01:17:35,160
Speaker 3: Tasker was the first Dodger to win a home run derby.

1436
01:17:36,600 --> 01:17:39,200
Speaker 2: Yeah. I was a little surprised by that as well.

1437
01:17:40,520 --> 01:17:44,040
Speaker 2: It was it was surprising when they picked him up.

1438
01:17:44,040 --> 01:17:47,760
Speaker 2: It was January twelfth, signing. That's a late signing. He

1439
01:17:47,840 --> 01:17:50,599
Speaker 2: comes in, he got that that one. I think it's

1440
01:17:50,640 --> 01:17:54,679
Speaker 2: just a one year contract for a big a big jump,

1441
01:17:55,080 --> 01:17:59,400
Speaker 2: but just for one year for twenty three point five mil.

1442
01:17:59,439 --> 01:18:01,559
Speaker 2: I guess because they can pay him more now because

1443
01:18:01,560 --> 01:18:05,840
Speaker 2: of the the format or the way that Shoheo Tani

1444
01:18:05,920 --> 01:18:09,719
Speaker 2: has pushed his money the deferred dollars. That's the statement

1445
01:18:09,760 --> 01:18:12,600
Speaker 2: I'm looking for. Yeah, they pushed the money back for

1446
01:18:12,720 --> 01:18:18,040
Speaker 2: him because Taskar deserves all of it. Yeah he's uh,

1447
01:18:18,080 --> 01:18:20,400
Speaker 2: he's great. He's a great teammate. I'm sure as well.

1448
01:18:20,479 --> 01:18:24,120
Speaker 2: But yeah, that is surprising. They haven't they haven't won more.

1449
01:18:24,240 --> 01:18:26,280
Speaker 2: And I will say this is a last note of

1450
01:18:26,600 --> 01:18:29,840
Speaker 2: the home run derby, just because you know we've missed

1451
01:18:29,840 --> 01:18:33,040
Speaker 2: shows here at the beginning of the season, but people

1452
01:18:33,080 --> 01:18:35,120
Speaker 2: coming at you, so I got to mention it from

1453
01:18:35,200 --> 01:18:39,080
Speaker 2: the extreme team, it's our man, Huski said. Joel's just

1454
01:18:39,120 --> 01:18:42,960
Speaker 2: said it wasn't the Nitro main event after Buffer came out.

1455
01:18:43,360 --> 01:18:47,760
Speaker 2: That's what he.

1456
01:18:46,040 --> 01:18:49,559
Speaker 3: I know that reference and who's respect going way back

1457
01:18:49,640 --> 01:18:50,479
Speaker 3: playback there?

1458
01:18:51,200 --> 01:18:55,000
Speaker 2: Yeah, uh, our our friend Mike Bagley said that Buffer

1459
01:18:55,040 --> 01:18:57,120
Speaker 2: has been making the rounds recently did F one two.

1460
01:18:57,760 --> 01:19:02,439
Speaker 2: The guy's got to diversify. If we're talking F one

1461
01:19:04,200 --> 01:19:07,600
Speaker 2: that's probably a good voice to have to make the announcements.

1462
01:19:08,760 --> 01:19:11,040
Speaker 3: The voice is good, but like when they're like, let's

1463
01:19:11,080 --> 01:19:14,680
Speaker 3: get ready to rumble, it's to me like that's signifying

1464
01:19:14,760 --> 01:19:17,679
Speaker 3: like a contact sport, like they're going to fight each other.

1465
01:19:18,320 --> 01:19:23,639
Speaker 3: F one baseball. I don't know, it just doesn't fit

1466
01:19:23,880 --> 01:19:24,200
Speaker 3: for me.

1467
01:19:25,160 --> 01:19:29,160
Speaker 2: I hear you, I hear you. But I had to

1468
01:19:29,200 --> 01:19:32,439
Speaker 2: mention it because, uh, yeah, he doesn't have to say

1469
01:19:32,600 --> 01:19:34,240
Speaker 2: let's get ready to rumble. He doesn't have to say

1470
01:19:34,280 --> 01:19:35,920
Speaker 2: that is that? Is that?

1471
01:19:36,000 --> 01:19:38,800
Speaker 1: But what else? That's his famous line?

1472
01:19:38,880 --> 01:19:41,559
Speaker 2: Yeah, it would be weird if he didn't, well get

1473
01:19:41,560 --> 01:19:44,479
Speaker 2: the more appropriate statement. Does he say less play ball?

1474
01:19:44,640 --> 01:19:46,439
Speaker 4: Like yeah, but it would be weird, Like you if

1475
01:19:46,479 --> 01:19:49,519
Speaker 4: you have buffer out there, you trot him out. He's

1476
01:19:49,520 --> 01:19:51,360
Speaker 4: got to say is his catchphrase?

1477
01:19:51,439 --> 01:19:51,599
Speaker 2: Right?

1478
01:19:51,680 --> 01:19:54,439
Speaker 4: Like, it would be weird. It would be absolutely crazy

1479
01:19:54,479 --> 01:19:57,760
Speaker 4: if he didn't. And I agree with you. I don't

1480
01:19:57,760 --> 01:20:00,640
Speaker 4: think he should have been doing it, but you know,

1481
01:20:00,800 --> 01:20:03,320
Speaker 4: I guess the question is who who? Who?

1482
01:20:04,400 --> 01:20:04,519
Speaker 1: Who?

1483
01:20:04,560 --> 01:20:08,040
Speaker 4: Would you like a famous announcer, like who's more famous?

1484
01:20:08,040 --> 01:20:12,719
Speaker 4: Who's who's got like a catch phrase? Like a crossover? Yeah,

1485
01:20:12,800 --> 01:20:15,439
Speaker 4: I would n F one let's get ready to rumble?

1486
01:20:15,479 --> 01:20:20,080
Speaker 4: I think is better cars rumble. Yeah, yeah, that's fine.

1487
01:20:20,960 --> 01:20:24,519
Speaker 2: That works. Baseball is us. I know, it's it's just

1488
01:20:26,120 --> 01:20:27,960
Speaker 2: they're not fighting. It doesn't have to be. I mean

1489
01:20:27,960 --> 01:20:30,639
Speaker 2: they're rumbling. They were, they're they're they're ready to battle.

1490
01:20:30,840 --> 01:20:33,360
Speaker 2: But I don't know, it is a little I.

1491
01:20:33,320 --> 01:20:35,200
Speaker 4: Think it would be better to have like a Will

1492
01:20:35,240 --> 01:20:38,200
Speaker 4: Ferrell or a Bill Murray out there, you know, hamming

1493
01:20:38,240 --> 01:20:40,280
Speaker 4: it up and they have a connection to base like

1494
01:20:40,360 --> 01:20:45,320
Speaker 4: they they've actually, you know, had connection to baseball in

1495
01:20:45,360 --> 01:20:45,880
Speaker 4: the past.

1496
01:20:46,320 --> 01:20:49,400
Speaker 2: You know, let's get ready to whack. I mean, I

1497
01:20:49,400 --> 01:20:51,320
Speaker 2: don't know, I don't know what else he says. I

1498
01:20:51,640 --> 01:20:57,200
Speaker 2: I don't, I can't. There's nothing really good. Yeah yeah,

1499
01:20:57,360 --> 01:21:01,720
Speaker 2: let's get ready to swing. That would uh.

1500
01:21:02,120 --> 01:21:06,760
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's yeah, JD Right, just anything else just seems.

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01:21:06,280 --> 01:21:07,679
Speaker 1: Odd, Yeah, totally.

1502
01:21:08,400 --> 01:21:10,519
Speaker 4: I mean I've been I've been to weddings where somebody

1503
01:21:10,640 --> 01:21:13,080
Speaker 4: said that, you know, where the MC will be like,

1504
01:21:13,439 --> 01:21:15,639
Speaker 4: you know, here comes the bride and groom. Let's get

1505
01:21:15,640 --> 01:21:19,080
Speaker 4: ready to rumble, you know, which is weird, right, It's

1506
01:21:19,120 --> 01:21:21,880
Speaker 4: just yeah, it's a joke, right, but it's still like

1507
01:21:22,120 --> 01:21:23,040
Speaker 4: it's it's weird.

1508
01:21:23,920 --> 01:21:27,280
Speaker 2: I'd like this suggestion from Hootski Bruce Buffer could have done.

1509
01:21:27,760 --> 01:21:33,200
Speaker 1: It's it's time swinging out of the AL.

1510
01:21:33,479 --> 01:21:38,320
Speaker 2: It's okay and swinging out of the NL. It's ti

1511
01:21:38,400 --> 01:21:42,520
Speaker 2: Oscar Hernandez. So Bruce versus Michael.

1512
01:21:43,360 --> 01:21:45,719
Speaker 4: One does the AL. One does the NL.

1513
01:21:46,640 --> 01:21:49,799
Speaker 2: I don't know they're both together.

1514
01:21:51,360 --> 01:21:53,559
Speaker 3: Well, you know, earlier in the show we talked about

1515
01:21:53,720 --> 01:21:58,840
Speaker 3: professional wrestling. Samantha Urban is a very famous WWE announcer.

1516
01:21:59,200 --> 01:22:00,479
Speaker 1: She's carved out of like.

1517
01:22:01,160 --> 01:22:04,280
Speaker 3: I don't think she has a catch phrase, but she

1518
01:22:04,560 --> 01:22:09,799
Speaker 3: just has this commanding voice and it's become very iconic.

1519
01:22:09,960 --> 01:22:11,679
Speaker 1: So yeah, that's my pick.

1520
01:22:11,760 --> 01:22:15,400
Speaker 3: But I'm obviously a raging bias wrestling fans, so probably

1521
01:22:15,439 --> 01:22:18,840
Speaker 3: not a good idea to listen to me.

1522
01:22:18,960 --> 01:22:24,800
Speaker 2: I'n apologetic though, Samantha Irvin, now you know, a great name. Job.

1523
01:22:25,520 --> 01:22:28,120
Speaker 2: And that's it for us, Joel, our first time back

1524
01:22:28,120 --> 01:22:31,240
Speaker 2: in a while. I'm sure we'll be back in August

1525
01:22:31,600 --> 01:22:34,880
Speaker 2: for sure, every month or so. As the season goes on,

1526
01:22:34,920 --> 01:22:38,040
Speaker 2: I'm sure we'll do more random type of shows, as

1527
01:22:38,040 --> 01:22:42,880
Speaker 2: we talked about build your Perfect Player, that kind of thing,

1528
01:22:43,760 --> 01:22:46,160
Speaker 2: or you're coming here to the US, maybe we do

1529
01:22:46,240 --> 01:22:47,519
Speaker 2: something that in studio.

1530
01:22:49,320 --> 01:22:53,280
Speaker 3: You coming to Atlanta, Joel, absolutely, I'll be there for

1531
01:22:53,800 --> 01:22:56,479
Speaker 3: I'll be there for yes, six or seven nights.

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01:22:56,560 --> 01:23:01,759
Speaker 2: Yeah, all right, right, get the garlic meatballs ready, Joel's

1533
01:23:01,800 --> 01:23:02,479
Speaker 2: going to eat him on.

1534
01:23:03,160 --> 01:23:04,880
Speaker 1: I'll bring the gloves.

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01:23:05,080 --> 01:23:12,080
Speaker 2: Gloves not for task though, I don't uh as for No.

1536
01:23:12,240 --> 01:23:15,760
Speaker 2: Dunk's back tomorrow to talk w n B A with

1537
01:23:15,800 --> 01:23:19,240
Speaker 2: the Athletics, Sabrina Merchant. She was on with us last

1538
01:23:19,280 --> 01:23:21,880
Speaker 2: week or last season. I should say it was very

1539
01:23:22,000 --> 01:23:25,080
Speaker 2: very fun. W NBA All Star game coming up this

1540
01:23:25,120 --> 01:23:29,040
Speaker 2: Saturday looks like a very very very very fun one

1541
01:23:29,240 --> 01:23:33,080
Speaker 2: with w NBA players versus the Olympic team, so stay

1542
01:23:33,080 --> 01:23:36,720
Speaker 2: tuned for that. But for now, we will see you

1543
01:23:36,760 --> 01:23:37,200
Speaker 2: next time.