Speaker 1: Hello, and welcome to a very special edition of Wake
Speaker 1: and Jake. We are joined by the tribal chief Jared
Speaker 1: Carabbas Caribis, I always get nervous, man, that last nervous,
Speaker 1: that last moment before I say I was gonna say
Speaker 1: the C word. I always get nervous that I'm going
Speaker 1: to say it wrong.
Speaker 2: But well, Dave, my former boss, Yeah, he put it
Speaker 2: in everyone's minds the wrong way. Yeah, the right way
Speaker 2: is Carabas. Yeah.
Speaker 1: Yeah, how you doing, man, I'm doing great.
Speaker 2: It's good to see you. It's good to talk to you.
Speaker 2: I just feel like it's been some time. We don't
Speaker 2: we don't get to talk ball like in person as
Speaker 2: often as I feel like we should.
Speaker 1: Dude, it felt like there was a little bit there
Speaker 1: when our stuff was getting going. It was like, oh, okay, yeah,
Speaker 1: we'll see him at the Eastern Event, We'll see him
Speaker 1: at Winter Meetings. We'll see and now, I don't know.
Speaker 1: I kind of want to end with that because we
Speaker 1: we did a little bit of that before we started recording,
Speaker 1: because you got some you got some life stuff going on.
Speaker 1: We got everything going on. But the first the first
Speaker 1: thing that's going on is how about the socks kid
Speaker 1: about and it's dude, it's it's so funny. I uh,
Speaker 1: I'll give you credit. You sent a very good text
Speaker 1: message yesterday. I texted you and I was like, Jared
Speaker 1: would love to have you on, want to talk some
Speaker 1: socks and allies. You didn't copy and paste, but you
Speaker 1: were like, I was just thinking I would love to
Speaker 1: come on Waking Jake and talk some socks and some allies.
Speaker 1: And then between that, you're star third base men.
Speaker 2: I don't know who you're talking about because we have
Speaker 2: two of those, right. Uh.
Speaker 1: Raphael Devers had an interview that I do think it's
Speaker 1: a little bit the spring training. Everyone's just thirsty for
Speaker 1: anything to chew on. But also with the personalities involved,
Speaker 1: Cora Devers pregnant.
Speaker 2: Uh.
Speaker 1: The fun baseball content of the day was what's going
Speaker 1: on in the Red Sox hot corner? So let's get
Speaker 1: it out of the way.
Speaker 2: Devers, So, all right, So here's what I heard saying there.
Speaker 2: I was told that, and maybe this isn't isn't true,
Speaker 2: but I was told that he if Nolan Aronado was
Speaker 2: the move, let's say, hypothetically Bregman signs with the Cubs,
Speaker 2: the Red Sox pulled the trigger on a Nolan Arnado trade.
Speaker 2: I was told that if that scenario played out, the
Speaker 2: Devers was cool with moving off third base for Nolan Ronado. Okay,
Speaker 2: can't confirm it. That's just what I heard. Didn't hear
Speaker 2: anything about Bregman specifically, but it worked out where it's
Speaker 2: Bregman and not Nolan. So I'm thinking to myself, all right, uh,
Speaker 2: like I'm sure that, like once you know Devers is
Speaker 2: taking ground balls at third, and uh, Bregman's taking ground
Speaker 2: balls at third because he did today. I mean, you
Speaker 2: knew that even if he wasn't gonna be at third
Speaker 2: base when you're still gonna see him take grounders at third.
Speaker 2: So the Boston media is looking at this as well.
Speaker 2: People haven't paid attention to the Red Sox in quite
Speaker 2: some time, so let's let's stir some stuff up, Like,
Speaker 2: let's let's talk about it. I knew that the devor's
Speaker 2: moving off third having an issue with it narrative was
Speaker 2: going to be a thing, and I was trying to
Speaker 2: get out in front of it and be like, don't
Speaker 2: let this become a thing. Like if he was cool
Speaker 2: with moving off third for Nolan obviously he's gonna be
Speaker 2: fine with moving off third for Bregman, and then day
Speaker 2: one he shows up and he's like, Nope, not doing it,
Speaker 2: absolutely not.
Speaker 1: Won't do it hard No, yeah.
Speaker 3: No, can you expand on that, like I played turf,
Speaker 3: so isn't a third decision though, Like, isn't it sucks decision?
Speaker 3: Or is it a mutual thing or cool?
Speaker 2: See because seem so confused too. He's like a mutual thing. No, no, no,
Speaker 2: it's it's my decision, right, I make the decisions around here,
Speaker 2: and that's what he said. So like Davison is the
Speaker 2: love him, great guy, but he left out the part.
Speaker 2: We didn't get to that part in the clip. But
Speaker 2: Chris Catillo Mass Live he's the reporter that said, you know, well,
Speaker 2: what if they just tell you that you're, you know,
Speaker 2: playing at d H instead the third and who isn't
Speaker 2: it their decision? And Devers actually says in Spanish like
Speaker 2: it's my decision, and that was not given in the
Speaker 2: translated response. So it's actually kind of a little bit
Speaker 2: worse than what was making the public rounds. But the
Speaker 2: way that I look at it is it's it's mid
Speaker 2: February and how often do we have drama that plays
Speaker 2: out in spring training that by the time Mother's Day
Speaker 2: rolls around, you're like, hey, remember when that was going on,
Speaker 2: Like that was crazy, right, Like it's just all water
Speaker 2: under the bridge at that point. I think this will
Speaker 2: be another one of those situations where like kra and
Speaker 2: RAFFI have such a great relationship where they're going to
Speaker 2: iron this out, whether or not that means that dev
Speaker 2: like at this point, I would guess Devers is the
Speaker 2: opening day third baseman, but I don't think he finishes
Speaker 2: the season at third base. I think they're gonna try
Speaker 2: to mix and match, where some days Bregman's at second,
Speaker 2: some days Bregman is at third. Some days maybe he
Speaker 2: Bregman's dhing I don't know, or maybe he has a
Speaker 2: day off because he's kind of like a reverse splitz guy.
Speaker 2: Maybe there's a lefty in the lineup and they go
Speaker 2: a different route. I don't know, but it's what seems
Speaker 2: kind of like a big deal right now. I think
Speaker 2: we'll iron itself out in due time.
Speaker 1: What's the what's the just fan dream? Is the fan dream?
Speaker 1: Like Rafi tips the hat, he goes to DH. Maybe
Speaker 1: there's a Yoshida trade at some point and roll the
Speaker 1: ball out there we figure it out.
Speaker 2: That would be the dream. Yeah, because I think like Masataki,
Speaker 2: Yoshida is for better or for worse, he's a fan favorite,
Speaker 2: like the fans love him, but I think the fans
Speaker 2: are also smart enough to know that there's no like
Speaker 2: he just doesn't fit. The Red Sox have already told
Speaker 2: you we don't want this guy to see the grass
Speaker 2: of the outfield ever again. For as long as he lives,
Speaker 2: he will not do that. But then they were kind
Speaker 2: of walking it back a few weeks ago at the
Speaker 2: fan fester saying no, well, actually we'll throw him out there,
Speaker 2: and it's like this is just a ploy to try
Speaker 2: to get a team to take him. Be like, no,
Speaker 2: he doesn't suck at defense. You can definitely put him
Speaker 2: in the outfield. It won't be bad. So the ultimate
Speaker 2: scenario to play out would be Bregman at third story
Speaker 2: at short Christian Campbell breaks camp with the Red Sox
Speaker 2: to play second costs us at first Raffi at DH
Speaker 2: and then you find somebody to take on Yoshidah's money,
Speaker 2: even if you have to eat a little bit. It's
Speaker 2: the same thing with you guys, and Stroman like, you
Speaker 2: just already have the starting pitchers and the rotation in place.
Speaker 2: If he, like Stroman doesn't fit in. You know, Cashman
Speaker 2: kind of backed him up. He's like, no, he's right,
Speaker 2: he is a start, So we have enough starters. We
Speaker 2: don't need him to start. So does anyone else want
Speaker 2: to take this guy? Like that'd be great, same thing
Speaker 2: like Yoshida can hit, but we just we have a
Speaker 2: better dh and his name is Raphaeldevers were paying him
Speaker 2: thirty million dollars. So the piece just doesn't fit at
Speaker 2: this point.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I wonder if we're just gonna see because if
Speaker 1: if I said, you know, when was it last Thursday?
Speaker 1: If I said, hey, Jared, let's hop on the mics,
Speaker 1: the we probably would have opened with ohh Stroman. Look
Speaker 1: at some of these quotes, And now that's already gone
Speaker 1: and some got taken out of context. I wonder, with
Speaker 1: like the big teams in baseball, if we're gonna see
Speaker 1: more of the And I guess we do see it,
Speaker 1: but I think teams are just looking at it differently.
Speaker 1: Now that you know Jordan Montgomery was supposed to get
Speaker 1: traded Yoshidah Stroman, that you know we're already starting to
Speaker 1: get the injury round, like we got the Frankie Montas
Speaker 1: news today, where there's gonna be a lot we haven't
Speaker 1: started playing ball that there's gonna be a lot more that. Yeah. Man,
Speaker 1: it's so funny bringing up Yoshida's page after last year
Speaker 1: and it's like, well, so he landed in the same
Speaker 1: spot and like that that little booger can hit man.
Speaker 1: So they're everything's gonna figure itself out. But we're also
Speaker 1: bloodthirsty baseball fans that football's football is now done and
Speaker 1: now we're here. So I I'll put the Devers thing
Speaker 1: behind us, because I think it's gonna be behind us
Speaker 1: soon because he'll be out there. He'll be hitting off Cole.
Speaker 1: He'll be hitting off everyone very soon. Dude, how are
Speaker 1: you guys, Cause the socks are back.
Speaker 2: Socks are Like I'm still reluctant to go there, really, yeah,
Speaker 2: because like I don't know, it's like back to me
Speaker 2: means like one of the world Series' favorites, and right
Speaker 2: now I think it's like, yeah, they're back. In terms
Speaker 2: of when I do my predictions, like am I going
Speaker 2: to have them in the playoffs? Yeah? Yeah, But I
Speaker 2: don't want to be like a happy to be there fan,
Speaker 2: Like I don't want to be one of those. So
Speaker 2: back to me is when you've got fans of like
Speaker 2: the top of the top teams being like damn, like
Speaker 2: the Red Sox are like we should look out for
Speaker 2: the Red Sox this year. I don't know, Like what's
Speaker 2: the pulse, Like are Yankee fans looking at the Red
Speaker 2: Sox being like, oh, they're gonna be tough in the
Speaker 2: Al East this year? I don't think so.
Speaker 1: Well, I guess I think there's one thing that should
Speaker 1: be thrown out there. The Dodgers should be like illegal
Speaker 1: just for right now, because a baseball kind of doesn't
Speaker 1: work that way, but they are that so if the
Speaker 1: Dodgers are aside in the American League, I if I'm
Speaker 1: not picking the Yankees, I think i'd pick the Red Sox.
Speaker 1: Like Houston lost Kyle Tucker and they're their parts in
Speaker 1: parts out is very interesting, like dude, you start jumping okay,
Speaker 1: Orioles probably deserve more love, Like how how quickly we've
Speaker 1: kind of snapped on them, Like if another.
Speaker 2: They're a dud offseason for them though, well.
Speaker 1: That's the thing. And but if a couple of their
Speaker 1: young guys like go again whatever, but also you're very
Speaker 1: much right, like they haven't won every any one over that, dude.
Speaker 1: The next team I jumped to is like Seattle finds
Speaker 1: another hitter. So if I'm already there, like yes, like Boston, Boston.
Speaker 2: Is here, And I mean, dude, Texas, do you like Texas?
Speaker 1: I like Texas. I think everyone's gonna like Texas. I
Speaker 1: think they should bounce back. And if Langford or Carter
Speaker 1: is there, like the Peterson signings underrated, but I don't know.
Speaker 1: I mean, even in their World Series year they were
Speaker 1: what eighty eight wins or something like that, So it's
Speaker 1: I very much like a lot of the pieces, but
Speaker 1: I don't could the Red Sox be that, I mean
Speaker 1: with with the top of their lineup now? And like
Speaker 1: what's Crochet? Is Crochet elite? Elite? Is he? Is he
Speaker 1: what he was last year which was really good in
Speaker 1: a couple blow ups, but he ran out of gas
Speaker 1: because he's young? Like dude, Yes, the Red Sox are
Speaker 1: back amongst the elite in the AL and that's kind
Speaker 1: of it sounds like dumb front off his baseball nowadays.
Speaker 1: But that's the goal is to just get there, not
Speaker 1: to get there, but like, okay, let's throw the Central
Speaker 1: under the bus a little bit. Like the Guardians have
Speaker 1: been getting there, the Twins have been getting there. But
Speaker 1: when you get in that five or seven game set,
Speaker 1: like you're feeling okay, You're like, let's not blow one early,
Speaker 1: but you're feeling okay that you know, the Yanks came
Speaker 1: back against the Guards down to nothing like I don't know,
Speaker 1: like the Red Sox with that lineup, the guys in
Speaker 1: that lineup, and it's gonna come back to the starting
Speaker 1: pitching and does Hawk take another step? Like if how
Speaker 1: can Crochet take another step? Then yes, absolutely, I'm.
Speaker 2: Letting you talk.
Speaker 1: Are you just baiting me there?
Speaker 3: What was? No?
Speaker 2: I'm letting you talk me into it because I think,
Speaker 2: like I'm with you on how I think. And I've
Speaker 2: been saying this because people were saying, oh, like you
Speaker 2: know the workload last year, do you think he's gonna
Speaker 2: be as good? And like I think he'll be better,
Speaker 2: Like I think he could be better, uh than he
Speaker 2: was in his All Star campaign last year. Crochet. It's
Speaker 2: to me because I mean he came out day one
Speaker 2: and was like yeah, like that innings limit. That was them,
Speaker 2: that wasn't me. He's like, I was ready to go.
Speaker 2: I would have thrown more pitches if they led me,
Speaker 2: but they didn't let me. So he was basically saying, yeah,
Speaker 2: the White Sox are dumbasses and they wouldn't let me pitch.
Speaker 2: So if you felt like he could, then okay, Like
Speaker 2: we'll see what that looks like this year. So I
Speaker 2: don't know, And then I think it's what's interesting about
Speaker 2: the Red Sox this year. I was just on a
Speaker 2: podcast yesterday, pod by the River, and one of the
Speaker 2: co hosts, Brady, made the point of who is the
Speaker 2: Red Sox or who is the projected Red Sox number
Speaker 2: one starter last year? And I was like, Lucas Giolito
Speaker 2: and he's like, where do you have him this year?
Speaker 2: It was like probably five, and he was like there
Speaker 2: you go, Like, you know your opening day starter last
Speaker 2: year is now you're number five starter. So that's You're
Speaker 2: in a pretty good spot from a rotation standpoint. The bullpen,
Speaker 2: you can take it or leave it. They don't have
Speaker 2: an established so weird having a role as chapman on
Speaker 2: my baseball team. Yeah, I like they haven't even played
Speaker 2: a game yet, and I already feel very strange. I
Speaker 2: don't even know what I'm gonna do, right, Like if
Speaker 2: he comes out and you know, punches out the side
Speaker 2: and Yankee state, like, I don't even know that I
Speaker 2: can celebrate. I kind of just have to celebrate the
Speaker 2: victory without acknowledging that he was the guy that did.
Speaker 2: I don't know. I feel like I I would be
Speaker 2: the biggest fraud in the world if I just all
Speaker 2: of a sudden it was like, yeah, my guy, Chappy,
Speaker 2: like I can't do that.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I'm you know again, at the end of the show,
Speaker 1: I want to talk a little a little life. Yeah,
Speaker 1: but hey man, I I'm I'm a little happy that
Speaker 1: I'm not twenty four in this current Chappie situation because
Speaker 1: my guy, what I'd be doing on Twitter to Red
Speaker 1: Sox fans that really, you know, Chapman was the easiest
Speaker 1: target for a while and probably rightfully so that Yeah,
Speaker 1: that's one that's one I haven't fully gotten to yet
Speaker 1: because from the Yankee side, it's like, Okay, who's he
Speaker 1: gonna hit, Like that's gonna be a fun day. And
Speaker 1: then I guess I've just put it in the in
Speaker 1: the brain is like Red Sox have brought in the
Speaker 1: Socks have needed pitching, dude, and where all this. Chapman
Speaker 1: is a good left handed reliever. He struck out ninety
Speaker 1: something in sixty innings last year, Like he's still doing that,
Speaker 1: and I don't I don't know what's gonna happen back there, Hendricks, Chapman,
Speaker 1: you guy Slayton broke out last year with Locky the
Speaker 1: Red Sox the past couple of years because the Red
Speaker 1: Sox have also just earned a Dude, when summer kicks
Speaker 1: in in Boston, there's a beautiful thing to it. I know,
Speaker 1: I don't have to tell you, But when that city
Speaker 1: gets the juice and the team gets the juice and
Speaker 1: they call up whatever reliever has a gross beard and
Speaker 1: they got some some platoon guy that's going nuts, like
Speaker 1: the baseball energy happens in Boston and it is truly
Speaker 1: a beautiful thing that the past couple years have been
Speaker 1: Like can they get that? Can they find that they're
Speaker 1: going to have that this year? Man? Like they're they're
Speaker 1: going to have that? It's just what does what does
Speaker 1: all the sum of the Could Chapman be off this team?
Speaker 1: In June one thousand, percent. Could Chapman be pitching in
Speaker 1: the eighth inning of a playoff game one thousand percent?
Speaker 1: So that's I think that's the beauty and the fun
Speaker 1: of it.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean, I just I mean, a role as
Speaker 2: Chapman closing out playoff games for me is like my
Speaker 2: kind of nightmare where it's just like, yeah, man, you're back.
Speaker 2: You haven't been in the playoffs since twenty twenty one,
Speaker 2: but the fate of your entire life, your livelihood, falls
Speaker 2: in the hands of a role as Chapman, the man
Speaker 2: that you've just been crushing justifiably for the last I
Speaker 2: don't know what decade. When was that suspension seventeen eight, sixteen,
Speaker 2: sixteen sixteen, Yeah, so basically a decade. Like one of
Speaker 2: one of my most viral clips of all time is
Speaker 2: me just shitting on a roll of chap Man out here.
Speaker 2: He is. Have you ever crossed paths with him before?
Speaker 1: Not directly. Joe's also very strongly linked to a roll
Speaker 1: as Chapman, his probably biggest viral clip. Oh yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: so they've they've always been. I mean, Joe's has an
Speaker 1: argument for the most interesting man in the world, but
Speaker 1: him and Chapman have always been like DM buddies and
Speaker 1: also just like a step past that, like I don't know,
Speaker 1: like it's it's a Latin guy connection and like they'll
Speaker 1: voice note each other and it's just like how it
Speaker 1: works that it would always be this weird thing that
Speaker 1: like we'd be talking about Chapman and Joe's would be like, yeah,
Speaker 1: we talked for a little bit the other day, and
Speaker 1: you'd just be like, what, like what neither neither of
Speaker 1: you should be talking to each other that. Yeah, No,
Speaker 1: me and me and BBD and all the other Yankee
Speaker 1: fans have felt the the the bad side of that experiment,
Speaker 1: especially in the postseason game, So I guess I understand
Speaker 1: your feelings there.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I don't know, Like, out of all the trash
Speaker 2: that I've talked about him, I still don't know that
Speaker 2: he has any idea who I am, because I'm sure
Speaker 2: he gets it from all corners. I don't, like, I
Speaker 2: don't know how online he is. I mean the final
Speaker 2: like the al tuo Ve walk off in nineteen, like
Speaker 2: that was the clip that obviously went super viral, Like
Speaker 2: I remember Bill Burr was talking about it on his podcast,
Speaker 2: so if it crossed his dash, it would have been that.
Speaker 2: But I don't think that he would have been able
Speaker 2: to like see me in person and be like, oh,
Speaker 2: you're the guy from that video. I don't think that
Speaker 2: he would make the connection if I told him that
Speaker 2: I was like, Hey, I'm the guy from that video.
Speaker 2: I think, oh, you're that dude. But I don't think
Speaker 2: he would just like see me in the wild and
Speaker 2: be like that's him because I ran into him not
Speaker 2: this past offseason season before. He was at Pedro's charity
Speaker 2: event and we were standing right next to each other.
Speaker 2: And he's not a big guy, so he is a
Speaker 2: mountain up. He is a very large human being. But yeah, no,
Speaker 2: he didn't say anything to me. Nothing.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I bet his internet algorithm. He he loves weightlifting,
Speaker 1: and like, doesn't he have a ton of white cars?
Speaker 1: Wasn't that a day in our office?
Speaker 3: Yeah?
Speaker 2: So I don't know, he's like a whole white room
Speaker 2: in his apartment.
Speaker 1: Could be a good starting play for you guys. I mean,
Speaker 1: maybe you just leave it.
Speaker 2: Maybe you're probably gonna have to just leave it.
Speaker 1: Maybe it just leave that over there. I'm what's the
Speaker 1: what's the story that Red Sox people are talking about
Speaker 1: that the rest of Baseball would be interested in, Like,
Speaker 1: is it does? Trevor story is in a in a
Speaker 1: really interesting spot this year in my opinion, Like is it?
Speaker 1: I I don't know. I guess open form for you.
Speaker 2: Well, I think the most interesting story outside of the
Speaker 2: Devers drama today is I believe today was the deadline
Speaker 2: that Vladdie Junior gave the Blue Jays to extend him
Speaker 2: or not. Yes, And as far as I've seen, that
Speaker 2: hasn't happened. And if he does not sign that extension
Speaker 2: with the Blue Jays, word on the street is that
Speaker 2: the Red Sox are going to be all in on
Speaker 2: Vlatty Junior. So what does that mean for a guy
Speaker 2: like Tristan Cassis Because these rumors were going on before
Speaker 2: Bregman was even in the fold, so before it was
Speaker 2: like all right, if that were to happen, you signed
Speaker 2: Vlatty to play first, then Cossas is your DH and like,
Speaker 2: don't I don't even know what you do? Like you
Speaker 2: basically have to trade Tristan Cossas now if you sign
Speaker 2: Vladdy Junior. I don't see Alex Bregman opted out of
Speaker 2: forty million dollars next year, So if you're still going
Speaker 2: to be the team that's all in on Vladdie. Then
Speaker 2: I don't know. I think that that that Like are
Speaker 2: you watching the last season of Tristan. I mean they
Speaker 2: tried to trade them multiple times this past winter, so
Speaker 2: it's not like it would come as a surprise if
Speaker 2: the Red Sox traded Cassus. But I don't know how
Speaker 2: that would work, Like do you trade him first and
Speaker 2: then sign Flatty you don't want to sign Vlatty and
Speaker 2: then have the teams be like, well, we know, like
Speaker 2: we have the leverage now we know that you need
Speaker 2: to trade them. So yeah, I don't know.
Speaker 1: I don't know. I well, if that happens, you guys
Speaker 1: will be happy. But I just think I think you
Speaker 1: guys have it and I don't know what the next
Speaker 1: steps are. But like the Bragman opting out thing is funny.
Speaker 1: If Alex Bregman opts out, that means this year went
Speaker 1: very well for you guys. That means Alex Bragman went
Speaker 1: nuts this year, and maybe he will. At Fenway. We've seen,
Speaker 1: I mean Tyler O'Neill, we've seen like the past couple
Speaker 1: of years. If you're righty and you get the salt,
Speaker 1: you get that Boston Sama kid that if Braggy gets
Speaker 1: that then yeah, but I don't know. I think they're
Speaker 1: gonna let this play out because we talked about the
Speaker 1: corner infields slash second base with Bregmann moving moving chairs,
Speaker 1: talked about they got prospects on the way man, that
Speaker 1: I don't the Red Sox are set up that I
Speaker 1: think they're gonna let baseball happen and whether that's injuries
Speaker 1: and okay, story gets banged up another another time, then
Speaker 1: all right, then we need a full nother plan because
Speaker 1: that's not working. That they've got the prospect capital, they've
Speaker 1: got the talent on the field that like all the
Speaker 1: plans have now come together together, giving time some time,
Speaker 1: like that group of prospects are here. They've invested in
Speaker 1: some players that I don't know, man, I guess I
Speaker 1: you know, I respect the calm, cool, collected nature of it.
Speaker 1: But I think looking around the al, Boston's Boston's the
Speaker 1: scariest team right now, which the previous times that's happen
Speaker 1: opened in are like Yankees' existence. It's been bad news
Speaker 1: for the Yankees.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I think if you were to draw comparison right now,
Speaker 2: I think the twenty twenty five Red Sox are most
Speaker 2: comparable to the twenty eighteen Braves because that team that
Speaker 2: cor didn't went and they they won it without a Kunya.
Speaker 2: But like, they didn't win their World Series until twenty
Speaker 2: twenty one, but when they started calling up the kids
Speaker 2: in eighteen and they were like, oh man, like everyone
Speaker 2: knew how good the Braves were going to be, right,
Speaker 2: but then they were kind of good right away and
Speaker 2: they were early, so their window had opened much sooner
Speaker 2: than I think a lot of fans anticipated, but inevitably
Speaker 2: they didn't get their championship until like three years later.
Speaker 2: I think that you could see something like that with
Speaker 2: the Red Sox this year. Like you signed Bregmant into
Speaker 2: a con it's three years, it's forty million a year,
Speaker 2: but there's opt outs after every year, so theoretically it
Speaker 2: could be a one year, forty million dollar like contract.
Speaker 2: You don't do something like that unless you're trying to
Speaker 2: win the World Series that year. So yeah, Like I
Speaker 2: think the Red Sox could fall ass backwards into an
Speaker 2: ALCS like they did in twenty twenty one, Like no
Speaker 2: one thought that team was, you know, a World Series
Speaker 2: contender coming off of they always come off horrendous seasons
Speaker 2: and then it's like World Series, you know, like in
Speaker 2: what was it in twenty twelve, they were horrendous, then
Speaker 2: they won the World Series in thirteen, and then they
Speaker 2: were back to back last place teams fourteen fifteen. Then
Speaker 2: they hauled off three straight division titles with a World
Speaker 2: Series title at the end. So that's just what happens.
Speaker 2: Like they were horrendous in twenty twenty, and then they've
Speaker 2: kind of just fell ass backwards into the ALCS in
Speaker 2: twenty twenty one. I I could see something like that
Speaker 2: where you know, they they lose in six in the
Speaker 2: ALCS or something like that, just because they caught fire
Speaker 2: and they have young kids who don't know any better.
Speaker 2: They've got Bregman, a guy who's been there, done that,
Speaker 2: and has a history of what He's never not played
Speaker 2: in the playoffs. He's playing in the playoffs every year
Speaker 2: of his big league career, so that matters. Like that stuff,
Speaker 2: That stuff counts. So yeah, that's why I'm comfortable with
Speaker 2: putting them in the playoffs if they don't win the
Speaker 2: World Series. I'm not like, man, like we fell short
Speaker 2: of the goal, you know, Like I think the goal
Speaker 2: is win, just like have a winning season. It's been
Speaker 2: it's been years since even just having a winning season.
Speaker 1: So yeah, yeah, that's that's fair about the World Series
Speaker 1: next week too, because it's it's not And I guess
Speaker 1: that's a little bit that has me more scared because
Speaker 1: a Boston team that gets to play truly with their
Speaker 1: hair on fire, that's when.
Speaker 2: And dude, I don't know nothing to lose.
Speaker 1: You're you're talking about Chapman coming in. I'm I'm thinking
Speaker 1: about whatever Matt Blake reliever project is coming in and
Speaker 1: it's like, hey, go get Devers and Bregman in the eighth.
Speaker 1: Like I just I've seen that story, seen that story
Speaker 1: a lot in the past couple of years. It hasn't
Speaker 1: been as scary, just with how the division has played out.
Speaker 1: And I just think I think there's gonna be a
Speaker 1: few of those at bats this year, which will be exciting.
Speaker 1: And that's ah, it's good for the game, Jared, And
Speaker 1: that's what we are. We are the Shield. What do
Speaker 1: you uh? What else in the Al East? What do
Speaker 1: you think people need to be talking about it? Is
Speaker 1: it like the post hype Orioles?
Speaker 3: Are?
Speaker 1: Is there any rays fear anymore. Did the Blue Jays
Speaker 1: do something?
Speaker 2: I mean, I guess, I guess we can kind of
Speaker 2: talk a little bit about the Blue Jays and how
Speaker 2: they tried. Like you bring in Max Scherzer, Tony Tatters,
Speaker 2: you give him what five years, and Vlatti's still here.
Speaker 2: You didn't move off of him, which is interesting to
Speaker 2: say the least. I mean, you didn't get the extension done.
Speaker 2: Maybe maybe they thought they were going to, but it
Speaker 2: just didn't work out that way. I don't know. I
Speaker 2: don't know what they're a line of thinking was. But
Speaker 2: he's still there, Ken Bobaschet bounce back. I believe he can.
Speaker 2: I think that he still has like an eight hundred
Speaker 2: ops ish season in him. Whether or not that amounts
Speaker 2: to a winning record, I mean, at the end of
Speaker 2: the day, it should. Like I think I picked the
Speaker 2: Blue Jays last year to win the division. I'm pretty
Speaker 2: sure I did, like just based on their rotation. Yeah,
Speaker 2: but we're also looking at a team that if they're
Speaker 2: not in it by the deadline, Vladdy's gonna be a
Speaker 2: piece for somebody, you know, like that's gonna be that
Speaker 2: might be the crown jewel of the trade deadline is
Speaker 2: Vladdie if the Blue Jays aren't in it.
Speaker 1: So, yeah, the Blue Jays are interesting because they they
Speaker 1: also they brought in Andres Jimenez, so it's like they
Speaker 1: they have a weird the second half of their lineup scary,
Speaker 1: but they also have guys that are gonna contribute in
Speaker 1: Jimenez and Kirk that like our show. I know he's
Speaker 1: out to start the year, but like those guys' floors
Speaker 1: because they're so good. Defense is like three war seasons.
Speaker 1: So if one of those guys has a year offensively, Santander, man,
Speaker 1: how long have they been looking for that? Like we
Speaker 1: were talking about the top of that lineup for years.
Speaker 1: Get Get the Lefty. And they kind of put their
Speaker 1: chips on on var show, which was kind of just like, Hey,
Speaker 1: I think Varshow's a nice player, but I don't think
Speaker 1: he's gonna break up Bashett vlad Springer.
Speaker 2: So I don't know.
Speaker 1: I think I think the Blue Jays they just need
Speaker 1: a good two months, man, because if they don't, you're
Speaker 1: right like people, Vladdie's the dream chip at the deadline
Speaker 1: that they'll get a ton of offers. I think Bassett's
Speaker 1: on his final year. Bashett like they could if they
Speaker 1: want to reach the house, if they want to retool
Speaker 1: this thing, they can. With how the Wildcards set up,
Speaker 1: this team should be around it, and I think they're
Speaker 1: gonna end up in Unfortunately, this is a sad comparison
Speaker 1: for them. I think they're gonna be in the same
Speaker 1: camp as the Angels with show hey like, hey, we're
Speaker 1: kind of near it and this could be our last
Speaker 1: year with Vlad, like let's do it, and hey, I
Speaker 1: hope the angel The Angels are rarely the example. They're
Speaker 1: usually the bad example. That maybe that could be different
Speaker 1: for Toronto because I do maybe I get too romantic
Speaker 1: with the old pitchers, but like I see, you know,
Speaker 1: Bassett Barrios, like, let's let's put together, let's put together
Speaker 1: a season. Boys that I I don't know. I guess
Speaker 1: for me, I wonder how worried I should be about
Speaker 1: them just in the division, because you.
Speaker 2: Know, I don't want to sleep on them. I'm certainly
Speaker 2: not sleeping on them. I think. I think when when
Speaker 2: you have a kind of like season rollover expectations, that's
Speaker 2: where you kind of get in trouble a little bit.
Speaker 2: It's like, oh, well they were bad last year, so
Speaker 2: they'll be bad this year. Well, no, they're a different
Speaker 2: team this year and you don't know how it's gonna
Speaker 2: play out, and they might have that same mentality that
Speaker 2: you were just talking about, where it's like, hey, guys,
Speaker 2: like we're seeing the writing on the wall here.
Speaker 1: Uh.
Speaker 2: The people baseball fans were looking at like the Legacys
Speaker 2: as a window and people were very excited about it,
Speaker 2: and there were some postseason berths. There was there a run.
Speaker 2: I don't think you could say that there was a
Speaker 2: run like there was no like maybe twenty twenty one
Speaker 2: was that one year where like the regular season run
Speaker 2: was exciting, Like I think they came up on like
Speaker 2: the they came up short on the very last day
Speaker 2: and didn't get in. But this is it, you know,
Speaker 2: like they the veterans in that room might be looking
Speaker 2: around saying, this is our last shot. And that's motivating
Speaker 2: to a lot of different guys.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and you wonder it's the cool stuff we still
Speaker 1: want in sports, Like sures are being in that locker
Speaker 1: room like that should matter, you know, and I hope
Speaker 1: it does, Like I hope, I hope it's June fifth
Speaker 1: and the story that comes out as like you know why,
Speaker 1: Max Sure's there's the reason the Blue Jays are in
Speaker 1: it this year because they're still there's still something fun
Speaker 1: about it, like when Butchet's balling out and again the
Speaker 1: Tony Taters factor, man, like that was forty four last year. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: like I you kind of alluded to it. There's a
Speaker 1: little bit, there's a little bit of like not wanting
Speaker 1: it to work for the Orioles just because they're not
Speaker 1: doing it the fun way, like right, like Corbyn Burns
Speaker 1: and Santander left and they're just like all right, Sugan
Speaker 1: Charlie Morton, Yeah, come out there and twirl it like yeah,
Speaker 1: And I don't know, I think they do have smart
Speaker 1: people running their team that maybe they haven't figured out.
Speaker 1: But I kind of hope the people running Toronto have
Speaker 1: more than we think.
Speaker 2: Yeah, like at least at least when you have the
Speaker 2: legacy J's window. The Blue Jays tried like they they
Speaker 2: wanted Wan Soto, they wanted Shoho Tani. They just couldn't
Speaker 2: get anyone to take their money. Now you have the
Speaker 2: Jackson Holiday era of the Baltimore Orioles, and yeah, like
Speaker 2: they've pretty much hit on everyone who's who's come up,
Speaker 2: But what have you done to supplement this team? Like
Speaker 2: I gave him a ton of credit for the Corbyn
Speaker 2: Burns trade, but did you extend him? No, And I
Speaker 2: don't think that. I don't even put that on the
Speaker 2: Orioles because from everything that was out there, there's no
Speaker 2: chance he was. He would have rather pitched on the
Speaker 2: Moon than on the East coast of the United States.
Speaker 2: So yeah, Like, I don't totally fault them for not
Speaker 2: keeping Corben Burns there, But what else did you do?
Speaker 2: Like did you did you go get Max free? Like
Speaker 2: did you try to get Blake Snell? Like I that's
Speaker 2: where you know, you walk away from with all the hype,
Speaker 2: all the prospects, and you lose your ace and you
Speaker 2: replaced him with Like how old is Charlie Morton now
Speaker 2: forty one fifty?
Speaker 1: I don't know. Yeah, Charlie Morton wanted to retire five
Speaker 1: years ago and he was too good. Yeah, the Braves
Speaker 1: kept paying him and he's like, well, shit, I guess
Speaker 1: I guess I got to bree this. Yeah, for until
Speaker 1: age thirty, I didn't think I was going to stick
Speaker 1: in the league. And now he's had an amazing over.
Speaker 2: The second half that's crazy.
Speaker 1: Yeah, they're Uh, I haven't done it this offseason yet.
Speaker 1: It's one of my favorite games to play, is like
Speaker 1: when you put the off seasons on paper and you're right,
Speaker 1: like the Corbyn Burns you can't because he wanted to
Speaker 1: go there. But you know that Tyler O'Neill, Charlie Morton,
Speaker 1: Sugano could that have been one Max Freed and someone else?
Speaker 1: And that's It's just it's interesting, like how should we
Speaker 1: be talking about it when I don't know, is Charlie
Speaker 1: Morton gonna give us another dog season? And we're like, okay,
Speaker 1: maybe the Orioles are half smart, but that's the beauty
Speaker 1: of this time of year.
Speaker 2: I'm not saying that Charlie Mooreon can't give you a
Speaker 2: good season, but is he gonna give you a cobn
Speaker 2: Burns would have gave you? I don't think so. I
Speaker 2: don't think so would have been a little disappointed. If
Speaker 2: I'm an Orioles fan, Who's who should be more disappointed?
Speaker 2: Orioles fans or Mariners fans.
Speaker 1: They didn't do Mariners thousand Mariners. They're doing the same
Speaker 1: game plan that hasn't come close to work.
Speaker 2: Now they they so I get it, Like similarly to
Speaker 2: Corbyn Burns, where he was just determined to pitch on
Speaker 2: the West Coast and it sounded like he really wanted
Speaker 2: to be in Arizona. Pete Alonzo, Everyone's like, why didn't
Speaker 2: they just pay Pee Alonso? They need offense? Why don't
Speaker 2: you go pay him? He would have played in Korea
Speaker 2: before he played for another team other than the Mets.
Speaker 2: It seems so I can't blame them for that, But
Speaker 2: I come back to Santander, how do you not make
Speaker 2: something like that happen? Dude? Pop forty four homers. You
Speaker 2: guys need offense. Pay the dude. Then you also had
Speaker 2: the trade scenarios with the Red Sox. They have a
Speaker 2: plethora of starting pitching and the Red Sox were like, hey,
Speaker 2: do you want Cossas? They're like nope. The Red Sox
Speaker 2: were like, do you want Cossas and Yoshida They're like nope.
Speaker 1: So okay, I'm.
Speaker 2: Pretty pissed if I'm a Mariage fan. Like, it's like,
Speaker 2: we have a very clear, desperate need and there were
Speaker 2: multiple paths to make that situation better for us in
Speaker 2: twenty twenty five, and we did nothing to improve.
Speaker 1: Well, they extended Victor Roeblis after his goods last year.
Speaker 2: I got ahead of business on that one.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I don't know. I'm rooting for you, Victor Roblist.
Speaker 1: But that's no man. If I was a Mariners fan,
Speaker 1: I would be furious. We have the most important asset
Speaker 1: in the game, but we refuse to get any of
Speaker 1: the other assets. They're like, this is a bad comparison,
Speaker 1: but it's like they're you're playing Settlers of Catan with
Speaker 1: someone who just keeps like the sheep or some shit.
Speaker 2: That's what I was gonna say.
Speaker 1: I haven't I haven't played that in so long. That
Speaker 1: had a minute a minute, Jared. We were joking beforehand
Speaker 1: that were like, you know, I felt like I was
Speaker 1: bumping into at least like quarterly, Like, okay, I'll see
Speaker 1: this thing when o're meetings that slowed down. Don't like that.
Speaker 2: I don't like that.
Speaker 1: I think we'll find our way of Fenway this year.
Speaker 1: How are you doing? Because I want to go back
Speaker 1: a little bit, and hey, if we I asked for thirty,
Speaker 1: but if we want to open up the board. But
Speaker 1: I mean, even even going back to the end of Barstool,
Speaker 1: it was you know, you had the itch. You wanted
Speaker 1: to get back up to Boston. That was pretty That
Speaker 1: was pretty clear, Pretty clear.
Speaker 2: I did not love New York.
Speaker 1: You're back there. Baseball is dead, Section ten, MLB Network, nesson,
Speaker 1: we got radio stuff Underdog, so you got you know,
Speaker 1: you got your hands in different different parts of different things.
Speaker 1: I mean, I want to get to the real life stuff.
Speaker 1: But I guess work life, like how are you doing
Speaker 1: with everything?
Speaker 2: It's great, man, I get to do most of from home.
Speaker 2: So I'm doing I'll be on alm Me Network tomorrow
Speaker 2: morning at nine fifteen, so like I'm doing stuff with them,
Speaker 2: Like this is all stuff that I just wasn't allowed
Speaker 2: to do it right, they didn't want me to. And
Speaker 2: there's like other places like sponsors and freelance gigs where
Speaker 2: they didn't want to touch me because I was at barstool.
Speaker 2: So now I have the opportunity to do a little
Speaker 2: bit of a mixed bag of everything, which is awesome.
Speaker 2: Like I've like I've been such a like I send
Speaker 2: the producer like are you on Facebook?
Speaker 1: I'm on the Facebook?
Speaker 2: Yeah, so I had the Facebook. So I like, I'll
Speaker 2: look at my memories every morning and every once in
Speaker 2: a while, like something will pop up and be like
Speaker 2: sixteen years ago you said, like I love m weillb
Speaker 2: network and like this is the best. And it was
Speaker 2: like that first year that it came out right and
Speaker 2: like I'll always like send the producer be like dude,
Speaker 2: like I'm serious, Like I've been like a day one
Speaker 2: consumer of this product. So it's crazy to be able
Speaker 2: to even pop on for fifteen minutes out of time
Speaker 2: every three months or whatever, So doing that's cool. And
Speaker 2: then we did the first ever Red Sox alternate broadcast
Speaker 2: last summer, right, which was fun. It had its pros
Speaker 2: and cons. You know, I think the stuff that we
Speaker 2: got to do that was like our idea was fun.
Speaker 2: There was kind of just you know, like trying to
Speaker 2: figure out what it is was a little bit of
Speaker 2: the difficulty where it's like, all right, like you want
Speaker 2: to be different. You want to obviously be the pole
Speaker 2: opposite of the traditional broadcast, but how much is too much?
Speaker 2: You know, Like we want to be able to deliver
Speaker 2: an entertaining product, but we don't want like if people
Speaker 2: are watching us that they care about baseball, so like
Speaker 2: we don't want to get away from baseball, you know
Speaker 2: what I mean? So I think we did that a
Speaker 2: little bit too much of that at certain points, and
Speaker 2: then yeah, like I do this stuff with Tony Maz,
Speaker 2: but uh yeah, getting Section ten back was very very
Speaker 2: key to my happiness. Like if I didn't, it would
Speaker 2: not have been the same. If if it's like all right, yeah, me, Steve,
Speaker 2: Coley and Tyler, like we all got back together, but
Speaker 2: I like couldn't be called that, Like I would just
Speaker 2: feel like a piece of me was missing, Like if
Speaker 2: if if you like couldn't use your government name anymore
Speaker 2: and they just gave you a different name, Like I
Speaker 2: don't even like answer to that, Like I'm just it
Speaker 2: doesn't make sense. So yeah, I'm just happy that we
Speaker 2: have have that going and then being able to do
Speaker 2: baseball is dead with Dallas, and then we have Jay
Speaker 2: Hay in there and Joey who is he does the
Speaker 2: baseball doesn't exist YouTube channel. I just like was a
Speaker 2: big fan of his YouTube channel and I was like,
Speaker 2: you've got to your brain is so weird. I need
Speaker 2: it in podcast format. So that's how he joined us
Speaker 2: a few years ago. So I just I feel like
Speaker 2: we have the best lineup that of any point in
Speaker 2: my career, Like if I could hand pick, like, you know,
Speaker 2: an all star team of co host and producers from
Speaker 2: since day one that I started. That's who's working with
Speaker 2: us today. So it's it's awesome. I'm very happy with it.
Speaker 1: That's awesome, man. And uh hey, I again, it's waken Jake, Dude,
Speaker 1: you're with the girl like I you know, I could,
Speaker 1: I could bring out some of them married to the
Speaker 1: game stuff like you know, there's no need for it,
Speaker 1: but yeah, you're doing the damn thing. And I again,
Speaker 1: social media, okayarts is gonna get off on the wrong foot.
Speaker 1: Social media is a little bit of bullshit. You know,
Speaker 1: people are sometimes so a lot of people are exhibiting
Speaker 1: a fake part of their life for a different reason
Speaker 1: or whatever it is. I don't know, man, I like
Speaker 1: to think I've got a good meter for it. And
Speaker 1: I mean, you're smiling your dad and like you're yeah,
Speaker 1: you're loving life. Dude.
Speaker 2: Yeah, she's great. She So we met in high school.
Speaker 2: Like obviously, I think anyone that's consumed my content over
Speaker 2: the years is not used to seeing me in a
Speaker 2: relationship because like either I wasn't public with it or
Speaker 2: it wasn't serious enough to like post anyway, pretty much
Speaker 2: my entire adult life. I think like the last relationship
Speaker 2: that I posted was over ten years ago, Like twenty
Speaker 2: thirteen was probably the last time I was like public
Speaker 2: with it. So people are seeing it now and there's
Speaker 2: far more people paying attention these days than in twenty thirteen.
Speaker 2: So that's how it ends up on like Reddit posts
Speaker 2: and people are like, oh, yeah, like she's a gold
Speaker 2: ager blah blah blah, and it's like little do you know,
Speaker 2: Like we had Spanish class together in two thousand and six,
Speaker 2: Like I've known her for a long time. Uh, she
Speaker 2: does not give a shit about my career, like like
Speaker 2: she knows Skinny Jared from Sagas High like that is uh,
Speaker 2: that's who she like still sees like she's totally unphased
Speaker 2: by anything that has to do with me. Like I
Speaker 2: told you about the Pedro Martinez thing that like charity
Speaker 2: foundation gala that we went to. She was sitting next
Speaker 2: to like Jason Veritec and like Jim Rice and she
Speaker 2: didn't even know like just not even like she's yeah,
Speaker 2: so it's cool to kind of have Like it's been
Speaker 2: important for me to have that separation finally, because when
Speaker 2: I was at barstool living in New York City. It
Speaker 2: was just NonStop twenty four to seven career job, blog, podcast, tweet,
Speaker 2: Instagram and just having, you know, work, panic attacks in
Speaker 2: your sleep every single night, and waking up in a
Speaker 2: panic every single morning thinking that you miss something. Yeah,
Speaker 2: like when Stanton got traded to the Yankees. I don't
Speaker 2: know if you remember that night, but that was I
Speaker 2: believe it was in December, and the rumors started at
Speaker 2: probably ten PM, and then we went to Village Tavern
Speaker 2: in New York and they bars don't close till four am,
Speaker 2: so we're all hammered, scrolling trying to get updates on
Speaker 2: Stanton to the Yankees because at the time that was
Speaker 2: my favorite baseball player. I was like, if my favorite
Speaker 2: baseball player goes to the Yankees, this is gonna be terrible.
Speaker 2: And stayed up until five am, just hammered, waiting for
Speaker 2: some news to break, went to sleep, set my alarm
Speaker 2: for eight but like, the news broke at seven am,
Speaker 2: and Dave was pissed at me that I wasn't blogging
Speaker 2: it at seven am. I was like, bro, it's it's
Speaker 2: seven am on a Saturday or Sunday morning, Like that's
Speaker 2: a little crazy, but that just creates the the panic
Speaker 2: in you to always be looking at your phone. But yeah,
Speaker 2: like this relationship, like I've just kind of trained myself
Speaker 2: like there's work life and then there's just be at
Speaker 2: home and live in the moment life. And I've never
Speaker 2: I've never been able to do that before. It's I've never,
Speaker 2: like I think I still probably work as many hours.
Speaker 2: I'm just not thinking about work when I put my
Speaker 2: phone down for the first time.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, I mean, I uh, very relatable feelings on
Speaker 1: every end of the spectrum. It's uh yeah, we still
Speaker 1: I mean, Twitter's Twitter's changed a lot, and it's it's
Speaker 1: it can be just brutal sometimes. Now I think we
Speaker 1: we're a lot better than we were for a little bit,
Speaker 1: especially getting everything off the ground, because it's like, you know,
Speaker 1: you're just fight for your life mode. Now it's like, hey,
Speaker 1: you know Max Freed, rumors are actually happening. And when
Speaker 1: the clock turned to eleven thirty PM on a Tuesday,
Speaker 1: You're like, Okay, so are we.
Speaker 2: Are we doing this? Are we not?
Speaker 1: Are we? H? Is there is there a West Coast
Speaker 1: sports game I can watch till twelve thirty and try
Speaker 1: to try to stay up just in case or not.
Speaker 1: But yeah, man, that's uh, it's a wild feeling. And
Speaker 1: I know, I know you're you're one of the few
Speaker 1: guys that truly does know that feeling, because a lot
Speaker 1: of fans know that feeling too, but they also don't
Speaker 1: have to hop in front of a mic afterwards or
Speaker 1: you know. I there's some nights I like to indulge
Speaker 1: in a weed gummy just to help with my you know,
Speaker 1: my cataracts, and that's uh, you know, Okay, now I've
Speaker 1: got to talk about, uh, their fit on the Yankees
Speaker 1: and all that that. Again, it's a you know, I'm
Speaker 1: not a big blessings guy, but the fact that we
Speaker 1: get to do that is very cool. But it's also
Speaker 1: those the three hundred nights something doesn't happen. It's also
Speaker 1: a little anxiety filled, which sometimes not as.
Speaker 2: Fun, right, Yeah, Like they like You're sitting there and
Speaker 2: it's December nineteenth, and it's ten forty five at night
Speaker 2: and we're watching our show. But I've got like my
Speaker 2: phone is like on my knee just in case it
Speaker 2: goes off, And it's like is that really necessary? And
Speaker 2: it's like you don't understand, like I could get a
Speaker 2: phone call or FaceTime from someone being like, hey, I
Speaker 2: just got traded to the Red Sox, or hey I
Speaker 2: just signed with the Red Sox, and that could mean
Speaker 2: the difference of you know, that's like a career booster
Speaker 2: thing that could happen, and you just have to be available.
Speaker 2: And it's like being a doctor. You just have to
Speaker 2: be ready to roll at all times. When the Red
Speaker 2: Sox traded for Garrett Crochet, my girlfriend's youngest daughter had
Speaker 2: a cheer competition in Disney, so we were in Disney
Speaker 2: at the time, and we're live streaming doing an emergency
Speaker 2: podcast while I'm in line for Winnie and the Pooh
Speaker 2: r And you just have to be with someone that understands,
Speaker 2: like this is just how it is. Sometimes, you know,
Speaker 2: like I can turn it off as much as I
Speaker 2: possibly can, but you also have to understand like there
Speaker 2: is at times no turning it off, Like an emergency
Speaker 2: podcast is an emergency podcast for a reason. We're in
Speaker 2: line for Winnie the Pooh, that's part of the emergency
Speaker 2: aspect of it. But yeah, she doesn't care. I mean,
Speaker 2: I think one of the big things, like you mentioned
Speaker 2: the West Coast stuff, is when she goes to bed.
Speaker 2: I'm like, all right, I'm going to bed, you know,
Speaker 2: like I before I would stay up until like if
Speaker 2: there was a seventeen inning game Dodgers Padres and it's
Speaker 2: two thirty in the morning. Yeah, when she goes to bed,
Speaker 2: I go to bed, and it's yeah, like I'll watch
Speaker 2: the highlights in the morning. Like I now like I
Speaker 2: don't need to watch every single game every single night,
Speaker 2: Like that's just not necessary. So yeah, like there's been
Speaker 2: some and then like the pitchclock too, has been great,
Speaker 2: by the way, not to just credit her, but the
Speaker 2: pitchclock has been fantastic for uh having a life, you know,
Speaker 2: like before if the games were ending at ten forty
Speaker 2: five eleven PM, now they might end at ten fifteen.
Speaker 2: You're like, I could I could squeeze in an episode
Speaker 2: of Ray Donovan before I go to sleep. Now why not? Yeah,
Speaker 2: So it's it's definitely been it's definitely been different. It's
Speaker 2: been nice. It's been a nice change of pace.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and that the breaking stuff, it's like that's kind
Speaker 1: of the fun stuff. And I think it's cool that
Speaker 1: I think both of us have our supporters that I
Speaker 1: think now being in line for Winnie the Pooh is
Speaker 1: an additive where before yes, that that that note has
Speaker 1: changed where early on it's like, dude, what are you doing?
Speaker 1: We just we just signed them and you're at Winnie
Speaker 1: the Pooh. Where now it's like, dude, Jared's at Winnie
Speaker 1: the Pooh. He's talking about ah and like, I'm glad
Speaker 1: that that shift has happened because that's that's uh. I
Speaker 1: know for a few of our trades and stuff. That's
Speaker 1: made it a lot easier. Like they just pick up
Speaker 1: the phone say say get your thoughts up, it's gonna
Speaker 1: be okay. The audio is not perfect. Well, hey man,
Speaker 1: I'm I'm glad we did this, and I'm glad I
Speaker 1: got I'm glad we did this too too long, man,
Speaker 1: but you go, you gotta do it.
Speaker 2: We gotta do a home and home. We gotta get
Speaker 2: you on to do the same breakdown some Yankees.
Speaker 1: Let me know, I'm I'm beloved and hated by by
Speaker 1: the people.
Speaker 2: So if it's I don't know that that's true.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I fly under the radar and I just you know,
Speaker 1: someone's like, fuck John Boy, I'm like, yeah that guy, right,
Speaker 1: I haven't seen Paralton for I don't know what's happening.
Speaker 1: Am I the problem?
Speaker 2: No, So I'll be honest with you.
Speaker 1: Where's Dallas spin? Where have I been that?
Speaker 2: Well? Because now Dallas is doing like one hundred and
Speaker 2: fifty something games bare.
Speaker 1: Nuts by the way, Yeah it's awesome, but it's nuts.
Speaker 2: Yeah, like he's doing He's doing like one hundred and
Speaker 2: fifty games. Whatever it is. But last year was probably
Speaker 2: the least amount of games that I went to in person, Fenway,
Speaker 2: maybe since I was like in high school. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 2: like that, Like it was just it was bad vibes
Speaker 2: and everyone was just kind of like life is happening,
Speaker 2: and like Steve goes to the Cape a lot during
Speaker 2: the summertime us Ben Steve, Yeah, I think his family
Speaker 2: has like a Cape house that like they go to.
Speaker 2: And Colie's up in Maine. He just had his third kid,
Speaker 2: so he had a he had a newborn over the summer.
Speaker 2: There was just a lot happening.
Speaker 1: We're just we're all unkst now. Man, it's we're getting
Speaker 1: up there.
Speaker 2: We're getting up there. Life. Life certainly has happened in
Speaker 2: the last few years for for all of us baseball
Speaker 2: content creators.
Speaker 1: Still waiting for my Beard but one day it's coming.
Speaker 2: It's I still have faith in it.
Speaker 1: Yeah, Jared, thank you man. Yeah, whatever you need and
Speaker 1: we'll talk to you soon.
Speaker 2: Man, let's do it.
Speaker 1: Appreciate you