WEBVTT - BFFs 7/25 Hour 2: MLB/NFL Injury Updates, MLB Best Bets 0:00:00.360 --> 0:00:03.120 Catch and Michael Thomas, wide receiver from New Orleans Saints, 0:00:03.120 --> 0:00:05.040 did not report for the start of Saints training camp 0:00:05.080 --> 0:00:07.720 on Thursday. That's also according to Rapp Report, Thomas has 0:00:07.760 --> 0:00:10.280 been in negotiations with the Saints for weeks, but apparently 0:00:10.320 --> 0:00:12.680 he's not showing up until a deal gets done. He's 0:00:12.680 --> 0:00:16.040 reportedly seeking upwards of twenty million dollars annually in contract 0:00:16.040 --> 0:00:18.560 talks that would make him the highest paid receiver in 0:00:18.600 --> 0:00:21.520 the NFL. In Major League Baseball, X rays have comeback 0:00:21.560 --> 0:00:25.080 negative on Enrique Hernandez hand. Matt Carboner will remain on 0:00:25.280 --> 0:00:27.920 his rehab assignment through the early part of the weekend 0:00:28.120 --> 0:00:30.440 at the print of Colonel's manager Mike Shilt, and finally, 0:00:30.520 --> 0:00:32.320 Jeff McNeil will be out of the Mets line up 0:00:32.360 --> 0:00:35.960 on Thursday due to what the Metropolitans are calling heavy legs. 0:00:36.200 --> 0:00:38.600 I'm Dan Strafford. This has been your Fantasy Sports the 0:00:38.720 --> 0:00:42.120 Radio Network news update. Stay tuned to the Fantasy Sports 0:00:42.159 --> 0:01:04.000 Radio Network for more updates at the top of every hour. Yeah, 0:01:13.319 --> 0:01:30.200 that's welcome, Bab your host fi Bate from Mine five 0:01:30.280 --> 0:01:36.000 guy from St. Francis. Practice stand ball, ladies and tell 0:01:36.080 --> 0:01:44.199 me in your our number two is upon us here 0:01:44.680 --> 0:01:48.040 on the b f F S Frank Stample, Gregg Saucepan 0:01:48.160 --> 0:01:51.120 here hanging out for the next hour. Virginia Zankis will 0:01:51.200 --> 0:01:53.720 join us coming up at about three twenty eas gonna 0:01:53.760 --> 0:01:55.600 go over all the latest injuries. We'll make sure we'll 0:01:55.600 --> 0:01:59.320 call Virginia get her online coming up at about three 0:01:59.320 --> 0:02:01.960 p m. During time. Right, we had his raking baseball 0:02:02.000 --> 0:02:03.920 news that occurred during that hour, and that's that Blake 0:02:03.960 --> 0:02:06.680 Snell is going to have this um a loose body 0:02:06.680 --> 0:02:08.680 removing his elbow. That's a six week or so, four 0:02:08.760 --> 0:02:12.160 or six week injury, and the rays abot the playoffs 0:02:12.160 --> 0:02:15.120 standing at that point eat over the year. Yeah, they 0:02:15.160 --> 0:02:18.560 say he's going to miss around four weeks with this injury. 0:02:18.760 --> 0:02:20.880 That seems a little bit optimistic to me, and obviously 0:02:21.000 --> 0:02:23.680 hasn't pitched up to the standards we were hoping this season. 0:02:23.720 --> 0:02:25.760 He's got a four point to eight e r A 0:02:25.760 --> 0:02:28.640 a one point to five whip is. Underlying numbers are 0:02:28.760 --> 0:02:30.800 much better than that, but perhaps this is something that 0:02:30.840 --> 0:02:34.079 he has been dealing with. So yeah, Blake Snell, it's 0:02:34.120 --> 0:02:36.840 a huge blow for fantasy baseball owners. It's a huge 0:02:36.840 --> 0:02:39.080 blow for the Tampa Bay Rays. I mean, you know 0:02:39.200 --> 0:02:42.720 they're they're right in the mix for the wild Card obviously, 0:02:42.880 --> 0:02:45.080 and you know they have a bunch of competitive games 0:02:45.160 --> 0:02:47.080 coming up with the They just played the Red Sox 0:02:47.080 --> 0:02:49.680 to have another series coming up soon against the Boston 0:02:49.720 --> 0:02:53.440 Red Sox, so obviously they need Blake Snell healthy in 0:02:53.560 --> 0:02:55.480 order to make some noise here. Greg, do you think 0:02:55.520 --> 0:02:58.440 this opens up the opportunity for Tampa Bay to become 0:02:58.520 --> 0:03:02.040 buyers in the starting pitcher market, No, not at all. No, 0:03:02.400 --> 0:03:05.560 I think this. I think there's ultimately could have them 0:03:05.560 --> 0:03:08.080 be sellers more than more than any that's sellers, but 0:03:08.160 --> 0:03:10.720 like kind of really, they'll just sit tight, they won't 0:03:10.720 --> 0:03:13.640 be sellers. Yeah, I see them more of that. I 0:03:13.639 --> 0:03:15.680 see them more of sitting tight and seeing what they 0:03:15.720 --> 0:03:17.839 have and ultimately even they're pitching, I mean, you could 0:03:17.840 --> 0:03:20.200 always make noise with pitching like that in the postseason. 0:03:20.240 --> 0:03:23.440 It's like you just get in if you anything, you're healthy. 0:03:23.480 --> 0:03:27.280 They have one starter right now, probably Morton, that's it. Yeah. 0:03:27.320 --> 0:03:28.920 We saw Jail and Beaks as a starter. That didn't 0:03:28.960 --> 0:03:30.400 work out very much, right, I mean their starters are 0:03:30.440 --> 0:03:34.800 only cherinos. Ryan Yarbro, that's it, man. You know if 0:03:34.840 --> 0:03:37.600 I asked you right now, Greg, and I don't you 0:03:37.680 --> 0:03:38.920 might know this off the top of your head. Do 0:03:38.920 --> 0:03:40.960 you think Tampa Bay has a wild card spot right now? 0:03:41.000 --> 0:03:42.200 I have it up right in front of me. They do. 0:03:42.720 --> 0:03:45.200 They do not. They're out of the second wild card 0:03:45.200 --> 0:03:49.160 spot right now. It's Clan and Oakland, Oakland in Oakland. 0:03:49.400 --> 0:03:51.480 That yeah, So that's why people wouldn't even realize that, 0:03:51.560 --> 0:03:53.880 Like that's how far off the Tampa Bay race have 0:03:53.920 --> 0:03:56.880 actually fallen. There's still eleven games over five hundred, but 0:03:57.320 --> 0:03:59.760 you know they've they've taken some lumps here. So the 0:04:00.000 --> 0:04:02.920 Gland A's have now jumped them to Cleveland Indians are 0:04:03.040 --> 0:04:05.200 leading the wild card. Don't with now that the Indians 0:04:05.200 --> 0:04:07.520 are like two games out of the American League Central, 0:04:07.560 --> 0:04:11.720 But huge blow for fantasy owners for the Tama Bay Rays. Again, 0:04:11.760 --> 0:04:13.880 I think that four week timetable for Blake Snell. It 0:04:13.920 --> 0:04:16.920 might even be that what I said, I said six weeks, 0:04:16.920 --> 0:04:19.719 probably six four to six weeks at that point. What 0:04:19.760 --> 0:04:23.760 are we looking at mid September? Ideally the Rays would 0:04:23.760 --> 0:04:25.960 want to stay afloat kind of be like right in 0:04:25.960 --> 0:04:27.880 that mix for that second wild card spot and if 0:04:27.880 --> 0:04:31.440 they could sneak in and get maybe two to three 0:04:31.480 --> 0:04:34.560 starts out of Blake Snell down the stretch in order 0:04:34.600 --> 0:04:37.039 to just kind of like, you know, get his arm 0:04:37.120 --> 0:04:39.400 back in motion, get his legs underneath them a little bit, 0:04:39.400 --> 0:04:41.720 get him back in the flow of everything. If they 0:04:41.720 --> 0:04:44.200 can get those two starts down the stretch, and he 0:04:44.200 --> 0:04:48.120 would probably be good to go for a wild card start. 0:04:48.240 --> 0:04:50.200 I agree with that, and obviously that's the guy that 0:04:50.200 --> 0:04:52.000 they would want on the mount, even as well as 0:04:52.080 --> 0:04:54.359 Charlie Morton has pitched. I think Blake Snow still the 0:04:54.360 --> 0:04:55.800 guy they would want on the mount. But that's a 0:04:55.839 --> 0:04:58.760 long time coming, in a long time away. Blake Snell 0:04:58.839 --> 0:05:00.960 out four to six weeks. But he's not the only 0:05:00.960 --> 0:05:03.080 star that's going to be out for a while, as 0:05:03.160 --> 0:05:07.039 Joey gallow is undergoing surgery to repair a broken hammate 0:05:07.120 --> 0:05:10.720 bone in his right race. The tweet yesterday, everyone was 0:05:10.760 --> 0:05:13.920 making fun of the the Beat reporter who reported it 0:05:14.040 --> 0:05:16.960 some someone from who covers the Texas Rangers. You wrote 0:05:17.000 --> 0:05:20.039 hamster bone. You probably got like auto corrected on his phone, 0:05:20.440 --> 0:05:23.480 and everybody was just quote tweeting it with like penny 0:05:23.600 --> 0:05:28.240 state type stuff. It's pretty funny. Greg. You don't enjoy puns, Like, 0:05:28.360 --> 0:05:30.599 what do you like? I mean, honestly, let's get down 0:05:30.600 --> 0:05:33.680 to this here. You don't like puns. I can't talk 0:05:33.720 --> 0:05:39.080 about or superheroes, villas. You don't like chocolate. You don't 0:05:39.080 --> 0:05:42.240 like bacon. You clearly like balsa mcvinegar because it's all 0:05:42.240 --> 0:05:46.240 over your shirt. Again, huh? You like dodgeball or I 0:05:46.279 --> 0:05:49.120 mean not? You like kickball? But do you even like kickball? 0:05:49.160 --> 0:05:51.320 You like bunting in kickball. You don't even like kicking 0:05:51.320 --> 0:05:54.240 the ball. But you don't like kicking the ball. I 0:05:54.320 --> 0:05:57.520 just think my be like like nudging the ball with 0:05:57.560 --> 0:06:01.040 your foot. It's not kickball, right, it's nudge ball. You're 0:06:01.040 --> 0:06:04.560 playing nudgeball. You're playing bunt ball with your foot. So 0:06:04.640 --> 0:06:06.760 what are your top five things that you like in life? Greg? 0:06:07.760 --> 0:06:09.920 This is this is where we've where we've come. She's 0:06:09.920 --> 0:06:11.760 like a hard question. Can we talk about Joey top 0:06:11.800 --> 0:06:15.560 five things that you like in life? Greg? Everything? Judy salad, 0:06:17.720 --> 0:06:22.600 balsamic vinegar salad or not? Spike ball ball and uh 0:06:22.640 --> 0:06:29.000 and Rob Susman and obviously Boma Susan, the entire Salesman family. 0:06:29.000 --> 0:06:31.120 All right, that makes the list for top five? It 0:06:31.560 --> 0:06:36.440 but Yeah, it's it's Judy, It's salad, balsamic vinegar, Spike Ball, 0:06:36.760 --> 0:06:38.960 and and the Salesman Family. That's the top five things 0:06:38.960 --> 0:06:41.960 that Gregg loves in life. I don't think that salad 0:06:42.040 --> 0:06:44.560 or balsamic vinegar may get in there. And the movies 0:06:44.600 --> 0:06:48.520 that were nominated for whatever the award is Oscars. I 0:06:48.560 --> 0:06:50.760 don't like all Oscar movies. But I do feel like 0:06:50.880 --> 0:06:56.360 we were talking downstairs about the Ventors movies and superhero movies, 0:06:56.360 --> 0:06:58.279 and of course Greg's like they're all the same. I 0:06:58.320 --> 0:07:01.440 hate them. But the only movies you like are like 0:07:01.480 --> 0:07:05.720 these hippie movies that are not hippis. It's true. I 0:07:05.760 --> 0:07:08.040 don't just like hippie movies. Don't even like hippie movies. 0:07:08.640 --> 0:07:10.720 I like good movies. I'm using the term hippie very 0:07:10.720 --> 0:07:14.360 loosely here. Clearly I like good movies, man, I like 0:07:14.400 --> 0:07:17.360 good movies. To name a good movie, this is this 0:07:17.400 --> 0:07:23.120 is dangerous, This is very dangerous, Like I think Team 0:07:23.160 --> 0:07:28.360 Going Up thirty it's a good movie. I used to 0:07:28.360 --> 0:07:29.680 like that movie. When I was younger. I was a 0:07:29.680 --> 0:07:32.320 big Jennifer Garner. Yeah, Everard was awesome. Yea, I used 0:07:32.320 --> 0:07:35.120 to I used to watch Alias religiously with my mother. Actually, really, 0:07:35.240 --> 0:07:38.480 it's a great show. Twelve years old and I love dude. 0:07:38.520 --> 0:07:41.040 I loved Alias. So was it good when you were 0:07:41.360 --> 0:07:43.360 I was twelve to you were probably thirty? Right, it 0:07:43.440 --> 0:07:48.920 was good, thay, But if I said that joke, you 0:07:48.920 --> 0:07:50.320 would have looked at me, like, oh, what an idiot. 0:07:50.440 --> 0:07:52.040 I would have laughed. It was a callback to a 0:07:52.080 --> 0:07:56.080 conversation we just had. Alright, So name a good movie. 0:07:56.080 --> 0:07:58.040 It's part of the movie. The depart is a very 0:07:58.040 --> 0:08:01.080 good movie. Yeah, Inceptions are good movie. So you're just 0:08:01.120 --> 0:08:04.080 gonna go down to Leonardo DiCaprio movies. Now it works 0:08:04.080 --> 0:08:07.120 for me, Yeah, it works. These all also nominated for Oscars. 0:08:07.120 --> 0:08:13.640 They probably Exception was not. Island was a bad movie? Really? 0:08:13.680 --> 0:08:16.040 I liked it, really, yeah it was. I got really 0:08:16.040 --> 0:08:21.400 annoyed by the ending. I like, uh, sure, of course Island. 0:08:22.360 --> 0:08:24.120 I was annoyed by the end of it. So you 0:08:24.200 --> 0:08:27.520 liked Inception is not close for you? No? No, not 0:08:27.560 --> 0:08:29.640 close for you, just pretty close. I think I gotta 0:08:29.680 --> 0:08:32.120 go back and rewatch them. I saw both in theaters. 0:08:32.160 --> 0:08:36.920 Actually I don't think I did. At least I'll give 0:08:36.960 --> 0:08:38.920 you the Department. It's actually good. All right, we'll talk 0:08:38.960 --> 0:08:40.960 about Joey Yallow and a whole out more how it 0:08:40.960 --> 0:08:47.760 affects their wind totals. Next. Hey, thanks for downloading the podcast, 0:08:47.800 --> 0:08:50.960 and remember, if you want to listen live, download the 0:08:51.080 --> 0:08:53.960 I Heart Radio app, download the tune and app and 0:08:54.080 --> 0:08:57.680 just search for Fantasy Sports Radio Network and you could 0:08:57.720 --> 0:09:00.760 listen to this program live all. 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Brutal injury for joe Gallow and for the 0:09:47.520 --> 0:09:50.880 Rangers absolutely, I mean he was having a career year 0:09:50.960 --> 0:09:54.080 this season to fifty three two home runs. Uh, he 0:09:54.160 --> 0:09:56.679 was still striking out a ton, but he was hitting 0:09:56.679 --> 0:09:58.760 more line drives. This season. He was hitting the ball 0:09:58.760 --> 0:10:02.560 harder than ever that I could have imagine that being possible, 0:10:02.640 --> 0:10:05.240 fifty one point nine percent hard hit rates. So this 0:10:05.280 --> 0:10:07.280 is a pretty big blow. Obviously, you missed some time 0:10:07.840 --> 0:10:10.400 earlier on in the season with the oblique injury, and 0:10:10.400 --> 0:10:13.520 now he's got this hammate bone. So it looks like 0:10:13.559 --> 0:10:15.760 the Rangers are going to be sellers here at the deadline. 0:10:15.800 --> 0:10:18.600 If they do anything, they probably end up moving Chris 0:10:18.720 --> 0:10:23.080 Martin and maybe they move Mike Minor, maybe and Andrew 0:10:23.120 --> 0:10:25.840 Cashner or something like that. But you know, if they 0:10:25.880 --> 0:10:28.600 do that, Greg, I'll throw this back your way. They 0:10:28.640 --> 0:10:32.760 probably just shut down. Joey Gallo. No, what's the timetable 0:10:32.800 --> 0:10:38.280 for this injury? Probably should ask, you know, Virginia, not you, 0:10:38.240 --> 0:10:40.240 you're you're not an injury expert. I just thought if 0:10:40.240 --> 0:10:41.640 you if you read the report, they might have had 0:10:42.080 --> 0:10:44.880 a timetable next to it. He'll be sidelined through all 0:10:44.920 --> 0:10:47.920 of August, and so by the time they get to 0:10:47.960 --> 0:10:50.480 September they're not competing. It wouldn't surprise me if he 0:10:50.480 --> 0:10:53.120 doesn't play another game this year. I agree that the 0:10:53.160 --> 0:10:55.120 same thing goes for Adelberto Mondassey was dealing with the 0:10:55.160 --> 0:10:58.000 shoulder injury. Like, what kind of incentive do the Royals 0:10:58.040 --> 0:11:01.000 have to rush him back? He's literally a huge part 0:11:01.000 --> 0:11:04.400 of their future. So just again, big blows for fantasy owners, 0:11:04.400 --> 0:11:06.760 and you know, I would say they're big blows for 0:11:06.760 --> 0:11:09.240 the team's obviously they are. But the Royals and Rangers 0:11:09.280 --> 0:11:11.600 are not competing for anything, so it doesn't really matter. 0:11:11.679 --> 0:11:15.440 If you are a in Texas playing fantasy baseball, are 0:11:15.440 --> 0:11:19.160 you running to pick up Willie Calhoun again? Yeah? I 0:11:19.400 --> 0:11:22.760 think that obviously makes some sense. They can um, they 0:11:22.760 --> 0:11:25.240 can use Hunter Pence again at the at the d H, 0:11:25.280 --> 0:11:27.040 they still have no more Mazara. They have shintsu Chu 0:11:27.120 --> 0:11:29.560 who has had an awesome season. So yeah, especially in 0:11:29.640 --> 0:11:33.280 deeper leagues, Willy Calhoun was demoted recently. Uh did they 0:11:33.320 --> 0:11:38.560 make that? The corresponding move is that for Shure greg Or? Yeah? 0:11:38.600 --> 0:11:40.600 You know, I love Willie Calhoun is this guy has 0:11:40.640 --> 0:11:43.600 been a professional hitter every single level of the miners 0:11:44.040 --> 0:11:47.520 And I think that that injury that he suffered when 0:11:47.559 --> 0:11:49.400 he first came up and he was mashing then he 0:11:49.400 --> 0:11:52.000 suffered the injury. I think that really kind of derailed 0:11:52.040 --> 0:11:54.720 him because when he was first called up, Willie Calhoun 0:11:54.920 --> 0:11:57.520 was crushing it for the Texas Rangers. I think he 0:11:57.640 --> 0:11:59.920 just had a really, really weird start to his career. 0:12:00.320 --> 0:12:02.400 He's not a good fielder, so he's kind of an 0:12:02.400 --> 0:12:04.520 odd man out. He can't play d H because they 0:12:04.559 --> 0:12:06.720 have Hunter Pence and they have Shinsu Chu. He's not 0:12:06.760 --> 0:12:10.240 a good outfielder. He's like a second baseman converted outfielder. 0:12:10.440 --> 0:12:13.280 It's been a really really rough go the first couple 0:12:13.320 --> 0:12:16.880 of seasons here for Willie Calhoun. But he's going to 0:12:16.920 --> 0:12:18.520 be someone that I'm just going to continue to buy, 0:12:18.559 --> 0:12:23.520 you know, because it's in a really good ballpark, really 0:12:23.520 --> 0:12:26.360 good lineup, and I really do believe that he is 0:12:26.400 --> 0:12:28.480 a professional hitter, someone that can hit for batting average 0:12:28.520 --> 0:12:31.560 and power. So from a fantasy perspective, yeah, but let's 0:12:31.600 --> 0:12:33.760 see if that's actually what they do. If they make 0:12:33.800 --> 0:12:37.240 that the corresponding move. From a betting perspective, you know, 0:12:37.360 --> 0:12:42.880 maybe this will lend itself towards you choosing the under 0:12:43.040 --> 0:12:45.360 more so in Texas Rangers game now, or you know, 0:12:45.440 --> 0:12:48.240 betting against them because they don't have that big Joey 0:12:48.240 --> 0:12:50.080 Beallo Gallo bat in the lineup, and now is there 0:12:50.200 --> 0:12:54.319 something to potentially for the Red Sox. It's like you 0:12:54.400 --> 0:12:57.160 made the wild card now because the Razors falling back, 0:12:57.200 --> 0:12:59.720 the Rangers falling back. Obviously mentioned that the A's and 0:12:59.760 --> 0:13:03.600 the Indians in two games out right now, right, the 0:13:03.600 --> 0:13:05.640 Red Sox can surgery of a big series the Yankees 0:13:05.679 --> 0:13:10.760 this weekend to be a wild card team. Right now, 0:13:10.800 --> 0:13:13.319 here's the problem, Greg, You're just not getting great odds. 0:13:13.760 --> 0:13:15.600 You're getting the Boston Red Sox to be a wild 0:13:15.600 --> 0:13:17.840 card team. You could bet specifically on to be a 0:13:17.880 --> 0:13:21.559 wild card team on the Fandel sports book. Boston Red 0:13:21.559 --> 0:13:25.240 Sox at plus one thirty. Yeah, they probably make it. 0:13:25.320 --> 0:13:27.880 But money's money. That's fine. Like if you end up 0:13:27.880 --> 0:13:29.559 doubling your money or you know, a little bit more 0:13:29.600 --> 0:13:32.120 than that. Obviously here at plus one thirty, that's fine. 0:13:32.920 --> 0:13:34.840 You know, if you're a Red Sox fan, it's probably 0:13:34.840 --> 0:13:36.840 something you should jump on. You probably should have jumped 0:13:36.840 --> 0:13:38.160 on it a couple of weeks ago when they were 0:13:38.200 --> 0:13:41.240 even further out. But yeah, I mean, you can never 0:13:41.280 --> 0:13:43.760 count the Red Sox out. They're probably going to make 0:13:43.760 --> 0:13:45.719 a move or two here at the deadline. I don't 0:13:45.760 --> 0:13:48.120 think that they make anything too crazy, Greg, because everything 0:13:48.200 --> 0:13:50.920 I've read says they want to stay under this luxury tax. 0:13:51.360 --> 0:13:53.679 So I don't think that they're going to, you know, 0:13:53.720 --> 0:13:56.240 acquire some huge name. You saw them already pick up 0:13:56.240 --> 0:13:59.360 Andrew Kashner. But I think that they go out there 0:13:59.360 --> 0:14:01.760 and they get another reliever. I don't know that they trust, 0:14:02.040 --> 0:14:03.959 you know, Nathan, of all your Brandon Workman as the 0:14:04.559 --> 0:14:06.559 I think they do. I don't think they do anything crazy. 0:14:06.559 --> 0:14:08.640 I'm surprised they never really signed Craig Kimber. I always 0:14:08.679 --> 0:14:10.840 thought just there's no urgency there, you know what I'm saying. 0:14:10.960 --> 0:14:13.120 When it comes to the Red six, it's really weird. 0:14:13.200 --> 0:14:15.679 I know that they just won the Super Bowl, Super Bowl, Gosh, 0:14:16.280 --> 0:14:18.840 I'm so in on football right now. He just won 0:14:18.880 --> 0:14:22.080 the World Series. But it feels like this year they're 0:14:22.120 --> 0:14:25.960 just kind of going through the motions. Is that fair 0:14:26.000 --> 0:14:29.040 to say? It feels that there's just no urgency. It 0:14:29.400 --> 0:14:32.600 doesn't feel like they need to get back to the urgency. 0:14:32.720 --> 0:14:34.480 We have this weekend. Obviously we'll watch these games a 0:14:34.480 --> 0:14:38.160 little bit closer'n. It should be fun. Hopefully, Uh the 0:14:38.200 --> 0:14:42.160 Yankees will um yes, bats will continue to hit now 0:14:42.200 --> 0:14:45.320 this is what you should be betting on. Greg the 0:14:45.360 --> 0:14:50.600 Boston Red Sox. This is heresy for Yankees fans to 0:14:50.640 --> 0:14:53.520 here cover your ears that the Boston Red Sox and 0:14:53.560 --> 0:14:58.360 the win the divisions that think Tanner Levin. It's a 0:14:58.360 --> 0:15:00.280 lot of games. It's a lot of games. It's a 0:15:00.280 --> 0:15:02.120 lot of game. The Nationals are on their way to 0:15:02.160 --> 0:15:04.880 doing it though. No Greg, and more time though. But 0:15:04.960 --> 0:15:06.880 the thing is, if there's ever a time to do it, 0:15:06.880 --> 0:15:11.400 it's now. Because the Red Sox, the Red Sox at 0:15:11.400 --> 0:15:13.760 plus seventeen hundred, right they have would They have a 0:15:13.760 --> 0:15:16.280 four game series coming up against the Yankees right now, 0:15:16.400 --> 0:15:18.440 and I think next week they face the Yankees three 0:15:18.480 --> 0:15:22.280 more times. If they go five and two in those games, 0:15:22.880 --> 0:15:25.280 again I hope not as a Yankee fan, but it's 0:15:25.320 --> 0:15:28.160 not intermountable. If they go five and two, six and 0:15:28.160 --> 0:15:30.600 one in those games, the Red Sox make a huge 0:15:30.640 --> 0:15:33.600 ground in the A League half at plus seventeen hundred. 0:15:34.200 --> 0:15:38.320 I'm just saying I wouldn't do it, but it's just 0:15:38.440 --> 0:15:40.400 it's just big odds, you know, Yeah, those are those 0:15:40.400 --> 0:15:44.120 are good odds. Plus seventeen hundred not something you would do. No, 0:15:44.240 --> 0:15:46.520 I can't talk you into this. You're just getting them 0:15:46.520 --> 0:15:48.640 at such a such a great value. And it's just 0:15:48.880 --> 0:15:50.800 the fact that they're going to face the Yankees seven 0:15:50.840 --> 0:15:53.240 times in the next two weeks. They can make up 0:15:53.240 --> 0:15:56.480 a lot of ground. I'll just throw it out there. Um. 0:15:56.640 --> 0:15:59.960 Other baseball news, Uh, we mentioned Blake's now we've now 0:16:00.040 --> 0:16:04.200 mentioned Joey Gallow. Both of those stories worth monitoring. Here 0:16:04.440 --> 0:16:06.920 is Zekiel Elliott talks about it last hour. Ezekiel Elliott 0:16:06.920 --> 0:16:09.080 did not report is not expected to report the training 0:16:09.120 --> 0:16:12.360 camp in l A with the Cowboys. The team playing 0:16:12.440 --> 0:16:14.320 left from Dallas to go to l A. You can 0:16:14.320 --> 0:16:17.880 find yourself there obviously, but Ezekiel Elliott not expected to 0:16:17.920 --> 0:16:21.000 be there when camp opens in LA for the Dallas Cowboys. 0:16:21.120 --> 0:16:23.200 As I've mentioned, I believe the date is either the 0:16:23.280 --> 0:16:26.440 sixth or the eighth, when this becomes in a crude season. 0:16:26.480 --> 0:16:28.600 And you brought this up as well, Greg, Yes, that's 0:16:28.640 --> 0:16:30.840 the date that you really have to pay attention to that. 0:16:31.240 --> 0:16:35.200 If he doesn't arrive by then, then he's pretty much 0:16:35.280 --> 0:16:37.640 you know, okay, I'm doing this thing. I'm holding out. 0:16:37.880 --> 0:16:39.840 It wouldn't surprise me if Jerry Jones still you know, 0:16:40.240 --> 0:16:43.880 breaks the bank for Ezekiel Elliott. But yeah, it's obviously 0:16:43.920 --> 0:16:47.200 a huge storyline to pay attention to. I don't know that, uh, 0:16:48.080 --> 0:16:50.160 you know, we would feel as good about the Dallas 0:16:50.160 --> 0:16:53.920 Cowboys potentially winning the NFC or the NFC East with 0:16:54.040 --> 0:16:57.920 Tony Pollard as they're starting running back. So yeah, this 0:16:57.960 --> 0:17:00.960 has a huge effect on things, both for fantasy and 0:17:01.240 --> 0:17:04.360 from a betting person. Absolutely, it's insane, absolutely obviously huge, 0:17:04.480 --> 0:17:07.159 Ezekiel Elliott news. We certainly used that we're gonna have 0:17:07.160 --> 0:17:10.240 to follow Thomas too. I don't feel nearly the same 0:17:10.280 --> 0:17:13.240 as I do about Zeke as I do about Melvin Gordon. 0:17:13.800 --> 0:17:18.720 I feel much more strongly about Melvin Gordon holding out 0:17:18.720 --> 0:17:20.360 than I do Ezek And I think it's clear because 0:17:20.400 --> 0:17:22.480 the agent even than this whole statement, the Melan Gordon 0:17:22.520 --> 0:17:23.960 had this whole statement, and the charges came out of 0:17:23.960 --> 0:17:25.560 the statement. It's a lot of back and forth. Zek 0:17:25.720 --> 0:17:30.080 Elliott's like, here's my and he's younger though he's here's 0:17:30.119 --> 0:17:33.600 what I want. Less years already on, let's be like, 0:17:34.359 --> 0:17:37.480 give me what I want. World show up a little late. 0:17:38.000 --> 0:17:40.320 He's going to be he's going to want to be 0:17:40.400 --> 0:17:44.560 the highest paid running back in the NFL. Why not. 0:17:45.280 --> 0:17:48.160 I think it's you know, three out of the four years. 0:17:48.200 --> 0:17:50.120 How many years does he play? I think he's played three, right, 0:17:50.400 --> 0:17:53.760 Zeke with one suspension, He's led the league in rushing 0:17:53.800 --> 0:17:55.919 each of the two years that he wasn't suspended. In 0:17:55.960 --> 0:17:57.800 the year that he was suspended, he led the league 0:17:57.800 --> 0:17:59.840 in rushing yards per games. So he would have led 0:17:59.880 --> 0:18:03.359 the league in rushing if he didn't get suspended. There's 0:18:03.400 --> 0:18:08.080 a huge There's obviously a huge ideology, and there are 0:18:08.119 --> 0:18:10.400 a lot of statistics that back it up. Right now, 0:18:11.200 --> 0:18:13.320 people that are way smarter than me in the fantasy 0:18:13.359 --> 0:18:16.440 industry and the football analytics industry that say running backs 0:18:16.560 --> 0:18:19.720 don't matter. And there was a story that came out 0:18:19.720 --> 0:18:23.560 recently from the gentleman who actually created the air Yards 0:18:23.640 --> 0:18:26.399 website and founded air Yards First Go Josh on Twitter. 0:18:26.560 --> 0:18:30.040 Of course, he wrote an article about why Ezekiel Elliott 0:18:30.160 --> 0:18:33.679 is not worth the money that he would be asking for. 0:18:34.280 --> 0:18:37.000 So I employed, I would tell everyone to go out 0:18:37.040 --> 0:18:38.520 there and check it out and read it, so you 0:18:38.520 --> 0:18:41.040 can kind of get an analytics perspective of things. But 0:18:41.160 --> 0:18:45.399 obviously every pure football fan, Cowboys fan is going to 0:18:45.480 --> 0:18:47.760 come out and say, how can you not pay Ezekiel Elliott. 0:18:47.800 --> 0:18:49.200 I mean, this guy is one of the best running 0:18:49.200 --> 0:18:52.000 backs in the league, but there are analytics and stats 0:18:52.040 --> 0:18:55.640 that show that he may not be worth the money 0:18:55.640 --> 0:18:59.120 that he's asking for. Greg. That's Ezekiel Elliot I would 0:18:59.119 --> 0:19:01.120 probably pay the guy. We're gonna have a lot more 0:19:01.160 --> 0:19:03.879 news on a whole lot more players, including franchise players 0:19:03.880 --> 0:19:07.800 like Julio Jones and Julian Edelman because of Virginia Fox injuries. 0:19:07.800 --> 0:19:12.120 With us next from the NFL to the NBA, Daily 0:19:12.160 --> 0:19:14.240 Rohodo dot Com is the place to win millions in 0:19:14.359 --> 0:19:17.159 daily fantasy. 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Um graind strnges, highly recurrent, 0:20:57.680 --> 0:21:00.760 especially difficult for a catcher of course, and not crouching position. 0:21:01.240 --> 0:21:03.440 UM he did say that this one doesn't feel anything 0:21:03.480 --> 0:21:07.160 like the ones he dealt with last year. But minimum 0:21:07.200 --> 0:21:10.280