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Speaker 2: I mean cross your fingers that it's legitimate. That's that
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Speaker 2: memorabilia and has sat in loads of autograph signings and
Speaker 2: been with a reputable person I have. People didn't see it.
Speaker 2: A couple of days ago. I got a call about it.
Speaker 2: I shared a long story about it. Friend of the show,
Speaker 2: Justin Steele, was immediately on it. But there was one
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Speaker 2: an autograph dealer forgery spite half a billion dollars the
Speaker 2: biggest companies being forged, from Fanatics to Tom Brady to
Speaker 2: Aaron Judge and then some death at the end of
Speaker 2: it after being caught. It is one of the craziest
Speaker 2: crazy stories.
Speaker 1: H Yeah, so crazy stuff there. But we are authentic
Speaker 1: here on this program, so it's authenticated. Obviously, no baseball
Speaker 1: games to talk about from the last couple of days
Speaker 1: except the all Star Game, which you had some run scored,
Speaker 1: which is fun, had a fun ending. I didn't even
Speaker 1: realize that home run Everything, I'll be honest was a
Speaker 1: thing at the end.
Speaker 2: I didn't. I stopped watching. I'm not a big All
Speaker 2: Star guy. Like I watched a little bit of it
Speaker 2: to start, and then Bogman texts me, He's like, are
Speaker 2: you watching this? And I'm like, no, I'm not watching
Speaker 2: the end of the All Star Game? But then they
Speaker 2: did it in this amazing like home run off, which
Speaker 2: is super cool. Had I known that they should just
Speaker 2: do it every single year, I would be here for like,
Speaker 2: find a way to incorporate that to be the ending
Speaker 2: of the game. And I'm in, there's no chance I'm
Speaker 2: watching the seventh inning of the All Star Game that
Speaker 2: I want to hang around doing any of that.
Speaker 3: Now.
Speaker 1: I typically don't watch it either, but I did catch that,
Speaker 1: and that was kind of fun. I was like, Oh, okay,
Speaker 1: Kyle Schwarber is hitting home runs everywhere. That's that's kind
Speaker 1: of fun. There are some news and notes to get to.
Speaker 1: Brandon Lao is feeling much better. Could even return today
Speaker 1: to the lineup we were talking about him doing with
Speaker 1: that side issue. I still think this is very delicate,
Speaker 1: be very careful about that. Sean Minaya is back on
Speaker 1: the mound two h so last time we saw him
Speaker 1: was pitching out of the bullpen. He was great. Think
Speaker 1: he stuged got seven guys, I want to say seven,
Speaker 1: not too shadby. He gets the reds in that first start.
Speaker 1: Tyler Glass now is going to be back on the
Speaker 1: hill today, so he is going to make a big
Speaker 1: start here. Bailey ober is going to start for Triple
Speaker 1: A on Friday, so he's working his way back and
Speaker 1: also back to Tampa for a moment. Joe Boyle is
Speaker 1: going to remain with the Rays in relief role. So Welsh,
Speaker 1: do you think that's a matter of continues to piggyback
Speaker 1: Rasmus in or do you think Boyle's just going to
Speaker 1: be straight up relief guy whenever they need him.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I think they said it's a multi relief inning guy.
Speaker 2: So as far as what was out there publicly, Rasmussen
Speaker 2: is going to kind of go back to what he
Speaker 2: was doing five innings probably apphim at like eighty five pitches.
Speaker 2: So it's I think it's a definite possibility that someone
Speaker 2: like Boile could be a piggyback, but I don't think
Speaker 2: it's going to be an assured piggyback. They said multi
Speaker 2: inning relief role. So someone gets blasted or their bullpen
Speaker 2: is a you know, a little bit taxed or something
Speaker 2: like that, and you get a guy that goes five.
Speaker 2: You could put Boil in there to go. You might
Speaker 2: see like a three inning save or something from Boil.
Speaker 2: So it just I think it just kind of takes
Speaker 2: away from his fantasy value unless somebody gets hurt and
Speaker 2: he gets thrown back in multi inning relief looks like
Speaker 2: the plan.
Speaker 1: A huge star for Sandy al contrast today too, this
Speaker 1: is one against the Royals where he's got to get
Speaker 1: back on track. If he doesn't, that's a big problem
Speaker 1: for the trade stock. Like this is kind of like
Speaker 1: if you have this one good start, I don't want
Speaker 1: to put too much into it, but you know, this
Speaker 1: whole time, the velocity has not been the problem.
Speaker 2: It's been the field for pitching.
Speaker 1: So I don't know. If it's problems with the catcher,
Speaker 1: I don't know, if it's problems with him, I don't
Speaker 1: if it's a problem with everything, if it's mental, whatever
Speaker 1: it might be. At this juncture in the season. This
Speaker 1: is on of the you know, water get off the
Speaker 1: pop moment for the Marlins and Sandy al Contra, So
Speaker 1: I think all eyes are going to be on the start,
Speaker 1: especially the eyes of contending teams looking for starting pitching help.
Speaker 2: Who do you think has hurt their trade stock more
Speaker 2: Sandio Contra or Zach Gollan? Like like who is the
Speaker 2: worst trade asset?
Speaker 1: Who is worse?
Speaker 2: Yeah? Like like who's in a worst spot? Al Contra
Speaker 2: or Zach Gallon because.
Speaker 1: He's returning from his major surgery.
Speaker 2: So I guess I didn't mean that. I meant more
Speaker 2: like like who is the most susceptible to not returning
Speaker 2: for maybe not getting moved because they're so bad? Like
Speaker 2: who's I guess who's just worse to use? Zach Gallen
Speaker 2: or al Contra? I don't know, man, that's tough.
Speaker 1: I mean.
Speaker 2: They both had their moments where they strung a couple
Speaker 2: starts together. Al Contra has strung a couple bad more
Speaker 2: bad ones than Gallon has recently. But they both had
Speaker 2: their moments, and they're both I.
Speaker 1: Think a Contra historically has been the more consistent pitcher,
Speaker 1: So if I I will say Gal is the worst
Speaker 1: of the two because I just look as a pitcher
Speaker 1: as a body of work. The durability of a contra
Speaker 1: before his injury, throwing two hundred innings every year, That's
Speaker 1: not something guys do nowadays. His efficiency with pitching saw
Speaker 1: Young Award like all that stuff. Like Gallon was very good,
Speaker 1: but our contra was great for a couple of years,
Speaker 1: and I think I would still give that to there.
Speaker 2: And like to your point, it is like our contra's
Speaker 2: like velos and stuff are still there where Gallan's lost
Speaker 2: like the fastball. Like, I agree, I think Gallen is
Speaker 2: the worst ass. I think he has less value. As
Speaker 2: Lee Old said in the chat, less value is attached
Speaker 2: to Zach Gallen right now. And I think our contra
Speaker 2: has at least another year too, So that's that changes
Speaker 2: the value perspective.
Speaker 1: We're gonna get to your questions in the chat. Keep
Speaker 1: dropping them in there. We're gonna have a lot of
Speaker 1: Q and A today on the program New Superman. Though
Speaker 1: Jerry was not a fan, Welsh, did you see the
Speaker 1: New Superman.
Speaker 2: I'm gonna go see it today. I'm taking my kid
Speaker 2: to go see it today.
Speaker 1: We'll get your review.
Speaker 2: Thanks Jerry, Glad it sucks.
Speaker 1: I liked it. I didn't love it, but I liked it,
Speaker 1: and I think they did some good things with it.
Speaker 1: I think it was you know, get your popcorn, enjoyed
Speaker 1: a couple hours in the theater, and that's it. You know,
Speaker 1: it's not Marvel, you know, high end, you know, Civil War,
Speaker 1: it's not that like, it's not that kind of movie.
Speaker 1: It's not that good. But let's go to D's here.
Speaker 1: What are your latest thoughts on Bubba and Painter Welsh
Speaker 1: coming out of the All Star break? Who do we
Speaker 1: get first?
Speaker 2: Okay, so I actually think you could get Painter first,
Speaker 2: but I just don't think he has sustaining power right now,
Speaker 2: just because like Aaron Nola is theoretically going to be
Speaker 2: back pretty soon, that would move Tywan Walker to the bullpen.
Speaker 2: I'm a little torn on where Painter is. And obviously
Speaker 2: his performance has been a little eh Ies did a
Speaker 2: prospect short last week where it's just like, I'm still
Speaker 2: doing the Bubba thing. You know, he was really good
Speaker 2: for his last couple of starts. I just the manipulation thing.
Speaker 2: It's not about I think contractual years anymore. It's about
Speaker 2: can you get this guy to still be rookie eligible
Speaker 2: next year for a potential PPI like extra rookie pick.
Speaker 2: I just don't know if the Pirates are going to
Speaker 2: do that. It just seems so likely to get anyone
Speaker 2: to show up at that stupid stadium. The minute they
Speaker 2: sell Mitch Keller, Bubba comes up, they get people excited.
Speaker 2: I'm gonna say Bubba is the one I want to hold.
Speaker 2: Maybe Painter comes up first while we're waiting for Nola,
Speaker 2: but he has a sustaining power.
Speaker 1: Here's one from Dylan. Should I keep hanging on to
Speaker 1: Christian Walker and ti Oscar? I would yes, hang on
Speaker 1: to both of them. I know they've been disappointing. Ti
Speaker 1: Oscar too, like he started off pretty good and then
Speaker 1: kind of went in the tank. We talked about this.
Speaker 1: I think it was on the Q and a livestream,
Speaker 1: all this stuff. When Walker finally went on the ptturnity list.
Speaker 1: I think that was a big part of it. You know,
Speaker 1: when you move to a new team and your wife
Speaker 1: is pregnant and it's a new city and god knows
Speaker 1: what's going on there? Did she stay in the old place?
Speaker 1: I'm frozen? Is that what you're saying?
Speaker 2: You're well you're you're catching up now. You frozen there first,
Speaker 2: all right, But.
Speaker 1: I was just thinking there was a lot going on
Speaker 1: with him per and I think that was a huge
Speaker 1: distraction for him. And now that hopefully everything's good here
Speaker 1: the baby's born, maybe things can be a little bit
Speaker 1: calmer here, But like that's a lot, very stressful thing
Speaker 1: depending on what's going on with the mom. Where was
Speaker 1: she Was she in Houston finding new doctors? Was she
Speaker 1: with her old doctors and the old place they used
Speaker 1: to live in Arizona? I mean, who knows. There's a
Speaker 1: lot of personal stuff, and we forget that. I think
Speaker 1: a Christian Walker set up for a good second half
Speaker 1: ti Oscar Nandez. I would hold onto both these guys
Speaker 1: in a ten team league, I get it, like in
Speaker 1: Nick kurtsis in the waiver wire, which I doubt on
Speaker 1: a ten team even now, I'll take Kurts over Walker.
Speaker 2: But I don't know what else you're flipping Walker for
Speaker 2: at this point. Yeah, I'm not even sure there's a
Speaker 2: big conversation of moving on from them. I actually did
Speaker 2: last night Bogman and I I think I mentioned this
Speaker 2: before our home league. I think we have one of
Speaker 2: the best home league structures out there. We play essentially
Speaker 2: two leagues the first half unto large All Star break.
Speaker 2: We play a roto league, then the champion is crowned.
Speaker 2: Then the winner of that league gets money and they
Speaker 2: get the first pick, and we play head to head
Speaker 2: in the second half. So it keeps people invest did
Speaker 2: blah blah blah. So we did our draft, our second
Speaker 2: half draft last night, and I mean, I'll say ta
Speaker 2: Oscar was way more of a target than Christian Walker,
Speaker 2: but both Fell and Nick Kurtz probably went six rounds
Speaker 2: before either one of those guys, So just throwing out there,
Speaker 2: Kurtz was like a fifth round pick. Walker was kind
Speaker 2: of an afterthought. Really, Fell, ta Oscar Hernandez was a
Speaker 2: guy that I was targeting, so if you can hold it,
Speaker 2: probably relatively hold. But ta Oskar's the one I value
Speaker 2: a little bit more. But you know, going into the
Speaker 2: All Star Break, Walker had been hitting three point fifty
Speaker 2: in July, but he still hadn't hit over two twenty
Speaker 2: three any month this entire season, So big second half
Speaker 2: might you know, come into play, especially as this team
Speaker 2: is pushing. But if I'm ranking them, it's ta Oscar
Speaker 2: and then it's Christian Walker.
Speaker 1: All right. Let's get to another question here from BD
Speaker 1: Fantasy philosophical question Falafful fantasy Falafful, I love fantasy, falaffe delicious.
Speaker 1: How many? How many guys from one team do you
Speaker 1: think is too many? I've got Bregman, Anthony, Duran Rafaela
Speaker 1: on one roster, debating if I should trade one. Look,
Speaker 1: if you know, if it's the twenty seven Yankees, Yeah,
Speaker 1: you want all of them. I think it depends on
Speaker 1: the team you're playing. I mean the rostering, I should
Speaker 1: say I want Bregman, I want Anthony. I think Dron
Speaker 1: is fine, Rafael is fine. I don't mind having all
Speaker 1: these guys on one roster. It stinks when the Red
Speaker 1: Sox have a bad day, but Red Sox are a
Speaker 1: pretty good offense. Rafaella is a guy you know, qualifies
Speaker 1: at multiple spots. And I think Roman Anthony's poys for
Speaker 1: a big second half. I think he's gonna end up
Speaker 1: being potentially Rookie of the Year in the American League.
Speaker 1: It really do if he carries that Red Sox team
Speaker 1: to the playoffs. Well, what are your thoughts on this?
Speaker 1: Philosophically speaking, when you have a lot of players on
Speaker 1: one roster. I don't mind it Welsh as long as
Speaker 1: they're the right players on the right roster.
Speaker 2: Yeah, falafel speaking is not football. This is not football.
Speaker 2: I had this thing I did a draft yesterday too
Speaker 2: in football where I was like, I think I Puka
Speaker 2: fell to me. Poka baseball might be like, what the
Speaker 2: hell are you talking about? Pooka fell in the first
Speaker 2: round of me. And then it was like the second
Speaker 2: or or no, it was the third round where DeVonta
Speaker 2: Adams is there. They're both on the same team, and
Speaker 2: I was like, you know, you get a little bit
Speaker 2: squeamish about it. It's just not the case in baseball
Speaker 2: unless those players were stinky. Those all were not. Two
Speaker 2: of those players I drafted in my second half draft.
Speaker 2: I took Alex Bregman, who you know, everybody kind of
Speaker 2: slept on forgot, and I took Roman Anthony. I took
Speaker 2: it really late, and I thought that was a steal.
Speaker 2: Rafaela was my bold prediction in a bold Prediction article
Speaker 2: that he's gonna have a monster second half. He's so
Speaker 2: fantasy underrated at this point. Deron's the only one that's
Speaker 2: just kind of like, you know, we're a little indifferent about.
Speaker 2: But as long as they are individually like good players,
Speaker 2: it doesn't matter for the team because you know the
Speaker 2: concept of football with a guy like Puka is, oh
Speaker 2: Puka takes away from Devonte Adams. They're sharing the same
Speaker 2: position and the you know, the ball goes and it's
Speaker 2: picking one of those two. It's not the case or
Speaker 2: Devanta Adams. It's not the case. In baseball, it's all
Speaker 2: in individualize. The only thing that we look from a
Speaker 2: team context is like, oh, this guy is a great
Speaker 2: power hitter, but everybody sucks around him and there's nobody
Speaker 2: on base for him to get RBIs. So they're just
Speaker 2: so individualized it just doesn't the team stuff doesn't really matter.
Speaker 1: From Jay Goss four player keeper league, I'm stacked with pitching.
Speaker 1: Do I trade Sanchez for cavin Aro? I think that's
Speaker 1: a fair value. I mean keeper league, Christopher Sanchez, I
Speaker 1: assume Ldo Sanchez. Yeah, h absolutely, well, especially Cammon Arrow
Speaker 1: in a keeper league, that's the asset you want.
Speaker 2: Remember Sanchez, I do, I do, I love, I love
Speaker 2: he was one of those guys. Six Sanchez, Yeah, well,
Speaker 2: I mean he's still around.
Speaker 1: I think number six though, is he is he Sean Manaia,
Speaker 1: Yuri or Rogers from Baltimore rest of season I'll take.
Speaker 2: Because I know, well, no, it's not. I think I
Speaker 2: want Manaya. Oh give me Urie then, yeah, I mean,
Speaker 2: Mani is a good one. Rogers is not. With those
Speaker 2: two for me more win potential.
Speaker 1: Plus you know what if the Marlins really think by
Speaker 1: September do they just kind of start to limit Urie
Speaker 1: a little bit?
Speaker 2: That's my only concern too. It's like, Okay, he just
Speaker 2: gave me missing so much time. I don't think you
Speaker 2: would did.
Speaker 1: But it's the Marlins.
Speaker 2: I just don't trust them.
Speaker 1: Rogers have been great, but Manaia is my Look, I
Speaker 1: want all three of these guys to be honest with you. So,
Speaker 1: I mean, that's that's what I want my expectations. By
Speaker 1: the way, Frickin wants to know. For Mania, I wrote
Speaker 1: in my Bold Predictions the rest of season, I think
Speaker 1: he pitches like a top twenty fantasy pitcher. I think
Speaker 1: you could even push top fifteen. Remember we had one
Speaker 1: hundred and eight for strikeouts last year. He is, you
Speaker 1: know not my biggest concern with Mania coming into the
Speaker 1: season that I wrote this in the black book is
Speaker 1: he threw a lot of innings last year, how's that
Speaker 1: gonna work out this year? And now I don't have
Speaker 1: that concern because he's missed all this time with the injury.
Speaker 1: So now all of a sudden, I'm not worried about him.
Speaker 1: He's he's had a lot of rest because of the injury,
Speaker 1: so now I am not concerned. I think he goes
Speaker 1: right back to being a front of the rotation starter.
Speaker 1: I think that that bullpen appearance he had last weekend
Speaker 1: was very encouraging and hopefully today's a good star too.
Speaker 1: So Welsh, what are your expectations for Manaiah the rest
Speaker 1: of the season.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I don't like the top twenty. I'm not one
Speaker 2: hundred percent on, but like I think he can be
Speaker 2: a mid to low three Zra guy, really good strikeouts.
Speaker 2: I have him in my in my betting card today. Like,
Speaker 2: I think he's one of those sneaky guys. He was
Speaker 2: one of those in that second half draft where he
Speaker 2: was like dang it, I let him, Like why didn't
Speaker 2: I get him? He's one of those really good values
Speaker 2: if you're not thinking about it, and I think you know,
Speaker 2: probably like in the forties, he's his evaluation is sitting
Speaker 2: in there with like top twenty five, top thirty upsides,
Speaker 2: so I think there's a lot of upside. I'm going
Speaker 2: to assume like low like I said, low ish three
Speaker 2: era good strikeouts on a team that's gonna win a
Speaker 2: bunch of games, so that is pretty valuable.
Speaker 1: I want to shout out some of our first time
Speaker 1: chatters here, Jay Goss Frickin' and Jay left all first
Speaker 1: time chatters. He didn't leave. He's actually here and he's
Speaker 1: actually chatting. So just putting that out there. How do
Speaker 1: you guys? What do you think of tatist junior slash
Speaker 1: class A for Machado and Harper.
Speaker 2: I mean I want, well, dang it. I mean, like
Speaker 2: I look at like Machado Harper, the combination I think
Speaker 2: is just better. It's two hitters. I don't like banking
Speaker 2: on the closer. I guess if you really needed closer,
Speaker 2: but you're giving up a hefty price. You're either giving
Speaker 2: up Harper or Machado for Classe, who isn't the best
Speaker 2: closer in baseball right now, but you're getting the best
Speaker 2: singular player. So that's a tough trade. I think the
Speaker 2: I'm assuming you're getting Tatis and the closer here, but
Speaker 2: it's close. It's relatively close. But I like the two
Speaker 2: higher end hitters. I guess even though the best hitter
Speaker 2: we're leaving on the table.
Speaker 1: That geek Troy Clay Holmes hasn't been able to fetch
Speaker 1: me anything. Should I drop him for Sheahn tomorrow? If
Speaker 1: you want to drop him for she Han for that
Speaker 1: streaming start, I'm fine with it. Just know that she
Speaker 1: Hand's not long for that rotation, but I don't know
Speaker 1: if clay Holmes is either, so I'll take the she
Speaker 1: Hands start.
Speaker 2: I think that's perfectly fine.
Speaker 1: Stony Sports trade al Tuve and Jose Burrios for Katl Marte.
Speaker 1: I'm good with this, getting Katel, I think that's great.
Speaker 1: Burrios is one of my big sells here. That was
Speaker 1: our last big cell video we did on the YouTube
Speaker 1: channel this month, so that's on there as well on
Speaker 1: Fantasy pros MLB. And Brios was that guy for us
Speaker 1: that we want to sell, So packaging him with Altuva
Speaker 1: to get Marte, I'm good for this.
Speaker 2: Yeah, Brios is a nothing burger to me. I have
Speaker 2: a big sell on him, so you can move out
Speaker 2: Touve and somebody that I'm not super interested in to
Speaker 2: get the best second basement in baseball. Yep. Yeah.
Speaker 1: Also today not just twitching on the baseball, we're twitching
Speaker 1: on the football too, by the way, So if you
Speaker 1: want to hang out with us, we'll be talking football
Speaker 1: as well. So don't forget today that's gonna go on.
Speaker 1: We have our schedule here for the other football stuff
Speaker 1: going on here. So Monday of four we got a
Speaker 1: Best Ball live stream with Ericson and Tom Stratchin. Then
Speaker 1: Tuesday at two Fantasy Football Football Q and A with
Speaker 1: Seth Woolcock and Debro Wednesday, Seth and Debro again Thursday.
Speaker 1: The rotating analysts they are fantastic. They're like, you know
Speaker 1: what they do, all sort of acrobatics and stuff. The
Speaker 1: rotating analysts incredible stuff, so of it illegal in forty
Speaker 1: eight states even. And then Fantasy Football Q and A
Speaker 1: also rotating analysts.
Speaker 2: So there you go. What I think that shows you
Speaker 2: is like the twitch is going hot and heavy Monday
Speaker 2: through Friday. We got a lot of stuff that's going
Speaker 2: to be going on.
Speaker 1: You ever see your you ever see your I like
Speaker 1: to see you rotate, You rotate for us. There you go,
Speaker 1: there you go, Caroen, Now you can't because then you're
Speaker 1: gonna pull your headphones down. Don't do it.
Speaker 2: Basically, it's a lot of twitching.
Speaker 1: You're right there you go, Well, go get into my
Speaker 1: football philosophy's on those streams, by the way, not here.
Speaker 1: This is Baseball Show two Star week for all SPS.
Speaker 1: Pick one mis Lizardo or taj Lizardo. Not close for me?
Speaker 2: Uh oh yeah, pick a one. Yeah, Lozardo would be
Speaker 2: than who do you think who gets more mad? Football?
Speaker 2: When you football guys, when you talk about baseball or
Speaker 2: baseball guys, when you talk.
Speaker 1: About baseball, when you talk about football exactly, football guys
Speaker 1: are like, what, yeah, I went baseball.
Speaker 2: The baseball people are like no, they're like, oh that's cute.
Speaker 2: There's a little fantasy baseball thing, like that's cute.
Speaker 1: And then yeah it's cool. It's cool. Yeah, I like baseball.
Speaker 2: Baseball's fun.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I watch the Homer Derby the other night, or
Speaker 1: yeah I took my kids to a game you know
Speaker 1: last you know last year, that was fun.
Speaker 3: You know, had some twelve dollars. Yeah, exactly good. But
Speaker 3: like baseball get mad because back in the old light.
Speaker 3: I don't even know if they do it because I
Speaker 3: mean I don't listen, but like the series XM Days
Speaker 3: where it's like June hits and then all baseball content
Speaker 3: just gets kicked to the curb for football content, and
Speaker 3: that I know four grind.
Speaker 1: Always when I worked at Serrius XM Fantasy, that's July fourth,
Speaker 1: that was the beginning of it. And then all the
Speaker 1: baseball people were annoying, all the people baseball hosts were sad,
Speaker 1: and I was like, hey man, it's just not what
Speaker 1: you know drives the station, you know. And then they
Speaker 1: try to give you that golf content in between, as
Speaker 1: if like such a large porsh of people really do
Speaker 1: the golf.
Speaker 2: Don't let Pat and Bubba and all them hear this.
Speaker 2: But yeah, I agree.
Speaker 1: I mean, look, it's it's a strong it's a strong
Speaker 1: niche community, not gonna lie. And the people who bet golf,
Speaker 1: they have a lot of expendable income typically, so they're
Speaker 1: really into it.
Speaker 2: And it's gotten great into the betting market. I mean,
Speaker 2: but betting, like betting has kind of pushed golf into
Speaker 2: another era.
Speaker 1: I mean, it was the DFS golf thing that I
Speaker 1: used to always be like, oh god, oh yeah. But
Speaker 1: the betting golf, that's fine. The DFS golf, I'm like,
Speaker 1: I guess it's going. It's like go outside, touch grass,
Speaker 1: you know. Uh these rest of season Carpenter or a
Speaker 1: Rosa Rena, I want a Rose Arena.
Speaker 2: He's been good. Yeah, Randy, I mean carry Carpenter is
Speaker 2: also hurt, and there's not like a timeline, like you know,
Speaker 2: they just got to check stuff out, like Randy's out there.
Speaker 2: And Randy's also just the better one regardless.
Speaker 1: So from all Scotty, you drop Ramos for Stours. I'm
Speaker 1: okay with this. Ramos has been solid, but Stours has
Speaker 1: been on fire recently. And I always wonder Welsh, you know,
Speaker 1: whenever we get to this point the season when you
Speaker 1: have that, what do you have these guys who are
Speaker 1: just absolutely nuclear going into the break? I always feel
Speaker 1: like it's the worst thing too.
Speaker 2: It's always a part of momentum stops.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, like Stours, who was in like five hundred
Speaker 1: this month or something before the break. Just that momentum
Speaker 1: sometimes just stops and they don't pick up the same way.
Speaker 1: It's just not that it's gonna last forever anyway. But
Speaker 1: you're almost guaranteed for a slowdown at some point. Here's
Speaker 1: one for Mitch drops Sheehan to pick up Zebby. You
Speaker 1: want to do that? I don't want to do that.
Speaker 2: I don't pass like it doesn't matter, Like maybe Zebby's okay.
Speaker 2: I might rather have she in until until Blake Snell
Speaker 2: is up to get the starter or too. I just
Speaker 2: don't know if I need to stash ZEBI go. You
Speaker 2: know what, I'd rather have probably than both of those guys.
Speaker 2: You get like an Eric Lauer with the Blue Jays.
Speaker 2: He's probably floating out there.
Speaker 1: Yeah, Houser has been good too. Is anyone nervous about
Speaker 1: Hunter Brown? Sell high or hold? I think it's a
Speaker 1: bit a bad stretch. There's no doubt about that. Last
Speaker 1: three starts them nothing good? Is Era raised over almost
Speaker 1: a run I'm holding. I'm just not not There's not
Speaker 1: enough pitching to go around.
Speaker 2: I want Hunter Brown. What do you say we wash? Yeah?
Speaker 2: I mean I think like the question maybe is like,
Speaker 2: are you worried that he becomes a pumpkin? And then
Speaker 2: he's just not like the elite picture? So should I
Speaker 2: trade the elitenists? Right now? If I'm reading like that,
Speaker 2: I don't know. The break came in a pretty good time.
Speaker 2: Like you mentioned, he gave up twelve earned runs. He's
Speaker 2: got a six ERA this month, but this is after
Speaker 2: having like two to sub two eras the rest of
Speaker 2: the way through. He still was getting his strikeouts in there.
Speaker 2: Pretty smart pitcher, Like, I kind of think he's going
Speaker 2: to readjust this actually might be a good bytime to
Speaker 2: be honest with you. So back to like Joe's point,
Speaker 2: where I like, I don't think it makes sense. Maybe
Speaker 2: on the selling side of it, like he still could
Speaker 2: be elite. I'm buying. If I don't have him, I'm holding,
Speaker 2: and it'd go read the bold prediction second half article
Speaker 2: for Kelly, because Kelly is back all in on Hunter Brown.
Speaker 1: Here's one from Lucero's here, I was offered crochet for
Speaker 1: James Wood fourteen team head to head ops. It's tempting.
Speaker 1: It is tempting. That is kind of interesting there. It
Speaker 1: depends on what your rotation looks like in a fourteen
Speaker 1: team league. Pitching is really hard to come by. I mean,
Speaker 1: if I had a ton of offense in a fourteen teamer,
Speaker 1: which is also asking a lot, I think it's fair value.
Speaker 1: But Welsh, what do you think here? You want to
Speaker 1: you know it's fair. It's more about roster construction, I
Speaker 1: think than anything else.
Speaker 2: Right yeah, probably, Like I'm just gonna cite this because
Speaker 2: I just did it and I think it's relevant. That
Speaker 2: second half draft James Wood was like a top twelve
Speaker 2: player taken. I took right around the second round, right, Yeah,
Speaker 2: it was like early second round. I ended up taking
Speaker 2: Crochet and I got him in the lake because I
Speaker 2: had the second pick in the first round, so I
Speaker 2: took him the second to last pick Crochet I did.
Speaker 2: So there's the same general vicinity. OPS works really well
Speaker 2: for James Wood. So that's like, hey, I've got really
Speaker 2: good offense and I need pitching. You're getting the type
Speaker 2: of pitcher you should get. But in a vacuum, I
Speaker 2: would rather have James Wood. All right, let's have some fun, Welsh.
Speaker 2: Let's go through some of these names.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna throw a name at you here. You're gonna
Speaker 1: tell me, uh, traded or Stay's put.
Speaker 2: Okay, Okay, we're gonna play a little game.
Speaker 1: Here we go, Sandy al Contra traded or Stay's put.
Speaker 2: Stay's put. I'm gonna throw out there because he's been
Speaker 2: so bad.
Speaker 1: All right. David bed Nah of the Pirates Closer traders,
Speaker 1: stay put traded. I agree, Emmanuel class A, Oh, stay's put, okay,
Speaker 1: I agree, stays put. Jared Durant trader, stays put. I'm
Speaker 1: I think stay's put.
Speaker 2: Now.
Speaker 1: I think I think they're like, you know what, let's
Speaker 1: make a run here. I don't think they trade him.
Speaker 2: I'm gonna say traded, and the trade is going to
Speaker 2: not be a young package. It is gonna be this
Speaker 2: culmination of pieces that kind of fixes the Red Sox
Speaker 2: are trying to get Joe Ryan right now. I know
Speaker 2: this isn't quite doing the answer, but this is gonna
Speaker 2: be one where like it's gonna get a bullpen piece
Speaker 2: and a starter and it's gonna be to make that
Speaker 2: run because they have so many outfielders that that'll be
Speaker 2: my my big crazy one. So I'll say traded.
Speaker 1: Mitch Keller.
Speaker 2: Traded a right, traded.
Speaker 1: Ryan McMahon.
Speaker 2: Traded.
Speaker 1: I think he's a Yankee, I really do.
Speaker 2: I think they can't get sworez Yeah yeah. Cedric Mullins traded.
Speaker 2: Marcelo Zuna, Oh should be traded. Don't know if he
Speaker 2: I'm gonna say he's not traded even though he.
Speaker 1: Should last one.
Speaker 2: Johannio's what is traded, absolutely traded. Diamondbacks got to got
Speaker 2: to get there's their money's worth on Suarez and they will.
Speaker 2: He's one of the hot commodities.
Speaker 1: Yeah. Look, it's uh, we are now what It's the
Speaker 1: eighteenth of July, so we are quickly approaching that trade deadline.
Speaker 1: What team do you think goes first and bites on somebody,
Speaker 1: because I feel like there's.
Speaker 2: Always that one may trades four players.
Speaker 1: Yeah, like there's always that one team that goes. You know,
Speaker 1: we're we're making our post warm we'king a move, and
Speaker 1: it's typically before well before this and it kind of
Speaker 1: kicks things off and jump starts it. Who do you
Speaker 1: think that's gonna be this year? If you have a
Speaker 1: beat on.
Speaker 2: That, I'm gonna say the Red Sox. I think the
Speaker 2: Red Sox have the pieces. They've been tied to so
Speaker 2: many different things, the Joe Ryan stuff that's floating out there.
Speaker 2: I think the Red Sox getting to the market first,
Speaker 2: They're gonna make a tough decision. It could be like
Speaker 2: having in a Joe Ryan trade having to trade something
Speaker 2: like a Christian Campbell not saying that's gonna happen, but like,
Speaker 2: they don't make that type of tough decision, or you
Speaker 2: could see them making a blockbuster again that sends like
Speaker 2: a Jared Duran and they get a bunch of pieces.
Speaker 2: But I think it would behoove them to set the
Speaker 2: market for anybody else. So I'm gonna go with the
Speaker 2: Red Sox. All right, so the Red Sox are, well,
Speaker 2: what do you think you need to make a big move?
Speaker 1: A man? You know, I feel like the Yankees got
Speaker 1: to do something. I really do. I feel like they
Speaker 1: got to change the narrative a little bit and make
Speaker 1: it especially you know, they they got rid of the
Speaker 1: Mayhew They're kind of the offense has just been weird.
Speaker 1: They get shut out almost by the Cubs with Matthew
Speaker 1: Boyd Saturday. Like, I don't know, I feel like the
Speaker 1: Yankees need to do something, and I don't know if
Speaker 1: it's gonna be the right move, but I think they
Speaker 1: will make the first of the moves.
Speaker 2: All right, let me ask you one. Let's do a player.
Speaker 2: Let's throw in I like his big gene just put
Speaker 2: you got, I'm gonna say, Luis Robert Mitch Keller We'll
Speaker 2: put Jaren Duran in there, Joe Ryan, who else is
Speaker 2: Sandy al Contra, Zach Allen Suarez, Josh Naylor. Let's do
Speaker 2: those guys. Those are all common guys. Eight players. Who's
Speaker 2: the first bigger name player I didn't throw Bednar and
Speaker 2: stuff like that. Who's the of those kind of big
Speaker 2: ish names. Who's the first one that's moved?
Speaker 1: I think Suarez. I think I think that's just an
Speaker 1: easy one. And it's I think it's Milwaukee or I
Speaker 1: think it's the Yankees. I think that that's where it goes.
Speaker 1: And I mean, I'd be surprised if it was any
Speaker 1: other one, But to me, that's that's where it is.
Speaker 1: I think Milwaukee would be wise to do it, but
Speaker 1: I don't know if they will. But Arizona's gotta be
Speaker 1: realistic here, like they're just not. And who knows, maybe
Speaker 1: Gallon goes along with him, you know, I mean, it
Speaker 1: would it be crazy to think that the Yankees getting
Speaker 1: both of Gallen and Suarez. I mean, I'll be a
Speaker 1: big blockbuster, right. They could certainly use another arm in
Speaker 1: that rotation. I don't know what that trade looks like.
Speaker 1: I don't know if it involves Spencer Jones.
Speaker 2: You know, I just don't think it happens. Every stupid
Speaker 2: account is like who says no, you know, and they
Speaker 2: put out a tweet and they put out a thing,
Speaker 2: and they're always getting two big players on a team,
Speaker 2: and it's like, I just it could happen. For sure.
Speaker 2: I think teams are not going to want to pay
Speaker 2: the price, and that's still not going to make sense
Speaker 2: to them, and it's going to be a disappointing trade
Speaker 2: for Diamondback fans. And I don't think both their moved.
Speaker 2: They're gonna want to maximize. So unless a team like
Speaker 2: the Yankees is like you can have Schlitler and Spencer Jones,
Speaker 2: they're not trading both guys and they're not going to
Speaker 2: do that. So I don't think they're trading Schlitler. To
Speaker 2: be honest with you, I kind of don't either. I
Speaker 2: don't think that's the guy gets moved. There.
Speaker 1: We shall see as the trade wins continue to blow,
Speaker 1: and then on Monday, obviously we'll be back recapping all
Speaker 1: the action as per usual around this joint. But in
Speaker 1: the meantime, it's Friday, it means there's bets to be made,
Speaker 1: so it's time for the best bets of the week. Finally,
Speaker 1: let's do the week, Yeah of the day of the
Speaker 1: week with Joey p and the Welsh. Here we go,
Speaker 1: Give me the New York Mets on the run line.
Speaker 1: Sean Manya is back plus one forty two against the Reds.
Speaker 1: The Yankees travel to Atlanta and they get to face
Speaker 1: Spencer Strider, and I think Strider's gonna stick it to them.
Speaker 1: Give me the Atlanta Braves on the money line minus
Speaker 1: one oh four. Maybe Jazz Chisholm still got that home
Speaker 1: run stroke going well, do you think so that Jazz.
Speaker 2: Chissy look in home run stroke? Sure?
Speaker 1: And then Minnesota at Colorado, Yeah, baby, let's go over
Speaker 1: ten and a half runs minus one twenty. I think
Speaker 1: that's gonna go over today. You can see one team
Speaker 1: get to that, I think potentially. All right, let's take
Speaker 1: a look at yours because you've also got some Sean
Speaker 1: Maniyah wagering happening. Here. Let's go Welsh.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I did jumped on this actually last night. Shaw
Speaker 2: Ma Andya at six strikeouts over five and a half
Speaker 2: got it at minus one fifteen. You obviously didn't go
Speaker 2: deep into that first start, but he still had seven
Speaker 2: strikeouts in three and one thirds. He's going against the
Speaker 2: Reds Reds or top ten in strikeouts per game. I
Speaker 2: like Manaya to establish and set himself up, and I
Speaker 2: really like the six strikeouts. It's about the only one
Speaker 2: that really I mean, there's some aggressive stuff on the
Speaker 2: strikeout marker, or there's lower numbers with big juice. This
Speaker 2: is the only one that jumped out to me that
Speaker 2: I like. I'm also going to jump on Cleveland first
Speaker 2: five money lines. Slade Chaconi s Laatee Chaconi has been
Speaker 2: pretty pretty good here and this one is going up
Speaker 2: against the Athletics. I believe I have that right looking
Speaker 2: at the whole schedule, But either way, it doesn't matter
Speaker 2: because I'm backing Slade Chaconi. Yes, Yeah, it is the Yeah,
Speaker 2: it's in Cleveland.
Speaker 1: Lay Chaconi sounds like a character from the from the
Speaker 1: musical Grease.
Speaker 2: Diamondbacks Pictures, Slay Chaconi.
Speaker 1: I heard that he was going on a date with Donna.
Speaker 1: Did you hear that? I heard it through Let's sing
Speaker 1: something about it.
Speaker 2: One of the outsiders, he's he's one of the outsiders,
Speaker 2: definitely an outsider. And then I'm going to pick two offenses,
Speaker 2: and I'm gonna go no run first inning on Miami
Speaker 2: Kansas City. You said Sandy's got a really really important one.
Speaker 2: Sandy kind of falls apart in some later innings. I'm
Speaker 2: gonna guess he's gonna maintain early. Same with Seth Lugo.
Speaker 2: Pick on these offenses that haven't quite quite got going
Speaker 2: minus won thirty five. It's a little juice up. So
Speaker 2: no run first inning, first five money line and a strikeout.
Speaker 2: This is a quintessential Welsh card. And that's what I
Speaker 2: got for Friday.
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Speaker 1: normally we throw the home run board up here, but
Speaker 1: we're still updating it from the home run derby and
Speaker 1: updating it from the All Star breaks. So on Monday
Speaker 1: we'll have an updated home run board that will never
Speaker 1: show me again. Uh do you have a home run
Speaker 1: call for the weekend? Welsh? Actually, I forgot to even
Speaker 1: make mine. I'm gonna do it live here on the show.
Speaker 1: That's what I'm gonna.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I do have one guy, and by the way,
Speaker 2: I'm gonna get a I I did get an extra
Speaker 2: homer for getting cal Rally right, I don't even I
Speaker 2: think I picked to tell Marte for a homer in
Speaker 2: the All Star Games, so.
Speaker 1: I think Rosa he did not hit a home run.
Speaker 2: How the hell are they gonna determine that too? With
Speaker 2: the dud with the home run off, are they gonna
Speaker 2: count any of those?
Speaker 4: That was?
Speaker 2: You guys got a good.
Speaker 1: Point, all right, If you picked Schwarber, you got three.
Speaker 2: Kelly and them got into a mess doing the homers
Speaker 2: for the All Star Game, So I don't know what
Speaker 2: they were doing. That's Kelly's problem, not on Yeah, I
Speaker 2: don't care what you do. You you yell at Kelly,
Speaker 2: not me. I'm gonna go with cal Rally today, so
Speaker 2: I'm gonna jump back into it. Cal got me the
Speaker 2: homer for the win in the home run derby. Pretty
Speaker 2: good spot that they're in today, so I'm gonna go
Speaker 2: with cal Raleigh going up against I think it's Brandon
Speaker 2: Walt who is giving up a homer at least in
Speaker 2: five straight starts. So Cayle Rally is gonna pick right
Speaker 2: back up, give me the homer, and I obviously have
Speaker 2: him in perpetuity for the week twitty perpetuity.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna go with you know what, let's go Kyle Schwarber,
Speaker 1: feeling good off the All Star Game, home runs, feeling
Speaker 1: good against the Angels this weekend. Give me some Schwarber,
Speaker 1: little Schwarber love there, so that'll be a good time.
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