WEBVTT - MLB: Leading Off July 19th, 2022 (Ep. 555) 0:00:00.240 --> 0:00:16.560 Home run, Julio Let's play ball. Welcome in everybody to 0:00:16.600 --> 0:00:18.960 Fantasy pros. This is leading off, brought to you by 0:00:18.960 --> 0:00:21.759 bet MGM, the King of Fort's Books. It's me Joey 0:00:21.840 --> 0:00:24.759 p Joe piece Appier with you, Christopher Welsh with you 0:00:24.880 --> 0:00:28.000 as well, the Peanuts, the Cracker Jacks, the early start 0:00:28.000 --> 0:00:31.880 time all week at eleven am. Because my children. You know, look, 0:00:32.040 --> 0:00:33.519 they have camp. They have to get out of the 0:00:33.520 --> 0:00:36.000 house for at least a week or so do some things. 0:00:36.479 --> 0:00:38.600 The kids ruin all your plans. I mean, no matter 0:00:38.600 --> 0:00:41.120 what you've laid out there, they just ruined them. Welsh, 0:00:41.159 --> 0:00:41.920 I mean, you know this better. 0:00:41.920 --> 0:00:43.639 I just don't tell you that. They just don't tell 0:00:43.640 --> 0:00:43.800 you that. 0:00:43.880 --> 0:00:44.400 Don't tell you. 0:00:44.440 --> 0:00:46.760 They don't tell you. Hey what, I can't go out 0:00:46.800 --> 0:00:50.080 all day to rookie League and watch seventeen year olds 0:00:50.159 --> 0:00:52.839 hit all day long and I can't do it day 0:00:52.840 --> 0:00:54.920 and night. Everything I can't, Dan, I have kids. What 0:00:55.040 --> 0:00:55.920 kind of camp are they doing? 0:00:55.960 --> 0:00:58.279 By the way, Yeah, speaking of kids, though, one kid 0:00:58.280 --> 0:01:01.240 that's not ruined. What's that? Oh? Well, they're both a camp. 0:01:01.920 --> 0:01:04.200 One is doing a soccer camp and the other one's 0:01:04.280 --> 0:01:06.840 doing like a multi sport camp and it's only like 0:01:06.880 --> 0:01:09.400 for three hours a day. Like it's kind of breaks 0:01:09.480 --> 0:01:11.399 up the day a little bit. You know. I don't 0:01:11.440 --> 0:01:13.479 like my kids. Some people have to, you know, they work, 0:01:13.520 --> 0:01:15.560 They put their kids in camp, you know, full time 0:01:15.680 --> 0:01:17.760 all summer. I like to give them a little bit 0:01:17.760 --> 0:01:20.319 of a break, hang out, read books, go in the pool, 0:01:20.360 --> 0:01:22.640 play with their friends, take them to do stuff, all 0:01:22.680 --> 0:01:24.559 those kind of things. Kind of spend some extra time. 0:01:24.600 --> 0:01:26.960 And because I feel like, you know, we take breaks, 0:01:27.240 --> 0:01:28.760 like they should get in a little break too. But 0:01:28.959 --> 0:01:30.400 at a certain point in the middle of the summer, 0:01:30.600 --> 0:01:32.200 it's good that they have a little structure for a 0:01:32.200 --> 0:01:33.680 week or two and they do some stuff and get 0:01:33.680 --> 0:01:34.880 out of there, you. 0:01:34.880 --> 0:01:37.880 Know, I get out of here, get out of here. 0:01:37.959 --> 0:01:40.200 You It could have been like sword fighting camp or 0:01:40.200 --> 0:01:41.399 I don't know, it just could have been something. 0:01:41.640 --> 0:01:44.160 You're right with me, It could have been anything. There 0:01:44.280 --> 0:01:47.360 is actually at the school where they're doing one of 0:01:47.400 --> 0:01:49.160 them is doing the sports camp. There was actually a 0:01:49.240 --> 0:01:50.960 Harry Potter thing. I don't know if it's quidditch. I 0:01:51.000 --> 0:01:54.000 don't know what they're doing, but I wanted to sign 0:01:54.080 --> 0:01:56.320 up for that. I was not allowed. I was told 0:01:56.520 --> 0:01:57.160 it was not allowed. 0:01:57.160 --> 0:02:00.080 As they don't have an adult camp. An adult I 0:02:00.120 --> 0:02:02.160 mean they have like the baseball one where you can 0:02:02.160 --> 0:02:03.600 do it for a couple days during spring train. We 0:02:03.680 --> 0:02:05.800 need i'bout like an adult Harry Potter camp. Or that's 0:02:05.840 --> 0:02:07.240 that just LARPing. I think it's just I. 0:02:07.240 --> 0:02:09.960 Think that's just I think, yeah, I think that's just 0:02:10.440 --> 0:02:16.440 mother's basement. And yeah. But one kid who certainly made 0:02:16.720 --> 0:02:19.760 some history last night, Julia Rodriguez. Oh boy was he good? 0:02:19.760 --> 0:02:22.120 Now he did not win the home run derby. Hopefully 0:02:22.160 --> 0:02:24.400 you watched it because it was it was super entertaining. 0:02:24.440 --> 0:02:27.160 It was great to see old man Albert Pools make 0:02:27.160 --> 0:02:28.680 it out of the first round. That to me, that 0:02:28.720 --> 0:02:30.960 warned my heart. I was rooting for him to do it. 0:02:31.320 --> 0:02:33.040 He did it. I like it, and I liked him 0:02:33.080 --> 0:02:35.080 doing it in the Cardinal Jersey gave me kind of 0:02:35.080 --> 0:02:38.200 all the fields of the you know, all time great 0:02:38.240 --> 0:02:41.760 Albert Pooholes. I made one wager, as I said, I 0:02:41.800 --> 0:02:43.720 was going to narrow down the field. I did put 0:02:43.720 --> 0:02:46.040 money on Sodo last night, and I'm trying to let 0:02:46.080 --> 0:02:49.000 everybody know, like you can wager and not be a 0:02:49.040 --> 0:02:51.760 complete degenerate and lose your house. You can do this 0:02:51.840 --> 0:02:54.480 have a little fun. I put twenty bucks on FanDuel 0:02:54.720 --> 0:02:57.320 on Wan soda last night to win the Derby small 0:02:57.360 --> 0:03:00.480 Field easy to understand. I knew the basically. I knew 0:03:00.480 --> 0:03:02.560 I had almost a coin flip chance with Soto too. 0:03:02.720 --> 0:03:04.360 I thought I had a fifty percent chance of getting 0:03:04.360 --> 0:03:06.600 it right because of the bracket and situation he was in. 0:03:06.960 --> 0:03:09.320 And guess what, one hundred and forty bucks later. Oh, 0:03:09.440 --> 0:03:11.320 I mean, that's it. That's fun. That's a bill like 0:03:11.360 --> 0:03:13.560 that pays a wireless bill in your house, or. 0:03:13.520 --> 0:03:16.960 Something that pays for quidditch camp or quidditch camp ye 0:03:17.200 --> 0:03:18.840 or quidditch camp exactly. 0:03:18.880 --> 0:03:21.760 So someone shakes the stigma of all that Welsh. I 0:03:21.800 --> 0:03:23.480 think we need to start shaking the stigma of like, 0:03:23.639 --> 0:03:26.040 oh Betty, it's a weird and no it's not. You 0:03:26.080 --> 0:03:28.520 can do it, have some fun, make small bets and 0:03:28.560 --> 0:03:31.160 come out actually better than DFS most nights, to be honest. 0:03:31.200 --> 0:03:34.080 Well, the people that everyone likes the unit shaming and 0:03:34.120 --> 0:03:35.840 it's like, you know, if someone goes out and bets 0:03:35.920 --> 0:03:39.400 ten or fifteen bucks, people are like, oh, I agree, 0:03:39.480 --> 0:03:41.400 I completely agree. You don't have to get nuts, you 0:03:41.400 --> 0:03:43.880 don't have to do crazy bets. You really, you don't. 0:03:43.960 --> 0:03:46.080 You can find just one thing you like. You can 0:03:46.120 --> 0:03:48.680 only come out of the woodwork when stuff like this happens. 0:03:48.720 --> 0:03:51.080 You can have some fun, you absolutely can, and last 0:03:51.160 --> 0:03:52.840 night would have been a prime example of it. Can 0:03:52.880 --> 0:03:57.000 I ask you a question, though, sure you really think 0:03:57.600 --> 0:04:02.200 that Kyle Schwerver struggled like he did? You really don't 0:04:02.200 --> 0:04:05.800 think there was a little bit of like, whoops, ooops, 0:04:05.960 --> 0:04:08.360 little thing here, little thing here for good old Albert 0:04:08.400 --> 0:04:11.320 Poolholes that I don't know, I don't know. 0:04:13.120 --> 0:04:15.920 Me well, you know, actually, speaking of the pitching and 0:04:15.920 --> 0:04:19.159 stuff like that too, Juan Soto's pitcher did not do 0:04:19.279 --> 0:04:22.039 him any favors last night. Holy crap. When you watch 0:04:22.120 --> 0:04:24.800 the guy who was throwing to Julio last night, who 0:04:24.839 --> 0:04:28.080 literally was just he was like throwing darts at the 0:04:28.120 --> 0:04:29.239 exact same location. 0:04:29.600 --> 0:04:32.560 You mean you mean Keith from the Precious Gemstones As 0:04:32.600 --> 0:04:34.559 I read it out, that was if you watch that show, 0:04:34.760 --> 0:04:38.039 that was Keith from the Precious Gemstones. One percent. That 0:04:38.080 --> 0:04:41.480 guy was amazing, but he's got amazing stories. 0:04:41.600 --> 0:04:44.400 But dude, he was throwing darts in the same location 0:04:44.520 --> 0:04:47.560 every time, and Julio was just rocket baseballs out one 0:04:47.640 --> 0:04:49.640 soda was so good of a hitter that anytime a 0:04:49.680 --> 0:04:53.000 ball is six inches away or even three inches away, 0:04:53.000 --> 0:04:54.920 I should say he's hitting the ball the opposite field 0:04:54.920 --> 0:04:58.080 and just hitting the line drive doubles. He can't change 0:04:58.480 --> 0:05:00.160 how good he is as a player, which I think 0:05:00.160 --> 0:05:01.960 it is always a fascinating thing to watch him. But 0:05:02.040 --> 0:05:04.520 he's so good of a hitter that eventually I always 0:05:04.560 --> 0:05:06.360 feel like he's gonna win out in these kind of things. 0:05:06.400 --> 0:05:08.599 And Peter Alonzo looked at a great job. You know, 0:05:08.640 --> 0:05:10.840 Peter Alonzo takes it so seriously. Would you think of 0:05:10.920 --> 0:05:12.479 him deadlifting in between. 0:05:14.080 --> 0:05:16.840 That goes that goes on the the what is it? 0:05:16.880 --> 0:05:20.839 The Welsh's hardos and the Joe's hardos and the Welsh's 0:05:20.880 --> 0:05:23.800 tough guy whatever it is, Like, I love that stuff. 0:05:23.800 --> 0:05:27.919 I love that about Peter Alonzo taking it way too seriously. Also, 0:05:28.000 --> 0:05:30.120 did you see the interview after the first round. He 0:05:30.240 --> 0:05:33.599 just had like no part of only like they're just like, hey, 0:05:33.640 --> 0:05:35.360 how what do you think about this? He's like, yep, 0:05:35.400 --> 0:05:37.400 I hit the heart. He just wasn't into like getting 0:05:37.400 --> 0:05:38.239 into crazy stuff. 0:05:38.279 --> 0:05:41.960 He was just so and he takes it so serious 0:05:42.160 --> 0:05:45.160 and I always wanted but it's it's so awesome. Like 0:05:45.600 --> 0:05:48.520 I feel like we all want our athletes to be 0:05:48.920 --> 0:05:51.200 for our entertainment, to take it that seriously. They care 0:05:51.320 --> 0:05:53.960 so much. I do. And I think that Peter Alonzo 0:05:54.080 --> 0:05:56.360 just gets it, like he just understands. And that's why 0:05:56.400 --> 0:05:58.240 I feel like everybody just loves the dude. He's just, 0:05:58.520 --> 0:06:01.360 you know, likable guy. He gets it, he understands, he 0:06:01.440 --> 0:06:05.080 understands winning is important. He understands these events are important 0:06:05.080 --> 0:06:08.160 to the fans. It I love that dude. He's great. 0:06:08.160 --> 0:06:08.600 I do too. 0:06:08.760 --> 0:06:12.159 One interest an interesting dynamic was you're talking about like 0:06:12.200 --> 0:06:14.400 the bad pitching. Acunya was dealing with the same thing. 0:06:14.520 --> 0:06:17.160 He looked like frustrating, especially really early on. 0:06:17.600 --> 0:06:20.280 But why don't they have a pitching machine, Welsh? I mean, 0:06:20.760 --> 0:06:21.760 why shouldn't they? 0:06:22.000 --> 0:06:24.200 I mean, we have pitching strategy. Maybe that's as part 0:06:24.200 --> 0:06:26.279 of the strategy is picking the guy who throws you 0:06:26.320 --> 0:06:28.719 from pitching machine, can't I mean, that's it can just 0:06:28.720 --> 0:06:30.240 bump up up. But some of these guys have a 0:06:30.240 --> 0:06:33.359 certain way they want to be pitched, and you know, 0:06:33.440 --> 0:06:34.200 but you can set up. 0:06:34.120 --> 0:06:35.960 The pitching machine to get that location they want and 0:06:35.960 --> 0:06:37.839 then just feed and feed and feed, right. 0:06:38.160 --> 0:06:41.040 Yeah, I mean in theory. I again, it's a great question. 0:06:41.160 --> 0:06:43.040 And then it would be even where that you take 0:06:43.080 --> 0:06:46.320 the human error element out of it. That's I don't know. 0:06:46.760 --> 0:06:50.200 But an interesting dynamic was did you see when Acunyan 0:06:50.320 --> 0:06:53.359 knew like he wasn't they went to over a shot 0:06:53.360 --> 0:06:56.200 of him on the ground just on his phone scrolling 0:06:56.360 --> 0:06:58.960 because he was so frustrated, Like that was a different 0:06:59.000 --> 0:07:01.320 type of taking it too serious by the way, like, yeah, 0:07:01.320 --> 0:07:04.120 he was openly frustrated with the bad pitches. Did all 0:07:04.240 --> 0:07:06.920 Right had the highest TV I think of the day 0:07:07.240 --> 0:07:09.039 of any of the home run hits, And then he 0:07:09.120 --> 0:07:11.760 was on his phone and as Alonzo hit it, He's 0:07:11.800 --> 0:07:13.920 just sitting there scrolling on his phone. I was like, man, 0:07:13.920 --> 0:07:16.160 I love that, But I also can appreciate I. 0:07:16.120 --> 0:07:18.720 Think now you understand how him and Freddy Freeman had 0:07:18.720 --> 0:07:21.000 their issues. I think when you see the moments like that, yeah, 0:07:21.080 --> 0:07:23.200 maybe you know, I got Kuny's a little bit of 0:07:23.200 --> 0:07:23.520 a powder. 0:07:23.600 --> 0:07:26.200 But I also I can appreciate that type of like 0:07:26.760 --> 0:07:29.320 pettiness of being like you're just you're so blah blah blah, 0:07:29.360 --> 0:07:31.160 and you're just like I'm not gonna even watch, like 0:07:31.200 --> 0:07:32.960 I'm gonna show you how mad I am, and I'm just. 0:07:32.920 --> 0:07:36.800 Appreciate the Spike store. You appreciate it. It's good. There's 0:07:36.840 --> 0:07:38.880 a there wasn't a look. Like I said, it was 0:07:38.960 --> 0:07:40.800 very entertaining. If you missed it, go back and watch it. 0:07:40.800 --> 0:07:43.440 I also thought the the Derek Jeter special after that 0:07:43.520 --> 0:07:45.880 started was very good. I watched that too. The Captain. 0:07:46.080 --> 0:07:47.600 I don't know if you watched The Captain last night 0:07:47.640 --> 0:07:49.800 after the derby was over, but that was good. That's 0:07:49.800 --> 0:07:51.160 gonna be a funny series for sure. 0:07:51.600 --> 0:07:55.480 Randy Wilkins, who's done some stuff with recently, did a 0:07:55.480 --> 0:07:58.800 great panel at Picture Con last year with Picture List 0:07:59.280 --> 0:08:01.200 was the one who that together if I remember maybe 0:08:01.240 --> 0:08:03.680 that was a Jordan one. But real quick on because 0:08:03.680 --> 0:08:05.200 I feel like we're going to move out of this. 0:08:05.280 --> 0:08:07.119 A couple of stats from the home run derby. 0:08:07.160 --> 0:08:07.840 Oh yeah, sure. 0:08:08.200 --> 0:08:11.280 There were some amazing bets like coming back to what 0:08:11.320 --> 0:08:14.440 you were saying and destigmatizing like being able to bet. 0:08:14.680 --> 0:08:18.120 You also could go nuts. DraftKings last night had the 0:08:18.160 --> 0:08:22.240 ability to draft like exit velocities on players and the 0:08:22.320 --> 0:08:25.400 ability to draft total home runs and matchups and stuff 0:08:25.440 --> 0:08:29.440 like that. And the highest EV was one seventeen of 0:08:29.480 --> 0:08:32.160 any home run last night when we went to Ronald Acuna, 0:08:32.240 --> 0:08:35.960 who had an over of one I believe thirteen and 0:08:35.960 --> 0:08:38.640 a half. He was the number one I saw of 0:08:38.720 --> 0:08:42.760 EV's one seventeen. The total home run total was two 0:08:42.800 --> 0:08:43.760 fifty one and a half. 0:08:43.800 --> 0:08:44.199 To bet. 0:08:44.520 --> 0:08:46.920 There were two hundred and ninety one homers hit, so 0:08:47.000 --> 0:08:49.760 that went over. The average exit velocity was one of 0:08:49.880 --> 0:08:52.640 four point six and the average distance of the homers 0:08:53.000 --> 0:08:55.600 was four hundred and sixteen feet. 0:08:55.920 --> 0:08:58.520 Well, you know what's interesting too. You know, we had 0:08:58.559 --> 0:09:00.560 spoken at length, and I know I was talking about 0:09:00.559 --> 0:09:03.280 it everywhere. This is a young man's game now, the 0:09:03.280 --> 0:09:04.760 way they've set it up, and the guys who were 0:09:04.760 --> 0:09:07.160 in the final were under twenty five years old. You 0:09:07.240 --> 0:09:12.640 have to be athletically really fit to withstand the rounds 0:09:12.679 --> 0:09:14.520 and the time of this and the way you can 0:09:14.559 --> 0:09:16.640 have the timeouts and the bonus time and all this stuff, 0:09:16.960 --> 0:09:20.000 you know, and that was something that was clear. Next year, 0:09:20.040 --> 0:09:23.079 you get Julio in Seattle, hopefully doing this in front 0:09:23.120 --> 0:09:24.760 of the hometown crowd. By the way, I don't know 0:09:24.760 --> 0:09:26.640 if you thought about that, but that is going to 0:09:26.679 --> 0:09:28.400 be fun and I will put my money on Julio 0:09:28.440 --> 0:09:30.160 in that one. I think the energy from the crowd 0:09:30.800 --> 0:09:32.240 will be a special moment there. 0:09:32.320 --> 0:09:35.360 Well, the one thing that was wild, I don't know 0:09:35.360 --> 0:09:37.760 if we talked about it on here. I had found 0:09:37.800 --> 0:09:39.680 this out right after we did the show yesterday. But 0:09:39.720 --> 0:09:42.840 he did a practice round. Julio did thirty seven homers. 0:09:42.920 --> 0:09:45.640 He had put on early on, his number went from 0:09:45.640 --> 0:09:50.080 like eighteen up to twenty six yesterday, and all day 0:09:50.120 --> 0:09:53.120 long his numbers were just right. Julio's rising, rising, rising, 0:09:53.480 --> 0:09:55.640 and you can look at it and be like, oh, 0:09:55.679 --> 0:09:57.199 I don't know if he can really put that together, 0:09:57.280 --> 0:09:59.320 And then he showed he did with two thirty plus rounds, 0:09:59.440 --> 0:10:02.080 thirty seven homer's in a practice round. He was able 0:10:02.120 --> 0:10:04.800 to put that in game. And by the way, just 0:10:04.840 --> 0:10:07.440 the last thing on it, if you remember, he started 0:10:07.440 --> 0:10:09.840 the game off with a swing and miss, with an 0:10:09.840 --> 0:10:12.400 absolute swing and miss on the very first pitch, and 0:10:12.400 --> 0:10:14.280 then the crowd kind of got on him and he 0:10:14.400 --> 0:10:17.280 proceeded to drop thirty plus homers on there. It is 0:10:17.280 --> 0:10:19.240 a young man's game. It's going to be super fun. 0:10:19.280 --> 0:10:21.400 And God knows the list of guys we're going to 0:10:21.440 --> 0:10:24.320 get next year, maybe even some of the you know, 0:10:24.600 --> 0:10:26.960 top prospects. We're sitting around now maybe a little Bobby 0:10:26.960 --> 0:10:28.680 Wit definitely. 0:10:28.840 --> 0:10:31.200 You know what. The other thing too, I don't like 0:10:31.320 --> 0:10:32.880 is when they change the ball on them and the 0:10:32.880 --> 0:10:35.520 bonus time you don't change the color of the baseball 0:10:35.520 --> 0:10:37.280 on guys when they're in a groove hitting. It's it, 0:10:37.440 --> 0:10:40.200 really And every single time nobody hit a first pitch 0:10:40.200 --> 0:10:41.960 home run or a second pitch home run. Yeah, like 0:10:42.080 --> 0:10:43.760 every time they switched to that ball, it took them 0:10:43.800 --> 0:10:45.760 like two or three to get an adjustment to it. 0:10:45.800 --> 0:10:48.480 And even even the announcer was saying it last night too, And. 0:10:48.400 --> 0:10:51.360 I'd like three point contest when they do, you know, 0:10:51.400 --> 0:10:52.360 like the weird ball. 0:10:52.240 --> 0:10:55.560 For the works up here, but in practice it doesn't work. 0:10:55.720 --> 0:10:59.280 It's theoretically I get it, it's cool, but it's super 0:10:59.280 --> 0:11:01.280 annoying to the play because they were locked in and 0:11:01.320 --> 0:11:03.000 the way they look for the baseball and it's a 0:11:03.000 --> 0:11:05.920 different rotation. It's totally I agree with that. 0:11:05.960 --> 0:11:08.040 I agree with that fun fact a ton of the 0:11:08.040 --> 0:11:10.719 baseballs were autographed, so as they were being hit and 0:11:10.760 --> 0:11:14.480 people were getting their souvenir, people were collecting autographed baseballs 0:11:14.880 --> 0:11:16.840 from the home run derby, which I thought was a 0:11:16.840 --> 0:11:18.760 really cool added thing. I don't know how many they did, 0:11:19.080 --> 0:11:22.000 but many of them were so you know, you know 0:11:22.040 --> 0:11:24.199 what else twenty three miles of Homer's. 0:11:24.080 --> 0:11:27.040 Starling Marte hanging out with Jan Soto, that all that 0:11:27.080 --> 0:11:29.280 did was just fuel my Mets. 0:11:29.120 --> 0:11:31.200 Fire, fueled the little bit of the fire. 0:11:31.600 --> 0:11:33.080 Did you think about that? I mean you had to 0:11:33.120 --> 0:11:34.600 be thinking about that in your back of your head. 0:11:34.640 --> 0:11:37.480 You be like, Joe must be watching this, going yes, yes, 0:11:37.600 --> 0:11:38.959 starting Marte recruit. 0:11:39.040 --> 0:11:43.000 I was a little shocked with the amount of like 0:11:43.600 --> 0:11:45.439 just trade talk that was going on. I mean, you 0:11:45.480 --> 0:11:47.840 had Muster only go on and be like, hey, he's 0:11:47.840 --> 0:11:49.400 getting traded in the next fifteen days. 0:11:49.400 --> 0:11:49.640 Oji. 0:11:49.760 --> 0:11:53.120 You got reporters asking Soda. Sodo had the best responses ever. 0:11:53.160 --> 0:11:55.680 They asked him, hey, what do you think about, you know, 0:11:55.800 --> 0:11:58.400 hitting in New York And he goes, oh, I love 0:11:58.480 --> 0:12:00.640 playing against the Mets, and he said laying against the 0:12:00.679 --> 0:12:03.920 Mets like six times and uh and even players were 0:12:03.960 --> 0:12:06.440 being asked. Manny Machado commented on it. It was a wild 0:12:06.520 --> 0:12:08.760 situation that I don't know, man, I will tell you 0:12:08.840 --> 0:12:12.120 I was fifty percent that he gets traded by the deadline, 0:12:13.120 --> 0:12:15.440 like sixty. Now I moved a little bit top after 0:12:15.480 --> 0:12:17.560 all that it was really really a good situation. 0:12:17.640 --> 0:12:20.000 But meet me at the ninety nine. That's where I 0:12:20.040 --> 0:12:20.400 want to be. 0:12:20.800 --> 0:12:23.599 National's going to go trade generational talent. Guy who just 0:12:23.679 --> 0:12:25.199 runs a home in Derby. What are they going to 0:12:25.240 --> 0:12:29.120 trade him for? The team is goingna to unload, whether 0:12:29.120 --> 0:12:31.080 it's Padres or the Mets. They are going to have 0:12:31.160 --> 0:12:34.680 to unload their system to make this work. The Nationals 0:12:34.720 --> 0:12:38.760 cannot lose face on this, even though they already theoretically 0:12:38.840 --> 0:12:39.720 are all right. 0:12:39.760 --> 0:12:42.920 Some other news and notes optimism that Joe Musgrove is 0:12:42.960 --> 0:12:45.320 going to be assigning a contract extension with the Padres. 0:12:45.360 --> 0:12:47.160 That would be a very good move for the Padres. 0:12:47.280 --> 0:12:49.559 A show ay Otani unlikely to pitch in the AFSCAR game. 0:12:49.600 --> 0:12:52.120 No surprise there. You are going to get Clayton Kershaw starting, 0:12:52.120 --> 0:12:53.680 which makes a lot of sense. I think it's fun. 0:12:54.360 --> 0:12:57.760 Dodger Stadium, blah blah. Yeah, that Haam is going to 0:12:57.840 --> 0:13:00.000 start for the American League. Yes, Well, did you see. 0:12:59.800 --> 0:13:03.720 Your former co host Craig Mish kind of got out 0:13:03.720 --> 0:13:08.199 and like a very very intense like he's still together 0:13:08.240 --> 0:13:09.559 in the fall. No, I don't know, I mean, I 0:13:09.559 --> 0:13:10.720 don't know what you guys do. But I'm just saying, 0:13:10.960 --> 0:13:13.440 what you guys do in the in the shadows, I'm 0:13:13.480 --> 0:13:16.600 not fine cheet on man, that's your only go okay. 0:13:17.760 --> 0:13:20.120 But he had a tweet where he was like, I've 0:13:20.320 --> 0:13:22.960 never it was like, I've never been so disappointed. What 0:13:23.040 --> 0:13:25.680 a missed opportunity, Like he was pissed that al Kintara 0:13:25.720 --> 0:13:26.680 did not get. 0:13:26.480 --> 0:13:29.240 The Oh he well, look he's following. He's the Marlins 0:13:29.280 --> 0:13:31.920 beat hit. He's not wrong. I mean, he's not wrong. 0:13:32.559 --> 0:13:35.560 This is baseball building the theater. I mean there is 0:13:35.600 --> 0:13:37.720 only one pitcher who deserves to start for the National League. 0:13:37.720 --> 0:13:39.760 It's very clear who that guy is. And they went 0:13:39.800 --> 0:13:43.920 with Kershaw, who is good theater. And to me, I 0:13:43.960 --> 0:13:46.280 get that it's it's the starting of the All Star Game. 0:13:46.320 --> 0:13:49.000 But to me, from the rating standpoint, you're gonna get 0:13:49.040 --> 0:13:52.920 early inning ratings anyway. Keep Kershaw a little bit, have 0:13:53.000 --> 0:13:55.160 him be the second guy to keep people watching so 0:13:55.200 --> 0:13:56.840 he gets that ovation when he takes the man when 0:13:56.840 --> 0:13:58.599 he walks out like that could be cool too. It 0:13:58.720 --> 0:14:01.360 also be the old guy, asked King, saying, look, you know, 0:14:01.480 --> 0:14:03.640 I'm old. The back isn't what it used to be. 0:14:03.880 --> 0:14:06.199 I need to do my routine be able to start 0:14:06.200 --> 0:14:08.040 if you want me to pitch in this game. Otherwise 0:14:08.080 --> 0:14:11.440 I can't come in the third inning like that work 0:14:11.520 --> 0:14:12.800 doesn't suit for me. 0:14:12.960 --> 0:14:15.560 Bob Bagman was pretty a suit about this. That just 0:14:15.600 --> 0:14:18.680 snickers an old old school manager. Let the veteran go, 0:14:18.800 --> 0:14:21.920 hometown guy. I hadn't put that together. Missu's actual tweet was, 0:14:22.320 --> 0:14:25.960 I'm so disappointed beyond words for Sandy. I love history 0:14:25.960 --> 0:14:28.720 and ceremony more than anyone, but this is complete horse 0:14:28.920 --> 0:14:32.160 little poop emoji once in a lifetime chance missed. I 0:14:32.200 --> 0:14:35.000 was like, oh, that's a pretty intense thing. I get it, 0:14:35.360 --> 0:14:38.320 probably the most deserved, but you do have to think 0:14:38.320 --> 0:14:41.080 of the context of LA and a guy that's right there. 0:14:41.200 --> 0:14:44.360 It just makes look it's good for the business of baseball, 0:14:44.720 --> 0:14:48.240 but it's not the right decision. But I understand. I said, 0:14:48.280 --> 0:14:50.560 I think the real thing here, more than anything, is 0:14:50.560 --> 0:14:54.240 probably Clayton Kershall saying, my routine is very set. If 0:14:54.240 --> 0:14:55.840 you want me in this game, I've got to do 0:14:56.000 --> 0:14:58.160 the pre in routine in order to get ready for 0:14:58.200 --> 0:15:00.200 it nowadays because my body doesn't respond like it did 0:15:00.200 --> 0:15:02.000 when I was twenty seven years old. And I think 0:15:02.040 --> 0:15:05.440 that is a fair assumption too. When you factor that in, 0:15:05.880 --> 0:15:07.840 it is unfortunate though for all contra I mean, it's 0:15:07.880 --> 0:15:11.320 it's just is. The Rangers selected the top prep arm 0:15:11.360 --> 0:15:13.520 porter in the fourth round, so we get Welsh's take 0:15:13.560 --> 0:15:17.800 on that. Also, we had some injury news to talk about. 0:15:17.920 --> 0:15:21.560 Steven Strasburg out for the year. Pretty much official at 0:15:21.560 --> 0:15:25.640 this point, not that anybody was waiting breaking news, breaking news. 0:15:26.200 --> 0:15:29.600 Is Steven Strasbourg done? Period, Well we're gonna see him 0:15:29.640 --> 0:15:29.920 you again. 0:15:30.480 --> 0:15:33.560 He was done. I made a stupid bet with Bogman 0:15:33.600 --> 0:15:36.080 this year that I thought, back half you might get 0:15:36.240 --> 0:15:38.520 you know, Strasburg out there doing the thing and just 0:15:38.640 --> 0:15:41.280 you can't do it. He's just just breaks apart. 0:15:41.120 --> 0:15:45.600 Just snaps syndrome and another career telling him he was done. 0:15:46.200 --> 0:15:51.440 He is done. I'm the Nationals would probably. I'm surprised 0:15:51.480 --> 0:15:53.440 the Nationals haven't come to him with like a Bobby 0:15:53.440 --> 0:15:55.520 Bonia type of thing, like can we just stretch this 0:15:55.600 --> 0:15:58.480 out over the next thirty five years and just new 0:15:58.480 --> 0:16:02.240 ownership money because it's a contractual nightmare. One of the 0:16:02.280 --> 0:16:08.040 reasons you could theorize that might be conflicting with Wan Soto, 0:16:08.160 --> 0:16:10.320 you know, the some of the rumors at least is 0:16:10.560 --> 0:16:14.520 the supposed offer to Juan Soto is so backloaded because 0:16:14.560 --> 0:16:17.440 the Nationals have got some serious money still tied and 0:16:17.520 --> 0:16:19.840 Strasburg is one of those issues that maybe that is 0:16:19.960 --> 0:16:20.760 part of it. 0:16:20.800 --> 0:16:23.280 Is it worth a nets? Like if you're the Mets 0:16:23.560 --> 0:16:27.360 or the Dodgers or anybody, is it worth not moving 0:16:27.360 --> 0:16:30.400 the prospects and taking Strasburg's contract back in the deal 0:16:30.440 --> 0:16:30.880 with Sodo. 0:16:31.880 --> 0:16:34.640 I mean I will never sit here and be a 0:16:34.680 --> 0:16:36.960 money guy like that. I'll never be like, oh hey, 0:16:37.040 --> 0:16:39.800 let's just financially get a little bit better. No, you 0:16:39.800 --> 0:16:41.960 should take all the pieces you possibly can because here's 0:16:41.960 --> 0:16:45.720 the other thing, Like the Nationals, where's the appeal if 0:16:45.720 --> 0:16:48.440 you get to Juan Soto, what's the appeal? Is just 0:16:48.480 --> 0:16:50.080 a bunch of money. Like they're you know what they're 0:16:50.080 --> 0:16:52.640 gonna do, agree, Texas Rangers. They're going to have to 0:16:53.000 --> 0:16:55.360 go and sign and spend half a billion dollars on 0:16:55.400 --> 0:16:58.000 guys like Corey Seeger and Marcus Simeon. And that's not 0:16:58.040 --> 0:17:01.400 what you want to do to create a whole new era. 0:17:01.880 --> 0:17:04.000 You want to build with within. You want to have 0:17:04.040 --> 0:17:05.600 a star or two to get people that want to 0:17:05.640 --> 0:17:08.200 come play with you, and you just completely start over. 0:17:08.240 --> 0:17:10.240 I don't particularly love how the I mean, the Rangers 0:17:10.240 --> 0:17:13.560 are doing this in an interesting way. It's not ideal, 0:17:13.760 --> 0:17:15.440 and I think that's where the Nationals are headed. 0:17:15.520 --> 0:17:19.200 So I Rangers could have John Gray, Jack Lighter, Kamar 0:17:19.320 --> 0:17:21.680 Rocker and a pretty decent little team. 0:17:22.800 --> 0:17:25.600 But again that's decent. I mean, the Nationals are a 0:17:25.680 --> 0:17:28.480