WEBVTT - Leading Off September 27th, 2024 (Ep. 908) 0:00:09.840 --> 0:00:13.440 Joey pe Man with stance and hands and design, Crans 0:00:13.440 --> 0:00:15.920 of SAand Fantasy talking. 0:00:15.640 --> 0:00:19.160 About diamond dreams, Chas and players with throwing their schemes 0:00:19.200 --> 0:00:22.239 of Welsh breaking it down, real sos is howling in 0:00:22.280 --> 0:00:26.040 the radios, go talking monsters on the based off field. 0:00:26.239 --> 0:00:30.800 Was it Swingings, beasts and magic shields, sanity Baseball? In 0:00:30.840 --> 0:00:31.680 the nine. 0:00:33.479 --> 0:00:40.040 Podcast Thirsty enough, fast, size, lasting marks and start still 0:00:40.200 --> 0:00:49.080 Lie Dreams of Clover. Welcome and everybody to Fantasy Bros. MLB. 0:00:49.320 --> 0:00:52.080 This is Leading Off Live. It's the Joey p Joe 0:00:52.080 --> 0:00:53.960 Pisa Pa, that of course is the Welsh, and it's you, 0:00:54.600 --> 0:00:57.160 the Peanuts and the Cracker Jacks. And it's the last 0:00:57.280 --> 0:01:03.120 day of leading Off for this season for twenty twenty four. Welsh. 0:01:03.440 --> 0:01:06.160 Look at us here we are back again. Shout out 0:01:06.560 --> 0:01:10.440 to Welsh and Joe Alrico and Casey Boba holding it down. 0:01:10.640 --> 0:01:14.200 Was I'm on the football beat nowadays and just wanted 0:01:14.200 --> 0:01:17.880 to see the Peanuts of the Cracker Jacks one more time. Here. 0:01:18.959 --> 0:01:21.640 What a wacky wild season it has been in Major 0:01:21.720 --> 0:01:24.600 League Baseball in twenty twenty four. So many injuries, but 0:01:25.200 --> 0:01:27.840 here we are regardless, we made it healthy to the 0:01:28.000 --> 0:01:29.160 end of twenty twenty four. 0:01:29.360 --> 0:01:31.920 Almost healthy. Yeah, like a little bit down. I've been 0:01:31.959 --> 0:01:33.760 sick for two weeks. Yeah yeah, exactly what are you 0:01:33.800 --> 0:01:36.680 gonna do? But yeah, hey, major, major hat tip to 0:01:37.160 --> 0:01:40.280 Joe Rico and Casey Bubba for rocking it out at 0:01:40.280 --> 0:01:42.080 the end of the year not missing a beat as well. 0:01:42.160 --> 0:01:44.920 They absolutely deserve it. Had we had the time, it 0:01:44.959 --> 0:01:47.039 probably would have been nice to have like a nice 0:01:47.040 --> 0:01:49.720 little quad box or something that we all could have done. 0:01:49.840 --> 0:01:53.680 But hey, man, where we started my first full year. 0:01:53.720 --> 0:01:55.640 I know, I've been like three years now, and leading 0:01:55.680 --> 0:01:57.800 off my first full year of being full time with 0:01:57.880 --> 0:02:00.800 Fantasy pros, we killed it. We just destroid numbers. I 0:02:00.800 --> 0:02:02.440 don't people don't care about that. But we had an 0:02:02.480 --> 0:02:06.040 amazing baseball season. Yeah I know, I mean like we care, 0:02:06.080 --> 0:02:07.920 But I'm just saying, like everybody I can care about that. 0:02:08.080 --> 0:02:11.639 But hat tip to everybody that's listened, that's supported, that 0:02:11.800 --> 0:02:14.280 watch videos, that's hung in the chat, all that great stuff, 0:02:14.560 --> 0:02:16.200 and we're gonna have some fun. It's good to have 0:02:16.360 --> 0:02:17.959 both of you and I back because we're gonna be 0:02:18.040 --> 0:02:20.200 back doing more stuff in the off season, so be 0:02:20.280 --> 0:02:22.560 on the lookout for that and I said it. I 0:02:22.600 --> 0:02:23.920 think I said on the show on Monday, like make 0:02:23.960 --> 0:02:26.080 sure you're subscribe to the YouTube channel because you're gonna 0:02:26.080 --> 0:02:27.880 actually have some off season videos that you guys haven't 0:02:27.919 --> 0:02:31.520 had before and hopefully get a Rico and Casey Bubba involved. 0:02:31.639 --> 0:02:33.959 But there still is a tiny bit more baseball, So 0:02:34.080 --> 0:02:35.720 we get to I don't know, we get to kind 0:02:35.760 --> 0:02:38.200 of talk about it, maybe update you. I think we're 0:02:38.200 --> 0:02:40.519 gonna be doing a little first round. We're gonna do 0:02:40.520 --> 0:02:42.720 a twenty twenty five first round here in just a second. 0:02:42.760 --> 0:02:45.160 We talk about the wild card race, our best bets 0:02:45.200 --> 0:02:47.880 of the year, maybe our best calls, have a little 0:02:47.919 --> 0:02:50.920 fun Joey seeing that video to that eightiesme video by 0:02:50.960 --> 0:02:51.560 the ways, like it. 0:02:51.639 --> 0:02:54.360 Just warms my heart so good. Our best calls are 0:02:54.360 --> 0:02:57.440 worst calls. And also we're gonna be talking about the 0:02:57.560 --> 0:03:01.760 plan because this is not it. It's not over. Because 0:03:01.760 --> 0:03:04.200 baseball has been so successful here on the channel and 0:03:04.320 --> 0:03:07.359 everybody out here who supported the channel all year, we're 0:03:07.400 --> 0:03:09.600 gonna be doing more offseason stuff. We have some specials 0:03:09.639 --> 0:03:11.280 lined up for you. We have a whole meeting actually 0:03:11.320 --> 0:03:13.560 next week about some of the fun ideas we have 0:03:13.639 --> 0:03:15.600 and things we want to do for the baseball community 0:03:15.639 --> 0:03:18.400 out there, and of course before you know it, it'll 0:03:18.440 --> 0:03:20.600 be all over again. I mean, if we'll be back 0:03:20.639 --> 0:03:23.320 here in January doing stuff, and I know I'll be 0:03:23.360 --> 0:03:26.080 working on the Black Book Cup November. So that's it's 0:03:26.080 --> 0:03:27.840 coming up, prety seal, probably more like October. 0:03:28.040 --> 0:03:29.639 Yeah, I was about to say in about three days. 0:03:29.680 --> 0:03:32.480 You're going to be working on it in about ten days. Also, 0:03:33.080 --> 0:03:35.680 if you guys care about it, especially from the Dynasty perspective. 0:03:35.680 --> 0:03:38.240 The Arizona Fall League is starting up, and I live 0:03:38.280 --> 0:03:40.080 out here in Arizona, I'll be covering it. We have 0:03:40.200 --> 0:03:43.480 major leaguers Edwin in carnassium Strand is going to be 0:03:43.520 --> 0:03:46.680 playing in the Arizona Fall League. Sam Bachman of a 0:03:46.880 --> 0:03:50.440 top ten pick in this year's MLB draft, Jack Kaglione 0:03:50.720 --> 0:03:52.520 is going to be playing in the Arizona Fall League, 0:03:52.720 --> 0:03:55.920 some other big top prospects. So Bizana gonna be there, 0:03:55.960 --> 0:03:59.040 and Bazana is not kagli out. Actually Condon was supposed 0:03:59.040 --> 0:04:01.760 to I heard, but Kaglione is the only one that's 0:04:01.800 --> 0:04:03.280 going to be playing from the drag Jass. 0:04:03.440 --> 0:04:05.440 I like Jack Caglion, you know, I'm a fan, but. 0:04:05.520 --> 0:04:07.440 We're gonna I'm gonna get to break that down, hopefully 0:04:07.480 --> 0:04:09.360 get some interviews. So that's going to be part of 0:04:09.400 --> 0:04:11.960 all of that coverage. And yes, by the way, I 0:04:12.320 --> 0:04:14.320 talked with Donnie yesterday. Donnie's going to come out to 0:04:14.400 --> 0:04:16.640 some AFL games, so we'll do Connoli's in the park. 0:04:17.279 --> 0:04:20.400 You're gonna have to teach him about baseball, how it works, you. 0:04:20.440 --> 0:04:22.280 Know, you want to know something. Yeah, I'm gonna give 0:04:22.320 --> 0:04:24.160 a hat tip to Donnie. We're gonna try to do 0:04:24.240 --> 0:04:26.000 some fun stuff on the show. Today. We were talking 0:04:26.080 --> 0:04:29.520 on the phone and he goes, he goes, well she 0:04:29.760 --> 0:04:31.360 He's like, he didn't get on the home run board. 0:04:31.400 --> 0:04:33.640 I'm like, I know, I kind of failed. I should 0:04:33.680 --> 0:04:35.720 have gotten some big name. I didn't want to say 0:04:35.720 --> 0:04:38.919 a baseball player's name because Donnie's not biggest into the sport. 0:04:39.480 --> 0:04:41.440 He loves hanging with everybody. I'm like, I should have 0:04:41.480 --> 0:04:44.400 picked good players to have my home runs in perpetuity. 0:04:44.440 --> 0:04:46.239 He's like, yeah, you should have picked show. Hey O Toanni, 0:04:46.279 --> 0:04:49.720 and I was like, Donnie, Donnie knows baseball. That's a 0:04:49.760 --> 0:04:53.479 new series. Donnie knows baseball now, yeah, exactly. 0:04:54.600 --> 0:04:56.200 I am still Now I don't know what the latest 0:04:56.279 --> 0:04:58.599 leader board is. This is the last one I see, 0:04:59.080 --> 0:05:01.120 And I picked on Soda because I want to be 0:05:01.160 --> 0:05:04.560 too much of a jerk going and picking you know, 0:05:04.920 --> 0:05:08.600 the Aaron Judge or whatever, so or otani. So I 0:05:08.640 --> 0:05:09.160 picked soda. 0:05:09.240 --> 0:05:11.440 That was the Monday Joey p Yeah, still. 0:05:11.240 --> 0:05:12.920 On here from the Monday board. This one in my 0:05:13.000 --> 0:05:15.279 heart now. It's nice to see Wonky Penguin breaking fifty. 0:05:15.600 --> 0:05:17.440 I did not hit fifty home runs this year. I 0:05:17.600 --> 0:05:20.000 kind of like that when you look at the board 0:05:20.040 --> 0:05:22.160 at the end of the year, it feels like an 0:05:22.200 --> 0:05:24.440 actual home run board, like if you hit sixty home runs, 0:05:24.480 --> 0:05:27.080 like you crushed it, like that was an amazing year. Yeah, 0:05:27.200 --> 0:05:30.200 forty two, I think it was a respectable year for 0:05:30.320 --> 0:05:31.960 home runs. So I am in that. 0:05:32.400 --> 0:05:34.720 Thirty five is pretty good too. 0:05:35.880 --> 0:05:37.760 Yeah, thirty five? Is that where you are here at 0:05:37.760 --> 0:05:38.200 thirty five? 0:05:38.320 --> 0:05:39.679 Thirty five, thirty seven? 0:05:40.200 --> 0:05:40.480 I don't know. 0:05:40.600 --> 0:05:42.160 Maybe I'm one of the things I love though. 0:05:42.320 --> 0:05:46.960 When the clinching happened for the Baltimore Orioles, I did 0:05:47.040 --> 0:05:49.520 see the very funny Jackson Holiday thing too with his 0:05:49.920 --> 0:05:53.400 baby's first clinch Miss so Jackson Holiday friend of the show. 0:05:53.800 --> 0:05:57.240 Nice to see him rebound after a very rock I 0:05:57.320 --> 0:06:00.640 mean one of the worst debuts followed by a very 0:06:00.760 --> 0:06:05.080 respectable return. Patients, It's a long season, Patients with Corbyn Carroll, 0:06:05.360 --> 0:06:07.560 who is about as terrible as a first half player 0:06:07.560 --> 0:06:09.840 as you can imagine. And well, she tells me he's 0:06:09.880 --> 0:06:10.760 up to Where are we. 0:06:10.760 --> 0:06:14.120 At w twenty one and thirty two or thirty three 0:06:14.200 --> 0:06:18.640 stolen bases and the fifth most runs in baseball. Think 0:06:18.640 --> 0:06:21.480 about this, The guys ahead of him are all hitting 0:06:21.560 --> 0:06:25.160 two eighty or higher. The superstars of the league Sho 0:06:25.279 --> 0:06:28.000 Hee O Tani won thirty one, Soto won twenty eight, 0:06:28.040 --> 0:06:30.480 Bobby Wit one twenty four, Aaron Judge one twenty two, 0:06:31.240 --> 0:06:35.920 two thirty two batting average, Corbin Carroll with one hundred 0:06:36.080 --> 0:06:39.839 and nineteen runs. He has more runs than Gunner Henderson. 0:06:40.000 --> 0:06:41.359 That's that's pretty wild. 0:06:42.920 --> 0:06:46.560 That is pretty wild. Also, I have to say too, 0:06:46.680 --> 0:06:49.520 I know people have been saying Joe should apologize to 0:06:49.600 --> 0:06:54.040 Garret Cole. Fine, I mean, I'm making good television here. 0:06:54.560 --> 0:06:57.719 There was reasons to be concerned happy Garrett Cole stayed healthy. 0:06:57.760 --> 0:06:59.080 I never wanted him to be hurt. I was just 0:06:59.160 --> 0:07:03.520 worried about it. So that's all sure. So well, let's 0:07:03.520 --> 0:07:06.920 talk about the wildcard races here, because as a Mets fan, 0:07:07.080 --> 0:07:10.040 I have been mildly following because I always know it's 0:07:10.040 --> 0:07:12.800 gonna end poorly, and I feel like things are set 0:07:12.880 --> 0:07:18.200 up to end not just poorly, but soul crushing, and 0:07:18.360 --> 0:07:20.840 that is the quintessential Mets finish to the season. I 0:07:20.920 --> 0:07:23.240 know the game's got postponed and now you're gonna have 0:07:23.280 --> 0:07:26.239 a double header against the Braves, the team that always 0:07:26.240 --> 0:07:28.000 sticks the knife in the Met's heart over the last 0:07:28.360 --> 0:07:32.160 twenty something years. So I feel like we're setting everything 0:07:32.240 --> 0:07:35.280 up for a complete Nutter disaster here on Monday. But 0:07:35.480 --> 0:07:37.680 for those people like break it all down the American League, 0:07:37.760 --> 0:07:39.880 National League, where we're at with everything, But I just 0:07:40.000 --> 0:07:43.920 feel like I can't watch, Like I can't possibly fathom 0:07:43.960 --> 0:07:46.240 how miserable it's going to be where they're gonna be. 0:07:46.320 --> 0:07:48.680 The Braves are gonna get in, the Diamondbacks are gonna 0:07:48.680 --> 0:07:50.640 get in, and the Mets are gonna be on the outside. 0:07:50.840 --> 0:07:52.640 You just know what's gonna happen. And even if they 0:07:52.720 --> 0:07:54.760 get in, they're probably gonna have to play those games, 0:07:54.800 --> 0:07:57.160 which means that like they're gonna go into the wildcard 0:07:57.240 --> 0:07:59.880 there that next day with just a hot mess. 0:08:00.040 --> 0:08:02.840 It's gonna be the hot mess, definitely. It's funny. I 0:08:02.920 --> 0:08:07.240 did a hit on CBS Sports each Q and one 0:08:07.280 --> 0:08:09.080 of the guys that asked me and he was just like, 0:08:09.840 --> 0:08:12.640 if the Braves get in, will this be because of 0:08:12.760 --> 0:08:15.200 the diamond Will this be because of the Mets or 0:08:15.240 --> 0:08:17.360 will this be because of the Diamondbacks? And I instantly 0:08:17.480 --> 0:08:19.800 was like, it'll be because of a Diamondbacks collapse. So 0:08:19.880 --> 0:08:23.000 the NL situation is the most exciting because I'll just 0:08:23.040 --> 0:08:28.200 gloss over the al. It's essentially done. Minnesota completely dropped 0:08:28.240 --> 0:08:30.480 the ball. They went up against the Marlins and I 0:08:30.520 --> 0:08:33.400 think they've lost two of their last three. The Marlins 0:08:33.440 --> 0:08:36.679 and Mariners are three games out, so if Detroit or 0:08:36.760 --> 0:08:42.040 Kansas City win one more, it's locked they're in. Otherwise 0:08:42.040 --> 0:08:44.240 it would just be so much. Can we talk about 0:08:44.240 --> 0:08:48.040 the Detroit Tigers, Like what best era? I think it 0:08:48.160 --> 0:08:51.880 was number one era in baseball since like August first 0:08:52.160 --> 0:08:54.959 had an incredible bullpen, Terry Skubel and then all those 0:08:55.000 --> 0:08:57.720 young dudes. This awesome story. I know sport has got 0:08:57.840 --> 0:08:59.640 to be through the moon right now about that, but 0:08:59.720 --> 0:09:04.080 the like, it's done essentially unless some crazy crazy thing happens, 0:09:04.160 --> 0:09:06.720 and you know, the Mariners are twins. I mean, essentially again, 0:09:06.800 --> 0:09:10.839 Tigers are Royals. Win, it's done, it's over. But funny enough, 0:09:10.880 --> 0:09:13.680 the Royals are going up against the Braves. So that's 0:09:13.720 --> 0:09:17.600 the other real sticky thing here is that Brave series 0:09:17.760 --> 0:09:21.160 was pushed if the Diamondbacks going to the NL. The 0:09:21.280 --> 0:09:25.760 Diamondbacks lose out this weekend and you get the Mets 0:09:25.840 --> 0:09:27.959 and the Braves pull some of these games in. The 0:09:28.040 --> 0:09:30.520 Mets have got the Brewers and the Braves have got 0:09:30.559 --> 0:09:34.439 the Royals. There's a chance that Monday could happen and 0:09:34.480 --> 0:09:37.560 the Dinebacks are eliminated three games against the Padres. They 0:09:37.600 --> 0:09:40.240 are let me, I just had it up here. Da 0:09:40.320 --> 0:09:42.520 da da da. They are tied with the Mets right 0:09:42.559 --> 0:09:44.640 now and the Braves are one game back. And then 0:09:44.640 --> 0:09:49.000 there's some rumor that like the commissioner could possibly even 0:09:49.480 --> 0:09:52.360 not worry about this game and seeding if weird things happen. 0:09:52.520 --> 0:09:56.760 So this is gonna be a wild NL weekend seeing 0:09:56.800 --> 0:09:58.240 what happens, because I think the Braves are in a 0:09:58.280 --> 0:10:01.520 good situation. Their bullpen has been pitching has been incredible, 0:10:01.800 --> 0:10:04.240 The Mets have been pretty red hot, and the Diamondbacks 0:10:04.280 --> 0:10:06.199 are stinking it up and they got the Padres. And 0:10:06.240 --> 0:10:08.559 by the way, I'll be at Sunday's game, Joe, I'll 0:10:08.559 --> 0:10:10.280 be at the final down the box game of the season, 0:10:10.320 --> 0:10:13.560 which might better mean nothing or might mean absolutely everything. 0:10:14.640 --> 0:10:16.240 Well, I can tell you this. I mean when you 0:10:16.320 --> 0:10:18.800 look at the standings too, which is astounding to me 0:10:18.920 --> 0:10:21.959 that Tampa despite all of the injuries and issues that 0:10:22.000 --> 0:10:24.559 they've had all year, right and then constantly waiting for 0:10:24.679 --> 0:10:28.240 Wander to be seventy eight and eighty one at the 0:10:28.320 --> 0:10:30.080 end of the day. It's it's like you just feel 0:10:30.120 --> 0:10:32.280 like next year they're just gonna be leaping right back 0:10:32.320 --> 0:10:36.080 into things, right McClanahan, healthy springs, healthy, the way Todd 0:10:36.160 --> 0:10:38.280 Bradley pitched this year, Like all of a sudden, you're like, yeah, 0:10:38.440 --> 0:10:39.920 guess what. The Rays are going to be a problem 0:10:40.000 --> 0:10:43.680 next year. The the Troy Tigers not trading schoobl hanging 0:10:43.760 --> 0:10:46.000 on to him and going for it. I mean, it's 0:10:46.080 --> 0:10:48.880 just astounding to see them seventy four. 0:10:49.040 --> 0:10:51.360 I forgot there was that trade rumor of Schooble that's 0:10:51.400 --> 0:10:52.360 a deadline because. 0:10:52.160 --> 0:10:54.000 They googled at the deadline. Was one of those things 0:10:54.040 --> 0:10:55.960 that you thought was going like like, look, they could 0:10:55.960 --> 0:10:58.600 get the Hall here for schoobl and and to their credit, 0:10:58.640 --> 0:11:00.160 they're like, no, you know what, We're gonna try to 0:11:00.200 --> 0:11:03.400 be competitive. And it's great because look, I'm a child 0:11:03.440 --> 0:11:06.360 of the eighties where the Tigers and the Royals were 0:11:06.360 --> 0:11:09.480 always really good, and the Tigers and the Royals are 0:11:10.000 --> 0:11:12.160 relevant again, and it's just really nice to see that. 0:11:13.120 --> 0:11:15.040 Just looking at the standing, seeing the Ashers at the top, 0:11:15.280 --> 0:11:21.280 no surprise there. Astros Phillies was my world series. Baltimore 0:11:21.640 --> 0:11:25.120 Philly was my second choice, and the Astros being that 0:11:25.200 --> 0:11:27.400 team that, yeah, the veteran team just flips the switch 0:11:27.440 --> 0:11:29.400 and knows what to do. I did see, by the way, 0:11:29.480 --> 0:11:31.440 looking at the Mariners at eighty two and seventy seven, 0:11:31.920 --> 0:11:33.800 that this is what the third straight year of Julio 0:11:33.960 --> 0:11:38.120 Rodriguez being up at twenty twenty, which I mean, if 0:11:38.160 --> 0:11:39.920 we could just get lineup protection, if we could just 0:11:39.960 --> 0:11:42.160 get somebody to help this kid out, my god, that 0:11:42.160 --> 0:11:43.760 would be great. Let's talk about the a's too. A 0:11:43.800 --> 0:11:45.160 lot of people have been out of shape about the 0:11:45.160 --> 0:11:48.679 A's and all that situation. There any thoughts there, as 0:11:49.200 --> 0:11:50.959 you know, kind of things come to a close for 0:11:51.120 --> 0:11:54.880 Oakland basically Oakland and sports. Let's be honest, like that's 0:11:54.880 --> 0:11:56.720 the last one hanging on in that region period. 0:11:56.880 --> 0:11:59.120 Personally, Actually, it kind of does, because that's where I 0:11:59.240 --> 0:12:03.079 grew up and that was my family's love. My grandfather 0:12:03.240 --> 0:12:05.640 one thing that we shared was he loved the Raiders 0:12:06.240 --> 0:12:08.520 and he loved the A's And I've been to that stadium. 0:12:08.559 --> 0:12:10.959 I remember having great seats in that stadium. I remember 0:12:11.040 --> 0:12:14.600 sitting in some garbage spots in it. So yeah, it's 0:12:14.960 --> 0:12:16.599 I think it's kind of sad, but also at the 0:12:16.640 --> 0:12:19.360 same time, it's like, I don't know, you see like 0:12:19.760 --> 0:12:21.959 management and stuff, they're embarrassing for everything they did, but 0:12:22.040 --> 0:12:24.679 then you like see that stadium absolutely packed at the end, 0:12:24.800 --> 0:12:26.960 and it's just like, you know, we could have been 0:12:27.000 --> 0:12:28.400 doing this the whole time, Like you don't need to 0:12:28.480 --> 0:12:30.559 just support them because it's the last game. So I 0:12:30.600 --> 0:12:33.200 think all around, it's pretty bad, especially as the A's 0:12:33.240 --> 0:12:36.400 were starting to compile and put together a product of 0:12:36.520 --> 0:12:38.839 like you know, they got a star closer in Mason Miller. 0:12:39.080 --> 0:12:42.599 They've done an incredible job developing these hitters. Brent, like 0:12:42.760 --> 0:12:46.439 Brent Rooker is a wild guy to figure out because 0:12:46.960 --> 0:12:49.480 from a number standpoint, like he's like a top twenty 0:12:49.559 --> 0:12:51.280 five guy. It's just hard to kind of buy into it. 0:12:51.360 --> 0:12:54.360 Lawrence Butler, his overall production looks like he is a 0:12:54.400 --> 0:12:57.000 top fifty player next year. They just don't have the pitching, 0:12:57.200 --> 0:12:59.439 and it looks like they're pitching. This is like the 0:12:59.520 --> 0:13:01.960 formula a lot of these teams. It's like really good, young, 0:13:02.200 --> 0:13:04.920 controllable bats, and then a team that spends money would 0:13:04.920 --> 0:13:06.520 then go into this is the old Met the old 0:13:06.559 --> 0:13:08.679 old Mets thing where it was like, you spend on 0:13:08.760 --> 0:13:11.000 the pitching and you develop young hitting. They've got that. 0:13:11.320 --> 0:13:13.280 It's just you know, when are they going to They're 0:13:13.280 --> 0:13:16.080 gonna be Sacramento for like two years, So it's weird. 0:13:16.080 --> 0:13:17.559 I think it's sad. I think it's sad when any 0:13:17.640 --> 0:13:21.240 team goes away. I guess I'm nostalgic towards that and 0:13:21.400 --> 0:13:23.679 just personally because I have been in that stadium and stuff. 0:13:23.720 --> 0:13:25.040 But I also hate the ID. 0:13:25.320 --> 0:13:28.560 My youth were those Bash brother teams that were dominant. Yeah, sure, 0:13:28.640 --> 0:13:30.719 you know the Conseco's and mcguires and all that, Like 0:13:30.840 --> 0:13:33.360 the A's were. The A's could have been a dynasty 0:13:33.360 --> 0:13:35.760 if they could have just gotten past the Dodgers, you know, 0:13:35.920 --> 0:13:38.640 but like they just that that, you know, really crushed 0:13:38.679 --> 0:13:40.199 them and then they just never lived up to the 0:13:40.280 --> 0:13:42.839 hype after that. They dominated in the regular season, but 0:13:43.000 --> 0:13:44.640 you know, really, when you think about it, you know, 0:13:44.679 --> 0:13:47.520 they they lost to the Reds. They you know, they 0:13:47.640 --> 0:13:51.080 lost to the Diamondbacks. I mean not the Backs. They 0:13:51.120 --> 0:13:53.480 lost to the Reds. They beat the San Francisco Giants 0:13:53.800 --> 0:13:56.040 and they lost to the Dodgers, and you know, it's 0:13:56.280 --> 0:13:58.200 kind of like what could have been for those teams 0:13:58.240 --> 0:13:58.959 when you think about it. 0:13:59.080 --> 0:14:01.040 One thing I hate, by the way, asking is Sacramento 0:14:01.120 --> 0:14:03.319 Hitters Park. Yeah, that's a PCL park, so it is. 0:14:03.440 --> 0:14:05.160 It is a hitter friendly environment. 0:14:05.520 --> 0:14:07.280 Which would be fun. I mean, that's gonna be fun 0:14:07.320 --> 0:14:08.319 for the offensive. 0:14:07.960 --> 0:14:10.280 Numbers of the hitters. Anyway, what I don't like is 0:14:10.360 --> 0:14:11.679 this whole like, you know what we should do. We 0:14:11.720 --> 0:14:13.640 should do an expansion team in Oakland, and it's like, 0:14:13.679 --> 0:14:15.640 I don't know, man, like, just like you just got 0:14:15.720 --> 0:14:17.520 them out of there, like save the A's, then save 0:14:17.559 --> 0:14:22.160 the A's and do a give a place like Vegas 0:14:22.400 --> 0:14:24.560 or wherever you're gonna put a new baseball team, give 0:14:24.560 --> 0:14:27.480 them something, originals, just give them the old of a 0:14:27.560 --> 0:14:30.400 team because that just like stinks and lingers throughout time. 0:14:30.440 --> 0:14:31.760 But yeah, I don't know, it's that also we had 0:14:31.840 --> 0:14:34.360 like our we had friends, like you know, was there 0:14:34.480 --> 0:14:36.600 covering it and stuff like that. It's just you know, 0:14:36.800 --> 0:14:38.640 end of season magical baseball stuff. 0:14:39.080 --> 0:14:41.080 Fun question here from Michael Wainwright. It's nice to see 0:14:41.080 --> 0:14:45.200 you guys finish off together. Yes, thank you for that, Michael. 0:14:45.320 --> 0:14:47.640 How did you guys do in your leagues? Well, in 0:14:47.800 --> 0:14:49.760 my home league, my most important league, I was still 0:14:49.800 --> 0:14:52.880 in a rebuild after being in the playoffs six straight years. 0:14:53.040 --> 0:14:56.040 I tore everything down and this was a two year plan. 0:14:56.160 --> 0:14:58.080 This was year two of the two year plan, and 0:14:58.720 --> 0:15:01.480 I almost still made the playof in that fifteen team league. 0:15:01.480 --> 0:15:05.680 I missed it actually on a tiebreaker despite the tear down. 0:15:06.120 --> 0:15:10.240 But next year, Welsh, I've got a Kunya Tatis, Elie 0:15:10.320 --> 0:15:15.600 de la Cruz and uh, I've got dollar pictures of McClanahan, 0:15:16.720 --> 0:15:19.560 Urie Perez and Sandy Alcntra. So I'm going to be 0:15:19.600 --> 0:15:22.240 a problem in that league for the next five years. Yeah, 0:15:22.240 --> 0:15:23.920 that's pretty It's gonna be one of those teams where 0:15:23.960 --> 0:15:26.240 you're like, okay, let's go. I got to make some 0:15:26.320 --> 0:15:28.800 hard decisions like I got Ventos at two Bucks? Do 0:15:28.880 --> 0:15:30.800 I want to keep him? Like, oh, it's kind of 0:15:30.840 --> 0:15:31.160 hard not. 0:15:31.200 --> 0:15:32.800 To want to keep him, but I want to keep him. 0:15:32.840 --> 0:15:34.640 But I think so. But it's like, do you keep 0:15:34.680 --> 0:15:36.080 him or Wander Franco? Like, I don't know. 0:15:36.320 --> 0:15:39.720 I got like Frank, Wonder Franco. Yeah, no, you don't 0:15:39.800 --> 0:15:40.480 keep wander Franco. 0:15:40.600 --> 0:15:43.400 No, wonder Frank, I mean Wonder Franco. Well, I meant, 0:15:43.640 --> 0:15:45.440 my god, this is the problem here. Can I say 0:15:45.480 --> 0:15:46.000 Wonder Franco. 0:15:46.400 --> 0:15:48.600 I was like, I'm like, Joe, you don't you correct me? 0:15:48.880 --> 0:15:49.600 I tried to. 0:15:49.800 --> 0:15:51.200 I was so thrown off. 0:15:52.080 --> 0:15:57.160 Who I mean, I can't even No, No, Tampa in 0:15:57.280 --> 0:15:58.960 Tampa are prospect that we were waiting for. 0:15:59.120 --> 0:16:00.800 Oh, Junior Cameron, Junior Caminara. 0:16:00.880 --> 0:16:04.120 Caminaro. Junior Caminaro is what we were waiting for all year. 0:16:04.160 --> 0:16:06.840 So Junior Cavinaro. This is the problem, folks. I haven't 0:16:06.880 --> 0:16:11.280 touched discussing baseball in two months, and I say things 0:16:11.320 --> 0:16:12.040 like wonder Frank Coup. 0:16:12.520 --> 0:16:15.280 Well guess what two months? The outcome is still the 0:16:15.320 --> 0:16:18.800 same with Wander Franco. Right now, I can still yeah, but. 0:16:18.880 --> 0:16:20.880 Yeah, Junior Caminaro. That's the other guy that I have 0:16:21.240 --> 0:16:21.680 keeping there. 0:16:21.760 --> 0:16:25.440 Yeah, I'm like I was heavily invested in Keeper my 0:16:25.640 --> 0:16:30.240 brain toast Keeper leagues and NFBC. I mean, I will 0:16:30.280 --> 0:16:32.960 admit that the Carrol stuff killed me. Injuries killed me 0:16:33.040 --> 0:16:35.320 this year across the board. You know the thing I'm 0:16:35.360 --> 0:16:37.640 gonna attack everybody, Yeah, well the thing I need, I 0:16:37.680 --> 0:16:39.360 think I need to tackle because I had some like 0:16:39.560 --> 0:16:42.480 especially in the NFBC stuff, I had some really good 0:16:42.640 --> 0:16:45.280 hits on, Like I had schemes in a couple spots. 0:16:45.480 --> 0:16:48.720 Jared Jones was this huge git for me, but I 0:16:48.800 --> 0:16:51.280 got smacked with injuries that I didn't do a good 0:16:51.360 --> 0:16:54.960 enough job in the depth portion of a lot of leagues. 0:16:55.000 --> 0:16:56.840 And the same thing happened in Dynasty. I had Dynasty 0:16:56.880 --> 0:17:00.280 Mike Trout, Ronald Acunya, Fernando Tatis, like they just really 0:17:00.400 --> 0:17:03.080 killed me in some spots that I was really really heavy. 0:17:03.160 --> 0:17:05.240 So it was okay. I would say it was a 0:17:05.359 --> 0:17:10.160 much better analysis year for me than like Takedown, even 0:17:10.200 --> 0:17:13.320 though I had an NFBC which was like Ellie and 0:17:13.520 --> 0:17:15.359 Carol and it's like, God if Carol had been like 0:17:15.600 --> 0:17:17.720 on top of it, having hint only a cruise. That 0:17:17.840 --> 0:17:19.480 was like a really fun one. So it was okay, 0:17:19.920 --> 0:17:20.520 it was decent. 0:17:21.280 --> 0:17:23.600 Yeah, it's say it was a rough year for injuries, 0:17:23.640 --> 0:17:26.280 which is again why it's so important to hit things right. 0:17:26.680 --> 0:17:29.120 Let's go to some of the standouts in the season too. 0:17:29.200 --> 0:17:32.080 I mean, obviously, Showeyotani, I think that was I mean, 0:17:32.119 --> 0:17:35.720 that's he's the greatest baseball player I've ever seen. I 0:17:35.760 --> 0:17:38.320 think he's the greatest baseball player ever. I don't think 0:17:38.359 --> 0:17:40.440 that's up for debate anymore, because you could talk about 0:17:40.480 --> 0:17:42.240 Babe Ruth and you know, hitting more home runs and 0:17:42.359 --> 0:17:45.200 entire teams like that's a if you drop Showey Altani 0:17:45.320 --> 0:17:48.679 in that era, he is going to dominate too. Nobody 0:17:48.760 --> 0:17:50.760 has pitched the way Showy Altani and hit the way 0:17:50.760 --> 0:17:53.680 show a TONI has. And now steeles bases like shoeheo Tom. 0:17:53.760 --> 0:17:56.400 Like dropping the terminator into like normal land. 0:17:57.200 --> 0:17:59.959 It's just unbelievable. Fifty three homers, fifty six steals. 0:18:00.000 --> 0:18:01.720 The guy's going to fifty five to fifty five right 0:18:01.760 --> 0:18:03.000 now is the chase. But you know what, let me 0:18:03.119 --> 0:18:04.880 let me ask you this though, because you say there's 0:18:04.920 --> 0:18:08.240 no discussion, there has been. The Braves community can't get 0:18:08.280 --> 0:18:11.040 over themselves. Not everybody, but there's a secta that's like, 0:18:11.080 --> 0:18:13.560 by the way, Akunya was forty seventy last year, I don't. 0:18:13.400 --> 0:18:16.359 Care does he pitch? I know, has he thrown ninety 0:18:16.880 --> 0:18:17.200 an hour? 0:18:18.359 --> 0:18:18.399 Like? 0:18:19.160 --> 0:18:21.639