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Speaker 1: Welcome to the Favorites, the podcast from the Volume Podcast Network.

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Speaker 1: I I M Chad Millman. We've got a massive show because,

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Speaker 1: as usual, since it's late July, NFL drama is heating

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Speaker 1: up faster than a high school drama on Disney. Plus

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Speaker 1: Simon Hunter, my bff, my companient, He's gonna come in.

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Speaker 1: We're gonna talk all about what's happening with the Packers,

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Speaker 1: what's happening with Deshaun Watson. How should we be thinking

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Speaker 1: about all that as we head into the NFL season

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Speaker 1: as it relates to futures and wind totals and division

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Speaker 1: winds and conference winds and all that kind of good stuff.

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Speaker 1: Plus later in the show, b J. Cunningham, who famously

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Speaker 1: came on earlier in the year and won the Thursday

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Speaker 1: Thunderdome with some phenomenal question answering and trivia expertise that

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Speaker 1: was funny at next level and in depth. He is

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Speaker 1: one of our baseball geniuses. He's going to talk about

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Speaker 1: baseball in the second half, betting the second half of

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Speaker 1: the season, along with Colin Whitchurch, our baseball senior editor,

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Speaker 1: a man who knows more about baseball than most of

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Speaker 1: us can remember. In a single day. I'm looking forward

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Speaker 1: to that. But first, Simon, I feel like we haven't

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Speaker 1: spoken in so long, and it's only been a week,

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Speaker 1: but I was away, you know, for the last few

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Speaker 1: days of last week. We got a lot of kitchen

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Speaker 1: up to do. How are you? Oh yeah, I missed you, Chad.

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Speaker 1: And not only did I miss you from the show,

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Speaker 1: I missed you because I did do two of those

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Speaker 1: ad reads. Well. Number one, Listen, we truly appreciate our

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Speaker 1: This is how it happens, my friend, slowly but surely. Look,

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Speaker 1: we were just talking before we came on the air,

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Speaker 1: how I was talking with a buddy about so many

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Speaker 1: people coming into this space trying to be insiders, trying

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Speaker 1: to parlay what they think they know about the NFL,

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Speaker 1: what they think they know from having experience having played

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Speaker 1: in the NFL or been executives or coaches in the NFL,

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Speaker 1: translating that to betting whether they want to use it

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Speaker 1: to become better as themselves, where they wanted to use

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Speaker 1: it to become media experts who can translate everything to

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Speaker 1: insider information that helps people get an edge. Um, and

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Speaker 1: the delta between that and actual professional betters, of which

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Speaker 1: you are one of them. Ah, It is actually phenomenal

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Speaker 1: to me how much more professional betters know about what's

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Speaker 1: happening in this world than anybody else. So give me

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Speaker 1: your take. Aaron Rodgers arriving in Green Bay today, Deshaun Watson,

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Speaker 1: who we had both made a lot of futures bets

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Speaker 1: on teams. He could go to Washington football team Carolina. Um,

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Speaker 1: those trade winds are back in the air. Where's your head?

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Speaker 1: What are you thinking? Tell me about Aaron Rodgers? First? Um? Well,

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Speaker 1: first I I gave you advice to your friend. Don't

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Speaker 1: do it. It's it's a different muscle, it's completely different world. Um.

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Speaker 1: I get why these people want to get in it, though.

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Speaker 1: Like I told you, there's there's few cooler feelings in

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Speaker 1: the world than when I knew the Jets were gonna

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Speaker 1: upset and win against the Rams. I didn't know they're

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Speaker 1: there was really great value in the number. And the

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Speaker 1: following week when I came on the show on a

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Speaker 1: own fourteen. It's awesome, dude. It's like honestly really fun.

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Speaker 1: And you experienced on the draft day getting those texts

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Speaker 1: off of the night that Trey Lance was gonna the

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Speaker 1: third pick overall and betting that and putting the word

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Speaker 1: all the time, is it's different. I'm getting used to it. Um,

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Speaker 1: It's just different, especially the gameling world, where like people

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Speaker 1: tell me information that's awful all the time, good or bad.

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Speaker 1: You don't react to it in any way negative or positive.

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Speaker 1: You just take the information you're given. You try to

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Speaker 1: figure out what's real and what's not. Uh, It's definitely

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Speaker 1: or Chris Simms? Who are you? And it's just like,

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Speaker 1: Rodgers that was just again. I got a bunch of messages.

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Speaker 1: It was one thirty am East Coast time, and my whole,

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Speaker 1: it's one of those where like multiple people invest me,

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Speaker 1: gonna retire. I I still can't even say that right now.

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Speaker 1: Stupid it sounds people really believed Aaron Rodgers was gonna

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Speaker 1: I just said I just thought it was bys and

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Speaker 1: that Aaron Rodgers was coming back. No, I didn't know anything.

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Speaker 1: All I knew was that we talked all year. I mean,

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Speaker 1: me and you. I We've sat here and we've had

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Speaker 1: multiple conversations about what Aaron Rodgers was gonna do. Mathematically,

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Speaker 1: it did not make any sense for him to leave

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Speaker 1: just a really weird thing to think that he was

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Speaker 1: v P. So we saw what happened Chad, like we

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Speaker 1: but it's like, they gotta get clicks. It's a business.

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Speaker 1: They need they need your clicks people. So I think

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Speaker 1: that was just pure clickbait what happened on Saturday night.

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Speaker 1: You are not and nobody sna You are a valued

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Speaker 1: member of this podcast team. You are a friend to

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Speaker 1: get the guy is kind of a scumbag. It's a

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Speaker 1: a buyer on the Rams. Well, people will see again,

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428
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Speaker 1: seen anything like it, Like like we can talk about

429
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Speaker 1: these guys. I I honestly people were giving him ship

430
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Speaker 1: because he doesn't speak like the language. I think he

431
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Speaker 1: speaks it pretty good. And when I was a kid,

432
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Speaker 1: I think I heard Ken griff Jr. Speak one time

433
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Speaker 1: from at my age seven till maybe eleven, Like I

434
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Speaker 1: never heard Ken griff Jr. Speak. He was just kind

435
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Speaker 1: of a shy, soft spoken guy. It was just Ken Griffy.

436
00:21:56,840 --> 00:21:58,920
Speaker 1: He was just this cool dude with his hat backwards.

437
00:21:58,960 --> 00:22:02,199
Speaker 1: He's a legend. Ohtani is the same thing, man, Like

438
00:22:02,280 --> 00:22:05,439
Speaker 1: I literally am checking in Angels games. Who I never like.

439
00:22:05,520 --> 00:22:07,840
Speaker 1: Mike Trout's great player. He's from South Jersey. I didn't

440
00:22:07,840 --> 00:22:10,400
Speaker 1: really care about Mike Trout man, Like I wasn't. It wasn't.

441
00:22:10,440 --> 00:22:11,680
Speaker 1: I had to stop, but I was doing to see

442
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Speaker 1: Otani pitch and that It's just one of these things

443
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Speaker 1: where he's like once in a generation. So to me,

444
00:22:17,400 --> 00:22:20,000
Speaker 1: I think MLB has hit a goal. Mind here where

445
00:22:20,040 --> 00:22:24,240
Speaker 1: this guy is so interesting that no joke, every time

446
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Speaker 1: he's pitching. I watched for the last month. He's just

447
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Speaker 1: one of these players where I am so obsessed with Now, Like,

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Speaker 1: b J, what is your view on this guy? Like

449
00:22:31,600 --> 00:22:33,840
Speaker 1: what is is he really going to play out this season?

450
00:22:33,920 --> 00:22:35,480
Speaker 1: Is this really happy and guys gonna be able to

451
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Speaker 1: pitch and hit fifty home runs? Yeah? I mean he's

452
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Speaker 1: he's incredible. I mean if you look at all of

453
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Speaker 1: his advanced metrics, like you know, I think we talked

454
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Speaker 1: about for the home run Derby, like his barrel percentage,

455
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Speaker 1: sweet spot percentage and all that. I mean, there are

456
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Speaker 1: numbers we honestly have never even seen before. It's unbelievably insane,

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Speaker 1: and you know, doing both of pitching and hitting, it's

458
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Speaker 1: it's not that big of a benefit to the Angels,

459
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Speaker 1: even though he has been really good on the mountain,

460
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Speaker 1: I mean, pitched seven good things last night. But if

461
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Speaker 1: he could only just focus on hitting, I think he

462
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Speaker 1: could honestly be the best hitter over the next like

463
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Speaker 1: five to ten years and possibly even threatened Barry Bond's

464
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Speaker 1: home run record because just his numbers are just so

465
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Speaker 1: unbelievably incredible and we've never even seen anything like it,

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Speaker 1: And honestly, I think on the backs of that, I

467
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Speaker 1: actually think there's a shot that the Angels will actually

468
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Speaker 1: make the playoffs, even though they're sitting at five hundred

469
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Speaker 1: right now, because Trout's gonna come back in August, and

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Speaker 1: the offense beyond Otani and Trout has been pretty average,

471
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Speaker 1: but they have four decent starting pitchers now they're looking

472
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Speaker 1: to maybe sell to two of them at the deadline,

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Speaker 1: So if that happens, and this is out the window.

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Speaker 1: But and then when you look at their bullpen, you

475
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Speaker 1: know their overall numbers are not good, but their top

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Speaker 1: three guys uh in the front end of their bullpen

477
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Speaker 1: all have X rays under four. Rossil Glaziers, their closers,

478
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Speaker 1: the sixth best rated reliever in Major League Baseball. They're

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00:23:52,040 --> 00:23:53,919
Speaker 1: currently a hundred and twenty two one to win the

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Speaker 1: a L West and their ten games back. I don't

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Speaker 1: know what their odds are to win the or to

482
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Speaker 1: make the playoffs right now, but if it's anything north

483
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Speaker 1: of ten to one, I honestly think it's worth a

484
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Speaker 1: bet because if Otani can continue to carry their offense

485
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Speaker 1: and then Trout comes back like this could be a

486
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Speaker 1: really good team in the a LS could get flipped

487
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Speaker 1: on its head if the Astros start to fall back.

488
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Speaker 1: So yeah, I think if Otani continues to do what

489
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Speaker 1: he does, I think we'll never even see anything like

490
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Speaker 1: this in our lifetime, with how good he is on

491
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Speaker 1: both both on the mountain at place. My favorite thing

492
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Speaker 1: will be that he cost three million dollars this year.

493
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Speaker 1: He can't paid three million. I mean, he might end

494
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Speaker 1: up making more money than Trout on his contract once

495
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Speaker 1: it's all set and done. Uh, Colin would the Angels

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Speaker 1: would Otani be better off if he was just playing

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Speaker 1: one way? I don't think they would be better off

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Speaker 1: because of the roster construction in Anaheim um, as BJ

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Speaker 1: alluded to their pitching staff. I actually am am uh

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Speaker 1: way less high on the Angels overall. You know, Otani's

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Speaker 1: Otani's by far the best picture. UM, I don't trust

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Speaker 1: um Alex Cobb Andrewhiny in big spots. They need Otani

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Speaker 1: question of whether or not Tani would be more valuable

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Speaker 1: kind of in a vacuum is a more interesting one. UM.

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Speaker 1: I would lean know there as well. UM just because

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Speaker 1: he's like, I don't see a scenario where he's actually

508
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Speaker 1: a better hitter than he is right now if he

509
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Speaker 1: weren't pitching, because of how good he is at hitting

510
00:25:33,520 --> 00:25:36,840
Speaker 1: right now, the value he provides on both sides of

511
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Speaker 1: the plate is too enormous. The roster construction has been

512
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Speaker 1: all over the place for a number of years. You know,

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Speaker 1: Mike Trout has made the playoffs once in his career,

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Speaker 1: and it was his second season. I believe you know,

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Speaker 1: it's a disservice to baseball and to Angels fans that

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Speaker 1: Trout and now Otani are probably not going to make

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Speaker 1: the playoffs for the foreseeable future. B J likes their

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Speaker 1: their playoff odds. I just looked there plus seven fifty

519
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Speaker 1: to make the playoffs right now. It's it's funny. I'm

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521
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Speaker 1: What he's doing is just too remarkable and it's insane.

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Speaker 1: I think I saw stat that after the All Star Game,

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Speaker 1: the National League. Please tell me what to do. I'm

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Speaker 1: Braves have the best run differential in net division even

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Speaker 1: though they're two games under five hundred plus thirty eight.

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Speaker 1: The Phillies are minus twenty two, the Mets are plus eleven.

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00:29:58,600 --> 00:30:01,080
Speaker 1: The Mets are probably gonna win in that division, but

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Speaker 1: the Braves are are down I think plus seven hundred

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Speaker 1: now to win the East, and and that number jumped

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Speaker 1: out to me a little bit. Um. I really like

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Speaker 1: Ian Anderson and Charlie Morton in the front of that rotation.

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Speaker 1: There's a lot of shakiness there. I'm not gonna lie.

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Speaker 1: I mean, there are two games under five hundred for

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Speaker 1: a reason, but I just think they with with Freeman,

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Speaker 1: wouldn't be surprised to see them make a flush. I

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Speaker 1: surprised to see them do something this week as well.

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Speaker 1: I do find that the National League is so interesting

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Speaker 1: And like Christian Yellowish is a shell of the multi

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Speaker 1: his potential and what he had done in the past,

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Speaker 1: forget about it. In the NL Central, Um, obviously the

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Speaker 1: Cubs are gonna be sellers. And that's all we really

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Speaker 1: need to say about that. Uh. And then the NL

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Speaker 1: least we talked about kind of a weird division because

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Speaker 1: the best team actually is missing its best player and

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Speaker 1: to win the NL West right now. And really, what

640
00:32:09,880 --> 00:32:11,479
Speaker 1: it came down to the Giants last year, I think

641
00:32:11,480 --> 00:32:13,560
Speaker 1: they missed playoffs by either one game or maybe half

642
00:32:13,560 --> 00:32:15,840
Speaker 1: a game. Their offense was really good, they were top

643
00:32:15,840 --> 00:32:17,760
Speaker 1: ten and pretty much every metric he looked at. They

644
00:32:17,840 --> 00:32:21,120
Speaker 1: kept their entire roster together. The biggest issue was their bullpen.

645
00:32:21,240 --> 00:32:22,760
Speaker 1: It was one of the worst in all of baseball.

646
00:32:22,800 --> 00:32:24,920
Speaker 1: So what they did in the off season is they

647
00:32:24,960 --> 00:32:27,120
Speaker 1: completely scrapped the whole thing. Only they only have two

648
00:32:27,160 --> 00:32:29,800
Speaker 1: pitchers from last season in their bullpen this season and

649
00:32:29,840 --> 00:32:32,480
Speaker 1: it's completely worked. I mean they've lowered their era ear

650
00:32:32,560 --> 00:32:35,120
Speaker 1: A and next fit both by about a point, and

651
00:32:35,160 --> 00:32:38,000
Speaker 1: then their offenses continued to hit incredibly well. And now

652
00:32:38,360 --> 00:32:40,000
Speaker 1: when you go to the rotation, it's not a lot

653
00:32:40,040 --> 00:32:42,080
Speaker 1: of guys that maybe you'd recognize if you haven't been

654
00:32:42,080 --> 00:32:45,040
Speaker 1: watching baseball, but Kevin Gosman, Logan Webb and Alex would

655
00:32:45,040 --> 00:32:48,240
Speaker 1: have been incredible. And honestly, what this Giants team feels

656
00:32:48,280 --> 00:32:50,120
Speaker 1: like now that they're in first place in the NLS,

657
00:32:50,160 --> 00:32:51,640
Speaker 1: it kind of feels like the Giants teams of the

658
00:32:51,720 --> 00:32:53,480
Speaker 1: early two thousand tents where you look at them and

659
00:32:53,480 --> 00:32:56,520
Speaker 1: you're like, it's not I don't see a huge star

660
00:32:56,600 --> 00:32:58,800
Speaker 1: on the team, or they don't really do anything that

661
00:32:58,840 --> 00:33:00,560
Speaker 1: you know, really jumps off the page, but they're just

662
00:33:00,600 --> 00:33:03,520
Speaker 1: incredibly solid in all four phases of the game. So

663
00:33:03,800 --> 00:33:06,320
Speaker 1: with their improved bullpen this season, I think this is

664
00:33:06,360 --> 00:33:09,640
Speaker 1: an absolutely legit team. I think that they will continue

665
00:33:09,680 --> 00:33:11,840
Speaker 1: to lead the n L West. If not, they'll get

666
00:33:11,880 --> 00:33:13,920
Speaker 1: one of the wild card spots, because the two wild

667
00:33:13,920 --> 00:33:15,720
Speaker 1: card spots are pretty much gonna go to the n

668
00:33:15,800 --> 00:33:18,120
Speaker 1: L West, and it's not crazy to think that they

669
00:33:18,160 --> 00:33:19,600
Speaker 1: could go on and win the World Series. I think

670
00:33:19,640 --> 00:33:22,000
Speaker 1: their tend to one right now on Fandel. I don't

671
00:33:22,000 --> 00:33:24,000
Speaker 1: know if there's much value in that number right now,

672
00:33:24,080 --> 00:33:27,640
Speaker 1: but this is an absolute legit team with legit offense,

673
00:33:27,680 --> 00:33:30,720
Speaker 1: a pretty good bullpen, and three legit starters. So I

674
00:33:30,760 --> 00:33:32,800
Speaker 1: love the Giants to continue this to go on, and

675
00:33:32,840 --> 00:33:34,840
Speaker 1: I think that they're gonna be a problem for both

676
00:33:34,880 --> 00:33:37,320
Speaker 1: the Dodgers and the Padres. God, I hope Colin come

677
00:33:37,360 --> 00:33:40,560
Speaker 1: badmouth them, because I can't stand that they're good again.

678
00:33:41,280 --> 00:33:43,240
Speaker 1: It just anyone and w's a fan of baseball, you

679
00:33:43,280 --> 00:33:45,120
Speaker 1: have to kind of hate San Francisco. They have the

680
00:33:45,160 --> 00:33:48,360
Speaker 1: best ballpark, and they're never bad for more than five years.

681
00:33:48,360 --> 00:33:50,400
Speaker 1: Like you just said, it wasn't that long ago till

682
00:33:50,440 --> 00:33:52,600
Speaker 1: Linskin was just throwing heaters for them, and they're winning

683
00:33:52,600 --> 00:33:54,840
Speaker 1: World Series and they had Madison bum Gardener and it's

684
00:33:54,880 --> 00:33:57,640
Speaker 1: just never ending. I can't stand it. Can they just

685
00:33:57,680 --> 00:33:59,640
Speaker 1: be bad for ten years? As a Phillies fan that

686
00:34:00,000 --> 00:34:02,720
Speaker 1: hasn't relevant for ten years, I can't take it bad.

687
00:34:03,480 --> 00:34:05,800
Speaker 1: How is it that for so long in the seventies

688
00:34:05,800 --> 00:34:09,360
Speaker 1: and eighties, it was they were the most irrelevant team

689
00:34:09,400 --> 00:34:11,759
Speaker 1: in the major leagues? You they were never discussed. It

690
00:34:11,800 --> 00:34:14,360
Speaker 1: just happens to be before your time. But old people

691
00:34:14,440 --> 00:34:19,960
Speaker 1: like me can remember when San Francisco was the most irrelevant. Okay,

692
00:34:19,960 --> 00:34:22,360
Speaker 1: fifty years ago. Fifty years ago, San France had a

693
00:34:22,400 --> 00:34:27,080
Speaker 1: bad Jed said they had a bad years ago. Yeah,

694
00:34:28,160 --> 00:34:32,680
Speaker 1: good friend, God terrible. I I can't believe it's possible

695
00:34:32,680 --> 00:34:34,839
Speaker 1: because our ex manager of the Phillies is there, and

696
00:34:34,920 --> 00:34:37,480
Speaker 1: it's like, what is happening? Are they really going to

697
00:34:37,560 --> 00:34:40,080
Speaker 1: beat out the Dodgers in San Diego? Because both the

698
00:34:40,120 --> 00:34:43,040
Speaker 1: Dodgers San Diego, their their payrolls insane. Like you guys know,

699
00:34:43,200 --> 00:34:45,960
Speaker 1: it's it's truly David versus Golia. So I would love

700
00:34:45,960 --> 00:34:49,080
Speaker 1: to hear how do you view this division? Well, um,

701
00:34:49,280 --> 00:34:51,759
Speaker 1: I'm staying the hell away from that division as far

702
00:34:53,120 --> 00:34:55,440
Speaker 1: I do like the Giants, maybe not quite as much

703
00:34:55,440 --> 00:34:57,920
Speaker 1: as b J. I do think the Dodgers overtake them

704
00:34:57,960 --> 00:35:00,320
Speaker 1: and win that division at some point. But the interesting

705
00:35:00,360 --> 00:35:02,520
Speaker 1: thing about the NL West, and I talked about this

706
00:35:02,560 --> 00:35:06,680
Speaker 1: a little bit in the preseason, is that the playoff

707
00:35:06,719 --> 00:35:08,600
Speaker 1: futures for that division scare the hell out of me,

708
00:35:08,640 --> 00:35:10,799
Speaker 1: because they're gonna end up beating it up on each other.

709
00:35:11,400 --> 00:35:14,400
Speaker 1: The two teams say, say it plays out how I

710
00:35:14,400 --> 00:35:16,360
Speaker 1: think it is. The Dodgers win the division, the Giants

711
00:35:16,360 --> 00:35:19,000
Speaker 1: and Padres win the wild Card, the Giants and Padres

712
00:35:19,000 --> 00:35:22,080
Speaker 1: play a wild Card game together, the winner plays the Dodgers.

713
00:35:23,000 --> 00:35:25,520
Speaker 1: So it's just like a gauntlet to get to the

714
00:35:25,520 --> 00:35:27,759
Speaker 1: World Series. That's why, whoever you like, how to the

715
00:35:27,800 --> 00:35:29,960
Speaker 1: Central or the East. You know, if you like an

716
00:35:30,040 --> 00:35:32,520
Speaker 1: NL Pennant future or a World Series future out of

717
00:35:32,520 --> 00:35:35,080
Speaker 1: the Braves and Mets, the Brewers, what have you, I

718
00:35:35,080 --> 00:35:37,920
Speaker 1: think there's value there just because they're gonna play each

719
00:35:37,920 --> 00:35:40,920
Speaker 1: other and then the winner is gonna get whoever comes

720
00:35:40,920 --> 00:35:44,440
Speaker 1: out of this gauntlet match. In the NFL West, I

721
00:35:44,480 --> 00:35:46,960
Speaker 1: still think it's going to be the Dodgers that emerge.

722
00:35:47,239 --> 00:35:49,840
Speaker 1: But I just you know, looking at the paths to

723
00:35:49,960 --> 00:35:53,239
Speaker 1: the Pennant, to the World Series, etcetera. I look at

724
00:35:53,239 --> 00:35:57,239
Speaker 1: those other two divisions just because just because of how

725
00:35:57,239 --> 00:35:59,279
Speaker 1: it's gonna go in the West. All Right, So b

726
00:35:59,440 --> 00:36:01,920
Speaker 1: J said, is he doesn't see a ton of value

727
00:36:02,560 --> 00:36:06,359
Speaker 1: in the Giants At ten to one, I argue, you're

728
00:36:06,360 --> 00:36:08,680
Speaker 1: getting double digits on a team that you know may

729
00:36:08,760 --> 00:36:11,480
Speaker 1: or may not even win its division, and that's not

730
00:36:11,600 --> 00:36:15,560
Speaker 1: too bad. Uh, let's break it down in the last

731
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Speaker 1: minute of this podcast, b J, give me your best

732
00:36:23,000 --> 00:36:27,360
Speaker 1: value to win the Pennant in the National League and

733
00:36:27,440 --> 00:36:30,680
Speaker 1: the American League, and your best value to win the

734
00:36:30,719 --> 00:36:36,440
Speaker 1: World Series. Colin, same question for you. Yeah, I I

735
00:36:36,480 --> 00:36:37,920
Speaker 1: think in the n L, I think it's still the

736
00:36:37,960 --> 00:36:40,160
Speaker 1: Brewers right now. They're twelve to one, you know, beyond

737
00:36:40,160 --> 00:36:43,520
Speaker 1: the Giants. And really with the Brewers, they have three

738
00:36:43,520 --> 00:36:45,400
Speaker 1: of the best starting pitchers in the National League. That

739
00:36:45,480 --> 00:36:47,840
Speaker 1: is gonna cause a lot of problems for all the

740
00:36:47,840 --> 00:36:51,120
Speaker 1: other teams throughout the playoffs. Cordon Burns, Brandon Woodruff, and

741
00:36:51,120 --> 00:36:53,080
Speaker 1: Freddie Perraulta all have any ERA in or two and

742
00:36:53,080 --> 00:36:55,399
Speaker 1: a half. They have k for nine right over ten.

743
00:36:55,480 --> 00:36:58,600
Speaker 1: I mean, these guys are incredible starting pitchers. And then

744
00:36:58,640 --> 00:37:00,400
Speaker 1: they handed off to a bullpen that's still one of

745
00:37:00,400 --> 00:37:01,839
Speaker 1: the best in baseball and has one of the best

746
00:37:01,840 --> 00:37:04,840
Speaker 1: closers in baseball and Josh Hayter. Now, their offense hasn't

747
00:37:04,840 --> 00:37:06,839
Speaker 1: really been up to part, but Christian Yellick was hurt

748
00:37:06,880 --> 00:37:08,759
Speaker 1: for most of the first half of the season. They

749
00:37:08,800 --> 00:37:11,200
Speaker 1: just traded for William Dames, so it's gonna be a

750
00:37:11,280 --> 00:37:13,560
Speaker 1: really good team. That's gonna make the playoffs. They're probably

751
00:37:13,600 --> 00:37:16,360
Speaker 1: gonna have, you know, maybe one or two maybe a

752
00:37:16,560 --> 00:37:18,600
Speaker 1: home field advantage for at least one of the rounds.

753
00:37:19,000 --> 00:37:21,280
Speaker 1: So getting them at twelve to one when some teams

754
00:37:21,280 --> 00:37:24,120
Speaker 1: above them, you know, are still questioned, still, might you know,

755
00:37:24,200 --> 00:37:26,000
Speaker 1: only make the NL wild card like the Padres of

756
00:37:26,040 --> 00:37:28,720
Speaker 1: the Dodgers, I think twelve one is still great price

757
00:37:28,920 --> 00:37:31,839
Speaker 1: on the Brewers to win the World Serious as far

758
00:37:31,880 --> 00:37:35,440
Speaker 1: as the Pennant, I'm actually gonna go with the Phillies.

759
00:37:35,719 --> 00:37:38,080
Speaker 1: I think the Phillies have the best value at to

760
00:37:38,160 --> 00:37:40,799
Speaker 1: one to win the n L. And I'll tell you why.

761
00:37:40,840 --> 00:37:43,759
Speaker 1: It's because they're really starting to put things together. Their

762
00:37:43,800 --> 00:37:46,439
Speaker 1: offense is improving. I think their top ten and weighted

763
00:37:46,480 --> 00:37:49,960
Speaker 1: on bass average over the last thirty days. Bryce Harper

764
00:37:50,000 --> 00:37:52,600
Speaker 1: has been hitting over three d the last thirty days

765
00:37:52,640 --> 00:37:56,080
Speaker 1: as well. Their bullpen has is due for some positive

766
00:37:56,080 --> 00:37:57,960
Speaker 1: aggression over the second half of the season. I know

767
00:37:58,239 --> 00:38:00,440
Speaker 1: on paper they look bad, but they're x fit is

768
00:38:00,480 --> 00:38:03,200
Speaker 1: actually considerably lower than the actual e r A and

769
00:38:03,239 --> 00:38:05,759
Speaker 1: they have a bona fide cy young candidate and Zach

770
00:38:05,760 --> 00:38:08,799
Speaker 1: Wheeler and Flynn and Aaron Nola have been pretty good

771
00:38:08,880 --> 00:38:10,680
Speaker 1: so They're only three and a half games out of

772
00:38:10,680 --> 00:38:12,680
Speaker 1: the Mets. The Mets have a ton of injuries to

773
00:38:12,680 --> 00:38:14,200
Speaker 1: deal with right now. If the Gram is out for

774
00:38:14,239 --> 00:38:17,120
Speaker 1: an extended period time, Mets starting pitching isn't great. So

775
00:38:17,160 --> 00:38:19,120
Speaker 1: the Phillies could absolutely overtake the Mets. And then when

776
00:38:19,120 --> 00:38:20,839
Speaker 1: you get in the playoffs, you know anything can happen.

777
00:38:20,880 --> 00:38:22,640
Speaker 1: And when you have that number one bona fide starter

778
00:38:22,680 --> 00:38:25,440
Speaker 1: at least two decent starting pitchers after them, which is

779
00:38:25,440 --> 00:38:26,759
Speaker 1: a lot of which a lot of these teams in

780
00:38:26,800 --> 00:38:29,319
Speaker 1: the NIL can't say that they have. I think the

781
00:38:29,320 --> 00:38:32,040
Speaker 1: Phillies are worth a shot one And if you go

782
00:38:32,080 --> 00:38:35,160
Speaker 1: over to the a L, speaking of Vladimir Graham Jr.

783
00:38:35,200 --> 00:38:37,720
Speaker 1: Like we did on the top, I think the Blue Jays,

784
00:38:37,719 --> 00:38:39,600
Speaker 1: I think they're around twenty to one right now to

785
00:38:39,600 --> 00:38:42,400
Speaker 1: win the a L. Their offense is incredible. I mean,

786
00:38:42,400 --> 00:38:44,160
Speaker 1: it's what it's the best in the AL by far.

787
00:38:44,760 --> 00:38:46,640
Speaker 1: They hit both right and left handed pitching ball. And

788
00:38:46,680 --> 00:38:49,000
Speaker 1: I think I said this on Payoff Pitch, Uh, I

789
00:38:49,000 --> 00:38:52,560
Speaker 1: think it was last week, but great show. That's right.

790
00:38:53,920 --> 00:38:56,440
Speaker 1: They're incredible fastball hitting meat team. Their top five and

791
00:38:56,520 --> 00:38:58,600
Speaker 1: run value against fastballs. And I went back and looked,

792
00:38:58,640 --> 00:39:01,200
Speaker 1: and that's seven of the last eight World Series champions

793
00:39:01,239 --> 00:39:04,920
Speaker 1: finished the season top five against fastball, so there is

794
00:39:04,960 --> 00:39:06,879
Speaker 1: some merit to a team that hits fastball as well

795
00:39:06,960 --> 00:39:08,920
Speaker 1: usually makes it deep in the playoffs. And they're starting

796
00:39:08,920 --> 00:39:10,640
Speaker 1: pitching they need to go out and get one more arm,

797
00:39:10,640 --> 00:39:12,560
Speaker 1: and their bullpen they need to get one more arm.

798
00:39:12,600 --> 00:39:15,000
Speaker 1: But they're starting pitching has pretty much held up to

799
00:39:15,040 --> 00:39:16,600
Speaker 1: this point. Their top four guys all of an X

800
00:39:16,640 --> 00:39:19,400
Speaker 1: fit under four, so it hasn't been that bad. They

801
00:39:19,440 --> 00:39:22,799
Speaker 1: aren't a tough division, but they're only four games back

802
00:39:22,800 --> 00:39:24,440
Speaker 1: at the wild credit right now, and if they can

803
00:39:24,480 --> 00:39:27,640
Speaker 1: just get in the in the playoffs, their offense could

804
00:39:27,680 --> 00:39:29,560
Speaker 1: get hot and they could definitely win the AILE. So

805
00:39:30,239 --> 00:39:33,160
Speaker 1: those are my three picks to uh win the World

806
00:39:33,640 --> 00:39:35,800
Speaker 1: Blue Jays are the value play to win the Pennant,

807
00:39:36,040 --> 00:39:39,120
Speaker 1: Phillies value play in the American League, Phillies value play

808
00:39:39,160 --> 00:39:42,120
Speaker 1: in the National League, Brewers twelve to one to win

809
00:39:42,160 --> 00:39:46,279
Speaker 1: it All from b J Coyl in your turn for

810
00:39:46,320 --> 00:39:48,080
Speaker 1: the World Series, I'm gonna stick in the A at

811
00:39:48,160 --> 00:39:50,360
Speaker 1: least and go with the one at least team that

812
00:39:50,400 --> 00:39:52,439
Speaker 1: we haven't really talked about and nobody ever talks about

813
00:39:52,480 --> 00:39:55,800
Speaker 1: and it's Tampa bay Um. You know, I'm a numbers

814
00:39:55,840 --> 00:39:58,080
Speaker 1: guy just like b J. But sometimes there's just kind

815
00:39:58,080 --> 00:40:00,080
Speaker 1: of a feel about a team. It's like the the

816
00:40:00,239 --> 00:40:02,799
Speaker 1: Royals when they made the World Series back back years,

817
00:40:02,840 --> 00:40:05,440
Speaker 1: where the numbers don't really make sense, but everything just

818
00:40:05,520 --> 00:40:07,440
Speaker 1: kind of meshes well together. I was low on the

819
00:40:07,480 --> 00:40:09,759
Speaker 1: race coming into the season. You know, they did their

820
00:40:09,760 --> 00:40:13,759
Speaker 1: normal cheap thing at they traded Blake Snell, but they

821
00:40:13,840 --> 00:40:16,360
Speaker 1: just have such a well oiled machine and they actually

822
00:40:16,360 --> 00:40:19,319
Speaker 1: look like buyers. This year they added Nelson Cruz. There's

823
00:40:19,360 --> 00:40:22,240
Speaker 1: talk about them being interested in guys like Max Scherzer

824
00:40:22,280 --> 00:40:24,960
Speaker 1: and Chris Bryant, which sounds insane. But if they make

825
00:40:25,000 --> 00:40:26,840
Speaker 1: a move like that, there're suddenly the favorites in the

826
00:40:26,840 --> 00:40:29,040
Speaker 1: A at least the rays I see at fourteen to

827
00:40:29,120 --> 00:40:31,160
Speaker 1: one to win the World Series. They have the best

828
00:40:31,239 --> 00:40:33,640
Speaker 1: run differential in the Al East. Right now, it's a

829
00:40:33,640 --> 00:40:37,600
Speaker 1: gauntlet with the Yankees and the Red Sox and the

830
00:40:37,600 --> 00:40:42,000
Speaker 1: Blue Jays. Like BJ mentioned, but Kevin Cash, you know,

831
00:40:42,280 --> 00:40:44,480
Speaker 1: there's jokes about Kevin Cash isn't really the in game

832
00:40:44,480 --> 00:40:46,480
Speaker 1: manager of the front office, is the manager of of

833
00:40:46,600 --> 00:40:49,480
Speaker 1: the rays Um. But whether that's true or not. You know,

834
00:40:49,520 --> 00:40:51,799
Speaker 1: we saw last year what they can do when they

835
00:40:51,840 --> 00:40:54,640
Speaker 1: get into the playoffs. And um, so I'm a big

836
00:40:54,640 --> 00:40:58,120
Speaker 1: fan of the Rays at fourteen to one. UM. As

837
00:40:58,120 --> 00:41:01,400
Speaker 1: far as Pennant winners go, UM, I'm with b J

838
00:41:01,560 --> 00:41:04,120
Speaker 1: on the Phillies. UM, I would probably you know, maybe

839
00:41:04,120 --> 00:41:05,799
Speaker 1: split a unit between them and the Braves. So I

840
00:41:05,840 --> 00:41:09,440
Speaker 1: mentioned early because they're both twenty five to one. UM,

841
00:41:09,480 --> 00:41:13,640
Speaker 1: I just think again talking about the NLST Gauntlet and

842
00:41:13,760 --> 00:41:15,480
Speaker 1: whoever comes out of the East, it's going to have

843
00:41:15,520 --> 00:41:18,360
Speaker 1: an easier path. I think the Brewers. Um, you know,

844
00:41:18,360 --> 00:41:21,520
Speaker 1: they're down to plus five five for the Pennants, so

845
00:41:21,520 --> 00:41:24,360
Speaker 1: I don't see as much value there in whoever comes

846
00:41:24,400 --> 00:41:27,200
Speaker 1: out of the East, the Mets or four five, and

847
00:41:27,239 --> 00:41:29,239
Speaker 1: then you've got the Phillies and Braves at to one,

848
00:41:29,239 --> 00:41:32,160
Speaker 1: who were longer shots. So I really like that there.

849
00:41:32,600 --> 00:41:34,360
Speaker 1: And in the American League, I'm gonna I'm gonna go

850
00:41:34,400 --> 00:41:38,120
Speaker 1: with Blue Jay with b J. Um the Blue Jays, UM,

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Speaker 1: I see them at thirteen to one. You mentioned twenty one.

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Speaker 1: If you can find it at twenty two one, that's great.

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Speaker 1: They they have the probably the most electric offense in

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Speaker 1: the American League. It's them. The White Sox Astros kind

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Speaker 1: of kind of coin fulled their Red Sox. Um. Robbie

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Speaker 1: Ray has been a revelation. He seemed like an afterthought

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Speaker 1: when Arizona got rid of him. He looks like, you know,

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Speaker 1: a legitimate like top five Cy Young finisher. Probably Um

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Speaker 1: Engine ru Um is a steady mid rotation guy. I

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Speaker 1: want them to add some bullpen depth at the deadline.

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Speaker 1: They have some serious bullpen question marks. But I do

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Speaker 1: think there's value if you can find it in the

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Speaker 1: late teens, maybe twenty one ish, so raise braves, Phillies,

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Speaker 1: blue jays. Those are those are my value picks. I

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Speaker 1: gave you one extra one and I will say one

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Speaker 1: final thing. Um. We're talking about the Giants earlier. If

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Speaker 1: the Graham does miss some serious time Kevin Goussman sitting

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Speaker 1: there for n L Cy Young at about fifteen to one, UM,

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Speaker 1: and if if the Graham miss is enough time that

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Speaker 1: he's not going to hit you know, the innings threshold

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Speaker 1: to qualify for any of these league leaders. Gaussman and

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Speaker 1: the Brewers Duo Um are out there, and I like

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Speaker 1: Gusman's number a lot, then bring it up. Because Chad

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Speaker 1: actually we're not. We weren't gonna talk about n L

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Speaker 1: m v P. It's it's it's staring at US boys

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Speaker 1: two months left in the season. It's a two man race, like,

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Speaker 1: why why not Betjuan Soto like these other guys who

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00:42:58,560 --> 00:43:01,959
Speaker 1: are four to one crazy odds? Is it not worth

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00:43:02,000 --> 00:43:04,319
Speaker 1: doing the next two months? Like these guys can't get hurt.

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Speaker 1: We already see de Graham is hurt right now? Is

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Speaker 1: it really a two man race? Yeah, I'm with you.

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Speaker 1: I'm with you on Soto. Sorry, b J, I'm with

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Speaker 1: you on Soto. You can see guys get hot for

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00:43:16,640 --> 00:43:18,960
Speaker 1: the final two months of the season. You saw yell

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00:43:19,000 --> 00:43:21,000
Speaker 1: At a few years ago in pictures, you saw Jake

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00:43:21,040 --> 00:43:25,680
Speaker 1: Arietta UM back in sixteen. Um. They just get hot

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Speaker 1: at the right time, carry their team and and win it.

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Speaker 1: The problem with Soto is that he's going to play

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Speaker 1: for a team that doesn't make the playoffs. And you

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Speaker 1: can put together full seams season numbers and win the

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Speaker 1: MVP without making the playoffs. We've seen it out of

892
00:43:37,040 --> 00:43:40,279
Speaker 1: Mike Trout three or four times. But if it's just

893
00:43:40,480 --> 00:43:42,799
Speaker 1: a hot couple of months and it's at the end

894
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Speaker 1: of the season, when your team's out of contention. It's

895
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Speaker 1: a lot tougher to do. Yeah, I mean, if you're

896
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Speaker 1: looking at a guy like you know what I would

897
00:43:50,000 --> 00:43:51,480
Speaker 1: do is I'd go look and see, you know what,

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00:43:51,600 --> 00:43:54,040
Speaker 1: guys have a weighted on base average over four and

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Speaker 1: can basically get hot over that second half of the season, because,

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Speaker 1: like you said, we have no idea how long to

901
00:43:57,840 --> 00:43:59,399
Speaker 1: Grim's gonna be out, and he could get injured again.

902
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Speaker 1: He's been back in fourth all season long. I think

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Speaker 1: Zarrillo early in the season put out Max Munsey at

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Speaker 1: a hundred to one. I don't know what his odds

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Speaker 1: are right now. He's been he's been the dodgers best

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Speaker 1: hitter by far, and I think he's got like a

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Speaker 1: four fifteen weighted on bass average. So if he gets

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Speaker 1: incredibly hot and the Dodgers take over the Giants and

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00:44:16,360 --> 00:44:18,279
Speaker 1: win the NL West and get the number one seed

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Speaker 1: in the National League and he's their number one guy,

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00:44:20,800 --> 00:44:22,360
Speaker 1: it's not crazy to think that he could hit the

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Speaker 1: m v P at one. Right now, I'm doing I'm

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Speaker 1: playing two hundred on it right now. Well, listen, that

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Speaker 1: was as full a buffet of baseball you could say

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Speaker 1: our bases were loaded the entire time. I'm so glad

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Speaker 1: you're back job Silon. Our bases were loaded the entire time.

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Speaker 1: That is the kind of media professionalis M you have

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Speaker 1: walked into sign in for Simon Hunter, for b J. Cunningham,

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