1 00:00:00,120 --> 00:00:04,560 Speaker 1: Hello, and welcome to Waken Jake with myself and audio 2 00:00:04,760 --> 00:00:07,800 Speaker 1: Jack is here today. BBD is under the weather. If 3 00:00:07,880 --> 00:00:10,119 Speaker 1: you follow him on any of the social networks, wish 4 00:00:10,200 --> 00:00:14,480 Speaker 1: him well. Feeling it through the weekend. Speaking of through 5 00:00:14,520 --> 00:00:17,560 Speaker 1: the weekend, we'll talk about it a little bit. The 6 00:00:17,600 --> 00:00:20,959 Speaker 1: big news in baseball right now is the ABS system. 7 00:00:21,280 --> 00:00:23,560 Speaker 1: I've just talked about that on Talking Baseball and the 8 00:00:23,560 --> 00:00:26,560 Speaker 1: Weekly Dumb So that's when you know, that's when you 9 00:00:26,600 --> 00:00:29,880 Speaker 1: know a baseball topic is really hot in the streets. 10 00:00:30,960 --> 00:00:32,880 Speaker 1: And then I guess we could circle up on Yankees 11 00:00:32,960 --> 00:00:36,199 Speaker 1: beard policy a little bit, a little more spring training 12 00:00:37,040 --> 00:00:42,120 Speaker 1: around the horn for you. Let's start with the ABS system. 13 00:00:42,320 --> 00:00:44,400 Speaker 1: If some of you have no idea what I'm talking about, 14 00:00:45,159 --> 00:00:48,040 Speaker 1: automated balls and strikes, I'll be honest, till this morning, 15 00:00:48,080 --> 00:00:51,440 Speaker 1: I didn't know what it's did for. Makes sense, makes sense. 16 00:00:53,280 --> 00:00:57,480 Speaker 1: And in spring training they are messing around slash using 17 00:00:57,960 --> 00:01:00,240 Speaker 1: the system that they have now used at Double Lane 18 00:01:00,640 --> 00:01:08,000 Speaker 1: A for the last two years. Early results seem positive. Actually, 19 00:01:08,040 --> 00:01:10,959 Speaker 1: I guess I don't know if there's any results that 20 00:01:11,000 --> 00:01:17,000 Speaker 1: are negative. You got anything, AJ No, A fierce head shake. No. 21 00:01:19,360 --> 00:01:22,039 Speaker 1: Because we've had the technology for a while I think 22 00:01:22,080 --> 00:01:24,760 Speaker 1: that's where a lot of people jump to, and I 23 00:01:24,880 --> 00:01:32,040 Speaker 1: actually think the system that they're using is the right format. 24 00:01:33,440 --> 00:01:35,720 Speaker 1: There'll be tweaks along the way. Sure you could say 25 00:01:35,720 --> 00:01:39,200 Speaker 1: that with anything, but I like where they are at. 26 00:01:39,319 --> 00:01:45,440 Speaker 1: So where we are at. Each team gets two that's 27 00:01:45,480 --> 00:01:48,680 Speaker 1: actually a lie. I'm going to start over. Each team 28 00:01:48,840 --> 00:01:53,720 Speaker 1: essentially gets two wrong answers, so you get two challenges, 29 00:01:54,280 --> 00:01:56,320 Speaker 1: but if you get it right, you don't get penalized. 30 00:01:56,880 --> 00:02:00,360 Speaker 1: So in theory you could have unlimited which there will 31 00:02:00,400 --> 00:02:02,320 Speaker 1: be a point this season that an umpire has a 32 00:02:02,360 --> 00:02:04,840 Speaker 1: really bad day and we all get to see that live, 33 00:02:05,040 --> 00:02:09,640 Speaker 1: so that'll be fun. But yeah, you get two of them, 34 00:02:09,720 --> 00:02:11,400 Speaker 1: and if you get them wrong, you lose them. So 35 00:02:11,440 --> 00:02:15,360 Speaker 1: the thought process behind that is I think when MLB 36 00:02:15,960 --> 00:02:18,239 Speaker 1: or baseball in general came to the table and was like, 37 00:02:18,280 --> 00:02:20,840 Speaker 1: where do we go with this, because if you are 38 00:02:20,880 --> 00:02:24,679 Speaker 1: a tennis person, this is the system that they've used 39 00:02:24,720 --> 00:02:28,440 Speaker 1: in tennis for a long time, and it's actually it's 40 00:02:28,520 --> 00:02:31,080 Speaker 1: kind of the coolest thing about tennis right now. Don't 41 00:02:31,080 --> 00:02:35,000 Speaker 1: need to give you my full tennis rant, but in 42 00:02:35,040 --> 00:02:37,200 Speaker 1: a big tennis moment, when they challenge it and it 43 00:02:37,240 --> 00:02:39,720 Speaker 1: goes to the big screen, the crowd starts clapping, and 44 00:02:39,760 --> 00:02:41,680 Speaker 1: then it cuts down and you find out what happened. 45 00:02:42,200 --> 00:02:45,680 Speaker 1: It's kind of sick. They've had that for a while now, 46 00:02:46,680 --> 00:02:50,480 Speaker 1: very similar the same technology that they'll be using for 47 00:02:50,520 --> 00:02:52,440 Speaker 1: the MLB strikes on, so we'll get a little bit 48 00:02:52,440 --> 00:02:54,239 Speaker 1: of that effect. It's going to be fun to see 49 00:02:54,280 --> 00:02:57,239 Speaker 1: which home stadium's kicking a gear. Are they going to 50 00:02:57,400 --> 00:03:00,680 Speaker 1: do legging? Oh? Will they do a class? I don't know. 51 00:03:00,880 --> 00:03:03,240 Speaker 1: That first one was way too spooky. They're not going 52 00:03:03,320 --> 00:03:11,640 Speaker 1: to do that. Oh that's Joe's McFly effect. So that'll 53 00:03:11,639 --> 00:03:18,440 Speaker 1: be fun. But yeah, I think you see it in 54 00:03:18,480 --> 00:03:21,680 Speaker 1: the NBA a lot that there's a ton of stoppages 55 00:03:22,480 --> 00:03:25,239 Speaker 1: and it's affected the game. It's affected the quality of 56 00:03:25,280 --> 00:03:29,520 Speaker 1: the game. It's affected the watching experience that I think baseball. 57 00:03:29,800 --> 00:03:32,560 Speaker 1: If you were every pitch turning and looking to see 58 00:03:32,560 --> 00:03:35,760 Speaker 1: if it was a ball or a strike, something feels 59 00:03:35,800 --> 00:03:39,840 Speaker 1: off about that. So and umpires are part of the game. 60 00:03:40,400 --> 00:03:42,840 Speaker 1: A little inside John Boy Media. If you go to 61 00:03:42,960 --> 00:03:46,280 Speaker 1: most of our baseball channels and search, like most viewed 62 00:03:46,360 --> 00:03:50,480 Speaker 1: videos most of them are talking are tied to umpires. 63 00:03:50,640 --> 00:03:53,440 Speaker 1: It's kind of insane. It frustrates me a little bit 64 00:03:53,480 --> 00:03:56,880 Speaker 1: as like a sports loser. But people love the umpires, 65 00:03:57,680 --> 00:03:59,840 Speaker 1: and it's a conversation we've talked about a little bit 66 00:04:00,000 --> 00:04:03,000 Speaker 1: because Joe West is out, Angel Hernandez like a lot 67 00:04:03,000 --> 00:04:06,200 Speaker 1: of the guys that were kind of stars of the game, 68 00:04:06,800 --> 00:04:10,880 Speaker 1: guys that if you knew them once, you knew them 69 00:04:10,920 --> 00:04:13,600 Speaker 1: for a long time because they were umpires for thirty 70 00:04:14,040 --> 00:04:17,640 Speaker 1: plus years, where baseball players, you know, we get stuck 71 00:04:17,680 --> 00:04:20,000 Speaker 1: on the pool holeses and the studs that stick around 72 00:04:20,080 --> 00:04:25,000 Speaker 1: for twenty but most guys are there for three. So umpires, 73 00:04:25,080 --> 00:04:28,480 Speaker 1: a good ump has some staying power. Anyways, when they 74 00:04:28,480 --> 00:04:30,160 Speaker 1: came to it, they were like, all right, so are 75 00:04:30,160 --> 00:04:31,720 Speaker 1: we just getting rid of umps? What are we doing? 76 00:04:31,760 --> 00:04:34,119 Speaker 1: They're like, no, let's have the umpires called the game. 77 00:04:34,800 --> 00:04:37,719 Speaker 1: Let's do this two challenge rule. Let's see what happens. 78 00:04:38,880 --> 00:04:43,320 Speaker 1: And the reason why it's limited is because they don't want. Okay, 79 00:04:43,440 --> 00:04:47,520 Speaker 1: if it's a two to one count four nothing game 80 00:04:47,560 --> 00:04:49,880 Speaker 1: in the fifth inning and there's a borderline pitch, we 81 00:04:49,960 --> 00:04:52,240 Speaker 1: can't just be challenging each one of that. I know 82 00:04:52,279 --> 00:04:55,040 Speaker 1: there's something that sounds dumb about that, because it's like, well, 83 00:04:55,120 --> 00:04:59,160 Speaker 1: let's get the call right, and if we have the technology, huh, 84 00:04:59,200 --> 00:05:03,000 Speaker 1: but that's too far, Like sports are not meant for that. 85 00:05:04,560 --> 00:05:06,719 Speaker 1: And that's the other fun part of the challenge system 86 00:05:06,720 --> 00:05:10,440 Speaker 1: that it ties back to the pitcher. The hitter and 87 00:05:10,480 --> 00:05:13,359 Speaker 1: the catcher are the only three people that can challenge 88 00:05:13,360 --> 00:05:17,719 Speaker 1: the call and it has to happen instantaneously. So there's 89 00:05:17,760 --> 00:05:20,880 Speaker 1: been a few highlights early on in spring training. You know, 90 00:05:20,920 --> 00:05:25,560 Speaker 1: you'll see the catcher the hitter usually tap the top 91 00:05:25,600 --> 00:05:27,479 Speaker 1: of their head. The ump will do the same thing. 92 00:05:27,600 --> 00:05:29,919 Speaker 1: We get the replay review, they zoom in on it, 93 00:05:29,960 --> 00:05:33,480 Speaker 1: which that's exciting sometimes, and then you get the call. 94 00:05:34,040 --> 00:05:38,120 Speaker 1: So it won't be a part of Major League Baseball 95 00:05:38,279 --> 00:05:42,080 Speaker 1: this year, I believe. I don't think it's official, but 96 00:05:42,480 --> 00:05:46,240 Speaker 1: from everything they've done rules wise, it should be official 97 00:05:46,360 --> 00:05:50,719 Speaker 1: next year in Major League Baseball, and I think you 98 00:05:50,760 --> 00:05:55,000 Speaker 1: should be excited for it. I will say the early 99 00:05:55,680 --> 00:06:00,240 Speaker 1: return on it, when this had been dreamt up years go, 100 00:06:01,040 --> 00:06:04,960 Speaker 1: it was, how are pitcher's gonna manipulate this? Are pictures 101 00:06:05,040 --> 00:06:10,160 Speaker 1: gonna snap off curveballs that just nick the outside outside 102 00:06:10,160 --> 00:06:11,880 Speaker 1: corner of the zone and then they end up in 103 00:06:11,920 --> 00:06:14,960 Speaker 1: the dirt? Are they gonna flip? We'll keep it all 104 00:06:14,960 --> 00:06:17,920 Speaker 1: curveballs for now? Are they gonna flip high curve balls 105 00:06:18,680 --> 00:06:21,880 Speaker 1: that come down at the last second that for years? 106 00:06:21,960 --> 00:06:24,120 Speaker 1: Could they clip like the back of the strike zone 107 00:06:24,120 --> 00:06:25,919 Speaker 1: even though they might have come across your chest? This 108 00:06:26,000 --> 00:06:29,599 Speaker 1: way very interesting on talking baseball with myself and Trevor 109 00:06:30,240 --> 00:06:35,239 Speaker 1: figuring out the geometry? Is that geometry if a ball's 110 00:06:35,320 --> 00:06:43,360 Speaker 1: moving this fast and then it's coming down like this triggonometry, 111 00:06:43,480 --> 00:06:46,640 Speaker 1: You have no clue. If you're listening, you might have 112 00:06:46,680 --> 00:06:51,880 Speaker 1: a clue. And let me know. Engineering, what do they do? Physics? 113 00:06:53,560 --> 00:07:00,599 Speaker 1: Physics feels good, Physics feels great. The earlier returned seemed 114 00:07:00,600 --> 00:07:03,120 Speaker 1: to be that the pitchers aren't going to be able 115 00:07:03,160 --> 00:07:06,320 Speaker 1: to cook the books that much. Let's see what happens 116 00:07:08,040 --> 00:07:10,120 Speaker 1: and let's see the evolution of it, like we had 117 00:07:10,160 --> 00:07:12,800 Speaker 1: to do with a lot of changes in baseball, which 118 00:07:15,000 --> 00:07:18,080 Speaker 1: I know there's a lot to be discussed with. Just 119 00:07:18,120 --> 00:07:20,280 Speaker 1: saw Dan Rourke and he winked at me. So cool 120 00:07:23,480 --> 00:07:28,200 Speaker 1: with baseball. Baseball's the old sport, Baseball's dying. All these 121 00:07:28,200 --> 00:07:31,720 Speaker 1: things we read so often. Yet somehow, some way we 122 00:07:31,720 --> 00:07:34,240 Speaker 1: were able to build a company out of young people 123 00:07:34,240 --> 00:07:40,040 Speaker 1: liking baseball. So that's something. And when we're talking significant 124 00:07:40,120 --> 00:07:44,320 Speaker 1: rule changes about baseball leading the way, whether you want 125 00:07:44,320 --> 00:07:49,200 Speaker 1: to do pitch clock or infield shifts, you know football. 126 00:07:49,480 --> 00:07:51,480 Speaker 1: I mean, I guess they had the new kickoff rule 127 00:07:52,600 --> 00:07:55,880 Speaker 1: player safety stuff, but I don't know, not like that 128 00:07:56,240 --> 00:08:00,280 Speaker 1: significant of a change to the game. NBA. There's again, 129 00:08:00,480 --> 00:08:04,720 Speaker 1: these sports are always every sport's always adding something, but 130 00:08:05,600 --> 00:08:10,640 Speaker 1: these are game changing things by baseball and almost every one, 131 00:08:10,760 --> 00:08:15,640 Speaker 1: from pitchclock to shifting the base running. I think everything 132 00:08:15,680 --> 00:08:19,480 Speaker 1: has been received with baseball fans at this point with 133 00:08:19,600 --> 00:08:23,240 Speaker 1: open arms. I will admit I talked about the pitch 134 00:08:23,280 --> 00:08:25,320 Speaker 1: clock on this show and I was nervous at first. 135 00:08:25,320 --> 00:08:29,960 Speaker 1: It felt a little quick for me. My thing was, okay, 136 00:08:29,960 --> 00:08:32,280 Speaker 1: when it comes down to a big postseason moment and 137 00:08:32,320 --> 00:08:35,719 Speaker 1: things like that, are we gonna feel it by not 138 00:08:35,760 --> 00:08:37,800 Speaker 1: feeling it? Like those used to be the moments where 139 00:08:37,840 --> 00:08:40,400 Speaker 1: baseball won because it'd be a three to two count, 140 00:08:40,480 --> 00:08:43,520 Speaker 1: bases loaded eighth inning of the playoffs. The pitcher would 141 00:08:43,520 --> 00:08:45,800 Speaker 1: get the ball back and do a lap around the mound, 142 00:08:45,880 --> 00:08:48,280 Speaker 1: maybe the catcher would come out, and these were like 143 00:08:48,320 --> 00:08:51,440 Speaker 1: the sick baseball moments. What's he gonna throw? Is the 144 00:08:51,520 --> 00:08:53,320 Speaker 1: hitter ready? Do you think he's gonna throw a strike? 145 00:08:53,440 --> 00:08:56,640 Speaker 1: Is he gonna throw a ball? That led to kind 146 00:08:56,679 --> 00:09:02,120 Speaker 1: of the beautiful breathing conversation of baseball. I when the 147 00:09:02,120 --> 00:09:05,199 Speaker 1: pitch clock first started happening, wasn't having a blast because 148 00:09:05,200 --> 00:09:07,160 Speaker 1: I was like, damn, these games are kind of flying by. 149 00:09:07,520 --> 00:09:11,120 Speaker 1: There was a couple seven pm starts that I would 150 00:09:11,120 --> 00:09:16,000 Speaker 1: get home, you know, cook up some dinner, seven pm. 151 00:09:17,280 --> 00:09:19,880 Speaker 1: You know, sit down, eat, I'm watching the game. I'm cooking, 152 00:09:19,920 --> 00:09:25,040 Speaker 1: I'm eating. I'm really grooving, baby, you know, seven thirty five, 153 00:09:26,320 --> 00:09:29,120 Speaker 1: look up, cleaning the plate from dinner. It was the 154 00:09:29,120 --> 00:09:32,880 Speaker 1: top of the fourth inning. Now, a couple things happened. 155 00:09:33,120 --> 00:09:34,960 Speaker 1: That was the worst Yankee team in thirty years, it 156 00:09:35,000 --> 00:09:39,400 Speaker 1: turned out, and they couldn't hit, so there was a 157 00:09:39,400 --> 00:09:42,040 Speaker 1: lot of very quick innings. So I was like, Okay, 158 00:09:42,160 --> 00:09:47,560 Speaker 1: I'm really not liking this. The Yankee stink. And that's 159 00:09:47,640 --> 00:09:50,120 Speaker 1: kind of how opinions are supposed to work. Wait, I'm 160 00:09:50,160 --> 00:09:52,520 Speaker 1: watching the team I like, and they're really bad now 161 00:09:52,720 --> 00:09:56,320 Speaker 1: and there's this new rule. I don't love this. Come 162 00:09:56,360 --> 00:09:59,000 Speaker 1: to find out, it was because the Yankees were bad. 163 00:09:59,240 --> 00:10:03,079 Speaker 1: I didn't like that. And what the hitters have countered 164 00:10:03,080 --> 00:10:07,000 Speaker 1: back with is they use their times. Each hitter gets 165 00:10:07,000 --> 00:10:09,240 Speaker 1: a time out, and now you see it traditionally if 166 00:10:09,280 --> 00:10:11,880 Speaker 1: they go down two to one, two they're going to 167 00:10:12,000 --> 00:10:14,720 Speaker 1: use their time. They're going to reset, which that has 168 00:10:14,840 --> 00:10:16,640 Speaker 1: kind of made the bets breathe a little more. It 169 00:10:16,720 --> 00:10:20,360 Speaker 1: kind of brought the baseball conversation back that the pitchclock 170 00:10:20,400 --> 00:10:24,400 Speaker 1: had been fantastic for just cutting out the massive gaps 171 00:10:24,400 --> 00:10:29,160 Speaker 1: of time that were ridiculous between throwovers to first just 172 00:10:29,280 --> 00:10:32,640 Speaker 1: holding the ball forever, stepping off the rubb or whatever 173 00:10:32,720 --> 00:10:37,360 Speaker 1: it was. That the pitch clock has been awesome for 174 00:10:37,440 --> 00:10:41,680 Speaker 1: that that that's been a resounding win for baseball. The shifts, 175 00:10:41,920 --> 00:10:44,120 Speaker 1: I want them to turn the knob up a little more. 176 00:10:45,160 --> 00:10:47,840 Speaker 1: Teams are shifting. If you go look at where your 177 00:10:47,880 --> 00:10:50,920 Speaker 1: second basement or your short stop is starting. For a 178 00:10:50,960 --> 00:10:55,200 Speaker 1: lot of whatever they're facing, righty or lefty, teams are 179 00:10:55,240 --> 00:10:59,520 Speaker 1: still shifting. It's I think it's fine and I can 180 00:10:59,559 --> 00:11:02,760 Speaker 1: be okay with it. I know personally the Yankees try 181 00:11:02,800 --> 00:11:05,520 Speaker 1: to game the system a little bit. Uh. Anthony Volpi, 182 00:11:05,720 --> 00:11:09,520 Speaker 1: the gold Glove shortstop breakout year inbound. Check out my 183 00:11:09,800 --> 00:11:17,280 Speaker 1: article that for Volpi, if there is a big pull lefty, 184 00:11:17,360 --> 00:11:20,520 Speaker 1: he will take his hop as the pitch is coming 185 00:11:20,720 --> 00:11:24,800 Speaker 1: and then start heading past second base, which, hey, he's 186 00:11:24,800 --> 00:11:27,200 Speaker 1: gotten to a couple balls over there on lefty hitters, 187 00:11:27,240 --> 00:11:31,200 Speaker 1: which you've gamed the system perfectly. That's what we're always 188 00:11:31,240 --> 00:11:34,400 Speaker 1: looking for. I don't know if there's a solution that 189 00:11:34,440 --> 00:11:37,160 Speaker 1: people have talked about making like a triangle past the 190 00:11:37,200 --> 00:11:41,200 Speaker 1: bag that you can't cross, that I'm interested. If not, 191 00:11:41,440 --> 00:11:45,000 Speaker 1: I still think we're in a good spot. I've been 192 00:11:45,559 --> 00:11:49,760 Speaker 1: I've been loud, He says, I've been loud about it. 193 00:11:49,800 --> 00:11:54,160 Speaker 1: The outfield shifts, to me are still wild. I think 194 00:11:54,200 --> 00:11:57,480 Speaker 1: we've taken away a lot of the outfield defensive highlights 195 00:11:59,360 --> 00:12:02,720 Speaker 1: via the ship or outfielders just play so deep. Now 196 00:12:03,280 --> 00:12:07,400 Speaker 1: doubles used to happen, and then analytics was like, hey, 197 00:12:07,880 --> 00:12:10,960 Speaker 1: why don't you play at the wall? No doubles defense 198 00:12:11,080 --> 00:12:14,040 Speaker 1: used to be a thing. Now that's what everyone plays, 199 00:12:14,240 --> 00:12:17,720 Speaker 1: because everyone figured out a single, giving up a single 200 00:12:17,760 --> 00:12:21,840 Speaker 1: is better than giving up a double. Analytics numbers, what 201 00:12:22,000 --> 00:12:27,040 Speaker 1: math is that algebra two is better than one? Audio 202 00:12:27,160 --> 00:12:30,360 Speaker 1: Jack said, I can't believe you keep asking me these 203 00:12:30,400 --> 00:12:36,240 Speaker 1: math questions. That being said that, it I used to 204 00:12:36,280 --> 00:12:38,440 Speaker 1: be the best play in baseball. A ball in the 205 00:12:38,480 --> 00:12:40,880 Speaker 1: gap or a ball off the wall, when that outfielder 206 00:12:40,880 --> 00:12:43,960 Speaker 1: would turn and fire a second and if you didn't 207 00:12:43,960 --> 00:12:46,280 Speaker 1: know about the base runner speed, you'd be like, Okay, 208 00:12:46,360 --> 00:12:48,480 Speaker 1: do we got something here? Does the outfielder have a 209 00:12:48,480 --> 00:12:52,480 Speaker 1: good arm? And I just think tracking down balls in 210 00:12:52,520 --> 00:12:57,240 Speaker 1: the gap. I think that's some of the most beautiful plays. 211 00:12:57,320 --> 00:12:59,720 Speaker 1: That's some of the most I don't know the result 212 00:12:59,760 --> 00:13:02,560 Speaker 1: play in baseball, and I think that's a good thing. 213 00:13:02,760 --> 00:13:04,280 Speaker 1: I think when a ball is hitting the gap and 214 00:13:04,320 --> 00:13:09,160 Speaker 1: you're like, oh, but when you got the whole outfield shifted. Anyways, 215 00:13:11,080 --> 00:13:14,800 Speaker 1: going back to abs automated balls and strikes, nailed it. 216 00:13:17,800 --> 00:13:23,040 Speaker 1: The strategy is going to be the most fun part 217 00:13:23,400 --> 00:13:28,000 Speaker 1: for me because now having talked about this weekly dumb 218 00:13:28,000 --> 00:13:32,200 Speaker 1: talking baseball, here in a lot of strategy strategies and 219 00:13:32,240 --> 00:13:35,600 Speaker 1: strong opinions. John Boy, Trevor Pluf. That's all you're gonna 220 00:13:35,600 --> 00:13:41,760 Speaker 1: get out of those guys. Okay, let's say I use 221 00:13:41,840 --> 00:13:45,520 Speaker 1: this example before Noe Jake find it find a different team. 222 00:13:46,040 --> 00:13:49,439 Speaker 1: Let's say, where are the Seattle Mariners always trying to 223 00:13:49,480 --> 00:13:52,800 Speaker 1: get my Mariners in the mix? You know, there's some 224 00:13:52,920 --> 00:13:55,679 Speaker 1: questions about the depths of their lineup. I'm sure some 225 00:13:55,720 --> 00:14:00,719 Speaker 1: guys are gonna break out this year. Okay, so you're 226 00:14:00,760 --> 00:14:04,200 Speaker 1: the Mariners. You've got Julio cal Rally, let's see who 227 00:14:04,280 --> 00:14:06,360 Speaker 1: else busts out for them. But let's say those are 228 00:14:06,360 --> 00:14:17,280 Speaker 1: their two guys. Do you save your two challenges for them? 229 00:14:17,480 --> 00:14:19,280 Speaker 1: Like these are the two guys that might do a 230 00:14:19,320 --> 00:14:23,680 Speaker 1: ton of impact or damage for you. Do you make 231 00:14:23,760 --> 00:14:27,320 Speaker 1: it so like, hey, cal or Julio, you guys have 232 00:14:27,440 --> 00:14:34,640 Speaker 1: full rain. We need your at bats to count or 233 00:14:36,480 --> 00:14:38,320 Speaker 1: I don't know, that's a scary message to tell a 234 00:14:38,360 --> 00:14:40,440 Speaker 1: team that the rest of your at bats aren't valuable. 235 00:14:40,480 --> 00:14:44,560 Speaker 1: I don't see that really happening. I think the resounding 236 00:14:44,720 --> 00:14:50,200 Speaker 1: answer is situational if you have because we see it 237 00:14:50,200 --> 00:14:52,840 Speaker 1: in a baseball game. There's two or three moments that 238 00:14:52,920 --> 00:14:58,000 Speaker 1: dictate almost every game. Bases loaded, one out in the third, Okay, 239 00:14:58,720 --> 00:15:01,360 Speaker 1: if the guy turns on one one, it's for nothing. 240 00:15:02,000 --> 00:15:04,200 Speaker 1: If you get the double play ball, it's zero zero. 241 00:15:04,440 --> 00:15:08,720 Speaker 1: So I think in those significant moments, and I wonder, 242 00:15:09,680 --> 00:15:12,520 Speaker 1: you know, Jim started going deep into the analytics of 243 00:15:13,120 --> 00:15:16,280 Speaker 1: you know, having the moments. Is there an analytics guy 244 00:15:16,360 --> 00:15:18,680 Speaker 1: or a bench coach that says, like, hey, this at 245 00:15:18,720 --> 00:15:21,320 Speaker 1: bat is a big one. If you need to challenge it, 246 00:15:21,400 --> 00:15:25,160 Speaker 1: you go. Are they going to leave it to players 247 00:15:25,720 --> 00:15:28,720 Speaker 1: because with only the hitter, pitcher and catcher being able 248 00:15:28,760 --> 00:15:31,680 Speaker 1: to challenge, Hey, I think pitchers need to be out. 249 00:15:32,720 --> 00:15:35,160 Speaker 1: I think if I was managing a team, I would 250 00:15:35,280 --> 00:15:40,040 Speaker 1: politely tell my pitcher, I'm sorry, you are passionate and 251 00:15:40,080 --> 00:15:43,280 Speaker 1: locked in this game. You think every ball that is 252 00:15:43,320 --> 00:15:46,320 Speaker 1: near the plate is a strike that you're kind of 253 00:15:46,360 --> 00:15:48,880 Speaker 1: out in the nicest way, And I wouldn't take that 254 00:15:48,920 --> 00:15:50,440 Speaker 1: as a bad thing if I was a pitcher, to 255 00:15:50,480 --> 00:15:53,840 Speaker 1: be honest, Like, you gotta trust your catcher. Your catcher 256 00:15:53,920 --> 00:15:58,480 Speaker 1: knows his own better than anyone. They're right there. Most 257 00:15:58,520 --> 00:16:03,280 Speaker 1: of the MLB managers, former catchers leave it with the catcher. 258 00:16:05,120 --> 00:16:09,960 Speaker 1: And again, is that situational. I think that's gonna be 259 00:16:09,960 --> 00:16:12,280 Speaker 1: interesting to side from the pitcher catcher side of things, 260 00:16:12,920 --> 00:16:16,560 Speaker 1: because if you do get that one wrong, I mean 261 00:16:16,560 --> 00:16:20,360 Speaker 1: we've seen it in NFL with challenge systems and things 262 00:16:20,400 --> 00:16:23,160 Speaker 1: like that, like you start operating differently, and then can 263 00:16:23,200 --> 00:16:25,720 Speaker 1: you imagine there's going to be a manager this year 264 00:16:26,840 --> 00:16:29,360 Speaker 1: that And it's crazy that it's gonna fall on the 265 00:16:29,360 --> 00:16:32,480 Speaker 1: managers because this is all players. But that's why managers 266 00:16:32,520 --> 00:16:35,200 Speaker 1: have to set up the system. Like there's going to 267 00:16:35,200 --> 00:16:39,040 Speaker 1: be a team that loses their two challenges, that has 268 00:16:39,080 --> 00:16:41,680 Speaker 1: an awful call in the ninth inning, and then we're 269 00:16:41,680 --> 00:16:45,760 Speaker 1: going to talk about that on Waken Jake Subscribe, Talking Baseball, 270 00:16:46,560 --> 00:16:50,360 Speaker 1: every other channel in Form Baseball Today, Chris Rose is 271 00:16:50,360 --> 00:16:55,320 Speaker 1: going to be so hot about it, My god. That Yeah, 272 00:16:55,400 --> 00:16:57,720 Speaker 1: it's gonna be funny to see all the new parts 273 00:16:57,760 --> 00:17:07,880 Speaker 1: of this happen. Moments get elevated, Yeah, elevated by everyone 274 00:17:08,320 --> 00:17:10,119 Speaker 1: as they show up in the in the light for 275 00:17:10,160 --> 00:17:13,560 Speaker 1: the first time. Can you imagine the first time, Like 276 00:17:13,640 --> 00:17:16,320 Speaker 1: there's gonna be a pitcher that thinks he struck someone 277 00:17:16,359 --> 00:17:20,240 Speaker 1: out to win the game, they review it, it gets overturned, 278 00:17:20,280 --> 00:17:22,280 Speaker 1: it's a ball the other team hits like a game 279 00:17:22,320 --> 00:17:25,359 Speaker 1: winning home run. Like, we're gonna have some pretty wild 280 00:17:25,400 --> 00:17:31,520 Speaker 1: moments that come from this, and I think you can 281 00:17:31,560 --> 00:17:33,280 Speaker 1: go on a lot of I do want to talk 282 00:17:33,320 --> 00:17:35,959 Speaker 1: about the dimensions a little bit because we you know, 283 00:17:36,160 --> 00:17:39,120 Speaker 1: as I've already challenged audio Jack with math three times, 284 00:17:40,840 --> 00:17:45,240 Speaker 1: let's make it four. Uh, if you're wondering how they're 285 00:17:45,240 --> 00:17:52,520 Speaker 1: measuring this, so they're getting players' heights, which you know 286 00:17:52,640 --> 00:17:57,560 Speaker 1: anything about? Me fascinated And we don't know the answer yet. 287 00:17:58,280 --> 00:18:00,800 Speaker 1: We were told that they took the player heights. Did 288 00:18:00,840 --> 00:18:04,639 Speaker 1: they have shoes on? I don't know. Was it the 289 00:18:04,760 --> 00:18:08,320 Speaker 1: team measuring them? Did the players get to say their height? 290 00:18:09,080 --> 00:18:13,480 Speaker 1: Did the league? Does ABS have a brand of people 291 00:18:13,520 --> 00:18:16,400 Speaker 1: that go out and measure humans? We don't know that yet. 292 00:18:16,440 --> 00:18:18,520 Speaker 1: I told Trev I want to know he still has 293 00:18:18,640 --> 00:18:21,000 Speaker 1: enough friends in the league. I told him to go 294 00:18:21,080 --> 00:18:25,000 Speaker 1: ask Matt Chapman. Okay, did someone measure you at spring training? 295 00:18:26,080 --> 00:18:37,800 Speaker 1: Cleats your team other? Because I believe it's fifty seven Okay, 296 00:18:37,880 --> 00:18:41,560 Speaker 1: it's fifty three and a half percent of the player's height. 297 00:18:43,080 --> 00:18:45,560 Speaker 1: We had the ruler out before Jimmy made a video 298 00:18:48,320 --> 00:18:51,720 Speaker 1: and then it's the bottom of the zone starts at 299 00:18:51,760 --> 00:18:57,399 Speaker 1: twenty seven percent of the player's height. So John measured 300 00:18:57,440 --> 00:19:01,560 Speaker 1: this out and demonstrated, and it was essentially it was 301 00:19:01,680 --> 00:19:06,960 Speaker 1: the knees with a bent batting stance, not completely bent, 302 00:19:07,040 --> 00:19:09,520 Speaker 1: but like relaxed. If you were stepping up to the 303 00:19:09,560 --> 00:19:11,240 Speaker 1: plate and you were benting the knees a little bit, 304 00:19:11,760 --> 00:19:14,919 Speaker 1: it was up to the knees. The part that I 305 00:19:15,040 --> 00:19:21,199 Speaker 1: found the most interesting is that the height went to 306 00:19:21,320 --> 00:19:26,720 Speaker 1: the belt and that was like the belt in a 307 00:19:26,840 --> 00:19:30,399 Speaker 1: batting stance, which if you think about it, and I 308 00:19:30,440 --> 00:19:33,640 Speaker 1: think the letter of the law, going back old umpire 309 00:19:33,680 --> 00:19:36,159 Speaker 1: book is supposed to be the letters. We know that 310 00:19:36,200 --> 00:19:41,359 Speaker 1: baseball hasn't been that for a long time. But I 311 00:19:41,400 --> 00:19:44,560 Speaker 1: think from the reviews I've seen, I saw Jazz Chisholm 312 00:19:44,640 --> 00:19:48,920 Speaker 1: Challenge one, we watched a few on Talking Baseball. From 313 00:19:48,960 --> 00:19:53,040 Speaker 1: the reviews I've seen, I think the high strike is 314 00:19:53,080 --> 00:19:56,960 Speaker 1: going to be the popular conversation this year because I 315 00:19:57,000 --> 00:20:02,440 Speaker 1: think where that line stops, there's a lot of pitches 316 00:20:02,520 --> 00:20:04,760 Speaker 1: that would have just been called strikes and everyone would 317 00:20:04,800 --> 00:20:09,600 Speaker 1: go okay that. I think the new HEIGHTE metric is 318 00:20:09,640 --> 00:20:12,679 Speaker 1: going to change that that. I think it's gonna be 319 00:20:12,760 --> 00:20:16,800 Speaker 1: advantageous for hitters to start, which I think, circling back 320 00:20:16,840 --> 00:20:19,440 Speaker 1: on this conversation of years of are they going to 321 00:20:19,520 --> 00:20:22,199 Speaker 1: go full automated strikes? Owner what are they gonna do? 322 00:20:23,400 --> 00:20:25,560 Speaker 1: I currently have this as good news for the hitters, 323 00:20:27,800 --> 00:20:29,760 Speaker 1: and yeah, it's gonna be fun to see how each 324 00:20:29,800 --> 00:20:33,240 Speaker 1: team implements it, Like the Dodgers are fun for a 325 00:20:33,240 --> 00:20:35,480 Speaker 1: lot of reason, Like I think Dave Roberts is just 326 00:20:35,480 --> 00:20:41,480 Speaker 1: gonna be like Freddie Freeman, Mookie Showhy, your guys call man. 327 00:20:42,680 --> 00:20:45,840 Speaker 1: You guys know, but also know that you're responsible for 328 00:20:45,880 --> 00:20:49,960 Speaker 1: the rest of this team. That I wonder our player 329 00:20:50,040 --> 00:20:53,200 Speaker 1: is gonna lose privileges throughout the season? Is there gonna 330 00:20:53,240 --> 00:20:57,199 Speaker 1: be is something going to pop up in June and 331 00:20:57,240 --> 00:21:00,600 Speaker 1: it's like, well, Jack Peterson's zero for five, so he's 332 00:21:00,720 --> 00:21:05,119 Speaker 1: just lost his privilege. And then there's probably gonna be 333 00:21:05,119 --> 00:21:07,280 Speaker 1: some players that are absolute sick goes about it that 334 00:21:08,080 --> 00:21:12,480 Speaker 1: can significantly change their season. A three to two pitch 335 00:21:12,480 --> 00:21:14,879 Speaker 1: off the plate gets called a strike three and you 336 00:21:15,000 --> 00:21:19,440 Speaker 1: challenge that and it's a walk that's big, that rolls 337 00:21:19,480 --> 00:21:23,040 Speaker 1: over into the next game. Like I think this is 338 00:21:23,080 --> 00:21:24,879 Speaker 1: gonna be big for hitters. The one thing that I 339 00:21:24,920 --> 00:21:27,080 Speaker 1: do think is going to be the pitchers winning all this. 340 00:21:29,840 --> 00:21:32,960 Speaker 1: And there was one of these, uh called over this 341 00:21:33,040 --> 00:21:37,159 Speaker 1: weekend's games. UH when pitchers when pitchers miss the spot 342 00:21:37,240 --> 00:21:40,879 Speaker 1: and they reach back but it's still over the plate, 343 00:21:41,200 --> 00:21:44,280 Speaker 1: But umps for years haven't called that a strike. Like 344 00:21:44,960 --> 00:21:48,760 Speaker 1: you're on the outside corner, the pitch is a fastball 345 00:21:48,800 --> 00:21:51,000 Speaker 1: on the inside corner, But all the umpire seasons you 346 00:21:51,040 --> 00:21:53,840 Speaker 1: do that for those on the YouTube. I reached across 347 00:21:53,880 --> 00:21:58,359 Speaker 1: my body and go check out the YouTube and subscribe 348 00:21:58,640 --> 00:22:01,440 Speaker 1: that pitchers are gonna get at those calls, which hitters 349 00:22:01,440 --> 00:22:03,560 Speaker 1: for years have been able to do the like, well 350 00:22:03,600 --> 00:22:08,919 Speaker 1: he missed a spot, Like whatever, man, that's gonna be 351 00:22:08,920 --> 00:22:14,480 Speaker 1: the biggest one for pitchers. But I wonder, I mean, 352 00:22:14,560 --> 00:22:17,000 Speaker 1: now I'm really daydreaming a little bit. But like, Okay, 353 00:22:17,240 --> 00:22:20,800 Speaker 1: let's say, if you're facing a team that's not necessarily 354 00:22:20,800 --> 00:22:24,840 Speaker 1: stealing signs, But what if you know, when the catcher 355 00:22:24,880 --> 00:22:27,560 Speaker 1: sets up, maybe they're pointing inside or outside. Could you 356 00:22:27,600 --> 00:22:30,320 Speaker 1: have the catcher set up outside and throw a pitch inside? 357 00:22:31,240 --> 00:22:35,679 Speaker 1: Is that crazy? I don't know. I don't know. I 358 00:22:35,680 --> 00:22:38,000 Speaker 1: don't think you'll see teams take it that far yet. 359 00:22:39,119 --> 00:22:42,840 Speaker 1: But with any new rule, you're always going to see 360 00:22:42,880 --> 00:22:45,280 Speaker 1: something new. You're gonna see teams try to take advantage 361 00:22:45,280 --> 00:22:51,240 Speaker 1: of this to the umpteenth degree. I'm excited to see 362 00:22:51,560 --> 00:22:54,720 Speaker 1: what managers come out and say their strategy. What managers 363 00:22:55,000 --> 00:22:57,360 Speaker 1: don't come out and say their strategy. But we're able 364 00:22:57,400 --> 00:23:02,080 Speaker 1: to figure it out. And I don't know. I think 365 00:23:02,119 --> 00:23:07,360 Speaker 1: it's I think with technology and sports for the past 366 00:23:08,000 --> 00:23:11,199 Speaker 1: few years and many years coming up it's how do 367 00:23:11,240 --> 00:23:14,040 Speaker 1: we integrate this the right way? Like Baseball still doesn't 368 00:23:14,080 --> 00:23:16,359 Speaker 1: know how to do their NERD broadcast right because they 369 00:23:16,400 --> 00:23:21,919 Speaker 1: don't know what numbers people really care about, even just 370 00:23:22,000 --> 00:23:27,600 Speaker 1: like across other sports, what does what helps the fan 371 00:23:27,800 --> 00:23:31,320 Speaker 1: watching experience go to the next level? And I think 372 00:23:31,320 --> 00:23:33,760 Speaker 1: a lot of the data doesn't do too too much 373 00:23:33,800 --> 00:23:37,879 Speaker 1: for you. I know, in baseball, I wish they started 374 00:23:37,920 --> 00:23:40,760 Speaker 1: becoming more public with the catch percentage numbers. I always 375 00:23:40,760 --> 00:23:43,680 Speaker 1: thought those were cool, like, oh, that ball gets caught 376 00:23:43,720 --> 00:23:46,240 Speaker 1: fifteen percent of the time, that's a great catch. There's 377 00:23:46,320 --> 00:23:49,080 Speaker 1: other diving catches they get caught ninety five percent of 378 00:23:49,080 --> 00:23:51,679 Speaker 1: the time, And you're like, I don't know. That was 379 00:23:51,680 --> 00:23:57,600 Speaker 1: a little sus interested in that and interested to see 380 00:23:57,800 --> 00:24:01,040 Speaker 1: how teams take advantage of this. I think I forgot 381 00:24:01,040 --> 00:24:02,520 Speaker 1: where I was going with that last part for a 382 00:24:02,520 --> 00:24:07,560 Speaker 1: little bit. But that's life. Speaking of Yankees are playing 383 00:24:07,560 --> 00:24:12,240 Speaker 1: that after losses? Now good? And yeah, I'll yankee it 384 00:24:12,720 --> 00:24:17,840 Speaker 1: for a little bit because on this show haven't talked 385 00:24:17,880 --> 00:24:22,280 Speaker 1: about losing the shaving policy. I know we're not all 386 00:24:22,359 --> 00:24:27,199 Speaker 1: Yankee fans here, So if you don't care, okay, because 387 00:24:27,200 --> 00:24:29,639 Speaker 1: that's not far too far from where I land. At 388 00:24:29,640 --> 00:24:34,840 Speaker 1: this point, I thought I see every side of the 389 00:24:34,920 --> 00:24:37,720 Speaker 1: argument here. I thought it was kind of cool. Hey, 390 00:24:37,840 --> 00:24:41,320 Speaker 1: we're the Yankees, this is what we do. You want 391 00:24:41,320 --> 00:24:46,480 Speaker 1: to play for us, shave your face, let's go again. 392 00:24:46,560 --> 00:24:50,040 Speaker 1: I'm coming from this from the baby face perspective, although 393 00:24:50,040 --> 00:24:51,840 Speaker 1: I do have a nice little pimple today that I 394 00:24:51,880 --> 00:24:55,080 Speaker 1: wish I had a beard cover up, so I'm just 395 00:24:55,160 --> 00:24:59,160 Speaker 1: trying to grow that real fast. I understand the other 396 00:24:59,200 --> 00:25:02,240 Speaker 1: side of it that the whole thing's pretty old. There's 397 00:25:02,280 --> 00:25:05,639 Speaker 1: been guys that have pushed the different Yankee rules on 398 00:25:05,640 --> 00:25:09,360 Speaker 1: it because you could have a mustache, which I mean 399 00:25:09,400 --> 00:25:13,560 Speaker 1: allowing that as even suss in itself. But and I 400 00:25:13,600 --> 00:25:16,600 Speaker 1: think Goose gossages like he fu Man chewed for a 401 00:25:16,600 --> 00:25:18,880 Speaker 1: little bit, but he was really good, so nobody really 402 00:25:18,920 --> 00:25:23,239 Speaker 1: said anything. And yeah, Devin Williams is getting it like 403 00:25:23,359 --> 00:25:25,160 Speaker 1: all the credit for this, which I don't know if 404 00:25:25,160 --> 00:25:27,359 Speaker 1: that's good or bad. This had been talked about in 405 00:25:27,480 --> 00:25:31,440 Speaker 1: Yankee circles for a while now it kind of blew 406 00:25:31,520 --> 00:25:33,800 Speaker 1: up again when Devin Williams came over and shaved. He 407 00:25:33,840 --> 00:25:37,440 Speaker 1: got roasted, which I mean, maybe this is me being 408 00:25:37,480 --> 00:25:39,480 Speaker 1: a beard those guy I didn't think it was that bad. 409 00:25:39,960 --> 00:25:42,439 Speaker 1: I think he leaned a little better with the beard. 410 00:25:43,240 --> 00:25:46,760 Speaker 1: He'd never pitch an MLB inning without a beard. It's 411 00:25:46,840 --> 00:25:50,639 Speaker 1: kind of nuts that, Yeah, when you're trading for a 412 00:25:50,680 --> 00:25:52,480 Speaker 1: guy to be your closer on a one year deal, 413 00:25:52,680 --> 00:25:54,719 Speaker 1: would hate to look back in May and be like, 414 00:25:55,080 --> 00:26:01,200 Speaker 1: he's miserable without his beard. Man. I do truly think 415 00:26:01,400 --> 00:26:05,040 Speaker 1: I've half jokingly talked about it on Talking Yanks and 416 00:26:05,160 --> 00:26:10,040 Speaker 1: here I think there's guys that like having a beard. 417 00:26:10,320 --> 00:26:13,200 Speaker 1: You like having a beard. Audio Jack BBD likes having 418 00:26:13,240 --> 00:26:20,720 Speaker 1: a beard. That one of the earliest Talking Yanks running jokes. 419 00:26:21,200 --> 00:26:24,320 Speaker 1: Whenever I feel like it was whenever we do voicemails 420 00:26:24,840 --> 00:26:29,240 Speaker 1: or reach out for questions, and it would just be funny. 421 00:26:29,240 --> 00:26:31,920 Speaker 1: We'd get a lot of the same so like we'd 422 00:26:31,960 --> 00:26:34,600 Speaker 1: get favorite player over and over and we'd be like, Okay, 423 00:26:35,640 --> 00:26:38,520 Speaker 1: Bernie was my favorite. I don't you want to hear 424 00:26:38,560 --> 00:26:42,359 Speaker 1: me talk about it more like our Our couple thousand 425 00:26:42,440 --> 00:26:45,760 Speaker 1: listeners at the time had heard that speech many times. 426 00:26:46,640 --> 00:26:48,760 Speaker 1: The other one was people would ask about the beard 427 00:26:48,800 --> 00:26:53,240 Speaker 1: policy and me and Jimmy wouldn't yim and yammer not 428 00:26:53,440 --> 00:26:58,040 Speaker 1: words about it. You know, if I ever needed to 429 00:26:58,920 --> 00:27:01,320 Speaker 1: give Jim a little a little thumb to the belly. 430 00:27:01,680 --> 00:27:05,760 Speaker 1: I'd be like, you know, Jim queen shaven Yankees, Like 431 00:27:06,280 --> 00:27:09,120 Speaker 1: come on, my guy, Like Yankee signed you to play 432 00:27:09,160 --> 00:27:13,480 Speaker 1: baseball tomorrow, Like let's go. You're shaving that thing. And 433 00:27:13,600 --> 00:27:15,639 Speaker 1: Jimmy was like, Yeah, if I was a baseball player, 434 00:27:15,640 --> 00:27:17,479 Speaker 1: I'd have no problem with it because I'd be in 435 00:27:17,520 --> 00:27:21,240 Speaker 1: shape and don't care about my beard. I was like, well, okay, 436 00:27:22,560 --> 00:27:25,200 Speaker 1: an interesting way to look at it, appreciate it, we 437 00:27:25,280 --> 00:27:28,919 Speaker 1: get our chuckle, we move on. I think if you're 438 00:27:28,960 --> 00:27:33,359 Speaker 1: a beard guy, especially in today's society, you're a beard guy. Man, 439 00:27:33,760 --> 00:27:36,080 Speaker 1: you get comfy with it. How long have you had 440 00:27:36,080 --> 00:27:40,440 Speaker 1: a beard? Now? Audio chack uh kind of goes in cycles. 441 00:27:41,560 --> 00:27:44,800 Speaker 1: Do you mean just this beard? Or like, how long 442 00:27:44,920 --> 00:27:47,720 Speaker 1: have I been growing a beard? How long has a 443 00:27:47,760 --> 00:27:54,560 Speaker 1: beard been a go to of your your recipe? Uh? 444 00:27:54,800 --> 00:28:01,360 Speaker 1: Probably since about halfway through twenty twenty? Okay, how old 445 00:28:01,400 --> 00:28:07,840 Speaker 1: were you? I was twenty three? Happy birthday, Jess's birthday today, 446 00:28:07,840 --> 00:28:13,080 Speaker 1: Happy birthday, Jess. Actually, okay, so you're twenty three years old. 447 00:28:13,960 --> 00:28:16,240 Speaker 1: That's a time that a lot of top prospects get 448 00:28:16,240 --> 00:28:19,520 Speaker 1: called up to the MLB. Other guys are hoping twenty five, 449 00:28:19,600 --> 00:28:23,159 Speaker 1: twenty six, whatever you know, I don't. My college roommate 450 00:28:23,240 --> 00:28:26,800 Speaker 1: Nick Proach shout out the male man. He'd been a beard. 451 00:28:26,880 --> 00:28:31,440 Speaker 1: He's had a beard essentially since he was a sophomore 452 00:28:31,480 --> 00:28:36,760 Speaker 1: in high school. So hey, there's one side of it. 453 00:28:36,760 --> 00:28:39,800 Speaker 1: It's look good, play good, feel good that I think 454 00:28:40,000 --> 00:28:42,920 Speaker 1: a few guys were missing that, and I just think 455 00:28:42,960 --> 00:28:48,240 Speaker 1: there's also that's the positive side. The negative side is like, 456 00:28:50,160 --> 00:28:52,600 Speaker 1: if you think you don't look good with a beard 457 00:28:52,720 --> 00:28:57,520 Speaker 1: and now you're playing pro sports, that's a bad time. 458 00:28:58,840 --> 00:29:01,280 Speaker 1: I think Joey Gallo is beard guy. I don't think 459 00:29:01,360 --> 00:29:03,840 Speaker 1: it would have saved him. I think he was in 460 00:29:03,920 --> 00:29:09,200 Speaker 1: it pretty deep. Alex Vdugo, I don't know. I don't know. 461 00:29:09,320 --> 00:29:14,440 Speaker 1: It was interesting just going through failed left fielders Josh Donaldson. 462 00:29:15,520 --> 00:29:17,680 Speaker 1: I'm not gonna go through everyone that didn't play well 463 00:29:18,160 --> 00:29:24,040 Speaker 1: without their beard. Labor Torres goes nuts this year. I 464 00:29:24,080 --> 00:29:27,560 Speaker 1: think for me, the news broke. I was on my 465 00:29:27,600 --> 00:29:30,960 Speaker 1: way to the warehouse. How about that, I was in 466 00:29:30,960 --> 00:29:33,960 Speaker 1: the back of an Uber. Uber driver hated me. I 467 00:29:33,960 --> 00:29:38,840 Speaker 1: have no idea what happened. He such disdain for me, 468 00:29:40,080 --> 00:29:46,360 Speaker 1: Like I miss part of the transaction. So I'm in 469 00:29:46,440 --> 00:29:48,760 Speaker 1: the which, by the way, it's only like a seven 470 00:29:48,800 --> 00:29:54,680 Speaker 1: minute uber from the train station to the warehouse. But 471 00:29:55,640 --> 00:29:57,920 Speaker 1: I get in there see the news and I'm like 472 00:29:58,000 --> 00:30:05,480 Speaker 1: all right, Well for me, it was a shrug realization 473 00:30:05,680 --> 00:30:09,200 Speaker 1: and then I was like, wait, this is over, Like 474 00:30:09,320 --> 00:30:13,000 Speaker 1: that's it. Like once that memos drop, like they're not 475 00:30:13,000 --> 00:30:15,760 Speaker 1: gonna go back and take away the policy, my god, 476 00:30:16,440 --> 00:30:20,720 Speaker 1: or revamp it. It is gonna see. It's gonna be 477 00:30:20,720 --> 00:30:24,960 Speaker 1: funny to see what Yankees push it. How big can 478 00:30:24,960 --> 00:30:29,120 Speaker 1: a beard get a well maintained beard. That's gonna be 479 00:30:29,160 --> 00:30:34,760 Speaker 1: interesting to see. And yeah, it was funny to see 480 00:30:34,800 --> 00:30:38,920 Speaker 1: some of the cause there was a few of my 481 00:30:39,000 --> 00:30:41,200 Speaker 1: Red Sox fans were like, oh, they finally got rid 482 00:30:41,200 --> 00:30:43,360 Speaker 1: of it. This was like the worst, the worst rule 483 00:30:43,400 --> 00:30:46,040 Speaker 1: in sports. And I was like, okay, that's a little dramatic, 484 00:30:46,160 --> 00:30:49,440 Speaker 1: felt a little red sock. I think there was other 485 00:30:49,520 --> 00:30:51,480 Speaker 1: fans of teams that were like, I kind of liked it. 486 00:30:52,040 --> 00:30:54,440 Speaker 1: Now you're playing the Yankees. They were clean shave, like 487 00:30:54,480 --> 00:30:59,160 Speaker 1: that was it, No questions asked, Hey, the big thing 488 00:30:59,240 --> 00:31:02,280 Speaker 1: Yankee fans care. This is our little secret. We like 489 00:31:02,360 --> 00:31:05,200 Speaker 1: to win. That's what we were told the whole brand 490 00:31:05,400 --> 00:31:09,120 Speaker 1: was like the shaving faces thing that came up, like 491 00:31:09,240 --> 00:31:13,120 Speaker 1: eighth it is like win, It's like, okay, we go 492 00:31:13,160 --> 00:31:16,360 Speaker 1: out and get the best players. That's good. Short Porch, 493 00:31:17,760 --> 00:31:21,320 Speaker 1: I don know, Babe Ruth played here. Jeter was hot. 494 00:31:21,480 --> 00:31:24,719 Speaker 1: Then you start getting to the beard policy. I guess 495 00:31:25,160 --> 00:31:28,280 Speaker 1: that I don't know. It's it's funny that this is 496 00:31:28,440 --> 00:31:30,800 Speaker 1: probably I say, this is probably the last time I'll 497 00:31:30,840 --> 00:31:34,400 Speaker 1: ever talk about it, and then someone will come out 498 00:31:34,400 --> 00:31:37,560 Speaker 1: with like a gross beard or something. Uh. The thing 499 00:31:38,160 --> 00:31:43,040 Speaker 1: I still don't have resolution on, and it'll be interesting 500 00:31:43,040 --> 00:31:46,400 Speaker 1: to see if we ever get there. You know, the 501 00:31:46,480 --> 00:31:50,280 Speaker 1: Yankees you can't have long hair. Garrett Cole pushed the 502 00:31:50,320 --> 00:31:53,280 Speaker 1: limits a couple times, and when I say push the limits, 503 00:31:53,280 --> 00:31:55,720 Speaker 1: like he had a little bit of flow coming out back. 504 00:31:56,360 --> 00:31:59,480 Speaker 1: The one that had me out of sorts was the 505 00:31:59,560 --> 00:32:02,440 Speaker 1: Yankees were supposed to trade for The Yankees were supposed 506 00:32:02,440 --> 00:32:06,320 Speaker 1: to be in the business for Luis Castillo, and Luis 507 00:32:06,360 --> 00:32:11,840 Speaker 1: Castillo has beautiful dreads that for me, the beard policy 508 00:32:12,000 --> 00:32:14,680 Speaker 1: was like, I don't know, guys, a lot of people 509 00:32:14,720 --> 00:32:17,920 Speaker 1: shave for work whatever, blah blah blah. I don't actually care. 510 00:32:18,320 --> 00:32:23,880 Speaker 1: I'm I'm glad it's gone. If the Yankees ever come 511 00:32:23,960 --> 00:32:28,920 Speaker 1: up a situation like that, it starts getting a little 512 00:32:28,920 --> 00:32:32,480 Speaker 1: crazy again. Make a guy shave his dread like that. 513 00:32:32,680 --> 00:32:36,960 Speaker 1: For me, that's a thousand times worse than shaving a beard, right, Like, 514 00:32:37,080 --> 00:32:43,360 Speaker 1: that's years and years and years. And I suppose we'll 515 00:32:43,400 --> 00:32:49,680 Speaker 1: cross that bridge when we get there. So yeah, it's uh, 516 00:32:49,760 --> 00:32:52,440 Speaker 1: it's done, and that's a good thing. I'm trying to 517 00:32:52,480 --> 00:32:54,960 Speaker 1: see what else I got for you guys. I mean, it's, uh, 518 00:32:55,040 --> 00:32:58,360 Speaker 1: the first week in a spring training you know, there's 519 00:32:58,360 --> 00:33:01,520 Speaker 1: some nice stuff. Guys hit guys hit home. Alex Bragman 520 00:33:01,600 --> 00:33:07,120 Speaker 1: homard for the Red Sox, happy for him, Juan so 521 00:33:07,200 --> 00:33:14,640 Speaker 1: toa homeward for the Mets, happy for him. Other than that, 522 00:33:14,840 --> 00:33:20,960 Speaker 1: I mean, there's not too much to chew on. I 523 00:33:21,000 --> 00:33:25,240 Speaker 1: did watch High Song Kim the new Dodger second basement 524 00:33:25,280 --> 00:33:27,920 Speaker 1: play a little bit. He looks good. That's my scouting 525 00:33:27,960 --> 00:33:35,680 Speaker 1: report on that. Otherwise, we're in a little bit of 526 00:33:35,720 --> 00:33:40,200 Speaker 1: a baseball hole. So we will have tearless coming up 527 00:33:40,200 --> 00:33:43,320 Speaker 1: with Jolly on Wednesday. Get excited for that. That's what 528 00:33:43,360 --> 00:33:47,680 Speaker 1: the people like. And then yeah, the other sports are 529 00:33:47,760 --> 00:33:51,240 Speaker 1: kind of chillin too. That we're finding. We're watching the 530 00:33:51,320 --> 00:33:54,680 Speaker 1: other leagues try to find stuff in this window, the 531 00:33:54,760 --> 00:33:59,480 Speaker 1: golf league, how about hockey and the Four nations thing? 532 00:33:59,560 --> 00:34:02,160 Speaker 1: That was pretty sick last week except how it ended. 533 00:34:03,160 --> 00:34:05,240 Speaker 1: So I think it's a high and tight one today. 534 00:34:05,720 --> 00:34:08,920 Speaker 1: We'll get BBD healthy, we'll get myself healthy, we'll get 535 00:34:09,000 --> 00:34:13,560 Speaker 1: Jolly healthy, and we'll be back as we're I think 536 00:34:13,560 --> 00:34:17,359 Speaker 1: it's thirty days till opening day. How do you like that? 537 00:34:18,080 --> 00:34:22,680 Speaker 1: A short month? February? People forget Nobody forgot. All right, guys, 538 00:34:22,840 --> 00:34:25,000 Speaker 1: you're the best. Thank you to Audio Jack for filling 539 00:34:25,040 --> 00:34:27,960 Speaker 1: in in this show. 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