Speaker 1: Welcome in everybody to Fantasy Bros. MLB. This is leading
Speaker 1: off live. It is me, Joey p joe Pisipia back
Speaker 1: in the chair with of course the Welsh and all
Speaker 1: of you, the Peanuts and the Crackerjack. Shout out to
Speaker 1: Joel Rico for covering me yesterday on the program. It's
Speaker 1: great to see everybody again. It's Rivalry weekend, and I
Speaker 1: gotta tell you, well, it's just the first time in
Speaker 1: a very long time I am really excited about Mets Yankees.
Speaker 1: Mets Yankees. I don't know if you realize this. When
Speaker 1: Air League play started, this was the hottest ticket in town.
Speaker 1: The whole world just would stop for Mets Yankees in
Speaker 1: the Tri State area both times. And I mean like
Speaker 1: if you were at an event on a Saturday, it's
Speaker 1: some bar mitzvah, or you know, you were at a
Speaker 1: kid's soccer game, whatever, everything was stopping for Mets Yankees,
Speaker 1: doing what's the score? What's going on? It was madness, right,
Speaker 1: and then it kind of just dissipated over the years.
Speaker 1: But now last year with the Mets kicking there but
Speaker 1: a little bit, and now the one Sodo stuff and
Speaker 1: now he's gonna go back to New York. It's got
Speaker 1: a juice that it hasn't had. I don't know, man,
Speaker 1: in fifteen years easily, I'm excited about it. I'm excited
Speaker 1: about Rivalry weekend here in New York City.
Speaker 2: It's a very East Coast things I could care less.
Speaker 2: I had not thought what one moment about, Man, I
Speaker 2: wonder what's gonna happen in the Subway series. I remember
Speaker 2: a long time ago, Bogman and I were invited to
Speaker 2: do this interview with this New York radio station and
Speaker 2: they had us, you know, they okay, but and they
Speaker 2: had us on, and one of the first things the
Speaker 2: guy out of his mouth, he goes so he's like,
Speaker 2: how about that James Dolan stuff and this basketball thing?
Speaker 2: And we were both befuddled and we were like huh.
Speaker 2: And it was a complete like I don't know what's
Speaker 2: going on, and it was a complete East Coast by.
Speaker 2: She's like, oh, well, you know, there's like ruined in
Speaker 2: the Knicks and we're like, okay, you New Yorkers, You
Speaker 2: New Yorkers love you some New York and think the
Speaker 2: center of the universe is there. But I will tell
Speaker 2: you it's gonna be a great series. The extra drama
Speaker 2: with Sodo is gonna make it a ton more fun.
Speaker 2: But I have not lost one ounce of sleep of excitement.
Speaker 1: For right free Week. I'll have all the excitement for you.
Speaker 1: You know, It's been the same with Yankees Red Sox.
Speaker 1: I was not a Yankee fan, nor a Red Sox fan,
Speaker 1: but Yankee Red Sox was much must watch television for years,
Speaker 1: especially in the playoffs, and then after they won, after
Speaker 1: the Red Sox finally came back and beat them in
Speaker 1: that magical Year of four, it just never had the
Speaker 1: same juice again. It just did. It never did for me.
Speaker 1: So I'd love to see that Baseball is better when
Speaker 1: there's rivalries, right like right now. You know, when I
Speaker 1: grew up, I was the Mets and Cardinals. That was
Speaker 1: the rivalry, and then as I got older, it was
Speaker 1: the Mets and Atlanta Braves. I don't know if you
Speaker 1: feel like Diamondbacks Dodgers of rivalry, because rivalries like Giants
Speaker 1: and Dodgers typically that's like the main one in the.
Speaker 2: West Nwmondbacks have kind of taken that over a little
Speaker 2: bit over the last ten years, so it's there. But
Speaker 2: to your point, I've probably suffered from, especially in baseball,
Speaker 2: like coming to Arizona, being here from day one, like
Speaker 2: we're not anybody's really rival.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that story maybe to get.
Speaker 2: Why New York is the thing. But again, yeah, center
Speaker 2: of the universe, like.
Speaker 1: Yeah, you guys, you know, but even in the baseball universe.
Speaker 1: Sodo going back to Yankee Stadium tonight, that's gonna be fun.
Speaker 1: Like it's gonna it's gonna let's go, let's go.
Speaker 2: I'm here for the Boo Birds for Sodo, but he's
Speaker 2: gonna give Boo Yeah.
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Speaker 1: pitchers duel last night. Well Jacob deGrom Vers, Hunter Brown
Speaker 1: Deep in the Heart of Texas A one nothing gave
Speaker 1: this old school kind of pitching, kind of you know,
Speaker 1: just good stuff here. This was a really great Jacob
Speaker 1: Gram start. He's now four and one. He had seven
Speaker 1: strikeouts and eight innings. The two to three era, a
Speaker 1: point nine to nine whip, fifty three strikeouts, eleven walks,
Speaker 1: and fifty one innings. I don't think he's ever gonna
Speaker 1: be the the Gram of of what he was, which
Speaker 1: was on another planet. But this start, to me, was
Speaker 1: the re emergence of maybe some hope that Jacob de
Speaker 1: Gram can get back into that I'm one of the
Speaker 1: top ten pitchers in baseball kind of territory. This was
Speaker 1: a great start. We'll get to Brown the second, but
Speaker 1: this was the Jacob de Gram I haven't seen in
Speaker 1: quite some time.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and I'm really starting to hold to this theory
Speaker 2: that he was holding something back at the beginning of
Speaker 2: the season, Like that is starting to hold quite a
Speaker 2: bit stronger to me. That Villo was down a tiny bit.
Speaker 2: I think you had some higher change of usage games
Speaker 2: and he was just like pairing it back. He wasn't
Speaker 2: being super hyper aggressive in the strikeout department. Then last
Speaker 2: week he kicked back up this start, fastball Vilo almost
Speaker 2: up a mile per hour, slider Villo a little over
Speaker 2: half half a mile per hour, and it was ninety
Speaker 2: four percent usage between slider and fastball, so both of
Speaker 2: those pitches, and that he went slighter heavy as the
Speaker 2: most used pitch thirty percent CSW, thirty eight percent wiff rate.
Speaker 2: It made the fastball even more efficient. And I kind
Speaker 2: of think it might have been just this internal game
Speaker 2: plan of like, how can we keep him healthy for
Speaker 2: the season, And they really laid back that first month
Speaker 2: and he is looking dominant, and I'm only kicking myself,
Speaker 2: you know, yesterday I had the first five on this.
Speaker 2: It just pushed, which is fine, we pushed the big money,
Speaker 2: but this was screaming an under game, and you could
Speaker 2: have cashed on the under first five clearly the total
Speaker 2: game all of the and I wanted to and I
Speaker 2: moved away from it to play the first five on
Speaker 2: the Astros. But Jacob deGrom looks looks vintage. But I
Speaker 2: think the biggest test for everybody, especially someone like you, Joe,
Speaker 2: is like are you gonna buy in? You know, like
Speaker 2: is he back to being a top five overall pitcher,
Speaker 2: because you know, the only one thing is looming, still injury,
Speaker 2: the entry thing is still looming.
Speaker 3: Can you look past it mid May now with how
Speaker 3: he's looked, No, I can't look past it because I
Speaker 3: have seen that show before too many times in my life,
Speaker 3: So no, I can't look past it.
Speaker 1: I think he's still an enormous risk to go through
Speaker 1: the entire season. But this was still encouraging, nonetheless, And
Speaker 1: if you paid a big price, like if you're Joe Rico,
Speaker 1: your loving life right now and you look like a genius,
Speaker 1: and I'm still terrified, but it was good to see.
Speaker 1: It was also good to see Hunter Brown and Hunter
Speaker 1: Brown equally, I mean, maybe the most underrated pitcher in
Speaker 1: the last two years of baseball. He's got a one
Speaker 1: four to three Era of point, a three whip, sixty
Speaker 1: seven strikeouts, fourteen walks, and fifty six hittings. He's hold
Speaker 1: it together. The Astros right now are a mess. Al
Speaker 1: two Vey's a mess. Alvarez is on the il Smith,
Speaker 1: you know, not playing every day. It's tough. Taking away
Speaker 1: Bregman and Tucker in the same year is taking its
Speaker 1: toll on the Astros. But Hunter Brown I the FR's
Speaker 1: point second instil young votes this year. Maybe nobody's gonna
Speaker 1: touch Schooble probably at the end of the day. But
Speaker 1: if anybody could, it's Brown. He really has been absolutely
Speaker 1: spectacular after a dismal twenty twenty four April. One of
Speaker 1: the best pitchers in baseball ever since.
Speaker 2: He's really efficient, you know, and hat tip to Wonky.
Speaker 2: Wonky wants a victory lap, you can have one. You were,
Speaker 2: I think one of the highest one. Hunter Brown. I
Speaker 2: kind of can't help but sit in a world of like,
Speaker 2: oh man, for're second in Cy young on on Hunter Brown,
Speaker 2: and we're talking about him as being let's say a
Speaker 2: top eight overall sp kind of interested in selling. I'm
Speaker 2: kind of in that world where you know, it might
Speaker 2: be a really big cell high opportunity. But he has
Speaker 2: just been massively efficient. He wasn't like quite as you know,
Speaker 2: whiffy and stuff like Jacob Grohm took that over in
Speaker 2: this start, so he didn't have that. But from you know,
Speaker 2: an overall perspective, the one point four to three are
Speaker 2: era is ridiculous. He's giving up low barrel, low hard
Speaker 2: hit thirty two percent k percentage is elite, and he's
Speaker 2: gotten expected e are of two seven four. So it's
Speaker 2: not like you know, the regression is three and a
Speaker 2: half or something like that, so he really does look dominant.
Speaker 2: It's crazy.
Speaker 1: I don't know if you can hear it.
Speaker 2: Oh no, I see it in here, ladies and gentlemen,
Speaker 2: Joe is frozen. Do you know what that means? Oh no,
Speaker 2: I went away? Bring me back? Hey, Oh it's chaos.
Speaker 2: It's chaos in here. I don't know if you can
Speaker 2: bring me back normal Cali. But heyo, everybody, let me
Speaker 2: tell you. Let me tell you something. Jacob deGrom gotta
Speaker 2: sell high buy on Hunter Brown, So I don't know
Speaker 2: if Joe is completely gone.
Speaker 1: Joe says he's back, but can you hear me?
Speaker 2: Can we get some puppet? Joe's in the chat and
Speaker 2: the hey goes maybe, well, I will move through the show. Well,
Speaker 2: you guys figure out what's going on. I like that
Speaker 2: the chat is my co host here. That's actually kind
Speaker 2: of fun. Let's go to the next thing in here,
Speaker 2: because I wasn't planning on playing host today. Since we're
Speaker 2: done with Hunter Brown and we are with our boy here. Hey,
Speaker 2: there's Joe.
Speaker 1: Hi. Hey, yeah, massive thunderstorms here like thunderstorm warning. I'm
Speaker 1: surprised you can't hear it on air like it's crazy.
Speaker 2: It's probably it's probably just the god so excited about
Speaker 2: the Subway series that they doesn't contain it in on
Speaker 2: the East Tiers of Joy, Yeah.
Speaker 1: Tears of joy? Are we talking about Otani yet?
Speaker 2: I mean I was co hosting with the chat. I
Speaker 2: had puppet Joe up. We were figuring out what we
Speaker 2: were doing.
Speaker 1: But please continue, all right, Joey Otani not one but
Speaker 1: two homers yesterday. He's got fifteen now twenty eight RBI,
Speaker 1: ten stolen bases. That's fifteen right now, so he's tied
Speaker 1: with Joje and Schwarber for the most high song. Kim
Speaker 1: also good night for him three for three with a
Speaker 1: double four run score two. Ribby's w do you think
Speaker 1: of Kim so far in the limited time you've seen
Speaker 1: him at the major league level.
Speaker 2: I'm pretty impressed. Actually. I remember in camp one of
Speaker 2: the days he came out and I was like that
Speaker 2: dude's kind of jacked, you know, and they were working
Speaker 2: at all different positions, really solid contact. Right now, he's
Speaker 2: hitting four twenty not big barrels.
Speaker 1: You know.
Speaker 2: He looks like he's gonna be in that war. He's
Speaker 2: towing the line between the is he gonna be low barrel,
Speaker 2: gets the ball out there, has no loft, doesn't strikeout
Speaker 2: type of guy like i'd loosely say like a riser
Speaker 2: Jacob Wilson or is it going to get into that C. J.
Speaker 2: Abrams world where it's like very minimal type of barrel rates.
Speaker 2: But he gets the ball in the air and optimizes.
Speaker 2: He would do really well if he did that. His
Speaker 2: launch aingles around eight degrees, so you need to double
Speaker 2: that into the near future. But overall eighty eight percent
Speaker 2: contact rate mates a bunch of contact. He's stealing some basses,
Speaker 2: hitting homers. Look like he's here to stay. He's still
Speaker 2: kind of a fringy ish dynasty opt or not dynasty,
Speaker 2: but like a fantasy option right now. But he's working
Speaker 2: and as long as he's getting in the lineup, let's go.
Speaker 2: But we'll have to see like balancing guys like Rushing
Speaker 2: and Kim and getting them all in the lineup. How's
Speaker 2: that gonna work.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's gonna be tricky. I have an amazing o
Speaker 1: Tani stature ready for it. He's got forty two games
Speaker 1: this season, fifteen homers, ten stolen bases, forty five runs, score,
Speaker 1: twenty five walks. No one in Major league history has
Speaker 1: put up those numbers over forty two game span at
Speaker 1: any point in a single season. Ever.
Speaker 2: Little Sarah langstat that's crazy.
Speaker 1: I got no. I didn't get it from Sarah. Got
Speaker 1: it for somebody else.
Speaker 2: But it just sounds like something Sarah Lang will put together.
Speaker 2: Whatever I said that. By the way, this is the
Speaker 2: best thirty seven game run where the game's in before
Speaker 2: six that we've ever seen in baseball.
Speaker 1: And you're just like how she does it, It's amazing.
Speaker 1: She's amazing. Ronald Acunya also amazing, two for three with
Speaker 1: a double in a mind league rehab game, and he
Speaker 1: looks good. He didn't make an error in the outfield.
Speaker 1: He was hot dogging in a little bit if he
Speaker 1: saw that the ball kind of dropped out. But he's
Speaker 1: hit the ball hard everywhere.
Speaker 2: Type of show, guys, it's going to be that type
Speaker 2: of show. I didn't no nogging by Ronald Kunya. But
Speaker 2: what I will say here, Joe comes in here, you
Speaker 2: got to get me back here. I'll just stay happening.
Speaker 2: What is what is going on?
Speaker 1: With what's going on? I was fine, I freeze again.
Speaker 2: You froze again. Yeah, you're you're a mess, right, you're
Speaker 2: a home off. What I wanted to say before you're
Speaker 2: talking about the hot dogging, is that Ronald Dacunya already
Speaker 2: where he's at in that rehab assignment. Didn't you put
Speaker 2: the like June was it June six? We have on Acunya.
Speaker 2: He's going to destroy that.
Speaker 1: Yeah, he might be up next week.
Speaker 2: I mean, I know they're not saying that, but he
Speaker 2: legit might be up next week.
Speaker 1: More talking about the Brave Spencer Strider is going to
Speaker 1: come off the Eel's going to start against the Nationals
Speaker 1: next week. Also for the Braves, I want to talk
Speaker 1: about Drake Balden for a second three for four against
Speaker 1: the Nats on Thursday. He's getting some more playing time
Speaker 1: in two catcher leagues. What you're feeling on Baldwin. I know,
Speaker 1: you know he's still not the everyday quote unquote guy,
Speaker 1: but man, that guy's been hidden.
Speaker 2: I think he was number one in war maybe amongst rookies.
Speaker 2: Right now, like he's at the tippy maybe it's n L.
Speaker 2: I don't know it's n L or a L. But
Speaker 2: like he is a high war guy. He's hitting three sixty,
Speaker 2: he's got four homers. This is a cool one because
Speaker 2: I've been talking about him for some time because he
Speaker 2: was out in the AFL this past year and really
Speaker 2: really interesting bat. There's a bunch of offensive high upside.
Speaker 2: He has a sixty two percent hard hit rate with
Speaker 2: a sixteen percent k percentage. He's hitting the ball hard,
Speaker 2: he's not striking out. He's earning himself more playing time.
Speaker 2: I think in a two catcher league he's on that
Speaker 2: bottom rang only because he's not starting. If Sean Murphy
Speaker 2: were to go away and he were to play every
Speaker 2: single day, I think Drake Balden has the chance here.
Speaker 2: I'll put it like this, he has a chance to
Speaker 2: be like next season's Ivan Herrera.
Speaker 1: If Murphy goes away, great, great, and he is the guy.
Speaker 2: Think of him like Ivan Herrera as a next season
Speaker 2: like top ten to twelve catcher.
Speaker 1: Excellent comm Love that. Also love that Matt McLain's getting hot.
Speaker 1: Sh don't tell anyone I told you, uh, double walk.
Speaker 1: Things are going much better for him over the last week.
Speaker 1: Signs of Life. You look at the last seven days
Speaker 1: they were there for Matt McLain. So that's very good news.
Speaker 1: You can still buy him over the weekend, but this
Speaker 1: is your last chance. I sent out a bunch of
Speaker 1: trade offers for Matt mclainon this morning, and I was
Speaker 1: putting the show together after looking at the last week.
Speaker 1: So good news. They are some transactions. Brandon Drury gets
Speaker 1: released by the White Sox. My guess is he'll land
Speaker 1: somewhere else. I don't think the career is done. The
Speaker 1: Rangers recalled cole Win. I want to talk about this
Speaker 1: for a second because Luke Jackson is currently the closer.
Speaker 1: The closer and I'm using air quotes for that. Twenty
Speaker 1: three innings so far hasn't given up a run. He's
Speaker 1: got a point nine to four whip, twenty strikeouts to
Speaker 1: eleven walks. Any chance that cole Win maybe flirts a
Speaker 1: little bit with that closer.
Speaker 2: Role, probably I need to see it before anything. Bruce
Speaker 2: Bochie's just doing weird stuff.
Speaker 1: With like I was all time now when managerial wins.
Speaker 1: Did you see that yesterday? No, he is sixth all time.
Speaker 2: He's a huge human being. He has one of the
Speaker 2: biggest heads you've ever seen in your life next to
Speaker 2: a player. And he's also because he's like super old.
Speaker 2: He's tall, like because I'm tall, he has the towers
Speaker 2: over me with his big giant bobble head, Like he
Speaker 2: is just a huge human being. He's crazy, but he
Speaker 2: also just like he just does like the weird stuff,
Speaker 2: Like why is Luke Jackson continuously the guy? Would love
Speaker 2: to see them bring someone in. I think this is
Speaker 2: a rotation for a while. I think it's just kind
Speaker 2: of disastrous until they go and acquire someone. And I
Speaker 2: one hundred percent think they should go and acquire somebody.
Speaker 2: We've talked about Ryan Helsley. If they throw that at
Speaker 2: us at all, then I'm cool with it. But I
Speaker 2: don't I don't know of anything where cole Winn's going
Speaker 2: to just be called up and just immediately jump.
Speaker 1: Back to that role. Send cole Win for Helsley, Go,
Speaker 1: send them Evan Carter, send them whatever they want.
Speaker 2: Go and get Helen Carter and Hell's that would actually
Speaker 2: make sense.
Speaker 1: But like the Cardinals really need like more another another
Speaker 1: crappy outfield prospect that's no good. Sure, that's what they
Speaker 1: do best, That's what they do best. Uh, let's get
Speaker 1: to the last and certainly not the least transaction from
Speaker 1: me yesterday This made my heart smile. The Chicago Cubs
Speaker 1: reportedly are signing veteran right hander kent To Mayeta, so
Speaker 1: he's not out of baseball yet, can ye Mayeta?
Speaker 2: The only thing we need for the true trifecta is
Speaker 2: for him to be signed with the Mets, and then
Speaker 2: the Mets jersey that I was sent. I've mentioned this before.
Speaker 2: Somebody legit sent me a Mets jersey and it is
Speaker 2: a comboed name of Senga and Mata. But I gotta
Speaker 2: tell you the choice and how they worded it. It's
Speaker 2: not really ideal, it's not I.
Speaker 1: Just don't know why you get all this stuff. People
Speaker 1: send you hats, they send you jerseys. I get nothing nothing.
Speaker 1: I don't understand. This is ridiculous.
Speaker 2: Why don't you don't you put your address, your your
Speaker 2: home address publicly on the show?
Speaker 1: Right now, someone wants to send me something. There's plenty
Speaker 1: of ways to get a hold of me. There are
Speaker 1: a few things over the years, but they're all football people.
Speaker 1: What's wrong with you? Baseball people?
Speaker 2: Baseball people are great baseball people.
Speaker 1: Baseball They have sent me nothing, nothing of people. Oh
Speaker 1: that's what it is. You're the real hero. Everyone, Well,
Speaker 1: which is the real hero. Everybody, All right, let's get
Speaker 1: to the rookie lookies. Zebbie Matthews is back, baby Sunday.
Speaker 1: He's gonna start bring that one. Nine three e R
Speaker 1: thirty eight strikeouts, nine walks over seven starts. So far.
Speaker 1: Wasn't the best debut for zeb last time he saw him,
Speaker 1: but hopefully a little bit better the second.
Speaker 2: On the show yesterday, I'm like, it's clearly got to
Speaker 2: be David Festat like David fine an incredible fourteen strikeouts,
Speaker 2: no walks. He was up last, like, it's clearly gonna
Speaker 2: be him, And then like eight hours later they're like
Speaker 2: and it's Zebbie.
Speaker 1: Matthews And all of a sudden, I got let a
Speaker 1: fire under Paddock too, because he pitched Wall yesterday too.
Speaker 1: He was like, oh crap, you can drop the guys
Speaker 1: around here.
Speaker 2: Somebody put out a stat where it was like the
Speaker 2: first like two or three starts, Patta gave up like
Speaker 2: niner and runs. He's giving up like twelve in runs.
Speaker 2: Since then it's like over.
Speaker 1: Like, yeah, he's bad to start, but he's got He
Speaker 1: is just grip.
Speaker 2: Gripping onto that that job, because you know he is
Speaker 2: one bad blow up start probably hundreds losing that thing,
Speaker 2: but it's crazy.
Speaker 1: Oh look, the Twins might be better off dealing some
Speaker 1: of that starting pitching though, and laying the kids play
Speaker 1: and just help them somewhere else.
Speaker 2: You know that division Zebbie up tomorrow.
Speaker 1: I would agree. I'd rather see those guys in the
Speaker 1: rotation with Joe Ryan and you know, some of the
Speaker 1: starting pitch. The Cubs could deal with this. The Cubs
Speaker 1: would love to have Chris Paddock right now. You know,
Speaker 1: there's a lot of teams that could use him. I'm
Speaker 1: just saying, let's talk about the Nationals for a second.
Speaker 1: Dylan Cruz not in the lineup yesterday. He's down to
Speaker 1: one thirty six, two fifty five, two seventy seven in May,
Speaker 1: thirteen strikeouts. On the flip side, I wanted to bring
Speaker 1: up Robert Hassel, who is having the inverse right now
Speaker 1: at Triple A. He's hitting two to eighty nine with
Speaker 1: a three forty OVP. The power hasn't been great, but
Speaker 1: he does have three homers, eight steals in his last
Speaker 1: thirty eight games, thirty strikeouts, nineteen walks, so not the
Speaker 1: worst there either. Could we see hassle for Cruz as
Speaker 1: like a switch in the next couple of weeks. Maybe
Speaker 1: that's a super because Young has it, but Young also
Speaker 1: hasn't hit. So they've got a problem in that outfield
Speaker 1: right now where they've got multiple holes, and I don't
Speaker 1: know what they're gonna do, but it feels like something's
Speaker 1: got to give over the next two weeks for the NATS.
Speaker 2: I agree with what you're saying. The thing with Likeause,
Speaker 2: I've just been talking about Hassle. Hassel has been just
Speaker 2: so not good for so long AFL like third straight run,
Speaker 2: but he started to just he changed his approach. He's
Speaker 2: a guy where it's like I'm making contact, I'm not
Speaker 2: trying to swing through. He had really intense bat speed
Speaker 2: that I had likened at one point to a guy
Speaker 2: like being like Bryce Harper. But I think he's finally
Speaker 2: just figured out, like who like the skill set. He's
Speaker 2: locked into his own skill set. Now he'sitting for average
Speaker 2: and he's doing a little bit of everything. By the way,
Speaker 2: they're still an elite, but he's increased his hard hit percentage.
Speaker 2: Last year at TRIPAA was twenty five percent. It's thirty
Speaker 2: nine percent. That's a huge increase. His max EV went
Speaker 2: from one oh six to one ten to jump up
Speaker 2: like three miles per hour on that is huge and
Speaker 2: average ninety one x velocity. So I do think Robert
Speaker 2: Hassell is going to get a look at some point,
Speaker 2: But is it at the expense of Dylan Cruz. I
Speaker 2: think a normal team would probably already have cut bait
Speaker 2: like the Cardinals would have already cut bait like they
Speaker 2: Jordan Walker on Dylan Cruz. I think there is still
Speaker 2: so much as far as like this guy being a
Speaker 2: face of the organization. I'm not one hundred percent sure
Speaker 2: if they're going to do that exact move, but I
Speaker 2: don't think we're long out from Cruz going And I
Speaker 2: would have to say if they were replacing with an outfielder,
Speaker 2: it will be Robert Hassel. If they want to play
Speaker 2: on the infield, Brady House is another prospect who's killing
Speaker 2: it in TRIPLEA who they would bring up. So this
Speaker 2: is a possibility. Just monitor Robert Hassel. But Hassele doesn't
Speaker 2: have big, loud counting stat skills. He's going to probably
Speaker 2: hit lower in the lineup. You're hoping he continues to
Speaker 2: hit for contact and he can steal some bases, so
Speaker 2: he's not a out the roof type of fantasy option.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I gotta tell you wash Like I'm just I
Speaker 1: always thought Would to Cruise was a bigger separation than
Speaker 1: a lot of other people did. When I watched the
Speaker 1: two of those guys play, I thought Cruz could be
Speaker 1: a really good player, but I thought Would could be
Speaker 1: a superstar. And that was my evaluation, and a lot
Speaker 1: of people didn't share that. A lot of people felt
Speaker 1: very differently about it. But so far, it looks like
Speaker 1: what is that guy? One more guy to talk about too?
Speaker 1: Who was up? Another rookie works about got sent down.
Speaker 1: But things are going in the right direction for Matt
Speaker 1: Shaw two or four with a walk in RBI two,
Speaker 1: steals three runs yesterday in game one of a double hitter.
Speaker 1: In game two he had a pair of homers. He's
Speaker 1: starting to get hot. And that brings us to today's
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Speaker 1: they were very excited about Mattshaw, as all of us were,
Speaker 1: and then, of course he did not hit for the
Speaker 1: first few weeks of the season, so we send him
Speaker 1: back down and now he is hitting now. The question
Speaker 1: is how much longer are we going to leave him
Speaker 1: down there? Because clearly Matt Shaw has figured things out again.
Speaker 1: He's been a great contact guy, had a great season
Speaker 1: last year in the minor leagues. There's very little for
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Speaker 1: That's the big question for fantasy managers, and we're gonna
Speaker 1: have to figure that out. I would be buying Matt Shaw.
Speaker 1: I'd be picking him up just to see because I
Speaker 1: think the kid is too talented. We had so many
Speaker 1: prospect people on in March talking about how great Mattshaw
Speaker 1: was how he was a campmus kind of guy, and
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Speaker 1: one of those heavy contact put the ball in play,
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Speaker 1: be a steady guy in that lineup for the Cubs.
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Speaker 1: she let's get to three up and three down, shall we?
Speaker 1: Max Munci three f four with a dinger. Jake Berger
Speaker 1: our boy are buy low from last week two for
Speaker 1: three with a homer. Yay, it's good to see Jake Berger,
Speaker 1: he's little bulkier than the last time I saw him too.
Speaker 1: Did you notice since he come back looks a little bulkier.
Speaker 2: He looks about the same burger esque that he is.
Speaker 1: I think it might feel like more of a five
Speaker 1: guys burger than the bulk hear just saying. Brendon Lao
Speaker 1: three for five, pair of two run homers for him
Speaker 1: the downs yesterday Bedo was bad, oh, six runs for him,
Speaker 1: five hits and just an inning and two thirds. Kevin
Speaker 1: Gossman was hit hard yesterday unfortunately, six runs, ten hits
Speaker 1: for him, and Sagano again was bad four runs. That
Speaker 1: Orioles pitching staff is a complete joke, continues to be
Speaker 1: and it will always be. The injuries. Landon Knack could
Speaker 1: be a candidate for the team's fifth starter job. According
Speaker 1: to manager Dave Roberts, are you buying that Welsh and
Speaker 1: are you streaming him in any deeper leagues because he's
Speaker 1: a Dodger.
Speaker 2: I mean, okay, maybe maybe I would consider like a
Speaker 2: streaming option, but I'm not running to the hills for
Speaker 2: land and Knac No, thanks. I think I mean this
Speaker 2: is very very short term as well. Once they figure
Speaker 2: out the only reason that they're going to guys like
Speaker 2: Land and Knack or the continued injuries of Snell and Glass. Now,
Speaker 2: I don't even think it's out of pocket that this
Speaker 2: team might end up going and looking in the market
Speaker 2: to see if they can have some more depth, because
Speaker 2: it's like every I mean, you go to Fangrafts and
Speaker 2: Roster Resource and you look across it's incredible. It's just
Speaker 2: they're all hurt and they've lost that depth. But to
Speaker 2: the point, I guess it gives some opportunities for a
Speaker 2: KNAC but I would look at streaming pinning the matchup,
Speaker 2: but not a must pick up.
Speaker 1: I don't know who had the original idea in the chat,
Speaker 1: but the Welshism blanket, I'm here for that. A blanket
Speaker 1: full of welshisms, like you know, just like print all, yeah,
Speaker 1: like a quilt. Yeah.
Speaker 2: I think we start with like a shirt and I
Speaker 2: think it almost something like this and be like welshisms
Speaker 2: and maybe like almost like an asterisk like a thunderbolts,
Speaker 2: and then maybe try to explain it but the explanation
Speaker 2: doesn't really make sense, and that would be like the
Speaker 2: perfect perfect.
Speaker 1: You Darvish try to work his way back from the
Speaker 1: elbow issue for for him in El Paso yesterday, so
Speaker 1: we'll see how that. Actually Wednesday, both Buxton and Korea
Speaker 1: they collided yesterday. Both were on concussion protocol, so we
Speaker 1: have daily lineups. Just keep an eye on that. That
Speaker 1: could be something that lingers over the days ahead. Spencer
Speaker 1: Horriwitz three for five and a double in his rehab start,
Speaker 1: so hopefully he's going to come back soon and deal
Speaker 1: Hall two and two third shoutout innings for TRIPAA Nashville.
Speaker 1: So the Brewers have a lot of pitching in the
Speaker 1: minor leagues and pitching coming through. They need some hitting.
Speaker 1: They need to figure things out sooner than later. Which
Speaker 1: brings us to Welsh. It's time for the best bets
Speaker 1: of the end of the week with Joey p and
Speaker 1: the Welsh. It's Friday, It's fun. It's Texas on the
Speaker 1: run line minus one and a half at plus one sixteen.
Speaker 1: I said earlier the Hunter Brown's most underrated pitcher, number
Speaker 1: two right behind him probably Nadiavaldi. He has been absolutely
Speaker 1: spectacular and he gets a matchup today against the Houston
Speaker 1: Natroals offense that has been struggle busts. So give me
Speaker 1: the Texas Rangers to win out here and cover this
Speaker 1: run line of minus one and a half are getting
Speaker 1: plus one sixteen on it. Of all these its been
Speaker 1: so sharp all year, and without alvarezing that lineup, it
Speaker 1: just does not go. There's too many pieces missing and
Speaker 1: the Astros offense is not good right now? Also good
Speaker 1: right now? Chris Sale seven and a half strikeouts, let's
Speaker 1: go over on this. I know the juice is tight here,
Speaker 1: it's minus one thirty eight, but it's against Boston. They
Speaker 1: strike out a ton. They are a little struggle right now.
Speaker 1: Christian Campbell's had a rough week. You've got Trevor Story
Speaker 1: who hasn't been hitting. So I'm gonna take my shot
Speaker 1: with Chris Sale against his old club, sticking it to
Speaker 1: him a little bit. And Cole Reagan's I can't believe
Speaker 1: this number. I look, I know it's minus one forty four,
Speaker 1: but over six and a half strikeouts, you could take
Speaker 1: that parrot with the money line Royals and you can
Speaker 1: probably get that into plus money in a nice little situation.
Speaker 1: A little two to bet parlay there, Welsh, where are
Speaker 1: you going for your best bets for Friday?
Speaker 2: All right, we are gonna tag the rookie Cad Horton,
Speaker 2: who he did only go four in his last but
Speaker 2: it was seventy seven pitches. I'd assume they're gonna push
Speaker 2: him into the mid eighties. He's going up against the
Speaker 2: Chicago White Sox who like to strike out, So four
Speaker 2: and a half minus one to twenty, we are gonna
Speaker 2: take that. Corbyn Burns was much better in the last start.
Speaker 2: The cutter Vela was back up. That's a big thing.
Speaker 2: I think that rest might have turned the table a
Speaker 2: little bit. And he's going up against the Colorado Rockies,
Speaker 2: so you know, Burns could have one of those weird starts,
Speaker 2: but Colorado Rockies strikeout at an incredible clip. Burns looked
Speaker 2: good in the last one. Minus won twenty over six
Speaker 2: and a half strikeouts for him, And we are gonna
Speaker 2: go swimming with some nurfe's Atlanta Boston no run first
Speaker 2: inning because it is Garrett Crochet and Chris Sale, it
Speaker 2: is the matchup. It is juice to minus one forty five.
Speaker 2: But if we can't have this, what nerfy can we
Speaker 2: possibly have friends? So minus one forty five Atlanta Boston
Speaker 2: no runs through the first inning with a couple k Props.
Speaker 2: Those are my bets.
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Speaker 1: Let's take a look at the home run board right
Speaker 1: now as well. See what that is that we look upon? Oh,
Speaker 1: there it is there, it is Wankeye Peng went up
Speaker 1: to seventeen. Does she have Otani yesterday? I wonder she
Speaker 1: must have?
Speaker 2: She knows she was at sixteen, so no, oh, she
Speaker 2: wasn't sixteen.
Speaker 1: She was at fifteen last time I was here, So
Speaker 1: I don't know she's on.
Speaker 2: Kelly had a winner. Can you believe that the top three? Well,
Speaker 2: you know what one of those must have had Atani
Speaker 2: because I don't think we had three nineteen.
Speaker 1: I don't think so three, But I wasn't here yesterday.
Speaker 1: Marty's at nineteen, George's at nineteen, far Outs at nineteen,
Speaker 1: and Wonky Peng went at seventeen, keeping it, keeping it real,
Speaker 1: holding it down here for us FP folks. While she's
Speaker 1: still respectable of fifteen, I'm not at double digits yet.
Speaker 1: I think after this weekend I will be again The
Speaker 1: Sammy Sosa jersey that is up for grabs right now
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Speaker 1: chat our discord. That's where you can make home run calls. Welsh,
Speaker 1: I know he's been cold a little bit lately, but
Speaker 1: I'm going to go with Pete Alonso for today's home run.
Speaker 1: That's right, Pete Alonso for the weekend in itty bitty,
Speaker 1: little teeny tiny Yankee Stadium picking up his guy Juan Soto.
Speaker 1: I think Pete shows up in these kind of big spots,
Speaker 1: So I'm gonna go with the Polar Bear. Where are
Speaker 1: you going for your home run call today or is
Speaker 1: it for the whole weekend?
Speaker 3: Well?
Speaker 2: Right, now if I unless I do otherwise, it is
Speaker 2: an im perpetuity. We're gonna go with Corbyn Carroll, Corbyn
Speaker 2: Carroll near the lead in Homers. I don't know who
Speaker 2: they're running out today. It doesn't really matter crushes baseball
Speaker 2: as they're at home. If they're home or away, it
Speaker 2: would both play. Kund Tell Marte would be an interesting
Speaker 2: play here too, because he's a little less susceptible to
Speaker 2: Righting's lefty since he's a switch hitter. But we're gonna
Speaker 2: go with mister Corbyn Carroll for my home run call
Speaker 2: through the weekend.
Speaker 1: Now, wasn't a lot of baseball yesterday, so let's get
Speaker 1: to some questions today because it's kind of a light show.
Speaker 1: Who dat drop Schneeman for Royce Lewis in a category league?
Speaker 1: I say yes, let's say yeah.
Speaker 2: I mean Shneman's been going into some like decent spots
Speaker 2: in the lineup, but I'm still like a no thanks,
Speaker 2: I'd rather play the upside of Royce.
Speaker 1: Choose your Josh Josh Low or Josh Young twelve team Cats.
Speaker 2: I'm gonna go with Low because of the stolen bases
Speaker 2: and like Josh Young's favorite thing is to get hurt.
Speaker 2: But Josh Young's played really well.
Speaker 1: His favorite things to get hurt, the favorite, second favorite
Speaker 1: past Josh Low or Jonathan India Low. Okay, there you go.
Speaker 2: More Josh questions.
Speaker 1: Josh Lou, I'm looking a see if you get keeping
Speaker 1: Max Munsey. We're keeping Munsey.
Speaker 2: I mean probably, I don't know what else is out there.
Speaker 1: That depends on what's out there.
Speaker 2: Semen Schneeman or Max Munsey. I'll probably still take Memen.
Speaker 1: Let's go to this question from CC what do you
Speaker 1: do with Westburg? Hold or move on? You know, I
Speaker 1: was a fate of Westburg going into the year, but again,
Speaker 1: obviously the injuries put a wrench. I was not.
Speaker 2: Yeah, he had like a little bit of a setback.
Speaker 2: I'm holding by it. I don't know, like I've had
Speaker 2: a lot of people hit me up about like, oh,
Speaker 2: this is what my il looks like. And I feel
Speaker 2: like every time someone is asking like should I cut
Speaker 2: this guy? Because I look at my eel and there'll
Speaker 2: be like one guy that you clearly they'll be like,
Speaker 2: well I got you know, Kershaw and Snell and glass
Speaker 2: Now and Spencer Arraghetty. I can't cut anyone. It's like
Speaker 2: you can cut Arraghetty. You can clearly cut him. So
Speaker 2: I just don't think Westburg should be the first guy
Speaker 2: I'm trying to cut off eye L if you're in
Speaker 2: some like NFBC type of league where you have, you know,
Speaker 2: no il spots or something. I guess I get why
Speaker 2: you would cut him, but I just I want to
Speaker 2: wait on Westburg.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I can understand that. I think you just hold
Speaker 1: right now because you have a lot of draft capital
Speaker 1: on him if you did take him, like tak.
Speaker 2: Right there, Booswell, Westburg, seeger Manaia, and Jerry Jones are
Speaker 2: on the i L only three spots. Cut Manaya or
Speaker 2: cut Jerry Jones.
Speaker 1: We don't before at Manaya.
Speaker 2: Yeah, Jerry Jones a better picture than Manaya. But I
Speaker 2: know you're the Mets guy.
Speaker 1: How how I mean in what term? Oh, defend your
Speaker 1: defend statements? Sir? Uh.
Speaker 2: Well, we'll first start with we'll start with the algorithm
Speaker 2: of modeling, pitch modeling that spends that Jerry Jones had.
Speaker 2: I believe he was the only pitcher with a one
Speaker 2: thirty stuff plus on his fastball and his sliders. So
Speaker 2: he is a primary two pitch pitcher and both of
Speaker 2: those are at Advanced plus pitch modeling grades and obviously
Speaker 2: fell apart a little bit at the end. I think
Speaker 2: Manaia has more floor, but from a fantasy perspective, Jerry
Speaker 2: Jones is a much higher upside, and I would say
Speaker 2: on the pitch modeling side, those two pitches are like
Speaker 2: absolutely elite pitches.
Speaker 1: Tough. I understand, you know, in terms of quote unquote stuff,
Speaker 1: Jones is better, but it's not because I'm a Mets fans.
Speaker 1: In spite of that, Manaia last year he turned it around,
Speaker 1: gave you the wire to wire, and Jared Jones has
Speaker 1: never given you a full season of great. We don't
Speaker 1: giving you that season. So yeah, he gave you ten
Speaker 1: good starts last year. Basically, I mean it's basically give
Speaker 1: or take what he gave you. So I have a
Speaker 1: hard time with that where we anoint these guys who have,
Speaker 1: you know, little sporadic moments of showing it to you,
Speaker 1: whereas when a guy chose it over a full season,
Speaker 1: I think you got to go there, especially when the
Speaker 1: offense is much better, the bullpen is better, like all.
Speaker 1: The situation is so much better for Manaia too. I
Speaker 1: think from a fantasy asset point. I'd rather have Manaya,
Speaker 1: but I agree in a vacuum, Jones is the more
Speaker 1: exciting pitcher. But I want stats, I want proactivity.
Speaker 2: I will I will say this that works in your
Speaker 2: favor as well. For this is like the Mets are
Speaker 2: a better team. The context is better than what they've
Speaker 2: done from the major league developmental standpoint of their pitching,
Speaker 2: and having this ragtag group be able to continue to
Speaker 2: have like low eras like, there's a lot working in
Speaker 2: Manaya's favor. It's just Jared Jones also has this like
Speaker 2: top twenty sp upside, but again, you can't live in
Speaker 2: an upside world all the time. Both of these guys
Speaker 2: are hurt. They both have not pitched this year. I
Speaker 2: don't know what the hell's going on with either one
Speaker 2: of them, but more so that's why I would be
Speaker 2: more willing to cut one of those guys before I
Speaker 2: would cut Westburg.
Speaker 1: Okay, here's one, McLain or Louis Robert from Chief Knockaholma.
Speaker 2: I'll go with Roberts.
Speaker 1: I will also go with Robert, but I'm buying McLain
Speaker 1: right now. Let's go to nixt question here. Boz Tye
Speaker 1: On or Hodge drop one. We get to drop tye.
Speaker 2: On for me? Yeah, I would drop tye On.
Speaker 1: That kind of makes a lot of sense. Here's the
Speaker 1: one from a laser sharp. Someone drop Brian Reynolds. Do
Speaker 1: I drop Roberts for Louise Robert? I believe is what
Speaker 1: he means. For Brian Reynolds, I say.
Speaker 2: Nah, that's tough. Probably not. I'm still like, I'm still
Speaker 2: kind of banking on Robert getting traded. Reynolds is underperforming,
Speaker 2: Like we know he's gonna be cool and solid when
Speaker 2: he gets back, but it's not going to be like
Speaker 2: you know, otherworldly that where that could happen with Louis Roberts.
Speaker 2: I'll stick with.
Speaker 1: Robert Angel, Theory Henderson or byby rest of season. Now,
Speaker 1: this is tricky because Logan Henderson isn't guaranteed to stay
Speaker 1: in this rotation. Now, Bibby is not a guy that
Speaker 1: I want, but because his stats are all going the
Speaker 1: wrong Caper and I's going the wrong direction, the expected,
Speaker 1: the ray all that stuff. So this is tough. I mean,
Speaker 1: Bibby has a rotation spot. Welsh, this is where do
Speaker 1: you stay on this one?
Speaker 2: I'd go with Biby on this one. I get it.
Speaker 2: He did just rattle off seven innings against the Phillies.
Speaker 2: His strikeouts are pretty bad. He doesn't have a game
Speaker 2: over five strikeouts this whole year, and over one, two, three, four, five,
Speaker 2: six seven over eight starts he has. He already has
Speaker 2: three games of three or less strikeouts. I mean that
Speaker 2: is moving in the wrong direction for sure, but there's
Speaker 2: still a great team context. He does have a three
Speaker 2: three eight e Ray logan. Henderson's not guaranteed anything, so
Speaker 2: it's byby Henderson's.
Speaker 1: Pitch better in the two starts he's had, though, He's
Speaker 1: given you more than Biby has in any of one
Speaker 1: of his starts, like no doubt, and they should leave
Speaker 1: him in there, Squeeze McQueen. I sung Kim or Bryson Stott.
Speaker 1: I mean, I haven't seen a lot of Kim yet,
Speaker 1: Like again, small sample size, so I'm going to lean
Speaker 1: towards Stott. But Kim is more exciting to me potentially.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I guess, uh, Bryson Stott's kind of boring for
Speaker 2: some people. But I'll go with Bryson here. You know,
Speaker 2: he's stealing bases at his normal clip, hitting a few homers,
Speaker 2: hitting four ish average two fifty eight to forty eight expected.
Speaker 2: I think Kim is it's gonna be tough for him
Speaker 2: to like maintain a full time role the entire season,
Speaker 2: or if not, he might be hitting lower in the
Speaker 2: lineup like Andy pet paj has has to start moving up.
Speaker 2: He's gonna always hit at bottom of the lineup. I
Speaker 2: guess Stott relatively does too. I'll go with Stott though,
Speaker 2: with the kind of elite stolen bases.
Speaker 1: Last one here. Keep Christian Walker and there's a lot
Speaker 1: of Walker stuff. Walker or Kurtz who would rather have
Speaker 1: rest of season Walker or Kurt.
Speaker 2: Ah Man. There's only so much longer. I guess we
Speaker 2: can keep saying Walker, I'm gonna say it. I'm gonna
Speaker 2: do it because we don't have much longer for it.
Speaker 2: He does need to turn it around this whole like,
Speaker 2: because here'd be one thing I would say, you know,
Speaker 2: we I've been for like a month. I mean, like
Speaker 2: Christian Walker, Christian Walker, if you're god awful for two
Speaker 2: months and then you finally turn it around, be able
Speaker 2: to come on here and be like Nigah, it's until
Speaker 2: you you know, it's like, no, you just ain't two
Speaker 2: months of Christian Walker. That's brutal to your fantasy team.
Speaker 2: So you know, if there are viable options, I get
Speaker 2: why you can move off of that guy, especially with
Speaker 2: first base, when there have been incredible options. Hopefully you
Speaker 2: haven't passed all of them up. But we're getting towards
Speaker 2: that line of like, it's only so much longer that
Speaker 2: we can even wait on Christian Walker that has just
Speaker 2: dump him and wait them to get for him to
Speaker 2: get ready. But I do think when we look back
Speaker 2: on the season, we're gonna have a close to normal
Speaker 2: ish Christian Walker year. But he had, like I said,
Speaker 2: has to turn it around quick.
Speaker 1: That's going to be We're getting really close to it.
Speaker 1: No looking like that, we're like two weeks away. If
Speaker 1: it's doesn not by Memorial Day, you start making some
Speaker 1: hard decisions there. And if he turns it around, great,
Speaker 1: but you can't you can't sit on it too much longer.
Speaker 1: I think you have till Memorial Day and then you
Speaker 1: gotta like that's two thirds of a season or I
Speaker 1: think she'd be a third of a season more. Actually
Speaker 1: we're almost past that, so you gotta you gotta make
Speaker 1: those hard decisions here, especially in those season long rotal leagues.
Speaker 1: You need more productivity out of first place.
Speaker 2: I believe how far are we are end of the
Speaker 2: season already. It's like, yeah, I almost closing on June.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's crazy gone.
Speaker 2: Joe's gonna be gone on like three weeks.
Speaker 1: Going anywhere I was going yesterday again, shout out to
Speaker 1: Joe Rico. I appreciate him filling in for me on
Speaker 1: the live stream on Wednesday afternoon and yesterday on the show.
Speaker 1: And I want to encourage all of you out there,
Speaker 1: if you're in your forties, go do the right thing. Okay,
Speaker 1: go get your check up. Go. I know it's not
Speaker 1: gonna be fun. Well, this was the this is the
Speaker 1: old colonoscopy. Here you go that nobody looks forward to.
Speaker 1: Nobody wants to do this. You have to drink the
Speaker 1: stuff that makes all the other stuff go out of
Speaker 1: you so they can stick other stuff inside you to
Speaker 1: look inside. But all jokes aside. My friend and neighbor,
Speaker 1: great guy, passed away a couple of years ago, forty
Speaker 1: four years old, from colon cancer. And he ignored a
Speaker 1: lot of signs and he didn't unfortunately, you know, catch
Speaker 1: things in time, and he passed away a couple of
Speaker 1: years ago, we'll have two daughters behind terrible situation. Don't wait. Luckily,
Speaker 1: everything for me was good a okay, you know, very
Speaker 1: grateful for that. But a lot a lot of us
Speaker 1: sit there and I'm that first one to say, don't
Speaker 1: do these things. Oh I don't want to do that.
Speaker 1: It's uncomfortable, it's no fun us. Do it. If you're
Speaker 1: in your forties and you're supposed to do it, do
Speaker 1: it because your family needs you, everybody needs you. So
Speaker 1: public service announcement from the guy always doesn't want to
Speaker 1: do that stuff, me telling you go do it, and
Speaker 1: if I help somebody, that makes me happy. And that's
Speaker 1: all I wanted to say, and shout out to our
Speaker 1: team here holding it down for everybody. But look, sometimes
Speaker 1: you got to do these things that you don't want
Speaker 1: to do. It's twelve hours of inconvenience and it might
Speaker 1: save your life, So go do it, Welsh, anything you
Speaker 1: want to add there. You're getting close, buddy.
Speaker 2: I know, like a year or two you're like, this
Speaker 2: is really great advice for everybody. But me, I'm like,
Speaker 2: this is really good advice. I have a couple of
Speaker 2: years on it. But they did didn't they move the
Speaker 2: bar a little bit. It wasn't it used to be
Speaker 2: forty and now it's like forty five.
Speaker 1: It is forty five. And I didn't do it last
Speaker 1: year because why, you know, my dad passed away. Things
Speaker 1: were crazy. It was a whole you know, it was.
Speaker 1: It was a crazy year for me. Do it?
Speaker 2: Do it? I got a couple years smart, but I'll
Speaker 2: do it. There you go, keep me on check back
Speaker 2: in in three years.
Speaker 1: You have something to look forward to now, just like
Speaker 1: I have that Subway series to look forward to. But look,
Speaker 1: they knock you out. The first time my whole life
Speaker 1: I have ever been under it was glorious. It was glorious.
Speaker 1: Uh great, sleep, great nap. There you go. Do it
Speaker 1: all right?
Speaker 2: Do you have real quick on anesthesia? I've only had
Speaker 2: it like like twice. Are you one of those people
Speaker 2: where you're super weird? Are you super nice or you're not?
Speaker 2: Like when you kind of come out when I come.
Speaker 1: Out, I am the same. I am whenever I smoked
Speaker 1: weed or or smoke weed or any sort of THHD
Speaker 1: drink or whatever. I am silly and fun I am.
Speaker 1: I am. I am the life of the party. I
Speaker 1: was I was walking out like there's doing.
Speaker 2: All the dancing and stuff.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I'm not. I'm the best. I'm so some people
Speaker 1: are quiet and moody, not me. I am. I worry.
Speaker 2: So I worry that when I come out of it,
Speaker 2: that I'm gonna like say something, you know what I mean,
Speaker 2: Like I'm gonna be like I'm to like go beyond.
Speaker 2: But I am actually every time I'm like this super caring.
Speaker 2: I'm like, are you okay? Was this okay? Like I'm
Speaker 2: very gentle, I'm super super gentle when it comes out,
Speaker 2: making sure everyone else is okay. So I actually like
Speaker 2: the version of me that's out of there. But also no,
Speaker 2: thank you.
Speaker 1: There you go. There. The not eating is the hardest
Speaker 1: part for me. I'm Italian. I like to eat. So
Speaker 1: the not eating for the day or whatever a twelve
Speaker 1: hour twenty four hour period rough rough for me.
Speaker 2: See the probe up me is more of mine.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, that was nothing. That was nothing. I couldn't
Speaker 1: even know. It was nothing.
Speaker 2: Glad that was nothing for you, It was nothing.
Speaker 1: Feel good I worked out today. There you go. So
Speaker 1: enjoy Baseball Rivalry weekend. Again. We joke around. I know
Speaker 1: it's not the greatest topic, but again do the important things.
Speaker 1: You get, save a life and make a huge difference.
Speaker 1: So go do it. That'll do it for us, but
Speaker 1: the story of the game goes on for the Welsh.
Speaker 1: I'm Joey P. We'll see you next time. Kids. Thanks
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