Speaker 1: Goel Cracker. We will see.
Speaker 2: To the gunner.
Speaker 3: Welcome on out a lot of you people, Oh Jordan Walker,
Speaker 3: a humongous, massive, gargante ginormous apology, including you, Peter Apple,
Speaker 3: How many times you stupid?
Speaker 2: How many times do that stupid algorithm? And it's three
Speaker 2: hundred million simulations? Spit out, George Walker.
Speaker 4: Last I checked, you said there were four real contenders,
Speaker 4: that Jordan Walker's name was not one of them, so
Speaker 4: you could blame me.
Speaker 5: But I didn't make a model. You made a model.
Speaker 4: Can we talk about the bottle for a second, actually,
Speaker 4: can we trail the show. We're gonna talk about the
Speaker 4: bottle list.
Speaker 5: We'll get into that. We'll get into that. Yeah, it's
Speaker 5: just baseball.
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Speaker 4: So I think now it's time to talk about the model,
Speaker 4: because I'll.
Speaker 2: Sit now relations give us Jordan Walker man like six
Speaker 2: percent of them. And I also think that first of all,
Speaker 2: can we be clear my pick was Kyle Schwarmer. Oh yeah,
Speaker 2: my My true line for Kyle Schwarmer based on the
Speaker 2: model was plus.
Speaker 5: Two eighty nine. I bet it. Let me text you
Speaker 5: made fun of me?
Speaker 2: No, No, I'm now I'm gonna save it real quick.
Speaker 2: I'm gonna I'm gonna amend to the bridge and then
Speaker 2: I'm gonna let you continue to go. I will say,
Speaker 2: I clicked on the model. You texted me the model.
Speaker 2: I looked at the model. It's a really good model.
Speaker 2: I was really impressed, so thank you.
Speaker 5: You can't it going.
Speaker 2: I was super impressed.
Speaker 4: I gotta be honest too, it was so fun to
Speaker 4: make like people are making fun of me. It's like
Speaker 4: you spent all that time just to lose your bets.
Speaker 4: I was like, I'll be completely honest with you. Making
Speaker 4: that model was almost as fun as watching the whole
Speaker 4: run derby. For me, that's I'm a nerd. I like
Speaker 4: the numbers. I like modeling things out. So I bet
Speaker 4: Kyle Schwarmer at plus three forty he closed on bat MGM,
Speaker 4: which means the closing price. It was basically the betable
Speaker 4: price five minutes before the derby started at plus two
Speaker 4: eighty My line was plus two eighty nine, so I
Speaker 4: saw an edge there. I bet him to make the
Speaker 4: semi finals. I bet him to make the finals. Both
Speaker 4: of those hit and then it took one of the
Speaker 4: most unbelievable finishes that I have seen in a home
Speaker 4: run derby.
Speaker 5: Ever.
Speaker 4: We're talking a twenty four year old Jordan Walker on
Speaker 4: the road, and I know, on the road in a
Speaker 4: home run derby. That's probably the dumbest sentence anybody could say.
Speaker 4: But if you were in the building, which I was,
Speaker 4: there was true home field advantage.
Speaker 5: I even tweeted it out.
Speaker 4: I said, this felt like Game seven for Phillies fans,
Speaker 4: the booze that were raining down on Wilson Contreras, on
Speaker 4: Jordan Walker, on the entire field. If your name wasn't
Speaker 4: Bryce Harper or Ale Schwarber, you were getting booed like
Speaker 4: you were Spencer Strider pitching in Game four of the
Speaker 4: NLDS against the Phillies at the Bank. They hated you, right.
Speaker 4: Jordan Walker has never been at a Major League home
Speaker 4: run derby. He is down three swings with the magenta
Speaker 4: ball that nobody has hit all night. He went bang, bang, bang,
Speaker 4: and then he hit it out. And I'm sitting next
Speaker 4: to a couple of people and they knew that I
Speaker 4: had bet Kyle Schwarber, and I'm jumping up and down
Speaker 4: when Jeorde Walker hit that home run because the excitement
Speaker 4: is just bursting out of me, and they're like, why
Speaker 4: are you excited? Did you bet Schwarbur? And I was like,
Speaker 4: oh shit, yeah I did. But I was just so
Speaker 4: into the derby that I completely forgot about it because
Speaker 4: that was pure cinema, that was theater, and I know
Speaker 4: we're gonna go through round one and you know, the
Speaker 4: semi finals, in the finals.
Speaker 5: But what a derby, What a derby.
Speaker 2: It was a ton of fun. And Buster Only put
Speaker 2: this out. I mean we were talking about, you know
Speaker 2: how like the sh a sheer number of total homers
Speaker 2: could be going down. Yeah, big time clouds on the
Speaker 2: hot see. So Buster Only he tweeted the exact numbers,
Speaker 2: and I'll see if I can pull this up right now.
Speaker 2: But we're talking about about one hundred few or less
Speaker 2: total home runs this year as opposed to the Derby
Speaker 2: with the timer, And honestly, I thought that was fine,
Speaker 2: So we might as well like open the discussion to
Speaker 2: the format as well, where it was a swing based format. Yeah,
Speaker 2: Buster put this out. Over the last five years, the
Speaker 2: home run Derby average with the clock was two hundred
Speaker 2: and seventy five home runs per event. Last night, over
Speaker 2: the same amount of time, one hundred and thirty one
Speaker 2: home runs. So two seventy five was the average compared
Speaker 2: to one thirty one. We are cutting the sheer number
Speaker 2: of home runs in more than half. But I found
Speaker 2: it as enjoyable, to be totally honest with you, because
Speaker 2: we got to watch ballflight. I didn't like the idea
Speaker 2: of only the magentle ball giving you the extra swings,
Speaker 2: And I tweeted out last night like my preferred power
Speaker 2: ranking of method for the home run Derby, I think
Speaker 2: ten outs still reigned supreme, like the ten outs that
Speaker 2: we grew up with, where you know, ten non homers
Speaker 2: and you're done, and then I probably go to the
Speaker 2: twenty slash fifteen swings and then I probably go to
Speaker 2: the timer. The timer was just too much for me,
Speaker 2: and it was so endurance based, like it's nice to
Speaker 2: see a thirty two, thirty three year old cop to
Speaker 2: over witness thing or uh be the runner up, to
Speaker 2: be honest with you, but I just thought like it
Speaker 2: was executed very well and the walker drama there finally
Speaker 2: hitting the magenta ball. To your point, I understand that
Speaker 2: the structure was not perfect, but I thought the structure
Speaker 2: was better than the timer of years past.
Speaker 4: Yeah, and I'm curious of your perspective to watching it
Speaker 4: on TV. I was, you know, at the ballpark at
Speaker 4: Citizens Bank Park watching it, and I have been in
Speaker 4: the ballpark for the last four home run Derbies, this
Speaker 4: is my fifth in a row, and the timer it
Speaker 4: was exciting because you were seeing home runs hit every
Speaker 4: five seconds, and it just felt like a merry go
Speaker 4: round of dingers. But this you could actually enjoy each
Speaker 4: individual home run, Watch the ballflight, watch them travel into
Speaker 4: the third deck, then look over at the screen and
Speaker 4: see the eggs of velocity at one hundred and sixteen
Speaker 4: miles an hour, or the distance by Junior Cameronaro at
Speaker 4: four ninety two, or the distance from Jack Caglione at
Speaker 4: four ninety or Wilson Contreras starting it off with a
Speaker 4: four hundred and ninety foot home run. Like that was
Speaker 4: a more enjoyable experience at the ballpark for someone who
Speaker 4: likes home runs. Now, if your only goal is just
Speaker 4: for this to go as quickly as possible, you're probably
Speaker 4: not going to enjoy this iteration of the derby. But
Speaker 4: I am not one of those who wan to just
Speaker 4: go as quick as possible and push in as many
Speaker 4: home runs as possible. I want to enjoy the homers,
Speaker 4: and that's what this new format gave us.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and honestly, I think the outs gave us that
Speaker 2: as well.
Speaker 5: Yeah, in five.
Speaker 2: Years or I guess pre you know, pre timing method
Speaker 2: for five years, so I guess pre covid go back
Speaker 2: to the pre Covid derby, but yeah, like I think
Speaker 2: the pre Covid Derby was my favorite derby, but this
Speaker 2: got trace amounts of that, and it seemed like the
Speaker 2: swing number being capped was probably the way that they
Speaker 2: snuck this thing in under three hours. Like I was
Speaker 2: in bed by eleven after watching this, and that was
Speaker 2: probably really important to the broadcasters, to the like I
Speaker 2: guess ballpark operations folks, like there are a lot of
Speaker 2: people in Major League Baseball and of course the the
Speaker 2: outlets broadcasting this home run derby that like rely on
Speaker 2: this thing being around three hours instead of three hours
Speaker 2: and forty five minutes or four hours, Like that's a
Speaker 2: long Yeah.
Speaker 5: They could have gone six hours.
Speaker 2: Yeah, like it could be a long time. And like
Speaker 2: the Derby of yesteryear, like that went a long freaking time.
Speaker 2: So obviously timing matters, and there's this finite amount of
Speaker 2: swings which certainly helps. And I did like the idea
Speaker 2: of trying to play the math game in real time, like, Okay,
Speaker 2: Walker's got to hit four homers and he's got six
Speaker 2: swings to do it. Like that was kind of a
Speaker 2: fun game to play. So no, man, it was exciting.
Speaker 2: I enjoyed this structure more than the timer, and that's
Speaker 2: that's where I sit on that, and from watching on television,
Speaker 2: I'm with you. I just wanted to watch the ballfly,
Speaker 2: and I got to watch the ball fly. It was great.
Speaker 2: So yeah, I mean you got to watch it in ballpark.
Speaker 2: I got to watch it on TV and it was
Speaker 2: just fun to see those things sail and like you
Speaker 2: can actually appreciate a junior four hundred and eighty seven
Speaker 2: foot home run. So we'll go round by round real quick,
Speaker 2: and then we'll give you our All Star Game preview
Speaker 2: and you'll hear from Ryan Howard as well. Great appearance
Speaker 2: with Liz. Let's start with round one here, because it
Speaker 2: was interesting round one and there were some disappointments for sure,
Speaker 2: but Wilson Contrera set the tone as the first to go,
Speaker 2: man and shout out Peyton for grabbing these highlights. And
Speaker 2: I know he was up there phone out pretty much
Speaker 2: at all times. And he grabbed the four hundred and
Speaker 2: ninety foot bomb. You could see the ball flight and
Speaker 2: then he immediately had eyes on the stat cast metrics
Speaker 2: as well. One fifteen on the bat and four hundred
Speaker 2: and ninety feet out to left center for Wilson to
Speaker 2: me in the first round, Wilson put up an insane
Speaker 2: round and then I thought Walker was as impressive, to
Speaker 2: be honest with you, but Wilson Gaturuz was the one
Speaker 2: that was like, holy smokes, I was unfamiliar with your game.
Speaker 4: Wilson gatures felt more impressive because it was less likely
Speaker 4: for him to put on a performance like that. Like
Speaker 4: we can't forget he was at the bottom of the
Speaker 4: betting odds. Nobody really gave him a chance. Right, Citizens
Speaker 4: Bank Park generally favors left handed power bats. You got
Speaker 4: an older guy who haven't really seen in the derby,
Speaker 4: and he's not like he's one of the league leaders
Speaker 4: in homers, but what he is one of the league
Speaker 4: leaders in is home runs over four hundred feet per
Speaker 4: ballpark pal so clearly coming in it almost looked like
Speaker 4: he was swinging with a little bit of a chip
Speaker 4: on his shoulder. He was like, nobody's picking me, nobody
Speaker 4: cares about me. And then the booze start coming down,
Speaker 4: and you know, Wilson cantraz right, how many quote unquote
Speaker 4: brawls And I'm using quotations because we don't actually ever
Speaker 4: get real brawls in Major League Baseball anymore. But he's
Speaker 4: I think he's had six skirmishes. The guy gets fired up.
Speaker 4: So we should have forecasted that Wilson catreros with the booze.
Speaker 4: It would have fed him a little bit more energy.
Speaker 2: Playing the villain.
Speaker 5: Yeah, really good at playing the villain.
Speaker 4: And it was more entertaining because it was less likely
Speaker 4: to happen than Jordan Walker. Like, going into it, we
Speaker 4: knew that Jordan Walker was an absolute behemoth, So it
Speaker 4: didn't surprise me that Jordan Walker hit thirteen homers in
Speaker 4: the first round and put on a show. But wilsonetart
Speaker 4: doing that and then hitting the ball four ninety and
Speaker 4: doing it first made it more impressive in the moment.
Speaker 4: But then you're watching Jordan Walker hit these one hundred
Speaker 4: and seventeen mile hour pismissiles that barely get off the
Speaker 4: ground but just flying into the stands.
Speaker 5: They were both incredible.
Speaker 2: There were a couple of laser being performances in that
Speaker 2: first round, and really the entire night Walker was one.
Speaker 2: Schwarber was another. I mean Schwarber was hitting some balls
Speaker 2: and I was like, that's gonna be a wallbanger, and
Speaker 2: he did hit a couple of wallbangers, but some just
Speaker 2: kept on sailing and it was insane. With Wilson, I
Speaker 2: also think it's funny. You know, a lot of people
Speaker 2: want to call him a potstir because of what he
Speaker 2: does on field, absolutely, but the thing that trump's all
Speaker 2: of it to me is transactionally. What he did, like
Speaker 2: coming up with the Cubs, having a ring with the Cubs,
Speaker 2: playing out his pre Arbn Arbiers with the Cubs, and
Speaker 2: then signing with Saint Louis have been everything you need
Speaker 2: to know about Wilson. Gaturis wanted to be a potstar
Speaker 2: and it's fun, man Like, it's fun having that drama
Speaker 2: in the game, no doubt about it. In terms of
Speaker 2: underwhelming performances, Rice jumps out. It was unfortunately kind of
Speaker 2: a dud from Ben Rice and then Kaglione. Man, he
Speaker 2: had a tape measure shot. But I was just expecting
Speaker 2: a little bit more from CAGs, murriak Kami. I guess
Speaker 2: I was expecting more from but to be honest, it
Speaker 2: was Rice and CAGs that I, you know, jumped out
Speaker 2: to me. It's like I kind of wish there was
Speaker 2: more meat on the bone here.
Speaker 5: One hundred percent.
Speaker 4: Rice was the most disappointing, and it marks two home
Speaker 4: run Derbys in a row that a player on the
Speaker 4: Yankees just curled up and did do much. You hadjeeshis
Speaker 4: them with three home runs, and then the following year
Speaker 4: you got bed Rice with five home runs, which was
Speaker 4: the lowest in the first round of any player, so
Speaker 4: not exactly ideal for the Yankees. I was actually more
Speaker 4: disappointed with Murk Commie than Jack Haglion, I think because
Speaker 4: Jack Haglion at least gave us a four hundred and
Speaker 4: ninety foot homer. Yeah, Kaglione hit some of the hardest
Speaker 4: base balls in the derby. Not all of them left
Speaker 4: the park, but laser beams. Murk Kami didn't. And again,
Speaker 4: from my vantage point, you were watching on TV. You
Speaker 4: tell me if I was wrong, it didn't look like
Speaker 4: he was swinging as heart as he should have been.
Speaker 4: Like especially watching Wilson and then watching Jordan Walker, and
Speaker 4: then watching Tags and then watching Murakami. I just felt
Speaker 4: like he wasn't as aggressive. Maybe it was due to
Speaker 4: the injury. Maybe I overlooked that when I thought potentially
Speaker 4: he'd be fresher he also like rolled over some. He
Speaker 4: also hit some like pop up foul balls like his
Speaker 4: outs were terrible, right like Tags at least was nailing
Speaker 4: balls off the wall or like two hopping the wall.
Speaker 4: At one point fifteen, it felt like mura Kami fouled
Speaker 4: one off. So yeah, even though Murakami I think totaled
Speaker 4: one more homer than CAGs, I thought CAGs performance was
Speaker 4: a little bit better from my vantage point. Maybe I
Speaker 4: was wrong about him swinging hard. That's just how it
Speaker 4: looked for me.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean, Murray COMMI is also not a guy
Speaker 2: that's gonna look like he swings as hard as the
Speaker 2: other guys. I think. I think it's an effortless swing.
Speaker 2: And you know he he likes stroking it clear clearly.
Speaker 2: But but I've seen him.
Speaker 4: Ordering games like I've seen him swing heart when he
Speaker 4: crushes homers, it looks.
Speaker 2: Like but it's a lot of like, it's a lot
Speaker 2: of wrist long drive like it looks like he's pulling
Speaker 2: out the driver and letting it eat.
Speaker 4: And and that's watching him on TV versus now I'm
Speaker 4: in the ballpark. That's why I'm curious your thoughts, Like,
Speaker 4: if you don't think he wasn't swinging hard then.
Speaker 2: It looked it looked pretty normal to me. I think
Speaker 2: it was just like kind of an underwhelming round. To
Speaker 2: be honest, like I left that, I was like, I
Speaker 2: was kind of wishing for more, and obviously I was
Speaker 2: wishing for more. Kevin Arrow put on enough of a
Speaker 2: show in the first round. Junior swinging to baseball batman,
Speaker 2: There's there's nothing like Junior swinging a bat. And Peyton
Speaker 2: has this video here at JUNI you're going for eighty seven, right,
Speaker 2: it was forty seven and it was one hundred and
Speaker 2: ten off the bat. He is so much fun man.
Speaker 2: And I was chatting with actually one of the trainers
Speaker 2: with the Dominican Republic side, Jose Alvarez, who's one of
Speaker 2: the trainers with the Marlins, and I asked him about
Speaker 2: geting to work with Junior during the World Baseball Classic.
Speaker 2: He said, Dude, no one has as effortless batspeed as
Speaker 2: him on every single swing in Major League Baseball. It
Speaker 2: is a joy to watch this guy swing a baseball bat.
Speaker 2: And the fact that it always looks like this man
Speaker 2: like that's his batting practice. To be honest with you,
Speaker 2: it's not like that was up to notch. He does that.
Speaker 2: If you ever have the opportunity to see the Rays
Speaker 2: on the road or at the Trump get there early,
Speaker 2: watch this guy take batting practice, because it is an
Speaker 2: unforgettable experience. People that were there two hours before the
Speaker 2: World Baseball Classic for a dr game, they know what
Speaker 2: I'm talking about. People that have seen him swing in
Speaker 2: batting practice, they know what I'm talking about. That was
Speaker 2: par for the course from Junior, and he's gonna put
Speaker 2: it together at some point. I think he wins it
Speaker 2: next year or the year after or the year after.
Speaker 2: He should have an open invitation to participate whenever he wants,
Speaker 2: because he's going to put up one of those like
Speaker 2: Josh Hamilton a Jason performances some points him.
Speaker 4: I agree, he's awesome. Kind of reminds me of Mena
Speaker 4: Ramirez of this swing, effortless bat speed and he's just
Speaker 4: getting that launch like it's just a perfectly tailored swing
Speaker 4: to hit dingers. And his ability to backsman baseballs is
Speaker 4: a sentence I've said on the show fifty thousand times
Speaker 4: and I'll continue to say it because it's different and
Speaker 4: I want to bring up things that are different, and
Speaker 4: Junior Camvanaro was different.
Speaker 2: Yeah, Harper was a little too little, too late.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I can appreciate he got close.
Speaker 2: He did get close. He said he's retiring from the derby.
Speaker 2: I don't blame him.
Speaker 5: Yeah a lot.
Speaker 4: Remember he won the derby back of twenty eighteen, Like
Speaker 4: we're almost a decade removed from him winning a derby.
Speaker 2: Yeah, so that's why I appreciate the effort and appreciate
Speaker 2: him trying to show out for the fine folks of Philly.
Speaker 5: Shout out.
Speaker 4: The model told me to bet him to get bouts
Speaker 4: to the first But there you go. I have now
Speaker 4: officially gone over all of my winners. I lost on Caags,
Speaker 4: I lost on Murakami, ended up in the red, but
Speaker 4: if Schwarber did win, I would have been in the green.
Speaker 2: I had fun love Model semi final. The Wilson Contreras
Speaker 2: battle with Schwarber was really fun, really fun.
Speaker 5: Yeah, Wilson.
Speaker 4: Wilson again, the booze, the booze coming down. It was
Speaker 4: like he was just playing into that kind of villain
Speaker 4: attitude and it was just so much fun. But it's
Speaker 4: so funny the second round. I don't know what were
Speaker 4: your major takeaways about the second round.
Speaker 2: No, I mean Wilson Schwarber. The back and forth was interesting,
Speaker 2: and then caman Aro had an underwhelming semifinal round. He
Speaker 2: was really frustrated. You could kind of see him, like,
Speaker 2: you know, wincing on the side of his mouth, like
Speaker 2: not in pain, just like damn, I should have done better.
Speaker 2: And Walker made him pay, and uh, you know, Schwarber
Speaker 2: turned it on too, So credit to Kyle.
Speaker 4: Because that, Yeah, that was kind of my takeaway about
Speaker 4: the second round, Like I felt like that was if
Speaker 4: there was a quote unquote worst part of the Home
Speaker 4: Run Derby, it was the second round because Contres really
Speaker 4: didn't put up much of a fight cut booed, and
Speaker 4: then Jordan Walker just kind of moved on. Yeah, or
Speaker 4: who did no, Sorry, Joe Walker beat Cam Arrow Junior.
Speaker 4: Cameron Aro didn't put on much of a show.
Speaker 2: Yeah, John Walker was like all right, no problem, and
Speaker 2: then Schwarber put on a show and Wilson made it
Speaker 2: tight at the very end and he.
Speaker 5: Exactly that was the fun part. But then we get
Speaker 5: to the final.
Speaker 2: Then you get to the final, and Kyle Schwarber's performance
Speaker 2: in the final is Marcus Page in the twenty sixteen
Speaker 2: National Championship adjacent. I think it was twenty sixteen, might
Speaker 2: have been a little bit later. Marcus Page in North
Speaker 2: Carolina hit this weird shot, put off his shoulder three
Speaker 2: pointer from the wing. That's the best shot in college
Speaker 2: basketball history that nobody remembers because what happened five seconds later,
Speaker 2: Chris Jenkins hits a buzzer beater to win the national
Speaker 2: championship for Villanova. So Kyle Schwarber just put up his
Speaker 2: Marcus Page performance and Jordan Walker happen to be Chris Jenkins.
Speaker 4: Watching the crowd get into Schwarber's final round was such
Speaker 4: a cool experience because I mean, they're just cheering him on, right,
Speaker 4: But in between homers, music starts playing in the stadium
Speaker 4: and he's going like this to the crowd, putting his
Speaker 4: arm up and people start going wild, and he's just
Speaker 4: hitting these majestic homers that are sailing into the night.
Speaker 4: Form my vantage point and it was just a beautiful round.
Speaker 4: And I texted our discord and I say, if Jordan
Speaker 4: Walker wins, you just got to tip the cap because
Speaker 4: that was a phenomenal round at the end. But then
Speaker 4: Jordan Walker gets to eight and he's only got the
Speaker 4: magenta ball left.
Speaker 5: And it's funny.
Speaker 4: Arm and I were talking about the magenta ball because
Speaker 4: he tweeted out that hitters are over twenty five against
Speaker 4: the magenta ball with twelve strikeouts. Not exactly, but they
Speaker 4: weren't hitting the magenta ball all night. And I kind
Speaker 4: of understand why. You're seeing the same white baseball get
Speaker 4: hurled in the middle of the zone and then automatically
Speaker 4: they throw like this pomegranate colored baseball.
Speaker 5: In the middle of his zone.
Speaker 4: It could look a little weird, especially with the red
Speaker 4: kind of from the Phillies fan at the back, So
Speaker 4: I understand why. So I'm thinking, no way he's going
Speaker 4: to hit four in a row to win while he's
Speaker 4: getting booted and he's twenty four years old, Like, there's
Speaker 4: got to be a little bit of nerves there, right,
Speaker 4: This is probably right. Jordan Walker hasn't been in the playoffs,
Speaker 4: he didn't play in the College World Series or anything like.
Speaker 4: This had to be one of the more nervous moments
Speaker 4: of his life. And if he won the home run
Speaker 4: Derby he would make a million dollars. He's only making
Speaker 4: eight hundred thousand dollars, So the nerves had to be high,
Speaker 4: but he didn't show him and he went.
Speaker 5: Bang bang, bang bang.
Speaker 4: For the win and the final homer. No doubt about it,
Speaker 4: No doubt about it. That was one of the best
Speaker 4: endings to a Derby. I think I've ever seen. It
Speaker 4: might be the best ending to a Derby.
Speaker 5: Derby.
Speaker 4: It felt like a come from behind win in the
Speaker 4: ninth too. Yeah, what a World's Series game or something.
Speaker 4: That was the energy that was in the stadium, but
Speaker 4: then that energy just got sucked out.
Speaker 2: The only ending that comes close, I think. Remember Joanna
Speaker 2: Sespeez when he went on an absolute tear to end
Speaker 2: his Derby that was like twenty eighteen or twenty nineteen.
Speaker 2: I want to say, I don't I don't remember exactly
Speaker 2: what year it was. But Cespez put on an absolute
Speaker 2: click at the end of his Derby. But Jordan Walker, like,
Speaker 2: there were a couple of subplots there that I was
Speaker 2: just thinking about. Number One, the kind of show me
Speaker 2: the money thing that he was doing, Like he clearly
Speaker 2: knew what was at financially, and I love that he's
Speaker 2: gonna get a million bucks for this. Number Two. Lars
Speaker 2: Newt bar in the interview that he did in the
Speaker 2: Cardinal clubhouse a couple of days ago, resurfaced last night,
Speaker 2: him talking about the entire clubhouse getting emotional for Jordan
Speaker 2: Walker getting the All Star invite, getting the Derby invite,
Speaker 2: because he knows what that twenty four year old has
Speaker 2: been through already in his career. He was becoming damage
Speaker 2: goods like Walker and Volpi were in the same breath
Speaker 2: where it's like something's got to change is their career,
Speaker 2: you know, kind of like I guess, like tailing off
Speaker 2: right now before they even got going. And Jordan Walker
Speaker 2: needed twenty six. He needed it. And Jordan Walker is
Speaker 2: having twenty six. This is his year right now? Is
Speaker 2: he still leading Major League Baseball on RBIs He is
Speaker 2: having an insanely strong season. And Jordan Walker again, like
Speaker 2: you can't help but feel good for the guy. He
Speaker 2: mentioned how nervous he was. He said he choose on
Speaker 2: the gum to make him nervous or to kind of
Speaker 2: calm his nerves. The other thing, I've never seen a
Speaker 2: more composed interview from a player's parent before than his
Speaker 2: dad after the Derby. Dude, his dad, where you've got
Speaker 2: like the Mike blairing throughout Citizens Bank Park and know
Speaker 2: that you're talking on national television, on international television. That
Speaker 2: was like the best interview of a parent that I've
Speaker 2: ever seen, And it was just amazing to get all
Speaker 2: of those thoughts in there, and Laurrence Shahati did a
Speaker 2: great job with it. And it's just it's so easy
Speaker 2: to root for Jordan Walker. Man, like, he's got a
Speaker 2: lifetime fan in me, to be honest with him, one.
Speaker 4: Hundred percent, And I feel like, what shouldn't go n
Speaker 4: notice is the fact that he had eleven home runs
Speaker 4: from twenty twenty four to twenty twenty five with an
Speaker 4: OPS that sat around six hundred, and this year he's
Speaker 4: hitting two ninety four three fifty four five point thirty
Speaker 4: two for an eight eighty six OPS, twenty two homers,
Speaker 4: thirteen steals, and he is pacing major League Baseball in
Speaker 4: RBIs that said by the break and he's a big
Speaker 4: reason why the Cardinals have found so much success this year,
Speaker 4: because again people left them for dead sixty eight and
Speaker 4: a half win total, and now they're what four or
Speaker 4: five six games over five hundred by the break and
Speaker 4: they have this young star in Jordan Walker. It's hard
Speaker 4: not to be incredibly happy for him. Considering you're so right.
Speaker 4: If twenty twenty six went wrong for Jordan Walker, understanding
Speaker 4: that he's still twenty four years old, but going into
Speaker 4: twenty twenty seven, if it was much of the same
Speaker 4: of a six hundred ops and not even sniffing double
Speaker 4: digit homers, is he traded? Like what happens to that
Speaker 4: version of George Walker versus this year where he's done
Speaker 4: a complete one eighty and then just the cherry on
Speaker 4: top is winning the home run Derby and winning it
Speaker 4: in style.
Speaker 2: It's amazing to have the cardinal conversation at the All
Speaker 2: Star break because Weatherholt just got a nine figure contract extension.
Speaker 2: Walker looks like he could be getting a nine figure
Speaker 2: contract extension. Herrera is an All Star along with Jordan Walker,
Speaker 2: Mason Wins the best defensive shortstop in Major League Baseball.
Speaker 2: Alec Burlison's a bona fide stud. There's a lot to
Speaker 2: love in Saint Louis right now in Jordan Walker is
Speaker 2: your twenty twenty six home run Derby champ. We're going
Speaker 2: to get to the All Star Game and a quick
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Speaker 2: to talk about the All Star Game. I will let
Speaker 2: you guide us through a preview of the twenty twenty
Speaker 2: six MLB All Star Game. I will tell you the
Speaker 2: starting pitching matchup today, Christopher Sanchez for the National League
Speaker 2: against Dylan Ceese of the American League. And if you want,
Speaker 2: I could do a dramatic reading of the lineups. Who
Speaker 2: want that?
Speaker 5: Yes?
Speaker 2: For the American League? Leading off in centerfield, Mickey Mantle
Speaker 2: two point zero, mister Mike Trout. I'm not going to
Speaker 2: do a dramatic reading Yourdn Alvarez bet second, he is
Speaker 2: the dh Shay Langeleiers the three hitting catcher, Junior Caman
Speaker 2: arrowbats clean up and plays third base. Bobby wit Junior
Speaker 2: the five hitting shortstop, Cody Bellinger hitting sixth in right field,
Speaker 2: ben Rice bet seventh this at first base. Eight hitting
Speaker 2: left fielder is Riley Green, and Ernie Clement, the top
Speaker 2: vote getter in the American League that's ninth in plays
Speaker 2: second base for the National League. Kyle Schwarberg gonna lead
Speaker 2: things off. He is the designated hitter. Juan Soto bet
Speaker 2: second in plays left field. Freddie Freeman hits third and
Speaker 2: plays first base. C J Abrams is the cleanup man
Speaker 2: in the shortstop. Max Muntsey hits fifth, then place third,
Speaker 2: Ozzie Alby's bet sixth, then play second base. Brandon Marsh
Speaker 2: shitting seventh and playing rights batting eighth in playing center
Speaker 2: field is Andy Pahes and then Drake Baldwin is the
Speaker 2: nine hitting catcher for Christopher Sanchez. This is a very
Speaker 2: fun starting lineup. Excited to see all the reserves get
Speaker 2: in too. I don't have very many previews for you,
Speaker 2: but you said you've got some nuggets, so nugget us up.
Speaker 5: I do have some nuggets.
Speaker 4: And podcast ped put the graphics on the screen of
Speaker 4: those lineups, and I think that you know, if you've
Speaker 4: been watching even a second of Major League baseball, you
Speaker 4: know that the American League has been garbage this season.
Speaker 4: There are five teams above five hundred in the American League.
Speaker 4: It has been a rough year. And if you look
Speaker 4: at the National League reserves, if you look at their bullpen,
Speaker 4: if you look at their depth, there is no doubt
Speaker 4: about it. The National League should win the All Star Game.
Speaker 4: But it's an ext mission game. Anything could happen. And
Speaker 4: when you look at both starting lineups and you look
Speaker 4: at the numbers this season, right, we like to use
Speaker 4: WRC plus, where one hundred is league average and it's
Speaker 4: park adjusted, and of course we like to use OPS.
Speaker 4: The American League starting lineup for how bad the American
Speaker 4: League is has a one thirty nine WRC plus and
Speaker 4: an OPS that's about twenty points higher than the National
Speaker 4: League starting lineup. But what makes the National League so
Speaker 4: damn good is how much better the reserves and the
Speaker 4: bullpen is. So I made a bet, and I took
Speaker 4: the American League through the first five innings on the
Speaker 4: money line at about plus one fifteen, and the reason
Speaker 4: I did that was I feel like the National League
Speaker 4: is rightfully the favorite. But when we're looking when we're
Speaker 4: looking at the starting lineups, where the first the starting lineups,
Speaker 4: the guys in there are going to get two abs
Speaker 4: versus the reserves, we're only going to get one. And
Speaker 4: we see a lot of the starting pitchers early when
Speaker 4: you compare Dylan Ceese and Christopher Sanchez, both our second
Speaker 4: and side young odds in their respective leagues. But Sanchez
Speaker 4: has run into a couple of issues recently. Right we're
Speaker 4: looking at back to back tough starts nine to five
Speaker 4: eight ERA over his last two starts. Well, Dylan Ceeze
Speaker 4: is on a fifteen inning scoreless streak. So I prefer
Speaker 4: to take the hotter pitcher, and also the American League
Speaker 4: starting lineup the pretty damn good against left handed pitching
Speaker 4: one forty WRC plus as an offense with an eight
Speaker 4: sixty seven OPS against lefties. Two guys I'm keying in
Speaker 4: on Shay lang Lears and Junior Cameronaro. Now, lang Lears
Speaker 4: has kind of slowed down a little bit going into
Speaker 4: the break. Junior Camenaro really hasn't right. He's hit I
Speaker 4: think he hit five home runs in his final ten
Speaker 4: games you know before, So Junior Cameronaro is my MVP
Speaker 4: pick of this game. I think that the American League
Speaker 4: can take advance of the National League, where the pitching
Speaker 4: is a little bit weaker. Obviously, Chris Sale is going
Speaker 4: to come in and blow gas. He's gonna be awesome.
Speaker 4: But then you have like Eduardo Rodriguez, you have Foster Griffin,
Speaker 4: you have Justin Robleski. All deserve it all Stars, but
Speaker 4: not pictures that you're necessarily afraid of when you go
Speaker 4: with Dylan Cees, and you go with Parker Messek, and
Speaker 4: you go with Eirasmussen. I do think that the American
Speaker 4: League could have the edge early late, not so sure,
Speaker 4: but if they build a lead and their bullpen arms
Speaker 4: like Brian Baker and the role as Chapman and others
Speaker 4: can come in, and when Mason Miller comes in for
Speaker 4: the National League or Joan Duran comes in for the
Speaker 4: National League, the American League actually has a lead by then,
Speaker 4: so maybe they could win it. So I'm going to
Speaker 4: take the American League to win in this exhibition, considering
Speaker 4: they've also won ten of the last twelve All Star games,
Speaker 4: which is nuts the full record of this exhibition event,
Speaker 4: and it is important to remember this is an exhibition
Speaker 4: of one.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I love that you keep using that word because
Speaker 2: like we are to preview an exhibition game, and like
Speaker 2: nothing really matters.
Speaker 5: I'm trying my best here.
Speaker 4: I do just enjoy looking at the numbers and looking
Speaker 4: at the matchups that I'm giving you kind of my
Speaker 4: best shot at this.
Speaker 2: But of course, and it's such a and it's such
Speaker 2: a beating a dead horse take. But if this still
Speaker 2: decided home field advantage in the World Series, life would
Speaker 2: be way better.
Speaker 5: I wish it did.
Speaker 2: Like life was not way better when this actually mattered.
Speaker 4: I know now it doesn't even matter either, So looking
Speaker 4: at matchups, obviously these guys aren't just.
Speaker 5: Going to.
Speaker 4: Take it easy completely. They want to get hits in
Speaker 4: the All Star Game. So yeah, I'm going to take
Speaker 4: the American League through the first five innings of plus
Speaker 4: one fifteen. And I sprinkled on Junior Camenaro to win
Speaker 4: the MVP. I think he disappointed everybody at the derby,
Speaker 4: even though he had an awesome first round. But I
Speaker 4: know he you know, had a lot of people betting
Speaker 4: on him to win. A lot of people picking him
Speaker 4: to win, and he didn't, and he didn't even make
Speaker 4: it to the finals. But I think this is an
Speaker 4: opportunity where he's going to face a lot of lefties early.
Speaker 4: With his one eighty five WRC plus against lefties this year, sure,
Speaker 4: and I wouldn't be surprised if he leaves the yard
Speaker 4: this game. So I like the Ale to win, and
Speaker 4: I like Junior Cameronaro to win the MVP. But I
Speaker 4: did find it interesting because everyone assumes that the National
Speaker 4: League is just gonna beat the living shit out of
Speaker 4: the American League, but the starting lineups, Like, were you
Speaker 4: a little bit surprised to see that cumulatively the American
Speaker 4: League has a better starting lineup by the numbers so
Speaker 4: far this year.
Speaker 2: Yeah, but like there are a whole bunch of guys
Speaker 2: that are not in this lineup for the National League,
Speaker 2: like Pete Crow Armstrong is gonna come off the bench,
Speaker 2: Auto is gonna come off the bench, Like some of
Speaker 2: the best players in Major League Baseball are coming off
Speaker 2: the bench for the National League. So for sure, to
Speaker 2: your point, like the reserve depth is crazy, and I
Speaker 2: think that the National League could put up like a
Speaker 2: big fight late but you're thinking makes a lot of sense.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I just think that the ALE is gonna get
Speaker 4: a lead, do they hold it?
Speaker 5: Probably not.
Speaker 4: Ash League's probably gonna come back, which again I think
Speaker 4: is fun because I think that'll make the ulcer game
Speaker 4: more fun. If the American League can get a lead
Speaker 4: and then the National League mount to comeback. That's more
Speaker 4: entertaining than just the National League beating the shit out
Speaker 4: of the American League. And you turn off the game
Speaker 4: forty five minutes in because you're like, this is an
Speaker 4: exhibition to get exhibition event, and the National League's up
Speaker 4: five zero the third, It's like, ah, right, that was fun.
Speaker 4: But I really do think this is going to be competitive,
Speaker 4: and that's all I wanted to say, And that's why
Speaker 4: I'll be watching.
Speaker 2: Cool. Yeah, I will be watching as well. We are
Speaker 2: going to hear from Ryan Howard. It was great to
Speaker 2: see that you guys got the chance to hang out
Speaker 2: with him a little bit at the LIDS event in Philadelphia.
Speaker 2: Great turnout at that LIDS event in Philly on what
Speaker 2: Sunday morning? Is that Sunday or Monday? This days are
Speaker 2: running bag.
Speaker 4: This is our sixth All Star event, or maybe it's
Speaker 4: the fifth. I don't know, but we're just so lucky
Speaker 4: to do this, and we were so lucky to be
Speaker 4: able to speak with Ryan Howard, like these events, everybody
Speaker 4: coming out, you know, people coming up to us at
Speaker 4: the stadium saying hello, taking pictures, like we're so lucky.
Speaker 5: We are so lucky, And I just.
Speaker 4: Want to thank everybody for coming out to that LIDS
Speaker 4: event and hopefully we can see you again at Yards
Speaker 4: Brewing at seven pm Eastern for our All Star event
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Speaker 4: It's going to be a ton of fun. But just
Speaker 4: want a special shout out to our audience because without them,
Speaker 4: we just wouldn't be here. And I just I make
Speaker 4: sure to remember that every single time I'm here, like
Speaker 4: how lucky we are to be able to talk baseball
Speaker 4: with our friends and get the support from our incredible audience.
Speaker 4: So I just special shout out to the audience, like
Speaker 4: without you, guys, we wouldn't.
Speaker 2: Be here one hundred percent. Two things that we got
Speaker 2: to do before Ryan Howard. Number one one more reminder
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Speaker 6: Please legend, Ryan Howard, the All Star Game at the Bank.
Speaker 7: It's been a while.
Speaker 8: If we kind of feel like we've been waiting for this,
Speaker 8: How awesome is it to see the Bank? You know,
Speaker 8: just having such a special event.
Speaker 7: Yeah, it's amazing. You know, I'm excited for the city.
Speaker 7: I'm excited for the organization. I'm excited for everybody else,
Speaker 7: all the fans that are coming from all over to
Speaker 7: be able to experience the pageantry of what Philadelphia can
Speaker 7: bring to the table and be able to to experience
Speaker 7: Citizens Bank Park and all that it brings to the table.
Speaker 8: You've been able to experience that obviously with the World
Speaker 8: Series team, but just your performance and how the city
Speaker 8: has embraced you just being back here for.
Speaker 7: An event like this.
Speaker 8: How much do you just feel that that love from
Speaker 8: the Philly fan base and what's different about Philly fans.
Speaker 5: Oh?
Speaker 7: Man, you know, it's amazing. Would A love to have
Speaker 7: something like this when I was playing, I think the
Speaker 7: closest thing that I got to it was obviously going
Speaker 7: to the and playing in the All Star Game in
Speaker 7: two thousand and nine in Saint Louis, my hometown. But
Speaker 7: you know, this is a This is a strong second
Speaker 7: right there, and I'll take it because I'm living kind
Speaker 7: of vicariously through it to where it's I'm able to
Speaker 7: kind of come around and do events like this and
Speaker 7: still be able to represent the game and do all
Speaker 7: that good stuff. So, you know, I think for the fans,
Speaker 7: the fans have shown up and shown out. I mean,
Speaker 7: I think with everything that's going on in the All
Speaker 7: Start Village and just all the different places people are
Speaker 7: excited in, they're here and man, it's it's been great
Speaker 7: for Philadelphia.
Speaker 8: You put on a show in the derby, obviously home
Speaker 8: run Derby champion and got s wherever we got Harper
Speaker 8: in this one, it's gonna be a lot of fun.
Speaker 8: I want to start with what advice you would have
Speaker 8: for them, because this is the first year where we're
Speaker 8: closest to the original rules. I feel like that we've
Speaker 8: been in a while. It's still different, but it's the
Speaker 8: closest we've been from when you won the Derby. If
Speaker 8: you were to give Schwarber or Harper any advice, and
Speaker 8: they're obviously Harper's done it anything that you and Shober
Speaker 8: as well, but anything that you would have for them.
Speaker 7: I mean, I think the biggest thing now with a
Speaker 7: little bit of the rule change, kind of getting back
Speaker 7: to where it's like the swings, is you get to
Speaker 7: take your time a little bit more so taking you know,
Speaker 7: you get to take pitches and kind of I think
Speaker 7: pace yourself just a little bit, So that would be
Speaker 7: the biggest thing, is just you don't have to swing
Speaker 7: at every pitch and just kind of pace yourself in between,
Speaker 7: maybe take take a pitch, take two pitches or something
Speaker 7: like that.
Speaker 8: I always felt like it was kind of a silly
Speaker 8: belief that people used to say, Oh, like the derby
Speaker 8: can mess you up for the second half. You went
Speaker 8: on to win the Derby and then have the best
Speaker 8: stretch of your major league baseball career. I think twenty
Speaker 8: eight homers in fifty four games. What was it after
Speaker 8: the derby that just had you just clicking like that?
Speaker 8: Do you remember what it was like to just have
Speaker 8: that stretch.
Speaker 7: I think the biggest thing for me was I never
Speaker 7: looked to change my swing in the dirty. I just
Speaker 7: tried to go out and take the same swing I
Speaker 7: normally took during batting practice and just you know, try
Speaker 7: to add a little extra adrenal into it whatnot. But then, yeah,
Speaker 7: I mean I think actually they were saying I actually
Speaker 7: started pulling the ball a little bit more after the
Speaker 7: Derby and hit more home runs to right field. But yeah,
Speaker 7: I mean I really just try to just stay within
Speaker 7: my approach and not change too much. I think sometimes
Speaker 7: guys will change their swing and start trying to loop
Speaker 7: and try to lift the ball and all that kind
Speaker 7: of stuff, and then it kind of throws them off
Speaker 7: a little bit. So I think the biggest key is
Speaker 7: just not changing anything that you really do. It's just
Speaker 7: taking your normal natural point.
Speaker 8: I want to ask you, just with you're obviously so
Speaker 8: dialed into the game today as well, if you wanted
Speaker 8: to build your perfect hitter, what would that look like?
Speaker 7: Oh, man, perfect hitter? I would say, Wow, I would
Speaker 7: have the consistence see and contact of like of Ariahs.
Speaker 5: Yeah, with the power.
Speaker 7: Of a judge and the speed of and O.
Speaker 8: Tmy that don't play, I think that'll be all right.
Speaker 8: And then is there a guy that stands out to
Speaker 8: approach wise the way they control the abs? But there's
Speaker 8: a guy that stands out to approach wise like the
Speaker 8: way they control their abs?
Speaker 7: You know, I would say, I would probably say like Ariahs.
Speaker 7: And then but but you also got to look at
Speaker 7: it too with like judge because they he has such
Speaker 7: a great eye. I think at the plate too, like
Speaker 7: it's it's it's interesting his approach from over the last
Speaker 7: few years to where when he first came in, it
Speaker 7: was kind of like, you know, I said the same
Speaker 7: thing about like John Carlo Stanton when he first came in.
Speaker 7: I was like, Man, when this kid figures it out,
Speaker 7: he's gonna be a monster. And it was the same
Speaker 7: thing with Judge when he came man and then he
Speaker 7: started making those adjustments and then started kind of controlling.
Speaker 7: He had the abs, getting the pitches that he wanted,
Speaker 7: and then all of a sudden it was just like explosion.
Speaker 8: One of the more unique aspects I think of, like
Speaker 8: your splits against an individual pitcher you crushed Johann Tantana.
Speaker 8: Left on left matchups are hard enough, absolutely demolishing.
Speaker 2: I think it was four homers.
Speaker 8: If I have that right against Johan, how were you
Speaker 8: able to have so much success against the guy that
Speaker 8: won is just starty, a tough left on left matchup,
Speaker 8: and then one of the best to ever do it.
Speaker 7: You know, I just felt like I saw him really well.
Speaker 7: One of the things for me was that Johan stood
Speaker 7: on the third base side of the rubber, so for
Speaker 7: a lefty, I could see his arm sooner, and then
Speaker 7: I allowed me to kind of pick up the ball
Speaker 7: and just just stayed on him. And I knew his
Speaker 7: best pitch was his change up, and he wasn't afraid
Speaker 7: to throw it lefty lefty, So I really just tried
Speaker 7: to stay looking straight, so like fastball, change up against
Speaker 7: him and then yeah, man, it was just lucky enough
Speaker 7: get some good pitches to hit and didn't miss him.
Speaker 7: Who is the guy on the other side of that,
Speaker 7: you the least comfortable in the box? I wouldn't say
Speaker 7: I was. I was never uncomfortable against anybody, but like
Speaker 7: a tough like bastard. Ab was always Max Sureser. I
Speaker 7: mean he would just continue to come at you, like,
Speaker 7: hit you with all different kind of pitches, any pitch
Speaker 7: in any count didn't back down. Even if you hit it,
Speaker 7: smacked it off the wall, he'd come right back at
Speaker 7: you the next a B and uh, you know. He
Speaker 7: was always a tough one. Last one. For your favorite
Speaker 7: place to hit in your career, Oh, favorite place to hit,
Speaker 7: I'd probably say Atlanta. Yeah, the Braves.
Speaker 5: I loved.
Speaker 7: I loved going to Atlanta. Weather was always great, the
Speaker 7: actually the staff was great. The security team was always
Speaker 7: cool with the security team down there. But just I
Speaker 7: just always enjoyed Atlanta. And the reason being too is
Speaker 7: because the Braves were that team, like all throughout the nineties,
Speaker 7: they were they were the team to beat, and I
Speaker 7: knew if we were going to be able to go
Speaker 7: and do some stuff, we had to get through those guys.
Speaker 7: So I just always felt like I turned it up
Speaker 7: a notch against against the Braves. Appreciate it, thanks for
Speaker 7: the time. Thank you.
Speaker 4: So as a champion yourself, what does Brian Howard want
Speaker 4: the Phillies to do at the deadline in order to
Speaker 4: win their first World here since two thousand and eight?
Speaker 7: M I mean, I think what they need to do. Look,
Speaker 7: you can never have enough arms in your bullplan. You
Speaker 7: can always bolster your bullpen up. I mean, right now,
Speaker 7: the team is playing well. I mean you could probably
Speaker 7: use a right handed bat to kind of mix into
Speaker 7: the lineup, but you know, I don't. There's not really
Speaker 7: anybody right now that sticks out to me. And a
Speaker 7: team's been playing very well. So right now, going through
Speaker 7: the All Star break, you kind of let the guys
Speaker 7: get rested up. You come back out after All Star
Speaker 7: break and you see how you know, if you can
Speaker 7: continue that momentum. I think if you can continue that
Speaker 7: momentum and the chemistry is right. I think you just
Speaker 7: keep rolling and then if there is something that pops
Speaker 7: up in terms of a good right handed bat, I
Speaker 7: think you may maybe look to add that to the lineup.
Speaker 5: Love it
Speaker 2: Faaaa