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Speaker 1: Radio Network, alongside Frank Staffle, I am, Greg Sussman, Frank's
Speaker 1: what's going on? It's going on? You know how you're doing?
Speaker 1: I'm I'm surrounded man? How are you? You were surrounded
Speaker 1: by Frank's thought it was I thought it was accurate yesterday.
Speaker 1: Say two francs one, Greg, That's what it is. Much
Speaker 1: the name of the episode here, do you want to
Speaker 1: introduce your father? And to my left, the man, the myth,
Speaker 1: the legend. Frank Staffe Senior, according to the lower third,
Speaker 1: is too old for Twitter. Too old for Twitter, Frank,
Speaker 1: how are you? I'm no fine. How did you sleep
Speaker 1: last night? Greg? I said pretty well? I said pretty well?
Speaker 1: Actually yeah, no, uh no real issues speak of how
Speaker 1: did you sleep? I couldn't sleep. Too excited. I'm too
Speaker 1: excited about coming to the show, and uh, I'm all
Speaker 1: excited about Fantasy Baseball Yankees. I couldn't sleep. I tossed
Speaker 1: in turn. I went to bed at two o'clock. Oh
Speaker 1: my god. And because I used to work at nights,
Speaker 1: so you know, I used to gonna go to bed
Speaker 1: before four or five o'clock in the morning. My body
Speaker 1: so used to that. So he tied right now, then,
Speaker 1: did you feel like you should be sleeping? Hey, listen,
Speaker 1: I'm in good shape. I'm an old man, but I'm
Speaker 1: in good shape, speaking a good shaving old men. But
Speaker 1: I did. I tossed and turn until like four am,
Speaker 1: four am. I finally I finally went out right And
Speaker 1: at eight o'clock my wife woke me up and said
Speaker 1: I got ready to go. He text me at you
Speaker 1: know ten, Hey, I just got off the train, So
Speaker 1: doesn't start for another I'd rather all my life, even
Speaker 1: with work, I always like to be there early in
Speaker 1: case something pops up. You're not late z. No, No,
Speaker 1: definitely not. No, he is not that from you, but
Speaker 1: it will say this, and it's a completely honest day. Right.
Speaker 1: So we walked in and I meet I meet Frank's dad. Frank.
Speaker 1: He goes, Huh, you are not nearly as fair as
Speaker 1: I thought you were. Like what, when you sit down,
Speaker 1: you look fat, When you stand up you look skinny.
Speaker 1: So you stand up a half and I'm like, all right,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna stand up the whole I'm gonna I'm gonna
Speaker 1: do the whole show like this. That's it. I feel better. Yeah, sure,
Speaker 1: I think you appreciate that we've always said about the Dawn.
Speaker 1: And we can kind of go into why he has
Speaker 1: that nickname a little bit later. That's what happened to
Speaker 1: uh at the Christmas shirt you are Matt, Matt Maryland, Maryland, Maryland.
Speaker 1: It was really I wasn't gonna go anywhere. Did you want?
Speaker 1: Did you guys watch the game? You guys watch the game?
Speaker 1: Did I watched? I watched every single game, one and
Speaker 1: after another. They were they were down a fifteen and
Speaker 1: came up the way back and we're winning, and then
Speaker 1: they let me down. You said you did said that
Speaker 1: we're gonna win by five. They did, and they didn't.
Speaker 1: They did not did cover the spread though if he
Speaker 1: would have been it was the spread, uh two and
Speaker 1: a half. You go, Greggy, I got I got eight
Speaker 1: eight brackets going in the n c A. A he's
Speaker 1: a madman animal, he's got animal or out of the
Speaker 1: eight the guy duke to win it all? Do You're
Speaker 1: not really a bracket of integrity? Guy? Okay, someone integrity.
Speaker 1: You know we were talking about last week, Greig. Everyone's
Speaker 1: in a college basketball analysts time. He's big on a
Speaker 1: I'm gonna buy the newspaper the day before every ead.
Speaker 1: All I read, all you know, all the you know
Speaker 1: who got there is that the offense is good just
Speaker 1: when the defense is not good. And I just take
Speaker 1: it from there. What no means is he a college
Speaker 1: basketball like you guys are like fantasy stuff. I'm not
Speaker 1: like you guys. When I look up to a DP
Speaker 1: and this and that and all that stuff and I
Speaker 1: go up my gut, this is great. This go my
Speaker 1: gut and I and I do like power that every
Speaker 1: year I screw myself up in fantasy because I like
Speaker 1: power so much. I always pound the power and then
Speaker 1: my starting pitching is yeah, yeah, pretty much the same
Speaker 1: this too. Yeah, oh yeah, because I took I took trout.
Speaker 1: I was debating troutist Gerza with the first pick. But
Speaker 1: I I took traffic because I like power, and I
Speaker 1: figured why not my bracket up tape. By the way,
Speaker 1: Greg's beating Judy. Oh nice. Usually you get creamed by
Speaker 1: Judy every year, right, bracket championship. A lot of playoffs.
Speaker 1: Who do you have winning at all? Oh? Everyone does? Yeah?
Speaker 1: Four four out of the four out of the eight.
Speaker 1: Um he has duke to Judy has duke? Where did
Speaker 1: she go to school? And we are you you? Oh
Speaker 1: Judy smart girl? Yeah do you think Judy? Oh gosh,
Speaker 1: Judy had Mariland her final four inscrow off in my
Speaker 1: heart justice Ville, you also have marilynd in your final four.
Speaker 1: You're a little bit more realistic Judy. The real problem
Speaker 1: for for poor juds She had a Villanuva in her
Speaker 1: championship against Florida. They're both out, so it looks like
Speaker 1: greatly the champion this year. In fact, all three of
Speaker 1: Judy's four finals four teams are eliminated. She has Villanova, Maryland,
Speaker 1: Florida and U N c basically crown now crown him
Speaker 1: king King the honest. Um. All right, so let's show
Speaker 1: today we have both Frank's in here, I'll talk about
Speaker 1: their Fantasy basically league. I'm very excited to hear your
Speaker 1: history and together and doing fantasy leagues in general. And
Speaker 1: then I'll started and then we'll get into your MVP picks,
Speaker 1: your cy young picks, World Series Division winners, all that
Speaker 1: good stuff. I'll do that venture. It'll be off, of
Speaker 1: course in our number two to to join us and
Speaker 1: break it all down with us. But let's start, um
Speaker 1: with some of your background, Frank, and how long have
Speaker 1: you been playing fantasy? What sport do you like the most?
Speaker 1: All that good jazz? Well, actually started fantasy and like
Speaker 1: late eighties, and we used to uh, we used to
Speaker 1: have to You used to have to h for all
Speaker 1: your starters, and then if you wanted to pick up
Speaker 1: free agents, there was a section on there who you're dropping,
Speaker 1: who are you gonna pick? Who you want to pick up?
Speaker 1: And and it was it was like six dollars and
Speaker 1: fifty cents per lineup. But if you owned more than
Speaker 1: one team, then they cut it in half. So you
Speaker 1: had like like when Frankie. When I got Frankie into
Speaker 1: it when he was when he was a kid, I
Speaker 1: used to have two teams for myself. It was six
Speaker 1: fifty and then three twenty five and then another three him.
Speaker 1: So and uh, we used to do I used to
Speaker 1: do it every week. I used to get like this
Speaker 1: big envelope in the mail and I'm like by Monday,
Speaker 1: but you had to have a postmark for the following
Speaker 1: week Thursday, so you had to feel out all this stuff.
Speaker 1: And uh, actually, Frankie, you saw that the game was
Speaker 1: like maybe like five years old when he started. I mean,
Speaker 1: he didn't know nothing about my stuff. But I used
Speaker 1: to say to my Frankie, you who do you want
Speaker 1: to start? This guy? That guy you know, like you know,
Speaker 1: I gave him like two options, and uh, he did well.
Speaker 1: And he doesn't like hockey, but he won the championship
Speaker 1: in hockey. The name of the name of his his
Speaker 1: team was the Pittsburgh Punishes. Pittsburgh Punishes. Yeah, and he
Speaker 1: also want a baseball one too. But I don't recall
Speaker 1: the name of recall the name the name of the team.
Speaker 1: But how could you couldn't can get Johnny Stafford involved
Speaker 1: in this Jonathan. He's a batman kind of got bat
Speaker 1: and wrestling. That's it. Batman wrestling. I mean likely we
Speaker 1: signed him with for T ball, I think, you know what.
Speaker 1: And he didn't want to play. He he's come off
Speaker 1: the field half the time. He didn't he don't want
Speaker 1: to be balded. No, no, I don't like this. I
Speaker 1: don't want to do this. So I had to waste
Speaker 1: my money for that year. It was in Factora some money.
Speaker 1: What is your favorite fantasy sports A play? I like
Speaker 1: them all, like him all. I'm not a big hockey person,
Speaker 1: but I do fantasy hockey too. I got I got
Speaker 1: a team right now in ESPN. It's and it's it's
Speaker 1: battling for the to get into the championship. Nice. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean he has animal like five teams for each sports,
Speaker 1: at least five, so you get it from yeah, I
Speaker 1: try not. I love it. I love it that that
Speaker 1: that that's my life. If you had tops sports and music,
Speaker 1: if I had to choose one day, I to choose one,
Speaker 1: I might I think the baseball. It's my first baseball
Speaker 1: and football and basketball. I really love basketball, but I
Speaker 1: I don't do that well in basketball fantasy. I don't
Speaker 1: know why the league you're you're in the Sillies this year?
Speaker 1: Were you not? Right? Uh? And yeah one of the
Speaker 1: league's that was, Yeah, I wanted wanted to play, but
Speaker 1: in the one with KINGA and them like that every year,
Speaker 1: right and almost dead last because everybody that I draft,
Speaker 1: it's hurt, it's hurt. Last year I had like four
Speaker 1: guy is gonna got a hurt. This year had three
Speaker 1: guys that will hurt. So I said, yeah, what am
Speaker 1: I gonna do? One of these years? I got? I
Speaker 1: gotta get lucky. Do people call you guys out for
Speaker 1: the least ring together, for like colluding together? See that's
Speaker 1: why we know a lot of times we don't. We
Speaker 1: don't make trades, you know, let's trade. And he said, no, no,
Speaker 1: that how people think that that? Well you know that way,
Speaker 1: you know, cheating. And Michael Florio was a big culprit
Speaker 1: of this. He's like, oh, you run two teams. No,
Speaker 1: I don't you ask me questions? Who should I start
Speaker 1: my job? No, maybe you should ask Greg. I'll give
Speaker 1: you Greg's number. You can text him and call him
Speaker 1: and ask him your question. Well, I don't think that's
Speaker 1: the coluting. It's genuous. If I don't, I think I
Speaker 1: think the trades would be the part that we don't
Speaker 1: trade anymore. I don't think you can. Don't You shouldn't
Speaker 1: appetially keep the league too. So how do you? How
Speaker 1: how did your keep re league? Draft? Go? In this league?
Speaker 1: It's all right, right, yeah, I mean not crazy about
Speaker 1: my pitching really, you know, I have a couple of guys.
Speaker 1: We talked a lot about you on the show. You
Speaker 1: had the first overall pick in this league, and the
Speaker 1: question was Mike Trout right for four hittkeepers? Right? So
Speaker 1: we had this this whole debate, and at first I
Speaker 1: was all up, like Trout for you, the Jeff Trout,
Speaker 1: Trout Trout. And then Frank told me how many more
Speaker 1: points shows are head than Trout last year in your league?
Speaker 1: And I was like, you, probably the draft shots are
Speaker 1: at that point, and you didn't you have to Mike Trout,
Speaker 1: how come look at it this way? I was on
Speaker 1: I was on the fence up until like ten minutes
Speaker 1: before that we were gonna We're gonna draft. Probably didn't help.
Speaker 1: Who are you gonna take? Who are you gonna take? Oh? Man,
Speaker 1: I would like to get scars up, but no, I
Speaker 1: don't know. Listen that you know, because I figured the
Speaker 1: way I look at it is if a pictures pitches
Speaker 1: every five days and you have a hit up that's
Speaker 1: playing every day, I was thinking you would get you
Speaker 1: get your earned more points that way, and but just
Speaker 1: going with a picture that goes every five days. But
Speaker 1: you know, then the gaff that if that hitter doesn't
Speaker 1: do what he's supposed to do, then you have a problem.
Speaker 1: He took trout first overall, and he ended up with
Speaker 1: the Jose burri Els and Strassburg has his top two pictures.
Speaker 1: Not ideal, but the keeper league. I mean that's who
Speaker 1: was available in the two three. I drafted for a
Speaker 1: friend last night and I so I was walking home
Speaker 1: when the draft started, like it wasn't home on my phone.
Speaker 1: He was have worked dinner, and he gave me his
Speaker 1: list of players that he wanted in the order, and
Speaker 1: it's like two docks and going back and forth on
Speaker 1: my phone and I'm trying to figure out who went
Speaker 1: who didn't, and I'm like, dude, like I'm doing the
Speaker 1: best I can for until I got home, and the
Speaker 1: best hitter on the board in the second round, it's
Speaker 1: keeper league was Anthony Rendon, All right, cool? I got
Speaker 1: that Rendon two three turn in the first pick, all right,
Speaker 1: that makes sense. I got that pitching wise, I thought
Speaker 1: the best picture on the board was Strasburg, and I
Speaker 1: told him that's they're great, that makes sense. Draft him
Speaker 1: draft Strasburg literally right after I type it in and
Speaker 1: then actually pressed the check mark on my phone for
Speaker 1: it because Cluber went right, when I can go back, like,
Speaker 1: oh god, club club did not go So, I mean
Speaker 1: I tried to erase the spreads the cell that I
Speaker 1: entered in my draft pick in and put Corey Kluver
Speaker 1: and the people that are in this jet and we're
Speaker 1: not very happy with Jeff. Did they allow you to
Speaker 1: keep Kuber? No? Is this for Jeff the Jet fan? Yeah,
Speaker 1: Jeff Jet fan. Why couldn't Jeff do his own draft?
Speaker 1: And I worked dinner? He said, So what were you
Speaker 1: doing that You were walking around lurking last night? You
Speaker 1: had an appointment? Alright, wedding appointment. That's a lot out.
Speaker 1: A massage, back massage, like a Robert kraffassage. No robertsassage.
Speaker 1: I had a massage last night, so I was coming,
Speaker 1: so I was home elite um, yeah, that was it.
Speaker 1: Then I went home. I had left over Lasagnie like
Speaker 1: I told you about and Jeff of Jeff's team full
Speaker 1: of laundry. That was my night last night, very exciting night.
Speaker 1: It was not right Sday night actually watching Dodgers Angels
Speaker 1: Spring training baseball. Actually so was I. Yeh. I saw
Speaker 1: their prospect and like, his name is Dustin May's got
Speaker 1: his big red hair. Did you see him pitch now?
Speaker 1: I turned it all along. Before that, I watched the
Speaker 1: seven or run second inning or whatever. I was like, right,
Speaker 1: I'm good Dustin May. Their their third rank prospect and
Speaker 1: the Dodgers organization. I saw him on the mound. This
Speaker 1: guy has this huge red hair. It's like like a lion.
Speaker 1: Do these friends are just these friends are Justin Turner potentially? Yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean it's red. It's like so Justin was touched
Speaker 1: by That was just for you? Yeah, yeah, speaking of
Speaker 1: the Dodgers, like Chris Taylor thing is still bothering me
Speaker 1: from Extra Taylor. Did you drop him for Elvis Andrews yet? No?
Speaker 1: I don't want to waste to pick up yet. I
Speaker 1: want to see if Garrett Haason's story Opening Day first
Speaker 1: Probably not though now I'm sorry. It's okay man, It's okay. Um.
Speaker 1: Let's go back to to to you big frank here um,
Speaker 1: although you're smaller than the actual figure to me at
Speaker 1: one point, not anymore. Right. Too much pasta for you,
Speaker 1: Austa makes you grow Gregg, Believe me, I know that's
Speaker 1: why I'm not a bista. Really, I'm eating potatoes, guy. Really,
Speaker 1: he's classic, classic meat and potato. Like. We ate mashed
Speaker 1: potatoes so much growing up. I can't eat mashed potatoes anymore.
Speaker 1: I don't like mash only only if I make loaded
Speaker 1: only if I make loaded ones, Dan Hill, eat what's
Speaker 1: in the loaded ones? Yeah, we made and baking. We
Speaker 1: make these cream cream mashed potatoes. They are good. Do
Speaker 1: you like mashed potatoes? We make up with cream? Give
Speaker 1: me rice can be pasta. But a lot of times
Speaker 1: you know what I did when when I made the potatoes.
Speaker 1: I know he didn't like it. I do like like roast,
Speaker 1: like roasted potatoes for him, just special, just him, French
Speaker 1: fries for him. Those roasted potatoes are classic. That delicious
Speaker 1: roast potatoes bring you in some all right, fair enough
Speaker 1: about my visit. Um, So drafts are basically done. Like
Speaker 1: I said, I had this last draft that I helped
Speaker 1: out day last night. There's no more drafts, so it's
Speaker 1: kind of like all speed ahead for Opening Day here. Um,
Speaker 1: and I think the biggest news to come out of
Speaker 1: yesterday really is that Fernando Tatis can we do the headline?
Speaker 1: Is that cool? And we'll get to it more about
Speaker 1: Fattis coming up after the break of Fernando Tatis, who
Speaker 1: you sit on the show, Frankie, just so you know,
Speaker 1: he hasn't it been set down yet, Just throwing that
Speaker 1: out there. I think either it out because he's starting
Speaker 1: Opening day short stop for the Pods. Yeah. I love
Speaker 1: the super aggressive approach from the Padres, and I mentioned yesterday,
Speaker 1: I like they're over for the season win total seventy
Speaker 1: seven and a half at the Fandels Sports Book right now,
Speaker 1: you can still get that. I really like this aggressive
Speaker 1: approach paddock in the opening day rotation. Fernando Tatis gonna
Speaker 1: be in the lineup on opening Day. We'll see where
Speaker 1: he bats when we come back. We'll talk about, you know,
Speaker 1: what a realistic projection is for Fernando Tatis, and I
Speaker 1: love the guy. There are some concerns to great. I
Speaker 1: don't want to be a Debbie downer, but we gotta
Speaker 1: be realistic when it comes to toxics. Take a break,
Speaker 1: we'll come back here. More about tatis. Why you should
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Speaker 1: Really he will do that. Will you actually if I
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Speaker 1: do waivers for all of our teams. I was about
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Speaker 1: the fact that once twice, so the fact that Frank
Speaker 1: will do this for you. He's a fantastic job with
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Speaker 1: of the room back into the room, I had your guys,
Speaker 1: he had thirty two bills in with backups and whatnot.
Speaker 1: This is what he's great at. For twenty five dollars,
Speaker 1: he will manage that for you, like either of you
Speaker 1: like doing the day to day stuff. That's cool. That
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Speaker 1: had a rapid reaction regarding Fernando Tatis last night. I
Speaker 1: wrote that up as soon as it came out. I
Speaker 1: know it's not you're gonna pay for that. You gotta
Speaker 1: pay five dollars for that. But because we're doing the
Speaker 1: show for free, would you mind revealing what that rapid
Speaker 1: reaction is. Yeah, So the reaction is, I'm very excited
Speaker 1: about Fernando Tatis. We have him in the G S
Speaker 1: T League of having in another home keeper league as well. Um,
Speaker 1: the power speed combination is legit at six home runs
Speaker 1: sixteen stolen bases last year at Double A. But he
Speaker 1: needs to remind you this guy has not at a
Speaker 1: single played appearance above. He has not played at Triple A.
Speaker 1: He has not played in the majors. And you know
Speaker 1: that cool little tool that Mike the Rohodo Coop taught
Speaker 1: us about the other day, Greg, you can look at
Speaker 1: your opponents quality spring training. I looked into Fernando Tatises
Speaker 1: and it was rated A six point eight, which is
Speaker 1: just below the value of a Double A player. So
Speaker 1: the competition that he's been facing the spring has not
Speaker 1: been great. And throughout the spring he still struck out
Speaker 1: twenty five percent of the time. He did walk ten
Speaker 1: percent of the time. The strikeouts are what I'm really
Speaker 1: paying attention to here, Greg, because he struck out nearly
Speaker 1: twenty eight percent of his at bats in double A
Speaker 1: last year. You have to expect that's gonna jump up
Speaker 1: a little bit. I mean, he could have a near
Speaker 1: thirty percent or over thirty percent strikeout rate here in
Speaker 1: the Major So I worry about the batting average. That's
Speaker 1: what I want to pay attention to early on. Maybe
Speaker 1: he hits you know, too forty two fifty, But I
Speaker 1: do think, you know, if he stays up throughout the year,
Speaker 1: he could hit twenty home runs with you know, fifteen
Speaker 1: to twenty stolen bases. You know, he's one of the
Speaker 1: hardest guys to project. It's really hard superject prospects. You
Speaker 1: could be a league winner, you could be a Labor
Speaker 1: Torres type player from last season with added speed on
Speaker 1: top of that. Or he could be in the minors
Speaker 1: come May. So it's a very wide range of outcomes
Speaker 1: here for for name, so temporaryr expectations, for your expectations.
Speaker 1: He does have big upside, for sure, but I think
Speaker 1: there's I think there's serious downside as well, Frank, when
Speaker 1: it comes to some of these younger players like a Tatis,
Speaker 1: like a Vladimir Gare or like Eloi him and as
Speaker 1: who's officially made the team of starting left field and
Speaker 1: opening day for the White Sox. Are you advantageous with
Speaker 1: these guys? Are you super excited with these guys? What's
Speaker 1: the deal with some of these younger players? I mean
Speaker 1: they I mean, like I I really like the Robuls guy. Okay,
Speaker 1: I like him, and I like the gym Andes guy
Speaker 1: in him and Az and uh the American League. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: I like those guys. There's no like. I really don't
Speaker 1: get into too much with I'm an old times so
Speaker 1: I like to go with you know, Frankis is joking
Speaker 1: to say, Dad, you got old guys. You guys have
Speaker 1: senior citizens. Gardner guy. Then I like bum gone even
Speaker 1: doing really crappy. The last there was five rounds in
Speaker 1: a row where he kept saying, oh, Ryan bron Siller,
Speaker 1: I want to take Ryan Brown. You can get him
Speaker 1: later on in the draft. You'll be all right. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean I'm not really into heavy into like the
Speaker 1: rookie kids. That was the question. But I was reading
Speaker 1: up on on on those two guys, and like those
Speaker 1: two guys, what about Justin Upton, who I'm strongly against.
Speaker 1: I don't like Justin Upton, who now is on the
Speaker 1: I L I'm gonna have to wear my Justin Upton
Speaker 1: and back in the you know, back back in the day,
Speaker 1: Upton was all right. For the last couple of years,
Speaker 1: he's been off. That's the thing. Yeah, he does what
Speaker 1: you want him to do. Every year, he hits around
Speaker 1: thirty home runs, but it comes with inconsistent week to
Speaker 1: week production. You don't necessarily know when he's gonna be
Speaker 1: really good, when he's gonna be really bad. He's better
Speaker 1: for Rhodo because it's the end of season. Numbers will
Speaker 1: still be there, but maybe they won't be there this year,
Speaker 1: Greg because he's dealt with injury throughout all of spring
Speaker 1: and now he's gonna start the year in the i
Speaker 1: L as he's dealing with turf toe. So we don't
Speaker 1: really know what's gonna happen with Justin Upton here. Obviously,
Speaker 1: don't drop him, you gotta stash him. But you know,
Speaker 1: maybe he doesn't get to the normal thirty home runs
Speaker 1: ninety plus RBIs because maybe he doesn't play enough games
Speaker 1: this season that turf toe could be dangerous for him.
Speaker 1: And remember, the Angels aren't a team like a lot
Speaker 1: of teams these days, don't have a set d h.
Speaker 1: They'll they'll kind of maneuver some of their players throughout
Speaker 1: the year. The Angels are not one of those teams.
Speaker 1: Whe you have Elbert Pool's d h D for the
Speaker 1: first month and then showing Otani immediately after that. So
Speaker 1: I don't really have that luxury to keep Justin Upton
Speaker 1: in there as he gets better from the turf toe injury.
Speaker 1: So he's gonna have to be well enough. For the
Speaker 1: most parts you go out and play the outfield, so
Speaker 1: he has to be healthy and we'll see how how
Speaker 1: quickly he can recover from turf too, which does seem
Speaker 1: to linger. Greg, Do you want to play a game?
Speaker 1: You want to play the who's starting in left field
Speaker 1: according a roster resource game? And the answer really yeah, right, Peter,
Speaker 1: There you go, Greg, Peter Borges back where he belonged.
Speaker 1: That started. Peter Borges, remember, I think was the prospect
Speaker 1: who got called up before Mike Trout came up around
Speaker 1: the same time. Yes, absolutely, two thousand nine. Yeah, expecting
Speaker 1: a lot of speed for Peter board just never really
Speaker 1: worked out well. Speed worked out, getting on basically everything
Speaker 1: else that you needed has not worked out for Peter Bord.
Speaker 1: Just during the break, Frank, you said you had a
Speaker 1: did you know for us? Are you ready? Ready? Okay?
Speaker 1: From nineteen fifty nine when I was born, right until now,
Speaker 1: two major leagues, only two Major League Baseball teams, I
Speaker 1: have one three championships in a row. Trip of question.
Speaker 1: Three teams, two teams. Two teams want preconsecutive World Series.
Speaker 1: One of them, of course you're Yankees. That's why you're
Speaker 1: decking your Yankee gearing, all right. And the other one
Speaker 1: was the Sincinnati Reds Machine only went two years and right.
Speaker 1: If I just want to sound confident, Oakland A's, Oakland
Speaker 1: A's and seventy two, seventy three, seventy four Yankees did
Speaker 1: it ninety nine and thousand. I went back in two
Speaker 1: thousand and one. Of course, it's a falling game seven
Speaker 1: to the Diamondbacks. There you go. He didn't like you play.
Speaker 1: You didn't like play long enough. He didn't next time
Speaker 1: like Greg play. He likes to You did have something else?
Speaker 1: Give them three guests. You a question for xt time,
Speaker 1: you another question for us. The other question is in
Speaker 1: your lifetime, do you think that you'd ever see New
Speaker 1: York City football, baseball, basketball, hockey r win all in
Speaker 1: the same year We're not Boston nineties sixty nine. Long term,
Speaker 1: Uh Mets, Nicks and uh, well, I don't know who
Speaker 1: want the Salts, Jets, Jets, Jets right right, Well, the
Speaker 1: Knicks is never gonna get there. Brooklyn probably a better chance.
Speaker 1: And the Yankees and Giants were very close back in
Speaker 1: two thousand and two thousand, right thousands? Is that when
Speaker 1: the Giants went to the Super Bowl to face Ravens,
Speaker 1: that was only nine. You were like thirty at that point.
Speaker 1: So they play intro both thirty five, which took place
Speaker 1: into January two tho one. The Yankees were World Series
Speaker 1: champions three months before that in October two thousand against
Speaker 1: the Mets. So Mets and Giants were very Yankees and
Speaker 1: Giants were very close to making that happen. Obviously, Nicks,
Speaker 1: we're not at all. They had made it, you know
Speaker 1: the year before they made nine against the Spurs. There
Speaker 1: wasn't that far off. Wasn't the same year, but it
Speaker 1: wasn't that far off. That's the closest. But my lifetime
Speaker 1: now because my team all a terrible you're a Yankee fan,
Speaker 1: you can't talk about them being terrible. Have you've seen
Speaker 1: enough championship and you've seen two Giants championships. Have you're spoiled?
Speaker 1: What are you talking about? I don't want to say spoiled.
Speaker 1: Boston fans, Auston fans are spoiled. I'm more spoil than
Speaker 1: you are. You could nick if you're not you're not
Speaker 1: a Mets Jets fan, could be much worse. Yes, m hmm,
Speaker 1: A lot of those guys out there. That's the E
Speaker 1: T S fans, right, Mets Jets nets that's right, well
Speaker 1: not really nets catch the nets yea, but yeah, I
Speaker 1: mean you could be mentioned. Um, Michael Fodio might actually
Speaker 1: have a worse like the worst Mets bills. Nix. It's bad,
Speaker 1: very bad. It's very bad, very bad. Um. Interesting, So
Speaker 1: Jakeen de Gram got paid yesterday, right, and we've made
Speaker 1: this big deal out of it, thirty million or what not?
Speaker 1: Fifty two and a half deferred. What did you think
Speaker 1: of the Mets extending Jacob Degram's contract? Rank? I mean,
Speaker 1: he's he's really he's a really good picture. But uh,
Speaker 1: you got you know, when you got when you signed
Speaker 1: somebody up for a long contract, you have to really
Speaker 1: put in perspective if the person is gonna gonna like
Speaker 1: crap out or if he's gonna get hurt, then you
Speaker 1: have to pay him all this money. I need a
Speaker 1: lot of these contracts are really out of control. No,
Speaker 1: I think that they need to. I think that what
Speaker 1: they should really do. He paid him according to their performance. Well,
Speaker 1: I think that's what they try. So they try to
Speaker 1: do that, and they try to do on their future
Speaker 1: performance projecting forward, which is obviously very hard to do.
Speaker 1: It's what we try to do. We try to project
Speaker 1: forward and figure out what these players are gonna do
Speaker 1: when we draft them. So it's kind of similar. You know,
Speaker 1: they try and pay him based on what they expect
Speaker 1: him to do, and you do kind of pay him
Speaker 1: for what he's done too. Right, So like Jacob de
Speaker 1: Graham for example, Uh, he was getting paid arbitration on
Speaker 1: a yearly basis and he just wont to cy young.
Speaker 1: He just had a historic season, So I think you
Speaker 1: kind of like pay him back for some of what
Speaker 1: he did. He just had a historic starting pitching season,
Speaker 1: and they expect him to be good for the next
Speaker 1: couple of years. Obviously be the anchor of that rotation.
Speaker 1: I'd expect the same thing. Um, you know, he doesn't
Speaker 1: have as much wear and tear on the arm because
Speaker 1: he was originally a position player in the minors and
Speaker 1: then they got converted into a starting pitcher. So no, greg,
Speaker 1: I think it's a good change of pace for the
Speaker 1: New York Mets. Pete Alonso again just reiterated that he's
Speaker 1: gonna make the opening day roster. That is absolutely official
Speaker 1: from Anthony Tacomo, who covers the New York Mets. Um
Speaker 1: So he makes the opening day roster, and they extend
Speaker 1: Jacob de Graham so they don't have this big mess
Speaker 1: that they have to go through throughout this season and
Speaker 1: next season. So it looks like, you know, with Brody
Speaker 1: van Wagen and maybe things are gonna be a little
Speaker 1: bit different here for the Met season. We'll see, you know.
Speaker 1: It's interesting, lady said, fifty two and a half million
Speaker 1: dollars um deferred for Jacob to grot without interest. I
Speaker 1: wonder if it's a very bonds bondage, a situation which
Speaker 1: is hysterical um in a million for the next fifty years.
Speaker 1: It's like, you know, it's kind of how I feel
Speaker 1: with the Mets, right It's like one of these things
Speaker 1: where it sounds all well and nice now, but like
Speaker 1: two years, like it's to be a disaster and they
Speaker 1: had no choice. Figure out that they have to blow
Speaker 1: the team up again. They had no choice. But we
Speaker 1: saw Assesspenis that they had to make that do that,
Speaker 1: they had to sign in that contract. But I'm waiting
Speaker 1: for this disaster to happen. Yeah, and that's why I
Speaker 1: didn't pick the medalsill yesterday. And I'm waiting for a
Speaker 1: disaster to happen. So when I walked in before, I
Speaker 1: asked Gabe, are you excited for baseball? I asked him,
Speaker 1: you know, what are your what are your some of
Speaker 1: your some of your best bets. She's like, you know,
Speaker 1: I'm really looking at the season wind totals. It's like,
Speaker 1: I love the Mets under I chose the Mets over
Speaker 1: yesterday at eighty five and a half. So see what happens.
Speaker 1: But it's a it's stat National League East Division happens
Speaker 1: this year. Well at least you um, yeah, San Diego over,
Speaker 1: which is important that seventy seven and a half. I
Speaker 1: would still bet that. I wonder if do you think
Speaker 1: it's gone up since they've since they've named I don't know,
Speaker 1: still seventy seven and a half he was like a
Speaker 1: good number, though, let's make a good number. Did you
Speaker 1: take the over on the padres? Did I think it
Speaker 1: over on the padres? I think I can open that
Speaker 1: up for you. Hang on, I mean it will take
Speaker 1: me very long. Greg. Eoy Jimenez, as we had all expected,
Speaker 1: makes the opening day roster for the Chicago White Sox
Speaker 1: and I did the bench with Bubba Sorry, budd Um,
Speaker 1: I did the Bench with Bubba podcast last night. I
Speaker 1: tweeted out the links you can find that. Um and
Speaker 1: we were talking about Eloy. What's the what's the realistic
Speaker 1: projection for Eloy Jimenez this season? I think in the
Speaker 1: prime of his career, he might be able to put
Speaker 1: up Nelson Cruz like numbers. But again, I want to
Speaker 1: temper expectations a little bit. This year. I think to
Speaker 1: seventy five to eighty with twenty five to thirty home runs.
Speaker 1: I think it's fair for Eloy. What do you think
Speaker 1: it doesn't soundunreasonable? UM. I was looking at his numbers
Speaker 1: yesterday because I was in this draft, like, I think
Speaker 1: he's going to be somewhere around that. I think he'll
Speaker 1: have some struggles as well, but I think he's he's ready.
Speaker 1: He seems more ready to me than for Nandotati's junior does. Yeah,
Speaker 1: because he played in Triple A last year and he
Speaker 1: dominated much like Vladimir Guerrero Junior did. I'll tell you this, poppy,
Speaker 1: you said you like Eloy himenez Um. I think you're
Speaker 1: gonna like him four years to come too, because I
Speaker 1: expect him to be a legitimate power hitter. So that
Speaker 1: might be someone you know, maybe a year or two
Speaker 1: from now, that you're drafting quite regularly. Probably there you has,
Speaker 1: the of course starting left fielder for the Chicago White Sox.
Speaker 1: One of the reasons I picked that typically over for
Speaker 1: the White Sox Frank Day, you know, I do no
Speaker 1: but refreshing, refreshing my we all went under. That's right,
Speaker 1: That's exactly the right refreshing my fantasy. Twitter. How about
Speaker 1: this from our buddy Matt Modica at CTM Baseball on Twitter.
Speaker 1: Et Alonso will provide Joey Gallo power with better batting average.
Speaker 1: Old call, Yeah, do you think that's his that's his
Speaker 1: fandom speaking, Well, I probably I like it. I worry
Speaker 1: a little bit about the batting average. It's not gonna
Speaker 1: be Joey gallow levels. Of bad. I don't think you
Speaker 1: can hit you. I don't think I don't think Joey
Speaker 1: Gallo power. Yeah, I agree with that. I think you
Speaker 1: hit thirty home runs, Greg, maybe not forty like Gallo.
Speaker 1: I think he did thirty home runs with like a
Speaker 1: two forty two batting average. And maybe the batting average
Speaker 1: gets better in years to come, but at the strike
Speaker 1: out rate actually went up in Triple A last year, Alonso,
Speaker 1: So I worry a little bit about the batting average.
Speaker 1: I do think the power is gonna play, though we've
Speaker 1: seen that. You've seen that here throughout the spring. I
Speaker 1: think you think five home runs during the spring. And
Speaker 1: to look up what his quality was, Yes, seven point eight,
Speaker 1: so that's between that's closer to Triple A, just below
Speaker 1: Triple A. Triple A level player over over eight is
Speaker 1: Major League right, No. Eight is Triple A. Ten is MLB.
Speaker 1: He's at seven point eight, so he's Triple A, closer
Speaker 1: to Triple A. I'm not facing the best competition, but
Speaker 1: actually better than Tatis was. And yeah, he had four
Speaker 1: home runs with eleven RBIs in the it, Alonso, pet
Speaker 1: not Peter Peter. He's getting that wrong. Drop the R
Speaker 1: drop the r friends call him Pete another one. That's
Speaker 1: another one. Write him down. Poppy already got him too.
Speaker 1: I think two or three of my UH baseball teams
Speaker 1: you're gonna give big power. We don't know you like power.
Speaker 1: We all know that you like power. Joey Galla guy,
Speaker 1: I'm sure I haven't out of all my teams that
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Speaker 1: by Frank Stample's loo good a thing crazy? Do you
Speaker 1: watch all of your sons for shows to do? I
Speaker 1: mean I usually eat the why I watched him like
Speaker 1: most of them, trying to watch him alive. If I'm not,
Speaker 1: then that's when I get back home or whatever. Then
Speaker 1: first thing I do real it's awesome. And after that
Speaker 1: then I started doing all my draft king stuff. And
Speaker 1: sure does like that? Frank does having your dad listen
Speaker 1: to you and watch you? Does it hurt you and
Speaker 1: fantasy drafts you're in together? M I I think so,
Speaker 1: I'm trying to think. Yeah, he did take a few
Speaker 1: players that I like, but no, I mean, look, he
Speaker 1: listens to the show obviously he wants to support us
Speaker 1: and stuff, but he also wants, you know, hold on
Speaker 1: what to do in fantasy. So I mean, if he
Speaker 1: takes my advice, and you know, I can't can knock
Speaker 1: him for that, I should. I mean, we just did
Speaker 1: a draft the other night where you took all the
Speaker 1: players that I wanted. There, you go, just draft me
Speaker 1: and you'll have a great team. But I did it purposely. Yeah,
Speaker 1: but that happened in football with us too. Oh no,
Speaker 1: when we did that the BFF on the h Vanduel
Speaker 1: thing and you said, oh, I should have took my
Speaker 1: own advice, you know, when you said about some certain
Speaker 1: players that I used. There was there was one fan
Speaker 1: content that we did where he basically just used all
Speaker 1: the players that I told him to use. Was like
Speaker 1: the Chalky plays and like he had a great week.
Speaker 1: I think he might have. I want, I think I
Speaker 1: wont that. That was that was the week I wont.
Speaker 1: I won first place And I didn't even take my
Speaker 1: own advice. Why didn't you? Because you ever think yourself? Yeah,
Speaker 1: probably pretty much. You You think yourself into a pretzel.
Speaker 1: We're also gonna do Fandel Contest every Friday night for
Speaker 1: baseball this season. Definitely, anyone else listening. I'm going to
Speaker 1: send out the link later today. It'll be twenty people.
Speaker 1: We'll do a two dollar entry the first week. If
Speaker 1: people want to be more than that, then we'll up
Speaker 1: it as the weeks go on, but we'll do two
Speaker 1: dollar entry top three percent. Well, you are not me.
Speaker 1: Two dollars is four okay, So two dollar entry for
Speaker 1: Baseball Vandel contest this Friday main slate. Of course, there's
Speaker 1: no day games this Friday, because, okay, is it really
Speaker 1: that hard baseball to give us day games for like
Speaker 1: the first week of the season. Explain to you why
Speaker 1: you were very frustrating you didn't like my answer? Don't
Speaker 1: it's the answer. Anyone could do getting that answer, And
Speaker 1: I don't like that's the answer, would have been Rob
Speaker 1: Manford what he yelled at him too? Would you have
Speaker 1: probably not anything you got. You know, back in the day,
Speaker 1: the Cubs when they played home games most of the time,
Speaker 1: they played in the afternoons on Friday, right because there
Speaker 1: was a reason for that. A couple of years ago
Speaker 1: they would play every Friday home game during the day.
Speaker 1: There was a reason for it for the Cubs, well,
Speaker 1: let's just do what the Cubs do. So the Cubs.
Speaker 1: The Cubs only are allowed to play X number of
Speaker 1: week night games because the surrounding areas. It's agree that
Speaker 1: they made. That was the last name with lights. It
Speaker 1: was the agreement that they made with the surrounding community.
Speaker 1: They can only play X number of nighttime weekday games
Speaker 1: that includes Friday, so they would always play and still
Speaker 1: to this day, mostly Friday Mattenees. The most Cub games
Speaker 1: really are Mattenees of a couple during the week that
Speaker 1: are at night at home, but for the most part,
Speaker 1: most home games regularly are in the afternoon. And I've
Speaker 1: thought about this too. The Yankees, whenever they play home
Speaker 1: games on Saturdays, those are always Mattinee games too. Sure
Speaker 1: of course there is there a reason for that, or
Speaker 1: is this a Yankee thing? Honestly, just don't know. The
Speaker 1: Ans lest its Saturdays, every Saturday, Yankees playing matt because
Speaker 1: it's but they're the only team that's the only game
Speaker 1: that's on usually at one piano on a Saturday is
Speaker 1: the Yankees. I think it's just a Yankee thing. I
Speaker 1: don't think it's anything really more to it. No, I
Speaker 1: don't I don't. I don't mean it like that. I
Speaker 1: just think it's something that they've always done and like
Speaker 1: to do. I mean, I love it same you guys.
Speaker 1: Gonna be game Saturday. No, I didn't like to go home.
Speaker 1: I don't. I don't really like going I don't like
Speaker 1: going to any live events really. Yeah, I like to
Speaker 1: go to the live was like a concert? What now? What? What?
Speaker 1: What kind of concert would you like to go to?
Speaker 1: Not Matthew, Definitely not Dave, matt your dad? Why not?
Speaker 1: I mean I'm too like metal and classic rock and
Speaker 1: stuff like that. I'm not into that, like, uh good stuff.
Speaker 1: What genre is the mattis bad? It's a jam band,
Speaker 1: jamp rock. I don't even know what you'd call it.
Speaker 1: You'd call it dad. It is soft rock, a soft rock, spore,
Speaker 1: jam man folk rocks I like. I mean, I like
Speaker 1: like Sabbath and Ozzie. Right, I'm not even a big
Speaker 1: I mean I like the Metallica, But I'm not like
Speaker 1: all in on like like your son. I I'm until
Speaker 1: like my my like Judas Priest stuff. All the music
Speaker 1: nowadays it's terrible. She this movie yeah, besties, Yeah, this
Speaker 1: movie that come out like about Motley Crue supposedly that's
Speaker 1: like not as good as it should be. But this
Speaker 1: Motley Crue thing going on film on Netflix, I think
Speaker 1: I haven't heard anything about it. You watched the Queen movie, right,
Speaker 1: I did, but he raps it. Yeah, it's good. I heard.
Speaker 1: I liked saying it is good. I liked it. I
Speaker 1: think it's the best reviews. There's a lot of problems,
Speaker 1: but I liked it. They didn't get his hardcore to
Speaker 1: framework as they needed to. Like there's a lot of
Speaker 1: like alluding to things that he would do instead of
Speaker 1: like showing you what he would do. That's kind of better.
Speaker 1: You need to see him, Like Freddie Mercury is a
Speaker 1: wild dude. You kinda want to see some of that.
Speaker 1: I agree, I got all I have. I've asked the
Speaker 1: chat with questions for Frank not you great, Well, who
Speaker 1: wants to know about me? Anyway? Did you get anything? Nothing?
Speaker 1: Nobody cares wants to talk to me. Nobody doesn't seem
Speaker 1: like it now. Yeah, unfortunately, I'm sorry. Um. Anyway, let's
Speaker 1: get back into baseball. Let's look forward here. What do
Speaker 1: you go next hour? As I mentioned, we're going to
Speaker 1: get into you or picks for where everything so young, MVP,
Speaker 1: Rookie of the Year and of course a division division
Speaker 1: get into the World Series. I'll put that on our
Speaker 1: over under sheeet as well. Last night, you're you're asked
Speaker 1: in that Dodger game, Frank for perfect innings for the
Speaker 1: Los Angeles Dodgers. This kind of fits the florial quality
Speaker 1: greater signed quantity theory, does it not? Yes, it definitely does.
Speaker 1: Uria is gonna open the season in the rotation because
Speaker 1: what do you know, Rich Hill has already hurt dealing
Speaker 1: with the injury. Um, we'll see what happens. Because I
Speaker 1: wonder if once Hill comes back in Kershaw, obviously a
Speaker 1: few of these guys are gonna get booted from the rotation.
Speaker 1: Who's the first man out? Who's the second man out
Speaker 1: for the Dodgers rotation? Unfortunately, it might be your asked
Speaker 1: because I think they want to limit his endings this
Speaker 1: year him. This is definitely one of the UH want
Speaker 1: quality over quantity here for for yours because I think
Speaker 1: when he pitches, he's gonna be lights out. Look, he
Speaker 1: was the top prospect in baseball, got called up when
Speaker 1: he was I believe it was nineteen. He was Walker
Speaker 1: Wheeler before Walker Bueller. Yeah, he really was um and
Speaker 1: you know, there's a lot to like about him. He
Speaker 1: looked phenomenal last night. I was watching some of that start.
Speaker 1: Four perfect endings, four strikeouts. He's gonna be really good
Speaker 1: when he's on the mound. I don't know how deep
Speaker 1: he's gonna go into games. So if you play in
Speaker 1: leagues where you're you're rewarded for quality starts, I don't
Speaker 1: know that any of these Dodgers pictures are really gonna
Speaker 1: be great for quality start leagues. I think you know
Speaker 1: they've always had a short each with these guys. They
Speaker 1: don't let them go third time through the lineup. Walker Bueller,
Speaker 1: I think is the exception. They'll probably just let him
Speaker 1: be the workhorse here, but everyone else I kind of
Speaker 1: worry about the endings. When Urios is on the mound,
Speaker 1: he's gonna be really good. I agree, man, I completely
Speaker 1: agree that he's gonna be more reliable than the guy
Speaker 1: like Ross strip A, and there will be more reliable. Um.
Speaker 1: Then here's your you. Potentially we've seen him be up.
Speaker 1: If I told you that Reu Mata strippling and Curios,
Speaker 1: it's the same amount of endings. I do want I want,
Speaker 1: I want Yourias and the upside is the highest for Arios. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I can't disagree. I don't even know what those endings
Speaker 1: would be. Maybe like, well, may do let me do
Speaker 1: this where Joseuson is. Over All, four guys are out there.
Speaker 1: They're all free agents. For some reason they're not but
Speaker 1: whatever rank how you want, you'd want them not knowing
Speaker 1: that their endings will be not knowing when they'll pitch,
Speaker 1: or it'll be the Bullpetter if they'll be in the minors.
Speaker 1: You don't know any of this. Those four guys, Ryu, Stripling, Curios,
Speaker 1: And it's a good question. I think at the top
Speaker 1: it would be between Ryu and Urios for me. Um,
Speaker 1: you know Ryu, they they trust him a little bit more.
Speaker 1: He's obviously gonna pitch on opening day. He was really
Speaker 1: good in the second half of the season. He's he's
Speaker 1: always been really good when he's on the mount. He's
Speaker 1: just always hurt. Kent to my Ada, I see as
Speaker 1: a guy who's gonna bounce between the bullpen and the rotation.
Speaker 1: It could be all these guys, but I've drafted Kent
Speaker 1: to Myda before. He's let me down a little bit.
Speaker 1: I still do think that he's really good. And the
Speaker 1: same goes for Ross Trippling. But I get to see,
Speaker 1: you know, really Strippling in my Ada, bouncing back and
Speaker 1: forth between the rotation and the bullpen. We'll see what happens.
Speaker 1: I owned Strippling last year. He was absolutely awesome, you know,
Speaker 1: much like the Houston Astros. Any picture that the daughters
Speaker 1: get their hands on just awesome. Uh you know. Um
Speaker 1: So for me, it's probably between Urios and Ryu. I
Speaker 1: think I think you've give a slight nod to wry
Speaker 1: you though they Frank Engine, Ryu, Julio, Urias Strippling, Meda.
Speaker 1: Do you have any of these guys in your teams?
Speaker 1: I don't know if you've ended up with any of
Speaker 1: the No, I didn't think any of them. You haven't
Speaker 1: targeted any of the Dodgers pictures now come. No, not
Speaker 1: the Dodgers, into the Dodgers and no, no, nobody like
Speaker 1: really catch I'm a Walker Bueller. Did you end up
Speaker 1: with him anywhere? I think maybe one team I may
Speaker 1: have gotten Walker, bull draft him at all? Or no,
Speaker 1: he's done because the injury. He's done. He's done, A
Speaker 1: definitive he's done. Done. He's done. Nervous to you by
Speaker 1: Louis Louis Saberno. I am nervous because he's like, was
Speaker 1: one of my top picks as us my number one
Speaker 1: starting picture. And now is this you have to try
Speaker 1: to find somebody put him on the I L or whatever,
Speaker 1: and uh hopefully I get so many decent Why am
Speaker 1: I taking a chance in one of these rookie kids?
Speaker 1: Have I seen an these rookie kids? I mean, I mean,
Speaker 1: like Chris Paddock or one of the teams I have, Hey,
Speaker 1: sus Luzardo, I draft, that's that's annoying. I did too,
Speaker 1: And then I he now he's hurt, and and how
Speaker 1: long it's gonna be till he comes back and you know,
Speaker 1: gets back into the rotation or whatever. But yeah, I
Speaker 1: mean when he comes back, I think so he's gonna
Speaker 1: he's gonna do pretty well. I really think so. He
Speaker 1: asked me a questions. He said, oh, Paddick is a
Speaker 1: free ason of this thing. I'm like, all right, pick
Speaker 1: up Chris Paddock please for me? In this draft. Last
Speaker 1: night it was like I had that Round fourteen and
Speaker 1: the craziest thing I've ever seen happened in this draft. Ever.
Speaker 1: My buddies there. I want you to drive Chris Pretti
Speaker 1: Chris Paddock around there. I did. I got him. I
Speaker 1: paired up the Paddock and Paul de Young in that swing.
Speaker 1: Where did taxis go? Pushed up in the eighth round
Speaker 1: of this draft? Josh James? I don't know what what's
Speaker 1: happening here? Why is Josh James going in the eighth round? Like?
Speaker 1: What am I missing about this league that Josh James
Speaker 1: is going in? Would you rather own Frank in Fantasy
Speaker 1: baseball leagues? Josh James were Forest Whitley, And that's a
Speaker 1: really fair question to me. Forest Whitley is now. I
Speaker 1: thought when we were talking about Tatis, I said he
Speaker 1: it's really hard to project a rookie. Uh, Forest Whitley,
Speaker 1: He's probably the hardest one. He's a legitimate X factor
Speaker 1: for Fantasy this year because he has legit like four
Speaker 1: five pitches that are plus pitches ready to go. He
Speaker 1: I have no doubts that he could get major leaguers out.
Speaker 1: But why are the Astroid's gonna, you know, push up
Speaker 1: his service time? They don't really need him because they
Speaker 1: have Wade Miley, they have Make Hugh, they have Brad Peacock,
Speaker 1: they have Josh James if anything happens to those guys too,
Speaker 1: So I really don't know how many innings forrest Whiley
Speaker 1: is gonna give you. I mean, if you told me
Speaker 1: at the end of the season he pitched sixty innings
Speaker 1: in the Majors and you know they were saving him
Speaker 1: the playoffs, that wouldn't surprise me, and also wouldn't surprise me.
Speaker 1: For me, he goes under twenty innings if they needed
Speaker 1: him to do that this year. He's definitely good enough.
Speaker 1: I think he's the top pitching prospect in baseball, even
Speaker 1: better than Paddick, even better than Luzardo. But to me,
Speaker 1: his timetable is probably the hardest to read out of
Speaker 1: all of them, even more so than Lozardo. So I
Speaker 1: just don't really know when he's gonna be up. I
Speaker 1: guess because of that, I would go with Josh James.
Speaker 1: I think Whitley's upside is higher, Greg, But I think
Speaker 1: if if one of these guys in the rotation falters,
Speaker 1: Josh James is probably the next man up right away
Speaker 1: for the Yeah, as as soon as he gets healthy.
Speaker 1: I think you're probably right. I think Whitley has the
Speaker 1: upside of the town. We've seen that before. Was still
Speaker 1: one of the top prospects in baseball. And I think
Speaker 1: the long term, Whiley is probably the guy you're gonna
Speaker 1: want to own, but if you're looking for a more immediate, uh,
Speaker 1: a more immediate restitution, I think the answer is probably
Speaker 1: Josh James. And and I think you could very well
Speaker 1: seem in April eighth round, maybe because it's a keeper
Speaker 1: league and they're really excited about him there, But I
Speaker 1: can't really justify that. Um, maybe they're related to Josh James,
Speaker 1: I don't think so. Okay, all right, well, you know,
Speaker 1: I'd rather just take a shot on Colin MQ a
Speaker 1: few rounds later or Brad Peacock even later on. And
Speaker 1: I know that those players are starting in the road
Speaker 1: Tae Man, Brad Peacock, my man Wade Miley, my man
Speaker 1: Colling McK. We need all of them just pitch. Well, right,
Speaker 1: you realize that about twenty four hours from now baseball
Speaker 1: is gonna be starting. It should be fun. We needed
Speaker 1: to start a ready because with all these guys that
Speaker 1: are getting injured and stuff, we need you guys go
Speaker 1: into d L so we can make our moves I
Speaker 1: mean that's what he's waiting on too. It's ridiculously drafted
Speaker 1: Med Olson last week after the injury, but before we
Speaker 1: knew the timetable, so we drafted Thursday night. Right that
Speaker 1: was like right in between everything, and he's deciding between
Speaker 1: Olson and Karnacione. It's like between totally totally and it's
Speaker 1: not again. You know, I wanted I get I want
Speaker 1: to Oldson, I want to Holston. Then now I got him,
Speaker 1: and then I also, uh, near the end of the draft,
Speaker 1: I uh draft a d D. He's waiting for Olson
Speaker 1: and Ddy to go on the I l here add
Speaker 1: them and then then you can pick up more players. Now,
Speaker 1: it's funny in this draft last night, Matt Olsen goes like,
Speaker 1: you know what I really want? He didn't have a
Speaker 1: first basement the time he went for a dollar in
Speaker 1: my home league Oxen over the weekend earlier. I think
Speaker 1: the guy the draft didn't realize it was hurt, to
Speaker 1: be honest with them, he went like six or seventh round. Um,
Speaker 1: so right around there, the next best first basement on
Speaker 1: the board was Edwin and Cornassion and I was like,
Speaker 1: he needs the first basement. Let me draft before him.
Speaker 1: And he had his hat rankings. He had Massy here
Speaker 1: It's knocker, ran to the top thirty player on the board,
Speaker 1: and Naca was like still there. And even though we
Speaker 1: had a lot of pitching, I went and grabbed Tanaka
Speaker 1: and Cornassion went off the board Copis later, So I
Speaker 1: got stuck a little bit and I drafted Ian Desmond
Speaker 1: as his starting first basement. What kind of format is this? Uh,
Speaker 1: it's hit the head categories six by six. I followed
Speaker 1: it up with justin smoke. Yeah yeah, I mean, look,
Speaker 1: justin smoke. Might people to give you comparable numbers to
Speaker 1: what Edwin and Cornascio was gonna give you anyway? Um yeah,
Speaker 1: Ian Desmond, I don't know. We'll see what Like he
Speaker 1: was last year, we'll see what he does this year.
Speaker 1: Look it's coors Field, whenever he plays there. It's fine.
Speaker 1: But like they opened, I believe with in her twelve
Speaker 1: games on the road here, they start off in Miami
Speaker 1: and then they go to Tampa. So see what happens
Speaker 1: with he didn't do it. He didn't do all that
Speaker 1: great land who when he played for I think so
Speaker 1: was Texas and he was really really good. That's when
Speaker 1: everyone was expecting has that monster here in Texas go
Speaker 1: to college? Ever? You know, he can't get worse. He's
Speaker 1: gonna be awesome. And then he right because the coolest
Speaker 1: field starts hitting the ball in the ground sixty at
Speaker 1: a time. So it hasn't been great for Ian Desmond.
Speaker 1: We're Pete Alonso and Luke Void already gone. Great. Pete Alonso,
Speaker 1: I don't have the draft board opened, but Lucavoy was
Speaker 1: definitely gone, and we're taking both those guys over day.
Speaker 1: I don't know. I Alonso, I don't remember. I would
Speaker 1: have taken Peter. I have Alonzo on two of my
Speaker 1: teams picked them up. Pete greater than Yonder, Greg Mbers
Speaker 1: of the Alonzos, he definitely greater than Yonder. What I'm like,
Speaker 1: Yonder Man, We have made it left of the break.
Speaker 1: You know the met the Mets have, the Mets have.
Speaker 1: They have a pretty decent team, but I don't believe
Speaker 1: they're gonna they're gonna be anyone near playoff? Intention do
Speaker 1: you sun take the under with you? Greg? Can you
Speaker 1: tell us about tell us what we don't know about
Speaker 1: your son? Frank? What does this say about him? I
Speaker 1: I don't know. I want you to tell he's my clone.
Speaker 1: I can't. I can't, I can't go against him. Plus,
Speaker 1: he's my he's my fantasy guru. You no, I don't
Speaker 1: want to ruffle his feathers. You're no fun. Not very
Speaker 1: fun for us. It's not don't worry, Tell him whatever
Speaker 1: you want. Not much much that Bears and Beers base
Speaker 1: Here's Beers baseball. The Beers's take a break when we
Speaker 1: come back. Let's let's have us some politics and picks.
Speaker 1: We'll go division by division when we would hern stick
Speaker 1: around more ventures up necks, fancy huffs,