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Speaker 1: Friends Forever. Well to the Fantasy best Friends Forever. Happy Monday, everybody.
Speaker 1: Frank standfell here joined with my guy Matt Modica. At
Speaker 1: some point we'll get Greg su today speaking of the devil.
Speaker 1: Here he comes, Gregg Susman here, Mattie moo. How's the weekend? Man?
Speaker 1: How's everything going? Everything's going good? Uh? Game of Brons
Speaker 1: we're down to one and done now, so you know
Speaker 1: it's said that it's coming to an end. Then there's
Speaker 1: a lot of controversy over this or that, but I've
Speaker 1: enjoyed it for the for the most part. And welcome
Speaker 1: and Gregus mean, how did you sleep last night? Buddy?
Speaker 1: For one? Huh, what's up? For one for one on
Speaker 1: the week. I wish you were just maybe just give
Speaker 1: your heads up, Greg, you because I always think about
Speaker 1: the thing is always would be here for it, and
Speaker 1: then I'm not that that's the issue that's on me.
Speaker 1: I did not sing without you, naturally, little if you
Speaker 1: don't hear singing, you know, Greg Susten, because I'm just
Speaker 1: not gonna do like a solo act without you. I slept.
Speaker 1: I need the base of your voice, Gregg to say,
Speaker 1: I don't think that's I don't you ever call this basse?
Speaker 1: But that's okay. Well whatever, how do I sleep? I
Speaker 1: slept at the trouble getting to sleep. I had thrones
Speaker 1: on the mind. We'll talk about that in a second. Obviously,
Speaker 1: I open technically traditionally opener Monday shows. Um, so I
Speaker 1: had I guess throws in my mind. I was going
Speaker 1: through all these I guess scenarios in my head, but
Speaker 1: it wasn't really about the show. I think it smell
Speaker 1: like I was involved in the scenarios. These are really hot,
Speaker 1: my vegers. I once I opened the window, got some
Speaker 1: fresh air in there, and I passed it. It's really
Speaker 1: cold last night, so it was nice. So first of
Speaker 1: all complaining about the weather in New York City. Again,
Speaker 1: that's what you do. That's what I have, That's what
Speaker 1: I do. Um Friday and Saturday, awesome, awesome weather. Yesterday
Speaker 1: forty degrees in raining, disgusting. Today Saturday was so beautiful.
Speaker 1: Degree was so beautiful too. What are we doing? Man?
Speaker 1: What is going on right now? Friday and Saturday? And
Speaker 1: stop with the air conditioner on, Greg the first time,
Speaker 1: My air isn't even running. And then you let the
Speaker 1: window open and nearly froze again. So that's just man,
Speaker 1: this is why people get sick. Man. It's like this
Speaker 1: weather is crazy right now. Yeah, it's it's it's ridiculous.
Speaker 1: Saturday was so nice and then Sunday was so gross,
Speaker 1: and today is so cold. We're in a sweater. We're
Speaker 1: in a winter sweater right now. Yeah. I had to
Speaker 1: go back to long sleeves today too. We're back. We're
Speaker 1: back anyway. So yeah, So last night I was dreaming
Speaker 1: basically about scenarios, so sort of Game of Thrones and
Speaker 1: stuff like I was involved in it naturally, that's where
Speaker 1: my head was. I have a spinning Now what do
Speaker 1: you think? What do you think? How are you feeling?
Speaker 1: This morning. Look, I mean I I liked it. I
Speaker 1: thought it was everything that you know, they led up
Speaker 1: to everything that happened then transpired in that episode, you know,
Speaker 1: with you know, everything that was going on and earlier
Speaker 1: in that show. My biggest gripe will always be that
Speaker 1: George Ard Martin never completed the books. I tweeted out
Speaker 1: this morning that the last book was published July twelve
Speaker 1: of eleven, and we've pretty much been waiting for the
Speaker 1: you know this for over eight years. Yeah, so I
Speaker 1: get it. I've been saying all season that it feels rushed,
Speaker 1: um obviously, and my complained when two weeks ago when
Speaker 1: when Danny's lost the Dragon and she didn't blow up
Speaker 1: the Iron Fleet, like why did you just blow a
Speaker 1: fire from joe Gan and then she just did that,
Speaker 1: Like why did you just do two weeks ago? But nevertheless,
Speaker 1: I enjoyed the episode. I thought it was really it
Speaker 1: was beautiful and obviously well shot. I was gorgeous. The
Speaker 1: cinematography was incredible. The way that they shot like everything
Speaker 1: that was going on in the city from the ground,
Speaker 1: especially like Aria to like the cutting back and forth
Speaker 1: between Aria and the Hound, I thought was like, really,
Speaker 1: well done too. A lot of people freaking out about
Speaker 1: this is the worst season of all time. I think
Speaker 1: at this point people are just trying to find anything
Speaker 1: wrong with the show that they possibly can, which is
Speaker 1: said because you know, we've all invested so much time
Speaker 1: and energy and emotion into this show. So you know,
Speaker 1: like I just enjoy it for what it is at
Speaker 1: this point. Obviously we all wish that there were more seasons.
Speaker 1: I mean, even George R. Martin has said that he
Speaker 1: wished that there was more seasons. I think he actually
Speaker 1: is a little bit upset about it as well. I mean,
Speaker 1: but the thing is to keep a show going for
Speaker 1: this long, it's takes a lot of effort, not only
Speaker 1: from the writers but from all the actors and actresses
Speaker 1: that are involved. Like, they all have other lives too,
Speaker 1: They all want to move on and do other things.
Speaker 1: So it kind of feels like we're getting kind of
Speaker 1: shorthanded here, get some some short changed rather. But hey,
Speaker 1: if you want more, I guess that's why you read
Speaker 1: the books, right if they come out when they come out, hopefully,
Speaker 1: um and you know, just kind of piggybacking off what
Speaker 1: Matt said regarding the books too, you know, people are
Speaker 1: killing the writers right now for the show, and they
Speaker 1: do have other things, like they're going to be in
Speaker 1: charge of Star Wars after this, so they might just
Speaker 1: want to get get this over with. But they've had
Speaker 1: to come up with wrapping up this entire series, which
Speaker 1: has so much going on in over the past two years.
Speaker 1: George R. Martin has had like to write it. He said,
Speaker 1: like as long as he wants, basically, so he has
Speaker 1: that in his back pocket. He has more time and
Speaker 1: an effort to put into this. And obviously, like I
Speaker 1: don't want to use the word easier, but it's easier
Speaker 1: to write than it us to like put all these
Speaker 1: things together on screen production wise too, So there are
Speaker 1: a lot of moving parts. I thought it was really
Speaker 1: good when I actually thought about it last night. I
Speaker 1: came in here today, I told you, like, man, I'm
Speaker 1: actually like really getting emotionally invested. So maybe the writing
Speaker 1: thing isn't so bad after all. But um, I enjoyed it.
Speaker 1: I enjoyed it overall. But those were those are a
Speaker 1: lot of thoughts in my mind. Guy's just stop hating
Speaker 1: on it. Let's just let's just enjoy for what it is. Yeah,
Speaker 1: So I listen I agree with Matt. They were kind
Speaker 1: of leading right up to this, you know, and it
Speaker 1: was it wasn't exactly a surprise that what happened, like
Speaker 1: she became the mad Queen. We knew it was coming.
Speaker 1: They had telegraphed and not a bad way from the
Speaker 1: beginning of this season. Now there's a take away some
Speaker 1: of the stuff that had we had seen now for
Speaker 1: the last seven years where she was like had a heart, yes,
Speaker 1: but the response to that she lost everybody, right, and
Speaker 1: we were just talking about this down there. She's nothing
Speaker 1: last she's nothing. And most importantly, the whole basic storyline
Speaker 1: of Game of Thrones is danny struggle not to become
Speaker 1: her father and people advising her not to burn everything
Speaker 1: to ashes and John Snow and his you know, his
Speaker 1: character are those are really the two most essential points
Speaker 1: of the show and how everything maps out. So my
Speaker 1: biggest great with the seasons, and I'll say real quick,
Speaker 1: was season one. The last three episodes or the last
Speaker 1: four episodes are a one hour in twenty minutes. Season
Speaker 1: Episode one could have been an extra twenty five minutes.
Speaker 1: That could have been episode two right there, and we
Speaker 1: could have slowly walked in a little and made made
Speaker 1: a better build up, I'll say that. But last night's episode,
Speaker 1: I thought it was really well well done. I enjoyed it.
Speaker 1: I thought it was the way it had to go
Speaker 1: at that point. I liked it. I really did, Like
Speaker 1: I hope people on Twitter or a blaze about this
Speaker 1: freaking out everyone's again and it's like wrestling fans Greg.
Speaker 1: It's like everyone finds something to hate about last night,
Speaker 1: and at this point people just want to hate it,
Speaker 1: which is the saddest part of every thing. But overall,
Speaker 1: as soon as the episode ended, I felt a little underwhelmed.
Speaker 1: I was like, all right, I see it felt like
Speaker 1: more should have happened, or maybe it was a little
Speaker 1: bit too predictable. But then like later as the night
Speaker 1: went on, I started thinking about things and like where
Speaker 1: Denias started to where she is now is like this
Speaker 1: is really messed up. And I actually started like feeling
Speaker 1: some type of way. So the Battle bat Battle of
Speaker 1: Winter felt like I was standing up like palm sweating
Speaker 1: the whole deal. I didn't have that last night. I
Speaker 1: wasn't he was worried about anybody I really cared about.
Speaker 1: They did. John wouldn't die last night. They already wouldn't
Speaker 1: die last night. I know you were a little bit
Speaker 1: nervous about that, but nobody cared about You don't really
Speaker 1: care abou anybody anymore. At this point, I thought that
Speaker 1: the way Jamie and so she went, I thought that
Speaker 1: was perfect everybody. Yeah, so bigger and better. She refused
Speaker 1: to leave. She never thought that they would come in
Speaker 1: her mind, and it ended up for Jamie the way
Speaker 1: he wanted it to end up. The it's a perfect way.
Speaker 1: They come into the world together, they leave the world together.
Speaker 1: That it was a fitting end too. And it's not
Speaker 1: like they all they just went down there to die,
Speaker 1: because if you remember, he was trying to escape, but
Speaker 1: all like the rocks and stuff had piled up, so
Speaker 1: ultimately he was trying to do with Terrian told him
Speaker 1: to do. He's like, get out of here, goes start
Speaker 1: a life somewhere else and do whatever. But it didn't.
Speaker 1: It didn't happen that way. So yeah, it was just
Speaker 1: pretty ironic. It was like poetic justice. I guess, you know,
Speaker 1: come into the world, lead the world together too. I
Speaker 1: understand that everyone wanted, like Searcy to have some kind
Speaker 1: of fear, some crazy death, like it has to be
Speaker 1: from Aria or Denis or something like that. But I
Speaker 1: thought it made sense. Yeah, you know, I get it,
Speaker 1: It made sense. I wanted somebody to I wanted somebody
Speaker 1: to get the revenge in the searcy. I really did.
Speaker 1: And that was that was part of the annoying me.
Speaker 1: The most that we didn't get, we didn't get that
Speaker 1: was taken from us my opinion, that was my problem.
Speaker 1: And then I know the other thing people are killing
Speaker 1: thrones over today, Matt the white horse at the end
Speaker 1: for Aria, like there's nobody left Aria and a white horse, Like,
Speaker 1: I know there's some symbolism there. I didn't really get
Speaker 1: it though, Yeah, no, I I tho't that was actually
Speaker 1: a good ending. The only thing it was mission was
Speaker 1: like a little John Denver take me home because she rode.
Speaker 1: But now look, I didn't have a problem with that.
Speaker 1: I thought it was kind of cool how Arias sees
Speaker 1: all the devastations she survived, you know, everything falling upon her,
Speaker 1: watching people get burned up, and I'm excited to see
Speaker 1: how what would happen is this final episode when John
Speaker 1: has to you know, basically when who come down to
Speaker 1: John has to take then Arius out of power. He
Speaker 1: knows he was wrong now and he must make that move.
Speaker 1: He he does, but will he that he you know,
Speaker 1: I don't. I don't know that he will. I don't
Speaker 1: know he does. And he goes back beyond the Wall
Speaker 1: or something those starts up the night to watch again.
Speaker 1: That's the other thing, that he could just go back
Speaker 1: there and just be like, I don't want to deal
Speaker 1: with this crap. I'm hang out with Torman. Beyond the
Speaker 1: Wall still feels like so much needs to happen and
Speaker 1: we only have one episode of left. Like that's probably
Speaker 1: my biggest issue with everything, is I wish we just
Speaker 1: had like five more episodes this season, or just the
Speaker 1: normal like earlier, the earlier season's World War all ten episodes.
Speaker 1: Like if we just had the normal ten episodes, that
Speaker 1: would be enough time to really kind of tell the
Speaker 1: rest of this story that budget got blown up with
Speaker 1: because remember, like the earlier battle down in Kings Landing,
Speaker 1: they didn't even show that you just sure, you just
Speaker 1: try and wake up. But he had the acting on
Speaker 1: his face and all that. So I mean, I love you, Frank.
Speaker 1: I'm totally we need more. We need more, Greg, alright,
Speaker 1: mat So I'm about to order the box set, like
Speaker 1: right after this, I have an Amazon gift card. So
Speaker 1: what do we think happen? I'm gonna try to prolong
Speaker 1: not talking about baseball for the five minutes, but I
Speaker 1: mean we probably should. We only have on one Monday
Speaker 1: of doing this. That's true, it is only one more.
Speaker 1: So what what do you think happens Frank next week?
Speaker 1: Um Man, it's a great question. Um there's gonna be
Speaker 1: some kind of some kind of crazy one on one
Speaker 1: moment between John Snow and Denarius where like everything kind
Speaker 1: of just like crumbles, probably ends up killing her or something.
Speaker 1: I don't know that he ends up on the Iron throne.
Speaker 1: I don't think he wants it. Maybe we get like
Speaker 1: Sanza or like Kyrian, maybe both of them together. Maybe
Speaker 1: there's just no more Iron throne left, like we don't
Speaker 1: have to worry about that. They'll just kind of create
Speaker 1: a new way to rule the kingdoms or something like that.
Speaker 1: But I do think Danny goes out. Danny. Think Danny
Speaker 1: goes out and there no one ends up the Iron Yeah,
Speaker 1: like maybe just like a new way to rule or
Speaker 1: something like that. Like, let's not everyone has always been
Speaker 1: fighting for the Iron throne as long as we can remember.
Speaker 1: How about just no more iron throne something like that.
Speaker 1: So see what happens. Not your prediction, sir. I do
Speaker 1: think Danny ultimately does. I think that's just you know,
Speaker 1: I think that's what's culminated to. Uh is it John
Speaker 1: that takes her out or area? I don't think John
Speaker 1: are Arias should on the iron throne. I'm kind of
Speaker 1: with maybe it's a Sanza. You know, it's gonna be somebody.
Speaker 1: I think we you know that everybody expected John or
Speaker 1: Danny at the end, which I don't was way too
Speaker 1: predictable for this show. He can't end that way. I
Speaker 1: hope it doesn't end that way. And uh so, yeah,
Speaker 1: somebody different. And I don't see Brand because she's the
Speaker 1: three yard raven now. So a lot of people are
Speaker 1: saying today that doing that, it's not a lot of
Speaker 1: people thought that Brand was controlling the horse too, like
Speaker 1: he walked into the horse and brought it. I've not
Speaker 1: seen that. That would be cool. That would be that
Speaker 1: would answer a lot of questions. That'd be cool, that'd
Speaker 1: be cool what you got, Greg? I wanna ultimately, I
Speaker 1: want more Brand next week, like like he's that's another
Speaker 1: thing too. If we don't really know anything about him,
Speaker 1: Like that's where it comes into, like all I read
Speaker 1: the books and you can hopefully get some backstory about
Speaker 1: him because we don't really know anything. Like we've had
Speaker 1: a few like major scenes where like he looks into
Speaker 1: the past and stuff, but like we don't know the
Speaker 1: extent of his power. We have gotten there him more
Speaker 1: basically since he left the Freak Guy Raven the original
Speaker 1: three Ravens and we saw we have we haven't he
Speaker 1: anything from him? Yeh, he hasn't got anything. Yeah, well
Speaker 1: he worked into a few Ravens like during the Battle
Speaker 1: Winter and did nothing. I'm curious to see if it
Speaker 1: will reveal the conversation that he had an episode two
Speaker 1: by the Fire with and I think that was a crucial.
Speaker 1: I don't know how it was. I don't know that
Speaker 1: it was. I think I would be with you, Matt,
Speaker 1: like I want to know more about the conversation. But
Speaker 1: I feel like we're pasted it and then we're not
Speaker 1: going back. Yeah, I don't think we're gonna get anything.
Speaker 1: Terrian's gotta die, right, He's gotta I think so. I
Speaker 1: don't know how Danny isn't killed him yet. He talked
Speaker 1: about this. Sorry, I messed up again. I was wrong.
Speaker 1: Why Dad? How many? How many duelvers does this guy get? Yeah,
Speaker 1: exactly like our Floria. He just got screwing up over
Speaker 1: and over and over again. We just kept him on
Speaker 1: the show. Like this guy it is. It is wild
Speaker 1: that the last remaining Lantis there is Tyrian, unless unless
Speaker 1: brand is pregnant with another lattis there. Oh I don't know.
Speaker 1: I hadn't thought about that, but I did. I didn't
Speaker 1: realize that Tyrian was the last one too. Maybe maybe
Speaker 1: you know who knows. I'd like to see more of Gendre.
Speaker 1: I think this chance already just says this and goes
Speaker 1: hangs out with Gendri and Storm's end. You know, it's like, oh,
Speaker 1: I've seen enough like death and my life good. I'm good.
Speaker 1: I'm a person. I don't want to be about death anymore.
Speaker 1: I'm about to be about the limiting. I want to
Speaker 1: go hang out with my boyfriend. And Storm's end makes sense.
Speaker 1: That's what I thought originally. Yeah, after reading like book three,
Speaker 1: I thought it would be genuary and are ruling part
Speaker 1: of it for now? That how long does it take
Speaker 1: you to read these books? Because I want to get
Speaker 1: into it. You know, I don't like to read, man,
Speaker 1: That's the thing is, I don't like. I want to
Speaker 1: read an audio book of it. That's what That's what
Speaker 1: I need, man, like an audio recording, because like I
Speaker 1: just don't like to read. That's what it comes down to.
Speaker 1: What I would recommend is just buy. If you have
Speaker 1: an I Pad, you buy it on that you read
Speaker 1: it at night bed, and that was the best way
Speaker 1: to do it. They are very long. It's not like
Speaker 1: you know something you banging out a couple of days,
Speaker 1: at least not for me. I should. I tried to
Speaker 1: read the first book, Greg, and I got about halfway through,
Speaker 1: mind you, halfway through this book is like three pages
Speaker 1: and I'm not a reader like that. That was already
Speaker 1: the most that I've already read, like ever in one book.
Speaker 1: So I'm gonna try again, Man, I gotta try again
Speaker 1: because I need more. I don't like this happens with
Speaker 1: You'll Get You'll Get Off. I go on read it.
Speaker 1: I read everything that I need to know about it,
Speaker 1: Like I just get so emotionally invested that like I
Speaker 1: need more detail right now and show as good as
Speaker 1: the job that they are doing. Because I think they're
Speaker 1: they're doing the best with what they have. I need more.
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Speaker 1: I want to fly. That's Frank Stample. What song is
Speaker 1: this because it sounds like something you just fine what
Speaker 1: you want down. What's been gregy big weekend fantasy baseball.
Speaker 1: Lots of fab bidding last night as well. Where do
Speaker 1: you want to start. Let's start with the main event, right,
Speaker 1: That's that's where we typically start, the main event. That's
Speaker 1: where it's Frank and Matt in it together. How much
Speaker 1: times are going for um the players that people are
Speaker 1: in all the most and we'll see what Matt and
Speaker 1: Frank both thought. All the bids. The highest price bid
Speaker 1: it looks like this week in the main event it
Speaker 1: was for John Meets a week and waving wire. Uh.
Speaker 1: John Means went for a hundred and fifteen dollars back
Speaker 1: twenty three. So somebody who overspent a little bit John means,
Speaker 1: you like to buy it? I get it. I just
Speaker 1: and even Andrew Cashing has pitched very well over the
Speaker 1: last month. It's been multiple stocks for him as well.
Speaker 1: I just really don't see myself being in the Baltimore
Speaker 1: Orioles starting pitching business. A shout out to Frank and
Speaker 1: uh for Frank and his teammates, yes, for being sitting
Speaker 1: on the throne in that league right now, sitting on
Speaker 1: the iron Throne, I dropped like this week and that one,
Speaker 1: this guy long season. Yeah, I'm not I'm not here
Speaker 1: to count my chickens yet, but it's it's going well
Speaker 1: so far and and and it's all going on without
Speaker 1: Aaron Judge too, so it makes me feel a little
Speaker 1: bit better. But hopefully he can get healthy and and
Speaker 1: um see where we pick it up from there. But ultimately,
Speaker 1: you know, drafting Cody Bellinger, I think a lot of
Speaker 1: people who have Bellinger are are doing pretty well right
Speaker 1: now in their respect of leagues. And honestly, kind of
Speaker 1: lucked into Bellinger. It's not really someone he wasn't really
Speaker 1: an active target of mine. To me, he was just
Speaker 1: best hitter available in the third round. I knew I
Speaker 1: wanted to go a hitter at that point, and he
Speaker 1: was the best one available. Honestly, I wanted Anthony marendone more,
Speaker 1: but he didn't make it to me. So I ended
Speaker 1: up with Bellinger. And that's why things are sitting pretty
Speaker 1: right now. I do not agree with Matt. I mean,
Speaker 1: I like John Means and now I had a small
Speaker 1: bid on him. I had multiple small bids on him
Speaker 1: across my leagues this weekend. But I think the runner
Speaker 1: up bid of twenty is probably closer to what he
Speaker 1: should go for or what he should be valued at.
Speaker 1: I could see going as high as maybe like a
Speaker 1: forty dollar forty something dollar bit if you really needed
Speaker 1: starting pitching. And he has pitched well but ultimately still
Speaker 1: does pitch in Camden. UH doesn't get a ton of
Speaker 1: swings and mrs doesn't get a ton of strikeouts either,
Speaker 1: and and the winds could be hard to come by
Speaker 1: pitching for Baltimore. So I thought the d and fifteen
Speaker 1: dollar bid was a little bit of an overspend. But
Speaker 1: if you really need starting pitching. UM. The person who
Speaker 1: picked up John Means dropped Match Shoemaker, So it seems
Speaker 1: like they might have had some injuries on their team.
Speaker 1: So I guess that's why they wanted to be a
Speaker 1: little bit more great a shoemakers still doing on your team. Yeah,
Speaker 1: that's that's what it comes out. That's the better question. Yeah,
Speaker 1: we like we UM, We like John Means. Last week
Speaker 1: he was part of the conversation to pick up potentially
Speaker 1: for the weekend and for next week. So we just fine,
Speaker 1: UH with too much money. It sounds like what John
Speaker 1: Means went for, but overall, no issue with the player itself.
Speaker 1: Speaking guys like John means, yes, last week you brought
Speaker 1: U Lucas gi Alito and somebody you liked for a
Speaker 1: two start week and going forward, Matt, yesterday he was
Speaker 1: fantastic once again against Toronto. Will get more into that
Speaker 1: and what happened yesterday with the venture next hour, But
Speaker 1: Lucas gilto what do you see yesterday Matt? And can
Speaker 1: it continue? Uh? Look, can I continue? I'm optimistic. I
Speaker 1: don't think he's going to be lights out like he's
Speaker 1: been this week. You also got to take into the
Speaker 1: consideration the competition that he faced. As I've been saying
Speaker 1: all season, Toronto Blue Jays make mortal pitchers look immortal.
Speaker 1: I mean it's it really is amazing. How like you
Speaker 1: you get a bump up from that? I really do. Um,
Speaker 1: I'm encouraged. You know he had a start earlier in
Speaker 1: the week and you know he really just stuck to
Speaker 1: two pitches and he was actually after the game have
Speaker 1: come you know, you just stuck to throwing two pitches
Speaker 1: and he said they didn't make adjustment, so why should I?
Speaker 1: So he's obviously learning on the mound and when something's working,
Speaker 1: he sticks to it. He has more than two pitches
Speaker 1: that he can play around with. So it's it's it's
Speaker 1: a positive sign here. Yeah. And I want to piggyback
Speaker 1: off that a little bit too, because I mentioned that
Speaker 1: and we spoke about Glo earlier on in the week.
Speaker 1: What he did against the Indians, he was basically fastball,
Speaker 1: changeup combination only from four breaking pitches in that start.
Speaker 1: And then yesterday goes out and throws twenty two sliders,
Speaker 1: so again showing us that he does have that capability
Speaker 1: to throw the slider and throw it effectively. Again, I
Speaker 1: mean seven innings pitched, one and run a strikeouts. What
Speaker 1: I love most here is one walk. As good as
Speaker 1: he was pitching all season long, getting more swings and misses,
Speaker 1: getting more strikeouts, he was still struggling with walks. He
Speaker 1: had walks for night over four so to see only
Speaker 1: one walk yesterday in seven endings pitched. It was against
Speaker 1: the Toronto Blue Jays. But you know, since he's returned
Speaker 1: from injury, greg his last three starts, it's been the Indians,
Speaker 1: the Blue Jays. In the Red Sox at one point
Speaker 1: eight eight e r A with twenty three strikeouts in
Speaker 1: nineteen and a third endings pitched. I'm not ready to
Speaker 1: say like this is Lucas Geldo's breakout for Shore, but
Speaker 1: there are a lot of positive signs here. Yeah, you
Speaker 1: wanted to be early on it, because now everyone's starting
Speaker 1: to notice. We we talked about it last week, that
Speaker 1: he had a couple of good starts in your own
Speaker 1: You're like, maybe we ignore what he did the first
Speaker 1: two stars. We got blown up. Maybe things are going
Speaker 1: in the right direction. And I know you don't want
Speaker 1: to put your have her down and say it's coming.
Speaker 1: It's here right now. It's pitching pretty well. Yeah, and
Speaker 1: you see that with the swinging strike grade, his first
Speaker 1: pitch strike percentage both careers career highs right now. And
Speaker 1: you gotta know that confidence is in there too. What
Speaker 1: a young player finally puts it together. He built some confidence.
Speaker 1: It's not everything, but it's certainly house player like lu.
Speaker 1: When you hear what Matt said about about what Gilito
Speaker 1: said after the game, why do you only use two pitches? Uh?
Speaker 1: To a quote like that tells me that he's starting
Speaker 1: to mature a little bit more as a picture. Um again, look, prospects,
Speaker 1: don't they don't all figure it out right away. I
Speaker 1: mean we've we've seen this before. Sometimes it takes a
Speaker 1: few years. Sometimes it takes a change of scenery. Good thing,
Speaker 1: I mean good thing. The White Sox haven't given up
Speaker 1: on him. I don't think that they would have because
Speaker 1: they're still super young, they're not close to competing invest
Speaker 1: and he gave up so much to get him. So,
Speaker 1: you know, good job by the White Sox sticking by
Speaker 1: their guy, and he's starting to put to put it
Speaker 1: all together right now. It takes a few years sometimes
Speaker 1: for these prospects, right, yeah, it certainly does. What was
Speaker 1: really the opportunity was there when he had he had
Speaker 1: a really good start earlier in the year, and then
Speaker 1: he got injured and when he was on the I
Speaker 1: l I got him for for pretty much nothing, So
Speaker 1: it was worth a look just to see, of course.
Speaker 1: Uh and right now it's like friendship. Right now it's
Speaker 1: panned out. But as I mentioned, the competition and what's
Speaker 1: she going forward, But it's something to be excited about.
Speaker 1: Shout out to my pops man me and him. Had
Speaker 1: we had the time bid for Lucas Gilto in her
Speaker 1: home league three dollar bid out of a hundred in
Speaker 1: the middle of the week last week, and he actually
Speaker 1: won the tiebreakers, So good for you. Dead there you get,
Speaker 1: you get Leo and I don't must be nice and
Speaker 1: Tilto goes up against Toronto again this week, Greg, so
Speaker 1: you can feel good about I. So it's funny because
Speaker 1: I have Aaron Sanchez's and g Leado on the same
Speaker 1: team and they went get at each other yesterday. The
Speaker 1: Aarrin's Hedges start was wild because he loved those five runs.
Speaker 1: But he's got a loving guys, so I believe they'll
Speaker 1: face each other later this week again, so that'll be good.
Speaker 1: I'm looking forward to that. Other big time pick ups
Speaker 1: this week, a couple of mediocre players in Tommy Lostella
Speaker 1: and Derrek Didrick both went in the low sixties back
Speaker 1: in the bit of both was thirty three bucks replace
Speaker 1: some level players matth that you probably you just need
Speaker 1: to fill some holes. That's what these teams did. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I love Primus. Stella got to bat in front of
Speaker 1: Mike Trout and leadoff last he had had double dog game. Look,
Speaker 1: I mean, I don't know if I would have spent
Speaker 1: sixty Stella, I would have you know, I had maybe
Speaker 1: a couple of very small conditional bids on him, and
Speaker 1: Dietrich got the home runs he's you know, been playing
Speaker 1: you know, uh in the platoon role. He really had
Speaker 1: ten on the year. The guy I went after, though,
Speaker 1: was Mack Williamson. Okay, how now, Frank, you know Williamson,
Speaker 1: guy you're met together in Mac Williamson. What are you
Speaker 1: saying about him that? Well? I was in on him
Speaker 1: last season and then unfortunately the uh concussion and everything
Speaker 1: just derailed it, shut it down. Here was a guy
Speaker 1: that you know in the mid thirty rounds of the
Speaker 1: draft and hold like the draft champions they have at
Speaker 1: the NBC, I was taken every time just thinking he
Speaker 1: could get an opportunity at some point because the Giants
Speaker 1: outfield was just horrible, and the Giants, I believe, de
Speaker 1: fade him. But nobody picked him up, and he went
Speaker 1: to the Miners and now he's back. He had he
Speaker 1: had four homers in twenty four hours last week reading
Speaker 1: the Miners in one game and then one in Colorado. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and so Matt pick up for twenty one dollars out
Speaker 1: of a thousand, will we both have very a lot
Speaker 1: less than a thousand by now, which is gonna be
Speaker 1: interesting that I wanted to talk to you a little
Speaker 1: bit about Matt, like, how do you kind of finagle
Speaker 1: your way around bad bidding at this point? Because Matt
Speaker 1: has a hundred fifty three dollars left for the season,
Speaker 1: I have a hundred and seventy nine, so we're in
Speaker 1: a similar boat. He got the winning bid of mcweamson
Speaker 1: that the backup bid was actually me at eight dollars.
Speaker 1: So I didn't bid more than seventeen dollars on any
Speaker 1: players this week. And the main guy that I ended
Speaker 1: up when he was was Warmer Flora's because he's hot
Speaker 1: right now. So I wanted first seventeen and the runner
Speaker 1: up was eleven. But that was basically my max, Like
Speaker 1: I wasn't going higher than seventeen for any players, and
Speaker 1: that's pretty much how I have to play it out
Speaker 1: from from here on out, maybe being less than that
Speaker 1: because I only have a hundred and seventy nine dollars
Speaker 1: for the rest of the season. Greg, and I gotta
Speaker 1: make it last. You gotta make it. There's no zero
Speaker 1: dollar bids right now. I don't think, Yeah, I gotta
Speaker 1: be gotta be strategic about this. I gotta make it last.
Speaker 1: You really hard to keep him to come up. All right,
Speaker 1: keep we're rooting for your kids out. He's you know,
Speaker 1: he's got a D. He's in first place. Now, he's
Speaker 1: you know, he's got Aaron Judge is hurt. I think
Speaker 1: he's in a good spot here. I think I appreciate that, man.
Speaker 1: I get the seal of approval, Maddie Modi's big man.
Speaker 1: How are you doing the overall? Uh? Last night checked
Speaker 1: out was like or something like that. So we'll see
Speaker 1: what happens. Hopefully could creep up a little bit more,
Speaker 1: make things interesting. But yeah, so far, so good for
Speaker 1: now was my top last night at congratulations thanks man. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean it's not the most exciting thing of all time.
Speaker 1: I knew Will would be good soon enough. He's hot, man.
Speaker 1: I think it's like the last two weeks he's betting
Speaker 1: over man. A lot of people like to coming into
Speaker 1: the season. He's getting an opportunity to play every day.
Speaker 1: It's not like Arizona is loaded with a bunch of talent.
Speaker 1: So I think as long as he performs, we'll get
Speaker 1: the opportunity to play every day. And you know what,
Speaker 1: if he gives me a little bit of pop some
Speaker 1: batting average. I mean, that's all I'm asking from the guy.
Speaker 1: He's I think he's my quarring field right now, so
Speaker 1: I don't I don't need him to be one of
Speaker 1: my best players. I think that's really important though, R
Speaker 1: right here, just to just to stop it. Getting guys
Speaker 1: like this, like uh Wilman, Flores and stuff that we
Speaker 1: thought might be better at the beginning of the season,
Speaker 1: but their first three weeks or month wasn't good. But
Speaker 1: now the last two weeks they're kind of the player
Speaker 1: we thought. It dictates that you know, it's not early,
Speaker 1: but it's far from late, and it's still kinda early
Speaker 1: in in some sences. So you know, you guys, you
Speaker 1: if they're out there that you liked and you see
Speaker 1: them making improvements, you get them for what you got
Speaker 1: them for seventeen dollars or something. Mac Williams Sin's the
Speaker 1: guy I kind of liked, but he didn't have a job,
Speaker 1: and then he started hitting in the miners and who
Speaker 1: else is gonna hit home runs in San Francisco, I
Speaker 1: don't know. So for twenty bucks, that might turn out
Speaker 1: to be something good, and if it doesn't, it was
Speaker 1: twenty dollars. Yeah, and I actually drafted mc williamson in
Speaker 1: this league. It was either round twenty nine, round thirties, so, um,
Speaker 1: you know, Matt and my self there there there, we
Speaker 1: saw something in mac williamson that we liked. He was
Speaker 1: crushing it in the minors last year. Um, he's always
Speaker 1: kind of had power potentials, just's never really had a
Speaker 1: fair shake at playing time, and it looks like hopefully
Speaker 1: now he'll get it with the Giants. Man, I wanted
Speaker 1: to throw this back your way. I had the same
Speaker 1: bid on Wilmer Flores and Albert pool Holes, and then
Speaker 1: today I woke up and I saw that I got. Well.
Speaker 1: Last night, when I saw that I got Wilmer, I
Speaker 1: was kind of kicking myself because Albert Pools is hot
Speaker 1: right now, and who would you rather have? Basically, would
Speaker 1: you rather have Wilmer Floras or Albert Pools right now?
Speaker 1: I think I'd rather have Liberal Floras and he going forward,
Speaker 1: he's got you know, you'll have multiple eligibility for you
Speaker 1: and stuff. I don't know if pool Holes can hold up.
Speaker 1: I do think the Diamondbacks really want to give him
Speaker 1: a shot and a real look, and they're in position
Speaker 1: to do that. So look, I don't see pool Holes
Speaker 1: at the end of the year batting better than two thirty,
Speaker 1: you know, in that range, maybe to forty caps it
Speaker 1: out and he'll have some nice times, you know, nice
Speaker 1: weeks here in there. I don't think the body can hold,
Speaker 1: all right. I was just you know, Pools is hot
Speaker 1: right now, and I mean, maybe I'm letting my emotion
Speaker 1: get a little bit more into it because Pools is
Speaker 1: just a player that I've always liked. You know, you
Speaker 1: love to watch the guy and he's he's hot again.
Speaker 1: He had like a multi home run game in the
Speaker 1: past week too, So it's just fun to watch pool Holes.
Speaker 1: And I thought that I would regret doing that. But
Speaker 1: all right, coming me down a little bit, it's not
Speaker 1: that I dislike warm or flooras Again, I had the
Speaker 1: same had the same bit on both those guys. But
Speaker 1: Wolves is hot. If you're in a deeper league and
Speaker 1: you need a corner infielder, he's out there. The other
Speaker 1: the other player that you were really ann went into
Speaker 1: the closures in the moment. But the other player that
Speaker 1: you were really in on everywhere this week, Frank, it
Speaker 1: was Nick Pavetta, and you had Texas Floria and I
Speaker 1: both like Nick Pavetta. Nick Pavetta, Nick Pavetta, Vinny Alaska's
Speaker 1: goes in the d l um, which is a shame.
Speaker 1: I feel terrible. Well, we did have a funeral for
Speaker 1: Vince of Alaska's fantasy value last week, so he might
Speaker 1: have heard that, and and he was so emotionally scarred, Greg,
Speaker 1: he had to go on the I l so sorry.
Speaker 1: In Alaska's rest in peace, your fantasy die, Rest in power,
Speaker 1: n rest in power. All right, So because of that,
Speaker 1: you expect Nick Paventa to come back up joy rejoined
Speaker 1: the rotation and well perform as you kind of expected
Speaker 1: before the season. Again, what makes you start believing in
Speaker 1: Prevenda Again? It's not that I expect him to necessarily
Speaker 1: do what everyone expected, but a lot of people had
Speaker 1: this guy pegged as a breakout of the top forty
Speaker 1: starting pitcher and to be able to pick him up
Speaker 1: off the waiver wire for eight dollars out of a thousand, Greg, like,
Speaker 1: there wasn't even a backup. B. This is just me
Speaker 1: taking a stab at someone who I still believe does
Speaker 1: have upside. He has a lot. He shown me a
Speaker 1: lot of flashes of John Gray and something I've talked
Speaker 1: about before. Is he ever able going to really be
Speaker 1: able to put it all together the same way that
Speaker 1: we want John Gray to be something, But he's never
Speaker 1: really been able to put it all together. I do
Speaker 1: have my concerns when it comes to PAVETDA, but in
Speaker 1: a fifteen team mixed league, still, do you think he
Speaker 1: has a side? I think he has strike out upside.
Speaker 1: Is he definitely going to get a job back in
Speaker 1: the rotation? I'm not so sure. They had cold Irvan
Speaker 1: pitch yesterday and he pitched seven innings of one run ball,
Speaker 1: So we'll see what happens here. But I just thought
Speaker 1: that there was too much upside there to kind of
Speaker 1: just let it sit out on the waiver wire. And
Speaker 1: for eight dollars out of a thousand, Greg, I mean,
Speaker 1: that's nothing whatever, So if you know, I'll take a
Speaker 1: shot on the upside here. Look, if he's not called
Speaker 1: up in the next couple of weeks, I'll probably end
Speaker 1: up cutting him again. But for eight dollars as a
Speaker 1: Saven'm willing to take all right the Pavetta anymo, were
Speaker 1: you in on the bidding roll for Prevetta? Like across
Speaker 1: the landscape? I was I had. He was my conditional bitch.
Speaker 1: I didn't think I was getting Mack Williamson for one,
Speaker 1: so I got him, and Cedric Mullins is the other
Speaker 1: guy I put in for ust. I do think he's
Speaker 1: gonna come up in a little bit and or for
Speaker 1: a nice a little combo here has played better in
Speaker 1: the miners, so I definitely think they're Prevetta. It's worth it.
Speaker 1: Like you said, if he's not up in a couple
Speaker 1: of weeks, then um, then you can just cut him.
Speaker 1: I probably had him at like six team dollars or
Speaker 1: it was definitely over ten. So if I didn't get
Speaker 1: one of those two guys, I would have got Paventa. Yeah,
Speaker 1: And so far in the minors since he's been down,
Speaker 1: he's made four starts, he's got a three point six
Speaker 1: zero ear A, he's got a one point zero eight
Speaker 1: whip and he has he's got thirty four strikeouts and
Speaker 1: twenty five innings pitched. So he's doing what you'd expect
Speaker 1: him to do in the miners. If he bounces back,
Speaker 1: but eight dollars, it's fine. Like if you're in a
Speaker 1: deeper league and you know you just have someone that's
Speaker 1: wasting away on the bench and you meet starting pitching
Speaker 1: at some point, then it's just there's just another one
Speaker 1: of those stats candidates. Absolutely for eight dollars. Caution nothing
Speaker 1: in the main event, where it's you have a lot
Speaker 1: of depth. You know, there's a lot of roster spots.
Speaker 1: It's a movie you can make in a swell team league,
Speaker 1: you probably you probably can't do it there that before
Speaker 1: we hit the break. One player that you got in
Speaker 1: the main event was Cedric Mullins Why are you know
Speaker 1: Cedric Mullins Man. Yeah, No, I think he's you know,
Speaker 1: he's making some improvements in the miners. I don't see
Speaker 1: how he doesn't. I'm back up on this team. He's
Speaker 1: got speed, he's got some pop, and you know, I
Speaker 1: don't see the orioles they've got. Dominic Smith Jr. Has
Speaker 1: been very good. Dwight excuse me, I'd like to met guy.
Speaker 1: My uh. Dwight Smith Junior has been very good. Have
Speaker 1: him on a team with Makaro. I think you're gonna
Speaker 1: see Mullins there. You know, they have to take a
Speaker 1: look and see if this team is not going to
Speaker 1: be good. So he's a player that I think hash
Speaker 1: value going forward. Yeah, centric Mollins was someone that I
Speaker 1: drafted as well in a few fifteen teamers. Greg got
Speaker 1: off to that brutal start, but again it's the Orioles
Speaker 1: are are searching to see what they have right now,
Speaker 1: to see if they have any uh mainstays for the
Speaker 1: long term, some of these young players. So I think
Speaker 1: I agree with that. I think he's gonna get an
Speaker 1: opportunity to play again. He's shouna be back sooner rather
Speaker 1: than later. Austin Hayes has returned from injury and the
Speaker 1: miners as well, so keep an eye on him when
Speaker 1: we come back. The closer situation as well as what
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Speaker 1: it rain like Hawaii did. Were talking about that, those nuts,
Speaker 1: by the it was and it was going on. Like
Speaker 1: the way that I found out was that I just
Speaker 1: got like a Bleacher Report video sent to my phone
Speaker 1: in the middle of Game of Thrones. I wanted to
Speaker 1: watch the end of the game, but I couldn't. So
Speaker 1: you want to hear something really funny. So Judy was
Speaker 1: coming home. I was with my mom. She was with
Speaker 1: her mom. So she was coming home and was going
Speaker 1: to be home at like ten to nine, and I
Speaker 1: knew she was gonna just like go walk into the
Speaker 1: bedroom with lights off. I knew I was gonna have
Speaker 1: to have a conversation when she walked in. There's no
Speaker 1: way I just avoid that. So was you know what,
Speaker 1: let me just watch the end of the game. And
Speaker 1: I was like, afterwards, I'll just ignore my phone, No
Speaker 1: big deal, And I do what Matt does, right, Matt
Speaker 1: start a little bit later, um, and I didn't month starting.
Speaker 1: It's a ten or fifteen minutes later. Just tell me
Speaker 1: all this, all this stuff she's telling me. Then I
Speaker 1: since then, of course, Frank. So I'm sitting here, my
Speaker 1: TV is right in front of me. She's said where
Speaker 1: you are to my left. So she's talking to me
Speaker 1: about like wedding stuff, and I'm honestly going like this.
Speaker 1: My face is going left to right, left to right
Speaker 1: constantly because it's now the fourth quarter. This game is
Speaker 1: tied and it's close, and she just starts setting really
Speaker 1: mad and she's like, why is this more stupid basketball
Speaker 1: game more important? What about Thrones? And it was like,
Speaker 1: I'd love to watch Thrones, but I need to fis
Speaker 1: this basketball game first? And we're having this conversation and
Speaker 1: she just getting so angry. I didn't even think it's
Speaker 1: like a serious conversation. It's like we're having a conversation.
Speaker 1: Was I don't care a serious it is. You're clearly
Speaker 1: not paying attention to anything. I'm saying. I know you've
Speaker 1: been in this situation before, and I'm like, I am,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna pay attention to this Game seven basketball game
Speaker 1: as well. It's it's it's game seven. Yeah, we do
Speaker 1: talk about the NBA on and I can't excuse anymore. Hey, yeah,
Speaker 1: So she goes shut it off. She goes shut it off,
Speaker 1: and I'm not shutting it off. I'll pause it like
Speaker 1: I'm not shutting it off. So after Butler drives and
Speaker 1: hits the left up with eight seconds left or four
Speaker 1: seconds left, paused, I finished the conversation, which takes like
Speaker 1: a half hour. It's now when she stores into the bedroom,
Speaker 1: I pressed play. I watched the Quai shop, like, oh
Speaker 1: my god, this is gretzy. So I go in there
Speaker 1: and make sure like I'm not in trouble there. That
Speaker 1: takes a fifteen minutes. Oh my god, Like how long
Speaker 1: is all? It's good? It's like ten fifteen now, how
Speaker 1: long is throats something. I go, like ninety minutes. She
Speaker 1: was ninety minutes. I'm like, yeah, she's oh man, I'm sorry.
Speaker 1: I'm like, yeah, yes, shouldn't be regulating Long. So that's
Speaker 1: why he left. That's why you guys thought I went
Speaker 1: to bed. At the text we we normally do our
Speaker 1: fabilating Metu and Florio together owns. I said, well, Greg
Speaker 1: probably sleeping already. Boom Greg with the text back here
Speaker 1: he is, he's ready to go. It was literally at
Speaker 1: like eleven forty where I sent the text back. What
Speaker 1: you get doing doing awake? I'm like, man, I just
Speaker 1: finished Thrones. So that's why I from like eleven forty
Speaker 1: twelve ten, I was in the mix, and then you
Speaker 1: got down to like relievers. I've never heard of science.
Speaker 1: Stop answer speaking over leaders the people have never heard
Speaker 1: of before. Where they have heard of them, they matter.
Speaker 1: Steve c. Scheck and Chris Martin. We're the two bigger
Speaker 1: leavers that went off the board this week. Martin obviously
Speaker 1: in Texas where Sewan where uh Shaun Kelly went on
Speaker 1: the i L last week. Josie Clark hasn't gotten his
Speaker 1: job back yet. Chris Martin has done a nice job
Speaker 1: in Texas page. Your stroke goes on the on the
Speaker 1: I l for the Cubs and we think that Steve
Speaker 1: c Scheck is probably the favorite there, although Joe Madden
Speaker 1: has obviously not officially named a closer. In the main event,
Speaker 1: Chris Martin goes for thirty seven, Steve c Check goes
Speaker 1: for thirteen. You got SI check for thirteen. The backup
Speaker 1: bid on Martin was thirteen. Is that I'll see you? Yes?
Speaker 1: So thirteen was the number you put Martin ghost for
Speaker 1: significantly more at thirty seven. Matt, what do you think?
Speaker 1: What do you think of both bids and what do
Speaker 1: you think of both relievers? Look, Martin, he's not a
Speaker 1: good job. He did a good job last year. I
Speaker 1: think it's the clerk's job. And I think he's gonna
Speaker 1: get it back pretty soon. I think they really look
Speaker 1: they signed him, but they could always move him. We
Speaker 1: did it last season, uh with Brad Hand after getting
Speaker 1: a contract, So I think that's a real possibility there.
Speaker 1: And do she said bid? I think that's that's a
Speaker 1: perfect bid that Frank did and one uh Carl Edwards
Speaker 1: pitch better since coming up. I think he's a possible
Speaker 1: option as well, and we'll see if she said get
Speaker 1: another opportunity and closes it, it could be a fantastic
Speaker 1: uh bid by Frank. So I don't have a problem
Speaker 1: with really either one. I don't know if I would
Speaker 1: have spent thirty something on Martin, but I would have
Speaker 1: put two. Yeah. Again, I was really surprised to get him. Actually,
Speaker 1: I was surprised to get c c Check for only
Speaker 1: thirteen dollars. I know that there's a lot of mouths
Speaker 1: there with the Chicago Cubs right now. Brandon Kinsel or
Speaker 1: another name we haven't even mentioned yet, has pitched really
Speaker 1: well so far this season. Um yeah, and you know
Speaker 1: it could be a mix and match here. But you know,
Speaker 1: Madden said coming into the year that he didn't have
Speaker 1: a closer either, and for the most part it seems
Speaker 1: like it was. It was Pedro Strope. And then last
Speaker 1: night we see Steve si Check pick up to save
Speaker 1: against Milwaukee Brewers. So I don't have huge expectations. I
Speaker 1: do think there's a little bit more staying power for
Speaker 1: someone like c Check. For example, if he in verse
Speaker 1: the next five saved for them, maybe he just ends
Speaker 1: up being the closer for the rest of the season.
Speaker 1: I mean, crazier things have happened in fantasy baseball, and
Speaker 1: I do agree with Matt that I think at some
Speaker 1: point jose Laclerk does get his job back, So I
Speaker 1: think it's more of a shorter term thing for Chris Martin. UM.
Speaker 1: And for those wondering about Brandon Morrow, we kind spoke
Speaker 1: about him a little bit on Friday with Florio. There
Speaker 1: hasn't been any update on him. I'd be surprised because
Speaker 1: we see him before the second half of the season.
Speaker 1: So that's basically what's going on with the Cubs. They
Speaker 1: could be in on the Craig Kimbrell bidding as well,
Speaker 1: Mbrell whatever Craig Kimberll bidding once the MLB drafts over
Speaker 1: that early June, but that remains to be seen. I mean,
Speaker 1: the Braves are probably gonna be in on that as well.
Speaker 1: You know, the Tampa Bay Rays have kept contact with him,
Speaker 1: or at least that's what I've read, so I'll see
Speaker 1: what happens. I think there might be a little bit
Speaker 1: more staying power with a guy like c Check over
Speaker 1: Chris Martin. Yeah, I don't really feel either of them,
Speaker 1: to be honest with you. Let just think like he
Speaker 1: has closing experience, and if he performs, why wouldn't they
Speaker 1: eat performed? No? No, I mean he's never been a
Speaker 1: lights out relievery, but I mean, for whatever reason this year,
Speaker 1: I mean, if he can, if he converts five in
Speaker 1: a row. It was to say that John Madden isn't
Speaker 1: just like, all right, he's my clothing. He's performing well,
Speaker 1: John Madden won't Joe Madden might all right, I'm all
Speaker 1: over the place with my head is in a funk
Speaker 1: because is of a game of throw. I don't. I
Speaker 1: don't think either of these situations are probably long term, um,
Speaker 1: but well worth the bids, of course. And I dropped Swarzak,
Speaker 1: and I would employ everyone like everyone else speaking of
Speaker 1: pretty much everywhere. I like that too. You mentioned that Friday, Yeah,
Speaker 1: I like I like Hunter Strickland as a as a
Speaker 1: sneaky ad right now, especially if you're playing deeper leagues
Speaker 1: you need saves. Um, he's believe he's gonna resume throwing
Speaker 1: today and he's eligible to come off the I L.
Speaker 1: In late May, he was transferred to the sixty Day
Speaker 1: I L. But remember that happened like at the end
Speaker 1: of March. So sixty days is the end of May,
Speaker 1: which will be when he's eligible. And remember early on
Speaker 1: in the season, the reason everyone liked him is because
Speaker 1: he didn't really have much competition, and that's basically in
Speaker 1: the case for Seattle. Swarzak hasn't been great. Rowan, it's
Speaker 1: Elias Elias. I think he's more of like a long reliever,
Speaker 1: maybe a multi ending guy. Maybe they just use him
Speaker 1: against lefties. I don't know that he's like a legit closer.
Speaker 1: So if Hunter Strickland comes back and and he's healthy,
Speaker 1: I think he's the closer at least maybe until the
Speaker 1: trade deadline if they try to move him. So it
Speaker 1: seems like he's expected back late May. Greg I like
Speaker 1: that movement. I mean, he's gotta he's gotta throw with setbacks,
Speaker 1: but I figured for a couple of dollars, it's it's
Speaker 1: worth it. Okay. The um big pitching as prospect if
Speaker 1: you will. That was coming off the board this weekend
Speaker 1: in leagues was Corbyn Martin, with Cole mc hugh sent
Speaker 1: to the bullpen. Martin got the first shot at replacing him.
Speaker 1: In his debut, he was very very good and given
Speaker 1: the Houston pedigree, given uh, how good they are this year.
Speaker 1: People are rightfully so interested in Corbin Martin. He went
Speaker 1: for in our fifteen team g d D out of
Speaker 1: a hundred a lot, so that's in your own leagues.
Speaker 1: He went for ten ten dollars and seven dollars out
Speaker 1: of team league, so little bit different. You're gonna be
Speaker 1: more aggressive in the fifteen teamers seven to ten bucks,
Speaker 1: so seven percent um in the twelve teen leagues, both
Speaker 1: Frank and Matt, I'll start with you, Frank, how good
Speaker 1: do you think Corbyn Martin can be? How good are
Speaker 1: the peripherals? Will he stay in the rotation? Obviously, Forest
Speaker 1: Whitley kind of looms, as does Josh jameson having his
Speaker 1: opportunity in the rotation. What do you think of the
Speaker 1: Corbyn Martin pick up pick up by those picked him up?
Speaker 1: I like it. I mean, this is a guy that's
Speaker 1: been very successful in the minor leagues throughout his career.
Speaker 1: He's pitched a hundred and seventy nine endings in the
Speaker 1: miners across all different levels. Rookie ball, a ball, high
Speaker 1: a ball, double A triple A this year and he
Speaker 1: has a hundred ninety three strikeouts in a hundred and
Speaker 1: seventy nine endings, pitch two point three one e r
Speaker 1: a zero point nine nine whip. The strikeout stuff is legit.
Speaker 1: If you watched him yesterday, basically used fastball, change up, curveball,
Speaker 1: um you know, mid mid to high nineties with the
Speaker 1: fastball as well. He's their fifth rank prospect according to
Speaker 1: MLB dot Com. I think there's a lot to like here.
Speaker 1: Greg and the Astros have done very well in terms
Speaker 1: of developing starting pitchers. They were able to take Derek
Speaker 1: Cole from the Pirates and figure him out. Even Verlander,
Speaker 1: as old as he's been, as old as he is,
Speaker 1: he comes over and has a career year last year.
Speaker 1: This is a guy that's had a storied career in Houston.
Speaker 1: Astros find a way to make him even better. So
Speaker 1: I think that Corbyn Martin's in a good spot right now.
Speaker 1: I don't have a problem with like the eight to
Speaker 1: ten percent range. If he pitches well this week, um
Speaker 1: next week, he's probably gonna go for even more in
Speaker 1: the NFBC. He wasn't available last night, but overall I
Speaker 1: like him and like we say, with a lot of prospects, Greg,
Speaker 1: as long as he performs, I think he'll stay in
Speaker 1: the rotation although there is a lot of competition behind him.
Speaker 1: There's definitely a competition behind him. Not how good do
Speaker 1: you believe he could be, Like a lot of things.
Speaker 1: French said, I'll just put you back over that he's
Speaker 1: he's been. He's pitched really well in the minor leagues. Uh.
Speaker 1: He was one of their, you know, top pitching prospects.
Speaker 1: So this isn't, uh, you know, really like a surprise,
Speaker 1: especially Witley wasn't performing up the standards. But I think
Speaker 1: the the plan with Whitley all along was never to
Speaker 1: call him up before the first week of June. I
Speaker 1: think they have a specific plan for Writley and the
Speaker 1: reasons I was never in on Colin MQ and Brad Peacock,
Speaker 1: even though there were reasonably priced as I thought that,
Speaker 1: you know, they would be out of the rotation at
Speaker 1: some point. Whitley's already lost it. Peacock I think is
Speaker 1: probably best for them in a multi inning role. We've
Speaker 1: seen what he can do in relief, and I think
Speaker 1: Writley will take that job. The question here is can Martin.
Speaker 1: If Martin performs, like Frank said this Saturday, it's gonna
Speaker 1: be uh, some insane bidding come Sunday night in the NFPC,
Speaker 1: and I think he'll keep off. His job is to
Speaker 1: hold off Josh James, who may be destined for a
Speaker 1: for a relief roll this year. So yeah, no, I
Speaker 1: mean it's he's got the Red Sox on I believe Saturday,
Speaker 1: so that's gonna be much CTV for weekend bidders at
Speaker 1: Boston too, So it's a really tough spot to be
Speaker 1: in for for Corbin Martin. If I did pick him up,
Speaker 1: I would probably take away and see approach this week.
Speaker 1: I know a lot of people a stably spend money,
Speaker 1: a decent amount of money on him to get him.
Speaker 1: But again, at Boston, that's that's a pretty legit test,
Speaker 1: and I wouldn't feel bad about him performing well if
Speaker 1: he's on my bench because it's kind of like a
Speaker 1: prove it to me start. So if he proves that
Speaker 1: he can do it against Boston, then moving forward after that,
Speaker 1: you know that this is a guy that you could
Speaker 1: get in your lineup. But ultimately I think I would
Speaker 1: I would try to keep him out for the start,
Speaker 1: just against Boston, you're gonna want to take the weight
Speaker 1: and see I just don't think one star is certainly
Speaker 1: in the road league. Is is worth it? Like, let's
Speaker 1: see what you can become if you're in a twelve team.
Speaker 1: If you're in a twelve team head to head league,
Speaker 1: obviously you have to make a decision. It's a little
Speaker 1: bit different. If you're in a damily transaction league. Obviously
Speaker 1: make a decision closer when your matchup is this weekend. Um,
Speaker 1: if you have to make decision today, I'm begging him,
Speaker 1: it's just not worth it. I think, as President Trump said, Matt,
Speaker 1: nobody's hotter than the Boston Red Sox is like handed it? Um,
Speaker 1: all right? Uh, this week we got one, three, four, five,
Speaker 1: six teams with seven games Orioles, Tigers and Brewers, Twins, Phillies,
Speaker 1: and Pirates, and then a couple of teams with fives,
Speaker 1: including the Red Sox, Rockies, Daughters, Marlins, Giants, and raised Matt.
Speaker 1: The two start pitchers that you like ore who I mean,
Speaker 1: it's it's definitely a it's matchup base. And that was
Speaker 1: kind of the reasons why I like Gildo coming into
Speaker 1: last week, marking Perez was somebody, I mean, I like
Speaker 1: Peresidan and draft season, but with somebody that you really
Speaker 1: had to be in on and Uh Trent Thornton of
Speaker 1: the Toronto Blue Jays believe it or not as a
Speaker 1: terrific uh two step lined up for him. Uh. Kyle
Speaker 1: Gibson has a really good two step. I don't know
Speaker 1: if I mean two steps. This is great and it's
Speaker 1: always been. Maddie mos I love it. It's a it's
Speaker 1: a it's d Matthew reference one more kind of guy
Speaker 1: that I really don't like to in doors. But for
Speaker 1: this week in AFT team in Ronaldo Lopez is set
Speaker 1: up for success. I don't know if you can execute it,
Speaker 1: but he set up for success. Yeah, a lot of
Speaker 1: people like Ronaldo Lopez going into this week. That was
Speaker 1: the one name that I've had that is out there
Speaker 1: in most leagues that could be very very beneficial. The
Speaker 1: same matchups that Gelto just had last week. And look
Speaker 1: what Gledo did, so he has Cleveland and Toronto. Very
Speaker 1: interesting that they play the same two teams in series
Speaker 1: in back to back weeks. You actually see that UM
Speaker 1: more more often now, I would say, Frank because Um,
Speaker 1: for whatever reason, when you're not in division, you kind
Speaker 1: of play like you just get that match up out
Speaker 1: of the way. It's like the white such blue is
Speaker 1: just the only time they're playing the season, So just
Speaker 1: you I don't know why you see a lot. Yeah,
Speaker 1: they were talking about it on the Yankees broadcast to
Speaker 1: how coming up they're either gonna be done with their
Speaker 1: season long series against like the Royals or some other
Speaker 1: American League Central team, and they said, how, how it's
Speaker 1: not fair because you know, the Yankees haven't been all
Speaker 1: season long and their entire series is gonna be over
Speaker 1: against that team for for the season. So this is
Speaker 1: what it is. The scheduling has been a little bit weird. Um,
Speaker 1: what happens Matt? What about Mike Fires? Right, so he's
Speaker 1: coming off the no hitter, He's at Seattle, an offense
Speaker 1: that has cooled down a lot, um, not a terribly,
Speaker 1: you know, it's actually a favorable place to pitch in
Speaker 1: in Seattle, and then at Detroit, so pretty good matchups here.
Speaker 1: But it's Mike Fires. So what do we do with this? Yeah?
Speaker 1: And the big thing is I never like starting a
Speaker 1: picture off of like a no hitter or a perfect game.
Speaker 1: They went drown a ton of pictures. Not that it
Speaker 1: really matters, but with Fires and stuff, the matchups are
Speaker 1: there for him, he's just mr inconsistent. He's had a
Speaker 1: good matchups before and he hasn't performed. I can see
Speaker 1: it in a fifteen. In a twelve, I mean, I
Speaker 1: don't think I'm doing it. In in a twelve and
Speaker 1: a fifteen, you can make the argument to do it,
Speaker 1: but you know what happens. I mean, I've smirched his
Speaker 1: name last week and he went out threw no hitter,
Speaker 1: So maybe you should be smirching again for those people
Speaker 1: who are starting Mike Fires this week. Matt Normally, something
Speaker 1: we'll say about starting pitchers here regarding Fantasy Baseball is
Speaker 1: if you can't start them on there do to start
Speaker 1: a week, then they're probably droppable. And I've been getting
Speaker 1: a lot of questions about specifically one start on pitcher
Speaker 1: who does have two starts this week, but they are
Speaker 1: really really tough matchups at Boston at Philly for Kyle Freeland.
Speaker 1: Is this the end for Kyle Freeland? I would imagine
Speaker 1: you don't want to start him? Is he droppable? I
Speaker 1: have him in two spots this year because he was
Speaker 1: real just ridiculously cheap. He's on my bench and fifteen teamers.
Speaker 1: I'm not cutting him in a fifteen teamer. I think
Speaker 1: he use a guy they can give you innings, and
Speaker 1: it's crazy. He's not at cores and I'm not starting
Speaker 1: him and all that, but Boston and Philadelphia beyond terrifying.
Speaker 1: So I'm not gonna do it, and I'll give you
Speaker 1: one guy who I'm gonna start. He's got a really
Speaker 1: tough matchup this week. But even if you didn't start him,
Speaker 1: if you had that luxury where you didn't have to,
Speaker 1: Brandon Woodruffe is somebody regardless with happens this week, I'd
Speaker 1: be in on barning for the rest of the season. Yeah.
Speaker 1: We spoke about Woodroff last week as well, Greg, And
Speaker 1: you see the ownership percentage on CBS all the way
Speaker 1: up to eight percent. And I remember looking at that
Speaker 1: last week. Before you know, most people knew he was
Speaker 1: a two star pitcher, it was below So it's it's climbed,
Speaker 1: uh quite a bit here and there's a lot of
Speaker 1: good signs. Man. The underlying number is really good for
Speaker 1: Brandon Woodruff. I think he's doing a lot of what
Speaker 1: people expected out of Corbin Burns, except he's been a
Speaker 1: little bit more spot I think you can get a
Speaker 1: roll we close out some games. He's got you know
Speaker 1: you got. He just got some good stock when we
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