Speaker 1: Hello, and welcome to Jimmy's Three Things. There's three things
Speaker 1: I want to talk about in the world of Major
Speaker 1: League Baseball. Today. We got ratings, they're up, they're good.
Speaker 1: People are watching the playoffs. A stat from nineteen eighties
Speaker 1: that I read in a book that I want to
Speaker 1: see how today's players are doing in this stat And
Speaker 1: then many Ramirez shit on your favorite team, maybe half
Speaker 1: of yours favorite team, many Ramirez shit on. Those are
Speaker 1: the three things. Jimmy's Three Things is the production of
Speaker 1: Dan Patrick Production, sham Boy Media, and Workhouse Media. Let's
Speaker 1: get into it. So a late night recording for me
Speaker 1: because I'm on playoff schedule, which is draining me. I
Speaker 1: don't know even how to exist on this schedule. We're
Speaker 1: streaming every night. It's going crazy. Our numbers are through
Speaker 1: the roof, Our merch sales are going nuts. We're a
Speaker 1: Mets company these days, as far as the shop goes
Speaker 1: shop dot Johnbomedia, dot Com. Merch for Mets is like
Speaker 1: every day just keeps going and keeps going. Need the
Speaker 1: Yankees to have some big moment, have some fun. I mean,
Speaker 1: we're selling Met shirts, oh Yankee shirts too, But the
Speaker 1: dude Mets are just a wagon right now. So our
Speaker 1: numbers are up, our stream numbers are up, our social
Speaker 1: numbers are up. Baseball's up. Let's pour into some of
Speaker 1: these ratings because it's fun, right, I want to see
Speaker 1: the numbers people are watching baseball. This ESPN article written
Speaker 1: by the Associated Press. So does that mean it's not
Speaker 1: even written by ESPN? How does that work? Whatever? Major
Speaker 1: League Baseball's postseason is averaging three point three point three
Speaker 1: to three million viewers going into the League Championship Series,
Speaker 1: eighteen percent increase over last year's average of two point
Speaker 1: eight two. Last year was down, not big markets, a
Speaker 1: lot of upstart teams, which you want, but you don't
Speaker 1: want all that, and you got some big markets going.
Speaker 1: So the Division Series averaged three point five six million
Speaker 1: viewers for eighteen games. That's up, and there's some fun numbers.
Speaker 1: Let's see which there's some numbers. I liked a lot.
Speaker 1: Friday nights National League Divisional Series Game five between the
Speaker 1: Dodgers and the Padres Avants average seven point five million
Speaker 1: viewers on Fox, Fox Deportesports and streaming, the most watched
Speaker 1: Division Series game since twenty seventeen. So that's cool. I
Speaker 1: like that. Saturday afternoons deciding in between the Guardians and
Speaker 1: the Tigers average three point four, So that's good. If
Speaker 1: last year averaged two point eight, it was the most
Speaker 1: watched Division Series matchup in a day game window. Okay,
Speaker 1: why was it a day game? Why are we doing
Speaker 1: this day game? The game was originally slated we played
Speaker 1: at night, but was moved up to the afternoon to
Speaker 1: do the threat of inclement weather. Okay, that makes sense.
Speaker 1: So those are some fun numbers because good teams matter.
Speaker 1: Let's go over to Sports Media Watch, which I like
Speaker 1: because they do a lot of ratings talk and I
Speaker 1: like ratings, and there's some fun numbers here. Now, the
Speaker 1: Yankees clincher opposite the other alds. They split the views
Speaker 1: because the Guardians overlapped with the Guardians. Tigers overlap with
Speaker 1: Yankees Royals for a little bit. So Game four of
Speaker 1: Yankees Royals averaged three point five million viewers across TBS,
Speaker 1: True TV, which was down from the Phillies Braves on
Speaker 1: the same night last year. And those are two big
Speaker 1: markets there, Phillies Braves DS that had five point eight million.
Speaker 1: How about Padres Dodgers with seven million. But they say
Speaker 1: that last year that Phillies' Brave game was a standalone
Speaker 1: window and the Yankees series clinching win overlapped with the
Speaker 1: Guardians Tigers, which also drew a series high three point
Speaker 1: four So a lot of people watching baseball that day,
Speaker 1: but they overlapped, which is just a bummer. They have
Speaker 1: a lot of games. Now. There was another thing I
Speaker 1: read that I really liked. The Yankees game peaked at
Speaker 1: nine five pm with four point six million people watching. Yeah,
Speaker 1: because we get eight thousand people in our in our
Speaker 1: live stream watching like watching the game with us in
Speaker 1: the chat like, which isn't that most we've ever got?
Speaker 1: That We got nine nine and a half thousand for
Speaker 1: the Yankees Red Sox wild card game in twenty twenty one.
Speaker 1: But it's cool that we're seeing all these all these
Speaker 1: highs and good numbers and everywhere. The other note was
Speaker 1: that that the American League postseason American League is averaging
Speaker 1: three million viewers on the TNT Sports Network, up eighteen
Speaker 1: percent from last year's ALDS on Fox Sports Networks. The
Speaker 1: last time TBS carried the ALDS in twenty twenty two,
Speaker 1: which when the Yankees are in it. So, where's the
Speaker 1: article that I read that I liked there this Padres
Speaker 1: Dodgers has some really cool numbers. Now Padres Dodgers they
Speaker 1: flexed to put on so not cable but network television,
Speaker 1: which is always going to get more views. Still blows
Speaker 1: my mind. But yes, still gets more views because at
Speaker 1: this point, like you have TV, you have to how
Speaker 1: many people just have network don't have I don't know,
Speaker 1: reach out don't So I already said that that Game
Speaker 1: five average seven point two million viewers. But what I
Speaker 1: really liked, which is the largest divisional series since twenty
Speaker 1: seventeen which had seven point two six and the Mets
Speaker 1: Dodgers Game five and twenty fifteen at seven three eight.
Speaker 1: But where do where was the number that I they had,
Speaker 1: like the percent of TVs watch in the Padres area
Speaker 1: with this that I like to Game five was just
Speaker 1: the sixth division series window to air on the Fox
Speaker 1: broadcast network in the past sixteen years. It's a little
Speaker 1: bit of a bomber, right, like how do we get
Speaker 1: more games on network TV? Then you got to have
Speaker 1: be able to draw the audiences because it seems like
Speaker 1: you're getting way more viewers there, like way more. Fox
Speaker 1: was originally slated to carry the Mets Phillies Game three
Speaker 1: on Tuesday afternoon, but instead pitch Down will be on
Speaker 1: switching that game to FS one in favor of getting
Speaker 1: Game five, which I guess worked out well. But look
Speaker 1: at this prior to this year. The last time Fox
Speaker 1: carried a deciding LDS Game five was two thousand and five,
Speaker 1: when Monday Night Yankees Angels game averaged thirteen point seven million.
Speaker 1: I was at the peak of baseball, like stardom. You
Speaker 1: look back at those early two thousands. We did this
Speaker 1: in the office. We looked back at the early two thousands,
Speaker 1: like Cy Young. No, we were just doing top top
Speaker 1: finishers in innings pitched in the American League, National League,
Speaker 1: and looking at the names and like it was star
Speaker 1: studded and they were like ten year stars, like they
Speaker 1: were there for a long time. And comparing it now
Speaker 1: and like you have names like Sandy Alcantara, which is
Speaker 1: like he was nasty when he wanted to say young,
Speaker 1: but then he got hurt. Like there's not many pitchers.
Speaker 1: You know, Burns is getting there, but he hasn't been
Speaker 1: in a big market. Cole is the only one, the
Speaker 1: only one because Verlander was there. But it got hurt,
Speaker 1: but like ten year guys, premiere headline starting pitchers, and
Speaker 1: then the obviously you go to sixty seventies, eighties, you
Speaker 1: have a ton of them, but that that started dying.
Speaker 1: But in UH, I wonder if the early two thousands
Speaker 1: was where that falls. And that's my formative years, and
Speaker 1: everything seems bigger in your formative years, but that window
Speaker 1: seems good. Thirteen point seven million people watched the Divisional
Speaker 1: Series game in two thousand and five. He's Angels game.
Speaker 1: That is awesome. This was cool. San Diego led all
Speaker 1: markets Friday night with a nineteen point six rating and
Speaker 1: a fifty nine share. That means that fifty nine percent
Speaker 1: of homes using television were tuned to that game in
Speaker 1: San Diego market. That's so cool. That is like I
Speaker 1: did a walk around my neighborhood with the kids Monday night. No,
Speaker 1: it had to be Sunday night, and Sunday night at
Speaker 1: like seven thirty, and you can see all people's TVs
Speaker 1: in their windows now, so it's kind of interesting to see.
Speaker 1: And like seven out of ten had the football game
Speaker 1: on and I was like, damn, that's cool. Well, six
Speaker 1: out of ten in San Diego had the baseball game on.
Speaker 1: That's cool because that's you know, it's a good it's
Speaker 1: a big market, but not LA. But that's it really
Speaker 1: took over the city there LA, and that same game
Speaker 1: had forty one percent of LA. But or no, no, no,
Speaker 1: where's this. But eleven percent of homes in LA equals
Speaker 1: a far larger figure than twenty percent of homes in
Speaker 1: San Diego, is what they're saying. Kansas City was the
Speaker 1: top neutral market with a four point seven and fifteen,
Speaker 1: followed by New York City four ward six and fifteen
Speaker 1: in Saint Louis four point four and fourteen. So wait,
Speaker 1: Saint Louis, baseball town. They're watching the playoffs. They just
Speaker 1: like baseball. That's kind of cool. I'd like to know
Speaker 1: the list of cities watching that aren't in the postseason,
Speaker 1: Like it makes sense, Kansas City checking things out, they
Speaker 1: were still in it, New York obviously, Saint Louis. What
Speaker 1: other cities are watching that aren't there? That's kind of cool.
Speaker 1: So baseball's back. Baseball's back, and it's better than ever. Hey, no, hey,
Speaker 1: baseball's back. It is a conund about big markets versus
Speaker 1: small markets, and you want small markets and it's cool
Speaker 1: to have the underdog story. I think last year having
Speaker 1: two upstart teams Dot d Backs and Rangers and no
Speaker 1: like star Appeel, like who are the stars that like
Speaker 1: people knew they weren't learning about. It's always cool to
Speaker 1: have a team where you're learning new stars, but you
Speaker 1: need someone that everyone already knows. Who was that? Was
Speaker 1: it Cory Seeger? Was he the biggest one? I'm blanking
Speaker 1: There might be more that I'm not thinking of. I
Speaker 1: think you see the Longoria. Yeah, I don't there there's
Speaker 1: no pitchers. It's kind of a little bit of a conundrum.
Speaker 1: And more on big market small market later on. But
Speaker 1: the second thing I wanted to talk about I was
Speaker 1: reading this book. I was passing the time I was
Speaker 1: really reading it. I grabbed it off the shelf and
Speaker 1: then I flipped through the top and read the chapters,
Speaker 1: and then I saw the chapter where we're talking about
Speaker 1: a new stat and I love this is a second
Speaker 1: time I found like an article. One was in Baseball Digest.
Speaker 1: One was in a Collier magazine actually from like nineteen
Speaker 1: forty two, where they for his name he invented a
Speaker 1: new stat. And we actually have a Google sheet and
Speaker 1: we ran the whole algorithm of this stat It was
Speaker 1: very hard to do the way he invented it, but
Speaker 1: I planned on updating along the way, and then I
Speaker 1: never did. This one's a little easier. So this was
Speaker 1: I think this was in nineteen eighty one and it's
Speaker 1: an article written by Thomas Boswell. And people that are
Speaker 1: in the deep baseball stats world know about this because,
Speaker 1: like you can find articles about it. But it's called
Speaker 1: total average, where a walk is as good as a hit,
Speaker 1: which I disagree with, so I kind of don't like that.
Speaker 1: That's the main point of this stat. Let me see
Speaker 1: if I can bring this up Thomas Boswell, Welcome to
Speaker 1: the world of total average. You see, if I can
Speaker 1: bring it up in my computer for you see, there's
Speaker 1: a Wikipedia article article about it. Okay, here produce in
Speaker 1: nineteen seventy eight, my bad. It was also described in
Speaker 1: the nineteen eighty two article Welcome to the world with
Speaker 1: total Averager walker is going to shit? Is it still anywhere?
Speaker 1: Can you find this? Because we made our own sheet
Speaker 1: finding it, so I don't know if it's somewhere. Is
Speaker 1: design to measure a hitter's overall offensive contributions on the
Speaker 1: basis that all bases are created equal, which statisians don't
Speaker 1: really like, and statistans don't like that you're taking a
Speaker 1: stolen base and a hit and combine it. I don't care.
Speaker 1: I like this stat I'm sure it has flaws, but
Speaker 1: a lot of stats have flaws. And then the stats
Speaker 1: that I'm told don't have flaws, I'm too dumb to
Speaker 1: understand what they're doing, and I don't just like, man,
Speaker 1: I really can't get into war because I don't know
Speaker 1: what it is. I can't watch a guy play a
Speaker 1: series and then be like, ooh, that's going to increase
Speaker 1: his war by this much. I don't know the calculation,
Speaker 1: and that's like not fun for me to follow. Obviously,
Speaker 1: I respect war, and I understand that it's pretty accurate,
Speaker 1: although sometimes shortstops and base running are kind of like
Speaker 1: crazy weighted. But I like what I understand stats, and
Speaker 1: I can understand. I know, like I can watch a
Speaker 1: series and go, oh, yeah, that's gonna help. So what
Speaker 1: I like about this one? And I'll read from the
Speaker 1: book the article right here. He says in theory, total
Speaker 1: out average is elementary, easy and obvious. That's why it's
Speaker 1: so hard to dispute. In its results, TA is dramatic
Speaker 1: and controversial. It illuminates new stars like Ricky Henderson and
Speaker 1: Willie Randolph while blowing holes in big names like Steve
Speaker 1: Garvey and Pete Rose. Let's start with the theory. Now,
Speaker 1: I'm not gonna do that. Basically, what it boils down
Speaker 1: to is he's saying, take a player, how many bases
Speaker 1: does he collect? You hit a single, that's one base.
Speaker 1: You get a walk, that's one base. To get hit
Speaker 1: by pitch, that's one base. I think he's counting here
Speaker 1: by bitches, you steal that's one base, Okay, So how
Speaker 1: many total basses have you accumulated? Hit a home run
Speaker 1: that's four versus how many outs have you made? You
Speaker 1: try to steal and you get thrown out, that's an
Speaker 1: out that goes against you. Unlike batting average on base
Speaker 1: you know which I've always liked having that factor in
Speaker 1: because we always talk about ops plus opss where you
Speaker 1: have steals. So you single and a steal as good
Speaker 1: as a double because it is somewhat it's not going
Speaker 1: to drive in as many runs. So then there's that balance.
Speaker 1: I understand that do you hit into a double play well,
Speaker 1: that counts as two outs that you just hit into
Speaker 1: that you just recorded. That's your bad, which I'd love
Speaker 1: punished double plays. I'm sick of double plays. My Yankees
Speaker 1: hit into so many double plays. I hate it. So
Speaker 1: it's pretty basic in that regard. And then you just
Speaker 1: take all the bases divide it by the outs. So
Speaker 1: if you go one for four and you hit a
Speaker 1: home run calculator, that means that you have four bases.
Speaker 1: And because you hit a home run and then you
Speaker 1: got three outs, so you have a one point three
Speaker 1: to three more bases than outs. Is great. That's really good.
Speaker 1: So the guy who gets a double and another double,
Speaker 1: so two doubles, that is a four total bases. He
Speaker 1: goes two for four. Divide by two is one no
Speaker 1: two two. That's better. Two for four is better than
Speaker 1: one for four. One for the homer is better than
Speaker 1: two for four. With a double, you hit a double,
Speaker 1: you steal third, and then you steal home. That's the
Speaker 1: same as hitting a home run one for four. We
Speaker 1: put a sheet together. If I'm confusing you. Adults helped me.
Speaker 1: I wanted to see the playoffs. I wanted to see
Speaker 1: in the postseason. Who's crushing the stat. Let me pull
Speaker 1: it up. Uh. So this is just out of the
Speaker 1: last four team remaining thus far, who has been the
Speaker 1: best at total average? Okay, so who has contributed the most?
Speaker 1: Stephen Kwan is your man. Stephen Kwan is your guy.
Speaker 1: He has fifteen bases accumulated. All right, He's got two walks.
Speaker 1: That's two bases. He's got a stolen base that's three.
Speaker 1: He's got two doubles, so that would be four and
Speaker 1: ten singles is what it is and only ten outs.
Speaker 1: So yeah, he's got a total average of one point five,
Speaker 1: which really good. Uh. After that comes Pete Alonzo, then
Speaker 1: Mark Vientos, then Stanton and taoscar Rochio and Torres. There. Now,
Speaker 1: if you compare that to ops, we got Kwan, Alonso, Viento,
Speaker 1: stan Hernandez, Kuan Alonzo, Viento, Stan Hernandez. If I sort
Speaker 1: it by ops, it's gonna go to Vientos, Alonso, Kwan,
Speaker 1: Stanton Hernandez. So Kwan bumps up because of the steal
Speaker 1: and why because he's just less outs, Yeah, way less outs.
Speaker 1: Less that bats because he didn't do the wild card either,
Speaker 1: but he's just hitting the way less outs and in
Speaker 1: his hits, He's got more. Who's been the worst player
Speaker 1: according to total average this postseason? Big Christmas Tough thirteen outs,
Speaker 1: Austin Wells because he's got two double ground in double plays.
Speaker 1: That's extra outs. I really like punishing hitting in the
Speaker 1: double plays for Dugo this season. It probably gets crushed
Speaker 1: for that. Jazz Chisholm, bad Tyrone Taylor, Jose Glaciers, Josh Naylor, Verdugo,
Speaker 1: Jash Chisholm adds up. The worst OPS has also Big Christmas,
Speaker 1: but Francisco Alvarez, so it's pretty close to Ops. There's
Speaker 1: some difference. We also did it the whole year, total
Speaker 1: regular season, with a minimum of four hundred and fifty
Speaker 1: plate appearances. So the highest total average here is Judge
Speaker 1: one point three five seven and then Otani one point
Speaker 1: two three to two. Settled debate over who had the
Speaker 1: better season, it was Judge. Offensively, it's final. It's final.
Speaker 1: That's awesome. I can't believe we've solved it with total average. Judge, Otani, Sodo,
Speaker 1: Bobby Wit, Jordon Alvarez. That's the top five in total
Speaker 1: average in that order. Judge, Otani, Sodo, Wit, Alvarez. Let's
Speaker 1: see Ops goes judge Otani Sodo wit Alvarez. Is that
Speaker 1: the same thing Otani Alvarez blanking Sodo wit Alvarez is
Speaker 1: ops three for five Sodo wit Alvarez and total average
Speaker 1: Sodo wit Albaz. So that doesn't change it at all.
Speaker 1: So I color coded these over here to see you
Speaker 1: know who gets boosted and who gets hurt. And this
Speaker 1: guy is below average in ops this year it's seven
Speaker 1: to ten average OPS out of these players with seven
Speaker 1: fifty two. If you had five hundred or four hundred
Speaker 1: and fifty played appearances, the average OPS was seven fifty two. Uh,
Speaker 1: the average total average was seven twenty four. And then
Speaker 1: that guy that I found, So he's above average, he's
Speaker 1: above average in total average seven forty four, but below
Speaker 1: average and ops. So you would think this gotta be
Speaker 1: a base runner, right, has got to be a guy
Speaker 1: that steals a decent amount. And it is sliding over dramatically.
Speaker 1: It is it is Cedric Mullins. Hell, yeah, where do
Speaker 1: you go, Cedric? Why stolen bases thirty two grounded into
Speaker 1: double plays? One that is valuable? I do think that's
Speaker 1: like an offensive game. I don't know why base running
Speaker 1: is so so disconnected from all their offensive stats. I
Speaker 1: feel like we should sort that out. I don't id
Speaker 1: and like base running has its own metric. I don't
Speaker 1: like like as far as solo base running with avoiding
Speaker 1: grounding into double play, hitting in the double plays because
Speaker 1: you're slow stealing bases, getting caught stealing, getting picked off.
Speaker 1: Those are solo base running. Now there's other base running
Speaker 1: that's going first to third on a single, but that
Speaker 1: depends on the type of single. So I that's too
Speaker 1: many outliers, But solo basement, I just make it part
Speaker 1: of your average and figure that out in some way.
Speaker 1: I wish we could do that, because, like, dude, stealing
Speaker 1: thirty two bags and not grounding in any double plays
Speaker 1: is beneficial. And you go down to the very bottom
Speaker 1: of this list where I'm guessing Verdugo's gonna be down there. Okay, yeah,
Speaker 1: Verdugo's right here, and Verdugo stole two bags and grounded
Speaker 1: into fourteen double plays. Yeah, so look at this this
Speaker 1: bottom down here, it's just double play dudes. So that's
Speaker 1: double plays really hurt you. If you are this runner
Speaker 1: on first and you hit a ground ball and you
Speaker 1: can't beat it out, you're gonna get burnt, which I
Speaker 1: think I appreciate and value you got. Who hit in
Speaker 1: the most ground double plays this year? Wow, Manny Machado,
Speaker 1: So it's not hurting him. Aaron Judge hitting to the
Speaker 1: third most not hurting him, But he's got ten stolen bases,
Speaker 1: also doesn't get out that much. Who got picked off
Speaker 1: the most this year? Caby Row those rays, Bobby Wick
Speaker 1: got picked off a lot. Those rays are in a ton.
Speaker 1: Uh who else? There's another outlier that was above average
Speaker 1: and total average but below average this sky nemo mean,
Speaker 1: same thing. Only fifteen stolen bases, seven grinding and double plays.
Speaker 1: That's interesting. What helps him? There? Seventy seven walks, nine triples,
Speaker 1: but that should all be part of slugging. I don't
Speaker 1: know who recorded the most, so wait, where's our line here?
Speaker 1: This is? This is outs, grinding, double plays, caught stealing combined.
Speaker 1: So who had the most out Simeon then uh Tovar,
Speaker 1: then Volpi damn Volpi. Well it was bad season, bad season,
Speaker 1: bad season, brochures bird bird season. That's total average. Yeah,
Speaker 1: let's see what else we can do with it. You know,
Speaker 1: if you guys see something, let me know. But I
Speaker 1: like I have a lot of I bought on eBay.
Speaker 1: I bought a lot, just a lot of old baseball books.
Speaker 1: A lot of them like are just like this, like
Speaker 1: articles that are like combined in the books. And uh,
Speaker 1: I don't know if I'll ever have time to read them,
Speaker 1: but I enjoy it all right. The last thing I'm
Speaker 1: gonna talk about on read it was that, right, I
Speaker 1: saw this on reading but it's every kind of where
Speaker 1: Manny Ramirez had a quote that pissed everyone off. Manny
Speaker 1: Ramirez said, head this quote. It's in Spanish, so I'm
Speaker 1: not gonna play it. I'll just read it for you.
Speaker 1: There's a translation on this reddit thread, and everyone in
Speaker 1: the reddit thread is really mad. And if you're not
Speaker 1: a fan of a big market teams's gonna be really mad.
Speaker 1: Manny Ramirez said, after you leave Boston, the Yankees, the Mets, Philadelphia,
Speaker 1: the Dodgers, everything after that is as if you were
Speaker 1: playing Triple A. I'm talking about top five organizations that
Speaker 1: have a lot of history, a lot of records. After that,
Speaker 1: what you're doing is playing Triple A. Whoever hasn't played
Speaker 1: for one of these five teams, what you're playing is
Speaker 1: Triple A. There's no pressure, there's no marketing, and there's
Speaker 1: no demand that you win. You go to the Marlins,
Speaker 1: it's not the same. You go to Kansas City, it's
Speaker 1: not the same. You go to Minnesota, it's not the same.
Speaker 1: You go to Toronto, it's not the same. These five are
Speaker 1: the organizations where baseball's played. So people are mad. People
Speaker 1: are mad. A lot of the comments in here we're like, oh,
Speaker 1: pretty impressive, so you staying last twenty four World series
Speaker 1: are won by Triple A teams. Oh congrats Rangers on
Speaker 1: your Triple A World Series. But that's not really what
Speaker 1: he's saying. I guess I know I understand what he's
Speaker 1: saying because a lot of like CC Sabbatha used to
Speaker 1: say this all the time, and I think Mike Harkey
Speaker 1: had a quote about it on the rt C two
Speaker 1: podcast where CEC would be like, man, until like when
Speaker 1: I got to the Yankees, I finally I finally felt
Speaker 1: like a big leaguer. And he's talking about all that
Speaker 1: extra shit, like the promo and the marketing that comes
Speaker 1: from the and the media scrumbs like you see in
Speaker 1: the movies of like you know, fifteen people at your
Speaker 1: locker and the pressure, and that's what that's what Manny's
Speaker 1: talking about, the marketing, the pressure. There's no demand that
Speaker 1: you win. Ccus talk about just like how you're like
Speaker 1: you don't carry your own bags ever, like the food
Speaker 1: you get, the treatment you get, like it's big leagues,
Speaker 1: it's show. It's show. But yeah, obviously that's inflammatory and
Speaker 1: rude to everyone else. But I just remember hearing that.
Speaker 1: I think, like Harkey went to the d Backs and
Speaker 1: when the Yankees and he had a similar thought. But
Speaker 1: it's funny to see how mad everyone got. And he's
Speaker 1: probably like, it's kind of crazy. He just said five teams,
Speaker 1: like the Cardinals get got pretty bad here. They are
Speaker 1: a team with a lot of history San Francisco Giants. Yeah,
Speaker 1: but you do hear players, if you listen to a
Speaker 1: lot of interviews and hear them talk about going to
Speaker 1: some of the small market teams and then going to
Speaker 1: like the big mare teams, were like, this is different.
Speaker 1: There's a whole different league of like how you're treated
Speaker 1: and like fans and recognition and all that. I mean,
Speaker 1: go look at any of those teams, bench players, Instagram
Speaker 1: followers versus the other teams and like and that's just
Speaker 1: a small dose of the eyes that are on you, Jake,
Speaker 1: and I always go to like the Yankees, like highest
Speaker 1: triple A prospect. We'll have more public uh follower followers
Speaker 1: than the Rays, like stud like the best player besides
Speaker 1: until Wander but then that that turned out bad. But
Speaker 1: there was a comment that I thought was even more
Speaker 1: interesting here by the Diesel twenty six where he said,
Speaker 1: if we're being totally honest with ourselves, most of the
Speaker 1: baseball fans in the country probably root for one of
Speaker 1: those five teams, plus the Cubs, Astros, and Giants. He said,
Speaker 1: if we use team subreddit size as a basis for
Speaker 1: relative popularity, those eight subs compromise one point three four
Speaker 1: million members and the other twenty two are one point
Speaker 1: two eight million members. So the top eight make up
Speaker 1: fifty percent of baseball fans on Reddit. And that's an
Speaker 1: arbitrary way to calculate it. But I do think I've
Speaker 1: never really like I understand big market small market. I
Speaker 1: understand that when big market teams the views are higher
Speaker 1: than small but I've never really understood like how fucking
Speaker 1: drastic it is. The top eight teams are half the
Speaker 1: fan bases, the fan bay of the fandom is the
Speaker 1: top eighteen. You get it, but it's like, oh my goodness.
Speaker 1: The eleven biggest team subs have one point eight two
Speaker 1: million members to the seven hundred and ninety six of
Speaker 1: the remaining nineteen, and the eleven includes the Jays Braves
Speaker 1: and Padres Cubs Braves. But congrats to Manny for pissing
Speaker 1: everyone off, because I think I've heard that sentiment said before,
Speaker 1: but it just to be like, you're playing triple A.
Speaker 1: Trevor Plute probably pissed about that, although he did he
Speaker 1: did spend the time with the Phillies, So congrats, trev
Speaker 1: you made the show for a little bit there at
Speaker 1: the very end, all right, Yanks are about to play
Speaker 1: Game two, so I gotta go see you guys. Those
Speaker 1: are three things that I talked about in the world
Speaker 1: of Major League Baseball. SEA later