Speaker 1: O G Crew again. Get used to it, AJ Kratz,
Speaker 1: I'm bron AJ. Some people were shocked mid show when
Speaker 1: they saw that you had a live studio audience.
Speaker 2: Is that the case again today or you rock and solo.
Speaker 3: Solo? Yesterday it was a special day. Uh, my friend Pickle,
Speaker 3: who you got to see, was here with my son
Speaker 3: and some other friends. But no, there's nobody here today.
Speaker 3: Our our producer lady made me close the door behind
Speaker 3: me in case a ghost walked out. But no, there's
Speaker 3: nobody here. It's just me. I'm in the battery, chilling. Yeah.
Speaker 3: Ready to rock. Let's talk baseball?
Speaker 1: Yeah, well, business first, but eventually we'll get to baseball.
Speaker 1: When you mentioned Pickle yesterday mid show, I should have known,
Speaker 1: but I didn't know.
Speaker 3: Well we got I think you met didn't you meet Pickle?
Speaker 3: At some point?
Speaker 2: I think I might have met Pickle?
Speaker 3: Yeah, I probably met Pickle. He lives in Orlando. Good guy,
Speaker 3: good funny guy.
Speaker 2: But a lot of also play on this week's after Sense.
Speaker 3: Also, you know, when your name's Pickle, you got to
Speaker 3: be a good guy, because no one named Pickles a bad.
Speaker 4: Guy unless you're unless you're in the mob and you're
Speaker 4: just taking people out. But that's right, the kind of
Speaker 4: pickle I don't think. I don't think you hang out
Speaker 4: with those types of pickles.
Speaker 3: No, I try to stay out of those pickles, and
Speaker 3: like certain people, I try to stay out of those pickles.
Speaker 4: That would be a good deal to stay out of
Speaker 4: that type of pickle.
Speaker 1: See, I knew Kratz couldn't resist, not only the deal part.
Speaker 1: I was waiting for that, but also just the classic
Speaker 1: getting into a pickle situation, krats How difficult is it
Speaker 1: to hold back?
Speaker 4: It's difficult. But every time there's a rundown in any
Speaker 4: game I'm ever at, I'll be barely paying attention. I'll
Speaker 4: just be like pickle. If you don't yell pickle when
Speaker 4: there's a rundown, I don't care what the situation is,
Speaker 4: you're not doing it right.
Speaker 2: You don't have a soul if you're not yelling pickle right.
Speaker 1: Easy, Yeah, Okay, business first, let's charge the mound.
Speaker 4: Charge about.
Speaker 1: One of the most shocking headlines of the year. And
Speaker 1: I'm not being sarcastic. The Twins are not for sale.
Speaker 1: I repeat. The Twins have been taken off the market.
Speaker 1: They have been owned for forty forty four years they
Speaker 1: sold for forty four million I think forty something years
Speaker 1: ago to the pol Ad family. They have pulled the
Speaker 1: plug on the sale of the team. Via press release
Speaker 1: They're bringing in some limited partners I'll summarize for you,
Speaker 1: or I'll give you a little bit.
Speaker 2: I guess.
Speaker 1: After a detailed and robust process, the family will remain
Speaker 1: the principal owner of the Twins to strengthen the club
Speaker 1: in a rapidly evolving sports landscape, one that demands strong partnerships,
Speaker 1: fresh ideas, and long term vision. We are in the
Speaker 1: process of adding two significant limited partnership groups, each of
Speaker 1: whom will bring a wealth of experience and share our
Speaker 1: family values. Also from the pole Ads, we see and
Speaker 1: hear the passion from our partner, the community and Twins fans.
Speaker 1: That passion inspires us. This ownership group is committed to
Speaker 1: building a winning team and culture for this region, one
Speaker 1: that Twins fans are proud to cheer on.
Speaker 2: Scott take it away for us. Okay, I'll take it
Speaker 2: away for you as you're hired a PR. You're fake PR.
Speaker 1: Back in twenty twenty three when we won a playoff
Speaker 1: series as a wildcard series, but a playoff series for
Speaker 1: the first time in a very long time, like two decades.
Speaker 1: Our commitment to you after that new ballpark that we
Speaker 1: made the city pay for was to cut payroll by
Speaker 1: thirty million dollars. Then take a year to think that
Speaker 1: you were going to get a new ownership group that
Speaker 1: was actually going to take care of you fan base.
Speaker 1: We even teased you at the trade deadline and sold
Speaker 1: away forty percent of the team, and then what did
Speaker 1: we do.
Speaker 2: We rubbed you two weeks later, we rubbed your baby.
Speaker 2: We're keeping the team. We sold half the team.
Speaker 1: Payroll is freaking rock bottom, and we just made a
Speaker 1: whole heap of money from minority investors.
Speaker 2: Had I do aj thing, I'm gonna get hired, You're.
Speaker 3: Probably not going to get hired by him. But you
Speaker 3: told that that's that's what basically happened. I mean, it
Speaker 3: is what happens. And let's not forget they were what
Speaker 3: four hundred million in debt, so by getting rid of
Speaker 3: Carlos Korea and some of the other players, they probably
Speaker 3: save some of the debt. They get minority owners to
Speaker 3: come in and cover that debt. They're back to zero
Speaker 3: and Joe Poullett can still own the team. Like that
Speaker 3: was one of the big sticking points they said. Remember
Speaker 3: they were going to sell them, but they were like, oh,
Speaker 3: Joe Pollett has to stay on board as something important.
Speaker 3: And I think the issuels were like, no, we're going
Speaker 3: to start over, and Apology was like, nope, we're going
Speaker 3: to pull the team back, so we're going to keep it. Listen,
Speaker 3: I know a lot of people in Minnesota. I started
Speaker 3: my career in Minneapolis. Is a great city, great place,
Speaker 3: great baseball fans, but it's just it runs its course, right.
Speaker 3: It's time if you're not going to invest in the
Speaker 3: team enough and continue to invest in the team, and
Speaker 3: it's time to move on and get your two billion
Speaker 3: and move on. Wh Why do we Why do we
Speaker 3: want to keep doing this? Why?
Speaker 4: Why?
Speaker 3: That's all I want to Why do they want to
Speaker 3: keep doing this?
Speaker 2: Yeah? Good?
Speaker 4: Oh. I was just gonna say I was gonna rank
Speaker 4: it as one of Scott's best soliloquies of the year,
Speaker 4: maybe of all time, because it was spot on, and
Speaker 4: I hope out of all this this conversation, the one
Speaker 4: idea it said, was a fresh ideas from this new
Speaker 4: capital group that's coming in to infuse some money. I
Speaker 4: hope they bring fresh ideas. I hope they have a
Speaker 4: long term what does it say, long term vision? I
Speaker 4: hope there's a long term vision, because any team that
Speaker 4: buys some or gets some good graces with the city
Speaker 4: and then sells players, and then gets good graces and
Speaker 4: sells players has no long term vision, long term vision.
Speaker 4: Look at the other teams that have lasting success, if
Speaker 4: that's what you really want. I hope that new group
Speaker 4: coming in has that fresh ideas and an actual long
Speaker 4: term vision, because ultimately then the poll Ads will make money,
Speaker 4: which I think is really all they care about.
Speaker 1: Dan Hayes wrote an article He's dialed in on this
Speaker 1: whole sale attempt and failure to sell the team, or
Speaker 1: at least to a majority owner, right, which is what
Speaker 1: we all thought was going to happen, including the Commissioner
Speaker 1: of Baseball if you believe them. But anyway, Dan Hayes said,
Speaker 1: though the team drew the interest of multiple limited partnership groups,
Speaker 1: nobody with the financial wherewithal to purchase a large chunk
Speaker 1: of the club emerged despite messages that the sale was
Speaker 1: progressing with multiple interested parties. The sources suggested the Twins
Speaker 1: were having difficulty attracting potential majority owners.
Speaker 2: I'd like to know.
Speaker 1: What the price was, because I bet you there were
Speaker 1: people that were interested in buying the team that said
Speaker 1: this ain't worth it, and then they said, well, then
Speaker 1: we're not selling and then they said, cool, well wait
Speaker 1: for something else to open up, whether it's in baseball
Speaker 1: or otherwise, you don't get whatever price you want. I
Speaker 1: understand that it's their scarcity. There's a limitation to this,
Speaker 1: and it could be an awesome asset to own, right,
Speaker 1: I mean, look at them. They bought it for forty
Speaker 1: four mil and they're trying to sell it for one
Speaker 1: point seven bill. And I am telling you every single
Speaker 1: soul in that city that likes baseball and likes the
Speaker 1: Twins is desperately crying for somebody else to take over
Speaker 1: this team, every single soul. I'm telling you, it is
Speaker 1: by far the biggest story. And it's why I gave
Speaker 1: the Twins an a at the trade deadline, like, hey,
Speaker 1: if this helps player books and get a team sold
Speaker 1: or get yeah, the team moved over to another ownership group. Great,
Speaker 1: now it's an f because it didn't happen. And if
Speaker 1: we believe that they're holding true on this aja and
Speaker 1: that it's not just a little bit of chicken with
Speaker 1: a potential investor. Then this is a travesty for the
Speaker 1: city of Minneapolis. There's no other way to state it.
Speaker 3: Yeah, listen again, I played for the Twins for twenty
Speaker 3: plus years ago, and at that time we were one
Speaker 3: of the low market teams, low budget. They just said, oh,
Speaker 3: it's we just need a stadium. We just need a stadium.
Speaker 3: They got the stadium, they start putting money in. The
Speaker 3: team is rolling, the team is selling out at target
Speaker 3: Field Field. If you haven't been as one of the
Speaker 3: best ballparks in the league, I'm sorry. I love target Field.
Speaker 3: It's awesome. It's right on top of you, it's built
Speaker 3: straight up. It's a great place. Okay, And then they
Speaker 3: win a playoff series and they say, oh, we're cutting payroll.
Speaker 3: What but the chance in the AL Central. Now, let's
Speaker 3: not forget the AL Central is very winnable for every
Speaker 3: team if they do it right. And then again this
Speaker 3: past year they're like, we're cutting payroll even more going
Speaker 3: into the year, and then at the trade deadline they
Speaker 3: trade their whole team away, and now they're like, oh, well,
Speaker 3: we're not going to sell the team because we got
Speaker 3: out of debt and we're going to start over. Like
Speaker 3: I just I don't know, I don't know. I know
Speaker 3: you can't make a guy someone sell a team. But man,
Speaker 3: just the Twins fans again that are there are not
Speaker 3: happy today because they want a new a new message,
Speaker 3: a new life, a new anything for the Twins, and
Speaker 3: I don't know when it's going to come because they
Speaker 3: just don't seem to want to be able to do that.
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Speaker 1: like it was a lock too. That's what's bothering people
Speaker 1: as well. This has been going on for about a year.
Speaker 1: And let's go back one month. Commissioner Rob Manfred said
Speaker 1: that a process was in place, and I'll pull some
Speaker 1: quotes here. He said, essentially, there will be a transaction.
Speaker 1: It's not a matter of if a deal for the
Speaker 1: twins can be struck, but when. And here's another direct quote.
Speaker 1: I know some things that you don't know. I can
Speaker 1: tell you with a lot of confidence that there will
Speaker 1: be a transaction there and it will be consistent with
Speaker 1: the kind of pricing that has taken place. There will
Speaker 1: be a transaction. We just need to be patient while
Speaker 1: they rework end quote.
Speaker 3: There was a transaction. They added minority ownership. He was right.
Speaker 3: But here's some. I think you said to Scott on
Speaker 3: our call of our pre call before this show, how
Speaker 3: many owners were like, Hey, you want us to pay
Speaker 3: a lot of money and there might be a work
Speaker 3: stoppage after one year. Why would we buy it now?
Speaker 3: Why don't we just wait a year until there's a
Speaker 3: new CBA. I can't argue that if I'm trying to
Speaker 3: go buy a team right now and I know a
Speaker 3: possibility in a year I might have to sit out
Speaker 3: for a long time and not make any money. Wouldn't
Speaker 3: you wait too, if you have enough money to buy
Speaker 3: a team, wouldn't you just wait until that's done and
Speaker 3: then you can jump right in and start making money
Speaker 3: the way you want to.
Speaker 2: Well, there's two sides to this.
Speaker 1: Yes, most would wait because they don't like question marks,
Speaker 1: especially major question marks that could cost the team a
Speaker 1: lot of money if they do actually hold out for
Speaker 1: a long period of time when we go through the
Speaker 1: lockout process a couple of seasons from now. But AJ
Speaker 1: the other side could say, sure, you can wait, but
Speaker 1: we're going to try to sell the team. So if
Speaker 1: you want to wait, you might not have this team,
Speaker 1: so then you don't care enough. And if you want
Speaker 1: to wait for another team go for it, right, So
Speaker 1: it is too.
Speaker 3: Early, but Scott apparently everybody's did that because if somebody
Speaker 3: would have stepp up, they would have sold the team, right.
Speaker 3: So I mean, what I want to know is is
Speaker 3: how much of this Again? It goes back to remember
Speaker 3: when they said the issue is were supposed to buy
Speaker 3: this team. Everyone thought the issues were buying this team,
Speaker 3: and then don't forget they were like, oh, whoever buys
Speaker 3: this team, Joe Pola has to stay apart in an
Speaker 3: integral part of this, and that like all these stipulations,
Speaker 3: you're selling the team. You don't get stipulations right, you're
Speaker 3: selling the team. If Joe Polad has to go find
Speaker 3: a different job, than Joe Paulad's got to go find
Speaker 3: a different job, I'm.
Speaker 2: Sorry he doesn't have to work again either.
Speaker 1: You know, when you take the investment from forty four
Speaker 1: mil to one point seven bill, or even if it
Speaker 1: was one point five, you can still get away.
Speaker 2: With one point one billion dollars, so I've heard.
Speaker 1: I don't know from personal experience, but I think you
Speaker 1: can get away with that unless you're really a big spender.
Speaker 2: Then we need to talk about other things. But Cratz.
Speaker 1: The thing for the Twins is that this team was
Speaker 1: building up, got to that point in twenty twenty three
Speaker 1: and they're like, all right, here we go, We're gonna
Speaker 1: have something special. We're in our winning window. And then
Speaker 1: they immediately retreated. And I think that there was some
Speaker 1: forgiveness if they actually went through with what they said.
Speaker 1: And now we are literally back to square one.
Speaker 4: Literally back to square one. You had, you, you you gave,
Speaker 4: You gave the city hope. But the players gave the
Speaker 4: city hope. This was a great window. Look at the
Speaker 4: you can go down the roster of who they had,
Speaker 4: and they just did it all based on a money transaction.
Speaker 4: They broke the team down after the success was there after,
Speaker 4: like they should have been in the playoffs last year.
Speaker 4: All this stuff this has nothing to do with like,
Speaker 4: I just don't see this as our window. This is
Speaker 4: just a money money, money, money money, and he the
Speaker 4: Pole Ads have moved high up on the list of brutal, umpire,
Speaker 4: brutal owners of teams. And my question is off this
Speaker 4: topic is the CBA. Obviously owners want to push for
Speaker 4: the salary cap, and that's what we've heard. Does the
Speaker 4: value of the organization go up. If a salary CAP's installed,
Speaker 4: does it go down because the twins have to spend money,
Speaker 4: then they're not they're not at the floor. They have
Speaker 4: to spend money, but they're gonna be getting a big
Speaker 4: influx of money in too. So does the value go
Speaker 4: up as an organization?
Speaker 3: Right way up?
Speaker 2: Yeah, he's gonna gonna They're gonna they're gonna be exponentially.
Speaker 2: They're banking on that right a j And we know
Speaker 2: where they're voting. They're gonna vote to miss as many
Speaker 2: games as possible.
Speaker 3: Oh, they will trust me. They want to take Yeah,
Speaker 3: they listen. Owners that I don't want to say all
Speaker 3: owners because but a lot of owners want a cap
Speaker 3: in baseball because they know what they're gonna spend and
Speaker 3: they can set their budget and whatever they make over
Speaker 3: that number, guess what, they get to keep it all
Speaker 3: so they don't have to put it back and they
Speaker 3: and they can just go to the fans, well, we
Speaker 3: have a cap. We can only spend so much. Right.
Speaker 3: But then owners like Stevie Cohen, the Dodgers, the Yankees
Speaker 3: that sometimes the Red Sox, when they want to they
Speaker 3: can say, well, we can spend as much as we
Speaker 3: want so the fans can't complain then and say, well,
Speaker 3: our owner doesn't care. But if they have a cap,
Speaker 3: then it limits the certain teams to say, well, we
Speaker 3: can only spend so much guys, sorry, we did the
Speaker 3: best we can. Oh and we still made two hundred
Speaker 3: million over our one hundred and fifty million dollars. Gap.
Speaker 3: Oh no, whereas before we'd have to spend two hundred
Speaker 3: and fifty and only make fifty million. Oh no, poo
Speaker 3: pour us. Right, that's why all these owners want a cap.
Speaker 3: Let's not get it confused.
Speaker 4: Mm hmm.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 1: This obviously has some funny components to it, with all
Speaker 1: of the bs and the lying and the quotes that
Speaker 1: have come out over the past year, but it also
Speaker 1: is devastating for the city.
Speaker 2: It really is.
Speaker 1: You have no control over this whole process, and it's
Speaker 1: very difficult right now for many Twins fans out there
Speaker 1: to continue to show up and continue to support the team.
Speaker 2: It's real, right, it really hurts. This is the ultimate
Speaker 2: gut punch.
Speaker 4: Rally around Byron Buckston. Byron Buckston wants to be there.
Speaker 4: He said it. He said that much, and as a player,
Speaker 4: he's realistic. I assume he's realistic. Hey again, no help,
Speaker 4: they're not bringing anybody. You got to grind through this.
Speaker 4: Barron's like, I spent my whole career trying to stay healthy.
Speaker 4: Now I'm an all star healthy. I told the city
Speaker 4: I want to be here. Oh and my boss says,
Speaker 4: that's cool, thanks, but baseball thing's probably not going to
Speaker 4: work out for us here.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 1: I mean, he was using all the buzzwords, the revenue,
Speaker 1: the payroll.
Speaker 2: It's so tough. I have to do the tough stuff
Speaker 2: and run the business. Oh feels so bad.
Speaker 1: It's so hard. It's so hard to run it to you.
Speaker 1: I mean, I'm looking back at the quotes over the
Speaker 1: last couple of years. They're atrocious. They're atrocious. And again,
Speaker 1: the only reason why the whole world wasn't ripping them
Speaker 1: even more than they already were was the fact that
Speaker 1: there was a promise that this was going to be it.
Speaker 1: I actually legitimately thought aja that the downfall from the
Speaker 1: playoff high of twenty three and the next twenty four
Speaker 1: months after that truly led to them saying, you know what.
Speaker 2: Worth it anymore?
Speaker 1: My family legacy is all about this. This is really negative.
Speaker 2: This sucks. This is what I'm gonna be known for
Speaker 2: cash out and leave.
Speaker 3: I thought you were. I agree with you, Scott. I
Speaker 3: thought after the vitriol of the fans of last year
Speaker 3: and two, last year I thought was bad. This year
Speaker 3: was even worse because of what happened. I thought that's
Speaker 3: why they were selling the team. And when you have
Speaker 3: the commissioner come out and say there will be a transaction,
Speaker 3: I know more than you, nanny nanny boo boo. I
Speaker 3: know more than you do. Right, we all know you
Speaker 3: know more than we do, Rob because you're on the inside.
Speaker 3: You work for the owners. Okay, so let's not forget
Speaker 3: about that. But when you come down and say the
Speaker 3: Twins are going to be sold, not if, but when,
Speaker 3: then people are like, yes, we finally get a fresh start.
Speaker 3: Now it's like nope, just kidding, huh. We're going to
Speaker 3: keep the team and keep you guys. Basically, it's like
Speaker 3: a I don't want to say a hostage situation. It's
Speaker 3: not like that. But that's like the analogy that comes
Speaker 3: to mind. Right, the pole Out family has the Twins
Speaker 3: and they're like, there's a lot of baseball fans in Minneapolis, Minnesota.
Speaker 3: The Dakota's Iowa that all go to Minutis for games
Speaker 3: and they are now like, well, we have the team,
Speaker 3: we can do whatever we want. So, I don't know,
Speaker 3: it's a weird situation. It's a it's an interesting situation.
Speaker 3: I just wish it was a different situation.
Speaker 2: Yeah, there's nothing you can do about it.
Speaker 1: And yeah, as far as the commissioner goes, either he
Speaker 1: was kind of playing the game with everyone else on
Speaker 1: the Polo ad family side so that they could try
Speaker 1: and bargain right and say, hey, you've got interest, something's
Speaker 1: going to happen, or he legitimately thought that they were
Speaker 1: going to sell and then the poet said, yeah, it's
Speaker 1: my damn team.
Speaker 2: I'm not selling.
Speaker 1: So either way, the whole thing is just a bloody mess.
Speaker 1: It is a bloody mess in Minneapolis for baseball on
Speaker 1: this day, Twins fans were here for you.
Speaker 2: That's all we want you to know. We're talking about
Speaker 2: this the way it should be talked about.
Speaker 1: So we're about to talk about the Mariners, and I
Speaker 1: do want to let fans know that there is hope.
Speaker 1: The Mariners were as closely linked to the Twins as
Speaker 1: any team. Right rebuild, build back up, the kind of rug.
Speaker 1: You right at the finish line, and look this year
Speaker 1: trade deadline, you trade for corner infield bats. This team
Speaker 1: is like the hot number right now in baseball, or
Speaker 1: one of the top three hot numbers in baseball. You've
Speaker 1: got to season NYE game winning chick. I know we're
Speaker 1: gonna get into it all. But Krat's point is it's
Speaker 1: not that hard to do a little bit more and
Speaker 1: make all of the difference. That's the thing that bothers
Speaker 1: me the most.
Speaker 4: Go for it. They didn't sign the Marriagers, didn't sign
Speaker 4: Juan Soto to a big contract, Otani to seven hundred
Speaker 4: million dollars. They added to a team that was already
Speaker 4: there in pieces that they needed. They upgraded their team. Yea,
Speaker 4: Henie Swaz isn't even doing well there and it's still
Speaker 4: been successful. It shows like, don't be afraid of why.
Speaker 4: I don't know how he's gonna do when he comes
Speaker 4: over here. Make the move. You never one hundred percent
Speaker 4: of the pitches you don't swing at, you don't hit.
Speaker 4: Do that as an ownership, as a team, you might
Speaker 4: find yourself having a parade.
Speaker 2: That's yeah, sure your shot. Topoto got the ability to
Speaker 2: do that. This time, and it clearly made a difference.
Speaker 3: You can tear the teams. It's a different field. It's
Speaker 3: a totally different field than what they had before. You
Speaker 3: bringing Naylor, who's got super swag, You're bringing Suarez who's
Speaker 3: got swag.
Speaker 1: It helps the Red Sox pounded the Astros yesterday, Bregman
Speaker 1: homer and again, and so basically everybody with the Red Sox,
Speaker 1: including Roman Anthony, who's got just as Manny homers in
Speaker 1: his last two games as did in his first fifty.
Speaker 1: So he's starting to find things. And actually the quote
Speaker 1: from Alex Quorra about Anthony is great. He's used this
Speaker 1: one to an extent before. He was very blunt on
Speaker 1: it after the game. He said, man, we pinch hit
Speaker 1: for Anthony in the first game of his career. Who
Speaker 1: was the dumbass who did that? Well, that was Coorra.
Speaker 1: That's that's a good line. I like that, aj.
Speaker 3: I think it's funny. It's this first game. I mean,
Speaker 3: how are they supposed to know? I mean they saw
Speaker 3: him one what to of bats and they pinched it
Speaker 3: for him against a tough lefty. Welcome to the big leagues,
Speaker 3: Roman Anthony, and have his Almost everybody so you've proved
Speaker 3: them wrong by signing a huge extension and being a
Speaker 3: stud for him. So you've proved them all wrong, and
Speaker 3: you made Joey Alex Corey eat his words. It's more
Speaker 3: fun to make Joey core eat his words, just.
Speaker 4: Saying if you watch, if you watch the game, their
Speaker 4: celebration right now home run. I don't know if they
Speaker 4: do it on doubles because all they hit was bangers.
Speaker 4: Last night is the turbulent airplane celebration because they had
Speaker 4: turbulence a few weeks ago and then some of the
Speaker 4: guys needed ivs because of all the turbulence.
Speaker 1: Yeah, cocktails can get you in the air. Just a
Speaker 1: random statement. Cocktails can get you in the air anyway.
Speaker 1: Dustin May shoved so looking like a good pickup. There
Speaker 1: a six shutout innings, five hits when walk ek is
Speaker 1: much better than the first time around. Trevor Story's twenty
Speaker 1: for twenty stolen bags. Anthony also had chas McCormick pitched
Speaker 1: The Night You Had It All crats tell everyone why
Speaker 1: they need to look into a virtual Private network AKA of.
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Speaker 2: Better than box Scores. Time it happened, and it happened fast.
Speaker 1: The Dodgers and the Padres are tied at the top
Speaker 1: of the National League West, and they will be playing
Speaker 1: each other six times the next twelve ish days, back
Speaker 1: to back weekends. AJ will be on the call for
Speaker 1: the second weekend set, but they'll play this weekend as well.
Speaker 2: That's right. Both of them are sixty eight and fifty
Speaker 2: two on the season.
Speaker 1: And with forty two or three games left on the schedule,
Speaker 1: I can't do the quick math because I'm a little
Speaker 1: bit slow. We have ourselves a fresh season, just like
Speaker 1: a fresh ball game when it's tied to AJ We
Speaker 1: got forty something games left and we're going to see.
Speaker 2: Who can outlast who for the division.
Speaker 1: Otherwise somebody is going to have to play very scary
Speaker 1: wild card round and the Padres have a lot of momentum.
Speaker 1: Dodgers lost Brock Stewart to the injured list yesterday. We
Speaker 1: also found out yesterday twenty Gonsolin's done for the year.
Speaker 1: He's been going through it for a while now, but
Speaker 1: it seems like two teams in opposite direction, and the
Speaker 1: Dodgers haven't been playing good ball for the last month
Speaker 1: and a half now.
Speaker 3: No, and what Jim Boden say yesterday, whod he picked
Speaker 3: to win the Westdres Why because of well everything you
Speaker 3: just said. I mean, listen, it's an interesting point. I
Speaker 3: don't know what's going to happen, but these next two
Speaker 3: weeks are gonna sett a lot. I'm glad I get
Speaker 3: to see one of these games in San Diego. They're
Speaker 3: gonna set the all time attendance record a week from
Speaker 3: Saturday in San Diego and the Dodgers come in town.
Speaker 3: There's no doubt it might be by two people again,
Speaker 3: but they will set the all time attendance record. They
Speaker 3: might do it every game up until then. So this
Speaker 3: is a division everyone thought again the Dodgers were going
Speaker 3: to go one hundred and sixty two and oh, be
Speaker 3: the greatest team of all time. Injuries, whatever you want
Speaker 3: to call it, you know, lack of days ago, play,
Speaker 3: whatever you want to say. Well, they're in a hunt
Speaker 3: now and they got to go, and Dave Roberts got
Speaker 3: to get them going, and the players got to step
Speaker 3: up and play. So it's gonna be a fun stretch.
Speaker 3: It's good. I'm good. I love races. I love divisional races.
Speaker 3: I love wildcard races. I like chaos. So I am
Speaker 3: all four of those. Let's let's do this.
Speaker 4: I agree, I agree, but I think the Dodgers are
Speaker 4: going to come out on top. I think the fact
Speaker 4: that they are now tied, like the Padres did all
Speaker 4: this to get tied, they still have to do more
Speaker 4: than what the Dodgers and what the Dodgers are going
Speaker 4: to do the rest of the way. Freddie Freeman said
Speaker 4: it best. We don't win games. It's not going to
Speaker 4: be tied anymore. And I think the Dodgers have the
Speaker 4: have have the advantage as far as the longevity of
Speaker 4: the season. The Padres may do better in the postseason.
Speaker 4: But watching their game last night, that is suffocating. You
Speaker 4: give up a lead early to the Padres, I mean
Speaker 4: they go, they just they just run a cavalcade of
Speaker 4: monster relievers out there. I mean it's Adam It's it's
Speaker 4: Eli Morgan early. Then you get into the big boys
Speaker 4: at the end with Miller and Estrada and Morey home
Speaker 4: and oh yeah, Robert Suarez. Like it's just it's such
Speaker 4: a game. But it is fun to watch because you
Speaker 4: know you're coming in with the best and the guys
Speaker 4: may get in jams and the next guy gets them
Speaker 4: out of the jam. It's fun to watch.
Speaker 1: I'm a hard disagree. I think the Padres have the
Speaker 1: momentum right now. There's only forty something games left. The
Speaker 1: Dodgers are in a softer portion of their schedule at
Speaker 1: the moment, but it isn't the case for them. They're
Speaker 1: owned five against.
Speaker 2: The Angels this year, you're supposed to beat the Angels.
Speaker 2: Own five against the Angels.
Speaker 3: What are you doing so well? The Angels hang your
Speaker 3: hat on that in the playoffs this year, Scott. Yeah, hey,
Speaker 3: they were at least five and one against the Dodgers
Speaker 3: this year. No matter what happens tonight and.
Speaker 4: Then n it.
Speaker 2: What after the season the Angels.
Speaker 4: The Angels are right now and.
Speaker 1: This is their playoffs right now. I mean, you at
Speaker 1: least get to dominate Southern California and take down the
Speaker 1: defending champs. They triple played Otani, although Otani later had
Speaker 1: the go ahead smashed, but they came.
Speaker 2: Back Joe Adel with the walk off. They actually walked
Speaker 2: them off twice.
Speaker 1: Technically, if you're watching that game, pitch for pitch, Ben
Speaker 1: walk to Tailor Ward. That was a clear cutball four
Speaker 1: and then he eventually struck him out, but Adele got
Speaker 1: to him. So I just think these two teams are
Speaker 1: in opposite directions, and I got the padres.
Speaker 2: It is a better team right now. Brewers won again, shocker.
Speaker 1: But the surprising part aj was how much damage they
Speaker 1: did against Paul Skins. From the jump, He's been the
Speaker 1: first inning Monsters the first time he gave him a
Speaker 1: run this year in the first inning. It's the second
Speaker 1: longest streak to start a season by going scoreless through
Speaker 1: first innings.
Speaker 3: Well, yeah, they hammered Paul Skins. I mean it was
Speaker 3: one of the shortest outings too, right, only four innings. Yeah,
Speaker 3: they the Brewers are it right now. We just talked
Speaker 3: about the Padres. The Brewers are it where it's at
Speaker 3: right now. And pancakes, pocket pancakes, whatever you want to
Speaker 3: call it. They're just doing it. And Pat Murphy's pushing
Speaker 3: all the right buttons. Matt Arnold's pushing all the right buttons.
Speaker 3: They have great pitching, but I don't think anybody thought
Speaker 3: they would swing it the way they swung it, especially
Speaker 3: without Jackson Surio.
Speaker 1: You know, they beat the Pirates on the Skins they
Speaker 1: fourteen nothing Krats. They're twenty four and four with Andrew
Speaker 1: vonnoh Homert again. They have a seven and a half
Speaker 1: game lead over the Cubs. That division race is over,
Speaker 1: and they've got two eleven plus game winning streaks on
Speaker 1: the season. Now, last National League team to do that,
Speaker 1: the nineteen thirty five Cubs. I mean, they're setting records.
Speaker 1: They are having ridiculous amounts of fun. They look insanely
Speaker 1: good right now. Are they peaking too early?
Speaker 4: No? Not unless they lose in the first round. Fortunately,
Speaker 4: they off a wild card round, which has not been
Speaker 4: the case recently and has been tough for them, So
Speaker 4: you get to play one less round. And I don't
Speaker 4: know why everybody's freaking out about the pocket pancakes. If
Speaker 4: you watch the show for the last three years, I've
Speaker 4: said this about Pat Murphy every single time. So he's
Speaker 4: had bagels. He now uses his pockets. He never used
Speaker 4: to use his pockets, which is disgusting.
Speaker 2: Josh Hater to the injured list.
Speaker 1: Shoulder strain crushing blow for the Houston Astros that we
Speaker 1: learned about yesterday.
Speaker 2: We knew that there were shoulder discomfort crats.
Speaker 1: This is not good news for a team fighting for
Speaker 1: a division against a team that is thriving at the moment.
Speaker 4: Tough injury, tough injury, especially with the Mariners chasing them down.
Speaker 4: I mean, you can never lose your closer. I don't
Speaker 4: care who it is. No team, even the Padres will
Speaker 4: be like, man, we didn't want to lose that guy.
Speaker 4: We didn't want to lose Suarez We don't want to
Speaker 4: lose any of those guys. If you were in the playoffs,
Speaker 4: you need every one of those bullpen pieces. And he's
Speaker 4: massive for this team. I mean, what he's done is
Speaker 4: it's gonna be tough. It's gonna be tough for them,
Speaker 4: especially now after a trade deadline. This is why it's
Speaker 4: always good to have that extra trade deadline. You're not
Speaker 4: gonna find a closer, but you're gonna find another bullpen
Speaker 4: piece that pushes other guys up. We'll see, we'll see.
Speaker 4: This is why I have the Mariners taking the taking
Speaker 4: the Astros and taking the West this year.
Speaker 3: It's a big blow. It's a big boom. They got Eric, Gettibacky.
Speaker 3: He didn't look great. But losing hater a guy they've
Speaker 3: been count on it. I guess this makes a breaky
Speaker 3: the closer. Other guys have to move back and inning.
Speaker 3: It's a big it's a big deal. This is a
Speaker 3: big deal for the Astros and for the Al West
Speaker 3: in general.
Speaker 4: The Mariners, bring them on, bring them on. Yes, it
Speaker 4: makes it tough to win back to back days. When
Speaker 4: you lose a huge piece of your bullpen, it's tough
Speaker 4: to win back to back days. And when the Mariners
Speaker 4: are running like they're running, not saying they're gonna run hot,
Speaker 4: but to overtake them, you've gotta be able to win
Speaker 4: back to back days because you're not gonna hit a
Speaker 4: ton of home runs every single night, like you need guys.
Speaker 4: You need two or three guys each night. And when
Speaker 4: one of those is down, now you only have one
Speaker 4: or two that you can really count on. You got
Speaker 4: to blow it out. On the nights you're winning by
Speaker 4: a run, it's tough to win that next night.
Speaker 1: Then top heavy bullpen for the Astros. And I mean
Speaker 1: that in a complimentary way.
Speaker 2: A break you in, hater, so damn good.
Speaker 1: Oh that's signing has worked out so well, the hater
Speaker 1: signing for the Astros. But it's just it's tough timing.
Speaker 1: So hopefully he's gonna get himself back. Shoulder strain not
Speaker 1: a great word. So we'll find out what the deal
Speaker 1: is for Josh as far as the timetable.
Speaker 3: Shoulder anything for a picture is not a great great thing.
Speaker 4: That's right, all right, Presley GOTDFA. I bet they pick
Speaker 4: him up and he has a two VRA.
Speaker 2: That is a good call. Yeah, he didn't get picked
Speaker 2: up yet did he.
Speaker 4: No, I didn't see him get picked up. It'd be crazy.
Speaker 4: I mean, but if there's a team that can do it,
Speaker 4: it's the Astros.
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Speaker 2: Hot Corner time. We It's mystery yesterday.
Speaker 1: Congrats to polar Bear Pete Alonzo, who is alone on
Speaker 1: his own private iceberg. Good call from Gary Cohen last night.
Speaker 1: Two hundred fifty three and two hundred and fifty four.
Speaker 1: We're hit last night for Pete. Two fifty three set
Speaker 1: the Mets all time record franchise history. He passed Darryl
Speaker 1: Strawberry went OPO with that one. This is really cool too.
Speaker 2: Between the numbs on Twitter put this out and showed
Speaker 2: how over the years the Mets all time home run
Speaker 2: list changed head.
Speaker 1: Crane Pool up there for a while and Cleon Jones
Speaker 1: took over crane Pool again. We're in the seventies. It's
Speaker 1: kind of like a horse race. AJ Dave Kingman puts
Speaker 1: up blow one fifty four piece, Yeah he did, but
Speaker 1: then Darryl Strawberry by the late eighties took it, carried
Speaker 1: it into the early nineties two fifty two hour Johnson
Speaker 1: fell short at one ninety two, and now we're in
Speaker 1: the mid nineties, Todd Hunley up to one twenty four,
Speaker 1: Bobby Benio moving up the list, Mike Piazza very much
Speaker 1: moving up the list, getting himself into the two spot
Speaker 1: at two twenty.
Speaker 2: Now we're in the early.
Speaker 1: Two thousands and heading into twenty tens. David Wright. You
Speaker 1: thought David Wright would get there.
Speaker 4: David Wright was gonna get there, obviously had his I
Speaker 4: think it was spyin yes, final stenosis. But the other
Speaker 4: thing that got him too. He went into City Field
Speaker 4: and I remember I remember when he went into City Field,
Speaker 4: and it was if you look at the stadium now,
Speaker 4: it is nothing like it, like the the the fences
Speaker 4: have been moved in a ton and he looked at
Speaker 4: it and he goes, I guess they hate me because
Speaker 4: there was no hitting the ball out of that ballpark
Speaker 4: to the opposite field like he used to. Neither Neither
Speaker 4: one of Pete Homer's last night would have been out
Speaker 4: in the old ballpark or in the original dimensions of
Speaker 4: the ballpark. It was that ridiculous.
Speaker 1: Both of the one I know about the whole party
Speaker 1: deck thing that got put up right, But the other
Speaker 1: side too.
Speaker 4: If you look at if you look at where the
Speaker 4: if you look at where the bullpen is, where the
Speaker 4: guys sit in the bullpen room on the visiting side,
Speaker 4: that's where the fence goes. Used to go across all
Speaker 4: the way to that like weird jutted out area in
Speaker 4: right field. It was g enormous. You used to have
Speaker 4: to hit it all the way into the bullpen on
Speaker 4: the roof of the bullpen, of the visiting bullpen, not
Speaker 4: the home bullpen.
Speaker 2: Wow, well, Pete got it done. Here's the Dingers.
Speaker 1: Here's the first one, the one that got it done
Speaker 1: officially clearing the right centerfield fence double.
Speaker 2: And he was pumped that he did it at home.
Speaker 2: So it's cool. Pete's great, dude.
Speaker 1: He is a legend, I would say, already in franchise
Speaker 1: history aj and beloved by fans.
Speaker 2: He just fits for this franchise.
Speaker 4: I have to sign it.
Speaker 3: A couple of things. A couple things here on this one. Yeah,
Speaker 3: the fences removed in but did you ever go to
Speaker 3: the old Detroit co America before they moved and it
Speaker 3: made City Field look like the small park. Okay, So
Speaker 3: that's why Wan Gonzalez didn't stegin there, and he costs
Speaker 3: of a lot of money. But the other thing is
Speaker 3: what I'm more listen. I love Pete obviously, Gator, great
Speaker 3: guy from Florida. Love Pete. So but here's my question
Speaker 3: for you. Are we not amazed that the franchise record
Speaker 3: for home runs for the Mets is two hundred and
Speaker 3: fifty two? Like, that's it? Two hundred and fifty two. Like,
Speaker 3: didn't it seem like you think, oh, man, all these
Speaker 3: great players that have gone through the Mets, that there'd
Speaker 3: be a three or four hundred homer guy that stayed
Speaker 3: there long enough. But too fifty two. I was amazed
Speaker 3: when I heard that number. Not that it's a large
Speaker 3: not a large number, but you would have thought somebody
Speaker 3: in the Mets had been around long enough and had
Speaker 3: good enough teams where someone would hit three or four
Speaker 3: hundred homers, didn't stay long enough. It's kind of like
Speaker 3: the Dodgers. Look at the Dodgers all time home run list.
Speaker 3: It's not very it's not. It's kind of like that too.
Speaker 4: Name the lifers on the Mets, and you know it's
Speaker 4: gotta be you gotta stay for a long time Pete.
Speaker 4: Pete actually did it in a really short amount of time.
Speaker 4: I think that's kind of underrated in all this because
Speaker 4: we're talking about a career and an entire franchise. But
Speaker 4: he did it pretty quick. You got to stay a
Speaker 4: long time to be able to hit over two hundred
Speaker 4: and fifty home runs for one organization.
Speaker 1: Yeah, he's a lumberjack. And the Mets found their form yesterday.
Speaker 1: They finally won. They'd lost twelve or thirteen. They had
Speaker 1: a thirteen run out burst after actually taking a five
Speaker 1: one lead.
Speaker 2: They gave it up.
Speaker 1: Then they scored eight in a row, all run scored
Speaker 1: with two outs. And Spencer Strider ain't it right now,
Speaker 1: he knows it. His stuff's not the same at all.
Speaker 1: His last two starts against the Mets and the Brewers
Speaker 1: five homers, eight and two thirds, thirteen runs, nineteen hits.
Speaker 1: I mean that is not Spencer Streider at all. Mets
Speaker 1: still have concerns though, I mean they ran out of
Speaker 1: fireworks first of all, which just come on, guys, you
Speaker 1: ran out of fireworks. What if you had an eight
Speaker 1: homer game, you got to have more fireworks available. I'm kidding.
Speaker 1: But they did demote Frankie Montas, and they are going
Speaker 1: to call it Nolan McLean this weekend, who's one of
Speaker 1: their top pitching prospects, And some people are like, it's
Speaker 1: about damn time. Are show collectively has been pretty hard
Speaker 1: on the Montas signing, and we will continue to do that.
Speaker 2: So we'll see what this guy looks like. One of
Speaker 2: their top prospects, great stuff down in the upper miners,
Speaker 2: So we'll see what happens. But anyway, for the Mets,
Speaker 2: they still have work to do.
Speaker 1: Got to maintain that position in the wildcard outside chance
Speaker 1: to chasing the Phillies for the division.
Speaker 2: But it's going to be tough.
Speaker 1: At least the offense found their form against the guy
Speaker 1: who's a shell of himself. Right now, let's slap right
Speaker 1: to Kratz hats and maybe aj hats too.
Speaker 4: The t Grace a team that I think really needs
Speaker 4: to pick it up. I get it. They were cold
Speaker 4: going into the break, out of the break all that stuff.
Speaker 4: They need to pick it up. A lot of times
Speaker 4: we were saying they were the best team in the
Speaker 4: American League, and as Tim Kirkshon said, there's no good
Speaker 4: teams that are really that great in the American League.
Speaker 4: They could be one of them. They have the best
Speaker 4: picture on the planet.
Speaker 2: Mm hmm.
Speaker 1: I'll read you a little note on the way out.
Speaker 1: So there's a bunch of day games first of all,
Speaker 1: so we're done for the day. But if you want
Speaker 1: to check those out, go for it. Rockies beat the
Speaker 1: Cardinals yesterday. Cardinals still have an outside chance. I mean
Speaker 1: they got to go on a ridiculous run. They sold
Speaker 1: a little, they didn't sell much, but they did get
Speaker 1: shut out by the Rockies yesterday. Are Katie Wu from
Speaker 1: Cardinal Territory said, as many of you pointed out, Colorado
Speaker 1: has shut out Saint Louis twice this season. Colorado has
Speaker 1: two shutout wins this season. You do the math right.
Speaker 2: Both against Right now?
Speaker 4: You said you said shut out wins. Do they have
Speaker 4: any shutout losses?
Speaker 2: Is that a joke?
Speaker 4: I mean, I don't know why he said shut out win.
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