WEBVTT - Rays Racking up Series Sweeps 0:00:12.520 --> 0:00:16.200 It's time to raise the room for our latest regular 0:00:16.200 --> 0:00:20.279 season podcast. Welcome back everyone to the pod, officially part 0:00:20.320 --> 0:00:23.640 of the Dust Baseball Media Network. I am your host, 0:00:23.680 --> 0:00:27.600 Alex Murphy. With me today the boys, Evan Lynch and Gibbie. Guys, 0:00:27.600 --> 0:00:29.920 how are we doing pretty good? 0:00:29.960 --> 0:00:30.280 Alex? 0:00:30.320 --> 0:00:34.760 Pretty good? The Lightning lost on Sunday, but I bet Evan. 0:00:35.479 --> 0:00:37.879 I bet Evan's feeling pretty good because the Hurricanes are 0:00:37.920 --> 0:00:39.280 still doing their things. 0:00:40.400 --> 0:00:41.839 So yeah, I don't know. I don't know how we 0:00:41.920 --> 0:00:45.479 won that game on on Monday night, Alex. We did 0:00:45.479 --> 0:00:46.120 not play well. 0:00:46.320 --> 0:00:50.600 The Philly Sports had two winnable games and lost both 0:00:50.600 --> 0:00:51.760 of them in Game two. 0:00:52.640 --> 0:00:56.880 But hey, six Sixers upset the Celtics. I mean that 0:00:57.040 --> 0:00:58.960 was you guys deserve to win that series. 0:00:59.280 --> 0:01:02.040 Yeah, But like, I also don't like the Knicks, and 0:01:02.320 --> 0:01:05.400 I want to beat the Knicks, and they lost yesterday 0:01:05.480 --> 0:01:07.640 and that's not really helping out. 0:01:09.120 --> 0:01:11.039 Well, at least at least you beat the Celtics, and 0:01:11.080 --> 0:01:15.000 everyone hates the Celtics, so that I hate the Sixers, 0:01:15.040 --> 0:01:16.600 but I like him for that. 0:01:16.680 --> 0:01:19.600 But also the Orlando Tragic, you know, did the same. 0:01:21.760 --> 0:01:24.960 I've never seen a team score nineteen points in the 0:01:25.000 --> 0:01:25.759 second half. 0:01:26.000 --> 0:01:30.360 I mean that was yeah, that was horrible. I'm and 0:01:30.480 --> 0:01:33.000 I was watching. I started watching that game in the 0:01:33.040 --> 0:01:35.559 second half. I was like, oh wow, we're gonna freaking 0:01:35.680 --> 0:01:37.960 go on to the and then oh my god, I 0:01:38.120 --> 0:01:40.360 just didn't do anything. 0:01:42.080 --> 0:01:45.839 So yeah, yeah, that was a rough watch. Sorry about that. 0:01:45.840 --> 0:01:46.760 That was really rough. 0:01:47.400 --> 0:01:50.440 Yeah the France could stay healthy, you never know. But 0:01:51.120 --> 0:01:54.080 oh yeah, unfortunately he gets in the whole time. That's 0:01:54.120 --> 0:01:57.120 my boy. I love Franz, but yeah, I know why 0:01:57.160 --> 0:02:01.760 you like him. Yeah go blue. Yeah, no, you should 0:02:01.840 --> 0:02:03.680 like Derek Queen in the same way that you like 0:02:03.760 --> 0:02:06.720 Franz Bogner and I love I love Darrek Queen. 0:02:06.880 --> 0:02:07.160 I know. 0:02:07.800 --> 0:02:11.079 The Pelicans just stink. The Pelicans do. So this is 0:02:11.120 --> 0:02:14.600 a very accurate statement. He's a stud. Though he's awesome. 0:02:14.720 --> 0:02:17.359 He should get traded to a good team like the Sixers. 0:02:18.680 --> 0:02:19.639 That would be cool team. 0:02:19.880 --> 0:02:25.480 Yeah, I mean, imagine, imagine it's you know, so I 0:02:25.520 --> 0:02:29.240 will say the Rays have had some luck in some 0:02:29.480 --> 0:02:32.400 some trades recently, but like imagine, I mean, I'm not 0:02:32.400 --> 0:02:34.000 going to get into whole belou thing. Because he had 0:02:34.000 --> 0:02:36.000 another home run last night. I'm really sad about that, 0:02:36.040 --> 0:02:38.320 and I'm like, you know, what man, it'd be like, 0:02:38.440 --> 0:02:40.360 imagine how much better this team would be to have 0:02:40.480 --> 0:02:44.600 him there, but also imagine how like this team is 0:02:45.040 --> 0:02:47.160 as good as they are without him, which is pretty 0:02:47.240 --> 0:02:50.040 damn impressive, to be fully honest. 0:02:50.680 --> 0:02:52.880 But no, I do. I do miss him dearly. 0:02:53.360 --> 0:02:53.800 But the. 0:02:55.800 --> 0:02:59.600 The six are probably gonna get swept, flyers are probably 0:02:59.600 --> 0:03:00.400 gonna get left. 0:03:00.960 --> 0:03:02.120 I do think what was it? 0:03:02.200 --> 0:03:04.160 Ben Stiller was like pissed off that he was at 0:03:04.160 --> 0:03:07.359 the metcal because he would have rather been at MSG 0:03:07.600 --> 0:03:10.560 watching the watching this game, which I'm like, that's a 0:03:10.600 --> 0:03:13.280 true fan, Like, you would never catch me doing that. 0:03:13.360 --> 0:03:15.240 If there was something going on in the Tampa. 0:03:15.000 --> 0:03:17.760 Area and it was it was between that and the 0:03:17.840 --> 0:03:20.240 Rays game, no question I'd be at there. 0:03:20.280 --> 0:03:21.919 But I feel like he could. I feel like he 0:03:22.080 --> 0:03:24.120 I mean, you have to go to the Metcala like 0:03:24.160 --> 0:03:26.160 he'd be. I think I don't think that he had to. 0:03:26.320 --> 0:03:28.560 I mean, if I was in his position, no way 0:03:28.560 --> 0:03:29.760 in hell I'd be at the Mecal. 0:03:29.800 --> 0:03:30.919 I'd be at the way. 0:03:30.800 --> 0:03:33.160 He's going to the Mets gala. 0:03:34.800 --> 0:03:35.800 The Mets. 0:03:39.160 --> 0:03:44.680 The Mets are objectively bad at baseball, guys, Yay, objectively 0:03:45.400 --> 0:03:47.640 they are really bad. They are, thank god, the Rays 0:03:47.640 --> 0:03:49.400 aren't the Mets. If the Rays were the Mets, I 0:03:49.760 --> 0:03:53.520 think that. I mean a lot of things would be different. 0:03:53.720 --> 0:03:54.800 The whole stadium thing. 0:03:54.880 --> 0:03:56.840 Yeah, we'd been hosting one episode a month. 0:03:57.320 --> 0:03:59.080 Yeah, it would not be fun. At least the team's 0:03:59.120 --> 0:04:02.160 exciting now, which is most important thing. But yeah, going 0:04:02.200 --> 0:04:04.560 into Race talk, So the Razer twenty four and twelve, 0:04:04.600 --> 0:04:06.800 the Race have swept two straight series. The Race have 0:04:06.880 --> 0:04:09.640 five series sweeps on the season. I believe they have 0:04:09.720 --> 0:04:13.440 four series sweeps at home. They are like twelve and 0:04:13.560 --> 0:04:16.160 one in their last thirteen games. They've lost two games 0:04:16.200 --> 0:04:19.919 against teams that aren't in the NL Central, which begs 0:04:19.960 --> 0:04:21.520 the question, how good would this team be if they 0:04:21.520 --> 0:04:23.160 didn't play the NL Central in the first month of 0:04:23.160 --> 0:04:28.920 the year. They're really good. They're really really good. They're hitting, 0:04:29.560 --> 0:04:32.760 they are pitching out of their minds. The defense has 0:04:32.760 --> 0:04:35.239 been fantastic. And this is without a bunch of major 0:04:35.279 --> 0:04:39.800 pieces in this team. Gavin Lux is still out and 0:04:39.880 --> 0:04:43.120 Joe Boyle, even though he wasn't you know, he wasn't 0:04:43.160 --> 0:04:45.359 supposed to be started to begin the season went on, 0:04:45.400 --> 0:04:48.880 the IL Ryan Papio was announced that he has major 0:04:48.920 --> 0:04:53.800 news hip surgery. He'll be missing the entire season, players 0:04:53.880 --> 0:04:57.800 like him. Steven Match just went on the il Luceda 0:04:57.839 --> 0:04:59.520 has been out for the majority of the season. 0:05:00.640 --> 0:05:02.239 There's a lot of guys who. 0:05:02.040 --> 0:05:05.520 Have been hurt on this team, and this team is 0:05:05.560 --> 0:05:09.080 still rattling off wins and finding ways to win baseball games, 0:05:09.600 --> 0:05:12.120 and it seems improbable. But at the same time, I 0:05:12.120 --> 0:05:16.160 don't think it is, like, how are we processing that. 0:05:16.360 --> 0:05:18.880 I don't know if I fully processed how good this 0:05:18.960 --> 0:05:20.680 team is, but like, how have you guys tried to 0:05:20.720 --> 0:05:21.920 process how good this team is? 0:05:23.839 --> 0:05:26.800 They're doing something dangerous to me. I still don't like, 0:05:27.960 --> 0:05:32.280 it's still hard to imagine. I mean, this team's what 0:05:32.400 --> 0:05:35.680 twelve games over five hundred. If you would have told 0:05:35.760 --> 0:05:37.440 me that that they would be at this point, I 0:05:37.480 --> 0:05:39.160 mean I would have thought you were insane. If you 0:05:39.240 --> 0:05:40.840 bet that, I assume you would have won a lot 0:05:40.839 --> 0:05:44.359 of money at the beginning of season. Once again, another 0:05:44.360 --> 0:05:46.520 podcast where I'm eating a lot of my words. Cash 0:05:46.520 --> 0:05:50.960 has been fantastic this year, and you touched on it 0:05:50.960 --> 0:05:54.360 a little bit. The pitching staff has been the best 0:05:54.360 --> 0:05:58.440 that I like, It's been the best that I can remember, Like, 0:05:58.480 --> 0:06:00.880 I don't I don't remember a pitching staff this dominant 0:06:00.920 --> 0:06:04.480 through a month and a couple of weeks into the season. This, 0:06:05.320 --> 0:06:08.640 I mean it totally. The first couple of weeks, the 0:06:08.640 --> 0:06:11.680 bullpen was not good at all, and I don't understand 0:06:11.720 --> 0:06:14.040 what happened, Like on a dime, it just completely switched. 0:06:14.839 --> 0:06:18.080 What's the stat they I'm trying to look forward on Twitter, 0:06:18.120 --> 0:06:20.599 but they have led up three or fewer runs in 0:06:20.640 --> 0:06:25.400 thirteen straight games, which is a franchise record, tied for 0:06:25.440 --> 0:06:26.400 the second longest. 0:06:26.120 --> 0:06:29.600 Three seventeen runs in It's like one point three runs 0:06:29.600 --> 0:06:30.520 a game or something. 0:06:31.000 --> 0:06:33.640 So it's crazy and we're not like, yeah, I think 0:06:33.640 --> 0:06:37.880 we're averaging like sub four runs in this twelve and 0:06:37.960 --> 0:06:39.479 one thirteen girty. 0:06:39.600 --> 0:06:42.360 Yeah, it's not like the Bats have been anything crazy 0:06:42.400 --> 0:06:43.279 by any means. 0:06:43.640 --> 0:06:46.120 No, and we've taken advantage, Like I mean the Giants. 0:06:46.160 --> 0:06:48.560 I remember, Alex, when we were talking about that series 0:06:48.720 --> 0:06:52.480 this time last week, we were like this, the Giants 0:06:52.520 --> 0:06:55.160 offense is horrible. Their last dead last in league and 0:06:55.279 --> 0:06:59.599 runs home runs. I think RBIs as well, and we 0:06:59.720 --> 0:07:02.320 kept true to that stat. So, I mean, I think 0:07:02.360 --> 0:07:07.479 they scored what three runs that entire series? That could 0:07:07.480 --> 0:07:09.000 be that's kind of a total guess I kind of 0:07:09.000 --> 0:07:11.080 forget what the scores are with that of that series. 0:07:11.080 --> 0:07:13.240 It was two runs the whole series. 0:07:12.880 --> 0:07:17.600 Two runs the whole series. Like, I mean, maybe we 0:07:17.640 --> 0:07:21.120 are playing subpar offenses like the Guardians. Yeah, probably not 0:07:21.200 --> 0:07:23.480 the best offense. But the Blue Jays I think have 0:07:23.480 --> 0:07:27.480 a pretty damn good offense and they didn't weren't successful 0:07:27.480 --> 0:07:30.440 at this past weekend so or this past series. So 0:07:32.080 --> 0:07:35.400 I mean you got to give got to give credit 0:07:35.400 --> 0:07:36.400 to situational hitting. 0:07:36.400 --> 0:07:36.520 Two. 0:07:36.640 --> 0:07:38.800 I mean, the game on Tuesday night, I don't know 0:07:38.800 --> 0:07:41.440 how that's another game where we just stole. It's kind 0:07:41.440 --> 0:07:43.560 of like it kind of was reminiscent of the Monday 0:07:44.120 --> 0:07:47.240 opener against the Guardians last week, where I feel like 0:07:47.280 --> 0:07:49.760 we didn't necessarily deserve to win it, but we somehow 0:07:50.120 --> 0:07:53.920 scraped across enough runs and once again timely hitting late 0:07:53.960 --> 0:07:56.720 in the game eighth inning, we're able to put a 0:07:56.920 --> 0:07:59.640 put a rally up. So it's a combination of that 0:07:59.720 --> 0:08:03.720 and really really really really good pitching. Typically we need 0:08:03.800 --> 0:08:05.320 still a lot of wins than it is for the race. 0:08:06.720 --> 0:08:09.320 Yeah, I mean, I'm with Evan. I have to eat 0:08:09.360 --> 0:08:11.679 a lot of my words because I mean, this looks 0:08:11.720 --> 0:08:15.040 like the classic Rays that we know with the good 0:08:15.080 --> 0:08:19.080 pitching and the just good enough and clutch offense that 0:08:19.240 --> 0:08:22.720 they win most of their games. I mean, they've just 0:08:22.800 --> 0:08:26.520 gone back to it's like they're in a time machine 0:08:26.640 --> 0:08:29.400 and you know, this team is on the same vibes 0:08:30.040 --> 0:08:32.680 as it was, like, you know, through the twenty through 0:08:32.679 --> 0:08:36.160 the beginning of the twenty twenties. I mean I still 0:08:37.160 --> 0:08:39.000 I've said this on Twitter a lot, but I still 0:08:39.040 --> 0:08:42.800 have to see June and July before I really believe, 0:08:43.360 --> 0:08:46.720 because I feel like those are our cursed months at 0:08:46.800 --> 0:08:51.920 least for us. But I mean the team has just 0:08:51.960 --> 0:08:56.160 been so clutch. I mean the small ball hitting. I mean, 0:08:56.200 --> 0:08:58.880 not even a lot of home runs this series, just 0:08:59.120 --> 0:09:02.439 you know, clutch hitting at the right time, getting runners 0:09:02.440 --> 0:09:06.640 in scorning position and getting them home. And yeah, like 0:09:06.679 --> 0:09:10.480 Evan said, Kevin Cash is like completely turned it around. 0:09:10.960 --> 0:09:15.080 I mean it's not like it's like last year. You know, 0:09:15.200 --> 0:09:19.280 he didn't have a bullpen to really trust, and I 0:09:19.280 --> 0:09:22.240 mean it's mostly a lot of the same guys. It's 0:09:22.320 --> 0:09:24.800 just they've had a complete turnaround. I mean one of them, 0:09:25.040 --> 0:09:29.760 Kevin Kelly, has just been He's been really good. And 0:09:30.160 --> 0:09:33.520 you know, even so even like the the lower leverage guys, 0:09:33.559 --> 0:09:34.040 I mean. 0:09:35.360 --> 0:09:37.560 Have been have just turned it around. I mean I 0:09:37.600 --> 0:09:39.400 thought this was gonna be I mean. 0:09:39.280 --> 0:09:41.400 If you if you look at our season prediction pod, 0:09:41.520 --> 0:09:43.200 I mean we all thought this would be like a 0:09:43.200 --> 0:09:48.880 pretty a pretty mid team. Uh, but you know, they've 0:09:48.920 --> 0:09:52.640 just I guess you know, you just got to throw 0:09:52.679 --> 0:09:54.480 out the paper, you know when you're talking about the 0:09:54.559 --> 0:09:57.720 Rays because you know, we forgot that the last two seasons, 0:09:57.760 --> 0:10:03.040 because you know, it's just nothing really sufficed. 0:10:02.480 --> 0:10:05.000 With the teams, and. 0:10:04.160 --> 0:10:06.520 And you know, we thought maybe the Rays magic was 0:10:06.520 --> 0:10:09.560 a little gone now, but I mean it's it's just 0:10:09.600 --> 0:10:13.120 been working and all the new additions have just worked 0:10:13.120 --> 0:10:17.560 out well. I think Nick Martinez has been just stellar. 0:10:18.480 --> 0:10:25.600 H And this is with you know, injuries that we've had. Ah, 0:10:25.640 --> 0:10:29.480 So it's just been it's been an incredible run that 0:10:29.480 --> 0:10:30.040 they've had. 0:10:30.120 --> 0:10:31.120 And I mean it. 0:10:31.200 --> 0:10:34.280 Also I also just have to say how bad the 0:10:34.360 --> 0:10:36.559 A L is. I mean, that's a that's another. 0:10:39.320 --> 0:10:41.479 Teams with a record above five hundred. 0:10:41.600 --> 0:10:43.600 And they're both in the same division. 0:10:44.280 --> 0:10:47.959 And they're both like going after each other for the. 0:10:48.520 --> 0:10:54.040 For Haymakers back and forth with with the Yankees. 0:10:54.080 --> 0:10:57.440 So yeah, why does the AL suck so much this year, Like, 0:10:57.520 --> 0:10:58.240 what the hell? 0:10:58.400 --> 0:10:59.959 I have no idea what happened? 0:11:00.160 --> 0:11:03.160 I have no idea, And I mean I would be 0:11:03.240 --> 0:11:05.920 sad if I was Toronto Blue Jayson fan, because I mean, 0:11:06.559 --> 0:11:09.600 being two inches away from the World Series and then 0:11:09.840 --> 0:11:12.160 you know the team's just not performing at all. 0:11:12.360 --> 0:11:13.520 I bet they'll. 0:11:13.360 --> 0:11:16.440 Turn How close was that play at home? 0:11:17.320 --> 0:11:19.640 Yeah, I mean that was like one inch? Yeah it 0:11:19.679 --> 0:11:26.520 was crazy. But yeah, I mean it's just been it's 0:11:26.520 --> 0:11:29.480 been incredible. I mean I I wouldn't have expected this 0:11:29.600 --> 0:11:34.160 at all. Uh So I'll eat my words a little bit, 0:11:34.320 --> 0:11:36.480 you know, but you know, I still gotta see June 0:11:36.559 --> 0:11:43.120 and July before I really really believe. But yeah, I 0:11:43.160 --> 0:11:46.800 mean this team has been so good, incredible. 0:11:47.600 --> 0:11:50.480 Yeah, why does the AL suck so much? 0:11:50.559 --> 0:11:50.719 Like? 0:11:50.960 --> 0:11:52.200 Do we have a theory for this? 0:11:55.920 --> 0:11:57.600 I feel like they're all just I feel like all 0:11:57.600 --> 0:12:00.560 the teams are a little old, you know, in terms 0:12:00.559 --> 0:12:03.400 of talent, and then and then and then National League 0:12:03.679 --> 0:12:06.800 they have a little bit more like the younger talent 0:12:06.880 --> 0:12:13.640 that's actually gonna be the next phase of the of 0:12:13.640 --> 0:12:17.400 of you know that the next top guys in baseball. 0:12:17.440 --> 0:12:20.000 I feel like that that's one theory. And then I 0:12:20.000 --> 0:12:20.360 don't know. 0:12:20.480 --> 0:12:26.600 Maybe I'm trying to fixplaable. 0:12:26.920 --> 0:12:29.160 I don't know. I really don't know. I think the 0:12:29.160 --> 0:12:31.720 a L. This is kind of going to come out 0:12:31.760 --> 0:12:33.319 of left field. But I think the a L has 0:12:33.360 --> 0:12:36.480 two teams where they're like like the I think the 0:12:36.480 --> 0:12:39.280 A's and the White Sox crazy crazy polls, but I 0:12:39.320 --> 0:12:42.520 think they're like and exciting. Those are exciting. Those are 0:12:42.520 --> 0:12:44.480 two of the most exciting teams in the AL. I think. 0:12:45.760 --> 0:12:48.439 I think that definitely exciting. That is that's not sure 0:12:48.480 --> 0:12:49.480 I will agree with you on that. 0:12:49.800 --> 0:12:50.040 I don't. 0:12:50.040 --> 0:12:52.120 I don't think they're necessarily playoff teams this year, but 0:12:52.160 --> 0:12:54.280 I think there's a year or two away from being 0:12:55.960 --> 0:13:02.800 like division like a possible division champion. This division right now, 0:13:03.400 --> 0:13:08.640 I wouldn't be. I wouldn't be eighteen and eighteens. Like 0:13:10.720 --> 0:13:12.000 I guess the White Sox are a game in a 0:13:12.000 --> 0:13:14.880 half out and the other as are within the division 0:13:14.920 --> 0:13:16.960 like that. But that goes to my point. There are 0:13:16.960 --> 0:13:19.480 two exciting teams with a lot of really young talent. 0:13:20.920 --> 0:13:23.480 But as for the whole AL, I really don't understand it. 0:13:23.559 --> 0:13:26.679 But on the flip side, yes, they only have two 0:13:26.720 --> 0:13:29.240 teams over five hundred, but they have a lot of 0:13:29.280 --> 0:13:32.439 teams around. I mean, this is gonna sound like loser talk, 0:13:32.520 --> 0:13:34.280 but there they have a lot of teams that are 0:13:34.320 --> 0:13:36.360 hovering around five hundred. It's not like they're all ten 0:13:36.400 --> 0:13:40.400 games under five hundred. So I guess that kind of 0:13:40.400 --> 0:13:41.360 makes sense as well. 0:13:42.400 --> 0:13:44.200 So, yeah, you're right. 0:13:44.240 --> 0:13:47.400 I think the NL has a lot more very bottom 0:13:47.559 --> 0:13:50.360 feeder teams, you know, and then there's a lot more 0:13:50.559 --> 0:13:53.040 teams that are cool. I guess the worst team would 0:13:53.080 --> 0:13:57.079 be like the Angels or the Astros, and the Mets 0:13:57.120 --> 0:13:59.840 as are worse than both those. 0:14:00.200 --> 0:14:03.600 So also, I did not realize the Phillies were on 0:14:03.720 --> 0:14:05.079 an absolute tear eight and too. 0:14:05.160 --> 0:14:07.600 Oh yeah, yeah, Phillies are. I mean the Phillies were 0:14:07.800 --> 0:14:11.240 dog water like. They were really really bad. Like I 0:14:11.240 --> 0:14:13.320 think a good indicator for how good or how bad 0:14:13.320 --> 0:14:15.720 a team is to an extent is how much ticket 0:14:15.720 --> 0:14:18.720 prices are. So Phillies ticket prices at least on like 0:14:18.760 --> 0:14:22.040 the third party markets have been expensive just for you know, 0:14:22.120 --> 0:14:23.560 going back home and going to see family. 0:14:24.720 --> 0:14:26.640 They're not they have gone down. 0:14:26.680 --> 0:14:28.480 I mean there was a game against the A's this 0:14:28.560 --> 0:14:32.240 week that was like fifteen bucks on like tick pick, 0:14:32.440 --> 0:14:35.240 and I was like that's not a lot of money. 0:14:35.280 --> 0:14:38.560 I mean for a Phillies game, that's the equivalent of 0:14:38.600 --> 0:14:40.120 like if I was to go up to DC to 0:14:40.160 --> 0:14:42.560 go see a Nats game, that's the equivalent of more 0:14:42.640 --> 0:14:44.040 or less what I would pay. And that's where a 0:14:44.040 --> 0:14:46.960 Phillies game. The Phillies have been a perennial playoff team 0:14:46.960 --> 0:14:50.440 for the last five years, where the Nats are having 0:14:50.520 --> 0:14:57.720 Curtis Meat play first base. Just to compare the two, Hey, hey, 0:14:57.800 --> 0:14:59.800 you guys say that Curtis Meats playing well this year? 0:15:00.600 --> 0:15:00.760 Yeah? 0:15:01.080 --> 0:15:04.200 I mean, yeah, I'm crazy. 0:15:04.200 --> 0:15:04.880 Fuck was that? 0:15:05.960 --> 0:15:09.600 Yeah? I mean he showed it that that one spring training. 0:15:09.680 --> 0:15:10.920 But you know that doesn't really matter. 0:15:12.080 --> 0:15:15.400 So sometimes spring training stats matter, you know what, they 0:15:15.480 --> 0:15:18.960 never matter because they matter, Yeah, because he was good 0:15:19.000 --> 0:15:20.920 and then he was bad, and then Martinez was good 0:15:20.920 --> 0:15:25.000 and now he's bad and now he's good. So there 0:15:25.040 --> 0:15:29.240 is no there is no proper understanding for how good 0:15:29.320 --> 0:15:30.240 or bad things are. 0:15:30.440 --> 0:15:32.960 I don't I don't get it. 0:15:33.200 --> 0:15:37.000 I will say I think that, and I think someone 0:15:37.480 --> 0:15:39.600 who I forget where I saw it. But they said 0:15:39.600 --> 0:15:42.960 that the Rays have like a seventy four percent chance 0:15:43.000 --> 0:15:46.240 to make the playoffs right now, even though the record 0:15:46.280 --> 0:15:48.480 for the rest of the season is projected to be 0:15:49.560 --> 0:15:51.680 in terms of like for remaining games, is projected to 0:15:51.720 --> 0:15:53.800 be below five hundred, And I think a lot of 0:15:53.840 --> 0:15:58.280 that is because of how bad the AL is this year. 0:15:58.440 --> 0:16:01.520 So I think that the Rays are going benefit from 0:16:01.560 --> 0:16:04.080 how mediocre the rest of the league is and that 0:16:04.120 --> 0:16:07.800 should help them in a potential playoff push. 0:16:07.960 --> 0:16:11.520 But we're expected to have a record of sub five 0:16:11.560 --> 0:16:13.280 hundred throughout the rest of the season. We've played so 0:16:13.320 --> 0:16:16.520 many I mean, we only have two we've played the. 0:16:16.560 --> 0:16:19.000 Well that's what I saw that I forget where I 0:16:19.000 --> 0:16:21.080 saw it, but that's what I saw. It's like it's 0:16:21.160 --> 0:16:23.640 it's like a four to ninety two winning percentage is 0:16:23.680 --> 0:16:25.000 expected for the rest of the year. 0:16:25.960 --> 0:16:28.800 Okay, I guess we haven't played the Braves yet, but 0:16:28.840 --> 0:16:29.560 like we've played. 0:16:29.400 --> 0:16:31.200 Yeah, the Braves have been insane. I mean, the Braves 0:16:31.200 --> 0:16:33.360 are back to where they were before by a wide margin. 0:16:33.400 --> 0:16:34.600 Like the Braves are crazy good. 0:16:34.600 --> 0:16:37.520 Now we've I mean, but we've played the entire l Central, 0:16:37.560 --> 0:16:38.360 which who. 0:16:39.800 --> 0:16:41.880 I don't know why they said it like that, but 0:16:42.360 --> 0:16:45.720 it does make sense. I mean, if you look at 0:16:45.800 --> 0:16:47.280 like right now, if you look at where the rest 0:16:47.280 --> 0:16:51.400 of the league is it's not like the league has 0:16:51.480 --> 0:16:53.760 been good at all, which helps out a team like 0:16:53.800 --> 0:16:56.360 the Rays where if they scuffle, they have a bad 0:16:56.440 --> 0:16:59.000 July or something like that, which the Rays have been 0:16:59.000 --> 0:17:01.880 prone to do in recent years, they can get back 0:17:01.920 --> 0:17:06.919 into the playoffs or keep a playoff spot because you know, 0:17:07.080 --> 0:17:10.920 eighty six wins might be what gets them in, Like 0:17:11.240 --> 0:17:13.600 they don't, you know, you don't need It doesn't seem 0:17:13.640 --> 0:17:15.800 like you need the kind of wins that you've needed 0:17:15.800 --> 0:17:17.960 in years before. I mean, you gotta remember the Rays 0:17:18.000 --> 0:17:20.679 have had two or three seasons in franchise history, at 0:17:20.720 --> 0:17:22.960 least two where they've won nine year more games and 0:17:23.040 --> 0:17:25.640 haven't made the playoffs. So now with the third wild 0:17:25.720 --> 0:17:28.000 card spot, and also with the league itself being down, 0:17:28.040 --> 0:17:30.919 that should help them out to get in because of 0:17:30.920 --> 0:17:34.479 the fact that everyone else is down. So like that 0:17:34.480 --> 0:17:37.399 that becomes a benefit for the Rays that maybe we 0:17:37.440 --> 0:17:40.200 didn't see before the season because a lot of teams 0:17:40.240 --> 0:17:41.800 that we thought were gonna be up are and up. 0:17:42.760 --> 0:17:45.280 Yeah. Now we go back to something give you said 0:17:45.280 --> 0:17:48.680 about the bullpen too. It's it's really weird like you 0:17:48.760 --> 0:17:50.719 thinking about last year. Obviously, we had a ton of 0:17:51.440 --> 0:17:54.600 negative things to say about the bullpen, and it's like 0:17:54.640 --> 0:17:57.240 it didn't really change at the beginning season, Like I 0:17:57.280 --> 0:17:59.280 always thought that was rush. I was like, what the hell, 0:17:59.320 --> 0:18:01.919 Like the bullpen was clearly an issue last year. This 0:18:02.000 --> 0:18:05.000 team makes the playoffs last year without if not for 0:18:05.040 --> 0:18:08.240 the bullpen, and then early in the season nothing changed. 0:18:08.280 --> 0:18:12.240 It's very strange that it's like if something changed even 0:18:12.280 --> 0:18:15.600 with the same personnel during the offseason, that makes sense 0:18:15.600 --> 0:18:16.919 a little bit. It's like, oh, they were working on 0:18:16.960 --> 0:18:20.879 techniques or whatever. It's just crazy how it just happening 0:18:21.000 --> 0:18:23.959 on the flip of the dime, Like is it just contagious? 0:18:24.440 --> 0:18:27.879 Is it that mental? Like it's crazy how it doesn't 0:18:27.880 --> 0:18:30.359 make any sense to me. Kind of got to get 0:18:30.359 --> 0:18:32.159 props to the coaching staff for that. 0:18:33.640 --> 0:18:36.040 My theory on it is that, I mean it's just 0:18:36.119 --> 0:18:40.280 the trop effect, because I mean, bigger stadium obviously, you 0:18:40.320 --> 0:18:43.639 know people talk about that, but also just the amount 0:18:43.640 --> 0:18:46.840 of foul territory that's in the Tropic Candid Field as 0:18:46.840 --> 0:18:50.960 opposed to Steinbrederfield. That just gives you way more outs 0:18:51.160 --> 0:18:54.919 and like, I mean, that's not going to affect it 0:18:55.000 --> 0:18:57.879 too much. But also you know, our players aren't sweating 0:18:57.880 --> 0:19:00.879 their ass off you know, after being in the troup 0:19:01.040 --> 0:19:06.440 for for so long before last season, I mean, there's 0:19:06.560 --> 0:19:11.400 just I feel like that that definitely has an effect, 0:19:11.760 --> 0:19:15.239 you know, because I always look at the chop I'm like, 0:19:15.520 --> 0:19:18.040 we have so much foul territory because you know and 0:19:18.200 --> 0:19:22.600 and Starbutter before, like the seats that are that that 0:19:22.680 --> 0:19:24.680 were you know the season. 0:19:24.720 --> 0:19:27.080 I mean it hugs the line down the line for sure. 0:19:27.359 --> 0:19:31.600 Yeah, it hugs the line, hugs the foul line, and the. 0:19:31.600 --> 0:19:35.640 Bullpens are in play. 0:19:36.080 --> 0:19:39.640 Yeah, I mean, yeah, the the foul lines were basically 0:19:39.640 --> 0:19:41.479 when you got down to the bullpens, there was no 0:19:41.600 --> 0:19:44.600 foul line. Now there's ample foul line as you go 0:19:45.040 --> 0:19:49.280 down each of the lines because of how everything is. Yeah, 0:19:49.960 --> 0:19:52.240 and it's not like a crazy difference, but it's enough 0:19:52.240 --> 0:19:52.880 of a difference. 0:19:53.520 --> 0:19:55.280 Yeah. Maybe. I mean we did start the season with 0:19:55.280 --> 0:19:58.480 three Street road with three Street series on the road, 0:19:58.560 --> 0:20:01.000 so you know, I mean they struggled on the road 0:20:01.000 --> 0:20:02.440 and then they get a series at home where they 0:20:02.440 --> 0:20:05.240 start to build some confidence in It's just that mental 0:20:05.280 --> 0:20:07.600 aspect of the game. But it is cool that the 0:20:07.680 --> 0:20:09.920 Rays are like that. It is the old Rays where 0:20:10.200 --> 0:20:12.080 it's the well now with the pitch clock. It's just 0:20:12.119 --> 0:20:14.880 short games straight to the point that I don't know. 0:20:15.200 --> 0:20:16.880