Speaker 1: It's time to raise the room for our latest regular
Speaker 1: season podcast. Welcome back everyone to the pod, officially part
Speaker 1: of the Dust Baseball Media Network. I am your host,
Speaker 1: Alex Murphy. With me today the boys, Evan Lynch and Gibbie. Guys,
Speaker 1: how are we doing pretty good?
Speaker 2: Alex?
Speaker 3: Pretty good? The Lightning lost on Sunday, but I bet Evan.
Speaker 3: I bet Evan's feeling pretty good because the Hurricanes are
Speaker 3: still doing their things.
Speaker 4: So yeah, I don't know. I don't know how we
Speaker 4: won that game on on Monday night, Alex. We did
Speaker 4: not play well.
Speaker 1: The Philly Sports had two winnable games and lost both
Speaker 1: of them in Game two.
Speaker 4: But hey, six Sixers upset the Celtics. I mean that
Speaker 4: was you guys deserve to win that series.
Speaker 1: Yeah, But like, I also don't like the Knicks, and
Speaker 1: I want to beat the Knicks, and they lost yesterday
Speaker 1: and that's not really helping out.
Speaker 3: Well, at least at least you beat the Celtics, and
Speaker 3: everyone hates the Celtics, so that I hate the Sixers,
Speaker 3: but I like him for that.
Speaker 2: But also the Orlando Tragic, you know, did the same.
Speaker 1: I've never seen a team score nineteen points in the
Speaker 1: second half.
Speaker 3: I mean that was yeah, that was horrible. I'm and
Speaker 3: I was watching. I started watching that game in the
Speaker 3: second half. I was like, oh wow, we're gonna freaking
Speaker 3: go on to the and then oh my god, I
Speaker 3: just didn't do anything.
Speaker 4: So yeah, yeah, that was a rough watch. Sorry about that.
Speaker 2: That was really rough.
Speaker 4: Yeah the France could stay healthy, you never know. But
Speaker 4: oh yeah, unfortunately he gets in the whole time. That's
Speaker 4: my boy. I love Franz, but yeah, I know why
Speaker 4: you like him. Yeah go blue. Yeah, no, you should
Speaker 4: like Derek Queen in the same way that you like
Speaker 4: Franz Bogner and I love I love Darrek Queen.
Speaker 2: I know.
Speaker 4: The Pelicans just stink. The Pelicans do. So this is
Speaker 4: a very accurate statement. He's a stud. Though he's awesome.
Speaker 4: He should get traded to a good team like the Sixers.
Speaker 4: That would be cool team.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean, imagine, imagine it's you know, so I
Speaker 1: will say the Rays have had some luck in some
Speaker 1: some trades recently, but like imagine, I mean, I'm not
Speaker 1: going to get into whole belou thing. Because he had
Speaker 1: another home run last night. I'm really sad about that,
Speaker 1: and I'm like, you know, what man, it'd be like,
Speaker 1: imagine how much better this team would be to have
Speaker 1: him there, but also imagine how like this team is
Speaker 1: as good as they are without him, which is pretty
Speaker 1: damn impressive, to be fully honest.
Speaker 4: But no, I do. I do miss him dearly.
Speaker 2: But the.
Speaker 1: The six are probably gonna get swept, flyers are probably
Speaker 1: gonna get left.
Speaker 4: I do think what was it?
Speaker 1: Ben Stiller was like pissed off that he was at
Speaker 1: the metcal because he would have rather been at MSG
Speaker 1: watching the watching this game, which I'm like, that's a
Speaker 1: true fan, Like, you would never catch me doing that.
Speaker 4: If there was something going on in the Tampa.
Speaker 1: Area and it was it was between that and the
Speaker 1: Rays game, no question I'd be at there.
Speaker 4: But I feel like he could. I feel like he
Speaker 4: I mean, you have to go to the Metcala like
Speaker 4: he'd be. I think I don't think that he had to.
Speaker 1: I mean, if I was in his position, no way
Speaker 1: in hell I'd be at the Mecal.
Speaker 4: I'd be at the way.
Speaker 2: He's going to the Mets gala.
Speaker 4: The Mets.
Speaker 1: The Mets are objectively bad at baseball, guys, Yay, objectively
Speaker 1: they are really bad. They are, thank god, the Rays
Speaker 1: aren't the Mets. If the Rays were the Mets, I
Speaker 1: think that. I mean a lot of things would be different.
Speaker 1: The whole stadium thing.
Speaker 2: Yeah, we'd been hosting one episode a month.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it would not be fun. At least the team's
Speaker 1: exciting now, which is most important thing. But yeah, going
Speaker 1: into Race talk, So the Razer twenty four and twelve,
Speaker 1: the Race have swept two straight series. The Race have
Speaker 1: five series sweeps on the season. I believe they have
Speaker 1: four series sweeps at home. They are like twelve and
Speaker 1: one in their last thirteen games. They've lost two games
Speaker 1: against teams that aren't in the NL Central, which begs
Speaker 1: the question, how good would this team be if they
Speaker 1: didn't play the NL Central in the first month of
Speaker 1: the year. They're really good. They're really really good. They're hitting,
Speaker 1: they are pitching out of their minds. The defense has
Speaker 1: been fantastic. And this is without a bunch of major
Speaker 1: pieces in this team. Gavin Lux is still out and
Speaker 1: Joe Boyle, even though he wasn't you know, he wasn't
Speaker 1: supposed to be started to begin the season went on,
Speaker 1: the IL Ryan Papio was announced that he has major
Speaker 1: news hip surgery. He'll be missing the entire season, players
Speaker 1: like him. Steven Match just went on the il Luceda
Speaker 1: has been out for the majority of the season.
Speaker 4: There's a lot of guys who.
Speaker 1: Have been hurt on this team, and this team is
Speaker 1: still rattling off wins and finding ways to win baseball games,
Speaker 1: and it seems improbable. But at the same time, I
Speaker 1: don't think it is, like, how are we processing that.
Speaker 1: I don't know if I fully processed how good this
Speaker 1: team is, but like, how have you guys tried to
Speaker 1: process how good this team is?
Speaker 4: They're doing something dangerous to me. I still don't like,
Speaker 4: it's still hard to imagine. I mean, this team's what
Speaker 4: twelve games over five hundred. If you would have told
Speaker 4: me that that they would be at this point, I
Speaker 4: mean I would have thought you were insane. If you
Speaker 4: bet that, I assume you would have won a lot
Speaker 4: of money at the beginning of season. Once again, another
Speaker 4: podcast where I'm eating a lot of my words. Cash
Speaker 4: has been fantastic this year, and you touched on it
Speaker 4: a little bit. The pitching staff has been the best
Speaker 4: that I like, It's been the best that I can remember, Like,
Speaker 4: I don't I don't remember a pitching staff this dominant
Speaker 4: through a month and a couple of weeks into the season. This,
Speaker 4: I mean it totally. The first couple of weeks, the
Speaker 4: bullpen was not good at all, and I don't understand
Speaker 4: what happened, Like on a dime, it just completely switched.
Speaker 4: What's the stat they I'm trying to look forward on Twitter,
Speaker 4: but they have led up three or fewer runs in
Speaker 4: thirteen straight games, which is a franchise record, tied for
Speaker 4: the second longest.
Speaker 3: Three seventeen runs in It's like one point three runs
Speaker 3: a game or something.
Speaker 4: So it's crazy and we're not like, yeah, I think
Speaker 4: we're averaging like sub four runs in this twelve and
Speaker 4: one thirteen girty.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's not like the Bats have been anything crazy
Speaker 1: by any means.
Speaker 4: No, and we've taken advantage, Like I mean the Giants.
Speaker 4: I remember, Alex, when we were talking about that series
Speaker 4: this time last week, we were like this, the Giants
Speaker 4: offense is horrible. Their last dead last in league and
Speaker 4: runs home runs. I think RBIs as well, and we
Speaker 4: kept true to that stat. So, I mean, I think
Speaker 4: they scored what three runs that entire series? That could
Speaker 4: be that's kind of a total guess I kind of
Speaker 4: forget what the scores are with that of that series.
Speaker 2: It was two runs the whole series.
Speaker 4: Two runs the whole series. Like, I mean, maybe we
Speaker 4: are playing subpar offenses like the Guardians. Yeah, probably not
Speaker 4: the best offense. But the Blue Jays I think have
Speaker 4: a pretty damn good offense and they didn't weren't successful
Speaker 4: at this past weekend so or this past series. So
Speaker 4: I mean you got to give got to give credit
Speaker 4: to situational hitting.
Speaker 2: Two.
Speaker 4: I mean, the game on Tuesday night, I don't know
Speaker 4: how that's another game where we just stole. It's kind
Speaker 4: of like it kind of was reminiscent of the Monday
Speaker 4: opener against the Guardians last week, where I feel like
Speaker 4: we didn't necessarily deserve to win it, but we somehow
Speaker 4: scraped across enough runs and once again timely hitting late
Speaker 4: in the game eighth inning, we're able to put a
Speaker 4: put a rally up. So it's a combination of that
Speaker 4: and really really really really good pitching. Typically we need
Speaker 4: still a lot of wins than it is for the race.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean, I'm with Evan. I have to eat
Speaker 3: a lot of my words because I mean, this looks
Speaker 3: like the classic Rays that we know with the good
Speaker 3: pitching and the just good enough and clutch offense that
Speaker 3: they win most of their games. I mean, they've just
Speaker 3: gone back to it's like they're in a time machine
Speaker 3: and you know, this team is on the same vibes
Speaker 3: as it was, like, you know, through the twenty through
Speaker 3: the beginning of the twenty twenties. I mean I still
Speaker 3: I've said this on Twitter a lot, but I still
Speaker 3: have to see June and July before I really believe,
Speaker 3: because I feel like those are our cursed months at
Speaker 3: least for us. But I mean the team has just
Speaker 3: been so clutch. I mean the small ball hitting. I mean,
Speaker 3: not even a lot of home runs this series, just
Speaker 3: you know, clutch hitting at the right time, getting runners
Speaker 3: in scorning position and getting them home. And yeah, like
Speaker 3: Evan said, Kevin Cash is like completely turned it around.
Speaker 3: I mean it's not like it's like last year. You know,
Speaker 3: he didn't have a bullpen to really trust, and I
Speaker 3: mean it's mostly a lot of the same guys. It's
Speaker 3: just they've had a complete turnaround. I mean one of them,
Speaker 3: Kevin Kelly, has just been He's been really good. And
Speaker 3: you know, even so even like the the lower leverage guys,
Speaker 3: I mean.
Speaker 2: Have been have just turned it around. I mean I
Speaker 2: thought this was gonna be I mean.
Speaker 3: If you if you look at our season prediction pod,
Speaker 3: I mean we all thought this would be like a
Speaker 3: pretty a pretty mid team. Uh, but you know, they've
Speaker 3: just I guess you know, you just got to throw
Speaker 3: out the paper, you know when you're talking about the
Speaker 3: Rays because you know, we forgot that the last two seasons,
Speaker 3: because you know, it's just nothing really sufficed.
Speaker 2: With the teams, and.
Speaker 3: And you know, we thought maybe the Rays magic was
Speaker 3: a little gone now, but I mean it's it's just
Speaker 3: been working and all the new additions have just worked
Speaker 3: out well. I think Nick Martinez has been just stellar.
Speaker 3: H And this is with you know, injuries that we've had. Ah,
Speaker 3: So it's just been it's been an incredible run that
Speaker 3: they've had.
Speaker 2: And I mean it.
Speaker 3: Also I also just have to say how bad the
Speaker 3: A L is. I mean, that's a that's another.
Speaker 4: Teams with a record above five hundred.
Speaker 2: And they're both in the same division.
Speaker 4: And they're both like going after each other for the.
Speaker 2: For Haymakers back and forth with with the Yankees.
Speaker 4: So yeah, why does the AL suck so much this year, Like,
Speaker 4: what the hell?
Speaker 2: I have no idea what happened?
Speaker 3: I have no idea, And I mean I would be
Speaker 3: sad if I was Toronto Blue Jayson fan, because I mean,
Speaker 3: being two inches away from the World Series and then
Speaker 3: you know the team's just not performing at all.
Speaker 2: I bet they'll.
Speaker 4: Turn How close was that play at home?
Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean that was like one inch? Yeah it
Speaker 3: was crazy. But yeah, I mean it's just been it's
Speaker 3: been incredible. I mean I I wouldn't have expected this
Speaker 3: at all. Uh So I'll eat my words a little bit,
Speaker 3: you know, but you know, I still gotta see June
Speaker 3: and July before I really really believe. But yeah, I
Speaker 3: mean this team has been so good, incredible.
Speaker 1: Yeah, why does the AL suck so much?
Speaker 5: Like?
Speaker 4: Do we have a theory for this?
Speaker 3: I feel like they're all just I feel like all
Speaker 3: the teams are a little old, you know, in terms
Speaker 3: of talent, and then and then and then National League
Speaker 3: they have a little bit more like the younger talent
Speaker 3: that's actually gonna be the next phase of the of
Speaker 3: of you know that the next top guys in baseball.
Speaker 2: I feel like that that's one theory. And then I
Speaker 2: don't know.
Speaker 1: Maybe I'm trying to fixplaable.
Speaker 4: I don't know. I really don't know. I think the
Speaker 4: a L. This is kind of going to come out
Speaker 4: of left field. But I think the a L has
Speaker 4: two teams where they're like like the I think the
Speaker 4: A's and the White Sox crazy crazy polls, but I
Speaker 4: think they're like and exciting. Those are exciting. Those are
Speaker 4: two of the most exciting teams in the AL. I think.
Speaker 4: I think that definitely exciting. That is that's not sure
Speaker 4: I will agree with you on that.
Speaker 2: I don't.
Speaker 4: I don't think they're necessarily playoff teams this year, but
Speaker 4: I think there's a year or two away from being
Speaker 4: like division like a possible division champion. This division right now,
Speaker 4: I wouldn't be. I wouldn't be eighteen and eighteens. Like
Speaker 4: I guess the White Sox are a game in a
Speaker 4: half out and the other as are within the division
Speaker 4: like that. But that goes to my point. There are
Speaker 4: two exciting teams with a lot of really young talent.
Speaker 4: But as for the whole AL, I really don't understand it.
Speaker 4: But on the flip side, yes, they only have two
Speaker 4: teams over five hundred, but they have a lot of
Speaker 4: teams around. I mean, this is gonna sound like loser talk,
Speaker 4: but there they have a lot of teams that are
Speaker 4: hovering around five hundred. It's not like they're all ten
Speaker 4: games under five hundred. So I guess that kind of
Speaker 4: makes sense as well.
Speaker 2: So, yeah, you're right.
Speaker 3: I think the NL has a lot more very bottom
Speaker 3: feeder teams, you know, and then there's a lot more
Speaker 3: teams that are cool. I guess the worst team would
Speaker 3: be like the Angels or the Astros, and the Mets
Speaker 3: as are worse than both those.
Speaker 4: So also, I did not realize the Phillies were on
Speaker 4: an absolute tear eight and too.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, yeah, Phillies are. I mean the Phillies were
Speaker 1: dog water like. They were really really bad. Like I
Speaker 1: think a good indicator for how good or how bad
Speaker 1: a team is to an extent is how much ticket
Speaker 1: prices are. So Phillies ticket prices at least on like
Speaker 1: the third party markets have been expensive just for you know,
Speaker 1: going back home and going to see family.
Speaker 4: They're not they have gone down.
Speaker 1: I mean there was a game against the A's this
Speaker 1: week that was like fifteen bucks on like tick pick,
Speaker 1: and I was like that's not a lot of money.
Speaker 1: I mean for a Phillies game, that's the equivalent of
Speaker 1: like if I was to go up to DC to
Speaker 1: go see a Nats game, that's the equivalent of more
Speaker 1: or less what I would pay. And that's where a
Speaker 1: Phillies game. The Phillies have been a perennial playoff team
Speaker 1: for the last five years, where the Nats are having
Speaker 1: Curtis Meat play first base. Just to compare the two, Hey, hey,
Speaker 1: you guys say that Curtis Meats playing well this year?
Speaker 4: Yeah?
Speaker 2: I mean, yeah, I'm crazy.
Speaker 4: Fuck was that?
Speaker 2: Yeah? I mean he showed it that that one spring training.
Speaker 2: But you know that doesn't really matter.
Speaker 1: So sometimes spring training stats matter, you know what, they
Speaker 1: never matter because they matter, Yeah, because he was good
Speaker 1: and then he was bad, and then Martinez was good
Speaker 1: and now he's bad and now he's good. So there
Speaker 1: is no there is no proper understanding for how good
Speaker 1: or bad things are.
Speaker 4: I don't I don't get it.
Speaker 1: I will say I think that, and I think someone
Speaker 1: who I forget where I saw it. But they said
Speaker 1: that the Rays have like a seventy four percent chance
Speaker 1: to make the playoffs right now, even though the record
Speaker 1: for the rest of the season is projected to be
Speaker 1: in terms of like for remaining games, is projected to
Speaker 1: be below five hundred, And I think a lot of
Speaker 1: that is because of how bad the AL is this year.
Speaker 1: So I think that the Rays are going benefit from
Speaker 1: how mediocre the rest of the league is and that
Speaker 1: should help them in a potential playoff push.
Speaker 4: But we're expected to have a record of sub five
Speaker 4: hundred throughout the rest of the season. We've played so
Speaker 4: many I mean, we only have two we've played the.
Speaker 1: Well that's what I saw that I forget where I
Speaker 1: saw it, but that's what I saw. It's like it's
Speaker 1: it's like a four to ninety two winning percentage is
Speaker 1: expected for the rest of the year.
Speaker 4: Okay, I guess we haven't played the Braves yet, but
Speaker 4: like we've played.
Speaker 1: Yeah, the Braves have been insane. I mean, the Braves
Speaker 1: are back to where they were before by a wide margin.
Speaker 1: Like the Braves are crazy good.
Speaker 4: Now we've I mean, but we've played the entire l Central,
Speaker 4: which who.
Speaker 1: I don't know why they said it like that, but
Speaker 1: it does make sense. I mean, if you look at
Speaker 1: like right now, if you look at where the rest
Speaker 1: of the league is it's not like the league has
Speaker 1: been good at all, which helps out a team like
Speaker 1: the Rays where if they scuffle, they have a bad
Speaker 1: July or something like that, which the Rays have been
Speaker 1: prone to do in recent years, they can get back
Speaker 1: into the playoffs or keep a playoff spot because you know,
Speaker 1: eighty six wins might be what gets them in, Like
Speaker 1: they don't, you know, you don't need It doesn't seem
Speaker 1: like you need the kind of wins that you've needed
Speaker 1: in years before. I mean, you gotta remember the Rays
Speaker 1: have had two or three seasons in franchise history, at
Speaker 1: least two where they've won nine year more games and
Speaker 1: haven't made the playoffs. So now with the third wild
Speaker 1: card spot, and also with the league itself being down,
Speaker 1: that should help them out to get in because of
Speaker 1: the fact that everyone else is down. So like that
Speaker 1: that becomes a benefit for the Rays that maybe we
Speaker 1: didn't see before the season because a lot of teams
Speaker 1: that we thought were gonna be up are and up.
Speaker 4: Yeah. Now we go back to something give you said
Speaker 4: about the bullpen too. It's it's really weird like you
Speaker 4: thinking about last year. Obviously, we had a ton of
Speaker 4: negative things to say about the bullpen, and it's like
Speaker 4: it didn't really change at the beginning season, Like I
Speaker 4: always thought that was rush. I was like, what the hell,
Speaker 4: Like the bullpen was clearly an issue last year. This
Speaker 4: team makes the playoffs last year without if not for
Speaker 4: the bullpen, and then early in the season nothing changed.
Speaker 4: It's very strange that it's like if something changed even
Speaker 4: with the same personnel during the offseason, that makes sense
Speaker 4: a little bit. It's like, oh, they were working on
Speaker 4: techniques or whatever. It's just crazy how it just happening
Speaker 4: on the flip of the dime, Like is it just contagious?
Speaker 4: Is it that mental? Like it's crazy how it doesn't
Speaker 4: make any sense to me. Kind of got to get
Speaker 4: props to the coaching staff for that.
Speaker 3: My theory on it is that, I mean it's just
Speaker 3: the trop effect, because I mean, bigger stadium obviously, you
Speaker 3: know people talk about that, but also just the amount
Speaker 3: of foul territory that's in the Tropic Candid Field as
Speaker 3: opposed to Steinbrederfield. That just gives you way more outs
Speaker 3: and like, I mean, that's not going to affect it
Speaker 3: too much. But also you know, our players aren't sweating
Speaker 3: their ass off you know, after being in the troup
Speaker 3: for for so long before last season, I mean, there's
Speaker 3: just I feel like that that definitely has an effect,
Speaker 3: you know, because I always look at the chop I'm like,
Speaker 3: we have so much foul territory because you know and
Speaker 3: and Starbutter before, like the seats that are that that
Speaker 3: were you know the season.
Speaker 4: I mean it hugs the line down the line for sure.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it hugs the line, hugs the foul line, and the.
Speaker 4: Bullpens are in play.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean, yeah, the the foul lines were basically
Speaker 1: when you got down to the bullpens, there was no
Speaker 1: foul line. Now there's ample foul line as you go
Speaker 1: down each of the lines because of how everything is. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and it's not like a crazy difference, but it's enough
Speaker 1: of a difference.
Speaker 4: Yeah. Maybe. I mean we did start the season with
Speaker 4: three Street road with three Street series on the road,
Speaker 4: so you know, I mean they struggled on the road
Speaker 4: and then they get a series at home where they
Speaker 4: start to build some confidence in It's just that mental
Speaker 4: aspect of the game. But it is cool that the
Speaker 4: Rays are like that. It is the old Rays where
Speaker 4: it's the well now with the pitch clock. It's just
Speaker 4: short games straight to the point that I don't know.
Speaker 4: The best way I can put it is just they're
Speaker 4: simplifying the game. It's just get out, get a couple
Speaker 4: of runs across, and that's it, and chalk it up
Speaker 4: to a win. Like I it's it's very simple. But
Speaker 4: that's kind of what the game happened, or the game yesterday,
Speaker 4: it was like it was I mean, it took like
Speaker 4: I swear the game ended it like three o'clock. It
Speaker 4: was like a two hour game. Yeah, it was maybe suba.
Speaker 3: It could have it could have been some two hour
Speaker 3: but you know, the eighth inning kind of dragged on,
Speaker 3: yeah a little bit, but I mean big.
Speaker 4: Big comeback in the eighth inning for the boys by the.
Speaker 2: Way, Oh yeah, oh yeah, but oh on.
Speaker 4: Was that that was Tuesday? Yeah it was Tuesday.
Speaker 6: No, no, I have a comeback in Then in yesterday's
Speaker 6: game they scored two runs in the age Wednesday On went, oh, sorry,
Speaker 6: I was putting the wrong days together.
Speaker 4: Yeah. Yeah.
Speaker 1: They had du Luk ahead the rb I double which
Speaker 1: Arona scored, uh, and then they had that weird double
Speaker 1: play where it was a bad play and then Mullen
Speaker 1: scored from third and there was the other run in
Speaker 1: the middle that got Simpsons scored.
Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 1: It was the RBI single from Simpson, Right, I got
Speaker 1: I got my games mixed up? Well, I I I
Speaker 1: will say, because because we did talk about I forgot
Speaker 1: who we talked about this with last year. But it
Speaker 1: does make a lot of sense that just being at
Speaker 1: the trop I think is going to help this team
Speaker 1: out and has already helped this team out because there's
Speaker 1: some semblance of structure that they didn't have at Steinbrenners.
Speaker 1: So you guys remember the whole the massive front loading
Speaker 1: the schedule at home versus playing on the road so
Speaker 1: much in the summer. Now the series are a lot
Speaker 1: more balanced outside of that nine games to start the
Speaker 1: season out. You take that out, a lot of this
Speaker 1: series are a lot more balanced right now. The Rays are,
Speaker 1: you know, playing in a place that they're familiar with.
Speaker 1: Even the guys that are new, it's still a familiar
Speaker 1: place for most of the players and for the personnel.
Speaker 1: You know, people like Kevin Cash and Kyle Snyder and
Speaker 1: you know Ozzie Timmans coming back, So you have a
Speaker 1: lot of that, and I mean, I think it might
Speaker 1: literally just come down to, like there's not chaos. Yeah,
Speaker 1: Like there was chaos last year because of them having
Speaker 1: to move into a new part, because of them having
Speaker 1: to play like forty six of their first sixty games
Speaker 1: at home, because of the fact that they went on
Speaker 1: the road for basically the entire month of July and August.
Speaker 1: Like they don't have that right now. They have the
Speaker 1: normal schedule, they have the normal series. They have the
Speaker 1: six game series here, the three game series on the road,
Speaker 1: the nine game series at home, the seven game series
Speaker 1: on the road.
Speaker 4: It's not like.
Speaker 1: Thirteen games at home, three games on the road, ten
Speaker 1: games at home, twelve games on the road. Like I
Speaker 1: think things are more balanced, and I I mean, I
Speaker 1: hate to just put that as as as the reason,
Speaker 1: but it might be as simple as that, Like it
Speaker 1: literally might just be America's Ballpark, Like it might just
Speaker 1: be the chop Like it makes sense, doesn't it, Like
Speaker 1: am I going crazy?
Speaker 4: No? No?
Speaker 2: But yeah, I mean no freaking rain delays either.
Speaker 1: No, the raindelays are I mean, it's not like they
Speaker 1: somehow the Rays didn't have a postponed game last year
Speaker 1: at all, which is still kudos to however that worked
Speaker 1: out because that's insane. But yeah, I mean, no, no
Speaker 1: rain delays. Everything is going to start on time. Most
Speaker 1: of the games are going to start at the right
Speaker 1: time because there's not weird time differences with you know,
Speaker 1: with games being outdoors, like they don't have to change
Speaker 1: things aroun that can keep the schedule as normal during
Speaker 1: the week and then during the weekend. It's I think
Speaker 1: it's like structure might just be the only thing that
Speaker 1: that was necessary. Structure was the thing that they needed
Speaker 1: in order to be successful.
Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, no, that makes sense.
Speaker 1: Well, we do have another series coming up this weekend.
Speaker 1: The Rays are playing who seems to be the streaking
Speaker 1: Boston Red Sox. And just to sum up what's happened
Speaker 1: over the last six games, specifically, Ray swept the Giants.
Speaker 1: Rays swept the Blue Jays looked really, really solid. The
Speaker 1: Blue Jays can't play at the trap at all. They're
Speaker 1: like fifty two to one oh four at the TRUP
Speaker 1: since two thousand and eight, which is an insane record
Speaker 1: over a span of about seventeen years. The Giants, the
Speaker 1: Rays just dominated them that that entire series. And now
Speaker 1: we're here in the Raiser twenty four and twelve going
Speaker 1: into a road series against the Red Sox should be
Speaker 1: an interesting series because the Red Sox just swept their
Speaker 1: last series. Do we have pitching matchups?
Speaker 4: How are we? How we panned out this series in Boston?
Speaker 4: I do it's four gamer ESPN tonight?
Speaker 1: Hell yeah, ESPN stand alone, ESPN stand alone for the
Speaker 1: first time, and god knows.
Speaker 4: How long so got along with Cain's Flyers Game three
Speaker 4: as well. Alex, you don't need to watch that game.
Speaker 4: It's dude, it's not It's not Ny.
Speaker 1: The Flyers could come back because they're in Philly, and
Speaker 1: Philly fans are relentless people.
Speaker 4: And you guys played extremely well on Monday. So but anyway,
Speaker 4: tonight's game it's Griffin Jackson first Jake Bennett, and then
Speaker 4: Friday we have not decided to pitch it yet versus
Speaker 4: Connolly early, and then Saturday's game is Nick Martinez and
Speaker 4: they also have not decided to start her for Saturday's game,
Speaker 4: which that probably mean that leaves Rasmussen and also undecided
Speaker 4: for the Red Sox on Sunday. So sorry, not not
Speaker 4: much pitching news is available yet, so.
Speaker 1: Looking at that, Boyle just pitched in Durham, but he
Speaker 1: won't be back for a little bit. I would assume
Speaker 1: that the TBD spot is probably Matts's spot in the rotation.
Speaker 1: If we're pinpointing something, Steven matches on the il. By
Speaker 1: the way, for those that didn't see, it was elbow inflammation,
Speaker 1: not really encouraging stuff there. But also this is his
Speaker 1: first time being a starter in a couple of years,
Speaker 1: so I can understand at least why hopefully it's nothing crazy.
Speaker 4: But yeah, or was it shoulder information?
Speaker 2: No?
Speaker 4: I think it was elblow information. Yeah, yeah, that's what
Speaker 4: I thought.
Speaker 1: So I would assume I don't know who's going to
Speaker 1: do in the spot start or who would do the
Speaker 1: spot start or whatever how they're gonna devise it on
Speaker 1: on on Friday. Uh, the jack spot For those that
Speaker 1: didn't see it, seems like the Raiser are going to
Speaker 1: try to turn Griffin Jackson to a starter or hopefully
Speaker 1: mold him more into a starter. Usually how it's worked
Speaker 1: this year is that I guess for the couple outings
Speaker 1: that Jackson has been the starter quote unquote, he's pitched
Speaker 1: like two and a third, two and two thirds, maybe
Speaker 1: get up the three innings, and then Jesse Schultens has
Speaker 1: come in and kind of relieved him after that point.
Speaker 1: So I would assume that that's the duo that's gonna
Speaker 1: happen there. I don't know. I think Mason Englert might
Speaker 1: be the guy because I think he was called back
Speaker 1: up to the team after being sent down to Durham,
Speaker 1: so he might be the guy who gets Bulke innings
Speaker 1: on Friday. But I don't quite know. This is kind
Speaker 1: of a it feels like a crapshoot series to an
Speaker 1: extent with the pitching matchups, because it's not there's nothing.
Speaker 1: I mean, the first half of the series isn't really solidified.
Speaker 1: The back half is, but the first half not not
Speaker 1: as much.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean, you know, we're kind of already, I mean,
Speaker 3: speaking of the Old Rays, I mean this is kind
Speaker 3: of you know, the stereotypical Old Rays, you know, where
Speaker 3: you know, we have a really good starting pitcher, but
Speaker 3: then you know, injuries happen and all that. So hopefully,
Speaker 3: you know, with that kind of bullpinished day and that's Friday,
Speaker 3: I guess, yeah, hopefully they can be really solid there
Speaker 3: and you know, just keep going with how good our
Speaker 3: bullpen has been. But we have lost a lot of
Speaker 3: those bullpen games, so that'll be interesting to see. Also,
Speaker 3: we just we don't play too good at Fenway most
Speaker 3: of the time. But well, especially with that Brandon Law,
Speaker 3: because I feel like Brandon Law was always the Fenway
Speaker 3: merchant dude. I mean he would always crush ball man.
Speaker 4: What a guy?
Speaker 2: What a guy?
Speaker 1: Is this gonna be like a thing the entire year,
Speaker 1: where like, whenever you guys bring him up, we're just
Speaker 1: gonna bring him up to piss me off.
Speaker 2: We're just rage baiting Alex.
Speaker 4: That's what it is, guys, We're rage We're rage bait podcast.
Speaker 4: Let's go our own host. No, I mean, I don't
Speaker 4: bring him up to rage bait you. I just bring
Speaker 4: him up just because you know it's him. I just
Speaker 4: I miss him so much.
Speaker 3: But I mean, hopefully the pitching just you know, keeps
Speaker 3: doing what it's doing. I mean, I feel like we're
Speaker 3: we're due for for a bad series.
Speaker 2: So I I hope.
Speaker 3: I'm wrong, you know, and you know Fenway sometimes isn't
Speaker 3: too kind to us, So I mean, I just don't
Speaker 3: want to get the Red Sox hot.
Speaker 2: That's that's my thing.
Speaker 3: I don't I I hope we at least split the series.
Speaker 3: If not win it, Uh no, that would be the
Speaker 3: most ideal. And then you know, we have tons of
Speaker 3: Division opponents after that. I feel like we've been not
Speaker 3: playing Division opponents until this last series. You know, we
Speaker 3: only had the Yankees before that, and we're playing the
Speaker 3: freaking n L Central all the time. So I mean
Speaker 3: this is kind of the start of the of you know,
Speaker 3: the Division plays. So you know, let's see how that goes.
Speaker 4: Yeah. No, if if this series was happening two weeks ago,
Speaker 4: I'd expect winning three out of four. I mean three
Speaker 4: weeks ago they lost those ten to three. The next
Speaker 4: day they won seventeen to one, and then fired their
Speaker 4: entire coaching staff. So and they've they've seemed to the
Speaker 4: REDI have been there a lot. They've like they've come
Speaker 4: back a little bit, not like super impressively, but I
Speaker 4: mean they're six and four in the last ten games.
Speaker 4: They just came off of a three game sweep in Detroit,
Speaker 4: so that's the that's pretty impressive. So yeah, like, like
Speaker 4: you said, Gibbie, Benwy has been a weird place the
Speaker 4: last couple of years for us. If we get out
Speaker 4: of the series with a two to two split, I'm
Speaker 4: totally fine with that, but this series does is kind
Speaker 4: of scaring me, just the combination of us being insanely hot,
Speaker 4: and I think that's gonna it's gonna come back down
Speaker 4: to I don't think we're going to come back down
Speaker 4: to like the five hundred level, but I think we're
Speaker 4: gonna come back down to earth a little bit. It's
Speaker 4: just I don't know when that's.
Speaker 2: Gonna Yeah, you know it's unsustainable right now, right, you.
Speaker 4: Can't win twelve out of thirteen games all the time.
Speaker 4: I understand that it's going to end some point, and
Speaker 4: and yeah, and the Socks are showing some life. So
Speaker 4: I'm cool with a two to two split, especially considering
Speaker 4: our pitching matchups are not the most favorable, I don't think,
Speaker 4: but yeah, hopefully our offense can get get going if
Speaker 4: that would be obviously huge. Like like we said earlier,
Speaker 4: the offense hasn't been like it's been.
Speaker 1: It's been good enough, but the pitching right and insane,
Speaker 1: which has carried the offense.
Speaker 4: Right. I think we said the stat earlier where they've
Speaker 4: over this thirteen game stretch they've averaged fewer than four
Speaker 4: runs a game, and there's twelve and one, so that
Speaker 4: basically explains it all. So if we can get the
Speaker 4: offense going a little bit during the series, maybe get
Speaker 4: a couple five six game run games. Fenway obviously is
Speaker 4: very favorable for that too, so get some confidence going
Speaker 4: at the plate, and hopefully we can hopefully our injuries
Speaker 4: on the pitching staff don't bite us too much. The series. Yeah,
Speaker 4: I think it'll be an interesting series overall.
Speaker 1: And you know, the Rays being on network cable television end,
Speaker 1: you know, national broadcast. I wonder if that's gonna change anything,
Speaker 1: because we know the ongoing joke of the Rays not
Speaker 1: being able to play on national nationally broadcasted games.
Speaker 4: Which would be very very funny, but also not.
Speaker 1: Really idea to start out a series after you go twelve,
Speaker 1: twelve and one in your last thirteen. But unless you're
Speaker 1: like and even you know, there's not like I was
Speaker 1: gonna say, like the Dodgers is a joke, but like,
Speaker 1: the Dodgers really have them be an amazing So, like,
Speaker 1: teams don't usually sustain things like this, and I'm not
Speaker 1: really expecting the race too, but if they pull out
Speaker 1: a series win or if they sweep again, then I
Speaker 1: don't know what the hell to think about this team
Speaker 1: because holy shit, that would be nuts.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, that would that. I mean, that would be crazy,
Speaker 2: But I mean I doubt it.
Speaker 4: But hey, at this point, I don't doubt anything with this. Yeah,
Speaker 4: I thought this was gonna be a five. I thought
Speaker 4: this team was gonna be a five hundred baseball team.
Speaker 4: In a general sense. I thought they were good enough
Speaker 4: to be better than last year. I didn't think that
Speaker 4: they were going to be like playoff good enough, and
Speaker 4: right now they're playoff good enough. So I wouldn't put
Speaker 4: anything past them. I'll put it that way. Yeah, if
Speaker 4: this team's sweet, if they sweep four games in Fenway,
Speaker 4: I'm on board. They're gonna do some dangerous things to
Speaker 4: my mentality. Believe you guys. Yeah, I don't. Like I said,
Speaker 4: it's not like the Red Soxe. It's not like they're
Speaker 4: going in and sweeping the break was in a four
Speaker 4: game series like that, that would be totally different. I'm
Speaker 4: not saying that in terms of the Red Sox being
Speaker 4: a really, really good team, but sweeping a four game
Speaker 4: series on the road against any division rival, I don't
Speaker 4: care who it is, even if it's like the Orioles.
Speaker 4: No offense, this is kind of a straight but like
Speaker 4: the Orioles of what was that twenty twenty one or
Speaker 4: twenty nineteen, I forget when they were really really bad.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah that was No, I was twenty one because
Speaker 1: that was when Brett Phillips had the or that was
Speaker 1: when the Rays were like nineteen and one again or
Speaker 1: eighteen of yeah, seventeen one, however many games, because that's
Speaker 1: when they had more games in the AL against Alist
Speaker 1: upon its before they changed it to a whole everyone
Speaker 1: playing everyone.
Speaker 4: Thing Like no, no, I think you're exactly right. So,
Speaker 4: like I mean, even even sweeping teams that are that
Speaker 4: bad in the division I think is always tough, let
Speaker 4: alone a Red Sox team, who I guess is they're
Speaker 4: five games under five hundred, so still not great, but
Speaker 4: like I said, much better than they were two weeks ago.
Speaker 4: This is true.
Speaker 1: But the Rays are playing really well, and I know,
Speaker 1: I mean, they're just playing well.
Speaker 4: I don't know how else to describe it.
Speaker 1: The Rays are a really good baseball team right now,
Speaker 1: and they are seemingly firing on all cylinders with a
Speaker 1: team that feels like it's like eighty percent complete or
Speaker 1: like eighty five percent complete. And I don't know how
Speaker 1: they're doing it, but they're doing it like it just
Speaker 1: it's like boggling my mind. But I'm also not angry
Speaker 1: about it at all. Why would I be angry about
Speaker 1: my team being as good as they are. That seems
Speaker 1: like a stupid thing to be angry about. I am
Speaker 1: very happy that all Yankees fans are pissed off because
Speaker 1: the Yankees have been so good recently and they've basically
Speaker 1: gained no ground on the Rays. I mean, they've getting
Speaker 1: ground on like the rest of the league, but like
Speaker 1: the Rays specifically, they just can't I know, but that
Speaker 1: goes both ways. I love how Yankees fans are just
Speaker 1: like I feel like there's an consumption. It's just like, oh,
Speaker 1: the Yankees will keep winning, but every other team should lose.
Speaker 4: It's like, what, like, no, we're not gonna entitled. This
Speaker 4: is how life works exactly that. The entitlement is the
Speaker 4: perfect word.
Speaker 1: I think freaking Yankees fandly the entitlement.
Speaker 4: I don't like it.
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Speaker 1: So pick up players for this series. Who we got,
Speaker 1: who we like, and who do you we think is
Speaker 1: gonna do well? Gibby, I'll start with.
Speaker 3: You, okay, uh, you know, pitching wise, give me Kevin
Speaker 3: Kelly because you know, I just I just liked his
Speaker 3: vibes this season.
Speaker 2: You know, he's really turning around. I felt bad. You know,
Speaker 2: last year we were really on his ass.
Speaker 4: I mean, he wasn't good, he wasn't good.
Speaker 3: It was kind of deserved. But you know, he's really
Speaker 3: turned it around. So I'll give my pick a player
Speaker 3: to him. Maybe he'll have some clutch innings in the
Speaker 3: late late game.
Speaker 2: Uh so, yeah, I'll give.
Speaker 3: Kevin Kelly there and then shit, you know, yesterday the
Speaker 3: way I saw Jonathan Ronda just getting locked like every
Speaker 3: at bat because he's so hot these last like ten
Speaker 3: or so games. I'm picking Jonathan Ronda because I mean,
Speaker 3: he's just been he's been the best offensive player, so
Speaker 3: I mean the last two weeks, last week and a
Speaker 3: half maybe, uh so, yeah, I'm getting I'm I'm picking
Speaker 3: Jonathan Ronda.
Speaker 2: Just because I mean he's started.
Speaker 3: They're starting to walk him like he's very bonds or something,
Speaker 3: and I don't know, uh.
Speaker 4: So he could be very bonds, you never know.
Speaker 2: Yeah, those are my two I got.
Speaker 4: My positional player is somebody that nobody has picked this
Speaker 4: season because he's been injured, but Gavin Lux. I believe
Speaker 4: Gavin welcome to the pod. I believe that he is
Speaker 4: returning this he's supposed to be.
Speaker 1: Ryan Bass said he's supposed to be returning as early
Speaker 1: as Friday as what I saw.
Speaker 2: So we're excited.
Speaker 4: I think we're all excited to have him. I'm interested.
Speaker 4: I'm intrigued to see what the corresponding move will be,
Speaker 4: but yeah, I'm excited to see him. He's obviously one
Speaker 4: of the bigger free agent deals that we gave out
Speaker 4: this offense season to replace not to bring him up again, Alex,
Speaker 4: but to replace a very big hole in the lineup
Speaker 4: that we had. And then I'm gonna pick, I'm gonna
Speaker 4: I'm gonna keep. I'm gonna go with my guy, Cole Sultzer.
Speaker 4: He's had probably yeah what what Gibby just said, Uh,
Speaker 4: the he's probably been I'd say he's been our best
Speaker 4: or like our most surprising, Like he's been good with
Speaker 4: the Rays, like consistently, it's not like some bullshit thing
Speaker 4: like maybe maybe other than Nick Martinez, Sultzer has been
Speaker 4: probably the second most surprising, not addition obviously we've had
Speaker 4: him on the team, but like just player performance, he's
Speaker 4: been unbelievable on the mound, He's he's been thrown into
Speaker 4: several different situations. I think he has what two or
Speaker 4: three saves on the season two. He's been legitimately a
Speaker 4: stuff this year. He is his win He's two two
Speaker 4: seven with a one three whip. One three whip actually
Speaker 4: seems kind of high for what he's been putting out there,
Speaker 4: but whatever, he's been really really good recently, so hopefully
Speaker 4: he I'm predicting he'll get He'll get out there and
Speaker 4: get a save. He'll get a saved this series. That's
Speaker 4: my my my prediction. Uh.
Speaker 1: Well, well, in solidarity, I will pick Below as always.
Speaker 4: Uh.
Speaker 1: I was gonna say posthumously, and then I was like, nah,
Speaker 1: that's fucked up to.
Speaker 4: Say, yeah, that's a that's a bit different, that's a
Speaker 4: little that he might not be all to raise for
Speaker 4: those who don't know that the Pirates are in Arizona
Speaker 4: today and then they're in San Francisco this weekend.
Speaker 1: This is going to turn into by I raise the
Speaker 1: roof by the end of the season. Uh, you know,
Speaker 1: but Below and Solidarity, and then let's see who I
Speaker 1: want to pick for. You know what, Junior hasn't hit
Speaker 1: a home run a little bit, and I know, like
Speaker 1: he's you know, he's the big guy, but like he
Speaker 1: hasn't hit a bomb in a little bit. It's given
Speaker 1: a couple of homers over the Yeah, I was gonna
Speaker 1: say scale the Monster. Uh and and you know, I
Speaker 1: have a good series. And then on the mound, let
Speaker 1: me go with it. If if Anglert is supposed to
Speaker 1: pitch this series, give me Anglert. Uh if he isn't
Speaker 1: supposed to pitch this series. Then let's go with Cleb
Speaker 1: because Cleb's back and he's looked pretty solid since.
Speaker 4: He's come back.
Speaker 1: Yeah, dude, he's looked genuinely good since he's come back.
Speaker 1: And I know the velo is not quite there yet,
Speaker 1: but he looks solid, which has been the most important thing.
Speaker 4: And also let's go with Arsenal because we're in the
Speaker 4: frigate him. He's like fun of it and they're.
Speaker 2: Come on.
Speaker 4: Two. Yeah.
Speaker 1: I'm like the fact that City drop points on Monday.
Speaker 1: I was because I'm not gonna lie. I was annoyed.
Speaker 1: But even though that they drop points, I wasn't annoyed.
Speaker 1: They got to draw because they were up literally until
Speaker 1: like the ninety plus seven minute and then and then
Speaker 1: the goal. I think it was Doku who scored the goal,
Speaker 1: that insane goal around the keeper pick pick for an
Speaker 1: evidence keeper. And but it's okay.
Speaker 4: They still drop two points, which means that there's a
Speaker 4: two point difference if City wins the next match.
Speaker 1: So all Arsenal's got to do is just win out.
Speaker 1: I'm asking a lot. I'm asking a lot, but that
Speaker 1: would I mean, that would bring me generational levels of
Speaker 1: happiness that would be insane, an insane time for the boys.
Speaker 1: It's not baseball related. I'm just very very happy.
Speaker 2: I'm sure watching soccer at all, that's fine.
Speaker 4: I'm I'm a I'm ashamed to say, but I'm a
Speaker 4: I'm a Wolves fan. So it's been a really rough
Speaker 4: season for the lads, historically bad and then the relegation battle.
Speaker 4: I'm gonna, yeah, I'm gonna be all in on the
Speaker 4: championship next I.
Speaker 2: Actually have heard about that, Gibby.
Speaker 4: You should you should, you should become a Wrexham fan
Speaker 4: just cause.
Speaker 2: Yeah, but I hate Ryan Reynolds.
Speaker 4: Okay, well they don't become a Wolves fan with meat
Speaker 4: next season.
Speaker 2: I like, I like with me, so you know, maybe
Speaker 2: I will.
Speaker 4: Somebody else has to go through this level of pain.
Speaker 1: Hey, I picked I picked Arsenal for a very stupid reason.
Speaker 1: So I've been with them for you know a bit now,
Speaker 1: so I gotta I gotta.
Speaker 4: Have a little bit happiness at some point. Uh, all right.
Speaker 1: Last thing to talk about on the pod the stadium
Speaker 1: stuff the Rays have And we're not gonna talk about
Speaker 1: this for long, but we're just acknowledge that things have happened, Uh,
Speaker 1: the Rays held or the there was like a community
Speaker 1: basically like a city council community engagement session that happened
Speaker 1: on Tuesday that happened before or in and around when
Speaker 1: the race played the Jay's I think it started at
Speaker 1: five and then the Jay's game started at what like
Speaker 1: six forty, So it was basically the two were going
Speaker 1: on at the same time. It allowed for the public
Speaker 1: to be able to give comments. In regards to the situation,
Speaker 1: the Rays and the county and the city are still
Speaker 1: trying to work out. This whole thing is taken a while.
Speaker 1: The Rays said or the County said, that they won't
Speaker 1: be able to meet the June first deadline because of
Speaker 1: how complex this whole thing is, which is the set
Speaker 1: deadline that the Rays have put out. I'm going they
Speaker 1: need a little bit more time. I think the Rays
Speaker 1: had some sort of a non binding memory of an
Speaker 1: understanding that they want to get finalized this month in May,
Speaker 1: so that even if they don't hit that June first deadline,
Speaker 1: they at least have something to start building off of
Speaker 1: moving forward. So that's something interesting. Yeah, Rays seeking non
Speaker 1: binding agreement with Hillsboro, but in May. This is from
Speaker 1: the Tampa Bay Times, Ken Babby Ray CEO said, we're
Speaker 1: focused on a May m ou it will be non binding.
Speaker 1: Team's priority is securing that commitment by the end of
Speaker 1: the month. What's it called detailed a team's request for
Speaker 1: a billion doiur public contribution and set that June first deadline.
Speaker 1: Trying to see what's going on. It's unclear if the
Speaker 1: non binding memory it Basically a lot of it has
Speaker 1: to do with the Florida legislature, which is going to
Speaker 1: be happening starting in May, starting May twelfth, So they're
Speaker 1: trying to at least get something done to start out
Speaker 1: so that hopefully they can get funds allocated to figure
Speaker 1: out the whole HCC site, the HCC del Mayberry site
Speaker 1: since that is public or state owned land considering that
Speaker 1: it is a university.
Speaker 4: But yeah, interesting.
Speaker 1: It seems like I will say kudos to raise brass
Speaker 1: for not being like, oh, if you don't hit doing
Speaker 1: first adline, that means that we're done. Like they want
Speaker 1: it to be done, and it seems like they are
Speaker 1: willing to know.
Speaker 3: People on Twitter are like that, what even though people
Speaker 3: on Twitter are like that.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean I don't well, I was gonna say
Speaker 1: I don't think that. I mean a lot of people
Speaker 1: want this deal done. A lot of people want this
Speaker 1: deal done. Understandably, people want the race of same Tampa Bay.
Speaker 1: We all want the race of same Tampa Bay. There's
Speaker 1: also a lot of money that the city and county
Speaker 1: need need to figure out, so we'll see what happens
Speaker 1: in that regard.
Speaker 2: But the.
Speaker 4: It seems like the team is being.
Speaker 1: Very willing to work with everyone in order to get
Speaker 1: this thing done, which is probably the most important thing.
Speaker 1: Is something that we didn't see in previous ownership. So
Speaker 1: the fact that that's happening is a really good sign.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I think people were overreacting, and I'm not saying
Speaker 4: that that's a bad thing. Like I'm not blaming I didn't.
Speaker 4: I don't mean to like criticize people for overreacting because
Speaker 4: we've all seen this same charade over and over again.
Speaker 4: So it's like it's kind of like just you see
Speaker 4: it's kind of not not PTSD, but it's kind of
Speaker 4: like just traumatic. It's like, oh, you see the same
Speaker 4: it's going down the same road, so you're just assuming
Speaker 4: that it's going to fall through. But I think that
Speaker 4: instance in and of itself. If that's the only thing,
Speaker 4: I don't think it's a bad thing. It's like, oh, yeah,
Speaker 4: they needed an Actually they need more time. I think
Speaker 4: that's a fair ask. I just don't I just hope
Speaker 4: it doesn't lead to more complications down the road that
Speaker 4: I agree, that's for sure.
Speaker 3: I mean, uh, when I was watched or I mean,
Speaker 3: one of the highlights I saw of that meeting was
Speaker 3: that I forgot who which councilman it was. But uh,
Speaker 3: you know, they were saying, you know, baseball doesn't work
Speaker 3: in the South. You know, there's a there's plenty of things,
Speaker 3: you know, you can criticize about a deal, you know,
Speaker 3: and and or like the current.
Speaker 2: State of the deal.
Speaker 3: Uh, but you know, saying baseball doesn't work in the
Speaker 3: South when you can't throw a baseball without hitting a
Speaker 3: baseball field in the South is uh, it just kind
Speaker 3: of stupid, you know. I mean, probably one of the
Speaker 3: stupidest things I've heard. You know, you could you can
Speaker 3: come up with ten thousand other reasons, you know for
Speaker 3: but you know, that's just that's just one of the
Speaker 3: stupidest ones. Is baseball doesn't work in the South. You know,
Speaker 3: it works spring training, you know, everyone's down here.
Speaker 4: You know, you can college baseball, college baseball in the South.
Speaker 4: That is a dumb thing to say. I don't know,
Speaker 4: I don't know who said that. I don't really want
Speaker 4: to know who said that.
Speaker 3: But like and also like just a lie. Also, people
Speaker 3: say this all the time. You know, Tampa's not like
Speaker 3: the South Florida is not really you know, Tampa, South
Speaker 3: Florida not really the South. It's like it's like it's
Speaker 3: in the South, sure, but you know, not not the same,
Speaker 3: you know, cultural, you know.
Speaker 1: Norm Mississippi are two wildly different exactly again.
Speaker 2: Exactly you know.
Speaker 3: So uh, I don't I don't know, you know, I
Speaker 3: feel like, you know, we should have had eighty five
Speaker 3: year old politicians anymore. So yeah, I mean it's been
Speaker 3: a little it's been a little ridiculous from that that standpoint.
Speaker 2: Yeah, you know, there's plenty, there's plenty of things to criticize,
Speaker 2: don't get me wrong.
Speaker 3: And you know, I hope, I hope there's some negotiation
Speaker 3: back and forth with the Rays and with the county.
Speaker 3: H so you know, you know, county is not getting screwed.
Speaker 3: So yeah, I mean that's basically all I'll say. I
Speaker 3: just saw that. I feel like that was the stupidest
Speaker 3: thing I've ever I might have ever heard. I'm glad
Speaker 3: Evan Klosky, you know, fellow Evan hit him back.
Speaker 4: That's our boy. Yeah, But like, I mean, it makes sense.
Speaker 1: Like and if he was trying to say Florida, that's
Speaker 1: a really major difference between Florida and the South because
Speaker 1: it works. It has worked consistently, college baseball wise, Minor
Speaker 1: league baseball wise, major League baseball wise, spring training wise,
Speaker 1: like high school baseball. Baseball works in the South. If
Speaker 1: we're talking about Major League baseball specifically in Florida, that's
Speaker 1: a completely different, uh conversation to be had.
Speaker 4: But in a general sentence, baseball works in the South.
Speaker 4: And I mean baseball is the the South is the
Speaker 4: mecca for baseball. Yeah. He could have miss misspoke, and
Speaker 4: that's totally understandable. But yeah, I mean when I think
Speaker 4: of baseball, I think in the South.
Speaker 1: I mean, so, oh, what do you tell me you
Speaker 1: don't think of New Jersey baseball baseball paradise.
Speaker 4: And oh yeah, maybe I should please stop kidding.
Speaker 1: Hey, hey, we got to see my boy Davis out there.
Speaker 1: I know that he's been struggling for the Jay's this year.
Speaker 1: But uh, we got to see my boy playing in
Speaker 1: playing in the Jay Series. I hope he can turn
Speaker 1: things around. I just I'm it's so cool to like
Speaker 1: see someone that you went to school with and your
Speaker 1: friends with now playing in the big leagues.
Speaker 4: Like, yeah, it's cool. That's insane speaking of well this,
Speaker 4: I'm just you saying Jersey made me think of home
Speaker 4: going to totally off topic if done with the stadium's talk,
Speaker 4: But do are you going to the PGA Championship next week?
Speaker 4: Oh no, I'm not going to that.
Speaker 2: Never mind.
Speaker 4: Never mind. I wish I cared enough about golf in
Speaker 4: order to do that, but I don't.
Speaker 1: No, But riding on the stadium stuff, that's just an
Speaker 1: ongoing thing, like we're gonna monitor it as it happens.
Speaker 1: Seems like there's still a lot of discussions to be
Speaker 1: had between the Rays, the county, and the city.
Speaker 2: Uh.
Speaker 1: It is great to see a lot of people showing
Speaker 1: their support for the stadium, and it's great that there
Speaker 1: has been as much public support as there has been.
Speaker 1: But at the end of the day, it comes down
Speaker 1: to the brass tax. It comes down to dollars and
Speaker 1: cents and what makes most sense if the Rays need
Speaker 1: to take on more money on their end, if the county,
Speaker 1: you know, if they need to stick to that one
Speaker 1: billion dollars or whatever it is.
Speaker 4: Still don't understand.
Speaker 1: Why the Rays needed to add on another nine hundred
Speaker 1: million dollars to the price tag of the stadium. I
Speaker 1: don't think I'm ever gonna get over that, because I
Speaker 1: don't think that inflation has account That's not an inflation
Speaker 1: accounted for a thing.
Speaker 4: That's just that. I mean, that's hell of a lot
Speaker 4: of money.
Speaker 1: But yeah, I mean, just imagine if that well, I
Speaker 1: was gonna say, imagine if the pre imagine if this
Speaker 1: current ownership group would have taken on the other thing
Speaker 1: in Saint Pete, like, they basically could have paid for
Speaker 1: the entire stadium themselves if they were willing to, you know,
Speaker 1: dish out one point two billion dollars or whatever it is,
Speaker 1: they could have just covered the other two hundred million
Speaker 1: and then just privately financed the stadium themselves. That's why
Speaker 1: I think that's the thing I'm most annoyed by, not
Speaker 1: the fact of where the stadium is and and if
Speaker 1: it's gonna take a little bit more time, it's just
Speaker 1: the price tag of it just seems a lot.
Speaker 2: But I mean that could be.
Speaker 4: I'm not the one who's uh, I'm not the one who's.
Speaker 3: Making the Yeah, I understand, you know, you want you
Speaker 3: want something nice, but you know it's kind of I
Speaker 3: mean kind of.
Speaker 2: You know, and it's added up a lot, you know, so.
Speaker 4: The price keeps climbing. Yesterday's price is not two days.
Speaker 7: Price, you know what was I think we leave it off, Yeah,
Speaker 7: I think, yeah, well we'll leave it at that.
Speaker 1: But I think with that being said, I think that's
Speaker 1: going to conclude things on the on on the podcast.
Speaker 4: I don't think we got anything else, right, No, no.
Speaker 1: No, A lot of good stuff happening in baseball, a
Speaker 1: lot of fun things happening in the area.
Speaker 4: Best luck to the Flyers throughout the rest of the series, Alex,
Speaker 4: I don't know. I don't know if I can say
Speaker 4: that about the Canes. I'm sorry. I mean, you guys win,
Speaker 4: that's if you guys win, that's fine.
Speaker 1: A Canes Buffalo Conference finals would be fun, that would
Speaker 1: be cool.
Speaker 3: Alex still has that little bit of a Philly asshole
Speaker 3: in them.
Speaker 4: It's so, yeah, it's okay. I'm fine with it. You
Speaker 4: gotta do what you gotta do.
Speaker 2: Man.
Speaker 1: All right, let's go Buffalo screw the Canadians. The Canadians suck.
Speaker 1: Please Buffalo sweep them.
Speaker 7: Uh.
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