Speaker 1: Hello, and welcome to Awaken Jake myself Jake Stromboli BBD,
Speaker 1: catching up on the world of baseball. I want to
Speaker 1: check in on some of the division race to see
Speaker 1: if we see any sauce there a little under a
Speaker 1: week after the deadline, see what else we can dig
Speaker 1: up from that. The other Okay, I was gonna save this,
Speaker 1: like this was something to be saved. It's been so funny.
Speaker 1: We've been looking forward to the trade deadline for so long,
Speaker 1: like it's All Star break deadline. Who's in, Who's out?
Speaker 1: We look at today, Monday, August fifth. If you remember,
Speaker 1: this baseball season also started early. We got a March
Speaker 1: start this year. Season end September twenty eighth, eight weeks
Speaker 1: of regular season baseball right August five on the calendar
Speaker 1: season end September twenty eighth looked at an actual calendar
Speaker 1: eight weeks to go of regular season baseball. So still
Speaker 1: a lot of fun stuff to be decided this season.
Speaker 1: The NL wild card race has become a fun one.
Speaker 1: We'll see if the al either becomes a couple team
Speaker 1: race or does everyone come back to the pack. We'll
Speaker 1: dive into that a little bit. The divisions are interesting
Speaker 1: to me right now because there's a couple that are
Speaker 1: close and then the ones that aren't. I want to
Speaker 1: see what might feel closer than it is, and then
Speaker 1: maybe a little Olympics at the end. I got into
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Speaker 1: It was almost too hot out, so it was like, Hey,
Speaker 1: let's watch actual live Olympics instead of the event of
Speaker 1: the night which no shots fired at the Olympics for
Speaker 1: running them later because I've still been watching. We'll do
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Speaker 1: what was that. Let's talk some baseball and checking in
Speaker 1: on the divisions, and I want to start with my
Speaker 1: al East, where the New York Yankees and the Baltimore
Speaker 1: Orioles are lining up for I think one of the
Speaker 1: more fun stretches we have seen my New York Yankees.
Speaker 1: They just went through a losing stretch. It was a
Speaker 1: bad time. They were the worst team in baseball for
Speaker 1: over a month. We hated that. We've seen that in
Speaker 1: previous seasons and it really really made us miserable. The
Speaker 1: pitching gave out, gave out the bullpen kind of part
Speaker 1: of the pitching that had given out, and the Yankees
Speaker 1: had a deadline. I know we wanted more, especially when
Speaker 1: there's Jack Flaherty rumors. Seeing Mark Lighter Junior has been
Speaker 1: pretty cool. That's a guy that in a whole situation,
Speaker 1: Yankee fans are feeling comfortable with. So that's a guy
Speaker 1: on the back end of the bullpen. They also had.
Speaker 1: Jake Cousins has kind of come onto the scene as
Speaker 1: a perfect I don't know, six seventh inning, if you're
Speaker 1: up three runs, I think Yankees fans would feel good
Speaker 1: about him right now or down one. That's kind of
Speaker 1: a key guy to have in the bullpen. Can you
Speaker 1: keep a game close or if you're not ready to
Speaker 1: go to your apen, do you have that.
Speaker 2: If the game matters but doesn't all the way matter?
Speaker 1: Good option, And him and Mark Lighter Junior punched tickets
Speaker 1: out there, which the Yankees desperately needed in their bullpen.
Speaker 1: So Garrett Cole, Yankee fans had an unnecessary scare with that,
Speaker 1: and I don't think we're out of the woods. They
Speaker 1: skipped to start because he's that he had tummy problems,
Speaker 1: came out, looked kind of recovered well, and his velo
Speaker 1: and everything was there, so like overall.
Speaker 2: Like the velocity number was numbers were there even if
Speaker 2: he didn't look his nastiest. And at the end of
Speaker 2: the day, it's a five point two tour and didn't
Speaker 2: walk anybody start.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean in the rotation, you're hoping for more
Speaker 1: from Coal.
Speaker 2: By the time the playoffs come. I don't think Yankee
Speaker 2: fans should be worried about him not being where he's
Speaker 2: supposed to be by then.
Speaker 1: Well, I think part of what's gonna be interesting there
Speaker 1: is where is Garrett Cole at Rodin is kind of
Speaker 1: surging again, which is exciting for Yankee fans. You feel
Speaker 1: like you're gonna have one of Heel and Coal feeling
Speaker 1: peak of their powers. Heel had a rough stretch, got
Speaker 1: through it. Stroman has been deep on the struggle bus.
Speaker 1: Nestor has been on the struggle bus. A couple signs
Speaker 1: of bouncing back. The Yankee schedule really eases up Angels, Texas,
Speaker 1: Chicago White Side over the next week and a half.
Speaker 1: And I don't know, man, I guess during that Yankees
Speaker 1: bad stretch, all these Yankee fans had a lot of
Speaker 1: dark thoughts creep in. Because we've seen it the past
Speaker 1: couple of years. It's pretty cool looking at their team
Speaker 1: page today, Yankees first and runs first and on base
Speaker 1: percentage second in ops. That's really good. And I guess
Speaker 1: Yankee fans were pretty hot to trot before they started
Speaker 1: playing terrible baseball. I don't know. There was just something
Speaker 1: seeing Judge, seeing Sodo. Now that they've got pieces around it,
Speaker 1: that something is gonna click, whether it's Jazz, whether it's
Speaker 1: June Carlo, the next level of Verdugo Glaber. Austin Wells
Speaker 1: has been playing really good baseball. It feels like Anthony Volpi,
Speaker 1: my god down in the lineup. Anthony Volpi has been
Speaker 1: a really good baseball player. And the Yankees some conversations
Speaker 1: we haven't leaked into on talking Yanks yet. We kind
Speaker 1: of did the tip of the iceberg. But there's reinforcements coming.
Speaker 1: It's just we don't know what they are. Jose Travino
Speaker 1: when he left, he was in a full time platoon
Speaker 1: as catcher. Rizzo was supposed to be a guy. He's
Speaker 1: kind of been supplanted. Is that a word supplanted, supplanted
Speaker 1: surpassed maybe both John Birdie in a role I don't
Speaker 1: know if you can get excited about that. Jason Domingez
Speaker 1: the Martian. So it's gonna be interesting to see as
Speaker 1: those veterans get healthy. The Martian is playing, and he's
Speaker 1: had some good games and he would fill a need.
Speaker 1: It's gonna be interesting to see how this Yankees roster
Speaker 1: rounds out the year. But man, something about Judge and Soto,
Speaker 1: Judge fully blown getting the intentional walk treatment this past
Speaker 1: series was like, Wow, that's that's what we're watching now.
Speaker 1: And the guy that hits in front of him is
Speaker 1: just as good. So if they get any other support
Speaker 1: from the lineup, which I think they've shown at this point,
Speaker 1: they will excited about our Yanks, especially in an al
Speaker 1: where things aren't things aren't clear. We've done the whole
Speaker 1: Yankees Houston, Baltimore. We'll get to the central two.
Speaker 2: The other Yankee stat that's kind of stuck out to
Speaker 2: me as they're starting to come out of the bad
Speaker 2: times and we've had a complicated relationship with the stat
Speaker 2: but they have the best run differential in all of baseball,
Speaker 2: and it's by a lot, like I know's there's a
Speaker 2: few games and we've discussed it, like maybe blowouts that
Speaker 2: should be cacked at like a six or seven or something.
Speaker 2: But I think even with those, it's not like a
Speaker 2: crazy number of or called like three games they won
Speaker 2: by ten, Yeah, not a lot.
Speaker 1: Of silly ones like twenty to two.
Speaker 2: I don't think it's getting like juice juice. So it's like,
Speaker 2: what I've noticed that threat this. I'm like, huh okay,
Speaker 2: well got a comfortable wins.
Speaker 1: Speaking of juice, the team they'll be racing with down
Speaker 1: the stretch is your Baltimore Orioles, who they are first
Speaker 1: in ops, they are second in runs, and they are
Speaker 1: first in home run So that Orioles offense has been
Speaker 1: clicking all year. Colton Kowser in their outfield, he's got
Speaker 1: a hit streak going. Guy got off to a hot
Speaker 1: start to the season, kind of blended in with those Orioles.
Speaker 1: He got a slow during the middle of the season.
Speaker 1: Is he a trade piece for them? Feels like everyone
Speaker 1: kind of is. He's been towards the top of their
Speaker 1: lineup and he's putting together a really nice season. Former
Speaker 1: first round pick fifth overall. So again, these guys aren't
Speaker 1: like these Orioles. Guys are real deal. Holy Field checked
Speaker 1: out Adley's numbers on the yarn, was a little surprised
Speaker 1: where they're at. Wouldn't be surprised if he's got more
Speaker 1: in the tank coming. He had a nice series over
Speaker 1: the weekend. And the biggest story, Jack Holiday, the top
Speaker 1: prospect who gets called up for the first time, really
Speaker 1: struggles sent down. He gets called up against the Guardians
Speaker 1: and has a massive series. So wherever you land on
Speaker 1: Jackson Holliday's potential. Never mind Kobe Mayo, who they call
Speaker 1: up only the twenty first prospect in baseball as a
Speaker 1: potential infield option for them. Their lineup could potentially be
Speaker 1: tapping into more Jordan Westburg out for them, who was
Speaker 1: having a really nice year. So there's that, and they
Speaker 1: added pieces to their bullpen. Let's see how it comes
Speaker 1: together for them, Sir Anthony and Soto come over from
Speaker 1: Philly and kimberl Did they just have Philly's bullpen last year?
Speaker 1: What's that about? Kind of funny how front offices work.
Speaker 1: Eflin trade is working out well for them. He's just
Speaker 1: giving them standard starts Trevor Rodgers. Let's see, but man
Speaker 1: Cordon Burns has arguably been the best picture in the AL.
Speaker 1: He has the most quality starts. This is gonna be
Speaker 1: an absolute dogfight. I I'm trying to remember. I guess
Speaker 1: Ale East Wise Biberton. Can you remember the last AL
Speaker 1: East like title race? Is that a dumb statement?
Speaker 2: Like down the stretch the race was like intense.
Speaker 1: Yeah, let's see MLB standings is something I probably should
Speaker 1: have looked up. And Fangrafts is fighting my computer. Great,
Speaker 1: amazing because we'll get BBD on research and development for that.
Speaker 2: Twenty two. They sort of ran away with it last year.
Speaker 2: Look it into it last year.
Speaker 1: I mean the race had the perfect April, Yes, but
Speaker 1: then the Orioles cooked. I don't know, I feel like
Speaker 1: we haven't had a true Orioles ended up winning it
Speaker 1: by two games. Two games, so I'd have to relive
Speaker 1: how how told how we got there? Yeah, twenty two
Speaker 1: Yankees won by seven games, twenty one Raised one by
Speaker 1: eight games. Twenty twenty Raise somehow won by seven games
Speaker 1: in the shortened season, twenty nineteen Yankees twenty eighteen Socks
Speaker 1: won by eight.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that was an awesome race. Until they ended the
Speaker 2: season in August.
Speaker 1: So twenty seventeen, twenty seventeen Red Sox win by two games.
Speaker 1: So again, it's tough to feel how those emotions were
Speaker 1: in the moment. But yeah, I think the Yankees and
Speaker 1: the Orioles have an argument for the two most talented
Speaker 1: teams in the American League. They're currently tied atop the
Speaker 1: AL East. The Yankees are the Yankees hate him or
Speaker 1: love them? Underdogs on top Fitty or I mean, the
Speaker 1: Orioles have this young core that I know baseball just
Speaker 1: does not work like this. But again, they just called
Speaker 1: up Jackson holiday number one prospect in baseball. They just
Speaker 1: called up Kobe Mayo, number twenty one prospect. That's like
Speaker 1: Orioles fans would say this, but he's a blip on
Speaker 1: their radar because they've called up Adley and Gunner and
Speaker 1: now Jackson that, yeah, this could be the start of something.
Speaker 1: We saw these two teams brawl this year, and I
Speaker 1: hope it doesn't come down to like, well, oh my god,
Speaker 1: this injury, that injury, which I feel like baseball has
Speaker 1: gotten to a point where there's a lot of that
Speaker 1: We're set up for a really good wire to Wire
Speaker 1: Orioles Yankees finale, which is gonna be massive. I mean,
Speaker 1: one of those teams is gonna be a wild card team.
Speaker 1: You've got to win two out of three at home
Speaker 1: to save your season. And who are those games gonna
Speaker 1: be against? Which brings me out out west to the
Speaker 1: other divisional race. I do owe my Seattle Mariner fans
Speaker 1: an apology, if not a follow up apology. Me and foolish,
Speaker 1: I think we ended up being a little too harsh
Speaker 1: on your guys. Deadline. I respect it more than I
Speaker 1: think I let on you guys need to add hitting,
Speaker 1: and you did some of that. Randy has an argument
Speaker 1: to be one of, if not the best hit or
Speaker 1: added at this deadline. Justin Turner came over, had the
Speaker 1: best on base percentage on the team, always hits. Feels
Speaker 1: like a Seattle icon. I keep saying that. I feel
Speaker 1: like Justin Turner is gonna have a coffee shop in
Speaker 1: Seattle pretty soon. It's gonna be a popular place. We'll
Speaker 1: see if they win a playoff series, absolutely, especially if
Speaker 1: he has the big hit. I feel like that's gonna happen.
Speaker 1: The Seattle Mariners are in first place in the Aos.
Speaker 1: They're one game up on the Houston Astros. The Astros
Speaker 1: just lost a set to the Rays. They've got the
Speaker 1: Texas Rangers coming out Houston. Man, they've got some weird
Speaker 1: stuff going on. I know, the hitting's been there all year. Uh,
Speaker 1: Kyle Tucker. There was just a weird quote that came
Speaker 1: out from manager Joe Spotta that was like, we were
Speaker 1: we'd love to see him in August, but we don't
Speaker 1: know if we will. I think everyone assumed it was
Speaker 1: going to be quicker than that. If you go look
Speaker 1: at their offensive numbers, Jordon's Jordan, which is just crazy
Speaker 1: that that kind of happens every year. Kyle Tucker still
Speaker 1: leads that team in war and he's been out for
Speaker 1: a while. Al Twovey's numbers are still great, but they're
Speaker 1: not where you might expect them. Al twoves ops as
Speaker 1: it today stands at seven ninety five. Alex Bregman stands
Speaker 1: at seven to fourteen, so I know he got off
Speaker 1: to a slow start, so he's been a lot better recently.
Speaker 1: But when you look at the Astros on paper right now,
Speaker 1: I know Yaner Diaz is run into a hot stretch.
Speaker 1: No one with ops in the eights. It's Jordan in
Speaker 1: the Nines, and then Altuve and yin A are above league average.
Speaker 1: Bregman and Paynya are close that This offense that all
Speaker 1: year has kind of stayed around the top. There's some
Speaker 1: thin parts in the lineup right now, whether that's Meyers, Singleton,
Speaker 1: dubonn McCormack, Victor Krattini, victor Carrottini. The pitching, on the
Speaker 1: other hand, which has been the weakness this year, has
Speaker 1: started punching tickets. I think I saw some stat double
Speaker 1: digit strikeouts in a lot of games for their pitching staff.
Speaker 1: So young Spencer Agedti he just put together a good one.
Speaker 1: Verlander threw a bullpen the other day. He expects to
Speaker 1: do two rehab stints. If this hus this is what
Speaker 1: I've said, I've said it again. I'm probably gonna say
Speaker 1: it again again. If this Houston Astros team wasn't named
Speaker 1: the Houston Astros team, I don't think I would be
Speaker 1: in on them. But you have to respect the track record,
Speaker 1: because God, if they sneak in. Even if they don't
Speaker 1: sneak in, they could be dominant the rest of the way.
Speaker 1: If they find a way to the dance, they're gonna
Speaker 1: be one of the most feared teams in the tournament.
Speaker 1: Do we want to call it a tournament bracket? Yeah,
Speaker 1: I guess.
Speaker 2: I guess bracket is accurate like tournament technically is one right? Playoffs?
Speaker 1: Yeah, I don't know if I like that. I think
Speaker 1: we did this last year too. I'll go playoffs.
Speaker 2: No one will yell at you for playoffs.
Speaker 1: Yeah, Seattle, the hitting scares me. But you guys just
Speaker 1: went on a run. I think they were scoring seven
Speaker 1: runs per game for about a week. I think there's
Speaker 1: some White Sox involved in that.
Speaker 2: Uh.
Speaker 1: And they finish with a shutout against the Phillies and
Speaker 1: Zach Wheeler but he's in contention for the NLCY Young
Speaker 1: yet again. Ah Hey, I want to believe Seattle, I
Speaker 1: really do. Man where Julio's stats on the air? Crazy
Speaker 1: that they're still where they are? Ah, Man, I I
Speaker 1: was gonna give the same speech. Mitch Hanneger has been
Speaker 1: hitting since the All Star break. Maybe that's something they
Speaker 1: can bank on. They need one of the Mitches Mitch
Speaker 1: Hanneger or Mitch Garver kind of a funny name. Nich
Speaker 1: dive more into that later. Jore Polanco had been bad
Speaker 1: for them. He's put a couple of games together and
Speaker 1: he's back again. With that Mariners lineup, you can look
Speaker 1: at it as upside that if they start getting anything,
Speaker 1: it's really exciting. They had a five run comeback, which
Speaker 1: for their struggling offense, that's that's a big feeling. If
Speaker 1: everything I knew in my brain was excluded, I'd have
Speaker 1: Mariners as the clear favorite horse. The other thing to
Speaker 1: watch out with these two teams, if they don't pick
Speaker 1: it up soon, it's division or bust. Right now in
Speaker 1: the Wildcard, Houston is five games back, eight weeks to go.
Speaker 1: Like I think, obviously we've seen we should watch these
Speaker 1: Seattle Mariners give up a ten game lead in twenty
Speaker 1: one days, so baseball can't happen. But they really need
Speaker 1: to start chopping into that now before it gets any closer.
Speaker 1: The Minnesota Twins and the guard Dogs and the Royals
Speaker 1: should be thrown in that mix. Actually, you know what
Speaker 1: are very similar division standings right now, the NL West
Speaker 1: and the AL Central. The Guardians are on top, They've
Speaker 1: been on top for a while. Saying with the Dodgers,
Speaker 1: the Padres are four and a half games back, the
Speaker 1: d Backs are five. In the AL Central, the Twins
Speaker 1: are four and a half back the Royals are five,
Speaker 1: so literally the same distance apart. Cleveland has been there
Speaker 1: the whole time. I would really be shocked. Well, I
Speaker 1: guess when I initially said I want to do the
Speaker 1: rankings of division confidence, the Milwaukee Brewers are my number one.
Speaker 1: The Cardinals, Pirates, Cubs, and Reds have given me nothing
Speaker 1: to believe in all year. The Brewers are on a
Speaker 1: three series losing streak, so I guess watch out to
Speaker 1: see if that tail spin gets worse. But those other
Speaker 1: teams have given me nothing to believe in. Meanwhile, in
Speaker 1: the Central this year, the Royals have beat up on
Speaker 1: the Central, which that's good, that's your division, More power
Speaker 1: to you. The Twins have had some ebbs and flows
Speaker 1: this year. I guess I guess you would say, if
Speaker 1: you're being honest, the Minnesota Twins have a better chance
Speaker 1: to catch the Guardians than either of the NLS teams. Yeah,
Speaker 1: they're the Dodgers. Mookie's gonna come back at some point,
Speaker 1: show hey, show, Hey, They've they've got the bodies there.
Speaker 1: But man, do the Padres and d Backs look good
Speaker 1: right now? Those teams both have the juice as I
Speaker 1: like to label it. And again this Padres run has
Speaker 1: been without Fernando that if he comes back with piss
Speaker 1: and vinegar also Martine Perez uh kind of a late
Speaker 1: deadline move by San Diego. He has a good start
Speaker 1: this this week and they've been looking for another body
Speaker 1: in their rotation that his innings could come up being
Speaker 1: very valuable. Eduardo Rodriguez for the Diamondbacks. He's coming back
Speaker 1: this week. Could his innings be e rod level innings.
Speaker 1: Sometimes it's tough to come back mid season, especially after
Speaker 1: an injury. Maybe he's there revital he's revitalizing, ready to go.
Speaker 1: Maybe he's not ready and gets knocked around. But the Snakes.
Speaker 1: Let me give my Perdomo stat because I saw it earlier.
Speaker 1: When Perdomo has been in the lineup this year for
Speaker 1: the Diamondbacks, they are thirty and eighteen. That's pretty good.
Speaker 1: That lines up a little bit with Alec Thomas and
Speaker 1: some of their pitching returning. And I did see a
Speaker 1: good comment that Bailey foolish. Bailey wasn't enthused about the
Speaker 1: Snake's deadline, and someone was like, man, the Snakes, they're
Speaker 1: banking on their own starting pitching to come back, so
Speaker 1: they went out and they got relievers and they did.
Speaker 1: I mean it might not be San Diego's Adam and
Speaker 1: Tanner Scott, but them going out, Sorry, just lost my
Speaker 1: page again, them going out, ajuck. I think reliever wise
Speaker 1: is gonna go toe to toe with anyone at this deadline.
Speaker 1: He came in and got an emergency emergency save the
Speaker 1: other day. And Dylan Floro doesn't give up homers on
Speaker 1: that sinker. So do with that which you will. I
Speaker 1: don't think either of these teams can reel in the Dodgers.
Speaker 1: They're the Dodgers, right, The Dodgers win the division every year.
Speaker 1: Literally that it stinks to think that way. I do
Speaker 1: think it's honest. And let's see where they're at. I mean,
Speaker 1: Freddie has been gone and dealing with some real stuff.
Speaker 1: I don't know if you've seen any of that, but
Speaker 1: his son had a weird neurological disorder that I think,
Speaker 1: knock on wood. I think they got in touch with
Speaker 1: the right people and they're doing some good steps, but
Speaker 1: it's like crazy stuff, like I think his kid has
Speaker 1: to like relearn how to walk.
Speaker 2: In stuff, Like yeah, it's a thing that happens, like
Speaker 2: you just like legs stop working for a little while.
Speaker 1: Nuts, So imagine that going on in your life. So
Speaker 1: that the vaunted top of that Dodgers lineup, Freddy's been
Speaker 1: out dealing with some real life ish, Mookie's been hurt
Speaker 1: for a while, that Gavin lux has been hitting three
Speaker 1: for them. You know, the bottom half of their lineup
Speaker 1: right now, it lists Nick Ahmed as their shortstop and
Speaker 1: Cavin Biggio as their first baseman. That'll change soon, but
Speaker 1: it'll be interesting to see if the padres with all
Speaker 1: the momentum in the world. The Snakes, who haven't lost
Speaker 1: a series in their last ten, can they get close
Speaker 1: enough to the Dodgers to make it feel like a
Speaker 1: race Because this might be obnoxious outside stuff, but the
Speaker 1: Dodgers have been so dominant in that division, it's hard
Speaker 1: to believe that any of those teams could reel them in.
Speaker 1: Where the Minnesota Twins in the Al Central, we've seen
Speaker 1: that franchise be able to come on top of that division.
Speaker 1: You know, as recent as last year they got in
Speaker 1: the playoffs, and they really haven't been at full tilt
Speaker 1: because their best player, Royce Lewis, he's been out, he
Speaker 1: came back, he drove an Opo Homer the other day.
Speaker 1: Buxton's been playing well, ran into the wall in center,
Speaker 1: which I think everyone's like, dude, you just we can't
Speaker 1: do that. You can't do that at this point, Buck Daddy,
Speaker 1: that lineup looks good. I always I hate that. I
Speaker 1: laugh when I say it. But again, I'm too close
Speaker 1: to the Trevor Ploff situation. If everyone's being honest, you
Speaker 1: would think the Twins have a better shot to track
Speaker 1: down the Guards. And it's a big week for the
Speaker 1: Guardians because they played the Twins. It's a fun Central
Speaker 1: week and a half. Twinkies have the Cubs, Guards and Royals,
Speaker 1: and I mean I've left the Royals kind of out
Speaker 1: of this whole conversation, which is just a little bit rude.
Speaker 2: Uh.
Speaker 1: For Cleveland, they have Arizona. Reminder, Arizona has not lost
Speaker 1: their last ten er. This will be a fun test
Speaker 1: for them and Cleveland. I mean, it's just kind of bizarre. Man.
Speaker 1: They're uh their upcoming rotation for this Snake series. Cleveland,
Speaker 1: who has the best record in the al and I
Speaker 1: feel like deserves a little more respect. It's Logan Allen,
Speaker 1: Ben Lively and Cookies Carrasco like that versus Zach Gallen,
Speaker 1: e Rod and Brandon fought. So hey, I know it's
Speaker 1: a lot more than a starting pitching game at this point.
Speaker 1: Very interesting week for them because after Arizona, like I mentioned,
Speaker 1: it's Minnesota. Let's see where that's at. I think the
Speaker 1: only division that I've truly left out is the beautiful
Speaker 1: NL East, where the Phillies are going through hard times
Speaker 1: for maybe the first time this season. As they continue
Speaker 1: their West coast trip, they head to the Dodgers. That'll
Speaker 1: be fun to watch. No, look lass now tonight Trevor
Speaker 1: Ploof in the building like that. God, let's see how
Speaker 1: that series goes. And then they go for four against
Speaker 1: Arizona in the desert. Who uh Yeah, I don't know
Speaker 1: when when things get out of control in a baseball season.
Speaker 1: We saw the Yankees be the worst team in baseball
Speaker 1: for a month. Uh. The Braves dropping their last two
Speaker 1: to the Marlins. Uh would have been interesting if we
Speaker 1: saw the Braves five games out today it's sits at six.
Speaker 1: The Braves still haven't had like the good juju kick in, Like,
Speaker 1: they haven't had Matt Olsen go completely nuts, which he's
Speaker 1: capable of. It's been Ozona it's been Ozuna. Uh so
Speaker 1: Layer's in right field tracking down balls. It's either one
Speaker 1: of those braves teams that braves stands are gonna look
Speaker 1: back at in three years and be like, what were
Speaker 1: we doing? So Lair was playing right field and leading
Speaker 1: off every day? Or Arcias started to hit really well.
Speaker 1: If they're big, guys could click in the gear while
Speaker 1: the Phillies are still reeling and make them feel that
Speaker 1: Max Free just came back. It was a bad first start.
Speaker 1: I guess the NL East was part of this exercise
Speaker 1: that made me want it to be an exercise was
Speaker 1: I guess least confident divisions. Let's see the AL East. Hmmm,
Speaker 1: Al East in the AL West? What do I have
Speaker 1: the most confidence in happening? I think Yankees Orioles is
Speaker 1: pure toss up. Okay, my least confident would be the
Speaker 1: Ale East. I don't know if the Oriols or Yanks
Speaker 1: are gonna win the division. I have no clue the
Speaker 1: Yanks are the Yanks. Judge is impossible. Same with Sodo.
Speaker 1: They've got some serious options to click. I've got options.
Speaker 1: I could kind of piss the bed again and they'll
Speaker 1: have to figure that out along the way the Orioles,
Speaker 1: I mean, it's built for the regular season. If Jackson
Speaker 1: Holiday is anything built for the radio season was a
Speaker 1: little rude. Let's see them get a couple more reps
Speaker 1: in October, which they'll be getting.
Speaker 2: We like, we know it works for the regular season.
Speaker 2: I have the depth that gets you through a regular season.
Speaker 1: Just trying to fade Yankee fandom. You could point to
Speaker 1: run differential. I think this is teed up to be
Speaker 1: an incredible race down the stretch. It's as pick them
Speaker 1: as you could possibly be. I think in the AL
Speaker 1: West again, if it was just this season, then get
Speaker 1: you say Seattle, but you have to factor in these
Speaker 1: previous years. I know it's this year, but Houston, I
Speaker 1: mean they got ghosts with them, man, in the best
Speaker 1: way that I would lean that that's the second second
Speaker 1: hardest division to decide. Ranking these in reverse, I guess.
Speaker 1: So if I think the Alies coin flip Al West
Speaker 1: essentially a coin flip, you'd lean Houston because of the history.
Speaker 1: So then it would be which contender do I think
Speaker 1: could get tracked down. It would come down to the
Speaker 1: Twins or the Royals catching the guards, or would be
Speaker 1: the Braves or Mets catching the Phillies, you would lean
Speaker 1: with the gap involved there, you would lean that the
Speaker 1: Phillies would be tougher to track down after that. Al
Speaker 1: Central Twinkies kicking a gear. Dodgers are the Dodgers until
Speaker 1: they're not. And then the Brewers just because not only
Speaker 1: have the Brewers been great, but man, none of the
Speaker 1: NL Central teams I've given them all year. The Pirates
Speaker 1: said they were gonna add at the deadline, added I
Speaker 1: think everyone was hoping for a little more. The Cardinals
Speaker 1: they added Fetti. He got knocked around in his first start,
Speaker 1: minus forty two run differential, Cubs and Reds behind them,
Speaker 1: just nothing to believe in. So that was a weird ranking.
Speaker 1: I hope you liked it. That's baseball. Oh, I guess
Speaker 1: Olympics they were fun to watch. I hope you guys
Speaker 1: have been tuning in. Saturday was especially fun. One hundred
Speaker 1: meters men still, I mean I actually the most clarification
Speaker 1: I got on it at the end of the night
Speaker 1: because it looked if not a tie like how they
Speaker 1: decided it. Turns out it's your torso torso torso in
Speaker 1: Lyle's torso was ahead, so he got it by millimeters milliseconds. Literally,
Speaker 1: that was fun. There's a cool sat on that, like
Speaker 1: Americans have won it basically half the time. Nice sweet
Speaker 1: flex America. What else did we get? The shot put
Speaker 1: was fun? Had a big beefy American get that. The
Speaker 1: lady swimmers dominated four by one. Gymnastics always kind of weird.
Speaker 1: It's always crazy to me that different events are just
Speaker 1: going on at the same time, Like, is everyone just
Speaker 1: watching the same thing. I'm trying to think. Were there
Speaker 1: any oddball Olympic events that kind of took everyone's eyes?
Speaker 1: What have you been watching? I don't know. The beach
Speaker 1: volleyball under the Eiffel Tower was great. Got to watch
Speaker 1: some of that last night. Ping pong not really. When's
Speaker 1: the next USA men's basketball game?
Speaker 2: Hmm, I can find that.
Speaker 1: I need to watch that. I am excited going to
Speaker 1: Nashville this weekend UH annual fantasy football trip. Excited for that.
Speaker 1: Saturday is supposed to be the basketball championship game, so
Speaker 1: if the USA is there, it'd be a really fun
Speaker 1: sporting event to watch.
Speaker 2: Looks like they play Brazil in the quarterfinal tomorrow at.
Speaker 1: Three thirty in the afternoon.
Speaker 2: Look's like afternoon three thirty PM.
Speaker 1: That's huge.
Speaker 2: Hey, I'm gonna Beoclo on the team.
Speaker 1: What's that?
Speaker 3: Brun Oh opened up their roster and recognized one name
Speaker 3: Brasil who used to be from.
Speaker 1: There was Nene Hilario, Brazilian.
Speaker 2: I think I think was Brazil.
Speaker 1: They had another guy, I think there was a big
Speaker 1: man out of by U, Rafael Rojo Royo. I'm gonna
Speaker 1: be honest with you guys. For how much Olympics I watched,
Speaker 1: I thought I was gonna have more to say, I
Speaker 1: really don't. Anderson Leandro Barbosa. We had some teams. Thiago Splitter,
Speaker 1: that's right, Fab Mellow played for them. Rip oh, well, Gara. Sorry,
Speaker 1: I didn't have more in the Olympics. But enjoy it
Speaker 1: your own pleasure, whether that's in the afternoon, early morning,
Speaker 1: or recapping at night. Just don't open that Twitter. Hey.
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