WEBVTT - Tim Kurkjian Weighs In On EACH Team's Trade Deadline Moves! 0:00:06.120 --> 0:00:09.040 Welcome back to another edition of Is This a Great Game? 0:00:09.119 --> 0:00:11.959 Or one a little bit of a special edition because 0:00:12.320 --> 0:00:13.920 we're changing it up a bit this week. 0:00:14.000 --> 0:00:15.640 Dad. You're in Bristol, Connecticut. 0:00:16.000 --> 0:00:19.280 You are in between about seven different shows right now. 0:00:19.760 --> 0:00:21.040 You are on the set. 0:00:20.960 --> 0:00:23.599 Of Baseball Tonight that just finished, and then you're gonna 0:00:23.680 --> 0:00:26.160 run and do the Baseball Tonight podcast with Buster Only. 0:00:26.200 --> 0:00:26.920 You got Sports Center. 0:00:26.920 --> 0:00:28.560 You've got a million things going on, but thanks for 0:00:28.600 --> 0:00:30.720 taking some time for your son and our podcast. 0:00:31.600 --> 0:00:34.600 Right So, Jeff, it's gonna be a slightly different podcast 0:00:34.720 --> 0:00:37.600 today than any other ones we do. We're not gonna 0:00:37.600 --> 0:00:40.800 have three Cards in the Bathroom or the Wheel of 0:00:40.920 --> 0:00:46.080 Kirkchin because we had forty two trades in one day. 0:00:46.240 --> 0:00:49.640 So we're not breaking news on this show, but we 0:00:49.840 --> 0:00:54.040 have to at least explain what happened on a crazy 0:00:54.120 --> 0:00:57.000 Monday August I. It was out of control and it 0:00:57.120 --> 0:01:01.520 was absolutely breathtaking to trades. 0:01:01.600 --> 0:01:04.160 Dad, that is absolutely incredible. 0:01:04.319 --> 0:01:06.560 And I know you've been hard at work, and you're right, 0:01:06.600 --> 0:01:08.560 this is going to be a different show. The benefit 0:01:08.640 --> 0:01:10.720 of doing three shows a week is we change things 0:01:10.760 --> 0:01:12.600 up from time to time. We're not your hot take 0:01:12.640 --> 0:01:16.360 breaking news, but we are baseball podcasting, Dad, quickly tell. 0:01:16.200 --> 0:01:17.640 The people what I'm wearing on my head? Do you 0:01:17.720 --> 0:01:18.720 know what this means? 0:01:18.920 --> 0:01:21.520 A great game or one hat? I love it? Jeff 0:01:21.680 --> 0:01:25.720 and they or that, Oh is a baseball right exactly? 0:01:26.240 --> 0:01:27.440 Did his sister do that? 0:01:27.840 --> 0:01:28.040 Yeah? 0:01:28.120 --> 0:01:31.119 Yeah, this is a Kelly Kirchen special Dad, and wanted 0:01:31.160 --> 0:01:32.960 to see. I don't know members of the family who 0:01:33.000 --> 0:01:35.240 watch on YouTube. If you're not, I'll post a picture 0:01:35.240 --> 0:01:37.840 on our social media as well. Maybe thinking about selling 0:01:37.920 --> 0:01:40.800 these at our great event we have on August twenty 0:01:40.880 --> 0:01:45.480 second in Pottstown, Pennsylvania to benefit a dad with als 0:01:45.520 --> 0:01:49.040 so young Dad Michael Brown more details. 0:01:49.080 --> 0:01:50.400 I put it all on the description. 0:01:50.520 --> 0:01:52.160 Want to make sure we hit that every week so 0:01:52.200 --> 0:01:54.040 people know about this great event coming up on the 0:01:54.080 --> 0:01:58.840 twenty second. Because Dad, we're diving head first, trade deadline 0:01:58.960 --> 0:01:59.960 forty two trades. 0:02:00.400 --> 0:02:01.160 Hit me with it. 0:02:01.240 --> 0:02:04.800 I know where you gotta start, Scooble of course, right. 0:02:05.200 --> 0:02:07.160 Well, we're going to get to Schooble at the end 0:02:07.200 --> 0:02:10.359 because he got traded on Saturday, not on Monday. We're 0:02:10.400 --> 0:02:14.520 gonna start with hopefully something mildly music buster only. I 0:02:14.520 --> 0:02:17.680 did the show with him and Jeff Passen and Eduardo 0:02:17.680 --> 0:02:22.400 Perezent Kevin Cotter. We were on all day. But Buster 0:02:22.600 --> 0:02:27.080 got a text from a general manager and he thought 0:02:27.160 --> 0:02:33.960 Buster Olney was Buster posey, so he kind of got it. 0:02:32.880 --> 0:02:37.240 He kind of got a trade offer, said to the 0:02:37.280 --> 0:02:42.400 wrong Buster. Yes, soon after the text said sorry, send 0:02:42.400 --> 0:02:46.440 it to the wrong Buster. But this is what happens 0:02:46.480 --> 0:02:51.680 on trade deadline day. Anything is possible. And Jeff, So 0:02:51.760 --> 0:02:54.519 the takeaway from Monday for me was the Red Sox. 0:02:54.600 --> 0:02:57.680 As we know, Jeff, they were thirty two and forty six, 0:02:58.080 --> 0:03:01.960 hopelessly out of maybe the higher playoff raise, and then 0:03:02.000 --> 0:03:04.200 they went on to win twenty eight out of thirty 0:03:04.240 --> 0:03:07.880 three at this taping. So the Red Sox are going 0:03:07.960 --> 0:03:10.639 for it and I just love it now. They gave 0:03:10.760 --> 0:03:15.440 up an enormous amount, but they got Adlie Rutchman from 0:03:15.760 --> 0:03:19.560 the Orioles. Adlee Rutchman was the overall number one pick 0:03:19.720 --> 0:03:23.359 in twenty nineteen. It's made a couple of All Star teams, 0:03:23.400 --> 0:03:26.680 including the All Star Team this year. The Red Sox 0:03:26.880 --> 0:03:29.160 needed a hit her and they got a twenty eight 0:03:29.240 --> 0:03:32.560 year old switch hitter to be their primary catcher. Once 0:03:32.600 --> 0:03:35.480 of course he gets healthy. Keep in mind that the 0:03:35.520 --> 0:03:39.720 Red Sox have had four homers from their catchers all year, 0:03:40.040 --> 0:03:42.800 so not only do they add offense, they added it 0:03:42.840 --> 0:03:47.040 to a position that needed offense. And I thought it 0:03:47.080 --> 0:03:51.720 was an exceptionally aggressive move by the Red Sox, them saying, Hey, 0:03:52.120 --> 0:03:54.200 we gave up a lot to get this guy, but 0:03:54.360 --> 0:03:58.160 we're going for it. Fenway is alive right now, Jeff, 0:03:58.400 --> 0:04:01.160 and they are feeding that agreed. Yeah. 0:04:01.160 --> 0:04:03.680 I mean, it's been such an exciting time for Boston 0:04:03.720 --> 0:04:06.760 Red Sox fans this second half of the season, and 0:04:07.200 --> 0:04:09.800 of course with the streak heading in to the All 0:04:09.840 --> 0:04:12.440 Star Break has been just magical for Fenway Park. 0:04:12.520 --> 0:04:13.720 It's a live again. 0:04:13.840 --> 0:04:16.880 As you mentioned on Baseball Tonight earlier today, Dad, I 0:04:17.120 --> 0:04:19.560 just want to give a word out to our Orioles fans, 0:04:19.680 --> 0:04:23.479 including my dear friend Joey Feierstein. He sent a text 0:04:23.520 --> 0:04:27.520 message to our Ball is Life group text, which is 0:04:27.520 --> 0:04:30.880 our Fantasy football group, Dad, where he says, and this 0:04:30.960 --> 0:04:35.800 is to eleven other guys myself included. HEYJF longtime listener 0:04:36.080 --> 0:04:40.320 of the pod, first time caller. He's sending a message 0:04:40.400 --> 0:04:42.840 to the pod via our group. 0:04:42.560 --> 0:04:45.800 Text, and I mean he's bummed, you know. 0:04:45.880 --> 0:04:48.160 He's saying, a general manager who says, this is going 0:04:48.240 --> 0:04:49.480 to be the franchise player. 0:04:49.560 --> 0:04:54.039 The face of our team is no longer on the team. 0:04:54.520 --> 0:04:57.159 Dad, give us a little bit of thoughts when it 0:04:57.240 --> 0:05:00.200 comes to maybe players who are in fans we were 0:05:00.240 --> 0:05:01.120 on the other side of. 0:05:01.080 --> 0:05:02.800 The trade deadline, like Joey, who. 0:05:02.720 --> 0:05:07.560 Is devastated, might not even begin to serve how he's 0:05:07.600 --> 0:05:08.960 actually feeling right now. 0:05:09.000 --> 0:05:13.000 All right, I'm confused also, Jeff, Look, the Orioles have 0:05:13.120 --> 0:05:15.200 not had a good year, they haven't had a good 0:05:15.240 --> 0:05:18.000 two years, but they're still two and a half games 0:05:18.120 --> 0:05:20.640 at the day of the trade deadline out of a 0:05:20.680 --> 0:05:23.480 wild card spy. Granted they had three or four teams 0:05:23.480 --> 0:05:26.159 in front of them, but I'm not sure I understand this. 0:05:26.400 --> 0:05:31.159 I repeat, they got a ton in return for Adlie Rutchman, 0:05:31.279 --> 0:05:35.400 but they also traded Taylor Ward. They traded him to Seattle, 0:05:35.520 --> 0:05:38.960 so they got people back. But it's almost like they 0:05:39.000 --> 0:05:42.200 gave up on the Pennant race today, and that's a 0:05:42.320 --> 0:05:46.320 really hard thing for any fan to take. So that 0:05:46.400 --> 0:05:48.920 Red Sock Oriole trade threw me for a loop today 0:05:49.000 --> 0:05:52.240 and many others that it actually got worked out, and 0:05:52.560 --> 0:05:55.640 Red Sox fans for the most part, are very happy 0:05:56.000 --> 0:05:58.400 and oriole fans, for the most part, are not. 0:05:58.960 --> 0:06:01.599 Yeah, in debt, I think it always stings more whatever 0:06:01.800 --> 0:06:04.800 division we're talking about, when it goes to somebody in 0:06:04.839 --> 0:06:07.240 your division, right, it just stings. 0:06:06.880 --> 0:06:09.760 A little bit more. Even within the same league, it can. 0:06:09.680 --> 0:06:13.440 Hurt because of how tight all of these wildcard races are, 0:06:13.640 --> 0:06:16.640 especially in the American League, Like you're fighting against all 0:06:16.640 --> 0:06:19.719 the divisions. But when you trade within your division, oh drive, 0:06:19.760 --> 0:06:22.400 some people print, so we're thinking about you right now. 0:06:22.520 --> 0:06:26.719 That makes it even more difficult to deal with. But Jeff, 0:06:26.760 --> 0:06:30.200 we've been over this all year. The American League is 0:06:30.240 --> 0:06:33.600 a winnable league right now, and the Red Sox are 0:06:33.640 --> 0:06:36.320 saying we're not just going to make the playoffs. We're 0:06:36.320 --> 0:06:39.720 going to be dangerous in October with the moves that 0:06:39.760 --> 0:06:41.960 we made. So we'll see if they work out. No 0:06:42.040 --> 0:06:45.280 guarantees of anything, but I really like the aggressiveness today 0:06:45.400 --> 0:06:48.120 of the Red Sox and of the Cubs. The Cubs 0:06:48.200 --> 0:06:51.240 are one of those teams that has a chance at 0:06:51.320 --> 0:06:54.479 least to run down the Dodgers, who are not good 0:06:54.560 --> 0:06:56.960 but great right now. And we'll get to that later 0:06:57.040 --> 0:07:00.040 in the podcast, but the Cub's got Kevin Gossman and 0:07:00.080 --> 0:07:04.200 Clay Holmes in deals, and they were desperate for pitching. 0:07:04.600 --> 0:07:07.400 We know they can hit. They have two ten game 0:07:07.440 --> 0:07:10.240 winning streaks, and most important, Jeff, they are a really 0:07:10.320 --> 0:07:14.320 good defensive team, especially in the infield. And both Gosman 0:07:14.400 --> 0:07:17.600 and Clay Holmes put the ball in the grass. And 0:07:18.200 --> 0:07:20.440 that's all any pitcher wants to know is if I 0:07:20.520 --> 0:07:22.840 throw a ground ball, here are we going to catch it? 0:07:22.880 --> 0:07:26.480 Maybe turn two? So I really liked what the Cubs did, 0:07:26.880 --> 0:07:29.920 and I also really liked what the Rays did again 0:07:30.080 --> 0:07:32.840 also in the American League East, they got Freddie Peralta, 0:07:33.320 --> 0:07:36.320 who's change up just hasn't been very good this year 0:07:36.360 --> 0:07:39.680 compared to last year. But he's a veteran pitcher, he's 0:07:39.720 --> 0:07:43.440 an innings eater. They added him. They added Tyler Wells, 0:07:43.440 --> 0:07:46.640 a pitcher from the Orioles. And they got Liam Hicks 0:07:46.680 --> 0:07:50.960 who's had a really good year for the Marlins and 0:07:51.080 --> 0:07:54.600 he's going to be mostly their catcher this year. Their 0:07:54.680 --> 0:07:58.280 catchers have six homers all season, and now they add 0:07:58.560 --> 0:08:02.400 a really good hitter. What do you think about those teams? Jeff? 0:08:02.520 --> 0:08:03.640 Really being active? 0:08:04.160 --> 0:08:05.320 You know, it was really funny. 0:08:05.320 --> 0:08:09.560 Buster Only was on Baseball Tonight earlier and I saw him, 0:08:10.000 --> 0:08:14.040 you know, kind of really mess with the AL because 0:08:14.040 --> 0:08:16.600 we're so exhausted. When it comes to the American League, 0:08:16.760 --> 0:08:18.960 nobody is the clear winner. People say the rais is 0:08:18.960 --> 0:08:21.160 the best, are the best team in the American League. 0:08:21.360 --> 0:08:24.280 That's what Jeff Passen had, but you know he bumped 0:08:24.360 --> 0:08:26.240 up the Mariners all the way up to the front 0:08:26.280 --> 0:08:29.600 and the Guardians as well. I think the Rays, Dad, 0:08:29.800 --> 0:08:32.640 are just I don't even want to say flying under 0:08:32.640 --> 0:08:34.800 the radar. They're first in the AL East. That's not 0:08:34.960 --> 0:08:38.520 flying under the radar. But they're much better than anybody 0:08:38.600 --> 0:08:41.400 is giving them credit. And nothing against the Red Sox. 0:08:41.440 --> 0:08:44.680 They are by far the hottest team in baseball right now, 0:08:44.880 --> 0:08:48.240 but when you've done it already over one hundred plus. 0:08:48.000 --> 0:08:51.240 Games, that has to be spoken to, even in a 0:08:51.280 --> 0:08:54.640 soft AL East. In twenty twenty six, I think the 0:08:54.720 --> 0:08:57.760 Rays did everything they needed to do right. 0:08:57.800 --> 0:09:00.840 The Rays went into the Monday Drip trade deadline with 0:09:00.880 --> 0:09:03.040 the best team in the American League and they left 0:09:03.200 --> 0:09:05.800 even better with the moves that they made. 0:09:06.920 --> 0:09:11.679 Today's episode is sponsored by the ASPCA Pet Health Insurance program. Kratz. 0:09:11.720 --> 0:09:14.920 We love our pups, we do, and I can't put 0:09:14.960 --> 0:09:17.240 bella in a bubble. 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They kept the 0:10:30.040 --> 0:10:33.960 rest of that tremendous bullpen, and they added Robbie Ray 0:10:34.400 --> 0:10:37.520 and Casey Mice. So the Podreys, who won eight of 0:10:37.559 --> 0:10:41.520 their last nine heading into Monday, are back in the race, 0:10:41.679 --> 0:10:45.000 and they're they're looking at themselves and say, we're good 0:10:45.080 --> 0:10:47.520 enough to make a run with the Dodgers. Maybe not 0:10:47.640 --> 0:10:50.320 for the division title that's too late, but in the 0:10:50.360 --> 0:10:53.440 playoffs potentially. So I really like what they did, and 0:10:53.520 --> 0:10:56.120 I really like what the Guardians did too. The Guardians 0:10:56.160 --> 0:10:59.920 are trying to win a very competitive Al Central. They 0:11:00.120 --> 0:11:03.640 went out and got Foster Griffin from the Nationals, They 0:11:03.640 --> 0:11:06.480 went and got Nathaniel Lowe from the Reds, and they 0:11:06.480 --> 0:11:10.880 went and got Joe Adele from the Angels. Remember the 0:11:10.920 --> 0:11:14.320 ops of the left fielders for the Indian for the 0:11:14.360 --> 0:11:17.760 Guardians this year is six twenty six. That is the 0:11:17.800 --> 0:11:21.520 worst ops of all left fielders in Major League Baseball. 0:11:21.559 --> 0:11:25.640 They address that with at least another outfielder that can hit. 0:11:26.120 --> 0:11:28.920 Joe Adele. So I really like what they did. Really 0:11:28.960 --> 0:11:32.400 aggressive teams out there, and Jeff, I think it's important 0:11:32.440 --> 0:11:35.520 to recognize that since we don't know what's going to 0:11:35.640 --> 0:11:41.800 happen next year, with you know, an impending workstoppage, you 0:11:41.800 --> 0:11:43.920 don't even know what twenty twenty seven is going to 0:11:44.000 --> 0:11:46.520 look like. So it seemed to me a lot of 0:11:46.520 --> 0:11:49.080 teams said, well, if we don't know what twenty twenty 0:11:49.080 --> 0:11:50.959 seven is going to look like, we have to go 0:11:51.040 --> 0:11:54.120 for it this year. And a lot of teams did that. 0:11:54.600 --> 0:11:58.200 Yeah, and it's a lot easier Dad to you know, 0:11:58.280 --> 0:12:02.920 support the buyer instead of the sellers. Because everybody keeps 0:12:02.920 --> 0:12:05.520 bringing up twenty twenty seven, why not go out and 0:12:05.559 --> 0:12:08.000 get Schooble, Why not go out and get Mason Miller. 0:12:08.040 --> 0:12:10.600 Why not go out and just throw all. 0:12:10.440 --> 0:12:12.920 Of your dollars and cents in your prospects because next 0:12:12.960 --> 0:12:15.400 year could be I don't want to say it, but 0:12:15.480 --> 0:12:17.880 we could not have baseball at least for part of 0:12:17.880 --> 0:12:20.840 the season, and that's scary. But why not push all 0:12:20.920 --> 0:12:22.920 your chips in now? And so any team that went 0:12:22.960 --> 0:12:25.640 out and bought that, I love what the Guardians did. Again, 0:12:25.679 --> 0:12:28.400 the al central to me is just this toss up 0:12:28.520 --> 0:12:32.120 kind of nutso place to be and I love seeing 0:12:32.160 --> 0:12:33.640 the Guardians be aggressive. 0:12:33.760 --> 0:12:35.040 I'm a little bit biased. 0:12:35.360 --> 0:12:37.480 My time spent in Cleveland made me fall in love 0:12:37.480 --> 0:12:40.720 with that organization. I am a bleeding heart baseball fan, 0:12:40.760 --> 0:12:43.960 and I feel for any group of fans like Cleveland 0:12:43.960 --> 0:12:46.040 fans who haven't had a championship. 0:12:45.440 --> 0:12:48.319 And way way, way too long, So it's easy. 0:12:48.040 --> 0:12:50.480 To root for fans like that and for good teams 0:12:50.520 --> 0:12:51.480 like the Guardians. 0:12:51.960 --> 0:12:55.400 Totally agree, job completely. Now let's get finally when we 0:12:55.440 --> 0:12:58.520 have two to go. Your hometown team, the Phillies, your 0:12:58.600 --> 0:13:03.760 adopted team went and Luis a rise to play second base, 0:13:03.800 --> 0:13:07.040 and he's gonna win another batting title this year. It's 0:13:07.080 --> 0:13:09.880 going to be his fourth with four different teams. He 0:13:10.000 --> 0:13:13.040 and Dan Brothers are the only two ever to do 0:13:13.120 --> 0:13:17.040 that if he of course does it. But Jeff, it's 0:13:17.080 --> 0:13:22.720 going to require it's possible. It's going to require Bryson 0:13:22.760 --> 0:13:27.000 Stott moving from second base to third base, Alec bow 0:13:27.200 --> 0:13:30.720 moving from third base to first base, and Bryce Harper 0:13:30.760 --> 0:13:33.960 moving from first base to right field. Now, Jeff, I'm 0:13:34.000 --> 0:13:37.559 all for getting another bat in the lineup, because you know, 0:13:37.640 --> 0:13:41.240 the Phillies had to get another hitter. Preferably it would 0:13:41.280 --> 0:13:44.240 have been a right handed hitting outfielder. Instead they got 0:13:44.280 --> 0:13:48.720 a left handed hitting infielder. But and Harper returning to 0:13:48.760 --> 0:13:52.000 the outfield, I'm not positive about that. But also keep 0:13:52.040 --> 0:13:55.680 in mind, Jeff, the ops of the right fielders for 0:13:55.760 --> 0:13:59.480 the Phillies this year has been six thirty two with 0:13:59.600 --> 0:14:03.240 twenty nine walks at one hundred and forty two strikeouts. 0:14:03.400 --> 0:14:07.360 It's just been unacceptable. Bryce Harper will change that. But Jeff, 0:14:07.559 --> 0:14:11.480 my question for you, the Phillies fan, is they're changing 0:14:11.640 --> 0:14:17.040 like four positions on potentially on August to fourth. A 0:14:17.120 --> 0:14:19.920 lot of moving parts, a lot of adjustments have to 0:14:19.960 --> 0:14:22.360 be made during a season. You're okay with that? 0:14:22.720 --> 0:14:24.400 I don't know if you're okay with that. You're the 0:14:24.520 --> 0:14:25.480 least flexible man. 0:14:25.560 --> 0:14:29.280 I know if plans change in a moment's notice, you're upset. 0:14:29.560 --> 0:14:32.320 But Dad, I saw those defensive plans. I've always been 0:14:32.320 --> 0:14:33.360 a Luisa Rise fan. 0:14:33.440 --> 0:14:33.840 You know that. 0:14:33.880 --> 0:14:35.840 I've said it on the podcast a number of times. 0:14:36.120 --> 0:14:39.000 Reminds me of the Tony Gwynn era, right like get 0:14:39.040 --> 0:14:43.160 on base, limited amounts of strikeouts. I love a high 0:14:43.160 --> 0:14:47.240 batting average. Who doesn't, But the moves, Dad, are substantiated. 0:14:47.760 --> 0:14:52.760 Bryce Harper brought his outfielders glove to an away series 0:14:52.880 --> 0:14:54.840 because he needed to start taking reps, and he even 0:14:54.880 --> 0:14:56.720 went on the record saying I would do anything for 0:14:56.800 --> 0:14:57.600 this organization. 0:14:58.080 --> 0:14:58.560 Just today. 0:14:58.600 --> 0:14:59.200 He said that. 0:14:59.360 --> 0:15:02.360 So, I mean, listen, that's what you need to do 0:15:02.440 --> 0:15:05.280 to win. Everyone is saying in the clubhouse and everyone's 0:15:05.280 --> 0:15:08.280 saying on the internet. The Phillies need to fill their 0:15:08.360 --> 0:15:10.880 right feel. Their position is the leader of the team. 0:15:10.920 --> 0:15:13.480 Bryce Harper not thinking to him yourself, well, I could 0:15:13.480 --> 0:15:15.240 be the best hitter on this team and I could 0:15:15.240 --> 0:15:17.600 fill that position today and they could go get somebody else. 0:15:18.080 --> 0:15:19.080 It makes it. 0:15:19.080 --> 0:15:22.800 It gives me NBA vibes, does it not, dad like 0:15:23.520 --> 0:15:27.600 adjusting your role on a team if you're the superstar knowing, Okay, 0:15:27.800 --> 0:15:29.680 I'm not taking the ball up in the court anymore 0:15:29.680 --> 0:15:32.720 because we're getting Russell Westbrook six years ago. I need 0:15:32.760 --> 0:15:34.120 to let him take it up and I need to 0:15:34.120 --> 0:15:35.320 play the traditional three. 0:15:35.320 --> 0:15:36.040 Whatever it is. 0:15:36.480 --> 0:15:39.640 What I'm saying is it sounds a little untraditional in baseball, 0:15:39.720 --> 0:15:42.960 but everybody's willing to move on that Phillies team because 0:15:43.080 --> 0:15:46.920 the reality is anybody who knows really since twenty twenty two, 0:15:47.000 --> 0:15:50.160 the team has stayed relatively the same, and they're at 0:15:50.200 --> 0:15:53.760 the point where if they don't win, it's a fire sale. 0:15:54.160 --> 0:15:56.480 They're getting older, this is the time. 0:15:56.560 --> 0:15:59.400 So if it means Bryce and Stott mixing it up, 0:15:59.440 --> 0:16:02.960 Alec bow same thing, then that's what has to be done. 0:16:03.080 --> 0:16:04.920 And I think it will be done, and will it 0:16:05.000 --> 0:16:07.520 pay off, We'll see, But I love Luisa Ryes. I 0:16:07.600 --> 0:16:09.960 hope he leads off for the Phillies. They could use 0:16:09.960 --> 0:16:11.880 that high batting average in the top spot of the 0:16:11.920 --> 0:16:13.320 lineup right right. 0:16:13.480 --> 0:16:16.440 Fascinating day for the Phillies. All Right, we'll finish Jeff 0:16:16.560 --> 0:16:20.880 with the Dodgers, since their big deal came on Saturday night, Jeff, 0:16:20.920 --> 0:16:24.760 and again, the rich obviously get richer here. They got 0:16:25.160 --> 0:16:29.960 Trek scouble for three young players and they still didn't 0:16:30.000 --> 0:16:33.840 give up like the absolute charms of their farm system. 0:16:33.880 --> 0:16:36.720 So I thought this was a great trade for the Dodgers. 0:16:37.040 --> 0:16:39.840 But this is how the Dodgers operate, Jeff. Whenever they 0:16:39.880 --> 0:16:43.960 have any sort of roster issue, they just are in 0:16:44.040 --> 0:16:48.000 a position to go corrected immediately, and that's what they 0:16:48.040 --> 0:16:51.760 did here. And just as important, they kept Trek Scooble 0:16:51.800 --> 0:16:55.200 away from any of their contenders. I mean, imagine if 0:16:55.280 --> 0:16:58.480 Terek Scubel and ended up with the Cubs. What if 0:16:58.480 --> 0:17:01.760 he had ended up with the Brewers and gone next 0:17:01.800 --> 0:17:06.960 to Jacob Mizerowski and Trek Scugle won two going up 0:17:07.000 --> 0:17:09.560 against the Dodgers. The Dodgers wanted no part of that. 0:17:09.680 --> 0:17:13.520 So now the Dodgers have, Jeff I count seven, if 0:17:13.560 --> 0:17:19.000 not more, way above average major league starting pitchers, led 0:17:19.040 --> 0:17:24.359 by Scooble and Blake Snell and Yamamoto. And we haven't 0:17:24.400 --> 0:17:30.200 even gotten to Otani or Robleski or Tyler Glass now 0:17:30.440 --> 0:17:34.600 or Roki Sazaki. I mean, their rotation is ridiculously deep, 0:17:34.960 --> 0:17:39.280 of course, when everybody is healthy. So on Baseball tonight. 0:17:39.320 --> 0:17:42.359 The other day we had a little chart up on 0:17:42.440 --> 0:17:47.480 the air and it had the five best eras by 0:17:47.600 --> 0:17:52.600 pitchers since the twenty twenty three season, so the last 0:17:52.640 --> 0:17:57.600 three years, and four of the five were Dodgers. Four 0:17:57.720 --> 0:18:01.120 of the five best eras in the last three years 0:18:01.280 --> 0:18:04.520 are on the Dodgers right now. That's how good they are. 0:18:04.760 --> 0:18:07.320 So Jeff, I'm going to ask you good for baseball, 0:18:07.480 --> 0:18:11.440 bad for baseball? Any thoughts on what the Dodgers did 0:18:11.600 --> 0:18:12.520 and what it means. 0:18:15.000 --> 0:18:18.359 Dad, We're not We're not that show. But I just 0:18:18.440 --> 0:18:21.639 have to say, I don't think it's good for the game. 0:18:22.119 --> 0:18:24.280 I don't think it's good for the game when the 0:18:24.320 --> 0:18:27.920 best team, clearly or at least the best roster, let's 0:18:27.920 --> 0:18:30.840 put it that way, is able to just go get 0:18:30.960 --> 0:18:34.640 the best player out there, right. And I don't want 0:18:34.640 --> 0:18:38.119 to say Trek Scoble's ring chasing or whatever, because you 0:18:38.160 --> 0:18:41.320 know those decisions are made at the general manager level. 0:18:41.600 --> 0:18:42.160 But at some. 0:18:42.320 --> 0:18:46.640 Point these teams need to look at themselves and say, 0:18:46.760 --> 0:18:48.520 do we want that team to. 0:18:48.640 --> 0:18:49.520 Be that good? 0:18:49.920 --> 0:18:53.240 Because obviously the Tigers are saying we're out, we're done, 0:18:53.240 --> 0:18:56.400 and we don't care what happens in October, But they 0:18:56.440 --> 0:18:58.920 need to ask themselves, Okay. 0:18:59.000 --> 0:19:00.960 Who do we want to win it all? 0:19:01.359 --> 0:19:06.600 Because clearly, clearly this is going to shift pitching wins 0:19:06.720 --> 0:19:07.360 in October. 0:19:07.440 --> 0:19:10.199 Dad, Do I think this is good for baseball? No? 0:19:10.960 --> 0:19:14.000 Do I think that this will change what twenty twenty 0:19:14.000 --> 0:19:14.800 seven looks like. 0:19:15.000 --> 0:19:17.440 Yes, from a labor negotiation. 0:19:17.080 --> 0:19:21.639 Standpoint, because the rich get richer, Dad, it does worry me. 0:19:21.760 --> 0:19:24.920 I'm not a hot, taky guy, but I was unhappy 0:19:24.960 --> 0:19:29.280 and put my Phillies fandom aside. Okay, I'm completely objective 0:19:29.320 --> 0:19:32.760 in this matter. I think there are twenty nine fan 0:19:32.800 --> 0:19:35.439 bases who are really upset versus if he went to 0:19:36.080 --> 0:19:37.840 the Brewers or the Cubs per se. 0:19:38.160 --> 0:19:42.680 I think there's like fifteen that are really upset. 0:19:42.840 --> 0:19:45.239 So I'm not saying everybody's happy when he goes if 0:19:45.240 --> 0:19:47.560 he goes to the Brewers, but I am saying at 0:19:47.560 --> 0:19:50.080 one point we have to ask, okay, this is is 0:19:50.119 --> 0:19:51.119 this good for baseball or not? 0:19:51.160 --> 0:19:56.200 And I say no, it's the summertime, aj and this 0:19:56.240 --> 0:19:59.560 is a time to feel free, wild make some phone 0:19:59.560 --> 0:20:04.440 calls that you're overdue for, and also get some deals 0:20:04.680 --> 0:20:06.760 that you should be getting that you deserve. 0:20:06.960 --> 0:20:09.000 Yeah, it couldn't be any easier though. It's just one 0:20:09.080 --> 0:20:13.280 price for unlimited talk, text and data. 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