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Next on that sie Fu mic on the microphone. 0:00:38.159 --> 0:00:40.960 You know that I'm one of the best yet Martinez, 0:00:54.200 --> 0:00:56.200 you know what it is. It's boy, Dame Martinez a 0:00:56.320 --> 0:00:58.960 k A. Speeds a k A to Spitting Statistician a 0:00:59.200 --> 0:01:02.600 k A. This stable genius and vocal minority. And welcome 0:01:02.800 --> 0:01:05.600 to another edition of the Fantasy Freestyle right here on 0:01:05.640 --> 0:01:09.919 the Sports Grid Network, episode number four hundred and thirties six, 0:01:10.240 --> 0:01:13.720 the four hundred and thirty six convening of the Stats 0:01:13.760 --> 0:01:16.360 over Beat Cipher. When we help you win your leagues 0:01:16.400 --> 0:01:19.199 and win that cash, and we do it all while 0:01:19.240 --> 0:01:22.280 putting the fun and functional sports content. The Status over 0:01:22.360 --> 0:01:25.240 Beat Cipher Ready to rock. My boys down in the 0:01:25.280 --> 0:01:28.039 pit of misery ready to rock. We got Fasano, we 0:01:28.080 --> 0:01:30.360 got Venmo Brian. Big shout out to my man dany 0:01:30.400 --> 0:01:33.000 Otto out there in the meadowlands as well, if he 0:01:33.080 --> 0:01:36.400 can hear me. Big time week. Okay, you may think 0:01:36.400 --> 0:01:38.959 it's a down part of the sports calendar, but here 0:01:38.959 --> 0:01:41.800 we focus on football. We are going to continue the 0:01:41.800 --> 0:01:45.800 conversation I had with Alex last week about free agency, 0:01:46.080 --> 0:01:48.640 the merry go round. Where might some of these key 0:01:48.680 --> 0:01:51.680 free agents go at other positions. We talked about running 0:01:51.720 --> 0:01:55.040 backs and wide receivers. We thought a little bit about 0:01:55.040 --> 0:01:58.560 the quarterback position. There have been some updates since we 0:01:58.640 --> 0:02:02.400 last talk. We'll get into that quarterback market later on 0:02:02.720 --> 0:02:09.119 in this show. XFL also popping off. Okay, we'll talk 0:02:09.160 --> 0:02:12.919 about the XFL takeaways. What was good, what was less good. 0:02:13.160 --> 0:02:16.640 Everyone is pretty much coming up roses for the XFL. 0:02:16.880 --> 0:02:20.760 We'll talk about my biggest takeaways with Alex Fasano as well. 0:02:20.880 --> 0:02:22.600 And I don't know if you've heard about this guy's 0:02:22.800 --> 0:02:26.560 but Major League Baseball they're tinkering a little bit. Okay, 0:02:26.760 --> 0:02:29.880 They've announced some rules that are going to go effect 0:02:29.880 --> 0:02:33.280 into effect this season. We'll talk about it down there 0:02:33.280 --> 0:02:34.640 with the guys in the Pit of Misery. We'll talk 0:02:34.639 --> 0:02:36.920 about it with the Status over Beat Cipher And there 0:02:37.040 --> 0:02:39.840 is a pole question up as usual hit me up 0:02:39.880 --> 0:02:42.480 at spitting speeds. I want to know which is the 0:02:42.480 --> 0:02:47.360 biggest name quarterback that will change addresses in this offseason? 0:02:47.400 --> 0:02:49.519 Do you believe it might be Tom Brady? Is it 0:02:49.600 --> 0:02:52.679 Philip Rivers? Who? I guess they're parting ways? What is it, 0:02:52.800 --> 0:02:55.880 guy like Cam Newton? Someone else? Let me know. We 0:02:55.960 --> 0:02:58.079 will get into all of that and more with the 0:02:58.160 --> 0:03:01.200 Status over Beats Cipher. Episode up A four hundred and 0:03:01.280 --> 0:03:03.920 thirty six well, by the way, a critically acclaimed show. 0:03:04.200 --> 0:03:06.040 Right now we get the latest news from a man 0:03:06.040 --> 0:03:16.320 faz in the Pitch Sports Grade News Update. I am 0:03:16.440 --> 0:03:20.160 Alex Fasano with your sports Gride news update here on 0:03:20.200 --> 0:03:23.880 the fantasy Freestyle in the NBA. For his team to 0:03:24.000 --> 0:03:27.639 beat the Toronto Raptors. Nets coach Kenny Atkinson said that 0:03:27.680 --> 0:03:30.840 Brooklyn's effort and complete level has got to be two 0:03:30.919 --> 0:03:33.600 levels higher than normal. We have to pitch close to 0:03:33.600 --> 0:03:36.200 a perfect game and beat this team. Well, the Nets 0:03:36.200 --> 0:03:39.880 fulfilled that nearly perfect metaphoric pitch, defeating the Raptors one 0:03:39.880 --> 0:03:43.760 on one to snapping Toronto's fifteen game win streak. Brooklyn's 0:03:43.760 --> 0:03:45.920 win came only four nights after the Nets lost by 0:03:45.960 --> 0:03:49.600 one point to the Raptors in Scotia Bank Arena. Kyle Lowry, 0:03:49.640 --> 0:03:52.720 the Raptors guard, said afterward, we were like walking zombies. 0:03:52.840 --> 0:03:55.160 We didn't play well tonight, simple as that we missed shots, 0:03:55.200 --> 0:03:58.800 We weren't aggressive. With Toronto streak ending a fifteen Milwaukee 0:03:58.880 --> 0:04:01.320 Bucks hold the law win streak of this season at 0:04:01.360 --> 0:04:05.400 eighteen games. Sticking with the NBA Phoenix Suns, Vivin Booker 0:04:05.400 --> 0:04:08.320 will replace the injured Damian Lillard in the All Star 0:04:08.400 --> 0:04:12.680 Games three point contest. NBA named Booker as Lillard's replacement Thursday, 0:04:12.880 --> 0:04:15.960 one day after the Trailblazers star suffered a right groin 0:04:16.160 --> 0:04:19.200 injury right groin strain to be more specific. Booker will 0:04:19.200 --> 0:04:22.160 make his first career All Star appearance in his fifth season. 0:04:22.480 --> 0:04:25.520 The former Kentucky star is the NBA's tenth leading scorer 0:04:25.560 --> 0:04:29.159 averaging twenty six point four points per game and in 0:04:29.200 --> 0:04:31.240 the NFL will His status with the type of a 0:04:31.320 --> 0:04:34.000 Bucks going into next season remains up in the air. 0:04:34.200 --> 0:04:36.599 Quarterback Jamis Winston has taken steps to correct his knee 0:04:36.640 --> 0:04:40.839 hear sidedness. His representative, Denise White, said he had LASIK 0:04:41.040 --> 0:04:42.960 and he didn't want to count out any options that 0:04:43.000 --> 0:04:45.320 he had that could possibly help him win the game 0:04:45.480 --> 0:04:48.960 he loves so much. Winston has struggled with near sightedness 0:04:49.000 --> 0:04:51.240 throughout his career. When he was at Florida State, television 0:04:51.240 --> 0:04:55.560 cameras frequently panned to a squinting Winston. You got NBA, NHL, 0:04:55.640 --> 0:04:57.960 and college hoops. Tonight. In the NBA two games before 0:04:57.960 --> 0:05:00.440 the All Star Break, the l A Clipper is visiting 0:05:00.440 --> 0:05:02.800 the Boston Celtic. Celtics are your two point favorites. The 0:05:02.920 --> 0:05:06.360 total is two and a half. And the Oklahoma City 0:05:06.360 --> 0:05:08.920 Thunder visit the New Orleans Pelicans. This line is moving 0:05:08.960 --> 0:05:11.640 a little bit. It's now three point favorites for the Pelicans. 0:05:11.760 --> 0:05:14.600 The total is two thirty three and a half. I'm 0:05:14.640 --> 0:05:17.240 Alex Possano for your Sports Created News update. Gonna sit 0:05:17.400 --> 0:05:21.640 back to the spitting statistician, Dame Martinez on the Fantasy Freestyle. 0:05:23.839 --> 0:05:25.960 Thanks a lot, Alex. Back down there in the pit, 0:05:26.000 --> 0:05:28.200 shout out to the pit, Dilley, Dilley, to all the 0:05:28.200 --> 0:05:30.839 guys down there. They're doing Yeoman's work, making us look good, 0:05:30.880 --> 0:05:33.760 making us sound good. You know, I gotta ask you, though, 0:05:33.800 --> 0:05:39.039 Alex Jamis Winston getting lace six is hysterical to me. 0:05:39.560 --> 0:05:41.760 Isn't it like the idea that the man is gonna 0:05:41.800 --> 0:05:45.360 throw for thirty picks? Oh yeah, he did an eye surgery. 0:05:45.560 --> 0:05:49.440 Oh he can't see a word like this is hysterical 0:05:49.520 --> 0:05:53.040 to me, that the guy coming off his thirty interception season. 0:05:53.080 --> 0:05:56.240 It's like, yeah, we need to fix his eyesight. Yeah exactly. 0:05:56.240 --> 0:05:58.760 And plus you it's true though, like cameras did used 0:05:58.800 --> 0:06:01.279 to panda all the time and it was squint ng 0:06:01.360 --> 0:06:03.479 and can you even see? And and coach arians said 0:06:03.480 --> 0:06:05.360 after the season this year he was like, yeah, well 0:06:05.400 --> 0:06:07.400 he can see the players in front of him, but 0:06:07.400 --> 0:06:10.039 not the scoreboard. So we're finally yeah. Well, Also, what 0:06:10.160 --> 0:06:11.720 b A Is saying is that you know they can 0:06:11.720 --> 0:06:15.160 win with Jamis, they can win with anybody else as well. 0:06:15.440 --> 0:06:17.680 Remember Alex, we're gonna talk about the quarterback Merry Go 0:06:17.800 --> 0:06:20.360 Round a little bit later on in the show. Jamis's name, 0:06:20.440 --> 0:06:23.480 Philip Rivers his name, These are names that will be 0:06:23.600 --> 0:06:25.279 on it. I also want to listen in the in 0:06:25.279 --> 0:06:29.920 the gambling world, right, the NFL made an interesting higher. Um, 0:06:29.960 --> 0:06:32.120 I think it was last week they are hiring their 0:06:32.160 --> 0:06:35.920 first ever VP of sports wagering, Okay, And I think 0:06:35.960 --> 0:06:38.400 this is interesting. I think this is a signal that 0:06:38.440 --> 0:06:42.120 we're even fully embracing it a little bit more. And honestly, 0:06:42.200 --> 0:06:44.400 I think this has a in response to the XFL. 0:06:44.680 --> 0:06:49.080 The XFL is unabashedly talking about lines, talking about totals 0:06:49.120 --> 0:06:54.200 on the broadcast, posting it in graphics, and everyone's still okay. 0:06:54.360 --> 0:06:56.640 You know, it's not all of a sudden becoming some 0:06:56.760 --> 0:07:00.320 crazy degenerate like black hole, right, And so I think 0:07:00.320 --> 0:07:02.800 the NFL has to respond. They're seeing more and more 0:07:02.960 --> 0:07:07.440 states legalized sports investing, They're seeing the XFL be explicit 0:07:07.480 --> 0:07:10.720 out there with it. So that cross also another higher 0:07:10.760 --> 0:07:14.600 in the NFL that I want to mention. Jennifer King. Okay, 0:07:14.640 --> 0:07:18.040 she was the Carolina Panthers intern during the two thousand 0:07:18.160 --> 0:07:22.840 seventeen season. She will join the Washington football team as 0:07:22.880 --> 0:07:26.000 a full time assistant coach. This marks the first hire 0:07:26.280 --> 0:07:31.160 of an African American woman on an NFL staff as 0:07:31.200 --> 0:07:34.600 a full time coach. She joins Tampa Bay who as 0:07:34.640 --> 0:07:37.480 a D line coach Laurie Locus and the San Francisco 0:07:37.520 --> 0:07:41.600 forty Niners, who has a offensive assistant, Katie Sowers. You 0:07:41.640 --> 0:07:46.000 saw her in uh commercials throughout the Super Bowl. Uh so. 0:07:46.280 --> 0:07:49.000 Uh you know, kudos, I guess to the Washington football 0:07:49.000 --> 0:07:52.280 team first ever African American female. Uh so, those are 0:07:52.320 --> 0:07:54.720 some key hires. Let's talk a little bit about Alex's 0:07:54.720 --> 0:07:57.080 baseball stuff. You know we had in the update you 0:07:57.120 --> 0:08:01.000 were talking about n B A NHL, UH. MLB was 0:08:01.080 --> 0:08:04.520 interestingly absent, and the Astros, you know, pitches and catches 0:08:04.520 --> 0:08:07.360 are reporting this week. The Astros came out, they ran 0:08:07.400 --> 0:08:10.240 out Bregmant, they ran out al To to talk for 0:08:10.360 --> 0:08:14.000 combined ninety seconds when they were like, yeah, we apologize, 0:08:14.560 --> 0:08:17.000 We're really sorry. And then they were pressed a little 0:08:17.040 --> 0:08:21.320 bit in locker rooms and someone asked out to um, 0:08:21.920 --> 0:08:25.280 were you wearing anything in two thousand nineteen, in two 0:08:25.320 --> 0:08:27.800 thousand seventeen, in two thousand eighteen, did you have wearables on? 0:08:28.200 --> 0:08:30.360 Why the hell didn't you want these guys to rip 0:08:30.400 --> 0:08:32.600 off your shirt when you hit that home run? By 0:08:32.600 --> 0:08:35.080 the way, Gary Sanchez has already said, if I hit 0:08:35.120 --> 0:08:37.120 a walk off in the ALCS, you can rip my 0:08:37.200 --> 0:08:40.560 damn pants off for all I care. And now Tuve's 0:08:40.600 --> 0:08:43.320 response was really interesting, and I gotta tell you something. 0:08:43.720 --> 0:08:47.360 It's what guilty people do. They asked ol TV, did 0:08:47.360 --> 0:08:50.160 you have any wearables? You know what the right answer 0:08:50.200 --> 0:08:54.760 is there, No, absolutely not. That's not what A said. 0:08:54.880 --> 0:08:58.440 What Al said is major League Baseball investigated and they 0:08:58.440 --> 0:09:01.640 didn't find anything. Are you kidding me? That's like in 0:09:01.679 --> 0:09:03.800 the steroids, being like my name was never on a 0:09:03.800 --> 0:09:07.280 Mitchell report. You know, I think they're being a little 0:09:07.280 --> 0:09:10.880 bit cute with it as well. You hear Verlander Korea, 0:09:11.040 --> 0:09:14.120 you hear Springer out there talking, and then also you 0:09:14.200 --> 0:09:18.040 heard Jim Crane, and I thought it was ridiculous. He 0:09:18.160 --> 0:09:22.120 literally said he won't use the word cheating. He says 0:09:22.240 --> 0:09:29.000 we broke the rules, and then he had the audacity 0:09:29.160 --> 0:09:31.559 to say that he doesn't think in effect it affected 0:09:31.600 --> 0:09:35.640 any competitive balance or any outcomes. I'm gonna tell you 0:09:35.720 --> 0:09:39.720 something in Fantasy baseball coming up, I ain't drafting Bregman 0:09:40.200 --> 0:09:42.520 in the in the in the first round. I ain't 0:09:42.600 --> 0:09:45.720 drafted Al Twove as my as the top second basement 0:09:45.840 --> 0:09:47.960 on the board. I'm gonna take a weight and see 0:09:48.000 --> 0:09:50.320 attitude on this. It's the same way as like someone 0:09:50.440 --> 0:09:52.960 used to play in Colorado and Course Field for years 0:09:53.000 --> 0:09:55.720 and then they moved there, Like, are his numbers still real? 0:09:56.320 --> 0:09:58.760 Is it okay? Y'all didn't think dj le Mayhew was 0:09:58.760 --> 0:10:00.439 gonna do what he did last year for the Yankees. 0:10:00.640 --> 0:10:04.280 Why because it's numbers were from coors Field. Larry Walker 0:10:04.400 --> 0:10:08.920 wasn't a Hall of Famer for years? What do we 0:10:08.960 --> 0:10:11.160 know about all twas numbers? What do we know about Bregman? 0:10:11.360 --> 0:10:14.679 Here's what I mean to take it to the gambling world. Right, 0:10:15.520 --> 0:10:18.439 I look, guys at the A L West numbers right 0:10:18.440 --> 0:10:23.640 now where the Houston Astros are still minus two eighty favorites. 0:10:24.280 --> 0:10:26.760 You got the Oakland A's at plus three forty, and 0:10:26.840 --> 0:10:29.760 you have the l A Angels at eight to one. 0:10:30.280 --> 0:10:33.720 I'm telling you if you believe that this is going 0:10:33.760 --> 0:10:36.840 to be a big deal that the Astros offense will 0:10:36.960 --> 0:10:40.040 be impacted this year because you know they don't know 0:10:40.120 --> 0:10:43.720 the signs, and take a gang throughout the Oakland A's 0:10:43.720 --> 0:10:46.120 at plus three forty. Take a gander at the Los 0:10:46.200 --> 0:10:49.400 Angeles Angels who got Rendon? Who signed other kind of 0:10:49.400 --> 0:10:52.760 guys like Julio Tehran, Dylan Bundy. Right, you got Otani 0:10:52.880 --> 0:10:54.800 coming back. You still have the best player in the 0:10:54.800 --> 0:10:57.319 game and Mike Drought there if you want to fade 0:10:57.320 --> 0:11:00.959 the Astros because this stain this cloud. I encourage you 0:11:01.000 --> 0:11:02.760 to look at the a L West when the A's 0:11:02.920 --> 0:11:06.559 and the Angels are at big time numbers. But that's 0:11:06.600 --> 0:11:08.840 not the only thing that happened in Major League Baseball. 0:11:08.840 --> 0:11:10.200 We're gonna talk about it a little bit more on 0:11:10.200 --> 0:11:12.280 the other side of the break, Alex, I want to 0:11:12.320 --> 0:11:15.839 know how do you feel about some of these rules 0:11:16.000 --> 0:11:19.400 changes that are happening. The playoff format may be different, 0:11:20.000 --> 0:11:23.120 the idea of the lefty specialist that's going away, and 0:11:23.280 --> 0:11:26.559 rosters are expanding. We're gonna talk about those three things. 0:11:26.720 --> 0:11:28.600 I want to get Alex's take on them as well, 0:11:29.000 --> 0:11:31.600 and then we will turn our attention to the XFL 0:11:31.679 --> 0:11:35.920 takeaways of Week one and NFL offseason and free agency. 0:11:35.960 --> 0:11:41.000 All that and more Fantasy Freestyle. Come on back. Are 0:11:41.040 --> 0:11:43.760 you ready for the nation's first and only, free, twenty 0:11:43.760 --> 0:11:46.880 four hour network dedicated to you the betting and fantasy 0:11:46.880 --> 0:11:49.800 sports enthusiast. Sports Crede will provide you with a real 0:11:49.800 --> 0:11:54.520 time content, statistics and gaining intelligence unlike anything you've ever 0:11:54.559 --> 0:11:57.440 seen before. Located both in the heart of New York 0:11:57.440 --> 0:12:00.079 City and inside the Fandel Sports Book at them the 0:12:00.200 --> 0:12:03.440 Lens Sports Create. He's live eighteen hours a day here 0:12:03.440 --> 0:12:08.000 to serve you the fanatic. This is sports crade. Get 0:12:08.000 --> 0:12:22.480 on the grid, welcome back. You know what it is, 0:12:22.480 --> 0:12:25.880 Fantasy Freestyle here episode four thirties six. We're making it 0:12:25.960 --> 0:12:29.440 happen here critically acclaimed three time nominee for the Best 0:12:29.520 --> 0:12:32.600 radio show in the Industry. I'm spending statistician holding it down. 0:12:32.640 --> 0:12:35.680 I got my man, Alex Passano in the pit of misery. 0:12:36.080 --> 0:12:38.520 It's like real love your little Mary J. Blige. As 0:12:38.559 --> 0:12:42.640 we cruise into Valentine's Day. You got a real love, Alex. Oh, 0:12:42.679 --> 0:12:48.800 girls have cooties. Okay, I see this is millennial over here. Okay, fine, fine, 0:12:49.040 --> 0:12:50.880 uh you know I got some Valentine's Day stuff going 0:12:50.920 --> 0:12:53.240 on tomorrow. Good for you. I'm making happy. Please please 0:12:53.240 --> 0:12:55.440 celebrate for both of us. You know. It's interesting though, 0:12:55.480 --> 0:12:56.800 I think, as you know, I'm getting married at the 0:12:56.880 --> 0:12:59.320 end of the month, right, so we're trying to necessarily 0:12:59.360 --> 0:13:02.520 we're trying to do home play the Valentine's Day because 0:13:02.559 --> 0:13:04.199 you know, in about two or three weeks there will 0:13:04.240 --> 0:13:07.680 be more than enough celebration going on and you know, 0:13:07.760 --> 0:13:10.360 and it will cost a pretty penny, so we're keeping 0:13:10.400 --> 0:13:12.480 it tight right now. But in any event, you know, Alex, 0:13:12.520 --> 0:13:14.480 we talked about this. I mentioned kind of the Astros 0:13:14.480 --> 0:13:16.400 trying to get up in front of the microphone al 0:13:16.440 --> 0:13:22.920 tuve Um Bregman, Jim Crane. It left me feeling empty, Alex. Honestly, 0:13:23.200 --> 0:13:25.719 it did not make it sound like they were truly accountable. 0:13:25.800 --> 0:13:27.439 It's almost like they wanted to do it because they 0:13:27.440 --> 0:13:29.880 thought that that would have it blow over. This is 0:13:29.920 --> 0:13:33.040 not going to blow over, Alex. No, I mean, like 0:13:33.200 --> 0:13:34.720 I was telling you before during the break like it 0:13:34.760 --> 0:13:36.480 sounded like the Astros were just trying to use this 0:13:36.520 --> 0:13:38.240 as a as a cover up or just like a 0:13:38.520 --> 0:13:41.120 quick publicitly stunted, keeping people happy, let them get a 0:13:41.120 --> 0:13:43.480 stage bad and then move on and keep it moving. Backfire, 0:13:43.800 --> 0:13:49.200 complete backfire. Bregnan gave no intuitions, nine ban what what 0:13:49.400 --> 0:13:51.400 was even the point? Like you said, maybe maybe if 0:13:51.440 --> 0:13:52.600 they were in front of the team in the front 0:13:52.679 --> 0:13:54.600 office would have been a little better look. Maybe if 0:13:54.600 --> 0:13:56.400 they actually got a little in detail. Hey, yeah, you 0:13:56.440 --> 0:13:58.240 know what I actually did mess up. Instead of just 0:13:58.240 --> 0:14:00.679 saying I'm sorry for the decisions, I made. It was 0:14:00.760 --> 0:14:02.920 just a complete backfire for the Astrows in my opinion, Yeah, 0:14:02.960 --> 0:14:04.720 I agree with you, and and and and we're gonna 0:14:04.760 --> 0:14:07.840 see how big of an impact this is over the 0:14:07.840 --> 0:14:10.640 course of this year. Right. Do I think jose Al 0:14:10.640 --> 0:14:12.440 too is still a good player? Do I think Springer 0:14:12.480 --> 0:14:15.000 and Bregman and their crew and Korea? Yes, I do. 0:14:16.760 --> 0:14:19.440 But we're gonna find out, you know. And so I'm 0:14:19.440 --> 0:14:22.680 gonna stay away from them until they proved. Right there, 0:14:22.720 --> 0:14:24.720 like you're saying it right here, I'm staying away from 0:14:24.760 --> 0:14:29.040 him that's already affected by the stress conference absolutely immediate reaction. 0:14:29.280 --> 0:14:31.640 And I do not know how much of an impact 0:14:31.680 --> 0:14:33.920 them having the damn signs and knowing if it was 0:14:33.960 --> 0:14:37.120 the fastball off speed, I don't know. I know I 0:14:37.120 --> 0:14:39.800 played college baseball, Alex. I'll tell you what, if you 0:14:39.920 --> 0:14:43.400 told me if it was all speed or fastball, my 0:14:43.480 --> 0:14:46.680 average would be about fifty points higher. So we'll see. 0:14:46.800 --> 0:14:48.960 But but Alex, that was not the only thing we're 0:14:49.000 --> 0:14:50.280 here in at a major league bseball. I want to 0:14:50.280 --> 0:14:51.920 bound some of these proposals off of you real quick, 0:14:52.320 --> 0:14:55.120 because one of the things we're hearing is that or 0:14:55.160 --> 0:14:58.680 I guess it's been decided. Um, if you come on 0:14:58.760 --> 0:15:02.520 in now, you gotta face a minimum of the three batters. Alex, 0:15:02.800 --> 0:15:05.240 and I think this is very interesting, especially with as 0:15:05.280 --> 0:15:08.680 you know, the lefty specialists. It spans you know, decades 0:15:08.720 --> 0:15:11.960 and generations, right, you know, so that idea of the 0:15:12.040 --> 0:15:15.560 lefty specialist. You better get right these out too, you know, 0:15:15.560 --> 0:15:18.080 because they're not gonna be able to mix and match 0:15:18.400 --> 0:15:20.800 in the seventh and eighth inning. And here's what I 0:15:20.840 --> 0:15:23.960 don't get about this, Alex. Where is the Players Association 0:15:23.960 --> 0:15:27.240 on this, Because if they were going to eliminate the 0:15:27.320 --> 0:15:31.360 d H, let's say the Players Association be piste off. 0:15:31.400 --> 0:15:34.480 That's like fifteen people's jobs that are going by the wayside, 0:15:35.120 --> 0:15:39.720 where there are dozens of guys in Major League Baseball 0:15:39.840 --> 0:15:43.120 right now who will lose all of their value to 0:15:43.240 --> 0:15:47.080 be gainfully employed if this rule holds, you know, like 0:15:47.120 --> 0:15:49.000 you're gonna bring in a guy to face the lefty 0:15:49.040 --> 0:15:51.360 and then he's gonna get blown up when lineups you know, 0:15:51.440 --> 0:15:53.960 have switch hitters or stack lefty verse right righty, lefty, 0:15:54.040 --> 0:15:56.840 righty lefty. I think this is really weird. Okay, Now, 0:15:56.840 --> 0:15:58.240 if there's two outs in the inning, you want to 0:15:58.240 --> 0:16:00.840 bring him in because if the ends the inning, then 0:16:00.880 --> 0:16:03.360 it's okay. But I find an issue with this for 0:16:03.400 --> 0:16:06.240 the lefty specialist. And also, let's say you bring in 0:16:06.240 --> 0:16:09.280 a reliever Alex and he just ain't got it and 0:16:09.320 --> 0:16:13.720 the first batter boom, second batterer boom. You gotta do 0:16:13.960 --> 0:16:17.320 he has to face the third hitter. Nah, I don't 0:16:17.320 --> 0:16:19.440 want to give him the hook. So so, so what 0:16:19.480 --> 0:16:21.160 do you think about this? Man? I just think I 0:16:21.200 --> 0:16:23.080 see what they're doing. I see what major League. I 0:16:23.120 --> 0:16:25.160 think they're gonna spead the game act. But it's it's 0:16:25.200 --> 0:16:26.920 the same thing with the Astros. You think you're gonna 0:16:26.920 --> 0:16:29.040 do one thing with this, and it's a complete backfire. 0:16:29.280 --> 0:16:31.160 Like we get it. We just had Tom Gladden on 0:16:31.200 --> 0:16:33.080 the morning after today. He said he used to hate 0:16:33.400 --> 0:16:36.960 watching managers walk up every single time after the seventh 0:16:36.960 --> 0:16:39.000 inning because he knew, oh, here comes after the seventh 0:16:39.400 --> 0:16:41.880 you know, three trips to the mound in one inning. Um, 0:16:41.920 --> 0:16:43.640 so I get it, but this is not the way 0:16:43.680 --> 0:16:45.840 to go about it. You're gonna ruin careers. Listen, and 0:16:45.920 --> 0:16:49.000 let's put these both together. The Astros got caught cheating, 0:16:49.000 --> 0:16:51.680 and the big part was the technology. Right, where the 0:16:51.680 --> 0:16:55.360 hell is the technology in this if you want right, 0:16:55.800 --> 0:16:58.800 if you want to uh robot um, but if you 0:16:58.840 --> 0:17:01.760 want to pull your picture, why does a sixth year 0:17:01.800 --> 0:17:05.480 old man have to walk out to the mound, like, 0:17:05.560 --> 0:17:09.320 can't they just buzz something? Can't they just send the signal, 0:17:09.440 --> 0:17:11.159 just walk off saying like, oh, I'm done, let me 0:17:11.160 --> 0:17:12.919 just let me just walk up instead of going up 0:17:12.960 --> 0:17:14.560 there you're like, oh, this big, this is a tough 0:17:14.600 --> 0:17:16.479 pinch hitter. Let me give you the scouting report on it. 0:17:16.640 --> 0:17:18.840 You can't have a microphone on the guy's helmet the 0:17:18.840 --> 0:17:20.160 same way there is in the NFL, the same way 0:17:20.160 --> 0:17:23.119 there is everywhere else. Why maybe it's because they're already 0:17:23.160 --> 0:17:26.040 using these things to cheat. It's ridiculously, it's ridiculous. Um. 0:17:26.080 --> 0:17:28.800 Here's the other thing. I think it's interesting, Alex. They're 0:17:28.800 --> 0:17:31.959 going to a twenty six man roster. There will be 0:17:32.000 --> 0:17:36.200 an extra roster spot, okay on Major League Baseball rosters 0:17:36.240 --> 0:17:39.480 this year, And I think this is incredibly fascinating. What 0:17:39.560 --> 0:17:42.200 would you do with your last man, Alex? What would 0:17:42.200 --> 0:17:44.399 you do with that last player? You have a roster 0:17:44.480 --> 0:17:46.520 spot that you didn't have last year? What is this? 0:17:46.760 --> 0:17:50.680 Is it another bullpen arm? Well, guy's gotta phase three batters. Now, 0:17:51.160 --> 0:17:53.080 is it a super utility? Guy? What would you do 0:17:53.119 --> 0:17:54.840 with this twenty six man? I know what I'm gonna 0:17:54.840 --> 0:17:57.439 do with it. I personally use the utility because it 0:17:57.440 --> 0:17:59.160 eliminates the whole picture. I expect, you know what I mean, 0:17:59.200 --> 0:18:01.600 Like you said, you just said three three batters, Like, oh, 0:18:01.600 --> 0:18:03.960 so it was you don't need an extra need exactly, 0:18:04.000 --> 0:18:05.400 we don't need this big of a bullpen. I think 0:18:05.400 --> 0:18:07.159 this could be two things. I think this could be 0:18:07.200 --> 0:18:10.600 played two ways. One, this could be the opening of 0:18:10.600 --> 0:18:12.840 a door to Major League Baseball teams going to the 0:18:12.880 --> 0:18:17.919 six man rotation. Alex. They do it. They do it 0:18:17.960 --> 0:18:21.000 in Japan. We talk about the stress the innings pitched right, 0:18:21.320 --> 0:18:23.600 and how we have to lessen the stress on these 0:18:23.600 --> 0:18:27.640 pictures because there's such assets right and assigning long term contracts. 0:18:27.640 --> 0:18:31.680 But they have Tommy John surgery. It happens in Japan already, Alex. 0:18:31.840 --> 0:18:34.360 What about the six man rotation? I believe rotations will 0:18:34.400 --> 0:18:36.560 be a lot different in Major League Baseball. You know, 0:18:37.000 --> 0:18:39.920 fast forward five years, right, some teams are using the openers. 0:18:40.359 --> 0:18:42.760 We're doing all sorts of ways. We know what it 0:18:42.800 --> 0:18:44.639 does to the stress on the human arm. We are 0:18:44.680 --> 0:18:48.760 pushing the limits of human performance six man rotation. Haven't 0:18:48.760 --> 0:18:53.120 we seen some teams already experiment to these essence last 0:18:53.200 --> 0:18:56.720 year or in the previous years. In essence, Alex, the 0:18:56.760 --> 0:19:00.159 Dodgers are trying to cheat the system. Okay. Remember they 0:19:00.200 --> 0:19:02.919 also had the ten man i l last year. So 0:19:03.000 --> 0:19:04.560 what they were doing, and they had a couple of 0:19:04.560 --> 0:19:06.960 guys that were on the shuttle bus from Triple A, right, 0:19:07.160 --> 0:19:10.320 guys like May, guys like Urious Guy, you know, others, 0:19:10.840 --> 0:19:14.440 guys like Strippling. Even that they were able to massage 0:19:14.560 --> 0:19:18.640 the injured list, right and the Triple A Major League 0:19:18.640 --> 0:19:22.120 shuttle and in essence manage their roster so that they 0:19:22.160 --> 0:19:25.120 did do that. Okay, So I think that's one way 0:19:25.119 --> 0:19:27.600 to look. Here's the other thing I would do, and 0:19:27.640 --> 0:19:29.719 this is gonna sound crazy, but you know me, I'm 0:19:29.760 --> 0:19:35.480 the spitting statistician, Alex. I would just employ a world 0:19:35.560 --> 0:19:40.080 class sprinter, a pure speed guys, straight pinch runner, straight 0:19:40.080 --> 0:19:44.000 pinch runner. Yep, that's that would be my man. I 0:19:44.000 --> 0:19:48.600 would get Usain Bolt or someone pure speed. Okay, because 0:19:48.640 --> 0:19:52.600 here's the thing. Do you talk about that super utility man? Cool? Okay, 0:19:52.800 --> 0:19:54.880 we don't need the bullpen guy. Now, maybe it's a starter, 0:19:55.000 --> 0:19:58.679 but like what we do need and I this is 0:19:58.720 --> 0:20:01.640 going away in baseball, right, the stolen bases going away. 0:20:01.680 --> 0:20:04.320 But if you're in a two two game, Alex, and 0:20:04.359 --> 0:20:06.800 you know that this picture has to face three batters 0:20:06.800 --> 0:20:09.080 and you get your leadoff man on, I'm bringing in 0:20:09.119 --> 0:20:12.240 my pinch runner, my guy that the whole damn stadium 0:20:12.240 --> 0:20:14.720 knows is gonna steal and it doesn't matter because he's 0:20:14.760 --> 0:20:18.920 that damn fast. Okay, we don't have these guys anymore, 0:20:19.240 --> 0:20:22.400 the pinch runner, and especially in the playoffs where things 0:20:22.440 --> 0:20:25.560 get tight, you know what I mean, especially in close 0:20:25.640 --> 0:20:28.320 games towards the end. That is a skill set that 0:20:28.440 --> 0:20:31.040 is vanishing that I believe with an extra spot, could 0:20:31.040 --> 0:20:33.320 he be like some kind of super utility defender. Could 0:20:33.320 --> 0:20:36.200 he be someone who could play all three outfield positions? Sure, 0:20:36.560 --> 0:20:39.240 But the primary skill set I want on Man twenty 0:20:39.320 --> 0:20:42.399 six on my roster is speed. Alex, what say you? 0:20:42.560 --> 0:20:44.679 I like it. I think it's a great idea, especially 0:20:44.680 --> 0:20:46.359 because like you're saying with it, if if a picture 0:20:46.359 --> 0:20:48.440 stuck up there for three batters and it's like, oh, 0:20:48.520 --> 0:20:49.840 all I need to do is it a single off? 0:20:49.840 --> 0:20:52.280 This home run. I don't have to go for power 0:20:53.119 --> 0:20:54.280 from first, it's going all the way to the other 0:20:54.280 --> 0:20:56.520