WEBVTT - MLB: Leading Off July 1st, 2022 (Ep. 544) 0:00:00.520 --> 0:00:16.520 The pirate ship is cruising. Let's play ball. Welcome in 0:00:16.560 --> 0:00:19.480 everybody to Fantasy Bros. This is leading off, brought to 0:00:19.520 --> 0:00:22.480 you by Bed MGM, the King of Sports Books. It's 0:00:22.480 --> 0:00:27.000 me Joey p joe Pisavia, back from vacation, refreshed, ready 0:00:27.000 --> 0:00:29.760 to go. Maybe a little tanner than I left, I 0:00:29.800 --> 0:00:32.479 don't know. But it's nice to see my friend the Welsh. 0:00:32.520 --> 0:00:34.959 It's nice to see all my friends here, the Peanuts, 0:00:35.000 --> 0:00:39.640 the Cracker Jacks, the Randohs Welsh, my friend How's things? 0:00:39.680 --> 0:00:40.839 How was life without. 0:00:40.680 --> 0:00:42.640 Joey p Oh buddy? It was? 0:00:43.479 --> 0:00:46.360 It was an adventure across the board from we're going 0:00:46.440 --> 0:00:47.400 to travel the galaxy. 0:00:47.440 --> 0:00:48.000 We're gonna travel. 0:00:48.240 --> 0:00:50.479 It's really good that you bring your hair and your 0:00:50.479 --> 0:00:52.879 head up here because we are going to have the 0:00:52.880 --> 0:00:54.280 finality of a contest. 0:00:54.800 --> 0:00:56.720 I created some villainry. 0:00:57.200 --> 0:00:59.680 I was able to become public enemy number one on 0:00:59.720 --> 0:01:03.800 a Pacific player and you know, not hitting homers and 0:01:03.840 --> 0:01:06.839 oh and I did start a absolutely brand new trend 0:01:06.920 --> 0:01:10.600 right there with the MGM ad read. So it's been 0:01:10.640 --> 0:01:13.720 a magical tour of four days. But I'm gonna imagine 0:01:14.000 --> 0:01:17.679 you were quite missed. Of course I missed you well. 0:01:17.760 --> 0:01:20.160 I missed you, I missed all of our team here, 0:01:20.200 --> 0:01:22.320 and yes, doctor Glenn, I am full of butter beer 0:01:22.720 --> 0:01:25.240 and tanned and ready to go a lot of walking. 0:01:25.319 --> 0:01:28.440 Florida is very hot. It was a magical time there, 0:01:28.480 --> 0:01:30.200 and it was a magical time without me, I'm sure 0:01:30.200 --> 0:01:33.760 for everybody else. But I saw your Tiara. I saw 0:01:33.800 --> 0:01:34.200 lots of. 0:01:36.319 --> 0:01:37.440 A little bit of a surprise. 0:01:37.800 --> 0:01:40.280 Oh no, no, oh no, no, no surprises because everybody, 0:01:40.319 --> 0:01:42.640 you know, got very excited about all the photoshop work 0:01:42.680 --> 0:01:45.640 that was being done too. I have seen all of 0:01:45.680 --> 0:01:49.560 the Joe photoshop with hair, which some of them are 0:01:49.600 --> 0:01:53.880 pretty magnificent. It's making me rethink my my bald choice. 0:01:53.680 --> 0:01:55.840 Here and Joey can I can I say? You know, 0:01:55.920 --> 0:01:58.480 I wasn't lying at the end. I don't know if 0:01:58.520 --> 0:02:00.640 I imagine we want to do this at there, but 0:02:01.320 --> 0:02:04.960 we have a couple new presentations of hair. We are 0:02:04.960 --> 0:02:07.320 going to present them, and Joe is going to pick, 0:02:07.600 --> 0:02:08.920 and we are going to give the winner. 0:02:09.040 --> 0:02:11.000 We're gonna give my fantasy pros hat away, right. 0:02:11.160 --> 0:02:13.600 I yeah, here, We'll do a hat. Let's go. I 0:02:13.680 --> 0:02:16.160 just I also want to say I'm open to keeping 0:02:16.160 --> 0:02:18.680 this contest running for another week because they've been so 0:02:18.800 --> 0:02:22.200 good what I've seen, and everyone's been setting me the 0:02:22.200 --> 0:02:26.239 screenshots of them. They're spectacular. I've been very impressed with 0:02:26.280 --> 0:02:27.519 some of the work. Some of your work needs a 0:02:27.560 --> 0:02:29.560 little little work. Tell me you guys could use a 0:02:29.560 --> 0:02:33.440 little help on the photoshop. So very good. There's varying levels, 0:02:33.600 --> 0:02:35.160 but you know what, Welsh I got to say. It 0:02:35.200 --> 0:02:36.839 was nice to get away for a couple of days 0:02:36.840 --> 0:02:38.720 with the kiddos. It was nice to hang out. And 0:02:39.919 --> 0:02:43.080 I hate Disney. I've always you know, I stand by that. 0:02:43.240 --> 0:02:46.680 We tried Epcot for a few hours. It's that was 0:02:46.680 --> 0:02:47.880 the one I thought I could stomach. 0:02:47.919 --> 0:02:50.200 Nope, I don't, can't do it's Epcot, I don't remember. 0:02:50.240 --> 0:02:52.360 That's the one with all the countries, which is cool. 0:02:52.400 --> 0:02:54.359 They have the New Guardians ride. But here's the thing 0:02:54.960 --> 0:02:57.400 at Disney. You gotta do the thing where you have 0:02:57.480 --> 0:02:59.640 to pay fifty dollars for the app and then it 0:02:59.680 --> 0:03:02.760 costs you can book windows of time where you can 0:03:02.800 --> 0:03:04.960 wait online, and then it's an extra fifteen dollars a 0:03:04.960 --> 0:03:06.799 person for the Fast Path. No no, no, no, no 0:03:07.480 --> 0:03:10.320 Universal Studios. You stay at the hotels, you go on 0:03:10.360 --> 0:03:13.120 all the rides, you get automatic Express Pass, and there's 0:03:13.120 --> 0:03:17.440 nothing better where more elitism or that feeling inside when 0:03:17.480 --> 0:03:19.720 you have that fast pass badge and you're showing everyone 0:03:19.760 --> 0:03:23.320 your badge and you're just walking right past all the randos, 0:03:23.360 --> 0:03:26.760 you're walking by everybody you feel so you feel so elitists. 0:03:26.800 --> 0:03:27.960 That to me is the best ride. 0:03:28.080 --> 0:03:30.239 Just yeah, no, I actually I agree with that. That would 0:03:30.280 --> 0:03:33.240 be the most important thing I'm into Disney. Disneyland is 0:03:33.320 --> 0:03:35.880 like my thing in my part of the world here, 0:03:36.200 --> 0:03:38.080 and I haven't gone in a long time. My kids 0:03:38.120 --> 0:03:39.560 kind of want to go, but it's like we have 0:03:39.640 --> 0:03:42.880 to prepare because I if I go, I need to 0:03:42.920 --> 0:03:45.760 have the most magnificent pass. So I'm looking down on 0:03:45.800 --> 0:03:47.120 the mud people as I walk by. 0:03:47.160 --> 0:03:48.200 I can't blow it all. 0:03:48.280 --> 0:03:49.080 It's what it's all about. 0:03:49.200 --> 0:03:50.400 No, it is what it's all about. 0:03:50.440 --> 0:03:53.120 But universal is a whole different crowd. It's it's it's 0:03:53.200 --> 0:03:55.720 the Harry Potter crowd, it's the Marvel crowd, It's it's 0:03:55.760 --> 0:03:58.720 the nerd crowd, which is where I feel very comfortable, 0:03:58.880 --> 0:04:02.200 whereas suppose everybody, like grown middle aged people wearing ears 0:04:02.280 --> 0:04:03.320 makes me uncomfortable. 0:04:03.480 --> 0:04:06.560 You know, I did not to judge or anything like that, 0:04:06.640 --> 0:04:08.680 but I have known a person or two, and I 0:04:08.720 --> 0:04:10.600 know a person or two that they are you know, 0:04:10.760 --> 0:04:14.720 my age, and their life exists around Disney, like they 0:04:14.800 --> 0:04:17.600 go three or four times a year, and they're super 0:04:17.600 --> 0:04:20.200 not trustworthy, Like I really do not trust. 0:04:20.040 --> 0:04:22.720 Them, like someone that's like Disney's our life and. 0:04:22.600 --> 0:04:25.839 They're like, you know, maybe if you're fourteen, but not 0:04:26.000 --> 0:04:27.159 when you're thirty eight. 0:04:27.760 --> 0:04:30.200 This says it all right here, doctor Glenn Universal greater 0:04:30.240 --> 0:04:32.120 than Disney. It's just it's not even close. Man, it's 0:04:32.160 --> 0:04:34.320 not even close. So let's get to baseball here. Enough 0:04:34.320 --> 0:04:36.599 about that. Let's start with Julio Rodriguez. What a catch 0:04:36.600 --> 0:04:39.719 he made yesterday, also slugging his thirteenth home run against 0:04:39.760 --> 0:04:42.159 the A's. Speaking of the A's, Romon and laur I know, 0:04:42.160 --> 0:04:45.880 homer twice and plated four runs. Justin Turner hit two 0:04:45.920 --> 0:04:48.240 home runs. That was very nice there against the Padres. 0:04:48.240 --> 0:04:50.200 Had him in a couple of lineups. That was very nice. 0:04:50.400 --> 0:04:53.280 Joe Musgrove struck out ten, so everybody worried about that 0:04:53.320 --> 0:04:55.839 one shaky Joe Musgrove start, can all calm the hell 0:04:55.880 --> 0:04:59.560 down and relax. Patrick Wisdom crushing two homers against the Reds. 0:04:59.560 --> 0:05:02.000 Then you know. So. For Christopher Morrell had five hits 0:05:02.040 --> 0:05:03.040 as well against the Reds. 0:05:03.120 --> 0:05:04.880 Yes, two homers from Mayor. 0:05:04.960 --> 0:05:09.200 Unfortunately he took Patrick Wisdom yesterday, an incredibly good pick. 0:05:09.440 --> 0:05:11.400 Bubba loved the pick. I like the pick. 0:05:11.680 --> 0:05:14.200 I played the same game when was pushing out and 0:05:14.240 --> 0:05:17.520 it was all Patrick Wisdom and all there. 0:05:17.880 --> 0:05:20.120 When the wind's blown out at Wrigley, get involved. I mean, 0:05:20.160 --> 0:05:21.600 it's been hard with the Cubs because it's not a 0:05:21.640 --> 0:05:24.560 great lineup. And shout out, I'm remiss there. Shout out 0:05:24.600 --> 0:05:27.440 to Bubba, and shout out to Bogman for holding down 0:05:27.480 --> 0:05:29.280 with my friend the Welsh here while I was out, 0:05:29.360 --> 0:05:31.480 gave me a few days the first proper vacation in 0:05:31.520 --> 0:05:33.640 like three years. Like that. We actually got on a 0:05:33.640 --> 0:05:37.000 plane and went somewhere. So that was very nice. Michael Perez, 0:05:37.080 --> 0:05:40.240 how about that three homers against the Brewers. The Pittsburgh 0:05:40.240 --> 0:05:42.800 Pirates just keep hitting home runs. And I heard while 0:05:42.800 --> 0:05:45.039 I was gone there was something about, oh, I don't 0:05:45.040 --> 0:05:50.640 know anyo, Cruz, perhaps something regarding you as the Welsh. No, no, nothing. 0:05:50.640 --> 0:05:52.920 I don't know talking about I mean we might have 0:05:53.000 --> 0:05:55.440 talked a little bit about him here or there. Maybe 0:05:55.480 --> 0:05:58.800 he had a home run yesterday and maybe I immediately 0:05:58.800 --> 0:06:00.839 got anxiety and you know, I have to have a 0:06:00.880 --> 0:06:02.680 drink to chill out on what today is going to 0:06:02.760 --> 0:06:04.719 be in the chat has been no less. But yeah, 0:06:04.800 --> 0:06:07.240 you know the the under two forty hitter did hit 0:06:07.279 --> 0:06:08.279 a home run yesterday. 0:06:08.600 --> 0:06:11.479 Well, I but I but here's the thing, this is 0:06:11.880 --> 0:06:13.760 on your cruz. Being good out of the gate is 0:06:13.800 --> 0:06:14.680 not unexpected. 0:06:15.040 --> 0:06:15.160 Uh. 0:06:15.360 --> 0:06:17.520 We literally said this the day he got called up 0:06:17.520 --> 0:06:19.960 here on the show. The next day we said, look, 0:06:20.240 --> 0:06:22.080 there's a good chance he has a good start here, 0:06:22.400 --> 0:06:25.120 and if he does, and he plays really well, trade him, 0:06:25.200 --> 0:06:26.919 Like if you can package him right now in a 0:06:26.920 --> 0:06:29.279 redraft league for wander Franco. You do that. You do 0:06:29.360 --> 0:06:32.440 that trade immediately, so and you don't look back, You 0:06:32.440 --> 0:06:34.840 don't think twice about that trade. It's probably taken more 0:06:34.839 --> 0:06:37.320 than Anio cruise. But I'm just saying, whenever a rookie 0:06:37.360 --> 0:06:39.919 comes up and has media success, it doesn't really shock 0:06:40.000 --> 0:06:42.520 me all that much. It's the adjustment that's coming that 0:06:42.560 --> 0:06:45.520 I think we're all waiting for. So let's uh, let's 0:06:45.560 --> 0:06:47.520 let's call it what it is and stay in slight here. 0:06:47.720 --> 0:06:50.840 Like I said, I mean, my I'm fine with it. 0:06:50.839 --> 0:06:52.560 It's it's actually fun and you know it gives me 0:06:52.600 --> 0:06:54.360 a bit. It will make people think about me at 0:06:54.360 --> 0:06:59.040 all times. Onell cruise, uh in the hatred that is 0:06:59.120 --> 0:07:02.440 now just attached to me, it's displaced because all it 0:07:02.560 --> 0:07:04.960 is is, I'll say one last time for the week, 0:07:05.200 --> 0:07:08.360 his hype does not match his production. And to see 0:07:08.400 --> 0:07:11.120 a guy be the odds on rookie favorite and you 0:07:11.120 --> 0:07:13.440 know it's a strikeout guy. He hits a couple of 0:07:13.480 --> 0:07:16.400 incredibly awesome home runs. It all started by that ridiculous 0:07:16.400 --> 0:07:18.680 home run call in his first homer or in the week, 0:07:18.760 --> 0:07:20.800 and that's where it's laid out to. But that's that's 0:07:20.840 --> 0:07:23.120 the funny thing about this. You completely agree with me 0:07:23.280 --> 0:07:25.880 on this trade him in redraft Dynasty. It's a different 0:07:25.880 --> 0:07:28.560 discussion about on you cruse this season. His hype is 0:07:29.000 --> 0:07:31.120 it's to a next level. He might be a really, 0:07:31.200 --> 0:07:34.360 really good trade option. And we actually posted a poll 0:07:34.400 --> 0:07:37.240 about it from the end this Leekantasy Baseball podcast, and 0:07:37.280 --> 0:07:39.840 we said like what would you give up? What would 0:07:39.880 --> 0:07:42.280 you give up for him? And the biggest thing we 0:07:42.360 --> 0:07:43.760 saw someone would give up CJ. 0:07:43.920 --> 0:07:45.560 Krohn for O'Neil Cruz. 0:07:49.280 --> 0:07:52.560 How fast can I hit the accept button on that trade. 0:07:53.280 --> 0:07:57.000 But I think that's Look, that makes sense. It's something 0:07:57.000 --> 0:07:59.440 we were prepared for. It's something we discussed, and I 0:07:59.440 --> 0:08:02.200 think it's great that it's happening. So your Annio Cruz investment, 0:08:02.200 --> 0:08:04.800 if you think about it, you invested in him, he 0:08:04.840 --> 0:08:07.520 didn't play for two months. Now he's finally up right 0:08:08.040 --> 0:08:10.720 and he's playing great. So you have to look at 0:08:10.760 --> 0:08:12.640 it realistically and say, okay, and the investment made an 0:08:12.680 --> 0:08:15.480 Annio Cruz. Can I flip him for something that I 0:08:15.560 --> 0:08:18.040 really know? And I can? I mean, look, would you 0:08:18.080 --> 0:08:20.400 take Corey Seeger for him right now? I think you would. Yes. 0:08:21.040 --> 0:08:22.960 I mean, that's probably a trade you could probably take 0:08:23.000 --> 0:08:24.720 as well. There's a few trades out there I think 0:08:24.720 --> 0:08:26.560 are ripe for the taking right now with Annio Cruz 0:08:26.600 --> 0:08:28.720 having this great week, and now's the time to make 0:08:28.760 --> 0:08:30.680 that move because in two weeks from now, if he 0:08:30.720 --> 0:08:32.439 has a bad stretch or you know, a two for 0:08:32.559 --> 0:08:36.480 twenty five stretch, that trademarket value is disintegrated and you 0:08:36.559 --> 0:08:38.800 just have to understand it's not a great Pittsburgh lineup. 0:08:38.840 --> 0:08:40.120 No matter how many home runs I hit in the 0:08:40.160 --> 0:08:42.400 last three days, it doesn't matter. It's still not a 0:08:42.440 --> 0:08:45.319 great lineup, and you know, the line of protection is 0:08:45.320 --> 0:08:47.120 not going to be there long term. So there's a 0:08:47.160 --> 0:08:48.040 lot of negatives. 0:08:48.120 --> 0:08:49.679 That's what all gets stuck with. But to see that's 0:08:49.679 --> 0:08:50.760 what all to get stuck with it. 0:08:50.840 --> 0:08:53.520 Everybody focuses on, you know, me having some fun with 0:08:53.559 --> 0:08:56.280 it and trying to entertain, and it becomes in Sandy, 0:08:56.520 --> 0:08:57.280 that's okay. 0:08:57.520 --> 0:09:00.319 I can be the what was it that bear? And 0:09:00.320 --> 0:09:02.280 I'll remember that one. Chris Welsh is all hype. 0:09:02.320 --> 0:09:04.600 I will remember those things, and I'll remember all these 0:09:04.720 --> 0:09:07.120 but I'm also going to remember all of the production 0:09:07.200 --> 0:09:09.480 and all the awesome trades people are gonna pull off. 0:09:09.760 --> 0:09:13.120 And there is an art to taking advantage of hype. 0:09:13.720 --> 0:09:16.319 All through fantasy baseball. Everybody says, what's the big stick 0:09:16.400 --> 0:09:18.360 right now, Joe, this is when you're gonna win your 0:09:18.360 --> 0:09:20.600 fantasy league because everyone's starting to turn and focus on 0:09:20.640 --> 0:09:25.080 fantasy football one hundred thousand percent. It also goes to 0:09:25.320 --> 0:09:28.000 jumping on hype and being able to move players. There's 0:09:28.000 --> 0:09:31.679 an art to it, and in my mind and how 0:09:31.720 --> 0:09:34.560 I look at it, this is a prime example of 0:09:34.559 --> 0:09:36.600 one of those. And he still may have some really 0:09:36.600 --> 0:09:38.800 good numbers, but will at the end of the year, 0:09:39.679 --> 0:09:42.400 twelve homers and eleven stolen bases. 0:09:42.440 --> 0:09:44.719 Will that end up being worth. 0:09:44.760 --> 0:09:47.280 You know, keeping him instead of maybe jumping on and 0:09:47.480 --> 0:09:48.439 getting a great trade. 0:09:48.520 --> 0:09:52.240 So, and to answer JP's question, I'm a Slytherin through 0:09:52.280 --> 0:09:53.760 and through. I think we all know that. 0:09:54.200 --> 0:09:56.040 Do they have a thing there where you like put 0:09:56.080 --> 0:09:58.640 on the thing? Look? 0:09:58.880 --> 0:10:01.920 The Gringots riote is spectacular. My oldest daughter did not 0:10:02.000 --> 0:10:04.280 want to do the Hagrid thing. She doesn't like roller 0:10:04.320 --> 0:10:06.679 coaster stuff, but they got I mean, it's if you're 0:10:06.720 --> 0:10:09.040 a Harry Potter, BUTRK and I am. It is the 0:10:09.080 --> 0:10:11.720 greatest place on earth, especially at night time whenever when 0:10:11.760 --> 0:10:13.560 all of a sudden, like those lights come on around 0:10:13.600 --> 0:10:15.800 there and you're walking around, it's it's spectaclic. 0:10:15.840 --> 0:10:17.520 But wouldn't that be the coolest thing. Why do they 0:10:17.520 --> 0:10:18.680 not have that? Why do they not have a pose 0:10:18.720 --> 0:10:20.640 for the hack they go on and they pick your house? 0:10:21.080 --> 0:10:23.440 I don't know, but I think I think people have 0:10:23.480 --> 0:10:25.480 already know what their houses are when they come there, 0:10:25.480 --> 0:10:27.120 so they don't want some random They've taken a lot 0:10:27.200 --> 0:10:30.439 Potter tests already and they have a real attachment. The 0:10:30.520 --> 0:10:32.080 last thing they want is to get there. I was 0:10:32.080 --> 0:10:34.440 about to tell them you're a raven claw and you've 0:10:34.520 --> 0:10:36.960 you've spent your last five years of your life thinking there's. 0:10:36.760 --> 0:10:39.280 Gonna be someone that's gonna like Sue. They're gonna be like, 0:10:39.360 --> 0:10:41.640 I'm not a slither in. This place is a scam, 0:10:41.679 --> 0:10:42.480 and they're gonna say. 0:10:42.440 --> 0:10:45.000 Wonky Penguin's also a Slytherin. Right now, I love to 0:10:45.040 --> 0:10:46.480 see what the other people. If you know what your 0:10:46.480 --> 0:10:48.200 potter house is, drop it in the chat here. 0:10:48.240 --> 0:10:50.960 I'm probably I think if we did a poll, everyone 0:10:51.000 --> 0:10:52.480 would vote me Slytherin for sure. 0:10:52.800 --> 0:10:54.760 What's that about vote? You have to answer the questions. 0:10:54.760 --> 0:10:56.480 You have to take the test, all right. Speaking of 0:10:56.480 --> 0:10:58.640 taking the test, I think like Juan Soto is uh 0:10:59.280 --> 0:11:01.520 has been given test and he looked at it. He said, 0:11:01.800 --> 0:11:04.400 I don't feel like it. Wan Soto apparently has turned 0:11:04.400 --> 0:11:06.800 down a second giant offer from the Nationals, and I 0:11:06.800 --> 0:11:09.719 don't blame him. Hector Gomez had been reporting by the 0:11:09.760 --> 0:11:12.480 Way Thursday Night thirteen years for twenty five he was 0:11:12.520 --> 0:11:14.840 going to accept it, or that they had upped it 0:11:14.920 --> 0:11:17.319 or something like that, and of course Sector Gromez was wrong. 0:11:18.160 --> 0:11:21.440 I don't see any reason if I'm Jan Sota where 0:11:21.480 --> 0:11:24.120 I'm not trying to hit the open market. Wan Soto 0:11:24.320 --> 0:11:28.400 is extraordinary talent. Wan Sota is so young, He's accomplished 0:11:28.440 --> 0:11:31.320 so much, He's already got a ring. Juan Soto, to me, 0:11:31.720 --> 0:11:34.480 is looking at the Nationals long term and if you're 0:11:34.520 --> 0:11:36.600 won Soto in the next five years, where's the path 0:11:36.640 --> 0:11:39.160 to winning? It's look at that division with the Mets 0:11:39.160 --> 0:11:42.640 and the Braves, look at that division with the Marlins pitching, 0:11:42.880 --> 0:11:46.360 and look at the system that the Nationals have. Why 0:11:46.400 --> 0:11:48.720 in God's name would you want to stay there? There's 0:11:48.760 --> 0:11:51.200 no great stars coming through the system to support him, 0:11:51.280 --> 0:11:53.600 not on either side of the ball. You know. 0:11:53.840 --> 0:11:55.760 The one thing and I look at this because I 0:11:55.800 --> 0:11:59.080 saw it was Phil Hughes who tweeted out today and 0:11:59.120 --> 0:12:02.320 he was just like, should we be worried that Juan 0:12:02.440 --> 0:12:05.040 Soto's turning down this type of money to go to Washington? 0:12:05.280 --> 0:12:06.800 You know, I look at it as a different thing 0:12:07.040 --> 0:12:09.480 where I go, Man, should we be worried at how 0:12:09.679 --> 0:12:11.040 just mess this system is? 0:12:11.080 --> 0:12:12.480 Because three hundred and fifty. 0:12:12.280 --> 0:12:15.800 Million dollars to four hundred million dollars, this insane number. 0:12:16.280 --> 0:12:18.719 I have to assume that this has got to be 0:12:18.760 --> 0:12:22.319 about years, because what's more insane to me is the years. 0:12:22.000 --> 0:12:24.400 That are attached to these contracts, not the money. If 0:12:24.400 --> 0:12:26.440 I want to know young, so to that. 0:12:26.520 --> 0:12:28.960 But that's to my point though, Dude, he's twenty four, 0:12:29.679 --> 0:12:32.360 but they're talking about a thirteen year contract. The guy 0:12:32.440 --> 0:12:35.000 will be almost as old as me when his contract 0:12:35.080 --> 0:12:37.880 is done. What you can see, the inflation of these 0:12:37.920 --> 0:12:40.839 continent is super old. These the inflation of these contracts, 0:12:41.080 --> 0:12:43.319 He's going to be underpaid in six years and they 0:12:43.360 --> 0:12:46.000 know it. And the problem is is all these contracts 0:12:46.000 --> 0:12:48.719 are four hundred million dollars for thirteen years, when these 0:12:48.720 --> 0:12:53.199 players probably want basketball contracts four years, one hundred and 0:12:53.240 --> 0:12:55.800 seventy five million dollars. They want the big annuals so 0:12:55.840 --> 0:12:59.080 they can continuously keep going out into the open market. 0:12:59.120 --> 0:13:01.480 And I wonder, I don't know, I don't know what's 0:13:01.480 --> 0:13:03.439 good and what's bad for baseball. Would it be better 0:13:03.760 --> 0:13:06.600 to get these lower end contracts the players can hit 0:13:06.640 --> 0:13:09.120 the open market not freak out, so they can stay 0:13:09.160 --> 0:13:11.800 in their perspective cities. Or is it going to be 0:13:11.800 --> 0:13:13.760 worse that he's going to turn down this money and 0:13:13.800 --> 0:13:15.640 he's going to be out into the free agent market 0:13:15.679 --> 0:13:16.920 and clearly. 0:13:16.520 --> 0:13:21.720 Go to New York, Boston, Florida, wherever he's. 0:13:21.600 --> 0:13:24.040 Gonna go to a big look, he's gonna make hundreds 0:13:24.080 --> 0:13:26.080 of millions of dollars anyway. I think for Soto it's 0:13:26.160 --> 0:13:29.560 legitimately about he seems like a very competitive dude. Much 0:13:29.600 --> 0:13:31.199 by nature, he wants to be in a like. He's 0:13:31.200 --> 0:13:34.160 already won a World Series, so he can pretty much 0:13:34.200 --> 0:13:36.720 write his ticket wherever he wants to go. He's gonna 0:13:36.720 --> 0:13:39.040 make hundreds of million dollars anyway. Don't you want to 0:13:39.080 --> 0:13:40.959 do it in a location where you're gonna win more 0:13:40.960 --> 0:13:43.800 consistently and have more chances of playoffs, because we all know, 0:13:43.840 --> 0:13:45.079 if you're going to be considered one of the all 0:13:45.120 --> 0:13:48.600 time great players, typically you have to have some playoff 0:13:48.640 --> 0:13:49.839 runs in there. And I don't see a lot of 0:13:49.880 --> 0:13:52.080 playoff runs for the Nationals the next five years. And 0:13:52.120 --> 0:13:54.960 everybody likes a big annual. I think we all love everybody. 0:13:55.080 --> 0:13:56.719 I'm a sucker for a big annual. I don't know 0:13:56.760 --> 0:13:57.120 about you. 0:13:57.160 --> 0:14:00.959 Well, I'm a sucker for any money in the facual. Yeah, yeah, 0:14:01.360 --> 0:14:01.839 big old in. 0:14:02.080 --> 0:14:02.440 I don't know. 0:14:04.960 --> 0:14:07.400 Listen, we're not measuring annuals here, Joe, We're not measuring that. 0:14:07.520 --> 0:14:08.840 It's not the size of the annual. 0:14:08.880 --> 0:14:12.760 It's all right. Let's get to Jeff passing his tweet 0:14:13.000 --> 0:14:15.200 from yesterday. Over the last three weeks show, Hayle Tani 0:14:15.240 --> 0:14:17.319 has put up two and a half wins above replacement. 0:14:17.920 --> 0:14:20.000 He has been the single best pitcher in baseball and 0:14:20.040 --> 0:14:23.600 the fifteenth most productive offensive player. Uh and that is 0:14:23.840 --> 0:14:26.840 spectacular and once again the Otani. I look at it 0:14:26.880 --> 0:14:30.280 before the show today, plus two seventy on FanDuel over 0:14:30.320 --> 0:14:33.760 there and same thing, just two fifty I think ont MGM, So, 0:14:34.680 --> 0:14:36.600 I mean, we told you. I told you it was 0:14:36.640 --> 0:14:38.440 going to go back into this direction. So it's going 0:14:38.480 --> 0:14:40.880 to be a question. And of course, of all the 0:14:40.960 --> 0:14:43.440 days I come back, you know, I'm murrady. I'm doing 0:14:43.440 --> 0:14:45.440 the show sheets at seven o'clock in the morning, and 0:14:45.720 --> 0:14:47.800 you know, look at stats. I'm going through stuff and 0:14:48.080 --> 0:14:51.080 there's Mike Mayer welcome back, Happy Bobby Benia Day, welcoming 0:14:51.120 --> 0:14:52.680 me back. Of course, I didn't even think about that. 0:14:52.720 --> 0:14:57.080 I was coming back from Bobby Bobby Day. July first, 0:14:57.120 --> 0:15:00.080 already Bobby Benia gets his twelfth installment of one one 0:15:00.120 --> 0:15:04.480 point one nine, three, two four eight point two zero 0:15:05.760 --> 0:15:07.160 exactly one seven. 0:15:08.200 --> 0:15:09.040 They're breaking a code. 0:15:09.120 --> 0:15:11.320 One million, one hundred and ninety three thousand, two hundred 0:15:11.320 --> 0:15:13.440 and forty eight dollars and twenty cents. That's exactly what 0:15:13.520 --> 0:15:16.920 makes the Mets so far have paid him fourteen million 0:15:16.960 --> 0:15:19.760 dollars and change uh for him not to play for 0:15:19.800 --> 0:15:23.080 the two thousand season, thirteen years left by the way, 0:15:23.120 --> 0:15:25.080 and fifteen million plus left to go. 0:15:25.480 --> 0:15:27.640 That is the shocking thing to me as I look 0:15:27.680 --> 0:15:32.960 at this that I cannot believe thirteen years. Listen are 0:15:33.080 --> 0:15:34.840 child like. We will have to be telling our children 0:15:34.880 --> 0:15:38.600 about this, Joe. Our life has a majority, a good 0:15:38.600 --> 0:15:41.600 majority of our life has consisted of Bobby Bonia day 0:15:41.640 --> 0:15:43.600 and him being paid. There'll be a time, I know, 0:15:43.640 --> 0:15:46.720 it's crazy to think where he's not being paid and 0:15:46.760 --> 0:15:49.160 we're going to have to try to explain Bobby Bonia Day. 0:15:49.720 --> 0:15:51.600 I still, to this day, I think it is such 0:15:51.600 --> 0:15:54.720 a great tactic of players to be able to hold 0:15:54.760 --> 0:15:56.600 and get their money like that, and I wish more 0:15:56.640 --> 0:15:58.480 players would do it, and I think it makes it fun. 0:15:58.520 --> 0:16:01.200 And we're still talking about Bobby Bonia but I can't 0:16:01.240 --> 0:16:02.120 believe it's here again. 0:16:02.600 --> 0:16:06.520 I don't believe it's here, and somebody suggested that Uncle 0:16:06.560 --> 0:16:09.760 Steve Cohen go out and make a make a ceremony 0:16:09.760 --> 0:16:11.840 out of it every year where they hands Bobby Bennie 0:16:11.880 --> 0:16:13.720 a giant check when I think it would be hilarious. 0:16:13.760 --> 0:16:14.520 I think it would be great. 0:16:15.200 --> 0:16:18.600 Not to belabor this, but like the does the team 0:16:18.640 --> 0:16:19.800 clearly like why don't they just. 0:16:19.720 --> 0:16:20.160 Buy it out? 0:16:20.240 --> 0:16:22.440 Like do they not want to want it? 0:16:22.520 --> 0:16:22.880 Because? 0:16:22.880 --> 0:16:23.360 Why? 0:16:23.520 --> 0:16:25.440 Because they want to take less money on the buyout? 0:16:25.560 --> 0:16:26.360 Where is your boy? 0:16:26.640 --> 0:16:28.240 What if they said, what if they said, we will 0:16:28.240 --> 0:16:31.240 give you that exact whatever dollar amount you just said, 0:16:31.280 --> 0:16:34.400 the thirteen to fifteen point, we will give you that 0:16:34.520 --> 0:16:38.200 to stop the annual Why why would they not do that? 0:16:38.320 --> 0:16:40.280 Because because they talk about it every year. I mean 0:16:40.320 --> 0:16:42.200 every year they look I don't know, I feel like 0:16:42.240 --> 0:16:44.040 they look stupid. They kind of look dumb Bobby and 0:16:44.400 --> 0:16:46.200 looks really smart like you got one over. I feel 0:16:46.200 --> 0:16:48.680 like they kind of look dumb. I don't know, Like, 0:16:48.720 --> 0:16:50.200 wouldn't they just want to buy it out and just 0:16:50.200 --> 0:16:50.720 be done with it. 0:16:52.360 --> 0:16:54.240 That's a true story. I actually got stuck on a 0:16:54.280 --> 0:16:56.840 train in New York with Bobby Benia's sister one day. 0:16:56.920 --> 0:17:00.560 True story. Uh, and the train stopped and we were 0:17:00.560 --> 0:17:01.440 sitting next to each other. 0:17:01.560 --> 0:17:03.240 We just just like, are you Joe piece of pa 0:17:03.280 --> 0:17:04.600 And you're like, as a matter of fact, hey. 0:17:04.520 --> 0:17:07.280 Yo, no, not not in this lightest. She was just 0:17:07.280 --> 0:17:09.840