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What I'm getting is to uh, you know, 0:00:47.640 --> 0:00:50.880 win our leagues and win that cash with status over beat. 0:00:50.920 --> 0:00:54.640 Cipher got a good show for you. It is opening day. 0:00:54.680 --> 0:00:59.320 It is the start of baseball season. Hope Springs Eternal. 0:00:59.720 --> 0:01:01.440 So you know what we gotta do. I gotta give 0:01:01.480 --> 0:01:05.200 you my official you know, superlatives predictions. We gotta wrap 0:01:05.280 --> 0:01:08.840 that up. As you know, drafts have now happened. The 0:01:08.959 --> 0:01:13.160 bumping is out on the windows on the you know facades, 0:01:13.319 --> 0:01:15.720 and and we're gonna really pop it off. Okay, so 0:01:15.760 --> 0:01:18.119 we're gonna get into that for the start of baseball. 0:01:18.400 --> 0:01:20.400 We are also going to touch on the NFL. A 0:01:20.480 --> 0:01:23.039 little bit later on in the show, you know, we're 0:01:23.040 --> 0:01:24.880 gonna talk a little bit about with the Giants and 0:01:24.880 --> 0:01:28.639 Odell Beckham are going through maybe a game of chicken. Uh. 0:01:28.720 --> 0:01:32.000 Maybe it's new ownership, or maybe it's new not new ownership. 0:01:32.160 --> 0:01:36.280 Maybe it's new general managership, Ghettoman. We'll talk about that 0:01:36.360 --> 0:01:38.360 a little bit. And you know, as always we put 0:01:38.360 --> 0:01:41.840 the fun in functional sports content. We're gonna get into that. 0:01:41.880 --> 0:01:44.760 We got a whole question up as well. Okay, you 0:01:44.840 --> 0:01:48.560 gotta check it out on Twitter at spitting speeds to 0:01:48.680 --> 0:01:50.840 get out. The question is, let's start of opening day 0:01:50.880 --> 0:01:53.440 in baseball season. What do you think is the best 0:01:53.520 --> 0:01:56.760 one to combination in Major League Baseball? And you can 0:01:56.840 --> 0:01:59.240 think of that in a couple of different ways, right, 0:01:59.280 --> 0:02:01.200 You can think of that at the plate, or you 0:02:01.200 --> 0:02:03.600 could think about that in terms of arms, right, And 0:02:03.640 --> 0:02:06.920 so the Pope question tries to capture all of that. 0:02:07.000 --> 0:02:10.239 The options for you, is it Max Schers or Steven 0:02:10.280 --> 0:02:15.079 Strasbourg to fire right handed arms for the Washington Nationals. 0:02:15.280 --> 0:02:17.639 You'll see how much I like the Washington Nationals. A 0:02:17.680 --> 0:02:20.799 little bit later on the show. Is it the new 0:02:20.919 --> 0:02:23.920 kind of twin Towers with the Baby Bronze Bombers. Is 0:02:23.919 --> 0:02:27.880 it Gean Carlo Stan and all rise for the judge 0:02:27.919 --> 0:02:32.400 Aaron Judge number nine nine, right, because they many people 0:02:32.560 --> 0:02:35.560 predict they're gonna hit over a hundred home runs combined. Right? 0:02:35.600 --> 0:02:37.800 Are they the best one to punch? Or if you 0:02:37.880 --> 0:02:40.399 think about arms, can you stay in the division where 0:02:40.480 --> 0:02:43.280 National is on the East coast and think about the 0:02:43.360 --> 0:02:46.640 Mets one to punch? I'm talking about four North Syndergard 0:02:46.720 --> 0:02:49.480 coming back along with Jacob Degram, one of the most 0:02:49.520 --> 0:02:53.560 consistent pitchers in the last three years in the National League. 0:02:53.600 --> 0:02:56.680 That could be even a better starting pitching duo than 0:02:56.760 --> 0:03:01.080 the one down. Or think of out this a different 0:03:01.160 --> 0:03:03.840 kind of take on an offensive duel for the world 0:03:03.960 --> 0:03:08.880 champion Houston Astros up the middle. Okay, remember how like 0:03:08.919 --> 0:03:13.040 the Detroit Tigers back in the eighties had Trammel and Whittaker. 0:03:13.280 --> 0:03:16.799 We're talking about a l m v P Jose Altuve 0:03:17.200 --> 0:03:21.600 and up and coming potential m VP candidate Carlos Korea. 0:03:22.000 --> 0:03:25.320 Which of these combos is the best one to in 0:03:25.600 --> 0:03:28.040 all of baseball. I'll give you my take on that 0:03:28.320 --> 0:03:30.959 a little bit later. On the first, let's think about 0:03:32.000 --> 0:03:35.000 these awards that we are going to talk about here 0:03:35.040 --> 0:03:36.920 from Ajor League Baseball. The first one is that I 0:03:36.960 --> 0:03:39.080 want to go into is the SI. Okay, we gotta 0:03:39.120 --> 0:03:42.560 make our pick for the Cy Young. Um, I'm going 0:03:42.560 --> 0:03:44.800 with the third choice. Okay, I know this, Clayton Kershaw. 0:03:44.880 --> 0:03:47.120 You gotta love him. And he's actually going at plus 0:03:47.160 --> 0:03:51.080 one twenty right now. Max Scherzer second choice, going at 0:03:51.120 --> 0:03:55.080 plus one sixty. I am going with four. I'm going 0:03:55.120 --> 0:03:56.920 with no Sydney Garden. I think he has the best 0:03:56.960 --> 0:03:59.480 stuff in the game. I think he's gonna wind up 0:03:59.520 --> 0:04:02.360 hating like the US you don't average velocity fastball. I 0:04:02.440 --> 0:04:05.080 think he's also got that sick slider. I think he's 0:04:05.080 --> 0:04:07.400 got a lot of pictures. He's got that an intimidation factor. 0:04:07.440 --> 0:04:09.960 I just think he is the most electric starter out there. 0:04:10.160 --> 0:04:12.600 I think if he gets a full season in he 0:04:12.640 --> 0:04:16.159 can contend for the NL SI Young. So that is 0:04:16.200 --> 0:04:18.200 my pick for the n L side Young. I like, 0:04:18.360 --> 0:04:21.160 for listen, you're not gonna make any money if you're 0:04:21.160 --> 0:04:23.360 going with Kershaw, if you're going with er right, So 0:04:23.400 --> 0:04:25.600 in the a L and the Ale is tougher for me, 0:04:26.360 --> 0:04:28.320 and Alys tough for me. You got your favorites out there. 0:04:28.320 --> 0:04:30.760 You got Chrysale at plus one eighty. You've got Corey 0:04:30.800 --> 0:04:33.880 Kluber a plus two hundred. I think Carrasco is interesting 0:04:34.000 --> 0:04:36.680 also in Cleveland at plus six fifty. But I'm gonna 0:04:36.680 --> 0:04:39.760 say here's where you go for kind of um, here's 0:04:39.760 --> 0:04:42.520 where I think you can get the crazy pop off value. 0:04:43.200 --> 0:04:46.479 All right, what about if he has this bounce back? 0:04:46.520 --> 0:04:50.440 What about David Price? What about David Price for the 0:04:50.480 --> 0:04:53.000 Red Sox. I mean everyone's focused on sale, but Price, 0:04:53.120 --> 0:04:56.040 remember before these injuries, he was a workforce for a 0:04:56.080 --> 0:04:59.080 long time. Two hundred inns, two hundred innings, you know, 0:04:59.160 --> 0:05:02.120 strikeouts to match. I think he has an opportunity to 0:05:02.120 --> 0:05:05.040 bounce back in that truth spot behind sale and really 0:05:05.120 --> 0:05:08.640 show up, show out, show off this season and watch 0:05:08.680 --> 0:05:10.239 out for Price and you can get a good return 0:05:10.279 --> 0:05:12.000 on that. Or what about a guy like Archer? What 0:05:12.040 --> 0:05:13.640 if I got a guy like Archer for Tampa Bay. 0:05:13.680 --> 0:05:16.200 I don't even think he's gonna finish the season necessarily 0:05:16.560 --> 0:05:19.320 with the raise, you know, so that could be very 0:05:19.400 --> 0:05:21.560 interesting as well. You can get him in plus twenty 0:05:21.640 --> 0:05:24.000 three hundred, and maybe he gets a little bit, maybe 0:05:24.000 --> 0:05:27.760 he gets moved somewhere, you know, in in halfway into 0:05:27.760 --> 0:05:30.200 the summer. Um, let's think about the m v P race. 0:05:30.720 --> 0:05:33.080 If we think about the m v P race in 0:05:33.120 --> 0:05:35.039 the American League, I said it as part of the 0:05:35.080 --> 0:05:39.120 poll question before I am going with Carlos Correa. I 0:05:39.160 --> 0:05:41.360 think Carlos Korea. I mean, he had a great year 0:05:41.480 --> 0:05:43.560 last year. He had a great year last year. He 0:05:43.600 --> 0:05:46.880 was a first round fantasy pick in my opinion. Okay, 0:05:46.960 --> 0:05:49.840 and he only he had less than five hundred at 0:05:49.839 --> 0:05:53.480 bat because he missed sometimes at and thumb injury in 0:05:53.520 --> 0:05:55.480 the middle of the season. He had a full season 0:05:55.520 --> 0:05:59.279 out of him. As he's ascending without incredible pressure on 0:05:59.400 --> 0:06:02.680 him when it's after defending m v P. You know, 0:06:02.839 --> 0:06:05.520 next to him in the lineup, you know as his 0:06:05.600 --> 0:06:08.800 double Blake Combo. I like Korea, you can get him 0:06:08.800 --> 0:06:13.239 at plus eight hundred. Another short stop in the hell 0:06:13.360 --> 0:06:16.000 to think about that, as well as Francisco Lindor. A 0:06:16.040 --> 0:06:19.960 lot of people like the Cleveland Indians as does Speeds 0:06:20.839 --> 0:06:23.280 and uh lind Or could be the guy that carries him. 0:06:23.320 --> 0:06:25.240 But you can't forget about you know, that lineup is 0:06:25.279 --> 0:06:27.560 just so deep, similar to Houston, that it's hard to 0:06:27.600 --> 0:06:30.960 pick one guy out. You know, Jose Ramirez out of 0:06:31.000 --> 0:06:34.200 nowhere had an m v P kind of conversation. But honestly, 0:06:34.720 --> 0:06:37.200 I think you probably gotta go, you know, if you're 0:06:37.200 --> 0:06:40.600 not gonna do the Korea otherwise, I recommend this being 0:06:40.600 --> 0:06:42.760 a place where you go chalk and the chalk here 0:06:42.880 --> 0:06:46.119 is Mike Trout only plus one forty, right. But here's 0:06:46.160 --> 0:06:49.120 the thing. I think they have finally put some other 0:06:49.240 --> 0:06:52.760 offensive weapons around Mike Trout, and you're getting a full 0:06:52.800 --> 0:06:56.960 season of Justice Upton, You're getting be and Kinseler maybe 0:06:56.960 --> 0:06:58.800 at the top of that lineup. You know, I think 0:06:58.800 --> 0:07:01.680 the Coals Art signing as good as well. I think 0:07:01.720 --> 0:07:05.280 they're finally putting other pieces around Trout and that just 0:07:05.360 --> 0:07:08.520 leads to more runs and more RB I s okay, 0:07:08.560 --> 0:07:11.080 So I like Trout to maybe get a slight bump 0:07:11.160 --> 0:07:14.480 in his opportunity and potential for run production. So with 0:07:14.760 --> 0:07:18.240 that in mind, it really is hard going elsewhere in 0:07:18.280 --> 0:07:21.000 the American League for the most valuablelayer, especially when he 0:07:21.040 --> 0:07:22.920 didn't get it last year. You know, a lot of 0:07:22.920 --> 0:07:24.680 people used to say that it was the same kind 0:07:24.680 --> 0:07:27.640 of thing as oh Jordan or Lebron right now, like 0:07:27.920 --> 0:07:30.080 he could be the m v P every year and 0:07:30.160 --> 0:07:33.760 you know, and that argument was made for Mike Trout 0:07:33.840 --> 0:07:37.560 and then guess what, he didn't win it last year. 0:07:38.000 --> 0:07:40.680 You know what, Jose Altuve came up and did it 0:07:41.120 --> 0:07:44.640 last year. So you know, maybe it's time to get 0:07:44.720 --> 0:07:46.600 right back in line and give it to Mike Trout 0:07:46.640 --> 0:07:49.280 at plus one forty. I wouldn't be surprised that it's 0:07:49.280 --> 0:07:51.880 interesting to see what the Yankees are at. You know, 0:07:52.000 --> 0:07:55.640 stands at plus eight hundred, Judge at plus twelve hundred. 0:07:55.880 --> 0:07:57.440 If you want a dark horse and you think who's 0:07:57.480 --> 0:07:59.280 gonna benefit in that line of post and you think 0:07:59.280 --> 0:08:02.960 it's Gary and Jas, you can get him at plus hundred. 0:08:03.720 --> 0:08:07.200 Edward Incarnacion. If you want to take a chance on 0:08:07.360 --> 0:08:10.600 a different Indian, which could be interesting as at thirty 0:08:10.600 --> 0:08:14.480 five hundred. Uh what if Miguel SnO carries the twins 0:08:14.520 --> 0:08:17.840 in a surprise run, He's at sixty five hundred. Those 0:08:17.840 --> 0:08:20.480 are some guys if you want to, you know, go 0:08:20.560 --> 0:08:22.320 a little bit deeper and get a little bit of 0:08:22.320 --> 0:08:25.320 a bigger return from my clients on the stats over 0:08:25.400 --> 0:08:28.680 beat Cipher, that would be a place that I could 0:08:28.680 --> 0:08:31.920 see going. But honestly, you've gotta have Trout covered. I 0:08:31.960 --> 0:08:34.600 think it's the chalk on this one. Um is if 0:08:34.720 --> 0:08:37.200 if we go to the end now in terms of 0:08:37.400 --> 0:08:39.520 m v P, I am telling this story and you'll 0:08:39.520 --> 0:08:42.320 see this one I make my playoff predictions. I am 0:08:42.320 --> 0:08:44.720 telling the story that this could be a very very 0:08:44.800 --> 0:08:51.959 big swan song for one Bryce Harper in Washington. Right, 0:08:52.440 --> 0:08:55.360 that's said, he is a plus two fifty favorite for 0:08:55.400 --> 0:08:58.320 the n L m vv UM. Other than that, if 0:08:58.320 --> 0:09:01.040 you went to one of the Cubs, it's it's interesting 0:09:01.080 --> 0:09:03.760 to me that Rizzle is plus a thousand and Brian 0:09:03.880 --> 0:09:06.520 is plus three fifty. You know how much bigger a 0:09:06.640 --> 0:09:09.880 favorite Bryant is than Rizzo in that same lineup. If 0:09:09.920 --> 0:09:13.520 the Cubs go ahead and win nineties six games, right, 0:09:13.960 --> 0:09:16.720 you know, it could be either one of them that 0:09:16.840 --> 0:09:19.240 actually is the person who would get votes and be 0:09:19.679 --> 0:09:21.920 the guy who's seen as having the m v P 0:09:22.080 --> 0:09:26.080 season on that team in my opinion. You know. So 0:09:26.120 --> 0:09:28.400 it's interesting that you can get that difference in value 0:09:28.760 --> 0:09:31.240 between those guys. And and listen a lot of people, 0:09:31.480 --> 0:09:35.440 you know, the best actual hitter ballpark, be damned, you know, 0:09:35.720 --> 0:09:39.480 record be damned, could be just Nolan Arnaldo and and 0:09:39.520 --> 0:09:41.720 you know, every now and then, one of these players 0:09:41.760 --> 0:09:44.600 who are not on a team that is in a 0:09:44.679 --> 0:09:47.320 major market, not on a team that gets a lot 0:09:47.360 --> 0:09:51.400 of hype, you know, has this weird excuse um with 0:09:51.480 --> 0:09:54.600 the ballpark. You know, it doesn't get his dupe. But 0:09:54.720 --> 0:09:57.400 every now and then one of those kind of hitters 0:09:57.400 --> 0:10:01.000 just have an absolutely ridiculous season and you have to 0:10:01.000 --> 0:10:03.240 give him the m v P. And I think Nolan 0:10:03.400 --> 0:10:07.560 Arronado can threaten something like that this year as well. 0:10:07.640 --> 0:10:11.520 You could see him doing a three thirty five forty seven, 0:10:11.679 --> 0:10:15.240 one thirty kind of year and being just you know, 0:10:16.360 --> 0:10:19.000 the production being too hard to argue with. And if 0:10:19.040 --> 0:10:21.360 you wanted to do that, he is at a four 0:10:21.400 --> 0:10:25.560 to one right now, you know, so that I would 0:10:25.640 --> 0:10:28.160 still go, I want to go Harper. I like Harper, 0:10:28.240 --> 0:10:31.200 but I think Arronado could also get it done in 0:10:31.760 --> 0:10:35.360 the m L as we love. Then forget about the 0:10:35.400 --> 0:10:39.560 players now for a little bit, think about the actual 0:10:39.679 --> 0:10:41.800 teams here and this is where we make our predictions. 0:10:41.800 --> 0:10:43.640 And if listen, if you're a fan of the status 0:10:43.679 --> 0:10:45.960 of Beat Cipher, if you've been down with speed spitting 0:10:45.960 --> 0:10:49.120 statistician here in the Fantasy Sports Network for a hot minute, 0:10:49.400 --> 0:10:51.880 you know that this is where we make This is 0:10:51.880 --> 0:10:54.360 where we make our money. Okay, this is where we 0:10:54.400 --> 0:10:57.959 make our money. Last year at this time, I gave 0:10:58.040 --> 0:11:02.800 you the Houston Astros to win the al Pennant and 0:11:02.840 --> 0:11:04.360 I said, I liked them a little bit in the 0:11:04.400 --> 0:11:06.160 World Series, but they gave I gave you them in 0:11:06.200 --> 0:11:09.600 the ALCA for they to win the ALCS in the 0:11:09.720 --> 0:11:14.920 NFL season, I did the same thing with the Philadelphia Eagles. 0:11:15.000 --> 0:11:18.400 Checked the tape. Okay, so here is where you need 0:11:18.480 --> 0:11:22.160 to hear my World Series matchup and go put these 0:11:22.160 --> 0:11:25.560 teams a lot. And and I must say this first though. 0:11:25.920 --> 0:11:28.840 You know, we are in an era of baseball which 0:11:28.920 --> 0:11:34.440 is um top heavy. You know, there is about six 0:11:34.559 --> 0:11:39.319 or seven dominant teams in Major League Baseball right now, 0:11:39.360 --> 0:11:41.360 and we can name them all. You know, there's probably 0:11:41.400 --> 0:11:43.240 there's one in each division. You know, there was a 0:11:43.240 --> 0:11:46.160 big runaway in each division last year. There are big 0:11:46.200 --> 0:11:49.960 division favorites this year. You know, we're talking about in 0:11:50.040 --> 0:11:52.559 the AL we're talking about the Astronauts, We're talking about 0:11:52.559 --> 0:11:56.280 the Indians, We're talking about the Yankees. In the National League, 0:11:56.280 --> 0:11:58.400 you know, we're talking about the Doctors. We're talking about 0:11:58.440 --> 0:12:01.520 the Cubs, We're talking about the nash Choicals, right, and 0:12:01.559 --> 0:12:04.000 then you gotta put in the Red Sox a little bit. 0:12:04.080 --> 0:12:07.600 Then it's like who do you like? Right? So those 0:12:07.640 --> 0:12:10.560 are the teams, and yes, yes, my teams are from 0:12:10.559 --> 0:12:14.320 within that group. You know. I will say I like 0:12:14.440 --> 0:12:16.480 the Max as a dark horse to make the playoffs 0:12:16.520 --> 0:12:18.959 and make a move with that rotation. I really do. 0:12:19.520 --> 0:12:22.240 I will say I like what the Milwaukee Brewers are doing. 0:12:23.320 --> 0:12:25.559 I will say I like what the Los Angeles Angels 0:12:25.840 --> 0:12:29.839 are doing. We'll see what happens with old Tani. Okay um. 0:12:29.880 --> 0:12:32.439 I like what the Twins are doing, but I think 0:12:32.480 --> 0:12:37.520 they're years away. Um. So here's what I'll say is 0:12:37.600 --> 0:12:39.920 if you look at the NL Pennic, if you look 0:12:39.960 --> 0:12:43.679 at the NL Pennic, you have the first choice is 0:12:43.720 --> 0:12:47.560 the Dodgers, that's plus two huntres. The second choice is 0:12:47.600 --> 0:12:50.079 the Cubs at plus three third, the third choice is 0:12:50.120 --> 0:12:53.079 the Nats at plus three eight. Of those, I am 0:12:53.160 --> 0:12:55.840 going to refer back to that pole question about the 0:12:55.840 --> 0:12:58.440 best one to punch, and the only team here that 0:12:58.520 --> 0:13:02.080 has one of those is the Nats. Chinnals with Straus, 0:13:02.480 --> 0:13:05.720 uh Scherz and Strasbourg, and I'm gonna take them at 0:13:05.720 --> 0:13:08.240 plus three eighty. They are my National League pick right 0:13:08.320 --> 0:13:11.000 now book At the Washington Nationals, I think you can 0:13:11.040 --> 0:13:14.520 get an m V peak Aliber season out of Bryce Harper. 0:13:15.240 --> 0:13:19.880 I think you're gonna have trade turner tray tray tray, um, 0:13:19.920 --> 0:13:23.679 you know, stealing fifty to sixty bases, hitting, you know, 0:13:23.800 --> 0:13:27.560 around three hundred, getting on based scoring runs. Out of 0:13:27.600 --> 0:13:32.800 the Zimmerman Murphy group. You know you're gonna get some production. 0:13:33.240 --> 0:13:35.719 I think a healthy eating is a very good it's 0:13:35.760 --> 0:13:39.520 it's it's a good overall squad. If Doolittle can hold 0:13:39.520 --> 0:13:41.280 down the back end, then if not to have other 0:13:41.320 --> 0:13:44.920 options there, give me the Washington Nationals. I will say 0:13:45.000 --> 0:13:47.960 this my dark horse. And I can't believe I'm saying this, 0:13:48.400 --> 0:13:50.559 y'all who no speeds no as a Yankee pan, I 0:13:50.600 --> 0:13:52.600 can't believe I'm saying this my dark horse. Where I 0:13:52.600 --> 0:13:55.800 think they could be value is the New York Metropolitans. 0:13:56.559 --> 0:13:59.199 They are plus thirteen hundred. And if you tell me 0:13:59.440 --> 0:14:04.160 you can run out Syndergard to Graham and then whichever 0:14:04.240 --> 0:14:06.400 one of these other guys, whether it be Harvey or 0:14:06.520 --> 0:14:10.120 Matt's or you know, Vargas or Wheeler get hot throughout 0:14:10.160 --> 0:14:13.680 the year, that is formidable with an offense that has 0:14:13.800 --> 0:14:17.040 legitimate power that you don't think about. In the National 0:14:17.120 --> 0:14:22.200 League between not only Cespitics, but Bruce and Fraser and others. Uh, 0:14:22.280 --> 0:14:24.880 Comforto is back, going to be back very very soon 0:14:25.000 --> 0:14:26.920 as well. Watch out for the Mets. But my bit 0:14:27.000 --> 0:14:29.960 ultimately is the Washington Nationals. In the American League, you 0:14:30.000 --> 0:14:33.560 have co favorites Houston, Nash Rows and the New York 0:14:33.600 --> 0:14:37.680 Yankees are at plus two twenty. Give me the next 0:14:37.760 --> 0:14:40.960 choice once again, that's the Cleveland Indians at plus three thirty. 0:14:41.040 --> 0:14:44.240 I think the Injuries are gonna make a mockery of 0:14:44.280 --> 0:14:47.640 the A L Central. They will have the A L 0:14:47.720 --> 0:14:50.680 Central by the time you do your second beach wedding 0:14:50.760 --> 0:14:54.080 of the summer, okay, and and they'll be able to 0:14:54.200 --> 0:14:56.440 have home field advantage. I think the Indians will have 0:14:56.480 --> 0:14:58.360 home field avantage because they will run away with the 0:14:58.400 --> 0:15:03.560 A L Central. And I like then that matchup, okay, 0:15:03.800 --> 0:15:06.800 and give me the Indians at plus three thirty if 0:15:06.800 --> 0:15:10.400 you need a dark horse somehow, um, I like the 0:15:10.440 --> 0:15:13.360 Angels a little bit at plus eight hundred. If guys 0:15:13.400 --> 0:15:16.400 like Garrett Richards, if guys like Timer Skaggs, if guys 0:15:16.480 --> 0:15:20.920 like Matt Shoemaker and Altani, can you know can produce 0:15:21.000 --> 0:15:24.200 that offense is going to be better than people think. Um, 0:15:24.280 --> 0:15:26.600 so give me in the World Series the Cleveland Indians 0:15:26.640 --> 0:15:29.240 and the Washington Nationals. You can get them both to 0:15:29.320 --> 0:15:32.000 win the World Series at about plus six to plus 0:15:32.040 --> 0:15:35.080 eight hundred. That those are the moves I like. Give 0:15:35.160 --> 0:15:38.560 me the Indians over the Nationals in the very very 0:15:38.640 --> 0:15:41.920 and because I love these other pictures for the Indians, 0:15:41.960 --> 0:15:45.520 I love me. Not only do we have Bower, I mean, 0:15:45.520 --> 0:15:48.280 excuse me, not only do we have um Kluber, right, 0:15:48.400 --> 0:15:53.320 the cy Young Award winner, my pick to potentially do 0:15:53.400 --> 0:15:59.600 it again. Um. Then you have Carrasco. Then you have Bower, 0:15:59.640 --> 0:16:01.920 who we're gonna talk about again in a little bit 0:16:02.520 --> 0:16:06.080 when we put the fund in functional sports, okay. Um, 0:16:06.280 --> 0:16:11.600 then you have um Cleveringer, you know, and you have Salazar, 0:16:11.720 --> 0:16:13.800 and you have all these arms. You know, the bullpen, 0:16:13.880 --> 0:16:16.960 you have the have the way Tito Francona manages that bullpen. 0:16:17.280 --> 0:16:20.680 And you have an offense that is left and right 0:16:20.760 --> 0:16:23.720 filled with young up and coming talent, including potential m 0:16:23.800 --> 0:16:27.000 VP candidates. I can name three of them in the 0:16:27.120 --> 0:16:32.240 Lindor Ramirez and w e Edward Ariconnason Walking the parrot, 0:16:32.240 --> 0:16:35.800 give me the Cleveland Indians as Speeds is picked, get 0:16:35.840 --> 0:16:39.280 it done right here. That's the pick of the Fantasy 0:16:39.360 --> 0:16:43.120 free Style. Check this out. Um. What we're gonna do 0:16:43.200 --> 0:16:45.720 is when we come back, we're gonna talk. We're gonna 0:16:45.760 --> 0:16:48.160 continue the baseball theme. Okay, now that we got our 0:16:48.240 --> 0:16:51.040 picks in, We're gonna continue the baseball theme. And I'm 0:16:51.040 --> 0:16:52.680 gonna tell you about some things that I want you 0:16:52.760 --> 0:16:56.000 to see early on in the season. Here are some 0:16:56.080 --> 0:16:58.560 things we are going to pay attention to early on 0:16:58.600 --> 0:17:01.280 in the season with Stats over Beat Cipher. We're gonna 0:17:01.320 --> 0:17:04.240 pay attention to these things. 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Is it Max Sures, You're Steven 0:21:55.080 --> 0:21:57.920 Strausberg in Washington, Is it Judge in Stanton in New York? 0:21:58.240 --> 0:22:01.960 Is it Altuvee and Korea and Houston? Or is it 0:22:02.359 --> 0:22:05.879 Syndergard and Grom with the New York met You can 0:22:05.960 --> 0:22:08.879 find me on Twitter at Spitting Speeds. Also do me 0:22:08.880 --> 0:22:10.960 a favorite. The best thing to do here because early 0:22:11.040 --> 0:22:13.320 in the week catch me live in direct from Studio 0:22:13.400 --> 0:22:17.320 thirty four with the Fantasy Sports Network. Um. You see 0:22:17.359 --> 0:22:20.760 the video you know on Twitter on YouTube, um or 0:22:20.960 --> 0:22:22.640 you hear the Late week pod. But doom Mer favor. 0:22:22.720 --> 0:22:26.200 Wherever you get your podcast, subscribe, rate review, it really helps, 0:22:26.280 --> 0:22:28.280 you know, helps more people. It's like telling a friend 0:22:28.320 --> 0:22:30.440 to tell a friend, and that's how we do it digitally, 0:22:30.680 --> 0:22:33.840 you know, without the without the Russian farms and the box. 0:22:33.880 --> 0:22:35.840 But yo, if you got the Russian farms and bots 0:22:36.000 --> 0:22:39.000 Cambridge Analytica, come hollow at Boys Speeds. You know what 0:22:39.000 --> 0:22:42.280 I'm saying. Um, I told you about our overall picks. 0:22:42.440 --> 0:22:44.479 What we're gonna do right here is I'm gonna give 0:22:44.520 --> 0:22:46.960 you my regular news and notes from the Major League 0:22:47.000 --> 0:22:48.920 Baseball and we're gonna get into a couple of stories 0:22:48.960 --> 0:22:50.760 that I think are really important throughout the year. We're 0:22:50.760 --> 0:22:53.359 gonna keep our eye on. I'm first of all, sal 0:22:53.440 --> 0:22:56.960 Perez catcher for the Kinds City Royals. Um. He tore 0:22:57.040 --> 0:22:58.480 his m c L check this out. He tore his 0:22:58.600 --> 0:23:02.240 m CL while moving luggage. Okay, he is gonna be 0:23:02.320 --> 0:23:03.800 out like six to eight weeks they say, with an 0:23:03.880 --> 0:23:06.440 MCL injury. And this is the guy sal Perez who 0:23:06.440 --> 0:23:09.120 plays a lot of innings for the Kansa cy Roles, 0:23:09.160 --> 0:23:11.800 plays a lot of games. There was stretches. Remember Royals 0:23:11.840 --> 0:23:14.760 went to UH back to back World Series a few 0:23:14.800 --> 0:23:16.840 years ago and he was playing them and them playing 0:23:16.880 --> 0:23:19.760 in you know, w BC, and so so he is 0:23:19.800 --> 0:23:21.000 going to be on the shuff for a while. That 0:23:21.080 --> 0:23:23.720 is a big blow to wait Kansas City Royals offense 0:23:23.880 --> 0:23:26.919 that has already lost the likes of Lorenzo Caine, already 0:23:26.920 --> 0:23:29.080 lost the likes of Eric Cosimo. I don't expect much 0:23:29.080 --> 0:23:32.000 of that offense anyway, and betwise him and like wit 0:23:32.119 --> 0:23:34.879 Meryfield and now sal Perez is down. What what can 0:23:34.960 --> 0:23:37.200 move stocks do? That's a big blow to the Kansas 0:23:37.240 --> 0:23:40.080 City Royals. Remember one of the last free agent arms 0:23:40.080 --> 0:23:43.159 that were available in the bullpen was Greg Holland he 0:23:43.320 --> 0:23:47.200 now has uh signed a one year, fourteen million dollar 0:23:47.280 --> 0:23:50.159 deal with the St. Louis Cardinals. He's gonna probably have 0:23:50.160 --> 0:23:52.399 the Bolls role in St. Louis. That means Gregorson, who 0:23:52.680 --> 0:23:54.520 was kind of in line there, you gotta fade him. 0:23:54.560 --> 0:23:56.639 He is now full gazey, and I wanted to make 0:23:56.680 --> 0:23:59.760 it known check this out. You know, some of the 0:24:00.240 --> 0:24:02.760 big time details we're gonna be talking about all the time, 0:24:02.760 --> 0:24:04.560 and some of the statue we talk about London Angle. 0:24:04.680 --> 0:24:07.160 One of the big ones is exit velocity. Did you 0:24:07.240 --> 0:24:09.679 see in his first swing as a member of the 0:24:09.720 --> 0:24:13.640 New York Yankees, gian Carlo Stanton It's a home run 0:24:13.680 --> 0:24:17.280 to the opposite field? Okay, And that was sick enough. 0:24:17.320 --> 0:24:20.560 And I really love him going opo, especially in Yankee Stadium, 0:24:20.600 --> 0:24:23.560 going towards the short porch with that closed off stance. 0:24:23.600 --> 0:24:25.359 That's something the monitor. But here's why I think this 0:24:25.320 --> 0:24:29.879 is important. His exit velocity for this was one hundred 0:24:30.000 --> 0:24:35.199 and seventeen miles an hour. That is the fastest or 0:24:35.240 --> 0:24:39.560 hardest exit below that has been measured ever going to 0:24:39.640 --> 0:24:42.800 the opposite field. All right, So that's the kind of 0:24:42.880 --> 0:24:45.520 power of raw power that he is going to be bringing. 0:24:45.600 --> 0:24:47.240 I wanted to make sure I mentioned that because I 0:24:47.240 --> 0:24:49.520 also wanted to make sure I mentioned that you can 0:24:49.560 --> 0:24:53.000 get that new exit Velo City shirt out of road 0:24:53.000 --> 0:24:55.119 away with my boy Kenneth Cashman, you know what it 0:24:55.200 --> 0:24:57.639 is over there. The other thing I gotta tell you 0:24:57.680 --> 0:25:00.840 about is if you're in the DFS world, Okay, you've 0:25:00.840 --> 0:25:03.159 gotta go on over the Fantasy Factor. 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There's a couple of 0:25:35.080 --> 0:25:37.600 other stories I really want to talk about that you 0:25:37.640 --> 0:25:39.560 need to keep your eye on in Major League Baseball 0:25:39.560 --> 0:25:42.639 where you're celebrating, you know, opening Day, opening weekend, and 0:25:42.680 --> 0:25:45.720 Major League Baseball where hope springs eternal over here in 0:25:45.920 --> 0:25:51.040 nyc um so nice it named to twice that I 0:25:51.040 --> 0:25:53.600 think the Mets and the Yankees are playoff bounds this 0:25:53.680 --> 0:25:56.399 year for interesting different reasons. The Yankees with their bullpen, 0:25:56.480 --> 0:25:58.480 with their offense, that that's what they're starting pitching. So 0:25:58.480 --> 0:26:00.679 it's gonna be a very interesting season and will it 0:26:00.760 --> 0:26:02.960 be the top heavy teams like I discussed. But here's 0:26:03.000 --> 0:26:05.400 another theme is you know, the spike and home runs 0:26:05.400 --> 0:26:07.639 and people are talking about this launch angle and people 0:26:07.640 --> 0:26:10.040 are talking about exit. V low I talked about power 0:26:10.119 --> 0:26:12.920 that you needed to get in fantasy baseball draft. Big 0:26:12.960 --> 0:26:15.879 shout out to the King's goot angle. Will can me up. 0:26:15.880 --> 0:26:18.159 I did some writing and you can go and get that. 0:26:18.280 --> 0:26:21.320 It's in the Washington Post right now on Associated Press 0:26:21.560 --> 0:26:24.119 my article about getting power in fantasy baseball. You can 0:26:24.119 --> 0:26:27.560 also find it on my Twitter. Um. But the ball itself, 0:26:27.880 --> 0:26:29.159 I think it's something that is going to have a 0:26:29.200 --> 0:26:31.200 lot of conversation. Part of the spike of this is 0:26:31.240 --> 0:26:33.359 not just you know, people trying to uppercut swing and 0:26:33.400 --> 0:26:35.720 the three two outcomes. People are thinking that the ball 0:26:35.840 --> 0:26:39.360 itself is part of the change. Listen, last year there 0:26:39.359 --> 0:26:42.399 were six thousand, one hundred and five home runs in 0:26:42.440 --> 0:26:44.879 Major League Baseball. That is a new record, heat beat 0:26:45.280 --> 0:26:48.480 um by over five hundred home runs. The height of 0:26:48.480 --> 0:26:51.920 the steroid U in two thousand, which had the record okay, 0:26:52.080 --> 0:26:54.440 and it beat last year which was third all time 0:26:54.800 --> 0:26:58.040 by five fifty home runs. Okay, this is a growing trend. 0:26:58.080 --> 0:27:00.800 There has been a huge spike, and the ball itself 0:27:00.880 --> 0:27:05.439 is another variable. The balls did actually change okay after 0:27:05.760 --> 0:27:10.320 the like two fifteen All Star break. Okay. Um, Sports 0:27:10.359 --> 0:27:12.800 Science has said this, ESPN has said this, five thirty eight, 0:27:12.840 --> 0:27:15.359 They've all verified this. Okay. Um. But most of this, 0:27:15.720 --> 0:27:17.520 most of when you look at the ball, most of 0:27:17.560 --> 0:27:19.560 you think about like the exterior, but it was actually 0:27:19.600 --> 0:27:22.679 the interior what they call the quote unquote rubber quoted 0:27:22.680 --> 0:27:27.760 pill that um. You know, they found differences in the 0:27:27.840 --> 0:27:32.080 newer ones are less dense in the core okay, literally 0:27:32.119 --> 0:27:34.200 a lighter core of the baseball, which could make it 0:27:34.240 --> 0:27:37.119 fly further. The actual chemical composition of it is different. 0:27:37.240 --> 0:27:41.200 It is bouncier, it is less air resistant okay. And 0:27:41.600 --> 0:27:45.679 the seams are um, not as raids. It's the seams 0:27:45.720 --> 0:27:48.400 are actually less raised there, the ball is slicker. All 0:27:48.440 --> 0:27:52.760 of these things help, you know, um, reduce a drag 0:27:52.800 --> 0:27:55.040 and wood resistance so that the ball actually does fly. 0:27:55.359 --> 0:27:57.359 I also, I have been telling you guys I've been 0:27:57.400 --> 0:28:00.840 telling my BFFs Mikey Florio and Ranks standfill for the 0:28:00.880 --> 0:28:03.439 last like two years that they changed the manufacturer of 0:28:03.480 --> 0:28:09.080 the ball, literally Rawlings plan moved from Haiti to Costa Rica. Um. 0:28:09.119 --> 0:28:11.560 And at the same time, Rawlings was also like applying 0:28:12.160 --> 0:28:16.320 for patents on how to make bouncy your balls outside 0:28:16.320 --> 0:28:19.200 of making their Major League Baseball contract, so like they 0:28:19.200 --> 0:28:21.600 had that technology to do. So this is not some 0:28:21.640 --> 0:28:24.560 conspiracy theory. This is this is straight up like they 0:28:24.560 --> 0:28:29.000 applied for the pattern, like that's documentable. Okay. Um, when 0:28:29.000 --> 0:28:31.119 you add all of these things together, you know, like 0:28:31.160 --> 0:28:35.080 the slicker ball, the lighter core, the potential differences in 0:28:35.080 --> 0:28:39.640 the pill the differences in like the scenes, the raisiness 0:28:39.640 --> 0:28:43.360 of the scenes. Um, scientists say you can go eight 0:28:43.480 --> 0:28:47.480 and a half feet for them. Okay. Statisticians say that's 0:28:48.440 --> 0:28:50.640 kind of a difference in home runs that could make 0:28:50.640 --> 0:28:53.200 a huge spike like what we've seen from say two 0:28:53.200 --> 0:28:55.920 thousand fourteen or two thousand seventeen, where we've seen literally 0:28:56.000 --> 0:29:01.840 at spike in home runs. Okay, so this is absolutely 0:29:01.880 --> 0:29:04.040 real and then check it out, you know, but Major 0:29:04.080 --> 0:29:07.880 League Baseball sort of still says, oh no, you know, 0:29:07.920 --> 0:29:10.719 we're not doing anything differently, but a lot of players are, 0:29:11.200 --> 0:29:14.120 you know, saying like I have seen baseballs that were 0:29:14.160 --> 0:29:16.720 from this era and from a different era. You can tell. 0:29:16.880 --> 0:29:19.400 And Justin Verlander is big on this. You know, Justin 0:29:19.480 --> 0:29:22.200 Verlander is very Um. You know, he's been outspoken in 0:29:22.280 --> 0:29:26.160 the past before. Um. You know, I venture to say 0:29:26.160 --> 0:29:30.120 the Richard, the Richard Sherman of uh major League Baseball 0:29:30.160 --> 0:29:33.920 with a but with a postal model wife. Um. And 0:29:34.040 --> 0:29:40.800 he literally said that he shouted out by Manford on 0:29:40.880 --> 0:29:43.800 this said he thinks there's enough out there to say that. Um. 0:29:43.840 --> 0:29:45.800 When Manford says the balls haven't changed, that that is 0:29:45.840 --> 0:29:47.600 not true. This is you know, he was in the 0:29:47.600 --> 0:29:49.720 World Series where there was twenty four home runs in 0:29:49.760 --> 0:29:53.400 seven games. Okay, he actually tweeted this out. I put 0:29:53.440 --> 0:29:56.640 it on my timeline as well, a graph of saying 0:29:56.680 --> 0:29:59.040 like the eggs of velosity and the launch angle, you know, 0:29:59.080 --> 0:30:01.480 which would be you know, in essence, if you're thinking 0:30:01.480 --> 0:30:05.000 about geometry, you know, like how far it's gonna go 0:30:05.040 --> 0:30:08.960 and at what line? Right? Um, And that's a that's 0:30:09.120 --> 0:30:10.720 part of it. And then the other thing would be 0:30:10.760 --> 0:30:13.479 to see when you launch those parables and how far 0:30:13.560 --> 0:30:16.600 they go and how far they fly, um, how many 0:30:16.640 --> 0:30:19.080 of them are home runs? And he's and and this 0:30:19.200 --> 0:30:25.240 graph that Verlander tweeted out shows that there is actually 0:30:25.240 --> 0:30:28.600 a difference that balls that were hit in with the 0:30:28.640 --> 0:30:31.640 same exit velocity and launch angle in two thousand fourteen 0:30:31.640 --> 0:30:35.200 first two thousand seventeen now are home runs. So the variables, like, 0:30:35.240 --> 0:30:37.760 you know, if we're doing this scientific method, the variables 0:30:37.840 --> 0:30:41.160 are is the ball itself right? And so you know, 0:30:41.400 --> 0:30:44.720 Verlanda says, listen, it's ultimately fine because it's the same 0:30:44.760 --> 0:30:46.360 for all, but he's on. He's just more on some 0:30:46.480 --> 0:30:49.360 like don't lie kind of thing about it. And and 0:30:49.360 --> 0:30:51.240 and for me, you know, so this is this is 0:30:51.280 --> 0:30:54.000 something to look at all year, the ball itself, the 0:30:54.040 --> 0:30:56.680 home runs, the launch angle, this power. This is going 0:30:56.720 --> 0:30:59.240 to be something that is talked about at nauseum this 0:30:59.280 --> 0:31:02.000 season because we are going to see offense and chicks 0:31:02.040 --> 0:31:05.960 Doug do luck dig the long ball, right. But for me, 0:31:06.040 --> 0:31:08.880 it's a larger thing. Okay, for me, it's this idea 0:31:08.920 --> 0:31:13.760 of baseball at such a record book sport. Okay, you 0:31:13.760 --> 0:31:16.840 know that honors its traditions and its records, and it's 0:31:16.920 --> 0:31:20.920 it's numbers, right and we talk about things like, oh, 0:31:20.960 --> 0:31:23.440 the steroids era and and and the stats that Marry 0:31:23.480 --> 0:31:27.040 Bonds had. I have maintained that I don't care about steroids. 0:31:27.080 --> 0:31:28.840 And one of the reasons why it is because you 0:31:28.920 --> 0:31:33.120 can't compare errors. You cannot tell the difference between you know, 0:31:33.400 --> 0:31:36.360 after expansion, or in a sport that raises and lowers 0:31:36.400 --> 0:31:39.240 the mound, or in a sport wherein one league the 0:31:39.280 --> 0:31:42.200 picture can hit and in another league the picture cannot. 0:31:42.360 --> 0:31:45.600 Or when Babe Ruth never hit a home run against 0:31:45.720 --> 0:31:48.160 a black man or a Spanish man. And now you're 0:31:48.160 --> 0:31:50.800 also going to tell me that they're changing the ball 0:31:50.920 --> 0:31:54.560 itself and the composition of the ball to potentially angle 0:31:54.600 --> 0:31:57.720 what kind of effort would relate in what kind of outcome. 0:31:58.080 --> 0:32:02.920 That's why another argument why you cannot like compare era 0:32:03.000 --> 0:32:06.000 to era in the things like the Hall of Fame, 0:32:06.040 --> 0:32:09.120 why these steroids should not be an automatic qualifier and 0:32:09.240 --> 0:32:14.040 disqualifier out for the Hall of Fame. You know, there 0:32:14.040 --> 0:32:18.200 have been so many changes and evolutions in the game. 0:32:18.680 --> 0:32:21.040 That's just another reason why you have to compare era 0:32:21.440 --> 0:32:24.520 verse era. But this conversation about the ball itself is 0:32:24.560 --> 0:32:26.920 going to be there and be there in a big 0:32:27.040 --> 0:32:29.880 way watch that ball season, and we'll keep talking about 0:32:29.920 --> 0:32:31.600 it on the stats over beat Cipher right here on 0:32:31.640 --> 0:32:34.920 the Fantasy Freestyle. Another topic that I think will be 0:32:35.000 --> 0:32:39.120 a theme all season long is the shift. Okay, the shift. 0:32:40.520 --> 0:32:43.800 It is a huge deal, and the shift will continue 0:32:44.840 --> 0:32:47.720 to be a big deal, and some teams are going 0:32:47.800 --> 0:32:50.120 to get even more and more extreme with you. Remember, 0:32:50.240 --> 0:32:53.200 everyone is tinkering with everything. Remember how in the last 0:32:53.240 --> 0:32:55.560 episode we talked about a four man and a bullpend 0:32:55.640 --> 0:32:58.760 day foreman rotation and a bullpend day. How multiple teams 0:32:58.760 --> 0:33:03.960 are thinking about going six man rotations. Give everybody extra rests. Okay, 0:33:04.000 --> 0:33:07.480 Another thing is in this shift. We have seen dramatic shifts, 0:33:07.520 --> 0:33:10.480 but a J. Hinch is talking about for the Astros 0:33:10.480 --> 0:33:15.640 potentially doing things even crazier um with left with pull lefties, 0:33:16.680 --> 0:33:21.160 moving third baseman Alex Bregman from left excuse me, from 0:33:21.240 --> 0:33:23.960 third base and putting him in left field, moving the 0:33:24.040 --> 0:33:26.360 left fielder over the left center, the right field, the 0:33:26.400 --> 0:33:28.920 center field over the right center, leaving the right fielder 0:33:29.200 --> 0:33:31.280 you know. And then this does not even end the 0:33:31.400 --> 0:33:34.000 idea of the Martini glass shift, where you already have 0:33:34.360 --> 0:33:38.240 Altove in this scenario playing in short right center field. 0:33:38.280 --> 0:33:41.840 So in essence, we're talking about five defensive players on 0:33:41.920 --> 0:33:46.360 the outfield grass, the shortstop in essence directly behind second 0:33:46.360 --> 0:33:51.120 base and then at first baseman. Okay, we're talking about 0:33:51.160 --> 0:33:54.040 that kind of extreme and and and part of it, 0:33:55.040 --> 0:34:01.000 as Hinge explains, it is the mental aspect of He says, quote, 0:34:01.160 --> 0:34:03.600 there is a psychological part of this on the hitter 0:34:03.680 --> 0:34:06.120 that I'm looking at. Two. How much does it mess 0:34:06.160 --> 0:34:08.239 with the psyche of the hitter? And I've watched this 0:34:08.280 --> 0:34:10.520 spring guys try to change their swing and try to 0:34:10.600 --> 0:34:12.200 hit the ball the other way and hit the ball 0:34:12.200 --> 0:34:14.879 to the gap. That's largely advantage to us when big 0:34:14.960 --> 0:34:17.759 hitters like that do that. And I don't know, I 0:34:17.800 --> 0:34:21.160 am off of two minds on this, okay, because I 0:34:21.239 --> 0:34:24.640 used to always say, you should try and take your 0:34:24.719 --> 0:34:26.799 hit against the shift. If you bump down the third 0:34:26.840 --> 0:34:29.120 base line just one time. They've got to keep you 0:34:29.160 --> 0:34:32.239 on this. And if this is happening so dramatically, these 0:34:32.239 --> 0:34:35.200 power hitters need to learn how to just take their 0:34:35.280 --> 0:34:37.560 hit go the other way. That's what you think. But 0:34:37.600 --> 0:34:40.200 I'm reminded once I um I used to work for 0:34:40.239 --> 0:34:43.359 an organization that had marked to share on its board, 0:34:43.400 --> 0:34:46.239 and I spoke to Mark about this. Okay, a big 0:34:46.280 --> 0:34:48.600 pole hitter. Teams used to shift against them, and I said, 0:34:48.719 --> 0:34:51.719 why don't you just drop, you know, butcher boy on 0:34:51.719 --> 0:34:54.319 one down third base or slap one down third base. 0:34:54.400 --> 0:34:56.600 He looked at me and he said, Dane, I'm paid 0:34:56.600 --> 0:34:58.799 to drive in runs. And he said he can't get 0:34:58.840 --> 0:35:01.280 into that. So I wonder if there is a mental 0:35:01.320 --> 0:35:04.680 aspect like that. Last year. You know, Joe Madden has 0:35:04.719 --> 0:35:07.919 done this before. He's one of the only managers who 0:35:07.920 --> 0:35:10.280 has done this. Okay, he did it against Big Poppy 0:35:10.320 --> 0:35:11.920 when he was the Rage manager. He did it in 0:35:12.000 --> 0:35:15.000 last year in two thousand and seventeen against Joey Vado. 0:35:15.080 --> 0:35:16.560 You know, it kind of reminds me of like in 0:35:16.640 --> 0:35:19.440 Beer League softball. You know, you can pull everything, but 0:35:19.520 --> 0:35:21.840 do you try to go opposite field? And if you try, 0:35:22.160 --> 0:35:23.920 you're not putting your good swing on it. I do. 0:35:24.080 --> 0:35:27.080 I know that from Zog Sports. Instead, I'm gonna try 0:35:27.080 --> 0:35:28.760 and break and I'm gonna try and hit a dope 0:35:28.760 --> 0:35:31.560 line drive right up the middle to left center field, 0:35:32.080 --> 0:35:35.239 you know. And so I would do that regardless of 0:35:35.360 --> 0:35:37.799 the defensive layout. So I see it both ways. But 0:35:37.840 --> 0:35:42.160 this is something you're gonna see throughout the rest of 0:35:42.239 --> 0:35:44.759 the season. The shifts that people come up with the 0:35:44.800 --> 0:35:47.920 defense is usually driven by data, is going to be 0:35:48.040 --> 0:35:50.359 very interesting. And the other part that I want to say, 0:35:50.400 --> 0:35:52.279 here's the last thing I want to say. We're gonna 0:35:52.320 --> 0:35:54.720 be seeing this for the next two and a half months, 0:35:54.960 --> 0:35:57.799 so a good chunk of the baseball season. And I'm 0:35:57.840 --> 0:35:59.799 telling you here on the status of beat Cipher, you 0:35:59.840 --> 0:36:02.600 have to hear about it, probably first or at least second, 0:36:03.080 --> 0:36:05.960 at least better than fifth. Let's say, all right, and 0:36:06.000 --> 0:36:09.120 this is why one of my favorite players on the 0:36:09.120 --> 0:36:12.000 team that I'm picking now for the World Series is 0:36:12.040 --> 0:36:14.200 Trevor Bauer. First of all, if you ever remember the 0:36:14.200 --> 0:36:16.560 show twenty four, one of the best shows was in 0:36:16.680 --> 0:36:19.839 our Best TV Show of All Time tournament. Shout out 0:36:19.840 --> 0:36:22.319 to Chris Bovona, the manimal who held us down with 0:36:22.400 --> 0:36:26.239 that tournament. So if you know about Jack Bauer, then 0:36:26.280 --> 0:36:29.480 you love Trevor Bauer. Um. But Trevor Bauer is a 0:36:29.520 --> 0:36:36.520 fun loving guy. Um In two thousand sixteen, two years ago. 0:36:38.120 --> 0:36:39.640 You may have heard of him when he was in 0:36:39.680 --> 0:36:45.080 the playoffs and he um had to pitch, but with 0:36:45.160 --> 0:36:47.799 a huge injury to his hand after he was in 0:36:47.840 --> 0:36:50.480 a drone accident. He was flying a drone and his 0:36:50.600 --> 0:36:53.279 hand got caught in the propeller, sliced his hand up, 0:36:53.320 --> 0:36:56.279 all kinds of nasty. His horrible pictures. Go online and 0:36:56.360 --> 0:36:58.960 check it out. And he pitched through it, tried to 0:36:58.960 --> 0:37:01.320 pitch through it anyway. You remember like the bloody stock 0:37:01.360 --> 0:37:04.400 of Schilling. Well this was actual that, this was real, Okay, 0:37:04.440 --> 0:37:06.359 but then check this out. He, like I said before, 0:37:06.400 --> 0:37:10.920 making a mockery of the arbitration system. He basically just 0:37:10.960 --> 0:37:13.800 wanted to be funny. And so at first he wanted 0:37:13.840 --> 0:37:16.359 to have his request and architration should be six point 0:37:16.440 --> 0:37:20.040 nine million, sixty nine right, But his lawyers were like, 0:37:20.080 --> 0:37:21.560 now you can't do that. That's too high. But so 0:37:21.600 --> 0:37:23.480 here's what he settled on as his requests. What he 0:37:23.480 --> 0:37:26.719 wanted to check this out, six million, four hundred and 0:37:26.719 --> 0:37:31.840 twenty thousand, nine hundred sixty nine and ninety six cents. Okay, 0:37:31.960 --> 0:37:34.319 that's an important number in this story. This is how 0:37:34.360 --> 0:37:36.080 he wanted to do it. At the four twenty in 0:37:36.120 --> 0:37:38.160 there and at the sixty nine in there, he says, 0:37:38.280 --> 0:37:39.920 I just think it's a good number. I think it 0:37:39.960 --> 0:37:43.920 actually accurately reflects my place in the salary structure relative 0:37:44.000 --> 0:37:48.000 to other athletes. Right, he goes back and forth in arbitration. 0:37:48.040 --> 0:37:50.440 He finally settles on this number that doesn't have any 0:37:50.520 --> 0:37:53.240 drug references at drug references and this comes from Jeff 0:37:53.239 --> 0:37:57.000 Pisson Yahoo. Right. He goes in arbitration, he's going for 0:37:57.040 --> 0:37:58.960 six point five to five, and he wins the case. 0:37:59.120 --> 0:38:04.239 But he's still just wants the six point four million. Right. Um, 0:38:04.360 --> 0:38:06.600 So what he decides to do, and this is where 0:38:06.600 --> 0:38:11.879 it gets amazing. He decides to give away the difference. Okay, 0:38:11.920 --> 0:38:14.000 it's gonna be like around a hundred thousand dollars. He's 0:38:14.000 --> 0:38:16.400 gonna give it away in a campaign that he is 0:38:16.440 --> 0:38:19.200 calling get this, he's really harping on it, the sixty 0:38:19.320 --> 0:38:22.560 nine days of giving. Okay, what he is going to 0:38:22.640 --> 0:38:25.920 do is he's going to give four hundred and twenty 0:38:25.960 --> 0:38:30.600 dollars and sixty nine cents to a charity of choice 0:38:31.440 --> 0:38:34.040 for the next sixty nine days. This is gonna total 0:38:34.120 --> 0:38:37.759 something like nine eight thousand dollars that he's giving away. Right, 0:38:38.120 --> 0:38:40.120 and then you he's paying somebody to like, you know, 0:38:40.160 --> 0:38:43.480 help administer administer the contest and the website and stuff 0:38:43.480 --> 0:38:45.640 like that with the rest of like the difference of 0:38:45.920 --> 0:38:50.160 his arbitration money, right, uh, Jeff Passing in the In 0:38:50.200 --> 0:38:53.080 the article, they call it benevolent trolling. Bauer goes, I'm 0:38:53.080 --> 0:38:55.319 just trying to give its charity. Man. I'm fortunate enough 0:38:55.360 --> 0:38:56.840 to be in a position where I have the ability 0:38:56.880 --> 0:38:58.560 to do that, I have the means to do that. 0:38:58.600 --> 0:39:00.000 I'm in a good spot, and I can use my 0:39:00.080 --> 0:39:02.560 platform to spread stuff that I'm passionate about. He made 0:39:02.560 --> 0:39:05.880 a video on Twitter. I um, I retweeted that joint. 0:39:06.360 --> 0:39:09.160 It is very funny. Um, you gotta check it out. 0:39:09.280 --> 0:39:14.000 Trevor Bauer is my new favorite um status over beats 0:39:14.040 --> 0:39:16.279 honoree um, So you gotta check that out. And you 0:39:16.360 --> 0:39:19.239 also got to nominate what charity. Let me know on 0:39:19.280 --> 0:39:22.720 Twitter at spitting Speeds what charity should we suggest he's taken, 0:39:22.760 --> 0:39:25.279 you know, suggestions on where he's gonna donate his four 0:39:25.719 --> 0:39:28.760 and twenty dollars and sixty nine cents. So we gotta 0:39:28.840 --> 0:39:31.160 let him know, and if we get some good ideas, 0:39:31.480 --> 0:39:33.840 we gotta uh definitely holler at him from the stats 0:39:33.880 --> 0:39:35.600 over beats cipher all right, check it out when we 0:39:35.680 --> 0:39:37.480 come back. But we're gonna do is. 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We're in this kind of malaise, okay. 0:43:17.320 --> 0:43:20.680 Everybody is kind of getting into their corners okay, and 0:43:20.760 --> 0:43:24.000 preparing for the draft. We've had pro days and combines. 0:43:24.080 --> 0:43:26.400 Now everyone's getting ready for the draft, which will be 0:43:26.400 --> 0:43:28.160 in about four weeks. We're gonna bring it to you 0:43:28.200 --> 0:43:30.600 hot on the Fantasy Sports Network. You know how we 0:43:30.640 --> 0:43:31.960 do it. You know how we did it last year 0:43:32.000 --> 0:43:35.000 as well, me Corey Parson, the Fantasy executive. It was 0:43:35.040 --> 0:43:38.000 Mike Blewett holding it down Mommy and Emery Hunt. He 0:43:38.080 --> 0:43:40.600 is the glitch in the system, the czar of the playbook. 0:43:41.000 --> 0:43:43.560 He's doing big things here with the Fantasy Sports Network 0:43:43.600 --> 0:43:45.640 as well. We had a good old time breaking it 0:43:45.680 --> 0:43:47.440 down for you. Hopefully we'll be able to do it 0:43:47.480 --> 0:43:49.799 again bringing it to you live and direct for the 0:43:49.920 --> 0:43:52.759 NFL Draft later on this month. But now you know, 0:43:53.120 --> 0:43:55.880 the free agency wave has settled in, the teams have 0:43:56.000 --> 0:43:58.040 making some trades. You're in the you're in the point 0:43:58.040 --> 0:44:00.520 of time and you can't believe much of anything. That 0:44:00.640 --> 0:44:03.759 is coming out of any organization. Everyone is in the 0:44:03.800 --> 0:44:06.399 greatest shape of his life. Everyone. You know, they want 0:44:06.400 --> 0:44:08.920 to work out a deal. You know that the franchise 0:44:08.960 --> 0:44:11.880 tags have passed. Everything is kind of settled in now 0:44:12.120 --> 0:44:15.400 for the draft, right And the one thing that we 0:44:15.480 --> 0:44:18.560 are hearing that is big in the NFL right now 0:44:19.200 --> 0:44:22.640 is the New York Giants and Odell Beckham. I think 0:44:22.680 --> 0:44:26.279 the chasm between them is widening. Okay, you're hearing a 0:44:26.320 --> 0:44:30.200 lot of stuff at these owners meetings from from John Mara. 0:44:30.560 --> 0:44:33.839 And this is not an owner that talks very much. Okay, 0:44:33.880 --> 0:44:35.799 this is this is one of these quote unquote blue 0:44:35.800 --> 0:44:38.440 blood franchisees, you know what I mean. So when you 0:44:38.480 --> 0:44:43.560 hear him say things like, um, he's tired of Odell's antics. 0:44:44.000 --> 0:44:47.000 When you hear things like he's on the team right 0:44:47.000 --> 0:44:50.680 now at that kind of qualifier, when you hear him 0:44:50.719 --> 0:44:52.680 say no, he's not on the trading block. But at 0:44:52.719 --> 0:44:57.320 the same time, here nobody is untradeable. You know, I'm 0:44:57.360 --> 0:45:00.520 starting to put some things together, and I really think 0:45:00.560 --> 0:45:03.080 that part of this. Listen, they got this JPP trade 0:45:03.719 --> 0:45:05.640 already happened to try to get better and like the 0:45:05.640 --> 0:45:10.400 second the third round, Um, and they have the number 0:45:10.400 --> 0:45:12.960 two pick. So I'm thinking there they might be getting 0:45:12.960 --> 0:45:15.640 serious offers for this number two picks from a team 0:45:15.640 --> 0:45:17.919 that wants to hop up, hop over the New York 0:45:17.960 --> 0:45:20.640 Jets for a quarterback. And remember, think about this, if 0:45:20.640 --> 0:45:24.920 you flip the number two overall, and you flip Odell Beckham, 0:45:25.000 --> 0:45:27.160 you might be able to get a boatload of picks. 0:45:27.239 --> 0:45:29.359 We've heard the Rams out there with two picks, We've 0:45:29.360 --> 0:45:31.360 heard the Bills out there with two picks, you know, 0:45:31.400 --> 0:45:34.799 so you would be able to get a whole haul 0:45:35.239 --> 0:45:38.360 like what the Cleveland Browns did when they were playing moneyball, 0:45:38.960 --> 0:45:41.480 you know what I mean. And that is very, very interesting, 0:45:41.840 --> 0:45:45.319 So keep your eye on that. It's looking to me 0:45:45.440 --> 0:45:48.200 like they are priming the pump for this to actually happen, 0:45:48.520 --> 0:45:51.200 you know, tryout balloons in the media and want not 0:45:51.400 --> 0:45:53.319 just to see and the other thing that really came 0:45:53.320 --> 0:45:54.920 out of this and we tried we touched on it 0:45:55.120 --> 0:45:57.960 on a previous episode of The Fantasy FREESTYFF. But this 0:45:58.040 --> 0:46:00.480 idea of now what they're calling I've what At first 0:46:00.480 --> 0:46:02.239 it was just the targeting rule kind of like in 0:46:02.280 --> 0:46:04.000 the n C double A. But there now they're saying 0:46:04.040 --> 0:46:07.720 like just lowering head to make contact. There's a fifteen 0:46:07.800 --> 0:46:11.520 year penalty and a potential ejection. And what they the 0:46:11.560 --> 0:46:17.439 part that I thought was, you know, really a gift 0:46:17.480 --> 0:46:19.440 and a curse, is that they're saying that this is 0:46:19.480 --> 0:46:22.520 not just like tackling, and this is not just free 0:46:22.520 --> 0:46:25.840 safeties and coming over the middle. This is offensive players, 0:46:26.120 --> 0:46:30.319 running backs lowering their shoulder, lowering their head going through 0:46:30.360 --> 0:46:34.480 the line. They're saying, this is linemen in the trenches 0:46:35.239 --> 0:46:38.320 leading with their head, lowering their head to make contact. 0:46:38.560 --> 0:46:41.400 They are literally saying, he's a tackler's ball carriers lineman. 0:46:41.600 --> 0:46:45.359 They showed videotape of the Ryan Shazier, you know, I mean, 0:46:46.360 --> 0:46:49.520 they are serious about this. But my problem with this 0:46:49.600 --> 0:46:50.960 and and and they're trying to match it up with 0:46:51.120 --> 0:46:53.719 say like the n C double a language around the 0:46:53.760 --> 0:46:56.960 targeting and hopefully it trickles down all the way to 0:46:57.560 --> 0:47:02.520 you know, high schools youth football. Right, But my thing 0:47:02.600 --> 0:47:06.839 is this, you are I like it in the long 0:47:06.920 --> 0:47:08.880 run because they have to as as the league is 0:47:08.880 --> 0:47:11.319 now saying, get the head out of the game, you know, 0:47:11.600 --> 0:47:14.880 and get the get the CT and the concussions and 0:47:14.920 --> 0:47:17.560 the head trauma out of the game, and listen and 0:47:17.680 --> 0:47:20.000 understand how how to tackle and how to play this 0:47:20.080 --> 0:47:21.759 game in the heads up way. They're doing a lot 0:47:21.800 --> 0:47:25.600 more now with that, and I think that's good, Okay, 0:47:25.640 --> 0:47:27.480 But at the same time, what I'm telling you is 0:47:27.480 --> 0:47:29.320 in the short term, and this is why it is 0:47:29.360 --> 0:47:31.759 a theme for you guys on the status over beach 0:47:31.800 --> 0:47:35.440 site where to look for in this next year coming up. 0:47:35.480 --> 0:47:38.040 This is kind of what we've been doing all all episode. 0:47:38.040 --> 0:47:40.280 I've been telling you the themes in Major League Baseball, 0:47:40.320 --> 0:47:42.560 where it be the shift, where it be the ball 0:47:42.600 --> 0:47:46.239 itself and the home run launch angle stuff, or in 0:47:46.280 --> 0:47:50.040 the NFL, this is going to be a theme um 0:47:50.080 --> 0:47:53.799 lowering the head to make contact. Um. Yeah, it's good 0:47:53.840 --> 0:47:57.040 in the long run. But in the short term, what 0:47:57.200 --> 0:47:59.080 we are going to see in the two thousand and 0:47:59.080 --> 0:48:05.120 eighteen NFL se reason is a huge spike in penalties. Okay, 0:48:05.160 --> 0:48:06.560 this is going to be called you know how they 0:48:06.560 --> 0:48:09.479 say you can call holding on every play. You're gonna 0:48:09.520 --> 0:48:13.600 see this potentially, um flooding the games to a point 0:48:13.600 --> 0:48:15.960 where it interrupts the flow of the game, to the 0:48:15.960 --> 0:48:18.879 point where it makes games longer. Exactly what we are 0:48:18.920 --> 0:48:22.040 not wanting to see, and that is a real danger. 0:48:22.120 --> 0:48:26.200 How are you gonna tell if this is lineman ball 0:48:26.239 --> 0:48:29.839 carry is a fullback making a block? Are you kidding me? 0:48:30.560 --> 0:48:34.279 If they actually adhere to this and implement this and 0:48:34.320 --> 0:48:37.680 adjudicate this in the way that it is described, it 0:48:37.800 --> 0:48:40.200 is going to be a dramatic shift in the short 0:48:40.360 --> 0:48:43.040 term um in terms of slowing the game, in terms 0:48:43.080 --> 0:48:45.480 of penalties. And here's the other thing it's going to do. 0:48:45.880 --> 0:48:48.239 It is going to because you are trying to effectively, 0:48:48.320 --> 0:48:50.600 like you say, take the head out of the game. 0:48:50.640 --> 0:48:53.040 It is going to change the way you play defense 0:48:53.360 --> 0:48:56.040 so that tackling is now you're not going up around 0:48:56.080 --> 0:48:57.799 the head, You're not going up around the neck, which 0:48:57.840 --> 0:49:00.319 is exactly what you want. But you know what ripple 0:49:00.320 --> 0:49:02.600 effect is. You know what the byproduct of that is 0:49:02.920 --> 0:49:05.600 you are going lower on the body to tackle. You 0:49:05.640 --> 0:49:09.440 know what that means. That means good by a c L. 0:49:09.960 --> 0:49:13.399 That means good bye meniscus. That is what we are 0:49:13.400 --> 0:49:17.799 effectively trading in. We are effectively trading in concussions for 0:49:18.080 --> 0:49:20.400 a c L S. And if the NFL is okay 0:49:20.480 --> 0:49:22.960 doing that and things that they could claim that that 0:49:23.120 --> 0:49:26.680 is in fact player safety. We have to pump the 0:49:26.719 --> 0:49:31.279 brakes and realize that there will be ripple effects in 0:49:31.320 --> 0:49:33.680 the same way I asked a long time ago in 0:49:33.719 --> 0:49:36.640 a poll question, would you rather your favorite player have 0:49:36.680 --> 0:49:38.919 an A c L tear or head injury? And we 0:49:39.120 --> 0:49:41.560 and we swallow gulped and admitted that it was a 0:49:41.600 --> 0:49:43.839 head injury because he'd be back in them in a week, 0:49:45.719 --> 0:49:49.640 whereas an A c L it's a season. Okay, this 0:49:49.719 --> 0:49:53.799 conversation is going to change if they do this, all right, 0:49:53.920 --> 0:49:55.799 but I think it's interesting that they're trying to say 0:49:55.800 --> 0:49:57.960 that this is under player's safety, and I think it's 0:49:57.960 --> 0:50:00.200 also two faced because of another thing I wanted you 0:50:00.200 --> 0:50:02.640 guys on the status over beat cipher. Okay, you know 0:50:02.680 --> 0:50:05.839 how they had that concussion settlement. Well there is now 0:50:06.280 --> 0:50:08.799 um a lot more details coming about about how that's 0:50:08.840 --> 0:50:13.880 being administered, and it doesn't seem to seem like the 0:50:14.000 --> 0:50:16.560 NFL has the same heart around this issue when you 0:50:16.600 --> 0:50:18.520 look at it through this way. You know players who 0:50:18.520 --> 0:50:21.160 made the claims on the class action lawsuit on concussions 0:50:21.239 --> 0:50:26.000 that they won, right, So check this out. Out of 0:50:26.040 --> 0:50:29.600 the seventeen hundred or so claims that have been made 0:50:29.600 --> 0:50:36.640 in the first year of the settlement, only only uh, 0:50:37.040 --> 0:50:43.239 only six have been paid out eleven hundred of them 0:50:43.360 --> 0:50:48.840 people cited dementia in these claims. Even people, only six 0:50:49.200 --> 0:50:54.560 have been paid out. The league model when they unveiled 0:50:54.560 --> 0:50:56.520 this said that they thought about four D five hundred 0:50:56.560 --> 0:50:59.400 would have been paid out by now six have and 0:50:59.440 --> 0:51:01.200 you know, and what they have is this whole crazy 0:51:01.239 --> 0:51:05.839 loophole system bureaucracy. There is a third party UM organization 0:51:05.920 --> 0:51:09.240 that like implements it right, and but there's some clause 0:51:09.280 --> 0:51:13.640 that the league can can UM look for a review 0:51:13.960 --> 0:51:15.920 and then if that review goes against them, they can 0:51:15.960 --> 0:51:18.040 appeal it, you know, so they can keep on kicking 0:51:18.040 --> 0:51:20.920 the can down the road. Okay. The league is demanded 0:51:20.960 --> 0:51:23.360 an audit, which is that first step for half of 0:51:23.400 --> 0:51:29.520 the claims so far, okay, and then those have been denied, okay, 0:51:29.800 --> 0:51:33.000 And it's they described it as like a black hole 0:51:33.320 --> 0:51:36.480 quote unquote. This is the say is the lawyer, the 0:51:36.560 --> 0:51:38.440 lawyer for the players. His name is Gene Lox. He 0:51:38.520 --> 0:51:41.440 represents something like over a thousand of the players who 0:51:41.440 --> 0:51:43.680 want to try to push this forward. But there is instead, 0:51:44.120 --> 0:51:47.040 you know, this kind of what he describes as black hole. 0:51:47.320 --> 0:51:51.800 And there's there's cases where people have UM Alzheimer's early 0:51:51.840 --> 0:51:54.600 on said Alzheimer's. After multiple brain scans, they have all 0:51:54.600 --> 0:51:58.759 the documentation they need. The claim will be originally approved 0:51:58.760 --> 0:52:04.480 by this third party firm that's you know, administering the program. 0:52:04.719 --> 0:52:08.240 Right then the NFL wants an audit, right this goes, 0:52:08.320 --> 0:52:10.879 then is delays that and regardless of how it comes, 0:52:10.880 --> 0:52:12.760 and some of them go to the NFL's favored regardless 0:52:12.760 --> 0:52:14.560 of how it goes, they can still ask for a 0:52:14.920 --> 0:52:18.719 you know, appeal it, you know, and and and this 0:52:18.800 --> 0:52:20.680 is the process that they're into. How can they say 0:52:20.719 --> 0:52:23.160 that they care about players safety when they're just gonna 0:52:23.160 --> 0:52:25.439 trade need ligaments for brains and the brains that they've 0:52:25.440 --> 0:52:30.280 already burned. They're not helping out, That's what I'm asking. 0:52:30.960 --> 0:52:32.920 They're just trading in body parts. But they're not helping 0:52:33.719 --> 0:52:37.080 There's literally over a thousand players that are in this situation. 0:52:37.280 --> 0:52:42.840 A thousand players have filed claimed six have been paid 0:52:42.840 --> 0:52:47.799 out in the first year. Hashtag all brains matter. If 0:52:47.880 --> 0:52:49.759 the if the players were serious, this is something they 0:52:49.800 --> 0:52:51.839 could like, you know, take to the p a take 0:52:51.880 --> 0:52:54.319 to the negotiating table. But they're not going to do that. 0:52:55.160 --> 0:52:57.319 They're not gonna do that. But this is where this is. 0:52:57.400 --> 0:52:59.239 As you know, if you listen to the statute be Cipher, 0:52:59.320 --> 0:53:01.600 this is something we are going to continue to talk about. 0:53:01.640 --> 0:53:04.600 We are continue going to you know, serve the watchdog 0:53:04.680 --> 0:53:07.560 privilege of the fourth State that has broadened in this 0:53:07.719 --> 0:53:10.640 cutting the cord way to the statue over beat Cipher. 0:53:10.640 --> 0:53:12.880 Whether it be on Twitter, whether it be on I 0:53:13.080 --> 0:53:16.560 Heart Radio, whether it be on Spotify, whatever it is, 0:53:16.680 --> 0:53:20.200 everywhere you can get and rate and review and subscribe 0:53:20.239 --> 0:53:23.520 to this podcast. We're gonna keep the NFL accountable on 0:53:23.600 --> 0:53:26.359 this issue. You know what I'm saying. And and and 0:53:27.000 --> 0:53:29.359 it's not only us, there's there's there's other people out there. 0:53:29.360 --> 0:53:31.239 This is a big thing. Check this out. I'll leave 0:53:31.280 --> 0:53:34.319 you guys with this today. Um, there is a new 0:53:34.400 --> 0:53:39.000 CTV Studies starting in Arizona where there's an Arizona company 0:53:39.040 --> 0:53:45.600 looking to um test for CT bio markers in living patients. Okay, 0:53:45.600 --> 0:53:48.080 I think this is very interesting. Our our boy certified 0:53:48.080 --> 0:53:50.880 athletic trainer Thomas Lowe came on the show and started 0:53:50.920 --> 0:53:53.239 talking about these blood markers and things like this. Well, 0:53:53.280 --> 0:53:56.960 this company is looking for bio markers and living patients. Okay, 0:53:57.000 --> 0:53:59.280 And there's a lot of NFL players out there in Arizona. 0:53:59.320 --> 0:54:02.400 This is an independ the company, they say, quote unquote, UM, 0:54:02.520 --> 0:54:05.160 this is ground zero for the launch of really important study. 0:54:05.440 --> 0:54:09.080 This is Solomon Wilcox. It's part of like a player's council, 0:54:09.200 --> 0:54:12.719 some panel that they've convened out there. Okay. Quote. If 0:54:12.760 --> 0:54:14.440 there is ever a time to have a call to action, 0:54:14.560 --> 0:54:16.160 this would be it. This is where the rubber meets 0:54:16.200 --> 0:54:19.840 the road. It's tremendous number of NFL players in the 0:54:19.800 --> 0:54:24.640 Feenix area submitting to this um to be part of 0:54:24.680 --> 0:54:26.759 this new study. So this is something else we're gonna 0:54:26.800 --> 0:54:28.560 keep an eye on. We're gonna probably ask our boy 0:54:28.600 --> 0:54:31.520 Thomas Low to come back on the show, you know, 0:54:31.640 --> 0:54:34.080 and talk about this in terms of these bio markers. 0:54:34.280 --> 0:54:36.799 But I think it's so interesting how the NFL is 0:54:36.840 --> 0:54:39.879 talking out of both sides of their hind parts when 0:54:39.920 --> 0:54:43.000 it comes to this, you know, thinking about so how 0:54:43.080 --> 0:54:45.360 much they care try to adjudicate it, and and and 0:54:45.360 --> 0:54:48.120 and and force it out of the game in the 0:54:48.200 --> 0:54:50.440 rules of the game, making it harder to play defense 0:54:50.480 --> 0:54:53.040 and creating ripple effects that we don't know about yet. 0:54:53.120 --> 0:54:55.680 They are not taking care of their veterans who suffer 0:54:56.040 --> 0:55:01.600 from ct and and Alzheimer's and early dementia UM and 0:55:01.640 --> 0:55:04.120 in in in in the hundreds and in the thousands. 0:55:05.200 --> 0:55:07.960 And that's that's what we have to deal with here. Okay, 0:55:08.120 --> 0:55:09.839 So we're gonna keep an eye on this, but check 0:55:09.840 --> 0:55:11.799 it out when we uh when we come back next 0:55:11.800 --> 0:55:15.440 week early next week, when we're back in Studio thirty four, UM, 0:55:15.520 --> 0:55:17.120 we're gonna, you know, we're gonna have fun. We're gonna 0:55:17.120 --> 0:55:20.680 talk about some players that are taking different routes of 0:55:20.760 --> 0:55:23.839 working their way back into the NFL. We're gonna talk 0:55:23.840 --> 0:55:27.160 about big time takeaways from you know, the first weekend 0:55:27.280 --> 0:55:31.000 of the baseball season will continue are wrapping, athletes will 0:55:31.000 --> 0:55:33.960 look back at March Madness being crowned, all that and 0:55:34.080 --> 0:55:36.759 more the status over beat cipher Um. Check us out 0:55:36.800 --> 0:55:39.600 on Twitter at spitting speed. 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