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Speaker 1: we're gonna get into that for the start of baseball.
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Speaker 1: We got a whole question up as well. Okay, you
Speaker 1: gotta check it out on Twitter at spitting speeds to
Speaker 1: get out. The question is, let's start of opening day
Speaker 1: in baseball season. What do you think is the best
Speaker 1: one to combination in Major League Baseball? And you can
Speaker 1: think of that in a couple of different ways, right,
Speaker 1: You can think of that at the plate, or you
Speaker 1: could think about that in terms of arms, right, And
Speaker 1: so the Pope question tries to capture all of that.
Speaker 1: The options for you, is it Max Schers or Steven
Speaker 1: Strasbourg to fire right handed arms for the Washington Nationals.
Speaker 1: You'll see how much I like the Washington Nationals. A
Speaker 1: little bit later on the show. Is it the new
Speaker 1: kind of twin Towers with the Baby Bronze Bombers. Is
Speaker 1: it Gean Carlo Stan and all rise for the judge
Speaker 1: Aaron Judge number nine nine, right, because they many people
Speaker 1: predict they're gonna hit over a hundred home runs combined. Right?
Speaker 1: Are they the best one to punch? Or if you
Speaker 1: think about arms, can you stay in the division where
Speaker 1: National is on the East coast and think about the
Speaker 1: Mets one to punch? I'm talking about four North Syndergard
Speaker 1: coming back along with Jacob Degram, one of the most
Speaker 1: consistent pitchers in the last three years in the National League.
Speaker 1: That could be even a better starting pitching duo than
Speaker 1: the one down. Or think of out this a different
Speaker 1: kind of take on an offensive duel for the world
Speaker 1: champion Houston Astros up the middle. Okay, remember how like
Speaker 1: the Detroit Tigers back in the eighties had Trammel and Whittaker.
Speaker 1: We're talking about a l m v P Jose Altuve
Speaker 1: and up and coming potential m VP candidate Carlos Korea.
Speaker 1: Which of these combos is the best one to in
Speaker 1: all of baseball. I'll give you my take on that
Speaker 1: a little bit later. On the first, let's think about
Speaker 1: these awards that we are going to talk about here
Speaker 1: from Ajor League Baseball. The first one is that I
Speaker 1: want to go into is the SI. Okay, we gotta
Speaker 1: make our pick for the Cy Young. Um, I'm going
Speaker 1: with the third choice. Okay, I know this, Clayton Kershaw.
Speaker 1: You gotta love him. And he's actually going at plus
Speaker 1: one twenty right now. Max Scherzer second choice, going at
Speaker 1: plus one sixty. I am going with four. I'm going
Speaker 1: with no Sydney Garden. I think he has the best
Speaker 1: stuff in the game. I think he's gonna wind up
Speaker 1: hating like the US you don't average velocity fastball. I
Speaker 1: think he's also got that sick slider. I think he's
Speaker 1: got a lot of pictures. He's got that an intimidation factor.
Speaker 1: I just think he is the most electric starter out there.
Speaker 1: I think if he gets a full season in he
Speaker 1: can contend for the NL SI Young. So that is
Speaker 1: my pick for the n L side Young. I like,
Speaker 1: for listen, you're not gonna make any money if you're
Speaker 1: going with Kershaw, if you're going with er right, So
Speaker 1: in the a L and the Ale is tougher for me,
Speaker 1: and Alys tough for me. You got your favorites out there.
Speaker 1: You got Chrysale at plus one eighty. You've got Corey
Speaker 1: Kluber a plus two hundred. I think Carrasco is interesting
Speaker 1: also in Cleveland at plus six fifty. But I'm gonna
Speaker 1: say here's where you go for kind of um, here's
Speaker 1: where I think you can get the crazy pop off value.
Speaker 1: All right, what about if he has this bounce back?
Speaker 1: What about David Price? What about David Price for the
Speaker 1: Red Sox. I mean everyone's focused on sale, but Price,
Speaker 1: remember before these injuries, he was a workforce for a
Speaker 1: long time. Two hundred inns, two hundred innings, you know,
Speaker 1: strikeouts to match. I think he has an opportunity to
Speaker 1: bounce back in that truth spot behind sale and really
Speaker 1: show up, show out, show off this season and watch
Speaker 1: out for Price and you can get a good return
Speaker 1: on that. Or what about a guy like Archer? What
Speaker 1: if I got a guy like Archer for Tampa Bay.
Speaker 1: I don't even think he's gonna finish the season necessarily
Speaker 1: with the raise, you know, so that could be very
Speaker 1: interesting as well. You can get him in plus twenty
Speaker 1: three hundred, and maybe he gets a little bit, maybe
Speaker 1: he gets moved somewhere, you know, in in halfway into
Speaker 1: the summer. Um, let's think about the m v P race.
Speaker 1: If we think about the m v P race in
Speaker 1: the American League, I said it as part of the
Speaker 1: poll question before I am going with Carlos Correa. I
Speaker 1: think Carlos Korea. I mean, he had a great year
Speaker 1: last year. He had a great year last year. He
Speaker 1: was a first round fantasy pick in my opinion. Okay,
Speaker 1: and he only he had less than five hundred at
Speaker 1: bat because he missed sometimes at and thumb injury in
Speaker 1: the middle of the season. He had a full season
Speaker 1: out of him. As he's ascending without incredible pressure on
Speaker 1: him when it's after defending m v P. You know,
Speaker 1: next to him in the lineup, you know as his
Speaker 1: double Blake Combo. I like Korea, you can get him
Speaker 1: at plus eight hundred. Another short stop in the hell
Speaker 1: to think about that, as well as Francisco Lindor. A
Speaker 1: lot of people like the Cleveland Indians as does Speeds
Speaker 1: and uh lind Or could be the guy that carries him.
Speaker 1: But you can't forget about you know, that lineup is
Speaker 1: just so deep, similar to Houston, that it's hard to
Speaker 1: pick one guy out. You know, Jose Ramirez out of
Speaker 1: nowhere had an m v P kind of conversation. But honestly,
Speaker 1: I think you probably gotta go, you know, if you're
Speaker 1: not gonna do the Korea otherwise, I recommend this being
Speaker 1: a place where you go chalk and the chalk here
Speaker 1: is Mike Trout only plus one forty, right. But here's
Speaker 1: the thing. I think they have finally put some other
Speaker 1: offensive weapons around Mike Trout, and you're getting a full
Speaker 1: season of Justice Upton, You're getting be and Kinseler maybe
Speaker 1: at the top of that lineup. You know, I think
Speaker 1: the Coals Art signing as good as well. I think
Speaker 1: they're finally putting other pieces around Trout and that just
Speaker 1: leads to more runs and more RB I s okay,
Speaker 1: So I like Trout to maybe get a slight bump
Speaker 1: in his opportunity and potential for run production. So with
Speaker 1: that in mind, it really is hard going elsewhere in
Speaker 1: the American League for the most valuablelayer, especially when he
Speaker 1: didn't get it last year. You know, a lot of
Speaker 1: people used to say that it was the same kind
Speaker 1: of thing as oh Jordan or Lebron right now, like
Speaker 1: he could be the m v P every year and
Speaker 1: you know, and that argument was made for Mike Trout
Speaker 1: and then guess what, he didn't win it last year.
Speaker 1: You know what, Jose Altuve came up and did it
Speaker 1: last year. So you know, maybe it's time to get
Speaker 1: right back in line and give it to Mike Trout
Speaker 1: at plus one forty. I wouldn't be surprised that it's
Speaker 1: interesting to see what the Yankees are at. You know,
Speaker 1: stands at plus eight hundred, Judge at plus twelve hundred.
Speaker 1: If you want a dark horse and you think who's
Speaker 1: gonna benefit in that line of post and you think
Speaker 1: it's Gary and Jas, you can get him at plus hundred.
Speaker 1: Edward Incarnacion. If you want to take a chance on
Speaker 1: a different Indian, which could be interesting as at thirty
Speaker 1: five hundred. Uh what if Miguel SnO carries the twins
Speaker 1: in a surprise run, He's at sixty five hundred. Those
Speaker 1: are some guys if you want to, you know, go
Speaker 1: a little bit deeper and get a little bit of
Speaker 1: a bigger return from my clients on the stats over
Speaker 1: beat Cipher, that would be a place that I could
Speaker 1: see going. But honestly, you've gotta have Trout covered. I
Speaker 1: think it's the chalk on this one. Um is if
Speaker 1: if we go to the end now in terms of
Speaker 1: m v P, I am telling this story and you'll
Speaker 1: see this one I make my playoff predictions. I am
Speaker 1: telling the story that this could be a very very
Speaker 1: big swan song for one Bryce Harper in Washington. Right,
Speaker 1: that's said, he is a plus two fifty favorite for
Speaker 1: the n L m vv UM. Other than that, if
Speaker 1: you went to one of the Cubs, it's it's interesting
Speaker 1: to me that Rizzle is plus a thousand and Brian
Speaker 1: is plus three fifty. You know how much bigger a
Speaker 1: favorite Bryant is than Rizzo in that same lineup. If
Speaker 1: the Cubs go ahead and win nineties six games, right,
Speaker 1: you know, it could be either one of them that
Speaker 1: actually is the person who would get votes and be
Speaker 1: the guy who's seen as having the m v P
Speaker 1: season on that team in my opinion. You know. So
Speaker 1: it's interesting that you can get that difference in value
Speaker 1: between those guys. And and listen a lot of people,
Speaker 1: you know, the best actual hitter ballpark, be damned, you know,
Speaker 1: record be damned, could be just Nolan Arnaldo and and
Speaker 1: you know, every now and then, one of these players
Speaker 1: who are not on a team that is in a
Speaker 1: major market, not on a team that gets a lot
Speaker 1: of hype, you know, has this weird excuse um with
Speaker 1: the ballpark. You know, it doesn't get his dupe. But
Speaker 1: every now and then one of those kind of hitters
Speaker 1: just have an absolutely ridiculous season and you have to
Speaker 1: give him the m v P. And I think Nolan
Speaker 1: Arronado can threaten something like that this year as well.
Speaker 1: You could see him doing a three thirty five forty seven,
Speaker 1: one thirty kind of year and being just you know,
Speaker 1: the production being too hard to argue with. And if
Speaker 1: you wanted to do that, he is at a four
Speaker 1: to one right now, you know, so that I would
Speaker 1: still go, I want to go Harper. I like Harper,
Speaker 1: but I think Arronado could also get it done in
Speaker 1: the m L as we love. Then forget about the
Speaker 1: players now for a little bit, think about the actual
Speaker 1: teams here and this is where we make our predictions.
Speaker 1: And if listen, if you're a fan of the status
Speaker 1: of Beat Cipher, if you've been down with speed spitting
Speaker 1: statistician here in the Fantasy Sports Network for a hot minute,
Speaker 1: you know that this is where we make This is
Speaker 1: where we make our money. Okay, this is where we
Speaker 1: make our money. Last year at this time, I gave
Speaker 1: you the Houston Astros to win the al Pennant and
Speaker 1: I said, I liked them a little bit in the
Speaker 1: World Series, but they gave I gave you them in
Speaker 1: the ALCA for they to win the ALCS in the
Speaker 1: NFL season, I did the same thing with the Philadelphia Eagles.
Speaker 1: Checked the tape. Okay, so here is where you need
Speaker 1: to hear my World Series matchup and go put these
Speaker 1: teams a lot. And and I must say this first though.
Speaker 1: You know, we are in an era of baseball which
Speaker 1: is um top heavy. You know, there is about six
Speaker 1: or seven dominant teams in Major League Baseball right now,
Speaker 1: and we can name them all. You know, there's probably
Speaker 1: there's one in each division. You know, there was a
Speaker 1: big runaway in each division last year. There are big
Speaker 1: division favorites this year. You know, we're talking about in
Speaker 1: the AL we're talking about the Astronauts, We're talking about
Speaker 1: the Indians, We're talking about the Yankees. In the National League,
Speaker 1: you know, we're talking about the Doctors. We're talking about
Speaker 1: the Cubs, We're talking about the nash Choicals, right, and
Speaker 1: then you gotta put in the Red Sox a little bit.
Speaker 1: Then it's like who do you like? Right? So those
Speaker 1: are the teams, and yes, yes, my teams are from
Speaker 1: within that group. You know. I will say I like
Speaker 1: the Max as a dark horse to make the playoffs
Speaker 1: and make a move with that rotation. I really do.
Speaker 1: I will say I like what the Milwaukee Brewers are doing.
Speaker 1: I will say I like what the Los Angeles Angels
Speaker 1: are doing. We'll see what happens with old Tani. Okay um.
Speaker 1: I like what the Twins are doing, but I think
Speaker 1: they're years away. Um. So here's what I'll say is
Speaker 1: if you look at the NL Pennic, if you look
Speaker 1: at the NL Pennic, you have the first choice is
Speaker 1: the Dodgers, that's plus two huntres. The second choice is
Speaker 1: the Cubs at plus three third, the third choice is
Speaker 1: the Nats at plus three eight. Of those, I am
Speaker 1: going to refer back to that pole question about the
Speaker 1: best one to punch, and the only team here that
Speaker 1: has one of those is the Nats. Chinnals with Straus,
Speaker 1: uh Scherz and Strasbourg, and I'm gonna take them at
Speaker 1: plus three eighty. They are my National League pick right
Speaker 1: now book At the Washington Nationals, I think you can
Speaker 1: get an m V peak Aliber season out of Bryce Harper.
Speaker 1: I think you're gonna have trade turner tray tray tray, um,
Speaker 1: you know, stealing fifty to sixty bases, hitting, you know,
Speaker 1: around three hundred, getting on based scoring runs. Out of
Speaker 1: the Zimmerman Murphy group. You know you're gonna get some production.
Speaker 1: I think a healthy eating is a very good it's
Speaker 1: it's it's a good overall squad. If Doolittle can hold
Speaker 1: down the back end, then if not to have other
Speaker 1: options there, give me the Washington Nationals. I will say
Speaker 1: this my dark horse. And I can't believe I'm saying this,
Speaker 1: y'all who no speeds no as a Yankee pan, I
Speaker 1: can't believe I'm saying this my dark horse. Where I
Speaker 1: think they could be value is the New York Metropolitans.
Speaker 1: They are plus thirteen hundred. And if you tell me
Speaker 1: you can run out Syndergard to Graham and then whichever
Speaker 1: one of these other guys, whether it be Harvey or
Speaker 1: Matt's or you know, Vargas or Wheeler get hot throughout
Speaker 1: the year, that is formidable with an offense that has
Speaker 1: legitimate power that you don't think about. In the National
Speaker 1: League between not only Cespitics, but Bruce and Fraser and others. Uh,
Speaker 1: Comforto is back, going to be back very very soon
Speaker 1: as well. Watch out for the Mets. But my bit
Speaker 1: ultimately is the Washington Nationals. In the American League, you
Speaker 1: have co favorites Houston, Nash Rows and the New York
Speaker 1: Yankees are at plus two twenty. Give me the next
Speaker 1: choice once again, that's the Cleveland Indians at plus three thirty.
Speaker 1: I think the Injuries are gonna make a mockery of
Speaker 1: the A L Central. They will have the A L
Speaker 1: Central by the time you do your second beach wedding
Speaker 1: of the summer, okay, and and they'll be able to
Speaker 1: have home field advantage. I think the Indians will have
Speaker 1: home field avantage because they will run away with the
Speaker 1: A L Central. And I like then that matchup, okay,
Speaker 1: and give me the Indians at plus three thirty if
Speaker 1: you need a dark horse somehow, um, I like the
Speaker 1: Angels a little bit at plus eight hundred. If guys
Speaker 1: like Garrett Richards, if guys like Timer Skaggs, if guys
Speaker 1: like Matt Shoemaker and Altani, can you know can produce
Speaker 1: that offense is going to be better than people think. Um,
Speaker 1: so give me in the World Series the Cleveland Indians
Speaker 1: and the Washington Nationals. You can get them both to
Speaker 1: win the World Series at about plus six to plus
Speaker 1: eight hundred. That those are the moves I like. Give
Speaker 1: me the Indians over the Nationals in the very very
Speaker 1: and because I love these other pictures for the Indians,
Speaker 1: I love me. Not only do we have Bower, I mean,
Speaker 1: excuse me, not only do we have um Kluber, right,
Speaker 1: the cy Young Award winner, my pick to potentially do
Speaker 1: it again. Um. Then you have Carrasco. Then you have Bower,
Speaker 1: who we're gonna talk about again in a little bit
Speaker 1: when we put the fund in functional sports, okay. Um,
Speaker 1: then you have um Cleveringer, you know, and you have Salazar,
Speaker 1: and you have all these arms. You know, the bullpen,
Speaker 1: you have the have the way Tito Francona manages that bullpen.
Speaker 1: And you have an offense that is left and right
Speaker 1: filled with young up and coming talent, including potential m
Speaker 1: VP candidates. I can name three of them in the
Speaker 1: Lindor Ramirez and w e Edward Ariconnason Walking the parrot,
Speaker 1: give me the Cleveland Indians as Speeds is picked, get
Speaker 1: it done right here. That's the pick of the Fantasy
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Speaker 1: is when we come back, we're gonna talk. We're gonna
Speaker 1: continue the baseball theme. Okay, now that we got our
Speaker 1: picks in, We're gonna continue the baseball theme. And I'm
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Speaker 1: We got the pull question up. I was asking you
Speaker 1: guys as we were doing my predictions are super relatives.
Speaker 1: I was asking you about the best one to combination
Speaker 1: in Major League Baseball? Is it Max Sures, You're Steven
Speaker 1: Strausberg in Washington, Is it Judge in Stanton in New York?
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Speaker 1: I'm saying. Um, I told you about our overall picks.
Speaker 1: What we're gonna do right here is I'm gonna give
Speaker 1: you my regular news and notes from the Major League
Speaker 1: Baseball and we're gonna get into a couple of stories
Speaker 1: that I think are really important throughout the year. We're
Speaker 1: gonna keep our eye on. I'm first of all, sal
Speaker 1: Perez catcher for the Kinds City Royals. Um. He tore
Speaker 1: his m c L check this out. He tore his
Speaker 1: m CL while moving luggage. Okay, he is gonna be
Speaker 1: out like six to eight weeks they say, with an
Speaker 1: MCL injury. And this is the guy sal Perez who
Speaker 1: plays a lot of innings for the Kansa cy Roles,
Speaker 1: plays a lot of games. There was stretches. Remember Royals
Speaker 1: went to UH back to back World Series a few
Speaker 1: years ago and he was playing them and them playing
Speaker 1: in you know, w BC, and so so he is
Speaker 1: going to be on the shuff for a while. That
Speaker 1: is a big blow to wait Kansas City Royals offense
Speaker 1: that has already lost the likes of Lorenzo Caine, already
Speaker 1: lost the likes of Eric Cosimo. I don't expect much
Speaker 1: of that offense anyway, and betwise him and like wit
Speaker 1: Meryfield and now sal Perez is down. What what can
Speaker 1: move stocks do? That's a big blow to the Kansas
Speaker 1: City Royals. Remember one of the last free agent arms
Speaker 1: that were available in the bullpen was Greg Holland he
Speaker 1: now has uh signed a one year, fourteen million dollar
Speaker 1: deal with the St. Louis Cardinals. He's gonna probably have
Speaker 1: the Bolls role in St. Louis. That means Gregorson, who
Speaker 1: was kind of in line there, you gotta fade him.
Speaker 1: He is now full gazey, and I wanted to make
Speaker 1: it known check this out. You know, some of the
Speaker 1: big time details we're gonna be talking about all the time,
Speaker 1: and some of the statue we talk about London Angle.
Speaker 1: One of the big ones is exit velocity. Did you
Speaker 1: see in his first swing as a member of the
Speaker 1: New York Yankees, gian Carlo Stanton It's a home run
Speaker 1: to the opposite field? Okay, And that was sick enough.
Speaker 1: And I really love him going opo, especially in Yankee Stadium,
Speaker 1: going towards the short porch with that closed off stance.
Speaker 1: That's something the monitor. But here's why I think this
Speaker 1: is important. His exit velocity for this was one hundred
Speaker 1: and seventeen miles an hour. That is the fastest or
Speaker 1: hardest exit below that has been measured ever going to
Speaker 1: the opposite field. All right, So that's the kind of
Speaker 1: power of raw power that he is going to be bringing.
Speaker 1: I wanted to make sure I mentioned that because I
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Speaker 1: out here on the Fantasy FREESTYFF. There's a couple of
Speaker 1: other stories I really want to talk about that you
Speaker 1: need to keep your eye on in Major League Baseball
Speaker 1: where you're celebrating, you know, opening Day, opening weekend, and
Speaker 1: Major League Baseball where hope springs eternal over here in
Speaker 1: nyc um so nice it named to twice that I
Speaker 1: think the Mets and the Yankees are playoff bounds this
Speaker 1: year for interesting different reasons. The Yankees with their bullpen,
Speaker 1: with their offense, that that's what they're starting pitching. So
Speaker 1: it's gonna be a very interesting season and will it
Speaker 1: be the top heavy teams like I discussed. But here's
Speaker 1: another theme is you know, the spike and home runs
Speaker 1: and people are talking about this launch angle and people
Speaker 1: are talking about exit. V low I talked about power
Speaker 1: that you needed to get in fantasy baseball draft. Big
Speaker 1: shout out to the King's goot angle. Will can me up.
Speaker 1: I did some writing and you can go and get that.
Speaker 1: It's in the Washington Post right now on Associated Press
Speaker 1: my article about getting power in fantasy baseball. You can
Speaker 1: also find it on my Twitter. Um. But the ball itself,
Speaker 1: I think it's something that is going to have a
Speaker 1: lot of conversation. Part of the spike of this is
Speaker 1: not just you know, people trying to uppercut swing and
Speaker 1: the three two outcomes. People are thinking that the ball
Speaker 1: itself is part of the change. Listen, last year there
Speaker 1: were six thousand, one hundred and five home runs in
Speaker 1: Major League Baseball. That is a new record, heat beat
Speaker 1: um by over five hundred home runs. The height of
Speaker 1: the steroid U in two thousand, which had the record okay,
Speaker 1: and it beat last year which was third all time
Speaker 1: by five fifty home runs. Okay, this is a growing trend.
Speaker 1: There has been a huge spike, and the ball itself
Speaker 1: is another variable. The balls did actually change okay after
Speaker 1: the like two fifteen All Star break. Okay. Um, Sports
Speaker 1: Science has said this, ESPN has said this, five thirty eight,
Speaker 1: They've all verified this. Okay. Um. But most of this,
Speaker 1: most of when you look at the ball, most of
Speaker 1: you think about like the exterior, but it was actually
Speaker 1: the interior what they call the quote unquote rubber quoted
Speaker 1: pill that um. You know, they found differences in the
Speaker 1: newer ones are less dense in the core okay, literally
Speaker 1: a lighter core of the baseball, which could make it
Speaker 1: fly further. The actual chemical composition of it is different.
Speaker 1: It is bouncier, it is less air resistant okay. And
Speaker 1: the seams are um, not as raids. It's the seams
Speaker 1: are actually less raised there, the ball is slicker. All
Speaker 1: of these things help, you know, um, reduce a drag
Speaker 1: and wood resistance so that the ball actually does fly.
Speaker 1: I also, I have been telling you guys I've been
Speaker 1: telling my BFFs Mikey Florio and Ranks standfill for the
Speaker 1: last like two years that they changed the manufacturer of
Speaker 1: the ball, literally Rawlings plan moved from Haiti to Costa Rica. Um.
Speaker 1: And at the same time, Rawlings was also like applying
Speaker 1: for patents on how to make bouncy your balls outside
Speaker 1: of making their Major League Baseball contract, so like they
Speaker 1: had that technology to do. So this is not some
Speaker 1: conspiracy theory. This is this is straight up like they
Speaker 1: applied for the pattern, like that's documentable. Okay. Um, when
Speaker 1: you add all of these things together, you know, like
Speaker 1: the slicker ball, the lighter core, the potential differences in
Speaker 1: the pill the differences in like the scenes, the raisiness
Speaker 1: of the scenes. Um, scientists say you can go eight
Speaker 1: and a half feet for them. Okay. Statisticians say that's
Speaker 1: kind of a difference in home runs that could make
Speaker 1: a huge spike like what we've seen from say two
Speaker 1: thousand fourteen or two thousand seventeen, where we've seen literally
Speaker 1: at spike in home runs. Okay, so this is absolutely
Speaker 1: real and then check it out, you know, but Major
Speaker 1: League Baseball sort of still says, oh no, you know,
Speaker 1: we're not doing anything differently, but a lot of players are,
Speaker 1: you know, saying like I have seen baseballs that were
Speaker 1: from this era and from a different era. You can tell.
Speaker 1: And Justin Verlander is big on this. You know, Justin
Speaker 1: Verlander is very Um. You know, he's been outspoken in
Speaker 1: the past before. Um. You know, I venture to say
Speaker 1: the Richard, the Richard Sherman of uh major League Baseball
Speaker 1: with a but with a postal model wife. Um. And
Speaker 1: he literally said that he shouted out by Manford on
Speaker 1: this said he thinks there's enough out there to say that. Um.
Speaker 1: When Manford says the balls haven't changed, that that is
Speaker 1: not true. This is you know, he was in the
Speaker 1: World Series where there was twenty four home runs in
Speaker 1: seven games. Okay, he actually tweeted this out. I put
Speaker 1: it on my timeline as well, a graph of saying
Speaker 1: like the eggs of velosity and the launch angle, you know,
Speaker 1: which would be you know, in essence, if you're thinking
Speaker 1: about geometry, you know, like how far it's gonna go
Speaker 1: and at what line? Right? Um, And that's a that's
Speaker 1: part of it. And then the other thing would be
Speaker 1: to see when you launch those parables and how far
Speaker 1: they go and how far they fly, um, how many
Speaker 1: of them are home runs? And he's and and this
Speaker 1: graph that Verlander tweeted out shows that there is actually
Speaker 1: a difference that balls that were hit in with the
Speaker 1: same exit velocity and launch angle in two thousand fourteen
Speaker 1: first two thousand seventeen now are home runs. So the variables, like,
Speaker 1: you know, if we're doing this scientific method, the variables
Speaker 1: are is the ball itself right? And so you know,
Speaker 1: Verlanda says, listen, it's ultimately fine because it's the same
Speaker 1: for all, but he's on. He's just more on some
Speaker 1: like don't lie kind of thing about it. And and
Speaker 1: and for me, you know, so this is this is
Speaker 1: something to look at all year, the ball itself, the
Speaker 1: home runs, the launch angle, this power. This is going
Speaker 1: to be something that is talked about at nauseum this
Speaker 1: season because we are going to see offense and chicks
Speaker 1: Doug do luck dig the long ball, right. But for me,
Speaker 1: it's a larger thing. Okay, for me, it's this idea
Speaker 1: of baseball at such a record book sport. Okay, you
Speaker 1: know that honors its traditions and its records, and it's
Speaker 1: it's numbers, right and we talk about things like, oh,
Speaker 1: the steroids era and and and the stats that Marry
Speaker 1: Bonds had. I have maintained that I don't care about steroids.
Speaker 1: And one of the reasons why it is because you
Speaker 1: can't compare errors. You cannot tell the difference between you know,
Speaker 1: after expansion, or in a sport that raises and lowers
Speaker 1: the mound, or in a sport wherein one league the
Speaker 1: picture can hit and in another league the picture cannot.
Speaker 1: Or when Babe Ruth never hit a home run against
Speaker 1: a black man or a Spanish man. And now you're
Speaker 1: also going to tell me that they're changing the ball
Speaker 1: itself and the composition of the ball to potentially angle
Speaker 1: what kind of effort would relate in what kind of outcome.
Speaker 1: That's why another argument why you cannot like compare era
Speaker 1: to era in the things like the Hall of Fame,
Speaker 1: why these steroids should not be an automatic qualifier and
Speaker 1: disqualifier out for the Hall of Fame. You know, there
Speaker 1: have been so many changes and evolutions in the game.
Speaker 1: That's just another reason why you have to compare era
Speaker 1: verse era. But this conversation about the ball itself is
Speaker 1: going to be there and be there in a big
Speaker 1: way watch that ball season, and we'll keep talking about
Speaker 1: it on the stats over beat Cipher right here on
Speaker 1: the Fantasy Freestyle. Another topic that I think will be
Speaker 1: a theme all season long is the shift. Okay, the shift.
Speaker 1: It is a huge deal, and the shift will continue
Speaker 1: to be a big deal, and some teams are going
Speaker 1: to get even more and more extreme with you. Remember,
Speaker 1: everyone is tinkering with everything. Remember how in the last
Speaker 1: episode we talked about a four man and a bullpend
Speaker 1: day foreman rotation and a bullpend day. How multiple teams
Speaker 1: are thinking about going six man rotations. Give everybody extra rests. Okay,
Speaker 1: Another thing is in this shift. We have seen dramatic shifts,
Speaker 1: but a J. Hinch is talking about for the Astros
Speaker 1: potentially doing things even crazier um with left with pull lefties,
Speaker 1: moving third baseman Alex Bregman from left excuse me, from
Speaker 1: third base and putting him in left field, moving the
Speaker 1: left fielder over the left center, the right field, the
Speaker 1: center field over the right center, leaving the right fielder
Speaker 1: you know. And then this does not even end the
Speaker 1: idea of the Martini glass shift, where you already have
Speaker 1: Altove in this scenario playing in short right center field.
Speaker 1: So in essence, we're talking about five defensive players on
Speaker 1: the outfield grass, the shortstop in essence directly behind second
Speaker 1: base and then at first baseman. Okay, we're talking about
Speaker 1: that kind of extreme and and and part of it,
Speaker 1: as Hinge explains, it is the mental aspect of He says, quote,
Speaker 1: there is a psychological part of this on the hitter
Speaker 1: that I'm looking at. Two. How much does it mess
Speaker 1: with the psyche of the hitter? And I've watched this
Speaker 1: spring guys try to change their swing and try to
Speaker 1: hit the ball the other way and hit the ball
Speaker 1: to the gap. That's largely advantage to us when big
Speaker 1: hitters like that do that. And I don't know, I
Speaker 1: am off of two minds on this, okay, because I
Speaker 1: used to always say, you should try and take your
Speaker 1: hit against the shift. If you bump down the third
Speaker 1: base line just one time. They've got to keep you
Speaker 1: on this. And if this is happening so dramatically, these
Speaker 1: power hitters need to learn how to just take their
Speaker 1: hit go the other way. That's what you think. But
Speaker 1: I'm reminded once I um I used to work for
Speaker 1: an organization that had marked to share on its board,
Speaker 1: and I spoke to Mark about this. Okay, a big
Speaker 1: pole hitter. Teams used to shift against them, and I said,
Speaker 1: why don't you just drop, you know, butcher boy on
Speaker 1: one down third base or slap one down third base.
Speaker 1: He looked at me and he said, Dane, I'm paid
Speaker 1: to drive in runs. And he said he can't get
Speaker 1: into that. So I wonder if there is a mental
Speaker 1: aspect like that. Last year. You know, Joe Madden has
Speaker 1: done this before. He's one of the only managers who
Speaker 1: has done this. Okay, he did it against Big Poppy
Speaker 1: when he was the Rage manager. He did it in
Speaker 1: last year in two thousand and seventeen against Joey Vado.
Speaker 1: You know, it kind of reminds me of like in
Speaker 1: Beer League softball. You know, you can pull everything, but
Speaker 1: do you try to go opposite field? And if you try,
Speaker 1: you're not putting your good swing on it. I do.
Speaker 1: I know that from Zog Sports. Instead, I'm gonna try
Speaker 1: and break and I'm gonna try and hit a dope
Speaker 1: line drive right up the middle to left center field,
Speaker 1: you know. And so I would do that regardless of
Speaker 1: the defensive layout. So I see it both ways. But
Speaker 1: this is something you're gonna see throughout the rest of
Speaker 1: the season. The shifts that people come up with the
Speaker 1: defense is usually driven by data, is going to be
Speaker 1: very interesting. And the other part that I want to say,
Speaker 1: here's the last thing I want to say. We're gonna
Speaker 1: be seeing this for the next two and a half months,
Speaker 1: so a good chunk of the baseball season. And I'm
Speaker 1: telling you here on the status of beat Cipher, you
Speaker 1: have to hear about it, probably first or at least second,
Speaker 1: at least better than fifth. Let's say, all right, and
Speaker 1: this is why one of my favorite players on the
Speaker 1: team that I'm picking now for the World Series is
Speaker 1: Trevor Bauer. First of all, if you ever remember the
Speaker 1: show twenty four, one of the best shows was in
Speaker 1: our Best TV Show of All Time tournament. Shout out
Speaker 1: to Chris Bovona, the manimal who held us down with
Speaker 1: that tournament. So if you know about Jack Bauer, then
Speaker 1: you love Trevor Bauer. Um. But Trevor Bauer is a
Speaker 1: fun loving guy. Um In two thousand sixteen, two years ago.
Speaker 1: You may have heard of him when he was in
Speaker 1: the playoffs and he um had to pitch, but with
Speaker 1: a huge injury to his hand after he was in
Speaker 1: a drone accident. He was flying a drone and his
Speaker 1: hand got caught in the propeller, sliced his hand up,
Speaker 1: all kinds of nasty. His horrible pictures. Go online and
Speaker 1: check it out. And he pitched through it, tried to
Speaker 1: pitch through it anyway. You remember like the bloody stock
Speaker 1: of Schilling. Well this was actual that, this was real, Okay,
Speaker 1: but then check this out. He, like I said before,
Speaker 1: making a mockery of the arbitration system. He basically just
Speaker 1: wanted to be funny. And so at first he wanted
Speaker 1: to have his request and architration should be six point
Speaker 1: nine million, sixty nine right, But his lawyers were like,
Speaker 1: now you can't do that. That's too high. But so
Speaker 1: here's what he settled on as his requests. What he
Speaker 1: wanted to check this out, six million, four hundred and
Speaker 1: twenty thousand, nine hundred sixty nine and ninety six cents. Okay,
Speaker 1: that's an important number in this story. This is how
Speaker 1: he wanted to do it. At the four twenty in
Speaker 1: there and at the sixty nine in there, he says,
Speaker 1: I just think it's a good number. I think it
Speaker 1: actually accurately reflects my place in the salary structure relative
Speaker 1: to other athletes. Right, he goes back and forth in arbitration.
Speaker 1: He finally settles on this number that doesn't have any
Speaker 1: drug references at drug references and this comes from Jeff
Speaker 1: Pisson Yahoo. Right. He goes in arbitration, he's going for
Speaker 1: six point five to five, and he wins the case.
Speaker 1: But he's still just wants the six point four million. Right. Um,
Speaker 1: So what he decides to do, and this is where
Speaker 1: it gets amazing. He decides to give away the difference. Okay,
Speaker 1: it's gonna be like around a hundred thousand dollars. He's
Speaker 1: gonna give it away in a campaign that he is
Speaker 1: calling get this, he's really harping on it, the sixty
Speaker 1: nine days of giving. Okay, what he is going to
Speaker 1: do is he's going to give four hundred and twenty
Speaker 1: dollars and sixty nine cents to a charity of choice
Speaker 1: for the next sixty nine days. This is gonna total
Speaker 1: something like nine eight thousand dollars that he's giving away. Right,
Speaker 1: and then you he's paying somebody to like, you know,
Speaker 1: help administer administer the contest and the website and stuff
Speaker 1: like that with the rest of like the difference of
Speaker 1: his arbitration money, right, uh, Jeff Passing in the In
Speaker 1: the article, they call it benevolent trolling. Bauer goes, I'm
Speaker 1: just trying to give its charity. Man. I'm fortunate enough
Speaker 1: to be in a position where I have the ability
Speaker 1: to do that, I have the means to do that.
Speaker 1: I'm in a good spot, and I can use my
Speaker 1: platform to spread stuff that I'm passionate about. He made
Speaker 1: a video on Twitter. I um, I retweeted that joint.
Speaker 1: It is very funny. Um, you gotta check it out.
Speaker 1: Trevor Bauer is my new favorite um status over beats
Speaker 1: honoree um, So you gotta check that out. And you
Speaker 1: also got to nominate what charity. Let me know on
Speaker 1: Twitter at spitting Speeds what charity should we suggest he's taken,
Speaker 1: you know, suggestions on where he's gonna donate his four
Speaker 1: and twenty dollars and sixty nine cents. So we gotta
Speaker 1: let him know, and if we get some good ideas,
Speaker 1: we gotta uh definitely holler at him from the stats
Speaker 1: over beats cipher all right, check it out when we
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Speaker 1: which boy, that's been in statistician. I want to talk
Speaker 1: about the NFL right now. We're in this kind of malaise, okay.
Speaker 1: Everybody is kind of getting into their corners okay, and
Speaker 1: preparing for the draft. We've had pro days and combines.
Speaker 1: Now everyone's getting ready for the draft, which will be
Speaker 1: in about four weeks. We're gonna bring it to you
Speaker 1: hot on the Fantasy Sports Network. You know how we
Speaker 1: do it. You know how we did it last year
Speaker 1: as well, me Corey Parson, the Fantasy executive. It was
Speaker 1: Mike Blewett holding it down Mommy and Emery Hunt. He
Speaker 1: is the glitch in the system, the czar of the playbook.
Speaker 1: He's doing big things here with the Fantasy Sports Network
Speaker 1: as well. We had a good old time breaking it
Speaker 1: down for you. Hopefully we'll be able to do it
Speaker 1: again bringing it to you live and direct for the
Speaker 1: NFL Draft later on this month. But now you know,
Speaker 1: the free agency wave has settled in, the teams have
Speaker 1: making some trades. You're in the you're in the point
Speaker 1: of time and you can't believe much of anything. That
Speaker 1: is coming out of any organization. Everyone is in the
Speaker 1: greatest shape of his life. Everyone. You know, they want
Speaker 1: to work out a deal. You know that the franchise
Speaker 1: tags have passed. Everything is kind of settled in now
Speaker 1: for the draft, right And the one thing that we
Speaker 1: are hearing that is big in the NFL right now
Speaker 1: is the New York Giants and Odell Beckham. I think
Speaker 1: the chasm between them is widening. Okay, you're hearing a
Speaker 1: lot of stuff at these owners meetings from from John Mara.
Speaker 1: And this is not an owner that talks very much. Okay,
Speaker 1: this is this is one of these quote unquote blue
Speaker 1: blood franchisees, you know what I mean. So when you
Speaker 1: hear him say things like, um, he's tired of Odell's antics.
Speaker 1: When you hear things like he's on the team right
Speaker 1: now at that kind of qualifier, when you hear him
Speaker 1: say no, he's not on the trading block. But at
Speaker 1: the same time, here nobody is untradeable. You know, I'm
Speaker 1: starting to put some things together, and I really think
Speaker 1: that part of this. Listen, they got this JPP trade
Speaker 1: already happened to try to get better and like the
Speaker 1: second the third round, Um, and they have the number
Speaker 1: two pick. So I'm thinking there they might be getting
Speaker 1: serious offers for this number two picks from a team
Speaker 1: that wants to hop up, hop over the New York
Speaker 1: Jets for a quarterback. And remember, think about this, if
Speaker 1: you flip the number two overall, and you flip Odell Beckham,
Speaker 1: you might be able to get a boatload of picks.
Speaker 1: We've heard the Rams out there with two picks, We've
Speaker 1: heard the Bills out there with two picks, you know,
Speaker 1: so you would be able to get a whole haul
Speaker 1: like what the Cleveland Browns did when they were playing moneyball,
Speaker 1: you know what I mean. And that is very, very interesting,
Speaker 1: So keep your eye on that. It's looking to me
Speaker 1: like they are priming the pump for this to actually happen,
Speaker 1: you know, tryout balloons in the media and want not
Speaker 1: just to see and the other thing that really came
Speaker 1: out of this and we tried we touched on it
Speaker 1: on a previous episode of The Fantasy FREESTYFF. But this
Speaker 1: idea of now what they're calling I've what At first
Speaker 1: it was just the targeting rule kind of like in
Speaker 1: the n C double A. But there now they're saying
Speaker 1: like just lowering head to make contact. There's a fifteen
Speaker 1: year penalty and a potential ejection. And what they the
Speaker 1: part that I thought was, you know, really a gift
Speaker 1: and a curse, is that they're saying that this is
Speaker 1: not just like tackling, and this is not just free
Speaker 1: safeties and coming over the middle. This is offensive players,
Speaker 1: running backs lowering their shoulder, lowering their head going through
Speaker 1: the line. They're saying, this is linemen in the trenches
Speaker 1: leading with their head, lowering their head to make contact.
Speaker 1: They are literally saying, he's a tackler's ball carriers lineman.
Speaker 1: They showed videotape of the Ryan Shazier, you know, I mean,
Speaker 1: they are serious about this. But my problem with this
Speaker 1: and and and they're trying to match it up with
Speaker 1: say like the n C double a language around the
Speaker 1: targeting and hopefully it trickles down all the way to
Speaker 1: you know, high schools youth football. Right, But my thing
Speaker 1: is this, you are I like it in the long
Speaker 1: run because they have to as as the league is
Speaker 1: now saying, get the head out of the game, you know,
Speaker 1: and get the get the CT and the concussions and
Speaker 1: the head trauma out of the game, and listen and
Speaker 1: understand how how to tackle and how to play this
Speaker 1: game in the heads up way. They're doing a lot
Speaker 1: more now with that, and I think that's good, Okay,
Speaker 1: But at the same time, what I'm telling you is
Speaker 1: in the short term, and this is why it is
Speaker 1: a theme for you guys on the status over beach
Speaker 1: site where to look for in this next year coming up.
Speaker 1: This is kind of what we've been doing all all episode.
Speaker 1: I've been telling you the themes in Major League Baseball,
Speaker 1: where it be the shift, where it be the ball
Speaker 1: itself and the home run launch angle stuff, or in
Speaker 1: the NFL, this is going to be a theme um
Speaker 1: lowering the head to make contact. Um. Yeah, it's good
Speaker 1: in the long run. But in the short term, what
Speaker 1: we are going to see in the two thousand and
Speaker 1: eighteen NFL se reason is a huge spike in penalties. Okay,
Speaker 1: this is going to be called you know how they
Speaker 1: say you can call holding on every play. You're gonna
Speaker 1: see this potentially, um flooding the games to a point
Speaker 1: where it interrupts the flow of the game, to the
Speaker 1: point where it makes games longer. Exactly what we are
Speaker 1: not wanting to see, and that is a real danger.
Speaker 1: How are you gonna tell if this is lineman ball
Speaker 1: carry is a fullback making a block? Are you kidding me?
Speaker 1: If they actually adhere to this and implement this and
Speaker 1: adjudicate this in the way that it is described, it
Speaker 1: is going to be a dramatic shift in the short
Speaker 1: term um in terms of slowing the game, in terms
Speaker 1: of penalties. And here's the other thing it's going to do.
Speaker 1: It is going to because you are trying to effectively,
Speaker 1: like you say, take the head out of the game.
Speaker 1: It is going to change the way you play defense
Speaker 1: so that tackling is now you're not going up around
Speaker 1: the head, You're not going up around the neck, which
Speaker 1: is exactly what you want. But you know what ripple
Speaker 1: effect is. You know what the byproduct of that is
Speaker 1: you are going lower on the body to tackle. You
Speaker 1: know what that means. That means good by a c L.
Speaker 1: That means good bye meniscus. That is what we are
Speaker 1: effectively trading in. We are effectively trading in concussions for
Speaker 1: a c L S. And if the NFL is okay
Speaker 1: doing that and things that they could claim that that
Speaker 1: is in fact player safety. We have to pump the
Speaker 1: brakes and realize that there will be ripple effects in
Speaker 1: the same way I asked a long time ago in
Speaker 1: a poll question, would you rather your favorite player have
Speaker 1: an A c L tear or head injury? And we
Speaker 1: and we swallow gulped and admitted that it was a
Speaker 1: head injury because he'd be back in them in a week,
Speaker 1: whereas an A c L it's a season. Okay, this
Speaker 1: conversation is going to change if they do this, all right,
Speaker 1: but I think it's interesting that they're trying to say
Speaker 1: that this is under player's safety, and I think it's
Speaker 1: also two faced because of another thing I wanted you
Speaker 1: guys on the status over beat cipher. Okay, you know
Speaker 1: how they had that concussion settlement. Well there is now
Speaker 1: um a lot more details coming about about how that's
Speaker 1: being administered, and it doesn't seem to seem like the
Speaker 1: NFL has the same heart around this issue when you
Speaker 1: look at it through this way. You know players who
Speaker 1: made the claims on the class action lawsuit on concussions
Speaker 1: that they won, right, So check this out. Out of
Speaker 1: the seventeen hundred or so claims that have been made
Speaker 1: in the first year of the settlement, only only uh,
Speaker 1: only six have been paid out eleven hundred of them
Speaker 1: people cited dementia in these claims. Even people, only six
Speaker 1: have been paid out. The league model when they unveiled
Speaker 1: this said that they thought about four D five hundred
Speaker 1: would have been paid out by now six have and
Speaker 1: you know, and what they have is this whole crazy
Speaker 1: loophole system bureaucracy. There is a third party UM organization
Speaker 1: that like implements it right, and but there's some clause
Speaker 1: that the league can can UM look for a review
Speaker 1: and then if that review goes against them, they can
Speaker 1: appeal it, you know, so they can keep on kicking
Speaker 1: the can down the road. Okay. The league is demanded
Speaker 1: an audit, which is that first step for half of
Speaker 1: the claims so far, okay, and then those have been denied, okay,
Speaker 1: And it's they described it as like a black hole
Speaker 1: quote unquote. This is the say is the lawyer, the
Speaker 1: lawyer for the players. His name is Gene Lox. He
Speaker 1: represents something like over a thousand of the players who
Speaker 1: want to try to push this forward. But there is instead,
Speaker 1: you know, this kind of what he describes as black hole.
Speaker 1: And there's there's cases where people have UM Alzheimer's early
Speaker 1: on said Alzheimer's. After multiple brain scans, they have all
Speaker 1: the documentation they need. The claim will be originally approved
Speaker 1: by this third party firm that's you know, administering the program.
Speaker 1: Right then the NFL wants an audit, right this goes,
Speaker 1: then is delays that and regardless of how it comes,
Speaker 1: and some of them go to the NFL's favored regardless
Speaker 1: of how it goes, they can still ask for a
Speaker 1: you know, appeal it, you know, and and and this
Speaker 1: is the process that they're into. How can they say
Speaker 1: that they care about players safety when they're just gonna
Speaker 1: trade need ligaments for brains and the brains that they've
Speaker 1: already burned. They're not helping out, That's what I'm asking.
Speaker 1: They're just trading in body parts. But they're not helping
Speaker 1: There's literally over a thousand players that are in this situation.
Speaker 1: A thousand players have filed claimed six have been paid
Speaker 1: out in the first year. Hashtag all brains matter. If
Speaker 1: the if the players were serious, this is something they
Speaker 1: could like, you know, take to the p a take
Speaker 1: to the negotiating table. But they're not going to do that.
Speaker 1: They're not gonna do that. But this is where this is.
Speaker 1: As you know, if you listen to the statute be Cipher,
Speaker 1: this is something we are going to continue to talk about.
Speaker 1: We are continue going to you know, serve the watchdog
Speaker 1: privilege of the fourth State that has broadened in this
Speaker 1: cutting the cord way to the statue over beat Cipher.
Speaker 1: Whether it be on Twitter, whether it be on I
Speaker 1: Heart Radio, whether it be on Spotify, whatever it is,
Speaker 1: everywhere you can get and rate and review and subscribe
Speaker 1: to this podcast. We're gonna keep the NFL accountable on
Speaker 1: this issue. You know what I'm saying. And and and
Speaker 1: it's not only us, there's there's there's other people out there.
Speaker 1: This is a big thing. Check this out. I'll leave
Speaker 1: you guys with this today. Um, there is a new
Speaker 1: CTV Studies starting in Arizona where there's an Arizona company
Speaker 1: looking to um test for CT bio markers in living patients. Okay,
Speaker 1: I think this is very interesting. Our our boy certified
Speaker 1: athletic trainer Thomas Lowe came on the show and started
Speaker 1: talking about these blood markers and things like this. Well,
Speaker 1: this company is looking for bio markers and living patients. Okay,
Speaker 1: And there's a lot of NFL players out there in Arizona.
Speaker 1: This is an independ the company, they say, quote unquote, UM,
Speaker 1: this is ground zero for the launch of really important study.
Speaker 1: This is Solomon Wilcox. It's part of like a player's council,
Speaker 1: some panel that they've convened out there. Okay. Quote. If
Speaker 1: there is ever a time to have a call to action,
Speaker 1: this would be it. This is where the rubber meets
Speaker 1: the road. It's tremendous number of NFL players in the
Speaker 1: Feenix area submitting to this um to be part of
Speaker 1: this new study. So this is something else we're gonna
Speaker 1: keep an eye on. We're gonna probably ask our boy
Speaker 1: Thomas Low to come back on the show, you know,
Speaker 1: and talk about this in terms of these bio markers.
Speaker 1: But I think it's so interesting how the NFL is
Speaker 1: talking out of both sides of their hind parts when
Speaker 1: it comes to this, you know, thinking about so how
Speaker 1: much they care try to adjudicate it, and and and
Speaker 1: and and force it out of the game in the
Speaker 1: rules of the game, making it harder to play defense
Speaker 1: and creating ripple effects that we don't know about yet.
Speaker 1: They are not taking care of their veterans who suffer
Speaker 1: from ct and and Alzheimer's and early dementia UM and
Speaker 1: in in in in the hundreds and in the thousands.
Speaker 1: And that's that's what we have to deal with here. Okay,
Speaker 1: So we're gonna keep an eye on this, but check
Speaker 1: it out when we uh when we come back next
Speaker 1: week early next week, when we're back in Studio thirty four, UM,
Speaker 1: we're gonna, you know, we're gonna have fun. We're gonna
Speaker 1: talk about some players that are taking different routes of
Speaker 1: working their way back into the NFL. We're gonna talk
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