Speaker 1: An Yell's cruising, Let's play ball.
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Speaker 1: his beard again, I'm sure in the next couple of
Speaker 1: weeks we'll put that on video. We'll put the waiver wire,
Speaker 1: the buys, the sales, all that stuff. And last night, Bogman,
Speaker 1: we had a debut of a young Pittsburgh pirate. We're
Speaker 1: gonna talk about that's for sure. And also a lot
Speaker 1: of injury news people going to the IL. People start
Speaker 1: to come off the IL. This is like the biggest
Speaker 1: injury week. I've never had injury notes this long in
Speaker 1: a sheet before.
Speaker 2: Yeah, lots of lots of injuries.
Speaker 3: We're just getting that point where guys start to break down,
Speaker 3: you know, which is unfortunate and annoying, but it's at
Speaker 3: least it makes this part of the season, I guess interesting,
Speaker 3: with ads and drops and stuff like that.
Speaker 2: And the Pirates are a completely different team.
Speaker 3: I think they said twelve players have made their major
Speaker 3: league debut for the squad already this year, which is
Speaker 3: just crazy. And I mean, you can just take the
Speaker 3: miners the miners guys and replace the entire team by
Speaker 3: the end of the year. So you know, they've waited
Speaker 3: until twenty twenty two to call up all these players.
Speaker 2: It's crazy.
Speaker 1: Yeah, Well, if only they would play one hundred game
Speaker 1: regular season, like I've been saying for years, there is
Speaker 1: plenty of regular season baseball and then a giant tournament
Speaker 1: to get to the World Series.
Speaker 2: My goodness, that would be free change stuff.
Speaker 1: Joe, How dare I make baseball better by having more
Speaker 1: eyes on it and having more meaningful games and less
Speaker 1: non meaningful games that drag on and on and on.
Speaker 1: How dare I try to create more rivalries and division stuff?
Speaker 1: I know, I've got some nerve and look, I'm very
Speaker 1: happy to see Luie out here. We've got Josh here
Speaker 1: joining us live. I've missed you too, finally getting to
Speaker 1: catch the show live. We got JP over here. Finally
Speaker 1: he's not bored at work anymore. JP. Don't get fired
Speaker 1: for watching us, please.
Speaker 2: Uh.
Speaker 1: And that's the whole thing. Man, Let's let's go, let's
Speaker 1: let's hang out, let's talk some baseball. Let's start here,
Speaker 1: of course, with Anio Cruz stealing the show baby for Riby's.
Speaker 1: His season debut looked good for a lot of people,
Speaker 1: this first time they're getting to really watch him. I'm sure.
Speaker 1: And you know, I kind of have always felt the
Speaker 1: same way, WELLSHD, which is like, you know, good player,
Speaker 1: nice player. The size is something whenever you see a
Speaker 1: player of that height, it's something to adjust to. Typically,
Speaker 1: if you're a like that creative player, you know, well,
Speaker 1: how tall are you gonna make your guy?
Speaker 2: I'm gonna make him six to seven.
Speaker 1: I think that, Yeah, he's gonna have cool dreadlocks. But
Speaker 1: he's only he's gonna be six to seven and like
Speaker 1: a Bucks seventy five. Like that's you remember fat guy
Speaker 1: Skinny guy hockey on the original Nintendo.
Speaker 2: My favorite hockey. Yeah, yeah, it was always.
Speaker 1: I mean I would always either do all fast guys
Speaker 1: or all fat guys Like that was just the way
Speaker 1: to go.
Speaker 3: So all fat guys, I feel like, never score on you.
Speaker 3: You just block it.
Speaker 1: I think it's funny when you have three skinny guys
Speaker 1: and the one fat guy. I got no time for
Speaker 1: the medium sized guys. I think every team should have
Speaker 1: that one bruiser, you know, but can you stop all
Speaker 1: the little guys from running around? But that's that's definitely
Speaker 1: the Anio cruiz mode. There's no way about that. I
Speaker 1: do believe though. You know, whenever you have a hype prospect,
Speaker 1: whenever you have a prospect that maybe you think might
Speaker 1: you know, still have a lot of development yet to go.
Speaker 1: And clearly the Pirates did too. Let's not forget that
Speaker 1: that in redraft leagues, if you have this prospect, this
Speaker 1: is your glorious window to get somebody to overpay for it. Now,
Speaker 1: I'm not saying you're running out there to make a
Speaker 1: trade just for the sake of making a trade, But
Speaker 1: if you could put a guy like this on the
Speaker 1: block that you've been waiting on, and you're a good
Speaker 1: team and you could take something that's already been proved.
Speaker 1: To me, that's something I would investigate. What do you
Speaker 1: think about that?
Speaker 3: I mean, the best time to trade a guy is
Speaker 3: like right before he gets to the majors, you know,
Speaker 3: because you're still getting that hype and you're like, any
Speaker 3: day now, any day now is gonna be up. And
Speaker 3: we've seen plenty of guys come up, fizzle and go
Speaker 3: back down the minors. I mean, Mike Truck did that
Speaker 3: his first year, you know, so plenty of great players
Speaker 3: have come up and done that. But you know, in redrafts,
Speaker 3: it might be like right after they come up, when
Speaker 3: they come up and do something like O'Neil Cruz does,
Speaker 3: if he can keep this momentum going for four or
Speaker 3: five days absolute peak, to move him for something better
Speaker 3: for the rest of the season, because all rookies have
Speaker 3: their ups and downs the rookie years. So I'm absolutely
Speaker 3: with you, Joe, trade that guy if you can, because
Speaker 3: you can probably get way more than he's worth right now.
Speaker 1: Well, that was just what I was wondering, Like, you
Speaker 1: don't think can get Corey Seeger for him?
Speaker 2: Do you? I mean? Is that I don't think it's crazy?
Speaker 2: I mean I don't.
Speaker 3: I wouldn't do it, and I know most people out
Speaker 3: there probably aren't gonna do it, But I don't think
Speaker 3: it's the most insane thing you've ever proposed here, Joe.
Speaker 1: I mean, Marcus Simeon, Corey Seeger, any of those guys
Speaker 1: I would take if you can flip them for on
Speaker 1: your cruise. Cory Palanko's had a down start to the year.
Speaker 1: He's on the IL. That would be a great target
Speaker 1: in my opinion. That's another dude. Those are the kind
Speaker 1: of dudes that I would look to make that kind
Speaker 1: of a move for. And look, I'm not knocking on
Speaker 1: your cruise, but I'm saying he's a rookie. Rookies tend
Speaker 1: to have adjustment periods, even if they come up and
Speaker 1: they're glorious to begin with, it's very rare they just
Speaker 1: like I said, Juan Soto is, you know, the exception
Speaker 1: to the role. He's not the pool by any stretch.
Speaker 1: And when you talk about these guys who are six
Speaker 1: seven or six eight, you know, bigger guys. We're talking
Speaker 1: like Richie Sexon, We're talking like you know, Adam Dunne.
Speaker 1: We're talking about like the bigger corner slugging kind of
Speaker 1: dudes typically d.
Speaker 3: Backs legend Richie Sexon Joe, You remember he played eleven
Speaker 3: games for the d Backs, hit his face on the
Speaker 3: scoreboard in like game three, and then threw out his
Speaker 3: shoulder and never played for the d Backs again. We
Speaker 3: trade like Junior Spivey and all these players to the and.
Speaker 1: Red loved Junior. By fifteen, I was a Junior Spivey
Speaker 1: dork for sure.
Speaker 2: I love that guy. Who's that all the time?
Speaker 1: What a great name. Fun player to watch too. Garrett
Speaker 1: Cole was fun to watch. Took another almost no hitter
Speaker 1: into the eighth inning twelve strikeouts. Sara McClanahan was also
Speaker 1: good in that game, but no decision for him. But look,
Speaker 1: Garrett Cole look got back on track after a tough April. Hopefully,
Speaker 1: if you if you're throwing out trade offers in April
Speaker 1: for him, maybe you were able to steal them away.
Speaker 1: But you know, this was that whole thing with the
Speaker 1: stop and start to the beginning of the season, with
Speaker 1: everything going on with the labor agreements. I think there's
Speaker 1: some pictures that just kind of came out of the
Speaker 1: gate weird, you know, And I think Cole might have
Speaker 1: been one of those guys, been Intendi after I've been
Speaker 1: quiet for a while. He homered, stole base against the Angels.
Speaker 1: Darvish seven strong innings. We told you yesterday, Darbish was
Speaker 1: an easy lock and load. Just go do it, that's
Speaker 1: what you wanted. Vaughn Andrew Vaughn Homard picked up four
Speaker 1: hits in the win over Toronto. Corbyn Burns blank the
Speaker 1: Cardinals there. So Michaelis was on the wrong end of
Speaker 1: that game unfortunately. So I'll take the l on that one.
Speaker 1: And the Mets got their eleventh shutout. This one was
Speaker 1: behind Peterson and this is the most in Major League
Speaker 1: Baseball in terms of shutting out other teams. I want
Speaker 1: to talk to you about this White Sox game real
Speaker 1: quick because I saw after Kevin Bigo hit a home
Speaker 1: run that made it closer. You know, Kevin Bijo came
Speaker 1: back to the dugout. You know in Toronto they want
Speaker 1: to put the jacket on everybody. Yeah, on the jacket whatever.
Speaker 1: It's fun, but it feels kind of embarrassing when you
Speaker 1: when you lose or when you're losing. I just thought
Speaker 1: it was awkward. How do you feel about the dugout
Speaker 1: celebrations that.
Speaker 2: I mean on nowadays, there's no better.
Speaker 3: There was one where I think Georgia was beating UAB
Speaker 3: like forty to nothing, and UAB kid got a pick
Speaker 3: and they have a big because of the dragons.
Speaker 2: They have a big dragon skull on a necklace and he's.
Speaker 3: Wearing it looking in the camera and the scoreboard says
Speaker 3: zero to forty. You know, Georgia is just smoking him.
Speaker 3: Those things they're cool and you know that they. I
Speaker 3: like him because it's a lot of you know, you
Speaker 3: get a lot of together in this, a lot of
Speaker 3: teammates stuff, or you're getting smoked.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's just embarrassing.
Speaker 3: Maybe maybe you say the turnover chain and the jacket
Speaker 3: and you know, the wheelbarrow and all that stuff for
Speaker 3: it only if you're up, you.
Speaker 1: Know, I think, yeah, but it's funny because then if
Speaker 1: you're up by too much, then you're rubbing it in
Speaker 1: and then whatever, who cares? You know what, you don't
Speaker 1: like it, stop it. I don't care about that crap.
Speaker 2: You know, if you don't like it, if you're down four,
Speaker 2: nothing play better.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I think if you're down there.
Speaker 2: Nothing play better.
Speaker 1: The only time you put the jacket on or you
Speaker 1: push somebody in the shopping car. Is if you've tied
Speaker 1: the game on a home run.
Speaker 2: Tie, the game is fine. Tie. Yeah, yeah, you're still behind.
Speaker 1: I mean, you know, Kevin Bigio could use a nice jacket.
Speaker 1: But still at the same time, all right, here we go,
Speaker 1: get ready, buckle in.
Speaker 2: It's the injury notes. This is gonna be epic today.
Speaker 1: So apparently they're saying there's optimism that many Machado might
Speaker 1: avoid the eyel To me, I think this is nuts.
Speaker 1: You've got the pitching to put them on the eye
Speaker 1: l and just let get one hundred percent healthy because
Speaker 1: there's gonna I'm telling you, and somebody who's had high
Speaker 1: endkles brains more than one in their lifetime, I'm telling you,
Speaker 1: there's a week.
Speaker 2: Did you see the quote yesterday?
Speaker 3: It was Manny Machado walked through the locker room with
Speaker 3: no limp at all. When a reporter tried to ask
Speaker 3: him something, he said, I don't have time to answer questions.
Speaker 2: I'm too busy healing. So yeah, that's why he's.
Speaker 1: So beloved by the media and teammates alike. I mean,
Speaker 1: you know, we sat here last week and we talked
Speaker 1: about him being twenty nine years old, and the pantheon
Speaker 1: that he's in right now, with the amount of hits
Speaker 1: and home runs he's got, and every single one of
Speaker 1: those players as a Hall of Famer. It's like Mantle,
Speaker 1: Aaron Poolles Cabrera, and yet nobody talks about Mandy because
Speaker 1: Mandy is.
Speaker 2: Just unlikable, absolutely unlike. I don't like him.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean I like him on my fantasy team,
Speaker 3: but I do not like watching him.
Speaker 1: So Anthony desk Gilfani returned on Tuesday.
Speaker 2: That's good.
Speaker 1: Keer Myers going onto the aisle with a hip though
Speaker 1: Mandy Margo going to the aisle with the Nie Brain
Speaker 1: also said.
Speaker 3: That's significant. They said, that's significant.
Speaker 1: I'm sure it is also significant for the Rays. I
Speaker 1: got three notes alone. Wander Franco is going out of
Speaker 1: this week for triple A rehab, so that's good. So
Speaker 1: wander Franco coming back soon, so they desperately need him back.
Speaker 1: Speaking of shortstops, Tim Anderson activated off the il. That's
Speaker 1: good news. Tyler O'Neil goes to the tendail with a
Speaker 1: hamstring strain. Aaron Ashby told you this was coming. They
Speaker 1: were like, oh, maybe we're gonna avoid it. No, we're not.
Speaker 1: We're never gonna avoid it. Anytime you have forearm inflammation,
Speaker 1: it's bad. It's a very very bad thing. So he's
Speaker 1: going to fifteen day il don't wait. Don't say like, oh,
Speaker 1: he's gonna be back in fifteen days. Make moves for
Speaker 1: the rest of the season without him. If you get
Speaker 1: him back, great. If you could trade him off and
Speaker 1: somebody thinks fifteen days was gonna happen, great, go for it. Also,
Speaker 1: Chris Sale is gonna make his next start, so that's
Speaker 1: coming around too. In terms of these injury notes, Bob,
Speaker 1: where do you want to start, Like what kind of
Speaker 1: catches your eye?
Speaker 2: I mean, let's start with the positive.
Speaker 3: I'm happy that Chrisale is coming back soon because all
Speaker 3: those early drafts, which I hate doing early drafts, but
Speaker 3: all those early drafts I was taking Chrisale. Uh so
Speaker 3: I I'm just gonna be happy to get him back.
Speaker 2: You know.
Speaker 3: Look, with the Rays, someone was asking the chat before
Speaker 3: about Bruhan staying up. Breuhan's definitely staying up this one.
Speaker 3: With all these injuries that that the Rays have. Hopefully
Speaker 3: he starts to hit his own weight, which is what
Speaker 3: one five like, dude.
Speaker 1: Is skinny, sounds lighter than on your cruise.
Speaker 3: Right exct Yeah, so uh yeah, and he's what five eight,
Speaker 3: so uh like almost a foot shorter than on your cruise.
Speaker 3: So yeah, I mean let's let's let's get some something there.
Speaker 3: I mean, I'm happy that Tim Anderson's coming back. Uh
Speaker 3: sucks about Tyler O'Neill. The Aaron Ashby stuff really really sucks.
Speaker 3: And I just think back to a poll that the
Speaker 3: Welsh and I'm sure he's mentioned it here, uh, but
Speaker 3: a poll that to go with Spencer, Streider and Hier
Speaker 3: and Ashby and everyone was given how can you ask
Speaker 3: this question? Ashby's been so is like his two or
Speaker 3: three good starts in a row, and now where are we?
Speaker 2: You know everyone would take Strider now so.
Speaker 1: Not always watched healthy guy.
Speaker 3: Sure well sure, but I think even before this forearms
Speaker 3: train last couple starts for Strider versus the last couple
Speaker 3: starts for Ashby, you'd go Strider too, So no, I would,
Speaker 3: you know? So, uh that is that's just what I
Speaker 3: think of. So luckily, not too much here for my
Speaker 3: teams outside the positives, So don't have I have like
Speaker 3: one or two Machado shares. I have a couple of Marcos.
Speaker 3: But other than that, I've got guys coming back. I've
Speaker 3: got Tim Anderson, I've got Chris Sale, I've got uh
Speaker 3: Keir Meyer.
Speaker 1: So what's annoying if you have Machado is if he
Speaker 1: doesn't go on the ie L.
Speaker 2: Now you have this this dead spot.
Speaker 3: There, so you can't put him on the eye there
Speaker 3: gonna I mean, just do it already like they're gonna
Speaker 3: do it, and then like a retroactor.
Speaker 1: And that's just as a fantasy manager, that's a super annoying.
Speaker 1: I mean, they should have done it yesterday. I understand
Speaker 1: on a Sunday, you're it's always gonna be a little weird.
Speaker 1: The should have done it yesterday. Here's a fun question
Speaker 1: from Milwonkee fears about Braun falling into the you can't
Speaker 1: steal first Billy Hamilton career arc.
Speaker 3: I mean it's legit, you know, it's a legit concern.
Speaker 3: So hopefully he can get it. He can write the
Speaker 3: ship and you know, the Rays are just letting him
Speaker 3: work through these issues here, so you know, I think
Speaker 3: he's got a better shot than Billy Hamilton. But you know,
Speaker 3: if you can't get on first, you can't steal second.
Speaker 3: That's the old trope. So this is true, This is true. Absolutely.
Speaker 1: You know, I was just looking at some of the
Speaker 1: K leaders too over the last thirty days. It's the
Speaker 1: usual suspects, right, You got al Contra, you got Shane McClanahan,
Speaker 1: Corbin Burns, Bieber right after that. Maybe not the usual suspects, Severarino,
Speaker 1: Tyler Molly, who I keep telling everybody.
Speaker 2: Like starting to put it together, Tyler Molly.
Speaker 1: Put it together again. It's not the first time he's
Speaker 1: put it together, but yeah, he is gonna get dealt.
Speaker 1: Somebody's gonna come after this guy. Nick Povetta, no surprise there.
Speaker 1: And then Chris Bassett, and you know it's funny. Chris
Speaker 1: Bassett and Charlie Morton are right up there too with
Speaker 1: forty one and thirty eight, but both of them have
Speaker 1: eras over five over the same thirty days span, which
Speaker 1: is kind of fascinating, which to me means go buy them,
Speaker 1: like because the strikeouts are still there and that's fantastic.
Speaker 2: That's I mean.
Speaker 1: Bassett has forty one k's and thirty four innings. Moreton
Speaker 1: has thirty eight and twenty seven innings. Over the last
Speaker 1: thirty days, but both have eras over five still over
Speaker 1: that span. I wonder if those are on their two
Speaker 1: guys that you know, if you had to pick, would
Speaker 1: you rather have Bassett or Morton rest of the season.
Speaker 3: Mmmm, that's a good one. I think I'd rather have Batsett.
Speaker 3: I think both teams are solid. I just Charlie Morton's
Speaker 3: tentury history has always scared me, so uh, I'll go
Speaker 3: with Bassett there.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I look at the run scored. This is a
Speaker 1: fun one too, Raphaeld Devers, Tommy Edmund, Goldschmid judge. You know,
Speaker 1: there's the guys you would think. Then there's Kyle Schwarber
Speaker 1: up there at twenty five.
Speaker 2: He's third.
Speaker 3: All he needed was Girardi to get fired. He's just
Speaker 3: to get fired and now he's on fire.
Speaker 1: So still hitting two thirty over that period.
Speaker 2: Your's on fire for Kyle Schwarber.
Speaker 1: So yeah, another guy too, quietly been very good besides
Speaker 1: Cronenworth on the Padres just kind of mentioned him in
Speaker 1: passing his profar profar hitting two seventy seven of last
Speaker 1: thirty days twenty two runs scored. Dansby Swanson's been good
Speaker 1: to Marcus Simeons really pick things up to eighty two
Speaker 1: twenty run scored over his last month to two, so
Speaker 1: you know, there's a a lot of patience to practice.
Speaker 1: But that's kind of a quick glance in the last
Speaker 1: thirty days, which is always fun. Let's talk about this.
Speaker 1: This meme's been going around the internets where the twenty
Speaker 1: twenty one World Series Game six viewership was at fourteen
Speaker 1: million and the twenty twenty two NBA Finals Game six
Speaker 1: viewership was at thirteen point nine. And the narrative of
Speaker 1: baseball being dead, baseball is dead. So everybody who likes
Speaker 1: that to you know, throw that people's faces.
Speaker 2: It's not good.
Speaker 1: There you go. So are both of them dead? I
Speaker 1: guess that's the question. Or is their demise both greatly exaggerated?
Speaker 3: Bot I mean Joe as as a guy that has
Speaker 3: gone to spring training, you know, every year, but this year,
Speaker 3: for the last twenty five years, baseball is never dead.
Speaker 3: When you oh and you see the people showing up
Speaker 3: at spring training and you just see the droves of people.
Speaker 3: It costs two hundred dollars to get into a Cubs
Speaker 3: game and sit in the grass, you know, to watch giants.
Speaker 1: They'll play three innings before it right comes from Iowa.
Speaker 3: Dude to one hundred percent. Yeah, the Giants won the
Speaker 3: win the World Series. Uh, you know, three of six
Speaker 3: years and you have to sell a kidney to get
Speaker 3: into that stadium to watch, you know, Darren rough play
Speaker 3: nine innings.
Speaker 1: You know what I mean?
Speaker 2: Like, uh, that.
Speaker 3: Baseball is not dead, It's not even close to dead.
Speaker 3: It's losing. It's just losing a little bit of viewership
Speaker 3: on TV, but every live sport is losing a little bit.
Speaker 1: So well, I think I think that's the whole point.
Speaker 1: It's like, if you're going to point to this, what
Speaker 1: you point to is that there's just so many more
Speaker 1: options and the on demand lifestyle of everybody that can
Speaker 1: do whatever. You know, we you don't have as much
Speaker 1: communal we have these x number of channels or this
Speaker 1: number of sports channels. You know, there's just twelve ESPNS
Speaker 1: and thirteen Fox Sports is and there's just you know,
Speaker 1: you're trying to plus all the streaming stuff you can get, right, So,
Speaker 1: I mean, you know, the hardcore audience is the hardcore audience,
Speaker 1: and you know, I think it's I think it's a
Speaker 1: good reminder to people that baseball is not dead. Uh
Speaker 1: And if you ask me what I'd rather watch the
Speaker 1: World Series or the finals of NBA, I'd rather watch
Speaker 1: the World Series. It's not even close. I'm curious for.
Speaker 2: You because you do like the NBA.
Speaker 1: Yeah you had. Again, none of our teams are in it.
Speaker 1: We're just talking about two Randos two Randos series.
Speaker 3: I mean, I like baseball better than basketball slightly, so
Speaker 3: I would say it's it's still the World Series for me.
Speaker 3: They're both fun though, like thirteen point nine verse fourteen,
Speaker 3: they're both doing all right, you know.
Speaker 2: Uh so uh I do.
Speaker 3: I do like the whole idea of baseball being dead
Speaker 3: and this being able, you know, you being able to
Speaker 3: throw up this meme because because it's true, So you know,
Speaker 3: I I think it's still baseball for me. Baseball just
Speaker 3: has a richer tradition in my eyes. But you know,
Speaker 3: it's it's tough to say, but I like watching the
Speaker 3: finals anything. I'm not a big hockey fan. The hockey finals,
Speaker 3: hockey playoff.
Speaker 2: Hockey's amazing.
Speaker 3: I've been watched awesome. Yeah, I can't get up exec
Speaker 3: I watched the cricket finals. I don't even know the
Speaker 3: sport at all, but It's fun to see all the
Speaker 3: pressure on the line.
Speaker 1: I've tried. I can't.
Speaker 2: I can't. I don't get it.
Speaker 1: I don't understand.
Speaker 2: I can't get it.
Speaker 1: Josh Peterson got it. He got his World Series ring yesterday.
Speaker 1: Congratulations to him.
Speaker 2: That's very pearls.
Speaker 1: He wore pearls. I was curious, what's the last uh,
Speaker 1: you know, I was trying to find it here on
Speaker 1: Fantasy Pearls. I was trying to look at the splits
Speaker 1: and stuff. But I was trying to see, like, what's
Speaker 1: Peterson done in the last like, because he was just
Speaker 1: red hot there for a while. What's the last thirty days?
Speaker 1: You post slap? The post slap has been pretty solid
Speaker 1: since Tommy hit him in the face.
Speaker 2: What do you think?
Speaker 1: Just take a guess. How do you think things have
Speaker 1: gone for him?
Speaker 2: He's he's hitting some he hit some bombs there. I
Speaker 2: don't know.
Speaker 3: I feel like I haven't heard from him in a
Speaker 3: week or two though, So is it not as good
Speaker 3: as we think?
Speaker 2: I'm not even sure it's pretty good.
Speaker 1: I mean, he's got one home run over the last
Speaker 1: two weeks, so he might have slapped the power out
Speaker 1: of it.
Speaker 3: But oh the power and the taste right out your
Speaker 3: mouth slapped.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 3: By the way, where are all these screenshots and d
Speaker 3: ms and everything that Tommy Fam says he had?
Speaker 2: Where are those? I got them. I got Jock.
Speaker 1: Pulled up his stuff the next day and showed it
Speaker 1: all the next day.
Speaker 2: Tommy Fam got nothing.
Speaker 1: JP just nailed it. By the way, curling is a man.
Speaker 1: I'll watch curling all day long. Curling gives Bogman and
Speaker 1: I hope that we can be Olympic athletes that we
Speaker 1: look at. Those guys are like, why not us? I mean,
Speaker 1: curling is just spectacular. There's actually a curling club in
Speaker 1: central New Jersey. Then, you know, someday my kids are older,
Speaker 1: I think that might be my future.
Speaker 2: There's not one in uh Montgomery, Texas. Just so you know.
Speaker 2: There's a lot of ice noting. I know either.
Speaker 1: I just but I want to learn to speak German
Speaker 1: or some other language so I could scream at somebody
Speaker 1: when they're sweeping. That's the other like it doesn't sound
Speaker 1: right when you're just yelling hard hard or whatever they
Speaker 1: yell in English. No, No, I want to yell at
Speaker 1: in some exotic language because I feel like, you know,
Speaker 1: like just whatever they're screaming. That's that's the one that's
Speaker 1: the language you want to yell at and curling, and I.
Speaker 2: Think that German does sound harsh when it's screamed.
Speaker 1: So exactly, first of fifty wins the New York Yankees. Uh,
Speaker 1: I know everybody's really super excited about that. Congratulations to
Speaker 1: the Yankees on first to fifty. Are the Yankees, in
Speaker 1: your opinion right now the favorite to win it all?
Speaker 2: Yeah?
Speaker 3: I mean, how can they not be. They're fifteen seventeen.
Speaker 3: It's like the best start since two thousand and two
Speaker 3: or something. It's unbelievable, the streak that they've been on,
Speaker 3: and you know they're this team is just solid. It's
Speaker 3: built well all the way around. All the pitching is
Speaker 3: coming through right now, so you know, the injury bug
Speaker 3: hasn't hit them yet, so I don't think they're going
Speaker 3: to get through a season without it. But yeah, I
Speaker 3: mean they are clearly the favorite to win right now.
Speaker 1: Mike Trout is on pace for forty home runs this season,
Speaker 1: career highs forty five, which you said in twenty nineteen.
Speaker 1: There's your fun factor of the day. You're question zero
Speaker 1: zero out.
Speaker 2: Well, but I mean, look you had to know that
Speaker 2: was coming.
Speaker 1: Oh yes, I mean I expect like ten maybe for
Speaker 1: the seat, not a donut. Like I expect him to
Speaker 1: steal at least ten at some point this year. Maybe
Speaker 1: he's gonna get him in bunches or something. But zero
Speaker 1: is just it's hard. It's hard to see, that's all.
Speaker 1: It doesn't matter. Mike Trout. You get forty nine Homers,
Speaker 1: you'll take it's gonna get fifty over Runner on the fifty,
Speaker 1: you take the over. The under, I would take the other.
Speaker 3: You know what, on any player, I feel like I
Speaker 3: take the under because you pull a hamstring, you miss
Speaker 3: a couple of weeks, and you're just not getting it.
Speaker 3: So I think the under is just so easy to bet.
Speaker 3: There is it within the Roman possibility? Absolutely? Uh, you
Speaker 3: know what, I'll bet on it. I would bet on
Speaker 3: him to hit fifty this year.
Speaker 1: All right, let's go here, you go, try out to fifty.
Speaker 2: You heard it here.
Speaker 1: Everybody hold Bogs accountable and Mayor loves when I talk
Speaker 1: about the Yankees.
Speaker 2: I don't know.
Speaker 1: I mean, he's a Red Sox fan, so he can't
Speaker 1: get enough it every time I mentioned the Yankees. But bro,
Speaker 1: they're up to fifty wins, bro, let's talk about it wins. Bruh, Broh,
Speaker 1: come at me, bro fifty. They in baseball history nineteen
Speaker 1: eighty six. Bo Jackson College Football's Heisman Trophy winner nineteen
Speaker 1: eighty five and the first pick by the Tampa Bay
Speaker 1: Bucks even though he told him don't draft me is
Speaker 1: in the NFL, but instead he signs with the Kansas
Speaker 1: City Royals on this day.
Speaker 2: So a little bit of Bo Jackson history there.
Speaker 1: Also, in nineteen eighty nine, the Yankees traded Ricky Henderson
Speaker 1: back to the A's Forget this package, Boys and Girls,
Speaker 1: Eric Plunk, Greg Carteret and Louis Polonia. Louis Polonia nineteen
Speaker 1: eighty nine, getting rid of Ricky Henderson who wanted out
Speaker 1: of New York and want to go back to Oakland
Speaker 1: and the fun part I remember, I think it was
Speaker 1: the eighty eight Don Russ Card of Louis Polonia had
Speaker 1: the giant Jerry curw was so good man that that
Speaker 1: was a stunning Jerry Crow. He had rock in there.
Speaker 1: But Louis Polognia, he's one of the like speedy guys
Speaker 1: like this guy could be a top of the leadoff,
Speaker 1: you know, kind of guy.
Speaker 2: Top of the order. Dude, I don't remembers for Eric.
Speaker 1: Plunk and Louis Polonia.
Speaker 2: I mean he sounds like three creative players.
Speaker 1: So well, Eric Plunk, you want to google Eric Plunk.
Speaker 1: He looks like your high school chemistry teacher. Swear to God,
Speaker 1: Look right now, I want the live reaction. Google Eric
Speaker 1: Plunk with a K. Eric Plunk absolutely was your guidance
Speaker 1: counselor you know, ninth grade chemistry teacher, something in that range.
Speaker 1: There he had the glasses and the whole thing. He
Speaker 1: pitched for a fair amount of years too, I want
Speaker 1: to say with Cleveland also memories. He just looks like
Speaker 1: a big dork, like a big dork that I don't
Speaker 1: see glasses in any of these pictures, but he looks
Speaker 1: like a big goofball. Yeah, there was definitely some Eric
Speaker 1: Plunk classes years. All right, here's your tribute question for
Speaker 1: the day, boys and girls. Who was the first player
Speaker 1: in Major league history to have his number retired? First
Speaker 1: player in Major league history to have their number retired?
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Speaker 1: go ahead and drop the answer in here, let's see
Speaker 1: how smart you are here and try out to use
Speaker 1: the Google machine. And yeah, he was good for Cleveland
Speaker 1: in the mid nineties. Eric Plunk, he was in that
Speaker 1: like Eric Plunk and Tim Cruz and that whole group.
Speaker 2: All right.
Speaker 3: Here he looks like he's part of the cast of
Speaker 3: Stranger Things here.
Speaker 1: Definitely his dah totally stranger things, Eric Plunk. Greg Carteret
Speaker 1: had a mustache to you, a pretty good mustache. It
Speaker 1: people would probably envy nowadays.
Speaker 2: Corbyn burns seven innings.
Speaker 1: He was a stat hero. Ten k's, he was fantastic.
Speaker 1: Garrett Cole twelve k's over seven to one earned. Max Freed.
Speaker 1: That was the other lock yesterday, Max Freed. We wanted Freed,
Speaker 1: we wanted Darvish, we wanted to pay down a little bit.
Speaker 1: It still worked. McLanahan was still great. One earned over
Speaker 1: six innings, eight k's Logan Webb was strong those seven
Speaker 1: innings one earned and U Darvish of course only five
Speaker 1: k's but still seven strong innings. That's what you want.
Speaker 1: Andrew Vaughn four for four, Andrew Benin Tendi two for
Speaker 1: four with a home run. Vaughan had a home run.
Speaker 1: Andrew durand No, I'm just kidding everyone named Andrew Jared
Speaker 1: Duran two for three, two steals for him. Kevin got
Speaker 1: a jacket and a home run and a loss Hunter
Speaker 1: Dozer who I just acquired from our friend Dan Strafford
Speaker 1: in my home league just this weekend. Yeah, what do
Speaker 1: you call him? If Loki was an accountant was Yeah,
Speaker 1: that's exactly what he looks like. If Loki wasn't accountant?
Speaker 1: Is Dan Strafford? Luis Robert two for four with a dinger.
Speaker 1: Dan vogel Back two for four. I love that Dan
Speaker 1: Vogelback's body type is on the same team as an
Speaker 1: your Cord. That's that's that's why that's the baseball card
Speaker 1: I want. Remember when they used to do stuff like
Speaker 1: that or like, hey, look at these guys, they're different.
Speaker 2: It was like, so nineteen eighty nine, who is it
Speaker 2: that Alan and Ginter does all the specialized cards?
Speaker 3: They should do, like a lunch order for Daniel Vogelbach
Speaker 3: and then a lunch order for on your cruise.
Speaker 2: It's probably the same calories. Probably he probably is.
Speaker 1: And yes, Eric Plunk, Jesse's one hundred percent right. Eric
Speaker 1: Plunk does have a tim Curry quality. He absolutely, yeah, yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: one hundred percent Tim.
Speaker 3: One of the best movies, Diabetic Tim Curry.
Speaker 1: Wonky Penguin got the trivia question correct. It was Lou
Speaker 1: Garrett first guy to ever have their number retired. Well done, Wonky.
Speaker 1: All right, here's there's stat zero's only one. It's Jose
Speaker 1: Barrios again.
Speaker 2: So he was good man.
Speaker 1: Seem like he was going in the right direction. How
Speaker 1: much do you want to shoot yourself in the face
Speaker 1: if you have Jose Barrios after this? Six earned runs,
Speaker 1: four innings. I one k one bugs what I mean?
Speaker 1: I just feel bad for the people who have him
Speaker 1: rostered at this.
Speaker 2: I just can't imagine.
Speaker 3: Like, first of all, when he started his breakout, was
Speaker 3: the first day I decided to bention like that was
Speaker 3: the first time when he started to come back and pitch. Well,
Speaker 3: now that I got him in the middle of the lineup,
Speaker 3: of course he does this.
Speaker 2: I don't know. I don't know what's wrong with him.
Speaker 3: I feel like, when it goes from so good to
Speaker 3: so bad, you almost have to be tipping.
Speaker 2: But how has his team not been able to figure
Speaker 2: that out? By now?
Speaker 3: If that's the issue, it can't be that so just
Speaker 3: I don't know what it is, grooving him or something,
Speaker 3: so h's It's just it's hard to figure out Josey
Speaker 3: Brios right now because it seemed like the issue was
Speaker 3: over and then he gets smashed again, So I don't
Speaker 3: know what it is, all right.
Speaker 1: The other zeros were Nolan Gorman over three three, k's
Speaker 1: Vidal Bruhan over three three, k's Bobby Wit over five
Speaker 1: with a k A. Rosarino four Ward to two, Christian
Speaker 1: Yelich over four ward to Luke Voight over fourward too,
Speaker 1: Giancarlo Stanton over Fourward two, and Matt Chapman over four
Speaker 1: Ward two. Only three home run calls last night. It
Speaker 1: was not a great night for the home runs. If
Speaker 1: you look at the board, still Larry c Up at
Speaker 1: the top there with twenty four, along with high Cubbies,
Speaker 1: We've got de Blum, We've got title Chaser up there
Speaker 1: all twenty four, then Niking of the North of twenty one.
Speaker 1: I'm at twenty, Mike Mayer who knows, oh there he
Speaker 1: is twenty and go cards and who else do we
Speaker 1: have on this board? All I do is win, and
Speaker 1: I think it's l scale. I hope I'm saying it right.
Speaker 1: I hope it's l scaleing out eye scale.
Speaker 2: I don't know.
Speaker 1: I'm old, my eyes don't work as well as they should.
Speaker 2: But not a lot of movement last night. It was
Speaker 2: a boring night in terms of home run.
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Speaker 1: I'm looking at the what we have here on the
Speaker 1: dock at Kevin Gosman four and a half is the
Speaker 1: k prop what against the White Sox. Give me the
Speaker 1: over there it's minus one fifty five. The juice is
Speaker 1: a lot. I don't care. It's worth the squeeze. Zach
Speaker 1: Gallon uh is at four and a half as well,
Speaker 1: lows over on DraftKings he is at minus one twenty
Speaker 1: five on that on like the over there, Trey Turner
Speaker 1: total bases at minus one twenty five at one and
Speaker 1: a half. Xander Bogart's at one and a half total
Speaker 1: basis on DK two.
Speaker 2: Is it even?
Speaker 1: So that's what we got there tonight. Again looking at
Speaker 1: the DFS slate, you got Nester Cortez gonna be very chalky,
Speaker 1: as he should be. Tampa lineup is definitely hurting right now.
Speaker 1: Spencer Strider at eight point six is a nice secondary
Speaker 1: arm to go with Cortes. Take the over on his
Speaker 1: case two. Whatever it is for Strider, just take the over, Just.
Speaker 2: Take the over. I mean that's what it's been right now.
Speaker 1: Joe Ryan at eight point eight might be a sneaky
Speaker 1: play tonight as well, like that matchup. So you could
Speaker 1: also pick and choose with those two guys, or you
Speaker 1: can get Sean and I at nine K. You know
Speaker 1: my problem is again without Machado in that lineup, that's
Speaker 1: where things.
Speaker 2: Get a little, you know, a little dicey there.
Speaker 1: It was good for Darvish last night, but still and
Speaker 1: then of course you have Kevin Gosman going against Dylan
Speaker 1: c so that's got more outcomes in it potentially, which
Speaker 1: makes me kind of shy away from it. So I
Speaker 1: would go with Cortes and Strider. That's my perfect pairing.
Speaker 1: If I'm gonna go at it tonight on DK, if
Speaker 1: I'm gonna go aud on FanDuel, you can go with
Speaker 1: Cash game Nester Cortez at ten to five, Spencer Schreider
Speaker 1: eight point seven. In the In the tournaments, it's tempting
Speaker 1: to go and look at Dylan Ce's is tempting to
Speaker 1: go look at Shamanayah. But I'd rather go with Stryder,
Speaker 1: who's eight point seven, as opposed to see who's nine
Speaker 1: point six. And that allows you to get whatever you
Speaker 1: want in your lineup. Strider at eight seven allows you
Speaker 1: to get whatever you want basically, So go do it,
Speaker 1: and go do it with Houston, Saint Louis and the
Speaker 1: Red Sox lineup builders tonight, No Marmazara is a two
Speaker 1: K hunter Dozer three k over on DK Dylan Carlson
Speaker 1: two point four. No marmazar is two point three over
Speaker 1: on Fandel. Andrew Vaughan, one of the big DVP guys,
Speaker 1: Boggs and I'm talking about a second is just two
Speaker 1: point nine and Alec Boom is just two point six. So,
Speaker 1: speaking of BVP, take me through the BVP bogs.
Speaker 3: Alec Boom five or ten with a bomb versus Martine Perez,
Speaker 3: Nick Cassianos also hitting five hundred and six for twelve
Speaker 3: with a bomb in two doubles versus Perez DD five
Speaker 3: for fourteen with three bombs. First Martine Perez, So does
Speaker 3: it look like a great day for Perez?
Speaker 2: Here?
Speaker 1: Andrew vaugh who you mentioned before, three for three, a
Speaker 1: homer and a double versus Gossman, So that is interesting.
Speaker 1: And then Mike Trout thirteen for thirty five at three
Speaker 1: seventy one average, three homers, three doubles versus Marko Gonzales. Yes,
Speaker 1: I saw that. I saw what doctor Glennon said, and look, uh, the.
Speaker 3: Crown is the only thing that can make a forty
Speaker 3: year old man look like a small child, like as
Speaker 3: soon as you put it on, because it looks like
Speaker 3: it's just a little too big for your head.
Speaker 2: It's my birthday. Where do you want to go for lunch?
Speaker 2: But anywhere you want, it's your break. That's okay, I'm good,
Speaker 2: you know.
Speaker 1: After that BVP number, I I'm going to fall into
Speaker 1: the trap on the Trout one. I had Trout last
Speaker 1: night didn't work. I had Goldchman. I'm taking him out officially.
Speaker 1: I'm going to put in Trout after the BVP talk
Speaker 1: because I forgot it was Marco Gonzalez tonight. At Marco
Speaker 1: Gonzalez fly ball rate is off the chart, So let's
Speaker 1: go at Trout. It's the it's the guy the show
Speaker 1: today bog and Likesmber fifty home runs. Let's hope he
Speaker 1: gets five tonight. Where are you going for your role?
Speaker 1: Mone tonight? Well? I also wrote Mike Trout online, Oh
Speaker 1: good yeah, oh thief, you thief, thief.
Speaker 2: It's called togetherness.
Speaker 1: This guy used to do all the Dan and I
Speaker 1: would hold hands and pick the same guy many times.
Speaker 2: It's called being right. Let's just go be right.
Speaker 3: Mike Trout has zero stolen bases, but Joe has one
Speaker 3: stolen pick.
Speaker 2: So right there, Mike Trout.
Speaker 1: That's also one of the categories in those eleven by
Speaker 1: eleven leagues that people.
Speaker 2: Like to play.
Speaker 1: You know what you do when you when you have
Speaker 1: when you play a fourteen by fourteen league, it's called
Speaker 1: a points league. You just change it and you just
Speaker 1: give everything point totals. Stop doing stupid categories. Five is fine,
Speaker 1: six is acceptable. Once you gets past six, it's a
Speaker 1: points league. Stop trying to fool yourself. Stop because people
Speaker 1: will put the propecia in their hair and then the
Speaker 1: weird things in their head. They think like the keeps
Speaker 1: like it's gonna keep your hair.
Speaker 2: No it's not.
Speaker 1: You're just fooling yourself. You're just delaying the inevitable. Oh
Speaker 1: you got plenty up.
Speaker 2: There who you can, oh already growing back for me? Yeah?
Speaker 1: Yeah, please you Bogman. You know, broblem is like a
Speaker 1: werewolf by the time.
Speaker 2: Come on, and you know what mister buzz is right.
Speaker 1: Dan hated picking my guy, but he would do it sometimes,
Speaker 1: wouldn't he. He would still do it for the love
Speaker 1: of the bit. He'd still do it. So obviously, pay
Speaker 1: attention to a lot of these injuries. A lot going
Speaker 1: on here in terms of roster movement. And the thing
Speaker 1: is that opens up a lot in the DFS world too.
Speaker 1: So there's gonna be guys in lineup tonight who aren't
Speaker 1: always take a look at their splits, take a look
Speaker 1: at their home road splits and the lefty righty splits,
Speaker 1: and see if you can find some other lineup builders,
Speaker 1: especially if you want to go up to Cortest tonight.
Speaker 1: That is a good rule of that'll do it for us,
Speaker 1: But the story of the game goes on for Scott Bogman.
Speaker 1: I'm Joey p Well, see you next time, kids.
Speaker 2: Smare loves the Yankees. He loves the Yankees.