1 00:00:00,120 --> 00:00:02,800 Speaker 1: I had someone tell me yesterday that because he would 2 00:00:02,800 --> 00:00:05,040 Speaker 1: have been a free agent at twenty six as opposed 3 00:00:05,080 --> 00:00:07,280 Speaker 1: to what he will be now it's thirty two, he 4 00:00:07,360 --> 00:00:09,559 Speaker 1: left perhaps one hundred and fifty to two hundred million 5 00:00:09,640 --> 00:00:19,880 Speaker 1: on the table. Welcome everyone to the Thursday edition of 6 00:00:19,960 --> 00:00:24,320 Speaker 1: Fair Territory. I'm Ken Rosenthal here with Alana Rizzo. We've 7 00:00:24,360 --> 00:00:27,960 Speaker 1: got games to talk about, but we also have extensions 8 00:00:28,000 --> 00:00:28,760 Speaker 1: to talk about. 9 00:00:29,240 --> 00:00:32,000 Speaker 2: Yes, it seems like a lot of contract extensions. I mean, 10 00:00:32,040 --> 00:00:34,479 Speaker 2: it's it's the thing to do this week, apparently in 11 00:00:34,479 --> 00:00:36,600 Speaker 2: the first week of the season. But Ken, not all 12 00:00:36,680 --> 00:00:39,559 Speaker 2: extensions are created equal. What more can you tell us? 13 00:00:39,960 --> 00:00:43,159 Speaker 1: A Loni, You're absolutely right. And when you judge these 14 00:00:43,159 --> 00:00:45,159 Speaker 1: things or when you look at them, let's not judge 15 00:00:45,159 --> 00:00:47,480 Speaker 1: just yet, because there are two sides to every story, 16 00:00:47,520 --> 00:00:50,599 Speaker 1: as we will see with extensions. But when you evaluate 17 00:00:50,640 --> 00:00:53,360 Speaker 1: an extension, you have to understand first where the player 18 00:00:53,560 --> 00:00:57,480 Speaker 1: is in his career. Jackson Merrill only one year of service. 19 00:00:57,520 --> 00:01:01,320 Speaker 1: He had five years before free agency. Garrett Crochet had 20 00:01:01,400 --> 00:01:04,000 Speaker 1: only one year after this before he would become a 21 00:01:04,000 --> 00:01:06,720 Speaker 1: free agent. Katel Marte he was a guy who was 22 00:01:06,800 --> 00:01:12,000 Speaker 1: already under contract. And then Christian Campbell, Well, he's five 23 00:01:12,080 --> 00:01:15,440 Speaker 1: days into his career when he starts in science his extension. 24 00:01:15,600 --> 00:01:20,320 Speaker 1: So all different aspects are all different stages of these players' careers, 25 00:01:20,520 --> 00:01:22,760 Speaker 1: and that effects, of course the money that they get. 26 00:01:23,200 --> 00:01:25,600 Speaker 1: The other thing that I want to stress here is, 27 00:01:25,640 --> 00:01:27,959 Speaker 1: and as I said earlier, there are two sides to 28 00:01:27,959 --> 00:01:30,720 Speaker 1: every story, and people will look at some extensions and 29 00:01:30,760 --> 00:01:33,319 Speaker 1: say not enough money. People will look at others and 30 00:01:33,360 --> 00:01:37,520 Speaker 1: say that's better. But what we don't know often are 31 00:01:37,800 --> 00:01:41,840 Speaker 1: the financial circumstances of the player, the family pressure he 32 00:01:41,959 --> 00:01:45,720 Speaker 1: might be experiencing, and just his overall viewpoint. Now, Merrill 33 00:01:46,000 --> 00:01:47,720 Speaker 1: is the one I want to talk about first because 34 00:01:47,760 --> 00:01:50,880 Speaker 1: it's the most interesting to me. Nine years, one hundred 35 00:01:50,920 --> 00:01:55,360 Speaker 1: and thirty five million, with plate appearances incentives that can 36 00:01:55,400 --> 00:01:58,280 Speaker 1: grow to one hundred and sixty five million over nine years. 37 00:01:58,560 --> 00:02:01,200 Speaker 1: There is no question this is a team friendly deal. 38 00:02:01,400 --> 00:02:04,320 Speaker 1: Jackson Merrill would not deny this is a team friendly deal. 39 00:02:04,760 --> 00:02:07,240 Speaker 1: And when you look at it compared to Julio Rodriguez's 40 00:02:07,320 --> 00:02:10,000 Speaker 1: deal which he signed a few years back at a 41 00:02:10,040 --> 00:02:13,000 Speaker 1: similar stage, actually he was in his first year. That 42 00:02:13,160 --> 00:02:16,080 Speaker 1: was twelve years, two hundred and nine million, and a 43 00:02:16,120 --> 00:02:19,960 Speaker 1: deal that will probably grow to fifteen years and at 44 00:02:20,080 --> 00:02:23,760 Speaker 1: least three twenty. That's where the baseline probably is because 45 00:02:23,800 --> 00:02:26,280 Speaker 1: the Mariners have an eight year club option they have 46 00:02:26,400 --> 00:02:30,400 Speaker 1: to pick up after twenty twenty eight. So compared to 47 00:02:30,480 --> 00:02:34,120 Speaker 1: Julio's deal, certainly this deal is undervalued. But what did 48 00:02:34,200 --> 00:02:38,120 Speaker 1: Jackson Merrill say yesterday at his news conference? He said, 49 00:02:38,320 --> 00:02:40,520 Speaker 1: I want my team to be able to build around me. 50 00:02:40,760 --> 00:02:43,640 Speaker 1: I want to leave them enough payroll flexibility so they 51 00:02:43,680 --> 00:02:47,320 Speaker 1: can do that. Now, that's a very noble sentiment, and 52 00:02:47,960 --> 00:02:50,480 Speaker 1: actually a lot of fans responded quite positively, as you 53 00:02:50,520 --> 00:02:53,400 Speaker 1: would expect to a player saying I'm leaving money on 54 00:02:53,520 --> 00:02:56,600 Speaker 1: the table so my team can do other things. The 55 00:02:56,680 --> 00:02:59,880 Speaker 1: other side of that, which would come from other agents 56 00:03:00,040 --> 00:03:02,840 Speaker 1: in the Union and players themselves, would be hey, you're 57 00:03:02,919 --> 00:03:05,160 Speaker 1: hurting the market for other players. Now, I don't know 58 00:03:05,200 --> 00:03:08,320 Speaker 1: that that's necessarily true. Kyle Tucker's going to be okay 59 00:03:08,440 --> 00:03:11,320 Speaker 1: when he becomes a free agent. Vladimir Guerrero Junior will 60 00:03:11,320 --> 00:03:13,799 Speaker 1: become a free agent. If he does, he'll be okay too. 61 00:03:14,200 --> 00:03:16,760 Speaker 1: But those are the two sides that you look at 62 00:03:16,760 --> 00:03:19,600 Speaker 1: with that particular deal, and that's just one of several 63 00:03:19,639 --> 00:03:21,040 Speaker 1: that were signed this week. 64 00:03:21,440 --> 00:03:23,720 Speaker 2: Ken, What do you think was the amount of money 65 00:03:23,800 --> 00:03:25,760 Speaker 2: left on the table, If, in fact, to your point, 66 00:03:25,840 --> 00:03:28,320 Speaker 2: Jackson Merrile did leave money on the table for whatever 67 00:03:28,360 --> 00:03:30,960 Speaker 2: reason he decided he wanted to sign this deal, what 68 00:03:31,000 --> 00:03:32,400 Speaker 2: do you think he could have gotten. 69 00:03:33,040 --> 00:03:35,680 Speaker 1: I had someone tell me yesterday that because he would 70 00:03:35,720 --> 00:03:38,000 Speaker 1: have been a free agent at twenty six as opposed 71 00:03:38,000 --> 00:03:40,200 Speaker 1: to what he will be now at thirty two, he 72 00:03:40,280 --> 00:03:42,480 Speaker 1: left perhaps one hundred and fifty to two hundred million 73 00:03:42,560 --> 00:03:45,000 Speaker 1: on the table. Now you don't know that, and you 74 00:03:45,000 --> 00:03:47,200 Speaker 1: don't know where his career is going. The one thing 75 00:03:47,240 --> 00:03:50,000 Speaker 1: also I should mention, and this maybe applies more to 76 00:03:50,080 --> 00:03:53,680 Speaker 1: Christian Campbell than any of these other players. Christian Campbell 77 00:03:53,760 --> 00:03:56,280 Speaker 1: was not a top prospect, fourth round pick out of 78 00:03:56,320 --> 00:03:59,480 Speaker 1: Georgia Tech. I believe he just came on in the 79 00:03:59,560 --> 00:04:02,360 Speaker 1: last year year or so to be what he is now, 80 00:04:02,920 --> 00:04:05,400 Speaker 1: obviously the starting second basement for the Red Sox and 81 00:04:05,440 --> 00:04:09,640 Speaker 1: a young player that really burst into everyone's consciousness. The 82 00:04:09,680 --> 00:04:12,120 Speaker 1: Red Sox puts sixty million dollars in front of him, 83 00:04:12,520 --> 00:04:16,080 Speaker 1: And if you're Christian Campbell's parents and you say, well, 84 00:04:17,480 --> 00:04:19,839 Speaker 1: how do we know that he's going to make sixty million? 85 00:04:20,480 --> 00:04:22,839 Speaker 1: When this kid wasn't even that highly regarded not that 86 00:04:22,960 --> 00:04:25,760 Speaker 1: long ago. You don't know that, and if you're a parent, 87 00:04:25,839 --> 00:04:30,040 Speaker 1: you're looking at it. It's tempting. Now. What I would say, 88 00:04:30,040 --> 00:04:34,160 Speaker 1: also again presenting the other side, is for position players, Alana, 89 00:04:34,720 --> 00:04:37,440 Speaker 1: there's much less risk, much less risk of injury. They 90 00:04:37,480 --> 00:04:41,120 Speaker 1: happen injuries, no question, But the pitchers, you can certainly 91 00:04:41,200 --> 00:04:45,160 Speaker 1: understand why they would jump at extensions more enthusiastically than 92 00:04:45,200 --> 00:04:48,160 Speaker 1: position players would. And yet at the same time, when 93 00:04:48,160 --> 00:04:50,520 Speaker 1: you're putting life changing money in front of a person, 94 00:04:51,160 --> 00:04:54,560 Speaker 1: when there are no guarantees in life, I can understand 95 00:04:54,600 --> 00:04:57,200 Speaker 1: where the player is coming from. If that indeed was 96 00:04:57,320 --> 00:05:02,520 Speaker 1: Christian Campbell's motivation, I don't know, but that is kind 97 00:05:02,520 --> 00:05:05,640 Speaker 1: of the dichotomy that we see here often with these extensions. 98 00:05:06,040 --> 00:05:08,960 Speaker 2: Yeah, perhaps it's not generational wealth like a contract that's 99 00:05:09,000 --> 00:05:11,080 Speaker 2: two hundred, two hundred and fifty million, but he certainly 100 00:05:11,080 --> 00:05:13,000 Speaker 2: can take care of his immediate family, and it is 101 00:05:13,040 --> 00:05:15,760 Speaker 2: hard to walk away from sixty million dollars. I don't 102 00:05:15,760 --> 00:05:17,080 Speaker 2: care who you are. And he's been in the big 103 00:05:17,160 --> 00:05:19,080 Speaker 2: leagues for about five minutes. 104 00:05:19,120 --> 00:05:19,280 Speaker 1: Now. 105 00:05:19,320 --> 00:05:21,520 Speaker 2: Marte is a different case, Ken, because it's a six 106 00:05:21,640 --> 00:05:24,240 Speaker 2: year one hundred and sixteen million dollar extension. But this 107 00:05:24,279 --> 00:05:27,280 Speaker 2: is on the other side of the spectrum, a veteran player, 108 00:05:27,360 --> 00:05:29,320 Speaker 2: I guess, rewarding him for service time. 109 00:05:29,320 --> 00:05:30,360 Speaker 3: What do you make of this deal? 110 00:05:31,320 --> 00:05:34,480 Speaker 1: He wants to keep playing for the Diamondbacks. It's pretty simple, actually, 111 00:05:34,560 --> 00:05:37,440 Speaker 1: and he was signed through I believe age thirty one. 112 00:05:37,440 --> 00:05:39,960 Speaker 1: This takes him through age thirty seven. I don't know 113 00:05:39,960 --> 00:05:42,840 Speaker 1: if I have the years exactly right there. This deal 114 00:05:42,880 --> 00:05:45,880 Speaker 1: includes sixty four million dollars in new money, and the 115 00:05:45,880 --> 00:05:49,160 Speaker 1: Diamondbacks were willing to do it extend him into his 116 00:05:49,279 --> 00:05:53,560 Speaker 1: mid thirties even upper thirties, because Marte gave something back too. 117 00:05:53,760 --> 00:05:56,240 Speaker 1: He deferred a lot of money, he took less money 118 00:05:56,360 --> 00:05:58,880 Speaker 1: this year, lowered his salary for this year because he 119 00:05:58,920 --> 00:06:02,360 Speaker 1: was already under contract, which could again enable them to 120 00:06:02,400 --> 00:06:05,839 Speaker 1: do some other things. So this is a deal that, really, 121 00:06:06,480 --> 00:06:09,880 Speaker 1: unlike the others, was kind of just a veteran player 122 00:06:09,960 --> 00:06:13,040 Speaker 1: saying I want to be where I am, I'm comfortable, 123 00:06:13,160 --> 00:06:16,440 Speaker 1: and let's go. And it seems that in this particular 124 00:06:16,480 --> 00:06:20,080 Speaker 1: case you can certainly see both sides perspective. Now a 125 00:06:20,080 --> 00:06:23,360 Speaker 1: lot of crochet is perhaps the most interesting of all. 126 00:06:23,480 --> 00:06:25,919 Speaker 1: On the other side of this, I don't know that 127 00:06:26,000 --> 00:06:30,520 Speaker 1: anyone will question whether Garret Croche got market value. If anything, 128 00:06:30,640 --> 00:06:33,839 Speaker 1: he maybe got a little bit above market value. Here's 129 00:06:33,880 --> 00:06:36,960 Speaker 1: a guy who landed a sixty or one hundred and 130 00:06:36,960 --> 00:06:40,080 Speaker 1: seventy million dollar extension when he has only been a 131 00:06:40,120 --> 00:06:43,200 Speaker 1: starting pitcher for one year now. He would have been 132 00:06:43,200 --> 00:06:45,640 Speaker 1: a free agent entering his age twenty eight season. That's 133 00:06:45,760 --> 00:06:48,719 Speaker 1: very young, and he's already had his Tommy John surgery 134 00:06:48,800 --> 00:06:51,159 Speaker 1: in twenty twenty two, so he should be good for 135 00:06:51,200 --> 00:06:54,039 Speaker 1: a while, you would hope. But at the same time, 136 00:06:54,240 --> 00:06:57,279 Speaker 1: the Red Sox seed this enormous potential that he has, 137 00:06:57,320 --> 00:06:59,680 Speaker 1: and we saw it yesterday against the Orioles, of course, 138 00:07:00,040 --> 00:07:02,960 Speaker 1: and they believe that this is a guy who will 139 00:07:03,080 --> 00:07:05,919 Speaker 1: ultimately be with in his beworth in his free agent 140 00:07:06,000 --> 00:07:08,920 Speaker 1: years thirty thirty two million dollars a year, and that's 141 00:07:08,920 --> 00:07:14,400 Speaker 1: where this contract takes him. So again, all different aspects here, 142 00:07:14,280 --> 00:07:18,000 Speaker 1: all different things to consider, but each case is different 143 00:07:18,040 --> 00:07:19,200 Speaker 1: and each player is different. 144 00:07:20,080 --> 00:07:21,960 Speaker 2: It's crazy to think what a few months have made 145 00:07:21,960 --> 00:07:24,600 Speaker 2: for Garrett Crochet going from the White Sox and saying 146 00:07:24,680 --> 00:07:26,640 Speaker 2: I am a starter. I don't want to be traded 147 00:07:26,680 --> 00:07:28,560 Speaker 2: and be put in the bullpen for the Los Angeles 148 00:07:28,560 --> 00:07:31,960 Speaker 2: Dodgers to signing a very hefty six year, one hundred 149 00:07:32,000 --> 00:07:35,240 Speaker 2: and seventy million dollars deal with the Red Sox. 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Ken, I don't know that many people 178 00:08:53,440 --> 00:08:56,200 Speaker 2: are going to be wearing Homage Braves jackets right now, 179 00:08:56,520 --> 00:08:59,280 Speaker 2: because I tell you what, my friend, The Braves are scuffling. 180 00:08:59,280 --> 00:09:02,319 Speaker 2: Maybe it's just because they've run into a buzzsaw this 181 00:09:02,360 --> 00:09:04,840 Speaker 2: first part of this season, but no team in Major 182 00:09:04,880 --> 00:09:08,040 Speaker 2: League Baseball history has made the postseason. Ken, you know 183 00:09:08,080 --> 00:09:11,840 Speaker 2: this better than anybody after starting the season. Oh and seven, 184 00:09:11,920 --> 00:09:14,400 Speaker 2: what do the Braves need to do to write this ship? 185 00:09:15,480 --> 00:09:17,680 Speaker 1: Well, you're talking to the guy who picked them to 186 00:09:17,760 --> 00:09:20,360 Speaker 1: win the World Series, Alna, So maybe you're asking the 187 00:09:20,440 --> 00:09:25,280 Speaker 1: wrong expert about the Atlanta Braves. First of all, oh 188 00:09:25,280 --> 00:09:27,840 Speaker 1: and seven, Yes, it's daunting, but keep in mind we 189 00:09:27,880 --> 00:09:30,240 Speaker 1: have expanded playoffs now, so the fact that no team 190 00:09:30,280 --> 00:09:32,960 Speaker 1: has come back from that to make the playoffs. It's 191 00:09:32,960 --> 00:09:35,520 Speaker 1: a little bit different because only in the last couple 192 00:09:35,520 --> 00:09:37,840 Speaker 1: of years have we had twelve teams. All right, That's 193 00:09:37,920 --> 00:09:40,960 Speaker 1: one thing to encourage the Braves. What I would also 194 00:09:41,120 --> 00:09:44,040 Speaker 1: say is they're going to hit. Some of their players 195 00:09:44,080 --> 00:09:47,160 Speaker 1: are not hitting right now. Austin Riley yesterday described his 196 00:09:47,240 --> 00:09:51,840 Speaker 1: performance as embarrassing. Acuna is coming back, Strider's coming back, 197 00:09:52,000 --> 00:09:55,880 Speaker 1: Sean Murphy's coming back. So once they get some of 198 00:09:55,880 --> 00:09:59,160 Speaker 1: those players back, Strider obviously is a pitcher, their offense 199 00:09:59,280 --> 00:10:02,160 Speaker 1: and stay in general will be in a better place. 200 00:10:02,720 --> 00:10:04,640 Speaker 1: And the other thing that's worth noting, and I'm ringing 201 00:10:04,679 --> 00:10:08,360 Speaker 1: the optimistic bell here trying to anyway, for Braves fans, 202 00:10:09,040 --> 00:10:12,480 Speaker 1: they are a team that with the Profar suspension, the 203 00:10:12,760 --> 00:10:15,959 Speaker 1: eighty game ban for Jerks and Profar because he used peds, 204 00:10:16,400 --> 00:10:19,640 Speaker 1: they're going to save about six million there, almost six million, 205 00:10:19,800 --> 00:10:23,160 Speaker 1: and right now they're about fifteen million, fourteen million, I 206 00:10:23,160 --> 00:10:26,280 Speaker 1: should say under the luxury tax threshold. That's a lot 207 00:10:26,280 --> 00:10:29,360 Speaker 1: of room to maneuver at the deadline. And their president 208 00:10:29,400 --> 00:10:34,760 Speaker 1: of Baseball Operations, Alexanthopolis, has always almost always been aggressive 209 00:10:34,840 --> 00:10:37,840 Speaker 1: at the deadline, so they'll get their players back, the 210 00:10:37,840 --> 00:10:41,040 Speaker 1: injured players, they'll be able to do some things as 211 00:10:41,080 --> 00:10:44,480 Speaker 1: the deadline approaches and at the deadline, so all is 212 00:10:44,520 --> 00:10:47,080 Speaker 1: not lost. But keep in mind also they're in a 213 00:10:47,080 --> 00:10:49,920 Speaker 1: good division. They're in a division with two powerhouses, the 214 00:10:49,920 --> 00:10:53,480 Speaker 1: New York Mets and the Philadelphia Phillies. So it's not 215 00:10:53,640 --> 00:10:58,120 Speaker 1: too late to think this season can be salvaged. But 216 00:10:58,280 --> 00:11:02,600 Speaker 1: it's not early enough to just simply dismiss this either. 217 00:11:02,640 --> 00:11:05,719 Speaker 1: They've got to get going. And we've seen teams, the 218 00:11:05,800 --> 00:11:09,680 Speaker 1: Astros last year being so prominent among them rally from 219 00:11:09,679 --> 00:11:12,200 Speaker 1: this kind of start. The Astros, I believe were seven 220 00:11:12,240 --> 00:11:14,240 Speaker 1: to nineteen. The Mets were zero to five last year, 221 00:11:14,320 --> 00:11:18,720 Speaker 1: if I recall. So it's not burying or anything like that. 222 00:11:18,840 --> 00:11:22,360 Speaker 1: But at the same time, some warning signs have emerged. 223 00:11:22,400 --> 00:11:24,960 Speaker 1: The rotations thinner than they thought, especially now with the 224 00:11:25,000 --> 00:11:28,600 Speaker 1: loss of Ronaldo Lopez and the bullpen, it doesn't seem 225 00:11:28,679 --> 00:11:29,520 Speaker 1: to be in a good place. 226 00:11:30,559 --> 00:11:32,200 Speaker 2: Let me ask you this, Ken, because I've heard a 227 00:11:32,200 --> 00:11:34,720 Speaker 2: couple of different places that perhaps this is going to 228 00:11:34,760 --> 00:11:37,760 Speaker 2: be Brian Snicker's last year at the helm of the 229 00:11:37,800 --> 00:11:40,640 Speaker 2: Atlanta Braves. I mean, how much stock are you putting 230 00:11:40,679 --> 00:11:46,000 Speaker 2: into that and certainly I never discount what Alex Anthopolis 231 00:11:46,000 --> 00:11:47,800 Speaker 2: has done with that team, and I really have a 232 00:11:47,840 --> 00:11:49,720 Speaker 2: lot of faith in Brian Snicker. 233 00:11:49,760 --> 00:11:53,160 Speaker 3: Do you think this is it for him? 234 00:11:53,400 --> 00:11:55,720 Speaker 1: Remains to be seen. He hasn't made up his mind, 235 00:11:55,920 --> 00:11:57,840 Speaker 1: and I don't expect him to make up his mind 236 00:11:57,920 --> 00:12:00,400 Speaker 1: just yet. Next year, if I'm not mistaken, would be 237 00:12:00,400 --> 00:12:03,360 Speaker 1: his fiftieth year in the organization. Now he can be 238 00:12:03,400 --> 00:12:05,840 Speaker 1: in the organization as a special advisor if he's no 239 00:12:05,920 --> 00:12:09,560 Speaker 1: longer managing, so that's not necessarily going to be decisive 240 00:12:09,600 --> 00:12:13,040 Speaker 1: for him. But let's see how the season goes. Because 241 00:12:13,040 --> 00:12:15,520 Speaker 1: if the season ends in disappointment, there would be every 242 00:12:15,520 --> 00:12:18,080 Speaker 1: reason for Snicker to say, Okay, that was it, and 243 00:12:18,160 --> 00:12:20,160 Speaker 1: every reason for the Braves to say, let's move on 244 00:12:20,280 --> 00:12:23,640 Speaker 1: and let's try something else. Snicker might think, well, I'd 245 00:12:23,679 --> 00:12:25,600 Speaker 1: like to take one more shot at it. But at 246 00:12:25,600 --> 00:12:29,839 Speaker 1: that point, yeah, the Braves would have certainly ample justification 247 00:12:30,040 --> 00:12:33,360 Speaker 1: to say let's end this nicely and move on with 248 00:12:33,400 --> 00:12:37,000 Speaker 1: Brian in the front office in some capacity. But again, 249 00:12:37,040 --> 00:12:39,320 Speaker 1: it's warily and I do want to see how this 250 00:12:39,360 --> 00:12:42,480 Speaker 1: plays out. I know fans are upset with Sniker two, 251 00:12:42,640 --> 00:12:47,120 Speaker 1: but oh and seven is not Ohen seventy. It's not 252 00:12:47,240 --> 00:12:50,840 Speaker 1: even twenty and fifty. Let's see how this all shakes out. 253 00:12:51,520 --> 00:12:53,480 Speaker 2: Yeah, Snid is a great baseball man, and this has 254 00:12:53,559 --> 00:12:55,800 Speaker 2: just been a weird week for those Atlanta Braves. I 255 00:12:55,840 --> 00:12:58,160 Speaker 2: never count them out all right, time now for Grill 256 00:12:58,240 --> 00:13:07,600 Speaker 2: and Ken. All Right, Ken, we get some questions in 257 00:13:07,640 --> 00:13:09,920 Speaker 2: here from our listeners and our viewers. We always appreciate 258 00:13:09,920 --> 00:13:11,960 Speaker 2: you guys being a part of the show. The first 259 00:13:12,040 --> 00:13:15,640 Speaker 2: question comes from Greasy. How are San Diego in LA 260 00:13:15,880 --> 00:13:19,000 Speaker 2: still undefeated? That NLS looking tough. 261 00:13:19,840 --> 00:13:23,720 Speaker 1: They're good, and that's the easiest obvious answer. But with 262 00:13:23,920 --> 00:13:26,440 Speaker 1: La we knew that was the case. With San Diego, 263 00:13:26,600 --> 00:13:28,520 Speaker 1: I don't know that we were as certain, even though 264 00:13:28,640 --> 00:13:31,280 Speaker 1: they had a great run last year, especially at the 265 00:13:31,400 --> 00:13:34,480 Speaker 1: end of the season, but they lost you Darvish, and 266 00:13:34,520 --> 00:13:36,400 Speaker 1: I know they were concerned about the state of the 267 00:13:36,480 --> 00:13:40,080 Speaker 1: rotation going into the season. Maybe they're bullpen too and 268 00:13:40,280 --> 00:13:44,800 Speaker 1: right now they might be playing even better than the Dodgers. Honestly, 269 00:13:44,840 --> 00:13:46,920 Speaker 1: the Dodgers had a sloppy game last night. They haven't 270 00:13:46,960 --> 00:13:49,720 Speaker 1: been perfect even though they're eight no, but the Padres 271 00:13:49,760 --> 00:13:52,600 Speaker 1: are doing things in a way that maybe they haven't 272 00:13:52,640 --> 00:13:55,040 Speaker 1: even done before. And I'm talking about their situational hitting. 273 00:13:55,440 --> 00:13:59,000 Speaker 1: I'm talking about their aggressive base running. They just seem 274 00:13:59,080 --> 00:14:02,840 Speaker 1: to be clicking on all cylinders, playing beautiful team baseball. 275 00:14:03,000 --> 00:14:06,199 Speaker 1: So they're a little bit of a surprise to me. Obviously, 276 00:14:06,240 --> 00:14:08,280 Speaker 1: they're not going to go undefeated. We all know that, 277 00:14:08,360 --> 00:14:10,640 Speaker 1: they know that there will be ups and downs. But 278 00:14:11,400 --> 00:14:14,080 Speaker 1: if they get Darvish back, and we know AJ Preller 279 00:14:14,120 --> 00:14:17,160 Speaker 1: will make whatever moves are necessary at the deadline, they're 280 00:14:17,160 --> 00:14:19,520 Speaker 1: going to be in good shape. And hat tip to 281 00:14:19,760 --> 00:14:23,800 Speaker 1: AJ Preller here, because there was talk all season, all 282 00:14:23,840 --> 00:14:26,400 Speaker 1: off season that he might trade one of his potential 283 00:14:26,400 --> 00:14:30,360 Speaker 1: free agents or multiple potential free agents, Dylan Cees, Michael King. 284 00:14:30,760 --> 00:14:35,400 Speaker 1: He fought to keep all those guys. He resisted all 285 00:14:35,480 --> 00:14:38,320 Speaker 1: the offers, and look, he's got another nice team. 286 00:14:39,120 --> 00:14:41,120 Speaker 2: Yeah, and they just locked up Jackson Marylyn. As we 287 00:14:41,160 --> 00:14:43,120 Speaker 2: said at the top of the show, for quite some time, 288 00:14:43,200 --> 00:14:45,560 Speaker 2: Elisheva Jones, our girl wants to know, how are the 289 00:14:45,640 --> 00:14:47,600 Speaker 2: Marlins so high in their division? 290 00:14:47,640 --> 00:14:49,440 Speaker 3: Albeit early, But if you're going to crack on. 291 00:14:49,400 --> 00:14:51,680 Speaker 2: The Atlanta Braves, let's give the Marlins a little bit 292 00:14:51,720 --> 00:14:53,840 Speaker 2: of a credit too, Elisheva. 293 00:14:53,880 --> 00:14:56,480 Speaker 1: I don't expect this to continue. But they have played 294 00:14:56,560 --> 00:15:00,080 Speaker 1: very competitive baseball through their first six or seven games, 295 00:15:00,120 --> 00:15:04,320 Speaker 1: and it has been impressive. They're pitching in particular, looks 296 00:15:04,440 --> 00:15:07,320 Speaker 1: probably stronger than we thought. And it's not just al Contra, 297 00:15:07,520 --> 00:15:10,440 Speaker 1: it's kind of the whole group, including the bullpen, which 298 00:15:10,440 --> 00:15:13,120 Speaker 1: has been used quite heavily. Do I believe they're going 299 00:15:13,160 --> 00:15:14,240 Speaker 1: to be a competitive team? 300 00:15:14,560 --> 00:15:14,680 Speaker 4: No? 301 00:15:15,160 --> 00:15:17,840 Speaker 1: And one thing about this time of year that baseball 302 00:15:17,880 --> 00:15:20,800 Speaker 1: people like to say the bad teams don't know they're 303 00:15:20,840 --> 00:15:24,000 Speaker 1: bad yet. That will come. And I don't expect the 304 00:15:24,040 --> 00:15:27,080 Speaker 1: Marlins to be competing at a high level, but if 305 00:15:27,080 --> 00:15:30,480 Speaker 1: they compete at a better level with all their young kids, 306 00:15:30,760 --> 00:15:33,000 Speaker 1: that would be at least somewhat promising. 307 00:15:33,720 --> 00:15:35,400 Speaker 2: And it would be nice if they could get some 308 00:15:35,440 --> 00:15:37,480 Speaker 2: wins with a little bit less of a heart attack 309 00:15:37,560 --> 00:15:40,240 Speaker 2: for their management, because I mean, through what is it, 310 00:15:40,280 --> 00:15:42,480 Speaker 2: three walk off wins in the first four games of 311 00:15:42,520 --> 00:15:44,960 Speaker 2: the season, that's enough to make you crazy, all right, 312 00:15:45,040 --> 00:15:47,480 Speaker 2: Daniel Rothenberg, thanks for being here, Thanks for being part 313 00:15:47,520 --> 00:15:49,480 Speaker 2: of the super Chat. Two dollars from him? What is 314 00:15:49,600 --> 00:15:53,680 Speaker 2: Clutch's legacy and will it end in Cooperstown? Obviously talking 315 00:15:53,680 --> 00:15:57,480 Speaker 2: about Andrew McCutcheon of the Pittsburgh Pirates Daniel. 316 00:15:57,480 --> 00:15:59,560 Speaker 1: I haven't given much thought to McCutcheon as a Hall 317 00:15:59,560 --> 00:16:02,280 Speaker 1: of Fame handed at my initial top of the head 318 00:16:02,360 --> 00:16:05,480 Speaker 1: reaction is he's not going to get there. But when 319 00:16:05,520 --> 00:16:07,920 Speaker 1: you talk about his legacy, he will go down, and 320 00:16:07,960 --> 00:16:10,480 Speaker 1: certainly as one of the great Pirates, a guy who 321 00:16:10,800 --> 00:16:14,240 Speaker 1: helped transform that franchise for a time right when they 322 00:16:14,240 --> 00:16:17,480 Speaker 1: were rolling in the mid twenty tens, he was at 323 00:16:17,480 --> 00:16:20,920 Speaker 1: the heart of it. He also, beyond that, has been 324 00:16:21,080 --> 00:16:25,080 Speaker 1: just an outstanding citizen and person in the game. And 325 00:16:25,440 --> 00:16:28,600 Speaker 1: too often we overlook this. It's we talk about guys 326 00:16:28,640 --> 00:16:31,360 Speaker 1: who may not be great characters, and this guy has 327 00:16:31,400 --> 00:16:35,480 Speaker 1: been an upstanding individual wherever he is gone. And if 328 00:16:35,520 --> 00:16:36,920 Speaker 1: he does not make the Hall of Fame, he does 329 00:16:36,960 --> 00:16:39,000 Speaker 1: not make the Hall of Fame. But he's had a great, 330 00:16:39,280 --> 00:16:43,080 Speaker 1: great career, and I know in Pittsburgh in particular, he's 331 00:16:43,120 --> 00:16:44,560 Speaker 1: beloved and he should be. 332 00:16:45,440 --> 00:16:48,400 Speaker 2: Absolutely Cutch is such a good human being. You never 333 00:16:48,440 --> 00:16:50,440 Speaker 2: heard a single negative thing about him. And when I 334 00:16:50,440 --> 00:16:52,600 Speaker 2: think of the Pittsburgh Pirates, I certainly, of course think 335 00:16:52,680 --> 00:16:55,240 Speaker 2: of Clemente and you know, Willie Stargel and all of 336 00:16:55,280 --> 00:16:58,200 Speaker 2: those guys. But Andrew McCutcheon is as a huge part 337 00:16:58,240 --> 00:17:01,440 Speaker 2: of the Pirate fabric. Okay, Proctor wants to know, Ken, 338 00:17:01,480 --> 00:17:04,200 Speaker 2: which Major League Baseball city is your personal favorite to 339 00:17:04,280 --> 00:17:05,520 Speaker 2: celebrate Opening Day? 340 00:17:06,400 --> 00:17:08,919 Speaker 1: Actually, Richard, I haven't been to that many cities for 341 00:17:08,960 --> 00:17:12,240 Speaker 1: Opening Day, and in the job I currently have now, 342 00:17:12,560 --> 00:17:15,600 Speaker 1: I usually don't even travel for Opening Day. My first 343 00:17:15,640 --> 00:17:18,280 Speaker 1: game will be the first Fox team Saturday, the first 344 00:17:18,320 --> 00:17:21,720 Speaker 1: Saturday of the season. I've never been to Cincinnati for 345 00:17:21,800 --> 00:17:24,480 Speaker 1: an opening Day. That looks like the place to be. 346 00:17:24,640 --> 00:17:27,880 Speaker 1: They have the parade downtown, it looks like it's more 347 00:17:27,960 --> 00:17:31,160 Speaker 1: unique than any other place. I did use to enjoy 348 00:17:31,320 --> 00:17:33,720 Speaker 1: all of the opening days I covered in Baltimore, but 349 00:17:33,960 --> 00:17:37,439 Speaker 1: I can say that's probably no different an event than 350 00:17:37,480 --> 00:17:38,280 Speaker 1: any other city. 351 00:17:38,920 --> 00:17:40,920 Speaker 2: You know what I find so interesting, Ken is going 352 00:17:40,920 --> 00:17:43,679 Speaker 2: into the season this year, the highest single game ticket 353 00:17:44,200 --> 00:17:47,640 Speaker 2: for Opening Day was the Cincinnati Reds because it is 354 00:17:47,760 --> 00:17:49,960 Speaker 2: such a spectacle there. I mean, it's such a it 355 00:17:50,000 --> 00:17:52,720 Speaker 2: truly is a national holiday in Cincinnati. But then after 356 00:17:52,880 --> 00:17:56,400 Speaker 2: Opening Day you can't give away seats at Great American Ballpark. 357 00:17:56,400 --> 00:17:59,240 Speaker 2: It's really unbelievable how everybody sells out, and then for 358 00:17:59,280 --> 00:18:01,879 Speaker 2: the remainder of the season they just don't seem to 359 00:18:01,920 --> 00:18:04,800 Speaker 2: have that same type of fanfare. All right, So my 360 00:18:05,000 --> 00:18:07,919 Speaker 2: opening day city, any opening day, I think it's just incredible, 361 00:18:08,040 --> 00:18:10,280 Speaker 2: just because opening day is such a rite of passage 362 00:18:10,280 --> 00:18:13,200 Speaker 2: into summer and it just means that you know, baseball 363 00:18:13,320 --> 00:18:15,480 Speaker 2: is back, and that is very important. All right, let's 364 00:18:15,480 --> 00:18:18,520 Speaker 2: talk about this with Cosmic Things. With the torpedo bats 365 00:18:18,560 --> 00:18:21,919 Speaker 2: and the ABS system, automated balls and strikes and big bases, 366 00:18:21,960 --> 00:18:25,320 Speaker 2: it seems to be trending to pro hitters. A post 367 00:18:25,359 --> 00:18:28,000 Speaker 2: to pictures with the pitch clock. Could we see any 368 00:18:28,119 --> 00:18:32,119 Speaker 2: new rules to combat this to help the pictures Cosmic Things? 369 00:18:32,200 --> 00:18:34,880 Speaker 2: Was probably a pitcher coming up, is my guess. He's 370 00:18:34,920 --> 00:18:38,040 Speaker 2: not happy with all these pro position player rules. 371 00:18:38,840 --> 00:18:41,119 Speaker 1: I would say to Cosmic Things that the pitchers have 372 00:18:41,200 --> 00:18:43,840 Speaker 1: had the advantage for quite some time now, and there 373 00:18:43,880 --> 00:18:47,679 Speaker 1: has been, yes, a concerted offense by the league to 374 00:18:47,880 --> 00:18:50,920 Speaker 1: get a concerted effort by the league to get more 375 00:18:51,000 --> 00:18:54,920 Speaker 1: offense into the game. That's the stolen based rule genesis, right. 376 00:18:55,600 --> 00:18:58,520 Speaker 1: The bats are not coming from the league. That's coming 377 00:18:58,520 --> 00:19:01,399 Speaker 1: from the bat manufacturers, players who are looking for different 378 00:19:01,440 --> 00:19:04,879 Speaker 1: weight distributions in their bats. And we'll see how this 379 00:19:04,960 --> 00:19:07,760 Speaker 1: plays out and We'll see, as I said on Foul Territory, 380 00:19:07,800 --> 00:19:10,720 Speaker 1: if this truly has an impact or not. And I 381 00:19:10,760 --> 00:19:12,240 Speaker 1: know people are saying, oh my gosh, look at the 382 00:19:12,280 --> 00:19:15,959 Speaker 1: Yankees first weekend. The Brewers look at their velos that 383 00:19:16,000 --> 00:19:20,159 Speaker 1: weekend not great, and the Diamondbacks the last couple of 384 00:19:20,240 --> 00:19:23,720 Speaker 1: days shut down the Yankees pretty well. So I want 385 00:19:23,760 --> 00:19:26,480 Speaker 1: to see more data. I want to see more things 386 00:19:26,520 --> 00:19:29,800 Speaker 1: play out here before I declare a state of emergency 387 00:19:29,920 --> 00:19:32,199 Speaker 1: over the emergence of torpedo bats. 388 00:19:32,560 --> 00:19:35,040 Speaker 2: All right again, and they are legal according to Major 389 00:19:35,119 --> 00:19:35,760 Speaker 2: League Baseball. 390 00:19:35,800 --> 00:19:37,399 Speaker 3: There is not a rule being broken. 391 00:19:37,440 --> 00:19:39,679 Speaker 2: And it's not just the New York Yankees using the bats, 392 00:19:39,840 --> 00:19:42,440 Speaker 2: as several players on every team has been using them. 393 00:19:42,440 --> 00:19:43,920 Speaker 3: It's a player's preference. 394 00:19:43,960 --> 00:19:46,399 Speaker 2: Okay, here's another question for you, a ken the last question, 395 00:19:46,480 --> 00:19:49,480 Speaker 2: in fact, Michael Roland wants to know. Dude hit two 396 00:19:49,520 --> 00:19:52,240 Speaker 2: seventy on average. When I started watching baseball, it's two 397 00:19:52,320 --> 00:19:55,040 Speaker 2: forty three. Now do the pitchers need more help? Throwing 398 00:19:55,160 --> 00:19:57,600 Speaker 2: one oh five miles per hour is not good enough? 399 00:19:59,040 --> 00:20:01,440 Speaker 1: I'm not sure I understand the question, Michael, because you're 400 00:20:01,480 --> 00:20:04,080 Speaker 1: saying the batting averages down, and yet you're asking if 401 00:20:04,080 --> 00:20:07,399 Speaker 1: the pitchers need more help. The statistics you just pointed 402 00:20:07,440 --> 00:20:11,200 Speaker 1: to show that pitching is more dominant than it's ever been, 403 00:20:11,720 --> 00:20:15,680 Speaker 1: So I don't know that anyone needs more help in 404 00:20:15,720 --> 00:20:17,959 Speaker 1: the game. I don't know that it's totally out of whack. 405 00:20:18,119 --> 00:20:20,800 Speaker 1: It's pretty much in a good place in so many 406 00:20:20,800 --> 00:20:24,879 Speaker 1: ways right now. Now. You can always wonder about maybe 407 00:20:24,880 --> 00:20:28,399 Speaker 1: going to twelve pitchers on a staff and reducing it, 408 00:20:28,480 --> 00:20:32,399 Speaker 1: and that would perhaps affect velocity. Using more pictures pitching 409 00:20:32,480 --> 00:20:35,000 Speaker 1: more often, they could not throw as hard, and that 410 00:20:35,040 --> 00:20:37,640 Speaker 1: would balance some things out and maybe protect pictures from 411 00:20:37,680 --> 00:20:40,720 Speaker 1: getting hurt more. But I don't see the game as 412 00:20:40,760 --> 00:20:43,400 Speaker 1: being out of whack one way or the other. If anything, 413 00:20:43,440 --> 00:20:47,000 Speaker 1: it is leaned and skewed toward the pitchers in recent years. 414 00:20:47,720 --> 00:20:51,479 Speaker 1: But I'm not displeased with the way the game is 415 00:20:51,520 --> 00:20:53,840 Speaker 1: on the field, especially with the clock coming in and 416 00:20:53,960 --> 00:20:54,880 Speaker 1: picking the pace up. 417 00:20:55,600 --> 00:20:58,840 Speaker 2: Yeah, I think Michael Roland was just kind of responding 418 00:20:58,880 --> 00:21:01,800 Speaker 2: to cosmics things questions about let's help the pictures out. 419 00:21:01,840 --> 00:21:03,480 Speaker 1: I don't know. I think the picture maybe I missed 420 00:21:03,480 --> 00:21:03,840 Speaker 1: a joke. 421 00:21:03,920 --> 00:21:06,400 Speaker 2: Okay, Oh, that's okay, that's okay, so did I. That's 422 00:21:06,400 --> 00:21:08,040 Speaker 2: all right, We've got it. Clarified here all right. 423 00:21:08,119 --> 00:21:10,800 Speaker 3: Time now from Grill and Ken to due to the week. 424 00:21:12,080 --> 00:21:14,760 Speaker 1: Dude, dude, dude, due. 425 00:21:20,240 --> 00:21:22,320 Speaker 2: All right, Ken, who is your dude of the week? 426 00:21:22,400 --> 00:21:25,399 Speaker 2: Somebody or something or some organization that stood out to 427 00:21:25,440 --> 00:21:26,440 Speaker 2: you in a positive way. 428 00:21:27,320 --> 00:21:30,280 Speaker 1: A lot of we talk often about superstars and super 429 00:21:30,320 --> 00:21:32,080 Speaker 1: teams as our dudes of the week. But I'm going 430 00:21:32,160 --> 00:21:34,639 Speaker 1: to go a little bit off the board today and 431 00:21:34,720 --> 00:21:36,800 Speaker 1: talk about a guy who was twenty nine years old 432 00:21:36,960 --> 00:21:40,400 Speaker 1: made his major league debut finally this week. His name 433 00:21:40,480 --> 00:21:43,040 Speaker 1: is Jake Mangum. He plays for the Tampa Bay Rays. 434 00:21:43,400 --> 00:21:45,840 Speaker 1: He made an immediate impact. He's now hitting in the 435 00:21:45,880 --> 00:21:49,040 Speaker 1: middle of their order four games into his career. This 436 00:21:49,119 --> 00:21:50,840 Speaker 1: is a guy who had a great college career at 437 00:21:50,840 --> 00:21:54,800 Speaker 1: Mississippi State. His nickname was the Mayor of Starkville. I 438 00:21:54,840 --> 00:21:58,080 Speaker 1: believe he broke the SEC record for hits in a career, 439 00:21:58,440 --> 00:22:00,359 Speaker 1: and yet as a fourth round pick of the Mets, 440 00:22:00,359 --> 00:22:02,880 Speaker 1: he could not get on tracked. These are my favorite 441 00:22:02,920 --> 00:22:05,040 Speaker 1: stories in baseball, and Mangum is just one of them. 442 00:22:05,200 --> 00:22:07,959 Speaker 1: There are many others that we've heard in spring training 443 00:22:08,080 --> 00:22:11,160 Speaker 1: into the season, guys who have made teams that kind 444 00:22:11,160 --> 00:22:13,119 Speaker 1: of came out of nowhere that have been toiling and 445 00:22:13,160 --> 00:22:16,800 Speaker 1: obscurity for the majority of their careers. So hats off 446 00:22:16,800 --> 00:22:18,760 Speaker 1: to Jake Mangham and hats off to all of the 447 00:22:18,800 --> 00:22:21,719 Speaker 1: players who overcame odds to get where they are today. 448 00:22:22,359 --> 00:22:23,920 Speaker 2: Yeah, it just goes to show you if you want 449 00:22:23,920 --> 00:22:26,360 Speaker 2: it badly enough and you keep working towards it, goodness 450 00:22:26,359 --> 00:22:27,280 Speaker 2: knows what can happen. 451 00:22:27,320 --> 00:22:28,480 Speaker 3: Congratulations to him. 452 00:22:28,560 --> 00:22:32,280 Speaker 2: Mine is a physical object, that is the torpedo bat, 453 00:22:32,320 --> 00:22:34,520 Speaker 2: and the reason being can for my dudo the week 454 00:22:34,640 --> 00:22:38,080 Speaker 2: is just because of the attention that this has garnered, 455 00:22:38,119 --> 00:22:41,680 Speaker 2: and really more so to Aaron Leenhart, who was actually 456 00:22:41,760 --> 00:22:45,840 Speaker 2: the former physics professor at the University of Michigan who 457 00:22:45,920 --> 00:22:47,280 Speaker 2: is credited with the design. 458 00:22:47,359 --> 00:22:48,480 Speaker 3: He's forty eight years old. 459 00:22:48,600 --> 00:22:51,600 Speaker 2: He was a field coordinator for the Marlins, and the 460 00:22:51,680 --> 00:22:53,399 Speaker 2: date of the back kind of the origin of it 461 00:22:53,480 --> 00:22:54,840 Speaker 2: dates back a couple of years. 462 00:22:55,320 --> 00:22:56,600 Speaker 3: But he's been able. 463 00:22:56,440 --> 00:22:59,600 Speaker 2: To create it to make a little bit more sense 464 00:22:59,640 --> 00:23:01,720 Speaker 2: for some players that want to use it, and again 465 00:23:01,760 --> 00:23:04,640 Speaker 2: it's within the rules of Major League Baseball. With this 466 00:23:04,720 --> 00:23:06,800 Speaker 2: being a sport of purists, of course, and we have 467 00:23:06,880 --> 00:23:08,680 Speaker 2: a hard time adjusting to change. 468 00:23:09,440 --> 00:23:11,120 Speaker 3: I just think it's interesting that he. 469 00:23:11,160 --> 00:23:13,640 Speaker 2: Has us talking about all about a bat, and good 470 00:23:13,640 --> 00:23:15,280 Speaker 2: for him, you know, he kind of got out of 471 00:23:16,040 --> 00:23:18,920 Speaker 2: the university world and is in the major league world. 472 00:23:18,960 --> 00:23:20,600 Speaker 2: And it's just kind of funny because everyone's you know, 473 00:23:20,680 --> 00:23:22,879 Speaker 2: Ranton and Raven about the torpedo bat. But if it 474 00:23:22,920 --> 00:23:24,720 Speaker 2: was your team that's hit fifteen home runs in the 475 00:23:24,760 --> 00:23:26,760 Speaker 2: first three games of the season, you'd be fine with it. 476 00:23:26,800 --> 00:23:27,120 Speaker 3: All right. 477 00:23:27,200 --> 00:23:41,920 Speaker 2: What about your dork of the week? Imagine who had 478 00:23:41,960 --> 00:23:43,439 Speaker 2: you scratch in your head this week. 479 00:23:44,520 --> 00:23:48,520 Speaker 1: Trevor McGill, Milwaukee Brewer's pitcher. And I've met Trevor. I 480 00:23:48,560 --> 00:23:51,520 Speaker 1: know Trevor's a good dude. But what he said about 481 00:23:51,920 --> 00:23:56,000 Speaker 1: the Yankees in the wake of the torpedo bat revelation was, 482 00:23:56,680 --> 00:24:01,040 Speaker 1: as he later learned, premature and incorrect. What he said 483 00:24:01,200 --> 00:24:04,760 Speaker 1: was it's the Yankees to let it slide. Well, first 484 00:24:04,760 --> 00:24:08,159 Speaker 1: of all, Trevor, the bats, as Alana said, are perfectly legal. 485 00:24:08,200 --> 00:24:10,320 Speaker 1: This is simply a matter of how you distribute the 486 00:24:10,320 --> 00:24:13,200 Speaker 1: weight on the bats. That's all that's changed here. Nothing 487 00:24:13,359 --> 00:24:16,200 Speaker 1: is outside the rules. And then, as Trevor quickly learned, 488 00:24:16,240 --> 00:24:19,879 Speaker 1: as we all did, as you mentioned earlier, guys on 489 00:24:20,520 --> 00:24:24,440 Speaker 1: virtually every team, or at least thinking about trying these 490 00:24:24,480 --> 00:24:28,359 Speaker 1: bats if they're not using them themselves. So Trevor, a 491 00:24:28,400 --> 00:24:31,240 Speaker 1: lot of times, a lot of us speak before thinking 492 00:24:31,840 --> 00:24:35,000 Speaker 1: I do it myself. But in this case, yes, spoke 493 00:24:35,040 --> 00:24:36,320 Speaker 1: too soon. Yeah. 494 00:24:36,400 --> 00:24:38,480 Speaker 2: Maybe it's just a matter of your pitching staff got 495 00:24:38,520 --> 00:24:40,679 Speaker 2: sheld and it's a little embarrassing. Maybe it's nothing to 496 00:24:40,720 --> 00:24:43,719 Speaker 2: do with the torpedo bats because Aaron Judge doesn't use it, 497 00:24:43,840 --> 00:24:46,199 Speaker 2: and he seemed to do okay over the course of 498 00:24:46,200 --> 00:24:48,960 Speaker 2: that series. Okay, my dork of the week is Jerks 499 00:24:48,960 --> 00:24:51,120 Speaker 2: and Profar. And it's not just Jerks and Profar, it's 500 00:24:51,119 --> 00:24:53,879 Speaker 2: anybody that chooses to use peds in this day and 501 00:24:53,920 --> 00:24:56,560 Speaker 2: age of Major League Baseball, when you know that you're 502 00:24:56,560 --> 00:24:58,399 Speaker 2: going to be tested, you know that you're. 503 00:24:58,280 --> 00:24:59,080 Speaker 3: Going to get caught. 504 00:24:59,080 --> 00:25:01,360 Speaker 2: And I just find it ironic and interesting that after 505 00:25:01,440 --> 00:25:04,480 Speaker 2: he called Will Smith irrelevance, all of this comes out 506 00:25:04,960 --> 00:25:07,840 Speaker 2: that he has now been suspended for using peds. You 507 00:25:07,920 --> 00:25:10,840 Speaker 2: know better, and moreover, not only do you hurt yourself, 508 00:25:10,880 --> 00:25:13,520 Speaker 2: but you're hurting your team. The Atlanta Braves didn't need 509 00:25:13,560 --> 00:25:15,280 Speaker 2: to deal with this. Nobody needs to deal with this. 510 00:25:16,359 --> 00:25:18,240 Speaker 2: You know, PROFI all of the things. So he is 511 00:25:18,280 --> 00:25:19,240 Speaker 2: my dork of the week. 512 00:25:19,800 --> 00:25:20,520 Speaker 3: You know the rules. 513 00:25:20,560 --> 00:25:24,040 Speaker 2: At this point, there's no you know, beating around the 514 00:25:24,080 --> 00:25:26,080 Speaker 2: bush with that. You know what, you can ingust into 515 00:25:26,080 --> 00:25:28,399 Speaker 2: your body. If you say, oh, I don't know, you 516 00:25:28,520 --> 00:25:30,200 Speaker 2: know you. 517 00:25:30,160 --> 00:25:30,840 Speaker 3: Know better than that. 518 00:25:30,960 --> 00:25:32,639 Speaker 2: At this point, You're not a young kid in this 519 00:25:32,760 --> 00:25:35,440 Speaker 2: game anymore. All Right, Before we go, Ken, let's shut 520 00:25:35,440 --> 00:25:38,920 Speaker 2: out our friends at bet MGM. 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