Locked On Mariners - Daily Podcast On the Seattle Mariners - Mariners Félix George Kirby in Loss to Nationals

Episode Date: August 25, 2022

George Kirby set an MLB record and reached another milestone on Wednesday afternoon, but his efforts would go in vain as the Mariners' offense fell on its face again in a 3-1 loss to the Nationals. Ty and Colby break down Kirby's performance, the lineup's woes and Seattle's 2023 schedule.Be sure to follow or subscribe to Locked On Mariners wherever you prefer your podcasts! For questions and other inquiries, email: [e-mail] up to date with all things Mariners at Inside the Mariners - a FanNation website covering the Seattle Mariners on the Sports Illustrated network.Follow the show on Twitter: @LO_Mariners | @danegnzlz | @CPat11 | @InsideMarinersFor more of Ty and Colby, check out their Patreon: patreon.com/controlthezone/BetOnlineBetOnline.net has you covered this season with more props, odds and lines than ever before. BetOnline – Where The Game Starts! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

Once again, the Mariners offense is nowhere to be found. And as a result, Seattle ends up splitting a series with the worst team in baseball. Let's talk about it here on the Lockdown Mariners Postgame show. Colby, hit it. You are Locked on Mariners. Your daily Seattle Mariners podcast, part of the Locked on podcast network, your team every day. What's up, everyone?

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On the show today, we're going to dive into George Kirby's really good start this afternoon, this abysmal offense, and if there's any hope for it. And the 2023 schedule dropped this morning, which typically wouldn't be big news for us here, but there's some pretty interesting stuff to go over there. So we'll hop into that later on. But there is plenty of time, Colby, to get into the negatives of this game. and we are certainly going to do that. But let's start with the loan positive from today.

George Kirby, who actually set an MLB record today, 24 strikes, 24 consecutive strikes to start this game. It would be his 25th pitch that he would throw a ball. He did get knocked around a little bit by an aggressive Nationals lineup in the first inning and gave up a run. But from that point forward, more or less settled in. and he looked pretty good today. What did you see out of Kirby?

I mean, does it really matter? The Mariners lost. So Kirby was great, like you mentioned, the 24 strikes to start. Major League record, at least as far as they've been tracking, this goes. 11 whiffs on 49 swings. It's not a great number. But he did get 20 called strikes today. that's pretty good.

He was in the zone, you know, whiffs out of the zone. There was maybe one or two. A lot of the swing and misses were pitches that were strikes anyways. So, yeah, it was kind of an interesting mix from him today. Mostly fastball. It was very fastball heavy and then two seamer heavy. So not a lot of breaking balls, not a lot of changeups. Just mostly fastball two seamer.

And he went right after a bad lineup. And he did what you should do to bad lineups. And he did what Robbie Ray had done the night before, which was pitch with. much fear that anybody in that lineup could hurt you. You would trust your offense to score your two runs. Whoops, not going to happen. But again, it wasn't like a dominating, like we've seen Robbie Ray dominated in the past with like 27 whiffs.

Kirby only had 11 today. But he was so efficient. He got through seven innings. Still had plenty of ammo left if the Mariners wanted to push him for an eighth. They could have. Really no reason for them to do. do it at the time. So it was just a ton of strikes, filled up the strike zone. Good stuff today, but again, mostly fastball sinker, not a ton of sliders. But, you know, he did get seven swings

on the slider and three of them were for whiffs. So pretty good ratio there. I just think the ability to throw, get called strikes on all, I guess five of his pitches now, now that he's introduced the two seamer is really helping him. And again, he pitched with very little fear of this lineup. And it's good to see. His rookie season has been a wild success. And if not for being overmatched or overshadowed by Julio, he'd probably be the best rookie on the team this year. And today he not only set an MLB record for the most consecutive strikes thrown,

but also became the third fastest starting pitcher in Mariners history to reach 100 career strikeouts in 18. starts. So a really nice day for Kirby. And with the whole thing about his pitch count or his innings count and how he might need to be shut down this season or how they're going to have to manage that, et cetera, to avoid shutting him down this season, it doesn't seem like he's tiring out though. The later we get into this year, it actually seems like he's improving, like he's getting better. Are you seeing that as well?

Yeah, the thing about Kirby is that there's a big like, idea that innings pitched is how teams, you know, try and manage. And, you know, the young arms in this example, innings pitch doesn't really matter as much as pitch is thrown and high stress pitch is thrown. Kirby doesn't have a lot of those. He doesn't have a lot of 20 pitch innings. You know, he doesn't walk two guys and have to pitch around trouble that often. So when Kirby throws 85, it's usually it's a pretty easy 85. And we've seen him be capable of, you know, the Rangers started through, what, 45 pitches and five innings, and they took him out. He's capable of being extremely efficient because of his control and command.

So I actually don't think there's really any reason for Kirby to slow down. If it happens, fine. I mean, it's hard to blame him. I think he's about to already pass his career high in innings pitched, I believe, now. But he appears to be cruising. Again, it's not a high effort delivery. It's very fluid. He's a pretty good athlete.

So there's really no reason to think that you have to, to coddle him and and you know to their credit i think the mariners did that a little bit after the break and now it's you know they've taken off the the governor and they're just letting them go and so they'll still be selective here and there like they were today don't need to push him for every single out you can you can possibly get out of him but i'm really not all that concerned about any kind of you know him hitting any kind of wall at the moment the stuff is still good the velocity's good he's throwing plenty of strikes he doesn't look like a guy who's you know about to finish up his first, really his first full season, because you remember last year,

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Thank you again for making us your first listen after the game. One run is all the Mariners scored today on a solo home run by Julio Rodriguez, who joined the 2020 club today, 20 home runs, 20 stolen bases. very cool milestone for Julio in his rookie season. That was it. That was it from the Mariners' offense against one of the worst pitching stabs in all baseball, which was led today by Annabal Sanchez, who entered this game with an ERA north of six. It's just inexcusable.

Can't do that. If you're in the midst of a playoff race, if you want to be considered a playoff team, the Mariners go two and three against the two worst teams of baseball, the Oakland A's and the Washington Nationals over their last five games. just can't have it. This is one of the worst stretches, if not the worst stretches. The Mariners have had this year, considering the timing of it all and the circumstances in which they find themselves right now, where they're more or less in a three-way tie for all the wild card spots.

Obviously, the rays enter today with a half-game lead, but, you know, the rays keep on winning. The Jays keep on winning. The twins, the White Sox, the Orioles, they're all still hanging around. and if this offense can't figure it out because the pitching has still been, you know, more or less remarkable for the Mariners for the most part. And I really don't blame Paul Seawall today. Obviously shouldn't have given up that home run, but the Mariners shouldn't have been in that situation to begin with because of this offense against this team. If this offense can't figure it out, though, you know, we're going to see this amazing opportunity, this very clear path to ending this 20-year playoff drought come to an end. We're going to see a fade away.

We're going to, it's just going to evaporate in an instant if this offense can't figure it out. Because no matter how good you're pitching is, I said it yesterday. You've said it before. You can't win game zero to negative one. You have to be able to score runs. And you have to be able to score a considerable amount of runs against pitching stuff like the one that you face today. And they just, they did not. So where do you want to start with this, Colby?

Can we start by, uh, verbally putting in their place, the Mariner fans who have made excuses for this offense. They have made the case that you just need Mitch Hanager back. You just need Kyle Lewis back. You just need Player X back. And oh, and this guy starts it. By the way, not just the Mariners fans themselves, like the Mariners themselves as well here. Exactly.

And at the end of the day, there is no justification, defense, reason, explanation. nation. There is no just there, there's no rationalization for what the Mariners did, A, at the deadline, and B, there's no rationalization for how fans reacted to what they did at the deadline, which was nothing to the offense, nothing. The two guys they did get for the offense, they're not even playing. Like they will not use Jake Lamb whatsoever. They keep giving Carlos Santana opportunities over Jake Lamb, fine, whatever. D.E. FAA Jake Lamb, get Taylor Tremel up here. I don't care. Kirk Casally.

Oh, great. Yeah, look at this upgrade. We made it over Luis Turenz. Guys played in two games since the deadline. Whoopty-do. That's not an upgrade if you're not going to use him. I don't get the point of adding Kirk Casale with the intention of like, we need to give Cal Raleigh more days off if you're just not going to play him. Like you haven't done anything with that. Right, exactly. And so I don't get what's what is the point of the Mariners to not because by the Maris have a D.H problem some nights,

why would you not just let Casale catch and use Cal Raleigh as the D.H? If you're really worried about replacing Raleigh's bat in the lineup, let Raleigh DH. You can be creative with these things. Yes. Why is Dillmore getting at bats against right-handed pitching? We talked about this yesterday. He's terrible against right-handed pitching. He should not be getting at bats against them.

The Marys put him in the lineup today. There was no reason for them to do that. Adam Frazier didn't need a day, as far as we know. there's just no reason whatsoever for Dylan Moore at this stage to be getting at bats against right-handed pitching. There's no reason not to use Jake Lamb against right-handed pitching, especially when the other guy that you're using right now that he would be taking at bats away from is probably Carlos Santana. And if you don't think that Jake Lamb is a better bet to hit against Ritey's than Santana, then you should DFA him and call up Taylor Tremel. You cannot sit here and just look at this often and go, oh, well, we'll figure it out because you haven't. We're closing in on month six of this season, and the offense has never been consistently good,

with the exception of the 14-game win streak. And even then, there were some real clunkers in that mess. You cannot sit here and say, well, Julio this and Mitch this and Ty France, this, those things are predictable. Julio going through a slump is predictable. Ty France going through a slump is predictable. Mitch Hanigur getting hurt is predictable. and the Mariners did nothing either this winter really or at the deadline to kind of protect themselves from those possibilities. And then you compound on top of that, Jesse Winker not having a good year, although he did have a good day today.

You add on top of that Abraham Toro, you know, just not being a major leaguer this year. Okay, it happens. And you kind of look at all these pieces that the Mariners are like, no, we don't need to improve there. We have this guy. We have Jared Kelnick. We're not going to count on Kyle Lewis for anything. But in reality, we're going to really kind of count on him to carry the load at DH. in June and July.

Oh, he got hurt again. What do you know? So the idea here that anybody should be defending the Mariners, should be justifying what the Mariners chose to do at the deadline. Should be trying to rationalize how this offense is magically going to get better when there's no serious additions coming, just trying to explain away all these struggles, oh, it's just baseball. The Mariners have scored 10 runs against four of the worst starting pitchers in baseball this year.

Eric Fetty and Annabelle Sanchez are not good. And neither are the two slubs that the Oakland A's threw at them. They are not good. They should not be pitching that well against your baseball team. They've scored 10 runs in the last four games. They have gone two and three against the two worst teams in baseball. That's not hyperbole. They are literally the two worst teams in baseball.

And they went two and three against them. So stuff the schedule talk. It doesn't matter how easy it is because if you play like this, you're going to lose to anybody. if the offense can only score one or two runs a night, you are going to lose 80% of those games, and it won't matter what you do. And if the Mariners play like this,

and I should say the Mariners' offense, because the pitching staff has been fine, see what I'll take up today, fine, whatever, it happens. But if the mayor's offense performs like this, this weekend, they will be swept in a four-game series and the questions about the choke,

and they're going to fumble away this opportunity at the goal line, they will start to become legitimate, and it will be something that we have to talk about because the team has earned that condemnation based on their inaction at the deadline, based on their inability to hit, based on, today was the first day they thought to move Ty France down to five. Honestly, might not be low enough. Ty France is nothing right now. He is hurting you badly.

Every single that bad he gets up there. Is it going to last forever? No, Ty France will figure it out eventually. But right now it's devastating and you didn't protect against that type of slump. at the deadline. And if you think you did with Jake Lamb, why aren't you using Jake Lamb? Why aren't you using Kirk Casale? Why is Taylor Tremel in AAA if you don't trust Jake Lamb? I don't get what you're doing here. Every single game you have for the rest of the year matters. I think you have 38 to go. Every single one of those games matters. And it especially matters when you're trying to break a 20-year playoff

or out. So again, stop condoning what they did. Stop rational. It's stop justifying it. Stop offering a defense or thinking you're offering an explanation by saying it's just baseball. No. The offense is an issue. And it's an issue because the Mariners full, I mean, obviously fully believed that Mitch Hanager would come and it would snap their fingers and would fix everything. And by the way, Mitch Hanigar's been really good since he's come back. Offense still sucks.

Surprise. Who could have saw that coming? Everybody. So it's just, it's inexcusable. It's indefensible. Stop doing it. The Mariners had a trade deadline response after Luis Castillo trade at the deadline.

Inexcusable, unacceptable. Anybody are telling you, no, it was fine. It was actually fine because they got Luis Castillo. That's all that matters. It doesn't. They've scored 10 runs in four games against four terrible starting pitchers. That's the ballgame. It doesn't matter how good Luis Castillo is.

He can't win games one to negative zero or negative one, right? You can't do it. So there you go. I hope you enjoyed not getting Trey Mancini because, oh, how are we ever going to get Trey Mancini at bats? Oh, hey, look at that. Carlos Santana sitting fourth again today. What are we doing? It's just, it's inexcusable.

This is exactly what I warned about when I went on my rant, which, you know, which is pretty negatively received, I would say. Yeah. Post-deadline. you know the response that that I see a lot and I even saw today when I made another tweet about it was you know one bat wasn't going to fix this it wasn't going to fix the issue I agree with that you're totally right but that doesn't mean that you should not try it doesn't mean that you shouldn't try to plug as many holes as you possibly can that you safeguard from as many things as you possibly can and yeah that's going to cost prospects it is but

Look what the position you're in right now. I still think that the, even after watching the last four games, I still think that the Mariners are the third best team in the American League. I still believe that wholeheartedly. But, you know, and so going off of that, you should be open to the idea of trading prospects to fix things, even if it's just in the interim, even if it's only for rentals. And I'm not talking about trading Harry Ford.

I'm not talking about trading Bryce Miller. I'm not talking about trading Emerson Hancock here. but you know my argument the whole time and still to this day is you couldn't have found anything for taylor dollar you couldn't have found a piece that would help you for jonathan clausay or some package of your mid-teens prospects like what they added cost them nothing which is fine like i'm glad that it costs them nothing i'm glad that matthew boyd and kirk cassali and uh and uh jake lamb cost them virtually nothing, right? Because those guys shouldn't cost you anything.

But that wasn't good enough. That's the point is like, that's not good enough. That you could have added somewhere way above the tier that Jake Lamb is of a hitter for a guy in the middle of your prospect ranks. Consensus prospect ranks, there is absolutely no way that you can tell me otherwise here. You're telling me that Tyler Naquin couldn't have helped this team right now, him and his 129 WRC plus since he's joined the Mets. Really?

Daniel Vogelback. Even Daniel Vogelback. Trey Mancini, right? Like there are still, you know, not every big bat that we talked about went on the market. Ian Hap didn't get traded. Wilson Catarris didn't get traded. You know, some of those guys did not get dealt. But there still were bats that got dealt.

Bats that would have helped you. Bats that are improvements over guys like Carlos Santana right now. And oh, well, Carlos Santana hit all those home runs for you. That's great. That's fine. but Carlos Santana also has like eight hits in his last 60 at bats or something like that. Like he's, you know, you need better. You need more consistency.

And the issue that I had with the deadline as a whole was right before the deadline happened, Julio gets hurt, Ty France gets hurt. And, you know, you're just kind of, you know, Ty France gets another arm injury, by the way. So like on top of his wrist thing, now he has the elbow thing or it was the elbow, whatever order it was. I forget now, but like it's another arm injury. You could see that this would maybe happen. There's some writing on the wall there. You know, Julio, you know, you can't expect Julio to be 100% coming right back.

You know, you can't expect Mitch Hanager to be 100% coming right back. We saw Kyle Lewis there around the deadline and they had to pinch run Carlos Santana for him at one point. There were, you know, you will have a roster full of question marks with legs. And what you did was add more question marks, especially. with someone like Kurt Casali who's also coming off of an injury. You have Jake Lamb, who's been garbage for like the last six years and has only been good for the last 25 or so games. And you're banking on that being real.

And then you're not even playing those guys. Apparently you're not because. And then you're not even playing those guys. You cannot tell me that there wasn't a hitter out there better than Carlos Santana that you could have added for relatively cheap for something that's not going to kill you down the road for something that's not going to hurt you when you make that deal there is no possible way that you couldn't have done that so this is what i warned against the at the end of the day though you know i get it this wouldn't have a net you know a bat or even two wouldn't have necessarily

fixed this but it would have at least it would have helped it put it would have at least put you in a better position to survive this well that's the thing is that if you believe that the mariners are the third best team in the american league which you do. Adding a bat not only closes the gap between the top two teams and you, it also is that up to further back behind them. It's not just about trying to sneak into the playoffs. It's not trying to hold off the Tampa Bay race. It's about trying to run down the Houston Astros and the New York Yankees. And that is to find it funny that the people are telling you one bad wouldn't have changed anything are the same people who told you that, well,

Mitch Hanager will come back and the offense will be amazing again. I thought one back couldn't change anything. So if you're one of those people and you're, well, Mitch Aniger will fix it and then you go, well, I guess not, but I guess one more bat wouldn't have helped. And by the way, Mitch Hanager has been good since he got back. He's been a lot better than I honestly expected, you know, and yet the offense isn't fixed, right?

Didn't have a good game today. Yeah, didn't have a good game today. I mean, really no one did. But, yeah. Jesse. Jesse had a good day. Yeah. Yeah, but it's just one of those things where, you know, hindsight's 2020, but that call was incredibly easy.

And there were a lot of Mariner fans who attempted to justify the lack of action, not just Mariner fans, analysts too. And the Mariners themselves. Right. And so it just, you know, I get a lot of, a lot of garbage saying, I can't, I can't accept when I'm wrong. I don't know can the Mariners because they were and they're still not admitting it because Taylor Tremel's not on this team yeah why is Taylor Tremel not on this team it's because Carlos Santana I guess is just so valuable in the clubhouse

or even if like Sam Haggerty can't hit right now right because of a shoulder thing that's going on. They're hoping he's back tomorrow hope we talked about this yesterday too Dylan Morson be on this team over Taylor Tremel right now because you can call up Dylan Morgan in a week and you're facing all these righties get Taylor Tremel. Imagine Taylor Tremel in left field, right, with Julio and Mitch Hanager. And then your D.H. is Jesse Winker for the next week. Is that not better than what they were running out there today? Yes, it is. So stop saying, oh, well, it's just, it's such a small improvement. Does it really matter? Yes, it does. We are 38 games away from the end of this. There's light at the end of the tunnel. And you're still, despite all of this, in a really good position to break the playoff drought, which I thought was important.

I don't know. Maybe I was wrong, but I thought that was important. I thought that was a priority this year. Even incremental changes that you can make are huge at the end of the day right now because you got to do whatever you can to win ball games right now. If the difference between Taylor Tremel and Jake Lamb is one win, that is not the same as saying the difference is one win from April until September, right? one win in the final 38 when you have all these teams clumped up together for a playoff spot is so much more valuable than one win in May and June between May and June.

It just is. So just saying, well, it's only going to make one. It might only get you one more run, two more runs. It might only get you one more win. Good. Then do it. Okay. We need to switch gears here.

We're going way over time. So there's a lot to dive into there with the offense, though. So the 2023 schedule was released earlier this morning. And for the first time, every major league baseball team is going to face one another next season for the fruit. And that's going to happen for the foreseeable future. So we're going to go through the Mariners schedule and how that gets all broken down for the Mariners next season in just a moment. But real quick, a reminder of this episode of Locked-on Mariners is brought to you by Bet Online. Betonline.net is the fastest and easiest way to check in on all your betting needs.

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Bet Online is where the game starts. So, broke it down for you just a second ago, but to reiterate real quick, Major League Baseball is changing up its schedule and how the schedule will be divvied up for every team starting next season and beyond. Every Major League Baseball team is going to face each other at least once every season now, starting in 2023.

And that means that, that division games are going to be cut from 19 a year to 13 a year. So the mirrors will only have to see the Astros 13 times a year next year. They will only see the Angels 13 times next year, which a little disappointing. There's tradeoffs, yeah. Yeah. We'll only see the Rangers 13 times a year and the A is 13 times a year from here on out. So let's bring up the schedule.

It's a doozy. It's a doozy. So it opens up with four against the, uh, the, guardians who are coming to town tomorrow, but they will be coming to Seattle for a four game set to open up the season on April, the first. And then the Angels will come to town for three after that. And then there's a long stretch of inner league games. It reminds me of those years where there would just be a full month of inner league games in June or July. I forget when exactly it was. but the Mariners, they'll see the Cubs, they'll see the Rockies,

they'll see the Brewers, and they'll see the Cardinals all in a row in April. And then for those of you talking about strength of schedule, you know, strength of schedule has been a big topic of discussion with the Mariners here this year. It's not going to be anywhere near as easy, at least on paper next year. September, the Mariners get series against the Mets. They get series against the rays. They get the Dodgers and the Astros plus a likely improved Rangers team. And yeah, that's going to be not super fun, at least on paper.

Here's how the National League games break down for the Mariners. So they're going to be going on the road to see the Cubs, the Phillies, the Braves, the Padres, the Giants, the Diamondbacks, the Mets, and the Reds. And then coming to Seattle. So for any of you that are in the Seattle area that want to go see some games, I want to go take advantage of the opportunity to finally see some national league teams that you may not otherwise have gotten a chance to see in previous years. The Rockies are coming to town. The Brewers are coming to town. The Cardinals are coming to town.

The Pirates are coming to town. The Marlins are coming to town. The nationals are returning. And the Padres and Dodgers are also coming to Seattle. So Colby, what about this? Well, actually, let me ask you this. Do you like the move to play all teams, all 29 teams every year? Do you think it's a good way to maybe expand the game and get more eyes on teams that you otherwise would see maybe once every three or four years?

No. Doesn't bother me. It doesn't affect me at all. I could not care less about that. If I really want to watch the Braves, I'll watch them on TV. It's fine. Um, yeah, no, not really. Uh, I, I don't think it's a bad idea.

I just, I don't, I just don't care. I guess it'll be cool to see the Mariners back at Wrigley, but. Yeah, I just, I don't, I don't really care that much. The interleague thing is never really mattered to me. Um, plus, you know, I want to get to see Colorado. That's one of the teams you get to see come into Seattle. Ugh, whoopty do. Can't wait to see the Colorado Rockies.

Who are they going to throw two on? million dollars that to suck for them this offseason i don't know but uh i think overall yeah the schedule uh in terms of like playing everybody i think that's fine like i i think you can go with less divisional games i think that makes sense um there's not really a ton of like rivalries in baseball that except for red sox yankees that uh you know is is like you're going to be sad that they lost games from that rivalry like do we really need 19 oriel's versus raise games. No.

No, we don't. So, yeah, getting, you know, seeing Yankees Dodgers maybe a little bit more often, seeing, you know, the Mariners going to Chicago to play the Cubs or, or I don't, maybe like Atlanta, Houston is a fun, like, series. I do think that it's kind of fun that now those will happen every year. But overall, I really. I think it's good.

I think it's good overall. I think it's fun. it's going to create more exciting games, I think, just around the league, like you said, like Yankees, Dodgers. Now that's a yearly thing. And they can make a yearly thing out of that, right? That can be kind of a routine. It can be basically how the NBA has done it with their schedule, where, you know,

every team has played each other at least, you know, twice, I believe, you know, for as long as I can remember. And that's set up some really, you know, fun matchups. They can do stuff for holidays. They can do, you know, a bunch of stuff like that. So I think from that, I think from that, expect it's it's fun and I you know I'm I always liked interleague play and obviously the shine has kind of rubbed off from that as of late when the league realigned with the Astros moving over to the AO West.

So that's become you know more common playing teams in the national league for the Mariners side of things. And also it's more spread out right you know because we're because like I said earlier you know they used to do it just in one month where all the interleague play would happen to them just one month and then there would be like a two game set with like the Padres sometime in May, but that was really it. You know, now they have it spread out. It's just kind of at random because, you know, they have 15 teams and each league. There always has to be an early league series at one, you know, at a given point in time in the season.

So that's kind of taking the shine off of it. So I like the opportunity to see more national league teams. I will become a much bigger fan of this charade if we get a San Lock game. I want Dodgers, Yankees, and California. I want the original cast except for the one who's been arrested. I want them there. Right. I want to see,

is Benny, no, Benny's not the one who got arrested. I want to see him like, I don't know. Like, do what you did for Field of Dreams, but do it for the Sandlot.

And I know that like that Sand Laud field doesn't like exist, right? But like, just make one. Just make one. All right. It's not that hard. Your $8 billion industry,

you can figure out how to make a freaking sandlaw field is somewhere in, in California. And just, you know, play that type of game. It'll be, it'll be fun. And, you know, I do like the Field of Dreams game. I think it's a fun idea that they came up with, and I would like to see them expand it. So I think for me, naturally, the next place I think of, you know,

for baseball movies for games to be played, that I should say is the sandlot. So, yeah, I hope they do that. If not, then I will not care because, the schedule is about as useful as people trying to say that I was wrong about something that I'm not wrong about. It can go in the trash. I don't care. I couldn't care less about the schedule.

Could you tell? No, I had no idea. I just, oh, man, look how hard September is. Is it going to be hard? I don't know. Is it? DeGrault might leave the Mets. What if Scher's hurt?

What if, you know, what if they just collapsed? So what did there are the Angels next year? I don't know. I don't care. Talk to me in September next year. Then I'll know. But until then, like, you know, is it good that they're starting against Cleveland? I don't know.

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