PHNX Arizona Diamondbacks Podcast - Derby worthy

Episode Date: July 12, 2022

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Hello and welcome to another edition of the PHNX D-Backs podcast right here at PHNX. My name is, of course, the mayor of PHNX. You guys know me occasionally as Derek Montia. This guy is the Thunderstick, the one and only vice mayor, Jesse Friedman. What do you got there, Derek? I got myself a little Joy Wow bus, four peaks. I do. We're twinning.

Cheers. We're twinning. We're twinning today. Yeah, we're going to get you to shotgun that beer before this day is over. Yeah, before the show, people, Emma was trying to figure out what my price would be to shotgun this. She was. There was no such thing happening. I would never.

Emma would definitely never do that. Jesse's price was whatever Emma had on her plus $1. And guess who has a dollar on him? Of course, this show is brought to you by the fine folks at the Draft King's Sportsbook, America's top rated sportsbook app. Go download the app now and use our code of PHNX. get down on the sports book action over at the Draft King Sportsbook. Jesse, there are some people mad about the All-Star snubs in baseball. Of course, this is bound to happen every year because there is always some very deserving players on every team, I think, that get missed on.

But I guess the first question is, before we talk about some of the MLB snubs, do you think there was anybody on the Diamondbacks that got missed or do you think they got it right? for the sake of our audience, I wish I could say that the Diamondbacks had snubs, but they didn't. I mean, they have guys that played very good baseball, right? But by comparison, if you look at the numbers or you look at the league leaders, it's hard to justify really there being anybody else in there. If Christian Walker was batting 275 plus instead of 210, which he arguably should be. Right. I mean, the batting. ball luck has not been there for him this season. We've talked about that a lot. So I think there is a

situation in which Christian Walker is a snub because he probably, you know, he probably did deserve to be in this game if things were actually going his way. Right. Because not only is he top 10 in home runs and all of baseball, but he also is one of the top players defensively at any position in defensive runs saved. He's just been an outstanding player. Unfortunately, he hasn't had that luck with the batted balls, but that's something I could see him definitely turn around in the second half. I'm actually oddly okay with the lack of recognition. Obviously, we knew we were going to have one all-star, and I think the fact that it was the person we felt deserves it the most. Yeah. And Joe Mantiply kind of feels like the right decision was made. Yeah, I think the right decision was made. Joe Mantiply is

just an incredible story. We talked about yesterday, just his journey to get to this point. And there aren't many guys in the All-Star game who went through what Joe Mantipi went through. I mean, obviously, just making it to the majors is an enormous accomplishment, and there's tons of ups and downs for anyone

who makes that journey. But, I mean, Joe Manipli was borderline out of baseball at one point in his career not long ago. So it really incredible to see him in this spot. And speaking of the All-Star game, The jerseys this year are gorgeous. Let's take a look at those things. Those are beautiful, man.

I mean, to have the matching colors, but to still be representing your team with the logo across the chest like that, I have never seen a better All-Star Game jersey than this, in my opinion. I think I still am of the belief that they should have done the license plate for every single state, you know, just like how we saw with the Rockies. They used their license plate. You just want that. Their own license plate jersey to be a real thing. I really do.

I really do. That's a first-class jersey right there, though. And no, I don't want to see that. There are some weird jersey or license plate out there that I am not interested in seeing turned into a jersey. But for the first time since 2003, there's a pair of brothers in the All-Star game. Wilson and William Contreras will both be in the All-Star game, which is a very cool moment. I think they're both starting, too. I think Wilson is catching.

And then William is, is the... aging. So yeah, for those of you who saw William Contreras announced as an All-Star and thought that it was just a typo. It's actually not a typo. They are two different people. Wilson and William. Yes, are two different people for sure. Was there anybody you saw that got snubbed from the All-Star game, particularly, that you thought was kind of egregious? I think, and as much as people might not like me for this, because this player is a member of the San Francisco Giants. The fact that Carlos Erdan is not an an all-star, I think, is pretty egregious. I believe the man leads the National League and wins above replacement.

And for that guy to not be an all-star, I think is pretty crazy. And I know Giants fans are up in arms about that, and I can understand why. In modern-day baseball, isn't that such a valuable stat? Isn't that something that so many people covet that wins above replacement, kind of, especially when you're talking about an all-star, right? because you're talking about literally an MVP candidate when you're saying that someone is that high above their replacement. But I don't know, man.

I think that there's probably quite a few of those. I know there was a good chance that we were going to see Brandon Drury in the All-Star game. Yeah, you could make a case that Brandon Drury was a snub. I mean, he's posted some pretty good first half numbers with the Reds. And I was just going to make the somebody tweeted us about what the infield could have been. And obviously this is not a real particular infield that could have happened. But obviously with Goldschmidt, Drury, Max Scherzer, there's a lot of things we don't want to address there.

What we do want to address, though, is making a case for Christian Walker to be in the home run derby because that guy smashes the ball, but he smashes the ball in L.A. more than anybody that doesn't actually play there for home games, right? But I think he's been outstanding this season. And for him to be potentially. left out, I think, would be an oversight. That would probably be the Diamondback snub that I would be upset about, not about him being in the All-Star game, but just the home run derby. I mean, that that guy has been doing some pretty incredible things this season for this team. I think he's fourth

in the National League now in home run. So I don't know. What do you think? Do you think we have a good chance of seeing him, or do you think that he is off the radar for a lot of these guys? Well, first of all, I want to agree with Motion, who says that Yordon Alvarez should have been the starter at DH for the American League 100%. Yes. Yordon Alvarez is probably my pick for MVP for the American League right now. So the fact that he's not starting is kind of ridiculous. But yes, Christian Walker should be in the home run derby.

We've said it before. He has more home runs at Dodger Stadium than any other ballpark outside of Chase Field, of course. He has a career-sugging percentage of like $750 or something ridiculous like that in that ballpark. So yeah, Christian Walker absolutely deserves a spot in the home run derby. You know, he's still top five in the National League in home runs. And, you know, there is a concern with him not being on the All-Star roster. Does that disqualify him? It really shouldn't. Last season of the eight participants for the National League in the Home Run Derby, three of them were not All-Stars. And Pete Alonzo, the man who won the Home Run Derby last year was one of those guys. So I think there's a

really a really strong case to be made for for christian walker hi hi chris we love you of course uh clutch conucks said walker's defense is vastly overlooked in the first base position through the organization is thin already why not a number one priority do you see walker fitting in the future plans i'm in favor uh i'm definitely in favor of that too i think that christian walker fits in with at the very released the Merrill Kelly, you know, Cattel Marte timeline. And at this point, I don't, it's not like before where there were times where we had players that looked like they were kind of being blocked by Paul Goldschmidt, you know, not being able to come up and play first base.

The Diamondbacks don't really have that right now in their farm system. And so, yeah, I'm in, I'm definitely in favor of that. I feel like Christian Walker is so close to putting it together to, as far as, you know, not having such a poor batting average when everything else seems to be going so well for him. And that's the thing is I think that being in the home run derby, that would just give a chance for him to shine, you know, build that confidence a little bit,

have some fun and then, you know, put on a show. I don't know if I would expect him necessarily to win it, but I think he actually has a good chance considering that he does really do well in that stadium. What are your thoughts on Manfred adding poolhole and Cabrera to the All-Star game rosters as legacy selections. The reason why I ask is because we just saw the WNBA All-Star game. And everybody kind of got their flowers, you know,

but a lot of the people, a lot of the women that were selected for the All-Star game that are in their final seasons still deserved it because they're still performing at a high level. This has kind of caused a little bit of an argument amongst the baseball community as far as adding these guys because some people don't like fun but I mean is this the right thing to do I personally feel like it is I don't yeah I think a roster spot I agree and I mean I guess another snub that you could bring into the conversation is Freddie Freeman who has had a really good

season with the Dodgers and I'm sure there's some people out there who are wondering you know Albert Pooholz is in is that is that the reason that Freddie Freeman is not in sure and I could understand being a little bit frustrated with that because there's not a comparison between their numbers this season. Albert Poolels from a numbers standpoint, doesn't deserve to be an all-star. But I really am supportive of this in the end. Freddie Freeman is, I mean, he's going to have his share of all-star appearances, even still through the rest of his career. He's still a really, really good player. Whereas Albert Poole's, you know, I mean, this is, this is the last one for him. And so to have him

present in this moment, to have him playing in this game, I think is just big for baseball. He's one of the most recognizable faces and names in the sport even to this day. And so, you know, having him in the All-Star game, I think just feels right. Let's talk about somebody that should already be in the All-Star game. And that's Corbyn Carroll. Is it too early for that? It might be too early. It might be a little too early. What a big first day our baby boy had at Reno. Home run, web gems all over the place. Corbyn Carroll immediately made an incident. impact in a game for the Aces. And not only that, but immediately made everybody on social media go nuts about,

including us, about, you know, we've seen enough. Let's call them up already. Right, right. Have we seen enough already? It's already to call him up. I mean, I think we're at the point with Corbyn Carroll where there is a case to be made that if he were the Diamondback starting left fielder, center fielder, wherever, tomorrow, that he would probably be a pretty good player, right?

I don't think we have any doubts about that at this point. Like if you bring him up to the majors right now, I think his skill set plays at the big league level. However, that's not necessarily how you develop players. And I don't think the Diamondbacks are going to do that, even if it may be frustrating for, I know,

I know, I'm going to be the realist in the situation. But I don't think Corbyn Carroll is going to be called up anytime soon. I think they're going to let him, you know, play things out in AAA and try to show some, consistency there. Derek's just going to longingly stare outside our window in our studio here. Sorry, I'm just thinking of that outfield. I'm just thinking of that Corbyn Carroll.

He played an incredible game yesterday. He just had the one hit, but it was a home run, 441 feet. And then he made a diving play in center field to take a hit away from Jared Clinic, who's another top prospect in the Mariners organization. And then he also gunned down the go ahead run in the ninth or 10th inning at home plate. So big day for the big big day for him. Yeah. For sure. And that's,

see, that's what's funny to me is it's kind of like when Alec Thomas came up and immediately started making an impact, right? Like you just want to go up and have a, you know, a good game. You know,

you just don't want to go up there and shit the bed on your first day with a new team. But these guys are not doing that. These guys are immediately becoming, you know, an integral part of the team that they're on. and making a huge impact on the game that, even the first game that they're starting in.

So there's a reason to be excited about Corbyn, Carroll. There's a reason that he's as highly ranked as he is, not only within the organization, but within MLB as far as prospects are concerned. But we will have much more of that on that on go, phtnx.com. You can also get Jesse's piece that he just posted about Kyle Nelson, pitching better than ever after playing catch with his brother this winter

and the impact that it had. shout out to Kyle Nelson's brother, by the way. We're... We're gonna have Kyle Nelson's brother on the show at some point. We're gonna have to make that happen. We invite you to come join us as our third host because apparently he called Jesse, you know, he called Jesse Thunderstick when he called him.

True story. True story. I call Kyle Nelson's brother and he literally answers the phone and says, hey, Thunderstick. apparently. Apparently, you literally came up with that nickname, Derek, on like day one. And you didn't ask me about it. You just pulled it out of nowhere. And I was kind of like, okay. I mean, I guess it's an okay nickname, but there you go. There's a lot of meaning behind it. There's a lot of meaning behind it. There's a lot of depth to it. There really is.

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That period. End of story. But, you know, we, what? Every week is Shark Week here? Every day is Earth Day? And every Monday, we go to the mailbag. All right. We got some good mailbag Monday questions, not only from our Discord.

Do we have any baseball questions this week, Derek? Why, Jesse? He's so obsessed with having actual questions about this sport. that we cover. That's not what we do on Monday. We had a lot of fun a couple weeks ago when we were in studio answering a bunch of absurd questions. So I'm ready for it. Emma, do we actually

have any baseball questions for Jesse? Can we start off with that? We don't have to start with a baseball question. It's okay. Maybe we'll just skip it. Yeah. Do we just skip all the questions? No, let's go. No, I think I'll just surprise him. Yeah, we'll just pepper in the baseball question. All right, go ahead. Let's get

the first one up there. Oh, Josh Hunt. better question his first one was a terrible question uh better question be nice to josh i love josh he knows that and that's why his first question though was like uh josh this isn't first day at new higher orientation watch yourself like who which super heroes would we have got out of here come on there is no josh slander i will text him right now and get him to attack you guys all right well yeah we don't want josh against us josh is a guy that you definitely don't want him his photoshop and is Adobe Premiere powers. He has a lot of powers.

He's got a lot of powers. But Josh asks, better question. See, he even knew it was a bad question. If you could use any kind of container without judgment, what are you using to get the maximum amount of slurpy on 711 day? Jesse,

do you know what 711 day is? I didn't until we talk before the show. It's July 11th for 711. So 711 on 711 lets you go and bring your own container. Wait, is it free? It is free. It is free. It is free.

Wow. I missed that part. To get as much slurpy as you can get, which is kind of... Do you have to like buy something else? Like, no. How do they make sure that people don't just go crazy with this? Well, that's the thing. People do.

There's always people with ridiculous, ridiculously huge size barrels and such, right? So I'll give you a little preview because they've changed the rules now. Okay, let's give it. So now they have a stand-up, like, cardboard cutout pretty much, and there's a circle in the cutout. If your bin fits, like whatever you bring, it has to fit through that circle, and if it doesn't, you can't get it. Oh, that's bullshit. Well, that changes things severely. That changes things severely.

Okay. So I was going to bring a Yeti cooler. There you go. Right? Because I'm thinking capacity, right? And insulation. But I'm also thinking insulation, right? right? I'm not going to be able to drink

all that slurpy in a short about a time I need to take my time with it so of course the insulation is important I can add ice to it but that's just going to water it down so I need to do everything I can to maintain the slurpy if you will what are you bringing? Yeah well so before

we before Emma just like ruined the mood with her limitations I was trying to think of you know what is the biggest container that I personally own and it occurred to me the biggest container that I own is my guitar case. So I'm just going to roll up there

with my guitar case. Does it have wheels on it? It does not have wheels. I'm just thinking about how heavy. How are you going to get a guy out there? It'll be fine. It has a handle. Okay. Yeah, it'll be fine. All right.

Well, with Emma's rule, I'm going to go back to... It's not my rule. It is 7-Eleven's rule. So Emma's making rules. I am going to go back to the original... What, Jacob Franklin, what father producer, said to us.

Oh, Josh is here. Oh, he's here. Shit. I told you. I told you. I'm going to bring a plastic bag. Because a plastic bag, you could crumple up and fit through that hole, no matter the size of the hole.

But then once over there, you could fill like a garbage bag up with as much 7-11 storky deliciousness. You could probably do one of those, like, outdoor garbage bags. Right. The ones that have, like, six times the capacity. Yeah. Yeah. you're getting it. And then I'm over here, like, dumping it afterwards into a Yeti cooler.

Josh, we're answering your questions for Pete's sake. You've got to be here. We're talking about putting slurpees in containers. Josh, they roasted your first question. Your first question was terrible, Josh. I have it time-coded. It does. We'll pull it up.

We'll share it with you later. Oh, man. Oh, now, P.HNX. Don't apologize on our behalf. What is going on here? All right. Anyway. So that's, there you go.

That's what we're doing for slurpees. I'm taking a plastic bag. This guy had as a guitar case. My guitar case does have... What's going to go through the hole, though? What are you taking that's actually the size? Yeah, I don't know. That kind of ruins it, right?

Yeah. I have a couple of those cups from Vegas. I mean, can you go sideways, Emma, you think, with your rule? I'm going to help you guys out right now. Okay. Just give me a second. Oh, okay. Well, this is getting way more complicated than it needs to get.

By the way, I love slurpees, but I want to give a shout out to Sonic, and this is not an ad endorsement, but they have a ridiculous drink called a Sour Patch Kids Slushy float. That sounds disgusting. That sounds horrible. But I loved it. And not only did, I love it, but this thing stayed, the ice cream and the slushy did not melt for like hours. It didn't even make any sense. Okay, so there is a whole. So I got the size for you guys.

So it's this cutout and you have to fit it through. Hey, I don't know, fitting it through. And then it says what? A dollar for, oh, come on, get out of here. I mean, the garbage bag feels like the move then. Yeah. You can totally stuff a garbage bag. See, look at that guy with a, that guy's got a kitty pool.

He has the right idea. Guys, they can't see our screen. I'm just pulling it up. I can't see our screen. All right, well, there was a guy with a kitty pool that Emma pulled up. That got me excited because that guy gets it. That guy understands where we're coming from. All right.

Oh, and he's out in the parking lot drinking it. That guy is a legend. This is crazy. My guitar case does have like a fuzzy sort of thing. That's not going to work. See, you didn't think that's true. Well, I think I could pad it. I could put, I could lay down some sort of surface inside to make it so that it would work.

Is it liquid resistant? Is it airtight? I mean, what is? I think it would work. It's a hard case. I still think my Yeti cooler is the best idea here of anybody. But all right, let's move on. Next question. We beat Josh and this question up.

Ooh, Jacob Franklin. asks what's your favorite conspiracy I don't have any conspiracy theories Derek I'm a completely an utterly realistic person I don't believe that at all I only live inside of reality you think I'm running around

believing a bunch of ridiculous things Derek you believe they actually landed on the moon on a spaceship and then just got in it and went home get out of here you're right that's a that's a third theory there's no way that happened You got to do your research and look up all the facts.

My favorite conspiracy theory is not a conspiracy theory at all. It's the truth. Uh-oh. Because if you know who Melissa Vandela is, Jesse, you know. Of course I don't. You know you don't because the reason why is because even though she's a very famous woman, she no longer goes by the name Melissa Vandela. She goes by the name Avril Levine.

because she is the woman that replaced Avril Levine in 2011 when Avril Levine disappeared some say she might have died by suicide others say that she was kidnapped and to never return regardless this body double took her place in 2011 it's facts and yeah that's it's called a conspiracy theory

but it's actually what happened she actually released a very lovely album though and she's a good singer she should go by her real name that and the fact that David Stern fixed the NBA draft so that the New York Knicks would get Patrick Ewing. But again, is that a conspiracy theory? If that really happened? I don't know.

I don't know. Is there any local conspiracy theories? The Kings got screwed 2002 as a conspiracy still from Clutch Canuck. I think so. I don't know. There's all sorts of sports conspiracies. I mean, a lot of people thought that the sons were, like, that they had made it so that the sons couldn't get as high of a draft pick

as they were supposed to get for a number of years, right? Though the Sons have a history of just not doing well in the draft lottery. Oh, absolutely. And of course, DeAndre Aiton happened, and then I guess people sort of forgot about that, but that was a big thing for a while. Gabriel Ferrer in the comment says,

my favorite conspiracy theory is that Mariano Rivera missed the throat a second because of the dirt keyhole, which doesn't exist in Yankee Stadium. So the ball took a bad hop he wasn't used to. Interesting. I like it. I haven't heard that one. I haven't heard it either.

but I like it. Can I share my conspiracy theory? Yes, I want to hear yours. Okay, we were talking about this earlier. Being very careful with my conspiracy theories that I share. Okay. But, yeah, birds aren't real. Anyway, um,

birds aren't real. Everyone in the chat right now, listen, listen, have you ever seen a baby pigeon just walking, walking around? No, because I told her baby pigeons don't want. Bro, no, I like a teenage pigeon. No. A teenage pigeon. No, you don't see small pigeons.

They're all the exact same size. Weight, height, distribution? Look it up, buddy. I'm telling you. I don't like this. This sounds legit. Okay, but that's just pigeons. Yeah, it's only pigeons.

You said that all birds are fake. Yeah, they're all listening devices. No, not all. They're all spying on us. Oh, just pigeons. Yeah. So what are they here to do to us, Emma? Yeah.

Okay, well, think about it. What do you think? Yeah, spy on us? Is that what they're here for? Buddy. Oh, man, I have another reason to keep pigeons out of my yard. Exactly. Pigeons are nobody want, yeah.

See, look at all the people in the chat. No. Elizabeth, you're wrong. Just smashing your stupid theory in the pieces. Hey, first of all, don't call my theory stupid because it's not stupid. Elizabeth, I have a back comment on this one. Are you sure it's a pigeon? Are you sure because there's other birds that look like pigeons that are not pigeons?

It seems pretty flimsy. Oh, I don't know. I don't know. Jesse, you're over here saying I live in reality. I live in reality. Buddy, have some fun. Drink that four peaks. The clutch cannot comes back to wrestling for me, and he says,

Favorite Conspiracy, WW moved the announced tables to the front of the stage instead near the ring, because Jim Ross kept asking people to bring him food during commercials. God bless you, Jim Ross, if that's the truth, that's a gangster move. I like that. By the way, if you are new to conspiracy theories in pro wrestling, there is a whole other, that's a whole book to unravel. But start off with the Montreal Screwjob and go from there. By the way, shout out to our friends at Fort Peaks

who I am enjoying and I'm enjoying a normal amount, not an excessive amount. I promise I can't talk because English is my second language and not because I'm drunk. But of course, I am enjoying this Joybus Wow wheat

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find a variety of their beer near you. They're incredible. They're delicious. And they have a beer that suits you. They're local, been in the mix since 96 here in the valley. And of course, you can get them anywhere that you get your beer, especially at your drive-in-licker stores,

which I just like to bring up because, again, drive-in liquor stores. Come on. I'm choosing to not put these comments up simply for the fact that... Yeah, I'm aware of what. What's happening. By the way, for those of you that might be just listening to this and not knowing, Emma has a barrage of comments coming up about all of the people that have seen actual baby pigeons.

No, they're not real. They are not real. Okay, Gabriel's comment is really sad, though. He says, I work in landscaping. The baby pigeons are dead on the floor. Yeah. No, no. Because they can't survive without the parents because the parents are doing their job.

Think about that, buddy. See, now it's evolving before our very eyes. Yeah. This is how crazy people talk. She's changing her narrative as we go along here. Okay, then let's go on a different, let's go on a different conspiracy theory. Let's go.

Jacob's going to love this. What's that? Yeah, the moon landing is fake. I know. Yeah, I just trying to tell Jesse that. He doesn't know that.

What's the argument here? I need some actual rationale if I'm going to buy into this. First of all, there's no atmosphere in the moon. Okay. The flag was waving. The flag was waving. Second of all,

the shadows, brother. Brother. brother just watch it you have to like watch the actual live broadcast that they like put out but it's literally a movie set you could literally see reflections of lights the the idea is that the reason why they would have faked it is because that they were in essentially a not like it wasn't important yet it was the most important thing in the world the race to land on the moon with russia right like there was this actual space race uh russia was developing technology that was

advancing farther past ours. So the idea is that we just faked it so that that way All right, we're gonna, you guys are gonna have to bring this footage for one of these live shows. And we'll take a look at it together. And I will explain to you why what you're saying

is utterly ridiculous. I don't think we will cross that bridge. I'm right. Two things, Jesse. I don't really believe it, but this is exciting. Two things. One, I don't think that we can put it on the live show.

I don't want to strike. Second of all, Um, we'll watch it after. NASA would they're telling you right now the very first moon landing, fake. Fake. That's all fake. Even bees agrees with me. No, Beast says the earth is flat.

Never mind. Bees, we don't get out. He's a part of the flat girthers. No, he says the moon landings were faked and chem trails are real. Yeah, no, this is a fantastic. Oh, yeah, the chem trails thing. I have heard that one. Elizabeth asked

Jesse is always very calm What would have to happen For him to start beating chairs with bats Or go on an ESBO level rant Answers can be so serious silly Wow I'm yeah So I'm a pretty avid sons fan

And I wear that on I wear that on Twitter Try to make it clear I'm a big son's fan Yeah like don't mess with him about the sun Don't mess with me about the suns He's not playing games When it comes to his team

I am not. And if the Phoenix sons, Derek, don't get Kevin Durant at some point this offseason. He's going to shotgun a beer and go on an ESPO level rant. Okay. Let's calm down here. We'll get the rant first. You might get the rant. You might get me banging a chair with a baseball bat because that would be completely detestable in my mind.

So I take my son's fandom very seriously and I will accept nothing less than. Kevin Durant this offseason. Did you hear about the conspiracy theory of Kevin Durant and the trade? No, let's hear this. Oh, gosh. This ties it all together. Okay, so people in the chat, don't be mad at me because I'm not Gerald. I don't know the exact facts, but I'm just going to give a little gist, a little rundown.

So pretty much, like, he asked for a trade just to, like, stir things up so that way he can get, like, the things that he wants sort of thing. Does that make sense? Yeah. It's called throwing a little bit of a little bit of. a tantrum so that you get what you want you wouldn't be the first NBA player to do that sort of not at all not at all um I think I think if Jesse um wow B says I would be a great audiobook reader I don't like that I that is I don't think so yeah no I appreciate that

bees uh I think something that would get uh you to go on a rant oh you're answering this question is if is if Baxter himself contacted you and was furious about an article you wrote about him

oh yeah that would that would get me that would get me riled up probably I think as a journalist you would feel like that was the ultimate

like saying it's how Baxter has never spoken a word in his life right if that's what I'm saying if those are the first words if one of the first things you ever heard to Baxter

was him calling you to complain about your journalistic integrity on an article that you wrote about him. Yeah. I think that would push you over the edge. Did you see that they had Baxter on the TV broadcast the other day? What was he? When did he have to say anything?

No, of course not. It was ridiculous. It was Stephen Bob. They were broadcasting from, it's called like Studio 122 or something. It's like the lower level suite. Yeah, it's a suite like on the diamond level, but it's down right on the concourse. Yeah, it's beautiful. It's really cool.

Yeah. But yeah, so they were broadcasting there and they were. just rolling through different guests and and they bring in Baxter. I'm sure some of you guys saw it. And it was it was actually kind of hilarious because Baxter's just like trying to respond with like head nods and whatnot because he can't actually speak anything. So it was, I was amused watching, watching that conversation if you can call it that. I have a conspiracy about Baxter.

Uh-oh. You ready for this? If I have to be. I think it's a guy in a suit. Ah, call me crazy. Good one. Good one. No, that's the first sane thing that you said in the last 30 minutes, Derek.

Next question. Hey, if Madbom gets dealt, excuse me, Jacob at Jacob Scholdt, on Twitter, asks, hey, if Madbom gets dealt, do you expect Tommy Henry to get a chance to fill that spot, or does Corby Martin get another shot? Honestly, at this point, I don't really know. I feel like we already thought that those guys would get a shot based on the open roster spots that have kind of come up, and we haven't seen it. it to this point.

Yeah, I think if they were able to deal Madbom, which would be huge for this team at this point, just because Madbom takes up such a huge percentage of their salary, and at this point doesn't really align with the rebuilding process that they currently have going on. But again, if they found themselves in that position, I really feel like they would be in the nothing to lose kind of mode at that point. Corbin Martin, I think, would probably get a shot again before they called up Tommy Henry. just because I mean he's already on the...

He hasn't called up yet. He's on the full-man. Yeah, Corbyn Martin's already on the 40-man roster. And so you kind of have a fast track to the majors when that happens. But yeah, I think Tommy Henry, we will definitely see this season. I think he had 10 strikeouts in his last start

just the other night. So he should be up here before long. I don't see it being particularly likely that the Diamondback steal Madison Bumgarner just given the contract situation there. But I mean, he might draw a little bit of interest. He was pretty good, Derek, last time out. The last two times out, honestly.

Yeah. His last two outings have been pretty damn good. Seven innings, two runs. I don't think he walked anyone in his last outing. So that was pretty good to see from him against Colorado. I think the thing about the Diamondbacks, especially, is we see the future as far as, like, position players go outfield, even some of the infield. we just still, I think we're still waiting to see that pitcher come up

and be a guy from developed in the system that comes up and has the same success that say Alec Thomas is having as an everyday center fielder for this team, right? And that's what so many people I think are excited for and looking forward to. Tommy Henry isn't even by far their top ranked pitcher as far as the prospects are concerned. But as far as success, he has been having.

having I think the most success in Reno. And I think that's the reason why people are ready to see him. And same thing with Corbyn Martin. I think we've seen Corbin Martin at a major league level look like a pitcher ready to be in the majors. Yeah, I think, I mean, Corbin Martin, it seems like when the Diamondbacks had brought him in as a starter. The results haven't always been there, but he has shown glimpses kind of in a long relief

role. And he's, you know, he's certainly still improving. his development timeline was utterly wrecked by Tommy John surgery and then having some setbacks last year trying to work his way back from that. So yeah, I think we'll probably see him at some point this season. And then I think Tommy Henry will probably also see. Reno is just a, I mean, it's a huge test for any pitcher. And the fact that Tommy Henry has managed to pass that test about as well as you possibly could is very impressive.

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You can purchase these products at your local dispensary. If you can't find them near you, look online at OGsbrands.com. And shout out to OGs brands for having these wonderful pool parties at my day club. I will be at Disneyland. It's probably the opposite end of the spectrum as far as wholesomeness from the pool party at my day club. But that's where I will be on July 30th. Jesse, what are you going to do without me? Are you going to...

Is this a show going to fall apart without me? It probably will fall apart, Derek. I don't know what I'm going to do. I don't like that level of pressure. Do we have, oh, six more months for Isaiah until he turns 21. Well, happy birthday in six months. Emma, do we have any more questions?

We have one question from the Discord, and then we got one in the chat. So let's do Discord first. Let's go. Who do we think is on Trade Block? be dealt from D-backs from Brandon Buck. That's a great question, especially right now, because as we get to the All-Star game,

the All-Star game for a lot of teams is a chance for them to put their best players on display, for the nation to see, for everybody to get a glance at them and all of that. For the Diamondbacks, it might be a little bit of like Mr. Universe showing off what we have to offer, little Joe Matsfly going out there and flexing the muscles to see if anybody has the trade interest in them, because I think Joe Mantiply has a good chance, honestly, of being on the trade block.

It sucks to say that. He does have a tremendous amount of team control left, and I think he could be a big part of this team going forward. I'm sure that's such a big downer considering he's our all-star, but I do think that with his performance this season, he could draw a lot of interest from a lot of teams. He could really be, you know, a big addition to a lot of teams bullpins. Yeah, I have a hard time seeing the Diamondbacks. steal Maniply just because he's having such an incredible season and he has a number of years of team control remaining.

And Mike Hazen is so high on him too, right? Yeah. I think they would have to be overwhelmed in order to really consider dealing Joe Manciply, which, I mean, is possible. I won't say that's impossible to happen, but I don't think it's likely. As far as guys on the trade block go, I wrote about, I wrote a little MLB trade deadline primer for the Diamondbacks a few days ago. so you can check that out and get a more full look at this.

But just to give a quick little synopsis, I think as far as names that we could see moved, I think David Peralta is probably the most likely name. Ian Kennedy is sort of pending health at this point. He's still trying to work his way back from that blood clot. So hopefully he's able to get back. I think he's a name that other teams could show interest in. Zach Davies also sort of pending health.

I think he's a name that people could look at. And then there's also Merrill Kelly and Christian Walker, who I have on my list. I don't think either of them are particularly likely to get moved just because of how well they've played in the fact that they are under contract for a few more years each. But I think they'll both draw interest. And if the Diamondbacks are able to get what they want, I could see that being possible. Madison Bumgarner is a name that we talked about earlier in the show. Zach Gallen is another name that I know other teams would love to be. made available. I don't think he's going to be made available by the Diamondbacks and trade

conversations. But yeah, those are the main names I'm looking at going into the trade deadline, which is not that far away, Derek. It's on August 2nd this year. It's a little weird with the lockout sort of moving the schedule back a little bit, but August 2nd will be the trade deadline, so we're just a few weeks away from that. What kind of return could they get for Madison Bumgarner? That would be acceptable? Would it merely be a team taking his contract? If a team takes the contract, I think the Diamondbacks would have to give something for a team to take the contract.

Like it would have to be him and cash consideration. Yeah, him and cash, him in a prospect, something like that. My guess is the Diamondbacks would probably eat some of the salary in order to make it so they could get something back in the trade. But that's why I think it's just sort of a non-starter. Anytime you have a guy who is not worth the amount of money that he makes, which Mad Bum is pitched well this season, but all in all, I still don't think he's quite at that point. It's going to be tough for the D-backs to pull off and move there.

Here's the thing is Mad Bum is probably, in my opinion, after seeing photos of him, seeing video of him play, seeing him in real life, he almost seems like he's in the best shape of his life now than he's ever been. He's, you know, he just looks physically like he's in great shape. There is a lot that he still has to offer, and I'm going to compliment the hell out of mad bum right now. But I'm saying the one thing that would make a huge difference for him as an asset to this team would be the impact he could have on the future pitchers of this team. Sure. Getting guys like Tommy Henry and Brandon Fott and some of these guys up here to be around him and for him not to be a crumogen that keeps that stuff to himself, but a guy that talks to these

guys, shares his experiences, maybe watches games from the bench and gives kind of a coach parental point of view to some of these guys. You know, I don't know if he does that. I don't know if it's something that would be interested in it, you know, it would interest him. But that kind of thing, that kind of impact can have an unquantifiable value for the team when it comes to the fact that they're trying to build around the future of tomorrow. Yes, he might not have everything to offer as far as what he's making.

He might not be worth the value on the diamond. But let's be honest, he's having his best season with. the Diamondbacks that he's ever had. Oh, yeah. And one of his best seasons that he's had in years, even when he was with the Giants, he can have that added value by sharing his experiences

and sharing stuff with his fellow teammates. And again, guys like him and Granky, I give them a bad rap, I think, because I don't get to see how they are. Right? Like, he's a very outspoken, emotional person on the diamond. So I feel like what you see out of him elsewhere is a bit more reserved,

but I would hope that he kind of shares, you know, that with the younger players. If that's the case, then keeping him on the team when you call up these guys of the future is worthwhile. You know, even if you don't see it necessarily translate over to like wins and ERA and stuff on the diamond. I think he's going to continue to be a competitor for this team. And if they don't trade them, honestly, if they're not getting anything back for him,

I don't see the point in getting rid of them at this point. That's why I don't think it will happen. It's not like their payroll is very high. I know he takes up a great percentage of the payroll, but that doesn't matter because their cost overall is still very low. Chris, by the way, talked about her mailbag questions. I'm going to throw some at you really fast because they're in the Discord. First of all, go to Snow Cone, Shaved Ice Flavor or combo.

So we're talking about shaved ice slash snow cone Best combos of flavor I'm telling you right now I am always going with some sort of sweet and sour combination Oh interesting I always like a like a tart You know like an orange like an orange creamstacle Like I like my OG's gummies

Same thing I'm going with something to balance I like balance I like balance on that And it's I'm a big fan of of two opposing flavors, especially if you can get something like really sour and really sweet and then get a bite of both. Aren't all snow cone flavors

kind of sweet? No, there are some that are very... There's sour apple. There's like... Apparently I just haven't gone to the right places for snow cones maybe. Do you go just with like a rainbow?

I usually just pick one flavor that I like and then I roll with that. I'm sure that's utterly predictable. It's cherry too, isn't it? No, it's not cherry. I don't like. cherry. It's blue raspberry.

No, it's not. No, it's usually like lime or root root beer. That's disgusting. Yeah. I think root beer is pretty good.

Pretty good snow cone flavor. Maybe, do you think I could mix them together? Could I do lime and root beer? I hate you so much right now. That sounds awful. Chris's other question is long pants or tall socks on a

baseball player. Tall socks. Yeah? A thousand percent of the time, tall socks. I'm always going tall socks. I'm going pants. You're going long.

Long pants. Yeah. Sloppy long pants. Not sloppy. Especially those long pants. The baseball players have pants that literally have a hemmed thing at the bottom for your cleat to go through it so that your pants can go down over the back of your. I hate those the most. Really?

Those are the sloppiest pants of all of them. Yeah. I think that certain players can pull off the high socks look. But certain players can't. You know? Like there are some guys. that you see who do it out of nowhere who don't normally do it. Yeah.

And they just don't look right. It's like, yeah, you're, you're just, it just is not a good fit for you. So, you know, you know who wears the hell out of some tall socks? Who? Tori Lavello. Tori Lavello does. Tori Lavello does. Tall socks.

And guys like, I don't know, like Eric Burns, like if he ever wore long pants, that would be really weird, I think. But for the most part, guys who, I don't know, for the most part, I think, I think the long pants is the, is the better look, depending on your bar. Kings pull off tall socks. Can Dalton Varsho pull off long socks? That's a good question.

Yeah. He doesn't, I don't think I've ever seen Dalton Varsha with tall socks. No, we need to see it. We need to see it. Because he knows it doesn't look good. Sox just doesn't look good, guys. Oh, whatever.

Do we have a question, Emma, from our, or from the chat? Clutch Kinnuck asks, favorite MLB nickname, the Sultan of SWAT holds up still. Absolutely. absolutely holds up still.

I think the freight train is an incredible baseball nickname. Oh yeah. You know, I feel like if David Peralta got dealt to a major organization like a, you know, like a New York Yankees, let's say.

The freight train thing would take off immediately. Within six months, we'd see commercials and shit of trains and him being a conductor and shit. Yeah, that's probably true. The Nike marketing deal, he'd have the whole bit. They definitely grab the gift that you post like every single day.

Oh, God, yeah, that's it. I specialize in nightmare fuel gifts for sure. You got any baseball nicknames? I think the kid. The kid was a great nickname for Ken Griffey Jr. Yeah, that is a good baseball nickname. You know, Palm Beach Garden Zone. Palm Beach Garden Zone.

Pavin Smith. We're good at nicknames over here. I refuse to endorse any nickname that we didn't come up with. Yeah, no, that's a good point. The big unit. Yeah, that's, that's pretty legendary. I don't know how, like, it's, it's dirty, it's descriptive, it's perfect. It's everything I want out of a nickname.

I thought Papa Grande for Jose Loverday. Oh, Papa Grande was great. That was always kind of fun. Absolutely. The Ice Man, Matt Mantai. The Diamondbacks had some pretty great nicknames in their time, but no, I don't know about current nicknames. what is Catele Martez

El Pico, I think, or El Pique, El Pique, something like that. Used to be El Nino. Right, right, it did.

El Nino was like, I like El Nino more as a weather reference that I am an incoming storm more than I like El Nino being Fernando Tatis Jr. of Fernando Tettis Sr. That's not as good,

but yeah, I don't know. What are your guys is? Bringer of Rain, I thought, was a good nickname for Josh Donaldson. I don't know. I think back on some of the nicknames that players had on the back of their jerseys. Yeah. Granky.

Still, solid nickname. Granky. Yeah. Brad Boxburger had the emoji. That's the emoji of a box. Yeah, we talked about that. That's actually in the Hall of Fame because it's the first jersey in history with emojis as the name on the back. So Brad box

It's like bizarrely easy how How like I feel like it's somewhat easy to get things in the Hall of Fame All you have to be is the first Do random crap for the first time And there you go That's all that matters Absolutely Clutch Connect said

We need more MLB players with wrestling nicknames Like Rick Steiner's The Dog Face Gremlin And I completely agree with you You know you're you know you're You're going right towards my heart When you bring up wrestling references So of course I'm going to agree with you on that

I like honestly if we're if we're if we're if we're not just saying it just for fun uh nicknames are big part of marketing I yeah and being marketable right like I talk to Josh Rojas one day on the field and I actually was really excited to ask him like if he's ever had any nicknames in his past and he just was like yeah just row people just call me Roe uh and then uh and then I realized that's why he used This is the, you roll through my city, you row, row through my good. It says this thing in the song, right?

But yeah, I wanted something more than that. I really did. I wanted some of these guys to have like a story. And Jesse has often said that we need to tell Dalton Varshow about the whole having all the tools thing. So we'll see it back in, that can happen one of these days because, but I'm not showing them the nightmare fuel drawing. That one's not.

Yeah, don't, don't show them. Well, show him the one Josh did. Going back to Josh Hunt, this is why you want Josh on your side and not against you. But we thank you guys, of course, for the questions. Chris asked, what's the current worst MLB contract? I don't know. Yeah, Stephen Strasbourg, maybe. He, unfortunately, that deal hasn't really worked out.

That would probably be the main one that comes to my mind. There's a lot of big money being thrown around. I would say for Colorado Rockies fans, considering we just played them, that the Chris Bryant contract probably wasn't looking so great there for a while, but now he seems to be back on track and seems to be his old self again.

He was hurt for a good portion of the season so far, so I don't think anyone was judging too hard on that one just yet. But I think the thing is, is that you go out and spend a lot of money on a guy like that for his first initial impact to be that he's on the injured list. It's unfortunate. It sucks. I'm not saying that it's, you know, it's terrible timing.

But at the same time, too, when you spend all that money on a player, that it's got to be a little, cause you a little bit of heartache when they're not able to be on the field right away like that. Am I allowed to say Miguel Cabrera? I know he's sort of a legend, but his contract with Detroit is sort of a disaster. Well, I mean, Detroit as a whole is a disaster. So it's kind of like what I've said at times about this team. You got to appreciate like the moments, right?

and at least they held on to him for him to be this legendary player in baseball that now will always forever be a Detroit Tiger, right? Yeah, I mean, it would be weird if he went anywhere else, but the amount of money that he is earning in that contract to be a replacement level sort of player is it's sort of unfortunate for the tigers. But they have Riley Green now. They'll be okay. If I could go back in time, I would get the Diamondbacks to spend that kind of egregious amount of

money on Paul Goldschmidt and not bad an eye about it but yeah well Paul Goldschmidt isn't as old as Miguel Cabrera's yet but he's aged pretty well so far right but he's one of those guys that I would want he's the only guy in Diamondback history that I would want to be that he's the only guy that I would want to be willing to so that he just stays here forever and we can just build a goddamn statue out of him out front and have that for us as a team because well and instead Derek he's he's starting at First base for the St. Louis Cardinals in the All-Star game, and he's the favorite for the National League. I didn't ask for this.

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They don't know that. But of course, you guys get down to Chase Field and support this team. We only got three more home games before the All-Star break, right? And then the final three are against in San Diego. Three more home games between now and the All-Star break? Is that what you said? Yeah. They don't have any home games between now and the All-Star break.

They're in San Francisco tonight and then San Diego. You know what I get for not putting the calendar up. Do we have the calendar up for this stretch going into the All-Star break? There we go. See if I did that, I would have known. Don't go to Chase. They're not going to be there. I lied. There will not be baseball at Chase Field until the 22nd.

Yeah, until the 20 seconds. Almost two weeks from now. By the way, on the 23rd, that's Star Wars Night, and we are giving away a Star Wars shirt. If you haven't had a chance to see that tweet, check out our pin tweet on Twitter. You can follow us on Twitter, by the way, at P. NX underscore D-Backs. Follow me at Kapp underscore K-Man with a K.

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