PHNX Arizona Diamondbacks Podcast - Diamondbacks have three prospects in MLB Pipeline’s Top 100

Episode Date: January 29, 2024

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Hello and welcome in to another edition of the P. HNX. D.Vax podcast right here on P.HNX. My name is Derek Montia. Big Ski to you all. Of course, I am occasionally known as your mayor of P.HNX. And I'm joined not by Jesse Friedman once again, but by the one and only Father Overlord Jacob Franklin himself. What's happening? Faj? What was the joke the last time I was on? He replaced one tall, lanky white man with another tall, lanky white man. Correct. That's what I'm here for. If I said that this is my vice mayor, occasionally known as Jesse Friedman, 33% of the audience would not have even noticed that it wasn't actually Jesse. I'm convinced of that. Maybe once you start getting into FIPP and ex-Woba, if you don't use those enough,

then, of course, there's only that. But big, Groundhog Bama starts it off with a question. Let's just get to that. I am in, I was in studio today. We're in studio for about two minutes. I was in studio. I was there. I was hanging out. I was glad to be out of the house. And then our internet didn't have a great connection. Still not great, but Jacob is going to do his best to join us from the office and get this damn thing done. Of course, we appreciate you guys being here. Conner says, ski, no Jesse, so I expect complete another chaos.

That's a good call. That's probably what exactly is going to happen. But I am very glad to have Jacob here with me. Jacob, the MLB pipeline list, the top 100 prospects list dropped. The Arizona Diamondbacks had three top 100 prospects. Any surprises there to you at all that there's only three and that the names are Drew Jones, Tommy Troy, and Jordan Lawler? No, because I think Brandon Fott officially has graduated from the list. Obviously, Corbyn Carroll's graduated from the list too. I think this arm system is super deep. and I do think there is a lot of talent there.

Yeah. Well, it might not be top-tier talent. You're a-tier and B-tier guys. I think you have a lot of roster control. I think there are a ton of guys that fill spots, right? One of the things that this organization, I think, has done or is questionable so far is building pitching depth in their minor league system. Drey Jameson, Ryan Nelson, Tommy Henley.

a lot of those guys that were the quote unquote top tier guys in the system have kind of graduated to the big leagues and that leaves a ton of question marks i mean blake waltston um who was once thought of as a really high pro like a high rated prospect has kind of drop down that system his his strikeout to walk ratio is not all that great i mean doesn't care a ton of guys in reno so that's a concern but i would love to see this organization kind of while they're phenomenal at building outfield depth, shortstop depth, and position player depth. For what they're good at in that, they don't build a ton of pitching depth in the minor leagues. They struggle to develop pitchers for whatever reason that is. And that's something that I'd love to see them start focusing on, whether it's the draft international signing. I think that's something that they can step forward for sure. And that's not just something within the Arizona Diamondbacks organization. It would appear across baseball that there seems to be a lack of, of, uh,

depth when it comes to pitching. You don't see that many highly rated pitchers. There's, there's just a lack of arms on this top 100 prospects list. So I do think that a big part of it is, it's hard to be excited about pitchers in Diamondbacks, in the Diamondbacks organization when they're putting up some of the numbers that they do in AA and AAA and really it, from that point on, it's got to be more about the peripherals and other things than not necessarily just about, you know, the ERA and what's going on as far as, you know, their statistics go. But, Drew Jones ranked 78th. We have Drew Jones right now, of course, the lowest of the three.

A lot of people had pause about that a bit, but it's, I think it's just because Jones's arrival date isn't very close. It's not for a while. He's still only 20 years old. And there's still a lot of development there for Drew Jones. There's still a ton of potential. And he's still a very exciting young player. But MLB Pipeline said that his bat left something to be desired in the California League,

as he pushed the ball 48.1% of the time to the opposite field, while also hitting into the ground a pretty terrible 61.3% of the time. So a lot of things there to work on as far as his at bats. But again, rank number 78th on the top 100 pipeline. So still a lot of potential there for Drew Jones. Yeah, it seems like in all the videos, and the evidence would point to this, His bat seemed really, really slow through the zone in almost any video that you watched of him in the minor leagues last year. It seemed like he was really struggling to get bat to the ball, which could have obviously ended up in his opposite field numbers slash ground ball numbers.

You'd really like to see him be quick to the zone long through and like, you know, the stereotypical a plus swing that guys are looking for. You want him to be quick to the zone, get his hands through, but then keep them through the zone for a really, long time. He really struggled to get to the baseball. So, you know, you'd love to see him be able to get bat to the ball at a much faster rate. There are some videos that have come out of him working out before this, before spring training.

And it seems like his bat has gotten quicker. The swinging, he kind of stayed on the baseball a little bit better. And he was driving the ball. And obviously, it's just batting practice. But there was a sound coming off of his bat that you didn't see a lot of last year when you watched it. Meanwhile, Tommy Troy, shortstop, is ranked 74th.

He's ranked above Drew Jones. Obviously, a lot of that has to do with his development and how far along he is being, you know, the player he was. But in 23 games with the hops, Troy hit, he had 21 hits, 16 RBI, eight stolen bases. So he's really been, he's really been progressing nicely.

And that's great to see him in the top, I guess, 75, you could say. And then Jordan Lawler, Jordan Lawler falls just out of the top 10 at number 11. Mike Hazen expects him to make an impact on the team this season, and I think we do as well. It's just going to be interesting to see what they do with him, right? I don't think anybody wants to see him necessarily back up Geraldo Perdomo and not really get it bad. So, again, as much as it's going to suck, there's a good chance he's going to start the year in Reno, which is probably the right choice, right?

Yeah, this is a really. tricky situation obviously because what we saw of jordan lawler at the end of last year a lot of it is what i chalked up to i think he was thrown into the wrong time i think had they called him up in july when the team was slumping it also wouldn't have been a great time but you threw a kid in at the most important time of the year i mean every single a bat he was taking head like it was meaningful which for somebody who's never taken big leagues a big league of bats for him to step in and start taking at bats in the most pivotal moments in the season, that's a tough spot to get acclimated. And obviously he would sit here and he would probably tell you, I'm a big leaguer, like,

I got to play at all times. It doesn't matter when I'm coming in. I don't want to put the pressure on myself. But whether he wants to or not, he probably was putting some pressure on himself. He probably felt that every time he stepped up to the plate. I don't pretend to know what there, I didn't play professional baseball for a living, but it goes without saying, right? That's a tough spot for a 21 year old kid to be put it. Yeah. Yeah, it really is. And there's high expectations already. He didn't have a lot of time in the minors himself. And of course, you know, there were, the stakes were high for this team. The diamondbacks needed him to come in and try to be productive to help them get a playoff spot and hold on to a playoff spot. That's a lot of pressure. And then,

you know, again, it was just kind of trial by fire with, with his involvement in the playoffs and everything. It's good, though. I think that there's some. something to be said about the fact that once again, much like Corbyn Carroll coming in at the tail end of 2022, you had the ability for him to kind of just get all of that like pageantry out of the way, all of the first, the first hit, the first this, the first that, you know, everything that kind of does put that pressure on you as a player because you're kind of thinking in your head, God, I hope I finally get my first hit. God, I don't screw this up. God, I, you know, and like, once you just have a little bit of time under your belt, you can kind of move on from that.

So, like, bringing in a rookie at the end of the year and then allowing them to have that fresh start the next season, it feels like a pretty good move. I mean, it worked out obviously very well for Corby and Carroll, but he is a completely different animal. He is not an animal at all. In fact, he is a machine. And Corby Carroll is not a regular person. He's not. No. No, we know that.

We know that. He's done this his whole life. He was kind of built that way. He's the epitome of the meme that you've seen of him in high school where he steps up to the plate. and he tries to call time like four times. The Ump never grants time. And then he obviously just like mashes a baseball and just stares at it for like the next like 10 seconds.

And it's like, yeah, he's that dude. And Kyle looks back at the umpire. Like, thanks for not granted any time. flips his bat. Yeah. In fact, Corbyn's mom just tweeted out or retweeted MLB's tweet about Corbyn going from getting dropped off by his parents on day one, you know, there of 2023 versus him being the rookie of the year at the end of the season, celebrating the award with his parents. And like, she asked, it's almost like the social media team knew.

And I hate to, I hate to break this to her, but we all knew. We all knew. I put that, I put that rookie of the year bet on Corby and Carroll early left off season. You had to. It was a no-brainer. You had to, you know, because you were never going to get better. you were never going to get better odds. Yeah, that's true.

That's true. And that guy lived up to every single expectation. Hopefully these three can as well because the organization very much needs them. I mean, you know, we went very fast from having some of, like the most prospects in the top 100 to just kind of being average. Having three isn't terrible, of course. The teams with the top, the most top 100 prospects are the Cubs with seven, the Orioles with six. and then there's three others tied with five, the Reds, the Pirates, and the Padres.

So the Diamondbacks aren't far behind, but it is great to see Mr. Electric, Sean DePas. I was wondering why my computer was overloaded with electricity. And so was my car driving home, Jacob. So, I mean, it's like the energy was in the air. Also, Sean, more energy. Special, special happy birthday. Oh, yeah, and a special happy birthday to Chris.

our den mother, Chris Melvin. Should we sing happy birthday to her, Derek? That seems like a terrible idea. I don't think you and I are qualified to sing on live program. Chris, I tried. She did try. He did try, but we do have a special mailbag Monday question just for her. Of course, I do have another present for her because, I mean,

I know as much as this is going to pain many Diamondbacks fans to see it based on what it's related to, there is this image floating around on the internet of a Texas Rangers tattoo that was done in honor of their World Series victory. That is the lead singer of Creed with the lyrics, Can You Take Me Higher? Oh, come on. You got to, no, Derek, you missed it.

Can you take me higher? Yeah. Yeah, not great. That's not great. What would a Diamondbacks one look like, you ask? Well, of course, I Photoshop that up. Can you throw that hideous thing up there perhaps for me? Of course it's sexy red.

Ski, ski to you all that, of course. You photo shocked that? Maybe, maybe. Well, maybe someone really got that. I don't know. Maybe I was going to come and make a promise on this podcast today to the Diamondbacks won over 90 wins. I might get a tattoo that looks very much like that.

But in the brief time I was in the office, Jacob told me how terrible of an idea that was. And so he convinced. me not to make that bet. We'll leave the tattooing bets up to Max, by the way, who still doesn't have his ad man tattoo. Yeah, diehard Thursday. Thursday.

Yeah? I made a promise that he was going to drag him in. Oh, please tell him. Oh, I was going to say, please tell me Jacob got stuck like that with the finger up here like you were making a mustache. Yeah, Sean says you can't do that for less than a ring. Yeah, you're right. You're right.

Yeah, that's brutal. That's brutal. That's brutal. That's an insane position. You definitely should not do that. Yeah, well, you know, sometimes you got to, you got to go crazy sometimes, you know. Okay, but of course, thank you. What's that?

The Jesse McGuire tattoo would go hard. Oh, that would go pretty hard. Him playing the nationally. Just like full trumpet. Yeah, yeah, yeah. And then just like a little banner underneath and like, I don't know what would it say on. Yeah, yeah, just the world series banner. Yeah, yeah, just the world series.

Oh, that's, might have to go hard. Might have to draw something up. All right. All right. Well, we thank you guys for your wonderful, wonderful ideas. And of course, Sean for being here, the birthday girl, Chris, for being here. If you're not subscribed to the PHN Exports YouTube channel, make sure to do so now. Sign up for notifications.

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Derek, you live in Flagstaff, so it makes sense that you would have to fill up every time you come into the office. Yes, yeah. I mean, I do live very far. It's South Flagstaff, first of all. Let's get the sides of Flagstaff that I live on. And I do live at least a good couple of hours away from Flagstaffes. that fun. No.

We're going to where the rest of you live in the valley. I might as well live in Las Vegas. Derek lives in the Rock Springs pie place. You live. Oh, yeah. Well, Max is going to get furious at you for doing that because now I have to talk about their delicious pies.

And I'm not allowed to do that. How close are you to that, Derek? It takes me less time to go get pies than it takes me to drive to work, Jacob. We'll just say that. We'll just say I can get a rock spring pie. You're less than two hours from Florida. like stuff that's true that's true but anyway uh these questions this is a question and these questions aren't for you you're supposed to help me answer questions not ask more questions because today is

the day that we do that of course every year is our year every month on this show is aspanic heritage month every week on this show is shark week every day on this show is earth day but of course on mondays we go to the mailbag jacob ski shall we I made the There's a letter that makes me go, wow, wow, my bill box. I made the mistake of asking for ridiculous questions today, and you guys delivered. But let's get to some actual, I guess, grounded questions first

before we move on to the insanity. Jacob, please. Can we go with our first question? First question comes from Brett Lee Johnson, who somebody wanted to know, like, if a Brett Lee, if Randy Johnson-sized Brett Lee would win against a Brett Lee-Johnson-sized Randy Johnson.

There's a lot of fighting questions coming up. But Brett Lee Johnson says, which prospects, one pitcher and one position player, are you most excited to see in action when spring training rolls around? I have to say for me personally, Blaze Alexander is still a guy I really like to see and I get really excited about. And Ivan Melendez, those two, as far as position players are guys that I really am excited to see when spring training gets here. I know that they'll probably get a good amount of time, good amount of playing time,

in some of those spring training games because that's how they go. Those are the guys that typically get time in front of the coaches. What are your thoughts on anybody you want to see? Yeah, I think one of the really interesting ones. I'm going to kind of pull this one out from a show that Jesse did. They talked about Jorge Barrosa. The right-handed. Oh, yeah.

Jorge Brosa is very, very highly touted for next year. He's a really interesting guy. It's almost like, and I hate to say this because I love him, But it's almost like Jorge Barrosa, if he plays well, makes Jake McCarthy expendable. As much as I love Jake McCarthy because your entire outfield is left-handed hitting other than Lourdes, right? So you've got Lurtis, Corby, Alec, Dominic Fletcher, Jake McCarthy. The list goes on. I mean, you know, you could go even further, but you don't need to.

Jorge Brose is a right-handed bat. That's, you know, and you need somebody that hits right-handed out in the outfield right now. He might fit that profile a little bit better to balance out the outfield. So I'm curious to see how he performs. Really hard not to say Drew Jones because he's probably going to be a part of the prospect showcase games that MLB is doing for the first time this year. And that's super exciting. I'm really excited about that. From the pitching side, like I said, there's not a ton of depth there right now.

But Landon Sims coming off of the Tommy John last year, it seemed like his fastball drop. about four or five miles per hour, which is pretty concerning considering in college, the one thing that he relied on was being able to blow it past guys at 99. So the numbers correlate. I mean, in high A, I think he had a mid-3s ERA.

You know, he pitched well, but he wasn't the same electric guy that you saw in the college world series when he was at Mississippi State. So Landon Sims is a guy that I look forward to seeing, just to see if that fastball tops out 98-99 miles an hour. I think that's kind of a guy that I'm looking at.

Blake Walsden is another one just because if you really want to say that you have pitching depth, it starts with him. He's your guy. It's a really important arm to have actually work. So hopefully he's able, I mean, he will see, for better or for worse, he will see innings with the big league club this year. That's the only way to play. I hope we see you, Min Lin. I'm not sure about if we would see him during spring training or not. I think we would at this point based on his career and based on just the excitement around him as a pitcher.

I don't, I've never seen him live, I don't think. I mean, I might have seen him in spring training last year, but I don't really, really remember too much. So he's a guy that I've been really excited about. I know a lot of people have very high on their prospects list for the Arizona down and back. So it'll be interesting to see if we get to see him live. That'd be great. What else we got? Next question comes from Travis Moore.

at Moore for me on Twitter. And Travis asks, would Ryan Nelson be best utilized in the bullpen all season? And then he asks, favorite place in the valley and favorite pizza style. For favorite pizza place in the valley and favorite pizza style. Oh, my God. My wife and I really love exploring good pizza sports. And we have many favorites. I'm guessing spots is what he meant, but spots and sport go together.

I think you and I are going to have a quick answer on the first one. Yes. Yeah. Yes. Yes, Ryan Nelson. Just to answer that first question, yeah, I don't think there's really any other way to put it. Ryan Nelson looks pretty good as a long relief guy in playoffs, in a big moment. I mean, obviously they were down by quite a bit, but five scoreless innings,

it's exactly what you needed from him. I think, you know, unless he develops another pitch, his fastball combination with, you know, maybe one off-speed pitch, his fastball is good. It always has been. and I think if he has the ability to top it out at 98 miles an hour, 99, I think he plays a lot better than he does trying to pitch five or six innings every fifth day. So, yes. Sean says pizza and AZ is why I moved away.

Oh, man, that's rough. I'm going to say Pizzeria Bianco for the pizza place. Okay. It's right office. And none of us have ever gone. It's incredible. It's Neapolitan-style pizza. I mean, he says that, but I kind of disagree.

And maybe it's because I don't know any better. Maybe I don't know what Lou Malnoughties here in town is like versus Lou Malnotties in Chicago. But I like Lou Malnotties here. So Lou Malnotties is a favorite of mine. Like, I really like the fact that we have a decent mix. I like a deep dish pizza. I'm not going to call it a casserole. It's definitely a deep dish pizza.

And I will fight you on that. But I will say, and I'm going to stick up for this place because, again, I probably should be saying like Spanados because Spanados. Yeah, it is good pizza. Incredible pizza. And it catered our holiday party. Spanados is amazing. Sean's yelling about deep dish not being pizza in the chat. I'm not even going to listen to them. But shout out.

Honorary mention to Barros. Like I feel like Barrows is like the Arizona Pizza place. I like Barrows pizza very much. No, we're not associating. I mean, look, I will go to boroughs, but we are not associating boroughs as the Arizona pizza place. No, but what else is? Like, what else is from here that's a chain that's actually, like, locally owned and not some sort of, you know, from out of town kind of deal, right? Like, every Chicago place, boos here.

I will go to boroughs. I will fuck up some boroughs. Right. Right. But, I don't know. mean like pomo doesn't have a ton of places but pomo pizza slaps um pomo pomo ptoes pizza does venezias i don't know if i'm saying that right venizias is some good pizza oh yeah yeah absolutely that's that's that's another good yeah i think i think i think there's more yeah i mean really

if i would think but i will agree with john if i go ahead oh go ahead go ahead what were you saying i will agree with sean that i i think in terms of the rankings of the type of food that Arizona does best, pizza is not a top three. I guess not. But again, if you look in a lot of culinary, like, listings for the best pizza place, Pizzeria Bianco wins award after award after award. I mean, does it live up to that hype? It's hard to you because it's still just pizza.

It's still just wood-fired Neapolitan-style pizza. But it's very good. It's very good. And again, we got a great mix here. So I've been places that are worse. that's for sure. But I'm not going to attack Buffalo, New York, because that would just be silly, too.

And I want to to hurt Sean's feelings, but I'm not going to at all. And yeah, first of all, Mark talking about, like, you guys wouldn't eat a casserole. Second, where, like, whoever said a deep dish pizza was a casserole is an insane person, and I just, I don't see it.

I don't have it. Again, you're wrong. You're inequivocally wrong. I can't even say words because I'm so upset over it. Go ahead. I'm not a deep dish guy. So I'm just going to, yeah, I like traditional New York style pizza or wood-fired pizza, big wood-fired pizza guy. Yeah, Sean says he hates watching these shows from the comment section because he would be, we'd be talking about pizza for 30 minutes.

This would be a pizza-only podcast. But we have lots of questions. Since Jesse isn't here, I took all the questions. So we got to move on. But yeah, there's your pizza choices. What else we got? All right. Tim asks, with the promo calendar, oh, excuse me, let me give Tim his credit. It's Tim Ankenman, R.D., Tankinman, R.D. on Twitter. And he asks, with the promo calendar coming out soon, what would your dream giveaways be for this season? Replica pearl necklaces, purple vests in honor of breaking the losing streak from last year, more colored hair. Okay, this is, this is actually a serious time. Can we get the green gabby hair? Okay, green gabby. Well, he went purple.

He did, but he had green. He had a green for a split second. It was just so short. No, we can't do that. We need more bobbleheads. We need more bobbleheads. I know you like pre-planned bobbleheads. Every single guy should get one.

I want a Zach Gown bobblehead. I want to Gabby Moreno. What do you do with your bobbleheads? What do you do with my bobbleheads? They all come here. It takes up way too much space. They end up, yeah, my extra sports stuff ends up at the office. That's where they, that's where they end.

This is a really, really, really, really take. I'm not a bobblehead guy. What do you like as far as giveaway items then? I really like the replica jerseys. I think those like that, like the black Serpienti's jersey that they did last year. Especially when they don't have a giant Pepsi logo on it or some sort of sponsor branding just because that makes it something that I actually want to wear. And that it's not even an attack.

Like I'll wear sponsor branded hats and jerseys myself as well. But like there's just something that adds to like me wearing it for a longer period of time. The Diamondbacks have been giving away some great items over the last two years that have not had any kind of sponsorship branding on them. Or if they were, it was kind of small and inconspicuous. So they've done a great job with that. Yeah. So like I think, I don't know. I just, for me, I've never been like a put my bubble. I know in the chat's really mad at me right now. I've never been a put my bobble head up into my room type of guy. But I don't know. I just like, I just was never really my thing. So yeah, the replica.

jerseys were good. You know what's crazy is like every year I love buying souvenir cups. Like souvenir cups. Just give them away. Like yeah, I use, if you look in my cupboard at my house, I've got like 17 souvenir cups. They're all my big water cups that I take to bet. I have a I have a, I have a, I have a, I have a, I have a, I have a, I have a, I have a, I have a bobblehead scenario you might enjoy. What if the Diamondbacks re-sign Tommy Fam connecting bobbleheads? Tommy Fams has a little arm you can pull back with spring action in it, and it smacks the Jock Peterson bobblehead, and then it can, like, bobble?

Yeah. But you have to get both. You have to go to two different games to collect both sides of it in order to get it. That way. You don't be fun, Derek. I'm good at marketing. They could give out, like, they could just pre-print, like, sign baseballs. Or like, like, I would love, like, you know the baseballs that you can buy in the team

balls? What? You know the baseballs you can buy in the team store that all have the really cool designs on them? You can give those. Oh, yeah, yeah. Yeah, those are very, those are very cool. Or like just something with, you know, the year, the season on it, you know, an inaugural, like an opening day ball, baseball, something like that.

The Haboob Globe was still one of the best things they ever did. Oh, that was phenomenal. The original one was incredible. Yeah. Again, some of my favorite items that they've ever had are all like here on the shelf above me. There's the Gonzo, like from Muppets, Gonzo that they had. So if there was some sort of, you know, a lapina pineapple guy, you know, or something like that, but instead of the green, you know, stuff at the top, just like some purple hair coming out of the top of a pineapple, I don't know. Did you ever get this one?

Oh, that's legit. Yes. Yeah. Give me a starting lineup action figure. Yeah, that would be really, really cool. Even if it doesn't even have to be high quality. You know what I mean? It just, if it comes in the starting lineup kind of packaging and stuff, that's enough for me. Derek, this is really, there's a really random aside story. So when I was an intern at Diamondbacks, the last thing that I had to do before I, my internships were overrated back-to-back years, we had to move so they have a tape room, which has tapes from like 98 season all the way to,

it was whatever the current season was. Because, yes, they still record every game and the video board on tape. Like, if you ever get, if you guys ever see yourself on the video board and you want it, whoever's working there, they pull it from a tape of that game. And there's also a digital recording that we have. But so our job was to move all of the tapes. This is like 20 years of tapes down to a different storage room on the field level so that they could clear space. Well, in order to do that, we had to clear out one of the storage.

rooms down on the field level. And I found there was three wooden boxes with season ticket holder giveaways that we got to keep. Are you ready for this? Let's go. Are you ready for this? No. Cigar, Diamondbacks branded cigar cutter and holder.

Whoa. Let's go. And a stainless steel Arizona Diamondbacks flask. All right. Yeah. Like I'm all in on those. Give me a flask. Give me a cigar.

I don't even smoke cigars, but give me a brand new. It was like mahogany wood box. It was sick. It was literally the coolest thing that I have. I do have one giveaway item that they should ultimately do and do it more than once. Give away rattles. Give away those little snake rattles that they used to have, right? Don't make people buy them in the team shop.

Figure out a way to make those cheaply. Give them away. And then like when everybody has those and they start bringing them to the ballpark, the sound that the crowd could collectively make as a rattlesnake together. Can you imagine? Come on. What are we doing? Team 7 of the World Series,

the whole crowd has their rattle. Just, yeah. Yeah. Talk about a home field advantage. Now we're talking. Now we are talking. All right. Well, Cox is here,

so I guess we can actually answer Cox's question now, but he is once again tardy, so I'm going to mark him down for that. What do we got, Jacob, for Cog's question? Coggs wants to know, Derek, what's the most absurd way one could get onto the scoreboard screen at Chase Field,

asking for a friend. Jacob, there you can just talk. You can just talk to me, Coggs. I can get you on there. Yeah, just ask you. It doesn't matter. It doesn't matter how I can get you on. Yeah, he can get you on.

What you do when you're on the screen, that's, that's me. That's up to you. Hey, hey, I'm not going there because, yes, you still have to behave, but beyond that. The possibilities are endless. That's all I'm hearing is that the possibilities are endless. Yeah, I mean, well, they'll kick you out if you do something. you know, not cool, but. But taking your shirt off as a small child somehow totally acceptable, right?

That's actually going to get you on the scoreboard. You're at that son's game, Derek? I was at a lot of Diamondbacks games where that seemed to be a very frequent occurrence. Let me tell you. Now, don't get me wrong. It's 117 degrees in Arizona in July. So it's an understandable act, but not one that should be plastered up on the scoreboard in my opinion. Yeah, yeah.

It's a bit odd. Yeah, let's get Cogs do the worm, as Groundhog Mama says, because we have video. of that. And even though he goes backwards as the worm, still a pretty good worm. Going forward is really difficult. What's that? Going forward is really difficult.

Going forwards is the harder version of the world. Yeah, it's the harder version of the worm. Yeah, that's for sure. I've never seen to be doing it. You've never, what? Never seen. You never watched WWE programming? There was a guy that did it as a move.

Come on, Jacob. Get on board. Derek. Scottie too haughty. All right, Don's bread. Don's bread. Don's bread. No, Scottie too hotty very well. Mark asks, if you had to bet on a D-BACs player that could vibe out a bear, who would it be?

And by vibe out, he means, come in and get a bear to chill. I imagine this is an angry bear. Maybe they did some sort of promotion where they brought a bear to chase field and it's somehow now on the loose. It's gone mad. It's taken up like cold beers and cheeseburgers, maybe. it got all the way up there and they need a player for some reason to go in there even though these are probably the worst options a player to go chill to bear out who are we going are you ready for this Derek I know the answer so I will answer you who one count on the count of three we're

going to say our answer to the same time ready one two three Christian Walker is that gallon what no what did you say he Christian Walker would definitely would definitely get a bear to I would not, you are absolutely wrong. And then he turned the bear and killed the bear. Christian, yeah, exactly. Christian Walker would, would hunt the bear for fun. And then he would, that's the end of the bear's life. We wanted the bear to chill out, Jacob.

This is a different thing we're asking here. I think that's why Zach Allen. I think bears are sophisticated animals. I think they want to come chill and have a pint of bourbon. Oh, well, that, I mean, that's, yeah, like he could convince him of that, sure. But we know Christian Walker is going to be able to resist turning him into a rug. We know that.

Come on. He has so many places. He was like a ranch. There's so many places he can put a bearhead up on the wall. Like, come on. What are we doing here? There's no way Christian Walker is the guy to get a bear to chill out. See, but like here's my thing.

Zach Gallen is going to be like, hey, dude, do you like see this video of me throwing this pitch? Like, can I watch this 17 times? Like, I think he kind of bore the bear a little bit. Yeah. That's, like, are bears interested in analytics and video?

Yeah. Yeah, maybe. Groundhog mama says Brent Strom. That's experience. That man has lots of experience, chilling out bears on the mound, if you will,

cheering, chilling, you know, chilling out large angry men in very nerve-wracking situations. Connor Mormons does Paul Seawald's big dad energy would calm the bear down. See, Jake McCarthy is a really,

Jake McCarthy is a, really good call here. I need more. Just because Jake McCarthy is who he is? Come on. Is it the same kind of Zach Gallon? Sean, you know,

Jake, Tori ad. Sean says Tori would crush beers with a bear. Tori was going to ride the bear. Tori's going to ride the bear. Tori's going to put a saddle on the bear and ride it like a horse just for fun. And we know that. That's not,

I think it's probably Jake McCarthy. I think after, after a long thought, I think it's probably Jake McCarthy. I think he's just like, he'd be like, sup, dude. And the bear would be like, sup, then they'd have a beer. So he'd surf some waves. Yeah, all right.

All right. Well, I guess I've been outvoted on this one. Well, what else we got? Michael Rokickey with the next question. Michael asks, if Tommy Fam agreed to a one-on-one match with Jock Peterson before returning to the debacks, but you had to be the guest referee and take a refump. Do you say yes? Jacob, this is the easiest answer of the entire day.

day. I mean, there's actually one about Baxter-sized snakes and snake-sized baxter's, which is also very easy. But in this case, the answer is yes. Whatever I would need to do, whatever I would need to put on the line like, okay, Derek, get the ski tattoo. Derek, get your hair purple. Whatever I would need to do to make this match happen, I would make it happen. Because that's like, we're leaving money on the table here. They say there's no dream matches left in professional wrestling. I beg to differ. And this is an obvious example of that. Yeah. Yeah. I mean, I think, I think that's a heavyweight battle right there for sure. Yeah. Yeah. A ref bump, by the way, Jacob is where like as a ref, I was like, yeah, I was like, I don't know what that is, but I wasn't going to admit it. So.

Yeah, I was like, I was going to have to get knocked down by them while they're fighting or attacked in some way. Like one guy swings a chair at the other guy and he misses, but then I'm there. And I get knocked out, which allows for additional shenanigans to happen. I don't take bumps. that's a that's a condition of my contract with iZW wrestling uh i was once asked if i could catch catch a man jumping off of an awning uh and my promoter said absolutely not so i'm not i'm not allowed to take bumps so i mean if as long as you don't tell greg de marco then i'll take whatever bumps we need to do because this match needs to happen jacob and there is lots of discussion about tommy fam uh staying around and being part of this team

I honestly, all the jokes aside, all the jokes aside, it actually makes a lot of sense for Tommy fam to stay on his team. And I will say, where does he fit? The main reason is the jokes. Yeah. I did put all the jokes aside, but the main reason is the jokes. Physitionally, he does not fit. He does not fit. Yeah, he can.

We get rid of some other people. That's the key. Anyway, all right. Well, you can bet, by the way, on ML. be baseball right now. You can do some future bets. Maybe bet on this year's rookie of the year. Is it going to be Jordan Lawler? I don't know. I imagine the odds aren't very good on that. So if you want to throw some money down, one of those places you could do so is over at our friends at MGM Sportsbook. And of course, if you sign up using our code of PH&X right now and deposit $5 into your

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I see. He just, he comes to work, but he doesn't want to produce my show and whatever. I mean, he had to get to the airport, Derek. He'll get to the airport at some point. You can, you can produce, look, the internet is not great. We've established. You want me to, you want me to get them. come say hi to the people. No, I don't. No, I'm mad at him. No, I'm mad at him. I'm mad at him.

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Terms do apply. Again, use code PHNX to get $20 off your first purchase. Download GameTime Today, last minute tickets, lowest price guaranteed. All right, I think we have some more Mailbag Monday questions. Jacob, what do we got? Next question comes from Elizabeth at the Burritosaur, one of my favorite human beings on here. And she asks, how many little drink umbrellas do you think you could sneak into Jesse's hair without him noticing. Now, I imagine this is at some sort of bar scenario where Jesse is there with other people conversating, allowing me to freely go and obtain these small umbrellas from the bar and put them in his hair.

Jacob, I am setting the over under at five and a half. What do you think? Is his hair like, does it, like, does it have some stick to it? What is it like? I'm going to tell you, it does. Is it thinner? Is it thicker? No, Jesse's got some fairly thick hair, and he kind of doesn't really do much with it. So kind of just kind of sticks up, right?

And if he hasn't had a haircut in a while, I know that for he's not, he doesn't really care. Like, his hair is there and he knows it's there. And like he wants it to all kind of go in the same direction and out of his face. But outside of that, I don't feel like Jesse cares very much about his hair. Now, I also am banking on the fact that Jesse is a very patient person. So once he does notice. that I am putting the umbrellas in his hair. I feel like Jesse would allow me probably to put two or three more in

before he finally gets fed up in questions what I'm doing, right? Like, he's just that kind of person that tolerates a lot of torment for me. That's not the question. The question is before he notices. Without, without the notice. Well, see, that's what I'm saying, though. He probably is going to notice around number three, but he's not going to say anything. He's going to notice when he's going to say, what are you doing?

Why do you keep going? I'm going on. I'm going on. I'm going on. Yeah, I'm going under. Everybody's taking the under on the five and a half. All right. Well, we'll have to put that to the test.

I'm going to, I'm going to. Where are we? Where is it loud? Is it? Yeah. There's a lot of distractions. We're at a company event, let's say, at a bar. Jesse is talking to people.

Is it a swim bar? Is it a swim bar? Maybe Elizabeth is there helping me out distract Jesse specifically. So I feel like there's a lot of advantages there for me to be doing this. But are we having pinia colatas? Yes. The answer is yes. Yes.

Absolutely. Like the umbrellas are there. They're actively available in front of us. We're having Pinacolados for sure. I mean, I don't know. Josh says the dude was a math teacher. He knew you had the umbrella in your hand before you even took it out.

He's not a ninja. Why is it? Like, he's a math teacher. How does that make him aware of what's going on around him? I'm sneaky. The Peacolotas make you in. For sure.

just ask the bartender, hey, can I get like four extra umbrellas in my Pina Colotta? Yeah. Yeah. Oh, yeah. I got you and you're like, oh. And then it doesn't even look at. They had to pop them open full sides, right? Like, so they're not like, I can stick them in with the umbrellas still closed. Now you got me an extra. Yeah, for sure. I don't know how far I'm going to go. What else we got? Let's get out. Do we have any, we have any real questions in this segment. So let's get on with the ridiculousness. What else we got? Ryan asks Hanley at Ryan R-Y-N-U-N-U-N-L-Y asks, is Jesse drinking enough water and will Cody finish his story at WrestleMania? Jesse, there is no way he is drinking enough water. It's just impossible.

Where is Jesse? Where is he vacationing? He is in Washington, D.C. Jesse likes to go to the coldest climates he possibly can when he's vacationing because he lives in a warm, enjoyable climate. I guess, and that's just what excites him besides the baseball savam page in the bathtub. I don't know. Yeah, he went to Portland.

He's definitely, yeah, during the worst, like snowstorm they've had all year. I will say no, he is not drinking enough water. And then to answer the other question, Jacob, I got this, I'll handle this. For those of you that don't know, Cody Rhodes, son of plumber, son of dusty roads, son of a former superstar that never got a chance to win the WWF slash WWE champion. and his son, Cody, returned to the WWE after a pretty storied career outside and inside WWE.

And now the finishing the story is winning the championship. And of course, he won the World Rumble this weekend, as anybody who cares about wrestling knows. And yes, he is going to finish this story. There was all this talk about him doing it last year when he fought Roman Rains at WrestleMania. And the one thing was,

that would have just been too easy. He came into the company, he goes in the World Rumble, he wins it, and then he goes on. It's too easy. He had to face adversity. He had to face some odds. He had to have some ups and downs and have some stuff happen

where he really is tested and forged by fire. And now here he is ready to beat Roman Raines for the championship. And that Jacob is the most. I'm going to talk about wrestling on this show for right now. And I'll let you. Cody Rhodes, by the way, great guy. Love him. He follows me on Twitter.

And he's a phenomenal human being because he follows me on Twitter. That's the reason why. And yes, I am dropping that whole name and information there. What else we got? All right. Lee at Nelson 81 underscore asks, can we resign Yasmani Tomas to be the right-handed DH? Lee has been blocked from our Twitter account,

so he can't do any more damage or you can't hurt any of us anymore. That's it. Do we answer the question? No, we don't. All right. Next question. Brett Lee Johnson at Brett, we're moving on, 44.

He asks, who would win in a fight 10 snake-sized Baxter's or one Baxter-sized snake? Absolutely, one Baxter-sized snake. The Baxter-sized snake is going to win, right? The Baxter-sized snake could eat me or you, Jacob. Yeah. That's a baby kajou. That is a little tiny Godzilla. That's not something to be messed with by anybody,

let alone 10 little snake-sized baxter. Come on. Those are formidable. Maybe if they get on each other's shoulders, they can cause some minor inconveniences, but I'm not worried about 10 snake-sized baxter at all. Yeah. that's it.

Wait, are they connected Baxter? No, they're not connected. Connected Baxter are fucking. But like what type of, I guess the question is what type of snake are you talking about? Because like, I imagine we're talking about a diamond back, right? Rattle snake.

Is there, is there some snake that's much bigger than other snakes like a boa constrictor? Yeah, you're talking like a python that's like 10 feet long. Then yeah, maybe 10 of those would win. But see, it's an odd thing.

Like, is this a very long, skinny, Baxter now because the less girthy as the less I'm afraid of the 10 of them to be honest. But again, the snake size Baxter, he's killing all of us. We're all dead at the hands or lack of hands, I should say, at this fucking Baxter-sized snake. What are we doing here? It's an easy one.

This is as easy as the Yismani Tomas thing. I think we could go on. Jacob's still thinking about it. No. You're putting way too much thought in this. I think I'm okay. I think I'm okay. right, were you good? Okay, let's go. Next question. All right. We got A.Z. Spurts Girl

2-24 asking who would win in a fight? Me or Sean? Is Sean still here? I need to know Sean's thoughts on this because look, look, I would never, I would never fight Sean. He's one of my children, so. I'd fight Sean, but I'm not, I'm not really. saying that I would or wouldn't win. I think deep down inside, Sean's a lot of talk, but he has a heart of gold. And I think he would have a hard time really going, like, for like, you know, for the kill shot, right?

And I wouldn't because I fight dirty, as many of you know. So I just don't know if he's ready to be kicked in the, in the junk like that. I don't know if he's ready for eye gouging or any of the rules that are banned by ultimate fighting. yeah i mean look i think i get now that sean's been in boston for like a few months like i think he knows like you get mugged on the daily in boston so like that's true he lives in a very tough city now yeah i think he's got some moves i think he's got some moves but you're also talking about a guy

that's eating at least 60 chicken parms since he got there yeah so like is he slow he talked about cutting his mustache and his hair off and that's where yeah like that tells me that maybe he's not mentally in the fight yeah Yeah, definitely. He'll fight you with his word. Now's the time to attack. He'll fight you. He'll fight you with his word.

Oh, no, he's here. Oh, shit. Listen. Listen, first off, don't sit here and insult my, my drive, my desire. Because if I got to fight somebody, I'll fight somebody. Nobody is safe. Secondly, I don't want any smoke with you, Derek. I think you kick my ass.

Like, if we were in a ring or something like that, like, I think maybe. I think maybe, like, maybe I could, like, run longer than you could. Maybe. So, like, if we're in, like, an open field, maybe I could tire you out. Yeah. But if we're in a ring or an octagon, you got dad strength. I don't want smoke with you. You kick my ass.

People think I'm cocky. I'm realistic. I know my strengths. And I know my weaknesses. I appreciate it. Physical strength is not one of my strengths. All right. Well, thank you for that.

We appreciate you stop by, and I miss you. I miss you more. I miss you more. We miss you for a lot. Oh my God. That's the delightful present I needed today. And yeah, he's right. I would kick his ass.

So that's probably the correct answer. Let's get off fighting. Yeah, I'm not fighting. I love Sean. What else we got? We got the birthday girl. Last question. Last question.

Birthday girl, Chris the Dula. Happy birthday again. Ask what's the best birthday gift you could buy me for under 10 bucks? How about with unlimited budget? Would you support players having to sing either sing their walk-up? Well, let's do this one at a time. We're just going to handle this first one. Best birthday gift I could buy her for under $10.

I already know what that is. It was the Foco Bullpen cart that I got for $8 at the Arizona Diamondbacks garage sale thing that they have. It is still one of the best deals I've ever purchased in my entire time of purchasing things at Chase Field. And I would happily gift that to Chris. but hers would have a little Michaela Perkins in the driver's seat. That's what I would give her for a gift under $10. Did I get a custom-out?

So how are you going to get that under $10 if it was $8 without Michaela in the front seat? Jacob, Jacob, Michaela is just a blonde woman that I can easily get a very cheap dollar store action figure. I'm not going to go out and pay to have like a Michaela Perkins recreated. That seems very, custom action figure seems very expensive. I can go buy a very, very cheap, $0.99-cent store doll, if you will, and just stick it in there. And it's kind of look like Michaela. She says, how about with an unlimited budget? What are we giving her with an unlimited budget?

She's already got season tickets. She's already got season tickets. Yeah, season tickets is covered. I'm flying her to Cooper's Town to go to Baseball Hall of Fame, right? Yeah. And I'm going to have Josh Rowwich take her out for a little tour of the city, of the town. Absolutely. You know?

All you got to do is make one call, Josh. You'd like to take dinner on me for all. Josh would absolutely do it. He would. He's one of the best people in baseball that I've ever met. And he couldn't be in a better place. You know, like what a guy that loves baseball that much running that place, that's fantastic.

And I know, Chris, we have a delightful time. I would get Chris a time machine. Oh. So if there's multiple sporting events in Arizona and one night, she gets a 10-1. time machine back and attend another one. Yeah, that's true. She does have a busy schedule many nights where she is like leaving a son's game at halftime to go watch something else like a Diamondbacks game or something.

It's impressive. What was the other part of her question? The other part of her question was would you support players having to either sing their walk-up song into a mic or dance from a war on circle for a dish? Dancing. dancing 100% because dancing is like singing most of them we're going to be bad at it right so we're just going to have to listen yeah because like i don't want i don't want to listen to that yeah i mean again we're trying to get jesse to learn all the words to a milly but aleck singing a milly into the mic on the way up how's that going how's it going how is jesse learning a milly going he has a lot of questions if i came in the office and i was like a milly a milly a milly a milly a mid Mostly he was like, he was like this like Coke in a dairy air. How is Coca-Cola? And I was like, I can't.

Where do I start with this? But that's, it's a whole thing. But anyway, yeah, dancing up to the plate, dancing up to the plate, that's electric. That is electric. That's something I wouldn't tire of. I would tire of listening to these ballplayers sing their own walk-up music very quickly because it would be terrible. It's funny to go to karaoke and listen to terrible people sing for.

a little while. But if you're there at a bar and everybody's terrible, you're leaving. Eventually you're like, I can't take this anymore. We got to go. I can't listen to these terrible people sing terribly. But no, we are absolutely watching them dance up to the plate every single

time because you know it's going to get more elaborate. That's the way sports go. There's going to be like capes and hats involved. There's going to be all sorts of shit. Like it's going to be amazing. Yeah, I want to be entertained. I don't want to have my ears bleed. Yes. Yeah. And even a bad dancer's funny to watch dance when you make them dance. Like if it's part of it, you have to dance. It's just part of the new MLB rules along with like the shorter pitch clock and everything like that. Like yeah, sorry. It's a fucking violation. If you don't dance up here, it's a strike. That's basically what it is. It's a first pitch strike. We're punishing them now? You're punishing them now?

Yeah. Fuck yeah. It's a rule, Jacob. You can't just have rules without consequences. Then they're just you asking. stuff. I'm not asking them to dance. I hear you. Hey, hey, hey, hey. I hear you. All right. Sorry, I got excited. But anyway, happy birthday once again to Chris. I hope those were the answers that she was looking for. And I appreciate you guys all being here. This was awesome. Jacob, you're the best. I appreciate you being here.

We're going to have Espos stop by tomorrow. And me and Espo, I think, are going to cast that 20-23 postseason movie, finally once and for all. We've been meaning to do that. And I'm very excited to have Jordan from the Cespitas family the barbecue boys joining me on Wednesday. This is all I could do to basically make up for Jesse not being here. And it's still not enough because Jesse,

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