PHNX Arizona Diamondbacks Podcast - Diamondbacks Unveil BOLD New City Connect Jerseys for 2025, Set for May 9 Debut vs Dodgers

Episode Date: May 5, 2025

The Diamondbacks City Connect 2.0 jerseys and merchandise dropped on Monday, and we went out and bought it all. Dalton Feely stops by to give his thoughts on the purple Serpientes gear, calling up Jordan Lawlar, and MLB umpires changing the strike zone without telling anyone. We also have answers to your Mailbag Monday questions and an unboxing courtesy of our pals at the Amarillo Sod Poodles aka the Yellow City Pigweeds. Join Derek, Dalton, and Kevin for the PHNX Diamondbacks Show LIVE! An ALLCITY Network Production SUBSCRIBE to our YouTube: https://bit.ly/phnx_youtube ALL THINGS PHNX: http://linktr.ee/phnxsports MERCH https://store.allcitynetwork.com/collections/phnx-locker ALLCITY Network, Inc. aka PHNX and PHNX Sports is in no way affiliated with or endorsed by the City of Phoenix PHNX Events: Get your tickets to PHNX events and takeovers here: https://gophnx.com/events/ bet365: https://www.bet365.com/hub/en-us/app-hero-banner-1?utm_source=affiliate&utm_campaign=usapp&utm_medium=affiliate&affiliate=365_03485317 Use the code PHNX365 to sign up, deposit $10 and bet $5 to get $150 in bonus bets! Disclaimer: Must be 21+ and physically located in AZ. If you or someone you know has a gambling problem and wants help, call 1-800-NEXT-STEP, text NEXTSTEP to 53342 or visit https://problemgambling.az.gov/ Branded Bills: Use code PHNX at https://www.brandedbills.com/ for 20% off your first order! The D-backs are hosting Golf Night on Monday, May 5th vs. the Mets. Purchase a Special Event ticket package through the special link and receive a game ticket and a limited-edition D-backs rope hat courtesy of Branded Bills! https://www.gofevo.com/event/Dbacks6165 Gametime: Download the Gametime app, create an account, and use code PHNX for $20 off your first purchase. Terms apply. Circle K: Join Inner Circle for free by downloading the Circle K app today! Head to https://www.circlek.com/store-locator to find Circle Ks near you! Monarch Money: Use Monarch Money to get control of your overall finances with 50% off your first year at https://www.monarchmoney.com/phnx Waymo: Download the Waymo One App and Ride Today! https://apps.apple.com/us/app/waymo-one/id1343524838; https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.waymo.carapp Carol Royse Team: To buy/sell your home, call Carol Royse at 480-776-5231 or visit carolroyseteam.com All Pro Shade Concepts: Call 623-204-1476 or visit https://allproshadeconcepts.com/ now to schedule your free estimate! When you shop through links in the description, we may earn affiliate commissions. Copyright Disclaimer under section 107 of the Copyright Act 1976, allowance is made for “fair use” for purposes such as criticism, comment, news reporting, teaching, scholarship, education and research. Fair use is a use permitted by copyright statute that might otherwise be infringing. #dbacks #diamondbacks #arizonadiamondbacks #mlb #zacgallen #corbincarroll #ketelmarte #mlbtheshow #mlbtraderumors #tradedeadline #traderumors #allstargame Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See https://pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

This summer, purple is the new black. We are talking about the Arizona Diamondbacks dropping their City Connect jerseys and how much I adore them. Plus, Dalton feel he's going to stop by and give his thoughts on the jerseys and also umpires just changing the strike zone without telling anybody. All of this in 30 seconds, you're watching the PH&X Diamondback Show. And welcome in to another edition of the PHNX Diamondbacks podcast right here in Studio K presented by our friends at Circle K. my name is Derek Montia, occasionally known as a guy that's been keeping a secret

for entirely too long. I am thankful to have you guys here and I am thankful to finally be talking about these bad boys right here. We got ourselves some Arizona Diamondback City Connect jerseys. The release happened today. And boy, did we go crazy buying all the merch?

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Again, my name is Derek Monti, occasionally known as your mayor of PHNX. I got my guy, large, intimate Kevin Thomas, occasionally known as Big Kev because he's six foot tall and you just can't teach that. on the ones and twos.

Kev, I know, I know you were not very keen on the leaks. I know you weren't very keen on how busy the City Connect jerseys are, but what did you think when you finally saw them in person? Yeah, look, I was, I wasn't like hating on them. I didn't hate them at all. They just weren't like my favorite thing I've ever seen in my life. And then Emma brought that, I think maybe that exact one into the office possibly. This little gorgeous one right here.

And in person, it is gorgeous. Yeah. In person, it really is gorgeous. and I didn't like it at all when it first dropped. Pretty. But the in-person version made me a believer for sure. Yeah, it's amazing. Not to mention that we just have this.

We also have hats! The hats dropped! I told you, I know some of you have seen these hats in the hat shop. I don't know if that was a mistake or just something they did last year. But I know this hat, this incredible hat, which has Arizona-born on the inside, with a beautiful little snake little pattern going on on the inside. this hat has been just hiding in plain sight right in front of us at times. I know it was.

It's got an incredible little teal logo on the back. I love everything about this hat. Sir, what do you got? Creative choice question for you on the hat. Can you bring it back out? Yeah, let's do it. The Arizona born on the forehead? How do we feel about that?

Oh, yeah, because then I'm going to, like, is it, well, oh, well, it is kind of imprinted. Is it going to be, is it going to be caught? Why is that not on the back? Why is that not on the back? Because I'm going to get a little. Beautiful hat, though. I'm going to get a little Arizona born. imprint on my forehead and then I'm going to be able to look in the mirror and it's going to be

the right way. So that's a treat for me, not for you guys. That's really for me. But yeah, no, this this thing goes so freaking hard. The, of course, you can see it. You can't kind of see it, but there is a Yeah, you can see it. There's on a flag inside of there. Stephen Mitchell's absolutely right. This flag, this hat goes insane and it's my favorite part. Kevin put it best. I think that the jersey is very busy, maybe when you see it alone, but the uniform as a whole is incredible. And of course, you can't just take our word for it. We got to bring in a Serpientis affixionado himself, someone who knows this team, loves this team and especially loves rocking Serpientus gear. It's the one and only Dalton-Feeley from John Boy, Dalton, happy purple drip day, my friend, the Arizona Diamondbacks

drop these City Connect jerseys. What are your thoughts? I mean, fire can't. describe how freaking gorgeous these are. By golly. I mean, sheesh, the purple and teal, it just pops. And I, I am always been a purple and teal truther. It looks gorgeous. I'm so happy. And I can't wait to get one for myself because I need one immediately. A-sap. We got, we got more. We got the, we got the hoodie here, too, Dalton. I can't get it the right way. Here we go. Hoodie. A lot of teal on the hoodie. The flag on the hoodie. I mean, this is like turning into a QVC episode for you to go to the team shop and pick up all this stuff,

but I don't care about that because, yeah, we spent some money. They also gave us this incredible bag, by the way, Dalton, which this was for free and this was just part of the deal here. For free? So yeah, they're doing some good things over there.

The unveiling was cool. I felt like the video that they did with Sierra Santos was spot on and I thought that again, they gave great explanation as to all of these details and all the reason why this is uh this means so much you know to the community especially here in arizona yeah i i love seeing from each team's city connect releases they do like that graphic of the zoomed in parts of the jersey and for what of the hidden details quote unquote are included for each of them and the dying back like the one with

the ral of the podomo looks absolutely fantastic and it breaks down literally every like little hidden detail like within like the arizona born it you guys just brought up too. Like that's a nice little bit too. You don't really see it, but it's just, it's there. It's a piece of it. There's so, yeah, there's so many little things. I love the, uh, I love the touches myself. I love the little 48 for the 48th state hidden in the 1998, like the 1990s like purple and then part of it is white and it highlights 48.

We have some of the images here of the players wearing the jerseys and they're extra swaggy. Uh, we could definitely go on, on, we could rate levels of swagginess here from the diamondbacks, but they all, they all have swag. And, I mean, again, man, this, the photo shoot is cool. The, you know, shout out obviously to the Diamondbacks past is cool. I talked about it the other day, Dalton, but this is kind of like a combination of all of their jerseys that have ever existed in a way, right? Like you have the Serpientis from the city connect. You have the gradient from those weird gradient jerseys those years.

You obviously have the purple and teal influence from, you know, the World Series years in that era. You know, and then this flag. I love this flag, by the way. This is another one of those touches. They also have that on the hoodie as well. That I think this is just a really well done launch. And I mean, I know this is the team we love, the team we cover. I just really feel like this was the City Connect jersey that knocked it out of the park this year.

Yeah, I think you nailed it with the accumulation of all the jerseys passed from present and now to the future with this new City Connect release. I'll admit when the announcement was made the Diamondbacks regarding a new City Connect, I was a little bummed out because I really love this sand Serpientas jersey. really good look. And I'm actually very happy with how this came out. Like I, this was the best possible result of the release and it looks fantastic. I'm also really happy that they kept Serpentis on it and not Diamondbacks or Dbacks or anything in Arizona. It's yeah, it, you know, it goes back to that those city connects as well. It just looks. I'm going to keep saying gorgeous, fantastic, fabulous, all these adjectives to describe it. No, I'm, I'm with you 100%. And honestly, I there, there was the Serpientis thing was a bit deviantus.

I will say that what kind of does suck about the Serpientus thing, if you didn't like it on the old jersey, and that was like a part of the thing you didn't like about it, then that's what they didn't give rid of. You know what I mean? And we've seen other teams change that. We saw the Astros go from Space City to Stroes and things like that. So I'm sure some people expected maybe, you know, them to actually change that.

I'm with you, though. I kind of like it. I like the fact that the Diamondbacks didn't change it. I like that they are extending, you know, this all. alternate identity of being the Serpientis into the next iteration. And honestly, again, what it means to the Hispanic culture here in the valley. And it just looks cool. I did love the other Serpentis jersey.

I'm with you on that. I do think Nike messed some things up with it when they changed over and the colors and stuff. Because I felt like it was much more of a sand and it got definitely, especially seeing some of the merch that came out, it got definitely almost to a yellow tint that a lot of people didn't really like about it. But I love the classic design of it. I've been a big proponent of the fact that the Diamondbacks don't have that history of being a throwback baseball team. So I felt like the Serpientis jersey was the closest thing that got it to kind of having that old school identity.

But this one, it just does such a good job of embracing the Serpientis identity that we know and love, mixing it and actually bringing back purple and teal and having that be a great. color, you know, a combination that fans have wanted back so bad that that's actually color they're going to wear maybe not just on Thursdays, maybe, you know, more regularly than that. So that's going to be cool. Yeah, I, I liked the best jersey they used to do on the throwback Thursdays for those home games. That was awesome because those are always my favorite jersey, the vintage late 1990s, early 2000s

with the purple sleeves from the vest. That's my favorite jersey you've had so far. And this is probably in the top three now with the current black and teal jersey. that we have. I'm pumped. I can't wait to see them. I believe the first game they're wearing them is Friday if I saw that right. Yes, against the Dodgers. Yeah, it's going to be May 9th against the Dodgers. That's when they're going to debut. Could be cinema, Derek. It's all I'm saying. I love the way it's set up, right? It's set up. It's set up perfectly. Play good. I do have some news from the team shop, by the way. They did want me to let everybody know that the

custom jerseys will be available on the next homestand. So if you were looking to get your name put across or perhaps a player that they don't have there currently in stock hanging on the shelves, those will be available soon. So hold out a little bit further for that. Umin-Lyn. Maybe I'd get myself a U-M-N-Lin. I would absolutely, oh, that's, see, now that's all I want. Lawler? Lawler? Maybe a Loller jersey? I don't know. You can go crazy.

The one thing I do like is when you get any, it doesn't matter if you're getting a player that is up on the shelf or adding a player or doing your own custom name. It's all the same price. So I say go wild with the custom name and, you know, enjoy yourself. But Jordan Lawler, a great topic, a great way to transition. Been killing it. Dalton, people here are going to lose their minds if Jordan Lawler doesn't get called up soon. I have still been trying to temper expectations due to the fact that we would not have a place for him to play regularly.

I know Tori could figure it out, but I still think that's where we're at. But Jordan Lawler was named the PCL player of the month after he slashed four of the first. 08, 487, 749 in the month of April. He led the PCL and runs scored with 31, hits with 42, total bases with 77, extra base hits with 21, OPS at 1.235, and slugging percentage all in the month of April. Not bad. You know, some are saying pretty good. I don't know.

It's like he's a prospect. It's like his offensive skills and prowess can be used at the major league level. I don't know. I, listen, I do understand the argument of if he's not going to play every day, let him get everyday reps down in the AAA in the PCL. Sure, I get that. But if he's going to contribute to the major league level, even if he's not playing every day, if he's playing half of these games, that's a big component for the timebacks lineup potentially. You can give a spark. I know we've seen some flashes of some of these guys like Lourdes breaking out in this previous road trip.

Yeah. But that said, we've had, there's three guys, especially in Stephen, Josh highlighted it during the Philadelphia series between Lourdes, Gabby, and Gino are very streaky hitters. Jordan Lawler, if you bring them in, when Carlos were going to play them or play him, could break up the streakiness of some of these players and help that lineup out. They need that. They need something to connect because, like, yeah, the guys at the top of the lineup and getting the job done, Josh Naylor's been great. But, like, once you get past that point, you really have no consistency. I think you just, you don't know what you're going to get. And like you said, yes, Gino's been doing a little bit better.

Lordas had a great series, even though he was O4 in the finale. He finally seemed like he was back a little bit. But I think the problem also is, Dalton, as you know, it's the PCL, right? So it's like as tantalizing as it is sometimes to look at a guy in the PCL doing this, you have to be realistic about the adjustment. I am going to give you one Jake McCarthy's numbers this year for Reno. Jake was hitting for the Arizona Diamondbacks 073, 170, 098, an 098 slugging percentage with a 268 OPS overall.

That was in 47 plate appearances at the big league level. Jake McCarthy is currently slashing 435, 509, 652 with a 1.162 OPS in 53 plate appearances for the Reno Aces. So I'm not saying that like I'm not saying there's not a happy in between there for Jake. It feels great that Jake got back on track. Jake seems to tell Tori he's going to go hit 400 for the Aces whenever Tori sends him down. And then he does it based on spite. But again, that jumpstart that he gets from Reno usually translates over to Jake being able to be back on track at a major league level.

Right. So it's like, but at the same time, I just caution. that these numbers for even Jordan Lawler are great to look at, but it's just not necessarily the same thing as actually hitting against Major League pitching. Right. It's a little bit of a mirage because the twofold is, one, the talent between AAA and MLB. There is a jump. I know there's sometimes a perceived notion that there is no talent difference between

AAA and some of the worse than MLB level caliber players, but there is. And we've seen that throughout MLB and minor leagues across the entire league, not just within the PCL and the minor leagues. Number two, the PCL, I don't know why those parks just get mashed all the time. We've seen it not even with Jordan Law with Jake McCarthy. It's like almost every single player plays well in the PCL. It's usually a bigger problem if players aren't performing offensively. That becomes a bigger issue.

I do want to say with McCarthy, he was showing life support flashes with the Diamondbacks. So I was kind of hopeful he was going to break out. And I think he might have done so with PCL. if he gets another chance he can do it. I don't know if I want to see him again or not anytime soon. It depends on health. I hope Jake McCarthy, PCL, can just come back to Chasefield and be that type of player again. Yeah, absolutely.

And Michael's right. He says, Lawler has a 12% walk rate down there, though. That'll play PCL or not. So, you know, there's that. And again, it's just the fact that Lawler seems to be, he really seems to be in a stride now, right? like it's this is just what happens though you have you have players for this farm system that do excellent especially when they hit reno and then again you just you you want to see them up here so bad you also wonder why when they get here that all of a sudden they're hitting 153 and not doing

the same thing they were doing in triple a a j bucovich he's another guy that's been doing great consistently for this team uh for for for reno he's slashing 307 340 685 he has eight home runs, 25 RBI playing left field, right field, and D.H. He's a guy with the way things are going for the Diamondbacks. We might even see him this season. We don't really know there's just been, of course, some depth issues and again, trying to, like you said, spark the offense, trying to find somebody that can come up and spark the offense. Now one other thing with the PCL, too, it's the flip of these guys have to perform offensively at that league. The pitching, too, I think that's one of the reasons why the Diamondbacks have a

hard time developing some of their pitchers because they're playing in a league where that ball is going to fly and they're going to give up a lot of runs. So I don't know what the balance could be there. I don't know, but let me tell you, they're going to play like superheroes wearing this jersey, Dalton. They're going to play at a different level. It's going to be like when I dyed my hair purple and Lordus became a superhero. But that's not the only merch we got, not to make you too jealous. I know you from our chat description, they say that it looks like you're in a DMV right now.

Not sure where your actual location is. But we did receive a wonderful care package from our friends at the Amarillo Sod Poodles and they asked me to wait on it. It says live animals are in here. I did not poke holes in it.

So that might be a problem. There might be something awful and dead inside of here. But we'll see what we got in here. And of course, we love the sod poodles. They do such an amazing job as a minor league organization, to be honest, one of the best in the league. But, oh,

my gosh, we got a new identity for the sod poodles, guys. I don't know what this means. We got a hat. We got some cool blue colors on it. I don't know what. It's a pig. There's a pig running. I don't know what he's running from.

And we're about to find out because there's also a T-shirt in here. So let's give you the official kind of a pig deal. The pig deal. Are they the pigs now? I need to find out more. They don't give me any explanation, but they send me incredible pieces of merchandise.

Someone asked what is a sod poodle in the chat? A sod poodle is a, it's a prairie dog, right? It's what we know him as. It's a prairie dog. Kevin's completely lost. He has no idea what's going on. But yes, apparently the sod poodles

have sent us their new identity and it says kind of a pig deal and then we got a pig here. I don't know actually what the actual identity is of this team now, but I don't know if anything's going to be better than the calf rise for sure. That outfit on its own is fire.

If you just wore that shirt hat combo, that'd be fire. Let's see, did they get my hat size right? Let's go with this one. We're going to go with this one. Oh, we. Oh, that's Frosty. I like that.

Sheesh. Sheesh. We have all sorts of merchandise. Look at this. We spent, we got all the money. We got all this stuff, Dalton. But we got to re-take a quick moment because we got to make some money really fast

in order to pay for all of this stuff. So we will be right back. Don't you guys go anywhere. Dalton, don't you go anywhere? We got to talk about Major League umpires changing the strike zone without telling anybody and we're going to do it on the other side of this break. You're watching the PHNX Diamondback show.

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I guess it really hasn't changed much in MLB because umpires are still making terrible calls. But according to a report from Jason Stark and Ken Rosenthal, oh, that's a cheap dig, cheap shot. According to the guys over at the athletic, MLB has apparently, or at least the umpires within their own confines of, of, of, I guess, grading umpires. and of what is a strike and isn't a strike,

they kind of changed the strike zone and didn't send out the memo to players or MLB teams. And the change is that bumper buffer zone around the strike zone. We've talked about it on the show quite a bit. You see it on game day when you're looking at the strike zone. You got the actual strike zone with the squares and then you have that blue area on the outside.

That blue area previously was measured a distance of two inches on the outside of the plate. and I don't know how to phrase this without getting nasty at umpires because of course it's definitely what I do but it's almost a way for the umpires to get called like call those close calls balls or strikes and not really be counted as being wrong right if it was close enough to the zone where it's within that two inch buffer zone then they could call it a ball they can call it a strike they can call it whatever they want if it's outside of that then it's a bit more egregious and then they get marked off as being wrong on that particular call. This is what we see on like umpire scorecards and such on Twitter. But again, they have now apparently reduced that bumper, that safe zone,

if you will, from two inches down to three quarters of an inch. They've reduced it by more than half. And again, I mean, I think that this is a good thing for baseball because I do feel like that was maybe a bit too much leeway. It's just strange that they didn't make any kind of,

I guess notice about this, considering that they always make a big deal about changing anything in Major League Baseball. Yeah, it's that big conservative energy of baseball. Like keeping everything the same. We don't want to change it. We love it. It's fine. Why change America's pastime? But sometimes change is good.

And I think one of the biggest things from this study that was released from the athletic is that since Statcast had been tracking pitches since 2015, this is the highest percent of correctly called balls and strikes in baseball. So this change is also led to umpires to be more accurate. It gives us a little bit less to gripe about with these umpires. Derek, Derek. The one, the one though, I will, yeah, you, you and me too. Why am I lying? The one thing that's interesting, though, looking at some of the data is that overall, it's been the highest percent of correct calls by umpires,

but it is the lowest correct percent since 2016 for strikes. So this is really affecting pitchers big time because, sure, it's by a percentage or two, but that does make a difference in games. And we've seen it for some of these where pitchers are pretty confident that this is a ball should be called a strike. And the umpires are not budging on it. So we've seen this play out a little bit to where the zone is smaller. And I think the main purpose of this choice was to drive some more offense in this league. I know they don't want walks, but if the pitchers have to be more precise, more in the zone,

that could lead to batters hitting those potential mistakes. Yeah. Well, if you have to pitch it more in the middle, that's the kind of the result at times, right? And like, yeah, it's also a matter of, you know, pitchers getting frustrated or pitchers just needing to like try to get back into the count when they're down 3-0. I know we've seen that with some Diamondbacks pitchers this year.

Quite frankly, we have some guys here that we're supposed to be absolute studs that have struggled. You know, Corbyn Burns is one of those guys that we've seen throw the cutter, low in the zone and not really get those calls at times. And like you said, I mean, it seems to be like they're erring on the side of not giving it to the pitcher versus giving it to the pitcher. So when it's those close calls, even though those were touching the zone, even though they're well within that bumper, that buffer zone that we're talking about, you know, they're not getting the calls at times. And again, I mean, you've just seen endings get extended on the Diamondback starting pitchers. And that's led to obviously shorter outings and more opportunities for the, you know, opposition to score. Like you really. do feel like at times that this kind of change, like you said, has been part of the, I guess, part of the impact on why this, you know, this particular starting rotation is struggling. And again, Diamondbacks are still in the bottom, you know, bottom 10 for starting rotations for ERA.

So it's not like other teams are struggling nearly as much with this. The Mets starters don't seem to be having a problem with this at all. But again, it does seem like, you know, again, when you've seen some of these unexpectedly bad outings out of guys like Zach Gallen and even Corbyn Burns, which he hasn't been terrible. He's just had a couple of those games where it was a bit of a disappointing outing that, you know, that this rule change does, does have an impact on some of this. I do have a couple notes about Corbyn Burns specifically, but not about this particular conversation.

The one thing I think is very interested from this study is that no one was told that this change was going to be made. I think it's totally cool that baseball made a change to basically try to drive up offense, right, and have umpires become more accurate. Sure. All that's great. I think we should relay that message that teams know, hey, the striking zone is going to be a little bit smaller. There's going to be less leeway.

I'm reading through the article, Logan Webb had a very funny quote through the athletic article. He goes, if it's smaller, I do think we should be told that it's smaller and that the buffer zone might be smaller. Basically, help us out. Like, we're trying to pick. We're trying to put on a pitch. How are we going to do that? especially guys that are veterans of the league that have kind of been used to, they know the rules.

They know the rules about those kind of things. They know when they're going out there that based on that, I mean, that's four extra inches, you know, in both directions essentially, vertically and horizontally, right,

between the two inches. There's a lot of room to play with there as a starting pitcher. You can get a chance to see what, how the home plate umpire is calling it. Okay, he's not really calling high strikes, but he's letting low strikes kind of go and stuff like that. you can adjust your game throughout your outing and you can do so based on that information,

based on what you know already about the game and what you know about umpires calling a game, right? But like you said, not telling people and doing it is that's the wildest part because, again, everything seems to be conveyed in baseball. Everything seems to be, you know, again, like tested in the minor leagues first and then approved and then brought up to major league baseball. Like there's typically a process, but this seemed like some sort of like just secret thing to increase offense and baseball. And that part of it makes it seem a little sinister. Yeah, this is where baseball gets a bad rep where it's like they're an evil organization and they're in their tower during a thunderstorm.

And Manfred's just like this same. Like this is how can we crease ERA across the league? How can we induce more offense? Like their intention isn't bad. It's just preposterous that they did this. without telling anyone that they're going to make this change. Because especially of a guy, let's use Corbyn Burns as an example. Let's use Corbyn's.

I think he's a little bit better than the caliber pitcher, I'm going to say. But he is someone who's got good stuff. But if he was a pitcher that relies solely on command, knowing where the zone is, that's a massive change going into a season, not knowing that was made by the MLB and by umpires. Those minor inch, two inches can make a big deal of a couple punchouts, a couple walks that leads to runs, that leads to wins and losses, that leads to making the playoffs, not making the world playoffs. There's a whole domino effect from this decision making.

I'm just shocked that they didn't tell anyone. B's in the chat says no salary cap is as evil as it gets. Maybe so. You might be right. You might be odd to sound there. Salary four, too, maybe. Yeah. Well, hey, buddy, I appreciate your time so much as always.

You are the man. You are holding it down for us, Snake fans in New York. And we got to get you a Dalton jersey here soon enough. Wow, at Dback shop? Question mark, question mark. Yeah, Raddle Republic, I think, is the official shop. So make sure to check that out. But again, this bad boy, can you wait to, you can't even,

I can't wait to see Cherry P in this jersey. I am so jealous that you are. This is great. This is amazing. So, hey, buddy, thank you again for your time. We'll see you next week and go Diamondbacks. As always, go snakes. Hopefully they win.

Let's go. Appreciate you, buddy. See you later. All right. Well, the people want me to put it on. I don't know. We'll see. Maybe we'll put it on. Maybe we'll put it on for Mailbag Monday. In all transparency, this isn't my jersey and I've no business putting it on. But I think I got approval from the person whose jersey it is potentially. He specifically wanted me to model all of this stuff again. And that's because all of this stuff is incredible. That's going to take me forever to get this thing often. But I will put it. I will. put it on. We got a super chat from B-Com C clearly. He says, I want to see Noah in the City Connect Daddy Noah. He's busy

right now. He's doing some sort of something for the sons. All right, here we go. We're not taking the hoodie off because I'm not allowed to go shirtless on this program any longer. I've been told that, but here we go. That looks damn good. This is where we're at. I mean, even

even like even with the hoodie on underneath. Come on. Like, get out of here with this. This is ridiculous. It's not even the right. It's not even the right color of purple. But I don't care. Look at this. Beautiful. Beautiful. All right. Well, we got some. Again, got to pay some more bills for all of this money we spent on merch. So of course, don't you go anywhere. We'll be right back. You're watching the PHNX Diamondback show.

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Maybe I'll throw this little guy on underneath here. Get this guy going. as like an undershirt deal. And I'll wear all the clothes and I'll wear all the hats. And we'll just have ourselves a day here. Oh, that one's too small. There we go. Yeah, see, this is how I want to live my life.

This is me at my happiest, to be honest. And yeah, I love baseball a lot. But you know, I love even more. I love the fact that every year on this show is our year. I love the fact that every month on this podcast is Black History Month. Every month on this podcast is Women's History Month. And every single goddamn month on this podcast, this is Black Women's History Month celebrated right here on this show.

Every single week is Shark Week. Every single day is Earth Day. But on Mondays, Mondays are special. We go to the mailbag. Kevin, let's go to the mailbag. All right. Always something interesting in my mailbox. I try to get to everything in my mailbox.

And then once in a while, there's a letter that makes me go out. All right. What do we got in the mailbox today, Kevin? First up, flea ball, at what point do we stop checking on our exes, Walker, Jock, Newman? I still check on Patrick Corbyn. That's a problem. Yes, that is hilarious. And you know what?

I don't know. Is there ever a time where it's okay to stop checking in on your exes? I guess when you start having success in life yourself, right? When big things start happening for you, you don't need to go check that social media page to see if they change their status on relationships. you don't even need to friend them anymore. That relationship is dead. It's over. We need to move on, right?

Especially when your ex goes 0 for 41, right? Especially when your ex still has a bad oblique. And most importantly, especially when your ex isn't the infield utility guy that he was for you. I don't know what happens to players when they leave this team, quite frankly. But it does satisfy me to know and to know that they went somewhere else and aren't producing. an extremely high level where you regret losing them, right? In fact, I actually would hope for Jock Peterson and Christian Walker to be having a much better season than they are having unless they're playing the Diamondbacks.

But I love those guys. I think they were great guys. They were great guys to be around and to cover. And I think that, again, you kind of hope the best for them. But you also don't really want them doing better than what you're doing, right? You don't really want, you know, them to have a higher batting average than Pavin Smith and Josh Naylor combined, right? we don't want that.

So yeah, I guess, I don't know. I think when we have some sort of firm grip on a wildcard position or perhaps even a divisional lead, maybe we can stop spying on them. But until then, just keep an eye on, keep an eye on what Patrick Corbyn's doing every single day. What else we got there, Kev? Next up. JJ wants to know. CWalk plays for another team now.

Who is stepping up to be our new Dodger killer? Oh, that's a tremendously good question. and one, I probably should have researched much better than this, but I will say I have a feeling that the guy that's going to take over that mantle is the same guy who has frog blood, right? And fibious qualities and tendencies, right? Because it takes frog blood to go into Dodger Stadium and turn it into Christian Walker Stadium, right?

So that's definitely something that I would put on, on, you know, Geraldo to do. But I don't know. I mean, again, there's several guys on this team that wouldn't be surprised. They became that guy. I'll say one guy that wouldn't surprise me at all is Josh Naylor, the guy who takes over for Christian Walker over there at first base. He very much could be that guy that could be the new Christian Walker for this team.

I think it is kind of sad that we don't have that, though, and I'm going to very much miss Walker coming over here and absolutely abuse. the Dodgers. But so far in his career, Pranomo, not bad. That's what I was looking up. 255, 319, 353 with a 672 OPS, but still not great. And maybe with the new version of Frogdomo that we've seen this transition into this amphibious phase of his career, maybe we will definitely see him pick those numbers up.

What else we got, Kevin? Next up in the mailbag, Nate Cleveland. with all the injuries over the last couple of years, is it fair to start questioning our medical department? Or start questioning usage of players with inconsistent play or roles? You know, I don't know. See, that's the problem here

is this kind of gets into dangerous territory when you start talking about. Are they used too much or are they used too little? Danger zone. Where are we at, right? Like, again, this feels like where blame wants to be placed on somebody, but can we ever just blame the human body? Can we just ever blame the player?

And it's not even the Blair's fault. But I do understand what people are saying here, right? When the Diamondbacks have the pile of pitching injuries that they currently have, but they brought in a pitching coach who specializes or focuses on biomechanics and how players can actually change the way they're doing things in order to prevent injuries, I don't really know what the answer here is, right? Like you look across baseball, I think sometimes because we're so hyper-focused on the Diamondbacks, we feel like there are more injuries to this team than there are other teams in baseball.

But this is kind of a problem across baseball. And some good players are being lost. There was, I mean, think back about the first two weeks of the season, the first three weeks of the season, and how many players were suddenly lost for the year. Think about how many losses the Yankees have had. So while it's a fair question, I just don't know if you necessarily blame. the medical staff. This kind of comes back to the Merrill Kelly thing. How do how how how does the medical staff not figure out some sort of combination of of I don't know fluids or or you know other

things like vitamins or you know just straight up remedies to fix Merrill Kelly and his cramping right and again you can't always blame them for not trying to do so you can't always think that they're not trying to do something but again injuries kind of happen. and sometimes you just can't do much about them, right? And again, I do think it's fair to question it, but I also think that, like, because we're Diamondbacks fans, we're going to notice this pile of injuries more than we're going to notice the fact that it's just happening around baseball, you know, so let's see.

And Tanner says it's not for hydration, it's from vascular problems. Yeah, in regards to Cattell Marte. So listen to Tanner. Tanner knows what he's talking about. Just stop texting us to tell us to tell the Diamondbacks. to give him a banana because that's not going to be what fixes him for now. What else we got, Kevin? We do have a super chat from the Colmcy Clearly who says,

Kevin is my new boyfriend behind the scenes. Or BF, you know what I mean? BF. It could be best friends. It could be best friends. But, you know, that's why I corrected myself. I was being a sumptuous and that's on me. Yeah, because he has a sweet baby daddy and Noah's.

So there's no way. Yeah, I don't know what's going on with that. Pick him off. All right. What else we got in the bag? Next up in the mail bag. We got, that's me, that's me back in Scotland after following the snakes around for 10 days. I got four, I got the four games, all wins, Braves, Mets, Mets, Phillies.

We lost the five I missed. Am I to blame for the losses or responsible for the wins? Wow. This is a philosophical question. So he went to four games, came here for 10 days from Scotland, which hope you had a great time. So he got to four games, they won all four. I think that we need to move him state side, quite frankly.

I think he needs to be a season ticket holder and I think he needs to travel with the team. I'd put him on the team plane. I would, I don't know what job I would give you. I don't know what you're good at. Maybe medical staff, because some people are questioning that we might need someone there.

Do you have your degree perhaps in medicine? I don't know, we could talk. But Ryan was right. Someone buy this guy's season tickets and plane tickets. Let's call it a day. This is absolutely something that needs to be done. I do blame you for the losses.

You were here for 10 days, and you didn't go to every single Diamondbacks game in those 10 days, what you had other stuff to see and do besides baseball? Are you even a real fan? I don't know, but I kid it. Great job on at least bringing the team those four wins. I would say based on the way they've been playing and what they've been going through,

I'm going to credit you for being their good luck charm and not the opposite way around. Ryan H says you're hired as Vib's manager. So I think Vibs Manager is a really good. That's a really good job for you. And I think we can get you a corner office, maybe a cube. It might not be nice, but hey, we'll get you to as many games as we humanly can. So we got some more stuff to talk about in the mailbag.

But first, of course, I want to gloat about how excited I am that we here at All City are working with big brothers, big sisters. Of course, in my past, I have done a lot of work with youth through other organizations. I've done mentorship programs. And at times, besides being a dad, I feel like it's one of the best things I've ever done with my life. We are very excited to be included along with all of All-City and teaming up with Big Brothers, Big Sisters of America for an exciting three-year partnership. And of course, this one isn't just about sports. This is about our community. This is about impacting lives.

And I think that it's something that not just us here at PHNX can do, not just us at AllCity can do. but each and every one of you can get involved with. And again, I know at times, maybe we're all feeling a little bit like Yelena from Thunderbolts. I'm not going to spoil anything. I'm just saying, sometimes you feel like you need a purpose and don't have one. Sometimes you feel like the day-to-day grind is a little empty. And I'll tell you, there's nothing more fulfilling at times than the impact you can have on a young person's life. Of course, we are excited to support youth mentorship that really makes a difference.

and you can learn more about how to get involved at BBBS.org slash all city. So, of course, make sure to join us over here if you can. And of course, we are just very excited to also be inspiring youth through the power of sports. And like, again, I know even what we do here at PH&X can be something that can be very, very inspiring to young people. So we're just, we're excited to be involved in this in any way at all. So what else we got? Let's get back to the mailbag. I'm sappy enough.

I can't cry on this new merch, so let's get moving. What else we got? Ragnar Terté Maniac wants to know, what is the most appropriate way to punish a man who constantly attempts to jinx the team by asking, what's the worst that can happen? This is about Burt, isn't it? This is a Burt thing?

Yeah. Like, Tarr and feathering at this point seems like an appropriate old school punishment for that. Like, you're not going to kill. me, I know, like, they used to use really hot tar and used to, like, kill the person, I believe. I'm not asking to go that far. Maybe just some sticky substances and some of some fluff from Baxter, you know, just some of his fur that gets caught in the couch is at Chase Field and stuff. Just throw him with that.

I don't know. Remember what we say on Twitter and what the guys say in the booth have no actual impact on the baseball game. I do know that it feels like it, though. more importantly, I think Bert just purposefully does it to bother us. And I don't think that's ever going to stop. So I think that we, that we're just stuck. We're stuck in this spiral. But I think Bert does a great job.

I love them. I think, of course, yeah, I know. You guys are all calling me a liar because you think everything that we do actually impacts baseball games. I wish that was the case because I would write every single headline as a loss and the Diamondbacks would go 162 and O. What else we got, Kevin? Next up, we got Michael Rokickey, who wants to know, could 100 Kevin Gingles take down one gorilla?

I don't, why? What, I'm too old for this, Kevin? What are these questions? What is this? This is a viral thing, right? Yeah, this is a question that went viral. This is a question that went viral on Twitter. Someone just tweeted, hey, can 100 people beat one gorilla?

Like, who you got? And it just completely took off. But it's 100 Kevin Gingles. right so obviously one of them is the original kevin ginkle and we're talking about 99 genetically engineered clones so you mean to tell me that a genetically engineered clone of kevin ginkle along with the 98 of his friends being led by the o g the o tc right um you mean to tell me they can't take down a single gorilla has that gorilla ever watched kevin ginkle come off the mound after striking out three dudes Like, does that level, does that gorilla have that level of energy?

Is that a gorilla ready for that level of a fight? Look, I'm not saying a lot of Kevin Ginkles aren't going to get killed in this scenario. There's going to be some losses, right? But as long as we protect the original, we can keep carbon copying. We can keep printing him, right? So we just keep him in the back directing the others. And, yeah, we might have a little bit of a multiplicity issue where the more copies you make, the dumber they get.

But again, you send those guys out. first and then you get the smart ones behind him, that gorilla is going to only tear off so many arms before he's going to get tired. You also don't need smart ones. You just need gone. You actually need dumb ones because you need the ones. You just need strong ones. Yeah, because there's going to be at least three or four clones that are like,

they start asking like, what's the purpose of this? Why am I, why would I serve this? Was I created just to fight this gorilla? Yeah, was I created to fight a gorilla? This is insane. And then they have an existential crisis and then things fall apart. We got another gorilla-related question. The answer is yes.

100 kinkles could definitely take a gorilla. If you've got to pick one player on the team to fight 100 gorillas and win to guarantee the debacks of World Series, who are you picking? And this is from Corbyn Carol Enthusiast, parenthetically adding the purple version. The purple version, yeah. The answer is Josh Naylor. Josh Naylor with a helmet. Have you seen the damage he's done without one? You give Josh Naylor two baseball bats and a helmet, and he is going to kick all 100-Gyler.

Gorilla's asses, every single one of them. Can I be honest with you? Yeah. Safe space. Either Mike Hazen or Shelby Miller. Oh my God. If he can come back from what he came back from to actually win the debacks that trade, he can come back from being down 100 and nothing against a gorilla.

I just had this whole daredevil-esque fantasy of Mike Hazen. Like in Rambo gear? Like in Rambo gear? Yeah. We just just tat it up. just whip in a bunch of guerrillas asses with some sort of, you know, like nunchucks or something.

That's a wild answer, but I actually would rank him above a lot of players. He has that killer instinct. He goes for the juggler for other teams and transactions, so I wouldn't be surprised if you wouldn't hesitate to kill 100 gorillas. All right, what else we got?

Yoshi wants to know, do you guys ever think about how the 2023 Snakes Alive sign is the perfect example of everything that's wrong with the concept of AI art. No, that thing is perfect. What are you talking about? What the Snakes Alive sign proves that the simplicity of anything,

as long as it's solid enough at its core ideal, it will resonate with people. It will impact an entire nation of Diamondbacks bands and Damon backspans as well. But yeah, no, I mean, I don't know. I think that what's a lot of, hilarious about it is, is, is, is that the Snake's Alive guy really deserves a lot more credit than he gets for that whole Snake's Alive thing. And again, it just goes to show. One little

simple printed two-word phrase on a, on a sign somehow became the rallying call of this team that made an incredible, incredible postseason run all the way up to the World Series. So I, I don't know. I mean, I'm, I'm more bothered by the appealing AI art. I'm, I'm, I'm, I'm mad that AI got us all to be like, oh, oh, I can make little cartoon versions of myself that's perfectly drawn. Like, spirited away. Yeah, I want that. I want that in my life. That's, that bothers me more.

All right, what else we got? Next up. This is a tough one. Rank the following ice cream flavors. What? What? Chalklet Chip, Rocky Road, cookie dough, Neapolitan, butter, pecan, cookie and cream, chocolate, and vanilla. We had stuff to do, Zabe.

we had stuff to do. And here's Zabe bringing our entire workday to a halt. Do I get the rest of the office involved with this? Oh yeah. You want me to go get someone? That's crazy. What are we even doing here?

I need more prep time for this. Put that list back up there. All right. So, okay, we're going to rank them. Are we going to start at one? Are we going to rank at the bottom? Let's start at one. Okay.

Goat. Goat from this list is already at the top. It's mint chocolate chip. No, no, no, no. It's mint chocolate chip. No, no, no. I'm not a big mint guy. Okay, well, if you're not a mint guy, I mean, mint is, a cookie dough would also be up there.

I might have cookie dough one. Cookies and cream would also be up there. I'm going to go any three of those at any particular time. But, all right, I will give you because of it's, I guess if we're going, not in my personal order, but I think is. Yeah, like a consensus one? Yeah, no, this is, this is, this is probably cookies and cream. cookie dough mint chocolate chip. Then I'm going to have to get Neapolitan in there.

Then vanilla over Rocky Road? Chocolate. I honestly, you got to give vanilla the nod because it's the classic. Vanilla is so, so good. I mean, yeah. A really good vanilla? Like an actual quality vanilla? You don't even need toppings in it.

You don't. But you have the fact that you can just go ahead and add whatever the hell you want to it. I can buy vanilla for the group and everybody. can be happy. You can't say that about Neapolitan because some jerk's going to take all the vanilla and then what? I have to get chocolate now? I'm left with chocolate? No.

I'm not doing that. Butter pecan is so is so last it couldn't be more last. I rated a distant like it's not even on this list as far as I'm concerned. I've recruited Noah for his thoughts

on the top three on this list. Let's get your top three. Ranking. We have Sons producer Noah, graphics extraordinaire, Mishigander. BCSC is going to be thrilled you're here. Oh yeah, we do have BCS in the chat. Yeah, I need three. Let's do cookie dough one, Neapolitan, two, butter pecan three. Get the hell out of here, Noah.

Get out of here and don't ever come back on this show ever again, ever again. Butter becon three. What? That's outrageous. That is outrageous. Get out of here. The worst part about that is he was clearly like rushing towards the bathroom. And I like urgently waived him in here as if I needed help with something.

Something was very important. And I kind of just set him up for failure. But I do think Noah is a troll. He might have been trolling chat. He might have been trolling here. All right. Yeah. What that's again, this needs to be an additional content thing.

We're going to have to go and bring in the entire group to get in on this. So we'll do our best. But yeah, Noah, exactly. Nelson's right. is just causing rage bait. That's exactly what he's doing. And we don't do that around here. We have a good time on this show.

I turned on the cactus light. I'm not doing it right now because you guys want that. Groundhog Mama says butter and macawmin, mint chocolate chip from my top. Cookies and cream and vanilla at the bottom. Get out. Vanilla at the bottom. Get out.

Cookies and cream and vanilla. We got to move on. We're going to lose our minds. This is upsetting. Mark wants to know you can go back in time and have one former player, have modern day social media. Who would you want?

want to see on there, i.e. Babe Ruth on Instagram for him doing the 999 challenge as a warm up. Is it wrong that I would want like Pete Rose giving bedding tips on there? This is Pity's Pallet. Pity Pardet goes crazy. Goes crazy. You see, we are not going to score enough runs today because I am going to walk every at that. No, no. I don't know. There was some really funny people back in the day that I can think of. There was a guy one time named George Faddy Hackett.

He was known as the world's largest baseball player. I need to hear from him. And then, of course, there's just, like, the old-timey players. Like, I would love to hear, yeah, like they said, like, Babe Ruth. Like, Babe Ruth, what his tweets would actually be about. You know what I mean? Like, there wasn't enough bourbon and cigars and the lobby. in the lobby of the hotel today,

you know, that kind of stuff. I don't know. But yeah, people said Wade Boggs. Wade Boggs would be great. Wade Boggs and the 76 beers? Yes, that would be something electric. Yes. I don't know.

I wish Zach Granky would have had a Twitter account and actually been the person he is in real life on the Twitter account. Would he have used it, though? Isn't he kind of like? That's what I'm saying. Yeah, like it's not like he wasn't around in a time where social media was prevalent. This isn't like an old-timey player. So this is a little bit different, but this is just more of like a,

I would have loved to hear him air the thoughts that he has on Twitter in that same exact way. Randy Johnson also just being allowed to go off. That's another Diamondback, but I would have loved to see what his Twitter account was. He would have posted a bunch of photos that were really well taken that would have confused us all the time. maybe Randy would have been better equipped for an Instagram back in the day. He did say he didn't take pictures during the season. The Instagram post after he unfortunately struck that bird would have gone so hard. It would have taken the most beautiful picture of that you've ever seen in your life.

It would have been the most beautiful thing you've ever seen. Sorry, Peter. Yeah, we're still talking about one beers, two beers, three beers, four beers. We're talking about Wade Boggs on that flight. Yes, live tweeting that flight where he drank 76 beers, that would definitely be electric. Stephen Bananas wants to know how many beers I could put away on a flight. I've never legally tested my limits on that

because I don't like to get thrown off of planes. Yeah, is this like a realistic hypothetical or is this like a literally you're just given a 100 beers to chew through and you have the whole flight and like how many? Isn't that hypothetical though? How many do you think you could get through? Like an hour and a half flight?

An hour and a half flight? Yeah. 12? I'm not going crazy. Like an hour and a half flight. Like the problem is is that beer is very filling to me. And you also have limited use of the restroom. So there's that factor to factor in.

No, but again, in this hypothetical, you're pretty much flying private. It's pretty much just you in the bathroom and some beers. Yeah. Elizabeth says so you've done it illegally. You know what? I don't like these questions. I don't like the direction that these questions are going. And excuse me, Officer Zabe, but I believe unless you are arresting me, I don't have

anything else to say here. But I do appreciate you guys so much. Ryan says those are rookie numbers. Yeah, I'm telling you. I'm trying to be realistic here. What do you want me to say? Oh, I could drink 40 in an hour and a half. That's on a plane. I can't even drink 12 beers probably standing here in an hour and a half, but I'll try it. I'll go for it. I do appreciate you guys. Even those of you that want to always talk about NOAA, BCSC says NOAA is an ice cream flavor. Butter becan. That's what he is. I think he would be butter be bacon. He's an acquired taste, for sure. Acquired taste, kind of nutty, but he's sweet.

Very nutty. But he's sweet. Aw, yeah. He actually is butter for con. He is. You nailed it. You nailed it. Well, I appreciate you guys so much for stopping by.

Of course, the Diamondbacks go on to take on the Mets tonight. So make sure to check that out. Of course, we will be back tomorrow with a post game show. And I believe our guy, Jesse Friedman, is going to join us on that one. So excited for that. Until then, I hope you guys have a wonderful evening. Make sure follow us on Twitter. I'm at cap underscore Kman with K.

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that we did in New York. And until tomorrow night, again, behave yourselves. Have a wonderful evening. And remember, kids, baseball is fun, but it's so much more fun when you rank butter pecan at the bottom of your ice cream flavor list.