PHNX Arizona Diamondbacks Podcast - Drey Jameson debuts and gets the Arizona Diamondbacks’ only win in series loss to the Padres

Starting point is 00:00:05 Let's go Cardinals. Wait, it's the wrong show. I'm not supposed to do that here. Anyway, thank you guys so much for joining us. Those few of you that are here, we understand why the rest of you aren't here, but we thank you guys so much for being here. Of course, this is the PHNX Debaks podcast right here on PHNX.

Starting point is 00:00:28 My name is Derek Montia. Of course, I am your mayor of Bird City. This guy next to me, it's Thunderstick Jesse Friedman, aka the vice mayor of Bird City. And we are here to talk a little Diamondbacks baseball, I suppose. Of course, this show's brought to you by the fine folks at the Draft King Sportsbook app. Download the Draft King's

Starting point is 00:00:46 Sportsbook app and use our code of PHNX. You'll get yourself lots of goodies. It's America's top rated sportsbook app. Jesse, I'm excited, but that's a different game. It's a different sport. I understand things are under review, so I might be made very sad here while we're doing this. I promise to do this show in this jersey if we

Starting point is 00:01:04 tied it up. So this is where we're at. But Diamondbacks didn't have this kind of luck that the Cardinals had here at the end of their game in their series with the Padres. It did start off with a very nice win and a debut by Dre Jameson. Unfortunately, the Diamondbacks offense kind of disappeared in the series following that game and lose it three games to one. Ryan Nelson had his scoreless streak ended almost immediately in his start today against the Padres.

Starting point is 00:01:32 But still an impressive start, an impressive debut by two of the Diamondbacks youngest pitchers, who we are very excited about as far as their futures are concerned. Well, first of all, that's the last about football that I want to hear on this show there. I mean, come on now. I said we'd talk about football. I mean, I just, I'm just trying to get them in here, Jesse. It's hard to get people in here. And I understand there's a lot of fun football going on, especially for the Arizona Cardinals.

Starting point is 00:01:58 But maybe if some of those Cardinals players or fans want to join us while they're waiting for JV and Bobrack to get started, You guys, we'd love to have you here. But let's talk Dray Jameson because obviously he was very impressive in his debut, something we are very, very excited about. Yeah, Drey Jameson was outstanding on Thursday. And I know we talked about it briefly in our show on Friday when we had Jake McCarthy on, which was fantastic, by the way. If you haven't gone back and listened to or watched our interview with Jake McCarthy,

Starting point is 00:02:31 go back and do that. He was outstanding. We had a lot of fun with him. It was so good. It was incredible. But yeah, we talked a little bit about Dre's outing then. But ultimately, Derek, that wound up being the highlight of the series. I mean, nothing else.

Starting point is 00:02:45 I hate to say it, but nothing else good really happened over the weekend for the Arizona Diamondbacks. They did not get a hit with runners in scoring position for the rest of the weekend after that Thursday game. So the offense has gone silent. The Diamondbacks scored 13 runs altogether over the course of a seven game homestand. And you're going to have a hard time winning many games, scoring that few runs over seven games. So pretty rough altogether, you know, dropping five out of the seven here with L.A. and San Diego.

Starting point is 00:03:16 And now they get to go on the road, Derek, and play the Dodgers five times in four days. So that doesn't sound great. I don't know what does right now. Oh, man. I'm not happy about that. But let's take a look at the numbers in this series because, like you said, not a lot of good here. relief pitching for the Diamondbacks bad starting pitching outside outside of dray jameson's start not very good and the batting average with runners in scoring position

Starting point is 00:03:45 particularly atrocious it was all yeah it was all just bad after the thursday game um and the thursday game was great so like i don't want to take anything away from that because i was i think one of the most fun days at the ballpark that a lot of people have had in in maybe quite some time but yeah i mean the rest of the the rest of the weekend you know it was madison bumgreens Garner on Friday, which it did not look good for him, which has unfortunately been sort of a trend. He now has an ERA of like eight over his last nine starts. He didn't really give the Diamondbacks a shot to win that game. And the bullpen certainly didn't help anything either when they took over later toward the end of that one. But yesterday was Zach Gallon on the mound.

Starting point is 00:04:28 Gallen just wasn't sharp, which is still sort of impressive that on a day where he wasn't sharp, he still managed to go five and a third innings and give up two runs. I think that's just sort of indicative of how good he is right now, that that's his worst outing at this point is an outing that still very much kept his team in the game. And then today with Ryan Nelson on the bump in the series finale, unfortunately, as you said earlier, that scoreless streak that we've been tracking for a couple of starts now ended very quickly. He got the first out of the game and then Mani Machado ended it with a two run homer shortly after that. Ryan Nelson just wasn't particularly sharp in this one either.

Starting point is 00:05:06 He had four walks. It seemed like command was really all over the place for him and this one, and he never really quite settled in. I feel like Juan Soto made me eat my words from our little throw-in-shade segment. Yeah. Thursday quite a bit in that series. He finally woke up, much to the Diamondback chagrin. Like you said, Ryan Nelson, he still had that 13-inning scoreless streak to start this season,

Starting point is 00:05:30 or start his career, his major league career. So that's really impressive man. And I mean, you can't take anything away from him. Plus, in those, you know, his three starts so far this season have been against the Padres, the Dodgers, and the Padres. It's not. Yeah. Not to mention the fact that the Padres have seen him before, right? Now they have a chance to actually have some tape of their own on him.

Starting point is 00:05:53 They have some experience against him. You know, it was a little bit easier for them to figure Ryan Nelson out the second time around. But still, not as bad for me as Madison Bumgar. We've talked about Bum Gardner in his struggles. We've talked about how good he was early on in the season. Jesse posted a tweet from our account that kind of broke it down, I think, in how bad he has been as of late. And of course, he used Dallas Kichol to compare him against. Dallas Kikell eight starts before being DFAed by the Chicago White Sox. He had a 7.880RA, a 2.16 whip, 3.40 opponent batting average, 5.6 strike. out for nine. Madison Bumgardner's last nine starts for the debacks look something like that. 7.82 ERA, 1.80 whip, 3.44 opponent batting average and 5.4 strikeouts per nine. So almost the same ERA, a worse opponent batting average and less strikeouts per nine before Kichol, who was a very good pitcher himself at one point in his career, was let go by a franchise that honestly committed to him.

Starting point is 00:07:03 and wanted him to be a long-term part of their plan, but no longer could really afford his starts, you know, could no longer afford his bad performances. I would say the Diamondbacks are in a similar position. We know that they're probably not in a position, considering they're a team that, you know, $37 million is nearly half of their budget for an entire season. So I'm doubtful that they'll want to eat that

Starting point is 00:07:27 and just part ways with Madison Bumgarner, but it does feel like there comes a time where you do have to make a difficult situation, even if you owe MadBum a lot of money, even if he's supposed to be something he isn't, you know, it feels like the situation isn't rectifying itself. No, it's not.

Starting point is 00:07:46 And unfortunately, there's a key difference between Dallas Kikell's situation in Chicago and Madison Bumgarner's situation with the Diamondbacks and that Dallas Kichol was in the final year of his contract, right? The White Sox ate roughly 12, 13 million, something in that range by DFAing him earlier this season. If the Diamondbacks were to DFA Madison Bumgarner, which of course is what everyone wants them to do at this point,

Starting point is 00:08:09 you're talking about eating about $40 million. So like more than three times what the White Sox ate when they DFAed Dallas Kichel. So I don't think that's really an option for them at this point or honestly, like even if it's something that maybe I would do or something that I'm sure many of our audience members would probably do, it's not something the Diamondbacks will do. I can just tell you that definitively right now.

Starting point is 00:08:32 They're going to have Madison Bumgarner come back next season and give it another go probably as a starter. If that doesn't work, then maybe you try him in the bullpen if he's willing to make that adjustment. There's still a few more steps here before the Diamondbacks get to anywhere close to that point. And that's a big variable if he's willing to accept it. Madison Bumgarner is a person who, I mean, on one hand, in speaking to him like we had, you and I have both seen him be very humble at times. We've seen him very much talk about how little he wants to impact this team negatively,

Starting point is 00:09:05 how much he hates it. Like he's a competitor deep down inside and that guy does not want to be the reason why his team continues to lose. I don't know if I think a lot of people think he wouldn't have the kind of ego that would accept going to the bullpen, but I think he would. I think he would. It's just a matter of if it would be effective. And then it would be also a matter.

Starting point is 00:09:27 of if his mood, you know, would impact himself. Because I feel like that's the biggest problem there. It's not like his, that he would be like demonstrative or like a bad teammate because they move him to the teammate or to the bullpen. I feel like they would like he would hate himself. And he'd be very, it would be like a downward spiral because then he would continue to like have self doubt and not have that confidence and be in the bullpen and maybe still not be effective out there.

Starting point is 00:09:53 So I don't know. I'm very much with you though that this team probably is not willing. to eat that money or even make that move to the bullpen. Maybe if maybe, I don't know. I would say, I'd say maybe they wouldn't make that move, but they also move fucking Cotel Marte to center field, and which was one of the biggest disasters in this team's short history of moving guys from one position to another.

Starting point is 00:10:16 Now Cotel Marte has been back, and he's been honestly better than ever over his last few, last couple of weeks it feels like, or at least his best that he's been all season. Jake McCarthy also has been very good, by the way, Jesse. Jake, our friend, friend of the show, Jake McCarthy, he's batting 370 and has a double, a triple two home runs, 10 RBI, and six stolen bases in his last 14 games. So McCarthy has been incredible, and we're giving him the draft king's king of the series

Starting point is 00:10:46 simply for appearing on the show. One, the eight back debacks appearance, 333 batting average in this series. Now, that's not right. Let's do the right thing. we're going to give it to Catele Marte. Cichel Marte, the real king of the series. Hard not to give it to him. He had the 400 batting average.

Starting point is 00:11:03 He had the home run, two runs, two RBI. He just, he looks like his old self. It's fun to see him out there offensively contributing like he has. Unfortunately, he has zero appearances on this podcast. So that was, you know, almost a deciding factor there. But since we're talking about it, we do want to thank Jake again for coming on our show. because honestly, we love this team. We love these young guys,

Starting point is 00:11:27 but it was an absolute blast having Jake on and just chatting with him about this team. I felt like he made me even more enthusiastic about this outfield and this team's future than we already were, which I don't know how that's possible. I felt like I was at peak excitement level, Jesse, and I just passed right through that with talking to Jake.

Starting point is 00:11:45 But very exciting times. Kutel has looked better, and the diamondbacks really, really need him. you know, to live up to this extension that they've given him now, right? I mean, if Cateau was already showing like significant signs of, of, you know, his age, which is still not that high. I mean, it's like he's, you know, 34 years old or anything. But, you know, if he was already starting to see his performance regress at this point,

Starting point is 00:12:12 you'd start to get pretty concerned pretty quickly, whereas he has looked a little bit better over, albeit a very short stint. I still need to see more. he's doing a lot of this against left-handed pitching, which has always been his bread and butter. At some point, he's going to have to figure out how to get his rhythm back against righties as well. But yeah,

Starting point is 00:12:31 this is a step in the right direction for Catell. And even if he's kind of limping his way around the bases and not playing the best second base of his life, the debacks just need him to be like a guy that you can have in the middle of the lineup every day and count on to some degree offensively. And I think he's done that well lately. I agree. I agree. And again, shout out to all of our Draft Kings, King of the series. Of course,

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Starting point is 00:13:28 So I'm shaming you for that. So never mind. I take back all the good feeling you should have. You're going to sound so silly, Derek, to all of the audio-only listeners tomorrow who listen to this show. And, you know, the car goes go. Yeah, no the outcome of the game. And I'm not going to speculate on what's going to happen. I feel like you're already fucking speculating on what's going to.

Starting point is 00:13:49 going to. Oh, I, I think you've already made it perfectly clear what you feel like is going to happen in this game. And I don't like it one bit. I don't like it one bit. We've got enough negativity around here this weekend. Herm Edwards out as ASU coach after that drumming that they had against, as as Sean DePaz called it, I think six dudes, an insurance salesman. And I believe it was a sandwich maker. I don't know. He gave everybody like that. Yeah. because they were so pedestrian. But of course, maybe the Cardinals can bring us some good field. Are you betting on Cliff Kingsbury in an overtime late game situation? Like I have to let my Cardinals fan them out right now, Derek, because it's a bit of a hard sell. I'm not going to lie.

Starting point is 00:14:35 It's a bit of a hard sell. You just keep pissing me off. So, God, you're making my little bit more right now. Look, I want them to win. I feel like you're bringing negative attention. They have the ball, right? Do they have the ball? I don't know who has the ball. I can't follow this game because I have to do this podcast. I have other things to do, and I'm so upset right now. But anyway, you don't be upset like me.

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Starting point is 00:16:05 We got it in the comments. We got it everywhere. So if you're looking to get down with game time, make sure to do so using our link. Jesse, but I was telling people, This is one of the last baseball Sundays. I get it. It's football Sunday.

Starting point is 00:16:18 I know. To the 10 of you that are here with us live, let me tell you, beat Jesse's over under. We love you. We appreciate Jesse's up to go over under at live viewers at 7. So we thank you guys for being here. Of course, we know there's not a lot of baseball Sundays left. Football Sunday is king right now. But here's the thing is we are blessed to live in Arizona.

Starting point is 00:16:37 We've called it baseball Nirvana. And right on the horizon, we have the Arizona Fall League, which is almost here. Arizona Fall League released their schedules and the teams, the players that are going to be on all of the teams. Scottsdale Scorpion, Salt River Rafters, all of those teams. Peoria, Havilina, all the teams are out there and you can check out the rosters. Most importantly, the DeBacks players from their minor league system and their major league system have been added to the Salt River Rafters, including a friend of the podcast, Cooper Hummel, which a lot of people have pointed out as being part of Salt River Rafters. I'll give you some little inside baseball.

Starting point is 00:17:14 I actually didn't really remember that like major league players that were on the 40-man roster could still be part of the Arizona Fall League. But I think the idea here is that Coop needs to get some more time behind the plate. It seems like they're very dedicated to making him a backup catcher and maybe just giving him some more looks in actual game capacity to see if he is their catcher of the future or at least like a backup catcher of the future. Yeah, it's probably more of a backup catcher audition than anything else at this point. I don't know if Cooper is necessarily to that level. Maybe it could be down the road in the future. But yeah, it sounds like the debacks are pretty much a full go on evaluating Cooper Hummel as a catcher moving forward.

Starting point is 00:18:00 So this is sort of an audition where, you know, if Cooper Hummel has a good showing in the fall league, maybe the Diamondbacks don't feel the need to go try to get a backup catcher for next season. and they just opened the year with Carson Kelly and Cooper Hummel as they have right now. I Amelary mentions in the comments, Loller and Delos Santos hype. We are all there all there with you for sure. Jordan Loller will be in the Arizona Fall League playing for the Salt River Rafters. And all of you should get out to as many Salt River Rafters games as you possibly can

Starting point is 00:18:33 in order to see what Jordan Loller can do. Davis and Dalo Santos is the youngest player in the Arizona Fall League. He just turned 19 within the last couple of months. This is a guy who's like six months older than Drew Jones and is already in the fall league and already in AA. So pretty impressive what DeLos Santos has done so far. The Amarillo season, the AA Amarillo season actually wraps this weekend. So both Lawler and DeLos Santos will, I guess today actually,

Starting point is 00:19:02 would be their last game as we record this here on Sunday, or if you're joining us live, it's just right now, I suppose. But yeah, so after today, neither of those guys will have any more minor league games, and they're just getting set for fall league games starting here in a couple of weeks. So it should be a lot of fun to watch. I believe, I shouldn't, I don't think I should be giving football updates, Jesse, but I believe the Cardinals just took over on downs in overtime. So it's impossible.

Starting point is 00:19:30 I don't believe it right now. This is exciting. You might believe it, but I don't believe it. No, no, I know. But fall league is just as exciting, right? I mean, here's it is. It's just as exciting as this NFL overtime game that Jesse's won't let me. Did they win?

Starting point is 00:19:45 I don't believe that. It's not happened yet. It has it? No way. But I'll tell you this much. That's the one thing that's really exciting about this is we talk a lot about these guys. I don't think we have even had a chance to see many of the top prospects like this out at Fall League. So seeing Jordan Looplo on the rafters is going to be an absolute joy for people to come out and watch.

Starting point is 00:20:06 You know, like we didn't get Corbyn Carol. I'm sorry. I'm sorry, Derek. I have to correct you. You just said Jordan Looplo on the salt river wrap. I did. I did. I'm going to do that a lot.

Starting point is 00:20:16 Jordan Lawler is going to be exciting to watch. Jordan Looplo better not show his face around the Arizona fall league. What, Leah, I don't, Leah, Leah says Cardinals won. I don't believe. Oh my God. All right. Well, we should just wrap this up, Jesse.

Starting point is 00:20:36 Let's go. I see play under review on my little ESPN app thing here. So I don't believe it. It's under review. It's in the hood. But yeah, I mean, we had a lot of fun last year.

Starting point is 00:20:51 And we actually might even be doing some shows potentially out from some of the Fall League games. But more importantly, we're going to be out there quite a bit. I think this is an awesome opportunity to see everything or to see these young guys up close that we don't get a chance to see often. And, Again, I don't want to say conga line of young talent, but we have this young talent, right, that we get to wait for.

Starting point is 00:21:14 And these are the next kind of guys that are going to come up and potentially impact this team, the way we see Alec Thomas and Corbyn Carroll and so many others impact this team this season. So it's so exciting. We can't stress enough. Not to mention it's a blast. Like, honestly, if you remember old school spring training, I think that's the best way I can describe Arizona Falle. Old school. What do you mean? What do you mean by old school? What does that mean? I say like spring training now tends to be more of an event. People go out and they're just there.

Starting point is 00:21:43 And it's no knock to the crowd. I get it. After winter, it's one of the best things that you can go out to do. Go out with your friends, hang out in the lawn, all of that kind of stuff. But like spring training games tend to be very packed. And they tend to be like, I'm not going to say casual fans, but there's a lot of casual fans out there. A lot of people who are at the baseball game but aren't really watching the baseball game. I feel like Arizona Fall League, the reason why it reminds me of like old school spring training is when I used to go to spring training as a kid, it wasn't packed. It was there. There was not a lot of people out there. And not only was there not a lot of people out there, but it really was your super like baseball fans, you know, like the super dedicated baseball fans. So like there was just something about Fall League that reminds me of a simpler time when I was a young man, Jesse.

Starting point is 00:22:30 how long ago is that Derek let's not talk about that I don't feel like that 1999 1991 is what I'm shooting for around then but you actually have written quite a bit about the fall league

Starting point is 00:22:48 over at go phnx.com so I wanted to get your thoughts on what people should really why people should be excited about it yeah I mean there's just so many reasons I probably just could have kept writing and writing and writing on this one. But yeah, I mean,

Starting point is 00:23:05 other than the fact that the Diamondback shortstop of the future, very likely and Jordan Lawler is going to be playing. I think that right there is reason enough. I mean, this is, you know, not Jordan Luplo. Yeah, I mean, this is like if Corbyn Carroll had been, you know, in the fall league last year or something, like something along those lines. I mean, everyone, of course, would want to go out and see that.

Starting point is 00:23:27 And then Delo Santos, like we mentioned, really, really interesting to see what he can do. He probably has more raw power than anyone else in the Diamondbacks farm system at this point. So I got a chance to see some impressive, impressive dingers from him over the course of the fall. Another thing that I think is interesting is that the fall league will be incorporating rules that are very similar to what Major League Baseball will have in place for 2023. We've talked about it a little bit.

Starting point is 00:23:54 You've got the pitch clock. You've got the bigger bases. You have the shift restrictions. Those are kind of the three big. things. And all of those will be in place in the Arizona Fall League. With the exception, for whatever reason,

Starting point is 00:24:06 they're not enforcing the limitation on how many stepoffs you can have as a pitcher. Apparently, that won't be part of the protocol in the Fall League, but all of the other changes will be in action. As well as another one, Derek, this one is interesting to me. They're not having robo-umps.

Starting point is 00:24:23 It's not robo-umps. Umpires, human umpires, will be calling balls and strikes for the Arizona Fall League. but they are still sort of using robo-umps. Basically, each team will have three challenges per game, and you can challenge. You have to do it pretty quickly. I think you do it by like tapping your head

Starting point is 00:24:41 or something ridiculous like that. I don't know exactly what the protocol is. But you indicate. At the same time. Yeah, right, at the same time. There you go. And then apparently when the umpire, you know, is aware that you would like to challenge a particular call,

Starting point is 00:24:57 then the umpire will consult the automatic. robot comes out. That's when the robot comes out. The robot fights the umpire? Yes, yes. They have an altercation and they, yes, they wrestle on the spot. Yes. No, basically what happened is the umpire consults the, uh, the robot and the robot tells

Starting point is 00:25:15 the umpire whether the umpire was right or not. And then the umpire either keeps the call or changes the call accordingly. And interestingly, if you challenge and are successful, you actually retain your challenge. So by saying you get three challenges, we really mean you can be incorrect three times. Other than that, it's sort of unlimited. You can challenge as many as you like throughout the game as far as I can tell. So if you're interested in seeing firsthand, you know, some of the rule changes that will be coming to baseball in 2023. And some of the wild things that could be coming to baseball in the future, the Fall League is the place to be.

Starting point is 00:25:51 You say wild. And then you say robot comes out and tells the hump, you know what you're doing to me. you know that none of that stuff's going to live up to my expectations. I want an R2 astromechroid to come out to the umpire. I want him to project like R2D2 did with Princess Leah's image, a small hologram of, I don't know, maybe an official from New York telling the umpire like, you're wrong.

Starting point is 00:26:18 Like that would be, that's what I want. But I know it's not going to be any of those things, right? It's just going to be a person with a camera. Eh, whatever. I am still excited, though. I'm still not going to let that douse my hope and my excitement for watching Arizona Fall League.

Starting point is 00:26:31 And of course, you should read Jesse's article on that. So that way you get ready yourself for Fall League. It's right around the corner. They got merch. They got stuff. It's awesome. It's incredible. If you haven't been out to a Fall League game, join us.

Starting point is 00:26:44 Larry said in the comments, if I see you two at any Fall League games that started out like a threat, I'd love to come to your hands. Larry, we're having drinks together. Of course, that's what we're doing. Chris says today is wild and easy. sports land. Yes, it is. And thank you for being here, Chris. I know you're just waiting for the Cardinal show to start, but still, we appreciate it. And of course, make sure to check out Jesse's writing. If you're not a member already, it's unlocked. Jesse gave it to you free.

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Starting point is 00:28:40 So, you know, it's my favorite place to be. And you guys should spruce up your home if you need to do so in time for football season by checking out our friend, more furniture's fall sale over at morefurniture.com. Let's take a look at All-City, Jesse, because ever since Tony Larusa stepped away from the White Sox, they're kind of running away with this division. And like I said, this was the most important division to me, and I don't think we're going to get it.

Starting point is 00:29:05 But at least we're not going to be last. White Sox 76 and 71, a full five games over 500. Do you know what I would do to be a full five games over 500, Jesse? Oh, my God. Diamondbacks, 68, 78, fart noises. But still not as bad as the Denver Rockies and the Cubs who the Rockies actually kind of beat up on the All-City. They went one and one against the White Sox and then went two and one against the Cubs. So they added to their division record quite a bit there just behind the Diamondbacks at 16 and 14 for the best divisional record.

Starting point is 00:29:38 But I don't think we're catching the White Sox, Jesse. I think that's okay. I think I'm okay with it. I think I've come to terms with it. But I am very glad. I don't think the White Sox are, I don't think the White Sox are catching the Mariners. or the raise or whoever it is in the playoffs either. Remember this is the mid-atlantic title,

Starting point is 00:29:56 the mid-mid title, the mid-basket, whatever you want to call it. But it's not great. It's not great. And like you alluded to earlier, things don't get better because the schedule ahead makes me want to run for the hills. The Diamondbacks go out on the road

Starting point is 00:30:11 for an unforgivable five-game series against the Los Angeles Dodgers. And I would fight the schedule man at this point, whoever created the schedule, I would fight him in a fistfight, Jesse, in traffic, embarrassing my family and other people that were near us over this schedule, because I'm very mad about this. By the way, if you see on this schedule, that giant series next weekend, we've told you about this, your last chance to see your Arizona Diamondbacks in the 2022 season.

Starting point is 00:30:40 So if there's a better time to use game time to get yourself some tickets, now is that time, grab yourself some tickets, and come watch this team, hopefully beat up on the Giants. We'd love to see them end the season strong. I don't know what there is left to play for at this point, Jesse, except for one thing. And that's win number 69, because I'm a child. And that's their next win. But I think that what we might end up seeing here is them finish maybe a little close to your preseason prediction there of 75 wins. It feels like that is very reasonable at this point with the number of games left on their schedule, how tough their schedule is.

Starting point is 00:31:18 and, you know, just what lies ahead. Yeah, yep. I think you might be right there, Derek. At one point, just like a couple weeks ago, we were looking at your 82 and 80. We were like, oh my gosh, like, this might actually happen. Derek, Derek is going to,

Starting point is 00:31:34 Derek is going to win this, this little mini competition we had at the beginning of the season. You know I would have been. Yes. Absolutely. You absolutely would have been. And I will be equally insufferable. If the Diamondbacks won,

Starting point is 00:31:48 went exactly 75 games. Yeah, that's going to be, that's going to be a, I will be, I mean, yeah, I, I guess I'm not really allowed to have a rooting interest in these games, but it would be very hard for me not to like root against the Diamondbacks, you know, if they're like 75 and 86 as of the last day of the season, you know, my ego might take over at that point and, uh, and just control me. But, uh, but, but yeah, it's, it's a rough go for them, uh, through the, through the rest of the, of the, of the season and some interesting things happening with the starting rotation right now. Obviously playing five games in four days poses some interesting challenges for your starting

Starting point is 00:32:27 rotation and trying to line everybody up. Tori Lavello told us the other day that there was a possibility still that the diamond backs would call up someone from the minor leagues in order to start a game on Tuesday. That is now no longer the case as the starters on Tuesday are just Dre Jameson and Zach Davies so they're not bringing up anyone to start either of those games but the debacks do have an extra roster spot because of the double header so they'll bring up somebody from the minor leagues and probably just to help out of the bullpen to give them some extra length if they need it but the debacks still haven't announced any starters after that Tuesday game as of right now yeah so we'll

Starting point is 00:33:06 see on monday davies and jamison on tuesday with no decision yet on who is going to pitch the earlier game versus the later game. And then, yeah, like you said, to be announced going forward. And I don't know. Maybe they can keep, maybe they can keep Madison Bumgardner out of this one. I don't know. There is, yeah, I will say. So Tori Lavello has said that, you know, the Diamondbacks will continue to give the ball

Starting point is 00:33:36 to Madison Bumgarner every fifth day. You know, we'll see whether that proves true or not. He certainly wasn't going to make any big announcements, you know, right after the game ended or anything like that. So we'll see. We'll see what happens with Madison Bum Garner, but I do still think it's possible that Mad Bum doesn't make every start the rest of the way. I think there's still at least a chance the Diamondbacks go a different direction,

Starting point is 00:34:00 or maybe they just decide to skip him this time around. Maybe that's the reason they haven't announced a starter for Wednesday yet. We'll have to see. Elizabeth in our comment says, please do not show the upcoming schedule. I did nothing to deserve this. I'm sorry, Elizabeth. I mean, the giants aren't that bad, right?

Starting point is 00:34:17 The giants aren't that bad. I don't know. Don't you think? I don't know. I don't know. Shout out to Isaiah Chavez for watching us and the Cardinals and anybody doing that. We appreciate you guys for doing that. You can open up two windows and put us on mute.

Starting point is 00:34:30 It's okay. It won't hurt our feelings. We're fine. We're big ones. We understand what's going on here. Cardinals starting one and one is so much more important than them starting 0 and 2. And it's so much more important right now than what the diamond bags have going on. The playoff chances drop Jesse.

Starting point is 00:34:43 I don't know if you saw this for a football team from, if you go one-in-one, it's like 42% chance making the playoffs to like 11% chance if you are 0-2. So very important for the Cardinals to get today's win. So we're excited about that. Go watch those guys over there because they are going to have a lot of fun, exciting things to talk about. Tell Frank, I miss him. Just me and I love drinking with Frank.

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Starting point is 00:36:14 A lot of sadness going on at ASU. So I'm sure edible purchases are an all-time high. And it's not because Herm's out. I think there might be celebration that herms out. It's because ASU lost in such a fashion. But ASU does, is going to have a new coach. And you can come out to four peaks this Saturday to celebrate that. Watch the team.

Starting point is 00:36:37 $50 get you an all you can eat buffet. Yes, all you can eat. I believe, Jesse, does that mean, All you can eat chicken tenders. All you can eat chicken tenders. That would be wild. Yeah. Not to admit, the regular amount of chicken tenders is almost too much for one man,

Starting point is 00:36:53 let alone an all you can eat. Oh, it is entirely way too much for one man. Here's the thing. That $50 gets you the all you can eat buffet. It gets you two four peaks beers and it gets you a free ride to the stadium. That's right. Free ride to the stadium. That's the only way to get there.

Starting point is 00:37:10 Click the link in our show notes to sign up. up must be 21 years or older and enjoy responsibly. And if you want to see a post game like no other, make sure to check out the PHNX Sun Devils show from after that game because those guys went off. And shout out to Sean DePaz, especially for finally losing his shit. It was very fun to watch. I'll tell you, you know, what we say around here is our shows might be more fun to watch

Starting point is 00:37:34 when we lose than they are to win because when we are sad, we go hard in the paint. Don't make me take out this baseball bat again. Don't make me remind you folks of how like more furniture has contacted me and said, don't, they're like, we're not giving you any chairs, basically, is me personally, because they've seen this show and they know what's going on. But we thank you guys so much. The 14, 15, 16 of you that showed up, your angels, your little baby angels. And we appreciate you and love you for being here.

Starting point is 00:38:02 We love that you love baseball so much. And we love that the Cardinals won. So great pick me up here at the end of the weekend after a bunch of losing occurred by the rest of our sports team. And so thank you, Kyle Murray. Thank you, Cardinals. Thank you guys for being here, of course. We will be back with a mailbag Monday episode on Monday.

Starting point is 00:38:18 But until then, you can follow us on Twitter. I am at cap underscore caveman with a K. Jesse is at Jesse and Friedman. Our show is at PHNX underscore D-Backs. But of course, all roads lead to at PHNX underscore Sports on Twitter, Instagram and Facebook. On behalf of Jesse and myself, we thank you guys again so much for stopping by, for muting us and watching us while you watch the Cardinals.

Starting point is 00:38:39 And again, we don't care. We appreciate it. We love you. And remember, kids, baseball is fun, but it's so much more fun when the Cardinals win in overtime. Let's go!

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