Talkin' Baseball (MLB Podcast) - 114 | Life Without Baseball

Episode Date: March 16, 2020

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Today is a day without baseball after several days without baseball, and it's been sad. Let's talk about it. Welcome back to talking baseball, everybody. My name is John Boy, and sitting next to me in a nice blue polo is Jake Storelli, and we are going to talk some baseball, or better yet, the lack of baseball. Jake, how you doing? It's a blue t-shirt. I don't want people to think I'm wearing a polo, like, collared shirt. Yeah, it's not a colored shirt.

It's just a regular old polo t-shirt. It looks nice, though. I like it. Heathered blue. Maybe. It's definitely a blue, and you might hear some different color blues coming up at some point. But weird time in the country. We're time.

The coronavirus has gotten to a new level this time last week. We're still making jokes about it. Now we'll make more tasteful jokes. about it. But yeah, I think everyone's got preemptive cabin fever, which I think that's an interesting thing. We haven't seen that ever. And yeah, I mean, again, there's going to be a day when sports, particularly baseball for this podcast, are back and strong. We don't know if that's six weeks, eight weeks, three months, but they'll be back. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yeah. People are going stir crazy.

Pre-stir-crazy. Told you earlier, yeah. It feels like the week between December and New Year's, Christmas and New Year's, where, like, you know, things are happening, but nothing really matters just at home, your parents, wherever. I think that's a really exciting week for people.

I don't love the comparison. I think this weekend was exciting for people. I think it was scary for a lot of people. Like a lot of people were going to the parks, just hanging out, playing board games at home, just live in life, no work. and then I think next week or when you keep going, they're going to be like, oh, my God.

And this is going to go forever. Like, yeah. I mean, we, we have some people on the inside world of baseball. And if you ask them about the two weeks or baseball in April, they kind of just laugh in your face. And we left last week thinking May, like, oh, May first would be good. And now that's becoming a lot of, a laffer as well.

May's not a laffer for me yet. I mean, you heard what we heard, right? Yeah, but that was just a player's opinion. That wasn't like inside sources or anything. That was just like... Oh, you didn't talk to... Oh. No.

It's deeper than that. Yeah? And it's July. Yeah. July and then no... Nobody knows anything, though. Yeah, I know. Nobody knows anything.

Yeah, it's... Like, it could be October. Like, at the same time, I'll say it still could be late May, end of May, mid-May. I, you know, who knows. We're dealing with a pandemic that we've never dealt with. It seems like I'm going to poo-poo the earlys and I'll poo-poo the late. Nobody fucking knows. I think that the best educated guess is that it's like look at where the All-Star break would be.

Sure. And hope that there's baseball at the opposite end of that, which is July 16th, July 17th. And then they play half a season from there. I think that's what we're looking at. That four months? from now? Yeah. Yeah, I mean, that seems big from what we, and again, like, it's everyone getting dumb,

educated guesses they found online. Like, you know, some of the stuff from China, we've heard that's coming back down, but I am nothing near a doctor or scientist. I have no idea. So we'll see. I mean, it's going to be bad. It's going to be tough, and you're going to hear a lot of craziness over the next few weeks and months. If you are like me in order to rather prepare for a lesser so that if it's good, you're happy.

Right. Prepare for mid-July. Because that's what we've heard. Yeah. That's what I've heard from places that May is like, no way. Yeah. And that it's not like when the season starts, there will be fans right away. There's going to be no period where they're playing without fans.

Yep. I fully agree with that. So it's crazy. I think that brings the timeline up a little bit. But yeah, we'll see. I don't know. I think everyone, A, everyone got scared. Like, we mentioned this last week, I think, how when everything started getting canceled,

everything, everybody started canceling without even a plan. Like, it was just a follow and cover your butts. And, I mean, it was the right thing to do. But then from there, I think, again, nobody knows. Like, it's canceled and it's shut down until it is. And we'll see who everyone loves saying flattening the curve and, you know, baseball. there's some good Colorado Rockies jokes to be made there. Shout out to my rocks.

But yeah, who knows? I mean, in three weeks, is there going to be good news? In three weeks, is it going to be as bad of news as we've ever seen in our lives? Nobody knows. It's getting scary. When they started reporting healthy 30-year-olds in, like, terrible condition. Yeah. So it started really changing.

Yeah, and there's, you know, there's rumors about people had flus that were potentially misdiagnosed or they were like it's a version of the flu but we don't know what it is and you're hearing all these horror stories and you wonder how much the internet can spread a horror story like that that you know used to be tons yeah used to be the you know just joe at the corner coffee store and in virginia told his buddies and now it's got 300,000 retweet so um i don't know it's going to be a while and you know i it's open a wild speculation i saw gerardi on the melb network who is like oh i i think we'll we'll be back sometime, and I'm expecting expanded rosters because the pitchers won't be stretched out, and I think we'll have to go.

And so, I mean, everyone's got their can of worms, and they're cracking it open and letting it fly. So I don't know if it's July. I don't know if it's May. I don't know if it's September, but it'll be back at some point, and we're going to be talking about it until then. Yeah, it's crazy how long it's going to be. It's crazy how many things they have to do, like, because at one point, people were like,

well, what if they just do a bunch of double headers? Like, well, the players union would have to sign off on that because there is a cap on how many doubleheaders they can have in a season. There's a cap on how many days they can have a game in a row without an off day. Yeah. And the players union is not going to just let these things slip away from them because if they do, then they'll never get them back. And they know that. Right. But they could sign them as a one-year like amnesty type.

Maybe. Yeah. I think they've done that before. Players still might not want to do it. I mean, well, and again, that's where we're opening cans of worms everywhere we turn. Someone was like, yeah, just do 81 double header. It's like, do you know how exhausting that would be? I mean, who said that?

But that's what I'm saying. And that's the world we're in, man. I'm reporting things I've heard from actual people inside walls of baseball, not just a guy who's not good comparison. Hey, people in walls of baseball are just as crazy as the people outside of baseball. Yeah, it's going to be a while is what we're hearing. I mean, not that any of us believe the two weeks, I don't know why they said that. No, I think it was, I think the two weeks was just to put a number out there and let's see what's happening in the world.

It wasn't, like, I don't think baseball ever promised two weeks. No. They just said, like, definitely two weeks. And I think that gives that initially. And again, we forget how quickly this timeline went down. I mean, you and I shared a coffee cup and made a video last Monday, Tuesday. Yeah. Still not upset about that. No, no.

If you get it, I get it. Yeah, we're in as close of quarters as they get. So that's fine. But yeah, we forget how much it's escalated in that quick period of time. And they just put two weeks out there. I don't fault them for that at all. That was just so people know at least that. And then as they go, yeah.

What's your favorite, like, infograph that's come out of there? There's been a lot of people making, tutorial videos about like, you know, social distancing. Oh, my God. It's easily the Washington Post one. That's crack. With all the dots? Yeah, with the bouncing dots.

I like the matchstick. The matchstick that steps out of line. I like the matchstick. I like the matchstick a lot. The live one? The live one. The cartoon. That was pretty good.

That was pretty good. Yeah, I don't know. And then I saw a second one that was the matchsticks where one match is just lower. Yes. I was like, we already got the walk-in match. But that's the problem. I actually liked that one more because the one that was done was like a professional cartoon. Yeah.

Like that was legit. That was Pixar shit. So I was kind of like, this is cool, but this is like too well done for what I need right now. I saw which one did you see first? I saw the cartoon first. Me too. And then I saw the other one. I was like, come on.

Yeah. I understand what you're saying. But yeah, the production value was almost too much for what we're currently. Like they were waiting for that a little bit. But yeah, the Washington Post dots. I told BPD this morning, I could watch those. I mean, it's a simulation. That's what I like.

Yeah, yeah. Simulations are literally what I enjoy. So, yeah, I've watched all of those a bunch of times. Speaking of simulations, yes. We have some people to thank for this episode, bringing us this episode. What was the speaking of there? Just, you'll figure it out eventually. I'll wait for this.

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We were dreading at like all winter meetings like, damn, it would just suck if they go to a strike since we just built a company. based on baseball. Now we're basically kind of here. Yeah, we'll do this this year and strike next year. It'd be cool if they're like, let's figure this out. But there's so much shit that they're fighting over and right now about this, the players and the league and paying players.

Like, what about all those? I will report that now that the CBA will not reach a deal. This will hurt. This will only hurt it because they're just going to fight more and more and more. How about all the minor leaguers? Yeah. Just not getting money. Yeah, they're screwed.

The league's made billions of dollars in revenue. Yeah. Like in profit last year. They did like $10 billion, billion dollars? Maybe this is the match that, you mentioned the match that came out that slowed it down. Maybe this match goes to baseball and sets it on fire. New match system. That's what you don't see.

In the picture of that lowered match, the whole match caught baseball is right below. That little cartoon walks over. Right to a baseball game. I know they got a big issue here with all these minor leaguers not getting paid. And it's crazy, man, because the TV networks need their money because they paid for these games. They paid the teams for these games and the teams need to like return that. And then they need to cover salaries. And this isn't even limited to baseball.

It's like all of life. It's just like this is crazy. All of sports, all of life. And that's the funny thing that it's been funny watching. the few sports shows that I've tried to watch just out of knee-jerk reaction that, I mean, almost aren't sports. But, you know, they always come back and they do what you just did. It's like, well, and also this is the realm of the rest of sports and society.

Yeah. I mean, what's really interesting, like, this is a baseball show. So I understand there's a lot going on. For sure. Talking about the baseball side effects of this. The service time is crazy, man. Service time. Like if you're on your last year of arbitration, there's got to be a guy out there.

Who's gotten his last year of arbitration? He's like excited to go get paid. Mookie bets. Do the Dodgers get Mookie Betts? If Mookie Betts only plays half a season. What if it's a half a season, the Dodgers have some sort of chaos happen and the Diamondbacks win the West?

I mean, it's insane. Does it count as a year of service time for Mokey Betts. Oh, yeah. And there's a lot of rookies out there, too, that, you know. Domingo Herman is suspended 81 games. Is that 81 games? Is that pro-rated for this season?

I mean, he did bad guy stuff, so we're not going to defend him on that. I would guess that he has to stay suspended. Do you have something on this, BPD? Yeah, they say it's the number of games no matter what. Yeah, for suspensions? Yeah, so he's like 63 games left to do. He has to sit 63 games no matter how many there are this year. That makes total sense to me.

Which is good. But the service time shit is nuts because, all right, say I'm 23 years old and I'm in my last year of team controlled money and I'm about to go to arbitration and then three years after that and I'm going to be a free agent at 26. Now does this push my service time back and now I'm going to be a free agent at 27? There's a lot of guys. That age, we know that that age matters. If you go from like 27 to 28 or God forbid 29 to 30, if this pushes your free agency from 29 to 30 and you didn't even get to play any games in this year, it's going to be super interesting how that all wrinkles out.

And I would just guess the players are going to get fucked and there's not going to be like niceness around it. Yeah, I don't know. I mean, again, we're dealing with a national pandemic and, you know, look at the reaction that guy that hoarded all the hand sanitizer got from the world. So if you try to fuck people during something like this, the people normally do rise up and do well. So what are your thoughts on that guy? I mean, he's the worst.

Yeah, okay. Is there another side to the argument? Oh, I saw some people defending him like, hey, it's capitalism. Wow, okay. Your burner Twitter, we'll look out for that later. My burner Twitter does not. There's a couple people in the bug crew, and they know that I'm not defending that guy.

Whoa, big hints. So, yeah, we're going to. Sanitizer guy Fuck him No I I wouldn't even jump there yet man And I don't think you can I think

Is it a crazy topic? Absolutely Is it the word That I'm going to throw around The next couple months Willy-nilly pro-rated Absolutely Because I think that's an easy solution

And makes sense for everyone Pro rated sounds so much cooler Than what it actually is Right Like I pro rate you Like that sounds awesome Yeah it's just pro-rated And don't worry about

it's a cool word like pro rated just means you're going to get less right is that code for can you get prorated more ever I guess if you well it depends like say you start a job and you only yeah yeah March 3rd and they're going to say we got you all in March yeah something like that so um I don't know I'd expect some of the basic stuff to be more civil than normal um just because you have to be like if you're if there's a pandemic going on and people are dying and you're like well, I think we should hold back the guy's service time. I mean, you are the bad guy, and I don't think anyone wants that. So we'll see.

I think those details, it'll be interesting to see when those start to leak out. I'm interested to talk to our guy, Jeff Passon. He's going to be all over that-ish the next couple weeks, and I wonder if there is an easy solution and they nip it in the butt, or it'll be Memorial Day weekend games are coming back, and we still have, now we have players and owners screaming at each other. That's exactly what baseball needs. When is Memorial Day weekend?

It's like the last weekend of May. It's like the, or no, it's the 25th, something like that. April, May, June. So that's the over-under I kept seeing a lot. And it just makes sense. Well, A, nothing makes sense with a global pandemic. Let me start over. But like when you start thinking about other sports potentially coming back and a holiday weekend.

And hey, if you are having sad times, go to a daydream world when you're going to wake up in two, three months, and every sport comes back. Like, there's going to be some sports binging that's going to be disgusting. We were, Caitlin and I were talking about, you know, if this goes until mid-June, late June. Sure. Like, the whole, like, stay inside, don't do shit. when that comes out, you know the first 50-degree day on a college campus? Yeah. People are throwing frisbees.

Girls are like sun-bathing on the girls. We went to school in the Northeast. If you're listening elsewhere, you might not understand that. Yes, in the Northeast, the first, like, 50-degree day when you can actually feel the sun. Everyone puts on their new Christmas clothes that they haven't been able to wear yet. Yeah, the frisbee's out on the lawn. Football's are out, basketball courts, and everyone acts like it is the heart of summer. You see people's lakes.

Yeah, yeah. It's like fitness beach. What's that fitness beach in L.A.? You know, the fitness beach you go to in L.A. Whenever you're in town. What's the name of it? You know. I don't know.

I'm trying to think of it. Whenever you're in L.A., you swing by, you do some pull-ups. It's got a name like the fitness, like something like that. Ah, I can't. Muscle Beach. Yeah. Muscle beach is almost a dumber name. You were all around it.

It's like Muscle Beach. It is muscle beach. At 50 degrees. When life resumes at June, it's going to be crazy. Oh, yeah. It's been the friendliest times or like people are just going to be crazy. Yeah, a little bit, little column A, little column B. Start playing.

Maybe pick up baseball becomes a thing. Yeah, yeah. Probably not. Probably not. Speaking of, they had the sandlot game. Sandlock game. Play that sandlock game noise we've been waiting for. DVD, can you do the sandlot game drop, please?

Thank you very much. Thank you. Just hit the sound. We play for the sandlot game. A Sanlock game. I'm not thinking. I'm never thinking. Sure.

It's not bad. That works. Do you have another one you want to try or that's it? Grew up in the streets, man. We used to lean over to get our poops out. Yeah. Okay. So Sandlock came.

Yeah. Did you watch any of this? Sanlock. I watched the highlights. If anyone doesn't know Trevor Bauer and his company, watch Momentum, put together a little pickup Whiffabball game and they live streamed it. Dietrich was there, Clevenger was there,

Oscar Mercado. Why do I always want to say his name like that? Oscar. Oscar McHawdo was there. Yeah. He had a nice swing. Yeah, it's athletic. Daniel Johnston.

A lot of guys I didn't know were there. It's tough. I think the guy who won the MVP just wasn't a big leaguer, was just brought by Daniel Johnston. He's just around. And he said, I'm Vinnie the Jet. Yeah.

forget what it was. Maybe he gets signed now. That'd be cool. It's a story. It was fun. It was kind of cool. They needed like, it was very good. They put it together very quick, so it was just like very impromptu.

But at one point they were like, hey, can you, all the chat was like, can you tell us who's batting? Yeah. Guys don't got names on the back of their jersey, so it's kind of hard. It's tough enough to keep up with 30 teams and 30 guys from each team anyways. And then the prospects. Never mind the deep tracks. Yeah. I was trying to look it up.

I was Dietrich hit a home. Dietrich won me over. Yeah, he got you. I'm a demerc fan now, yeah. I told you, because, yeah, he still tries to do too much sometimes, but, I don't know, he's kind of a good guy, and he's like, is he married to a pro tennis player or a pro soccer player?

I forget, I think tennis. But, yeah, he's just kind of like a meathead athlete that's trying to do his thing. But he takes it a little too far for me sometimes. The beekeeper shit last year. Yeah, you're trying. You're trying. But he was fun. Derek, Dietrich's wife is Monica Pueke.

Pueg. I'm pretty sure she's a tennis player. Yassiel Pueig's ex-wife. Nope. Tennis player currently ranked 43rd on whatever ranking they do. Thank you. The WTA. So BBD's official.

Wow. Nope. I think that's just his personal ranking. His personal ranking. The BD tennis rankings. So Dietrich's wife is... Monica Pueg. She's Puerto Rican.

I think he's just like jock life, man. He won me over. He was cool. Kent Murphy was doing the play-by-play. Which was... Oh. Wow. Shots fire.

I love all the old Kent Murphy stuff. Did he steal a vid from you or something? No, no. I thought we had beef with Kent. No. Well, here's the thing. There's the original Kent Murphy. Right.

It was awesome. YouTube. Never bun. Sure. Janitor throw. All that shit. He had a Twitter. account called, whatever it is, Kent Murphy. Sure.

So someone just made a conglomerate Twitter account. There's two Twitter accounts that are Kent Murphy. Gotcha. And one is the actual comedian. Right. Forget his name, Nick Sopton, who made a Twitter account about the character he created. Right. And his Twitter is at Coach Kent Murphy, right?

Okay. Then there's another Twitter. There's two accounts. There's another. Yeah, yeah. And that dude has more followers than the real one. That's tough. And he steals shit all time.

Internet's a weird place. I think he kind of credits it. It looks like now I'm scrolling through his feet, he does a better job. But yeah, at one point he just, like, ripped a video for me with no credit, which whatever is what it is. Sure. I mean, he ripped his whole fucking handle off a guy with no credit. Life's a rip. Well, if you're going to make a baseball conglomerate Twitter, why do you need to steal a character that already was someone

It worked. It did work. It's very shady. Anyway, anyway. The commentary was a little one note. It was just like, better hit a fucking dinger. Yeah.

You're going to hit dinger? That's the note. Better hit a fucking dinger. So it was all right. But he was given Dietrich's shit for not hitting any home runs. Sure. And Dietrich was like kind of,

I posted this. Dieter was kind of honest. The fences were too far, man. Yeah. It was just too far. And then he hit one. It's cool. But they said it didn't count because it was,

they played the rule. Everyone has different whiffleball rules. Sure. It's actually a part of, I don't even know. I was going to say life, society, growing up. I'm interested. Like, if you have weird wiffleball rules, send them my way. I'm so interested that people can play the same thing.

You're going to be overloaded. I know, but we should put together a little... Different stadiums. I mean, everyone's playing at a different stadium. No, everyone's playing. I don't mean, like, ground rules. I mean, like, how you move runners. Sure.

Cal you, like they did anything opposite is an auto out. Or foul ball. I've never heard that one before. Fow balls are outs? No, no, no. Not with two strikes? If you hit it opposite. Yeah, foul balls with two strikes are an out.

But if you hit a ball, oppo, it was a foul ball. I never heard that one before. Yeah, they were just trying to hit home runs. I don't think that's a real rule. No, I don't know. That's what they played because they didn't have enough fielders. Yeah, they were just, they didn't want people hitting just sling. just slapping base hits.

But they were doing base hits and singles as well. Right, if you pulled it. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah. I mean, they're trying to do a content wiffleball game. I'm interested. They just said it like it was a rule that was normal. Yeah, I don't know.

I'm sure somewhere it is. Everyone's got it. But in Billy Crystal's book, he talks about the little version of Wiffleball, him and his brother played until they were like 22 and moved out of the house. Sure. And in David Cohn's book, he talks about his version of Wiffle Ball that he played

and they duct tape the ball. So I think I want like a conglomerate coffee table It's a book called like American Wiffleball Backyard You make your own rules Throw the ball Hit the ball It's too long of a title

But I'm working on the title Yeah And I mean are you still call Do you call what you did growing up Whiffleball? Because you used to be pretty strong That it wasn't Wiffleball But for the book it helps

Yeah it's maybe backyard baseball Because what Billy Crystal played Wasn't Wiffball either Big weekend for backyard Baseball, too. Huge. I watched freaking Sespitis Barbecue stream it. Yo, I don't know what backyard baseball is.

I mean, computer game. Computer, not video console? Okay. And I know, like, I know, like, Pablo something or something. I had it on GameCube. He added on the Cube? Okay. I was familiar.

I don't even know what it looks like. I mean, it's just, like, really old school video game. Pulling up a video of now. It's cartoony. DC video games are like wildly out of my realm of knowledge. Sure. I don't think I ever put a game into my computer and played it. L-I-V-I-N, man.

Yeah. I mean, it sounds dushy, but at that age, I was 100% an outside kid. Uh, yeah, you were too into butt. You liked girls pretty early. Yeah, but like my friend Taylor... Like, you could have still been playing in middle school. No, I didn't play any video. I'm saying people.

People could have been. You started liking girls and stuff. And I would be outside. Like we would just make up games outside. Right. On the trampoline or like we'd go to the baseball field and do batting practice. Must be nice.

Trampolins are awesome. How the other half lives. Tramplings? Yeah. They're not that expensive. Tell that to my mom. She just didn't want you to have one. No, man.

I think they're like a couple hundred bucks. Do you hear my pooping in the street thing? Yeah, I know. Tramolines are awesome, but we used to play a lot of games on the trampoline for hours. Anyway, backyard baseball. How did Cesspa this guy do? Was it Jake or was it Jordan? It was Jordan.

Okay. And he wasn't playing. He was watching the computer play. What? See, yeah. I mean, you don't have any gamer side to you. So you're, and you're, you don't know how much the sports people are really hurting. He was watching a computer play game?

Yeah. Computer versus computer. Holy smokes. And he was like he was commentating it. I was having a blast. Yeah. Times are dire, man. That is crazy.

It's nuts. Hey, remember that? We're just going off the rolls. Do we have any pressing topics? The sports is fucked. The service time is fucked. Bowers thing was cool. Oh, a Yankees minor leaguer got tested and confirmed case.

He's got the coroni. COVID-19. Yeah. And he stayed in people and he listened to every talking baseball episode so he didn't get his friends sick. Which is really nice of him. Any good member of society should do that. Stay in and listen to every episode. You know what was annoying? What was annoying? The response by the reporters and the Yankees like, we promise he didn't have any contact with the Major League camp. Right.

Don't jump to like, I don't know. If there are a huge. human out there and your first thought was like, shit, a Yankee might be contaminated. Right. That's like a bad thought process. And then they were just defending that. No, I think that's fine. I mean, they're just, they're breaking sports news. But he had, he had contact with a lot of the minor leaguers.

Like, yeah, and they are people, but there's more famous people in the world. I mean, it's how it works. And, like, basketball, the Gobert stuff and basketball being a contact sport and blah, blah, blah. But yeah. And I don't know. I mean, you and I also, I think there's stuff where we're too deep that it's tough to put the blinders back on. Like a lot of people don't know how minor league facilities are set up. You and I have been to the Yankee Spring Training the past three years.

We know that they are two completely separate camps. We went to the Braves new facility this year. We saw it was all combined and we were like, this is awesome. Every team should have this. And now here we are and everyone's getting kicked out. It's just insane, man. Yankees minor league sucks. It's not great.

It's like four fields and a... Nothing for the fans. It's less than a high school field. A little hill. A little bit of a hill. A bit of a hill. You have anything else that you saw or read or wanted to talk about? I mean, not really.

We, uh, I don't know. It's crazy times, man. And I think we'll be, we'll be doing this our, I guess we should tell everyone kind of our plan. We're a pull-the-curtain back podcast. And I think we're going to get, we're going to try to get as many interviews as we can. If guys aren't playing baseball, they got to do something. So we've already got a couple of those in the works.

We'll have those coming. Our team profile and projections. Yes, a couple of the over-unders and things may be skewed. But just prorated. You just got to pro-rate everything you do nowadays. Life has been prorated. You just got a pro-rate. And, yeah, I mean, check out if you do get bored.

I mean, I'll plug ourselves. Whoa, I'm back in college again. And plug yourself, huh? We'll have stuff all over the YouTube. We'll have podcasts here. We'll have just everything. We've been doing silly stuff for years for a part of the time it wasn't as a business. Now it kind of is.

So check in. And we'll be part of your. whatever your next 8 to 12 to 16 week journey looks like. And it's, I don't know, if you're someone that could get in your own head like me and James, know that, you know, it's going to be good. And there will be a day we look back and we reference the coronavirus. And then we'll tell younger people about the coronavirus. And they'll say, shut up, old man.

And we'll be the old man on the lawn yelling. You shut up. That's just how it goes. Hey, hey, you shut up. What's today's date? That's the circle of life. Today's date is the 16th, March 16th. Cool, cool, cool, cool, cool.

No ad on today's show. I was like, I was desperately searching all of it to make sure we didn't miss it. That would have been tight. And yeah, people are dumb. Be smart. Yo, my favorite men in black quote is getting so much play. Trying to tell you, I've been trying to tell you to push that harder. You have?

I haven't heard you mention it. Every time. I say it's your quote. And you go, it's men and black. It's men and black. And like, hey, own it a little bit. You've been driving that ship, man. It is.

It's my favorite. I've never even seen the, I've seen the full men and black movie once maybe. Moons ago. My dad sent me the clip of it. And he was like, hey, it's your favorite quote. And I'd never, I didn't like, I didn't know the visual of it.

See? He said it was your favorite quote. It is my favorite quote. Here it is. Here it is. Humans for the most part don't have a clue. They don't want one or need one either. They're happy. They think they have a good bead on things.

Why a big secret? People are smart. They can't handle it. The person is smart. People are dumb, panicky, dangerous animals, and you know it. Person is smart. People are dumb, panicky animals. It's never been more true right now.

So be a person. Don't be a people. Twitter, yeah, Twitter's its own entertainment for them. and all the people that were talking about that kind of stuff. And they're like, this is why they don't tell us what's in Area 51. You can't handle it. Oh, I'm a big time. I know you are. Yeah.

I know you are. Speaking right to me. That quote is awesome. I've been saying that for so long. I've been driving it. And then, yes, also the government should have secrets from the public. Right. I mean, I am the biggest believer in that.

Yeah. Don't tell me. Right. I don't deserve to know. I probably shouldn't know. If I did, I'd fuck it up. Yeah. I'd share it. I have a whole 14 podcasts where I share everything I know on. Did you, the people that were like, like there was pictures this weekend of people on spring break vacationing, like college kids.

Do you hate them? Are you like, oh, I was young and dumb or is it somewhere in the middle? Somewhere in the middle. Okay. Everyone's young and dumb. Yeah. I was young and dumb. Sure. I just feel bad.

Like, did you see the video of the girl who was like... Yeah. It's like, I'm young, I'm healthy, I take vitamins and I self-medicate, so I'll be fine. Yeah. And I just feel bad that, like, yeah, she's whatever. And everyone's definition, like a grown woman. Like, she'd probably say, I'm a grown woman. I can do whatever I want.

And the reality is you're very young. Right. And probably when we were at that age, we'd say we were grown-ups. Exactly. Yeah. I'm not trying to say anything different. than I was, but I feel bad because the media is going to put microphones in front of these young and dumb people's faces and get quotes. And then the internet is going to rip them apart for being the same person that they probably most likely were at that age.

So it's just like society takes like, oh, I remember when I was this age and I would say dumb shit. Let's go get a dumb quote. Yeah. And for me, it's like this weird cycle. We're like, yes, she's going to regret saying that. Yeah. But it's more kind of shoddy that like we're all treating her like we weren't. Right.

Yeah. No, I mean, we, I was thinking back to some of our college parties. There was the hurricane where a hurricane came through, so we got a keg. We wanted to stand on the roof and drink the keg. And then the last one to still be on the roof, one hurricane day. And was that a good or bad idea? We ended up not doing it. We ended up not doing it.

We did like. Better heads prevailed. It was like everyone was ordered to stay inside and we were running around. Yeah. And then there was the. And like our boxers drinking. Yeah. Oh, yeah.

Whenever there was Blizzards, I would volunteer to deliver. Yeah. I would be the only car in the road. Yeah. And I almost got into some accident, so I'd make good money, though. I would not change that. I'd just train, be very smarter about how I drove. You want to read and drive.

I didn't do that in the Blizzard. Not in the Blizzard. Just everywhere else. Just the regular days. So, yeah, I don't know. You said that very well, James. We probably would have been involved. So, yeah, it's, but you just got to try to be better.

hopefully we'll get some baseball news and we can do that. But if not, we'll be doing other stuff. And hey, if you guys want to hear something, luckily we've gotten to the point where we can do cool thing. We have some player access. You know, a lot of the beat reporters know what's going on and they're looking to interact with us too. So if there's something you want to know, you want to see.

And don't, you know, we don't do the tradition. We're not going to top ten short stops. Like you're not going to get that from us. Maybe I will just to get under Jimmy's skin. Do you know who's doing that? Who's doing that? Pete Rosenberg from Michael Kay Show. Yeah.

He tweeted out, we feel bad for them because they have so much time to kill and they talk about all sports. He tweeted out like, I'm coming with the top five list every day and you were going to discuss it. And I was like, oh, my God. I think they're also digging at Kay because Kay loaths list. Anyone with a brain loaths list. It's a discussion point.

Anyone who likes clickbait and empty words and debating over nothing likes lists. It's a discussion point. I got into this specifically to never do lists episodes. Boom. They are the absolute least creative thing. And we... Then I'll be bringing some lists. You and I are much better than that.

I'll be bringing some lists. Quick question from the chat. Chat question. Sean McLaughlin. When does the Bauer podcast you come on out? and I don't know, it's not for this property. It's for Bauerbytes, which is their podcast. And they were, see, like, again,

I don't even know if I'm supposed to be sharing all these details, but I think it's fine. They were recording them in bulk and releasing it as a season. And they said May or June. But now they might be like, hey, let's just push all this forward. Could be expedited. It could be pushed back. It could be the same.

I don't know when that. Many of any understanding what that is. myself, Fuzzy from YouTube, Clevenger and Bauer sat down at a dinner table, ate some food, and talked about baseball and the Astros and media. It was cool. All right? I think that's it, right? I don't even know what we talked about.

We're going to try to have more organized conversations in the future. But I had to get some stuff out. It's crazy. Wasn't there some actual baseball news that you looked up? Oh, Hunter Strickland got cut. It's just as fought. On Saturday. Maybe that's a good sign to all the other players that they're pro-rating.

Brutal for Hunter Strickland. You know what I'm saying, though? Is that a sign that the nationals are going to pay players during this process? Otherwise, you'd just keep Hunter around. I think it was just bad. I think he got knocked around in a spring training game, and then they have other bullpen options. We actually just recorded their TPP last week,

and we were kind of looking at some of the options. They did a ton of stuff. They're better than Hunter Strickland. So maybe it was just right before things escalated a little bit more. It's a tough break. Yeah. It's a tough break. Yeah.

All right. Well. Okay. Okay, computer. Play the outro song. Come on now. Don't be a jerk about it. Don't be a jerk about it.

It's like my computer's got some sort of virus. I know the people at home are just clamoring for the outro song. Okay. There it is. We'll see you guys tomorrow on another TPP.