Talkin' Baseball (MLB Podcast) - 128 | MLB is Considering a May Start

Episode Date: April 7, 2020

Jeff Passan reported that MLB is considering a start in May, but there are many hurdles that would need to be cleared in order to make it happen. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

Welcome to talking baseball. We've got a fun episode ahead of us because MLB may be coming back in May. They may. What's going on, everybody? Welcome back to talking baseball. A little midweek episode here with myself, Jake, and Trevor Plouf, because we got some news. You know, everyone got stirred up last night and this morning about a big article from ESPN and our good friend Jeff Passon, who we should try to get on the show, Jake and I said.

But before we get into anything, because I forgot to do this last week, I have to let you know who this episode is brought to you by because we have a lot of special people that are supporting us and we need to shout them out. We have Rob Duvall, which sounds like a strong name to me. Greg Astrosky, Devante Ford, Nico Farraguna, Nathan Butler, Mark Hunt, Miles Schering. not confident on that one sarah briggs so confident on that one sarah briggs joseph randazzo can you hit me with that jake uh can you give me a paison randazzo

joseph randazzo ah caleb sutton captain avius ski civitzki and david holborn thank you to those people Thank you kindly. There are most recent supporters on Patreon. They get access to watch a live show if they want. We had a lot of perks lined up for Patreon members. Coronavirus kind of puts that all by the wayside since we're quarantined, but we will get back to doing that as soon as we're back to normal. Anyway, Trev, how are you doing?

I'm doing great. You know, we got the pass bomb late at night. You guys might have been sleeping. I don't know. I think you texting you back, Jim. It was real late Eastern time. and what an article it is. I mean, it's the reason we're here this morning to talk about this article.

But I have to say, it's a great morning. I did something a little different today. I think people will be really excited for me. I usually am a black coffee guy. And today I frothed some oat milk and put it in. Wow. So that's what Caitlin, my girlfriend, likes. She likes oatmeal lattes.

It's delicious. So I think for the foreseeable future, I'm going to be an oatmeal latte guy. This is huge because Jake has coffee news as well. Jake, can you lay it on the people on Trev? Yeah, I've started making my own coffee. I'm only, I'm strictly ice coffee. Poppy doesn't do hot liquid. So I've got this ice coffee machine.

You get some ice involved. You make it a little more concentrated A plus B. But yeah, I've been brewing my own coffee. and I've been flying high over here. So big coffee pod day. Yeah, and I'm on my second cup. So there we go. From a mug I stole from a lodge that my buddy got married in.

Talking folk, and you got a candle. Jake, where's your drink? Chill out, bro. I got a Yeti because I'm show. But whatever. Yeah, we have our nice coin mugs. Okay, so there's some big news.

And you know what? Jake and I talked a tiny bit about it on John Moore and Jake Radio. I'm excited to talk with you, Trev. I think I'm coming down because the reaction I saw on the internet when I woke up kind of made me a little frustrated. And now it seems like everyone with a brain, I guess, sleeps in. And now it's coming back to like normalcy. And so I'm not that hot anymore.

But when I woke up, I was like 7 a.m. And I was reading this. I was reading everyone like excited. The words I used while reading it and I'll say this with everyone. So Pisan writes an article that the MLB is thinking about hosting their own quarantined baseball in Arizona. All the teams will play there at 10, 11 facilities, and they'll be locked up. There's a whole crazy, a lot of details that we'll get into. I was cringing and embarrassed while reading it for MLB.

So that was my guttural reaction to reading it. Trev, you shared yours. What was yours when you were reading this article? I was surprised because what happened was we found out that Rob Manfred is a listener of our pot. He's a friend of the pod because last week on my gummy episode, what I said was we need to get an Olympic village in Arizona and get all these guys playing games. Lo and behold, a week later, there's a story written about how MLB is talking about having an Olympic village with players in Arizona. to get the season started. So people are calling me, Notre Dameus. It's people are calling me a profit. You know, it's a big thing for me. And my buddy even said, hey, can you can you take a gummy and

fix the NBA now? Since I've already fixed MLB, I might move on to these other sports. MBA, NFL. Dana White is clearly on gummies. He's trying to buy a private island to get it going. So this quarantine has really brought out the crazies and people. This article is. absolutely insane. It's insane. And I was, Jake, what were your guttall reactions? I don't want to step on you. Well, I told you guys right before we started recording that I already packed my bags.

I'll see you guys down there in May. I think we're good. No, I mean, my broad stroke is as the optimist on this program is you either take this as, hey, it's a good thing they're thinking about stuff. That's kind of the most positive reaction you could get from this. but yeah i mean the the plans on this it's you wonder is this a news dump are they just throwing this out there for the sentence at the end so they can cancel it because oh we couldn't make this plan work well nobody can uh for me it kind of feels like i don't know if you guys remember doing this

but i think for the science fair you had to submit your idea for what you wanted to do in the science fair and like you're in third grade so your first thing you submit you give it to the teacher and the teacher's like, well, you need to, you need to figure out the who, what, when, where, why. You need to figure out these details. You need to figure out this, that, and the other. This feels like the first step of the science fair that gets submitted. And the teacher comes back and like, hey, this is an idea, but I need so much more. This is what I said to Jake.

Either the MLB is dumb as fuck or they think the common public is dumb as fuck. Those are the two options with this idea. because it is so bad. And I understand, so I want to speak on this, I understand that we're all clamoring for sports and baseball. And I love baseball. If I'd miss a Yankee game, like the last three years, I think I've missed one or two.

I watch 162 games, been doing that since Yes Network was invented. I love baseball. I like it a lot. We started a whole company on it. I am not clamoring for what this is at all. like at all. This doesn't spark any like, oh, yes, this is what we're going to get. And I think I'm different.

A lot of people were saying like, well, I take this over nothing. I'm like, if you're going to do this, we said this yesterday, you got to go so far like round robin tournament. Just like this is such a weird fake season. And so, I mean, I know like, I don't know, there's that point because people are like. I think we should get into it. I think we should talk about what it is. there are some legitimate points in this, okay?

And I have fielded some, I threw out some text, some feelers out to the guys. And to my surprise, I got a mixed reaction. Yeah. A couple of guys were like, this is, you know, what's the alternative? Why can't we do this? Other guys are like, this is ridiculous.

But the underlying thing. Have a family and still in post-college twilight, like correlation to their answers? because yeah, 22-year-old me, 24-year-old me, probably that sounds like a fun four months. 28-year-old me with some kids, probably like, what? It may seem like fun, but that's one of the things we want to talk about here. Think about the logistics of this. You are going to be in a hotel.

Hotels suck. Okay? I don't even care if you're in Maui at the four seasons. If you have to stay in your hotel room, like it sucks for four. for four months. Okay. So I think people are like, hey, baseball, this is awesome. And I'm talking about specifically players here now.

Players are like, this is awesome. We get to play. Guess what? We also get paid. Like, we've worked our entire life. We need to get paid to do what we do best, okay? But then you start thinking about it. That lifestyle, what they're trying to do there, that is, I mean, you're away from

your family. You have to sit in a stand. six feet apart from each other. There's no mound visits. There's no umpires. You aren't going to be able to do anything that you normally would do. And you really have to put yourself in that situation. Isolated for four months in a hotel, people are going to kill each other.

And it's never going to feel like baseball. Like I think a month afterwards, they're going to be like, why'd we even do this? Think about when the Orioles are playing, you know, whoever else is a really bad, team like what are they going to do they're going to be like this is this is done maybe we should just not even have those teams play so at the very end of the article it says it's either this or no baseball at all and i said two weeks ago to jake i don't know if you were on the show that they're going to slowly start hinting at this i said they're not going to just come out and cancel like they need to get the public to realize like like this is a big step i think for a lot of people who

thought they're they're going to come back and it's going to be normal i do think there's a lot of people who still thought that. And like, hopefully that's not even an option in anyone's brain because this is what we're looking at. So then they're going to slowly be like, well, we can't do this. We can't do this. We can't. You know what?

Let's wait. And then the public will slowly come to realize like, oh, okay, this is really hard. There's a lot of obstacles because there are. There are a ton of obstacles to get this going. And this idea, I mean, is crazy. And you just said the line about the players sitting in the stands. and I want to make sure that people understand why I'm harping on this is not because like they're actually sitting in the stands, you know?

It's just the fact that they released this information and they think that it means something or holds any water just makes me think they're talking to an audience of dumb people because they put this line in there that the idea has been floating around that the players will sit in the empty stands six feet apart. So there's social distancing. Well, if that is something you think you need to monitor, how are players on first base and first baseman going to do it?

How are a tag is going to take place? Are pitcher's not going to lick the ball anymore? It's not going to lick the bat. Like there's so many more obstacles than sitting close to each other in the dugout that the fact that they think that they can subdue people or whatever with that line is just laughable. It's like, what are we doing here? Is this an onion article?

It reads like an onion article. And I love Jeff. And I think he was truly, I'm not truly passing along the info he was given. And, but yeah, it's just crazy, man. Yeah. And I don't know. I think going back and trying to relate all this, and this is something you guys don't know, is over the weekend, I had a low moment.

And I was like, baseball's not. happening for sure. Oh, wow. Yeah. Because you hadn't had that yet. I started diving into Trevor's Arizona plan. I think that's what we can officially call it. Thank you. And here's, here's the other thing is like you started getting into some roster logistics and I was starting to think about like there's no minor league team. So how are they going to do that stuff? And they did address some of that in the article though. I mean, they said a large expansion of rosters, which is interesting. And you wonder what that looks like at the end of the day.

Is it 30 guys on a team and maybe they have 10 other guys on site that they can activate and deactivate? Who knows? Again, these are starting to get into the little details. But I just think the big point in this that needs to be addressed is that they've also banked all of this on having rapid available testing. And I think, again, because a lot of this is handled in the outside world, right? You know, with corona and everything that's going on that we have no control.

And so I think if that's around, which again, we're just guessing at, and maybe it's not, which again, that shoots down this plan instantly. There's a lot of things that shoot down this plan instantly besides Garrett Cole and Mike Trout having children do during the season. So again, I don't know. I think my biggest broadstroke on it is it's either, yeah, you're absolutely right. I think they're just feeding us some crap so they can set it up for the takedown. Or, I mean, they're really exploring this as an option. And as Trevor kind of mentioned, I mean, there are some wins in here. When you mention MLB offering more guys on an MLB roster, that's really.

appealing. And when you mention the money aspect, I mean, think of how, you know, how tight MLB career normally is and you're offering more job opportunities and guys need these paychecks. I mean, a lot of guys have their life banked around

these paychecks. But as you also mentioned this morning, Jim, MLB's playing a slippery slope of yes, if they're the only game in town, I mean, it could be a resurgence of baseball across this country, which could be incredible, but it also could be a complete fucking disaster.

And this current plan we have laid out for us, again, is this step one and we can make it a good thing and work our way down? Or is this step one to saying, hey, we're not playing baseball this year? Yeah, it's good call. And I do think Trev said he has ideas of like, you know, to get to actually other ideas. I have some. this is the paragraph as I'm reading this, trying to use a critical thinking brain,

where I'm like, oh, I know what they're doing. Because Jeff, pass it in the middle of the article, throws the logistics to pull off such a plan would be enormous and cumbersome on the league side and required the buy-in of players whose sources expect to be skeptical of separating from their families for an indefinite amount of time,

perhaps as long as four and a half months if the inability to stem the coronavirus outbreak. That paragraph to me, trying to use a smart brain, is Jeff saying, hey guys, this isn't going to happen. Like, please know,

this is not going to happen. And he's like the fifth paragraph down, and then way more down, he says the other option is no season. So I think Passon, passing's giving information that he gets, and this is his way of writing like, please don't.

please know that like the logistics to pull off such a plan would be enormous and cumbersome. This looks like a plan that was written by somebody or talked about with people who are not going to be part of the plan. And guess what? It was. This is the owners. And you think is going to be sequestered in a hotel for four months? The owners? No, he's like, here's my product.

You guys go do it. Because I need to make some money and you guys deal with it. Like here's a crappy plan I laid out and I'm not going to be a part of. I'm going to be at my mansion watching you idiots playing 110 degree heat in the middle of Arizona summer without your families. And I'll be here and it'll be fun for me. But they're not going to be part of it. So that's the other side of that is like you were just talking about. You have to have guys buy into this.

So I guarantee there are going to be players. And I know this sounds ridiculous to a lot of people, but you really got to put yourself in the player's shoes here. Players with small kids, with families, although it might seem like it's pretty awesome to be away from your family after being stuck with kids during a quarantine. They're not going to want to do this. What do you do with those players?

So that kind of jumps forward to my idea. But before we get fully there, I want to just make sure we cover this article, because this is the image that's being spread the most, is their bullet point of potential new rules with robot umps, no mound visits. Because this is as if any of that's going to subside this most spreadable disease and human mankind. You know what I mean? So before we get to the fixes, my other point, Trev, is I actually think this whole article, and MLB putting this out is misguided. I think it makes MLB look bad. We're still in the peak of this thing.

And like this shouldn't be, you know, just wait a month. No one expects May. I don't know. No one expects May baseball. They're winning the news cycle for a day. And at the end of the day, it's harmless. At the end of the day,

what they're trying to show is they're trying to make a plan. I'm not saying it's harm. I don't think you should take anything to this core and be like, come on, guys. Can I get political? here for a second. Oh, finally. Political pod.

I mean, the commissioners of all the major sports, guess what they did last week? They had a meeting with the Donald Trump, our president. Okay, and then three or four days after that, we have insane ideas. Like I said, Dana White of the UFC is going to buy a private island to host fights. MLB is saying we're going to isolate our entire league so we can play games like what were they talking about in that meeting and

what is like a guy like adam silver who i feel like is probably the most level-headed and most respected commissioner right now what is he thinking right now like is he in on this is he going to like do some crazy gummy inspired uh thing to get his league back or is he like wow these guys like manfred and dana they won they won the news cycle but i just think i don't like wait until we're at least out of the peak and then start throwing your ideas out there. You know, people are still dying every day. And you have like an article saying that the MLB is health officials backing them on this plan, which is just totally nonsensical and misguided.

Well, you've been pretty, you've been pretty supportive of the NFL keeping chugging along. I mean, couldn't you say that about everything they're doing? No, Jake. Everything the NFL doing is through computers and separate rooms. They're not playing games. Right. And that's what we're doing right now.

We're just planning and talking ideas. We're not trying to play in May. At end of May. And it's, it's, we've already talked about a lot of the ideas are ridiculous. Don't get mad at the article itself. There's no reason to do that. I'm a little mad at the article. I'm so mad at the article itself.

What are you talking about? This is a dumb article. Jeff, friend of the pod, but come on, man. It's got us record in the podcast. We were excited to record it. It's got everyone talking baseball. Yeah, but it's a bad look. I mean, that's, that's exactly what this is.

Bad luck. It's a bad luck. Anyway, my idea, and I know you, Trevor, you had some ideas, but you said, what do you do with the guys who want to play or don't want to play? This, don't make this a regular league. Like, don't make it for a World Series at the end. Take the guys who are willing to go into quarantine and do this and make a round robin tournament, maybe pick new sides, maybe make teams from hometowns,

and those guys can go put on an exhibition display of baseball in a modified form. And the guys who have babies being due can sit out and there's no penalty against them. But that's the only way you're going to get the players to do it. And I don't want a World Series if it comes down to this two-month weird shit. Yeah, I mean, look, organizations won't let that happen because these are their babies. These are their best kids.

So you can't like, it's like the Olympics. Like they won't even like stop for the freaking Olympics. So they're definitely not going to be like, hey, let's redraft. these guys and put them on different teams. What if it's the team, but like, just make it its own tournament of whoever wants to play. But like a guy shouldn't be punished if he doesn't want to go in isolation for four months away from his pregnant wife and kids. Yeah, I mean, I don't know.

Are they going to be special circumstances for guys like Mike Trout and Garrett Cole? Like, are they going to be able to live at their mansion on the hillside and just, you know, drive themselves to the games? Like, you know, are there going to be exceptions to this? And that's what I don't get with the instant testing, which, which again is my kind of focal point of this whole thing. Because if we have that, if we have that, why are we doing all of this? Like if Mike Trout can leave and, you know, go be with his family, watch his child be born and come back and we can run a five-minute test. Well, hey, like, do that.

And I don't think they have enough. back any test positive. Well, that's, and that's what I'm saying. This whole plan, and I think we're talking about things that are casually mentioned in this, is that in late May, the government is projecting that we will have readily available on instant tests for this. So in a sense, why are we doing some of these quarantine precautions if we were to have this available? And that's why I think this is my big hang up, because we're playing a what if? game and if we do have instant testing and Mike Trow were to leave the quarantine to go check

on his family or whoever it is and okay if you come back and get tested then you're out for 14 days you you can't come here so I don't know you'd have to you'd have to keep everyone in like their own isolation the quarantine list yeah that would be something the reason is the reason is because if you were just to keep things a status quo the amount of people you come into contact with every day, like as a baseball player, is astronomical. Right. Because there's a lot of moving pieces in this. Like, there's a lot of people that do their jobs and doing really well for us to be

able to just go play a game at 7 o'clock. So you would have to be exposed more than you want to be right now. And if the instant test, like, okay, hey, guys, go ahead and go about your business as usual. We're going to, you know, expose you to a virus. But it's okay because we can test you. you get tested, we'll just quarantine you then. That doesn't make any sense. You can't do that.

Yeah. I mean, the whole thing is fucked if one guy gets it. If one guy gets it, you know, like the whole operation is screwed. It's fun. I mean, look, I believe in American ingenuity. Okay. Wow. Put that on a quote.

I believe in us. I believe that we will have readily available tests. I believe a vaccine is coming. I believe that we're going to get through this. But fucking. May? Baseball in May? Come on, man. Yeah. I agree with that.

It's an irresponsible headline. Like, the article is not irresponsible. The headline was irresponsible. Yeah, and that's why... It was a news grab. The whole thing was a news grab. You click it and read it, and I'm like, oh, man, this is... What is this? Can I give you some responses?

Yeah, of course. Yeah. Okay. So, obviously, not going to give the names, but just here's a few responses. These are all guys that are playing. Thanks, Sam, Fould. Sammy, I need to text in. We need Sam on the pod because he would shoot. Get him on.

All right. So basically I just said, have you seen the AZ proposal? And this is one here. It says, yes, I think it may be, it might be our best chance to get started or to play at all. I'll play wherever. We just want the games to start. Games equals paychecks. Yeah.

But zero chance. of May, I still think it's 50-50 at best that we play any type of season at all. Yeah. So, I mean, it's a pretty level-headed take. You know, it's hard to talk about money. I always talked about that. It's not easy to talk about money. But like you said, like you have a guaranteed contract and you're expecting these

paychecks to come in and all of a sudden they're just absolutely not. It's going to frustrate you no matter what your level of income is. Yeah. Next one. Who we got? Next one, I said, have you seen this AZ proposal? He says, man, I have. It's interesting.

Dot, dot, dot. He says, to say the least, he says, it's just all really tough logistically. So I think a lot of guys are thinking on the same way we are like, this is, we want to play, but this sounds pretty stupid. Like, maybe we should come up with a better plan for this. And I don't know what that better plan is.

And we've, you've talked about some things that could improve this plan, but the more and more I think about it. To have like a full season, like, think about the staff of, I mean, think about the staff of like a team, you know, like coach, beyond players and coaches. Think about the people that are in the clubhouse every day.

And you could probably name laundry list of the roles in there, Trev. And then think about TV production crews. You're going to have to isolate all those people as well and send them all to Arizona. And then think about Arizona, the state might just say, get the fuck out of here.

Our hospitals are already. full, we're dealing with this ourselves. Don't send all of your employees to our state, please. 1,500 people, right? That's what it would be. They were saying like 50 people per org. Yeah. Math, right?

I'm like that. Where are you at with like seven-inning double-headers, Trev? Because I mentally came to grips with that at the start of this. Me and Jim talked about it a little, and he wasn't loving it. I'd just rather less games at nine innings than more games at seven- innings. I'm already accepting a shortened season. So just don't kill the guys in 100-degree Arizona heat. That's right. And Trevor, sure. I think guys are fine with seven endings. Okay. I think players are fine with seven innings. I don't know fans. I think fans will probably have more of a gripe about it than

players. But, you know, that's another thing we could bring up about this. I mean, we're talking about scorching hot Arizona summer. We're talking about spring training fields that the sun is just closer to you in spring training i don't i can't explain it okay if they're going to and then they're going to go into the summer months and you're going to be playing i assume these are all going to be night games right i hope it's a way too hot it's a morning play some big game in chase field yeah yeah that you got to use chase field how many games can you realistically play there and then you're talking about like everybody touching things and then a new team coming in and touching things and the product

also, you know, if you have 40-man rosters or 30-man rosters and you're doing double-headers and we're talking Arizona versus, or we're talking Baltimore versus Royals and stuff like that. Like, that's very much money is the only thing on the mind there. And just we can sell two TV games instead of selling one, where if you have one nine-in-game and just less games, the product's going to be better. Yeah, I don't know. The Tigers Royals example is tough for me because those teams got to play. like you if it was two yankees redsox games we'd be excited and i think i'd be more excited for

one nine inning game than two seven inning games maybe because that seven inning game is going to be slop and the bullpins are going to get messed up it's just a money grab there again let's call this what it is it's 1,000 percent a money grab and this pitch that i assume is mainly from the owners and look players are losing a lot of money too so they want to play but again they're the ones they're going to have to like go in and actually do this so they're giving the logistics than the owner's side is the owner's side is like yeah again again we're not going to be there like so you guys want to yeah yeah go ahead like we'll pay your salaries but go ahead and do this crazy short in season and we'll sit back here and watch yeah it's wild i'm excited to see where it goes

from here. But this ain't happening. No. No. Do the Diamondbacks, do they have to stay in a hotel too? Yeah, because otherwise they can affect other people. Am I the commissioner of baseball? Yes.

Gummy Trevor did it. I figured it out. For better or for worse. Hopefully this doesn't backfire. And people are like, oh yeah, he did come up with that idea. Yeah, if they actually do it 10 players get Corona in the first week

and then they shut it down immediately and it's like Treb did this. Trevor Plufe. It's my bear to cross. They'll call it plufa. They'll call it plufo ploosa and it'll just be on you. Yeah.

Oh no. All right. Again, I'm like one of the owners. I'm just going to sit back and watch this damn thing so I'm okay with it. Yeah. It's wild. So we even talk about MLB

made a statement and was like, hey yeah this isn't that's true that's just fair fair we have to we have to put that in there actually forgot about that mb made it what did their statement say like hey calm down just joking basically like yeah hey this was not meant for public consumption we are just talking yeah it's just by the way this just yeah is an idea nowhere near making any decisions and i think i said this on radio show. I think MLB does this a lot. We talked about it with the brand new rules. Like, I think they use the general public as their focus group, or they just throw these ideas out there and then see the reaction and then tweak them from there. So I do. I forgot to bring up something.

And this is kind of, this is a late night thought for me. Okay. I was thinking about, let's say all this goes smoothly. And we're like, you know what, fuck it. Let's go play some games in Arizona, no fans what I propose they do to make it a little more realistic because not only do the players need this but I think the fan experience is better with this we are going to need to pump in crowd noise for these games oh yeah which means not only are we going to have to pump it in and it's artificial but we're going to have to have a crowd noise musician MC that is going to go and along with the game. If you make an air,

they're going to be like, oh, or if someone hits a home run, it's going to like, like they're going to have physically be playing this as the games are going on. Because if you just play in silence, that is horrible.

Yeah, the rays pumping crowd noise. They're used to this already. You got to do it because it's too boring to watch something without crowd noise or music or something. You can't just sit there and have these guys playing. Do you know the laugh, the laugh track,

the laugh box on old sitcoms was a guy who made an accordion that had like 50 different laughs, like a loud chuckle of a little, and he would play it like an instrument on the side of the stage. That's exactly what you're talking. That's what you're talking about. And I really think. Oh. And I'm like serious about this. Like it sounds stupid, but like you really need that crowd noise.

Like what are you going to do? Like big plays. like, guys just going to be in the dugout. You can hear the players. Yeah, it'd be great for breakdowns. You're going to hear every damn thing. And that's a huge thing in baseball. Like, when the stadium is quiet and you're in the dugout, you don't even want to breathe

because everyone can hear you. Like, you need the crowd noise so you can start yelling, start cheering, whatever it is. You got to have it. So that's my proposal. I'm sure MLB will be coming out with an article next week saying, oh, yeah, by the way, we're going to pump in crowd noise because I'm basically the commissioner. Grab a cup of coffee with me. It's 8 a.m. Memorial Day weekend.

You're watching the first game start of the day. You know, we've got five games that kick off at 8 a.m. Yeah, imagine that, Jake. Our lives would suck. Then you've got the two games that go back to back in Chase Field. You got the 1 p.m. and the 4 p.m. and then the night games kick off on the side fields. And it's just a full day of baseball, the only sport in town for four months.

Baseball is back, baby. I thought of, I just thought of all the beat reporters and the announcers and how miserable they would be. Yeah. And like the product. They're already so miserable. They're already miserable. So like after a week, they'd be like, uh, call had 10 strikeouts. I mean, that was one of the things I realized.

Like, I knew it, but then I really realized that when we were in spring training and we saw all the beat reporters every morning, those guys are miserable there. Yeah, yeah. And this would only heighten that sense of misery. And we can have a little, how about this? We have an area in and out of the stadium that's quarantine so the outside world can come in, but they're like zombies trying to get in.

I think that's great. It's basically Biodome, the old Pauly Shore movie, but with a baseball field. Now, if we have readily available testing, instant testing, why can't we have fans? I take a while to get into the fucking game. They're going to have testing for, yeah, for 15K to get in and out of a stadium every day. But what the fuck do I know? Martin Screlle is going to get his hand on those testing kits and just upcharge him 1,000%. I think if all it is a prick.

If all it is the prick of the finger and it's like a yes or a no thing, green or red light, and you get to go into the stadium, why can't you have fans? It's 2020. This was a buffer article for something else. And I'm excited to see what the next thing is because that's what I think. I think this was. Jeff texted you that. No, we should get him on the show.

We will. Would he come on here? This is a little risque for Jeff. Oh, Jeff loves it, dude. he gets to let his hair down and he drops a couple F bombs and he's like, yep, the pass man is here. And, you know, we aren't super well connected in baseball, but one of the owners we're friendly with, an extension of them, asked their thoughts on the plan and they said no chance. So even the owners who we thought were the bait on this may not be in it as well.

So I don't know. It reads like an onion article. The positive is maybe they're thinking about stuff. The reality maybe negative is that, hey, maybe this is step one of the cancellation plan. You know who's not thinking right now? Me. Jack Flaherty. Jack Flaherty.

God. Do you text him? Do you hit him up? I did. He's ready to pitch, man. He's single. Jack wants to mow. He'll find a way to smuggle in some girls.

He wants to mow most. motherfuckers down. He was boring. Two Moe motherfuckers down. He needs to do that. We don't normally take, you know, talking baseball here, but all right. So we've got guys that have, you know, they've been the big dick dude in their high school. Three years varsity, tall, handsome guy going to the minor leagues. You wish, bro, BDT. You know, they go on to the minor leagues.

They're networking with people and they're doing all right. They go to the show and they're networking. working with some nice people as well. I mean, athletes not being able to get butt for four months, that's the craziest part of this article. I've actually asked that question to a few of my single baseball friends. Sure. I'm like, what are you guys doing right now?

Yeah. Because look, this is a reality of the world. Like young guys, high tea guys, like, they're going to go out and they're going to do their thing. And I said, what are you guys doing? And I got, I think I asked that question of three guys and I got the same exact response from each guy. And it was like, man, I'm doing my best. May have slipped up once or twice, but I'm doing my best. Sounds about right.

That sounds about right. So, I mean, the location thing I think is the most overlooked part of it. Like we talked about families. Yeah, obviously those guys like, not only is going to be tough on them, but think about, you know, the wives having to be. to be away from their husband their kids have to be away from their fathers you know that's that's horrible but then yeah you go to that aspect the single guys you say oh they're probably going to be the best with it i don't know man i don't know i don't know high tea these guys got high tea you need better testing better testing better plans we need a vaccine yeah that'll come my hope was that we find

an existing vaccine that ends up working on this i think that's the quickest do you think there's a test group out there just trying shit like eating different barts of trees melting metal and putting it in their eyes we this is a money pod we talk about money a lot I mean that is gold whoever's doing this like you know I'm watching the press the press briefings

not every day but a lot and Johnson and Johnson they're doing this test and Trump likes to mention them a lot probably for other reasons too but let's go guys like I said before I believe in us I think we're going to figure this out I think it is going to be us that figures this out dude and I'm very confident in that do you think I would be so funny if like the scientist spends you know countless hours not sleeping and then it is something stupid like

hey if you uh get the tree of a mint get the bark of a mint tree and boil it up you're good yeah I mean that's that's hope because I I'm I'm going a little stir crazy now. Like I think everybody that's listening to this is probably going a little stir crazy now. And to be honest with you, I mean, the coastal, the coastal cities, we've been doing this much longer than the heartland. Like, once those people get a taste of the second and third week of kind of home isolation, I think people are going to be like, okay, I understand what's going on now a little bit more. Can we, we don't, this would be great if we did this late night gummy talk, but is, are, is this, I don't want to say sign.

dream because it's a nightmare. But, I mean, these nerds are racing to figure this out across, not across the country, across the world. That's insane. It's insane. I don't even know what you do or what the process is to create a vaccine. But I do, you know what? Let me back that up.

Okay. I have been doing some research on this, like, plasma transmission, like, people who have had COVID-19 who get the antibodies. You take their blood, you put their blood in you, should help you out. Maybe that's as simple as that. Going to get these people's antibodies in the blood, sprinkle a few of them in this and that, and then you just, is that stupid?

I wouldn't know. Genius to me. Genius to me. Did I just figure it out? Have we tried Sharpies? they could do something. Smelling Sharpies? Yeah.

Do you just go Sharpie route? Yeah. They're pretty strong. Did you go tree bark to melted metal in the eye to Sharpies? Yeah. Well, Sharpie because they. Sharpie fixed. Do you remember the story?

Sony spent like millions on how to make their CDs and DVDs not copyproof so you couldn't burn them. And then they released that to the public. And if you just took a Sharpie and drew a circle. on it, it totally took it took it off and you could burn them. They wasted millions. So maybe Sharpie. I'm just saying, try Sharpie. Try Sharpie.

Yeah. It's a new sponsor. That's it. Ploof said some stuff way too smart for me. I mean, I just, all I said was what I heard. So I was not, it was not an original thought. I just regurgitated some information. and sometimes when you do that,

people think you came up with it and it makes you sound smart. That's kind of like what I do. Yeah, I didn't even see the Sharpie thing was someone else. It was the CD people, so I can't even take credit for that. Although the gummy thought that was independent.

The gummy proposal was independent. I want to make sure that everyone knows that. For good or bad. This is my plan. I'm playing the wrap-up music. It was a great show by us discussing the article that took the baseball world by Storm today. Good job to everyone involved.

Commissioner, scientist, Trevor Pooke sucks.