Talkin' Baseball (MLB Podcast) - 179 | Series Recap: Teoscar is Mashin', Nate Pearson's Debut, Cleveland's Pitching is so Good

Episode Date: July 31, 2020

Big week for baseball! Teoscar Hernandez and Christian Vazquez (the usual suspects) had multi-homer games, baseball got mad at Joe Kelly, Nate Pearson debuted for Toronto, Shane Bieber is far from Cleveland's only good pitcher, and James McCann needs more at bats. 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 got another set of series in the books. That's what they say. Let's do it. What's going on, everybody? Welcome back to Talking Baseball. It's a series recap episode. My name's Jimmy.

I got Jake sitting next to me. We're coming to you live from the Roosevelt Studios. That's RSV-L-T-S. Baseball was in full swing. We had a bit of panic mode. We had a lot of good games, though. We had a lot of players come back. We even had a player opt-in.

we are getting reports that there's a player or there's players that are leaving and another game got postponed. So we're still dealing with it. But I'm excited. This felt kind of like a lot of good baseball. Yeah, we, you know, I kept referencing the Marlins news this week at the start of this week as a kick to the dick,

swift kick to the dick. This morning's news feels like a flick to the nuts, which, I mean, still hurts and sucks. interested to see what happens. It sounds like cards. Cards game just got canned due to some COVID. So we'll see what goes on there. You know, the journalists that want the season to be canceled so badly are, you know,

running hot right now. But yeah, man, I know it doesn't really matter for this, but basketball came back last night. Baseball had some good momentum going. The Dodgers stuff, Dodgers' stuff was incredible. It really felt like baseball was back the past 48 hours, which I like you. And, yeah, we'll see how this weekend develops. But otherwise, the past couple days have been really good baseball.

Yeah. Not for bullpens. That's my take. I think it was a bad week for bullpens. You know what that's funny? I was trying to dig into some of the bullpen stats to give them some love because it didn't seem like we could really. I didn't see a place where bullpins were getting love. And so much of this season has been bullpens.

but yeah, there wasn't a lot of love to give. As I was going around and looking, I was like, ooh, there's a lot of bad. I was looking for, like, a special reliever to come in and kind of sweat. Yeah. The best I had was Anthony Bass's 100% ground ball percentage so far this season. That's, I mean, come on. Keep twirling it, kid. Nothing in the air, babe.

Nothing. Nothing. Two innings. Nothing in the air. There are a lot of the reporters can't understand what's, happening and they're just getting you know i wish i could take them and pull them away from the weeds right a lot of them are like well what's gonna they're cancel games they're reschedule it's crazy it is crazy sit back and let it happen if it stops happening it'll stop happening

you know there's no need to like be in the moment on all these news and like react to every single one like it's crazy yes um i i i gave eno sarah some love with the athletic he his tweet summed it up. I don't see how it makes any sense at all to think that those whose living depends on sports, sports media, would be rooting against sports coming back.

Sports not coming back was a nightmare for me in a constant conversation with loved ones and colleagues. And it's like, yeah. And there's so many in the industry who want to fail. And that's... I don't even... I'm not even talking about wanting it to fail. They're just caught up into, oh, like, panic of it.

Right. And I message him. I was like, dude, doesn't mean anything coming for me, but like, thank you. Like, that message needs to be out there. And not a lot of people are willing to say it. And he's like, no, man, I appreciate it. And, like, it's obviously difficult, but, like, you know, kind of what are we doing?

And I was just like, yeah, you know, it starts turning into, like, a problem with this country. But it's like, yes, I want this to work. And I acknowledge there can be problems and it may not work. And, like, the other side, like, they just can't compute. So there's a couple. There's a couple where it's like every time something happens. Oh, my. So, and, again.

Again, like people that the players that get COVID wish the best for them, get healthy, all of that. But for now, Jim, I think we should talk some baseball. Yeah, can you let me know what happened in the Eastern region? I kept up with some. I didn't keep up with all. Are there any, like, fans that I should particularly devote this Eastern region to? Patreon. Oh, Patreon stuff.

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Keep it for the in the east for now. Okay, on your mark, get set. Here we go. Baseball buggy, retono on the ones and twos. Ooh. Oh, I wish I could see him playing this. Here, visualize this. You got it.

Okay, Jim's playing it for us. The New York Yankees end up in Baltimore in the AAU tournament. Teams got canceled, so let's play each other series. The Yankees, they win the first game, 9 to 3, Garrett Cole on the mound. Tough for Asherwo Juhowski. Yanks put up big numbers. One of the most boring games of the year.

Sorry Orioles fans. It just was Gary Cole. The follow-up game was not. We get a little rain delay. Jay Hap gets roughed up. The Yanks put up a five spot of their own in the first inning. We go to rain delay. We think it's going to get canceled.

Not so fast, my friends. A little Lee Corso, college football, maybe coming back. We come back. Johnny Luizaga looks good, but he gives up a homer late. Six, five Orioles. Yanks are going to lose it. Not so fast, my friend. Lee Corso again, college football. You getting canceled? I don't know. Yanks come back. Aaron Judge, with the big home run into the night. This city needs a hero.

Yanks take both games. And then in the rest of the East, Jim, we still have the Marlins and Phil sitting out for the COVID stuff. We had a couple home and homes, a little two games and two games. The Mets win both their games at home against the third. The Red Sox, 7483, it's like, okay. Michael Waka looked pretty good for the Mets. Mets are putting up big runs against the Red Sox pitching. Then they go to Fenway, load the bases in the ninth workmen.

Just put the ball in play, Mets. They can't do it. Sox get the win six-five in that kind of a pivotal game three. And then they win the final game four to. Christian Vasquez, looking incredible. Looking incredible. Good fight for the Red Sox there. Toronto, Washington, a home and home that both took place in Washington, because Toronto doesn't have a home reminder.

Toronto takes the first two games, 4-1 and 5-1. Baby J's putting up some nice runs, and when you hold the opposing team to one-run each game, that's good. And then one of the more fun games of the season happens after that in game three. Big Nate Pearson MLB debut versus Scher. That goes zeros into the 10th. Washington puts up a four-spot. And then they take the final game 6-4-2, so they split Atlanta, Tampa. 514 first game, Tampa, the Fultenevich DFA game.

That feels like a year ago. That feels so long ago. Tampa wins the following game 5 to 2. Atlanta called you out, said buckle up. And they did, they win the third game 7-4, and then Max Fried shoves as they win two to one in the finale finale to split as well. Good stuff, Jake. Thank you. Do you know who's in first place in the National League East?

In the National League East, who's in first place? It is the Braves? Marlins. That's right. 667 winning percentage. And since every team's not going to play the same amount of games this year, they may do the standings just by winning percentage. So the Marlins' 2 and 1 record is holding up thus far.

If you had a little troll in your, a little more troll in your game, that'd be a pretty good tweet this morning. Kyle will do it. Congrats to the Marlins. First in the NL East. That would really piss off some beat riders. The Braves have the most wins. Well, they said they're going to do winning percentage.

There has to be a cutoff at some point. Yeah. I don't know. You've got to play like 35 games. Yeah, we'll see. Maybe like 55. We'll see. But the Braves are ahead there.

And in the American League, the Yankees, I think the Yankees, and again, they haven't played the correct amount of games. But I think they're the only other team. No, the Rockies as well. So the Rockies and the Yankees are, the only team with only one loss. So the Yankees are ahead in the ALE East. And then the Ray's and the Blue Jays.

And the Red Sox are in fourth place. And that's kind of what you think. That's kind of how you thought it was going to be. They're tied with the Jays, three and four, Rays are four and three. Hey, good fight for the Red Sox. I know we're still in early season panic mode. If the Red Sox had lost that game to the Mets

and Workman comes in after his great year last year, I mean, it would have been bad. Like it was everyone was already killing the Red Sox staff. We were killing the Red Sox staff, rightfully so to a degree. But they come back and win two games. Good for them because they, I mean, the ship, like the ship could have just snapped in the middle of the ocean there. So they still got some fight. Good for you, Sox.

Three games against the Yankees coming up, so maybe they can get more fight. But I think they have their three, four, five going, which it means they have no one. Might see some runs in the Bronx this weekend. Yes. Hot takes, hot takes only. Good for the Braves. Yeah. Good for the Braves to come back a little bit. Yeah. I was going to say I called them out. Yeah, the Braves really care about that.

But they had to. You know, the faulty DFA was big. That was crazy. You're right. That does seem so long ago. He ends up getting option to AAA. Nobody picked him up. There's something going on. There's something going on. I think the big thing that we missed and it was just mentioned casually is the money. I think teams would rather just bring up a prospect with them. some spunk than a guy who lost a ton of there's some really shitty rumors going on that I don't know if you have heard about I've seen a little bit of it they're shitty but the pictures he looks like a different

human being so something's weird there could be something there um who knows a lot of speculation I but you don't even you don't necessarily need that I mean the guys lost a lot of stuff a lot of Velo and he gets paid money it's crazy that no one picked him up to do it's a yes and a no thing man I think the money is a bigger thing than you know, you normally, I think he's owed two and a half million the rest of the year or something, which, again, normally in baseball, doesn't seem like a lot. I think in this year, especially when teams have these player pools, they can dig into and pay a guy almost nothing to instead to have Fultenevich who looks terrible.

I think teams are just like, nah. And I was number one wrong there. I was like, oh, yeah, they're going to trade him and get something. But what if you're like the Red Sox and maybe you have some cap room and then you can pick them up And you can just have him be a project for this year. And then you've got two more years left. If you can get him back to where he is, you have him for two more seasons. But then you also owe him more money.

Because, I mean, he's only going to make more money. You can't come down. You can just DFA him. But you'd still owe him the money. Yeah, I guess so. So, yeah, I think the money was more of a factor there than we think. It still sucks for him. He probably thought he was going to get picked up.

And honestly, I don't know if this is, I was going to say Braves bias. We never got accused of that. Um, maybe this is good for him. Maybe this, he, he stays in Atlanta. Maybe it's a wake up call for him that nobody wanted him. That's got it. For $2 million. It better be.

You know, you're crazy. You're a guy, you know, you have an ace. You're always going to think of yourself as an ace. Look at Matt Harvey. That was that low blow. Fulty, you know, maybe it's a good, hopefully it's a good look in the mirror for him. Yeah. Anything else we miss that we get yelled at?

Toronto, Washington. Again, Toronto played two home games in Washington to finish the series. Home team won. And yeah, that Nate Pearson, Max Scherzer game is really cool. We've talked about a lot throughout the talking baseball network a little bit. But very cool. Nate Pearson pumps gas, rookie for the Jays. You know, Scout Scherzer's game.

Is that the way to say it? Well, he had like two plus pitches and he said he looked at all the best pitchers in baseball and they had more than two plus pitches. Huge. So smart move by Nate Pearson there. And then he, I mean, he didn't even use, like, he never hit 100, and he can hit 100 pretty easily. His slider was like three miles per hour or less.

And they think he was just trying to dial back, not that there's something wrong. And he really only went, this was going to be my award, so I'm walking over it. Okay, okay. We'll save it a little bit. But a cool game to circle if you're a baseball fan that if Nate Pearson does pan out,

It'll be funny to say his first start was against Scherzer and they went zero for a while. It's pretty cool. It's a great debut. So that's cool. All right, let's move it on to the Central. You want to start us off? I'll start us off and then you finish. How about that?

Teamwork. Open day. The Chicago Cubs go and face the Cincinnati Reds. The Cubbies win the first game 8 to 7. Cubs went up 7-0. Reds with a little fight and a little Kimbrough collapse. The Cubs come back when they come back from a collapse in a game they won. They win the next game, 8-5, Amir Garrett's on the internet, saying, hold up, Reds fans, like, stay in this with us.

And luckily, they respond well to that 12-7 win. And Moose and Nick Senzel, the big prospect for them. He returns. So Cubs take two or three. Cubs, man, that lineup looks good. Chicago White Sox versus Cleveland, they get rained out, and then we get a double header. Let's fly too, though, say. Cleveland takes both.

And if you look at the box score, there's a lot of Lindor and a lot of Preachau. and a lot of pretty good Cleveland pitching, which Trevor Plouffe has started to eat crow on early. Got Cleveland pitching. Speaking of, the next game, Gialito and Plesack duel at zeroes into the ninth. The White Sox put up a four spot in the night. So good for them. They salvage the series for themselves.

And then Milwaukee versus Pittsburgh. A nice little Milwaukee rally in the ninth slash a Files blowup, and then they win it in extras. Ms. Sogar, RBI double. Milwaukee wins six five. Pittsburgh takes the middle game 8 to 6. Good for them. Milwaukee Woodruff shoves.

3-0-0 win in the final game. Jim? Pick me up. Kansas City and Detroit played four games. The Royals won three of them. And then the Twinkies swept the cards in a two-game set. A five-run inning in the first game seems like that's how the twins's offense is going to operate. We'll just get all of our runs in in one inning and just you guys will then quit. And also for the twins, Homer Bailey and Rich Hill got both starts.

They both got the wins. he'll pitch pretty well. They were kind of a gamble, pick up, older guys, injuries, and all that going on. Cool to see them get it done in the rotation. They win two. Some more series have started on Thursday, but they will be the next series recap. That's everything that happened in the Central. Yeah.

If you're wondering why we didn't mention Shane Bieber. He'll come up. Unfortunately for us, he'll circle up on the Monday episode. God, he's gnarly. Jim, that's a really good point. And something I didn't compute is that when the twins signed Rich Hill, he was hurt and he wasn't going to be there until like mid-season. Yeah.

I just hadn't computed that yet. Yeah, yeah. That's turned into kind of a perfect signing for them. And it was like they needed just like professional arms in their rotation. And both of them, both guys, Homer and Rich gave him those games. I mean, Rich Hill, I think he went like five innings zero around one hit or something crazy. He can still twirl it, man. Standings in the Central.

Who is winning the A.L. Central? Do you know? Okay. So I was about to have it in front of me. I don't. I would assume the Indians, they've been playing good. Five and two. Yeah.

They are five and two. The twins are four and two. And in the nationally, the Cubs are ahead. Reds are in last. But I mean, obviously that's close. How easy is the Indians formula? Let Lindorne Ramirez be studs. I was trying to tell Trev as hard as I could.

To be fair to him, he underestimated the, the young not known guys. You know, he was given Beaver and Cleve's some love, not enough. But they have these other young guys that it's just a pitching factory. And he's already, like, turned on that. So credit to Trevor. He didn't anchor in and digging his heels. And, dude, I know we can't dive into Beaver now,

but, like, I personally underestimated Beaver. Did you see his tunneling chart? I didn't see the tunneling chart. Every single pitch came from the same slot and headed the same exact, and then broke at the end. It's a highlight reel that you can show a fan who's not familiar with baseball and say, oh, like he's just pepper in the mitt and the curveball just drops. So he looks special.

And I guess that's what I'm saying. Like I was kind of a Clevenger guy like, oh, yeah, he could, you know, he could be A.L. Sigh Young pretty sneakily. He could get in there. And maybe he does, which would be cool. But that's a lot of that's for next time. Yeah, it wasn't part of this series. We talked about it.

It's over. Let's just skip straight ahead. We got a lot of awards to go. Let's go straight to the west. I'll tell you what happened, right? Going back home to the west coast. Yep. Arizona and Texas split a two-game set.

Merrill Kelly wins game one for the debacks. Lance Lynn deals and wins game two for Texas. How about that? Nice split. People like that. Another two-game set, the Dodgers sweep Houston. Joe Kelly did some stuff, and the second game went 13 innings. Correa had a really good series.

I believe Altuve and Bregman had a terrible series. I'm not sure. Dodgers fans, maybe that's redemption for them. Probably not enough, but it was fun for them to see it. Seattle and the Angels squared off for three games. Rendon comes back. Hits a homer. Mike Trout leaves.

He had a baby, paternity leave. Congratulations, Mike. That's awesome for you. But Seattle did take two. Bundy got lit up and a guy on Seattle's going off. He'll probably get many. mentioned a little bit. Colorado came to Oakland and took two games from the A's.

Yep. The Rocky scored in eight of the 18 innings, Jake. Which it doesn't sound like a lot, eight of 18, but have you actually like look at both games? They peppered their runs throughout, like they scored early, they scored in the middle, they scored late. Oakland pitching just didn't really have much going on. And also in California, the Padres Young and Fun tour went to the city by the bay and put on a display. You like that? Oh, I love that.

Fun baseball galore. They won, they won two. They lost the middle game on a walkoff by Yaz, who's going off. And I ran into this stat. If the games ended after seven innings, the Padres would be seven and oh. Even games they win, that bullpen is starting to blow it. And you gave me credit because they added to the bullpen. It looked good the first time through. But yeah, they've had some trouble there. And that's that. Yeah. And they've run into some peskiness.

Those giants have been more pesky than we've thought. Man, let me jump to my rocks. Your first place, Rockies. Let me jump to my Rockies. Know what helps. As of yesterday, they led the league in ERA. Today, they're second to the Cleveland Indians. Cleveland's 183 ERA.

Rockies are 184. Yeah. So it's a lot easier to win baseball games when you're doing that. good for my rocks four and one for them they needed that start the Colorado fans did yeah congrats to Mike trout and having a baby yeah it's awesome um hey do you want to know some an interesting fun pack about the west sure no one in the aOS has a winning record wow astros are three and three aes are three and three mariners are three and four wowsers wowsers bowser uh Seattle i think they no they didn't come back in the second game but they came back

in that middle game. And again, Mariners, what we were trying to tell you is, like, there's some young dudes to be excited about. And we're starting to see them play well. He'll brought them in awards. L.A., you can't lose that second game. You went up big on the Mariners at home. And Bundy settled down, my guy.

So proud of him. And, dude, you know, dumb, dumb 2020 tweet. This week has been a long month. because the Dodgers Houston stuff even seems long. Yeah, and just to remind people, the big topics, the seven-inning double-headers, Joe Kelly, which we somehow forgot about last week with Treb, the Corona stuff, all these big topics that need a breadth of

a lengthy discussion, that happens on the Trevor tidbits so we can get Trev's insight so we can get his tidbits and we can really, like, slow it down. This is really just a series recap review episode with some awards. Yeah. And I think anyone else I want to talk about, I think we're going to talk about in the standout performances in Fuego. So let's move on.

Esket it. To the standout performance. Standout performance. Do you want to go first? Uh, sure. I don't mind. Have at it. Um, I'm going with my guy.

Te Oscar Hernandez. Wait, really? Yeah. Yes, yes. And I'll tell you like him. As your standout. Yes. He, over the past series of games, he had the most home runs.

He had two two home run games. And why that stands out to me, Jim, is because if you have a guy who has two, two home run games, you're going to win some of those games. And, yeah, he just, he led, you know, when people talk about the baby Jays, Tayasca Hernandez comes up, what, fifth or sixth? Gobigio, Vlad, Bichette. I think Guriel gets mentioned before him. So Teoscar Hernandez has some serious pop in his bat.

I love watching him play with the ball comes off his bat violently. And, yeah, I mean, four homers led MLB baseball over these past series of games. So I gave him the nod. You know, there were some other guys with, you know, some higher on base and this, that, and the other. give me some dingers from Teosker. Okay. He's chasing 20, baby. We'll get there.

Teaser. We'll get there. That's your standout. That's my standout performance. Teoscar Hernandez from the Baby Jays. All right. My standout performance is Zach Plesack. Yeah.

And it's kind of what you said. Like Cleveland's got pitching. We know about Clevenger. We know about Beaver. Even Cookie Carrasco had a great start his first time through. Plisak is sitting there and the White Sox come in and they're like, oh, okay, you know, it's not Bieber. It's not Cleve.

kind of is. It kind of can be. Police sacks the real deal. I mean, he faces the White Sox lineup, which has been pretty good. He goes eight innings pitched, three hits, 11 strikeouts, hands the ball to the bullpen for just, you get the last three. Yeah. I'm kind of over it.

I mean, Cleveland's rotation's deep, and he's just reminding everyone. This is what I got in the Arsenal, too. I'm Jim, you started it. I followed you up, and I'm glad we're on. this early. Cleveland is going to be a scary team this year. Because, yeah, Beber and Clevenger, obviously, if you're a baseball fan, you're familiar with these guys. But in a three-game playoff series, if it goes three, yeah, you can Carascoe, Savali, Pluco, Plesack. You can put a game together really easily. James Carkincheck is a guy who's kind of special out of that

bullpen. So Cleveland is becoming scarier and scarier by the day. Tried to tell everyone. Jose Ramirez and Lendor. Carlos Santana just gets on base. He doesn't even really pump it in there. His average velocity on his fastball in this game was 92 miles per hour. Yeah. But fastball slider. Gets you out.

I mean, Sevali. You know what I mean? You think power stuff. And it's not exactly power stuff. Savale's not a big strikeout guy, but he's just only gotten dudes out in major leagues. And yeah, man, I mean, well, I won't deep dive into their lineup now.

But go check out some of those guys on base percentages. He had, I think he pitched eight innings. He had six of them. or one, two, three innings. That's good. You love a clean inning. I mean, I think it keeps momentum. You know, you get bored as a fan.

You're like, well, whatever, I'll just wait for the bats. The guys run out to the field. They stand around. Like, you know, the fourth inning, they ran out to the field. Zach, Pletecke struck out the side. And then they came back and they got the hit. It's just so deflating as the team hitting. Yes.

That's what's the most. One, two, three. As a team hitting, you don't even get someone on base. You never sit closer in your chair as a fan of the opposing team. Yeah. You're just kind of like, well, this sucks. Yeah.

Bummer. And Gialito, you know, he's going against Gialito, who gets a lot more, gets a lot more attention. Yeah, and Gio Lido shoved, and he does deserve some credit. That's who he's supposed to be in that White Sox team. And he kept them in it through six. So shout out to him. Police Act, though. I mean, that's a special day at the office.

Yeah. Oh, we still don't have the sound bite for this, but what's the dirt? How's it go? Dirt. N'Fuego. The means on fire, baby. Like Wago. I put a bunch of guys on the Enfuego in the Enfuego list today.

Kyle Lewis. Yeah. I mean, these numbers are jarring because we're still seven games deep, six games deep. Sure, sure, sure. Kyle Lewis in Seattle, in the series against the Angels, he went seven for 14. Yeah. 500 batting average. On the season, he's 13 for 29.

Yeah. He has a hit in every game. I love that the most part. I love this. In five of the seven games, he has multiple hits. And in six of the seven games, he's been on base twice. Yeah. He's a problem right now.

And again, this is, you know, the Mariners fans were getting all excited about Kalanick. Wait on him. You know, it's not time to call him up. They've got that other big pitching prospect. Get excited for Kyle Lewis. He's looking like the real deal right now. And that's how you can build something in Seattle. if you find a couple guys this here, maybe him and Evan White, or, you know, J.P. Crawford has been slapping it around a little bit.

That's how you start to build something. So when Kalanick comes up, it can matter. Do you know what college you went to? Kyle Lewis, I do not. Cali guy? I mean, come on, you really don't? Andy? Same college as Dimitri Curtis. Oh, oh.

And Howard Joe. Oh, Howard Johnson. No, Howard Jones. Oh, Howard Joe. Howard Joe. Howard Joe. Mercer. Mercer, okay, yeah, yeah.

He has... Oh, he's a Georgia boy. He has the most hits out of any Major League Baseball player that went to Mercer College. That's a quote that I haven't said in a long time. This is an old old Ben Watson quote. Champ Bailey caught him in an old AFC championship game. There's like 100 yards. There's a whole thing.

He almost blew the game. And they both went to University of Georgia. Everything I said. was kind of wrong. Okay. But it did go to Mercer. They interview him after the game and like, hey, that was cool, but you almost blew it. And he goes, ha, you know one of my Georgia boys had to catch me.

It's like, nice, dude. Good, good unity. Billy Burns has the most hits anyone that went from, that went to Mercer. That's just because they won't let Corey Guerin hit yet. Yet. And Cootveal. What a name. Co. C-O-T. C-O-T. C-Vil.

And Brad Hogg. It's like my Saturday night. Imagine if Cootveal and Brad Hogg. I got married. Coot Hog? Now that's a Fama name. It's a cute hog. Christian Vasquez has been raking, Jim.

He's in Fuego right now. Good for him. I've been telling BBD off the record, slash on the record. Basically, everything we do has a mic in front of us. He's fun, man. If he wasn't a Red Sog, I'd be a pretty big Christian Vasquez guy listed 5-9,

which means he's 5-8. Three homers in the series this week. Pegged a couple bass runners, too. The Yaz Show, man. Yostremski's been going nuts, nut job. He was my backup for standout performance. Same. Same is my backup.

Tough. Seven for 12. That's brutal. Yeah, he was both. He was placed number two. He had seven for 12, two doubles, three. No, he had a double, a triple, and two home runs. I think he's over the past series.

He led an OPS. He's doing it all around. I mean, three walks, a couple homers, triple double. He is a problem right now. reminder, the Orioles, I think just waived him last year. Orioles. Come on. Well, not.

They're not smart. Guys, be better than that. I got two pitchers on here, Jake, that you put on much to Yankees fans chagrin. Ooh, I love this. A little double. Two guys that came to the Bronx and didn't, you know, didn't, well, Sonny was a bad. I liked Lance Lynn as a Yankee. I thought he was fine.

He did what he was asked for, basically. But, you know, they didn't give him their ace stuff. Lance Lynn and Sonny Gras. Gray. They both go six innings pitch, zero earned runs again, only one hit. Sunny goes six and two thirds, one hit, zero earned runs. I think there were some runs in Sunnis, but zero earned runs. Lance Lynn, six innings pitched, one hit, zero earned runs. On the season, both of these guys have 12 innings pitched with one earned run for Sunny, zero earned runs for Lance. Lance has gone out there and gone six innings pitch, zero earned runs back-to-back games for the Rangers.

We say it multiple times. Go check out Lansland's like baseball reference. He's really good. He's underrated. And all he's been doing, I think we made it a hitting term this year, but he's just been dropping dick all over the field.

Hasn't given up an earn run. Sunny Gray is breaking MLB records. Just devastating Brian Cashman and Yankee hearts. Dude, he's throwing his fastball even more. Like in these two starts, he's thrown his fastball 64% of the time. He's confident. I mean, that's all.

that's not all it is. He's also very talented. Dude, check this out. Lance Lynn, it's so funny. So in these starts so far, he has thrown um, he throws four pitches, right?

Yep. A four seam fastball, a cut fastball, and a two seam fastball. And then a curveball. How many times do you think he's thrown the four seamer? We're about 200 pitches, has been thrown.

Tough to say Just guess 50 times 134 There you go Like only throws a four seam fastball Pumping it And 12 innings pitch

Zero earned runs two hits Believe in it Trust it So good for Lance He's on fire Oh I thought you said Sunny That makes a lot more sense No I was doing Lance

Gotcha That would have changed my answer a lot Yeah that's why I was so thrown off I was like you're asking me Sunny Gray's pitches He has like five And he mixes them all up I was like, that was a really dick question.

Yeah, no. The Lance Lynn question. I felt that energy. You thought I was setting you up for failure. Yes. It's pretty easy. Just guess a high number. Yes.

Okay. Okay. Well, that works out. I feel better. Well, now that we're here, let's do Sunny Gray's pitch mix. Okay. Dude, it's funny. Like, Sunny Gray, he's thrown quick math, 120, 160, 165 pitches, roughly.

Yeah. The most common is a four-scene fastball act. 54 times. Sinker 46, slider 40, curveball 39. Yeah, you would have had Sunny Wright. So I feel a lot better. Always with this list, there's going to be a couple just misses, just missed.

Is that a sound effect? Woodruff shoved, credit to him. Max Fried had a drop-dick game. And there's a lot of hitters, Jim. You kind of said this on the pregame show the other day. If you guys haven't been watching the pregame show, go check it out. It's kind of been... 20 minutes, really fast.

We turned a corner. The first couple days the Marlins News kept us down, but now it's an absolute electric factory. The hitters are ahead of the pitchers right now. They caught up and they passed them. There was so many hitters that had like really good stats. Our Aaron Judge, Donovan Solano, Jacoby Jones, Castellanos. Who else jumps out? I want to give Tim Anderson some love. He's back at it. A lot of the analytics guys gave him crap for being the bad. Yeah. It was bad. But whatever. It puts the bomb play. That could also be like what he does.

does, you know? Yeah. So, uh, good job, everyone who's playing well. Yep. You want to do race to 20 before Solimpa Watch? Let's do the race to 20. All right. As you guys know, over here at John Boy media, we teamed up with Roosevelt's RSVLTS.com slash John Boy. You got a bunch of shirts. Tons of baseball stuff. Where's our gift package? Yeah, we're expecting a box of 200 items that they sent us. We'll get that eventually because we placed a bet that someone will hit 20 home runs this season. A lot of doubters said no because the bats are going to start off slow. The bats haven't started off slow. I'm getting more and more confident with this bet.

So here is your Roosevelt's Homer Board update. We have 54 players that are two home runs or more after six games. Hey. Yeah. That's nice. That's a good amount. That's a nice pace. That's a good amount.

We have 10 guys that have hit three home runs or more. So I'm going to highlight those guys. Jonathan's scope for the Tigers. Rio Ruiz for Baltimore. Rizzo for the Cubs. Max Muncie has three. Colin Moran for Pittsburgh has three. Jacoby Jones.

He's got three. Nelson Cruz has three all in the same game. Yeah. That's interesting. It's all takes. Miggy Caps. Yeah. How about that?

He had two yesterday? Yeah. To jump him up to leaderboard. And then our two leaders right now, two guys have hit four home runs so far. Everyone has this, though. Everyone knew it. Christian Vasquez, the light hitting catcher in Boston, and Teosker Hernandez.

They both have four home runs each. I don't think, so the top three right now, Teosker, Christian, and Miguel, I'm still betting against it to be any of those three guys that breaks 20. Yeah, I mean, I don't know. I think the names that are looking interesting this week, Nelson Cruz, Moncee, Rizzo, sneaking in there. He's looked pretty good as long as they're playing. But yeah, man, it's still funny in the scope of this early season. I mean, you know, Stanton's played five games. He's got two home runs.

So, yeah, I think it is funny to look at right now. I wouldn't be surprised if a week from now we see a couple more traditional names towards the top of the league. After the weekend, will we have anyone that has six? Ooh, after the weekend, will we have? So that would be three games. I'm going to say no, but we'll have, I'm going to say no, but we'll have a few fives. That's easy. We're going to have fives.

A few fives. Yeah. You don't think we'll have a six? BPD, do you think we'll have anyone? I think. Why not? There you go. That's a spirit.

That's a spirit. Yeah, this is funny stuff, man. Whoa. Jake dropped a quote on everyone earlier and I'm going to let the audience know because there's no way when you said, Miss, Missisota, Bird. So I think, do you know what that's from, BPD? I think you told me. I did it.

I think I did it on Waken Jake this week. You drop it a lot and no one's ever going to know what that's from. It's a Matt Damon impression. Of McConaughey. Of McConaughey. Unlike Fallon or Kimmel late night. Yeah. Talking about Aaron Soderberg, the producer.

The director. Director. He's joking that McConaughey always wanted his shirt off in every scene. He was like, Miss Sotaberg. Miss Sotabberg. I got to take my shirt off on this scene. Jake, He drops that all the time.

Minnesota. It's really good. It's worth YouTubeing Matt Damon, McConaughey impression. Fallon or whatever it is. Yeah. All right. That's the Homer Board. That's good.

I'm confident we're going to get 20. How about Jacobi Jones? You picked him in the Homer draft this week? Well, by proxy. Right. Yeah, I crowdsourced the pick. Did he hit one? Good for Colin Moran.

He was like the biggest piece in that Garrett Cold to Pittsburgh trade, which is like four man piece. Yeah, good for him. Well, Julie Diamond shout out in the chat. Let's keep it going, babe. All right. Uh-oh. Next up, Slump watch.

Some housekeeping. Ryan McMahon was on Slump watch last week. He's off back-to-back two-hit games. Good job, kid. Congratulations. Acuna, I'm taking him off for now. Keep your eye on him. But he's off.

He's not good. Chris Brian, I believe he's off. Otani. He had a home run. He's off. Paxson didn't pitch, so he's still on. Pete Alonzo's off. Gialito.

off. Yeah, good job, guys. So I'm deleting all those or BD, delete them for us. Now, we have some additions. Yeah. And we got a big one. Didn't we have a sound effect for like, Caught Me a Marlin or like what? Oh, yeah. Last season, we had something

when you got a big one. A big fish. Something like that. Yeah, we got Yelich. Arguably the biggest fish. Arguably, MVP, Yelich. He's 0, he went 0 for 14 against the Pirates in this three game set, and he's won for 27 on the season.

I'm pretty confident when he comes off Slump Watch, he's going to be, maybe he goes from Slump Watch to Enfuego. We also had a name for that. I forget all the terms we had last season. When someone went, what was the term? Sure. Reach out, let us know. It was like from Stink to...

Oh, I forget. Stink to Stank. From... Oh, yeah, yeah. I'll figure it up by the end of the show. It's like tired to fire loser to user no yeah it was something like that we had a term for it I forget anyway yell it yeah man tough start

brutal start uh we got cabin biggio on here doing it bizio he started the first series cabin did pretty good but these four game set versus the nationals one for 17 for 17 when we interviewed him flex uh he said the stat that he likes to actually track for himself is batting average which was surprising because he's a on base guy but he says if his batting average is above a certain number. And that number is probably way lower than you're thinking in your head. Everything else is going to be there.

So keep an eye out for him. Cole Calhoun, your guy, Jim. The Arizona kid back in his home state, having fun to pick up. He went 0 for, he has zero hits in his last eight games. They still call him the Arizona kid? Well, he's from Arizona. Yeah, I know. So maybe.

Arizona kid. Yeah. Cole Calhoun. Zero hits in last eight games. O for his last 17. This next one is kind of tough, but it's right. And I also think he led all hitters. All hitters in strikeouts?

No, he was second. Dude, Akuna is still on Slump Watch, man. Is he? Yeah. I thought he, well, did he play yesterday and do bad again? Andrew Pelham in the chat said he was making solid contact yesterday, but got unlucky. I think he's on for now. And Yelage needs some company.

Okay. What was it when they went from Slump Watch to Enfuego? We had a term. It was like someone from like, you know. to ha. Lame to flames? I forget what it was. Ooh, that's close.

That's close. Oh, God. We could just get a... No, no, no, no, we can't. I mean, we can just go listen back. Someone will remember. I want to... I want a Coon you to stay with Yelich.

Yelich needs another guy to stay with him. Yeah. Yeah. I mean, he had a 3.53 on base percentage in this series. From cold to bold. That wasn't it? It's something with flames or fire. Yeah, you listen to me?

Like, he didn't get a lot of hits, but he hit balls hard, but he was on base five times in four games. He had a 353-on-based percentage. So, like, I just think- Watch him, but. I just think he shouldn't be off. It's not O for 17. The body of work is still a 429 OPS. He climbed the ladder. Not out the hole yet.

I want to keep him there. I just want to make sure we check up on him next time. Okay. That's fine. We can allow it. Who else do we have on this? Shame to flame. Shame to flame?

I think so. So I was close. with lame to flame. I think so. Flame triggered like one of those like person who's in a coma and then they say the magic word and like the brain starts working.

Everyone knows that scene in the movie, Jake. Literally eat bugs. What else do you got? Do we have anyone else on here? I got Cron, Cron. Cron, yeah. Oh, for 12. Bad.

He's got the second most strikeouts in baseball too. Ronald Le Cunia. Yeah, but he's kind of like we don't care watch. Sure. Jesus. Jake don't agree so quickly. Edwin Diaz?

Is he on here? Is he just on here? Kind of until he's not. Yeah, no, no, no, no. Because he got the save, then he blew the next game with the Ozuna home run. We talked about it. But did you see what happened? I think he's not going to be the closer next time around.

Makes sense. I believe, if I remember correctly, Diaz came out versus Boston yesterday, and like gave up a single, then walked a guy, then hit a guy, got one out, and then they just. just straight up yanked him from the game. And I think the quotes by the Mets manager was like, something's got to change. Something's got to change.

And yeah, this is a... So this is what happened. He walked Verdugo. Chavis hits a single. Ben and Tendi walk. I think Ben Intentany should be on Slump Watch, too. Isn't he having a brutal season? I think he had a big get on base.

I think he, this past series, I think he had the most walks of anyone in baseball. He strikes out Devers. then he hits Parraza, and then they just took him out. Yeah. They're like, get this guy out of here. They bring in Paul Seawald, and he throws six pitches and gets out of the inning just fine. And I believe the quotes were like, we're out.

So watch what's going on with Edwin Diaz. Man, should have thrown that slider to Ozuna. I feel like we should have one pitcher on here, but no one's got the big blowup. Yeah, I was looking, and it's kind of a lot of pitchers that, like, of course, you know. No one like... See like a Luke Weaver, Hendricks is. tough after his first start. Riu?

Has he made multiple starts now? Yeah, two starts, ADRA. Yeah, put Riu on there. Okay, let's put Riu on there. I mean, I was watching him closely this season anyway. Is there a reliever? Like Pagan for the Padres. I think he's having...

I think Diaz just gets the reliever hole. Yeah, but I think that might be rude to Pagon. Okay, your call. I mean, I like Pagon. Emilio, but I believe his last couple outings are brutal. His pagan ways. So he's got five earned runs in 3.2 innings as a reliever. And he's got two blown saves out of four opportunities.

Blown save. So, yeah, I'm going to put a guy on there. I think he's got the talent. I'm fine with that. He's got the talent to get off quickly. That's why I don't want to put a guy on there that I don't think can get off. And there's a lot of pitchers that fit that criteria. criteria. Okay. You know?

I think it's a tough break, but it happened, Emilio. Sorry. Yeah. Get yourself off. Ooh. Quote that. What about Boyd? You want to put him on here? As a starter? Nah. You don't care? His stock fell? They should have traded him. Rew's more important. They should have traded him, huh? Reu's more important. I mean, he goes five innings pitch four and runs back-to-back

games. Better than what Ria's been doing. Yeah, but it's significantly. It's the Royals. Yeah. They'll run, Jim. You know that. I know. I know. I'm just saying. saying Boyd's supposed to be really good. Solar power, baby. Boyd's stock has dropped faster than. A little bit. It's two starts. Like one good start and Boyd stats can look fine. But that's why I'm saying I think he did- Riu can't.

What do you mean? Like if Riu has a good start, his numbers are still going to be bad. You want me to go to ERA calculator.com and put a complete game shutout from Rew? I mean, you can. Still going to be bad. You can do that for Boyd. And his numbers would be like really good. That's my point. They're the same to me. No. They're not. It's my team. Okay. All right. Boyd's not on Slump Watch. Boyd. I'm watching his next start.

I had your fucking back. Because they still want to trade that. Don't make me look stupid. They still want to trade that guy. Matthew Boyd. No, you're saying he's so bad that he doesn't belong on Slump Watch. No, no, no. I'm saying his performance doesn't belong on Slump Watch. Like, if he goes out and has a decent Matt Boyd performance, like if he goes six innings, one-earned run, like his season stats are kind of on par for Matthew Boyd. I think so.

I believe so. I mean, what's reuse your area right now? Eight. His is 720. Better than 420. They're pretty similar. I mean, five innings for, I mean, that's almost a Johnboy. No.

Yeah. Uh-uh. Yes. But there's a hard cutoff, and that's not it. Well? So there's no almost in the Johnboy stat. I'm just, well, just telling you. Matthew Boyd.

He'll show. I agree. That's why I think he can get off. But he's currently on, in my mind. Let's just move it on. Move it on. Who got mad, Joe Kelly got mad? Yeah, big time.

Actually, Joe Kelly didn't get that mad. No. He's kind of, he got kind of weird about it. Yeah. Baseball got mad. They suspended him for way too long. Baseball got big mad.

That's ridiculous. It's an unprecedented suspension. We'll ask Treve about it on the next show. Moving on to Awards. I'm going to go first because it's not a great award and it kind of got stepped on already. And my award last episode was fantastic. so I don't feel pressure to have another fantastic award.

It's the Great Person Award, and it's a joke that I stole straight. Some nice award. It's a joke I stole from Houdie Glaber, shout out. Or was it Foolish Baseball? Someone tweeted out, Nate Pearson, more like Great Person. It's a good tweet. And I liked it. And it would be really funny if his nickname became Great Person.

Is this guy's nickname? Great person. Great person. Great person on the top. What is that about? No, Nate Pearson made his debut. It's a debut that people pop their eyeballs out for. It's supposed to be an impressive debut.

He's supposed to be the real deal. He's supposed to be a mainstay in the rotation. They did lose the game. He did go against Scherzer, like we said. He didn't use his full arsenal. And the pitches that he did use, he didn't even use them to their full potential. And he still pitched really well.

He's so young-looking. Yeah. It's like that Trent Thornton on the Blue Jays look. The baby Jays. That's the look they got going on. They don't look good. So Nate Pearson wins the Great Person Award. Yeah, man.

Excited for him. Excited for Blue Jay fans. You know, hopefully Ryu can get off Slump Watch. And yeah, Nate Pearson look good. I mean, if there's a, I mean, a good rookie debut, that's it. Against Scherzer and all that. Yeah. It's fun.

And it counts as a home game. Jim, that's funny. You and I, we don't really share our words beforehand. Yeah. So I'm going to go to my second award. Because it's kind of tied to this. Okay. I'm going with the Get Roman Award.

Okay. We had a funny conversation in the office yesterday about what Roman the company does. Yeah. Swipes for your winky and some balding stuff and, you know, male needs. Yeah. I guess. Male life enhancements. And we kind of weren't sure.

I'm giving it to Max Scher. Oh, wow. How about that? You think he needs numbing cream for his dick? No. I'm basically saying he doesn't. Jim, we were in the game logs. That's where we got a lot of our stats.

So you don't think he needs it? I don't think he needs it. I think, yeah. Only one pitcher in Major League Baseball over the age of 35 through more than five innings. It was Max Scherzer. Scher went 7.1. Only four pitchers total went seven innings.

or more. Dude, bullpins are being, like... It's a new era of baseball, obviously. And it's the 30-man rosters, but bullpen's got... They're getting overused. That's what I'm trying to say. They're getting put on display in a bad way. They're getting...

The opposite of showcase. Managers are so excited to use the 30th guy in their pen. And then it's like, oh, turns out that dude, not great. It's like free money to them. So, yeah, the end of the bullpins are getting roughed up. But yeah, man, only four starters went seven or more innings. It's Scherzer Merrill Kelly, shout out. And then Plessack and Bieber.

So, I don't know, it's just funny when you line up all the starts from the past few days, the only old man on the board who could give a performance more than five innings. Scherzer. And so he could have easily been on Enfuego. He goes 7.1, 10Ks. He goes toe to toe with the young stud Nate Pearson. Mad Max still got it. So he doesn't, you gave him the Get Roman Award, but it sounds like it's-

Everybody else needs to get Roman. To keep up with Scherzer? Yes. Oh, okay. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I get it now. Yeah. I get it now.

Shers doesn't need it. You got to know. Shurz doesn't need it. My God. It'd be really funny, I think, if Scherzer got colored contacts and switch the colors of his eyes one game. I too think that'd be funny. And then, like, everyone would be like, whoa, hold up. Isn't the left one usually blue and the right ones usually red or whatever the colors are?

Yeah. That'd be good. One of his eyes isn't red. I'll confirm that. No, but it has a very reddish look to it. Reddish hue. Feel it in my plums. Do you have your second award?

Do we do two awards? We usually don't do two awards. So, no, I don't have a second award. Damn. Join to make one up real quick? Kind of. Okay. Do you want me to do my second award?

Well, you think of it? Yeah, yeah, you do your second award. So this was going to be my first award, and if I knew we were one award show, I probably would have stayed with this. I'm giving out the, wow, you can really dance award. Because all of you guys know, I'm a huge TikTok guy. It goes to Byron Buxton. Byron Buxton made a great play the other day.

All-Based, were drooling over it because he covered so much ground, and he could have even covered more. What's interesting about my award, it's presented by Kevin Kiermeier. Oh, wow. Kiermire came out with this tweet the day before that that nobody's in my league. you know, I'm special, I'm different. The haters are going to hate this. It's kind of a weird.

I don't think that's the tweet. It's a weird. Dude, it's pretty close. You'd be surprised. I reread it this morning. I was like, damn, Kiermeyer, you went for it. I think if Kevin Kiermeier, who said nobody else is in his league, I think he'd admit that Byron Buckson is the one dude that might be in his league.

Byron Buckson moves like nobody I've ever seen in the outfield. My comparison is Randy Moss, just long, long strides covering ground. And I love some good center field defense. Kiermeyer had the awesome relay. So he gives the award to Byron Buckson. The tweets somewhat similar, but he just said, this is why I don't appreciate being compared to other outfielders across the league, not even close people.

Shout out to my teammates for helping with the relay, the internet troll, are going to be furious with this one, L-O-L. I read that last line in like a J-Z voice. The Internet trolls are going to be furious with this one. Ha-ha! Yeah, I read it more as like a sheepist like, The Internet trolls are going to be furious with this one. Could be.

Yeah. I have an award. Yeah, yeah, yeah. It's called the You're Too Old Award. Ooh, get Roman. No, that was your award. This is mine. It's called the You're too old.

You're too old. It's Joe asked. Like he takes the bat to Boba Chet's head, which I feel terrible, and that sucks for him because he got hurt. But there comes a point where, like, now I'm, you're 76 years old. Right. I think he's 67. He's not 76.

Either way, you just got hit by a baseball bag. Yeah, and like when we had Dale Scott on the show and he, like, reminds you, like, yeah, it's a pretty demanding job. You get beat up. You take balls to the face. You take bats to the face. You have to hone in a tiny ball traveling 100 miles per hour and tell you where it is.

like Joe West, you're old, man. The average age for an umpire is 46 years old. Joe West is 67. You stand. You stand up the whole time. Dude, his body figure is getting more and more perish by the day. Yeah. So I think we need to age umpires out.

And I know this is, this seems obvious, but like eyesight is very important to being an umpire. And that goes as you get older. Yes. That's just a fact. Okay. Yeah, tough break for Joe West at the second. I had to get a second award quick. I looked at my computer.

The first tweet I saw was about the bloody face. I was like, well, okay, I'll go Joe West. We had this conversation in the office anyway. Too old. Like how, like, when you turn 70 something, you should have to retake your driver's test. Yeah. When you turn 60.

Yeah, get him a nice pension plan. Yeah. And be like, you're too old. Okay. Tough break, Joe. Tough break to end the show with Joe there. Well, let's end it with something else then. Elevator talk.

All right. You are getting in an elevator with a fan of this team. Jake and I are going to scour the inner webs for some... 27th floor, please. Some conversation starters. And the random team of today is... Who we got? Give me someone good.

The White Sox. The White Sox. Interesting. Okay. Gialito had a good outing. So we like that. Tim Anderson is doing it again. you can talk about that.

You're a little ner- I mean, you're technically last place in the Central, still very early. You're two and four. Yeah, but the Indians look so good. The Indians look good. That's your big concern. Like you hype your guys up.

How about Adam Engel can off to a hot start? Good for him. Luis Robert has looked good, by the way. He's hitting 348, 897 on base. Aloi Jimenez is looking good. Moncada's looking. Okay, so Jim, I think what we found is that the hitting's there. I mean, Anderson, Moncada,

Eloy Luis Robert. Sure. And I think that's what they knew was going to be there. Well, and no, it's funny. I guess what they are saying is like, Yasmani and Edwin haven't kicked into gear. Neither really is Jose Brayos. So the offense has been solid,

but they just need a little more balance to be a scary offense. They need the back end of the rotation. My word. Gialito bounces back. Keikl's got the one good start. Rodon, Cis, and Rinaldo Lopez all got jacked up. Lopez, I think one on the I.

Yeah. So you just need a little, you need a little more out of your starters. Yeah. Yeah. I think, you know, if you're in the elevator, be like, hey, we got to win this Royal Set. Yeah. You can't, I mean, if you lose two out of three to this Royals team, it starts getting late early out there. Jim, I got a good one.

Yeah. If you see a guy with a White Sox hat, you just say, you know, we got to play McCann more. James McCann had a nice year last year This year he's only played in two games He's got two homers So that's a good little white socks Hey You know I'd like to see McCann in the lineup more

And that person's going to look at you and be like yop Because that's a great statement Because you don't have to You don't analyze any further You don't talk about who's coming out of the lineup You're just like yeah we got to get them at A-Bs Mm-hmm okay Do you think they need to change up their lineup at all?

Um You need to move Robert up? Maybe you rest Edwin a day. No, I think it's all going to click. I mean, yes, Mani's pretty proven. Jose Ibrahim's numbers are there, but they can be a little better. I think the offense is fine. You need a little more for the starting pitcher.

And give me more Danny Mendick, baby. That's my guy. Yeah, yeah, yeah, you've been screaming for Mendick for a while. Love me some Mendick. All right. Get off the elevator and just you got to beat the Royals. Bing. Gotta beat the Royals.

Go, I hope we're here on Moll. Monday saying the White Sox swept. Sorry Royals fans. Yeah, I'll say it again. You lose two out of three to this Royals team. You're in trouble now. And the twins and the Indians take two out of three. It starts getting late very early.

Oh, yokey. See you guys. Thank you very much for hanging out with us. We'll be back. Oh, real quick. If we got anything wrong. If you have anything to add, voicemail. Give them the number of you.

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Come out on, they come out on Thursdays, right? Or Wednesdays. Come. Thursday or Thursday? One of them. One of those days. Comes out Thursday. I think it comes out Thursday.

Yeah, yeah, yeah. You got it. All right, bye.