Talkin' Baseball (MLB Podcast) - 336 | Royals Magic is Over, Mets Having Fun, & Mike Trout is Slumping?

Episode Date: May 14, 2021

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Hello and welcome to talking to baseball. What a week it was for the sport of baseball. Teams won, teams lost, rookies made their debut, and pool host got free. Let's do it. Hello and welcome to talking baseball. Thank you very much for tuning in and hanging out with us for a little bit today on this fine Friday afternoon. My name is Jimmy. His name is Jake.

Trevor is in California and producer BBD in the cold. Horner talking baseball, brought to you by Draft Kings. We got a lot of stuff to talk about. We got a lot of stuff to catch up on standing. Some teams we thought were in it. They're out now. More on that later. And most importantly, our newest patrons, patreon.com slash slash John Boy Media.

Got to give a huge shout out to Amanda Ryan, Dylan Sweringen, Nick E. Warner, Nikki Warner, Scott Elrich, Kyle Sheen, Ryan Giglio? Hmm. So you think you say it? Giglio. G-Lio? But there's a second G-L-E? Yeah.

Gileo? You think the second Gileos? Giglio. They make the canollies down on East West Haven. Danny Casserly, Liam, Derek Ikan-S-N-S-U. That one can't be right. I need to go look at this one. It's I-K-A-S-N-U.

It can snoo. and snoo. Yeah, it's tough. I can snoo. Tyler Sane, Tyler Sweet, and Peter Nicaas. Damn. I have a friend. Tough ones.

Nickius. Nickyus, I think. Nickyus. So Peter Nickyus. Yeah. Damn. Damn, that was a tough group of names there, Jim. So snaps for you, Brad.

We're getting through that. Our friend Al says it's Giglio. So perfect. Trevor, how are you doing? Man, I'm doing great. I had a few people trying to bring me down on this Friday morning. Guess what? It's not going to work.

It's not going to work. I'm doing my thing. And I'm here with my friends about to talk about the games that just happened. So I'm riding high, Jim. I had coffee. I did the Rose IG thing, which went splendidly. So I'm excited. I'm going to do the NL today.

I think you have the AL and Jake has the inner league? Yep. I don't wait to do it. How are you guys doing? Jake? You just reminded me that coffee exists and I forgot to bring mine into the room. So I'm a little bummed about that. But Jake has his right next to him.

Jake, how are you doing? Back to Jake. BBP's on the coffee. Next time, don't just call him out so hard. Did you just naturally call him BBP? Yes. That's awesome. I mean, chat's been going.

Yeah, I'm doing well. I'm doing well. There's a lot of variations. You can go BVP like bad. P. BVD, CBD, I saw BVD, CBD. There's a lot of twists for BBDD's. Well, because he's a human piss festival. A Cushy Dreams, Human Piss Festival, all of it. But I'm doing well, man. I'm doing well. We just did a little pre-gamer.

Baseball hot in the streets. No funny business this week, knock on wood. So you know what that actually means and it all makes sense. We got our first, and we kind of did this on talking yanks, but we tried to do it realistically. we're getting our first crazy trade deadline stuff coming out. MLB.com had a Trevor story to the Yankees, and they didn't even mention, like, the Yankees staying under the salary threshold, which they're very clearly doing. They basically stated they're doing it.

FeinSand did in his article, but yeah, a lot of people aren't. So we're, uh, anyways. He said it's $6 million. He said story would be $6 million pro-rated, so the Yankees would have to go over if, they did it. Yeah, he said that later on. Anyways, I won't get into that with you.

But yeah, it's, so we're starting to get into that. We're starting to get into the trade deadline. Trevor's Minnesota Twins have the worst record in baseball. Holy smokes. I, uh, I sat up here all preseason and said, I still love them at regular shooting team. And, uh, they suck ass right now. So we'll, uh, we'll see if they can ever find the potion.

but they better find it soon, man, because holy, you hit up Rocco? You hit up any of the boys, Trev? He's going. We're all, he's going there, sure. Are we all going to go? We haven't bought tickets yet. So, like, if we're doing that, I think we got to coming on. We need to have a discussion about that.

I've talked to a few people, and I've been keeping up with the blogosphere and the Twitter sphere and Twins territory. And there's a lot, a lot of misery right now. And they're saying it's shades of 2000. 11. No. You don't, you know what happened in 2011. Bad. 2012, bad. 13, bad, 14, bad. The talk now is that, like, the season for them is done. And I'm talking about this is the bloggers and the writers. They're saying this season's done. Let's save the next half decade and make some moves. So we don't have to live through that misery again. That's, that's where twins territory is at. Not a fun time. That's not fun. It's not fun at all for the twins. We also, you know, on Wednesday's episode, we didn't do a big topic in the midweek this week because we had Trevor's story on. Hope you guys enjoyed the interview if you haven't. Yeah. Check it out.

We got, remind me, I don't want to forget, on Wednesday, which is going to feel forever, this is going to feel forever ago come Wednesday. We got to turn into a labor pod for at least like a third of the pot because a grievance has been followed, Treve. And that's all I'm going to say because this is the recap episode. Not the midweek episode. So let's get into the recap. Trevor, you have the National League. Are you ready to tell us and everyone listening what happened in the NL? Yes, I am.

All right. Well, let's do it then. The Cincinnati Reds traveled into Pittsburgh. They took two of three, which honestly is probably not even that good. They should have swept the Pirates. Reds took game one, 14 to one. Pirates scratched and clawed. and took game to 7-2.

Reds went 5 to 1 in the rubber match. The Reds hitters went off. Winker, Farmer, Suarez, Sensel, 5 hits a piece. And the Pirates pitchers, they pitched to a 6.43 ERA. That's the starters. The relievers were even worse. 7.4-3. Things aren't very good in Pittsburgh right now.

Reds take 2-3. Moving on, we got the fish against Jake's D-backs, and they split a four-game set. 5-2-D-backs, 11-3-D-backs. They were looking for the sweep after two games, and then guess what? The fish came back, 3-2 and 5-1. Both the offenses were good.

The debacks slashed a 269-4-7-slugging. Marlins 262-433 slugging. Starters were good for the debacks. The relievers were not so good. And Aguilar and your guy, Asdruble Cabrera, your doppelganger. That a great series. Story out west, though, Zach Gowan. On the 10-day I-L.

He's a bright spot for those D-backs. They split the series with the Marlins. Moving on, this one was a sort of a fight, if you will. Padres at Rockies. The Padres took two out of three. Padres took the first two, eight, one, and five, three. And then the Rockies got the eight-enning win. Three-two in the second game of the double-header against Snell.

Both teams starting pitchers were solid, but the Padres relievers were just excellent. They pitched to a 1.32 ERA and the Rockies relievers were not very good. 6-75 ERA. Josh Fuentes with a walk-off single in game three. The storyline though was Tatis Jr. test positive for COVID and then Hosmer, Myers, ProFar, Mateo,

all placed on the COVID aisle because they were in contact with them. So that's a developing story. We'll see how that goes. Moving on, the Phillies at the Nationals. Phillies take two out of three. They took the first two, six two, one. The second one in extras, five, two, and the nationals came back to win the third game.

Five to one. Philly starting pitcher struggled, which they haven't been doing. They've been really good. And the Nats starters were solid, which we kind of expect from that crew. Oduble Herrera tied game two with the homer in the ninth inning. And that's Brad Hans.

Third straight outing to end in a loss or a blown save. Oh, my God. Another COVID dealing, Rio Muto placed on the COVID IL list out of caution with what appears to be a non-COVID illness. And then D-D was out of the lineup Thursday after exiting Wednesday with an elbow injury. And the good news for the Phillies, Archie Bradley, who they needed to shirt up the bullpen, starts his rehab assignment this week. So that's good for them.

They took two out of three for the nationals, and the last series in the NL was probably the best one. St. Louis traveling into Milwaukee, the cards went in and made a statement. out of three. Six one in game one in 11 innings. Brewers took the second game four to one and then all eyes yesterday morning were on Flaherty versus Burns. Flaherty finally goes in and gets the dub in Milwaukee. He's won seven straight. Both offenses were pretty abysmal in this one. They both hit like crap. Yelich, big news for the Brewers. He starts his rehab assignment on Friday and they need him back desperately and that is what happened in the n l thank you thank you trev thank you i want to mention i forgot to mention burns finally gave up the one walk i can't believe i didn't mention that 58 strikes

strikeouts to start a season finally walked a batter and i who was it tommy edmund i don't know pretty cool 58 walks covid stuff stands out to me i mean you got a couple people they're missing games. And I know we haven't done the AL yet, but the Yankees also dealing with some COVID stuff. Glaber's going to miss like 10 games because he tested positive with no symptoms. And the Yankees already had the vaccine. So Cashman had a funny quote where he was like,

I was just on the phone with Europe because now we're a case study for getting for testing positive after having the vaccine. So this has gone beyond baseball, really. He's not just dealing with MLB protocols. he's on the phone with like national whatever panels. I don't know. I have a question about that. I don't want people are going to get mad.

Whenever you talk about COVID, people get mad at you. But isn't that point of the vaccine? Like the vaccine is not going to prevent you from getting COVID. It's to stop the symptoms. And it helps. Well, it's supposed to have less than the transmission rate,

but maybe that's not true. That's part of what they're looking into. Yeah. If the symptoms aren't there and everybody's vaccinated. One of the eight had, One of the eight had symptoms. Okay. So there's looking into it.

It's a win for the vaccine is what they're saying. And they're saying, you know, because no one majority had no symptoms. And the one person that had symptoms had them sparingly and very mild. So they are saying like the vaccine did its job. We just still really don't know what's up. So we got to like, it's a case study. But yeah, I mean, Tate's going down. Real Mudo.

Just in case. I don't know. He didn't test positive. So COVID's rearing its head in that ML. be again. What else from the NL? Mets stay atop their division. Cardinals stay at top theirs,

and the Giants are still in first place in the West. Giants are doing it, man. How about that? Love the Giants. They're a top seven team in ERA plus and OPS plus. It's a good way to do it. It's a good way to do it. So you win baseball games.

Silly's beat the Nats. Good. I quit on the Nats. I'm fine with that. Cardinals. They're rolling, man. Flaherty versus Burns. Doesn't get much better than that on the MLB YouTube game of the week. But yeah, those guys can both drop it on the table.

And Jack Flaherty, I mean, we're going, we're going to Colorado. I think he might be going to Colorado. I don't know. I mean, all of the Cardinals pitchers are doing pretty well. Kim hasn't allowed more than one earned run since his first start of the season. He doesn't go deep in the games. Same thing with John. Gant. He's got a 183 ERA after seven starts now. Again, not like going that deep into games, but

not winning them games, giving them winning efforts. And then you obviously have Jack. I think Wayno's ERA is like higher than the rest, but I still think he's, yeah, it's 380. Still good. Those four guys are doing it for the cards. And Kim was a guy that I wanted to watch. I wanted to see what he was about because he had such a good season last year. That kind of went under the radar because it was so funky. And he's limiting damage again. But he doesn't go deep in the games. I don't know the reasoning there. Cardinals fans will just have to tell me.

No trust. Tires out easily. NL. Baseball. Building him up. Yeah, NL baseball. Close games. I don't know. Don't know. I got a question for you guys because I,

I'm assuming there's a story behind this, and we're talking NL baseball here. Taiwan Walker, the bat he had, where he just stood up there. What was that about? there's something like, is he hurt or just like, what's the whole point of that? That happens a lot. But he like just like literally just stood there and didn't offer.

If that, that happens, I don't see that happen that often. Bartolo Colon used to do that. He would either not swing at all or he would have a home run swing. And he just didn't know. It was like his decision. What he felt like. I mean, I don't know, in interleague play, that's literally what they tell the Yankees pitchers to do.

So I've seen that. I've seen that a lot. It is an NL pitcher right now. Yeah. And Taiwan's a young guy. I mean, he's not a young guy, but he's an athletic guy that looks like he might be able to bang a little bit. But he just put the bat on the shoulder and left it there. I was wondering if there was a story.

If there's not, then, okay. My buddy, Taiwan Walker. Yeah. Shoving this year a little bit. How about 41 innings to the tune of a 2-2-ERA? When was that at bat? I don't know. It was like a big, like, internet thing.

It's a Twitter thing. So he missed a bunt in his first at-bat against Harvey, struck out on a bunt. So it had to be his second at-bat. There was already two outs. Already two outs in the inning. And, man, he probably just wanted to get back out on the mount. Like, if I just take three pitches here, I'm back doing what I want to do.

If I somehow get on base, I could be on base for a couple more minutes. So I'm guessing he was just like, fuck it. I had a Jakey Stoner thought the other day, or excuse me, 10 p.m. Jake, it's just late and your mind gets combobulated. That teams might start having nine-hole hitters get out with two outs. With how limited baseball is, like say you have three guys in your lineup. Right now, you know, not to go Yankees on everyone, but the Yankees have had a lot of injuries and stuff going on. So the top of their lineup is LaMayhew, Stanton Judge. and after that it's kind of been a crapshoot.

Luke Voight's back, which we're excited about. But if those are the three guys in your lineup, and there's two outs and your nine-hole hitter is up, you can either your nine-hole hitter gets on base, and now you have DJ LaMayhew with two outs, and potentially Stanton with two outs, or you get a clean inning with LaMayhew Stanton Judge. I don't know.

I think there could be some weird nerdy math there that says you have a better chance the next inning with those three coming up then the nine-hole hit are getting on with two outs and then burning part of your lineup. I understand what you're saying, and I fully agree with it. Okay.

I would rather DJ up with no one on and standing judge behind him than weighed on first base, two outs, DJ at the plate. Anyway, I think building off that, I think each team should have a time management coach and all he does is he looks at the starting pitcher and then if there's two outs and the batters up

and then he looks at the starting pitchers like, Do you need more time? And then he'll call stepouts, like step out after every pitch. You know, this is too quick of a turnaround. Our starting pitcher is still catching his breath. Or if the starting pitcher is like top step, ready to get on the mound, it's a, hey, just take three here. We have run cold back out there.

And how about Trevor's hating this because we're taking out all the athlete side of baseball? What if teams start combating that? They intentionally walk the pitcher, Taiwan Walker. So he has to get on. And then they attack McNeil or whoever's leading off. pickoffs to make Taiwan start diving back to first. That's strategy. That's analytics.

Yeah. Oh, man, you guys are hurting my head right now. I'm assuming that analytics are not going to back that statement up. I think it's more of a field thing for you guys. No, I think they'd back Jake's up. We'll talk to some geeks. Yeah, talk to some geeks. I don't believe in that.

Even if the analytics do do-do, I love when that happens. Love do-do. Even when they, if they do back it up, I don't like it. I'm just going to go on LinkedIn. I'm going to type in Yankees, analytics, find all of the people, and I'll just message them. Please do. I already have.

If that comes back as a freaking strategy, I might be one of those people that's like, I'm over analytics. I'm not there. You guys know I like the numbers, but if that, we can't be doing that. You're not wrong. I have nothing else to say on that.

That's all I have to say about that. That's right. Let's see, who stinks? Stink, Pittsburgh stinks, Rocky Stink. Bring up Cole Tucker, for God's sakes. Raking down in Triple Egg. BPD posts a double. Is he?

Or is BBD just faking you out? Or might be a little Phillies infield. He just should have a double the other day. It was the first game I watched. Okay. But they released Todd Frazier, my friend, our friend. Should we have him on? Should he be a midweek app?

Todd? Yeah. Sure. He likes me. Yeah. He loved the passing yesterday. Did he? This morning, actually.

What he said? He tweeted it this morning. He said, this is fantastic. I love that. I did, I talked to Jack, because he faced Corbyn Burns. Right.

Like, he was one of the strikeouts, obviously, two of the strikeouts. And I said, you know, like, what's it like? In the box? Like, tell me, because you watch Corbin, you see, he throws the cutter,

but, you know, it's nice to get some perspective. And usually hitters don't want to talk about it. So Jack was more than open. He said, bruh, he just throws cutters. I had, No chance.

First time I felt like I had no chance. Damn. And I said, I said, it looks nasty. He said, yeah, it's just a cutter that looks like four seams and continues to go. So there's a scouting report on Burns, if you want to know. It's out. Jack looked bad. No offense.

No offense. That's pretty big of Jack to say, like, that's the first time I ever was like. Shots fired at every single pitcher that he's in the face. You all stink compared to Corbyn Burns. Yeah. All right, let's move on to the AL. And before we do, I got to tell you guys about dugout mugs. We got them right here on our desk.

Trev, do you know what today is? Dugout mug day. Yep, it's the day that my brother graduates college. My parents are in Ohio for the celebration and probably get them a customized dugout mug as the gift. If you got anyone graduating or you're getting ready for Father's Day, dugout mugs makes the perfect gift. They're having a sale right now. Trevor, listen to the sale. Okay.

It's called the early bird Father's Day sale. The first 500 orders with code Johnboy get 35% off all MLB dugout mugs, windups, season operas and knob shots. 35 is a pretty good discount. And 500, the first 500, the next 500 will only get 25% off. Still pretty good, but only 25. So don't wait to get your dad a Father's Day gift you really want. You'll end up losing money if you don't.

or, you know, graduation present. Good graduation, like, you know, get it, bring it to the graduation, chug a beer out of it, all that good stuff. Code John Boy, when you do dugout mugs. They're awesome. About time, my brother graduates, huh? Get him fucking working for us already.

Geez. He's been golfing, bowling, and partying for four months straight. Yeah, man. That's awesome. Yeah, yeah. I know, but like college isn't, it's all online now, so it's kind of like, whatever. Good friend.

Do you remember when he stepped on my shoe the first time we met him? Yep. Just as a power play? Alpha. I respected them ever since. He let you know. Didn't he say you have comically small hands? No, that's what someone else said to you.

Oh, yeah, yeah. Here's what happened in the American League. The Red Sox and the Orioles finished up before game set. The Orioles avoided the. sweep Lopez pitched well, Mancini and Mount Castle. Both homered. Red Sox do not get the sweep of the Orioles. The Astros took two out of three from the Angels.

How about that? Angels are sliding, I believe. Their hitters slashed 189, 250. Okay. Okay, cool, cool, cool. The Astros hitters slash 288, 351, so they did better. The Angels starting pitchers and relief pitchers, had ERA over six.

That ain't good. Astros had seven home runs. Gros and Tucker, two home runs each. Rendon could be activated this weekend, so maybe that'll help the Angels out a little bit. Probably not, though. The Yankees took two out of three from the Rays in the Trop. The first time the Yankees have won a series in the Trap in over two years.

Both offenses struggled real bad. The Rays can't hit at all. Jake has a crazy fun stat for it. you on that. But the Ray's starting pitchers did really well. The Yankee started pitchers did pretty well. Garrett called eight shutout innings. Tione struggled in the third game. Tons of COVID stuff like I told you. They got eight positive tests on the Yankees and that's kind of a whole big deal. Speaking of bad news, the Royals ended their season by getting swept by the Tigers. The royals have now lost 11 in a row after their hot start. GM of the Royals, Dayton Moore has

folded up the plan that is like we will compete, and now he's pulled down the sheet that says, what if we're going to have to trade everyone, and they're looking at those plans now. The Tigers get the sweep. Doesn't change their season outlook at all. Athletics and the Red Sox. Athletics took two out of three.

So the Red Sox lost three games this week out of the four they played. Overall, A's bullpen pitched 12 shutout innings. James Caprellian made his debut, and it's a really fun story. 10 of the A's, 23 hits go for extra bases, but just one home run. They're slapping the ball around. J.D. Martinez has a good week. Twins and White Sox. White Sox sweep the twins.

White Sox have had the toughest strength of schedule, and they have the best record in their division. The White Sox are the real deal. Their offense was great. They slashed 323 and 407 on base percentage. That's really high for a team slash line. Twins pitchers pitched to an 863 ERA, and the starting pitchers was a 988 ERA. It's gross.

Lance Lynn was hit on the hand by a comebacker, and the x-rays came back negative for my soul. That is good news. He doesn't care. Sorry about crackle. I don't know what's going on. He put a mannequin hand in the... They had to get rid of the ball.

Dent. Probably. So that's the AL recap. Your leaders in the AL, Boston, still in first place, but the Yankees are two behind, and Toronto is a game and a half behind. And Toronto and Boston are tied in the loss column. So White Sox, way ahead. White Sox are a real deal.

They're good. And Oakland. White Sox are the real deal. They're game up on Cleveland. Cleveland keeping pace. Royals died. There was a cool graph that someone put on Reddit about, like strength of schedule versus record.

And it's interesting. The White Sox have had a tough schedule and like the best record, whereas the Tigers have had the easiest schedule and the worst record. Yeah, that's up. See if I can find it for you. Cleveland, they've been technically the hottest team in the ALE and the Pat last 10, 9 and 1 while the Royals went on a 10-game losing streak. So that's your flip-flop right there.

Red Sox, Oakland gives them the best. business a little bit. That was a fun, fun series. The two best records, I think, heading into that week. Yeah, man, the White Sox are doing it. And the Astros, and we mentioned some COVID stuff before. The Yankees, because of their COVID outbreak, you know, the Yankees like to be secretive about everything, everything they can be secretive about. But they actually had to reveal some information with all this COVID stuff going around. So they talked about when they got the shots and who got the shots and when. And, you know, circle back to the Astros, who basically did the same thing.

And that's when they had, like, a six-game losing streak. So I wonder, you know, we're looking at charts and stuff. I think every team, as we go through this and a lot of teams are trying to hit that 85% threshold, you can kind of circle their week where they got their shots. And it's like, oh, yeah, they really looked like they were playing bad that week because they got COVID, basically. Yeah, the Yankees got their shots on April 7th, which is one of the, they went to the trap for the first time.

And I mean, I think our, like, review was like, what the fuck was that? They looked like a sleep. And now it makes a lot more sense. But they reluctantly had to make that public. And even Cashman in his press conference, he was like, well, yeah. And then we got them, well, as you guys know, early April. Like, he was upset that, like, it was a storyline. But, yeah, I think, you know, each team is going to have a sleeper week.

But this is the chart. Pretty interesting, right? Sure. Oriel's have the strongest schedule. they haven't performed well against it. Phillies have had a really tough schedule. Rays have had a really tough schedule. Tiger's really easy schedule and really bad performance.

The White Sox. Good for them. Yeah. The White Sox are something else. We're talking about their rotation today on the IG Live. I mean, you got Lucas G. Lito. Then you got Lance Lynn. Those two guys are just absolute studs.

Then backing them up, Rodon has been something like, he might be the AL starter and the All-Star. game this year. You've got a 0.58 and a no-no. Then you got backing them up Kopec and Cease. I mean, they're missing

Lubbob and Eloy and they're still crushing the ball. They're still pitching lights out. This team is like, are they the best team? Are they the best team in baseball? Like, the Dodgers are hurt. Right now, I think.

Like right now? Or, I mean, Cleveland's obviously keeping pace and like we don't talk about them ever because we didn't expect them to compete. Their pitching's been. so damn good. They can't hit the ball, but they still keep winning games. It's, I don't know, man. The twins, by saying that, the twins are screwed.

If you do talent and performance, like on paper talent with current performance, it's the White Sox, obviously, the Bay Area would probably be mad at us. But this White Sox team had hopes of doing pretty big things this year. And yeah, I mean, that was kind of the eye-opener for me a couple weeks ago. Dylan Cease, a guy who was a pretty big prospect and then kind of was whatever, go check out some of his pitch ninja on the curveball. I mean, starts above the strike zone, ends up in the dirt, and it's just like, okay, this guy slot it in as their fifth sixth starter right now.

We forgot Keiko. Yeah, I mean, he'll throw you anything, and he's going to have an okay day at the office. Kopeck, that bullpen, everyone talked about how it's underrated, crochet, Hendricks, bummer, hoyer. Yeah, this team's nasty. Keikl's coming off a bad start, but to your twins. This team's nasty, without Eloy, without, Bob. Love that.

And no Adam Engel, come on. Jace Fry. Your manager of the year candidate, Treves, they got a lot going on. Yeah, we don't talk about that. Tonya Rosa has not screwed things up. A few times he messed up, but at least the record is there.

Yeah, he messed up that pitcher. A runner on second base. Chris Rose went at his throat on John Boy Death Day. And we were like, hey, easy Chris Rose. Like, you know. Easy dad. Yeah, you get a little older. You start forgetting things.

Like, you know, careful. What happened while I was dead? So remember when Jonathan Holder ran in extra innings for the Yankees? And then the Orioles did like the same thing last year. And everyone was like, oh, yeah. The rules say you don't have to do that. White Sox did the same thing. Chris Rose was pretty pissed.

he's like, manager has to know that. Well, yeah, he came out and said... Wait, wait, wait, wait. So he pinched ran a pitcher? He put Liam Hendricks out there. Liam Hendricks was their extra inning base runner. I believe they were playing an NL team. That's why he was out there when they could have used Jose Abraeu because he was the batter before the Patriots.

The pitcher doesn't have to run. That's the rule. Yes. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. Rosie was Matt. For not knowing that? Yeah. We also said it's on the coaching staff as well. Larusa, he was getting up there. Forget some things everyone's smile.

You got some young guns on the bench helping you coach. They didn't say anything either. So it can't all be Larusa. I blame Larissa zero percent on that. And I blame whoever was every other single person that was played in the 2020 season that didn't tell Larusa. Hey, you know, we can switch him out. I almost put a blame on everyone else. This feels like what a quality control coach is supposed to be.

Yeah. I mean, you're just your bench. coach. Your right-hand man. Yeah. How does no one else say anything? He's not watching baseball in 2020s. Tony the Roos. He didn't give a shit. When he was, he was feeling good. You're feeling saucy, huh? 10 p.m. Tony.

Royals magic is over. They've lost their last 10. They have so many people that they can trade if they wanted to trade them. And I do think that, you know, they pulled the string on the other plan. Flip the whiteboard over. Yeah. Let's do the trade everyone plan. That was a good run, guys. But the Tigers swept us, and they're the worst team in the history of baseball.

Yeah. Just do it. Flip everybody. Flip Duffman. Flip Carlos Santana. Flip Whit Merrifield. Like, let's do it. Still trade Chris Bryant there, and then they'll trade him again.

Dude, they can flip Solair. They can flip anyone, like everyone. Benny. Chris Rose thinks that the giants are still going to be. traders at the deadline. We'll see. There's still, yeah, I think that's something to watch for her.

I don't think that they, I have them right now on the fence. I don't have them teeter in each way, but I wouldn't be shocked if they fall towards the trade people's side, but they're having a good season. I mean, yeah, they got to keep it up. On that chart, their strength of

schedules I heard was easy. What does it line up with on that chart? Do you have it in front of you still? I don't. But if I do, oh, I just did it. The Giants have had, do that, do, do, do. They land on strength of schedule is on the weaker half. Yeah.

Okay. I don't know, man. I think they might be one of those teams. It's like, I mean, they did that. Didn't they do that last year? Up until the trade deadline and then they died. Yeah, they got past the trade deadline, didn't trade anybody, and then they fell. Yeah.

I'm curious that that's going to be in their memory, even though they're the second best record in baseball right now. And we're talking about them trading fucking people off. That's insane to me. Oh, yeah. Trev, I have a little bit of good news on your twins. Petriello. Well, I like his Twitter a lot.

I reference him a lot. Twins are first in hard hit rate, first in barrels. So, like, that's kind of what the twins do, and that's what they're supposed to do, and that's why they've been successful the past few seasons. but it's the pitching right now. They're tied for the most home runs allowed. Fourth worst and Wobah.

With runners in scoring position. 24th and K percentage. So, yeah, I don't know. I mean, it's, I'm guessing, a little bad luck on offense, and the pitching has been a tick better in the regular season before. So I don't know. There's still some hope because they're supposed to be the Bamas. Like, they set the MLB home run record.

And right now it's just not enough. It's, in fact, the worst. worst. Yeah, I don't, I have nothing left to say about the twins. I think they have a very tall task in front of them because we just talked about how good the white socks are. Nobody talks enough about Cleveland and what they're doing. And, you know, to go ahead and jump those two teams or at least try to get a wild car bid, they got to, Mitch Garver came out and said they got to win every single series until the All-Star break for the front office to, you know, want to go for it. That's where the player's heads are at.

They said they got to win every series. That's what Mitch Garver said. I don't think it's that drastic, obviously, but they better start putting together some wins. Like they need to go on like a six-gamer. Then they need to go on a seven-gamer. And, you know, I just don't see it right now. I hope so. Man, they got Oakland and the White Sox coming up.

Yeah. At home, but Oakland White Sox. A big homestand. It's a big homestan. It's a big homestand. And then Angels, Indians. But then, all right. So here's where the twins got to be fucking eyeing.

They go. They go after Angel, after the homestand, then their way trip. Then their next homestand, May 24th. They, Baltimore comes to town. Then the royals come to town. Then they go to Baltimore. Then they go to Kansas City. Let's have a big Baltimore, Kansas City trip.

You're the twins. Win every series, sweep two of the four. They win this homestand, twins might get hot. There's a lot of games against the division left, which helps. They play the White Sox a bunch, which, you know, you run some of those series. That's going to, you know, bring you closer. But it's just, right now, maybe we should be buying stock on the Twins. It's as low as it's ever going to be.

It's not going to be any lower than it is right now. They're the worst record in baseball. Maybe we say, hey, this is the day we're going to buy some stock and maybe it shoots up. Doge. Mike could. Their record against left-handed pitching, four and nine. Not clapping for that?

They're supposed to be really good against left-handed pitching, so that's bad. That's a bad sign. Yeah, that's why I sought it out. I thought it was good. It was good against left-handed pitching. The White Sox, they were last year, too. Oh, yeah.

They're 8-1 when they face a lefty. I think last year they were a 10-0, right? Yeah, it was something weird like that. You're the twins. Do you try to trade for Kikel? So you can have a lefty against them. They probably turn that down. Wait, what?

Why would the twins want a lefty against the White Sox? Get in their heads. Oh, okay. I like the mind games. Mental games. Yes, yes, yes, yes, yes. Okay. Okay.

Jake, what happened in the Interleague? Oh, boy. Oh, boy. Oh, boy. Fellas, you're going to love this. Grab your Interleague, groomsticks, the Cleveland Indie. A little two-gamer sweep against the Cubbies, two-one-run losses for the Cubs.

Is it Al-Zalay or is it Malibu versus Shane Bieber? Beaver gets the dub in that game. Indian starting pitcher 159 in the series. Yeah, when Beaver's one of them, ain't that it. And then Ahmed Rosario with the walk-off in game, too. That's exciting. We'll see what goes on with Chris Bryan. He got hitting the wrist, contusion.

Might be playing today. It might not happen Arieta. supposed to return Friday. Couple friends of the family. Los Hibido Hiantes, the Giants sweep the Rangers in a two-game set. So that's two-two-game sweeps, guys. Gibby versus Wood, Webb v. Liles, the giant starting pitchers, drop it on the table with the bullpen going scoreless.

20 hits and 18 innings. Okay, cool stat, Max. Not really about it. Giants, keep on winning. How about it? Mets, they sweep the Orioles in a two-fork. game set. Strowman and Walker, a couple of our dudes, three, two, Mets, seven, one Mets. Mazzica. Patrick Mizzica is becoming a Mets legend.

Couple fielder choice walkoffs early in his career, and Harvey, Harvey, Harvey, have you seen Harvey? Returns to City Field records a loss. Seven run's four point one innings, bitch. I'm sorry. DeGrom, placed on the aisle. We don't like that. I think it's still okay news, all things considered.

We'll see. Guys, the Lou Jays, they sweep the Braves. This time it's a three-gamer. Robbie Ray continues to do it. Ryu is back and dropping it on the mound. And chicken strips with enough to take down these braves. Teoska Hernandez, people. Like, learn who he is.

There's some butter knife stats with him. That dude's a special ball player. And the Braves, fellas. I keep thinking you're going to wake up, but it doesn't happen. Kuna exit with the left ankle thing. and Paschae Trev's guy. He goes to the aisle. Guys, the last interleague series.

So we just been through a couple. Dodgers sweep the Mariners. It's all sweeps in the interleague. They get two games. They get back on the right track. Holy Smoke 6-4 and 7-1. Bueller versus Kikuchi. Uderias first done.

Max Muncie, that funky Muncie. He's gotten it going this season. He's got a couple homers. The sad news there, Edwin Rios, out for the season. Torn Labor him in his shoulder. don't like that at all. Dodgers relievers pitch well, which had been their bugaboo.

So that's what went on in the interleague. Thank you very much, young Jake. I got to tell you, I'm getting a little for-insured and moreover. Mm-hmm. With the Cubs. Okay. I want, we said this in the TPP, and it sucks because Ian Hap's part of the whole thing here,

and I like Ian Hap a lot. And I like Cubs fans. I like the Cubs. I'm not an anti-Cubs guy. at all. But if they just go sell mode, that makes the deadline real exciting. It's more fun for baseball. That's our statement. Yeah. That's our non-offensive to that. They got so many people that can unload, man. Guess who they got coming up? Tigers. Damn. So they're going to win the Tigers. Nationals.

Okay. Cubs are going to stay in it. I know what you guys are saying. I think they're going to stay in the mix. be fun though Some pirates Hap's coming back He's about to get super hot I love Hap What a great dude he is What's happening

Sequence Check it out Trevor Ploof Is anyone doing like That is on a one year deal Doing really well Bryant Yeah I know him

But all the others Like you know I mean The names are The people that are coming Off the books Potentially For the Cubs

It's Kimberl? He's got a vesting option. He's been nasty. Jock. Jake Areietta. Andrew Chafin. Romine's on the I.L. Mariznick, defensive center field.

People always need that for the playoffs. Duffy, Sogarde. Javier. Javier. Like, what's Davies been doing? Didn't Javie get it going? Davies is good. His changeup is gross, man.

Yes. Javis got, yeah. Yeah. Havi's solid. 118 OPS plus, eight homers. Zach Davies having a good May. Last five starts. He's got a better ERA than his season starts. All right.

Go, Cubs. Go. Cubs. Or don't. I don't care. I would love to see Hobby Bay as in a different uniform. And like on, you know, we've seen him in the postseason and what he can do. But to see him come and be like that mercenary type guy and kind of be rejuvenated with a different team, I think like he is.

He could be a real interesting and exciting piece. Him in that green and yellow in the Bay, Trev? Oh, my God. What about this rule? What about this rule? What about this rule? You ready for it? Once the postseason is set.

Okay? Once the teams have been, you know, you slot it into the seating and all that. MLB, a committee at MLB, MLB plucks 10 guys from the teams that did not make it. And they go into a lottery draft of mercenaries. So three days before the postseason, it's a televised event, and you have a panel, and you got Scherzer, Trout. Give me some more names on teams that aren't going to make it.

Rendon. Don't. Otani. All the angels. The angels. Jared Walsh. But there's other teams, too. Mad bum.

I don't know. And there's a televised event. And the. Annie Duffy. The eight teams that are in the playoffs, you know, there's a lottery for the pick order. And then there's a draft of the 10 mercenaries. And you get them. You know, Yankees get first pick.

They go, we'll take Scherzer for the postseason. Someone will take Trezer. out. And then those guys are just on each team for the postseason. Be entertainment. Does your soul like that? I feel like your soul would naturally hate that. But that's some, that's some entertainment. Right. It's entertainment, but I don't like that.

It would be good for the enjoyment or entertainment value of baseball, not good for the spirit of competition. And team building. And teams and that dugout and what if you get Scherzer and he gets fucking popped? And it's like, who was that guy? Rescue run. No. can't do it. Imagine if you're the guy that goes

and you're, you win in the playoffs and you bond with this team, then you have to go back and play for the pirates again. Yeah. You just got to play yourself into the mercenary pool if your team's eliminated early. So anybody out there that's listening in our chat that's played AAU baseball back in the day.

They used to do the exact same thing, Jim, because they'd have these national tournaments and you'd go regionally and have to qualify. Well, any team that didn't qualify, those players were up for grabs. You could add them to the team that qualified. That's how Delman and I got on this really cool team where the guy was like paying for everything. Like we were just a bunch of local kids playing and they beat us because it's basically like me and Delman versus everybody. Okay.

And then they came up to us and were like basically like you were just saying like offered us like come on the team. Come on the team. Come do this with us. Come win in the nationals. And it was awesome. So maybe you have a point. I don't know. I think the version, I think I can get us a slightly more taste here. I call it the NBA Street rules because when the NBA Street video game came out,

when you beat a team, you got to select a player from that team. So first round, your team comes in. But if the Yankees beat the White Sox, then they say, Okay, Gileo, you're ours. Oh, my gosh. How amazing would that be. So then the World Series, there's a little bit of an AL. versus NL, like, real dynamic.

And it, like, it helps your, like, path, like your story. Yeah. Because they beat the White Sox, they got Lucas Gialito. It'd be cool if one of the players was, like, a whammy. And if you picked him, it was like, no, actually you're getting so-and-so. The White Sox get to protect one guy. He's actually got the shits. We didn't tell you that.

He's out. How about the Mets? How about the Mets? Yeah, go Mets. Step right up and greet the Mets, baby. They've won seven in a row now. They're going to the TROP to take on the raise who absolutely stink right now. So that's good.

They got a lot of fun. Like there's a lot of fun stuff happening with the Mets, which is different. Man, I mean, winning cures everything. Yeah, I don't think it's that different. I think it is just the fact that they're winning, right? And that's what it's on the headlines. Yeah, but the, the, the, The team's bonding over it.

Like, if you watch the games, they are like a good cohesive unit, at least it feels that way. And I think the other thing that ties to this, A, they, so Jim, we're schedule, we're schedule guys when we want to be. No, I like looking at schedules. The Mets, they split four-gamer with the Cardinals. They lost the first two. They won the second two. Yep, double-header loss. And then they came home, so a nice little homestand, four versus my D-back.

who were on the skids and, you know, they had some Jake energy on them. Three versus. And then three versus debats and then the Orioles. So I think when you look at the schedule and you say little homestand, like, sure, interested to see their road trip, little Rays, Braves, Florida Fish road trip coming up. So if they can keep it going through that, then, yeah. Is Dagram going to face the rays and the trap? He just went on the aisle.

Oh, yeah, forgot about that. Damn. That would have been fun because Cole just diced them up. They look pathetic. Yeah, we'll see if the rays got sparked in the last game versus the Yankees. They were horrendous, but Meadows and a Roserena, two of the guys that are supposed to be Staples got some big hits in the last game. But yeah, the rays were looking putrid. Worse than they are.

So we'll see if that sparks anything with them. Stroman talked to himself, but don't try to figure out what he said. It's rude. Come on, man. You think you were close? Yes. Like, honestly. The last line is, I'd be.

bet my toes. Ooh. I did that last. I bet my toes on something else the other day as well. Yeah, no. I was close. I mean, all of them.

Don't bet your toes. Don't bet your toes. Yeah. You need your toes. My toes are on the line for two different pets right now. I don't like that. You know. The other one was that the ground is sticky stuff.

Oh, yeah. Yeah. Because there's some weird Mets fans out there that still think it's taboo or like really taboo. And Cole uses it, but de Grom does it. And I was like, do you really think that? And they were like, yeah.

I can't believe we have to like tell people there's a difference in sticky stuff. Yeah. I said I bet my toes he does. Who cares? So my toes are on the line twice. No, uh, yeah, that's what Strom said, dude. He said like, you need to hit that pitch, bro. But he could have been talking to himself about like you need to hit that spot.

Or he could have been talking to the batter. I didn't specify. I just fucking read his lips. Yeah. you can't win that argument because he can be like, no, I know what I said. And you're like, oh, okay. So, Stroman won. Jimmy nothing.

I don't know. He spent the day on following and blocking people. So I don't know if he was he following you and then unfollowed you or something? No, I don't think he ever followed me. Are he still in Jim's team? Yeah. I'm not blocked. But anyone that like had my back, I wasn't even in an argument.

So it's really weird. He was just walking. I love him. I'm feeling they dressed in, they dressed in like beach attire to go down to Miami, which is always fun. Or not to Miami, it's to Tampa. So that's always fun. They were drinking virgin pinia colladas on the plane. Maybe they weren't, yeah.

You know what I'm saying? Why would they drink virgin pinocalladas? Well, that's what they said. They captioned it. They're virgin pinocalas. But, you know, that's just for people. They've lied about a hitting. The general public can't.

Why do they need a lie about that? That's so weird. Because the general public can't fathom. you having a drink and then going out and performing the next day. They can't, you can't put that out there. Our society is the way it is. Dumb. Yes. That's so stupid.

And they just love lying now. I love our society, but that is how people will react. If you said, you're crushing Pinacotta. Want to know what's a worse look? Drinking a virgin Pinacotta. Instead, just drink water. They are delicious. They probably weren't virgin.

I'm saying, bro. What's it even in a pinoclette? Unhealthy or old. Unhealthy. drink a virgin pinocalada 13 year old cake. At least peanut colla you're like yeah I'm getting a little buzz Virgin like okay you're just having a milkshake

People love What's in a pinna collada? That's rum pineapple Pineapple Probably some other Well it's delicious to be honest with you I might have one too

I don't even drink liquor I don't know The first school go can you get drunk on a peanut calada Jake did Put on 13 pounds on a six day trip to the Dominican Republic 13. This is a great reference by Thomas in the chat. He goes, well, why will they lie about an argument

over a rodent in the dugout hallway? That's true. Or a hitting coach. Yeah, or a hitting coach. Rum, cream of coconut and pineapple juice. Yeah, I hate coconut and pineapple juice, so. Oh, you hate coconut? Cream of coconut. It's marginally different than coconut because I get in the texture. But sometimes they put flakes on the top. Oh, yeah. It's like pulp. You can't have.

have that. Take flakeless peanut colada, please. Put the rum in there, though. What's that drink they drink in the DR? They got their own, like, version of rum. Do you know what I'm talking about? Cocoloso? No, it's got a fun name. I think there's a B involved. It's a juice. It's like a jungle juice.

Booty juice? I don't know. Jungle juices, that's a dangerous thing. Oh, yeah. Yeah. Been there. Got arrested. and he get arrested.

Sedated. I got strapped to a gurney and wheeled to a hospital. Not mamaana. Mamaana. Mamaana. That's what I'm talking about. When I went to the DR, had a lot of mamawanas.

That's good. All right, let's move on to the second half of the show where we talk about individual performances because that's your team update. You've been updated. Anything else we missed? Blue Jets swept. Stripling at a nice outing.

I went on his thing. The Dodgers. win a series. That's good for them. Braves Twitter is in dire straits right now. I mean I follow a lot of Braves Twitter now and boy, when Acuna pulled up lame, it was like

a death in the family. It's bad times, man. I'm sending positive vibes to Braves Twitter because I like them. I think they're actually a good Twitter fan base. What's the update on that? I haven't seen. It's negative. Left ankle x-rays came back negative.

But Pache is also on the IL. They haven't been performing at all. They're my World Series winners. I picked them. And they are just not performing right now. And I know we're a tangible change pod. Mm-hmm. You like that, Jim.

Sink your teeth in. It's real. Mm-hmm. I'm a feel guy. But Robbie Ray for the Blue Jays. Started wearing tight pants. Last year, he led the NL in walks. Yep.

And by the way, he was traded to the Blue Jays. Blue Jays and have five games there. And he still led the NL in walks last year. This year, 39 strikeouts, only nine walks. There's your tangible change. If Robbie Ray can find the zone, that dude is nasty. Have you seen his like, find the zone chart? Find the zone chart.

Yeah. I just share this with the live chat if they want to click it because, I mean, it's the most drastic up spike I think you could possibly have in a chart. of like percentage of pitches in the zone, zone percentage, yeah. Well, and you see Robbie Ray's, you know, Robbie Ray has a couple nice seasons out there, and that's a lot closer to his good years than the bad years. I wonder what the change was made,

like in, it's got to be delivery or mindset or... I think when he got traded to the Blue Jays, there was like an old pitching coach linkup, so maybe they're sleeping the same bad or something. I don't know. Eno always has an awesome article out. He's our guy. But he was mentioning, I think it was him,

was mentioning how, like, they are literally setting up middle, middle of the plate for Robbie Ray, and he's just throwing the ball. Like, they're not trying to hit spots. They're just trying to get him in the zone. Well, aim small, miss small. Ooh, a patriot. That's what my dad taught me when we were hunting down red coats.

They killed my brother. And then you died, and he made bullets out of your chest pieces. Yep. Yeah. Who graduates today, your dead brother. Oh, totally different family. Ah. Past life.

Past life. Trev, you get to go first. Stand out performances. This guy in the chat wants us to talk about the Padres' knockout. I'll tell you a little bit about that video. It ain't funny. And it sucks. And I hope that guy gets arrested.

But the guy who got punched drop charges. And I'm not going to make a breakdown on it. So stop fucking asking. Because watching a guy get cold cocked and knocked out isn't fun to me. I don't like it. Yeah. I don't like it. and sucks and arrest that guy.

Blue Jays fans in the chat on a better note said the guy to credit is Pete Walker, Blue Jays pitching coach. So that's better news. Okay. I love the name Pete. I'm a Pete guy. Ooh, I like that for you.

I think I know he's a good guy. Pete Plouf? It's your middle name. Peter's my family. Patrick. Patrick, I don't trust any Patrick's. Pete Plouf is a guy you have a good time with. Pete, Peter.

Pete's coming through? I just think it's going to be a nice guy. Peter Plouffe. Petty Pluth? I don't like it. Awards? No, standout performances. Yeah.

Oh yeah, standout performance. I'll go first. I'm giving it to my Moxie King. My Moxie King, I'll repeat that. Lance McCuller's Jr. Goes up against Shohei Otani and everyone talks about Shohei. And sure, he's probably the most talented player in all of baseball. and he's continuing to do on both sides of the ball.

I get it. He went seven innings pitched, 10 K's, one earned run. But Lance outduled him. Eight innings pitched, one and run, nine Ks. And the thing I love most about it is, he had eight innings pitched, nine case, and only through 96 pitches. As a position player, you got to love that. That means he's working quickly.

He's getting ahead and counts. He's putting away what he needs to put him away. He's getting some fast outs. So kudos to Lance, I think that the Astros are going to go as far as Lance will take them. And he's been okay to start the season. He gets to start against the Angels, does really well. And man, I think that by the end of the season, we're going to be looking at his numbers and be like, okay, this guy's the real deal. He got the chunk of change already.

He got paid. He got the bag, whoever you want to say it. I think he's going to be a force in the playoffs. And my Astros, I picked him to go to the World Series. So this is a good start for Lance McCuller's Jr. you're out-duled Shohei, but didn't get a lot of pub, so I wanted to shine a little bit of light on his start. Great job. And he's sneaky, good-looking.

Did he get a base hit? No, you guys don't like that. Did he get a base hit? Did he play right field? Wow. Stop. You can't always talk about Sho-hay. It's too much.

It's like Jeter. I was going to give Sho-hay an award called the like every time award. And it's like, do we have to talk about this every time? Like, is it ever? And it's worthy of it. It's crazy what he's doing. But, yeah, I don't want to take away from McCullors here. The Astros.

We all got pretty hyped on them right before the season. Lance is part of it. He got the bag, which if he puts together a full season this year, that contract is going to look like a steal. Man, they've got a lot of guys. If you're not dialed into baseball, you might not know who Jose or Kiti really is or Christian Javier. Those guys are having really nice years.

years. Luis Garcia, man, doesn't get much more fun when that guy's on the bump. And Odo's hurt and Frambers hurt and Furlander. Like, I love Framber. I mean, holy smokes when you break it down like that. But yeah, I like Trevor Plouf. The Astros will go as far as Lance McCullors takes him. Woo! God, I sounded like a professional one I said that, didn't I? That's what pros say in this business, baby. Damn, man. Yes. And tell me, you guys think he's sneaky good looking, right? If you're into bad boys You know what he did? He used his slider

26% of the time. Sliders never been a pitch he's used. He's always been curveball heavy And the curveball got bounced And he introduced a slider this year But he hasn't used it a lot But that game against the Angels He threw 25 sliders

Unless baseball savants like having trouble Picking him up But who knows One of those tweeners Yeah Maybe he goes to slide dragon Instead of snap dragon If that's the case

That would be a vast non-improvement Good standout. Mike Trout. He diced him up. My standout performance is Madison Bumgarner. Seven innings pitch, zero earned runs, nine strikeouts. And there's a reason why I chose Mad Bum, because it's something I always find interesting when you follow a team.

Jake Snakes. He faced the same exact lineup in back-to-back starts, Trev. He faced Miami Marlins on the same. seventh and then then face them again on the 11th. Those dates might be wrong, but back-to-back starts against the Miami Marlins. And the Marlins put out the same exact lineup. The catcher switch, that's all. The other eight guys, even the same pitcher was the same. I always think the advantage goes to the hitters there because the pitcher's got his arsenal that he likes and he throws his arsenal that he likes and the hitters can adjust. I will ask you if my thinking

is true at all, Trev, because you've a player and actually know that. Or do you think the pitcher has the advantage seeing the same line of choices? I think 100% the hitter has the advantage. Do the numbers back that up? I don't know. I'm sure they probably do. But if it's a guy that's just absolutely nasty, like, you know, that's not a great thing.

But I keep saying but. Why do I keep saying butt? It's okay. You have butts on my mind. Yeah, always. I think as a hitter, you see it. The more you see it, the easier it gets. That's why it's the, you know, first time, second time,

a third time through the order. I believe that carries over into the next start as well. I mean, the more you see how a guy shapes his pitches and what the V-Lo's like and how you can time him up, I mean, you should have the advantage. His stats in the second game were better than the first for Mad Bum. He switched the pitch mix up a tiny bit in the first time. He was cutter heavy and then split the four seam in the curve almost in half. The second time he went for a more cutter, four-seam curve, all three of the.

them use them the same amount. But the strikeouts, they're more in the second game and all that. And Madbum in his first four starts. Three starts. In his first four starts, he had an 868 ERA, his next four, after his next four, a four-12. So he split his ERA in half in the second four starts he's made, second set of four. And I mean, one more good start gets him into the threes, I think. And he was looking like, might have been the worst signing ever and you have no idea what he can do. But the fastball's ticked up from like 88 to 92 and he's found something that's working. So mad bum's my standout. I think it's pretty impressive to shut down the same exact lineup. Twice back to back in a row. Doesn't matter what the lineup is because you only

have three pitches. You know last year how Dylan Bundy said, fuck you to Jake. You just went off. Yeah. You have two of those this year, Jim. You got Matt Boyd and Madison Bumgarner. You went at Madbom. Now he's been dealing. Matt Boyd preseason, he went off on him. And I think he's been dealing. Has he not?

No, no. Matt Boyd is having a really good season. And he is my Bundy. Madbom's not. I mean, he was so bad. And it wasn't just me. Like the collective baseball world was kind of like, oh, we worried about Madbom where Boyd was very much,

I was saying he stinks. I was the lead. He was saying Boyd-Boyd-Ding for a long time. Boyd's your Bundy. Yeah, Boyd's my Bundy. I wasn't the leader of the mad bum. Everyone's last name starts with E. So there's some analytics for you.

Mad bum, yeah. The last five starts, 30 innings pitched a 0-90 ERA. Opponents are hitting 119. The highlights look gross. I'm obviously a snake's guy, so there's some bias here. But yeah, I think the best juxtaposition I can put out there is, you know, those first three starts, as you alluded to, we were talking. I'm using great words right now.

I know, Trev. A couple Stanford men out here. is that Madbum, we had a genuine discussion. Like, this could go down as one of the worst contracts all time. To now, people in the chat are saying that Mad Bum should be like a trade deadline guy. Like a team should go out and get this guy to pitch for them. So that's how quick the tide turns in baseball. Man, good for Mad Bum, man.

He's got to be dragging it around the locker room. Oh, my God. No one's going to trade for Mad Bum. Yeah, he's got a lot of money left on that contract. Do you think his nuts have their own cowboy boots? Ooh. Okay. Fold the plug.

Fold the plug. He's going to say, yeah. Jimmy? No. I don't know the question. I was counting his money. Okay. He's sold $50 million over three seasons,

and he's got a full no trade clause. So I don't think Mad Bum is getting moved. Oh, he has a full no trade? Oh, my God. Got to San Fran. I love it, Trev. I guess that. Back to San Fran.

I would guess he has to have a no trade clause. Limited trade says to Rumi in the chat. Yeah, he's got a five team, no trade list. Only five? Yeah. What cities have the least amount of horses? New York City. So that's two.

Cubs. Cubs. White Sox. Yeah. And then New York has a shitload. No, no, you can find ranches in L.A. There's some suburbs of Chicago with horses, too. I would love, if someone can get it, I'll look into it.

We need a horse map. I'll look into it. It's got a horse map. We've done horse maps before. Yeah, Trev guessed that there was like 20 miles, by the world. Remember that, Trev? When you guessed there was 2 million horses in the world? It's like, hey, Trev, it's a lot more than that, though.

Let me shout out Zendino. He gave us 20 bucks in the chat. Thank you for that. The best. Is the best. He's the great. Yes. Jake, your standout? What are mad bums?

No trade. I don't think he has to reveal those. No, but I mean He also might not have declared them yet I was going to ask What's the deal with those

I think you do before the season Before the season Can you update that? Yes, you can And it's before the season I like that My standout performance Is going to

Jared Walsh Of my Los Angeles Angels This dude A, the past two seasons Has been raking 67 games 313, 371 on base A 969 OPS

BPD Pretty pretty nice That's on pace for like a 40 home run season What he did the other day I mean a 4 for 5 home run double Two ribby's walk a little steel action in there I like that Guys

You never want to be the dude That replaces the dude unless the dude was low-key hated by the fan base because they think he took a lot of money from them. He's replacing Albert at first base. This is the guy the reason that a legend got DFAed. If Jared Walsh was going out there and slap dicking around with a 400 OPS, that's how you get the audience to turn again.

Like, we saw Poulos do this. Why is this kid doing this? This kid is part of the reason they felt confident enough to kind of end it with Albert. Because he's talented, man. He was a prospect that they brought him up and he didn't have the feel. And then I think there were some swing changes. And the past two years, he's been doing it. And, hey, I know those angels, a tradition unlike any other.

In May, they're in the bottom of the A.L. West. We were excited about that lineup coming into the year. And we weren't fully on the Jared Walsh trained because he only had 32 good games last year. Him, Trout, Otani, if Fletcher can figure out this season, And it's when you get excited about the halos, which I rarely do, and I probably won't let it happen until Mike Trout's on the Yankees. But yeah, man, he's exciting, and he's been really good this year. I just have a question.

I like that. I like Jared Walsh a lot, too. And our guy, Foolish Baseball, who we love, Bailey, talked about him preseason. He said the angel's success is going to depend on how many of bats they're willing to give Jared Walsh over Albert Pujols. He called that. now I don't know if they're going to be successful just because Jared Walsh is the lineup

because their pitching is the worst in baseball and our boy Nate Steele was telling us they're supposed to be good this year well they're not don't come out Nate yeah I like Nate but he was we said they were bad and he convinced us that Griffin Canning

was going to be the savior but now they're sitting here with a league low 84 OPS Plus but you know that's neither here nor there Jared Walsh is a stud he deserved to play every day and it is tough to go and supplant a legend like that. But I think you said it right, Jake.

I think the fan base was kind of ready for that. Yeah, I mean, let's be honest. Angels fans didn't love how Albert's contract played out, and you get it. But the man's still a living legend to be the guy that's, hey, he's fully off the team now. You're the one baseman kid. I mean, I wouldn't sleep well with that,

but I don't often anyways. I have Mad Bum's No Trade List. when he was in his last year with the Giants and they were potentially going to move him at the deadline. He put eight teams on it then. Braves, Red Sox, Cubs, Astros, Brewers, Yankees, Phillies, Cardinals, he just put all the playoff teams so he could get more leverage in a deal.

So I don't think that goes into the Diamondbacks one. Let's see if we could track down the five. Yeah, figure it out. Jared Walsh, good job, Jake. Mason Sonders, good for him. That's all right. Better for you. Okay.

I'm going to give you more credit. Fair is fair. Blomp, waw. Slump watch. The worst. She's the worst person in the world. Huge, skank, terrible. But thank you.

Nate gave us $20, too, and we just threw them under the bus. So we've got to get him to love. We, we. We're a team, Jimmy. Triff. I'm a team. We're a team. I quote tweeted them verbally. You're right.

Love Nate's deal. BPD. Guys are five biggest Ophers of the week, most notable. Mike Trout. Oh, no. I don't think this has ever happened before. Looks like he only played two games.

O for six. You gave him, that's not, stop. No, O for six with three walks. For Mike Trout, that's the biggest lump of his career. He only played two games? I would assume so, because six. Well, I guess three walks. If we want to be a reputable baseball program,

we cannot be putting Mike Trout on the slump watch after going over six with three walks. It might be the only time we're ever able to do this, Trevor. And I don't make the list. So, and Joey Gallo, he goes 0 for eight. Ruby 2Ks. Paul DeYoung, O for six, got hit by a pitch too, which always makes me laugh.

That was two games. It was two games. Nine played appearance. He reached three times. Slump. Gallo. Bad. David Fletcher goes O for 9, 2Ks,

and Nick Solac, O for 6, 2 walks, 2Ks. David Fletcher, I think he's on not having a good year watch. Yeah. I don't think he's having a slum. For those missed last week, the guys would be,

we're watching, are Thai France, Pete Alonzo, Carlos Correa, Eduardo Escobar, and Aaron Judge. And Judge, Judge had a really good series against the race, so he's going to come

off. He had a 583 batting average. He went six for 11 with a homer. So Judge is going to come off. So we have room there. So Jake, do you have like your biggest on this list? Do you want to put Trout? Are you looking at Gallo? Who do you want to replace Judge? I mean, if we can expand Trout outside of the two gamers, it's an O for nine, which for Mike Trout is is bad. No, I mean, I lean Gallo. I know we've had our own Joey Gallo watch. So that makes me a little nostalgic, A. And I saw he had a He had a really nice throwout at the plate.

And he was doing pretty solid up until this slump. So yeah, I'm in on Gallo. Mike Trout's last 10 games, Trev, 39 played appearances, 167 batting average. Put him on. 333 slugging. Give us the fish. Put Mike Trout on.

We can all laugh about how quick he comes off. Trout's on. Trout's on. In my defense, I didn't know that you put 0 for 6. Well, that's because it's just for just the last series. I want Gallo. He only played two games. You want Gallo?

I think Ray off and put Gallo. Gallo's O for his last 13. Correa and Alonzo are both coming off. Yeah, I think so. So we got room. Fletcher, Gallo, trout. Let's do it. You want Fletch.

Yeah, you know this is my least favorite part of the show. I don't like talking about it. So, hold on, hold on. Correa and Correa and who's the other person that just came off? Alonzo and Judge. Correa Alonzo and Judge all came off. Alonzo came off.

They had big, big series. Okay. So we're adding Trout, Gallo, and DeYoung. Is that who you wanted? He wants Fletch. Fletch isn't going on. He's not having a good year. I don't think I fully understand how Slump Watch works still, so you guys are better at this.

Fletcher is super interesting case where a lot of, where he's a great example of why batting average isn't the only stat you should look at because Fletcher has to hit basically 330 batting average for the rest of his stats to look good. He's batting average is 283 on the season, which is great batting average. 263. 263.

Did it just come down? Maybe it was that earlier. I thought I just saw 280s. But he's a 285 OBP. Yeah. So what you're saying? I mean last year, Fletcher was 319. 376 and 801 OPS, which that's really good.

He's kind of got to be north of 300. It has to be. Which is tough. Because his on-base percentage isn't, you know, what it's supposed to be 100 points higher or 60 points higher? It's supposed to be 60 points higher. The OBP 60 points higher than the BA. And then you have to have some slugging, but he doesn't.

So Madrigal, Fletcher, if the batting average drops, they're not offering much else with the bat. Yep. And we don't have room for him because, Ed Escobar staying and then Ty France. You want to take him off? I think we agreed last episode.

There was going to be a piece out to Ty France either way, but we don't have a lot of ton of, a lot of ton of great slump watch options. Dude, Ty France, man. It's such a good April. April 26, 325 batting average 412 on base percentage. May 13th, 229 batting average 333 on base percentage. It's dropping every. day. I mean, do we just, do we go four-man, but Trout basically counts as two?

Sure. Like, take DeYoung off and it's just, or Ty France. I'll take Ty France off. We told the audience that it was his last week on. Trout counts as two. Trout counts as two. Okay. Eddie Escobar, Mike Trout, Joey Gallo, Paul DeYoung. Boom. I want to see you all gone by Monday. Trev, can you say these words? Mike Trout's in a slump. Oh, my God.

Don't do it. No. No. I'm thinking about next slump watch, I think I'm going to just check out for the five minutes, and you guys handle it. It just hurts. It hurts.

It's starting to hurt me, and I lived in slump watch. We're just watching out. Think of what would just happen. We just got Alonzo hot. We got Judge Hot. We got Correa Hot. we're sparking them

we're motivating you know it's just a little like oh tick tis tisk getting close the old twins team's on the freaking slump watch how about that there's my addition oh yeah for sure

for sure twins pitching twins pitching that do do do do do do yummy oh snap that was lit in fuego

yeah I'll unplug re plug if you could Unplug, re-plug, Trev, while we play the soundbite that we played it in Fuego. I was changing it up. I was doing a new one. Okay. I think I might go, oh, snap, that's lit now for In Fuego. Okay.

I mean, that's a big change. Yeah. Just drop that live. Yeah, I was mixing it up. Ooh. DJing. Jesus Aguilar. On fire.

Nine for 17 with three homers. How about that? And he tried to look at Carson Kelly's catcher playbook, which I gave him an award a while ago, so I'd like welcome to my office. So he's still doing it. And Carson Kelly was actually like, hey, come on, man.

Because that's actually like, it's not like the defensive placement that he stole from the guy before. It's like the catcher's sequence. So like Carson Kelly didn't act like it was a joke. He's like, come on, man. Stop peeking. Teoscar Hernandez, 7 for 11 with two homers. That's pretty good.

Kyle Tucker, 5 for 10, 500 batting average. Two homers. Jesse Winker still doing it. What are his numbers on the season now, Jay? Can you pull those up for me? I'm interested. He goes 7 for 13 this week. Ask Caves goes 7 for 15.

Old man, Julie. Four for 12. How did he get on here? Two homers, I guess. Two homers, four for 15. 12? No walks? Somehow Yuli snuck on to Infuego. Two homers.

Aaron Judge, 583 on base percentage, 6 for 11, as we mentioned on the slump watch update. What's Winker doing on the season? Jesse Winker is currently leading the National League in hits with 43. He's leading the National League in batting average at 371. He's leading the National League in slugging at 655, and he has a one. 0.085 OPS. That also leads the National League, Jesse Winker. I mean, starting to get into bona fide category.

Another streetball NBA reference. Do you know who he went to high school with, Treve? Trevor? Hmm. Oh, it's so bad. Where's he from? Where's he from? Oh.

You're not allowed to talk. You got to unplug, re-plug again, I guess. You're still robotic. Sorry. Have you tried to take him off and add him back? or anything on your end? I have one thing I can try. Don't slit your throat.

Brad Miller. Oh, wow. But I think they weren't the same age, but they went to the same high school. Treves' backyard mate. Brad Miller. He's blowing on stuff right now. This is hot.

Winkers a stud. Jim, you mentioned Aguilar. That clip is really good. Buster Olney tweeted about how good Aguilar is doing on the season. And I wanted to comment. He's also... a two-time award winner on talking baseball, but I thought that might put Buster through the ringer a little bit,

and it wasn't worth it. What do you mean? Yeah, like, what award. So I couldn't end up down there. What's he won? Te Oscar the Grouch, man. I said it before. People got to know about this dude.

I think I follow his agent, Rafa Nievis, on Twitter. He's pretty solid. And, yeah, I mean, Teoscar Hernandez is like a, you chop up some stats, like a top 15 hitter over the past few years, which, again, think about what that actually means. If you go through the names of baseball, you don't, you know, you'd say four other Blue Jays before you'd say Teasca Hernandez's name. So violent swing. Jesse Winker had a high school teammate that also got drafted in the first round by the Padres. his name was Walker Weichael. So Winker and Wichael.

We're leading the way. There's your attorneys. Walker Wichael. Winker and Wichael. Attorneys at law. Treb, are you back? Yeah, I'm asking the chat what I got to do for my mic because I feel like they know more than I do.

Maybe BBD's fix just worked and maybe it's a BPD fix instead of a U-Fix. They're saying it might be my earpods. Do you use your AirPods? Yeah, I'm going to go back to my old school headphones. I'll try that next time. Yeah, I would take the Bluetooth out of the equation. It might help. Come on.

All right. Also, like, people are just like throwing money at us right now in the chat. So shout out to everybody. Thank you very much. Alex said something. Alex Lee said, one of the chances we can get three of you to Arizona. Jake loves that for the adult baseball world series.

They call it. It's just the World Series. Probably not a good chance, but... Yeah. You sound so good, they're saying, Trev. It's an adult baseball world series. I think that's just the MLB World Series. I think it's exactly what it sounds like.

Yankees' D-backs. Yeah, I might have to do one quick scrounge of the D-Back schedule. Because on the Internet, they did say I could get the opening pitch, which... No way. It would be a big moment for me. Oh, my God. I could get in the pool and let a pitch rip. that's the American dream.

Maybe that's the next year thing. We'll see. Busy year coming up. Estreauroble Cabrera hot. So there's a 25 and older, 35 and older, 35 and older adult baseball world series. Okay. Weird.

I'd like to watch that. That'd be fun to watch, to be honest with you. I don't know if I think it would be fun to watch. I'd have to really see what's going on. There'd be some super hardos. Yeah, that's what I'm worried about. We'd have a team we loved. Yeah.

which is the good news. Yeah. Yeah. Savannah bananas should just get to be entered into that. With whatever. I've ever told you the story of what my brother would do in his adult league? What would he do? He was so good.

He actually played in college, like played a little independent ball, and went to like a Sunday league. It was not super competitive, but he was just like the best player. And he would hit. And if he had like a ground ball with a shortstop, he would not even take a step out of the box. he would just walk back into the dugout. Alpha.

Like he didn't want to run the ball out. Like Donaldson, when he hit a home run and then just walk back to the dugout, spring training. Yeah, but it was, yeah, ground out to short stuff. He would just like walk back to the dugout. I guess that's not all too uncommon in the Sunday leagues. They're trying to save their bodies. What was your reaction to? Alex Lee said a naked World Series would be the dream.

Yeah, if we could get that 35 and up group playing Nakey baseball, I'm there. Did you guys ever watch before Jackass on MTV? The Bam Marjira and his crew made those videos. That's how he got started. What they called? Why, Y2K. CKY. CKY.

CKY. Yeah, CKY was Bam's older brother's band. Yes. But also that was the name of their video series. Remember Rake Jan hated mustard? There was a skit they did in one of their DVDs. I had it when I was like middle school where they went to a soft. softball field and played naked softball.

I think everyone was closed, but Ray Kyan. And he was like field and balls in the outfield, his dick flopping all over. That's actually better. Yeah. If everyone's dressed and there's only one naked guy and you play it cool. That's a really weird memory that just, like, somehow exposed itself because they said naked baseball.

So I've seen naked baseball forms, what I'm saying. Softball. Bragging about. I wonder if there's anyone else that is. Ray Kian never did it for me. He's like a chemist. I think he's actually like a smart, like, scientist person. And that's where Rabb himself did do it for me.

That's a reflection of myself, I guess. All right. Yeah, Brandon Deacon Millo, Deco was the funniest, member of that whole crew, but he was scared to fly. So he never got to do any of the skits and bits because he wouldn't get in a flight. Trev, you get to go first. All right. One of my favorite, I'm not a movie quote guy, but one of my favorite movie quotes is, an elf

when buddy reads the sign world's best coffee and goes into the coffee shop and goes, you did it, congratulations, you really did it.

So I'm giving the Buddy the elf congratulations, you really did it award. And it's going to go to Jack Flaherty. He finally went until Milwaukee and had a good start. Now,

I got to throw a little caveat in there, two of the guys that banged him around the most, because this guy had like a seven ERA, against the Milwaukee Brewers. Two of the guys that banged him around the most, two of his friends, Christian Yelich, Ryan Braun, not.

What is that face for? Don't do that. Don't go there. Twice, you said two of the guys that banged him around the most. And then the second time you said it, two of his friends. Two of his friends that banged him around.

Two of his best friends banging him out for years. Yeah. Yeah, for sure. Not for me. Also, sex. We're losing it right now. This has gone long, by the way. He goes in.

in there, deals, shoves against Corbyn Burns, and for the first time, had a good start. It was his seventh win and eight tries, I think seven in a row, because he had that first bad start to start the season. It's been lights out ever since. Goes into Milwaukee. I asked him, I said, I guess Braun just didn't have to be in there. And he laughed and said, I guess so, him and Yelich. Those were his two buddies who hit him very well, and they weren't there. But he went in there and then stopped that street, got his seventh win in the row. So congratulations, You did it. You really did it. Good job, Jack.

We love Jay Flair. He's winning. He's winning. He's winning. He's a lot right now. 7 and 0 that ERA keeps going down. Yes. Seeing cores, buddy. My award is the Cowbell Award.

It was originally called the Saturday Cry Award. Oh. But I changed it. James Caprelian makes his debut for the ace. his backstory, his story is awesome. I'll tell you a little bit. Tomorrow morning, Saturday morning, if you're, like, hungover and you need to get in your emotions a little bit, you can watch a bunch of the videos, and you can have

yourself a nice little cry. I used to do that on Saturday morning, Shreve. And when I kept an active blog, I would do Saturday morning cry, I'd share all the videos, you know? So, James Cappellin, he's 27 years old. He just made his debut. He got drafted by the Yankees in the first round. In 2017, he had Tommy John.

he got traded to the A's part of the sunny gray trade had a couple more setbacks a lot more setbacks makes his debut in Boston gets in trouble in the first inning 30 pitches I think but doesn't give any earned runs one earned run is the final line I believe I don't even have the final line it's not really that important to the story his dad flies in and his dad's sitting by the third base sign or by the A's dugout and eventually they just did a split screen with his dad watching every pitch to get out of a jam he got into another jam in the fifth inning, I believe, where he went three, two against Devers and dropped the change up and shook him out. And his dad is living and dying on every single pitch. And it is

spectacular, makes me cry. And the biggest story, the bigger story that makes you cry is his mother passed away after a 13-year battle with cancer in 2014. And she would be at every single game with a cowbell. She just had a custom cowbell ringing it for him. And she would always sit in between the third base and home plate. So when he's pitching, he comes set, he looks there and he said he had a moment where he always takes a pause and he looks there, thinks of his mom to calm himself down. And so he's like, he's with me.

She said, my dad's the rock. It's just an incredible story, the stuff that'll make you tear up and be really excited. he said he had to tell his dad like, hey, like, love you. Glad you're proud of me. But we got another one in five days. So have a beer and relax, which was cool. Cool part of the story is that 18 days after his mom passed away, before she passed away, he wasn't going to go play for Team USA because his mom was dying.

And she said, no, you have to go play for Team USA. So two days after she passed away, he flew down to somewhere wherever it was being played. They were playing China, Taipei in this big tournament. He takes them out 18 days later, goes six. shutout innings 12K's first time on the mound since his mom passed away. Crazy emotional story. Really good journey. Happy for him.

I remember following him along when he was in the Yankees minor league system and then they traded him away and it's been a bit. So awesome story. Go check it out on your own and listen to the interviews and watch the dad's reaction because it's crazy. Love it. That was cool to see. I always love the dads in the stands.

Yeah. And I mean, obviously all that stuff is the heartstring stuff. I mean, baseball world, the guy's gone through his own injuries and stuff, and it's, you know, where this sport can be brutal, and we, you know, we forget about that stuff. But, you know, following him through the Yankees, the question, like, was, would he be healthy enough to, like, become a major leaguer? And now he's doing it.

And, hey, he's with a team that, an organization that we talked about, I think last episode or another episode, how, you know, these guys find pitchers and make them do well. They've got the coaching and the sauce. So good for him, man. Keep getting dudes out. Cali guy, too. The Hills, Treff.

A lot of California guys in the big leagues. You know the Yankees like to draft the California guys too. We know that. UCLA, ruins. Jake, what is your award? It's a good one, Jim. It's a good one. I'm going with the Rose's Award.

The Rose's Award. One of my favorite music videos of all time is roses by Outcast Speaker Box The Love Below It's all time It's good theatrics I mean it was prime outcast

It was a perfect time for me to be into that It's it's kind of my music genre I had a buddy You know I've never been a huge music guy But when a song like that came on My buddy Kyle would always be like This is a Jake song It's kind of more enter

than necessarily great music, which sums it up. I'm driving in the car trying to put on your makeup in the mirror real fast. You crash, crash, crash, crash into a ditch. Just playing. Jim likes that line. It's pretty funny to wish death on someone and then just be like just joking. He's just playing, man. He wouldn't wish that.

He just doesn't like Caroline. In that music video, it's the speaker box versus the love below. Oh. And in that music video, Caroline, sneaks out with Cat Williams who's talking about the speaker boxes and the love below's. You could be with me. And they leave and he says,

take one more look at your past. The speaker box and the love below this year are the Dodgers and the Padres. The Roses Award goes to the San Francisco Giants. I am drinking the Kool-Aid. Trevor, you mentioned it before. They are top seven. and some pitching and hitting stats. I think you went, uh, wins, runs created or whatever it is.

This Giants organization, we've talked about it a little bit on this show, uh, your coaching, Trev, and they've clearly found a little bit of a sauce with the hitting. They've, they've resurged some guys, they've got bodies. They've also been doing it. Donnie Barrels, who is the main part of that resurgence. He's on the aisle. Alex Dickerson, who's been a part of that. He's been on the aisle.

Tommy Lestella, who was a nice free agent signing for them. He's been on the aisle. They've still had guys stepping up and hitting. Buster Posey is letting it rip, making me look like a goddamn fool for not having him on my top 10 catchers list because he's old and he got hurt. Idiot. He's a stud. Longoria, Trev's guy.

Most importantly, I think hitting this whole year is going to be messed up. That's kind of where we started the episode. I believe in their hitting enough. Man, they're pitching. They have figured something out there. Gossman is a one. right now. DeScalfani is gross. He's throwing a slider right now that if it was 10 years ago, you'd say that's one of the best pitchers in baseball. We've kind of been blinded to it. He's thrown an

87 mile per hour slider that dances incredible. Alex Wood looks gross this year. Johnny Quato's always been my man. He's back from the aisle while Aaron Sanchez is on it. These guys in the bullpen are doing enough. I'm buying the Kool-Aid. I think these giants, while the speaker box in the love below duel it out all year. I think these giants are going to sneak out with Caroline out the back door. They've currently got a 64% chance of making the playoffs. Think about that, the San Francisco Giants. I think they keep chugging.

Go Giants. Beautiful. Beautifully done. You didn't even mention Stephen Dugger. Barely know her. Or Longo. I mentioned Longo, so you just zoned out for that part. I zoned out.

I didn't understand the reference. at all, but then you just went into the, you're saying the giants, you believe in them. Oh, it's a very long-winded way of saying, yeah, I'm in on the giants. Could have said that. I like that. No, what you said was beautiful. Thank you, Jim. Yeah, I think it was.

I think it's me. It's me. Do you not know that music video, Treve? Were you not alive in 2003? I know the song, just the whole correlation, it went over my head. It's not you. It's me. He was having a nice.

Outcast, Roses. Jayquan tipsy and Hubastank What was their song That was slow Hoosank's slow song I don't know what is going on right now

Yeah I'm interested where that was leading Those three songs were like the only songs on the radio Me and our buddy Charles Me and our buddies Tidge and Charlie We're building a tree house and we had a radio And those are the only songs playing The reason. Who bestanked the reasons?

2003. Yeah. And the reason is, yeah. Treb was in the sauce. He was wondering if he was going to Stanford. Is he going pro? Treve was dying his hair block getting blinded by the dye when he was sweating at the mosh bits. Having a lot of sex.

Protected. No, I love it. I told you. It's not. I think you went for it. It came out beautifully. I just didn't understand it. You got to.

Jake weaves a web. You got to stay in. I'll send you the music video. You'd like it, I think. I think it holds up decently for what it is. The Outcast video? Yeah. I'm sure I've seen it.

Just the whole thing, you lost me, but I think it was beautiful, beautifully said at least. And I'm with you on the Giants. He likes the coach it. Giants has a playoff team, Trev. I want to give you a hug right now. If I told you it was 64% that the Giants make the playoffs, Do you believe that?

What would you put your percentage at? Probably a little bit lower than that. I would say like it's a 50-50 right now. You know, but they are, I mean, they're doing it. It's like hard to say that they aren't a playoff team with what they've done. Statistically, and if you just kind of, even the eye test, man. So, I'm in on them.

I mean, it's just that the Padres and the Dodgers are still looming there. Know who they got coming up this weekend? Your Pittsburgh Pirates. Keep it going, baby. Keep it going. Watch some got. People said I had frosted tips when I was growing up.

That's not true. It was like not true. Yeah, I had, I dyed my hair black with permanent dye. My mom was pissed at me. Did you ever go frosted? By accident, yeah. When I was in sixth grade. Oh, my God.

People have a bad perception of me when I was younger. I don't like it. Okay. People picture generic Cali teen. Treve was tough. Trev was tough. Treve was a punk rock princess. You can be my punk rock princess.

I will be your garage band. Honestly, imagine me and Delman walking around in our all black clothes going to punk shows. He had dyed hair, by the way. He had peroxide. dyed, blonde hair. That's awesome. Black hair. It's awesome.

Yeah, I'm looking at the top songs from 2004, April, when we were building that tree house. It's great times. Usher, yeah. Usher, burn. J-Quan, tipsy, hubistank, the reason. Kanye West, all falls down. That's a great song.

I love it that's like a fragmented piece of your, like, memory is like you, there was the time when you built the treehouse. And like that, that's a reference point for you. And I love that. Outcast, Hey, Yan, Roses. Well, yeah, because we were in the middle of the woods, and we didn't have cell phones, so you just literally just had the radio.

They played the same 10 songs while we were cutting down trees and building a tree house. I love that. We painted it, but we didn't have any paint brushes. Oh, my God, that was funny. You paint with your hands, hand paint? We, like, got, yeah. Well, the one kid was pretty mad at me and Tidge because we just, like,

got a stick and started like throwing it at the wall. And he was like, why aren't you painting it? We're not having paintbrushes. I can get you some. It's like, oh. Too late. We're in the woods, man.

We're live. You heard the song? It's great. People are saying I went to punk shows like some 41 and Simple Planet. No. Like the adolescence, the descendants, old school AFI, bad religion.

The most poppy punk was like penny wise that we would go to. But we would go to. But we would go at a Cobalt Cafe on Sherman Way was just a bunch of local punk bands that we'd go see. So stop. BPD, who's your favorite out of those bands? Wait, hold up. Why are you, what you're saying, I think, is lending a lot of credence to what the chat's saying. Not what.

I think only AFI in there. AFI, old two AFI is extremely punk rock. Yeah, they went mainstream. What's the chat? I referenced that in Twitter. Chat's not saying that you were a punk, California teenager? They said that I went to punk shows with quotation. like some 41 and simple plan.

Oh, oh, oh, Trev doesn't want poppong. It's a funny zing. He wants real punk. No, I was really a punk. Yeah, yeah. Black flag, minor threat. Do you know any of those bands, BPD? I was doing another thing, so I didn't listen to most of what it was just said.

You don't. I think I heard some 41 in there and I'm familiar. Okay. That was the band Trev didn't want to be associated with. Yeah. But that's because he's a hard-in. I just said I've heard of it. Oh, he hates getting off an opinion.

AIFI, by the way, I want to put this out there. There's still an excellent band. Even when they went mainstream, they still were one of my favorite bands. Like, their music changed, but they're still great at it. You like No Effects? He'd have it. You know, I wasn't a big No-FX guy. A lot of my friends were.

I just, I didn't like him. I listened to some of their stuff, but. You made Nick Proch's Day with the AFI reference. That was a good tweet in general, Trev. Thank you. Thank you. My yordaun is he's now a household name. Reliant K in the chat.

I haven't heard that in a while. Reliant K was like Christian pop punk. Or like Christian punk. They had one song that was like their mainstream. And then it was like, oh, they're Christian. Yeah. That was the other band that did that. That's the trick to everyone.

And then they were like, yeah, we're actually a Christian band. Lifehouse. Life. house, but there was the other one. It was a good song. The music video, the drummer, was completely not synced up with the drums, which was hilarious. Mandy Moore went on to, like, sing

with them. Ooh, Mandy Moore. She's had a career research. Oh, dude, that's going to piss me off. We can move on. Who's the best friend of the week? If the chat knows who I'm talking about, please let me know. I think the song had something to do with, like, a week, or, I don't know.

Our best friend of the week is Taiwan Walker, seven innings pitch, one earn, four K's, four hits, three walks. And a little shout out to Drew Bue. Got his first RBI of the year. Drew Bues. Switch foot. Thank you.

Thank you, Kristen. We were meant to live for so much more. Have you lost yourself? That was a huge hit. And then you dug into him and they were like, they were a Christian band and you're like, wait. Yeah. That is a good tone.

Yeah, it's really good. Drew Bue, I caught some Drew Bue live. And I think I watched him. lay two sack buntz and he was so stoked about it. He was so stoked. It was awesome. What a teammate, man. Sacrificing himself for the betterment of the team.

That's what I'm talking about. And he did the classic, you know, guy hits a homer and goes back to the dugout and tells everyone about the homer. He was telling everyone about the bunt. It was awesome. That's so funny. Drew, Drew Bue and John Jay on the same squad right now, Trev. I know.

They're my guys. I'm going to a game. I'm going to a game for sure. Good. Yeah. I'll tell Mike Schott that you put him on the freaking slump watch. He's like, what's that? What's a slump?

Never heard of it. Not something I'm familiar with. All right, let's go and get on the elevator. Little elevator talk. If you happen to be on an elevator with this guy or a gal wearing a hat of this team, here is some fodder that you can throw their way. Two minutes on the clock Atlanta Braves. They didn't get a lot of talk.

but we mentioned them a little bit. I'm going to go search their schedule out. As you know, Acuna, you know, first thing you say is like, thank God the x-rays negative. That's the first thing you say, and then you know exactly what you're talking about. They got Milwaukee, the Mets, and Pittsburgh. They are literally deteriorating one of our people at John Boy Media. Ashland has an eye twitch from stress from the Braves. And it's been going on for 58 days, she said.

It's tough. Oh, man, that's pretty funny. Who's the problem? I feel like. I don't know. You know, you can talk about, I always figure out how to pronounce this name. Enoa?

Hesker. Lasker. Because he's been doing it on both sides of the ball. So if you want like a good dad joke, like, who needs Otani when you got Noah? That's a good dad joke. You can throw in the elevator. People will like that.

He's, currently got a 400 batting average and a 1.267 OPS had two home runs on the year and a double. It's not bad. Young Thick's been pretty good, right? We got a shout out here. We kind of talk crap about him a little bit, at least I did. Young Thicks, you know. I don't know his numbers, but I heard he was good.

You say Chris Martin just came back in the bullpen and Shane Green as Talking Jake reported signed with the team. So hopefully that settles things down on the back end. Sandival still doing his pinch hit. Madness. Numbers on the year look really good. What's going on with Soroka? And Austin Riley, you weren't tough on him. Treb, you just were being forthcoming that, like,

they might trade for a third basement if you aren't the answer in this one-year window. Sure. They don't even know if the window's open right now. But, you know, Austin Riley's doing all good. He's not slugging. He's only got a couple extra base hits, but he's got a two-eating. 82 batting average and a good OBP. You just need a couple more extra base hits.

Had Danesby still hot. Hot. I'll end it there. Ganger D. See you guys. Thank you very much. Jake sucks. Treb, you still have the bat?

I'll throw a bat.