Talkin' Baseball (MLB Podcast) - 343 | Giolito Pitches Angry, Tyler O'Neill Erupts, & Jomboy Cursed the Yanks

Episode Date: May 31, 2021

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Hello and welcome to talking baseball. Happy Memorial Day. Hope you had yourself a weekend. MLB did and we're going to talk about it. Hello and welcome to talking baseball. Thank you very much for joining us today. We're brought to you by Draft Kings. My name is Jimmy.

So next to me is Jake. We got Trevor MBBD. The crew is all together on this very special Monday to recap the baseball that happened. And we probably got some new patrons. We got this updated? How about this? This one's brought to you by Sophia Reyes.

Connor Schoenfeld. Tommy Dats and Zachary Breen, 44 by me, crushed it. Jake, how you doing? James, Trev, Big Baby David, everyone live in the chat and not live in the chat. Doing well. Happy Memorial Day.

A little Memorial Day with the boys. You know, maybe we'll start, maybe we start doing family Memorial Day trips. Live pod on Mondays. We go to Joe Mower's Lakehouse every year. We have a nice weekend. I don't know. I'll talk to Joe about it.

Or maybe Trev, if you can hit him. But I'm doing well. Doing well. How a nice weekend. Met my nephew. It was delightful. Emmett. Got some good content there.

Yeah, he's a. It's fast. He's a baller. He's a, he's basically a human worm at this point, two months old. Same as you then. No, no words. That hair. Oh, no, it's great.

Got to see some family, got to see some friends. Missed you boys on Friday. Those double Cali shows, I don't know. Just not for me. I don't know. I missed you too. I texted you during the show. I said, bro, I miss you.

Yeah, got me a little emotional. See, Rose is great, and a lot of people really liked him on the episode. Being one of those people, But we miss, you know, look, we miss our Jakey. A couple weird creepy references, couple statements that don't make sense. That's kind of what I bring. That's what you bring, baby.

What's what you do? Oh, wormy pick. Come on. That's so wormy. That's the wormyest pick ever. Everyone that's listening on just the audio, only time to go to the YouTube and look at the wormy picture of Jake. Add.

Ad for the YouTube. Poor don't. Oh, man. Baseball happened. Did you guys watch it all? Trev, do you watch our yanks, man? Holy smokes. I don't want, I'm a positive guy.

Yeah, we'll save that. Just go into that. How is your weekend, Treve? Tell them who you were tossing a football with, if that's allowed to be said. Yeah, of course. I had a great weekend. You know, it's Memorial Day weekend. First of all, we have to talk about this.

Everybody, as you're enjoying the parties, as you're enjoying, you know, the extra day to have a good time with your friends and family. Let's remember why we have this day. Think about all the people who sacrificed, you know, our military to give us these freedoms that we're enjoying this weekend. I think that's very, very important. I don't care what side of the aisle you lean on politically. Thank you to the troops for your service. Jake's an usher. He just walks people to their side.

He's sideless. I like that. Yeah. No sides. But I wanted to say that, but I had a great weekend. It's kind of been going crazy on Saturday. They had a nice little barbecue. you and I told you guys our guy, a new quarterback for the Rams,

moved into the neighborhood. And he's got young kids and we've got young kids. So we had some fun. I played some catch with him. Do you feel pressure when he throws you a ball? Like, I got to catch you some of that. No, no. I think he felt pressure, you know.

I think he didn't. I think, man. No, here's a thing, though. It's you put a baseball in a guy's hand. He said immediately, man, his thing feels small. Oh, he was throwing you a baseball. Yeah. Okay. Oh, he didn't toss the football around. Yeah, I thought you were throwing a football back and forth,

and I was saying there's no way he feels pressure doing that. We were talking. He talked to me that in high school he was a catcher shortstop, not unlike yourself, Jake, very, you guys have a lot in common in that regard. But I said, okay, let's see some of the movements. So you want to roll some dough plays. And I got to say, I was very impressed. Like he was, he was getting the ball in and out of his glove. He had, you know, all the angles that you need.

and good guy. He caught Kershaw. Did you ask him about that? I didn't. I don't think he told me that he did. Is that a true story? I knew they were... Well, I mean, if he was catching in high school,

Kershaw was pitching, and they were best friends. I don't know. I don't know the whole story. I didn't get that far into it with him. You know, we were just playing catch, good times. High level. Yeah.

Dudes. He's a guy guy. Yeah. Yeah. Do you introduce him to... Did you introduce him to a little? Olivia, because that's kind of your only card. Like, I swear I'm cool.

I think so. I think he knows I'm cool because of Olivia. Yeah. That's good. Yeah. And I had these cool sunglasses. You know my super cool sunglasses? The green ones?

I had those on. Nice. The green ones? No. The ones like they were like. Oh, the ones that look like you're like in a mob show and they blocked out your eyes. Like 3D. Yeah.

Oh, wow. Yeah. I had those on. So you already knows I'm cool. I don't. Okay, we'll check with him. I need to see those in person. I like him.

Bring him to Denver. I will say this. I'm going another. Yeah. Keep going. My weekend's still going. Thank you to the troops. I'm going to see your boy J.

Flair tonight in L.A. against Bauer. He left me a few tickets, so I'm going to go check him out tonight. Wow. Big weekend. That's, um, refraining, refraining from saying things. refraining from saying things.

Okay. Okay. Yeah. Jake, you look great today. You look great. How many times does a starting pitcher, how many times the two starting pitchers use the same ball in a game? Does it never happen?

No, they don't. Because they don't roll the ball back out onto the mound, like, in the bushes. That's so, that's so brutal. rolling the ball back to the mound. But the umpire, he'll take one from his bag and throw it. So then that first point. But then each starting pitcher has their own bag.

Like the ball boys. There might be some cross-contamination. You're right. Okay. Jayflair might throw a pitch, feel something, and be like, maybe I should try this out. Jimbo. Let's not get into it, right?

I wanted to refrain. I couldn't do it, Traneff. I couldn't do it. Have fun at the game. Thank you. Who's got the NL today? You do? The king.

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Ooh, baby! How about some NL baseball? How about our Milwaukee Brewers, a little Tuesday, Brews Day. Coming up, the Brewers sweep the Nats. Let's go. I hate you, Nationals. Don't be a part of my life this year. Brewers take a little double header action, seven inning games, 4-1, 6,

2, and then Woodruff drops it on the table, 7 shuddy, 10K, some bad news for the Nats. Will Harris, again, Thoracic out, syndrome, that sucks. That could be it for Will to thrill. That's sad. Good for the Brewers. Get it going. Rockies Pirates! Oh, fire me up! Pirates take two out of three. Cole Tucker is flying up potential MVP charts. He got an RBI series. Pitchers starting, pirates starting pitchers have a hell of a series. 056 ERA. How about that? Pirates take two out of three. Nobody cares. Cubs take two out of three.

How about my Cubs? He's playing a little baseball. Racking up some dubs. They take game 1-1-0-N-Aude. Excuse me? What's your name, son? He's actually pretty good. I like that guy.

And the Cubs starting pitching and relief pitching dropped it this series. Love that. 1-0-10-2. Rets take the final game of the series. Die, Reds. Whoa. San Francisco Giants.

My G. Amen. They take three out of four from the Dodgers, Jimmy. How about it? L.A.? What's dead can never die. San Fran. The Dodgers took the first game, some Southpaw's price versus wood,

but then the Giants take the final three, including extra inning game. Mike Talkman crazy catch on pool hosts. Love that. Bossman versus Kirshaw in the final game. Dodgers get some guys back. Bellinger comes. back. Not a great series. Betts scratched with allergies. Pollock, Trev's Pollock rehabing.

D-backs Cardinals, my D-backs get a win in the final game. They lose the first three out of four. But they end their 13-game losing streak. The Curse of the Poppy is almost over. Tyler O'Neill might hear more about him in a little bit. My thick king is raking. And the Diamondback starting pitching just got killed, but they're relief pitching. 17.1 Shuddy. Love that. Cardinals take three out of four. And then Mets versus Braves. We only got one game because the Northeast had about a bad of a Memorial Day weekend Weatherfest as you could.

Mets win the one game they play 13 to 2. Five home runs. McCann, Lendor, a couple guys who haven't been hitting a lot of them. VR. Brandon Drury and even Jimmy's. Billy McKinney hit Yobobob. in that one. And the worst news, Braves Mad, So Zuna, suspended, arrested, I don't know, sucks, sucks, sucks. But that's the NL recap.

Fantastic job by Jake. God. Trev, can I tell you something about Jake? If I was Jake's coach. Penis looks like an old man's thumb. While true, not what I was going to say. Oh, I was trying to get ahead of that one. When Jake misses an episode, his phone.

Kamo kicks in that when he comes back, he just ripping and roaring. That's how the burn started on talking yanks. He missed an episode and he heard the guy Adam did it and did a burn. And Jake was like, I'm going to come back and show him how it's done. So if you're a coach, you just like, you know, you send him on holiday once every month. Comes back, fired up. Not going to wally pit me, Rosie. Yeah.

I come off the I'll. I'm ready to know. Yeah, he hasn't come off. and then dilly dally. I need a couple days here and there to get back in the groove. Flying. Oh, your mic's off. Oh, Trevor Mike.

God, he hates that so much. I muted it because I unplugged it. I'm trying to get proactive on the robot traffic thing. What are you drinking? It looks like it's got like a warning label on. Yeah, it does. Monster. No free ads.

No free ads. Yeah, I appreciate you guys. I'm happy. You brought the N-Ans. Yeah, I guess they did send us. They sent us 200 cans out of the blue. This is their refresh, revive, recover.

So yeah, just filled with caffeine. Monster energy reminds me of like my hometown, like Dickies, black socks, lifted trucks, motorcycles. Dirt nasty. Kind of just like dumb. Livermore, California, lifted truck capital of the world. Yeah. You and I like Kestak might be second then.

I don't know. You know, I had a, I've told this story, but Trebs probably never heard it. They lifted truck. I didn't have a lifted truck, you're kidding me? This kid, I mean, in Livermore is like the most lifted trucks in the world. And this dude had like a little Toyota Tacoma, like a little bitty truck lifted on like, it was like a monster truck wheels and he would drive in the high school parking lot. He ran a kid over and didn't realize it because he thought it was a speed bump and went both wheels up over his body in the parking lot.

Not crazy? With the kid just like a pancake on the ground? Is he dead? He threw his girlfriend out of the way and then no, he didn't die. He missed a couple weeks. I had the class with, I was in class with both of them. And the day that the injured kid came back in, I said, oh, this is awkward because he ran you over.

And I broke the tension for him right away. That's what I do. You've told us this. Yeah, I've told that story. It's a good one. It's a good one. It's a good one. Highlights what you're good at.

Yeah. I'll like what you're good at. Let me just talk about the elephant in the room. Sure. Yeah. I picked the Braves to win the World Series. Yeah. Okay.

Soroka's out. They've been pretty bad. They're not far out of the standings, but now we get the Ozuna news. He's a piece of shit, allegedly. It's not that alleged when the cops saw it first hand. I think you have to say that. Yeah, allegedly according to the cops. Allegedly, yeah.

And I'm going to pose this question. I don't have the chat up yet. Gosh, darn it. Chat. I'm going to ask a question to open up. Nagnabit. Do I get to pick a new world? series team. It's your call.

I got to roll with it. Because I'll roll with it. We each get one change a year. Trev, I live by that. Of course, you didn't send me the chat, man. One time I don't. Just go to the tweet. Every time that I say anything,

there's asterisk on the bottom of the clause that says, I reserve the right, change my mind at any time. Yeah. And that's a known thing. Anyone that listens to any podcast we do, that's a deal I have with the audience. God, maybe they rally around this. And they They say, like, F that guy. We don't need him. Let's go.

Oh, I kind of like that. Trev, what smart people do is they adjust their assessment of a team when new information comes about. You don't want to be a stubborn. Dig your heels in. Or you can. Back against the wall. I'm a big fan of that. I think that's the way the world should work.

I'm asking the chat if that's the way the world does work. Yeah, heavy. Yeah. But I still don't have the world. chat link um the the cubbies are now uh shooting up they're in second place uh in their division they're only a half game out they're tied in the loss column so they're basically tied for first and let me see they're 13 and 7 in their last 20 8 and 2 in their last 10 and I've read a stat I wanted to screenshot it so I could share it and save it as a tweet um something that the cubs

haven't lost a game by more than one run in 25 games. Whoa. Yeah. I don't want to be, if that's wrong, but I believe that was what I saw. And I was like, whoa, that's crazy. You know it will be super cool. Because they just lost five to one.

And I think it was their first loss of, yeah, yeah, yeah. Okay. Wow. Wow. In the month of May, basically. In the month of May. That's crazy. They went 25 games straight, not losing a game by more than one run. Kind of taxing for the bullpen. Hopefully they were winning big. Yeah, they had some... It has been incredible. What's that? This season. Their bullpen has been incredible this season. Their lineup has started to get it going. You know what they could use? Trevor Ploof. Like a really good starting picture. Like maybe you Darvish.

Oh. Would have been good. Oh, they had him. Who? Who? What are they doing? Who, Darvish? Think about that for a second, man.

Think about that for a second. They're in a position now where they have to decide, are we going to sell our guys that we planned on selling the entire off season? Or are we going to let them have one last merry run at it? If they decide, we're going to have to have. let them have another run at it. They're in the thick of it. They forced the hand. You Darvish would have been nice to have. I'm just saying it. Because they don't have a pitcher with an ERA plus over 100. Not one. A starting pitcher, excuse me. Their bullpen's been lights

out. The lineup's been doing it. Starting pitching is kind of what you need and they just gave a guy away. That's pretty good. Yeah. I mean, Jakey SpinZone on that. We do expect Hendricks to be better. Hey, I broken record on this one. The Cubs lineup is good, man. And it's a year where hitting doesn't exist so far this season. So like, hey, shout out to Javi Bias. He was off to kind of a tough start.

He's got it figured out a little bit. He's second on the team in war. Him and Bryant. The two free agents are one and two in war on that team. And yeah, I mean, right now it looks like they've got one, two, three, four, five, six, six, or seven of their everyday guys have OPS pluses over a hundred, or a hundred or better. Hap has now caught up after his slow start, he's turning around.

This lineup on a day-to-day basis is going to bang, and they basically need one half of their pitching to be solid. And their starting pitching really hasn't been, but their bullpen has, and they've been winning games. Without any bias, I think it's all Ian Hap. is what you're thinking. Well, you know, you can pinpoint when they turn the corner, when they welcome the Dodgers into town and said,

hey, let's get our heads on straight. We just lost a series to the Reds. We lost the series to the Braves. We lost the series to the Brewers. We need to turn this around. And then they swept the Dodgers, then Hap Kems back, and they're the best ever. Jake has a hand-up.

I have a question. Yeah. Can we quit the Reds? Do you hear me? I quit him last year. I'll talk about those guys. Okay. Okay.

I just... What are fun to talk about? I just, in my head, I almost have the same book on them as the Nationals. No, the Nats are better than Reds. Well, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait. I'm not using better as skill-wise, a talent and team. saying talking about wise well no see talking about wise i'm kind of done with both of them like i i quit on the gnats i've been excited for them for a while and it just never happens and i'd rather

like the met's starting to deserve credit the fillies are fun at least nats don't do it for me same thing with the reds man i feel like the reds are the same story every time yeah a few games under 500 a lot of talent does nothing for me they're really good at spin rate Huge. For some reason, I don't know what that reason would be, but. I don't know why. It's a hard, deep cut there. You can quit him.

I don't care. I mean, the Reds got. Yeah, I mean, Tucker Barnhart's my guy. Sure. Jesse Winkers going off. Moose. We always got to give shots. We always love Moose.

And I like Votto as well. Yeah, they're fun to talk about, but dang, man. That is funny. I like a lot of the individual players. but collectively they're just disappointing. And Jonathan India, he's kind of like a hot guy. He's like the bad boy looking hot guy. Ashland really likes him.

I've seen him on her on her Twitter. He got long hair or something? Yeah, I don't, he's just kind of, I don't know, you girls have strange taste. I feel like my taste in guys is better than most girls' tastes and guys. I think you're biased because it's yours, your take. It would be a good point. The reds are, let's see, quick math here.

I thought you said you didn't want to talk about them. They're 14 and 23 since April 17th. Is that when they were the biggest, baddest, mother. Yeah, they were 9 and 5. They were 9 and 5, and now they're 23 and 28. I just think. I told you guys, that is impossible to keep that mantra up. They were 162.

They're 4 and 3 in Interleague. So. And 7 and 2 in extra innings. God. So they should be worse. All right. We're not talking about them. No. The Mets only play, the Mets stay atop their division, but they only play one game, Jake. Yeah. Steve Cullen announced the cancellation of the game an hour before they actually canceled it. Do you think, like, his head of business was like, hey, Steve, we actually don't announce it for another hour because we're trying to sell food and drink?

Oh, so you missed that. So before they did one of those and he got a bunch of complaints, so he did superhero Steve. Cohen. That's great. Oh, so that's what, so he did it to like, I'm the good guy here. Yes. Okay, so then when he rips the sales department for not making enough money, they're going to be like, well, you cost us a couple hours. But I mean, I am a fan of Cohen doing that. Yeah. No, it's how it should be. What if players started doing that? Like, Trev, you say players know like three hours before they actually announce it to the public sometimes or two hours. It just, it really just depends on the situation, where you're at,

how they want to handle it. But there have been times, yes, we're leaving. the park and the people are still in there buying beers. If anyone, I, you know, I'll go into the news breaking business on game cancellations and any active player that listens to the show, if you want to, I'll make a burner account called the real, the real, what would, the real cancellation, that's bait, that's boring. What you need is not active players, you need the ground screw. Ground screw. Okay, all the grounds crew that listen, can you get in touch with me?

Which, by the way they all do. Yeah, oh, we're huge in the grounds crew You work the grounds crew You listen to talking baseball Yeah, we're huge there And good job, everyone Doing a great job on the grounds crew Give it up for the grounds crews

Can't do it without them Danny Cunningham Yanks Star of the Bronx Well, just get in touch to me I'll make a burner account It's going to be called like Games not

Games canceled At Games canceled Yeah Yeah And then I'll just do like I'll do like NYM versus C-O-L and then yupp and that's all.

The traits will be very just informative. There's a time frame for all this. So I want to say like two, once it gets to two hours or something like that before the game, it becomes the umpire's decision. But prior to that, leading up, it's the team's decision,

the home team's decision. So we kind of got to put little feelers out to a bunch of different people if you want that burner account to work. All right. Giants beat the Dodgers. Love that. They're up two games on the Dodgers with the Padres a half game ahead of them.

Cardinals, Cubs atop the Central with the Brewers. Nice little series by them. Three games above 500 now. They're in the mix. What's going on with the Phillies? Did I talk about them? Are they interleague? No, no, that's interlead.

Okay. We'll save that for later. Didn't work good. I will say this, Jake, your curse on the Diamondbacks. Well, let's talk about it. No, they... Well, let's talk just a little bit. What's the record since you took over?

So... Three and 19? Time out. Let me get what I was going to say. They needed more Jake. People do not like when you interrupt me, okay? Everyone says that. Okay.

Now all the comments are going to say Tref has Jake. Hates Jake. This is the thing right here. The Diamondbacks finally win a game. 13 game losing streak over. The problem is... Jacob de Grom was scheduled... was a start last night against the Braves.

Got rained out. Guess who the Diamondbacks have to face now the day after they break their losing streak? Jacob de Grom. It's tough. That's the curse of Jake the Snake. So the whole thing is so that's Saturday I go to the Diamondbacks game. They lose. They lose on Sunday as well.

And then they won two games. And that's kind of when my aura wore off. So Jake's snakes, we're two and two. Hey, what? Yes. He's saying that. They stopped hitting me up. I got more juice to give them.

It's good. I can't contest it. I have no idea how long you're or lasted with them. I've got a four-game window. Some people might say it lasted one game. Some people might say it lasted that while they were in New York. You're saying it lingered for two more days. I linger.

Yeah. People know that. Yeah, you do. I linger. Yeah. People want me to leave. Okay. Linger's, man.

Can I find out what the hell happened in the American League? Yeah, you want to move on? Yes. There's a lot of teams we didn't talk about. People always get upset. But we got awards and shit later to cover them. The American League, I'm doing it, and I'll play the music. And then we'll do it.

Brought to you by hats. Yeah, this is brought to you by all the hats in the world. The Blue Jays. They took two out of three from the Indians. get this, Trev. Every game in this series was seven innings long. The Blue Jays last five games have all been seven innings long. They haven't played a nine inning game in a week,

so the bullpen should be kind of rested. Jose Ramirez hit a walk-off sack flying game three to salvage the sweep. Nailer was the only Indians player with more than two hits. Blue Jays pitched to a 320 ERA. Not great. Indians didn't hit at all. Blue Jays hit the shit out of the. the ball. 3.57 batting average 439 team on base percentage. Panic had six hits and a home run.

Gritchick had five hits and four doubles. That's what happened. The Tigers swept the Yankees per my rules. That means the Yankees are out of playoff contention and dead. Casey Mize and Garrett Cole went toe to toe for a while. And then the Yankees used a pitcher that's the worst in their bullpen. And also they knew he was injured and going to go on the. I.L. the next day, and they used him in a save situation, and he gave up a two-run, home run to lose the game. The rest of the way, the Yankees pitched, Davey Garcia, Albert Abrahue, Mike King, Nestor Cortez, and Nick Nelson. Because they are saving all their good pitchers for the Ray's series this weekend, a strategy I don't agree with, and I don't like. Tigers starting pitchers pitched really well. Turnbull pitched really well.

Skuble pitched really well. Mize pitch really well. The rest of the Tigers, they were just a sloth. on the events to the Yankees and they didn't really hit either. Britain starts his rehab assignment. The Royals took two out of three from the twins who are supposed to be winning because they swept the Baltimore and now they're playing the Royals and they're supposed to and they just lose to the Royals. Dobnack lost it in the fifth inning in game one. The bullpen blew the game for the twins in game two and then Shoemaker Stunk in game three.

Kirilloff had four hits, Palanko three. What about, where's my Royals notes? starting pitchers. That's not great. 4-5 ERA. Royals relief pitchers, three, that's not great. Royal slash 292, 325.

That's pretty good. Good job of the Royals. White Sox swept the Orioles. The Orioles have now lost 14 in a row, 15 in a row. Lynn absolutely bullied them in a seven-in-game. Keikle got them in a seven-in-game, and then Gialito bullied them some more.

White Sox slash 282-3-72. They hit six home runs. White Sox pitched to a 197 ERA. Bully Hamilton hit two home runs. What the fuck? Eaton sat the whole series as hamstring hurt, and it was the Orioles, so they didn't really need them at all. Anyway, Orioles have lost 13 a row.

The A's and the Angels split a series. How about that? Offenses struggle on both side. They combine for just one home run and 12 extra base hits in the four games. Basset with the complete game shutout. Rosie gave him an award last episode, even though it's from this series. Luriano sat because he's got, his groin is hurting him. And, yeah, A's took the first two. Angels took the back end.

The Mariners swept the Rangers, so the Rangers are kind of a swept or be swept team, I feel like. I haven't checked the data on that. All of the Mariners pitchers pitched pretty well. Flexing had a great game. Sheffield, good enough, done good enough. My dude Kukuchi threw another quality start. I think he's at like six in a row and eight on the year, some shit like that. France had five hits with four RBIers.

Nottingham hits his first home run as a mariner. So he'll be back on the Brewers next week to go hit for them as they trade him back and forth. And that is your AL recap. Good job, Jim. Appreciate you. Let me just, I'm going to start with the twins. I got to get it off. Yeah.

It's May 31st. Yeah. I want to be on record prior to June that, I mean, it's over. Wow. We know. I haven't, I haven't said it yet. You guys have said it. I haven't said it yet.

And you know what? It's the same old song and dance that we've seen when I was there, you know, pretty much since 2010. Same old song and dance. Twins are hitting second in the league in OPS Plus, 112 OPS Plus, only behind. I think like the Red Sox or the Padres, someone like that. But the pitching has been bad, man. And in particular, you know, the starter's been bad, the relievers have been bad. They have Barrios who's like had a decent season.

And Paneda, of all people, he's been lights out. But the pitching just isn't there. And you can't win ball games without pitching. You just can't. It's the same old song dance that we've seen from the twins organization for a long time. And it hurts, man. It hurts. to see them projected to, you know, honestly, they were projected to run away with the Central.

And people were saying, oh, the White Sox are going to be good, but the twins are the twins. They got this lineup and their pitching's good enough. Well, it's not good enough. And here we are. I don't even know what their freaking record is. It doesn't even matter what their record is. They're not catching the White Sox. You're not going to make the playoffs.

And it's sad. I feel bad for the people of Minnesota right now. Can I declare them dead with you? Yeah. Okay. Because this is obviously that we have the Tigers, if you sweep, you're dead. And then the other day I declared the Giants dead. And a lot of Giants fans came back in me because they swept the Dodgers.

So I think I'm just going to have a dead team of the week segment. And eventually we'll piss off every fan base that takes it more serious than it is. So twins are dead. Stamped? You know, I hate being that guy, man. Like, I hope they go on some rackless comeback, but yes, they're dead. Hey, bright spot in the chat. I did just see Mitch Hanager.

I'm not Mitch Hanager. Excuse me, Mitch Garver. Going home. Hitting again. Not on Mitch Garver. They're raking. I don't have them dead yet. They should have won two out of three this series, but they're dumb.

Jake doesn't even have the Orioles dead, though. But what? They do have an aisle list. I do have the Orioles. They should have won two games, but what, Jake? But they didn't. They didn't. But they got the Orioles and Royals coming up again.

get hot, then you play a couple big boy teams. Man, I will say this, they're IEL. Arias, a guy that you could say is a dark horse for a batting title one day. Buxton, who is playing so well. Max Kepler, your hot boy list and stud baseball player as well. Kenta Mayeda, who's supposed to be their one. So they're going through it a little bit. And even their other hitters, guys that are filling in for some of those other guys are doing stuff.

I mean, Trevor Larnax hit in. So Rob Reff Snyder putting it together finally. So I don't know, man. Twins, we'll see what's out there. If they could, again, beat up on some bad teams, make a trade, get a thrower. There should be throwers out there. But they'll probably just die. They'll probably just die.

I'm on the baseball reference team page. They list the top 12 players going by baseball reference war. Yep. Of the 12 players. There's one pitcher. Yeah. We got Rob Reff Snyder. Yeah.

On that list. We got Lonark. We got freaking Kierloff on that list. Buckson's still leading it. He hasn't played in a month. Yeah. It's the same old song in dance, man. I feel bad.

I like the team. I love the guys on the team. I'm going to Minnesota. You guys know that. I'm probably going to get egg stone at me there. But what am I supposed to do, man? Pined is such a good trade piece for them. he's having an awesome year

he's making 10 mil so by the time the trade deadline comes around you're going to pay him 5 mil he's always had the stuff his legs just don't fit Nelson Cruz they got a lot of trade candidates man a lot of them

people around town are talking about burrios barrios I'd take pinnade over him it's going to be a hot June in Minnesota shout out Mitch Garver he was hitting like a buck talking weather?

He just came back. Yes. Think about that, Jay. You mentioned the IL. Buxden arrives. They still lead the team in war. Yeah. Well, Buckson was also, I mean,

MVP level. But they need him. That's obviously they need him. But if one player leads your team and you can't do anything, and it hasn't been the offense. All right, I'm done, I'm done. White Sox sweep the Orioles because the Orioles are dead.

That's my dead team of the week. And the White Sox are really good. You can't, you can't dead the Orioles again. No. You have to choose a new team next episode. Next week. A's Angels don't really care. Well, the Angels, angels,

uh, Angels split, which is good. Otani gets scratched and, I was just looking at it. No, I can't think of his name. It's a very, it's a kind of a... Canna? No, no, no. The Angels. It's a common name. He started...

Sandival. Sande. Sandeval. Started in place. of Otani and went five shuddy and then Sledgers. Because the whole Bart situation. Damn it, Bart. Bart. Bart sucks.

Love the Bart. And Cobb had a really good start. So Angels got some pitching. Eat bugs. Trade everyone. What are the Yankees going to do? Metal around. C. Rose this morning was like, hey, they're going to go get somebody. And I said, no,

they've self-imposed a cap. Yeah, yeah. They only have five. million and now they need outfielders more than pitchers. So. They have like a zillion fucking outfielers. No, they don't. They have two.

I mean, they did. They did. They traded Talkman. Hicks got a season ending injury. And then they have Clint, Garty, Judge. Clint can't catch. And Andrew Har is a infielder turned outfielder. They have judge and then they have Gardner who can't play every day, but can play center.

And he's the only one on the team. How can he play every day? He's old. He gets. Can Carlos Stans? He gets run. Yeah, Stan doesn't play out. Stan doesn't have legs anymore.

You're in that big old brain around all the time. Trev, can I tell you something crazy? Crazy. Do you want you something insane? I'd love to get your reaction. Stan misses 13 days, right? Oh, yeah. You like this, Treff.

He misses 13 days because he's got something with his legs, quad, I don't know. In his last three days off, he was running the bases, running the outfield, running the track. More running than he does when he's active and healthy. He comes back. He plays one game. He's been gone for 14 days or whatever.

He comes back. He plays one game. DHS. He goes 0 for 5, four strikeouts. The one out was a force out at second base for the last out of the inning. So he didn't really have to bust it down the line at all. He kind of jogged a couple steps and stopped. I'm not upset about that.

It takes a while to get back into the swing of things. This isn't about the results of those abats. Just the fact that he didn't run at all in that game. That's the point. They sat him the next game. said he can't play, he still has to take it easy, he can't play two in a row. Dude, you didn't even play one game.

You didn't run. You walked to the box. You struck out four times, put one ball in play, and walked back to the dugout. Is that insane or, am I, are we crazy?

Is that, that's insane? And Stanton, he has to be like, dude, let me freaking. That's what I, he has to.

There's no way he's like, okay, bro, I'll take another day off. There's no way. He's a competitor. or, you know, if you miss that many games, you want to be in the freaking lineup, especially he knows they need him.

So that's organizational fucking philosophy or something. You guys have been talking a lot lately about them, so we don't need to go too much into it, but their philosophy of babying people needs to stop. It's a little too much, dude. There's a fine line between babying dudes and then making sure they're healthy for 162. It's the craziest thing that they're like, yeah,

I need to get another day. He didn't do anything, though. I have to imagine he was like, what? Like, what? I think they brainwashed him. They trying to brainwash all of us. It sucks. I've never seen an established player get be be like that without like an active,

like very bad injury that you're coming back for. Tommy John stuff, yeah, you baby him back. Yeah. The Yankees can't hit. That's their major issue. And then the coinciding issue is that they have this philosophy that certain things don't matter. Like they called up five pitchers from AAA and pitched only those five pitchers against the Tigers because they wanted, they pushed Tyone back for the raise,

and they wanted all the bullpen arms for the raise. And it wouldn't matter what the score was. They were using those five AAA pitchers and only those five AAA pitchers because they wanted to get ready for the raise. It's not an excuse. It's what they do, and I don't like it. And is Boone alone for the ride? Yeah, I think so.

I don't, I think so. I think, well, you know, we've had some conversations in that are with people that are inside that room. And they, we asked them about some certain decisions in the past. And they told us, like, it was a group vote. So I think it's very much a consensus in the analytics department, cashman, Boone, and the coaches. They make decisions as a team before the. game and then Boone acts on those agreed decisions. Yeah.

Let me tell you what they need to do. Oh, here we go. Whatever the brain trust is there. Boone, cash, I don't know. Story Ellie. Yeah. Jimbo. They need to go out one night and just get

fucked up. Like go have a team bonding. Hey, this ain't working. Let's change the juju a little bit. Yeah. Like go out. Get the credit cards out. Play a little suck and blow.

Mm-hmm. Something. Put the credit cards away. It ain't working, man. Whatever they're doing ain't working. And I know I'm very much a part of Yankees Twitter. Thank you Yankees Twitter for allowing me to be a part of you. I see the frustration.

My goodness. And Tigers fans, shout out. You did it. Shout out. And a lot of your young pitchers have turned it around. And that was kind of when we were talking about how bad and unwatchable the Tigers were. I needed something to. tune into. I wanted Casey Mize to be good. He's turned it around. He's having a nice year now.

Ten starts, a three-two-80-a-a-a-a. Scoobel has put together a few in a row. Spencer Turnbull. So, Tigers, you know, hey, you're winning games. You're getting some starting pitchers. That was a shell of the Yankees. And, hey, that's not a slight of you. We wish the Yankees played. They're better guys more. You guys did your part, so kudos on that. And your pitching is getting really watchable. Boyd's having a good year. So good for you guys. Fulmer out of the bullpen.

How about you? Let's talk a little bit about Oakland. How are they so good? How do they have the record they have? If you look at their collective stats, nothing jumps off the page. They're okay, like just above average, hitting-wise.

I think they're below-a-plus pitching. But here they are, 31 and 24. They crash bad teams. They're 18 and 17 against bad teams. They have a losing record against good teams. 18 and 17 against bad team? 18 and 7 against bad teams. 13 and 17 against good teams, which is...

They're tied with the Mariners for five extra wins. I'm not saying that as a knock. After coming off that Yankees conversation, it's what I wish the Yankees would do. Hey, instead of taking these teams lightly and prepping, just get your fucking wins while you can. And the A's do that. They have one of the best records against losing teams, I think. Yeah.

On a given day, I think they, especially compared to around the majors, I think they can put a pretty decent lineup out there. Their third in the ALE and home runs. Olson's having a big year, good for him. Kana, Luriano. Chapman still hasn't put it together for them, really. So if he could get going, and they always pitch enough. Yeah.

Montes-Menea both had scoreless outings, or Manea gave up one. Cole Irvin gave him a winning. Swerving. And then Bassett with the complete game. We're always swerving, baby. It's just interesting, man. They just find ways to win,

and sometimes teams are just like that. Their bullpen didn't give up an earned run in this series against the Angels. Blue Jays fans, you probably want some love. Good. Beat the Indians seven-in-in-game Blue Jays. Yeah. They play in minor league park

and they only play seven inning games. What year is it? 2021. I kind of want to hear about the Interleague. All right, Interleague. Trev, you ready? Brought to you by the Johnboy Media Store. Bang.

I did it. I thought it was playing. It's not. It's my fault. The Padres went into Houston, and it took two out of three in dramatic fashion. Game one, 10, 3, game 2, 11, 8, before the Astros came back and won.

The last game seven to four. In game one, they put up a zillion runs in the 11th inning. I think they put seven runs in the 11th inning. Game two was the Tatis game tying homer. Then they ended up putting three more in the 12th, I believe. The Padre slash 263, 365, and 465 was seven homers, and the Astros did not hit one, 98 batting average through the series. Padre starting pitchers, not very good.

but their relievers came through with the 0.45 ERA in 20 innings pitch. That's a lot of innings pitch for a three-game series. It was the flip side for the Astros. Their starters were really good, but the bullpen was a blow in it. Like I said, Tautis, game-tying three-run Homer with two outs in the ninth off set on Saturday. We're going to talk a little bit more about that later. Our guy, Framber Valdez, one earned run and four innings pitch. We're a Framber Paud.

A couple of injury notes. Grantley and Castro placed on the 10-day aisle for Stroves. My guy, Yordon Alvarez, sat the entire series with a wrist issue, and Guriel had to sit Saturday and Sunday with a finger thing going on. Trent Grisham is going to be activated Tuesday if the running on Monday goes well. So Padres go in, take two out of three, and what was an awesome, awesome series to watch over the weekend. Moving on, the Phillies went down to Tampa, and what happened to them?

They got so wet. Five, three, raise, six, two rays. It was Yarbor versus Wheeler in game one. And McHugh was the opener. And Fleming was the lawman versus my guy. Led Zefflin. Led Zefflin. Screw that one up a little bit.

The raise slash 246, 343, 443. Philly's 224, 274, 313. Though not crazy amounts of hitting going on. The raise starting pitching was really good. The relievers were even better. and the Philly starting pitcher and their relievers not so good. Our friend Austin Meadows won three for four for the Homer, double, three RBIs, and four walks.

It was the only ray with more than two hits. Wheeler strikes out 14 and, is this true? 14 and seven innings in game one? Holy shit. Anyways, the rays have won 15 of 16. They get the two games sweep. Moving on, the last series going on. It was the fish up in Boston.

Red Sox swept the two games. Sunday was postponed because, like Jake said, the Northeast decided to have a bad weekend of weather. Five, two Red Sox and six endings in game one, Perez versus Pote. And then a 3-1 Red Sox, Ieoltee versus Rogers. The Red Sox get the shit out of the ball. The Marlins did not. Starting pitchers were really good.

And the relievers are really good with the Red Sox. A 174 ERA for the starters, a 193 for the relievers. and the Marlins and their relievers and starters were not so hard. Renfro with five hits, Martinez with four hits and three doubles apiece. Chisholm and Duval sat the entire series, and Martinez wasn't in the release lineup on Sunday after failing a ball off his foot Saturday. Maybe he's got a little extra time and he'll be okay.

The Red Sox take the two-game sweep of the Marlins, and that is what happened in the Intry League for. Hell yeah. Fantastic. The Padres series, Podger's Astros series was fucking incredible. Like, that's baseball right there. Padres are kind of just doing that everywhere they go.

It's so fucked when you, like, when you have to face a team that, like, doesn't give up. Like, late innings just goes and, like, we're going to score some runs. That's so hard. Dude, Blake Snell

sucked in this game. like, sorry, Blake, but you had a bad outing. And instead of dying, they eventually lost. They just called in Musgrove to make his first relief appearance ever. They wanted to save the bullpen. The fucking Yankees would pitch an infielder for five innings than do that in a losing effort. That's the difference right there. You used a lot of guys in the first two games.

But that's the difference. And Musgrove was like lights out. And his first time ever in relief. And they asked him and he was like, whatever I got to do, I don't care. It's supposed to start today. All player. Yeah. That's a vibe.

All player. It's a better vibe. They're in first place. They're in first place. The Reyes, they're in Interleague series, and they are in first place in the east. The Marlins. So we're getting some separation in the east now in the NL,

where the nationals are now six games out and Mets are three and a half up. The Mets have so many games to make up as part of, They've only played 45 games. Like the Phillies have the same amount of wins. What's that? Quick trivia question. Who leads the Padres in war?

Don't you dare look at it up. Cron. I have no idea. I don't know where it's a good guess. Boom, Jimmy. Jake, the snake, Cronin. Welcome to the Cron zone.

That's what you got to love. A couple episodes ago, I called him like the forgotten. forgotten father or something like that. Because he kind of gets disappeared. If you're in Padre's land, I'm guessing he's on the forefront. But as third party fans, he definitely is not the magazine cover Padre.

And right now he on the field kind of is. I like that. It's incredible. You have the big boys doing their thing. And then you have, I mean, he's not like a little boy by any means. But you know what I'm talking about. He's leading the way. when you have guys like Machado and Tatis,

you know, they're still doing their thing, but this guy's been even better. That's how you have a good year at the team. Go Jakes is what I say. Yeah, Mets deserve a little love. Again, they only played the one game. But yeah, stretching it out a little bit in the East. And, hey, we talk, you know, I just mentioned the twins

and they got some injury guys. And every team's got some injuries at this point of the season. I know we did this a couple Eps ago, but Alonzo, Jady Davis, McMill, Conforto, Elmore Jr., Nimmo, Pilar, Jose Martinez. The Mets have a whole lineup, her, and that's without getting to Carrasco, Cinderguard. My guy Yamamoto, Seth Lugo, Dellen, select. The Mets are doing this all.

That might be the most impressive part of their start with a ton of injuries, and they are on top of the tough NAL East. So the Mets deserve that love. Yeah. Did we skip a game with the raise? is they only played two games? Why? How?

Dude, they had a Friday off day, and I don't get it either. I'm guessing because they have the Monday series with the, I don't know, but that weirded me out too. Dude, the raise, man, I was ready to turn my back after I saw them against the Yankees. They'd been sluggish, their offense, which the reason why I was high on the race to start this season was I thought the race offense had more potential this year than it had in past years. Our guy, Austin Meadows, is starting to go off. maybe you'll hear about him tomorrow or two days from now when we do the June the May all-stars.

I almost got part of that sentence right at one point. Austin Meadows, a friend of the pod, has started to put it together for them. And obviously, Joey Wendell. Yeah, well, Tyone just shook out Randy to end the inning, so. Andy, wasn't he bad in second? Yeah, it was a crazy inning. Damn. that's the thing about the raise like you're saying you're just to your point jake there everyone's

like oh yeah the raise they have pitching they know develop pitching they have all these guys out of the bullpen well guess what they're banging the ball with a bunch of dudes who other teams just didn't want like joey wendell a is just they're like did you hear did you hear joey wendell's story about his brothers oh my god they did a feature on joey they did a feature on joey wendell and he was talking about growing up with his brothers and he was like, yeah, they used to strap the dog collar to me and then throw me across the invisible fence And, you know, they used to turn the lights off

And while I was showering and throw tacks on the shower floor You know, just, you know, brother stuff Other stuff. I was like, Joey Wendell, did you grow up in like a tough and rough orphanage? Because that's not normal brother stuff. Did they like chain you to the bedpost and feed you dogs? Yeah, what is going on? It sounds like, it was like, I was like, yeah, I mean,

I think if his brother saw him wearing batting gloves, they'd like come to the stadium and piss on his face. So that's why he doesn't. It makes a lot of sense why he just didn't grow up. It's a clip that's out there. It's wild. Turn the lights off and put tacks on the floor. Turn the lights.

Turn the lights off while I was showing. Like, you know, I used to throw cold water on Jake while he shouted. He hated it. My dad did that to me growing up. One time my friend was showering, I took a Hershey's chocolate syrup and squirted it all over them and that was fun but like you're showering so you wash it off not bloody in your feet in the dark i might go bloody feet in the dark over cold water splash during my hot shower yeah jake hates the cold water splash and like that well if you if you don't fear the tax they can't

hurt you so that's kind of a decision you make no that's not that's not true you have nervous well that's true we used to smash bottle a lot of that's true i would have the side with jake here We used to smash beer bottles on our college floor. Then I'd take off my socks and shoes and walk across at barefoot. That was like a thing at end of college nights. And we would just say, if you don't fear the glass, it can't hurt you. And then we'd walk over at barefoot. And all the girls would be like, stop, stop walking out of the class.

And it was me and my other buddy who did it. Usually be some tears, like 1.30 a.m. And it's like, all right. You guys are still at our house. Smash bottles on the ground. Take my socks and shoes off. Start walking on it. be like, we're leaving.

We're going to leave. I got them. They're out. I hope my son's nothing like me. What the... So I did it to myself. I did it in the end. Wait, wait, what happened to you guys?

You guys hit with batting gloves. You guys are soft. I'm so soft. Yeah, but there's the... How do you have that so quick, BBD? That's the Broke me. That's the broken glass at our college. Yeah, we would smash bottles on the ground in the kitchen.

And then we'd walk across it barefoot. It's our kitchen. Well, I would. It was me and Justin. In Sorbs, shout out. Yeah. I was, I was afraid of it. He was afraid of the glass.

He would have got cut. Yeah. If you're not scared of it, it won't cut you. Good recap. All right, man. Good recap. All right, man. Good stuff.

Bread Sox, we didn't talk about them. I saw Atevino strike someone out. Coupaloupe with the full stadium in a big moment. And he screamed, I was very happy for Aadivino. And it's happy for society. Because you hear the roar of the crowd. so that was cool. I think Fenway's full capacity.

Did I dream that? Dude. Yeah. No, I think that's why it was so cool. Yeah. The Yankees haven't played the Red Sox yet. I've never had the Red Sox be so far off my radar this deep into a season. Because when you play a team, you get a feel for, like, the lineup and how it goes,

and how they use their pen and stuff. And, you know, I can read the box stores all I want, but it's so weird. Yanks haven't played them in a long time. Out of Vino having a... Very good, man. starting to have a nice season. Eight scoreless. His last eight games have been scoreless.

And on the season, 295 ERA. I feel like he's got to be one of those guys that's super streaky. If he's like throwing strikes and controlling his pitches, he can go on extended runs like that where nobody can freaking hit him. Yeah, he is. He is one of those guys. Bang. All right, let's go to the second half of the show.

Standout performance. Standout performance. Jake, you get to go first. Yes, yes, yes. I am going to... This was a weird standout week. A lot of pitchers. The hitters kind of all had similar lines,

but there was one guy that I wanted to go with with the hitters. Trev refers to him as a short king. He's listed at 5-11. I have him as a thick king. Trev's shaking his head at the 5-11. So that's a 5-9-5. Tyler O'Neill. For the St. Louis Cardinals, baseball fans have been waiting for this guy to break out for a little bit now.

Trev, you might have some good quotes we could dig up from before the season because I know you're a Tyler O'Neill Stan. The Cardinals have been getting beat up a little bit because of two guys, Randy Roserena and Adelisse Garcia. Aralice. Who have been killing it. Two young stud outfielders. Meanwhile, these St. Louis Cardinals had a young crop of their own outfielders that were kind of eh and it was a little and it was a little oh Tyler O'Neill has a big game a three for five homer two doubles how's

your three extra base hits three rib eye stakes billy rib can I see you buddy holy cow Tyler O'Neill on the year now has an OPS 914 a 153 OPS plus he has 11 homers in 34 War games. And if you combine that even with last year, he's on like, he's a 30 plus home run pace this season. And yeah, by the way, he won the gold glove last year. So how about a little Tyler O'Neill love? My short, thick king.

Love me some Tyler O'Neill. People forget that he won the gold glove. He made some nice catches out there this weekend. Three walks, though, Jake. We got to figure that out a little bit. I know he's hitting for power and the OPS looks. skip, but a 304 OBP, if he can unlock that part of his game, then we're talking like, okay, like this is a guy, guy, guy, guy, guy, guy, guy, guy, guy, guy, guy, guy, guy,

a guy, guy, guy, and I think what probably happens, Trevin, I don't know if maybe you can speak on this, whether you saw it or if teammates saw it, but I feel like this is kind of the point. Like, he's played 34 games, he's raking, but if you're a pitcher, that's got to jump out to you, 43 strikeouts, three walks. I mean, our pitcher's going to start bouncing, stuff. stuff to him and see if he starts taking the walks? Probably, I mean, this is better than his career average. His career OBP is $294.

So this is who he is as a hitter at this point. He's only 26 years old, so he has time to still has time to, you know, figure that out. But yeah, like get, they're going to have to start pitching him out of the zone, making him chase. Like he is going to swing three freaking walks in 125 plate appearances. I don't know how he's getting in so many pitches to hit. Like that seems like a very obvious strategy.

Shizmatic in the chat said, Tyler O'Neill is a fire hydrant with arms. I'd take that one. I'd take that one. You're stealing it? I feel like I'm one. I want to say this before we move on. A lot of Mitch Hanninger in the chat,

and we want to, I don't think he is going to. He's not a standout. But they want him to be a standout. standout. So should we just talk about Mitch a little bit? I think he just did. He's your standout. He's not my standout. You kind of just gave him your standout, though. I'm going to go look at what he's been doing because I know he's had a good bounce back year. Having a nice year, a little two for four against two. Fourteen Jimmy Jacks? Yeah. See, I didn't know that. I didn't know we, oh, 15, we know it. 14 Jimmy Jacks right now. He's saying 14 Jimmy Jans? He's doing it. Shout out

Mitch Henry. He follows me on Twitter. We're Twitter buds. Jim? I was going to give it to Zach Granky, my standout because he went aiding's pitch, one-earned run against the Padres. We're playing really well. And he wore the wrong jersey. He ran out with the white on, but they were wearing the blue and he a switch. But I think I'm changing it to Zach Wheeler because those 14 strikeouts, I looked at that. And then I looked at, and he gave up three and runs, but he gave up two at the beginning of the game and then settled down.

But those 14Ks against the race, pretty good. And then I looked third game in a row with double-digit strikeouts for Zach Wheeler. And then I looked, he's pitched 11 games now with a 252 ERA. So that 14Ks was like, you know, the little thing sticking out of the grass. And then I dug deeper. And I'm like, oh, shit. Zach Wheeler's been really good this year. So he's my standout for striking out a lot of guys.

Wow. I almost don't believe he struck out 14 guys in seven innings. That's like high school shit. He struck out 12 and 7.1 the game before, and he struck out 10 and 7 the game before that. So he's just climbing the ladder. He's going to strike out 16 and 7 next outing. Ray's?

I think so. You can't. You can't. Ray's like striking out. There's also Boston and Miami, and he struck out the Braves 10 times earlier in the year. Zach Wheeler putting together a hell of a season. It's baseball and innings pitched as it right now.

Really? So you're going. Wheels up in the loss. with 14Ks over Granky. Yeah, because I thought it was more interesting those stats. Everyone knows Granky's good. And the loss wasn't his fault. They brought in,

whoever they brought in. Whoever they brought in. Blew it. Yeah, whoever. Who did bring in? I just had it. Same as it ever was. Jose Alvarado. Coonrod got the loss.

Who did? Oh, Coonrod. Sam. That's a weird. name. Samwise. Yeah, he came in and gave up a bunch of his intentional walk, and then they brought an Alvarado who led in the, or it was a tie game when

Wheeler came out. Okay. But I didn't realize his season was that impressive, so that's why I wanted to highlight him. I like that. And tune in next Philly start. He's got three in a row. Trev, who's your standout? He pain? I've been kind of

talking about it all weekends, but it just resonated. do with me a lot. It's Lucas Gialito, what he did, the Orioles, 12Ks, whatever, how many things pitched, seven and something. But it was, you got to go look at the video. You have to watch the whole game, but there's a video on MLB.com that has like his strikeouts and it's like a little bit more full of a highlight. If you do the one like on Twitter that MLB did, it's really quick. So you don't really get to see what he was doing after he was striking these dudes out. Like his changeup was as good as I've ever seen it.

And he was throwing that thing, and guys were missing by, I mean, feet. Like, they weren't even close to it. And he was, like, so mad. And you just don't see him. Usually he's really in there. He talks about getting in the zone. You'll see him dancing a little bit on the mound. But against the Orioles, he was, like, given the stare down,

and he looked like he was possessed. And I asked him, I said, Lucas, what the fuck was going on, man? Like, what were you? You were so mad. Like, were they chirping at you? And he said, no. He's like, I just, like, got into, like, a zone. own. And it was scary. So go look at that highlight and like first of all, see the swings and misses.

I put out on my Twitter the change up strikeouts, swinging strikeouts are like the most embarrassing for a hitter. For some reason, the swings look really bad. So go check the highlight out. He embarrassed the Orioles and stared into their soul while doing it. And I'll never get over the fact that this guy led the major leagues in earned runs and walks. in 2018. He looked like he didn't know what the hell was going on. And then he's turned his career around just like that. Little mechanical adjustment.

One of the bigger mechanical adjustments you'll see. Yeah. Well, I'm just saying. Shout out Lucas Gialito. Go watch that highlight thing. He gets in that rhythm, man, where he's just like. But usually it's chill. Like this time he was like.

Yeah, he looks like when you're getting a back massage. So your body's like kind of moving. And then you're just like, that's how he looks when he's on the mount. All right. Stuff, Treve. Good stuff. Let's move it on. Moving on up to the west side. Yeah, hold up. Tramp Watch.

All right, let's see who we propelled to get off Slump Watch this week. Trevor likes that spin on it. First, Baby Day, who are we adding? The potential guys we're adding. There's some big names. on our list. Juan Soto goes 0 for 9 this weekend. Zander Bogart's 0 for 7 this weekend. Giancarlo's Stanton coming off the IL.

O for 8 this weekend, only two walk, 6Ks. Mikkelsino, who was pretty hot before 0 for 10, a walk 5Ks. Alex Bregman, I'm picking the homework draft today. I didn't tell you guys that. He goes one for 12 on the weekend, but he has good numbers against E-Rod. And the one was a double.

Soto's got to be added. I love Soto. and I'd just like to keep track of him And I'd like to get him off of this So I'm going to add him Oh, Tyone gets out of it Glaver, we propelled him to get off He goes three for 11 with two walks and an RBI

I think the only Yankee with a hit all three games Which is kind of a John Boyce set He moved his slump to his glove So Juan Soto replaces Glaber Anyone else from last week need to get off Rendon went three for 15 With a double in an RBI and a walk I like leaving Renzo

Don't. I like taking Yorden off because he didn't play. Sat the whole series. Sat with a wrist injury. So again, that's a way to get off slump watch. Yeah, he can get off. They triple the two walks. I think Mookies banged up. Yelie had a 444. He's back. He had some allergy stuff.

Oh, that's a bummer. Oh, that's what this weekend is. Yeah. So I'd like to keep tabs on Mook Man. I think he'll redeem us. Put Regnant on it. He folded in a big series. Okay. I'm adding Bogart. What about Suno? Is he worthy of being added?

I would put Suno over Bogart. Absolutely. But Bogart's just... He's having a great year, but it's 0 for 7? Yeah, no, only 7. Okay. So let's do Suno. And then Stan, I mean...

Same thing as Bogart's. Two games, and he came back from injury. So Soto, Rendon, Suno, Betts Bregman. That's a good list. It's a good list of guys. Might be the most big name. Yeah, it might be the most biggest names on... Yeah.

Okay. Only one returnee in bets, right? Or Rendon as well? Betts and Rendon. A couple good ones. There's a good list. There's a good list. It's a good list. Yeah. They're all getting off Friday. I feel it.

I agree, Jake. I feel it. Okay. Let's move it on. Hmm. That means I'm on fire, baby. Like Way go. Ooh, Fire Hydrant with Arms. Tyler O'Neill, 7 for 18.

Three bombs. Pavin Smith. Pavin Smith. Pavon Smith. And dad's got this. Oh, you're up? Yeah, wow. Haven Smith.

Put some respect on his name for Jake Snakes, red-headed, sexy. Eight for 13. How's your triple couple dubs in there, too? Will the Thrill Myers, six for 14, couple yaboes. Jose Ibrahim, a little 462 series, six for 13. good for him. Josh Reddick, wow. Didn't expect to see him and Fuego.

Seven for 15? Sure. No, Juan Moncada, Jake Snakes. He'll be traded. Reddick, not Moncada. Sorry, White Sox fans. Five for 13, Homer, a bunch of rib-eye steaks. Randall Gritchick.

Our guy, huh? He's having a nice little half. Yeah. He might be in, like, all-star contention. Find out Wednesday. And David Fletcher. How about? it. My short contact king,

five for 12, even a couple extra basers in there. And I want to give it a shout out to Woody, Brandon Woodruff. A, I think he could have been a standout performer. He is leading the National League pitchers in war. I want to see if Wheeler was leading. It's Woodruff on top for the

Brewer's lawyer's firm of pitchers. Woodruff. Woodruff. Woodruff. Woodruff and Burns. Woodruff. Can I ask you a question? Yeah, I love being asked questions. He does.

Why is it still okay to make fun of Redheads? I feel like we're not making fun of anybody anymore, but Redheads seem to still be fair game. What's up with it? I don't know. I feel like we make fun of short people still. Yeah. So, hello.

Those short people in Redheads just haven't. If you're looking for a list of people that are still plighted by stuff they can't control. Like, it's still okay to say you call someone a jinge. Well, I don't think so. but I don't say that. You said it. I don't like saying that either. You were, I don't like saying that either.

You were the one that said it though. Hard G. Yeah, I know. What's still allowed to be made fun of things that humans are born with and they cannot control. Being short, definitely on that. That one is so like, that could strike a nerve. So I stay away from that. Like with you guys because I know you and that you already joke about it.

Like, I'm okay with saying that. But like, I would never just like, be like, I mean you guys. Well, I don't care because what am I going to do? do about that. You and Jimmy. You and Jimmy literally talk about it all time. Oh, bald. Bolds. Bolds another one. Balds. I gave my speech last episode how I got jealous of male pattern balding people. Redhead. Well, I think that's, I think, I think on the order of list of like which society is attacking, I think redheads on top. I think bald and short, no one, no, no one's even trying to get the, get that out of situation.

Yeah, it's an interesting dynamic because, you know, Kyle Gibson, huge front of the pod. Like, that was, we would talk about him all the time. He's like barely even red-haired. Wearing glasses, someone said in the chat, but you can wear contact, so I don't know. That's a choice. Not for some people. You're kind of a glasses truther. Yeah, I think glasses look.

I hate what, yeah, I hate glasses. I think only people who don't wear glasses say that. I mean, I wear glasses when I need to. Contacts didn't exist. But you don't really like him, but I, because I don't wear glasses, I'm like, I'm just a face sweater. Like if you're like, hey, you want to put something else on your face? Absolutely not.

I just will make me sweat. Oh, this is a good one. Big foreheads. Yeah, I mean, we're starting to get into, like, you know, big teeth. Like, you know, that's starting to get into the details. That's mean. We should just not do that. I'm out on that.

All right. I got made fun of for my nose. you guys that scarves you got a roman nose dude that's up that's like a powerful desirable oh no man it's it's i don't know roman that nose people literally get nose jobs to to to not have what but yours yours you got like not a like a crazy big roman nose like you got like a nice nose yeah it's all right nice nose it's the shape like shape of your head it i've conquered it as a young kid i told you guys i was self-conscious about it but now i'm i'm i'm ultra confident about everything most biggest thing I was self-confident about this kid was my legs being so hairy.

My legs reached their terminal length and hair in seventh grade. So like in seventh grade, I just had what I'm looking at now? I had when I was 12. So interesting locker room days. And it's like people you would just like, geez, you're here. I'm like, what are I going to do? Awards. Jake, you get to go first.

I am giving out the Incredible, but not Mr. Incredible award. And it is going to... I think I know because you told us. Because I told you. So, yeah, I was going to wait for a guess, and then I wasn't. I thought that was happening. I was like, you told us, so I don't want to guess. I'm giving it to Mike Talkman.

Mike Talkman is a little bit of a celebrity around John Boy Media. He actually did a talking Yanx show with us. Thoreau. A good guy to talk baseball with if you want to. get into the weeds. Also, like, he's got a nerd side. He was a big game of throner, so, you know, you might hear some Trev with some nerd stuff and a bit. More importantly, Mike Talkman robbed Albert Pujolos of a walk-off home run. It was a great catch. And again, big for my Giants in the series where they end up taking three out of four. Instead, this would have been a

lowly split. You know, Jim would have been yelling his normal stuff, rent-free, and we'd all be like, what, Jim? That's not cool. And then instead, the Giants win a big series after the Dodgers beat them up at their place. Why, this is the Incredible but not Mr. Incredible award. If Albert Pujos hit this walk-off homer, it would have tied him for the MLB career lead for walk-off homers with Jim Tome, the gentleman who looks like Mr. Incredible. Treves Jim Tomei. So not only was that a game-saving catch for the Giants from Mike Talkman,

but it also keeps Albert Poulos out of a T-1 in the history books for most walk-off homers. So Albert, you're incredible, but not Mr. Incredible right now. And it's all because of Mikey T's Rob. I like it. And I think that would have moved the Dodgers to like 5-0 or 6-0 against the Giants on the year instead of that happening they go and take two or three or four or four whatever it was so great catch fucking a man she said a shout of pools running down the line it's good it looked like a video of when you see someone who just got their uh new uh paraplegic like legs for the first

time and they're like figuring out how to balance on them that's how he looks running all right my award is tell him why you mad tell him why you mad not not 93 says It goes to Mark Kana. He got mad. And then everyone was like, why are you so mad? And then he said, he threw a fucking ball at my head. So I got momentarily really mad about it. And everyone said, okay, that's fair, I guess.

Yeah. You didn't see this. I made a breakdown on it. I didn't realize I didn't realize I had not been inserted into the conversation with Angels fans or A's fans. So I didn't realize there was like a lot of. hard and like there were sides to it because I thought like the people on the field very much acted accordingly. Sure.

Like it got solved pretty quick, but Otani goes up and in on Kana and he doesn't like it at all and he gets real mad real quick. And then Suzuki's like, hey, you can't show up our pitcher. Like that's Otani. He's our star player. Can't show him up. And Kana's like, I'm done. Like, whatever.

I'm done. I'm fine. My bad. And then Suzuki's like, you're showing. him up, blah, blah, blah. And then he just goes, well, he threw a fucking ball at my head. So I got a little upset momentarily. And everyone in the A's fans were like,

Canada's not that, like, not hot-headed at all. And I'm like, yeah, the dude legitimately just got like scared, like really scared and buzzed and went to a different place real quick and then got back to it. And then Otani does hit him the next step at and no one cares anymore. They're all just laughing and Otani feels bad and it's accidental. But the whole scene I thought was pretty funny and as harmless as, as for an altercation like that as harm as it gets from both sides.

But I guess in the comments of my breakdown, a lot of fans were saying other stuff. That Kana was showing up Suzuki, Otani, that Otani hit him on purpose. And I was like, what? I don't think so. But it was a really funny clip. Trev's Kana. I love both those guys, Suzuki and Kana. Like, Mark has that in him.

He's pretty stoic. You know, he's a cow guy, so he's smart. There's a little bit of fire in that guy. And I think he's redhead. So we're going back to that whole thing now. Twice now. But Suzuki was cool. He got right in his face right away.

I wish he could, his mask was on because he's smart. He doesn't want Jimmy reading his lips. It's very smart. If you're a catcher, if you're out there, keep your mask on so Jimmy doesn't read your lips. He had to be saying,

like, what are you doing, bro? He's like, that Hawaiian kind of accent, even though he lives in California. That'll come out a little. bit in him. And I could only imagine what he was saying to him. Like, what are you doing? He wasn't throwing it to you. Shut up. Stop. I think he just, I think he's beloved. He's beloved in Oakland, too. My guess would be Suzuki just didn't like that he stepped towards Otani and yelled at him. Like,

he made a, it was a thing. But if you get buzzed by your head, you are allowed to be 45 seconds on the clock, scream and get it out. Because what just happened to you is scary. Like, or, you know, like, Fuck. All he said was like, let's go. Stop. Keep it low. Fuck. I wouldn't fuck with Otani either.

You know he's probably knows some shit. Like he's good at everything. So he's probably like, has MMA training as well. I have something weird that I don't know if I can say. There's a picture of Otani, like with a shirt off and he's all muscular and shit. It reminds me of that super jacked kangaroo picture. And it's and. It doesn't look real.

You're right. It doesn't look freaking real. And so. That's something. Every time people post that Otani video where he's like super proper standing and just like crazy, I think of that really jacked kangaroo. Measure him in Chapman's shoulders. I would love to get some dimensions on those guys.

Treve, what's your award? I'm sticking with a Tolkien baseball thing. And I'm going to go back to a certain scene that I've already given, yeah, I've already given an award out where Gandalf takes his cloak off and he becomes Gandalf the white. blah blah blah this is the same scene just a little bit before this award is called the wizard's staff award now we know grima worm tongue is there in ediris and he knows that erigorn legulis gimley and gandolph are coming so he instructs the the door uh the door guy who is his name is hamma i believe he says get rid of all of their weapons like they are they're coming here for some

funny business so it's a great scene already they start taking off their weapons and they have so many weapons. It's like really funny to see. And then at the end, he says, Gandalf, can I have your staff?

And Gandh says, you wouldn't deprive an old man of his walking stick. And Hamma's kind of a good guy. So he's like, you know what? I'll let Gandalf pass. Goes in.

Gandh walks up to wormtong. As soon as he figures out, they're really there, you know, to use the staff. He says, his staff, I told you to take the wizard's staff. doesn't end up taking the wizard staff.

We know what happens next. He gets Saraman out of King Theodan, blah, blah, blah. Same thing happened. The exact same thing happened in the Padres. Houston game, Taylor Jones, forgets to take the wizard's staff. Misses the pop fly on a 1-0 pitch and foul territory. Uh-oh. The wizard in this scenario.

You're going robo. No, robot? In the middle. Oh, no. Just happened. It was beautiful, Trevor. It was so beautiful. And I mean, we were, I think everyone at home was thinking about when Gandalf usurps Grima's control of Theodin and releases the king.

Thank you. Many things which men had missed were found locked in his trunk, including Harrogrim, the blade of Theodon. And then with his betrayal reveal Theodin, now Grima has a choice. He has to ride into battle with the king or be exiled. I think it's, I mean, it's been so on our mind that I'm glad. Treve is bringing it to light. No. Let's see.

No. No. Yeah, what I think is the coolest about all of this. Yeah. It's how I totally get it and understand. Yeah. That's one of the perks. Grima worm tongue.

Treve deflated, staring at his microphone. Kind of giving off Grima wormtong vibes. Wormtong is awesome. that I wish I knew existed for you back in college. I already saw that pick. I don't know, Trev. We got to figure it out because everyone else has the same setup. Like Rose has the same setup for Chris Rose.

So I don't know what it is that makes they don't use Wirecast. We'll have to figure it out. You want us to talk about the moment that you were referencing? You couldn't have a more expensive. Better now? Is it better now? Yes. Couldn't have a more expensive and better setup.

I am so fucking upset with my microphone situation. We do have a nice setup. I was on a roll there. I was talking about Tautis, Taylor Jones, missing the freaking fly ball. Tatease clearly is Gandalf in this whole fucking scenario. The next pitch,

because he didn't take the wizard's staff, he hits a freaking, it's a game-tying three-run, home run, basically out of the fucking stadium. And that's where I was trying to go with it before I get roboted up, and I'm upset. I don't know if I can finish the show.

You know, it'd be cool if we make shirts of you as a robot. Robot, Trev. Turn it into a good thing, you know? Or we have someone draw, can someone draw up? You don't even have to be skilled. Can someone draw a picture of Trevor as a robot and send it to BBD? So whenever you go robot voice, we can put that picture on the screen. It's a great award, Treve.

It's beautiful. I am just, I apologize to the chat. I apologize to listeners on whatever. podcast platform you use. I'm trying everything. I've been unplug and re-plugging, unplug and unplugging, unplug and re-pluging. And I am on a wired network connection,

lucid limbo. I'm plugged into the wall, baby. Everything is here. We've been doing it. Don't come at lucid limbo. Don't call me a flaccid bimbo. But yeah, we are trying very hard. Everyone thinks like, why don't you guys just get a better setup?

It's like, we don't know what it is. Got it a lot. Trev, that was, you brought that to both of our attention. because everyone saw the Tatis Homer this weekend because he saw. Tatis saw the Tatis Homer this weekend, which was beautiful. A lot of people probably didn't realize, A, that was to tie the game in the ninth.

A lot of people were so stoked about the actual swing and pimp job that they didn't realize the importance of it. And then you're bringing to light, which if everyone got lost in the Lord of the Ring crap, there was a foul pop-up before that that was not snagged by the first baseman that gave Gandoff a chance to use that wizard's staff

and boy did Nando. I'm so mad right now. You're hot. Jim's checks and some. Let's wrap it up. Yeah, it's great. Best friend of the week, baby day? Meadows.

Yeah. Three for four, Homer, double, three RBIs, four walks. He got Wheeler. Yeah. He only struck out once. All right, you want to do elevator talk real quick? Yeah. Elevator talk.

If you're in an elevator with a fan of a team that this team is. Elevator talk, it's elevator talk. Elevator talk, it's elevator talk. Two minutes on the clock. It's elevator talk. There's someone next to you wearing a hat. It's surface level conversations about the San Francisco Giants. Oh, boy.

Yes. Yes. Trev, start with the coaches. I'll come in when you need me. J.P. Martinez, my good friend, hit me up over the weekend. He's the assistant pitching coach there. They're really doing it.

They play or develop like a mofo. What's up? What do you guys got? To the, what? Ooh. Old guys rule this team, and I love it. Every damn. They got two coming up against the Angels

and then four against the Cubs. That four game set against the Cubs will be good. Two teams that people were looking at. in the same exact way. I think Chris Rose, last episode, we compared them. As Chris Rose thinks neither team can make a deep playoff run, but are doing good enough that their fans want them to go for it, but they're also be smarter front office-wise to cash in on some pieces for the rebuild.

So that Cubs Giants Series, maybe one of them deads the other and heads the rebuild mode. Maybe not. Austin Slater doesn't look like an Austin Slater to me. I got to say that. No, he doesn't. They went mustache. You know, Darien Ruff looks more like an Austin Slater than Austin Slater. Ooh, he scares me.

He looks like Shrek to me. I told you guys that. Yeah. No offense. A couple things. I just tried to do some math, and it wasn't as impressive as I thought. But in April, the Giants were 16 and 10. In May, 17 and 10.

So kind of consistent. We like that. They have a winning record on the road and at home. 19 and 13 and 13 on the road, 14 and 7 at home. The math I was just doing. Yeah. if they go 500 the rest of the way. So whatever you feel about these giants,

if they go 500 the rest of the way, they'd finish with 88 wins. So, man, they've already had two pretty good months. So I need one more about 500 months. If they get one more good month, this is kind of a lock of a playoff team. 88's still going to be close for the wild card. And that's if they go 500.

If they have a 94% chance of making the postseason? Jake. Just read you the stats, dude. Jake's Giants, people are saying. The undead. Fucking hang. Oh, Gabe Kapler, manager of the year. Jake's, uh.

Buster Posey? Incredible. Incredible. At billiards. Her Trev gave him love last step. One daughter. Bossman disco wood. Quedo's back.

Let's go. What's your piece look like again? Old man's thumb. Flacid. an old man's thump.