Talkin' Baseball (MLB Podcast) - 346 | Red Sox Sweep the Yankees, Spin Rates Go Down, and Zack Greinke is The Best

Episode Date: June 7, 2021

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Hello and welcome to talking baseball. It's the Monday episode. We got a whole weekend full of games and net followings. We got a cover. So let's do it. Hello and welcome to talking baseball presented by Draft Kings. Thank you very much for joining us today as we recap the weekend that was in Major League Baseball. My name is Jimmy.

His name is Jake. In California, we got Trev wearing a green hoodie. Have I seen that one before? Treve, what is that? It's, yeah, you've seen it before. It's two different shades of green because I'm super cool. Wow. And BBD wearing the, how do you produce your sinus?

Or sinus. Or sinus. Or sinus college polo. How was your weekend, everybody? Trev, how was your weekend? Dude, I had such a great weekend. My brother was up in town visiting with the fam, so I got to see my two nieces. and then a little barbecue yesterday.

So all in all, really nice. The weather is great out here in California. There was some good baseball to watch. I watched the ridiculous fight that happened last night, and I wish I didn't. But, you know, all in all, things are good on my end. Appreciate you guys asking that. Jake, you were very interested.

Did you watch that fight? Well, I guess you were working. I was at the game, yeah. I was at the Yankees' Red Sox. the end of that series, extra innings, me and BBD in the stands. Good times at Ridgemount High. No, no, it's all right. We had a good time.

Little father-son dance experience. But, yeah, I mean, when I say baseball's hot in the streets, it was the hottest in the streets, literally, this weekend. The Northeast had a bit of a heat wave. I know some parts of Cali were getting cooked, too. It's, it's, summer's here. I know the calendar says summer doesn't start to, like, end of June or something. We, JJR.

We found that out. Summer starts June 1. And summer's here. It's hot. Man, there's a lot of big topics. A couple teams are starting to pull away those white socks in the Central. The NL Central is more interesting than I ever thought it was going to be this year. So I'm, wow, the chat is firing off Zendino, the great Calvin Hedges.

Let's go. Can I say one more thing? Esquetti and meatballs. Say everything. Say anything. Say anything. Your favorite band. Say anything else.

I played catch again with our guy, Matthew Stafford. Whoops. I mean, what is this? Oh, okay. Okay. Okay. Yep. It's so different playing catch with someone that actually knows how to throw a freaking football.

The ball catches you, man. I was so impressed, like I told him. I said, I don't know. I've been playing catch a lot lately with my neighbors. We love playing the football, tossing it around, whatever. Him throwing me the football was like, I get it now. I get like when people are very impressed with guys throwing 95, 96 and all that. It was scary.

I told him to stop us. I'm not playing catch with him. I'm going to break my fingers. Did you go to your other neighbor that you were having a catch with and say like, hey, he was there. Starting quarterback for the Rams just moved in and he throws a football way better than you. He was there. We usually joke around and play catch all the time.

It's like a thing for us. And now we're both like, man, we stink. Do you think Stafford started pumping real heaters to you to end the game of catch? He only threw like three balls. You know, he's like in the middle. They're doing some like walkthroughs for their camp and all that. And the problem is, the biggest problem of this isn't that he showed us up and now I feel like very bad when I throw football.

The problem is I really like them and I'm a Seahawks fan. So I don't know what to do now because I kind of have to root for this guy when his team is like literally one of the rivals of the Seahawks. Yeah. Serious problems. Even college quarterbacks, if you ever had a friend or buddy or were in an area with the college quarterback. Like even the ball comes out of their hand just incredibly different than the average human. It's, it's, it's, it's almost like they have a secret.

But yeah, it does. Do you have me labeled with the average humans? Yeah, very much so. Can you even grip a football with those? Center dot. I throw it two hands. Yeah, he's like an overhand rugby. It's soccer, soccer throwins only.

Yeah. Deadly accurate. Wait, what? I do have one last thing. Yeah. Last thing. Sorry, I had a big weekend, I guess. I practiced a blitzball a little bit.

throwing and hitting and I'm ready for it like I thought I was going to be scared of that I'm not scared of it I think our first game is going to come out on Wednesday between Jake and I and it's a quick one

playing one inning games but yeah you know still learning as we go in the alley in the back alley hitting all the swings are like you can't take a normal swing and then kind of like protecting

the plate of a blitzball pitch you can't take a normal swing either so I am excited for the comments to see our swings in slow-mo because they're not any semblance of a normal swing thick basically you're just trying to catch the ball

yeah well you haven't seen our pitching yet yeah okay you haven't seen the funk Jake's curveball wrap around your head drop in for a strike breaking neck yeah all right you probably hit my fastball

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happened in the NL. Now, if you guys don't know, I was in California at a wedding in a remote house, in a remote town of northeast California. Rough and tumble, dry desert. You got the scars to prove it? Trabb, you see my hand? What did you know about that? What'd you do? What is that?

Street fight. You see that video when I was going down the water slide, doing the postgame recap on the water slide? Yeah, when you're trying to be happy, but clearly you were not happy with the Yankees, that one. Welcome to 2021. Yes, that one. I cut myself and it's like infected and really hurts. And I didn't feel it at the time.

That's pretty bad. And it's one of those cuts where you don't realize how many times that part of the back of your hand actually comes into contact with things. And then it hurts, you know, because I just did it on the microphone or something earlier. I was like, damn, it hurt. Anyway, my point is. I missed a lot of baseball. It was hard for me to even follow the Yankees, which usually I follow very closely.

So I'm getting really need your guys help. Trev, you have the NL? I do have the NL. Do you know what that looks like, though? Do you play that game quarters? Yeah, when you had to throw out the knuckles. That's the dumbest game ever invented. Why did little kids play that game?

They probably don't anymore because kids are soft now, but. I think smart. I think we can say that kids are smart now. also smarter. Soft, smart. I don't know. Does anyone have a 10-year-old son or 14-year-old son that listens to this? Do they still play Knuckles in the cafeteria?

BPD, did you? It got played. I'm pretty proud of myself in hindsight that I, like, bad at every time. You weren't a... I was like, oh, guys, I can just not play Bloody Knuckles and I'll be good. Yeah, that's like a really dumb game. Chat is flying today. A lot of nice donations, a lot of nice people.

I, uh, Jimmy, Jimmy likes to call it Popper Boy, Jake, when I tell stories for my youth. Well, you do that. Like a 1920s, uh, newsy. But I only, I only played quarters if I could, like, win something. If I could, like, win a slushy, then I'd be like, all right. The knuckles are worth it.

I have, like, a long thumb, so I can get some whip on that. Nobody wanted to play me in that game. Let's see that. But I also have bony knuckles. Show me that thumb. That's your pointer finger. Trev, we'd be a great team because, I mean, I've just, I've got a meatball of a hand. Well, some people say comically small.

So these knuckles, I mean, layers. That's the thing is, my knuckles are very exposed, so I was getting cut up. All right. Great offense. Not built for defense. Yeah, exactly. All right. Let's go to the NL.

I wanted to play landmines over the weekends. One of my favorite drinking games that I forgot about existed because I don't drink anymore. And then I saw a table full of it. And I was like, dude, do we have enough cans to play landmines, which involves a quarter. It's the best drinking game. But we didn't have enough cans to play landmines. So I didn't play. It's time. The NL recap is brought to you by Cushy Dreams.

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Well, Jim, we're going to start out with my favorite series of the weekend. The Dodgers went into Atlanta, and the Braves took two of three, nine, five Dodgers in game one. Ureus versus Ion Anderson. Freeman goes lefty on lefty, but the Dodgers scored eight in the fifth of game one to take it. Six, four Braves, four two Braves, the final two games, freed out, duels Bauer, six innings pitch, one earned run. Pujos went yaya off of Will Smith in the ninth, but it wasn't enough. The Dodgers lose two out of three, and they're sitting back of the Giants. They're looking at the Giants saying, where did you guys go?

Moving on to our favorite team in the big leagues, the Pirates. What are they doing? They sent Cole Tucker down. I hate them, but they did take three out of four from the Marlins. Five three pirates, nine, two pirates, eights, eights, eights, eights, eights, three to one. The Pirates score three in the eighth to take the lead in game one. Also, guess what?

Key Brian Hayes is back. He went deep in game two and raked all series long. Stallings with a walkoff in the 12th of game. game three. The Pirates went ahead in that game with four in the eighth for the Marlins tied it in the night before Stallings walk off. Pirates take three out of four from the fish. Moving on to my old stomping grounds got a lot of juice in Philadelphia the Nats went into Philly, Philly took two of three, two one nationals in game one it was Scherzer versus Wheeler. Surzer went seven and

two thirds nine K's only one earned run in Soto. put the homer off of Wheeler because he's probably the best hitter in baseball right now. Phillies, four in the fourth of game two, cutch homers. They took game three, 12 to 6. It was Velasquez versus both. The Phillies taking two out of three. Had some net issues, we'll talk about later, but they're doing it there. Phillies take two out of three.

Moving on the debacks at the Brewers. This one we could have seen coming. Sweet. Jake's snakes, game one, Torre Levello, gathered the team in the dugout and yelled at them like they were children because they needed to play better. It did not work.

7-4 Brewers, 5-1 Brewer, 7-5 Brewers, 2-0 Brewers. Peralta took a no-hitter into the 8th of game 2 on his 25th birthday. That's very nice. Sad news, Wong placed on the 10-day I-L, but the brewers do get that soon. sweep of Jake Snakes.

Another sweep coming at you. The Cardinals hosted the Reds, and the Reds swept that ass. Four two Reds, six, four Reds, five, two Reds, eight, seven, reds. The big swinging dicks, whatever they were called earlier, they came out in St. Louis, Votto, and Naquin, who haven't been playing, could return on Tuesday. Mastakis is about a week away from starting a rehab assignment. Sad news for the Cardinals, not only have lost Jack Flaherty for a significant amount of time, Melina exits Saturday and sits Sunday with a knee injury, but I guess he's expected to avoid the IL,

which is nice. They might be getting DeJong back. He begins a rehab assignment and helps to rejoin the team later this week. And Kim also placed on the 10-day IL. The Reds get the sweep. They're doing it. Moving on to San Francisco. These are my guys, man.

These are my guys. Cubbies. Red hot cubbies go into San Francisco. Giants take three out of four. Seven, two giants, eight, five giants, four or three giants before the Cubs got the win in game four to three. My guy, though, long ago. Out four to six weeks with a sprained left shoulder. X-rays were negative.

A lot of stuff going on with them in the IL. Rough out at least three weeks. Felt those likely to be activated from the IL during the upcoming five-game road trip. Cubs also had some injuries in this series. Bias, Exit Sunday with a hand contusion, and it will be reevalued. evaluated today. Peterson next to Saturday with back tightness sits Sunday, but it's feeling, and I quote, much better. Giants take three out of, or Giants take three out of four from the Cubbies to remain at the top of the NOS. My goodness, they are doing it. In the last series, which is another good one. Mets down in San Diego. Series split four three Padres, two O Padres before the Mets took games three and four, four zero six two. Snell go seven, shuddy in game two. It's his first time completing seven ending since April, second. in 2019 and the first time pitching into the 7th since May 24th, 2019. Grisham does not return as anticipated, but he needs to go on a rehab assignment.

He'll be back soon. The series is split, Mets, and Padres. And that is what happened in the National League. Great job, great job, great job. Travis. Looking at the results of these series and then the standings in the NL, kind of into all of it. The Marlins and the Nats lose, and there's finally a slight bit of separation, and the NLE says both those teams are seven games out.

Not saying they won't be able to come back, but it was close for a while, and I think Jake would appreciate if the Nats kept losing and bowed out. Hate you, Nats, because I wanted to love you. The Cubs are banged up. They lose three out of four to the Giants. The Brewer sweep, and that leaves those two teams with the same exact record. not rooting for

I just that's fun to have the same exact record Cubs and Brewers the Giants continue to prove they're the real deal by beating a team three out of four and it's a team in a different division that's in first place in that division so good for the Giants and the Mets and Padres split which I'll take

so I'm National league's fun fine with the results the red sweeping the Cardinals Jim, you got a little bit of a pat on the back here because a winker went off. How many home runs are you hitting that game? Three. Oh, my God.

Just three. I might start every. Is he better than a Coonya? I think we got to start every single show. Like, I might have a button that we play. What? The response is to that All-Star game thing. You would have thought.

Brave's Twitter. You would have thought it mattered. Like we're We're three fucking idiots Well Just talking baseball And my April May Allstar team doesn't matter

The awards going up on baseball reference People's refusal To insert levity into like takes Like I think my quote was Ocuna is going to get it next month And Winker's going to get it this month Because he's beating him in slash lines But like yeah

People got mad mad And it's like What's wrong with you guys? Nothing. Matters here. Nothing we say on the show matters. We're just talking sports because we like baseball. Nothing in life

matters. You want to take it a step further. Like, you know, our disclaimer that we used to say all the time, you know your team better than we know our team, and nothing we say matters. If you find yourself super upset about a take I have, step back and remind yourself

that that doesn't matter. I'm not an important opinion ever. You know, the dinosaur roamed this land for millions of years, and they were the kings, and then what happened? Nothing matters. People they don't really know.

Probably a meteor. I've been going through a lot of dinosaur stuff lately. I think they shrank. I think, didn't... Well, yeah, they're around. Weren't you tweeting about dinosaurs? Yeah, because Teddy's got these cards, and they're listing all the...

It's like a baseball card for dinosaurs, so they're listing their diet, and how big they were and how fast. I thought I saw some dino cards. I was into it. Whatever. You know what? I'm not going to call myself an idiot.

Okay. Oh, okay. And BPD is definitely not an idiot. Well, that's why I'm here. And let's start out with some Padres Mets because, A, two fan bases that say we never talk about them and aren't happy. Man, A, a couple dominant pitching performances,

Snell and DeGron. so that's fun. But man, kudos to the Mets again. Like I find myself saying that more episodes than not. They've got a nice little NL East lead as of right now. And hey, on the road in baseball,

survive and win your series at home. Split in four with the pods in San Diego, East Coast team going out west, still with their injury bug going on. Like, good for the Mets. Good for the Mets, man. When are the Mets going to make up games? And are they going to make up games in the second half when they're healthy?

Because that's pretty cool. Interesting. You know what I'm saying? They still have played six less games than every other team. Maybe there's one other team that's behind. Double header Monday, June 21st against the Braves. So there's one. It'd be cool to sustain the lead with their subs like they're doing right now.

And then when they get those double headers to make up games, they're like, you know, healthy. And then they can like, if that happens, they have the ability to take a commanding lead once they, if that stretch of double headers and no off days and they're healthy and they're like really, really rolling. Yeah, I think it's going to be interesting. They've got a couple double headers end of June. So when we end up linking up, you know, July 1, it'll be interesting to see where the Braves sit. a couple make-up games. I think they've got two double-headers in a week time frame,

so that can be tough on your pitching. Or if you got that de Grom guy, cannot be tough for your pitching. They've played 52 games. The next amount of games, next least amount of games is 56 with the Nats. I think a lot of teams have played 59. So, yeah, they're like still six, seven games

behind the average team, and they're winning. You can look at that as a good thing or a bad thing. I think it's a good thing if they're, get healthy and then they get those extra games and then they can really have much you know commanding leave some guys back yeah sure sure what i got a question for you guys oh yeah uh coach ball game texting me about this uh people on twitter been hitting me up saying that i look like patrick wisdom or patrick wisdom looks like me so i just looked him up i don't i don't see the resemblance but i'll tell you what the guy bangs mm seven homers and 13 games three in the series

this weekend up in San Francisco? What's going on with this guy? Dude, he, uh, no joke. 29 years old. He, uh, in 13 games, he's got seven homers. I think he's behind, he's like fourth in the team in homers. He's just gone nut job. It's awesome for him.

I'm stoked for him. Yeah, I don't, I don't see, uh, his, his second picture on baseball reference when you scroll over it and the second one pops up, that's got some like minor league Trevor Plu vibes a little bit. No, it's a soft doppelganger. I've never known that you can scroll over the picture and more come out. Thank you for that. Always.

Always and forever. It's like yearbooks. It's like baseball yearbook pictures. You get to see their growth. I like, I just like stories like this. Like, this guy's banging, obviously the confidence is all here. And does that turn into a prolonged career? Because sometimes all you need is that.

I mean, I had a stretch like this. Sorry, talking about myself again. again. 2012, if I didn't have that stretch, I probably wouldn't have the confidence and I probably wouldn't have played as long as I did. So hopefully this is the start. Yeah, that's cool, man.

And that's, yeah, I love, because we've seen some late bloomer's recently and, you know, he's had some good AAA seasons in the past couple years. So, yeah, I hope maybe he found it or whatever it is. That would be really cool. So you like that story. And full name, Patrick Ian, hyphen, cashel wisdom.

Cashel. That's my parents' dogs name. Yeah. Yeah. So we're rooting for that. Yes. Trevor, what else are you seeing here in the NL? What's jumping out to you, Big Daddy?

I mean, the Dodgers, Brave series, we didn't really go into that. That was one that I think everyone had marked. I was interested in the Freed Bauer game, obviously, because I love Max, and he went out and shoved. So that was good to see. The Dodgers, man, like, they're so good, but they're, they're, definitely hurting. They don't have their full squad, but I'm waiting for like that beginning of the season run to happen again and just hasn't. And like, I don't know. Giant still on top. Padre is still ahead of them. They're sitting in third place in their own division and I know in

my head they're a drug or not, but I mean, what's, what have they been in the last 30 games? I need to look that up. find it for you. I usually have that sheet up as we go. The Dodgers. Dodgers last 30. The Dodgers last 30, 17 and 13. That's okay. Not bad. Depends on if their home are away, but that's pretty good. I think their bad slide was right before 30 games. It was like hot start, bad slide. But then 12 and 8 in their last 20 and 4 and 6 and the last 10. So like it's never, you're right, like they've never, it's not bad. It's just they've Never like.

Well, they started off, what, 15 and 1 or something ridiculous like that? Yeah. Yeah. Do you guys have the sticky stuff conversation lined up? We usually ask before we start, but I forgot in awards or anywhere down the line. Or if not, should we do it now? I don't. I mean, Bowers quote. Someone in the chat listed.

Bowers quote last night was funny because that's what we've come to. If anyone doesn't know, a lot of pitchers spin rates were down after they said. suspended four minor league pitchers for using the foreign substance and came out and said they're going to, you know, suspend players and they're going to do routine checks on pitchers. Garrett Cole, his spin rates were down. We talked about that. I don't know if you guys talked about a Friday with Kelsey, but we talked about talking Yanks with Trev on Thursday. And then Bowers were down in his last start. And a reporter asked Bauer, you know, asked him about it.

And Bauer said, Bauer said what he's been saying forever. I just want a fair playing field. He said either make it illegal and no one can use it or actually enforce the rules because the rules are on paper, but no one enforces them. And a rule that doesn't get enforced isn't a rule. I think that was his exact quote. So then someone asked him, you know,

if, you know, next year there's a full ban, do you think you'll have good results without it? And he said, look at my numbers from 2018. which is him just saying I'm using it now. And I used it in 19 and I used it. Oh, he used it four games in 19. And I used it in 20. And that's where the state of the sports at.

You just, he just admitted it. I mean, he's admitted it the whole time. He's not a secret. Yeah. He tried to get them to do something about it. But it's going to be entering to see if we see all these spin rates come down. There was a, well, I have the list here,

but there was a video of, bow were applying the substance pregame and he puts it on the heel of his glove. Yeah, that's the spot. Yeah. A lot of the new stuff. And he just had the freaking tin in his pocket of his shorts. Where? But you can't even have a, it was pregame.

He just puts it in the pocket of his shorts. It's strange, man. I really feel like he has some evil plan lined up. Or maybe he's already done his evil plan and it's over. and he's like, oh, whatever. Whatever happens now, it happens now. I've got $100 million for... I don't think it was that evil.

I mean, yeah, that's... Everyone's doing it. Yeah, you're right. You're right, you're right. I take evil plan back. Evil plan is back. It was just a... It was a plan.

A plan. Yeah, and he, you know, that 2018 saving, he was gross in 2018, 221 ERA, so he thinks he still got that in the bag. But yeah, I mean, we saw some spin rates come down. Cole at his lowest spin rate since 2018. And it's, uh, you know... You ready for the list? Yanks locked him up for a long time.

Yeah, let me see the list. What list? I don't know who put this. Somebody or chat put biggest RPMs drop this week, top 10. Trevor Bauer, Garrett Cole, Julio Urius, Charlie Morton, Clayton Kirschaw, a lot of Dodgers, Ricello Iglesias, former Red, Nathaniel Waldi, Walker Bueller, Jose Orchiti, and Jin Hjian Ryu,

which I didn't know was using. I feel like he doesn't eat it. Funk. You said Kikuchi? Nope. Oh. He had it all over his hat a couple games. It was hilarious.

It'll be interesting, man. I mean, there's... But wasn't Kikuchi, like, just normal pine tar stuff? Like, not, like, foreign substance, foreign substance? I don't know. That's what, yeah, that's the unknown right now. That's the question. If you see them doing, like, the two fingers, that's for spin.

If you see them doing this with their... hand. That's a bit more for grip. Donaldson came out and talked about it. He's been hot on it. Good, man. I mean, if the league, I don't trust that the league is actually going to happen because they're saying they're asking it to be in the umpire's hands. And who knows? I think that's a dangerous game to play both ways because you might have some umpires thinking they're protecting the players in the game. And we haven't cared about this in forever and they don't understand the difference. and you might have some umpires that run rampant with it and do like, you know, cavity searches on the mound. Hot. But hopefully, I don't know, we'll see.

And it's, you know, there's going to be a lot of names coming out in the future a little bit. But, man, I mean, you know, go look at Charlie Morton's baseball reference. Charlie Morton, you know, had a nine-year career through 2016 where he had an 84-E-R-A plus, a 454 ERA. He went to Houston in 2017. And the three years following that, he had a 130 ERA plus, a 3-24 guy. Martin? Age 33 through 35. Martin?

Yep. Yeah, they told him to just throw harder is what they said. Yeah, you can. And like, if I did it, I think there's not enough facts. and stuff, but you can draw a pretty fun registering conspiracy theorist tracking the teams and the names you just said, Trev, and the teams that are involved with and the players that have passed through those teams. We know that the Angels, Troy Percival, is on record saying he got taught it when he was with

the Indians and then he went to the Angels and then him and Bubba perfected it and Bubba would give it to the opposing pitchers. but what in Troy's quotes you said You know they didn't also have the slow-mo camera To right take this like they didn't know Spin rate wasn't just felt better spin rate wasn't a calculation So like they had the sticky stuff in the early 2000s the Angels bullpen And they were dirty

But they didn't have the wherewithal knowledge High Tech cameras to Make it literally like do it this way and this way And maybe make the substance a little less this and I'll make the substance a little more of that. And that's why in the last five years, I was reading about it, less five years is when you've seen a lot of players spike.

And it's a lot of guys who joined the Astros, and it's a lot of guys who are teammates with Bauer. And a lot of theirs go up. Yeah. It's not rocket science. Garrett Cole, I mean, Garrett Cole, Charlie Morton, kind of very similar stories there. Obviously, Cole was a little younger than Charleneer.

Verlander. Verlander when he went there. Dude Verlander was a hell of a pitcher in Detroit Obviously the guy won a freaking An MVP didn't he Think so yeah As a pitcher?

Yeah So like I don't know But like he I thought his career was on the downward trend And then he went to Houston And it skyrocketed up And like you know I mean this is all alleged

And you're just kind of drawn Like you're putting red strings None of this is confirmed or factual But that red string board is kind of interesting to look at when you look at the factors and the 10 guys Trev just named. Damn it, Ryu. Anything else from the N.O.?

Brewer sweep. Yeah, brewers. Brewers are hot. Everyone's hot to trot on our Tuesday Brewers Day Brewers. Nine and one in their last 10. Corbin came back. Corbyn Burns. My guy came back and was a gross festival, as was Freddie Peralta.

I mean, man, Freddie Peralta, who we heard before the season and, we tried to relay to you guys. I mean, your season outlook changes when you go from having two front-of-the-line starters to three. And I mean, Corbyn, Burns, Woodruff, and Peralta. Holy crap, man. That's a tough series. That's a team nobody wants to play.

The Brewers have a awesome stretch. ahead of them if they want to put some distance. The Reds, who the Reds just did sweep the Cardinals, so they might be a bit tougher. But they go, but if the Reds aren't a tough task for the Brewers, which also may be the case, they go Reds, Pirates, Reds, Rockies, Diamondbacks, Rockies, their next two and a half weeks of baseball. Brew crew crew can get some big momentum going into July.

That'd be nice. One last thing before we move on about the sticky stuff. DeGrom, I think his RPMs dipped a little bit. He still was disgusting. And people were calling him, you know, like calling out that he was using sticky stuff, which, you know, his whole team came to his defense on Twitter. Like every single person was like, no, DeGrom as clean as clean as clean as can be. So that's, I feel like we need to mention that. It's cool, too.

And there was someone on baseball Reddit who did like a whole breakdown of DeGromo. Grom's spin rates and his jumps in certain pitches per year versus the known, known, allegedly known guys, Cole Bauer and the crew. And, you know, I think if you asked me a month ago, I'd be like, well, you know, eight out of seven out of ten guys are using it. And the Grom's the nastiest pitcher I've ever seen. So I guess he's using it. Like that's what I, but after reading that and seeing all the teammates come out,

I'll, I'll go to that side of the fence easily and say, yeah, okay, maybe this dude's not maybe it's just nasty and and the RPM data supports that like he didn't ever have a crazy jump like some other guys have like oh well there's the moment he started using it so um i probably would have guessed or i probably have guessed in conversations wrongly about the gram but my standpoint is like everyone's using it until i find out they're not because that's how rampant seems to have been or is and trev you also noted uh that like this was the first hot week and this is the first humid weekend, and that is a factor too.

So I think that ties in. And yeah, it's going to be, the conversation is rolling. Rolling, rolling, rolling. All right. Before we move on, BBD, I'm going to click out so I don't have mic trouble. So I think that's what's going on with the audio.

We're too long on wirecast. I'm going to click out and come back and reset the time. So get a picture ready. whatever. The worm one, Aragorn. There he is. See you guys. Jake, what happened in the American League? Please let me know.

John Boy, let me start with BBD's Yankees who hosted the Red Sox. Best rivalry in sports. Holy crap. The Yankees, things are getting dark quick. They lose 5-2-7-3-6-5. in 10 to the Red Sox the Yankees get swapped. Swapped. Swapped. In the boogie down Bronx. Things are worse than ever. Yankees fans are sad. Yankees Twitter, a very scary place to be right now. Watch out.

Coach Trev. Be careful if you dip your toe in there. Yankees hoping to get some Zach Britain back, hopefully void at some point, but man, the Yankees need a shakeup. Don't know what it is. Hey, Good for the Red Sox. Oh my God, Bobby Dalbach. The Blue Jays hosted the Astros. Astros blow them out. Game 1, 13 to 1, Grinky versus Ryu. Blue Jays win the second one.

Chicken strips, raw striplings with a solid start. But the Astros take the series, 6'3. Stroes are doing it. George Springer, very close to starting a rehab assignment like that. Oh, Vladito, still awesome and hitting home runs. There's your Blue Jules. Jay's update. The Rangers, Treves, Texas Rangers host Treves, Tampa Bay, Reyes.

Texas wins the first game because Gibby started, and that's obvious. Those are the rules here. But the Rays take the second two with their reclamation projects on the mountain. Dick Mountain Rich Hill. Does it again. Holy smokes. We're talking All-Star Rich Hill? John Boy, Needy All-Star Rich Hill?

Michael Waka-Flock of Flame. the third game. G. Man Choy goes to the IL. That's sad news. But the Rays keep raising. The Chicago White Sox, they hosted the Tigers and they take three out of four. They lose the Scoobel versus Gialito game. Sorry, Lucas, Chris Rose rotation. And, but Dylan C. shuts him down on the final game of the series. A crazy game, too, back and forth. Mercedes with the walkoff. You might hear something about Yasmani Grandal doing stuff in that game later. and Lance Lynn's fastball farm won them the first game. Royals in twins split.

Eh, yeah. I don't know, man. Six royals take the first two. Twins take the second two. Three one-run games? Was it fun? Did you have a good time? Don't think so.

Salvi Perez had back-to-back two Homer games, finishing the last series and starting this one, so that's fun. Byron Buckson, come back and get traded to the Yankees. Orioles take two out of three from the Indians, including how about 18 to 5 on the final day? That must have been a good watch. Kagan Ikin helps the Orioles win the first game of that series while Savali and the Indians win game two. John means to the aisle. We hate it.

We hate it. Come back, John. Means well, early settler. And the Angels and Mariners split because that's obvious. Justice Sheffield in game one for the Mariners does enough. Photoni start. Game two. We like that. Angels win the two middle games. Mariner's win the bookends. Cacucci, Jimmy, took a comeback or off the knee. But swelling, he's feeling better than expected. So, Angels stink, and that's the AL recap. Kelnick having a bad time.

Can I get a great job, Jake. I think I'm going to start a weird place for you. Please. I thrive in weird places. Tigers pitching. They lost to the White Sox. The Tigers. Their starters were starting to look really good. And Scoobo had a good start, like you said, against Gialito. Five innings pitched, one earned run to 11Ks.

And Casey Meis, seven innings pitched, three earned runs. They were all three solo shots. But Turnbull, who's having a great season, he gets injured. Now, they say the initial diagnosis is positive. But it was a fun little storyline that we were starting to get And maybe continuing to get the Tigers starting pitchers Which is kind of the goal for the Tigers season Was like, let's have these young arms

You know, prove themselves, tread water And come out and good job by Scoobo and Mize And hopefully Turnbull's alright When Chris Rose hopped in for an episode He was mad that we were being tough on the Tigers And it was, I think it was like right after the Yankee series where the Tigers look pathetic, and we were just saying, like, the watchability is a zero. Like, I didn't think the Tigers were going to be great this year, but, you know, I was excited

to see Scoobel. I was excited to see Casey Meis, and those guys are starting to figure it out a little bit. So that's fun. Like, the Tigers have been a watchable product for a little bit, and Eric Haas doing some fun things hitting wise. So, yeah, I mean, that's kind of what we were looking for from the Tigray's. That being said, they lose three out of four to the white socks. because the White Sox are really good and starting, I mean, starting to create some space in the standings,

four games up on Cleveland. If they start stretching early, if they can get that to 7-8, around All-Star Break time. Who's going to come for them? That's the thing. It was supposed to be Treves' twins, but they're DED dead. Yeah, we claim them dead. They're dead. I got to claim a team's dead.

The Bucs has not come to the Yankees. episode. I don't think he's coming to the Yankees either. I agree with you, Trev. The White Sox are good. And yeah, separation. I mean, they may run away with that division and then they might, we'll see how it goes. It looks like it's going to be pretty fun for the White Sox. The White Sox have the biggest division lead in baseball. There's some shaky analytics. How about that? I know one catching the White Sox. Nobody is. Yeah, they're just good every which way you slice it, man.

They still are. Actually, they're 13 and 13 on the road now, so they're better at home. Ha. For a long time, they were good in every situation. Happy for Treves, Tony Larissa. Tony looking good with the Southside jersey on. That's like literally a meme. He, like, is a meme.

Yes. Yes. He probably pronounces it Mimi. Oh, definitely. May, May, Mimi. Yeah. Yeah, the Ray's also playing good ball. They lead their division.

They're 38 and 23, and things are going pretty well. Rich Hill. Talk about a good pickup by that. Golly, gee, Willickers. Yeah. Yeah. And Troy's out, which sucks, because that happened in his at-bat against Eraldus Chapman,

and then he didn't play against Cole the next game, which was, you know, as an entertainment industry sucks, because that's a guy who just crush him. is one of the better pitchers in baseball, and he didn't play. And we were like, what the hell is this? Is this some trickery by the race? Now he goes on the IEL, which is a bummer, but at least I know it wasn't. They didn't deprive us of that matchup for no reason, just because the rays are being the raise.

How else do the raise do it? Oh, Yardby. I mean, he had a good start recently. Yeah, I mean, Glasnow and Rich Hill are two of the better pitchers in the American can leak right now. Dude, Fleming pitched. Did they win this Fleming game? Fleming game.

He gave up 10 hits, five earn runs, but he went seven innings. It's kind of a odd line. Bullpen saving Flemons. Is that what they're saying? They lost that game. Okay. That was Gibby. Ghibie's the best ever.

When's Ghibi going to get traded? You text him yet, Treve? Trev. I haven't texted him about that. I will. I will today. I'll say, when are you going to get traded? He's going to say, I like it in Texas.

You know, I think we might turn things. Because he's the nicest guy ever. He's never going to say anything bad about anyone or any team. Trev, you know what you can open that phone convo with? Say, hey, hey, my friend, Gibby. Yep. How's it like having the lowest ERA in the American League? 206.

We're in bold on the baseball reference, babe. I sent him the other day. I was going through some war stats seeing leaders and whatever and he was like 8th in the overall in the American League Let's go Gibby Let's go

How is he? I'm happy for him I guess some pitchers don't qualify Is what did you say is the area is 206 Shit not maybe How many anything is going to have a low than a 2006 65.2

I guess I guess Lance Lynn doesn't qualify yet How? Did he miss times? Yeah, he missed two starts. It's like not that many. Gibby missed the start. I know. That's why I was confused, why Gibby qualifies and Lance doesn't. Hotter. Oh, that's debatable. That's so debatable. They're two different. They're very specific. They're niche hot.

Let me tell you guys something. The White Sox, obviously they have a great offensive team. They've been missing two of their better offensive players. They also have last time. The starting pitching has been awesome. The bullpen. They went out and signed guys for their bullpen because that's what good teams freaking do. They go out and get good players to shore up a position or a part of the team that's not great.

But then they also have a guy named Garrett Crochet. He's got a 0.39 ERA in his career, 21 games. He started to walk some people this year, but the guy is lights out. And like that is, do you remember? when like the raise had David Price and I just like stuck him in the bullpen in 2008 like this is this is that for them Waka for the Cardinals when he was in the pen

like his rookie year who started for the race you could say like your Rias last year for the Dodgers like you just get like a young electric dude who like maybe don't know if you want to have him be a starter or in the bullpen you know then trying to figure it out but this guy I mean to have that that you draft the guy and when did they draft it like two years ago right last year that's right that's right that's right

you drafted him last year he plays last year doesn't go up a freaking run and he's back this year doing the same damn thing that's like that's the shit that you have to have or at least really freaking helps your chances of winning a world series like the white socks are freaking scary we knew on paper

they were scary but now they've gone out and fucking done it man Trevin I want to give you a little bit of credit you mentioned it last episode that like you know you were really stoked on the White Sox getting Liam Hendricks. And we kind of heard heading into free agency, you know, there's teams that don't really spend on bullpen anymore.

So it's kind of a limited pot of teams that we're going to do it. If you took Liam Hendricks out of that bullpen, we would be having conversations that that is the White Sox weakness and who are they going to get? He has been the anchor on the back end. And, you know, crochet has been good. Foster's been good. But, you know, Evan Marshall and bummer,

who they expect big things out of, haven't been where they expect to be. Hoyer had, you know, past couple weeks hasn't been as hot, but when you got the anchor at that back end, it makes all the other bullpen problems a lot simpler. And, and they have fucking Kopeck too. They have two of these guys they can do that with, right and the left. Copac's hurt right now, but they're scary, dude.

They're scary. And they got Lance Lynn. And they have Lance Lynn, who can. I heard he could kill somebody by just looking at him. So that's what I heard. Look at Lanslin's game log. Just do it. It's gross.

And then look at his pitch mix. Obviously, I say it every single episode. And I will. Every time he starts. If he continues doing this. He's got a 1-2-3 ERA through 10 starts. It's wild, man. And now Lucas G. Alito is a bad boy getting thrown out of freaking games.

I know. He wants me to break that down. I haven't seen it yet. It's the Tony Larissa effect, man. He's doing it. I think a freaking squirrel could manage the white socks. That's what I think. Well, I mean, and that'd be a quiet squirrel. Yeah, that's all you need. Just a squirrel. Give the squirrel a bucket of acorns and let him go. Got to fill out the lineup and stuff. Oh, you just had delegate.

The squirrel would be shitty at that. As long as the squirrel can delegate. He's golden. Anything else that you got to talk about in the AL, the Yankee stink? The Blue Jays are like fun. Yeah, we need to talk more about how they stink. I know you guys have talked about that a lot. I haven't got a chance to talk about that.

Please. Why do they think so bad? Why is John Carlos Stanton never playing? He's not hurt, is he? Or maybe he is? Jim's called that the biggest mystery I think he's seen on a baseball team. Ever. I just, I don't understand guys.

Like that was, the Red Sox came into town, slapped them in the face and left and said, well, because the Red Sox are a team that has fun and energy and plays every side of the ball. And the Yankees are the opposite. And they all can't hit. All of their launch angles are down. Like everyone's just hitting the ball straight into the ground.

And that's like the biggest problem. Like if you wanted to find the statistical, biggest problem. All of their launch angles are bad. And all of the Yankees fans that hate like New Age analytics are blaming.

It's because they only care about launch angle. And it's like, well, if they did, that would be great. If they could start caring about launch angle again, I mean, unreal. Because all they do is hit the ball straight into the ground. And they're slow. And they have the worst fundamentals

I've ever seen a team have. so they get out on the base paths all the time. Their left fielder can't play left field, and their right fielder can't play right field. Well, they have a really good defensive right fielder, but they dh him. They dh him. Judge gets dhed,

or they're playing him in center because they don't have a center fielder in the lineup. The only one they have is Brett Gardner, who's not supposed to play every day, and is also performing with the bat worse than he normally or averagely should, even though that's never the reason why he's on the team is his bat, it's his base running and speed and defense. So the entire outfield is playing out of position. And this series against the Red Sox,

two balls that are caught by every outfielder, didn't get caught in big moments late in the game. And that led to rallies for the Red Sox. So why are the Yankees bad? Their offense is brutal. Their roster construction is awful. And their fundamentals are impossibly bad. Team built around hitting that's not hitting at all. Trevor.

Yeah, so the one guy I wanted to mention, because I don't want to talk about this too much. I know you guys are covering it a lot. I'm talking Yanks, but DJ LeMayhu, DJ LaMayhew, sorry. What's going on? I haven't watched a ton of Yankee games. Is he just, did he just have a few good years with the Yankees?

Or is he just, is he struggling right now? Or is this DJ like kind of whatever? Yeah, I mean, who knows? You know, DJ, I'm, has a skill. He's had more than just a few good years. And, you know, we saw Jose Ramirez have an awful half a season and then pick it up in the back end. Like, you know, DJ's the one guy. I wouldn't be, I wouldn't be shocked if he has a crazy big second half and his skill set comes around. But right now, it's his batted ball profile. Treve, I think I think the bigger thing that comes into play, and we don't know if it's related to balls or if it's not hitting or if it's a combination. But DJ LeMayhew right now, he's slug. He's slug. 321. He's got a career batting average of 302. Glaber Torres, his power hasn't been there all season. So, man, it's tough. They lead the league in double plays by a mile because they can't run.

There's no power. It's a team that's, you know, supposed to be one of the best hitting teams in the league. And they're just not doing it. And the stand stuff is wild. You know, if anyone's looking for a good clip, BBD brought it to our attention on talking Yanks last night. Treve, the Yankees have an off day today. They have an off day Friday. They play the Phillies this weekend, National League, so Stan's probably not playing then.

And then the Yankees have an off day Monday, too. So Giancarlo, I saw that clip. Giancarlo over a nine-day period might play three games, might start three games. Let me ask you, do you guys think that's good for a hitter to play three times in nine days? No? It's not. It's really not. That's so dumb.

But going back to DJ, I mean, his OPS plus, he's had more seasons under 100 than over 100. We talked about this before he signed his big deal. I said, I don't know how many suitors there were going to be. Because the track record isn't great. I like DJ a lot. I like watching him play. I know what he brings to the team, what he meant to the Yankees for those two years. I'm just curious, man.

Like, was it just a mirage those two years? Like, he's locked up for, what, six more years? Five more years? Five more, including this. Yeah, but also, I mean, he was good with Colorado. It's just the slugging, you know, the short porch and the juiced balls helped him in 2019. And he's a good defensive player. Like, if he goes back to being around 100 OPS offensively or slightly above.

That's not what you paid for, though. That's not what you paid for. You paid for those two years, 135, 175. Very, very true. Trev, it's a big question of Yankees concerns. Yeah. DJ is probably 10th on the list. Yeah.

Like, they're still hope. Like, they can't catch fly balls, Trev. They can't, they have corner outfielders that aren't outfielders. That's a bigger. Also, your management won't spend money because there's a fake salary cap. That's another problem, too. So anyways, we can move on now. Yeah.

They stink. Good job. Red Sox. Red Sox are good and fun. I compared them to the 2017 Yankees during their PPP, and I still think that rides, and I think they're going to have a lot of fun the rest of the way. If the Red Sox make the playoffs, I'd say watch out.

I don't know what their formula's going to be when they make the playoffs, but I'd say watch out, because they got a lot of momentum, a lot of fun on their side, and kind of a, what's the term when, like, second life type, like doesn't matter, like... Playing with HouseMoney. They're playing with house money a little bit this season. That's a scary thing to do when teams fun, young, and playing with house money.

And they could not be playing with house money if they get Chris Sale back and maybe if they make another trade or something. I still think they will because they weren't expected to be a playoff team. So whenever you have that, you just... They reset the cap and all that shit. Play a little looser. All right. Interleague, here we go.

There was one series. The A's took two out of three from the Rock. Rockies. They won the first game. And the second game in the first game, it was Montas versus Gray. He scored like six runs in the first three innings. Got off to an early lead, tried to go with the lesser bullpen. They brought in Birch Smith. Fan favorite, he gave up some runs, but they held on to win nine to five. In game two, swerven Irvin put on a show, six innings pitched, one earned run. Lazzardo came out of relief for the third time this season. and maybe people weren't aware that he's been doing that lately.

And he gave up some runs, but the A's held on to win again. How about that? In game three, going for the sweep. Capralian pitches for the A's. Not bad, not a bad outing by him, but Hermann Marquez was better. He shut down the A's. They avoid the sweep. Stories expected to return on Tuesday.

John Gray goes on the AIL after his start in game one. And the A's take two out of three. Simple. Easy as that. Because they always do. Because the A's just win all the damn time. They're a good team. That's an aesthetically pleasing series for me. I really, really love green and purple together.

So it was cool to see that. You big Barney fan? Side no. I know that's a Barney color scheme, but I just think they go really well together. So maybe... I mean, you can be a fan of Barbie. I had my first crush on the Barney.

Green with an accent of... a Barney girl? Yeah, one of the little girls I was in the class. Okay. She was sad on the swings. She had to go to the dentist or something. I forget the episode.

Yeah, well, going to the dentist sucks. Yeah, when I was six, and she was probably six. It was the first crush I had. I thought she was cute. Yeah. Yeah. Barney.

All right. Barney. Barney was, I think that's kind of our age, man. Barney was hot in the streets. I saw right through his bullshit. What's his Barney got bullshit? Is he purple or green?

He's purple, right? Purple with a green chest, right? Yeah. Okay. I like the other way around. More green than purple. Okay. Is that any pro team ever?

No. Or college team? Green and purple? I don't know if I've ever seen a green and purple color scheme. Well, the Rocky's done like a St. Patrick's Day uni or some shit. You're welcome. You're welcome. Green and purple rocks.

Yeah. Think about all the things that are green and purple. There's a lot of cool stuff that's green and purple. Grass. Flowers. You got any more? Oh, that are purple? Yeah, well, it's purple.

I like grape flavored stuff and that's always purple. I know nobody likes grape flavored stuff. Yeah. Grape licorice? Ooh, baby, give it to me. Oh, my God. Grape liquor. Tratman, I push the gross boundaries on here and you're like pushing them further.

You like the Australian brand licorice? I like that stuff. I really do like that. I don't eat that stuff. I don't put it in this temple anymore. But when I did, that's, that's, well, that's really good licorice. My favorite liquorish is a fresh red vines, like fresh pack. You can't get a stale.

Oh, California. Oh. How do you know someone's from California? They think red vine tastes good. I like going to the beach because my mom buys licorice. That's like her beach snack. And I would never buy it for myself. But if I'm sitting on the sand and there's a bag of licorice being passed around the circle,

I'm going to eat all of it. So I'm pretty into that. Good job by the eyes. Were the mighty ducks green and purple? Ooh. Yeah. I think that, I think not in D1. Yeah, that was like the new uni's.

Was it D2? Did they become that? Or was it most... No, no, no, I think... When I picture Goldberg, I have him in green and purple. So it is D1, but it's mostly green with a little bit of purple. You might have it there. We lost the internet, so we can't Google search it, but...

And I searched Mighty Bucks instead of Mighty Ducks on my phone. But I think, yeah, that's your team right there. I'm looking right now. No, you're right. Yeah. Yeah. It's not a lot of purple. It kind of is.

It's purple, yellow, and green. Yeah, the purple stripe at the bottom. I have to get a hat or something now because that's my favorite color way. Well, you're a huge Mighty Ducks fan? Not really. Favorite color wear. Cake eater. That's a Minnesota term.

Do you hear that a lot when you played there? People call you a cake eater? You're not, you're a pool man, though. So you can call you. Cool, man. Yeah. All right. Good job by the Rockies.

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I'm going with my guy. Zach Grinky. Against the Blue Jays, nine innings pitched, one earned run. And I love this. Three K's. Six hits, one walk. And our guy, Zach, I mean, he's just a track. in the game. I know we talk about him a lot, but I feel like he's another one of those guys that should be talked about more.

He saw his ERA on May 25th. He went six innings pitched with four earned runs, got up to three, nine, seven. Then he was like, you know what? I don't like that. So I'm going to like pitch a lot better. And he pitched against the Padres. He won eight innings pitch, six hits, one earned run with four strikeouts. then he said you know what I like that so here we go here's Toronto another one of the better hitting teams in the league he basically mirrored that line again except he went nine innings pitch this time like I said

with the six hits and the one and run and the three Ks the way he pitches is different than anybody else in the league you know he's he's just been doing it for so long his baseball reference page is awesome he's accumulated 74 war

he's a Hall of Famer and I don't think people talk about that enough. So Zach Grinky, you demand. One of the lone characters left in baseball and still performing at an elite level, which is a good combination. Because his characterness is like completely natural. I didn't know that his name was Donald Zachary Grinky.

That makes it even better. Everything about this guy. Yeah, I mean, if he was a Donald Grinky, I think more people would know him. I think his nickname would be the duck, just because he's odd. Don. I, uh, like quack. I, I, I've told this story, I think, before here, but I face, the first time I face Grinky,

you know, obviously he's, all the hype is there. And he might have had an off day or something. I saw the ball pretty well against him. And I was like, what, this is that Grinky guy, you know, come on. How does he, how does he have these numbers? And then the second time I faced him, he absolutely diced us up and everything was moving this way and that way in different speeds. And it was like, holy shit.

this is now I know. So since that day I've been like on the Zat Grinky train. And he just, he just doesn't go away, man. He's the real deal. He's almost 38 years old. Is he really? Yep. I guess that makes sense.

I guess I would have guessed high. I'm hearing it's a kind of like, he's a free agent too. Doing it for a while. The Astros also put up a ton of runs here, right? So he was pitching with relative. Stress-free. He doesn't care about that.

Yeah, does he ever throw stressful pitches? He doesn't care. Can't. One of the, I'm happy that the ending of the World Series was game seven, the Nats won, right? Knowing everything we know, happy that that's one. Yeah. But Granky's outing now doesn't get talked about. One of the best game seven world series starting pitching outings, you'll see.

And so dominant, you know, there were. some strikeouts, but if you remember how much he was fielding. You know, he was his own, like he was a team. He looked like a wiffleball player. He was just doing it all himself. Six-time gold Glover. Whoops. Dude, he didn't get a single swing and miss on his fastball in this game, and he went nine

in his pitch, one run run. I don't need it. The three-k's thing, like I feel like pitchers K-3 people on accident. Yeah. You know? Cy Young, six-time All-Star, six-time Gold Glob, two-time silver slugger. It's a freak.

He threw 13 fastballs in the zone for a cold strike. Just chooses his spots. That's a lot to have just not even swung at. Fowled off put in play or just dicing them up, not expecting it. I'm looking for it.

Let me hold on. This is my favorite thing before I move on. Guess the career earnings. Oh, got to be big. I don't know what I'm looking at up right now. I would guess like 160. I was going to guess somewhere around 200. But I don't know where his big contracts came from. He just signed a six-year, $200 million deal with the Astros.

Oh, he did? Or whoever it was. He's made $317 million in his career. And deservedly so. What do you mean? He just signed that with the Astros. I thought they took on his car. Well, I was the Diamondbacks, the Diamondbacks.

Oh, okay. I was forgetting, he signed a six year. I was forgetting who gave him the big contract, but it's the Diamondbacks, and they're my Black Hole team, and I'm very honest about that, so it makes sense now. Yeah, so this year, he's making 35 and 10. 0.3 of that is being paid by the Diamondbacks.

So just to rub it in their wound a little bit, but 317 mill, baby. Let's go snakes. What do you think that guy does with that money? Like, I'm curious. Is he a car guy? Does he have a zillion houses? Tells his wife or whoever to manage it.

Ask for allowance. I don't know. He's got a bunch of kids. Hopefully he's saving it for their futures. I'm just curious. Like, I wonder what he's into. He's got to have one thing. Yeah.

Like Legos. He probably has, like, a sick Lego collection or something like that. Connects. Maybe it's Connects. Maybe he's bought out all the connects in the world. To scale. Wrigley field in his basement. No.

My buddy in elementary school won the Ferris wheel made out of Kinex. That was in the middle of the mall, like 20 feet, like 10 feet tall and 10 feet wide. And then they won it. And then they just had it in their house. And the parents were like, this sucks, man. I don't want this in our house. It's like, their whole living room. It's just this fucking giant first.

So that's what I'm imagining Granky's whole basement now, and I'm enjoying. Someone said in the chat he buys swords, which he's joking, but that also makes sense if he just had a bunch of cool swords. Like, yeah, he could have a museum in his basement of like weapons throughout time. And you'd be like, oh, this is pretty heavy. All right, man. Like, we're here with our kids. I'm into this. Great award, Tref.

Thank you. Zach Grinke. What a guy, dude. We could talk about Zach Rinkie all day. My award is third and Jake's is up now. Okay. Trev, you noted it the other day. I think we posted some of it on John Boy Media.

You've seen the people in the crowd saying, you know, raise your right arm if you're a boob guy, raise your left arm if you're a butt guy. Castellanos, I think he did a hawk wave to that. You know, and if you're a titsman, I'm a yes man, Trev. Yesmani Grandal, his performance stood out for a couple of reasons. You know, we were doing the catchers. And, you know, we looked at Yasmani's numbers and, hey, that's a story that needs to be discussed more.

Yasmani Grandal is now hitting 153 at the dish with a 392 on base. He has an 807 OPS. in this game, Yasmani Grandel went two for two with two walks and two homers. And his second homer, his pitching staff that he was behind the dish for, just gave up six runs to give up the lead by one run. So what's Yasmani do? He comes up the following half inning, ties it up with his second homer of the game. White Sox end up winning the next inning on a year mean Mercedes-Warer.

walk off. Man, I can only imagine what the drunk uncles in Chicago are saying about Yasmani's season because he's having a good year, but I can understand where that's tough to process for some old school baseball fans. 392 on base and 807 OPS. I think he has one of the worst babips in the league right now, so the batting average should sneak up. And Trev, we're talking, you know, sneaky careers?

Like, Yes, Monsi's been doing it for a while, Jim, something you'd like from his baseball reference page. Every year, he's had OPS plus of over 100. So, Yasmani just does it. Year in, year out. He's on this White Sox team. He's a bonus piece. We never talk about Yosmani Grandale. And this was a big game for him on a day they needed it as well.

As well. Yeah, Yasmani's line here is one of the lines that makes me question the stats I like. Like, right, because he's played in 41 games this season, Trev. Dang. Guess how many of those he's gotten a hit in? How many games? He's played 41. How many of those do you think he has recorded a hit?

I mean, I see he has 17 hits, so I'm going to say 12. 14 games out of the 41. 14 games. So he's only had three games with multiple hits? Yes. How many times has he been on base multiple times? Yeah. A lot. The walks are there. He leads the league in walks.

But as Jake says, walks are boring, even though they're productive. Like, he's not a fun watch, I would guess, day in, day out. And then he is doing well, but you have to really explain it to someone. So, yeah, I mean, I like OPS. I like OPS plus, but I also... If you just took the batting average out, though. Like, literally you said put your hand over the page and didn't. look at his batting average and just look at OVP. You think he's having an amazing year. But

that's a little bit of where we're going with baseball where we're rewarding less entertainment. Circle this and like is there how can we change this a little bit? Because we're rewarding less entertainment. Because yesmone can also hit Treve. I think that's the other side point of this. Like yesmani Grandale has proven he can hit

in this league. Yeah. I mean 153. That's that's a thousand at bats. 153. I haven't watched I haven't watched a lot of his at best. But, I mean, the walks thing, that's not his fault. Like, is the book on him out of the zone, out of the zone? And he's just learned this year to figure it out?

Maybe. I don't know. Baseball has been rewards this. And it's good. And it's productive. I agree with all that. It's good for yes, Monty Grandin. Yeah, and the White Sox, in a way.

But I don't think it's good for the entertainment of the sport. No. Seeing in writing, 45 walks and 41. games pretty mind-blowing. Yeah. 17 hits on the year. I love when people have more walks than K's. He's got more walks than games played.

Nuts. All right. My standout performance is Cedric Mullins. I very rarely choose a hitter for my standout. I like doing pitchers. I always say if I do choose a hitter has to have like multi-homeer game or something. Well, Cedric Mullins had a multi-homer game. He had two home runs.

He also went five for five. Didn't get him out. Didn't take a walk? That's entertainment. Every hit came when he was down in the count or it was a full count. It wasn't a lot of 203-1 fastball hunting. It was 01, 2-2, 3-2, back-to-back homers against the starter, Savali after getting a single on him.

And then, you know, gets a single, home run. Another home run doesn't stop. Two more at bats, two more hits. Mullins in his last 14 games started as a 4-11 batting average, 4-76 on base. He's got a 12-day hitting streak. Not game because there was a double-hatter in one of the double-heder games. He didn't get a hit, but I'm saying day, 14 days in which he's played a game. He has a hit in a row.

So Cedric Mullins. Cedric, the entertainer, man. He looks dialed. Any Baltimore fans in the chat, has he made a mechanical adjustment? because he's never really hit like this at any level it could be he's 26 1327 he's now seen some big league pitching and man like you know if you're a good baseball player you give give yourself a few years at any level to figure shit out like you're gonna do it you know guys need those plate appearances to to get it going so is

it just that or has he made the mechanical adjustment either way he's been a story all year long this isn't like a little flash in the panthe he's been doing it all freaking year Sir. Yep. Well, he was young. Treve, I think young and regular playing time. Oh, here we go.

See, this is, I had no idea. They say he stopped switch hitting. Oh, really? So, there. Fucking A. That's a pretty big. You know your team? You know your team better than we do.

Thank you, Orioles fans in the chat or whoever. That was Daniel Ramos said that. And then Cam said that. I'm going to start switch. Adam. That's pretty good. Yeah, versus, uh, or. Okay, so let's look into this a little bit.

So he only swings lefty now. Yeah. He's just an atrocious right-handed hitter. As a righty in, he's also, as righty in 2018, 452 OPS. As a righty, oh, man. Oh, man. And, uh, only 18 plate appearances in 2019 as a Ritey, but they're like, awful, awful, one hit in 18 plate appearances.

And then as a righty in 2020, yeah, 502 OPS. So that's pretty cool. Scrap it. That's, we say like, did he make an adjustment, Trev? There's like one of the bigger ones you can make. That's our bad. I mean, obviously, probably should have known that. Don't watch a ton of Orioles baseball.

That's why we have your live chat, man. See, I love that. I love that. That's why we have the live chat. Yes, thank you, chat. Good job by Cedric Bullins. BBD, Slump Watch, I'm out again. Get the picture ready.

Wow. It's out. Defensive Trev. I mean, even like as a lefty versus a lefty, his numbers are good. So it's not even like he's hurting. That's so funny. All right. Slump watch.

Whomp watch. Do I have the sound effects? Tromp watch. All right, I wasn't here Friday. Kelsey subbed in for me. So I'm not familiar with this, who we have. stayed, but BPD, can you give us who are possible ads? Potential ads. Kyle Schwab,

or biggest ofer of the weekend that I could find, O for 12, a walk, 4Ks. Having a better year than I thought, because I thought I was going to open up his page and be like, oh, well, he's just not having a good year. No, he's kind of doing okay, all things considered. David Peralta, big trade deadline, rumor mill guy, goes one for 10 on the weekend with a walk. Anthony Rizzo, one for 17. Corey Dickerson, another deadline, rumor, guy, one for 14, 5Ks.

The one was a double. Tray Mancini, two for 15 on the weekend, 5Ks. A lot of guys here saying, hey, my family really likes this area. Don't trade me. Yeah, I'll just go in a quick slump. A little slump for Roo crew. Trev, that robot picture of you? I don't know if we should shout out whoever drew it.

I know we had a couple come in, but that I almost can't. I had to stop. I had to look away from the screen because it was making me laugh. I mean, that is... This one is from Nina. Nina? Yes. I mean, that looks like...

Thank you, Nina. Yeah, it's Trevor as a robot. It's... Spooky. It's really, really good. Oh, man. You know what? I'm glad to laugh about it.

It makes me so upset that all you can do is laugh about it. I think we figured it out. Well, I don't know. Everyone always says it at the hour and 20 minute mark when it starts happening. five minutes away, so fingers crossed, knock on some wood. All right, let's see who we got to add. You got your mean Mercedes. He was on slump watch and he goes one for 11 with two walks, so he stays slumping.

We'll keep him around for now. Yeah. Teoscar Hernandez. He goes four for 10 with two walks. It's 500 OVP. Teasker, you are off. Good job. Ooh, Zanino.

He went 0 for 4. or two Ks. So what? He only played two games. Catcher, I guess. So he's over his last 14 game back to the last. So he's got to stay. Keep an eye on him, yeah.

He beats up the Yankees and last year's the Yankees. Yeah. Miguel Sunno, he went three for 15 with two homers and six RBIs and a walk. The slash line isn't great. The OPS is 902 in this last series, but two home runs, two walks. That's kind of what you ask of from Snow. I think if you're a twins fan of it, you're watching this, you're like, well, we got something out of Snow.

Unless it was all slop time and they weren't watching. I don't know about that. But I'm going to take him off. Yeah, no claps, but like whatever. Bregman goes two for nine. He only played two games with two walks. So he had two walks, two hits and two games. Is it three games?

Was it three games, BBD? I think he only played in two. He only played in two this weekend. So he had two. Oh, no walks. No walks. Two doubles. Two doubles.

Both hits were doubles. Let's see. Let's keep him for now. I'm interested in watching. And because his LSU beat our CCSU, jerk. Really? Yeah. Hey, a lot of the kids that I coached in Little League that played with my brother Luke are pitching or playing in the World Series right now.

That's cool. A kid that was a pitcher for Luke's team was pitching in the World Series and like fucking doing really well. He was a crafty lefty at age 10. Yeah, they always are. That's why they're lefties. It's so funny. Like, he didn't have a good fastball at age 10, but he had a crazy pickoff move.

The first base runner got picked off every single game when we were like in the Cow Ripkin World Series and stuff. Shout out to guys who were playing Hunter Pascolini, a big fan of our show from CCSU. He reached out. And Robert Alstrom, who picked for the Ducks, Oregon, Sco Ducks. reached out. He's a big fan as well. So we're big with the college boys, Trev. You clean up down there. What? Sorry. We were talking about your Stanford days.

Yes. I turned down Stanford. You know what I'm saying? I turned out. I did too. I didn't even apply. Well, my mom was like, do you want to apply for Stanford? I said, no. So that's, I turned to down. You think I want to go there? She said, I was joking, Jim. I said, I don't care. No. All right. I really did do that. Rizzo's on. You really did do that. Yeah, you really did. do that. People don't talk about that. We were joking. You weren't.

Rizzo's on. One for 17. Yeah. He's a big name and I want to watch them. Yeah. Now, you said Schwabie's stats are actually better? This is overall numbers on the year are like, better than I thought they were.

Boom, boom, boom. Everybody says Schorber. We'll trade deadlines, Schwabble. I think I'd go BS plus, you know, PS plus 104 on the season. Mm. Nine home runs, eight doubles.

But the slash lines are like just barely So we got what? It's just overall better than I Than I would have thought in my brain. We got two slots And Rizzo's taken one. Yep, I put Rizzo there. And then you have one more slot Unless we want to bump Bregman.

Are we interested in Dickerson and Peralta Because they're trade targets. Because I kind of am interested in them Just because they're kind of somewhat in trade talks. So Shwerbo. The slump goes beyond that series. He's won for his last 18 if you go a little bit more. Schwerber's in trade talks too, I guess.

Yeah. Yeah. One year deal. Nat's got to believe that they're still in it. They heard I'm out and they're out. Let's take Bregman out. Okay. And we'll do all the trade guys.

Yeah. And then it'll just be one. So Mancini's not going. We like you, Trey. You'll be fine. Good. Good job, everyone. So we have Yermine, Zanin, Rizzo,

Schwarbo, Peralta, Corey Dickerson. One extra today. Okay. Eventually we're just going to have to do like a, on the block watch. On the block. Yeah. Yeah, I guess

trade deadlines July 31st usually. So like... I guess in July we got a fully... On the block watch. On the block. Next up is... Bada da da da da da da do do do do do do. Searching for the soundbite so making noise.

Dirk nasty's on Fuego. That means I'm on fire, baby. Like Waco. unfugged. Mm. Sedge Mullen's already told you about him. Justin Upton had himself a hell of a series. Three home run, six for 14 with three doubles and three homers.

Holy smokes. Talking baseball, April plus May. What were we going to call him? Not all baseball. All baseball. Outfielder, Jesse Winker. He goes eight for 18 with four homers. He's crazy.

easy. J.P. Crawford, he also had a good series. Seven for 13. Uh, no homers though. Five, five doubles instead. Jonathan India, seven for 13 with two homers. Madrigal. Uh-oh. Hey, six for 11 with a homer and a double. That's awesome. That's like what I wanted to start seeing. Like, you need some pop. Lead in the league in triples, my short king. Get on the bus, boys. We're leaving the station. I wonder, like, what changed. Maybe power just comes a little later. But yeah, that's, uh, since he hit his first home run,

Magical has, like, shown some more poppies. Since then, since he had his first home run, uh, he's got eight extra base hits. Just the start, baby. Yeah. I like that. Uh, who else is hot? Yulee Gereal, six for ten. Eric Haas.

Is I you say that? Haas. Haas. 5 for 12. Ketel Marte, 8 for 14 with two doubles, and Ozzy Albi's 4 for 12 with three doubles. It doesn't seem incredibly hot, but good for Ozzy that he made it on the list.

Oh, for him, it went a little beyond that. He's on a six-game doubles streak. Oh. Doubled in six straight games, 16-hitting streak, four multi-hit games in that period. Bad ass. How about it? Six games.

So I took some creative liberties on that one. Yeah. His first 34 games, Madrigal had seven extra base hits with no homers. And that was 40-something games. And then since that first homer and we had the full conversation about him, he's hitting. You got to believe. Love that. Love that.

Yeah. 3,000 hits coming your way. In the next 18 games, he's doubled his extra base hits, basically. 3,000. He's up. All right. So there's your standouts. Let's move it on to award.

Treb, you get to go first. James, I will be keeping with the Tolkien baseball strategy for my award. And this one today is called the You Can't Swim Award. Now, we all know the fellowship of the ring. Boromere, Aragorn, Legulus, Gimley, Samwise, Frodo, Marion, Pippin, they all, is Gandalf part of fellowship? I think he might be. I don't know.

They all go off on their quest to Mordor. During that quest, Frodo realizes, or he thinks, I need to go alone. Boromir kind of scares him a little bit, causes him to put the ring on, which is he disappears. He heads down to the river and is going to get in the boat and he's going to take you the ring all by himself. But Samwise Ganji is not going to let that happen. He made a promise to protect. protect Frodo. So he runs down just as Frodo enters the river and he's like, I'm coming with you. What are you doing? You can't go alone. Starts to go out to the boat. Turns out Samwise can't swim. So Frodo looks back and says, Sam, you can't swim.

Cuts to Sam sinking down. He's going to drown. This is bad. One of our heroes is going to fall. then boom, Frodo reaches down the hand and pulls Samwise out of the water, and the two begin their quest to Mordor together. Now, in this scenario, Frodo would be the Olympics, and Samwise would be Team USA. The Olympics were about to go off on the Rome without Team USA playing baseball in them, but over the weekend, Team USA reached out, and got drawn out of the water with a win over Venezuela.

They have now qualified and will be going to the Olympics. So I thought we had to shout the boys out. There's some really fun names on that roster. John J. Edwin Jackson. Homer Bailey's on the team. Your guy, Dave Robertson is on the team. Todd Frazier, right? Like I said, Todd Frazier,

who hit a big home run, an insurance run in that game against Venezuela. They're also being managed by Mike Sosha. So it's a cool thing. They're headed to the Olympics where they should be. And even, this is another cool tidbit on this team. Adam Jones, who's currently playing in Japan, is trying to get an exemption to play with the boys.

Put that USA on his chest. Again, if you guys remember in the WBC, he had that big catch. And playing for Team USA is just different. And baseball back in the Olympics for the first time since 2008, I think. It's been a while. they've had baseball in the Olympics. And it would be really dumb if the U.S. wasn't participating. So shout out to the boys for going and getting that at large birth.

They'll be there. And that's my toking baseball award. Great stuff, Trev. Phenomenal. Jake? I miss Robot, Trev. I'll be honest. Wow.

I told you it's working. It's working, baby. Yeah. Judge's theory is working. Solved it. I am giving out a tough act to follow. So I'll just be quick with him. I'm giving out the smartest team in baseball award.

Nice. Smartest team in baseball award. It goes to the Arizona Diamondbacks. Jake Snakes. Jim, you know, something we're good at. You know, when we take a step back and, you know, this company's doing good things, and we're like, are we smart? Not particularly.

We got good logic on a lot of things. You know, we like to work hard. The D-backs read the... the room. They looked around and they said, oh crap, the giants are good now? Like, we knew the Dodgers and the Padres were going to be good for the next couple years. The giants are good, too. So we've thrown it in tank mode. The dimebacks have now the worst record in baseball. We are going for the number one pick. And we're just going to try to build something. We're out here, we want rings. We play for rings in the desert. That's the shirt I wear. We play for rings in the

desert. It's a picture of a guy with a metal detector. Yeah. Just wandering aimlessly in a desert. Yes. And yeah, we read the room. We recognize it's not our time. We've got some big trades lining up. I've been talking to the front office, social media team. And yeah, no, we read the room We're going to get the one pick, I think, and watch out for Jake Snakes. So let's go deep out. Watch out when? Yeah. Yes.

Okay. No timetable? Why would you put yourself in a box like that? Okay. I will not applaud. We cannot give awards to teams for being incompetent. Okay. Trev, that's the opposite of what just happened.

You don't see me shit on your Luke Skywit. Walker award you just gave out. Oh, because the Team USA. Oh, well, Chubbock. Actually, Chubaka and C3PO hooked up in the earlier books, and they had a baby lion robot. Everything you're saying could be true. Yeah.

I don't know. Whatever. Go Tori Lavello and Eddie Escobar. Yell at him, Tori. Yell at him. I like it. He yelled at him, and then they lost all the games. Yeah.

Yeah. All right, I'm giving out the Lower the Globe Award. Oh, always a fan favorite. You've succeeded and turned me into a freaking jack in the box. Get it off. Get it off. It's dark. It's dark.

We're okay. I'm okay. One of my favorite scenes from Austin Powers. Good scene. It goes to just the entire Nats Phillies game. The Nats Phillies game was very similar to that. seen in Austin Powers. First,

Voth comes out because he took a, what, he took a bunt attempt to the face. Was that what happened? The umpire had to come out because he took a foul ball to the face. And then the net falls. So Voth starts in place of

Strasbourg and was injured in the third when he was hit by a pitch trying to square a bun. So he's out of the game. Umpire. he takes a foul ball to the face. He's out of the game. People are like, man, this game's crazy. And then the netting falls down,

which you just never seen before. So there's a mess. And everyone's okay. Well, I don't know if those two guys are okay. The netting didn't hurt anyone. And then shout out to the ground screw for fixing it so fast. Because I would bet you they're not prepared for that. I don't know if there's, hey, if the netting falls

this is what we do you know fire trail but they got it fixed after however long it took them but yeah I was I was on the plane I just got tons of tweets like break this down break this down I was like what's happening in this game they got eventually got the tractor out there

the John Deere pool and the the net they like made it like a like pulley system yeah ingenuity at its finest I said this on Chris Rose when we did the IG live this morning like they didn't install that net like that's some company So it's not like they know the ins and outs of it really.

But hey, freaking grounds crew coming through because that, to me, if I just think that happens, I'm like, games canceled, we'll fucking pick it up the next day. Because a crew has to come here and fix that for liability reasons, right? Someone's got to put that net back up and ain't us. Yeah, I mean, we're kind of a tarp crew. We got to give some, you're, if you work on the grounds crew, you know, you're a problem solver. You know what I think. You see a fence down and you think, how do I put that fence up?

That's true. And that's what they did. I love it. Debeck's just joined in the chat. Love you guys. Just gave you an award. You're a little late. Oh, my God.

Well, it would have been kind of cool if they said, hey, we can't get the net back up, but we're going to play through everyone that's in the netted area. We're going to move you to upper deck or outfield. You'll get comped. in the nice seats again. That's thinking. And then they played the remainder of the game, no netting.

And we just saw how many, like, foul balls just go like, bam. You're like, imagine if a guy was there. Or a guy would have been like, no, I'm staying. I'm staying. It's my right. Yeah. Do you think they were like,

because this is what we're talking about, it's a liability issue. And the grounds crew fixes this thing. Like, is the insurance still good? If something happened with that net? Mm. Yeah, there's some fun phone calls about, you know. Bad times for someone

I read a rumor that they had a A task rabbit guy put up the net Now they're regretting that Ad Came over 15 minutes Trev can you You wouldn't know what that is Treve because you're a pool guy And you're a ground screw guy

And you do it yourself Treve you don't hire task rabbits Trev hires so many people to help out his house Trev Can you Can you shout out some groundskeepers and some grounds crew and some of the people back and like I remember Danny Cunningham when we went down to spring training with you you know you were shaking hands all

of the twin staff down there and man those people like Jimmy and I he just mentioned Danny Cunningham he's the Yankees heads groundskeeper and man like the work he does like those guys deserve love they're a part they're a part of the team yeah and they you know you want to go work early on the field, they got to clean the field up again. So, like, you want to go out there and be able to do that, but you understand that's cons and more work for these guys, but they don't care. Like, that's what they're there for. The guy that I introduced you guys to, I believe his name is George. I hope I'm not messing that up. He's been the, he's the head groundscrew guy down in Fort Myers during spring training. And we have, we had the best playing surface in any spring training field. He's very meticulous about it. There

are times during the day where he'll just come out with no shirt on too. How old is the guy? He's 75, 80? Maybe more. And so, yeah, these guys, they work their ass off. They really, really do.

They're very late at night. And then you have to think about, like, dumb shit happening, like, it's snowing or, like, during the season, or, like, crazy rainstorms coming out of nowhere, trying to get the tarp on when it's heavy as hell. Like, it's a tough job. man. So shout out the grounds crew.

My dog, Maisel's digging up a lot of holes in my backyard and we're moving. And I'm thinking like, I got to fill in that damn hole. So shout out to me, I guess. Shout out. Considering filling in the holes in my backyard.

And I should be awarded for that. Pretty big. Best friend of the week? I'm giving it to Gibby. 5.1. Against the race Well, the best teams Over the last month or so

No, what's going to suck, dude? He's going to go to the Blue Jays And I'm going to be like, fuck, man, but I want you not to go to the Blue Jays But they need the most pitching. Are we getting a different kind of robot, Trev? Oh, there we go.

Oh, my gosh, bro. Everything's working against me. I'm playing through, Coach. I'm playing through this one. do. Good job. Good job by Gibby. Great job. All right. We have elevator talk. Hey, who did you guys do elevator talk about last time? Didn't have time. Oh, you didn't do it? Red Sox, I think. No? With Kelsey? The whole league. We just did a big segment

on Ion Anderson. I on Anderson. What was the quote you said? We play for rings in the desert. We play for rings in the desert. Yeah. Search. They're searching for them. Metal detector. I think you changed it to search. Yeah. Yeah. Because you're just, Because you have a guy with a metal detector searching for rings. I have you wandering the desert, lost and alone. Scared.

With a metal detector searching for rings. We play for rings in the desert. Phoenix suns. You're shirtless. You're defeated. You're sad. You have a metal detector. Okay.

And you're searching for rings. First thing that changed. In the desert. In the desert. Yes. Are we doing this team? It's up. Yeah, the Texas Rangers is a team that we got.

Two minutes on the clock. Yes. Gibby. Ghibie. Trade. Gibby. Connor Foleff, one of the more underrated players in the league guy is a stud. Doesn't matter what position you put him at.

Chris Davis coming back from the aisle soon? Hey, remember that? Remember that trade? Yeah. What's that about? Andrew's picking it. Let's see. Joey Gallo, a 207 batting average, 365 on base, a 754 OPS.

113 OPS plus. Right in line with career stats. 113 OPS plus. Career 112. Know who deserves love? Kiner Filetha. He's got one of the biggest, the highest wars in baseball, Trev.

Didn't I just say that? Yeah. I just said that, yeah. I heard it in a robot place. He's searching for rings. Dude, catcher to third base to short. Makes you think why it was he at catcher. Yeah.

I played with him. Ask the guy in the elevator when I should have got called up. Asked him, hey, do you know he used to be a catcher? And then they'll answer and they'll say obviously, you know that or not. The Joey Gallo shift with two strikes on him is hilarious. BPD, I feel dainty, but I think I've just sunken. Like, I think my posture is. Sunk.

Like, I think if I correct my posture, I'll be better. Yeah. I do that all show. We can just ask BPD. Oh, that's huge. Kyle Gibson. It's going to end up on. Playoff team.

Yeah. Hearn, Hearn hunch. We love Taylor Hearn. I want to get Hearn on like JJR for a draft or something soon. Let's do it. They have the Dodgers coming up. They're playing a little California team. Dodgers and then Houston coming up.

So a little West Coast trip for them. Ian Kennedy closing it out. ERA and ERA plus. Who's that? Gibby. Gibby. Trade them. Just not to the Blue Jays.

Blue Jays. Red Sox. Phillies. Philly should be cool. All the pitchers that are good are going to go to L.E's team zone. 44-mill Gibby. Gibby on the Giants. That'd be fun.

Him and Gabe would have some interesting conversations. Cubs, Brewers, Brewer.