Talkin' Baseball (MLB Podcast) - 348 | Alonso's Conspiracy Theory, Astros & Red Sox Battle, + Phillies Walk-Off Twice

Episode Date: June 11, 2021

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and welcome to talking baseball. We had beautiful walk-off home runs. We had conspiracy theories and some other stuff. Talk baseball. Hello and welcome to Talking Baseball presented by Draft Kings. Thank you very much for joining us today to recap the week that was in Major League Baseball. As soon as this song ends, I'll tell you who we are. My name is Jimmy.

His name is Jake in California. We got Trev. and in the corner. Big baby David. Nobody puts baby in a corner. I carried the watermelon. This episode is brought to you by some new patrons. Nathan Sheets.

Phil Tama. Dr. Ben Bruflat. Chris Blasies. J.J. Mark Katapana. Alex Marquez and Gary Seven. That's... A hilarious name. RIP to Gary 6.

Gary 7? Great movie. Great movie, yeah. That was Trevor that just spoke. Trev, how you doing? I'm fired up. You guys let me go get a cup of Joe before we started. I needed it.

And now look at me. I fired the F up. I shared some stories from my Wednesday night with you guys. Maybe I'll get into him during the pod. Maybe I won't. I'm not really sure yet. But a lot of good baseball. I'm excited to talk.

Jake looks kind of sexy today. I told him he looks like Lance McCuller's Jr. And I kind of think he's hot. So Jake, how are you doing? Wow, Trev. A lot going on there. Thank you. Yeah, doing some back alley at bats today, a little ad.

That went up on the channel this week. J.M. Baseball, got a great response. Love that. Yeah, this is my player coach outfit. Are you playing in that outfit as well? Yes. Um, you look like you have a rat tail. You know, like, the people have the rat tail on the back.

I got a haircut yesterday. I told them, can you put in a rat tail? I said, we stopped talking to us. You got to grow that shit from birth. This isn't a haircutery. You think that's ever going to come back? The rat tail? Like, that was a thing.

Trab. Never left. The rat tail never came. It never left. It just exists in a weird section of society. Man. Families that drink Mountain Dew instead of coffee. They give their kids rat tails.

Sometimes. I read that in a sociology book. Yeah. Sometimes we call our dog noodle. We call them Big Baby Nudel sometimes. Stealing. B.B.D. in our sex life. So I'm doing well, man.

Why is the dog in the sex life? What? That Houston Boston game last night is crazy. Pistol Pete Alonzo rallying up the PA. Baseball's hot in the streets. There's not much else you can say about it. And stay tuned. Might get some Tolkien.

Baseball later. Not fucking might. You're gonna get it. Oh, wow. Don't double charge me for that. I heard a rumor it's the best one yet. I didn't hear that. I didn't hear that rumor.

I heard it's the best scene, arguably, in the films. But I'm a books guy. Jake is, yeah. Spark notes of the books. Holy shit. Okay. Anything else to talk about before we get into this? I have tendonitis of the elbow, Trev.

Have you ever had that? Shoulder. I don't think I've had... No, elbow. Oh, you've had the show. No, not. Yeah, I've had shoulder, yeah. Yes, you just don't throw hard.

Yeah, or just proper mechanics. Whatever, either one is fine. You got a big game today. Do you know who diagnosed me? What's it called when you have a bruise, but there's like a medical term for it? Conchusion. Concussion.

I think contusion and tendonitis are two. sophisticated words for just being like, it hurts. Yeah. Yeah. That makes sense. Yeah. That's Dr. Jake's story. Lally. Dallas-Braidan diagnosed me. He said, I'm fine. He said, just loosen up. Kind of sneaky jack.

He takes his shirt off. Looks great. Every time. I'm surprised every single time I see it. It's a great body. Cool. All right. Oh. Thumbos. I really want that back.

If it comes in my way, I'm going to grab it. For everyone not, they're just watching, I drop the ball that I was holding my hand. Jake's holding a ball in his hand. You all ready for this. Makes me incredibly filled with jealousy. Hey. That you have a ball on your hand and I drop mine. I mean, you should have seen it the other day as a little kid.

I was a dog strapped to a chair. Treb's got a ball in his hand. Fuck this. Pull me something tall and strong. That's how close the ball was? Yeah, it was really close. Let's talk some baseball, baby. Way too much energy going on right now.

Way too much. sex in here recently. It's a, someone, someone commented. What did you say? What someone comment? Someone commented after we posted the back alley at bats. Like that's why there's been so much testosterone on the podcast lately. And it's a, it's a game day today.

So maybe that's maybe juices are flowing. I'm juicing. Yeah. We did buy, BPD did buy, um, spider tag. Spider-tack. So we might be, Jake and I were going to buy it a couple, like a, months ago, but we said that we'd get so messy. Yeah, I mean, there's going to be an image for our Patreon, so it's probably me just,

like, stuck to objects. Didn't they say, like, the only way to get it off is, like, to use something crazy as gasoline? Something crazy was, like, how they get it off their fingers. It was not soap and water. So I'm really hesitant to actually use that stuff. All right. Read the directions.

I have the NL recap. Trev, did you pay attention to the National League at all? Of course I did. Okay. Well, I guess you can turn your ears off then. None of this matters. Jake, did you pay attention? I saw some stuff on the games.

Oh, listen up. I'll tell you what happened. Don't even worry about it. I got you. Okay. You ready? I think so. The Cubs took two of three from the Padres.

I think the Padres haven't won a series and two series now. Maybe more. I don't know. Both offenses struggled. The Cubs started. pitching and relief pitching was just good enough. 3-21 ERA from the starters, three from the relievers. That's not great from a reliever and a three-game set, but we'll take it because the Padres

were worth on both ends. Rizzo, the only player on either team to record four hits. Sergio Alcunthera hits his first home run in the eighth inning of game three. Baez sat the whole series with a sore thumb, and Grisham is set to start his rehab assignment. Padres, come on, guys, start winning. Because the Dodgers swept the Pirates who stink. Very bad team. Dodgers hit really well.

Dodgers pitched even better. Pirate starters had a six ERA. Bad. Turner had two home runs in game two. Reynolds had two home runs. Trade, maybe. And Robert says an early July return is a fair timeline for Seeger. How about that? The Phillies took two of three from

the Braves, and this series gave everybody a lot to chew on. Phillies hit. Phillies won with two walk-offs, the first one coming from Luke Williams, who was on the team, USA team, and then got pulled to be on the Phillies, hits a walk-off home run, first career home run. Did you give an award? Did you give an award? Did you give him the Tolkien Award last episode?

I believe. You did. You forget your own Tolkien awards? Segora walk-off, two-run, single in game three. Wheeler was fantastic, and Gregorian starts a re-exam. rehab assignments are the Phillies take two of three from the Braves. The Marlins took two of three from the Rockies. Don't fully care about this, but the Marlins starting pitchers fish with arms, they

pitch really well. The Rocky starting pitchers pitched terrible. Jesus, Lopez Gomber, Gumber, fuck that name, and Rogers. Story's going to return in three days. He went one for three with a single walkout and strikeout. Oh, we returned in game three. I had my dyslexia kicked in. Kupalupe, L, for the Marlins.

Bummer. The Brew crew takes two of three from the Reds. Reds thought they were getting hot, storming up the division. Brewer said, no, you're good. Just chill out. Houser versus Gray in game one, and the Brewers take it. Peralta versus Castillo in game three, and the Brewers take it. Burrers started didn't pitch that well, but the relievers went crazy.

Adamas had six hits. Vogelbacker, dude. Two homers. Hell yeah. Hell yeah. Shaw placed on 10-day I-L with dislocated left shoulder. Wong is expected to be back before end of June. And shout out to Jake's chain, because he has a chain now.

Shout out to Fayo, who gave Jake the chain. Shout out to Wong for telling Jake to get a chain. Gray exits game one with a groin injury, and he's going to miss two starts for the Reds. And that's a bummer. And that's all. A lot of interleague, so not too many. national versus national series this week. So, like, I don't even know if we should do standings

because there's so many interleague games that if we start doing the AL and NL just like, standings? We haven't talked about a lot of the series. Conundrum. What do you guys think about that? I'll go. Usually we talk about the state of the divisions. Yeah, no, let's talk about the series a little bit.

I think the one that jumps out and it's the first series you discuss. James Cubs, pods. I did my late night. We were recording talking Yanks, so got an Uber about 2.15 a.m. Nice guy. Honda Cord invited him up. And I did my, does anyone want to talk late night? And got a lot of Padres fans in there because, you know, West Coast. It's not as late as the East Coast, a little math pod for you.

Man, the Cubbies, who we've been tasting a little bit, hey, they win a nice little series at San Diego. And the Padres fans were doing a little, you know, should we be worried, what's going on with the Padres? And I'm like, if you're a Padres fan, I'd be asking you, I can't watch all these games. But, you know, I know what does stand up does final two games. You only put one run on the scoreboard versus Davies and Arieta.

And yeah, that's not going to be enough. So go Cubs go. Sorry fathers. Sorry fathers. They haven't won a series in three series. They got swept by the Cubs, then split with the Mets, then they lost two out of three to the Cubs. So Padre is on a little bit of a slide.

I don't think they should be too worried at all. But they're three and seven in their last 10, 10 and 10 in the last 20. Cubs at the top of the division, everyone thinks they're going to sell Bryant. They're going to sell Baez. What are they going to do? Compete for the rest of the year.

I sure as hell. Hope so. You can't be trading people when you're freaking out. top of the division. They are in a bind. Do they pickle, man? I don't know the ins and outs of the lineups and the bullpen and all of that every day. But do the Cubs have pieces they can trade while still, like, as part of going all in that may

have value somewhere else that aren't getting a lot of run on the Cubs? Because they have so many people that are free agents. Are any of them somewhat like another team like, hey, you don't really use this guy, but we think we could? I don't know. I guess that's a question I should have researched. I mean, not really. They need a starter.

They had one, a really good one, who they beat this series. That was pretty cool. Let's see. Cubbies, what do they got coming up? Like his Sele Garden playing really well for them every single day? He's not playing well at all. They're, uh, man, so they host the cards for three.

They go to Los Mets for four, host the Marlins, two gamer with Cleveland and four with the Dodgers and then the Brewer. So there are no walkover games for the Cubbies. The bottom would have to fall out. Otherwise you can't trade any of those guys. And I think... Is Duffy or hurt still?

Duffman. So you doing anything? They don't really need anything except for starting pitching, which every single team needs. So I don't even know what they're looking to go out and get. I think the biggest thing for them is, we could just keep all their guys, or we don't keep all their guys.

That's the decision they're making. Sometimes two teams that are contending swap pieces for the active roster. So I was just wondering if they have any of those guys. Jake Mariznick, like he's been playing really well and he kind of always seems to be on the move. You got to bring that name up when Jake's having a great day. Come on.

Former Houston Astro. Doesn't represent the Jake's well. Sure he does. He's a lot of guy. He might end up on the Yankees because they need a defensive center fielder. who hits right-handed. So preparing myself for that.

Do you cash in on Patrick Wisdom's streak and just say, hey, look at this guy. Look at our shiny new thing we got. When you run into a Trevor Plouf, you keep him. That's the one thing I've learned in this world. He doesn't look like me. No. He's hitting the shit out of the ball, though. I like that.

I do like that. What else do we got here? Dodgers sweep the pirates. Obviously. And that's obvious. Call up Coltucker. Pirates if you want to Be good at anything.

Cole Tucker Reping the Johnboy Media shirt on Vanessa Hudgin's story. Whoops. He texted me yesterday to ask how I was doing and I said, great. It's a nice guy. Usually people have like something they want

when they text you that. He doesn't. He just wants to see how I'm doing and that makes me very happy. He's stoked about his Phoenix Suns doing big thing, so that's good. I guess the other series that, well, for his Reds is kind of good baseball. Braves' Phillies. Phillies end up sneaking up two out of three, winning that last game in 10.

That was a wild one. I know Braves fans were losing their crap on the internet. That was a fun series. They went up, Baby D, correct me if I'm wrong, but they went up three. The Braves went up three, one in the 10th. And then the Phillies, Gene Seguera following Alec Boe, a couple Phillies' infielder. made for a nice, nice little end of game there. So fighting fills.

I'm excited to watch them this weekend. They're playing the Yanks. Enelice Slogfest? Oh, yeah. Well, Jim, I did not give my award to Luke Williams, although he was part of it. I gave it to Team USA for making the Olympics. Okay.

That conversation about him came up during your award segment. That's, I was just hasty. I think it was on our Chris Rose IG Live. I think that's what you're referring to. You watch that. We do that every morning. 8.30 Pacific, 11.30 Eastern. For the Braves.

Another young pitcher coming up, pitching well for them in Tucker Davidson. Where is he from? He's got to be from Texas, right? Tucker Davidson. Peter Moyland was all over there on Farm to Fame. They posted the clip today. Midland, Texas. Sometimes that's that.

See? You're not going to be from Maine and be called Tucker Davidson. See, I could see Maine in the running. I think you should have went like. More East Coast. Isolated enough, you can throw a Tucker David's enough. The South has a lot of people who name their sons the same as they name their dogs. Like Tucker, you name your dog, Tucker, you name your son, Tucker, you're proud of them both. Dog Jake.

Yeah. Tucker Davidson. Two last names, Tucker Davidson. His Twitter handle is tuck, tuck, tuck. So we like that. And that's obvious. Oh, also, such a Southern thing. His middle name's Tucker.

He goes by his middle name. Joseph Tucker, David. Oh, that's such a funny. See, there's the reveal. Yeah. That makes that all more sense. You know what? I know we're not doing full standing stuff,

and Trev's still confused by that. But I was going to say NLE East slog. And you know it's really not. The Phillies and the Braves are neck and neck. Why are you talking about standings right now? Why shouldn't we talk about standings right now? Because we said we're going to wait till after the inner league to talk about it. It is right.

He's back, baby. Back in the New York roof. Oh, Katie Cuttingham in the chat. The Braves have a 20th best record in the big leagues right now. Baca, Luca. We have three people with Jake dogs live in the chat. I didn't know that Jake was act like for real a common dog name because you always made those jokes. I've said this for it.

Wasn't a joke. I know. I thought you were just joking. And then I Googled like most common male dog names. That's weird. to me. I had never, like, why is Jake such a common dog name? I knew a few Jake's growing up. It's weird.

Molly and Maggie were the top female dog names forever. Abe in the chat, that bets throw, that bets play was pretty nasty. Yes. When he shows it, when he shows off some of his tools in the tool bag, that's always a special moment.

Rockies Marlins, sorry guys. I made a reference to that for that play. You know, when you watch like the X games and they're skateboarding or BMX and they're like, they do a trick and you're like, oh, that's not that cool. But then the announcement's like, oh my gosh, that's so technical of a trick. It's so hard to do it. And it doesn't look that hard, but I guess you're telling me it's hard. So I'm going to agree with you.

Kind of like that play. It looked hard, but it's much harder than it looked, you know, going there. Gloves size, shoe string catch coming in on the ball, planting, spinning, throwing an accurate throw home. Like, that is one of the more technical plays an outfielder can make. So as much love as it has been getting, you should probably get more. Like, Mookiee, we haven't even talked about Mookiee at all this year. Like, he's just, we really haven't.

It's not like he's having a bad freaking year. He's having a really good year. The number one quote from the baseball season so far involves Mookie bets. What is it? Oh, Arod. Do we have that sound bite anywhere? Just constantly playing in my head.

I haven't heard that. I haven't heard that in a while. I tweeted. Bring it up. Bring it up. Trev, I love that comparison, big guy. Thank you. You know, you always see they do the slow-mo replay of the half pipe and they're like,

and look at the grab right there. And you're like, well, he did at 1280. I'm kind of more impressed by that than the heel grab. But if you're telling me that's the tough part, then I'm all in. It's going to be so hard for me to find that video because I believe the content of the video was so good. Right. That I did not. caption the tweet.

Okay. I couldn't perfect it. So I don't know if I'm going to be able to find it. Because how do you, how do you caption that A-Rod tweet? I don't even know what you're talking about. The Poppy one? Yeah.

Okay. Okay. You know it. You know because it's amazing. Moogie bets. Rockies Marlins. I said Poppy. Can he play baseball?

He said, can he play baseball? That's it. You did it. It's so fun. Did you find it? I think it's come. I'm air dropping it to you. Before the quote of my desktop.

Before the quote of the year. There it is. Brewers Reds. Brewers take two out of three. They stay hot in the streets, man. Holy smokes. Slick Willie Adomas is doing it for him. Also, I know these guys might think I'm just a total sellout and I'm willing to be.

Willie Adamas, Chris Rose Rotation episode. Another fantastic ep. And he's got some of the worst home splits from the Trap ever. and he talks about it. He says, I couldn't see the ball there. Yeah, he said that when we had him on, when we had him on Instagram live, he was like, what do we say?

Like, you're going to miss the trot, like, joking? And he was like, I couldn't hit there. Like, he was resigned to his fate as like, I just can't hit at the drop. Which is, I wonder how many other. He talks about telling, like, his other, you know, MLB guys he knows from the Dominican Republic and stuff like that. And they'd be like,

I said, poppy, can he play baseball? He said, man, can he play baseball? His name is Mookie Betts. I said, Poppy, can he play baseball? He said, man, can he play baseball? That is amazing. So just, and this, this obviously factors in a couple of Brew Crew game now where Willie Adamas has been raking.

Career at home, so mostly the drop. He's a 630 OPS, 219 batting average. On the road, 169 games, BPD, very nice. 297, 868 OPS. Go! Like, that's... That's an all-star shortstop. Yeah, because he can pick it.

He's got a sweet swing. I kept telling you guys, this guy's going to do something big. He never did. Are the Brewers really smart then? Did they like... They could be. Maybe. What?

Okay, if you're really Adomis agent, right. I don't know the legalities of agenting. Sure. But it seems like you have a lot of little birdies, you know, say like, hey, Adamas can't see the ball at home. Yeah.

Look at his road numbers. He could be doing that for you. You want to trade for him? Maybe that's what happened. And his personality's off the chart, too. The episode's great. But yeah, I mean, right now he's an eight-and-a-half war career shortstop at age 25 that the crew just went out and got. So that's a classic brew crew move.

Keep break and Willie. The Reds, Sunny Gray gets hurt. You're talking about the Reds at all? Do we need to say anything about the Reds? The Rockies and the Marlins? Oh, really. Jesse Jazz Chisholm's Homer yesterday? I did see that.

I did not. Bomb, nice bat drop. I got to say this about bat flips, drops. I got to tell people it's not about how high you throw the bat. It's just about the overall look. There's a feel to it. Like, you know, don't be so concerned about how high you throw it. You know, there's other things that make it good.

You know, the way you do it, where you're looking, how far the freaking ball goes. Don't get caught up. I see a lot of like high school and college kids. throwing the shit out of the bat way too high. It's dangerous and doesn't even look as cool as like what Jazz Chisholm did. I agree. I don't like the high ones. I like the get off me ones.

Yeah. That's what Jazz did last night. They kind of swing and they're like, ugh, done with you. Playing the dangerous card is a little soft, but I do believe it is. Oh, what do you mean? I think it's, it is the straight drop is cooler than tossing it up.

It is dangerous. I mean, it is, but like you can see the bat also. I like throwing the bat is. excuse. They don't have eyes. Tim Anderson throwing the bat backwards towards the dugout changed things. I really enjoy that. Now, Big Poppy has done that too. I guess I can't give

Tim Anderson all the credit for that because Poppy did it in the Trop, I believe. Do you guys remember that? That's Tim Anderson's thing and he's good at it and I like it. Yeah, I like that. So that's a new. Yeah. You guys want to talk about Ranger Suarez at all? Ranger.

Ranger Suarez? He did. I like him. A lot, actually. A little pat on the back. Perfect season so far. Trevor. Trevor Rogers keeps doing it. 13 starts, 202 ERA.

He might be in Colorado this year, and I took a flyer on him as my breakout guy. Also rowdy to Liz, who's playing terrible. So that's the great game, people. That's the great game, people. Let's go to the American League. Jake, you're out. I am up.

Trev, you're up. Batting second in the lineup. It's me. The Yankees go into Minnesota. Big series for the twins. No, it's not. They lost two out of three. Yankees embarrassed them in the first two games.

Eight four yanks, nine, six yanks. Seven, five twins on a beautiful bottom of the ninth against Chapman. Both offenses hit really well. Yankee starters with the 411 ERA and the relief pitchers did not get it. Doesn't matter, though, because the twin starters were horrible and the relievers were not good either. We talked about those Donaldson and Cruz with the homers off Chapman to walk up game three. Stanton went bananas. Three homers, two in game two and Andrew Har, two homers.

Now Stanton's not even going to play against the Phillies, right? Not even going to freaking play. He needs to rest because that was too many homers for him. Donaldson, after the presser, about Cole and 0 for three with two Ks. But you know what? It doesn't matter because he redeemed himself against Chapman. Yankees take two or three, though. The twins are dead.

We declared him dead. They're still dead. I'll be in Minnesota next week, also. Moving on. The Astros go up into Boston. They take two out of three. They won the first two games, 7-1, 8-3,

until the Red Sox came and won 12-8 in the last game. Valdez versus Perez, our boy Framber. Odarezi versus Ivaldi, Rodriguez versus Grinky. The Astros hit the crap out of the ball slash 339-419-607. Red Sox did not. Starting pitchers for the Astros, pitched to a 4-7 ERA. I don't know what that means.

Red Sox starting pitchers were abysmal, 12-4-1 ERA. The Astros can just bang, man. They went up and did it up in Fenway. Altuva had two homers. Bregman and Gurriel six hits a piece. Brambert, I talked about him earlier. Seven in the third innings. He pitched one earned running game one.

Jason Castro. We'll start his rehab assignment on Friday. The rich get richer. I really like the Astros right now. Moving on to Detroit. The Tigers doing it against the Mariners. They take two out of three at home. They win the first game five to three.

That was Boyd versus Gonzalez. Lost the second one in extras to the Mariners, nine to six. Before winning the rubber match eight to three. The Tigers hit 276, 333, 533 with six homers. The Mariners did not hit because they kind of stink. Tiger starting pitches were good, Mariners starting pitchers were bad, Grossman and Rogers had two homers a piece,

and Mitch Hanigur, our guy, two homers in the game three lost. Tigers take two out of three. This is one of the better series of the week. Blue Jays up in Chicago facing the White Sox, the White Sox take two out of three. Six one, White Sox in Game One, that was Rodon versus Ray, the two R's. Blue Jays take game two, six, two before losing

the rubber match five, two to the White Sox. Both offense is struggled and guess what? Because of that, both starting pitchers, starting pitchers groups did well. That was tough for me. Lance Lynn, seven innings pitch, one earned run in game two before the bullpen blows it. Brandall who has been having the craziest year of any hitter in NLB history. It's his 10th home run of the season and draws four walks. 135 OPS plus on the season despite a 160 batting average.

That shit is crazy. This is a tough one for us. We pumped up magical, got him hitting extra base hits. He was going gangbusters. Now he's on the 60 day IL with a big time right hamstring tear. So positive vibes for that guy. You were doing some really good things. And Kevin Bigeo could return this weekend for the Blue Jays.

White Sox take two out of three. In the last series in the AL recap, the Royals go into Anaheim and the Angel swept the shit out of them. They've been playing some good ball. Eight three angels, eight one angels, six one angels. The Angels hit the ball. The Royals did not. The Angels pitched well. The Royals did not. Stassie. Seven hits.

Two homers, four extra base hits and five RBIs. He's kind of taken over that starting job. A catcher for the Angels. Otani, who I did a sequence on this at bat. Hits a 470 foot home run. He said he got it off the end of the bat. That's a true story. Trout will be back

soon. The Angels almost back to 500, baby. They get the sweep, and that is it for the A. I was watching, I have the... Yeah, if you didn't say that last sentence, you would have been gangbussers. I was watching the music as it was getting to the end, and I was looking at the notes you were reading

as they were getting to the end, and I was like, we have something brewing here. Flip the channel. That was fun for me. Great job, Trev, and that was brought to you by Spark Catch Jake, show on the ball. All day. I love spark catch.

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baseball when you throw it, which is the coolest thing to me. Love those edible beers. Can we have, if you have Treves isolated audio when you edit the episode, because of the music was playing in the background, if you can get his isolated audio for the up second, it's me.

I'd like that. It's me as a drop. Yeah. It's like Mario. To me. It's beautiful. It's cute. Made us laugh. Someone quoted you in the chat, Trev, when you said, I'm Jake Storelli. I'm a weasel.

That's a funny quote. The fans remember that quote. That's a great quote. It's an all-timer. It is really funny. An all-timer. Maybe shirts. Astros red socks.

I know a lot of people got a taste of that last night. That was a crazy game. A bunch of cheap homers. You know, I even stirred the pot. a little bit, and I think what people don't under, I just laugh because there's, you know, a bunch of Red Sox fans that'll call Yankees Stadium a Mickey Mouse Stadium for a short porch. And it's like, you have a pesky pole, you have a giant monster of a wall in left field. That being said, I like Fenway.

I like that it's quirky and fun. But yeah, there was a couple cheapies yesterday. They went against the socks, but they persevered. They put a 12 spot on the board, and the infield fly call was controversial of sorts. I didn't mind it. Every inning was chaos. There was a double play by the Red Sox later in that game with Ottavino on the mound that Houston thought it was a foul ball. So they just started tagging guys and got two outs.

A good chaotic fest at Fenway. Treve, I also thought the infield fly call was a fine call. He was camped just sitting there. Camp sitting there. Yeah. What was the verbiage? We looked at the rule for infield fly. So Correa, he does like the wave off.

I got it, which the ump says, okay, you camped infield fly. It was in the outfield. So that's, I think a lot of people get confused about that because the name is infield fly, but the rule mentions nothing about the infield. The rule just says if a player, an infielder, I think infielder, not an outfielder. If an infielder is catching a pop-up with ordinary effort. Ordinary effort was a nice little. A little twinge of gray that the baseball gods put in there.

But, yeah, I mean, it kind of worked out for Boston. Either way, like the runners moved up. So, I don't know. Correa should squeeze that ball. And it should be a non-conversation, but this was the time he did it. And it's one of those. If they called it infielder fly,

I don't think people would complain as much, which is what the rule actually is. It doesn't have to be in the infield. It just has to be an infielder making a routine catch. Tony Clark, make note of that for the CBA. We are changing the name of the rule to infielder fly. I think there'd be less controversy there. I like that.

And, John, I forget if, I think this is you going back before we got it in the content game even. I forget if your dad was, I think you said one time your dad was with international customers at a baseball game and was like explaining stuff. And I mean, infield fly and like what happened at that moment, that's a doozy. That's a dozy to say, well, baseball is very hard to break into as a casual fan because of all those rules. But once you do, you are, you know, like the Michael Scott quote. I love inside jokes. I love to be a part of them someday.

Like if you just can watch that infield flying lifetime and know exactly what the I'm called and like if you have, if someone turns. Why it's a discussion. Yeah, why it's a discussion. like baseball is a secret club almost because it's so nuanced and weird it's weird it's no other game like it is weird cricket maybe

even cricket simpler than baseball and Boston was happy to get that one because they were getting beat up by the Stroes I think coming into that game they'd lost five of six to Houston Framber dropping it on the table again and fellow Jake Odo

with the start in that series but I mean Houston rakes man My goodness. They're good. Yule Gereal, who doesn't get mentioned with anybody on that team for being a good hitter. He's leading the league in batting average right now. What was the stat that, Yuley?

The base is loaded. He's the best hitter with the bases loaded in MLB history. MLB history, yeah. Yeah. With 50 at bats or something like that. Yeah. Man. The Yankees take two out three from the twins in a two teams that were supposed to be good, but are bad series.

I was happy with the Yankees. I mean, from where. we were. They were so bad, so whatever. But they're dead and the twins are dead and how many... Are you still saying the Yankees are dead? You can't change that, right? I can't change. I had made the rule. Thanks aren't dead. Jake, where do you stand with that?

Yanks aren't dead. It's a long season. You know, everything we did... I don't think the Yankees are dead either. I don't either, but I made the rule. He made the rule. I can't. Well, yeah, you have to stand by it. You can't say that you don't believe it either. You have to say you believe it. That's part of the rule. No. I usually say I've reserved the right to change my mind. This time I didn't. I said, if the tigers sweep you, you're dead, so I can't.

I have to. It's like umpiring. It's like, well, I disagree with the rule, but I have to enforce it. The rule is called on the field, so I can't change it. What team should we declare dead today? Tigers, they've been dead. Mariners have been declared dead. We got a lot of time, guys. Astros are tigers dead.

We're like 60 games in. I'll say this. The angels are still dead. They never were awake. They're still dead. They've been playing really good ball. We talked about it this morning with Chris Rose on the IG lot. I think they've won 11 of 16, a couple games below 500.

Aren't the Angels the same record as the Yankees now? No. They've been hitting the crap. No, they're still in the phone. People are tweeting at us that they're both in third place now. The Angels are tied for third place with the Mariners at 30 and 32. Oh, that's what it was. They're both third place six games back.

That's what it was. Yeah. Good for the Angels. The Angels, what's been going on is they can hit. Like, they have stars on that side of the ball. you know, Rendon has been a shell of himself, but Walsh has been good. Otani's been good.

Trout, when he's on the field, is amazing, obviously. Upton's been really good. So when you have an offense, they can do it, and I had the stats up where are they at? Adam. They're, you know, the top half of the league in OPS Plus. They're actually right at 100, and league average is 97 right now.

So, like, they're getting going. And then if you line up some good pitching, you're going to win some games. their pitching just isn't going to be there all year. Like they have to be lined up on both sides of the ball to win, and that just doesn't happen. So I know Nate's probably in the chat defending them right now, but I know they've been pitching better as of late,

but I think that's going to be a two-week thing. You know, they need to do that all season. It's going to be really tough for them. How about this? I will root for the Angels to be. Yeah, Stassie's been really good, too. I'll root for the Angels to be in a decent spot, like 500. when Mike Trout comes back.

So then they can make that an angel storyline. Like, you know, the angel are 500? They just got Trout back. So people can get excited about that. The twins can hit the shit out of the ball. They're second in the league in OPS Plus. They just can't pitch. What's up with Dobnack, dude?

I mean, he doesn't have great stuff. He has to have elite command to be good. And he'd done that before. They gave him a deal. He looked like he didn't want to be out there. When you're going up against that, that lineup and you don't have elite stuff and your command isn't there. He probably didn't want to be out there. Some big boys in that lineup smashing the shit out of the ball. You're in for a bad

time. Get that money, Dobnack. There's a series that doesn't deserve much talking, Tigers versus Mariners, but Jake Frey with one of the cooler plays, robs the walk-off home run and turns it into a double play. And he's also been crushing it with the bat in his last like stint. He, uh, in his last five games, he's got, like, his numbers are crazy. It's very small sample size, but good week for Jake Fraley. He's a Jake. So many Jakes. And when the camera pans to him after he makes the play, you haven't seen an outfielder with that kind of intensive a look since Jason Worth. I mean, I edited the breakdown, but I haven't really. recorded it. Maybe I'm too late now. But it's really funny because they

pan to Freyley and he's just intense like, did I just, like, I just did that? I just did that? And then the runner is looking back and I'm like, did you just do that? And then they cut to the pitcher and he's looking and he literally says, did you just do that? Yeah, you just did that? Yeah. So it's a really funny little like three clip montage. Maybe if I get time, I'll do it. Shout out to Jake Freely. And then the twins, man, in that final game, Yankees going for the sweep. Broomsticks out or all this Chapman on the mound. Holy. Treves hitting coach Donaldson, who was making other news this week.

And then Nelly Cruz, how's your dinger fest? They walk it off. They were excited. It was quick. How many pitches was that? One of the quicker turns in baseball. I think he threw nine pitches. Fuck, are you serious?

It was nine pitches? I believe so. I'll double check. So he gave up. Four runs? Hit, Homer, pinch it, hit. Hit Homer. See ya.

And now the twins are like, we can do it. Yeah. We can do it. Looking for the spark. Yeah, too bad the Astros come into play this weekend. Got to beat the best to be the best. Oh, boy. You guys want to talk about Colin Donaldson here?

Or is that coming up later? I got a question for you guys. Yeah. Yes. Queen. Do you think these guys, even all this shit coming out, do you think these guys have like stop? using stuff. No. I know the spin rate for Cole has been down a little bit. Do you think he's

completely clean now? No. I think he used it last game. I think it was back up to very close to his normal. Insignificant difference. I'm wondering that because people are going to be checking the spin rates like you're saying Jim every two seconds. There's still no way they're not enforcing it yet. So like, why would they still? Still no line in the sand. I do think MLB sent out a secret memo to all the teams like, you know, we've given the umpires to the go on this. And if you get caught, this is such a hot story right now, you're going to be the face of it. Like if you're the guy called out, if you're Cole or Bauer and the ump comes get you, that's going to be a terrible time for you. I do believe in Lindsay Adler, if the athletic had a good piece on it, that I think

it is the MLB trying to divide the players a little bit. Like it sounds diabolical. It's, it's sounds sick, but this topic has been around so much. By the way, the offenses are starting to click a little bit. It's not dividing the players, though. That's the thing. It's not dividing the players. That's what? Everybody wants it out. Everybody wants it out. Yeah, but no, no, no. Pitchers don't want it out there using it. There was questions about that. Like, I am fine with what Josh Donaldson said. I've been on record the whole time. I like. I wish you would have initially said more pitchers.

and not just Cole, but at the time, Cole was the only pitcher whose RPM was down. And the next day, he was like, well, Cole was the only example, but Bowers is down, and he named a bunch of other pitchers. Like, they're all down. Cole was just the only example at the time.

But they asked Cole, like, should this not be a player versus player thing? And I don't think it should. Like, this shouldn't turn in to hitters versus pitchers, which I don't know, Treve, that's kind of you don't like pitchers, but this is a league issue. They went around and they told everyone it's okay. We have manager and a player on record that they got freedom to use it this year.

Or, you know, Cardo Blanche, like, we're not going to get you in trouble. Now the league halfway through is realizing what happened because they did that. People are being as obvious as ever. The dead and ball plus the spin rate. And now you have hitters that are like, what the fuck? This is crazy. And now it's turning into somewhat of a pitcher versus hitter thing, which it shouldn't. it should be a league thing.

Like I like Trout's comments on it. I agree with Troutts and I agree with Trevor Bauer. We need an even playing field. And like Judge said the same thing. Like there's a rule here. You need to enforce it or redefine it. Like the players should go at the league, not each other on this. Because that's what it is.

Yeah, there's probably a memo sent out to all the guys from the players association saying like, hey, like let's keep this. Let's say the league is the problem. The thing is, Jim, when's the last time the league has policed itself? It never does. Like, the players always have to do the damn policing. That's just been, that's always happens. The league is so far behind and maybe they do want the little rifts between players. But what I'm hearing, you know, from the guys that I'm talking to, everyone just, like you're saying, wants a level playing field.

And I don't think it's, I don't think there's a divide like the media is making it out to be. I think everybody's on the same page. It's just that freaking players got to police the game because MLB will not do it. Well, let's CBA up right now and do the Alonzo thing right now because Trev, I know you talked to Chris Rose on your guys' daily show about a little bit and Pete Alonzo came and firing off the hips, baby. That was pretty wild.

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because you're the closest to the union and the players and all of this. I obviously have a lot of thoughts myself. Yeah, I mean, look. started off. Rawlings isn't making the balls for Major League Baseball for a long time. In 2018 MLB stepped in, bought a controlling share or all of Rawlings for $395 million. Now they said it was to get better, they even said like this is for us to get better

control over the manufacturing of the ball. So like I like what Pete is saying. It's pretty funny and it does line up. But, But I do think they really did want to just get control of the ball to make sure it was uniform, but they really fucked that up. It changed manufacturing plants and the way they've done it. So like the ball has been different. And yeah, juiced ball.

That was a lot of pitchers coming on the free agent market. Dejuced ball, a lot of position players coming on the free agent market. So I don't know if I don't, in my opinion, I don't think that they are doing this on purpose. But the fact that they fucking could is the skill. Gary part. They are controlling that ball and they don't exactly have the best track record of being honest and open about things. Am I right?

Before Jimbo rips, Trev had you heard anything from any players about anything along these lines before the Alonzo quote? Not necessarily like lining up and saying this is them doing it on purpose. Obviously people talk about the balls all the time.

There was pitchers, well no, the players too. There was one time when the blisters were going around starting pitchers, like the NLB fucked the balls up. But then, yeah, juice balls. We've been talking about the balls a long time. The players have been talking about the differences in balls a long time. But I had not heard the theory of MLB doing it on purpose to suppress free agent salaries.

That's the first I heard of it. And I don't know if I'm out of the loop or what. But it lines up. And like I said, even the fact that they have the ability to do the, this on a year in and year out basis is a little bit scary. And the fact that we, the fact that we don't trust them enough to not fucking do it says a lot. I guess someone just asked like,

what are we talking about? And we didn't say that at the start. Alonzo said he has no problem with the sticky substance. He has a problem with MLB changing the balls based on the free agent class. They asked him, you think they change, they make it juiced or de-juced based on if there's going to be more pitchers hitting the market or hiters hitting the,

the market and he responded, it's a fact that they do that. Alonzo's too old to be sounding like an 18-year-old conspiracy theorist who just found out about communism for the first time. Like he's just too old to be talking like that into a microphone. And I think the league hates him. And I would guess the MLBPA is pretty piss at him as well. Because if it's a fact, then you have to file a grievance. Or you don't file a grievance because it's.

It's not a fact. So, like, you just, you know, he kind of threw out the literally in the fake literally sense. Like, you just can't say that into a microphone because the shitstorm that you've caused. Like, even the fact that this is out there, the league is going to be pissed. And the MLBPA looks terrible because if this is a fact, well, what are you doing? You're not doing anything about it. You have proof and your players are proof. If it's...

Save it for the negotiating table. Exactly. You shouldn't have said anything. Put those feelers out there. And yeah, it's just stupid, man. It's just really stupid that Pete said that. Even if it was true, it just, like, leave that to the negotiating and the PA. I, um, there's no way they're doing that on purpose.

They're just incompetent with the balls. There's been scientists that have done it, tons of studies. The fact that they can change the ball and it, like you said, the fact that this can happen to say own Rawlings is a problem. All the pitchers in the juice ball error broke records for contracts they got. And all the hitters in the other years got really good deals too. So like the free agent class signings don't line up money wise, free agent wise. Yeah, I just think that's, if that was true, then you just had like, you know,

a low level employee like out it as a fact. And you're like, dude, we've been saving up this info forever. So I just think is, I think if that's true, it was a terrible look. And it comes off almost like little kiddish. Well, that's a fact. You can't say that. Yeah. It's not a fact.

I also wish he wouldn't have said, I don't care about the sticky stuff. There's been a few guys that have said that. It's like, no, dude, you need to care about it. I thought everything he said went against what he should have been supporting. Like, I think the MLBPA has to be pretty upset with that whole interview. It wasn't great. Let a rip, Pete.

Gave us some good fodder. Gave the internet some good fodder. Yeah. No, the sticky stuff, I think, is the bad part. Like, don't just fly back. past that piss to Pete and I love it you know we're talking conspiracy theories Pete drank some Kool-Aid I don't know

who gave it to him So you want to return his arbitration money? And I'm going to drink the Kool-Han king? No He wants more money, babe now he's hitting these impossible home run balls Feed the baby

I will say this Look it's a $10 billion industry Any other 10 billion dollar industry out there Got a little bit of corruption in it I'm not denying that. And I agree that the fact they own the ball company is scary. And if this is true, then it should be in a grievance where lawyers and smart people are like really handling it well. Maybe they are and we don't know.

Maybe. It would take down baseball. Why is Rob Manfred the worst? Why can't he, where is his statement? Why isn't he coming out and saying, here's a press conference about the balls, about sticky shit? They don't do any of that. It's so fucking stupid. If that's true, it takes down baseball.

Nothing takes down baseball, babe. That's... Jim, they... There is a past. I mean, just go Google MLB collusion. I know that stuff, but like... There's a past. Like, this shit does happen.

I know, but it's... I'm not saying this... For any casual fan or, like, not die hard like Gus, that's like, why would you... Why would you get put any effort into liking or starting to like that sport? Yes, and Jill in the chat just said

MLB could easily avoid this by being transparent about the ball changes. Yes, I think that is all we need to know. If you're going through manufacturing issues with the ball, just be transparent about them. Say, hey, look, we switched manufacturers. We're making it differently, blah, blah, blah.

Just give us something. Dude, people are so annoying. Someone in chat is now making this into me hating the Mets thing. As fucking zero to do with the Mets. What are you talking about? And I don't hate the Mets. Don't hate the Mets.

I don't hate the Mets. Yeah, I don't know. Anyone could have said this. It's just so insane. Trev, you mentioned the $10 billion that you and Rosie were throwing around. I do think when corporations get to a certain size, you just lose something. And it's, you know, I think the NBA for a while, and I'll have to double check this, you know, they had their, like, agreed basketballs.

And, like, the home players, the home team used to go over to the basketball rack and, like, pick three balls and be like, we're using these today. Football does that. They give... Like, why can't... Baseball should have a system like that, so the players like the ball they're using? Well, Verlander gets to, but there's just too many.

I think there's just too many balls. Each team has a... He's the same ball. Each team has a mud guy, right? Trev. Don't get me started on the rubbing up the balls thing. That needs to be uniform. They should come pre-rubbed.

How freaking hard is that? Like, you're literally... I mean, it's a lot of work to do it, too. is you're making some, you know, clubhouse guy do it. I think that the umpires approve the balls, but the clubhouse guys are the ones rubbing them up. Yeah, and then the ums approve it. Yeah.

And one could be, you know, very brown, and one could be very not brown. Like a little tan. And just you're a hitter. You've got to pick it up no matter what. It doesn't make any sense. There should be a color-coded chart. It's got to match this, blah, blah, blah.

Or just come pre-rubbed. The ball should be. be pretty uniform. Yeah. Someone, was it you, Trev, that said even the, or was it someone else? I think it might have been you with Rose. Like, the fact that MLB came out and said, we're going to dead in the balls and we as fans didn't really blink an eye is also very scary.

Dead in the balls to make something happen. Like, just, how about we just have the balls and let the fucking players play the game? Like, that's probably what we should do. Use the same ball. It's funny because when we talked with Dr. Meredith Will, she said, She, her conclusion from, and she does tons and tons and tons of research on this. Yes. Her conclusion was that MLB did not juice the balls on purpose.

They are just incompetent, but they'd rather admit to juicing the balls on purpose than admit to being incompetent. And then in the 19 postseason, they ran out of balls. So there was eight balls from 18 and balls from 19. So that's why you had varying different drag and speed or exit velo and drag on different baseballs. Yeah, we saw the guys in the World Series reacting like, yeah, oh, I hit Homer and then they didn't. Will Smith could have changed baseball history. Yeah, wild.

Interleague? Can we talk about the White Sox Rays? Yeah, we're a little behind the eight ball. But I guess, do we sneak in all the ads already? No. Yeah, one more? All right. Carlos Rodan's awesome.

And it's a big Interleague. You want to do Interleague? The Rodon thing is wild. I mean, go check. If you're a baseball nerd, go check out. his mile per hour chart year and year out. I saw all the analytics crew was tweeting out like, you know, I thought we couldn't coach this.

I thought this was the uncoachable thing. And now, man, his numbers are insane. And Lance Lynn dropping it, as always. Yes, Monty Grandailles' numbers continue to be weird. A weird video game outlier of the sport. Yeah. BPD Robot me. And here we go.

Interleague play. There was a lot of them, Jake. Well, boys, I have an official announcement to make before this interleague. I dislike the two game interleague sets, but we got a bunch of them. Marlins at the Red Sox, they were actually wrapping up on Monday. This was a make-up game. Sox won, and they sweep the Marlins. Nick Povetta doing it.

How about Arroyo doing good things for the socks this year? Indians went to St. Louis and they split. Indians, one game one, 10-1, Beaver, how about it? Tyler O'Neill, my thick daddy. How's your two homer day? They win the second game, 8-2-2. Wayno was on the bum for that. DeYoung, supposed to be coming back Friday.

That's today, folks. D-backs at Athletics, oh, my snakes. Sorry, fellas. They lose 5-2-4-0. fire the hitting coaches. Sad times I did put my hat in the ring to try to help out. Jed Lowry is still kind of doing it. Chris Bassett and Mania with good starts for Joklyn.

Mets at Orioles. They split another blowout inner league split because I don't think teams care about these at all. 10, 3, Orioles 14 to 1 Mets. Our guy, Taiwan Walker, continues to have an incredible season. Love that for him. McKinney and Pilar, two yakers each in game two. How's your outfield? Nats at Rays, and they split. 3-1, Glass Now Shuffs versus Lester, and then the Nats win the second one.

11 innings, hello. 9-7, Corbin versus McLanahan. Good Irish boy, a couple fun home runs in that one. Mr. Nat, Ryan Zimmerman doing it. Giants at Rangers, and they also split. 9-4-4-3. Our guy Gibby was out there, so the Rangers had to win that game by the end of it. A little walk-off single for Brock Holt. Wow. Everyone loves some Brock Holt.

And Brandon Crawford might hear some about him later. Two homers in game one. And that's the Interleague matchups. I'm in full agreement with you. Yeah. The two game sets and you split it almost not worth discussing. Okay, move on to a real series where damage can be done of sorts. I think each team, when they go into a two-game interleague set,

they mentally shake hands before the series and say, you get one, we get one, and we just don't talk about this ever again. Unless you're the debacks. So I think baseball needs to address that. Well, again, debacks are the smartest front office in baseball, so they're going for picks at this point. So that was a good pump by them. Yeah, good call.

No. No. No. Trem, got anything on any of this stuff? I'm counting right now. Sorry, MathPod.

He's counting. He's counting. I've already moved on a little bit. Yeah, I don't know, man. I think the Nationals race here is pretty cool. Do you see like the Juan Soto? He really like Humphier against Tyler Glassnow. That was a fun matchup to watch right there.

I like that a lot. I like Glass Now. Yeah. Don't talk about Tyler O'Neill too much, because there might be seven. Good for the A's for sweeping. And then everything else, yeah, I don't really care. Display.

I hate the Interleague 2 gamers. Where Yankees got one coming up? You know, I am a fan of one day that the teams play every team each year for a little home and home. Because I think that's a good way to get stars in front of fans because you watch your team. So if I can get my stars in front of you and you say, oh, yeah, I saw Mookie Betts.

and I like him. But yeah, I mean, this kind of does nothing for me except good for the A's. They're rolling right now and good for the Diamondbacks. We're getting that one pick. Hell yeah. Oh, my gosh. Stop it with that. What?

They fired their running coaches and promoted the run creation coach. They hired their AAA hitting coach and their AAA run production coordinator, I believe. What a freaking top. that is. Are you kidding me? I'm ready for that. I mean, come on with... Treb, they also have a run prevention coordinator. Yeah. So on talking Yanks last night... So a defensive coach?

We wrote a really good... No, it's run prevention. We wrote a really good skit when the run prevention coordinator for the Diamondbacks and the run production coordinator for the Diamondbacks walk past each other in the hallway. Do you want us to act it out for you? Please. Okay, so Jake... Top seven. You know, two outs,

runners on second. You got your two-hole hitter up Starting pitcher He's on his 85th pitch You know You pitching around him You're throwing up the fours What do they got up in the pen?

Is the pen rested? Yeah They just go through scenarios nonstop They play baseball chess Yeah baseball chess Mental baseball chess First and third One out

How are you playing in the infield? 2017 Corey Seeger is up Yeah It's so ridiculous It's literally a hitting coach and a defensive coach. And there we go, guys. I can't stand that.

It's a run prevention coordinator. Have some respect for the title, Trev. Jake, Jake Snakes. Yes. Had a question about them. Torre Lavello came out and said, I fired them. And the GM said, yeah,

Tori fired them. What's up with that? What? We're just falling on sorts. You didn't see that? What? Tori Lavello came out and said, I was the one who fired them. And the GM was like, yeah,

Tori Lavello, that was his call. fired them. What? Yeah. What's up? We're falling on swords. It's that time of year. What? Strange. That usually never happens. They told Tori, if you fall on this sword, we'll let you run out the season and we'll reevaluate at the end of the year. Who's the DBX GM? I think it's George, George. You better know. If you want that job, Jake, you better find out. Hayzen. Hazen, tighten up your shit. I know, like, get some accountability?

What the fuck is that? Yeah, it's, it's, I, I'm curious, like, why. That's a fucking awful look. If you're the GM or anyone above head, the manager, what are you doing? Do they think that's a better look? Are they just trying to goavello into, like, him being next? But it's so obvious.

Hey, what the fuck? if you're the head of hiring and firing, then you're the fucking head of hiring and firing. I think it's Tory looking to save his job. That's what it looks like. I agree with Jake's assessment, but I'm in agreement with that. That's a horrible look for the GM.

You have lieutenants, firing sergeants or whatever the hell the order is? Yeah, it's not a perfect equation because, I mean, if you're, you know, ahead of a company and you're, chief marketing person fires a marketing person that works for them. You say, okay. But this is taking blame.

This is a lot of proud people and passing blame to whoever. That sucks for Lavello. Yeah. He'll tell us the real story after the season. I guess that's what's more upset, like weird about it. It's like, well, that's a lie. Yeah. So you just all agreed to tell the public this lie?

Maybe it was. Maybe Tori was like, look, I better do something. to the GM was like, let's fire these guys. But even then he asked permission. It's not like he went to the GM and it was like, hey man, just to let you know, I just fired the hitting coaches. And the GM's like, oh, okay, wow, Tori, you did that? Like, what are we doing here?

And these are all ballplayers, too. That's the thing. It's like, that's like, Kofi. Yeah, it's just not how that would work. So that's weird. All right. Want to move on to second half of the show? Good job, A's.

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My standout performance. Stand out performance. Is a guy that's gotten a standout performance for me already or from us already? or from us already, but I can't stop doing it. Eight innings pitched zero walks, 12 strikeouts for Zach Wheeler against a division opponent, against the Braves, only allowed four hits, and he's having himself just a hell of a year. I mean, that's a hell of a line. He battled Ion Anderson, who also only allowed four hits, but only went seven.

innings and did walk one person, but I mean, 12 strikeout, zero walks. I kind of wish I was tuning in for this whole start to see, like, each at bat from start to finish because he must have been on one. I don't even know. And he had back-to-back games where he allowed earned runs, three earned runs to the raise and then two run runs to the Nats. So I think he was like, I got to write the ship here, even though it wasn't even that bad.

Zach Wheeler's playing some good pitcher. Talked about it in the midweek. Talked about it in the midweek app. All the analytics support him. He was one of the player that was most in line with his statistics. And he's number two in war this year. I'm sure wherever you get your war, that might jumble a little bit. But Brandon Woodruff, Zach Wheeler.

So wheels up in Philly, babe. Yeah. Yeah. When they signed him, people were saying, oh, they took the bait there. You know, Zach Wheeler's not going to give him what they wanted. he's been excellent for Philadelphia. So I love when that shit happens. Proving everybody wrong, baby.

Every day of Jake's life. Mm-hmm. That's a great compliment. I'm up next? Yeah, you're up next. Okay. My standout performance is my short king, not 511, probably more like 5.9.

Tyler O'Neill, 3 for 4, 2 homers, 3 RBIs. The guy does it all. I always forget that he wants. a gold globe. And he's been showing that off. He's been really good in the outfield. He's had a hit in 15 of his last 16 games, guys. Say that again? Some good John Boy stuff right there.

That's the stuff he likes. 15 hits out of his last 16, or 15 games out of his last 16, he's had a hit. Raising his batting average to 291. I do like that day in, day out. It's not three good games in a 10 game stretch to get the numbers up. It's every day he's contributing.

Yeah. He's been a guy. Like, he can kind of do it all on the baseball field, and boy, does he look good in a uniform. And I like that about him. And he's Canadian. Got to love those Canucks. Is that what he call him Canucks?

Sometimes. You see his last 16 games stats? Fuck. He's good. He's doing it. 383 batting average 422 on base, last 16 games, 64 played appearances. Hell yeah.

His batting average right now is as high as it's ever been. looking back like, oh, did he go like two for four on the first day of the season? And his batting average is $5.00? Nope, we want one for four. So it's $2.50. And it's at $2.91 now. It's the highest. It's been all dang season. Since June 5th. Getting hot. Love it. Big prospect. Looks like it's panning out. I love that. Doesn't always click instantly for guys, Trev. Look at me. Proving them wrong every single day.

He's almost 26. He's got a lot of time left to develop into like a ball or a baller. guy guy me and Tyler both fire hydrants with arms is what people are saying still making a league minimum this year weird sport it's a great one trev it is a great one jake who's your standout performance i'm going with a king i'm going with a daddy king kind of an underrated daddy king uh i'm going with crawdaddy brandon crawford your shortstop for your san francisco giants he has a two homer He also becomes the San Francisco giant with the most games played at shortstop. I mean, this guy... Really?

Yes. In the history of San Francisco? Yes. Okay. Okay. Not... How's your casual 2.4 war this year, age 34 season? And man, this guy, you know, I just Googled his name to see what would pop up.

And there's a couple San Francisco blogs that are like, is Brandon Crawford all? Hall of Famer, and I think if you run into the analytics or the too proud baseball crew, you're going to be in for a bad time there. When we open our Hall of Baseball, Brandon Crawford's in there, 34 years old. He's got 26.6.6 career war, three-time Gold Glove, two-time All-Star, two-time World Series. He's got a silver slugger in the bad, and by the way, right now he's having his best year. 262 batting average, 9-12 OPS. This is from a slick hit. slick fielding shortstop.

He's a big part of the giant success this year. Longo goes down. Other guys have been hurt. Crawdady is out there, babe. And it's a contract year for him, so he might even get a little more paid paid as he winds down. Already got $80 million in the bank. Why don't we get a little more of a payday?

Brandon Crawford, my dude. I love it. James. Don't look at his page. He's led the league in one category. in his careers in 2016, I need you to guess what category. Offensive? Offensive. I asked you for a reason.

Oh. Sack Bunce. Triples, baby. I was going to say triples. No. I was going to say triples. You asked me for a reason. You love triples.

I was thinking like what I got asked to do as a baseball player. Trust your heart. Oh. You love triples. 11 and 2016 led them. league. He's got two 10 triple seasons. BPD, I'm going to send you what I have on the big screen here. And I don't

think that these two look alike, but I think they're clearly it's the same style on two different faces. If you went clean cuts, these guys wouldn't look at like at all, but they have the same exact facial hair going, which and hair. I'm going to send it. BPD's going to put it on the screen

because one of these guys you say is hot, Trev. I just slacked it to you, BPD. Does Crawford count as like daddy hot, Trev. I mean, 34, he's got a good amount of money in the bank. It's the same, like, hair and beard, but on different faces. Yeah. So it's a good, you know, like you see someone else wearing a style and you're like, would that look good on me?

It's kind of like Leiv Schreiber and myself, but if we had the same hair. Isn't it just live? Is it Leav. That's Liv Tyler. Oh. Yeah, Leaves Schreiber. Leave, Leav. Yeah. Bidi's trying. It's, um, your dude McCullors and Crawford.

I think they're both good-looking guys. They're like, kind of have that like dirty bad boy, like probably has a motorcycle. Like, not like the best. Not like the best guy to bring home to mom. Like, yeah. Only wears white shirts and jeans. Crawford could be like a little bit more of the Haggard older brother vibe. Oh, he's got bad.

I've seen his style. He could play that. Yeah. He could. He could play the... He's from the Bay. The older brother in the movie that, like, had it all, and then it fell apart. The Bay kind of brides itself on being different style-wise.

You know, he has two seasons with the double digits, doubles, triples homers. I really like that. I wonder how often that happens. And I'd love to see, you know, we did this with Brandon Belt. One episode was seeing if he played... It's on the screen now. If Brandon Bell had played his... his whole career at Yankee Stadium.

How many extra homers would he had? And it was like two extra a season, which... I think it was like three or five extra season. Nothing to scoff at. I mean, Brandon Crawford, another lefty with some pole to him. You wonder what the stats look like. I mean, I think the war numbers disagree a little bit. I would love to do when it's all said and done,

Brandon Crawford versus Andrelton Simmons. Because I think war because of young Simba's special ability on defense, he's racked up more points there. I think you can make an argument. E Crawford. Hell of a career. Like him. Yeah, just say that.

Just say he's had a great career. We don't need to compare these guys. Let's compare guys. All right. Who's dating who's sister? Crawford is dating. No, someone's... Garrett Cole is married to Crawford's sister.

Cole is married to Amy Crawford. Now Cole. Our friend Ken. That was his fun fact. every time you ever... No, that was a different connection. That was... He just loves any wife.

Kevin Love. He loves Matt Liner. Liner. And Blake Griffin. That's the one. Yeah. Same baby mama, I think. Okay, guys.

It's time to say goodbye to Trev real quick. What are we looking at? Crawford. Most handsome ugly guy. Just a good line. Well, I think he would clean up nice. I think Treb's saying the style that both these guys do is like, I'm going to dirty myself up a little bit.

Yeah. A little grunge. Yeah. It's like the wet, curly hair look. Those guys, similar beards. Yeah, those guys go to coffee shops in Seattle with like. We grow John's hair out a little bit. You're part of the club.

Tren the beard? I don't get like wet or curly. We can do that. Sure, you don't get you way. Come on now. Treve, see you later. Where am I going? Trump Watch.

All right, we had six guys on from last episode. So it's more than we like We have five potential ads BVD, who are the potential additions? The guys, it's a bunch of guys that we don't like to see in this section. Reese Hoskins, he's 0 for 13 last series. Austin Meadows is 0 for 9, 2 walks, 7 strikeouts.

Eddie Escobar O for 7, 3Ks, and a walk. Sean Murphy, 04 6, an RBI mixed in there, two walks. And Dylan Carlson's 0 for 9 with 4Ks. Man. Okay. Good news is Ardard Yermine Mercedes. He was on Slump Watch.

He went three for eight with a double. He's off. He also had two walks, so I'm very happy for him. Get hot again, Yermine. Your numbers came down a little bit. Get hot. Zanino, he went one for two with three walks. A catcher, so he doesn't play every game, but they also only played two games.

He's off. Racket. Rizzo, four for ten. Only guy in that series to get four hits, two doubles. Four RBI is a hit by pitch, which is what he does. So he's off. Wow. We did great, dude. Yep.

Yep. Freight train, Peralta. They only played two games, right? He went one for three with a walk, so I'm still taking him off. Yeah. Whatever. He's hot. He's thinking about it.

All right, so let's pause there. We're definitely... C-Dick's gone. He had a great series, yeah. Three for 11? Okay. Two walks. Extra base hits, a triple bubble.

He's gone. Reese Hoskins is an ad. We like our boy, Reese. So look what we're doing for people. Automatic. They find out that they're on slump watch. are like, shit, I better not have another bad series because then I'll be slumping.

You're going to be off. They're watching. I'm going to put our dude meds on there. Yep. Because I like Austin Meadows. And, hey. He's having a great year. Yeah.

Hey, Meadows, alley's always open. Yeah. Get ready. All the Yankee killers. Not the funk. Are getting invited to the alley. Don't the funk. You want to do Eduardo Escobar?

Yeah, I mean, Eduardo Escobar, this, I think, would be his third time on slump watch. And I think every time it's been shame to flame. So I think we found out, and this is part of why we did this as a segment, I think Eduardo Escobar is one of the streaker players in baseball, and could be a potential trade deadline guy, so I'm interested in that. I think he's one of the guys that, like, when he hits it, he hits it. And that's why I want to keep Schwerber on.

I'm with you on that. He went one for six or two walks, but because he's a trade deadline option for some people, as the Nats continue to lose, I'd like to track him for one more time, if you're cool with it. I'm fine with that, and that leaves Sean Murphy and Dylan Carlson. and I want to leave Murph. It's an 0 for 6. I mean, we've all been there.

He's got a couple walks too. Dylan Carlson, 0 for 9, 4Ks, while his outfield mate, Tyler O'Neill, is figuring it out. And those were their two young stud outfielers coming into this season. We thought Carlson would be the switch hitter in the middle of the lineup and Tyler O'Neill.

Is Carlson having a bad season? Because I'm more, I think Carlson fits slump more than this because there's more on the line. And he went 0 for 9 with no. walks. You know, Sean Murphy did have two walks. Yeah, that's where, I mean, Sean Murphy doesn't deserve to be on this list. Oh, so you want Carlson on Slump Watch? Yes. Oh, we fully agree then.

Oh, all right. I heard you as like, you wanted Murphy and not Carlson. I don't know why. So yeah, Carlson, it is. Bam. Bang biscuit. Hoskins, Meadows, Eddie Escobar, Schwabow and Dylan Carlson. Eat, Treve. Good shit. Eat him. Good shit. Trev, welcome back. Sorry you had to listen to all that. but, you know. Not 100% sure we've got Trev back yet.

Imagine if he, you know, disconnected. Internet's been battling me. Yeah. Oh, yeah, I don't have Internet. It'd be funny if he's gone now because we don't have Internet. Did he text us? That'd be how it works. He's trying to join here he is.

Okay. All right. All right. Just the whole segment? Yes, sir. Is that your dream? Awesome. Do you want to know?

Hey, Treve, here's the good news. We had six guys on last week. five of them worked their way off. So do you see what we're doing for guys? You know, I got to say this. I hate when um, podcasters say like podcast rub or podcast luck.

So I don't want to start with that. Well, well, we have two, uh, motivating. We have two, we have two friends of the podcast that are on slump watch, Hoskins and Meadows.

So we're hoping that happens, but it's not going to be because we put them on slump watch. They're going to be off. Trevor. We're, we can't. do this again. Unless they're listening.

The next segment. The next segment is. Dirt Nasty's on Fuego. That means I'm on fire, baby, like Waco. Pete Alonzo, five for nine with three. Home runs. Get them, Pete. Max Stassy, seven for 12.

That's a 583 BA with two homers and two doubles. Hot. Starly. Marte. Well, trade watch bait, maybe. 11 for 17. He popped a homer and a double, a walk, and a hit-by-pitch. Also grabbed himself two backs. So did it with the feet and the arms. Stanton, six for 15 with three homers off Dobnack and Hap, which tough pitches. The pitches he hit. He needs the rest now. He's tired. See on Tuesday. He's pinch hitting this week. I got him in there. Robbie Grossman, 6 for 13 with two homers and two doubles.

Und Othuhar. Third baseman now left fielder for the Yankees. Runner up in a rookie of the year in 2018, hasn't performed since then, is doing it. His last 15 days and stuff are good for Rand Duhar, so good job. Alex Bregman got shit-talked by that little punk kid, but had himself a hell of a series.

Six for 13, home run, two doubles. If we have any little kids, listen, that want to do that stuff. If my opinion matters to you at all, I'd say don't. I thought I felt bad for Bregman in that moment. He's being really nice to fan. He's being really nice to fans.

A fan called him over and like asked for a selfie. And Bregman really nicely walked over for a selfie. And then he says, yeah, right. I don't want a selfie with you, cheater. And then like go bang another cat trash can. There was a bad word or two in there, I think. Bregman handled it well. He just kind of smiled.

He kind of moved on. chanting from your seat as they play, but I don't know. It just felt like, geez, that's... Your young... It's bound to happen. It will happen. A lot of people don't care, in my opinion.

But if someone did, I'd say, like, leave them alone a little bit, like on a personal level. You want to chant stuff from the stands. That's fine, but he was being real nice. Zander Bogart, 6 for 14 with the Homer and a double. Jazz Chisholm, 7 for 18. Homer, double. And Enrique Hernandez.

went six or 14 with three doubles. I mean, everyone was hitting in Boston. Everyone was sitting in Boston. Love that. Yeah. Boom. Stan was locked in. That was really fun to watch at a certain point.

And, you know, I know this is Yankee stuff. Miguel Andrew, are kind of cool. Had that awesome 2018 season. Had a couple injuries, never got full run. Because of these Yankees not hitting, he's gotten run. And it looks really good. He's a fun guy. Good guy to like.

Big smile. Has fun. and when he is barreling balls, it's like a pretty, it's a pretty baseball image. So, well, Yankees update there. Bada bada boom. Moving on to award.

To the, what? Say, huh. Oh, yeah. I'm going to keep mine quick because we're running a little longer than usual, and I'm going to go first, and I'm going to give the Happy Tears Award. And if this becomes my ring, repeat segment and I just tell everyone about the happiest tears of the week or weekend.

I will do that. I'm fine with it, but I made the breakdown on Luke Williams going from, you know, lighting up AAA to Team USA to his first series against the Braves. His parents are in the crowd. His dad's in the crowd. He gets the walk off home run. His first home run. His first, his bunt single was exciting.

The breakdown, it takes me like two hour to make it. I got chills and like watery eyes the entire time, just watching his parents and his parents get interviewed. And, you know, his bunt single, his brother, I didn't really highlight this. His bunt single, his brother takes his jersey, his hat and his shirt off immediately and starts whipping around celebrating in that fashion, which is like fun. The walk off home run, the brother is almost like at a loss for words and not celebrating in the state of like emotional shock where he's just kind of. of doing that like a whole time. I didn't really highlight that because I didn't know how, but that was cool to see the difference

than the brother hug on the field. So if you haven't seen the breakdown or the highlights or his story, like go go check those out. But it is even, man, I think it's the pandemic shit and not having fans forever. There's a little kids in the outfield when he hits that home run. And they're just going fucking nuts, dude.

Like so many people being, overcome with the same joy at the same time gives me chills, even though I don't care about the Phillies or them beating the Braves. It's a really, really fun vibe, even that Arkansas, the College World Series stuff too. But, you know, I wake up early and I start making those breakdowns. I'm an emotional state sometimes. So the happy tears goes to Luke Williams. I like that.

That's a cool story, man. You're not feeling some goosebumps, some tears. Go get, go to your doctor. Yeah. I like everyone supporting him, too. It wasn't just like his family. It's like all the players that play with him on Team USA. Like everyone in the minor leagues that played with him.

Like you know he's a well-like guy because they're all just very happy for him. It's cool. Yeah. Harper, Reese. Narris went like chemical lab on his eyes. You know, like he touched something and he had to squeeze the waters right into his eyes. That was the only part. Like, man, that guy sucks.

All right. Trev, you're up next? I'm going to King Baseball Okay Obviously Do we have like Like is there Lord of the Rings

Royalty frame music We can start playing behind this When you do it No don't do game of phones Stop Let me finish man Quack Quack

This is the at first light On the fifth day At dawn Look to the East Award Oh that is a good scene Yeah Stop No no no

I'm not You said it's like the best scene in the movie you're right that was genuine it's a great it's a great scene so you know to go into it a little bit the battle for Helms deep seems all but lost the I've taken the keep Theoden and Legolas and Gimli and Aragorn in the back

and they've basically given up and then they ride out and they say you know what let's give one last stand and Aragorn the whole time is remembering what Gandalf said that first slide on the fifth they had Don looked to the east they ride out they meet the Uriqai they're all

riding their horses and then boom a bright white light comes from the top of the hill it's gandolph riding shadow facts with the roherom the riders of rohan riders of rohan i don't know nothing man yeah they ride down the hill they ride down the hill the ira kai are ready to battle they have their spears out then gandolph shines the bright light they can't see boom they go in they end of uh taking the battle back in this scenario gandolph would be trevor story and the writers of rohan will be his game he is coming to help somebody out that's in the murky waters of the season we talked about it a little bit this morning on the chris rose ig live show i named two we named two teams who he could help out and these are kind of two really

fun teams and i want to see what you guys think i said the oakland days and i know it's on elvis andrews at the beginning of the season he has not gotten it done but an infield with Matt Chapman, Matt Olson, Trevor Story, and even our guy Jed Lowry is a hell of an infield, and I think Trevor Story puts them over the top there, and they got the Astros there. They're battling for that division. The other one who Chris Rose brought in was the Tampa Bay raise. Just got rid of Adomis. We know Wander Franco's there, AAA.

Slide him over to second base for the second half of the season, bring in Trevor Story on a rental piece. you know, they're leading the AL East right now, but we know it's going to be a tough battle there. I think Trevor Story helps both these teams immensely. He helps any team, but I really like to see him go to one of those two teams because it would be a lot of fun. Beautiful.

I really, there's sometimes right, I think I go, you know, there's that Ted Lassow scene where someone says a sentence to him when he first gets to England and he turns to his assistant coach just like, I went one for five in that sentence. And he just doesn't know any of the words. It's confusing, man

But I'm so happy that you do it The raise don't make trades like that The A's kind of do if the money gets Gets lower I agree that fun and fit Have expendable prospects Fun and fit work But he still owed decent money

For the remainder of the season So I like the A's But they've done rentals before Yeah The raise I think they're too into themselves. It's not that expensive. It's not that expensive, man.

What is it? Ten mail? I think it's less than that. I mean, by the time you get to the trade deadline and you do that kind of stuff, it gets lower. And if the Rockies can eat a little bit, especially if you offer more prospect capital, which they ate a chunk of Aeronado. So it's going to be interesting. My heart tells me the story team isn't out there yet.

I think it's going to have to be injury, because I just don't think Oakland has that in the tank this year. And Tampa's never done it, so it's just unprecedented. You know, whatever their formula is, it doesn't say, like, make that nuclear move. But I don't know. I'm excited. You want to get eyeballs off the stadium story in Oakland, moving the team? You bring in Trevor Story and say, we're fucking going for it.

Balls out. I think the owner wants the eyes on that story because he wants them to buy a stadium for him. God, where's Trevor going to go? Go to the Angels. Like, let's fuck around. Like, let's just do it. Yeah, they need more hitting. Yeah.

You know what's going to happen? Be a good angel. You know what's going to happen? It's going to do the same thing with Oderizzi. The angels are going to have a deal in place for Trevor Story, and they're going to be really excited about it. And then another team's shortstop is going to get injured, and they're just going to outbid the angels at the last second.

I like that. I like that. Jake, what are you drinking out of? Is that your daughter's tea set? Nice. I don't like these cups, but they're perfect size for the espresso machine. Okay. Looks small.

These would be perfect for Jake's comically... Can you drink out of that with just your pinky through the finger hole? I am giving out the Battle of Hornberg Award. on this episode of Tolkien baseball, a very similar relationship to what me and Trev have. Gimli, son of Gloin, and Legolas, son of Thranduiel, they also have that kind of back and forth,

that mutual respect and brotherly love while also taking shots at each other. And Jim, something fun they do. Maybe a couple actual scenes you would like from this movie is when they go into battle, they have kill competitions, and when they do kill, they count them off as they go.

So they'll be like, three, four, and they start firing them off. They kill like a big guy, and I think Gimley lives, that should count us. You know, that's only one kill. Not into it.

Those scenes are really good. And we, yeah, but it's the orcs. It's the bad guy. So in Hornberg, you know, they do that. We see that in a couple other fight scenes. And, you know, there's guys that didn't get a mention in this episode,

and they are going back and forth. Their brothers are righty and a lefty. Don't make Olivia Wormy. She is an Egyptian princess. Two guys whose names didn't get said this episode, and we do talk about them a lot, but you can't talk about them enough. There's three guys with OPSs that are one dot right now.

One is Vladito. The other two come from those Cincinnati Reds. is Nick Castellanos and Jesse Winker. And it's not like it's a 1.001, 1.057 for Winker, 1.038 for Castellanos. Man, these guys are having very special years. We talked about it on the all-jamboy team and Ronnie's name and defense stands out a little more. But what these guys are doing in this season where the story has been guys aren't hitting

and pitchers are cheating. Holy smokes, they both have 413 on base. The numbers are incredible, and I don't know. Are there going to be trade rumors with either of those guys? The Reds would have to fall out a lot, but boy, could you cash in on some chips, Poppy? So yeah, I think those guys are going toe to toe all year. I'm interested to see who ends the season with the most kills. You know, Gimli says he gets one more kill than leg loss.

There's some rumors in the different Lord of the Rings forums that Legolas has more kills, but because they're friends, he lets Gimley walk away. I was going to say, Legos is a stand-up dude. With the fact that he might have one more kill. But people have bucked that because lying in Tolkien's world is so frowned upon that if that were allowed that there's some other quotes going back in some of the other stories. And, you know, the books depict Gimley as a much better character. You know, the movies sometimes they make Gimley the punchline.

Uh-huh. So, yeah, I thought it was the perfect award. Yeah. And being a book guy, you kind of go one way. Can I say the chat cracked me up right before he started? Because Amy came in and said, are these pre-recorded? And then Pat just straight up lied to her and said yes. Yeah.

And then she said, okay. Yeah. Just a straight-up lie. Just a straight-up lie. And now Amy's there thinking, oh, they're pre-recorded. Oh. I didn't. Like, Amy didn't know Pat was a liar.

Yeah. it's how easy it is Pat Laflam I like it I like the battle Castellanos Winker Winkers his swing is nice He's moving up in my sweet swings

In baseball We might be chatting with him soon Feaser Should and then speaking of that Everyone who hasn't watched The Castellanos interview with Rose rotation go check it out He's one of the best player

Award winning ever Yeah it should win some awards Do we win any awards Like we should be winning awards I want an award. I'm going to make an award up and just do it. Yeah. I think you're just paying people to give you an award.

Yeah. If awards work like how everything else is, you just pay a publicist to pay someone else to give you an award. If someone wanted to make Tolkien baseball graphics with like me, Jake, me, and BBD as like Lord of the Rings characters, I wouldn't be mad at that. Why it would be without the G? Is there usually a G?

how's it spelled nochi right I know we just have to change it'll be Talkeen baseball yeah tall keen baseball yeah we'll all be different characters I'm Eragorn if you're gonna do that I'm Eragorn let's see we'll see what happens Who's the best friend of the week

BPD best friend of the week is Walker Bueller 7 shot E 2Ks that's fun two hits and a walk okay Walker He also said screw your sticky stuff allegations I'm going to go out there and shove. Do you have Jim as Boromir if we do that shirt?

I have Jim as Gandalf. Ooh, okay. I like that. Which is, I'm pretty jealous because Shadowfax is like the dopest thing, and you have Shadowfax. One for five there. I don't think you were. He's like, he's like this big white horse.

Which one is Gandalf? Oh, he has to do is with. Shall not pass. That's Lord of the Rings? Yeah. I would have said forgetting Sarah Marshall. Sarah Marshall, yeah. He's doing Lord of the Rings in that scene?

Yes. I had zero idea. Yeah. I thought that was, I thought that was him just going crazy in his apartment. I feel like we got a lot of gimlies in this panel right here. No offense. Whoa.

All right. Elevila talk. Elevator talk. It's time for elevator talk. If you get in an elevator and there's a person standing next to you and they're wearing a hat of this team. here's some fodder The St. Louis Cardinals. Wow.

Wow. Wow. Wow. Wow. Wow. Wow. Treb, any update from Jayflair? I saw he's probably out through the All-Star break is what I saw most recently.

I've been checking in randomly with him, seeing how he's feeling. I mean, in the early days of this, he's like, man, it really, it hurts. That's true. You don't realize how much you need that oblique muscle to be intact. because every single thing you do you're going to feel it. So I think he's kind of in the healing stages of it now, resting, doing all that. But he'll be back. Like that guy is mama mentality, man.

That's what he does. Oh, I have a little tidbit. Can I just do a little tidbit? Trevor Rosenthal was DMing me about Yadi and Wayno and how they communicate. And he said, you know, Yadi called for a, went through all the pitches and Wayno was shaking them off. And then I didn't watch it. I wanted to watch it.

He said, then Yadi motion. for him like curve he's swinging so way no through it and then the next pitch because they had a little bickering there about all the pitches and yadi won he said the next pitch yaddy just didn't give a sign and trevor rosenthal said like that's the scariest thing yaddi will do that to you a lot and he'll just say throw it and uh you just don't know if like you're supposed to throw what you want or you're supposed to throw what this is my interpretation you don't know if you're supposed to throw what you want or you don't know if you're supposed to throw what you know yadi wants and uh he was talking to me about that. So you can share that tidbit with the Cardinals

Guy on the elevator. I love that. That's a deep card's cut. That's what I've been saying for years. Catchers shouldn't be able to flash signs. Pitchers just got to throw it. React, babe. That would suck. Who's hotter? Harrison, Bader or Tyler O'Neill. Okay. And this will be the final thing you can say in the elevator. I'm racing for pictures. Nolan Aeronado, by the way, 842 OPS, 136 OPS plus. Looks like you can hit a little bit outside of course. My internet's down. Harrison Bader isn't doing himself well from my memory of him.

He looks like 80s aerobics workout guy that teaches like old women at a beach club. Harry's almost doing a little too much. I think he's naturally a little hotter. I think naturally, yes, but he's trying to do a little too much. He's getting in on the other stuff. Tommy Edmund racking up war. Whoa! Chicks-sox.

Come on. Come on. What's in the box? What's in the box? I know. All bitch? A lot of Gimley's running around this way. That was just Jake in the shower.

That was just Jake talking to himself in the shower. Gala. Please someone caricature me as Eric Gorman.