Talkin' Baseball (MLB Podcast) - 355 | The First Sticky Ejection, Cardinals Slide, + Mariners & Tigers are Good?

Episode Date: June 28, 2021

Timestamps: 3:25 - Bone Stimulator 7:00 - NL Recap 13:00 - Brewers 17:00 - Cardinals 19:00 - NL East 23:45 - NL West 29:45 - AL Recap 34:45 - Mariners are Fun 38:30 - Red Sox 41:15 - Twins 47:00 - Angels 51:30 - Blue Jays 55:30 - IL Recap 1:03:15 - Standout Performances 1:17:30 - En Fuego 1:23:15 - Awards 1:28:15 - Kershaw 1:33:40 - Vladdy Jr. 1:38:15 - Elevator Talk: Pittsburgh Pirates Presented by DraftKings Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

Hello and welcome to talking baseball. The Mariners, the Tigers, they're the best in the business. Brewers put some distance in their division as well. Let's talk all about it. Hello and welcome to talking baseball, brought to you by Draft Kings. Thank you for tuning in as we recap the weekend that was in Major League Baseball. My name is Jimmy. His name is Jake Trevor in California and BBD behind the desk.

Wow, just in time. And this episode, our most recent, our newest patrons, we have Ryan, James Whittaker, William Hurtley, Douglas Roberts, L'Durob, Adam Kleinboard, Dan Wozniak, and this is a special one, Trev, Nina Bamarito. Do you know who Nina is, Trev? Is Nina the Tolkien baseball artist, Nina? And Robot Trev. And, oh, yeah, I forgot about Robot Trev. Yes. Thank you very much for our newest patrons.

We appreciate you guys very much. Jake, how are you doing? And when you're done, ask Trev how he's doing. James, James Trevor. Maybe I'll SBBD. No. Who knows? We'll see.

I have to sneeze. This is terrible timing. I'm doing all right, man. You know, our yanks got whooped on by them Boston Red Sox. How's your 6 and O socks to get it going? And then, yeah, we poked our heads in the stand and shout out Los Tigres. Don't sleep on them. Don't sleep on them.

That's what our guy Ray said. Currently third in the AL Central. Man, baseball hot in the streets. I don't know what else to say. I'm so excited for Otani to come to New York this week. he, by the way, put on another exhibition over this weekend. What a nut job. And man, a lot of big names did a lot of big things over this weekend.

So I'm excited to talk about it, Trev. What is wrong with you? Why are you like this? Bad brain. Some people have bad knees, bad shoulders. I have a bad brain. I missed you guys over the weekend. We FaceTime quite a bit, as we always do.

But, you know, it's starting to heat up over here. I don't have my sweatshirt on. have my Cole Tucker Sequint shirt on though? He's a hot boy. Great weekend. I want to give a shout out to Liam Fox, my guy, young ball player that I

met over the weekend who's having some medical issues. I told him I'd give him a shout out on the pod. I want everyone to wish him well. Send those good vibes to Liam. But yeah, I'm excited to talk about the games that were. I have the

NL. It's a big recap for me today. but people like that. And I like leading off. So I'm ready to go whenever the time is called. Okay. Can I ask you a question before we do that? You ever worn a bone stimulator? Bone stimulator.

Yes. You have? Yes. Was it cool? It's not cool or it's not opposite of cool. It just is. Okay. Okay.

Yeah. All right. Shout out glass now. Bone stimulator. A lot of bone. Bone stimulator. He can't say the word bone without getting his sexy voice on. That's what I texted Cole Tucker.

It's like your dude Glass can't say bone without going sexy on us. Colson, like, what a freak. Did you see that, Trev? Do you see that video of him saying that on the Chris Roe Show? I did, yeah. Yeah, because you guys clipped it and made it very sexual. It was sexual to begin with, but then you guys up that level of sexuality very much. He posted on his own Instagram.

Have a little bit of an update for you guys. Hey, shout out Liam Fox. Get better young fella. Shout out. And, you know, bone stimulator. I'll find the clip. Glass gave the follow on IG this weekend, and it's not a big deal. So, whoops.

Whoops. Goodbye, Jess. How do you find that out? She's going to him. It shows. If I, well, no, but I don't look at those. I don't have a mind. I kind of hope he doesn't follow, Jim.

He follows me. He follows you, Jake. He's got it. He's probably given John the following. John made the bone stimulator clip. You noticed it? He did the bones. Because I followed him for the first time.

Oh. Like a week ago. A lot of tired of glass now. Hot. Nice. Follows me too. Cora. I don't know how to check that.

I don't look at Instagram that much. You don't know how to check? Well, like, it says that I'm following. That says that I'm following him. But it doesn't. If I unfollow him. followers. I got it. I got it.

I'm going to unfollow him. Don't just click who he's following. Your name should be the top. But then I'll say follow back. Yeah, but then I'll follow him right back. No, no, man. He'll get that notification. I think that's my name at the top of that. Yeah. Yeah. BPD found

it. Part of the family. Yeah. Wow. Good job. Zendino the great. You are a sick puppy in the chat. My goodness. God, Zendino's hot. What's speaking of hot. Baseball. Spreeze. Sticky.

Yeah, I wanted to, because there's probably some people that haven't heard that audio. Covered in rosin, right? Baseball. No. Apparently they say it does something. I don't think... Hold on, you did say bone stimulator, right? I just want to clear that out. Bone stimulator.

Yeah. Bone stimulator. They looked and it was like tendon related, obviously, but he said it also could have been related to, like, signal in my bone, apparently, like, it tugging on the bone or something. So he's like, I saw something in your bone, and we should give you a bone stimulator. while you rehab and I said sure thing doc I'll throw it on so I'm out here stimulating my bones and just letting it heal bone stimulator yeah man it's good stuff a lot of people that want to be his bone stimulator you know what I'm saying yeah yeah people Jake used to have a bone stimulator bone stimulator yeah his right hand that's his bone stimulator um he actually uses that too far

those thick jc penny catalogs go to the swimsuit section it's a well-known fact Jake uses both hands Let's go to the National League. Left hand plays free safety. Which Trevor is. Here you go, Trev. What happened in the National League? Can you tell us what the hell happened? Start out in Los Angeles.

The Cubbies came into town hot. No hit the Dodgers in the first game of the series, but then they lost the next three. Dodgers take three out of four. 4-0 Cubs. Then it was 6-2 Dodgers, 3-2 Dodgers, 7-1 Dodgers. In game 3, Belly with the lockoff. Jimmy Jack.

Rizzo exits Sunday with left, lower back tightness, and bad news for the Dodgers. Seeger no longer has a timetable for his return after lingering soreness emerges in his right hand. Oh my goodness, what a segue. I love that. Dodgers take three out of four against the Cubbies. Moving on to New York. Is it Flushings or Flushing? I don't know.

Phillies come into town. They split the series. We don't like series splits. It went two-one met. Two-one Phillies, four three Mets, four two Phillies. It was a close series all weekend long. Both offenses struggled. The pitchers did great.

Pilar with two homers, Alonzo with six hits. Each Philly starting pitcher goes at least five innings pitch, and the only starting pitcher to give up an earned run is Led Zeflin. We either go seven shuddy after only lasting three innings in his last start. Harper did exit the game Saturday and sit Sunday after getting hit in the leg by Jacob Degro. Phillies and Met split the series. Two-two. Moving on to Milwaukee.

This is what we love, the Brewers sweep. Why aren't we talking more about the Brewers? What are they doing out there? I don't understand it. Five-four Brewers. Adomas with a game-tying Homer in the ninth inning of game one. Then hear a walk-off sack fly in the 11th. They take it 5-4, 10-4-5-0.

They are doing it. Seven of the eight Rockies relievers to appear in the series, give up and earn run. That is not good, Jake. your rocks. What are they doing? Brewers sweep a three-game set. Moving on to Cincinnati. We don't like this either. Braves came into town. They split the series. Five three reds. Three-two Braves, four-one Reds before four-nothing Braves in the finale. Starting pitchers did really well in this series. 279. ERA for the Braves. 28-8 for the Reds. Castiano's. He's the man.

Six hits in the series with a Homer and three extra base hits. Castillo, go seven Shuddy in game 3-196 ERA in his last six starts. That's what they need. Six different Braves hit homers. Acuna, Freeman, and Albies all hit one. And they also had two doubles apiece. Bad, bad news. Soroka re-tears his Achilles and will miss the whole season.

That's bad. Freed, coming back on Wednesday. That's good. They split the series in Cincinnati. Moving on to Florida. The Miami Marlins? Are the Miami Marlins? I don't know what they are.

They split the series of the National. 7-3 Nationals, 11-2 Marlins, 3-2 Marlins, 5-1 Nationals. Neither the teams hit really well, which means they pitch pretty good. John Bertie, six hits in a homer. Jazz Chisholm, a homer and two triples. I know you love that, Jim. McGee Rojas hits his first homer since returning, let's go. And of course, the Schwarbo.

Three homers and five RBIs, nine homers and 16 RBIs in his last eight damn games. They split the series two, two. Moving on to St. Louis. The Cardinals stink, apparently, everybody. They stink. The Pirates came into town and took three out of four from them. Eight two pirates, five, four pirates, three-one Cardinals, and finally seven, two pirates. The Pirates hit the crap out of the ball.

The Cardinals did not. The Pirates starting pitchers pitched well. The Cardinals did not. That's how you take three or four people. Fraser and Reynolds, seven hits in a home run each. The Cardinals have lost 11 of their last 12 games against NL Central teams and are 15 and 27 in the last 40. two games. Holy crap. Pirates take three or four. And the last series, Padres take two or three from the D-backs. The D-backs got off the slide because of Eddie Escobar. Both offenses were great. The

series won 11-5 Padres. 10-1 D-backs, five, four Padres. Both offenses are great, like I said. The starting pitchers for the Padres, not very good. Tatis. First career, three, Homer game and Game One. Fam has two homers and won his lawsuit against the strivers. Club. Let's go Tommy fan. Let's go. Let's go. Marte exit Saturday and sits Sunday. He'll go to get an MRI on Monday. And the debacks are shopping our guy Eddie Escobar. Apparently he's going to the White Sox. That's what Nightingale said. That's what happened in the NL. Nightingale said he's going to the White Sox? Tweeted it, then deleted it. Like in the middle of a tweet, he was like, Eddie Escobar did really good this game. And yeah, he's going to the White Sox. And then

he did something else in the game. Like, it was. wasn't even like a tweet about getting traded Jim. It was like a tweet about him being good. And oh yeah, he's going to the White Sox. So, okay. Now, if that tweet was to stay up, you'd put a lot of money on him not going to the White Sox. I think it's still up. Oh, okay. I think I'm looking at it. Okay. Maybe there was a typo and he redid it. Okay, so he's not going to the White Sox? He's still on my Serpientes as of now. Can I read the John Heyman also did something. Is that true?

Which is those two guys together. Like, look out. Not real life. Tommy Fam winning the strip club. You know anyone that's ever been to that strip club? Yeah, I've been there many times. No way. Pacers, baby.

Well, he's also having a... Not many times. Hold on. Hold on. We're batch of the parties. You know, after a slow start, he's having a pretty solid run out. His last 15 games, kick an ass.

So good job Tommy Fam all around. Tommy Fan, low-key, on-base percentage came a little bit. He gets on, man. 4-46, last 15 games. Whoops. So the Brewers and the Cubs, this is the biggest difference in standings from the NL, is that the Cubs lose a bunch to the Dodgers and the Brewer sweep, so now the Brewers have a three-game lead.

That was a close race. I think were they tied last week? I think they were tied. They were tied. Cubs have been up a little bit, and we said that this Cubs' West Coast trip was going to be a big one. It was going to be like a trade deadline deciding trip for them. And, hey, Dodgers are tough, especially they got some guys back this series. And Al-Zalais, you know, caught some of that on Sunday night baseball.

He had his rough inning and that kind of ended the game. But, yeah, I mean, seeing the Brewers on top of the Central with a three-game lead after they sweep, formerly my rocks. Feels impactful. Yelly's getting it going that a, you know, a lot of people were hot to trot on the brewers after their good start. Chris Rose was all over it. Then they kind of came back to Earth.

They had the injury bug. Now if Yelie's going and who knows, you know, I think you might be able to, well, we'll see how it plays out. But if Yelie's going, Yelie's going. But man, those brew crew crew, they got the high-end talent. Everybody loves that. They make a little trade deadline splash. Like they're going to be, they're going to enter like contender category.

Not like, hey, this team is kind of stumbled, stumbled away in the NL Central. It's like, you don't want to play these dudes. They're good. I watch game one that went extras against the Rockies for the Brew Crew. And they were fired up, man. I mean, they were getting shut out in the 7th. Keston hits the home run. Then Wong hits, then Wong gets a home run to make it 4-0 to 4-2.

you're like, all right, but there's still only one in and go. And then Adamas, dude, he loves. Adamas hits the two-run, home run to tie it. And then Hayter and Williams both struck out the last batter they faced in extras. And they both went screaming into the dugout, like full emotion, like, ah, which just carried it. And then I think Keston comes up again and gets the job done. So that was a fun game. And then they won the next team with the brew crew.

Yeah. They don't have to hit the ball. I mean, they have some guys, like you said, there is some high-end talent there. But they don't have to, you know, score a ton of runs because their pitching staff is so damn good. And having Williams, I don't think he's having like a crazy good year like he did last year. I mean, look at his stats. Hater is though Hators Yeah exactly He's got a 3-3 But hey When you have those two guys And you know

If you have a lead You can just throw them out there And your lead's going to be safe That is so nice for a team It takes so much pressure Off the rest of the team Hater has been incredible 31 and two-thirds innings pitch

He's giving up two freaking earned runs That's a joke I mean that's the recipe for success Man if you can pitch the ball Like they can Not only starting But have the lights out relievers look out. Yeah, and shout out to Keston who went down to AAA. They sent him down

because he was struggling. And he absolutely dominated in AAA. Comes up, makes an immediate impact, has two home runs in his first four games coming back, coming back up to the B eggs. Urias, who is in that Trent Grisham trade, he's having a solid, like, okay year now. Yeah, if they can get one more hitter, I mean, this is a dangerous team. And Jill Hempel, who's like a top-tier John Boy Media fan in the chat was just like, I believe she's a Cubs fan. She was like, you put those two rotations on paper? I mean, you know, we've got the law firm Woodruff Burns Peralta and then Houser and Lauer doing their thing versus the Cubbies.

You know, the Cubbies have a bigger name lineup and are a better lineup, but the pitching aren't even in similar leagues. Hendricks has got it going, but not much else for the Cubby. So we'll see how the rest of their West Coast trip goes. staying in the Central Treve, you kind of said it. The Cardinals are a bad team now. They're eight games back.

They've just been losing. What's going on? I think that's my biggest mistake of the entire offseason was proclaiming them easy NL Central favorites. They have not looked at it, they have not looked the part

the entire dang year, to be honest with you. I don't really know what's going on, man. Obviously, there's a couple of guys, a couple key guys hurt. Bader's out, Flaherty's out, but I just can't win ball games. Can't win ball games, Jim. What was that stat I read off in their last

42 games? Let me get that back. I mean, they're 15 and 27 in their last 42 games. And their last 24 games, they've lost 19. So it's like a long run of being like bad, bad. Any Cardinals fans in the chat, if you want to sound off and tell us how bad it's been and why it's been so bad,

let us know. And shout out Chuck for giving us 50 bucks because he said I made him smile. I like that. How about that? Yeah. Reminder, you know your team better than we do. So like let us know what's going on. But Carts, what's going on? I think it's a- Jayflair, missing him?

Missing J-Flare. BV.D. and I were talking about a little bit this morning. Like the only guy who's like playing above his standard this year is Tyler O'Neill, kind of this year's young thick, fire hydrant thick. Everyone else, like, Aeronado is kind of like a baseline Aeronado season for him. Maybe he ticks up. Goldschmidt isn't where you want them to be. So I don't know.

I mean, this team, they need something in quick. And hopefully J. Flair can come back and maybe someone else sparks it. But they're in a bad place right now. And they just walk. The pitching staff walk. So many guys. They have the third least amount of wins against teams over 500. in MLB.

You got the Diamondbacks, obviously. The Nationals, which is maybe an interesting pivot point, and then the Cardinals. Nationals are 11 and 20 against teams over 500. So they've been kind of winning lately. Who are they beating? Who? The Nationals.

Well, Nats had that hot streak. They went 10 in 1. Yeah, I'm saying. Who was that against? Because their record against Pittsburgh. They beat the Mets. Three out of four. That's good.

And then they beat Phillies. So they split with Miami. Split with the Giants. Man, that does nothing for me. A Marlins Nats split. I wanted the Nats. Like, come on. We got on.

Just get going. Well, dude, that's the whole NL East right now. And I think the conversation there continues to be Go Mets go. Like good for you guys, 40 and 33. I think they average the least amount of runs in all of baseball. the Mets and they're still winning. Kind of a similar formula to the brewers right now. Pitch real good, get enough on offense, and yeah, they're still want more guys to get healthy

over there. I'm really interested to see, and Mets fans are going to hate this because most of them want to hate us anyways. They haven't really been, they haven't been punched in the mouth this year by a division opponent. They got swept by the Cubs when the Cubs got hot a little bit in Riggly, but they haven't been like swept by the Nats, Braves, or Phillies. and that's going to happen at some point, Mets fan.

And that's what I want to see how this team reacts because they're currently in that make-up game mode. And maybe they don't. Maybe the Mets roll a full 162 without that. But they've had a nice little cushion. And will there be a day when they give up that cushion? Maybe not. But when they do, I want to see how the Mets react

because they've had a little space for a while now. Imagine if they were average at scoring runs. So they allow on average the least amount of runs out of all 30 teams. Their pitching is, by that stat, the best in baseball. And when I say by that stat, I feel like I shouldn't even have to say that because allowing runs is what makes you good at pitching and defense.

So they're the best pitching and defensive team according to results so far this year. And they're tied for worst offensive. Scoring runs. Imagine if they were middle tier scoring runs. They'd be a juggernaut. Sounds like, Jake, what do they call that? projecting what just happened with the yanks onto the Mets.

Don't do that. They don't have to go get swept by their division rival. I never said the Y word. I never said the Y word and the Y words haven't been on top of the AL East at all. So no, it's a horrible comparison. We talked about this pre-show. We're not talking about them that much, okay? So stop doing it.

You brought it up, Doc? What do you want? You were implying. There was zero implication. I just think it's the way it's played out. You know, the Nats got back in it. We're excited. The Braves, my God, they keep looking for something and coming up short.

Phillies, I saw a lot of Phillies fans snap over the weekend. How have we had a decade long of ineptitude? I'm just interested to see. Mets, prove me wrong. Get those guys back. You want them to have a tough series? They haven't been, like, punched in the mouth this year by a division opponent. That's a good thing, right?

Yes, but I think over the course of 162, that will happen. Okay. Like the Phillies or Nats or Braves At some point, you know, we'll beat them up in a series, whether that's a sweep or three out of four or something like that. That's what I want to see how they respond. If that NL East lead drops down to a one and a half, which they haven't seen that on the board in a while.

So you just want them to get some adversity and see how they react. Yes. It's not like four games as some crazy division lead, dude. They're not like running away with it with 12 games up on somebody. Exactly. High pressure games already. That's why we want to see when they react to a little adversity. That's a pretty normal sports race.

In August, they got a West Coast. It's a foreign phrase to him. He was on the Twins. West Coast series, three against the Giants, four against the Dodgers. We'll see that'll be a nice fun run for them. Fun run. But I mean, the- I don't understand what you're saying.

That's all. That's all. I think he's phrasing it. I think you should say you're interested to see if they get smacked, how they respond. But you're saying you want them to get smacked. I didn't say want. I'm interested to see when that happens because it's going to happen. You play 162 games.

At one point, the Nats, Braves, or Phillies are going to clip them up in a series, and I want to see how they react to that. I will also want to see that. What division didn't we talk about? The West. West Coast, Treve. You're out there. Dodgers climb up to number two, but the Padres are also looking good.

Dodgers and Padres have the same amount of work. wins, but the Padres have more losses. They're three and a half and four and a half games out, so they both won. But Dodgers had to take care of the Cubs. The Cubs were a top play, top team, and the Dodgers took three or four. Padres also won their series. It was the D-backs, and they didn't sweep them? It was so embarrassing.

Is that what it was? Talented team. They're prepping for trades, not games. Yeah, I mean, I've got to play well to get yourself. built up for a trade. You want to be on a good team. That's the nightingale tweet. Yep. What's it say? Miles Daly.

Eduardo Escobar, 4 for 5 with a double in a homer and 5 RBIs, and soon on his way from the hashtag DBAs to the hashtag white socks is about to end the hashtag Dback's 24 game road losing streak before he departs. They're up 10-0-0 in the 8th over the Padres. Hashtag Padres. I mean, that's a bizarre tweet, Bob. It's a bizarre tweet. Bob, you're reporter Bob. Our guy Fuzzy had a theory that Bob Nightingale's not real. And I like it.

And I'll believe in it. Okay. I think you and Bob would get along. That's what I think. Gotcha. He got me. You should have seen Jake at winter meetings for that year when he got invited to the grown-up table at winter meetings. It was awesome.

Have we told you that story, Treve? I mean, we probably have a lot of new audience members that haven't heard that story. We went to winter meetings. It was in Vegas. And everyone's hanging around the cocktail bars. And it was different than San Diego where everyone was hanging out at the bars and drinking and having a good time. And, like, you know, everyone was, like having fun. This was just a group of guys that made a super table.

And Jake tried to get in there and chop it up and talk baseball. And they gave him, like, an entry-level question. Yeah. Like, most overrated player in baseball. Before you sit down, answer us this. Who's the most of? overrated player in baseball. Three questions for you. Who's the most overrated player in baseball?

Jake passed their test and he got to sit down with him. They chopped it up. And then I kind of... Who'd you say? Who'd you say? Bryce Harper. I think I said Harper Bryant, depending how you wanted to look at it. Was that the Harper Free Agency, winner meetings, too? I think so. He was the hot topic. And then a guy tried to tell me Gary Sanchez was Jeff Frank Moore and I told him to eat, eat shit.

Yeah, kicked out of the group. But yeah, you and Bob might have been in that circle. Okay, Trevor, you're great overrated ball player. No, I'm not going to say it because I really like this guy. I'll tell you guys off here. Jake got asked who was underrated and he said, actually Harper, because everyone tries to say he's overrated and they loved your weasily. Oh, I'm a good weasel.

Yeah. Who was at this table? Um, everyone, the requirements before I got there was you had to cover baseball for a hundred years. Yeah. Did you see that me and Pete Abraham are like best friends? I didn't see that. I'm excited for you. Yeah.

I put that nameless genetics tweet out there about Judge versus Otto and he's like, actually, Jason Stark said this. And I was like, actually, you're wrong. I was the first person to ever think about this. And then he responded that. He wanted to thank me because I won him some fantasy baseball back in the day when I was on the twins. Look at that. Yeah, you and Pete Abraham. You had great versatility.

Huge versatility. Great bench piece. Yes. You till. I was a waiver wire pickup for a little bit. You too, man. A lot of spot starts. Hey, listen, I'm trying to make a freaking point about baseball.

I thought you were talking about Bob. I thought you were saying Bob and Jake would be great friends. Great friends. Bob and Jake versus you and Pete Abraham in a game of chicken in the shallow end. Who wins? Well is Jake holding Bob up? That's a million dollar question.

We know that you're on top in your crew, but I would I would tear Bob Nightingale apart in pool chicken. Okay. But Jake is obviously kicking Pete in the nuts Oh, underneath the water.

A lot of kicks. Oh, yeah. See, I don't know if Pete can hang and like hold me up. Nina, do you want to draw this chicken fight? Next drawing. All right.

Let me make a, Making a freaking point. You're a fucking point. And then we'll go on to the AL, okay? Yeah. The Dodgers and the Giants separated by three and a half, two games set coming up. Yeah. Before the alls.

Before the trade deadline, they played each other nine freaking times. So we're going to see how real the giants are. I can't wait for that. I'm excited. Did you see the hug that Gabe Kapler gave to, I believe, Stephen Dugger? I didn't see any. Gabe Kapler. Gabe Kapler.

He gives good hugs. He gave a hug. He gave a hug. I think, did the Giants walk off or they just have a big home run? They had a walk off. So was it, did Dugger have the walkoff? Dissali. Who?

He scored the winning run. Dugger did? Yeah. So I think he gave him a hug and it was almost like, you know, Tiger Woods and his dad hug. Like it was like, like, let's embrace because we, let's hide our tears from the crowd to hug. That is beautiful. Miles has now donated nice twice. And he said in June, the Cardinals, they're basically.

basically last or second to last in every hitting category. So that'll be a part of it. Any of the comment before that from Miles said that they don't prep. Their game prepping is bad. Yeah. All right. Let's move on to the American League where Jake will tell us what happens. Are you serious?

Yep. It's huge. I am not. Bob Nightingale, the Yankees played the Red Sox. Oh, my God, the best rivalry in sports. Bobby Dalback all over the field. Red Sox shove. They sweep the Yankees.

The Yankees look like a sad sack in this series. 5-3, 4-2, and the blowout on Cold Day, 9-2. First pitch of the game, Kike went yard on. Devers follows that up with a three-run, 451-foot tank job. to basically tank this series. DJ LaMayhew looks good, but the rest of the yanks don't havealdi with a good start. Go, Sox, go.

Astros at Tigers, and we get a series split. Don't sleep on these Tigers. The third place in the AL Central Tigers. Astros hit a little bit, especially in the first game, 12, 3, and then it's pitching throughout 3-1, 3-2, couple 7-in-dub. headers, and then a 2-1 Tigers in 10. Scoobel.

He's been doing it lately. Outdules Odoo? Argi. Kind of. Fulmer to the aisle. How about it? Blue Jays take three from the Orioles in a four game set. This series was for the birds.

Blue Jays, they put up some big, crooked numbers on the scoreboard. They got a 9-0-0-in-in-the-first game. They got a 12-4 in the third. Orioles, they won their game in 10. That was a Harvey Day. Harvey versus Manoa. Young man, take a look at my life. I'm a lie like you were.

Matt Harvey, watch out. Freddie Galvis, Jim. Some bad news from this series. Hurt. One to two months, quad injury. So a guy that could have been a trade deadline piece, might be off the board. We'll see what's going on.

Vlad's still insane. And George Springer. Back for the Blue Jays. Holy Toledom. Blue Jays actually pitched a little bit in this series, too. Ray's take two out of three from the Halos. Can you see my halo? Halo.

Kittridge versus Canning. Little Ray's opener? I haven't seen that enough lately. How about it? They win game one, four to three. Rays blow them out in the second game. 13 to three. McClanahan was on the bump for that.

And then the Angels come back. Otani show throughout this series. Six hits, two homers. Basic baseball rules. If the Angels play a team better than them, they lose. How about it? Royals at Rangers. Trebs Rangers.

Bust out the broomstick. Uh-oh. Ghibie show. They win that game, 8-0. Joey Gallo is starting to get going. Yeah. Joey Gallo season. David Dahl expected return next week.

Friend of the pod likes to talk hitting. Go check out Sequence on the John Boy Media Network. Twins, take two out of three from the Indians. Let's go, Twinkies. It's time to turn it on. baby they win 8 7 and 8 2 in their wins after losing the first game 4 to 1 twin starting pitching actually brought it for a series 2 570 R a haven't been saying that a lot treff's hitting coach josh donaldson five hits and a yacker in this one white socks mariners mariners take two

out of three are we sleeping on the mariners because they're getting saucy they won 9 3 3 2 and then they lose the final game in 775 to the White Sox. Mariners hit pretty good and starting pitching, 261, ERA. So that's a good formula. Hanager says, I'm not getting traded, I'm staying. He has two homers, so does Luis Terrens, former Rule 5 King. Taylor Trammell pimps a home run better than most people can. And Hector Santiago goes down in baseball history,

the first thrower to be kicked out of the game for a legal subs. on them and that is what happened in your American League baseball. Close. Close, but no cigar. Close to what? Hey, we forgot to give a shout out to our guy. Zach, first Big League Homer, compound pot.

Zach Short. Zach Short. Got called up as the 27th man for the double header and then stayed. Whoops. Oh. He was an opo bomb too, like opo juice. Yeah.

It's freaking Goppo in Detroit. In Detroit? Yeah. You know anyone that's gone? It's from. You know anyone that's gone? Apo in Detroit, Trev? I never gone Apo in Detroit.

Not in Detroit, okay. You ever go? You ever go? You ever go Apo and Fenway? Nope. Over the monster. Over that damn monster, though. That's nice.

You know what I'm saying, saying? Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Hey, Jake, let me tell you something. Tell me something, Daddy. The marineras. Getting saucy. That was pretty good. Whoops.

Like that one. And are they good? No. Treve! Trevor! We have a lot of Mariners fans. They're decent, but you know, we're talking good is reserved for good, good. Well, what's cool about the Mariners is that the guys that are doing it for them right now aren't the guys that they would have thought. You know, the Mariners are going on a run. A lot of Kellnick and who's some of those other young guys that I can't think of that right now? Kellnick, Taylor Trammell got called up.

Evan White is he starts with his face. Kyle Lewis. J.P. Crawford. We need to say his name every episode. That's a new talking baseball rule. And Trev has to follow it by saying love J.P. Crawford. Here, there was a tweet about it. So I'll just steal it.

This tweet comes from Jason A. Churchill. I don't know if he's a Mariners fan or covers them anyway. But he said, think about the players that have driven the Mariners recent, nice run over the last two weeks. It's not Seeger. It's not Hanager. It's not Gonzales. It's been France, Torrens, Crawford, Cacucci, Gilbert, flex and Freilly

Bauer's shed in the bullpen. And then I saw I was in the Mariners forums, and they were like saying, well, it's cool because they're actually developing guys that, like, weren't expected to be good, kind of like what the Giants have been doing up there, but on a higher level. And my dude, Kikuchi's ERA, looking. respectable. Did you see that video I made? It's the biggest piece of art I've ever done. Number one. I was very happy about it because that song is good.

Jake Fraley having a year? Yeah. And I don't know if you guys remember my ask for the Mariners before the season. It was to be the fun offseason team for this offseason. I want them to be players in free agency and they've already kind of done enough to get there. Like, you know, Mariners fans, I know this isn't exactly what you want to hear, but that ALS pretty tough. That Houston team looks pretty good, so does Oakland. But if you guys can land around 500 this year with a lot of your young talent doing it, I think that's going to make you a serious player and next year's free agency to kind of take the leap and maybe try to jump a team like Oakland.

Like they can do that if a lot of these young pieces figure it out. And this has kind of been, like, you know, Kelnick was sent down. and he didn't have it all figured it out at first because nobody does in baseball, but let's go. Let's go Seattle. I'd like to get out there. How pissed is their front office

that they're winning games right now? That's what I want to know. You think they're secretly behind closed doors are like, why are we winning? What are we doing? Well, I don't know, because they might be able to trade some people and they like trading.

On Instagram, Chris Flexon. Trade a... Trade Kikuchi. They're fun to watch. I'll say that. I've tuned into a few games, you know, West Coast, late night, watching them play. Like, I know I say I love J.P. Crawford, but he can play damn shortstop, man. You watch him, and it's like, that's how the shortstop position is supposed to be played.

A lot of fun players on the team. They have fun playing. It's so it makes it fun to watch. So are they good, good? No, but they're fun. I'm deciding where I want Kukuchi to be traded to. Might be the Giants. West Coast.

White Sox neither lefty? Is Jacob Nottingham on the Brewers or the Mariners right now? He doesn't know. Yeah, he has a backpack with both jerseys in it at all times. That'll be hilarious if he actually has just two bags packed with his different color catching equipment. We're like connected to Nottingham, right? We should get him like a half Mariners, half Brewers, Nottingham jersey. How are we connected to him?

California Strong guy. Oh. Yeah, he's a, he worked out with Yale this last couple off seasons. He hasn't played since June 6. So I don't know. He's currently on the seven-day IL. Is that the like... Ooh, concussion.

Yeah. Oh. So feel better. Same with Josh Naler. Joof. Jeez. It's a gross one. The results are as not as good as it can be, but better than what you think happened, I think.

I don't think he broke anything. I think he disulcated. Oh, I heard it was a leg fracture. Well, I don't want to speak at a turn then there. But I heard I read ankle dislocation. broken ankle need surgery I like that That's crazy

What else is going Do we talk about any teams Besides the Mariners yet? We're just the Mariners pot Red Sox play good baseball They use their Um Skill set

Very wise I have a rant about how I'm jealous Of the Red Sox out there On the inner webs From talking Yanks So I won't like Fully repeat it But yeah just

Red Sox fans Have a fun team That do fun stuff And I'm jealous Bogatz and Devis killing it. Hunter Renfro shoutout. Holy smokes. Renfro putting together a nice year,

nice couple weeks from him too, mashing lefties. That's kind of all he's done since he's been in the show. But yeah, man, that Red Sox lineup to get through for Dugo, J.D., Bogart, Stevers, and Renfro right now

is really tough when they get anything from Kike and Chavis. I mean, that's just one of the more difficult lineups in baseball to get through in hell of all these shoves erot who's been struggling he has a great start and you know I think they

get a little little kiss from the Yankees offense right now who my goodness they are they're a brutal watch they're a brutal watch I think some people assume we're being snobby Yankee fans by saying that they are a brutal watch go check out any of the

beat writers tweets go watch watch them for a day It's tough, man It's tough Twins Win Red Sox bullpen too Out of Vino

Garrett Whitlock Couple Yankees legends Getting it done But Rios with a good start They're gonna trade him Trev They gotta trade them or extend them I don't know man

I don't know what they're gonna do All the beat riders in Minnesota They're talking Can you It's not rebuild What's it what's it called when you re-tooling and reinforce

retool, reload. Whatever. Retool, reload, yeah. Is it going to be a reload or do you have to strip it all down again? And they had the core group of players, you know, Kepler, Polanco, Berrios,

Buxton, you know, that's a, no, that's a really good core of players, but they just haven't been able to get it done. It's pitching.

It's just the freaking pitching. So here's a thing. What Berrios? Yeah, you can trade them and get some value. but you need pitching. So like keep your good pitchers. And then go get other good pitchers.

If you want to win, that's what you have to do. Every single team that we talk about, oh, they're good. That's because they have good pitching. And the twins just are inept at developing pitchers. It's true. I don't know why that is, but they haven't developed good starting pitching in a long down. There's only like five teams can do it.

I mean, if you think about where good pitching comes from or gets, you know, it's, there's, it's, it's, it's, rare to have, you know, be able to do it. Houston, Tampa. Yeah, you know, and then they have to make a decision on bucks. Like, you know, what are they going to do with him? They're going to extend him? They're going to pay that guy?

Are they worried about that he's injury prone, which I don't think he is? He just had some unfortunate stuff happen. Some guys get labeled as that, but then it's not his fault. He got hit in the freaking hand by a fastball. Yeah, that always sucks when they're like, they're like, they're freak, but they get added to the litany of non-freak and all that. stuff. They have so much youth on offense that, you know, I think you, you know, if Nelson wants to stay and hang, that's fine. I mean, you know, if not, that could be interesting. But so many

young pieces and I mean more guys on the way that you have to feel okay on that side of the ball. That, yeah, you know, I think I said it last time, but they haven't really gone for the high end pitching. Like they roll the dice with Happer and Pineda and like that's just, that's not a difference maker that's kind of sunk their season. They have a good lineup and a good young core of Kierloff coming up, Larnert coming up. These guys can play and they have other guys around them.

This is a team that can have and they have Donaldson for a few more years. Like potentially this could be a very, very good lineup. It's the pitching that's been holding it back. So figure it out. I got something for you guys. You know, because in the locker room you got to tell yourself like

you know, we're the Twins. You know, A.L. Central champs past few years, like, let's dig deep. Let's grind before the All-Star break.

Their next 10 games, seven are against the White Sox. Just win all seven. You're back, baby. Back. Problem solved. Three with the Royals in between? Come on, Twinkies.

The Royals just got swept, right? I believe so. Brother Rangers. Gibby's doing it. Slow the roll on Gibby. Might be getting an award later. Okay. Slow it down.

Add. Slow it down. Slow it down. Hey, I have a question for you guys. Sure. I did a stats that it just but don't matter on team pitchers facing ex-teammates on different teams now. So someone saw that Alex Cobb on the Angels face the raise and he was like, hey, he disagrees. Because all the stats that we said were pitchers have the advantage if they face a guy that they were teammates.

with for more than four years. So they watch this to take a lot of at-bats. All the stats that we found said, which is small and don't matter. So there's like Cobb disagrees. I was like, well, how many Rays did was Cobb a teammate with? Guess of the starting nine

that Cobb faced how many? Now, he was, his last season on the race was 2017, same as you, Trev. Oh, wow. And how many in the starting nine were his teammate? My guess would be Keirmeyer. I mean, Joey Wendell had to the accent point, but I don't think so. I think it's Keirmeier.

I don't think Joey Wendell was there when I was there. I think he was there the next year. Hopefully he wasn't there. I'd be so embarrassed right now. He wasn't, you're good. Keirmeier didn't start, so it was zero out of nine. Zero out of nine. Kiermire didn't start in 2017?

No, in this game against Cobb. In the game, gotcha. Otherwise, it would have been one. Yeah Dude baseball reference took out I don't know Has this been talked about Some of the people that follow Twitter's

The page on baseball reference That shows you if the spin has been down or up On average It doesn't exist anymore Baseball reference or Savant Which is MLB owns it So I go to the Rays bullpen Because the Rays were the biggest

Like we only care about spin rate We can get a guy in fixer spin rate bullpen So I've been trying to go and see that page The one I made the video on. And we've been a team. Is it team-wide you're talking about or specific players? Because specific players are still there. I just looked this morning.

On the game day or a different way? I did game day because I was looking at Hector San Diego's. But I did too. It has his spin rate, but not above or below his average. They erased that. Not the way I've did it. We'll send some links behind the scenes. Oh, a couple people in the chat.

You said Trevor Story in the home run. Derby, that would be, that'd be exciting. Let's go. I found it. Found it. We cleared it up. Well, it's okay. We didn't talk about the Angels at all. I know Nate steals me pissed at us. So, hey, Angels. The lost two out of three against the raise.

Otani had one of the most absurd homers you're ever going to see. He got jammed. He gets like, doesn't get jammed, but it gets beat by a fastball inside, but hits it out to the opposite field. When Otani goes up, my brain breaks And I don't, it's just I almost just like, don't input it.

I'm like, what the fuck was that? He also hit one the first game Off the Catwalk in the outfield And that is a fucking moon shot. Cici said he's never seen a ball hit that And he's played a lot of games there, obviously. The guy is, it's crazy what he does, man. The power he generated is like, it's almost like

It's like not fair. that hits the ball so far and hard. They also They also had two catwalk shots that I saw. The Otani one and then there was another one that the rays played off the catwalk because they're smart. And Madden came out and like argued or something. And I'm like, well, Madden.

You've been here. You've been here. Trev. I'm kind of sick at him a little bit. Trev, let's do a... Oh, he's the most exhausting man in baseball. He's actually because the angels have the dimest lights, unless your name is Otani.

and you're doing something completely crazy. Like, I haven't heard about, I haven't heard a Madden story or quote or antidote since he became an angel manager because they just don't get- It just goes to show you. Yeah, he goes to show you about the managers. I mean, how much do they really do, man?

I don't know. You have to have the players. Because I am fully believing in the Cora effect and the Cappler effect after that hug. Kapler effect. Maybe Gabe's the only one, just because his aura is so, freaking strong.

It's hot. But no, man, come on. You got to have players. The Otani Homer the other day looks like a video game glitch. Like I could see the MLB, the show gamers posting that and be like, what the hell is this? It's real life. It's disgusting.

Trev, can we play a quick game? I'm going to say a team name. And you tell me if they're better or worse than the Angels. Okay? The race? Yes, better. Angels lost two out of three to them. San Francisco Giants.

Better. They lost both games to the Giants. Detroit Tigers? No, they're not better. Angels are better than the Tigers. Okay, that's what you were saying. Okay. They won three out of four against the Tigers.

Athletics. Not as good as the athletes. Athletics swept them. Diamondbacks. They're better than the Diamondback. Angels swept them. This game can go on and on until you land on the Mariners, and they're pretty even,

and they actually split that series, which is funny. But yeah, this was a theory Jim was on early. I said, yeah, I did that last week. If the Angels play a team better than them,

they lose. If they play a team worse than them, they win. So I'm very interested in the four games set against the Yankees, because I think they're kind of even. Like, if they split, I think we'd all be like, yep, okay.

interested to find out do you remember when they came out so hot and people were like oh you guys you're idiots they're such a good team and Perry's a GM from the gift from the gods he's going to figure it all out no he's not no he's not same thing you need pitching

I don't understand why it's so hard for everybody to understand that it's for the angels I know it's hard to acquire it's hard to get to acquire but I mean like Odo's doing well right now and the Angels could have had him. Shout out to Jared Walsh. Angels had him until Framberg got hurt in spring training.

Jared Walsh, 899 OPS this year. Broke out a little bit last year keeping it going. Good for you, dude. All right, we got to tell all the Blue Jays before we move on. People in the chat are pissed. The Blue Jays? Without looking at stats, Anthony Rendon's OPS this year. 815.

Oh, it's bad. No, 815? No, no. I thought it was like a boring guy. good season, no? He's like low seven. 662. Yeah, I looked at it not too long ago. Tony meatballs, what's going on, babe? What do they want to say about the Blue Jays? They're starting to pitch. I mean, they had a good start from K, then they had a good start from

Manoa. Was that the brawl where he got ejected? Or is that? Have they played the Orioles? I thought that ejection was a while ago. It seemed like a long time ago. Yeah, I think he appealed, made his start in this and then accepted. And now it's just so he's not going to miss. What was that reaction to? Blue Jay's lineup, it's the first time that they've had Springer,

like he came back for a week. They have the best one through eight lineup. I think they beat Houston. You think so? I don't know, man. Houston's numbers aren't incredible. Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa. They've been without Springer, Man.

Simeon, Bichette, Guerrero, Hernandez, Springer, Bigio, Grichick, Guerrille, Jr. But go look at the Astros, like, no. I know it. I mean, we've been ranting and raving about them, but. You're talking about, like, names. Just like looking at it. Looking at it.

Sure, sure, sure. They're good, man. Again, pitching is the name of the game. Holy shit. Ships. Uh-oh. Holy ships, he said. From April?

Can't wait for this. I'm really excited for this. You guys know what it is. From May 4th. May the 4th be with you. The 28th game of the season. Until today, we're going into the 77th game. The 1, 2, 3 for the Blue Jays.

Simeon Bichette Vladdy. Go fuck yourself the Yankees. You love that so much. Only because it matters, Trev. That's how I know you're a real baseball guy. It does matter. We talked about this. It matters, man.

Going to the ballpark and knowing that you're going to hit here and you're going to play this position every single day, improves your ability to perform. I mean, it's frequency bias. There's been articles and articles and articles. It's why losers like Zuckerberg and me want to wear the same clothes every single day and eat the same breakfast every single day because I don't want to think about that shit. But you got a fucking DJ LeMay's got to think, what glove am I going to wear?

And Glaber's thinking, where am I going to bat? Who's in front of me? Who's behind me? It's like, oh, fuck the Yankees. Here's here's the mental aspect of that. You show up to the park and you're in the three hole. You're stoked. I'm a good hitter.

I'm batting right in the middle of the freaking lineup. Awesome. And then because the computer says you're not going to do well off this guy. Now all of a sudden you're hitting sixth or seventh. You're like, oh, I guess I'm not that good. Like that's what you think. You get dropped down like, oh, my numbers say I shouldn't be good against this guy. Okay, I guess that sucks.

It's like, whoa. It's so, it's so, it's so, it's ridiculous. It's basic human brain knowingness. Mm-hmm. Basic human brain knowingness, 101. B, H, B, K, 101. Yeah, exactly. Can you look at this, Jake?

Just like when you scroll through their lineups. Look at the consistency in their top four. It's beautiful, Jim. Dude, in the full month of May, the entire month of May, it was Simian Bich, Guerrero Hernandez. And then it was Gritchick for one. game besides for every game besides one. Two.

Tell us. Oh, it's, yeah. But still, no, I mean, I very much agree with that. There's, go listen to Tocaniques. We have some frustrations with some things the Yankees have done for the past three years that aren't proven to be successful, but they think are successful. Five, four. There's one team it works for and they want to be that team.

All right. Interleague. You guys are ready for this? Big one. Jim. Are you guys ready for this? The area. Let's go.

The Oakland A's went across the bay to play the Giants, and they lost two out of three. Giants won. Wow. Battle of the Bay. Losers had to take Bart home. Giants win game one, two nothing. Quedo versus Manetka both pitched good games, but the Giants get the timely hits. I believe it was my dude, Lamont.

Wait, Lamont. Wade, who they sent down and then he got came back up because belt hurt, and he's a hero. Game two goes extra as it was Wood versus Montas, but the Giants come from behind to win off of Birch

Smith, who gets the blown save and the loss Spurge. In game three, Irvin, more on him later, deals for the A's, they salvage the set, they don't get swept, but they do have to take Bart home.

Kurt Casali with the walk-off double. Canna place on the 10-day IEL. And Longoria resumes baseball activities. Belt, as I said, down. Solano had three hits in a home run and a double. Only giant with more than two hits. They were spreading it out. I almost said, I did say blown, I did say blown slave

because it was a blown save plus a loss. So that's the Interleague. There's only one series. Birch Smith always gets me a little emotional. We're going to get this because I've screwed up this name now. This is permanent talking baseball memory. It's Lamont. We're leaving off the E.

You do leave off the E? We're leaving off the E. Okay. That's in baseball reference. So we're going Lamont. Jim, you're Bay Area. This is the John Boy series. Tell me when to go.

Tell me when to go. Let me ask you, this is an important question for where. This is a slumber. Any A's fans in the chat, I'm actually going to pose this question to you guys too. The A's have incredible, like, on-field reporting going on. I think they have the best lineup in the game. We got Klein Schmidt, Dallas Braden, and Dantrell Willis. Give me your favorite.

Rank them? Dallas. Rank them. Dallas. I'll text them right now. Number one, Dallas. If I texted Dallas. to send me

I want to What were you about to say? No, it was leading down a bad place What are you looking at? There's a fly in here, Trev, and if it lands for five seconds, I'm going to kill it, but it refuses to land.

It's over there right now. If it lands anywhere in my hand range, I'm going to kill this fly. I killed two the other day. I used the Steve Carroll method. Yeah, the A's broadcasting is great. Besides the actual technology of the video feed, but the people are fantastic.

Yeah. Okay, I mean, I thought that was going to be a better question. It didn't come off that great. I would go Klein Schmidt. J.K. Reps Johnboy Media, so we're all about that. Dallas is a fan, too. I haven't interacted with Don Trail. I want to.

Dallas is hot tub videos with the hair. Oh, yeah. Nothing better. Sneaky jacked. Saving the B population. He diagnosed me with tendonitis, which was really good. Dr. Dallas. Because I was worried about that.

Dr. Dallas. I may or may not have partaken in some marijuana. with Dallas right here. That's sick. One time. Illegal. Allegedly. Tough first, Birch.

I can't talk Birch, and you know that. Okay. He's out. No birch talk. And Ray Fossi, too. Yeah. Giants first team to 50 wins.

Shabubalaboofee. Here's San Francisco Giants. Manager of the year. I talked about, yeah. I talked about this on the C. I. morning the giants and the dodgers if you go statistically they're basically basically an identical

offensive team like their numbers line up perfectly together so awesome for the giants then you go to the pitching side dodgers are pretty good auditors are way better man they're this team is for real this team is for real and it's fun to just all the people who are doubting them at the beginning of the year it's like one after another Chris Rose being the one I'm talking about most you got to eat your words man like this team is not a flash in the pan it's not two months like they're doing it first team to 50 wins and they're doing it offensively they're doing it with their pitching and they're doing it with their sexy sexy manager Gabe love it and Longo's coming back too let's go what are you doing jakes a little quick math a little quick math okay okay so

The Giants have played 77 games. The Giants have played 762 minus 77 is 85. 85 is the final number. Okay. Divided by 2, 42. All right. So if they go 42 and 43, the rest of the way. 42 and 43.

They are a 92 win team. And out of the playoffs. So if they are... You had to use a calculator for that, bro? Are you serious? I mean, I know we're not a math pod, but... 50 plus 42. Yeah, that's 92. I did that math in my head.

I had to do 162 minus 77 to get the remaining games. I divided that number by two to get their record if they were around 500. It was 42 and a half. I gave them the non-benefit of the doubt and put them one game under 500. They're not in the playoffs if they only win 92 games. You think so? Yeah. Second wild card?

Maybe second wild card. I mean, NL East right now doesn't have a second team getting to 92. The only question mark would be the Cubs or the Brewers. That gets them in the dance. I think right now it's Dodgers Padres in the wild card game. If we were supposed to, if we were ending the season today. And how awesome would that be? That's our Friday segment.

So that's Monday. Whatever. You got to fly in your room too? It's Monday. Nobody knows. That's me thinking. Who's your favorite Bay Area rapper? Be honest.

Mac Dre. Okay. R-I-P. Fair. Fair. Jake's a missed a fab guy. You know we're two short fans, and let's be honest about it. Yeah, two shorts are my favorite.

Probably my favorite. Rap. Mike Dre is the king, man. So many great songs. Bay Area Rap was very specific in their strategy. Put out 12 albums a year. And one song may be great. If I had to tell you how many albums Mr. Fab has,

it's a story-ally effect. Yeah. It's volume. It's quantity over quality in the Bay Area. Okay. Confirmed I'll be bumping Mac Dre on my run today. Can't wait for that. Let's keep it going.

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1-800-9. With it. Okay, from 2002 to 2011, or 2002 to 2019, Mistafab put out 52 albums. Some compilation. that he was on. 42 if you take away compilations.

42 albums in like 15 years. Crazy. Content. Treve, you're batting lead off. So can you tell us who you're Stam-Bow? Stand-out performance. It's me.

Got him. That was good. You got me right there. I like that. I'm giving it to my guy, Eddie Escobar. We talked about him briefly already. Four for five. on Saturday with a homer, a double, and five freaking ribbies to end the road losing streak

of the Arizona dying backs. Apparently, he's going to the White Sox. He's a really fun player, versatile, can hit great clubhouse guy. So if he is going to the White Sox, which, by the way, were his original team before he came to the Twins, got traded for Francisco Liriano. People forget that. If he does go to the White Sox, it's the perfect fit. He knows all those guys. He'd fit perfectly in and can give them some pop at second base with magical out. Put him there. Put him wherever you want to put him. I think it's going to be a nice little stretch run for Eddie. Back on a contender, I think that's, I think we're going to see some really good baseball out of him going forward if he does get moved. So Eddie Escobar four for five,

Homer double five freaking ribbies against the podgers on Saturday. That's nice thing. Was that the game they won? It was. Great job. By you and by Eddie. Yeah, I'm excited for him to end up on a contender this year. One of my favorite guys to watch, 5 tool light, I call him. He does everything.

Not at a crazy level, but at a really good level. And he's going to be fun. If it's not the White Sox, who is it? If Nightingale cursed the White Sox, where's he going? I mean, I don't know. I've never thought about it. You kind of hit me with the spot. Put me on the spot right there.

With some Brewers' colors. Yeah, Brewers. could be a good one. You know what I love about Eddie Escobar? I think you guys will love this. The alliteration in his name. Yes. That's nice.

Shirt is always off. Doesn't have like a great body. He doesn't have a bad body, but he presents it like he's got like, like he's shredded. What do you love about, what do you love about Eddie Eskine? Why do you like Eduardo Escobar?

Why do I like him so much? Well, what you just said, it sounded a lot like you were just talking about Jake. It's my bio on Twitter. My Twitter bio. Not a great body. Overly. He's all about it.

Hey, you know what? That's all that really matters. Thank you. Yeah, Jack Black. Yeah. Body competence king. Jake's hero. Chicks love that.

Jack Black's body is headed to a bad place. What are you talking about? Yeah. It looks great. Looks. I love Jack Black. So I'm not going to do this. Are you going swimming in Colorado?

I can't wait to see you in Colorado. Have you seen Jack on your shirt on all? Yes. Do you see the video where his son shaves his beard and his hair? but he never says a word the whole time. It's like 14 minutes long. Okay. I watched the whole thing.

Yeah. There's no talking, just shaving his beard and his hair. That's great. That's the goods. Jake, can you tell me who your standout performer was? My standout performance. I almost tried to snag two guys. Sounds like my night out Saturday.

But I landed on one. Trev is swimming in my head, so I went away from the pitchers and I snagged a hitter. Joey Gallo. I say poppy, can he play baseball? Joey Gallo, he put up a two homer day the other day, five rib-eye stakes, and in Gallo fashion a couple walks all around it. I mean, that's Joey Gallo baseball, five played appearances,

two are walks, two are homers, and Joey Gallo has been hot for a little bit, and man, this is a guy you might be hearing in trade talk soon. Texas Rangers, he had a bad last year, and now if you look at his stats, it's clearly the outlier, that 60-game season. In the last 19 games, Joey Gallo, 283 batting average, a 456 on base, a 1.106 OPS. That's over like a three-week span. That is hot, and I'm telling you, go look at his stat page now.

The past 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 years, if you include this year, all have OPSs in the 8 or the 9s, except last year's 57 game clear outlier season. If I'm Texas, Trev, you say this. Either lock them up, like you're talking with Burrios, either pay the man and make him a Texas Ranger for the next eight years or trade him now because his values high. He rates out great defensively. He's definitely where baseball is currently at.

224 batting average, 3.85 on base and 830 OPS. I would love if he ends up on a contender, or if Texas decidedly makes him their guy, and I know when I turn on a Texas Rangers game for the next seven years, I see Joey Gallo. And too wide of a shot. Their camera angle sucks. Yes.

Nice job, Jake. Thank you, Treff. Good job. James Francis Michael O'Brien. Not my middle name. On record. It's not. It's not my middle name.

It's not. My standout performance is Cole Irvin. Swirvin. Swerving Irvin. As I told you, Giants were about to sweep Oakland. And they had used six relievers in the first two games, four relievers in the second game, I believe. So the bullpen was a little banged up. What's Cole Irvin do? Goes out there goes eight innings pitched. Zero earned runs, eight case. only two walks, three hits, hit by pitch, but no damage.

But he saves the bullpen, saves the series, helps his ERA out of tonne. He was at like 302 at some point in the year, and then he went way back up after a bad, like, stretch. And now he's getting back down. But yeah, it's a team-saving performance more so than just for himself. So good job by Cole Irvin. You boy, Trev. I like that. It's what I wanted Cole to do for the Yankees, that son of a bitch.

Oh, the best Cole in the big news right now? Wow. B.BD, how many, do you have an easy way to check how many Cole Irvin awards have been given out? We don't have as sophisticated a spreadsheet as we do for the Talking Yanks Awards. I mean, we're a Cole Irvin pot. I would imagine we've given a far more Coal Irvin Award. awards than any other You might have three standouts.

We should start becoming a Have a Google sheet for all these stuff Yeah. It's always fun. Bang. I either hit that fly or wounded it Okay. On my second swipe, someone in the chat's keeping score And they said I went 0 and 2 But that fly hasn't really been seen Since my second attempt at killing it. I don't think I got it.

He could have left. There is an exit. I scared him out of the room. And then I thought The bottom of the door did fall off last. A second fly emerged that wasn't the same one I was going after. It's definitively a different flygate. Maybe that fly's son or something and now he's all mad. Dad. He killed my dad.

That fly sounded like the cowardly lion for a little bit. A little bit. It's his best impression. Yeah. Remember when you were an impressionist? Remember your dusty impression? Last year. Yeah.

I did dusty. I did buck. I didn't even do Cowardly Lion, but I am pretty good at that one. Yeah. I am Trev. I just can't do it on command. Okay. Okay.

Yeah. Noted. All right. Trev. Get out of here. See you guys later. Slump watch. Did we get anyone off their slump watch?

We have five already there. BPD. Can you tell us the five potential additions? C.J. Crone went 0 for 11 with a walk in five. K's this weekend, Reese Hoskins, O for 13, 4 walks. Sarling Marte, O for 14, RBI, 3 walks, 3 K's.

Got a mention on Rose rotation today. Jared Walsh, O for 10, 7Ks, Tray Mancini, won for 14, 8Ks, but see him in the homeruner in Derby. Yeah. You were out here having us clap for Jared Walsh. Having a nice season. Oh, my God.

Bad weekend, nice season. Well, then I'm excited to put him on because I know we'll get off. Oh, yeah, that's great. And that's what slump budget is. Yeah, he gets to face the ang. All right, guys, that... Probably. Every pitcher besides Cole is throwing for the Yankees against the Angels.

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Cole misses them. Tyone, King, Hermann Monty? Kings tonight. Awesome. All right, Yandi Diaz was on. He went one for eight with a walk in 4Ks. That's not going to get him off.

Yeah, check out Yondi season. Check out the Yon Dish season. Nolan Aronado. He goes three for 12 with a homer, a double, two RBIs and four walks. He has a 412 on base percentage. And he did home or the previous series too. Yeah.

So I'm taking Nolan Aaron out of off. We wanted him to get off. I was hoping he was going to carry them versus the pirates. And unfortunately, the pirates. He's off. He's off. We're not clapping. We're not clapping.

I'll do one. I'll do two little claps. We're a little clap. Yeah. Glaber Torres still stinks. Yeah. Hit 39 home runs in 2019 and has hit six since. 38.

38. 38. Yeah. I think we do a kind of do or die by Friday. With Glaber? Yeah, he had some good swing, so hopefully he gets hot. Or if he doesn't, it's kind of like... It seems like this has been a year.

This week will either... Yeah. It'll either be the turning point or it's bad. If he wasn't a Yankee, we'd be like, you're just... We'd be putting him on, you just might be bad now watch. Yeah, I mean, you're just having a bad year. He's supposed to be one of the better young players in the game, but not so much this year. Jose Ramirez.

He went two for ten with a double. and two walks. He might get bumped just because other guys are beating him, but it's not all. He didn't get off. And then this guy got off. Mitch Hanager. He gets collapsed.

Shame to flame. He goes six for 14 with a Homer double and four BIs. So Hanager's off. J. Ram, you might... We'll see. Yeah, Yondi stays on. What do we need on? We need.

I like Walsh because he's having a good season. He's playing the Yankees. And I like Starlin Marte because he's going to get traded. Trade peace. Yep. So what are the debates here? BPD's Reese Hoskins He's also Treves Rees Hoskins

But isn't Reese just a streaker? He does that, yeah He does, but he does Too Good, Too Bad All the time weeks But he had a weird quote this week I mean, if I'm being honest I'm a little more interested in Reese than Yondi

Yondi's having kind of a bizarre year He's having a Say no more He's having Yondi I kind of just don't Here's Yondy's stats on the year 69 games Nice 241 batting average

370 on base 299 slugging 669 nice OPS Okay he's off Do you want C.J Cron on He can be a trade piece like lefty masher

So I'm half interested I mean Mancini's doing the homer Derby and that's fun Crohn's having a good year And like he should be traded Oh, too many guys. Too many guys on the Slump Watch. Many guys on the Slump Watch.

I don't think Mancini should be on here. Because, quite honestly, I'm very happy. He can't be on Slump Watch. Yeah. Yeah, that's a more positive spin than I was going to say. Great job by you. All right. You try to enter the Crohn's zone?

Yeah, let's just take Claiboroff. I think if he's not a Yankee, we're just saying we're bored of it. I'm fine with that. He's coming off either way. Crone stimulator. Crones. Are we making bone stimulator shirts? Yeah.

All right, Treve, you can come back. Treve, if you want. Treve, if you want to come back to talk about the good players, Jake's going to run us through it. Trevis. That means I'm on fire, baby, like Waco. All right, Treve, who has been in Fuego? Oh, I've never done this before, guys.

Jake wants you to do it. It's a leadoff hitter. I'll do one. I'll do one. Okay. Okay. Fernando Tatis, the junior, not the senior. Six for 11, three homers, all in one game, a double, five ribbies and two walks.

That's good for 545, 615, 1.455. And the next guy mirrors his slash line, or is that a mistake by Max? I think it mirrors the slash line. Wow. Show Hay had the exact same series as him. a six for 11 differences six for 11 but two homers

a triple and a double five ribbies two walks I mean very that's so interesting that the OPS adds up because they both went six for 11 with two doubles so the batting average on base percentage you get Shohei only had two home runs

but he had a triple and a double Tatis had three home runs and one double so that does that make sense that adds up the same slugging-wise, I'm guessing. I don't think so. He must have two doubles then.

Otani had to have two doubles for that to make any sense. But then his slugging would be higher because he also had a triple. Right, but Tatis has more. Yeah, but one less homer. So he's at least behind. So Tatis has four extra base hits and Otani has five. Four. As it's listed

on the sheet. Oh, it's four. Four and four. So we're two guys who are really good, played really well. Both one six for 11. Shocker, the numbers got us confused. I was just staring at them being like, wow, I can't see anything right now. So that's my job in Infuego.

Tatee and Otani. They're good players. They're good. Analysis. I might get to the bottom of this one. Analysis. Jim's in the research. Another guy you might know, Vladito, more three home runs from him. He's sneaking up on that over-under. Looks like he might snag it.

Schwabo stays hot. He keeps hitting homers. DJ LaMayu. Maybe the the one white night for the Yankees right now. He looked like DJ Lemay. He's seven for 14 having a couple weeks. A couple pirates. Adam Frazier, Brian Reynolds. Hey, how are you?

Seven for 15, seven for 17. Say, hey, it's Jason Hayward. Seven for nine. Love that. Eddie Escobar. Birdy, birdie, birdie, rocking everywhere. John Birdie and Nick Castellanos continues to hit.

Show A had two doubles. Makes sense. But that's still so interesting. They have the same exact slash line, Otani and Tatis. 545-615, 1.45-slugging 2.070 OPS, both of them. But they both had the same amount of extra base hits,

just a different mix. I like it. That's cool. Good job by those guys. Pick them up and talk about them all time. Shwerber should be talked about a bit more. I know we've been talking about them last couple of days, but some Nats fans were like,

I don't know, feels like you should talk about it more. I kind of agree with them. I'm not giving him any awards, but did you see that? Someone tweeted out like, Schorber's last 10 games, and the numbers were like insane video game. And they're like, Scherber's last five games, and they were like insane video games. Sherber's last three games.

There was insane video games numbers just like spread out. It's not like he went off one day and those are carrying him. Like, no, he's just been crazy. I mean, I was, this is the baseball nerd in me coming out a little bit. I was pretty excited to see John Birdie, just because he was fun for that little bit. He was fun, and so seeing him back. Not sure if that gets in Miggie Roseway, but, yeah, I mean, Schwerber's nuts. Didn't you hear about a potential Marlon Yankees trade?

I got DM something pretty juicy from No Checkmarked John Boy. Yeah, I mean, if people want to hear more about Schwerber, June 19th, two homers, 20th, 3, 22, none, 23rd, 1, 24th, 2, 251. I mean, his, that's good, that's a good, if those were just singles, that's a good stretch, but their home runs.

Yeah, he's been nuts. Put him in the All-Star, put him in the homerun derby. I watch Schwabow hit some nukes. You will? Yeah. Someone needs to clip that, what you just said, put him in the All-Star.

Put him in the All-Star. It's me. It's a me. It's a me. So excited for our back alley at bats video game. I picked up my phone to look at something. Does anyone know what it could have been? The trade rumor that got sent to me?

Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, that's probably what it was. Yeah. Yeah. Wow. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Jake got DMed Starlin Marte, Miggy Rojas, and Cash for Parazzo, Wells, and Chambuco. So be on a lookout for that. If that happens, we broke it first.

Mm. Yankees get an at two players that bring athleticism to the team right away. Better shortstop, better center field defense. Man, what trade. That would be cool if the source here, it becomes right. Marlins and Yankees, yeah, Jets, Kim Ang, Cashman, they're all friends. They're all fans. They once did Thanksgiving together.

Rumors. Rumor has it. Yeah. Um, award. Uh, okay. Trevor.

Excited for this. Jesus, Treve. What's your award? I can't even read that. Yeah. All right. Trevor,

you're at first. I forgot what I wrote down. Hold on. My award. Okay. I'm giving out the El Rond of Rivendale Award. And I kind of wanted to do the Tolkien baseball, but do it a little differently today.

I was thinking about a guy. who I really love in the show that's really doing well. And I said, who do I love in Tolkien's world that compares to him? And I stumbled upon Elron. One of my favorite characters, Lord of Rivendale, and if I'm Aragorn, he's actually my father-in-law, so I'm kind of sucking up a little bit. Let me read you a passage about Elron, just to give you some substance. The face of Elron was ageless, neither old nor young,

though in it was written the memory of many things both glad and sorrowful. scroll down a little bit. Venerable he seemed as a king crown with many winters and yet hail as a tried warrior in the fullness of his strength. He was the Lord of Rivendale and mighty among both elves and men. Elron's one of the most respected people in Tolkien's world as a leader of the elves and as a warrior. He was there facing off against Sauron. Sauron actually approached him and said, come fight with us.

He said, no, no, no, no. end up choosing to fight amongst men. So this is a guy that leads and you want him in the foxhole in the war. The guy that I'm talking about that compares to that, I've seen him. I like to talk to him. I like when he's on the field.

I can hang with him off the field too. He's got a baby face, though he's been in the big leagues for a long time. My guy Kyle, freaking Gibson, Gibby is like Elrond, Lord of Rivendale. And Nina, you were asking me to give you

something to draw. I think Kyle Gibson as Elron would be a very nice little gift for Kyle. He went out and did it. What did he do? What did he do? I'm trying to look it up. Shuffed. It was like seven innings pitch.

Seven innings pitch. 10ks. 10ks, two hits. One walk. He's got his ERA down to two on the dot. The guy, he could be starting the AL All Star game. Kyle Gibson is like Cole is on the top of the leaderboards for a lot of things. when you look at the pitching statistics,

but Kyle is right there in all of them along with him. And a couple good starts, a couple bad starts for Cole, boom, you can be seeing a guy that's leading in almost every single pitching category, besides like strikeouts and stuff like that. He's okay in that, but he just gets it done. You're not going to find a person in the big leagues that has anything bad to say about Kyle Gibson.

So for that, I'm giving him my Elrond of Rivendale Award because I don't think there's anyone more respected in the books in Elron, and I think the same with Kyle Gibson in the big leagues. So congratulations, Kyle. Beautiful. What to watch for?

His next start, I believe, when did he start? One, two, three. His next start will be July 2nd in Seattle. A good start gets his ERA below two. Starting with a one. That would be awesome. I mean, some team out there, go get yourself a Gibby Gallo.

package. Holy smokes. And yeah, I mean, Treve, you kind of took the award right from under me. Elron being the son of Erdin and Elwing on the great-grandson of Luthian. You know, it doesn't get any more noble. And you're right. Everything we've run into with Gibby has been that way. So well portrayed by Hugo Weaving in the films. It's a great award. Good stuff. Thank you.

Maybe I start bringing out like Band of Brothers awards and I just for every soldier I can go on. Do it. You can. I can. Maybe I will. Not today because I didn't think of it until right now. Because you were talking about them. You know, you want them in the trenches but you also want him in battle playing.

I was like this is the Dick Winners Award. But, you know. Oh, yeah. Yeah. Cool thing about Elron too. Finally he was like in the fourth age was like, I'm out. Middle Earth is I'm done with this and just like sailed off. never to return so see you see you

bye Elrond this beautiful Trev someone asked who's Chambuco Jimmy I don't know I mean it was he's just part of that trade rumor must be some 17 year olds in the Yankee system or something like that Ask them you got to ask the person who DM Jake

Trev great award I'm scrambling to put something together now because I had a That was my award Drummondist, do you want to get skipped? No, I got it. I got it. Actually, I won for standout. I almost did a Texas two-step with Gibby and Gallo, but I'll cop out. I'm giving out the friend of a friend award.

Wasn't going to be the award name, but then we did some Connect the Dots. My award goes to Clayton Kershaw, famously friends with Matt Stafford growing up together in Highland Park, Texas. Now Matt Stafford is very close friends with Trevor Plouf, as you've heard about their two guys throwing balls at each other, figuratively. And Clayton casually this weekend, Sunday night baseball. So what's supposed to be like baseball's S&B. Biggest stage out there. Clayton Kirshall, all he does, eight innings pitched, one earn run,

Whoops. 13 punches against your Chicago Cubs, a team that I've talked about how much I like their lineup coming into the year. Four hits, one walk. And I think any other pitcher, you know, there's a lot of pitchers who had good starts. Luis Castillo, Evaldi, you know, some of these guys, if they had an eight-innings pitch 13K, we'd be trying to grab them first. like, oh, is Castillo? He's nasty, man, when that guy's right, is it just Clayton. And like, we almost get bored by it. But, man, I dug up some stats.

If you take out Clayton's first start this year, which was 5.2, five earn runs in Colorado, first start of the year, whatever. You know, is 16 starts to the tune of a 298 ERA, 202 opponent batting average, 594 OPS for opposing hitters. That's, you know, very much below replacement level. He continues to do it since 2008. Clayton Kershaw has the fifth most starts in baseball. The guys ahead of them, Lester, who's been known for his otherworldly ability to get out on the field.

Zach Granke, criminally underrated, Verlander, Scherzer. All of those guys are three or four years, older than Clayton. So what he does on the field is incredible to the point we don't talk about him enough to the point that I feel like I need to give him this award when he goes eight innings and 13Ks. And by the way, like, you know, best pitcher of our lifetime, there's going to be arguments that he's like the best pitcher to ever do it.

And he's still just shoving. And like I said, Scherzer Verland or Grinke, you know, you know all those guys and their legends of the game. You know, Kershaw's three years younger than them. If Clayton can put a couple more years together, I mean, the numbers are just out of control. So Clayton, and he's basically a friend of the pot at this point. We're basically the best friends.

Let me ask you, you know we love a nice baseball reference page. We love the bold numbers. That means you led the league in that category. Clayton has 14 years in the show. So 14 lines on his baseball reference page. How many bold numbers do you think he has in that? 30. Let's see.

Game started. He might have some innings. He's got to have some ERA, maybe some whip. I really like that 30, guess, Jim. That's pretty good. I'll go 22, Ellsbury. 38 bold numbers on his baseball reference page. That's a joke.

Pratsy. All those things, you're like, yeah, you could just name a category. He's got a bold. I thought of a trivia question. I thought of a trivia question. Jimmy thought of a trivia question as well, if we're doing trivia questions. Mine is how many all-stars has baseball had who have Clayton in their name?

All-Stars with Clayton anywhere in their name? Yeah. Could be middle name. And then name another active Clayton? Active this year? Yeah, good job. I didn't know if Clayton Richard was still active. No, no, he's not active anymore.

There's a different one. Okay. I know Royce Clayton and Clayton Richard and Clayton Kirshod. Clayton was a stud. Yeah. Clayton Holmes is a Pirates pitcher. Clayton Holmes. Clayton is such a Texas thing.

Three Clayton All-Stars. The amount of Clayton All-Stars, you have Clayton Kirshaw. Okay. You have Herman Clayton-Killebrew. Ooh. Wow. You have Bobby Shantz, Robert Clayton Shantz.

And Royce Clayton. Man, that's a. He's a good ball player. People forget. People forget. Royce Clayton. Come on, Trev. Royce Clayton, your guy.

You know all about him. I had a little beef with him at one point. Whoa. I was going to say, I didn't like the way he taught to me one time. So, like, in my mind, I've always had beef with him. He doesn't know that, though. What do you say to you, Treve? Said, do your kids suck or something bad like that?

No, no, no. We don't really have beef. I'm just kind of messing around. My award is the No Gravity Award. Mm. No gravity. So we're floating. Okay.

In space. In space or in a pool. Pool. Okay. No guesses? Isaac Bruce with the St. Louis Rams. Why would you say that? It's a bad guess, Jim.

It's close. You're getting there. Your first connected dot, I think, is close with Isaac. Okay. Yeah? I'm done guessing. Okay. Well, Isaac Newton.

said he was sitting under a tree and an apple fell. And that's how he figured out gravity. Well, with the, with the Guerrero's, Apple didn't fall far from the tree at all. Apple didn't even fall. No gravity. Vladi Guerrero Jr. now has 50 home runs in 258 games. You know who else had 50 home runs in their first 258 games? Vladimir Guerrero Sr.

tweeted by Passing Jim. That's crazy. Trevor, imagine your son, Teddy, just mirrors your career and is also a big leaguer? That's so cool. It would be really cool. That's why, like, people believed in monarchies. The Vladimir Guerrero's are proof of special people and monarchies.

That's why kings, so we're like, no, my kid's better than you because I'm a king. That's what this is proof. Bloodlines. Jake's a peasant. Mm-hmm. Popper. I have Teddy Plouf hitting two 12 homers. I have him doubling you.

Hmm. He doesn't even like baseball right now, so we'll see how that goes. Yeah, I haven't been going big into music career. What about dinosaurs? It loves dinosaurs. Loves paper airplanes right now. He loves to freaking do paper airplanes.

It's crazy, man. You know what? Everyone should make a paper airplane. today in flight because there's a little bit of youth in you when that happens. Yeah, it's pretty cool. You fold one and you throw it and you see it get that loft. That's a good like, at my, at our cult meetings, we will be flying paper airplanes. We will, everyone will get a seat and there will be a piece of paper and then we will all fly

them together at the same time. And that would be a great feeling. Did you do the breakdown on like the farthest paper airplane throw? I've seen the video. I don't know if you did a breakdown on that. or not. I don't think I did know. I've seen that too. You might be a good one to do. It's a crazy. I love how it's indoors because they don't want any elements, bro. Like this is, we're going for a world record here. Trabne. A freaking airplane hanger. Next time you see Royce Clayton,

you just tell him, hey, Royce, how's that, how's that 679 OPS? Because dad's got a 714 in the bag. Whoops. I, you know what I'd say? I'd say like, Royce, Royce, can you help me out real quick? what's 714 minus 676 And then he'll be like what And be like dude just really help me I need it I don't know I'm bad And then he tells you what it is And he's like it's 36 or whatever it is

38 28 28 I don't know what it is Nobody knows 38 and then and then you say Well that's the difference between me and you And then you walk away And then you play on your little you brought a speaker with you And you play what's the difference between me and you 36 Someone in the chat pointed out

that I have a lot of fake beef with people. It's kind of true. Yes. You're an athlete. Athletes need chips on their shoulders. Also, paper plane is a slang word for

a joint. Whoa. I fly like paper get high like plants. All right. All right. Best friend of the week. Well, it was almost going to be Kyle Gibson,

but then Trevor said he was going to give him the award. So it is Austin Meadows, who goes six for 13, a double, two ribbies. Jop Austin. Meds. I believe that's his fourth Best Friend Award. God. Get it all out of your system. Allie's always open, meds.

Except it's closed right now. He doesn't want that. It's closed now. He told us we can't play now. A lot of people are saying he watched his sequence episode. A lot of people are saying that. Of course he did. You're two Seamer versus Meds. I think that could play. Front hip him a little bit.

Yeah. Mm. Mm. What team are we talking about? Let's spin the wheel and find out what type of person standing in the elevator with us. Please smash that like button for us. Wow. Please.

Wow. In the elevator, we have a young 10-year-old girl who loves the Pittsburgh Pirates. Trev, what are you telling her? You're telling her about Kotuk. obviously like you like Vanessa Hutchins? I would say switch teams honey you don't need to be due to this to yourself no key Brian Hayes is the man

that's what I would say we know we've known about him for a long time but everyone's talking about this defensive play he had with Molina he's got a 994 career OPS it's not talked about enough the guy rakes too so they have some got some players it's going to take a little bit of time hopefully they go out

and get that number one pick two or three pick get a nice starting pitcher every cardinal fan the reply of that nice play by Brian Hayes was like well it's Giotti running and it's like yeah he knew he had time to make that play you could get some lift can we uh Brian Reynolds is

low key a stud 312 399 931 OPS I think you talk some trade stuff you say who are we flipping uh you know you say hey maybe send Kevin Newman down because he's got a 520 OPS and let Cole Tucker fucking And then you say, who are we getting for Adam Frazier, you know? Dude, you know who pitched in game two that you can tell the little girl about?

Who's that? Clayton Holmes. Clayton Holmes. The only other Clayton in MLB. Goes by Clay. Yeah, it goes by Clay. Well, that's because he's cool. Rich Rod's going to be an interesting name around the trade deadline.

If Clayton, Kershaw was 30% less good at sports, he would have had to go by Clay as well. Clay. But he didn't matter to him. He could let his play do the talking. He was like, call me Clayton. Call me out. They won a series, so just clap.

Clap it up. Way to go, guys. Chad, cool. Another good start out of him, I think. Tried him? Kyle Crick's baseball reference picture is not good. God, tough. J.T. Brubaker.

Jake sucks.