Talkin' Baseball (MLB Podcast) - 361 | Last Recap of the First Half!

Episode Date: July 12, 2021

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Hello and welcome to talking baseball live from Denver. And we have the last of the first half of the series to wrap up. So let's do it. Hello and welcome to talking baseball presented by Draft Kings. Thank you very much for tuning in on this Monday morning. Wherever you guys are, we are in an Airbnb in Denver, Colorado for the All-Star game. First Epp of the season that we're all in the same place? I think so.

Wow. Powerful. Yeah. We didn't film one when I was in New York? I don't think we did. Okay. Jake, how are you doing over there? James, Trevor, big baby, David with the Phillies infield jersey.

The chat is out. What's going on, guys? We're here. We're doing it. I had a nice moment this morning, outside of everything else in my morning. I was like, we're going to the Home Run Derby tonight. That's so cool. Like the energy, there's always a storyline.

Somebody goes nuts or something. We're going to see that live. Probably the Otani show. I'm good, man. We got a full house. We got a full day. I don't know. Bedroom smelled like farts last night.

It was the only problem. Jake and I are in a tiny kid room. And, well, Jake was farting, too. There's a lot of farts. There's a lot of farts. It's not a chest, man. I'm glad that it wasn't. We also had the only room without air conditioning.

So, no AC. Fart back. Jake and I on two little kid beds playing battlebops. Just kind of spinning heat parks. It's a disgusting way to start the show. We woke up and we told Pete more than a beat, you got to walk in this room and he just walked in. He goes, yuck.

That really is disgusting. So I'm doing well. How are you doing? You know, the cool thing about having the greatest baseball show to ever exist is that we get to come to the All-Star game. We were mingling a little bit last night. We went to the Players Inc. party. Rubbed elbows with Morni was there.

You got to meet my friend Ollie. What do you think about Ollie? Shout out, Ollie. My man. I was a bigger, I was a bigger Havi guy. Hav's great. Oh, my gosh. You guys, like, met some of my, like, really close friend.

Mourney. I talked to Hobby for a while. Whatever. Yeah. Havi liked, me and him kind of had similar sexy vibes. Yeah, he's like seven or eight inches and, like, gone out better. Like hot. Yeah.

Yeah. But, you know, it's, this. has been a lot of... If there was a show and it was like a human makeover and it was like, we took this and it's a picture of you and turned him into that and hobby, everyone would say, this show's fake. People would watch it. Yeah, they can't do that.

Hobby's literally like 6'4, so... But we're having a great time. James, how are you doing? Moyland, they're saying you're in the background of BBD, so if you want to make some fun faces... No, you're good. He's constantly interrupting everything.

That's Peter. But we love him. I'm doing well. I'm doing well. I, uh, I, uh, I, tuckered out early last night. A little bit. I'm very happy I did because I needed it. I was very tired. When did we go to bed?

Two? Still haven't, bro. No, I don't know. It was three o'clock. I gave the answer away with that. All right. Peter Moyland kept giving me this medicine. That was some funky stuff, man.

I said, I got something to knock you right out. I said, I'm tired right. I'm good. I'm a false. All right, let's get right into this. I have the NL. And, you know, we've always been an honest pot. Yeah.

People call us the number one on pot in the land. Yeah. I'm going to read a lot of these results for the first time right now. That's fine. We've been traveling and packing and planning. So I am excited to find out what happened in the NL as I tell you guys what happened in the NL. And Jake, who's the NL recap brought to us by? Jimmy, the NL recap, we're starting off with the cushy dreams.

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The Cubs and the Cardinal split two games set. It's a game three. was postponed. Oh, yeah, remember? So eat a buck. We were watching that game. It was raining. Instantly.

Hendricks versus LeBlanc in game one. It was a slug fest. And then Kim versus Davies in game two in the Cardinals win. Six, nothing. Does that mean Kim pitched well? That's exciting. Six shutout innings in game two from Kim, DeYoung with DeYoung with three hits and two homerons and Goldie with four hits and a homer and a double.

How about that? Micliss, the lizard guy, is on target to start a rehab assignment in late July. The Braves at the Marlins and the Braves won the series, but they lost Acuna, and that's pretty sad. Morton versus Bass, Freed versus Rogers, and Lopez versus Anderson. Dansby had six hits, four extra base hits and two home runs. Good job, Dansby. Morton goes seven shutout innings. Congratulations to him, but the overwhelming news from this series was the Acunae.

He tore his ACL attempting to field and inside the park home run, and we'll miss the rest of the season, and that is an incredible bummer for Braves fans and for all of baseball. The Reds went to Milwaukee and took three out of four from the Brewers. How is that for Gumpshin Week? I love it. They lost the first game to Hauser and then won the next three, two nothing, four to three, three to one. These had to be some good games, huh? Castiano's had five hits, two extra base hits.

He talked shit after the game. Yeah, who was he talking shit to? Someone was talking shit about their bullpen, and he said in the post game, someone was talking shit about our bullpen, and they should shut up. Was it us? I don't think so. I talked to a lot of shit about their bullpen last year, not this year. Miley went eight shutout innings in game two.

Hater takes his first two losses of the season in game three and four. That's a tough way to go into the break for the brewers, but they're fine. Suarez had a go-ahead home run in the ninth inning of game three. Castianos go-ahead two-run single in ninth inning game four. Yelly got ejected in game three after arguing with an umpire said he made a movement to go to second base before getting tagged. I made a video on that and Wong will be activated shortly after the All-Star break. Good job. The Pirates and the Mets split a four-game set.

Oh, no. Pirates. Why'd you do that? Damn, they had a double header in the middle of this. The pirates hit rarely well. They had seven home runs, 13 extra base hits. How about that? The Pirates starting pitchers had an eight ERA though.

And the relievers had a six-year-a-o for four games. It's a lot of innings and a lot of runs. Damn. Met scored 10 in the sixth inning at game one, including a Lindor Grand Slam and an Alonzo three-run Homer. The Pirates scored two runs off Diaz in the ninth to take the leading game four. J.D. Davis expected to return after the All-Star break. Carrasco could rejoin the Mets.

Fucking forgot all about Cookie being fully stretched out on a rehab assignment. That's cool for the Mets. They also drafted Kumar Rocker. The Giants swept the nationals. A little gumption week for them saying we're not going nowhere. How about that? Their starting pitchers in the three games had a 0.60 ERA. Damn, shout out to Webb Discoffani and Gossman.

Starlin Castro had six hits and Trey Turner had three hits. No other national had more than two hits. Damn. Dodgers took two out of three from Jake's D-backs. They lost the first game. Then Bueller and Gonsland got him wins in the second game. Dodgers starting pitchers pitched incredibly well. Pollock had seven hits, five extra base hits, three home runs, three RBIs and three walks. Best friend of the week potential? Seems like it.

Bueller goes six shutout innings in game two. Only starting pitcher for either team to complete six innings. Dodgers hit eight home runs in game two. Holy shit, they did eight home runs in the game? Did you see the score? Yeah. 22 to 21? Don't care anymore. Rockies, it was 8 and I think it would have been much more cooler.

Rockies take two out of three. Rocky starting pitchers, two ERA. They won a home series, an away series for the first time. All year we were at the DNVR bar and went on their podcast afterwards to talk about it. The first road win for the Rockies, series-wise. Series road win for Rockies. And they're starting pitchers, Ramon Marquez is crazy good. And that's your NL recap.

Holy smokes. way to go Peter doesn't even know that I timed it perfectly with the music but he clapped nonetheless for me Yeah you did What are you like there? They clap I really like the Reds

You're Reds Gumpchin week Because the Reds The Cardinals were falling The Reds were climbing And the Brewers are You know the standout number one team So that's a nice

Three out of four or two That's a nice way to end the season for the Reds Where I don't know what the standings are now I'm pulling them up There are four games back in Milwaukee. They're 48 and 42. I mean, for the Cincinnati Reds, we did this last episode, and it's so funny what one more series does to it,

but we were like, would Reds fans have signed up for this? Like, yeah. But they're 8 and 2 in their last 10. So going into the break, yeah. They might be the biggest gumption week winners. I believe that either I talked about it was C Rose or we talked about it last episode. We said, are the Brewers going to relinquish first place?

I think it was with Rose. and I said they're probably not going to relinquish first place at all, but they do play the Reds a lot. So, freaking, here we are now, four days later. What, they took three out of four? Is that what happened? Three out of four, I think. That's the way to get those games back.

Yeah. It's still like the Brewers, though. In the National League, and we said we were going to monitor Gumpshund week, which is a made-up thing that I made up, but the Reds and then the Giants as well. And you can, it wasn't about being a bad team proving it. It's just about saying, like, we're not going to. fade or give up it, you know, because the Giants. Giants are here, man.

They win their last four games and they sweep the Nats, but we're trying to start to do something, so good for them. That was the other series that I was going to point to first, just because the Nationals, they wrote me back in. I didn't want to be wrote back in. Schwaberg goes, gets hurt after he has, you know, one of the crazier months a hitter can have. But, man, if we're talking about reverse gumption,

like Nats, I mean, what do you do with them now? like they got us all all excited now they're back to 42 and 47 like I can't talk about that team that's what happens when we cover the game so much is like you know there's peaks and values for everybody so we have to like get excited and like the nationals got us in it was mainly because of swarber yeah I mean if he doesn't have that month they're not back in the swing of things and then you know bad week and here we are saying basically RIP nets Speaking of RIP, the Akuna News is really bad. Oh, okay.

So Braves. I thought you're going to drop a real RIP. Oh, no. But, no, that is, that is. I mean, is that? All right, hot take that I walked into. Is that the death blow? To the Brave season?

Yeah. It's been, like, a lot of arrows have hit it and wounded it along the way. Yeah, I mean, you can't replace Ronnie. They have Pache. I'm sure he's coming up. but he's Kuna is the heart and soul baseball let alone the Braves so

you know it's going to be tough for them to overcome this and it's tough because they I mean on paper you look at that squad at the beginning of the season you're like this is a team that can really do it and just didn't happen for them bad injuries and then some other stuff

yeah let's now here we are I was talking to Moyland last night late night and it was yeah you were if you told Braves fans everything wrong that was going to happen this year. Injury-wise, like, Soroka. I mean, never come back.

Ronnie now. I mean, the Ozuna stuff. You know what? You know, like, if you had walked Braves fans through all of that, I think they would have been like, no, like, that's. Can't happen. That's too much bad stuff. So I don't know, man.

And, hey, I know you mentioned Kumar Rocker, and it's the MLB draft, who knows. Maybe he's a Hall of Fame or maybe he never pitches an inning. He's going to be a Hall of Famer. Well, feeling like a Mets year a little bit. I mean, they've just, I don't think we've given them enough credit. And I mean, personally, I know I haven't. I've kept saying someone's going to come up there.

The Phillies might challenge them. The Braves are back in it. The nationals are back in it. But they're kind of like the Giants where they're just staying on top. And I don't think we've given enough credit to the Giants either. Yeah. The Mets have a really bad, the Mets, no, sorry. The Mets now have a winning record against teams that are over 500.

They have, like, a winning record in every way you can, like, dice up their season. And they're, they've caught up with games. Yeah. Most, for the most part. So, um, they did split with the pirates. But those seven-in-doubleheaders, hey, did you hear that? The MLB now is saying they want to go back to nine-ending double-headers? Mm-hmm.

Labor pot's going to be fun. Because MLB, MLB has fully admitted they like the seven-ending double-headers. But now the player said, we like them too. So now the league was like, actually, no, no, no, no, no. We're going to take those away. You like them? We were joking about liking them. We started getting into a little labor pod talk last night at the party, which was interesting.

MLBPA party. What else are you going to talk about? I was trying to impress them with how many mini corn dogs I could eat. I think people were. I think it wasn't. People noticed. Impressed wasn't the right word. People noticed.

I think it was like disgusted or grossed out. People saw. You definitely got some attention. Like there's people talking today that were like, do you see how many mini corn dogs that guy? I freaking love corn dogs. Like, I love corn dogs. I prefer like regular corn dogs. The minis are whatever to me, but corn dogs are kind of a rock star food.

It's just in your soul. It's the pool. It's a pool man. I was surprised you went for the corn dogs. How is it the pool man? Because it's an everyday food. The common man's food. Common man has corn dogs.

I don't see I don't see corn dogs as an everyday food. It's like a carnival treat. Like you don't eat corn dogs at home. No. You only get them at like some fun. Those corn dogs we ate last night were just, like, we and Jake both took a bite, and I said, this is the perfect amount of gross. If you have- Like, they weren't fresh or nice corn dogs.

They're just, like, frozen, reheated. If you eat corn dogs at home, like, you should probably rethink it a little bit. I don't think you can be like, what's for dinner? And then you say, let's have corn dogs. I will say this. I think I've made corn dogs for my kids. That's kids, you can still eat corn dogs at home. There's probably, like, high-grade corn dogs you can make.

I mean, like anything. There's gourmet. hot dogs. There's got to be gourmet corn dogs, right? Yeah. Maybe we make John Boyd corn dogs. Can I, I'll go back to the Mets. They had, because they had to make up so many games, which we've been talking about. In the first 11 days of July, they played

11 games with three double headers. So pretty grind to get to the All-Star break. They go six and five, which isn't amazing. But given it and like how many. Four in baseball is amazing. No, but it's good. I think that, like, is a little gumption test. Like, that was a test for them, the pitching, everything,

so many double-headers. Morlin, you hopping in? No, I'm just going to be chosen. The biggest placeholder. Say a couple words for the people. We said something about the Braves. You're a Braves expert in some parts. Is it, Jimmy asked, is that the final death blow?

It's a tough week. I'm not sure. I'm not willing to throw in the tail just yet, but it's going to be a tough to come back from that. if I'm completely honest. It is. I mean... Hashay needs to step up.

Someone has to. Someone has to. What happened to Ion Anderson? Did he get... Did he get... Shoulder has been bothering him? I'm just your proxy, dude. I'm just your proxy.

We're getting some Braves facts. Did you wash your hands? Okay. Yeah, he's felt something in his shoulder. Just added to... Look, I'd rather get him all out of the way now. Turn it around next year. Hopefully, Freddie stays, and we can...

We can... I felt like I've just fucked everything up. This has just been, thanks, Tray. Well, that was Peter Moyland. Farm to Fame. Coffee by your feet. Big Sasquatch feet. That was great.

Anything else in the NL? I mean, the Rockies won a road series for the first time in San Diego, which is cool. Well, we're saying nice things about the Mets. I'll say the one line that they'll remember and hate us for. I think part of my newfound Mets love is I just, the other teams have given me nothing to believe in. You thought it was going to be the Braves? Like you thought they were going to click. They're having a nightmare year.

The Phillies, I mean, just like definition of 500. And the Nats, 42 and 47. They're not a good team. Like, the Mets are good. The Mets are good. I don't win the East. Taiwan Walker's made the Mets really good. And congrats for him on being an all-star.

Yeah, we love you, Ty. Uh-huh. All right. Marquez, they should trade him, but they came out and said they're not going to trade him the Rockies. We talked about what the Rockies. I mean, I think he'd be the biggest haul you could get right now. He's on a four-year extension, they said.

So, like, if you're the Rockies front office, you're telling yourself in three years we want to be good. I didn't think he was on. And he can still be that. And I trust the people that cover the Rockies over me. Yeah. Knowing it, but I think he would have had that many years left. I think so because I think I was starting to go on a passionate Rocky's rant,

how they should lock up Hermann-Marquez, and then we're like, oh, they did. So what they say four-year extension, they're including this year. Sure. And they're including a club option. So if they were to trade him, teams are saying you get two and a half years. Well, the club option, I think for what he's doing, the club option would be very team friendly. The club option is, it's 16 million in 2024, which is friendly for him. But if you were to trade for him, you can say, well, we don't have to take that.

Exactly. But that's like a bonus for a team, you know. We're both right. I was saying that he had two years after this year left on his contract because that's how I view this. And they said four years and both of those are correct, which is interesting. How about that? But yeah, Rocky's first road win of the season. Good job.

That's insane. It's going to rocks. Notice it was when. They're back. It's when Poppy's back in Denver. The Rockies get their juice. But you also abandoned their team. Well, um, so the Rockies, we've talked about this a lot, but you really need to

understand what's happening. They're 31 and 17 at home. 9 and 34 on the road. Wow. Yeah. They're one of the best teams in baseball at home this year. Which, hey, maybe they're figuring out half of the formula. Fastballs with no spin.

Get the other team tired. I will say this. Like, I was expecting this altitude to, like... Well, we're going to go play sports at my room. I thought it was going to take me down this morning. Everyone was saying, hey, man, mix in a water, mixing a water. I woke up this morning. Feeling great.

No waters at all. I drank a water. One. Travis Blakely, snapping curves. The Giants. We didn't talk about the Giants and your D-Backs at all. Giants, man. I mean...

I meant Dodgers, by the way. Okay, because we did talk about them, and I was a little confused because I really like the Giants. Dodgers. We didn't talk about the Dodgers. They had a big series. 22 to 1.

Pujol is hitting some homers of position players. See, that's why I don't count the eight home runs when the scores. Why not? I don't know. It's just not as fun. It's pretty fun. Dodger Stadium was rocking.

Oh, it's fun for Dodgers fans, for sure. Yeah. Dodgers are good. Once you get in the 20s, you're facing pitchers that. suck or position players. We talk about this a lot. The Dodgers are just too good to talk about.

Like, they're just going to be there. Like, they don't worry about the regular season. So it's not that fun to talk about them during the regular season. Once we get it hammered down, playoff matchups, all that good stuff, then it's like, okay, it's the Dodgers time. I mean, they've had a lot of injuries this year. The Giants have stepped up, and the Dodgers have the best run differential in MLB. What?

The Giants are good. Is there another team you can say that about it? out right now? What? Playoff time comes, that's their season. Astros. Yeah, I agree. I mean, yeah, I agree.

Yeah. Yeah. That's they're good. Let's get to the A. Depending how Chicago finished their season. They were favorites coming in. They'd have to get. Well, they're shoe-ins for the playoffs, but I don't, I think.

White Sox fans are telling themselves. Yeah. Only the playoffs matter this year. But the way Trev and I think are talking about it are kind of like how the, I will refrain. Like, we've been there, we've done that. We know this, how to, sure.

We know that this is it. Where the White Sucks haven't had the experience. So they still have to like, yeah, yeah. All right, let's do the AL. Trevor Plouffe, can you tell us what happened? I can't. It's the goose. Here we go.

Let's start off with the Blue Jays going down to Tampa. The raise took two of three from them, 7-1 raise, 5-2-raised, and 3-1 Blue Jays in the last game. Neither team hit, which means both teams pitch. That's usually how it goes. LOW, three homers, including two in game two. Vladian Springer, both go one for 11 during the series.

It's always tough to do that. Bad series doesn't feel good. Nine raise relievers combined for 13 shutout endings. Five of them record five plus outs each. That's what they do. Glass now is not here. Oh, we have nine relievers. They're going to throw shutout endings.

That's incredible. The race take no hitter into the seventh inning of game three. They strike out 11 and 7 shut out one hit innings. They are good. They took two out of three from the Jays. Moving on. This was a fun one. Yankees go down into Houston and they look great.

4-0 Yankees in game one. One-nothing Yankees in game two. Eight nothing in the game. Oh, what happened? They lose 8 to 7. The last game. A lot of things happened right here. Either team hit that well.

Yankee starting pitchers were awesome, led by Garrett Cole. He had the complete game three hit shutout with 12Ks and his return to Houston in game two. But then game three-three happened. Altovae with the walk-off three-run homer off of Chad Green and takes his shirt off after Judge and Sanchez both hit homers and mocked him because they said it was cold in here. I don't know how I feel about that.

We'll talk about it afterwards. Correa sat the whole series. Bregman expects to start a rehab assignment in mid-July. lie. I didn't know that Coray was out this series. Kind of makes it less impressive for the Yankees. And then the Wiesiga gets placed on the COVID-I-L. But Yankees do take two out of three in Houston. I guess that is impressive, Jim. I'll take back my sentence that I said about five seconds ago. Moving on, Athletics at Rangers. The A's take two or three from the Rangers. Three, two, Rangers in game one, then eight, four, and ten, four to one in the last game. Athletics slash 208, 250,

the 481. They had eight homers and 13 extra base hits, and the Rangers, they did not hit. Bassigo, seven innings pitch, one earned run in game three the day after being named an All-Star. Olson, Lowry, Murphy, two home runs apiece. The ace hit four home runs in game two, including Piscotti's two-run homer in the 11th. Garcia had the go-ahead, go-ahead, two-run single in the sixth inning of game one, and hits his 22nd home run in game two.

Gallo, our guy, 24th homer. He drew five walks in the series. A's take two out of three. Moving on, the twins. Finally, some good twins' news. They sweep a four-game set against the Tigers. They're back! Five or three twins, four twins, four twins,

and 12, nine twins in ten innings. Twins hit the ball pretty well. Tigers did not. Polanco had five hits with two homers in nine RBI's. My Guy Kepler were six hits, a homer, and a triple. Jonathan Scope had six hits. Polanco with the walk-off, three-run, Homer, in the 10th inning of game four.

or Jake Rogers hit a go-ahead grand slam for the tigers in the top of the ninth, but Ben Rortvet. Is that right? Yeah. I love you, Ben. You tied it up with a second career home run in the bottom of the ninth. Garver could start his rehab assignment this week, and Dobnack suffers a setback in his rehab start,

but the twins sweep the tigers. Angels up in Seattle. The Mariners take two or three for them, seven-three Mariners, two-oh mariners before the Angels won the last game, seven to one. both offenses struggled. Hanager did have four hits, including a go-ahead, Grand Sam,

the eighth in the game one. Where's he going to be at the end of the year? We don't know. Flexing goes seven, shutout endings of game two has a 1.38 ERA in his last five freaking starts. Fletcher, eight hits with two home runs and five RBI, so he extends his hitting streak to Trevor Ploof, Kobe Bryant, 24 games.

Otani hits one 4663 feet in game one for his 33rd. Home run, Kikuchi, placed on the COVID-Eye were you kissing him? What? Were you kissing him? I don't have to say anything. And the angels have yet to decide when Trout will begin to rehab assignment. Mariners take two or three from the Angels.

Moving on, the White Sox went into Baltimore, and they swept him in a three-game set. 12-1 White Sox, 8-3 White Sox, 7, 5 White Sox in 10 innings. They hit the crap out of the ball. Andrew Vaughn, six hits with two homers and a double. Four other White Sox for a quarter five-plus hits. Mount Castle had the exit game three because he got nailed by a heater. but it should be available the first game after the All-Star break. One more guy, stick with me.

The Royals went into Cleveland. The Indians swept them. It was a four-game set. Game four is postponed, so seven-four Indians, two-one Indians, two-one Indians. Sal Perez, actually the game three, was not in Sunday's release lineup. We'll see how that works. He's supposed to be in the derby tonight.

Our guy, Tristan McKenzie, go seven shuddy in game two. Frammell with the walk-off homer in game one. After Santana had the game tying home run in the top. of the ninth against his former team. Indian sweep. They take three games from the Royals, and that's what happened in the AL. Great job, great job.

That's a lot. A lot of A.L. action. There are a lot of stuff. The White Sox sweep, the Orioles, and record-wise, last 10 games, the White Sox did the gumption stuff. Also, some schedule shaming, though, like they've played some easy teams.

We don't schedule shame here on this pod. No, we do. Jake and I officially said, I thought we schedule, like, scared, but not schedule shame. No, it is. We're just schedule important pod. It's just what you make of it. Like, we talked about this with the Angels when they won their nine games,

and it was all against bad teams. Like, for the White Sox, this is good. They took care of their business, but this doesn't change anything. It's, I'm trying to think, like, I'm trying to think, you know, if you're a team and you go play two crappy teams, when you win those games, I'm trying to think how it felt. It still feels pretty good. You know, like, you're not looking at the schedule

being like, oh, those are too crappy teams. I don't think players should look at the schedule and feel that way. Well, I'm maybe thinking they should. Maybe front offices need to start to line those games up. I don't know, man. I'm talking crazy. Front offices should. You should get fat on bad teams.

That's what all the good teams do. Not the Yankees. No. Yankees don't do that. I know that from Yankees, Twitter. Different strategy that they. Not a good team. Like what I was facing Peter Moyland, I was like,

this is going to be an easy game for me. Right. So I don't have to try that hard. That's kind of what we're talking. Right. Well, he's going to take your ass down and... I mean, I'd love to... Yeah, I'd love to sit in a room with, like, an analytics team and say, like, here's our plan.

Like, let's go 500 against the good teams. Let's beat up on the terrible ones. Yeah, 501 against the good teams. 750 against the bad teams. I think that's how you win a division. I think that's what good teams do. Yeah. The twin sweep.

Does this do anything? They're so far back. They're going to... They're going to sell. They're going to sell. Well, that's exciting then. Yeah. They got some pieces.

Detroit's still ahead of them. So... After getting a four-game sweep, Detroit's still ahead of them in the standings? Yes. Oh, could I tell us a Twins tidbit? Yeah, yeah. I heard less long. No, no, we don't need it.

Not a tip. Okay. Fine. You can't say the word tidbit. It's kind on you. It's been a while. He's proudly taking the shit. God, you guys are going to be disappointed in my tidbit.

That was a big lead-in for this. I've been there. Nelson Cruz, flying private to the event, the All-Star Game, was waiting at the airport all day yesterday. The flight he scheduled just did not arrive. Damn. So he'll be flying in this morning. Yeah.

And that's the tidbit. I told you guys not to play the thing for that. Yeah, I want to play the thing for that. Well, he's a big napper anyway. So he probably found an airport nap. Like he had an airport nap. Yeah. So Nelson Cruz flew here private or was going to, and then I was in the middle seat because I'm such a good Samaritan.

Yeah. You got bullied out. I got bullied. The guy didn't even have a daughter probably. Yeah. No. He's like, hey, chump, take my middle seat. I'll take your aisle.

Yeah. The A's take two out of three from the Rangers. Sure. So did they go into the Capelian? Did he pitch good again? See? What the I think you said sneeze

That was your sneeze? I tried to get it away from the mic So that was like an emergency I just sneeze But you said sneeze I know Yeah Do you do that?

I was trying to stop it No I was trying to protect you It was a warning It was a warning You didn't get me that's good I didn't feel like a mist or something Whatever just happened was incredible sneeze defense Okay

Throw us back I did I did talk to Gibby About the whole like Olson Gallo pre-home run derby fast. He said it was one of the coolest things he's ever seen on the baseball field. He said Gallo was out there doing it. And then since they had everything set up, they said, hey, just go get mad.

And so at the end, it was both teams there watching their guys prepping. So honestly, I don't know how many other guys practiced for this. On the field, the big thing for guys in these homerun derbies is no turtle, no cage. Once you get out there and you're naked, it feels a little different. So they got a little practice in. A little sprinkle, sprinkle on the two lefties. There was, I think the MLB taken a page from the NBA's book. When the NBA has a slam dunk contest,

you'll have a couple guys leak videos a couple days before. Homer and Derby had a couple of that. I know like Rocky's posted their Trevor Story clip. Oh, did he do too? So I think MLB, they're catching up a little bit. Well, also it's a freaking million dollars now. Yeah, exactly. Like before the guys were like, oh, this is great.

I'm going to go out there and ruin my season for, like, a trophy. I know we didn't mention this before. Did you guys see Otani hasn't taken batting practice all year? Yes. Yeah, he doesn't take BP. Why not? On the field, because he doesn't want to. Why?

Honestly, I think BP is for the fans. I think if you ask any ball player, they'd be like, this is kind of ridiculous. Pitchers don't want to be out there. Obviously, they complain nonstop about shagging balls. Nonstop. I think the only thing it's there for is like a little stretching, little ground balls, but hitting is only for the fans. You don't get anything out of batting practice.

Nothing? Even just like the routine of it, if that becomes your routine? It can become your routine only because it's like made to be there. Like you have to do it for the fans. I think the one thing I will say is if you haven't played in a particular ballpark, going and getting the visual is fine. Did you have aim, like places you aimed at when you played in Minnesota? Yeah.

A-Rod talked about you got a sign. I was always trying to hit this one sign. Yeah, if you're trying to lock in your slot, yeah, you have a, whatever, you pick something out that you want to do. I mean, some guys really enjoy hitting BP. I wasn't one of them. I thought it was, like, you were already doing a lot of stuff in the cage, like your own work, and then you get out on the field,

and it's like, you know, you can do what, I can hit, like, in a million different batting stances when a ball's coming out of me 40 miles an hour. It doesn't really prepare you for the game, is what I'm trying to say. Okay. What about the Yankees who were taken out? the high heat, high speed machine. And they did BP with 90 mile power machine because they suck.

They need to work on hitting fastballs. I like that. I think that's probably better preparing you for the game. You don't even have to swing at that. It's more like a visual thing. Just get your timing down, the cadence, whatever it is. In fact, I prefer not to swing when they do the Velo machines because it could tear you up. It could make you feel like a bad hitter.

Machines better than you. Yeah. Wow. A lot of people felt that way in the age. 80s. The Rays take two out of three. Their pitching does well. I mean, you can just chop that and say that for every single week.

I haven't seen a Rays anything in a while. I mean, I know the Yankees and Rays haven't played for a little bit, so that's normally where I get my dose. But like, I guess Glass Now starts you, like, that was kind of a night in baseball. Like, if you heard Glass Now was five innings pitch, 10Ks, you're like, okay, I'll tune into that. Yeah. The Rays watchability might be at an all-time low,

and I think that's what makes that. them thrive. Where's the standings at for the race? The rays are one and a half games behind the Red Sox. They're still so good. 53 and 37, 589 win percentage. Like, think about the Red Sox have obviously been a storyline of the AL this year. Like, they've had an incredible season.

The Rays, we never talk about their game and a half back. They're a weekend away from overtaking the Sox. It's the raise and the A's, man. They're just always there. It's because I can develop pitching. We've talked about that. at length here. On the other end, the J's, Robbie Ray is another really good start.

Stripling did not have a great start. But Robbie Ray, I think, is on a role right now. Dude, Robbie Ray is like, he's going to be a bar trivia question for us in five years. Because his strikeout numbers, like, in his time playing, it's like him, Scherzer. What's the trivia question going to be? It's going to be something like, oh, who's got, who are the top five strikeout pitchers from 2014 to 2018? That's a hard trivia question. It's a hard trivia, but John Barr.

It's a baseball bar. In his last eight games, Robbie Ray is a 2-40 ERA. He's been pitching really well. Robbie Ray is not your Dylan Bundy, right? No. That's Matt Boyd. Matt Boyd's your Dylan Bundy. Dylan Bundy's your Dylan Bundy.

Do I have a Dylan Bundy? Jake's a big Robbie Ray guy because he likes a strike-out number. I was always just like middling Robbie Ray guy, but he's pitching really well lately. I don't think I have a player that I've talked crap about and he's just like oldie been good. I think you've had a player that you talk crap about. There's only like two, and they don't play anymore.

Okay, how about that? All right, we'll go to the big stories of the week, which we, it is the big story of the week. It's the Yankees and the Astros and all the trolling and the El Tuvee stuff. I know we're going to get into some of the Eltuve stuff later on. But so just game-wise, you said the Astros didn't have Correa and they didn't have Braggman and stuff, but the Yankees won game one with Nestor Cortez.

I know. Well, he's been good. Yeah, but he's a guy that anyone could have had. And Lucas Litre, another guy, not in MLB last year. And then Guardian Wade with the big hits. So a lot of Astros fans are saying, you know, we weren't playing.

It's like, well, we didn't play her. But it was going to be a very good gumption week for the Yankees. And they still won both series of gumption week on the road. So, you know, if we were just looking at the numbers, you'd say, oh, the Yankees went four and, or they went, yeah, four and two. on the road, and the West Coast.

That's a really good West Coast trip, but the way that they lost the final game, like ruins all of it. I don't think it ruins it. I think that's... Okay, for you guys. It ruined it for you, James. For me, it's more like both teams showed up and showed out, dude.

Like the a show on the brink of getting swept at home by the Yankees. Yes. And they came back and scored. How many six? Yeah, and a lot of it is the Yankees' bullpen is an utter disaster right now. Britain's hurt. O'Day's hurt. Justin Wilson can't pitch.

Lizania had to go on the IL and Chapman got benched lost. Or through the All-Star game. So a lot of those are like, some of them are injuries and some of them are like, well, they're bad so they don't get the play. So like, it's just about you're leaning on Chad Green. Al-Tuve would have hit a home run off of no matter who was coming up.

If Al-Tubei has a chance they had to walk off home run against the Yankees, he hits it. So they should have just walked them. It's interesting because we were talking. talking before this. The Yankees were up. We saw Gary Sanchez hit the homer. It was like, wow, like the Yankees made a statement.

And you're like, do you think they bring in Altova? They're going to bring in Altova? Or not, excuse me, Chapman. Yeah. Are they going to bring in Chapman? Are they going to bring in Chapman? You said Chad Green was down, you thought, for yesterday's game. Because he pitched a lot.

A lot the day before. Or game one or whatever was. Ended up not using Chapman. You know, pretty, this is a low stress ending. And that's kind of what they need to do for him. I know it's the ninth. Yeah, I think they're, the same mindset as me with Chapman,

and that is he is three days past the last time he, he, like, had a bad outing, or he's still on, like, the path of recovery because they pitched him in a blow, and he did okay, not great. And you get the all-star break as, like, a big mental break because I think it's mental. So if you were to cut,

so right now he's going on, like, basically a 10-day, mental-free, work-on pitches thing, and if you were to pitch him there, and Altube clips him, you almost reset him back to, like, negative ill on the road to a mental... I got to be honest with you. That's a crazy way to think about a guy who, like, has been playing as long as he's been playing. Why does he need a freaking 10-day mental break?

That's the other side of the coin. If they throw Chapman and he has a clean inning, it's almost the perfect series for the Yankees. Yeah. Garrett Cole dominated his game. The Yankees' bats came alive in the last game. Oh, did Chapman figure it out at the end? We would be... We'd be running a little hot on the...

mics and said we're kind of sad boys. This was Chapman in the bullpen. The Yankees just shoot themselves. That's twiddling your thumbs. That's what that is? Yeah, I think so. That one of those? Joe's got tidbits about Chapman.

You want to come in here, Joe's? Come on, Joe's. Come take my mic. I got to use the bathroom anyway. Okay, never mind. This is awesome. I love having everyone together because we can do stuff like this. Get like Jake out of there

and bring a real guy in here. Joe's. Joe's McFly for those don't know. Pinstripe Strong. Going to be ahead of Jay and. him gaming coming soon. Chapman, he's working on mechanics, right? Didn't he tell you he was thinking about like using the All-Star Break to really

take care and work on mechanics? Yeah, he did say that, but I don't know, the way I looked at it was he had him, you know, Boone had him up the night before in the Garrettoe game, you know, one run game.

You're willing to put him into that game. The only reason you don't is because obviously Garic Cole says, get the hell off my mouth. Yeah. In another way. And then the next night, might as well put him in that seven to game.

It's just my opinion, just to, like, you get him that clean inning, like how Jake was saying. I don't know. So the problem, yeah, and this is too deep, Yankees, but we'll do it quick. They started Hermann in the ninth inning because he was coming out of the bullpen

and looking good. So the best case was to get Herman through it. Okay. So if they were, so I still think going with Hermann early was good. If they were going to a new pitcher to start the ninth, I would have used Chapman because it was low pressure. But when Chad Green came in, it already turned into a high pressure. So at that point, I think you can't do it.

That makes sense. Artouvae was hitting a home run. Yeah, you have to pay credit to the Astros and Altubei. I mean, like seriously, on the brink of being swept in front of your home crowd before the All-Star break. And getting trolled by the Yankees. And we'll talk about that later. But yeah. That's coming later.

Good video Joe's and I reacting to that. I can't wait to see it. I haven't seen it yet. As soon... Your videos. Your reaction videos are the best. We went through the MLBPA meeting. People were just coming up to Joe's and like,

I don't know you, you're the face guy. Yeah, everyone was it. Everyone came out to you. I know you. We went... The funny thing was is that it's just like base hit, base hit. It's like, okay, whatever.

They got a couple of runs. And then, you know, Glaber does his play. He kind of drops the ball. You see that? He tried to drop it on purpose to turn the ball. I didn't see that. The ums called him out. And then it was crazy.

We were like, okay, that's a cool play. We were kind of laughing up. And then they cut the camera right to Al Tuvei. And me and Jimmy were like, no. No. We knew immediately what was going to happen. I tweeted out. Amuio.

Is it immediately? Outube is going to pop a homer and then take his shirt off after his scores. I tweeted that out. And then right before it happened. Exactly. I mean, if you didn't know that was going to happen, you're just kind of blind. Well, Jake has to do the IL, but Jake's gone. Yeah, we need to move on from Yankee Talk.

We're talking way too much about Yankees. Yeah, yeah. Joe, do you want to do the I'll do it. I'll do it. You just got to read these bullet points. Jake's out. He's pooping. He's coming back.

All right. Okay, Jake. Joe's about to do the IL report for you. Yeah. Here we go. On your mark. You eat. and drink clean in your diet

and then you have that much blood in your stool. Here we go. Disgusting. The series that everyone is talking about, BPD's Philadelphia Phillies, a lot of breath from running off the stairs, played the Boston Red Sox and the Phillies, two out of three.

How about it, Red Sox? Red Sox, what's going on there? 11-5 Red Sox in the first game that was Richards versus Velasquez. Philly's rolled game, too. They put up an 11 spot of their own. And then Trev, your guy, Brandon Kinsler, a little opener day for him in Philly.

They're getting creative. I'm out of breath, dude. Oh, my gosh, the elevation. I ran up the stairs. Those bathrooms on this level. It's going to be a long day today. Bogots hits two homas and that's obvious. Boehm tested positive for the COVID-B-D,

but he'll be back. They have a bunch of guys out. I thought we had a Bowman at the other night. Marlon Gonzalez likely heading to the I. Matt Barnes, two-year extension. We like guys getting paid on this podcast. Phillies take two out of three from the Red Sox. That's it.

All right. Good job, Jake. A lot of mini-corn dogs last night. There's like a bathroom right there. Yeah, like right here. Right here. That's where I went. Well, you know where the bathroom is.

What? The basement. The basement. Oh, yeah, that's beautiful basement. Basement's lit. So you use the one, okay? Yeah. That's where I sleep.

You went downstairs? Yeah. You went to BPD and Zach's room? I haven't been over there. I don't even know it's over there yet. Literally, see those light switches on the wall? Yes. On the other side is his bathroom.

I've never gone past those. Talking bathrooms. I like it. It's a batheing there. All right. What do you got? People say we didn't talk about the Mariners. We have to talk about the Mariners.

But someone else in the chat said the Mariners series was so bad, don't talk about it. So they're conflicted. The Angels and the Mariners. He did talk about it a little bit. The Mariners won two out of three. You might hear an award from that series even. Well, how about that? How about that?

Get excited. Do we talk about the Phillies, Jake? You like them? I mean, they're kind of Treves-Fills, Ronald Torres with a big series, and that's obvious. He pitched? I want them to be good, man. They have a lot of good players on their team.

And just, like, the pitching hasn't been there. I mean, I'll root for them. These Phillies, your Phillies. Yeah, I'm a Phillies legend. And it would be fun if the NLEs becomes a race. But I think if you look at the Mets and Phillies on paper right now, I think the Mets kind of roll them. Yeah.

Well, how about the Red Sox? losing. Have they been on like a bad stretch? I thought they were and then they came back a little bit. Let me check now. They're five and five in their last 10, 12 and 8 in the last 2018 and 12. They're still doing it, man.

Yeah, they're fine. They're fine. You know, it's hard to do this show without my laptop and my extra screen. I'm looking over here. What do you want? I don't know. I'd like to peruse baseball reference while we do the show.

I can't right now. I'm going to put some on the TV. That would be nice Well Yeah I mean Look the Red Sox are like the Red Sox are like the Giants They've just been doing it all season long And we really don't talk about them

Or give them enough credit Like we've been waiting for something to happen With the Red Sox It does not happen They're gross They continue to smash the ball They pitch enough Their bullpins really good

I don't know man Gotta give credit Those socks You know I'm all about that No socks Jealous of them Of that All right

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and then just like showing them. Like up close. What I got down there. Like, it's not working, see? Like, look, I'm watching. I'm doing everything down here. I'm doing everything I can right now, and it's just not happening.

The stretching it help? It might. It might. Roman, that's, I have a Roman nose. That's right. Yeah, yeah. I'm very proud of that. I'm not. I used to get made fun of you guys know.

Whoa. I was thinking of the Parks and Rec episode where Sewage Joe sends a picture of his wiener to everyone in Town Hall. And Ann Perkins sees something on and diagnoses him. And they're like, oh, it's helpful. But then everyone starts to make a minute pick. Don't do that. Yeah. My standout performance is Garrett Cole.

Complete game shutout. Only pitcher this week to throw a complete game shutout. 12 strikeouts. After being so bad since the sticky stuff ban. And that being a real thing. Garrett Klaus learned on a pitch without it because he's been pitching with it for so long. Pretty badass of him to go, not only can I pitch without it, I can still perform really well without it and shut out the best offense in baseball without it.

Nine innings pitch, zero earned runs, and then he fights with Boone on the mound. He says, I'm finishing this game right fucking now, and then gets Alvarez with the three fastballs. So complete game shutout will always be a standout performance that I go find. And this time happens to be Garrett Kohl. I like that. deserves it. He was nasty. The problem I have with Garrett Cole is, you know, he was very intense and it was kind of like a badass thing.

But then I bet if you listen to the audio, you know, he kind of has that high-pitched voice. Like it's not as badass if you have the idea. Jake does a real good impression. I can't. I can't get anywhere here. I have no idea the noises that he makes. Like when he said this, what do you say? This shit is mine. They're high.

Enjoy them. It was a badass game, though. the last pitch against Yordong was nasty. Mistakes? Yeah, high. It's not a badass voice. No, it's not. No, it's not.

Good job. Good standout. Jake, I'm next. You get to go, I'm next. Oh, Jake gets to go third. So, Trev goes straight. He was saying I'll be third. Thank you for that.

So that works out. I am going with Max Muncie. My guy went three for five with a homer, a double and two RBIs. And it's important that he continues to rake because there's some coming for his shit. You guys know I always tell you. There's always somebody coming for your job. Max Muncie was drafted by the A's.

Wow. And then yesterday, another Max Muncie was drafted by the A's. 25th overall, shortstop at 1,000 Oaks high school. So if Max Muncie wants to like keep the title, the claim to his name, he better keep breaking. He's doing that with a big game. What do you say? Three for five?

Homer, double, two RBIs? This other guy's really cool, though. I saw him play Max Muncie the draftee this year. Go check him out two. Two for one, Max Muncie. They have the same birthday. Same birthday. Same birthday.

Both drafted by the ace. It's, um, man, if there's a player that would actually, like, drive him, I think Max Muncie would be the guy. Like, he's like, I'd be pissed. Fucking, fucking first round pick, shortstop, Max Monce's his name. And he's a good-looking kid, too. And, you know, the Max, Big League or Max Muncie's in the night, you know. What were you saying? He's not that guy.

good looking. This kid's a good looking kid. But Max Muncie, the Dodger doesn't give a shit about it if he's good looking. I don't see maybe he does, though. What's this kid's middle name? It's hard to Google him because the other Max Muncie comes up. So he's... You can't search baseball. Yeah, Max Muncie Baseball.

We're fine. Max Muncie Thousand Oaks. Max Muncie... This guy rakes. Good player, man. Shout out Max Muncie, the big leaguer for a nice game. Jake, who's your stand-up performance? Jim, what are you researching there? I'm trying to find their middle names. Okay.

Because that's, that's, oh, so Dodger, Max Muncie is Maxwell Stephen Muncie. I think this is him. Max Muncie baseball born 2002. Yeah. Yeah. That's probably. They don't have his full name. Yeah.

We can't give that out. He's too young to give that out anyway, Jim. My standout performance, Treve, great one. I'll go third. Someone who, I mean, people say short king. Ooh. Some people say 24 game hit story. streak.

Oh, yeah. Some people say four for five with a yakker. David Fletcher, Internet sensation, short king. Jim, you know I like the slappers. But as we talk about, if the hit stop falling, there's nothing. Because if you got no pop, and that's how you could get yourself into a tight situation. Guys, David Fletcher on June 12th, 255 batting average, 287 on base, a 581 OPS. for David Fletcher.

And now? Well, in the last 24 games that coincide with his hit streak, 439 batting average, a 1.047 OPS from David Fletcher. He's got, in those 24 games, he has 43 hits. David Fletcher's been getting like two hits a game for about a month. That's how you do it right there. And he got four in this game.

His yearly numbers are starting to get to a nice area, 309, 336, 7-1.3.7.1. 1-8 OPS, but very interested to see what the rest of the year has for David Fletcher because he's all about the hit tool. Is he going to keep dropping them all year? 24 is a lot of games, man. It's a lot, man, but he's feeling good. Short King, good with the glove.

He's starting to rack up war this year now. 2.3 war from David Fletcher. All four of the hits came off four different pitchers. How does that make you feel, Treve? That's a good day to play. He's seeing the ball obviously very well right now. Back to ball skills. That's what he does.

There's a little bit of trash talk going on right now. You guys got it. Get me out. I'm not really. You're out? Oh, it's slump watch. He's got a robo. Robo.

Wow, make sure he doesn't go robo. Okay. Time to get sad. Fletcher listed at 5'9. What do we think is actual hises? 5-7, 3 quarters. Nice. Perfect.

5-7 and 3 quarters. All right, we have five guys on Slumpwatch. Brand new guys. They're all on Slump Watch for the first time. Right. Because everyone got cleared. We have five potential additions. And I may have a little trick-a-roo,

but BD, first tell us the five that potential they're getting added. Our five potential adds. Some names that I would be shocked if they've been on this year yet. Fernando Tati's Jr. over 12 of the series with 5Ks. Brad Miller following up his three-homer series, or three homer game in that series. O for six, a walk, four Ks. Gavin Bigia goes O for six with a walk.

George Springer is in a one for 11 slide with a walk. It mixed in there, five Ks. And Vladdy Jr.'s one for 11, a walk, three Ks. Damn. All right. So the people that were on it last week, our last episode, Carlos Correa, he sat the whole series, didn't play.

Good way to get off the list. Gary Sanchez, he goes two for ten with a homer. Everybody eyes a walk. I mean, the homer was pretty cool. so I'd take him off the list. Yeah, I mean, from your catcher, you take that series, you know. You cross a lot of boxes. J.P.

Crockford, 3 for 11 with a double and two walks, 385, OBP. He's off. I mean, are we helping everyone here? Huge J.P. Crawford pot. Mike Zonino. Oh, Big Z. Two for six with a homer, a walk, a hit by pitch. He's off.

Off? Yeah. Starling Marte. Martego's one for eight with a walk. and 5Ks. That's not that great. It's a 2-2-2-O-BP. I am...

We're interested in it. That's not a way to clear your one for 14. I am suggesting no one stays, and we do fresh slate going in the second. Just do it again? Second half fresh slate. I think it's nice to them. Okay.

I mean, you got Tatis. You're going to get the All-Star game. I don't want Marte thinking about that either. Yeah. No one's on, right? He's Brad Miller. No slump watch. Treve.

Great news. No slump watch today We're not sending anyone Into the break on slump watch Yeah, it feels really rude You're gonna reset over the break anyway Because then they're gonna be on slump watch for a week I hate slump watch

Yeah So well we just cleared it Yeah He's gone Now you like this part Nasty's on FI'm 5 baby Like Wago David Fletcher you heard about him

24 game history Real deal I know that like DiMaggio's is like really big so we don't I think because his is so long you don't like appreciate that 24 is still fucking crazy and he thinks 10 and above is

really good yeah if he gets to 30 that should be celebrated I think AJ Pollock 7 for 11 with three homers I told you about him Ronald Terreas Jake said he had a good series didn't he get him the bump recently too? Baby toe yeah he was he was punching tickets out there long fly balls dude baby toe at a

home run yep and a double wow yeah Yeah. Brandon Crawford, 7 for 11 with a homer in a double. Andrew Vaughan. Ronica Vaughn. 6 for 13, 2 home runs, a double 4 RBIs. Mookie Betts.

511, that's his height. He went 5 for 11. He is 511. No, he's 511. No, he's not 511. He's a short king. Yeah, he's a short time. Two home runs, 6 RBIs, 4 walks.

Jed Lowry. Oh, Jed, Uncle Jed. Disco, Jed. I made a little short breakdown about. Oh, Jed. Got to love Jed. It's not out yet, though, but it's coming. He feels like a sexual guy in the clubhouse.

No, he's very much. He's a Stanford guy. Oh, so you guys know what that's like. Fraternity brothers. You do the secret handshake. Yeah. Francisco Lindor, we heard about the home run he had and the big win for the Mets. Five for 13, two homers.

And Kurt Casale. Hey, four for six with two homers. I like Kurt. He's a friend of the pod. Salie. He's a friend of the button. Yeah. Official.

Yeah. Wow. That's huge. Uh, a war. Do you want me to hit this one, Trevor? It's me. I like the Ron Darling one the best. I don't have that one on here.

B.B.D. I like Green and Trevor. I like Greent and Trevor Plough stuff. He's got a lot of good takes. Honestly, that is... I love that he said that. Just gives you a... I love that he said that.

Yeah. How does he know about my takes? I never figured. That's going to go third in the awards. Changing it up. Oh, shoot. I'll go. So Trev has an award.

Yeah. And he's going to go first. My award is the Frederick Jones Award. He's widely recognized as basically inventing air conditioning. Ever heard of it? Jim's a big AC guy. He's a sweater. Yes.

So we always have a fan going air conditioning going. Frederick Jones. Shout out for that invention. They needed it. They needed it in Houston yesterday. They said it was real chilly, so the AC was working good. Judge hits the Homer, does this whole thing. I got to say, I didn't know Judge had that level of pettiness in him,

so I was surprised that he did this. And he said, hey, it was chilly in there. Gary Sanchez hits the three-run bomb. He says it was chilly in there. And then I guess in the bottom of the ninth, the AC breaks because it got hot. Yeah. And then Al-Tuva hits the bomb. took off his shirt.

And he took off his shirt and he was all sweaty and sexy. And I got to be honest with you, man. That's probably my favorite series of the season. Two favorite moments of the season is Garrett Cole doing that? Because I really want Garrett Cole to be good. Pitching the way he did after the sticky stuff allegations. And then Altuve coming back and doing that, taking the shirt off. I got to say, I didn't see any tattoos.

Did he get it removed or something? No, so the tattoo thing is real. Well, in the ALCS last year, he had a name, Mallory. Yeah, do you take it off? It's still there. It's really small. It was in print during the ALCS in 2019, and he didn't like that. The story he says, and it does add up.

He got it. He updated his tattoo after the ALCS in 2019, and by the World Series, it was in cursive. Okay. Well, I'm just saying this. He likes the cursive version of it. He looks great with a shirt off. Yeah, no, his body. That was like an.

Adonis, like all the guys ripping his clothes off and he was there. It was like Jake dreams that he could be El Tuve in that situation. I know I'm going to get so much hate in the chat for this, but I still really like Jose El Tuvei. Yeah. I love watching the guy play. I love the fact that he's like this little dude and he can hit the shit out of the ball, and he's done this now twice to the Yankees. The walkoffs are awesome.

I love that he took his shirt off. The whole, like, the whole scenario was amazing. That's like scripted freaking baseball right there. The Yankees are really bad. trolling. Also, shout out Frederick Jones for inventing the AC. Shout out for it. Invented in Houston because so hot there.

It's a big one. Okay. And he has a lot of other patents and stuff like that. So shout out. And we got another Judge Altouvae pick that you look at it and you're like. Was that one photoshopped? I think someone slightly Photoshop that one. It's like how, how do these two humans do kind of the same thing on the baseball field?

That's what people say about you and I. I know. Yeah. That's why we have such mutual respect for each of them. Yeah, we do. Game recognized game. always being nice to each other not calling each other rats or

ferrets. I apologize for the rat thing. What was the context of you calling him a rat? Be honest. C. Rose had a question for me on the IG lab today. He said, what John Boy Media member is going to scratch and claw today? And I said, you know, when I think about scratching clawing, I think of like a New York

New York City sewer rat. Oh, so it was a sewer rat. It wasn't like a lap rat. It's about a nice rat. If I'm going around, you know, the table, who, like, reminds me of a rat. Yeah. Yeah.

It's Jake. He had to pick. I had to pick. Nice. So that's the context. I immediately apologize to you. Immediately. But it's out there in the internet now, so.

It's okay. What's your award? That's a great award. Thank you. It's a great award. As cool as it gets for El Tuve. Yeah. Like.

Big statement. I remember Houston fans were pissy at me one day. I was like, man, Al Tuve's got to have some dark moments. Like, that's not one. And I think he's, Man, they might keep it going the whole fucking year. My award is I'm giving out the Blue Oyster Cult Award. Don't Fear the Reaper?

One of Treves' favorite bands. I just had to Google it to see who sang the song. Blue Oster Colt, you know, they got the SNL skib, more cowbell. They got a couple things out there. They also have a popular song, Go Go Godzilla. And Shohei Otani told Godzzi. Hadeki Matsui. Hmm.

You got to go, man. I like that. The record's mine now. At the all-star break, Hideki Matsui held the... Oh, it's a jam, man. We're going to talk over it so we don't get copyrighted. That's all. Okay.

Go, go, Godzilla. Woo. Otani sets the record. We love Hadeki Matzzi. What was the record? So much. Most home runs by, uh, Japanese player in a season.

In a season. In a season. Think about how good Matsui was. And like at his prime, I think people were coming out with David Ortiz quotes the other day that the Red Sox, when they played the Yankees with Matsui, they were like, big spot, he's the last one. Yeah, yeah. He was very clutch. Because he's just locked in, dialed. Power while being just a great hitter. He had 31 homers in 2004. Otani passes him before the All-Star break. By the way. and then so throws a little bit too. We've been so lost in the two-way stuff

that, like, Otani's on pace for what? Like mid-50s, homers? Yes. 33 homers at the break. I mean. Think about what the guys doing this weekend, or not this weekend. Today, we're going to see him in the freaking home run derby,

and then he's going to pitch and hit in the All-Star game. It's just insane. Tony, we haven't seen it, so we can't even, like, compare it. Well, we saw the Bronx was too much. Oh, my goodness. James? Matsui had one of the best coffin batting stances. Just looked like he was...

For some reason, I feel like he had like... You could lay him down and put him in a coffin and be like, dead. Is Jimmy's award brought to us by someone? Yeah, that's brought to you by, as always, my award is brought to you by... It's draft kings. Are we going to be doing some, like, live bets later, right? Yeah, we have custom... We have custom markets on the home run.

Home Run Derby and the All-Star game. They asked me to make up some bets. So I did. So if you want to bet them. And then they gave me some money. We? Did you get it? I made bets and got money, yeah.

I didn't know that. Okay. Told separately. I don't speak for you. Do you guys want to read this all in unison? Oh, God. I do these draft kings. Like it reads all the time.

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With it. With it. Eli Adla in the chat says that he hit a Kuiper bet recently. Ooh. Like that. Who is that? We met. That's Josh Richards and some other TikTokers, I'm guessing, in the Celebrity All-Star game.

Dude, I'm petitioning to be in the Celebrity All-Star softball game next year. I think it's late for this year. Yeah. Next year. We could have got there. There's people that we could have got there. Yeah, we should be in it. My award, the final award of the first half of the season for me is the Every Damn Day Award.

Every Damn Day. That's how I feel, man. Is it? You know, every damn day. You wake up. Just bring it. Another one. Again.

It's the Every Damn Day Award goes to the talking baseball faithful. Wow. Sucker Award. Yeah, I told you I was going sentimental with it. I like this award. They deserve a lot of credit. We had a lot of goals we wanted to reach on talking baseball. And at the start of the season, we've like four times it because you guys are.

Amazing. We've grown. Number one, is that good? We've grown like crazy since April. It's insane. So thank you to everyone that tunes in every single day and spends three days, listen to us, talk about baseball and nonsense.

So appreciate you guys very much. And we'll keep it going. They're part of the show. We use the chat so freaking much. So if you want to be part, if you're listening to this and post, come to the live viewing. We use the chat.

Come say what you've got to say. By the way, Zendino's birthday. today today. We missed that. Is it really? Zendino. Thank you so much. Happy birthday to you.

Happy birthday to you. Happy birthday, Zendino. Happy birthday to you. What a guy. Claps in the chat. Claps in the chat. All right. Thank you guys very much.

We have best friend of the week, BPD. Yes, it is going to A.J. Pollock. He goes seven. 11 with three homers this series, two doubles as well. Which wrist was it? You want to reenact it? Yeah, you broke my fucking wrist. Locked twice.

He's Pollock. Snap. It was like Connor McGregor's anchor. And we also have five best friends going to the All-Star game today. Wow. All right. That'll be elevator talk. Oh.

Elevator talk will be All-Star game. Who's the best friends that they should do? You see someone in an elevator. Okay, one minute on the clock. Okay, all our friends that are going to the... All-Star game. Walker, Kyle Bueller, Kyle Bueller, Kyle Huber, Kyle. Yes.

Fucking baseball, bumps. So if you get into the elevator with people, people, people say that. You get into an elevator with people who just talk about that. Talk about Otani. You're going to dominate the All-Star game. And that's it. Who wins home run derby. Three, two, one.

Oh, Togel. Salarno. Joe Salerno. All right, we got to go play Blitzkball against a bunch of professional little blitzball players can get diced up. Hey, congrats to us, too. We're so good. And crazy.

That's your, I'm patting you guys on the back. I'm patting you on the thigh. Okay, okay. A little fish tail. Where's the crop top at? Ooh. I like these pillows. It's a nice.

It's a good pillow. Pizza.