Talkin' Baseball (MLB Podcast) - 384 | Mets Boo Their Fans & Rays KEEP Winning

Episode Date: August 30, 2021

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Hello and welcome to talking baseball. It is the Monday episode. The Mets make headlines and not because they finally won a series and a lot of other cool stuff happens. So let's talk baseball. Hello and welcome to talking baseball brought to you by Draft Kings. My name is Jimmy. Sit next to me is Jake in California. We have Trevor Plouf.

And behind the desk we have producer B. B.D. It is a Monday episode and we're back to our normal stations, at least for this week, which I'm very excited. excited about and this episode is brought to you from brought to you by some dear new patrons robert massiello justin e walt justin sprague joseph dale ryan rodriguez michael michael a diaz junior and zach foradori yeah you got it it's a funny name for adoree it's got like a a bounce and a rhythm to it. I like it. Trev, how are you doing? James Jacob, big, big don. I'm doing great. I had a great weekend. You guys know, I love Monday episodes. I think I just

love Mondays in general. Everybody else hates them. So I think that makes me like them. Because if you're going to be down in the ground complaining today, I'm going to be taking steps over you. That's how I approach Mondays, Jim. I also love Mondays for that same reason. Yeah, let's get back to work, baby. Had a great weekend. Nameless Jeff had a birthday party. I hung out with my good friend Matthew Stafford last night. Wow.

What's it feel like hanging out with him? Yeah, like he plays games now. You asking him about it? Yeah, yeah. I think they have like an easy week this week and then it's go time. He's locked in. It's fun to see a guy, you know, he's zoning it in. I had some good combos about like different offenses.

and Sony Michelle just went there and all this fun stuff. But enough about that. Jake, how are you doing? Trevor, James BBD, everyone live in the chat. Everyone not live in the chat. Thanks for joining us, you guys. We love you. You guys are the best.

You guys are the best. Man, baseball hot in the streets. I think every sports radio across the country is talking about one. topic, which is baseball. So that's good news, right? Kind of with Los Mets. But yeah, we've got the last kind of baseball bubble. Trev, you mentioned your guy Matt Staff getting ready to start his job. We've got like two weeks, basically. Like there's, this weekend is no games. It's part of the new football thing. So this weekend is empty. It's all baseball, only baseball. And

and then autumn will be here, September, bump and uglies and all of it. And we'll get excited for some playoff races. And, man, we've got some more chaos we can root for, but I think the chaos comes from Trevor's flushing, New York. Yeah, we got to open up that a lot. Thank you. Football's gone. Podcasts.

Baseball only. Didn't say much. the Mets. We got to talk about the Mets before we even go into the recap because it's like the biggest news right now. Trev, we have not talked. I haven't you said you just talked about it on with Chris Rose. I did not hear your take on any of this now.

For anyone that gets their news from us and you have no idea what we're talking about, the Mets have been playing awful baseball and the crowd has been booing them. Their home crowd has been booing them for playing awful baseball. they started playing good baseball against the nationals, and they started a new celebration where Lindor, Baez, and Pilar

started doing double thumbs downs after good things. The Yankees did it back in 2017 after Thumbs Down guy, a Mets fan booed the Yankees for scoring runs. So it's kind of in the same thing. Trevor Ploof caused that, right? Yankees were booing Mets fans or sharing the boot, whatever. So they asked the Mets players about what was going on. Pilar had like a diplomatic answer.

He was like, oh, it's just for fun. We're just like poking fun. It's nothing like serious. Blah, blah, blah. Baez sat there and said that they're booing the fans. Because if the fans boo them when they do well, or the fans boo them when they do poorly, then they're going to boo the fans.

when they do well, and one of the quotes or the fans have to be better. And we're going to boo the fans. So that made a ton of headlines, and like two hours later, President of the Mets, Sandy, what's his last name? Alderson? I wanted to say Alcantara.

Sandy Alderson, President of the Mets, put out a official release from the Mets on Medium.com, which is basically like Tumblr, which is so weird that the Mets use Medium.com. and took the side of the fans, and said, like, this won't happen. We're going to have a meeting and talk to the players.

They cannot treat the fans like that. The fans have the right to express themselves any way possible. They pay for all of this. And then Cohen tweeted something like, I wish the only controversy was the black jerseys again. I mean, no, Cohen tweeted previously about the lack of discipline, which was also about like hobby because he's a second least disciplined player in the league and they traded for him.

So the Mets are being the Mets. It's crazy. I tweeted this because we had some people in baseball text us about this. And I just responded and said, it's so insane how much the Mets can be the Mets. And you think it's going to stop and it's just like the Mets are the Mets. So Trev, I'll throw it to you first as an ex player. What are your thoughts on all of this? There's so much to unbearance.

hack, Jim. I did talk about this on baseball today earlier with Chris Rose. My thoughts are, and if you look around, you know, at what all the other Mets players are saying, Trevor May came out and said this, Pilar, Walker, they're just like, this is getting blown out of proportion. Now, what I think happened was maybe it was a rallying cry within the clubhouse. Like everybody is against us. Nobody thinks we can do this.

Media, the fans, nobody, but we believe in ourselves. I think that's what kind of happened. And then Javi gets in front of the mic and just uses the wrong words. When he said the fans have to be better, you can never say that. Unless you're talking about like throwing objects on the field. But as far as just cheering or booing, you don't say that about the fans. That's the mistake number one. And then number two, like I said, he just worded it wrong.

like I'm booing the fans because they boo me. It's like, no, you're really just rallying around the fact that nobody believes in you. You're using that energy and turning it into something positive. We're trying to turn it into something positive on the field. But, you know, you say the wrong thing in the media, especially the New York media, and especially with the Mets in their past and how they've just been a circus. And this is what happens. We're leading off our show talking about this.

You know, there's a. sports shows that have nothing to do with baseball usually are going to be talking about this. So you bring all of that into the clubhouse. You're making your whoever that guy is Sandy, the president, the GM, whatever he has, come out and make the statement. It's just, it's become a big deal and it shouldn't have been a big deal. Like he just literally messed up like one or two sentences and said the wrong thing. If you would have said it like Pilar said it, none of this is going on. We're not even talking about this. We're actually talking about the play on the field how, you know, they won a series.

So that's kind of where I'm at. I don't think, like, they're bad people or trying to disservice the fans. I think he just worded it incorrectly. But, yeah, so Stroman also came out and said, like, you know, the media spun it. No one spun this. Like, those are the words that Hobby said. Yeah. If he wants to come out and say, I didn't mean that.

I meant what Trevor May is saying. And like, no, no, we're taking the boo away from you and we're booing ourselves to motivate ourselves because we've been bad and blah, blah, blah. Like there's a way to say, but he did say the fans have to be better and we're going to boo them if you boo us. Been a lot of good quotes. Yeah, he completely used it wrong. A lot of good quotes coming out of Queens lately between Pete and Javi. Yeah, man, it's as metzi as a getsy.

I mean, when you do the 365 day calendar check, whether it's at the end of this year, and I mean, you go back to Jared Porter and stuff like that was within the last 365. Rat Raccoon, Donnie Diesel's the. imaginary hitting coach. Fire on the coach. Everything that's gone on with Los Mets is, it's unbelievable. I said if you put down the top five craziest things that's happened this baseball season and before the season and you said, what team did this happen to?

You would have circled Mets for all five. And then the only one you would have gotten wrong was the town hall from the Seattle Mariners. So it's tough, man. The one thing, because Trev, I think you're all over it, so I don't need to correct a lot of that. I think, you know, it started spiraling between Havi saying a couple, you know, misplacing a couple words. You just can't deliver it that way. You're absolutely right. Back against the wall.

It's us first the world. And they turn that instead of the world. They directed it at their fans, which is one of the most Mets things I've ever heard. And then, yeah, to have the Mets release that press release, like, They should have back-channeled that, like, with the players or something like that, because then that, now you're kind of going against your guys. The whole thing was a mess. It's wild.

I did Shea Station. I think they're recording right now, or they just wrapped up. Jerry Blevins, I did like this because, you know, a lot of people were going at bias, because he has the quote on this, although the other guys are in on it. Like, if this was the court of law, like, you know, Lindor, Pilar, everyone else would be on the bus with them. Jerry Blevins of Shea Station said Many are calling by us soft But I think it's the opposite

It takes huge home run size balls to do and say this Many won't like it including myself But it's genuine to him and I respect it Not what I want to hear IMO, it's an unnecessary distraction Which Jim, going back to what you're saying Like if you say that statement Which they did, you have to lean into it at that point

And it's the us against the world Not the media spinning it Because I do think it was real And man, Harvey Baez, boy do I hope you have the next week and month of your life on a baseball field, because if you don't, oh my God. You know he's going to.

He's going to go nuts and then nobody's going to be talking about this in a week. That's what's going to happen. That is not what's going to happen. He is going to be booed. There's something else is going to happen. And the news cycle is so fast nowadays. There's going to be a fraction of Mets fans that boo Javi Baez, if he comes back in seven years.

Because they want to be part of that. Yes. No, I think that there's a portion of Mets fans that are insulted by that. Like, dude, if you're bad, we can boo you. Sure. Right, but you're your team booer. You're pro booing. I don't like antagonizing, name-calling, being mean, harassing in any way.

But if something happens and you go, oh, boo, out of baseball game, I think that's as fair as it gets. So does that give the Mets any right to boo back? No. Okay. We're paid millions by the fans. Are they at home? Fans spend so much money.

It was like when Trevor said he wanted players to go watch a game from the crowd to see how much it means to people. Like you're invested. And I say it all the time. Don't like, you fucking bum, you lose or you suck. None of that. That's awful and not should, shouldn't be part of it. But like people have, people think,

think that just saying boo is that it's not you cheer winning good you booing it's bad very simple exchange of crowd and play reaction he's going to get booed very loudly but i think our guy jolly all of said this has been going on for like three weeks it's just you know the presser happened and now we get this big uproar they're playing the marlins starting tomorrow they go win these three games when they come back home nobody's in a boom I think these games are home. That's what I'm saying. They win these three games.

Then they go. He'll get booed all three games. 100%. That first hobby at bat is as much watch TV as we've seen this year. He should embrace it. And like if they boo him and he steps to play it and he just like goes like this. That's the same. And then he hits a home run.

Now the booze are actually cheers. It's like when in Ted Lassow when they go, the wanker, wanka becomes like wanker. They're like, they're sharing it a little different today. That's the sick part of Mets fandom. This could spiral upwards for a little bit, and then you're just sending yourself up for a bigger explosion, and I'm rooting for that.

Make booze the new applause. I hope Jave goes nuts this week. Dude, I just look, if there was real malintent towards the fans, then I'd be like, I get it. But this is something, it was just poorly worded, like poorly explained in a press conference, and that just freaking went nuts. I like how he had his daughter on his lap.

I don't think he's sitting there being like, I don't think he's being like, F those fans, F those fans, he's not thinking about that. He's trying to get the team to win. He's trying to get into free agency healthy and do all these things. Like, fans do what you got to do. Because you have the right to boo and you're going to boo hobby. I'm just saying like this is, it shouldn't be as big of a story, in my opinion, as it's turned into.

Trev, do you ever, in 2004, my Yankeeism is going to show, but in 2004, Jeter went like 0 for 30 to start the season. Do you know this at all? Or this is like he was getting booze every time he stepped to the plate. I was actually there at the game when he finally broke it. But, you know, Jeter got like, not just like a boo. Like he was getting booed. Bood hard in 2004 when he had like a super bad slump. and his quotes on it

He said, I don't blame him. We would have booed ourselves tonight. It's hard to imagine being worse than we were. Put me at the front of that list. It's like, I don't know. It's an easy game to play. Exactly. I know.

It is. It is. But guess what? I bet you Jeter really was like, fuck, I wish they wouldn't boo me. Jeter's kind of a sicko. I'm sure a lot of players. Like Stan does, says the right things.

Stan was like, well, you know, I boo myself too. I deserve it. I don't really believe Stan, but he's saying the right things. I like believe Jeter. He was a crazy. He was Michael Jordan. He believed Stan. Stan's got an MVP.

Competitor. Oh, fucking, I can't say that. Competitor wise. He would create enemies. He would like, he had beef with opponents nonstop out of nowhere. That's how. Are you really? Yes.

Every time Jeter, every time they asked any scouting report on any pitcher, Jeter would just go, he fucking sucks. Everybody said. I know. But like that, but that was the, that was his mindset as well. Like he wouldn't, he would. It was that level competitor. But if you compare it anymore...

People stopped asking me about the pitcher because I'd always say, oh, he's got nothing. Smart. But it's easy to play the game and just be like, yeah, booed me too. It is easy. But it's like, look, here's the fine line. Let the kids play. Let them be individuals.

We don't want robot answers. And then we get a non-robot answer and we freak out. Right. So, hey, man. Would you ever juice up the scouting report? Like Verlander was out there and you'd be like, heater's got something. Rest is junk.

I mean, there are some guys. We were just like, fuck, he's on today, boys. Like, kid a mistake. Look for the miss today. A lot of the guys be like, I'm going to take. I'm taking. Let's get to three, too. I want four before he gets to three.

That's it. That was my approach. Not as good in middle school. All right. Go Mets. Go Mets. Win 10 in a row so we could. talk about you.

Yeah, do it. But hey, hey, for real, though. Holy shit, Mets. Like, you've had so much crazy stuff packed into one season. It's wild. How does this always happen to the Mets?

Does it happen to every other team, too, and we just pay more attention to it because there's this, like, stigma? Or is it really, like, the Mets are that franchise that's like, what? it's the Mets Okay

They got it They got into a fight in the locker room hallway And they said there's a rat and raccoon Oh my God I forgot about that That other teams don't do that Yeah Mets will

Mets will always be the Mets It's crazy Like how though Like they might have to change the team name At some point Not the Mets Not Mr. Moon Okay

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Let's go Brave. The Giants go into Atlanta and Braves. They take two out of three, six, five Braves, five-o Giants, and nine. Zill. Nil. Zilch. Nine nothing Braves in game three. Brave starting pitchers did the damn three.

Pitches to a two-five-five ERA. Giants did their thing on the mound, too. Braves take two of the game. Solair was six hits and two freaking homers, including a go-ahead three-run homer in the seventh inning of game one, which was then capped off by an incredible Jock Peterson catch. Game two, Webb goes seven, shut out, innings for the win, and then Ion Anderson in game three goes five and two-thirds.

Shuddy! And they take the freaking series that they needed to take. Bad news for the Giants. Besides losing the series, Chris Bryant exits game one and sits game two and three with side tightness. All reports are positive on him. He should be back. No big deal. Braves take two out of freaking three. Let's go Braves. Moving on, the Nationals go in to Flushing. And they lose two out of three. The Mets take two out of three. We talked about it a little bit right there. VR five hits, three extra base hits and a home run. And that's it. No other Mets had more than three hits. Bias and Filar did have two home runs at peace. Four of eight national relievers

that pitch gave up runs, including every Nationals reliever to pitch more than one inning over the course of the series. That's a crazy stat, Max. Okay. Conforto with the go-ahead, three-run homer in the seventh inning of game two. And then the whole bias thing after game three. Mets do do it on the field. Take two out of three. Sindegard, who was trying to come back in a rehab start, test positive for Uncle COVID. So he'll have to wait a little bit before getting back on the bump. But Mets take two out of three. Let's go, Mats.

Moving on, the Rockies went into L.A. And they take two of three from the Dodgers. What is you doing, baby Dodgers? Four two Rockies, five two Dodgers, and then five-nill Rockies in game three. Both offenses struggled. C.J. Crone, though, said, I go all. do four hits. I'll hit two home runs. How do you feel about that? Elias Dia said I'll have three hits with a homer and that's basically it for the Rockies offense. No other Rocky has more than two hits.

Trey Turner though, he had five hits. Will Smith had four hits and Seeger had two hits and those are the only Dodgers with multiple freaking hits. Crone, of course, he has to go ahead home run in the sixth inning of game one. Will Smith go ahead two run single in the eighth of game two. And then Sintzatella. Is that your guy, Jake? Sventatello, seven shuddy in game three. He and two relievers combined a shut out and three hit the Dodgers to win the series. This is a weird one. Turner came into pitch.

We'll talk about this in a 5-0 game. Dodgers lose two or three to the Rockies. They could have made up some freaking ground and they did not. What is you doing? Moving on, Reds at Marlins. Marlins take two or three from the surging Reds. 6-0 Reds, 6-1 Marlins, then 2-1 Marlins. Alfaro, my guy, four hits with two doubles, and he's the only Marlin to record more than three hits.

Azu Sanchez had two homers, though. That's tight. Tyler Makin. That's how Joey Votto says to say it. Four hits with three extra base hits in a homer. He's been doing it, and he's the only red to record more than three hits. Wade Miley continues to do it. Seven shutout innings for the win in game one. He's gone seven shuddy in three of his last five stars. Are you serious? Wade Miley, okay. Kantara, seven innings pitch with one and runs with 12Ks for the win in game two. Let's go. And then baby Jesus, the Jesus lizard. Jesus Lazzardo goes six, shutout endings for the win in game three.

His first score to start and first time pitching past the fifth as a Marlin. Nice. Winker has started throwing and will begin swinging bat this week. And Moose, unfortunately, has to exit game two and he sits game three. We need moose in there. It's better. Baseball's better with the moose. Marlins take two out of three.

I got a hurry now. D-Backs at Phillies. Phillies take three or four. That's what I'm talking about. This is a great game in game two. Segora has the walk-off single in the 11th inning, but that was only because Walker had the game time two-run-homer in the ninth, and then Cattell Marte, two-run-homer.

Backyard, Brad says, I'll answer that for you. Off a Tyler Clipper, two-run-homer in the 10th. Let's freaking go. Phillies take three or four. Moving on, Cardinals and Pirates is the last one. The series is splits. 11-7 Pirates, 4-7-Pardinals, 13-0, Cardinals four three pirates in the rubber match.

What happened? Let's just talk about everything. That's what happened in the NL. Series split Cardinals Pirates. What happened is the Phillies and Braves, only teams out here competing this week. Oh, my goodness. I mean, Dodgers, come on. Braves do your dirty work for you.

Take two out of three. You're hosting the Rockies. I want to talk about that. You're hosting the Rockies. You got a chance. Game three. make up any ground. Did you guys see Turner pitch in a 5-nill game?

Did you say, did you, what is you doing to the Dodgers? I did. Okay, good. I did. Appreciate that. Pipe appreciates that as well. He went, Dave Roberts didn't want to use a high leverage reliever in the ninth inning of a 5-0 game because he said his offense felt stagnant and there was no chance

of them winning the game. But prior to that, Jim, he brought in Kenley Jansen in the eighth inning. so now Kenley Jansen's probably unavailable for tonight because he hasn't pitched three games in a row this entire year. So you burned one of your high leverage guys, your closer coming up an important series against the Braves

and he threw Justin Turner, although he got the job done in a 5-0-0 game. Weird coaching. The inning before that the Dodgers had second and third had runners-on. Weird. The whole thing was weird. And the inning before that

And the inning before that They had two runners on The Dodgers They had two runners on in the 7th They had two runners on in the 8th Now there's a lot of walks Hit by pitches here Yeah there's only three hits the whole game

But I mean you had traffic The 7th and the 8th And you're the fucking Dodgers And they're the Rockies At home And you have the most depth ever How do you not just whatever

I don't know Like I said it worked out He threw a scoreless inning single single than three outs good job for jt we like jt but yeah i mean that's a weird move it's a frustrating move i think if you're the offense and you're a dodgers fan huge series coming up i think we should talk about philly's debacks i didn't really get to talk about them at all because the time ran out i went a little long we saw the philly's start to get hot they did not beat the diamondbacks but we left the stadium early thinking it was a blowout

And then at the casino, we watched the Phillies almost mount a wild ninth inning comeback. They did not. But that was the start of it where the Phillies were like, hey, maybe we should start winning. Then they take three out of four. They make up a game. It's four and a half now. The Braves took two out of three. So, you know, they had the benefit of playing more games this week or this weekend.

Yeah. Gibi drops it. Yeah, the debacks weren't losing when I was in the building. That's just the fat. So it's that one time they did. That's just the facts, jacks. And then, yeah, I mean, Phillies, thank God they rallied in that second game because if you lose two to the debacks.

But they turn it back on. They take three out of four of the debacks. I'm surprised how much love you guys are giving them. I guess it's in contrast because I'm disappointed in them and the Mets, to be honest. Like, you know, we're getting late in the season. It's a four-game series. It's hard to sweep a four-game series. We always say that.

This time of year has changed. We've seen the Yankees going to win streak. We see the rays are now in a win streak. Like you got the debacks at home and you're the Phillies and you're fighting for your season's life. Three is kind of the minimum. So they did it and good for them. But the same two out of three the Mets took,

like both C-minuses. If backyard Brad doesn't hit the game-tying Homer in the 10th, are we saying Phillies are dead? Like did backyard Brad save the season so far? Which basically means you save their season. No, the Philly schedule is very easy. They'd be at five and a half back. It's different than four and a half.

I don't know how, I guess one game. Sure, I guess. But I mean, we're getting close. You can see the rest. This is always a weird part of the season for me when I'm on baseball reference and I'm looking at teams schedule. and you can see the remainder of the season on one page. You don't have to scroll to find it.

It's all just right there on the screen. But hey, they go play Washington now. The Mets just beat Washington. Then they go Miami. Like you have to win. And good on the Braves for beating the Giants. That's actually like that gets collapsed, right, Jake? Two out of three?

Yeah. No. Oh, my gosh. You said it. The Braves. The Braves continue to roll, man. I think they're going to. play the Dodgers now, like Trev said.

So, I mean, this week is a big test for them. If they survive this, I mean, the whole the whole part of the Mets reentry strategy into the east, the Phillies reentry strategy into the east was this had to be a tough week for the Braves. And they survived the first test pretty easily.

Pretty easily. Good for them. Well, good for the Braves. They've been rolling, man. The next two series are really fun. Because now the Braves go to L.A. to play the Dodgers, then to Colorado to play the Rockies and the Rockies are the home team. Reminder, best home record in all of baseball, or tied for it. Maybe the Giants are better. They're actually a baseball team at home.

The Rockies, I think, have the second best record or are tied for first, percentage-wise, at home, which is crazy. While the Phillies go play the Nats and the Marlins. So it's two big road trips. The Braves have a tough road trip. The Phillies have what should be an easy road trip. So let's see where they stand after that because if it gets within three or the Braves could play the Dodgers well,

can play the Rockies at home well, and then it's, if the Braves win these two series or go 500 on the road, they're in. I'd say they're hoping for 500. They do get Walker and Scherzer. Yeah, that's why I'm saying if they win. But, just, you know, James.

Good news is, you know it was back. Didn't have a great start in game two. It's fine. He did okay. I think he did good. Didn't he go six two? Yeah. It wasn't bad.

And then Ion Anderson is back. So now there's depth. They got their starting pitching back. I mean, gosh, I wish, I wish Ronnie was here, man. Take it back. You know what you know a shove, dude. Six innings pitch, two and runs, only three hits. Okay.

I must have misread. Well, he did have three. You did have three walks. But six innings pitch, Tour and runs against the Giants. That's good. No, I'm excited. You know, we're a big Husker, you know, a pod.

Just stop punching shit. Yeah. You know? And we got a little more, we got a little more than a month left, boys. And the other team that makes things really interesting. We've talked about the NL East a lot. Braves really have their neck out there.

And they've got a solid little division lead. What is it? four and a half on the Phillies? What if I told you? The Phillies are closer than that in the wild card. The Phillies are four games out of the wild card. Jimmy's Cincinnati Reds currently have the wild card spot. Padres are one and a half back.

Cardinals are three and a half back. And the Cardinals play the Reds Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday. So, John Boy Media's Reds. Love them. A lot of good dudes on there. Tyler Stevenson just followed me. They are the current lynch pin for chaos in the National League. We were saying if the Padres come back to Earth,

they can be the chaos lynchpin. And the Reds turned up the screws and jumped them. Man, if the Cardinals or Phillies find a way back into this wild card fight in the final month of the season, which they can, we're getting the chaos that we've hoped for that when we're going back to the trade deadline and we said which of these teams are going to get in the mix. It looked on paper like it could have been none, and now look what the Yankees have done, look what the Reds have done.

We got a month left of baseball, boys, and there's a couple teams lurking, and just chaos-wise, I hope they get in the mix. Dude, these last two Reds Marlins games, some trade pieces, or surprise me. Lizardo had a great start for Miami to help split the series. He goes six-in-stitch, zero runs. but Justin Wilson is pitching for the Reds.

Pitching well. That's baseball, Susan. What is that about? Shane Green throwing some grossness for the Dodgers, the life of a reliever. Told you a few weeks ago don't look at what he's been doing. What? Justin Wilson has 11 games and only two earned runs with the Reds.

He was so bad for the Yankees. And look. Get that drive line. drive line staff over there. Strained him out and looked bad. That's baseball. Is there anybody that we can declare dead that we haven't declared dead? Because that's one of my favorite

things to do. Um, Isaac Newton. Hmm. He's dead. Declared. Uh, the Cubs. Mets, we were, Mets we declared dead. Can't really,

the Cardinals aren't dead. Um, say that. Billy's, nope. What the hell? I don't know. That's it. Guys, do you see this?

Look at this baseball reference page. So for the Diamondbacks, they have an E, for eliminated from division contention. For the Orioles, they have like a gas tank, eliminated from playoff contention. It's like a little picture of a...

Where's that? It's a weird symbol to have. Yeah, I can't really see the symbol from here. I think it's... Oh, I do see that. That's dead. That's skull and crossbones,

Jim. Is it really? Baseball reference has jokes, bro. E means eliminated from the division title, and then the skull and crossbones means E dead. Wow. Baseball reference, what up. They got jokes up them sleeves.

Twins are dead, royals are dead, tigers are dead, Indians are dead. Well, there's a lot of teams that are dead. We're talking about the teams that, like, we're alive. Oh, you want to, are the Blue Jays dead, do you? We'll wait for the ale, I guess. Let's wait, because that's one. team I was looking at. Okay. Are the Padres dead, do you?

Do we talk about enough? No, they're not. Did we talk enough about all the NL games? Because sometimes fans get mad if we skip over there. Good for the pirates. They took two out of three from the Diamondbacks. Or Cole Tucker. They take two. What did Cole do? I haven't checked. Got called up. Played second base. I have some insider info on that.

Anything you can share? I think so. Okay. What can I reveal? I mean, so much stuff. Well, he gets called up and the pitchers are just scared of them? 500 on base percentage? He said, uh, he texted me out of the blue yesterday at 6 p.m. And he said, can you do me a favor real quick? 3 o'clock his time? I said need to. What you got? 6 o'clock his time is. He said, which Nationals jersey is better? Navy or red.

So that was his question. I looked at them both. I didn't think I was a big fan of either. They were both cleaner than I think. I think. Do me a favor? It was a game. It was a test, passed. I went Navy. I said lean Navy. You'd be surprised.

The red when you look at it, you're like, oh, that actually, that's a pretty nice baseball jersey. And you think of Nationals, you think of red? You want to lean the red. Maybe he's so boring. Maybe so boring. I told him, little 2B today, huh? Whoops. He said, whoops, it was chill.

Got two replays to go my way, so that was chill. Oh, baby. This is the best. Good stuff. he's the best uh yeah and that's cardinals just a mini what is you doing baby because trev they would have been if the cardinals had won three in a row and they'd taken three out of four from the pirates i think we'd be a little more excited but sue sue sugo walks them off three run yacker in the fourth game which uh again at this point of the season for the cardinals they kind of can't be losing those

can you guys can everyone do me a favor sure uh when it comes to the cardinals uh hopefully soon my little basement setup, I have multiple TVs and I can watch two games at once or three even maybe, wow. Can everyone remind me the next time Kim is starting for the Cardinals? You guy. I like him. I've never watched a full game of him pitching. He's got a 3-2 ERA in 21 games. So, like, he's doing well again. No one talks about him. Have you seen him pitch, Trev? No. he averages The funk

Averages Seven seconds between pitches That's fast The average for MLB is like 12 or 16 Yeah He's a tempo pitcher I love I automatically love him See?

Apparently Has him pitch in Saturday night Against Freddie Peralta and the Brewer So clear your Saturday night We're going to be down the beach For that Before we move on To the AL

and we get, I believe, Jake giving us what happened? Completely wrong. I went. James is going to do it. I went down to who you guys picked as a stand-up performers. Nobody had this freaking guy

and we will get roasted if we don't talk about him. Adam freaking Wainwright, seven shuddy. Happy 40th. He gets the winning game three. He's gone seven plus innings, Jim. You love this.

In 15 of 26 starts this season, giving up one or fewer earned run in eight of those starts and hasn't given up more than three earned runs in any of them. Yeah, I did. Maybe you weren't here, Jake was here. I did a whole way no segment at one point. We've all done way no segments. Yeah, we've been talking about him, but he did it again.

He deserves some love. He's, uh, he has dominated the pirates this year. I think it's four or five starts in an ERA under one, but good. Take care of your business. Oh, what? He's like, I mean, he's, he's a legend. All right. All right.

You guys ready for the American League recap? I think so. Here we go. The Yankees went out to Oakland. They won the first two games. Tione and Kat both get knocked around, but the Yankees take the lead late, and Chapman holds it down with the save.

Game two, Cole shoves. The Yankees get to Manea, hit a bunch of bombs. Stanton goes like 470 off of them. It was crazy. In game three, we had some feistiness and some weird umping Nestor Cortez gets got but Montes was the story as he completely shut down the Yankees and ended their 13 game win streak in game four we had a battle of errors at third base between chio or shella and matt chapman and the ayes take the lead late with the mat camp to run homer off

chad green they split the series and each go they're separate ways the royals went to Seattle to take on the Mariners and in an upsetting fashion the Mariners lose three out of four. Good job by the Royals though I guess but come on Mariners you're doing the fencing on the cliff stuff and we like that Seeger go ahead two run home run in the

seventh inning of game four to avoid the sweep for the Mariners so good job but the Mariners do fall four and a half back in the second wild card spot not good Perez hit a grand slam at one point he's nuts Whitmanerfield hit a lead off home run

and he's good. On to the next. The Rays sweep the Orioles, the only sweep this weekend, and that's obvious. The Rays starting pitchers had a 3-1-4 ERA. Their relief pitchers were bad. 639 ERA.

Wendell, haven't talked about him in a while. Five hits with three extra base hits, two home runs. Nine Rays record multiple hits, including every Ray with nine plus at Bats. So if you got nine A-Bs in this three-game set, you got multiple hits. Austin Hayes had five hits with a homer and a triple.

Hayes is hitting some homers recently. Mullins four hits and two homers, so he's continuing to absolutely go off. Arizona, aka Rosarania, go ahead to run homer in the eighth inning of game two. Wendell, Grand Slam in game three, Rays have won seven in a row and have 84 wins, most in the AL by five games.

They finish the season against the Orioles with an 18-and-one record. Can we look up, Bibi, can you look up the past? I think Boston beat them like 18 out of 19, and then like Yankees beat him 18. Someone, one team in the East always decides we're going to get 18 wins against the Orioles.

This year it was the race. Red Sox and Indians, oh no, Red Sox. What is you doing? They get one hit by Logan Allen in game one and lose 4 to 3. In game two, they win in extras. Quantrell pitched pretty well against them, I believe. And in game three, they have the league. and they blow it

and they lose the series. Red Sox lose two of three to the Indians. Uh-oh. Spaghettios. Astros and the Rangers little battle of the Texas two-step. Oterizzi versus Glenn Otto. Is it Glenn Otto?

Glenn Otto. Astros win five to four in game one. Astros went five to two in game two. Framberg had like seven strong innings, only seven strong innings. Tucker for the Astros, five hits, two extra base hits. Alvarez, four hits with two homers. Garcia.

Seven hits and two homers for the Rangers. And in game three out, boy, the Hearn hunch. Great start. Six point two innings pitch, two runs for the win, avoids the sweep. His first career start pitching into the seventh. He has a 2870 array and 31.1 inning since becoming a starter. Granky got blowed up.

Blue Jays and the Tigers, the Blue Jays took two out of three from the Tigers. the first game against Manning. I think Stephen Matt's pitched really well, though. They win the second game in extras. Manoa versus Urina. Urina, Urina, Urina. Boyd makes his return in game three, but Berrios out duels him and the Blue Jays win two to one to win the series.

Every Blue Jay's starting pitcher recorded a quality start. How about that? Bichette had six hits a home run. Guerrero, five hits with a double. Kevin Smith It's his first career Home Run in game three. I think I had one of the series.

Red Sox won the series. They lost the first game. I blew it. You know, you might have also said Matt Kemp Homer for the A's. I don't think Matt Kemp is on the A's. Your Kemp, your Kemp. Not to twist the screw Kevin Smith's first

Homer of the season. It's 13 career. Why is that a note? Tony Kemp. Shout out Tony Kemp. Short out, Tony Kemp. Short Kemp. Vandy King, my guy. Max did me dirty in first home of the season.

Why would that be a note? The others I messed up. It was a note. Shout out Matt Kempth. I remember you used to hook up with Rihanna. That's every guy's, I think, dream. B. B.D. Have you had that dream? Bid Avey Day.

Every guy's had that dream. 2020, nobody really fully took advantage of the Orioles because nobody played them more than 10 times. 2019. The Yankees went 17 and 2. 2018, the Red Sox went 16 and 3 against them. So in the 100 lost seasons, it's been one team in the division. Kicking their ass. That's what happens.

You're not that good of a baseball team. It's going to happen. Analysis. I want to start with my raise. Because they rolled up on the Orioles as they should. seven straight wins. That's the longest current in the majors. Nine and one in their last 10.

We talked a bunch about the Yankees' 13-game winner and how good they've been playing. The Yankees, now after losing the two Oakland games, take a step back in chasing the rays. And they're much more, the Yanks are much more in bed with Oakland and the Red Sox at this point than tracking down Tampa. Man, it's unreal.

84 wins. What was there over under, Treve? You've always got that open and a side sheet to start the season. I think their over under this year was like 85 or something close to that. They're the best team in the American League. They look at baseball completely different. So interested to see what this team looks like in the playoffs. One of the reason I did like them just as much as previous Ray teams coming into this year.

I think their lineup is one of the best raised lineup they've ever had as a team, especially now that Franco's going. I mean, between Lough, Cruz, Franco, Meadows, a Rosarena, Joey Wendell, and then, I mean, Zanino from the catcher spot is having a really nice year. Yandi's going to do his thing versus lefties. They've got Keirmeyer just doing his thing. I really like the race lineup. How they're going to put the pitching together come the end of season,

I don't know, but in the regular season, it seems like it just doesn't matter. They just get out. And, hey, they've got seven coming up with Boston in their next 10. I mean, that's going to be Boston's last swing for the fences. Interested to see how those series look because Tampa continues to play their good brand of baseball. Boston, you know, back against the wall, it seems like they've stopped the bleeding of the losing streak. Those should be some fun games. Love it.

If the Rays end up playing the Giants in the World Series, raise giants will everybody just look at the screen being like what are we watching like what like how are they doing this what's happening

like that would be the craziest guarantee MLV doesn't want that but I would love to see a series like that that's a chess match series you know managers managers having to think two or three steps ahead

especially in an NL park would love to see that you love NL baseball I don't but it'd be fascinating to see Kevin Cash versus Gabe Caput. Hot.

In a fight, I'm going Gabe Kapler. Oh, really? I'm just going to say that right now. I know K. Cash, he's scrappy. He's a catcher. So, like, he might fight a little dirty. Yes. But I think Gabe overpowers him in the end.

He eats too much steak to not overpower Kevin Cash. Interesting. Not in a ring. I've got cash for the reasons you mentioned. Ooh, like a backyard brawl. You're going to take that. In an arena, I'm taking Gabe.

in the streets I'm taking cash. Okay. People are saying, Jim, it was Kevin Smith's first career home run. Kevin with an A? I don't know. This is what people are saying in the chat. I'm just reading it. What the fuck?

Guys. Jake's just being a bully now? No, I'm just being a bully. Maybe I'm just missing. This is a joke in the chat. I don't know. I just looked. How many Smiths are currently in baseball?

Where else we want to go, guys? It was his first career home. It was Kevin Smith. The fuck, Jake. Not Kevin Smith. So good job, Max. Bad job, Jake. Nice job, Jake.

He's talking about the other Kevin Smith. I think we should go to the Blue Jays. Kevin Smith's Blue Jays. Yeah, go to the Blue Jays. Two or three from the Tigers. They're still hanging in there. We're not ready to declare them dead. I am.

They're obviously dead in the division. They're five and a half back of the wild card. They're getting close. What's my dad's expression? One foot in the grave. one fit on a banana peel? Yeah. No,

they're in the grave. Maybe the dirt hasn't fallen in yet. I have a much quicker, your dead meter than you guys. Yes. Do you honestly think the Blue Jays aren't dead? Or are you just trying to be nice to their fan base? Dude,

I don't think they're dead because we've seen crazy things happen in baseball. In fact, Jim, about three weeks ago, we came on this show and we said the NL playoff spots are locked. Nothing is going to happen. And then look. Like, shit happens.

I understand there's a month, to go. But shit does happen. Yeah, I think, Jim, maybe we're too loosey-goosey. Maybe you're too tight about it. Because, yeah, you had the Braves DED dead. You had the Yankees as close to dead as possible. So like... You actually said they died. Well, that's a tiger

straight thing. I think he's dead. You had the Braves pretty much out of it. You didn't like their deadline because you didn't think they were into it. I think I declared the Cardinals dead. Now, they're not dead. Like, baseball happens. Baseball happens. You didn't the Cardinals are dead? Three and a half back. Playing the reds. Oh, like. Let's go, Jim. We do this every year and then the teams that we think will be there

are there come September. It's September. I don't know, man. I don't know. Go Blue Jays, though. I'm liking the Blue Jays, and this is now I'm going to sound like I'm declaring them dead. I love them in 2022. That's a dead statement. I love the Blue Jays next year. That's a dead statement. Blue Jay's pitching has been maybe my favorite storyline of the season. And they get Burrios back. They got Manoa, who, like, I think is my new guy. I love the way he throws the ball.

Their season is going to be decided. A, they play three against Baltimore. Take care of your business, Blue Jays. Get warm. Off day, then Oakland and the Yanks. So, like, that's it. This is it for Toronto. Those are the two teams they're chasing in the wild card right now.

I also don't think I don't care if you make the second wild card. Okay. Why? I think that's not the end goal I'm thinking of when I think of a team. I think can they, like, win. You want to make the playoffs? Like, when I'm thinking of teams that can win the World Series and the Blue Jays are not a team that can win the World Series.

The Cardinals are not a team that can win the World Series, in my opinion. opinion. Could they get to the city? Any team can win the World Series if you get in the postseason. No, that's not true. It is true, dude. And it's usually the team that's battling to get

into the playoffs at the end of the season that's hot. Those are the teams, man. Hot. Remember that freaking, in 2020, the freaking Braves almost took down one of the better teams ever assembled.

Didn't happen. But we weren't thinking that was going to be the case. Baseball's nuts in the playoffs, man. Could have happened. Up 3-1. Sad. Sad. Unreal.

Sorry, Braves fans. Where else we're going to go? I want to go Astros Rangers? Yeah, Astros take two out of three. Our dude, Hearn. Good for him. Whoops. Granky.

Battle of the Beanless Chili. That's what I'm calling. The Astros are kind of like in such a standstill to me. you know like does anything I mean I guess the A's are kind of hunting them down but what did that? Did that change with them winning and the A's splitting? Probably gained a game.

Gained a game. They're five and a half up right now. Where are you at with that as far as like, okay, I'm going to bring it to the Yankees because you guys are Yankees fans. If the Yankees were just sitting in first place coasting into the playoffs, would you rather have that or would you rather have them fighting to keep their spot or fighting to get in?

Like, do you believe in that momentum? Like last week of the season, maybe. I mean, baseball moves so quick. What you do, September 1 doesn't really matter for October 1. What you do, September 22nd, 25th, you know, the last two weeks, try to get into the rotation and get the everyday lineup going, for sure. Hey, compared to this Yankee season, I think I'd rather be cruising in first place. That sounds pretty nice.

But, yeah, I mean, hey, if you're the Astros, there's not a lot of team, and this ties into everything we've been talking about with expectations to either make the playoffs or expectations to win the World Series. This Astros team, when they get to the postseason, it's one goal. If the Astros make it to the ALCS, that's not a win.

They're expected to do that. So I think if you're the Astros, you're out in front, you're going to get your five-game set, you've avoided the wild card. That was your first goal this year. I think you're fine with that. And you say, you know, they've got dudes that have been in this a lot and recently. So, yeah, win your division and when it's October, that's when it matters to them.

Get everyone healthy, give them the rest days they need, and get your lineup set and your bullpenched. Kind of like what we're saying with the Blue Jays. If they have it a great September, they make the second wild card game, hell they win the wild card game, and then they lose in five games in the DS, that's still a win for them this year. For the Astros, that would be a failure. 100%. Expectations.

There are totally different time frames. Someone in the chat said, like, people are sleeping on the Astros. I think the opposite. I think the Astros are napping right now. I'm not sleeping on the actual. Everyone should be scared when they wake up come October 4th. I said that was my whole Bregman Award last week. You know, now that the bad man's back there, I think this September is going to be a big Astros hype month.

Carlos Correa said this is it. He basically said I'm obviously not coming back to Houston. They've been lowballing him pretty hard. Oh my God. Pretty hard. They gave him half of what the Mets gave to Lindor. Offered him half. Or less than half, I think.

They're a scary team. They're a freaking scary team, dude. Shout out to Otto, my guy. Mariners are the other one that kind of jumps out here. Like you were saying, Jim, we've had our analogy that they were swinging it. It feels like they took a blade to the, shoulder. They ran into Salvi Perez as he homers in each game breaks the catcher record. My goodness, Salvy. 17 homers since the break.

Have yourself, have yourself a break, kid. Yeah, I mean, this is tough for the Mariners. You're at home versus the Royals. You lose the second game in 12 innings. You know, if they had one three out of four, I think we would have been very excited that the Mariners and Astros, I think they're playing six or seven games in the next 10 or so. And we could have feigned excitement for the Mariners. But this feels like, yeah, sword analogy on the ledge. They got clipped in the left arm and now they're holding it. And I think the Astros might get nasty on them the next couple days.

And they got them, they got Houston, Arizona, and then Houston again. Luis Garcia and Framber have been so good for Houston. So sexy. Framber's so sexy. Two of the sexiest pitchers in the game. Let's see. They have Luis Garcia tonight. Yeah, they have a tough go here.

Luis Garcia, then Lance, and then they get Odo versus Gilbert, which is probably their best show. No. What am I looking at? What is he? Gilbert's been really good.

Yeah, yeah. So it's... Actually, I keep thinking of the wrong guy. There's two Gilberts. I get Gilbert and Flexen mixed up, I think. Flexen has some good starts. Yes. Make us talk about you, Mariners.

Have us be... J.P. Crawford. Be the surprise of Friday that you handled your business. I think that's it. We can move on. Red So, I saw Fuzzy's tweet where he listed out the bullet points. I'm blaming Fuzzy here. He said, he said, Red Sox, you're not that good.

as like this is really who you are. You got one hit by Logan Allen, then you won an extra as and now you're losing. So by the bullet point one hit by Logan Allen, I thought that included a Red Sox loss. I didn't know they won that game, which I don't know Fuzzy if you can be tweeting that when they won. Tough 24 hours for Fuzzy.

Yeah. Got blocked by Llewellyn or whatever. Yeah. Who did he get by line? Llellan muted him in the chat because he came in all hot with caps. He went all caps in the chat last night. Llellan just sniped them. well and plit them.

Wow. Didn't get a time out or anything. I think you learned his lesson. Sheriff Flew. Better. Yeah. This is something I wanted to talk about, and we'll move on. Karen check.

Is he the guy that's been affected most from the sticky stuff? Like one of the more obvious users of it. His numbers are quite different. Has been absolutely brutal. after that and he gets option when's the sticky stuff go ahead homer 21st June 21st is when it was like in force June 3rd is when they announced they were gonna start in force

the owner's meeting or whatever yeah is the meeting yeah so he's been bad since then huh I don't know the guy so I don't want to say it was it's been a tired act for me a little bit the whole time even when he was good It's funny if Whatever you know we've seen pitchers Stop using it and then regain

After a blip Maybe it takes him a while because it's not a starter But I'm having a tough second half I also don't like His presence on the mountain It's the opposite of calming Yeah I don't either Yeah

And maybe that's just who he is That's what everyone says That's just who he is but Like Lady Gaga says I was boring this way Yeah Everyone is Red Sox at Tampa for four

Cleveland for three And then they host Tampa for three Red Sox Do we even talk about Yankees A's? They're split Kind of boring We didn't even talk about it Split boring

Matt Kemp though Shout out he was back Yeah Here's one thing on the ace And then we'll move on Sorry I keep bringing these things up We know now Two spots

Roster expansion September Have you seen what Chris Davis Is freaking doing In AAA? I saw you three about it. Yeah, he's going crazy. He's got like six straight games to the Homer.

He's hitting walk-offs. He's doing everything he can. And in a normal year when there was, however many guys you wanted to bring up, KD would be on the freaking team in September. Now, I just don't, I don't see it happening because they're probably just going to get some relievers up.

Maybe some speed. They asked him on Sunday night baseball. I didn't hear the answer. I just heard to get asked. I was trying to not listen But Beaumel said that In a different press conference said it's gonna be tough Like I wish I could but with only two players

It's gonna be tough There's Karen checks drop off It's hilarious Like you might have been cheating Man Be fun to watch KD though in September Like he's so fun to watch man It would

He's crushing I think he hit another one yesterday It's just going off Nuts Let's get to the Interle recap. I'm clicking out, guys. See ya. Jake, let us know what happened, dude. We are

heading to beautiful Chicago, where the White Sox hosted the Cubbies. How's your game 1 17 to 13? Pushing some runs across Ian Hap. Hot, hot,

hot. White Sox win game 17 and 13. Cubs, bounce back. Alec Mills drops it all over Lance Lynn. people would have had that reverse, and the White Sox take the series as they put up another double-digit performance. 13-1. Sheesh. Patrick Wisdom have a series.

Four yackers for him. Grandal, Abraeu. Jeez. The White Sox hit, man. 291-407-563 slashline as a team. Holy cow. They take two out of three from the Cubbies. Twins take two out of three from the Brewers.

Ooh. Ooh. 2.6, 4, twins take the first two. Ashby, bounces back for the brew crew on the last day to get one. Not an offensive series. How's your twins' bullpen? 12.2 shuddy, Trev. People are talking, talking about people.

Donaldson and Snow, each with five hits and a home run in the series. That's just fun. Rowdy Tellez, friend. He hits a homer, so I like that. Maida, wow, season-ending elbow surgery. Hate that, hate that, hate that. Twins, sneak out two out of three. Your final interleague series, two games, Padres, Angels.

Padres take the first one, 5-0. Disco Joe Musgrove drops it on them. And then the Angels bounce back and they win 10-2. So, yeah, a couple non-competitive interleague two games. games. That's as fun as it gets. Machado with a couple hits. Marsh, it feels like he's been hitting. Otani steals his 20th base of the year,

which just 40, 20 season for him. Still August people. He's a sick puppy. Kind of don't care about the series. And that's the interleague set. Great job, Jake. Treves twins? Treves twins. I saw a stat that the twins

have been taking care of business against the brew crew since like 2010 they've only lost two season series or something like that. So it's understandable. Donaldson kind of having like a sneaky good year and everyone's kind of like not talking about that at all. He's just a professional hitter.

He had a great swing on a ball in this. What are his numbers? Well, let's get him up. Get him up. Josh. I don't know he was having a sneaky good year. No, I'm interested. He's 841 OPS, 134 OPS plus.

He's got 20 homers. Only 344 at bat, so that's really good. Broekru are in the same mode as the Astros for me. Just get yourself right for the next month because you're in the playoffs. And they got a great series right now playing the Giants. Yeah, I think the only thing that that differs there is the brewers don't have the postseason success. Oh, yes. So you're going to be, the Astros could lose seven out of ten limping into the playoffs and you'd say, well, that doesn't matter.

Brewers, I think we'll see how September goes for them. At some point, I think you want to, you know, rest those big arms and then have them dialed up for October because you have your formula. You have your starting pitchers. the back end, Yelly, and whoever else in the lineup can do it. I agree with that. Like, Brewer's like, let's get hot the last two weeks. Astros doesn't matter. Brewers now just pull another ace out of the sleeve.

All of a sudden they're like, hey, let's bring this freaking lefty that throws a hunch with a wipeout slider. Aaron Ashby gets his first career win. Five innings pitch, two runs. We kind of mentioned this last week. We were talking to some brass for the Brew crew. they are high on this dude. I mean, as high as you can be on a guy.

Yeah. They were like, and we know about being high. I can be high on a guy. You got the law firm plus Peralta plus Ashby and everyone forgets about Hauser. Yeah. Senor puke.

Send your puke. Cubs and White Sox win. Two or three. Wind was blown out that game one, huh? Looks like it. 17 to 3. Yikes. Yeah.

And the Padre split against the Angels So I'm like ready to call it Padre's dead Oh my God James You can't call him dead dude You guys take it much more serious than I do Everyone's dead Oh We're all dying

I got like five undead teams List them Jimmy's five alive teams That's ridiculous My five alive teams The Rays, the White Sox I don't think you believe in the race. No.

To win the World Series? Isn't that your stipulation? Yeah, it's only World Series. No, I didn't say that. I said win the ALCS, make the World Series. Okay. So to make the World Series. Yeah, like go deep into the playoffs.

Making the ALCS, being the Final Four team is pretty. Rays, White Sox, Astros, maybe it's more than five. Brewers. Giants. Giants, Dodgers, Yankees. It's seven. Yankees.

Seven? Seven. And the Yankees is just straight up. Yankees. Like, you can eliminate that if you want. If the Yankees just had the same season, but where the Orioles, you wouldn't believe.

If one of the Oakland has a chance to win the World Series? No. If the World Series, if a team that isn't those seven is in the World Series, I'll eat a bug. Got them. It's not like a crazy bet anyway. I think like the odds would be incredibly.

He might have the top seven. You might have the top so. That's what I'm saying. First the field. I don't take calling, I don't, saying teams are dead isn't as big of a thing. They're all dead. You said no Braves.

That's my preseason prediction. That'll be fun for me if the Braves make the World Series. That would. What kind of bug, though? In that lineup. Whatever we've got laying around the office. Local bugs.

Yeah, we got bugs everywhere. You got to give some snaps to Otani. Come on, man. What do you do? 40-20 season. First Japanese player ever, fifth international player ever. Acuna, Soriano, Kinsaker, and Walker. That's Larry Walker, I'm assuming, right?

Saker. Ksaker, yeah. I think it's Kempel Walker. 40-20, man. The 30-30 mark is so cool to me. I don't know how you guys feel about that, but that's, to me, that's like, if you do that, you're a god. 2019 someone said I forgot about the 2019 Nats no they had the best rotation I don't think I was counting them out that year you have top three pitchers you can make a deep playoff then could you throw the Phillies in the mix who at wheeler gibby and nola nola okay I don't think that's I don't think that's the same as Scherzer Strasberg that's a top two

as a top two three three club kind of has a lot of people who's your favorite name you're saying let me go back Ian Kinsler's kind of one guys forget about he did it twice holy shit really good career for Ian Kinsler Bobby Bonds

did it Bobby let's go to the list is better 4040 can you guys name them all there's only four people to ever do it 4040 club Acuna was So fucking close.

So close. So close. 40-40 club, go. I'm like bizarrely blanking right now. It is. I was going to say Griffey and Bonds, but the Bonds have stills 40 bases. Bonds.

Bonds. Yes, very Bonds. And 96, 42 homers, 40 stolen bases. That's one. Konseco? Jose Konseco, 88, 48, 42 and 40. Is it all steroid guys? There's another for sure steroid guy.

You hate him. I hate him? Rayrod? Yes. Rafael Palmero. 98 Mariners, 42 homers, 46 stolen bases. The other one, Alfonso Soriano. Soriano, yeah.

46 and 41 for the 2006 Nats. You ever get pot for steroids? That's what I'm saying. I'm not sure. He's never listed in any PDs. Nothing comes to mind. Good for him. Smoking the biggest bad of all time.

Never tested positive, was not part of the Mitchell report. Let's go. Let's go. So he's the only clean 40. Actually, that 96 year, though, I don't think Bonds was on the juice at that point. He supposedly did it after the home run race because he was like, what the hell? Why are people not paying attention to me? Consenco's straight up like, I don't count that.

Good guy. Real good guy. A lot of good quotes about Soriano, his manager Dale Savem. It's probably the hardest working guy in the clubhouse. Players love him to death. He's the most prolific guy in our lineup. I love him. Nice.

It's beautiful. He had like 18 RBIs in one weekend for the Yankees in 2012 or something like that. It was crazy. When they brought him at 2013. He said, 2013. Yeah, it's nuts. All right. Regular individual back end of the show is brought to you by Draft Kings.

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Performance. Trevor, you are the lead-off battered today. Who wins your stand-out performance award? I'm giving him this award because I saw a clip of him dancing on the field. He has been great all year. My award goes to Patrick Wisdom. On Saturday, he went two for four with two home runs. Did you guys see the video of him dancing?

He's got rhythm. He's kind of like a stud. And the way he's been playing, I have his numbers up right here. He's having an excellent year. 320 OBP, not great, but he's slugging 579. He's 899 OPS on the year. The guy has found his stroke, and when he hits those bombs, it's as pretty as anyone.

The way he walks out of the box, like he's got a great Homer swag. Can't say that for everybody. Some guys hit him, they look whatever, around the bases, and that opening two, three steps. Patrick Wisdom, go watch some of his homers. some highlights you'd be like ooh okay and I noticed that before didn't think anything of it besides like hey that's cool but then I saw him dancing I'm like oh I got it he's like one of those people

he's just good at everything good looking dude can dance hits bombs and you know he's getting some run now cubs are out of it this guy has earned the spot to play every day and you're gonna play every day and put those numbers up and set yourself up man I want to see this guy go on a little run here and have a nice little end to his career. He's only 30. Let's go, Pat. 37 years old. That's your goal. Shout out Patrick Wisdom. 899 OPS. 139 OPS plus, Jim. It's good stuff. Officially having a good season. Like he was hot and it was fun. 25 homers, 83 games. Have a nice September and we're going to be looking at like, whoa, 32 homers from Patrick Wisdom. Go get it. Hey, and he's, he's, he's, he's. He's, he's.

He's a rookie? Yeah. And Jonathan India. Mm-hmm. And L. Central. Who's got better numbers? Wisdom or India? I'm looking right now.

Farm to fame usually has. They do the rookie of the year tracker. I mean, he's got better numbers everywhere. Patrick Wisdom. Does he really? Everywhere. I'm interested. Except stolen bases.

War is. On base. negligible. 2-8 for India and 2-6 for Paddy Wisdom. So that's negligible. Can be tight. India's played a lot more games. He's got almost double the plate appearances.

So that's something. That makes what Patrick's doing even more impressive then. It's the double spin. Kind of, you have 25 home runs. You got more home runs and double than half the plate appearances. Shout out Patty Wiz. That's yours, Jimmer. That's nutty.

My standout performer is Alec Mill. Haven't talked about this guy in a while. What did you say about that White Sox offense? Good. He said it was good. Alec Mills went 8.1 innings pitched, zero earned runs against that very White Sox offense, which Jake has labeled as good.

Quality. His hardest pitch he threw is 91.5 miles per hour. Through like eight pitches in the 60s. I think two of them won for strikes and none of them got swung at. But whatever, you've got to mix it up. sometimes. Alec Mills just start them.

The Cubs, you buttheads. 373 ERA as a starter. 6.41 as a reliever. It's like a three ERA as a starter's career and a five as a reliever. They were putting him in the pen to start the year. Hey, he doesn't throw hard at all. And his skill set is throwing five different pitches and one at bat. So he's a starter, obviously.

So just start Alec Mills because he's good and fun to watch. They threw no hitter last year and I fell in love with him. It was Alec Mills versus Lance Lynn, two of my guys. One of them had to succeed. And you can't choose between your kids, although I would have chose Lynn if I had it my way. Okay. Two Cubs Awards? Yeah.

Wow. Let's go. In Haps, Cubs. Yeah, good weekend to not be pumping it. Alec Mills, Wayno, or just an NL Central Pod now. Fellas, I'm going to take it out West. And I'm going to talk about a team

and a guy that John Boy just RIP'd. I'm going to the Padres and I'm going with No No Joe. Joey Musgrove goes nine innings pitch, zero earn runs, nine K's. My guy has turned it on in August, his last start in July.

If you do his last six now, 39 innings pitched a 208 ERA, and one of those starts, he actually got knocked around by my snakes, obviously. So another way to butter knife that, five of his last six starts, he's given up one run or less. Joey Musgrove is going, and the Padres have been a sinking ship. Like, you have to be honest about that. They've gone through a rough stretch. they're waiting for Tatis to get back to MVP form.

Snell has been going. These Padres, if their formula to get back in this, A, to get in the wild card, and B, to try to make noise in the playoff, Joe Musgrove has to be a huge part of it. Him, Snell, Darvish. Let's go Padres. Joe Musgrove, nine innings.

I mean, at this point of the year, that might be the biggest thing you circle. So good job, Big Gros. Joe. Good job. Good job. New pitching coach working out, huh? And by the way, how about Musgrove, man? I mean,

he was a guy that a lot of teams had on their wish list this year. The Padres do it. And he has lived up to it. 148 innings pitch, a 285 ERA. Leave Pittsburgh, man. Beautiful city. Leave Pittsburgh. Leave Pittsburgh. Beautiful city.

Yeah. It is a beautiful city. Really is. I was surprised. I wasn't because I've seen she's out of my league five times. Also seen him multiple times. That's set in Pittsburgh. Change my reflection of the city. Yeah. Yeah.

Okay, see you, Trev. Nobody's listening to me. Okay, see you, Trev. Did he say something before that? What do you say? I think he froze. He said nobody is listening to me. I heard that.

I didn't hear anything before the nobody's listening to me. Frozen. We got some guys on Slump Watch, and we got some new additions. And some of these new additions, oh no. Oh, no. BVD, who might we be adding? Guys, it's a crazy list of people we might be adding. Show Hey, Otani.

His August numbers don't look. And they're fine, but compared to where he was. O4-8 with a walk 2Ks this weekend. He's in 2-4-18 slide. One of the two is a homer. Justin Turner focused more on the mound this. weekend, 0 for 9 with a walk in a K. Byron Buxton, O for 11, a walk, six strikeouts.

Eich. To Oscar Hernandez, O for 11, with a walk in 4Ks. He was hot recently. And Mookiee Betts, one for eight, two walks, two K's. Can he play baseball? Mooky. Mookie Betts. All right, well, first off, Byron Bucson, that's his first three games back,

so he's just not eligible, right? New to the squad, yeah, I'm fine. The team doesn't matter, just got back from injury. And honestly, I think this might be hot, but I'm... I don't want Shohei on there. I think he was trying to get that 20th steal. He got it so you could get the 40, 20 in the books. Now he's going to go off.

Yeah. I don't think he needs our help to get him hot. Just get in the swipe, you know? It's all gravy after this. Dessert mode for Shohay. Wow. A little September dessert. That's what I'm going to call it when you have MVP locked up

and you have 2040 season locked up. and your team's not going to the playoffs. Every time. Just Sunday dessert. If that happens next year, remind me that it's called Sunday dessert. Sure. Max Muncie, he was on Slump Watch. He goes one for six with three walks.

It's kind of Muncie Ball. I mean, on-Bays percentage is there, 4-44. I don't know. It is Muncie Ball. I mean, I think I'll circle back on him. J.D. Martinez, clear off. Five for nine. Homer, double, bunch of ribbies.

Good job. guy didn't want to put them on because I didn't want to get him hot. Yeah. Look what we've done. That's how it works. Rizzo kind of finds a way off, which is not surprising,

but he had some COVID stuff. He'd look bad. He goes four for 14, which is a nice little series. One snap. Certainly passes the eye test two. We happen to watch that series. Where things get tricky is Joey Votto's on here

and the San Diego Padres as a team. So I'm not sure how we want to navigate it. The Padres as a team. team at a 239 batting average of 3.41 on base. 310 slugging? That's not enough power. No, only 4xia base hits, no home runs. Only two games. Let's keep the Padres on. We'll watch the Padres.

It's just two games set, hard to make any decisions on that. Let's keep the Padres. Let's keep Moncee. Let's keep Votto. Okay. And then let's put Mooki on there. Mookie Betts. Or Teosker. Or Teasker. I think you can, we have room for both. We do?

If the Padres are one guy, one person. on the list. I think we're currently at three, right? Like, am I counting right? I don't know. I'm not looking at the sheet anymore. Muncie, Padres, Votto. Teosker and Mukki. JT doesn't deserve any of the focus on pitching. He's focused on the bump.

We got it. We're great. Moncee, the Padres, Vado, Teosker. Mookie Betts. Muckey. We want to spark. Do we have that sound bite? Not on the board, but I have very easy access to it because people DM me a lot of asking for it,

So I have it. If you drop it here to the end of the show. Just feel it. Yeah, I can get it. I can get that onto it. I'd like that. All right, Treve, are you here? Trevor?

Don't have him yet. Wow. He's every fucking way. Trevor. Trevor. Oh, move on. Nasty's on Fuego. That means I'm on fire, baby.

Like Waco. The man who doesn't take a pitch is hot. Seven for 17. and four homers for Salvador Perez. Royals fans getting hotter than he is. About how he should get MVP votes. Another catcher, Yalsmani Grandal, Jake, six for 12.

Wow, has he ever gotten that many hits in three games? Three homers? Did he decide to start swinging? Only one walk? Got into the yes man. Wisdom, as you heard about. Tommy Edmund, nine for 18. No or one walk

Tommy How does that How does his batting average And he's on base percentage the same If he had a walk Three doubles Nine RBIs Aaron Judge

He's been hot for a while His month of August is crazy Eight for 17 Two bombs Two doubles Seven RBIs Nikki Lopez How about that

10 for 17 Edmundo Sosa Eight for 14 with the homer Adoles Garcia Bryce Harper still doing it. Oh, what are his numbers like now? He's one doting on the year.

On the year? Hell yeah. Soler, two homers. One was a big one. Luis Robert, five for nine with two homers and a double in four RBIs. Now, these White Sox stats, are they off pitchers or what was it going on in that 17 to 13 game?

Are we getting juice stats here? I mean, Cubs pitchers. They didn't switch to position players? I don't think so in the first. game because it was like they were scoring two Jose Ramirez five for 11 with two homers there you go that's the infuego bang biscuit Trevor please come back Trevor I think I have a solution to your Tommy Edmund quandary okay there's a possibility Jan that he had two sack flies ooh Tommy Edmund a little Tommy Edmund

appreciation segment. That may be not that also. We always do pretty good math on this show. Tommy Edmund leading the NL and doubles. Hell yeah. What about that?

Love that. His name is Mooky Bats. I said Poppy, can he play baseball? He said, man, can he play baseball? He had one sack fly, which I guess cancels out the walk. Mookie Bats. I've heard us say it so much.

I haven't actually heard the soundbite in a while. It's always good. And he says it like that. His name is Mookie Bats. I said, poppy. Can he play baseball? He said, man, can he play baseball? Oh, my God. What a nut job.

I'm nervous right now, you guys. For what? Okay. I had an award. Yes. But then I stumbled into something I want to talk about even more. Okay. While you think it over, we technically have one more ad to do, and it is for your show.

And while I do the ad about your show, BPD, I did a lot of notes on my desk, and I forgot to bring it in here. Treve. your award is brought to you by baseball today. Oh. Which is a show hosted by Chris Rose and Trevor Plouffe. And it comes out every day. Yeah. And it's on YouTube.

It's on any podcast app. You can watch live on Instagram. And it's honestly like the best 20-minute daily baseball content you're going to get because Chris Rose does an amazing job preparing like the five topics. and Treb does an amazing job being prepared with Rose's preparedness. It is really good. And I think if you do like baseball and we go three times a week and we kind of like summarize everything at the end, if you want to be in the middle and hear what happened

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I'm harsh on myself with the content. Obviously, I love this show. I think we're doing a fantastic job here. But I've voiced my disappointment in some content stuff that I've done. I'm a realist with it. Baseball today is awesome. Chris Rose is awesome. We're fun.

We're informative. It's quick. Yeah. It's a good stuff. I love it. Yeah. Thank you. Thank you for that.

What is, or who is, and what is your award, Trevor? I'm going to give my original award and then like one be it real quick at the end. That's okay with you guys. My original award, what do I call it? I am that guy award. Goes to our pal Wander freaking Franco. he's got a 29 game on base streak. I'm pretty sure that's what it is.

Totally could be wrong with that. But it's something, it's a lot. I think it's 29. And, you know, he came up. And I said at the beginning, I said, this guy might come up and go gangbusters. And then the league's going to come around. And just don't expect this guy to put up MVP numbers right away.

He's 20 freaking years old. Wander took the opposite route right there. Okay? in June when he first got called up struggle to a 194 batting average okay kept his head above water in July move that to a 256 then now in August he said in 319 386 505 that puts him at 892 for the month his overall numbers are looking really good he's got a 783 OPS 122 OPS plus the walks to strikeout so they are there at 20 years years old, guys putting up numbers like this, learning how to control himself in a big league

environment, understand the strike zone is very special. We're seeing a very special prospect come to the big leagues and establish himself right now. And I know people know that. He's been the number one prospect for a couple years, but he's doing it in the major leagues and he's getting better. When teams are supposed to be getting a book on him, he's getting a book on them. He's figuring out, he's feeling very comfortable now. And if the raise, if the raise, if the do the damn thing and go into the posse season and make some noise get to the world series and all that wander franco is going to be a guy that you want to keep your eye on he could be the difference maker uh in the whole playoff run similar to the way randio rosorania took over the playoffs last year we

could have another one of those mfers on the raise so i know if you're in the a lees he's scared because wander ain't going anywhere he's just showing up to the party right now he's looking good so shout out wander franco you are that guy what do you think you are i Damn. Yeah. 1B Award. Yes. The best award. Real quick.

Yep. It's called the there ain't no other place than here award. It goes to California. Oh, wow. 225 big leaguers this year are from the great state of California. Now, we all know Texas and Florida

are usually going to be second and third. Texas 101 or excuse me Texas 93 Florida 101 so California is crushing it in a landslide with 225 there is one area that's more than Florida or Texas can you guys guess what do you mean players players in the big leagues there's one area that's given more than Florida or Texas but not as much as California Pennsylvania are we saying area instead of state for a reason yes Puerto Rico D.R. Dominican Republic with 158 big leaguers.

That's a freaking island, by the way. 1.0. So per capita, I guess, Dominican. Isn't Haiti on the same island? I don't know that. Not a geographical pod. Shout out California, 225 freaking people in the show. Half the damn Yankees rosters from California.

It's a big state trip. This is a terrible word. It's basically... George of Connecticut. Wander Franco. Wander Franco. Going to be a 30-30 guy. Mark my words.

Is it Franco or Franco? Double check. I think it's a soft fronk. Jake's checking. It is Franco. Whatever. Wonder Franco. My award is the,

I hate the fucking Rays award. Similar to Treves. Yeah. I hate the Fing Rays award. and it goes to Paul Frye, reliever for the Orioles. Now what I'm going to tell you may shock you, so listen closely.

Paul Frye has pitched 42.2 innings this season against teams not named the race. In those 42.2 innings versus teams not named the raise, he has a 299 ERA. That's a good season. 40 innings as a reliever, 299ER. He's pitched 4.2.4.2.1, 2.3, 4.2 innings against the raise this year. And in those 4.2 innings, he has a 34.71 ERA. They have scored 18 runs off him in four and two-thirds innings,

which jumps his season ERA to 608. 42 innings against not the raise under three. Four innings against the raise, 34 ERA. That dude hates the raise and also is 100% expecting a call from a member of the race after the season to let him know what the fuck he was doing that they have on him. That's crazy. I'm going to go watch that now.

I'm downloading all the footage as we go to watch it because they have to have a tip on him. I looked at the swings and misses, and they only have like eight out of 112 pitches, and I'm wondering if they were, you know, just fastos out of the zone or something like that. They have to have a tell on Paul Fry. So I actually, they might do a breakdown on it,

but it's going to take forever because it's 10 over like eight games. Isn't that nuts? Dude, hates the race. I'll take a look of the footage, too. I did see that somewhere on Twitter, they were talking about, oh, Paul Fry. It's a cautionary tale. It's hot in the streets yesterday.

Ray's no Ray. Yeah, never and never doubt the race. They put their guys in the right spot. Maybe the Ray's just got them. Life of a relief pitcher. Sorry, Paul. Paul. Sorry, Paul.

Shut up. Great awards. What was your second one again, Treve? California Be Getting it Award. I think it was the biggest state. Biggest state produced the most. Players award. Oh my gosh.

225. I am giving out the What a Time to Be Alive award. James, you almost stumbled into it. I almost had to give you the boop, boop, boop, but I knew it wasn't going to be enough. Boop, boop, boop, so you booped just right. Jim, something I do like that Bill Simmons does.

Give him a shout out. Sometimes when he talks about great all-time NBA players. One of the things he does at the end, he says, did they come at an era too soon, right time, or too late? So like if you're a dominant big man in the NBA right now, you'd say, you know, you're kind of too late. If you came back in the 90s, you would have been the guy, it would have been all about you, you know, if you were a big-time shooter in the 80s, 90s, before the three-point revolution took off, you know, they'd say, ah, they were probably too early. If you let them get more shots up, it would have been interesting to see what they did.

Jim, there is someone who is in just the perfect time to be doing it. And it's the ass man, yes, Moni Grandal. James, weighted runs played created plus. It's a popular stats with the kids these days. You know, it takes in ballpark factors. It takes in, you know, adjusted ERA, things like that. let me give you the American League top five for guys that have had 250 plus plate appearances. Vlad Guerrero, MVP-paced season if Shohei Otani didn't exist.

Shohei Otani exists. Aaron Judge getting in the second place, ALMVP race. Matt Olson, looking at probably a top five MVP finish. He's a, him and Judge are one of, you know, the only two players leading their teams in, like, every hitting stat. Number five in the American League, it's Yasmani Grandal. His stat line, a 207 batting average. Man, if that happened 20 years ago, I think people would be saying he can't start every day. He's got a 398 on base.

My dude is walking in 24% of his at-bats. And when he's hitting it, it's going. He's got a 4-92 slugging. Yasmani Grandal, what a time to be alive for you, man. Because all of the checkboxes that people are looking for these days, whether on base, WRC plus, whatever it is, you're kind of killing it. And I think if you did this a couple years back,

people would not be liking it. I think in the future, I think some of these numbers might be respected differently and you wouldn't be as loved as you are today. Good for you, man. What a career, too. Ruined one of our fantasy drafts. Yeah. Are we going to do a Osmani Groundall career earnings right now?

I'm interested. Are you there? I'm looking up right now. Okay. I'm going to guess before I look it up, though. I have no 50? I think he's got over eight years service time. I think he's got one and a half day days, right?

the deal two years ago, right? I said, 75? Are we doing two date? Sure. That's the way we usually play, but then... Two date, I'm going to say he's at 65. Okay. James?

I guess, well, I guess, I'll guess... You guys changed my mind, so... Ooh. I didn't know he got paid, or he'd been in a league eight years. He got the big deal before last season. 100 total. Play my own rules. To date, 75.4Ms.

He's got 36.5 coming his way. So that'll put it at 110. What the hell? That's a lot of money. That's a lot. That's so much money. When you got... Oh, that's nuts.

How many commas is that? Or nine digits. Two commas. nine digits. That's two columns. I'm not sure. You're doing all right. Golly. Who was the best friend of the week? Good, good awards, everyone. The page, I'm looking at for Grendal's career earnings. I don't know if it's to date, but at least through this year, and Trev guessed 65, it hasn't been 648. I don't know where they designate stuff, and I was very impressed by Trevor's guess at that point.

And I had 101. Anyway, best friend of the week, Taylor Hearn. because friend, which is the whole point of the word second time getting it, toss 6.2 to earn 6Ks, and no walks. Yesterday and today's his birthday. So, how old is he?

Perfect cosmic gumbo. Him and Waino. How old is he? Is he officially a starter now? Yeah. He can start. Hot. Today is his 27th birthday.

27. The first guy for a tall come together. reliever, man. I mean, there is. A lot more being a starter. Man. You guys want to do the Stimulator-Simulator real quick? Ooh. We didn't do it last

Friday. We didn't? No. Because we were back from the road trip. I had the meeting. I had to hop off. Okay. What's the, uh, is this the beat? This is. Wow.

All right. BPD Stimulator simulator. later. Here we go. The American League wildcard is the Red Sox taking the train down to the Bronx to play the Yankees. Cold versus Sale. Oh my God. Who wins, B.D.? The Yankees. Wow. I like that. I appreciate that. The White Sox are going to Houston and the DS to play the Astros. This is the matchup we've had for about two months straight. Houston. Okay. Then the Yankees after beating Boston, they go to Tampa for a five-game set, same as last year against the race.

Who wins that? Yankees. Wow. Wow. Hell yeah. Astros versus the Yankees and the ALCS. I will cry. The Yankees.

Wow. BBD. Let's go. Let's go. How about that? In the National League, the wild card will be the Dodgers hosting the Cincinnati Reds. Dodgers.

Makes sense. That makes sense. sense. The Brewers and the Braves will be playing in Milwaukee. He's still Brewers. Milwaukee versus L.A.

Rivalry game. L.A. No, no, no. Sorry. L.A. versus the Giants. L.A. And then Milwaukee

versus L.A. Oh, Rob Manfred cream in his pants right now. Yankees versus Dodgers. He's doing his job perfectly. Yankees versus Dodgers. Dodgers World Series. Dodgers?

Damn. Man. I had my hope set. Shoot. What's today's date? The 20th, the 30th, 31st? The 30th, for sure. Are there 31 days in August?

Yeah. God, man, I've been saying, Yeah. I woke up saying it's the last day of August. I said it's so many times today. That's why August is such a tricky bitch. I was sneaking extra day in baseball of August. God.

Based on release time. I will say this, guys. Dodgers have won three of the last four simulator stimulators. Man. Wow. Yes, Trev. Makes sense. It's the end of the month.

Watch out. People are going to be giving tickets out. Just driving your car, drives safely. Hey, so tomorrow we can do the through August awards on the, or Wednesday's episode. Yeah. The all August team. The all April through August team. Clops for that episode.

When we're doing it, the last day of August won't have happened. Don't know what that does for you. It's all right. We've done that before. We'll anticipate. I'm fine with it. We'll anticipate their last day. What's the best baseball?

What's the best baseball for the World Series? Straight up baseball. Don't worry about population of the city that you live in. Oh, you're saying what's the best, like, matchups? Just the best baseball series. Brewer Houston? That's me, I think. Probably Dodgers White Sox.

Dodgers White Sox is pretty good. Yeah. I think if the White Sox are fully clicking. Yeah, if all of the White Sox are definitely my AL team, that's like most entertainment. Because you have the starters, you have the relievers, and then you have a bunch of boppers, and you have speed. They bring it all. Aesthetically pleasing, the black with the Dodger blue.

I've got to love that. In the ANL, it could be the Giants and the Brewers or the Dodgers. Like all three of those teams, baseball-wise, makeup, gameplay. It's boner jams, any way you think about it. The playoffs are going to be nuts. A lot of boner talk late in the episode. That's what they say. You guys want to spin the wheel?

Yep. Jenny Lewis. I clicked the wrong wheel. This is a bunch of musicians on this wheel for the talking songs podcast used to do. Spinning again. Jenny Lewis. Holy smokes.

It's the Chicago White Sox Trev. And he will appear. White Sox have the Division 1. So you can talk about that. They just beat their in-city rivals. So when you're in the elevator, Be sure to mention that. Like, feels good to be the top dog in town, hey?

You say it's our city now. Cubs had their fun 2015 until now. It's our city. They got a two-gamer coming up. They're hosting the Pirates for a two-game Interleague series. So you can echo our thoughts and say, oh, these two-lead, two-game interleague games, I don't like them.

I don't know about all that, man. Yeah. Not into that. What Pantara is absolutely on fire right now, by the way. Do you own any of his cards? I do. 100% needs to be mentioned when you mentioned Tatees and Vladdy.

He kind of got forgotten about because of the injury. We haven't talked about him in time. He's one of those guys. Trev, can I tell you something? Yeah. A huge applause for you because you loved the nickname Lou Bob. And you called him Lubbob all the time.

And you found out that he didn't really like Lubbob and he liked La Pontera better. And look at you, just fluidly pivoting and changing to La Pantera. Just a, like, just a great job by you. That's sportsmanship. Thank you. I will also, oh, I will also call Wander Franco,

Wander Franco from now on. Unless you forget casually and you don't mean it. That's fair. Sportsmanship has been a big topic around these parts lately. Craig Kimball, got to figure it out in his role, 11.1 innings, nine earned runs from Craigles. Yeah. He needs to be in the ninth, I believe, right? And guys, this is a story in White Soxland.

Right now, Dallas Keikl would be looking on the outside looking in on a layoff rotation spot or even a spot on the team. Long man, bump him. Piggyback. Piggy back guy. You need him. Gialito, Ciselin, Rodon. Piggy back. Jake sucks.

Who's the two-hole hitter, Moncada, a robert? What do you want? Okay. Nice riding the elevator with me. See you later. Good ride. We're so good. Huh.