Talkin' Baseball (MLB Podcast) - 386 | NL West is Up For Grabs, Red Sox Split with Tampa, Mets & Phillies Win

Episode Date: September 3, 2021

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Hello and welcome to talking baseball. The NL West is up for grabs. Other things happened as well. Trevor got sick and lost a lot of weight. Let's talk baseball. Hello and welcome to talking baseball, brought to you by Draft Kings. Thank you very much for joining us today. My name is Jimmy.

His name is Jake. California. We have Trevor Plouffe, 106 career home runs to his name. And BBD, zero home runs in Major League Baseball. producing in the corner. How is everyone doing today? What an exciting time to wake up and talk about baseball. It's the first live show of September,

the final month of the regular season, August officially in my rear view. And if the flooding in New York and New Jersey affected your lives at all, we are thinking of you and hope everything's okay because that was scary, scary situation. Trev, tell us about all that weight you lost. First, Jim, I'm happy you guys are okay, and I will also send my best regards to the people in New York and New Jersey.

And Philly. That was scary, man. I was in bed most of the day yesterday, and I had my phone out, and then Twitter was just full of crazy, like, subway stations with massive running water, and then that, in Philadelphia, there's this row of rowing houses that colleges use.

and it's right there, right outside the city. And the whole thing was submerged. It was crazy. So I hope everyone's doing okay. Yesterday was tough for me. A lot of fluids exited my body. I think I ended up down eight pounds in one day. I didn't eat anything yesterday.

Still trying to feel 100% human again, Jim. But I'm getting there. Feeling a little bit better today. And I'm happy to be here with my boys on a Friday of a long weekend. Jake, how are you doing? I got a you guys said it so now I have to

thinking of everyone in the flood stuff pretty crazy no one believes you I know it's just half-hearted like you guys represent me you actually lived it though

you like went and braving and your parents just split up so there's a lot of sympathy my parents split up I didn't say just yeah parents when was it again it's like 25 years ago yeah

you actually got me too I've reached out to him and said you're all right bro I got nobody I got God Yeah, you did get caught. I also had a lot of fluids come out of myself yesterday. Jess is a way of a bachelor's.

I'm excited to talk some of the baseball with you guys. I propelled baseball today to become the number one baseball show for a day. So now I got to drive talking baseball back to the top. So I'm excited today. I got Cardinal. I got birds. on the mind. Interesting.

Yeah, man. I got birds on the mind. St. Lou, shout out. Update for you. Just check the charts. Talking Baseball number one. So you've already done it. I are.

Jake's already propelled us to the number one spot. Baseball today, number two. Thanks to everyone that tuned into baseball today. We ran like an ad a couple episodes ago. Yeah. And you guys turned out for us. Wow. And Talking Yanks is number five.

So today we have three in the top five. How's that feel, Trev? Oops. For your chart ranking butt. Chart rank and Trev. I love it. It's where we should be. We put the work in.

And we're good. Chat, we'll call you charter ploof. Ploof. He's out. Oh, hey. What's that guy's name again? Gary Thorne.

I still have to fight him. Still have to fight Gary Thorne. Yeah. People forget that. We'll set that up. We can set that up. Yeah, that's awesome. Shout out to a puddle of hanguins in the chat.

That's their first time watching live on YouTube. So we're going to bring our A game. We're bringing our A game today just for... I was planning on kind of punting this. I'll be honest. And then he saw that there's a huddle of penguins in the chat. And he was like, you know what? I got a really step two.

Little Joe DiMaggio kicked in. You never know who's first time it is watching. Trevi, you have a question? I just, I had to say something. I did my pony baseball draft for the 7 and 8-year-old division. And there was one dude. he said something about his Egyptian goddess

and I'm like wait a minute that's what I say and then I'm starting to think does he listen to the pod does he hear me say it does he say it so I connect with him and now we're like buddies it's like I don't know man

I really don't know how to feel about it I've never heard anybody else use that word was he referencing your wife or an actual godess no he has an Egyptian wife So he could have stumbled into that phrase too. Maybe this is like a collective unconscious thing or a collective conscious thing where everyone with an Egyptian wife calls them their Egyptian princess. Because princesses and goddess, yeah.

Egypt and the gods. I don't know. I think he's listening right now. Whose wife is hotter. Walk like an Egyptian. You've seen the woman, the lead singer of that band today? She's like the youngest 60-year-old to ever live. Google Imager. Your name's Jane.

Anyway, guys, I'm doing really well. James. How are you, buddy? Is that for huddle of pangang? No, you guys didn't ask how I was doing. Jake is supposed to ask. You let it rip. You gave like apologies at the start.

Apologies. I said I hope everyone's all right. There was a huge storm. Me too, man. Maybe he slept at the office. Yeah. He likes it, though. Been doing that, yeah.

Wasn't my first rodeo. Yeah. He didn't sleep on the couch, though. He slept on a recliner. Well, I thought you were also going to sleep in the office because you were stuck here as well. So that's nice. I was giving you the courtesy of having the futon. When I woke up at 3.30 and you just never went to sleep.

Yeah. I did lay on the couch for a little bit. Yeah. I'm doing good. I saw my little baby today. It's the first day of fall officially. August sucks. It's the nicest back-to-back weather days in a row.

I went to a diner. And the guy said, what would you like? And I said, dude, I'm going to have the apple cinnamon pancakes because it's fall. Ooh. And he laughed and said, it is nice today. And then I ate like a quarter of them because there's so much pancakes. Yeah, that's a diesel cake. Yeah, no, it was a bad idea.

It was weighing me down. Drake, Jake, and pancakes. Let's get into it. Jake, you have the National League, right? Yeah, sure do. Brought to you by Dugout Mugs. Look at this one. that one has our logo on there talking baseball dugout mugs they have a new campaign they're giving

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Let me tell you what happened in the n. in the National League. He's got a cool response from that text. The Brewers played the Giants. This is the big series, and the Brewers take three out of four. Man, Corbin Burns. That first game drops it on the table.

Is he going to sneak in that Siont? Then Woodruff, Anderson. The Brewers take the first three. The Giants salvaged the last game to tie up the Dodgers for a big series coming this weekend. Brewer's starting pitching. God, Four games, a 129 ERA.

That's going to be tough. That travels. Chase Peterson has kind of been doing the damn thing for them this year. Good job, Jace, Batlin. And kind of like my name when you really think about it. Peralta and Escobar expected to return Friday. So Jim, your hamstring buddy, he'll be back Friday. You're close to a hundred percent.

We'll see. We'll see. Giants. We're going to be talking about them a lot. Because the Dodgers swept the Braves. It's Dodgers season. People are talking about it. How's Eureas Bueller and Scherzer?

That's tough, man. And the Braves fan, let me know. They look like they were good games. 533, 3243. That's tough. That's tough for an Atlanta team that is the division coming back. We'll talk about that a little bit. Dodgers starting pitching.

Brewers, they see you. Dodgers put up a 1-8-9. Justin Turner's doing it. Mooky Betts. Homered for his mom, right? That was this week. Reds played the Cardinals a series. The Cardinals needed to stay relevant, and they did some work.

They win two out of three. They split the doubleheader. They win game one, three, one Lester. Did he drop it? Good for you, John. Happer got rocked in the double header. Paul Goldschmidt, you might hear about him later. I got Cardinals on the mind today.

Why is the little one always yelling? Mets and the Marlins. Mets sweep. They need it. Keep winning Mets. We'll talk about you again for baseball and not the other stuff. 653-1-4-3. Havi Pias.

Baseball is the best reality television. He comes up with the game on the line, does what he needs to do, and then scores the game-winning run. We are still looking for the diamond earring on the field, I believe. And yeah, I'm sure we'll talk about Zach Scott and Brad Hand claimed by the Mets. Hey, good job, Mets. You had to sweep and you did.

Padres D-backs. Padres take two out of three, seven five, three-oh. Snell drops it on the table again. And then Darvish for the sweep. Oh, no. Padres, Darvish. is you doing, baby? You need that win, but not against these snakes.

They're built different. Tatis, Machado, each four hits and three extra base hits. That's fun. Melanson, lead in the league and saves. How about that? Good for him. Darvish, yeah, kind of blew the sweep there after Snell. Man, what a start by him.

He's hot, hot. Philly sweep the Nationals. Let's go. Let's go. We got some good results in the N.O. this week, including a come-behind win yesterday. They were down 6-3 in the 8th, and they come back and do it. 7-4-12-6-7-6 Phillies. They slashed a casual

316, 403-5-21 as a team. Nats are a shell themselves. Soto is still awesome to watch. Homer. He's getting on base, I think, at a 450 clip now. Pretty insane. And the Phillies penned well. So that's what happened in the National League place. Great job, Jake. A lot of happened, huh? The National League's hot, hot, hot. National League hot in the streets. It starts with Jace Peterson. I mean, the, is the wild card becoming a discussion? Is the NL East a discussion? Fellas. Where do you want to go, Jim?

Sorry we didn't ask how you were. It starts with Jason. All right. Chase Peterson with a nice goatee. It's strange. Nice goatee. Okay, fine. Trev, when's the last time you tried out a goatee? I did the Chris Cornell, which is the, is this a goatee? It's the mustache. Sounds like a mustache.

Ooh, the sole patch. It's like a pirate-looking thing. Yeah. I could see you. I think you go go-tee. I think you go-tie probably around the time. your kids are going to prom. I did the just the chin thing.

Hmm. That was very brief. Hot. Goatee is, uh, changed colloquially. Hmm. Because we would call like, you know, just,

if you just had some stubble around here, goatee these days, like the Veritec, he comes to mind. But that traditionally a goatee had to fall off your chin, like a goat's beard. Goatey. And then the, yeah,

it was like a, then like the mustache. was the tea and the goat was the down. I read a book called The History of Facial Hair when I was in college once, and it interested me. Why? Why? It's a great question. It was interesting, Trev.

One nugget was, this dude had a beard, his whole life. It was like, it reached its terminal length, which was, you know, I think like a foot. And then he had to have a major surgery, and they needed to shave his face. And he, the doctor, they shaved his face to get the surgery. And he looked at himself in the mirror, didn't recognize himself. A heart attack died. Surgery called off. This is the biggest tidbit from the book I read about history of facial hair.

Let's go to the West because that I think is the most exciting storyline. Because the boogeyman, the Dodgers and their depth and the trades they made and the Giants fans have been hearing it forever and they're maybe in a state of bliss of like, no, no, we're good. We just can't lose Giants fever. And now they're tied up and playing each other. And can I tell you right now, I'm stamping it. Whoever wins this series wins the division.

Really? If it's a sweep. Okay. A little caveat there. Pretty soft. They don't play each other again, right? No, this is it. If one of them sweeps the other, that's huge.

I mean, you have a three-game advantage when you don't play each other again the rest of the way. It is big. How brutal would be for the Giants to near the go pole to pole and then have to play a one-game wild card and lose it. it's a flip of the coin at that point. You'd play the whole season. I mean, if this isn't a picture of why we need to restructure divisions and how we do stuff, like I don't know what it is.

You play baseball like that for 162 freaking games, and then it comes down to one game because the Dodgers, it's the Dodgers, man. They could just load up on whoever the hell they wanted to. It almost feels like the Dodgers isn't fair to the rest of the league. I know the Giants made their own trade to get Chris Bryan, a couple of other guys over there, but I would be so sad

if that's what ended up happening for the Giants. Man, the Dodgers are just going to be hungry dogs going into this series. They've been hearing all the Giants stuff all year, and now they're with them in three games. Giants, best of luck, man. Gabe Kapler, keeping it as sexy as possible on the sidelines. I respect that.

Man, they have to win the first game. I know we're kind of, we don't normally preview a series, but this is one of the biggest ones of the season. Tonight's their best bet. They got Disco DiScalfani on the mound. And then it's Sammy Long and Jose Quintana going against Eureas and Bueller, those second two games. So, hey, Giants, I hope you surprise me. I hope we're sitting here snapping for the Giants on Monday, saying you fought off the big bad wolf.

but they're looking to blow their house down this weekend. It's a two of three series. Dodgers win two of three. Okay. We talk about the series that happens a little bit, and the brewers take three out of four because they're just really good. Did they win? Were they on like a nine-game winner or an 11-game winner?

Feels like something I should have brought to the table with the NL, so that's on me. But the brewers are nasty, man. Did you just realize something or were you stretching your back? I realized something. You're not going to like it. Ooh. Tough start.

I have a new favorite player on the Giants. Oh. Chadwick Trump. I believe he just got sent down again. But 5-8 listed 5-8 catcher named Chad Trump from Aruba. His Twitter handle is Tropical Storm. And he follows me. So there's a lot of things like, okay, short.

Yes, I like him. Catcher, yes, I like him. Name is Chadwick Trump. Like that. It's from Aruba. Awesome. Twitter handles Tropical Storm.

Like it. Oh, and he follows me. Favorite player on the Giants. There you go. Trev. I think the pitchers are hurt for the Giants. So I don't know how long they're all going to be out. I know that Wood just went on the I.

Wood, Quedo, and Tyler Beattie. Yeah. I don't know how long they're going to go out. And I believe the game they won. They got to Devin Williams. which doesn't happen a lot. Their inability to hit top-tier starters continues, which is how you win series in the postseason.

So the Giants, yeah, you lost the division lead, and that's one nugget, but the actual scary nuggets are the injuries. I have like two pitchers left right now. Yeah, it has their rotation listed as Gossman Webb and Disco, which, by the way, look at the year Logan Webb's having. Yeah. Nice been good.

Man, survive. Survive. And hey, I mean, three out of four against the Brewers, there's also kind of no shame on that. They only got half of the law firm, so Burns and Woodruff. So that's kind of tough. But, hey, they salvaged the last game. You still have, it's in your hands. The Brewers who won this series.

And Trev, you kind of called me out on baseball today, and I appreciate you doing it a little bit. man, the brewer's lineup is a little deeper than I think for a while we were talking about the brewer's pitching and how nasty and Dominant was. Narvaia is behind the dish. He's got an 8-11 OPS on the year. That's 103 games for a catcher.

Colton Wong, his OPS is sneaking up near the 8th. 793. Willie Adomas, guess where his OPS is at? 9-06. Like, Yelly's just, he's yelling. He's obviously not having a great year, but he's scary. Avicale Garcia, 821 OPS. Chase Peterson, 74 games, and 822 are like,

Rowdy's been hitting for them. The Brewers are becoming more of a complete package. Like, I think if the playoffs had started in July, we would have said, like, well, Burroughs got that nasty pitching, that play. It's like, we got to start talking about their offense, too. They're a good team. low cane's another guy he's he's a depth piece like at any moment he could turn it on and just get hot and he loves the playoffs and he loves that atmosphere i feel like he's like one of those dudes that thrives in that moment we love the brewers we talk about them all the time here mostly it's about their pitching but yeah the lineup is it reminds you of like a raised type of lineup where you're like are they can they hit and then you start to look like yeah they can hit and they match up well and they do all the things that you need to do to win games um

shout out Craig Counsel Oh Hot He never talked about him Hot Everybody loves Craig Counsel in Milwaukee Uh

Gotta like that And don't forget You didn't even mention this dude Eddie Escobar Coming back on Friday That's a big bat Down the stretch Mm

All star Snakes Yeah You want to talk Dodgers Braves Jim I want you to talk about it I want to listen

Yeah at Braves fans. Reach out a little bit. I know we mix it up with a lot of you. Braves Ashland. Shout out. Kelsey Winger, engaged. Peter Moyland. Insane. Yeah, a little bit.

Man. Bueller Scherzer. That's tough. At the same time, the Braves threw Morton and Freed to lose two one-run games to the Dodgers on the road. That's brutal. That's brutal. think one of those games was the crazy extra innings.

That was the night of the storm. Justin Turner, the Braves punched. I think Dansby took the lead. And then Justin Turner took it right back that same inning. That was a great game. Yeah, Braves, who do they got coming up? Because you got to be... The East is fun.

The Phillies are two games out. The Mets are five games out. The Mets are four and one. Mets have started this easy trip, four and one. He said, all right, you just went two and 11 on the road trip. I think I was the one or Trev, you said they were dead. Someone said they're dead. I said, but I think I posed, well, what if they go, you know, 11 and 2 on this easy stretch or 12 and 2?

Get fat on the bad teams. Now, in terms of, do I think they're like an LCS competitor? No, but can they get back into this race? Well, you got five against the Nats coming up. And the Phillies just got swept by the hills. just got swept by them. And maybe the, like, Phillies just swept them. Maybe the cool luster of like, hey, this is our spring training.

Let's make the team dies a little bit, you know, or a month after the deadline. All the young guys that came up for the Nats and the new players when they had some spit and vinegar, maybe like, well, actually, this sucks now. Sweep the, sweep of them, Mets. I think we said, what was it, 12, 14 games, you had to win double digits. and they're with a little bit of Dramatics. Javi Baye's running the bases. How fun was that?

Incredible. Yeah, man. Let's go, Mets. Make us talk about you. You guys are still in control of the ship. You're playing a lot of bad teams. And then it gets tough again. Make us talk about your baseball team.

Yeah. That's what I want to talk about. I don't want to talk about any more of your freaking GMs doing dumb stuff. God, man. Like, let's get over that. Like, let's go, guys. I still think they're dead, Jim. I like the Phillies.

Phillies took care of business. Yep. Phillies are hot ever since we motivated them to get hot. Yeah. There are two games out in both the wild card and the division. Did I say that right? Yeah, and they haven't, no one's been in the wild card talk besides Padres and the Red snuck into wild card talk.

And now the Phillies are kind of sneaking into wildcard talk. And one more team. Who? Oh, Jake's birds. Birds on the mind today, baby. Cardinals, two and a half out of the wild card. Six in a row for the fills. Yeah, and they got hit with the COVID bug a little bit.

Uncle COVID got them, but they've been reeling off some wins. And James, we talked about this on baseball today. Me and Jakey boy, you were there listening. Their schedule is so tasty. And they got to take care of it. I mean, essentially, if they just go play good baseball, through September,

like just decent baseball, they should be in the playoffs. Going by the teams that they play, and like we went over the Padres. We'll talk about them in a little bit. They have a gauntlet to go through. And the Phillies, it's a... They're power walking.

They get power walk to the playoffs, in my opinion. Hope they do it. East is going to be fun, man. Braves have three coming up at Colorado, which has been a tough team and Senzatella Marquez Gomber. Those are real off day.

And then they get their Nats Miami stretch. So, man, week and a half from now, I think we're going to be saying the Braves turned it back on. I love that we're a schedule pod now. Makes it easier. We've been a schedule pod for a while. Bin had. Just bringing it to the forefront.

Bin had snacks. What's what we need to talk about? Reds Cardinals. That was an important series if the Cardinals lost two out of three. I think we'd be talking about how they can't get back in the mix. They've got the brew crew coming up.

That is L. Brutal. But the Cardinals kind of took care of business. They're 68 and 64. They got to keep it going. Like they, you almost can't lose a series the rest of the way, which that's really tough to do in baseball. Where are the Reds right now? What's the standings in?

Reds are... Reds are... 10 games back in the Central. I think that one's over, Jim. That one's over. They are in the second wild card, right? They're still the second wild card. Half game up on the Padres.

Someone in the chat, this is actually funny, and I kind of agree with it. So G. Sherman said the NL East is literally a competition to see who gets obliterated by the Brewers. I believe it.

Phillies with the pitching could match up. If Nola is like, Nola hasn't been. Nola, that's what I've been hearing. Wheeler's been doing the damn think Gibby's been the guy, but if Nola's right, Nola Wheeler can match

up with Coorb with Burns and Woodrow. I actually kind of don't like that match. You like the Braves pitching better than the Phillies pitching a little bit ago. Are you switching? I think in like a short series like that, I think the Phillies are more top-heavy. It's more like more...

I agree. I thought I was the one trying to present that argument. You were on Braves being better top-third. I don't think so. I don't think I don't think I say that. I'd double check. I think Treve said he'd like the Braves overall pitching better, but that might have just been part of what you thought as well.

I think the Phillies Brewers, I feel like that would just be... Like the Phillies strengths are the Brewer's strengths, but the Brewers' strengths are better. Whose offense is better? The Harpers playing like this is tough. The Phillies lineup is real shallow. though. Yeah.

When you actually like really look at it, Gene Harper. With Reese out. It's like, Reese is gone. If you're counting backyard Brad, 40. Backyard Brad's been very much.

I haven't looked at it in a little bit, but the last, let me pull it up and I'll make an educated decision. I think the Brewers would, man. The Brewers would win. Or they should. Who knows it's baseball? It's baseball.

In a short series. I don't, if I'm the Phillies, I'd want to get matched up. Let me pose this to you guys. Okay. Go ahead, Jake. Not the Brewers. Not the Brewers.

Yeah. Any team. OPS Plus. Okay. Phillies 99. League average right now is 97. 99 OPS plus. Braves.

96. Brewers. 92. I think that ties in, like, the Brewers lineup come the playoffs is going to be different than it was for the. the first half of the year.

You know, we'll see what Willie Adamas brings these playoffs. You know, he's going to be on a redemption tour. But, yeah, like, give me the Brewers in every facet over the Phillies. Like, the Phillies' best chance at a playoff series is if we're saying, like, well, they got the starting pitching everywhere else. I don't know. And we haven't really even talked about Ranger, our guy. Starder.

Jim's guy. High leverage reliever. It's like five deep on a good day, the Phillies. Herrera, Sigora. That's like, you know. You're getting Herrera in there? That's who they lead off. He's having, he's been playing better.

He's been playing better. He's having a good year. But still, it's not. That's kind of the point. And then Gene, BBD's guy. Harper, Realmudo, Kutch. But then, dude, the drop off after that is like, you go to the kiddie pool, basically. And bomb is not even there anymore, right?

He started fights in AAA. Wait, is that real? He didn't start it. He got thrown at his head. Someone threw at his head and he didn't like it. So it was a joke. Good. Yeah.

Luis Heel from the Yankees. Big old brawl. Oh, that was him? Yeah. Yeah, it was two guys that just got sent down. The last game was in MLB. Just, you know, all pissy about it. It's a lot of angst.

A. A. A. You are mad. Have a year. You're not going to want to get sent down to AAA. Then a dude throws at your head. It's a bad time.

Brad Miller's been good. Dedy hasn't been good, but he just had a baby. So whenever he comes back. Did he had a baby? Went back to Curse out for it. He's not back from the paternity list yet, but look out for dad strength.

A boy? I don't know. BPD. No, not a boy? I don't know. We don't know. I didn't look into it beyond. Because he hasn't come back yet, so I haven't looked into it.

I wonder what you're going to name it. He comes from a long line of Amelia Oaksins. I'd assume that. The Padres. Hey, I have something to tell you guys. Is it about the Padres? Yeah. Okay.

They've been in my rear view. I know. Oh, no. Are they closer than they appear? You guys give me an update. They've been so far in my rear view that I, if I'm scrolling through MLB games when the Yankees aren't on to find a game to play. The Padres haven't even been a consideration,

which is insane because they were the A1 pick all of like April, May, and June. And at this point, I'm not even interested in tuning in. I'm going NL East, NL Dodgers Giants, or I'm going Brewers. Ray's Red Sox had my attention. But like, yeah, so what's going on? You guys can tell me.

Well, you want to go, Jake? You go, Tre. James they're not the talk of the town anymore half game back of the second wildcar with a daunting schedule ahead of them but some good news Snell has been incredible

so now you got you get Snell you got Musgrove and they got to get you going you has not been himself they're going to have to play in the wild card game and I think they're I think they're a good team for a wild card game right?

like you're going to start musgrove maybe snows in the hangar just in case and you you know they can do that and then their offense they have enough star power there they could take over a game too so i don't mind them in a wild card game but they got to get there and i don't know if they're going to their schedule is nuts it's fucking nuts dude i actually feel bad for the podres too yeah they uh i feel like what Jim said the Padres offense used to be electric and dynamic and must watch slam Diego I mean it was stole so many bases I feel like they need a big come from behind win they need like the late night Twitter Padres are down seven and they got the bases loaded and they hit a grand slam or something they need that again because it's kind of been missing because you're right Trev the

schedule is super daunting. At the same time, Musgrove has been absolutely dropping it. Snell has been absolutely dropping it. If Darvish can figure it out, now you've got three guys in your rotation that can almost win you a game, never mind your offense. So that's their formula. It's just a matter. It's a matter of schedule and putting it all together.

I don't know. Dude. Houston, off day. Read the rest of their schedule for the audience. I don't think they face a team under 500 again. Are the angels above 500? And they've got two against the angels. They are going home versus Houston, two versus the angels,

and then at the Dodgers, at San Fran, at St. Louis, home versus San Fran, home first the Braves, at the Dodgers, at San Fran. It's hellish. They're 500 team against teams over 500. so it's not like they're come to task and dominate they uh they need their big boys to be big but yeah there uh there hasn't been that juice there in a little bit

i think we're going to see a little bit of a run from the Padres a little bit of fight they're too good they're too freaking cocky to not put up a fight they're not just going to go down and we're like dang those Padres sure they were awesome in May I think they're going to put up a fight which is going to be cool but it's going to be a tall task to make it.

Very tough. Go in that MVP, Tatis. Now's the time. Now's the time. Hasbler goes off. Hot. Hot. Hot.

I really want him to go off. Hot. All right. Cardinals. Guys, they're still in my rearview. Do you guys want... And take him out. I know we generally are chaos pod.

Do we want the wild card to go full chaos? We're rooting for that. Yeah. Dude, I want the triple tie for the wild card. What do they, flip a coin like Friday Night Lights? No, you play, right? There's like a wild card. They definitely don't flip a coin. They definitely don't flip a coin.

They, well, Rob Manfred's the commissioner. We might. Yeah, you know, a lot of people would tune in. We might play a game of Bloody Knuckles. You sell like 20 minutes of ads and you flip that coin. You get the whole crowd. Flip that coin. Flip that coin. Flip that coin. Flip that coin. Flip that coin. Three-headed coin. They lose it. Hey. Goes in Manfred's sock. It's pretty easy, uh, to be tough on. Bobby and, you know, MLB and shake your fist sometimes. Man, this second wild card, if the Mets beat up on the Nats, which they very easily can,

I mean, half the NL is going to be in the playoff race coming down the final three weeks of the season. And that is pretty cool. That was the goal. Okay, shout out Bobby. Shout out Bob. Don't give him any ideas. If the Mets get back in the mix, there'd only be six dead teams. Name those teams.

Rockies, Cubs, Nats, Marlins, pirates, snakes. You don't think the snakes can get anything, you know, in them? We've achieved our objective this year. Ah, searching for rings. A lot of young talent on the field for the snakes. Do we want to talk snakes? Varsho. It's a bird day for me.

It's a bird day for me. So you're hot on the Orioles. Shout out to pipe. Birds eat snakes. And I think snakes also eat birds. Yeah. There's some, that's a weird YouTube hole to find yourself in. You think the same snake has ever eaten the same bird?

Like a bird species that eats the snake? No, very same one. No. Think on it, Treve. Get back to us. A bird could eat the stomach of the snake while it's getting digested. Bird eats a snake. Snake eats its way out of the bird.

Would you click that YouTube video? I'd click that. That doesn't work. I'd click that. I'd have a bad time. Jake would have click that watch and fear. Fear watch. How about the AL?

You want to do it? Treb, you have the AL today. And you told me that you watched great. It could go poorly. We'll see. You told me you watched closely, so I'm interested. What happened in the American League? Well, let me tell you, the twins went into Detroit to make up a game from July 16th,

and they took it down three, two twins over, versus Casey Mize. Josh Donaldson brought the rain. Go ahead two-run Homer in the fourth. Bailey Ober, kind of like that name. Six innings pitched two earn runs for a second career win. And then shout out to our colleague, the compound Zach Short with the RBI single for the Tigers.

What's not a Zachie boy? Moving on, the Red Sox went down to Tampa for a four-game set. And boo, boo, it was a special. Blit. 6-1 raise, 8-5 raised before the Red Sox took the last two, three to two and four to nothing. First game was a match of Patino and Pavetta. I like the way that sounds.

Full Pension, I've. Red Sox starters did not have a good time. Raised starters did. Raise starters and raise relievers, they're all the same thing to me. They should even designate which one they are. Seven different Red Sox recorded four plus hits. Swarber was really good. J.D. Martinez was really good.

And Bobby. Dalbeck. He had four hits with a homer. Wander Franco's been doing it. We've been talking about him for quite some time on the show. Four hits with a homer. He did have to exit game four with a headache. I feel you, bro. That could be from sliding into the home plate in game three. He's being monitored for concussion symptoms. The Red Sox, kind of the big story here is the COVID outbreak. Bogart's, Keeke, Barnes, Oroyo, Solomura, Perez, and two. Two coaches all test positive. That's a lot. The rookie Duran had the go-ahead RBI single in the ninth of game three.

Series split. I think that's a good matchup for those guys. I like that. 2-2 each take two games. Moving on. Houston goes up to Seattle. The Mariners take care of business. They take two out of three from the Astros. The Astros win game 1-4-3, then it's 4-0 Mariners, 1-0-0 Mariners in the rubber match. both offenses clearly struggled and all the pitching did well. Thai France, he's my local countryman. Him and J.P. Crawford, we are a J.P. Crawford. They had four hits a piece.

Toro had two hits with a home run. That one home run was against Kendall. Freaking Graveman. Gotta love that. Full circle stuff. Flexing goes five and two-thirds innings pitch, only two earned runs. James Kikuchi, guess what happened? Delt. Seven shuddy. Gilbert, five, shut out.

endings. I love the Mariners in 2020. I really do. Astros take the lead with two in the eighth inning of game one on the Kyle Tucker and Jake Myers RBI singles. Game two was scoreless in the eighth inning until that Toro Grand Slam I talked about against Graveman. He's the first player in L&B history to hit a Grand Slam off of the player he was traded for earlier in that season. That's interesting. Grinky plays on the COVID-I-L. Didn't know that happened, James. Not going to lead the league and wins on the COVID-I-L. Mariners take two of of three. Moving on the Yankees. Go to Anaheim.

The Angels take two out of three. The Yankees on that horrible skid. Eight, seven angels, six, four angels before Cole stepped up and shoved four-one Yankees in the rubber match. Walsh and Mayfield, three hits with the home run and double each. No Angel reports more than three hits. Judge keeps doing judge things. Dan Wark thinks he's going to be the MVP.

Six hits with a home run. Rizzo, let's go, baby. Five hits, three extra base hits in a home run. Ligaris had a go-ahead single in the eighth inning of game one. Huber gives up a grand slam to Jack Mayfield and his return from the IL. But then the story for Yanks was Garrett Cole being the stopper. That's why you pain the big bucks. Seven innings pitch, one run run with Jim.

He had 15Ks, we'll talk about that later. And no walks, which is my favorite stats. They avoided the sweep because of that dominant performance. Trout feels lingering soreness in his right calf, and Matt had admitted he could be shut down for this year. No doubt. Don't mess with our track. The A is going to Detroit.

They take two out of three. Nine three A's, eight six tigers, eight six A's. Harrison had six hits with two extra base hits. Anna and Chapman, two home runs a piece. And Frankie Montas is the only pitcher for either team to go past the fifth. So the offense has really did it here. I'm always so late.

More than plays on the 10-day I-L. I have two more series. Holy hell. Orioles going to Toronto. Blue Jays take two out of three. Seven-three Blue Jays, four, two Orioles. five for Blue Jays. Robbie Ray has gold on his baseball reverence page.

We already talked about that. Blue Jays, DFA, Brad, Hand, after trading for him at the deadline, that's interesting. Indians at Royals, you're going to love this, Jim. Indians sweep 7253-4-2. Please Act did really well, starting pitchers for the Indians really crushed it. Wilson Ramos suffers a torn ACL and a sprained MCL, and will miss the rest of the season. What did he do? Didn't see it

Damn Indians get the sweep And that's what happened In the AL Great job Trev Hmm Hmm Great job

I need the tempo back Okay You want the music You want to play the music again No no no no no No music is the tempo Music is the tempo I think we go to Astros Mariners

Wow Okay Manors still hanging around How are they still hanging around I am not too sure. Well, the Mariners fans told us, they said, yeah, but we have an easy schedule where we're bad against teams that are worse than us. We checked the records on it. And then I was like, oh, the Astros are kind of bad against teams that are worse than them.

And then here they are losing two out of three of the Mariners. I don't know. How bad are you against teams that are worse than your Astros? Because you got a lot coming up in September. Is this going to get interesting? We didn't think it would. No. It won't.

It won't. And Seattle's not like a, they're a worse team than the Astros, but there's a lot of, like most teams are worse than the Astros. True. But Seattle's still four games back in the wild card, and they are six and a half in the division. They still have some uphill, an uphill battle to go. But they're fun.

You like the 2020. Yeah, me too. Keep us talking about you, Seattle. I think they've got my snakes coming up. They got snakes at Houston snakes. get hot Seattle. Keep us talking about you. Good job,

J.P. Crawford. I want to go to the Red Sox. Ooh. They are no longer in my rear view. Oh. Red Sox are, I'm nervous because there are Yankees lost four in a row. Red Sox win two. Big chance for the Red Sox to roll over and die and lose to the race.

They was kind of like, you know, they won the first two and it was like, man, red Sox. Are we doing this game? Are we doing the like, you're just going to be real bad game? And they're like, no, we're not. Everyone's got COVID, so everyone else is going to step up a little bit. And they split that series. The Yankees lose. So I'm pretty interested in that.

Verdugo is having a awesome second half of the season. Sales pitched well now against two good offensive teams. They kind of like gave him an easy schedule to start, but he's got four starts now with the 2-5-ERA. He faced the twins. they got some boppers. He faced the rays now. They'll hit you.

So that's some magic going. So if we're looking at Sail v. Cole wildcard game, I hope it's in the Bronx. God, that would be amazing. That's what we're headed towards. That's what it's lying out. Yeah, we are. I just hope it's in the Bronx, not Fenway.

Yeah, Boston fans, yeah, they'd be saying it's at Fenway Pack, hopefully. Excuse me Shwarbo Has been doing big things for the Red Sox He's got a one dot OPS with them And that's where like I truly do believe in team identities And I've said this a couple times on here

The Red Sox you got to pitch enough Any baseball team you got to pitch enough to win But that lineup has to scare you And when they were in their funk It just wasn't happening in the lineup With Schwabo now Renfro I think he had a crazy August Like, doogie turning it on.

His numbers were starting to get to like, you're a better player than this, and I think he's finally hit his stretch. That Boston lineup should scare you day in, day out. And what you're saying with your rearview stuff, Jim, with them, if that offense turns on, like that becomes, if we're having a playoff discussion and you're giving, like, I didn't like the Phillies

matching up with the Brewers because I think their strength, are just better, the same strengths but better. The Red Sox, we would say that lineup has to lead them. And they can, man. That lineup can win a series when Schwabow, Doogie, Mookie Betts. Okay, that one, that was mean by me. Renfro Devers, JD, when they all turn it on, Bobby Dalback had a big month. Sox up is what I say.

You like the socks. I know they're more spread out, but if you go pound for pound, four best guys in the lineup? Are you still taking the socks? Four best guys in the socks lines. Yeah. Harder the lineup. Against anyone else's top best four?

No, against the Yankees, against the Yankees. Not of Judge and Stanton are hitting like they're hitting right now. Judge Stanton. Who else is in the meet there? Are the Yankees playing Voight? Who would be, who are the Yankees best for? Judge Stanton, Voight. Right now it's Voight.

play him. Rizzo. If you're just saying with the best R, it's those two of Rizzo Gallo. I mean, it's Voight. Hitting the best. It's Judge,

it's Judge Stanton, Voight, and even. White Rizzo. I mean, you have Rizzo and Gallo, but I'd still put Rizzo is such a hard at bat. But, you know, it's pretty even. But Judge and Stanton

are having, like, insane years. Yeah. I don't know if you guys have checked it on the OPS pluses or the numbers that those guys are putting. up right now. Yeah. And are the, I mean, Red Sox, Devers, Zander, Jady, and Schwabo. If those four are, I can go with anyone. I can't wait. I'm gonna be in New York for that. I'm out. Book a ticket right now,

you bitch. Yeah. I will. I don't book these freaking tickets. Where's behind the scenes Bill? BTSBIL. Be first class this time. Kid me. You only get to go first class if you're bringing so much luggage. Tell them you're bringing a bunch of bags. Yeah. That's why we got for First class because we were bringing. Check two bags. Well, my contract is up. We're not to renegotiate. We're doing it live.

First class only. I will only fly first class. I will only fly first class. Well, we're into a sprinter van. Drive across. Come across with Hughesy. I'll do that. The boys.

Only if, only if it's just me and Zach. Oh. What if we got talking baseball listeners to drive you? Like we have a California listener Bring you like Nate Steele Okay he's gonna bring you to Colorado Or he'll bring you to Nebraska Right

Then Bubach will pick you up He'll bring you to Maybe Colorado first with Cam And Boobok And we just you get passed over and over And you just you know We have a talking baseball listener I like to travel in silence

I'm not a big talker when I travel So that would be like not great But if they were willing to just kind of sit there and listen to some podcasts, I'm in. Okay. Cool. Good for the Red Sox winning those final two games. Yankees go on a slide. They hit into five double plays in seven innings.

The most amount of double plays a team can possibly hit into in seven innings is seven. And the Yankees hit into five. Insane. They just stopped stealing. Kluber came back. Tyones had a rough four starts now. Angels put the pressure on. Angels bullpen datum.

And then you know what? Like those double plays, some of them were Fletch turning. Nice double plays. That was cool. It wasn't just hitting into weak double plays. There were a couple where it was like, fuck, I don't think some other teams make those. So good job by Fletcher and the Angels.

Also hit Cole pretty well. BPD, you had a great tweet about the double plays, didn't you? You had a tweet go viral a little bit. Oh, Gallo. He's hit into 12 career double plays. Four of them are in the last week now, but in a four-game window. 12 career? How does it even happen?

Trev, I guess he gets shalows. He's out, hit the ball in the air, run real fast. Yeah. But he only has one sack fly in his whole career. Gallo's stats are bizarre. That's insane. You look at the right side of his baseball reference page, and it's just so many.

questions. After a full year of watching Joey Gallo next year, because I don't trust Rangers fans right now, I'm going to report to everyone whether he's a plus or minus in a lineup, because I think it's up for grabs. I think it's a plus. It's just how much. We don't know if it's, you guys are insane. Of course, it's a plus to the lineup. Over 162, get out of here. Okay, I'll take it back. Whether you actively enjoy him. Whether you're 162 is a plus, whether the everyday helpfulness is really lost. His defense is really good. You guys are going to love him in hot stretches and eat him in cold stretches.

And if he's a bad pitch masher, that's what I'm actually really curious about. Bad pitcher macher. That's, it seems right now like if he faces a reliever, that's not good. He'll hit a homer. But if he faces a stud, he'll strike out or a walk. I haven't made a decision. I'm letting you know. I don't trust Rangers fans.

Trev, can I ask you a question? Defense is good. Defense is great. It's been a big topic in Yankee land and like an outsider's take. Did the Yanks have any shot at the race? Six and a half back. No.

Okay. No. I agree. Yankee fans don't like hearing that. Yeah, I mean, you guys are going to be in the wild card. Now you just have to hope that you hold on to it in the Bronx. Being in the wild card, you also isn't a given, like, losing those four games in a row.

should have scared fans a lot. And the Yankees themselves, because the Yankees making the wild card isn't a given. I hope they're in there. They should be. It would be at this point. You would bet on it at this point. Yes, but it's not a given.

They were playing a different brand of baseball when they won 13 a row, and then they stopped playing that brand of baseball. They're in it. They're going to be in the wild card. I mean, I guess unless they could just be looking right at Boston, Oakland, I guess. You could see that.

But either place you'd, don't want to go play. Don't want to go to the Coliseum. Do not want to go to Fenway. Yeah. Yeah. Need it in the Bronx. You're rather to go to Fenway than the Coliseum. A's win two out of three against Detroit, which they needed to do. Man, they've got a, I'll tell you, Jakey predictions, favorite segment of the show,

the most highlights from a series this weekend will come from Toronto and the athletics. Man, two teams battling. Toronto back against the cliff. They're five games out of the wild card right now. And the A's are fighting to stay in it as well. That's going to be a scrappy. I wouldn't be surprised if two out of tree games have late comebacks. Dock it.

Docked. Okay. It's locked in. Lock that in, January. I saw a picture of Marcus Simeon and Chris Davis out of dinner with Tony Kent. Oops. That made me happy. Hot.

Yeah. Fuck Mary Kill those three guys. Are there three? Tony Camp, Simeon. Obviously you're marrying Simeon. I don't think there's any. Interesting. Yeah, you're marrying Simeon,

you're effing Davis, and you're killing Tony Kemp. What? It's my Vandy, short king. I might marry Kemp. Well, you're going to have really short babies. Yeah. Well, that's a given. But our pictures, we're going to look similarly-hided.

How does that change from what he's having now? Who's taller? Kemp or Jess? I haven't... Well, I have seen them in the same room once, but... Everyone was horizontal. Who was your... Oh, by the way, actually, this is kind of a hilarious story.

I was watching an A's game this year, and Tony Kemp was up, and Jess goes, Hey, hey, it's Tony! Because she was at Vandy at the same time as him. They took classes together. And I was just like, get out of here. That's really funny. Yeah. Ask her who's taller.

Me or Tony or her or Tony? Everyone involved. Did the bird eat that snack? Ask Jess. Ask Jess FMK, Simi and Tony and Chris. They're all pretty hot. Say Simi and Tony and you. I don't want to be in there.

Just ask her. I don't like how that ends for me. Nice picture. Hey, that's Tony. That's so funny. Yeah. Will you guys answer the question, though? You're avoiding it.

I don't like it. Oh, I didn't think you were going to answer. What question? I answered I know you did Who's the third It's Chris Davis Tony Kemp

And Simeon Simeon is hot I said that before I feel like Chris Davis is the easiest fuck Oh really I've got him as my M Go bigger go home

Why is he so consistent Consistency I think he probably has made the most money Maybe in a year It's Simeon They're all nice students I'm marrying Simon fucking Davis and killing

Kemp You guys both killed Kemp? I'm saving them for you. You and Jess. I think Kemp would be Great. Yeah, I don't want to kill KD. A lot of energy.

I have, I like being Simeon's fuck. Welcome to talking baseball. This is, who is it? Crop of Penguins' first show? First live show. Puddle of penguins or something like that. Yeah.

Puddle of penguins. All right. No, the. Penguins left. They were not. Actually, I like the audio only version of this much better. And they bowed out. I'm not coming back to this.

These guys are ugly. Anything else? I like listening later when I can skip apart. Yeah. Indians are starting their hype train for next year with their young pitching doing it again. Okay. We're good? That's it, I think.

Shout out Tristan McKenzie. He's been lights out. He's been lights out. We both said lights out. Nice, dude. Sorry. I feel like we miss. somebody. Hold on. As Jim gets prepped for the inner league.

No, we did it. We did it. We did it. We have a lot of takes on you, said before the show. All right, here we go. Time for the Interleague recap. There were three inner league sets. How about that? The Pirates and the White Sox teamed up to play two games and the White Sox won, both of them. Gialito and Rodon on the mound for the South Siders. Only three Pirates players record two hits. Ha-ho, gross. The Cubs swept the twins in a two-game set. Davies versus Grant.

Steele versus Ryan. I believe that was today, so it doesn't count as this series, but there's a fun walk-off. Never mind. Rangers and Rockies. Rangers took two out of three. As your eye out. Only thing that matters here is that the White Sox swept the Pirates,

and the White Sox have the most locked-up division in all of baseball, so even that does not matter from a team and standing conversation. None of these are worthwhile, which brings us to candidates. One thing that needs to be said. Yeah.

Cole Tucker back on the Pirates, and he had a two-hit day the other day. Let's go. Let's go. I also had one thing to say. What is it? Whoever the idiots were, they were throwing skittles from the bleachers

at our guy Ian Hap in Minnesota. Stop. I didn't hear about this. I talked to Joe Mower, and he said he's very disappointed. Wow. And us? If you know Minnesota, that means a lot. Joe disappointed in you young kids throwing Skittles at Ian Hamm. Don't do that again.

That's brutal. Did he have to get hit with Skittles? I missed all of this. Yeah, he said he felt like it was like a pellet gun. You kind of heard him. He said they were throwing it from the bleachers. Pelican. I talked to him last night.

So do I need to roll? some heads out there in M.N. He said, dude, that actually kind of hurt. I don't like that. I don't like that. I don't like that either. Yeah. And I also think if this was like in Boston or New York,

we'd make such a bigger deal with it. That's actually, although they don't throw... That's actually kind of bullshit. Yeah. Because, you know, Twins fans are like, oh, the nicest crowd in the word Midwest, nice. And they are for most part. Yeah. But those certain fans

Like, Twins fans act like the Randy Dobnack Uber chants Were the meanest thing that's ever happened to a human in the world And they won't ever let it go at all They're like, you chant Uber at a player So if this was Yankees fans or Reds fans Twins fans would be using this as ammo nonstop So I'm gonna, I'm making it my personal mission To turn this into batteries at Santa Claus

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It sucks. It sucks when that happens to you. Do we still have some in the office? I've thrown a dipper. We have a ton. Is anyone listening out there? If you want to go, I don't feel bad if you don't want to go. Is this show on in the live main audience?

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Oh, yeah. Oh, big time. Okay. All right, and that's going to bring us. I'm going tropical mango and that's obvious. Yeah. Yes. People look at me and think tropical mango.

I think you look at yourself and think I'm a tropical storm. Should we get Chadwick on? Get Chadwick on. Everyone, anyone knows Chadwick. Reach out. Tell him I like what he's. about that I've all that I've known already. Okay.

Is dad going? Stand out performances. Standout performances. Trev. Mm-mm. You're second. No, I'm not up. Your second.

Your second. You're second. Just a reminder. Just just quietly wait because Jake is the lead-off spot. Fellas, I got someone I'm excited talk about today. I'm giving my standout to Paul Goldschmidt. Paul had a two homer game and a seven-inning ball game

in a game the Cardinals needed. They had to win this series to stay alive. They were playing the Cincinnati Reds. Goldie hits two yakers. I love Paul Goldschmidt. I'm a flash guy. We all know that. You know, my mango, tropical mango vibes.

We know that. We all know how good non-flash guys. are. If you're not flashy at all and you just live that life, it's better than being flashy. It's not a discussion. Paul Goldschmidt. Don't try to discuss it, Trev. That's not a discussion. Don't try to discuss that. Paul Goldschmidt may be the least flashy baseball player in league history. And we need to appreciate how goddamn good he is. We haven't, I don't think we've talked about his stats all year. He's got a

4-6 war. 46? I didn't know that. 4-6 war. That's like, you know, one of the best seasons going. That's what? Top 10 NLMVB type year. Is that F or B?

This is B. Um, he's got a lot of bold on his player page. Go check that out. Oh, yeah. Career 908 OPS guy. Oh. Man, you know, I don't think he's been as good as he was in Arizona. He was what, one, two, three, four, five, six straight all-star games.

OPS, he's got a one dot year in there, second in the MVP. Dude plays a gold glove caliber first base. He's got three of those in the bag. Whoops. And man, I hope, I told you guys, big bird episode for me. Keep going Goldie. Like, what other players in the league? If he has a nice final month, he's going to finish over five more on the season.

Who knows, can he get five and a half, six if he goes nuts this month? How many guys can go under the radar for a really good baseball franchise and have this kind of season? It's not much just because we've been so broken by how casually good Paul Goldschmidt is, and he deserves more love. So I'm giving it to Goldie. Okay. Only a 36F war. I read up on that, the difference is.

Explain it to me. I may understand it afterwards. I probably won't. Explain it to me like I'm eight. B-war, they just use different metrics to like tally everything. So B-war would be more results-oriented, where F-Wor would be like more of like your FIP.

So projected stuff. So where B-Wor-W-R-Gy, so I'm a B-War guy out here acting like an F-War guy? Yeah. I think so. I think you're definitely more B-WR. I'm more of an F-war guy. I feel like the guy who saw himself in the mirror without a beard for the first. I can't believe you just dropped that, dude.

Like, you just really sent me inward. It was bothering me yesterday. A lot of self-reflectioned up. I'd never go on fan grass. Very seldomly do I go on fang grass on baseball savant and baseball reference. But I like, I think F war is more indicative of, like, your true player value. Takes away luck. I'm a B-war guy.

I'm a B-war guy. Yeah. This is huge. Sounds like B-war. for evaluating what a player did. Maybe F-war if you're trying to project a little bit is nice. You know what makes perfect sense? That,

because that's what the difference from baseball average and fan graphs is. I've been out here just talking so much trash to B-Wore. And now I owe a lot of people apologies. Yeah, you do. My B-War is much higher than my F-W, so I should actually like B-W.

You project terribly at this point. You haven't played in forever. You just lost eight pounds. Yeah. Ooh. Don't look at your projections. Goldschmidt, I was going to say, Beaumel loves him because he went to count.

Did not go to count. I have no idea why I thought about him. Like, why I had that in my mind about him. But how about an eighth rounder? I had a high school. Go diamond back. Morgan in the chat. Dude.

Yeah. Sometimes people say things. He said, we need a J. and can we how much do we we'll talk about it after we can easily do how much do how much do the top people at fan graphs and baseball reference make and how much can I pay both of them to steal them away from those websites and then I think we got the people in house we can make a j war and then we make a j war you can you just make the formulation up like you say I want to use this stat for offense these three stats these three stats these three stats for defense because that's the they just used I'm just now realizing that if we wanted to we could just make the new yes we are

we need to talk to foolish about this he's much more like in tune with all this stuff Jay War's going to be so cool Paul Goldschmidt career B-War 70,000 it's high I'm looking at it Jay War's going to be complete it's going to be like a different currency 491 yeah yeah we're going to have a separate

site called J-Whorter converter and it's going to be like all right well 243,000 J war equals 7B war. I like that. We should just multiply whatever we get by 10 so it looks cool. Yes. Yes. That's obvious.

I think that's how yen works. It's obvious. Who's your guys? I am looking at Fangrass page for Trevor Plouf. I think so. The steamer does have Trevor projected for 9.8 walk percentage this year. You're going to strikeout and 30.7% of that bats and have a 264 Babbib.

I don't know how they project a Bavit. That's tough, dude. Dhabiti, get mine on there while, uh, while Trev gives out his, his standout. Yeah, guys, my standout performance will go to our guy, Nick Castellanos, goes two for three with the two home run, six ribbies and a freaking walk. We were talking about a pre-show.

Put the, put the stats aside. Actually, no, let's talk about the stats real quick. On the year, I don't if you guys have seen this. 9.54 OPS? We're doing it here. He's having an excellent year. He's hitting 319, 376 OBP. But it seems like Castianos has a little extra, the sixth tool, if you will.

He always comes out on the right side of these controversies. Whenever his name is in the press, he gets the better end of it. the Bobby Manfred thing, he didn't have to say a word. He had the fan talk crap to Bobby. He just stood there like this. Hilarious. And then this one, this was, he was using a bat. It looked like he slammed the shit out of it on the steps or something

because the end of it was completely blown up, like the cup. Like half of the cup was gone. But he's using this bat. It felt good to him. Hit some homers. I think it was Shilt, had him check it. And instead of like giving the, the bat to some dude to sell it at the stadium or putting it away, he's like, all right,

just gives it to a kid in the stands. Once you do that, you're golden. You could basically do anything you want. You give something to a kid in the stands. You're the guy. So shout out Nick Cassiano's. He just always looks good. How did I describe him?

I said he's the most quiet and humble while also being flashy and sexy. guy. Like if you were to had a scale and you're like well let's see his flashy and sexy meter, swag, whatever, to his humble and quiet meter and they'd level out and you'd be like, I've never seen

this before. I've never seen this before. He's definitely swaggy. Like he's got a lot of confidence. I think that's what it just is. He's just very confident, like real confidence. I like that. Okay. Jake's got to leave for a little bit. Did you bow out yet to refresh your stuff? No, I'll do that now.

So it's just a solo show for a little bit? Do your standout by yourself. That's sign language for poop, and that's what Jake's going to do. My standout performance is Garrett Cole, because he had 15 strikeouts in this game against the Angels, 15 miles away from where he grew up with a lot of friends and loved ones in town. Yankees were on a four-game losing streak, and they needed a stopper.

They needed their ace to do ace things. He went out there, seven innings pitched, one run, 15 strikeouts, which is the most amount of strikeouts of hitters we've had this season. Ha ha. Two other pitchers have stricken out. Two other pitchers have 15 strikeouts on the year, de Grom and Woodruff.

But they're in the NL, and they each got to strike out a pitcher. I think Woodruff struck out two pitchers, and DeGrom struck out one pitcher. So really just 14 strikeouts of hitters for DeGrom and 13 for Woodruff. So no pitcher has struck out 15 MLB hitters in a single game besides Garrett Call. So standout performance. Great job.

Imagine if he had a pitcher. How many times at Otani strikeout? I don't even, I don't know. You got him at least. ones. Otani is one of the best hitters in the game. Did he strike him out twice? I believe he did. Yeah, he might have chucked him out twice. Because he's half a pitcher, so then he would... No, he was zero pitcher in this game.

He's actually on his... O'Tonnie, the pitcher is on the IL. I'd say he's half pitcher. Half hitter. Otani, three strikeouts in the game. Don't know if all are against... Oh, no. So actually puts him down to 13 and a half strikeouts against position players. So your whole award is screwed up. Don't know if they were all against Cole. Not against position players. You know, I think Cole only got him twice, actually. Then he's tied.

Otani struck out in the first and third. Those are both against Cole, and he struck out in the sixth, all three against Cole. I will say this. Cole's nasty. What happened that one start where, like, he was so bad after sticky stuff? I don't remember that. He's had, like, two just stinkers.

You mean when he was saying the ball, it's like super... After the enforcement? When he came down, he had a few bad starts. And people were saying, oh, the Yankees paid for Pittsburgh Pirate Cole. But since then, he's been absolutely dominant. Yeah, he's been, he had a stinker against the race. No, he's been really good. He had two games in June that were five innings, five runs.

And he had that one real, real bad start against the raise. Everything else has been good. There's a bad start where he was bad. Jake. What? I told you I told Jim pre-show It's gonna happen

I'm a quick poop I can't believe You get out what you gotta get out And I gotta go I gotta go Oh yeah Jake's I'll poop anywhere It's sketchy how quick he poops

You're like a child You're like a child You hold it to you have to just go and boom Oh yeah I put myself in bad situations Often Yeah yeah And he's also been Granola kid over here

Just farting away So much granola I can't stop eating I can a dip in. Have you ever had pliables granola? I'm just pounding coffee and dippers over here. Have you ever had pliable granola? I don't know.

I don't think so. It's candy. Yeah. Because the granola you have, the bare naked, that's granola. They can push the lines. I'm not always a bare naked guy. Yes, you are. Not always, no.

You like being naked. I'm always bare naked. Yes. But I'm not always free ad. He's thinking about it. about it. Such a stupid. Awesome.

Oh, we got breaking news? Judge had an error turned into a hit, so it's batting averages above 300 on the season. Dan's really... Did Dan just tweet? Dude, he was at $2.99. Yeah, he's at $301 now. He went $2.99 to 301. What error did they change?

There was an E5 on August 31st that just got changed. Dan's been tracking it every day for three days. That was actually a tough error. I don't remember what it was. Not that that's important for this show. He ripped it. right at Phil Gosselin, and it, like, went off him to left field. But it was a shot.

When Trev asked about the top four hitters, and I was saying, like, Judge and Sandor playing so well, I had the numbers up. And I was about to read Judge's line to Trev in the audience. Be like, I want people to realize how good he is, but it was 299, so I just bowed out because I was like, I love being able to say, his own base starts with the, his batting ever starts with a three, he's on bait,

and it didn't. So now I should have said it. Baseball reference hasn't updated that yet, but... Yeah, they do their updates at like 4 a.m. I think it's just, yeah, the morning. This morning they were slow. Jay Baseball will be a little quicker on the updates. All right, guys, I think I have to leave again.

Yeah, get out of here, dude. It's me. We got slump watch, Jake. Five guys were put on. Five guys may be coming. And the San Diego Padres. And the entire San Diego Padres. Diego Padres team.

BPD, who are the potential new additions? It's me. The potential add-ons. Jose Ramirez, O for 11, three walks, 4Ks. Our guy, Joey Gallo, O for 10, two walks, three-Ks in his series. Mitch Hanager, O for 11, a walk in three Ks. Salvi, after he hit all those homers.

One for 12, hit by pitch, which I always like is the inclusion in here, five Ks. And Yordaun Alvarez, one for 11, an RBI, two oaks, four Ks. This year is before he was really hot. And then, yeah, bad series. Tough break for Yur Don. All right, so some housekeeping here. Max Muncie.

Bomb, boom, boom, boom, boom. He's off. Four for 12 with two homers, a triple? Oh, I like that. Muncie hit a triple? Fast. Give me the footage. Jimmy's going to find the Max Muncie footage.

She's clean off. Jim, I'm going to make an executive's decision and take Mooki clean off. He only had two hits, but both were homers. So his slugging was 800 over the series. So that's enough impact for me. Two walks, too, so the OBP is in a decent spot. Oh, no. Joey Votto's coming off.

Dude, Max Muncie hit a triple off Max Freed. hate when two maxes go at it like that. If there's ever a name that they kind of need to like stick together and together. That's tough. I like that. That's the audio from. Oh my God.

Hangin Curve. Absolutely blast it to dead center field. Oh, no. That's just a, that's a mental error or like an error by route. E by R. They need to update something. I don't know. Like error by route needs.

needs to be something. It'd be a tough catch, but he's like, he's there well before. Like, if he gets a perfect route, he catches that. And that was Jack in Dodger Stadium. That's a little, I don't know, Jack, come on now. You're suspect. It's a little flawed, but that's kind of how you got to score that, right? Kind of.

Well, there's some. Yeah. Like, did they give DeFoe an error last night? Well, my default. Everything feels like to buy a little. Um, anyways. I don't know if we've crossed this. before but Max Muncie is a Maxwell Muncie.

Max Fried is just Max. Max. Based on the two places I looked. Okay. So I'm taking that as its word. Joey Votto was on. He's also coming off. He had a Joey Votto series two for seven. Four walks, so a $5.45 on base.

And an amazing rose rotation episode. It's a must listen. John Boy's Reds are killing it. Good app. Good job, Joey Votto. What are you doing? your Padres, Jim? Well, you know, you guys gave me the update.

The stats here say that as a team, they had 12 extra base hits and five home runs and and 10 walks in these three games. So offensively, I think they're off. My heart wants to leave them. Your heart wants to leave them? I'm like interested. They play Houston next? I think they're in Colorado.

No, that's the Braves are. We're a father's playing. I thought we just did it. I thought it was Houston. who in L.A. than the Dodgers and the Giants. I think you're right. I think you're right. Yes. Houston. Area Erkiti, Framber, and Luis Garcia. Hosting Houston. Sure. We'll keep him on. Someone in the chat said that I was never a Padres fan. Who when I said, I put him in the rear view. And I was.

I used to tell everyone, if you're getting into baseball, be a Padres fan right now. They're the hottest, hippest, coolest team. Sexy. So hip. Do you have that sound bite? They're so so hip. We wanted to split that into a couple bites. It's really good. All right. So Muncie's off.

The Padres stay. Votto's off. Teascar. He's off. That's enough, right? That's enough. And you took Mookie off? I took Mookie off.

His two hits were homers. So the only person staying is the entire Padres. The Pajas. So we need to add for Jose Ramirez. Joey Gallo for me is the number one on. We've been watching Joey. a little in his head right now. And reminder, slump watch is to get these guys

off slump watch. They're playing the Orioles in the stadium. Joey might have a huge weekend. Jose Ramirez, I've got on. He just made JM. All-J-M team. All-J-M team is the third basement for the first time. You can't start slumping now. Yeah. You got to finish the year strong. And you know what? I've taken a couple jabs at

the overhite for Salvi Perez. Yeah. But he is having a fantastic season as a catcher, even though he doesn't even lead all catchers in his league. in some slash lines, but let's get him hot again. I don't like to see that. Exactly. What I was going to say?

He just got people being like, I got to think about him for more award stuff. When we did the all JM team and Zanino had some higher slash lines and stuff, and there were some people that heard that and were like, what? Because the way people are talking about his season is like, it's the best catching season ever. Sometimes overhypes bad. That's why we say Jake sucks.

Always beating expectations. Coming low. Pick it up slow. I'm putting Yordon on there too, I think. Sure. Yeah. He's a team that matters. Yeah.

All right, there you go. Trev, come back. Come back. Give him the final five, Tram. Final five is Salvador Perez, Yordon Alvarez, Jose Ramirez, Joey Gales, and the Padres. Padres. The Padres.

Are you going to the Padres game tonight? That's fun, it's fun. You're a Padra's game? Every night, it's just different. Are you guys drinking tonight? Girl, me and Jimmy went to college with you used to, like, ask us that on, like, Mondays. We'd be like, no. She's, like, the only one on campus out drinking us.

Yeah. No. Yeah. We were like, we were Tuesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday, strong. And it'd be like a Wednesday, senior year. Yeah, Wednesday. Like a Monday. And she just walk over to our house and say, are you guys drinking tonight?

And we'd be like, no. Sounds like you shouldn't either. Get out of here. What up, Treve? Nice girl. Yeah, you're snail. Shout out. Yeah, it was like that.

Shout out to that girl. Yeah. Let's get. And flago on it. Hmm. Tell him, Simon. Nope. My audio's all.

Tell him, Simon. Darnasty's on Fuego. That means I'm on fire, baby, like Waco. Great song, huh? Jim, there's a couple guys on this list. The first two, I don't know. I don't have a big book on them. You wouldn't.

Harold Castro and Derek Hill. Yep. Six for 12, two homers each. Good for them. I'd hand up. What team is Derek Hill on? Derek Hill? He, I believe he's on the Tigers.

He's on one of the Tigers are twins, because we have a note that both of them include Tigers twins. They're both tigers and they got like the same vibe to him. I knew Harold Castro was, I did not know Derek Hill. Look, there's Harold Castro. Yep. And there's Derek Hill.

Yeah, their pictures are kind of funny next to each other. Yes. It's like he grew out the beard. Did you do a California accent? Well, we were talking about going to the Padres game. for a little bit. I don't think that's a California accent. I'm not sure what that is.

It's just vocal fry. Just annoying girl. Yeah, accent. Paul Goldschmidt, love my birds. He's on this list. Yep, three homers. Vladito can always talk about him. Three homers.

Ahmed Rosario, that dude deserves some love. He's been really turn it on. I think he's got like five, four-hit games or something like that. Lioti Tavares. He'll be at the Padres game. Five for 11, two homers. Big Aaron judge, Jim told you about that guy. His numbers might have just increased.

Yeah. I think he just went from 6 for 11 to 7 for 11, so that's huge. Nate Lowe, the big Rangers first baseman. We haven't talked about him in a minute. It looked like he had a big week, 6 for 11, a couple extra basers. How's his year look? He went through some tough times, but he's back now. Every time I see Brandon or Nate Lowe and Lowe.

I got to double check. It's Brandon Low because it's Be loud. That's how I remember it. Be loud. You want to get loud, you got to be loud. I'm Brandon Loud. Ahmed Rizario on the season. And Nate Lowe because he bats lower in the lineup than Lowe.

That's how I remembered it. Amed Rosario for four hit games and a five-hick game. So five total games this season with four hits or more. Those are big days at the office. Five-A game was... Is he out? playing Lindor this year? What's the Dan, what's the Dan thing?

Okay. The Jersey. The Glaber Torres, Francisco, Lendor. Is that going to come to fruition? Go further into what you're saying. Dan, before the season said you'd buy anyone who retweeted a tweet, a jersey, if Glaber had a higher war than Lendor, I believe. The Glaber's been out all year, right?

I thought it was if Linder had a higher war. War than Glaber. How many retweets did that get, like, 2000? Couple. Got a couple. Glaber. Well, B-Wor. Oh, boy.

Gives Glaber. 0.9. Lindor, got to be more than that. Yeah, Lindor's kind of having a good war year just because he's really good defensively. 2-3. Okay, so he's all right. Good job. I'm Ed Rosario.

The tweet from March 31st, I will buy everyone who retweets this a Glaibor Torres jersey. when he has a higher war than Francisco Lindor this year. So he's gone. Lindor's got a higher war, right? He doesn't have... Yeah, he does. Indor has a higher war. So Dan's fine.

Yeah. For a while, labor had Lindor B. Yeah. And it was getting like a little nervous because Lindor was having a bad, bad year for a while. 2,22 retweets. How much is the jersey cost?

80 bucks? No, there was like a week in the office where we were like, we might have to find a work around. to figure a solution out. 177 grand. I don't think Dan's got that. If Glaber plays all of September really well and then doors, meh?

It's going to get a conversation again. Like Fusball player jerseys? I still think that's a lot of money. 2000. 2,000 of anything is going to... Even if it's a dollar, that's $2,000. Like I think we would have had to find... We would have had to reach out to like a jersey company

and have them like hook up a deal. Sponsor a video. No, because I mean the ship, although there's no chance we would have done that. I think it would have been on the street. Dan just says, sorry guys, lied. I fucked up. Speaking of. Speaking of what?

Is it awards time? I think so. But you just said something that I have on the sound board, so. Yeah. I fucked up. That's a hard F. Our awards brought to us by Match 5 Trivia? Yeah. That's awesome.

Trev, have you matched five with us yet? Have you ever played Match Five trivia, Treve? You'd love it. It's really easy. Oh, dude, we're doing Beach Week next week. Yeah. And we should play a lot. We'll be playing.

Because we're going down and we're staying by the beach. We can do that as a plan. Yeah. Treve, it's a game. It's a little bit like Family Feud, but more fun. It's awesome. We'll play around right now so everyone gets to hear it, okay? Trevor, I'm going to need you to think of five Minnesota

twin players. Okay? Just make a mental list real quick. How the game works is you would write down the five that come to mind first for you. Then me and Jake and BBD or everyone else is playing. We have to write down not the five that come to mind for us. We're trying to match your five. Match five.

That's what it's called. And then you get points. And then the host rotates. And then you do it again. You've got to try to match the next host. And there's a rotating points. Tell them where to buy it. Trevor writes his debt. Match five, the actual number in there, Match 5 Trivia.com, save 15%

by entering coupon coupon coupon, coupon code, Johnboy, 15% off. It's really fun. We've been playing on JJR and we're about to play with Trevor Live. You wrote down five twins. I'm ready. Well, okay, did you write down Trevor Plouffe? No. No? Okay, I would have wrote down Trevor too. I would have wrote down Trevor too. I would have wrote Joe. Joe Mower. Give me Joe. Joe Mower's in there. Mornow. Mornow did not make it. Damn.

Moliter. He did not make it. Kirby Puckett. Kirby Puckett did make it. Bert Blylevin. Did not make it. Nick Ponto. No.

Phil Hughes. Nope. You wanted a different route. Who'd you put down? So who'd you put down? Rod Karu, Tori Hunter. I put one wild card just to mess you guys, Booth, Bonzer.

Love that. Nice. Well, you want points as well. So during the real game, you wouldn't want to mess with us. You would want them to match you. Yeah. So you both get points. We all want points.

We have added our own caveats at time. Wild card rounds, seven picks. Match five is really fun. Match five trivia.com number five. promo code Johnboy, 15% off. And they have like all the cards. They have all the cards. So it'll be like, you know, five presidents from California or five, whatever.

to reusing the cards can happen better because if like just a different person let's say if we played a week later in BBD was the host and you said five twins now you're guessing a new five so yeah yeah okay good stuff yeah why I just pulled from our deck is the name five cities in Florida five cities in Florida

which we're not playing that was a tough we're not playing that on JGR I think no we did we did five things about Florida and Sam was the host and it was a tie break around and she didn't say anything normal. Yeah. Five cities, I went Miami, Orlando. Those are the first two I came up with. Those both would be on my list if we were playing. Then I, in my head, I went Tampa Bay.

I didn't have Jacksonville. I might have got there because I only had four. Technically, the full card is named five cities in Florida that people visit on vacation. But I didn't read the full thing because we're not playing. My award. Yes, Jake, give your award out. Texas sucks. But go ahead, Jake. Okay.

making fans down there. It's me. You know, we're normally no free ads. They didn't have one this episode, but they've been so close to us that I'd, no shame in doing it. I'm giving out the Manscape Award. Oh. Oh.

Yeah. I know who it's going to. So, Trave, if you want to take a stab at it. You know who it's going to. Yeah, I know what's going to. Nice, dude. It's going to Bea Marsh. No.

Yeah. Mm-hmm. Trab, if you want to guess, I already got it. But you can throw a guess. out there. It's going to Be Marsh. I just want Jake to give his award. Okay, give you award Jake. We've all been waiting. I

am giving out the Manscaped Award. I don't know if this guy's in your guys' books yet. I'm not doing this as shots fired. Are you guys familiar with Raphael Mark Chan? Yes, I am. Catcher for the Phillies. Catcher for the Phillies, Trev. Yep. He's

a young, handsome, strong boy, 22 years old. And I actually partially lied about part of that. Which part? Strong boy. He is not strong? In 268 games in the minors,

100,1,074 played appearances in the minor leagues, he has zero home runs. Listed 5-9 catcher. Zero minor league home runs? In 19 major league games, my guy has two homers. Let's go.

He's catching a lot right now. Because guess what? Raphael Marchand ain't about the bushes. He's about the show. I want to read those numbers again. A thousand and seventy-four played appearances in the minors. No home runs. Zero.

Fifty-four major league played appearances he's got two. My guy, short king, Raphael Marchan, not about the bush life. He's about the show, baby. When did he hit one yesterday? So he hit one, I believe yesterday, or in the Nats series. That would be one. So he's got one in his career.

He had one last year, too. Oh, okay. The one he hit off Corbyn and his Nats series was like a bomb too. Yeah, baby. Two-0 fastball, he just jumped. You know what Pete Rose says, easiest place to hit is in the major leagues, Trev. they got the backdrops for you

Everything's manicured pitchers know where the ball is going Can locate Do you agree with that sentiment at all That Pete Rose? It's a famous Pete Rose quote I think if you're a guy that is good enough To play in the big leagues Then yeah it is the easiest place to hit

Because your skill level Matches and then all those things happen but if you're like If you're not The skill level crushes All those other things that makes me sense if you're a big leaguer

you'll feel more comfortable hitting in a big league ballpark yes yes like even if you get that's why sometimes guys go get sent down and they struggle yeah there's an interesting thing it was like you know it's not 3A 4A

then MLB's 5A somebody had this quote I saw it on Twitter they're like Albert Pooholz in his heyday was playing at 75A like you're not it's not one step up It's whatever.

We talk about how hard hitting is. Anyways, my award. Yeah. I'm going to go two small, silly awards than a serious award. Three awards for travel awards. Number one, my first award goes to myself for battling this norovirus. I still don't even feel like a human. So shout out to me for partaking in today's talking baseball.

I just love it so much. I can't wait for Friday stimulation. I'm very excited about that. My second award goes to Sandy. Alderson, who in one year's time, like, has, now he has three jobs at the Mets front office. Like, I don't understand. Like, he's the GM, the president, and then something else. Fucking shout out Sandy Alderson for stepping in.

He's like, what's that guy in Game of Thrones, little finger. Chaos is a ladder, baby. Let's go. I'll be in left field soon. My actual war is a little bit deeper. You guys saw all the flooding pictures. the Somerset Patriots, the AA affiliate of the Yankees. The whole stadium flooded, which is obviously horrendous,

and there was a lot of loss there. A lot of the players on the team, we know how minor leagues aren't taken care of. We know that. They were on the road. A lot of these guys live in hotels, so when they go on the road, they pack their cars up with their shit and they leave.

Well, all their cars got flooded to. A lot of stuff is. lost. I'm hoping the Yankees, like, step up and do something, but I also want to give a shout out to a website that does a lot for minor leaguers in general, and they're kind of leading the way with, like, donations to the Somerset Patriots. It's adoptaminerleager.com. Go there, check it out if you like it. If you have any sort of feelings towards the Yankees or just, you know, in general, people that have kind of suffered some of this loss, go ahead and go to adoptaminerleger.com and check it out, maybe make a donation. I know I'm going to do that

today. So tugging on the heartstrings a little bit, but it hit home, man. Like, I've seen it. I've lived it. A lot of guys live in poverty playing baseball, and it's crazy to think that. And then something like this happens and, you know, it's not like they make a ton of money and can just buy new shit that it can't. So adoptadminorleager.com. Nice, Trev. It's very nice.

Picture of that stadium are crazy. Sad. All right. My award is the Hot Award, two T's For those that keep track How funny would that be? You know, I'll like people go to a baseball game And they keep their own scorebook

Funny, we've had people do it for us So it has happened. People track our own awards. It's a hot award, two T's. Hot in life, Hot in the manager of the year race, hot on Jake's Twitter. Just super hot.

Gabe Kapler was asked about what his rotation was going to be for this upcoming series against the Dodgers. And as only hot Gabe Kapler could, his response was, I don't anticipate a rotation. Hmm. Per se. He threw a per se at the end there.

Of course he did. Because if there's not a per se, it could be read as dumb. Like, I don't know. I don't anticipate a rotation. But per se, whenever you say something that you're scared people are going to think might be dumb,

you just go per se at the end. And that's an instant out to like, oh, whoa, maybe he does know what he's talking about, you know? A little bit of mystery. Like, is he fooling me? Yeah. Is the joke on me actually? Yes.

Yeah. Yes. Gabe Cap, they're so hot in the show. There was a big article written about all the coaches and the athletic. I don't anticipate a rotation per se. Well, who's pitching? All right, follow up. Follow up.

Who thinks is going to pitch the first eating tomorrow? Gabe. No leans? Gabe Kapler. I'd love to work out with him this off season. Do you think we can set that up, Trev? Yeah, absolutely. I'd say 25% of managing, if not more, is anticipating rotations for the next series.

Maybe 25 to 50% of your. brain power goes to lining up the rotations for the upcoming series. But not in Gabe's world. Dude, Jim, I know you've been all over this. It is so funny. And we've talked about what the managerial role has become here a lot. And, you know, a lot of the decisions get made upstairs now. There's not a ton of feel.

A lot of it is just managing guys. Like, if you're the manager, you kind of need to be well-liked and take care of your dudes. it is so funny and I think Gabe is representing it that like you kind of have to represent your city he never looks comfortable in Philly in San Fran he looks so

comfy being himself and like I think that's kind of important as we figure out managers going forward you know I know you guys always say he fits better in San Francisco but like I think he fits in anywhere dude He didn't fit in Philly. No, it's like Joe Madden doesn't fit in Anaheim. Dude, you can't be that in shape if you're doing the manager.

Joe Madden fit perfect in Tampa, and he was believable in Chicago, but Joe Madden's not a California manager. Why? Because isn't that pitching? We're not talking about results. We're not talking about results. Dude, you're in a different beach than us. You're not even riding the same. No, no.

Okay, let me talk about this then. Joe Madden. Philly fan that wants to have seven beers and watch their fills. They don't like Gabe Cater. Appler being roped up and running sprints before the game. San Francisco loves that. I see the exact opposite.

No. They put a statue of Rocky freaking Balboa up in Philadelphia. They want their dudes roped up and jacked. Okay. San Francisco. Yeah, but Rocky sold his dog. It's a tech, it's a tech city, dude. There's no one jacked in San Francisco. Rocky sold his dog

for like two bucks and then bought it back for 20 grand. Dude, Philly gave up on him way too easily. Gabe is a who could manage anywhere. And I actually disagree with both you. I think he fits better in Philly because he is that manly. He's an alpha, dude. No, he's too intellectual.

He's too intellectual. He's so intellectual. That's not a shot at Philly. It is. We're doing stereotypes. Yes. We're doing baseless stereotypes here. So he's jacked and he's intellectual.

Tell me how that doesn't fit everywhere. What? That doesn't fit Philly. It doesn't, dude. They're jacked. Maybe the Midwest. Maybe the Midwest. You're already not jacked.

No, he's sweet. way too pretty for the Midwest, dude. Yeah, he doesn't fit in the Midwest. I'll give you that. Put Gabe Kapler on the coast, he's good. Those coastal elites, baby, they know what's up. Joe Madden would be like a perfect Milwaukee manager. Ooh.

I think counts. They like Kevin. Joe Madden is in California. He drives a fucking hippie van, dude. Who does? Of course he fits in California. Joe Madden. No, that's Florida.

That's why he was really good in Tampa. Yeah, I think Padres or Florida for Madden for me. You guys are crazy. Padres might work. I think Padres. Like him and Cleve would be, like, there'd be an article. The Dodgers would be awesome.

Madden and Clevenger living out of the same van. We'd be like, okay, this will work. Can I tell you something, Trev? Yeah. Aaron Boone fits a California team way better than New York. Yeah. Like, I think if Booney was to lose, I like Boone, but if he was to lose the Yankees job and then go manage.

The A's or the Giants or the Padres or the Angels, I think you'd have the same thing where we'd be saying, man, he looks a lot more comfortable here. He'd just not walking on eggshells as much. Half your damn teams from California, though, so it works right now. Joe Gerardy fit the Bronx because he's fucking had veins popping out of his neck every time he talked.

So does Gabe Capler fit the Bronx? No. No. He's got veins popping out of everywhere. No, he doesn't. He's like the least ejected manager in the history of baseball. What's that to do with veins popping out? We're not talking...

We've been on different features. Anger Vanes. You're referencing anger veins. You're referencing weightlifting. Joe Girada gets way too much credit. Way too much credit. We're not talking about... We're not talking about wins and losses here. No record stuff.

Talking about vibes. Resembling a city. Yeah. Vibes only. Like you. You're an L.A. guy. Yeah. Outfit anywhere. If you tried to manage the Kansas City Royals,

I think you might be. too sexy for them some days. I agree with you there. Point Jake. Let's go! Jake's all of our fucking points. All you got to do is compliment, Trev. Morgan Foist in the chat.

I'm lost now, L.O.L. As am I a little bit. I'm going to be honest. I'm a game defender until I die. The Phillies fan said that he agreed with us, and he thinks that you're on the different beach, like I'm saying. What are you laughing? Someone said Charlie Manuel Jackton and

intellectual. I like Charlie Manuel a lot. Love Charlie, that guy was Philly. That dude was a walking. You think he was Philly? Maybe you don't know Philly. I guess he was,

I think, yeah, Charlie Manuel fits Philly, for sure. But I think he'll- is a fight first, think later. And Gabe is such a thing first. I have Gabe's worst fit. Pittsburgh. Oh, yeah, I disagree. of Pittsburgh would not.

Pennsylvania was not for Gabe Kapler. He's out. I think you guys don't know Gabe Kapler. I think that's what's going. Gabe riding his fucking riding his bike. And I'm, this isn't a knock, but riding his bike while drinking a Starbucks coffee with glasses on and a dyed

beard to work. That's San Fran. He's so comfortable. He's perfect there. He did that in Pittsburgh. You ever try to drive in San Francisco? Yeah, I lived there for a while. It's a joke. I would bike to Yeah

GameCaptor all the way A lot of Gabe talk This episode Are we moving the stimulator back to Fridays? Yeah So are we gonna stimulate right now? Best friend of the week is Walker Bueller

It's his MLB leading six to win Is the best Yep nobody It might be the best friend It looks like nobody else has four Can I tell you seven? He has six Can I tell you seven

Seven things to run? I like Walker Bueller, the Moxie King. He came on the show. He chatted with us. It was a lot of fun. He's having a fantastic season. Out of all the friends of the pod, he might be the single friend of the pod that could care fucking less about winning this.

If we, if Gibby won friend of the pod, like, and we gave him an award or a tweet and we're like, Gibby was the best friend of the pod for the season. Gibby might retweet it or like laugh at Walker. And I like this about Walker because it feels. fits who he is, it would be like, fuck, I don't give a fuck. I think if we sent him something, like a trophy, I think Walker would be funny about it. You think so?

Yes. Well, we're going to. The best friend of the year. It's seeming like he's going to be best friend of the year. Yeah. Well, there are three guys that have four. Who are they? Reese and Gibby?

He has four, so he won't get there. Austin Meadows, AJ Pollock each have four. Ian Haps at three. If Pollock wins, it will send the bronze cast of Trepschrist. I asked. Speaking of friends, I friend requested. Or I followed.

God, I just dated myself right there. I think. What's friend request? Facebook. Facebook. It's like, OG, Facebook. Golly. I followed Jonathan India this morning on Instagram.

I haven't checked my phone. I don't know if I got the follow back yet. Thumbs up, thumbs down. Today, you think he gives me the follow? What's their schedule? I think so. It's Friday, bro. They got a game.

Friday Night Lights I don't know if he sees it today I don't know I hope he does though Not following you but follows Rose Winker and Cold Talk Winker makes sense Yeah All right you guys want to stimulate

Yeah Yes Put that music on babe I'm trying to jam out Just trying to get sexy in here Where's the music I think it's the downbeat loop Right

Is this it? No No that's not it It's this one Mm-hmm. All right, stimulator, simulator time. And the American League, the wild card game at this point would be the Boston Red Sox going down to the Bronx sale versus Cole. B.BD, who wins that game?

Trust the Yankees at home. Cole's good. Yankees. Okay, got that home field advantage. They've never lost a wildcard in home, Trev. geez all right and it would be the white uh the white socks same matchup white socks asteris if that if that matchup doesn't happen at this point it's so funny it's been a lock for like three months now the rays have been taking care of business

to make that happen all right Tampa bay versus the Yankees in a five game set who wins that one the race gross Tampa Bay versus Houston in the ALCS. The raise. Oh, my God. Disgusting. In the National League, the wildcard at this point would be. Shit, what's the Giants Dodgers head to head?

Eight to eight. Oh, yeah, and they've scored the same amount of runs, too. So I think it goes to indivision record. So I think you've got to let the stimulator. I flipped a tin. The Dodgers won home field advantage. The Dodgers win. So the Giants are in the wildcard for the first time, and they will be facing the Reds at home.

That's an odd one, huh? Reds at Giants? It's the Giants. Nice. But I like the Reds. The Brewers will be playing the Braves. Brewers. Okay.

The Brewers will then be playing the Giants will then be playing the Dodgers in five-game series. That's more fun. It's more fun to have those guys be able to match up in a five-game series than the wild card or whatever. Dodgers right now. Dodgers? Can't project them to be healthy again in a simulator. All right. Then your NLCS, you have the Dodgers versus the Brewers.

Brewers versus the Rays. Oh, my God, MLB's worst nightmares. Brewers. Hey, outbrew crew. Yeah, I'm staring at a helmet. Go Brewers, go Brewers. What's today's date? September something?

The third. Gosh, I got to remember to bring $100 bills on Friday's episode so I can throw them at the screen for you. Okay. Because you're worth that, Jake. That's the second time the Brewers have won the Stimulator. Did they beat the raise when they won last time? I delete all of the matchups. I think they beat the

winner when they won last time. So there you go. That's that. Gosh, MLB would not like that World Series. They would not. I would love it. ML, get out of the trap. I think they're going to be out of the trap by 2027

is what I was. I was looking up like when are they going to be out of the trap? Because I think it's so. Is there still going to be a planet in 2027? They were. Biblical floods going around. Fires outside of Keith McPherson's frequent. and window.

Brett Phillips' quote on the Tampa fans was actually pretty nice. What do you say? He was just like, because he's from the area and he's like a genuine race fan. And he's like, you know, I was, I think he said he was

three or four years old when the raise came to town. So he's like, you know, none of our parents were race fans. Yeah. You're fans of somewhere else. So he's like, you know, we're starting to get real race fans

as the next generation of people. out kids. If I had my pick, I'd give them a stadium in Tampa, a nice stadium. That's nice and it's not the bridges and all that traffic because the TV ratings they do well in Tampa and there are a passionate

crew. That's a great point. Baseball is a generational thing. If your parents aren't a fan of the team, then it's going to be harder. So once this crop starts having kids, but you got to get out of the trap, man. You go to baseball tours and you really compare like the atmosphere and the site and it's the same thing that people from Oakland

do when they're like well it's not that bad all my friends from Oakland it's like well have you been to others like have you seen what others have to offer because it's pretty dull so i was looking up when that deal's done and the other thing 27 it won't be the drop anymore the other thing that's wild is the population density in that area it's easily the worst of the 30 teams and i think second worst is still it's like double so it's a pretty easy. We're a math pot. It's a pretty easy math formula. Make a nicer stadium. Put it in a better area. They need to nuke Tampa Yankees. Just nuke it.

And then put the Ray's stadium right on top. That'll show them who's boss in the ALEs. Tell you that much right now. Get rid of your spring training shit. Boom, right next day. Because the other Tampa stadium's right there. They will move out of Tampa before that happens. It's the same reason Oakland is going to move out of Oakland before they. They tried to go to Fresno, and the Giants said, no. That's where our triple 18. Yeah, Yankees don't own the Tampa Market, though. They own that stadium.

I think they own that. I own a stadium. I'm joking about that, obviously, but they don't own the table. That's about it would be great. Oh, the market, sure. Yeah. Yes, that's a good. Yes.

Fresno is still the Bay Area. I get what you're saying. Susan Waldman says Brett Phillips' first player she ever interview that grew up, a raise fan. think about that A lot of Longoria people because they grew up with him No I got some fun teams there

The trope is just like Yeah a bad venue It's a new trops Okay You gotta get that It's over Fuck kill Trop

Oakland I'm killing the trot Man Oakland at least you can get like a nice sight line They get a good crowd And like you can the weather feels like baseball.

I've never been to the Trop. And so there are, there are some people that, like, enjoy their time at the Trop. They say it's a nice experience and it's like AC, right? So there's a fuck argument for the Trop. Yeah, but they also had like the dirtiest concession stands. Really? Really? Really?

That's a plus for me. You know that. Yeah. Toxin. I've heard just on the Twitter streets, people are like, yeah, if you actually go to the Trap, it's not bad. It's expectations. If you go to... Just watching on TV.

It's... There's nothing there. You go to Truist Park. And then you go to the Trop. You're going to be like, oh, this place sucks. You go to the Trop first. And you think it's going to be terrible. You're like, oh, you know, it's not that bad.

Then you head up and you go to, you know, a Braves game and a Mets game or an actual field. You're going to be like, oh, actually, the first one was bad. Yeah. You want to do elevator talk or does that count as elevator talk? That was elevated. I'd be interested in... If it lands on the rays, that'd be wild. lands on the brewers.

They're good. You get in the elevator, you say, you say, I just don't want that one seed. That's all you say. You say, two seed seems nice. Let the East beat them. Let the East beat the shit out of each other and then send one of them out of them our way.

Chase Peterson's goat. It's still Miller Park. It's still Miller Park, right? That's how I talk about it. Then you just, as they exit the elevator, you're giving the Bud Seelic thumbs up, which is my new move. Oh, people don't know what I'm talking about.

No. They showed us a movie about Bud Sealing and the Brewers. It was awesome. Bud Sealing experience. If you go to a Brewers game, go to the Bud Sealing experience. It was really cool history. But Bud Seelig gave a lot of thumbs up in the video. And all he does is he stands up straight.

And the thumb stays by his belt line. Yeah. It just tilts up thumbs up. So it's... Elbow right against his side. There, Shadier left. You're out of camera. You're out of camera.

There you go. And that's a little powerful. It's a very soft thumbs up. Yeah, it's a, the thumb, the thumb isn't fully erect either. Huh. In there. I don't want to spoil it, but like the, the desk scene at the end. Oh, don't spoil it, Treve.

I'm not. There's a desk scene. There's a good end scene. So when you see a Brewers fan in the elevators, tell them there's a desk scene. Is this the first time that the wheel has landed on the same team that won the stimulator? Probably. Definitely. Wow.

I'd be interested in making it Wheel Monday, Stimulator Fridays. And Jake drank a beer last night? I have one thing to get off my chest. Yes. That shirt? I thought I was going to work it in organically this episode. Because I told you a big bird episode for me. I loved the Tommy Edmund catch the other day where he went flying into the net.

It was a really good catch. I just wanted to get that out. Okay. It was like the only thing I need to get out. It's off his chest. appreciate that you allowed us to know that that's how you felt about to catch. We were racing. Double string there.

Hey, are we doing a Monday, or are we off? Monday, we'll talk. Jake sucks. Oh, my God. We might do Monday up at night, Trap. We got to ask you about it. We'll see what your schedule is. Are you going on?

Are you doing it? anything? No. All fantasy football draft that night. Got it in the podgers. Nailed it at the end.