Talkin' Baseball (MLB Podcast) - 387 | Giants are Back in First Place + Blue Jays Getting Scary!

Episode Date: September 6, 2021

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Hello and welcome to talking baseball. My name is Jimmy and Jake and Trevor here and BBD. And it's a little Labor Day episode to catch you up on what happened. Hello and welcome to Talking Baseball brought to you by Draft Kings. What's going on, everybody? It is Labor Day. We hope you are having a fantastic Labor Day if you're listening. If it's Tuesday when you're listening, we hope you had a great Labor Day weekend.

We are down the Jersey Shore at Beach House. It's Beach Week, one of the last weeks of the regular season, before we go for the grind of the everyday playoff baseball, end of September baseball, life. But Trev's not here. He's in California. Trev, how is California? You said you had a tough weekend. Yeah, personally, there was one thing that made it tough, but the rest of the weekend was great.

I actually went to the beach, went to Malibu. I'm not currently at your beach house. You were invited. It kind of stinks because you look like you guys are having a great time. For me, I'm excited. This is a four-day weekend because don't forget, Rosh Hashanah is tomorrow. All the schools are off tomorrow as well. So a long, long weekend full of baseball.

Really good stuff. This, oh, there I am. I'm ghosted now. Okay. I watched a lot of the Dodgers Giants series, which was excellent. My boy Gabe Kapler doing his dang thing. but I'm excited to talk about it with you guys. Jake, how are you doing? Trevor, James, Big Baby David, former intern Luke, now sales guy Luke is lurking.

Everyone live in the chat. Say out of the dogs. Labor Day. The dogs are here. I am at the beach house with Jimmer and all these people maintaining the moat. We had a little bit of rain yesterday, so we had to control the water levels there and the gators. They're hungry. They're hungry. So, but yeah, man, the baseball, low-key hot in the streets.

I know we wanted to keep it high and tight because we're at the shore, the NL. All the series were pretty impactful for what's going on there. Our Yankees, they hadn't had a funeral for themselves in a while, so they decided to roll that out, so that was cool. So, yeah, I'm excited to talk about it. I wanted to mention giant stuff, but, you know, we're not there yet, and I don't think you know Gabe Kaplan on a part. personal level at all, and I think it's all a hoax. Jimmy, how are you doing? Happy Labor Day.

I'm doing well. I'm excited. Hats off to BBD for fighting the technology here. And we kind of got put through the ringer because he did Wake and Jake. We did the pregame show for talking Yanks because the Yankee game starts afternoon and we forgot about that. Now we're doing talking baseball. And it's just nonstop. Labor Day, we're laboring. So, yeah, we are going to keep this episode a little more high and tight. We'll talk about the games and the Results, the back end of the show might just be a boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, baby, d. Let them run wild. We got three dogs here, my two dogs and Jake's dog, enjoying beach week. Are they just barking at nothing? neighbor's dog

they'll figure it out they're dogs all right I'm going to play the music and we are going to talk about what happened in the NL everyone cool with that is that cool with you guys okay it's brought to you by the national

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and a little bit about the things in the Hall of Fame, let's get into what happened in the National League. Well, we're just going to start off with the biggest series, the number one and two, teams faced each other and they were tied in the standings and they were tied in the head to head and they were tied in the run differential and the giants took game one in the 11th inning. They won on a standard routine ground out. That defensive replacement, Will Smith at first, couldn't really corral while keeping his foot on the back. Crazy way to lose. But that's what the Giants do, man. They just beat you somehow. The Giants didn't hit that great. They had 12 extra base hits but just one home run. The Dodgers

didn't hit good at all. Giants starting pitchers had a 368 ERA. Dodgers had a 5-9-1. How about that? Giants Sheld Bueller for six earned runs in three innings pitched in game three, which is something that I've been talking about, the Giants versus top tier pitchers. Well, that's a Cy Young

candidate that you hit pretty hard. So good job, Giants. Sorry, Bueller. You'll get them next time, though. Giants end the series. One game up on the Dodgers in the N.O. West. So it's just anyone's game moving forward. That'll be fun. Cardinals went to Milwaukee to play the Brewers, and they got brewed. Man, they win game one. Wainwright, just unreal. Unreal as a 40-year-old, and they win big. They put up 15 runs, absolutely got Peralta. Houser, the next game. Complete game,

three-hit shutout against my dude. Kim, a lot of people reminded me to tune into this game. And then as I was watching it, the announcers and everyone was like, Kim's never looked like this. Like, this is not how he usually pitches. And I was like, all right, shit. In game three, the Cardinals had a four-run lead going into the ninth inning. And the Brewers got a ground rule double by JBJ and then a single and then another double. And then a walk or something. And Vogelback pinch hit grand slam.

Second pitch he sees for the walk-off win. Brewers take the series. They just win. Braves go to Colorado. for a four-game set. Little tough task. Rockies are the second best team at home. They split the series, which might be okay,

might be not that bad. Blackman had five hits, three homers for the Cardinals. Crone had a go-ahead RBI in the sixth inning of game two. Tapia. Go ahead, sack fly in six inning in game three. So the Rockies were coming back late. Morton had a really good start for the Braves to not lose the series in the last game.

Phillies lost two out of three to the Marlins and they were about to get swept, but they got the win in game three in extra innings. Good for the Marlins, bad for the Phillies. Good for the Mets. Man, the Mets are in the midst of a five-game series against the Nationals. Game five being played today.

They won the first game in extras. They won the second game in extras. They lost the third game, and then they won the fourth game. Baez is going off, hitting homers. Lindor had a go-ahead two-run Homer in the ninth inning. The Nationals came back from being down nine-nothing. Crazy.

Cubs swept the Pirates. That's your NL recap. Are we just shadows? We'll shadow back. Nice. That's the NL. That's still, James. Yeah, there's two conversations to be had.

There's one conversation just about the Dodgers and the Giants, and there's a second conversation in a shorter episode, just about the NL East. And I don't, the Cardinals will have a conversation about them later. These Dodgers and Giants games, Trev, you said you watched them all. I think everyone at least saw the highlights. We watched game three with the Bueller stuff and the Giants winning. I didn't see a lot of game, too.

I'll be honest with you. But what do you got, Trev, as a guy who watched them all? It was just great baseball. playoff atmosphere San Francisco fans showed up to the park did the dang thing it was just honestly like I said good baseball

the Giants have magic dude you know they did kind of a little bit of everything you saw the bunt by Crawford you saw another bump by Yostremski and I really feel like that was just brought up

in the pre-series planning like hey like let's go a mess with these guys a little bit like I don't really like the way they're shifting. So let's make them think about what like how they're shifting us. Let's lay some bunts down. And then that was just in the back of these players minds. They go out and do it. I love stuff like that. Like the game within the game. Now the Dodgers, the next time Crawford comes up, Turner's probably going to shade more in towards third base. But, you know, at the end of the game one, that was something. Not only was Will Smith playing his first professional

inning ever at first base. You got trade Turner on the wrong side of second base too. These are two guys that are out of position ends up costing him the game any first baseman this is not a slight at will smith because obviously he doesn't play there ever any other first baseman's had some time makes that play yeah it's tough that's you just don't stretch you stand straight up that's what you have to do on that but it's tough to know that if you don't play like i've said this many times on this show first base isn't the position where you just go throw your big slow dude at anymore there's so many responsibilities and then stuff like this happens as well like you just a guy that's not used to it tough play for him dodgers lose that game and can you imagine if they end up back one game of the

giants and have to go play the wildcard game and you could point to that day but just definitely good baseball all weekend long there man i know we talk about giants magical out i often bring up Gabe Kapler and the coaching staff and all of that. But, man, their pitching just doesn't get talked about enough. On the year, their pitching staff has the third ERA in baseball. That's their starting pitching. Their relief pitching is number two. So, man, pretty much whoever's coming in the game.

And we, you know, sometimes when you actually look at the Dodgers lineup, you know, it looks like an all-star team on a given day, whether Muncie, Taylor Smith, Tray Turner, Seeger, Mooky Betts, Justin Turner, like Cody Bellen, Muky Betts. They held the Dodgers in the series to a 198 batting average, a 307 slug. Man, they can pitch, they do enough offensively. You know, we laugh at some of the old guys, Posey, Brandon Crawford, Longoria, still doing the goddamn thing.

When I say we laugh, Treve, I mean, we talk. talk about them in a twilight version of their career. And you mentioned the Trey Turner Will Smith play. That was Buster Posey running, the 34-year-old catcher. And that's where I know Jim wants baseball to go back to a more traditional guys play their position. And I'm kind of with them. You should have a couple U-Till guys on your team. But because Trey Turner can field ground balls and throw,

and because Will Smith can catch a ball, doesn't mean they're a fit at second base and first base. I think a lot of that plays on Will Smith, who you're right, hasn't had him played there at the show level, which is just a really, a really brutal ask. But that's where baseball and a lot of these teams that try to overthink, which, you know, analytics are good. When you go back and you look at stats and facts and how you can make that work, analytics are great.

But sometimes there's stuff that gets overlooked because there's so many little moving parts in baseball that, you know, if Will Smith, that's a huge play. Base is low, you know, you're nervous. That's when your mind starts moving too quick. If you know that it's Buster Posey running, you know, you're right. You just sit there, you catch the ball. You don't try to be heroic at first place and do the stretch and do too much. You know, you trust Trey Turner, and that's, hey, they win two out of three at a home.

I think we all kind of thought the Dodgers were going to flex on them a little bit this series. they were getting healthier. Giants are going to be in it till the end. You know, I'd start a schedule watching again because that's all we do. But, man, go Giants, go. Well, what I like about this series is that the Giants went into it saying they had no rotation plan because they've been so hurt. The Dodgers went in and they bullpen game one,

which turned out to be pretty harmful since game one went extra, as won 11 innings. The Giants in game one, one, I believe, used every single bullpen pitcher they had besides price because he's kind of getting starts now. One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, ten. Eleven pitchers. The Dodgers used in game one.

And they lost. If you, if you use that many pitchers in a losing effort, that stings, especially game one of a series. Whereas the Giants had their start-to-go game one. They bullpened game three, where they used all of their reasons. pitchers and they won their bullpen day. So the Dodgers were at a tough spot using all those pitchers, game one. And then I believe in game two, like Bueller was the game three, but in game two is

Eureas, who goes into the sixth inning and they have the lead. But man, that sucks to use your entire bullpen and loose because now you're taxed and you're behind in the series. Yeah, but you know, you're only using him for X amount of pitch. is I don't necessarily think that's like super taxing on the bullpen unless guys have gone a few days before that. No, they didn't. But then both managers did a really good job. But then they won game two.

So they, to use all your high leverage guys in a losing effort, not going to use them three games in a row. So in game three, they stayed away from using, you know, trying in and a lot of the other guys trained in or whatever. And then it's more credit to the giants. And dude, it's just because they're, you know, to throw that many. bullpen guys for the Giants and win. Their starting has been what's been amazing. It's five months of you expecting the boat to go the wrong direction. Like even Walker Bueller, Sunday Night Baseball, and they knock him around.

Like, you know, not a couple walks here and a bloop and a blast. Like, every hitter that came up was barreling it against the guy who came into that game is the NL. Sy Young favorite. Yeah. Giants, babe. But Giants starting pitchers are beginning all the love to bullpen two games and take the series. Good for the Giants bullpen. Yeah.

And, you know, Bueller, Capter after the game made it a point to say that was our approach. And that's how we approach good pitchers. We try to go at them early in the counts. We don't want to get him to get to his strikeout pitches, his chase stuff. That's what Buehler does. And they executed the game plan. I'm curious to see next time, if Euler pitches against them, it's not going to be during the season.

It's going to have to be during the playoffs now because their season series is done. If he gets a start against the Giants in the postseason, I'm curious to see if he changes what he does, maybe start to pitch a little bit backwards, knowing that they're hunting those fastballs early. Yeah, he was fine. He was filling the zone and they were hitting it. So I don't know if he was missing spots or he just didn't realize he had to be that careful. but I'm interested to see next time too because a lot of those pitches were pretty center cut

that they were hitting. Yeah. The East, the Mets are now six and two in their first eight games, I believe, since they went two and 11 on the road trip or whatever it was. So they're doing it. I mean, since the boo controversy, the people involved in that controversy

are going off and playing really well. And the Mets are now three and a half games out. They have a game today. So the East is just back to chaos, which we like. At one point, the Braves had a seven-game lead. And I think I'm not going to make an opinion on where I think this lands ever until the last week of the season. Because the Braves can go up seven again, and I don't even trust it. I don't think I trust any lead until we get to the last week.

Trevin the Braves had. That's right. Shout out Carl Lamar, another one of his. Have a dream, baby. I still, jolly or whoever runs the Shea Station, a social was on baseball today this morning in the chat, trying to talk some crap to me that asks me if the Mets are still dead. I'm sticking to my guns.

I enjoy them getting back into the race. I still think they're dead. Okay. For anyone that's wondering. They had to. Happy for Trevor May. They had to get themselves back in the conversation. That's what I kept saying.

And yep, they've won seven out of their last eight now. again, it's Nats, Miami, Nats, but they're going to play Miami again. In Miami, that's going to be really interesting. They're actually playing Washington right now on Labor Day to end their five-game set. I think they just took a lead. I think Alonzo just did something, too.

So that's fun. They are going to see Al Contra in Miami, which that changes the whole outlook on that team, although they beat them the other day. And how about this? I'll get everybody excited for next weekend, as it's Labor Day Monday. our scuffling yanks could be running into the Mets.

A little subway series to whatever team loses that series is going to be in a dark place. You know, I know we'll save the ALE stuff for a little bit, but go Mets go as hard as he can. Finishing up Washington, Miami, New York, then it's New York, St. Louis, Philly, Boston, Milwaukee. So they've gotten their self back in the conversation. They are a game above 500. So, like, you know, you do have to treat them like that in the same way. But the East has been so messy that just like go Seattle Mariners mode. Just keep yourself in the conversation as long as you can.

Because I believe the Braves last week is the Mets and the Phillies. Ooh, baby. Speaking of the Phil's, I taught the backyard Brad over the weekends. He says the fills are about to get hot. Oh, really? Was it a walkoff or was it come from by? behind victory against the Marlins' last game to salvage the series or not get swept. They got the easy schedule, but they need to get going.

I told him that, I said, Brad, I really like your guy's schedule. He said Phil's about to get hot. So backyard Brad. That's huge. I mean, they got to go to Milwaukee and play three there. Maybe then get hot after that. If you get hot there, that's awesome. The Braves or the Mets.

Backyard Brad says it's the Phil's division. Wheeler Woodruff today. Boogity, boogity, boogity. You got to beat the Marlins, the Phil's. Yeah, I'm doing the interview mode. Owen Wilson, Vince Vaughn. I'm not trying to figure out the East anymore. I'm just laying back, and I'm going to enjoy the breeze.

Yeah. I like that. Yeah. Anything else? Vladito just said. Like a. Well, it's 2-0. He gave up to...

Gross home. Ron. Yeah, it was 3-0 and he tried to get back in the count. Whatever. Two-nothing. Blue Jays. High curveball, Apollo Field. Love that. Give Tyone some time off. All right. Let's go to the American League. Cubsweep the Pirates, Ian Hap. You ready?

Five-game win streak. Keep going, Cole. Keep going. We love you. Five-game win streak. Whoops. American League recap, Jake. What do you got? Boys, the event of the weekend. And Toilet Nostradamus tried to tell you. The Athletics played the Blue Jays as Vladito homers. How about that?

They went in dramatic fashion on Friday night. Manoa versus Mania. Hello. Those are basically the same words. Simeon is the word that walks away with it with the walkoff. Three run, home run, boogty, boogity, booggy, booggy. And from there, the Jays hit all series. How's your 349, 418, 706 slash line as a team for three games?

Oakland, what is you doing? They've kind of been on a death march, man. And it continued this series. Bichette and Vladdy did a ton of it. Mark Canney, he tried to battle, but it wasn't enough from him. Burrios, with a good start like that. Tasker Hernandez. 100th home run.

Good for you, kid. Robbie Ray. Uh-oh. Cy Young Robbie Ray? people are talking talking about people. J's needed it, A's death marching. The Bastin Red Sox take two out of three from the Cleveland Gaddians. They win game one and game two.

Avaldi and Hawk. They win the first two. They lose the final game. They almost came back and rallied. I think they were down six nothing. They made it six five, but Cleveland runs away with it. It was a hit in series, Jim.

Red Sox slashed really well. Indians. I mean, they hit 303 themselves. Martinez, Renfro, and Plowecki's been doing it for them, man. Good for him. Verdugo with the big walk-off single in game two. Pretty huge for him. Kid named Cutter Crawford pitch for Boston.

Cutter with a K. That's kind of a baseball name, I guess. So there's that. Red Sox, handled their business and take two out of three. Speaking of handling your business, the Yankees did not. They hosted the Baltimore. Orioles. We set on talking Yanks. Anything besides a sweep is disappointing. He almost went to sweep the wrong direction. Yanks won the first game in 11 innings, batlin to get the W. And then they

lose 4-3-8-7. Buzz your girlfriend. Woof. Johnny Laza has hurt. He's been such a big part of that bullpen. He's out. 20 games in 20 days. This is how they kicked it off. And holy smokes, the bullpen's tired. Times are tough. Clubot trying to build up. Gary Sanchez had a big day. Hopefully that matters in Yankees land, but oh man, can't do that against the Orioles. Good job, birds. Royals, White Sox, Royals take two out of three. Hey, how about it? No White Sox starting pitcher goes into the sixth inning. Rodone dealing with some fatigue. Me too, babe. Salvi Perez, man, snaps. What a year, dude. Clips, 40 homers. That's insane. Good job Royals taking a series from the White Sox. White Sox, you're probably not happy, but whatever. It's baseball, Susan.

Rays take two out of three from the Twins, A-T-O, and that's obvious. Waka-Flocka-Flame. Chris Archer gets another start. Trevor's friend, Chris Archer, as they win 11-4 in the second game. Ray's starting pitching really didn't do it, as I say that. That's 659 ERA. Their relievers did be Lau. Brandon Lau, he has a two-homer series. The best ever, a Rosa Rana is going on and on. Can't understand how he lasts so long.

Must have superpowers. Twins salvage the final game of the set. Halos, they're playing four with the Rangers. They're playing the fourth today. So far they've taken two out of three Otani Day. Won the over-under on his case. How about that? Because they let him throw 117 bullets.

It's Joe Madden. I don't know all about that, but they take game one, three, two, as Glenn Otto made his debut for the Texas Rangers. Suarez had a really good start that helped the Angels win the second game. And then in the third, Jansen Junk versus Taylor Hearn. Taylor Hearn. His name should be handsome junk.

Ooh. They win seven three. He has another really solid start. Seven innings pitch, three-runs. I like that a lot. And that's what happened in the American knee. Wow. Great timing by Jake.

Good job, Jake. And Jake also, you, in the segment last episode of the segment, Jakey predictions, you said that you wouldn't be surprised if two of the Blue Jays games had the late lead changes, and you were incredibly correct in that prediction. So the Toilet Nostradamus strikes again. Try to act like he's not. Try your hardest, do your best. average is ideal

Doubt him That's what I was chummy at your daughters Yeah I don't have any Well if you did Except my folks Yeah there's some other people too Okay Yeah

What's one thing you doubt about me Treff Your ability to Dunk a basketball On a regulation size rim That twist was gonna hurt me In what sport I don't know what you guys are going with this I got ladders

Just slam ball I think you got it. Ooh. Ladder, slam ball. Yeah. Got these calves. Yeah. Just got to lose about 100 pounds.

Jim, what jumped out to you? You'd look weird. What jumped out to you? Oakland is the thing that jumps out to me the most. They were won in the wild card for a while. At times, Oakland was looking like they may be able to catch Houston. They're now third in their own division. I don't think the A's ever saw that happening.

and they are four-back team-wise in the wild card. They have a really tough last 12 games. It's Seattle, Houston, Seattle, Houston. Those are the last 12 games of the season. They go three against the White Sox here. Then they have a little bit of an easy schedule. I think three easy series, but it's that loss, those three losses.

Their road got tougher to the point where the Mariners and them are now like the same coin flip. Like they're, you, you would put them in the same group. And for the longest time, Oakland was in a separate group. They were, Oakland was in the group with the Yankees and the Red Sox. Those were the three. And now Oakland's not in that group or that they're in a different group. So I think they're just general zeitgeist of the outlook changed the most here.

And it happened in kind of dramatic fashion and like some devastating losses. So I think that's the biggest story out of the AL is that. that they're not even in that top three anymore. They had a horrible end of August into early September, five and 14, if I'm counting right or something like that in their last 19 games. That's really bad. It's tough for them because now they're looking up and there's a lot of ground to make up. Yeah.

And it's pressure now. Whereas before it was like, hey, let's play good baseball. You know, we control our own destiny type things. That's nice to hear as a ball player. But when you're like, we got to win and other motherfuckers got to lose, That's a whole different ball game. And I love the Blue Jays aspect of it of looking at Oakland and saying they're ahead of us.

Let's fucking kill them. And then they kill them. And then they go, all right, let's take that energy to New York because they're ahead of us too. It's fucking kill them. They're up to nothing early. The Yankees are skitting. So that's probably the second thing.

It's probably those two series making this Yankees, Blue J series something that could really change the outlook of the wildcard. If the Blue Jays now sweep the Yankees or even take three or four here, it changes the whole outlook there. So I think it's the Yankees losing a series to the Orioles and the Blue Jays sweeping Oakland chain put the Blue Jays into the Oakland category and now they have a chance to be in the wild card spot after four games here. Yeah, I mean they still have a lot of work to do.

The Blue Jays had a little funk where I think we casually kind of didn't notice and we didn't talk about them that, man, they they have to continue to get it going. and, you know, hey, if Robbie Ray and Burrios are pitching like that, that offense is always there. And especially if they start doing more special stuff, they're going to be scary. But yeah, they're playing the Yankees for four. We'll see how that series goes because that can change a lot. But right now, man, the Mariners are game up on the Blue Jays.

I know we haven't gotten to them yet. Blue Jays and athletics are both four games back. So it hurts if you're Oakland. Jim, what you're saying about Houston and Seattle, I guess Seattle doesn't matter to them. Well, kind of depending how the race goes. But Oakland, you're still telling yourself you control yourself. Also, if you remember Oakland started off, what was it,

Owen 5, 0.6? So they got punched in the mouth to start this season. I think Oakland's going to continue to be in the conversation. If Toronto continues to turn it on, they are a scary ball club. we've been saying that going forward. So I don't know. The Yankees losing, that was incredibly frustrating.

The Orioles have won two series against ALE East opponents. It was their opening series of the year against the Red Sox, I believe. And then this series against the Yankees, you can't do it. You know, if the Yankees look back and let's say, well, if they miss the wild card, holy Toledo. But the Red Sox are half game back. of them now. And I think I love chaos. I say that along the way. I am a big Yankees

fan. I'm going to root for the Yankees to be in the mix. If Seattle, Toronto, and Oakland get involved, cool party. It seems like the momentum has been lining up for a Yankees, Red Sox, one game playoff to decide the Red Sox overachieving season that then partially collapsed

or the Yankees dreadful season that had a beautiful moment to see if either of them can get a five-game set. We'll see. But, yeah, I think those are the headliners, Drake. More from Drake later in the episode. Red Sox took two out of three from the Indians, which is good, because you need to do that.

They're staying in it. They're winning. Glaber just made it. Yeah. It's unreal. Sorry, guys. Red Sox, dealing with COVID, still go ahead and take. two out of three. I think that's impressive. They had to go out and get Taylor

Mauder because Kike is on the list. Taylor Motter's got that it's like good hair but bad hair type thing going on. I don't really like it. Just because it's long doesn't mean it's good hair. I've always had that stance. But yeah, to face that kind of like, I mean that's real adversity at this time of the season. We're just like losing players left and right. Nice job winning a series because the Indians have been pitching the ball pretty well lately. Yeah. Two out of three is nice for them. Yeah, and then the White Sox took two out of three from the Royals. I don't think we need to have a big conversation about that because it doesn't change much in

the standing. Same with the Ray's taking. I apologize to these fan bases. We're trying to do a shorter episode. I don't think there's big conversation because nothing really changes. Same with the Rangers and the Angels. Rays continue to win. Yeah. Shout out Salvi. And shout out Salvi and the Royals for beating the White Sox, but the White Sox are very much in get things correct and straighten out and healthy mode. And I mean, they can take these two weeks mentally off and the last two weeks of the season, that's all it really matters right now. Like, let's get rolling before we go to the postseason. Trev, I have a ball player question for you because we talked about this at the house a little bit.

On Friday, I took the over Otani. It was six and a half Ks. He finishes the sixth inning. 91 pitches, 6Ks. I'm like, well, this is a loser. It's September for the Angels. They sent him back out there. He throws 117 bullets.

is, you know, is that, should we not look into that as much? Is it you got to trust Otani and Joe Madden to have that relationship? Or, I mean, is it a little, the Angels are what, a 500 team? Otani is as prize of obsession as it is. It's September. Like, what should outside fans be thinking? What should Angels fans be thinking? I think the 100 pitch count is just like an arbitrary number.

Like, what does it mean? There's been no proof to. after 100 pitches, your arm deteriorate. So, like, if you're feeling good, you've got to trust your players. He probably looked mad in the face as I'm good, dude. Let me go back out there. And it's a manager's job to be able, and a pitching coach, to be able to see, like, does he still have his stuff?

What does he look like? There are days where 80 pitches might be too much. You see your due laboring out of there, get him out. But if he's going out there and he looks great, I mean, I don't really have a problem with it. What was the game score? Like, was it a close game? because I believe in just like stressful.

It was 2-2. I believe at the time. Yeah, okay, so that's a lot of stressful pitches then. I mean, if it was like a 7-0 lead, 117 pitches and a blowout on the winning side is much different than a tie game. As stressful as a Rangers Angels game can get right now. Let me give you this tweet

because, you know, every once in a while we just have to appreciate the man that is Shohei Otani, my good guy, Rep Bollinger, who used to be a twins beat rider now at the Angels, tweeted this out. Shohei Otani just stole his 23rd base. He also leads the majors with 43 homers, and he's 9-1 with a 297 ERA, 135 strikeouts, and 112 endings on the mound. Like, he's an absolute cheat code.

He's incredible. Illegal. Let's go to the I.O. I.L. Trevi. Let's go. It's me. The Houston Astros went down into San Diego, and the pod said, uh-uh, baby. We're taking two of three games, six, three, Astros in game one.

And the Padres came back 10, 2, and 4, 3. Nine Padres recorded multiple hits. Tucker had the go-ahead two-run, home run in the eighth inning of game one to seal it for the Astros, and then the Padres party started. They teed off on Framber and Company in game two. Machado and Myers, which I thought sounded like a San Diego law firm. They hit tanks off of our favorite starter, and then Tatis unloaded for number 37 to give the Padres a 10-2 victory.

Game three was a lot of fun. Jake, what does my neighbor and friend Drake say? Baby, you my everything. Everything I ever want. He says, just hold on, we're going home. Jake Croninworth with the walkoff homer in game three. That was after Gurriel and Correa tied it with back-to-back Jackson, the 7th. Padres take two out of three on the Crohn's own freaking walk-off homer. Gotta love it.

Podgers are staying in the mix. Mariners went down to Jake's snakes and they took care of business. Mariners get the sweep. Six, five, and extras in game one. Eight five game two, ten, ten, four in extras in. in game three, 10 different Mariners record multiple hits and six of them record three plus hits in the series. Let's go.

Our guy, Kellynick, Kellnick. Guess what he did? Go ahead RBI single in the 10th inning of game one. Moving on to game two, Seeger had the go ahead three run homer in the sixth inning. It was a second three run homer of the damn game. They were going for the sweep in game three. The Mariners took the lead in the six.

set with seven freaking runs in the 11th inning, including another Seeger hit, this time a go-ahead two-run double. Mariners jump Toronto and Oakland in the wildcard standings and are currently three games back of the second spot. Let's go, Mariners. 2020 is your year. 2021 might be your year too. Gotta love it. The last interleague series, Tigers go down to Cincinnati and take two out of three from the Reds. Reds, that's kind of a what is you doing, baby, but the Tigers have been playing pretty good baseball. 15 to 5 Tigers in game one, seven, four Reds in game two before the Tigers took game three, four to one. No Tigers starting pitcher even pitches into the fifth. Doesn't matter they still won the series. In game one, the Tigers hit five home runs. Dustin Garneau

hits two and scope has four hits with a homer when they blew out the Reds 15 to five. Game two, The Red scored five and the fourth off of Boyd to take the lead. Our guy, the Crusher or the Punisher. What's his nickname? Aquino, the three-run Jimmy Jack to give them the lead. And then in game three, Candelari, with the go-ahead two-run triple in the sixth inning. Tigers take two out of three. And the biggest news of all the Interleague is that Jonathan India still has not following back.

Whoa. And that's what happens in the I-L. That's a little, man. these streets. Dude. Tough in these streets, Jonathan. What's up, man? It's brutal, man.

It's tough. Dude. It's tough. Good for the Padres. They were in my rear view. I asked you guys if I should get them out. You said maybe. So now, you know where they are?

The Padres are in that, like, they're my blind spot. Hmm. Right? Okay. Yeah. They're like right side by side on the highway. If I want to change lanes, they'd get in my way.

and I'd be in the wrong. Ooh, okay, I like that. Yeah. They'll honk at you to let you know. That's what I'm hoping they do next series. Your whole thing, they do have a tough schedule. Schedule pod has been freaking wrong. I'm going to say that right now.

All the hard schedules, all the easy schedules has been nothing so far. I think we- Talk about the Mets are like the schedule pod has been. The Mets are a schedule rate. Yeah, you're the Mets are the only one that's followed the schedule pod. Here's what we, where I wanted you to keep the Mets around, not in your rear view at least. And I like the side blind spot.

Padres. Padres. Yeah. Is that... The Padres... They have crazy talent. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Snell, Musgrove, Darvage, and that lineup.

Like, the Padres were expected to be one of the best... They were expected to be the Giants this year. They were expected to be the San Francisco Giants. Unfortunately, the Giants are the Giants. Taken two out of three from the Astros. I mean, that's just... They need to win series. I want their lineup.

To be scary. They put up 10 in that second game against our guy Framber. So I want to look into that because I like that. Let's see. They got four in the second inning off of him. And then they opened it up in the seventh. So Tatees homers to cap it up. Get scary, Padres.

That's where you need to live. You need to be Boston. Your offenses need to terrify the opposing pitching staff. Okay. But they've got three stud starting pitchers. Yeah. what do you think about the Milwaukee law firm going up against the San Diego law firm Woodruff and Burns versus Machado and Myers I mean that could be fun

I feel like they do different law for sure like I have Machado and Myers doing injury law Woodruff and Burns does high level almost like espionage law whoa what's that means what is espionage law like espionage law like I It's just everything's behind. If I Google that, do you think a law firm will come up? Espionage law? Yeah. Yeah.

Whoever represents like CIA people. Spionage. Nobody represents them, I don't think. Law, US. No one's ever tried to sue the CIA? Let's see. On a wrongful death or something like that? It depends.

It depends who it is. When I worked for the CIA, I was a shadow. I hate to give out free ads. Yeah. If you type espionage law firm, the Spodeck law group comes. So, of course. Add. If you're one of our listeners.

Dude, I don't even think we should have said that. Yeah. Like who represented Snowden, dude. Okay. Or the opposite side of the Snowden case. The Snowden case is two espionage law firms. Did Snowden get brought to, like, trial? Not in the U.S., right?

If he did, they'd call up espionage law firm. So, Trev, you had that Drake line lined up previously, and so when I mentioned Drake before, you were ready to go with that? I'm proud. I loved it. I loved that. It's my neighbor and friends. Guys,

I need to talk to the Reds. Yeah. Talk to the Reds. Tucker Barnhart was wearing his John Boy Media jersey on the plane. Where are they headed? Reds are they going to Milwaukee? Another airport. How many teams are playing Milwaukee?

Who is playing Milwaukee? Reds are in Chicago. Chicago. Okay, great. Listen, you can't, you just can't. pitch Justin Wilson. I know that you got duped a couple times, but game one, game one, it's a close game. The Reds are down one run in the sixth inning, and Justin Wilson just does a classic

2021 Justin Wilson. Single, single, single, they pull them. They bring in Givens, another trade piece, Grand Slam, and then from there, the whole thing gets out of control. And, I mean, the Reds are my team as long as. as they never pitched Justin Wilson in a high-leverage spot in the sixth inning or later again. If they do it again, unfortunately for all our friends, Stevenson, Winker, Votto, Tucker, there's a lot of friendly face on the Reds, I'm out.

I'm in still. No, but I can't support it. He's out in one moment of their games. No. If they do it again, I'm pulling him. I just can't support a team that pitches Justin Wilson in 2021 in a, in a one run or or up what about down one down one tied up by one two or three six in a or later if they use them in that situation again i'm out i just can't i just don't want to be involved

at all what i'd be embarrassed if someone was like did you see what your reds did again hey let's not talk keen dog on here same thing trev same thing trev but unfortunately there's a lot of lifetime blood sweat and devotion so it's a little harder to pull the plug the rip court on the Yankees fandom than my newfound Reds fandom. I can't be supporting a team that does that. It's embarrassing. I just want to go back to Hingdog real quick because he is a friend of mine. Listen, sometimes managers put people in bad positions.

Oh, you, that's what happened. Don't get mad at Hingdine dog pitching and the general manager. The guy without electrical stuff that doesn't find the zone early and gets lit up in his early innings of starts isn't going to be a high leverage reliever out of the pen. Yeah. Not sure what happened there. Yeah. So I would get more on the coaching store.

The Yankees are in love with their own shit. The Yankees analytical meetings sometimes are they all shit into their hands. And then they pass them around and they say, they say who smells the best. Is that confirmed? I don't know. We did a practice meeting. Yeah. But, yeah, that's just awful.

Hey, something that doesn't matter. Mentioned casually before. And the Reds actually have an interesting little set coming up. Chicago Cubs have won six straight. How about baseball? And the Reds are going to play them. So you wonder if, you know, we are starting to get to spoiler part of year, which I know we don't talk about a lot in baseball.

But, hey, it's a long season. The Cubs got some dudes fighting for MLB time right now, and they're having a little fun winning. Our guy Happer is hot. Interested to see if the Cubs can have a juicy final stretch and get involved in some of these playoff races or if they just accidentally ran into six wins. We need to talk about the Mariners before we get in trouble.

Sweeping, the taking care of business, sweep the debacks. Kelnick, by all accounts and numbers, has been maybe one of the worst players in the big leagues this year. So awesome, you know, go ahead RBA single and a 10th. That's nice. Get going a little bit. You know, if he starts hitting, that's just like an extra free piece for this.

them. And I mean, look, Seeger, put the team on his freaking back, like they're there. I like the Mariners team making us think twice. You know, we could say, yeah, it's just not your year, but they, they don't care about that. Don't care. J.P. Crawford's making plays turning ridiculous double plays. Man.

Go Mariners, man. 7% shot at the place. I go to Toronto and Oakland all the time. ESPN has them with a 7% shot at the place. which again for the mariners that's kind of incredible it's higher than Oakland right now they're better than Oakland yeah all right let's go into the second half of the show awards it's brought to you by Manscape attention gamblers of all shapes and sizes hello our friends at Manscaped have a can't miss bet for you today oh wow the leaders in male grooming just launched their fourth generation

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You ever shave your gooch, Trev? I feel like you might get nervous around there. What's a gooch? Is that him? Oh, my fucking dog. It's the area in between another Yankees error. The Gooch is the area in between your ball sack and your asshole. And have I done what to that?

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Bless you. Standout performances. And I get to go first in my standout performance. Like a Band-Aid is Jose Suarez, Angels Pitcher, complete game, one earned run, 8Ks. By all my records, that's the first complete. complete game by any Angels pitcher all season. Besides anyone else that's done it, I didn't check it all.

Okay. Show Hey, did it? I can look. I can look if that's what you're asking. That's great. I don't care. Okay. Nice award.

Nice stand-up performance, Jim. Good job, Jose Suarez. You're amazing. Good start. You know? Yeah. Jake, who's your award? My award, I just did a late-minute audible.

Nice. I was also going to give it to a Halo player. Might spin it into my award at the end of the show. We'll see. You know what, Trev, I like, everyone always asks me and Jimmy if we do our, like, Patreon stuff. And they're like, who's your guy's favorite player? And it just changes over time.

Like, you know, I couldn't idolize Aaron Judge if I wanted to because I'm like, he's younger than me. Like, that's just kind of not how. it works. The dogs who have been doing it for a while. Still got a couple años on me. This guy, he's not old by any mean. He's been doing it for a long time.

Every time we bring him up, people need more respect on his name. If he was a Yankee, oh my God, we would be talking about this guy's gooch all the time. Kyle Seeger, also known as Corey's brother. He wore that, I think, on his Players Day jersey. Trev I always love when I come on Kyle Seeger's baseball page He's got a gold glove in the bag A couple moons ago, that's fine

No how many homers he's got this year Trev give a guess Kyle Seeger home runs 22 33 Whoops Whoops Whoops

Little Two war It's kind of funny When he hits him he's hitting him hard 33 homers, 22 doubles He's got a 2013 batting average. But, hey, Kyle Seeger, here's what I like. You're going to get some good defense at third base. If you make a mistake to him, you're going to pay for it.

He's been doing it in the show now for a long time. 240 career homers, and he had a little two-homer day the other day. For the Mariners, who are still in the mix. Let's go, Kyle Seeger. His Kyle Seeger splits. When we do our award show at the end of the season, and we do funniest splits award or whatever it's going to be called. Kyle Seeger's my league.

I might have Jolly like make a video. Yeah. Yes, we should have Jolly All right to make a video. Trev, do you know Kyle Seeger's? Do you know what we're referencing at all? I don't. I don't know you weren't you talking about. Okay, listen to this.

Kyle Seeger, when there's no one on base this season, when the bases are empty, he has a 59 OPS plus, a 150 batting average, a 2.15 on base. base percentage, 571 slugging when there's no one on base. When there's men on, he has a 152 OPS plus. Wow. It's a 295 batting average, a 375 on base, a 580 slugging, and a 955.

When there's runners in scoring position, he has a 1.0.0 with a 320 batting average in a 387 on base percentage. What the hell is that? He just doesn't care. at all. If there's not an RBI in it for him, he's just like, don't give a shit. Yeah, I don't know, man. He doesn't want to be the lead runner. He's like, I don't want to do that. I don't want to run the bases. Maybe that's something to do with, like, guys being in the stretch. I'd love to look that up, like guys that are in the stretch at all times. If he likes that,

maybe the excess movement has weirding him out. I don't know. That's a very crazy split. I think it would win our end of year crazy split. I mean, in lieu of recent events with a couple teams, I think, it could be, you know, our Mariners, runners picking up on something, or they relay something, I think that's where I'd lean. Well, even with Just a Runner on First and Justerunner on Third, his numbers are good. Yeah. I'm curious.

I think that's a good one. The Rockies at home is another good split, but I didn't know that at all. That would be another finalist for Best Split of the Year. Teams the best and the worst. Shit, Kyle. Treb, who's your stand? It's good off season out. It is great.

Hey, I had another idea for an off-season app that I was going to text the group chat and say, can we remember this? Awesome. Oh, it was a baseball movie draft. It was very simple. Okay. Okay. Gabe Kapler interview, yeah, put that.

Get really high and write our own baseball movie. Yeah. It's J.J.R. Can you shut up? It's not your award. It's your standout performance. My award or standout performance goes to the forgotten member of the Brewer's law firm, Adrian Houser.

What did he do again? Whoops. Oh, yeah. He went complete game, shuddy, three hits, seven K's, no walks. James, Jake, I want you to guess how many times that Hauser has pitched into and beyond the seventh inning this year? He has, how many starts? A lot. Two.

The answer is zero. Hasn't gone in the seventh inning once, nine innings pitch. And you know, we have We have We have We have We have Woodruff and Burns We have Peralta

The shiny new toy in Ashby But then Hauser just kind of been doing the damn thing All year long I like to give credit to the unsung heroes What are they going to do with him? Come playoff time. I have no idea. How did you phrase the question to Jake?

I don't think we want to relive it. How many times did Has Hauser gone past the seven Or into the seventh inning and beyond? three is the answer to that question what did jac what i said i guess you're right seven i don't know if i phrased it right doesn't matter the point is he has point one six point two nine seven plus he's got one seven plus he's got one

seven plus is what he's also wasn't zero now he's got one yeah yeah look i get you guys are at the beach house and you want to go just relax no no no no no you just set jake up for failure to work here and talk and talk baseball lot of action in the moat right now i'm falling behind You know what I'm talking about? What's up? The people want to hear about baseball. No, I know. You just set Jacob to shout out.

Adrian Hauser. Corrected. He said he was wrong. Nine innings pitched. Three hits. Zero walks. Seven Ks. I like to give shoutouts to unsung heroes.

That's my standout performance. It was almost like a mission. I'm going to leave you guys. Oh, wow. That's so sad. Just for like a little bit, right? We'll see, I guess. Yeah.

Scardner's game, by the way. Did you see that double play? Incredible. And bad base running. Flump watch. Let's breeze through it, Slump Watch. Because we don't even like talking about this. Did we get anyone going, BBD?

We had... I think we got at least two guys coming off with claps. You'll review those in a moment. Potential guys we're going to add. Biggest O. is Danesby Swanson, he goes to O for 13 his weekend. Aaron Judge, we've alluded to the tough. Can we just put him on, like, immediately, because he might get up soon?

Yeah. You can do that. He was one for 14. The one was a double. I think that's dating. Might be including an extra game because I think he was over 13 against the Orioles. Paul Goldschmidt, won for 12, two walks, four Ks. I think he got an award last week or standout recently.

Max Muncie, one for 12, two walks, five Ks, Chris Taylor, one for 13, RBI, 5Ks. All right, so then we had the Padres on there as a team. I was ready to take them off. They're off at this point. They had 283 batting average, 380 on base. They had 26 hits in the series, nine extra base hits, four hits. Machado went off. Nola is the only other Padres with three hits, but nine Padres recorded multiple hits.

So the Padres are off. watch. Okay. Let's go. That's huge. That's collapse. That's a team. That's good.

And, you know, Trev did it. He likes to take credit for when he gets the guy's hot. Joey Gallo, we had him on there. He hit a home run. It was a game tying home run. But other than that, it's still bad. Jose Ramirez, four for eight. This was a guy I really wanted to get hot.

Because as he was just climbing up, having a great season with his recent hot track, four for eight with a homer and a double. So that's collapse. We were worried there might be like an all-John boy media team curse. No. Salvi Perez, three homers, five for ten, got him going immediately. Love that for him. It's collapse as well.

Love that for him. Love that for us. Yerdon Alvarez, two for four with a double and a walk. So 500 on base, six. He only play one game. Clear him. Sure, he cleared. Yeah.

All right, look at this. We got Gallo. We got Judge. Yep. Danesby Let's put Dansby there They're fighting He's the biggest dofer

He was in Colorado too He was on a crazy hot streak as well Four games in Colorado I think you want to get some hits now Max Muncie I'm putting him up there Okay And do you want your dude Goldie

I'd prefer Goldie in there Yeah Because he's gonna get off And we're gonna leave Chris Taylor And Chris Taylor and Will Smith Suffer from the same ailment Just such boring names almost like

that just fall like that's you just don't your ears don't perk up when you hear Will Smith or Chris Taylor because you don't Will Smith You're moving around the field Yeah

You just can't hone in on those guys So I like Chris Taylor And I like Will Smith I'm just saying Yeah Moring names Okay There you go

Joey Galaire and Judge Dansby Swanson Max Muncie And Paul Gold Schmidt Charlie Morton got an extension Yeah, I was waiting for BBD to hit the passing button Geez If it went under the radar, I was going to audible my award there.

Oh, I'm sorry. It's okay. We're breaking news. I get it. Break that news. Trev, welcome back just in time. Dirk nasty's on Fuego. That means I'm on fire, baby.

Like Wago. Frank. Shwindle goes off for the cubbies. 10 for 18 with three homers in a grand slam. I'm telling you, bro, about these cubs. Frank Schwindle. Now, that name's so boring. It's awesome.

Yes. That name sounds so much not like a professional athlete that you're like, whoa. I think there's a group of people on the internet calling him MLB create a player because that feels like if you did an auto-generate name. Chris Taylor feels like that for me. Harvey Baez. wearing 200 grand earrings turd you hear that the earring he lost the field was worth 200 grand what's the most expensive piece of jewelry you ever played with now we're talking i don't buy that at all

me neither that's complete BS okay i also i think they meant 20 i think something got lost yeah i don't have any jewelry like i literally have no jewelry if he spent 200 grand on uh earrings i don't know i don't think anybody does really like that's a what kind of Diamond is that? Five carrots, six carrots. Dude, and how could they not find it? That was pissing me off. How could you not find it?

They're just bad searchers at that point. You're like five guys scoured the grass. I mean, that's a classic case if it's not there. Yeah, I wanted to go to look at the replay and see if it fell in his jersey because I bet Javi, it feels bad because he found it in his shoe. Oh, my God. I bet somebody found it in the washer and was like, oh, 200 grand. Yeah, or someone found it on the clubhouse. They wouldn't, the clubbies wouldn't do that.

Yeah. But I call BS on the 200K. I don't even think it's possible. Salvi Perez, we talked about him. Kevin Pilar. The thumbs down crew is just killing it. He goes six for 13 with two home runs. Jamer Candelario, six for 11 with a homer and a triple and two doubles.

Extra base hits only. Fran Mill Reyes, six for ten with two homers. Joe Adele. That's good to hear. Six for ten with two homers. Lordis Goreil Jr. and Jorge Polanco both also had two homers. Lordis also had a triple.

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Jake, you go first. Really? That's huge. Trave, go first. I'm actually third today, so go ahead, guys. Okay. Okay. I'm going to give out the Huggies and Grinders Award.

Sounds like it's going to the Phillies. Well, Grinders are Connecticut. Huggies are, is that Philly? Yeah. So there. Is there a guy in Philly from Connecticut? There is a famous SNL skit where Chris Farley plays the lunch lady. And Adam Sandler serenades him, her.

And one of the lines in the song is, hogies and grinders Hogies and grinders Navy beans Navy beans Knee ball sandwich Sloppy Joe Slop sloppy Joe

And it's all time skit I mean Again you You know The beauty of Chris Farley And Sandler and their prime And those guys You know

You give anyone else a guitar And someone playing as a lunch lady And I don't know How much humor you're getting out of it And they took it to a special letter I'm kind of connecting words in my brain here and when I hear Hogi There's kind of one word I think about

Around baseball right now And it's a little bit of a double Double whammy I think Voguey Oh fuck Why did I pass it to you? Damn, dude When that was my award

That's tough by you That's I just didn't have a name for it yet So I was trying to buy time for a name But I knew I was giving it to Vogel back Wow And I passed it to you And now I have to fucking really think

Yeah I even told the chat I said brewers are getting my award earlier in the episode. I'm sorry. No, it's not your fault. I know. It's not your fault. I know.

It's like I passed the ball when I very well had the shot. And then I got the bucket. And Voguey hits the walk off Grand Slam. There's something in the water in Milwaukee right now. And that something is incredible starting. pitching and just a constant belief that they are going to be in every game. And that's a special feeling on a team, man. I know we've been drinking the Brewers' Kool-Aid literally and figuratively.

They had us as their guests. They were awesome to us. Behind the scenes featurette of us running in the Sustra, Scott, posted today. Go check that out. And Trev, I think the bigger, Vogue is built sexually. We all know that. But Trev, where the love really comes in, you know, when you, Yelly's posting you to your Twitter.

You know, and he's getting the Voguey show going, and that's the guy in Milwaukee. It's a Milwaukee year, man. The Bucks won the title. The Deer District is going to turn into the Beer District this October. The Brewers, we met, Giants Magic got mentioned. There is Magic in Milwaukee. Vogue Show. Vogue show, yeah.

He took a first pitch fastball, and he was upset that he didn't swing. so he punched his bat like literally held his bat and punched it like that. This guy stuff. And then swung at the next fastball and hit a grand slam. And I think it's a beautiful moment

of like, you know, fucking get in line, bat. Yeah. Why'd you even come to the box with me if you're not going to swing at that pitch? Do your job. Do your job. Yeah.

Just a little punch. And then what was cool was all the Brewers stayed in the dugout while he was getting interviewed. And then he was done with the interview they still celebrated. He just came back. He's only had like seven at bats.

So good award. Thank you. Good award. Do you need some time, James? Do you want me to go? No, no, no, no. I'm going to give out the Jesus Award. And this is like a prestigious award.

So it goes, it's actually a tie between Julio Arias and the Dodgers and Jonathan Arouse, Aurauz, from the, Red Sox, who I know very well. They tied. Geez, he kind of looks like Jesus. They tied for most sacrifice hits over the weekend. Sacrifice. Yeah, they both had two sack hits each.

Oh, yeah. That's great. It's great. Get the guys some shine. Yeah. Yep. I like that. Okay.

My award's also going to a Jesus figure. Oh, wow. Awesome. Wow. Yeah. So, as we know, can't have my own fan. Wait, are you done?

I'm done. Yeah. Who's your Jesus? Was your Jesus, Trev? Oh, well, you guys are going to like this one. You guys know what's coming on, is it Wednesday? Derek, Jieter, getting inducted into the Hall of Fame. And so it's the Jesus Award.

I'll just change my whole thing to the Jesus Award. It's awesome. Basically Jesus. Two Jesus Awards, say that. It's huge. Yeah, it's huge on Labor Day. I did add, I did a sequence on Jets that will be coming out tomorrow. And I stumbled upon something when I was kind of going over my thoughts on him.

I know a lot of times I joke around with Jets on this show. But, you know, there's just obviously a ton of respect for what he's done. I compared him to Kobe. And I kind of want you guys to watch the episode to see why I compared him to Kobe. because he's not like a top five player of all time, clearly, like a Kobe Bryant is. But there is something like he's, I'll just say it here too. He transcends all of that. If you ask young NBA stars who they watched and idolized growing up, almost all of them say Kobe.

If you ask all the young stars in MLB who they watched and idolatize growing up, almost all of them say Derek Jeter. So shout out Jets. He's given his speech. I'm going to be tuning in. I'm very curious to hear his speech. And I don't care about Hall of Fame speeches very often. But for some reason, I'm pulled in. I guess I'm part of that generation too that watched Jets growing up.

So to see him kind of immortalized and be with all of those other guys, I think it's going to be really cool. And I encourage everyone to, I'm sure a lot of the talking Yanks people who are also here are going to be watching that. But I encourage everyone to kind of go. and see Jeets do his thing. What time is it? I'm excited.

I'm excited. I don't have the... I think it's usually in the afternoon, but it's also, isn't it typically on the weekend? I know it's different. We have a busy. Wednesday, so... Yeah, so it's, you know,

it's him and Walker going in, and then another guy, Simmons, I don't know who that. Ted Simmons, I'm not sure who that is. But I'm excited to see Jets and just kind of what he says, and I want to see all their reaction. On Wednesday, when he does give the speech,

just check your timeline. All of your favorite players are going to be tweeting out about Derek Jeter. And for that reason, I just wanted to give him the award. He transcends results, even though he's got the results and the championships and all that stuff. He's one of the guys that's just kind of been an inspiration for a lot of different ballplayers that you probably like to. Shout out, geez. The fact that you don't know Ted Simmons when he's a Gibby brethren of you? That's my bad.

Yeah, I mean, he led the league in grounded in double plays in 1973. So that's someone, I mean, you should probably just call him up and apologize immediately. Also led the league in intentional walks twice, back-to-back years. It was a threat. It's kind of badass. Yeah, Teddy Simmons. Marvin Miller, Al Michaels getting the Ford C. Frick Award this year. Ken Harrelson.

Is that the Hawk? Yeah. Can you guys, look at that. Don't check out my sequence tomorrow. Do the flip play. Jake. I did your fairy play. No.

I love the flip play. Oh, too sexy. I did it. That's too sexy. Buck Shawalter called him out on the flip play. You know that, Treve? What do you say? He said that because G-Were's like,

that's where I am. Like, that's where I'm supposed to be. And Buck Show-Wher was like, no, he's not. Like, that's not how it is. And then, and then Jeter was like, what? And then they should, they, yes, Network had footage of him practicing that play and doing it on other balls to the corner

where a guy's going from second to home. and Jeter was in that same area. Yeah. And then Buck, I think, apologized. I think he was like, sorry. Like, okay, you do. I don't want to give away my whole sequence video,

but I also, I think, I think a lot of short stops would have made that read. It's not necessarily the read that I think is the best part of that play. Dude, it's the flip.

Jake tried the, Jake and I, and we're not professional athletes, but we both tried to do that running that way, flipping behind you at like 70% speed, and it still wasn't an even thing. Go watch my sequence.

I watch my sequence tomorrow because that's when I'll be talking about. Okay. Who's the best friend of the week? Best friend of the week. I forgot to pull that up. It's Ian Hap. Wow. Nine for 19, Homer, two doubles, three RBIs.

It's his fourth time winning the award, which ties him with Reese Hoskins, Austin Meadows, Pollock, most of any hitter. That's awesome. Good job, Happer. Keep going, Happer. Stay hot. Stay hot. Live hot.

Be hot. Do you guys want to do the wheel or you want to get out of here? Treve, Labor Day Wheel. Sure. Okay, here it is. Wheel. It's a great website. It's called wheeldecide.com.

I use it for a lot of things. And I've saved this preset. So shout out to wheeldecide.com. The Cleveland Indians. How about that? They just won a series against the White Sox. Is that true? would they play? They just lost a series to the Red Sox.

Well, I had Sox right. You had Sox right, which is huge. Jose Ramirez, a little casual five and a half war. Whoops. Fram Mel Reyes has had an incredible year, kind of out of nowhere. I love Fran Mill Man. He's, uh, I think he gets overlooked a lot. He's a massive human. Um, I think he's one of the only position players. I've seen Judge give a run for like pure size as a position player, casual career 837 OPS. I've said this before on here. Bobby Bradley, who's a prospect for them, who's been playing some first base.

I think he's going to stick because I just love the name, Bobby Bradley. Bobby Bradley's at first. That makes me feel safe. Tristan McKenzie's been shooting a shot on Twitter at some women, so that's interesting. I did not see that. Shout out Tristan. Shoot your shot, baby.

Wow. Yu Chang had a fantastic. month of August. He did. He had a big hit streak going for a little bit. They don't play him every day. Has he faced Darvish yet? Have we seen you versus you?

Ooh, the U's. I asked that to set it up, but I did find the answer they haven't faced each other in MLB yet. Need a good Cleveland. That's what you say in the elevator. Like that Yu Chang, I love him. Be exciting for him to face you Darvish and you, the U.S. A use guys. Let's have a good at bat here, use guys, says the umpire.

Phil Cousy, that's how he talks. Mm. What's Phil Cousy smell like? Last question, then we're out. I noticed no stench on Phil Cousy, so that's good. Nice. There's a few that stink. Everyone kind of stinks sometimes.

Mm-hmm. Oh, yeah, for sure. Manual Class A 151 ERA. Fun noise. One-two-one when he's trying. Hmm. Jake sucks. Calquantral.

My guy. Luke just eating and thinking by himself like a loner. I think he's watching the dogs. That's so much better. I hope. If he's not, sad. Miss you, Trev. Love you, Trev.

Enjoy your beach day, guys. I mean, no beach day. We got to watch the Yankees and we've got to film a ton more shit. JG on Instagram.