Talkin' Baseball (MLB Podcast) - 389 | Blue Jays are For Real, Giants Keep Winning, & Scherzer's Still Good

Episode Date: September 10, 2021

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Hello and welcome to talking baseball. What a week it was. The Blue Jays are back in the thing and they're looking good. Giants, Dodgers, Seattle, Houston, also talk about those guys. Oakland as well. Let's do it. Hello and welcome to talking baseball. Brought to you by Draft Kings.

My name is Jimmy. His name is Jake. We got BPD against the wall and Trevor Plouffe coming to you from California. talking baseball, the Friday episode, recapping what happened this week in the sport of baseball. Let me check to see if we got any new patrons. I got a shout out. Wow, Chris Duffy, Kevin Dennis.

I wonder if that's my Kevin Dennis. What's up, Kev? That's a dude. Go Rangers. That's the Kevin Dennis I'm thinking of. Claire Moore, Preston Thompson, Alex Gerson, Dan Lum, and Frank Zilla. Frank Zilla. Jake, how are you?

James. I have no idea. I haven't been with you all day. Trevor, BPD, everyone live in the chat. Everyone alive, everyone dead. I'm doing well, Jim, you know, fatigue,

kicking in, dog days a little bit. We've been letting it rip work-wise, friends and family-wise for the past week, Jam Beach Week. Trev mad at us that we are still located in a beach town.

you know, winding down. And that's, you know, Labor Day kind of signs the end of summer. You know, September, if you feel that first cool breeze or whatever it is. For us, I mean, you know, it's kind of going to be after this week. We got your baby shower coming up. That's going to be a good time. Like, I think when you and I buckle in for like maybe not Monday, I think we're still going to be lost in it because that's going to be a long day.

but I think there's going to be a moment Tuesday where it's like, whoa, it's like middle of September, like seasons are being decided in the next couple weeks. Our lives are about to go zero to 100 real quick, Drake, a lot of big Toronto episode. And, you know, it's the nerves and excitement. Like, I just want to be on the field, compete, and put my best effort out there.

So that's what I'm going to do, Treve. You know what? I'll never, ever question your guys' work ethic. Never. Even though you're on vacation for a month at a time, you're still getting the work done. I'll never question that. You're my boys.

I mean, impossible to question it. We've been on this couch for... Casting couch. Probably 10 of the last 15 hours. Yeah, making love, recording episodes, all that good stuff. I love it from you guys. I can't wait to... I'm going to New York.

I'm announcing that right. I will be in New York for the wild card games. But first, we got to get there. There's a lot of baseball left. There's a lot of teams really close to the wild card. Are the Yankees even going to be playing or are they going to be fishing? Shout out J.P. Crawford. James, how are you doing?

I'm good. I'm good. And it is Kevin Dennis. That's pretty cool. He's a die-hard Texas Rangers fan. was my boss at my previous job before I made the jump to do this full time. So I just checked.

So that's cool that he's supporting us and tunes in. So what's up? Thanks, Kev. Appreciate that. I'm doing good, man. We are actually, yesterday was a rainy day. So after this show, we were supposed to have a meeting. I think that got banged to use a baseball term,

but not by us, by everyone. It was like a team conclusion. So I sent the final bang email for us and that felt pretty cool. To confirm? Yeah, we got the, it's banked. At 75 and sunny, it was rainy all yesterday. So I'm leaving tonight to go to, because my baby showers tomorrow. So anyway, this episode, then we are going to go try to spend a couple hours on the beach, Trev, and enjoy it because, you know, it's just a lot of baseball.

A lot of talking baseball. But it's obviously good. I am very excited for what Jake said. And we made our postseason schedule. Anyone that was with us. So here's the thing, Trev. not people were with us last year for the postseason maybe 25% of the people that listen to the show now because we've grown so crazily this season they don't even understand what grind means like you think that we put in a lot of effort now you think jake and i doing 30 pieces of content a week is a grind wait till the post season because it's like 12 hours out of the 24 in a day jake and i are live on a camera every day for 25 days I'm like 10 pieces of content a week right now.

Whoops. I'm like that. But I'm excited. I was making the schedule and I looked at it and I just said to myself like, oh, I'm such a sick fuck. My brother was like, why? And I was like, because I'm so excited for this. The postseason is where I sit in this room alone a lot and just stare at you guys on my screen. Good times, huh?

Yeah, I don't mind it. We have fun. We watch the games. I was trying to find a night. to stay out in that dojo with you, Trev, but I don't think it can happen. Wow. I was going to try to do a double date kind of a little home and home, but schedule might be too busy. That could change, but it would be a very quick.

Oh, yeah, in and out. Like, I wouldn't leave that room. I'd go to the pool. Getting you guys at John Boy Media Magnum Condom Studios at West would be just. just a delight for me. It would be nice. Shout out Zendino with the Res thing.

Undefeated, man. Me and Res are so tight. So tight. The tightest. So tight. I'm excited to hear about some of the baseball. You are? Because I know about most of it.

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Four minutes and 37 seconds. 4.37. Okay. I'm going to really give my best. Are you going to see some pitches or you just swinging or what? That's a minute and 37 seconds longer than I thought it was. You guys know I'm prepped. I got my green, yellow.

Yeah, you've recoded it. I like it. Here we go. On your mark. Get set. Go. What happened in the NL. Trevor. Well, my people, the first game I'm going to talk about, I don't even know what happened.

The Mets played the Nationals again from, I don't even know what happened. Anyways, Nationals win this game, four to three, Carter Key Boom, with the walkoff single after Andrew Stevenson tied the game the I bet before with an RBI single. So the Nationals win this one. I don't know why they played or what happened, but Nationals took down the Mets. Moving on, the Phillies. And Backyard Brad go into Milwaukee trying to write the shit, make the playoffs. They go in the first game and win 12 to nothing. Backyard Brad, two freaking homers and Gene Seguer with the Grand Slam. They went 12 nothing.

Brew crew did not like that. They said, oh, you want to win by double digits and shut us out? We'll do the same to you. Brewers take the second game 10 to nothing before actually playing some real baseball in the rubber match, which the Brewers took four to three. Second game, Lauer goes seven, Shuddy to win after going seven innings and run against the Giants in his previous start. He's dealing that game three I'm talking about. Escobar, our guy Eddie with the bad ham, he came back.

He's got the go-ah-home run in the sixth inning of game three. Ashby, our dude, goes two shutout innings and relief in game three, and has a one-eight-six. ERA in 19 and a third inning since his awful, awful MLB debut. Brewers take care of business. Phillies. Let's get it going. Moving on, the Dodgers go into St. Louis. They split the series. 5-1 Dodgers, 7-2 Dodgers before the Cardinals took the last two games, 5-4 and 2-1. The offense has really struggled in this series. First game, Schergo's eight shutout innings. He had one earned. That doesn't make any sense. He didn't go eight shutout

innings because he gave up a run. It was unearned, though. Pujol's Homer's in his first to bat for a Nice, nice moment for Dodgers and Cardinals fans. Another great pitching performance in this series. Wainwright goes eight in a third, four earned runs in game three. He's recorded at least seven innings and 12 of this last 18 starts. James, I know you love that. More on that series, they split two to two Cardinals and Dodgers. Moving on, the Nats go into Atlanta and the Braves take two out of three,

eight five Braves, four two nationals, and then an ever. Epic 7-6 walk-off game. The Braves take it in game three. Ozzy Albi is that little monster. Go ahead two-run homer in the seventh inning of game one after Yadiel Hernandez ties it with the three-run homer in the top half of the inning. Game two, Juan Soto had the go-ahead home run in the seventh inning. And that was after getting hit by Will Smith in game one.

A lot of fireworks here. We'll talk about that briefly. And that game three. Jock with the blonde hair, walk-off RBI. single to take the series. Braves doing it, taking care of business. Two out of three from the Nats. Moving on, it's the Giants going into Colorado. Colorado's home splits don't matter to a team led by Gabe Kaplan. The Giants sweep, 10-5 Giants, 12, 3 Giants, and 7-4 Giants. Gausman, Gausman, I never know how to say his name. Him and Webb each go seven innings pitch for three earned runs for

the wins in games one and two, and the Lamont Wade Jr. With the go-ahead two-run single in the ninth inning of game three to secure the sweep, the Giants just win ball games. The Mets went down into Miami. They needed this series, but the Marlins take two or three. Nine four Mets in the opener before the Marlins came back. Two-one in game two, and then three-two in the third game. The Mets took the lead in game one with three of three.

in the sixth inning, including a Lindor two-run single. In game two, Brian De La Cruz hit the walk-off single in the 10th inning. Sandy Alcantara, nine innings pitched, one earned run with 14 freaking Ks. Then in that rubber match, jazz, our guy Chisholm, I actually sent you guys some jazz to listen to this morning. Go ahead home run in the eighth inning of game three for the Marlins, taking the series.

They take two a three. And the last NL series, the Reds went into Chicago. They needed these victories. Reds, what is you doing, baby? They lose two out of three to the Cubs. Four three Cubs, four, three Reds, four, one Cubs. Swindle. Swindle to win.

Go ahead, RBI single, and eighth inning of game one. My, they go seven innings pitch, one earned run. In game two, he's done really well. And then Hayward with the walkoff bomb in the 10th inning of game three. And that is what happened in the NL. Did I go over? I couldn't hear the music. Yeah, he went over just by a little bit.

jazzy amount. Yeah. You got through all like, I was flowing. It was like you were just in your, those notes at the end. It was a good performer like enjoying the stage at the end. I couldn't hear the music at all. Didn't need it. Didn't need it.

Jim, what jumps out to you here, man? I'll be honest, not much. I think the AL is more exciting this Friday episode. But what jumps out to me is that the giants, the first thing I saw was they, they got the sweep in Colorado if I'm looking at it correctly, right? Yep. So that's impressive to me. Colorado is good.

They put up huge offensive numbers in Colorado, which is normal, but then just to sweep. Is that the first time the Rockies got swept at home? I'd be interested in that because I think it's a possibility that's the first time the Rockies got swept at home. If not, the first, I'd guess, second. No, you're across the board, Jim, you're kind of right. I mean, any of the teams that could make things fun,

the Phillies, the Mets, the Reds, they all kind of blew it. Like those should be the teams we're talking about like, hey, they're still making their push, they're coming at us. They all kind of flunk to dunk. Yeah. Damn. Well, not all the teams. The Braves had to do something and they went to care of business, man.

That was actually, you know, playing the Nationals. Nationals put up a really good series against the Braves, especially that game three. That was a lot of fun. We had the fireworks there. Did you guys see all that with Will Smith? and Soto and Freeman. Yeah.

Yeah. No, I mean, the Braves deserve credit, I guess, where I'm mentally not discrediting the Braves, but like when I look at the NL East, and I think I said this maybe last episode, like the Phillies and the Mets, like those teams are so good at getting in their own way. Not that I should be shaming the Phillies at losing a series to the Brew Crew, but they won that first game. And Backyard Brad told you, like, we're about to get it. And they did.

And I was like, okay. Okay, Brad. Like, he knows. He's in the dugout. And then they lose the final two and they lost last night in their next series, which isn't a part of this episode. But like, for the Braves, it's almost like, it's just they dodge landmines. And the Mets and Phillies seek them out, it seems.

Yes. First sweep of the Rockies in Colorado this season. So I was correct there. That's why it stood out to me. Job Giants. I haven't seen it happen before. Good job by the Giants. Jake talked about the Braves and the East Coast,

and we can talk as much as you guys want. My other question was for you, how are you feeling about your cards? Let me get some numbers on it. Because, hey, they split with the Dodgers, which in a way, that's a win. And they're one game out of the wild card right now. The Cardinals are three games.

Three games out of the wild cards, sorry. So, no, I mean, they're still dancing. They did enough. You survived the Dodgers. We could easily, if the Dodgers took three out of four, we'd all say like, yep, you know,

better team one, that's baseball. So they did enough. They get a half-browny point for me. And they stay alive. I mean, they're two games back of the Reds, three of the Padres. And with that being said, Philly's fans are probably mad at me

because they're three and a half games back. But, you know, the Cardinals' first half was just a mess. it seems like they haven't, they haven't had their landmine yet. So I'll let them carry on. Yeah. The Cardinals are playing only hungry teams. Yeah.

The rest of the way, besides seven against the Cubs that come late, yeah. But the Cubs have actually, they deserve a little bit of love. They've been winning a lot of baseball games. Go Cubs go. InHap, whoops. In Hap's going insane. They do host the Giants. The Cubs have some fun players.

I told you guys, like, when, when you get rid of all these established players and some of these guys that have been in AAA or maybe on the bench, finally getting some extended looks, like when you start to get real A, Bs, like in a row, that changes everything for you. So you see guys, I mean, wisdom's been doing it all year,

but Schwindle. Swindy City. It's fun to see that. I love when guys who haven't gotten consistent at bats start to get consistent at bats, and then you kind of see, what kind of player you got. Because before that, if you're just getting,

if you're on the bench, you know, playing twice a week or coming off the bench to pinch hit, that's not real baseball, man. Cubs. Like getting that run is fun. Cubs have won eight of nine. So Cubs go. Good for them.

And yeah, root for the wisdoms. Root for the Schwindles. Root for those guys. Do it. I want to talk about Freddie going, up to Davy Martinez. Yeah, that was kind of interesting, right?

It wasn't it interesting? I mean, I guess we don't know what they say. In the game, I feel like it was, first of all, I thought what the Nationals did was dumb. Like, they threw at him twice. They threw him behind his head. That should be the warning shot. That's it. No one got thrown out of the game.

Then he goes back and hits him again. I think Freddie said after the game, like, dude, you get one shot it. It's probably what he said the day. What's that? It's probably what he was saying to Davey then, though. I don't know if he said that to Davey or not, but it sure would seem like it like, hey guys. Like he gets it.

I get the game. Even though I think that's a dumb part of the game, it is part of the game. Dude, what's crazy to me, what's crazy is like Soto and Freddie like, you know, empathizing with each other or like hugging each other. You're like, yeah, we're the targets, huh?

And it's just like, well, what are we doing then? If the guys you're throwing out are you're bonding them. If like Freddie and Soto are, getting bonded over this. It's what's happening. I don't even get it. Like if you're galvanizing the two guys that are both getting hit and they're like, yeah, doesn't this suck?

You and I getting hit. It's like, whoa. A little bit. I think it was a little. Who's at odds then? A little bit of the best players flexing on their teams, I think. That's what I'm saying, though. Like, so what do we?

So clearly Freddie didn't ask for it. Soto didn't ask for it. They're just kind of like, you know, two bench guys, you know, in basketball, I'd be like two like, you know, bench guys just leaning back and jawing at each other behind the score table. And then that turns into each of them instead of going after each other, going after the star of each team. And the two stars are being like, what the fuck are you guys doing? LeBron and Katie are going to swung at.

We don't. We don't. We don't. Keep that stuff on the bench. Like, we don't care. It's really, it's weird when you see them go chat to each other and you're like, well, then what's it all about? And it all stems because Juan Soto got two. close in the on-deck circle?

You can't see shit from the on-deck circle. I don't care how close you get. I said this on baseball today. There are cameras everywhere. I can go watch your pitches directly behind you. I know what your pitches do. It doesn't do me any good to be on, like, a weird angle on deck. So Will Smith got mad.

Soto hit a bomb, carried over. He said he didn't hit Soto on purpose. a couple days ago, but it sure seemed like it. The Nationals thought they hit him on purpose. That's why they went after Freddie. No, who even cares, man. Wild. What a weird part.

Wild that's still in the game. Oh, it is. When you really zoom out, and you go away from like the dog, da-d-d-d-d-r of it. And just like, wait, what? None of that matters at all. At all. Marlins are winning, right?

They're just plain spoiler now? They're taking care of business. Fish up. Six and four in their life. last 10. Alconra, man, I think somehow he gets missed an awards in this show, but he deserves whatever's being said right now. It's because we don't know if it's Alcantra or Alcantara, so we just kind of like shy away from saying his name. And like it kind of doesn't matter, but it'll matter next year. We know that the majority of people say Alcantra, but I like don't

believe it. I think, uh, kind of like even if he was to tell me, like my family pronounces it, Alcantra, I might be like, well, don't, don't Farf, like Brad Farv. You should say. If it comes from his mouth, I think we should just go with it. Like Brad Farv. It's a little bit, I know that your family pronounces it far, but that's not right. Someone in your family was wrong. Favra.

Way a long time ago. And like your niche just like our legacy of pronouncing your own name wrong. I had a friend whose name was Kuchta, but he pronounced it Kukta. And then he like, I had two friends. One pronounced it Kuchta. one product cooked a and then we went back and found what's correct and my friend's family just changed it.

I'm like, well, this is how we say it. It's a little bit like, we'll hold up though, you know? So that's why Sandy doesn't get awards. It's tough. Get excited for our... I'm actually going to go on baseball reference right now. What is it? Get ready for our gambling episode next year

because I'm pretty sure Sandy Alcontra is going to be my NL sprinkle a little bit because he's nasty. All Kong. Tara. But that's what baseball Reverend says, but then other people say

it's Alcantara. Alcantara makes a lot of sense because that's how it's spelled. Alcantra does not, that's not right. You're welcome to the conversation. Jazz chisholm with the Wampong bomb.

Sweet swinging jazz. I actually went to go look at his numbers. I thought maybe I'd be a little bit more impressed because he definitely gets a lot of looks and show time. on a lot of these different networks and baseball shows. Fun to watch, but overall number is not exactly what I thought they would be.

I don't know what that means. You got a butter knife at a little bit. I mean, he's a young middle infielder. I think he's got 15 homers and 15 steals, which I think for his age, that's pretty relevant. I think you're right for how much jazz gets talked about. But, like, hey, if there's a Marlins player that's getting too much PR, like, great, fantastic.

Yeah. I like him. I like watching a play. I actually really, really like the swing, too. Do you see the, Trev, do you see the picture of him watching your guy's Induction speech? I did.

Sit in Indian style. There's just something, something cute and beautiful about that. Speaking of. I like the chain. He's got the three big chains. Like, I could only dream of doing that. If I walked around a three big chains,

you guys would tell me to take him off. People would have laughed at you. I think it's a cool look You would have been remembered as the chains guy Jason worn two necklaces all week Like if I When you originally joined and like I'd be like Yeah I think Ploofes Trevor Plouf is joining us on talking baseball

They'd be like oh chain guy But instead they're like wow Instead would they say They said it's the guy with the hottest wife in baseball That's right They'd be right Yeah that's right What else happened

I'm telling you let's get to the It's much more... The NL's been carrying a lot of episodes. It's not as fun right now. And a reminder to everyone, like, we're not at the point in the season anymore where we're going to talk about every team here. It's just like what changed in the playoff picture storylines.

Can we talk about the Dodgers can't hit a little bit? If you want. If you want. What's going on with that? How can you not hit with that lineup? I get it sometimes you go cold, but to all go cold at the exact same time, is rare because their lineup is nine

freaking deep dude or eight I guess yeah unfortunately it should be nine deep but pitching yeah it looks like the turners got it done which that'll always just make me laugh

good job by the turners all right ready these games don't even matter to the Dodgers are you ready to hear about the American League tell me Jimbo was brought to you by Dougom

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Guys, here's what happened. Rangers and Angels played a one game set to take care of the weekend series. They split the series. The Rangers won four nothing in that single game. The big series was the Blue Jays sweeping the Yankees. The Blue Jays had the lead from start to finish. They were never were behind in a single of the four games. They got good pitching.

They got good hitting, and they beat up on the relievers that the Yankees put into games that shouldn't be on MLB rosters. Blue Jays are hot right now. Jay Kazim has locks for the first wildcard in the A. We will talk about them because they are a fun story. They win 10 out of 12 just as the Yankees lose 10 out of 12. So the graph is like this on the playoff expectancy. It's like a big old cross.

Two fireworks crossing in the sky. And you can see the stream of disappointment and excitement for bowls. Rays and the Red Sox played. Are they just playing? Is this just a raised Red Sox league now? They just play like every series. The Rays took two out of three from the Red Sox again. I mean, what else is new?

They won the first game. This was your series. What do you mean this one? This is where the race told you they were going to win the World Series. Yeah, they win the first game, 11 to 10. Craziness inside the park home runs, Little League home runs, just nuts stuff. They win the second game 12 to 7, and then they give the Red Sox the third game, because Ray's probably said it's better.

Statistically, if we just don't care about this game and kind of go through the motions, we've already won the series, and they let the Red Sox win the third game. Two to one. Sale test is positive for COVID becomes a 12th Red Sox player to place on the COVID-I-L. There's some weird stuff out there where Renfro said that MLB told them to stop testing, and he was like, no, we're going to keep testing. I don't know if there's been brushed back there.

Renfrew also had six hits, three extra base hits, and a home run. Ballback had two homers. The race come, came back from down seven to one in game one. I've talked about that. Cruz had two home runs. Rays are the best. They'll be in the World Series. White Sox and the A's played.

How about that? The A's took two out of three. They lost game one with cap on the bump, but they won game two with Keiko, and they won game three with Lopez. Good for the A's. They needed a little bit of a winning streak there. Jimmy Lampert goes 5.1 innings pitch for his first career win in game one for the White So good job by Jimmy there. Montes and Manea each went seven innings pitch, one run for wins in game two,

and three for the A's. They beat Keiko and Lopez. I might have said that wrong earlier. Lynn expected to return Sunday. Gialito may be able to return Tuesday. Reminder, A's needed these games. They don't matter for the White Sox. Good job by the A's.

Mariners and Astros played, and this is, you know, Mariners are being good right now. Astros take two out of three, and the Mariners hurt themselves by becoming a above average team because the Astros beat above average teams. If the Mariners were still middling around 500, they would have won. that works. Oda Rizzy pitches and makes headlines with some comments after the game.

Correa hit a walk-off ground rule double in the 10th inning of game two. After Bragman hit a game tying two-run Homer in the ninth. The Mariners took the lead in the ninth inning of game three to avoid the sweep with a mamalojas. Marmalojos, Jose Mamalohos. Go ahead, two-run single and Crawford two-run home run. Kyle Lewis has a bone bruises right knee. shut down for the rest of the season.

That sucks. Granky to the COVID-I-L. How about that? Twins and Indians play. Twins took three out of four from the Indians. Royals and Orioles played four games, and those games were split. Two and two.

And there you go. That's your American League update. And Blue Jays are the story. They're going crazy right now. They're not there yet. Trev. there's still half game out of the wild card. But Jake, and I'll let him speak on this,

he thinks they're a lock to be the number one in the wild card and pass both the Yankees and the Red Sox. Trev, I've got Jay Fever. You know, I said I was for the birds the other day. That was more hopeful for the Cardinals. Like, you know, get those guys some love. Get the Tommy Edmund some love. They're battlers.

They're scrapping. I love it. these jays trev i'm drinking the kool-aid heavy heavy they've got five starting pitchers that are giving them a really good effort every day robbie ray is in the si young race uh reu is reu he's going to give you a great star betrios has been really solid for them uh we've talked about him a lot on here alec manoa our young thick king has been really solid for them and stephen mats a trade that we kind of shrug at this offseason, kind of like, hey, he's a lefty arm, and, you know, hopefully the Jays can find something and fix them.

And the Mets got a couple, the Mets got a couple AAA guys that had options that they were really excited about because they're like, we're going to need guys to ride the bus this year. Stephen Mats is having an incredible, like, two-month stretch now. So those five are giving them an effort every day. Their lineup is nasty. I don't need to tell you about the J-Nats. Jay's lineup. If you're a baseball fan, you know about them. And Trev, they're actually getting some bullpen help. You know, they made a couple small moves at the deadline. They kicked out Brad Hand smart.

But Nate Pearson, we joked about his groin for a couple months. He's dropping dick in the pen. Know who just came out of the IL, Trev? How about a little opening day flashback? Julian Merriweather. Love that guy. Watch out, man. I'm drinking the Jay's Kool-Aid. They are going to finish above the Yankees and the Red Soxie. for this regular season. Wow. Yeah.

It could be as early as Monday. Yeah. They play Baltimore for four games this weekend. Yeah. Doublehead or Saturday. There's no reason they shouldn't win three out of four of those games at minimum. Up, yeah. They're nasty.

I'm happy to see, you know, you give him the Js him love. Jimmy declared him dead on this show two weeks ago. Jays? There's been a lot of deaths on this show. It's a death podcast. name a team I haven't declared dead a lot of teams the red socks Red Sox are dead

The rays are not dead Oh red socks are dead red Sox been dead Declar them dead See now you're doing this thing where you say Everyone's dead to mask the mistakes Of you calling teams dead Now you do the thing where you Now you do the thing where you realize that's what it was

from the start because I started with the Astros and the Yankees Deathpot Yeah but that was like a joke because they got swept You've been declaring teams actually dead, but now you're just saying, I declare everyone dead. He's not how it goes, James. Oh, and up to your mistakes.

Do morticians announce people dead? No, that's like doctors, right? Name a team. The Red Sox are still, or the Blue Jays are still dead. Nice, BB day. Shout out to me for saying Stephen Matts is a good pitcher

when everybody, and everybody killed me for that. You're dead. Ooh, Stephen, Matt's. Trevor Ploof, dead. Yeah, but you say everyone's a good picture. That's not true. I have the bad pitcher.

Name a bad pitcher in the league. Chrisky. Oh, that was below the belt. Shouldn't have been in the league. 15.86. That's so mean. He shouldn't have been in the league. That's on the Yanks.

I don't know him at all. He could be good, but he's not good right now. I have five undead teams left, I think. Jimmy's five undead teams, new segment. That doesn't make any sense. How could that not make sense to you? He declared a team dead every week, so that adds up. Eight teams make the playoffs.

That's Jim, this is Jimmy's five not dead teams. He's making his own rules. It's like I have to have a conversation a million times with you. I don't give a shit about making the wild card game. I told you this like three weeks ago. When I say dead, I mean like going to the World Series. There's five teams available. No one gets it.

Goal post. I get it. Trev, we had this conversation. Jimmy doesn't want goalposts. That's the part you're missing. You put the goalpost in there, not me. We literally have this conversation. We're just digging the bodies.

Dad's name is Doug. He loved to dig. Ray's finding ways to win in Boston. Even though Boston has every single player on the COVID, I think they're playing okay. Boston? You really consider all things. They're missing a ton of guys.

They've had two series out of their last three against the Rays, and the rays have devil magic. The race are insane. It's insane when you're talking about Nelson, Nelson Cruz Little League home runs, when you're talking about Meadows with an actual inside the park home run to tie the game in the ninth inning.

Yeah, I mean, it's just devil magic. The Red Sox were up 7-1 in game two. It wasn't over. I mean, Treve, I'll show you the receipts. I've been sports gambling my butt off because I can't believe how easy it is. It's beautiful. Hit the raise at 7-1.

Pretty good odds on that. Made a couple bucks. Because they're just never dead. That team is never dead. It's unreal. And I've never declared them dead. They're one of Jimmy's five undead teams. We'll reveal the remaining four as we go.

We did this two episodes ago. But the Red Sox will, as guys come back, sale going to the aisle, huge blow, obviously. But like full pension Piv's supposed to come back soon. I think Royo, a couple other guys. So that's kind of when you have one of those COVID outbreaks, you know, it comes in three, four, five day spans that when those players

return, you kind of have a return of guys. So you're right. As long as they survive, they didn't get swept by the race, who are one of the best team in baseball, as they get reinforcements back. You know, I think there's one more Yankees Red Sox series. I don't think the Red Sox have the Js again. Well, yeah, I mean, it's just literally, I mean, start the race. Whoever wins the most games going forward, you get to go to the dance. Red Sox have White Sox and Mariners coming up, and you said the Toronto. On the road, too. On the road, and Toronto has Baltimore and then who?

I can look it up. Like I said, they have four with Baltimore this weekend, which is very nice for them. Four with Baltimore, and then they have Tampa Twins, Tampa Twins. I don't like these every other weeks. Me neither. We're running into so many. What the hell is this? They have a... Someone checked the Toronto schedule that isn't the baseball reference version.

I'm at it. What times do you have for Saturday, September 11th, Toronto, Baltimore, doubleheader games? 435 and 735. That makes a lot more sense. Okay. This has 11.30 p.m. as the start time. I have that as wrong. It's just got to be a single admission, so they're just saying it could go late.

Yeah. No, they're about to win four in Baltimore this weekend. I love it. Who else? The A's take care of business against the White Sox. We keep saying these games don't matter for the White Sox, but eventually they have to matter. And they got to get hot.

Two weeks before. You can't roll into the playoffs. Yeah, yeah. I agree. I think it's got to come sooner than that. Two weeks is not enough time. I think you got, I mean, it's not like they're going out saying like these games don't fucking matter.

Let's just lose them. But there needs to be more, I guess, God, I really sound like a media person right now. There needs to be more of a sense of urgency, I would say. You don't want to coast into the playoffs, man. You don't want to coast into the playoffs. You know what I say, Chuck? Guns blazing.

Do you like this? They have a five-game series against Cleveland starting on the 23rd. And I like that as a little. They're a shoe-in to the DS, which is a five-game series. Set yourself up. Play those five games like it. a little bit of a series and have the mentality that you got to win, got to win it.

And that can be a little playoff prep. And then you have Sinci and Detroit to get your rotation and your lineup and everything right after that. But no, man, the White Sox, that doesn't really matter for them. They just want to get healthy. They want to get GILATO back. They want to get LIN back. They want to get everyone going good. Like wins and losses.

I understand that things matter, but wins and losses don't truly matter for them. It's a little bit of spring training mode where you just want to get the results there. and everyone feeling like they're barreling balls and pitchers are hitting spots and you're good because they're locked. Yeah. They're in the spot they're going to be in. So it's a little bit of preparation and mindset buildup mode.

But this, you know, this isn't, this hasn't been going on briefly. Like this has kind of been going on for the last like month or so. We've been saying they've been posting. For sure. You know, they're 16 and 14 in the last 30. So that's decent. but I'd like to see them

number one like you said get healthy Lucas and get Lance back in the rotation Eloy kind of did Eloy come out of the game I thought I heard someone say that they need the pieces man because when this team is fully healthy there's a chance that they can run through the playoffs

for a team that we we all consensus said last episode that if they're at full tilt they have the most talent in the American League they are two games better than the Yankee Yankees this year, whose season has felt like a complete and utter disappointment besides a 13-game stretch. It's because Yankees fucking fans are crazy. Yeah, we set a high bar, babe. Look at me.

No, I think it's because besides like five teams, everyone's beating themselves up. Like, no one's, it's such a different season. Everyone's having bigger ebbs and flows. Everyone's having COVID outbreaks or pitchers going down. there's not a lot of teams. I think in the grand scheme of things, you'll look at records from 19, 19, and even maybe 22, 23,

and you'll look back at 2020, be like, that's a weird year. And then 2021 would be like, hey, no one really dominated besides a couple teams. And that kind of ties into the Braves from before, and that kind of ties into J.P. Crawford's Mariners, who did lose two out of three to Houston. They blew that middle game there in Treveld.

Guy Odo took the mic. I'll see if Trev wants to talk about that. The Mariners are two games out of the wild card. I don't know what it means, but they feel like a team that's just on a normal path. Like what Jimmy's saying, all these other teams are having ebbs and flows. The Mariners, you know, they win two out of three, they win two out of three, they lose, one out of three.

They survive, they got punched, they're still seven and three in their last ten. And man, when Boston visits them in a week, that's going to be a huge series. for the Seattle Mariners in Seattle, who's a 40 and 29 team at home this year. So keep surviving Seattle. Keep surviving. Yeah, I'll touch on the Odo thing a little bit.

It's, I think it's a scenario where maybe both sides are right here. I don't like how the media portrayed it. The question before, first of all, Oder Easey came and said, that he thinks it's bullshit that they took him out in the fifth inning. Well, not just that singular time. It seems they have a rule or whatever that he can't go. I was going to get to that. The question was, you know,

how does he feel about coming out after the fifth inning? And basically the reporter said, Dusty said that seems to be about his limit. Now, if your manager says you're only going five, of course that's going to piss you off. As a starting pitcher, your entire life, you're told, let's get into the seven, babe. Let's go do it.

but Dusty you know if he says that seems to be the limit that doesn't feel good for a starter Jake has struggled though third time through the order which is why they have been saying that so like I said it's kind of tough

they're looking at the numbers and they're saying look we probably have a better chance to win these games bringing in our bullpen at this point in the game but to Jake's point to Odo's point you got to you give a guy money to be your starter you got to let him have a run.

So I don't know. I actually, you know, I'm siding with Odo here because he's my boy and I think it's okay to be frustrated. It's okay to come out and say that. You know, he obviously never heard Dusty, Dusty didn't come up to him and say, hey, look, Odo, like, we're probably only going to go fight with you. He had to hear that through the media. That's what will get you pissed off. That makes sense.

But Astros. Are they coasting? They've been, they were posting for a while. Astros and White Sox are kind of like. You know, the stimulator, they've been the same team. I think Astros are, I said this a couple of ups ago. I think the Astros are going to go on a little run to get the postseason juices flowing. Bragman's back.

I think they're going to kick in a gear a little bit. Four and six in their last 10, 11 and 9 last 20, 16 and 14 last 30. That's like the definition of coasting. This is a big series for them, taking two out of three from Seattle, big series. And a little love to the A's. Montes and Mania, I don't know if it's the alliteration. I don't know if it's the hard-thrown light righty, the kind of funk lefty that I like both of them a lot

and they both drop dick in this series. Ooh. Oakland. Oakland. Stand up. Oakland and Seattle are exactly tied right now. And they have six games remaining against each other. So their season right now is tread, tread, tread, tread, tread,

Tread, Treadwater, Treadwater, Treadwater, attack when they play each other. And I like that as a third-party fan because that's a lot of ground. You've got hungry eyes or big eyes looking at that schedule when you're exactly tied with each other. You know, even just for pride of winning second if there's nothing else on the line. So I looked at that today and I was excited about it. That was my second big thing. The J's obviously making a huge push and looking really good on a lot of sides of the ball. and then Oakland, Seattle.

And the nice little battle here. It's fun. I didn't know they had six down the stretch. Yeah, it's going to be for those six games are good time. You know, we've got to give credit to Seattle making that trade. It's really tough for them at the time. Kendall Graven leaving, going to the people you're trying to chase. But Abraham Toro, who they have control over until 2026.

has kind of been a stud for them. 854 OPS, 144 OPS plus. I mean, you kind of got to say they won the trade, right? Well, let's see what Graveman does and brings for the Astros, because if a high leverage reliever changes the outlook of their season, then it's worth it. But, yeah, that was kind of the day after Zoom out was, you know, in a couple years, Mariners fans, you're probably going to love this trade.

But yeah, you're right. I mean, they can kind of like it now. But anytime their bullpen blows a game, which so many bullpins are going to blow down the stretch because they're gassed, you're also going to point to that. Tough. 0.82 with Seattle, 338 with Houston. Now, ERA means kind of shit with relievers

because it could just be one game, but that's one of those moves. That was tough. We banged on them for that. Everybody did. So you want to be a G-N-A. Both those teams dead, by the way. A's in... Who? Houston?

No, not Houston. Mariners. A's and Mariners. I can't see either of them being in a C.S. Death. Okay. Can't see it. Corner. Could happen.

Can't see it right now. Tried my hardest. That doesn't mean anything. Wait, hold on. You can't say they're dead and then say it could happen. You're getting the game, Treve. You're starting to get it. You're starting to understand.

No, I'm not understanding the game. That's not a game. He's calling out the game. We don't do that here. There's other baseball shows that might do stuff like that. No, there's other baseball shows that say they're dead. Yeah, Jim. You guys are both coming in.

You want to be what I don't want to be. You want to. Jimmy doesn't want to be lame stream media because they would say something like the Houston Astros are dead. Where Jimmy's using it as a joking way to kind of mock. mock. I think it turned into that. Dude, it started with the Tigers swept you.

You were dead. Where it does combine is that you do truly feel that there are five teams that can win the title. Yes. And that's true in your baseball heart. You name the five teams? Dodgers, Giants, Rays, White Sox, Astros. Brewers, dead. Oh, no, Brewers do.

So, no, brewers aren't undead. So maybe I counted wrong. So that's the other thing. I'm just bad accounting. It's not a math pod. It's not a death pod. It is a death pod. It's not really a gotcha though.

Like if I'm wrong. I don't care. Jimmy doesn't care about the gotcha of calling a team dead and they win. That's the other problem here. So we figured it out. Nothing matters. Nothing matters. My favorite term dead.

LOL, nothing matters. It's the same as when you call people like idiots and dummies and people put a lot more weight into that than you are. People put more weight into everything we say here than they should. Yes. We have no. Thank you for tuning in. Realness. Appreciate you guys.

Angels fans still think I hate the Angels because I said I hate their front office. Trevor Pluth doesn't like the text. Now, Angels, dead. Who knows? There we go. Trevor takes. Jim has them alive. Yeah.

Angels could turn it around, man. Packy-naughton. Did Treve just die after saying that? Treve's dead. Packy-naughton effect. Mack you're not and you're about to hear about him. Three, four teams have skull and crossbones. Like baseball reference does dead.

Dead dead. Do you know those four teams? Like that. Orioles, snakes, pirates. Yep. And then there's a fourth that just- Marlins did. Marlins are not skulls.

They're not even lost in their division. Rockies? Really? No, the Rockies are not skull and crossbones. They're not even last in their division. See? Come on. Just say it.

We want to move on with the show. Who are the other teams? The Rangers. Yes. Skull and Crossbones, dead. They're a great organization. They're actually alive because Taylor Hearn's pitching for them. Dude, how about Hearn?

Hot. I have some info on Hearn, but I'm not allowed to share it yet. Whoa. Possible information. Ooh, exciting. Yeah. I love T-Hern. Hot.

Yeah, yeah. Jake, you got us? Big weiner. I think so. Let's do it. Let's make a Packy run, boys, as we start with Packy Norton and his Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim, California are facing the San Diego Padres of California. And they split my favorite, the two games set.

It's actually a little Padres. What is you doing, baby? Because Snelegram was on the bump in game one, hunting the no-hitter, hunting the perfect game with Packy Noughton on the mound on the other side. The classic, they get cracked and then they get lost. They lose that game for nothing. They bounce back the next day and they win eight to five. Darvish versus Mayors, eight Aiers as the opener.

Darvish with a good start. His first quality start since August 7th. Holy Toledo, six inning, one-earned run. Get it going, you Darvish. Trout hasn't given up on returning this season. Man, I think the halos are out of it, but we just decided they're still alive. So come back. Joe Adele's been doing good things, and I've been saying I'm rooting for him, so I love that.

Love that money. Man, Padres only had one extra base hit. It was an Adam Frazier double. Padres, be the Padres. DeBacks hosted the Rangers, and the Rangers busted out the broomstick in those two games. 3-1-8-5. How about Jordan Lyles coming on? of the bullpen for seven innings pitch and relief.

The veteran drops it for his team as they get scald and crossbone by baseball reference. Who else did it? Lo. Jose Trevino. Everyone who talks about him says he's a great guy, Taylor Hearn. Todd Frazier was talking about Jose Trevino with us. Jose Trevino, all-time good guy. I just put him there.

Jim's Short King, Dalton, Varshow, two extra base hits in this series. So we love it. The Pirates. They win two out of three, and why? Because they called up Cole Tucker. It's the Cole Tucker effect. Someone get me the Pirates record when Cole Tucker's on the roster, because I guarantee you that win percentage is higher,

what he brings to that team day in, day out. They win 6'3-3-2. Tigers salvage the final game. Matt Manning, go off, Young King. Get your stuff going on. Pirates hit all series. Key Brian, Newman, Drew Hutchinson, with his first MLB win since August of 2018,

but Cole Tucker had two hits, and the Pirates win the series. That's what happened in the Interleague. Co-World. God. Love Cole Tucker. Trev, when Jake says, you've got to go on a Packy run, do you know what that means?

I don't. It's a very, very... It's a colloquialism. It's a Connecticut thing only. I didn't know until I moved there. Packy? Yeah, it's a blue state. There's some really weird liquor stores

in some northeast states. They were not allowed to call liquor stores, liquor stores in Connecticut. So they called them package stores. So let's go to the packy is how you would say, like let's go get some beer. Let's go get some alcohol. Yeah, when I was in New Britain,

you can't buy alcohol on Sundays, I believe. They changed that now. I think it's Sundays before two o'clock. Still a tight window. And you cannot buy alcohol at all after 6 o'clock in any day, right? They moved it from five to six. On Sunday. Wild.

On Sunday. On regular days, you can buy booze till nine in Connecticut, I think. It was five when we were in college. No, it was nine. We would go to a grocery store after a game, and the whole beer aisle or whatever, or wherever, like the liquor aisle would be dark and they'd have it like. They tarp it off. It's the saddest thing in the world. It's the stupidest thing.

Like, don't even think about buying this. They put a tarp over the beer. How could you drink this Saturday after nine? You can't even see what you're missing. Yeah, might as well, look, if you want to have a few days where you're telling your citizens not to drink alcohol, don't make it Saturday or Sunday. Like, fucking call it on a Monday or Tuesday. It's a really great point. Nine o'clock, camp by liquor or anything after nine o'clock is, it changes the college experience.

Yes. Because you have to decide if you're drinking at seven. You got to plan. Yeah. And then you have to plan how many people might come over. how much do we need? Do we need 430 racks? Do we need two?

Or we're getting liquor? Like, it changes. When people would come visit us, we're like, no, we need to decide in like, you guys want to drink? What do you guys want to do tonight? Yeah. That's like Handmaid's tale up in Connecticut.

Let's go. What is the Taliban? Yeah. In New York, you can't buy liquor and beer at the same place. Yeah. Yeah, I'd never understood that either. But the liquor store is right next door to where you can love you.

Yeah, they just put it next door. Yeah. It's all the rules are to protect liquor store owners they like have like a great union union or whatever you can in California you can buy a beer anywhere at any time bad ass dude yeah I got a gas station at the gas station elementary schools all day long you just roll up yeah uh did any of these series matter kind of the Padres like if they won two with Snell and Darvish and those performances I'd be pretty excited and said you don't score against pack

Jackie Notton and the Angels, game one. Can't do that, man. That's tough. But you know, it is nice to see that Darvish get going because, look, the Padres have the gauntlet of the schedule coming yet that we're talking about. They're in the wild card right now, but they got a very, very tough schedule. But Musgrove, Dealing, Snell, one of the most... Out of his mind right now.

I said on baseball today, like, right now he's the most dominant pitcher in baseball. If you watch him throw on the swings that guys are taking on balls outside of the strike zone. He is going off. And now Udarvish, who's been pretty much bad since the sticky stuff enforcement, good start right here. If they get him going, maybe they weather the storm. Because these teams, we talk about it. We talk about them all the time, how big this gauntlet is.

But they're actually 15 and 12 against the good teams that they have to play coming up. So it's not like they got their butt kicked all season. If they go three games over 500, the rest of the way, I think they're probably in the wild card. It's doable. And the Dodgers, on the other hand, can't hit. God, imagine. If we get San Diego and the Dodgers,

and I know I already advanced the Blue Jays, but the Red Sox and the Yankees, like Bobby Manfred, get the lotion out. One of the Red Sox's going to trade for Packing Lawton. Can that be enough? Can that be a tracker we have? We make a Twitter account. And who else needs to become a Red Sock?

Mike Brasso. Mike Brasso and Packy Notton. Mike Brossos. Probably this offseason. The Ray seemed to have fallen out of love with him a little bit. Packy's probably a couple years because Angels need to break him as a picture and then trade him. And then he'll be good. Okay.

The Angels, man. Packy Notting will be a Red Sock. And it would be awesome because he's from there. He's excited. Locked. He definitely sat outside. Packy's smoking cigarettes hanging out with his boys, like all the time. It's good times for him.

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It's me. I'm going to shine a little love to my beautiful state of Minnesota. In particular, our guy Joe Ron. came over in a trade with the race and usually you don't want to trade with the race. Don't want to do that. Looks like the twins did all right here. He goes seven innings pitched shuddy, 4Ks, only one hit, no walks. He's been really, really good for the twins in two starts.

Overall numbers, 2-25, it could be even better. First start against the Cubs, you want five innings pitch, three-earned runs. The three-runs run one swing, a three-run bomb by our guy Schwindle. But Joe Ryan has, he has swing and miss stuff. I think he's going to learn how to use his secondary stuff a little bit better. His fastball is really good, misses a lot of bats. Got the good hair, good looking dude, he will probably be an up-and-comer on our end-of-season hot boy list. But I wanted to highlight him because, like we said, we always fear when teams

trade with the raise. This year, it looks like the raise maybe of kind of slipped a little bit. They sent Adamus, maybe by necessity. We talked about his splits, but Joe Ryan looks to be a very, very capable big league starter, and that's not something the raise usually just give up.

So shout out Joe Ryan. I'm excited to watch him with the twins for many years to come. He's not a free agent until, I have no idea, a long time. And you'll follow him. The Joe Ryan experience are his

socials. Or he can follow Joey Ryan, a singer that I like. Oh, this is even better. He went to C-Sun, Cal State Northridge. That's where my beautiful bride, Olivia, is a graduate of. Shout out Joe Ryan. A couple things. They didn't overlap.

Seems like you're trying to get another young hot boy follow by shouting out his social media. I'll pray on you for that, that Jonathan India. Does he follow me? And now Joe Ryan will hopefully follow you. He was on Team USA. People may remember him from there. And he took a fun picture before, I think it was his last start, or maybe two starts ago.

He took a picture of Wendellon Cruz because they were traded for each other. So that's always like, hey, look at us. Look at us. Go be hot, Joe Ryan. We're doing it. Hey, follow me back, Joe Ryan. What is going on with these dudes with long hair? The fuck.

It's like, why don't they want to follow you? Post more pictures of Olivia, and I think these young guys will. That's what I got to do. Yeah. That's what I got to do. I'm excited to see his next couple starts because he's just been fastball only basically these first two. And he doesn't have a fast fast ball.

It's 92. Did I talk about arm angle and stuff here? Was that baseball? I did it here. For him? He's got a really low arm slot. But he spins it well. So he gets really, even to the eye, you see the ride on his ball.

You can even say it rises a little bit on TV. It's tough, really tough to get on plane with that for a hitter. He lives in the top of the zone. Pretty cool. Invisible? Is he thrown in Invisible? A little bit. Okay.

A little bit. Looks like the fastball spins at around 2 o'clock, Trev. 12 would be overhand. Yeah. This way. Whosh. Two o'clock. It's a great award.

Joe Ryan, good job. Are you guys interested to who? My standout? I'd love to know. I'd love to know. It goes to Eric Lauer. Because we want to know what's going on with the law firm over in Milwaukee. Burns and Woodruff,

they've been carrying the team for a while. They've just been having lights out seasons. And they're maybe a little tired and maybe a little gassed out, maybe a little something. I don't know. They both have been giving up some. runs in their last couple games. And what happened was, first we had Hauser, who Trev gave it a standout or award to last

episode, step up and say, you know what? You know, the bosses of the firm, they're taking naps under their desk a little bit. That's kind of actually too rude. They're still pitching really well. No, like they went on a crazy business trip and now they're back and they're like hurting a little. Yeah, you know, it's like a little bit of a bender of the party. And Hauser was like, I got you. Don't worry.

And then Lauer came and he's like, I got you. got us, don't worry. He goes sevening pitch, zero earned runs right after the Cardinals. Was the Cardinals? Yeah, the Cardinals put up a 12 spot on the brew crew the night before. And Lauer just right at the ship said, I know I'm not partner here. I know my name's not on the door, but I'll do what I can. I'll step up. So big time step up job by Eric Lauer for the brew crew. He's my standout performance because of that. Where do you think he is at at the law firm? Is he a clerk?

Is he an intern? Is he in a mailroom? Assistant. Yeah, I don't know. Your executive. I don't know. Like, Hauser is advocating for him big time. And they're like, well, Hauser, like, let's get you in first.

Let's get your name on the door first. Ooh, see, that's tough. To be a partner at Woodruff and Burns, you got to be like a guy guy. Yeah. You know, but Hauser loves his people. They actually like the loyalty from that. I mean, what I've heard? I shouldn't.

I shouldn't say this. Okay. What have you heard? We know, we know. Houser and Lauer have talked about making their own law firm. But they know it wouldn't work. Yeah. And there's a whole, well, Burns has already been grooming Ashby.

Right. To come on. Oh, yeah. They're reading. You know what? That's another spin here, Treve. These guys saw Ashby come and they're like, oh, no. Yeah.

Oh, no. I like that. God, Brewer's Company. Good awards. Or good performance, Jim. Yeah. Good performance. His, uh, yeah, his pitch stuff for Lauer is crazy, too.

Two starts ago, he was heavy cutter as a secondary pitch. Like, let's try it out. He bumped it up from 2% to 35% in his game. And then this game, cutter was scrapped. No thanks. I'm out. Colin Wong had a baby. He did?

Yeah. That's awesome. That's our guy. Congrats. We should text them or send them something. Send him a bunch of stuff. Yeah. Send him another baby.

Let's make a onesie with a chain around it, like imprinted on the onesie. I like that. And send it to them since you guys are chain brothers. I like that. That will like lock us in. Yeah. And then you wear a adult-sized onesie as well and you wear it too. Adult onesy.

Okay. Great award. Thank you. Great award. I, uh, fellas, I told you. Jimmy, Jimmy let the cat out of the bag. I'm on a Blue Jace kick. Oh, let's go.

I am drinking the Kool-Aid. And Jim, you know there's a couple caveats when we go and we look at some of these big games. You hit two homers. You hit one off the fifth starter and then a position player, last guy out of the bullpen. I don't care. You never have. James, there's a couple things that speak to me in this world. being short and thick is one of them.

Alejandro Kirk, my short, thick king, hit two homers, the catcher for the Blue Jays, and Trev, you know, we talk about your book sometimes, a couple of oops, you know, a couple big names in there. Garrett Cole, Alejandro Kirk, took Garrett Cole, Apo Taco at the stadium, not a cheapie either. And then he took Clay Holmes,

who has been lights out for the Yankees. So a two home run game from Alejandro Kirk, the catcher, if you have no idea and you haven't been with us through this, Alejandro Kirk is listed 58-265. We looked up the scoff. Trevor laughed at that. We looked up his scouting report one day. We were so excited about our short, thick king.

And what was the line, Jimmy, that like some people break the mold? Yeah. Like that was in his scouting report. And Trev, we got nothing. You know why. Somehow this guy's good. You know why that was in his scouting report? In 56 major league games, he's hitting 288, 354, a 506 slug, an 861 OPS.

His minor league numbers, he's got a 900 OPS in his minor league career. Like, this guy has just done it at every level because he's probably honest to God, five, six and a half, two 80. People haven't known what to do with him. But he's breaking the mold. My short king is going to be hitting eighth or ninth in that lineup, and he's a hitter that should a fear you. And I'm absolutely in love with this man.

And he just put Garikol in his book. So two homer game from Kirk. You know who else is in his book from earlier this season? Who else is in his book? Corey Klobber. Clubot. His book is eight guys. deep. One of them's Klob or one of them's

Cole. That's pretty cool. It's not bad. Also, of his eight members of his book, four of them are Yankees. So that sucks. Kirk, I'm trying to like you and I hate you. Well, I don't at first I didn't know like how to

think about Alejandro because in my head I was like, is he a party trick? I don't want, I don't mean, I don't want to be mean to like La Tortuga in Minnesota. He's had some good runs here and there, but I don't think he's like a long-term solution. But Alejandro Kirk is like a long-term solution, it seems like.

He's just hit everywhere he goes. And is he a good catcher? I don't know. I've never even seen him catch. The only highlights I've seen are him hitting. He can do that. Nothing gets by him. Can't get it past him if you wanted to.

Like, I need to see him throw the ball. He's bad at really high. He's bad at really high fastballs. It's a reach joke. There's a reach joke. It was a short joke. He's 22, by the way. This isn't like a 27-year-old that he's getting his chat.

He's 22. The Blue Jays believe in this dude. I also love that his full name is Alejandro Kirk. No middle name. I'm not messing around with a freaking middle name. Yeah. This is my name. No middle initial.

Fuck out of here with that. F-O-H. He doesn't catch a lot of runners, Travis, so far. He hasn't flashed the. arm yet so far. Okay. But he's only allowed two pass balls because you mean you're just not going to get it by him. Trevor is...

21 stolen bases, three caught stealing. Trevor, another thing you like to track in his professional career, this is a... I think this is just an old, the scouting report before this season. 89 walks, 60Ks. Like every box you would check for a prospect, if you took height and weight out, you'd be like, this guy is it. but that's like the player a player B thing listing the stats yes yeah I love that I love that yes my king all right nice award a nice performance thank you really good job good job everyone

all right see you guys a little bit okay oh wow bye trev let's get let's get sad let's get sad We have some guys on slump watch. We had two Yankees. Let's see if we help those guys out. Gallo and Judge. Dansby Swanson was on slump watch. Max Moncksey, the funky Moncee, was on slump watch. And Paul Goldschmidt was on Slump Watch.

BD, who are the five potential ads? Five potential ads. One of them is Cody Bellinger, who looked like you was turning it around at the beginning of August-ish. I remember Jake and I discussed that in Waken Jake ads. but he went 0 for 14 with 2Ks this week. Max Kepler, 0 for 10, 2 walks, 3Ks. Harrison Bader, O for 10, a walk and a strikeout. Glaver Torres slumping on both sides of the ball.

O for 8, a walk, 4Ks against the Blue Jays. Bench 2 games in there. And Treves guy, Lars Neutbar, 04 8 with a walk in 3Ks. What the heck, Lars, dude. Lars Neutbar. Let's put the Yankees on as a team. Same way we did for the Padres. Yes, dude.

Let's go. We did that. We did it for the Padres, so... Yeah. They're all... They're all slumping. No one's gotten a hit in two years. Should we do all Yankees but not Luke Voight?

Like, does that count? Let's do the Yankees. We're trying to keep them united. Just say the Yankees. They need to unite over something. Max Monty gets claps. Let's go. Surprisingly, no...

walks, but four for 13 with a homer and a double. So that's a 308 batting average 615 slug. And then Paul Goldie, he went shame to flame. He gets big old claps. Let's go. You're excited about that one. Love Goldie. Five for 11 with a walk.

Almost for the opposite reasons of Alejandro Kirk. I love Goldie. Yeah, I like him too. Yeah. King Boar. King of the Boar. King of the Boar. The scouting report loved his.

build. Yes. Like 6, 4, 235. This is your ideal power hitting first base. It said driven on there. Oh. Because whenever someone's really good at something, but also a silent person, they just say, oh, he must be really driven.

Focused. Focused. Focused. Focused. Focused. Constantly. Constantly. But they said driven.

But yeah, King of the Boar, for sure. And we do say that lovingly. Cody Bellinger, O414. Let's throw him on there. Max Kepler, Bader, Lars. Let's take Danzy off. I didn't get it. Two.

Yeah, 333 on base percentage. I think if we leave him on, he'll be ready to come off with claps. So I'm open to leaving them. Well, who don't you like then from Bellinger, Kepler, Bader, Newt Bar? Newt Bar feels weird. Bader and Newt Bar feels like we should pick one. Newt Bar is like a rookie. It's just the most fun name in the majors right now.

Sorry, Lars. You're done. So the Yankees, Danes, Dansby, Cody, Max Harry. Yep. The gang. Get to it. All right, Trev's back and ready to go. Let's get it.

Nasty's on Fuego. That means I'm on fire, baby. Like Wago. Nelson Cruz. Three bombs. Simeon, three bombs. Hap, three bombs. Nelson had eight hits as well.

They've been waiting for him to go. too. If he gets going, watch out. Yeah, if you're not already watching out for the race. But, you know, Nelson Cruz for them was kind of a big thing. That's not their typical guy. D.H. Nelson Cruz, he was kind of struggling. If he gets hot, man. Watch it.

God. Galee. Yeah. Braggman, 5 for 10 with two homers. Pete Alonzo, three homer club. Good for him. He's 6 for 16. Kyle Tucker, little able. Blin connection. He has a triple and three doubles with two walks. Hunter Renfro, six for 12, Homer, two doubles, four BIs.

Tyler O'Neill, Jake's dude, five for 14 with two homers and two doubles. Got hit by a pitch as well. Love that. And McGee Cab? Jump. Seven for eight with two doubles? Love that, Maggie. What?

Keep hitting, man. What's his like number? numbers look like. Can't be good. Even if I do, like, last month? I bet, like, average. I don't know. This sucks, man.

It sucks that he's locked into such a big contract. Because do you think, I don't know his personality, but it sucks to see how much these are going to drag down his career numbers. If he plays three more years like this. 104 OPS Plus. Yeah. This year? Yeah.

It looks like you. You might be able to finagle a hot streak here in the last couple games. Yeah, for sure. In his last 29 games, he's got a 293 batting average in an 864 OPS. Okay. Wait, hold on, hold on. I can even extrapolate this much more. He can extrapolate it.

Oh, shit. Are we having a big second half? Is that what you're telling me? Oh, shit. Dude, Miggie's been crushing it since June 1st. Let's go. Why did no one tell me? June 1st?

So last 75 games, you got a 300 batting average and an 826 OPS. Let's go. Yeah, he had a bad April May. Dude, from May 7th, since from May 7th, last 95 games for Mickey Cab's 289 batting average 351 on base. Slugging's not great, but. Good job, McGee. He's got three more years, right?

Yeah, something like that. couple two tree. It's going to be interesting. It's going to have a nice basement when it's all set and done, though. Yeah. I mean, from 2003 to 2018, 15 years, his career numbers were 316, 395, 551, 946, 151 OPS plus. 19 through now, all those numbers drop so significantly. If he does two more years of this, like how bad does his.

career numbers get that's kind of it's the baseball conundrum yeah he just got 500 homers that's cool people love that counting numbers will we get better the averages will get down okay guys okay let's let's just do it give me cabrera career earnings to date to date to date god it's like 250 i was gonna say i was gonna say 300 but i think i was doing i was doing total. But I'll do 300 to date. Maybe it's going to be $350 total. $336 million to date.

He is still owed $64 million. That's guaranteed money. Then he has vesting options, which aren't going to vest because he has to be in top 10 in the MVP voting. But, I mean, there's a chance that he has 60 more on top. that coming. What's in his basement? He's guaranteed, Jake,

to hit $400 million in career earnings. What is in his basement? Hmm. I could see him having a really nice garden. It's really nice. Like, if he wants a pineapple, he doesn't go to the store and get a pineapple.

He has, like, a pineapple tree, and he has a fresh pineapple off the tree. What? Yeah. Okay. I'm thinking he's got a guy that's that good at something. Yeah. Likes to admire somebody else that's really good at something.

I think he's got like some soccer memorabilia or something like that. A different sport. Could be basketball. That's a great call, Trev. It's definitely a sport he doesn't love. Like he could have a fucking Gretzky shrine. He's just like, well, he's the best. He's the best.

I like that. Any lean, Jim? I think he's a big Virat Coley fan. Excuse me? Is that what I said? Virat Coley? Yeah. Is that a musician?

No. Mountain? It's not a mountain, no. Okay. Good guess, though. That is a good guess. That's nice. I was like, is it a mountain?

No. he has definitely a great like sound system in his basement like there's no doubt in my mind they're cranking the music of the subwoofer's banging one of those type of things yeah vireat coli's like the best uh he's the best cricketer in india and he's kind of the bad boy of cricket and he has big time sergio romo vibes on the mount and in the game. Mm. Like, he's got big time when Sergio Romo's all like, you know, little dude fidgety talking shit, confidence out the wazoo. That's, uh, Virac Colo's got big time Sergio Romo vibes. That's huge.

I wonder how tall he is. He's got to be a little guy. But yeah, Mickey Cabs loves him some Virac Holy. That's for sure. He doesn't, he knows it's not a mountain. All right. All right. You guys ready for regular old wall?

You know the words. Bump, bum, bum, bum, boom, boom, boom, prestige. We have one more award that's going to, it's just talking giants. Football started. Yeah. Yeah. Treve, you, do you watch the game last night? I caught the second half.

Okay. We, uh, a lot of fun to watch. We kind of screwed the pooch a little bit. Um, this was actually really funny. Go check out talking giants. Bobby Skinner, Justin Pennick. They're also doing kind of all of football now, too. Bobby's really good with O lines.

They're, they're in it. There are a lot of stuff we did in our early days. They are on a similar path. Good entertainment, good fun. Go check them out. Travis, so we record talking Yanks last night. It's a sad, a lot of emotions, a lot of influences. You know, we're wrestling Wi-Fi.

So we finished the episode and we were scrolling Twitter and we misread a tweet that was like it was about Zerline winning the game for the Cowboys. And we were like, damn. basically sitting in silence after our sad episode. And then I had a couple texts come on my phone that were sports gambler texts. Like, you got to get that extra yard. You got to get that. And I was like, wait.

Look it up. They're on that final drive to win the game. And we were just sitting in silence. On this couch. The TV is right there. We could have been like even had our heads turn and watch it. Like we could have watched the best part of the game. We were like, oh, wait, let's go watch it.

We sat on the couch and saw the kick and the win. Turn it on. Field goal kick. I feel bad because I tell BBD who was producing his ass off. I'm like, hey, field goal kick for the win. BBD got up to look at the kick. The kick already happened. I didn't tell him pre-kick.

So then I felt bad. Good start for the NFL. Go check out Bobby Skinner, Panic, talking football, talking giants. Yeah, they're going to be doing a lot of talking football stuff and try to expand. They're really good. So go check them out. All right, Treve, you get to go first. You have an award.

It's big time. it's real deal perk up your ears people yeah it's a it's actually a kind of a sad award but i want to turn it into a celebration award so that's what i'm going to call it celebration award and it goes to my guy stephen vote uh traded over to atlanta from jake snakes hasn't had the best time there yet uh but last night two home runs puts the braves ahead and then at the end of the game seems like he suffers a pretty significant injury. I read up on it today. They're calling it hip inflammation. It looked a little bit different than that. But Steve is walking off the field. There was tears in his eyes. It almost was like he was thinking about this could be the last time

I'm on a big league baseball field. Like that's what it looked like to me. I have no info if he's going to try to play again next year or if he's going to even, he might be back this year. But it sure seemed like it was significant last night. And he, the look on his face really, really got to me. So I want to celebrate Stephen, and I want to tell him, no matter what happens, it's not going to be your last time on a big league baseball field. This guy is going to go on to do whatever he wants. You can talk about his baseball career, two-time All-Star, you know, a big part of a lot of really good A's teams. He's got a great story.

Started his professional career, I think 0 for 32, you know, not a prospect type guy, a real grinder. coming over from Tampa to Oakland, but established himself, you know, made some good money. He's one of the most beloved figures in the game. So whether it's he plays again next year or this year, or if he wants to be a manager, guess what? That dude's going to be a manager. If he wants to go and be a pundit, you know, be a talking head. He can do that wherever he wants.

Steve is going to be around the game for a long time. So I know last night the tears were there for you, Steve, but. Bro, baseball is not done with you yet. He's so good for the game, and I can't wait to see. I hope he's okay. Hope he comes back this year. Hope he plays again next year. It plays as long as he wants.

But baseball is better with Stephen voting. He's going to be around for a long time. So snaps for Steven. I want to send him just positive vibes. That's really all I wanted to do. Love that, true. Sad look in his eyes, man. Went to a wedding with him once.

That's right. Yeah. He has a wedding bros. Yeah. I do, he was, he was a classic case. You said he started his career 0 for 32 or something like that. It was over two seasons. So in 2012, he got called up, I mean in April and then they gave him some run

and then he didn't come back and then he got back in September, blah, blah, blah, blah. He went 0.427, played appearances, 0.25. And then the next year, he was doing the same thing. And then finally, Jake and I talk about this a lot. once you get to 0 for 20 in your career, you're going to hit a home run your first hit. Like it's just kind of how that happens. It happened with Higashioca, and we called that,

happened a bunch of places. His first hit was an 02 homer off Joe Kelly. So it's just if you're going to go start your career and go like 0 for 20 to 30, then as long as your first hits a home run, no, the story becomes first big league hit was a home run, and no one cares how long it takes. you to get that. So that's how you rewrite the start of your career. Good job by vote. He's such a good dude. Such a good dude. And is there anybody else in baseball that had a fan

section actually have like a cheer for him? Like who else has that? The I believe in Stephen vote thing is incredible. I can't think of anybody else. It's kind of a perfect storm, him in Oakland. Yeah, I guess like, you know, because a lot of people just get their name chanted. Yeah. I wonder Braves fans reach out. I, Foolish Bailey, mad at me. I would rather not talk about that right now. He's mad at you? You know, we're working through stuff. And, you know, we've got Ashland, Moylan. I wonder, are Braves fans enjoying this? Because they, you know, they've had a little division lead for a while now. And it has the makings of a team you look at and you have a lot of fun memories. Like, I know Braves, you'd rather see Ronnie out there and you guys wanted war. World Series, the goals changed a little bit.

But, like, there's going to be a day when Braves fans look back in three years and they're like, oh, yeah, like, Jock was out there doing it, Stephen Voip. You know, his young thick's breakout year, I know they were feeling the baseball emotions yesterday in an absolutely crazy game. You know, old man Charlie Morton just dropping dick on everyone. I hope Braves fans are enjoying what this season has become. Yeah, could they spin that to Yankees fans and say the same thing? Not really because the Braves are lead in the NL East.

That's true. The division's there. Okay, good stuff. I like that you call him Foolish Bailey. Yeah. I mix it. Why is he mad at you? Because Jake's a liar.

He actually said that he's only going to watch Sequence now. Yeah. That's going to be his only show he watches on John Boy Media because it's the only show with integrity. Makes sense. Add. Yeah. My award is the Enter the Debate.

Award. Oh. Enter the debates. Enter the debates award. Hmm. People aren't even aware. I saw some scuttle butt around about it on the Twitter today. There's a little scuttlebot.

Like it started this morning, though. We may be looking at Trev the best trade deadline acquisition in the history of baseball statistically right now. The Dodgers have won every single Max Scherzer start. Every single Max Scherzer start. since he's been traded to the Dodgers. They've won every start. Started seven games on those days. The Dodgers have won all seven games.

In those seven games, he has a 105 ERA, a 132 FIP. He has opponents against him in those seven games. He has a 177 batting average of 212 on base, a 253 slugging, and he's now just completely entered his name into the Syung conversation with a 2-28 ERA, which is the lowest in baseball. Like if there's an article in 10 years,

well, we're the best trade deadline acquisitions, the way this is being written, he's going to be in that article. And I can't believe he's fully entered the Cy Young conversation now. So Max Scher wins, enter the debate award. What a career. He is in. Same.

First ballot Hall of Famer. Like he's a guy that like he just, he's just been that guy. Like his entire career, like, oh, that's fucking mad Max Scherzer. You don't want to face him ever. It took a couple years to fully click. I mean, his age 28 season on, which, you know, he's 36 now. And by the way, he might win another sigh. Like, this guy is out of control.

and he got the Nats ring if that's some men stuff for you I know people surprisingly don't care about it anymore I guess it's a personal accolades part of the show but he could have Forsy Young's ring all of it he's unreal that's a stat page we faced Mad Max he was I believe on a team U.S.

say thing and I was in the Arizona Fall League and they were doing some warm up thing so they played against our team and I saw Max Scherzer pitch I don't think I faced it I might have trying to block that for my memory all the times I faced him but when I remember him pitching and I remember being like holy fuck like who is this dude

he just throws the ball different like you kind of when Mad Max throws the ball it's all effort there's no he doesn't look like it's smooth they're like, hey, like it's easy. Like, it's just so much effort. And like I said, that's just been his MO this entire time, man. Yeah. We won't bring up your stats against him.

He's a very good picture. I know it's really good. One for 17. You know that off the, just off the top of your head? Treve, let's delete things that don't make you happy from the top of your head. I don't mind this one. Like, if I did that against him, there's a guy to have that money. Kind of an honor that you even, like, faced him 17.

time situation? No, we're in the same division, so it was tough. I just, he was. You got an RBI off him. Give me that slide ball a lot. Blume me up with heat or, I mean, that was tough. Single was a line drive. Sure was.

Walked you the first time. I think my only RBI was a set fly. Jim, note that is, no how he said votes first hit as a homer. Treve says, yeah, I got a hit off Sherser. Oh, yeah. You don't say about all the non-hits. I don't say that. That's so cool.

There's an impressive part of it. Only $221 million in his career. He's about to get a couple more paydays, Trev. Yeah, I wonder what he gets. You get one year full money. You get two year still pretty full money. You can do what he wants. Do you think he owns a pair of designer shoes?

Oh, no. Or do you think he's like Kohan? Scher. Scherzer. Like dress shoes? Yeah, like a pair of designer shoes. Like, we're talking Louis, Gucci. He's married.

I have one pair. He's married. He's got one pair. That's a good call. Yeah. His wife got him for it and he says, these are what you wear when it's nice. And there's been a lot of times when he's like,

do I got to wear the nice shoes? And she's like, no. And he's like, okay, great. See, I disagree there. I think she tried the nice shoes earlier in his career. He immediately shot them down. She said, I'm never going back there. He hasn't worn them yet.

But he has a. designer pair of dress shoes that are his eye colors. Oh, wow. That he hasn't busted out yet. Yeah. What I was, those are going to be badass. I was describing just my relationship with shoes and my wife and mom when I was

growing up. A lot of shurs are comps for me lately. Yeah. He's got a pair of black shoes, a black dress shoes that, like, he can wear at all time. So when his wife does say, honey, put your good shoes on. Like, they just go with everything. But like I think about an outfit.

I have the price tag on those shoes, shoes under 150. Oh, no. I think he's got one pair of nice. Okay. When do you think the last time Scherzer bought himself shoes was? Who. Early on in the big league career. Everyone, I think, gets a nice pair of shoes early on.

For themselves? I think, I think Max is like, these aren't that comfortable. Let me get Kohans and run it. Foot doesn't like these. Good for him. Or a shoe pod. I mean, just describing my relationship. I haven't bought myself a pair of shoes.

Maybe ever. Like, ever's in play. I wear the same pair of shoes until my wife or my mom say, I bought you these shoes because yours are gross. And I say, mine are gross. And they say, yeah, they're disgusting. You've been embarrassing us. And then I say, oh, what are the new ones?

And then I put those on. Oh, I tried to buy myself a pair of shoes once. Yeah. Talking Yanks. And then my wife and my mom both saw them and instantly said, My mom said, give me those, I'll return. I'm going to get your new ones. What were they?

I don't know. So, I mean, I'm kind of like car blind and shoe blind. Like, I just don't see differences. Yeah. You know, I could tell you probably they were gray and they were my size. I will say this about a nice pair of shoes. Okay. Especially dress shoes.

They do last. That's huge. I'm not a fair gama guy. Yeah. I've worn my farragamas. for 10 plus years. They look great. That's awesome.

It's huge. Who's the, Jake, what's your award? Wow. We'll do the best friend of the week after my award. Fellas. A lot of talk about my physique. We had a good laugh session this week going through some of my body comments

that show up in different videos. So I'm giving out the low-carb award. Nice. Trev, someone said my body looked like, like a stackable washer and dryer. You took that as a compliment. Yes. He really did.

He loved it. For me, that's a win. He laughed really hard. At this point, that's a win for me. I mean, Olivia said Jake looks like he works out. So you're like...

That's kind of where I want to land. Like, it doesn't look great, but he's trying. For me, I think it's like Jake looks like he goes to the gym. I have no idea what he does there. I think it's...

My body looks pretty close to what happens. Like enjoys working out and being active, eats like absolute dog shit. Anyways, so I'm giving out the low carb award. You know, that usually has the biggest effect on me. If I'm, you know, heavy carbs, pizza, bagels, all that stuff. I'll feel it. What's been your snack of choice recently? Granola.

I've been shoving granola down my pie hole. So maybe for this playoff run to tighten it up a little bit, I might go low carb. And, fellas, one of the best low-carb diets out there is the Atkins diet. And there's another team that's on the Atkins diet. It's the Toronto Blue Jays. Their general manager, Ross Atkins, deserves so much credit for what he's built in the Great North. He's been there since 2015. He's been with Shapiro.

Shapiro's got promoted to that, like King of Baseball Roll or whatever. And Atkins has been the general manager. You guys know all the homegrown product, which they deserve love for. You know the flat Ito breakout, who by the way, Atkins died himself. You know, Bo Bichet, those guys. BGio's been out most this year. We'll see if he gets involved in the mix again. Think about the moves that they've made and their direct impact.

You know, they overpaid for Ryu. They gave him an extra year. That was risky. And he's been a main part of their staff going forward. They make the Barrios trade. He's part of that staff now. Stephen Matt's, Trev, you were the only guy in on him. So is Ross Atkins.

Now they're getting five. Every start. Manoa was a draft pick in 2019. They went out. They got Trevor Richards. They got Soria, who have been big pieces in their bullpen recently. Man, the way this roster is built right now, there are a lot of, like, instant point and shoot.

like, wow, you pretty much won that match trade. You got a full season of starting pitching out of him. Bang. Ryu, George Springer, who is their biggest signing, who they, again, kind of had to overpay for due to Canadian taxes and guys being a little hesitant of moving their life up there. He hasn't really been there this year. And guess what?

If he's back, my God, because he's one of the best players in baseball. I am drinking the Blue Jay Kool-Kool-Aid. this isn't a team you want to run into. And, you know, I think if we went back to their TPP and we said like, what's the Blue Jays, best case, best case, best case? It's the young guys breaking out. And it was like Nate Pearson having a breakout year.

Guess what? He hasn't been a part of it. It was like Ryu if he's in the Cy Young race. He's not. Robbie Ray is the guy that they signed really early on in Free Agency. They have a. assembled the squad.

Yes, Vlad, you know, jumping to MVP is a huge part of it and him being in their farm and top prospect, blah, blah, blah. The guys have to do it on the field, but, man, Adam Simber in the bullpen. They have made a lot of strategic moves you can point to for this year that have put themselves in an incredible position. So shout out. Jake's for the birds. Always has been.

It's going to be big time. The birds, baby. Singing the Orioles praises next step. Fingers crossed. Shout out to the iTunes diet. I have been looking for Max Scherzer in street clothes. It's very difficult to find pictures on the year. Mm-hmm.

What was the Max Scher's, baby? What was the Max Scher's story? He was running before the World Series game right outside the stadium. Saved alive. After he missed the start before because he was hurt or something. Oh, yeah, they pushed him or something like that. They pushed him a day. didn't know if he'd be able to start the next day,

and then people saw him just running laps around the stadium. It was his back. Kind of the alpha and the omega. Mind games? Always on mind games? I need to know more about Max Scherzer. I need to start asking questions. Okay.

Best friend? Good awards? The best of friends. It's the in half again. God, man. Let's go. The back-to-back winner, he takes the lead amongst hitters. You won five for 12, three homers, five, ribbyes. this week.

He's insane. He's so hot right now. Keep going, Happen. You can go back pretty far if you want Butterknife those stats. I found one picture of Max Scherzer and Street Clothes from an All-Star game and he's wearing what looks like a Target store

camo, polo shirt and jeans that were, like it was a package deal. Like he might have taken this off a mannequin at Target. What is that shirt he's wearing? What did you Google to find that? What did you Google? So I figured my best chance in saying Max Scher's in street clothes was Max Scherzer's

All-Star Game. And yeah, I think he's with Dave Roberts there. Oh, it's a camo shirt. It's camouflage. It's a camo polo shirt. A camouflage polo shirt. You can't buy that at anywhere not. You know what?

You know what? This does tell me. What? He does pick out his own clothes sometimes. Yeah, sure does. Zero chance. His wife bought him that shirt. I mean, his wife saw this picture hit the internet,

and when he came back from the trip, she threw that shirt out. I mean, there's no doubt about it. She was heartbroken. She threw that. She was like, this is. She packed him an outfit for that, and he went with that. And he wore this. My dad used to have this Australian rugby collar shirt that he would wear a lot.

And one day my mom just threw it out because she was like, I told you you're not allowed to wear that in public anymore. And my dad was like, he didn't know. so yeah that shirt i mean sorry but shersersers wife threw that out as soon as you got back from the all-star game she begged him he definitely but he definitely buys his own clothes i had a picture up here it's a lecost like track jacket what you google to find it i just googled uh max scherzer dress shoes okay i needed to see he has the lecos jacket it's a zip up just down enough so we can see the shirt underneath it, it's a Batman shirt.

So that's definitely another target. You know, Target has like Batman Marvel stuff, all that good stuff. Yeah. No offense. I mean, no offense anyone that shops at Target. I shop at Target all the time. Yeah, no, it's just good to know that shares are, I mean, we've confirmed it. He buys his own clothes.

And that's good for him. I'm happy about it. I don't buy my own clothes. Unless I make it myself. Like on my John Boy Media at Sunshirt. It's elevator talk Yeah we can do it for sure It's something we got to do

And we're going to do it MLB teams I was just stalling so I can get the Here we go Texas Rangers but BPDs BBD because it's the Texas Rangers We will absolutely exit that elevator Not step foot inside of it And instead let's get our stimulation

Oh, yes. Oh, my God. Yes. Hell yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Let's stimulate the postseason playoff race. It's the stimulation stimulator, whatever we call it.

I'm trying to get the standings up, so I'm stalling. Um, what the hell? I don't know where the tap went that I read these off, and I'm going to find it eventually. All right. The American League Wildcalf. card game is the Yankees going to Boston to face the Red Sox? How about them apples? BVD, who wins that?

Yankees won nothing. Holy smokes. Sorry, Boston. Good try. We have White Sox in Houston again. Houston. Wow, good job for Houston. That would mean that the White Tampa versus the Yankees and the ALDS.

Tampa. Houston versus Tampa. Houston. Wow. Houston. Houston's going to the World Series? Damn. In the National League and the wild card, you have.

Who is it right now? It's the Dodgers and the Padres? Dodgers. Dodgers then would travel to San Fran to play the Giants. The Giants. Yeah, they're unbeatable. The Brewers and the Braves. Battle of the BRs.

Brewers. Okay. Milwaukee versus San Francisco Giants. It is the Giants. So that would mean the World Series is the Astros versus the San Francisco Giants.

A matchup that I have not thought about. It's kind of weird one. Astros versus Giants. A lot of orange involved. A lot of orange involved. Yeah. Who went to the worst?

It's not just going to be pleasing. Giants. The Giants. Wow. Sounds like B.B.D. Listen to the last episode where I let let everyone know what would have happened. And in important news, that is the first time the San Francisco Giants have won.

Wow. The stimulator simulator. So hats off to them because that's just big news. That's huge news. Jake, I'm disappointed in you. Swear? This is your time to get naughty on camera. I know with the couch scene.

I'm putting out Jam fires Elthor, man. I'm never. I'm always going, man. I wish I was. You want me to show some butt? Actually, I showed some butt. Was that last talking baseball? And BBD had to spend time covering it up for YouTube.

There's just a little too much crack involved. Yeah. So I'm sorry. I think we're safe with cheek. That's on me. It's on Jake. Oh, you're a Rangers fan in the elevator? I'll take the stairs.

Yeah, take the stairs. Taylor Hurons, awesome. Sets.