Talkin' Baseball (MLB Podcast) - 390 | Mets Kill the Yankees, Dodgers Sweep the Padres, Cardinals are Back, & Brewers Throw a No-no

Episode Date: September 13, 2021

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Hello and welcome to talking baseball. What a weekend it was. We had a no hitter. We almost had a perfect game. 3,000 strikeouts, Yankees out of the playoffs. Mets talking crap. Let's do it. Hello and welcome to talking baseball brought to you by Draft Kings.

Thank you very much for joining us on this Monday morning or afternoon to discuss what happened in the weekend of baseball. My name is Jimmy. Sit next to me is Jake. We got Trev coming to us from California. and BPD Producing away In the corner

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Jake how are you doing James Trevor BBD Everyone live in the chat What's going on? Baseball Just Caliente in Los Galles Like you said I mean sure's daddy

Dropping it My guy Corbin Burns Poppy Gordo Getting the social media clips ready for that And dude I had a wild night Last night I went to Went to the Rams game

Was sitting in the suite Me and my guy Matthew Stafford He doesn't like to be called Matt And We got kind of lit in nameless chap. Oh, we, we, you, me, Jimmy, BPD,

we went to the Mets Yankees game, just watch the Yankees get their hearts stomped on again. Trev, I was doing a joke about something you did. Yeah, I was the one at the Ram. Oh, the plot twist. It was you. You guys would know that because I was FaceTiming you guys. Yeah, I got some screenshots.

I was trying to connect. connect your list I told you said don't take screenshots I don't like that we're trying to connect my two worlds yeah via FaceTime and you guys were you know you guys were humoring me a little bit tough angle you like that one yeah it's a happy trav right there I was happy last like we started we started doing silly you know there's a middle finger two might have came out am I allowed to show nameless or should sure there Hot. Namedous Jeff Reveal. Heffy, baby. That's my guy. What about the two couples and your Egyptian goddess?

Like, I was getting ready to give you the middle finger or so show some butt. And then you showed your beautiful wife. And I was like, well, I can't do that anymore. Hot. Delete that right now. Delete that right now. Who's this guy? Do you have fun for Stafford's dad?

I don't know who that guy was. Okay. Didn't make interesting. That might have been a different suite. I'm saying that's a good time. Probably Stafford's dad. SoFi stadium's crazy. It's nice.

It's beautiful. What's it called? Game is great. So far. What's that short for? I think that's a company, Jim. It's not like a... The company might be sure for something.

Social fidelity. Social fidelity. This is a baseball pod. Social finance. Social finance. Yeah. Baseball was hot in the streets. I can't wait to hear you guys.

talk about some of the stuff that went on. I have been digging deep in the film, um, from Saturday's games, trying to figure out if you guys had a tell on Walker. I couldn't find anything, but it sure seemed like they did. I was up to while I slept at the office last night, showered here, wearing clothes that were just on the giveaway rack.

Um, and I was up. I have all the pitches from the second inning. If anyone doesn't know what we're talking about, Metz said the Yankees were tipping pitches. I have all the pitches from the second inning labeled fastball off speed. And then I was putting him side by side. There's whistles on off speed pitches and there's whistles on fastballs.

And it stops when Wondi Peralta goes to the bullpen. And then when he pitches and comes back, it's there again. They said Wondi just whistles all game. Yeah. But yeah, I was lining him up. I had the pitcher. I had Walker overlaid. And I was going to send it.

I couldn't tell a damn thing. Yeah, you know, and it's interesting because he was, it wasn't just out of the stretch. Like it was out of the stretch. He was in the wind up. So let me to believe that maybe McCann was doing something because they were like Higashioka's Homer that pitch at his neck. Yeah.

Like he was ready for a heater right there. And it seemed like DJ was ready for that slider three, two. But they also swung at, they swung and missed at some in that inning as well. Yeah, but it just seemed like they were. You could sometimes you just get that feeling. You could tell by like their demeanor at the plate. I mean, it makes sense. After the mound visit with Villarre, he was, well, he gave one more home run.

Denny was good. So it all adds up. But, yeah, I'm trying to make the breakdowns. It's going to take forever. Yeah. But I was also deep in it trying to figure it out. I could not. That's what we do here.

James, how was your baby shower? Hmm. It was good. What's that mean? Shower. It was showering. I mean, it was nice. It was a nice little backyard party.

My sister did a really, and her husband did a really good job setting up the backyard. We didn't like do any baby to shower stuff. Oh, I beat her in the diaper changing race. Blindfold. Blindfold, blindfold diaper. And boy, was I being difficult. Yeah. Yeah.

Yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Some said I would have killed the baby if it was a real baby. There was some moves. There were some alternate moves. the baby. You don't know what I see it. I changed the diaper quicker than her, so. Dang. Other than that, it was good.

On the scoreboard hot dog one. Yeah, on the scoreboard hot dog one. Oh, gosh. People forget. That's real. On the scoreboard hot dog one. Yeah. J.P. Crawford. Or J.P. Crawford Pod. Let's get into it. Should we just talk about some of these baseball games and their importance and what it means?

Which one of you? Talk about individual players a little later on. Which one of you, Bozos has the N. Come on. Is Zaddy leading off? You got it, big guy? Nerves a shit. You have the NL? Yeah.

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I don't know what you're talking about. This is my NFT. It's a Joms. Shout out to T. Trey. You're going to stay away from this. I think you get a picture of me holding it as well as it. I think a phrase I want to start saying is that's the tops.

You don't want this, Treve? Is that on the blockchain? Jane? No, not yet. How would you send that to Treve? I just told him. I'd send him the physical thing and a picture of me holding it. Okay. Signed. Okay.

We had some takers. We had some... Okay. In your fucking face, Jake and BBD? Just broke it. Yeah. No, I didn't. Just broke it. There's a pillow.

No, well, the chips are part of it. There's no pillow in this office. There's a pillow in the office. There's a pillow in the office. In this room. Oh, well, this is a room. This is a room in the office. Well, there's offices and offices.

an orifices. That's the tops. I start saying that. I have a buddy who talks in slang like that. Like he used to say like that car's cherry and I'd be like to shut off. Yeah. Like why would you? Cherry,

I kind of like that. It's such a Cali thing. He used to say tits and cherry. I've never said cherry in my life, but I might. You said cherry in your life. I don't know. I'm just not cool enough to say phrases like that. He would drop tits and cherry all the time.

And I'd be like, why talking like that? Oh, like tits. Like, oh, that thing's tits. Yeah. Yeah. Like, you know, or that's mint. Mint is a guess, okay, or the cherry. You know, I say awesome and that's all I say.

I'm going to say that's the tops when you're talking about like, just like life is good. Like Trev says, yeah, you know, spent the week barbecued and spent the day at the pool with my family. I'm like, oh, that's the tops, man. Baby, did you remember what Jake said the first time we all got lunch together two years ago at winter meetings? Can you tell Trev? Oh, I forget what item it was It was a bacon egg and Oh, oh yeah, their bacon egg and sneezes the tits

Yeah Yeah It was So we sat down and Jake said First meal I shared with Jake, I think Yeah Oh, it's bacon egg and sneezes the tits But he didn't say it

He just said it It was so genuine I was like, what? I got my point across I guess I remember the first time I met you I was like, who the fuck is this guy Yeah.

Yeah. Now we're besties. FaceTiming. Hey, let's get into it. Yeah, you just cut off the music. Jake, what happened in the NL? Please tell us. Fellows in the National League, huge series for Trevor's Padres.

They're facing the Dodgers. Oh, no. Padres, what is you doing? Three nothing Dodgers, five, four Dodgers, and then eight nil. they get blanked twice in this series. Padres, you're not the Padres anymore. You're not Slam Diego. You're not the cat's pajamas.

You're not tops. Austin Adams is hitting batters at an unworldly rate. He ties Howard Emkey of the 1922 Tigers for 23 hit by pitches in a season. Kershaw, returning Monday for the Dodgers. Mookie Betts. Homers. Dodgers didn't really hit either but the Padres man

Holy smokes boogity boogiety boogity Jim your Cincinnati Reds the Johnboy Media Cincinnati Reds Jonathan India wearing the same hat Trevor Plouf has in his heads right now heads oh boy Cardinals take two out of three guys you know I've been all about the birds

recently the Cardinals are in the mix they lose the first game as the Red showed good four to to win fortitude. But then Cardinals, 6-4-2-0. Not a lot of offense either way. Aronado three extra base hits, though. Come on, Nolan.

Put the city on your back. St. Louis. They love their baseball. The Cardinals are legitimately in the mix. Jack Flaherty bullpen this week. Whoops. Friend of Trevor Plaus. Philadelphia Phillies.

What is you doing, baby? They lose three out of four to my rocks. Oh my God. Can't play with them. Can't do it. 4-3, 11-2 rocks. They win the first two. Phillies, they win Wheeler Day, but they lose 5'4 on the final game.

What are you doing? Rockies hadn't won a four-game series on the road all year. Phillies, trying to make the playoffs. What is you doing, baby? Hermann Marquez. like him. Good ball player. More people should know him. Giants face the Cubs and the Giants sweep. And that's obvious. The Giants have won seven in a row. Again, just because that's just what they do. Ian Hap is having an incredible stretch. We love him. He's saving his season,

and it kind of times up with when me and Jimmy saw him in Chicago. That's some weird stuff. BPD was there too. Don't know if they kissed. Giant slash 321, 422, 519 as a team. That's pretty good. That's All-Star level as a team. Schwindle keeps going and he's a fun name. Brandon Belt.

How about it? The captain. 11 Giants recorded multiple hits. Think about that. 11. That's a lot. The Braves hosted the Marlins. They take two out of three.

Braves just do enough. And most importantly, they're not the Phillies and the Mets. that's a really good formula to win the NL East this year. Braves, man. Max Fried is doing it. Olympic Eddie Alvarez. He hits his first career homer. That was pretty cool.

Brian Anderson out for the season. I hate that. Little monster, Ozzy Albies. He had a go-ahead home run in the seventh inning of game three to help give the Braves the series. And the Pirates. Take two out of three from the Nats because Cole Tucker is on their team. It's a really simple formula. beautiful, luscious hair.

Stephen Brolt, Chris Rose Rotation. He pitched the first game. They win four, three. Soto did his thing, because he just always does. Oh, Brult went to the IL. Fook me, Fook you. Watched awesome powers the other day. Kevin Newman with some hits.

Pirates win two out of three over the Nationals, and that is what happened in the National League. I'm so close to being at the end. I know you always love this. final stretch. I'm over this final stretch. Talk about Key Bryan's walk off. Do it. Say it. Mention it. You have time. Take Cole Tucker shine. Are you fucking kidding me? They're like best friends. And my weed plant is named after. Great job Jake. I don't want the snaps. You don't want them? No. I was about to give you some. No. Why don't you want the snaps? I thought you did great.

I had my timing lineup. I didn't want to go to the end of the song today. We got to get people out of here. Jim's fainted twice this episode. Yeah. We've had to cover him with his jobs. Because it looks just like him. I think we start. They are little statues. They are little statues of you. But they're crystal. Where do you want to start, Trev?

Reds and cards. One team going the right way. The other team going the wrong way. The Reds had a chance. The Reds had a chance. Padres get swept. Go take some, go take a few games in the wild card. Instead, the cards

do it. And you've been about them, It's been a bird life. How the birds get, they get J-Flare too? It's been a bird life for me recently. It's insane that the Cardinals are in the mix at all. I hate Cardinals, the bird, because they drag cats to my backyard. It is full-blown at this point of the season that the National League is going to have one team that is very much not deserving of a playoff spot.

Oh, my God. I mean, dude, the Padres are a mess. The Reds, it feels like. they've been given a ton of opportunities now. And I mean, the Cardinals, like, Cardinals fans have to be shocked that they are a game out of playing in the playoffs. They haven't even, like, gone on, like, a run or played that great.

I was thinking, like, if I looked at the last 30, maybe I'd see something crazy, they're 17 and 13. The four games over 500 in the last 30. And yet, somehow, here we are. They're one game back. St. Louis, an incredible baseball town. Like, if you had shown their fans this season And they didn't get to look at the standings

I think they'd be like, oh, the Cardinals are in, what, third or fourth place? It's like, well, they might be going to go into the big dance if they win a couple series. Well, they are in third place. They're in third place in division. Right. Well, game back. It's wild. Let's go.

I was watching a Cardinals game. Mm-hmm. And they, home broadcast was showing, and this might have been a little bit ago, but they were showing that they, and they had the same record and were in the same place in the standings as the 2016.

Oh. I'll get that. And I was, uh, baseball's got so many good spins. Yeah. In 2006, after 142 games, they were, had 75 wins.

And it, and after 142 games this season, and they have 73. But I think at one point it was like the same. And then they won. I don't know. They were doing some comparison. So maybe Cardinals fans were just thinking about that.

Like we're not going to connect with the World Series team. Yeah. How many games we got left? Like 20 games? Less than that, right? Games on your phone? Six series if that helps out. 73 plus 69.

We all know. is 142. So the Cardinals would have 20 games left. Wow. I would have just do 162 minus 64. What's that 18? I don't have any idea how many games. I just count it.

One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, ten, eleven, twelve, thirteen, fifteen, fifteen, sixteen, sixteen, eighteen, eighteen. I was correct. For the Phillies. That's Cincinnati. That's Sincere. Since he's got 18 games left. Burns got 20. I didn't really need the exact number of games.

Yes, you did. Trev, three against the Dodgers. The Cardinals have an easier schedule. I'm sick of schedule. We can't be a schedule pod anymore because the Phillies are not taking advantage of their horrible schedule. And it makes me upset. Well, that's just a bad franchise pod. I'm coming for blood today.

Oh, my God. It's Chris Rose's favorite fun fact that the Philadelphia Phillies have the longest playoff drought in the National League. Do they really? Yes. Wow. And it's absurd. I was part of that. I feel bad.

Don't take full responsibility for that. You did your part. How much are you blaming it on Bonifay and Barber? It's just tough. You think Gabe Kapler. Gabe Kapler was still the manager there. It'd be different. We can't do that today.

See, this is the part you don't understand. Gabe was Philly's manager. They'd be under 500. It's just not a fit. Yeah, it's not a fit. Oh, my God. He's not writing pencil to paper there and getting all spiritual. I fucking love him.

Hot. So hot. Yeah, you might have to text backyard Brad and be like, hey, what up with that hot streak? Yeah, I'm going to actually say on baseball day, I said, Backyard Brad, Rally the Boys. Call him eating. Yeah. Yeah, well, they got.

Cubs, Mets, Baltimore Pit. And now they're two and a half back. I mean, those games are important and they still can make a difference, but we're running out of time. Who do you have winning the second wild card right now? Fuck if I know. Look at this mess. Good point. It's a mess, James.

Good point. Okay, so who you going with? Cardinals. Okay, I'm going Reds. Padres. B.B.D. You want to take the Phillies? You want the Mets? Take the Mets

Take the Mets They just got so much Sure They're about to get hot They are hot They are just going to play Like ho-hum baseball And be the second wild card

Because that's what they've been doing They've been sneaking up on everybody The 85 win Cardinals Will be in the wildcard game Against the Dodgers Or the Giants Hey How much

How much Ah Getting too excited I was going to bet a limb Yeah not going to do it. On what? When he found the right bet. On the Dodgers in the wild card game.

Your full Giants Kool-Aid. Oh. The Giants are winning the World Series. Or not winning, but they're in it against the race. They're in it. And the Dodgers will be playing the wild card game, and I bet a limb, they win it. It's a good bet at this point. I was going to say, what do you think the odds are for the Dodgers not to win that wild card game? I mean, Scherzer is going to be sure. You're going to have Scherzer

Unstoppable. And Ureus in your clip. Ready to go. Gonsol. Then the bullpen. What do you? Let me ask you this. Dodgers are,

they're doing it. If they have to go to that wild card game, there's a chance they know that they're going to be in that wild card game. Maybe to last like two days. Maybe even more than them. Maybe they have three days at the end of the season. I freak. We're in the wild card game.

Do you just not pitch your guys? and just say, who cares? Let's go bullpen day or Scherzer. You're going to pitch two innings today. Bueller, you're going to pitch two endings today. Are they going to line up for that game, Urius, Bueller, Scherzer? For the wild card?

Yeah. Now, one of them, at least two of them. How most teams have done it in recent years, it would be like, Scher's game, because you're not going to get too fancy about it in a one game. What if he doesn't line up? Well, they can change. They can line them up.

They have to line it up, right? Yeah, they can, they'll do that. And then you have Bueller on the roster for the wildcard game in case Scherzer gets the shits or, you know, his finger falls off in the shower or something like that. But you only throw Scherzer and you save Bueller for game one, Eureas for game two, and then Scherzer for game three of the DS. And then you sweep the D.S and you reset it. By the way, Kershaw is coming back to me. So maybe he's game. Also, the thing is it's going to be interesting is there's also a chance that they're still going in for the division.

So at that point, you can't line up somebody and you just got to go for the division. At a certain point, you line up Mad Max for that wild card game. And if it happens, cool, if you win the division, cool. I mean, he would be able to, he'd be able to start, what, the first game of their final series and be lined up for the wild card because the NL gets an extra day. Yeah. When did he pitch? He pitched on the 11th. He pitched Saturday.

No, he pitched on... You pitched yesterday. The 12th? Yeah, 12th. So 1, 2, 3, 4. He'd pinch phase go at Sinci on the 18th. 1, 2, 3, 4. He'd go Friday against Arizona.

1, 2, 3, 4. He'd go... He's lined up for it right now, Trev. Okay. So we're not a schedule pod. You know, we've been and Trevor just threw it all out the window. It's the Philly's fault, not my fault. Dodgers are going to my snakes for three in L.A.

You could see a couple wins there. Okay. At Cincinnati and who are the Reds seeing, Bueller, Scherzer, Kershaw. Back against the wall, man. When's Wanker come back? Love Jesse Winker. My Reds got it.

My Reds got it. My Rids got it. Yeah. Winker's starting a rehab assignment on Tuesday. So tomorrow. Get loose. You can play three games. Maybe not even.

At this point, they need them. So just get them, you know, one full, maybe a D.H day, then a game in the field, and then let's go. Okay. Well, Trev, you'll be out here for the wild card games. We're flying out. We're sitting on the recliners with us. Yes. Jake's going to have a special popcorn bucket he requested.

It's all weird. That's the wild card game. What else do we need to talk about like in the? Yeah, talk about the Braves. Okay. Let's do it. Talk about them. No, their best attribute is they're not the Mets or the Phillies.

Yeah. Right now they are four and a half up in the division. With how many games, 20 games, ish? That's pretty locked up, man. We're on pace for the for the. for the NLEs to not have a 90 game winner Yeah That happens sometimes

I mean it's it's a mess though Yeah, you gotta give them credit Acuna They went through the shit this year And they're still gonna win They're still gonna win the NLEs pretty easily And almost everything went as bad as popular Possible

Yeah God Well that's because young thick showed up Young Thick really did Max Fried starting to put together a season even though he's had a weird year a little bit, 4.3 war, second on the team.

Man, go Braves go. Man, freed Morton in a playoff series? Like, Charlie Mott. Don't forget I on. Charlie Mott. It's not going to be an easy out. Second half of the season,

32 and 21 record, 604 win percentage. That's something. Good news on vote. our boy, maybe we talked about him. I think I gave him an award because it looked like he was thinking to himself. That might be the last time I catch. But he's expected to be ready to play within a week.

Love that. It's great. That is good news. I believe. I believe. I believe in lots of things. Do we need to talk about the giants at all? No.

You mentioned they swept. They're really good. The only thing to be said about it. the Giants is they're going to be in the World Series. They're going to win every game and we'll see you come to playoffs. We got us a lot this time period to teams fighting for something. The Giants are just flicking gnats off them as they make their way to the podium. Ooh.

Let me ask you this. Giants, in my opinion, have sneaky big dick energy. Because giants, you think? No, I just, the way they carry themselves. They don't really, like, say anything, but they just go and just hit bomb. I didn't lead the league in homers playing at that field. I have a hot take.

Actually, it's not a hot take. I'll pose it as a question to Giants fans. Who's a player that we don't know that could become America's darling on the team? Because to me, you got a lot of people, but they're not stars. because there are a lot of reclamation projects, and it's a fun group of, like, different people every night,

just doing the damn thing, finding ways to win. Who, you know, you can't count people that have already been America's darling. You can't say Buster. Does Tyro Strata count? Yes. Because he's kind of been my darling. He's been your darling for a while. Having a really nice thing.

I think the answer, when you look at their lineup, there's so many veterans that you know. The only guy, well, Chris Bryan and he can't count. Is Estrada playing every night? Lamont Wade. Treves, Treves Minnesota Twins great.

I think everyone else, if you're a baseball player, you've seen them play. Bell, Posey, Bryant, Crawford, Longoria, Treve, your guy. Wow, long ago. Someone said late night

Lamont, and I love that. Ooh. That's a nice nickname right there. Correction, they lead, the big leagues in homers. Braves have one more homer than them

and then the Blue Jays because they Vladdy has a thousand homers. They have 230 to the Giants 213. So Blue Jays lead the league in homers. Blue Jays. All right. You want to move on to the AO? I think so.

Trevor, are you ready? Good job. Dodgers. Cardinals. Oh. Sounds bad. Science race. What? You're putting your phone by your audio equipment or something? Are you texting Matthew?

Am I clicking? No, it sounded like a alien sex. Yeah. Are you ready for the AL? I'm ready. It's brought to you by Draft Kings. I place some bets on some A.L teams, Trev. I won big.

So much money. I'm rich. Actually, it was an I L series that I bid, but I went to Draft Kings, and I bet on the Yankees over, and then I bet on what was the other one, that Clark Schmidt would not get the win. Because it was his first start coming off, coming back up, put a hundred bucks down, $125,000.

Bet big, the win small, they say. That's an interesting strategy. It paid off, though, huh? Yeah, I just figured I'd get another, I get started with $100. It guaranteed I would have $125 today to bet again. because there was no way he was getting a win. So it was pretty safe.

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I wonder if they have that line. I wonder if they align on that. I don't think he'd take that bet. A hard-fought game. Might be a bad bet. Actually, I would take the no. Yeah. Today.

A one game versus the twins, rain makeup. Minus 600. I don't think it's going to be a hard-fought game. But I don't know if they have that line. I have to go to the draft games. I have to find it. A.L. Trev.

Wow. What happened? Hammer time. And low. Well, the White Sox hosted the Red Sox. A couple socks meeting up, and it looked like the White Sox are finally awaking from their slumber. They've been sleepwalking to the playoffs, if you know what I mean. Four, three White Sox in game one, nine, eight Red Sox in extras, game two.

And the White Sox won two to one on the rubber match because Lance Lynn pitched, and that's obvious. Rodon goes five innings, one earned run for the winning game one. Travis Shaw with the go-ahed RBI single in the 10th end. of game two and Lurie Garcia walk off bomb in game three after the Red Sox tied it up in the top half of the ninth on the Verdugo sack fly white socks it's time to start going baby they take two out of three from the Red Sox moving on I gave the jays of what is you doing baby and they responded they take three of four from the Orioles in a crazy series they hit the shit out of the ball actually both teams Santander go ahead three run homer in the seventh inning of game one and I was like hey blue jays wake it up

Blue jays take the lead with 11 runs in the seventh inning oh that's that's the game three excuse me I messed up blue jays take the lead with a four run seventh any of game two including a springer go ahead to run homer they take the lead in the 11 with 11 in the seventh inning of game three I think they were getting no hit or a perfect game before that. Bichette, Kirk, Simeon, Hernandez all hit bombs in that game three, and then the Blue Jays did it in game four. They scored 10 in the third inning. Burial Jr. hits two home runs, including a grand slam. So Blue Jays taking care of business. They take three or four from the Orioles. Moving on, the Tigers hosted the Rays, and the Tigers won the series. They take two of three from Tampa, ten, four tigers, seven, two Rays, and then eight.

eight seven Tigray's in extras. Scope, go ahead, Grand Slam in the seventh end in game one after Choi go ahead three run double in the top half. In game two, Dietrich ends, pitches four perfect endings in relief for his first career win. And then our guy, Robbie. Robbie Grossman with a walk off walk. Let's do it in the 11th inning of game three. Tigers take two of three from the race, my goodness. Moving on, Rangers.

go to Oakland and they take two of three from the A's. A's what is you? You win baby. Olson did okay. Game one, they win 10-5. He had four RBIs. Then the Rangers win the next two, eight, six, and four-three. Jonah Heim, guess what he did, guys?

Go ahead to run Homer in the eighth inning of game. Two, Rangers take two of three from the A's. Come on. Moving on, the Angels. Go to Houston, the Astros. take two of three from then. Otani got rocked in game one. Six earn runs in three in a third innings. Kyle Tucker, also known as Abraham Lincoln.

Go ahead two run Homer in the fifth inning of game three. Lance did the damn thing because he's got so much moxie and good hair. 10-5 Astros, 4-2 Angels, and then 3-1 Astros. They take two of three from the Angels. Last series, the Royals go into Minnesota. Minnesota and take two of three from my twins. I'd have no energy to what is you doing, baby, the twins. I don't even know.

I don't even know what to say. Ben Intendi with the go-ahead two-run Homer in the 11th inning of game one. Some guy named Kyle Isbel, I like that name. I'm going to look you up now. You have the go-ahead RBI single in the eighth inning of game three. Twins do win the second game nine to two, but both these teams season is gone. It's over. And that's what happened in the AL.

I have 32 seconds left. Yeah, fast forwarded. Thank you, James. Yeah. Yes. Kyle Isbell, huh? Your new guy? Got to look him up.

I got to look him up. If he, if his name is spelled with two L's and an E, it might be pronounced is bowl. Like the sanger, Jason Isbel. He's a California guy. Oh. Once UNLV debuted this year, April 1st. So he's been in the show. Yep.

Had three hits in his first game. Was that like the home opener? April 1st? April 1st. Yeah, opening day. All right. Now we know who you are, Kyle Isbell, and I like you. And I like you.

Jim, what stood out in the American league? Nothing, to be honest. I think the National League and the IL had. all the energy this time around Oakland Are you serious? Did you watch the

freaking blue james? Well, no, that definitely stood out but it's Like, there was crazy shit that happened They scored 24 runs in four endings or something like that Crazy, and you sparked him. I sparked him.

The comeback was very cool. I don't know, I have a long stance, standing stance that I don't care about when a team scores 20 or more runs. boring I don't know man

We have to talk about it It was cool how they It was cool they did it They did it without like it out It was like single single homer Single single homer single single homer But the Blue Jays are the number one wildcard I don't know if they're officially there yet

But they will be there I brought them there Yeah they're gonna host a wild card game And it's gonna be in Toronto And it's gonna be amazing They are tied with the Red Sox But the Red Sox own They're not at full capacity yet.

They're not at full capacity? So it's not going to be amazing, amazing? I don't think so. Hopefully, maybe they'll open it up. I don't know. The Jays are a freight train and they showed it because they actually, they lost the first game of this series. Last episode, I was all Blue Jays.

I was like, you know, they're about to win four really easily. They lose the first game. And it's like, well, ain't that baseball. And then they're about to lose the first game of the doublehead or Rew on the bump. And they just, They just say, no, we are better than you. And, I mean, their lineup on a given day, man. Like Jim said, it was making the rounds on Twitter a little bit.

They had, like, nine straight hitters with Exit Velo's, like, basically 95 plus, just roping the ball all over the field. They are a force to be reckoned with, and the way the Yankees are stumbling and the Red Sox are stumbling, it's hard to imagine the Jay is slipping up and not hosting the Wild Clark game. I was actually mad at them when they started the fight with the Orioles. Rob Uray looking in the dugout, getting mad at somebody for saying On Delay, and it's like, dude, just focus on the freaking game. Like, if they have something on you, then you got to figure out what it is and fix it. That's on you. Can't just tell them to stop. Like, that's not how

it works. So, yeah, they get in an argument. Hyde does his whole thing, yells at them, which I have no problem with Hyde yelling at him. Really? And I don't. Okay. Because I'll tell you why. It is a manager yelling at a player that did, doesn't that feel a little weird? Yeah, but Ray was chirping into their dugout.

Well, he didn't say anything. He just looked at him. He, no, he was saying something. He did the breakdown. He said something right away, didn't he? Hyde said, shut up, DJ because DJ Stewart was yelling on delay. And then I don't know. He looked like he was challenging the dugout, and if you do that, I feel like it's free reign.

This one thing you don't do is look into someone else's dugout and fucking say something. So. Shout out to Jack Capone in the chat. Blue Jays in September, 11 and 1. They're scoring 9.45 runs per 9. Yeah. Their team is hitting at a one dot. They're a monster, man.

They're crazy. Yeah, so they lose that game, though, and I was like, hey, Why would you do that? Why would you wake up this team? And then they won the next three games. So now I'm happy with the J. Yeah. I was about to be real freaking mad at them.

Well, the only bad side of it is that the hitting hit so well that it masks that they didn't pitch well. No, they didn't. Rew, Mats, and Ray all had less than starts against the Orioles. Well, so the offense is the story. I agree. But it does hide a little bit that their three main starters got beat up a little bit by the Orioles. They just did better than what the fucking Blue Jays did, which is amazing. But that's when I saw the 22 game.

I was like, well, the Orioles got seven runs. Who did they get it off? And then I looked and I was like, oh, that's not a great sign. Yeah, Camden Yards. I'm trying to give the Orioles credit. I'm trying to give them credit looking for like some bangers on the team. Let me try to find some. Trey.

Cedric Mullins. Always Cedric Mullins. Cedric. Yeah. Cedric Mullins is having an incredible year. He has, I read a tweet about Cedric Mullins today. He has however many plate appearances, and he has the least amount of times up with runners on base

since they started tracking that in, like, 2008. So he's got all these homers. He's got 29 homers, 56 RBIs. It's tough, man. Did anyone watch Red Sox White Sox? What was going on there? Sure, some people didn't watch it. I'm sure some people did.

I had a baby shower. Barely got to watch the Yankees game, so I'm excused. They still got their COVID stuff going on. Shout out Ryan Mountcastle, by the way. He needs a little shout shout on him. He's kind of lived up to the expectation, right? Yeah, slow start. You wanted to replace him with Albert Pooleholz,

and he heard that, and you motivated him. Yeah, no, the Orioles, they don't need him. Dodgers took them on. They needed them. They needed them. More than the Orioles, yeah. I don't know. Yeah, the White Sox, they're like the Giants.

So the Red Sox, on the other hand, what's going on there? Say I'll coming back soon? He went COVID-I.L. Yeah. We asked my white, our White Sox friend, like, does he have it, have it? I don't know if people know if he just has a positive without symptoms or does he have symptoms because Obie feels better if he has symptoms. It's a different outlook on a lot of things.

But I really don't know. I didn't get to watch a lot of those games. Or see any highlights. That's what's weird. That's what I'm asking. That's why I'm kind of weirded out. Like it says there's two walkoffs in this game in this series. The only highlight that came on to my screen.

to my screen at any time was a nasty pitch by Ottavino and someone said looks like with a wall that's all I saw from the series so sorry guys both teams didn't really hit Larry Garcia walk off Homer like I feel like I should see that we were having a crazy week socks red socks playoff series like I'm trying to think if I'd be into that yeah they got a lot of fun offense and and they got a lot of fun batters to watch keke's fun the watch seems like there'd be a fight in that there'd be a fight in that there'd be a fight in that series. Doogie's fun to watch. Devers is really, really fun to watch. Yeah, yeah. Watching them face some of the Chicago pitching staff will be a lot of fun.

Yeah. I just still haven't bought in on the Red Sox. Okay. Even when they were, even when they were doing really well, it's hard for me to envision them continuing playing baseball at that level and they really haven't. Who do you think, who do you have Red Sox Yankees second wild card if you had to choose one of those two right now? It's tough. You know, maybe the Yankees used this series against the Mets, like, you know, as a wake-up call. Like, they got fucking, you know, a little scuffle last night. Sometimes that turns teams on and you go, but I don't know. Neither team really deserves it, you know?

Yeah, I agree with that. Larry Garcia's walk off. It was nice. It was nice. You watched it? Bad for, obviously bad for the Red Sox. Oh, two out, Whitlock on the bump. Dead center.

Whitlock's been really good. Damn. Damn. Yeah, I'm looking at the wild card standings. I mean, there's a lot of teams that had a chance to make up some ground that didn't. I mean, Oakland loses two. Seattle loses too. We're in like, that's crazy.

We're, I'm interested to see how this September would stack up against past September because it feels like all the teams in races, besides the Blue Jays right now are just crapping out and tired and their arms and their bullpens are just tired like think of all the or COVID or hurt like every team we mentioned

we're like Wednesday coming back when's he coming oh he made it Lynn just made his first start back sales out cold's got a hamstring stuff Tyone's out Geolito's supposed to go out Geolito's coming back and then even you know on the NL side some of the big pitchers were getting beat up

that hadn't been beat up all season. It just feels like this September is the biggest month where we're seeing reciprocations from last year and bigger workloads for the first time. But maybe this is always how September is, and I'm just forgetting. But it definitely seems like everyone is limping in the fight. Like everyone's still got their swords out,

but they're just got so many stab wounds and, like, it's a sad fight. You wish another team had juice, like we're saying, the Blue Jays, nine and one. They're playing this fun. brand of baseball that we thought this team could play. Red Sox, Yankees, I mean, Mariners, Athletics, Padres, Reds, Reds, Cardinals, Phillies, Mets. Like, of those nine teams chasing the playoffs,

like after the Blue Jays, like the best brand of baseball, is the Cardinals, who we just said they have, they've never been hot. They've never been a hot team. They're just like surviving series So yeah, you'd You'd hope that two more teams Find it in these last couple weeks

So we can get excited about them In a one-game playoff Or if they make it to the ALDS Alds Alts Yeah All right, do you guys want to hear what happened in the Hi-L?

I would love that Are you interested? All right, here we go I believe in you. We had some big fireworks. Interleague play. The Brewer swept the Indians. Houser Burns and Lauer, get it done.

Those three starting pitchers combined for a 047 ERA in the three games. And the Brewer's relief pitchers combined for 117. Indian starting pitchers also did fairly well. They had a 1080 ERA. combined, so that's not good. Garcia Wong Escobar, two home runs each. 11 Brewers recorded most of all hits, and eight of them record three plus hits. Eight Brewers had three hits or more in the series.

Yikes, man. Morgan and Savali each gave up seven earned runs. Burns takes a no-hitter through eight. They take him out of the game. They put Hayter in. He gets the job done. A two pitcher combined, no-hitter in game two. then Lauer takes a no-hitter into the sixth inning of game three,

and Ashby goes three shutout innings with one hit in five-k's for his first career save for the sweep. And in a sick world, that's the thing that stood out to me the most and scared me the most. Like Ashby's getting three innings shutout saves. That dude's gross. Brewers are gross. They win five in a row, and they're good. The D-backs, and the Mariners played, and the D-backs took two out of three. interesting because like Trev told you,

Oakland also lost two out of three, which means that the A's and the Mariners' records are still exactly the same with six left to play against each other. And I'm interested in that storyline. The D-back starting pitchers didn't pitch great, but their relievers held it down. Let's see, Henry Ramos and Seth Beer hit their first career home runs for the D-Backs.

Beers in his first career A-B. I love that. Luis Torrance is the only Mariner to record three hits. Hanager, Kelnik, and Murphy, two home runs each. Good stuff. And the big series,

the Sunday night baseball game that had a lot of drama in it that was Yankees versus the Mets. Mets win big. Game one. Yankees have the most embarrassing home plate tag play. You will see.

Not good. And the Mets win easily. Game two was a back and forth crazy affair. Yankees were up big. Tyone Walker was getting hit around. Then he retired like 13 straight. Mets take the lead.

Judge hits a game tying two-run home run in the eighth, his second of the game. Then the Yankees took a lead on a Baez overthrow. Chapman comes in, holds it down. Not a clean win, but the Yankees get it done to tie the series. And Sunday night baseball is the rubber batch. Clark versus Cookie and drama unfolds. Linderer hits a home run.

Then it's another home runoff Wandi Peralta who was whistling the game before in the dugout and Lindor thought he was signaling pitches. So he whistled at him as he rounded the bases and said, hey, stop whistling, buddy. And then Stan hit a home run. And as he rounded the bases, he said, hey, don't yell at my pitcher. Stop talking shit. And then all the Yankees and all the Mets got together to remind everyone that there's more than just baseball. And we're all friends. And come on now, be cool about it.

And then Lindor hit a third home run of the game to win the Mets, the game. There's an electric atmosphere. It was awesome and good drama all around. That's your I-O. Nice, James. Where we start? Well, the Yankees Mets is the big one. We did talk about at the start a little bit.

The whistle stuff. The brewer's sweep. Their pitching's insane. And the fact that. fact that they're using Ashby as a a Swiss Army knife guy. Ureus. One inning here. You can start. He can go three innings. That is going to be such a game changer come the postseason. Such a game changer.

I think about this often and I don't know why, but when we were in Milwaukee, we were talking to some people and they were saying runs or runs, whether you prevent them or score them, And I just can't wrap my head around it. Like, when you have a team like the Brewers, I mean, it's the pitching. Pitching to me rules the world of baseball. As much as I hate to say that because most pitchers piss me off with the way they act. But you got to have it and the Brewers have it in spades. We talk about the Dodgers and maybe rightfully so because they're guys,

they got a lot of hardware. in that rotation. But the Brewers, I mean, those guys are going to have the hardware. Corbynman Burns is jakey. I hope you sprinkle someone that plus 4,000. Because Corbyn might win the freaking NL Sa-Yo. He's disgusting, man. And he's our friend.

I just stood and talked to us. He's our friend. He followed me on IG. He just yucked. Unlike Jonathan India. We yucked it up with Burnsy for a little bit. No, you're right. I mean, it's, you know, they actually had a couple games

they scored double-digit runs in two of these games, but they also held the Indians under one run or less in two of these games as well. So, yeah, man, I mean, they are gross, and they very much pass the how good is your good test. Like, they're going to be so exciting. I mean, this is going to be their first October with kind of real expectations in Milwaukee in a minute. No, no. I mean, world series expectations?

I think that statement is not true. When's the last time they had it? I don't know. Last year, two years ago? I think this is where we maybe differ the most. Maybe you come to it from a player, so you're like way more open-minded to that than a fan? Burrists haven't.

You think they haven't thought we could win the World Series or something? I don't understand. The players obviously feel that way. Yeah. This is the first year. There's expectations. There are expectations in Milwaukee. If they lose in the DS, their season will be disappointing.

That's how talented this roster is. Yeah. And they haven't had that in Milwaukee in a little bit. They've made the playoffs every single year since. This is the same conversation. 18, 19, 20, 21. It's just the same thing that me and Trevor have been having about for like the last three weeks. Yeah.

There's a team that makes the playoffs, and there's a team that can win the World Series. And it's two categories. Okay, they lost the NLCS in 2018 to the Dodgers, four games to three. Like, you don't think that team could win the World Series? It's a good team. It's a good team.

What were their expectations? Because I'm actually not talking about the loser fight you guys have been having the past couple weeks. I'm talking about their expectations as a team. They won 96 games that year. Yeah. Of course they had a real expectation. Did they have three horses?

Like their lineup is better. Their starting rotation is better and their bullpen is better. So the expectations in Milwaukee are above. Their path is going to be easier this year if they stay at the second haul. Brewers should be in the World Series. Giants are going to be there. It sucks. I mean, it doesn't suck.

It sucks for the Brewers. I'm kind of embarrassed that I don't know how to do this. I mean, I've tried before. BPD, can you look up some team defensive statistics? where the Brewers rank. Why is that so hard for me to find? Because they don't matter. Yeah, maybe.

Jacob's stats, Brewer's fan here, this year's team feels better than 18 and 08, and for sure, record-wise, better than 82. So, A, shout on to Jay Stats for bringing us back 40 years. That's what I'm talking about. Follow it up with, so this is our biggest year in franchise history. Whoops.

The Brewers are, the Brewers are, The brewers are so good. It would be... But I understand this is their best team, but that doesn't mean that the team of 2018 didn't have World Series aspirations or the ability to win the last. The expectations are arguably not high...

The highest they've ever been for a Milwaukee baseball team. And Jacob Sats just kind of confirmed that. Kiss whoever, man. Is it a coincidence that we ran the sausage race in this beautiful season there? It doesn't seem like it does it. Jimmy sacrificed his ham. string so the Brewers could win in the World Series.

And that's a story that'll stand up to the test of time. Quick defensive stats I found. Brewers are fifth in baseball and defensive runs saved. And third in baseball in UZR. And those are the two stats on the defensive metrics page that I know. There's other ones there. The Brewers rotation in 2018 coming into the playoffs. The guy who made the most starts that year,

Huli Shasin. second most starts Chase Anderson Third most junior Gera So I think on that level The expectations Change just a little bit Well surely their pitching staff is better this year

I mean it's bingo It's the best ever Hey When we start J-Wore And our websites The way that we're going to do defensive stats And this is going to piss off a lot of people Good

You have to log a certain amount of hours watching the guy play, and it's eye test only voting. I like eye test, yeah. I hate analytic defensive stats. Okay. Especially for infielders. Outfielders, I kind of like jump speed, reaction,

route, because they can track those pretty nicely. But in, I hate catching framing statistics. I don't try. I mean, infield defensive numbers, I kind of, they are in and out my ear. Like, I don't think I've ever grabbed onto one of those and used them in an argument. So, yeah, the Jay Baseball page, John Boy Baseball stats. Someone reached out, Trev.

That's, like, in baseball as a- He does this. I have a meeting set up. You do? Yes. So it's coming. Jay War. But, yeah, it'll be like...

Defense is measured by good or bad. Prove that you've watched 100 games this year. Okay, now rank this guy's defense one out of... 10 and then it'll be a conglomerate of that'll be a score. I test only on defense. I think we go 5 to negative 5 so that way we can take away from guys

if they're bad. Okay. I like that. I like that. Like 5. Like Prime Nolan Aeronado. Yeah. I won't say a minus 5. Glaver at short. Okay. Minus 3.5. Yeah. I like J. War sounds good. My weed dealer in high school was J. Bud.

Nice. Add. So I like it. Yeah. Okay. Nameless Jeff. I don't know what he's doing now. He lives in your neighborhood and he operates under the name Nameless Jeff now.

That's not him. Although I think you might know him. Yeah, of course he does. It's a tight circle. He's his main corner boy. You think j-bud and nameless Jeff don't know each other. I think we've actually had this discussion before. What else we have to talk about?

did we do we talk about yankees man crazy i mean good for lindore lindore's awesome the whole stuff with stan and londor what's your thoughts on it trev i i just i don't know why lindore was upset like similar to you know robbie ray getting mad if like he thought somebody was picking his pitches like dude like okay yeah it can make you upset but just do something about it's part of the game and i said this on baseball today I guarantee every single person on that Mets team at some point is trying to pick up a tell on a pitcher

or has relayed a pitch to a pitcher. It's part of the game. We can't lose that part of the game just because the Astros did something fucking stupid. Like, not everything is cheating. Like, that's straight up part of the sport if you can pick up a tell and relay it to a hitter. Bottom line, unless you're using technology to do it,

that's not okay. But we've talked about this so much on this show. I just, I don't understand why he was so mad. Was he creating something to get fired up? I have a little bit of a tag. I don't know if this is a bad thing. I think, like, Frankie, Mr. Smile, all of it. I think when he knows there's more cameras on,

he turns it up a notch. Like, we always talk about Bryce Harper, is Bryce Harper is Bryce Harper. Like, if he was playing, if Bryce Harper was playing a game with no cameras on in a backfield, I think he plays like the same Bryce Harper would in the World Series. I think Lindor,

he's got all the emotions but he knows like this is okay Sunday night baseball yanks met's let me turn it up a little bit I think he does that I'm not kind of criticizing I get a little bit of a ham I've been called that

I've been called worse you just don't look any other teams dug out yeah that's it did you hear Stan's post game press conference I mean I love I like Stan's press conference is a lot Stan was said if you have a problem with Wondie whistling yell at Wondy

when you're rounding the bases. You hit the home runoff. I'm speaking a little for him here, extrapolating, but yeah, at Wondy, if you have a problem with Wondy whistling, which as fans, we didn't even know it was Wondy,

who was the one doing the whistling. But now every Ganky's been like, well, that Wondy, yeah, whistles. Wondy the Whistler. Everybody knows that. They're actually like, yeah, Wondi just, Wondi sits in the back of the dugout

screaming and whistling nonstop, and it's crazy. That's what we've heard. You ever met someone that can really whistle? It's really interesting. Yeah, my grandma. Step grandma. Can you do this one?

Yeah, it's going to be in the weekly dome. Okay. I can't do it. I can't do it either. So Stan was like, I was just, and you can read Stan's lip, he says, stop talking shit. Stop talking shit. And then he was like, I wanted, what I wanted to say was,

if you have a problem with Wondi, talk shit to Wondi, don't talk shit to Glaber and Gio and then the whole dugout as you're rounding the bases. is now you're just starting something and Stan says, I didn't really get to say all that as I was running by. Well, this is he had one money line. He was like, what do you say? He's like, as long as a physical fight doesn't break out,

then the stuff on the field matters. But it had a little of edge to it like, if Frankie Lindoror wants to actually wrestle, come get me, little guy. Yeah. It was really well delivered. Stan gives a great interview. So Stan went on to say, and you can read their lips.

Stan's just saying, stop talking shit. And Lindor right away is like, I didn't say nothing. I just said stop whistling. I just said stop whistling. And Stan's like, all right, whatever. And then Baez comes and he tries to call everyone out. Like Lindor and Stan were kind of fine with each other. Yeah.

And then it was kind of the Gardner and Baez show. And that was like the two problem people. Gardner was funny. Gardner's funny. Bias was saying come out here, come out. That was kind of silly, but I think Stan and Lindor both handled it fine. And then Stan said in his quote, you know, as long as if it's not going to be a physical fight, then the only thing that matters is performance on the field.

And Lindor won the game for his team and I didn't get the job done when I came up. So kudos to him. So like, it is. Stan's really good at that. And he knows what matters. It's results and none of the other stuff. But I think. I think in the end,

Stan was just, like, if you're going to yell at our dugout and bench, while you know the cameras are on you, during your home run trot, then I'm going to return the favor. And then it became something bigger than it was. And Lindor said he just took it personally,

that they were trying to relay signs or whistling. I don't really know what that means, to be honest with you. I think that's Lindor's kind of turning it up. I think he's got the big smile. I think Lindor knows, like, going back to the whole squirrel raccoon thing, like Frankie went in front of the mic and smiled and laughed through it, and everyone else, McNeil didn't do that.

But I don't think he wanted to start a bigger rift with his team, eh? That was such a weird interview that Lindor did back then. I forgot about that when he was, like, really just smiley and lying, like, really big. Since he's been on the Mets, he's been a little. That's what I'm saying. Like, I, when Lindor is right, it's one of the most fun players. to watch on the baseball field. But yeah, when you put all those pieces together,

especially last night saying like it was for my team, like... Well, he did win the game. I mean, turn us down. He, uh, that was awesome. I said, please don't pitch to him. And they did. I can read his quotes after the game. This is where I really got confused.

So they can't accuse them of whistling for the signs because I'm not 100%. But I know what I heard and I felt there was something out of the ordinary going on and I took that personal, one thing. one thing is when you're in the batters box and you're seeing something. Another thing is when you're getting help from the whole entire team. But isn't that how, isn't that like when you're on the bench as a bench player, Trev,

or even a pitcher isn't your main job to be scouring for tells? And then if you find one, relay it? You should be. And that's the hardest thing is if you get something that you can see from the batters box, obviously there's no delivery system needed. You just go up there, you see it, or you don't see it. But sometimes it comes from something that only the bench can see. Maybe it's like how he's putting the ball on his glove.

Or for instance, you know, maybe it's something the catcher is doing. And then you have to relay it. And that's where like, you know, the whistling, the trash can banging, all that weird stuff comes into play. But it's all, like, as long as you're doing it the right way, like it's up to the other team to stop. And for people that are listening that are new to this whole stuff, common ways, like simple ways to relay it to a batter would be calling him by his last name or his first name, and that could be a tell. Or if the third base coach takes two steps forward before the pitch, or the first base coach, if you're a righty third, if you're left two, like a step forward or

leans forward, leans back. Like these are all ways that pro players kind of are on the lookout for. Like these have been put into place for 100 years, right? Like, if you're not using technology, it is part of baseball to try and get a tell and relay it to the batter. So it's weird that he's upset about that unless he just thinks they're using technology and that's what he's implying. But it wasn't even their stadium. There's no way. Yeah, there's no way they were. And like I said, man, like everyone's done that.

Of course Lindor has done it somewhere. I just don't understand why he got so mad. but he probably was searching for something to like get going. That's kind of the gist I, I have, the feeling that I have. And shit, he did. Got going. Yeah. Polanco just hit a tour on Homer for the twins.

You like that, Trev? Bang, bang. Mariners lose two out of three to the D-backs. Kelnick, everyone's saying started the hit. Kelnick. I guess so. You own his cards? I don't think I do.

Hey, what's up with Clint Fraser? He's out for the year. Is he ever going to be a contributor to the Yankees? No, I think he's going to get non-tendered. His arbitration is going to be around like 3-mill. I don't think you're going to give a guy 3-mill to be a AAA player. So I think he's going to get traded or non-tendered, and a fresh start is probably the only thing that might get him started elsewhere.

It might get his career started. But yeah, I mean, dizziness and very exciting to watch. When he's good, it's fun. When he's bad, it's very bad. Yeah. All right. Let's get to the second half of the show where we focus on some individual awards. It's brought to you by Manscaped, which you can use to clean up your individual.

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Jake, you up first. I'm going Band-Aid mode. I'm taking my guy. Trev mentioned. Hope I got that sprinkling. You know, baseball is a game. You know, chance stuff happens. Sometimes you have good years.

sometimes you have up years. Corbyn Burns last year was really good. And he's got one of the grossest pitches in baseball. We talked about it. Was it early this season when Jack Flaherty faced him? And he texted you, Trev. And he's like, yeah, that thing just kind of disappears. It looks like a normal fastball.

And then it pretty much just goes away from you. Corbyn Birds had a great year last year. He only had nine starts, but a 2-1-ERA, crazy strikeouts. He finished six in the Si-Yung last. year. And it's, you know, I think some people were like, what does that really mean? He was 25. The year before that, he got hit around a little bit. So I was like, you know what? There's a lot of numbers here. Brewers are a smart org. Maybe Corbyn Burns puts it together for our whole year. And if DeGrom gets banged up and a couple guys have many years, this guy could be in the

mix for the Cy Young. Plus 4,000 odds at the start of the year, he is now like him and Walker Bueller are tied, depending what site you go to, like plus 163, plus 173. 25 starts, a 225 ERA. The game log, I mean, it's just impressive as it gets. And by 14Ks, like, you just can't ignore how dominant that is. If you're the other team, you're just having an absolute nightmare performance. James, he has, I want to make sure I get the number right. on this. He has 17 starts of one runner less. I mean, that's, you know, that's your team kind of

having to win that game. They're 17 and 8 in his starts. He's got like one bad day at the office, four innings five earned. I think that's, that is his only start this season. where there's more earned runs than innings pitch. One. Man, he's having such a special year, and now he's like our friend and nice to us, so that's even more of a win. But Corbin Burns, this NLSI Young race is going to come down

to everyone's, like, final start, I think. Walker's right there, Scherzer's right there. Burns, he's there. So to do that, also with the pressure of knowing, like, hey, you're Corbyn Burns? Like, I could get the sigh in the bag, age 26 season? And he went out and he dropped this on the table.

So, Bernsey. Good job. Pay the man his money. Trevor Plough. I can't wait to see what Corbyn puts in his basement when he's super rich. Very interested in that.

My standout performance is going to go to kind of an unsung hero because he's just on a team with too many heroes, I guess. Julio Urias, 7 in his pitched, Zero Ernie, 7Ks, 1 walk. He did hit two people. Sometimes you guys just hit some people, I guess, right?

But he is a guy. On the year, he's got his numbers down to a 298. That whip is dangerously close to getting under a 1. I really like that when I look and see because that just means you're not letting guys get on base, takes the pressure off your defense. Urius is what? the four starter, maybe even the fifth starter in the Dodgers rotation.

You know what he can do in the postseason. He was lights out in his career in the post season. He's got like a two eight. You can start them. You can do a high leverage relieving with them. You can piggyback them and throw him three innings in the game. The guy does anything for this team and just doesn't really get talked about enough. But the teenager, man.

Still doing it. And what is he now? He's only 25 freaking years old. He's a guy. And when the Dodgers go deep into the postseason, well, I hope they do. I hope they win that wildcard game. He'll be in there a lot.

So get to know Julio before the postseason starts. Okay. Man, if they had the World Series in Los Angeles last year and he was doing what he was doing, do you remember how crazy the crowd was going when he was in the game. Yeah. It was fun.

And I hope he gets that this year because he deserves that. I mean, if he's, they do that in L.A. Like he's born in Mexico. We have a huge Mexican population in L.A. And they love, they love when we have, you know, Mexican stars on the Dodgers. And this city will go nuts when he's in the game. I can't wait to see it.

Excited. My standout is a hitter this time. Hmm. Ben and Tendi. It was four for five with two homers, five RBIs. He led the game off with a three-run homer. Then he gets the lead off at bat in the third inning or fourth, whatever, eventually scores the game tying run.

And then he gets another hit. And then his fourth hit is in the 11th inning. And it's another homer. So he was just all over this game for the Royals. and he's actually been incredibly hot down the stretch here. His last 10 games, he's got a 1.2 OPS with a 436 batting average, and I think the midweek episode we're doing last two weeks, two and a half weeks of the season guys who can change their narrative.

Not that he's having a really bad year. He's having a good year. 260, 310, 743 OPS. But if he continues, has 20 more hot games, Benny may be on Jake's list of guys who can, you know, you're like, oh, hey, Benny got his OPS back up. Yeah. Oh, wow. Oh, hey.

So, huge game from him. Two homers, big homers. And he's on a heater. Good job. I love that. Middle name, Sebastian. Don't love that. Unless he, unless, no, don't love that.

Don't love it. I like it. Reminds me of a little mermaid. Yeah, me too. I love that guy. Sebastian's great. I've got a lot of Sebastian in my game. Yeah.

Sebastian is very brave. I knew a Sebastian. He went by Sabby. Interesting. Can I give the Yankees a, What is you doing, baby right now? Down four nothing to the who? Yeah.

You're twins. They got a rally around something. I mean, that's their son. Well, John Gant's taking the mound John Gantt I stand out James Tough look for Gant You're not liking

John Gant's look No, he's going no undershirt Chain that's like way too loose And he's got some super hairy arms Who's your hairiest teammate, Trev? Harriest teammate Ryan Domenet was pretty hairy Oh, like that.

You would have loved Ryan Don't. Oh, baby. God. All right. All right. See you, Trout. Good stuff, guys. Slomp Watts.

We had four players in a full team on Slump Watch. We're looking to add five more. Producer BPD. Who are the five potential additions? Can't wait to see how that full team did. The guys who are potentially coming on, Pete Alonzo. 0 for 13 and RBI 2 walks 3Ks Jose Ramirez 0 for 9

2 walks 3Ks Kyle Schwarber O for 11 2 walks 6Ks on the weekend Kyle Seeger O for 10 2 walks 3Ks probably no high leverage at bats And Trent Grisham O for 13 with 5 strikeouts Damn damn damn damn

All right so as for the guys that we're on here We have a couple that are coming off Harrison Bader he's off Hey, he went three for nine with a double And a walk so 400 on base percentage Max Kepler Yeah 4 for nine with a homer and a double

Walk 444 batting average 500 on base percentage in the series he's off Good job, young outfielders And I'm even going to take belly off He went one for four with a double and two walks Okay Like I'm guessing he played two games I guess two games

And you'll take that Said out once yeah I'm into It's for this This got a little tricky for me Because it's like I do want to track the belly story Like You know We're starting to get to the point where you have to make decisions

As a baseball team Like how much is a guy going to get used And Belly's up against it right now Been bad So be good All right Dan's B, he went 0 for 5 with two walks

Hit by pitch So he's gonna stay on We'll keep him You know he got on base a few times But we'll keep him on So he gets the ball boom stick going. Yankees stay?

No, I don't think so. The offense was pretty good. They scored like 20 runs in three games. They had 11 extra base hits and eight home runs. They had a 5-10 slugging. The low OBP is surprising, but we could take them off. I don't think people care either. So Dansby needs friends?

Yeah. I mean, we're not going to clap for the Yankees, but I think we'll take them off. I don't think anyone cares about them. Okay. And they hit a ton. I mean, the runs were there. Yeah.

Let's see. Who do we want to get going? I kind of want to get all these guys going. Man. Can we do everyone but Grisham? That's what my guts tell me to do. Yeah, because Grisham was on some blotch. And then I think we added all the Padres, like, while he was there.

So Trent, sorry. I guess Trent Grisham is going to have to stay on the Independent for now. The Trent joke. It's a Trent joke. Aonzo. I just had a semantic saturation with the name Trent. Aeroic officiation. Yeah, Trent.

So Alonzo, J. Ram, K. Schwab. A couple of K. Seig. K Sieg. People wouldn't call them that. No. K Sieg. Trave, we're ready for you. Ksig in the Jets.

Dirt Nasty's on Flago. That means I'm on fire, baby, like Waco. Holy smokes. Yeah? We got a big infuego list. You want to do it? Come on it. Tackle a couple of them.

Lindor, four homers against the Yankees. Three came in one night. That's pretty good. Blue Jays had a huge Blue Jays up last time. And Blue Jays fans reached out. They were thankful, but they also wanted Lourdes, Gurriel, Jr. to get some love. He goes seven for 13.

He gets lost a lot of times amongst those other guys. Rice Harper said that once to Bryce swam in his head the whole game. He has a three homers series. Benny, you mentioned him. Othka Hernandez, yeah, Orioles, more of that. Mookie Betts, five for 10, two homers. Matt Olson keeps rolling. My guy, date, my daughter.

Byron Buxton, trying to put bookends on this season. The best centerfielder in April and September. There's a storyline for you. And Hobby Baez, also with a big series against the Yanks. And I see, is that Jesus Sanchez? He had a big weekend. He deserved some love. You're proud of him?

Marlins outfielder. Yeah, three homers. I didn't know if it was Jesus or Jesus. I think it's Jesus. It's three homers and a triple. 6-3-22 listed. I like that. You do?

Yeah. Because you think he's related to Jesus Sanchez, the pitcher for the Marlins? I think it would say that and says he's nice. 23, he's hot. Get going, kid. Where's he from? He's from the DR. Where?

Higie. Oh, Jesus Sanchez, the pitcher for the Marlins was from Nizal. Nizau? So maybe they're not, maybe they don't know each other. Did we ever get Trev back? Also from Nizal Vladimir Good at all

Yeah he's a good one He's a good one You like how some of the guys from the DR Have the Russian names Because of the communists and all that Fine with it Kind of like the etymology of it Firm

Vladimir That's stuck in the DR Yeah You know what We like that one I name kind of slaps We're gonna take that name And we're gonna make it around

I like how that rolls It's probably some other Russian names that they're like gross. And Gant's out of the game. And so is Trevor. Treve, what the heck, man? What the hell happened? Come back.

We got to give out awards. Can't get hurt? I think so. They got two outs, walk, Judge, and then they took him out. Damn. Gonna be another long one in the Bronx. Trevor, you're back.

You have a snack? What are you snacking on? Wow. I want to tell you guys. Diffy, dude. That's dude. That's interesting. I just, I feel really weird right now because I just recreated like Jurassic Park.

Oh. Wow. In my backyard. I wanted to go check on Key Brian Hayes. And there was a caterpillar on my plant. Yeah. So I had to take it off, obviously. What the heck?

And there's this lizard that I pass by every day on my way out to the studio. No. And you have never once thought the people would want to see this. A TikTok mashup of like 20 you passing this lizard in a row. That's the best content we could ever make, Trev. And every time you walk. Every time you walk by, you just say, hey. Hi, lizard.

Can you do it once? This time I gave him a caterpillar to eat and he liked it. He ate it? Yeah. Trev, why aren't you filming these things? I don't like this. I mean, for a full year, you're killing gophers with your bare hands, and you don't film one of them.

Actually, you sent us one picture of a dead gopher. Yeah, it's not, you don't want to see that. Yeah, I didn't want to see it, actually, in the end. But I do want to see your lizard friend, dude. Yeah. I'll show them to you. I'll film a lizard friend. I don't know how I feel about, like, feeding him.

That was weird. Yeah. You did kind of fuck up nature a little bit on the fly. Like, you played God there. Yeah. Because why did the caterpillar have to get off, Keep Brian Hayes. Well, you can't have them because they poop and it messes your plant up.

And they also eat the leaves and all that's good stuff. I'm trying to keep my thing really nice. I should just let him go to a different plant. But instead you killed him. You fed the lizard. I should have moved him. I was an accessory to murder. You know, I should have moved him to another plant, but I ended his life.

That lizard of yours is a bug eater. Whoops. I think I might get in trouble for saying this on live. Yeah. I'm friends with Peter No, I'm sorry I slingshotted a birdhouse guy I gave it to my dogs the other day

I'm just taking I'm taking the heat off you Trev Thank you Just standing up I like my lizards They're like little dinosaurs That's what I always think Little dinosaurs running around

It's hilarious I get out of my sand out Jake Who's your award I'm gonna give up my sand out You already did that You got to give it an award It's a standout award.

Oh. Wild. Wild. Wild. Wild. So I had this award planned coming in, which is huge. I'm giving out the America's Next Sweetheart Award. Jim, you've announced it on the show.

The Giants are going to the World Series. We talked about this during the show. Who's going to be America's sweetheart on the Giants? We know a lot of the vets. We know all of it. How about a multi-tool guy who's killing it? We talked about him a little bit. I have to give a shout out to someone in the chat who posted this.

We didn't discuss it. I don't, I didn't write down their name. I'm so sorry. I'm giving out the America's Next Sweetheart Award to Lamont Wade. Hmm. And so. And you had this before we started the show, which is nuts. That's wild.

And I think the problem was we took... Someone said it in there, they said late night Lamont, and we all... Ooh. We all made that noise. There was a stat. And please, if you're still hearing you said it, you deserve credit. I did nothing here. Jim, we love splits.

You can chop baseball up a lot of different ways. Lamont Wade, this year in the ninth inning. This is why Giants fans actually call. him late-night Lamont. In the ninth inning this year, he is 10 for 16. A 625 batting average. Giants, World Series, Lamont Wade, ninth inning. Say that again? Wings, beers. In the ninth inning this year, Lamont Wade is 10 for 16. He's only got 16 at bats? They're winning every game. At home, he never has to hit. Good point. Late night Lamont. I like that. They got for free.

And again, I research that. Well, Trev, you get the right player with the right coaching staff and that's when special things start to happen. That was always my problem. They never had the right player. I miss Ron Darling.

Miss that guy. Oh. I'm going to have wine with Ron Darling. Won't he be back soon? I like reading Trevor Plufe's stuff. He's got a lot of good takes. Thank you, Ron. Isn't he going to, who's doing?

in the playoffs and tbs got them tbos i don't know either base cam base cam baseball remember base cam revolutionized the game

we did Trev who's you who's your standout I also put a lot of thought into this just like jake did there are times in your life where

a certain situation arises and you have to make a split decision. And a lot of the times it's not even really you making the decision. It's your body. It's an instinct. You go. There are times where that doesn't happen. You cower away. You don't go. And you really never know what kind of person you are until you actually get put in that situation. I've talked a lot of mess about Garrett Cole this season. I don't like his postgame. interviews. There was a lot of sticky stuff talking on. He shut me up on

that. He said, I'm going to go win the Sayyang right in your fucking face. What he's doing on the mound is incredible. He does have that whip under a 1. He's got the 0.98 whip, 278 ERA. He's going to win the Saoyang. He's minus money right now

to win the Saoyang. But what I saw from Garrett Cole when the door started stepping, he jumped that fence quick. know what? I believed him. There were times where I'm like, you jump in that fence, you don't mean anything. I thought the look in his eye, he was about that life. So this is my, from here on out, I respect Garrett Cole. I decided that today. Not just for his pitching ability,

but because when the going got tough, he got going. Jump the rail was about to have. Jump the rail was about to have Stanton's back. He wanted to throw those hands. Love to see that out of him. So snaps to Cole for being. He found out in that moment. I am that guy. He's taller and bigger than you, which I don't have in my head. I always have to remind myself that Cole's a big dude. He's a big boy. Yeah. I have him 5'7. I wish they into buck 50. Dude, he's like the prototypical height and weight for a pitcher, right? Yeah. 6-4-220 is like, that's what you draw up. I wish they got a microphone in front of his face right after the altercation.

I'll keep talking to shit! Yeah, that's the one thing he's got to work on, like, bringing that tone down a little bit. If I got into it with Harvey, I've got the reach on him, so I'm probably punching from a distance. If he gets in tight, I'm going to lock him up. I'm going to lock him up. Hey, but he made the move. He made the move. And it was a real move.

Yeah. Yeah, I enjoy them. But look, it's, we got Patrick Mahomes and Garrett Cole, and they got the voice. This is the voice. So shout out Garrett Cole. Shout him out. He appreciates it. Respect you.

Another guy you should have a glass of wine with. Good wine and wine. That must mean a lot to him, knowing that he's got my respect. It does. Yeah. Big. People are saying that's big. For sure.

That's big. Um. Yeah? You got this? Huh? You got this. Yeah, I'm giving out the Megan Fox at the VMA's award. Mm-hmm.

Mm-hmm. That dress. Mm-hmm. Wait, for real, though. Yeah? No, we're fucking around. No, that's the name of the award. It's the Megan Foxx of the VMA's award.

Mm. How old is she? 60. Depends what you're counting. Yeah. How's her baseball reference page? She's 35. Yeah.

in years. What's the sex? What's the sex? What's one of the sexier things that can happen on during a baseball game? Sexy things? Yeah. You might disagree. I think a nice slide is sexy.

Well, pinch hit home run, Trev. Yeah. Come off the bench, cold, step into the box, don't know anything, and you just bomb one. Sexy. It's hot. What about a big thing? You're done after that. What if it's your first career played appearance as a big leaguer and your last name is beer?

I'd like that. Nothing sexier than that. Gets the call to pinch hit in his first ever game. His name is Seth Michael Beer. Diego Castillo, no name in the bullpen market. One-one count. Bam. Home run.

To bring the game within one. stayed at one but that's sexy I wonder if he's related to Brian Beer one of the best Nickelodeon guts competitors in history of Nickelodeon

guts do you have it Do you have it Guts I'm just Googling pictures of Megan Fox Scott him out of the leaderboard Seth Beer

Beir out of the park baseball legend Seth beer Trev what are your thoughts on the picture What picture are you on? I just Googled Megan Fox Age. Okay. And then I went to images.

Oh, wow. And like, I don't know how far we want to go into this, but she used to, she's married before to this guy, a little bit older. They'd break up, divorce, whatever. It's probably every guy's worst nightmare. Your wife breaks up with you or you break up with your wife and then you see her with a rock star who's like this young dude. like so you met machine gun Kelly right I did yeah you played softball you played softball with him oh yeah I forgot about that

he's tall I like that you want to see some good pictures of Megan Fox Google machine gun Kelly naked I mean the first picture that comes up so weird it's him naked with like interesting three hands coming out of nowhere to cover his junk do you think that third hand is supposed to be oh is that his wrong

Weiner in the middle picture? What's that next picture? This one? Yeah. Is that real Dong or is that someone photoshopping? Fake Nudes. That website's labeled Fake Nudes. What about that one? It looks like a good outline of a weiner.

But I mean, that could be fluffed. Well, why wouldn't it be? Well, if you're going to take a picture of it, you got to fluff it. Oh, I'm the opposite. What do you want me to tell you? They're goose. I think that's the show. Yeah. Wait, wait, wait.

I'll get the wheel out. I'll get the wheel out, but what else? J.P. Crawford. We did it at the top. We did? Yeah. Shout out, JP. Slick with the glove.

Oh, it's the Brewers. Whoa. Welcome to the elevator. We talked about you a lot. Hey, you ever see a sausage race? Service arrows. I love that. Still have my jersey, I think.

I still have mine. They're going to the World Series. Former roommate, Jeff. And that's the Dodgers. Dude, I am. You're in a pickle right now. It's Brewers, Giants. Yeah.

Maybe Dodgers. Somehow they lose. God, the AL stinks, huh? It's just all about the NL right now. Kind of. Like, James, points of your logic, the Rays are the only team that has a chance,

and the White Sox maybe. Imagine thinking any other team besides the Rays has a chance to be in the World Series. Every other team. is dead. Yeah. I am interested to see when the White Sox turn it on to see what that looks like and get healthy. But the problem is the rays don't, they don't have an on or off switch.

They just have raise mode. Yeah. And you think it's not on. And then you get reminded, you're like, oh, shit. This ride's been going the whole time. I thought we were waiting. And it doesn't matter who's hurt or who. Or who's there?

Well, they don't even have real players. They're just clones. The Rays could switch all their pitchers and hitters for a game and somehow win it. That's Brewer's baseball. And that's what you talk about in the Brewers elevator. Hey, know who deserves a shout-out, who is very nice, and he's been incredible with the Brewers. Hunter Strickland, 28 games, 0117 ERA. Brewer's got magic, man.

And he's got really nice eyes. Nice eyes. And I told him that. And he was just like, okay. Yeah. Shout out Harper for going after that guy, because he's big. I wouldn't do that. Big.

There's many fights you can win. That Thessalonian man is... Dude, that's the grandpa from Three Ninja's first lesson. So, like, good job by you, Trapp. Jake sucks. Good brewer's stuff at the end. That guy really... Enjoyed his elevator ride.

What the fuck were they talking about? Max Scherzer, 3,000 Ks. It's the best best. Strictly goes on the angels. What you say?