Talkin' Baseball (MLB Podcast) - 393 | Padres Get Mad, Birds are Soaring, & Shohei Ohtani Locks in His MVP

Episode Date: September 20, 2021

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Hello and welcome to talking baseball. The Padres are yelling in the dugout and the birds are soaring in the AL and the NL. Let's talk some baseball. Hello and welcome to talking baseball brought to you by Draft Kings. My name is Jimmy. His name is Jake. You got Trevor Pluth coming here from California and producer BBD in the corner. Running the ones and two.

So hip, so cool. Slang. slang. Anyway, baseball. Hot in the streets, shake. Gelliente in Los Gallees. I don't even know I'm talking. This is Trevor Ploof's episode. Trevor Ploof tweeted out to the people last night that he was going to have a huge episode. It's me. He FaceTime me. I was on my couch reading a book like I always do to go to bed every night. Definitely not Stony Bologna watching some Scott Van Pelt

But yeah We talked about some concepts for the show And this is kind of what it's all been built for A lot of teams have been building up for the playoff race Rays Giants, Dodgers as they sort out the West The White Sox all year Trevor Plouf has been building up for this one episode

So I'm excited T-Pain You know, what's up, guys? Hi. Chat. I've been in the chat for like a good 30 minutes already. Just chilling. Talking, talking with the peeps.

Barney mode. I do have to say, yeah, speaking of Barney and dinosaurs, birds are actually dinosaurs. Birds or births? Birds. Everybody knows that. I know it. But I'm excited. It's Monday.

You know I love Monday recap episodes. A lot of fun shit. happened, a lot of, like, weird stuff happened. I got to tell you guys some stories. I got blocked by the most famous baseball Twitter account in the world. So that was a tough one for me. DVD blocked him. But I'm ready to bring it today.

James, how are you doing, dude? I'm great. I'm great. Doing fantastic. I ate a ton of apples over the weekend. So had a lot of fun. Shared my apple recipe with my dude John at the Dunkin' Donuts on the way in. so things are great.

I'm on a first name basis with the dude who runs the drive-thru at Dunkin' Donuts. We know each other by voice. Says, thank you for to come and Dunkin' Donuts. How am I help you? I say, what's up, John? He goes, oh, what's up, man? Same thing? Say, yeah.

And all I ever wanted in life was to be a local and walk into a restaurant and someone says, you want the irregular? And I say, yes. And now I have it at Dunkin' Donuts. So my day's going pretty well. I dig that. I dig, like, do you ever say, give me the regular and, like, you can add it onto your order, but you know what the regular means?

That's a special moment. That's pretty cool. No, we're not there yet because I don't get anything extra. But I moved, like, every three years. So I, like, genuinely, I was like, I wish I went places mom and dad and we, like, new people. Like, at stores and stuff. Be cool. I always strangers.

So, yeah, shout out, John. It's a good guy. He went Apple picking, too. You did have a lot of Apple content out there this weekend, which I thoroughly. enjoyed. Yeah, every time I go apple picking, I do Instagram reviews of each apple. I think it's like four years in a row. I made some apple chips, oven for 200 degrees, let them sit in there for four hours with some cinnamon on top, and then you eat them in 30 seconds. So it's like time to cook and eating ratio isn't fantastic, but they taste good and they make your house smell delicious. Interesting. And now we've talked about apples. BPD. How was your weekend? Good, no apples. Oh, sounds like it wasn't that great.

Also, Appleless. Bad weekend, Tyler. Hell yeah, Trev. Yeah. 50-50. Hell yeah. Yeah. Can I give a, I need one shout-out.

One shout-out, and then we start the show. One shout-out, then we start the show. I was sitting in bed, definitely not high last night. Bad ass. And I was looking for something to watch. I came across the untold series. It's on Netflix. My buddy Marty Fish has an episode on there.

People don't know who Marty Fish is, a former number one American tennis player. He came up with Andy Roddick, and there's a lot of cool, like, stories, and he had a tough time with some anxiety, some mental health issues. So he's speaking out about that. And it was really cool to see, like, background.

And even if you don't like tennis, the story is amazing. So I just wanted to give a shout out. If you need something to watch, go check that out. It was really cool. Do you know anything about him, Jake? Yeah, I was about to say Marty Fish, the tennis player. And then I think we've done this before because he's in your fantasy football league?

Or why do I know your Marty Fish connection? Back in the day, yeah. Back in the day we had a big, big time fantasy football league. When did you guys link up? He's from Minnesota. Gotcha. There it is. So he was always kind of around.

He actually had a strike against him initially when I met him because he ganged up on me. Like everyone. With Christian Ponder? No, I had reason. He called this jacket I had like a cool motorcycle jacket. It wasn't. It was just like a bomber jacket. They kind of made fun of me.

So I was pissed at him for a while. But obviously he chose Ron. He ganged up on me with Christian Ponder. Yeah. For God's sakes. He knows better now. My mom also watched that documentary. She enjoyed it.

She described it to me like that the Roddix basically adopted him to be the stalking horse for Andy. which a little bit of C-biscuit in that story. And then he decided one day. He's like, I want to train as hard as Andy trains and do all these different things. And he became a freaking animal. And on that note, let's go to the NL recap, which is brought to you by Manscaped. I'm going Manscape, BBD, that throw you for a loop.

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The people need to know that people are dying, nor they're clamoring for it. Stop the music. Stop the music. Stop the music. Stop the music. Record scripts. I accidentally clicked off of our sheet

as I went to go pull it up. I clicked the X-Ref. You know I'm so show that I can delay for a second. Are there any other tennis players in your life that you'd like to give a quick shout-out before we get into the recap? But make sure you pull the sheet up as you answer.

Right. I'm pulling it up. That will be later in the show. Okay. I'm ready. Look at that. All right, my people. Let's start out with the fathers going to the birds. Padres at Cardinals. Cardinals sweet Padres. What is you doing? Baby, eight two Cardinals, three, two Cardinals, eight seven Cardinals. Michaelis goes five and two-thirds. Shutout ending for the win in game one. O'Neill, our short king. Go ahead two-run Homer in the eighth inning of game two. That's after you, Darvish showed up. He went seven shutout innings still got the loss in the third game area to give up five runs four earned

And doesn't even make it out of the first before exiting with an injury The Cardinals are doing it the Padres are not they get sweats Moving on the Dodgers went into Cincinnati they took two out of three because that's all they do is win Series three one reds five one Dodgers eight five Dodgers Castillo does Castillo things go six and a third shutout innings with 10 Ks in game one. Scherzerzher things. Go 7 shuddy for the win in game two. He's got a 0.78 ERA through nine Dodgers starts since being traded.

I think that's good. In game three, Kersha, those five innings pitch with one earned run to get the win. He has a 1.93 ERA in his two starts since returning from the IL. Dodgers take two out of three. Brave has one up into San Francisco. Braves, you gotta stop the bleeding a little bit. Giants take two out of three because they're the Giants. Six, five Giants and extras, two nothing Giants before the Braves won.

Last game, three for nothing. That game one was a doozy, Galsman with the pinch hit walkoff, stack fly. That was after Darno hit a go-ahead three-run Homer in the top of the night, and Solano tied the game back up in the bottom of the ninth. It was mayhem, but great baseball. Game two was whatever. Creed then in game three showed up for the Braves. He stopped the bleeding.

He goes seven shutout innings for the win. Duval and Rosario hit back-to-back home runs. Rosario did a little something special. That'll be later on the show as well. Giants take two of three from the Braves. Moving on, the Phillies go into New York, and they take two of three from the Mets. Four three Phillies, five three Phillies, and then three, two Mets in game three. Backyard, Brad with the go-ahead home run in the fifth inning of game one.

Wheeler goes five innings pitch, one earn run for the win. Game two, Seguer had two home runs. Nola goes five and two thirds with one and run in nine Ks. The Mets got the game three on a McNeil. Go ahead home run in the seventh inning. Phillies take two out of three. Cubs went into Milwaukee. Of course, Milwaukee won this series.

They took two out of three, eight five brewers, six, four brewers, before the Cubs won the last game, six to four. The winning team, Jake, took the lead in the eighth inning of all three games. That's good baseball right there. Brewers did it with four in the eighth any of game one, including Keynes go ahead to run. Single, Mani Pena, go ahead, two run, home run.

It was a second homer at the game in the eighth inning of game two. Then the Cubs scored five in the eighth inning of game three, including a swindle, go ahead, RBI double. Patty is still Rakin. Brewers take two of three. Rockies at Nationals. Rockies take two out of three. They took the lead in the ninth.

any of game one on a Diaz home run and a Rogers go-ahead RBI single after the Nats took the lead with two in the eighth. Freethin goes six shutout endings for the win in game two, and Espino goes five and two-thirds shutout endings for the win in game three to avoid the sweep. And that's the most scoreless endings he's pitched in a game this season. Rockies take two out of three. And the final series in the National League, the Pirates, go down to Miami, and they take two of three because they have fucking Cole Tucker on their team. He had the go-ahead sack fly in the 6th and he had game one. He also hit an RBI single in game two. Something cool for the Marlins.

Nick Fortas, singles and homers in his first two career at Bats in game two in a losing effort. Marlins walk it off on a Lewin-Diaz, two-run, home run in game three. I have 20 seconds left before the music starts. So let's just say a little something. The National League is hot in the streets. Some teams got a, what is you doing, baby? Other teams took care of business. And that is what happened in the national fucking league.

I told you, I told you. Just don't snap for yourself. It was my episode today. Don't snap for yourself. The only thing that happened was Peter Morland tried to sabotage you, FaceTime me in the middle of it, which messed up the music. I heard that. It went higher, but guess what?

Didn't work. Doesn't affect you. I also put a stopwatch right here. Don't bring that. Don't bring that sidearm shit in here, Moylan. They're recording far. Fame. So he was just trying to do a crossover up, I think. Take that deep.

Yeah. I don't know. 500 career batting average. Whatever. Whoops. Can I open up the conversation? Because Jake was recording his morning show, Wake and Jake. It's a soundproof room. Sometimes some words leak out into where I'm sitting. So I didn't hear his full thoughts on this.

But I heard him say something. And it sounded like a change in demeanor a little bit. And I want to know if I heard right, if I heard wrong, are you somewhat back in on the Phil's catching the Braves? No. Okay. No, I don't know what you heard. I just heard you talking about the Phillies.

That's half of it. That's half of it for sure. You have the right team. Hey, good for the Phillies for being in the mix. They are two games back of the Braves. They were one game back heading into yesterday. So, hey, huge by the Braves to win the Sunday game to salvage that San Francisco, which, hey, San Francisco just beats teams.

So they salvage the series with the win. And that's where, you know, Phillies, Sunday night baseball, they were up on the Mets and they end up losing that game where, hey, the Phillies are obviously in it. When we went to the stadium, the Philly Stadium was dead. Harper has reignited his MVP campaign since then and good. The Phillies, for me, it's just I'm not going to believe it until it happens. And, like, they have an easy schedule the rest of the way.

We've talked about easy schedules and what's that mean. The Braves have four against the D-backs. So while the Phillies are playing the Pirates, how many times have we said the Pirates, wow, they won another series? Like, I'm just, I'm not going to believe in the Phillies until they are in the playoffs. They have the longest missed playoff streak in the National League.

Once they're in, I'll believe it. I love Bryce. Gene Segura, BPD knows. He's deserved some love, especially if Bryce Harper wins the MVP this year. Mean Gene, the fight and machine is going to deserve some love for what he's done in front of Bryce all year. The Phillies have a talented team. We've talked about it all year. They can scare you, especially if they get into a DS or something,

but I'm just not going to believe it until they're there because they never end up there. Okay. He doesn't believe. Treve's been out on the Phillies forever, though. I've gone back and forth. They really hurt me because they had the soft, soft schedule and have not taken advantage of it. Here's the thing. They're obviously in it because they play the Braves.

They have a three-game set against them starting September 28th. So they need to keep it within what? Two games? Yeah. At that point? You'd like it. They keep it within two games and they go do the damn thing. I believe they're at home, too.

So that's going to be a big, big freaking series. I mean, and the Braves, thank goodness, they salvaged that last game in San Francisco. There's no, you know, easy tasks to go up there and win. But we've been saying this about the NLE East all year long. Just when you think a team is, you know, running away with it or actually wants it, it doesn't seem like anybody is really going to take hold until what, the last day of the season or something like that. So it's good for baseball, man.

The Braves need someone to stay on their coat. because you want to go in to the postseason hot. So whichever team ends up getting this NLE's title, I'm kind of scared of them if I have to go play them. So that'll be the Giants for the Dodgers, right? I believe. Yeah, I'm not, though. I mean, you got Milwaukee just sitting and waiting and lining up all

Milwaukee, that's right. They're lining up all their starters, all their relievers. They got Ashby for a bulk guy. If any starter gets in trouble, it's bringing him out. I know what you're saying. They don't match up on paper necessarily, but man, when a team comes in hot like that, having to fend for their lives

for the last week or two weeks, it's Yeah, no, every game matters right now of those teams. So it's not going to be that much change when they get to the postseason. It's going to be like, hey, we've been doing this. Every games matter. It's sports talk stuff. And, you know, we're in it a little bit when you're talking about every game matter and all that stuff and when it's the last borer's game that really mattered.

Although the electricity and the, Milwaukee. Oh my God. Some of those stadium clips are incredible. I think, I mean, some that we haven't even gotten to talk about, and we just mapped out our playoff schedule a little bit and how nuts it's going to be. But stuff that does matter come playoffs that analytics people tell you don't matter, but guess what? Like, the Braves have been in the postseason the last few years and have been in a lot of big games. The brewers, they've been making the postseason. I know everyone was getting hot about the 2018 Brewers that made it to the CS or whatever like that.

The Braves, the last couple years, they're up three one on the Dodgers. They lost that to a really good Dodgers team that went on to win the World Series, but I don't know. I know what Ozzy Albies is going to be in a big moment. I know what Freddie Freeman's going to do in a big moment. Charlie Morton bet against that dude during the playoff times.

I dare you. So that's where, what Trev was saying, whatever NL East team makes the playoffs, A, they're the huge underdog, and they still got guys that can go out and get it. So they're going to be a scary five-game series for a team. Yeah, backs against the wall, man. I like that narrative because I believe it is true.

Coasting into the playoffs never really seems to work. Well, that's why the Giants and the Dodgers still fighting for first place, I think really benefits. them, and I said it last episode, it really hurts the Padres because the Bodgers are playing the Giants. If the Giants were in Coast mode, like kind of some of these other teams are, Astros, White Sox, and I don't really mean it as a detriment. I just mean they're locked up. Rays, Astros, White Sox, Brewers, like, they're not, nothing's on the line. They're not, there's no scary loss for them right now, really. But the Giants, they are ahead in their division by one game,

and the difference between that one game is crazy. So that's kind of why. to me that you have the two best records in baseball, and neither of those teams can coast into the playoffs. Like, their pedal has to stay completely down, and the Giants just win, dude. And Fangraphs only had three starting pitchers listed for the Giants for so long. They get Alex Wood back. They haven't pitched three innings.

And guess what the team does after that? They throw like seven relievers or six relievers, and they all just go one-inning shutout for the win in game two. Taylor Rogers blows the save in game one. one, but that's not going to beat the Giants because they just win. Don't worry, your starting pitcher Gosman's going to come save the day with a sack fly. Donnie Barrels. Very scary for the league when the two best records cannot coast into the postseason.

And I mentioned on the baseball today this morning, there's a possibility for a game 163. Yeah. Between those two teams. A very real possibility. And what would that look like? One of those two teams could also be eliminated with one game, which is the two teams. the other chaos around the Cubs had to do that, right? They had a one game, 163, they lost it,

and then they had to go play the Rockies and the wild card, and they lost that. So they went from tying the division to out. It's a wild, wild world, man. The extra wild card has made all of the races so much more interesting. I'm into it. You got to give Bobby Manfred some snaps. He did that.

Again, 163. You're on it, Trev. You woke up believing it in your bones stimulator. I think that that would be just an incredible storyline for baseball. And I'm here for baseball. It's hot in the streets. All we do is make the product. MLB as a product.

You know what this show does? Makes it better. We grow it. Add. You see me looking right in the camera right now? I saw it. You know who I'm talking to. Me.

She's talking to you. Anything else you guys want to talk about? Yes. Did any more teams get skull and cross-boned? Skull and cross-bound? Got a little glass now on that on. I think we do have some new teams that are dead. Miami maybe?

Miami, yes. Miami was not dead, dead. And now they are dead. We need to talk some Cardinals Padres. Because guess what? The Cardinals are the hottest team in baseball winner of eight straight. Tried to tell you it's bird season, baby. The Cardinals, they have their hot streak now. Like that was kind of the missing element.

They were in the wild card, but they'd never been hot all year. They are now hot, nine and one in their last 10, eight in a row. They sweep the Padres at home to basically flip the switch on the wild card. Padres are now in a death march, including some sideline action in the dug out there. But shout out to the Cardinals, man. They just keep winning, and they're three games up in the wild card. We got like 11 games left.

That's impressive. It's wild. Just a touch-up. Detroit and Anaheim also now dead officially. That's a real recap. We'll get there. Yeah, we'll get there. Just naming teams.

The Padres and the Cardinals is nuts. Did you see my graph that it took four hours to make? People loved it. My brother was saying like, hey, you're spending too much time. And I was like, yeah, this is like killing me. And then I was like, I think people are going to enjoy it, though. So thanks a shout to anyone who liked that tweet because it's the most I've spent time. I spent on anything.

I didn't know you did that yourself. Oh, my God, Trev. Yeah. Took forever. BPD helped me with the second one for the AL. That probably took an hour of BPD's time. But, yeah, the first one, nuts. That's very much like you to just approach a project and just go for it.

Yeah. Like that. Yeah. We have to talk about the Machado, Tatis thing. I think I got to apologize for my poor tweet. Wow. But also snaps to me for acknowledging how poor of a tweet it was. Yeah.

If anyone doesn't know, Tatis got rung up on a high fastball by Wayno, a little 40-year-old versus 22-year-old. And Phil Cousy behind the dish rings him up. And he didn't verbally say anything to Coussey. He just gave a very pouty face. And then Tingler ran out. And with the softest ejection of the year, the both booths didn't even show replay of it.

Like that's how uninterested people are in Chase Tingler right now, which was bizarre to me. I've never seen a manager run out, argue with an umpike. and neither broadcasts care to show a replay of it. I know, don't care. Like, we don't even have a shot of him getting thrown out. Maybe they show it way later in the game. But anyway, so Tingler gets ejected.

He's out. Tatis is still throwing his helmet in the dugout. After the inning ends, third base coach Bobby Dickerson comes over and gives him some tough love, which is his specialty. Like when the Padre signed him, it was because he was with Manny and Baltimore

and was a tough love guy. And Manny said he likes it. Keeps him honest. So Tatis is getting tough love from Dickerson And then Machado joins in And starts giving like the toughest of love you'll ever hear It's like everybody knows you're the best player in the world The whole stadium knows you're the best

Just go play baseball Play baseball I wouldn't know what to do if I was getting Aggressively screamed compliments at me in that fashion Never happened So I understand why Tatis was like what It happens to me a lot Um, mostly on the streets.

It's, it's crazy how big of a thing this became in the baseball world. It makes sense when you put it down on paper. It's Tatis, who's been kind of anointed next. And I've talked about many times how, like, most swag slash good since Griffey, like this, this guy is changing things for baseball, which is awesome. Um, and then Machado on the other side of it, who has a reputation, fair or not. I mean, some of it is fair. Some of his stuff from his younger day.

when he was Fernando Tatis's age, really doesn't age well. He did some not-so-hot things. And then since then, a lot of that has been blown up, just because people kind of wanted to and it gets you some clicks and things like that. So it's tough.

I do think baseball and a lot of the talking heads have landed in a good area on it. That, like, it's good leadership, and Mani Machado's grown up. But, yeah, for me, this kind of wasn't even a thing. but because of Twitter, the internet, which, hey, is a lot of what we do, it had to become a thing. I think it's a thing. I think it's really cool and interesting and, like, fascinating that someone got video footage of it.

And from the outset, it looks weird. But I think it's Machado's attempt at good leadership. I don't think it's good leadership. I think you do that in the dugout or in the clubhouse or quietly. Now they're going to get asked questions about it forever. And, like, they didn't go. The Padres push. them away from doing post-game press conferences like, well, the next time they get in a mic, dude, people are going to ask.

And now it became a thing. So I think Machado has a lot of good quotes out there. He did an interview with Britt, our friend Britt, Grelli. I always like Groly. Goroly. I always double-guess myself in the pronunciation. Where he said in Baltimore, I had a lot of older leadership, teach me like their way of baseball. And I was a young kid and I made a ton of mistakes. But I like what they taught me and I want to teach it to other guys. So I think the concept of what he's saying is perfect, but I probably... You don't like that he did it in the dugout? No.

Really? Okay. You get... Now it's a thing. I think you do that. If you know cameras run, you do it quietly or you do it in the clubhouse or something. But Trev, obviously you have the most insight here, being a former player. Yeah, I mean, I have no problem with what he did. I do agree with you.

Like, if you're going to like kind of scream like that, it's probably better to do it in the the tunnel. If you're just going to pull him aside. and talk to them. You can do it in the dugout, no problem. I don't know, man. Like, I think it's good for Tatis. There is this kind of,

there is an intersection here for guys that played, you know, kind of when I played. Machado, we came up probably around the same time. There was still very much, like, a tough love thing to rookies. And that's changed now. Now it's like, hey, rookies, like come feel as comfortable as possible. we want you to perform.

And I think that's, I think a middle ground there is good. You can't just let guys come to the big leagues and do whatever the fuck they want. It's too much. It's too hard. You have to have people kind of explain to you how to go about your business. And I think some of that has been lost in this changing of the guard, you know, like he said,

he had Adam Jones and J.J. Hardy. And, you know, I had guys like Justin Moreno and Josh Willingham. You know, a lot of times the, tell me like you're fucking up man like you've got to do this this this this don't just go be yourself like you got to be better than yourself you have to you know there's a lot of little things you have to do so there is this like intersection now between the guys that came up very recently who

haven't had that stern talking to they've been a lot of you can say it's coddling i fuck i feel like a boomer saying that word but it's true it's true for any industry too it's true for anything. Yeah. People learn from mistakes. So if there's someone that's been doing your job for 10 years, they probably got some mistakes they've made that they can like let you know about. But my thing was,

I don't even think Tatis was close to getting ejected. So he didn't, like his reaction wasn't, it was pouty. It wasn't like, like I don't think Tingler needed to get ejected. And then now all the articles are about how there's just, the leadership is just messed up in that clubhouse and,

and Dickerson and Fam got in a fight earlier in the year and Tingler, like no one cares about him at all. And I don't know. They're plummeting. They're starting Jake Arieta. That happens when you lose. Yeah. So I think it's interesting development.

I've been reading all the articles on it and the inside from the writers that are around the Padres. But it wouldn't happen if you just do that in the tunnel, say the same message. And different players react different. sometimes you need to sometimes a guy responds to getting kicked in the ass and then sometimes you have guys that absolutely don't respond to that they need a pat on the back so you kind of have to know who you're dealing with for instance i had a guy named dylan cousins i was in triple a with the

phillies at the end of my career and he was i thought he had all the talent in the fucking world but he was doing some things i thought that weren't going to like get him to the big leagues so i started calling him out and this was in the clubhouse i you know you know Bill and what, you know, what are you doing? Why are you here two hours after I'm here? And I would do that. Finally, he pulled me over on the side to the side. He's like, I know what you're trying to do. I just don't like it. That you're doing it in front of everybody. He's like, if you want to tell me those things, like come and tell me like to my face. He's like, I don't respond well to that type of criticism. That's very level of him. Like, well, it was knowing. That's very knowing himself. Yeah. And he can be your ass. He's huge. He's massive. But, you know, he came and said to me and I said, look, dude. He's. He's knowing. He's, he came and said to me. And I said, look, dude. He's. He's. He's. He. He. He. He. He. He. He. He. He. He. He. that's fucking awesome. Like, I, I,

the only reason I'm, you know, saying these things to you is because I believe in you. I'm not saying it to Joe Schmoe over there, who's doing the same thing you are. I don't believe in him. I believe in you. And you just have to know your,

your personnel when you're, when you're approaching. And everyone's different. So the leadership thing's a little interesting to me. You know, Tingler has caught a lot of flack. I think Dickerson's really, a really, really good coach.

I know him. and have had personal experiences with him. So I think he is good. Sometimes you need a mixture of hard asses and guys that'll pat you on the back. And that's where for the dugout, I think it might even be the right play. Because, hey, think about what we do and think about what a lot of other baseball shows do. What if we heard Mani Machado and Fernando Tatis had an altercation in the hallway? Because that would have got out.

And then what are we saying? We're punches thrown. Rats and raccoons. Exactly. We're speculating now. where instead we saw it. And like, these are two dudes, by the way, go look at the contracts. They're supposed to be buddies for a long time.

So knowing what happened and the circumstance in seeing their altercation, I think that's best case scenario. Because if we heard, now that everything's gone through, and Mani Machado with his reputation that part of it's unfair at this point, and Tatis, the young superstar, if we didn't know that Machado was yelling in his face saying, like, you're the best we need you out there, If we heard altercation in the hallway, we'd be like, our punch is thrown? Did Machado just sign his ticket out of here?

Instead, we kind of know what happened. He was just trying to reinforce Tatis, the young guy that, like, you got, we need you, dude. We need you. Brutal error by Tatis the next day. Brutal. Don't drop that. I'm glad you brought that up. Hold on.

I'm so happy you brought that out. I was just about to say there's a lot of people talking shit about Tatis and his defense. I want to go on record. I want to go on record right now. Freaking clip this, whatever. Fernando Tatis Jr. will win a gold glove at some position before his major league career is over.

He's too talented. He has heard this all year long, can't play shortstop. Now he can't play outfield. Guess what he's going to do in the offseason? He's going to work his ass off and come back and be a stud defender. I promise you that.

He has way too much talent to just forget about half of your game. You think he's not going to go work on it this off season? You're crazy. He's going to win a gold glove before it's all said and done. I like it. Like that. Do we want to talk about anything else in the NL before we move on? The Reds are now a game back behind the Cardinals.

Still in the mix. Podgers are still in the mix. I think those are the three teams there with what? 14 games left, 13 games left? Yeah. I want to give a shout out to Katie Wu, who covers the St. Louis Cardinals, and it kind of ties in to the Tatis thing. She said Cardinals scored their first run as a lazy fly ball off Aronado's bat, clangs off Fernando Tatis Jr.'s glove because the Padres have their all-store shirts,

stop playing center field. And there's a little bit, you know, obviously being tongue-in-cheek there, but it's a little bit of today's baseball that it's like, hey, we're kicking Nando out to the outfield for the rest of the year. And then Trev, yeah, he's an all-world athlete. He's going to be great. He's not going to be great. Because, like, you have to practice. Practice gets better.

Oh, he will. Some of these old sports adages that are getting lost is kind of chaos. Like, it's okay to yell at a guy. That's sometimes how people learn. He did really zoo the fly ball and then could have just, like, thrown it to third or to second base. He just tried to hammer it home. He needs work.

I understand. Man. He shouldn't be a great outfielder. Yeah. People in the chat saying, what do they say? He's got 21 airs. Like, he's never going to do it.

It's like he's going to work at it. You can get better at things. There's been many, many people who have been shitty at something and then worked at it and got better. Jake, at the beginning of this podcast, you know, episode 13, 14, 15, wasn't your best.

Now look at you, you're a stud. Is that a good example? MIP. James, you've always been good. You're just a natural. Wow. Damn. Brutal.

Oh, wait, this is what I want to. Gold gloves are overrated. You can be mediocre in one. Whatever, dude. I don't vote for the gold glove. I don't, you know. Remember when we had Jason Kendall on? You told us about voting for the gold glove?

It's better now than it was. How about that? I don't think so. but well they apply they apply more defensive metrics than I think the defensive metrics are snod out my nose well it used to be a silver slugger award masked as a gold glove so it's better now I don't think the people that vote for it I don't think the people that vote for the gold glove read those metrics no they did and recent years last year was all defensive metrics which is again baseball sprinting in the wrong direction overcompensate did they change the people

that vote because remember like Kendall told us stuff It was just like the coaches in the dugout. They would get handed a piece of paper, and sometimes they would tell a clubby, circle some names. Yeah. And then that's how they voted for the gold glove. Last year was pure defensive analytics. So there's no voting?

Last year. I'm not sure where they landed this year. Okay. Well, let's go to the American League. Brought to you by Draft Kings. Trev, Jake introduced me to the bet on Draft Kings, and I'm now five and one on this bet. And I think it's going to go away eventually. I didn't get to place one today because I forgot to,

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Good for the Red Sox sale. Full pension, Piv, and Avaldi. All pitch. They weren't lights out. The relievers pitched better for the Sox, but they all got the wins or the team got the win. Six of the 12 Orioles pitchers gave up three earned runs or more. Holy smokes. Sale went five innings pitch, one earned run for the win in game one.

Red Sox are 12 and two in their last 14 games, started by Avaldi or Sale. How about that? Bogarts with three hits and a home or four Riaz in game two. Red Sox took the lead with three runs in the seventh inning. of game three, including a Renfro go-ahead RBI double after Mancini hit a go-ahead three-run double in the top half of the inning to keep the sweep. The Indians came to the Bronx and they lost the first game to their old pal Cory Kluber. He shines, goes six innings pitch scoreless, but the Indians fight back.

They blow out the Yankees in game two, 11 to 3, and then blow them out again in game 3. 11 to 1. The Yankees in game 3 looked about as bad as a team can get no life. Mistakes on the base paths, mistakes with the gloves, mistakes with the arms, and the Indians capitalized on all of it. They scored seven runs in the fifth inning of game 2 after Gary Sanchez dropped an easy foul pop-out to keep the inning alive. And that went on to score all those runs. So good job by the Indians, Yankees. Bruton! The Blue Jays hosted the twins,

took two out of three. They finished the series with the twins' old pal Jose Barrios. And he was the only starting pitcher for either team to complete six innings in this series. Donaldson had three extra base hits

with two RBIs. He also said hi. He said hi to Vladdy Jr. He said, what's up, dude? How are you? Vladdy had five hits with a homer and a double. Bichette with four. hits Ryu got rocked for five earned runs and two innings pitch and goes on the IL with the next train

That's not fun nor good The A's went down to Anaheim and swept the Angels good for the A's keeping it alive their starting pitchers Absolutely dealt man swerving Irvin cap and Montes Man did they pitch combined a zero four seven ERA how about that all three of them had a quality start. Irvin, six innings pitch, one earn run. Caps, six, shutout innings, Manta, seven shutout innings.

Otani had a good outing on the mound. Chapman had four hits, three extra base hits and a home run. Olson, three hits with a homer. No other A's player record more than two hits, but they get the sweep. The Tigers and the Rays played four games, and they split them. Rays won the first two.

Big walk-off Homer by Phillips to win game two. Tigers win games three and four with Scoop. and Peralta on the mound or McClanahan which one yes McClanahan's on the race Soto fractured left ring finger how about that Peralta goes seven shut earnings for the win in game four and Kyle Funkhouser records his first career safe the funk White Sox went to Texas took two out of three from the Rangers Lynn got beat by his old team damn they blew him out in game one, one big in game two, Gialito versus Liles.

Mariners and Royals, the Mariners stay just there. They stay just enough. They're close. They're within striking distance barring a miracle. Flexen, Cacucci, Gilbert. I'll pitch well. And that is what happened in the American League. Always.

Trev, for me, this starts with a tale of two kitties. and something we say we're always looking for. A couple sweeps out there. A's and Red Sox, both on five-game winners. Red Sox were limping with the rest of the bunch and the wild card there. They now, playoff started today. It'd be in Fenway Pack. And they kind of got Sale and Evaldi ready to go.

Like they have a wild card game plan now. So kudos to the Red Sox for turning. the switch back on for now. Yankees and Red Sox with a big series this weekend. Hopefully that's some sort of fun for whatever side of the aisle you sit on. And the Oakland Athletics, we said they were pretty close to death. I think we said we couldn't come back and they dropped a game in the wild card standings because that wouldn't have been death. They gained.

And they've won five straight. So while their season was in the balance, if they had put up a two and three, I think they'd be dead dead. they are still very much in the mix. So go get your sweeps this time of year. They're huge. Huge. Boston's a scary team.

You know, we don't, I feel like we talk about them, but not really in depth enough on the show. But like you're saying, Jake, they're going to be in a wildcar game, it looks like. I mean, barring something crazy. Whether they host it or not, I don't know. But to have those two guys, you know,

sale and Evaldi ready at the helm. I don't know if they're going to do that. Did they say they're going to do that? No, they haven't said yet. I was speculating this morning. I just know Evaldi has been on a hell of a stretch and is now having a hell of a season. Sales numbers are still really good. He was out with COVID.

In his last start, he only had one punchy, but it was five innings two hit. So I just don't know what that looked like. But if you're Boston, you have options for that one game. And that's kind of something we questioned. If it was a month ago, we would have questioned. if Boston had a game plan for the wild card. If they were in it, they do know. And they can hit.

They got some freaking bangers in that lineup. I'd be scared to play the Red Sox in any playoff series right now. You know, they're one of those teams that if they weren't the Red Sox, I feel like they probably get way much more praise on this show. That's kind of shots fired at our head. Well, not really. I mean, at the start of the season, I was giving them all the praise. I mean, there's a full montage of me saying how jealous I am of the Red Sox.

I'm not saying it's us necessarily. I'm saying we almost kind of expect them to be like a good team. But there was a lot of question marks, I feel like, with this team going into the season, and they've answered every single question. And they've been here, they've been in the playoff hunt the entire season, and they've kept it going without sale.

And when they had to figure out some of their pitching, but now things are all, they're firing, man. I like this team. I like watching them a lot. I think Hunter Renfro has been, like, it's been awesome to watch him play there. J.D. Martinez doing his damn thing. They're scary. Scary team.

Red Sox, baby. That hitting scares you. Man, they got two with the Mets, surrounded by off days, and then three with the Yanks this weekend, which should be broken hearts either way, however it goes down. Of all, do you having a good stretch? And he's been really good for his last seven, eight games, I think. I think it's a two something year, like low two earrings, less eight games. That helps a lot.

Because he's kind of hot or cold for me. Yeah. I think he is in general. I mean, when he was with the Yankees, it was like, well, if he has his stuff, he's really good. And then some days he doesn't. But putting together eight solid starts going into the end of the year,

it's pretty huge. And yeah, if Sale throws the wild card and then it would be a Valdi Hawk, Hawk of Aldi, I don't know how they'd line it up. But sale helps them as, much as people thought he would help them. His slider, some of the sliders he's been thrown since he's been back are just unhittable.

They don't even, there was one, I don't know who was against. I saw a highlight of this slider. And when he takes some off of that pitch, it runs forever. It almost stops going towards the hitter and goes on the exact opposite plane, just goes across the plate.

Like doesn't go any more, like any close, to the catcher, it just goes across the plate. And gosh, it is so hard. Number one, even to pull the trigger on it, but when you do decide to pull the trigger and then you recognize it's going to be a ball and hit you in the shin, it's still hard to lay off it.

It's just such a different pitch. The Iglesias pickup, too, has been, I mean, Angels cut this dude. He's a glove guy. Red Sox pick him up. Now he's starting for them during this winning stretch and just hitting the shit out of the ball. That's hilarious.

Where's he starting at? Shortstop. Well, no. He started the first three games he started at shortstop. Now he's starting at second base. In his 12 games as a Red Sox, he has a 387 batting average, a 441 on base, and a 1.0.0. And I think he had a slow start. So I think in his last seven starts, which is his last seven games, he has a 455 batting average.

and a 520 on base percentage. So pretty nifty pickup by the Red Sox to just say, oh, we'll take that guy and then we'll just maybe we'll rejuvenate him and he'll go off for us for a little bit. Flyer season. I kind of got a shout out the Mariners. I think I pronounced them dead. I'm not sure if I did that or not.

But at least they're keeping their foot in the door. They take two or three from the Royals. Kelnick is like coming around. So that's a really good sign for those 2022 Mariners because we like the 22 mariners. Oh, yeah. And then obviously you have to give a shout out to J.P. Crawford. 80 wins.

Get over 500, Mariners. I mean, that's a... They're gonna get over 500. Zombies. They can make a run. Do it. I would love that. My goodness.

So he was playing short while Bogers was out. And then now Arauz. Jonathan, Ata-Oos. A-A-O-U. A guy. What else? We got the Blue Jays, taking two or three. Jim, I have something that somebody tweeted at me

about the CN Tower, the scary one. Hey, man, I wasn't like fully with you when you said that, but then when you sent me that picture and when, and I totally get how you could stare up at that and get dizzy. Yes. You could think yourself into that thing is wobbling. Some guy, he must be from Toronto. He knows a lot about the CN Tower told me they've built it.

So if it did ever tumble over, which is crazy to think about, he said they built it in a way that it would go into, the lake or the bay, the body of water. Almost need to see it tip over now. Awesome. Kind of. I need to see. How do you do that?

Is it weighted that way or something? What's the official term for it? I believe it's the C.N. Tower. I mean, I know this is a math, science, engineering pod, but, like, what if the wind's blowing the other way? It would be kind of my argument to that guy. Do they, I mean, at the visitor... Wind?

At the visitor center, do they have, like, Like, you know, the engineers had to, like, do a render of like, if it fell, this is where and how it would fall. Like, show me that YouTube rendering of like a fake animation of like what would happen. Oh, you want to see that? Yes, I don't want to see it actually fall. I just want to see when they say we made sure it would fall this way. There's definitely renderings. Show me the renderings of the top.

Things got, had to be built, what, in the 80s? It's like a new building. I'd ask you. I don't know, man. But shout out Blue J is taking two or three from the Twinkies, Bereo shoving against his former team. The Vladdy Donald's thing was awesome. Donaldson is beloved in Toronto.

And anybody else did that after a game? I'd be like, that's weird, but it seemed right to me. Vladdy, Donaldson. I think this was Donaldson saying like, hey, this could be your MVP, even though we know it's probably not going to happen. Pretty cool moment. What did Vladie say after the game? Did you guys catch any of the comments?

I did not. Nobody? Half question. You looking at renderings? No, I was looking at Erruz. He's on the COVID list right now. So when he comes back, I wonder if they have a decision to make, if it's a glacious hot streak till he goes for the Red Sox.

But I like when guys pick up a guy and then he's just going off. They might want to get away from him because I don't think he can make the postseason roster anyways, right? I think they picked them after the deadline. No, they can't, yeah. Yeah. So that's like a catch-22 there. That's ever a big bummer for him. A weird baseball.

Oakland, the other team I mentioned with them. They're playing Seattle, so that's going to be fun. Get hot Seattle. Get Oakland away from the wild card. I got to ask you guys, before we move on. Got to ask. I know they weren't necessarily, booing Garrett Cole, but that was a bad look, but you know, they were a booing

Gary Cole. Why is that a bad look, dude? It's a must-win game and he shit the bed. You're allowed to boo that moment. No, because if he didn't have Garrett Cole, it'd be, it'd be, oh my. Not every boo is like, we're booing you in your life and your entire career. Dude, it's a must-win game and you just had your worst outing of the season. Boo, that.

The anti-boot people. I don't think they were booing. I don't think they were booing Garrett Cole necessarily. I can promise you they were. They're booing this situation in general. If they were booing Garrett Cole specifically, I think he's not just him, but it's like everything.

Like the season basically ended that day. That's what I'm saying. And it was Garrett Cole's like going to save it. The season ended that day? Are you declaring the Yankees dead right now? Like for real. It's like, I hate that you think that's a real conversation and it's not.

You said the series ended that day. Like I think there's not a single Yankee fan. left with hope. Sure, they can win six in a row, but then, like, what is the wild card? Do we really, is it like 2015? We're like, all right, like, maybe there's a magic run here. But, I mean, yeah, like, there's more Yankees fans rooting for them to miss the playoffs and the organization changed their mindset at this point than they are for them to go on a run. Because no one believes in a run. But, man, you're like, it's just, he had this worst outing of the season in the game where we needed him to have his best outing.

boo. I don't know, man. I don't know. I think it's ridiculous. I get that that's like the whole part of Yankees fandom and the culture and New York media and New York is tough and all this stuff. But like it doesn't make any sense, dude. He's been your guy. He's stopped your losing streaks.

He's been everything that's advertised had a bad game. Boo. Boo, a bad game. Come on, man. The boo still has controversy. It means different things to different people. Like you guys are saying. I don't, Susan Waldman, who.

you know, we hold close to a religious figure, also had a hilarious quote that we had on the Jay Sterling calls, which is like, would she say, like, how can you people be doing this? Or what's wrong with you people? And she loves Garrett Cole. They're like very quick, what's wrong with you people? Sure, but she's also seen a lot of base. Yeah, exactly.

They said it on the broadcast. What you guys are both saying is fair and there's never going to be a solution. It's how you quantify the boo in your head. It means a lot to some people. It means nothing to others. There will never be a solution. The conversation will go till the end of time. Yeah, I don't care about that.

I was... The boo's gotta mean something. No. Then what does the boo mean? I don't like what just happened. I don't like what just happened. That's just straight up entitlement. Boo.

Ghosts. Halloween. Boo. What's their deal? I... We can move on after this, but I've gained so much respect for Garrett Cole this year. Same. I love Gary Cole.

What he's done. Garrett Cole and Stan are the biggest, like, representations of how I want a Yankee player to be at all times. Because they got that bag. Yeah, they're living life a little bit easier. But I'm not even talking. I'm talking about post-game interviews the way they handle the fans. I agree with you. That allows them to be, like, their guard is down.

Less to lose. Yeah. They're just so honest. I think if you're just, I think if you're just booing just to boo, it doesn't mean anything. Dude, those people were not booing just to boo. They were booing the fact that Garrett Cole had a bad start on what was an important day for the Yankee season. Where you land on that, do episodes on it. We could do episodes on it.

People write songs about it. Love, booing, sex, all the same. It comes from emotion. I don't, I'd like the record to show I don't have love, booing, and sex in the same quadrant. Yeah. I just don't think it's as harmful as non-New Yorkers make it out to be or non- like people in the stadium. Like I think if you're at the stadium.

And dude, a lot of times that was a loud boo, a lot of times we'll go to games and there will be maybe 10 people in one section that boo. And then all the beat reporters will be like, Aaron Judge, getting booze as he walks off. And then Twitter's like, look at these assholes. And I'm like, that was five guys. Like, we've been at the stadium where we got asked. Like, did they boo? Did they really boo?

X and I'm like, what? No? Didn't notice. Didn't notice. It's like if you sit underneath the beat reporters and they hear you, they'll just tweet out. Like, now they're booing because they know non-Yankee fans just like get their panties in a bunch about how Yankee fans act at Yankee games. Now I don't like giving the boo attention. I'm just saying, you know, Susie was a big booze. Susie said, what are you guys doing? It was a frustration. Come on people or something like that. Like that wasn't one of the ones like, No, that wasn't.

That wasn't a smattering. Oh, they booed him? That was like, that was the worst game of the year. Yeah. Susan reached out, by the way. Good. Yeah. She's the best.

Jake? We done in the AO? Any other teams need to be talked about? What else he got, John? What else happened? The Rays are kind of losing, but I don't think it matters. So, Ray's fans, like, what's going on right now? Do you care?

If a raise fan reached out and says that they're worried, then I'll, like, dig into stats, but I would guess they're not at all. I mean, man, if I'm a raise fan and you tell me we're going to split two with the Tigers and I'm going to get that Brett Phillips walk off in a moment, I think I shake hands on that. I'm like, yeah, deal.

Yeah. That was awesome. That was pretty cool. Luis Head was the opener. Head to Open. Luis? Lewis? Lewis.

His transaction page is hilarious. He's their guy that just goes up down, up, down, up down. Biggest snip, snap guy. Sweet Lou. This account does not exist, so deleted his Twitter. Damn. Damn. Jake, are you going to tell us what happened in the I-L?

I'm sure, can we get a preemptive robo fix? Wow. I was going to say that. Ready? Gonna miss it. The series of the weekend, the series everyone is talking about, My Snakes went down to Houston for a three-game set. What if I told you two of these games went to extra innings,

including the first Brandon Belak, first Mad, bum. That game goes 10. Astros win. A little hit by pitch walk-off. How's that do it for you? Chas McCormick. Just too many Cs in the name. I don't want to be rude.

I'm trying to heal things between Yankees and Astros fans. Just a lot of Cs when I read Chas McCormick's name. Game two, the snakes will not go quietly into the night. They win 6'4 in the 10th. Cole Calhoun and Dalton Varsho, my short king. With the big homer, they win that. And then 7-6 in a Battle of the Zaks. Grinky versus Galin.

We got some scoring early. Kyle Tucker left game three with some right shoulder discomfort. Don't like that. Michael Brantley beginning baseball activities as he tries to come back. Oda Rizzy, optimistic, he'll be able to come back from his 10-day IEL sent. And the other really fun moment in the series was Kyle Tucker purposely getting picked off in game three so the debacks couldn't challenge Gueriel tagging up and leaving early. That was a fun baseball one.

Astros win two out of three against the Snakes. Good job. Stros. Chas McCormick's middle name? Yes. Cain. Yeah. With a C. Ah. Okay. Chas McCormick, uh, it's a 30% C ratio. It's too many Cs. Four out of 13. I wonder what the most, what guys, send in real life people that have the biggest C ratio in their names. Chaz McCormick. Cookie Carasco? some fun baseball in this.

That's three. Ames not cookie either. Could be. We had a Zach Battle, which I know that always speaks to you. Hit by pitch walkoff. Granky versus Gallin, right? Yep. I almost bet on that one.

And then, yeah, I mean, I guess the fun one that, you know, was making the internet rounds, partially due to our massive platform. Oh, my God. Kyle Tucker purposely getting picked off with some high, high IQ baseball. I didn't know about that at all. I wonder, I think the third base coach had to know.

I instead of, did there post-game interviews about it all? I haven't watched. But that is pretty cool. To know that rule. Like to read that somewhere. Because you've got to read the rulebook. Or you see it happen somewhere else and you just put in the back of your brain, like, all right, I'm going to do this.

So it's kind of, I'd say the equivalent, because I think you're going past it too much, would be the football when a wider receiver has a controversial catch and they run up to the line and they run a play. Basically, the play happens, pitchers on the mound and while they're thinking of reviewing it, Kyle Tucker takes off for home. Yeah, yeah. And they pick them off that way. So it's basically, they knew it was going to be controversial, but if the pitcher makes a play for Kyle Tucker. Yeah, but you have to know the rule is make a play.

Yeah, I didn't know that. Well, if something happens on the field, you can't go back, you know. Yeah, because you can't. It's not a timeout. I want to appeal it. It's like you have to get on the rubber, step off, and then appeal it. So like Jake says, it's essentially just going up and snapping the ball right away. He's probably had it in his mind, like, for a long time.

So if the Diamondbacks just ignore him, if the Diamondbacks just ignore him and say appeal, Dahl says plays dead, come back to third and Tucker just has to go back to third? I don't think so. If there's like an active play going on, I think that it. they forced them to not be able to appeal. It's kind of a loophole in the system. Yeah, it's a little bit of a loophole then. Because if you'd rather have that run stay.

So, and the only way to get that out called is to appeal, right? Umpires keep the memory in their head. Yeah. So if you have a runner on third and another runner on base, and the runner on third is the, is the tying run, especially if there's, what doesn't matter. If there's a tying run, so in the future of baseball, an absolute loophole.

There's two runners on base. Runner on third is a tying run. You want 100% leave early. Why wouldn't you? Is there any, if you know this loophole, you have to leave early, score, and then as they appeal, the other runner just starts running around.

I would hope the rule says that the umpire when they just throw it a third and they say appeal that he says okay dead go back to the base and the appeal overrides but if it doesn't then this should be very common should happen five times a season i mean it's yeah you trade it out for the game tying it's got to be the game tying or go ahead run and there's got to be you know probably two outs and runners on second and third or first and third so you know you do have there's only one out there you have to add up the coins a little bit. Yeah, I guess if you take in the lead,

you don't care about that too much. What's interesting is because it is a live ball, it's not a dead ball play, dead ball appeal, it's a live ball appeal. Say they were just to say, fuck it, you go run, will just appeal. Well, now that runs scores. So even if they appeal and get it right,

they're still a run scored. So it is a very interesting situation. Now the more and more we're talking about, I'm like, this seems stupid. I would hope they, I don't know the rule. It makes sense to me, that they thought about this and said,

if the, if the Diamondbacks just said, well, fuck him, we're appealing that. The umpire would say, okay, plays dead real quick. You're coming back to third. Why do you have to step on the mound and step off to appeal?

How dumb is that? You should just say, we want to appeal and point, whatever. That's the, baseball has some dumb rules that need to be fixed, like this one.

Yeah. You make the pitcher able to walk a hitter, by pointing. But to appeal, you have to stand. Yeah, you should just call time. And I mean, we saw a loophole with the appeal earlier. I did a breakdown on when Tony the Roos was mad at it because they used a mound visit to buy them time to watch more replay.

And then they appealed. And then they got to challenge the appeal, not the play that happened. because time lasted too long to challenge the play. Their 30 seconds went out. They bought themselves an extra 30 seconds, appealed it, then challenged the appeal because they knew they were right via replay. So the whole appeal process is providing a lot of loopholes.

What happens when you make new rules? Hmm. And you have a game that has a rulebook that's wild. Wild. Wild. All right, good stuff. Let's go on to the second half of the show. where we discuss individual performances,

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Trev, you go first. It's your episode. Did you say new and exciting angles? I did. Mm. Mm. Anyways, my standout performance will be going to my former teammate, my former friend. I've talked about how much I love this guy in the show quite a bit.

He did something pretty spectacular here. It's Eddie Rosario. Is your phone by your mic? It's not. I'm roboting. No, you're just getting a lot of feedback. Fuzz. A little fuzz.

A little peach fuzz. Eddie Rosario hits for the fucking cycle in San Fran. And he did it on five pitches. He's always a free swinger. He doesn't walk a lot. We know that about Eddie. Things went his way. Hits the double in the first inning.

Then gets one in Triple's Alley out there. Bryant almost made the catch. It stayed in the park. He gets a what could have been a stand-up triple. He ended up sliding. Then the Homer off of the top of the wall ends up in McCovey Cove. And then his last at bat first pitch swinging

loops a little single into center field for the cycle and immediately asking for the ball. I love that one. Players do that. Give me the ball. It's like everybody knows, bro. We'll get you the ball back. So shout out Eddie Rosario.

Kind of a sneaky pickup for the Braves. Sneaky, sneaky little pickup there for the Braves. He hits for the cycle on five pitches. So snaps for him. That was the coolest part, five pitches. Just swinging. Just swinging. What else are you going to do?

Throw it up there. Man, the Braves, they deserve a little love. Eddie Rosario, he's got a one dot on the Braves, 19 games, whatever. Sollair in the 8th, Adam Duval in the 8th. they made a lot of little moves that they're making it happen for them. Love Eddie. Yeah, and people are saying ESPN was calling him everyday Eddie. That is not his nickname.

That's Eddie Gordardo, former relief pitcher for the Minnesota Twins. So stop saying that. Yeah. Every Eddie can get it smattered around every now and then. Yeah. Rosario is one of those guys that brings a lot of energy, but never looks like he's playing with any energy. He's very stoned.

He's almost like Francisco Liriano and like the way that he's very much just quiet that just goes out and does his thing. Every once in a while you'll see some emotion come out of him but then straight back to like the face. He gave you a look when we when we were at Twin Spring Training when he saw you. He's like, I fuck with ploof.

That's my guy. Yeah. We've had some good times together. Like that. Offseason app. Hmm. New and exciting. goals. My standout performer is Shoah O'Hanee.

And he gets talked about a ton. But eight innings pitch, two earn runs, 10Ks, his ERA drops down to 3.2. He started 23 games now. I do think that after his outing before this, when he went 3.1 with six earned runs, and then two before that was only 5'4, and the ERA jumped up to the threes. It was in the twos forever. He jumped it up to the threes. He gets it back down to 3-28 here,

which is one more start again. He can get it back down. But a lot of heating up now is Vladdy Triple Crown, MVP, and a lot of people have been saying forever, well, you know, showy's got locked up. He's doing things we've never seen before. I think this is like it was cemented, in my opinion, but now it's like double cemented.

after this outing, he just has it, and we can't really fight it anymore. But Blue Jays fans, like I understand. Want to know why I understand? And you're going to be annoyed by this. Miguel Anduard had a better rookie season than Shohei Otani. But I came on talking Yanks, and I said, Shoay Otani is the rookie of the year. He's doing something we've never seen before.

Even though Andrew's numbers are better and he played more games and helped his team more, Otani is rookie of the year because he is the rookie that you're going to talk about. So I've been in the situation to a lesser, lesser extent as Blue Jays fans because they're arguing. They're trying to come out Otani. They're making it a personal battle. Otani's the MVP. The cement has been cemented with his start against the A's. Saved us a couple weeks of talking heads given a Vlad argument.

Exactly. He just kind of said like, no, all those conversations you're planning on having if I have another bad start. Yeah. Just bury them. Well, they were saying he wasn't going to pitch again for the rest of this season, right? Wasn't that like a rumor going on? And then he just came back and pitched and did really well. Yeah, this start wasn't even lined up.

He threw a bullpen day and they said he looked good, felt good. So they threw him another one. Worked out. He's the man. Baseball reference has him at 8.1 war this season. Live lad pitch. Although I will say this. Leads the league and caught stealing.

He's just got bad jumps. So fast. How does he... How about my rental draft idea? Would you guys like it now? He's on the Angels. Nobody cares about his cot stealing. If he racks up a couple more steals, that's what we're going to talk about at the end of the year than the caught stealings. I'm just joking. Like, he's the best. I think his ratio's still fine.

23 and 9? If I did the math, right, it's about just under 75%. I think you want above 80, right? Math pod. Mm, Massivant, PBD. What does that mean? We said, like, the top 10 players that aren't on postseason teams go up for a lottery draft, and each team that makes the playoffs gets to draft a player.

It'd be crazy. What if, like, if you won the wild card game, you get to pick one player from the team that you beat? That's also, we said that. We've done this a few times now, yeah, it's NBA Street rules. Yeah. Hmm, hot. You beat the Memphis Grizzlies, you get Stroh Miles Swift. That's how it works.

Obviously. Yeah. Everyone knows that. Jake, who did you look at and say, you know what? That's like I has my standout. BPD, I sent you something that I think needs to be put over the screen. I have no problem if it goes over my own face. Hmm.

My king, my six-foot king, Tyler O'Neill, zoom in on that bad boy, BBD. The Cardinals. Oh, my God. The Cardinals. tweeted out. They did like, our guys are showing up to the building with swag today. Jack Flaherty was on their list, and by the way, he looked phenomenal. Tyler O'Neill, who's getting this, it's a one for four.

You're saying, Jake, why a one for four? That one was a two-run homer in the eighth inning to win the Cardinals the game, which, by the way, if the Padres win that game and you're going into a deciding game three, that changes the outlook for game three, even though Arieta was on the bump. Tyler O'Neill hits the game winning, two-run Homer, two strikes, and then he shows up the next day in this fit, which I'm not going to take any shots fired. I'm, you know, I would probably wear that fit. I think Tyler O'Neill is going to look at that outfit in a couple years and laugh.

That's just a dude who loves Mission Impossible. Those are his favorite movies. Listed. And by the way, I know, James, you gave a beautiful speech, how this is a standout one-day performance. Baseball reference war, B-war. Tyler O'Neill is having the sixth best season in the National League. 5.3 war.

He is having a monster year right now. And won them that game, won them that series, 26 years old, listed at 511 on baseball reference, which means hard 5-9. Wait, put the picture back up. We'd love to see him naked. Where do I find this on my own screen? Why does he have, why is he carrying three baseballs walking into the park?

Like what are those baseballs? They're signed. He's giving them out to people. Maybe he's got a backpack. Oh, dude, on full screen. Yes. With color. I didn't realize the shirt was purple.

Yeah. I didn't realize the boots exist. Yeah. The pockets are so full. Those pockets are so deep for those pants. Yeah, Jimmy, he has a backpack. Dude, whatever's in his left. Whatever's in his, he basically has like football pads.

His cell phone looks like a football pad in his left pocket or whatever it is. Like that's such a low pocket. And can you explain the left pocket to me? Not our left, his left. It's so low. I think we've got a big phone that might be iPhone 13, 12, and then I think we've got a standard wallet in the other pocket. But map out the wallet to the waist in the pants.

Oh, it's a deep pocket. It's a deep pocket. That could be like a custom pocket. There's no belt. There's high class, high fashion shoes when you zoom in on those. I'm just, here's what I'm saying. Tyler O'Neill, my guy, breaking out this year, awesome. I think in this, in a couple years, he looks back at this outfit and he laughs a little bit.

Because, by the way, in the Cardinals' original tweet about it, Jack Flaherty, as I mentioned, is on the list. And that's where Tyler O'Neill will be in about a season and a half, Jack Flaherty swag. But right now... I got to make a statement to the people about the fashion. Please. I, too, am a...

I like wearing pants. You know, what do you call them? Three-quarter pants. You're not capris. They're longer. I'm short-knit. You can't wear the three-quarter pants. quarter pants with high shoes.

My bad. You got to go with like a low cut loafer there or something. Jack looks great. Sneakers on that, but you don't go high boot, high pants. Everybody knows that. Sosa looks like a hit man. Where, what I'm having a lot of trouble on is where, what region of America is Tyler O'Neill from that he's dressing like that?

There you just found it, Jim. Yeah. He's not. He's Canadian. Yeah. How do you not know that, Jimmy? You just found your answer. This is a dude from Canada visits a big city for the first time.

Tyler, we love you. I mean, those boots with that shirt and sunglasses has never been done before. That's three different states coming together to party on the same human. It's great. That's a Canadian in Vegas. I want to know why you have a backpack, but you're still using your pockets. Dude, that's a non-pocket. The pants are so deep if you didn't fill those pants

with something in the pockets. I think the pockets just look like. They're out. They're just the biggest pockets they're seen. I love him. God, I love him too. He's the best. He's so jacked, though.

Where the Cardinals do spring training? Arizona? No. Okay. Good talk. It's a hard. No. Jupiter?

I'd like to take. They share with the Marlins. I'd like to take, topless pick with Tyler O'Neill. Oh, he's from Vancouver. I'm going to text Flaherty and ask him, like, what happened here? We need to know, like, what's going on. Vancouver kind of adds up.

Vancouver's such a weird town. It's nice, but it's such a weird town. Like, what happens here? Like, what are you guys about? I don't even know. I visited it. Couldn't get a vibe. All right, where's J. Flair?

You texting him right now? Good standout, Jake. Thank you. Thank you. Six best war. in the National League. Tyler O'Neill. Enjoy texting Jay Flair.

See you later, Trev. We have five guys on Slump Watch. Christian Yelich and Rike Hernandez, Abraham Toro, Nelson Cruz, Randy Orozerania. We got five potential additions. Slump Watch is only a couple more episodes to go here. I hope that we got some of these guys hot.

What happened? It looks like at least one of them will come off definitively, and the guys potentially coming on. I know our guy Max tried to keep it all to relevant teams because we don't care if we get other people hot. George Springer, 0 for 11, three walks, 5Ks. Starling Marte, O for 13, with a walk. Darren Ruff, O for 8, walk 4Ks.

Max Muncie, O for 7, walk, hit by pitch, 6Ks, and Jonathan V.R. O for 10, 4Ks. Damn, okay. Yelly went 3 for 12 with a double 3 RBIs and 2 walks. It's not hot, but the OBPs. there and it's good enough. Yeah, I've got Yelley off. That's a fine series. I'm going to do one. Kike! 4 for 11 with two doubles, three RBIs, 429 OBP as they swept and he performed.

That's two claps. I went five. Wow. Abraham Toro. Oh for 11. Not good. Did you see the Astros just did dress like Zach Grankee Day? Yep. And it's like awesome. I tweeted it out last night and I was like, you know, there's Yankee fans that the word Astro will just always send them into a spiral. Zach Rinky Day is one of the best things this baseball season's provided.

It is. Lindsey Adler retweeted in. It was like, so I dress like Zach Rinky? That got me good. Zach Rinkie Day good. Toro, he stays on, I guess. Nelson Cruz, he's on. Randi. Did you hear that

the Padres really wanted Nelson Cruz for leadership? They're like, We'll play him at first base. We just want them because he knew Manny when they were in Baltimore together. We just want them for leadership. And then the race snagged him. Kind of a funny outlook of showing how much they felt the clubhouse needed a stabilizer or something. Nelson Cruz O for four.

Let's just take Cruz off. Yeah, we've got to leave one of the rays, I feel like. We'll leave Randy. Randy's the goat. I mean, he's got to get ready for playoff mode anyway. Yeah, that's smart. We'll leave Toro because he's now what? one for 22 and they've got a big series against Oakland.

I want Springer on there. I mean, he's a huge piece of what Taranty's doing. Sarling Marte on the A's. He's been crazy. Some of his stats are ridiculous. And then Muncie. Yeah, Muncie's a weird one for me because, like, he's got to be off.

Yeah, so it's a win for us. Okay. Shows off of Paris. Done. And Darren Ruff, I can't get into him. I know. You can't. But I want to.

I want to. I think if you said the whole story to yourself, I think you'd like it. I want to be a big Darren Ruff fan. Like, was out of MLB. Yeah, I know. For Slump Watch purposes, it looks like only two games, too, so easy to just not do it. Having a big year. Dude, he's like, yeah, he's having a big year.

I don't know what's going on. I should be a big Darren Ruff fan. I can't figure it out. It's a me thing. No one will worry about this. It'll happen. I mean, Mr. Ruff. is hilarious

I think it's RUF I think that's getting in your way a little bit If it was two Fs I think that's closer Yeah

He's also got like Such pretty eyes That it weirds me out Like doing it The way he moves in the outfield You'd think he's taller Than 6-2 Mm

Burly He looks He moves in the outfield Like how you think Judge would move Mm Kind of lumbers Lumbers

Yeah From like the five plays I've seen If he and Judge switched the way they move around the outfield, that would make a lot more sense. Yeah. I'd like to love Darren Ruff. I'll tune in plays. Done.

Okay. Is Trev back? Not yet. Trevor. That means I'm on Fuego. That means I'm on fire, baby. Like Waco. I mean, lizards got to eat.

Oh, can you remind Trevor that I'm mad at him again? Yeah. Done. Jeez, Treve. Kielnick went off. Jake. Love that. He had two games that were suggested for standouts.

He went five for nine with three bombs, two doubles, seven RBIs and three walks. Damn, three homers, two double, five extra base hits and three walks? That's a 1.7 OPS on the series. Jose Ramirez terrorized the Yankees. It was six for ten with two homers. One off call was an absolute bomb. Go watch that homer. Like, geez.

When lefties do that in Yankees. stadium, it's just so cool to watch. When they go upper deck and it's just off the bat, you're like, oh, my God, that's upper deck. D-D used to do it sometimes, but it's cool to watch. Go watch that, Homer. Brendan Rogers, 6 for 13 with two homers and a double. Jean Segura.

Five for 13 with two homers. Eddie Rosario, 6 for 11 with the homer. Vladi Jr. 5 for 9 with the homer. Ty France. Mm-hmm. And Co-Tuck, 6 for 11 with a triple a double. Double. Hey, I haven't seen his triple. Is it sexy? Whoops. I think you answered your own question.

Yeah, I guess the question was how sexy is it. Yeah. I'll go watch it. Trev, mad at you. Still no lizard pick. James, I haven't seen it. I have seen his deposits where he usually sits. Full, full caterpillar pooped out. Yeah, lizard will run into him again. Yeah, lizard poop. You can tell it's lizard poop because. It's kind of like a cylinder looking thing And then it'll have a white ball at the end

It'll be brown And a little whiteness at the end And so you can tell it's lizard food I told my wife That you fed a cow to a lizard And then I just let it sit for a second Like a, you know, just let And then she said

That's weird And I said, yeah, he feels real guilty about it She didn't really have a response to that, but Don't like, I don't like That you're making Katie think that I'm a strange person because she's a saint. I didn't know if she would

I didn't know what side she was going to land on. She kind of didn't land on either which I think is where I am. I think it's funny how weird you feel about it. I didn't like dangle it and like feed it like some grapes to a king. I just left it there for him. Well, you know.

Did you see him eat it? No, for all I know, the caterpillar got away. Oh, dude, you didn't feed it. You didn't feed a fucking... You didn't feed. the lizard and you held the caterpillar by one and you held the caterpillar by one end and the lizard ate it out of your hand then what's it all been about it's a waste i put it graphics department cancel the t-shirt yeah i put it scuba at the base of this lizard's home the lizard was there he's going to eat the cat

dude for all we know you created a friendship yeah that lizard's raising the caterpillar in his belly. What the thing? Crosperid. Lizards, let me tell you something. Dude, if the lizard ate it, it's probably turning into a butterfly. Like, that's a fucking natural-made cocoon.

Science. I'm not sure about that. Caterpillar, I'm going to take a picture of the caterpillar because it's cylinder with brown on the front and a little bit of white ball at the end. That's what that caterpillar is now. Poop. He was the same color as my sweatshirt.

Beautiful green. Do fucking awards and end the show. Awards brought to you by Jake's knees. You almost went jamboy with that, and then you ended up coach ball game. What did you think I was going to say? Some, an inappropriate region. No, I was going to say shoes.

But then I thought they'd actually think you were wearing a sponsored shoes. So I traveled up your body until I saw your knees. And that's who awards are brought to us by. Trabb, do you have an award? I do I'm changing the show's name right now to talk in tennis for the second time

I already talked about Marty Fish Yeah Mr. Fish Now I'm going to Someone who I love Very much My Egyptian goddess Over the weekend Went into the Hidden Hills

Tennis tournament She was really nervous before it She told me that And I was like Can't believe you're nervous you're ready to go. Like you should be excited. I saw her slam an energy drink.

What kind? Yesterday, Celsius. It's like a zero sugar thing. Yeah, they're badass. Then yesterday, and I'll be posting a picture of this later on my social media. Olivia, my Egyptian goddess, was wasting the trophy. She won the Hidden Hills tennis tournaments. I'm a very proud husband.

She worked hard. She wanted to compete and win this thing, and she did it. So we had a hell of a weekend of sports here. None of it by me. Teddy scored a touchdown. Tiddy Teddy. He scored a goal in his soccer game, and he blasted a pitch in our baseball game.

So big, big sports weekend here at the Plouf household. But shout out my beautiful, beautiful wife, Olivia, taken down the tournament. She got a big-ass trophy. and I even think she had a Bud Light right after she won it. Obviously. Celebration Bud Light. So shout out Olivia.

Great job. Out of the ploose. Yeah. He can't spell Teddy without TD. You know what I'm saying? Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm. Dude, I did so much research for my award.

And I did so much research that I decided it's going to be my topic for the midweek episode. and not my award because it's just so much, so much effort went into it. So I don't have an award lined up. So I'm going to give it to the, I'm going to give it the, my award is the, Yep.

Yep. Tyler O'Neill's outfit? Yep. Oh, I did get a response from J. Flair, if you want to know. What do you say? You kidding me? It's right here. I have a lot of things open on my freaking screen, okay?

I sent him the picture. I said, what happened here? I said, my guy is on fire, but that outfit. And he said, ha, ha, ha, how the F should I know? Our guys can't dress. And then some other things I can't necessarily share. But it's pretty funny. Yeah, so there it is.

That's the Yop Award. And Jake? You got to That was it That was it Yeah Goes to the cards For not being able to dress

That kind of speaks to you Now my award is the Deep Pockets award Here we go Yeah The Deep Pockets award And it goes to the Dodgers For having the highest payroll in baseball Put money back into the players' hands

Appreciate your Dodgers Nice man Yeah Send a message Yeah And you know maybe Tyler O'Neill, maybe he's looking to fill those deep pockets in arbitration when he gets there in a couple years. Thanks.

Powerful stuff. That's important. Yeah. Imported. Jake? I'm giving out the Stewing gravy award. The stewing? Stewing gravy.

It's on the sheet. Stewing gravy. Okay. I think I gave out an award similar to this earlier in the year. And I want to follow up on it. You may have heard me mention it when I talked about Short King, Tyler O'Neill, that he was sixth in the National League in B-War. Pretty good, right?

It's like really good. Mm-hmm. You agree? Yeah, I'm worried it out by the way you're saying it, but yeah. What do you want me to change? Gravy is stew, no? Oh, we're going to get there, man. Patience, dude.

It's a virtue. Got to work on that. There's a guy in front of him who's fifth place in National League B-Wore. You can guess a lot of the candidates in front of them. Soto, that Tattis guy. Paul Goldschmidt. My guy gave him love a couple episodes ago. So there's one person who deserves some love.

It's a team that we've gotten too casual about their winning. It's a guy who's having the best season on their team. team. I don't think we mention them when we talked about the Giants before. And man, when he goes to Thanksgiving, especially after his brother-in-law just lost the AL-Sai Young last start, there's going to be some stewing over that gravy. Because Brandon Crawford and the Giants, man, they are on their way to special things. John has them in the World Series. Garrett was going to be fine sitting there with his Cy Young, hearing about Brandon's playoff stories. But now Garrett lost a sigh.

He is going to be stewing over that gravy at Thanksgiving when Brandon Crawford talks about him and the Giants hoist in the World Series trophy. Brandon Crawford, fifth in the National League in war. Fifth! 34 years old playing shortstop. He's having a great year. He's hitting free agency. He's going to get a little bit of that coin. He's just a guy that could get more love every episode this season.

So I'm giving him some here. Brian Crawford Brian Crawford I believe he got extended a month ago He did How much? 2.32. Let's go!

That's money, Trev He should have went for free And so there's gravy on the table And they're stewing over it Garrett's stewing Over the gravy At Thanksgiving He's mad

Yes And there's gravy on the table Yes Okay, I got it now Well, Garrett's not allowed to have a Thanksgiving dinner. He's a New York Yankee. He has to be working 24-7. You can't take time off of Thanksgiving dinner.

It's true. I'm booing him for that. You have Thanksgiving dinner, Garrett? I'm booing you. Boo. I'm booing both of you. Boo. Not BB.

I still don't understand. You guys are never going to. And that's why I got the conversation off of that. I understand. But I like that at the end. There's gravy on the table because they get together At Thanksgiving, and he's mad. We were past that.

We were on to your guy's boo conversation. Trev was trying to get back into that, and I'm not letting that happen. I was on your side. I'm saying, I understand it. Thank you. Yeah. Thank you for the gravy. What if Garrett Cole doesn't like gravy?

Never does. He's not going to stew over the gravy then. He's got gravy takes. He might stew over the mashed potatoes. I mean, if he doesn't like gravy, then he might stew over it like it might be a yearly tradition. He looks at it. He's like,

fucking hate gravy. Yeah. Stewing over it. Giants, Brandon Crawford fucking in the playoffs. I'm over here. Kind of hot too, you know.

He's a sneaky hot dude. We know that you're into Crawford and the colors and pretty boys that ride motorcycles. But he's got, I think Crawford has like a weird style too though. So like his look is like he's an attractive person but like his style is pretty bad.

We did an episode where I showed you the both of them side by side. Yeah. And then made it hilarious commentary. Brandon Crawford's street clothes. Let's see this. Oh, he's got some fun to him. I like that even more. Yeah, it's...

There is a picture of him at a 49ers game, and it's where Trev wants to be in Brandon Crawford's look. I remember it being like baggy jeans, Nike's, and like an oversized shirt or something like that. He's on the Niners sideline, field pass, obviously. beard hair hanging out of the beanie, sunglasses, Niners tea with the jacket over.

Yeah. No, I mean, that's home for you. No, he's, yeah, you'd like that trip. But the bagginess, that was the mid, late aughts, early 2010s in northern California. When I moved from, it's back now? Yeah, baggie's back. When I'm, that's good. When I moved from Northern California.

California to Connecticut, it was like eye-opening the difference in like baggy versus non-baggy. And then Northern California was just, everything was big. Man, those years. Brandon Crawford guy. Big Brandon Crawford guy. You see when he wore the same outfit he wore as a kid? Did you see him on Pablo Sandoval day? Got some post-Malone Jake Storelli vibes going.

Look at this. He wore the outfit that he wore when he was a kid. All right, let's get into the elevator. Do you think Garrett Cole just says, hey, congrats on your two-year, $32 million? I'll make that in one year, so fuck off. No, he's genuinely happy for him. Oh, no, Garrett has one comment at Thanksgiving that was just over the line. Just over the line.

Okay. I think that it's... And then Brandon Crawford hits him with like, yeah, I took the two for 32 because I'm happy. And everyone's like, let's go watch the game. Let's play with the kids That's why we're here Imagine making 37 million for one year Mm hmm

All I can do is imagine Who's the best friend of the week For the first time It's Cole Tucker Six for 11 triple double two ribbyes Walking a steal He stole a base Was that sexy?

Give him consistent at bats The triple wasn't as sexy as I wanted to to be. He kind of stumbles around second and then gets there. I didn't see the slide, but it wasn't like one step. He was like, oh. But hell yeah. There's a little bit of a newborn baby deer. Yeah, there's a little element like, I'm doing it. Yeah. Good job, Cole. Hey, wait, how many more friends of the week do we have? Three? Yeah. It depends what we want to do with that, last step. Okay. Yeah. Because we got to send them the official plaque.

Welcome to the elevator. We see you're wearing a Seattle Mariners hat. Aren't you excited that Kelnick's putting it together? Wow. We still got a chance here. We've got the A's coming to town. Is it Kelnick or Kalanick? Who are you in the elevator with? I was the guy with the hat. That was the guy with the hat talking. I only wear this hat because my wife got it.

for me. Never been into baseball. I just operate this elevator. I think you got to talk about Abraham Toro. Slumpin. Good sushi. Good baseball player. Like, same.

Also, a brand of tractors. I love tractors. You guys have hit everything I wanted to cover. You guys got it all. J.P. Mother fucking Crawford. Gold glove at shortstop. Maybe. Two Crawfords in the West, playing short.

That's what they're saying. Pick one right now. JP or Brandon go. For what? To have Thanksgiving? I'm going to go, I'm going to go Brandon. Baseball, defense, offense. Marin your sister.

Ooh. I'm going to go. Is JP married? Because with Brandon. JP would be a little young for my sister. My sister just got engaged I think her and Brandon around the same age 26

Having in with the Cole family I'd be in with that Oh you're not in with the Cole family If Crawford is divorcing Who said he was getting divorced Oh his double marriage? Yeah double marriage It's 2021

My sister would be double married We're starting a fucking commune Community Shout out Jess brothers just put out some firepicks on iG everybody go like that iG post hot two t's