Talkin' Baseball (MLB Podcast) - 396 | Cardinals Win 16th Straght, Yankees Sweep Boston, Padres & Mets Eliminated

Episode Date: September 27, 2021

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Hello and welcome to talking baseball. It is the Monday episode. We have the NL playoff teams basically locked up, and the AO Wildcard is going to be nuts. Let's do it. Hello and welcome to talking baseball, brought to you by Draft Kings. My name is Jimmy.

His name is Jake. Trevor Ploof joins us from California and BPD in the floral shirt behind the dish looking dapper as he produces. This one's brought to you by Patrick Dillon, Christopher Muff. Mulligan, Tremaine, Dave Hoskins, Roy Stockton, John Durham, and Ernie Macyus. Does you say that? Cius, Macyus?

Those are our most recent patrons. We thank them very much for support. Jake and I actually have like a Q&A tonight that we do for patrons, as well as some other perks that they get along the way. We got two series left, guys, six games, seven games for five teams, unless these teams have off day Thursday. I think mostly it's six games left for for most of the teams. Pretty exciting. The NL, all but, not all but, barring a miracle, the NL is locked up. The teams have been decided.

Just the order of things are not there. In the AL, the divisions are locked up, but the wild card still have four teams in the hunt. So it's crazy. Trev, how is it in California? James, Jacob, big, big dong. It's a beautiful day here, a little gloomy, which you know I love that type of weather. I'm excited. You know Monday episodes are my favorite.

Mondays are my favorite. I like getting back to work. I'm sick of that, you know, party on the weekend type stuff. I want to work, and we're about to get into a stretch here, Jim. We're going to be talking a lot of baseball. Six games left in the regular season, like you said, and then the playoffs start and we're on full go full throttle. Pedal to the medal, if you will.

Jacob, how are you? Wow. Well, Charlie's Angel, full throttle reference early. Trev, I'm the opposite. I'm about that weekend party life, so I hate it here. No, man, you know baseball's hot in the streets. It's if there is a weekend party life. It was working all weekend.

Can't stop, won't stop. It's almost playoffs. I'm fine-tuning this temple. for four weeks of live streaming, my life on tape, Truman Show style. It's all a hoax. Jess doesn't love me.

And Jim, yeah, I mean, there's a little bit of NL that's saying the teams are wrapped up. Those Phillies fans will come at you. And send them my way because they eat bugs. And they've got a huge series. Prove us wrong fighting Phillies. Prove us wrong.

Phillies fans can be upset. I overlook them a little bit because I somewhat still believe in their ability to come back. It's like we said on, or we talked about it with the Yanches. I didn't mean to, I didn't mean to. But they, but it's a huge series. Yeah. I was sending them my way.

I forgot about them. I got you. You know, AL playoff baseball started this weekend with Yankees Red Sox. National League playoff baseball starts Tuesday. Braves, Phillies. Phillies have to win to stay in it. I don't even think they can win two out of three. I think they need to sweep.

They've got their three versus the Braves three in Atlanta. That's going to be as fun as it gets. Man, and I think there's some NL MVP things that could be tied to that series. If Philly shits the bad, I might talk about that a little bit, but I'm excited, man. I'm very interested to see, because Treve, me and me, Jim and BPD, we're talking about this a little bit late night, early this morning, actually. There's a chance Sunday could not matter too much.

All the games kick off at 305, except the Marlins game. The Marlins Phillies, I think, starts at 1. And I googled it, and I have no reason why. So check that out. And if you know, let me know. But at the same time, baseball has a way of rearing its ugly head. you know, when we did our post-all-star break episode, we wondered if all the playoff teams were just going to walk into the playoffs,

and that was not the case. So I wouldn't be surprised if on Sunday there's some serious chaos to be figured out. Who were the teams at that point? I remember us saying that. Were the Mets on top of the NL East? Who was the second Wild Cars or the Padres, I believe? When, June. So right after the All-Star break.

So like July 7th. He said that. We said there was a chance. So let's see. July 14th-ish, when were we out there? Let's do July 16th. I think that's when it started up again. I think the Yankees played on the 15th Thursday.

But July 16th, standings on that date. What are we looking at? Wildcard. I mean, it was Giants, Brewers, Mets, Dodgers, Padres. So Padres Mets, whoops. Collapse. And then in the AL, Boston had the East, and Tampa and Oakland were the wildcard teams. Yeah.

Wow. Yeah. Love baseball. Got to love it. Love baseball. Snakes in the chat. Bang. James, how are you doing?

I'm good. I'm tired. Sick of driving. Been in traffic. I've been in my car in traffic for more than not in my car in traffic in the last, like, 20 hours. Which is brutal. Saturday, too. Saturday too. Yeah, we worked seven days a week. We worked every day last week.

So we haven't really had a break. And on my downtime, I'm babyproofing my house. So I'm pretty tired. But I'm also juiced up about the A.L. Wild card and all these fun games. But I'm pretty down. Like, I'm happy for the Cardinals fans. But we thought that I was going to be wild. And the wild card's done. It's the Dodgers and the Cardinals. Like seven games to play, seven days left in the season, and there's the Dodgers and the Cardinals. So that's...

You don't think the NOS is done done? Well, sorry. The Dodgers may get the Giants, the second wild card. Okay. Like, Padres are out. Reds are out. Phillies aren't getting that. I think the NOS is done done, by the way.

The two games, two games with six to play. They could be, but... They're playing the Diamond Bowl. and the Padres. The Giants are. Isova. Get Scherzer loose. Get Scherz.

Dodgers are playing Milwaukee, and maybe Milwaukee doesn't care, but. But we looked at it, like lining up playoff rotations. Like, I think Milwaukee's one is still going to start the Saturday game. If you don't have to play in the wild card game, then you line up your starters for game one and two of the DS, and they pitch the second class game and the last game of the regular season.

So, you know, facing the raise and, facing the Brewers and facing the Astros and facing the White Sox in the last game of the series isn't actually, you're not getting their worst effort. You're getting their best starting pitchers and probably one inning each of their best relievers no matter what. You're just getting 75, 80 pitches instead of 100. Yeah. Looks like Dodgers, that series will get Lauer Burns Peralta. That's what it's currently lined up for. Have fun. Yeah. They have to go, I know we're jumping ahead here.

Yes. We're already on topic. Dodgers have to go 6 and 0 or 5 in 1 if they want to have a chance at the division and that would mean that the Giants would have to lose, would have to go 4 and 2 or split. So it's definitely, it could still happen. That would only get to tie

and then have to play game 163 in San Francisco. That's what I'm rooting for. I hope that happens. That is the sneaky thing in all this. If the Dodgers Giants kick off this playoff, with a one game division or wild card. I think that's kind of the juice baseball is looking for. Can I tell you something?

Yes. Sick. I think the Dodgers aren't scared of the wild card. No, no. But it's scary. It is scary. They're not scared. No, it's very scary, man.

If we, so Jake and I have a business meeting, kind of an important business meeting that just got set up for us on wildcard. Tuesday in the middle of the day. And I laughed. I got it then. I laughed and I was like the person we're meeting. Yeah, Treve, you might be welcome. I'm talking to Sam about this. You're going to be here, right? Yeah. I'll just take over the stream. You guys go handle the business. People need to see this pretty face on TV. No, it's like in between early morning stuff and then before the pregame show, but you can come with this. You'll be here.

I think so, yeah. But like that person's going to, they're going to think I'm a crackhead. Like, they're going to think that I am coked up because wildcard day, me is jitters. It's just a jitterbug. And I was like, oh, no, Sam. Like, that's an interesting time to have a very important business meeting. So,

wait, so, AL Tuesday, NL Wednesday. Is that what the wild card is? Yeah. So the, fuck, you guys don't even know. It's tough to be me watching a wildcard game that the Yankees are playing in. I got to

figure out my angle here. Me too I think I think you can't be in the middle for that one I think Jake and I need to be next to each other I like you in the middle All right You're gonna I don't think he's gonna like me in the middle

Little midgame skiing We are Yeah they'll be too much touching between you guys I will sit on the side You can pivot from the middle So we live streamed Jake and I live streamed I'm talking Yang's last night

Coming up A lot of people were with us last playoffs But I just Reminder we have a lot of live streams coming out. If Sunday matters, we'll be sitting in the chairs just casually watching all the games that have implications on playoff standing, live streaming. You can watch with us on this channel. And then on Monday night, we're live streaming on our John Boy and Jake TV channel. The first seven game series, you know, kicking the playoffs off, me and Jake in a little game called

Bino. Bino. And then we'll be live for both Wildcore games. Unless the Yankees host, I don't know. Yeah. I don't know. Oh my gosh. I didn't even think about that.

Right now they're hosting. I know. What are we, I mean, like, what's the deal? Jake and I were going to reward ourselves and go if they're hosting it. It's not good for content,

but life's a grind. And we want to like reward ourselves. I'm flying to, I'm flying to fucking New York. It's going to be tough if the yanks are in the Bronx. We're going to the game. Yes. And we're not there.

I'll wear my, I'll wear my freaking Yankees jersey. You guys can pick which one. Well, yeah. Dream BBD and Zach making out or something? I'll wear my Cano jersey. Just really put people through a loose. Let's talk some baseball.

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How about this, guys? The Cardinals and the Cubs played four games, and the Cardinals swept them. Holy smokes, they've won 16 in a row now, including their final 11 road games. The only other MAA team to ever win their last 11-plus road games was the 1887 Philadelphia Quakers. And those guys were drunks. This is the Cardinals first ever 15 plus game win streak in franchise history. How about that? They had some crazy plays.

They had a wild double play. They had an infield fly. They thought was a double play. The starting pitching for the Cardinals wasn't great. The offense was nuts. Bader had 10 hits. O'Neill had six hits and three home runs. Goldie, Newt Bar, the Young, all had two homers apiece.

Cardinals magic in full go mode. Can you say goal? Goldie Newt Bar Diyang again? Goldie Newt Bar Diyan. That did something for me. Giants went to Colorado to face the Rockies, and they just swept them in Colorado, and the Dodgers were like, what?

Lose a game, please. They don't. They don't lose a game. They're starting pitchers, Wood, Discofani, and Gossman of 321 ERA. Their relievers were insane. 069 ERA for the relievers. Giants become the first.

team to 100 wins. How about that? In game two, Belt had three hits with two homers and four RBIs in game three. He got hit by pitch on the hand and getting an x-ray on it. But they're optimistic. Also in game three, the Giants took the lead with four in the ninth. Want to lie, Trev? I told everyone on this show the stats a while ago, if the Giants are down in the eighth or night, they just still win.

And that's why they're going to be in the World Series versus the raise. Dodgers at D-Backs. Dodgers take two out of three, which is nice, but not good at. Enough. They lose a game in the standings. Jake has them out of it. Gonslin had a nice outing, five innings pitch, two in runs for the win. Zach Gowan, the milkman, delivered in game to six innings pitch, one run to give the debacks the win. Jake met Mr. Gowlin, Zach's dad. Padres and Braves. Braves take three out of four to eliminate the Padres from contention. They are the only team from Friday to Monday that got done.

officially mathematically out freed drops another Maddox on the people three hit shutout four K's under 100 pitches 18 of his 27 starts this year have been quality starts he's nuts so lair go ahead RBI double in the 10th inning at game three Braves hold a two and a half game lead in the nil east because the Phillies they took three out of four they did not complete the sweep They won game one with Nola. They won game two with Gibby. They won game three with my dude, Mighty Morphing Ranger. And they lost game four, six to nothing.

Because our dude, Cole Tucker, let them know. The Brewers swept the Mets. They clinch. They celebrate. They have fun. The Reds took three out of four from the Nats. Soto's on base percentage this month is illegal. And that's everything you need to know.

about the ANO. Wow, perfect timing right there. That's great. Yep. I'm magic. Pretty upsetting if you're the Dodgers. Because you're so good. You have such good depth, such good starting pitching, so much talent.

And you've been chasing, you know what it's like? You've been chasing this car. It's like when me and Jake are playing Geogessor, right? And Jake says, Jim, click down the road on Google Maps and let's see that license plate. and I just keep clicking to get closer. But the car that was recording the Google Maps is following that car that I'm trying to chase. And we just keep clicking, and we just can't catch up to that car.

That's the Dodgers and the Giants. They are doing everything in their power, and they can't catch up to the Giants. And they're like, how is this happening? It's where I said Treves Dodgers, I think it's over, man. I think they get ready for the wild card. They have the Padres who, you know, aren't the Padres and then Milwaukee, we talked about that.

The Giants have the snakes, then the Padres. Both teams all at home. I've watched this story take place all year. Giants are going to win the NL.S, Treff. I don't know who it's more disappointing for. If the Giants are like, my goodness, give us some breathing room, look how good we've played. Or if it's the Dodgers,

been like you guys shouldn't be here look we're doing exactly what we knew we would do and you're ruining it by coming out of nowhere it's a fan it's a fascinating tale this year for the nOS because literally nobody saw the giants doing this i love when there's all these graphs coming out now about you know showing the giants you know wind total projection and just it's just a steady climb up the entire way it's awesome to see um i do think that it ends up being giants on top, but I'm rooting for chaos. I want the 163, Jake. Oh, yeah. I wanted that.

We are agents of chaos. I know we'll talk about our fills later, but, you know, I've been tough on them, but I'm going to root for them this week against the Braves because give Daddy a little chaos. The Giants are entering like rare air. If they finish with a 5 and 1, they're going to be a

what, 107 win team? That's nuts. It's wild. It's wild. They're gross They are They are

And they're old And you gotta love that about them They're just a bunch of old dudes having career years All at the same time Not bad Let's talk cards Oh my god I love my cards

It's insane It's a bird life I jumped on a bandwagon at the right time Yeah Which one did you jump We're not really sure if it was cards A lot of birds That it was funny because at one point,

Orioles. At one point, Jake, you said, and it was true at the time you said it. You were like, the Cardinals are going to win the division because the Reds and the Padres and everyone else just keep losing. Like the Cardinals haven't even ripped off a stretch here.

And it was true when you said it. And now they've ripped off the best stretch this season by any team. 16 games. They, yeah, it's so funny. I mean, how a win streak could change things. We saw the Yankees win streak when they were rolling. and at 13. That changed their whole season outlook. The Cardinals went from a 500 team that had been lackluster all year to now, you know,

hottest team in baseball, biggest win streak on the season. They've got an MVP candidate in Goldie. Like the birds, man, they're going to be able to, they are six games up on the Reds and the Phillies with six to play. They're going to be able to do whatever they want for their pitching. We've talked about do you just give Wayno the ball and say, see you there? give Wayno with a flarity piggyback. They've got a ton of options in the bullpen.

Man, go, birds go. I stumbled into the NL MVP. I know we're not a huge awards pod, but that conversation, if the Phillies do shit the bed, because it is Bryce's as of now, if the Phillies shit the bed, you've got Harper with a dead Phillies team. You've got Tatis with a dead Padres team.

Soto is going to have the highest war His team's been dead all year The only other guy in the mix Paul Goldschmidt So if this win streak gets to like 20 People love a storyline And Goldschmidt's right in the mix

And might be the only playoff player In that bunch That still speaks to people, man I don't think it does anymore I think they completely What if I go Midwest West Coast West Coast on you Well, the sides always win that fight.

I think it's going to be split, though. I think the sides might knock each other out, and you could see Goldie emerge. Just watch if the Phillies shit the bed, watch out. I have a question for you guys. pertaining to this streak, 16 in a row, six games left. Let's just say, you know, they have to come back down to reality at some point. Okay?

They're not, I mean, my goodness, if they go 22 straight rolling into the playoffs, that would be. something but I'm you know they're going to lose at some point and then if they do say let's say they go two and four in their last six what does that do to a team you're riding high two series right before you have to go to a one game playoff you lose do they still carry that magic you think do they have to go like five and one here to continue the magic or do they already have it and it's just going to be with them now you got to win tonight because then it's a official. Like, their magic numbers won.

Right? Yeah. Then you have to lose. Or Tuesday, whenever they play next. Then you have to lose, Trev. You can't take that streak into the post. Or you take the streak into the posting. Yeah. You got to go all the way, right? You got to win tomorrow. You know what? One game. Let's lose tomorrow. One of the other teams, it's just the Reds that's in it. One of the Reds and Phil's. So the Reds will lose, the Phillies will win, and then the Phillies think they have a shot,

the Reds are eliminated, and then the Cardinals win their second game. And then it doesn't matter after that. But yeah, you got to either take the winning streak into the postseason or lose one of your next two, so you get a chance to take like a two-gamer into the postseason. Yeah, they're like almost to the finish line sprinting, and if they were to go two and four,

it'd be like you kind of tripped at the end there. This is our. Right before the-tarot card reading nonsense. You spin zone it a little if that happens. Trev. My and kind of why we're doing this, because it does bring out some weird thoughts in your head. I think if you're the Cardinals right now,

they're 87 and 69. BPD. I think they got to get to 90 wins. They stopped short on 69, and they haven't lost since then, and I was going to give BPD an award because of that. Wow. Wow, sex.

I think if you're the Cardinals, you've got to get to 90 wins. I think that's kind of big for a team. If the 89 win Cardinals come up against the big bad Dodgers with a couple losses this week, it's kind of like, oh, yeah, they had their hot streak. If the 90 win Cardinals come in, team that had won 16 plus straight,

I think that speaks a little more. Cardinals fans, if you're listening, can you let us know now that they've basically secured the second wildcard spot, again, magic numbers won, they would have to lose out and the Reds or Phillies would have to win out. It's not happening. They're in.

They're in. Have they changed their rotation? I mean, will we find out the next press conference or? Because now you just, you got to get Wayno lined up. I don't know if he was before he could have been or he could have been around there. But, you know. Interesting. Yeah, because Wayno is supposed to pitch Tuesday and Saturday.

Which Saturday, does that get him lined up for Wednesday? Sunday, Monday. Tuesday. No. When's Wayno pitching? He's supposed to pitch, or excuse me, he's lined up to pitch Tuesday. His next start isn't listed. But that's crazy.

It would be Sunday. It would be last the game of the season. But you can't do that. And you're not going to do that because the wildcard game is on the fifth for them. They're the Wednesday. They're the sixth. Yeah. So let's go backwards now.

So six is the Wednesday. So Tuesday, Monday, Sunday, Saturday. He needs to pitch Friday, the first. And to do that, he would need to pitch on Monday. So I don't know what they're going to do with Wayne out here. They should bump them. I mean, you can give him an extra day, you know. Get him an extra here.

But like right now he's lined up. If they skip that final start, he's lined up for like a week. Yeah. Yeah, they probably skip a day. day before to keep him on five days going into the wildcard game. So you just get him an extra day. Whenever he's going to pitch next, just go one more day. He probably has a weird bullpen session game.

I like that. Yeah. That's interesting, though. Yeah, he always pitches, you know, four or five days rest. So, yeah, okay, Cardinals fans, let us know how they handle that. Yeah. They need to get him lined up. And right now he's kind of not.

So the sixth, he would need to pitch on the first. I want to see Jack Flaherty high-leverage situation against the Dodgers in the wild card game. Yeah, me too. That's kind of my dream. Pumping heaters. I like this math equation. That's the hardest for them to do. He's not close.

It's not a day here or a day there. You got to pitch him instead of throwing him out Tuesday, you got to just push him to Thursday. and then he'd be on five days rest for first, second, third, fourth, fifth, be on six days rest. Yeah, that's weird. I'm interested to see how they handle that. Watch that in the next 24 hours. And then have the Dodgers set?

It sure is it, right? Has to. That's also interesting because they're still chasing the Giants team, so you can't exactly line it up as, I mean, does it line up that way? I keep asking that question. I think we did it one time. Scherzer's lined up to pitch Wednesday.

So can you bump him a day? He's lined up for the wild card game. If they can bump him to Thursday, then he's on one extra day rest for next Wednesday's wildcard. Yeah. Fun stuff. It is fun stuff. You talk about the Braves? Yep.

Bravo's. I want to talk about. They did what they needed to do. They did what they needed to do. They won three. three out of four, they knock them out. They go in extras one game. They use an opener one game.

I'm so interested. And they use the opener to push their pitchers back for the Philly series, which the Philly series matchups, if you guys, if we have any, you know, you're not a Phillies fan, you're not a Braves fan. I'm so much more interested in this upcoming series than what happened. I know that's not what we usually do here, but I can't help it. They both save their pitchers. So, I mean, didn't the, did the Phillies throw a rookie yesterday versus Coltucker?

Hans Krause? Yeah, because they saved their starters for this series. So the Braves are up two and a half games. And the matchup is Zach Wheeler with his 279 ERA versus Charlie Martin, Aaron Nola versus Max Fried, and then Gibby versus Ion Anderson. I mean, that's fun. And not telling it tails out of school here, Phillies need to win tomorrow.

Like, if they lose tomorrow, they're done, done. It's three and a half. Even if you beat the Phillies the next two games, they're still of one and a half. Or even if you beat the Braves the next two, then it's two and a half. And you're facing freed in the next game. I know they need to sweep,

but even if they win two out of three, I don't know. Yeah. They need a sweep. Braves looking good. They need a sweep. They're going to roll right in the playoffs. And who do they face?

They'll face the Brewers. And yeah, man, Phillies, like, I know you were lining up the rotation. And, hey, again, prove me wrong, Phillies. I'm ready for it. Go sweep the Braves in Atlanta against Fried Morton and Anderson, and you deserve some respect.

But you just lost Sunday. to the pirates. And we'd be talking about you being a game and a half back instead of two and a half games. And we'd say you could win two out of three and still be alive. But you didn't. So... Why? Because Cole Tucker's hot.

He dropped it on your face for a bitch. Welcome to the show. So I don't know. Phillies, prove me wrong. I'm waiting. I would love to be proven wrong. Can I give my talking. head hot take yeah absolutely

Bryce Harper's gonna fucking go off in this series and everybody knows it is it going to be enough like he's going to show up he's going to rake but it might not be you know what you need to do here game one you know who needs to follow wheeler swore it yeah on his bullpen day go a little Patrick Corbin in the playoff mode wheeler to Ranger

and you're done I am rooting for the Phillies on Tuesday because it just because I think it's over if they lose. I think everyone kind of thinks it's over if they lose game one and they don't sweep. So if the Phillies win game one, then it's down to one and a half.

And they have two more against each other than it's we're entering chaos mode. So I am just because I'm rooting for chaos. Don't take offense to it, Braves fans. I don't care who wins the division. I just want it to be close. Here's a thought. Yeah.

And I'm kind of serious about it. this. Who do we trust in the Phillies bullpen? Not many people, right? Like, we're not trusting a lot of people in that bullpen. A couple guys, here, sure. Why not have Ranger just say, for this series, Ranger, you're going to pitch two games, and that's going to be your start. Like, you need people to pitch. I know, they've been jerking this guy around all year. I don't know why they'd have to stop now. Can he be, can he be a guy for two of those games? Say you say Tuesday, if you pitch then, then we'll save you to third. If you don't, we don't need you Tuesday, we have you Wednesday Thursday.

Like, I think they could, they probably are talking about some like that because they just can't trust. These are so big. These are the games. This, they have to get these games. Yeah. I'm looking now. Kennedy's been good. You could have said that for yesterday too.

No, he had just, he had just thrown. He was the pirate. Yeah, that's what they're saying. I'm curious to see if they've had internal discussions about that. Maybe I'll text Sam Ford. Short rest. Gibby yesterday. We haven't talked to Sam Fold enough this year.

What are we doing? He's so busy. Text him right now. It's a big brain. He's got such a big brain. Neris hasn't been great of late. Trev, text them and just say, So Suarez's out of the penness series.

Text him. I'm going to text him right now. What else you have in the NL, Jim? That's kind of it, right? Congrats to the Brewers. They got to celebrate. That's nice. They get to set up their rotation now.

Have some fun. I'm interested to see. if it changes from what they had lined up. And then everything else, I mean, as far as teams go, you're out. We have 15 teams officially eliminated. I think there's 17 teams in MLB, so this counts both leagues. 17 teams like, I have eliminated. Like the Reds.

Reds and Phillies are eliminated. I don't have the Phillies eliminated. Excuse me. I was talking wild card. Yeah. I have the A's and they're not officially eliminated. Those are the two that aren't officially that I have out. So you have half the league playing for nothing just to play spoiler role if they're up against a team.

And then you have, I think it's seven teams that are steady. Like they're in the postseason and then you have six or eight. I think it's six that are fighting. So we can move to the A. I'll talk about those teams that are fighting over there. A little math snuck in there. snuck in there. I texted him.

Nice. Well, it's four in the AL. Okay. Fighting. And two in the NL. Phillies and Reds. No, Philly. It's really just the Phillies.

But then you can kind of include the Braves because they're not secure. Right. Yeah. So Philly's Braves and then the four in the AAL. Let's get to the AAL. Who's got it this week? Mm-hmm. You, Jake?

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filler to see what's still available. Go check it out. Have some fun. Jake, what happened in the American League? Fellas, when this series is going on, we are starting with it. We're going to Fenway Pack the Bastin Red Sox and Bobby Dalbeck, hosting the New York Yankees. Yankees with their season on the line. And how about Garrett Cole and Nate Evaldi in game one? Oh no. Yankees think they had something on Nasty Nate. They weren't missing anything.

They put up a seven spot on him. They go on to win that game. Eight to tree in the first one they had to have. Game two, Nester Cortez. Nasty Nester versus Full Pension. Piv, are you kidding me? Yanks are down late, but Giancarlo Stanton sends one to Lansdown Street. Incredible Grand Slam Homer. If you haven't seen it, should. And then the Yankees bring out the broomsticks on Sunday night, baseball country. Joe West is in the mix.

We got show guys dropping balls good times as the Yankees win six three, and they get the sweep. They jump the socks in the standing. Speaking of those same standings, the Toronto Blue Jays, don't you know, they took on Trevor Ploos twins, and these twins are built differently. They split the four-game set. They take the first two games, seven, two, three, one. How about it, Minnesota, Blue Jays, what is you doing?

Only three runs in the first two games? They come back. They put up a six spot as Robbie Ray holds down the Twinkies, and then Manoa, same song, different chorus. They split the series. Man, Simeon Springer and her hand is each had two homers in this series. Blue Jays had to do just a little more. They had a big series coming up with the Yankees as Ryu will return for that one. Mariners take two out of three from the Angels.

They just won't die. The Seattle Mariners, they take. Game 1, 6-5. Big Gilbert on the mound. Still like him. Angels blow him out in the second game, 14 to 1. Mariner's take the finale 5-1 with Marco Gonzalez on the bumper show. Hey, Otani, boogity, boogiety, Otani. I think you had double-digit punchies. Ain't no thing but a chicken wang. Mitch Hanager with the go-ahead RBI in game three. How about it? Go Mariners go. Why don't you sneak in? Why not? Have a day.

Astros at the Athletics. This one important for a couple different reasons. The Athletics sweep Houston. Athletics do it to stay alive kind of in the wild card. 14-2, 2-1, 4-3. Astros, a little what is you doing, baby? They were in contention for the number one seat in the AL. That is all but gone after.

this one. Starling Marte with the big series because, yeah, that's just what he does. He has the walk off doubling game two. Mark can he? He can't. Game three, he walks that one off. Athletics fighting. Astros. What's you doing, baby?

White Sox Indians, nothing matters anyway. Strawberry Fields Forever. White Sox take three out of five. Double header to start it off. They split that. Dylan sees first. How about Shane Bieber back at it? Everyone, we like that.

That's a 1-0 ball game, okay? Cleveland wins Eli Morgan again. Six-nothing Indians, good for you, kid. Have a day. He out duels Lance Lynn. White Sox and Gialito, you boy, he takes the final game. Royals, Tigers, can't do it. The losing team scored one run in each of these games.

Royals take two out of three. A lot of pride, a lot of pride. And speaking of, Rangers at the Orioles. They split four games. That's as tough as it gets. Pat Velaka, Trev's guy. Go ahead, RBI double in game three.

I don't know. Cedric Mullins, only guy you need to know from both those teams. They split the series. Whoa. First of all, nice time. T. Hunge. Hot.

And you do need to know him. That's on me. Pat Valacca, Mortal Kombat. Pat. so we call. I'm serious. That's his nickname. Make a combat pat.

You're a little tough on those teams. Tigers, Royals, Rangers. Hey, it's a tough time of year. They deserve some tough love. I said it. You didn't let me finish. You guys jumped down my throat. I said, but they deserve tough love.

I don't think they deserve tough love. It is just for what we're talking about where we're at in the sport. You just, anything you say about them, you can say in two months when it's the off season. You can say, oh, yeah, look, good season. They took some steps in the right direction, but kind of playoffs or bus time, right? I'm interested in what the Astros were doing, where they just, it looks like, you know, B-Lax pitching in place of Granky, but then it looks like they just went low-leverage relievers. Are they just getting everything right?

Do they, like, not, like, we're looking at a lot of teams and they're trying to set up their pitching. Here's all I know. You're the A's like, come on, don't get swept. Don't get four games swept earlier. I get four games swept? The Mariners, yeah, four games swept them, which, yeah, if that's a series sweep, that they would be very much in the mix. Mariners and athletics play each other this week, so one of those teams will officially die.

Yeah, this is interesting. I don't know, like the A.O. Wild card, Big series in Fenway almost feels like we're just talking about those two teams, but there are teams that are... Seattle still has a shot. I mean, two games, they could do it. That would be the most crazy thing to happen. We've kind of been giving them a little bit praise, but nudging them away pretty much the entire sense.

We've talked about the 2022 Seattle Mariners. We love them. But here they are with six games left to play. and they're two games back and like they have a chance and son of a gun i actually don't want it to happen no offense to the mariners fans i love j p crawford everybody knows that i just next year yeah they still just have a lot of teams ahead of them so boston's got baltimore it would be an epic collapse if boston doesn't get one of these top two spots um obviously the the getting swept by the Yankees is pretty bad.

But who do they have after Baltimore? The Twins? Boston has the Nats, I believe. Okay, so they have, where? So Schwarber doesn't get to play? That kind of sucks. I know, Ball. He's familiar with that left field if he needs to play out there.

But whatever was the Yankees, and they were, and Stan didn't get to get four outbats every game. That would be a huge thing. And Swarber's got, like, 950 OPS for them, so that kind of stinks for Boston. but Seattle's path because people got real mad at me last weekend when I said that it was between the three and I get it they won again they're in like it was I was step overstepping a little because even if if Toronto takes two from the Yankees and Seattle sweeps they're still not in it

yeah I think six and no if they go six and no I mean that's kind of a scenario that they have to that has to play out yeah I think you reverse and they still have to root for things I think reverse engineered that the wrong way. I think Seattle, their best path, A, they have to keep winning, like Trev just said. That's the only way. Toronto, who's a game up on them, if the Yankees can knock them out easily.

This week, they're playing three. And then, yeah, if you're Seattle, you just have to pray that Boston drops two along the way. So it's not likely. It's tough. We love you, Seattle. So every other team, if Red Sox goes 6 and O, they're in. If Toronto goes 6 and 0, they're in.

If the Yankees go 6 and 0, they're in. If Seattle goes 6 and 0, they still need other stuff to happen. Correct? Yes. So that's where it gets pretty tough. Right. But the Yankees and Toronto playing each other is kind of good for them because one of those teams will fall.

Yeah, yeah. So then you just need one more to slip up. But we're talking about Seattle going 6th. to finish the year. I hope they do. Go nuts. Oakland, LA. Oakland and LA. Or Seattle just swept them. Yeah. Yeah.

I love it, man. You got to root for chaos. We always are, obviously. So let's go. It's awesome. I'm not trying to, like, knock their season. It's incredible season. They're building up. I just, they really have had incredible. I think I'm somewhat justified with saying that they're not. It's not like a 1% chance for me. Sports, babe. Yeah. How about this? I'm very excited to give my TPP on the 2020 C.O. The Mariners.

I can't wait. I'll be marking my calendar waiting for that day because I'm going to praise the fuck out of them. Okay. Okay. Even if they don't bring back Seeger and they like really tarnish the relationship, it's just bad blood. They trade Kelnick. I think they've already like that relationship's gone.

Okay. Okay. All right. What else do you guys, what else in the AAL? Jake does... I mean, Yankees Red Sox stole the show. You guys don't want to talk about Yankees Red Sox? I've just brought us there, so it seems like I do. Man, this was huge for the Yanks.

Kind of like the way you talked about game one for Phillies Braves. Similar to the Yankees, if they lost the Cole game and they dropped another game, Friday night in Fenway. You know, that sets them off. They had something on Avaldi that in swing and miss at any off-speed stuff. You know, there's enough context clues, especially with the way Avaldi had pitched against the Yankees previously. So, hey, pretty huge day to have that going.

And then the Stanton Homer in game two is just as good as baseball gets. and then Sunday night baseball. I mean, that was a spectacle, and it just happened to go the Yankees way. Did you catch that? Did you watch last night, Trave? Did you see at the end at least? I did.

I was watching the game. I watched the miss pop-ups, which was insane to me. Both teams missing a pop-up in foul territory around first and third base, respectively. And those are difficult pop-ups sometimes. There was no win last night. I don't really know what the hell was going on.

What, like, what, like, did I miss something? We only know there was no win because that's what the booth said, right? They showed the flag. There was nothing there. Yeah, I don't know. Something had to be going on. I got a few things, you know, during that time, I think it was a Vasquez, sack fly, Udugie on second, somebody on third base.

And Arod kept harpy on the fact that Verdugo needed to get to third base there. I'm like, dude, no, he does. It would have been dead. If he takes off to third base, I know the throw is a little high. So typically, Rizzo's out there as the cutoff man. Usually the ball's going to be towards him, but I don't think he was able to catch that. I think it was high. But then Gary just comes up, receives the ball, and throws it to third base, and he's absolutely out.

So I thought, Arod kept harping on that. And I wanted to put a tweet out, but I was like, I'm talking about it on our live stream. Arod likes to see two things in the future so people can see how he's smart. and instead of talking about the hit or the pitch or the throw home, he jumps. Like kind of a comedian says you need to make the third joke, not the first two layup jokes. So he tries to go beyond the play every single time.

And like they showed the replay. And Gary would have just caught it and fired to third. And he would have been dead. And Aarad just kept going on about it. And he was just wrong. It's weird when he does that. And you know what? He wouldn't have scored.

because he would have been out. Redugo ends up scoring. Yeah. And he wouldn't have because he would have been out. And that's where Arod plays the win-win. Because if Redugo gets out, Alex Rodriguez would say, you absolutely can't get thrown out in that situation. So, yeah, that's a tough part.

But you know what happened was I saw that ending. I think they tied it up, right, that inning? and then I went to go pick up some Thai food for me and Olivia I came back, boom, 6-3. Yeah. So I missed the big inning. I missed the judge hit.

I missed, Stanton hit another homer right. Did you miss the catcher's drop third strike? I did, I saw it. But I did miss it in live, live time. Pretty well.

You want me to tell you my opinion? Yeah. I think he's out. I think it's pretty clear that he's out and that was on the transfer. But it's really, hard to call in live time. Joe West has to ask for help because he can't see that.

And even in live replay, like at live speed, it's hard to tell. And it's not challengeable. Not challengeable. Yeah, I mean, it's just Joe West is getting a lot of flat because he's Joe West. But I mean, it was, you're right. He can't see that because he's not athletic enough to, like, be able to look at anything except this one little spot. No offense Joe West. I guess a fence Joe West.

A little bit. I guess that was a direct shot. Zing. It's kind of rude. No, it was a brutal call. And yeah, I don't know. I mean, A, Bobby Dalbeck. Bobby Dalback misses the pop-up right before that.

So if you're a Sox fan, I'd aim a lot of your points over there. And then B, yeah, I mean, that's a really weird play. And very tough to call. If a first base umpire stepped in and said that was on the transfer, I think I think Yankee fans would say, yeah, that's probably right. A, not a lot of people are saying this. I mean, it's a little Vasquez, what are you doing, baby? Like, he didn't need to take the ball out at all.

Like, why are you even trying to? That's kind of being show, like just pulling the ball out. When if he just left it there, kept that right arm to the side, that never happens. He just didn't know he had, he thought he had it better than he did. It's tough that, like the catcher's glove like that, and James, you know this better. you're our resident catching expert here. When you get it just strictly in the web with the catcher's glove, you can't really feel it that well.

And I don't know if he knew he had it like that because it got tipped at the last second and stayed in his glove. So I think he was trying to get his hand in there quick to secure it because he set up like this to catch it and then it went up, like it went up in a different spot. So I think he was trying to corral it because it got tipped into a different place than he was trying to catch it. But either way, the way I would look at it and it's,

a bad call, but I don't think there's a, unless you make that a reviewable play, I don't know if there's a better way to go about it unless Joe S appeals. But if Joe S appeals in live speed, no first base hump is going to overrule him there because it's so quick. So I think the only lesson here is if you're a catcher, don't fucking ever drop the transfer. Like make that part of your like training. Like, don't, don't take transfers like for granted ever, if it's a foul tip, I guess. I don't know, because I was trying to think of how do you make it so it doesn't happen again, but you make it reviewable.

But in live speed, like, we thought it was a foul tip and just dropped. Joe West did. And he has no view. All he sees is the ball in the ground. It's weird. Yeah. But it's usually catchers do do that, though, Jim, like you're saying, like they get there, catch it.

And it's either going to be like a quick flip up like this or a quick flip up to really secure it. But he didn't, yeah. He just. By anyone watching that and watching the replays. knows that that's a strikeout. I don't think anyone's going to really argue that if they're, unless they're my stubborn dog. Max being stuck.

How many baseball gods were dropped last night? I can't give the extra outs. Baseball gods are going to come get you. Both sides. Happened to both teams. Yeah. I mean, the Red Sox only took the lead because the Yankees dropped two pop-ups. Yeah.

Everyone lost that game. Interesting. Yeah Those are all like three like 99 out of 100 catches Yeah DJ overran his And like wasn't confident

Dollback was terrified of the wall Bobby Abraeu-esque Like didn't want to come within five feet of the wall I don't know what the hell Gallus was I think his was straight nerves Yeah I don't know There's no win DJ I guess

Is he I haven't seen a lot of his games At third base how was he? Well he looked good on balls on the ground in that game. But Arod, speaking of, when he moved from short to third, pop-ups were his hardest thing. So in my head, I always have pop-ups as being the hardest thing to transfer from position to position because they just come,

the spins different on those high ones. But it's still got to be caught, obviously. Yeah, that's the thing you do learn on the corners. If you're going for a foul ball over by the dugout, they're always going to head straight back towards the foul line. Like you have to play that, what do you call that, that arc? Like, they're going to come back. That's just how it is.

And if you haven't taken a ton of pop-ups over there, I could see you screwing. I mean, I've screwed those up before plenty of times. Stuff. Tough. But not. How many Interleague series were there, Jake? Asking the wrong guy.

Solomente uno, baby. I mean, I know he's got it, but I was asking you. And I was going to throw it to Trev. Trev, Interleague, you're up. Well, my Pee. We're going to be talking about my former team. The Rays. Tampa Bay Legend T-Poof.

I think I was number 14 with them. Guess what? They go ahead and sweep their Florida brethren. Marlins come into town and Ray's win. 8-0. 7-3. And then 3. 2. Ray's starting pitching.

Are they even starters? Who knows? Their pitching was good. Let's just call them their pitchers. Did really well. Robertson. You guys know him. Yarborough are an end. Combined for a two-hit shutout in game one.

I think that's good. Game two, Mike Zanino, go-ahead, two-run, home run, in the fifth inning. It's all he does is hit homers. Does he ever hit a single or like a double, Mike? You just hit bombs. I like that about you. With that win, and the Red Sox lost of the Yankees,

the Ray's got to clinch and pour champagne all over each other's bodies and then hug a lot. So that's a lot of fun. Game three, to secure the sweep. It's not Baz, it's Boz. He goes 5 and 2 thirds, shutout innings with nine mother effing K's for the win. He's got a 1, BBD, what? 6-9 ERA and a 2-0 record through his first two starts.

Glass now, Meadows, Boz. The Rays had a good trade when they did that trade. They sweep the Marlins, they win the Florida Cup this year. I'm pretty sure I haven't checked that, but I'm pretty sure they won the Florida Cup. Cup. And that, my friends, is what happened in the intern-in-in-stall-league. Miguel Roethos' home run. Hell you.

The Florida Cup, man. That's... You think of the Cubs and the White Sox, Yankees, Mets, you know, a lot of teams that share cities and states and stuff. You know, St. Louis and the Cardinals and the Royals. and I just never once thought there was like a cup or something between the Reyes and the Marlins. Like, is that a thing?

If you're a Ray's fan, if you're a Marlins fan, are you like we're playing our state rival? Is there any added juice to those series at all? I've never heard hype or anything. I mean, even Orioles and Nationals, you got the Beltway series. Like, has there ever been a heated series between those teams? No, there's probably a name for the cup.

I think next year. For instance, we had the Governor's Cup. And that was that the Governor? No, maybe it wasn't the Governor's Cup. Governor's Cup might be what the International League trophies called. But there's something between the Red Sox and the Twins for Spring Training bragging rights. So everything has a cup. They have to have a cup here.

I'm going to find it out. Anybody know in the check? I think they call it the Spring Training Cup. Ray's versus Marlins. Hey, Rays have been doing their side of the winning. Next year. Next year's is the Citrus Series. The Citrus Series.

Yes, everyone knows that. There's a wiki. Everybody knows. There's a wiki. The Citrus series. Ray's lead all time, 71 to 58. Dude, how about the fucking... How about the race hanging a banner

saying we're going to Montreal next year just spitting in their fans' faces? I'd think it'd be cool to have baseball Montreal again. Yeah, obviously, but... They were chanting, like, move to Tampa or go to Tampa. I think it was stay in Tampa, wasn't it? No, I think they want them to go to Tampa. They do want them to build a stadium in Tampa.

And that's the thing, I mean... they got to get that done. I don't know. I don't know. I'm not versed on the stadium situation. The owner wants Tampa to pay for it. Tampa doesn't want to pay for it. There's a proposed.

Sounds like every other proposal ever. Some states pay for it. I mean, it's a huge economy if you get a good team and stuff. But I think there was a proposal where the raise would pay for like X amount. And it wasn't that bad. And he still said no because he wants them to pay for all of it. So then he threatened the Montreal plan. Now they're going to do the half and half just so eventually they can be like,

see, we like Montreal better. The atmosphere was better there. And the players actually prefer playing in Montreal. And then they're going to leave. And it's just like setting up for that. This is, I don't know, I could be out of pocket here. But I feel like there needs to be some sort of percentage that the owners of the team need to pay for the stadium.

It can't fall like mostly on the taxpaying citizens. It just can't. Yeah, I have no idea how any of that works. We all know the game that gets played by then. They get this, you know, taxes to put up most of the stadium money. Then they go buy it real estate around the stadium and they play that whole game and they leverage their franchise worth to buy that stuff. It's maybe the CBA.

We're going to be a labor pod soon, guys. So enjoy the baseball talk. Yeah. Yeah. That's what they're going to do. Someone said that, someone in the chat said it's they're not doing it. next year, but didn't they just announce that they were? And earlier in the season, some announcers in baseball dropped it.

Like, well, the race will be playing after games in Montreal. So I think it's been known inside the walls for a little. But supposedly they're supposed to announce it soon, is what the headline said. Tampa Bay progressing with Montreal's sister city plan. That was 22 hours ago, MLB.com. So I guess nothing official. A lot of people in the chat saying, owner should pay 100% in the stadium. I don't necessarily agree with that. A majority, I think so, yes. But there are a lot of benefits to getting a stadium built in your city and creates a lot of jobs, excess money eventually. But if Pittsburgh didn't have professional sports teams, like, would it be Pittsburgh? You know, a lot of cities are.

Green Bay. Like, yeah, a lot of cities are what they are because of they, they, lobbied for a team. The history of like the ABA and the NBA and like how if you ever see that, how when they merged, they just some cities got killed and some got made because they had a team and then the others lost their team. So there is a benefit for the big time benefit for a town having professional sports. It's a huge draw. It's a tourist attraction.

San Antonio. Yeah. But we won't get into that. The race swept. Good job. I've got a quick one for you guys. Yes. There are four catchers on the Miami Marlins roster.

I've got one and a half in my book. I won't even try. Can I try? Alfaro. Alfaro. Not currently on the roster. He is hurt. Well, that was a curveball.

That was the one. Does Cooper count? Cooper, no. It's Cooper? He does never play a character? There's one guy. He was a backup in Boston. recently classic catcher.

Sandy. Yep. He is with the Marlins. Sandy Leon. Sandy Leon. The half point for me was Alex Jackson, if that's the same one that was on the Braves for a little bit. Traded for Duval.

Peyton Henry and Nick Fortez. Right. What's your point? I'm giving guys love. I'm giving guys love, Trev. That's what we're all about. Hell, that's what the next half show is about. Tell them, Jim.

Yeah, next half the show, We're going to go individual on you. We're going to give it our standouts, some awards, some Enfuego. Get into the talk about the doze. It's brought to you by, I think, Draft Kings. Really? Draft Kings. EBD made a play.

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I will talk about him again. It's really insane. And this was the first start where he started to pick up like actual people were talking about him outside of Phillies and us. And then I saw so many tweets like, why isn't, why didn't I know about this guy? And I saw so many Reddit threads like, I never even heard of him. And it's like, listen to the show.

I've been trying to shout out Ranger this whole time. It's crazy. What he's doing is crazy. So he's my standout performer. Nine innings pitched. I think he, isn't he really close to a hundred innings pitch? I feel like that's what sparked people, yeah. 99 with a 280.

He only threw 97 pitches in that. 99. I got no answer from Sam Fold. I'm really curious to see how they use him. They have to win these games. They have to. Yeah, they have to. So Philadelphia Inquirer.

says Philly should start Ranger Suarez on Thursday against the Braves. Who is the person that would kick out? Gibby? Gibby. Yeah. Kick Gibby out. Better not. Gibby'll drop your ass like a bad habit.

Mm. More on Gibby later. Yeah, I bet. You know what I'm saying? Mm. Ranger Suarez. Good award, Jimmy. The stat, the Ranger Suarez's stat that was getting hot was 58 innings as a reliever.

169 ERA 40 innings as a reliever with the one one two ERA 60 50s 50s is a starter with a 169 era very good and a big sample of both are I can I tell the truth here is it tell the truth Monday yeah yeah you know I was teammates with Ranger Schwartz 2018 right Lehigh Valley guy had a 5-4 ERA there didn't see it didn't see it coming and that's what's great about baseball and people that work hard and figure things out. This one took you by surprise? It did. Jake?

Shout out. Who's your standout performer? Shout out. It's going to go Ranger Suarez. No, I'm going with another fella close to my heart. More people need to appreciate him. I'm going with Giancarlo Stanton. We like to do single games on the standout performance,

and I've got three to choose from from Big G, which means he had a hell of a weekend, but the one that stood out to me was Saturday night in Boston. The Yankees are down. Two to one late. Base is hucked, and Giancarlo Stanton hits a baseball about as hard as any human can. And he sends it into the Boston night.

eighth inning grand salami he uh that game he ends up going two for three with four rbi yanky scored five runs um and the other one was on a pass ball so uh he's special man when he gets hot it doesn't look like anything you've ever seen my thing i keep pushing on talking yanks is like a Reggie Jackson comparison. Like he's going to sneak up on 500 homers, by the way. Go look at his stat sheet. Hell, he might eclipse it. As long as he stays healthy, he's easily going to eclipse it.

Man, he kind of got this bad rap for getting a bunch of money and getting hurt a couple times. Giancarlo's been nasty. Him and Judgey are putting the Yankees on their back, literally and figuratively. 346 career taters, but basically a game-winning grand slam and the best rivalry in the game. I'm giving it to Big G. I know this won't, like, it won't ever stop with John Carlo

just because the nature of the player he is, is a streaky guy. So, like, now we're all very much appreciating the kind of player he is. He has a chance at the Hall of Fame. But next year, when he goes O for 20, everyone's to be calling for his head again and you know I don't know you guys know how to feel about that look at the numbers at the end of every goddamn season

that he's been healthy and I know that's part of the frustration is 19 he wasn't healthy and 20 he didn't play during the regular season much but when the guy is on the field he's a monster so let's appreciate Junkard a little bit more I think

Jake and I it's just the health stuff and the weird like babying the no playing outfield forever stuff. And then he wants to play outfield, but they don't let him because 2018, Yankees fans were really down on him. But it's a good year. And he played on a bum leg the whole time. And then 2019 and 2020 just kind of lost seasons because he was hurt.

So when healthy, he's been good. 2018, he said he had to figure out the league and, you know, all new pitchers. And he keeps detailed. He keeps a notebook after every game where he writes down the pitchers that he faced and how they pitched him. And like he says that he's big. into that and he didn't and 19 or 18 was whole new so jake and i haven't been on the crazy he's bad it's just like got to be healthy just enjoy him enjoy him because it's never looked like this my new thing is every stadium trebs should have an alley or an area where you can hit the ball out

the stadium because him hitting those out of fenway is just the visual of it is so cool I want to see more of those hit it here signs with the bullsire, the net. They need to be like easier to reach spots. Like just make the prizes less extravagant. I want to see people win those things. I like that. Yeah.

We can add that to our baseball offseason changes. Like, oh, hit it here. We'll give a fan a thousand bucks. Or 10,000, whatever. I mean, whatever. Targets in the outfield would be sick especially when a guy like John Carlos hit it. He might break it.

Yeah. You're going to break someone's face soon. It's not going to be funny. It's going to be scary. I agree with that. Who's your standout performer? Trevor? I'm giving two today because it's near and dear to my heart.

Hell yeah. Corey Seeger and Trey Turner both hit their 100th career home run on the night that the Dodgers secured their 100th victory. You know triple digit homers are near and dear to me. It's the only thing I got left. It's the only thing I can talk about. and compare myself to some of these players. So, yeah, congratulations. Trey and Corey, you're in the triple digit club.

There's no higher club than that. Enjoy it. And I just wanted from a member, I just wanted to welcome them. Welcome. Nice. Welcome. 100 and 100 on the dot.

I like it. All right, we're skipping slump watch, right? It's done. It's good vibes only. So we're going straight into We got some guys that are hot, Trev. Harrison Bader, 10 for 15 with three bombs and three doubles. Stanton, you just heard about him.

Brandon Bell, you heard about him. 7 for 13, three home runs. Did get hit by a pitch, go and get X-rays. Trey Turner, the Dodgers, 5 for 13 with three homers and a double. Castiano's, 5 for 16 with 3. Three homers. Tyler O'Neill with the little hop over home plate. Whoops.

Six for 18 with three homers. Newt Bar, Goldie, Kelbert Ruiz. Kelberies. And Brandon Crawford. Five for 12, two homers. Ooh, Khybert. Yeah. Oh, yeah.

Got a lot of his. I got a lot of his. I got a lot of that guy. Eyes and L's are tough. Let's be honest. Former Dodgers top prospect. He goes to the. the nationals now. I got a lot of the cards. Come on, Khybert.

Sure's her trade, right? Turner trade. Shures her Turner trade. That's a list of hot boys, too. Well, some, some, some. Depends on what they're wearing. Can we talk about trade Turner just doing that slide again? I know people went viral the first time, but he just like, how do you slide like that? He's going so fast that he could just do different things with his body

that like you or I couldn't do. I love it though. It's kind of what we're talking about the other day. Like we need more signature stuff. Like if that's Trey Turner's signature slide, awesome. Jancarlo does the little Tasmanian devil when he touches home plate and spins around a little bit. We've got Vladdy does the steps rounding third.

Like yes, yeah, feed me that. Dude, I haven't looked into this at all. Perfect. Trey Turner just seems to me like he dominated several sports as a kid. Like, you know he played every sport and just absolutely dominated them. I bet you he lettered in four sports in high school. Oh, I like that. And was probably like all state and every single one.

I just know he wasn't the only Trey on his high school baseball team. There's two trays. It should have been three. There's only two. Um Like there should be a local Trey Turner Mookie Betts

Like I can do anything better than you Commercial I think he was baseball only man I'm looking right now too Yeah he barely was recruited out of He must have been tiny or something Yeah You watch him play and you're like

That guy is so athletic Yeah It's awesome Interesting Trev now it's time For one I'm giving out the debut killer award. And it's more, it's not like an award, it's more of like a, let's do this.

Let's make this happen. Goes to our boy, Kotuck. Co-tuck. Yes. You guys were texting him before the game. I texted him after the game a little bit because he faced. What was that, Hans? Hans Krauss.

Yeah. Is that really his name? Yeah. Hans Kraus? Yes. Where's he from? California? Where's Dana Point?

Anyway, he faced Hans Kraus in his debut. Hans Kraus MLB debut. First pitch he throws. As a big leaguer, Kotuck goes yard. Home run. How's that for your debut? Gross. Want to know what Kotuk did in his debut?

He hit a homer on his own. So I think he needs to lean into this. And whenever he faces someone making his MLB debut, he just has that extra bit of confidence knowing I'm the debut killer. Bring me that fastball, meat. And I texted him that. I say, I say you lean into this. I say you become the debut killer.

Because that's a cool name too, the debut killer. So that's the award. And it's more of just like a suggestion. I like it, man. I like where his head's at right now. He's very confident. He keeps expressing how good he feels. And that is the name of the game if you want to be a good big league hitter.

You've got to like, even when you don't really feel it, you got to fake it. And I think Cole is starting to realize that now. And why shouldn't the dude be confident? Did you see his numbers in game started in September? Because someone said he's still having a bad month. But here's the thing, Trev. And, you know, we joke about how Katie Sharp on talking about she brings the Sharp. stats because that's what she does. And then we joke that Jake stats were with with butter

knife stats because they're not sharp. And then we so then if anyone here to say like the butter knife that's where that stems from. I butter knife out pinch hits just like he got one at bad. It was a pinch hit at bat. I don't think that should count against his like monthly stat line because pinch hitting is hard and just coming off the bench sucks. And when you do it a lot, it sucks a lot. So I butterknif those out. And in the month of September, in game started, he's got some numbers. 281 batting average, 328 OBP, but he's hitting too damn much. 406 slugging 734.

So, I mean, from what Kotuck was doing earlier, that's a player right there. And his last 11, they're like, nutty numbers. Yeah, I agree with you on the pinch hitting thing. He's brutal. He's been a starter. his entire life and then to get thrust into that role at the big league level

is absolutely brutal. It's impossible. You have to learn how to become a pinch hitter. It's just it's a completely different at bat and if you haven't done it, you're going to struggle with it. I struggled with it. I never, I mean, pinch hitting sucks, dude.

So shout out cold tugger. I hope he gets some run, you know, continue that at the end of this year and then next year hopefully he gets a starting spot and then runs with it. because he does have a lot of talent. And sometimes, man, it just takes, it just takes a streak like this to make you feel like you got it.

And then you just keep it. Ride it out through the off season. We're obviously probably as biased as anyone can get. But, yeah, man. And dude, think about things we talk about all the time. They've moved around his position and stuff. Like, you know, this guy's just getting some regular run. he's hitting good for him finish it out through the season and come in next spring train and

get it done get 500 a bs next year whoops whoops very hot very hot good award jake thank you uh i will go next i'm giving out the not fully dressed award um it's uh it's how i like to live life And I actually ran into this situation the other day. Last well-dressed Wednesday, I, you know, went full Serpientes, had the baseball pants on for the fans, showing that I still got that. Shown off my moves a little bit. But, Treve, there's a certain point in life when you're not fully dressed unless you got your belt on. And I wanted to give a shout out to our guy, Brandon Bell's. He's got a couple awards this year.

He's got a couple standouts. He could have got a standout this very episode, Two Homer game. And so here's why this is important. We've talked about the Giants all year, Trev, their coaches, their veterans and all of that. As they go for 108 wins or whatever they're going for. Brandenbel got hit in the hand the other day.

He's getting some X-rays. He's getting looked into a little bit. I've done this a couple times, but I want to hammer it home again. again. Brandon Bell's last 148 games. So this year and last year, you basically got a full season now.

148, that's what guys playing a full season nowadays. 38 homers, 285, 393, a 98 OPS. 165 OPS plus. That's the last two seasons. That's consecutive.

Brandon Bell. When he's right, man, that's like a premier slugger in this league. And, you know, we look at the Giants and we're like, yeah, Longo's got a little bit in him. Posey's having a nice bounce back year. Crawford, holy cow. Brandon Belt, man. This dude's for real. I hope everything with the x-rays and all of that and his hand comes back good.

Because, you know, whenever we've talked about the Giants, we're either in fear of the Dodgers or when they're bottom going to drop out. I really hope they don't have to go into a playoff series without Brandon Belt because that guy has been nasty for the past two seasons. I'll give him some love. Wear your belt. Not wearing belts is now in style, which like trips me up because I can't go. I can't go without a belt feels weird.

Tyler O'Neill. You got to, well, if you have belt loops, you should still put a belt on. If you get your pants tailored the right way, you don't. don't need a belt. If he is out, who plays first, Ruff? I think Ruff is hurt, too. I mean, they'll find someone. They're the Giants, but. Posey? Is it Lamont? Is it Posey? You let us know, Giants fans. I honestly didn't know where you were going with that belt reference, and then it was just right in front of my face. Yeah. Where to go?

Trevor. Trevor? My award is called the, it feels good, but it's awkward. Now, how many, there's some times in your life where it feels good. It's a little awkward. Catch your first fish. Feels good on that pole. A little awkward bringing that thing up to the boat. Get your fish into something.

If you know what I mean, it feels good. It's a little awkward that first time, right? Our guy Kyle Gibson. It's the home run. Feels good. It's a little awkward. Gibby hits the homer. Doesn't know what to do when he's running around the bases.

Looks like he almost forgets where second base is. Forgets to shout the bullpen out, which is a no-no in Philadelphia. Runs around the basis. He's all smile. He's all lanky. The limbs are just he doesn't even. feel them so they're flopping all over the place.

Um, puts the sombrero on. Uh, the big, come back out retroactively and give the freaking love to the boys in the bullpen. So feels good, a little awkward. Shout out Gibby.

I actually love his shot. I watching it right now. He's doing the shoulders are just, the shoulders are just popping. Yeah, the bullpen being like, what's up, dude? It's a pretty slow. Trot. Look how tall he is.

Batters in the box are so odd looking. He's so, he's so, like, tall and lanky. He hit it off Miggy Yahoo. That's a bummer. That was a nuke. That's funny, man. He did hit it. He hit it.

He hit it. He's all arms running around those bases. Not down the line. The shoulders are just popping out the back. Good for him. Yeah. That's got, that's, I don't. I can't, what is that, like, how can you, like, equate that to anything?

Like, pitchers just aren't supposed to hit home runs. Yeah. And you just hit one. I don't know. Travel. Can you ask BBD who the best friend of the week is? Big Big Dong, who's the best friend of the week? It's Max Fried.

It's his third time winning it. He's the second most best friends of any pitcher. Nine inning, zero earned. Four K's three hits. Zero walks. Way to go. boy my guy is he a maximus maximilian i don't know i'll tell you what he is right now fucking cock strong maxman he's got some he's got some confidence in him that's like come out he necessarily

didn't have that when i knew him i mean i mean obviously i still know him but when i was around him a lot I don't think he had that confidence yet And then you can just see it, man The more and more success he has at the baby level He's turning that corner, man Like he's gonna be an ace for years to come Like he's he's got it It's cool to see

Everywhere just says Max for the name Interesting Um, ooh Trev I know that We're down to just elevator talk But I wanted to talk to you Trev about something that might peak your interest. That's a little risque to discuss.

Got to be careful how I worded, I think. But, you know, back in the middle of the season, they banned the sticky stuff, right? And a month out, there was a ton of checking in on guys and saying, like, who got it the worst? And obviously, like Karen Chack and Walker Bueller and Cole and Trevor Bauer and all and I mean even Scherzer a little bit all their spin rates just plummeted right I ain't seen anything recently so I went in to check on some guys and see what's going on

and I don't know if you know we said that being naked and going in and pitching with nothing on your hand, like they were going to have to figure that out, like start from new. Some guys bottomed out and are rising back up. And I'm very interested in checking the spin rates from every Phil Cousy-led umpire crew versus others because they're the only umpire crew that has actually like looked at gloves and taking them out of the play. But there's some pitchers out there who bottomed out and then now it's just tick and ticking back up.

Maybe they figure out a way to grip it with nothing. I don't know. We need to go do a deeper dive and check all this stuff out. Are you talking to the spin rate or just a response? Spin rate on their fastball. Oh, so it went down, now it's back up. Down, back up. You know, Walker Bueller went down, stayed down.

Other guys went down, climbed back up. Dylan Bundy went down, climbed back up. Garrett Cole went down. They could have figured out something. Garrett Cole had a game recently where his average winner was 2486. His last game before was 2496. So I thought you'd be interested in it. Our friend Gialito, he bottomed out, and now he's back up nowhere near where he

was but back up. So I wonder if they figured out a different way to grip it without anything. If there's, I don't know what's going on, but I wonder if anyone's still doing check-ins here. I feel like I'm almost talking out of pocket here because I'm just guessing on this. And I said this for a long time. You can make something really sticky with rosin and sweat and sunscreen. And I know like they're not really supposed to combine all those things, but I think he kind of still can and get away with it. And those three things don't necessarily increase your spin rate as much as the spider attack stuff does. So to me, it makes me think, like, maybe they,

maybe they were relying on that stuff too much and they didn't even really need it. Yeah, like Walker Beeler and Cole are still having really good starts. Are you telling me Dylan Bundy's 2020 is just fueled by Spider Tech? Because he's back to being terrible. Do you want to butterknife it? I don't want a butter knife shit. I just know he's got a 606 ERA this year. He got removed from the Angels rotation.

He tormented James last year. Or was it you? Jake, Jake. Last year, his average spinneret was 2420 on his fastball. He started this season. Let me go by month. Dylan Bundy started this season averaging 2540, so it bumped up and now it's down to 23, up to 24.

So no, it's like where he's at right now, July and August is where he was last season. He bumped up at the start of the year. Dude, I think that they all bumped up the start of this year. Like, I think that's what a lot of people think it's been happening for the last three seasons. I think with some pitchers it was. But I think the start of 2021, a lot of starting pitchers started being like, what? when like articles started leaking,

we talked about in the off season. I think there's a lot of pictures in spring training. Like, so who's got this stuff that they're talking about? Because I need in. I'm on the outside. Because it was like everyone. Yeah. And that's why hitters.

There's going to be a huge, you know, article by somebody at the end of the season, measuring offense since June 21st. And if it helped at all. Yeah. There's been a few check-ins here in there. there, but we haven't had like a huge, like, complete statistical dive into it yet. I'm sure that Drelick and Kenny are probably working on it right now, if I had to guess.

You know. You know. Karen Chacks is hilarious. It's, uh, no, man. It's just the funniest graph, you'll see. And when you cut it off here to here, he's not one of the pictures that has, uh, figured it out without. Well, dude, he mean, he was, the guy that was like, you just like look at his glove and it was like, what are you doing?

Yeah. Yeah. Come on, man. You're the reason. Everyone's so pissed at this. One of them. Yeah, it's pretty wild. I mean, I'll spin this.

I think you guys can see. He, uh, this is his chart. I don't know if you can get that BBD. Month by month. That's like the trend of his spin rate on his fastball. Down. It's podcast only. Like a classic downward graph.

And there's a very clear, big part of the dip where it's a steep slope. Yeah, if you go by game by game, it's like wild. All right. Elevator talk. You guys want to? I think we just did it. Yeah. All right, that was the elevator talk.

Getting the elevator with a baseball fan talk about, you know, I think they should look back into this bin right. They kind of stop checking it out. I want to make one last comment. Yes. The yellow jerseys are no more. You've got to feel good to slay that dragon. I like when teams do stuff like that. Like even though I don't like the Red Sox.

Like you have to. You're winning. You have to ride it out. And it's cool that the league allowed it. That's kind of like the superstition of baseball. All right. We have a midweek episode and then we have the Friday recap. And then we have midweek episode.

And then we have playoff preview. Or no. No, man, we're here. We have midweek episode. One last midweek. Midweek. And then it's Friday. And then it's playoff time.

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