Talkin' Baseball (MLB Podcast) - 4| July 19th | Savages, Buyers & Sellers & Awards!

Episode Date: July 19, 2019

Aaron Boone gave one of the better ejection rants we've heard. The Dodgers and Phillies played a wild series full of drama. The Indians swept and the Rockies got swept which are big momentum changers. Awards, Slump Watch, Elevator talk and more. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

What's up, everybody. It is episode two of talking baseball. We had a wild week of MLB games. Tempers flared all over. Big series. Some teams are now out of it. Some teams are way more in it. We're going to talk all about it. We got slump watch. We got home run derby updates. We got buyers. We got sellers. And we got who got mad. Let's go. Talking baseball. Talking baseball. Everyone, thank you. If you listen to the the first episode or the test episodes, which are now on the feed. We appreciate you very much. I have my co-host, Jake, as always, with me. He's actually in the same room as me, which don't get used to this.

He's leaving after we record this, but Jake, how are you doing? Good, James, I'm good. We're talking baseball. You said it best. The song says it best. Yeah, man, it's been a whirlwind. literally and figuratively as we were doing. If you're listening to this, you probably caught some of the Johnboy stuff yesterday.

It was nuts from the Yankees game. And yeah, earlier in the week, it's so funny. You and I, we probably have a couple of phrases we're going to bring over from our other podcasts that we're introducing to people. But something that you say and that I've come to is that baseball moves so fast. and I think a lot of people, that's the opposite thing they think of when they think of baseball. But when you go back to like, I was looking at Bryce Harper's big RBI comeback, the Phillies against the Dodgers the other day.

And I was like, that felt so long ago just because the day-to-day in baseball, with the more games, it just moves quick. So I'm excited to get our teeth sunk in. We've already had a ton of people listening and leaving reviews and stuff. Like this is kind of episode two, as Jimmy mentioned. We did a few before that. So we're, uh, we're rolling, man. Yeah, we're actually, Jake and I have been doing podcasts for a long time, guys.

Well, actually, that's not sure. We've been doing podcasts for two plus years, two plus years, but we've been doing a lot. Podcast world, you know, we're like, I don't know, we're batting 400 lifetime. We, uh, we have a lot of shows. We're really excited about this one. This is the first show that we launched that already had, we already had like a following. You know, everything else is like, Hey, episode one, 20 people listen?

Great. Yeah. Let's keep building. Over a thousand people downloaded, I think minimum really across all. Well, actually, I think like probably two across all platforms. Yeah. Listen to the first episode and we're super appreciative. It's kind of like this tingling feeling like, holy shit.

Like we actually have people that are going to tune in from the get go. Let's fucking make this work. Let's have some fun. A lot of reviews came in. If you were one of someone that left a review on the podcast app, before we even asked or just to be nice, like I really, really appreciate that. And we need to get those reviews up. It's this stupid world that the podcast lives in where if someone Googles it and they check a podcast out,

the reviews hold so much weight in people's head. If you don't have a lot, it seems like it's not a real show. This is a real show. And we have a real audience. So we need you guys help for a little bit just to bump those up. I want to give, we don't have stickers yet, but I want to give stickers to everyone that leaves like the first 50 reviews. We'll get you some stickers.

So I don't find a way. I don't know how to do it. Leave like your Instagram or your Twitter or DM us your review and then we'll get in touch. We'll send you some stickers or something. Yeah. We'll hook it up. I appreciate all its support. How you doing, Jim?

I'm on like five hours of sleep, which is not as much. I went to bed at 3 a.m. last night. We did do talking to Yanks and the Aaron Boone and the Savage quote, which is now the biggest story. Yeah. I'm always going to feel guilty whenever the Yankees are a national storyline and talking baseball. Because I don't want this. I don't want our Yankee bias to like come on here at all. We talk enough Yanks over there.

Right. So I'm always nervous like, oh, shit, they're going to, these guys just talk about the Yanks. But I think that is the biggest story. I think it's transcendent baseball. I think it's one of the biggest story in sports. Yeah, and that's a lot of the guys. I mean, we'll give some kudos and not a weird pat ourselves on the back way. But, I mean, it went all throughout the baseball world.

I mean, Buster Only, guys like that. We heard Ken Rosenthal was getting involved in the action. So, I mean, the biggest names in baseball. And then just like sports guys, Colin Cowherd, he was retweeted. And I think the comment that resonated with me was like this, I think people were saying this was one of the coolest things they'd seen in baseball. This was like one of the first things, if you're not a natural baseball fan, that they felt almost like resonated with them.

They're like, this is cool. This is what sports is. Like, yeah. So I have the tweet. So I'm getting a million replies and all different types of replies. And so contradicting, because that's how it is. And sports fans and even umpires, I had a lot of past umpires say like,

this is awesome. Yeah. That um took it. Boone used some harsh language, but it wasn't mean. Like he was, he really wasn't like, mean.

Right. And then there's other people that I think are not sports fans. Like, why is this allowed in sports? Sports is the only place you can do this. And it's like, uh, yeah, I understand it might be weird for you, but that it's so good. Shades of gray. I know a lot of business worlds where you can get a yelling to like that. And I've gotten a couple of yellings like that.

And that's why I'm doing this now. Yeah. Um, so I don't know. Do we start getting into the baseball or what? Yeah. If you're, this is your first time listening. We appreciate you stopping by hanging out with us. If you want to watch live in the future, we are going to be posting it live on Patreon.

Patreon.com slash Johnboy Media. That should grow as we go. And then a chat can start and people can hang out. It's slowly grew up for talking yanks. Now it's a fun space. I think we can do the same here. But how it works is we're going to open up with the NL and the AL report. We're always going to rotate.

I did the AL last time. So I will do the NL today. Jake, are you ready for this? I'm ready. Go get it. Catch me up. All right, here we go. The Giants and Rockies squared off for a four-game set,

including a double header in which the Giants swept the Rockies. Oh, no, rocks. Yikes. The Giants scored 40 runs in four games. They jumped the Rockies in the standings. The Rockies are now in dismay in kind of a bad place. The Dodgers and Phillies also had a four-game set, and it was crazy tempers flared the entire time.

we had an injection in the first game. Then we had an ejection in the second game. In the third game, I'm not sure if anything happened, but they split the series two to two. In the fourth game, there was a lot of yelling on the field. Nerris screamed. Russell Martin screamed back, said some words and all that. But that series went two and two, which actually is kind of a victory for the Phillies. The Reds and Cubs squared off.

The Cubs won two of three. Kind of, that's bad for the Reds. That might push them into being sellers. The Cubs lost game one, but won the next two to take the series. Darvish got his first win at Wrigley in his 12th attempt. So good for him. Braves and Brewers squared off. That's a fun matchup.

Two teams that I think are going to be solidly in the hunt for playoff wins. The Brewers beat the Braves, two out of three. Pirates and Cardinals. Cardinals beat the pirates. That's rough for the pirates because they're a team that needed to have a good start after the break. Josh Bell had a rough one through nine. More on that, and other home run derby contestants later. the Nationals beat the Orioles.

No, they split. The Nationals and the Orioles split. A little DMV action, one game each. Both of them were blowouts. Padres and Marlins squared off in Miami. And the Marlins won two of three. I think Marlins have been better than people think they have. Brian Anderson won the series and the last game with a walk-off.

So that's exciting. The Diamondbacks beat the Rangers in a two-game set. They scored 19 runs in game two, which I think they said. said it was a franchise high. And the Mets beat the twins. So, wow, twins are sellers now. That's crazy. Sorry.

I think they also have to delete themselves from the MLB, Jake, getting swept by the Mets when you're the twins. That's a tough break. Relegated. And that is the NL report. Anything that catches your eye here? Hey, Lose Mets. Congrats for beating the twins. In Minnesota, you don't want to go there on a hot summer day.

I actually would. Probably one of the nicer places in the ice. MLB to be in the dog days of summer. Thousand Lakes, all that. No, you got the debacks set in a franchise tied for record run scored. I mean, that's something of no. And, yeah, I mean, Braves, Brewers, you got some two really good baseball games and the one blowout by Milowacay.

And, yeah, I don't know. I think we, I snuck in a little buyer-sellers segment coming up later. Jim, so I don't want to deep dive into what the Reds are doing and all that. I mean, I'd say the stories in the National League that I think jump out are the implosion of the Rockies. They have done so bad. Slump watch. Yeah.

Slump watch. We're going to be hearing about them later. Dodgers, Phillies was a big series with a ton of action. I don't know. You kind of do a shrug when you split like that, but everyone walks away from it. and yeah, I don't know. What else is jumping off to you? I just, I thought all the national league teams beat the, well, I had it wrong.

I thought there was that one split. Right. There was the national split with the Orioles, which is a huge win for the Orioles. And the Phillies splitting with the Dodgers is a huge win for the Phillies. And that the Phillies played close games is kind of good for them. Harper kind of came to life and gave that place energy. Ipler got ejected once, got an argument twice. Like, the Phillies may not be where they want to be talent-wise.

Yeah. But I guarantee you their organization and, like, everyone's happy. Like, they have the drama, the appeal. I can tell you from my YouTube numbers of the Phillies are involved right now. Everyone's checking it out. Yeah, and I think the phrase I heard because you were doing that YouTube Phillies game. And I think a couple phrases I heard, A, I heard one great baseball phrase. the announcer dropped.

Baseball's pretty simple. You're going to win 50 games a year. You're going to lose 50 games a year. Whatever you do with the other games is what matters. It used to be 60-60, but now with how good some teams are and other teams are tanking. Such a good baseball quote. I love that quote. It's such a good baseball quote.

And then the other thing, and it's the vibe I've gotten from Phillies Nation, if you will, Jim, is that the Phillies haven't played good ball this year. I feel like that's the feeling out of Philadelphia. And I think Bryce's numbers are starting to sneak up there. I think I saw some F-war stuff that he's actually having a good year when people think he's having like a down-down year. So I don't know. I think Philadelphia, they're a team that I'd have to look at their needs a little bit.

Everyone needs pitching. But I think if they get a couple wins going, and maybe bringing a fresh body or two, I think they're kind of primed to take off or they want to be primed to take off. Philly? Yeah. This year.

Yes. They asked Kapler that in his interview, and he said, it's the worst interview ever. It was on YouTube. I should promote that. I was part of, like, the chat. It's kind of cool.

I wish it was Yankees game, to be honest. But it was fun. And they asked Kapler, and he was like, I think it's more about reinforcing what we have here, which is just like a good non-answer by him. Yeah, that's, I mean,

that's how you don't throw your, guys under the bus. If you say like, yeah, we can use another pitcher. You got a couple pitchers in your clubhouse that are like, oh. But they're right in the race. They are half a game out of the wild card. Yeah. That's good for them.

They made up some ground. So I'm saying that splitting with the Dodgers was like a victory for them. Yeah. And, yeah, Milwaukee technically is in the wild card right now with the Nats. Atlanta still has the east. Dodgers in the West. Cubby's in the central. I have a national league opinion.

Okay. I think I like the Dodgers. like a fantastic team. Yeah. This lead is too much. I think they're going to hit like a swoon. You think they're going to do the like we, we just, we haven't played a meaningful baseball game in three months.

They're not going to play meaningful baseball game until October. Yeah. No, I don't think that's, uh, I think that's super hot takeage. I think that's a pretty normal sports thing. It'll be interesting to see, I mean, what do you do? I mean, what's their lead right now? Are they at 14. They're 14 games ahead.

I mean, that's insane. It's like a good test of self-motivation. Yeah, man. I mean, I'd almost like know how teams normally rest guys the last like week or two before the playoffs and, you know, do every other game or however they want to do it. If you're the Dodgers, do you take like the first two weeks of September off? Just like kind of wash your hands and be like, hey, this hell of a year. Like the Yankees used to do that and let someone else manage. Hell of a year.

Is your audio muted? Oh, it might not be. Yeah. And I think from there, yeah, and then you say, okay, we've got two weeks. You do like a new spring training. You take a couple weeks out. The season ended August 31st. You clap.

You take a week off, two weeks off. Spring training, get back into it. Because they really aren't going to play a game that means anything to them for a while. I guess you try to gear up for when the better teams in the NL you play them, if they have a series with, if they have a series coming up with the Cubs or, I don't know, any of the teams fighting for the wild card.

I guess in that moment, that's your test, but you're right. I mean, they're, they've won. They won the West. Sorry, I'm trying to figure out audio here.

Yours was, edit this out of the pod. Okay. Yours was super echoey, because I think it was still on. Yeah. And then I had to switch the mic, because then you were muted,

because I think this mic wasn't That mic wasn't on Because who's in the chat Philip White's in the chat I'm glad he let me know Yeah He said now this is good Okay

It's still not gonna be great Because we're using like one mic Between the two of us But Okay Sound Yeah All right

Yeah this should be What we would do it Cool Thank you for album All right And I'm gonna have to Throw this up Yeah

We'll do the editing All right All right, you want to jump to the A-O report? A-O report brought to you by Jake. Store. Really. Wow. Jimmy, the American League, the Yankees take three out of four versus the raise in the battle at the top of the ALE beast.

Would have been a sweep if not for a three-homer game from Travis Darno. How about that? Boston takes three out of four against the Js, not the raise, including a dominant Chris Sale performance in the final game. that at Fenway in a little bit. As John mentioned, Orioles and Nat split the Beltway series to round off the east. In the central, John Boy's twins, we mentioned they lost to the Mets, lost by one, lost by 10 one game.

Meanwhile, the Windians live up to their name, Jim. Four games sweep over the Tigray's, Clevenger and Bauer with double-digit strikeout games to wrap up that sex. The L-Sox, I mean the White Sox, they drop all four to the Royals in KC. Sell, sell, sell, sell, baby. In the West, the Stroes and Halos, they split four. Angels won the first two. Houston comes back and gets the second two.

The A's win both games, putting up a nine and a ten spot over the Mariners. Mariners scored two each game, not as good. And Texas, forever, my friend, or maybe not, they lost both games to the timing backs. They gave up a nine spot, and as we mentioned, a record 19 burger for the D-backs. I think the Texas went to Arizona, and usually they have advantage of people coming to Texas and not being able to handle a heat. Right.

They went to Arizona, and I was like, this is cool. Nullified. Yeah. Like, oh, shit. This feels good. This is real heat. Yeah. Arizona was the home team, right?

I believe so. I think so. Otherwise, we have to throw out that whole theory. Yeah. Anyway, I'm shocked. I didn't actually, I was so busy with our event and everything that I didn't, I didn't check. the AL scores. I was a little out of tune that I'd like to be. And when you said that the Indians

swept the Tigers, that's the biggest series. That's the biggest result of a series in the AL. Well, Raised Yankees, but that one's huge for the Indians. And Jim, I think the bigger thing, and I'm going to start patting myself on that. That series was actually in Texas. So heat theory is out. Out. But that even worse look for Texas. Well, no, okay. So usually teams come to Texas. Right. And the Texas state gets them. Arizona was like,

this is nice. This is chilly. What are you talking about? Okay, we got it. We knew there was a heat theory in there. We just had to get there. Yeah. Jim, I'm going to start patting myself on the back as I try to

try to build myself up every day. I told you I was buying stock in the Indians. Yeah, you did. Four games sweep over the Tigers. So, I mean, and the Tigers are sneaking towards one of the worst records in baseball. them and the Orioles are both at 29. Yeah, they haven't won 30 games.

So, you know, it's not a big flex by them. But Jim, with the twins losing those two games. Now, as we sit here, and by the way, if you are listening at home, we do it series by series. So if a team starts a new series on a Thursday night, if there's something we need to talk about, we'll talk about it. But we're going series to series. As it stands right now, Cleveland's four games back.

and that's the tightest race in the AL. Oakland is sneaking up on Houston, but not to be rude to our new A's fans. I mean, Houston is one of the clear favorites to win it all, so there's not a huge threat there until maybe they play and something happens. Cleveland's going to make a run at it. They've got their pitching back. Kluber is supposed to come back at some point. If they get him instead of, I saw Adam Pluco,

I think he won the first game with like five innings, five earn runs. Cleveland's going to make a push And I think it's I think that might end up being some great baseball down the stretch Because it's kind of the It's going to be the classic baseball I mean the Indians sure they have a couple stars But they're built on their pitching

Minnesota is clearly built on their hitting in the gopher ball So we might end up getting some really good baseball The AL Central All right The Indians I'd be nervous out as twins Twins just lost two Indians just won four their pitching's good. Yeah, like you said, the Tigers, it's not,

beating the Tigers isn't something to celebrate. And I'm sorry if we have Tigers fans listening. Yeah. But sweeping a team, and this is where some, like, I know Yankees fans do this, like, you can, a four-game sweep. Yeah. Is impressive no matter who you play.

And you just can't downplay it. Like, that's a good, that sets the Indians up nicely. Yeah, and maybe the best, for Minnesota, Jim, is that the rest of that AL Central has now gone to complete Schmutz with the White Sox coming out and going one in nine in their last 10. Detroit is also one and nine in their last 10. Kansas City, seven and three in their last 10, but they're still 36 and 62. So Minnesota, if you're them, you say, hey, if we can manage our Cleveland games and just take care of the rest of the division.

We should still be good the rest of the way, but it'll be interesting to see how those head-to-head series goes and what else comes in their way. Yeah. Any, I don't know, anything else jump out to you from the AL, Jim? No, like we said, the Yankees

taken three or four from the race was kind of big. It was six games. You know, he had a six-game lead. For the double-header. Before, well, before the series. Then they split the first two. So it could have been a big swing. A sweep would have brought it two games, which would have been, I mean, I would have been so shook as a Yankee fan.

Or 10 games back. Yeah. But the Yankees take three or four, so it's now at eight, which is sizable. The Yankees and the race don't play each other again until September, and it's just two games. It's at the very back end of the season. Hopefully those don't matter. So this was the last chance for these teams to do damage against each other, because, you know, when you play each other, it's worth two. It's a win and a loss.

So the Rays are going to need other teams to do their bidding for them. And the Yankees have eight games in the next two weeks coming up against the Red Sox. Yeah. So the Yankees have there. The Yankees might get to a Dodger standpoint if they have a good two weeks. Wow. Do you want to take that Dodger take back now? No.

Do you want the Yankees to lose to the Red Sox? That seems like something you'd say. I think I heard that on the last ESPN broadcast. I want between six and ten from here out. Okay. I like that. Once you get the 15, you're struggling to find reasons to play. Yeah, no. That's, that's fair. Yeah, rays are now 10 back in the lost column. And you're right. I mean, Boston Yankee series coming up, eight games in two weeks.

I mean, that's going to paint a lot of the picture. So, yeah, I don't know. I think we get into the major storylines because I think, I think the buy-sell teams are one of the bigger topics in baseball now. The AL has sorted itself out. The NL hasn't. But before then, Jim, I think we want to go into some suspension, some throwback beanball. Not really.

But I don't know. I mean, you're obviously all over this with the breakdowns and stuff. I don't know if you have a lean with Mariznick or Naris or what do you want. Yeah, so we had Mariznick, if you remember the Luchroy slide at the plate, got them pretty big. bad. He felt bad about it, but he got suspended for it. So they play each other again. And Mariznick takes a pitch too high for my liking. Now, I know that like some people are, you're a pussy, but I'm not, I'm not down. I don't watch. Are they right or wrong? I am a pussy

in some regards. I do not watch baseball. Actually, I don't watch baseball to see like huge plays at the plate. Right. If you were asking me, what, what do you love about baseball? To get down to like huge collisions at the plate. Yeah. Or pitches near a guy's head. It's not part of what I watch. No. I don't care about that.

And I think this pitch was too high. Either the pitcher Ramirez, Merznik, aimed too high, and that's dirty, and I don't like that. Or he was aiming lower, missed his spot. And that's, if you can't do it right, don't do it.

That's like what CC and a lot of players do. Yeah. So I didn't like it, But Mariznick comes out as the biggest winner in this whole thing for me. He goes to the first base. His bench is full of people that are screaming. That's too high. That's too high.

Blah, blah, blah. It's Bush League. Don't hit him in the head. You know? Eye for an eye, the whole world goes blind. Mahatma Gandhi. Pools turns around. He's like, enough.

Shut up. I think that's what pulls. I've edited the breakdown. I haven't posted yet. Yeah, him and the ump. We're just looking at the dugout. And we're just like, stop. Stop.

Yeah. And Mariznick eventually tells them stop. I knew I was getting hit. It sucks. It was a little higher than I wanted. Yeah. But stop. I hurt that guy and I didn't mean to.

So just shut up. So I think McCullors came out looking like a big time. Whoa. I'm being careful because we have a new audience that doesn't know my voice yet. He looks like the guy from MTV. Yeah, which I don't like. But I used the word loser and idiot so flippantly. Right.

Where I don't actually like, you can call Lance McCullors that. You could call me or yourself that in the next sentence. Yeah. Yeah. But some people that don't know my voice, I think it's like, well, he's mean. And it's like. They're hearing that voice right now. I think McCullors, I think McCullors look like a loser in this exchange.

I think Mariznick looked like a big time winner. And I think the pitcher that hit him kind of looks just inexperienced. Yeah. Maybe it was the wrong guy. to do it. That's not a bad way to put it. Yeah, that was, that was mine. Normally, I just talk and hope I stumble into something and find something. With this, I'm pretty confident. I mean, he was going to get thrown at. You're right. The pitch came in a little too high. And again, we don't know if that was the intent or if that was his miss. Like, he aimed for the hip and it ended up there. Mariznick ends up

taking it off the shoulder, and he walks down to first. And that, that's one of my personal gripes with baseball right now. Is that, like, that should have been it. Like, move on. But instead the dugout starts chirping out. Now you guys got doing the one leg over the dugout. Like, are we doing this? Here comes the bullpen. And, like, that escalated the whole thing. And I don't think Ramirez gets suspended if none of that happens.

If Mariznick just went to first and that was it and they played ball, I think you're good. But now because guys are chirping from the dugout, the bullpen comes running in, he gets suspended, which I think that's messed up. I don't think the bullpen came running in. But I know what you're saying. Yeah. I mean, just the dugout being there, I thought they did. But anyways, and then the other thing about this whole incident that made me mad was Hinch, the Astros manager after the game, was given the whole, you know,

there's gray areas in baseball and you just can't be doing this. And it's like, yeah, man, but right now you're living in this gray area. And if you were the guy that had your catcher bowled over and laid out and taken off the field, your team would have been the one thrown at it. So, like, I don't know. There's a lot of quotes and a lot of things you have to say in this situation, and part of it's that. But all of this kind of got escalated for no reason.

And it's why you hear, you know, the old guys on the broadcast getting mad. You know, Bob Gibson, you were lucky if you could walk after he hit you in the batters box. And you're like, what are you talking about, Jim Cot? I love Kim Cot. Love Kitty Cod. I love Jimmy Cod. That was so, that was an unbelievable. But he's, Jim Cot was old 20 years.

ago. I'm not trying to be rude. I'm not trying to be rude. I looked up his stats one day. I was like, oh my God. So many gold gloves. Really cool. But anyways, I just think there was an unnecessary baseball multiplier in that, which I think could have been dodged. And I mean, now Ramirez gets suspended. And I think that's the problem. That's, we've gotten away from the baseball like, hey, dude, you sent our catcher to the hospital. We're going to hit you at the pitch. Mariznick did everything, right? Like you said, and they just, people didn't move on. because they want to be loud and chirp and all that. I'm fine with the suspension.

Yeah. I don't like it. I just think if you took out the chirping from the dugout, I think we throw the next pitch and game on. I don't think so because Nerris, that's the other storyline. Right. It's the same thing. He throws at a guy's head and gets three games, right?

Yeah, they both get three games. Which as a pitcher. As a relief pitcher. It's not that much. Yeah. It's really maybe one game. that they can't use you. But this one is funny, and I did the breakdown of this one.

And this one's funny because who was it? Verdugo hits, was it Verdugo? Yeah, it was Verdugo hit a big home run to take the lead? And the next pitch is that David Freezes head. Same thing. It's in the back of the shoulder. It's just too high. And Real Muto's reaction behind the dish, he doesn't even go for the ball to try and catch it.

And then he looks at his pitcher and shrugs. like, dude, really? Yeah. So it's very much intentional on purpose. I'm fine with that suspension, and that's why I think that the Ramirez won's the same deal. It's very clearly intentional. It was too high.

Same exact suspension. I don't think the Ramirez got suspended because of the bench is clearing. I think that's what happens. But I don't know. I just think if none of the funny business happens, because look, I have the video in front of me. Now the baseball game's about to go on, and pool hosts in the first base hump are just looking at the dust.

I got like, what the hell are you guys doing? Like, just stop. I agree with you, but I just don't think that had any influence on the suspensions. I agree to Dith agree. Are you saying Dith? Saying Dith right now? The biggest storyline that we talked to the break is the Boone rant. Savages, Jim.

Which I got. And I want to do what we did a little bit of yesterday, Jake. I'll do it quickly, is to just explain why I love this. quote so much. And we have it on a t-shirt and it's talking the Yang story. I'm going to put that on the screen for anyone watching live because the full quotes there and you need to read it to understand how good it is. Right.

I'm going to break it down real quick. We can do it together. So the umpire. It's his fifth ever MLB game. Young kid shook from the jump. I never seen Gary Sanchez turn around and be like, what? You didn't call that a strike? Gary's made faces before, but never turned around and like, dude.

So there was a lot of pitches. both sides. I heard that the Ray's broadcast said what we said. It was just a race to see which manager can use this to fire up his guys. And Boone got there first because some manager was getting ejected because this ump was brutal. It was bad. It was really, really. And it was so clear that he was young and shook.

Yeah. Anyway, so Boone gets out there. He goes, my guys are fucking savages in that box. We had a lot of people say, what does that mean? It means they're beasts. Yeah. They protect the plate. They know the zone.

they attack pitchers, they don't get got. They're ruthless. Yeah, they don't get got. And the pitcher was like striking him out with ease. He's like, dude, that's your fault because you're expanding the zone. My guys are savages. You're making this look like this. And you're having a piece of shit start to this game.

I feel bad for you. Yeah. Just honest, insult and honest. I feel bad for it. We don't want to ride you. We know you're young. We know you're rookie. Good dig.

But fucking get better. Now he's trying to instruct him. little coaching moment, you know, teachable. He's a coach. And he goes, this guy's a good pitcher. I'm not trying to dissing. Yeah, he complements the pitcher midway. He's like, he's good, man.

This isn't like, you know, it's nothing to, but our guys are fucking savages in that box. Yeah. Tighten it up right now, okay? Tighten this shit up. He goes dad mode. And the hump just kind of looked at him with a sad face. He gets out of there. I mean, I said this.

If you think using the word savage is cringy or corny. Yeah. I somewhat see what you're saying. But if you think Yankees players don't fucking love it. Yeah. And it's now going to be a mantra for the Yankees and a rallying cry. So Boone just sparked a lot of stuff. I think it's fantastic.

It went national. People that don't like baseball are seeing it. Yeah. And the reactions are mostly like, this is awesome. Positive. Yeah. I mean, anyone that's played any sport ever, you know, we were laughing. You told an old hockey story the other day where a coach dropped like a, it was,

a high school coach he referenced like a rap song at the time that you guys thought he was ignoring all year and then he dropped it and you guys were like it's it's little things it's very little things and that's kind of i think that's part of the beauty of sports that there's all these little things that add up and they make the difference whether it's a rap song in high school or whether i mean if you want to jump to football and it's like doing things the patriots way or doing the thing the cleveland brown's way they're both football teams for 20 years but if you do all the little things right. You're one team. You do all the little things wrong. You're the other. So I don't know. I mean, the Yankees, Yankees were already on a war cry this season. Obviously,

Boston winning last year. The Yankees have a team have truly gotten better overall. Again, we're pretty close to their pulse. And just comparing last year's depth and roster to this year's roster, this team is a lot better. So yeah, I mean, this is going to be their rallying cry going forward. All right. We had some just little trade talk stuff because we're two weeks away. People are saying Boyd is available on the Tigers. He would go for a lot. Mike Minor on the Rangers says he's sick of trade talks. I think the Rangers need to be sellers, but we'll see what they do. They have so much to sell. Cincinnati Reds have reportedly attached an exorbitant price tag on starting pitcher Luis Castillo. He's got four years of control left,

not money, but like four years of, like he's on your team, some arbitration in there. and he would be worth a lot. Yeah, and he's, I mean, 241 ERA this year, 9 and 3 with a 3-7 war on a team that technically, and I think this is a rude way to look at it, but I think they're technically the third worst team in the NL. I think that's unfair because I think they're like six and a half out of the wild card, but that's where this conversation is heading eventually. They're the second worst.

The Mets have jumped the Cincinnati Reds. They're the second worst team in the NL. but they also have a positive differential. I got to stop because we're going down another road. But yeah, I don't know. The Boyd one really interests me, Jim, because, again, as you know, being on the polls from Yankeesland, the Yankees were rumored to be in on Michael Fulmer a year or two ago

when his value was extremely high. Fulmer, for lack of a better term, ate shit, and he pitched poorly, and now he's been hurt, and his value is nowhere. So, and the Tigers, they're kind of on, what would you say, like a three-year rebuild plan? Like, the next two years are finding out assets and getting young guys. And then in that third year, they're hoping that they have a little bit of a nucleus and maybe can sign a free agent or two and make moves.

So they're- I have no idea. I don't know their farm system, but they're far away right now. Yeah, I think, and that's the thing with Matt Boyd, because he does have the team years of control. I mean, the question is, if you're one of the. big boys out there. I mean, you know, does Matt Boyd come in and change anything, whether you're the Yankees or another one of these big teams? I mean, he's had a really solid year. We saw him tear up the Yanks earlier this season. So I don't know. I think that's the interesting one,

because if you use some recency stuff there, you'd like to think Detroit would make a move if they get the right offer. Maybe they don't, and he's a young guy they can keep and move along. Like, I guess that's another angle if we're Tigers fans. here, which, by the way, we have an elevator talk segment coming at the end of the episode. If you think your team's not going to get a lot of love, they might be there. Yeah, I might tell you how the Tigers currently only have one player with OPS above 800. That's tough. That's tough. So, yeah, I think if you're the Tigers, you don't have to be in a rush to move Matt Boyd.

But, I mean, if you get an enticing package for a guy that didn't have almost any value to start the season, you probably make your move there. I think they definitely should trade Matt Boyd because I don't think their window coincides with Matt Boyd's window. I think they're like, I think they're two years away from having a window. Right.

Like they got to establish, and this would be the first step of like, we trade him, we get some prospects, okay. But I could be speaking out of turn because I'm not familiar with their farm system. No, and I think the big, the other thing that, you know, I've been scheming about lately is that, I think there might not be a lot of pitchers actually available at this trade deadline.

Well, if these two go, if Stroman's available, Baumgartner's available. If Boyd and Castillo are available, then that's a lot. Yeah, but I mean, Luis Castillo is available. I mean, you're going to have to pay pay. Clint Frazier. Because he's, no, I mean, you're going to have to pay pay. Clint plus Davey. I think.

Yankees could do it. Keep going. They can. They can. And I don't think it hurts them. It's a matter of. If Brian Cashman, who he's invested so much time into these young guys and we've already seen him stick by them, I don't think he's, I don't think Luis Castillo would be the guy he trades in all his chips for.

Oh, I want. That's like, that's like, that's like, because then you can pay Dedi in the next season. You can pay guys because you have a pitcher locked up for cheap. Yeah. I think it, like, I think it opens up a whole plan if the Yankees, the Yankees have the talent, like Clint Frazier, Davey Garcia, Davey Garcia, plus for Castillo. I'd do it. I'd do it Florio. I'd trade those three for him.

Yeah, I mean, it would have to be three big ones. Yeah. Three big ones. So we'll see if anything comes to that. I don't know. Whenever you hear the phrase exorbitant price tag, you wonder what's going on over there. And then, yeah, Mike Minor, I think we're about to talk about the Tejas Rangers a little bit. He's sick of trade talks, Jim.

Yeah. Okay. I would be, too. Sorry, but. Yeah, I mean, it kind of does suck. Just Googling your name every day. And it's like, oh, where am I getting traded today? Oh, the Cubs like me?

The Yanks like me? Yeah, on the YouTube broadcast of the Dodgers Phillies game, they talked about Verdugo. And he said he was happy because this is the first season where his name isn't linked to trade talks. Yeah. He was like, so I think I've cemented myself here because they got a lot of outfielders too.

And that's got to be stressful as a minor leager, man. You're about to start like your life. I think you have to just be like whatever. Right, but it's still a tough mental hurdle to do that. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Jim, let's go, I threw a little buy-sell segment in here, not players or teams or anything like that. Literally buyers or sellers, because we had some stuff sort out. In the AL, the White Sox were still dancing around it.

They get swept. They're out. They're down 11 games out of the wild card. Like they don't have a... I never thought they were in. Right. And I think that's a little bit of perception. And I don't think you're wrong about it because I think I perceive the same thing.

But now it's like the front office doesn't have an argument. Like the front office can't be like, well, we have a good week. We get back over 500. This team put some stuff together. We get guys healthy. They've got nothing anymore. I don't talk to White Sox fans, but if I, I'd be shocked if a White Sox fan told me they thought they were going to be buyers this season. Well, I mean, think about how they started their year, Jim.

They thought they were getting Machado and Harper. They still signed a bunch of guys and they believe in their young core. But they just got swept four games by the Royals. And then before that, they got swept by the athletics. They've lost their, they lost seven games this week, Jim. I know, I just, the fact that people thought they might trade for people is blowing my mind. I don't think, I'd be shocked if a White Sox fan thought they were going to do that. Right.

But I mean, a week ago, they were, they were 42 and 44. They were saying, hey, we have a good seven days. We're kind of in the mix again. And it's almost like, it's a little bit more of an NBA mindset, but it's almost like this building a culture. And that's kind of what the White Sox were trying to do with all. all this. Well, they have done that. They've done a really good job with that. Well, I'm not talking about their dugout stuff. Would you say they have a fun dugout and you've seen a lot of their antics? I'm just talking about like kind of winning ways so that when there are free agents, they want to

go to the White Sox because they clearly ran into that this year that guys don't want to come there. So they're trying to build it up while they get some of their young guys healthy, Copex back next year, all that. The only two fringy teams at this point, Boston, they did the cash in or trade right now. They're two games behind. it's Texas and the Angels. Texas is now four and a half out of the wild card, and the Angels are five and a half out. And I think one of the important things you have to consider

ahead of them is Houston, so it's not like you're catching Houston under any circumstances. And the A's who are currently in the wild card playing good baseball, eight and two, I don't know. I just think for a lot of owners and teams, it's a big mental hurdle. for the Texas Rangers who are 50 and 46, you know,

four games above 500 for them to say it's time to sell, that's tough. But you and I are both very much like, yo, Texas, you guys have some serious assets and you've got your young guys and they're doing good things. Build it up for next year. Because right now, the odds of you guys jumping Boston, Tampa, and Oakland, I mean, slim meat, nut.

Yeah, yeah. I think, yeah, I don't think, I don't think Texas or the Angels are buyers. Yeah, and it's just, I mean, it's still a mental hurdle to say your four and a half games out and not do it. I mean, the Rangers have lost their last four. That helps. Because, again, yeah, you start playing that game. Well, even if they split those two games, they would have been 52 and 44. They would have been like a game and a half out of the wild card.

But it's funny how much these crucial weeks are into deciding that. I think both teams should be sellers. It's tough to say that as a team, though. The real story is the National League, Jim. We currently have 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9. 9 teams within 6 games of the wild card. We have 7 teams within 4 and a half. And then we've got four within two and a half.

And again, the part that gets me about the National League is I can tell you San Diego is four games out of the wild card, but they're 46 and 50. They're four games under 500. Yeah, it's like what you said last week. You can't look at games behind. You have to look teams behind. And they're all going to play each other. So it's, yeah, like if someone's telling me the Mets are six games out of the wild card, they're in it. I'm sorry.

They're not. Pirates, you're not. San Diego, you're not. Colorado, you're not. San Francisco, you're going on a nice run here. You're not. It's St. Louis and Philly and Milwaukee and Washington in a four-team race for the wild card with, with some divisions up for grabs still.

No love for your D-backs. Yeah. They're 49 and 48. I know after having like a solid stretch. And this is kind of what baseball wants. wanted when they made the second wildcard. As an organization, it's tough to just hit that button and sell. I think like a team like Arizona, I mean, Robbie Ray has been mentioned.

I guess you see what values out there for him. I think you're coming from a fan perspective. Well, yeah, that's who's listening. Oh, because when you say the organization is tough to hit that button and sell, I think organizations are itching to hit that button in cell. Oh, no, they're not either because, I mean, think about it. What if Arizona doesn't sell and they end up winning 87 games and they have a respectable season? They push the sell button and they end up with 76 wins at the end of the year?

They could get axed. So you got to look at it both ways. But selling and rebuilding is so hot right now. People are buying teams just to do it. It's like the first thing you do when you get a new team. It's resell. The best thing that happened to the Yankees was having a bad year in 2016. Yeah.

It was the best thing that could have happened to them. And there's a lot of teams that saw that and saw the Cubs go bad and saw Asheras go bad and say like, oh, fuck. If we hit rock bottom, we can like, this is the new way. This is the new way. So I think if you're a Rangers GM and you have a brain, you know selling right now all those pieces is so much better for your future. Yeah. So I know the fans, it might be hard. But anyone in the organization, they're smart enough to know.

It depends on your owner dynamic. It depends on expectations. like Texas, you're probably right. They had low expectations this year. They overachieved. And, man, if they could get some pieces for Lance Lynn, Mike Minor, Hunter Pence, they can really do something. I think they even have more, Jake. I think they have.

I think, like, Andrews, like, I think they have. They got assets. Yeah. Assets. Hey, good for the San Francisco Giants. All right. Is it time to move on to our segments? Let's roll it.

Segment o'clock. All right. Moving on to standout performance. Standout performance. It's like the one voice we do. Oh, I got voices. Standout performance. I'm going to go first.

Go first. You went first. You went first last episode. And it's your guy. My standout performance is Glenn Sparkman. Glennon and Spark. A little spark in Kansas City. Ooh, that's good.

Ooh. That's good Spark. I get it. Yeah. Glenn Sparkman went nine innings pitched, five hits, zero earned runs. They call that a complete game shutout. Yeah, man. Eight Ks. He had six, one, two, three innings.

I always like looking at that when guys have complete games. How many one, two, three innings did you have? How clean were you? Yeah, how clean, yeah, yeah. He escaped two jams, one, was like one base runner. Six, one, two, three innings, and a lot of them were towards the end. First complete game of his career, so congrats to him. He was out of the pen mostly last year and the beginning of this year.

Made his first start this season on May 29th. Made three starts last year, something like that. His best start before this was seven in his pitch, one-earned run. Complete game shutout. It's the Royals' first complete game shutout in two years. Yeah. Wow. Good for him.

It's a great performance. Did I say who he did it against shit? Good job, Glenn. It's against the White Sox. They swept him. Glenn Sparkman's got dyed blonde hair. I might go asterisk there. He's got dyed blonde hair, and he was the one that hit Tim Anderson with the change-up,

and Tam Anderson's first bat against the Royals after the whole fiasco, and he got ejected. and he was like, that was a change-up. Yeah, change-up. And it was like, yeah, you probably didn't hit him on purpose, but that's the worst timing ever. Yeah. Like the worst timing ever, first pitch to him to manage him.

Just don't do that, Glenn Sparkman. Almost should have just dirted him, otherwise you're going to get ejected. But anyway, that's a great, great outing by him. That's the best performance I saw from this. From Ganado, Texas. Wow. Gorgeous.

Haven't been. He's a big M&M fan. Why do you think he dyes his hair blonde? He looks damn good. Wow. Looks damn good. Yeah, man. Career five.

503 ERA gets the CGSHO. Good for you, Glenn. You go, Glenn Coco. Yeah. Jim, my standout performance, and I didn't want to do this. And again, you and I, as we go along this, we're battling our Yankees bias and not biases. But when I looked at the stats, he was the guy.

It's Travis Darno. Yeah. Three homer game from Travis Darno. Sorry. Sneeze there. This was the first game of the Ray's Yanks series. And like we mentioned, this was kind of a big series. If the Rays made some noises series,

they were basically saying, we're going to be a thorn in your side the rest of the way. The Yanks have a huge Edwin Encranceson home run, tied at twos. They go up 4'2, bottom of the 8th. Araldis Chapman comes in. He's going to shut the door. Darno hit two solo shots.

earlier off James Paxson, just to opposite field. And I also need to mention to you that the last series the Yankees saw the raise, Travis Darnow hit a walkoff to the opposite field. So there's some pitch selection stuff, and if you really want to deep dive into that, we did it on talking Yanks. But Travis Darnow, who's kind of this journeyman at this point, Jimmy, started the season on the Mets, they just cut him. Yeah.

The Dodgers picked him up. They sold him to the raise. So think about that. The Los Angeles Dodgers sold him to the raise. And Jim, he had all, he provided all the runs in this game. It was a 5-4 win for the raise. He had all 5 RBIs, three home runs. And Jim, man, the Travis Darno story, he was a big prospect.

He was with the Mets. He was the number six prospect in 2013. And then he got Mets, he got injured. Well, he got traded for Dick, R. dicky. He got traded for the dick. With Cindergarde. Yeah, that was when his shine was kind of already down because he ran into the injury bug a lot and we forget, man, how important that really is for athletes. So, man, for him to do that on the New York stage, that must have been a really good feeling

for him because he was basically beating the Yankees and the Mets in one swing by taking the headlines that day. Hey, check this out. Travis Darno was drafted by the Phillies. Yep. In 2007. Wow. Yeah, man.

Whoa. How old's the road to baseball? 30. Whoa. I thought he was younger than that. Anyway, he was traded to the Blue Jays for Holiday. And then the Blue Jays traded him to the Mets for Sindegard. And R. Adiqi was involved in there. So there's a lot of good pitchers involved in his transactions. Linked to that, Travis. Then the Mets release him, yeah.

He's batting lead off for the race. Yeah, because he was hot and the race kind of do that stuff. Yeah, he caught the whole game. And Jim, the other part that was important. that you just, if you know baseball, you know this feeling. Chapman comes in and his stuff was looking good. He had an 02 count and he gave up a single. He had two strikes on Keirmeier and Keirmeier slapped one through the hole.

So then there's two outs. And it's like who's coming up to the plate. It's the guy who's hit two home runs this game. First Chapman. And it was just like, I mean, this is, you know, we're not going to go on our high horse. right now because we're riding that high horse. We're doing some good things for New Age baseball.

Like this is what baseball needs to be telling people about. They're like, Travis Darno in this game came up with two outs in the ninth against the Raldus Chapman. And he did the damn thing. It was a slider away and he short-porched it a little bit. So good for you, Travis. Get out of my face. He was really locked in.

I mean, a lot of Ray's fans because, I mean, shots fired. Ray's fans are, I keep getting into my place. where I don't want to say things on this nationalized. A lot of the race fans that interact with me on Twitter are new to baseball fandom and kind of like just sort of a little off on the scope of things. Sure. And like the day to day of baseball.

But they were upset that we were saying like Chapman had bad pitch selection because they're like to know what's locked in. I was like, whoa, he was as locked in and you can see a batter. Yeah. It was impressive what he did. But there's also a little poor pitch selection. But I'm not trying to knock anything. That's a good standout.

performance because that game three home runs with the walkoff yeah and i think uh it's impossible not to give that kudos when i when i was looking to see who was hot i don't think any no one hit like four home runs in a series so darn oh had the most serious home runs in one game yeah so you get it all right let's move on to a fun one bump watch to a fun one mom mom mom swamp watch starting off with your guy well we got to update this is this is how I decided to do it, Jake. Once you're on Slub Watch, you're on Slump Watch until you're off. Last week, I gave it to Dwight Smith Jr.

And Pete Alonzo. Dwight Smith Jr. had one game. It was a two-game set, and he played one of them. And he went 0 for four. So he's now like, you're not off this long. Oh, for his last 25 or something like that. So Dwight Smith Jr. Still on Slump Watch.

Alonzo, he was one for 10. Now, in the two games versus Minnesota, he did bad. He was two for 19 with 10. He did hit a home run last night, but that'll be part of Monday show. So for now, Alonzo's kind of on slump watch. Right. And all the home run derby contestants besides Bregman and Chapman are on slump watch, basically. Tell them, Jim.

I had the numbers. I don't have them in front of me, but they all aren't doing great besides Braggman and Chapman, who did bad in the home run derby. Yeah. Vladdy. Vladdy. He was doing bad. Vladdy, Jock, Bell, Santana, Alonzo, all doing very poor since the derby.

So all you homeowner. run Derby Truthers out there. Save that when your guy wants to enter next year. I got a fun slump watch. That's a little mean. Okay. Interesting. Charlie Tilson. You know what Charlie Tilson is? CT. I would guess a lot of our guys don't know who Charlie Tilson is. You don't think we have a lot of Charlie Tilson fans listening. He's on the White Sox, who we've talked about a good amount. He is a defensive replacement for Eloy Jimenez.

Yes. He comes into a lot of games. I don't know why. Maybe there's an injury. Something happened. He's been starting a good amount recently. He started five of the last seven games. he appeared in a couple this weekend, right? Yeah. In that seven-game stretch, five starts, two pinch hit or two defensive replacement and some of that's there. One for 17. With one walk and one hit by pitch, so whoever walked you, you're shamed.

Yeah. Shame. Shame. Charlie Tilson, he's a defensive replacement, so he's not on the White Sox for his bat. They're not in a win now mode. Yeah. Good for you that you're getting some run. But, I mean, you got to start hitting, dude.

that's tough you think that hit by pitch felt good oh yeah that was a good hit by pitch he was like thank God I wonder where it came in like first pitch hit by pitch is such a win for Charlie Tilsen yeah okay great I put my speed on the basis let's go

dare you to hit me I woke up begging for a hit by pitch I dare hit me harder next time let's see who it was it was a cub hit him Wow. Which cub? Wow.

He got his hit by pitch and his walk in the same game. I wonder if he was the same pitcher. If it's the same pitcher that hit him, that also walked him, and those are the only two times he's reached base in the last seven games? Yeah. That's not a good look. Ooh, slump watch can turn mean on the pitchers really quick. Oh, yeah.

The guy that gave up the hit to Dwight Smith or whatever. John Lester walked him. Ooh. Wow. Big one. And John Lester. Oh, Craig Kimball hit him. Some premier names, Charlie Wilson.

Yeah, good job, Charlie. Charlie Tillson. Charlie Wilson. He's fighting the war. Charlie Wilson's war. Nice, man. Who you got on Slump Watch? Yeah, man, I wrote a couple names on there. I like seeing who's got the biggest O for going.

We had Elias Diaz of the Pirates and your guy Jay Bruce, who's usually very hot or very cold. He's back? I thought he got injured. No, he's back. Oblique injury. He's coming back from an injury. That's to me.

Wow. That's too mean, Jake. Wow. Too mean for the injury. No, he exited with an oblique strain two days ago. Okay. So get better. Yeah.

Get better, Jay. Oh, so it's a fake injury. We got it now. No, no, did you see it? So he swings and it's like the judge one. Yeah. And he immediately grabbed that his oblique and just like, oh. So it's probably going to be out for a while.

Obliques are fucking stuck. And now he's on slump watch, which that's so mean of you. That's tough. That's pretty brutal. That's how the cookie crumbles sometimes. Oh, Jay Bruce likes cookies too. Loves a good cookie. And Jim, yeah, I wanted to get a couple throwers in there.

I mean, Jesse Chavez on Texas, he had some bad numbers. Pitching in Texas to those Diamondbacks who set their franchise record, that's going to be a bad look for someone. Oh, you think this is hot. Yeah. Come to Arizona. We got the heat. You don't even know.

We're sweating air conditioning in Arizona. And Jim, I just threw your guys on there. The Colorado Rockies. Do you say they're 2 and 11 since the break or 2 and 11 in their last 13? Yeah. A team that was looking like they were going to battle for that wild card throughout has one of the most brutal stretches of their season. We're going to get a good look at them soon because they're playing the Yankees this weekend,

which in our head, we're thinking it's going to be a full-out death punch for them. I hope so. But yeah, I was looking for pitchers to put on the slump watch. area. And searching it by ERA, there was, there was three, there was four Colorado guys in the top 12. Freeland, Tinoco, my guy, Sansaella, and Chad Bettis, all with ERAs that are over 11.25. So again, it's small sample size and ERA. You can't just do that. But the Rockies are getting roughed up. And I'm sorry. Sorry. Rockies are on. Slump watch.

They're on big slump watch. They're like they're about to be on hide the knives watch. Ooh, yeah. We've never put a team on that. The Yankees have a chance to put the Rockies, the first official, hide the knives, watch. I mean, that's got to be a brutal feeling, man. Two weeks ago you're like, we are grinding and in it.

And now you're like, is it over? Yeah, no, yeah. Let's move on to. You got it? And Fuego. I'm on. fire baby we nailed it that was bad like wago like wago but you didn't you didn't what were you expecting for you to do the dirt nasty song i wasn't going to do the dirt nasty part i was just doing

in fuego yeah i was expecting the durnasasas part i was just doing in fuego yeah my laptop broke soundboard laptop is broke so we are running our own soundboards you roll jim brandon crawford remember him he's been in a league a while now yeah yeah i saw him on the field yeah yeah i saw him on the field I used to think he kind of had like a nice swag or look to him. You fully turned on. Who has a good head of lettuce in Major League Baseball, right? Bryce Harper. Okay.

Tanaka. I wouldn't say Tanaka's got a head, a bowl of lettuce. Oh, like long hair? Yeah. No. Like Harper, Alow. He's got great hair. Yeah.

Once it starts getting too greasy, you're out. Brandon Crawford was looking caveman-esque. Yeah. And I didn't, I didn't remember him looking as cavemany. But maybe he was caveman with the bat. I used to think Brian Carver was like a little cutie out there. I don't know. Okay.

I thought the ladies thought he was attractive. And then I was like, I don't think so anymore. Seven for 15 with three home runs, 10 RBIs, five runs scored. They scored 40 runs in the series. He accounted for 15 of those 40. Yeah. 10 RBI's, five runs. So that's really good.

Good for him. He had, he had a huge day. He had the, um, what was it he had five hits um it was the first game of the doubleheader he had five hits and eight rb i's two home runs um again against my colorado raki's pitching um i jim i'm at talking jake twitter social media i need a giants fan to reach out to me because i i have i have a take on brandon crawford but i don't know if it's right okay so that's really putting myself out there yeah brandon crawford is really good defensively. I love watching

him play defense. We caught a little bit of that late night Mets game last night that's not a part of this series. Love him defensively. With the bat, I feel like he had one good year. He won the Silver Slugger. I feel like Brandon Crawford, and again, correct me, Giants fans, that he has like three huge games every year. And like, if you took those out, his stats would be pretty rough.

And I know that sounds a little obnoxious, but I don't know. Like, if you have an outfielder that has a 32 home run season and you take away his three biggest games, he's still going to have a good year, you know? I just feel like Brandon Crawford, like, Jim, I'm looking at this right now. He had a two-homer game against Baltimore. So there's two of his home runs earlier this year.

I just mentioned he had the two-home run 8 RBI against Colorado. So on the season, he has nine homers. So if you take those away, I mean, my guy has, what, five homers on the season. So I don't know. I'm just throwing that out there. If any of our Giants fans want to correct me or tell me something else I should know about B-Kraw, I'm here for it. You are? Yeah.

Okay. Because I want to know more. I want to know if that's just, if that's as as asinine as it gets. Well, he had a really good series. Or if your ass is a 10. Ooh. Well, you got a couple other swingers on here. Ooh.

We just did bad stuff on the thing. Keston Hiora. Your guy. I'm guessing Japanese player. Your guy. He's a big time prospect. Oh, he's not Japanese. He actually,

I think he was Japanese in ethnicity. I think he's American. I think he's from UC Irvine. Irvine. He is from UC Irvine. Yeah. Yeah. Three games.

Eight for 11, Jay. Yes, sir. Yeah, young fella. On Fuego. And dirt nasty. He's in Fuego. Go. It means on fire, baby.

You got it. One triple. One home run, three doubles. Only four RBIs and four runs scored, which I thought was kind of crazy for like eight for 11. Must not have just come up at good opportunities. But eight for 11 in three games for a young guy, rookie. And by the way, home boy is having a season.

Yeah, I saw that. He's hitting 323, nine homers, 33 games. Yeah. Dudes raking 992 OPS. How many games has he played? 39, you said? 33 games, nine home runs. Yeah.

Hitting 323. Kestown. Nice. Tyler O'Neill? Tyler O'Neill, power hit and outfielder for your St. Louis Billikins. So close. So close. I had it.

He went seven for 12 with three home runs. Yeah. And he had two hits in each game. Two hits, two hits, three hits, I believe. So they spread it out well, six RBI, seven for 12. Tyler O'Neill, St. Louis Cardinals? Yeah.

I'm guessing a lot of people don't know the name's Keston here, and I'm probably saying that one wrong and Tyler O'Neill pretty confident in my pronunciation of Tyler O'Neill. Yeah. Oh, you nailed that one. Yeah. Yeah, he's on the cards. He's got some poppinistic. He's 34 games hitting 314 with an 891 OPS.

So he's, and he's still young. He's 24. So there are a couple, Jim, how about this? How about it is? A couple of young guys in the NL Central. Ooh. Keep your eye on them, all right? Tyler O'Neill hit a walk off at one point, I'm guessing, and they ripped his shirt off.

And it's kind of like a good look for him. Like, let me say this. If he's got a girlfriend and she saw that they ripped his shirt off after the celebration, I don't know when this was. She's not embarrassed. Tyler O'Neill, Canadian guy, Jim. She's a little giggly that this is what he got to show off. Oh, yeah, that is a good pick.

Yeah. Damn. Yeah, we got some more here, too. He's like, he's got a little me vibe. vibe to him, huh? No, no, no, no, no, with that chest tattoo and just roped up. No, no, no, no, no, no, no. Those are some fun picks, huh?

Yeah, it's pretty good. Yeah, they're, it seems like they were doing this for a while. Ripping his shirt up. Tyler O'Neill, good for you. Yeah, both guys were previously top 100 prospects. Heura was like number six by baseball prospectus one year. So watch those guys in the NL Central. Jim, great call.

Thanks. Just Enfuego. Thanks, man. I want to get a couple arms on there. Yeah. We don't want to leave them out. I've got arms. Speaking of your guy in beautiful hair.

Dogface. Mikey Clevenger. I like Clevenger. He's like a good personality for baseball. 11 innings pitched 18Ks. He's getting it going. And I wanted to give our guy. We skipped over him quickly before.

What do you mean 11 innings pitched 18Ks? He started two games in the series? Yes. Oh, his last two games. Yeah. Whoa. I was told him. Flago, we could go outside the boundaries.

I think you just have to say how many games. Because you say 11 innings pitch, that could be three games. It could be two. I don't know. Whoa. Well, we'll talk about that after. And then who Darvish, his last two, 12 innings pitch, zero earned runs.

Who? Who? Who Darvish? And he gets his first win at Wrigley. Just a year and a half late. Yep. But good for you. You get the monkey off your back, get it going.

And I put down some honorable mentions. Altuve's hot. Pool holes was swinging a good set. Stick, good for you, Albert. Bogarts has been raking for the socks. Also, E. Rod for the socks. A couple good starts. And Garrett Cole, dude, I'm starting to get freaked out by the Astros.

He now leads the A.L. And his stats were stupid. It was, I can't even say them. All right, cool. Let's move on. Next segment. Who got mad? We got mad, Jim.

Who got mad? So many people got mad. It was too much. It was too much. It became Boone got mad. Boone out of the way. Boone's out of the way. We talked about him.

Kapler got mad twice. Yeah. First time he was right. Next time, he kind of knew he was wrong. It was the weirdest conversation I've seen. Right. First time. But he was leaning into the last one.

The Dodgers in the game one, the Dodgers were up like 12 to two. Dodgers hit a home run. And then their pitcher hits Justin Turner on a curveball. It was clearly not intentional. Even the Dodgers laughed at the ump like that was a curveball why you throwing them out like that's crazy Kapler got mad capler actually didn't get ejected the game i don't think the pitcher just did next game narris we talked about this after another after verdugo home run throws that freezes uh head shoulders he gets kicked out now capler comes out and he's complaining about yesterday and the umps like

yesterday was whatever this one's warranted and he got kicked out he got mad um pool holes and uh the uh Astros got mad. We talked about that a little bit. So we kind of covered it because these people got so mad, it became a storyline. Yeah. Yeah. That's a, and yeah, I mean, we mentioned, we mentioned Pujos. We mentioned Dodgers-Fills.

They got mad at each other. They got mad. They got mad. Jumped to Walk-off Watch. Walk-off Watch. I only have two. I might have missed one. Might have missed one.

I can do a quick scroll, see, if anything. We mentioned Mr. Anderson. Brian Anderson. for the Marlins. Brian Anderson for your Marlins. Cooper got on. Big Marlins. Cooper got on.

Bottom nine. Anderson comes up, hits him in. I think he had two hits on the day. He had left three on base earlier. So this was kind of nice for him. Yeah. Good for him. And then Shorber one was good.

Yeah, Shorber's. I like Shorber a lot. Shorber's a tough guy to dislike. Yeah. Definitely talks like this a little bit. I don't know if that's true. Yeah, I don't know. Looks like he talks like this a little bit.

Okay. How would you describe that? A guy who wears shorts in the winter. Oh, yeah. I mean, that's a no-brainer. Yeah, I think they have a similar sound. You know, good Chicago vibe. Yeah, I think they have a similar sound. Where's Schwerver from? Where do you think Schwerber grew up? Midwest, somewhere.

I'm from a city into Midwest. Kyle Schwerber. Oh, and how about this? I'll throw you on the spot. How many career homers do you think Schwerber has? 100 and, I don't know, man. That's like, I don't know. That was a rude question. Yeah. 93. I was going to land around it.

I was close. Follow your heart. Born in Ohio, high school in Ohio, Indiana University guy. I mean, Schwaber is Ohio. Yeah, it's like Ben Rossberger, Schwerber, shorts in the wintertime, talks a little bit like this. Yeah. That's the most Midwest guy. I love Schwerber.

21 homers this year, 91 games. Good for him. Good for you, Schorbo. Good for you. And then those are the two I saw. I don't know if there was another one. Might miss it. It's a crazy, crazy hectic week for us.

at us. Yeah, we were, uh, we need your guys help. Yeah, you guys need to help us. We have a Twitter account that's not in use yet. It is talking baseball underscore. But yeah, we need slump watch. We need who got mad watch. We need call up watch. We need you guys help. It's Jen, we admit it's impossible to watch every baseball. Impossible. We did the math. Imposal. We didn't want to. Yeah. We didn't want to, but there's like 30 hours of baseball. It's impossible. Um, so yeah, you guys please get involved. There was no, debuts unless there was a debut yesterday, which we missed. No, I looked it up. I think we missed. There is no call-up, so I think that brings us to awards. I'm going to go first. I don't know if I

get to go first. No, I think you're the go-first guy today. All right. My award is the little things. The little things. It's the little things, the little things make me who I am today. Good Charlotte. Ooh, the Little Things award goes to. You're taking a player from the Charlotte team. No, absolutely not. The race haven't moved there yet. Go on. Kyle No, not Kyle. Chris Bryant. Chris Bryant. Cubs on the mind.

Still thinking forever. Chris Bryant currently leads the league in going first to third. Ooh. Which is something. You're on a big base running kick because the Yankees are terrible at it. No, I'm on a big, what doesn't get talked about on broadcast that the casual fan should know about that can impact the game. And going first to third is huge.

He's 6'5, Jake. Yeah. And very attractive. Pretty eyes. Pretty eyes. So, like, you don't expect him to be the grinder type. Yeah. You don't think, you don't think his focus is on base running.

You think he's like, I'm going to hit a Homer today. Yeah. Get out of here. Yeah. No, he's a ball player. Ball player. Like that. Leads League has 15 first to thirds on singles.

On singles, this was. Okay. It leads the league right now. Hobby Viz is up there as well, his teammate. So that's good. But, yeah, little things, man. Chris Bryant's a star. Yeah.

He's a superstar in this league and still doing the little things every day. Yeah, man. Let me sink my teeth in Chris Brian a little bit because... Disgusting. Take it back. No. He does not want your teeth in him. I'll do it again.

I saw. He DM'd me. 27 years old now for KB. Dude, he's having a big year. 3-6 war, 20 homers, 299 batting average. And Jim, it kind of gets overlooked. Like, the Cubs still move him. all over the field.

Like, remember when he came up and everyone's like, wow, Chris Bryant, big time third base prospect. And then they were throwing him in like center field and left field. And everyone's like, what are you doing, Cubs? Dude, he's a. What's he, how many positions does he play this year? He's played the 5, 9, 7 and the 3, Jim. Wow.

So corner outfield, corner infield. Which is, hey, it's nice to have that guy. Looks like mostly third base. Nice to have that guy in the roster. he's putting together a pretty good career, Jim. Yeah, he's good. He does the little things as well, which is why he got the Little Things Award.

I guess he's kind of, he won the MVP in 2016. He's not, let's see, 67 games started at third base, 18 in right field, nine in left field, three at first base. Rizzo guy's pretty good. I guess that's why when we went to Wintermeet, meetings this year. Someone like pulled when we were talking to like this round table of old baseball

men. They brought up what? Old baseball man. It really was. Calcutera's like 40. Outside of him. Okay. The average age, I think started with a six burger. Anyways, he won the MVP in his second year. Someone told me there, we were talking to overrated players. Harper came up. Someone was like Chris Bryant. And I was like, is he? I don't know. I think he's pretty good. And I guess when you win the MVP your second season, your expectations do go a little higher. So good for Chris, having a big year. He's going to get paid paid soon.

Oh, yeah. All right. Who's your award? Jimmy, my award is going to Mr. Worldwide. Pit bull? Mr. 305. Pit bull. It was a big hint.

It's a big hint. Pit bull. It's pit bull. Nice. My favorite rap artist, Pit bull. No, Jim. I'm going to my guy. One of my favorite young players in baseball right now.

Fernando Tatis. Jordan Yamamoto. Oh, wow. Yeah, so we're going to the Miami Marlins. And, Jim, I think it's funny. We talked a lot about pitching this episode and who's available, who's not available, who's going to make the trade, and Fuego. Should I just go through everything we did?

Jim, Jordan Yamamoto. Marlins. 23 years old on the Marlins. a Hawaii guy Mahalo Mahalo St. Louis High School in Hawaii Six starts this year

34 innings pitched He's only given up 15 hits In 34 innings He has given up 17 walks So there's some control stuff there Oh my God He's a little scared of attacking his own His whip is still 0.94

So he's not letting guys on base Guys are hitting 134 against them He has a 159 ERA and he's 4-0, Jim. And the other thing that I wanted to get across here was, A, good job, young fella. We're proud of you. B, and this is something that I don't want to come off as obnoxious Yanks fan, Jim. But could you imagine if this guy was on the New York Yankees?

Or the Red Sox or the Dodgers or the Cubs? Like the publicity this guy would be getting would be unbelievable. but I bet there's a couple people out here that are listening. It's the first time they've heard of Jordan Yamamoto. So I wanted to give Mr. 305 some love, and any time I can reference Pitbull, I'm going to do it. So good for you, Jordan. Keep twirling it, and maybe Jeter's going to figure out something with the fishies

or in two years you'll be traded to a good team. Yeah, that's crazy. I mean, genuinely think about if he was doing this on the Yankees, the kind of fever pitch we would have for Jordan Yamamoto. Yeah. The walks are brutal because he should be going so much deeper into games. Yeah. I mean, that's a classic kind of young guy thing.

He's scared of contact right now. Yeah. Which, hey, if you're doing it to a 159 ERA, that's okay. That's okay. That's okay. That's okay. All right. So what was the award?

Mr. Worldwide. Why? It's Pitbull's nickname. Mr. 305. I don't know that one, not hip enough. I don't know the 305. Pippo's a big Miami guy. It's the 305.

Is the area your code? So he's, Mr. Ola, Mr. 305. So he's got both. Dala. So Yamamoto is currently Mr. 305, and he's now adding that to hits. Doesn't people say Dala or something like that a lot? Might.

I don't know. I don't listen to Pipple. It doesn't seem like you're as locked into Pitbull as I want you to be by the end of this show. Not a fan. We'll get you there. All right, favorite segment of time? Everyone's favorite segment of the show.

Elevator talk. Elevator talk is when. If you are in the elevator, you walk in, you're going down 50 floors. It's going to be a doozy. Wow. And it's a slow-moving vader. Oh, it's old school. You walk in there.

It's a dumb waiter. You're kind of nervous, but you want to talk to people to get rid of the nervous. Yeah, okay. So you have to talk. You walk into the elevator. guys got the hat on of this team. And you got to talk for two minutes. Yeah, you just need some fodder.

What team is it going to be? So how this works is we're going to spin a wheel. We're going to talk about whatever team comes up. Here we go. The wheel is being spun. We can nix it if we thought Colorado Rockies. We did too much Rockies. We did too much Rockies already.

Spin it again. You already know what to say the Rockies got in the elevator. Next up, San Francisco Giants. We did a little bit. Giant? I think that's a good team. They're kind of hot, Jim. Well, you can, if you're, see you a Giants fan in the elevator right now, you can definitely say, yo, that was vintage Bumgarner, huh?

Vintage Bum, yeah, I mean, we're stealing that from their next series, but Bumgarner threw a jam last night. Jim, I bring up the whole Brandon Crawford thing, all my questions, be like, what's up with Crawford? Like, is he, what's going on with him? Is he swinging the stick? Is he not swinging the stick? Do you think we're going to trade Bumgarner and we're going to keep them? I mean, right now, they're like two games out in the wild card or something like that, so you could ask them, do you think this is for real?

If they ask you that, I would say no. Jim, you know who's been the best hitter on the Giants this year? Tyler Austin. Don't tell me it's Tyler Austin. No. Belt? No. Voight?

Vote. Votes up there, but he's only played 49 games. Yeah, he wasn't supposed to be. He's got a pretty good OPS, good OPS plus, all of that. Posey? I think it's uncontested, Jim. Pablo Sandoval. Whoa.

87 games, 11 home runs, 35 RBIs, 824 OPS. It's a little bit the Giants offense doesn't have a lot going on, but I think he is the guy. So you go panda. And you thought he was going to just be out of baseball when he was in Boston. Oh, yeah. You thought he was going to be fully out of baseball. I thought he ate himself out of the league.

Jim, I guess the other thing in that this is what's jumping out to me, Samarge is having a solid year. And he was looked at as to be kind of this dead baseball contract. He's got a 393RA, 105 innings, 89 strikeouts. Not the same shark that we were hoping to find, but he's having a solid year. Drew Pomeranz is awful. Yeah.

And the next year... Oh, my God. Drew Pomerantz is awful. The next series of the Giants are playing is against the Mets right now. And it's kind of two teams where their fans can act like there's hope left. but there's really not. Right. But they're just having fun.

And the Giants are 19 and 11 in their last 30, 8 and 2 in their last 10. They've been pretty good, man. Yeah. They just want to walk off, an extra inning's walk off. And they got Bochie going on at his last season. So maybe they get some serious magic rolling. I think Bochie's going to fully not care soon. Oh, I disagree.

I think he's going down swing. Have you seen some of his ejections? Oh, yeah. Some of Bochie's ejections are like, baseball's passed me by, I need to get out of this league, I don't belong anymore. Oh, yeah. Just dejected by it, the whole experience of new baseball. He came out to argue something yesterday, and he just came out of the dugout and he thought he was going to do the manager walk. And he just starts pointing and screaming, and everyone's like, whoa, are you even involved yet?

And that's just how he's operating. Yeah, it's nuts. It's funny. It's funny. Some of Jackson, he comes down and like, you're getting. John. He's like, a garden hire is going through the same struggles in Detroit. Donovan, Donovan Solano. I think he had the walk off last night that we're not talking about. Alonzo hits a home run to give the Mets the lead. And you're like, okay, it's the 14th or whatever ending it is.

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