Talkin' Baseball (MLB Podcast) - 412 | Boston Wins Another Blowout to Go Up 2-1

Episode Date: October 19, 2021

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Hello and welcome to talking baseball. The Red Sox destroyed the Astros last night to take a two to one lead in the ALCS NLCS game three tonight. Hello and welcome to talking baseball brought to by Draft Kings. Thank you very much for joining us today. My name is Jimmy. Sitting next to me is Jake in the middle of your screen. It's Trevor Pluth. And behind the dish is producer B, B, B, D.

ALCS was over in the second inning yesterday. How are you doing, Jake? James, Trevor, B, B, D, Connor, Christian, Zach, Bruce, Braden, Jackson, Sid the Kid, everyone in the chat. We love the chat. Everyone listening live, listening not live, your relatives. Happy birthday to them. What's going on, guys?

Yeah, a little three-hour stream last night, three and a half, four. of the Boston Red Sox blowing out the Houston Astros. Hmm? Holy smokes. Vice versa. Opposite day, Trev. Yeah, man. I'm doing well.

I'm doing well. I think playoffs are happening still. We might get a poll in the chat to discuss some of that. Doing generally well, not as well as Trevor Plouffe out on the left coast. Big night. How you doing, Treve? I'm doing great, guys. There's some things I want to talk to you guys about.

We'll get into it, I'm sure. My knight, I know you're referencing that, was excellent. I did get to watch the game a little bit, but as you said, James, second inning, Schwarber with the granny and the game was over and the series, possibly over? So we turned ourselves, you know, we had a nice little dinner. You guys know, it was me. J. Flair, Kotuck, and Bron. met us as well and we just

talked to state of the game. I got some tidbits. A lot of different takes on how this whole offseason is going to play out for everybody. So it was cool to catch up with the boys. James, how are you doing? I am

in 10 hours I might tell you I don't remember right now. Yeah. I feel like I'm in the middle of sleep. Yep.

And in between two REM cycles. And I'm really, really tired. The yons have been powerful today. Like, I've kind of been impressed. I'm like, there's been a couple of mine. I apologize to the audience, but I'm just like so tired. I feel like I already have the baby. Wait till you have that, but.

That's true. At least I get to stay home. James, let me tell you something. You look fabulous in your hoodie. Thank you. Tell him what president you compared him to today. I didn't, but I did say that I wouldn't be surprised if he has American royalty blood in him. Who'd you compare him to?

I don't think I do. You called him Hot Boy Jim, so I said HBJ, which reminded me of Lyndon B. Johnson. Big Dick. Yeah, of course. Lady Bird. Yeah. The tie-dye hoodie from the JM Essential line, I think you can go to our merch shock and get 15% off using the playoffs.

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That's so disgusting. Can't wait for the chat to pick up. Oh, that audio only people. Sorry. You got to go out. You guys are lucky if you're out of yule. I was visual. Yeah, it was a little aggressive.

Little. We were licking tongues. Well, when you say it like that. Let's go to the burn. Okay. Thanks, I got mug. It's hot in here. It's hot.

Are you ready? I think so. On your mark. Get set. Burn. It's an important game three up in Boston like J-Lo's X on MDMA, E-Rod on the bump for the socks, and man was he rolling. While Houston acted like an angry neighbor as they'd throw your kitty, bottom two short-thick catching king Christian Vasquez slaps an opo single. One nothing Boston, still some ducks on the pawn, but double play ball to second.

Oh no, Jose can't turn Al Tuve again. Kyle Schwabber makes him pay in a grand fashion. Holy smokes, it is six, nothing Red Sox. Make it seven. Vasquez again, Oroyo's going over the monster. It's nine nil. Jeepers, creepers, where'd you get them peepers? King Tuck tries to show up.

It's a little too late, nine to three. J.D., he'll have one. Devers, uh-huh. 12-3 is your final E-Rod with the big start. Penn does it for Boston, too. Don't think they really care. 12-3 final 2-1 series lead for the shocks. What was the joke at the beginning?

It was good. Let's see. I said important game three up in Boston. I don't think that was it. Like J-Lo's X on MDMA, E-Rod on the bumper. for the Red Sox, man, he was rolling. Wow. Only somebody that goes to Res concerts on the ride would come up with a joke.

Yeah, I try to keep my personal life out of the show, man. Well, you know what? I've done so many Erod Burns before because Yankees games I do them for. And kind of like his pitching style, there's only so much you can do with that. when you see him eight times a year three years in a row quick math

so yeah landed somewhere and then I actually liked the other line better while Houston acted like an angry neighbor as they'd throw your kitty oh yeah

there's a lot of demons up here you're on one today guess what I like it I like it bad brain people have said that about you. Oh, your elbow pops, your knees sore, bad brain. Someone said on the chat, I don't know who it was. They said he looked like you just stepped out

of the DeLorean, so. Yeah, when I bust out the red vest. This is a pretty bad outfit today. I'll be honest. I like it. Thank you. But that felt like there's a laugh. It's just Jake's family dresses him up like a little teddy bear a lot. And like the clothes they buy them for holidays. Welcome to Bill. It's like, yes. He's just, like, you should see this shit. They got monogram turtlenecks. Baseball is fun.

It's monogram turtlenecks and puffy jackets and vests. It's like. The vest. So many, who in your family buys you all the vests? I'm my mom's like chihuahua. Like, yes. Dear build a bear. I don't think there's ever a good time for a vest.

Unless it's under a suit jacket. I think that's about it. Honestly, I had kind of a flames outfit I was ready to wear today, but Wednesday's tomorrow, so saving it for them. You should start dressing horrible on Tuesdays. I have Step one. Vest is hilarious.

Check. When would you ever need what you're wearing? Let me ask you something. This is serious for people that wear vests. What's the, yeah, that's, I don't understand. If you want to be warm, don't you want sleeps? I genuinely think there's two days a year is high. There's one day a year

where you're like, I could wear a vest today. It was last week and It was last week in the city. There was one day. I think it was like 61 degrees. And it was like, yeah, I could see someone wearing a vest today. I don't know, man. Today's not the day.

And this kind of sums up. If you're directing traffic, you can wear a vest. This kind of sums up the game. I think fishing vests make a lot of sense. A lot of arm movement. Your arms are moving a lot, but you can be cold. All right, I'll give all my thoughts out on the game. Here we go.

Erod, very impressive that he went six eight weeks. Incredible. It didn't look like he was long for the game. very impressive job out of Erod. Like very, I think it's bigger than the offense doing what they did. Because even if they won, like how many did Erod give up? Runs? Yeah.

Three, but I mean. So even if the Red Sox only scored six runs, Erod's performance is the best. Like the offense scored a ton and that's obviously what everyone's going to talk about. But more important is that Erod pitched six innings, in my opinion. And then on the flip side, Astros just have a lot. no pitching. They just have, they're done. If Framberg couldn't give him a start, and Garcia couldn't give him a start with McCullers out,

they're just, how the hell would they, you know, Dusty's going to have to have a a real plan F. From this point on, I don't get it. Ooh, you think he's down to F? Yeah. He's got plans. Okay. What do you got, Treff?

It was a shalacking. And, you know, last two games have been that way. So, James, your point stands, they have no pitching, Dusty needs to figure it out. Here's the thing. Astros could easily win a game tonight. And then it's 2-2 and you

get the series back to Houston for sure. I don't know, man. I'm at 70-30 Boston winning this series but I think there's still a chance. Your bats can't stay this hot. I mean, maybe

they can. I don't know, man. It just seems to me like there's going to be a hiccup in this series. I don't think Boston's just going to go 4-1, run it, but they need a few guys to step up in that bullpen. Grinky, I don't know what he's going to do. He's got 30 pitches, they're saying? They're fucked.

Hey, if they can get two innings out of Zach Grinkey, that would be a great start for them. Yeah, man, they're up against it right now. I like the 70-30 number. Today, I mean, it turns into playoff baseball. You're right. Today could swing the whole momentum of the series, but there's no reason to believe it to.

Like, you know, it would have to be Grinky, Javier, the back of their pin, and you're still missing like an inning and a half somewhere that they could piece together. Houston's got a score, and they got to score early. You can't keep going down eight nothing in baseball games. It's a really bad strategy they've got going on. And hey, how about when you get a double play ball, you turn it too?

Man, Altuve, dude, especially in this series. Like, it took a tough hop. I get it. It's just, yeah, John Smoltz with really good analysis on that. Well, he's short. You don't carry a drunk uncle John. Do you really say that? That was his first thing.

There's his first thing he said. You have audio. It's too small to make that play. That's him at his, like, daughter's wedding, and he's just been holding. holding it in all ceremony. Oh, he's kind of short. All right, John. Your kid's going to play third and not pitch, man.

Get over it. Yeah, I don't know. I mean, they need outs, and they're just not getting it from the people starting the games. And I think that's going to wear on them. And, yeah, like, when you ask Erod's runs, I almost didn't care because he gave them the six innings.

Like, it turned not into a playoff start anymore. It was like, hey, we'll trade three runs for another inning at this point. Like, that's a good deal. Similar point we were making there. Yeah, yeah. But. He made, he mowed down a few guys that had really, really good success against him in the past. Bregman and Correa.

He mowed him down. He looked like dominant and it was kind of fun. Two Seamer was running, little change. Yeah, man. Boston has all the momentum in the world. It's getting kooky up in Boston when a team. when a Boston team has this energy, they're tough to stop. We've seen it for the past 20 years now.

You alluded to it, Trev. Tonight becomes interesting. Houston has to put on something special, and they can. Like, they're still those guys. They're still those Houston Astros. And then your projected matchup for the Wednesday game tomorrow would be Framber versus Sale, which lines up for another spit show. And, hey, if Framber can find something, kind of like you were alluding to, Jim,

is their best starting pitching option at this point. So Houston's got to score early. You can't go down eight runs in a baseball. It's a horrible strategy, and especially if you're short. I guess he wasn't lying. Yeah. Smolsey. Yeah, I mean, look, the Astro's offense is the Astro's offense.

They can click at any moment and put up 10 in a game. But it's just, I mean, Boston has. the mojo right now every single hitter goes up they're very very confident and that's a scary thing for all those houston pitchers um but you know a bullpen day can go a couple different ways it could blow up in your face if you're if you're the team doing it but also as a hitter it's not easy you know if you get five guys in a bullpen day and they all have good days I mean, you're facing a new pitcher every single time. Like, it can be difficult.

I don't know. I'm trying to find ways to, like, think how the Astros can come back in this year as I'm trying to do it. I don't know if they can, man. Like, the Red Sox have everything going for them. Their pitching is rested. Their bats are just absolutely on fire. Two more games at home. I don't know.

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Walker Bueller versus Charlie Morton. Seven and a half. Under. Sneaky over. Legendary game. I think so too. Legendary game. I think so too. I think the bats wake up. I think Dodger bats wake up.

Not wake up. Atlanta up with better timing Those shadows calm down We're gonna have four run seventh inning Atlanta up two nothing in the ninth Three run Will Smith Homer off of Will Smith Oh my God do it

That's not what's gonna happen What is gonna happen, Trev Tell these fine people that tune in To listen to your ideas on the sport Analysis Well You have Bueller versus What do you call him the Saltman?

Saltman Charlie Martin. Charlie Morton, two big game pitchers. You know I have Bueller in my top three for big game pitchers. He's got a slider that moves like a Model T in the mud. I don't know we're more in rests on my list. I need to reevaluate and kind of see what's going on. Okay. But I do think a couple things are going to happen. You can keep going with you. You can talk. That's just a great job by Jake. Slider that moves like a Model T in the mud. It's baseball. That's baseball. That's baseball. ball analysis in the 30s. That's America.

Yeah. Okay. Jimmy, I just sent you the Smoltz clip if you want to play it for the trap because he hasn't heard it. You slack it to me? I slacked it to me, then I slapped it to you. Oh, double slack. I'll give credit where credits do.

A shelacking. A slacking. So this is Smoltsy saying that Altuio is too short to make the play? Allegedly. I didn't listen to it first, but. See? I trust Erica with my heart. littering and

should be playing Boston how they score it but that went up the pitchers mound and Altuve then couldn't handle it now this took a real high bounce

right there and you know Altube's not that big so that bounce went way higher than he anticipated and it caught him too high up to where he couldn't get the glove on it

I'm like Altoeves made that play man he's short so he can't adjust for a bounce. It's not like, you know, it was out of his reach by three inches. It didn't go over him. It was over his head. They all hit his body.

Shortest. Okay. That wasn't as bad as I thought it was going to be. It felt worse live. Yeah. Because while they're playing. I feel like, I feel like that's pretty standard. While they're playing the clip.

That's, yeah. Treve, what's the difference Between you and me? In the Dodgers Braves game tonight. Jimmy is now in a dream between his REM cycle and this is all not even really happening.

Except you're going to wake up. Yeah, you're going to wake up and be like, holy shit, where am I? I don't even, what the fuck was I talking about? You guys, I have no idea. Whatever. Something's going to happen tonight. I had a take and then

Odds the Braves. Odds the Braves wins. win tonight to go 3-0 on the Dodgers? I got 60-40 Dodgers winning tonight. Okay. I mean, Braves have the mojo. Dodgers have been really good at home. Bueller's been good against the Braves, been good at home. I think they've won 10 of 11 against the Braves in Dodgers Stadium.

I think there's just a different feel going back. And the Dodgers' offense is in putting a lot of people on base. I just haven't been getting them in. I think that changes are too good of a team to just not hit with runners in scoring position. It just doesn't happen. So, I think the Dodgers have the advantage today. I don't think that's a surprise to anybody. But, I mean, the Braves have no chance.

Like, they got the mojo. There's two teens of mojo right now. The magic bros, and that's the Braves and the Red Sox, matching freaking colors on the uniforms. I'm going to hate when they're in the World Series together. That's my take on tonight's game. John? It's a Bueller show.

Oxy City? Can't rely on the Dodgers offense to win the game. They're not going to go out and bang it. So I think it's low scoring. Maybe the bullpen comes into play. But if Bueller can go, I mean, he's got to go like six, seven. He needs a starting pitching performance here. Like he needs a performance that everyone's like,

that's one of the best starting performances of this postseason. Like, you know, challenge Webb for that title. Morton's probably going to be good, not great. He was great against the Brewers. Their offense wasn't amazing. He tired against the Brewers in game one against them. Dodgers are going to start seeing these relievers a lot. You would hope that eventually something can happen.

But I think Beeler's got to go, you know, 6, 7, 1 or 0. I think it's got to be the Beeler show. He started three times in his career against the Brace, 279. ERA, 19 inning, 17 strikeouts, and he's also like a career two, three at home. So it's, he's going to be comfortable on the mound. I know you can say it about almost any playoff game. I said it for Houston. Early lead today, I think really matters.

We'll see if shadows get involved. A weird two o'clock game. That's freaking me out a little bit. If Charlie is throwing his Model T out there today and the shadows are there and it's the fourth inning and you haven't scored in a while, that's a bad feeling. So I'm interested to see if any of that starts tying into the game. You're right, Trev. I mean, what's their runners in scoring position?

Are they like two for 18 now or something like that? Yeah, it's a lot. So, yeah, if you're getting the runners on and you're in L.A. and you can get some juju rolling. They could also run away with this game, and you can see both teams almost mentally shake hands. Braves can throw the bad back end of their bullpen and almost have a series reset, like this is how we got here.

I don't know, man. I love Charlie. I hope him and Walker are both special today. And, Jim, to your point, you know, if the Dodgers get to see Will Smith again, at some point they're going to do damage. You would think What had more than pitch last year

Against the Rae against the Dodgers? He had a bad game, right? I don't know what game. World Series game three. So are game three here? Whoa. Wow. Dodgers lit them up, right?

4.1.5 earned. I don't think it's like a punt game If they get down early at all. For who? To be honest. The Braves? The Braves. I don't think so either.

Well. I think they're going. They are going for it. Everyone's rested. They can throw whoever they want right now. I mean, if they get down seven runs, sure. I don't think it'll be that bad. I just think we'll get her good pitching matchup,

but Morton might have some blips. But who the, what the fuck do I know? I just think Bueller's got to win it for the Dodgers. If Bueller goes like 4.1, 3 earned, which I think he did against his last start against the Giants, but I think it was on short rest. It was on short rest.

If he goes five and three earned, and then they got four innings of bullpen, like the Dodgers, not only to set themselves up the rest of the way, They still got to win four games, and they've already used a lot of bullpen. So not only for this specific game, but for the rest of this homestand, it'd be really nice if Walker can eat six, seven innings and get the win. Because they've got to win four. They're going to need their bullpen and pitchers.

Yeah. I think both managers would really like that. But, yeah, I mean, we'll see. Graves have been hot when they need to be hot. They got some guys that are lights out right now. Just don't make any mistakes, the Dodgers, because the Braves have just capitalized on them. Don't anything stupid.

As long as the shadows don't come into play, I think we could see some runs scored today. I think the ball flies a little bit here during the day. The shadows, you know, that could be the factor. I don't know what shadows at 2 o'clock at Dodgers Stadium look like. I'm now mad the Padres aren't in the playoffs, so we didn't get any Marine layer references. because that was like the theme of last playoffs,

the marine layer. Nothing worse than a thick marine layer. Other little thing that matters more than it probably should. Freddie Freeman's first at bat. If Frederick can have one, find the outfield grass, and it's like, oh, he's not a zero anymore. That changes things for the brace. Let me see his numbers again.

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Full pension Piv. Your guy, Trev. Pull the black thing. Kelsey's shooting, Jay. What? Full pension Piv tonight. Yes. Full Pension Piv versus Zach Granky. We got you?

Hello. Can you hear us Kelsey Winger? Oh, it didn't even fire. No. Here. Come say how to Trev. Kelsey Winger, a farm to fame has been with us for the live streams. You got the wide shop, BBD?

Should we gang up? I don't know where I should go. I guess that's true is Trev. Hi, Trev. What's up, girl? How are you? What do you say? What are you laughing at?

You can't hear him? No, I could. He just said, I get that. I said, sir. What's up, dude? Well, my opinion, my opinion is that Povetta, it doesn't even matter anymore. Oh, wow.

I thought that this series was going to be like Povetta needs to eat big innings and he's going to be the difference maker like he was, like he was in the ALDS against the Rays. and now I think like Pavetta goes four innings of two-run ball like who cares the Astros can't pitch and the Red Sox can hit So I don't know man I think you're I think you're putting the Astros asleep a little too early

I think if If Pavetta you know goes four today And they decide to take him out That leaves him for another bulk appearance at some point down the road If they need him So like that's the narrative still can happen Povetta can pitch big endings

I think tonight's a big game, man. Like I said, like Houston can come out and score 10 freaking runs tonight, and the Astros pitching can give up eight runs, and they win the game, and it's 2-2. They can slug with anybody. So I'm not ready to dismiss the Astros just yet. Peter and I talked about this on Farm to Fame.

It's like everybody thinks the team is going to win who won the last game. So it's like if the Astros win tonight, everybody's going to be back to thinking the Astros are going to take the series, but then the Red Sox are going to win the next game. people are going to be thinking it's the Red Sox. I feel like the Twitter world is so dependent on recency bias, like whoever won the last game. That's where everybody's thoughts are at.

I don't know what to do. Well, that's a, that's, that's, that's, that's where, let's all stand. I'm up. I think on that point, this is, this is the first time when a wrinkle can really be put in the series, because the Red Sox have, which is kind of scary. Their best plan or their best availability today.

They have Pivotta who's been nasty. They have Hawk who's been their guy. And they have, who am I missing? They have another long guy. Oh, Whitlock is fully rested. So that's kind of the Red Sox A plan outside of Ievaldi. So, and we know Cora goes for it. And it's never really gotten shoved back in his face.

If they could somehow get Piv, if you could get Halk, you have now thrown a wrench in this series. That being said, they got to do something and don't go down eight nothing. You got to do something. I mean, the Astros have their good pen available today too. Green layer. They didn't use their high-end pen yesterday. Luis Garcia is going to have to pitch today after Greenkey.

You know, they still have, you know, I don't know who's in the back of their pen. Presley, I guess Dan did pitch you out of sign. Graveman still there. Like, there's a plan if it's not going to be easy. They're going to have to hit. But we know, we always talk about how deep the Astros lineup is and how they can just put up runs and bunches.

That's the only reason. Can Christian Javier pitch? Yeah. Because he's the only one that has shut him down. That's, that's who I meant to say. That's what I meant to say. And like,

Granky's been bad. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. He's been bad. And I don't think he's been stretched out. Would you be surprised if he came out and just had a nice two-ending stint, like a weird grinky.

two-inning stint, a couple of Ephesus? I'd be, I think it's two sides of the spectrum for me on Granky. Like either he does well and he's hitting his spots because he's not throwing the speed. He's relying on a lot of the change-up. That's what he did against the White Sox in his two innings and they just

rolled over all of them. Or like if he's wild, like he may not get out of the first inning. The Luis Garcia thing was weird. Did they say that I know that I saw that they were saying either him or Grinky to start today. But did they say that he's for sure going to pitch today after Grinky?

I don't know if they said anything. I think Cavier is going to be the one that backs up Grinky. That was a very weird. He said Luis Garcia had said he'd been dealing with like that knee injury all year, but it was different this time. But then he threw the next day and was totally fine. He rocks on his knees before every pitch. Hot.

Luis Garcia So let's go Dream World for the Astros If Grinke can give you two Which again is we're kind of teetering around Like if it happens we're not surprised It's that Gingeyes deserve that If it doesn't We're also not surprised because he hasn't been good

But let's say they can get two out of Grinkey You get two out of Erkiti Or not Arquite he got hit last night Javier that's four Presley and Graveman in the back You've got six innings So you've got six innings Of ideal baseball

And then you got to figure something out with Stannick. Who's been good? Brooks Raley. I don't know. Like get a big lead. I wonder if they almost do a... They got a hit, bro. They got a hit.

And then almost like throw Graveman or Presley early to make sure the Red Sox don't score and then extend your lead. So in the ninth inning tonight, you can pitch a Phil Maiton, or something like that. But yeah, man, they got to get aggressive.

Dusty's got a plan. Duh. I don't know if he does. They're saying this is kind of what I'm reading here. Their plan is it's Grinky to Javier. And then, yeah, they have Stanig, Graveman, and Presley.

Yemi Garcia probably not available. Brooks Raleigh, probably not available. So, yeah, they got to find some guys to eat some endings. But the main thing, like we said a million times now, just got to go rake. Go rake. Score runs, have fun. Turn double plays when you get them.

Piv faced them in June 2nd. June 2nd. Nick Povetta faced them. Sixthinings pitch, three hits, two and runs, nine K's. The lineup he did it against was Altuvae Correa, Braggman, Yudan, Yuli, Tucker, Garcia, Stra. Robel Garcia, huh? Here's my prediction on Povetta tonight.

I think he's going to be really good. first four innings. I think maybe he gets left out there a little too long. Okay.

I can see that happening. Cora would never. Yeah, I also think Cora's like going to go for this game tonight. Yes. He's going to throw his guys.

Like he's going to come for this game because he got Eovaldi for five, game five, right? Yeah. And that's what Cora does. I'm excited.

I like Cora. Like if Piv, That's the other side of this coin. If Piv's having a bad first inning, he would literally take him out and say, okay, well, we'll save Piv for another day. Like, Cora's got that shit in his back pocket, which is insane.

Tomorrow is a sale, halk. Unless they use halk today. I don't think they will. I think the sale halk is the like, if we win one of those, we're great. So that's why I think they go for it today, lean on sale, how can like Whittlock hasn't pitched since Saturday.

Lack's got two in them potentially. And then though they have a Baldy game five. So they go for it today, use tomorrow as a day, and then have their killers on five and six. Garrett Whitlock was such an interesting story because he shoved all season and then sucked in September. He was like terrible and then got put on the IL and activated like the day before postseason

and it has shoved in the postseason. Dead arm, probably. He threw like two hitless innings on Saturday. He was somebody, we talked about a ton, reliever on the rookie side of things. He and Emmanuel Class A. When did Piv last pitch? I need to address something. Everyone in the chat, he said, I've been wrong all posts.

Wow. I have the Braves and the Astros in the freaking World Series players. You make 30 cents yesterday on your bets? I haven't bet anything Just so you know Sports betting legal in CT now A bunch of my loser friends are excited And I always bet the underdog

I always pull for the underdog He always pulls for the underdog That's why I like Jake so much I like me so much Spoon Lo ho Look at by in their own way All right

Anything else Kelsey are you excited to live stream the game today And so excited Hopefully it's A better Yeah Last night we had to get a little weird It got a little weird out there To keep it entertaining

It was just a bad game You're you guys in BBD The energy is Electric Yeah you could say electric But it's also Strange All right

In a good way In a good way I hated this so much Why'd you hate that? Tell everyone what we're looking at This literally I saw what you're looking at. When I saw this picture of Jimmy's facial hair glued to Jake's face on Twitter when I woke up this morning.

And I almost gagged. Like just thinking like. Me too. And then with it all over your shirt too, it's just. I still wear that shirt a lot. I've really struggled with that this morning when I saw it on Twitter. It looks bad, huh? Don't, if you struggle with something like that, don't watch the beginning of this.

Yeah. Oh, what y'all do? We lick tongues. You don't want to know. Kind of. Kind of. There's a little Hollywood magic. Hollywood magic.

Yeah. It's kind of like when they filmed Elf and they made Will Ferrell look tiny. Ah. Yeah. All right. Join us at 5 for the Braves. We might be a little late. We might not.

We don't know. And go. And if you're a Yankees fan or you're just interested to hear mine and Jake's thoughts on the boon stuff, we're doing talking yanks like. I didn't even get to talk about it. This is. BS. You guys did this on purpose.

You've got a minute and a half to let all your. your Boone thoughts out. No. Ready? Go listen to baseball today. Baseball today. Kelsey, your thoughts? I wanted to count down Trevor to give his thoughts.

Trevor, stop pointing. Well, that's what I was going to do. It was like a race. It was like a race. Okay, two minutes are on the clock. Everyone get their thoughts out on Boone. Go.

Go, Treve. Go, Treve. 156. You're only as good as your players. Ooh, okay. Okay. Joe Tori. Who, someone's got to.

get the players. You made a really good point on baseball today, Trev, about how it's the coaches who are actually coaching the players. The manager before the game is back doing manager things, but it's the hitting coach that's in the cage with them. It's the bullpen and the pitching coach who's in them in the pens with them. You made a good point about that. Thank you. And you also can't just make them a defensively sound, speedy athletic team when they're not that. But who manages the coaches? Nobody manages the coaches. There's no,

there's no meetings to check in and, and like they report to someone and then that person. Not really, dude. When you're a manager, you're letting these guys do their thing. You're not, you know, putting them in a cage. Like, that's why you hire guys that you can trust

to go have a hitters meeting that works. Like they were, Schwerber or somebody was talking about how the Red Sox love their hitters meetings. That's a rarity because guess what? Hitters meetings suck. So that's all on the hitting coach.

Okay. Kelsey, if anything I want to add, 40 seconds. What's the pulse of Yankees land right now? I saw Keith McPherson is not pleased, especially with the extension part of it. But what's the pulse of Yankees world? Are they happy? Are you all pissed? Frustrated.

I think it's one big saddened shrug. Would you say that's the pulse of me. I'm sorry. Love with the shape of you. It's like what are you going to do? I don't think it matters. What's lobby? What's like three years?

They had to do three years with an extension. Three seems. Seems like, you know, you can't even do just like two. Because I know you can't do one. You can't do a lame duck, but two seems pretty obvious.

So like if things keep going the way they're going and you need to completely pull the plug and pivot, it's a little cleaner. I think it's fine. Every whenever they want. So I guess the years don't really matter. It's like what does the manager make? Four million bucks?

Yeah, and that's the other thing. They don't fire anyone. Like, they just let contracts run out. So. Bad and more on Talking Yanks coming up. Yeah. See you there. Thank you for joining us, Kelsey.