Talkin' Baseball (MLB Podcast) - 485 | One Month into the Baseball Season

Episode Date: May 9, 2022

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Hello and welcome to talking baseball. It's the Monday episode. We're going to recap the weekend that was Major League Baseball, and we will have fun. Boom, bum, bum, bum, bum, bum, bum. Hello and welcome to talking baseball, presented by Seatkeek. My name is Jimmy. Sitting next to me is Jake, Trevor Plouffe in California. And behind the desk, we have producers.

Bud, bud, dude. And we're going to have a fantastic show for you today here on Talking Baseball. As I said, we'll be recapping the weekend that was. There was a lot of rain, but in other places, baseball was played, some good pitching performances, and some other teams that stink officially. It's not April anymore. It's May. Red So, Red Sox stink.

So bad that I feel bad for them and their fans. They asked us to kindly not talk about them today. I think that's fair. You know more than your teams than we do. You watched your team play more than I watch them play. Don't get mad. Be helpful about it if we are in the wrong, you know? So I someone comment one day like, be honest,

how many full Mariners games have you guys watched this year? I'm going to be so honest. Zero. If you're saying full, like all nine innings, zero. I do tune into the Mariners because they're fun, but I just, if I'm, that's so silly to ask us. If I'm not,

some Sunday night baseballs I've watched full games and the Yankees full games, but I'm always flipping if I'm not, if I'm flipping. It's not a full game. Anyway, Jake, how are you? Good afternoon, everybody. What's going on?

It's me, the mini mad dog. We're back in the lab. Trevor Plouf, eight-time major league baseball season player. I've watched 100% of it. every Seattle Mariners game this year. Liar, said the liar. They've been great.

Except when we've lost. Every game we've lost, we've lost. So I'm doing well, nice weekend. And fellas, kind of interesting, it's really the one-month checkpoint. Like we're so used to being baseball people, and you're like, well, you know, May 1 pretty much is the first month of baseball.

But we got the late start this year. So we kind of hit the one-month point, And it's interesting to look at who really had a good first month, who had a bad first month. Whose first month basically doesn't matter because baseball doesn't exist. Shout out to the White Sox who got one game over 500 after having a quote-unquote bad start.

So we're excited. Trevor talking about my ploof juice. I thought I need to let it loose. Treb. Was that a segue into me? me? Yeah. You told me you wanted me to sing Pimp Juice, but change it to ploof juice to introduce you from now on. I'm sick of baseball. I'm sick of baseball. I'm sick of

baseball. I just say it right now. I coached so much baseball last week that I got sick of it. I'm just kidding. Of course I'm not sick of baseball. I'm on a show the best show ever invented called Talking Baseball, and that's what we're going to do today. Mondays, I always say this. They're my favorite episode because you know, yeah, we watch the games. Somehow weekend series are always better than weekday series. And then we get to the rumblings of what Jake did this weekend. He's always doing something and going to some electric show and do Aleppo's there

and they're dancing and all this stuff. So I like to hear about it. I got some takes here. I got some takes here. Jess went to Jazz Fest in New Orleans and she had a blast. I told her I couldn't go do to work. But yeah, Jimmy Buffett. You guys are about to be one, so I just count you guys as the same person.

Thank you. Where I've been trying to become one with her. She's just way hotter than you, way hotter than you. A little bit aside boob. That's good. Your snakes are playing well. My snakes are playing well. Life's good.

Hey, we'll talk about that later in the show, bro. Don't be bringing my snakes into this. We play for rings in the valley. Jim, what were you saying? I just enjoy enjoying you guys. Nothing bad. Happy Mother's Day. How did the Mother's Day contest go for you guys?

You said you were going to rank all the mothers in your family this weekend? Hearts were broken. Yeah. Yeah. Oh, there was a lot of unanimous results. Yeah. And that stung worse for certain moms in my party. Yeah.

Yeah. So, okay, welcome to the Mother's Day brunch. Here is a piece of paper. It has all the moms that are attending today. You're ranked six. can rank them in terms of being a good mom or bad mom. And we will announce the results after dessert. Tears.

Just tears. Happy Mother's Day. Happy Mother's Day. All the moms. I'm my mom's third favorite child. Top three. Podium. Top three, yeah.

She has three kids. That you know about. It's true. My mom's good one was always the, well, you're my favorite. boy and Renee's my favorite girl. So, Ma, that's BS. You know Renee's been mean since she's been a teenager. And now she's really nice again.

She had the baby. She's really happy. I kind of suck at this point. Speaking of, shave your downstairs with Manscaped. Do it for the moms. Attention, listeners. Are you ready to be blown away? Trevor Plouffe is going to show up at one lucky customer's house

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But look, moms can manscape too That's what I wanted to say This is not just sons manscaping for their mom Moms can manscape too My dad caught his aunt Trimmon with a scissor once when he has a kid So it scarred him for life Probably doesn't want me to repeat that on air

He did what? Huh? Thanks, man's scissors Dicing herself up Holy shit It was 1971, Trev What do you want? were different.

They had electricity back then. Not where my dad grew up. Barely. Yeah. A lot of cocaine. All right. All right. Oh,

yeah. Let's do the stuff where we talk about all the games that happened. Jimmy, you're batting lead off today. Yeah. I never put the timer up. So if you have the, if you have the timer on it, like you have the YouTube up and then you tell me where we're at and then I do the mental

math on it. 7.30 in. Seven minutes in, huh? Yeah. Start talking. Start talking about that national league, Jim. Let's start talking about that national league. I don't know what happened.

Here's what. Oh, man. Here's what, oh, man. Oh, no. Here's what happened in the National League. The Mets went to Philadelphia and stole their hearts by scoring seven runs. Or eight runs, whatever. They had a giant comeback in game one.

Game two got postponed. took two out of three in Philly. The Mets are the first team to 20 wins in all of baseball. They're rocking and rolling. Nola pitched good for the Phillies. Bassett pitch good for the Mets. Gibson pitched good for the Phillies. Scherzer pitched good for the Mets.

Harper, homers, Alonzo, two homers in game three. Mets are rolling. The Brewers and the Braves matched up for three games, and I got good news for you, Jake. The Braves won the series. You like the Brewers more, but we were hoping the Braves would start winning series, and they did it against Burns

and Ashby. They won games two and three. Ashby's first kind of dud of a start, so that's good. He got it underway. You can move up and above now. Freed and Burns with a nice pitchers duel in game two. Akuna, homers again, and he did LeBron's

dance after the Homer. How about that? Cutch tested positive for COVID, and then couldn't watch his own team play, due to the MLB blackouts. Uh-oh. The Cardinals and the Giants hung out for four games. The Cardinals won the first two,

seven to one, then three to two. The Giants won the next two. So they split. Biggest thing to me is Webb. Give up four-armed runs. I think that's two kind of lackluster starts for Webb on this young season. Come on, Webby.

The Shremsey hit a go-ahead home run in the sixth. Wade, Jr., first home run of the season. in the second. Giants had to use a lot of pitchers in game one, and maybe that set the tone. Another sweep. Dodgers do the sweeping. That separates them in the Giants even more. The Dodgers starting pitchers, Kershaw Anderson, Bueller.

Holy smokes. 142 ERA amongst the three of them. Kershaw, seven shutout innings, Anderson, five innings pitch, two runs, and Bueller ends at seven innings pitch, one earned run. Dodgers roll through the Cubbies, Contreras grabbed Muncie's junk on national TV. Damn. Padres took three out of four from the Marlins,

won the first two, then lost the middle one, eight-nothing against Pablo Lopez. So if you're going to lose one, do it against a pedal winner. You know, he's on his way to collect a daisy. He hopes Padres, yeah, good job. Happy for him. The Reds win a series. All it took was playing another bad team.

So good job. The Reds beat the Pirates. They took two out of three. They win the first one, nine to two. Lose the second eight to five, win the third, seven to three. Mali pitched. Same with Keller. What's this note?

Doreem Moretta, 0.1 innings pitch, 2 runs his opener. Philip Deal. 0.2 innings pitch, two runs after him. That's a rough way to start a game. How about that? Dodgers took two out of three from the Rockies. Battle of Jacob. versus Kelsey and Jake

wins. Their starting pitchers went nuts. Varshaal hit a go ahead home running the eighth. Freight train to run Homer after him. How about that? Good job by them. That's the end of it. That's the end of it. That's the end of it. Stop the music. Cut the music. Cut the music.

Great job, James. Where are we dropping, boys? Well, the Mets are in first place in the NL East, first place in the NL and first place in and no they're not really in first place but they're the first to 20 wins so congrats to the New York Metropolitan's the Brewers lead

the Central Division they are 19 and 10 and the Dodgers lead the West 19 wins tied with the Padres who also have 19 wins but they only have seven losses so they are there where do you want to start Jake anything scream your name

you know what let's uh I'm going to to go up the sheet uh starts with pirates reds that that whole thing poop gate the the truck um is the truck removed the chat is saying the truck got removed is this true i didn't news i didn't think so but if we if we're so scared of it's poop gate of poop gate reds continue to steal the headlines um i did not see that um i'm not sure if the the chat's yank our chain on that. Good for the Reds. Also, Luis Castillo's coming back for them. He's a really good baseball player. And I think Votto and someone else are coming off the aisle. So hopefully the Reds

can play a brand of baseball that's better for the good people of Cincinnati, but yikes. And Pirates, they've been hovering around 500. You wonder if that drives a stake through their heart. I really, I miss read the sheet because I knew where we ended, and I want to talk about Kelsey's rocks versus my snakes because we're playing for rings in the desert. Yeah. The boys are playing a good brand of baseball, fellas. They had the sweep lined up. The one game they lost, they were up one-nothing on Jake Snake Saturday.

And Mark Melanson said, I fucking hate you, Jake. Mm-hmm. Had two outs. The skies opened up and God said, I hate you, Mark Malanson. No, I don't hate Mark Malanson. He hates me. God hates Mark Malanson. Yes.

No. In the version of what I said. God and Mark Malanson are fine. My snakes are pitching above 500, NL West. I think we're going to hear more about their pitching later on, but go snakes.

They have been pitching. Snakes be pitching. Snakes. And Rockies be hitting. So it was a good series to go head to head. Congratulations to the snakes for taking the two out of three. Yeah, man. They called up Alec Thomas.

That was the name I was thinking of. remember the name a big prospect for the snake so they're all in right now you got a base hit in front of his parents was it a double yeah it's a double in his debut we always love to see those videos so fun man so fun good note from bvd earlier on waking jake there have been two Alex and mlb history and they're both playing right now minoa and thomas oh no don't do it jake please don't or jimmy don't Nothing. I remain silent. Nothing to be.

Not a name pod. It's not a name pod. I don't like that name. It's been called a name. I don't like that. It's been called the name pod for much as I'll say about it. But I think most importantly, vibes.

We like vibes. And man, good vibes with the snakes. They're winning some games. They're calling up big prospects. Like, you know, that NL West might still be tough for us this year.

But at least we're passing a vibe check for over a month now. They only, they hit a bunch and they only had two home runs. So just, just, there's team baseball, Trev. You know, that's what Tori does. Tori LaValle. Good for him. You should talk to him.

Because you don't have team baseball on your Diamondbacks, right? Just two hot shots running the whole damn show. Oh, it's team baseball. Okay. Cool. And mainly we just have the best coach in the league. So that's mainly what it is. Everyone knows that that's, the managers do everything.

I want to go back to the Pirates Reds real quick, because this is always a funny thing. that we have to mention. I'm sure some people saw, but we had a position player that's not a catcher, have to catch. My boy,

nappy boy, gets tossed in the dugout for arguing balls and strikes and then their other catcher gets hurt. So typically you carry two catchers and he designates someone as the emergency catcher. Well,

that happened to be Josh. What's his name? Van Meter. Van Meter. Van Meter. Van Meter's the home of that pitch of a heartfelt. Bob Feller, yeah.

Yeah, Van Meter, Iowa. Jake and I took a picture there. Gotta be a scary time for him. Put the gear on. It's not your gear. Promise you that. Somebody else's gear, not going to fit correctly. But that's something you got to point out there

because that does not happen very often. I did catch a bullpen during a big game one time. And it was the most embarrassing moment of my baseball career. I ran at Comerica Park across the field during the game in Joe Mauer's catching equipment, which is Joe Mauer's 6'5. I'm not. Pretty embarrassing.

I caught a bullpen in Arizona. It was a nightmare. Yeah. Yeah, I almost killed you. Yeah. No pads. Or hurt you. Yeah.

No pads. And you're on. Cross a pool. And see shit. It was dark. It was nighttime. It was a night time. It was the day.

In your brain. Padres take three of four and we didn't discuss them on Friday and people were pissed. What do you mean? We didn't discuss them on Friday. We barely, we just, we skipped over. them and the Guardians, we barely said anything. People get fired up so we got to talk. Let me tell the people something.

Sweep week. I am trying to get us back to the old format where we don't talk about every team. We do the rundown and we just talk about the big topics like it would have been Bumgarner and the others. Jake, it's fighting for all you guys to talk about every team. So, and Trev is half and half. So. Yes. God.

Well, the Padres in their defense. I mean, they're one of the better teams of baseball this year. So, like, we got to give them their shine. But sure, but there's 30 teams. Oh, yeah. There's 32 hockey teams. You guys know that? They expanded.

Google that the other day. Because, yeah, because the knights. Right. I have to think about that every time I say, there's 30 baseball teams. I'm like, is there 32, though? It's going to be soon. My father's, they pitch, they pitch every damn day. I think it was Basseter Scherzer that had the quote the other day.

They were talking about. about the Mets success and he's like, well, every day we've got a dude going on the mountain and giving us a shot. Padres, they got the same thing going on, man. And shout out to Manny Machado, who'd be the NL MVP if the season stopped today. They've been without Tatez. And yeah, man, I mean, they take care of the fish who we've been, you know, decently high on. And they're, you know, if the Padres were under 500, we'd just say, well, you know,

tough division. Tatis is hurt and we shrug our shoulders. They're off to a great start. Good for them. And they were very close to splitting the series, right? They won yesterday on a walk-off. Mother's Day walk-off. Two-out, Jorge Alfaro, walk-off bomb.

The celebration was by the team that DFA'd him. So it was just a little bit of like, hey, F you. And losers? I know Jorge, he definitely has pop. I played with him in Philly. wasn't a hot boy back then, but things have changed. She has the blonde hair now. There was some shirt being taken off.

We saw like the exposed chest a little bit. It looked pretty good. So got to give a shout to Jorge, doing it on and off the field, it seems like. Oh, cave, man. And his mom told him to meet Homer in the game. So happy Mother's Day. Moms are the best. She just love moms.

Why do moms always think you're so good at stuff, even though you're not? Because it's their job to build you up as a confident human being. They just dream. Yeah, it's kind of a lot. And then dads just bring you down. Oh, shit. Heavy. Oh, my goodness.

Heavy. A Rod's nephew homers. I don't think we're going to talk about that again later. But what a moment. What a sound clip. Did you hear that, Treve? Did you hear that sound?

I did. I did. I have no problem with it. He's excited. I mean, I don't know a problem with it. I just find it funny because no one's set that phrase ever. Got to be,

I've heard that before. You've heard you got to be. shitting me you've never heard i feel like i feel like i've heard you got to be horse shitting before maybe not he really hits it which makes it beautiful you got to be horse shitting me i feel like i've heard that from like people that are 80 years old maybe maybe what you hanging out with maybe we live in a simulation guys someone just typed it in wrong hmm that big of a deal dodgers sweep the cubs uh and then the giants get swept and the padres win three.

That's kind of like the bigger picture in the West. Like bad weekend for the Giants to lose three when you have the Dodgers and the Giant split. Oh, the Giants split. And split. Yeah. The West is just diesel now. The Dodgers, what do you really say?

Giant split, but they lost that game or web. Right. So it feels like two losses. It feels like a loss. Yeah. and look unstoppable again. Cubs were a sucker back on that story in a minute because they were kind of a teeter-totter team this year

and they're tottering the wrong way hard. Yeah, but the NL. West, man, is going to be, it's going to be another bloodbath, and it's just going to be survival. And not even survival. Like two out of three, sometimes you're going to have a bad weekend in the NL West. I don't think it's going to be a bloodbath.

I think the Dodgers are going to run away with this thing. I think the Podgers are going to have an excellent season. and I believe the Giants are still going to be there too, but the Dodgers are so damn good. And like you said, they really haven't even got it clicking. Their pitching's been outstanding. There's going to be a time.

And I don't know how many times this has happened like through June. There's going to be a time where there's nine players on the Dodgers, nine offensive players that are going to have an OPS plus over 100. Like that'll happen. And I don't know like how many times that's ever happened that like in the middle of June. I mean, they're almost at seven. It's, and like the ones that haven't done it are like Justin Turner who's like struggling

mightily. Max, but I, you know. Oh, Justin Turner's struggling. My holy shit. Yeah.

So, come on, JT. They're going to figure some things out. And like I said, they're going to have nine dudes with OPS pluses over 100 and it's. And probably some on the bench too. Like it's,

they're just a different type of team. They really are. They're good. The Cardinals, they, take two from the Giants and the brewers lost, but the brewers remain in first place. What's, I mean, the Cubs with that sweep, the Central is quickly becoming a two-team race. Jim, you know, I don't like throwing out dead. I believe in hope and optimism and sports.

The Cubs. We're going dead already. Look at them. I mean, go check out Cubs Twitter for a little bit. Times are bad. And it's not like you put yourself in a hole. Like, you look at the standings and you're like, okay. you know, a team with a good week, if you put up a five and two, you know, there's still a lot of teams out there that that just writes the ship.

The Mariners, they're 13 and 16. A little five and two week, they're back at 500. You say, okay, I mean, the Cubs, dude, they've dug a hole. They're almost 10 games under 500. Like, you've got to start playing a really good brand of baseball, and I don't know. Like, it's full-blown panic button in Riggily. Well, I also think that,

I agree with you, but to maybe get Trev more understanding where we're coming from, they're competing for the, they're not going to win the division. They're not going to beat both the Brewers and the Cardinals, the Cubs. And then to get the wild card, I don't know if the Central is going to have two wildcards because you got the West, it's going to have three in the East that probably the end of day is going to have three, you know, legit contenders for the wild card spots. So the Central is looking like a two-team race. Now I do believe that the like Brewers and Cardinals can one of those can get a wild card spot.

So I don't know. I think I'm right now Central is looking like a two team race. Maybe like I'm thinking about it like you know my I know it's inevitable that. This is going to be heavy right here. Okay. You're going to have to put it. I've done this before. You're going to put a dog down.

But the last like week or so you just want to you feed it whatever it wants. You play with it as much as it wants because you know it's coming. Maybe that's what I'm doing right now. out with the Cubs. Oh, my God. I'm going to, I'm going to do, that's bad. I'm going to do a live reaction right now. I have not checked out swindles and Patty Wisdom's stats.

Okay, go check them out. I'm going to do it. I'm doing a live reaction right now. These are caught on the streets, these vids. Okay, our guy, courage Dunlop does him. I want to meet, I want to meet that guy. You like him. Nice guy.

All right. Here we go. Ready? Yeah. Trevor Ploof, live reaction. What are you looking at, Schwindle's stats? Wisdom, doing it. Just got hurt.

Swindle is not doing it. He got sent down. Yeah. Oh, he got sent down. Yeah. Frank. Okay. A little bit half and half.

Frankly, that was a sad segment. Okay. So that's the update on the Central. And then the last series that is the Mets or no is, well, the Braves and the Brewers. And the Mets and the Fills. and the Phillies. Excellent series between two great teams, the Braves and the Brewers,

Acuna showing off, showing why he is Ronald. Do I have him as my standout? I don't really remember. Excellent Homer, off of Burns. The previous event, I thought about us on baseball today. Burns did him a nasty slider,

got him to chase down in the way, check swing, like I think pitching ninja calls that a sword. Next to bat, seventh inning Burns tried to go back Fedham won too many

this one was leaked over the plate and no Kunya just went bye bye Big time homer against the big time pitcher has only earned run of the of the night so Bam That's a fun series right there man aesthetically pleasing two Braves versus Brewers nice unis

and then they even wore the throwbacks as well which was cool crisp Jim you kind of said it like the Braves needed a series one Brewers kind of didn't no it's to a good start And Ashby gets tested now. I'm interested to see how he bounces back.

The Brewers are a problem. Remember people were fucking, oh, brewers are done, bro, O and three to start the year. Dude, remember five minutes ago

when people were like, the clubs are dead, dude, and they're winning the division. Yeah. Go brew crew. Mets are alive and well. Good vibes.

I think they got a, they got a pretty rough start from our dude, Taiwan. Nola, uh, Nola and Gibby pitched well for. Is this the way,

hold on. This is the same series that they came back in the ninth what the what the was i think it was it thursday was a thursday night or yeah so we couldn't really talk about it on friday yeah but it was part of this series okay okay yeah it scored seven in the ninth to take the lead i did the breakdown of it it just came out today i made it a while ago but it just came out today and uh it's funny baseball's a game of breaks i'm not taking the mets down at all because they hit really well they use their

pinch runner they it was really good in position but Cana hits the double play ball, like the perfect double play ball for the Phillies, which would end of the game. But it hit Kniebel's feet, legs. Like if it just misses his leg, which is a tiny thing in the grand team things, it's an inning-ending double-playball. And the Mets take advantage after that. But God, what a heartbreaking sport baseball can be.

And that's a Mets continue to the role. Phillies, you know, hey, again, like we're one month point of the season, 12 and 16. You flip that with a 16 and 12, we start talking, but it's not panic time. Like the Phillies, they believe they still have a lot of top end talent, but, you know, you got to start winning some series. Like, it's, we're a month in. Don't, you put up another month like that, and we're, we're trading guys away. We don't want to do that.

Chris Bassett, huge balls on that guy. You got to love watching him pitch. I do. I mean, that's one of the better moves of the off-season right there. Like solidifying, like going and getting that starting pitching depth for the Mets. They knew they were going to have the top two guys. They bring in cookie. They're bringing Bassett.

I mean, they made a lot of moves, man. Bartay, Canna, like. They made a lot of moves. The Bassett one is, I think right now it's their best move. Only risk was being Metsi. I mean, they just, they don't have DeGram. Scherzer and Buck changed. That's crazy.

Shurzer and Buck changed the culture. They added Starling Marte, Cana, Basset. Eddie Escobar. Eddie Escobar. Max Scherzer. Yeah, they're good. They're the tops right now. Oh, smokes.

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Oh, boy, Red Sox fans. It might be a long summer If something doesn't change soon Good fortitude by the White Sox As they win the first game 4 to 2 The second game, oh, Maddie Barnes Oh no, blown saving four of his last six games That's bad, that's really bad

White Sox they sweep Holy smokes White Sox their season back on track Game over 500 While the Boston Red Sox Oh my, my, oh hell, yeah, no party dresses right now. Guardians, they take three out of four from the Toronto Blue Jays.

How about that? Our barometer team has bucked it. They were listening to the last episode, and they take down the Jays, three out of four, including a couple one-run games as the bread of the series. Guardians hit 289 throughout the series. Some extra base hits, and their bullpen was locked down throughout, and that's enough to get it down. Gossman, Jim.

Insult to injury for the Jays. He gave up his first walk. You hate to see it. Bullshit call, probably. Good for the Guardians. Guess what? They're at 500. Does that make sense?

Yankees, Rangers, they're finishing up. Game three right now. Joe's McFly's in the lounge, watching the game, has his fins up, flopping all over the place. Yankees win the first game, two to one.

Garrett Cole. Good performance by him. Dane Dunning, Match him though. Which hand does he throw it? Doesn't matter. Glaibre Torres with the walk-off home run. The Little League ballpark, Chris Woodward. Getting in Colin McHugh territory for me. Rangers come back, they win the second game,

and talk about getting your feelings torn apart. Trev Backyard Brad with the big home run, helping lead the Rangers to their fortitude, fortitude victory. Mariners, you got raised. Tors are the Mariners for four games. Mariners lucky to snake away the last one. They fight back in George Kirby's debut. Big pitching prospect for them.

And they had to fight back and win that one. A big home run by Kelnick. That was the second game, the Apple TV game. Oh, my God, we're going nuts. Apple TV, look at these cameras. Seattle's going nuts. They came back. We did it.

We did it. The Rays came back, top nine. We're the Rays. This is what we do. We torture you. Rays take three out of four from Seattle. Seattle, we got to start winning some series. Hopefully their last win sparks them.

Brandon, wow, he's getting it going again. Jim, you're going to like this. Your Houston Astros sweep the Tigers in four games. Detroit. Don't look at your record. Houston, they win the first three games, three to two, three to two, three to two. We like that.

Life imitates art sometimes. And by the way, the Astros, they're starting to get back to where you expect them to be in the standing. They're winning a lot of ball games. It helps when you're starting pitchers have a 113 ERA, and your relief peaches have a 1-5 ERA. Did he say peaches? That was weird. Jeremy Banya. Adaboy.

Who's that? Twins! Trev, you're going to like this. Twin sweep. Minnesota. officially off to a good start on the season. They win three one-run games. That's a good formula.

Man, they are pitching enough. And if you don't know, I think it's Joan Duran, Johan Duran. Johan. He is nasty pumping 103 on the gun for Minnesota. Love that for them. Boy, the Twinkies are becoming a part of the 2022 season. Speaking of not being a part of the 22 season, The Royals and Orioles split a series doubleheader so far.

Some rain in the Northeast. Game three is happening today. Royals 1-6-4, Orioles 1 4-4-2. Bing, bang, bong, best-timed series recap so far. I'll clap. I'll clap. You're welcome. As for the standings in the American League,

the Yankees are in first place in the East, 19 and 8. The twins are in first place in the Central, 18 and 11. And the Central now is three teams 500 or above. Hey, hey, hey, hey, he, he, he, he, he. We exist. The angels are winning the West, 19 and 11. 1911, that was to hear my great-grandmother, Elizabeth Madigan was born.

My nana, loved her. He didn't like you that much. No, I was like one of her favorite. I was one of her favorite. And like the Titanic. That's why she said. Tall tails. Tall tails being cold.

I was one of her favorite. I didn't even go to the beach during the day. Dude, would watch Yankee games with her. 10 years old. I watched tennis with my grandma. So, yeah, she hated it.

She was familiar with me, but we kind of knew our boundaries. Your great grandmother? You're a grandma. She didn't want me to get too close, but there was a... Yeah. She'd seen me in a lot of events.

Yeah. I can see you being like, eh, on Jimmy, like, my dad once wheeled her into the, uh, an empty exhibit at the zoo and then started yelling, uh, elderly exhibit over here.

And she did not like that joke. At all. Okay. Trev, you said right before we hopped on, the Red Sox are dead and they should trade all their guys now. Am I remembering that right? Are you followed it up with? I probably won't say that on the show though.

I think I said I was going to use, the tale of two socks. It's a, you know, a play on words for the tale of two cities. That reminds me of a long road trip I took once. I think I know what you were talking about. Masturbating into socks. Yeah. The family show. It's a family show. It's a family show. Yeah, Red Sox. What is you doing, baby? What's your offense doing, baby? You know,

we talked about this a little bit earlier today on baseball today. You got four guys in that lineup that are supposed to be giving you the offense. Now, three of them are producing. You got Devers. You got Bogarts and you got Martinez. But that it. Nobody else is helping. Story's supposed to be that fourth guy. He's not, it just hasn't happened for him. Striking out a ton. He's got to get it going. But also the supplemental pieces just have not been there whatsoever. Bobby Dalbeck. Say it, Jake. Bobby dollback. But like in a disappointed way. Bobby. be yeah it's it's been pretty bad so they got to figure that out um and before the show we did talk i said look all lot when i do research on this talking about the red socks like all the beat

riders are saying man the bullpen's been tough but you look at the stats the stats are good there's been some blown saves so really the surprise part of this red socks team has been the pitching the starting pitching staff and that was like we thought was going to be their demise so baseball be baseball in red socks not baseball in very well right now and i don't know man it's a tough division to make up games in i'll tell you that much right now you can't be getting swept at home you cannot be getting swept at home i know it's the white socks i know they're a good team but dude this is this is a hole being dug and they're kind of like you know i level here they can kind of see above it still but like pretty soon it's a big hole it is

It is a bad, I mean, this is, it's kind of like saying, you know, our goal today is a score more runs than the other team. But for the, for the flip side of the east, the Yankee side of things is like, last year they had a 13 game win streak and they had a 12. And some of the Yankees conversations I was in or reading were people saying, you know, which one was better or which one was more fun. And it was like, well, just doing it at the start of the year is more fun because it's so much better to get up. Because when they were doing that last year,

they were climbing out and they still never climbed out. So, you know, I mean, that's kind of like water's wet, but not a good time to be digging holes or a great time to be built in mountains. Yeah, it's nine blown saves. They only played 19 games. Yeah, it's frustrating. Say you have all those saves. There are teams that start out, you know, 20 out of 20 and save opportunities.

Nine more wins. We're talking about a completely different thing. even with the offense struggling. So holy crap. Even the more realistic way to do that is you've cut it down in half. Like, you know, the Red Sox would be 500. And we'd just give you a speech about how, you know, they're not kind of clicking and blah, blah, blah, you know.

We lived through, BPD and I were going through this this morning. The 2017 Yankees, they had two good months. And the rest was 500 baseball. And they were a 91-win team. So, like, that's where you can start looking at this after one month of play. and you look at a team like my halos or something like that where, hey, you got one good month in the book. If you can play 500 or even a little above 500,

you're on your way to be in a 90-win baseball team. Red Sox have to turn the ship around, and White Sox, they're hoping they did. They're 14 and 13. We talked about them being in a malaise. They're now second in the central, coming off a sweep on the road. Maybe that sparks them.

Spark? Hopefully. All right. Guardians, Jim, your barometer. It broke. It did? Yeah. Why?

They beat the Js. Three out of four. Well, maybe the Jays aren't good. Oh, who knows? No, the Jays are pretty good. What happened here? I guess I didn't see a lot of this. What happened?

Gossman issued a walk and the team fell apart. Actually, that's the game they won. They won the Gossman games. Yeah, they won that game. Was it they're pitching or they're hitting? Because their hitting hasn't been great. And their hitting's been all right, but their running and scoring position has been,

they've been like the worst in the league. It was kind of both ways. Guardians hit. Guardian starting pitchers didn't do much, but their bullpen was lights out. Guardians hit slash 289, 352. Wow. 430 would finish the slash Jake.

Bieber with a horrible start. Yeah. Bieber Gosman, that's a good match of didn't live up, huh? Better the day, right. Bang. Hell yeah. Hell yeah.

And we got some friends at the pod coming up in that last game. Owen Miller with the game tying Homer. Then our guy, Oscar, the go-ahead, RBI single, NBA. So the Guardians are fun. I mean, they've always kind of been one of those teams. They're fun. They pitch. And they're getting timely hitting.

I think where are they at in the overall standings of hitting? I had it up. I changed my page here. Let me see. Your Guardians? They were hot, but they obviously took a little bit of a... They're still hitting. I mean, they're second and batting.

average fourth and OPS like they're still they're still doing it yep that's uh fourth and OPS plus as well it's the recipe right there Jim you're you get I mean do you give the do you give the guardians chance at all to make the playoffs they're 500 that's exactly where they want to be I don't know they want to be there but they will be there Vangrass has met 18.2% to make the playoffs um I don't know man I can't get a read on them they're one of those teams where what are you supposed to do with him? Chris Rose will defend him to the day he dies. Love that for him.

Me too. It's good. You don't get, like, people don't get mad at you and call you, like, a homer if you're defending a team that isn't called the Yankees. They're young. Dodgers probably a good. Dodgers? Like, if we talked about, yeah.

Anyway, you want to talk about the Yankees? I want to talk about the Yankees. They split a double header. It's like the most nothing result in the world. Yeah, it's the story of baseball they're playing right now. If they win today, all Yankee fans will be good. They'll have won the series, and they split a split-day double-header. If they lose today, we're going to question a lot of stuff about individuals on the roster.

So I hope they win today. Trev, the Yankees and the Rangers due to the rain makeouts, are playing three games within 24 hours, basically. Have you ready to do that? Is that tiring? Is that as crazy as it seems? I mean, it's pretty hard on the bullpen. They get the extra guy, but both teams actually got decent enough outings. Like no one yesterday in the doubleheaders had to do crazy bullpen stuff.

It's a lot of baseball, though. Yeah, I mean, you're going to get guys that are going to throw both games during the day, which I always think is really cool. If anything, it affects the following series the most. You can get through these 24 hours and then you start to get sore. So they're going to have to be careful of what they do. We know they love the rest players. I don't know how they're going to do it.

Yeah, I don't. The Rangers, I don't know what their schedules, but the Yankees have now. They have 23 games in 22 days starting yesterday. The Rangers, Dane Dunning, had a no-hitter. A lot of hard-hit balls. The Rangers infield booted a lot of balls. Oh, the Rangers' defense. But this is kind of like maybe the Yankees hit a lot of hard.

I'd like a statistician to let me know why it feels as Yankee fans like we are getting a gift every three innings. The Royals played absolutely terrible defense against the Yankees. The Blue Jays played terrible defense, gave up a game because of their infield defense, and the Rangers played terrible infield defense. Are they because the Yankees hit hard balls on the ground more than other teams? I just like to know if that eye test is something, because three teams in a row now where I've just been wildly like,

what the hell? Why are we getting so many reach? on errors so many times. I saw the backyard Bradair. I know he's been playing a lot of third base, but I don't think he's particularly ready to be like an elite defense at their basement. Blue Jay's defense is always an enigma to me.

Sometimes I see him, it looked great. The first series, they looked amazing, and then they look like crap a lot. When they make the nice plays, it just looks so nice. Could be just circumstantial. I don't know. But yeah, I mean, dude,

if you're in the infield and you do have a team that hits the ball hard, on the ground, yeah, sure, you're going to cause more airs. No doubt about it. James, the Mariners got raised. That's something you can speak on. Yankees haven't played the raise yet, so I haven't seen them. I miss Joey Wendell.

I know it's not the raise talk, but that clip of him is awesome. And yeah, didn't the Mariners get raised earlier and like two weeks ago as well? It just happens. Mariners lose another series. Is that four series in a row for them? I would have liked them to hang around longer as like a fun team. What's their record now, the Mariners? They're a team.

13 and 16. I really wanted them to really like push the West. They still can. They're not like dead enough or down enough, but they start winning series. I think there's a very big difference between a 13 and 16 month for the Mariners. You're a sweep away from being back to 500 and okay, let's turn the gas on. then say, you know, whether it's the Red Sox or the Cubs, like, you know, you're looking at, you need to win nine games to get back to 500.

Like those are different lands. So the Mariners call up another young dude, George Kirby to pitch. Heath goes sick, shuddy. How's your debut? And, yeah, they just, they need a couple more things to start clicking. And, yeah, make the ALE West just a blast this year, Mariners. Get it going. I think that's where, you know, the optimism.

and we'll lie with Mariners fans is that division is not great. The Astros obviously been playing a lot better as of late. A lot of Mariners Twitter and Angels Twitter saying, excuse me, Angels Twitter, are talking about the, hey, we're winning ball games, but the freaking Astros keep winning two.

So not really separated themselves. If I had to give you guys the guardians and the Mariners and their odds to make the playoffs, similar? What do you think? Well, the only, the only big factors. I think the Mariners will try, if they're close enough, we'll try to

better their team at the deadline to, and I think the Guardians won't. So I would, that might make up for any difference that they have there, just like I think the Mariners will be more fill gaps and holes in the Guardians be like, yeah, we'll let it play and see what happens. So I would go Mariners

slightly, I guess. Your favorite pastime right there. Guardians, 18.2% chance according to Fangraphs, Mariners, 18.6% chance. It's according to Fangrass where they do like a thousand BBD stimulations and they come up with that number. But it's always interesting to see that number means nothing, people.

But I like to reference it sometimes. It kind of shows where you're at during the year. Mariners, I think, still have a lot of good baseball in front of them. They have a lot of good baseball. They're going to have to make a decision on Kelnick pretty soon, see what's going on with that. But I still like this team. I do.

J.P. Crawford. J.P. And they could have won more games in the series. I mean, the rays are the rays of the race. They got raised. I've seen this script. I've seen this script. By the way, look where the rays are in the standing.

18 and 11, they're going. They just win, man. They just win. Speaking of just winning, Treves Astros, four-game sweep over BPD's Tigers. Tigers, I mean, they're pretty much DED dead. You can say it, Jay. if you want you're about to you have a nice what was i going to say

tykers what is you doing baby what the fuck yeah what's going on there they can't hit it's cold i don't know oh okay just cold yeah they're 29th and ops 23rd and starting pitcher era bad combo can't pitch too many belt loops i don't know man that's it's it's it's it's it's it difficult. We had high hopes. You know, a lot of the high hopes were like people taking the next steps and young guys coming up, fulfilling these holes in the roster. You know, we bring in Hobby Baez. I understand all that. But sometimes the stew don't turn out the way you want it to turn out. And you got to just kind of start over. I don't think they have to start over, but this year just

might not be their year. We try. Maybe you've got to leave it on the stove a little longer, right? That's what I'm trying to say. Astros won those four games. Their pitching has been pitching well. You know, top five ERA team. And their hitting hasn't even like fully clicked yet.

They're 27th and average, 18th in OPS. Houston's going to Houston. Yeah, they're good. Jeremy Pena is really good. instead of paying Correa. Nine figures. Why don't we just call up this kid have him play for the minimum and be...

I love it and dislike it at the same time, just because it's like... The program is so incentivized that's what the lockout was about for that very reason. And then, like, it works out. It's good for business, good for the Astros, good for Jeremy Pena, good for Astros fans.

Bummer for, like, future free agents. He was pointing like, oh, this guy costs half a million and he's going to give us the same results. Not good, Trev. That's like one example. Yeah, but this is like... You can point to a million examples all throughout the league being like, oh, this guy was supposed to be good and look how shit it is.

I can point to a million examples where they try to do this because they'd rather risk it than... Right. Yeah. The Mets are very... I think the problem. I think the Mets are a very classic example. And really, you just go about all the top teams in the league.

They all have established fucking veterans riddled throughout their lineups. Okay? Like none of the young teams are going to be, like the youngest teams are going to be at the top. Just how it is. Sorry. Sorry about it.

All right. Let's move on to the eye. Hold on. One other thing I wanted to say, what was I thinking about? We didn't even talk about the twins at all, did we? Twins deserve some love. 14.2 shoutout innings from the bullpen.

Holy smokes, Twinkies. And they starting pitching did well too. They were playing the athletics, but they're, hey. The fact that the twins are at a point this season where they're sweeping the athletics and we're like, we almost expect this from you, twins?

At some point, my Ada's going to come back. They bring up Royce Lewis. Don't have to put Correa on the IL, but still brought up Royce, which is interesting. Does that mean they're going to keep him the rest of the year? I don't see how they can do that

where they're going to play him, but there's a possibility there. You know, Buxton, a little scare there with the hip. He's going to be okay. That's what I've been hearing. Very mild strain. They got to stay healthy. Like those two guys at Correa and Buxton,

like these are little tiny things right now. Like, let's just hope they stay little tiny things and we can have these guys on the field. Because it is fun. We don't want this to be a one-team race in the Central. Like, we want the twins to be there. I hope the Guardians can stay too.

I just took, I just talk shit about the young teams. They're the youngest team in the league. Hopefully they can stick around two. I don't know. Fall out, trade guys. Eat bugs. I need to hear about this.

League series. Oh, it was a big one. Here we go. And my people, let me tell you what happened in the Interleague series this weekend. It was the Nationals. Juan Soto came down to Newport Beach. He wanted to surf the waves, bra. The angel said, no, thanks. We're going to take two of three, and you're not going to hit the ball at all. I think he went like two for 13 in the series. So Juan Soto got angeled, The baby, 3-0 Angels, 7-3 Nationals in game two, before the Angels walked off the rubber match, 5 to 4. There was some good baseball being played here. Trout had the two-run double in game one.

That's all the offense. The Angels needed. They took it down. You know, the Nationals won game two behind some homers by guys, you know. Bell, Hernandez, and Cruz. That's kind of what they got to do if they want to win some games. Josiah Gray pitched in that second game. former Dodger farm hand, five and a third, three earned runs for them at the start.

And then that third game was really, really good. Angels down to their last out, Shohei with the double to tie it up. Then he races around on a random single to win it. Our talking baseball account got hammered because we said, Shohay is showing emotion like never before. And Angels fans are not happy with that for some reason because they're never happy. Angels fans, why aren't you happy? You should be happy.

you took this series two games out of three and guess what Chris Rose and I will be there on Wednesday so come see us and that my friends will happen in the interle

matchups How about that? One series? Wow, go me, go me, go me and it was the Angels who I like to watch and I'm pretty in tune with Angels Twitter right now

I got two guys who I really follow on there and they're very knowledgeable. Me and who else. It's my boy Nate Steele and my boy Soto. Shout out, shout out. Damn. Shout out Nate. I got a fun team going down there in Anaheim, though.

They really do. You haven't seen the highlight of Shoah scoring the game-winning run and Evan behind him and Shoah got a big fist pump. It's awesome. I'm telling the people, Treb. I know you saw it. Oh, yeah, yeah. People were not happy with that tweet.

He's always played with the motion, bro. It's like, yeah, but it's different. When your team is winning and good Don't give them any Don't know I mock them That's my mock you know No but it's like there's just a contingent of Angels fans That just follow our accounts

Just to quote treat them and be mad And they shouldn't get to do that Let me let me know who they are Because I am like part of Angels Twitter I'll shut this down It's a lot of them And they reached out for jobs and stuff And it's like no you guys are a jerk

So unless I talk about them I got it guys Go Angels go Yeah Gag They're fun. Gak. They are fun.

They're, they should, like, you wanted them to be this in 2020, like since Otani came over and Trout and Rendon was there. And they kind of were in splashes, but it was really the Otani show

with Trout getting hurt. Now it's like, especially with Ward. And, I mean, and the fact that they're stealing. Nevin is, I mean,

that was when Nevin got the job with the Angels because we know Nevin from his Yankee time. I texted him. I was like, hey, you had zero top 100. sprint speed guys last year on the Yankees. You have seven now. And he was like, I am very excited.

Just going to be like, go home, go home. Keep running. Keep running. That guy's got a good arm. Don't care. Go home. If they went 500 the rest of the way, the Angels would be an 85 win team.

You play just a little over your head. And you know, that first month puts you in a great position. Good job, Halos. Now, we talk about supplemental pieces, going up for teams. Boston Red Sox have not had that whatsoever. The Angels have right now. Currently,

they have seven dudes with an OPS Plus over 100. And they got Joe Adele, who's in the minor leagues rehabbing. He left with a 97 OPS Plus and Stasi, the catcher, 91 OPS Plus. They could join the Dodgers. Wow. The LA OPS Pluses.

Okay. But they're getting those supplemental pieces. Tyler Wade's doing. it. Taylor Ward obviously has like the has better numbers than Mike Trout. I mean, if you get guys like that putting up offensive numbers like this, I mean, this is

how you that's how they're in first place. I don't care what the pitchers are been doing, bro. They've been doing all right. I also, I care about that. I do. I care about everyone. A man, who cares? Who's getting awards? Go to the second half of the show. We got standout performances to give out.

We got Slump Watch and Fuego. rewards and elevator talk. So I will play our soundbite that I always play to pivot us to the show. Me, I'm cooling, man. Okay. Stand out performance. I got to go first.

Yeah, sure do. Oh, I'm taking our dude Pablo. He got a pedal recently. And then I was a little, you know, I was like, do you not want the pedal, Pablo? Like, are you neglecting us? Are you kind of spitting in our face? Because he went out and had his worst start of his season after receiving J.M. I think he was in purgatory when that happened.

I think it was pre-episode he started. Maybe he was. So he was nervous about the pedal. But now he goes his best start of the season against the Padres, a winning team. So it was, you know, who won three other games this series. He goes, eight innings pitched, zero earned runs. 97 pitches. So good for Pelo, one of the fishes that had arms this weekend,

down in San Diego. Where to go, Pablo Lopez. Proud of you. That's my standout performer, Pablo Lopez. He is fun to watch pitch, too. Some of his balls do some things. You're like, why is the ball doing that? Shouldn't happen like that.

So go Pablo. Jake. That's a good pick, Jimmy. Thanks. You know, I appreciate it. Yeah, really nice outing. If Booney keeps yelling at Dom today, he's going to get ejected again,

and our day's going to get ruined. We'll have to make a breakdown. That's going to be funny. So Booney. Calm down, Boone. Don't. That's a great one. I was looking at the standouts.

I saw a couple guys I liked. I actually had Brandon Lau highlighted, and then I said, oh, no. Oh, no. Oh, no. I asked you. you guys for permission on something. And it was granted.

And I thank you. Jimmy, I'm taking Merrill Kelly. 8.2 innings pitched. One earn run. 8K, 7 hits, one outing. You know, that, I think his start would be the best in your J score. Because he went 8.2, so he gets those late innings. I'll let you start crunching the numbers over there.

I think I might, like, I think the guy rigged it up so I can always check on it. But then Jim, Zach Gallen, our guy, were close friends with his family. We saw his dad and brother so briefly in Philadelphia. Seven innings shut out. Seven Ks. Okay, okay. And then Zach Davies. Slinging 80-mile-per-hour fastballs with a Bugs Bunny change-up.

He goes 6.1-0-urn-run 6Ks. the three-headed snake majesty this weekend that again would have led them to a sweep if not for Mark Melanson's hate for me. Pure unadulterated hate. Snakes with arms, man. Three monster starts. Take that Kelsey's Rocks.

Who is approaching Colm a Q territory? Chris Woodward. Oh yeah. That would not be like a fun dinner to go to. I would not enjoy that. us and Woody and calling the queue Oh

Okay, yeah It's kind of nightmare fuel for anybody I'd have some fun I would not Woodward Is it my turn? Yeah I am going with a guy

And I told you Uncle Raj You guys know my Uncle Raj Stud ball player Had a dog named Moogie growing up So when Moogie bets got into the league You were like that's my talk I always paid attention to him

And then people were starting to tell me this guy is really good. Like could be like one of the better players in baseball. I was like, no, man, come on. And then he got on the field and he started to play and he's been one of the better players in baseball since he's arrived. He goes two for five with a homer, a double, and five RBI's, B.I.

He's been hitting lately, guys. He's got it back after a slow start. Last 15 games, he's hitting 13 of them. The Dodgers have won 11 of those games. A bunch of crooked numbers in the hit column as well. got his OPS back over 800. We know we love that mark. The 800 mark is where you start to see,

okay, that's a guy guy when you got the eight in front there. So shout out, Mookie. Like the Dodgers, freaking needed it. But he's getting it going. And it's coinciding with some winning. I think the Dodger won six in a row, seven in a row. But once he's back and doing his thing, like we always know he can and always does,

and just adds fuel to the fire. I don't know, man. I have a hard time seeing anybody winning the World Series other than the Dodgers besides the fact that I picked the Brewers to do it. You ever added fuel to a fire?

Like standing over fire and just like spray some fuel on there? It's wild. I have. Feel powerful when you do it. Jake's pretty good fire pit king. Thank you know. And then he tapers out

and becomes a bad fire pit king. Because he never stops putting stuff in the fire pit. I am a fire king. Yeah. Well, it's always about the oxygen flow. You have to have the oxygen. flow. Yeah. I get in there. He's great. But when it's like the when it's like you can relax now,

he just, it's just not like now the mattress is in. Oh yeah. Don't do that. You get the colds all hot. Like there's so many things. We did the mattress once. The fire department came on time. We were at that time. I remember Treve. That's funny. You were following him because you, your uncle had the dog named Mokey. I remember I was talking to Rod who was talking to Poppy and he saw this kid playing on the backfields and he was like Poppy said his name is Mooky Betts and Rod just turned to him and he was like but Poppy

can he play baseball and Poppy turns back to Rod and he goes can he play baseball nuts Do you have that full sound bite? Mookie baby good pick Trud I said can he play baseball I said can he play baseball Marcus

Oh okay with a K with a K yeah that's Mookie's name yeah his name is mookie bats i said poppy can he play baseball he said man can he play baseball his name is i've edited a lot of videos in my day it's probably in my best edited video ever it's an all-timer i had a i had a teacher back in the day yeah okay you say can i go to the bathroom i don't know can you piss your pants oh yeah i can like i think about that all the time so i guess he's a really good teacher.

May I use the restroom? Mother may I? All right. Travis, see ya. I'll run through it real quick for everyone. Are you ready? We got a couple claps to give out. Our dude Salvi Perez was on slump watch.

We said Salvi, that's not you. He goes four for nine with a double. He's off. See you later. Salvador. All right. And then, uh,

there's one more. Yeah, one more off. It's a 500 slug. Francisco Lundor, three for 14, a homer double, three RBIs.

He's off. Mets are winning. Good vibes. Two claps. Two claps. Then we have Gio Orchella on there. He goes one for seven. It is a double.

He does have an RBI. He only strikes out once, but he's not off. Trent Grisham. one for 13. It was a triple. Also two walks. You wish like, you know, the two walks are nice.

Just get one other hit. Would it helped? I have a sale, Garcia. He goes two for 11 with the walk. So they're on for now unless we want to put other people on. Okay with that. Jack Peterson coming back from the IL, right? He was banged up.

I don't know if he officially went on the IL. Yeah, because it's kind of quick. But he still, I'm not going to put him on slum watch because he banged up. Okay. Yeah. He goes 0 for 13. No. Okay.

Not fair. They were, yeah, no. Yeah. Not. Eddie Escobar. He's my streaky king. Like, I can guarantee he's off slump watch next week, but he almost doesn't need it. You don't think so?

Like, he's going to get off. Like, I can almost lock that in. I really, okay, okay, so we're not putting him on. Fine. He doesn't need her help. He doesn't need it. Lord Escorial Jr. He goes over 13 with two walks and five K's.

Oh, no. Austin, Riley, O for 11, two walks, five Ks. And the Braves won the series. the series and Riley didn't hit, like he's automatic on for me. I need Riley back. The only part that gets tricky here is we have the guerriel boys. Lord of San Yule. They're both on?

Yeah. Oh, wow. So that's where, I mean, I think we got to choose a brother. Really? Yeah. I'm partial to Yuley. In which way? I think he's nine years older and I'm 10 years older than my brother.

So it's like I'm rooting for him. He's already got little brother just, better than him all the time and like he should get more credit for teaching him all the stuff that he knows but he doesn't so partially yule so yuley's going on slump watch yep okay and lordess you're out done done good luck to everybody huh dark nasty's on fuego that means i'm on fire baby like wakeo in fuego are you ready i'm ready and then beavers i don't have kelsey's sound butt yet so be ready for that one ready Mani Margo stands tall at 511, maybe.

Goes 5 for 11 on the series with three homers. Way to go, Mani. He was, uh, and I got flashbacks to coach ball game on the World Series couch. Mani Margo when he's fire, it is fire, man. Ronald Acuna Jr. He also goes five for 11 with two homers and a double. Uh, so he's on foiego. And Braves fans win.

So, like, vibes have to be really changing. Let me know, Ashland. Fran Milraeus, 9 for 14. That's the most hits over the weekend. 643 batting average with a homer and a double. Mani Machado, 7 for 13, two bombs. Pete Alonzo, two bombs, same game. Also had double down the line in the combat game.

He goes 7 for 13, or 5 for 12, sorry. Jose Al-Tube. He goes 7 for 14 with two homers and Jean Chigora. seven for 10 with a homer Enfuego Inge in the hit machine Should let you know that Manny went seven for 13 With two homers

Also three walks on the weekend He's he would be your NL MVP As of today He's good Which brings us to our next We need more Manny Machado We need more Manny Machado We need more Manny Machado

Like interviews and stuff like that Like he's feeling it so much I want to get like peek inside of his brain right now Let's dissect this motherfucker Do it Literally. Yes, has to stop with the close-ups on Gallo. They just did like a bizarre one.

Awards. I have three awards that I'm giving out. I'll be quick. The first is the of age award. So it goes to Taylor Ward, who is now of age. He officially has the qualified at bats or played appearances

you need to be considered a leader in a category. and since he has that and he's qualified now, his baseball reference is riddled in bold because he is now qualified. He leads the league in walks, batting average, on-based percentage, slugging, OPS, and OPS Plus.

He is your Triple Crown winner right now. And it's insane. So congrats to him. Now the pressure's on. Now you've got to keep it. It counts. You go to real jail now. I'm giving the Give Him Away award to Tyler Stevenson.

He's a catcher for the Reds, who is really good. And catchers around the league stink at hitting. And he is really good at hitting. And the Reds have him, and it's a waste. And I think they should just give him away to a team that can use him. Yeah. For nothing. You mean like a rookie?

Yeah. He's got like seven years. He's got like seven years of control. He's in like his second year of ARB. Give him away. And not even in ARB. He's in team control. Just give him away.

What do you need them for? You're going to trade them later, just a salary dump I-Uhenio and get nothing in return. Do I hear a Reds and dump? Yeah. And then the Max Fried Award. He's the only lefty to beat the Dodgers. The Dodgers are 9 and 1 against lefties. They just face six lefties in a row.

Went 6 and 0. So if you're looking to bet, you see the Dodgers facing a lefty, bet the Dodgers. But Max Fried stumped them, seven innings pitch zero and runs. Only lefty to beat the Dodgers. It's too handsome. So what's your award? I gave out the of, age award, the give him away award, and the Max Freed Award.

Wow. Max is just too good looking to concentrate. Yes. Jake, your award? James, my award is the declare for the draft. You know, we see it in, you know, the NBA or NFL, you know, guys declare for the draft. They sign with an agent, you know, the point of no return. and we've talked a lot on this show.

You know, a future episode that's already become a fan favorite that I've referenced is when we draft organizational coaches. You know, we talk so much about the San Francisco Giants coaching staff. We can't stop talking about them. And, you know, there's just a lot of good coaching staffs around baseball. I just got a DM during this episode saying the Guardian's hitting is linked to their hitting coach, and they've got a totally different approach. We love coaching, Trev.

It's revolutionizing the game. In my desert, we play for rings in the desert. The Arizona Diamondbacks, as I highlighted three of their starting pitchers, they are second in starting pitching ERA after a month into this baseball season. Merrill Kelly has been nails. Zach Gallin is just a stud, I think. Zach Davies is out here, throwing changeups over the dish. Mad Bums off to a nice start.

Even Castellanos, our guy, gave us a good one the other day. You know who went over to the snakes this offseason? He's a name that's been around in the baseball. Anamonopoeia, wrong word, for a while. Ler? Lexicon. Lexicon. Brent Strom. You probably remember him

as the Houston Astros pitching coach. There was some sticky stuff linked, and that's okay. That's okay. There was some sticky stuff all over the league. And your socks on that road trip. It brings us back to the road trip. But Uncle Brett basically went over the debacks

because he was like, I'm going to, like, retire. But he's like, I still like baseball a lot. So can I be your team's pitching coach? And the snakes were like, Yeah, dude. His retirement job is just the same job somewhere else. Same job just in Arizona. I love it.

I mean, that's why I'm retiring to the D-BAC's front office one day. But Brent Strom, who gets credit for a lot of those Houston Astros pitching staffs, guess what? He's now in Arizona and they're starting pitching, which is not, wasn't expected to be a top two starting pitching ERA after the first month of the season. They're shoving. So we love coaches.

Shout out to Uncle Brett, getting it done for the snakes in the desert and those pitchers who are listening to him and dropping dick every week. Speaking of dropping dick, you mentioned the Cleveland Guardians hitting coach. Do you know who it is? It's not Pedro Ostacio. Do you remember Mortal Kombat, Pat? Who? Mortal Kombat Pat Velika.

Yeah. His brother Chris, who was my friend, why I was sleeping. keeping over at his house watching Mortal Kombat. Chris Falayca. No. Or of the Reds and the Cubs fame is now their hitting coach. So shout out Chris. We played travel ball together my entire adolescence.

Good guy. Reach out to him. Ask him what he's doing. What are you doing? What are you doing? I'll taste other dudes. Yeah, I will. All right, I got an award.

I'm going a different way with this award. Usually we talk about the big leagues here, but the show is called talking baseball. I actually feel like I have to talk about this a little bit. Okay. Your snakes play for rings in the desert. My snakes play for rings in the valley. I told you guys a lot of baseball going on for me.

And as a coach, I'm in it with these kids. And I've heard that this division that we're in, when you're young like this, there's a lot of weird stuff going on. I saw a lot of coaches doing stuff I did not like. And I feel like I'm going to take a page out of Coach Ball Games book here. Coaches. If you're coaching youth sports, the only job you have is to instill values into these kids,

make sure they have fun, make sure they want to come back and play. Too many coaches I'm seeing, they know who they are. You listen to the show guys, you know who you are, yelling at the kids. These kids don't respond to yelling. They do not. They're just going to be terrified. They don't know how to play the game yet. So don't expect them to know how to play the game yet.

Just encourage them. This goes to all coaches out there and parents and dads and moms who are teaching their kids. Encouragement is the only way when they're this young. That's the bottom freaking line. We had guys trying to get, like it's coach pitch. They were trying to get their kids out on purpose so they could get to the next inning where you could score infinite runs. Like, it's a joke. And I can't sit here idly and not call it out.

It's about the kids. It ain't about you. when your kids are this young, just make sure they're having fun. My goodness. Guys, I've been so upset at certain points during the season watching these other coaches do it.

And I have called them out. And then my last game, I had to tell the other coach, chill out, dude, chill out. And I want to make sure that, because I know a lot of parents listen to this game, a lot of other coaches listen to this game.

Let's make it fun for the kids. Let's encourage them because that's what it's all about, dude. It's a fucking game. It's a fucking game. and you are coaching Pinto at a youth field, bro. You're not Tori Lavello jumping the rail because you're athletic

going out and trying to get the umpire. You ain't that guy. You're a Pinto B coach, dude. Relax. And that's my award, the Relax Award. Relax. It's ridiculous, dude. I can't.

Every other week have a, No coaches practice. That's what I would say. Okay. If they're old enough for that. Or are you just, the coach is just sitting in the dugout and you say, you guys make the game and make the substitutions and pick your own teams.

That's because like sandlot ball doesn't exist anymore. Like just going to a field and playing. Yeah. It didn't even exist when I was a kid. I mean, I played like whiffle ball and shit and we would go like throw BP to each other. But I think, I think little like when you're 10, 11,

watch them and they'll make like changes and be nice to each other and not be like this like competitive spirit. I think it's always cool. I love that and hockey they would do that too. No, no coach practice. You guys do whatever you want. I have a something off of that. So I told my kids, and I'll make this quick, sorry. I told my kids that, hey, like I can't be the one out there saying, hey, pay attention, pay attention. I can only say that so many times where I lose my freaking mind. You know, these kids are seven and eight years old. They're not going to pay attention all the time. So I said, you know what, guys, you can be, you can hold yourselves accountable.

You know, if you're paying attention, you see one of your teammates not paying attention. You could say, hey, come on, like be baseball ready. I thought, I was like, dude, that's genius. I don't have to say anymore. Well, first inning comes around. Every single other kid, every single kid is looking at the other kid telling them to pay attention. So I hear like, Ashton, pay attention. Teddy, pay attention.

Meanwhile, none of them are paying attention to the game. They're all looking to see who isn't paying attention. So if you're a coach, don't do that because that backfired on me big time. You know what gets me fired up? Soup. It's about three hours before the game. Trev takes a shower. He's slicking back his hair to be intimidating coach Trev.

He's like, if that other coach acts up today, I'm going to say something. And then he gets to the field. That other coach starts acting up, and Trev says, hey, baseball is fun. You know how I know? Eight years in the league, bitch. It's, I wish I was more vocal. I just, like, don't.

I can't, because I know I'll get, like, real upset. But I did have to tell the guy last game to chill out. Yelling at his first baseman, like, he didn't, like, have the right footwork around the base. I'm like, dude, he's seven years old. His name is Duke. All he wants to do is just run around and play. Ball, bro. Yeah.

Name is Duke. Jay could have been a Duke. He was a stud. He was making plays, too. So I went over to him. This really pissed at coach. I was, hey, Duke, you're doing a great job, bro.

To the kid? Yeah. Oh, that's fucking fine words, Jeff. Better not have been his son. You get knocked out. It wasn't. Okay.

No, I wouldn't get knocked out either. Yeah. Duke's figuring out the footwork at first. So is like Schwerber. Her name is Duke's, and he's never missed a game. That's okay.

You guys run. hop on the elevator. Mm. Best friend? Best friend of the week is? Max. Max Reed. First repeat winner of the season.

Seven innings, one run, 8Ks. Four hits and a walk. Him and Walker. Mm. Walker Bueller, man. Too easy. The game looks too easy for him.

Yeah. It does. I'm spinning the wheel. I'm spinning the wheel. I'm spinning the wheel. Bill has spun. The Diamondbacks, they got a lot of awards. Should we still do them in the elevator?

I'm pretty familiar with the team. Yes, too. Let's talk about them. All right, let's talk about them, Jake. You just heard a lot about the pitch. What's up with Seth Beer? You just, I think I'll have myself. I'll be here.

Jim, I told you a lot about the pitching staff. Maybe I'll tell you what's going on on the other side of the ball. And we're just having fun out there. Dalton Varsho, our short king. Lies about his height, sure, but he hits. the ball. He's got an 800. OPS over 800. Paving the Smith paves the way on certain days for the offense. Catell hasn't even really started going once he starts going. Nick Ahmed, looking for more gold gloves at shorts up. And Alec Thomas, Trev mentioned at the top,

young stud. That's probably where you go with your elevator talking like, hey, you see, they called up the kid. They got seven games against the Dodgers in the month of May, but the rest of them are teams that they've beaten already, can beat again. So I'm excited for them there. Survive. Baby pitch and who's their hitting coach? Maybe it needs the little Jake to go out there. Teaching the blitzball swing, maybe, Jake.

I don't know. Lock that knee, don't step, and just put it in play. And maybe let's talk about Zach Allen's career a little more. 55 starts a 3-22 ERA. Not so many people can clap back to jazz chisholm either. And he did clap back to jazz chisholm. It was pretty good. Jazz hit a home run this week.

Jake sucks. No hat. Kevin's somewhere in a hat says his hairless right. He says he's not normally a hat guy. He just had him found a haircut place in New York, yeah.