Talkin' Baseball (MLB Podcast) - 487 | Yankees and Astros Stay Hot & Angels Continue to Have Fun

Episode Date: May 13, 2022

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Hello and welcome to talking baseball. What a week it was. Yankees stay hot. Astros are the hottest. Angels are the most fonding. NL doesn't exist. Let's talk some ball. Hello and welcome to talking baseball presented by seat geek.

My name is Jimmy. His name is Trevor, Jake, and Zach on the ones and twos in the office as BBD. is doing bug bug bug dude stuff. So killer Zach, the Z man, filling in behind the dish. Jake, how are you doing? Can you tell us more about Zach's vibe? James, Trevor, killer Zach, everyone live in the chat.

Zach's good. Zach's good. It's one of those, you know, Zach can rock a hat, but when he doesn't and he lets his hair fly, it's kind of a reminder like, oh yeah, he's got that in the bag too. Trev, the only guy wearing a hat today.

We're good over here. Good office vibes today. A lot of Yankees, a lot of Mets fans are happy. Sounds like there's a crew going. They said the Jam Mets crew is going to a game tomorrow, and I said, that's not true because there is no Jam Mets crew. You're fired. Dunked on.

Yeah. And then there's another funny joke that I can't make on air, but I can't wait to tell you afterwards. So times are good. Our Yankees are incredible. They're friends out west. Is it 2017 all over again? Trev, live to you in the hot box.

The office vibes here are stellar as well. It's me and I'm in a good mood. That means our office isn't a good mood because I'm here by myself. As people know at Magnum Condom Studio, Friday episodes are my second favorite episode. I like the Monday better. But, you know, when it's Friday

and we're looking at the weekend and we're like, hey, you're here, buddy. those are also good vibes. A lot of good series going on this weekend, but we're not here to talk about those guys. We're here to recap the series that happened during the week. And I'll tell you this, there is a National League. It does exist.

And this guy right here is going to let you know all about it today. James, what are you doing, man? What's up with that basket, that collection of baskets behind you? Yeah, I got a lot of baskets behind my head. I don't know, just like a ton. I'm at my kitchen table because my basement or my home. like home offices flooded, uh, and, and I'm out.

So I don't know. I don't even know if like we have redoing that anywhere close to the agenda. So I, I really don't know what my situation is where I'm going to work from home anymore. So if you start hearing some guys like banging on hammers and nails or whatever, I'm, I'm trapped today. I got lands. Yeah. And, you know, whatever that word is come in and.

Jimmy getting some more work done on the moat. Trevor getting some work down on the side of his castle, uh, me and news. just licking each other on Jeff Passon Day. No, it snuck up on us, Jim. You know, we're pretty busy, and you know, I also have a bad brain. But I saw May 13th, and I said, is it? And then a quick Google of Jeff Passon Day will show you. It is May 13th.

So I will be talking the whole episode as Jeff Passon. The Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim actually might be the Los Angeles Angels of the world. Show Hey Otani is changing the game. Global. Global. Why is it Jeff Passon Day? Why is Christmas on the 25th?

Why is Thanksgiving a day? Why? That was because they're trying to unite the South and North up in Civil War. I mean, that's kind of what you're doing. I still want to know why it's Jeff Passon Day. Friday the 13th, a little scary, spooky. All right, fine. I'm a little scared of Jeff, although if I think if I, like, hung out

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MLB trademarks used with permission. And yeah, I forgot my bet of the day went out today too. So just a run in the first inning, Anaheim in Oakland and the Angels to win. So, you know, Shohay, Trout. Got a winner last week for the people, so not a big deal. Ha, awesome. Hmm.

Massing. Kumar Rocker, signs. Yeah, that's the big news. Frontier Tri-City Valley Cats. Yeah. My brother played in that league, the Frontier League. Is he going to, like, does he need to buy time before he can, an MLB team can sign him?

Yeah, he's got to go into the draft next year again. Sears draft, yeah. Okay. Again, why is it Jeff Passing Day? Because the pandemic was happening, Trev, and we needed to sell. celebrate anything. So we made it.

Jake did the people of service. What you're talking about? And gave them Jeff Passon Day. Is that when you dressed and did the whole thing? That's why we're doing it. Oh, my God.

Yeah, it was Jeff Passon. Okay. It's the third Jeff Passing Day in the history of Jeff Passing days. Here's what was that long ago. Here's what I know. It's 2020. Jeff Passing Day is today.

Jimmy says, that the NL didn't even happen this week and you're telling me something different. So I'd love to find it. You're going to like some of the outcomes, James. You're going to like some of them. I texted you guys. I said, I said, I have the AL this week. So if I find myself watching an NL game, I am up for like a punch in the face. Because it's not

what I'm presenting to you. Presenting the AL. So for me, the NL didn't exist, which stinks because I like, I've been enjoying flipping the Mets games when they're on. Let's just figure out what happened in the NL. Treb's going to let us know. Zach's going to hit the tune. It's like the baseball. Boogie, Zach, I think, on the soundboard. I've got it, ready to go. Let's do it, Treb. You got four minutes on the clock. You better start yapping. What is good, my people. We're going to start up in San Francisco, Gabe Capler's, Giants, you know what they did? They swept Kelsey Wingers, Wingers, Rockies. Oh, my goodness,

the Giants are getting healthy. It went 8-5, 9-2-7-1 Giants. The Giants hit. They pitched. They did everything. The Rockies on a little bit of a slide there. Rodon, six innings pitched two-run runs with 12 freaking Ks in game one. Dubon was kind of all the offense there for the Giants. Three hits with the two-run home. I think he had a double as well. The second game, Wood goes five and one-thirds with only one-earned run. So another just absolutely great. pitching performance for the Giants and then Cobb does it again in game three five and a third one earned run I think the story really was like I said giants are getting healthy longoria returns to the IL they got weighed back a week ago they got belt back on Saturday I believe so here we go the Giants are healthy it's what Gabe was telling me when we saw them they sweep the Rockies and they're keeping pace with those bad boys up at the top of the NOS the Dodgers and the Padres

speaking of the Dodgers what is you doing baby They go into Pittsburgh and they lose the series. The pirates take two of three from them. Five-one pirates in game one before the Dodgers came alive. And second game, one, 11-1. Then it was five three pirates in the rubber match. The story of game one was Kintana. He went six shuddy endings.

He's the first pirate starting pitcher to record a win. They've been doing some funny stuff. They're not letting their guys go super deep into games. But Kintana gets the win there. And you know what, Jack Swinsky, congrats to you on your first career home run. Game two, Gonsland, my guy, Cadder Day, five shuddy innings. I told you he was going to be good.

Justin Turner got hot in that game. And then the Pirates take the rubber match. I want to talk a little bit about a Dodgers pitcher once we get past all this. Pepio, got a change up. It looked really nasty. Our guy Volgoboc hit the go-ahead home run in the seventh inning of that one. Pirates take two or three from the Dodgers. Moving on, the Mets,

went up into the nation's capital and they took two of three for the nationals because of course they did. They were a very good team. Four, two Mets, eight three nationals, four one Mets. In game one, cookie, six and two thirds, two earned runs. Patrick Corbin, though,

matched it with the five shutout innings, but Big Neal had the game tying double and Davis had to go ahead sack fly in the sixth. Game two, McGill, Jolly's guy, one in a third with eight earned runs. My goodness, Is he becoming a pumpkin? Probably not. He's really good.

Soto had two run home run in the first. Cruz had a three run home run in the second. That's kind of how the Nationals are going to have to do it. Walker in game three seven shutout innings, three hits. One walk, one Kana got it going a little bit. Mets take two or three from the Nationals. Down south, Southern California, near Mexico. That's where the Padres play. The Cubs went and visited, and they took two of three from the father.

Six-O Cubs behind a great. great performance by Kyle Hendricks in game one. Padres win 5-4 game two before the Cubs won the rubber match seven to five. I mentioned Hendrix doing it in game one. Our guy Ian Hap, RBI single and the fourth, RBA double in the eighth. He's going to be a hundred million dollar player. Ian Hap, we love you here, buddy. Game two featured Clevenger and Wade Miley.

They pitched okay. Machado had to go ahead. RBI double in the six. Voigt hits his first two home runs as a Padre in. game three, but they lose that one. Cubs take two or three from the Padres at home. And moving on, we go Brewers at Reds. And Brewers, what is you doing, baby? Reds take two or three from then. 10-5 Reds, five, four Brewers. Before that last crazy game, it was 14 to 11. Reds. We'll talk about Yelly and what he's been doing. Woodruff, tough start for him in game one. Peralta comes back

with a good start in game two for the Brewers. Before Hauser kind of has a iffy start in game three, and there was a lot of runs scored there. Reds take two of three. And the last series, the Marlins at Jake Snakes. Jake Snakes take two of three from them, four three D-backs, nine three D-backs, before the Marlins won the last game, 11 to three.

My time is running out, and we'll go into the games a little bit longer, and that is what happened in the NL. It does exist. Fantastic. I can't hear the music still, but I'd have my time run. You're right on it. You nailed it. Great job.

Why can't I hear the music? Because Zoom. Because Zoom decides that it's going to just only tell you yourself if you're talking. Okay. So. Crompod? Well, I'll let you know. The standings did not shake up that much for Monday.

The Mets remain in first place. They were six games back. They're now six games up. Now they're six and a half in the east. Milwaukee remains in first place in the central on Monday last we recorded. They were two games up. They're now two and a half. So the Mets and the Brewers gain half a game in the standings.

The Dodgers remain in first place in the West. They were a game and a half up. They're now a game up as the Padres make up half a game. The Giants stay in third place. But they were three games back. And with their sweep, they're a game and a half back. So that West is. looking fun with all three of the top teams with 600 or above winning percentage.

So the Dodgers did lose, which is an interesting one. We can go in chronological order if you would like the first series you talked about was the Giants and the Rockies. My big note here is that the Rockies' home and the road schedule looks now about how we're used to it looking. they are 11 and 5 at home, five and 10 on the road. And that's kind of what we've come to know of recent

our Rockies teams or like, you know, not even recent, but that sweep, they were kind of like balancing out for the year. It wasn't as drastic as it usually as. And now we're like, oh, yep, that makes sense.

Yeah. And like I pointed to, I think this is what the Giants have been waiting for. You know, I know, I know Rocky's coming in town, you know, a decent record. I think they were sitting right around 500, a little bit above 500 coming to town. But I think the Giants know they're a better team than them, especially when they're

healthy. They got their guys back and they're starting to roll a little bit right now. So Rocky's offense didn't show up at all. I don't know if that's because of just the pitching or because, you know, we don't expect them to lead the league in hitting going forward. Connor Joe did continue with six hits in the series. So he's still going strong. But Giants showed up and I think did what we kind of expect them to do going forward against the Rockies. Definitely winning a series. Sweeping is much better. See if this gets the Giants full-blown going.

And yeah, the top four in the NOS are tough now with the Rockies drop into that final spot. And yeah, I don't know. Again, a lot of this comes down to some simple equations. The Giants were a little banged up. I mean, they had a lot of guy, whether it was, you know, Jock got banged up for, like a week. He's back now. Evan Longoria, our guy, Trev's guy guy, came to the Arizona house. Most money in the bank account, we think. So he comes back this weekend. Lamont Wade Jr.'s back. So, yeah, the Giants are rolling. Their offense has been, I don't know if sneaky good is the

right word, but their second and on base percentage, seventh and batting average. Top 10 in like everything, home run, stolen bases. So they're being the Giants on offense. They hit you different ways and kind of their pitching is the same same stuff rodon has been one of if not like the best pitcher in baseball uh their bullpen's got the funk out there so yeah we'll see uh they run into st louis this weekend and they go at colorado so we'll find out if if that rocky's home cooking comes back for them but g men 19 and 12 cobb and rodon is there you know two additions and cobb had i think it had a really weird start i forget he'll went like he didn't get out of the first inning.

It was like a lot of unearned runs and stuff, but too good in a row for him. It's interesting to look at that, you know, no web. And I'm like, what, Rodin and Cobbs looking like a completely new pitcher? He throws like five miles for hour harder. Yes. Webb goes tonight against the Cardinals.

That'll be a fun series this weekend. One thing Gabe did mention, he said, you know, it's not about having those starters back and putting them in a starting lineup. it's about having our depth of our benchback. He likes to be able to mix a match, you know, play the platoon splits, do all that stuff. And he believes that was paramount to their success last year, you know, being able to have guys in there when you need them to step up.

And, you know, guys did step up for them. You know, like Tyro Strato stepped up a little bit. But having his full benchback, he seems really happy. And, you know, got this. Remember that stat I gave in like the PPPs as the Giants pinch hitting last year or like their bench. players were just, it was unbelievable how much more production they got. So they, who was that? Was it Wade and Donnie Bairals?

Were those two guys last year? I think it was. I believe the stat I read was that they led to league and pinch hit homers and RBI. Their actual average and on base wasn't good, but they just like drag and dropped the homers. And it was pretty spread out. It was like six different guys all, you know, there was probably two big ones, but I forget fully what it was. We need to take a look.

it seems like there's been more pinch hitting going on throughout the league in this DH world we have now, like in the American League last year. I don't remember a lot of pinch hitting going on, but it seems like more and more teams are utilizing the pinch hit situation now. I think as teams fully punt on any production from the catcher, and that becomes a pinch hit spot, you're seeing that more. And then with the dead end balls,

you're kind of seeing more small ball around in the AL than we're used to. But I don't fully, I don't know the stats. If that's, it feels like that, Trev. I don't know. Someone can tell us the stats and we're wrong. Yeah, I'd say pinch hitting probably in general is down a little bit, but that's because there is a league that had pitchers hitting. So they were always getting pinch hit for.

So I think what you're probably seeing is more strategic pinch hitting, which is kind of the goal of pitch hitting in like moments where you would use it and you have a matchup and you can take advantage. So that's a that probably ties in to why the D.H is good. Let's move on. Dodgers go into Pittsburgh. Happy for Pittsburgh, but I'm also pissed to them because they sent our guy Cole Tucker down.

I talked to him last night, you know, not an easy situation to be in as a player, but he'll be okay. Some interesting notes here that I thought of a little bit. You know, I know the Dodgers lost two or three here, but like a guy they needed to get going kind of got going, Justin Turner. which is a bright spot for them. I just saw in the chat,

our guy Jack Swinsky of the Pirates, his first career homer in game two. I guess he had another one. So two career, first two career homers against the Giants or the Dodgers. That's a nice way to start your career off, right? Yeah, nice one to have. The bullpen did the Dodgers in, it seems like.

I mean, Eurias gave up 11 hits, but only two earned runs. but the starters that were looking at it for the Dodgers didn't do bad so again NL didn't exist for him looking now Bickford and Erland gave up three earned runs in game one out of the Dodgers pen There's some good abats There's some good abats by the pirates you have to give them credit You know they use that right center field alley there

In Pittsburgh which really you know You can you can drop some extra base hits into there Game three Chainley Hudson and Gratterall combined for five earn runs So yeah Dodgers bullpen Come on, guys. And you only scored one running game one. What's that?

They only scored one running game one. I was just saying the pitching because the starters, the starters line looked good. Yeah, overall the offense during the series, not great for the Dodgers, but if you're seeing Justin Turner have the kind of a bats that he had, you got to be happy as a Dodgers fan, knowing that this is just one series and you're going to be fine.

You'd rather just get some guys going like Turner. I think they would have traded that in a heartbeat and said, hey, if you guys go lose two out of three to the pirates, but you get Turner going, I think they would say, sure, we'll do that. Pepio, spot start for the Dodgers. He actually got sent down already. But this dude's change up.

I think there's like more change that's being thrown in the league too, which I love. I always said that as a right-handed hitter, a guy that had a right-handed change-up on a right-hand hitter is such a good pitch. It's a very dangerous. It's a very dangerous pitch. If you miss up, you can hit that ball a long way. but if you can throw it out of the same arm angle and kind of have some arm side run to it, you know, down and in.

It's a very good pitch. And that's what this guy's change. It looks like Err Gagnier, like a left-handed slider. So that's something to look out for it. Like the Dodgers need any freaking more help. He did walk five guys, you know, got out of it,

three shutout endings in his debut. Pretty much it for that series. Yeah, the Mets and the Nationals, the Nationals, they actually get hitting out of their three guys. They get crews. Bell and Soto all hit, all get homers and RBIs and have a ton of hits.

But I think they got to McGill, right? We were at the Rangers game, Go Rangers. Ader and runs, yeah. And the hub hub in the seats behind us was that McGill got rocked. So on the flip side, Taiwan Walker got rocked his last start. So really good to see him have a bounce back start.

And Cookie Carasco is just, I think, been pretty good all year. Every time I look up, it's like he did, has a solid game log. I think he also got rocked once. So maybe the Mets pitchers, there's a theory, are just taking a turn, giving up eight earned runs, and then being good. I think now Cookie gave up eight, Taiwan gave up seven,

and McGill just gave up eight. So they're just like, let's all just have one blow up each, get it out of the way, and then move on. Smart by the Mets. It's not about that, you know, it's not about that ERA.

Blow it up, blow it up. Yeah, Taiwan Walker, there was a couple fun plays in that game, the double play where the ball looked like a snowball fight over the field. and Mets Penn, they get credit to. Only one run in 11 innings. Mets are a wagon.

A wagon. Somebody on our show this morning said, do you think they're going to trade for a bat to fill up that D.H. spot that a lot of, I think it's J.D. Davis and Dom Smith have kind of been in there, and they haven't got going yet. I don't think that they'd do anything like that. I think they like their team that they have right now.

And they're going to continue to use the DHS as kind of like a rest day. and mixing and matching and doing all that because they're firing. Like there is no reason for them to go and do anything right now. I wouldn't put it past Uncle Stevie to go try to better their club because he's a psycho, but. Well, they have to do something. I think just for like morale at the deadline, like just the clubhouse feels better when you go do something. But I was thinking, we haven't seen a trade yet. Usually like there's usually one or two May trades that are like small, but you get kind of.

Oh, wow. Almost trading already? We haven't had that yet, right? We got to train our brains a little bit. This would be like May 2nd. Okay. Like we're still, we're a month in. So I, you know, I love it.

Especially when we talk about our yanks. You know, Yankee fans are already talking postseason rosters and stuff like that. We still got a whole lot of baseball to go through that. I bet at the Mets at the deadline need something, you know, whether it's more pitching or a couple of guys. guys went down on the offensive side. But I love it, Mets fans. It's a dreamy time to be in New York.

Where's Nelson Cruz is going to be hitting? Where's Nelson Cruz is going to be hitting in August? Mets. Twins. Back to the Twins. Well, we heard rumors the Padres wanted them last year. So you never know. Maybe they ring that same bell.

He'll be somewhere. Speeter trades. I think that brings us into the next series Cubs and Padres since I just said Padres. but also Ian Hap, he's got this year and the next year. And like you said, Trev, he's looking great. The Cubs win this series. But I, I don't know.

I got my guy Hap or if he doesn't want to be traded, maybe I'll stop telling all. I'll text them. Are you interested in it? You know, because you can add a lot of value, man. So the Cubs do pick up too against the Padres. But the Padres get void back. They get Cleb back again.

I don't know. And the Dodgers lose. So I don't think it's that bad for them. with Padres. Sure, they'd like to win these games. I mean, you went up against a buzzsaw in game one, and sometimes that'll just happen. Hendricks will just pull a gem like that, man,

and just absolutely dominate like you did. Like I said, eight and two-thirds shutout endings with the seven Ks, only three hits and only one walkies. You just run into that sometimes. About Ian Hap, let him be where he's comfortable. I want this guy to just be like, he needs a moat. He'll have a moat soon. Sure.

You guys can be moat friends and talk about The alligators. They need a left fielder, though. So I'm not against it. Yeah. Hurdy's got some investments in St. Lucia. I don't know, Hap. Like, I could John Boy Media, St. Lucia.

We'll figure something out. Hmm. Figure something out. Figure it out, Padres. You lost a series. Bounce back. NL. West.

Snakes are on your ass. Hey, what's this? At the bottom, it says Padres will reportedly sign Robinson. Yes. Yeah. Yes. That's happening. I came out yesterday.

So that would be the only thing to the Nelson crew. thing there if Robbie finds a home. Yeah. But, I don't, I don't mind that move. I feel like it fits. Like,

you know, in that clubhouse, they don't, all they want to do is win games, a lot of alpha's there. Like, he kind of fits in that clubhouse.

Like, they don't care that he got popped twice now, right? Twice with Robbie Canoe. I think, I think he could actually help that team. Well, so we'll see how it.

We may have thought that about the Mets, too. It was pretty brutal. So he's got a hit. Got a hit. Change of atmosphere. It might be good for him. You know, I think that's a different type of clubhouse going from the Mets where it's like,

and I don't know, I'm not in the clubhouse, but outside perspective looking in, you got, it's a little more feisty and tense. And like you got Scherzer and Alonzo and, you know, even Little McNeil, I think beats up everybody in that clubhouse.

That's how I feel about it. You go over to the Padres. It's a little more fun. more like show if you will and kind of just like they're taking polar rides after the games they're dancing they're playing with the UFC dude paddy like i think that uh maybe he'll find a little bit more joyous energy here winning's fun yeah winning's fun everywhere i mean that's i'm not saying the metts have a bad clubhouse i think it's a different vibe than the podres how about this everyone says the meds clubhouse is amazing the pirates win a series against the dodgers the cubs

win a series against the Padres and the Reds win a series against the Brewers. NL Central fights back, baby. Let's go. It's just a reverse week. Yeah, there were some, there were some blowups by the pitchers with the Brewers.

I mean, I guess you got to give credit to the Reds offense for showing up there. Woodruff, tough start there, four and a third. He gives up the five Ernie's. We did get to see Castillo come in, which was kind of cool. made his debut

I think he I think I saw him striking out yelling in one of the highlights that I watched rude weird kind of game there the last game

it looked like the brew crew was going to go and snatch that one and then the reds just kept hidden they just kept going they didn't stop

so a little faulty series by the brew crew pitching I don't think they're too worried about the reds you know they're feeling themselves a little bit They got a little bit of momentum here, but I think Jake,

you're probably going to slap them a little bit and say, no, no, no, no. Opposite of that, actually, since Poop Gate, they are 5 and 2 when they've won their last two series. So, you know, we talk about managers and motivating of men and things like that.

I think we found it in Cincinnati. If you boys don't turn it around, there's going to be poop around you. And that's changed the tone of their season. Yes. I like that. Change their phone. season.

Maybe it was one of the players that was saying it. Shout out Brandon Drury for finding the home and kind of doing it. You know, he's been searching for quite some time. And I gave out a look of a good ball player. I gave out like three awards last week. And I had four. I don't think I said it. I had a Brandon Drury award because I was going to say the amongst shit award,

which is the whole poop theme. But yeah, big credit did Brandon Drury. I mean, that team cannot be a fun time right now. And he's a guy that's, you know, a DFA candidate or like a make or break candidate, it gets bounced around and he's taking advantage of the opportunity, even if the team isn't winning or the fives aren't great. Jory's having himself a great start of the season. So good for him.

Trade candidate, who needs him. He had a nice homer in the first game. We'll talk about Yally and kind of what he did a little bit later for sure. But, you know, you got to give Red's credit. They just hit and kept battling back. And that's not easy when you're on a team that was. at 1.3 and 20. So, go Reds go.

Am I on the Reds train now? Maybe. Choo, baby. Choo, baby. Big fan of poop. Jake, you got anything on Reds Brewers or you want to switch to your D-backs? You guys hit all of it. I put my analytics in there.

Yeah, Brandon Drury. Got a couple awards on this show in the past. Was good for the Mets last year. Sneaky, 51 games, 783 OPS. My snakes. I don't know what to tell you guys anymore. You guys always think I'm joking with my... You're always joking.

My jokes and my silly outfits and all this, that, and the other are snakes. We're playing a good brand of baseball. Take the first two games against the fish after taking care of them last. Alec Thomas, Trev's guy. Trev, you owe some of his cards yet? What's the deal? He hits his first ding-dong. We're playing a really good brand of baseball.

I do. I do have some Alec Thomas rookie cards. Who was the other guy I told you you guys were surprised It was a football player Oh Ben Danucci Got a lot of it Yeah

Got a lot of history Yeah More on that later Yeah Yes yes On the Marlin side of things They're now like Losing the bunch no

Dude look at the NLE standings It feels like deja vu All over again Like it's The NL East only has one team Above 500 And the NL West has Every team above 500

It's pretty weird to look at. The Mets are just distancing themselves. I mean, the Mets are up six games in the loss column and their division on what would be May 2nd, like Jake said. And this was almost a sweep for the D-Bex. Marlins came and just went gangbusters in the ninth. They scored eight runs in the ninth of game three to take the lead. Stallings.

who does he get any credit like in Miami for like what the pitchers can do like I know he was a gold Glover right but nobody talks about him gets tricky because he came over this year and a lot of those pitchers already had some street cred so I mean developing story but I think people are so over the fish and they just want to talk about America's team the Diamondbacks haven't lost this series in their last four nine and three in their last 12 anyway you chop it up this team's different Dalton Varsho lies about his height

very athletic manager in that eight that eight run ninth inning for the Marlin Stallings to go ahead single Chisholm and Garcia both three run Jimmy Jacks got to love that huge Cubs snake series coming out

for the teams that think they're getting or will the cubs think they're getting hot or would the snakes continue to be dominant Are the snakes looking like this is great We're going to trade everybody that's doing well Cubs are still 80s I want you to be serious about this Jake Cubs are still eight Garner are going to be out of there

Like is he going to go back to San Fran like what is he going to go somewhere Trev this is a hundred percent not a joke The Diamondbacks never thought they were rebuilding That's why they signed Mad Bum That's why they made moves It's a let's be honest It's a funky organization and it's kind of why we're attracted to each other.

We're kind of Vince Vaughn and the daughter, the sister and me, and a wedding crashers. Like, you know, we're both a little fucked up. Who's who? Who's who? Who's a little fucked up? Are you, you're definitely the woman.

They're Vince Vaughn. That's very clear. Not a virgin. I will be at one of the games. Yes. Snakes are coming to Dodger Stadium. Is Teddy going to wear his snakes gear? Of course he is.

Either Monday or Tuesday, I'll be at the game. So Snakes fans, I'll be rooting for you. You have Treve there, Pansom. Yeah. Yeah. No, not if he's with his son. But if it's like a solo bathroom trip for you, Trev, your free game.

That's, well, that won't happen. But okay. Okay. You go to the bathroom, dad. I want to watch the game, you know. We play for rings in the valley. They play for rings in the desert. We're a Diamondbacks company.

Everybody knows that it's a retool, not a rebuild. Thank you, Daniel Ramos in the fucking chat. I'm going to retool. They've just been going for. for it. Mad bum 6.1.2. Yeah, Madbom is, is having a good year, you know, after the um show where the whole world, there was a disagreement on a field and the entire baseball world was on Madbum's side. That's rare. Totally rare. And he's having a fantastic season so far. So good for him. The snakes are like that one guy that's, uh, he's like on

Twitter social media. He shoots, he shoots the basketball and misses completely, but like acts like he's really good. Swaggy P. Swaggy P. is his name. Well, no, that's not, that's a real player. This guy's not a real player.

But that's the snakes going for it every year. Just tossing it up. Rang drops, baby. It's like Brent Strom should have got an award last episode. Oh, he did. Like, come on, guys.

I mean, they luck into that. Brent Strom's like, hey, I'm retiring in Arizona. You want me to do your pitching coach a little bit? That's what it's all about. You create your own luck, man. I believe it.

Let's go to the AL, Jake. Is the A.L. Is the A.L. brought to us by Trev. Shady rays. I just put on my shady rays. I go from a four and a half to a hard five and a half when I put on my shady raise. And grade me on a scale of 1 to 10.

What do you think my looks look like? Shady rays, they give you every pair, Trev, backed by their lost and broken replacements. If you screw up, which a lot of people do, with their sunnies. Shady rays will take care of you. If you lose or break a pair, even on day one, they will send you a new pair. It's like the best offer in the biz. And reminder, and most importantly, look at me right now. I look like Yankees minor league coordinator, Jake Storelli, just bossing people around the field with this shirt. Do you have a watch on?

These Shady Ray's. Um, stop watch. Yeah. Uh, timing things. everything. That's what it is. And we drive this home with you guys because we love you. They're giving you the real deals. Shadyrays.com code talking 50% off. Two plus pairs of premium polarized shades. You're going to wear two pairs of sunnies this summer. Go to Shady Rays. Pick out two, three, four, five, however many you want. Code talking and you'll get 50% off. That's about half, people. I can't wait. We've been to some baseball games so far, Jake, this season,

but we have not been to a game where it's so bright and warm out that I need to wear sunglasses and I have a little gummy and I count male pattern baldness in front of me and I just watch some baseball. And that was like my favorite thing about last season. So I just can't wait. Thanks, Shady Ray's for making that possible. Thanks, Ray. Better than the $5 sunglasses, Jake and I got at the vendor outside of Yankee Stadium.

that were the darkest sunglasses is basically a prank. Yeah. You put them on and you're blind and I wore them all season. It's tough to see. Let's go to the AL. Zach, hit me with that baseball boogie.

Starting off in the AL, the Rays went to Los Angeles. No, they went to Anaheim to play the Angels and they lost game one. Cindergarde pitched well. The Rays did not pitch well. The names that you know, the one, two, three,

Marsh, Trout, and Otani combined for seven hits in their 12 bats, eight RBIs and eight runs. Angels blow them out in game one. In game two, they blew them out again, and they kept him to no hits.

Reed Detmer's in his 11th career start, tosses the no-hitter, allows one walk and one error, gets the walk into a double play, I believe, so good job by him. No-hit, alert the angels are fun they are a team that you put on your I need to tune in if my team's not playing list and do it fast the rays do salvage it they don't get swept they win game three

in 10 innings McClanahan versus Otani good pitching duel but they the rays come out ahead there the Yankees played the Blue Jays for a quick two game set the Yankees one game one six to five in a weird, bizarre game where Judge hits a walk-off. Blue Jays get ejected for no reason. It felt intense. It was actually a really good game.

The first batter hit a walk-off. The last batter hit a home run. The last batter hit a home run. There was ejections in the middle. There was a play at the plate. It was like a classic, everything you'd want in a game game. So good job by the Yankees and Blue Jays

were putting on a show. Yankees win game two. Tion versus Brillos. and Glaver Torres has five RBIs for the Yankees as they continue to roll. Best record in baseball. But the biggest winning streak in baseball belongs to the Houston Astros

as they sweep Trevor's twins. They have now won 10 games in a row and they've won 15 out of their last 17. The Astros are hot and it is being completely carried, in my opinion, by their pitching because the starters, since they've won to the six-man rotation,

have given them a good start every game. The only reason they have a half start here is because it got suspended. They have to finish it the next day. But the Astros starting pitchers, 056 ERA. Their relief pitchers were even just as good. 082 ERA. Twins get beat.

The Astros win. Verlander dances with a no-hitter himself. Some injury news for both teams. Pena goes on. Well, no, he didn't go on the IEL yet, but he's got knee discomfort. Cora. goes on the IL, as does

Haddock for the twins. So that'll change some stuff. The Guardians and the White Sox, they split like a two-game set because game three got postponed for COVID because the Guardians, the first game, the Guardians win 12 to 9. You've seen the highlights from this.

Nailer went absolutely crazy game-tying Grand Slam in the ninth. Go-ahead, three-run, home-run, on the 11th. You guys fucking feed him. Gialito, seven-nings pitch, one-earned run in Game two as the White Sox maintain and split what ends up being two games. Tigers and the athletics played five games.

It's had to be one of those weird ones where they filled in an off day because of the start of the season. Five games set between the two and the A's won four of them. I know Jake talked about the Tigers yesterday. Like, what's going on guys? You didn't think you were this bad, did you? And yeah, that should be like a three to two tiger series if you're going by like the math. But good for the A's for wins.

and they shut them out twice. They scored nine runs once. Five games, so I can't really get into too many of the any gritty details. The Rangers, they took two out of three from the Royals. Hearn had a really good start in game three, so I'm happy for our dude. Five shutout innings for Hearn. Also, the other Ranger starters did really good as well.

Perez, one earned run, and I believe Spear, two shutout innings in an opener situation. Good job by the. Rangers. Essentials. What's going on there? That's all. That's the whole thing. There's not that many.

Where is I on time? And here. I don't know. Perfect. Yeah. Can't hear it at all. You did it. You did great. All right. As for the standings in these leagues, Yankees now have a four and a half game lead

on the raise. They're in first place. The Blue Jays dropped to six and a half games back. Yankees have the best record in the division. The league and the division league and the league. Yeah.

Twins, they stay in first place, even though they got swept. White Sox and Guardians are both two games out. They're both 15 and 15. Twins, the only winning team in the Central. And the Astros, they jump to first place in the West. They've won 10 in a row.

They are one game up on the Angels and the lost column, half game up in the standings. And there's starting to be some separation between the two of them and then the Mariners and the Rangers. That's how the standings play out. Jake, do you want to lead us off? Where too, Jimmy? You're a L. Angels.

The angels are the story. They have a no-hitter. Otani. They lose game three, but Ward has a pinch hit, two-run, go-ahead shot. Rendon hits a home run lefty. You didn't even know, you know, Jake's always joking. Rendon is always sleeping and he's having fun out there.

He also made a nice catch in the no-hitter. Kind of like the only ball that is a simple catch. He jumped up and got it. It was like the hardest hit ball in the no-hitter that he snags. But yeah, the Angels are a fun team with the bats, with the running, with the pitching. It's everything.

Trevor, you got to see him live, right? We got to see him live. We saw game three. See, Rose and I went there. You know, it was a tough game for the race, and they've had a tough series. They had a 10-game road trip. That was their last game. They were heading back to Tampa.

You know, they're getting the win. McClanahan looked freaking filthy. You know, I think they're up to nothing. And then Taylor Ward comes off the bench, game-tying Homer. And the raise, all they can think about is, well, that just extended our travel day a little bit longer. I don't know what time they got in, but they probably didn't get into like, five in the morning, East Coast time. They did have an off day the next day, but that's one thing they mentioned.

We talked to a few of the guys, like, man, we can't wait to get home, especially after taking the pounding they did. The Angels are those first two games to them. And I know they lost the last game, but like, it's to come back, I know they lost in the 10th inning, but to come back on that game, it almost feels like a victory for them, because you know, like you can say, look, we can come back. Like, Taylor Ward, pinch hitting there and hitting a home. I think it was a two-strike pitch.

More confidence for that guy. Like this is, this is a team that is playing with confidence, as they should be. Now, people are going to hate this. Jake, you're on the Angels. You love him. James and I were not on the Angels preseason.

We've had to eat our words a little bit here, but it is still May 13th. The Astros have won 10 games in a row to keep pace for them. Is this going to be like a Giants Dodgers situation? where it's like eventually the Astros, whether it's in the postseason or whether it's towards the end of the season they're finally going to catch them.

Houston, you can't say at this point with Houston, you can't say no until it doesn't happen. You know, I was drinking the Angels Kool-Aid before the season. I was buying into the high-end talent. I was buying into enough pitching. And so far the formulas worked. And like you're right, you know, it's one month.

It's basically one month. I mean, it's a little over that now. But they're, they're just playing a fun brand of baseball. And I guess for the, for the elite teams, the, the Houston's, the Yankees, the Angels, so far this season, it's when adversity is going to hit these teams at what point this season is, is one of the big boys going to go down? Are you going to lose Trouter for two weeks? And then what does that look like? because right now, I mean, the formula is awesome. Look who comes up in the first inning for the Angels.

Like, it's insane. And they're pitching more than enough to get there. We thought this Tampa visit might be a little bit of a test. I think kind of like you're saying, end of a 10-game West Coast trip. I don't know if you're getting full steam from Tampa. And they rolled them in the first two games, which, hey, keep winning series

and keep those big boys hitting at the top of that lineup going because that's going to be enough to carry you at least into the playoffs. I think injuries, trade deadline, all of that will end up dictating who will win the West. But you don't just bet against the Astros until they get proven not to. Staying on the rays and the Angels, I said everything about the Angels. I think they're fun.

I think that I think they have staying power. I don't think I think the Astros are still the team to beat and talk about them at a later time. But I like the Angels. I think they're going to be in the mix for the season. I don't think it's going to be like a crazy fall. Guys they brought in, it's looking good. The Ray's on the other hand,

a team that I have been on record of being perpetually scared of and saying like I never count them out. Trev, I also believe in record against good teams and the rays have won two. games against teams over 500. That win against the Angels and one game against the twins. They are like two and eight or something like that. The race,

and they haven't played anyone in the AL East yet. Three games against the Orioles, three games against the Red Sox. They haven't played Toronto yet. They haven't played the Yankees yet. I'm hand up. I don't like the race. I'm scared of them.

I don't like them. And I also respect very much that they're going to be good at the end of the day. I'm so, and the Yankees still don't, we don't see them for a while. I'm super interested in what this race team is. I mean, they're still 19 and 13.

Like, they just get it done. And I think that's how we feel almost, I mean, that's how I feel almost every single year with the raise. It's like, is it going to happen again? they're going to continue to do this.

I talked to Cash before the game of game three. I was like, you guys do anything different? The same old story. There's like same old story, bro. Not much has changed in the way they approach games, the way they do things pregame. The Ray's going to Ray, baby. And so I think they'll be just fine.

Every time you look at their roster or their lineup, you're like, huh? But they find ways to exploit platoons and they just get it done. But the angels, you know, they took care of business. I do have a little bit of fear with the angel starting pitching. I don't know if it's going to be.

this good all year long. And that will be the one thing that would maybe bring him down in the race. But it's looking like James, this is going to be the team that you and I are going to have to eat our words on. You know what? That's fine because they're being so fun. I'm fine with that. They're being so fun.

Yeah. Like it's, I mean, squid looks great out there, made a bunch of fucking plays. Like, yeah. That's nice. That's nice to be of sharp like, you know, your middle infield. And they don't need offense out of him. Just go field the, feel the ball, dude.

I'm on record if Velasquez gets a, 125 games at shortstop. I think that kid wins a gold glove out there. It's special. I mean, he was getting, he was getting parsed out playing time, Baltimore, New York, everywhere he's hopped around, and he was still being special,

and that was without getting, like, the regular reps. You need to be. You need the wards and the Martian, the Otani and the Trout, to be carrying the offense, because he's not giving them much with a stick. Oh, nothing, nothing. Yeah, I'm not even talking about that.

I just, how special that kid is defensive. to get the 120 games, I'm saying. It's, yeah. He looks really good. I think Madden's the kind of manager that would just let him run out there. If you're playing solid middle infield defense. Yeah. If the other guys are hitting and they're winning, absolutely.

It's going to be like the future of baseball, especially when we start banning shifts, truly measuring how much a defensive shortstop with a 500 OPS. But if they're special, special, what kind of value does that bring? So that'll be future of baseball in a couple years. but we're having fun in Anaheim. And yeah, the raise, you guys, you hit every point.

It's, okay, are they 19 and 13? They got their brutal West Coast trip done for the season, and they're not fully clicking yet. They had a good West Coast trip. I mean, that's the best part of their season. Or are these rays, you know, a tick down from rays of past years, which I talked myself in before the season. I'm interested to see their numbers-wise.

They're not lighting anything up except stolen bases, first and stolen bases in baseball. So Ray's going to raise a little bit. Seven to three West Coast trip is really, really good. It's not really amazing. And by the way, McClanahan, I think, did he just miss out on awards this episode?

Not to give too much away. No, you might hear about it later. Yeah, we got to keep rolling. Yankees and the Blue Jays. It's only two games, so I don't, let's not spend too much time on it. Yankees are rolling right now. They're getting pitching.

The bullpen works. And then Judge, timely hitting, big through and home run. Judge is looking the best I've seen him look. And, and Glabors is the story with the clutch hitting. On the Blue Jays side of things, not much went wrong. Romano blew the save. He looked like he was having a very off night.

But Blue Jays fans, when I was trying to sing Romano's praises, Blue Jays fans were in the chat saying, eh, hold your breath a little. He has actually gotten lucky. So maybe that's what they're talking about. And wasn't his fastball down like two, three months? falls down like three miles per hour and the slider was just being hung and then and then burrios gets I didn't even realize it was burrios pitching when I was watching that game I kind of like

lost I was at the end jake and I were recap and I was like wait that was real I didn't even like put it together but I've been trying to tell trev as a yanky fan I'd never been scared of the guy I respect him against other teams but it just seems like this happens every three starts with the yankees just fucking blow him up well he had he he hasn't had a good year to start the year. And a lot of people have asked me, hey, can you fix burrios? Can you fix burios? I haven't looked at a lot of tape on him. Here's what I do know about him when he struggles. He'll leave pitches over the plate. And he'll, you can eliminate some pitches

sometimes on him. He's not having, you know, his slider working or his slurve working. Then he could just kind of sit on his fastball and that'll run over the plate sometimes. He can allow some big hits. Let me go look at the tape, get back to Blue Jay's fan, see if I can fix the guy. He's definitely someone they need right now. Two games above 500. I think there are two and seven in the last nine, three and seven, last 10,

if you want to go back, the 10. I think it's a little bump in the road for the boot chase. You know, I think this is a team that's 100% going to be there at the end of the season, you know, just a bad run of games for them. And the Yankees are hot. Fucking Yankees are hot. If they win, if San, if, excuse me, Judge doesn't hit that homer,

it could be different the next day. That's a momentum changing swing right there. And that place was fucking going nuts, dude. And Joe's McFly, by the way, an article in the fucking New Yorker went nuts. Classic reaction from Joe's, the Exorcist reaction. The Year of Joe's. The Yankee fans, the Yankee fans like to watch, watch the Yankees is what I'd say. Yeah, the Yankees numbers, everything lines up.

The feels are awesome. I think it's like 16 and 2 in their last 18 now. times are good that you've got me. I mean, my shorts are ridiculous. Yankee shorts right now. Shout out Tom Ace. Like it's peacock time for Yankee fans. Peacock time for Astros fans too.

Ten in a row, they sweep the twins. They jump back to first place. I know they're getting some awards or some standouts later in the episode and we're running a little long. So I think we just say they're really good. On the twin side of things, Treb, do you have anything? that the people should know. Correa, we talked about,

he's just trying to, I think they need some help on the bench. They wasn't on the aisle originally, so he's going to just take the last couple days of that off. You can retroact it, so he's trying to come back on the minimum time. The twins' starting pitching has just hasn't been what it was,

and I think that's kind of expected. If you look around, you know, the twins Twitter sphere, that's kind of what they're saying. It's like, look, we had a good run there. We couldn't expect it to last that long. and it's kind of just hasn't taken a nose dive, but the starters haven't been what they needed to be as of late.

Still in first place, White Sox coming, kind of looking like it's going to be a two-team race there if the twins can continue. But honestly, it wouldn't shock me if the White Sox just kind of ran away with a thing towards the end of the year as they get healthy as well.

I don't know. They're an odd watch right now. They are an odd watch right now. They play the Guardians. two games set Jake Naylor you love him barely know her

he's uh intensity passion i mean it's what i like in sports it's what i like in love making it's what i like in music like if you like you ask me some of my favorite songs they end up with like people screaming and like crying because i'm like yeah i like that that's emotion i know nothing about

music um yeah i mean what nailer did you might even hear more about him a little later but, man, Cleveland hitting. They're still going. We call them that pitching team, Chris Rose's pitching team, but holy smokes, they're still kind of hitting the hell out of the ball. Naylor's putting up a season now. And yeah, White Sox, man, we just got our first taste of them last night.

It wasn't too pretty. They do have a laundry list of injuries. But I don't know. I hated the Guardians coming into the season. How about this? I'm kind of ruined for them. shake it up. Show the big bad white socks.

They ain't it. Show the twins that their pitching's a mess. Like, go nuts, Guardians. You won me back and damn it, they didn't spend any money. That's why I hated them. So now I'm off him again. But you're on the players.

You're off the front office. Yes. Yes. I'm off the Guardians. I'm off the Guardians. I don't think they're going to be around towards the end of the year. I do like some of the players in their team.

Obviously, we know what they can do pitching the ball and they've hit. You know, they've had some guys have really good offensive years so far. The White Sox for me are, they're 15 and 15. I play horrible baseball. That's how I feel.

And White Sox fans in the chat, tell me if I'm wrong. I feel like they played horrible baseball. They've kicked the ball around a ton. They've had some injuries. They're still 500. How do you feel? I mean, the bullpen is kind of interesting. They were like, I think you drafted their bullpen or, you know,

they definitely were a bullpen that got sung a lot of praises by everyone. they've lost like two of the last three games. Like they've lost a lot of games. I think the names that you thought we're going to get it done aren't. And then like that game two after Gialito, the names that got it done. We're not who you're expecting. I don't know.

They're an odd watch right now. They obviously still have the talent. And then like Gialito gave you that outing and even the Kopeck in the game that they came back. Copac's been incredible. It's like. So, yeah, I mean, they're in a mode right now. We're one facet.

is going wrong. Yeah. And that facet is tanking the game. That's what it feels like for the White Sox. And it's always something different defense, not hitting, starting or relieving. So someone's going to tank us today. I'm not worried about their pitching.

You know, I know Hendrix has had a few hiccups there. Joe Kelly made his debut and, you know, got banged around a little bit. But, you know, that's why they went and signed Kendall Grave, which I still can't believe that, like, he went to the White Sox. this is before they got him before crochet was out but they still had kimberl at the time as well

uh like any other team could have just jumped in and what did he sign for three for 24 something like that three for 24 any other team could have went in and taken him and he's been like so i i think this white socks team is going to hit its stride they've like i said they've just been a it's been a tough watch they've uh treaded water enough. And then, yeah, you know, we got to get some guys back. O'Brien's kind of got to get it going a little bit there. And I'm really looking forward to our boy, Lance Linn. I don't, the reports are weird on him. They think it's going to be another month, but we'll see. I'm still high on them.

Okay. Tigers and athletics, they play five games. Where were you when the Tigers and Athletics met for a five game set? man, I'll say this, baseball fans, go check out, if you think your team is struggling, go check out some of the Tigers' offensive numbers. It's disgusting. I feel bad. I mean, there's a lot of bona fide MLB studs. They have only one guy with an OPS in the sevens.

They're kind of having their own seven-year-old birthday party, Austin Meadows. They're last in slugging. They're slugging as a team 302. I had my guy, Drew Davis from the Blitzball Battle, my guy, my godson. He sent me a screenshot from Jimmy Norp, huge Tigers fan, MLW legend. And I said, oh, thanks, me. Because he's a little scared to come in the warehouse. But, yeah, I mean, the Tigers are kind of just a sad, sad offense right now.

They were relying on some young guys to carry that offense. It's never really a good idea if you're an organization. if you want to listen up to this, you're in our front office. You can't really rely on the young guys to go do it. And even who you brought in by is he's more of an all-around player than just some big offensive threat. So, I mean, you kind of had to see some of this coming, maybe not to this extent. Yeah, and it's been, it's been tough to watch. If you're a Tigers fan, it's been, you had some high hopes.

You went and spent some money. You had some, you know, some young pitching that was ready to. to be who, you know, you think they can be. And then they just played pretty bad ball. And a lot of it's offensively driven, too. But all around, I just don't think it's been very good. Trying to search out to give some A's some love because they won four out of these five games. And I'm just, there's a bad way to do.

I know Sean Murphy had a big homer in one of the games. He was the first one. But or a big RBI. I forget. Anyway, the age is just like, you can't look at like three guys. I mean, Betancourt had a really good series.

I know Kemp made a really nice defensive play, but they had 10 guys. Dude, that shit was crazy. I know. He was shocked by it. He's made a couple. That's crazy. They had,

the A's had 10 different guys, uh, with RBIs and they had 10 different guys score runs. It's like just really spread out, which is a credit to the A's, but also just like an even bigger discredit to the tigers. You just got beat by everyone. Yeah,

well, the A's don't have, you know, a bat that's going to just, you know, win games for them. So they're going to have to do that if they want to win any games. There's got a lot of short names. Sean Murphy, Tony Kemp, Jed Lowry, Kevin Smith, Seth Brown, Elvis Andrews, Chad Pinder.

And the A's bullshit always comes from their pitching. They have two relievers that haven't given up an earn run this year. Danny Jimenez and Sam Mull, guys who might not be in your book. A.J. Puck looks like you might have that bounce back year you've been looking for, Trev. and Paul Blackburn is your prototypical. There will be an A's starting pitcher every year who just kind of lights it up 31 innings of 1740. If you told a team, you're going to have a 600 collective OPS

over a five-game series. You wouldn't be too stoked on it, but this team just did that one four out of five. Two bad teams. And they were... I got Zach Logue as my A's guy, Jake. Okay. This is interesting.

They were the home team. team is, you know, is one of those scheduled games, doubleheaders, I believe, in game two where A's were the home team in Detroit. So I was like, you know, are they going to wear white unies? But they didn't. They kept their gray unis on, which is interesting to me. I guess it makes it easier to travel with one

less set of uniforms for the clubhouse guys. Pretty nice. Where's Frankie Montau's going to be pitching? Who knows? The range. Rangers take two out of three from the Royals. Good job by our dude, Hearn. Good job by the other Rangers starting pitchers. Seeger had three home runs.

Backyard Brad had five hits with two homers. Good for them. Tigers are bailing out the Royals on the sadness scale. Texted Taylor Hearn said great start. He said light work. So just expect more of that. I saw his sister on Twitter, Robin. She was treating like, why did they take him out?

And I was wondering if it was about Hearn or then she did another thing, a basketball tweet. So then I was wondering there was a basketball tweet and I never followed up because I was... His pitch count was really low. I decided not to ask him

just because, hey, two good back-to-back starts let her and hern. Yeah. Okay. So big development from the Ranger's side of things. One, Garber's going on the aisle

so Jonah Heim is going to get a little run here. Wow. Which he's played, yeah. So anyways, he followed me on Instagram. Wow.

Or maybe it was Twitter. One of them. You and Jonah. So he heard you have his back. Yeah. Wow. Tall, strikingly handsome with good hair or guy. You rang.

It's right at my alley, baby. Let's do the IL. I'm going to crank this I.L. Hit the music, Big Z. Just like our band, Crooked Ways. Hey, in the Interleague series, your Phillies took on the Seattle Marineras and they got sauced Phillies won.

the sandwich, the bread games of the series. Jim, your guy Ranger Suarez dropped it. Sick, shuddy. You like that. The Mariners took game two. They won five to four, and there was one earned run from the Phillies. Mean Gene, the fighting machine. So, yeah, four-earn runs both ways.

Phillies lose, not known for their defense. They take it in the battle of the Gates of Gibraltar, Gilbert and Falter on the mound for the respective teams. Big Reese Hoskins, friend of the pod. Trev's kind of guy. He had a massive series, and the Phillies relievers did their job. They take two out of three. Braves and Red Sox split a two-gamer.

Boring. Red Sox had a fun inning. They probably like that. They put up a six spot in game one to win that. And then in the second game, they lose. Sorry, Red Sox. Trevor Story hits his first home run. He?

He's. So that might be of note, and Chris Sale says he's going to start throwing in a matter of days, not weeks. Sounds like a rap lyric if you say like that. Six days. Six days. Orioles played the Cardinals. Birds take two out of three. There is a note.

This was the first bird team matchup of the season. I can't confirm or deny, but I'll believe it. Why not? You got to believe in something in this life. and why don't you believe in Kyle Bradish, the young pitcher for the Orioles who dropped it, seven innings pitch, Turing runs 11K's first career win, and he beat Jimmy's guy, Pachy Norton. So that's a memory. Cardinals took the middle game in a blowout, and then Orioles bookend it with the series end,

and oh no, my short king, Tyler O'Neill, some bad base running to end the game. No, no, no, you can't do that, my friend. that's your inner league three series one two game split nobody cares about phillies do good orials do good uh mariners have now lost five series in a row mariners have lost like eight of their last ten games feel bad for them i was told that we had to mention george kirby although he didn't throw in any of this series yeah he got mentioned him he got mentioned last time so so he didn't mention him he was going to be pissed at me so there it is.

Are there only three bird teams in baseball? There's a lot more bird teams in football. There's only three in baseball. Jay's Cardinals, Orioles, unless we're missing. And the schedule, if you are an... The Marlins are like a bird of the sea. No. Wow.

Okay. I can be persuaded. Don't they have wings? This schedule this year? Yeah. Specifically for the AL East. I don't know if it's this way for the other divisions as well.

I could look into it. I guess let us know. Let us know. Stinks. Have your team not played any indivision teams? Because in the ALE East, Trev, the Yankees haven't played the Rays yet. They haven't played in Fenway yet. They, the Rays haven't played the Blue Jays yet.

The Blue Jays haven't played the Orioles yet. It just seems like, you know, we're 30 games. in and there's so many no division games. I don't know. It's weird. It's interesting. It's interesting point. I think a lot of times I like to save those for the end of the year,

but I agree. Maybe it's just a weird. Yeah. I mean, fucking the race end of the year is brutal. They have in September, I think they have 18 games against the Yankees or 15 games against the Yankees and the Blue Jays.

Yeah. Anyway. People in chat not happy with me saying, Marlin is a bird. You said it was a bird of the sea. It's a bird of the sea. It's a bird of the sea. Good job by the Phillies.

And my dude, Ranger, Swarres. Phillies went out and did it. We can't talk about the Braves and the Red Sox. Two games set. What are we doing? And the Cardinals, the Orioles are pesky. Mariners fans that chat sound off. How are you guys feeling? Are you going to be okay?

Jared Kellnick going back to New York. this week. I actually gave him a ton of credit this morning on baseball today. Why are you, what are you laughing at, bro? Orioles fans and chat sound off. No, I said Mariners. They need to tell us what's going on. I need to hear the vibe because when we don't give him enough credit, Mariners fans get pissed at us.

And now I don't want to give him any credit because I just got swept by the freaking Phillies. But I gave Kellnick some credit earlier this morning because he's making adjustments with this swing. I am one of the only believers in this guy right now. Nobody's believing in him except for me. I think he can turn to the run. He's showing the adjustments. He'll be fine, guys. I'm kind of adopting the Orioles. I like the Orioles. I have the Orioles. I have the Orioles as a Orioles friends are going to hate this, but you're actually a Yankees ally right now. You know, first place team and fifth place team are usually friends because you want the fifth place team to just kind of do your bidding for you

and go like, you know, take out their ankles while you're lining up the sniper shot at the head situation. So I like that the Orioles are keep winning series and just being pesky. Man. Just bow down and lose whenever you come to the Bronx. Deal. Mariners, it's kind of go time, man.

Otherwise, like, you're going to be, you don't want it to become trade deadline and we stop talking about you. You got to go, Mariners. Treve, you have a question. Sound off. Oh, I freaking love it. This is why I ask the chat to sound off.

off. Okay. What's today? Tell me. Friday the 13th. Friday of 13th, Jeff Passon. No, what's today?

Thank you. Jeff Passing Day. Lyons with a Z said, since Jeff Passon said, we were the best team in the AOS. We've gone three and 12. Wow. The curse of Jeff Passan.

Dude, that's the opposite of what the snakes have done. So Jeff doing that empowered my snake energy for the snakes to go, Yeah, wow. Eat shit, Jeff. Happy Jeff Passing day. I'm on Jeff's side. Team does so good.

You publicly support them. And then they just make you look like a full root of the Mariners. Curse. Make him. Yeah. They cursed him. Double curse. Bull crap.

All right. Let's move on to the second half of the show where we are going to give out some standout performances, awards, slump watch, and Fuego, and the works. And it's brought to you by. Jim, you want to talk about a standout performance. How about Mugsy and the job it does on your shapely body? Mugsy jeans, they're the only genes that John Boy puts on his body. That's a true statement.

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That's Mugsy.com promo code baseball for 10% off your entire order. Chris Rose does a great Mugsy read for us on baseball today. And I took some pictures and a video of C. Rose going to the dessert line, Angel Stadium. Saw that. I laughed out loud. All the comments were like, bro, are those mugsy jeans on C-Rose? They look great. Like, this is a real comments, man.

They do. They even make C-Rose with that frumpy dad body. You work so hard to keep. They even make this dude look good. Imagine what they can do for you if you just have like an average body. You snipe and Rosie in the dessert line. That got me. He made us go.

He made us fucking go back. Like we were like ready to leave for the day. And he's like, I got to go, got to go to the dessert line. Got to. And then he wouldn't let me get a beer at the end of the day. So it's like, dude, I know that we're running along, Jake, and you have to go. But can I share with the people on with, with Trev, the prank that happened to me? Yeah.

Oh, my God. Yes. So we're at the Rangers game. Go Rangers. Go Rangers. Go Rangers. The New York Rangers invited us to the hockey game. And, you know, Jake and I are, you're in stadium mode, man.

And you're just, you know, it's kind of. of like a holiday. Nothing counts. And the guy walks by me with a cup of ice cream. And I go, hey, I look good. Jake says he doesn't remember this. But Jake said,

I think they're like five bucks too, bro. And I said, I'm going to go find those. And he goes, maybe get a couple. And then I said, yeah,

I said all of that. I never said I wanted one. Yeah. So I come back with two and Jake's like, what the fuck, dude? I don't want this. I'm like, wow.

Well, there's a lot of signs there, man. No, I wanted you to have two. I'm rooting for you. You're wearing mugsies. You're comfy. That's a lot of ice cream. I need to eat the full one.

I had like three spoonfuls. Anyway, anyway, I go try to find this ice cream place in the garden. And I go up to the first lady, just like the first main stand. And I'm like, hey,

I saw a cup of ice cream. Like, where's that at? She goes, oh, it's like a cart down the way. It's called gays. And I said,

Gaze? And she said, yeah. It's a vendor card, gaze ice cream. All right. She says it's that way, that way. So I just started walking. And halfway through, I realize I can't, like, go up to someone and be like,

where's gaze ice cream? And it wasn't called gays, I don't think. She just pranked me into not being able to ask for future help, which made me laugh real good. It's like a really good. Like G, A, Z, E, no, gazing into your eyes. She didn't smell it out loud. I have no idea. Yes.

Did you get the ice cream or not? not. I did. It took me a long time. Yeah. Gave it to Jake. Jake gave it to Kyle and Kyle housed it. I've had ice cream in so long. Travis, you've been proud of me. I passed it along. Not this time. Yeah. I don't, you know, that's why I don't like, we don't have ice cream in a house or anything. Anyway, gays ice cream. I was, I was like, I can't be asking someone. I did fucking crush that ice cream. Did have three beers and I might have kicked one like all over the stands.

like comically, a comical amount of beer everywhere. Standout performances. Be there for game seven. Stand out performances. I took the layup here. I took the lay up here. I took Reed, Gettmers, nine innings pitch,

zero earned runs, two strikeouts, zero hits, one walk, one error. Again, the walk did turn into a double play, so he still could have faced the minimum

if the error didn't happen. I believe it was the walk that turned in dough. play. But a no hitter, 11th career start. It's an easy standout, man. The raise, isn't there some weird stat like the rays have been no hit more than any other team, even though they have only like a 30 year history? They don't care. I know they don't care, but I feel like they are. That is funny. They're on the other end of a lot of no hitters. So good job. I read DeBers. I had a bunch of stats. 28 batters faced 14 first pitch strikes. At the end of it, he started going to his curveball. to get a first pitch strike.

He wasn't running from contacts. The arrays were just kind of like hitting into easy outs, really. It says they had like nine hard hit balls, but I watched them all and none of them were ever. The only one that you would be like, ooh, off the bat was the one over Rendon's head. So it's just a lot of like easy outs.

Love it. I knew you'd end up there, Jim, because I mean a no hitter with only, only two strikeouts. I think a lot of the nerds say not impressive. And I think you say extra impressive. Extra impressive. You can induce weak contact.

Inducing weak contact is a better skill set than inducing swings and misses because he got to throw all nine innings. And in a land where pitchers get hurt and bullpens get tired and you have the shuttle up and down, a pitcher pitching more innings is more valuable than it's ever been. because five years ago, they said it's worth nothing and they kind of scrapped it. And now it's like, well, shit,

we need someone to save our bullpen today. Can you give us some length? Like, I don't know. You don't let me throw more than 100 pitches. I guess I'll try to induce bad contact. I was going to see if he's ever been a strikeout guy. Last year, he wasn't a strikeout guy, you know, only in five starts, obviously in the minor leagues.

I guess I got to go look that up. But it's interesting. Yeah, like he is a highly, touted prospect, but you look at his stuff, and it's compared to what we see around the league and other pitchers, it's not like it's going to blow you away with the stuff, but if you can induce a soft contact like that, Travis, it's for you in the game. Trevor, it's because he took the quick path, man. He was drafted 10th overall in 2020. So he's only got 62 minor league innings where he has 108 strikeouts. So yeah, I think he's going to have that, but I think it's probably

going to be a little later because he's not learning against double a and triple a hitters he's learning he's learning against the big boys we were talking to lorenzen before the game and i was pissed i said this guy didn't even he didn't even grind it out in the freaking minor leagues now here he is enjoying the beautiful big leagues all first of all i was supposed to go first no big deal i'll take you to another young lefty my standout performance is going to shane mclanahan partly because i was at the game and got to see his stuff he went seven innings pitched seven shuddy 11k is only one walk i believe he leads the al and strikeouts right now his stuff is electric you know even i was joking with a c road so i think i can hit this guy

but you saw some swings he was getting from the angels hitters and just kind of we got down there real close at one point ball hums out of his hand things going kind of all over the place he's going to be around for a while and for the raise to have like a an arm like him and we'll see what they turn him into. He's already nasty, but I think, you know, when they really get their paws sunk into him, I think he's going to be around for a long time. So shout out Shane McClanahan. Shout out.

And you were supposed to go first. My bad, Trev. It's okay. Could be a difference maker. Shane McClain. Yeah, James, you like keeping team, sorry, you like keeping your team in games. He hasn't allowed more than three runs in any start. Hell yeah

until he sees the Yankees Whoops Ooh Okay Jake Fellas I am going to I teased it before

I am going with My fellow Thick King Josh Naylor Listed 511 250 So I think we're giving him 510

251 A beautiful build Beautiful eyes Cheshire Cat And by the, this guy's moved around a little bit in his young career. It looks like the light switch may have clicked, and I hope it does. Because on the year, he's hitting a casual 347, 377, 988 OPS. But what he did in that game, if you haven't seen the clip of him freaking out after hitting his home run,

it's a must watch because if you love passion and meeting sports, it's what's it all about. And Jim, you like giving the standout performance to a pitcher usually. They control the game. They kind of dictate the outcome. When my guy, Josh Nailer, hits a couple late three-run homers to give himself an 8 RBI day, he was that dude. Top of the 11th, he hits one,

and I think the other one was in the ninth inning. So, yeah, you hit two three-run homers after the ninth inning. That's a really good formula. Came back from that game. I think the team was down, what, 8-2 in the night? Something like that. And man, go watch the video of him screaming into his own dugout. It's a beautiful thing.

He also had an RBI double in the 8th. He kind of put him close to the White Sox. And A.J. Pollock, that motherfucker, broke my forearm. He hit the 3-run Homer to get the lead out again. but nailer was nasty. Nasty Nailer. Big boy, too.

Oh, real thing. He's got a fun build. Like four or five Cs on that. He's got a fun build, man. Okay. Shout out, we had some donations in the chat. We haven't shouted out. We did.

Our guy, yeah, who it was, Fayo, I know, did something. He was talking about where to get the gay ice cream at Madison Square Garden, Section 115. So if you want to know that, you got that. And then Mark Richardson. he said it's called Big Gay Ice Cream So Section 115

That is an ice cream place in the city Yes I should have put that together That's funny that she Yeah she just goes The thing is called Gays Mine went straight to GAZE When they said that Big Gay Ice Cream

Section 115 Madison Square Garden And then Mark Richardson $10 thank you said Can we slump watch say Suzuki Maybe we will Maybe Zach can you hit the slump watch sound

Now, Trev, you have the NL, so usually whoever has the NL runs us through, but also you hide. I don't know if Zach has the robot, but I'll, I can do it for you if you want. I have it. Yeah, I'd rather just you guys do it. All right, here we go. Some guys that look like some Logan Paul co-host. What is that mean? Well, I think, you know, roasted.

Roasted. All right, this is who we had on Slump Watch. We have some good claps. We have a really good clap here. Abiselle Garcia. He goes five for 12 with a homer and three RBI. Jake. So I think he gets like, that's what it's all about.

Round of applause. He's getting him off. Yulee Guriel. He went two for nine with a K and a hit by pitch, 300 on base, 222, off but no clap, right? He's off. He gets one clap, but the Astros don't even like need it. So. All right. Young

thick Austin Riley, he went one for six with a walk and a hit by pitch. A 375 on base. It was a two game set against the Red Sox, which we don't talk about split two game sets. So I don't, I don't know what you're going to do with him. I kind of want to leave him.

I want Young Thick to get off. And I think he will. So two games set that was almost unfair to him. Okay. And then Gio Rochella, he goes one for eight with a K, but he broke up the no hitter, which is pretty huge. So I'm giving him a clap and we'll take him off.

Because if you're going to get one hit, you got to make it like really worth it. And, you know, the rest of the team didn't get any. So yeah. All right. And then potential new ads. We got Schwabor went 0 for 13.

Jose Ibrayu goes 0 for 10. I'd rather not put Jose Brayu on as the Yankees of three more games against the white socks. Kike Hernandez 0 for 10 with a K. Toro over 10 with 2K. A lot of offers. Grossman 015 with three walks. So I think easily out of this crew, Grossman,

those three walks set them aside. Yeah. And the tiger. Tigers just don't hit in general, so Bobby dodges that. Schwabo seems like a layup. Yeah, let's throw him on. We love him. He'll get himself off.

And then, yeah, I kind of wasn't going to do Kike for the same argument that you gave Jose Brau, but the Red Sox could use it. Like, I don't know. It's fun when the Red Sox are better, and we like Kike. So maybe we get him. Yeah. Let's get him going. And then Toro.

It's Jeff Passing Day and, you know, Toro's Mariners, you know. Okay. Yeah. And he got traded and Passon probably reported that. Oh,000%. I'll probably let people know. Hey, this happened. Okay.

You should not happen. Bang. Done. Good job. All right, Zach. Can you throw the in Fuego sound effect on? Dirt nasty's on fuego. That means I'm on fire, baby.

like Waco. Trev, tell us who's hot. Who had some good, who had a good week? This is so fun when I get to do this. Well, we already talked about Josh Nailor. Do I need to go into it again? Five for nine, three homers, a double, nine ribbies. I mean, it's all kind of coming in one game there.

He's hot. You know who's always hot? Mike, fucking Trout with the 250 OPS plus. That means he's worth two and a half players. That's ridiculous. He went five for seven, three homers, six RBI's three walks. The guy's career on base percentage is 420. career my goodness reese hoskins he is my guy not kind of my guy six for 13 three homers seven

rbi i show hey saw him live i put a picture out on my instagram of him eating his sliding glove six for 13 two homers a double five rbys edwin rio swinging a hot bat for the dodgers five for ten two homers a double seven ribby's corie seger getting it going i like that i really like corey seger I think he's one of the guys that we need to like more. Yeah. Three for 10, all of them. James, homers, three homers, two walks. Gene Seguera, kind of underrated player right there.

Did he lead the league in hits a few years with the Brewers? Five for nine, two home runs, four RBIs, three walks, and then Wilson Contreras, seven for 10. That's a nice series. A homer, two walks. And he also got hit by two pitches. OBP, baby. It's nice to see, it's nice to see Edwin Rios.

get a rough year last year, but he's like never is going to get run on that team. And he feels like a guy that the Dodgers should, should say, hey, we love you. But we think maybe we're blocking you. He can hit the ball.

Every time I kind of tune into a Dodgers game and I'm really intently watching and he's playing, I'm like impressed with his at bats. He can look silly sometimes, but like he's got some thump. Yeah. So he'll be in the Luis Castillo to the Dodgers straight. Got it.

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Check it out. Be careful. Be careful. Treve, why don't you be careful with your first award? my award what did I say my award was oh this is a good one no Correa no problem we talked about this guy quite a bit on the show already definitely frontrunner for AOL rookie of the year Jeremy Pena shortstop of the Houston Astros I want to just give him a little bit of love and we talked at the beginning of the season the way the other Astros players

were talking about him you know raise our eyebrows little bit. They were calling him a superstar. And I don't know if it was you guys or if it was Chris Rose who said, well, everyone talks about like the young guy like that. But they don't really, not that word. You know, star is reserved for someone you think can really do it. Now, in my times, Buxton, like, this guy's going to be a star. Miguel Snow, this guy's going to be a star. I think Buck has lived up to the title. I think Snow kind of has. I don't know. He's been a really good player. I don't know about his future in Minnesota now. But anyway, Jeremy Payne, has been absolutely awesome.

He is leading the AL and B. War. He's hitting the ball. He's got a 152 OPS plus. He already has six homers, 20 RBIs. He's been doing it on the defensive side as well. So you got a guy who is 24 years old. You get rid of your stud, Carlos Correa. You bring this guy up, and there is just, it's seamless.

and the Ashos just seem to do it time and time again. Jeremy Pena, your A.L. rookie of the year. And you know what? We were all talking about a couple different A.L. rookies coming into the year. Jeremy Pena was mentioned for sure,

but I think we were talking more about the Bobbywood Juniors and such. This guy's going to be a problem for years to come. The a shawes are just a freaking machine. I don't know what else there is to say. Shout out, Jeremy Pena. Shout out. Stud.

Lottormenta. I forget. what I was naming my award because I did have one. Okay. What was that name you were thinking about? I'll just do it not creative name. I just go like the bull, the bullpen,

the bullpen friend award. The bullpen friend friend award. Bollpen friend award. Anyway, it goes to Justin Verlander, or I feel like isn't getting talked about nearly enough as he should because maybe he came back from injury or it's still like people don't like talking about the Astros.

I have no idea. Verlinder's been amazing. He goes one, like I mean, if Detmer's didn't outshine him, he probably would have been the story of the night. Gio breaks up the no hitter, but he goes, aiding's pitch one hit.

Should he got a standout performance, but I snagged him because I want to talk about the award. And here's where I hope the market, market, the sports corrected back to what you want out of a starting pitcher. Trev, the top 15 innings, leaders

for starting pitchers in MLB, the top 15, Most innings pitched have all started seven games besides one guy. Justin Verlander. He's only started six and he's in the top five, I think, for innings pitched or the top 10 for earnings pitch. And he started one less game than everyone around him. On top of that, the Astros average two relievers in his starts. He is saving the bullpen.

they have a stretch of like 30 games and 33 days. They went to a six-man rotation to help out. Also, they have Verlander who's just giving them distance. So, like, in his first start, they used three relievers. That's the highest because it was his first start. He's got another one where they used three relievers, but he's got two starts where they only had to use one other guy because he went eight innings.

And he's got two where they used two. That's really, really, really valuable. It's something that you know he values. you know, it's valuable each your team, but that's something that he wants, he wants to be that guy. And you know when you, the game on himself. And relievers like that, like, they probably right now are like, hey, hey, we got a Burlander good day. Like, and coming back for TJ. Yeah, coming out from T, he's like, he's a nice. It's a rare combination of a pitcher who still values that, a pitcher whose stamina can do that and a pitcher whose stuff is good enough to do that. And

Yeah, man. Him come October. That should be a dozy. Was there any other team in the running to sign him? Yeah, the Yankees. Yanks. What happened? They didn't want to do, like they...

Astros guaranteed him 40 mil, and the Yankees only wanted to give him the 20 for the one year. 50. 50. 25. Yeah, well, they gave him the player option. Yeah, yeah. So, you know, guess what? Oh, yeah, that's right. He's not going to be there.

He's going to go back. I mean, he might be there. we'll see see how it plays a lot of money Verlander man sex it seems like just

an absolute no brainer when you go back and look at it now we'll pay you to rehab we'll get to monitor you every second of the way because you're our player no actually

they signed him after the rehab he rehabbed his last year of his last contract totally right so they it was locked in and I don't think he rehab with a team. I think like the story was he was never around. But he's back now and he's awesome. He's helping out. He's saving the bullpen and they're winning. I think they're four and one or

five and one in his starts. There's just he should be getting a little more pub than he is. I feel like he's going to opt out in Scherzer it and get crazy money. He's pretty old. In comparison, isn't he older than Scherzer? What's he going to be at the end of this year? he turns 40 next February 40 next year Say February again February It's tough

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Sit on it. Try to poop. Big Astros pod today. Let's go. Jake, your award? I'm giving out the Sixth Man of the Year award. Trev, you're a big NBA guy. Your Lakers look good this year.

Yeah. The Sixth Man of the Year award's always kind of a funky award, right? We're giving out the Six Man of the Year Award to a guy that's not a starting player. He might not be a top four guy on the team. He might not be a top three guy on the team. team. But we're giving out the six man award. You're the best guy who comes off the band. That's pretty cool. Like, it's still cool. Like, you, you have a certain skill set that you're doing something. That's an award. Why is that an award? I never really gave that much thought. Like,

do you think the fifth guy is like, what the fuck? Because it's a different skill set. You're starting not on the court. You come in the game and you do your role. It's, it's, you know. Out of the six man is just not good enough to start. And if he was on another team, he'd be the fifth man. Oh, that's the, that's kind of the whole thing. So, uh, Jim, there's a popular debate. in baseball circles about the cycle. Because, like, well, isn't four home runs better than a cycle? Well, yeah, it is. And that doesn't happen a ton.

But a cycle is a unique thing. You need a certain set of skill set. You need a little bit of look. And our guy, friend of the pod, Christian Yellich, just tied the MLB record for career cycles. I believe he has three of them. And he's the sixth person in MLB. history to do that. So that's why he gets the sixth man of the year award, because he's the sixth

guy to do it. It's kind of a weirdly argued topic in baseball circles because, yeah, the cycle's not the coolest thing in the world, but it's also still kind of cool in its own right. So Yelly, who's still got those long legs on him and he's got some life in him, let's get him the MLB record for most career cycles. Feels like a layup. Next time Yelly hits a triple, I think it's must watch. And even we might need a pitcher. We might need a friend. We might need a freed or someone, a Gialito,

someone like that to maybe give him a cookie or two so we can get them there. Cycle and no hitter, same thing. I mean, for me, I have the same reaction to both of them. Cycles more rare than a new hitter. No, no hitter has got to be more rare than a cycle, no? I think cycles more rare than no. No hitter just helps so much more than a cycle does, though. It's like worth so much more than a cycle.

Shout out, Yelly. Yeah, it's because they pitch the whole game and that value. But as far as just like a singular like accolade, like. We were trying to figure out what the comparison was, me and see Rosie. And it's difficult. It's difficult to find. 840 OPS. They're very similar.

Wow. That's cool. No hitters and cycles. Yeah, hold on. This says that the no-hitter is slightly more rare, but I think they're, so I think they're very... It's interesting. You know, they all came against the Reds, Jake. Either way, it's cool.

A perfect game is very, very cool. I will clap and like that gets my attention. No-hitters and cycles are just, they're kind of like, yeah, that's awesome. It's awesome. Let's see. I've got 335 career cycle. and I've got 315 career no hitters. So 40 more career cycles.

Yeah, there's something about the date of keeping track of shit is different or something like that. I don't know. Baseball. The only cool, like for it to be a really cool cycle, you either have to have the homer or the triple come last. Triple has to come last. And you have to do it like a stretch. I like the Homer.

Kubel did it, I think, with a grand slam. You're right. You're right. Triple or a walkoff maybe it was. Yeah. Just can't be the sad double. The triple is probably the most entertaining. Because it's like you got a big boy sometimes.

You can't really hustle around the bags, but he puts it in the right place. Sometimes that right field might just go, toss it in a little slower right now. You're almost guaranteed always to have a good broadcaster call on someone trying to finish up the cycle. Entertainment. All right.

Jim, you got to stimulate us? Oh my God. It's time for the stimulator. Zach's doing it as a team. The no hitters way more valuable. But just like, you know, as like the accolade people think, they're the same thing. There's oddities. Do you have the music, Zeman?

Did it, did it? I don't have it. Are you ready for it? Is that going to take a shirt off or something? Because he's a performer. It's a Friday. It's a Friday stimulation. And Z-Man is running a stimulator simulator this week.

week. Here we go. In the American League, the six-seed Blue Jays will face the three-seed twins in a wild-card series. Zach, who wins Blue Jays are twins?

Blue Jays win versus the twins. Wow. Oh, suck it, Trev. Angels and Rays are the wild-card matchup on the other side of the AAL. Who wins that one? The angels or the rays. Both things exist in the sky. That's true.

Both are in the sky. Stimulator says the angels win. Wow. Oh. Just happened. In the NL, we have the Brewers versus the Cardinals. The Cardinals being the sixth seed and the Brewers, the three. Stimulator says Cardinals.

Wow. Ooh, Blue Crew. That's brutal. Giants and. Padres are the four and five and the NL. Oh, uh, giants. Yeah. Yeah.

Yeah. Okay. So the, so in the A, in the A.L, the divisional series, you have the Astros versus the Blue Jays. Springer going up against his old club. Uh, blue jays. Oh, boy. And then we have the Yankees and the Angels, a little recap of the two. 2009 ALCS.

Okay. Makes sense. Best record in all of baseball, obviously. All right. In the NL, the number one seed Mets will then be taking on the giants. Uh, the giants. Boy. Kapler hot. There he is.

Cardinals and Dodgers. Dodgers being the two side, two seed. They got the buy. They waited around the Cardinals. Oh, it's coming to town. It's the Dodgers. Holy smokes Dodgers Giants NLCS I got to stay here and find out who's going to the World Series that is abusing Holy cow uh see the giants wow

revenge series blue jays versus the Yankees and the championship series in the AL who wins it who's facing the Giants in the world series it's a close one but has to be the Yankees Yankees, wow. Yankees Giants World Series, every grandpa. It's aesthetically pleasing. Like, this is what I grew up with. It's tough to say, but I think that the Yankees take it. Oh, wow.

Oh, my God. Holy smokes. And that's coming. I mean, the guy running the buttons on the stimulator is a die-hard Mets fan. So that's so weird. There it is. You guys can't even see. say bias or anything.

Yeah. That's unbelievable. You and I match. Look at us. Hot. Hot. All right. Hey, everyone have a fantastic weekend.

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