Talkin' Baseball (MLB Podcast) - 488 | Dodgers & Mets Falter, Reds Lose A No-Hitter, and Pujols Pitched

Episode Date: May 16, 2022

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Hello and welcome to talking baseball. What a weekend it was. Pools pitch. The worst game ever played was played and other stuff and other stuff. Welcome to talking baseball presented to you by Seatkeek. My name is Jimmy sitting next to me is Jake. Trevor Plouffe and Tie Die in the middle. And producer BBD rep in the Pirates in the bottom corner of your screen.

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James, Trevor, BBD, how is everyone doing? Electric Week, Game 7 Sunday, for those of us that are baseball and hockey fans. Sorry to NBA fans. Let's go Rangers. Let's go Treves Calgary Flames. and let's go baseball.

God, our Yankees are so hot in the streets. My goodness, do they look good? The left coast, BBD's Astros, the Angels. Teams are starting to, like, we're getting some actual separation, and it's like, okay, the Angels played the A's. Yeah, they should beat them. Like, we're seeing teams are fully taken shape. Oh, Joey Gallo, Josh Donaldson.

Yankee fans are running hot, Are you on the boat or off the boat? The Yankees will win the 22 World Series. Off the boat on that. I did pick them to win the division, though, which I think I was the only person on this show to pick them to win the division, right? We're not allowed.

I would have picked the Yankees on the World Series and I was allowed. I don't think that's really the truth, but... I wouldn't have picked the White Sox, and I said that as well. It sucks. I did it, so... We're not allowed. I didn't...

Okay. My weekend... Yeah. Sex. Started off poorly. You know, my D-Bex, we lost our first playoff game. Just the kids didn't really show up. They ended the game.

I challenged them at the end of the game. I really sat these kids down. You know what I told them? I said, your true character is revealed in moments like these. Anyone could be happy and want to do things when things are going the right way. But you guys are getting your butt kicked. How are you going to respond? And they crushed it.

So maybe pump up speeches are my new thing. These kids probably don't know what I'm talking about. And they're probably just thinking about the ice. see they're going to get after the game, but it's going to make me feel better. And really, that's all that it matters. So had a great weekend, lots of ball. Monday episodes are my favorite. My energy is off the fucking charts right now.

I love that. James, what about you, man? You guys had a freaking weekend, too. Freaking weekend. We did. We're hockey guys now. No, the New York Rangers have been very kind. Whoops.

We were tweeting about it. Joe's is getting into hockey. And they said, why don't you come up for a game? So Joe's has been to two hockey games now, both playoff elimination games where the team wins. So pretty insane. But this is a baseball company. And we also watch some baseball.

And we talk about baseball. And we like baseball. And there were some fun stuff that happened this weekend. Some of it saved for awards. So just be patient, chat. And live crew watching. Other stuff we'll get to during the recaps. As always, you know more about your team than we do.

Yes. You watched more of your team than we did. I guarantee it. So we lean on you for help when we misspeak or don't know what we're saying. A lot of games. Especially the Monday abstract. Every team plays every day. 15 games.

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Let's do it. Lazy days in low. Angelese as Trevor's Dodgers hosted the Phillies and Philadelphia gets a big series win. Three games out of four in L.A. Man, you go on a West Coast road trip to see the Dodgers. You're looking to get out of there alive and they do more of that. They almost took all four, but a little Gavin Lux heroics with the walkoff in the final game. Man, Phillies in that fourth and the third game, they got all eight of their.

their runs off the Homer, Jim, your Ranger Suarez, shoved. And this series had the hitting, man. Harper had eight hits, seven extra base hits. Hoskins with the big series. Mookie Betts, I say, Poppy. But it wasn't enough. Dodgers lose three out of four to the Phillies.

Can that spark the fight in Phillies to get their season in gear? The St. Louis Cardinals, they hosted the San Francisco. Giants and two well-run baseball organizations. We like that. Giants, they ran away with the first game 8 to 2, but those Cardinals sticks. The Cardinals as a team hit 305 over the series, including the blowout game on Sunday night baseball

where they put up a 15 spot. And who came in to close it out? I am no machine. I am just Albert. Albert Pujol's. Thick Daddy takes the bump for some fun stuff. Oh yeah, that middle game, Dakota, Hudson drop dick. Cardinals win two out of three against the San Francisco tree.

Goldschmidt, you could hear about him later. Hello, Braves. Do they win a series? Always feels like no to me. The San Diego Padres take two out of three in Atlanta. Shout out to our guy, Peter Moyland, calls his first baseball game speaking. You should see the slug on that guy. Padres, they take the sandwich games, 11-6, 7-3, that final game was in extra innings. Our guy Kim, he had a couple huge hits. In both, he had the go-ahead RBI single in the final game. He had the go-ahead three-run Homer in the first game. How about it, kid, have a series.

Braves took the midler in a good punch-for-punch eighth inning, where the Braves scored for right after the Padres scored for. That's good action. Braves win some series dogs. Marlins hosted the Brewers. Brewers win two out of three. A.TO and that's obvious. The first game of this series, Corbyn Burns versus Pablo Lopez.

Tough day to be a hitter, Trev. You wouldn't want to be there. They each go seven innings. Little throwback baseball in Jace Peterson with the go-ahead RBI walk. We love Leather and Jace. How about it? Brewers, they take the final game. after the Marlins won game two nine to three.

Jim of note, Ashby came in four perfect innings to close out the game and get the save. Future of baseball people, relievers that pitch for a while. Speaking of, Cubs, take two out of three from my snakes. I hate it. D-Backs won the first game four to three. Obviously, Zach Davies, you know the formula. Cubs score the go-ahead run in the ninth inning of the second two games. Mark Melanson, he still hates me.

He gives up a run. He's recorded five losses in this young season. Don't like that. And Frank the Tank, Schwindell, he has the go-ahead RBI and the 9th. Hey, Cubbies win a series. Boring. And Jimmy, the worst game that was ever played. The Cincinnati Reds and the Pittsburgh Pirates,

the blow hitter people are calling it. I feel bad for my guy Hunter Green. Maybe we'll talk more about him. He goes 7.1 no hit. The Reds... Oh, God. It can't get any worse. Can it?

We'll find out. They split a four-game set. It continues to get worse. Nothing happens. Nothing matters. The Pirates win a game. They got no hit against what should be one of baseball's prize prospects in Hunter Green. This series stinks.

Let's go baseball. That's what's happened in Trebs National. Great job. Great job. Great job by Jake. A little standings update for you. Trev. The Mets remain atop the east, although the Phillies did gain a game by winning three out of four. They are now five and a half back. The Phillies. The Braves remain six and a half back. That stayed the same. Miami seven. Nationals 11. All that didn't change. The Central did not change at all. They all won and lost the same amount, I'm guessing, because the Brewers were two and a half up.

They're in first place. They remained two and a half up. On the Cardinals, the Pirates, six and a half games back. They remained six and a half games back. The Cubs, eight games back. They remained eight games back. The Reds, they lost a game. They were 12 games back.

Now they're 13 games back. So sorry, did not all remain the same. The Reds lost ground. In the West, we now have a tie standings-wise, really the Dodgers are in first base, but games back, it's the same thing with the Dodgers and the Padres. So the Padres gained.

They were game back when we last checked in on Friday. The Giants remain in third place, game and a half back. So super close. We still have everybody in the West, 500 or above. And we still have four out of five teams in the East below 500. So a lot going on. Where do you want to start, Trev? You know, I don't want to call that game the word.

worst game ever played. Well, I mean, we haven't compared it to all the other games, but it's definitely in contention. Like you, you would have to say maybe this is the worst game. Only one extra base hit. No hits. I tend to want to celebrate the pitching performances. And you know, I don't give love the starters all the time, but both guys went out and did their thing. Kintana was if you're a fan. If you're a fan, that's like the worst. If someone was like someone from London was, you know. The first game they went to. So they're like, hey, you got to come to this game, Mark.

I know you're from London, but you're going to love baseball. And he's going to be like, that stunk. I don't know, man. It's pretty cool. Like you get to see a guy on the mound is blowing cheese like that. And you get the crafty, lefty kind of doing his thing on the other side, aesthetically pleasing uniforms, like you're in Pittsburgh. So it's a beautiful city.

like I want to give credit to these guys, especially Hunter Green. I said that for this guy to be successful in the big leagues, he's got to learn to locate his pitches. You can't just be like fastball, some Aussie pitches for strikes and heavily reliant his fastball. He actually threw 60% sliders this game, kind of like changing it up a little bit, making adjustments. When we look back on this game, I think we're going to say this is, you know,

one of the starts, one of the first starts where we saw his true dominance in the big leagues. This guy's going to be around for a long time. So that's kind of how I'm trying to say. see this game. I'm not. The bad part was how they scored the run. I think this cements, my position,

and Jerry Bluffin shares it with me, that combined no hitters are for the birds. The rays did it. They lost. It wasn't a no hitter. Well, whatever. Not officially. Eight innings.

The hunter. The hunter green part of this is cool, Trey. Yes, that is cool. He's 22 years old. And we're, we're sitting here on our high horse like, hey, maybe cut the fastball a little more

to get a little more run on it and throw it 99. Let's see what he turns into. He's got a chance to be very special, and I hope he does. And I hope he becomes a reason for Reds fans to tune into baseball games. I hope he becomes a reason for me to tune into Reds baseball games. But Trevor Plouf, I mean, Kintana on the other side, that feels like if you got 31 at bats against him, that you'd hit, like, 290 with a 405 on base and an 857 OPS.

Like, it feels like you'd rake that guy. Did I rake him? That's my second. Yeah, you raked him. I read All right You guys call the game Whatever you want

I'm happy now Trevor's trying to be humble For a second And he was like Wait wait Are those my stats Two stolen bases Vers Kintana too

Whoops Caught you sleeping I don't know man Fast Trev Fast Trev Young Trev Hey Lopez Go get the out at home

Right there Don't go try to turn bell play Slow chopper Go get the out at home Thank you Let's not talk about this series Sorry Okay. Hunter Green did throw more sliders than fastballs.

It's fun. Of a note. So where do you want to go next then? I mean, Phillies Dodgers? Yeah, we'll go to the top of the chart. I mean, the Dodgers who, you know, they've been the La Crem de la Crem while not fully clicking. Phillies, I mean, they come a pitch or two away from locking up a four game sweep in L.A.

that I think would have us going full Philly fanatic, and I'd say, well, is there something with the Dodgers? L.A. has got to get out of Pennsylvania, man. Well, it was in L.A. Well, playing Pennsylvania teams. They got a terrible record against Pennsylvania teams. Philly's game one, Hudson Wild Pitch with the base is loaded. That doesn't feel great to take the lead.

Castellanos, a big hit. Justin Turner, continues to start going after his horrible first month of the season. So, yeah, I don't know. I mean, the Phillies, are they becoming a play down to their competition, play up to their competition? Are we going to look back that it took them a month to start clicking? And this is the type of, you know, a West Coast trip.

Again, you're normally hoping to survive and they thrive. So happy for the Phillies. Hopefully the NL East looks just so ugly again. It looks like a flashback to last year that we're just going to be waiting for the Phillies or the Braves or someone to join the Mets at the party this year because right now it's just a mess. I'm working through a little technical difficulties right now over here, guys.

If you're looking at me right now, I can't tell. Oh, okay. Do I sound and look okay to everybody? Yeah. Incredible. What the heck is going on with Zoom? Tough series for the Phillies, even though they win all these games.

I said this today on baseball today. You win three out of four, yeah, you should be super stoked. But the way they had to do it is exhausting. You know, I played on teams where the offense has to answer the bell and continue to answer the bell early and late. And then just they got to figure some stuff out. We can't have like a repeat of what they did last year with their bullpen. I know five of sevens really got on the West Coast trip,

but they can't continue to play ball like that if they want to be, you know, in this race whatsoever. victories great, but some of these victories are going to take a lot out of your ball club. I really feel like this series took a lot out of that ball club. Good for them for getting the wins, but dang, man, to do it like that, is, like I said, it's pretty exhausting. What's the timeline on Heaney or Kirsha? Because, I mean, the Dodgers rotation right now is just not who you know as the Dodgers rotation.

They got. Kershaw, they're hoping it's only a few weeks. But yeah, you know, we talked about this earlier today, too. It's like the Dodgers, yeah, like it's not the same guys. And they've had to bring up some some dudes from the minor leagues, but that's what they do best. You know, they fill their holes with above average players. We have Bobby Miller still down there.

He's kind of hasn't done great, you know, in the minor leagues, but we watched him against the Angels throwing 100, like looking like he wants to kill dudes on the mound. I really like him. I think the guy's name was Grove that came up. Yeah. Three and two thirds. You get four hundred runs, but only, but none of them were earned.

So, I mean, like they, they, they, they bring guys up to fill those spots. You know, you want to see the names in the rotation, sure. But when you're an organization like the Dodgers, they just have guys that just keep coming up, man. Looks like Kershaw and Heenog, they're pretty optimistic on coming back soon. Okay.

So. And Catter-or-day, just whatever, man. Just give that guy the ball every day. I mean, good job by the Phillies. Also, just some rough starts from the Dodgers. I'm not used to looking at all these lines. They're, man. Anderson, whatever, Bueller, five earned, Ureus, five earned.

Phillies can head. Phillies can mash, and yeah, Trevor, it's interesting, and maybe it's something we can track going along, and it's a little bit of Jimmy Liddix, but, you know, blowout wins and not always just being in pure survival mode. Again, it's one of those weird things that we can't really measure player by player, yet there are ways to measure blowout wins and, you know, we talk about it with pitchers, right? When a pitcher could be on their 80th pitch and they could be feeling great because they've been up 6-1 the whole time and they're just dealing.

Or if there's runners on second and third and every pitch is high leverage, that matters. And, you know, we talk about it whether it's grooming young guys. I think you're absolutely right. I mean, that wears on players and teams, and, you know, not to over-reference it, but a couple of the recent Yankee teams in past years, they couldn't blow out teams and your bullpen starts to feel that. And your lineup starts to feel it too. It's stress.

A lot of stress, a lot of stress. Well, speaking of blowout wins, Cardinals, lose game one to the Giants. They win game two for nothing, but then they blow them out game three and you get pool holes on the bump. You get silly baseball to end it. Molina reading the plays and throwing out,

jock. That was pretty cool. That was pretty cool. Webb had a really good start for the Giants. I'd like seeing that. Hicks still doing the thing as a starter. Five-eatings pitch, three and runs. Good enough for a win?

Is that possible when it was... Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Dakota Hudson with a good starter. Man, you want to talk about a sneaky baseball reference. 285 innings, 48 career starts a 3-13-E-R-A and 7 starts this year. He's at 306. Not the biggest strikeout guy, but guy getting results casually and not a name you normally think about with St. Louis. Trev, do you hit up Longoria yet?

I talked to him. He's back. He got the pinch hit double in the first game for his first hit. And then what I texted him about was like, how did they feel to face Poo-Hubble? pulse and he just was happy he said so cool he asked for the ball got it that's cool i think uh that game we're gonna talk a little bit about the wano malina thing a little bit later but what the cardinals bats did the rodong that was just and i think i'm gonna talk about that later too i guess all my stuff later is about the cardinals goldsmith doing what he did they made rodon look pretty bad

they smacked the ball off in there wasn't any cheapies there man so uh i I think that's a big boost for a Cardinals offense. You know, when you can go get a guy like that, a guy that's been dominating and go put up an offensive day like they had, confidence booster. End up being a silly game, but like, pretty cool. Is that Jacob Junis? It is.

Yeah. Of the Royals, I think the Rangers also. When did he sign with them? I'm looking at it. March 14th. So it was all right. cool I didn't know he was over there two two five inning relief appearances and then and then two five inning starts for

Jacob Junis good for him got an interesting arm I faced him before it's live I feel like the Giants you know they're a team that can mess with it toy around with them and and find some find some ways to make him successful like it kind of like fits the bill for Giants pitchers when I think about what the Giants are looking for good job by the Cardinals Padres, two out of three from the Braves. San Diego, I, you know, we have a weird love, hate relationship with some comments sometimes. But I saw there's a few Padre fans that were like their season hasn't felt like clean. Like it hasn't felt like they are on kind of the incredible start that they are on.

I mean, they are 22 and 13, more or less tied with the Dodgers. Dodgers have the winning percentage. leg up on them. But, you know, they essentially are right around the best record in the National League, a team that had some question marks heading into the season with a lot of talent around it and Tatis goes down. But, you know, they win another series. Actually, I mean, they were coming off a lost series to the Cubs, but they beat the, I was going to say, the big bad braves, but they really aren't. So I don't know. I guess Padres fans, my question goes out to you. Sound off in the comments.

my friend says. Wow. Wow. Like, do we think that the other shoe is going to drop and these Padres are going to feel the same way, but more losses are going to come in? Or do we feel like that they haven't even been playing their best brand of baseball and things are about to really take off? I like that spin. That's what I'd love to know from Padres fans. Because the, the conversation or comments I saw seemed like they unfortunately thought things could go south, but I don't know if that was just someone who was scared or what was going on, but Padres are racking up wins.

Manai gives them seven innings pitched. Mosgroves gives them six with two earn runs. Darvish almost goes into the six inning, even though you have five earn runs. So they're getting starts, and we knew they would get starts. I want to watch more Manny Machado at Bats. I think I'm putting that on my radar.

Okay. When I have the NL, next episode I have the NL. Okay, so can you guys text me when Manny's up? Not you guys. Oh, not you guys Who's gonna text you? I meant tweet at me

Oh tweet tweet, tweet okay Manny's up Mani's up and I want to tune in I don't know why I'm bringing this up But Cano's debut not so hot I watched that air that he had Throw the ball in his second base He's kind of not paying attention

Then he kind of tries to like Pick it but not really pick it It just wasn't very good Oh for 5 too They got the victory in his debut but I don't know, man. I don't see that being that great of a fit. Even though I think maybe a couple days ago I said,

that's one fit that could make sense to me. I don't know if he's ready to play right now. Not a lot of risk. You just ditch him and then you trade for Cruz. Yeah. Why not? You know? Well, they know how fragile a season can be.

We saw them collapse at the end of last year. I'm not saying one guy isn't coming in and just like do that to them. But I don't know. It doesn't seem like it works. Hassan Kim, big series, and his numbers on the season are solid, which that would be good. He's a hot boy, versatile, filling in for Nando a little bit. Go Padres. Braves fans hate the Braves right now, and that's exactly where they need to be.

I feel like they were there last year, really mad at the team, and then you just kind of stick with them. Stick with them, Braves fans. Be mad now, be happy later. That's what I think. Heavy. Yeah. A little life. Hey, I know this isn't.

Is Soroka ever going to pitch again? It's an interesting question, right? It's been a long time now. It's been a while. It's been a while. It's going to be cool when he does. But yeah, it's been a while. That's a bummer.

Six days ago, Mike Soroka excited to start his own spring training. Okay. Targeting midsummer for a return. Hell yeah. I like that. Two torn Achilles. Man. Howie.

Travis Brewers beat the Marlins. They win the first game. They win the second. The third game. Burns, seven innings pitch, one-run run. How about that? Zero walks. Yeah, for anyone...

Happy for anyone that got to see that first game. Burns v. Lopez. That's, again, tough night to bring your lumber to the plate. Those are... Probably not two names that jump off a lot of baseball fans. when you start talking about sexy pitching, but they should. My God, Corbyn Burns, that hair.

It was nice to us, remember that? He likes us. I also am happy that Ashby got back out there with four perfect innings, eight Ks. You got the save. Yeah. So four innings save. Yep.

Future baseball. I talked to hung out with Braun this weekend. we're talking Brewers Baseball. And, you know, he's like, yeah, really good team, obviously. And the only one player he mentioned, just one guy. Actually, he mentioned Ashby. He talked about him a little bit. But he says, Adomis is the guy.

Adomis is the difference maker. I said, bro, I totally agree. And then here we are. He has to exit game through the ankle sprain. The x-rays comeback negative. But he really is kind of like become that like heart and soul of the team, like the energy is very infectious. So they need him desperately.

I know the batting average isn't popping off the chart right now for him. But what he brings day in and day out is so special to that team. So hoping this is just kind of a day-to-day type thing. Can't have him out for an extended period of time for the Brewers. We saw it in person. He was like the only one talking and chatting and not the only one, but he was the loudest. It's the pulse. Yeah, I mean, he's just got that energy, man.

Like that leader, leadership quality. You know, Yelich is more like quiet, like lead through example, like kind of guy. And then Adomis is, you know, he's a shortstop taking, you know, charge of the infield and just kind of, you know, he's one of those guys, man. Like he's a presence. And when you're around him, you feel it. The other guy in the Brewers that was, you know, had fun vibes around him that when he came back, you had pointed out to us, I think Trev was Rius. and he's been doing some good things at the plate. You're 388 on base and his 11 games.

Brewers did it. I mean, they're a good team. I think they're going to make massive moves. I mean, I hope they do. You always say that. I'm going to put like a minute on the clock for Jake here to talk about what happened to his debacks against the Cubbies. When you do that, James, or...

Jake, before you start, I'm going to click on, click off, or click off. You guys want to hear your minute on the Debex Cub Series. Look, man. It's about to give Moose Taco some love, too. He had two homers in one of those Reds Pirates game. Where's he going to be playing in August? Yeah, man, I don't know what to tell you. Our snakes are continuing to play winning baseball,

except in the ninth inning. They got clipped twice. So, I don't know, happy for Cubs fans. Malanson, what's up, dude? feels, again, it just feels personal. Five losses this season, including three in his last five. So we might need to get Mark some work outside of the ninth inning.

Okay. That would be my recommendation. What if it's a ninth inning, but it's like 10-0? That'd be okay. That'd be okay. Maybe outside of a safe situation. Yeah, not a lot of offense from the Cubbies. Varshot continues to go.

I guess that's no Dalton Varshow as more than just. our short king that he's putting together a really good ball season. Okay. The Reds and Pirates split a four-game set. We did it. We're good. We talked about that a lot at the start. So we're going to move on to the AL.

Trevor, are you back? Are you ready? Me and Patty Schwindle, we're back, baby. Back in the show. Back in the show. Here we go, the AL, Trev. James, you are going to really like this, Because in the AAL, the theme is what was supposed to happen pretty much happened.

We'll start in Tampa Bay. The Blue Jays came into this losing three series in a row. They came out of it losing four series in a row. The Rays take this one two out of three, five, two Rays, five one Blue Jays, three nothing rays in the rubber match. Not a lot of offense, obviously, in this series, which means the pitching was really good. Margo had the go-ahead RBI single in the eighth.

Unfortunately for him, he was placed on the DL with a strained hammy. Game two saw Hernandez had to go ahead Homer in the eighth for the Blue Jays. And then game three, my guy, Maddie Chapman, kind of an awkward play there, cuts the short stuff off, tosses the ball to second base. Espinall tries to grab it bare-handed, go-ahead run, comes into score on that play. Rays take care of business. They pitch. They find weird ways to win.

baby. Blue Jays, you got raised. Moving on, your Yankees went into Chicago and it took three of four and this one had some big numbers. 15 to seven yanks, 10, four yanks and then it quieted down a little bit. Three, two socks, five, one yanks. I think I should just say Nestor Cortez. That's all I got to say about this series. My goodness, what he's done is awesome. Game one, Yankee's, take. The lead was seven in the eighth, including judges, go ahead, two-run, infield single, and then Donaldson went y-ya-ya, three-run Homer. Was this the game where he pushed Tim Anderson off the base? And they both got mad at each other, I think it was. Just talking. They were just talking. Oh, no, that's the second game. Benches and Bullpen's clear after Donaldson and Anderson

exchanged words following hard-tag push-off. That's what our notes say. I don't know if it was that hard, not that big of a deal. Garrett Cole goes six and a third, three earned run. Runs. King Mikey, two and two-thirds with one earned run after him. Stanton, Judge, Donson, all homer for the second day in a row. That's pretty cool for you guys. Way to go. Stanton, not good for the Yankees, according to Brian Kenny. We'll talk more about this.

Cortez and Kopec, probably my favorite matchup of all time. Yankees take three or four from the White Sox. Moving on, the Guardians go into Minnesota. They lose the series two to three. or two out of three, the twins take from them. 12, 8 twins in game 1, 3, 2, Guardians, and 10 in game 2, 3-1 twins in the rubber match there. The twins took the lead in the 9th, or with 9 in the 5th, including Royce Lewis's Grand Slam, his first career homer, first twin to do that since my guy, Danny Valencia.

Gary Sanchez also had the three-run homer there. Bieber was dominant in game 2, 6-kings pitch, one earned run, and Jimenez, had the go-ahead RBI double for the Indians there. Urchella with the go-ahead homer in the fourth of the game. Three twins take two of three from the Guardians. Moving on, the Angels, went up into Oakland and took care of freaking business. They went three out of four. Two-O angels, four-three-A's, nine-one angels, four-one angels.

So Oakland, the offense, not there at all. Marsh had to go-ahead RBI in the fourth, and Velasquez is his first homer in the season. and the fifth for the Angels in game one. One minute left. I know, I'm going real slow right now. Lots of stuff happened here. Taylor Ward had to go ahead Grand Slam in the second of game three.

Walk-off Homer for the A's in game two. Lots of stuff happened. Angels took care of business. One, three out of four. Moving on, Red Sox at Rangers. Red Sox took two out of three because I think they're the better team. Povetta does his damn thing. Seven innings pitch, one earned run for the Sox in game one.

Game two, Red Sox scored four in the second, including Devers, two-run, home run. The Rangers win the last game, seven to one, two, stave off the sweep. And then in the last series, Orioles at Tigers. Tigers, are you getting good, or did you just play the Orioles? I'm not really sure. They get the sweep four, two Tigers, three-o-t Tigers, five-one Tigers. And that, my friends, we'll get into a little bit. Cabrera had a big freaking series for them.

He's hitting the ball. The pitcher showed up for the Tigers. this year they get the sweep 4-2-305-1 and that my friends is what happened in the american league there you go all right some standings in the american league the yankees are in first place in the east they have a four and a half game lead they had a four and a half game lead on friday against the raise and it stays exactly at four and a half though the blue jays do lose a game in the standings they're now seven and a half back in the central the twins have won their 20th game.

They are 20 and 15. They are in first place in the central. They had a two-game lead. They now have a three-game lead as the White Sox and Guardians are tied for second place, both a game under 500 and three games back. In the West, Astros. And Angels technically tied.

Angels have more wins. Astros have less losses. The loss column is usually the way you do. do it. The estrus are ahead in the loss column. And let's see. Did anyone gain ground? The Mariners are seven back. The Rangers were seven.

Now they're eight. On the downside of things, the Red Sox are now 12 games back. After 34 games, that's a... Impressive. It's a big number. I mean, I think they're the biggest... The Reds are 13 games back. That's the biggest.

And then the red socks at 12. So don't be red. Don't be red. Wow. How about that? Interesting. Yeah. That's tough.

Trev, where do you want to bring us, Big Daddy? Let's go Cronpod here. We're talk raised in Blue Jays. Like I mentioned, the Blue Jays now have lost four series in a row. They're four and nine in May. So you're talking about a little skid here.

I don't think this is indicative of the team they are, but this is baseball people. There are some interesting plays there. I mentioned the Matt Chapman play. I don't think you, I saw that. I did not. Force out to second base. He kind of cuts the shortstop off

and then kind of quickly tries to get the ball over to second. And Espinol's like, what's going on here? Tries to catch it barehanded and like whiffs it almost. Run comes round to score. Weird defense from some of the games that I watched. I don't know, man. But the raise, like I said, they just, they raised them, bro.

Like winning games like that, being able to do what they can do. I did have a note. I put this note in. Springs, I think I want to say it was his debut or one of his first times

pitching in the big leagues, nasty changeups. Why are we seeing all these guys with nasty changeups all of a sudden? Like, what are we doing here? Is that the new thing? The four teams out unless you're fucking Taylor,

Hearn or Hunter Green. And Manoa pitched good. You know, he had the, the air behind him, but he's still a stud. So if you're, you know,

Jay's fan, I wouldn't be too worried about this series. I mean, what do you expect when you go play at the, in Tropicana? Dude,

it's going to be a weird series. I'm, they've had a pretty tough schedule. It remains tough. So they just, they really have. It's a, statistically it's the toughest

out of the 30 teams. And they're going through it right now. I mean, they had Cleveland and then they, they lost to Cleveland. So that's not, that doesn't land here. They lost three out of four to Cleveland.

Like that was a lighter barometer schedule. But, you know, their last games, Houston, New York, Cleveland, New York, Tampa. Now they host Seattle and the Reds. So if you're the Blue Jays, it gets tough again after that. You go on the road to St. Louis, L.A. You face the White Sox, Minnesota.

So, I mean, if you're the Blue Jays, is you host three against Seattle, three against the Reds, win four games out of those six. I don't care how it gets done. You can lose the series of Seattle, but then you got to sweep the Reds or you just take two out of three to both. But if you don't, then I don't think we can really do the strength of schedule argument anymore because you've fucked it up with Cleveland. So don't fuck it up with Seattle and the Reds. That would be what I would say to Blue Jays and Blue Jays fans.

I'm giving you the argument right now. You have had a hell of a stretch. Raise are raising. You know, hey, a couple wins against a team with a winning record. We talked about that a little bit. Although those Js are one game above 500. This is a team that got off to a 15 and 8 start. They were playing the Yankees in a battle of like,

okay, the Yanks look good, the Jays look good. Like, let's go. And now the Jays have sputtered hard. So yeah, it's kind of go time. A feisty Seattle team is coming in. Oh, my God. all that chaos at City Field this weekend. That series is going to be electric.

Both those teams coming in hot. But yeah, you got to blitz this Seattle series, take care of the Reds, because Jimmy just hit it. I mean, the schedule after that is tough that, I don't know. Are we going to be here on June 1st saying that the Blue Jays are like a 500 ball club? Because that's, you know, that's a yellow light. Like this team is supposed to be. They were talking to talk.

They've got a ton of talent. I don't know. I don't know, Blue Jays. Do you want to hear, I just, I had to go watch it again because I wasn't sure about this, because it just sounds so razy. So after the Chapman air, they gave the air to Chapman, they shift over on Choi.

So shortstop is kind of open. 3-0 pitch. You know, you think, oh, 3-0 get big. Just hits like a nice little line drive, right to the shortstop, score a run. is so razy, bro. Like 3-0 swinging, shift-beater,

put you up 3-0. I don't know, man. Anytime you go down and play the race, it's just like, if you get one victory, I think you kind of are happy when you go to the trough, right? They just find ways to demoralize you.

Like, I'm sure Blue Jays fans, you know, they split the first two games, and you're like, all right, we got Manoa going Sunday. Let's steal this series. Hey, Manoa looks good. Six innings, only one earn. Blue Jays got shut down.

Put up a zero spot on the scoreboard. And that's where the J's, like, they just, they just constantly find a way to slash your tires. That's what they do. The Rays? Yeah. That's Rays baseball. Slashing tires.

All right. Not me. Dumb. Is there a, we talked to Cash when C. Rose and I went down there when they were playing the Angels. She was talking about Bruce. Bruhan, he's like, this is another guy. Talking about Taylor Walls and Bruhan,

he's like, these guys are incredible. So for you guys, I guess, good luck. Look out for those. I'm interested to see Taylor Walls. I think Bruhan is the bigger prospect, but Walls has, like, racked up war this year, but his offense has been terrible. So I always love to see like, okay,

does that mean I'm going to see Taylor Walls and he's a defensive whiz, or is it one of those weird war things? But yeah, Ray's fine guys. Who's the next Joey Wendell? Because we need one. Jim. You know what I asked them. I said, you guys do anything different? He kind of looked to me like I was an idiot. Like, why would we do anything? I miss Joey Wendell. You do miss Joey Wendell.

Hot. I like watching him play 18 times a year. That was just one series, by the way, guys. So, Yankees, White So, Yankees take three out of four. They take care of business. I mentioned the Copac Cortez thing. It's just incredible. Like one guy's a physical specimen, beautiful, long hair. the other guy's Michael Copac. It's why baseball is a beautiful sport. After three innings, Nestor had spent 14 minutes total on the mound, and Copac had spent 38, something like that. It's just, it's Nestor Cortez.

I mean, he's on his way to the All-Star game right now. He's unbelievable. I kind of want to do a video on, like, what he's doing because it's cool. The Yankees started a rookie in game one, and we're going to let him go until whenever. they were tied 7-7 and the 7th, and the final score is 15 to 7. On the White Sox side of thing,

I say this, I said it in a post-game recap and I say it, what's going on? Like, what's, they look unmotivated and it's just sloppy and their bullpen isn't great right now. Hendricks came in and he got got, Joe Kelly. I know he's only made three appearances so far, but he made two in this series,

and I think they clipped him for runs. in both of them. Graven looked good. C struck out 11, but any ball that did get hit was like a homer. So it was just a weird, a weird White Sox defense was bad.

They're saying that the infield is soft and there's soft spots in the infield and that's why it's bad. White Sox infield is the most unique playing surface. And I don't mean that in a nice way. I hated playing defense. Okay.

in Chicago, what they do. And I'm not sure they still do this. I think they do. You go out there pregame, and do you guys know what, God, I forget the name of it now. It's the stuff they put on top of the dirt. Yeah, well, I've seen them sprinkle in and rake it.

Quick dry or whatever. It's called Quick Dry, I think. Is it called Quick Dry? You'll go out there and they'll have mounds of it in the back of the infield and they spread so much of it throughout the infield. you're not playing on like the dirt that you're used to. You're playing on top of this, whatever it's called.

It's weird. I never liked it. It gets choppy. Your foot goes in. You can move a lot of it. So I'm assuming that's what they're saying is soft. I don't know if the grass is playing weird too. I never,

ever liked playing defense in Chicago because of that reason. Why do they, why don't they change it then? I mean, Tim Anderson's got 10 errors and they're saying it's because there's soft spots. This is a lot. Allegedly, allegedly, this is the rumor going on when we were playing, was that like the grounds crew, the head ground crew guy, like has some sort of like,

like they just use more than anybody else because he has some sort of partnership with them. I don't know. I swear, I swear, that's the rumor. I'm not saying it's true. I'm not saying that's true. Could have started as a joke and then it just becomes kind of like a meme. Like, oh, he's getting paid to use a lot. But it's, you're saying that.

I don't think when I was there, it wasn't. like a joke. It was like this dude. What? That was the scuttle button in the dugout. Okay. I'm just trying to, it's not. Just need a little context with it. That's all. What's the language of origin? Pirate.

White Sox need a locker room fight. They're, they're kind of playing of unpassionate brand of baseball. The other thing is, I mean, hey, Gio Lito comes back from injury. Now he's on the COVID aisle. Lance Lynn's been gone.

my guy, Elo Jimenez is supposed to come back at some point. So they are still missing a lot of talented players, but the product was tough to watch. You know, the Yankees could have easily taken all four of these games. They have a nice little five gamer with the Royals coming up. So, hey, you snag four out of five there and you're right back on track. But yeah, it was weird vibes from the White Sox, you know, a team that's, we talk about their talent, potentially the most talented team coming into.

the 22 season in the American League, and they did not pass the vibe check at least this weekend. So, I mean, they've had the injury bug pretty serious this year, so I'm going to believe some of that. But yeah, man, they kind of got to get it going, because it was blah. The whole thing was blah. Well, they got that fiery young manager in there.

What's he doing with that squad, bro? He's really got him going, huh? Are you kidding me, White Sox? That's a freaking managerial higher I picked you to go to the World Series this year. Jose Ibray who needs to like pick someone up by their feet and shake him. Well, he was 0 for 20 and now he's not. So maybe he can do that.

He can do that. All right. Yeah, he's looked good. Guardians lose to the twins. They are the barometer. But it was nice to see Bieber have a good start. Sixth scenes pitch, one run run on the Guardian side of things.

He had a really bad one against the Blue Jays earlier. And I would like him to be an ace. He's kind of been quiet this season. He is fun to watch pitch. Go, go, go, twins, go. Shout out my go. My goi. That's guy and boy mixed together if you didn't know that.

Goi. Yeah. Goi. My goi. He is a kind of a guy boy. Perfect. I meant to do that. Shout out.

Grand Slam for the first career Homer. Like I mentioned, my other friend, Danny Valencia, the last guy to do that for the twins. You know who was against? It was in Kansas City. Zach Grinky. Oh, I was going to guess that. He posted a highlight on his IG because he wanted people to tell him.

You're really good, Danny Valencia. Twins take care of business. Giorchella makes some nice plays over that third base. I mean, are bucks in, 11 homers? A third? Dude, real nice plays. Are twins fans down? Like, twins fans.

Can we hug? Like, are you enjoying watching Geo play third? Donaldson made some really nice plays for the Yankees at third, but the way Gio moved around there was special and fun and cute and awesome, so I do miss that. I hope he's doing the same for you guys. He is. He made some plays down the line,

like choppers down the line where he gets the ball. Back can't has to make a really strong throw. Like, you know, interesting arm angles. He's shown there. He's showing it off. He hits a big home run in this series. And Trev, as an homage to you, which I love seeing the twins family do this.

He is leading the AL and ground into double plays. So that's love. That's family. Oh, he's got a constant limp. That's Twins baseball. It's Twins baseball. First place, AAL Central. Is it going to be Twins,

Yankees? You know the history. There are twins have dominated that in the playoffs as of late. I hope for our state is not. Luckily, the twins do well against Houston, too. No one likes us when the Yankees are playing the twins. Nobody likes you guys because you're mean. Because it's just, it's like don't like, you know, you know.

Shout out Smelter, season debut, five innings, pitch, one earned run. Gotta love my guy, Dev. Love your guy, Dev. We all love Dev and Smelzer. I also love Joey Ryan coming back and having a nice start. He was another guy that had a rough outing and I want him because he's hot. And like the turtleneck look in summer, like I hope he does that all year. The standard sleeveless turtleneck is unbelievable.

Yeah. you pointed that out first Trev, but just... It's called a dicky. It's nuts and stupid. Never heard that. A lot of people are on the dicky train. I believe they Googled it. No one's ever... Whatever. It looks great on him.

He pulls it off. I'd be so uncomfortable. Our boy, Richie Pelosi, who came over to our house in Spring Training, almost robbed a few homers. He was going up trying to get him. He didn't get him, but good effort. I just want to shout him out. A huge effort. Not a great ping pong player either, but... Was he good?

I don't remember. Did I play him? That hasn't come out yet. She was okay. Dylan Cousins was playing ping pong without a handle on his ping pong paddle. Do you remember that? Yeah, I do. He also tried to beat Jacob up with Woods balls.

He could beat Jacob, I think. Low man wins. We need, like, not for this show, but, like, we need to talk to this guy. He's attempting to be in the NFL, and he's, like, working out with all these NFL players, besting all of their numbers. in the gym and like all these drills. I don't know. We'll talk about it.

Put him in a hot tub with my brother. Yeah. See if he can wrestle him. Yeah. Jimmy's brother is slippery. Slippery, yeah. I tried to keep him underwater and I could not. Jake and I both tried to drown him and we couldn't.

He's a slippery dude. Jake was impressed. Angels take three of four from the A's, which is obvious. Good job. Angels. You need to do it. And by the way,

it was really close to being four of four. but shout out to our guy. Luis Berrera? Barara. Hits his first Major League home run. You might as well make it a three-run walk-off. Good for you, kid. But yeah, the halos go to work.

Their pitching goes to work, Jim. I know you like that. Me and Joe's were just talking. Looks like they're going to, like, I don't know. I'd like. Otani's starting to get hot? The angels are looking good. Boing.

We keep, at least in my mind, I'm like, are they going to turn into a pumpkin? That's a reference to the classic Disney movie Cinderella. Okay. But they're just not, bro. Midnight's come and gone, players. They're still partying up at the ball. Class slippers are not.

They took them off. Fuck slippers. It's time to party, right? Fuck slippers. Lorenzen. Let's party. That's what they say. Lorenzen, we saw C.

Rose and I sat down and chat with the guy. First, number one. The hair works for him. He's got a little longer hair, hot boy. Hotter than I give him credit for being. I know he's big and strong. and some people might like that, but the face was okay.

We talked to him about pitching. He's very excited about what they have in there. And I don't know if they're proving people wrong. Are they proving people wrong? Or like, I guess they are. I think Lorenzen, including me, I mean, the Reds wouldn't let him start.

I kind of was like, really? I don't know. And he's seven innings pitch, one run right here. So yeah, I think Lorenzen's proving people wrong. I think Taylor Ward is proving his manager wrong. Another go-ahead grand slam.

I mean, he's nuts. And he said nobody in the big leaves can get me out right now. And it's going to sound funny. I know what that feeling feels like, man. It's amazing. I didn't have it for very long, but every hitter in the big leaves, if you go through a hot stretch,

there's a time where you're like, fuck, man, nobody can get me out. It's a fleeting feeling, Taylor. So try to bottle that up as much as possible, unless you're Mike Trout, you know, or one of these big-time mashers is a fleeting feeling. So bottle that up, but he's been incredible. then Sandoval goes six and a third one and run.

And this guy, Hergit, but you got, you guys, pitching ninjas all over this guy. You've seen him kind of throw? Dude, Hergut. Do you know this? Yeah, Hergut just reached out. He wants to, like, come in the warehouse, I think. Spoilers.

No, not allowed. He's filthy, like, no. Well, I'm just. He can play you guys. I think he, they're trying to, like, do whatever. Yeah, he's interested. And Jay, I think he's never got out. Basically, Hergit versus Taylor Ward all over again.

Did you hear what Otani calls Tyler Wade? Yes, I did. I don't know the term. What is it? Ekemen. Eichmann. Yeah, I don't know if it's France. It's a soft eye.

It's Ekeman. Ekeman. Ekeman. Which means hot. Hot boy. Hot guy. Oh, he's seen mine and mansling baseball. Where's Lispore?

Yeah. Yeah. Which is coming out soon, our 2022 version. The Red Sox won a series. That's good for them. Povetta with his first win of the season. sevennings pitch one earned run for them. Red Sox scored four in an inning.

So the offense came alive for at least a little bit. Rich Hill first start since having COVID. He had a nice outing. They had another four run inning the Red Sox in game two. And then they lost in game three, I think. The Martin Perez Redemption game that everyone was talking about. Yeah, the Red Sox used an opener in game. Yeah.

So and then Halk pitched three in it. Why? They're just trying to save like baby Halk a little. Baby Halk. What? Two really. I'm genuinely curious. Why would you not just have Halk open that game?

They're trying to save him from the top of the order. Ask your Red Sox fans. Yeah, I'm asking Red Sox fans. Can you let me know why would you do Davis as an opener to Halk and not just start Halk? It seems like Red Sox fans. What do they say? Sound off in the chat.

How about Pivotta? two really, really good starts. Full pension Piv went six innings, no earned run against the White Sox and his last time out, this time seven innings with only one earned run. So he's finding it. I said he was the key to success for Boston.

I've been wrong about that. Their starters had been good, and he had been bad, but they've been losing because their offense has been poor. I think we're all wrong about the Red Sox in some way. Boston, a awful start to the season. no real other ways to chop it up.

They've got Houston and Seattle at home, and then they play three versus the White Sox. So these are three teams that had playoff aspirations coming into the season. Man, if they can start getting the ship on the right track and win a couple series, like win two out of three series, they have Baltimore, Cincinnati, and Oakland, which then if you can write the ship that's when you can hit it

and try to reel off six games and try to salvage this season. Otherwise, I mean, we're talking trade parts for Bogatz. Pittsburgh Pirates, good or bad offense. I mean bad. Better OPS Plus

in the Boston Red Sox right now. That is jarring. Yeah, they've been brutal. Go check out Vogelback's Instagram, though. Good follow. Really? Good follow. Do I not follow him?

Yeah. Can I make the same joke I made or is it not allowed? I forget exactly what you made and a little nervous. It's thick. I said it looked like Gavin Lux was inside him trying to escape. Yeah. And that one picture. And that one picture.

Yeah. Well, if you just end that sentence, Gavin Lux was inside him. That's a different, whole different thing right there. Oh, Tiger's. Can I tell you there was one series that made me a little sad. my Orioles that have been putting up a lot of fight so far this season and now our Yankees play them. I'm interested to see if they bounced back,

but they were missing. Mount Castle went on the aisle and hazed in it play. Two tough righty bats for them. And then I also got a little optimistic. Tigers, almost a similar boat to the Red Sox. Like, are you guys going to salvage your season at all? It's kind of go time. Their starting pitchers dropped dick.

And hey, they got off to a terrible star last year. maybe that's just the tiger's things. Terrible. Pineta hurt. That's a bummer. Big dude. Hmm. Yeah.

Orioles. Yick. Mount Castle may, Hayes are pesky, but really it's Mount Castle, Mullins, Mancini, and Santander when they played the Yankees.

Those are like... Those Santander. Those are pests. Are you ready for the Inter League? I sure am. Shout out, Maggie Cabs. Hot. Nice basement.

The Mariners traveled east to New York City to play the New York Metropolitan's. They took game one, two to one in a pitcher's duel, Gonzalez versus Scherzer, both only allow one earned run. France had to go ahead. R.B.I. The Mets won game two, five to four. Basset pitched well. Patrick Mazzica. Go ahead, home run in the seventh, after Winker had the game tying through her in home run,

the top half, fun times there. And then in the rubber match, the Mariners win, 8 to 7. Robbie Ray gets got. Cookie Carasco gets got. Cal Raleigh. Go ahead, two-run, home run. Julio Rodriguez had four hits with a home run. How about that?

Mets leave the base. is loaded in the nine. Alonzo, full count. Check swing K to end the game. Good fun series between those two teams. The Astros went to the Capitol to take on the Nationals. They got it done in game one with a great Framber start, 7.2. One earned run in the game two, the Nationals win.

How about that? Javier in the rotation at a bad start. I think it's the first bad start by an Astra starter in a long time. Game three, Verlanders out there, five shutout innings, up against Corbin. Ooh, those five earned runs. Not good. Jeremy Pena sat the whole series, sat down, watched it, the whole series. Kelsey's Royals?

No, psych. Strike that, reverse it. Eric Stone Street's Royals went to Denver to play Kelsey's Rocks. The Royals took two out of three. A lot of runs, 14 to 10 in game one as Granky and Freeland and the defense. Both just blow it.

Game two, the Rockies win 10 to 4. Hernandez gets lit up. And in game three, the Royals win on a go-ahead two-run single in the ninth after the Rockies had scored seven in the seven to take the lead. Score seventh in the seventh to take the lead. Might as well score eight and win it, but they didn't. All right, quickly, the Royals and the Rockies, good job by the Royals to win a series.

The Rockies were home and they lost, so I don't like that for the narrative. They like the narrative there. I don't know if you guys have much of say on that. the Mets and the Mariners is a really fun series. A little bit more on the Mets and Mariners situation coming up later in the show. Game one, though, Gonzalez and Scher, 6.2 innings pitch,

one run for Gonzalez and seven innings pitch, one and run for Scherzer. Then you have the winker drama in game two, and then you have bases loaded full count, one run game in game three. So they put on a show these two teams. I think both fan bases enjoyed it a bunch. More on some of it.

Later. Hello. Oh, okay. We'll keep our thoughts quick here. Tough for the Mets to get the news about McGill. I haven't talked to Jolly yet. Is he okay? That's like his guy.

He looked okay. He looked okay this morning. Yeah, Mets are doing it. Mets are doing it. That's a big blow, though. God. I don't want to rain on the parade there, but that's massive for them. Feisty mariners.

A lot of pent-up stuff coming out. I love it. Mets had to lose their first series at some point. Mariners, will they get going again as we're at this six-week, seven-week mark who we know there's going to be two or three teams that we look back in another six weeks from now and we're like, wow, they had a crap first month and then they figured it out, could this be what gets them going?

We just know they're heading up to Toronto now and Toronto. Both those teams need series win. They had a long East Coast trip. They do Boston after that for four? Yeah. Wow. That's a one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine. Ten game trip east from the Mariners. Metz, Toronto, Boston. Wow. And if I missed it, I'm sorry, I was sending a very important email.

Thai France, Chris Rose rotation. Mm-hmm. I didn't say the rotation part. Pretty cool. Pretty cool. Pretty cool. Astros, they take two out of three. They get, they finally get a bad start from Christian Javier. I'm not trying to knock them. I've been talking about how good their pitching has been.

Framber 7.2, one earned in the first. And the Astros scored five in the first, which gives Framber like a little bit of leeway to just go do his thing. Astros have now won, what is their record in their last 20?

16 and 4. 16 and 4 in their last 20. 9 and 1 in their last 10. they're kind of rolling and I think they're coming close to being out of this stretch where they get an off day soon or some breathing room good for them for like maybe they're only want an off day at this point they're so complete and if you're an angels fan you got to be like hey guys can you give us a little bit of breathing room here we're playing really good can you just play like sort of good not really really good like you have been that's always tough man

when you're you can't be standings watching at this point in the season for angels it's like you know this is the first time they've kind of been in this position in a while to see the astros go pace for pace for them it's it's similar to like last year with the daughters and the giants which like can one of you freaking guys lose a game or lose a series and right now the answer is no get ready get ready for that next angels Houston series July 1st that's crazy it's crazy they have 10 more games in a row the Astros before they have a game on So still in the teeth of it a little bit. I want to give a shout out.

One of my first earliest talking baseball awards went to Yadiel Hernandez. I told a very passionate story about him. He's 34 now. And by the way, he's raking 333, 370, 886 OPS came over as a 29 years old and was kind of toiling around in the minors. And now he's in the show, Raking. So love that for him. and we had a correspondent at this game.

Which, who? Oh, BBs, that's right. Would your scouting eyes see anything? Well, Al Tuvei, I was at the first game. Altuvei Homered first pitch and I was like, I've seen that before. Yeah, that happens. Yadio Hernandez stays hit and I always got my eyes on those gnats.

He just always hits. It's kind of nuts. Anyone talk about Frammer's glove, your face? No. Doesn't you have a bigger glove this year? I haven't noticed it. Really? I don't think so.

Not the game I watched. Oh, man. Okay. I watched one game where it didn't look as little. Maybe he's got a couple now. Is he onto it? No. No, you're right.

There's no way. He just probably forgot his glove. Pretty cool matchup, Verlanders Soto. I don't know how many times we're going to get to see that, huh? Yeah, that's nice. Like, not ever. Like, this is it, right? Did those guys ever face each other?

Yeah. In the World Series. The World Series. Yeah. In the face to them in the World Series? Probably. Probably, yeah. But we'll forget.

Are the Nashvilles going to be in the World Series any time soon? Unfortunately, that's mean. I shouldn't say that. They could be, man. Things happen quick. Do you remember what they did? What was the year? They won?

19. 19. Yeah. 19 and 31. That shit was wild. Nelson Cruz. That's a long time ago, too. the way. That seems like not too long ago.

I had a real weird thought about telling younger, telling my, you know, my grandkids or my son about like a pitcher that I would want to be like, yeah, I saw him pitch. That isn't like a I don't know how to put this in the words, whatever. It's 10 Lincolm. It's like, he's probably the guy that I'd be

like, yeah, yeah, fucking hat. It was only five years, but you had to see it. Interesting. That's a good question. Like, I think, well, he's, because he's Hall of Fame quality, but it was just in a brief stint. I thought you were looking for someone that you had to be like was good. I'm guessing my thing is like Verlander.

Like my, our generation saw Verlander and another generation saw Nolan Ryan. And they're probably like similar like in like dominance and performance and vibes around them. But like Linsicum was his own animal when he was doing it. It's a freak. Zito. Yeah. Yeah. Zito's curves back then.

Yeah. Like Fernando. Like Fernando. Like Fernando mania for the Dodgers or not. Duke a duke yeah like you know Felix Hernandez when he was I mean like when he was prime the Seattle fans shown up that was a special atmosphere there too been some fun pictures even though I hate starters there's been some fun times okay you want to move on the second half of the show I think so go Kelsey winger go

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but I believe no, because if you don't have a mustache, you can still have a beard. Like the Amish. Like, I think you two both have mustaches. Oh, then you, like, I don't think you would, I think you don't, would not describe me as,

me as a mustache. If you shaved off. If you shaved off. If you shaved on camera, if you shave, if you, if both of you shaved your beards, you would have mustaches.

We haven't shaved our beard. So now you're on the, now you're on our side. Right now. Well, no, it's like two separate items. What's this called? Soul Patch? Flavor saver.

Hmm. All right. Moustache is sands the other part of your face. Like, I could shave my beard into just a, into a mustache. Oh, you could shave your mustache right now and you'd still have a beard. Yeah, but that's not a question. Gabe Kapler says he has a mustache, but he doesn't. He has a full beard.

He would need to shave his cheeks to have a mustache. Maybe that's, maybe the caveat is full beard. Because you can do the chin strap look and that's technically a beer, but it's not a full beer. I don't know. Back in the day, what we have, trap wouldn't even be considered a beard. Yeah. And needed to fall off your face. Like if it, if you got like something like in here, I guess you could, you would say then, like you got something in, would you say that you got something in your mustache with something got up there?

Yeah, that's a good point. Oh, shit. But I also wouldn't sit. But I, but I'm with you that I wouldn't say like. You just can't describe him as having him. Jimmy has a mustache. I don't know. That was a good point, BPD.

You and Gabe Kepler always. I always said to you guys are facing the same person. Jake, you're up. I am. Standout performance. We highlight players that did really good jobs. You boys were talking about them a little bit, and I was like, you know what?

I'm not even going to hit him with that you might hear about him later, because we can't talk about this guy enough. Nestor, Cortez, Jr. Our King, 511, 210, a.k.a. 510. We'll give him 2.15. He's not too big, but he's thick. Nestor Cortez Jr. He comes up to the major leagues. He's this soft-throwing lefty, and everyone's like, all right, let's see what you got, kid. He gets knocked around a little bit. Baltimore, New York, Seattle. Knocked around, knocked around. He looks like the kind of guy that you're like, I don't know if that guy's going to stick around in the major leagues. Since last year with the New York Yankees, he has 133 innings pitched with 152 strikeouts and a 244 ERA.

He went out and he threw eight innings, one earn run against the Chicago White Sox. He is leading the American League in ERA with a 1-3-5. For a while, Yankee fans were scared to talk about Nestor. It was kind of like this party might come crashing down. Let's enjoy it while we're here. It was one of those things like, let's not even talk about what's going to happen next. It was like young love that you knew wasn't going to work out. But it's working out.

And by the way, baseball savant likes them. Expect a ERA, expecting batting average K percentage. He's striking dudes out. The only thing on his baseball savant that's blue is his fastball velo. And, you know, the game went velo, velo, velo that it looks like, and hopefully there's room for more Nestor-Cortez-Zer. juniors. And man, he is a guy you should root for. He is a 36 round pick. He's a silly guy if you follow his social media stuff and his mustache. What a segue you guys set up for me there.

And by the way, it's not just a party trick anymore. He's shoving his whip is 0.85. He just gets out there and throws it. That's all he wants to do. Josh Donaldson gave him a player comp yesterday that I really liked. Little Mark Burley, just a lefty that's out there without fear, ready to go every pitch. Burley! Shout out to Nestor Cortez

for throwing a two and a half hour game yesterday that let us go to the Rangers playoff game on time. King Nestor, he is the absolute best, and he is my standout performer. I guess I like that comparison. Mark Burley worked quick. Does Nestor have the pickoff move like Burley?

Because no one could even run on Burley. he's got that. He just couldn't run on him. Burley doesn't have sexuality, though. Okay, Burley was the guy that you'd score three runs off in the first, and you think you're going to score 10, and then before you knew it, it'd be the eighth inning, and you'd still have three runs. So, I mean, that's a good comparison.

Josh Donaldson's the best. Hitting coach. We'll have Monsoon. Play some good defense, too. My gosh. Am I up? Let's hear it. My stand-up performance, I'm going on. all Cardinals today. All freaking Cardinals, those birds, my friends. Paul Goldschmidt goes three for four with the Homer, two doubles, three ribbies against Carlos Rodon. The reason I gave this to him

was the abats. First abat, he's up there. I think it was two pitches in a row. Guy gets on in front of them, Goldschmidt first pitch, fastball down the middle, just absolutely turns on it. Just a freaking bomb up there in Big MacLand. Next at bat, he gets to 2-1 on Rodon. And in his mind, he's obviously thinking, well, I just took his fastball, you know, 500 feet to left field. Like, you know, he has off-speed in his mind. Rodon throws him another heater.

And because he has that in his mind, you know, he's a little late on it, but his swing path is so freaking good, double down the right field line. To be able to do both of those things in the same game, basically on the same pitch, It just shows you how good and locked in Goldie can be. And I mean, his career stats are ridiculous. If you want to go check the baseball reference page out, please do. It's a freaking treat. But just an excellent guy.

One of the guys you get next to you don't realize how freaking big he is until you stand next to him. I mean, dude, I mean, one of the better hitters we've seen, right? Like as far as long as I've been watching baseball, Paul Goldschmidt is, I don't know, I can't give a number, top 50, whatever. but he's uh he's something man fun to watch really good swing fundamentally sound plays a good first base they like those kind of guys in st louis huh they do it's true always true always a good baseball reference and always a good eye test anytime you run into paul schmidt you're enjoying yourself cowl guy so you know he's not as smart as me i could have went to stanford but

smart I haven't as a Texas state guy well he didn't go to Cal wrong guy thinking of somebody different you're thinking of someone different that's all God forever I thought he was a Cal guy I mean maybe I lost a little bit of respect for him

Texas State tough tough break for Paul I mean his one of his nickname is America's first baseman how is he younger than me He's not a nice name. He seemed so much older than you.

So much older than me. How old is he? He's 34. He's older than me. He's older than me. Old than BBD. Yeah. So,

only one person. Younger than you, though, 50, 52 career war. Are we looking at a Hall of Famer, guys? I think so.

If they remember him. My standout, are you ready? I am. Chase Silseth. I actually don't have a process. name, Silseth, Silsus? I think you're all over it.

The Angels drafted 20 pitchers last year, if you remember, and I went 20 for 20. I was applauded them. I said, yes, finally, do it. All pitchers. He was their 11th round pick. He was expected to go higher than that. He signed for over the price,

over the slot or whatever. He's the first one from the draft class to make his debut. They're going to the six-man rotation. I don't know if he already got sent down. I think they said he's, probably going to get sent down soon as they have some off days coming up. But in his MLB debut, after only eight career minor league, it was a college pitcher, so a lot of times they can speed through a little more than others.

I think there's only two years of college. He's only 22 years old, so it's still pretty quick. He comes up, faces Oakland, six innings, one hit, two walks, I believe. It's a really good outing. and I love it because that's exactly what the Angels needed. Just a fuck ton of minor league pitchers. And you call on a dude because he was coming up from AA. I'm guessing he just matched up with the game they needed.

And he'd been pitching pretty well. Six things pitch zero and runs 4K said it was for his uncle who died last fall. And after he got drafted, said you're going to make it. So that's the emotional twist that's nice. The pitch mix is he throws, that I like is a split finger. And it looks like an old, school split finger. Just, I don't know if you saw any of this,

Trave, but you should watch some clips. It's just like that dip and dive splitter. I want that to come back. I know, I know we got guys throwing it now. You got, you know, I know Gossman's out there and even Cobb now. Yeah. Yeah, show is crazy. She always is like fancier.

This is like a little more like, I don't know, showies is like nasty, nasty. This is good. It's a good change. It's a split change. So hats off to that, dude. What a debut. Quick journey to the pros. That's fun.

Me and Trev just don't really respect those guys for not putting in their time in the minor leagues. Yeah, I'm not happy with them because they didn't grind it out as much as I did. Even if they go to college, you don't count the college years? No, college is not like the minor leagues. College is like the best time of your life,

and the minor leagues is maybe the worst time of your life. So why didn't you go to college then? Dude, I regret a lot. of things in my recruiting process. I really do. Way to bring that up. First rounder, dude. Drafts in the first round.

Slump watch? Yeah, let's do it. Emotional. I was a first rounder. Jake, run through it. Man, first on Slumwatch, Trevor Ploof. Getting emotional about being a first round pick. Jim, Toro!

Toro! We had him on Slump Watch. He put up a little two for four for you. And we'll take that after an O for 10. I think he gets just a little golfer. Good job. Get out of my face. Jim, Kyle Schwaber was on Slump Watch after an O for Chirteen.

He has three hits. But two of them are homers. He's got three walks, a hit by pitch, a 368 on base. Kyle Schwerber's off. He plays some Kyle Schwerber ball. Young, thick. Dick Austin Riley. Don't date my daughter.

That's the other guy. Three for 14, Jim. I don't know what to do with that. Isn't this? Wasn't he on still? Like, this is... He was one for six, yeah. Braves need it.

Let's keep him on. Let's keep him on. We'll see the rest. Kike, do you love me? Are you riding? He goes 250, 375. A couple walks. I think he's off.

Also a hit-by pitch, which, hey, that's how you get off slump watch. You know? Lean in. to one kid. And then Trent Grisham of the Independent. He goes two for eight, couple doubles.

Four RBI. I think that might put me over the top for getting him off this list. Sure. Just a spank clap for him. So I think that means Youngthick Austin Riley is the only one staying. So we need four people.

That means we did a great job. We did a fantastic job. We need four people to join him, Jim. Sean Murphy. O for 13. and this is a guy that should be competing for pedals, so I definitely want to put him on. Oh, he's on.

And someone brought a poster of his butt to the Coliseum, and he signed it in there. No, you haven't. Nice butt. Mentally. Okay. Ghosts. Oh, no, Bichet.

An O for 10 from Bo. Also, the same O for 10 from Brian Reynolds. O for 10 with two walks for each of them. Wilson Contreras. I mean, we're going catchers, clearly. Oh, no, Jimmy. Yeah. Oh, my God.

I feel bad for wanting, but I feel like silly even putting him on here, Mani Machado, he goes 0 for 8, two intentional walks, scared, because I feel, because he's going to get off. And then I think it's Bo Bichet. I'm sorry, Brian Reynolds.

Your team won without hitting, so that's kind of encouraged. So clearly it's not necessary. Yeah. And the Blue Jays, you know, getting near. 500 kind of go time. So it looks like our slump watch for this week. The young thick, Austin Riley. Sean Murphy, the new young thick.

That behind. Wilson Contreras, could he be your team's catcher come August? Mani Machado tweet at Jim when he's hitting and Bo Bichette with the hair and all that. Dirt nasty's on Fuego. That means I'm on fire, baby. Like Waco. Wago, Fuego, Fuego. Poppy, Trevor. Bryce Harper, your guy. Eight for 12 with three homers. Holy smokes.

Yule Gurriel, I think he had some slump watch candidates. There's an eight for 12 from the ageless wonder. My God, what do we tell our grandkids about him? Giancarlo Stanton, three homers, eight for 16, dominant. The big dude is scary when he's right. Paul Goldschmidt, you just heard about him. him six for 12 two homers miggy cabs trev's guy six for ten two homers let's go miguel he's older than trev that's cool cole calhoun we love ourselves some cole calhoun with a six for 12

brandon rogers good for the kid he had a rough start to the season seven for fourteen taylor ward yeah every episode and raffy devers goes six for 14 with four extra base hits himself So that's, tell them who's hot. Who's hot? Who sell out the spot? I gotta close the chat. It's gone. It's not bad.

It's not bad. Matt Olson? Matt Olson. They're just, uh, we haven't explained slump watching a while, so they're confused. I'm not slumping. We're watching out.

Right. For them. We're helping them. Yeah. It's preventative. You know, you'll offer in a series, we got to make sure you don't do it again.

Treb uses anti-aging cream, so he looks younger than Paul Goldschman. preventative. I have some eye cream that I use. Paul Goldschmidt is my date, my daughter guy. Oh, wow. Because Matt Olson's too good looking.

So it's like, for me, Goldie's like, Goldie's more of like a raise my kid's guy if I die. Like I feel like Matt Olson. Yeah. Matt Olson would like go the step of respecting me. Like if I,

if I yelled at him once, he'd like respect it for like it. He'd fake it. Paul Goldschmidt would just like crane me. He'd grab me by my peanut head and like, you're out. Yeah. Yeah. Did you guys know that he once gave me yesterday to get vans? Paul Goldschman. Yeah. Because he doesn't wear fans because he's an adult.

He's a man. But I'm like a teenager, so I still wear a van. So thanks Paul Goldsman for that. How did that happen? I mean, just, you know, walk us through that. It was a Players Association. You know, Jake. We have those things all the time. And it was in one of our bags, a grab bag, a gift bag, if you will. He's like, I don't wear vans. You wear vans? He looked at me.

He's like, oh, you for sure wear vans. And just gave me the gift certificate there. I'll never forget that, Paul. And that's when I realized how big he was. Oh, my God. Because he towered over me. But he still respected me. I saw the look in his eye.

Yeah, yeah. It's good. You wouldn't get that. Any one of you freaks wear vans still? It's basically what it was. Here you go, Corey Koski, enjoy him. My first award, is it brought to us? That's good.

Brought to you by the warehouse. And ball and exciting stuff. Island ball, me versus Trev happened. Yeah, Island ball, you versus Trev, you versus Moiland. I've got my one-on-one. league game tonight versus Jolly Joso's. Go check out J.M. Warehouse, if you haven't yet. A lot of fun over there. A lot of fun over there. I, men, am giving out the Mr. 100 award. Very prestigious honor. Not as high as a Vann's gift certificate, but it's good.

And it's not going to show Hey Otani for hitting his 100th Homer. It's not. Sorry, that's too easy. folks. It's going to my guy. We get nervous sometimes on here talking about Yankees. Trev said this episode was for the birds. He went full Cardinals. I am going big Aaron Judge. The Yankees. Oh, Nestor and Judge out of you, huh? The Yankees have been the best team in baseball. Trev, you're probably saying, hey, why is Aaron Judge Mr. 100? Is it something to do with this one dot OPS? It's not. It's really nice, though.

and you can make the number 100 in it. Average exit velocity, 100th percentile. Barrel percentage, 100th percentile. Hard hit percentage, 100th percentile. Expected slugging, 100th percentile. Ex-Woba, 100 percentile. Five of the, what are there, 12 boxes on baseball savant? Big Aaron Judge is the top 100th percentile.

The dude is a freak, and every time we get the opportunity to say it, he's not just a mammoth home run blaster. The guy's got batting average. He's got the contact tool. He's got on base. He plays great, incredible defense. He's got a cannon for an arm. He looks, Jim, you said this on Talking Yanks yesterday.

He looks better. than we've ever seen him. And by the way, you might remember before this offseason, he turned down a $213 million extension. You know why? Because the price tag is already gone up. The Bigfella looks incredible.

If he continues at this rate, I mean, he is making a sprint for the ALMVP. I don't know if he lands there. But man, if he lands top three, top five, and hits free agency, the big fella is in for a lot bigger payday than what the Yankees offered before the season. Big Aaron Judge is playing a special brand of baseball right now.

And it's a big part of the reason that the Yankees are the best team in baseball. Let it go, Judgey. He's almost Mr. 200, okay? We have three Mr. 200s. I'm talking about OPS plus. Obviously our guy, Tareler Ward's leading it. Mike Trout, Mani Machado, all over 200.

OPS Plus and judge sitting at 195. So he is something else, man. I don't think I gave him enough respect early on. I don't know. I just didn't pay much attention to him. But now obviously talking to you guys and knowing Dan Rourke, I really get my judge, Phil. He's incredible.

To be that big, to have those mechanics that he has and to do the things that he can do on the field is special. I'm going to say something and it's going to be rude. And a certain fan base is going to be very mad at me about it. I think a lot of people have tried to paint Judge as a Pete Alonzo. And just like a masher of baseballs. And he's like a gold glove caliber, now centerfielder,

playing more center field than right field. Center field. Can run the bases, one first to third, a bunch of times. I think in this series, against the White Sox one first or third, hits for average on base is there and the sluggings there. Like he is a five tool player. It's. Yes.

And I think a lot of the world, because they hate the Yankees, and I'm, I get it, have tried to be like, he just strikes out and hits home runs. Like he's Joey Gallo. And it's like, no, dude, he's fucking one of the more well-rounded baseball players I've seen play. It's actually judge's parents' fault because he's just too big. And when you see a guy that big, it's like you just can't imagine him playing good defense or running or doing anything but hitting homers. So I just fault his. parents for that.

So, you know, whatever. Judge and I both get a little reverse stereotyped, and it's messed up. Judgey leading the league in home runs and runs. And Trev, these are the career number, seven years now. 605 games, 277, 385, 559 slug. He averages a 943 OPS. That's rare air, man. That's rare air.

And he looks, again, he looks better than ever. It's pretty cool. I love it. T Nasty? My award, you guys can choose the name. It's Wayne Lina or Mo Wayne. What do you think? I think I like Wayne Lina better.

I'm talking about Yadier, Molina, and Adam Wainwright set the MLB record for the most team wins by a starting battery. So I got, Jay, can you give me a woo, please? who Katie Wu who covers the Cardinals for the athletic I got her story up here about this great stuff here the duo made their

311th career start as battery mates and their 355th overall appearance together now they tied this is awesome they tied Matt Thornton and AJ Prisinski for the seventh most appearances by a battery in major league history mind you this is there this is mainly a starting combination. You know, those batteries for the appearances usually held by relievers. Matt Thornton,

by the way, disgusting. You're talking about bowling balls from a lefty? I never, ever, ever wanted to face that guy, even though he was a lefty because it felt like the ball weighed way too much when he threw the ball, heavy ball. Anyways, back to Yadi and Wainwright. They got their 203 team win last night that breaks the all-time record. There was held by War. Lauren Spahn and Del Crandall. I don't give a lot of love the starting pitchers, but I do like the relationship the starting pitchers and catchers have. I mainly put that on the catchers.

I'm a big fan of catchers. But to do what these two have done is nothing short of incredible. Chris Rose had Wano on his show, the Chris Rose rotation. And they talked a little bit about their relationships, what started in the minor leagues. There was a time where Molina basically had to tell Waino, like, hey, trust me, man.

You got to trust me. and their relationship has gone swimmingly ever since. It really is a unique type of relationship that those two positions have together. You spend a lot of time going over, studying together, and then you have to not only study together, but go put that to work. And you have to be one. You know, pitchcom has come in to play now, but what I love about batteries is like the subtle nods of the head

or like, you know, the hand going over here. they have all sorts of communication or ways to communicate that most people can't see. And you come into the dugout, they could be in each other's face getting crazy and yelling at each other and then go out and have to work together again. These guys have done it for so long, 19 years apiece in the big leagues. I think it's 19 and 17 or something like that. To watch it all go down, it's just, it's kind of been incredible. So I just wanted to give a shout out to them.

The Cardinals, I can't imagine this happening in any other organization, like the way that it's worked out for them. I don't know why I say that, but it just makes sense to me in my head. So what do I call this award? Wayne Lena. Wayne Lena, congrats, guys. I mean that from the, like, being very sincere about this, like, their relationship is really, really cool to watch. And I hope we get to see it continue all year.

And then, you know, we'll see what happens next year, not promise for anybody. but I sure would like to see this continue It's been amazing to watch One of the cooler things Batteries that played together the whole time Give me the Yankees Like whose Yogi Bear is like battery made That they always talk about

Like who would be his Yogi played for so long I don't think he had a pitcher I mean he had Whitey Like I would guess it would be Whitey and Yogi But Elston came in to play Halfway through Yogi's years So I don't know

And baseball's so cool It's like You know Yadis from Venezuela. Where's Waino from? Wherever he's from. Like that special relationship, you know, over the bond of baseball, I don't know. It gets me sometimes.

I think about that people coming from all over the world, playing a sport together, and then developing these cool relationships. It's like one of my favorite things about baseball is the fact that like so many cultures, so many shapes and signs is you develop stuff like this. That's my baseball is the best, dude. Yadi Puerto Rican. I'm not sure. God, he is Puerto Rican.

You're all right. I think you meant it. Even the way you said. I was thinking Micky Cavs. I've had it in my head a lot today because I watched a lot of his highlights from this weekend. My bad.

The way you said Venezuelan sounded like you meant to say Puerto Rican and a story we went tough. Through this off season. That was a bad look for me. They spent Thanksgiving together. Wayno brought the fam down to Puerto Rico.

Hey, that's beautiful. There's some fun athlete stuff there. Yeah. We go. Whitey Ford, 252 games with Yogi, but 195 with Elston Howard. So I don't know who. There's a lot of games. Jimbo.

My award is the Good, Clean Fun Award. Say it again? Good, clean fun. Ah, okay. Best kind. The best kind, the good clean fun. It goes to Jesse and the Mets. Winker in the Mets

I don't remember a rivalry Like this They exist I want you guys to help me out here But it's one of the most respectful rivalry Like Winker Hits a home run And Chasing Shrieve got pissed off

He pimps it Mets fans boo He smiles at them If Winker was traded to the Mets Tomorrow he'd be the most beloved Met. Like, it's so fun. I was reading a lot of Mets fans' tweets,

and they're like, well, no, we don't actually hate them. It's kind of like, it's wrestling. They're like doing a flirty dance, Winker in the Mets. And it's all because that first instance, I forget exactly what happened, but the guy had a sign to like, fuck you Winker, like something like that. And Winker signed it or asked to meet him.

And Winker's been on this show, asked to come on and chat with us, Trev to do his scooter gang was awesome. Was one of my favorite conversations we had because it felt like we were just chatting with the buddy because he was just a funny dude and gets it. It's from Buffalo, right? Yep.

So what they have going on just to add the first. The first sign said Jesse Winker, you're a straight up bitch. Yeah, you're straight up bitch. And he liked it and like met the guy and signed it instead of turning it into an actual thing. And then that kind of made everyone be like,

all right, so this is a thing. Then he hits the home run, and then I believe he was the last out of the game. D.S. struck him out. God, man, that is so fun. You cannot manufacture this, but whenever you get, like, a little bit of a spark of this, every team shit.

Like, we had it with Gritchick, but that wasn't like all of Yankee Stadium in Gritchick. It was kind of just us, and we would call him that fuck, and he would torment the Yankees, and we would laugh and nod at each other. But it wasn't, like, this is all. of City Field and Winker doing the dance together of like fake hate each other but honestly stop killing us but we respect you but this is fun vibe it's cool it's really fun to watch

so I don't know more of that organically you can do it baseball is there anyone you can think of uh for doing when the Yankees were getting there and then uh they both kind of bailed on each other they had that fun There's Votto and What city is that? Is it Pittsburgh that he messes with the fans all the time? Yeah, that's a good one. That's a good one.

Trying to think, yeah, it's, It's tough because it's usually crosses a lighthearted line at some point. I told C-Row's this morning, like if you're playing outfield and, you know, a tough city to play outfield. So, you know, Boston, New York, Philly, sorry, fan bases, like it's tough to play. I think you guys pride yourself on that anyway.

The best thing you can do is just kind of have fun with it. You could ignore it to a certain extent, but it's not going to stop. If you get really mad at someone that's just going to get worse, but if you kind of mess around with them and take a few balls out there and throw them up, whatever, I think that's the, it is the best way to handle it. Because then it's like,

it's not like a mean spirit. It becomes more like fun, friendly banter back and forth. So I think Winker kind of knows that. Yeah. It's cool. Let's see. I think he also.

who's the best friend of the week as I look up a stat real quick. Best friend of the week is Dansby Sponson. Three hits on the weekend. Two of them were homers, six RBIs. Thanks to walk in there. Wow. So the first time? Dan's his first of the year.

Winkers got 10 games at City Field, 830 OPS, two homers, two doubles. I thought there would be more than that. That's good. It's not bad. The chat is roasting me. For what? Your vans?

Because I said that Yadi was from Venezuela. We covered it. I messed up people. Some people have a bad day. I'm still going. You're good, man. You'll say the wrong thing's all time. I love that Puerto Rico is part of the U.S.,

but it's not part of the U.S. It is. It's really not. You know what? A lot of crypto people. So Jake, check Puerto Rico out, bro. How's that portfolio doing? Terrible lately.

Elevator talk. Let's spin this wheel. What's the website I use? We'll decide. Okay, probably a good one. But no, I use We'll Decide. Here we go. I'm going to check Elevator.com.

Oh, nobody has it. It's the Mets. It's the New York Mets. The New York Mets are the team that came up that we are getting in an elevator. And this, you know, we get an elevator. to come up to our office now, and we have Mets fans in the office.

So this is a very realistic situation. They're good. They lead the league in wins in the National League, I believe. I don't know. They just lost a series. Buck's showalter's awesome. Shakira came to town. Buck was excited to meet her.

Who isn't excited to see Shakira? Jacob de Grom gets his follow-up MRI today. It's big news. Metz. news. McCann just went to the aisle, McGill. You know what? Brandon Nimmo.

I've said it on here before. Yeah, he's hot right now. I've said it on here before. I look at the stat page and what I see is an incredible baseball player. Maybe you said you need to watch more Machado. I want to watch more Nimmo because I see a center fielder that's going 304, 414, and 887 OPS. And his career stats are there too. And if you go to their baseball reference right now, Scherzer and McNeil are next to each

other and it's like, whoa. Have you, how many players, Jake sucks, how many players do you think of had to clean up for the mess this year? Four. One, Pete Alonza. Love that. Every single game. Can I say on this show?

Shakira. Oh, I love Shakira. Yeah. That's like, I, like, hot. All time. Yeah. It's all time. Gosh, dang. Shakira.