Talkin' Baseball (MLB Podcast) - 499 | Tony La Russa Walks Trea Turner, Phillies win 7th Straight, & Angels Snap the Losing Streak

Episode Date: June 10, 2022

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Hello and welcome to episode number 499 of Talking Baseball. And we got some baseball to talk about, don't we? How about it? Let's do it. Hello and welcome to Talking Baseball. My name is Jimmy. Sit next to me is Jake. We got Trevor Plouffe in California wearing blue.

And producer BBD behind the dish wearing beer cans. It's brought to you by Seatkeek. And we are very excited to recap the week. that was in Major League Baseball, some drama, some high drama, and some results. Almost every single game played was finished. And I can't wait to talk about it. Trev, how you doing in your matching blue outfit? I do look very blue today.

I'm rep in Paris Saint-Germain, my Frenchman. You know how I roll soccer kits all summer long for this guy. I'm excited. It's Friday. I got a little birthday shindig going on tonight, which is cool. and then next week I get to come see you guys for a top secret event that we're doing. Things are looking up.

Baseball's hot in the streets. We got meetings. We got Tony LaRusa doing Tony LaRusa stuff. And you're right, James. I think all of the games did finish, which is nice. Jake, you look good today. What's up, bro?

It's because I'm back in my uni, Treff. What's going on talking Trev, talking John Boy, talking Beebe. Bebers. Sorry we're late for the live crowd. A couple of my buddies swung by the office swung by the office this morning. It was good to see him. A couple of guys I used to play ball with. Ian Hap, Anthony Rizzo, Scott F. Ross. Not a big deal. The boys were back. I had, you know, threw on my Cubs uni to remember, remember the good times playing over there and Wrigley. And they're playing the Yanks this weekend. So,

Sorry about that, but I'm doing well. I'm doing well. I do have to pee really badly to start the episode. Oh, my God. It feels like a massive miss. And you're the NL. And I'm the NL and I'm bad lead off. So at some point this episode, I'm going to have to leave and pee.

Go pee right now while I have ripped the read. No, I'm not. Yeah. I'm ready to NL, dog. If I'm peeing, I'm going to start thinking about it. I have a question for the chats. There's all things we have to do. You think I should pee right.

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We got to stay tight because the IL got a lot going on. Did you guys hear me complain about the IL or am I freaking juiced about it? Oh, you're so juiced. You're too sexy. Congratulations, DJ. I made you finally made it into the most exclusive home run club there is in baseball, the triple digit home run club. I gave him the Trevor Plouffe Award last night on talking Yanks.

Let's do it. All right, Jake. It's a Frenchman. Hmm. I see if my thing's working. Oh. There you go. Tell us what happened in the N.

Boys, how about we head back to the scene of the crime? You remember the sausage race in Milwaukee? John Boy and that hamstring thing? Well, guess what? The brewers got torn up themselves by the Phillies. Where's your broomstick, Treb? They finally got rid of Gerardy. They finally got rid of Gerardy.

He was the problem. Phillies win three, two behind John Boys, Ranger Suarez. We like that. Hater's in for the save. Gives up his first home run of the season, Alecbom.com. And then he says, you know what?

If we're going to do it, do it again. Matt Veerling. Can you believe it? Phillies win three, two. They come back against our friend and stud Josh Hater. And then Aaron, N-O-L-A-N-O-L-A-N-O-L-A

8 shuddy. They went in a blowout and they sweep them. How about it? They kind of knock around, Corbyn Birds. There were some errors in this series. There always is an Affili series, but they sweep.

They finally got rid of Charity. Padres take two out of three. Every episode, the San Diego Padres do something that I like. They take two out of three from the New York Mets, to won the first game of this series behind Cookies Carrasco.

Another nice outing from him, seven innings, ten punchies. How about five to a light, Trev? You boy, Eddie Escobar with the cycle. I love it. Too bad. They lose the next two games. Mania and Bassett, the former athletics bowl on the final day. Bassett gets knocked around.

Mania outduals him. Big sweat. Tyler McGill coming back for the Metsune. A Darvish. He also had a good start in game. He had a no hitter going in the 6th. But he was hitting Mets players. Alonzo, scary. MRI negative. He'll be all right. Mets lose a series. Padres, I'm impressed.

Giants? Evan Longoria. I know your friends with Trev. I know your friends with Joe's. Can't be losing two or three to the Rockies at home. The game the Giants did win was the meat of the sandwich series. want it an extra innings. Luis Gonzalez walkoff, bad phrase for Yankee fans. Uh, the run scored on a misplay by Charlie Blackman. We don't like that. Everything else was good, though. Charlie Blackman hit the go-ahead Homer in the first game. Uh, that was a good scene. If you didn't see it, the boats were going nuts in the bay, guys flipping over each other. What's going on McCovey

Code? Do we like it? We love it. Rockies, big fourth inning by Jim's Janice and Daza. Uh, how about that? Cobb goes to the aisle. We don't like that. Crawford gets banged up. Giants? Are we watching you? Marlins!

They're in the news for some different reasons. How about them sweeping the nationals? Yeah, I mean, nationals think. Jazz Chisholm. How's your burger? Two home run, six RBI, including that second inning grand slam. Sandy, Akantara. A contara.

A contra. Never sure if we're saying that right. We might have to figure it out if he wins the day. Sam Cy Young Award this year. Who! Lordy, trouble so hard. And then, hey, Steven Strassburg comes back. We love that.

We don't love 4.27 earned against my guy, Rogers, with five innings pitch. Marlins, they bust out the broom six. Can they be a factor in this 2022 season? Listen to find out more. And the debacks in the Reds, they split four. My Snakes kind of blew the first two games. Reds were hitting all series, but the snakes may never die. They come back and win the second two games.

Tyler Stevenson, we hate this. Friend of Johnboy Media, out four to six weeks with a fractured right thumb. Debacks came back in the final game. That was fun. Merrill Kelly with six shuddy. We play for rings in the desert. Graham Ashcraft, have a year, babe. He goes shut peace again for six innings.

Reds, I don't know. Debex, I love you, baby. And that's what happened in the National League. You are on fire. On fire. Rizzo kind of like passed the torch to me. He confirmed my story from the other day. I'm hot.

Oh, like he was trying to be cool. You confirmed the coolness like ball toss? Yes. That's amazing. Yeah. Wasn't the railing. There's an angled box that he used. Okay.

That makes way more sense. A railing is like... But it's like by the railing. Yeah, well, I understand it. You don't know there's a box there. Right. So you're from your perspective, from Jake's perspective,

everything he said happened happened. And then you get a little more insight. There was an angled thing that he used. And it was his first time ever doing it. First time. And he didn't know it was Jake until he saw the person that caught it. He saw the little boy that caught it.

Yeah. Might you laugh. All right. In the National League, um, the Brewers. their lead was two games. They're now tied in the lost column with the Cardinals.

The Braves sneak up on the Mets a little bit. The Dodgers keep their lead. The Padres get one closer to the Dodgers. I'm interested in the Brewers stuff first, Jake. Hater getting got. Hater gets got our dude. And he'd been having like essentially a, perfect season.

Like he's, he's definitely getting the invite to L.A. this year. Hadn't give up a ding-dong. And then the Phillies, they get him, Baum, who's,

you know, pretty good against lefties, but he's, he's been a part of this season, bomb.com. Um, boom. Um,

and then Veerling, which, yeah, man, I mean, hey, if you're a Phillies man, that's one of those things that you're like,

if you're at the bar with your Phillies buddies, you're like, look it. like it's happening it's happening right now gerardy's out we just got to the best closer in the game and then we bust out the broomstick season back on um but yeah i mean anytime you get to hater is kind of ridiculous vierling was in triple a that day yeah catches a flight gets to the game ends up facing hater and takes them up top dude it's incredible man that those those are the real fun stories actually saw roger davis talking about

like a story with the metz and he did the same thing but that's the magic gerardy finally out of there you know now they got the magic topper by the way that's the nickname for rob thompson yep topper you guys know that but everyone else listening we're going to call him topper so you know who that is manager the phillies got the juice and gibby's texting me saying i told you so we're going to get on a roll he said that before Gerardi got fire. He said, we're going to get on a roll. And now Ghibie's pasting himself in my text message chain here. Well, three more wins in a row and he has to be Willie Wonka, right? They're at seven in a row. Yeah. And he said if the Phillies win 10 in a row, he's got to dress up like Willy Wonka. Like Eno. Like Eno. Yeah. Yeah. Shout out Eno

Saris. Follow him on all the socials. Yeah. Follow him on all the socials. Um, actually follow Eno Seris on Instagram because he posts some of his baseball stuff, not as big of a following there, but I always give it a life when I see it. Because I'm like, all right, Eno. Thanks, Doc. I don't even think I follow Eno on Instagram. It's great. It's a great account. Seven in a row for the fight in Phillies. Yeah, we need them to get to 10, so Gibby's.

Yeah. On the flip side, you have six in a row losses for the Brewers. The brew, which is a, the Padres did their thing. And for the Phillies to do that, I don't know, from the Brewker's standpoint, it's going to be a two-team race in the Central and it's going to get fun. I'm excited. They need the move that was promised to us, the prophecy that was promised to us

that they're going to go out and get offensive help needs to happen like now. Like we can't be waiting around for this, okay? Like it needs to happen now. I don't know who it's going to be. I don't know where they're looking. But I think one, maybe two batsy to be coming to this roster. I am interested to see the first June trade

and how if we get a big June trade because there's some teams now that are out of it that have pieces and then there's a lot of teams that, you know, you can get an extra two weeks. If you can make an offer and just say, we'll overpay early instead of fighting at the end and get a guy because there's teams that needs help.

Good news for the Phillies is they've won seven in a row and their schedule after this is Jake's D-backs. Okay. And then the Marlins, at home though. Right. Then five against the nationals. and the nationals are also part of this NL right now, a recap that we're doing right now.

Okay. And they get swept by the Marlins. So I'm in a row against the Nats. The Phillies can really continue. They got, was that, 11 games coming up against, you know, let's win, let's win eight of those. And I think you win seven of those. You're fully back.

You should. Can you win a lot? win all three series. Let's prep Phillies fans for this. There's going to be another tough stretch for you. When your team is pretty much built on offensive production, now I know they got the starters and they did pitch this series. But when your team is mostly built around guys slugging,

like there's going to be some times where you go through a slump and you're going to lose some freaking games. You can't fire Topper now. So you just have to ride the wave a little bit. you're going to go through these winning streaks and some losing streaks. That's just kind of the way this team is built. And they bolster the bullpen up. Maybe that helps, you know, later on in the season.

But I think this is a streaky team that's going to continue to be streaky throughout the year. Hopefully it doesn't, you know, it's not the 10 losses, eight wins in a row. That's a roller coaster that we don't need to be on. But I prepare myself for more of streaks like this. You guys lost some losing streaks, some winning streaks. Schwaber 15 homers, Harper 15 homers need one of their big Rydies to get going.

Castellanos. Get it going? Our guy, Riser. They're not having bad ears, but if one of those gets going, you got the dual action. And hey, I told you guys last series, Bryson Stott,

the kid at shortstop. It was all in one game, but he is a four-hit night, Trev, with a yakker. Like that, he's playing second base this series. I think Odebel, Herrera's been playing decent for them.

So, you know, a couple of things that have been holes for them. They've had an infield hole and kind of that center field. Abduble, Herrera? Boutabelle. Is that a different guy? Same guy. Which way is it said? I think it said the way I said.

It's Oduble. They keep giving people chances in center field there, and nobody's run away with the job. You know, I can think of Halesley, Roman Quinn, Mickey Moniac. You know, Oduble's got an extended run there for a while. I think Kutch might even spend some time there a couple years ago. But that's been their whole. And to me, like, I come from the twins' organizations that had no problem finding center fielders.

So I don't know. I guess I'm jaded in that regard. But I feel like you can find some people to go play that position. But apparently, no, that's tough. That is a troubled position. Get some hitters. Go make the splashy trade, Milwaukee. Do it.

Do it. Trev, you were talking to a guy from the San Francisco Giants, your friend Evan Longoria. What's up, dude? He's, uh, what do you mean? What's, what's up with him personally? He's great.

Besides, Tampa Bay Lightning fan. Yeah. Go to Duckees in Tampa and watch the game there because that's his restaurant. Rangers and seven. He's living life, man. Rangers in Seven.

In Joe's DM. He comments on all our social media. Thank you. Thank you, Evan Longoria. I told you. Longuero. is one of the guys that keeps us in check. If we say some stupid shit on the show,

he's going to come tell us. You said some stupid shit on the show. The Giants are playing an odd brand of baseball right now. I know they got injuries and it doesn't seem like a cohesive, like, team in some ways. Their only win is a two one walk off. They don't put up a lot of runs all series. And now I think they're having a bad month of June or just kind of like 500.

ball, but the Padres, who are also part of this, are just winning. Padres are winning. They have the Dodgers coming up. That's what I was just going to say. So. Yeah, man, if you're the Giants, the Dodgers have already left the station. They're gone. The Padres are leaving the station.

They, you know, they take down the Mets. Giants, I tiptoed them around them this preseason. They were, in my head, in this. is totally unfair and people probably mad about this. I kind of compare them to the Mariners last year on different scales. Like the Mariners didn't make the playoffs. The Giants had one of the best records in like baseball history, so we're on different scopes. But both teams played a little over their skis last year. And I think the Giants are feeling the effects of that a little bit. 30 and 26. This is a team that won at a crazy pace last year. And we kind of did that

analysis thing of like, well, you know, when a beautiful team is a beautiful team, right now it's not as beautiful. And they're, I mean, they're going to be in the wild card race. If you're around 500, I think a lot of teams are going to be in the wild card race all year. But they got to be careful, especially Dodgers, big Dodgers series this weekend. Maybe they were overlooking the Rockies and they'll just sweep the Dodgers, dude. That would be cool.

Did they do any, any? Rest their pen? I'll get into some Penn. Yeah, I wonder if they did anything like that to set themselves up nicely for the Dodgers. The other series here is the Marlins sweep the Nats. The Marlins have a closed door meeting as a bunch of managers get fired. People speculated that it might have been about, you know, Donny baseball trying to save his job.

It seems like it's not about that with some latest hearsay. But they come out and they win. They got the helmet now. They got the team meeting. they got to play the nationals. So a lot of things went right for the marlins. Team meetings are so huge right now. And yeah,

I think it was Joel Sherman put out that most of the meeting was focused on jazz chisholm, which is we have no details. So we're all just kind of trying to piece together, you know, different articles and sound bites and clips from people talking about jazz and McGee Rojas has been praising him. Richard Blyer has been praising him. I don't know, man.

It's interesting. It's interesting. There was an article talking about how much he sleeps. The people have a problem with guys sleeping. Maybe I don't know, man. Whatever it was, jazz came off of that meeting. Nelson Cruz,

he has coordinated naps. I know, dude. Bernie Williams was a sleeper. There could be some old dude in there. Like, you can nap, bro. Like,

just people need to chill out. And he came out of that meeting. Hit two homers. He didn't even know there wasn't. He didn't get a shit. He missed the meeting. Yeah. I don't know what you guys were talking about.

That was about me. I would love if Jazz had, there was a whole meeting about jazz, and Jazz was just in his locker, like with an air pod in. Yeah. Bopping. What?

Bopping. Yeah. Hey, I love being a schedule pod. Yeah. They are going at Houston, at Philly, at the Mets. So Marlins? The Marlins.

So, hey, if this leads to a, Marlins bad time. It's going to happen in a big way because those are some tough teams on the road. Or maybe this galvanizes them. Good team meeting, Trev. I think they got to play the Nats.

Trev, you ever call a team meeting? I did. Beaumel was not happy because I didn't tell him. Damn. Players only meeting, Bo Mel. Come on, man. I know it. You were there, Jake, right?

It's me, Eddie Escobar. You, me and Eddie Escobar. I was on the A's. It's BOML. You called it on the A's? Yes. I got released like two weeks later. I don't know.

Bomo never forgave me for that. He didn't. He was so mad at me. Did we, wait, hold on. We talked about the Marlins' nets. I think we skipped Padres' Mets, didn't we? We were getting them because the Giants lose and the Padres beat the Mets. The Mets are on their hellish trip.

They split with the Dodgers. And now they take two out, they lose two out of three to the Padres. And they are dealing with some injuries. And just like scarce, nonstop, Alonzo, hand, Marte, Marte, quadriceps. McGill, you called him big sweat. I think it's big drip. Big sweat is Melville. Melville, not McGill, but similar sounds all around.

I did that whole thing to get, talk about Tim Melville. Okay. Biceps. So I just see. on Twitter, all the Mets fans, they're right now fighting with each other if this is like the end or this is how scared they should be. Got to ride it out and see. But we knew it was going to be a tough stretch for the Mets.

And they built up a good enough lead to have a rocky West Coast trip. The only thing that's going to stop these Mets from winning the division are injuries. And we've seen them go through a ton now. You know, you get McGill back. I think Alonzo's the MRI's negative or whatever so hopefully he's back sooner than later but Padres' bats woke up

I always think of the Padres of having like a really good offense and Chris Rose is always saying the Padres need to add two bats Podger do add two bats I went and looked Do your Chris Rose impression again I can't he's such a dork man Damn

I can't act that way Okay Podres actually they're offensive isn't that good. So they do need to make some adjustments in the outfield. They need to go get some guys. But every time I think about the Padres,

I'm like, okay, Tate's coming back. I always add that into their offense. I'm like, okay, maybe they don't need anybody. But they were alive. The bats were alive here in this series. They were crushing the ball. Only thing I'd change there, Jim, I think you had it.

Matt's West Coast trip, also Scherzer's like actually throwing. He's on a timeline of comeback, so you can believe in that. Um, Trev, the only thing I'd come at you. Brave, six and a half back. A lot of baseball to be played. They're starting to win games. They got the rats and the gnats coming up.

Like, Braves are going to be on their butt soon. They're the IL, so I won't. We can't do that yet. I agree with that. But the reason they're making out games is because the Mets are, they've been hurt. Yeah. Hurt and playing, hurt and playing the West Coast trip.

But, you know, the Braves right now are what, six and a half out and we're a month away from the All-Star break. So I get it. I'm not saying, I'm not saying, I think it's a coin flip. Can't win this division. I'm not saying. No, it sounded like you said the Mets were a lot to win the division.

After seeing both team play, and we really haven't seen the Mets at full strength yet, you know, because obviously the Grom hasn't been there. But both teams, if you kind of look at the roster and how they play it, I think the Mets have just been a better team. Obviously, the record is there. but I mean just watching both teams at full strength. Even Atlanta going through now, they're winning games. I don't know, the Mets are, the Mets have changed my mind about that entire division.

I didn't give them enough credit beforehand, so I'm trying to make up for that by giving him a lot of credit now. They've really, they're a really good team, a World Series contending type team. They need to get everyone healthy. Yeah. Well, McGill's back. He pitches today. So that's good.

But they just keep getting scarce. I feel like nonstop. They had like the McNeil scare two weeks ago. They keep waiting for like the. Yeah. Well, I guess Scherzer was a real one. But Scherzer's room, but I've been told that. Alonzo goes down.

McNeil goes down. Lindor's finger falls off. Dog attack. Knee. Like, there's just a lot of things. I like it's just been every series like, uh-oh, is this a real one or this is not a real one? So, yeah.

All right. That's the NL. You guys want to hear about the AL? Reds, good job, Hunter Green and Graham Ashcraft. Ashcraft, I told we have a Reds fan in the office now. He said something about Hunter Green. I said, I'm an Ashcraft guy. You're an Ashcraft stand.

So if you could. just like Trevor Ploof 20 seconds longest losing streaks for the Mets two games they have stoppers all throughout the rotation that's kind of why I like him also the Braves will talk about them too longest losing streak for them two games that's why they've been able to try I like both teams I'm rooting for it to become a

nice competitive race down the stretch between both of them which I think it will be and the American League let me pull up my notes one Cubs just tagged us in a photo whoops wow the Yankees went up to Minnesota to play the twins, and it was a doozy of a series. The Yankees starting pitching staff all gets hit up. They get to Tyone.

They get to Nestor. They absolutely crush Cole, his worst start, most home runs he's ever given up. The Yankees scored 10 runs in the first game and 10 runs in the last game. A big comeback in the last game to win the series. Some bats on the Yankees get hot that weren't hot. The twins, they got a lot of hot. They run into some outs. They drop some balls.

They kind of shoot themselves in the foot a little bit, but it was a pretty bizarre series. The Mariners took two out of three in Houston. It is the first time that the Mariners have won a series in Houston in four and a half years or something like that. Pretty crazy. Verlander wins the only Astros game, which was kind of of a note because they got to him last time.

Robbie Ray had to make major changes in his start. Mariners won that one, and Gilbert had a pretty decent start against her kitty. Cow Raleigh. He had some big swings. And then there was a lot of drama on that one as well. The Red Sox and the Angels played four games. The Red Sox wons game one, two, and three,

which means the Angels had a losing streak that got up to what? 14? 13? 13? 14. 14. Huge losing streak. as Phil Nevin takes over the managerial decisions.

The Red Sox won two games this series, one to nothing, which they haven't done since, like, 2006 with Josh Beckett and someone else. Cinderguard had a nice bounce back start. Avaldi had to battle through some stuff but got it done. Kike Hernandez is playing every position, and that's cool. Vasquez is getting big hit. So Tani wins the fourth game for the Angels, puts them on his back. so they end the losing streak.

Blue Jays and Royals played three games. The Blue Jays clobbered them, games one, clobbered them, games two, eight nothing, seven nothing. And then the Royals stick up for themselves in game three because Kukuchi walks almost every battery faces in the first inning. And from there, the Royals said, all right, we'll just win now. Appreciate you. Rangers and Guardians got rained out on the first day,

so they had to play a double header. They split that day. The Guardians won the first game, six or three. The Rangers won the second game, six to three. In the third game, Guardians are up. There's a big rain delay. They had to wait around for two hours. The Rangers were mounting to come back.

They had two on, one out, fifth inning. Mounting to come back, mount in the comeback from rain delay. Immediately the runner-on-soning gets picked off. Brewed away to come back from rain delay, and then it's over, and the Guardians win. And they got some rookies doing some fun stuff. And that is... What happens in the American?

As for the standings, the Yankees were five games up on Toronto. They are now seven games up on Tampa and seven and a half up on Toronto. They gain ground in their division. The twins lost two out of three and the Cleveland's won two out of three. So Cleveland is now three back. They were five back. Minnesota is still in first place. the White Sox stay, five games back, and in the West, the Astros are nine games up as the Angels.

Holy shit, because the Angels have been losing. Seattle's been winning, but they're only 10 games back. Astros have a nine-game lead on their division. On second place. Wild. There you have it. All right, Jake. Does any series intrigue you more?

Because I got the Dietz. You got the Dietz, huh? Man, that A-L-West, I guess Houston just won't play any competitive games. And I hope that doesn't affect them come to postseason. Well, they just lost to the Mariners. They lost two series in a row. I just hope they don't come into the postseason, and they're just flat. And they lose because of that.

It doesn't happen for them. Doesn't. I mean, they did that in 2020. And then they just turned it on. And then they just turned it on. Well, they just weren't good until the playoffs. I'll go Kron, Jim, and this is probably a series we had the biggest pulse on, so it'll be gurus.

Yankees at Twins, Trevor's Twins. And I mean, Yanks big brothered them for the 22nd consecutive season. It's like, it's like, yeah, the little brother, like, found a loophole, and we banged around the starting pitch. If you would have told Twins fans what we were going to do to the Yankee starters, like, oh, we're going to sweep the series. But Big Brother or even Dad, you know when Dads have Dad strength, you're like, dude, you're like, don't even look in shape.

One time I arm wrestled Olivia's dad. And like we were to Stailmate. And this is what I'm working out like freaking all the time. I was really strong. And like sometimes like dads, older brothers just, they just have it. Yankees just have it, dude. Olivia must win the series after her. You think she was proud of her dad or disappointed in you?

Probably a little bit of both. Yeah. He probably looked at me a little funny. I don't know if she was there. I think him and I were just doing it one day, you know, drinking some wine together. I'm not an arm wrestling guy anyway. So he's just, some people are just arm wrestling. They just have the form.

He's got big old forearm. I don't. But anyways, it's embarrassing for me a little bit. Embarrassing for the twins this series. I told you yesterday I'm out there having a grand old time cooking some try tip on the grill. See the twins tear up. I turned the TV on. It was already 3-0.

Back-to-back-to-back. I missed that. First three batters of the game, game three hit homers. It hasn't been done that much at all. And it was on four pitches. So it was Homer, Homer, foul ball, Homer, and a rise hit a change-up out.

Buckson hit a slider out. And then Cray hit a fastball out. So it was three different pitches, four pitches, Buckson ambushed a slider. A rise is his second Homer. of the year. And they just switched a rise as the lead-off batter against Ritey's.

So that seems to be a move that they like right now is like they started games pretty well. The Twins did. Jake's D-Backs did it most recently, the first three batters hitting homeruns 2019 and 2017. Got them again, too. Yeah, and then get them later on. Five homer and Larnas off. Derek Cole and the twins lose that game. They made some mistakes, like they made some mistakes, the twins.

and they talked about it. And their quotes were that the mistakes we made aren't going to be hanging around. So we just got a hangar hat on the fact that our offense hit and then they need their pitching to get healthy and better. So according to the, you know, Rocco and them, they were like, oh, well, that sucked, but there's a lot of good.

Like, their offense is really good. And they're missing a lot of starting pitching the twins. Yeah, they're banged up. They are. And the Yankees find ways to the ones. And my, kind of my biggest thing about the twins for years in recent years is the lineups have been there. I know, you know, playoff baseball. Sometimes the lineup still hasn't produced as what it had done in the regular season,

but it is what it is. If you're the twins, I don't know how they don't look at that team and say, all right, our starting pitcher, starting pitching, if we're not going to go out and get the Luis Castillo or whoever it is to try to get that high-end guy up top, I think they have to bolster that bullpen. I mean, Duran, who's been their special guy this year, the Yankees get to him, which that was kind of the final big brother move in my head. But if I'm the twins, I say are starting pitching,

almost look at it redsox style and like whatever efforts we're going to get from guys, let's get that. But let's get some guys in the pen that if we're, if we are ever up and our offense goes nuts like this, we know we're going to hold on. And they've just never truly had that. And they traded. Yeah, Duff Man. Rogers.

Rogers, excuse me. Yeah. Traded Rogers. They sure would have like to have Graterall probably, although my eight has been good for them. I mean, has not this year, but in past years. I was watching the first game, and it was the Duffy Rizzo matchup. And I know Tyler very well. Duff's a really good dude.

He was just, he got scared off his heater there, man. So he gets, I think it was 2-0. He flips a curve ball to Rizzo. And I think at this point, the game is only a one-run or a two-run game. Flips a curve ball, 2-0 to him. This flips it right up there. Rizzo takes it. Throws another ball to get the 3-1.

And you could tell Rizzo was just sitting on the off-speed pitch. He's like, you're too scared to throw me your fastball in these hitters counts. Like, you're going to flip that thing up again. And he just, it was a tough bat to watch. because I feel like everybody in the ballpark knew that he was going to throw a curveball. And it was like he didn't want to throw his fastball so much that even he went back to that curbstle just leaned back on it, man. Crushed it. Open that game open.

When the Yankees go to Minnesota, it's always bizarre. It's always wild games, big comebacks. And it feels funky and players play like starting pitchers get lit up or guys have awesome offensive series. It's, you know, I thought Kiner was going to get a. first home run of the year because it was just like these are odd games. But I'll bring it to. Can I give you one stat before you go? Yeah.

The Yankees are 15 and 7 against teams over 500, which is the best in baseball. Yes. I mean, having just a really good year. Seattle and Houston, first time Seattle wins in Houston in a long time since 2018. That's kind of wild that every time they fly to that city, they lose two games, max, or minimum. for eight, like since September of 2018. That's wild.

So they finally get that boogaboo off their chest. Robbie Ray threw a two seamer and changeups and curveballs for the first time in his career. And Scott Service said he went to the mound after the second inning or in between the second inning. It was like, hey man, I don't know if you've ever got a plan B, but you need to use it right now. Because he's a two pitch pitcher, fastball slider. And they were not swinging at his slider at all. all. So he completely changed to his two seamer. They got a decent amount and some hits, but a lot of outs and no run. So I thought it was interesting that he just had like,

Cy Young last year. Now he's throwing pitches that he's never really thrown before through like 25. Was there a tip they're talking about? Maybe he's doing something on a slider. If they're not swinging at it, it seems like they're seeing it then. I don't know. They didn't say they didn't go into that, but he had, he made an adjustment, which I thought was interesting. Tucker takes his batting gloves off. And then, um, Raley. is it Raleigh? Rayleigh had some big homers here in key moments in games one and games three. They obviously have the big dust up where they're throwing at each other and they're getting mad and they're yelling. And then Julio Rodriguez hits the home run to kind of squash that right afterwards.

Jordan keeps driving guys in. He's having a good post-signing career. But I thought watching all this, Seattle just fought. man, they just like, they got down, they got back. They went down one run, J.P. Crawford singles to get them back with a one-one. They go down three-to-one. They get back to go three-to-three. They just kept fighting, so cool to see that.

I don't know. Houston's division, though. They're up nine, and they're going to get better and keep going. Yeah, they're a very good ball club. I'll say this. Mariners have now won one, two, three, four series in a row? After losing, like, four. So, yeah, momentum's going.

You can still, it's still not too late in the season that you can't look back and say something was a bad start and it started to go. So keep winning in series. That's what we told the Mariners in their fun season last year. Yeah. Keep winning and we'll keep talking about it. Some Mariners fans were like when the fun differential started happening

because remember that a bad start last year, it was around this time and then they just kept winning. So hopefully it's enough. Maybe they got sparked by the midweek episode. Maybe. Maybe. Toronto and Kansas City. Kansas City has the worst record in all of baseball.

So I'm not going to spend too much time on that side of things. But Toronto hit or in the first game. I'm Bo, Vladie, Espinall, all homered. Then game two, it was two nothing after six. So it was pretty close. And then they got three consecutive walks in the seventh to force in the third run. And then a wild pitch is forcing the fourth run.

And then, And then they get, they blew it out at the end. Manoa absolutely dealt. He shut him down. And Kirk had four hits. His, he's kind of insane. I love him. 878 OPS on the season from Kirkie.

That's nuts. It's the best on the Blue Jays. And Santiago Espinole. That guy deserves more love. We know Vladito. We know Bobichette. Maddie Chapman, George Springer, even Tay Oscar, the Grouch. San Diego Espinall, we've mentioned him even,

you know, on our all-JM team episodes. I don't think he's gotten the pedal yet. His numbers are starting to get into a very nice territory. And he's a guy when you watch a Blue Jays game, it feels like he's everywhere. He makes plays in every facet of the game. Salvi hits a triple. That's exciting.

First time in five years. Santana goes four for four. The Royals win game three. Kukuchi couldn't get out of the first hand. I think he walked four guys and only give up two hits and they had to take him out. before you get out of the first inning. Not good.

So hold on. Gabriel Moreno prospect. They said, called up. He hasn't played yet or hasn't, did he not get called up? What happened there? I'm not.

I'm looking right now. He hasn't played yet, but that was like the news two days ago that he got called up. Someone in the chat, let me know what happened. Well, Danny Jansen got injured.

They called Moreno. They have, who's the other guy that have that's a former first round pick, like 10th overall pick there. They just, They traded for him from the White Sox, I believe. Is that Collins? We were talking about that on baseball today.

Like they're going to have three catchers because they're going to put, they can't keep Kirk's bat out of there. If you call up Gabriel Moreno, who's a top prospect, you're going to play him. So they're going to switch those two guys up between catcher and DH, most likely. Then you have to have a third catcher because if one gets hurt, you lose your DH. It's an interesting thing.

They got like three pretty good catchers. FanGraph says that Gabriel Moreno says will likely be recalled. from the minors. He's going to, he's saying he's going to be active today. Okay. Yeah. So the news was they were planning on calling him up.

They have the off day yesterday and then today will be his debut. Haven't they been running with three catchers and like this is a Jansen replacement because he got injured? I don't know if they had three catchers. I don't think they did because they had, they called Zach Collins up as well. Right. And Jans.

But he definitely started the year of three. Blue Jays. Yeah, maybe. Sound off. Yeah, let us know. update us. Moreno's supposed to be a real one, man. I think Passing just wrote an article that this guy's supposed to be the dude.

And then a little weird late night passing last night. What's up with that, bro? He's having fun. He's having fun. Red Sox are kind of rolling. They get the Angels at a good time. Corr shaved his beard. And ever since then, they've been taken off.

Waka, look at his stats on the year. He throws a complete game. The Red Sox now have three complete games on the year, which is two more than any other team and three different pitchers have done it. Verdugo goes first to third to score in game one when they won one-nothing. In game three, they won one-nothing,

or first to home, I'm sorry, and Verdugo went first to home, and that's how they got their only run in the two games they won one to nothing. And the other one-to-nothing game, it was Avaldi. He only went five. He was struggling and laboring. He said his hip-hurt, his Vila was down

by two and a half miles per. hour and he got zero swings and misses on the fastball. So it was a grind of 5-0. Trout homered and doubled after like his longest stretch and then got injured. And then the game three lineup without trout for the Angels fans was one of those like kind of meme lineups where you post it around. You're like, look at what we're doing. A meme lineup.

I like that. Yeah. And then the other thing I found interesting was that I've been asking on this podcast, what's the plan with Hawk? or howk what's how what's playing with howk what's playing with halk what's playing with halk well cork finally came out and said it he said he is going to be a high leverage reliever two innings max so no more he was bulking with whitlock for a little but no and he pitched well in game two to get the win which went to extras and then um the angels went all nickelback and lost one nothing so that's tough

look and they win game four squid homers otani pitches and he hits Homer, so both sides of the ball. You know, I've got a couple yogisms, Trev. The only way to stop a losing streak is to stop a losing streak. So you put it in your rear view, it's 14. That's a big one, dude. That's a, Trev, I loved talking base, or I think Jimmy posted the shot of teams losing streaks and one of your twins teams snuck on there.

You were hurt. I wasn't hurt. Oh, no. That was a lie, dude. I corrected myself right after. But he went off. Someone posted his stats during it, and Trevor was like hitting 360.

I don't know about that. But yeah, I thought I wasn't because I was hurt a lot that year, but it turns out I was definitely in a line of pretty much every day during that. So you're a liar. Yeah. Okay. I didn't mean to be.

Yeah, I mean, if you're the Angels, you're saying put the losing streak in our rear view, get me trout and ward back. And let's find that early season juice. I don't mean to be like all like, you know, generic Instagram post here, but Otani hitting a ball like 110 or whatever and also

throwing a ball over 100 miles an hour on the mound. That just won't ever get old to me. It's something that we're already taking for granted. And if you just kind of like take a step back, get some perspective, it's like that doesn't ever happen. Never in the game of baseball, never. Hicks, maybe from the outfield. a ton of nuts crazy though man Nevin gets his first win Nevin's quotes were pretty funny

He was like I always wanted to be a manager of MLB team And I thought the press conference would be pretty fun But this is This is pretty It's pretty sad So this isn't really the vibe I thought my

Managing announcing that I would be a manager of an member team Is gonna get so Scared for trout's groin man Please just Yeah no Not to tease the stimulator later in this episode.

4A.E's teams. Watch out. Watch out. Rangers and Guardians play three, double header. They both split it. Then like a two-hour rain delay in game three that actually gets played.

So kind of an odd series. Simeon goes off. More on that later. Eli White for the Rangers has two really good catches in the outfield behind our dude Hearn. We got the wins. bad play at short in game one by rangers who's their shortstop it's just bizarre play um a lot of bad defense man that's what i keep noticing every time i watch all these highlights how many runs

score on a botched ball in the infield and then the runner takes the next base and then forces another botched throw like it's happening a lot may it could be the normal amount i'm just noticing it more i'm like damn happening a lot steel walker first career home run for Texas. Oh, hell of the name. Our good friend, Ollie, who everyone knows, my best friend,

who is currently an agent, was with Taylor Huron and almost gave him COVID. Luckily, he tested negative. That would have been something. Ollie's been holed up in its house for two weeks with COVID. Two weeks.

Get better, Ali. He said it was not. It wasn't fun. That's all. That's the AL. Let's keep it rolling. Trevi. Big I, Al.

Woo. One, two. One, two, one, two, three, four. All right, my people, we're going interleague, and we're starting down in Evan Longoria's town, Tampa Bay. Rays hosting the Cardinals. The Rays do the damn thing. They sweep. Four, two.

They get the walk off in game one, then 11, three, a bludgeoning. And then two-one, raise. That's more like it. They win all. three games. Taylor Walsh had the walk-off three-run Jimmy Jack. Was it a three-run Homer? Yes, it was. In the 10th, that was after a crazy Aeronado play. Bader tied the game in the eighth. Newbar had to go-ahead sack fly in the 10th. The Wall said, now I'm good. I got you guys. Game two, Pachy Norton. Give it to me, Jake.

Packy Norton. Not a good start for him. Cloubott doing the thing for the race. big offensive day from the raise. They do it. Molina had to come in and pitch, 113 raise in that one. And then the last game, 2-1 raise, they win.

Two really good pitching performances there. McClanhan and Michaelis. Choi had the two-run homer in the fourth. A lot of different stuff. Fast game there, that last one. Rays get the sweep, though. Cardinals kind of what is you doing, baby, but it's the raise.

No big deal. This was an interesting, series here. Dodgers go into Chicago. They take two or three. Tony the Russo had some stuff going on. I'm sure we'll talk about that. It went 4-0 White Sox in the first game behind a nice Kopeck start. And then Dodgers took the last two, 4-1, and then 11 to 9. Like I said, Kopeck really good in that first game. Pollack had to go-ahead two-ahead two-ah-old and two-olde him, kind of love him, never know. Game two, Dodgers win at Gonslin, And of course, six innings pitch, one earned run. Smith with a go-ahead, two-run homer.

That was in the first day and it's all they needed. Last game, crazy, we'll go into it, 11-9. A lot of stuff that. But Max Muncie's back. That's what they're saying. Dodgers take two out of three. Athletics at Braves. Braves sweep.

It was a two-gamer Braves doing what they need to do against the A's. Three, two in game one. And then they added a 10 spot, 13 to 2 in game two. Kyle Wright did it for the Braves. Swerve and Irvin, my guy, gave up a couple long balls to O'Cuna in game one. He did some stuff, Trey Young stuff that everyone loves. Game two, this is an interesting stat.

We know they killed him. All nine starters in Atlanta's lineup scored a run. You're going to win the game when that happens. Bravesweet, they take two from the athletics. And then the last, oh, no, there's more shares. Tigers at pirates. Tigers get the sweep Five free tigers, three, one,

Tiger Scooball. Kind of doing it, seven in his pitch, three earned runs. Torkelson had to go ahead, RBI, double. Castro, two-run, single, in the fourth game one. And then, how do you say this guy's name, Fadu? Game two goes five in his pitch, one earned run.

He's done that a lot this year, over five innings pitch, less than two runs. He's doing it. Cabrera had to go-head single in the eighth. Cameron, the insurance double, in the ninth, they are doing it, the Tigers. Get a little pirate sweep. That was in Pittsburgh. Cubs at Orioles.

Orioles take only one game. The game number two was postponed. Nine three Orioles in this one. Braddish, four and two-thirds. Really nothing to talk about on the pitching side. Mullins and Mancini go back to back on two straight pitch to tie and take the lead in the first. That's all they needed. Orioles did the damn thing with the offense.

And that, my friends, is what happened in the interleague. Stop the music. These are fun series for me. Love fun baseball series. Now, I can't tell if Cardinals Rays is aesthetically pleasing. I don't think it is. Depends what the Rays are wearing. Yeah, you're totally right.

Rays can have some bad looks and they can have some really good looks. The Cardinals class. And where was it played? Tampa. No. It's never aesthetically pleasing Tampa. No, no. But if the Rays are wearing the right,

uniform and it's in in st louis you can get a very aesthetically pleasing watch yeah but yeah the raise a road is not good specifically the road is really yeah anyways uh this was a fun series cardinals at raise you know two really good teams uh game one had the walk off after kind of a nice little comeback for the cardinals there like i said bader tied it in the eighth uh the new far in Manfred ball does his job gets to sack fly aranado does the play do you guys want to talk about that play a little bit talk about it well you get the run around second to start guy gets on first basing at first and second no what's you're supposed to crash i love the defense they played rizzo used to do this all the time with the cubs crash crash crash put yourself in harm's

way they did that corners crashed aranado does the jump throw gets the lead out at third base it's a pretty It's a pretty baseball play. And you're thinking, hey, Cardinals, this is what you're supposed to do. And then Taylor Wall says, I got you guys off. I think it was a change it. Off the foul pole. A nice piece of hitting there. Please go watch.

Please go watch the Aeronauto play. Treve, I always laugh when I consider myself a defensive third base connoisseur. And then I think about your career. The aeronado play, I'm an aeronado. is the best to play third base. I know you're kind of a Chapman guy. And if you're really baseball nerds, you could have that debate at a bar all day

and you'll have different sides of the argument. What Nolan Aronado did on that play is different, and I tweeted out to be a really good third baseman. You need an incredibly strong arm. You need amazing natural reaction time. And you got to be a little nutty. because some of those guys that turn on balls and hit them at you regularly are sickos

or a bump play like this. And you just mentioned Anthony Rizzo. He was in the office this morning. I don't know if I mentioned that. Jim, I asked him, I asked him, are you a little bit of a sick puppy? Oh, my God, when we were supposed to save that for our interview with him. Well, I asked him.

Damn. We were supposed to show him the picture and say, Are you sick? Yeah. Well, and I was with him in Hap because Hap was actually my security blanket because I was kind of taking the next step. And I was like, maybe I should be asking you Hap or like,

Rizzo, are you kind of a sick puppy? Because you like kind of like getting hit by pitches. Yeah. You like coming in on buntz. And he, he smiled. And he said, he's like, man, if I'm not getting hit by a pitch, something's going wrong. He said, he said that's part of the reason he had like a slower may.

He didn't get hit by any pitches. Okay. He said his little bit of sick. He said his best months are the months he gets hits. pitch. So yeah, there's some wires. There's some wires crossed. Just means that there's got to be another level that means he's like in the right space in the box and staying hanging in with curves and all that shit. Yeah. Don't tell him that though. That's the play was great. It's the way you're supposed to do that. You leave the, the person who's bunting no choice. You have nowhere to go with the bun. The pitcher's going to stay home in the center. So maybe you try to go to him because they're usually bad fielders. But first basement charging, third baseman charging, short

up goes to third, second baseman goes to first. You have your pick of where you want to go. It's very difficult as a bunter and we know nobody bunts anymore. So it's already a tough gig. And then you see these guys right in your face. I loved it, man. But all for not. Rays, sweep. Game two big offensive day for the raise, like I said. And then game three, Choi hits the home run. The pitching's there. Then O'Neill, who had a decent series? You know, he got jammed. They'll play. End the game. McLean is kind of my takeaway just seeing his line again

and what he's doing. I mean, he is scary. How good. I mentioned Melina got the K too, right? People are going to be mad if we don't talk about that. Kitch Ridge, I didn't see this as I was going through. He's having surgery. He's going to be out a month.

It stinks. They'll find it up there. Yeah. Ray is Ray. They raid. They raid. Bottom line. Dodgers, white socks.

very aesthetically pleasing series. One of my most aesthetically pleasing series you could have is White Sox, Dodgers. I love that combo. Kopeck does it in game one, although his counterpart White also pitched pretty well. Price came up and he gave us some inherited runs up. Dodgers kind of capitalized on that. Or excuse me. White Sox capitalize on that.

And that was kind of the story. another good game game two gonsson pitch as well burger if he hit a home run every day i know he got hurt which really messed me up there at the end but every time i look at jake burger he's hitting a homer obviously every time you say jake burger i get an inch taller five hits three extra base hits yeah the two home runs pollick uh two extra base hits four hits but no other white socks player had three plus hits not a real great time swinging the bat for them the third game is what everyone wants to talk about um tyler anderson trev before you get into it i i just tony gonsolin six innings one run run yeah it's every start with this dude and then he goes on

twitter and or instrument he goes yeah like this guy's the best i don't like that part i love that part like this guy shoving it shoving it and then just getting on and putting a cat meme i don't know if i like that part all right trev go on i'm sorry this is crazy man um a lot of offense obviously um dodgers have a big fifth they score sixth in the fifth tony risa's starting to get you know scared a little bit there and then in the sixth inning tray turner's up freddie freeman's on first base um they have a lefty in wild pitch makes it one two on Turner. Freeman goes to second base. Then Tony the Russo decides to intentionally walk Trey Turner. One and two, count my people. Doesn't trust his own pitcher enough to throw

some waste pitches to go for a strikeout, intentionally walks in, one, two. And you know what? A guy like Max Muncie, who plays baseball well when he has a chip on his shoulder, he loves to think about the A's disrespecting him and not giving him a chance. He loves shit like that. He gets disrespected. I don't care who you are. If someone ahead of you gets intentionally walked on a one-two count, that is so fucking disrespectful.

The Yankees AAA team walked the person in front of me when I was like 30-something years old, had a long big league career. They walked the player in front of me. I got so, so mad. so mad. I started concentrating. I wasn't really caring at that time. I laced the ball out about Tyler Wade caught it for an hour.

But then I ended up walking, I think, or at least a go-ahead Homer in the 8th against Fire Eyes in because I was pissed. Why the fuck? If you had to walk the guy in front of me. They intentionally walked the guy in front of me. But why would anyone intentionally walk another batter in the minor leagues where you're practicing me off?

To build your skills. to become a major leaker. Hey, I don't know. Maybe your, maybe your pitcher can learn more by facing that dude? Who was the guy

that was like blonde-haired kid that was a pitcher for the Yankees, stocky dudes charter that was going to be a guy? Chance Adams. Yes. He was pitching. I laced when Tyler Wade stole a hit for me. Then I hit a homer off.

I know I like to talk about myself. I'm sorry, but that pissed Max Muncie off. He goes, hits a two-strike homer, three-run homer to left, afterwards, James, you have to read his lips. Other people did it for you. I don't think this is as bad as everyone made it out to be.

It's bad. He should have thrown some waist pitches and not intentionally walked him only because of the bulletin board factor, like you're saying, but he just threw a wild pitch. So can the pitch with throw waste pitches if, like, he just threw one that advanced the runner? Because then you advanced the runner again. And if first base was open when the at-bat started

and he puts him on first, no one cares. As soon as first base opens, he puts them on first. Tray Turner's numbers are better with two strikes than Muncie's against Lefties this year. Also, people throwing career numbers out, kind of weird me out because, like, you're not taking Muncie's 2016 and 17 season into account when you make that move. Like guys, he's not, like guys have hit. I think you can. No. I don't think, I don't think they're going.

The guy has a long track record of being a better hitter against lefties than he is against right. You deal in the now. Like, we've seen like, um, you've seen like, don't do small sample sizes. Yeah, you're, yeah, you do. No, but you do, you see small sample size all the time. Like, uh, Pierce got walked in September once when he hit three, two home runs and he was a bench player. And then they intentionally walked him because he's fucking hot that game.

Like you, it's two different conversations. I mean, you, you still very, I think, you have to respect who Max Muncie is. You can't take 42 games from this year and think he's a dead Max Muncie. Trade Turner. I think he's going through it right now. Potentially, but it's still... He was injured, he's feeling good, he's back. I just, there's too much of a track record against lefties to say,

oh, this guy all of a sudden sucks against lefties. That's just not the case. I agree. I would have told him to just throw waste pitches, because I think the bulletin board material is the worst thing about it. But I think the first base suddenly opening and then... Like, when people first told this and I was reading it, that nugget was left out.

like why did he decide one, two? Like, did he just get the stats? Was he, like, not making up his mind? And that was really bugging me out, because that's really weird to wait till. And then I had to find out on my own that, well, that was when first base open. I was like, oh, at least that, like, there's some semblance of sense there. Because the other way, I was like, what the, I was driving around trying to figure it out. But people are going to get on Laruso when he does anything.

I think he should have just wasted more pitches. Yeah, that's what everyone thinks. If you have a major league pitcher on your roster, you have to trust him enough to be able to throw some strikeout pitches. Like any pitcher can do that. Like at least give him a chance. Trenner's pretty good on a heater.

And Max Muncie's really good against lefties. The route is career. 850, like 30 point difference in OPS against lefties than Ratties higher going to the lefties. Like he's, I just, I just don't think I would take career numbers into

effect as much as, I guess, other people would. I was, like, shocked when people brought him up, but. Because Max Muncie was older,

I agree with you, but I mean, Max Muncie's 31. Like, he's, it's, he was hurt. Like,

the pitcher should have bounce pitches. It got blown up more because it is Larusa, and they've got a target on your back. He's always going to have the target. But, You gotta bounce those pitches.

And his postgame press conference is so silly. People talking about that? Like, yeah, man. Like, you don't think anyone's talking about that? Chris Rose said that he hates dealing with Tony Russo because this is how he addresses questions. If someone asks him a question he doesn't like, he asked them the question back.

And that's a sign of, like, you're trying to defend something you know is probably silly. I do think it's also funny, the circle of life, like some of older baseball fans were laughing. I saw because they were like, Lerousa is like one of the first managers that leaned on stats like before our time but he was the young manager that came in and started using all these stats and now people just pigeonhole him as because he's old he doesn't like him

and then I read some people that are like no that's like what he was which is just interesting because I don't know if that's true but if it is like four good two strike hitters in all of baseball that's all I'm I will say this when I looked up Turner's numbers with two strikes I was like damn that's not what you usually see. Was it like $258, but like there's no slug. There's nothing like that.

No slugging at all. He just turns into a slap hitter, which makes sense. He's a speedy guy and he's got two strikes. He should just swing for singles. But usually two strike numbers are bad, bad. Here's the thing that the Dodgers just don't really have holes in their lineup. So if you're going to walk one guy to face the next guy, it's going to be a guy like Max Muncie or Will Smith. like these guys are going to get you.

So the Dodgers even after the game, we're thanking Tony LaRosa for giving them Max Muncie back. Because I think that this is a time where you probably get that edgebacks if you're max. You got the confidence now. You're pissed. It's the kind of guy he is. Haven't looked at that Dodgers lineup,

like one through nine in a while. Pretty good. Cody Bellinger, Chris Taylor, Gavin Luck, 7-8-9 is pretty. It ain't bad. Brave sweep the A's because that's obvious. The first game was pretty good. Acuna, both these games, the A's get out to two nothing leads.

Luriano, two RBI single in the first. Acuna hits two home runs. He does like this Trey Young, the ice tray celebration that people love that. And then Haradia had to go ahead, home run in the seventh. I believe Jansen got the save there. so that's just how you want things to work out if you're a Braves fan. And then it was, you know, bring the bats day for the Braves. I told you all nine starters in Atlanta's lineup scored a run in that game.

Two, Ozzy Albies, four RBIs, three run homeer, young thick did the damn thing. Azer or A's, the Braves getting going. This is also a very aesthetically pleasing series for me. I like it. I'm drinking Braves Kool-Aid hard. That's kind of my final statement. And I forgot about Ramon Luriano, and I hope it gets traded to a contender this year

because I love watching him play. Okay. Good stuff. Sorry. Yeah, like an RBI single in the first, or like he scored in the first to go up to nothing again. Like the A's were thinking they were going to win these games, and then they didn't.

I've been part of a lot of teams to do that. It's not fun. He added an insult to my vocabulary that I can't say on this show right now. I remember. And I quote, it was pussy boy. And I unquote. I like that. Yeah.

He asked me. I said, did I get your lip reading right? He said, you got everything, except you didn't get when I called him a pussy boy. And I said, I didn't know people called people that. Yeah. That's my bad. That's on us. My bad.

Are you mad that like, I think it was Blake Harris, who covers the Dodgers, had the Muncie lip reading just right out the gate. People are trying to like. No, we had it too. I think John Boy Media had it out really quick, too. You can, I mean. You need the lip reading to us. No, you can do it. It's easier.

Not me. Not me. Sometimes I can get it when others can't, but there's help out there. I'll take it. The lip reading takes so fucking long that I'll take it. I got to run at some point because the Rizzo and Hat Visit pushed me back and I promised Katie. I would not miss my train. So I'm going to give my award out or my, it's more of my standout.

Yeah. Simian had an awful start to his season. Everybody knows that. The power was completely zapped. So what he's done is hit five home runs in his like 10 games and sitting his first home run. He hit three home runs on the same day. Double header, so two games, but he had won four for four with two home runs in game two of the double header. He had a home run earlier.

Seven hits and three homers on the day. Seven hits, three homers on the day. That's how you can make up for a pretty bad. first start of your season and try to get things going to the right direction. Tied a franchise record for hits in a double header joining Marlon Bird and Fred Valentin. First MLB player since Joe Morgan in 1973 to have a three homer seven hit day. So good for Simeon for getting on the right track. Some really interesting quotes from Woodward.

He was like, well, he's not a mechanics guy. He just hits off feel. And I was like, whoa, this day and age, like that's wild. Trevor Pluth just talked about that last episode. That's interesting that he says that. I feel like he's very open to being coached. That's how he became such a good infielder. I just worked at it and did it with the wash there in Oakland.

But, you know, some guys, if they've had success, like Marcus has had success on the offensive side of the ball, continue to do what works for you. But, you know, eventually you might have to take a look at some stuff. Yeah, I mean, it could just be a blanketed thing that Woodward said. Yeah. But it was just the friend. He's not a mechanics guy.

the phrasing of the quote was like, whoa, I mean. Everyone's the mechanics guy. Yeah. You kind of have to, you have to know what you're doing. He's like, he's just a feel thing for him. So he's got pretty simple mechanics at the plate. He's, uh, he's trying to talk about. Simeon's one dot and over the last 15 games.

Yeah. No, it's coming back. So. Okay, Marcus. Yeah. Are you leaving? Do you want to give your award now too? Yeah.

Usually I find my award during the show. Uh, I was going to give the, uh, I was going to think of something. to give Shane No there was a there was yeah The guy on the The guy on the Guardians Why I can't blank how I was name

This rookie that came up It's a very impressive start for What is his name? He's played like 13 games I did a ton of like Is it a start? What position do that? Outfielder, outfielder

Did a ton of Oscar Gonzalez? Yeah, we've talked about him before. Richie Palacios, Oscar Gonzalez. I think Oscar Gonzalez. Yeah.

Oscar Gonzalez, they were like scared to bring him up because of, he struck out so much in the minor leagues. Like if you look at his minor leagues, he struck out so much.

So they were worried about bringing him up. And then they talked about that and they said, don't worry about walks. And he's supposed to be a power guy. And he's hitting the shit out of the ball. 4-04 batting average in his 13 games. One walk.

But not a lot of pop, which I think is impressive because usually if that's what you do with the minors and you got called up, you're probably going to try and stick to that. Okay, I'm impressive that he's just, there's just going with the ball. There's a cool article about it. And I was going to give an award on that. That's Oscar. Just like, like, like lightly, like, like, like, waiting into the MLB and like, let me just feel it out first, you know, and like not go crazy. Because sometimes you see the opposite. You see contact hitters.

and they come up and they just hit a bunch of home runs because they're just so excited and just swinging so hard and it's cool to see a guy I go the opposite and have the poise and shit. Him and Kwan had a big weekend, so the Guardian's got some young guys doing fun shit. Big boy. That's how I know steroids work.

Because when you do, when you see these young guys get called up, when you debut, you have this extra gear that you don't normally have. And it's just like, I don't know if it's your T level spiking because you're in this new environment, whatever. And endorphins going nonstop. But man, you can come up and you'll see some of these guys hitting tanks and BP.

And you're like, did you lift some weights? Why are you hitting the ball so hard? And it's strictly just because they're excited. And if you could feel like that every single day, maybe I should have done it. Maybe. All right. Love you guys. Enjoy the stimulator.

Let me know how it goes. Later, James. Bye James. See you for episode number five. Big EPP 500. Tigers sweep the pirates. Let's just go finish this interleague real quick. My last Google search was,

are there tigers in Somalia? And then do Somalian pirates ever have tigers on their boats? I couldn't find an image. But if someone could find that for me, I'm really interested. Reach out. Reach out. Comment below. Tigers get the sweep.

Scooball has been doing it all year long. Sevenings pitch. Three earned runs. Torkelson had the go hard RBI double. So that's nice. They kind of just won the series, plain and simple. In the second game, it took until Cabrera hit a line drive up the middle to go ahead.

And then Das Cameron, a little shot out to right field, the insurance double in the ninth. And I mentioned this. It's Fido, according to you guys, right? Yeah. Seven stars, over five innings pitched,

and two runs are fewer. That's what she liked to see. This wasn't a guy that was mentioned before the season, all those young starters the Tigers are supposed to have. Not this guy, but he's part of it and you love it. And the pirates were kind of hot before this series. Tigers two-game sweep. We like that.

I wonder, Tigers fans, again, I'm just, I'm spitballing here. Because, again, their hitting has been the problem and they're supposed to start getting some of these pitchers back. I wonder if, I wonder if extra inventory and pitching is always a nice place to be. I wonder if they can maybe try to spark the offense with another trade there or something like that. I don't know. Yeah, they're getting a lot of guys back for injury.

They just said, Erod, Riley Green, Grossman. And then it's Fayedo, okay? Like a pie. Aido. Phaedo. That's kind of what I thought. Cubs and Orioles played one game, huh? They played one game.

Nothing really to talk about. The Orioles just came out swinging it. Mullen's Mancini back to back. Two straight pitches in the first. That's cool. Happer said the ball was flying in Baltimore. Morel had a homer. He's kind of, and a double.

So he's continuing his hot streak as a youngster. He's got all that, like, youthful. exuberance and shit. I need that. That's why I hang out with young guys. I just steal it from them. That's it, man. That's what happened in the I.O. We did it. Let's go to standouts. We already heard Jimmy's Macis-Simian. Standout performance is brought to us by Mugsy. Jimmy O'Brien. Strictly wears Mugsy Jean. Trev, this is a true story. The guy, I forget who it is with Mugsy. And I don't I don't want to reveal his name. I'm actually forgetting who it is.

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I really do. I call him 5 to a light. He has every tool. The stat page doesn't always jump out like some of your MLB superstars. And guess what? That's fine, because I love me some Eddie Escobar. He got off to kind of a slower start this season.

His numbers are starting to get in Eddie Escobar land. He's got a 107 OPS Plus. It's not crazy, people, but it's nice when you got a guy I can play multiple positions. He's beloved by everyone in the clubhouse. And he gets himself the first Mets cycle in over a decade. I love the cycle. You know, I know it's gotten some hate in recent, not recent years,

but obviously four-homer game is better than a cycle, blah, blah, blah. I get it, I get it. Cycle's still pretty badass. IMO. It shows off your tools. And that's what Eddie Escobar has. A six RBI game, the only game they won in the series. And Trav, again, it's one of those things where it's funny that I love Eddie Escobar.

You know this guy. I DMed him after. Ooh. So I said, congrats, Primo, Malatuya. That means, you know, congrats because you're bad. Yeah. And he said, Primo, how are you? And that was the end of our discussion.

You left him? yeah i don't know it didn't seem like i gotta get back to him didn't seem like a genuine how are you i need to be face to face with eddie that's when our relationship comes out i don't think he's a big instagram dmmer okay uh i love it i love the exuberance that he brings to the park every single day the triple was freaking electric yeah and it was an easy triple too which i really like you know and when eddie i like when people need to watch this if you're a meds fan when eddie is looking at and like a ball gets away from an outfielder, then he has to turn on that second gear.

It's pretty funny to watch him run. It's a pretty good run. Those little legs start churning, bro. I mean, I was feeling it. Eddie's listed 510, Trev? Yeah. He's got a tall presence. He's probably 5'9.

There you go. And yeah, there's that picture of him and Shakira from earlier on this year. Now she's getting a divorce. Yeah. were saying. Her and Gerard P.K. are on the out. So I don't know.

I was jealous when the Mets signed Max Scherzer for obvious reasons. I was jealous when they signed Eddie Escobar because that that dude's a ball of life. And yeah, go watch him run because it is. It feels like there's extra steps. I guess I'm going to tell you some stuff after the show. It's some funny stuff. Eddie's the man. My standout performance is going to a guy.

guy who kind of an afterthought, Red Sox rotation, Michael Waka, nine innings pitched. He gets the shuddy, only three hits, 105 pitches. Now, I thought this was interesting. He's seven and two on the year, kind of kept the Red Sox starters afloat when they were all kind of struggling. Now he's the third and third to get a shutout for them, complete game shutout. So that's nice. He had to really thrown a lot of pitches. A lot of his outings, 70 pitches. He's gotten up to 80 or 92 was his highest before that. But a lot of them in the 70s, you got to go 105 here. I don't know if he's a 199 pitcher. He's never been that in his career. Maybe he's found some stuff. I talk about it all the time, man. Pitchers just takes one guy to get in their ear with the right piece of information.

They can turn things around. So Waka's been good. He's going to need to continue to be good if the Red Sox want to make the push. But I like it when older guys come out and just still got it or even get better. It speaks to me. I wasn't able to do that. I got worse and worse and then ended up here. Blessing in disguise. Yeah, it is.

You're totally right. Baseball's too hard. Waka nine starts a one-one-nine over his last three years, 285 innings. he was a 5-1-1-E-R-A. He's a guy that's been around baseball, seemingly forever. He came up in 2013. He's 30 years old. 30 years old.

Actually, 31 on July 1st, so we're sneaking up. He had two, back-to-back starts. One against Seattle, he went four and two-thirds, so he gave up two earned runs, and then he went four-and-third, the next start against the White Sox, gave up five earned runs. Other than that, like his starts have been, you know,

exactly what Jimmy loves, over five innings, under two runs, two runs are under. And we had a lot of... Reliable. We had a lot of off-season conversations about the Waka and Hill signings and if they were what they really were for the Red Sox.

I mean, so far they've gotten 19 starts out of those guys and like productive. I mean, Rich Hill, obviously, a different level of 4-4 ERA, but with what Waka's doing, I mean, they've already like earned back, they've already like earned that back. How much did they give Waka?

Like 8-mill or something like that? scrolling down double checking seven mill i mean seven mill for nine starts of one nine nine yeah i'll take that like that some of the chat saying have i talked about my awful take on the gerardy firing if you think that rob thompson is the reason the phillies have gone on their winning streak you are absente you don't know ball wow dude trev i i love thompson i've told you that I said that from the get-go. I really like this guy. But he can't play the game.

There's been some crazy stuff happening too. You think Rob Thompson is the reason that Matt Vierlin came up from AAA one day and hit a go-ahead Homer against Josh freaking hater. It's baseball dude. Gibby knew they were going to get on a roll. When you have a team constructed around offense, it's going to be streaky. I love Thompson. I love that guy.

He was so freaking good to me. when I was in that organization. I hope he has success the rest of the year, and I hope he wins manager of the year. I love that. I'm just telling you guys, they just started hitting. He's not even the hitting coach.

Give some credit to the freaking hitting coach. Trev, I just, we're doing a... Fine, it was a bad take. We're doing a player's only episode, and I can't have you screaming at the people saying, you don't know ball. That's a bad look for us. I like this.

Yeah, I did not mean that. I apologize for that. Somebody is mentioning something that I will give Thompson credit for. He's playing the young guys. You letting the young guys play. And there's a nice little spark for you. You put those young high T-level dudes in the lineup. Sometimes good things happen.

Trev, great standout performance. Great insulting our listeners. They always insult me in the chat. I got to fight back a little bit. I love the chat. They know that. How about you reset for just a second? And we'll do a quick Slump Watch and just get it over with.

I'll be here. I got it. You be here for Slump Watch. I'm out here. Slump Watch. Mike Trout is coming off of Slump Watch. He went three for four when he played in this series. And then he got banged now.

Either way, you play with. well. And you're hurt, so you're off slump watch. Seems like he was coming off anyway. It's coming off. Either way. Alex Bregman, two for ten, three walks. That's a 385 on base. Mariners pitching around him. Probably coming off.

We'll wait. Ben Intendi, I think he's going to stay. He is a popular name for a lot of baseball teams right now. Antrimand Tendi is one of the more popular players around baseball right now. because if your team needs a little bit of bingo in their lineup, that's a guy you're talking about. Yelly comes off in a big way. How's your 5 for 12? We love big Yelly.

And Adam Frazier recently traded. He was 0 for 9 previously. He went 3 for 10 and 3 walks of 429 on base. Good job, Adam Frazier. So yeah, let's get Yelly and Frazier out of here. Trout. Let's get Bregman out, too. I mean, that's a nice little series.

385 on base. Benny stays. Trev's guy, Mitch Garver, 0 for 9. Jared Walsh, one for 16. Seeger, a one for 12. Louis Rober, one for 12. And Justin Turner, one for 11. Man.

So basically, we can't take one of these guys. Trev, if there's one guy you don't want to put on slump watch, between Garver, Walsh, Seeger, Robert, and Justin Turner. Who's not going on Slump Watch? Justin Turner might be getting an award from me. Okay. So he's out. Don't put him on there.

Justin Turner. You avoid Slump Watch. Our Slump Watch for next episode, episode 500 people. Fuck. Andrew Benintendi, Mitch Garver, Jared Walsh, Corey Seeger. Seeger's got to be hot with Simeon. Like, Ranger fans deserve that. and Louis

Rubber as I try to say that name right Trev I'm gonna even kick it I think it's I have the honors today but now we're a two man players only two three men BPD I love you

and Fuego Dirt nasty's on Fuego that means I'm on fire baby like Waco Trev I'd like to give you the honors telling me about all these hitters that are on fire right now Marcus, I don't give a you know what about mechanics.

Eight for 12, that will get you feeling right. Three bumbas and a walk. 667, 692, 1.417 slug. Whoops, that's how you do it. Byron, my guy, he's mashing. Five for 12, three homers, two of them off coal, big bombs, double five RBIs. And they hit him. They hit Byron Buxton.

Yeah. I will fight. whoever did that unless they're bigger than me. Jake Berger mentioned it, sadly, on the IL, or he's heard, I don't know if he's on the aisle yet. Five for 10, two homers, double three RBIs. Way to go. Brandon Drury continuing to stay hot.

Is this guy just been hot all season? He's, he had a little bit of a slump, but he's going again. And he's, yeah, he's got an OPS in the eights. He's having a solid year. Good story. Was a Yankee of the Yankees looking into him. I don't know. Looks really good in a uniform.

Five for 10, two homers, three RBIs. Joey Gallo. Look out, four, for nine, two homers. four RBI's and a walk. We talked about Eddie Escobar. He went six for 12, three double, a homer,

a triple, two doubles, six RBIs. Six RBIs, all in one game, mind you, Charlie Blackman doing the damn thing. Six for 11, a homer, three doubles,

four RBIs, jerks in ProFar. He's kind of turning a little ball player down there in San Diego. Six for 10, a homer, two doubles, five RBIs and four walks. Joey Vado,

who I adore, six for 14, a homer, three doubles, five RBI, guys three walks, 429, 529, 8, 57. And then finally, Jorge Polancoi bought him his first ever suit in the big leagues. My bad, five for 11, a homer, a double, two RBIs and two walks. These guys are hot.

They're on fire. That's what Enflago means. Treve, there's a reason I kicked it to you and you took it to the hisy. Man, that was beautiful. How about Jerks and Pro Far, former top prospect? Just having a big boy season right now. I think I got a bad misconception of him because I played when he was in Texas and that whole five weeks, six weeks that was in the Texas Rangers organization.

I just didn't like anybody or anything that was going on. And Trev, again, I'm not close to the situation. But I would bet you Jerks and Profar, number one prospect, age 20 in the majors. He's probably, his personality has probably changed a little bit that he's 29-year-old jerks and pro-far veteran. Oh, he was fine. I didn't know. I wasn't even saying anything like that,

but still, like you, God, sometimes that part of it is crazy. If you're over the age of 29, or how about think about yourself as a person nine years ago and think about how much you've changed. That's kind of insane. Well, people- What were you doing nine years ago?

Nine years ago, that would have been 2013, sophomore in your high school. Not a lot. People's brains and male brains don't fully develop until you're 26 years old. We need to start thinking about that a little bit more as a society. So, BBD, like, you know, keep going, buddy. My brain stopped developing.

I didn't get 31. Trev, let's wrap it up with awards. Oh, please. I kick to you, Fernfuego. I'm not kicking anymore. No real ad read. Go check out warehouse games. We've got some big stuff coming up on that channel.

We're also heading towards our one-on-one league playoffs. We've got, we just mapped out everything that's coming out on that channel this summer. If you haven't checked it out yet, like, whoa. If you want to watch some stuff, go check out our warehouse games YouTube channel. Trev, I'm giving up the untuck your shirt award. Jimmy mentioned it earlier. You know, we try to be great for you guys. We're the number one baseball show in the world.

Let's fucking go. But sometimes we run around crazy. We had a crazy day yesterday. Anthony Rizzo Ian Hap show up at the office today. That I didn't have my award prepared before the show. Hand up. I'll be honest with the people. I wanted to stumble into something.

and you know what I think I did, dude? Because I mentioned it earlier with the Atlanta Braves that I'm starting to drink Braves Kool-A. Before the season, I was hot on them. It took a lot for me to not pick them to repeat as World Series champions. I love Matt Olson. I tell people I want that guy to date my daughter. Trev, there was a guy whose highlight I watched this week,

and I said, oh, yeah. They let Freddie go He's not the dude In Atlanta anymore He's in L.A Freddy Freeman's a tuck shirt guy The pants are up high He's tucking in that shirt

I'm over that lifestyle I'm not about that If I'm going to the golf course I'm untucking my shirt Big swings That's not true I actually I actually dress pretty nice At the golf course

Tuck your shirt at the golf course What is this? Matt Olson, Austin, Austin Riley, they're having nice years, and they're playing some defense on the corners. I'm here to talk about Ronald Acuna Jr. Because we haven't talked about him a lot this year. He was coming back from the injury. He's played 29 games.

Trev, on the year, how's a 312 batting average? Is that pretty good? Good. It's good. How's a 409 on base? Good. A 923 OPS? Very good.

All of those are the best on the Braves. Well, William Contreras is in. Holy smokes. Eleven stolen bases. Is that good? Depends who you ask. For me, yes. Very good.

I think it's very good. It's also the best on the Braves. Ronald Acuna Jr. I just mentioned it with Michael Waka. Like, he's 30 years old, but he's been a part of my life since 2013. Ronnie's 24. It's 24 years old. Some of these guys and prospects that you're calling up this year

that you're excited about are probably his age. Maybe a couple are a little older. And you're like, ooh, all right, young guy. Let's see what you got, kiddo. The Cubs are playing like 31-year-old rookies. My Cubs. Those are my guys. Those are my guys.

Ronald de Cune, Jr. I forgot how special. his swing is and the power that's in that bat. There's that bats where I see him, and I'm reminded of Manny Ramirez, who I think is, if you take some of the Royd stuff out of it, is one of the pound for pound, like best right-handed hitters this game has ever seen. Ronnie is in that bucket, man, and I think the Braves are about to go. I think they're already going.

I think the schedule lined up. I think they kind of got over that first month and a half malaise. and Ronald Acuna Jr. is the best baseball player on that team. And that's not a shot at Young Thick. That's not a shot at Matt Olson. Ozzie, Dansby. It's just not.

It's just I think this dude is in another world. And I think it's about time we start talking a little more Ronnie. So there it is. Untuck that shirt. Let's have some fun. No more stiff, Freddy. Let's be the fun Braves. I love watching.

the guy play he can do anything he wants on a baseball field every time i think about the braves winning the world series it makes me sad that he wasn't a part of it yeah right so i want for him i want them to go and do the thing and at least run deep into october uh they are a scary team man like they're i think i'd give like five teams a chance to win to win the world series and and they're one of them. So Ronnie's back. They're hot. You love Matt Olson. I don't think you're going to want him to date your daughter because by the time your daughter's old enough to be dating something, he's going to be like pretty old. But he will be rich. He'll be really rich. That's not what you've married. No, that's not what it's about people. Don't you ever do that? It's about love and love making.

In the, uh, the Brave seven game win streak, Ronnie is, uh, 11 for 28 with three homers, two stolen basis. Hold on. One dot two. Just one second. Okay. And people probably already know this, but I'm just finding out, so bear with me. Yeah. Al-Said's Escobar is his cousin?

So, I don't know what it's all about. But yeah, there's a weird Kelvin Escobar, Al-Sidi's Escobar, their families are intertwined somewhere. I don't fully know it, but when you look on baseball reference, it's kind of like, whoa. Calvim. Now, Cidys Escobar has been part of your life for a long time. Yeah, he's been a part of your life for a long time. Yes, my God, dude.

I could pick it back in the day. All right, let me get my award. Give your award, Trev. My award is called The Gifts of Galadrio. We're going Tolkien baseball again. My people. The Fellowship of the Ring. Yeah.

We're going off on quests. But the elves have presents to, give everybody. Lomba spread for food. One bite will keep a man full for days on end. It doesn't taste great. It doesn't taste really like anything, but it'll do its job. You get the elven cloaks with the elven brooches. You get some elven rope for Sam. I think even Frodo gets the me thrill, which is a basically a bulletproof vest for Lord of the Rings. Made of dragon scales, I believe. Sure. Could be wrong about that one. sound off in the chat about that.

There has been this thing going on that I wasn't really aware of that now I'm stoked. Gifts are fun. People like getting gifts. Now we saw Randy a Roserania. A kid gave him a gift. It was some special ball that had Randy's face on it or something from his cardinal days. So in exchange, Randy, during the game, brought out a bat, assigned notes, like all this really cool stuff. So I love that. And then, you know, if you follow Justin Turner, this is kind

of the award. It goes to Justin Turner because he does this all the time. If you're a Dodgers fan, obviously you're probably following Justin Turner. If you're not, go ahead and do that. On his Instagram, he does this, I think, every single series. So have people, you know, right where they're sitting in the comments of this specific posts. And then he has a team during the game that goes up and gives them like assigned ball, assigned hat, assigned bat, some sort of memorabilia. So if you're in the stands, you might get a tap on the shoulder and it's Justin's team giving you some swag. Every single player should be doing this. It's incredible the amount of love you'll get by just being a little generous towards the fans. And as I'm out of the game,

I just see it more and more. Like I take Teddy to a game. You know, I'm in the stands now. If a person gets a foul ball, the joy on their face, like it's something you just don't see. I mean, even Teddy, who has all the baseballs you can want in the world. Kirk Casale came up and gave him a ball, and he wouldn't stop smiling.

It's just special, man. And I know you don't go to a game to get stuff. I understand that. But if you're a player, this is only good for your brand. It's good for just every. It's just a good person being a good person. So JT. shout out to you, giving out gifts like Galadriel to the fellowship. I implore more people, more players in the show to do that. In fact, I think we need to be doing more of that when we go to the games, maybe carry a few John Boy items and

start passing him out because it creates memories. It's the bottom line, dude. No one will ever forget. When Justin Turner gives someone something at a game, no one will. forget that probably for the rest of their lives, which is crazy because people forget shit all the time. But they were not going to forget the day they got tapped in the shoulder and just handed a Justin Turner bat. They'll be telling that story forever. And I love stuff like that. So congratulations. Jay Turner, you're a stud, man. I like that guy a lot. It's, uh, man, I think we posted a clip this week. I think it was at a Pirates game. there was an old kind of

this guy had a look that's all I'll say but he got a ball in the stands and I think he got semi-bullied into giving it to a kid and it was it felt like there was some interesting dynamics like the ball kind of came to the guy

and he got it and it was like all right like you know that guy used to be a little kid one day and he probably thought about going to a baseball game and getting a ball and now he's an older man and he got a ball the crowd kind of bullies him he gives the ball to a kid. And there was a second where I was like, oh, I don't know, like, all right. Dude, the kid lit up. The kid lit up like a Christmas tree. And it's just like, that's why.

That's why. So, Trev, you're right. You know, did I take a picture on the subway today with a guy who was a fan? Yeah. I mean, and that's going to be with him forever. And he's probably going to blow that up. But we should probably carry stuff on us for, for those occasions. Yes. And, uh, someone's in the chat just blowing my Tolkien baseball word up. Matthew, thank you. I'm down to get corrected. I didn't remember where he got the me throw. Bilbo gave it to him.

Okay. It's got to dunk that. Okay. And it's mind. It's not dragon scales. Probably thinking of Game of Thrones, which is obviously completely different. He did get,

Galadro gave him like some light, a necklace with a light on it. Yeah. And what did he say? It's called the feel of Arundale. Okay. My bad. Thank you for correcting me.

Point remains the same. J.T. You're a stud. Got confusing. B.B.D., I think, best friend, great award trip, best friend of the week

and stimulator time? Yeah. Holy smoke. Should I bring up the stimulator so I can actually help you out? You could help with the prompts and all that. But the best friend of the week's A.J. Pollock, four for nine, two dollars.

Oh, no. Well, time out. Oh, no. I'm confused. I'm a little confused because I don't know, Trev. Is he my best friend? He broke my arm.

Dude, he is a best friend. Fine. He was the Dodger that came off. They won the World Series. Right after they won the World Series. That was pretty cool. I still got a scar, bro. Scars are kind of badass, dude.

Look at this. That's a gift. Wait, is that just a bicep? You work out all the time? Not. I've been slipping lately. playing a lot of sports. A lot of activities at John Boy Media recently.

BPD, I have a stimulator up if Trev's ready to get sexy with us. Let's go. BBD with your stimulating machine. Not talking about that one. Pulling it up. In the American League, as of right now, in the wild card, Trevor's Minnesota Twins would take out. we got Ices, Boston Red Sox.

Boston. The twins lose another playoff series. The Rays and the Jays. This is the second week they've been matched up. BVD. Who do you have between these AL East rivals? It's the Rays. The race move on this week.

Good Cardinals victory. Gave them some good juju. In the division series, tell me if you've seen this book, for the Red Sox and the Astros. Astros. Astros go on to the championship series. The AL goes through Houston.

Which AL East team will they be playing? The New York Yankees or the Tampa Bay Race? The Yankees. Yankees, Astros in the championship series. We will save it. We will hop over to the National League where who, These, if this is our NL playoffs, buckle up Brewers Giants in the wildcard game. It's San Fran.

San Francisco moves on the other wildcard matchup. Boogity, boogity. We're going to have some sad teams in the NL this year. Padres Cardinals. Cardinals. Cardinals move on to, what will be, I think, an aesthetically pleasing series, Trev. The Cardinals and the Dodgers?

We like that or no? Oh, that's class. Okay, that's class. Put in the simulator, Bebs. Dodgers cards. Dodgers, whoa. Dodgers go on to the championship series. Another not shocker.

The New York Metropolitan's welcome Gabe Kapler and the San Francisco Giants. The Mets. I mean, look at this final four Mets, Dodgers, Astros, Yankees, BBD, I will start in the American League. Astros, Yankees. Yankees. It's huge. It's huge. Astros got them.

Last Stimulator, Yankees advanced to the World Series. And the New York Mets and the Dodgers, if those teams are both at full capacity, O'Neilly. Dodgers got it. Wow. Dodgers deny the Mets and Yankees of a subway series. Instead, we're going coast to coast. The New York Yankees and the Los Angeles Dodgers stimulate me. The Yankees.

Oh, I know why you said that today. Trev was wearing all blue. I'm in my Cubs. The New York Yankees are your World Series champions. according to our stimulator again it's kind of one of those things you crunch in all the numbers

and at the end it does a thousand results and that's how we get our results Trev Happy weekend everybody we'll be back Monday to recap the weekends game F500

500 piece my gosh we work hard here enjoy getting weird tonight Treve I'm going to Jake stops Oh, triple. Marron playing short to me. I'm hitting the light button.