Talkin' Baseball (MLB Podcast) - A's Sweep the Astros & the Deadline is Coming! | 518

Episode Date: July 29, 2022

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Hello and welcome to Talking Baseball. The Phillies are the best team in the world. And the New York teams made trades. The New York teams made trades. Hello and welcome to Talking Baseball. Presented to you by Seatheek. My name is Jimmy. We got Trevor in the middle.

Young Jake. We're in shades and producer BBD behind the dish. It is episode number 518, July. July 29th. So we're closer and closer and closer to the deadline, which is August 2nd. We've seen some trades go down already. We've seen some teams run away from the postseason contention and others inch closer and closer into the fold. So I'm excited to chat with you guys and talks and baseball. Jake, how goes it? James, Trevor, big baby David. Joe's McFly, changes profile picture today.

Chris Rose, a lot of good people. The whole company, John Boy Media, everyone listening, everyone's families. Andrew Benintendi, the new Yankee. Thanks for joining us today. Excited to talk baseball with you guys. A little bit of a funky one for me, man. I mean, it's still the calm before the storm, right? Like this feels like we did the pregame.

Like we, you know, everyone got together, had their pre drinks, a little flip cup, maybe a shot here or there before you get in the Uber to head out. Now it feels like we're in the Uber or the taxi. We're heading to the party. The trade deadline is coming up. We're just not there yet. But we had a couple things happen. And man, I just want to know whoever.

everyone is dancing with Louise Castillo. Where are you playing in a couple days? Jose Cantana is supposed to start tonight for the Pirates. I hope that doesn't happen. Get them on a good team. Sorry, Pirates, that hurt. But man, I'm so excited to get past this deadline so we can actually start setting up our war battle scenes, Trevor. Oh, I see where you went with that. The problem is sometimes, or actually most of the time, the pregame is always better than the party. So I really hope that's not the case here. I'm hoping we're getting a banger of a trade deadline.

The names that are out there are insane. We know Juan Soto is supposed to be traded. They came out today and said they're going to offer him one more deal. If he turns that down, he's getting traded. That's what Hector Gomez just put out there. Otani is on the market.

This is insane, dude. So I'm hoping we didn't just have a few shots. What do you drink? Like 1942? Little tequila, chase it back. And then we get to the party and then we're like, this party sucks. Let's go back to the house and play some beer pong. I am worried about that, Trev.

I hope we get like a real deal party, right, James? I agree with you. I think the pregame is going to be much better than the party this year. A little bit. Like you said, Otani's on the block. Just straight up, don't believe that at all. you said and then they're saying like the Indians are like we'll trade anyone it's like or the guardians like get shut up dude that stealing other people's moves and the reds are like

you know what maybe we won't trade Castillo it's like well you will you just you're trying to get more leverage I feel like this is the last gamesmanship window and this weekend it's like all right all the bluffs are done Do we doing this or we're not doing this? And we're just in this window now, which I kind of dislike, where both sides are pitting the media to say empty threats or dumb stuff.

Oh, maybe they won't trade them. Everyone's available. It's like nothing matters. Nothing has mattered in the last four days besides the two trades that actually happened. For me, in my opinion. Okay.

That's a pessimistic take, but I'm on your side more than the other, James. I do think we're going to get some trades. I think Juan Soto's gone. I think Wonsoto's gone. I'm just saying like everyone's bluffing or bluffing a bluff right now with all these updates. It all circles around Soto for me because that would be one of the biggest trades in Major League Baseball history. And that's what we're going like that's 40-40 club.

We got the invite. We're rolling up. It's going to be lit. Maybe. I know nothing. But dude, I just, I want to get there so bad. It's honestly, it's the, it's. One of the only times of the year that other stuff around baseball matters more than the game.

So that's where I'm a little shooketh. Okay. 40-40 club, huh? Yeah, I feel like that used to be a thing. Did you ever go? I've been there a long time ago. Yeah, that's what I was going to say. That, like, was the thing.

I don't think it is anymore, but maybe we're bringing it back. I don't know. I don't know where the hot spot is in New York anymore. Well, up, Upper East Side, your house, baby. Oh, and there's my address. Should we know it's a hot spot in New York these days? Flushing. Should we do the National League?

We should. Nate Steele in the chat said, Jimmy went from rumors or my gospel to the only thing that matters is things that have actually happened, which is true. Because the rumors started turning into all the things I hate every year about rumors. Like just both sides for, for like one week, all the rumors were on the same side. Everyone's going to get traded.

And I'm like, yeah, this is going to be a blast. And then we had a week of all this backpedaling and teams that weren't in the mix being like, well, what if we get in the mix and delay your time? Like, can we be invited to the trade parties? Like, Guardians, shut up. But out. You're not trading Bieber, so stop acting like you are. That's how I felt.

That's the one that really, I was like, really, we're just nonsense now. And the Otani stuff. I feel pretty happy about. not being happy with the Guardian's front office because Chris Rose thinks they're buyers. They're trying to tell people their sellers, which has to be good vibes for the team. So my hate for the Guardian's front office continues.

Same. Can I throw something out there? They're publicly being like, we're sellers. It's hilarious. You know how like everyone's always like, it's time for the Yankees to start acting like the Yankees. I believe that now Cash God

Go get your fucking guys There are two guys out there That makes That'll make you the Yankees Go get one of them My goodness dude You've been at the GM for 50 fucking years Trev you've been watching the Jeter's

Doc at all I have and I want to I'm not against it I haven't watched it yet But I want to Dude we You me We should get a crew that like All Presses play at the same time

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The double birds are back. Double birds are back. They made a huge comeback in 2022. you. David Ross was doing it last night. Yeah, how about that? Somebody off. I don't know what's going on there, bro.

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We love you. We love the NL. Tell me when the music starts. Now, I. The Braves and Phillies played three games, and the Phillies won the first one. It was an error fest, or just, it was a weird hop fest,

and then a big home run at the end of Minter. The Braves win the middle game. Strider with the great outing. His ERAs blow three on the year. How about that? But the Phillies win the rubber match to take the series. They are now in the mix. And that is fun.

Nationals and the Dodgers played three games. Nationals won the first two. And he comes off the IL wins the third one. I got to think Dodgers are kind of in like, let's get, let's find our team out. And then go mode. And the mats are like, let's show off because scouts are here for Soto. Imagine if a team sent a scout to Soto. You know, they always send scouts to teams that they're going to.

The debacks sweep the Giants. They bunted on them. Every at bat. And the Giants threw the ball away. Every at a bat, basically, from the highlights I saw. Cubs swept the Pirates. Papp. And Petrares had a really nice hug.

Really nice hug. Last game together at Wrigley, potentially, really nice hug. Marlins and the Reds split four games. That's it. That's the end of the wrap up. You want me to get standings? Do you want to go on a little cafe run? I definitely need caffeine,

but I have the standings up, so I'll give them to you. Not a lot of NL. I mean, the Braves, they lose the game by losing to the Phillies. They're now three games back in the East. And the Phillies, did they lose last night? Because that would be... They beat the Pirates yesterday. Well, it says they're nine and a half back.

In the East, I guess I should start just... giving wild card standings here instead because the Phillies are now tied for the wild card I believe the third wild card but that doesn't take yesterday's game which was a new series into account so

I'm all twisted up I think it does the Brewers are in for Philadelphia and St. Louis are tied for that last wild card spot nice the Brewers

they game a game over the Cardinals in the Central. Good job, Brew, Crew. Dodgers, they lose two out of three. So their lead is only 12 games now. And the Giants are, I mean, 17 and a half back in the West and have dropped

to out of the playoff contention by three games. So Giants kind of are out. In my opinion, that's going to be tough. and the Phillies are in the mix. Phillies in the mix, baby. Rob Thompson, Topper, doing it. Jimmy, you have some, I don't know if you wrote these notes on the Phillies,

but Rob Thompson having some fun with like, you know, the reporters back there, talking about this lab he's got. What's up with that? We'll look at it. We'll go in the lab. I've got about moving, it's about moving Alex Baum up in the lineup.

He said, we'll look at it. We'll go in the lab. I've got a lab back there with little white rats, little white rats and cleats on and lineups, which I like. I don't like co-managers try to be funny, but like I can see that coming out of his voice or out of his mouth.

And then I started to think about little white rats with cleats on. And that's where he got me. What do you mean you try to like that visual? Okay. I like it. We're a little glitchy here. So I'm not really getting the old Jake effect. It is so hard to talk when I can't see you guys.

you're stuck right now I just want to smack your face I think we're going to have to go like one person talks for a while and then response response combos are tough can't see or hear you guys really but we'll be all right

we'll be all right I like that answer about that because Thompson knows he doesn't make the lineup and everybody asking the questions knows he doesn't make the lineup and it's a funny way of saying like I'll fucking no dude if the guy's in the other room

tell me to bat him lead off he's lead off. Don't ask me. Go ask Sam Fold. The nerds in the white lab codes make my lineup. So just butt out. I like this fact that under Rob Thompson, the Phillies are 29 and 18,

whether they got, you know, whether he's managing better or just getting rid of the manager, let a fuse is probably a debate or if neither of those are really the caveat, the thing that happened there. But I really like this stat, because you guys know I like how do teams play against good competition.

The Phillies are 21 and 16 against the five teams ahead of them. The Dodgers, Brewers, Padres, Cardinals, Braves. And it's not front-loaded or loaded against anyone team. They have a winning record against a lot of those teams, which is important in the wild card era, Trev, because say the Cardinals and the Braves were to be tied for the last wildcard spot, the Cardinals and Phillies, the Phillies would get it because they have the head-to-head.

There's no game 163 this year, or there's no game 163. It's just straight head-to-head. So that's interesting and cool. It is cool. I mean, that definitely means something because you're getting all the games at home. I don't know. Are they really good at home? They have splits like that.

I know some teams are. I don't have to pull it up for the Phillies, but that is a nice stat. You want to win games against good teams. We like this Phillies team. And Dave Don Browsky says that he's going all in? What moves can they make? I don't really know, man. They're game over 500 at home, 26 and 25, and 26 and 22 on the road.

We're so focused on Juan Soda, Shohei Otani, Luis Castillo, where are these guys going to go? But reality is, but there's a lot of other guys that are out there that can really help a ball club, and we haven't been focusing on them enough. But when these trades go down and we get through August and into September, you know, those little trades, you know, for a setup guy or like a bullpen dude that, you know, whether it's a platoonish type guy, like a guy that can get a lefty out or, you know, whatever it may be. There's going to be some players that really change the landscape of the season. And it's probably, I mean, it can be Otani and Soto and Castillo and those guys.

But most of the time, you see the little pieces make the biggest difference. So I think that's what the Phillies are going to have to deal with. I don't think they're going to go get some of these big names because I don't think they can unless they start eating some money because I don't think the prospect capital to do it. So they're going to have to work in the shadows. Old double Ds and have to get down on those shadows and find some players.

But I'm very intrigued by the Phillies, very, very intrigued. I love that Bome is going off. That makes a big difference. Well, the other term in play there is risk, right? I mean, Dumbrowski and these Phillies are in, And there's, like you're saying, there's a lot of players we haven't talked about at this deadline. It's so fun to talk Soto. We can talk Soto all day.

A lot of our stuff on John Boy Media the past week, week and a half has been about WAN Soto. And guess what? I've loved all of it because it's so fun. It's so fun. And that's what John Boy Media does. Is fun. Will Wan Soto be on your team? Will a 23-year-old Hall of Fameer join your team and go into the Hall of Fame on your team and have that number retire?

It's an awesome thought process. You're right. There's probably a lot. There's so many smaller moves between bullpins or just getting innings or a guy that can platoon or fill in whatever spot your team kind of needs. You wonder if there's contract guys that get moved or salary dump type moves where maybe the Phillies can take their chance that way. Because like you're saying, the prospect capital hasn't been the strength of the Phillies for a while.

But like you guys are saying, there's a lot of good numbers around these Phillies. There's a lot of things that can get you excited. They've been one of the most exciting teams on paper high-end talent-wise that, yeah, man, they are such a wild card this playoff season, trade deadline season. And by the way, they've been without Bryce, right? Didn't we think there was a chance that they could be where the San Francisco Giants are right now or even worse?

And we'd be saying that, you know, these Phillies, they lost Bryce, it kind of fell apart. what can they get rid of instead they're going to get Bryce Harper back they're going to be a part of this till the wire and I wouldn't be surprised if my guy Dombrough you know I'm I'm tougher on him than I probably should be just a weird little guy that talks baseball but Dombrowski he's going to make a move and it's probably going to be the I would if you had to bank on a team making the most off the map move this deadline it'd probably be the fight and fills for me you have Donbrows He's a little?

No, I'm a little guy. He's tall. That's why we beef, dude. Yes. That's, yeah, that was my confusion. My bad. The Braves, anything on them? I mean, they, they were a game and a half out last week, we checked in on them.

They lose these two to the Phillies. There were some weird plays. Did you see the Stott ball that took an odd hop and went under Olson's glove? Treps? Yeah, he tried to kind of like side-stead. at expecting the big bounce and just stayed down on him right there. But that's a tough one because it has so much top spin on it. Honestly, if you're Olson, you got to do a better job getting further behind that ball.

You got a little too close to it. But it's tough to judge that when a ball's hit like that. And it's so I guess that's the second hop. You either got to go try to get it on one hop or short hop it or move way back. He kind of put himself in no man's land there. just got busted. I know it's a bad hot, but he could have played that better. Such a, it looked like it hit a rock or something. Like it was crazy. And for two runs, of scoring it. And then Stott gets the big home run later on against Minter, who was only his

second home run he gave it up all year. And the Phillies played some good small ball ahead of them. They put on a hit and run, got to ground their ground ball, a big chopper at a second, but the second base was covering the steel. So then it was safe, which sets up the three, two, curve ball bomb by Stott. Yeah, nice looking swing on Stott, too, man. I like that. Yeah. Oh, Sarah Allen from Braves fan.

She says that day games don't count for the Braves. So I like that. That's like a good rule. Like if your team doesn't care about day games, they don't care about day games. That's fine. Yankees last year. Yeah. Yankees did that big time.

I love day games. It's real mad. Anything else on the Braves? I feel like this is like more exciting for the Phillies. Doesn't make me change my opinion on the Braves at all. They had a bad start by Morton, which was one inning where he got lit up. And he had the runner picked off and then didn't.

And then they threw it away led to a big inning for the. So I don't. Does this change anything for you on the Braves front? I think Michael Harris hit some more homers. I think Olson had two homers. I feel like Braves fans should walk away being like, yeah, we're still, we're fine. Yes.

They're fine. Let's shout out Snicker 500th career win Do you remember when he got the job Like we're like who is this guy He's a brave man His whole life Yeah so I love that he's had the longevity And they love him there

So congratulations Snit Congratulations to Snit Let's see The Dodgers lose two out of three To the Nats The Nats if you're talking about them All you're talking about is trades

And it's a Soto situation And it is Corbyman got lit up. So if they're still trying to make teams bring Corbyn on, which I never made sense to me. But a lot of people are saying that's why it's going to happen. Yeah, I think that's the only way it does happen. Well, they were saying that Rizzo doesn't,

if he has to water down his prospect package, they'll just keep Corbyn. That was the latest quote I heard on that. Yeah, but again, this isn't this isn't a Rizzo thing. this is an ownership thing. I mean, if Rizzo got to keep Juan Soto, he'd keep Juan Soto. So I think, like you said, between selling the team and resetting this franchise, I think they want to clear the books a little bit.

But yeah, I mean, that's, that was tough to see, I mean, to see his stat line pop up. 0.26 earnies. When you know there's at least conversations about it, it's tough for him. And just as a competitor and athlete, you hope he can. and find that slider or whatever he's missing that used to make him a lot more successful.

I love it for the Nats. They get the redemption they've wanted since the Shureser Tray, Turner trade. But yeah, man, I mean, this is a, it's just a time of year. You know, the Dodgers are looking at different things. It's kind of the one week a year that teams are focused on something, the contenders are focused on something more than the games. And I think that's why we got a lot of.

lot of the results we did this past week. Yeah, and the Dodgers, they can use some help, man. We always talk about how deep they are, but if you kind of go over some of the lineups, they've been running out there, you know, they probably playing Hanser, Alberto, a little more than they want,

Trace Thompson a little bit more than they want, Jake Lamb a little bit more than they want. These guys are nice bench pieces, and I don't think the Dodgers want to have them, you know, in their lineup as we go into September every single day. I'm sorry. no offense to these guys. Trace Thompson's actually been pretty good, but this just tells me that the Dodgers are going to be making some moves. They need, they need, I don't want to call the COVID

year not a real title, but I feel like they want this really bad this year. And you know what? I was watching, watching baseball yesterday and just watching Trey Turner do his thing. The Dodgers have to resign this guy, right? Or at least try as hard as they can. People are saying Tray wants to go batch the East Coast, but how can you let a guy like that? He is so freaking good, dude. Like, he is like one guy you sign long term. I don't worry a second about his, like, how good he's going to be. He's just going to be really good. So I didn't forget it to that guy. Does Chris Taylor, he's like, I think making his rehab start soon, like very, you know, close to returning from his injury. Does that change it for you, Treve? Like, that's a big lift. Yeah, they need him back. They need

Muncie to like kind of let's go. Like we need you to be a middle of the bat type of guy. So their lineup depth isn't where they want it to be right now. I think they're going to address that. I think they're going to be very, very active at the trade deadline. The Reds already started making moves. So I like that. I see one soon.

Dodgers bench isn't what a Dodgers bench would normally look like. Well, it's fine if those guys are on the bench. but you need that you can't have all those guys in the starting lineup like that that's not what that's not what they set out at the beginning of the season to look like and it's not what they're going to look like after the trade deadline um Dback sweep the Giants debacks are not like eight and one or seven and one in their last eight good for them they had for the Giants I mean it's the same thing again it just ran on them bonted on them made them play defense and then they just did you see the belt thing the seventh

second and third run around his bun. Like not like a crazy punt. Just right to belt. Who throws it home, throws it away, both runs score. It's like Giants in the Red Sox, man. You love picking on these teams right now. I'm not picking on. I'm just like

talking about how bad they are at fielding. Teams are taking advantage of it, Treve. Like the scouting report is make them, the play and they can't. Do you think this ends it for the Giants? Do you think this is it?

Like, hey, you guys, we're not having a repeat of last year, obviously. Like, are we now selling some people? They have to stay competitive, you know. So I don't know their rental situation. I'll bring it up. I would think if they have a rental that teams would seek, you have to consider it. It feels.

It feels. really similar to Boston, right? They're both three out. Boston is a, is 500. The Giants are half a game below. These are big market teams that I don't know, man. Like, no, nobody, no real fan of either one of those teams has World Series aspirations. Like, I think in their heart of hearts, they're like, well, you know, even at your root of fandom and wanting to win games, you know, you'd love to make a couple tweaks. And like you say, hopefully that the story of baseball clicks in where if you move your eighth inning guy to the seventh inning, he gets it better. And then that makes your whole bullpen better and you get some ripple effects that way. The Giants, man, I don't know.

Especially after, I guess it's really similar. The Red Sox went to the CS last year. The Giants won 107 games. Now they're both these 500 teams that are playing tough defense. I don't know what you do. If you're the GM, this is business time. Because what are we going to be saying about these teams next year? Is Boston going to be a better product next year?

I know they definitely want to be. Same with the San Francisco Giants. So if you're really looking in the mirror, do you make that trade for a piece that could help you next year? and you get rid of a veteran and that's kind of waving the white flag? Or do you make a couple little Atlanta brave tweaks like last year? And you hope that puts something in motion that changes the whole energy of your team. Because you do one or the two.

If you sit there on your hands, I mean, that's as bad as you can do. Oh, we don't like that here. We do not like idle hands here, okay? Be moving those dang things. On the DEVAC's front, we're happy for him. Jake's snakes, I think the snakes were in the chance. at earlier today in the episode. Don't know if they're still there.

Cover your ears, Debeck's YouTube person. Merrill Kelly on the move. Isn't that something like a logical move? Stop it. He's 33 years old. He's cost controlled through 2025. Having a good year this year could probably bring back a nice package for you

because of that control. And you're not paying, I mean, they're not paying him anything. I think it's a two year 18 mil plus the team option in 2025. So. Yeah, Yeah, but you just know the Diamondbacks don't do that.

They're just always trying to win, even when it seems like they're not. He'll be a Yankee. Like for them, they're like, well, our windows in four years, of course it is. And he'll be a part of that window. In four years, it'll be 37. So it's like, you know, you kind of got to look at age here. Some guys can do it a la Justin Verlander. We'll talk about him later.

But seems like the right time for me. hottest team out of the All-Star game. We're six and a half in the wild card. Just trust the process, maybe. Okay. Thank you. Two gamer, Cubs, pirates. You want to go there?

Nope. And the Marlins and the Reds. I mean, we're not talking about teams out of it unless they're trading guys. What about that hug between half and Contreras? That's nice. Beautiful and sad. It was nice. I hope they both get traded now.

Seems like they've, come to grips with it. They've accepted it. And they would be weird if they weren't now. Because, I mean, it has got next year. He doesn't have to be traded. They should. I know we want to skip over some stuff, but let's, let's give a little love to my guy, Jonathan, India, who's been

freaking red hot first career grand slam, sends out a tweet, gets the ball back. When I think about guys like him and, you know, the direction of the Reds and all of that, just It's kind of sad, man. I want to see that guy playing meaningful baseball.

Yeah, I know we talked about it with Martin Perez. Ian Hap, our friend, like, Cubs, if you're not trading him, why aren't we hearing about an extension? Because that is a, is he 27 or 28? A 27-year-old switch-hitting outfielder who's got a career 800 OPS. He's got an 813 OPS this year.

Like, either trade him or give him the bag. Like don't, don't live in the middle. No sitting on your hands this week. Why did the Cubs sign Stroman? It still doesn't make any sense. We never knew. We never knew, bro. We never knew.

We got some Marlins fans in the chat getting mad at us. Your team said everyone's on the block, man, except for Sandy. Yeah, yeah, they're the same as the Guardians, dude. Like, shut up. Get out of here. I wish they would go for it. You know, obviously, jazz. on the 60 day, or he's done for the season, right?

That hurts a little bit. I'm a believe, I love the Marlins. I wish they would have, you know, thought of this before the season when they still had Jeets, Jets and Kim could have freaking figured some stuff out, but they just, I don't know what happened there, man. I don't think we'll ever know unless Jets decided to spill the beans. The episode 10 of the documentary. They had a chance to be a really freaking good team, dude.

Like, they had a legit chance to be very similar to the, the brewers. Like with that pitching like go spend some money and bring some bats in there like things can be funny. I know you're in a tough division but from the get go they were not it didn't seem like they were kind of all in on this season

which is what sucks if you're a Marlins fan. Because when are you going to have that fucking staff? Like I know you they're there but like this is your window. This year included man it was it's a tough division I know but what you want to know the very tweet and I think it was our account and I'm not upset about our account tweeting but the very tweet that made me go from I love rumors to like my normal self

it was when the Marlin said everyone's available and then besides Sandy and then someone was I think talking baseball we treated well Pablo Lopez would be a great get if everyone's available and I was like, I'm out. We're not in reality anymore. See ya. I'm just waiting for the pass and button to be hit. BBD, your finger on that thing?

I've got it ready. Pablo Lopez, if the Marlins trade him, then that means they're not trying to win until 2025. And they're not going to do that because that would be, I mean, Colorado Rockies level and apt. Oh, no, man. Yeah, this.

He's made two, million dollars and he's so good and they got him for two more years that's when i tapped out when i saw that trade i was like what are we doing that that that's bad baseball and not gonna happen sometimes i wonder if there's just like things that we don't know about obviously there's things we don't know about that i don't know about so many so much stuff i can't figure out air travel or wifi weird or wifi on air travel don't even start james when you did when you said about the direct TV dish this thing makes you

able to have television and you said I don't really believe that I'm I'm with you bro yeah I'm with you that's so nuts

why does internet travel just like a little bit why can't we just make it travel more Bluetooth oh it only goes up to a hundred feet why make that shit go 3,000 feet dude are you fucking kidding me dude I get like mad at the whole world

when there's spots and civil civil civilized towns that like oh this town doesn't get good cell service my neighborhood I can't even you guys know you try to call me

you got to FaceTime me if you want to talk to me in my house every house I see as plumbing and like electricity what are you talking about put cell service where the people live Wi-Fi should be free by the way Jake what's something you don't understand yeah well I mean of the same milk I tweeted

it out the other night. I mean, Bluetooth is the same stuff. Like, oh, I can just casually connect devices through the air, like the same way we use internet and other stuff. I don't know. The one that gets me that I know there's actual information behind, it's still bridges. I mean, how? Like, bridges that go over water. I get bridges. Yeah, I understand bridges. I understand them. It's a lot of explanation But like, for bridges. Look at, they had to dig a hole in the water

and put all the cement in the hole to, like, stabilize it. Like, I don't know, man. I get bridges, tunnels. How'd we start that? Heavy. I get, I get that, too. I get how they work,

but, like, literally how'd they get that to happen? When you're in a big skyscraper, my goodness. Why have we only, like, discovered 5% of the ocean? We should be putting little rovers all around the ocean that just run 24, so they can discover what's in the ocean.

Let those be. Ocean's cool. Anything else in the National League? Felt like all of it. That was good. We got some international league. Watch the documentary on the Brooklyn Bridge and then you understand bridges. It's crazy what they have.

We have no international league. We do have A.L. and I. Yeah, international. We're not doing minor league updates. Jimmy, I'll do a. I'll do ale. You go get a cup of Joe. We'll see you back in a minute.

One question. Yes. One question. California isn't a drought right now. I can't even water my grass. We got like the Pacific Ocean right next to us. Why can't we just take the salt out? I went down that one day.

Salination. Yeah. Like they can do it. It's all money. It's really expensive. It's all controlling. I don't know why that's not just a thing that happens. Why does that cost us anything?

You know what else is expensive? Like a lot of things, bro. So many things are expensive. It seems to me like getting water for like your fucking the best state in the world that produces all of the U.S. fucking produce should be at the top of the list. I don't know. Speaking of the West Coast,

how about the Seattle Mariners, babe? They go out and they sweep Trevor Ploofs, Texas Rangers. The Mariners, man, they've got a case for third best team in the American League. I want to talk about them a little bit. Tie France. Oh, him and Big Flex did it in the first one. Cal Raleigh heard me talking shit about Wilson Contreras,

so he had a game-tying RBI double, and then trade piece Carlos Santana with the walk-off sack fly, and then they finish it off with Marco Gonzalez. Robbie Ray apparently taught George Kirby his nasty two-seamer. I like that. Marco Gonzalez also with a hot take. I think Julio is the best player I've ever seen. Sure, the best player I've ever played with.

Good times in the Pacific Northwest. Maybe we'll talk about him, staying out west. And again, I tried to tell you guys some funky results because it's trade deadline season. The Oakland Athletics swept the Houston Astros. It's the Oakland A's first week. of the season. Trevor Poulouse A's. Maybe the most complete team in baseball right now, the Houston Astros, and they got swept by the Oakland Athletics. Pretty wild. Good job.

A's Frankie Montas, his last A's start. Hopefully. How about it? Some weird baseball going on. Not weird anymore. Your Baltimore Orioles winning three out of four in. Camden against Trevor Plouffe, Tampa Bay, Rays. The Orioles. And man, if you believe in sports or you believe in chaos or energy, I mean, Trey Mancini, he salutes the crowd on Mo Gabba Day. Man, inside the park home run, I mean, just craziness. These Baltimore Orioles, man, these Baltimore Orioles, they win another series.

they take three out of four, they're getting away from 500, and they may be coming for your ass in the AL East. The Red Sox and Guardians split four, and that's obvious because the Red Sox are bad right now, and the Guardians have no belief from their front office. Ugly defense, the Red Sox win the bread games as the Guardians win the two middle games around it. Josh and Haler having fun.

Always, I can watch him all day. and that's pretty much what happened in your American league. Nice job, Jakey boy. James standings? The standings are that the Yankees are leading the East by 11.5 games. Toronto, third best record in the American League. They're in second place. The raise in third, Baltimore, fourth place.

Red Sox fall to last in the division. Yikes. Twinkies. They're in first place in the central, Cleveland, two behind. White Sox, three behind. White Sox are exactly 500. And the Astros have an 11 game lead now. They get swept and their lead drops to 11 games.

Mariners, 11 back. As far as wild card goes right now, the division leaders would be the Yankees, the Astros, and the twins and your wildcard teams would be the Toronto Blue Jays, the Seattle Mariners and the Tampa Bay race. Twins have a worse record than the three wildcard teams because the Central is mid-doll of the country. Whoa. All right.

Let's reel it in and speaking of. I don't like that. Speaking of less. I'm just saying that the best team in the Central has the worst record of all potential AL wildcard teams. Al wildcard teams I miss you are quoted as saying the twins are good I have the clip

as a clip I do think they're I do think the twins are all right I don't know what's dude I can't figure out the twins this year so if anyone wants to give me but I talk to a bunch of twins people when we were in LA that are you know involved with the team and close team and I had good conversations and they were of the same mind and they're with the team every single day.

And they're like, yeah, I don't know, man. Some days it seems like we can be really good. And other days it seems like we can be really bad. Starting pitching is falling apart. I think we need some people there. I'm going to the games. They come to LA 9th and 10th of August. So I'll be there.

I'll talk some sense to it. It'll be after the trade deadline. So it won't do any good. There is a really good. There's a really good graphic. They're starting pitching by month has just gotten worse, worse. I think the first month they were third. And now I think they're up to last.

I did miss Royals and Angels only because they got shut out from this because if you were the losing team in that series, you got shut out 7-0-60-40-0 Angels 1, 2 out of 3. What matters in the American League, the team that we deserve to talk about in this segment is your Seattle Mariners. We've seen them turn it on. They swept the Texas Rangers. They made big moves before the season.

Robbie Ray, Jesse Winker. Julio Rodriguez is having an all-time rookie season. They have some young, fun pitchers. They have a GM that loves to be in the action and do business. I think we're going to be talking about them a lot in the couple days. And you mentioned the Blue Jays technically have the third best record in the AL. And they're playing a good brand of baseball. They're not in my little recap here.

But the Seattle Mariners, they have an argument to be the third best team in the American League. And I think if you told the Mariners that before the season, that's kind of what they probably hoped for. Like Houston and the Yankees, yeah, they're still kind of the big bad woofs. But the Seattle Mariners are playing a really good brand of baseball. Julio seems to get better every time you see him. If you saw the highlight of the hanging slider he hit for a home run in this series, my goodness.

It's Mariners season, baby. and I'm excited to see they have one of the more fun weekends coming up because they're going to add and... Oh, they're getting somebody. They're getting somebody. Hopefully they're getting some buddies.

I don't want to make this about the Yankees. So just real quick on this, okay? Because you just said something... They didn't even play in the American League. I got it. I'm going to be recapping them against the Mets, which they got swept. Spoiler alert.

You really, thought the Yankees were going to be where they're at before the season. I don't think that's true. You did not foresee a juggernaut team coming out and being this far ahead of the pack. That's not true, man. No. Right. Did Jake say that? No. Yeah. He said the Mariners knew that they were Astros and the Yankees are top of the class. That's that before the season, that was not the case. No, I was more so, sorry if I confused you, Trevor. I was more so saying that if you told the Mariners that at this point in the season, they'd be third behind a good Houston team. and a good Yankees team, they'd say,

okay, that's a pretty good result for us. It's a very, I think them in the blue, I agree with that. I think them and the Blue Jays are a fun conversation right now because the Blue Jays are starting to go yet, but we're not talking about them. We're talking Mariners. Yeah, I don't know if it's recency bias or what,

but those two teams look fucking almost unbeatable right now. I declared one of them dead, but now I'm watching these guys play. And really, it's Julio Rodriguez, man. like he is an absolute difference maker 21 years old dude he's a perennial 30 30 40 40 40

fucking guy I'll taste other dudes Julio you don't even need to say the last name yeah oh wow you kind of don't if you're like a baseball fan that watches baseball yeah you seen Julio

yeah if you're not in other circles that might land somewhere else like if I go to like a bunch of ballet enthusiasts and I say, what do you think about how Julio's latest performance? I don't know who they think of. There's probably a Julio in ballet.

Someone give me the top Julio for each like, you know, bowling. They're a Julio up and comer. I don't like J. Rod. No. I don't like that.

I don't like any of the rods. I think that that can't, that has to be dead for like 20 years before someone tries to bring it back. Krod and A Rod had a good run. Why on his baseball reference, Mariners fans, sound off in the chat. Why on his baseball reference page

are his nicknames listed as J. Rod, Julio, and Acuna. Like baby Acuna? Is that what we're doing? This week has been kind of the big Twitter week of like, wow, Willie Rodriguez became just Tullio pretty quick. So a couple of them He's incredible, dude He's not good

He's fabulous He's like give a fuck either That's why I like this dude Just smiling, crushing baseballs It's funny because Julio Urius is really good But Ureas is a pretty badass last name that Yeah yeah You just call him Urius

Yeah Urias Yeah Okay You guys want anything else there Keep it moving We can keep it moving. Mariners are good.

I mean, Blue Jays, are they the next team that deserves to be talked about? Or where do you want to go, Jake? No, we're going to keep it on the West Coast. The Jays were not a part of my A.L. So we're going to talk about how the Houston Astros, the Big Bad Wolf, they got swept by the A's. This was what I was talking about when I was referencing some of the results. When you see that the Dodgers lost to the nationals,

the Astros lost to the A's. I think it goes to what I was saying. This is the time of year where the games are secondary to the trade deadline. As people are kind of loading up on their artillery and getting it ready, it's the athletics first sweep.

We gave the Cubs some claps last week for getting their first sweep. Happy for the A's. And yeah, but either way, the story of these teams aren't changing. For the A's, it's who's got their bags packed and is ready to go. And for Houston, it's like, well, by the way, Houston's first time getting swept this year, which is also wild.

And Houston, there's all sort of swirling rumors. Jim, again, I don't know if you put these in the good or bad rumor, but I heard they're talking about erkidi if it can get them major league help in the outfielder catcher. Who knows if that's true? But yeah, I mean, both of these teams, it's just rumor season. It's not baseball season. Wilson Contreras to the Astros. Book hits.

First of all, they got swerve and Irvin, okay? And I read a fun stat. And this is how deep these front offices are going into the numbers nowadays and just all the data they collect. The A's front office loves Cole Irvin, swerve, as I call him. because he doesn't allow fly balls to left field. It's got a really low fly ball to left field rate. So that plays good if you're a lefty pitcher,

and he went out and stifled the Astros. Then Montas had his thing. I mean, I think, yeah, you're totally right. This is a look-ahead series for the Astros. Shout out the A's for doing it. My guy Pinder hits the Grand Slam, voter hits a homer. I mean, this is this is 2017 A's? What's going on here?

Piscadian vote back to back. What's going on? Awesome, dude. Yeah. And then we got to mention McCullors. He started this first rehab assignment. It's scary. He's coming back, guys.

Yeah, they're good. I mean, A's aren't. Astros are results. It's baseball. Okay. I don't think they're going to trade her kitty. That's the rumor?

That's a rumor. They're saying they will. They'll trade from a position of depth because they do have McCullors coming back. They want that offense I talked about that they want that offensive upgrade at catcher man And Brantley's out for a while

I don't think that he has a timetable for return They said that he hasn't even swung a bat yet He's been out since June Hasn't swung a bat yet So that's not looking good So there's a few things they can address on their roster Obviously center field is you know Centerfield, outfield catcher

I mean they don't do they not have a minor league They don't have prospects that people would want I think, I mean, I don't, I actually don't, I think they do, but this is a way for them. You always want to deal from a position of depth. Yeah, but not pitching depth. I mean, homegrown, cheap pitching depth that you have locked up for five years. Reds would have traded Castillo. I mean, they didn't have the debt, but like the package, if, if they didn't say this themselves and someone would say, what would it take the other kitty?

The package would be huge. Not huge, but you need to match. it with someone who you're going to get like five years of control with or I mean he's a proven mid threes era guy that's been in the postseason for them three seasons now and he's still got five years of control left that's would seem like a wild move there's got to be some peripherals they don't like some data on him they're like oh yeah we don't he's really good come get him from us pay a lot I'm looking at their prospects right now let's see if I can get it up here As far as like top rated prospects, they only have one in the top 100, Hunter Brown.

As of right now. And he is a pitcher, 23 year old. He's in AAA right now. Contreras deleted all the cubs from his Instagram. Whoa, wah, wah. Damn. Dude, that always blows my mind that that is on people's mind. What?

That's just a baseball button Not a passing Oh You thought it was a passing button I thought it was a passing button Yeah I just got me out there I'm on high alert dude

You are You're edgy Yeah Trev's edgy Jim's spitting I like reading Trevor Plus stuff He's got a lot of good takes

No I'm over Ron darling Darling I'm over Ron darling Yeah Did you say I'm spitting You're spitting What am I spitting You're spitting

man. It's trade deadline. Everyone's on edge. Everyone's on edge. I'm doing well. I just wish I could see you and see you. I know it, big daddy. Yeah, it's tough to deal with this man. I know it. You guys are fighters. Let's go. Raise Orioles. Let's move on. Let's go, boys. Yep. The Orioles, man, they continue to go. Good energy in the stadium. I can't believe Tray Mancini. I mean, he was on Hug Watch and they're saying it might be his last game. Still just doesn't If there's one thing that doesn't make sense to me, it's the energy they have right now and with that guy sticking it out through all of this.

But we'll see. He's still a popular trade deadline. The Rays are still beat up. They've been beat up. They casually got the news that Kiermeyer and Zanino are out for the year. I mean, we haven't talked Rays like at all on this. I mean, Wander Franco, he's been out. the race have kind of been the ghost of the American League

in this first half and now the Orioles take three out of four and they jump the Red Sox they're on the Ray's ass now Usually I say this is where they want to be This is right where the rays want to be in the depths lurking But they have 17 players on the IL right now Yeah Like that's hard to overcome for any team Okay and

Maybe this is where they want to be And they don't care about any of that but there's going to be a season where it doesn't work out. Jake, you said that before this one. I said it before last season. I don't know. I never know what to think of the race. On the Mancini front,

I don't think they can trade this guy. I just don't see how you can do that to your clubhouse and your fan-based. You just can't. Because as Britt Garali pointed out, and I talked about this on baseball today earlier, what's the return going to be for Mancini? It's not like a franchise altering player.

No, he's a purely a renter. so you're going to get a flyer. That's not worth it to give up your clubhouse leader, a guy that's showing the young guys how to go about their business and as a fan favorite and you're a game above 500.

Now, you just can't do it. You can't. You're going to get two flyers, two guys that are not in the top 20 of the team's prospect list, but showing promise. That's what you just saw the Benintendi trade and he's having an amazing season and it was three guys like that.

Rizzo last year. I'm sure there's tons of examples from teams that I don't follow as close as the Yankees. But yeah, you're not going to get a name or anyone or, you know, but it's still, it's still prospect capital, which they value so much. But I do think they, they would be wise of them to emphasize the value of keeping them around as mentor and Truder and all that shit. You think anyone catches in the wild card, Jake, in the American League wild card? Like, as you're saying, the rays look bad and bad. Like, if the rays keep going down, who's your team then? Because then you have the Guardians, the Orioles, the Red Sox right now.

Well, that's where things, that's where the American League still has a chance to become really fun baseball in September. With a twist of you probably won't like it, Jim, because there's going to be a bad team in the American League that gets in this year. That's kind of what it looks. like. Or one of these teams changes the whole note of their season. We haven't talked about my white socks yet. They are 500 on the nose. The Red Sox are 500 on the nose. The Baltimore Orioles are a half game over, but they've got the fun juice aspects. So we like that. The Cleveland Guardians, we love their young talent. They're still lurking around. And the Tampa Bay Rays, maybe the ghost of the American League, if they start getting some of those healthy bodies

back, if it's Wander, if it's glass now. If the Tampa Bay Rays can look like a different team on September 15th, which when you have 17 guys on the IL, you can, then maybe we're talking about them again. Because if Toronto, Seattle, and who the Rays can be are your American League wild card, those are good teams. If we see the Rays fall off and we see maybe this gritty Baltimore team or Boston makes the tweaks they need.

Do the white socks figure it out and the twins slip? Like, it just depends what it looks like come October. And I think some of the deadline things that go down, that if you're Baltimore, why aren't you looking your chops? Cleveland's no different than you. You're gaining on Tampa, and they don't have the juice right now. Like, it feels like the middle, Trev, you play poker. It feels like a poker hand where you've already put enough chimes,

chips in. You don't have to put, like, they just check the bet and they just knocked on the table. And it's like, let's see some cards. Who knows what's going to happen the next two months of baseball that if you're the Orioles, don't trade, trade Mancini. Let's see if the Ray's figure it out. See if the guardians either trade away their best pitcher or if they add something. Like, let the chaos happen around you. I think at some point a team will fall out of the A.L. Wild card. Whether Cleveland gets hot

for a little bit or Boston or the White Sox click, but yes, I think we will see a change at some point. I did not understand your poker reference at all, but I appreciate the effort that went into it. You don't play ball, I guess. Maybe that's a me

thing and not a you thing. Go Orioles go. but we got to keep it moving guys red socks at guardians two mid teams wow wow right wow wow yes someone clipped this

will middlebrooks texted me after I said the red socks are going to be a 500 team this year and he said what you what are you smoking so I just don't really believe in this team got to go like if nick pavetta goes maybe they got a chance and he was not happy with me. We're 100 games in, Will. 50 and 50, baby.

I don't know if anything's going to change either. There's been some bad luck for them. Obviously, the Chris Sale thing. As soon as they were getting hot, he comes back, then he gets hurt and then changed everything. So bad luck, but I don't think they were ever really destined for greatness this year. I don't see how you could have thought that. Can I tell you something?

Exactly like how I thought it was going to play out. 50 and 50 wins, 50 losses is more. brutal than 49 and 49 or 51 and 51 just because it's such easy math to play oh we played a hundred games what do we know nothing are we good oh are we bad I'll just wasting everyone's time for a hundred games straight such a benchmark moment I'd suggest teams either be a game under game over at a hundred games in that's your suggestion suggestion. Yeah. Don't be 50 and 50. Don't be neutral. That stinks. Don't live in the gray.

At all like the check marks. Like after 50 games, after 100 games, like, I'd be so mad. I'd just feel like I wasted a whole bunch of time. No round. Don't take this the wrong way. I do love Will Middlebrook. So I bet. A couple hot third basemen. A couple hot third basements. Hot wives. Whatever. Hmm, Devers. Supposed to come back. Tuesday when eligible story, still struggling. Yeah, I mean, Jim, I don't know if you saw this. They're 25 and 25 both home and on the road as part of that 50 and 50.

So it's all green. No red or black. And I don't know. The defensive highlights from the Boston Red Sox are still going around. It's not good. It's not. Don't play Cordero at first. My God. Yeah.

He's being punished. Go get swervin Ervin. He doesn't give he doesn't give up flyballs to left field. Perfect. That's right, baby. Paul Ervin, you are Red Sox. Bogarts came out and said that they told him he will

not be traded, which is what we expected after the international draft was shut down because they're going to offer the qualifying offer and you can't do that if you're Heimbloom. So that makes a lot of sense. I guess we're not really going into the nitty-gritty of these games. I think it's cool to point out that Shaw,

who's, you know, a reliever in this game for a long time, makes this first start as an opener, 733 games into the career. That's pretty cool. MLB record. Like, think about that, you know, your day of preparation is so different as a starter than as a reliever. So I think that's just cool, man.

I wanted to throw that out there. I also have a walkoff homer against him. It's not that big of a deal. So it's like if you want to applaud me, fine. It feels like you only brought it up for one reason. It might have been. Angels at Royals. This one's a snooze fest.

I'm sorry, guys. Angels take two or three. Grinky's still doing his thing. Is Cindergarde going somewhere, guys? Are you in on that whole thing? Are you in on that train? Should be. I think the trout injuries, the big news,

out of Angels camp. Yeah, that's scary. As we start skipping some of these series later in the year, I do want to highlight the young players. Like Jansen Junk gets his first career win. Good for you, kid. But yeah, hopefully Cindergarde goes somewhere.

That would be fun. It's a fun, fun uni guy. But yeah, that Trout News, I mean, Trevor, I'll go with you. You don't see a lot of reports like that, and I don't know if you've ever had teammates that had anything like that happened? I don't know. It just kind of punched everyone in the mouth real quick

and was like, what, Trout with a rare back condition? I think we need to see what it means and I don't think he's going to play again this year. It doesn't make, I mean, that's just my gut feeling on this whole thing. Definitely, obviously, the spine isn't starting to mess around with. But it reminds me a little bit, and I hope it doesn't go this way. It reminds me a little bit of when they told Joe,

hour he wasn't going to catch anymore. It just changes your whole career path. You know, like, if he has to be, you know, handle a kid gloves from now on and has to de-h and not play as

aggressive as a center field, like, I think there's obviously still a ton of value in that, but it's scary, man, because this is the guy and, you know, I have to say the same thing. I'm these shows a lot. I've talked about this on baseball, all today, but those counting stats, man, you know, we're putting him up against the greats,

the all-time greats. He's our one-one guy, like our generation's guy. And like we're saying he's the best to ever do it. But when you start missing games like this in your prime and, you know, the last three years, 2020 wasn't his fault, but, you know, he's been hurt the last two years. Like, you're, you're missing out in some of those counting stats, you know, 60, 70 homers in the last three years he's probably missed out on and does that get him away from 700. Kind of crazy to think about that, man. We need trout on the field. We need to have him healthy for the next eight years.

Did you see his follow up to the report? He said he didn't give a shit. He was like, I think the doctor was just saying I have to prep and I'm fine. Hopefully that's the case. Yeah, it's very interesting when you read doctor's quotes and like he seems like he's dancing around saying what he really wants to say. And then you guys see what Trout says. And it's like, what's going on here?

This is weird. Weird. That's weird. I think Syngard should be on the move. I mean, the angels are taking offers on everyone. Then they got a lot of people they can sell. I just.

So they're out on like if they're taking offers on Otani, they're out on next year too. And then the report was that they want your, your four top prospects for Otani. It's like, okay, so you're not trading Otani. you're just like getting headlines now with stuff if that's real like I don't know but yeah they got they got a bunch of guys I can trade right

is Lorenzen still playing well I thought he was hurt did you get hurt I haven't been keeping up with the angels if you're the angels you're you trade them away you trade whoever you can yeah he's on the IL right now to Perra would he get traded I don't know they should trade Thor but has he been good enough for a team to give him $8 million they paid him?

I think so. He's been pretty good. I think he's on the move for sure. I don't see how the GM can trade Otani. I just don't see how that's going to work. I highly doubt that's going to happen. I've tried to wrap my head around in a bunch. I mean, if there's a trade, if their trade happens where Otani's on the move,

I would love, I will be so excited to read the details of it. and if there's the packages and all that stuff. But I can't wrap my head. Like, you want their four top prospects? So then they just, like, that's, you're not getting them for three years. I'd give up my fucking top four prospects for Otani in a heartbeat, dude. But the way GMs think about, like,

you want one through four? Okay. I'd be like, hey, take five too. Well, what did the Dodgers give up for Scher and Trey Turner? Because you're looking at a pretty similar comp. It's that's two bodies instead of one body. They gave up one and two. So you're combining Scherzer and Turner to be one, O'Tonnie.

I like that. Did they give up two top five prospects? Depending on where you look, it was the number one and number 10. There's one and two. Was it Gray and Ruiz? Those were the prospects? Yep. they gave up their number one and their number two

so what's three and four just throw them in the bag so you're probably looking at that like two of your top five and then something and then maybe you know another top 20 plus otani selling tickets so that gets you one through four Cindergarde congrats on becoming a twin or a Blue Jay see you there oh cindergarde is such a twins guy this year oh my gosh Yankees might grab them

New York, been there. All right. I think they tried to grab them and tried a deadline has been the past. Sorry, Nate Steele. This is depressing angel talk. You guys want to go interleague? Give me some I.L. Is it flushing or flushings?

Yes. Yes. Come on, dude. Flushing. No, S. We're going to start out in New York, where they play the Mets games. I don't know where that is.

the Yankees came into town. Did they ride the subway over there for real? Because that would be sick. It's the subway series, people. That was a joke. They get swept. Six-three Mets. Three-two Mets.

Scherzer has a birthday, starving Martes, doing all sorts of great stuff. Edwin Diaz is dicing these fools up. Four outs. He strikes all four of them out in game one to get the save. I like this stat. I put this in there myself. 27 of his last 36 outs have come.

via the K. That's what you want in your back end of your bullpen. Mets get the freaking sweep. Yankees made a trade. Joey Gallo is Diffade, but not Diffade. What he's in purgatory? What is going on right now? We'll talk about Clay Holmes and the 8th, all that sort of stuff. Doesn't matter. The Mets sweep the Yankees.

Go, Mets go. Moving on to Milwaukee. Gru Kroo sweeps sweeps, my twins, my Brewer's feet, my twins, 7, 6, Brewers 10 and four Brewers in game two. Rowdy Tellez goes off. Corbyn strikes out 11 people. A lot of good stuff happened in this game. The Brewers are looking good. They had a little hitters meeting,

a little powwow together guys and decided what they needed to do to get their offense going. And they had been rolling since they did that. They get the sweep against the twins. And then this was a nice little series up in Toronto. Blue Jays and Cardinals. They split 10-3 Blue Jays in game one. They kind of just went off. Matt Chapman has really started going. And then the Cardinal shut him down in game two. Wayne O goes seven innings pitch, one earned run.

It was the old guys. Wayne Wright and Pooho's number 686. He's the oldest player to ever hit a homer in the Rogers Center because I think anywhere yet's a homer now. He's the oldest player to ever hit a homer in that ballpark, which is really cool. They get the series split. We'll talk about that in detail. Moving on, Detroit, the Padres has moved into town. is to me an aesthetically pleasing series. I like the new school Padres look with the old

school Detroit look. Tigers take two out of three. He went 12, four tigers. Then the Padres won the meat game, six, four and ten. And then four three tigers. I believe they walked him off in that last game. They did. Victor Reyes with the walkoff two run double to right field. It was real nice there. Nice little series. I think like you said, the Padres looking ahead to who they're going to add. and then we'll go to Jake's Rocks, Kelsey Wingerst, Rocks. They hosted the White Sox and they split the series. They went 2-1 White Sox, 6-5 Rockies in the second game. Elias Diaz, the walk-up two-run single.

He's been mashing over his last nine games. Copec, 5 and a third shout-out in game one to get that win. They split the series. Are the White Sox good or are they mid? Find out after this. and that's what happened in the international. Where do you guys want to start, Flushings? Hey.

He was working out of the headdresser and flushing. So let's talk about this. Just quick, because people always say this segment turns into talking yanks, okay? There was like the gallo hitting for ICF thing. Nobody liked that, right? No, that was bad. But this should be talking Mets. I walked away from this thinking that the,

Playing the Mets felt like playing the Astros. I think the AL is very top heavy. I don't think there's a lot of teams out there where you watch them play and you're like, this is a good team. Playing the Astros feels like that. The Mets made every play and defense and they made a bunch of hard plays. McNeil made a play at second that looks like, like my only reaction is like, I want to do that.

Like that style of play. Like when you see a guy. Roll the middle. Slow roller, charged it through barrel rolled out of it, came up high-fiving Lindor, I think, like right away and to get the out and threw it hard. Just cool, man. Look like a roller coaster ride. Like, I want to do that. And the Yankees hit some balls hard, right at guys. They made every play they needed to play. They took advantage of if Monty was tipping. They took advantage of it perfectly. If he wasn't, they just hit everything he put in the zone. like the Mets look like a really well-rounded team.

I would say Mets, Astros are the two teams. I've watched Yankees play full games against where I'm like, this feels different. This feels like a higher level of play. Okay. And the Mets get DeGrom back and the Astros get Lance McCuller's back. This is like you're right, James. I like these teams.

Yankees come out right away, hit two homers in the first inning, and then they answer back right after that. My boy, Escobar had a big series too with a go-ahead two-run Homer there. I love Diaz getting the save, the four-out save. And then the second game, they bring Clay Holmes in to face the meat of the lineup

in the eighth with a tie game. I like the move. Peralta comes in in the bottom of the ninth. I think first pitch, Escobar hits a double. They bun him over. Had the chance to make a play on, was it, Nimmo? They gave him a hit on that, single on that. I think it was an air

on Peralta. And then Marte, easy walk-off, single. Mets just took care of business, man. I agree. I put in my notes, Seth Lugo looked nasty. Because he did. I'm sure you guys were watching. Do you see this guy like the funk?

Gross, dude. 3,300 RPMs when he snaps one off on his breaking ball. Pretty nuts. And yeah, the other shout out the Mets need. City. was rocking, man. And I remember when we went to last year's Subway Series,

the place was going nuts. Dude, it's a really fun environment for baseball, like energy you can feel. And yeah, I mean, I'm not going to lie to you. I said it all episode, the Yankees have been distracted by other things. They punched the Benny trade. Literally, right as the game ended,

our guy, Jack Curry tweets out, Ben Intendi to the Yankees. The Mets won these games. shares or shut them out. May judge look as bad as I've seen a starting pitcher. May judgey look this year. Yeah. So, yeah. And then, yeah, I mean, the Gallo ICF thing, you know, you can Google some videos on the internet if you want to see Yankees reactions to that.

Yeah. They trade for Ben and Tendi. Yeah. So that's a big trade. They trade for Ben and Tendentany. It's one of the first like real rental trades we had. And then the Mets also made a trade to get deal old Yankees prospect. It was going to make, it was going to like break camp and they traded him for

Talkman before the 2019 season. And Nakin, Nikon. Tyler Natham says it's supposed to be pronounced Nakein. So both teams made trades, which is fun. Ben and Tendi, his stats are really good to share exactly what they need, which is the exact

opposite of Gallo. And then Gallo is still on the team, but an article just came out by Lindsay Adler where he talks about his careers Yankee in the past tense. So it's very odd because they know that he's going to be off the team soon. The only good thing to come out of this for Yankees fans, Trev, is that Chapman and Loisaga had good innings against the Mets.

And those guys have looked stinky since returning and back. And if that can lead into more good innings, that would be nice. But the Mets are the Mets played well. They played crisp. That's the only thing like there. I just feel like obviously defense is worse throughout the league. You know, an article about that. and like I think that that makes for more entertaining watch but um crisp baseballs you want to

you don't see it a lot I didn't read the article I'm gonna go I'm gonna go read that I think the national league is seeing it more than the American league like good crisp baseball just straight up observation from watching games over the last couple years is you can't just throw fucking guys out at any defensive position and that's what teams do now like oh hey just go hide out there, like, just will position you and try to make you into, you know, a utility player. Dude, you can't do that. Like, you're going to be a bad defender if you're moving all over the place. And if you are a good defender and you're moving all over the place, you're fucking special

and you're getting paid. Yep. Not everyone can do it. And that's where I want to give Jeff McNeil another shout out. I tweeted out, he is the perfect met, the energy and the grit and the doing everything to win he plays with. It's so Mets, it embodies the Mets, and he's awesome, his approach at the play. And, you know, we've talked about it when we do the all-JM team.

We might have to start going like full util because the fact that he can play second base and some corner outfield and some third if you need it and actually play it at that crisp level of baseball, even if it doesn't grade out perfect in OAA, but if you can feel a grounder and make the throw, that's so valuable. that guy is an October player he's who you don't want to see up

if there's runners on second and third and Jeff McNeil's up I'm like fuck he is an October player huh okay yes I like that alright Yankees got swept is the main message there moving on

my Twinkies they go and get swept by the Brew crew um Burrough just did it man you know the Ureas had the walk off sack fly on a, you know, it was deep enough in right field. I don't know who was out there. Was it Larnark or somebody who was, whoever was playing right field in that game just through an

absolute just like wormburner home had no chance there. Kind of felt bad for my guy, Tyler Duffy, because he made a good pitch. Yeah, there it is, James. He made a good pitch, but the Urius just got it deep enough. And then the second game just kind of got a hold of Archer in the fourth inning. Yelich had to go ahead, R. B.R. Wach and Rowdy, our guy. two three run homers in the game. So he just put the twins asleep a little bit there. Like I said, twins starting pitching, starting to kind of show why they need to make an upgrade there.

I love my guy Arch. Jimmy loves Dylan Bundy. But I think we need to bring somebody in there. Corbyn Burns looked really good. There was people always, when I talk about the twins, they always want me to mention Duran. He had a great sequence to Adomis. base is loaded.

He throws 100 miles an hour. His ball is so fucking heavy. Trying to hit the top of the zone. So Sanchez is back there. This is based is loaded. This isn't the first game. Still tight game. Five straight heaters to get the count to three and two.

This guy throws like, I don't even know, like 80, 90 percent heaters, like just a lot. He crosses Sanchez up and throws a fucking slider three, two, right down the middle of the plate. But luckily Sanchez catches it. guy rings adomas up but it was it was crazy to see that dude like i think he just decided to throw it like mid pitch or something to gary got crossed up and hung and hung in there yes dude and the guy throws a hundred so it was my guy to see that and the empire usually doesn't give the pitcher that pitch because he caught it so poorly and counsel was like pulling his hair out so mad

after that but it was a strike that's awesome but yeah go watch the replay if you can it's on the highlights of the game and dude it's it's got to be so scary for a catcher oh yeah think you're getting a hundred and all sudden you see a wrinkle in it you're like oh my gosh scary or the other way but yes uh what else happened in that series i mean that's pretty much it brew crew they had this meeting i mentioned that in the thing they had a meeting talking about taking advantage of opportunities they did it right before the all-star break and since then they've been really good. I like that.

You know I hit hitters meetings, but apparently this one has sparked something. The Yankees have hitter. How often is a hitter meeting, trap every day? Before every series, and then you'll go over the pitcher too. Oh, okay.

The big ones before every series, but then usually before each day, you'll talk about the starter. Who's available in the bullpen, blah, blah, blah. Okay. Nice. Moving on, Cardinals at Blue Jays.

Remember, this is the series. where Goldschmidt and Aeronado were not allowed to come up because of their vaccination status. So Pujols gets some starts there. He was kind of, it's the homer. He was hit a ball down the right field line and watching him run right now is just so fun. It's like we just need more of it. It's kind of like when I see Jake do anything athletic. I'm like, this is really funny. Like you're really good, but it looks funny. Do you know what I'm saying? Very similar to Pujol's the whole way. Yep.

The first game was kind of all Blue Jays. They've been hitting the ball. My guy Matt Chapman has been going off lately. He's been crushing the ball. And a lot of the articles I read were Schneider, the new manager, just praising Chappie saying he had a good first half. If you watched the games, he was hitting the ball hard. This was really unlucky.

And now he's starting to reap some benefits of that. So it's good to see him get going. Vlad was doing his damn thing and then the second game same kind of excuse me that was the first game that was the Springer Grand Slam Vladimir Vladian Alejandro Kirk Homer

and then the second game Wainwright just shoved Gorman had the solo Homer off of Gossman and then Pooho's the same thing three run homer in the fifth 686 guys 686 fucking home runs crazy

not bad so they split Blue Jays are looking good They had won seven games in a row Before they lost that second game against the cards Aesthetically pleasing series for me I wouldn't be mad if this was the World Series I think baseball

In general would be mad because it's not exactly You know I guess it is major markets Oh maybe they would be happy with this What do you think? Yeah Yeah no I'd be down to see the Blue Jays in the World Series That would be nuts

Yeah, that's pretty good. They're both pretty good. I think that, I don't know. One of them is great. Chapman was talking about how he loves playing in Toronto and how the fans, he like loves the fans. And I don't know if that's just lip service, but him getting comfortable,

scary for everybody else. Because that is essentially a depth piece in their lineup, but he can be a middle of the order bat when he's right. And I talked about it. I think, This is, I don't know. This is a top two lineup in baseball right now, one through nine. As far as depth, I think it's them in the Astros.

I think they're above the Dodgers right now, too. You're going just straight depth in the lineup. Like that? Anything else you guys want to add? Not really. Kind of covered it. We kind of covered it. Yeah, two games splits.

By rule, usually we just, I just skip over those. Padres at Tigers. Tigers do take two out of three. Padres won the second game in extra innings. Clevenger had a good start in that game. He kind of hadn't had his footing. But now he's done two straight quality starts. James, you love that.

In the last game, Victor Reyes, had the walk-off, two-run double, down to the last strike off Rogers, hit it to right field. School ball is apparently on the block, and there was a bunch of people watching him pitch, He had a good outing in that game as well. He went six innings pitch, two undern runs.

There's like a drop foul fly ball in the bat against Machado. That wasn't very good. Darvish looks good. I think you have to be concerned with Rogers. If you're the Padres, I thought it was a great move by them to get him. But he's allowed an earned run at each of his last three appearances and eight of his last 11. That's not what you want. Hopefully just getting that out now, saving his sparkly clean innings for the run here in September.

Um, yeah, Padres are in on everybody. A lot of people are saying they're the top team right now to land Soto. They've given the best package, which is nice to see. That will be crazy. You know Preller likes to make moves. He wheels and deals out there. Doesn't give a shit. I'd like to see Machado, Tatez, and Soto back to back.

That would be really cool. That would be wild. This team, Jake, seems like another candidate for your, uh, it's trade season, that baseball season series. I mean, A, like, it's a little bit of that. Baseball got involved here. I think the Padres could have very easily won the last one if Rogers is being his normal stuff and we'd move along.

But yeah, I mean, you know, the Padres eyes are elsewhere. We talked about doing our F1, a live-to-drive-to-show for baseball, but it's at the trade deadline and we get looks in at every front office. I wonder McKenzie Gore, out for the rest of the season and C.J. Abrams being hurt right now. Does that affect any of their big trade talks? Does it not at all? I don't know.

But yeah, I mean, Padres, you know, real people. You know, Jim, you like to filter out a lot of the riffraff. Like, Jeff Passon has been a big, like, the Padres in Soto. Like, if it's going to happen, like them or the Cardinals are your actual front runners. We'll see if they do it for a couple years. This was supposed to be the Padres year. we will see. And hey, a little shout out.

You mentioned Preller before. Remember, they signed ProFar and we were all a little like, ah, the third year for ProFar. I don't know if you're going to need that. He's been really good this year. And he's got now a 7.5 mil player option for next year, which actually looks really good. So, hey, sometimes those guys in the front office earn their money,

whether it's luck or skill. Can we get a sound effect for like a nighting game? update. Like, like, it's maybe like, you know, the two dragons meme or something like that? Like, just like a sillier like, like, let, pay off them. There it is. We just got it.

We just got it. What was that? That was a path in? P-A-T-H-H-M-I-M-E-H-Mid. I mean, it's not even new, though. I just want like, you know, just something that lets the audience know this came from Nightingale. Trev's guy. He said... Criceratops. Yeah. Triceratops. That's great.

Padres, Mariners, Cardinals, Dodgers is what he said earlier this morning or the final four. So, Padres are in there. All right. Let's move on. And this is the last series to cover. So we're going to spend an hour on it.

Scooball getting moved doesn't make sense. And that was another one, Trev, where I was like, what are we doing? Everyone's for sale now. Everyone's for sale. Although the Tigers maybe should because they botched

Fulmer and Boyd so bad. And maybe they're like, let's trade a guy early. See if that works out. Cash in. Who knows? man, who knows a tiger's direction. Who knows some of these teams

fucking directions? I'd like to have a sit down with all these GMs and just say, point me in your direction, I need to know. I think you'd be shocked how many are planless. I need to get the reins of a team. White Sox. Kelsey Winger to Rocks. They were battling in Colorado. They split

the series. We're not supposed to talk about a two game split, but I'm going to talk about a two game split. Copick goes five and a third. shuddy. Hendricks gives up a homer in the ninth, says the altitude gets to him, but he ends up closing it out. They went to 1. The White Sox doing game one. The fun game was the second game. If you're a Rockies fan for sure, we had to walk off two-run single by the catcher there, Diaz, and he backpick Garcia. There's a quote from Steve Stone. So the White Sox are about as bad a base running team as I've ever seen. That is not. what you want to be said about you. It's a funny clue. Yeah, this was a Garcia,

Garcia got picked off a third base, leaning a little bit there. It's, I don't know what the white socks are doing. Who said that? Steve Stone. This is a good, Max put this in our stats here.

Shout out Max Manus, just stud. Kendall Graven has wild splits when he does and doesn't pitch on rest. Pretty small. Can I, Can I like make that bigger? How do I do that?

Sorry, people. I'm getting old here. Here you go. With rest. Kendall Graveman, 34 in a third innings pitched, 183 ERA. Without rest. Nine in a third innings pitched, 6.75. You got all these guys in there looking at data and numbers and shit.

You should probably look at this number a little bit. Make sure all the Kendall's getting a day off here. Wow. A lot of times we found relievers that it's the opposite. Like we used to have a campaign called Keep Britain regular. Because if he got two days off or three days off, he was like he lost it. So that's, man, that's tough. Talking to relievers like we have over the years as we talked to players,

it's like, uh, I never thought about it ever as a kid growing up. that there's relievers that are sitting out there and they have their warm-up toss and they're like my arm hurts a little bit and they don't get to that doesn't fucking matter like we talked to a reliever he was like

I told him out of dead arm like I just I don't know what am I supposed to do I pitched like three times last week my arm's dead I have no feel for any of my pitches they call me up in the bullpen and I'm in and then I get rocked and then everyone's on my ass. And I'm like, oh my God, I just never really thought about that scenario or that situation. Like we just think they have robotic arms. You got to get old.

Your body has to get old and sore. Yeah, I guess once you turn 30 and you, you understand like, or like late 20s and you understand like recovery time. But I just, man, I just never had any sympathy for relievers. I mean, you just, we just had to. a blitz ball meeting about you worrying about your arm being sore. Yeah, I can't do that. It's real.

And what really they'll talk about, if you talk to the bullpen guys, it's the ball comes out of, like when they're fresh, like the ball just comes out of their hand differently. It just feels differently. It's more crisp. And when they are a little tired,

like it just doesn't come out the same way. Sometimes that could work in their favor. It rarely does. But like that crispness of their. pitches like they're able to you know manipulate their their arms slot just a little bit to make sure they're getting in the tunnel and if they don't do that and they can't if their arm is sore and they're not really feeling the slot like that little bit can just make that pitch run into the middle of the plate and then we're getting freaking bushes all the sudden and yeah yeah i just complain and the pouty

lip and then we have to listen to it as position players and i'm like hey guys i don't lump you on with starting pitchers but if you start complaining like this i'm going to start lumping you with starting pitchers, then I lose the room and I get rid of the And we've heard stories the other way, specifically one game where there was a guy who was told before the game like you're down today. Don't even like you're like mental break. You're not we're not going to use you out of the pen today. Which is nice and I'm sure they do that a lot.

And then guy got called up. He he felt what I was talking about arm felt bad. He didn't have it. Just felt like he didn't have a grip on the ball. Told them that. so they didn't bring him into the game. And then they called the other guy who was supposed to be down for the day, brought him in.

He blew the save or the whatever it was, the hold. And I was just like, fuck, dude, reliever life stinks sometimes. Like, do you imagine? Cause my arm hurts. I got no feel for the ball. All right, you're in. Protect his two run lead. Yeah, don't screw it up.

You have a bad two thirds of an inning. And in the box score of the next day, it says loss, moylin. I'm announcing a trade. Donovan Solano to the White Sox. Louis-Rober is coming. He's starting to rehab. You put him back in center field. Donovan Salano is hitting 3.30 on the Reds bench right now.

And the White Sox have room at second base. So I'm going to announce that. And it's finally time. Are you predicting or announcing? Predicting an announcement. Oh, I went to look it up. No, I'm predicting an announcement. Trade season.

Trade season. And then this is it, boys. They had an off day yesterday. Oakland, Kansas City, and Texas. They have their starting pitching lined up. They just got the off day for the bullpen. Go now. They're 14 and 10 in July, not gangbusters, but good for the White Sox.

Go. Go. That's it, guys. That's all the freaking teams, all the games. How do we do it? This will be the last. app where we like do that has to be no bro the dog days are here man i want five hour episodes every single at bat we're going to go over in detail um so we're done that's the recap we got

standout standout performances santiago said damn jake i was happy for my man salano you had me too you can be happy it's gonna happen in probably like a day and a half All right. All right. All right. I enjoy them. Standout performance. Brought to you by the warehouse, Jimbo.

You seen what's going on there? I saw that Trevor's team forgotten raw and had their first game. It was a former first round MLB pick, professional baseball player, professional quarterback, Nicky Cass and Dalton the worm feely against our sales team

yeah no spoilers here's what we started to realize passing across the entire floor ball the rink not a sound strategy

you know what we realize that too we just in our broadcast test, test, we like play a game and we realize that. So we always get to leg up. But that's why the new format of the warehouse games tournament that's going on right now, there's pool play. So it doesn't affect you.

Like the first political battle we did, if you lost the first game, it was a double elimination that went against you. You only had one more game, one more loss left. And so we've built in a new structure of the leagues so that you have a little buffer to understand the learning curve. And we'll see if we're gone raw and can make. make the adjustments necessary. They have one more pool play game left and then the then the playoffs.

And for the blitzball battle too, it'll be the same thing where like pool play, then the playoffs. Go watch Forgotten Ron versus JM office on the warehouse games channel. And for every goal scored in the third period, a subscriber is getting $100. And I believe in our game, Jake, we gave away $600. We gave away some shells. We gave away some real money. We scored six goals in the third period or combined.

I think five. In the game. Five? I think so. I thought I looked good. Yes. You looked great. Thank you.

Nick Cass. I mean, ball on his stick at the doorstep like five times. Unreal. It looked worse on video than real life. And I thought it looked worse. I didn't remember him. I didn't remember him being that bad. Yeah.

Yeah. Well, for anyone that has been watching the warehouse games and also listening to talking baseball, thank you very much. And Trev is right. Passing does not work. So if you think you see a team and they're like, oh, they're being selfish. It's team baggage was pretty out on passing. It was like, just shoot and get a rebound. It is hard to pass. Small condensed area. I came to the conclusion, like, take a shot if you think you got it. All right. I get to go first. Yes, sir. Yes, you do. Wow. I'm going to go Max Scherzer because it's nice symmetry for me on talking yanks. We give out a pride of the Yankees and a Yankee motherfucker after every series. And I gave Judge the motherfucker because he went 0 for five in a rubber mat or in, you know, to not to get swept. And like Jake said, Scherzer made him look as bad as I've seen him look. Scher makes everybody look bad.

It's not a surprise. and Scherzer looked great, and it is like a devastating feeling facing him. When he's on, all you can do is hope he gets tired and the manager leaves him out too long. That's how I feel. Like with Verlander,

I think Verlander is better than Scherzer, like, I don't know, like Verlander at the same exact level, if not, but you can run into a Verlander fastball. And I just, and I'm like, if someone just runs into one, but I just don't get that feeling at all with Scherzer

when he's on. I'm just like, you just got to wait this out, man. He just is demoralizing when he's on. He's smart. I think that's the thing. Like, you get some guys that have the stuff,

but don't, like, Scher can just look at a hitter, see, see, like, the swing he takes. He's kind of like a catcher out there. Looking at the swing you take,

looking how, even if you take a ball, how are you taking that pitch? You know, obviously he's reading the data before the game. but he threw a bunch of breaking balls to judge because Judge can't hit his breaking balls

he's like I'm just going to keep doing that and he struck him out what three times is that game I think so up to Judge to make the adjustment so like he'll see Judge start to sit back on that breaking ball and then he's going to go up top with a fastball like this is the chest match he always seems he always seems to be just a little ahead of the hitters man and he kind of stuff that place yeah he kind of did that second and third at

bat. He started him off Cutter, like right over the heart, and 2 Seamer right over the heart. But Judge he just wasn't looking at him, and then Judge ends up swinging at a pitch that's three feet out of the zone by the end of it. It's artwork. It's artwork. Yeah.

He's very good. Speaking of artwork, I'm going off the map a little bit. A guy that's been in the ire of this team's fan base a little bit. Bobby Dahlback. The Red Sox were putting on another stink at Fenway.

My God. And Bobby hits two home runs. He goes two for three. Two homers, five RBI. And man, I know Bobby, Red Sox fans have not been in love with him this year. And for proper reasons. I mean, I think the offense has been bad.

I think like a lot of the defense, it ain't been good. I don't know if you guys remember this. Early on in the season, I think a month, month and a half in, I did guys to watch out for the bounce back or guys that were going to break out. I mentioned Bobby Dalbeck very briefly because last year, Bobby went nuts in the second half.

In the first half of last year, he was a 673 OPS guy, pretty similar to what he's been doing this year. last year in the second half, he was a 955 OPS guy. So I don't know. I hope, I don't know what Bobby Dalbeck is fully going to be about, but I know in the brief second half this year, he's already got three homers compared to seven in the whole first half.

He's got an 854 OPS. And I don't know what it means. I know Red Sox fans were thinking he might be traded. Maybe he's boosting his trade value a bit, or maybe he can be a part of a lot of, a Red Sox second half where there's, if you're looking for the tone to change a young player like Bobby Dalbeck, playing a much better brand of baseball would help them. So we'll see.

I know he's been in the target of the barrel all year for a lot of Red Sox fans. But maybe he's just a second half guy. That's who he is. So I'll go Bobby. Where's he from? Bobby Dalbeck is from Seattle, Washington. But he went to high school in Colorado. Colorado, so I don't know.

So he likes the cold. So what's his excuse? I don't know. Shout out Bobby Dahlbeck, hot boy. Some people in Boston have always loved him. How about that? Wow. Ooh, okay.

I'm going with Rowdy to Les. I mentioned Tim already earlier in the game that they beat the twins. He had two homers and six RBIs. I believe it's the second time he's done that this year already. Two homer game with six plus RBIs. he joined Ryan Braun and Jeff Jenkins as the only brewers to do that in the season. So nice company right there. This is how I feel about the Brewers often.

Because if you look at the numbers as a whole, it's not bad. But they don't have a guide to carry them. Although I think that's okay. Like they're going to have to be one of those teams that relies on like different guys stepping up. One guy can carry you this series, you know, whether it's rowdy, maybe Hunter Renfro carries you the next series. The next series, it could be Willie Adomis and so on and so forth. You kind of get where I'm

going here. Rowdy making like a mill and a half this year, I always tell people, 30 homers seems really easy. You got six months to do it. You hit five every single month. That's all

you got to do. Rowdy Tellez has average five homers per month. He's got five in July already. I believe there was another month with five and then one with six and one with four rowdy two more months of five homers bro you will get to 30 and dude that's just a benchmark for players so i i i root for rowdy he's one of our guys you know that and this brew crew crew if they don't go get that offensive upgrade that they've been promised they're going to have to rely on guys to do it you know at different times

and rowdy's going to be one of those guys because the brewers are going to be in the playoffs in the playoff hunt and we're going to see rowdy to let us have some fucking massive moments i'm pretty happy about that happy for rowdy he's a good guy when we met him he's funny well quick slump watch bump watch i like i want to be here for this okay it's a quick it's a bandaid now bandaid just for all our fantasy baseball players that want to know like these guys are having a tough time marcus simian oh four For 12. Oh,

Corey Seeger. Same team. Damn. O for 10. Who'd they play? They, Rangers got swept by the Mariners. J.D. Martinez.

O for 10. Doesn't want to be traded. Let's just stick around. Will Smith, O for 11. Travis Darno. Oh, for eight. It doesn't, no,

only eight. Two games. Unless he got taken out. that slump watch that's all from rangers j d will smith all it is all right now on to the guys that are white that means i'm on fire baby like waco

heimer candelario he went eight for 13 it's actually jamer which i thought it was heimer for so long eight for 13 with three homers Jose Miranda, six for eight with a homer. Where to be. Zander, six for 13, happy, not getting traded and gets to reject a qualifying offer. Luis.

Actually, they do it differently, right? Dodgers is where they say it's like Urius. And then this is Luis Sirius. Four for six, two homeruns. That's probably wrong. Tony Kemp, six, four, 11 with a homer. Nate, low. four for nine, Homer, two doubles, David Peralta, Jake's guy.

He went his height. Is he short, Jake? No. Damn. Five for eight, five for eight with a triple and two doubles. Cal Raleigh. They're excited about him. I saw some people yelling that we said like Contreras might go to the Mariners last

app. They were like, we like cow. They like cow. I never said that. Who said it, I don't know I said that Jake said that Adolise Garcia

Not hot enough to read the stats Damn So that's slump watch Nice James And in Fuego Yeah That was in Fuego Yeah

And in Fuego And in Fuego And Adelis Garcia had a nice series We got awards next Jake You look like You have an award Written down

I do I do I'm giving out The Mystical Birds Award It's something I mentioned briefly in the AL. The Orioles had their first ever Mo Gabba Day. If you're not familiar,

he was a kid who unfortunately passed away, but has become a little bit of a Baltimore sports legend because he got cancer very early on, a lot of time in the hospital. But while he was there, big sports fan, huge Ravens Orioles guy, and he was calling in to all his favorite morning radio shows. Mom had no idea, and then they tried to reach out to him because they liked them. And then it became this whole thing that the Orioles, they had their inaugural Mo Gabba Day against the Rays.

And we've talked about this with the Orioles before. Baseball and sports in general, there's a little bit of mystical powers that go around. sometimes stuff happened. The Orioles triple is a thing. Adley Rushman, Machado, and I think Wheaters, all in their first step bat, hit big triples, and it's kind of this crazy Orioles top prospect thing

that how the heck has that happened? On the first ever Mo Gabba day, Trey Mancini, the kind of the heart of the Orioles, the guy we spent a lot of time talking about. It's a fly ball to right. Pretty routine fly ball. Outfielder just misses.

it, bongs off his head, head straight to the corner. The ball is so far gone and you go, oh my God. Trey Mancini, the guy who's on Hug Watch and the crowd's given extra love to anyway, he's going to have an inside the park homer. The ball bounces so far away that I thought it was going to be a walk-in inside the park homer, not to give a shot of my guy, Trey. It was pretty bang-bang into plate. The ball might have beat him.

But Trey gets his foot in there and he gets. It's the inside the park home run on Mo Gabba Day. And just when you put all that in the bucket, man, it's a beautiful thing. So shout out to everything the birds are doing. They're over 500. Keep Trey. Don't do it. Keep the juice going.

And how about an inside the park home run for Trey Mancini? Shout out Trey. Do not trade him. I also forgot to give a shout out to our friend Britt Garali. who's like having a baby, like an E-second. Oh, wow. So shout out Britt, who covers the Orioles for the athletic. I think she covers everything now, right?

I think she got a promotion. I think so. She deserves it. James, do you want me to go? Are you ready? I'm good. I'm good. I'm ready.

I'm giving out the Just Playing Award. Just playing. It goes to J.P. Crawford. Oh. Our guy. lowest strikeout percentage in July in all Major League Baseball. Everyone's talking, Julio, Julio, Julio, we love Cal Riley.

Jake, we don't want Contreras, Jake, Jake, Jake, why'd you say that, Jake? It's like you guys aren't talking about the right thing. J.P. Crawford had a hell of a July. Only three games where he didn't have a hit. He just had three games with extra base hits in a row. So the offensive numbers are there, hit 300, had a 360 on base. 75 play appearances. He struck out four times.

Okay. Lowest strikeout rate in Major League Baseball. Way to be JP. Nice. J.P. Crawford, one of the cooler people you're ever going to meet. So I like that. J.P. Crawford. I don't necessarily have a name for my award.

I've been going back and forth. There was this really, I mean, watching this show alone. You know where they just leave people on like these crazy like rough terrains. You just got to figure it out yourself. In every episode, they have these quotes at the beginning. And Olivia in particular loves these quotes. She's a quote. She's a quote girl.

Likes to be inspired by quotes. And there's this one. I forgot who said it. But it just talks about like you don't know what you're capable of until you like face adversity. Essentially. That's it's not the quote, but it's something like that.

So I'm going to, I'm going to give this one a name. It's the diamond dwarf, okay? And what makes diamonds, but pressure. Slaves. And digging out of, like the dwarves, like in the snow white, they made diamonds too, in rubies and emeralds and stuff like that. Anyways.

Alec Bone, my God, has faced some pressure-pack situations this year that I believe are going to pay off for him big time. Okay, we remember the media gaff that he had. I think it was Jimmy's fault. Reading his lips saying, I fucking hate this place. I was trying to give him an out. Okay, well, he didn't. No, everyone else had it.

Admits it after that game, you know, faces the adversity. And if you remember, like, he was hitting at the time and it won him some goodwill. So, like, he faces that pressure, comes out looking hot. Okay, then he's been sure. struggling at the dish, you know, in May, in June, but in July, this dude has absolutely gone off. In July, he's got a one-daughter guy sitting 436 with a one daughter in July. And the reason I say this is the Diamond Award and the pressure and all that stuff is it takes the little bit of time for you to realize and to know that, hey, there are going to be

times when I'm in the show where it's hard and I stink. But to be able to now twice this year come out of it looking great, that's going to serve Alec Baum in the future. Like I think this guy is going to turn into what everyone thought he was going to turn into. He's learning how to grind. He's learning how to accept failures when you can't control what goes on around you. And he's just been like finding ways to get out.

of it and like succeed. So I think this year is a huge year for him. And what he's doing now, I think will continue over. I don't think he's a one dot type player. But I think just having that knowledge like, hey, dude, I can have a shitty month. That doesn't mean my season's over. That doesn't mean I need to go down in AAA. That doesn't mean I'm not good enough to be in the big leagues. Like he's finding that resilience. And if you're a Phillies fan, you love this guy already, you're going to love him even more when he's producing. And I think he's going to start producing just because of the mindset that he's got from a couple different situations this year.

So shout out Alec because you're learning how to deal with the everyday grind of being a big leaguer. And I think he's just got the right mindset for it. I just foresee All-Star 2023 for Alec Ball. I think that him getting that off his chest and then admitting and accepting it was probably like a weight lift a little bit. it like made all those errors i fucking hate this place says it doesn't deny it they cheer for him the next day maybe that was a moment it was like oh shit he basically to win the crowd over if i just like am honest with him well he basically had identical months in may and june he had 252 in both months 611 ops in may 609 ops in june so it's two straight months of being like dude

i kind of stink you know and that's what we're you start to think about as a hitter. But then he comes back in July and just has this mammoth month going on right now. And dude, it's just you have to go through those things. And if you want to play, I mean, you're going to go through those things. And you have to figure out a way to get over them if you want to be a big leader for a long time. I think he's figured it out. Good for him.

Yep. Boom. Do we have a best friend of the week? We do. And it is Ryan Yarbrough, six innings, one earned, eight Ks, four hits, no walks. He takes the loss in the start, but he wins his first best friend of the week award this year. Good for Yarb, man. Seems like it's been a weird series for the race.

It's been a weird, like, turn for him, how they use him, how he's been pitching. Pitch clock, gonna fuck him up next year. Guy's so slow on the mound. Speed it up. Speed it up. Speed it up. Brian, but good for him. Yes, Trev.

Before the stimulator. I'm hyped on that. I forgot to bring this up talking about Trey Turner. I just saw like a random tweet about Trey Turner. Okay. I love this dude. I love watching him play basically.

He's probably one of my favorite guys to watch in the league. Apparently he knows the Leonardo DiCaprio like Wolf of Wall Street like speech. And he'll go up and do that randomly. He'll just like walk up on the team bus and just give that speech and fire the boys up. All right, let's have that it.

Let's hear it. him do it. Need some video of that. I'm not leaving speech. Yeah. I don't think I've ever, I don't know the other words. I'm trying to think of the other words. I don't know the words either, but I'm just envisioning Trey Turner just like all of a sudden just taking his

AirPods out, walking up to the front of the bus, taking the mic and just giving the speech and everyone looking at him like, what the fuck is going on? But by the end of it, they're all going yeah, yeah. That's in my head at least. Yeah. If we were to hop on an elevator right now and a guy was to walk in or gal and they were wearing a hat of this team and you had

two second two oh you had a minute to talk about some baseball with them the guardians that's an easy one it's Friday jimmy oh it's Friday oh shit I just said I'm getting heightened a stymie baby I'm all thrown off. We basically just had a weekend at the warehouse. It feels like a Monday to me. Totally fair. Is a stimulator set up? My bad.

Come on, James. People bathing. Sexy. Welcome to sexy Saturdays. We got. It's a new one. There's new teams. New teams.

Dress code is sexy. Oh, my goodness. The third place. Twins. Well, not third place, but third division winner twins face off against the six-seed Rays. And the wild card. That's going to get the cash flow. Don't do it, B, B, B, B.D.

Raise. No. I like the twins won in that. Blue Jays and Mariners. Jays. Jays. Them facing off right away. Them facing off right away.

right away is wild. We have the rays and the Astros. Astros. And then the Yankees and the Blue Jays. The Jays. You don't mean that. Jays Astros. Championship Series. How about that?

Brewers in the Phillies. Brewers. Okay. All right. All right. And then the Braves. Hey, this is the most non-in-the-same division wildcard matchups we've had. I think so. Braves and Padres.

I don't think we have a single one where it's the same division. Braves versus Padres. Who's where that? All right. So you have the Braves and the Dodgers in the divisional series. The Dodgers. The Brewers beat the Phillies and the Mets were sitting there waiting, lining up their rotation.

Mets. Oh, Mets Dodgers? The Mets. Boy. Mets will be playing the Astros or the Blue Jays in the World Series. They're playing Houston. Astros Mets World Series. Oh, my God.

How about that? Who wins it? The Mets win in. Oh. Oh, Shadee. Oh. My God, DeGrom. Jerry Blevins gets the save in games seven.

Oh, yeah. He's so good at Wordle. He always texting on the other. Jicks Hucks.